Vypovedané slovo je originálne semeno, 2.časť
Ako Ján Krstiteľ, Kristov verný predchodca, pomazaný prorok, žiadna škola jeho otca, žiadna škola farizejov, žiadna denominácia, ho nemohla zavolať z púšte, kde ho Boh poslal, prišiel až v tedy keď počul Boží Hlas, Mesiášov, Baránkov!
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Aký rozdiel dnes! Mnohí, tak zvaní evanjelisti, tvrdia, že majú pre ľudí odpoveď od Boha, presne tak, ako to urobil Kóre - zapieral, hádal sa ohľadne autority Božieho potvrdeného, pomazaného proroka, Mojžíša. Tvrdil, že on má odpoveď. To bol tiež spôsob na získavanie peňazí - zlaté teľa, ako to mnohí robia dnes - veľké budovy, veľké školy, inkubátory na liahnutie ich vlastného semena. A vtedy - ľudia vtedy, tak ako aj teraz, boli tým nadchnutí, hoci počuli pravdivé Slovo Božie cez pomazaného proroka, ktorý bol potvrdený.
Oni boli nadchnutí Kóreho lžou. Boží potvrdený prorok, a Boh vedel ... a oni vedeli, že Boh im povedal - Izrael to vedel, že Boh im jasne povedal, že On potvrdí Svojho proroka, Svojím Slovom. Kóre nebol prorok podľa Písma, ale ľuďom sa to zdalo ohromne dobré; tak isto, ako je to aj teraz. Dnes - dnes je to krv na rukách, gule ohňa na pódiu, olej na vašich prstoch; a tá istá vec produkuje ženy kazateľky, krátke vlasy - ostrihané, makeup ... Čo to máte? Nepomysleli by ste si, že ľudia by na to naleteli, ale oni naleteli Kóremu, a oni robia to isté teraz a odvracajú sa preč od pravdivého Slova, ku denomináciám. V krátkosti: to ukazuje, aký druh semena je v nich.
Pamätajte, kúkoľ, pleva, majú byť zhromaždené a zviazané do snopov. Je to tak? Toto sa stalo. Tie odpadlícke zorganizované cirkvi sú zviazané tesnejšie, než ako kedykoľvek predtým. Oni sú zviazané dokopy vo federácii cirkví, pripravené na oheň Božieho súdu. (Ja som toto nenapísal, cítim, že to On napísal.) Letniční sú plní toho, tak zvaného ... tak isto ako oni. Pšenica Slova bude jedného dňa zobraná, potom keď odídu ku Majstrovi.
1Cítite sa všetci teraz dobre? V poriadku, začneme hneď teraz a až do polnoci, a potom ... Sme tak šťastní, že nám Pán pomohol, a požehnal nás.
2A teraz, prv ako znovu začneme, pomodlime sa niekoľkými slovami ku Tomu, ku ktorému hovoríme.
3Milostivý nebeský Otče, Ty si počul svedectvo tohoto bohabojného, svätého, starého muža. Po celý ich život, on i jeho žena, pracovali spolu, a ako sa Ťa ona musela držať a prosiť Ťa, aby si z jej muža urobil kazateľa, a tu je. A potom, keď on tam zomieral, tí najlepší lekári v krajine povedali, že je s ním koniec, "Nemôže už žiť viac, ako niekoľko hodín. Je po ňom; jeho telo je zožrané rakovinou"; on nemohol urobiť už viac ani krok - infekcia v jeho členkoch a všetko ďalšie, ho dalo nabok. A on je tu, prešli roky, a stále chodí. Sme tak vďační, Otče. To sa deje, aby to potvrdilo, že keď je Slovo zasadené, a potom podliate, ono prinesie úrodu.
4A teraz sa modlíme, Otče, aby si nám dnes popoludní dovolil vyložiť tie slová z Tvojho Slova. To je Tvoje Slovo, a my to chceme vyložiť, presne tak, ako to je, a Ty to potom podlej, Pane, Duchom. Prosíme, pri tom, čo sa Ti porúčame aj s týmto Posolstvom, aby si nás použil v Mene Ježiša. Amen.
5Budeme sa ponáhľať. Moja žena mi hovorila dnes ráno, že ako ťažko tí ľudia ... vy viete, a nohy im tŕpli - tie panie, a dosť veľa ľudí približne v mojom veku, ktorí už starnú a museli tu takto stáť. Cením si to - vašu vernosť. A teraz, pôjdeme hneď rovno do Posolstva a budeme pokračovať. Nechcem sa príliš veľmi ponáhľať, a jednako sa chcem natoľko ponáhľať a snažiť sa to zakončiť dnes popoludní, ak budem môcť. A potom, hneď akonáhle zakončíme, ideme potom rovno do Tiftonu v Georgii, nie kvôli ... pokračovaniu zhromaždenia; budeme tam len jeden večer, v auditóriu vysokej školy. To je zajtra večer, a - obyčajné zhromaždenie; budem kázať na nejakú prostú tému, alebo na niečo čo som už tu kázal, pretože to je len taká návšteva tých ľudí. Oni nemajú pravidelné, ustálené zhromaždenie, či niečo také.
6A tak, my ... a my teraz ... zakončili sme dnes ráno, hovoriac na tému nášho textu, ktorý sa nachádza v Genesis v 1. kapitole, v 11. verši, a to hlavne: Vypovedané Slovo je Originálne Semeno. A teraz, mojím zámerom dnes ráno a dnes, je snažiť sa vysvetliť ľuďom - snažiť sa vysvetliť ľuďom svoje postupovanie, prečo som robil to, čo som robil. A uvedomujem si, že tieto pásky sa nahrávajú a budú rozoslané; Bude ich počúvať pravdepodobne veľa ľudí, po tom, čo ja z tadiaľto odídem, ak bude Ježiš vyčkávať; ale ja chcem povedať, že verím v Slovo Božie, že Ono ... že je Pravdou.
7Nuž, skončili sme tam pri ... pri tých posledných dňoch. Čo sa stalo so službou ... tých evanjelistov, ktorí pred niekoľkými rokmi zapálili ohne prebudenia po celej krajine, a vyzerá to, akoby oni všetky vyhasli. Nuž, nemyslím, že oni sú preč z misijného poľa. Oni stále pracujú, ale akoby neboli žiadne výsledky, tak to vyzerá. Nemôžu nikde ďalej dostať. Vidíte? Čo sa deje? - pole je zasiate, Vidíte? Nuž, zapamätajte si, nezabudnite ...
8Niekto ma prosil, aby som znovu zopakoval to hebrejské slovo z Joela, z 2. kapitoly (Joel 2: 28), kde on hovorí o tom prichádzajúcom včasnom a pozdnom daždi. To slovo včasný je v hebrejčine vyjadrené slovom M-O-U-R-E-H, moureh, čo znamená vyučovanie. Inými slovami, to bude dážď vyučovania a dážď žatvy. Nuž my sme mali dážď vyučovania, a teraz sme pripravení na dážď žatvy. Viete, ten prvý dážď je vtedy, keď zasadíte semeno. On spôsobuje, že vaša úroda začne rásť. A potom, tesne pred tým ako ona dozreje, prichádza ďalší dážď. To je to čo sa nazýva dážď žatvy. Vieme kedy to je - jarný dážď, a potom prší tak asi v júny, on privádza vašu úrodu.
9Nuž, zistili sme, že ten dážď, to bol Duch. A skončili sme pri tom, že som vám predstavil svoje myšlienky o tom, aká bude tá celá vec. To je, ja verím, že to ... ten dážď bol prinesený - ten dážď. To je ten dôvod, že sme sa utíšili, pretože pôda je už zasiata. Ťažko by ste mohli nájsť miesto, ktoré by nebolo zasiate. A to sa roznieslo cez rádio, televíziu, cez pásky, slovo, i cez všetko; zasialo to celú krajinu. Semeno zostalo zasadené. Nuž, z tých zasadených semien, nemôžete dostať nič iné, iba také isté semená, aké boli zasiate. Rozumiete teraz? To budú tie semená, ktoré boli zasiate. Nuž, Duch spadne, ale On prinesie žatvu toho semena, na ktoré On spadne. Nuž, zapamätajte si.
10V poriadku, predpovedal som, že tie dve denominačné skupiny, letničná a tie evanjelické skupiny, oni budú spolu pracovať v denominácii, oni sa spolu zjednotia, a stanú sa členmi (každá z nich) Federácii Svetovej Rady Cirkví alebo Cirkevnej Rady. Oni už do toho patria - každá z nich. A od nich príde nátlak, alebo bojkot, čo zastaví všetko, čo nepatrí do tohoto zjednotenia cirkví. To je to čo ... Biblia hovorí, že nastane bojkot, dokonca do takej miery, že spôsobia, že ľudia nebudú môcť kupovať alebo predávať, ak neprijali to Znamenie šelmy, ktorým je rímsky katolicizmus, a obraz šelmy, ktorým je protestantizmus, že ten obraz ... Šelma mala moc, autoritu, aby dala obrazu život, aby hovoril, a tak sa stalo. A to je Združenie Cirkví, keď sa oni spájajú dokopy.
11Nuž, je tu mnoho mladých ľudí. Ja neviem, Ježiš môže prísť dnes popoludní; On môže prísť na budúci rok. Ja neviem, kedy On príde. Ale zapamätajte si, ak ja nebudem žiť, aby som videl ten deň Jeho príchodu - čo dúfam, že budem, a tak nejako verím, že budem - no, ak to nebudem vidieť, nikdy nedovoľte aby toto Slovo odišlo od vašich uší a vášho srdca. Pamätajte len, hovorím to v Mene Pánovom. Nuž, verím z celého svojho srdca, že tak sa to zakončí. Bude to ako únia, bojkot. Všetky takéto miesta, ako toto tu, budú zavrené. A vy nebudete môcť hovoriť, jedine že by ste mali povolenie alebo licenciu od tejto federácii cirkví, aby ste mohli slúžiť slovom.
12Je to takmer ... to ukazuje, že tak sa to teraz deje tiež aj v denomináciách. To ukazuje, kde to je. Tak veru, vy to musíte mať. A to je to do čoho to príde. To je moja predpoveď, ako sluhu Kristovho, skrze zrozumenie Slova a inšpiráciu, ktorú mám; to je to do čoho to príde. Všetky znamenia ukazujú na koniec. Ja len cez to prechádzam a hovorím o tom.
13A to je dokonca čas pre hlúpu pannu, že sa začala dovolávať po oleji. Nuž, zapamätajte si, ona bola pannou, a ak je panna, to je cirkev. Vidíte, dostaneme sa ku tomu teraz popoludní v Zjavení 17. Ak je ona panna, ona je cirkev, pretože cirkev je panna. Pavol povedal, "Zasnúbil som vás Kristovi ako čistú pannu." Tá smilnica zo Zjavenia 17, bola cirkev. Ján bol ňou udivený, kvôli jej nádhere, aká ona bola; ona bola niečím nádherným, ale jednako v nej bola nájdená krv všetkých svätých Ježiša Krista - ktorí skrze ňu boli zabití. Je to tak.
14Myslím, že to je 68 000 000 mučeníkov, ktorých rímskokatolícka cirkev doviedla na smrť od časov sv. Augustína z Hippo. Šesťdesiat osem miliónov protestantov bolo zabitých a zostali zaznamenaní v kronikách mučeníkov, zabitých rímskokatolíckou cirkvou, pretože nesúhlasili s jej doktrínou. Nie divu, že Biblia hovorí, "V nej bola nájdená krv všetkých mučeníkov."
15Nuž, či nepovedal Ježiš, že príde čas, že oni vás zabijú, mysliac si že robia Bohu službu; a oni sú v tom úprimný. Oni nie sú pokrytci. Oni tomu veria; oni sú tak učení. A keď to Slovo ... keď to Slovo tam bolo zasiate, ono musí priniesť úrodu. Skutočne, musí. Pamätajte, hovoríme o tom Semene. To je náš text - naše Semeno. To vypovedané Slovo Božie je Semeno. Vidíte? To musí prísť naspäť do tohoto Slova, a to Slovo vyprodukuje to čo Ono hovorí.
16To je ten dôvod prečo verím v božské uzdravovanie; Preto verím vo videnia; preto verím v Anjelov; preto verím v toto Posolstvo, preto že ono pochádza zo Slova Božieho. A všetko, čo je pomimo Slova Božieho, tomu neverím. Mohlo to tak byť, ale ja sa stále budem držať len toho, čo povedal Boh, a potom si budem istý, že mám pravdu. Nuž, Boh môže robiť to čo On chce; On je Boh. Ale dokiaľ stojím na Jeho Slove, dotiaľ viem, že je všetko v poriadku. A verím tomu.
17Nuž, táto hlúpa panna je žena, ona je cirkev, ale je hlúpa. Vidíte? Ona bola lenivá. A jednako ona bola nazvaná ... ona samú seba nazýva nevesta. A zapamätajte si, všetko ide do dokonalosti v troch. Tri, to je číslo dokonalosti. Božie úrady - Otec, Syn, Duch Svätý. Boh, Otec, bol Boh, ktorý žil v Stĺpe Ohňa. On sa snažil potiahnuť Izrael ku Sebe. Oni nechceli ísť. Boh, Otec, žil v Synovi, čo Ho činilo Bohom Synom - tým istým Bohom, vyjadrený obraz Boží, zamanifestované Semeno Božie, snažiaci sa potiahnuť ľudí ku Sebe - oni Ho ukrižovali. Duch Svätý je ten istý Boh, ktorý bol na počiatku v Synovi Božom a teraz tu ten ďalší úrad Boží v posledných dňoch. Boh žijúci v cirkvi, snažiaci sa priniesť ľuďom Slovo (to vypovedané Slovo, ako to robil v tých predchádzajúcich dvoch úradoch), a oni To odmietajú. Je to to isté. To sú tri úrady manifestovania sa jedného Boha pri práci. A dnes je Boh pri práci vo Svojich ľuďoch. Vidíte? To je Boh v ľuďoch.
18Ak Pán dá, chcem o tom hovoriť zajtra večer - Boh vo Svojom vesmíre, Boh vo Svojom Synovi, Boh vo Svojich ľuďoch, a tak ďalej. Nuž, myslím, že som tu už pred tým o tom hovoril.
19A potom, táto hlúpa panna, keď ona išla kupovať olej - ona bola poslaná, aby si išla kúpiť olej. Keď išla, zistila, že sa veľmi opozdila. Prečo? Prečo, priatelia? - tie semená sú zasadené. Oni boli tri v čase Sodomy. Vždy to bolo číslo tri, po celý čas. Sú tri príchody Krista. On prišiel raz aby vykúpil Svoju Nevestu. On prichádza potom vo Vytrhnutí, aby vzal preč Svoju Nevestu. On prichádza znovu v Tisícročnom kráľovstve so Svojou Nevestou. Všetko v troch. Trojka je číslo dokonalosti. Päť je číslo milosti. Sedem - úplnosť; dvanásť - uctievanie; dvadsať štyri ... či štyridsať - pokušenie; a päťdesiat je jubileum. to skutočné slovo Letnice znamená jubileum - päťdesiat. Vidíte.
20Nuž, a teraz Boh vo Svojich číslach, On je dokonalý vo Svojich číslach; On je dokonalý vo Svojom Slove; On je dokonalý pri Svojej práci; On je dokonalý vo všetkom, pretože On je dokonalý Boh. A vidíme, že v týchto pannách - pozrite sa teraz, v Biblii je nazvaná smilnica. (Nuž, chcem aby mi odpustili moje sestry. Ja ... To hovorí Biblia. Dnes hovorím celkom otvorene.) Nazýva ju smilnicou, materou smilníc.
21Nuž, ak si všimnete, tu v Biblii je hovorené o smilnici (to je cirkev), hovorí sa tam o smilniciach [mater smilníc - jej dcéry. – pozn.prekl.] (to je cirkev), a hovorí sa tam o Neveste a to je Cirkev. Sú tam tri. Za chvíľu, ak Pán dovolí, sa ku ním dostaneme a budeme vidieť čo sú to za nevesty, a ako boli odmietnuté a všetko o tom.
22Nuž, to prvé ... chcem toto povedať, skôr ako to zabudnem. Nebojte sa komunizmu. Komunizmus je iba nástroj v rukách Božích. To je bezbožná vec, tak ako bol kráľ Nabuchodonozor, ale On ho tam poslal a vyťal Izrael, kvôli jeho neposlušnosti. Keď im prorok povedal čo prichádza, a on povedal im, aby zostali vo svojej zemi a pamätali na Boha, oni to neposlúchli; oni aj tak odišli, a ten kráľ prišiel rovno tam a aj tak ich dostal, pretože prorok povedal, že on to tak urobí. Komunizmus je vec, ktorá ... Komunizmus povstal kvôli nezákonnosti, akou katolícka cirkev vykonávala svoj dohľad v Rusku. Oni vzali všetky peniaze a mali všetko nahrabané, a to je to kvôli čomu on povstal. To je presne to čo priviedlo komunizmus.
23Keď ten malý chlapec bol vzkriesený z mŕtvych, tam hore vo Fínsku, tí veľkí komunistickí vojaci tam stáli a salutovali, keď som prechádzal okolo, a slzy im stekali po lícach a hovorili, "My prijmeme takéhoto Boha" - skutočne, Boha, ktorý môže kriesiť mŕtvych a dodržuje Svoje Slovo, skutočne. Vidíte? Ale keď sa jedná len o to, chodiť do kostola a žiť ako diabol a robiť pri tom všetko ostatné, tak ako ten ostatný svet, a nič pomimo toho, potom oni tomu nebudú veriť. A úprimne povedané, ja tiež nie. Je to tak. Je to tak. Nie je žiadne Písmo, ktoré by hovorilo, že komunizmus bude vládnuť svetom, ale je Písmo a celé Písmo hovorí, že to bude robiť rímsky katolicizmus. Majte na to otvorené svoje oči.
24Pozrite sa dnes; len sa pozrite, čo sa stalo hoci len minulej noci - tento senátor Kentucky povedal, že tam majú republikána, ktorý tam získal kreslo, a teraz tam reprezentuje štát Kentucky a povedal, "On je protestant a nerobí s tým žiadne drahoty" - on je katolík. Oni sa stávajú čoraz smelší. A pamätajte, je ešte ďalšia vec ktorá s tým ide. Čas hlúpej panny - vidíme to. Veci ktoré sa nikdy nediali - že nikto z tých mužov, z tých učiteľov cez všetky tie veky, by tieto veci nemohol povedať tak, ako to my môžeme teraz, pretože je to tu.
25Nuž, hlúpa panna a skrížení letniční (to je to isté - skrížení vecami toho sveta) ... Nuž, zapamätajte si, ja som letničný, ale nie letniční podľa denominácii. Ja to neľúbe nesiem. Ja som letničný skrze prežitie. My musíme mať ... metodisti sú letniční; baptisti sú letniční; katolíci sú letniční, ak majú to letničné prežitie. Nemôžete zorganizovať letnice, pretože to je prežitie, a to je Boh, a Boh nemôže byť zorganizovaný.
26Nuž ... nuž, Ježiš nám povedal, že tieto veci prídu, a teraz ... povedal nám o tom čo sa stane - povstane hlúpa panna a čo ona bude robiť, a ako tí ľudia sa budú dovolávať a chcieť olej, v ich čase, ale bude pre nich príliš neskoro. Vidíte? Nuž sledujte tieto tri ... tieto tri cirkvi. Tam je tá prostitútka; ona neprišla nadarmo. Ona má sama v sebe svoje centrum. Tam bola hlúpa panna, čo je protestantská cirkev. A bola tam Nevesta, vidíte? Nuž, v posledných dňoch je cirkev rozdelená na tie tri oblasti. Hľaďte teraz, vyvedieme ich na svetlo, rovno od Genesis a prinesieme ich sem a umiestnime ich v Zjavení, vo Vytrhnutí, keď Pán dá.
27Všetky tieto veci vyzerajú skutočné. Letnice vyzerajú skutočné. Pomyslite si, oni ... "Prečo, ja patrím do letničnej organizácii." To neznamená nič viac, než ako keby ste žili v ohrade pre svine! Nie je v tom ani trochu rozdiel. To ne ... To je len zvučiacou mosadzou a znejúcim cimbalom. Nezáleží na tom kde patríte, ak ste sa nenarodili z Ducha Božieho a neprijali ste Ducha Božieho - a dôvod - ak to nemáte - neveríte celému Božiemu Slovu, neprijali ste ešte Ducha Svätého. Skutočne. Je to presne tak. Duch Svätý - Keď počuješ Pravdu, a Duch Svätý ťa nevedie do Nej, potom je tam iný duch, ktorý ti nedovoľuje prijať Ju. Tak ten duch, ktorého máš v sebe nie je Duch Svätý.
28V poriadku, zistili sme teraz, že ako - išli sme ďalej a povedali sme, že ako Janes a Jambres sa postavili proti Mojžíšovi (hovorili sme o tom), ako sa tieto veci budú diať v týchto posledných dňoch. Nuž, a posledný citát, ktorý sme mali bol, že Boh učinil každé semeno podľa jeho druhu; to je Jeho, vidíte. Potom, keď On učinil Svojho človeka na Svoj obraz - to bolo semeno Jeho Slova. A keď Ježiš sa stal telom, On bol telom Slova Božieho. A keď my prijímame Slovo Božie, potom my sa stávame Božím Slovom v našom tele, vidíte? Cirkev sa má nachádzať v takom stave.
29Nuž, potom čo On učinil človeka na Svoj obraz - "na obraz Boží ho stvoril ..." - nuž, potom čo to On urobil (nech vám to neunikne), potom, čo Boh učinil Svojho - Svojho človeka na Svoj vlastný obraz, Svojím vlastným vypovedaným Slovom - nuž to bol dokonalý človek, ale úpadok prišiel vtedy, keď On vzal z neho vedľajší produkt a urobil mu nevestu. Tam je teraz ten problém. Ak ste duchovní, už ste to pochytili, vidíte? On - To nebol Adam, ktorý sa dostal do problémov. To nebol Adam, ktorý zapochyboval o Slove; to bola jeho nevesta, ktorá zapochybovala v Slovo. A to nie je Ježiš, ktorý pochybuje o Slove, pretože On bol to Slovo; to je Jeho nevesta.
30Odtiaľ pochádza skríženie - ono neprišlo skrze Adama. Hanbite sa, vy ktorí to nevidíte! To nebola Adamova chyba. On nemal s tým nič dočinenia. Ak by smrť prišla skrze Adama, to by prišla skrze Boha. Smrť prišla skrze kríženie. Smrť nemôže prísť skrze Božie Slovo. Smrť prichádza keď to križujeme s denomináciou a s vierovyznaním. Namiesto Krista, dogma - namiesto Slova. To neprichádza skrze Slovo. Slovo je Život. Ježiš povedal, "Moje slová sú Život," a Duch oživuje to Slovo a činí Ho Životom. Keď to skrížite, prichádza skrze to smrť. A ak Adam, ktorý bol Slovom Božím, Jeho vypovedaným Slovom, Jeho originálnym Semenom (pretože on bol ten prvým potom ... skrze stvorenie), potom Jeho druhý Adam bol tiež skrze stvorenie (skrze vypovedané Slovo). Sledujete to? Nuž, Adam nebol zvedený, ale jeho nevesta bola zvedená. Kristus dnes nie je zvedený. Slovo nehovorí klamstvo. To je nevesta, ktorá povedľa Slova hovorí klamstvo. Vidíte to?
31Nuž, On mu dal nevestu - predobraz druhého Adama. On dal prvému Adamovi nevestu; ona upadla. On dal druhému Adamovi, Kristovi, nevestu; ona upadla. Presne to pasuje. Prečo? - ona nie je originál; ona je vedľajší produkt. Tá dnešná nevesta dnes vedľajším produktom. Vidíte, ona sa sama nazýva nevestou. Ale čo ona je? Ona je vybudovaná z materiálu organizácii, nie zo Slova - je v tom toľko Slova, že to vytvára taký vedľajší produkt, že ju to robí pokryteckou. Eva verila väčšine Slova, ale pochybovala o jednej časti z Neho. Dnes ona nemôže ani dať dokopy Skutky 28 ... či vlastne Matúša 28: 19 so Skutkami 2: 38. Vidíte? To ju uvádza do rozpakov. To je len jedno maličké miesto z pomedzi stoviek ďalších.
32Nuž, nevesta Adama bola predobrazom nevesty druhého Adama. No a Adamova nevesta - Adamova nevesta nemohla počkať. Boh povedal Adamovi a Eve: "Ploďte sa a množte sa a naplňte zem." To bola vec, ktorá mala nadísť - zasľúbenie. Ona ešte nebola jeho žena, pretože on s ňou ešte vôbec nežil. Nevesta Kristova je ešte nie Jeho Žena; má sa konať svadba. Rozumiete tomu? Všimnite si, ó to je bohaté! Ona sa ponáhľala, a čo urobila? - ona skrížila svoje semeno. Zmiešala to so semenom hada; a keď to urobila, ona zrodila - čo zrodila? Zrodila dieťa smrti, dieťa, ktoré - ona potom zdegenerovala každé dieťa. A keď cirkev Ježiša Krista bola zdegenerovaná v čase Ríma, po jej panenskom zrodení, a bola daná Kristovi na Letnice, ona - Čo ona urobila? Ona sa skrížila s Rímskou dogmou. A protestantská cirkev urobila presne tú istú vec. Ona nemôže čakať.
33Žena zasnúbená fajn, mladému, čistému mužovi, a prv ako sa oni zídu spolu, čo ona robí? Nájdená je tehotná od niekoho iného. Potom jej vlastné semeno, ktoré je zasnúbené, jej vlastné telo, ktoré je zasnúbené jej chlapcovi, jej zasnúbenému mužovi, je nájdené plné semena od iného muža. Čo za hanba! To je presne to čo našiel Adam.
34To je to čo našiel Kristus. Nemohla čakať. To je ten problém s ľuďmi dnes. Oni nemôžu čakať na skutočného Ducha Svätého, aby zaujal pozíciu Cirkvi. Oni musia vyprodukovať niečo, vyrobiť niečo - počiatočný dôkaz, hovorenie v jazykoch - získať viacej členov v cirkvi, všetky takéto druhy hlúpostí, namiesto toho aby čakali na Pána, na skutočnú manifestáciu vzkrieseného Krista, ktorý sa dáva poznávať medzi ľuďmi. Ona nemôže čakať.
35Čo ona urobila? Ona vyšla von a stala sa tehotnou s denominacionalizmom. Prv to boli Zhromaždenia Božie; potom prišli Jednotári, potom za tým prišli všetci ďalší. A teraz tá, tak zvaná nevesta je tehotná so všetkým druhom hlúpostí, hanba. Ženy nebudú zvracať ani o trošku viac úvahy na to čo hovorí Slovo Božie, než ako na čokoľvek v tom svete, a tak isto ani muži, či dokonca kazatelia. A to potom nazývajú nevestou!
36Čo to je? Ona je tehotná. Kristova nevesta otehotnela svetom - oblieka sa ako svet, zachováva sa ako svet, veľké kostoly, pekné ... Čo ... to ukazuje čo ona je. Ona je z diabla! To je to čo urobil Satan na prvom mieste, snažil sa vybudovať veľké nádherné kráľovstvo v nebi, a bol z tade vykopnutý - exkomunikovaný z Neba. A preto je Kristova moderná nevesta ... ona je vykopnutá von, pretože ona je exkomunikovaná preč od Boha, pretože ona je smilnica a nie panna. Je to hlboké, ale dúfam, že to rozumiete.
37Adamova nevesta nemohla čakať, ale nelegálne zmiešala svoje semeno, nelegálne. My máme veriť Božiemu Slovu a jedine Jemu!
38Nuž bratia, vy tu i vy ktorí počúvate tú pásku, vidíte prečo sa zastávam Slova, slovo za slovom. Povedal som vám, že verím, že to je Božia Pravda. Boh chránil túto Bibliu. On musí súdiť svet skrze niečo - skrze Ježiša Krista, ktorý je Slovom, a toto Slovo sa stalo telom, aby sa stalo Ježišom Kristom ... Nechávam to vsiaknuť do vás. Pamätajte, Slovo. A On ju teraz nachádza celú zasvinenú. Myslíte si, že On sa ožení s niečím takým? Nikdy. On je svätý.
Ona nemohla čakať. Nelegálnosť, to je to čo Adam našiel.
39Nuž, bratia, sestry, pozrite sa dozadu. Ak sa pozriete na tieň od čohokoľvek, on je práve to vykreslenie tej skutočnej veci, ktorá prichádza. Tak vidíte, Adam musel nájsť svoju ženu tehotnú. A ona povedala, "Had ma zviedol."
40Nuž, my sme - vy ste - chcem to vziať z oboch strán za chvíľu, ak Pán dá, vidíte, aby som vám ukázal, že je to nemožné, aby to bolo nejako inak.
41Nuž, Adamova nevesta nemohla počkať, ale ona prv vyšla dopredu. To je ten spôsob dnes, nevesta dnes. Ona chce niečo vyprodukovať. "Sláva Bohu!" - ona to musí vypracovať na pódiu. Ona musí mať všetko, vidíte. Čo ona robí - produkuje niečo.
42Pozrite sa kde to ide. Môžete vidieť, že to s tým nemá nič spoločného; je to sfalšované. Presne tak. Ak by to nebolo, tento svet by bol v plameňoch moci Božej; cirkev by bola v ohni; ó, čo ... mŕtvi by boli budení z mŕtvych a diali by sa všetky rôzne vecí. Ale čím bola ona posiata, prv ako sa Kristus mohol ku nej dostať, prv ako sa On dostal ku nej, aby zasial Svoje vlastné Semeno? Čo ona mala? - semeno kúkoľu, sveta, denominačné semeno. Preto teraz ona toto žne vo svojej žatve. Dúfam, že sa ne ... že vás nevyvádzam z rovnováhy, ale dúfam, že sa to dostáva rovno dole na miesto, kde budem spoliehať, že vám to Boh dal. Rozumiete?
43Nuž, ona nelegálne zmiešala svoje semeno, nezákonne voči Slovu. Čo sa ona snažila nájsť? (Počúvajte teraz pozorne.) Za čím ona išla? za múdrosťou! Za múdrosťou! A to je to, čo ona robí dnes. Posiela svojich kazateľov do škôl, liahnu ich v inkubátoroch, skrze psychológiu a všetko možné, čo má ... ani nie v Biblii. A ona v inkubátore liahne svoje vajcia. A keď to urobí, prinesie produkt, hromadu ľudí, ktorí budú uzatvárať kompromis s čímkoľvek a odmietnu to skutočné Posolstvo Božie, a ona ani nevie čo robí.
44Ona si to neuvedomuje. Ona neverí - ona nemyslí, že je to zle. Tak isto ani Eva si nemyslela, že urobila zle. Eva si myslela, že je v poriadku. A ak to bol predobraz, a toto je ten skutočný obraz, to sa bude musieť diať tak isto, ako sa to dialo pri tom predobraze. Nuž to je práve - pre mňa je to práve tak, ako že dva krát dva sú štyri.
45Všimnite si teraz, čo sa stalo Eviným deťom? Ten prvý, ktorý sa narodil - nuž ak Boh povedal, "Ploďte sa a množte (jeho neveste, Adamovej neveste) a naplňte - množte sa a naplňte zem," to bolo Božie poverenie; a ona by to bola urobila, a on (diabol) by ich nebol zmiešal - oni by sa neboli spolu zmiešali. Ale čo sa stalo? Keď Adam bol hotový prísť ku nej, ona už bola matkou. Rozumiete čo mám na mysli?
46Nuž a tá istá vec sa prihodila Kristovej cirkvi, Kristovej neveste. Nuž ideme ešte ďalej do toho za chvíľu. Všimnite si, v tejto neveste, čo ona potom urobila? Prišlo jej prvé dieťa, to bolo bastardské dieťa, a on bol plný smrti a zapríčinil smrť. A každý jeden od vtedy je mŕtvy! Teraz vidíte, že to musel byť sex. Prečo potom zomierate, ak to nebol sex? Keď Boh dal poverenie, ktoré nemôže zahynúť! Božie Slovo je Večné! Ono nemôže sklamať! Keď On povedal, "Ploďte sa a množte sa a naplňte zem - to bol Večný Boží zámer. Keď budete postupovať podľa toho nemôžete zomrieť, pretože to je Jeho Slovo. Vy musíte žiť. A ak to dieťa by bolo narodené správne, nebolo by žiadnej smrti; ale ona nebola schopná počkať.
47To je to čo sa deje dnes. Vy chcete nejaký druh umelého nalíčenia s vykrikovaním, poskakovaním, hovorením v jazykoch, či niečím podobným, namiesto toho aby ste čakali na skutočné Božie Slovo, aby sa zamanifestovalo na Neveste. Ten druh, ktorý prijíma Slovo je pravdivou Božou Nevestou, ktorá rodí deti. Oni nemôžu zomrieť. Dieťa, ktoré Nevesta zrodí podľa Slova, nemôže zomrieť, pretože Ono je Slovo. Amen. Porozumeli ste to? Ona nemôže zomrieť pretože ona je - to dieťa nemôže zomrieť, pretože ono je dieťa Slova; ono je dieťaťom semena; ono je Večným dieťaťom. Haleluja!
48To je presne to čo bol Ježiš Kristus - vyslovené Večné dieťa. On nemusel zomrieť, ale On to urobil za tým účelom aby zaplatil dlh. To je ten jediný spôsob, ako to mohlo byť zaplatené. Nikto iný to nemohol urobiť; oni všetci boli zrodení zo sexu, po diablovi, podľa jeho plánu. Rozumiete tomu teraz? Vidíte?
49Ale každí človek, bez ohľadu na to, či je to pápež, kňaz, biskup, čokoľvek on je, on zomiera, pretože on je - on je kríženec. Je to presne tak! On sa narodil pomedzi Satanom a Evou. Oni to môžu nazývať čímkoľvek chcete, to bol Satan a Eva. To originálne Slovo s tým nemá nič spoločného. To originálne Slovo bol Život. On To skrížil a to prinieslo smrť! A keď cirkev dnes, oni sa sami nazývajú letniční, nazývajú sa baptisti, čokoľvek chcú, keď oni skrížia toto Slovo s dogmou, to produkuje deti smrti. A ona nemôže mať v sebe žiadny život! Ona je mŕtva a jej deti sú mŕtve!
50Boh povedal, "Ja ju hodím na ležisko svetskosti a zabijem jej deti." Boh to povedal tak v Zjavení. Koľkí z vás vedia, že je to pravda? Položím ju na ležisko svetskosti (to je tam kde ona je), a zabijem jej deti, dokonca ohňom. My pozorujeme kde - čo sa deje kúkoľu, ktorý je medzi pšenicou? - bude spálený. Och, nemôžete povedať, že Slovo klame. Ono je Pravda. Niekedy váhate a - "ale my môžeme povedať, že Ono sa mýli", ale ak Ho budete udržiavať aby bežalo priamo, Ono bude bežať raz-dva, raz-dva, raz-dva, raz-dva rovno vpred. Hodil ju na ležisko svetskosti. Ona nemôže zrodiť nič, než ako deti smrti.
51Potom ak denominácia môže zrodiť len skrížené decko, prečo chcete do nej patriť? Nuž bratia, to je ten dôvod prečo som proti tomu. Ona je od počiatku smilnica. Biblia hovorí, že ona bola - smilnica. Sú to jasné slová, ale povedal som vám, že budem hovoriť dnes otvorene. Čo ona je. Ona pácha duchovné cudzoložstvo, tým že prijíma dogmy a vyznania namiesto Slova, učí svoje deti, aby robili to isté.
52Nuž, jej deti vychádzajú z jej lona mŕtve. Ona musí zomrieť. Je to presne tak. Presne tak isto, ako každý človek - počúvajte, presne tak isto, ako každá smrteľná osoba, ktorá sa preborí cez lono ženy zomrie, a tak zomrie každý človek, ktorý sa narodil skrze nich, pretože ona je kríženec, nezákonná, a jej deti sú nemanželské. Je to tak. Dúfam, že to neprechádza ponad vašu hlavu.
53Nuž, Jahwe mal raz nevestu. Adam mal nevestu. Ježiš mal nevestu, Jahwe mal nevestu. Viete o tom? On ju musel dať preč. Ona sa stal smilnicou, a tak ju dal preč. To je presne to, čo On povedal. Ona sa stala smilnicou, prostitútkou. Čo ju doviedlo do toho, že ona to robila? (Prajem si, aby sme mali čas čítať to. Možno sa dostanem za chvíľu ku niečomu z toho.) Práve teraz, bolo to v čase Samuela, keď Izrael mal kráľa, Boha, a ona bola panna. A ona mala niečo vyprodukovať. A čo sa stalo? Ona sa začala rozhliadať dokola a videla tie ďalšie národy, ktoré mali kráľov, a tak ona chcela byť taká, ako tí ostatní.
54Vy naspäť odviaty letniční, to je presne to, čo ste urobili. Keď tento starý kazateľ, ktorý tu sedí, dnes mu je skoro sto rokov, keď tam prepukli letnice, nemohli ste im povedať nič o žiadnej organizácii. Oni by to nepočúvali. Oni to nazývali vecami od diabla, a tí mužovia mali pravdu! Ale čo ste urobili? Vy ste sa museli začať zachovávať tak, ako tie ostatné cirkvi. Vy ste to museli zorganizovať. Potom, ako On povedal, natiahli ste ploty pomedzi sebou. Pustili sa do vyučovania ...?... učia nás (Chvála Bohu! Hallelujah!) takto a vyskakovať hore dole a hovoriť v jazykoch a hovoria, "Zapíš ho ako člena; on to má." On nie je správne pokrstený - ani vodou ani Duchom. On nie je v poriadku. Jeho ovocie to dokazuje. On má zlý druh semena, na to aby mohol rásť. "Nech ťa Boh žehná brat, položíme tu na teba ruky a urobíme ťa starším! Poviem ti čo ty ... vybudujeme tu túto organizáciu, že bude väčšia než ako tie Zhromaždenia Božie!" Presne tak sa to rozvíjalo. Čítajte letničnú históriu, a presvedčte sa či to tak nie je, alebo históriu ktorejkoľvek cirkvi.
55Baptisti chceli predstihnúť metodistov. Metodisti chceli predstihnúť luteránov. Luteráni chceli predstihnúť katolíkov. Každý chcel aby predstihol - predstihol niekoho. Vidíte, to je ... to je duch organizácii. "Ale málo bude tých, ktorí budú spasení. Tesná je brána a úzka je cesta, a málo je tých, ktorí ju nájdu." Len málo. Ak On povedal málo (to je Slovo Božie, to semeno), bude ich málo. Nebudú to žiadne desiatky biliónov a biliónov. Bude len málo tých, ktorí to nájdu. Tých, ktorí sú predurčení do toho, oni to počúvajú. Ten včasný dážď vyšiel teraz.
56Nuž, Jahwe mal nevestu, ktorú miloval, ale ona odišla a začala smilniť. Čo urobila? - začala sa správať ako aj iné moci toho sveta. A čo On urobil s týmto zbožným, starým, pomazaným prorokom (keď Slovo Pánovo prichádza ku prorokovi)? On priviedol toho starého proroka, Samuela, prišli ku nemu; on povedal, "Deti, zhromaždite sa na chvíľu okolo mňa, chcem vám niečo povedať, vám všetkým. Prečo chcete kráľa? Jahwe je vaším Kráľom. Prečo chcete nejaké vierovyznanie? Biblia je vaším vyznaním. Biblia je Pravda. Vyznania sú klamstvom. Ste mŕtvi, ľuďmi učinení." Apoštolské Vyznanie, ukážte mi to v Biblii. Kto kedy počul o niečom takom? "Verím v obecenstvo svätých." Každý kto verí v obecenstvo svätých je špiritista. Obecenstvo s mŕtvymi. Je len jeden prostredník medzi Bohom a človekom, a to je Kristus, a On nie je mŕtvy, ale On žije naveky, vstal z mŕtvych. Protestanti to prehltli aj s navijakom a neviem s čím ešte, so všetkými cirkevnými katechizmami, prehltli to presne tak isto. Oni to milujú, skutočne, tak ako ten ostatný svet.
57"Ó, viete, my sme zvykli byť letniční. Stávali sme tam na rohu s tamburínou v ruke a modlili sme sa; a tie ženy tam stáli a ich dlhé vlasy viseli dole a chválili Boha a všetko tomu podobné." Ale o jój, vy to viete lepšie. Oni by sa vám vysmiali rovno do tvári, skutoční kresťania. Stoja tam vonku s ostrihanými vlasmi podľa hrnca, na hrubo namaľované a ich šaty vyzerajú ako koža na viedenskom párku, a takto idú dole a hovoríte si pri tom svätí Boží? Majte rozum a nerobte to! Tak isto svet by mal mať rozum a nerobiť to. Hanba vám. Mali by ste radšej opustiť rohy ulíc ... ak nedokážete vyprodukovať nič okrem toho ... Ale to je presne tak, ako to vždy bolo, a to stále pôjde ponad nich a oni to uvidia až potom, keď je to už príliš ďaleko. Oni to vždy tak robili. Oni to urobili.
58Jahweho nevesta chcela ísť smilniť, postupovať ako tí ostatní ľudia, ako tí ostatní z nich. To je to, čo chcela robiť Ježišova nevesta. A starý Samuel, ku ktorému prichádzalo Slovo ... ku komu prichádza Slovo? - ku prorokom. Čo povedal ten starý prorok, keď tam prišiel, "Deti, počkajte len chvíľu. Prečo chcete ísť a postupovať ako oni?" Povedal, "Či som vám povedal niekedy niečo v Mene Pánovom, čo by sa nebolo stalo?" Pamätáte si na to? Koľkí z vás to čítali? Určite ste to čítali. "Povedal som vám niekedy niečo v Mene Pánovom, čo by sa nebolo stalo? A ďalšia vec, či som mával veľké kampane, či tomu podobné, a bral od vás všetky vaše peniaze? Či som tak robil?" on povedal, "Či som prosil niekedy nejaké - " Ja teraz hovorím o Samuelovi. O niekom, ku ktorému prichádzalo Slovo Pánovo. On povedal, "Či som žiadal od vás niekedy aby ste doniesli - zložili toľko a urobili toľko a toľko.
"Nie," oni odpovedali, "nie, nikdy si tak nerobil. Nikdy si nám nepovedal nič čo by nebola pravda."
On povedal, "Tak prečo potom chcete ísť a postupovať tak ako oni?"
Oni povedali, "Samuel, ty máš pravdu, ale my to aj tak chceme."
59To je presne to, čo urobila letničná cirkev. Kvôli tomu sa ku ním nepripojím. Skutočne, ja chcem zostať pannou pred Bohom s Jeho Slovom. Či oni - Ja nemusím mať žiadne veľké predstavenia ani nič tomu podobné. Ja som to odmietol. Nechcel som sa dať poviazať. To nebola moja múdrosť; to bola Božia múdrosť. Keby som musel vystúpiť, tak by som bol mohol - musel by som byť podlízavý ku každému, ku ľuďom i ku diablovi a povedať im, "Áno, musím mať toľko na televízne vysielanie, a musím mať toľko na to i to; vy musíte za to zaplatiť," Tiež by som takto musel ťahať za povrazy. Ale ja som vám nikdy nepovedal nič v Mene Pánovom, čo by sa nebolo stalo. Nikdy som vám nepovedal nič okrem Slova. Posúďte sami. Prosil som vás niekedy o niečo? Nie veru. Nie, Boh sa o to postaral. Nemám žiadne veľké programy, ktoré by ma podopierali. Nemal som nič také. Každý, kto patrí ku Bohu, bude počúvať Boha! Buďte len citliví na vedenie Ducha Božieho, kde ísť a čo robiť, a robte to. To je všetko čo je potrebné. Zachovávajte to, nie nejaké veľké programy, ktoré donášajú milióny dolárov - milióny a milióny a milióny, a niektorí z nich teraz budujú budovy za milióny a milióny dolárov.
60Nemám zlý názor na kritiku. To je treba kritizovať. Nechcem raniť niečie pocity, ale radšej raním ľudské pocity ako pocity Božie. Ak ťa On poveruje a posiela ťa aby si činil tieto veci, a dokázal to medzi ľuďmi, potom to máš počúvať. Hovorím vám Pravdu. Boh potvrdzuje, že je to Pravda. Je to presne tak.
61A tak Jahweho nevesta začala smilniť, a čo ona urobila? - znovu zrodila bandu nemanželských detí. Je to tak? My vieme, že je to pravda. Dokonca museli byť zabratí preč, skrze kráľa Nabuchodonozora, a tak ďalej. Kristova Nevesta učinila to isté. Kvôli čomu? - nemohla počkať. Ó nie. Och, och - proste nemohla počkať.
62Oni museli niečo vyprodukovať. Oni nemohli očakávať na Ducha Svätého, aby prišiel a dostal sa do cirkvi. Vidíte, oni museli mať viacej vo svojej denominácii. Keby to bolo zostalo tak ako to bolo vtedy pred sto rokmi, alebo pred päťdesiatimi rokmi, keď rozpočali znovu letnice v tých posledných dňoch, keď to Slovo začalo byť kázané, keby to bolo tak zostalo, ona by dnes pravdepodobne nemala viac ako päťdesiat členov. Je to tak. Ale oni by boli obmytí krvou! Oni by mali v sebe moc Božiu! Svet by bol otrasený pod ohromným nárazom tela Slova, ktoré by bolo hovorené slovo za slovom. Ale dnes, prečo, je to len zvučiaca mosadz a znejúci cimbal. Je to tak. Stalo sa to len nezmyslom, vecou na výsmech, hanbou pre ten svet, hanbou pre Boha.
63Prišiel som na jedno miesto, traja bratia - dvaja bratia a ja, prišli sme na jedno miesto krížom z Springfield, v Missouri, raz ráno na raňajky, ako sme sem išli z Arizony, a bola tam taká malá pani, na ktorú brat Wood zvrátil moju pozornosť, vyzerala ako naša sestra Collinsová - blondína, s veľkým vrkočom vzadu - a on povedal, "Či nevyzerá ako žena brata Willarda Collinsa?"
64Povedal som, "Vyzerá." Tu vyšla nejaká staršia pani, a ja som povedal, "Zdá sa mi, že to je jej matka. Pozrite na ten veľký vrkoč." Povedal som, "Tu neďaleko sa práve nachádza modlitebňa Zborov Božích, hlavný stan Zborov Božích; to je kde - preto sú také." A sedelo tam mnoho mladých sestier s takými naondulovanými vlasmi; to boli študentky. Mladé "Rikity" a oni všetky sa tam tak zachovávali, viete; každá z nich držala pod pazuchou svoju Bibliu.
65Pozorovali sme ich všetky až kým nevyšli - chichotali sa, smiali, zachovávali sa ako tie moderné - to je úroda letničných, ktorá prichádza na zajtrajší deň - ak bude nejaký zajtrajšok. PREČO! PREČO! PREČO! - pretože to je to semeno, ktoré bolo zasiate. Je to úplná pravda.
Keď ona vyšla, keď oni všetky vyšli von, tá pani tam prišla a opýtala sa, "Môžem pre vás niečo urobiť?"
Povedal som, "Rád by som sa vás niečo opýtal."
"Prosím, pane?"
Povedal som (tak ako neznámy, myslel som, že by nás mohla poznať) - povedal som, "Nie je to tam oproti Biblická škola?"
Ona povedala, "Áno, pane, je."
Ja som povedal, "Predpokladám, že máte z toho celkom dobrú tržbu." (Sedel tam brat Fred Sothman a brat Banks Wood, dvaja zo starších nášho zboru.) A ja som povedal ...
Ona povedala, "Áno, máme."
Povedal som, "Predpokladám, že tam patríte?"
Ona povedala, "Nie," povedala, "prepáčte, nepatrím."
A ja som povedal, "Myslel som si to preto, že máte také pekné dlhé vlasy. A predpokladám, že to je vaša matka?"
Ona povedala, "Nie, pane"; povedala, "ona tu len pracuje." Ona povedala, "Nie, ja ne - " povedala, "Páčia sa mi dlhé vlasy. Mám malé dievčatko a vediem ju ku tomu aby tiež nosila dlhé vlasy," a povedala, "Môjmu mužovi sa páčia dlhé vlasy."
Povedal som, "Nech ho Boh žehná." A tak ona povedala, "Nuž - " Povedala - ja som povedal, "No, je to divné. To tu boli študentky, tie dievčatá s tými ostrihanými vlasmi, ako má prvá dáma?" [prvá dáma - žena prezidenta - Jacqueline Kennedy. – pozn.prekl.]
Keď sme odchádzali - povedal som, "Ďakujem"; pri tom ako sme vychádzali. Povedal som, "Boh tu dal túto ženu ako napomenutie pre tú bastardsky narodenú skupinu detí tam oproti!"
66Je to tak, nelegitímne, podľa vecí toho sveta. Koľko žien nasledovalo príklad Jezábeli, prvej dámy tej krajiny, čo myslíte, koľké z nich sú dnes v Nebi? Vidíte? Veci toho sveta - Ak milujete svet, alebo veci toho sveta, nie je vo vás láska Božia. No vidíte - Čo je to? - smotana zajtrajšej úrody letničných - toho najväčšieho hnutia v tomto národe. Tu to máte. To je nevesta. Nechápem to.
67No dobre, čo sa ona snaží robiť? Och, ona vytvára trochu poskakovania na pódiu - nie že by som sa z toho vysmieval; to je v poriadku. Ona vytvára niečo ďalšie. Prečo? -aby získala členov do cirkvi. Kvôli čomu? Ona proste nemôže čakať. Vidíte? Ona nemôže čakať na Boha, aby to robil. Oni tam niekde musia získať členov. A tak oni im povedali, "Vy to musíte robiť," a odchádzajú preč. Vidíte, tam je to semeno, ktoré práve vzchádza. Vy to musíte robiť.
68Ja som misionár. Videl som Afričanov, ako chytali krv zo zvierat a takto sa ňou polievali (úplne nahí, mužovia i ženy), maľujúc si tváre - to pochádza odtiaľ; maľovanie pochádza z pohanského charakteru, nie je to pre nás ľudí, kresťanov, veriacich; ani nikdy nebolo. Bola len jedna žena v celej Biblii, ktorá sa kedy maľovala, to bola Jezábeľ, diabol.
69A tak potom ona - oni si maľujú tváre, na uši si dávajú veľké dlhé veci, ako kusy dreva (v kmeni Zulu) - to je kus dreva, ktorí spôsobuje, že ich ušné boltce takto visia dole - niekedy rozďavia a vytrčia von svoje pery (myslia si, že to vyzerá nádherne), potierajú si krvou hruď, ktorá steká dole po ich nohách a po všetkom, a potom si robia pruhy ako zebra, a vykrikujú, tancujú v duchu a hovoria v jazykoch - a uctievajú diablov: dôkaz Ducha Svätého!
70Bol som práve v Indii, keď tam mali takých čo chodia po ohni i rôznych iných, a viem že je to pravda. Je tam veľká modla s rubínmi v ušiach, ako náušnice a takéto veci, a oni sa mučia a prepichávajú svoje telo a bijú sa a zašívajú svoje ústa, ak klamali, a kajajú sa, a šabľou si prepichujú pery alebo bradu, až hore cez nos a prepichujú to, že to až vychádza von; berú veľké háčiky na ryby, ako gule na vianočnom stromku, odídu a naplnia to vodou a tisíce si ich pozakvačujú po svojom tele, rovno cez mäso a idú tam a tancujú takto okolo tej modly, a zabijú kozľa a takto vykonávajú svoju pobožnosť, a prechádzajú rovno cez horúci červený oheň bez popáleniny. Skúste to, vy niektorí letniční!
71Ale to urobili - tým židovským mládencom. Ale oni nikdy nepokúšali Pána Boha; oni boli proste do toho hodení. Oni sa nesnažili niečo vypôsobiť. To je to, čo sa deja dnes s letničnými. Oni niečo vyrábajú. Oni nemôžu čakať! Och, Bože, oni proste nemôžu čakať, a tak páchajú cudzoložstvo. Amen. Snažia sa vyprodukovať niečo, a čo to prináša? - to isté čo aj prvý krát, tá prvá nevesta. Oni nemôžu čakať.
72Ona priniesla smrť, skrze bastardsky zrodené dieťa, ktorej sme my všetci deťmi. Boh prišiel v tele, aby nám dal iné narodenie, aby nás priviedol naspäť do originálnych synov a dcér Božích. Vidíte? Tu to máte. Nikdy nedošlo ku správnemu oplodneniu Evy. To sa nikdy nestalo. Prečo? Ona to zmiešala, dala to nabok. Namiesto toho aby prišiel ku nej Adam, ako ku neveste, keď by prišiel ten vyznačený čas - práve ako Kristus mal prísť do tej skupiny. Kristus by bol musel prísť do Svojej cirkvi; On zasľúbil, že príde. Boh zasľúbil, že sa budú rozmnožovať, ale oni museli čakať na Boží čas.
73 To je to čo sa deje dnes. Oni nechcú čakať na Boží čas. Oni chcú získať niečo ďalšie, a tak hneď tam má diabol múdrosť, aby im ju dal. Aby urobili organizáciu; väčšiu ako tam tí iní.
74Vidíte teraz prečo som proti tomu? Skutočne, som proti tomu so všetkým čo je vo mne. Pokiaľ je tam to Slovo, Ono vždy bude proti tomu. Boh je proti tomu. Boh povedal, že je. Je to pravda. Proste nemôžu čakať.
75A tak u Evy nedošlo ku tomu oplodneniu. Bolo to skrížené so Satanovým klamstvom, jeho milovaná nevesta bola poškvrnená. A to isté sa stalo s Kristovou Nevestou. Nevesta - čo ju poškvrnilo? (Mám teraz na mysli Adamovu nevestu) - to že nestála na Božom Slove. Je to pravda? Pýtam sa teraz, ak to tak nie je, povedzte nie; ale ak to tak je povedzte to. Ten dôvod, že Božia - dôvod, že Adamova nevesta - sú tri: Adamova, Kristova, Božia. Dôvod, prečo Adamova nevesta nikdy nezrodila to pravé decko života, je ten, že ona spochybnila Božie Slovo. Ak je to tak, povedzte "Amen". [Zhromaždenie odpovedá "Amen." – pozn.prekl.] Dôvod, že Jahweho žena bola odstavená nabok, či Jeho nevesta, bol ten, že ona odmietla Božie Slovo, Proroka. Je to pravda? Dôvod, že Kristova nevesta je daná nabok v rozvode, je ten, že ona odmietla Božie Slovo, tak ako to urobila Eva, tak ako urobili tie ostatné; presne tak, všetky začali smilniť, všetky sa poškvrnili. Ich muž sa nemohol ku ním dostať. Oni už boli tehotné, prv ako sa ku ním dostal ich muž.
76Ó, Bože, či je to nie poľutovania hodný pohľad! Predstavte si mladého muža, ako prichádza ku žene, a zisťuje, že má v sebe semeno od iného muža. Čo za vec! To je to čo zistil Boh. To je to čo zistil Adam. To je to čo zistil Kristus. Ó!
77Áno, nezostala so Slovom a spôsobila skrížený stav. To je to čo urobil Izrael. Vidíte kde ona je? To je to čo urobila Kristova nevesta. Vidíte kde ona je? - tak isto tie ostatné. Kristova letničná nevesta urobila to isté.
78Ona nemôže zrodiť duchovné deti Slova, pretože ona sama je skrížená. Ako to ona môže urobiť, keď ona sama je skrížená s denomináciami? Spojila sa s nimi a robí všetko presne tak isto, ako oni. Spolu s nimi v cirkevnej rade a vo všetkom, proste skrížená, ako aj tie ostatné. Ako to ona môže urobiť? Ona to nemôže.
79Nuž, mám proste tak veľa do povedania, a musím sa s tým ponáhľať. Chcel by som kázať o každej jednej z nich.
80Nuž, dávajte pozor, tá ozajstná Nevesta - Haleluja, bude taká! Prečo? Ona je predurčená. Ona nebude denomináciou, pretože Ona je predurčená. Ona si nemusí robiť starosti s nejakou denomináciou, Ona je už predurčená, aby zaujala to miesto.
81Pozrite sa, ako Mária - chcem aby ste to teraz porozumeli a aby vám to neuniklo. Ste pripravení? Povedzte, "Amen." [Zhromaždenie hovorí, "Amen." – pozn.prekl.] Keď Kristus príde ku Svojej Neveste, Ona bude panna, ako bola Mária, pretože Boh neprivedie Krista skrze lono smilnici, tak isto On neprivedie cez také lono Nevestu. On nemôže priviesť Svoje Slovo skrze smilnicu, ktorá smilní voči Jeho Slovu. To sú hrozné slová, ale to je to čo hovorí Biblia. Ja hovorím to čo je tu povedané, pretože tomu musíme porozumieť.
82Ozajstná Nevesta, ako Mária, bude mať panenské lono pre Nevestu Slova, ktorým je Kristus. Keď Kristus, Slovo, prichádza do Nevesty, Ona bude taká istá, ako je On - panna skrze Slovo. Dúfam - dúfam, že to prechádza, brat Neville. Ja - Vidíte? Dúfam, že rozumiete. Čo On bol? - Slovo! - Slovo Božie. Na Svojom rúchu mal napísané Meno, "Slovo Božie." Na počiatku bolo Slovo, a to Slovo bolo u Boha, a to Slovo bol Boh. A to Slovo ... sa stalo telom a prebývalo medzi nami." On je Boh, a Boh je Slovo. A keď Jeho Nevesta príde, Ona bude taký istý produkt ako bol On - panna!
83Či patril Kristus do nejakej denominácii? A Jahwe? A tak isto ani Jeho Nevesta! Ona je časťou Neho. Ona nepotrebuje žiadne dogmy; Ona nebude mať žiadne. Ona bude absolútnou pannou. Ako? - skrze skutky. Amen. Ona bude každé Slovo Božie zdôrazňovať s "Amen. Amen. Och, nech sa mi stane podľa tvojho slova. Amen." Ó! Tu to máte. Zdôrazňuje Božie Slovo.
84Má panenské lono. Z čoho ona vyjde? - z panenského lona Slova. Z kadiaľ vyšiel Ježiš? - z panenského lona. Vidíte?
85Keď Adam prišiel ku svojej žene, ona bola tehotná. Ona niečo urobila. Ona bola zmiešaná. Ona bola - skrížila to decko, a ono zomrelo. Ale keď Jozef prišiel ku svojej neveste, ona bola tehotná, ale so Životom. Adamova žena, alebo Adamova nevesta, keď Adam - prv ako sa oni zišli - práve tak ako Jozef a Mária, tak ako Kristus a cirkev teraz (či to nevidíte?) a prv, ako sa oni zišli spolu (Adam a Eva), ona bola tehotná s tým skazeným semenom od hada; a keď Adam prišiel ku svojej žene, našiel ju tehotnú na smrť. Vidíte? Smrť! Ako? - duchovne, telesne mŕtva; ale keď Jozef, ten človek, prišiel ku svojej žene (sláva! sotva ju mohol oblapiť!), ona bola tehotná so Životom, Slovom Božím, ktoré sa stalo telom medzi vami!
86Prichádza to naspäť do vypovedaného Slova! Prichádza to naspäť, že Slovo Božie, ktoré bolo Slovom tu - prichádza cez ľudské lono. Amen! Boh to jednako urobí. On to vypovedal, a musí to tak byť. Ó, sláva! Amen! To je náš Boh. Ó, to je bohaté, bratia, ak to môžete stráviť - môžete do toho naraziť. To je to kde ich On našiel.
87Keď Adam prišiel ku svojej žene, ona bola tehotná zo zlého semena. Keď Jo... To semeno zomrelo! Keď Jozef prišiel ku svojej, ona bola tehotná. Nuž a čo spôsobilo to rozdielne tehotenstvo? To, že Adamova žena pochybovala o Slove. Je to tak? Jozefova nevesta verila Slovu. To je ten rozdiel. Tak čo to potom je? To je Slovo! Oh to je vzácne Slovo! To bolo - Svet bol uformovaný Slovom Božím! Haleluja! Práve tam je moja opora. Nech všetky denominácie i všetko iné upadnú a nech si robia čo len budú chcieť. Ja stojím na tom Slove.
88Preto som robil to čo som robil. Preto som odstavil denominácie. Oni hovoria, "Prečo on je len ... rozbíja cirkvi." Oni hovorili to isté o našom Pánovi. Zakaždým to hovoria, vidíte.
89Nuž, on ju teraz našiel. Kristus prichádza ku Svojej neveste. Kde ju On nachádza? - pri tom istom. Prečo? Keď ona začala na počiatku - (Počúvajte teraz, nechcem aby vám to utieklo.) Keď ona rozpočala, ona bola panna. Ona bola v poriadku. Ona v tej prvotnej cirkvi postupovala správne. Bolo to nádherné. Boh mu dal nevestu, a čo ona urobila? Ak poznáte dejiny, v roku 606 ona ide rovno tam a tehotnie Rímskou dogmou, či organizáciou. A potom od vtedy, v Biblii, tá stará smilnica, mater smilníc, rodila cirkvi, a oni boli smilnice - to sú protestanti - pretože oni, každá jedna, boli narodené rovno z nej, a každú stihol jej vlastný osud - organizácia. Nuž, vidíte prečo som proti tomu? No dobre.
90Nuž, pretože zrodenie zo Slova je Kristus. Nie nejaké poškvrnené ... s denomináciami. Prvotná cirkev - nie denominácie, len Slovo a Duch, ktorý To zavlažoval. Brat, ... Boh tam takto vložil Slovo a Duch Svätý To zavlažoval, a ona vyrástla. Ona rodila deti, samozrejme, ale táto cirkev to nemôže robiť. Ona sa tiež stala denomináciou. Vidíte? Ona to nemôže robiť. Ona s tým zmiešala svet. Pozrite sa čo oni urobili.
91Hľaďte teraz, Boh potvrdzoval Svoje Slovo cez Svoje telo. Je to tak? Potom ona odišla smilniť ako urobila Adamova žena v Edene a Jahweho žena vo dňoch Samuela, keď si vzala kráľa, rozviedla sa s Bohom (so svojím zasnúbeným mužom) a s Jeho Slovom a s Jeho prorokom (cez ktorého prichádzalo Jeho Slovo), a odišla smilniť, ako ostatné národy; a Boh sa s ňou rozviedol! To isté On urobil dnes. Ten istý akt.
92Synovia nevesty, páchajú cudzoložstvo (vidíte) s nevestou, Boží Syn - Jeho nevesta z letníc, panna so Slovom, odišla smilniť a spáchala cudzoložstvo, presne tak, ako to urobila Adamova žena, presne tak, ako to urobila Jahweho žena; a tu je Synova žena - ona odchádza smilniť, páchajúc cudzoložstvo s rímskymi bohmi (množné číslo), bohovia, a kvôli svojim milencov, Rímskym bohom, sa snaží vziať svojho vlastného muža a rozštiepiť ho na troje - aby sa ľúbila svojím milencom! Bože buď im milostivý! Skutočne, oni majú stovky bohov, ó skutočne Aštartu, boha slnka, a Baláma, boha slnka, a kráľovnú nebies a všetko to tam. A tak nevesta, aby sa zaľúbila svojím milencom, s nie dobrou povesťou - či Boh nehovorí o tom v Piesňach Šalamúnových a povedal o tom, ako jeho žena nebola nič inšie, ako prostitútka a vysedávala otvorená po celý časa, prijímala každého milenca, ktorý prechádzal okolo. Hovorím otvorene, ale to je to, čo hovorí Biblia. Každý muž, ktorý chcel s ňou pobežať, mohol s ňou pobežať. To je to isté, čo urobila Kristova nevesta - otvorila sa každému starému špinavému, nečistému zvyku každej organizácie, ktorý kedy mali. Robiac to isté.
93Budem za toto kritizovaný. To je v poriadku, ale tiež budem za to požehnaný. Ale to bude Pravda, Božia Pravda, pretože On chce aby to bolo povedané, a tu - snažím sa to povedať ako najlepšie viem. Vidíte?
94Ona sa snažila zapáčiť svojím mnohým milencom. Robiac to, ona skrížila, snažila sa skrížiť Božie Slovo, so svojimi milencami; a tak to nebude fungovať, a tak ona povedala, "Vyriekam sa toho" a vytvorila si svoje vlastné slovo. A teraz si ona nárokuje, že ona sama je Slovom. Ale nech katolíci - či protestanti nevytýkajú katolíkom, pretože oni robia to isté na konciloch vo svojich vlastných cirkvách - smilnia. Nie divu, že sú nazvané smilnice! Je to tvrdé, či nie? Zvlieka vás to z kože, ale to je to čo niekedy treba, aby vás to prebudilo.
To je presne to čo ona urobila. Ona opustila Ježiša, Muža Slova, a ako Samuel - oni opustili Samuela a vzali Saula, opustili proroka pomazaného Slovom a vzali kráľa so žezlom; ona by nakoniec prišla ku tomu Kráľovi, ku tomu žezlu, v Miléniu, ale ona je teraz odmietnutá. On odišiel pre Nevestu ku pohanom. Je to tak? To je Slovo.
95Nuž, ona opustila Ježiša, Slovo. Ježiša, Slovo, a uzavrela manželstvo z iným mužom, ktorý sa nazýva pápež, s dogmou. A teraz ona nemá Ježiša; ona má pápeža. Teraz my nemáme - protestanti nemajú Ježiša; oni majú denomináciu, to isté - obraz šelmy.
96A tak ona nemôže dať zrodenie zo Slova svojim deťom, žiadna z nich. Ona sama je smilnica. Biblia hovorí, že je. Ona má vo svojej ruke pohár, z ktorého dáva piť ľuďom svoju doktrínu, čo je ohavnosť, nečistota jej smilstva. Čo je to smilstvo? - to je žiť nečiste. A to, že svoju doktrínu dáva ľuďom, je nečistotou jej smilstva. A kráľovia zeme a všetci boli opití vínom jej smilstva. Úplná pravda, pozrite sa na nich. Chlapče, oni by ti vo chvíli za to podrezali krk. Nie len katolíci, ale aj protestanti.
97Počúvajte, vy metodisti. Kto zabil Jozefa Smitha? Teraz pokrikujte. Hoci ja neverím v jeho doktrínu, tak isto neverím vo vašu. To nie je to, to ste vy. To je ten dôvod. Jozef Smith mal tak isto právo kázať svoje náboženstvo tu v tomto národe, ako vy, ale vy ste ho zabili tu v Illionos; zastrelili ste ho bez príčiny, pretože on mal niečo trochu rozdielne. A vy sa potom sťažujete na katolícku cirkev. Vyjdite z tej hromady nezmyslov, vy metodisti, ktorí ste určení do Večného Života! John Wesley by sa otočil v hrobe, pri takom správaní. Skutočne. John Wesley nikdy nezaložil žiadnu takúto cirkev, ako toto. To urobila banda "Rikít" a "Elvisov" po Johnovej smrti. Je to tak. Nie John Wesley. To tí starí, prvotní letniční, by nikdy nedošli do niečoho takéhoto. To znovu tá istá skupina po ich smrti. Je to pravda. Ježiš Kristus by nezaložil niečo takéto, ako čo my tu máme, nazvané letniční; ani Duch Svätý by to nezaložil, ale to je niečo, čo vy máte tu vo vnútri; ale Duch Svätý je niečo, čo oni teraz nemôžu zabiť. On si aj tak vezme Nevestu. On si ju aj tak vezme. On povedal, že On to predurčil.
98Ona opustila Ježiša, svojho Muža - Slovo, aby sa vydala za pápeža, a tak ona nemôže dať zrodenie, duchovné zrodenie - ona teraz môže dať denominačné narodenie; ona má mnoho toho semena - ona nemôže dať duchovné narodenie, ona ... pretože ona bola smilnica. Jedinú vec, ktorú ona môže dať, je denominačný život a množstvo zvučnej reklamy na oklamanie ľudí. Samotná rímsko katolícka cirkev je založená na niekoľkých kresťanských poverách a na hromade rímskych vecí, a letničná cirkev je na tom tak isto zle - hromada vyskakovania, vykrikovania a hovorenia v jazykoch a tomu podobné veci. Ale keď príde do toho ... rozhnevajú sa, žeby vás zlikvidovali, ako motorovou pílou a vylúčili vás zo svojho zhromaždenia. Keby tam prišiel aj Boh a vzkriesil mŕtveho, ak s nimi nesúhlasíte, vyženú vás von, ak nepatríte do ich organizácii.
99Nuž, táto stará matka smilnica (ešte za chvíľu sa ku nej vrátim), ona tvrdí, že má moc odpúšťať hriechy, ale vy ste nie posudzovaní podľa toho, čo tvrdíte; Nie ste poznaní skrze to čo tvrdíte. Poznaní ste skrze svoje skutky. Ako ona mohla odpúšťať hriechy? Pozrite sa na ňu. Keď Ježiš urobil to isté, oni ... povedal, "Usvedčte Ma; ukážte Mi, kde som neveril Slovu." Ona tvrdí, že má moc odpúšťať hriechy, ale to prichádza jedine skrze Slovo. Je to tak. Jedine Boh môže odpúšťať hriechy. Je to pravda? Či to nepovedali tak tí farizeovia? Čo to bolo s tou bandou, tých slepých pokrytcov? Prečo? - pretože oni nevideli, že to bolo Slovo, ktoré stálo pred nimi! On JE Slovo! Sláva Bohu! Preto On mohol odpúšťať hriechy. On bol Boh! On bol Slovo, ktoré sa zamanifestovalo.
100Teraz katolícka cirkev hovorí, že Ježiš im dal moc. On ju dal. On dal cirkvi moc. To je pravda. My tomu veríme. Všetky jej dcéry sú smilnice. Všetky jej dcéry, jej denominačné dcéry, sú smilnice. "Brat Branham, to je veľké slovo." To nie je moje slovo; to je Jeho Slovo. Je to presne tak. To nie je moje, to je Jeho.
101No dobre, ako? Vy poviete, "A ako sú oni smilnice? Ako sa oni stali smilnicami? Prečo, oni sú dobrí ľudia. Tak ... " Ja o tom nič nehovorím. Ja nehovorím čo sú. Ja nehovorím, že katolíci nie sú dobrí ľudia. Oni sú tak dobrí, ako ktokoľvek iný. Oni sú tak isto ľuďmi, ako my. Ale čo sa týka tej starej cirkvi, ona je zlá. Protestanti sú dobrí práve tak - metodisti sú práve tak dobrí ako baptisti alebo letniční, alebo ktokoľvek iný. Oni sú všetci rovnakí.
102Jedná sa však o to, ako potom ona môže byť smilnica? Prečo? Otestujte ju Slovom. Podľa toho to môžete poznať. Vyskúšajte ju raz na Slove a budete vidieť čo ona povie. "Ó, samozrejme, učili sme sa na seminári, že v ich dňoch - to je - ono to tak bývalo, ale (ha-ha) to bolo dávno, vo dňoch apoštolov. To bolo len pre apoštolov." Vy tak zvaná Cirkev Kristova ... "hovorte tam, kde hovorí Biblia a mlčte ..." Nuž, rád by som vás počul čo máte teraz do povedania. Nie, vy ste ticho. Pred Božím Slovom všetko utíchne, brat. Žiadny človek sa nemôže chváliť. Je to tak.
103Všetky jej dcéry sú smilnice. Ako? - tak isto ako ich matka - páchajú duchovné smilstvo voči Slovu. Tak sa katolícka cirkev stala smilnicou. Tak sa jej dcéry stali smilnicami. Tá istá vec, duchovné smilstvo voči Slovu. Ona a jej dcéry majú lono smilnici. Z nich môže prísť len smrť. Boh nemôže priniesť život cez smrť, a všetko čo sa rodí mŕtve, nežije. A ako povedal Jób, "Môžete priniesť čistú vec z nečistej - nie nikto." Tak veru. No, ako ona môže niečo zrodiť, keď ona sama je mŕtva? Ako ona môže byť panna, keď je smilnica? Vidíte, tu to máte. To je všetko.
104Ó, teraz narazíme na niečo skutočne bohaté, plné vitamínov, od Genesis do Zjavenia. Všimnite si, a ona a jej dcéry majú lono smilnici. Skrze ne môže prísť jedine smrť. Ak sa chcete pripojiť do organizácii, myslíte si, že ste v poriadku, vidíte kde sa dostávate. Dostávate sa rovno do prostriedku smrti. Presne tak. Ak to teraz nemôžete vidieť, tak ste duchovne slepí, vidíte.
105Nuž, vráťme sa teraz naspäť a znovu to vezmime, a poďme tam pre niečo. Pamätáte sa aká bola téma na zhromaždení minulú nedeľu? - Brána do Duši. Pamätáte sa? Nuž, je telesné lono; a je lono pre ducha. Veríte tomu? Je duchovné lono a telesné lono. A myseľ je lono pre ducha. Prečo? Nuž zapamätajte si, povedal som vám minulú nedeľu a nakreslil som vám to tu, existuje päť zmyslov, cez ktoré vstupuje to semeno z vonku do vnútra: zrak, chuť, hmat, čuch a sluch; päť vo vnútri: svedomie, a tak ďalej, z vnútra - päť. A na strane života sa nachádza len jedno. Je to, že vy ste založený na základe slobodného morálneho rozhodnutia prijať to, vziať to dovnútra, alebo to nechať vonku. Vidíte?
106Takto cudzoložstvo ... takto je páchané duchovné cudzoložstvo. Keď vy, hoci to dobre viete podľa Slova, ale skrze obcovanie vašej mysli vpúšťate dovnútra diablove klamstvo, ktoré je proti Slovu Božiemu - to je presne to, čo urobila Eva. Prv skrze to duchovné obcovanie, ktoré sa odohralo tým, že uverila Satanovej lži v lone svojej mysli, to poškvrnilo jej dušu, vložilo smrť do duši; potom sa uskutočnil ten telesný akt. A to je ten jediný spôsob, ako kedy žena môže spáchať cudzoložstvo voči svojmu mužovi, že nechá prv nejakého muža nahovoriť ju do toho a potom prijme iného muža, ktorý nie je jej mužom. Potom ona spácha cudzoložstvo. A keď nevesta Ježiša Krista necháva ľudské vierovyznania a dogmy zaujímať miesto Božieho Slova, pácha cudzoložstvo.
107Či nepovedal Ježiš, "Ktokoľvek pozrie na ženu, už s ňou spáchal cudzoložstvo vo svojom srdci - pozrie žiadostivo na ženu, už s ňou spáchal cudzoložstvo?" Prečo? On dovolil, že to prišlo do jeho mysli. To je lono; to začína tie veci dávať do pohybu. Satan vstupuje ... my sme boli zasiatí Slovom.
108"Jedného dňa prinesiem na zem život a znovu ju sformujem, znovu naplním zem." To v čom sklamala Eva, to urobila Mária. Ona vzala Slovo. Eva vzala Satanovu lož. Mária vzala Slovo Božie. A skrze Máriine semeno sa zem znovu napĺňa, znovu skrze jeho Nevestu, skrze Slovo, a prinesie Milénium. Skrze to sa rozširuje Slovo, a to Slovo je zasadené do každého predurčeného srdca, a Duch prichádza dole a podlieva to, a oni nemôžu zomrieť. "Ja ho znovu vzbudím v posledných dňoch." Och, brat, sestra, to je - to je skutočnosť.
109Čo to je? - myseľ je lono pre Ducha. Čo? - vziať to dovnútra, alebo to nechať vonku. Tak páchajú cudzoložstvo, tak že hovoria - nechajú nejakého Satanovho, diablovho ducha položiť do nich niečo čo je proti Slovu Božiemu; potom ona spáchala cudzoložstvo. Eva prijala (počúvajúc na to) nesprávne semeno, Satanovu lož, čo bolo proti Jahweho Slovu. Výsledkom toho bola smrť.
110Nuž, za chvíľu opustíme túto tému, ale chcem aby to bolo skutočne jasné, prv ako dôjdem ku miestu, kde budem musieť zakončiť. Preskočím tu teraz nejakú stranu - za minútu.
111Nuž pozrite sa, Eva čo? Čo ona urobila? Ona prijala nesprávne semeno. Ako to urobila? - tak, že uverila Satanovej lži. Koľkí hovoria, že je to pravda? Prečo, určite je to pravda, určite. Ona prijala Satanovu lož. Čo ona zrodila, tým že to prijala? Satan povedal, "Vieš toto je slávne. Toto je nádherná vec. Či nevieš, že si bola kvôli tomu stvorená? Prečo, ty si skutočne bola stvorená za týmto účelom."
"Och, naozaj?"
"Och, je to príjemné na pohľad. Je to dobré. Mala by si - mala by si to skúsiť."
"Ale Pán Boh povedal, nie-nie-nie-nie toto, ešte nie. My nesmieme! Nie, nie!"
"Ale vieš -"
"Och, ak to urobíme, my - "
"Och, vy skutočne nezomriete." Ten diabol s úlisným jazykom. On nemá kopytá ani rozvetvený chvost, nie, ako sa vám to snažia nahovoriť, aby ste tomu verili. On je úlisný chlapík za kazateľňou. Je to tak. Alebo nejaký malý "Riki" s vlasmi sčesanými dole, ako kačica, sedí niekde tam, aby ublížil nejakej matkinej dcére. To je ten chlapík ... prichádza s malým roztomilým, ako malý ... Och, nechám to tak.
112Nuž, lono - Eva, prijala nesprávne semeno slova. Nuž, počúvajte teraz skutočne pozorne. Z kerujeme to teraz rovno dole, ak Pán dovolí. Ona prijala nesprávne slovo. Čo to spôsobilo? - to bolo Satanove klamstvo, on povedal, že ona bude múdra; prečo, ona môže patriť do veľkej cirkvi, bude mať v meste dobrú povesť; prečo, bude taká, ako tí ostatní ľudia. Skutočne, to je presne to čomu uverila Jahweho nevesta. To je presne to. To je presne to, čo sa Satan snažil povedať, keď Slovo prišlo ku Márii, ale ona jeho striasla preč zo seba.
Povedala, "Ako sa to môže stať?"
On povedal, "Duch Svätý ťa zatieni. To je Slovo Božie."
Ona povedala, "Nech sa mi stane podľa Tvojho Slova." To prinieslo Život. Tu to máte.
Nuž, viete čo povedal Satan, "Oni sa ti budú smiať."
113To malé dievča s ružovými lícami nevenovalo tomu žiadnu pozornosť. Vyšla tam rovno hore do Júdei a povedala, "Vieš, ja budem mať decko"; prv ako čokoľvek pocítila, pretože Slovo tam už bolo vložené. To bolo všetko. Ona nemusela ísť druhý krát cez modlitebnú radu. Tak veru; ona tomu verila. Ona nemala žiadnu známku života; nemala vôbec žiadny príznak tehotenstva; vôbec nič nepociťovala; všetko bolo presne tak, ako predtým, ale ona išla a každému hovorila, "Ja budem mať decko." Prečo? - Boh to tak povedal. Čo to je? - Abrahámove Kráľovské Semeno.
"Abrahám, či s tou ženou budeš mať dieťa?" "Boh to tak povedal."
"Dobre, ale to si mi hovoril pred dvadsiatymi piatymi rokmi."
"Ja viem, ale Boh tak povedal." To je to. Tu to máte. To je to isté.
Čo hovoríte dnes? "No dobre, viete, denominácie vás vykopnú."
"Ale Boh to tak povedal; Boh to tak povedal."
"Dobre, viete, ak sa takto dáte pokrstiť - "
"Dobre, Boh to tak povedal. To je ono. To je ono."
114Tu máte vaša pannu; to je ona. Nie len čo sa týka krstu, ale všetko ďalšie ... i ten ďalší zbytok Slova, vidíte. Tak, čo ...? S Evou to bolo obojako, telesne aj duchovne. Prv a zakaždým to tak je - Nuž, povedal som vám a prosil som vás dnes ráno, sestry, aby ste mi odpustili, že sa o tom tak zmieňujem - zakaždým, keď žena urobí nesprávny krok - hovorím teraz o Kristovi a Neveste - ale zakaždým, keď žena robí nesprávny krok, ona to prv musí prijať do svojej mysli. Je to tak. Nejaký darebák ju musí presvedčiť, a ona to poslúchne napriek svojmu vlastnému presvedčeniu. Potom je spáchaný ten akt. A tak prv, to narazilo na Satanovu - to narazilo na Evinu myseľ, a v lone svojej mysli ona zapochybovala o Slove Božom, a potom nastal ten skutočný akt.
115A ten jediný spôsob, ako sa vôbec môžeme znovu zrodiť, je prijať najprv Slovo do lona svojej mysli, a potom ešte na to zostúpi Duch a spôsobí to. Tu to máte. To je to, čo to spôsobuje. To je skutočné učenie Evanjelia, brat. Verím, že ak by tu dnes stál svätý Pavol, on by v tejto chvíli učil tú istú vec. V poriadku.
116Aké to pri nej malo následky? - spôsobilo to telesnú i duchovnú smrť. Aké to má následky pri tých, ktorí prijímajú inakšie slovo, zachádza to do tejto samopašnosti, ktorú oni dnes majú? - obojaká, telesná i duchovná smrť. Oboje, telo i duch budú zničené, nebudú viac existovať. Je to presne tak.
117Všimnite si, lono Márii - lono Márii, tá telesná myseľ, vidíte, bola panenským lonom. Prečo? Ona uverila Božiemu Slovu. Bez ohľadu na to, koľko to iní kritizovali, či koľko iných vecí, niekto druhý o tom povedal, to s tým nemalo nič spoločného; ona bez ohľadu na to verila Božiemu Slovu.
118Ó, prajem si, aby som to mohol vyjasniť. Chápete to? Vidíte, prv, to bola jej myseľ. Prv, ako sa ten akt vôbec uskutočnil v jej telesnom lone, musel sa prv uskutočniť tu, bolo treba nechať vojsť Ducha, aby vykonal tú ostatnú robotu. Ó, prv, ako sa môže uskutočniť to ozajstné duchovné narodenie, to Slovo sa muselo nájsť vo vašej mysli; uveriť tomu. "Ten kto čuje Moje Slová a verí Tomu, ktorý Ma poslal, má Večný Život a nepríde na súd (alebo nepôjde cez obdobie súženia), ale prešiel zo smrti do Života." To je ono.
119Ó! Všimnite si teraz: panenské lono, jej myseľ, panenská myseľ, bolo treba aby verila Božiemu Slovu. No dobre, vy poviete, "No pozri sa sem. Ó," poviete, "Brat Branham, to by mohlo byť takto; to nie je možné. John Wesley by to bol videl; Taký a taký by to bol uvidel."
120Skutočne, diabol mohol povedať to isté Márii: "Kto ty si? Veď, ty si najbiednejšia v celom meste. Ty si nie nič iné ako mlátka, šestnásť ročná - osemnásť ročná, ktorá tu nosí vodu zo studni; tvoj otec zomrel, a tvoja matka je tam tá stará slepá žena. Nuž, ako ty kedy budeš - Anna bola jej matka, bolo nám povedané - ako ty kedy budeš mať ...?"
121 "Počúvaj, moja stará matka je slepá žena, ale ona je zbožná žena. Ona skrze svoje ústa zasiala semeno v mojom srdci. Prečítala som to z Božieho Slova, že Boh povedal v Izaiášovi 9: 6, že 'Panna počne'."
122Haleluja! Či to môžete vidieť? Slovo sa stáva telom. Tu to máte. Boh bude mať Cirkev. Ona bude narodená zo Slova Božieho, pretože to je Živé Slovo Božie. Vidíte to?
"Ako to vieš?"
"Ale, to bude ... "
"Vieš ako ťa budú od teraz nazývať? Budú ťa nazývať ... "
mi vôbec nevadí. Nech sa mi stane podľa Slova Pánovho."
123Ó, mohli by to všetci dnes povedať? Ó, ak by mohli ľudia skutočne zo svojho srdca, všetci z nás, ak by to tak mohli povedať, vidíte: "Nech sa mi stane podľa Tvojho Slova Pane." Ó! A skutočne to tak myslieť. Jeden alebo dvaja alebo niekde tam sa zodvihne niekto predurčený, ktorý to tak skutočne myslí, a brat, budeš vidieť lietať iskry, hneď potom; je to pravda - keď si to tam skutočne dostal, aby si to splnil, to je to čo prichádza, keď tá vlaha začne padať na to Slovo. Tak veru.
124Nuž, čo to bolo? - panenské lono mysli, panenské lono pre to decko. A výsledky? - Večný Život. Eva, tak dobrá žena, ako ona bola; bola panna, ale najprv dovolila, že skrze slovo, skrze diablovu lož, vošla do nej pochybnosť. Čo on urobil? - skontaktoval sa s ňou nesprávnym spôsobom. Čo bolo jej decko? - smrť.
125Mária: panenská myseľ, panenské lono. A keď sa ju diabol snažil pokúšať, a on prišiel - a ten anjel prišiel potom ku nej a povedal, "Ty budeš mať dieťa," Satan povedal, "Nuž, bolo by lepšie, aby si o tom bola potichu." Anjel povedal, "To je skutok Boží." A ona bez pochyby myslela o Izaiášovi 9: 6; povedala, "Ajhľa som, služobnica Pánova." Aký to malo výsledok? - panenské zrodenie; Večné Slovo v nej, a ona zrodila Večný Život.
126No dobre, Jahweho nevesta, zmiešala - Jahweho nevesta, zmiešala semeno. "Ako si to povedal, brat Branham? Dnes ráno si povedal, že Jahweho nevesta spáchala cudzoložstvo."
127Nechcem to tak nechať. Nuž, dobre sa na to teraz pozrime. Nuž, máme ešte hodinu, tak sa mi vidí. Nuž, dostal som sa potiaľto. Budem musieť z toho niečo preskočiť a začať v tom čítať len na niekoľko minút, vidíte. Proste prečítať to tak rýchlo ako len budem môcť, aby som to zakončil. A teraz ešte hodinu, a verím, že to zakončíme, ak ma len znesiete a budete sa so mnou modliť.
128Nuž, kedy vlastne Jahweho nevesta urobila chybu? No dobre. Čo poslal Jahwe Svojej neveste dole do Egyptu? On zasľúbil Abrahámovi, že Jeho nevesta, to semeno, bude pohostínom v Egypte za štyristo rokov. Je to tak? Prišiel čas aby sa vyplnilo Slovo - sme v čase, aby sa vyplnilo Slovo? - o vyslobodení, o vzatí. No dobre, ako oni dostali to Slovo? Dostali ho z nejakej organizácii, nejaká skupina ľudí sa zišla dokopy (kňazi) a povedali, "Nuž, bratia, budem tu mať voľby, a oni prebehli v porozumení, že my budeme mať organizáciu nazvanú "Farizeovia" a skrze ňu bude Boh pracovať?" Boh nikdy nerobil niečo také, nikdy to tak nerobil.
129Čo im On poslal? - proroka. A Slovo Pánovo prichádzalo ku prorokovi, vzbudil ho rovno medzi nimi, proroka, a pomazal ho a potvrdil ho rovno v ich strede, medzi všetkými tými diablami, ktorí tam konali svoje, so zázrakmi a všetkým iným - pretože Mojžiš stál na Slove.
130Ujal sa tej hromady ľudí; zmiešané zástupy sa s ním vydali na cestu. Keď sa dostali oproti zasľúbenej zemi, prv ako tam vošli, Jeho drahá nevesta spáchala cudzoložstvo s Moábom. No, povedzte mi teraz či to neurobila. Ako to urobila? Vystúpil prorok, ktorý klamal proti Slovu Božiemu, a jednako mal všetky znamenia a všetko - všetky obrady, on bol tak duchovný ako Mojžiš, alebo práve ako ...?...
131Pozrite sa! počúvajte! počúvajte teraz pozorne. Tu v tábore sedí Izrael, nedenominačný. Je to tak, čo to bolo? Oni mali so sebou pomazaného proroka. On mal Stĺp Ohňa, skalu, z ktorej vytekala voda a napájala ich. Oni činili všetko v poriadku. A dávajte pozor, oni mali sedem oltárov; to je dokonalé. Na tých oltároch bolo sedem čistých zvierat - baranov, a baran reprezentoval príchod Kristov.
132 Moáb - čo sa stalo? Keď tam prišiel Balám, on tam postavil sedem oltárov, presne tak, ako mali oni. Nehovorte, že neboli fundamentálni, pretože by ste mali dobre vedieť o čom hovoríte. Ježiš povedal, "To by zviedlo aj Vyvolených." Duchovné zja... Vy To zachytávate, to Slovo, a vidíte to zamanifestované Slovo.
133Pozrite sa, oni boli tu; a tu bol Moáb. On vidí - Bez pochyby, on bol biskup, skutočne, veľký muž, a postavil sedem oltárov. Položil na ne sedem baranov - hovoriac tým, že verí, že má prísť Mesiáš. Bratia, ak by oni prichádzali na fundamentálnom základe, Boh by sa musel priznať ku obidvom z nich.
134Keď Kain postavil oltár Pánovi (Satanov syn, postavil oltár Pánovi), on postavil taký istý oltár ako Ábel. Oni obidvaja ctili Boha; oni obidvaja chodili do cirkvi; oni obidvaja platili svoje poplatky; oni tam prišli a ctili toho istého Boha - a jeden bol prijatý a ten druhý zatratený. Ako ku tomu mohlo prísť?
135Ježiš povedal, "Na tejto skale zbudujem Svoju cirkev." Katolícka cirkev hovorí, "Tam je skala, cirkev je zbudovaná na nej; alebo, že Peter bol tou skalou." A katolícka cirkev hovorí, že Peter je tam pod tým pochovaný. To je lož, ale - tak ďaleko, ako môžem vidieť do toho času, oni povedali, že tam bol pochovaný Peter, Biblia hovorí, že on bol tu v Jeruzaleme. On nikdy nebol v Pal... tam. Ale oni aj tak hovoria, že tam bol. Nie je v podstate záznam o Pavlovi, že tam kedy bol, ale to je história. Ale oni hovoria, že Peter ... No, nech je tam pochovaný. Ak aj bol, čo to mení na veci? To nebolo to, čo Ježiš o tom povedal. Vidíte, ako oni vzali tú materiálnu vec a zmiešali to.
No dobre, a protestanti hovoria, "Nie! Ježiš povedal, že On je tou Skalou."
136Nuž, On to nikdy nepovedal. On povedal, "Požehnaný si Šimon, syn Jonášov; telo a krv ti to nezjavili" - "Ty si Kristus, Syn Živého Boha." Telo a krv - (On sa to nenaučil v nejakom seminári.) "Nenaučila ťa to nejaká denominácia, ale Môj Otec, ktorý je v Nebesiach ti To zjavil, a na tej Skale (na duchovnom zjavení Pravdy Božieho Slova) Ja postavím Svoju Cirkev, a brány pekelné ju nepremôžu."
137Moáb urobil to isté. On tam prišiel, a učil deti Izraelove; povedal, "Nuž, pozrite sa sem, priatelia" (nuž, to je to isté čo urobili medzi letničnými, pozrite sa, teraz), "no pozrite sa sem, či nie sme všetci rovnakí? Či neveríme v toho istého Boha? My sme všetci rovnakí." Moábove deti, to boli Lotove dcéry. Vidíte celú tú skupinu, ktorá tam utiekla? Stále je "vlasom v koláči." Vidíte? Tu ich máte, s podvodom. Vidíte, oni tam boli, a oni mali to - "Prečo," ona povedala, "nuž, pozri sa sem, ty vieš, že sme všetci rovnaký." (Koľkí z vás vedia, že to boli Lotove deti? Skutočne - od ich vlastného otca - cez cudzoložstvo.) A povedali, "Nuž, my sme všetci rovnakí. Viete, vy metodisti a vy baptisti, vy letniční a všetci; prečo, skutočne, my chceme trochu vášho oleja. My sme všetci rovnakí." A čo oni urobili? Oni sa vydávali a ženili medzi sebou! A to je to, čo letniční urobili pre protestantov. Uzavreli manželstvo s federáciou cirkví; urobili zo seba denomináciu, a kde sú? Presne tak ako Izrael: daní nabok, kvôli duchovnému i doslovnému smilstvu. Boh ju potom odmietol. Ešte aj tie deti, ktoré sa stali Samaritánmi boli zlorečené. Či je to tak? Skutočne bola daná nabok. Jahwe ju dal nabok.
138Kristova nevesta urobila to isté - zmiešala svoje denominačné semeno a Krista, svojho zasnúbeného muža, dala nabok. A vy, vyschnutá banda letničných; čo sa s vami deje? V Zjavení, v 3. kapitoly a v 20. verši, nachádzame v proroctve, že v Laodicejskom Veku je Ježiš Kristus vystrčený von zo Svojej vlastnej cirkvi, klepe na dvere [Brat Branham to ilustruje klepaním po kazateľni. – pozn.prekl.] snaží sa dostať naspäť - najdojímavejší obraz v Biblii. Čo ona urobila? Ona sa oddala smilstvu. Keď Ježiš prichádza, kvôli čomu on klepe? Ježiš prichádza späť, aby získal Svoju Nevestu; a keď On prichádza, klepe na dvere [Brat Branham 6 krát zaklepal po kazateľni. – pozn.prekl.], bolo pred Ním zamknuté.
139"No, ty sem nemôžeš prísť; nemôžeš tu robiť evanjelizáciu. Daj - ukáž mi tvoj ordinovací dekrét" - človek naplnený Duchom Svätým, skutočne verní ... Slovo Božie sa manifestovalo v Jeho službe. Nemôžete nič proti Nemu povedať, ohľadne morálky ani ničoho. Kto Ho môže z toho obviniť? Prichádza skrze nejakú denomináciu: "No, nie je Jednotár; nie je zo Zborov Božích; je trojičiar. Nie je Trojičiar, je zo Zborov Božích."
140Vy biedna banda nemanželských detí; hanbite sa! Boh je vystrčený von; ale čo povedal Ján (ten posledný posol tam pred Jeho príchodom)? "On je schopný z týchto kameňov vzbudiť deti Abrahámovi. Neprichádzajte a nehovorte, my patríme do toho a my patríme do tam toho. Boh môže .... z týchto kameňov vzbudiť deti Abrahámovi."
141No dobre, ideme ďalej. Ó, ako to milujem! Kristova nevesta, tak isto ako Adamova nevesta a všetky ostatné, zmiešala semeno a vystrčila von Krista kvôli denominácii. Ona to skutočne urobila. Samozrejme ona to urobila. Ona odmietla Boha (aby bol jej mužom), ako to urobila Eva, prijala Satanove smrteľné klamstvo, a výsledkom toho bol kúkoľ: smrť, narodila sa z nej, formálna cirkev. Povedzte teraz, že to nie je pravda!
142Kde sú vaši letniční? - sú formálnejší ako baptisti. Skutočne, viete čo? Vyzerá to teraz ako nedobrý obraz, či nie? Ale čo povedal Joel, v Joelovi 2: 28? "Ale Ja prinavrátim, hovorí Pán." Tento Laodicejský vek ... klepe na dvere, [Brat Branham zaklepal 4x po kazateľni. – pozn.prekl.] snaží sa dostať naspäť - najsmutnejší obraz v Biblii.
143Tak ako Adam našiel svoju ženu tehotnú so semenom smrti od Satanovej lži, ktorú ona prijala, Jozef našiel svoju ženu tehotnú so Semenom Božím, skrze Slovo, ktoré ona prijala.
144O čom to všetko hovorí? Čo sa vám snažím povedať? Nuž, vy, ktorí ste na vlnách, vy, ktorí sedíte vonku vo svojich autách, vy, ktorí ste tu v modlitebni, vidíte prečo som zaujímal ten postoj, ktorý som sa snažil zaujímať práve tu a prečo som to kritizoval? To nie je to, že som mal niečo proti tým mužom, alebo proti tým ženám; Ja nič proti ním nemám, ale ja proste nemôžem postupovať na takých - na takých zásadách. Ja to proste nemôžem robiť, pretože to je nesprávne.
145Ako ... mám tu Písmo, ktoré by som rád zameral na Ježiša, na Jeho pokušenie; keď sa Ho on snažil dostať, povedal, "Dám Ti všetky tieto kráľovstvá sveta. Oni sú moje. " Vidíte? S tou istou vecou on prišiel ku Eve (vidíte?) prv, skrze to, že by premenil chlieb - jednalo sa o jedenie a tak ďalej - vidíte. "Dám Ti toto všetko, ak sa mi budeš klaňať - len príď a pripoj sa ku našej skupine ..."
Ježiš povedal, "Napísané je, človek nebude žiť len na samom chlebe, ale na každom slove, ktoré vychádza z úst Božích."
146Čo to je? Niektorí z vás kazateľov teraz, ktorí ste príliš prestrašení aby ste zaujali svoje stanovisko; bojíte sa, že oni vám ani nedovolia prísť do organizácii: "Čo iné budete potom robiť? - oni vás vykopnú!" Je mi vás ľúto. V prvom rade, za vašu slabosť. Je to tak. Kde je vaša viera v Boha? Mne povedali to isté. Skutočne. Pracoval som sedemnásť rokov, až kým ma Boh dostal von a postavil ma okolo tohoto, a potom som si pomyslel, "Nuž, Satan, poď teraz." Vidíte v čom to je. Keď si skutočne uvedomíte, že Boh vám zjavil Pravdu ohľadne toho, neexistuje nič na svete, čo by vás v tom mohlo premôcť. To je všetko. Vy ste úplne neporaziteľní; nie vy, ale Boh, ktorý je vo vás. Nie Kristus, nie telo, ale Slovo, ktoré bolo v Ňom. Nie Mária, ale Slovo, ktoré sa z nej narodilo.
147Nuž, tak človek bude žiť skrze čo? - nie skrze svoje lístky na obed, ale skrze Slovo Božie; nie skrze svoju organizáciu, ktorá vám zabezpečuje miesto. "Nuž, dovoľ nech sa pozriem na tvoje odporúčajúce listy. Máš dobré postavenie? Musíme to na tom skontrolovať. Aha, áno, môžeš zastávať tú hodnosť na sto percent. Dobre, môžeme ťa prijať na niekoľko dní, aby si kázal a mal evanjelizáciu, vyskúšame ťa a budeme vidieť čo budeš robiť." Čó-ó, och! Ako Boh vôbec môže pracovať v takejto skupine? - dvakrát mŕtvi, vytrhnutí s koreňmi, vykorenení, prehnití a všetko ďalšie. Ó, existuje ešte niečo iné.
148Ó ľudia, Boh nech vás žehná. Počúvajte ma! Ja nemôže veriť ničomu, jedine Božiemu Slovu, a chcem aby Ono bolo mojím životom, všetkým tým čím ja som. Chcem aby ste robili to isté. Nech vaše chodenie, vaše reči, vaše zachovávanie, všetko čo robíte, bolo podľa Slova Božieho. Nech myseľ Kristova vstúpi do vás, a to spôsobí, že budete tehotní so Slovom. Ak nie - ak necháte, aby vstúpila do vás myseľ denominácii, budete tehotní denomináciou. Ak dovolíte, aby myseľ Kristova vstúpila do vás, On nemôže zapierať Svoje vlastné Slovo, pretože On je Boh. Vy budete tehotní so Slovom a budete Mu veriť. Nestaráte sa či vás vyhodia, vykopnú, vyženú, a zavrú pred vami všetky dvere, vy sa ďalej budete zachovávať tak isto! Amen! Musím sa ponáhľať.
149Ó, Kristus si teraz vyberá Nevestu aby bola tehotná Jeho vlastným Semenom - Slovom v Jej lone (duchovnom lone) a ... vo Svojej mysli, a nebude miešať s tým žiadne denominačné nezmysly. Ona je Mu pannou.
150Och, pamätám sa, ako som sedel tam v izbe, bol som tam tri dni a modlil som sa a očakával na Pána a postil sa. Keď to prišlo na mňa, pomyslel som si, "Ó, Bože, čo to je? Som tu v nejakom obraze, som tu! Ak toto všetko prinesiem do zboru, kde budem? Dostanem ich do háklivej situácii, čo mám robiť? Videl som cirkev v každom predobraze a tieni a vo všetkom - ukázané, že je po nej. Čo budeš robiť?"
151A potom, rozmýšľal som o tomto Slove, "Ja prinavrátim, povedal Pán; Ja prinavrátim." Pamätajte, stará borovica, keď ju zasiahne oheň a spáli ju, ona zo seba strasie semeno. To semeno zrodí novú sosnu. Je to tak. Ten starý strom zhorel s organizáciou a so všetkým ďalším, ale stále pozostáva Semeno Slova, a ak ... Božie Slovo, Ono sa znovu navráti a zreprodukuje, a je to tak isté, ako že stojí ten svet. Áno, to ju nemôže minúť.
152Všimnite si, ale Kristus - veríme, že sme v čase konca, či nie? Či veríte, že prv ako teraz budeme mať úrodu, musíte zasiať semeno? Vidíte prečo som sa nechal odstrčiť cirkvami, hovoria na mňa všetko možné; nazývajú ma všetkými rôznymi menami a všetkým možným, a ja len stojím rovno na tom Slove? Vidíte? Je rastlina; semeno zostalo zasiate; ono je už zasiate, priatelia. Už je zasiate. Môžem to teraz povedať. je po tom. Je to tak; ona bola zasiata (Ó, áno.); tak isto bolo zasiate denominačné semeno, i každé iné.
153Ako náš veľký vzácni brat Billy Graham povedal práve tu v Louisville - povedal, "Pavol mohol vziať Bibliu -" vzal Bibliu a povedal? "Nuž Pavol mohol ísť do nejakého mesta a mal tam evanjelizáciu. Mal jedného obráteného; za rok sa tam vrátil a skrze toho jedného tam bolo šesť obrátených." Povedal, "Ja môžem ísť a evanjelizovať šesť týždňov a mať dvadsať tisíc obrátených a prídem tam za šesť mesiacov a sotva nájdete dvadsiatych!"
154Čo to je? Oni nie sú obrátení. Oni sú obrátení do denominácií, to je všetko. Samozrejme, vy ste museli siať - vidíte, vy ste siali denominačné semeno, to je to čo dostanete. "Poď teraz, brat; pripoj sa ku cirkvi; zapíš svoje meno do knihy." To je všetko čo oni vedia. Je to tak.
155Letniční urobili to isté. Oni hovoria v jazykoch a tak ďalej. To je všetko, čo musíte robiť; to stačí. "Poďte, pripojte sa ku cirkvi." V poriadku, obdržíte svoj falošný krst i všetko ďalšie a idete ďalej, a to je všetko čo musíte robiť. Vidíte?
156Ale keď prichádza Kristus, On prichádza pre pannu s ... pre Cirkev, ktorá nemá ani jednu poškvrnu a vrásku denominácii, ani ničoho iného, čo by s tým bolo zmiešané, žiadne dogmy. To bude len Slovo a jedine Slovo.
157Nuž! Ó človeče, tu sme! Nech je požehnaný Pán! Nuž, prichádzame do Tela, aby byť Kristovou Nevestou. Aby teraz byť Jeho telom z Jeho tela, a kosťou z Jeho kosti. Budeme sa teraz ponáhľať. Telom z Jeho tela a kosťou z Jeho kosti. Prečo ne... (pýtam sa vás) prečo všetky tie vaše dažde tam predtým, nedoviedli Nevestu ku Kristovi? Chcem aby ste mi na to odpovedali!
158Ak Jeho príchod sa oneskoruje; veríme tomu. Tak ako to bolo vo dňoch Noeho, trpezlivosť. On pripravuje Svoju Nevestu. Prečo tieto dažde ne ... prečo vy letniční, dávno pred rokmi (keď ste začali pred štyridsiatymi alebo päťdesiatymi rokmi) - prečo ste nepriviedli Krista, Ženícha, ku Neveste? Nechám to chvíľu vsiaknuť. Prečo? Preto, že ste ju sami učinili tehotnú svojimi denomináciami; to je presne to čo ste urobili. On si nevezme za ženu smilnicu. On si vezme za ženu pannu. Je to otvorene, ale je to Pravda. Poznáte to otvorene. Nemusíte sa diviť. Ne je to žiadna táranina, čo o tom hovorím; povedal som vám Pravdu.
159Prečo ste ju nepriviedli? Prečo ste nepriviedli Krista - nepriviedli Krista ku nej? Pretože ona nie je dopasovaná. On ju našiel v cudzoložstve ... práve kvôli tomu jej deti, keď sa narodia, nežijú naveky. Adam našiel svoju ženu tehotnú. To je ten dôvod, že Jahwe musel vziať pohanskú nevestu - našiel ju tehotnú. Presne tak isto si teraz musí Kristus vziať Nevestu. On túto, tak zvanú skupinu, našiel tehotnú. On bude siať Svoje Semeno; niekto ho dostane, pretože oni sú predurčení, aby boli Cirkvou na konci tej cesty.
160Tak ako Adamova i Jahweho, On ich našiel tehotných s ľudskými denominačnými doktrínami. Ako Božia Pravda v Genesis jedna, každé semeno bude rodiť podľa svojho druhu. Tak keď Duch spadol na ňu bol tam človek, aby naplnil jej lono denominačnými semenami svojho vlastného myslenia; a preto sa s ňou muselo stať to čo sa s ňou stalo, a Kristus nemohol ku nej prísť. Och, je to tvrdé, však?
161Jedného dňa, bol som tam v zelenom mlyne, modlil som sa tam niekoľko dní; od vtedy prešlo už mnoho rokov. Išiel som sem do Mishawaka. (Nikdy som to ešte nepovedal na pásku.) Išiel som do Mishawaka. Vy sa pamätáte na toho černošského chlapca? Práve som našiel letničných ľudí; Nikdy som nevedel, že existuje niečo také. A išiel som tam a našiel som ich, a myslel som, že mám okolo seba hromadu anjelov. Videl som ich hovoriť v jazykoch i všetko. Nikdy pred tým som o tom nepočul, ale oni tam boli, behali hore dole a hovorili v jazykoch. Myslel som si, "Ó, to je nádherné!" Boli tam tie staré U.P.C. a P.A W. [skratky letničných cirkví – pozn.prekl.] a všetky ostatné. Oni mali - to bola vtedy segregácia medzi bielymi a farebnými; oni museli mať svoje konferencie hore na severe. A to bolo v Mishawaka, v Indiáne.
162Ó! Mal som 1.75 dolára - čo stačilo len na to aby som sa mohol dostať domov. Dal som z toho päť centov za nejaké staré pampúchy či rožky (dva alebo tri dni staré) zašiel som dole a nabral som si za krčah vody z vodovodu, odišiel som odtiaľ von do kukuričného poľa, vybral som sedadlá zo svojho starého Forda a položil som ich na zem; tak som žehlil svoje nohavice tej noci (z ľahkého materiálu, ktoré som mal na sebe) a starú košeľu - rozhalenku. A na ďalšie ráno so tam znovu išiel. Nechcel som jesť s nimi. Bol som pozvaný, ale som nechcel s nimi jesť, pretože som nemal nič, čo by som im dal na oferu.
163A tak som išiel zistiť či budú v ten deň tancovať; a oni poskakovali; oni budú spievať v Duchu. A myslel som si, "Ó, to dobre zneje! Och!" Jeden muž povstal a hovoril v jazykoch, a druhý to vykladal. A, brat, to sedelo. Oni volali ľudí tam v publiku. Myslel som si, "Ó brat, to je nádherné!"
"Povedz pani Jones alebo tej a tej , Poď hneď teraz; Pán ju volá" -a tu ona prichádza. Je to tak.
164Potom, tento jeden hovoril v jazykoch, a ten druhý to vykladal. Pomyslel som si, "Ó! Milénium je hotové rozpočať. Toto je to." A tak - "Keby som si len mohol potriasť ruky s tými zbožnými mužmi," myslel som si. A išiel som za jedným z nich, keď som bol vonku a prechádzal som sa tam. Oni ma nepoznali; bol som tam takým nepatrným človekom. A keď mali takú malú prestávku, prechádzal som sa tam dookola a stretol som jedného z tých mužov a potriasol som mu ruku a povedal, "Ako sa máš, brat?"
165Viete, Boh mi tu dal taký malý dar, aby som mohol zistiť veci, keď mi ich On chce dať poznať, viete. Myslel som si, "Keby som sa s ním len mohol porozprávať a nechať ho niečo povedať, zistil by som, či to bola skutočne pravda alebo nie." A tak som videl, že vyzerá, ako keby bol vedúcim toho, a potriasol som mu ruku. "Ako sa máš, brat?" povedal, "Ako sa máš?" A za chvíľu som sa s ním rozprával, bol to skutočný kresťan; bol, a ja som si pomyslel, "Chvála Bohu?"
166Po chvíli, ako som prešiel za roh, narazil som na toho druhého muža, a povedal som, "Ako sa máš, brat?" a dal som sa s ním do reči. A ak som sa kedy rozprával s pokrytcom, tak on bol jedným z nich. On bol čiernovlasí a mal decko s blondínou - dve deti s blondínou. Videl som to vo videní, rovno pred sebou.
167Nuž, pomyslel som si, "Nuž, som skutočne zmätený. Nuž, ako môže ten istý Duch - raz byť na mužovi - bohabojnom mužovi, a za druhé na diablovi, pokrytcovi?" Pomyslel som si, "Bože, radšej to všetko nechám tak, nerozumiem tomu." Mal som len okolo devätnásť, dvadsať rokov, a myslel som si, "Radšej to tak nechám. Nuž, neviem. Ako to tak môže byť? Nemôžem nič o tom povedať, nemôžem nič proti tomu povedať, ale viem, že tento muž nie je v poriadku." A ten istý Duch, pozoroval som to, padal tam a pôsobil ten istý efekt. Myslel som si, "Tu na tom, niekde nie je niečo v poriadku. To je to."
Povedal som tomu mužovi - On povedal, "Prijal si už Ducha Svätého?"
Povedal som, "Myslím, že nemám to čo vy."
Povedal, "Chvála Pánu! Hovoril si niekedy v jazykoch?"
Povedal som, "Nie, pane."
On povedal, "Tak to nemáš."
Povedal som, "Nuž, hádam to nemám." Vidíte? Povedal som, "Toto je niečo nové. Nikdy som to nevidel ani nepočul o tom." A povedal ...
On povedal, "Nuž, choď tam dovnútra a vezmi ... skutočne, ona je tam kvôli tebe.
Povedal som, "Ďakujem pane." A myslel som si, "Brat, ja nechcem to čo ty máš!" Tak potom - prizeral som sa tomu za chvíľu, a po chvíli som odišiel a išiel som von, do lesa, tej noci, a myslel som si, "Bože, buď milostivý, idem domov." A odišiel som domov. Nemohol som povedať nič pre ani proti tomu.
168Raz, bol som tu hore v zelenom mlyne (v mojej malej nenápadnej jaskyni. kde stále chodím ako viete). Bol som tam kvôli niečomu inému. Bol som tam tri alebo štyri dni na pôste a na modlitbe. Bolo tam potuchlo, v tej jaskyni, a ja som vyšiel jedno popoludnie a - bolo pekne a svietilo slnko - pomedzi listy. Bol tam starý kmeň, ktorý spadol takto dole rovno pod tým (dole smerom ku potoku), a ja som si tam sadol a pretieral som si oči (bol som nejaký čas tam v tej tmavej jaskyni). A položil som takto Bibliu, a myslel som si, "Nuž, myslím, že si prečítam niečo z Biblii." A vystrel som sa na chrbát, opretý tu o ten konár a oddychoval som ležiac na chrbte; Bol som celý zaprášený.
169A začal som čítať, a keď som zodvihol Bibliu, bolo to Židom 6. kapitola, vidíte. "Lebo je nemožné tých, ktorí už raz boli osvietení; stali sa účastníkmi Svätého Ducha, keby odpadli, zase obnoviť ku pokániu. Lebo zem, ktorá pije dážď ... berie podiel na požehnaní od Boha ... Ale tá, ktorá rodí tŕnie a bodľač, je blízka zlorečenstva ... aby bola spálená."
170Pomyslel som si, "Nuž, čo to je? - STOP!" A myslel som si, "Čo to bolo?" "Ó," povedal som si, "Zdá sa mi, že to niečo je" - išiel som ďalej. Nebol som - Bol som tam na modlitbe ohľadne niečoho iného. A znovu som položil svoju Bibliu. Povedal som si, "Nuž, hádam ju otvorím niekde inde a budem si niečo čítať," takto, a zafúkal vietor a otvoril ju znovu tam kde predtým. Ja som ju mal otvorenú v Starom Zákone; vietor zafúkal a otvoril ju znovu na Liste Židom v 6. kapitoly. Znovu som sa pozrel, a bolo to tam. A tak som sa pozrel; zodvihol som ju, a znovu som to čítal - niečo. "Dobre," pomyslel som si, "ó! stávaš sa poverčivým, Bill?"
171A tak, pomyslel som si, "Nuž, budem tu čítať," a nemohol som ... začal som čítať, ale nemohol som sa na nič sústrediť. Pomyslel som si, "No dobre, myslím, že pozdvihnem ruky a budem chváliť Pána." Položil som Bibliu takto dole; zodvihol som ruky, aby som chválil Pána. A Keď som zodvihol ruky, zavanul vietor, "Fúú," [Brat Branham napodobňuje vietor. – pozn.prekl.] znovu zavanul, a keď zavanul, pozrel som sa tam; Židom 6. kapitola. Znovu som to čítal. Pomyslel som si, "Čo to znamená? Nemôžem tomu porozumieť." Zabudol som už o tých letničných predstavách. Potom - Pomyslel som si, "Čo to znamená?"
172A sedel som tam a rozmýšľal, "Je tam v tom niečo, Pane?" Pomyslel som si, "Nuž, verím vo vyvolenie, áno - tí, ktorí raz boli osvietení; stali sa účastníkmi Ducha Svätého (vidíte?), a ochutnali Slovo Božie - " Povedal som, "To sú okrajoví veriaci, ktorí prídu takmer až do tých skutočných vecí, a potom odídu naspäť; práve tak, ako tí vo dňoch Jozueho." (Jozua a Kálef prešli ďalej, na druhú stranu, ale títo zostali len na hranici, vidíte, okoštovali a videli dobré skutky Božie, a potom to odmietli.)
173Ľudia sedia po celý čas v zbore, a hovoria, "Ja tomu verím, brat Branham," ale vôbec sa nepohnú tým smerom. Vidíte, pre nich je to nemožné, aby kedy cez to prešli. A tak oni potom prídu na to miesto, a vy kážete tým ženám s krátkymi vlasmi; po roku majú také isté krátke vlasy. Kážete im, a oni robia presne to isté, vidíte. Nikdy nevidia - okrajoví veriaci. Vy poviete, "Ó, áno, ja verím, že je to pravda."
Povedal som, "Samozrejme, ja tomu verím." Ale toto - keď to prišlo do tohoto miesta - "Ale taká. ktorá rodí bodliaky a tŕne je blízka zlorečenstva, ktorej koniec je aby bola spálená." Pomyslel som si, "Čo to znamená? Nemôžem to pochopiť."
174A sedel som ...?... a rozmýšľal som, "Bože, ak je toto niečo, čo mi chceš dať poznať, som tu a usilujem o videnie od Teba, Pane, aby som vedel čo so službou tam dole, a chcem aby si mi to povedal, Otče." A pozrel som sa a krížom cez to údolie, ktoré sa tiahne smerom (ja som sa nachádzal povyše Charlestonu) - tiahne sa smerom na New Market, tým smerom, (krížom ponad ten kopec), a pozrel som sa a videl som, akoby dúha visela nad tým údolím. A cez túto dúhu som videl, že sa niečo otáča, a pozrel som sa, a to bol svet. A tu išiel muž, oblečený v bielom.
175Nuž, mnohí z vás ste tu príliš mladí, aby ste to poznali. Pamätáte sa, keď sme zvykli rozsievať semená - založili ste si na bok také veľké vrecko, a naberali ste to rukou a rozhadzovali? Pán Wood, ty sa budeš na to pamätať - keď sa takto sialo. Brali to do ruky a takto to rozsýpali. Nechali nech ich vietor zaveje do zeme.
176A videl som muža oblečeného v bielom, ako takto prechádzal krížom cez svet a rozsieval semená. A pozoroval som ho, ako prechádzal rovno dookola celej zemi. A myslel som si, "Zaujímavé, čo to znamená." A potom, pozrel som sa; a len čo sa on otočil chrbtom, tu prichádza ozajstný podvodník, prechádzal okolo, a takto sa obzeral. Mal plné vrece a sial za ním kúkoľ. Obišiel okolo zeme; stále sa pozeral, zakrádal sa a rozhadzoval takto tie semená, a obišiel okolo zeme.
177Potom som videl, ako to vyrástlo. A vyrástla pšenica a vyrástol i kúkoľ, tŕnie, ostne, bodľačie. A to oboje rástlo spolu. A potom prišlo veľké sucho, a videl som tú drobnú pšenicu, ako mala ovisnutú svoju drobnú hlávku a [Brat Branham napodobňuje ako vzdychala. – pozn.prekl.] a skoro zomierala, vzdychajúc po vode. A videl som ten malý kúkoľ, ako mal ovisnutú svoju hlavu [Brat Branham napodobňuje vzdychanie. – pozn.prekl.] takmer zomieral a vzdychal po vode. A každý sa začal modliť za vodu, a zrazu prišiel veľký dážď, ako odpoveď na tú modlitbu. A ten dážď prešiel po celej zemi, a len čo voda spadla na zem, tá malá pšenica poskočila a zavolala, "Sláva! sláva! sláva! sláva!" A kúkoľ poskočil a začal kričať, "Sláva! sláva! sláva! sláva!"
Nuž, pomyslel som si, "Nuž, čo to je?" A hneď potom - "No dobre, že tá pšenica kričí, to dokážem pochopiť; ale čo to má znamenať s tým kúkoľom?" Potom On povedal, "Čítaj Židom 6."
178Dážď padá na spravodlivých i na nespravodlivých. To je to, čo sa deje; preto sme do teraz nemali pripravenú Nevestu pre Krista. Zasiali sme denominačné semená namiesto Slova. Čo to spôsobilo? - prinieslo to viacej denominačných detí. Je to tak. Ale medzi tým je nejaká pšenica, ktorá tam spadla. Je to tak.
179Ale pozrite sa, ten istý Duch spôsobuje, že skutočný, opravdový, rýdzi veriaci hovorí v jazykoch, ten skutočný Duch, ktorý činí ozajstného veriaceho kresťanom (vidíte, pretože To je zavlažovanie Slova, Semena), ten istý Duch činí na tom inom semene nejakú náhradu, tak ako to čo skrížila Eva, On spôsobuje, že to skrížené sa tak isto raduje, tak isto vykrikuje, cíti sa tak isto plné radosti, ako tí ostatní. Ale aká je pravda ohľadom neho? - to semeno je od počiatku zlé!
180A tak, všetky naše telesné demonštrácie neznamenajú nič! "Hoci by som hovoril ľudskými jazykmi aj anjelskými a lásky keby som nemal, nič mi to neprospieva. Hoci by som mohol vrchy prenášať a lásky keby som nemal, nič mi to neprospieva. Hoci by som rozdal všetko svoje imanie, aby som nakŕmil biednych, a lásky by som nemal, nič mi to neprospieva. Keby som hovoril ľudskými jazykmi aj anjelskými, bolo by to len, ako cvendžiaci kov a zvučiaci zvon. Vidíte, to nie je nič. Počúvajte, cirkev: Letniční - nič! Prečo? To je skrížené semeno. Ono nemôže prísť do Slova.
181Nuž, tu to máte. To telo, ktoré zrodí Kristovo telo, znovu musí byť ... pochádza z panenského lona. To Slovo, tak veru! Preto - počúvajte teraz - preto ona vyprodukovala "o milión viac v roku 44." (To bolo heslo baptistov.) Preto letničné denominácie nemohli dať duchovné narodenie aby to priviedlo manifestácie a Krista, pretože to bol len dážď siatia, a ona zrodila denominačnú cirkev a je zjednotená s tým veľkým evanjelickým hnutím, a odišla cestou Kóreho. Odišla s denomináciami, to je ten dôvod.
182Nuž, poďme naspäť do Starého Zákonu a vezmime nejaké predobrazy, a potom ešte na niekoľko minút niečo začnem a potom vás už nechám ísť. Poďme naspäť do Starého Zákonu a vezmime nejaké predobrazy, aby sme dokázali tieto veci. Nuž, strávil som tu pri tom niekoľko hodín, aby som to poukladal. Nuž, zmeníme teraz tému, zmeníme program. No prv, mám niečo, len čo sa dostanem ... mám tu niekoľko strán, a potom musím ... Ó! ó! ó! - rozhodne nie tak! Musím sa skutočne ponáhľať. Budem to teraz čítať. Tak rýchlo ako len budem môcť, pretože viem, že teraz máme už len veľmi málo času. Ste unavení? [Zhromaždenie odpovedá "Nie". – pozn.prekl.] Nie! Dobre, tak to som len ja. Ideme ďalej, to je v poriadku.
183 Nuž, preto máme všetky tieto veci ktoré máme. Nuž, všetky tieto veci, ktoré som povedal, ak sú nie v súlade s Bibliou - ak nepasujú presne so Slovom Božím - sú nesprávne. Sú nesprávne. A celý tento obraz - Nuž, preberiem rýchlo niektoré z nich (nebudem to vysvetľovať, len to rýchlo preberiem, aby sme to mohli porozumieť; Sľúbil som vám to, tak rýchlo ako to len budem môcť).
184Mám tu miesto, kde som sa dostal tak do Ducha. Zvolal som zbor, aby som to ukázal a dokázal to tu v Slove, presne to čo sa odohrávalo po celý čas, a potom keď som to urobil, rozmýšľal som, "Pane, mám tu teraz tých ľudí - Budem ich tam mať zhromaždených; čo im budem môcť povedať? Nemôžem predpovedať budúcnosť. Nemôžem im povedať čo robiť. Čo mám robiť? Nechám ich stáť na pokraji?" A zodvihol som ruky a povedal som, "Bože, myslím, že to robím podľa Tvojej vôli. Nikdy som to neurobil, nikdy predtým som to neurobil" - preto, že to semeno nebolo ešte zatiaľ zasiate. Povedal som, "Teraz mám - verím, že teraz prišiel pre mňa čas aby som to povedal; ale teraz, čo mám hovoriť?"
185A práve tak jasno, ako vy počujete môj hlas, niečo povedalo, "Vezmi svoje pero." Prečítam vám to za chvíľu. A keď som bol s tým hotový, bolo to tu, práve tá odpoveď. Ja som vôbec nevedel čo píšem. Ja som len začal písať; a keď som bol s tým hotoví, odložil som pero; a pozrel som sa hore, "Ó, Bože buď milostivý, je to tu, rovno tu. To je to čo hľadám." Nuž, sú niektoré veci, ktoré som musel obísť. Dostaneme sa do toho za chvíľu, keď Pán dá.
186Celý Starý Zákon bol predobrazom, ktorý ukazoval na Krista a na Jeho Cirkev. Veríte, že Adam a Eva ukazovali na Krista a na Jeho Cirkev? Veríte, že Jahwe a Jeho Žena ukazovali na Krista a na Jeho Cirkev? Nuž, ak toto sú predobrazy a toto je ten skutočný obraz, on musí byť taký, ako ten predobraz, pretože ten predobraz je vzatý z - ten skutočný obraz je vzatý z toho predobrazu. Kristus je Hlava, ten skutočný Kameň Boží. Veríte tomu? To skutočné Slovo. Nevesta je to Telo.
Chcete ku tomu nejaké miesta z Písma? Môžete si ich vyhľadať (Myslel som, že to prečítam, ale nebudem to teraz čítať) 1Petra 2: 1-6; Efežanom 5: 22; (vidíte?) 1Petra 2: 1_6; Efežanom 5: 23. Prečítajte si tú kapitolu, obidve.
187Starý Zákon: Kristus, pozrite sa sem. Vezmime si napríklad toto. (Možno, ak mi moja žena nevzala ten dolár. Tu je. Platila pred chvíľou nejaké sendviče. Prepáčte mi, priatelia, nemám to tak hovoriť, ale - ja mám dobrú ženu.) Nuž, na zadnej strane tohoto doláru - (Ak by to nebolo pre ňu, nemal by som ten dolár, myslím; Božia milosť nám to dáva a ona mi pomáha.) Nuž, na jeho zadnej strane, vyzerá ako, keď sú to naše peniaze, tá Americká pečať na ľavej strane doláru má byť tou veľkou pečaťou v tejto krajine. Je to tak? No dobre, prečo je to pyramída, ktorá je nazvaná veľká pečať? Dokonca vaše peniaze musia o tom svedčiť. Áno, zakaždým, keď posielate nejakú pohľadnicu, alebo poštu, musíte vydať svedectvo - to dáva svedectvo: rok nášho Pána, tisíc deväťsto šesťdesiat dva. Všetko vydáva svedectvo o Kristovi. Vidíte?
188Všimli ste si tú veľkú pečať, že to je pyramída? Či vedel kto kedy, že na ich pyramídu nikdy nebol položený štítový kameň? Koľkí to vedia? Skutočne. Ja som bol tam v Egypte, v Káhire; videl som to. Nikdy nemali štítový kameň. Prečo? - on bol odmietnutý, ten uholný kameň. To bol uholný kameň, ktorý držal túto budovu - to je kľúčový kameň. Koľký z vás vedia čo je to kľúčový kameň? Keď je postavená tá klenba, potom ten kľúčový kameň to drží dokopy. Ten uholný kameň, ktorý drží tú budovu, je to tak? A tým uholným kameňom na pyramíde bol štítový kameň - to bol ten kľúčový kameň, ktorý drží všetko dokopy. Nuž, tento kľúčový kameň bol odmietnutý.
Všimli ste si, tam hore, to stojí nad tým, hore nad tou pyramídou. Nuž, čo to reprezentovalo, keď to Enoch staval?
189Tuto je to čo sa stalo: práve taký je príchod cirkvi Evanjelia. Vidíte, teraz dole v tej širokej časti pyramídy, to reprezentuje tie včasné dni reformácii - len sa nazývať kresťanom a nesúhlasiť s katolíckou cirkvou, to znamenalo, že ste mohli byť za to zabitý. Potom ďalej prichádza ... oni kázali ospravedlnenie z viery.
190Potom ďalej prichádza - nuž, dávajte pozor ako znovu naspäť prichádzajú tie tri veci. Ďalej prichádza John Wesley, ktorý kázal posvätenie. Cirkev sa stáva čím ďalej tým menšia. Vidíte, takto sa zužuje.
191A potom po dňoch posvätenia, po Johnovi Wesleyovi, prichádza letničná cirkev, a Boh vyberá z toho zbytok; každého kto prijíma Slovo, vidíte. Nuž, keď to prišlo dole ku letničným, tam to bolo odseknuté ešte viacej, pretože to bolo prinavrátenie darov. Privádza to rovno ďalej hore - Čo to je? Tu dole, to má ďaleko od toho, aby to vyzeralo ako hlava. A čím ďalej, tým je to trošku bližšie ku hlave. Tu hore je to ešte bližšie, ale to musí byť presne dopasované s tým zbytkom toho. To musí byť vybrúsené. V tej pyramíde, môžete vziať žiletku, a nedokážete ju strčiť medzi tie dva kamene, kde bola malta; tak presne to pasuje dokopy. Hovorí sa, že Šalamúnov chrám bol taký istý. Vidíte?
192Boh vyberá von Vyvolených z letničnej cirkvi (z toho kríženca), vyťahuje ich von a dovádza Slovo do zakončenia. A to si musí byť tak blízke, až samotné Slovo splynie s týmto Slovom. Tam prichádza Hlavový kameň, volajúc, "Milosť, milosť, predivná milosť" - Hlavový kameň. Tu ste vy, ako toto, vidíte, na tomto. [Brat Branham ukazuje do obecenstva viditeľnú ilustráciu. – pozn.prekl.] Vidíte, ako to tu ide ďalej? A to sa stáva tesnejšie a tesnejšie a tesnejšie (tá služba), až to príde sem - tu je Luther; ospravedlnenie, ospravedlnený. Tu prichádza Wesley: posvätená skupina. Tu prichádzajú letniční: prinavrátenie darov.
193Nuž, Boh vyberá z tade, vybrusuje skupinu, aby vyrobil službu, presne takú, ako to Slovo tam, pretože to musí byť dopasované so Slovom. Tam je Nevesta; Berie Ju hore.
194Nuž, Kristus sa zamanifestoval, aby zničil skutky diablove. Veríte tomu? Nuž, nedokážem to všetko vysvetliť; Ja budem cez to len prechádzať, teraz už rýchlo; dotknem sa len tých najdôležitejších miest, aby ste tu nemuseli byť príliš dlho. Kristus sa zamanifestoval, aby zničil diela diablove. Je to pravda? Veríte to všetci? Preto On - Čo On bol? - Božie Slovo, ktoré ničí skutky toho kríženia, diabla. Je to tak? On sa na to zjavil, aby to vykonal; On sa narodil aby bol taký, aby zničil skutky diablove.
195Nuž, Jeho Telo má robiť to isté, pretože to Telo je - to Telo a Hlava dokopy. Je to tak? Ak Kristus je Hlava - bol Slovom, Jeho Telo musí byť tým istým, čím bola Jeho Hlava. Je to tak? A Cirkev Slova, zrodená zo Slova. Panenské narodenie zo Slova, nie denominačné teraz. Panenské narodenie zo Slova.
196Telo je riadené skrze Hlavu. Je to pravda? Moje telo sa nemôže hýbať, až kým mu moja hlava nepovie, aby sa pohlo. Nuž, čo ak moja hlava je mäso a moje telo betón? - nemôže sa to hýbať. Hlava môže povedať, "Hýb sa, hýb sa, hýb sa, hýb sa, hýb sa," ale tam nič nie je do čoho by ten povel mohol byť zaslaný. Je to tak? No dobre, ak moja Hlava je Kristus a moje telo je denominácia, ako to bude fungovať? Ako môže spolupracovať cudnosť so smilstvom?
197Och, milujem to, bratia; Hovorím vám. Rád by som chvíľu o niečom z toho kázal. Spôsob, akým to Telo môže fungovať je skrze Hlavu, a Hlavou je Slovo. Je to pravda? Hlavou je Slovo.
198Porovnajte teraz tú modernú cirkev. Prečo nemáme v nej zázraky? Prečo nemáme v nej Slovo? Nemožno to Slovo dostať do nej; denominácia to zastavila. Skutočne.
199Povedzme, že tu prichádza dobrý, posvätený muž Boží, káže Slovo Božie, tak presne z Biblii, ako len môže; denominácia: "Och! Nie! Nie veru! Berte ho z tadiaľto preč!" Vidíte? Telo sa nemôže pohnúť; vyfučala para - musela.
200Nuž, Telo nesie (skutky nesú) skutky a robí skutky, ktoré mu Hlava rozkazuje robiť. Povedzte mi, kde On kedy povedal, "Zorganizujte sa"! Povedzte mi, kde Hlava povedala, "Pre ženy je to v poriadku, že si strihajú vlasy"! Nieto tam takej zmienky. Povedzte mi, kde, kedy Hlava povedala, "Ja činím tieto skutky, ale vy ich nebudete činiť"! Povedzte mi to! Ale Hlava povedala toto, (ak si chcete zapísať to Písmo, poviem vám ho: Ján 14: 12), "Skutky, ktoré Ja činím, vy tiež budete činiť." To je Jeho Telo, vidíte.
201Vidíte teraz, prečo som bol taký horlivý ohľadne toho druhu semena, ktoré som sial pre Telo? Ten dážď bude padať veľmi skoro; mám na mysli ten skutočný dážď. A on musí mať Semeno na ktoré spadne. Dúfam, že budem žiť aby som to mohol vidieť. Rozumiete teraz? To bude to živé Slovo, tak ako bolo na počiatku - to vypovedané Slovo Božie, ktoré má Svoju moc; pretože to je v Ňom, v Jeho vlastnom Tele, pracujúce Svojím vlastným spôsobom. Pozrite sa na zasľúbenia, ktoré Boh dal tomuto Telu.
202A teraz prichádzame do niečoho. Prichádzame ku vrchu Sion, teraz. Pozrime sa, čo On povedal ohľadne tohoto Tela - mám na mysli to panensky zrodené. [Brat Branham poklepal sedem krát po kazateľni. – pozn.prekl.] Vidíme teraz napodobeniny toho. Vidíme to každý deň. Ale poďme do toho skutočného Tela a pozrime sa, čo On o tomto povedal. Pozrime sa. V poriadku, tu je to, čo On zasľúbil.
203Veríte, že Ján 3: 16 je pravda? Musím to proste prečítať. To je to o čo chodí. V poriadku. Vy - ja môžem - Každý kto verí v Jána 3: 16: "Boh tak miloval svet, že dal Svojho Jednorodeného Syna," a tak ďalej, nech povie, amen. [Zhromaždenie odpovedá, "Amen!" – pozn.prekl.] Vyzývam vás, aby ste verili aj ten zbytok z toho! Ja teraz hovorím o Tele.
204Vezmime ev. Jána 20 a začnime tam. No dobre, vezmime ev. Jána dvadsiatu kapitolu, a dívajme sa. Ján dvadsiata kapitola a začneme pri, ó, povedzme od 19. verša. Ev. sv. Jána 20, (Dúfam, že to je to, čo som si tu poznačil), a začneme od 19. verša. Počúvajte teraz pozorne.
205Vyzývam vás aby ste tomu verili! Ó, ja to proste milujem. Ó, keby som len mohol - prajem si aby som mohol proste vidieť Ducha Svätého vznášať sa tu, takto; a povedať, "Nuž, to som Ja." Počúvajte:
A keď bol večer toho dňa, prvého dňa týždňa, a dvere, kde boli učeníci zhromaždení, boli zamknuté...
(dvere, kde boli učeníci zhromaždení, boli zamknuté) ...zo strachu pred Židmi, prišiel Ježiš a zastal si doprostredku a povedal im: Pokoj vám!
... (a keď to povedal)
...A keď to povedal, ukázal im svoje ruky a svoj bok.
...(A keď jeho učeníci ... pozrime sa ... jeho bok a keď ...)A
tak zaradovali sa učeníci, keď videli Pána.
Vtedy im zase povedal Ježiš ... Pokoj vám!
...(Ó, ste pripravení?)... ako mňa poslal Otec, ...
(On je Slovo, Semeno, Slovo - Semeno) ...tak ja posielam vás.
(Veríte tomu? Nezastavujte sa; je toho viacej.)A keď to povedal, dýchnul na nich a povedal im: Prijmite Svätého Ducha!
Keby ste odpustili hriechy niektorých ľudí, sú im odpustené, a keby ste zadržali hriechy niektorých ľudí, sú im zadržané.
206Je to Pravda? Komu to On povedal? - Semenu, Slovu. Prečo? - len oni mohli byť narodení skrze Slovo. To je ten dôvod. Veríte tomu? Vezmime Matúša 16 teraz, za chvíľku. Matúš 16: 19. Čítajme to za chvíľku. V poriadku:
A dám ti kľúče nebeského kráľovstva, a čokoľvek by si zviazal na zemi, bude zviazané aj na nebi; a čokoľvek by si rozviazal na zemi, bude rozviazané aj na nebi.
207Vyzývam vás aby ste tomu verili. A ak je toto nie Slovo, potom Ján 3. 16 je tiež nie Slovo. Prečo prijímate jedno a neprijímate druhé? Celé Slovo Božie je pravda, ale to musí prísť do panenského lona, kde neleží nič okrem toho Semena. Veríte tomu? No dobre, dávajte na to dobrý pozor.
208Viem, že tá smilnica si na to robí nárok, a oni odpúšťajú hriechy skrze moc svojej denominácii. Ale pozrite sa na ich deti: v každej tanečnej sále, strihajú si vlasy, maľujú sa ako šašovia, muži žijú poza domom so ženami iných mužov, flirtujú všade na uliciach, spoločne sa chodia kúpať; a všetko ďalšie. Skutočne, oni odpúšťajú; oni odpúšťajú hriechy svojím vlastným spôsobom, ale ich ovocie ukazuje čo to je. Nepostupujú správne, nie veru. Čo oni robia? - nosia šortky, strihajú si vlasy, maľujú sa. Ježiš povedal, "Podľa ich ovocia ich poznáte," - to je ten druh semena, ktorým oni sú. To je to, čo to je.
209 Denominačné semeno dáva denominačné odpustenie. To je presne tak. Boh povedal, "Nech je Slovo podľa Svojho druhu," a tak to je. Je to tak. Ó, brat, Písmo je pravdivé. Veríš tomu?
210A Duch Svätý vydáva svedectvo o tom predurčenom dare, o ktorom cirkev tvrdí, že ho má. Skrze čo? Skrze podlievanie Slova, punktujúc to Slovo svojím amen.
211Keď Ono hovorí, "Čiňte pokánie a dajte sa pokrstiť vo meno Ježiša Krista" - "AMEN!" Keď Ono hovorí tieto ďalšie veci - "AMEN!" To je to: "AMEN" na všetko, vidíte. To dotvrdzuje Slovo. A Boh skrze ... predurčil ten dar, aby prišiel, aby odpustil hriechy, ale to bolo dané do Tela-Slova naplneného Duchom, pretože jedine Slovo môže odpúšťať hriechy, pretože Slovo je Boh.
212Akí verní boli farizeovia. Zmienil som sa o tom dnes ráno, že sa do toho dostaneme, ale zabral som svoj čas. Ale farizeovia hovorili, "Tento človek odpúšťa hriechy. Vieme, že on sa rúha. Len Boh môže odpúšťať hriechy, a tento človek odpúšťa hriechy" - nevediac, že to bolo Slovo. Slovo odpúšťa hriechy, pretože Ono je Boh. A keď sa stanete, nie svojím vlastným - Boh to vie - vedel to a predzedel skrze predzvedenie, kto vezme tento Dar, a kto to použije tým správnym spôsobom. Tí, ktorí to majú, sú potvrdení skrze Slovo Božie, každým ostatným Slovom a Duchom. Je to jasné? Niektorí sa vám budú snažiť povedať, aby ste verili, že to prichádza skrze vzdelanie, učenosť, a vedecké stupne; ak budete chodiť do školy tak dlho; ak sa stanete biskupom, ak budete študovať, aby ste sa stali pápežom, alebo ak sa stanete kardinálom, alebo niečím takým (takí nejakí by nás chceli mať za to, aby sme verili, že to je to, z kade to pochádza) keď ľudia skrze položenie rúk, vás učinia niečím, aby ste to robili. Ale oni sú pomimo Slova!
213Rimanom 11: 29 hovorí, "Boh neľutuje darov svojej milosti a svojho povolania." To dáva Boh. A tak isto Ján 15: 16, ak si to chcete zapísať. Dobre teraz počúvajte. Aký bol rozdiel medzi Ježišom a denomináciami v Jeho čase! Oni poukazovali späť na Neho - Rád by som to za chvíľu predstavil, pozrite sa. Oni poukazovali za seba, tam dozadu na tie časy a budú hovorili, "My sme učeníci Mojžišovi. My vieme, že Boh sa zjavil Mojžišovi v tom horiacom kríku, my to vieme." Oni to vedeli - oni poznali tú históriu o Mojžišovi, ale nepoznali Mojžišovho Boha, pretože On stál pred nimi v Jánovi 6 a povedal, "Prv ako bol Mojžiš - prv ako bol Abrahám, JA SOM" - horiaci krík. Oni poznali Mojžišovu históriu.
214Tak je to aj dnes. Oni poznajú toho Boha - oni tvrdia, že poznajú Slovo Kristovo, ale nepoznajú Boha, ktorý bol v Kristovi. Namaľovaný oheň - kto sa môže zohriať pri namaľovanom ohni - pri nejakých seminárnych prežitiach? Oni poznali Mojžiša, ale nie jeho Boha.
215Ježiš by mohol povedať a povedal amen! Počúvaj teraz, brat. Ó! Cítim sa teraz ako David, točiac s tým prakom. Dúfam, že nevyzerám pred vami ako svätokrádežník, priatelia. Som v poriadku, ale sa proste cítim tak dobre. Práve som sa začal teraz dobre cítiť.
216Ježiš by mohol povedať a povedal, "Otec, ktorý Ma poslal je vo Mne, a ako On poslal Mňa, tak Ja posielam vás" - Svojim učeníkom. "Otec, ktorý Ma poslal je so Mnou. Ak Ja nečiním skutky Slova, zasľúbeného od Môjho Otca, potom Mi neverte, pretože to sú oni, ktoré svedčia o Mne." Haleluja! Ó, Cirkev, kde si? Ježiš povedal - oni povedali, "Ó, my vieme, že Boh toto robil, ale nie dnes." Ježišovi povedali to isté - "My vieme, že s Mojžišom bol Boh."
217"Ale ten Boh, ktorý bol so Mnou je vo Mne, pretože ak neveríte tomu, pozrite sa čo je napísané o Mne. Pozrite sa čo Písmo hovorí, že budem robiť, a ak nevypĺňam Písma, potom Mi neverte."
218Dovoľte mi povedať toto, nech to nevyznie ako svätokrádež, ale dovoľte mi to povedať o Posolstve, ktoré kážem: Ak Boh toto nepotvrdzuje ako Pravdu, potom to nie je pravda; ale ak to Slovo potvrdzuje, že vám hovorím Pravdu, potom verte Slovu! Oni sú to, ktoré svedčia, či vám hovorím Pravdu alebo nie. Oni sú svedectvom; oni svedčia o mojej - o službe, ktorú mi On dal. On zasľúbil toto, že to bude v tých posledných dňoch. Tu to je! On povedal čo to bude robiť. Tu to je; ideme teraz rovno do toho! Vidíte či je to pravda alebo nie.
219Nech o tom svedčí Boh. Ak skutky, tie veci, ktoré ja kážem nesvedčia spätne o tom, že je to pravda, tak potom to nie je pravda; ale, ak Slovo o tom hovorí, a tu to je, tak potom čo s tým budete robiť?
220Ježiš povedal, "Ja vás poznám; vy si myslíte, že poznáte Mojžiša. Vy poznáte - môžete poznať ... históriu Mojžiša, ale nepoznáte jeho Boha; pretože Ja som bol pred Mojžišom. Ja som bol Ten ktorý hovoril ku Mojžišovi. Ja som ten JA SOM; Ja som Slovo." Oni to nemohli vidieť, pretože oni boli z ich otca, diabla. Ich denominácie im to nedovolili vidieť. To nezastavilo Slovo, aby tak isto postupovalo ďalej. Ono spadlo na niektorých, a z tade prišla Nevesta v tej generácii.
221No dobre, aký rozdiel - namaľovaný oheň. Ježiš zvykol hovoriť, "Otec, ktorý Ma poslal je so Mnou, a skutky, ktoré Ja činím svedčia o tom, pretože Ja robím tie isté veci, o ktorých Písmo povedalo, že ich budem robiť." Židia poznali svojho historického Boha. Tak isto je to teraz, áno. Oni preto poznali toho historického Boha, pretože oni mali historické semeno! Prečo oni neprijali Jeho? - pretože to semeno bolo skrížené s denomináciou. Ježiš vedel Kto Ho poslal, pretože Ten, ktorý Ho poslal bol v Ňom, a On nebol zviazaný so žiadnou denomináciou. Amen! "Povedzte mi ktorú - ktorú školu vychodil?" oni povedali. "Skadiaľ On vzal túto múdrosť? Skadiaľ pochádza toto učenie?" Oni nemohli nájsť školu, do ktorej by On kedy bol chodil, a jednako, ako dvanásť roční ohromoval zákonníkov a farizejov. Ó! To sa vyplnilo.
222Prečo Mu nepovedali niečo ako decku? On bol Božím Slovom. Oni nemohli proti tomu obstáť. Nie divu, že ľudia žasli nad Jeho učením. Čítali ste to niekedy? Marek 1: 22; ak si to chcete zapísať. Ľudia žasli nad Jeho učením, pretože On učil ako taký, ktorý má moc. On vedel o čom hovorí. Vidíte? Cirkev teraz má mať dvojnásobnú mieru Ducha. Pretože to je pravda, ako Eliášov plášť, ktorý spadol na Elizeusa (dvojnásobná miera), to isté prichádza od Ježiša Krista.
223Vy teraz hovoríte, "Ó, brat Branham, ty hovoríš o Jeho Cirkvi." Je to tak. To je Jeho Telo. Či nie je moja žena časťou môjho tela? Či nie je tvoja žena časťou tvojho tela? Telo z tvojho tela, kosť z tvojej kosti; svätý zväzok, je to pravda? Preto si kresťan nemá brať za ženu smilnicu, vidíte? To nie je správne. Nie veru, lebo to rozbíja všetky veci Božie.
224Vy hovoríte, "Ó, nuž, brat Branham, počkaj za chvíľu; ty hovoríš o Duchu Kristovom, ktorý je na - " Biblia hovorí, že to bude. Je to pravda? Izaiáš 9: 6 hovorí? "Dieťa sa nám narodilo, syn nám je daný; A nazvú Jeho meno: Radca, Knieža Pokoja, mocný Boh, Otec večnosti, a Jeho kráľovstvu nebude konca, a vláda bude na Jeho ..." Na čom? [Zhromaždenie odpovedá, "Na Jeho pleci". – pozn.prekl.] To je časť Jeho Tela. To je Jeho Telo, či nie? Jeho plecia sú Jeho Telom. V čom sa nachádza tá vláda na zemi? - v Jeho Tele. Svätí budú súdiť svet. Je to pravda?
225Pavel povedal, "Či sa opováži niekto z vás, kto má spor s iným, súdiť sa pred nespravodlivými a nie pred zborom?" Je to tak. Svätý budú súdiť svet. Kde na čom bude tá vláda? - na pleciach, Jeho Tela. Vláda na Jeho pleciach. To je časť tela.
226Čo to je? - Jeho moc na zemi. Božia moc na zemi, to je Jeho Slovo, ktoré sa stalo telom v Jeho Tele tu na zemi, a uskutočňuje to. Mojžiš ...
227Počúvajte, vynecháme niečo z toho. Boží poslovia stále boli odmietnutí. Veríte tomu? Mojžiš bol odmietnutý. Je to tak? Ježiš bol odmietnutý. A Lukáš povedal, v 10: 16 (ak si to chcete poznačiť, v poriadku) - odmietnutý; 1 Samuelova 8: 7, Božie Posolstvo bolo odmietnuté. Boh mal posla, proroka, ktorý sa nazýval Samuel. Veríte tomu? Odmietli jeho i jeho Posolstvo. Oni prijali svet. To je zákon Boží. To ide - neviem či to povedať alebo nie. Toto je Boží zákon. Boží zákon, to je prijať potvrdeného sluhu. Dokážeme to za chvíľu. Chcem vziať niektoré tu z týchto miest Písma: Ján 13: 20. Pozrime sa len; Mám tu niečo poznačené. Ja len - niečo - prišlo mi to na myseľ hneď potom - Aha, tu to máte.
Amen, amen vám hovorím, že ten, kto prijíma toho, koho by som poslal, mňa prijíma; a kto mňa prijíma, prijíma toho, ktorý mňa poslal.
228Potvrdený sluha. Ó, brat, rovno tu, leží okolo tisíc kázní. Vidíte? Je to tak. Ó, to je zákon Boží; PRIJAŤ TO!
229Samuel prišiel tam dole a povedal, "Chcem sa vás niečo opýtať. Povedal som vám niekedy niečo v Mene Pánovom, čo by sa nebolo stalo?"
"Nie."
"Vzal som niekedy nejaké ofery, aby som postavil veľké budovy a robil veľa veľkých vecí, a oslávil seba samého?"
"Nič také!"
Či dokázal Boh, že odpovedal na Slovo, ktoré som povedal?"
"Áno!"
"Tak, prečo ma potom nepočúvate?"
230Ježiš povedal farizejom ... "My vieme, že si sa narodil zo smilstva." On povedal, "Kto z vás Ma môže usvedčiť z hriechu? Dovoľte Mi ukázať vám Božie Slovo a uvidíme, či Mu budete veriť. Uvidíme, či To Boh potvrdzuje vo vás. A dovoľte Mi povedať o Sebe. Ak Ja hovorím Sám od Seba, tak Som klamár; ale ak hovorím z Boha a Boh hovorí cezo Mňa, skrze Jeho Slovo, potom je to Pravda. Tak potom, kto verí Slovu Božiemu: Ja alebo vy?" Aha! Tu to mali!
231Ježiš povedal, "Ten kto prijíma tých, ktorých som Ja poslal, Mňa prijíma." A teraz - tých ktorých On posiela. "A tí, ktorí Mňa prijímajú, prijímajú Toho, ktorý Ma poslal." Prajem si, aby sme mali čas zdržať sa pri tom.
232Vy môžete slúžiť Bohu jedine, keď ... vy môžete slúžiť Bohu jedine, keď - veríte sluhom, ktorých Boh posiela. Vy na zemi môžete slúžiť Bohu jedine (vidíte), keď vám Boží sluhovia, ktorí sú poslaní na zem, skrze božskú inšpiráciu vykladajú Slovo.
233Veríte tomu? Chcete si na tú tému poznačiť niektoré miesta Písma? 1 Korinťanom 4: 16. Pavol povedal, "Nasledujte mňa, ako ja nasledujem Krista." Tak isto, 11: 1; Lukáš 10: 16. Vidíte čo On povedal; čo tam Ježiš povedal. Lukáš 10: 16. Verím, že sme tu celkom tesne pri tom. Pozrime sa ešte raz, čo to tu hovorí. Lukáš 10: 16, zatiaľ čo si oni zapisujú tie ostatné miesta. Nuž, to je 1 Korinťanom 4: 16 a tiež 11. 1 a Lukáš 10. 16. No, prečítajme to. Idem tu do Lukáša 10: 16, len to prečítam, zatiaľ čo sa všetci dívate teraz na tie druhé, len za chvíľu. No dobre, tu to máme.
Kto vás počúva, mňa počúva, a kto vami pohŕda, mnou pohŕda: a kto mnou pohŕda, pohŕda tým, ktorý ma poslal.
234To dokazuje, že Boh hovorí Svoje Posolstvo skrze Svojich sluhov. Vždy to tak robil; je to tak.
235Nuž, moc veriacej cirkvi: Kristus má všetku moc na nebi i na zemi. Veríte tomu? Čo potom, ak je On vo vás? Má Kristus všetku moc? Matúš 28: 18. V poriadku.
236On je to Semenové-Slovo vo Svojom Tele, a On v nás, sa stáva Semenovým-Slovom v nás. Čo - všetko čo bol Boh, On prelial do Krista, a všetko čo bol Kristus, bolo preliate do Cirkvi; to je tá moc.
237Dávajte teraz pozor! Zapamätajte si Boží zákon reprodukcii. Nuž pamätajte, podľa svojho druhu. Je to tak? Semeno Kristovo, Slovo, musí prísť skrze Jeho Telo. (Och, začínate byť unavený? No dobre, už teraz len chvíľku. Vydržme po tichu a modlime sa.) Chcem aby ste tomu skutočne dobre porozumeli. Chcem to rozobrať. Semeno Kristovo musí, m-u-s-í, musí prísť skrze Jeho Telo - nie skrze denomináciu, ale skrze znovuzrodené Semeno Slova - musí prísť cezeň.
238Zapamätajte si teraz, čo to je? Kristove Semeno - Ako prichádza moje semeno? - skrze moje telo. Ako príde semeno jabloni? - skrze jej telo. Semeno prichádza skrze telo, a Cirkev je Telo Kristovo. Je to tak? Tá Biblická Cirkev. Toto zrodenie vydáva na svet Jeho samého v tele (to je znovuzrodenie). Jeho Cirkev je Jeho Slovo, a tak ľudia môžu vidieť potvrdenie slova zo Židom 13: 8: "Ježiš Kristus ten istý včera, dnes i naveky." Veríte tomu? Toto nie sú teraz denominační kríženci. Toto sú tí, ktorí na obežnej dráhe čakajú na to odrátanie (Viete čo mám na mysli.), pripravujúci sa vyletieť rovno hore. Sláva! Toto nie sú denominační kríženci, nezostávajú tam, nie. Nie veru. to je Semeno.
239Pavol sa obával, že ľudia budú zvažovať na nejaké veľké slová, ktoré by on mohol povedať (niečo z jeho vzdelania). 1 Korinťanom 2: 1-8, ak si to chcete zapísať. 1 Korinťanom 2: 1_8, Pavol povedal, "Neprišiel som ku vám hovoriac vznešené slová (nejaké intelektuálne reči, viete), aby vaša viera nespočívala na nejakých seminárnych veciach, ale som prišiel ku vám s prostotou, v moci a demonštrácii Ducha, aby vaša viera mohla spočinúť v Slove Božom. Tak veru."
240Hoci tie denominačné cirkvi, čo do počtu, prevýšia Nevestu v pomere tisíc ku jednej ... Veríte tomu? Veríte tomu, že to učí Biblia? Izaiáš 54: 1. On to zasľúbil. Preto ... chcete aby som to prečítal? No dobre, prečítajme to. Ak chcete vidieť, kde to je, kde to On zasľúbil, že oni ju čo do počtu prevýšia, poďme do Izaiáša 54: 1.
Prespevuj, neplodná, ty, ktorá nerodíš, jasaj a pokrikuj radostne, ty, ktorá nepracuješ k pôrodu, lebo viacej synov bude mať opustená, ako má synov tá, ktorá má muža! Hovorí Hospodin.
241Je to tak? Viacej bude mať detí smilnica, než ako vydaná žena. Skutočne, mnohonásobne ich prevýši, čo do počtu. Hoci ich bude početne viacej, oni nemajú opravdového otca!
242Nuž, tie denominačné druhy sú reprezentované v Júdovi 8-13. To je tá svetská cirkev. "Bezvodé oblaky, vypeňujúce svoje vlastné hanebnosti." Letničná cirkev je reprezentovaná tou denominačnou skupinou v 2.Timoteovi 3: 1_8. "Majúc formu pobožnosti" - ich semeno vyprodukovalo ich druh.
243Všimnite si, ten eunuch ... Ó tu sa teraz dostaneme do niečoho hlbokého. Dávajte teraz pozor, táto Semenová-Cirkev, táto skutočná Cirkev s tým skutočným opravdovým semenom. Všimnite si, ten eunuch bol so všetkými doktormi teológie. Nuž, zapamätajte si, Boh nikdy nepoveril - Boh nikdy nepoveril Svoje kázanie a Svoje Evanjelium nejakému Anjelovi. Koľkí z vás to vedia? Koľkí z vás vedia, že Galaťanom 1: 8 hovorí, "Ak by prišiel aj Anjel z neba a kázal niečo iné než ... to čo oni kázali, nech je prekliaty"? Tak ten Anjel nemá pravdu, ak hovorí niečo iné, ako Slovo. Boh zostúpil dole poniže Anjelov, a poručil to ľuďom, ktorí boli synmi. Veríte tomu? Nuž, dávajte pozor! On to nikdy neporučil Anjelom. Všimnite si, On to neurobil.
244Nuž, Filip bol na Letnice v Jeruzaleme, na zhromaždení. Koľkí na to povedia "Amen"? Ten eunuch, on bol so všetkými tými doktormi teológie a doktormi Písma a so všetkými možnými. Ale prečo nič neobdržal? On sa vracal domov, študujúc proroka Izaiáša.
245Hoci Anjel nasmeroval Filipa ku nemu, ale ten zárodok Života musel prísť cez to telo - cez Filipa. Ó, brat, teraz sme pri tom. Odkiaľ prišiel ten zárodok? Cez toho Anjela? Anjel mu ukázal, kde má ísť. Anjel je posol; a tu je syn. Filip mal ten zárodok, to Posolstvo, Slovo. To je to, ako sa môže narodiť dieťa. Filip položil na neho svoje ruky. Filip ho pokrstil vo Meno Ježiša Krista. Potom prišiel Duch Boží. Tak veru.
246Nuž, ten zárodok musel prísť cez to telo. Aké telo? - Kristove Telo. Tak veru. A Filip bol článkom toho Tela.
247Počúvajte teraz, to isté sa odohralo v Skutkoch 10: 48. Peter bol na postreší domu. Anjel ho nasmeroval do Kornéliovho domu, ale z kade prišlo Slovo? - z Tela. Cítim sa skutočne dobre; Cítim sa, ako keby som uháňal v pred. Anjel prišiel a povedal, "Neboj sa, nenazývaj nič nečistým, len choď; nič nerozmýšľaj." A zatiaľ, čo Peter hovoril tieto slová - nie ten Anjel, nie kardinál - zatiaľ, čo Peter hovoril tieto slová. Čo on bol? On bol to telo. On mal Slovo. To Slovo sa uchytilo. Ó, brat! Ó! Ó! Anjel ho nasmeroval, ale ten Život prišiel cez Telo Kristovo.
248Pavol, na svojej ceste do Damašku, bol nasmerovaný videním; ale Ananiáš (tam bol ten zárodok) mal Slovo. Amen! Ten prorok Ananiáš, videl videnie a ono povedalo, "Choď tam a polož na neho svoje ruky."
249Povedal, "Brat Saul, Pán sa ti zjavil na ceste, ako si sem išiel." Ako to on vedel? On mal Slovo. Slovo Pánovo prichádza ku prorokovi. Prorokoval, išiel tam a povedal, "On ma sem poslal, aby som mohol položiť na teba ruky, a ty budeš uzdravený a prijmeš Ducha Svätého - prijmi svoj zrak!" A šupiny spadli z jeho očí, a on vstal a dal sa pokrstiť vo Meno Ježiša a išiel študovať Písma. Anjel ho nasmeroval. To je pravda. Ale, Pavol mal ten zárodok Semena.
250Je treba Ducha Božieho, aby dal tomu Semenu Večný Život. Ó! Ó!
251Sú ešte stále dve hodiny? Viem o tom. Chcem potom niečo prečítať. Dovoľte mi prečítať to, už len okolo desať minút, dovolíte? Mal som dobrú predstavu - Mohol by som pri tom pozostať, ale radšej sa tu posuniem ďalej, a skončíme na čas. Je pol piatej a päť minút. Neviem kedy sa dostaneme do Georgie! Prajem si aby som sa mohol pri tom zastaviť a trochu to skomentovať, ale budem to len čítať, skutočne pomaly.
252A tak počúvajte pozorne. Tu je to, kvôli čomu som vzal pero, časť z toho. Vidíte, priatelia, prečo som sa staval, tak ako som sa staval? Vidíte prečo zápasím proti ... vyjsť preč z tých denominácií a vojsť do skutočnej Cirkvi Božej? Vidíte prečo sa to muselo dostať von zo Slova? To nemôže prísť skrze ľudskú múdrosť; to musí prísť skrze Slovo Božie. Preto verím Slovu, presne tak, ako je Ono napísané. Ja nechcem nič dodávať ani nič uberať; len to kázať tak, ako to je; len zotrvávať v chode.
253Nuž, bratia (vy všetci, ktorí počúvate tú pásku), ak nesúhlasíte so mnou, budem sa za vás modliť; ak sa ja mýlim, modlite sa za mňa. Budem teraz len čítať niečo - chcem aby ste to pozorne počúvali. Tu je to, kde Duch povedal, "Vezmi pero." Musím z toho niečo vynechať, ale niečo z toho vám musím oznámiť.
254No dobre. Nuž, tu je to čo sa vám snažím povedať: zákon reprodukcii spočíva v rodení podľa svojho druhu (Genesis 1: 11). V týchto posledných dňoch, skutočná Cirkev - Nevesta prichádza ku Hlavového kameňu. Bude to super Cirkev; super Rasa, keď sa dostanú tesne ku tomu veľkému Hlavovému kameňu. Oni budú tak veľmi podobní - tak veľmi podobní na Neho, že až budú Jeho doslovným obrazom, za tým účelom, aby s Ním boli spojení. Oni budú Jedno. Oni budú dokonalou manifestáciou Slova Živého Boha. Denominácie toto nemôžu vyprodukovať. Toto bude - Oni budú produkovať svoje vyznania a dogmy zmiešané so Slovom a - a budú prinášať krížený produkt.
255Prvý syn, bol vypovedaným Semenovým-Slovom Božím. Bola mu daná nevesta. (Opakujem len to čo povedal Duch, a ja som to zapísal, ako som vám povedal, vidíte.) Nevesta plodiaca - aby sa mohol plodiť. Ona upadla - (Vidíte, nato mu bola daná nevesta, aby zrodil znovu samého seba, ďalšieho syna Božieho, ale ona upadla skrze skríženie, vidíte.) Aby sa plodil - ale ona upadla; spôsobila, že zomrel.
256Druhému synovi, ktorý bol vypovedaným Semenovým-Slovom Božím, bola daná nevesta, ako Adamovi, ale prv ako sa s ňou mohol oženiť, ona tiež upadla; pretože jej bolo dané slobodné morálne rozhodnutie, ako Adamovej žene, aby verila Božiemu Slovu a Žila, alebo, aby zapochybovala o to a zomrela - a ona zapochybovala a zomrela.
257Potom z malej skupiny skutočného Semena Slova, Boh predstaví Kristovi milovanú Nevestu, Pannu - Pannu Jeho Slova - a skrze nich a nimi bude vyplnené všetko, čo bolo zasľúbené v Jeho Slove ohľadne tej Panny, ktorá nepozná žiadne ľuďmi zostavené vyznania alebo dogmy. Slovo zasľúbenia v Ňom samom, ako to bolo v Márii - Sám Boh sa zamanifestoval. On sám bude konať, podľa Svojho vlastného, zasľúbeného Slova, aby tak vyplnil všetko, čo je o Ňom napísané. Ako to On urobil, keď prišiel z toho panenského lona (čo je teraz typom toho duchovného lona), tak to urobí teraz tá Panna, prijímajúc Jeho Slovo: "Nech sa mi stane ako si povedal," hoci to bolo povedané skrze Anjela, no jednako to bolo napísané Slovo. (Izaiáš 9: 6) Oni Ho budú milovať (milovať Jeho-), a budú mať Jeho schopnosti, pretože On je ich Hlavou, a oni sú Jeho poddaný, poddaní Jeho Hlave. Kristovou Vrchnosťou bol On.
258Všimnite si tú harmóniu. Ježiš nikdy neurobil nič, až kým to nevidel robiť Otca, alebo až kým Mu to prv Otec neukázal. (Harmónia medzi Bohom a Kristom, vidíte Ján 5: 19) Tak bude Nevesta, a On Jej ukazuje Svoje Slovo Života (On jej ukazuje), a ona to prijíma. Ona nikdy o tom nepochybuje.
259Nič Jej nemôže uškodiť, ani smrť; pretože ak je Semeno zasadené, voda ho znovu vzbudí. Amen. (Nuž, mám na to veľké, hlasné Haleluja!) Tu je to tajomstvo: Slovo je v Neveste, a tiež zmysel Kristov aby vedela, čo On chce urobiť so Slovom, a Ona to robí v Jeho Mene. Ona má TAK HOVORÍ PÁN.
260Potom je to oplodnené; a tak Duch Svätý to podlieva, až to narastie a slúži svojmu účelu. Oni činia jedine jeho vôľu. (Amen! Budem tomu veriť.) Nikto ich nemôže presvedčiť o opaku. Oni majú TAK HOVORÍ PÁN, alebo sú potichu. Potom oni budú činiť skutky Božie. Pretože to On sám je v nich, vedie ďalej Svoje Slovo do úplného vyplnenia, ako to robil vo Svojom čase. Všetko - keď On tu bol - On nevyplnil úplne všetko, keď On tu bol, pretože ešte nebol ten čas.
261Nuž, stojme ako Jozue a Kálef. (Nuž, dávajte dobre pozor, toto bude mať duchovný podklad.) Nuž, stojme ako Jozue a Kálef, ako vidíme, že tá Zasľúbená Zem prichádza na dohľad. Ten čas je blízko. Aby tomu porozumieť - Jozue po Hebrejsky znamená Spasiteľ a reprezentuje toho zasľúbeného vodcu posledného času, ktorý tam vovedie Cirkev. Kálef reprezentuje toho ozajstného veriaceho, ktorý zostal s Józuom. Boh začal s Izraelom ako s pannou, so Svojim Slovom, ale oni chceli niečo iné. Tak, urobila cirkev v tom poslednom čase.
262Všimnite si, ako Boh nerušal s Izraelom ďalej, až kým nenastal Jeho vlastný stanovený čas. (Počúvajte teraz. Toto bude niečo znamenať.) Jozue čakal na ten čas! Ó koľko - Bez ohľadu na to koľko ľudí mohlo povedať, "Boh nám dal tú zem, to zasľúbenie; poďme teraz a zaberme ju." Oni mohli povedať, "Jozue, ty si stratil svoje poverenie. Ty si to načisto utratil. Prečo niečo nerobíš? Ty si vo chvíli zvykol poznať to, TAK HOVORÍ PÁN, a čo bola Božia vôľa." Ale tento múdry, Bohom poslaný prorok poznal zasľúbenie Božie, ale tiež vedel čakať na to zasľúbenie - na jasné rozhodnutie od Boha ohľadne jeho času.
263(Tie podobenstvá? No, dávajte pozor.) A keď prišiel ten čas, Boh to dal Jozuovi, ktorý s Ním zostal pri Slove, pretože On sa nemohol spoľahnúť na iných; On sa mohol spoľahnúť na neho. Tak sa to zopakuje!
264Tak, ako ten veľký pomazaný prorok Mojžiš, on vedel, že Boh ho použije, pretože On to Mojžišovi dokázal, že je Jeho sluha, skrze jeho zvláštne narodenie. V tom pravom čase, že ak ... bol čas na vyslobodenie Abrahámovho semena. (Chápete to?) Mojžiš nezostal v Egypte a nediskutoval s nimi o svojich otázkach z Písma. On sa vôbec nerozčuľoval s kňazmi, ale odišiel na púšť a čakal na Pána, až kým ho tí ľudia neboli pripravení prijať. Boh zavolal Svojho proroka na púšť. Boh vydal svedectvo; On ho vybral, ale to čakanie nebolo kvôli Mojžišovi, ale kvôli tým ľuďom, aby boli pripravení prijať Mojžiša. Mojžiš si myslel, že tie deti porozumejú, že je poslaný. (Ja som to nepísal, to písal On ; tak je to aj teraz.)
265Ako Eliáš, po tom, čo ten mocný potvrdený prorok, ku ktorému prichádzalo Slovo, zakončil kázať svoje Posolstvo tej modernej Americkej skupine, ktorá nasledovala prvú dámu s jej ostrihanými vlasmi a Jezábelinu namaľovanú skupinu - Boh potvrdzoval Svojho proroka; zakaždým, keď prorokoval, to bola Pravda - Boh ho musel zavolať preč z poľa práce, zatiaľ čo trápil tú generáciu hroznými pohromami, za to že odmietli Posolstvo Jeho proroka a Slovo Božie, ktoré im On poslal.
266Boh ho poslal do skrýši na púšť. Dokonca ani kráľ ho nemohol vyvolať. A tí, ktorí sa ho snažili nahovoriť proti vôli Božej, zato že tak robili, zomreli! Ó, sláva! Ó! Ó! Ale keď Boh prehovoril ku Svojmu vernému prorokovi skrze videnie, tam vonku na púšti, on prišiel s tým TAK HOVORÍ PÁN. Čo on urobil? Išiel rovno do Slova, späť do Slova. Priniesol dvanásť kameňov a zvalil ich dokopy.
267Ako Ján Krstiteľ, Kristov verný predchodca, pomazaný prorok, žiadna škola jeho otca, žiadna škola farizejov, žiadna denominácia, ho nemohla zavolať z púšte, kde ho Boh poslal, prišiel až v tedy keď počul Boží Hlas, Mesiášov, Baránkov!
Počúvate duchovnou mysľou? Čo ešte viac tu môžem povedať! Niečo tu teraz preskočím.
268Aký rozdiel dnes! Mnohí, tak zvaní evanjelisti, tvrdia, že majú pre ľudí odpoveď od Boha, presne tak, ako to urobil Kóre - zapieral, hádal sa ohľadne autority Božieho potvrdeného, pomazaného proroka, Mojžiša. Tvrdil, že on má odpoveď. To bol tiež spôsob na získavanie peňazí - zlaté teľa, ako to mnohí robia dnes - veľké budovy, veľké školy, inkubátory na liahnutie ich vlastného semena. A vtedy - ľudia vtedy, tak ako aj teraz, boli tým nadchnutí, hoci počuli pravdivé Slovo Božie cez pomazaného proroka, ktorý bol potvrdený.
269Oni boli nadchnutí Kóreho lžou. Boží potvrdený prorok, a Boh vedel ... a oni vedeli, že Boh im povedal - Izrael to vedel, že Boh im jasne povedal, že On potvrdí Svojho proroka, Svojím Slovom. Kóre nebol prorok podľa Písma, ale ľuďom sa to zdalo ohromne dobré; tak isto, ako je to aj teraz. Dnes - dnes je to krv na rukách, gule ohňa na pódiu, olej na vašich prstoch; a tá istá vec produkuje ženy kazateľky, krátke vlasy - ostrihané, makeup ... Čo to máte? Nepomysleli by ste si, že ľudia by na to naleteli, ale oni naleteli Kóremu, a oni robia to isté teraz a odvracajú sa preč od pravdivého Slova, ku denomináciám. V krátkosti: to ukazuje, aký druh semena je v nich.
270Ale vďaka Bohu, že celý Izrael nepodľahol Kóremu. Niektorí zostali s Mojžišom, tým pomazaným prorokom so Slovom Božím. Tak isto je to dnes s mnohými Božími Vyvolenými, skrze Jeho Slovo a Jeho Ducha.
271Pamätajte, kúkoľ, pleva, majú byť zhromaždené a zviazané do snopov. Je to tak? Toto sa stalo. Tie odpadlícke zorganizované cirkvi sú zviazané tesnejšie, než ako kedykoľvek predtým. Oni sú zviazané dokopy vo federácii cirkví, pripravené na oheň Božieho súdu. (Ja som toto nenapísal, cítim, že to On napísal.) Letniční sú plní toho, tak zvaného ... tak isto ako oni. Pšenica Slova bude jedného dňa zobraná, potom keď odídu ku Majstrovi.
272Boh zasľúbil (buďte opatrní!) - Boh zasľúbil Malachiáša 4 na tieto posledné dni, a Malachiáš 4 sa ešte nevyplnil, ale to sa musí vyplniť, pretože to je oplodnené Slovo Božie, vypovedané cez Malachiáša, proroka. Ježiš sa na to povolal. To má byť práve pred druhým Kristovým príchodom.
273(Dobre teraz počúvajte.) Každé Písmo, ktoré sa ešte nevyplnilo, sa musí vyplniť, pred tým časom. Biblia má byť ukončená - má sa zakončiť; Pohanské zriadenie sa má zakončiť s cirkevným vekom. Keď príde ten pomazaný posol, samozrejme, on zasadí Semeno celej Biblii, rovno od hada do posla, vo včasnom daždi. Potom on bude odmietnutý denominačnými ľuďmi, ako jeho predchodca - Ján a Eliáš, ako to bolo povedané skrze nášho Pána - ľudia - ako bol prv odmietnutý Eliáš, za času Achaba. To sa stane tu v tejto krajine, pretože táto krajina je typom Izraela.
274Čítate alebo počúvate o Náboženstve Jezábeli. Ako táto krajina - naši predkovia aby ... aby mohli oddávať Bohu česť, tak ako chceli, prišli do tejto krajiny a vytlačili z nej pôvodných obyvateľov a zabrali ju; tak urobil Izrael, zabrali tú zem, keď odišli z Egyptu. Mali sme pobožných mužov, ako boli Washington, Lincoln. Oni mali veľkých pobožných mužov, ako David a tak ďalej. Potom oni mali na tróne Achaba s Jezábeľou, ktorá stála za ním a dirigovala ho - tak ako teraz máme my! A tak, v tomto čase, a v tejto krajine sa zjaví tá osoba. Pretože to je v Písme, a to je TAK HOVORÍ PÁN.
[Prezidentom USA v rokoch 1961 - 1963 bol John Fitzgerald Kennedy. – pozn.prekl.]
275Potom v tom pozdnom daždi vystúpi do popredia hora Karmel, odhalenie - (kto je KTO) - Biblia sa vyplní do písmena. Ján Krstiteľ, Jeho posol pred Jeho tvárou v Malachiášovi 3, zasial včasný dážď a bol odmietnutý cirkvami (denomináciami - farizejmi a sadúceami) vo svojom čase. Ježiš prišiel a mal na hore Premenenia odhalenie - (kto je KTO). Tento predchodca týchto posledných dní zaseje včasný dážď. Ježiš (Jeho Slovo) bude tým odhalením - (kto je KTO), medzi denomináciami a vyznaniami. Keď On príde, to odhalenie - (kto je KTO) - nastane Vytrhnutie Jeho Nevesty! Prvé bolo na hore Karmel; druhé bolo na hore Premenenia; tretie bude na hore Sion! Sláva!
276Eliášove zachovávanie, Mojžišove zachovávanie, Jánove zachovávanie, spôsob ako opustili pole svojej služby ... mnoho ľudí ich neporozumelo. To bolo preto, že oni boli odmietnutý, a tak isto ich Posolstvo. Semeno bolo zasiate; potom prichádzal súd, a oni boli pre ľudí znakom od Boha, že súd je na blízku. Sadenie sa skončilo.
277Verím, že jedného dňa, tá skutočná Nevesta Kristova bude prinútená prestať kázať Slovo Božie. Biblia o tom prorokuje v Zjavení 13: 16 (ak si to chcete zapísať). Denominácie To nasilu zastavia, alebo ich donútia prijať ich "znamenie." Potom, keď (sa to stane) Baránok vezme Svoju Nevestu a odsúdi za to tú smilnicu.
278Pamätajte, Mojžiš, ktorý sa narodil, aby vykonal tú prácu, musel čakať na Boha, na ten zvláštny dar do tej roboty. (On musel odísť späť a čakať.) A v tom vyznačenom čase od Boha, musel byť na tróne určitý faraón. A ľudia museli byť žiadostiví Chleba Života, prv ako by ho Boh poslal späť. Nuž, skrze tisíce tých, ktorí činia zázraky, bola stvorená, v tomto poslednom čase, generácia vyhľadávajúca znamenia, ktorá nevie viacej ... nevie nič o skutočnom pohybovaní sa Boha v Jeho Slove, v týchto posledných dňoch.
279Ako som povedal, "Dajte im krv a olej a telesné demonštrácie na pódiu, a oni to budú podopierať, bez ohľadu na to, či to je Božie Slovo alebo nie, či je to podľa Písma alebo nie." Ježiš nás varoval pred takými vecami v poslednom čase. Ako som povedal, v Matúšovi 24, dva duchy, veľmi si podobné, zvedú i Vyvolených, keby to bolo možné. Ako ich môžete rozoznať? - podrobte ich skúške Slova. Podľa čoho to môžete poznať? - hovorte Slovo; a dívajte sa, čo oni o tom povedia. Ak oni neveria Slovu, nemajú v sebe žiadny zárodok Semena. Oni sú z toho zlého a zvádzajú vás. Ako bola zvedená prvá nevesta, potom bola zvedená druhá nevesta, oni zvádzajú tretiu nevestu skrze skrížené Slovo - alebo sa ju snažia zvádzať.
280Boh nikdy neumiestnil znamenia pred Svoje Slovo. (Amen! to je ostrá poznámka.) Boh nikdy neumiestnil znamenia pred Svoje Slovo. Oni boli pridané, aby dokázali Slovo, ale Slovo je na prvom mieste.
281Aby som to dokázal, Eliáš povedal tej žene, "Najprv upeč pre mňa nejaký posúch." Potom dávajte pozor, stane sa zázrak. Poďte najprv do Slova a potom očakávajte na zázrak. Semeno - Slovo samotné, je to čo Duch Svätý oživuje. Nuž, či môže byť poslaný od Boha nejaký posol, ktorý verí len niečo z Písma a nie celé Slovo? - zapiera časť z Neho.
282Skutočný prorok Boží bude rozhlasovať Slovo v tých posledných dňoch; denominácie ho budú nenávidieť. On nebude brať na ne žiadny ohľad. On bude takým, akým bol, keď prišiel pri prvom Kristovom príchode. "Vy plemeno vreteníc!" Ale tí predurčení budú počúvať a pripravia sa na odrátanie ku štartu. To Kráľovské Semeno Abrahámovej viery (ako on) sa drží Slova Božieho, bez ohľadu na následky, pretože on bol predurčený. Posol z Malachiáša 4 sa zjaví v Božom vyznačenom čase. My všetci na neho čakáme. Veríme, že on príde. To je podľa Jeho Slova; to bude v čase konca, ktorý to čas je teraz, aby sme to videli.
283On bude správne posvätený Slovu, ako oni vždy boli; preukázaný Božím Slovom - a potvrdený. Boh potvrdí to čo on káže, že je to Pravda, ako to urobil pri Eliášovi; pretože to je Eliáš, ktorý prichádza, pripravujúc ľudí na Sionské - Vytrhnutie. Ježiš povedal,, že v tých posledných dňoch to bude tak, ako v čase Lota. Jeho kázanie bude v Duchu a v jednej línii so Slovom Božím. Pretože, tak mnoho vecí bolo nazvaných Božou Pravdou, mnohí neporozumejú tohoto skutočného posla. (Napísal som tu p-r-o-r-o-c-t-v-o), proroctvo. Pretože - pretože tak mnoho vecí od podvodníkov bolo nazvaných Božou Pravdou, mnohí opravdiví kazatelia nezrozumejú tohoto posla.
284Tak ako proroctvá času konca sa budú opakovať, verím, že tak ako ten prvý predchodca, ktorý prišiel z púšti a volal, "Ajhľa Baránok Boží!" tento druhý predchodca bude pravdepodobne robiť to isté, tým že bude smerovať ľudí do Slovom zrodenej Nevesty. Nevesta Kristova bude nasmerovaná do nebies pri zjavení sa Ježiša, volajúc, "Ajhľa Baránok Boží!" vyjde z jeho úst. Bože pomôž nám, aby sme boli pripravení na tú blízku udalosť. Nuž, radšej tu už prestanem.
285 Veríte? Načo toto bolo? Máte teraz lepšie porozumenie? To je Slovo, priatelia. Trvalo to okolo šesť hodín (veľmi blízko ku tomu), päť a pol, alebo šesť hodín. Je toho oveľa viac, čo by malo byť povedané, ale skutočne, Duch Svätý za tento čas to ponoril hlboko do vás, tak že viete o čom hovorím. Sme v čase konca. Semená sú teraz zasiate; pozdný dážď je hotový prísť.
286Pamätajte, veľmi skoro nastane také denominačné zoskupenie; bude to strašné. A oni sa spoja dokopy, do tejto federácii cirkví, a potom takýto zbor nebude môcť fungovať (nakoľko oni vedia). To je v tom čase, keď sa zjavy Ježiš, a On ukáže kto je Nevestou a kto nie.
287A zapamätajte si, kresťanskí priatelia, ja som človek; ja môžem robiť chyby, ale Boh, súc Bohom, nemôže robiť chyby. Každé Slovo, ktoré bolo napísané sa musí vyplniť, Ježiš to tak povedal. A tak tu v Písme máme veci, ktoré sa musia vyplniť, a to je jedna z tých vecí - že príde tento bojkot. Ale prv, ako tento bojkot bude môcť prísť (pečatenie znamením šelmy), musí byť zasiate Semeno, aby Boh vzal preč Cirkev. Rozumiete teraz tomu? Semeno musí byť zasiate. Denominačné semeno - aby urobiť podobu, alebo obraz šelmy (rímskej cirkvi); a tiež musí byť ozajstná Nevesta.
288A my rozumieme, že tá tak zvaná nevesta je odmietnutá - Adamova nevesta odmietla priniesť Život. ona priniesla smrť; my sme jej produktom (naše telo); my všetci zomierame. Pozrite sa na nás, môžete to vidieť.
289Jahweho nevesta zomrela; On sa s ňou rozviedol a vzal ľudí z pohanov pre Svoje Meno. Je to tak? Jeho meno - tak ako žena, nevesta, prijíma mužove meno. Nuž čo ona urobila? To isté, čo oni urobili predtým, urobila zo seba denomináciu; poškvrnila sa. Ale v každej generácii, každé prebudenie prinesie nejakého proroka Božieho (prorok, to znamená kazateľ, ozajstný kazateľ Slova, ktorý trvá na Slove), a oni priniesli prebudenie, ktoré zhromažďuje Vyvolených z tej generácii. Potom ona ide do semena. Potom to Boh už nikdy viac nepoužije. Pýtam sa ktoréhokoľvek teológa, alebo historika, aby mi ukázali aspoň jeden krát, kde by nejaká denominácia znovu povstala; nikdy. Ona zomrela, keď sa stala denomináciou, a tam ona leží.
290Rozmýšľam o Dawingovi Moodym, o Moodyho Biblickej škole - mŕtve ako polnoc. Mám na mysli metodistov, letničných, prezbiteriánov, luteránov, nazarénov, pútnikov svätosti; povstali bohabojní mužovia, Buddy Robinson a George Whitefield, a všetci týto veľkí bohabojní mužovia, ktorí kázali Evanjelium, a tá generácia prijala semeno, ktoré bolo zasiate pre ich časť. Tak ako obilie - či to bolo steblo, či to bol lístok, či to bol klas, či to bolo zrno, čokoľvek to je, ten kazateľ prinášal Slovo na ten deň. Ono vyvolávalo zo štyroch vetrov zeme a vzalo Vyvolených tej generácii. A skrze tých Vyvolených je budovaný Dom živého Boha.
291Nuž, táto služba tu, ich musí vybrúsiť do toho stupňa, až tie isté skutky, ktoré činil Ježiš ... pretože, keď On príde, ten Hlavový kameň, presne na to zapasuje, pretože oni ... tam nastane potom Vytrhnutie, a oni budú vzatí, a ten ostatok toho tela príde s tým; a Ona odíde do Neba. Nie denominácia, priatelia; Cirkev Božieho Slova. Veríte tomu? Sú tu nejaké vreckovky.
Nuž, idem - idem a neviem kde. Hľadám, tak ako vy, vôľu Božiu. Prajem si aby som mohol zostať v tejto modlitebni; ale nemôžem. Je tisíce - počujem ten krik - nečistý duch ich trápi. Takmer nemôžem spať. Počujem kričať malé deti a vidím matky, ako sa tlačia cez modlitebnú radu so svojimi deťmi, vidím matky ako ovievajú svoje deti, ako držia nad nimi nejakú plachtu, aby ich chránili pred dažďom vonku na dvore. Moje srdce krváca kvôli ním.
292Kaď som staval túto modlitebňu, v ten deň, keď som tam kládol ten uholný kameň, pamätám sa na to videnie v to ráno. Je to napísané rovno tu na tom uholnom kameni; bolo povedané, "Toto nie je tvoja modlitebňa. Konaj dielo evanjelistu; plne dokazuj tvoju službu." Milujem to; Milujem Božie deti, kdekoľvek sa nachádzajú. Neviem, kde ma On povedie. Neviem; čakám. Čakám už rok. Môžem čakať dva roky. Môžem čakať tri roky, neviem. Nepoznám to ďalšie pohnutie. Čakám naň. Ale, myslím, že podľa Písma, Slovo bolo zasiate. To ďalšie je príchod Ducha.
293Billy Graham môže kázať kdekoľvek; Oral Roberts, tí pobožní mužovia, môžu kázať kdekoľvek. Pán ma môže poslať siať ešte niekde semeno (na nejaké pole), ale verím, že náš národ je zasiaty, a verím, že ona je teraz pripravená na čas žatvy.
294Keď Duch spadne a nastane pohnutie medzi ľuďmi, tie denominácie sa zletia dokopy, a to je tak isté, ako že tu stojím za kazateľňou. A Cirkev Božia bude vytlačená, a oni urobia taký rozruch až to spoja a uvedú bojkot proti každému, kto ku ním nepatrí. Rím, bude vládnuť svetom len na hodinu. Ona bude vládnuť len na krátky čas. Nie komunizmus - rímsky katolicizmus, bude vládnuť svetom v spolupráci s protestantizmom, v denominačnej forme cirkvi, ktorú Boh odmietol. To je tak blízko, ako poznám Slovo Božie.
295Milujem vás. Cením si vás. Možno že tu znovu budem v nedeľu o týždeň. Idem teraz dole na Floridu, ak Pán dá, do Georgie na zajtra večer. Mám niekoľko menších zhromaždení roztrúsených dookola. Ak ma Pán bude viesť, mám ich plný poznámkový blok - ten ktorý mi raz poslal brat Roberson - či brat Borders. Myslím že je tam ... že tam bolo zapísaných tridsať či štyridsať zborov, ktoré sú ochotné spolupracovať, ale vyzerá to tak, že Duch ma zdržuje. Neviem prečo. Neviem prečo. A tak sa modlite za mňa, ja sa budem modliť za vás. Spolu môžeme obstáť. Nech nám Boh pomáha. Nech by tu ani jeden z vás nikdy nesklamal a neminul ten veľký čas, ktorý nadchádza.
296Nuž, bol som obvinený z mnoho vecí, priatelia, a som vinný mnohých vecí. Som bezohľadný; to je pravda. Neviem prečo to tak je. Niekto ma vystrčil na roh a spôsobil, že musím bojovať. Neviem; je to povaha. Urobil som veci, ktoré by som nebol urobil, nie úmyselne, ale ukoristil som v tom. A to je to čoho sa tak obávam, to čo vidím v tomto čase (v tomto čase v ktorom my žijeme) a vy teraz vidíte čomu verím. Chcem počuť od Boha, ak je to vôbec možné, prv ako učiním nejaký krok, vidíte, pretože Ho nechcem sklamať. Všade chcem byť s Ním. A chcem aby ste sa modlili za mňa.
297A pamätajte, povedal som vám Pravdu. Nuž, ďakujem vám, že ste tu sedeli celý deň (Od včasného rána); Mnohí z vás stoja popri stenách a v predsieňach, bolia vás nohy, mnohí sedíte vonku v autách; máte takmer vybité batérie od počúvania, a tu to je: Všetko je na páskach. Tí chlapci tam vzadu to nahrali, a budete mať možnosť to dostať.
298A keď to dostanete, vezmite si to domov a študujte to skutočne pozorne a rozumne, a hľaďte čo vám Pán zjaví. Milujte Ho? Kde je Teddy? Ešte prv ako sa pomodlíme nad týmito vreckovkami a za ľudí, chcem sa modliť za každého jedného z vás. Chcem teraz spievať túto pieseň, a potom brat Neville povie svoje ohlásenia ohľadne ďalšieho zhromaždenia.
Milujem Ho, milujem Ho;
(Milujte Jeho Slovo? Potom milujete Jeho.)
Pretože On prv miloval mňa;
A vykúpil moje spasenie
na Golgotskom kríži.
299.... myslím, že sám Boh, dáva božský výklad; a som si istý, Pane, že keď som priniesol Slovo, Ono spadne na tých na ktorých je Ono predurčené spadnúť. Tvoje Slovo je Pravda. Otče, je mi ľúto, že mnohokrát som Ťa sklamal. Prosím aby si mi odpustil. Prosím aby si odpustil môjmu publiku, tomu viditeľnému i tomu neviditeľnému, všetky ich hriechy; Aby sme si uvedomili, Pane Bože, že sme na konci cesty. Každý hriech je rovno tu pred nami. Som si istý, že tá duchovná myseľ, Pane, sa uchytí toho čo som práve povedal pred pár minútami. Modlím sa, aby oni porozumeli, Pane, že čo ... že kde sa nachádzame. Sme tu ...
1 [The Afternoon Service begins here, after a short intermission of approximately ninety minutes--Ed.]]
Well, now, that's fine, Brother Kidd. That's a dandy. Exactly where we're at. [Brother Kidd says something to Brother Branham--Ed.] Amen. He wants to say a word about his healing.
2[Brother Kidd says, "Yes. I'm the fellow that got healed, two years ago. And I'm half made ready for the quitting drawer. Mom called Brother Branham, and he came over, him and--him and his son. And they left home here at two o'clock, and he came and prayed for me. How... I didn't have no feeling from--from--from my waist, down, not a bit. And an hour after he prayed for me, he was gone, feeling all come back. God healed me of the cancer. They said, 'He doesn't have no kidneys.' I got some new ones. Don't know, but God's got them started. But it's me was happened. Eighty-one-year-old, been searching all around through the years, helped bring a reformation on Pentecost. That tickles me to death. Brother Branham tells it, 'They all got to building little walls of partition between one another, and they can't have a revival.' That's right. He's right about that." Congregation laughs--Ed.]
3That's just it. Brother Ed, that's what it did. Oh, isn't that wonderful? I like that little testimony, brother.
4Now the car radio is hooked up, is what they say in here, this part here.
5Everybody feeling good now? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Well, now, we'll start right in now until midnight, then we'll... ["Amen."] We are so happy that the Lord has helped us and blessed us.
6Now, before we start again, let's just have a little word of prayer to the One Who we're talking to now.
7 Gracious Heavenly Father, You hear the testimony of this godly, saintly, old man. Down through the age, him and his little wife, working together, and how that she had to hold onto You, and beg You to make a preacher out of her husband, and here he is. And then when he was laying there, dying, the best doctors in the country saying, that, "He's gone. He can't live but a few hours. It's done. His body is eat up with cancer. He could never walk another step. The infection in his ankles, and so forth, has done took him away." Here he is, years later, still going. We're just so thankful, Father. It goes to prove, that, when the Word is planted, then watered, It'll bring forth the crop.
8Now we pray, Father, that You'll let us lay out the Words this afternoon, from Thy Word. It is Thy Word, and we want to lay It out just the way It is. And then You water It, Lord, with the Spirit. We ask, as we commit ourselves, with the Message, to You, that You use us, in Jesus' Name. Amen.
9 Now, to hurry right up. My wife was telling me this morning about how hard the people, you know, and their legs cramping and things--the ladies, and--and more people like myself getting a little old and have to stand around like that. I appreciate that, your loyalty. And now, we'll get right straight back to the message and go on. I don't want to be in too much hurry, and yet I want to hurry up enough to try to get it finished this afternoon if I possibly can.
10Then as soon as we're finished, we're going right straight then to--to Tifton, Georgia, not for a--a continued meeting; we're at the high school auditorium there just for one night; that's tomorrow night, and just a preaching service; and I'll have some ordinary little text or something I preached on right here, because it's just to visit with the people there. They haven't got a regular stayed meeting or anything. So we...
11 And now, we--we left off, this morning, speaking on our text found over in Genesis, the 1st chapter, the--the 11th verse, mainly. The Spoken Word Is The Original Seed.
12And now my purpose this morning, and today, is to try to explain to the people. [Brother Branham asks someone, "That on? Yeah."--Ed.] Try to explain to the people, of my action, now, why that I have did the things that I have done. And realizing, that, these tapes are being taped and will be sent out. Many people will probably be hearing them after I'm away from here, if Jesus tarries. But I want to say that I believe the Word of God, that It, That, is the Truth.
13 Now, we left off where that the... of the last days, what's happened to the ministry of the evangelists that a few years ago were just burning the country up, and seems like all of them has just stopped. Now, I don't mean they're off the field. They're still going, but there's no result, seems like. They're not getting anywhere. See? What's the matter? The field is done sowed. See? Now remember. Don't forget.
14 Someone asked me to repeat that Hebrew word again, in Joel, the 2nd chapter, Joel 2:28, where he's speaking of the coming of the former and latter rain. The word "former" is the Hebrew word m-o-u-r-e-h, moureh, which means teaching. In other words, it'll be a teaching rain and a harvest rain. Now we've had the teaching rain, and we're ready now for the harvest rain. You know, the first rain is when you plant the seed, that starts your crop growing. Then just before it matures, there comes another crop. That's what they call the harvest rain. We know when it is. The spring rains, and then the rains about June, it makes your crop. Now, the rain, we find out, was the Spirit.
15 And now we left off at where I gave my thoughts of what the whole thing will be. That is, I believe that the--that the--the rain has been brought, the rain. That's the reason we're quietening down, because the ground is already sowed over. You can't find anywhere, hardly, but what's been sowed. And it's went out through radio, television, tapes, word, everything. It's sowed the country down. It's planted seeds. Now, what seeds was planted, you cannot get nothing else from it but what seeds that was planted. Can you understand now? It'll be the seeds that's planted. Now, the Spirit will fall, but It'll bring a harvest of the seed that It falls on. Now, remember. All right.
16 I predict that the two denominational groups, Pentecostal and the evangelical groups, will work together in a denomination, will unite themselves together and will become a member, all of them, of the Federation of the Council Churches, or the Council of Churches. They already belong to it, all of them. And there will come, through them, a forcing, or a boycott, that will stop everything but what belongs to that union of churches. That's what a... The Bible said that there would be a boycott, even to such a way it would 'cause people to not buy or sell unless they had received this: the mark of the beast, which is Romanism; and the image of the beast, which is Protestantism. That the image... The beast had power, authority, to give the image life, to speak, and it did. And that's the Confederation of Churches, when they confederate themselves together.
17 Now there's many young people here. I don't know, Jesus may come this afternoon. He may come next year. I don't know when He'll be Coming. But, remember, if I do not live to see that Day of His Coming... Which, I hope that I will, and somehow believe I will. Now, if I do not see it, do not let this Word ever depart from your ears and your heart. See? Just remember, I speak in the Name of the Lord.
18 Now, I believe with all my heart, that's the way it'll wind up. There will be like a union, a--a boycott. All such places as this here will be closed down. And you'll not be able to speak unless you got a--a permission, or a license from this Federation of Churches, to hold a service. It's almost... It shows it does that now, even in the denomination. It shows where it's at. Yes, sir. You have to have it. And that's where it'll wind up at. That's my prediction, as a servant of Christ, through the understanding that I have of the Word, and the inspiration. That's where it'll come. The... All signs are pointing to the end. I just got through speaking on that. And it's even to the...
19The unwise virgin has beginning to cry out for Oil. Now, remember, she was a virgin. And if she's a virgin, she's a church. See? We'll get to that this afternoon, in Revelation 17. If she's a virgin, she's a church, 'cause the church is a virgin.
Paul said, "I espouse you to Christ, as a chaste virgin."
20 The prostitute, of Revelation 17, was a church. John admired her because of her--of her beauty, what she was. She was a beautiful thing. But, yet, "In her was found the blood of every saint of Jesus Christ, had been murdered in her." That's right. I believe it's sixty-eight million, on the martyrology, that the Roman Catholic church has put to death since--since Saint Augustine of Hippo. Sixty-eight million Protestants has been killed, and recorded on the record of the martyrology, by the Catholic church, because of disagreeing with her doctrine. No wonder the Bible said, "In her was found the blood of every martyr."
21Now, now, didn't Jesus say there come a time, "They would kill you, thinking they were doing God a service"? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] And they are sincere about that. They're not hypocrites. They believe that. They're taught that.
22And when that Word... When--when that Word is planted there, It's got to bring a crop. Sure, It has. Remember, we're staying with, "the Seed." That's our text, our Seed. The spoken Word of God is a Seed. See? It's got to come back to this Word, and that Word will produce what It says.
23 That's the reason I believe in Divine healing. That's the reason I believe in visions. That's the reason I believe in Angels. That's the reason I believe in this Message, is because It comes from the Word of God. And anything outside the Word of God, I don't believe it. It could be so, but still I'll just stay with what God said, and then be sure that I'm right. Now, God can do what He wants to. He's God. But as long as I stay with His Word, then I know that's all right. I believe that.
24 Now, this unwise virgin is a woman. She's a church, but she's unwise. See? She's just been dilatory, and yet she's called--she's called herself the Bride.
25And remember, everything runs in a three, for perfection. Three is the number of perfection.
26God's offices: Father, Son, Holy Ghost. God the Father was the God that lived in the Pillar of Fire. He was trying to draw Israel to Him. They wouldn't come. God the Father lived in the Son, which made Him God the Son; same God, expressed image of God, the Seed of God manifest, trying to draw the people to Him. They crucified Him. The Holy Ghost is the same God that was at the beginning, in the Son of God, and now here (the other office of God) in the last days, living in the Church; trying to bring the Word, the spoken Word, like other two offices did, to the people, and they reject It. It's the same thing. It's the three offices or manifestations of one God in action. And God in His people today, in action, is God in action. See? It's God in the people.
27 Lord willing, I want to speak on that, tomorrow night, "God in His universe, God in His Son, God in His people," and so forth. Now, I have spoke on that before, here, I believe.
28 Now, then, this unwise virgin, when she went to buy Oil. She was sent to buy Oil. When she did, she found out that she was too late. Why? Why, friend? The seeds are done planted. See? There was three, up to the Sodom time.
There's always been a number of three, all the time.
29There's three comings of Christ. He came once to redeem His Bride. He comes, the next, in the Rapture, to catch away His Bride. He comes again, in a Millennium, with His Bride.
30 Everything is in three's. Three's is a perfect number. Five is the number of grace; seven, completion; twelve, worship; twenty-four... or--or forty, tempted; and fifty is the jubilee. The very word, pentecost, means jubilee, "fifty." See? Now, and now, God, in His numerals, He's perfect in His numerals. He's perfect in His Word. He's perfect in His action. He's perfect in everything, because He's a perfect God. Yeah.
And we see that in these virgins...
31Now, look, there is called a "whore," in the Bible. Now, I want my sisters to--to forgive me. I'm... That's what the Bible said. Today I'm speaking just plain. Calls her, "The whore, and a mother of harlots," which is the same thing. Now, if you notice, there is a "whore" spoke of, in the Bible, that's a church. A "harlot" spoke of, of the Bible, that's a church. And a "Bride" spoke of, in the Bible, and that's a Church. There's the three. We'll get into them, after while, showing whose brides those are, and how they been rejected, and all about it, if the Lord willing.
32 Now, the first thing, I want to say this before I forget it. Do not, never fear communism. Communism is only working in the hands of God. It's an ungodly affair just like King Nebuchadnezzar was, but He sent him over there and chopped Israel out because of their disobedience. When, the prophet told them what was coming, and he told them to stay in their land and remember God. They wouldn't do it. They went on, anyhow, and king come right out and got them, anyhow, 'cause He said he would. Communism is a thing that's...
33The reason that communism rose up is because the illegitimacy of the Catholic church, overseas, in Russia. They took all the money, and had--had everything hoard up, and that's all there was to it. That's exactly what made communism.
34 When that little boy was raised from the dead, up there in Finland, them big communistic soldiers standing there with a salute when I passed by, and the tears running down their cheeks. Said, "We'll receive a God like that, sure, a God that can raise the dead and keep His Word. Sure." See? But when it comes to just going to church, and living like the Devil and everything else, like the rest of the world, making nothing, then they don't believe in it. And, to be honest, I don't either. That's right. That's right.
35There's no Scripture that says communism will rule the world. But there is a Scripture, and all the Scripture, said Romanism will do it. So keep your eyes on that.
36 Look, tonight. Just look what happened even last night. This senator of Kentucky, said about having a Republican in the--in the seat up there now, representing the state of Kentucky. And said, "He's a Protestant, and makes no bows of it," him a Catholic. They're getting just as bold as they can be. And, remember, there's other things that goes with that.
37Unwise virgins' time, we see that. Things that's never happened, that none of the men, the teachers, down through the age could say these things like we can now, 'cause they're here. Now, the unwise virgin and the hybrid Pentecostals, that's the same thing, hybrid with the things of the world.
38 Now remember, I'm pentecostal, but not Pentecostal by denomination. I resent that. I'm pentecostal by experience. We must have... The Methodist are pentecostal, the Baptist are pentecostal, the Catholic are pentecostal, if they've got the pentecostal experience. You cannot organize pentecost, because it is a--an experience, and it's God. And God cannot be organized.
39 Now, now, Jesus has told us these things would come, now, told us about what would take place; the unwise virgin would rise up, and the things that she would do; and how that the people would call out, in their days, and want Oil, but they'd be too late. See?
40Now watch them three, them three churches. There is the prostitute; she didn't come for nothing, now, she is self-centered in herself. There was the unwise virgin, which is the Protestant church. And there was the Bride. See? Now, there is the three stages of the church in the last days. Now watch. We're going to bring them right straight out from Genesis, and bring them out here and place them in Revelations, in the Rapture, the Lord willing.
41 All these things look real. Pentecost looks real. Think the... "Why, I belong to a Pentecostal organization." That don't mean no more than if you lived in a hog pen. Wouldn't make a bit of difference. Wouldn't. It's just a sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal, yeah, no matter where you belong, if you're not born of the Spirit of God and receive the Holy Ghost. And the reason...
42If you haven't, don't believe all the Word of God, you haven't received the Holy Ghost yet. Right. That's exactly right. The Holy Spirit... When you hear the Truth, and the Holy Spirit don't lead you to It, then there's another spirit in there keeping you away from It. So, the spirit you got in you ain't the Holy Spirit. Oh, yeah.
43 Now we find out, as went on, said, "As Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses." We talked about that, how that these things would be in the last day now.
44And last quotation we had, was that, "God made every seed after its kind." That's His... See? Then when He made His man in His image, was a Seed of His Word. And when Jesus was made flesh, He was the--the flesh of the Word of God. And when we receive the Word of God, then we become God's Word in our flesh. See? The Church should be in that condition.
45 Now, then, after He made man in His Own image... "In the image of God created He him." Now, after He did this... Now don't miss this. After God made His--His man in His Own image, by His Own spoken Word, now, that was the perfect man. But where the fall came, was when He took from him a by-product, and made him a bride. That's where the trouble is now. If you were spiritual, have already caught it. See? See? He... It wasn't Adam that got in trouble. It wasn't Adam that doubted the Word. It was his bride that doubted the Word.
46And it isn't Jesus that's doubting the Word, for He was the Word. See? It's His bride. There's where the hybreeding comes.
47 Didn't come through Adam. Shame on you who don't see that. See? It's not Adam's fault. He had nothing to do with it. If death come by Adam, then it come by God. Death come by a crossbreeding.
48Death can't come by God's Word. Death comes by crossbreeding It to denomination, and creed instead of Christ, dogma instead of the Word. It doesn't come by the Word. The Word is Life. Jesus said, "My Words are Life." And the Spirit quickens that Word and makes It Life. To crossbreed It, there's where the death comes from.
49And if Adam be God's Word, His spoken Word, His original Seed, for He was the first then by creation, then His second Adam was also by creation, spoken Word. You follow? [Congregation says, "Amen"--Ed.]
50Now, Adam did not decei-... was not deceived. But his bride was deceived. Christ, today, is not deceived. The Word is not deceiving. It's the bride that's doing the deceiving, by the Word. You see it? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]
51 Now, He gave him a bride, a type of the second Adam. He gave the first Adam a bride; she fell. He gave the second Adam, Christ, a bride; she fell. That's exactly. Why? She's not an original. She is a by-product.
52The bride today is a by-product. See? She, she calls herself the bride. But what she is, she's made up of a material of organization, not of the Word; so much Word in it, to make it kind of a by-product, to make it hypocritical. Eve believed most of the Word, but she doubted one part of It. Today, she can't even get Acts 20... or Matthew 28:19 straight with Acts 2:38. See? It confuses her. That's just one little place, of the hundreds of others.
53 Now, the bride of Adam was a type of the second Adam's bride. Now, Adam's bride...
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54Adam's bride could not wait. God had told Adam and Eve, "Multiply and replenish the earth." It was an oncoming thing, a promise. She was not his wife, as yet, because she... had never lived with her.
55The bride of Christ is not His wife yet. The Wedding Supper is to take place. Get it? Notice, oh, this is rich.
56She got in a hurry, and what did she do? She crossed her seed. She mingled it with the serpent's seed. And when she did, she brought a--a... What did she bring? She brought a child of death. A child, that, she perverted every child after that.
57And when the church of Jesus Christ was perverted in the time of Rome, after her virgin birth, and was given to Christ at Pentecost, she... What did she do? She crossed herself with Roman dogma. And the Protestant church has done the very same thing. She can't wait.
58 A woman engaged to a fine, young, clean man, and before they come together, what's she done? She is found pregnant by someone else. Then her own seed, which is betrothed... Her own body, which is betrothed to her boyfriend, her engaged husband, is found full of seed of another man. What a disgrace!
That's exactly what Adam found.
59That's what Christ has found. Couldn't wait. That's what's the matter with the people today. They can't wait for the real Holy Spirit to take the Church in position. They've got to manufacture something, work up something. "Initial evidence, speaking in tongues," to get more members in the church. All these kind of tommyrot, instead of waiting upon the Lord for the real manifestation of the resurrection of Christ making Himself known among the people. She can't wait.
60 What did she do? She went out and become pregnated with denominationalism. First was Assemblies of God, then come the Oneness, then come whatmore after that. Now the so-called bride is pregnated with all kinds of tommyrot, disgrace. The women won't pay a bit more attention to what God's Word says, than nothing in the world, neither will the men, or even the preachers, then call that a bride.
61What is it? She is pregnated. Christ's bride has become pregnant with the world, dressing like the world, acting like the world, big churches, fine. What? It shows what she is. She is of the Devil. That's what Satan done at the first place, was try to build a big beautiful kingdom in the Heaven, and was kicked out for it, excommunicated from Heaven. And that's what Christ's modern bride is, she's kicked out, because she's excommunicated from God, because she is a whore and not a virgin. It's deep, but I hope you get it.
62 Adam's bride could not wait, but she mingled her seed, illegally. Illegally!
63We are supposed to believe God's Word, and That alone. Now, brethren, here and on the tape, do you see why I'm contending for that Word, Word by Word? I've told you I believe that is God's Truth. God has protected that Bible. He's got to judge the world by something, through Jesus Christ which is the Word. And this Word was made flesh, to become Jesus Christ. I'm just letting It soak in. Remember the Word!
64And now He finds her all messed up. You think He'd marry such a thing as that? Never. He's holy. She couldn't wait. Illegal!
65 That's what Adam found. Now, brethren, sister, look back. If you look at a shadow of anything, it's the very expression of the real image that's coming. So, you see, Adam had to find the wife pregnant. And she said, "The serpent beguiled me." Now we... you...
66I'm going to take it both ways, just in a few moments, the Lord willing, see, show you that's impossible for it to be anything else.
67 Now, Adam's bride could not wait, but she went forward first.
68That's the way, today, the bride today. She wants to manufacture something. "Glory to God," she's got to work it up, on the platform. She's got to have everything. See? What is she doing? Manufacturing something.
69Look where it's going. You can see there's nothing to it. It's a phony. Exactly right. If it wasn't, this world would be aflame with the Power of God; the church would be on fire. Oh! What? Dead would be raised, and all kinds of things would be taking place.
70But what did she get sowed up with, before Christ could get to her. Before He got to her, to plant His Own Seed, what did she have? Weed seeds, the world, denominational seeds. That's the reason why she's reaping her harvest right now.
71I hope you don't make you upset, but I hope It gets right down to a place where I'll trust that God has given It to you. See?
72 Now, she mingled her seed, illegally, illegal to the Word. What was she trying to find? Now listen close. What was she after? Wisdom.
73Wisdom! And that's what she's done today. She sent her preachers away to schools, incubated them out, on a machine, psychology, all kinds of stuff that should... not even in the Bible. And she's incubated her--her--her eggs. And when she's done, she's brought out a product of a--a bunch of people that--that will compromise anything, and refuse the very Message of God, not knowing what she's doing. She's ignorant of it. She don't believe, she don't think she's wrong.
74Neither did Eve think she was wrong. Eve thought she was right. And if that was a type, and this is the antitype, it'll have to work the same way the type did. Now that's just, to me, that just two times two equal four.
75 Now notice what happened to Eve's children, the first one that was born.
76Now, if God said, "Multiply," to his bride, to Adam's bride, "and replenish, multiply and replenish the earth," that was God's commission. And she would have done it, and he would, mixing themselves together. But what happened? When Adam got ready to come to her, she was already a mother. See what I mean?
77Now the same thing has happened to Christ's church, Christ's bride. Now we're going back farther than that, in a minute.
78Notice, in this bride, what did she do then? Her first child come forth, it was a bastard child. And he was full of death, and caused death, and every one since then is death. Now you see it had to be sex. Why you dying, if it wasn't sex?
79When, God give a commission which cannot perish. God's Word is Eternal. It cannot fail. When He said, "Multiply and replenish the earth," that was God's Eternal purpose. To carry that out, you cannot die. Because It's His Word, you have to live.
80If that child been brought forth right, there'd have been no death. But she couldn't wait.
81 That's what's the matter today. You want some kind of a phony make-up, with screaming, jumping, speaking in tongues, or something, instead of waiting for the real Word of God to be made manifest through the Bride.
82Them kind, that takes the Word, is God's true Bride bringing forth Children. They can't die. A Child the Bride brings forth on the Word, can't die, because It's the Word. Amen. Did you get it? She can't die, 'cause she's... That Child can't die, because he's a Word-Child, he's a Seed-Child, he's an Eternal Child. Hallelujah!
83That's exactly what Jesus Christ was, a spoken, Eternal Child. Didn't have to die, but He did it in order to pay the debt. That's the only way it could be paid. Nobody else could do it; they was all sexual born, after the Devil, his plan. You got it now? See?
84 But every man, no matter whether he's the pope, priest, bishop, whatever he is, he dies because he's a--he's a hybrid. That's exactly. He was born between Satan and Eve. And they call it whatever you want to. It was Satan and Eve. The original Word had nothing to do with it. The original Word was Life. He had hybrid It, and it brought death.
85And when the church, today, that's called themselves Pentecostal, called themself Baptist, whatever they want to, when they hybreed this Word with dogma, it produces a dead child. And she can't have no Life in her. She's dead, and her children is dead. God said, "I'll throw her in a bed of worldliness, and kill her children." God said so, in Revelations. How many knows that's true? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] "Put her in a bed of worldliness," that's where she's at, "and kill her children, even with fire." We watch where the... What happens to the tarriers that's among the wheat? Be burned.
86Oh, you can't make the Word lie. It's the Truth. Sometimes your scruples up, and we might make It wrong. But if you'll keep It running straight, It'll run one-two, one-two, one-two, one-two, right on.
87 "Throwed her in a bed of worldliness." She can't bring forth nothing but dead children. Then, if a denomination can only bring forth a hybrid child, why do you want to belong to it for?
88Now, brethren, that's the reason I'm against it. She's a "whore," to begin with. The Bible said she was a "harlot." That's plain words, but I told you I was going to talk plain today. That's what she is. She commits spiritual fornications, by taking dogma and creed instead of the Word, teaching her children to do the same thing.
89Now, her children are come from the womb, dead. She's got to die, that's exactly right, just the same as every man. Listen. Just as sure as every mortal person that breaks the womb of a woman will die, so will every person that's born by them will die, 'cause she's a hybrid, illegitimate, and her children are illegitimate. That's correct. I hope that don't go over your head.
90 Now, Jehovah had a bride, once. Adam had a bride. Jesus had a bride. Jehovah had a bride. You know that? He had to put her away. She become a whore, so He put her away. That's exactly what He said. She become a whore, prostitute. What caused her to do that? I wish we had time to read it. I may get to some of it, after while. Right now... It was in the time of Samuel, when Israel had a King, a God. And she was a virgin. She was going to produce something. And what happened? She begin to look around and see the other nations had kings, so she wanted to be like the rest of them.
You backwashed Pentecost, that's exactly what you done.
91 This old preacher sitting here, nearly a hundred years old, today. When pentecost broke through, back there, you couldn't tell them nothing about no organization. They wouldn't listen to that. They called that the things of the Devil, and them men were right.
92But what did you do? You had to act like the rest the churches. You had to organize it. Then, as he said, you drawed fences between you, went to teaching, "Musn't teach this. Glory to God! Hallelujah! This way," and jump up-and-down and speak in tongues. Said, "Put him in as a member; he's got her." He's not baptized right, neither with the water nor with the Spirit. He's wrong, and his fruits proved it. He's got the wrong kind of seed to grow on. "Bless God, brother, we'll lay hands on you here, and make you an elder. I'll tell what you--you... We're going to build this organization here till it's going to be bigger than the Assemblies." That's just the way it's went. Read the Pentecostal history and see if that isn't so, or any of the church. The Baptist wants to outdo the Methodist. The Methodists wants to outdo the Lutheran. The Lutheran wants to outdo the Catholic. Everyone wanting to outdo, outdo somebody. See? That's the--that's the spirit of the organization.
93 Jesus said, "But few there'll be will be saved. Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, and but few there'll be that'll find it." Just a few! If He said "few," that's the Word of God, that Seed, there'll be a few. Won't be no tens of billions and billions. It'll just be a few that'll find It. Them was predestinated to It, they hear It.
The former rain has went forth now.
94 Now, Jehovah had a bride that He loved, but she went whoring (What'd she do?) after the--the other powers of the world.
95And what did He do with this godly, old, anointed prophet? Which, the Word of the Lord comes to the prophet. He came. That old prophet, Samuel, walked up to him. He said, "Children, gather around me a minute. I want to talk to you, all of you. What do you want a king for? Jehovah is your King."
96What do you want a creed for? The Bible is your creed. The Bible is the Truth. The creeds are lies. You're dead, man-made.
97"Apostles' creed," show me that in the Bible. Whoever heard of such a thing, "I believe in the communion of saints"? Anybody believes in the communion of saints, is a spiritualist, communion of the dead. There's only one intercessor between God and men, that's Christ; and He's not dead, but He's alive forevermore, raised from the dead. Protestants swallow that down, with a round collar, and I don't know what else; with all the catechisms of the churches, swallow it right down just the same. They love it, sure, like the rest of the world.
98 "Oh, you know, we used to be pentecostal. We stood down on the corner, with a tambourine in our hand, and prayed. And the women standing there, and their long hair hanging down, and praising God, and things like that."
99Oh, my, goodness! You know better than do that. They'd laugh right in your face, a real Christian would; stand out there with a pot of bobbed hair up like that, and a big pan of paint on like that, and a dress looked like a skinned-down wiener. And going out like that, and calling yourself, out there, "a saint of God"? You know better than that. So does the world know better than that. Shame on you. You better stay off the corner, you can't produce no more than that. I'm not critical. I'm not beside myself. I'm telling you the Truth, and you'll find out in the days to come, that. But it's just like it's always been. It'll always go over, then they won't see it till it's too far. They've did it every time. They've done done it.
100 Jehovah's bride wanted to go whoring after the rest the people, like the rest of them. That's what Jesus' bride wanted to do.
101Old Samuel, who the Word came to! Who do the Word come to? The prophets. What? That old prophet walked up, said, "Now just a minute, children. What do you want to go out after that for?" Said, "Have I ever told you anything in the Name of the Lord, but what come to pass?" Remember that? How many ever read that? Sure, you have. "Have I ever told you anything in the Name of the Lord, what come to pass? Another thing, did I go out, holding big campaigns or so forth, and taking all your money away from you? Did I?" He said, "I ever beg anything?" I'm talking about Samuel now, yeah, somebody the Word of the Lord came to. Said, "Did I ever ask you to--to--to put in so-much, and do such-and-such?"
102"No." They said, "No, you never did that. You never did tell us anything but what was right."
He said, "Then why would you want to go out after that?"
103They said, "Samuel, you, you're so right. But we want it, anyhow."
That's just exactly what the Pentecostal church done.
104 That's the reason I don't join them. Sure. I want to stay a virgin before God, with His Word. Whether they... I don't have to have no great big shows and things like this. I've refused it. I didn't want to get myself tied up. That wasn't my wisdom; that was God's wisdom. If I had to go out, so I could... had to sucker around with the people and the Devil, and tell them, "Yes, I have to have so-much for a telecast, and I have to have so-much for this. You got to pay for it," I'd have to pull strings like that, too. But I've never told you nothing in the Name of the Lord but what come to pass. I never told you nothing but the Word. Judge, yourselves. Have I ever asked you for anything? No, sir. No. God has taken care of that. I don't have no big programs to support. I wouldn't have one. Every one that belongs to God will hear God. Just feel led of the Spirit where to go and what to do, and do that, that's all is necessary. Keep that. Not a great big money-making program with millions of dollars in it, millions and millions and millions, and some of them now building millions and billions of dollars in it.
105 I--I don't feel bad about criticizing. It's due criticism. I don't want to hurt nobody's feelings. But I'd rather hurt some man's feelings, to hurt God's feeling. If He commissioned you and sent you out here, do these things, and proved it amongst the people, then you ought to hear It. I'm telling you the Truth. God is proving it's the Truth. Only by... Not only His signs, but He's proving it by His Word, it's the Truth. That's exactly right.
106 So Jehovah's bride went whoring. And what did she do? She brought forth a bunch of illegitimates again. Is that right? We know it's the Truth. Even had to be taken away by King Nebuchadnezzar, and so forth.
107Christ's bride has done the same. What's the matter? Can't wait. Oh, no. Huh-uh. Just can't wait. They have to manufacture something. They can't wait for the Holy Spirit to come and get into the Church. See, they have to get more in their denomination.
108If it had stayed the way it was back yonder, a hundred years ago or fifty years ago, when pentecost first started out in this latter day, when the Word begin to be preached; if it had stayed like that, she probably wouldn't had over fifty members, today. That's right. But they would be Blood-washed. They'd have the Power of God in them. The world would be shaking under her tremendous impact of the Word, flesh, being spoke, Word by Word.
109But, today, why, it's a sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal. That's right. Just become nonsense, a laughing block, a disgrace to the world, disgrace to God.
110 I went into a place, three brethren. Two brethren and I went into the place across from Springfield, Missouri, the other morning for breakfast, coming from Arizona. And a little lady there that Brother Woods called my attention to, that looked like our Sister Collins; blond, the big bunch of hair in the back. And he said, "Doesn't that look like Brother Wilbur Collins' wife?"
111I said, "It does." Here come an older lady out. I said, "I imagine that's her mother. Look at the big bunch of hair." I said, "That's right here by the Assembly of God church, Assembly of God headquarters. That's where... reason they're like that."
112And a whole lot of little sisters setting in there with water-head hair, out like that. That was the students. Little "ricky" and all of them out there, you know, carrying on. All of them packing the Bibles under their arms. So we watched them till they all went out, snickering, laughing, carrying on, just like the modern. That's--that's the crop of Pentecost coming on for tomorrow, if there is one. Why? Why? Why? Because that's the seeds been sowed. Exactly right.
113 When she went out, all of them went out, this little lady come back around, said, "Could I do anything for you all?"
I said, "Like to ask you a question."
"Yes, sir."
114I said, like as a stranger. I thought she might know us. And I said, "Isn't that a Bible school across there?"
She said, "Yes, sir, it is."
115I said, "I guess you get a whole lot of trade from there." Now, that was Brother Fred Sothmann setting out there, and Brother Banks Wood there, two of the trustees of the church. And I said...
She said, "Yes, it is."
I said, "I suppose you belong there?"
She said, "No." Said, "I'm sorry. I don't."
116And I said, "The reason I thought that was because that pretty, long hair you have. I suppose that's your mother?"
117Said, "No, sir." Said, "She just works here." She said, "No, I don't..." Said, "I like long hair. I got a little girl. I just have her to wear long hair, too." And said, "My husband likes long hair."
118 I said, "God bless him." And so she said, well, she said... I said, "Well, it's strange. Was them the students in here, them girls with them pushed-out hair cuts like that, like the first lady?"
"Yeah." When we walked...
I said, "Thank you."
119Walked out. I said, "God put that woman there for a rebuke to that bastard-born bunch of kids over across the street." That's right.
120Illegitimate, after the things of the world! How many women after Jezebel, the first lady of that land, how many of them you think is in Heaven, tonight, today? See? See? Things of the world! "If you love the world or the things of the world, the love of God is not even in you." There they are. What is that? The cream of tomorrow's crop, in Pentecost, the biggest movement in the nation. There you are. That's the bride. I don't get it. All right.
121 What's she trying to do? Oh, she manufactures a little jumping on the platform. Not making fun of it; it's alright. She manufactures something else. Why? To get members in the church. What's the matter? She just can't wait. See? She can't wait for God to do it. They got to get members in there somewhere. So they tell them, "You have to do that," and away they go. See? There's the seed, coming right up. "You have to do it." I've...
122 I'm a missionary. I've seen the Africans take blood of an animal and pour it over theirself, like this, stark naked, men and women. Putting paint on their face. That's where it come from. Paint come from a heathen trait; not for us human beings, Christians, believers, never was. Wasn't on... One woman, in all the Bible, ever painted herself, that was Jezebel, a devil. So then she... They put paint on their face. Big long things in their ears, like blocks of wood, Zulus. It is a block of wood, make the flesh of the ear hang way down there. Sometimes split their lips, and put them way out. Think it looks beautiful. Put, over their breast and down around their legs and things, blood, then take and make stripes like a zebra. And shout, dance in the spirit, and speak in tongues, and worship devils. Evidence of the Holy Ghost?
123 I've been right there in India when they had the fire walkers, and everything else, and know it's the truth. A great big idol there with rubies in the ears, for earrings, and things like that. And they put torments, and sticking things through their flesh, and--and beat themselves. And sew their lips up if they've lied, and doing penitence. And run a saber through their lips here, or through their chin, up through their nose, and stick it out like that. Take big fishhooks, with like Christmas tree balls on it, fill it full of water, and hook thousands of them over their body, right through the flesh. And go over there and dance around this idol, like that, and kill a goat and do worship like this. And walk right through red hot fire, without a scorch. Some of you Pentecostals try it.
124 But it was done, the Hebrew children, but they never tempt the Lord thy God. They was just thrown into it. They didn't try to manufacture something.
125That's what's the matter with Pentecostals today, they're manufacturing something. They can't wait. O God! They just can't wait, so they commit adultery. Amen. Tares, to manufacture something, and what does it bring forth? Like it did the first time, the first bride that couldn't wait.
126She brought death through a bastard-born child, which we all are children of. But God came in the flesh, to give us another Birth, to bring us back to original sons and daughters of God. See? There you are. The Life sperm of Eve never happened. It never did. Why? She mingled it. Kept it away, instead of Adam coming to her for a bride, when the time appointed would be. Just like Christ will, would have come to the group. Christ would have come to His Church. He promised to do it.
127God promised to multiply them, but they had to wait until God's time.
128 That's what's the matter today. They don't want to wait God's time. They want to get something else. And so the Devil has got the wisdom right there to give it to them, make an organization, be bigger than the rest of them.
129Now do you see why I'm against it? Sure. I'm against it, with everything that's in me. As long as the Word is in there, It'll always be against it. God is against it. God said He was. That's right.
130 Just couldn't wait, so the sperm of Eve never happened. Hybrid to Satan's lie, his lovely bride become polluted. And so has Christ's bride. The bride, what made her become polluted, Adam's bride, now? Because she never stayed with God's Word. That right?
131I ask. Now, if it's not so, don't say it. But if it is so, say it. The reason that God's... The reason that Adam's bride... There's the three: Adam, Christ, God. The reason that Adam bride never did bear right, the Life Child, is because she disbelieved God's Word. If that's right, say, "Amen." [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] The reason that Jehovah's wife was put away, or His bride, was because that she rejected God's Word, the prophet. That right? ["Amen."] The reason that Christ's bride is put away in divorcement, is because that she has rejected the Word of God, like Eve did, like the rest of them did. ["Amen."] Exactly. All whores, all polluted, their husband couldn't get to them. They was already pregnated 'fore their husband got to them. O God, if that ain't a pitiful sight! Think of a young man coming to a woman, and find her with seed of some other man in her. What a thing! That's what God has done. That's what Adam done. That's what Christ has done. Oh! Yes.
132 Never stayed with the Word, and caused a--a hybrid condition. That's what Israel did. See where she's at? That's what Christ's bride did. See where she's at? Right back with the rest of them.
133Christ's Pentecostal bride did the same. She can't bring forth spiritual, Word Children, for she is a hybrid herself. How can she do it, when she's hybrid herself with the denominations? Done joined up with them, and everything, just the same as they are. In with the Council of Churches, everything else, just as hybrid as the rest of them are. How can she do it? She can't.
134 Now, I just got so much to say, and I just got to hurry over these. I... Each one of them I want to preach on. See? Now watch.
135 The true Bride, hallelujah, there's going to be One. Why? She's predestinated. She won't be denominated, because She's predestinated. See? She don't have to worry about some denomination. She's already predestinated to take the place. Look. Like Mary...
136I want you to get this now, and don't fail. Are you ready? Say, "Amen." [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]
137When Christ comes to His Bride, She will be a virgin like Mary was. For God will not bring Christ through a womb of a whore, and neither will He bring the Bride. He can't bring His Word through a whore of His Word.
138Them is horrible words, but that's what the Bible says. I'm saying what It says. Cause, It's... This has got to be understood.
139 The prove, true Bride, like Mary, will have a virgin womb for the Bride of the Word, which is Christ. When Christ, the Word, comes to the Bride, She'll be the same as He is, a virgin by the Word. O God!
I hope--I hope it's going over, Brother Neville. I...
140See? See? I hope you understand. What was He? Word, the Word of God. "Upon His vesture He had a Name written, 'The Word of God.'" "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word, made flesh and dwelt among us." He is God, and God is the Word.
141 And when His Bride comes, She'll be the same product that He is. Virgin! Did Christ belong to a denomination? Did Jehovah? Neither does His Bride. She is part of Him. She needs no dogma. She won't have any. She'll be absolutely virgin. How? By the Word. Amen. She'll punctuate every Word God says, with an, "Amen! Amen!" Oh! "Be it unto me according to Thy Word. Amen!" Oh, my! There you are. Punctuate God's Word.
142Have a virgin womb. What will She come out of? A virgin womb, the Word. What did Jesus come out of? A virgin womb. See?
143 When Adam come to his wife, she was pregnant. She had done something. She was mixed. She was hybrid, the child, and it died. But when Joseph come to his bride, she was pregnated, but with Life. Adam's wife, or Adam's bride, when Adam... Before they came together; just like Joseph and Mary, just like Christ and the Church now. Don't you see it? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] See?
144And before they came together, Adam and Eve, she was pregnated with the corrupt seed from the serpent. And when Adam come to his wife, he found her pregnated to death. See? Death! How? Spiritually and physically dead.
145But when Joseph, the human, come to his wife... Glory! Can't hardly hold her. She was pregnated with Life, the Word of God, flesh in her womb.
146 Bring back that spoken Word, bring back that Word of God which was Word here, come through a human's womb. Amen. God will do it, anyhow. He spoke it, and it's got to be so. Amen. That's our God. Oh, that's rich, brethren, if you can dissolve It, you can hit It.
147 That's where he found, when--when Adam come to his wife, she was pregnated with the wrong seed. When Jo-... That seed died. Joseph come to his, she was pregnated. Now, what caused the different pregnation? Because that Adam's wife doubted the Word. That right? Joseph's bride believed the Word. The difference.
148So, what is it, then? It's the Word, oh, that precious Word. It is. The World was formed by the Word of God. Hallelujah! There is my stay, right there. Let all denominations and everything else fall, do what they going to. On that Word I stand.
149That's why I've done what I've done. That's why I've downed denominations. Say, "Well, he's just a... breaks up churches." They said the same thing about our Lord. See? They say it every time. See?
150 Now, now, He found her. Christ comes to His bride; what does He find her? Same thing. Why? When she first started out... Now listen. I don't want you to miss this. When she started out, she was a virgin. She was going to be all right. She went right on, that early church, used to be wonderful. God gave Him a bride, and what did she do? If you know history, in 606, she goes right down there and pregnates herself with Roman dogma, an organization. And from that, on, that old "mother whore," in the Bible, give birth to churches, and they were "harlots," which is a whore. That's Protestants, because they was, every one, born right out of her, and every one took her own thing, organization. Now you see why I'm against it? All right.
151 Now, for the birth of the Word is Christ, not of polluted with denominations. The early Church, no denominations, just the Word, and Spirit irrigated. Brother, the... God laid the Word down like that, and the Holy Spirit irrigated It, and there She went. She brought forth children. Certainly.
152 But this church can't do it. She's too denominated. See? She can't do it. She's got the world mixed up with her. Look what they did, now. Now what?
God confirmed His Word through His Body. That right? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]
153Then she went whoring, like Adam's wife did in Eden, and Jehovah's wife did in the days of Samuel, that took a king. Divorced God, her espoused Husband and His Word; and His prophet, His outlet to His Word; and went whoring, like the rest the nations. And God divorced her. Same has He done today. Same act.
154 Sons of the bride commit adultery, see, with the... The bride, God's Son... His bride from Pentecost, virgin with the Word, went whoring and committed adultery just like Adam's wife did, just like Jehovah's wife did. And here is the Son's wife, she goes whoring, committing adultery with the Roman gods; plural, gods! And for her lovers' sake, the Roman gods, tried to take her own Husband and split Him into three, to please her lovers. God have mercy on a... Sure, they got hundreds of gods; oh, sure, Astarte, the sun-god, and--and Baalim, the sun-god, and the queen of heaven, and all that stuff there. So, the bride, to please her ill-famed lovers.
155Didn't God speak over there in the Songs of Solomon's, and tell about how His wife was nothing but a prostitute, and set with herself open all the time, and took every lover come by? I'm talking plain, but that's what the Bible said. Every man that wanted to run with her, could run with her.
156That's the same thing the bride of Christ has done. Opened up herself to every old dirty, filthy habit of every organization they ever had, doing the same thing.
157 I'm going to get criticized for This. That's all right. I'm going to be blessed for It, too, for It's going to be the Truth. It's God's Truth. Cause, He wants It said, and here It's... I'm trying my best to say It. See?
158 She tried to please her many lovers. Doing so, she hybrid, tried to hybrid with her lovers, the Word of God. So it would not work, so she said, "Denounce That," and made her own word. Now she claims to be the Word, herself. But don't let Catholics... or the Protestants call Catholics, 'cause they do the same in the council of their own churches, whoring. No wonder they're called harlots. That's rough, isn't it? That shook the skin off your back, but that's what it takes to do, to wake you up sometime. Right. That's exactly what she done. She left Jesus, the Word-Husband.
159 And like Samuel, they left Samuel and took Saul. Left the prophet, anointed with the Word, and took a king with a scepter. When, she finally would have come to the King, the scepter in the Millennium. But now she's rejected. He went to the Gentiles for a Bride. That right? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] It's the Word.
160 Now, she left Jesus, the Word; Jesus, the Word; and married another man, called the pope, with dogma. Now she hasn't got Jesus. She's got a pope. Now we haven't got... The Protestant hasn't got Jesus. It's got a denomination, same thing, an image unto the beast. So, she can't give Word-Birth to her children, none of them. She is a harlot, herself. The Bible said she was. "She had a cup in her hand, and was giving out her doctrine to the people, which was an abomination, the filthiness of her fornication." What is a fornication? It's living unclean. And for her doctrine she is giving to the people, is the filthiness of her fornication. "And the kings of the earth, and all, was made drunk with the wine of her fornication." Exactly right. Look at them. Boy, they would cut your throat, in a minute, for that. Not only Catholics, but Protestants.
161 Listen, you Methodists. Who killed Joseph Smith? Now crow. Although, I don't believe in his doctrine, neither do I believe in yours. That's not out there; it's here. That's the reason. Joseph Smith had just as much right to preach his religion here in this nation, as you do, but you killed him up here in Illinois. Shot him, without a cause, because he had something a little different. Then you holler about the Catholic church. Come out of that bunch of nonsense, you Methodists that's ordained to Eternal Life. John Wesley would turn over in his grave; acting like that. Sure, she will. John Wesley never established no such a church as that. A bunch of rickies and elvises did it after John's death, that's right, not John Wesley.
162Not them old early pentecostals ever made such an outcome as this. It's the same group, after this death. That's right. Jesus Christ wouldn't establish something like we got now, called Pentecost, neither would the Holy Ghost. But it's something you got here, instead.
163But the Holy Ghost is something they can't kill now. It's going to take a Bride, anyhow. Amen. Going to take One, anyhow. He said He would; predestinated Her.
164 She left Jesus, her Word-Husband, to marry a pope, so she can't give Birth, spiritual Birth. She can give denominational birth, now. She got plenty of seed of that. She can't give spiritual Birth. She, because she was a harlot, only thing she can give is denominational life and a lot of ballyhoo.
165Catholic church, itself, is made upon a few superstitions of Christianity and--and a bunch of Romanism.
166And a Pentecostal church is just as bad, a bunch of jumping, and shouting, and speaking in tongues, and things like that. When it comes down, enough temper to fight a buzz saw, and turn you out of their congregation. If God come in there and raised the dead, if you didn't agree with them, they'd run you out if you don't belong to their organization.
167 Now, this old "mother harlot," I'm going back to her a minute. She claims power to forgive sins. But, you're not judged by your claims, you're not known by your claims. You're known by your works. How could she forgive sin? Look at her.
168When Jesus did the same thing, they said... "Condemn Me, show Me where I disbelieve the Word." She claims power to forgive sins, but that comes only by the Word. That's right. God, only, can forgive sins. Is that right? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Didn't those Pharisees say that? What was the mind, the matter with a blind bunch of hypocrites? Why? Because they didn't see that was the Word standing with them. He is the Word. Glory to God. That's the reason He could forgive sins. He was God. He was the Word manifested.
169 Now the Catholic church said Jesus gave them power. He did; He give the Church power. That's right. We believe that.
170All her daughters are harlots. All her daughters, her denominational daughters, are harlots. "Brother Branham, that's a big Word." It ain't my Word. That's His Word. That's exactly. It's not mine. It's His. All right.
171"How," you say, "how are they, how did they become harlots? Well, they're good people, so-and so."
172I don't say a thing about that. I'm not saying what they are. I ain't saying the Catholic is not good people, as good as anybody. They're human beings, like we are. But, when it comes to that old church, she's wrong. The Protestant is just as good. The Methodist is good as the Baptist or Pentecostals, or anybody else. They're all the same.
173 But the thing of it is, how then can she be a harlot? Why? Give her the Word test. That's how you know it. Uh-huh. Try her on the Word, once, and see what she says. "Oh, of course, we're taught in the seminary that--that them days don't... It's a... It used to be that way, but, huh, that was way back in days of apostles. That was only for the apostles, only." You so-called church of Christ, "Speak where the Bible speaks, and silent..." Well, I'd like to hear you do some speaking now. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. No. You shut up. God's Word shuts everything up, brother. No man can brag. That's right.
174 All her daughters are harlots. How? By the same as their mammy, committing the spiritual fornications against the Word. That's how the Catholic church become a whore, that's how her daughters become harlots, same thing, spiritual fornication against the Word.
175She and her daughters has a whoring womb. Only death can come from them. God can't bring life through death. And anything that's born dead is not alive. And can a... Like Job said, "Can you bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No, not one." Right. How can she give birth, herself, when she is dead, herself? How can she be virgin when she's a whore? See? There you are. That's the whole thing. Oh, my!
176 Now we're going to hit something real rich, full of vitamins, from Genesis to Revelation. Notice.
177And she and her daughters has a whore's womb. Only death can come from them. If you want to join the organization, think you're all right, you see where you're landed. You're landed right in the midst of death. Just exactly. If you can't see that now, you're spiritually blind. See?
178 Now, let's go back now and pick up again, and come down for something. You remember what last Sunday's service was? "The gate to the soul." You remember? Now, there is a womb of the physical. There is a womb for the spirit. Did you believe that? There is a spiritual womb and a physical womb. And the mind is the womb to the spirit. Why?
179Now remember. I told you last Sunday, and drawed it out here for you. These five senses that enters this seed from the outside; see, taste, feel, smell, hear. Five on the inside; conscience, and--and so forth, from the inside five. Now, on the Life side, there's only one. That's, you're on the basis of free moral agency, to accept, take in or let out. See?
180 That's how adultery... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Just a minute. [Blank.spot.on.tape.]
181That's how adultery is committed, spiritually; when you, knowing better, by the Word of God, by the intercourse of the mind, take in a lie of the Devil, against the Word of God.
182That's exactly what Eve done, with a spiritual intercourse, first, that come by believing Satan's lie, into the womb of her mind. That polluted her soul, set death in the soul, then the natural act taken place.
183And that's the only way that a woman ever can commit adultery against her husband, is to first let some man talk her into it, and then receive another man that's not her husband. Then she's committed adultery.
184 And when the bride of Jesus Christ lets man-made creeds and dogmas take the place of the Word of God, she is committing adultery. Did not Jesus say, "Whosoever looketh upon a woman... has committed adultery with her already in his heart; looketh upon a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already"? Why? She let it come into his mind. That's the womb that starts the things moving. Satan come in.
185We were sowed with the Word. "Some day, I'll bring the Life into the earth and re-multi-... replenish the earth." What Eve failed to do, Mary did. She took the Word. Eve took Satan's lie. Mary took God's Word. And through Mary's Seed, replenishes the earth again, through His Bride, through the Word, and will bring up the Millennium. Through that goes forth the Word, and the Word is planted into every predestinated heart. And the Spirit comes down and waters It, and they cannot die. "I'll raise him up again at the last days." Oh, brother, sister, that's--that's real.
186 What is it? The mind is the womb for the spirit, (What?) to take in or let out. That's how they commit adultery, is taking, let some Satan, devil spirit put in them something against the Word of God. Then she's committed adultery.
187Eve received... Listen to this. Wrong seed-word, Satan's lie against Jehovah's Word, results was death.
188 Now, we'll get off of this subject, in a few minutes. But I want to get it pounded out real good before it gets down, the place I have to stop. I'm going to skip a page here, about now, a minute.
189 Now look. Eve, what--what did she do? She received the wrong seed. How did she do it? Believing Satan's lie. How many says that's right? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Why, sure, it's right. Sure. She received Satan's lie. What'd she bring forth, by doing it? Satan said, "You know, this is glorious. This is a wonderful thing. Do you know you were made for that? Why, you were actually made for this purpose."
"Oh, was I?"
190"Oh, it's pleasant to the eye. It's good. You should. You should try it."
191"But the Lord God said, 'Not--not--not that, not yet.' Wait, wait a minute. No. No."
"But, you know..."
"Oh, if we do, we'll..."
"Oh, you surely won't die."
192That slick-tongued Devil. He ain't got hoofs and forked-tail, no, like they'd try to make you believe. He's a slicker behind the pulpit. Right. Uh-huh.Or, some little ricky with his hair combed down like a duck, sitting on his back out there, to harm some mother's daughter, that's the guy come around with a little cute-like little... Oh, I'll let that go.
193 Now, the womb, Eve received the wrong seed-word. Now listen real close now. We're going to drive this right down, if the Lord willing. She received the wrong word. What did it do? It was Satan's lie, said, "She would be wise."
194"Well, she could belong to the big church. She would be well thought of in the city. Why, she'd be like the rest of the people." Huh! Sure. That's exactly what Jehovah's bride believed. That's exactly.
195That's exactly what Satan would have tried to said when the Word come to Mary. But she shook him away.
Said, "How can this be?"
196Said, "The Holy Ghost will overshadow you. It's the Word of God."
197Said, "Be it unto me according to Thy Word." That brought the Life. There you are.
198"Well, do you know," Satan said, "they'll all laugh at you." That little rosy-cheeked girl didn't pay any attention to that.
199Right up in Judaea she went. "You know, I'm going to have a baby," before she felt anything, because the Word had already been set there. That was all. She didn't have to go through the prayer line, second time, you know. No, no. No, sir. No, sir. She believed it. She didn't have any sign of life. She never had no sign of pregnancy, at all. She never felt nothing. There's... Everything had been just like it was. But she went, telling everybody, "I'm going to have a baby." Why? "God said so." What's that? The royal Seed of Abraham.
"Going to have a baby, Abraham, by that woman?"
"God said so."
"Well, you told me that, twenty-five years ago."
"I know, but God said so."
200 That's it. There you are. That's the same thing. What do you say today?
"Well, you know the denomination will kick you out."
"But God said so. God said so."
"Well, you know, if you get baptized like that..."
201"Well, God said so." That's it. That's it. There's your virgin. There she is. Not only to baptism, but anything else, the rest the Word. See?
202 So, what? This was both, physical and spiritual, with Eve. First, and any time.
203I told you, and asked you, this morning, sisters, to forgive me, so I can mention that. Any time that a woman takes the wrong step... I'm talking about Christ and Bride now.
204But any time a woman takes a wrong step, she has to first receive it in her mind. Right. Some slicker has to persuade her, and she listens to it against her own better judgment, then the act is committed.
205So, first, it hit, Satan hit Eve's mind. And in the womb of her mind, she doubted God's Word, then come the actual act.
206 And the only way that we can ever be born again is, first, in the womb of the mind, receive the Word, and then the Spirit comes on top of That and brings It to Life. There you are. That's what does it. That's the real Gospel teaching, brother. I believe, if Saint Paul was standing, today, he'd teach the same thing I do, in this hour. All right.
207What was the results with--with her? Physical and spiritual death.
208What is the results of those who accept the other way? It goes into this frolic today that they got, both physical and spiritual death. Both body and spirit shall be annihilated, be no more. That's exactly right.
209 Note, Mary's womb. Mary's womb, the physical mind, see, was virgin womb. Why? She believed God's Word. No matter how much anybody criticized, how many things somebody else said, that didn't have one thing to do with it. She believed God's Word, regardless. Oh, I wish I could just get that over. Are you getting it? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] See? See? First was her mind. Before the act ever taken place in her literal womb, the act had to take place in here, first, to let the Spirit come in to do the rest of the work. Oh, my!
210Glory! Before the actual, spiritual Birth can take place, the Word has to find Itself through your mind, believe It. "He that heareth My Words, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath Eternal Life, and shall never come to the Judgment, but is... or through the Tribulation period, but has passed from death unto Life." That's it. Oh, my!
211 Now notice. Virgin womb, her mind; virgin mind, to believe God's Word.
212You say, "Now look here. Oh, say, Brother Branham, it couldn't be that way. It's impossible. John Wesley would have saw it. So-and-so would have saw it." Huh!
213Sure, the Devil could have said the same thing to Mary. "Who are you? Why, you're the poorest of the city. You ain't nothing but a young'n, sixteen years old, eighteen, down here packing water out of this pump. Father, dead; your mother, an old blind woman down there. How in the world you've ever... How?" Anne was her mother, we're told. "How in the world you ever going to do that?"
214"Listen, my old mother is a blind woman, but she's a godly woman. Through her lips, she's planted a seed in my heart. I've read it out of God's Word, that God said, in Isaiah 9:6, 'A virgin shall conceive.'"
215 Hallelujah! Can you see? The Word takes flesh. There you are. God is going to have a Church. It's going to be born of the Word of God, because It is the living Word of God. Do you see it?
216"How you know it? Why, it's going... You know what you're going to be called, from this on? You're going to be called..."
217"I don't care what I'm called. That has nothing about it. Be it unto me according to the Word of the Lord." Oh, could everybody say that today? Oh, if--if people could really, from your heart, all of us could say that, see, "Be it unto me according to Thy Word, Lord." My! Really mean it. One or two, or somewhere out in there, It's going to pick up some predestinated that really means that. And, brother, you're going to see sparks flying right then. That's right. When you really got that there, to meet that what's coming, that irrigation begins to fall on that Word. Yes, sir.
218 Now, what was it? A virgin mind, womb, virgin womb for the baby. Results? Eternal Life.
219Eve, a good a woman as he... as she was, virgin as she was, but first she let the doubt come in, by the word, a devil's lie. What did he do? Brought her into contact in the wrong way. What was her child? Death.
220Mary, virgin mind, virgin womb. When the Devil tried to tempt her, and he come... And the Angel come to her then and said, "You're going to have a baby."
Satan said, "Now, ah, better inquire about That."
The Angel said, "It's an act of God."
221And she no doubt thought of Isaiah 9:6. She said, "Behold the handsmaid of the Lord." What's the results? Virgin birth, Eternal Word in her, and she brought forth Eternal Life. All right.
222 Jehovah's bride mixed, Jehovah's bride mixed seed. "How did you say now, Brother Branham? This morning, you said, 'Jehovah's bride committed adultery.'" I won't leave it out.
223Now let's watch real close now. Now we got just about another hour, I guess. I've got some over here, I'm just going to have to skip some, then start reading just in a few minutes, see, and just read just as fast as I can, to get it out. Now, another hour, I believe we'll be out, if you'll just bear with me and pray with me. See?
224 Now, where did Jehovah's bride ever do wrong? All right. Jehovah sent what down to His bride in Egypt? He promised Abraham that His bride, the seed, would sojourn in Egypt for four hundred years. That right? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] The time come for the Word to be fulfilled.
225Are we time for the Word to be fulfilled? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Sure. For deliverance, taken out. All right.
226How did they get the Word? Did they form an organization, a bunch of men get together, and priests, and say, "Now, brethren, we'll have a--a vote here. And is passed, unanimously, that we're going to have an organization called the 'Pharisees', and, through that, God is going to work"? God never did do a thing like that, never did.
227 What did He send them? Prophet. "And the Word of the Lord came to the prophet." Raised him right up among them, a prophet. And anointed him and vindicated him, right in the midst of all the other devils a working, with miracles and everything else, because Moses stayed with the Word.
228Picked that bunch of people up; mixed multitude started with them. When they got across, towards the promised land, before they got there, His precious bride committed adultery with Moab. Tell me she didn't do it, now. How did she do it? A lying prophet, against the Word of God. Yet, he had all the signs, and all ritualistic, he was just as spiritual as Moses, or just as well.
229 Look. Listen. Listen close now. Here sit Israel in a camp, an interdenominational. Right. What was it? They had anointed prophet with them. They had a Pillar of Fire. A rock that water came out of, to water them. They were doing all right. And what? They had seven altars. That's perfect. On them altars went seven clean animals, rams. And a ram represented the Coming of Christ.
230 Moab. What happened when Balaam went down there? He built seven altars just exactly like they had. Don't talk on them, fundamentally, 'cause you better know what you're talking about.
231Jesus said, "It almost deceive the very Elected." Spiritual, revealed. You catch It, then It's the Word, you see the Word made manifest.
232Look. Here they was up there; here was Moab. His stay... No doubt but he was a bishop, sure, great guy. And he built seven altars. He put seven rams on them, speaking that he believed that there was coming a Messiah. Brother, if they come to fundamentalism, God had to recognize both of them.
233When Cain built an altar to the Lord, Satan's son built an altar to the Lord, he built the same kind of an altar that Abel built. They both worshiped. They both went to church. They both paid their dues. They both obligated. They got down and worshiped the same God. And one was received, and the other one lost.
How's it come? Jesus said, "Upon this rock I'll build My Church."
234 The Catholic church says, "There's a rock there, the Church is built on it. Or the... And Peter was that rock." And the Catholic church says that Peter is buried in them. That's a lie, but, as far as I can ever see. From the time they said Peter is buried in there, the Bible said he was over here in Jerusalem. See? He never was in Pal-... over there. But, anyhow, they say he was there. There's actually not a record of Paul ever being there, but in history. But they say "Peter," he'd be buried there, if he was. What difference does that make? That wasn't what Jesus was talking about. See how they got the material thing mixed up?
235 Well, the Protestant said, "No. Jesus said He was that Rock." Now, He never said it.
236He said, "Blessed art thou, Simon, the son of Jonas. Flesh and blood didn't reveal It to you, 'Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God.' Flesh and blood... You never learned It in a seminary. Some denomination didn't teach you This. But My Father which is in Heaven has revealed It. And upon this rock, the spiritual, revealed Truth of God's Word, I'll build My Church. And the gates of hell can't prevail against It."
237 Moab did the same thing. Come down there and he taught the children of Israel, said, "Now looky here, friend." Now, that's the same thing he done Pentecost. Now look. "Now looky here, aren't we all the same? Don't we believe the same God? We're all the same." The children of Moab was Lot's daughter. See that old bunch, escaped down there? Still a hair in the biscuit. See? There they are, gaggy. See? They was up there. And they had... "Why," she said, "now looky here, you know we're all the same." How many knows that that was Lot's children? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Sure. From their own daddy, adultery, and said, "Now, we're all the same."
238"You know, you Methodists, and you Baptists, and we Presbyterians, and all... Why, sure, we want some of your Oil. We're all the same." And what did they do? They married among them. And that's what Pentecost did to the Protestants. She married in a federation of churches. She denominated herself. And where is she? Just exactly like Israel was, put away for both spiritual fornications and literal fornication. God refused her, from then on. Even those children which become Samaritans was cursed. That right? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Sure, she was. Jehovah put her away.
239 Christ's bride did the same, mixed her denominational seed, and put Christ, her espoused husband, away. You dry-washed bunch of Pentecostals! What's the matter with you? Revelations, the 3rd chapter and the 20th verse, we find, in prophecy, Jesus Christ outside of His Own church, in this Laodicean Age, knocking on the door, trying to get back. [Brother Branham knocks on the pulpit five times--Ed.] The most pathetic picture in the Bible. What'd she do? She took on whoredom.
240 When Jesus comes, what's He knocking for? Jesus come back to receive His Bride, and when He come to knock at the door, He was fastened out. [Brother Branham knocks on the pulpit six times--Ed.] "Why, you can't come in here. You can't hold a revival. Get... Let me see your ordination papers." A man filled with the Spirit of God, the real, true God Words, God's Word made manifest among his ministry, not one thing you can say against him, immorally or anything. Who can accuse him of it? Come to a denomination, "Why, he ain't Oneness. He ain't Assembly. He's Trinity. He ain't Trinity. He's Assembly." You poor bunch of illegitimates. Shame on you. God, on the outside!
241But what did John say, that last messenger down there, before His Coming? "He's able of these stones to rise children to Abraham. Don't you come, saying, 'We belong to this. We belong to that.' God can, these stones, rise children to Abraham." All right.
As we go on now, oh, how I love this!
242 Christ's bride, as same as Adam's bride and all the rest, mix the seed and put Christ out, for her denomination. She sure did it. She certainly did it. She refused God, her to-be husband, like Eve did. Accepted Satan's death-lie weeds. In a results, a dead, formal church has been born from her. Now, "You lie." Say, "That's a lie." Where is your Pentecostal? More formal than the Baptists are. Sure. You know what? It looks like a bad picture right now, don't it?
243But what did Joel say, in Joel 2:28? "But I will restore, saith the Lord."
244 [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Uh! As Adam found his wife pregnated with the seed of death, of Satan's lie she had accepted.
245Joseph found his wife pregnated with the Seed of God, which, the Word she had accepted.
246What's it all about? What am I trying to say? Now, to you people on the--on the air, you people out in the car, you people in the tabernacle, do you see why I have stayed the way I've tried to stay right here, and denounce that? It's not I got anything against them men, them women. I haven't one thing against them, but I--I just can't go on that--that ground. I just can't do it, because it's wrong.
247 How I got a Scripture here I'd like to take, on Jesus, on His temptation, when he tried to get Him! Said, "I'll give You all these kingdoms of the world. They're mine." See? Same thing he come to Eve. See? First, by turning the bread, about eating, so forth. See? "I'll do all this if You'll worship me. You just come join our group."
248Jesus said, "It's written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that comes out of the mouth of God.'"
249 What is it? Some of you preachers now, that's too scared to take your stand, afraid that they won't even let you come into the organization. What else you going to do, then? They'd kick you out. I feel sorry for you, first thing, for your weakness. That's right. Where's your faith in God?
250They told me the same thing. Sure. I worked seventeen years, till God got me out and built me around this, and then I thought, "Now, Satan, you come now, see where it's at."
251When you really realize that God has revealed to you the Truth of the thing, there's nothing in the world is going to defeat you in it. That's all. You're absolutely undefeatable; not you, but God that's in you. Not Christ, but, not the body, but This, the Word that was in Him. Not Mary, but the Word that was born from her.
252 Now, so, man shall live what by? Not by his meal ticket, but by the Word of God. Not by your organization that furnish you a place. "Well, let me show your credentials. Are you in good standing? Got to check on it. Well, yes, you, you stand in rank, about a hundred percent. Well, we can receive you for a few days, for a revival, try you out and see what you'll do." Oh, my! How can God ever work in a bunch like that, "Twice dead, plucked up by the roots," rooted, rotted, and everything else? Oh, my! There's another one.
253 Oh, people, God bless you! Hear me! I can't believe nothing but God's Word. I want It to be my life, everything that I am. I want you to do the same. Let your walks, your talks, your moves, everything you do, be in the Word of God. Let the mind of Christ come into you, and--and that'll pregnate you with the Word. If you don't, if you let the mind of the denomination come in, you'll be denominational pregnated. If you let the mind of Christ come into you, He can't deny His Own Word, 'cause He's God. You be pregnated with the Word, and believe It. I don't care if they put you out, kick you out, run you out, and every door is closed, you'll go just the same. Amen. Whew! I got to hurry now. Ah!
254 Christ is now taking Himself a Bride, to be pregnated with His Own Seed-Word in Her womb, spirit-womb in--in Her mind, and won't mix with any the denominational trash with it. She is a virgin to Him.
255Oh, I remember sitting there in a room, three days in there, praying and waiting on the Lord, and fasting. When that struck me, I thought, "O God, what is it? Here I am, in a picture. Here I am. If I bring up this much to the church, where will I be? I'll be have them on a limb. What can I do? I've done seen the church as every type and shadow, and everything else, shows she's gone. What will You do?"
256Then I thought of that Word, "I will restore, saith the Lord. I will restore." Remember the old pine tree, when the fire hits her and burns her down; she shakes off a seed, though. That seed brings forth a new one. That's right. The old trees are burnt up with organization and everything else, but there still remains a Seed of Word. And God's Word, It'll come right back, reproduce Itself, just as sure as the world. Yes. Now, now, she won't miss it. Notice. But Christ...
257 We believe we're in the end time. Do we? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Do you believe that before you have a crop, now, you have to plant a seed? ["Amen."] You see why I've let churches turn me out, tell me everything, call me all kinds of names, everything else, and just stay right with that Word? ["Amen."] See? There's a plant, Seed been planted. It's already been planted, friend. It's already done. I can say it now. It's over. Right. She's done been planted. Oh, yeah. So is denominational seed, all the rest of them.
258 Like as our great, precious Brother Billy Graham said right here in Louisville, said, "Paul could take a Bible..." Took the Bible, said, "Now, Paul could go into a city and hold a revival. He'd have one convert. Go back the next year, he's got sixty from that one." Said, "I can go and hold a six-weeks revival, and have--have twenty thousand converts. And come back in six months and can't find twenty."
259What is it? They're not converts. They're converts to denominationalism, that's all. Certainly. Got plant... See, you plant denominational seed, that's what you get. "Come now, brother, join the church, put your name on the book." That's all they know. Right.
260 Pentecost has done the same thing. "Speak in tongues, and so forth, that's all you have to do. That's got it. Come on, join the church." All right. Get your false baptism, and so forth, and go on, "And that's all you have to do." See?
261But when Christ comes, He's Coming for a virgin with... a Church without even one spot or one wrinkle of denomination or any other thing, dogmas mixed with it. It's going to be Word, and That alone.
262 Now, oh, man, here we are! Blessed be the Lord! Now we come to the Body to be the Bride of Christ, now to be His "flesh of His flesh, and bone of His bone." Now, we'll hurry up now. "Flesh of His flesh, and bone of His bone." Why didn't...
263Ask you a question. Why didn't all your rains, back yonder, bring the bride to Christ? I want you to answer me that. If... His Coming is overdue. We believe it. (Like it was in the days of Noah, long-suffering, He's getting His Bride ready.) Why didn't these rains... Why didn't you Pentecostals back yonder, a few years ago, when you started, forty, fifty years ago, why didn't you bring Christ, the Bridegroom, to the bride? Going to let that soak, a minute. Why? Because you pregnated her, yourself, with your denomination. That's exactly what you done. He won't marry a whore. He'll marry a virgin. It's flat, but that's the Truth. You know It, in a flat way. You don't have to wonder. I don't stumble around about It. Tell you the Truth. Why didn't it bring her? Why didn't it bring Christ, bring Christ to her? Because she's not fit. He found her in adultery.
264 Exactly the reason children don't live forever when they're born; Adam found his wife pregnated.
265That's the reason Jehovah had to take a Gentile Bride; found her pregnated.
266That's exactly the way Christ has to get Him a Bride now; He's found the so-called group pregnated. He's going to sow His Seed. Somebody is going to get It, because they're predestinated to be a Church at the end of the road.
267 Like Adam and Jehovah's, He found them pregnated with man-made doctrines of denominations. Like God's Truth, in Genesis 1, "Every seed has brought forth after its kind." So, when the Spirit fell on her, man had been there to her womb, and filled it with denominational seeds of his own thinking, so that's why she got to be the way she is, and Christ could not come to her. Hum! That's hard, isn't it?
268 One day, I was up in Green's Mill. I had been praying for a couple of days; been many years ago. I went up here to Mishawaka. I never said this on tape before. I went to Mishawaka. You remember about the colored boy? I had just found Pentecostal people; never knowed there was such a thing. And I went up there and found them; I thought I had a bunch of Angels. I see them speaking in tongues and things. I never heard of it, before. But there they was, running up-and-down the floor, speaking in tongues. I thought, "My, that's wonderful." The old U.P.C., and P.A. of W., and all them kinds, they merged. They had... There was a segregation between the white and colored then. They had to have their convention up north. It was at Mishawaka, Indiana. My!
269 I had a dollar and seventy-five cents, just enough to get me home. I put a nickel of it in some old u-... old donuts or--or rolls, about two or three days old. Went down and got me a jug of water, at the hydrant. And went out in a cornfield. And took my seats out of my old Ford, and laid it down; pressed my britches for that night, seersucker pants I had on, and a little old T-shirt. And the next morning I went down again. I didn't want to eat with them. I was welcome, but I didn't want to eat with them, 'cause I had nothing to put in their offering.
270And so I went to find out. That day, they would dance, and they would prance, and they would sing in the Spirit. I thought, "Oh, my, that sounds good. Uh!" One man would raise up and speak in tongues, and this one give the interpretation. And, brother, it was so. He called people, back there in the audience. I thought, "Oh, brother, that's wonderful."
271 "Tell Miss Jones," or So-and-so, "come right now. The Lord is calling her." Here she come. That's right.
272Then this one speak in tongues, the other one interpret. I thought, "Oh, my, my! The Millennium is fixing to start. This is it. And, so, if I could just shake the hands of them godly men," I thought.
273And I went over to one of them, when I was outside, walking around. They didn't know me. I was a little old fellow out there. And so I went walking around the church, and after while, when they had a little recess. And I met a man out there, and I... one of them. And I shook his hand. I said, "How do you do, brother?"
274 Now, you know, God has given me a little gift here, to find out things when He wants me to know it. See? I thought, "If I could ever get him to speak, and let him say something, I'd find out whether it was really true or not."
275So I seen that, looked like be the leaders of it. I shook his hand. "How you do, brother?"
Said, "How do you do!"
276And I talked to him a little bit, and he was a real Christian. He was. I thought, "Praise God!"
277After while I come around the corner, hit this other man. I said, "How do you do, brother?" And got to talking to him. If I ever talked to a hypocrite, there was one of them. He was a black-headed man, and he had a baby by a blond-headed woman. Two babies by a blond-headed woman. I saw it in the vision right before me.
278 I thought, "Now I'm really confused. Now, how could that same Spirit, one be on a man, and a godly man, the other one on a devil, hypocrite?" I thought, "God, I--I better leave the whole thing alone. I don't know." I was only about nineteen, twenty years old. I thought, "I just better leave the thing alone. Well, I don't know. How in the world could that be? I can't say nothing about it, can't say nothing against it, but I know that man is wrong." And that same Spirit, I watch It, It'd fall in, take the same effect. I thought, "There's something wrong here, somewhere. That's all there was to it." I said to this man...
He said, "You ever receive the Holy Ghost?"
I said, "I don't believe I got what you fellows have."
Said, "Glory to God! You ever speak in tongues?"
I said, "No, sir."
He said, "You ain't got her."
279 I said, "Well, I--I don't guess I have." See? I said, "This is something new. I never seen It, heard of It." I said, "Well..."
280He said, "Well, go over in there and get her. Sure. She is for you."
I said, "Thank you, sir."
281I thought, "Brother, I don't want what you got." So then I--I looked at it a little bit. I went on around, a little while, and went on around.
282I went out in the woods that night, and I--I thought, "God, have mercy. I'm going home." I went home. I couldn't say nothing for it or against.
283 One time, I was up here at Green's Mill, at my little old cave where I always go, that you know about. I had been in there, on something else. Three or four days, I had been up there fasting and praying. Got musty in the cave, and I come out, one afternoon. It was pretty, and sun was shining, leaves. There was an old log had fell down like this, just below it, down towards the creek. And I sit down on there, rubbing my eyes, been back in that dark cave for a while. I laid the Bible down like that. I thought, "Well, I believe I'll read some out of the Bible. And I'll lean back against this limb here and just rest myself, and lean back." I was dusty, all over. And I started to read.
284 And when I picked up the Bible, it was Hebrews, the 6th chapter. See? "For it is impossible for those that have once enlightened, made partakers of the Holy Ghost, see if they should fall away, to renew themselves again to their repentance. See the rain cometh upon the earth, oft, to dress it, prepare for that which we have, thorns and thistles, which is nigh unto rejection, is to be burned."
285I thought, "Well, what's..." I stopped. I thought, "What was that? Oh," I said, "guess just something." It went away. I wasn't... I was up there praying about something else. And I laid my Bible down again.
286I said, "Well, I guess I'll turn over and get me something to read," like that.
287And the wind come and blowed it right back. I was in the Old Testament. Blowed it right back to Hebrews, the 6th chapter. I looked down again. There it was. I looked. I picked it up. I read it again, same thing. "Well," I thought, "my, you getting superstitious, Bill?"
288 So I thought, "Well, I'll read here." And I--I started to read, and I couldn't get interested in nothing. I thought, "Well, I believe I'll just raise up my hands and praise the Lord." I laid the Bible down, like that. Raised up my hands, and praised the Lord.
289When I raised up my hands, the wind went, "Whew!" Blowed again. And when it did, I looked down there, Hebrews 6. I read it again.
290I thought, "What does that mean? I can't understand." I had done forgot about the Pentecostal idea. Then I thought, "What does that mean?" I was sitting there. I thought, "Is there something in there, Lord?"
291 I thought, "Now, I believe in election. Yeah. 'They which were once enlightened, partakers of the Holy Ghost,' see, 'and have tasted the Word of God.'" I said, "That's them borderline believers that'll come right up, almost to the real thing, and then go back, just like them was in times of Joshua."
292Joshua and Caleb went on over. But these just stayed borderline, see, "tasted." They seen the good works of God, then refused it. People sit around in church, all the time, say, "I believe That, Brother Branham," but never make a move towards It. See, it's impossible for them to ever go across. So, then, they come to that place. And you preach to women with short hair, next year they got short hair just the same. Preach to men to do, they do just--just the same thing, you see; never see. Borderline believers who say, "Oh, yes, I believe It's right."
293 I said, "Of course, I believe that. But, this, when it come to that place, 'But thistles and thorns, which is nigh unto rejection, whose end is to be burned.'" I thought, "What does that mean? Can't get it."
294I set there a little bit. I thought, "God, if this is something You want me to know? I'm up here seeking a vision from You, Lord, to know just what to do about a ministry down there, and I want You to tell me, Father."
295And I looked across the hollow, going on up towards... Was way in above Charlestown, going towards New Market, that way. I crossed over the hill. And I looked, and I seen there like a rainbow hanging over the valley. And through this rainbow, I seen something turning. I looked, and it was the world. And here went a Man dressed in white.
296 Now, many of you people here are too young to know this. You remember when we used to broadcast seeds with our... put a great big bag on your side, take your hand and throw it? Mr. Woods, you remember of that, broadcasting seeds like that. Take them in your hands and spray them out like that, let the wind blow them into the--the dirt.
297And I seen a Man dressed in white, going across like that, sowing seeds. I watched Him go plumb around the curvature of the earth. I thought, "Wonder what that means?" Then I looked. Just as soon as He got His back turned, here come a real slicker, come around, looking like that. He had a sackful, and he was sowing weeds behind Him. He went around the earth, still looking, sneaking, you know, throwing them like this. And he went on around the earth.
298 Then I seen it come up, and up come wheat. And up come weeds, stickers, thorns, thistles. And they was both growing, together.
299And there come a great drought. And I seen that little wheat hold its little head over, going, "Heh, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh!" Just dying for water. And I seen the little old cocklebur with his head hanging over, "Heh, heh, heh, heh!" Just dying for water. And everybody begin to pray for water.
300And all at once, the great rains come up, in answer to prayer. And away went the rains, across the earth. And soon as the water hit the earth, that little wheat jumped up, said, "Glory! Glory! Glory! Glory!" And up jumped the little cocklebur, holler, "Glory! Glory! Glory! Glory!"
301Well, I thought, "Now what's that?" And just then... "Well, that wheat was a shouting. I can see that. But what did that cocklebur meant?"
302Then He said, "Read Hebrews 6."
303 "The rain falls on the just and the unjust." That's what's the matter. That's what we... why we didn't have a Bride ready for Christ now. We sowed denominational seeds instead of the Word. What has it done? Brought some more denominational children. That's right. But in among there is some wheat has fallen. Right. But, look, the same Spirit that makes the real true--true genuine believer speak with tongues, the real Spirit that makes a genuine believer a Christian, see, because It's irrigating a Word, a Seed. That same Spirit makes something, substitute to It, like Eve's hybrid, makes the hybrid just as happy, just as much shouting, feel just as much joyful about It as the rest of them. But what is the truth of it? The seed is wrong, to begin with. So all your fleshly demonstrations don't mean nothing.
304 "Though I speak with tongue of men and Angels, and have not charity, it profit me nothing. Though I could move mountains, and have not charity, it profit me nothing. Though I give all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profit me nothing; I speak with tongue like men and Angel, it becomes like sounding brass and tinkling cymbals." See? It's nothing.
305Listen, church! Pentecostal? Nothing! Why? It's a hybrid seed. It can't come to the Word. Now, there you are.
306 The Body that gives birth to Christ's Body, again, must be come from a virgin womb, the Word. Right.
307That's why. Listen to this. That's why she produced, "A million more in '44." That was a Baptist slogan. That's why the Pentecostal denominations, that could not give spiritual Birth, to bring forth the manifestations and the Christ, because it was only a sowing rain. And she's brought forth a denominational church. And she's consolidated with the--with the great Evangelicals, and she's gone in with the way of Korah. She's gone with the denominations. That's why.
308 Now let's go back to the Old Testament, for some types. Then, I'm going to start here, in a few minutes, on something, and let you go. Let's go back to the Old Testament, for some types, to prove these things. Now, I've took several hours here, laying this on. Now we're going to change the subject, change the program.
309Now, first, I've got something, just when I get to... I got a--a few pages here, then I got to... Oh, my, my, my, surely not, that. I'll just have to hurry, real quick. I'll read it, see, just read as fast as I can, 'cause I know we haven't got but just a--a very short time now. See? Now, are you tired? [Congregation says, "No."--Ed.] Oh, well, then, it's me. All right. Go ahead, that's all right.
310 Now, that's why we got all the things that we've got. Now, all these things I've said, if they don't jive with the Bible, or--or dovetail with God's Word, they're wrong, they're wrong, all this picture. Now I'm just going to hurry over some of this, not explain it. But just hurry over it, so we can get to it, and, I promise you, as quick as I possibly can.
311I got a place here, where I got so in the Spirit. I was... I got the church up, to show it and prove it in the Word here, exactly what's happened, all along. And then when I did, I thought, "Lord, I got the people standing here now. I'll have them standing there. What can I tell them? I can't predict a future. I can't tell them what to do. What will I do? I'll leave them standing on a limb." I raised up my hand, I said, "God, I think I'm doing this by Your will. I've never did this, never did before, 'cause the Seed hadn't been sowed yet." I said, "Now I've got... I--I believe it's time for me to say it. But, now, what am I going to say now?"
312 And just as plain as you hear my voice, Something said, "Pick up your pen."
313I'll read it to you, in a minute. And when I got through, there it was, just the answer. I didn't even know what I was writing; just started writing. And when I got through, I laid the pen down. I looked. I thought, "God, have mercy! There it is, right there. That's what I'm looking for." Now, there's some things I had to bypass. We'll get to it, in a little bit, the Lord willing.
314 All the Old Testament was types that point to Christ and His Church. You believe Adam and Eve pointed to Christ and His Church? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed] You believe Jehovah and His wife pointed to Christ and His Church? ["Amen."] Well, if them are--are--are types, and this is the antitype, it has to be like the type. Cause, the type takes from the--from the... The antitype takes from the type.
315Christ is the Head, the true Stone of God. Do you believe that? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] The true Word! The Bride is the Body. You want some Scriptures on these, so you can look them up? I--I was going to read the Scriptures, but I won't. First Peter 2:1 to 6, Ephesians 5:22... See? First Peter 2:1 to 6, Ephesians 5:23. Read that chapter, both of them, in there. See? The Old Testament: Christ.
316 Looky here. Let's just take this, for instance. Maybe if my wife didn't take my dollar... Here it is. Pay for some sandwiches, a while ago. Excuse me, friends, I oughtn't to have said that. But I got a good wife. Now, on the back of this dollar... Wasn't for her, I wouldn't have had the dollar, I guess. God's mercy giving it to us, and her helping me.
317Now, on the back of this, looks like, if that be our money, the American seal on the left-hand side of the dollar ought to be the great seal in this country. Is that right? But why is it, the pyramid, called the great seal? Even your money has to testify of it. Yes.
318Every time you send a post card, or a mail, you have to testi-... It testifies, "The year of our Lord, 1962." Everything testifies of Christ. See?
319 You notice that, the great seal, it's a pyramid? Anybody ever knowed that the pyramid never had the capstone put on it? How many knows that? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Sure. I've been there in Egypt, Cairo. Yeah. Never had the capstone. Why? It was rejected, the cornerstone. That was the cornerstone that held this building, and the keystone. How many knows what a keystone is? When the arch is built, then the keystone holds it together. The cornerstone is what holds up the building. Is that right? ["Amen."] And the cornerstone in the pyramid was the capstone, was a keystone, held the rest of it together. Now, this keystone was rejected. Did you notice up there? It's standing up above it, up above the pyramid.
320 Now what did that represent when Enoch built it? Here is what taken place. It's just like the Gospel Church coming. See?
321Now, down in the wide part of the pyramid, represent the early days of reformation. Just to call yourself a Christian, deny the Catholic church, meant you get killed for it. Then along come... They preached justification by faith. Then along...
Now watch the three come back again.
322Along come John Wesley, preaching sanctification. The church become in the minority more, see, come down this way.
323 And then after John Wesley's days of sanctification, come the Pentecostal church, and God took a remnant out of that. Each one accepting the Word. See? Now, when it come down to the Pentecostals, it cut it down a lot closer, because it was the restoration of the gifts, bringing it right on up.
324What is it? Way down here, it's a way away from the looks of the head. Down here, it's a little closer to the head. Up here, it's a little closer. But that's got to be, absolutely, to fit with the rest of it. It's got to be honed.
325In that pyramid, you can take a razor blade and you can't run between them rocks where the mortar was; it's so fitly put together. They said Solomon's temple was the same. See?
326 God is taking the Elect out of that Pentecostal church, that hybrid, pulling It out, and finishing up the Word. And it's got to be so close until the Word Itself will blend with this Word. There comes the Headstone, crying, "Grace, grace, amazing grace." The Headstone!
327Here you are, like this, see, on there. See how it way wide down here? And it keeps getting closer, closer, closer, the ministry. After while, here come... Here is Luther; justification, justified. Here come Wesley; sanctified bunch. Here come Pentecostal; restoration of the gifts. Now God is taking from there, honing out a bunch, to make a ministry just exactly like that Word there, because it's got to fit with the Word. There's the Bride; take Her up.
328 Now, Christ was manifested to destroy the works of the Devil. You believe that? Now, I can't explain all this. I'm just going to go through it, just quickly now, hit the high place so you won't stay too long. Christ was manifested to destroy the works of the Devil. Is that right? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] You all believe that. That's why He... What was He? God's Word, which destroys the works of the hybrid, the Devil. Is that right? He was done, to do that. He was born to be that, to destroy the works of the Devil.
329Now, His Body is to do the same. Because, the Body is, head and body is together. That right? If Christ is the Head, was the Word, His Body has to be the same thing as His Head was. That right? A Church of the Word, born of the Word, virgin-born from the Word! Not denominational now; virgin-born from the Word!
The way the Body operates is by the Head. That right?
330 My body can't move until my head tells it to move. Well, what if my head is flesh and my body is concrete? Huh! Can't move. Head can say, "Move, move, move, move, move," but there's nothing to send a message to. That right? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]
331Well, if my Head is Christ, and my body is a denomination, how is it going to work? How can purity and a whore work together? Uh-huh.
332I love it, brethren, I'll tell you. I like to preach on some of this, a while. The way the Body operates is by the Head, and the Head is the Word. That right? The Head is the Word.
333 Compare the modern church now. Why don't we have miracles in it? Why don't we have the Word in it? It can't get the Word to it. The denomination stops It. Sure. Say, here comes a good, sainted man of God, preaching the Word of God, just as straight off the Bible it can; the denomination, "Uhm! No. No, sir. Get him out of here." See, body can't move. See? Chugged off, has to.
334 Now, the Body carries the works, carries on the works, and does the works that the Head commands It to do. Ha-ha-ha!
335Tell me where He ever said, "Organize." Tell me where the Head all--all say, "It's all right for women to cut their hair." Huh? Mention it. It's not there. Tell me where the Head ever said, "These works I do, but you shall not do them." Tell me that.
336But, the Head said this. You want to put the Scripture down, I'll give it to you. John 14:12, "The works that I do shall you also," that's His Body. See?
337See now why I have been so zealous of the--the kind of Seed that I planted for the Body? The rain is going to fall pretty soon now; I mean, the real rain. And it's got to have Seed to fall on. I hope I live to see it. Do you understand now? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] It will be the living Word as It was at the beginning, the spoken Word of God; have His Power, for It is in Him, in His Own Body, working His Own way.
338 Look to the promises that God gave this Body. Now we're coming to something. We're coming to Mount Zion now. Let's look what He said to this Body; I mean, virgin-born. Now we see the--we see the impersonations of it. We see it every day. But let's come to the real Body, see what He said about This. Let's look. All right. Here is what He promised.
339Do you believe that John 3:16 is right? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] I've just got to read this. That's all there is to it. All right. You, I may... Everybody that believes John 3:16, "God so loved the world, He give His only begotten Son," so forth, say amen. ["Amen."]
340I dare you to believe the rest of It. I'm talking about the Body, now.
341 Let's take John 20, to start with. All right. Take John, the 20th chapter, and let's see. John, the 20th chapter, and we're going to begin at the, oh, I'd say about the 19th verse. Saint John 20, I believe that's what I got marked down here, and beginning with the 19th verse. Now listen close.
342I challenge you to believe it. Oh, I--I just feel good. Oh, if I could just... I--I wish I could just see the Holy Spirit just huddle over here, like that, see, say, "Now, it's Me." Listen.
... the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled... doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for the fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and said unto them, Peace be unto you.
And when he had said... And when he had so said, he showed unto them his hands and his side. And when his disciples... (Let's see.)... his side. And when... Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the Lord.
Then said Jesus unto them... Peace be unto you:... (Oh, are you ready?)... as my Father has sent me, (He's the Word, the Seed, Word-Seed), so send I you.
343You believe it? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Don't stop. There's more of it.
And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:
Whose soever sins you remit, to them they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins you retain, they are retained.
344 Is that the Truth? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Who did He say that to? The Seed, the Word. Why? They could only be born by the--by the Word. That's the reason. You believe that? ["Amen."]
345Let's take Matthew 16 now, just a minute. Matthew 16:19, let's read this, just a minute. All right.
And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shall bind on the earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsover thou shall loose on the earth shall be loosed in heaven.
346I challenge you to believe it. If that ain't the Word, John 3:16 ain't the Word. Why should take some and not take the other? All the Word of God is right, but It's got to come into a virgin womb, where nothing but the Seed lays there. You believe it? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] All right.
347 Now watch this real close. I know the harlot claims it, and they do remit sins by their denominational power, but look at their children. Every dance hall, cut their hair, painted up like clowns, men out living with other men's wives, flirting, running around on the street, mixed bathing, everything else. Sure. They forgive, they remit sins, in their own way, but their fruit shows what it is. Not right for them. No, sir. What they do? They wear shorts, cut their hair, wear make-up. Jesus said, "By their fruits they are known," the kind of seed that they are. There is what it is. Denominational seed gives denominational forgiveness. Exactly right.
348God said, "Let the Word be after Its kind." And so It is. That's right. Oh, brother, the Scriptures is true. You believe it? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]
349 And the Holy Spirit bears record of the predestinated gift that the Church claims She has. What? By watering the Word, punctuating in the Word, with an "amen." When It said, "Repent and be baptized, Name of Jesus Christ." "Amen." When It says these other things. "Amen." That's it. "Amen," to everything, see, It punctuates the Word. And God by... predestinated the gift to come, to remit sins, but it was given to the Spirit-filled Word-Body. Cause, the Word can, only, forgive sins, because the Word is God.
350 How true the Pharisees was! I mentioned, this morning, we'd get to this. And I've took up my time. But the--the Pharisees said, "This Man forgives sins. We know He's a blasphemer. Only God can forgive sins. And this Man is forgiving sins." Not knowing that That was the Word. The Word forgives sins, 'cause It's God.
351And when you become not your own... God knows, knowed, and foreknew by foreknowledge, who would take this gift and who would use it in the right way. Those who have it are vindicated by the Word of God, with the rest of the Word and Spirit. That clear?
352Some would have you believe it comes by schooling, scholarship, degrees; if you go to school so long, if you become a bishop, study to be a pope, or you become a cardinal, or something like that. That, some would have us believe that that's where it comes from, when man, by laying on of hands, make you something to do it. But they are off of the Word.
353 Romans 11:29 said, "Gifts and callings are without repentance." God gives it. And also John 15:16, you want to write it down.
354Listen close now. How different Jesus was, in His days, from the denominations of His day. They would point back to him... How I'd like to hold on this a while! Whew! They would point back over their shoulder, back down through the time, and say, "We are Moses' disciples. We know that God appeared to Moses, in the burning bush. We know."
355They knowed, they knowed the history of Moses, but they did not know the God of Moses. Cause, He stood before them, in John 6, and said, "Before Moses was, before Abraham was, I AM," the burning bush. They knowed Moses' history.
356So is it today. They know the God... They claim they know the Word of Christ, but they don't know the God that was in Christ. Painted fire! Who can get warm by a painted fire, a seminary experience? They knowed Moses, but not his God. Jesus could and did say...
357Amen. Listen at this, brother. Whew! Now I feel like David winding that sling up now. I hope I don't seem sacrilegious to you, friends. I'm all right, but I just feel good. I'm just getting, feeling fine now.
358 Jesus could and did say, "The Father that sent Me is in Me. And as He has sent Me, so send I you," to His disciples. "The Father that sent Me is with Me. If I do not the works of the Word promised of My Father, then don't believe Me, because they are the ones that testify of Me."
359Hallelujah! Oh, church, where you at? Jesus said...
They say, "Oh, we know that God did do this, but not today."
Jesus say, "The same..."
"We know God was with Moses."
360"But the God that was with Me is in Me. Because, if you don't believe it, see what's written of Me. See what the Scripture said I would do, and, if I don't fit the Scriptures, then don't believe Me."
361 Let me say this, not sacrilegious, but let me say that about the Message that I'm preaching. If God don't vindicate This to be the Truth, then It's not. But if the Word vindicates I'm telling you the Truth, then believe the Word. They are what testify whether I'm telling the Truth or not. They're the testimony. They--they testify for my... for the ministry He gave me. He promised this in the last days. Here it is. He said what it would do. Here it is. We're going right into it now. You see whether it's the Truth or not. Let God do the testifying. If the works, the things that I'm preaching don't testify back, that it's the Truth, then it's not the Truth. But if the Word speaks of this, and here it is, then what are you going to do about it?
362 Jesus said, "I know you. You think you know Moses. You know, might have know history of Moses, but you don't know his God. For, I was before Moses. I was the One that talked to Moses. I'm the 'I AM.' I'm the Word."
363They couldn't see it, 'cause they're of their father, the Devil. Their denominations wouldn't let them see it. That didn't stop the Word from going on, just the same. It fell on some, right, and from that come a Bride, that generation. All right. How different, painted fire!
364 Jesus could--could say, "The Father that sent Me," is with Him. "And the works that I do, testify, because I do the same things the Scriptures said I would do."
365Jews knew their historical God. Same now. Yes. Why did they know the historical God? Is because they had the historical seed. Why did they not receive Him? Because it was hybrid with denomination.
366Jesus knew Who sent Him, for He that sent Him was in Him.
367And there was no denomination tied to Him. Amen. Tell me which one. "What school did He come from?" They say, "Where did He get this wisdom? Where was this learning come from?" They couldn't find a school that He ever went to.
368 And, yet, at twelve years old, He confounded the scribes and the Pharisees. Oh, my! That spoke of it. Why didn't they say something to Him, as a kid? It was God's Word. They couldn't withstand That.
369No wonder the people were astonished at His Doctrine! Did you ever read that? Mark 1:22, if you want to put it down. "The people was astonished at His Doctrine, because He taught like somebody that had authority." He knowed what He was talking about. See?
370The Church now should have a double portion of the Spirit. For it is true, like Elijah's garment that fell upon Elisha, a double portion, the same thing come from Jesus Christ. Now, you say, "Oh, Brother Branham, you're talking about His Church." That's right. That's His Body.
371Isn't my wife part of my body, and your wife part of your body? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] "Flesh of your flesh, and bone of your bone," by holy union. Is that right? ["Amen."] That's the reason a Christian shouldn't be married to a harlot. See? That's not right, no, sir, 'cause it breaks all the things of God.
372 You say, "Oh, now, Brother Branham, wait a minute. You talk about the Spirit of Christ being upon..."
373The Bible said It would. Is that right? Isaiah 9:6, It said--said, "Unto us a Child is born, Son is given; name shall be called Counsellor, Prince of Peace, mighty God, everlasting Father. And of His kingdom there shall be no end. And the government shall be upon His..." What? [Congregation says, "'Shoulder.'"--Ed.] That's part of His Body. My! That's His Body. Is it? ["Amen."] "His shoulders" is His Body. Where is the government on the earth at? In His Body.
374"Saints shall judge the earth." That right? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Paul said, "I dare you go to court with one another, and not take it before the church." Right. See? "Saints shall judge the earth."
375Where is the government going to be upon? Upon the shoulders, His Body. "The government upon His shoulders," that's a part of the Body. What is it? His earthly strength. God's earthly strength is His Word made flesh in His Body here on earth, bringing to pass.
376 Moses... Listen. Let's bypass some of it. God's messengers always has been rejected. You believe that? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Moses was rejected. Is that right? ["Amen."] Jesus was rejected. And Luke said, in 10:16, if you want to write that down. All right. Rejected!
377First Samuel 8:7, God's message was rejected. God had a messenger, a prophet, called Samuel. You believe it? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Rejected him and his message. They took the world.
378This is a law of--of God. This is going to... I don't know I'm going to say this or not. This is a law of God. God's law is to receive a vindicated servant.
379Let's just--let's just prove that, a minute. I want to take one of the Scriptures here, John 13:20. Let's just see. I got something wrote down here, I just kind of get in my mind just then. Oh, yeah, here are.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receives whosoever I send receives me; and he that receives me receives him that sent me.
380A vindicated servant! Oh, brother, there's a thousand sermons laying right here now. See? That's right. Oh, my! It's a law of God. Receive It.
381 Samuel come down and said, "I want to ask you something. Have I ever told you anything in the Name of the Lord that didn't come to pass?"
Said, "No."
382"Have I ever took up any offerings to build big buildings, and do a great lot of thing and glorify myself?"
"No."
"Has God proved, to answer the Word that I've said?"
"Yep."
"Well, why don't you hear me?"
Jesus said to the Pharisees...
"We know You're born in fornication."
383 He said, "Which one of you can condemn Me of sin? Let Me show you God's Word, see if you'd believe It, see if God vindicates It in you. And let Me speak of Myself, if I speak Myself, I'm a liar. But if I speak of God, and God speaks through Me, by His Word, then it's the Truth. Then, who believes the Word of God, Me or you?" Ha-ha! That had it.
384Jesus said, "He that receives them that I send, receives Me." And, now, them that He send. "And them that receives Me receives Him that sent Me." Wish we had time to linger on that. You can only serve God as... You can only serve God as you do and--and believe the servants that God sends. You can only serve God on earth, see, as God's servants that's sent on earth by Divine inspiration interprets the Word to you. You believe that? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]
385 You want to put down some Scriptures for it? First Corinthians 14:16. Paul said, "You follow me as I follow Christ," also, 11:1. Luke 10:16, see what He said, what Jesus said there. Luke 10:16, believe you're right close to it here. Let's see what it says one time here, Luke 10:16, while they're writing the rest of them down. Now, that's First Corinthians 14:16, also 11:1, and Luke 10:16.
386Now let's read. I'm getting to Luke 10:16, here, just to read while you all looking at the other now, just for a moment. All right. Here we are.
He that heareth you heareth me;... he that despises you despises me;... he that despises me despises him that sent me.
387That proves that God speaks His Message through His servants. Always has. That's right.
388 Now, the power of the believing Church. "Christ has all power in heavens and earth." You believe that? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Now, what if He's in you? Has Christ got all power? ["Amen."] Matthew 28:18. All right. He is the Seed-Word in His Body. And He, in us, becomes the Seed-Word in us. What? All that God was, He poured into Christ; and all Christ was, was poured into the Church. That's the power.
389 Now watch. Remember God's law of reproduction, now, remember, "After its kind." That right? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] The Seed of Christ, the Word, must come through His Body. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
390Are you getting tired? [Congregation says, "No."--Ed.] All right. Just a minute now. Let's just hold quiet and pray. I want to get this in, real good. I want this to grind down.
391The Seed of Christ must, m-u-s-t, must come through His Body; not through a denomination, but through a born-again Seed of the Word, must come through. Now, remember. What is it? Christ's Seed.
How does my seed come? Through the body.
How does the apple tree seed come? Through the body.
392Seed is through the Body, and the Church is the Body of Christ. That right? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] The Bible Church! This Birth produces (that's the new Birth) Himself in Body, His Church, is His Word, so that people can see the confirmation of Hebrews 13:8, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever." You believe it? ["Amen."] These are not domi-... denominational hybrids, now. This is those that's in the orbit, waiting for the countdown, you know what I mean, fixing to take a rocket. Glory! These are not denominational hybrids; not standing in Here, they're not. No, sir. It's the Seed.
393 Paul was afraid that the people would watch some kind of a big words that he could say, some of his education. First Corinthians 2:1 to 8. You want to put it down. First Corinthians 2:1 to 8, Paul said, "I never come to you, speaking words intellectual, you know, that your faith might be in some seminary thing. But I come to you with the simplicity, in the power and demonstration of the Holy Ghost, that your Word... that your faith would rest in the Word of God." Yes, sir.
394 Although, the denominational churches will outnumber the Bride, a thousand to one. Do you believe that? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] You believe the Bible teaches it? ["Amen."] Isaiah 54:1. He promised it. For the...
395Do--do you want me--you want me to read it? All right, let's get it. You want to see where it's at, where He promised that they would outnumber. Let's get over to Isaiah 54, 53, 54:1.
Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.
396Ha-ha-ha-ha! That right? More are the children of the whore than the married Wife. Sure. Outnumber us, many time. Though they--though they be more in numbers, they have no true father.
397Now, the denominational kinds is represented in Jude 8-13. That's the secular church, "Clouds without rain, foaming out their own shame."
398The Pentecostal church is represented, of that denominational group, in Second Timothy 3:1 to 8, "Having a form of godliness." Their seed produce their kind. Notice, the eunuch...
399 Oh, here, we're going to get in something deep now. Now watch this Seed-Church, this real Church with the real, true Sperm.
Notice, the eunuch had been with all the D.D.'s.
400Now remember, God never committed... God never committed His--His preaching and His Gospel to an Angel. How many knows that? How many knows that Galatians 1:8 said, "If an Angel come from Heaven and preach something else beside they had preached, let it be accursed"? So, the Angel is wrong if he's different from the Word. God came on down below Angels, and committed It to man, which were sons. You believe that? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Now watch. Now, He never committed It to Angels. Notice, He did not do it.
401 Now, Philip had been up to Pentecost, Jerusalem, to worship. How many says "amen" to that? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]
402The eunuch, he had been with all the D.D.'s and L.D.'s, and everything. But why didn't he get something? He come back down, studying the prophecy of Isaiah.
403Although an Angel directed Philip to him, but the Germ of Life had to come through the Body, Philip. Ah! Oh, brother, now we're on the line. Where did the Germ come from? Through the Angel? The Angel showed him where to go. An Angel is a messenger. Here is a son. Philip had the Germ, the Message, the Word. That's how a Child can be born. Philip laid his hands upon him. Philip baptized him in the Name of Jesus Christ. There come forth the Spirit of God. Sure. Now, the Germ had to come from the Body. What Body? Christ's Body. Correct. And Philip was a member of the Body.
404 Now listen. The same thing took place in Acts 10:48. Peter was on the house top. An Angel directed him to Cornelius' house. But where did the Word come from? The Body. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh! I feel pretty good, feel like traveling on. An Angel come and said, "Don't worry. Don't call nothing unclean. Just go on, don't think nothing."
405"And while Peter spake these Words," not the Angel, not the cardinal. "While Peter spake these Words." What? He was the Body. He had the Word. The Word took hold. Oh, brother! Whew! Huh! Oh, my! Angel directed it, but the Life come through the Body of Christ.
406 Paul, on his way to Damascus, a vision directed him. But Ananias had the Germ, had the Word. Amen. That prophet, Ananias, saw a vision that said, "Go up there, lay your hands on him."
407Said, "Brother Saul, the Lord appeared to you in the road, coming down here." How did he know? He had the Word. The Word of the Lord came to the prophet. Prophesied, went up there and said, "He come, has sent me up here, I might lay my hands upon you, and you would be healed and receive the Holy Ghost. Receive your sight." The scales fell off his eyes. He rose, was baptized, the Name of Jesus, went to study.
408Angel directed it, that's right, but Paul had the Seed-Germ.
409It takes the Spirit of God, the Seed, to give Life Eternal. Whew! My!
410 Is it two o'clock yet? [Congregation laughs. Someone says, "It's after."--Ed.] I know it. Uh! I'm going to read some, then. Let me read just for about ten minutes. Will you? ["Amen."] Got a good notion, I could stay here, but I just better move on a little bit here. And we got our time. It is twenty-five minutes until five. I don't know what time we'll get in Georgia. I wish I could stop and comment on this just a little bit. But I'm just going to read it real slowly. Listen close. Here is what I picked up the pen for, part of it.
411 Do you see, friends, what I have, way I've stood the way I have? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] See why I'm contending, "Get away from them denominations and get a real Church of God"? ["Amen."] See why It's got to come out of the Word? ["Amen."] It can't come by the wisdom of man. It's got to come by the Word of God. That's the reason I believe the Word just the way It's written. I won't add nothing or take nothing. Just preach It that way, just keep going.
412Now, brethren, you all on the tape, if you disagree with me, I'll pray for you. If I'm wrong, you pray for me.
413I'm going to read some now. Just... I want you to listen real close to this. Here is where the Spirit said, "Pick up the pen." I'd have to leave some of It go, but I've got to bring some of It to you. All right.
[Brother Branham reads paragraphs 414 through 441--Ed.]
414 Now, here is what I'm trying to say to you. The law of reproduction, bring forth of its kind, Genesis 1:11. These last days, true Church-Bride comes to the Headstone, will be the super Church, a super Race, as the... nears the great Headstone. They will be much like, so much like Him, even they will be in His very image, in the order to being united with Him. They will be One. They will be the very manifestation of the Word of the living God. Denominations can never produce This. This will be... They will produce their creeds and dogmas, mixed with the Word, and--and brings a hybrid product.
415 The first son was spoken Seed-Word of God. He was given a bride. (I'm just reviewing. The Spirit now is picking up what I said. See?) A bride, produ-... to produce himself. She fell. See, that's what... The bride was given, to produce himself again, another son of God. But she fell, by hybreeding, see. Produce himself; but she fell, caused him to die.
416The second Son, a spoken Seed-Word of God, was given a bride, like Adam. But before He could marry her, she had fallen, also. For she was put to a free moral agency, like Adam's wife was, to believe God's Word and live, or doubt It and die. And she did.
417 Then from a little group of the true Seed of the Word, God will present Christ a beloved Bride, a Virgin, a Virgin of His Word. And through them, and by them, will be fulfilled all that has been promised for His Word in the Virgin who knows no man-made creeds or dogmas.
418The Word of promise in Himself, like It was in Mary, God Himself made manifest. He will act Himself, by His Own Word of promise, so to fulfill all that has been written of Him, as He did when He came from the virgin womb. Type of the Spirit womb now, so will the Virgin now, accepting His Word, "Be it unto me as Thou has said." Though it was said by an Angel, while it yet was the written Word, Isaiah 9:6.
419They will love Him, love His, and will have His potentials, for He is their Head. And they are His subjects, subject to His Head. Headship of Christ was His.
420 Notice what harmony! Jesus never did anything until seen of the Father, or, the Father showed Him first. Harmony between God and Christ, see, John 5:19. So will the Bride, and He shows Her His Word of Life. He shows Her, and She receives It. She never doubts It. Nothing can harm Her, not even death. For if the Seed be planted, the water will raise It up again. (Amen. Then I got a great big "Hallelujah!") Here is the secret. The Word is in the Bride, and the mind of Christ, to know what He wants done with the Word. And She does it in His Name. She has THUS SAITH THE LORD. Then It is germitized, so the Holy Spirit waters It until It is grown and serves Its purpose.
421They do only His will. (Amen. I'll believe that.) No one can persuade them different. They have THUS SAITH THE LORD or they keep still. Then they will do the works of God, for It is Himself in them continuing His Word to fulfill, as He did complete in His days. All things, when He was here, He did not complete all when He was here, for it was not time yet.
422 Now let us stand like Joshua and Caleb. (Now watch close. This is going to have a spiritual background.) Now let us stand like Joshua and Caleb, as we see the promised Land coming in sight. It's nearing the time to be given. Joshua, in Hebrew, means Saviour, and represents the promised end-time leader to take the Church over. Caleb represents the true believer who stayed with Joshua. God started Israel as a virgin with His Word. But they wanted something different. So did the last-day church.
423 Notice how God did not move Israel until His Own appointed time. (Now listen. This is going to mean something.) Joshua waited for that time. No how matter, how much people might have said, "God gave us the land, the promise. Let us go now and take it." They might have said, "Joshua, you lost your commission. You're all washed up. Why are you not doing something? You used to do, know THUS SAITH THE LORD in a moment, and what was the will of God." But this wise, God-sent prophet knew the promise of God, but also knew to wait for that promise, a clear-cut decision from God for his time. (See these parables. Now watch.) And when the time come, God gave it to Joshua, who had stayed with Him, by the Word, for He could not trust others. He could trust him. So will it repeat.
424 Like the mighty anointed prophet, Moses, knew God would use him. For He had proved Moses to be His servant, by his peculiar birth, at the right time that it, deliverance for Abraham's seed was at time. (Are you getting it?) Moses never stayed in Egypt and argued his Scriptural points with them. He never fussed with the priests. But he went to the wilderness and waited on the Lord, until the--until the people was ready to receive him. He had come to testify of them, but they would not receive him. God called His prophet to the wilderness. God had testified He had chose him. But the waiting was not by Moses, but for the people to get ready to receive Moses. Moses thought the children would understand that he was sent. (I never wrote it; He did.) So is it now.
425 Like Elijah, after that mighty, vindicated prophet that the Word of God came to, had finished preaching His message to the modern American groups of the First Lady, with their bobbed-hairs and Jezebel-paint groups. God confirming His prophet; every time he prophesied, it was the truth. God had to call him off of the field, until He plagued that generation with mighty plagues, for rejecting the message of His prophet and the Word of God that He had sent to them. God sent him into the wilderness, in hiding, not even the king could call him out. And them that tried to persuade him against the will of God, died for doing so. (O God! Whew. Uh!) But when God spoke to His faithful prophet by a vision, out of the wilderness he come with THUS SAITH THE LORD. What did he do? Straight to the Word, back to the Word he went, brought the twelve stones and rolled them together.
426 Like John the Baptist, Christ's faithful forerunner, the anointed prophet. No school of his father, no school of Pharisee, no denomination could call him from the wilderness where God had sent him, until he heard the Voice of God. "The Messiah is at hand." (Are you listening, spiritual mind? What more could I say here. I'm skipping something here now.)
427 How different today, many so-called evangelists claim they have the answer for... from God, for the people. Just as Korah did, denying, disputing the authority of God's vindicated, anointed prophet, Moses, claiming he had the answer. This was a money-making scheme, too, a golden calf; as many do today, big building, big school, hatch-out incubators of their same seed. And then people, then as like now, fell for it. After they had heard the true Word of God, through an anointed prophet that was a vindicated, they fell for Korah's lie. God-proven prophet, and God knew... and knew God had told them. Israel knew God had told them, distinctly, that He would vindicate His prophets by His Word. Korah was not a Scriptural prophet, but it looked awful good to the people, same as it does now. Today, today it's blood on your hands, balls of fire on the platform, oil in your fingers. And the same thing produces women preachers, short hair, bobbed, make-up. What do you have? You would not think that people would fall for it, but they did for Korah. And they do the same thing now, and turn away from the true Word, for denominations. Shorts, shows what kind of a seed that's in them.
428 But, thank God, all Israel never fell for Korah. Some stayed by Moses, the anointed prophet with the Word of God. Same is it, today, with many of God's Elected, by His Word and His Spirit.
429 Remember, the tarriers, the weeds, are to be gathered and bound in bundles. (That right?) This has come to pass. This apostate organization churches is bound tighter than they ever was bound. They are bundled together in a federation of churches, ready for the fires of God's judgment. (I never wrote this. I feel that He did it.) Pentecostals are full of, so called, the same as them. The wheat-Word will be gathered some day, after They leave, for the Master's.
430 God has promised... Be careful. God has promised Malachi 4 for this last day. And Malachi 4 has not yet has been fulfilled, but it must be fulfilled, for it is a germitized Word of God spoken through Malachi the prophet. Jesus referred to it. It is to be just before the Coming of Christ, the second time. (Listen close now.) All Scripture that has not been fulfilled, must be, before that time. The Bible is to be finished, to--to be finished. The Gentile dispensation is to be finished, with the church age, when this anointed messenger arrives. Of course, he will plant the Seed of the entire Bible, plumb from the serpent to the messenger in the former rain. Then he will be rejected by the denominational people, as his forefather, John and Elijah, as was spoken by our Lord.
431 People, as Elijah was the first time, to Ahab's time, it will happen here in this country, as this country is a type of Israel. (Read or hear Jezebel Religion.) As this country, our forefathers, for worship the way they wanted to, come to this country and pushed out the natives and took over, so did Israel take over when they come up out of Egypt. We had godly men, like Washington, Lincoln. They had great, godly men, as David and so forth. Then they got an Ahab on the throne with a Jezebel behind him, to direct him. So have we.
432 So it's at this time, in this country, that that person will appear, for it's in the Scripture and it's THUS SAITH THE LORD. Then in the latter rain there will come forth a Mount Carmel, a showdown. Bible fulfilled, to the letter! John the Baptist, "His messenger before His face," in Malachi 3. Planted a former rain and was rejected by the churches, the denominations, the Pharisees and Sadducees in his day. Jesus came and had the Mount Transfiguration showdown. This forerunner, of the last days, will sow for the former rain. Jesus will be the showdown between denominations and creeds, which is His Word, when He comes, a showdown, the Rapture of His Bride. The first was Mount Carmel, the second was Mount Transfiguration, the third will be Mount Zion. (Glory!)
433 Elijah's behavior, Moses' behavior, John's behavior, leaving their field of service, many of the people didn't understand them. It was because they was rejected, and their Message. The seed had been sown. Judgment was next. And they was a sign to the people, from God, that judgment was at hand. Planting was over.
434 I believe, some day, the real Bride of Christ will be forced to stop preaching the Word of God. The Bible prophesies of it, in Revelations 13:16. (If you want to put it down.) Denominations will force It to stop, or take its mark. Then, when, the Lamb will take His Bride and judge the whore for this.
435 Remember, Moses, born for the work, had to wait on God for the extra gift for the job. He had to go back and wait, and for the time appointed by God. A certain pharaoh had to be on the throne, and the people had to be wanting the Bread of Life, before God would send him back.
436Now, with thousands of sign-workers in this last day, has created a generation of sign-seekers that knows no more nothing about the true move of God and His Word in these last days. (As I have said...) Give them blood and oil, and fleshly demonstrations on the platform, and they'll support it, whether it's God's Word or not, whether it's Scriptural or not. Jesus have warned us of such things at the end time. (As I have said...) In Matthew 24, two spirits, very close alike, "Deceive the very Elected if possible."
437 How can you tell them? Give them the Word test. How can you know it? Speak the Word, see what they say about It. If they don't believe the Word, they have no Seed-Germ in them. They are of the evil one, and deceive you. As the first bride was deceived, and the second bride was deceived, they are deceivers of the third bride, by hybreeding the Word, or trying to. God never placed signs ahead of His Word. (Amen. That's a scorcher.) God never placed signs ahead of His Word. They were added for proof of the Word, but the Word is first. To prove it, Elijah said to the woman, "Bake me a cake first," then watch the miracle happen. Come to the Word, first, and then watch the miracle. The Seed-Word, Itself, is what the Holy Spirit energizes.
438 How can a messenger sent from God just believe some of the Scriptures and not all the Word, deny part of It? The true prophet of God will proclaim the Word in the last days. Denominations will hate him. He will not pull any punches on them. He will be like he was when he come at the first coming of Christ, "You generation of vipers." But the predestinated will hear and will make ready for the countdown. The royal Seed of Abraham's faith, like him, holding to the Word of God, regardless, for he was predestinated.
439 The messenger of Malachi 4 will appear at God's appointed time. We are all looking for him. We believe he will come. That is according to His Word. It will be at the end time. Which, it is time now for to see it. He will be--he will be correctly dedicated to the Word, as they have always been indicated by God's Word and a vindicated. God will vindicate what he preaches to be the Truth, as He did Elijah, for it is Elijah coming, making ready for the Mount Zion Rapture. Jesus said, "In the last days it would be like Lot's time."
440His preaching will be with the Spirit and strength line of God's Word. Because so much has been called God's Truth, many will misunderstand this true messenger. (I've got wrote here, p-r-o-p-h-e-c-y, "Prophecy.") Because, because so much has been called God's Truth by fakers, many true ministers will misunderstand that messenger.
441 As, the end-time prophecies will repeat, I believe. As the first forerunner came from the wilderness and cried, "Behold the Lamb of God," the second forerunner will probably do the same by pointing the people to a Word-born Bride. The Bride of Christ will be pointed to the skies, at the appearing of Jesus. Screaming, "Behold the Lamb of God," will come forth from his lips. (God help us to be ready for this near event.)
I better leave it, from right here.
442 Do you believe? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Why has this been? Have you a better understanding now? ["Amen."] It's the Word, friends. This has been about six hours, right close to it, five and a half, or six hours. There is much more could be said. But surely the Holy Spirit, by this time, has--has sunk It so deep in you, that you know what I'm talking about. We are at the end time. The seeds are sowed now. The latter rain is fixing to come forth.
443 Remember, there will be such a denominational gathering pretty soon, it'll be terrific, and they will bring themselves together into this Federation of Churches. And then this kind of a church will be put out of operation, as far as they know. It's at that time, that Jesus will appear, and He will show which is Bride and which is not. And remember, Christian friends, I'm a man, I can make mistakes. But God, being God, cannot make a mistake. All the Words that's been written must be fulfilled. Jesus said so. So we got things here in the Scripture that must be fulfilled, and that is one of the things, this boycott to come.
444But before this boycott can come, of the marking of the beast, there has to be a Seed sowed, for God to take a Church out of it. You understand now? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] A Seed has to be sowed. A denominational seed, and they're to make a form or an image to the beast, the church of Rome. And there has to be a true Bride. And we understand that the so-called bride is rejected.
445 Adam's bride rejected to bring Life. She brought death. We're her product, our bodies. We all die. Look at us, you can see.
Jehovah's bride died. He divorced her.
446And took a people out of the Gentiles, for His Name. Is that right? His Name; like a woman takes a man's name, the bride. Now what's she done? The same thing they did the other time, denominated herself, polluted.
447But in every generation, every revival brings forth some prophet of God. A prophet is a preacher, true preacher on the Word, that stays with the Word, and they bring forth a revival that gathers that Elect out of that generation.
448Then she goes into seed, then God will never use it again. I ask any theologian, any historian, to tell me one time that a denomination ever rose up. She never. She died when she denominated, and there's where she laid. I think of Dwight Moody, the Moody Bible, dead as midnight.
449 I think of the Methodists, the Pentecostals, the Presbyterians, the Lutherans, the Nazarenes, the Pilgrim Holiness, godly men raised up, Buddy Robinson, and--and George Whitefield, and all those great, godly men that preached the Gospel. And that generation received the Seed that was sown for their part. Like the corn, whether it was the stalk, whether it was the leaf, whether it was the tassel, whether it was the grain; whatever it is, that minister brought the Word of that day. It called from the four winds of the earth and took the Elect of that generation. Through them Elected ones, has built the House of the living God.
450 Now, this ministry here has to hone into a place till the very same works that Jesus did, because, when He comes, the Headstone will catch right into It. Because they won't... There will be a Rapture come, and they'll be taken, and the rest of the Body will come with It, and She'll be gone into Heaven. Not a denomination, friend; a Church of the Word of God! You believe it? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]
Here is some handkerchiefs here.
451 Now I go. I go, I know not where. I am seeking, as you are, the will of God. I wish I could stay at this tabernacle; can't do it. There's thousands; I hear the cry, the unclean spirit tearing them. I can't sleep, hardly. I hear little children crying, and see mothers push their kids through the prayer line; see some mother fanning a baby; holding a sheet over it, keep the rain off of it, in the yard. My heart bleeds for them.
452 When I built this tabernacle, the day I laid the cornerstone out there, I remember that vision, that morning. Got it wrote right there in the cornerstone, said, "This is not your tabernacle." Said, "Do the work of an evangelist. Make full proof of your ministry." [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] I love it. I love God's children everywhere. I don't know where He's going to lead me. I don't know. I'm waiting. I been waiting for a year. I may wait for two years, I may wait for three. I don't know. I don't know the next move. I'm waiting for it. But I think, according to the Scripture, the Word has been sowed. The next thing is the coming forth of the Spirit.
453 Billy Graham may preach everywhere. Oral Roberts, them godly men, may preach everywhere. The Lord may send me to sow Seed somewhere else, some field. But I believe our nation is sowed down. I believe she's ready for the harvest now.
454When the Spirit falls, and there becomes a move amongst the people, them denominationals will swing together just as certain as I'm standing in the pulpit, and the Church of God will be ousted. And they'll make it such a racket, until they'll confederate it, and put a boycott on anybody that don't belong to them.
455Rome will rule the world for just an hour. She'll rule for a little piece. Not communism. Romanism will rule the world, with the cooperation of Protestantism, in a denominational form of church which God has rejected. That's as close as I know the Word of God.
456 I love you. I appreciate you. Maybe I'll be back about Sunday, a week. I'm going down, Florida now, the Lord willing; down in Georgia, for tomorrow night. I got a few little meetings scattered around, if the Lord leads. I got a book full of them, that Brother Roberson... or Borders sent me, the other day. I guess there's, well, there's places where there's thirty and forty churches are willing to cooperate, but the Spirit seems to hold me. I don't know why. I don't know why. So you pray for me, I'll pray for you, that together may we stand. May God help us. May there not be a one of you here that'll ever fail and will miss that great time coming.
457 Now, I been accused of a lot of things, friends. And a lot of things I'm guilty of. I'm neglectful; that's true. I don't know why it is, somebody has to push me in the corner, make me fight. I don't know. That's a nature. I done things that I should not have done, not willfully, but I--I plundered at it. And that's what's make me so afraid, in seeing in this day, the day that we're living at, and you see now what I believe. I want to hear from God, if all possible, before I make a move, see, 'cause I don't want to fail Him. I want to be with Him, everywhere. And I want you to pray for me.
458 And, remember, I've told you the Truth. And I thank you for setting here all this day, since early this morning. Many of you is standing around the walls, in the halls, yet, feet and legs cramping. Setting out in the cars, your batteries run down, almost, from listening. And here it is, it's all on tape. The boys has taped it back there. You'll be able to get it. And if you do get it, take it home and study it real closely, wisely, and see what the Lord will reveal to you.
459Do you love Him? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Where is Teddy? [Someone says, "Right here."] Just before we pray for these handkerchiefs and the people, I want to pray for each one of you. I want to sing this song now. And then Brother Neville will make his announcements for the other service.
I love Him, I love...
You love His Word? Then you love Him.
Because He first loved me
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary's tree.
460 [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... giving Him reverence. And been here now for the hours of preaching now, explain, doing the best I know how, for my fellow man, trying to get them to understand the things that I have said, and why I have done these things. I bring to You now, Lord, this people, this people visible and the people that will hear the tapes hereafter. [Blank.spot.on.tape.] May God Himself give the Divine interpretation. And I'm sure, Lord, if I brought the Word, It'll fall on them that It's predestinated to fall on. Thy Word is Truth.
461Father, I'm sorry that I failed You, many times. I pray You'd forgive me. I pray You forgive my audience, visible and invisible, of all their sins. That, Lord God, we realize that we're at the end of the road. Every sign is right here before us. I'm sure the spiritual mind, Lord, catches what I've just said a few minutes ago. I pray that they'll understand, Lord. And what we're... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... where we're at. We're near His Coming. We can hear the breaker. They are close.
462 Help us, Lord. Help us. I pray for every person sitting here. I pray for these handkerchiefs, and brethren listening to tape. Help me, Lord, to pray a prayer of faith, for all.
463Now, to those that are openhearted to God's Word, by faith, I plant this Seed. I plant It in the Name of Jesus Christ, in faith in God. But, Lord God, I commit them to You now. Water It. Send the Spirit upon It, Lord, that germitized Word there; that You're the same great God, to heal; same great God, to save; the same great God, in resurrection. You're God. May It produce a crop, a Bride for our Lord Jesus, a sanctified womb of the heart, to receive the Word. Grant it, Lord. I command them to You, to pick from here, Lord, (if possible, every one), Your Bride, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
I love Him,...
... salvation
On Calvary's tree.
All together now, with your hands up.
I love Him, I love Him
Because He first loved me
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary's tree.
464 Now, after the Word has had six hours of exhortation, I command you to the first step. "Repent," and look up, "and be baptized," in a few minutes, "in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sin, and God promised to give you the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you and your children, and to them that's far off." It's to the Methodists, Baptists, Catholic, Presbyterians. "And whosoever will receive the Word, let him come." You believe it? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]
465I give you now the pastor, for baptismal service. He'll make ready now, for we make ready for baptism. Brother Neville.
Now be seated just a moment.
466Our Brother Neville, now, our pastor, will tell you about the order of the service right now, just in a minute. God bless you, till I see you.
1Cítite sa všetci teraz dobre? V poriadku, začneme hneď teraz a až do polnoci, a potom ... Sme tak šťastní, že nám Pán pomohol, a požehnal nás.
2A teraz, prv ako znovu začneme, pomodlime sa niekoľkými slovami ku Tomu, ku ktorému hovoríme.
3Milostivý nebeský Otče, Ty si počul svedectvo tohoto bohabojného, svätého, starého muža. Po celý ich život, on i jeho žena, pracovali spolu, a ako sa Ťa ona musela držať a prosiť Ťa, aby si z jej muža urobil kazateľa, a tu je. A potom, keď on tam zomieral, tí najlepší lekári v krajine povedali, že je s ním koniec, "Nemôže už žiť viac, ako niekoľko hodín. Je po ňom; jeho telo je zožrané rakovinou"; on nemohol urobiť už viac ani krok - infekcia v jeho členkoch a všetko ďalšie, ho dalo nabok. A on je tu, prešli roky, a stále chodí. Sme tak vďační, Otče. To sa deje, aby to potvrdilo, že keď je Slovo zasadené, a potom podliate, ono prinesie úrodu.
4A teraz sa modlíme, Otče, aby si nám dnes popoludní dovolil vyložiť tie slová z Tvojho Slova. To je Tvoje Slovo, a my to chceme vyložiť, presne tak, ako to je, a Ty to potom podlej, Pane, Duchom. Prosíme, pri tom, čo sa Ti porúčame aj s týmto Posolstvom, aby si nás použil v Mene Ježiša. Amen.
5Budeme sa ponáhľať. Moja žena mi hovorila dnes ráno, že ako ťažko tí ľudia ... vy viete, a nohy im tŕpli - tie panie, a dosť veľa ľudí približne v mojom veku, ktorí už starnú a museli tu takto stáť. Cením si to - vašu vernosť. A teraz, pôjdeme hneď rovno do Posolstva a budeme pokračovať. Nechcem sa príliš veľmi ponáhľať, a jednako sa chcem natoľko ponáhľať a snažiť sa to zakončiť dnes popoludní, ak budem môcť. A potom, hneď akonáhle zakončíme, ideme potom rovno do Tiftonu v Georgii, nie kvôli ... pokračovaniu zhromaždenia; budeme tam len jeden večer, v auditóriu vysokej školy. To je zajtra večer, a - obyčajné zhromaždenie; budem kázať na nejakú prostú tému, alebo na niečo čo som už tu kázal, pretože to je len taká návšteva tých ľudí. Oni nemajú pravidelné, ustálené zhromaždenie, či niečo také.
6A tak, my ... a my teraz ... zakončili sme dnes ráno, hovoriac na tému nášho textu, ktorý sa nachádza v Genesis v 1. kapitole, v 11. verši, a to hlavne: Vypovedané Slovo je Originálne Semeno. A teraz, mojím zámerom dnes ráno a dnes, je snažiť sa vysvetliť ľuďom - snažiť sa vysvetliť ľuďom svoje postupovanie, prečo som robil to, čo som robil. A uvedomujem si, že tieto pásky sa nahrávajú a budú rozoslané; Bude ich počúvať pravdepodobne veľa ľudí, po tom, čo ja z tadiaľto odídem, ak bude Ježiš vyčkávať; ale ja chcem povedať, že verím v Slovo Božie, že Ono ... že je Pravdou.
7Nuž, skončili sme tam pri ... pri tých posledných dňoch. Čo sa stalo so službou ... tých evanjelistov, ktorí pred niekoľkými rokmi zapálili ohne prebudenia po celej krajine, a vyzerá to, akoby oni všetky vyhasli. Nuž, nemyslím, že oni sú preč z misijného poľa. Oni stále pracujú, ale akoby neboli žiadne výsledky, tak to vyzerá. Nemôžu nikde ďalej dostať. Vidíte? Čo sa deje? - pole je zasiate, Vidíte? Nuž, zapamätajte si, nezabudnite ...
8Niekto ma prosil, aby som znovu zopakoval to hebrejské slovo z Joela, z 2. kapitoly (Joel 2: 28), kde on hovorí o tom prichádzajúcom včasnom a pozdnom daždi. To slovo včasný je v hebrejčine vyjadrené slovom M-O-U-R-E-H, moureh, čo znamená vyučovanie. Inými slovami, to bude dážď vyučovania a dážď žatvy. Nuž my sme mali dážď vyučovania, a teraz sme pripravení na dážď žatvy. Viete, ten prvý dážď je vtedy, keď zasadíte semeno. On spôsobuje, že vaša úroda začne rásť. A potom, tesne pred tým ako ona dozreje, prichádza ďalší dážď. To je to čo sa nazýva dážď žatvy. Vieme kedy to je - jarný dážď, a potom prší tak asi v júny, on privádza vašu úrodu.
9Nuž, zistili sme, že ten dážď, to bol Duch. A skončili sme pri tom, že som vám predstavil svoje myšlienky o tom, aká bude tá celá vec. To je, ja verím, že to ... ten dážď bol prinesený - ten dážď. To je ten dôvod, že sme sa utíšili, pretože pôda je už zasiata. Ťažko by ste mohli nájsť miesto, ktoré by nebolo zasiate. A to sa roznieslo cez rádio, televíziu, cez pásky, slovo, i cez všetko; zasialo to celú krajinu. Semeno zostalo zasadené. Nuž, z tých zasadených semien, nemôžete dostať nič iné, iba také isté semená, aké boli zasiate. Rozumiete teraz? To budú tie semená, ktoré boli zasiate. Nuž, Duch spadne, ale On prinesie žatvu toho semena, na ktoré On spadne. Nuž, zapamätajte si.
10V poriadku, predpovedal som, že tie dve denominačné skupiny, letničná a tie evanjelické skupiny, oni budú spolu pracovať v denominácii, oni sa spolu zjednotia, a stanú sa členmi (každá z nich) Federácii Svetovej Rady Cirkví alebo Cirkevnej Rady. Oni už do toho patria - každá z nich. A od nich príde nátlak, alebo bojkot, čo zastaví všetko, čo nepatrí do tohoto zjednotenia cirkví. To je to čo ... Biblia hovorí, že nastane bojkot, dokonca do takej miery, že spôsobia, že ľudia nebudú môcť kupovať alebo predávať, ak neprijali to Znamenie šelmy, ktorým je rímsky katolicizmus, a obraz šelmy, ktorým je protestantizmus, že ten obraz ... Šelma mala moc, autoritu, aby dala obrazu život, aby hovoril, a tak sa stalo. A to je Združenie Cirkví, keď sa oni spájajú dokopy.
11Nuž, je tu mnoho mladých ľudí. Ja neviem, Ježiš môže prísť dnes popoludní; On môže prísť na budúci rok. Ja neviem, kedy On príde. Ale zapamätajte si, ak ja nebudem žiť, aby som videl ten deň Jeho príchodu - čo dúfam, že budem, a tak nejako verím, že budem - no, ak to nebudem vidieť, nikdy nedovoľte aby toto Slovo odišlo od vašich uší a vášho srdca. Pamätajte len, hovorím to v Mene Pánovom. Nuž, verím z celého svojho srdca, že tak sa to zakončí. Bude to ako únia, bojkot. Všetky takéto miesta, ako toto tu, budú zavrené. A vy nebudete môcť hovoriť, jedine že by ste mali povolenie alebo licenciu od tejto federácii cirkví, aby ste mohli slúžiť slovom.
12Je to takmer ... to ukazuje, že tak sa to teraz deje tiež aj v denomináciách. To ukazuje, kde to je. Tak veru, vy to musíte mať. A to je to do čoho to príde. To je moja predpoveď, ako sluhu Kristovho, skrze zrozumenie Slova a inšpiráciu, ktorú mám; to je to do čoho to príde. Všetky znamenia ukazujú na koniec. Ja len cez to prechádzam a hovorím o tom.
13A to je dokonca čas pre hlúpu pannu, že sa začala dovolávať po oleji. Nuž, zapamätajte si, ona bola pannou, a ak je panna, to je cirkev. Vidíte, dostaneme sa ku tomu teraz popoludní v Zjavení 17. Ak je ona panna, ona je cirkev, pretože cirkev je panna. Pavol povedal, "Zasnúbil som vás Kristovi ako čistú pannu." Tá smilnica zo Zjavenia 17, bola cirkev. Ján bol ňou udivený, kvôli jej nádhere, aká ona bola; ona bola niečím nádherným, ale jednako v nej bola nájdená krv všetkých svätých Ježiša Krista - ktorí skrze ňu boli zabití. Je to tak.
14Myslím, že to je 68 000 000 mučeníkov, ktorých rímskokatolícka cirkev doviedla na smrť od časov sv. Augustína z Hippo. Šesťdesiat osem miliónov protestantov bolo zabitých a zostali zaznamenaní v kronikách mučeníkov, zabitých rímskokatolíckou cirkvou, pretože nesúhlasili s jej doktrínou. Nie divu, že Biblia hovorí, "V nej bola nájdená krv všetkých mučeníkov."
15Nuž, či nepovedal Ježiš, že príde čas, že oni vás zabijú, mysliac si že robia Bohu službu; a oni sú v tom úprimný. Oni nie sú pokrytci. Oni tomu veria; oni sú tak učení. A keď to Slovo ... keď to Slovo tam bolo zasiate, ono musí priniesť úrodu. Skutočne, musí. Pamätajte, hovoríme o tom Semene. To je náš text - naše Semeno. To vypovedané Slovo Božie je Semeno. Vidíte? To musí prísť naspäť do tohoto Slova, a to Slovo vyprodukuje to čo Ono hovorí.
16To je ten dôvod prečo verím v božské uzdravovanie; Preto verím vo videnia; preto verím v Anjelov; preto verím v toto Posolstvo, preto že ono pochádza zo Slova Božieho. A všetko, čo je pomimo Slova Božieho, tomu neverím. Mohlo to tak byť, ale ja sa stále budem držať len toho, čo povedal Boh, a potom si budem istý, že mám pravdu. Nuž, Boh môže robiť to čo On chce; On je Boh. Ale dokiaľ stojím na Jeho Slove, dotiaľ viem, že je všetko v poriadku. A verím tomu.
17Nuž, táto hlúpa panna je žena, ona je cirkev, ale je hlúpa. Vidíte? Ona bola lenivá. A jednako ona bola nazvaná ... ona samú seba nazýva nevesta. A zapamätajte si, všetko ide do dokonalosti v troch. Tri, to je číslo dokonalosti. Božie úrady - Otec, Syn, Duch Svätý. Boh, Otec, bol Boh, ktorý žil v Stĺpe Ohňa. On sa snažil potiahnuť Izrael ku Sebe. Oni nechceli ísť. Boh, Otec, žil v Synovi, čo Ho činilo Bohom Synom - tým istým Bohom, vyjadrený obraz Boží, zamanifestované Semeno Božie, snažiaci sa potiahnuť ľudí ku Sebe - oni Ho ukrižovali. Duch Svätý je ten istý Boh, ktorý bol na počiatku v Synovi Božom a teraz tu ten ďalší úrad Boží v posledných dňoch. Boh žijúci v cirkvi, snažiaci sa priniesť ľuďom Slovo (to vypovedané Slovo, ako to robil v tých predchádzajúcich dvoch úradoch), a oni To odmietajú. Je to to isté. To sú tri úrady manifestovania sa jedného Boha pri práci. A dnes je Boh pri práci vo Svojich ľuďoch. Vidíte? To je Boh v ľuďoch.
18Ak Pán dá, chcem o tom hovoriť zajtra večer - Boh vo Svojom vesmíre, Boh vo Svojom Synovi, Boh vo Svojich ľuďoch, a tak ďalej. Nuž, myslím, že som tu už pred tým o tom hovoril.
19A potom, táto hlúpa panna, keď ona išla kupovať olej - ona bola poslaná, aby si išla kúpiť olej. Keď išla, zistila, že sa veľmi opozdila. Prečo? Prečo, priatelia? - tie semená sú zasadené. Oni boli tri v čase Sodomy. Vždy to bolo číslo tri, po celý čas. Sú tri príchody Krista. On prišiel raz aby vykúpil Svoju Nevestu. On prichádza potom vo Vytrhnutí, aby vzal preč Svoju Nevestu. On prichádza znovu v Tisícročnom kráľovstve so Svojou Nevestou. Všetko v troch. Trojka je číslo dokonalosti. Päť je číslo milosti. Sedem - úplnosť; dvanásť - uctievanie; dvadsať štyri ... či štyridsať - pokušenie; a päťdesiat je jubileum. to skutočné slovo Letnice znamená jubileum - päťdesiat. Vidíte.
20Nuž, a teraz Boh vo Svojich číslach, On je dokonalý vo Svojich číslach; On je dokonalý vo Svojom Slove; On je dokonalý pri Svojej práci; On je dokonalý vo všetkom, pretože On je dokonalý Boh. A vidíme, že v týchto pannách - pozrite sa teraz, v Biblii je nazvaná smilnica. (Nuž, chcem aby mi odpustili moje sestry. Ja ... To hovorí Biblia. Dnes hovorím celkom otvorene.) Nazýva ju smilnicou, materou smilníc.
21Nuž, ak si všimnete, tu v Biblii je hovorené o smilnici (to je cirkev), hovorí sa tam o smilniciach [mater smilníc - jej dcéry. – pozn.prekl.] (to je cirkev), a hovorí sa tam o Neveste a to je Cirkev. Sú tam tri. Za chvíľu, ak Pán dovolí, sa ku ním dostaneme a budeme vidieť čo sú to za nevesty, a ako boli odmietnuté a všetko o tom.
22Nuž, to prvé ... chcem toto povedať, skôr ako to zabudnem. Nebojte sa komunizmu. Komunizmus je iba nástroj v rukách Božích. To je bezbožná vec, tak ako bol kráľ Nabuchodonozor, ale On ho tam poslal a vyťal Izrael, kvôli jeho neposlušnosti. Keď im prorok povedal čo prichádza, a on povedal im, aby zostali vo svojej zemi a pamätali na Boha, oni to neposlúchli; oni aj tak odišli, a ten kráľ prišiel rovno tam a aj tak ich dostal, pretože prorok povedal, že on to tak urobí. Komunizmus je vec, ktorá ... Komunizmus povstal kvôli nezákonnosti, akou katolícka cirkev vykonávala svoj dohľad v Rusku. Oni vzali všetky peniaze a mali všetko nahrabané, a to je to kvôli čomu on povstal. To je presne to čo priviedlo komunizmus.
23Keď ten malý chlapec bol vzkriesený z mŕtvych, tam hore vo Fínsku, tí veľkí komunistickí vojaci tam stáli a salutovali, keď som prechádzal okolo, a slzy im stekali po lícach a hovorili, "My prijmeme takéhoto Boha" - skutočne, Boha, ktorý môže kriesiť mŕtvych a dodržuje Svoje Slovo, skutočne. Vidíte? Ale keď sa jedná len o to, chodiť do kostola a žiť ako diabol a robiť pri tom všetko ostatné, tak ako ten ostatný svet, a nič pomimo toho, potom oni tomu nebudú veriť. A úprimne povedané, ja tiež nie. Je to tak. Je to tak. Nie je žiadne Písmo, ktoré by hovorilo, že komunizmus bude vládnuť svetom, ale je Písmo a celé Písmo hovorí, že to bude robiť rímsky katolicizmus. Majte na to otvorené svoje oči.
24Pozrite sa dnes; len sa pozrite, čo sa stalo hoci len minulej noci - tento senátor Kentucky povedal, že tam majú republikána, ktorý tam získal kreslo, a teraz tam reprezentuje štát Kentucky a povedal, "On je protestant a nerobí s tým žiadne drahoty" - on je katolík. Oni sa stávajú čoraz smelší. A pamätajte, je ešte ďalšia vec ktorá s tým ide. Čas hlúpej panny - vidíme to. Veci ktoré sa nikdy nediali - že nikto z tých mužov, z tých učiteľov cez všetky tie veky, by tieto veci nemohol povedať tak, ako to my môžeme teraz, pretože je to tu.
25Nuž, hlúpa panna a skrížení letniční (to je to isté - skrížení vecami toho sveta) ... Nuž, zapamätajte si, ja som letničný, ale nie letniční podľa denominácii. Ja to neľúbe nesiem. Ja som letničný skrze prežitie. My musíme mať ... metodisti sú letniční; baptisti sú letniční; katolíci sú letniční, ak majú to letničné prežitie. Nemôžete zorganizovať letnice, pretože to je prežitie, a to je Boh, a Boh nemôže byť zorganizovaný.
26Nuž ... nuž, Ježiš nám povedal, že tieto veci prídu, a teraz ... povedal nám o tom čo sa stane - povstane hlúpa panna a čo ona bude robiť, a ako tí ľudia sa budú dovolávať a chcieť olej, v ich čase, ale bude pre nich príliš neskoro. Vidíte? Nuž sledujte tieto tri ... tieto tri cirkvi. Tam je tá prostitútka; ona neprišla nadarmo. Ona má sama v sebe svoje centrum. Tam bola hlúpa panna, čo je protestantská cirkev. A bola tam Nevesta, vidíte? Nuž, v posledných dňoch je cirkev rozdelená na tie tri oblasti. Hľaďte teraz, vyvedieme ich na svetlo, rovno od Genesis a prinesieme ich sem a umiestnime ich v Zjavení, vo Vytrhnutí, keď Pán dá.
27Všetky tieto veci vyzerajú skutočné. Letnice vyzerajú skutočné. Pomyslite si, oni ... "Prečo, ja patrím do letničnej organizácii." To neznamená nič viac, než ako keby ste žili v ohrade pre svine! Nie je v tom ani trochu rozdiel. To ne ... To je len zvučiacou mosadzou a znejúcim cimbalom. Nezáleží na tom kde patríte, ak ste sa nenarodili z Ducha Božieho a neprijali ste Ducha Božieho - a dôvod - ak to nemáte - neveríte celému Božiemu Slovu, neprijali ste ešte Ducha Svätého. Skutočne. Je to presne tak. Duch Svätý - Keď počuješ Pravdu, a Duch Svätý ťa nevedie do Nej, potom je tam iný duch, ktorý ti nedovoľuje prijať Ju. Tak ten duch, ktorého máš v sebe nie je Duch Svätý.
28V poriadku, zistili sme teraz, že ako - išli sme ďalej a povedali sme, že ako Janes a Jambres sa postavili proti Mojžíšovi (hovorili sme o tom), ako sa tieto veci budú diať v týchto posledných dňoch. Nuž, a posledný citát, ktorý sme mali bol, že Boh učinil každé semeno podľa jeho druhu; to je Jeho, vidíte. Potom, keď On učinil Svojho človeka na Svoj obraz - to bolo semeno Jeho Slova. A keď Ježiš sa stal telom, On bol telom Slova Božieho. A keď my prijímame Slovo Božie, potom my sa stávame Božím Slovom v našom tele, vidíte? Cirkev sa má nachádzať v takom stave.
29Nuž, potom čo On učinil človeka na Svoj obraz - "na obraz Boží ho stvoril ..." - nuž, potom čo to On urobil (nech vám to neunikne), potom, čo Boh učinil Svojho - Svojho človeka na Svoj vlastný obraz, Svojím vlastným vypovedaným Slovom - nuž to bol dokonalý človek, ale úpadok prišiel vtedy, keď On vzal z neho vedľajší produkt a urobil mu nevestu. Tam je teraz ten problém. Ak ste duchovní, už ste to pochytili, vidíte? On - To nebol Adam, ktorý sa dostal do problémov. To nebol Adam, ktorý zapochyboval o Slove; to bola jeho nevesta, ktorá zapochybovala v Slovo. A to nie je Ježiš, ktorý pochybuje o Slove, pretože On bol to Slovo; to je Jeho nevesta.
30Odtiaľ pochádza skríženie - ono neprišlo skrze Adama. Hanbite sa, vy ktorí to nevidíte! To nebola Adamova chyba. On nemal s tým nič dočinenia. Ak by smrť prišla skrze Adama, to by prišla skrze Boha. Smrť prišla skrze kríženie. Smrť nemôže prísť skrze Božie Slovo. Smrť prichádza keď to križujeme s denomináciou a s vierovyznaním. Namiesto Krista, dogma - namiesto Slova. To neprichádza skrze Slovo. Slovo je Život. Ježiš povedal, "Moje slová sú Život," a Duch oživuje to Slovo a činí Ho Životom. Keď to skrížite, prichádza skrze to smrť. A ak Adam, ktorý bol Slovom Božím, Jeho vypovedaným Slovom, Jeho originálnym Semenom (pretože on bol ten prvým potom ... skrze stvorenie), potom Jeho druhý Adam bol tiež skrze stvorenie (skrze vypovedané Slovo). Sledujete to? Nuž, Adam nebol zvedený, ale jeho nevesta bola zvedená. Kristus dnes nie je zvedený. Slovo nehovorí klamstvo. To je nevesta, ktorá povedľa Slova hovorí klamstvo. Vidíte to?
31Nuž, On mu dal nevestu - predobraz druhého Adama. On dal prvému Adamovi nevestu; ona upadla. On dal druhému Adamovi, Kristovi, nevestu; ona upadla. Presne to pasuje. Prečo? - ona nie je originál; ona je vedľajší produkt. Tá dnešná nevesta dnes vedľajším produktom. Vidíte, ona sa sama nazýva nevestou. Ale čo ona je? Ona je vybudovaná z materiálu organizácii, nie zo Slova - je v tom toľko Slova, že to vytvára taký vedľajší produkt, že ju to robí pokryteckou. Eva verila väčšine Slova, ale pochybovala o jednej časti z Neho. Dnes ona nemôže ani dať dokopy Skutky 28 ... či vlastne Matúša 28: 19 so Skutkami 2: 38. Vidíte? To ju uvádza do rozpakov. To je len jedno maličké miesto z pomedzi stoviek ďalších.
32Nuž, nevesta Adama bola predobrazom nevesty druhého Adama. No a Adamova nevesta - Adamova nevesta nemohla počkať. Boh povedal Adamovi a Eve: "Ploďte sa a množte sa a naplňte zem." To bola vec, ktorá mala nadísť - zasľúbenie. Ona ešte nebola jeho žena, pretože on s ňou ešte vôbec nežil. Nevesta Kristova je ešte nie Jeho Žena; má sa konať svadba. Rozumiete tomu? Všimnite si, ó to je bohaté! Ona sa ponáhľala, a čo urobila? - ona skrížila svoje semeno. Zmiešala to so semenom hada; a keď to urobila, ona zrodila - čo zrodila? Zrodila dieťa smrti, dieťa, ktoré - ona potom zdegenerovala každé dieťa. A keď cirkev Ježiša Krista bola zdegenerovaná v čase Ríma, po jej panenskom zrodení, a bola daná Kristovi na Letnice, ona - Čo ona urobila? Ona sa skrížila s Rímskou dogmou. A protestantská cirkev urobila presne tú istú vec. Ona nemôže čakať.
33Žena zasnúbená fajn, mladému, čistému mužovi, a prv ako sa oni zídu spolu, čo ona robí? Nájdená je tehotná od niekoho iného. Potom jej vlastné semeno, ktoré je zasnúbené, jej vlastné telo, ktoré je zasnúbené jej chlapcovi, jej zasnúbenému mužovi, je nájdené plné semena od iného muža. Čo za hanba! To je presne to čo našiel Adam.
34To je to čo našiel Kristus. Nemohla čakať. To je ten problém s ľuďmi dnes. Oni nemôžu čakať na skutočného Ducha Svätého, aby zaujal pozíciu Cirkvi. Oni musia vyprodukovať niečo, vyrobiť niečo - počiatočný dôkaz, hovorenie v jazykoch - získať viacej členov v cirkvi, všetky takéto druhy hlúpostí, namiesto toho aby čakali na Pána, na skutočnú manifestáciu vzkrieseného Krista, ktorý sa dáva poznávať medzi ľuďmi. Ona nemôže čakať.
35Čo ona urobila? Ona vyšla von a stala sa tehotnou s denominacionalizmom. Prv to boli Zhromaždenia Božie; potom prišli Jednotári, potom za tým prišli všetci ďalší. A teraz tá, tak zvaná nevesta je tehotná so všetkým druhom hlúpostí, hanba. Ženy nebudú zvracať ani o trošku viac úvahy na to čo hovorí Slovo Božie, než ako na čokoľvek v tom svete, a tak isto ani muži, či dokonca kazatelia. A to potom nazývajú nevestou!
36Čo to je? Ona je tehotná. Kristova nevesta otehotnela svetom - oblieka sa ako svet, zachováva sa ako svet, veľké kostoly, pekné ... Čo ... to ukazuje čo ona je. Ona je z diabla! To je to čo urobil Satan na prvom mieste, snažil sa vybudovať veľké nádherné kráľovstvo v nebi, a bol z tade vykopnutý - exkomunikovaný z Neba. A preto je Kristova moderná nevesta ... ona je vykopnutá von, pretože ona je exkomunikovaná preč od Boha, pretože ona je smilnica a nie panna. Je to hlboké, ale dúfam, že to rozumiete.
37Adamova nevesta nemohla čakať, ale nelegálne zmiešala svoje semeno, nelegálne. My máme veriť Božiemu Slovu a jedine Jemu!
38Nuž bratia, vy tu i vy ktorí počúvate tú pásku, vidíte prečo sa zastávam Slova, slovo za slovom. Povedal som vám, že verím, že to je Božia Pravda. Boh chránil túto Bibliu. On musí súdiť svet skrze niečo - skrze Ježiša Krista, ktorý je Slovom, a toto Slovo sa stalo telom, aby sa stalo Ježišom Kristom ... Nechávam to vsiaknuť do vás. Pamätajte, Slovo. A On ju teraz nachádza celú zasvinenú. Myslíte si, že On sa ožení s niečím takým? Nikdy. On je svätý.
Ona nemohla čakať. Nelegálnosť, to je to čo Adam našiel.
39Nuž, bratia, sestry, pozrite sa dozadu. Ak sa pozriete na tieň od čohokoľvek, on je práve to vykreslenie tej skutočnej veci, ktorá prichádza. Tak vidíte, Adam musel nájsť svoju ženu tehotnú. A ona povedala, "Had ma zviedol."
40Nuž, my sme - vy ste - chcem to vziať z oboch strán za chvíľu, ak Pán dá, vidíte, aby som vám ukázal, že je to nemožné, aby to bolo nejako inak.
41Nuž, Adamova nevesta nemohla počkať, ale ona prv vyšla dopredu. To je ten spôsob dnes, nevesta dnes. Ona chce niečo vyprodukovať. "Sláva Bohu!" - ona to musí vypracovať na pódiu. Ona musí mať všetko, vidíte. Čo ona robí - produkuje niečo.
42Pozrite sa kde to ide. Môžete vidieť, že to s tým nemá nič spoločného; je to sfalšované. Presne tak. Ak by to nebolo, tento svet by bol v plameňoch moci Božej; cirkev by bola v ohni; ó, čo ... mŕtvi by boli budení z mŕtvych a diali by sa všetky rôzne vecí. Ale čím bola ona posiata, prv ako sa Kristus mohol ku nej dostať, prv ako sa On dostal ku nej, aby zasial Svoje vlastné Semeno? Čo ona mala? - semeno kúkoľu, sveta, denominačné semeno. Preto teraz ona toto žne vo svojej žatve. Dúfam, že sa ne ... že vás nevyvádzam z rovnováhy, ale dúfam, že sa to dostáva rovno dole na miesto, kde budem spoliehať, že vám to Boh dal. Rozumiete?
43Nuž, ona nelegálne zmiešala svoje semeno, nezákonne voči Slovu. Čo sa ona snažila nájsť? (Počúvajte teraz pozorne.) Za čím ona išla? za múdrosťou! Za múdrosťou! A to je to, čo ona robí dnes. Posiela svojich kazateľov do škôl, liahnu ich v inkubátoroch, skrze psychológiu a všetko možné, čo má ... ani nie v Biblii. A ona v inkubátore liahne svoje vajcia. A keď to urobí, prinesie produkt, hromadu ľudí, ktorí budú uzatvárať kompromis s čímkoľvek a odmietnu to skutočné Posolstvo Božie, a ona ani nevie čo robí.
44Ona si to neuvedomuje. Ona neverí - ona nemyslí, že je to zle. Tak isto ani Eva si nemyslela, že urobila zle. Eva si myslela, že je v poriadku. A ak to bol predobraz, a toto je ten skutočný obraz, to sa bude musieť diať tak isto, ako sa to dialo pri tom predobraze. Nuž to je práve - pre mňa je to práve tak, ako že dva krát dva sú štyri.
45Všimnite si teraz, čo sa stalo Eviným deťom? Ten prvý, ktorý sa narodil - nuž ak Boh povedal, "Ploďte sa a množte (jeho neveste, Adamovej neveste) a naplňte - množte sa a naplňte zem," to bolo Božie poverenie; a ona by to bola urobila, a on (diabol) by ich nebol zmiešal - oni by sa neboli spolu zmiešali. Ale čo sa stalo? Keď Adam bol hotový prísť ku nej, ona už bola matkou. Rozumiete čo mám na mysli?
46Nuž a tá istá vec sa prihodila Kristovej cirkvi, Kristovej neveste. Nuž ideme ešte ďalej do toho za chvíľu. Všimnite si, v tejto neveste, čo ona potom urobila? Prišlo jej prvé dieťa, to bolo bastardské dieťa, a on bol plný smrti a zapríčinil smrť. A každý jeden od vtedy je mŕtvy! Teraz vidíte, že to musel byť sex. Prečo potom zomierate, ak to nebol sex? Keď Boh dal poverenie, ktoré nemôže zahynúť! Božie Slovo je Večné! Ono nemôže sklamať! Keď On povedal, "Ploďte sa a množte sa a naplňte zem - to bol Večný Boží zámer. Keď budete postupovať podľa toho nemôžete zomrieť, pretože to je Jeho Slovo. Vy musíte žiť. A ak to dieťa by bolo narodené správne, nebolo by žiadnej smrti; ale ona nebola schopná počkať.
47To je to čo sa deje dnes. Vy chcete nejaký druh umelého nalíčenia s vykrikovaním, poskakovaním, hovorením v jazykoch, či niečím podobným, namiesto toho aby ste čakali na skutočné Božie Slovo, aby sa zamanifestovalo na Neveste. Ten druh, ktorý prijíma Slovo je pravdivou Božou Nevestou, ktorá rodí deti. Oni nemôžu zomrieť. Dieťa, ktoré Nevesta zrodí podľa Slova, nemôže zomrieť, pretože Ono je Slovo. Amen. Porozumeli ste to? Ona nemôže zomrieť pretože ona je - to dieťa nemôže zomrieť, pretože ono je dieťa Slova; ono je dieťaťom semena; ono je Večným dieťaťom. Haleluja!
48To je presne to čo bol Ježiš Kristus - vyslovené Večné dieťa. On nemusel zomrieť, ale On to urobil za tým účelom aby zaplatil dlh. To je ten jediný spôsob, ako to mohlo byť zaplatené. Nikto iný to nemohol urobiť; oni všetci boli zrodení zo sexu, po diablovi, podľa jeho plánu. Rozumiete tomu teraz? Vidíte?
49Ale každí človek, bez ohľadu na to, či je to pápež, kňaz, biskup, čokoľvek on je, on zomiera, pretože on je - on je kríženec. Je to presne tak! On sa narodil pomedzi Satanom a Evou. Oni to môžu nazývať čímkoľvek chcete, to bol Satan a Eva. To originálne Slovo s tým nemá nič spoločného. To originálne Slovo bol Život. On To skrížil a to prinieslo smrť! A keď cirkev dnes, oni sa sami nazývajú letniční, nazývajú sa baptisti, čokoľvek chcú, keď oni skrížia toto Slovo s dogmou, to produkuje deti smrti. A ona nemôže mať v sebe žiadny život! Ona je mŕtva a jej deti sú mŕtve!
50Boh povedal, "Ja ju hodím na ležisko svetskosti a zabijem jej deti." Boh to povedal tak v Zjavení. Koľkí z vás vedia, že je to pravda? Položím ju na ležisko svetskosti (to je tam kde ona je), a zabijem jej deti, dokonca ohňom. My pozorujeme kde - čo sa deje kúkoľu, ktorý je medzi pšenicou? - bude spálený. Och, nemôžete povedať, že Slovo klame. Ono je Pravda. Niekedy váhate a - "ale my môžeme povedať, že Ono sa mýli", ale ak Ho budete udržiavať aby bežalo priamo, Ono bude bežať raz-dva, raz-dva, raz-dva, raz-dva rovno vpred. Hodil ju na ležisko svetskosti. Ona nemôže zrodiť nič, než ako deti smrti.
51Potom ak denominácia môže zrodiť len skrížené decko, prečo chcete do nej patriť? Nuž bratia, to je ten dôvod prečo som proti tomu. Ona je od počiatku smilnica. Biblia hovorí, že ona bola - smilnica. Sú to jasné slová, ale povedal som vám, že budem hovoriť dnes otvorene. Čo ona je. Ona pácha duchovné cudzoložstvo, tým že prijíma dogmy a vyznania namiesto Slova, učí svoje deti, aby robili to isté.
52Nuž, jej deti vychádzajú z jej lona mŕtve. Ona musí zomrieť. Je to presne tak. Presne tak isto, ako každý človek - počúvajte, presne tak isto, ako každá smrteľná osoba, ktorá sa preborí cez lono ženy zomrie, a tak zomrie každý človek, ktorý sa narodil skrze nich, pretože ona je kríženec, nezákonná, a jej deti sú nemanželské. Je to tak. Dúfam, že to neprechádza ponad vašu hlavu.
53Nuž, Jahwe mal raz nevestu. Adam mal nevestu. Ježiš mal nevestu, Jahwe mal nevestu. Viete o tom? On ju musel dať preč. Ona sa stal smilnicou, a tak ju dal preč. To je presne to, čo On povedal. Ona sa stala smilnicou, prostitútkou. Čo ju doviedlo do toho, že ona to robila? (Prajem si, aby sme mali čas čítať to. Možno sa dostanem za chvíľu ku niečomu z toho.) Práve teraz, bolo to v čase Samuela, keď Izrael mal kráľa, Boha, a ona bola panna. A ona mala niečo vyprodukovať. A čo sa stalo? Ona sa začala rozhliadať dokola a videla tie ďalšie národy, ktoré mali kráľov, a tak ona chcela byť taká, ako tí ostatní.
54Vy naspäť odviaty letniční, to je presne to, čo ste urobili. Keď tento starý kazateľ, ktorý tu sedí, dnes mu je skoro sto rokov, keď tam prepukli letnice, nemohli ste im povedať nič o žiadnej organizácii. Oni by to nepočúvali. Oni to nazývali vecami od diabla, a tí mužovia mali pravdu! Ale čo ste urobili? Vy ste sa museli začať zachovávať tak, ako tie ostatné cirkvi. Vy ste to museli zorganizovať. Potom, ako On povedal, natiahli ste ploty pomedzi sebou. Pustili sa do vyučovania ...?... učia nás (Chvála Bohu! Hallelujah!) takto a vyskakovať hore dole a hovoriť v jazykoch a hovoria, "Zapíš ho ako člena; on to má." On nie je správne pokrstený - ani vodou ani Duchom. On nie je v poriadku. Jeho ovocie to dokazuje. On má zlý druh semena, na to aby mohol rásť. "Nech ťa Boh žehná brat, položíme tu na teba ruky a urobíme ťa starším! Poviem ti čo ty ... vybudujeme tu túto organizáciu, že bude väčšia než ako tie Zhromaždenia Božie!" Presne tak sa to rozvíjalo. Čítajte letničnú históriu, a presvedčte sa či to tak nie je, alebo históriu ktorejkoľvek cirkvi.
55Baptisti chceli predstihnúť metodistov. Metodisti chceli predstihnúť luteránov. Luteráni chceli predstihnúť katolíkov. Každý chcel aby predstihol - predstihol niekoho. Vidíte, to je ... to je duch organizácii. "Ale málo bude tých, ktorí budú spasení. Tesná je brána a úzka je cesta, a málo je tých, ktorí ju nájdu." Len málo. Ak On povedal málo (to je Slovo Božie, to semeno), bude ich málo. Nebudú to žiadne desiatky biliónov a biliónov. Bude len málo tých, ktorí to nájdu. Tých, ktorí sú predurčení do toho, oni to počúvajú. Ten včasný dážď vyšiel teraz.
56Nuž, Jahwe mal nevestu, ktorú miloval, ale ona odišla a začala smilniť. Čo urobila? - začala sa správať ako aj iné moci toho sveta. A čo On urobil s týmto zbožným, starým, pomazaným prorokom (keď Slovo Pánovo prichádza ku prorokovi)? On priviedol toho starého proroka, Samuela, prišli ku nemu; on povedal, "Deti, zhromaždite sa na chvíľu okolo mňa, chcem vám niečo povedať, vám všetkým. Prečo chcete kráľa? Jahwe je vaším Kráľom. Prečo chcete nejaké vierovyznanie? Biblia je vaším vyznaním. Biblia je Pravda. Vyznania sú klamstvom. Ste mŕtvi, ľuďmi učinení." Apoštolské Vyznanie, ukážte mi to v Biblii. Kto kedy počul o niečom takom? "Verím v obecenstvo svätých." Každý kto verí v obecenstvo svätých je špiritista. Obecenstvo s mŕtvymi. Je len jeden prostredník medzi Bohom a človekom, a to je Kristus, a On nie je mŕtvy, ale On žije naveky, vstal z mŕtvych. Protestanti to prehltli aj s navijakom a neviem s čím ešte, so všetkými cirkevnými katechizmami, prehltli to presne tak isto. Oni to milujú, skutočne, tak ako ten ostatný svet.
57"Ó, viete, my sme zvykli byť letniční. Stávali sme tam na rohu s tamburínou v ruke a modlili sme sa; a tie ženy tam stáli a ich dlhé vlasy viseli dole a chválili Boha a všetko tomu podobné." Ale o jój, vy to viete lepšie. Oni by sa vám vysmiali rovno do tvári, skutoční kresťania. Stoja tam vonku s ostrihanými vlasmi podľa hrnca, na hrubo namaľované a ich šaty vyzerajú ako koža na viedenskom párku, a takto idú dole a hovoríte si pri tom svätí Boží? Majte rozum a nerobte to! Tak isto svet by mal mať rozum a nerobiť to. Hanba vám. Mali by ste radšej opustiť rohy ulíc ... ak nedokážete vyprodukovať nič okrem toho ... Ale to je presne tak, ako to vždy bolo, a to stále pôjde ponad nich a oni to uvidia až potom, keď je to už príliš ďaleko. Oni to vždy tak robili. Oni to urobili.
58Jahweho nevesta chcela ísť smilniť, postupovať ako tí ostatní ľudia, ako tí ostatní z nich. To je to, čo chcela robiť Ježišova nevesta. A starý Samuel, ku ktorému prichádzalo Slovo ... ku komu prichádza Slovo? - ku prorokom. Čo povedal ten starý prorok, keď tam prišiel, "Deti, počkajte len chvíľu. Prečo chcete ísť a postupovať ako oni?" Povedal, "Či som vám povedal niekedy niečo v Mene Pánovom, čo by sa nebolo stalo?" Pamätáte si na to? Koľkí z vás to čítali? Určite ste to čítali. "Povedal som vám niekedy niečo v Mene Pánovom, čo by sa nebolo stalo? A ďalšia vec, či som mával veľké kampane, či tomu podobné, a bral od vás všetky vaše peniaze? Či som tak robil?" on povedal, "Či som prosil niekedy nejaké - " Ja teraz hovorím o Samuelovi. O niekom, ku ktorému prichádzalo Slovo Pánovo. On povedal, "Či som žiadal od vás niekedy aby ste doniesli - zložili toľko a urobili toľko a toľko.
"Nie," oni odpovedali, "nie, nikdy si tak nerobil. Nikdy si nám nepovedal nič čo by nebola pravda."
On povedal, "Tak prečo potom chcete ísť a postupovať tak ako oni?"
Oni povedali, "Samuel, ty máš pravdu, ale my to aj tak chceme."
59To je presne to, čo urobila letničná cirkev. Kvôli tomu sa ku ním nepripojím. Skutočne, ja chcem zostať pannou pred Bohom s Jeho Slovom. Či oni - Ja nemusím mať žiadne veľké predstavenia ani nič tomu podobné. Ja som to odmietol. Nechcel som sa dať poviazať. To nebola moja múdrosť; to bola Božia múdrosť. Keby som musel vystúpiť, tak by som bol mohol - musel by som byť podlízavý ku každému, ku ľuďom i ku diablovi a povedať im, "Áno, musím mať toľko na televízne vysielanie, a musím mať toľko na to i to; vy musíte za to zaplatiť," Tiež by som takto musel ťahať za povrazy. Ale ja som vám nikdy nepovedal nič v Mene Pánovom, čo by sa nebolo stalo. Nikdy som vám nepovedal nič okrem Slova. Posúďte sami. Prosil som vás niekedy o niečo? Nie veru. Nie, Boh sa o to postaral. Nemám žiadne veľké programy, ktoré by ma podopierali. Nemal som nič také. Každý, kto patrí ku Bohu, bude počúvať Boha! Buďte len citliví na vedenie Ducha Božieho, kde ísť a čo robiť, a robte to. To je všetko čo je potrebné. Zachovávajte to, nie nejaké veľké programy, ktoré donášajú milióny dolárov - milióny a milióny a milióny, a niektorí z nich teraz budujú budovy za milióny a milióny dolárov.
60Nemám zlý názor na kritiku. To je treba kritizovať. Nechcem raniť niečie pocity, ale radšej raním ľudské pocity ako pocity Božie. Ak ťa On poveruje a posiela ťa aby si činil tieto veci, a dokázal to medzi ľuďmi, potom to máš počúvať. Hovorím vám Pravdu. Boh potvrdzuje, že je to Pravda. Je to presne tak.
61A tak Jahweho nevesta začala smilniť, a čo ona urobila? - znovu zrodila bandu nemanželských detí. Je to tak? My vieme, že je to pravda. Dokonca museli byť zabratí preč, skrze kráľa Nabuchodonozora, a tak ďalej. Kristova Nevesta učinila to isté. Kvôli čomu? - nemohla počkať. Ó nie. Och, och - proste nemohla počkať.
62Oni museli niečo vyprodukovať. Oni nemohli očakávať na Ducha Svätého, aby prišiel a dostal sa do cirkvi. Vidíte, oni museli mať viacej vo svojej denominácii. Keby to bolo zostalo tak ako to bolo vtedy pred sto rokmi, alebo pred päťdesiatimi rokmi, keď rozpočali znovu letnice v tých posledných dňoch, keď to Slovo začalo byť kázané, keby to bolo tak zostalo, ona by dnes pravdepodobne nemala viac ako päťdesiat členov. Je to tak. Ale oni by boli obmytí krvou! Oni by mali v sebe moc Božiu! Svet by bol otrasený pod ohromným nárazom tela Slova, ktoré by bolo hovorené slovo za slovom. Ale dnes, prečo, je to len zvučiaca mosadz a znejúci cimbal. Je to tak. Stalo sa to len nezmyslom, vecou na výsmech, hanbou pre ten svet, hanbou pre Boha.
63Prišiel som na jedno miesto, traja bratia - dvaja bratia a ja, prišli sme na jedno miesto krížom z Springfield, v Missouri, raz ráno na raňajky, ako sme sem išli z Arizony, a bola tam taká malá pani, na ktorú brat Wood zvrátil moju pozornosť, vyzerala ako naša sestra Collinsová - blondína, s veľkým vrkočom vzadu - a on povedal, "Či nevyzerá ako žena brata Willarda Collinsa?"
64Povedal som, "Vyzerá." Tu vyšla nejaká staršia pani, a ja som povedal, "Zdá sa mi, že to je jej matka. Pozrite na ten veľký vrkoč." Povedal som, "Tu neďaleko sa práve nachádza modlitebňa Zborov Božích, hlavný stan Zborov Božích; to je kde - preto sú také." A sedelo tam mnoho mladých sestier s takými naondulovanými vlasmi; to boli študentky. Mladé "Rikity" a oni všetky sa tam tak zachovávali, viete; každá z nich držala pod pazuchou svoju Bibliu.
65Pozorovali sme ich všetky až kým nevyšli - chichotali sa, smiali, zachovávali sa ako tie moderné - to je úroda letničných, ktorá prichádza na zajtrajší deň - ak bude nejaký zajtrajšok. PREČO! PREČO! PREČO! - pretože to je to semeno, ktoré bolo zasiate. Je to úplná pravda.
Keď ona vyšla, keď oni všetky vyšli von, tá pani tam prišla a opýtala sa, "Môžem pre vás niečo urobiť?"
Povedal som, "Rád by som sa vás niečo opýtal."
"Prosím, pane?"
Povedal som (tak ako neznámy, myslel som, že by nás mohla poznať) - povedal som, "Nie je to tam oproti Biblická škola?"
Ona povedala, "Áno, pane, je."
Ja som povedal, "Predpokladám, že máte z toho celkom dobrú tržbu." (Sedel tam brat Fred Sothman a brat Banks Wood, dvaja zo starších nášho zboru.) A ja som povedal ...
Ona povedala, "Áno, máme."
Povedal som, "Predpokladám, že tam patríte?"
Ona povedala, "Nie," povedala, "prepáčte, nepatrím."
A ja som povedal, "Myslel som si to preto, že máte také pekné dlhé vlasy. A predpokladám, že to je vaša matka?"
Ona povedala, "Nie, pane"; povedala, "ona tu len pracuje." Ona povedala, "Nie, ja ne - " povedala, "Páčia sa mi dlhé vlasy. Mám malé dievčatko a vediem ju ku tomu aby tiež nosila dlhé vlasy," a povedala, "Môjmu mužovi sa páčia dlhé vlasy."
Povedal som, "Nech ho Boh žehná." A tak ona povedala, "Nuž - " Povedala - ja som povedal, "No, je to divné. To tu boli študentky, tie dievčatá s tými ostrihanými vlasmi, ako má prvá dáma?" [prvá dáma - žena prezidenta - Jacqueline Kennedy. – pozn.prekl.]
Keď sme odchádzali - povedal som, "Ďakujem"; pri tom ako sme vychádzali. Povedal som, "Boh tu dal túto ženu ako napomenutie pre tú bastardsky narodenú skupinu detí tam oproti!"
66Je to tak, nelegitímne, podľa vecí toho sveta. Koľko žien nasledovalo príklad Jezábeli, prvej dámy tej krajiny, čo myslíte, koľké z nich sú dnes v Nebi? Vidíte? Veci toho sveta - Ak milujete svet, alebo veci toho sveta, nie je vo vás láska Božia. No vidíte - Čo je to? - smotana zajtrajšej úrody letničných - toho najväčšieho hnutia v tomto národe. Tu to máte. To je nevesta. Nechápem to.
67No dobre, čo sa ona snaží robiť? Och, ona vytvára trochu poskakovania na pódiu - nie že by som sa z toho vysmieval; to je v poriadku. Ona vytvára niečo ďalšie. Prečo? -aby získala členov do cirkvi. Kvôli čomu? Ona proste nemôže čakať. Vidíte? Ona nemôže čakať na Boha, aby to robil. Oni tam niekde musia získať členov. A tak oni im povedali, "Vy to musíte robiť," a odchádzajú preč. Vidíte, tam je to semeno, ktoré práve vzchádza. Vy to musíte robiť.
68Ja som misionár. Videl som Afričanov, ako chytali krv zo zvierat a takto sa ňou polievali (úplne nahí, mužovia i ženy), maľujúc si tváre - to pochádza odtiaľ; maľovanie pochádza z pohanského charakteru, nie je to pre nás ľudí, kresťanov, veriacich; ani nikdy nebolo. Bola len jedna žena v celej Biblii, ktorá sa kedy maľovala, to bola Jezábeľ, diabol.
69A tak potom ona - oni si maľujú tváre, na uši si dávajú veľké dlhé veci, ako kusy dreva (v kmeni Zulu) - to je kus dreva, ktorí spôsobuje, že ich ušné boltce takto visia dole - niekedy rozďavia a vytrčia von svoje pery (myslia si, že to vyzerá nádherne), potierajú si krvou hruď, ktorá steká dole po ich nohách a po všetkom, a potom si robia pruhy ako zebra, a vykrikujú, tancujú v duchu a hovoria v jazykoch - a uctievajú diablov: dôkaz Ducha Svätého!
70Bol som práve v Indii, keď tam mali takých čo chodia po ohni i rôznych iných, a viem že je to pravda. Je tam veľká modla s rubínmi v ušiach, ako náušnice a takéto veci, a oni sa mučia a prepichávajú svoje telo a bijú sa a zašívajú svoje ústa, ak klamali, a kajajú sa, a šabľou si prepichujú pery alebo bradu, až hore cez nos a prepichujú to, že to až vychádza von; berú veľké háčiky na ryby, ako gule na vianočnom stromku, odídu a naplnia to vodou a tisíce si ich pozakvačujú po svojom tele, rovno cez mäso a idú tam a tancujú takto okolo tej modly, a zabijú kozľa a takto vykonávajú svoju pobožnosť, a prechádzajú rovno cez horúci červený oheň bez popáleniny. Skúste to, vy niektorí letniční!
71Ale to urobili - tým židovským mládencom. Ale oni nikdy nepokúšali Pána Boha; oni boli proste do toho hodení. Oni sa nesnažili niečo vypôsobiť. To je to, čo sa deja dnes s letničnými. Oni niečo vyrábajú. Oni nemôžu čakať! Och, Bože, oni proste nemôžu čakať, a tak páchajú cudzoložstvo. Amen. Snažia sa vyprodukovať niečo, a čo to prináša? - to isté čo aj prvý krát, tá prvá nevesta. Oni nemôžu čakať.
72Ona priniesla smrť, skrze bastardsky zrodené dieťa, ktorej sme my všetci deťmi. Boh prišiel v tele, aby nám dal iné narodenie, aby nás priviedol naspäť do originálnych synov a dcér Božích. Vidíte? Tu to máte. Nikdy nedošlo ku správnemu oplodneniu Evy. To sa nikdy nestalo. Prečo? Ona to zmiešala, dala to nabok. Namiesto toho aby prišiel ku nej Adam, ako ku neveste, keď by prišiel ten vyznačený čas - práve ako Kristus mal prísť do tej skupiny. Kristus by bol musel prísť do Svojej cirkvi; On zasľúbil, že príde. Boh zasľúbil, že sa budú rozmnožovať, ale oni museli čakať na Boží čas.
73 To je to čo sa deje dnes. Oni nechcú čakať na Boží čas. Oni chcú získať niečo ďalšie, a tak hneď tam má diabol múdrosť, aby im ju dal. Aby urobili organizáciu; väčšiu ako tam tí iní.
74Vidíte teraz prečo som proti tomu? Skutočne, som proti tomu so všetkým čo je vo mne. Pokiaľ je tam to Slovo, Ono vždy bude proti tomu. Boh je proti tomu. Boh povedal, že je. Je to pravda. Proste nemôžu čakať.
75A tak u Evy nedošlo ku tomu oplodneniu. Bolo to skrížené so Satanovým klamstvom, jeho milovaná nevesta bola poškvrnená. A to isté sa stalo s Kristovou Nevestou. Nevesta - čo ju poškvrnilo? (Mám teraz na mysli Adamovu nevestu) - to že nestála na Božom Slove. Je to pravda? Pýtam sa teraz, ak to tak nie je, povedzte nie; ale ak to tak je povedzte to. Ten dôvod, že Božia - dôvod, že Adamova nevesta - sú tri: Adamova, Kristova, Božia. Dôvod, prečo Adamova nevesta nikdy nezrodila to pravé decko života, je ten, že ona spochybnila Božie Slovo. Ak je to tak, povedzte "Amen". [Zhromaždenie odpovedá "Amen." – pozn.prekl.] Dôvod, že Jahweho žena bola odstavená nabok, či Jeho nevesta, bol ten, že ona odmietla Božie Slovo, Proroka. Je to pravda? Dôvod, že Kristova nevesta je daná nabok v rozvode, je ten, že ona odmietla Božie Slovo, tak ako to urobila Eva, tak ako urobili tie ostatné; presne tak, všetky začali smilniť, všetky sa poškvrnili. Ich muž sa nemohol ku ním dostať. Oni už boli tehotné, prv ako sa ku ním dostal ich muž.
76Ó, Bože, či je to nie poľutovania hodný pohľad! Predstavte si mladého muža, ako prichádza ku žene, a zisťuje, že má v sebe semeno od iného muža. Čo za vec! To je to čo zistil Boh. To je to čo zistil Adam. To je to čo zistil Kristus. Ó!
77Áno, nezostala so Slovom a spôsobila skrížený stav. To je to čo urobil Izrael. Vidíte kde ona je? To je to čo urobila Kristova nevesta. Vidíte kde ona je? - tak isto tie ostatné. Kristova letničná nevesta urobila to isté.
78Ona nemôže zrodiť duchovné deti Slova, pretože ona sama je skrížená. Ako to ona môže urobiť, keď ona sama je skrížená s denomináciami? Spojila sa s nimi a robí všetko presne tak isto, ako oni. Spolu s nimi v cirkevnej rade a vo všetkom, proste skrížená, ako aj tie ostatné. Ako to ona môže urobiť? Ona to nemôže.
79Nuž, mám proste tak veľa do povedania, a musím sa s tým ponáhľať. Chcel by som kázať o každej jednej z nich.
80Nuž, dávajte pozor, tá ozajstná Nevesta - Haleluja, bude taká! Prečo? Ona je predurčená. Ona nebude denomináciou, pretože Ona je predurčená. Ona si nemusí robiť starosti s nejakou denomináciou, Ona je už predurčená, aby zaujala to miesto.
81Pozrite sa, ako Mária - chcem aby ste to teraz porozumeli a aby vám to neuniklo. Ste pripravení? Povedzte, "Amen." [Zhromaždenie hovorí, "Amen." – pozn.prekl.] Keď Kristus príde ku Svojej Neveste, Ona bude panna, ako bola Mária, pretože Boh neprivedie Krista skrze lono smilnici, tak isto On neprivedie cez také lono Nevestu. On nemôže priviesť Svoje Slovo skrze smilnicu, ktorá smilní voči Jeho Slovu. To sú hrozné slová, ale to je to čo hovorí Biblia. Ja hovorím to čo je tu povedané, pretože tomu musíme porozumieť.
82Ozajstná Nevesta, ako Mária, bude mať panenské lono pre Nevestu Slova, ktorým je Kristus. Keď Kristus, Slovo, prichádza do Nevesty, Ona bude taká istá, ako je On - panna skrze Slovo. Dúfam - dúfam, že to prechádza, brat Neville. Ja - Vidíte? Dúfam, že rozumiete. Čo On bol? - Slovo! - Slovo Božie. Na Svojom rúchu mal napísané Meno, "Slovo Božie." Na počiatku bolo Slovo, a to Slovo bolo u Boha, a to Slovo bol Boh. A to Slovo ... sa stalo telom a prebývalo medzi nami." On je Boh, a Boh je Slovo. A keď Jeho Nevesta príde, Ona bude taký istý produkt ako bol On - panna!
83Či patril Kristus do nejakej denominácii? A Jahwe? A tak isto ani Jeho Nevesta! Ona je časťou Neho. Ona nepotrebuje žiadne dogmy; Ona nebude mať žiadne. Ona bude absolútnou pannou. Ako? - skrze skutky. Amen. Ona bude každé Slovo Božie zdôrazňovať s "Amen. Amen. Och, nech sa mi stane podľa tvojho slova. Amen." Ó! Tu to máte. Zdôrazňuje Božie Slovo.
84Má panenské lono. Z čoho ona vyjde? - z panenského lona Slova. Z kadiaľ vyšiel Ježiš? - z panenského lona. Vidíte?
85Keď Adam prišiel ku svojej žene, ona bola tehotná. Ona niečo urobila. Ona bola zmiešaná. Ona bola - skrížila to decko, a ono zomrelo. Ale keď Jozef prišiel ku svojej neveste, ona bola tehotná, ale so Životom. Adamova žena, alebo Adamova nevesta, keď Adam - prv ako sa oni zišli - práve tak ako Jozef a Mária, tak ako Kristus a cirkev teraz (či to nevidíte?) a prv, ako sa oni zišli spolu (Adam a Eva), ona bola tehotná s tým skazeným semenom od hada; a keď Adam prišiel ku svojej žene, našiel ju tehotnú na smrť. Vidíte? Smrť! Ako? - duchovne, telesne mŕtva; ale keď Jozef, ten človek, prišiel ku svojej žene (sláva! sotva ju mohol oblapiť!), ona bola tehotná so Životom, Slovom Božím, ktoré sa stalo telom medzi vami!
86Prichádza to naspäť do vypovedaného Slova! Prichádza to naspäť, že Slovo Božie, ktoré bolo Slovom tu - prichádza cez ľudské lono. Amen! Boh to jednako urobí. On to vypovedal, a musí to tak byť. Ó, sláva! Amen! To je náš Boh. Ó, to je bohaté, bratia, ak to môžete stráviť - môžete do toho naraziť. To je to kde ich On našiel.
87Keď Adam prišiel ku svojej žene, ona bola tehotná zo zlého semena. Keď Jo... To semeno zomrelo! Keď Jozef prišiel ku svojej, ona bola tehotná. Nuž a čo spôsobilo to rozdielne tehotenstvo? To, že Adamova žena pochybovala o Slove. Je to tak? Jozefova nevesta verila Slovu. To je ten rozdiel. Tak čo to potom je? To je Slovo! Oh to je vzácne Slovo! To bolo - Svet bol uformovaný Slovom Božím! Haleluja! Práve tam je moja opora. Nech všetky denominácie i všetko iné upadnú a nech si robia čo len budú chcieť. Ja stojím na tom Slove.
88Preto som robil to čo som robil. Preto som odstavil denominácie. Oni hovoria, "Prečo on je len ... rozbíja cirkvi." Oni hovorili to isté o našom Pánovi. Zakaždým to hovoria, vidíte.
89Nuž, on ju teraz našiel. Kristus prichádza ku Svojej neveste. Kde ju On nachádza? - pri tom istom. Prečo? Keď ona začala na počiatku - (Počúvajte teraz, nechcem aby vám to utieklo.) Keď ona rozpočala, ona bola panna. Ona bola v poriadku. Ona v tej prvotnej cirkvi postupovala správne. Bolo to nádherné. Boh mu dal nevestu, a čo ona urobila? Ak poznáte dejiny, v roku 606 ona ide rovno tam a tehotnie Rímskou dogmou, či organizáciou. A potom od vtedy, v Biblii, tá stará smilnica, mater smilníc, rodila cirkvi, a oni boli smilnice - to sú protestanti - pretože oni, každá jedna, boli narodené rovno z nej, a každú stihol jej vlastný osud - organizácia. Nuž, vidíte prečo som proti tomu? No dobre.
90Nuž, pretože zrodenie zo Slova je Kristus. Nie nejaké poškvrnené ... s denomináciami. Prvotná cirkev - nie denominácie, len Slovo a Duch, ktorý To zavlažoval. Brat, ... Boh tam takto vložil Slovo a Duch Svätý To zavlažoval, a ona vyrástla. Ona rodila deti, samozrejme, ale táto cirkev to nemôže robiť. Ona sa tiež stala denomináciou. Vidíte? Ona to nemôže robiť. Ona s tým zmiešala svet. Pozrite sa čo oni urobili.
91Hľaďte teraz, Boh potvrdzoval Svoje Slovo cez Svoje telo. Je to tak? Potom ona odišla smilniť ako urobila Adamova žena v Edene a Jahweho žena vo dňoch Samuela, keď si vzala kráľa, rozviedla sa s Bohom (so svojím zasnúbeným mužom) a s Jeho Slovom a s Jeho prorokom (cez ktorého prichádzalo Jeho Slovo), a odišla smilniť, ako ostatné národy; a Boh sa s ňou rozviedol! To isté On urobil dnes. Ten istý akt.
92Synovia nevesty, páchajú cudzoložstvo (vidíte) s nevestou, Boží Syn - Jeho nevesta z letníc, panna so Slovom, odišla smilniť a spáchala cudzoložstvo, presne tak, ako to urobila Adamova žena, presne tak, ako to urobila Jahweho žena; a tu je Synova žena - ona odchádza smilniť, páchajúc cudzoložstvo s rímskymi bohmi (množné číslo), bohovia, a kvôli svojim milencov, Rímskym bohom, sa snaží vziať svojho vlastného muža a rozštiepiť ho na troje - aby sa ľúbila svojím milencom! Bože buď im milostivý! Skutočne, oni majú stovky bohov, ó skutočne Aštartu, boha slnka, a Baláma, boha slnka, a kráľovnú nebies a všetko to tam. A tak nevesta, aby sa zaľúbila svojím milencom, s nie dobrou povesťou - či Boh nehovorí o tom v Piesňach Šalamúnových a povedal o tom, ako jeho žena nebola nič inšie, ako prostitútka a vysedávala otvorená po celý časa, prijímala každého milenca, ktorý prechádzal okolo. Hovorím otvorene, ale to je to, čo hovorí Biblia. Každý muž, ktorý chcel s ňou pobežať, mohol s ňou pobežať. To je to isté, čo urobila Kristova nevesta - otvorila sa každému starému špinavému, nečistému zvyku každej organizácie, ktorý kedy mali. Robiac to isté.
93Budem za toto kritizovaný. To je v poriadku, ale tiež budem za to požehnaný. Ale to bude Pravda, Božia Pravda, pretože On chce aby to bolo povedané, a tu - snažím sa to povedať ako najlepšie viem. Vidíte?
94Ona sa snažila zapáčiť svojím mnohým milencom. Robiac to, ona skrížila, snažila sa skrížiť Božie Slovo, so svojimi milencami; a tak to nebude fungovať, a tak ona povedala, "Vyriekam sa toho" a vytvorila si svoje vlastné slovo. A teraz si ona nárokuje, že ona sama je Slovom. Ale nech katolíci - či protestanti nevytýkajú katolíkom, pretože oni robia to isté na konciloch vo svojich vlastných cirkvách - smilnia. Nie divu, že sú nazvané smilnice! Je to tvrdé, či nie? Zvlieka vás to z kože, ale to je to čo niekedy treba, aby vás to prebudilo.
To je presne to čo ona urobila. Ona opustila Ježiša, Muža Slova, a ako Samuel - oni opustili Samuela a vzali Saula, opustili proroka pomazaného Slovom a vzali kráľa so žezlom; ona by nakoniec prišla ku tomu Kráľovi, ku tomu žezlu, v Miléniu, ale ona je teraz odmietnutá. On odišiel pre Nevestu ku pohanom. Je to tak? To je Slovo.
95Nuž, ona opustila Ježiša, Slovo. Ježiša, Slovo, a uzavrela manželstvo z iným mužom, ktorý sa nazýva pápež, s dogmou. A teraz ona nemá Ježiša; ona má pápeža. Teraz my nemáme - protestanti nemajú Ježiša; oni majú denomináciu, to isté - obraz šelmy.
96A tak ona nemôže dať zrodenie zo Slova svojim deťom, žiadna z nich. Ona sama je smilnica. Biblia hovorí, že je. Ona má vo svojej ruke pohár, z ktorého dáva piť ľuďom svoju doktrínu, čo je ohavnosť, nečistota jej smilstva. Čo je to smilstvo? - to je žiť nečiste. A to, že svoju doktrínu dáva ľuďom, je nečistotou jej smilstva. A kráľovia zeme a všetci boli opití vínom jej smilstva. Úplná pravda, pozrite sa na nich. Chlapče, oni by ti vo chvíli za to podrezali krk. Nie len katolíci, ale aj protestanti.
97Počúvajte, vy metodisti. Kto zabil Jozefa Smitha? Teraz pokrikujte. Hoci ja neverím v jeho doktrínu, tak isto neverím vo vašu. To nie je to, to ste vy. To je ten dôvod. Jozef Smith mal tak isto právo kázať svoje náboženstvo tu v tomto národe, ako vy, ale vy ste ho zabili tu v Illionos; zastrelili ste ho bez príčiny, pretože on mal niečo trochu rozdielne. A vy sa potom sťažujete na katolícku cirkev. Vyjdite z tej hromady nezmyslov, vy metodisti, ktorí ste určení do Večného Života! John Wesley by sa otočil v hrobe, pri takom správaní. Skutočne. John Wesley nikdy nezaložil žiadnu takúto cirkev, ako toto. To urobila banda "Rikít" a "Elvisov" po Johnovej smrti. Je to tak. Nie John Wesley. To tí starí, prvotní letniční, by nikdy nedošli do niečoho takéhoto. To znovu tá istá skupina po ich smrti. Je to pravda. Ježiš Kristus by nezaložil niečo takéto, ako čo my tu máme, nazvané letniční; ani Duch Svätý by to nezaložil, ale to je niečo, čo vy máte tu vo vnútri; ale Duch Svätý je niečo, čo oni teraz nemôžu zabiť. On si aj tak vezme Nevestu. On si ju aj tak vezme. On povedal, že On to predurčil.
98Ona opustila Ježiša, svojho Muža - Slovo, aby sa vydala za pápeža, a tak ona nemôže dať zrodenie, duchovné zrodenie - ona teraz môže dať denominačné narodenie; ona má mnoho toho semena - ona nemôže dať duchovné narodenie, ona ... pretože ona bola smilnica. Jedinú vec, ktorú ona môže dať, je denominačný život a množstvo zvučnej reklamy na oklamanie ľudí. Samotná rímsko katolícka cirkev je založená na niekoľkých kresťanských poverách a na hromade rímskych vecí, a letničná cirkev je na tom tak isto zle - hromada vyskakovania, vykrikovania a hovorenia v jazykoch a tomu podobné veci. Ale keď príde do toho ... rozhnevajú sa, žeby vás zlikvidovali, ako motorovou pílou a vylúčili vás zo svojho zhromaždenia. Keby tam prišiel aj Boh a vzkriesil mŕtveho, ak s nimi nesúhlasíte, vyženú vás von, ak nepatríte do ich organizácii.
99Nuž, táto stará matka smilnica (ešte za chvíľu sa ku nej vrátim), ona tvrdí, že má moc odpúšťať hriechy, ale vy ste nie posudzovaní podľa toho, čo tvrdíte; Nie ste poznaní skrze to čo tvrdíte. Poznaní ste skrze svoje skutky. Ako ona mohla odpúšťať hriechy? Pozrite sa na ňu. Keď Ježiš urobil to isté, oni ... povedal, "Usvedčte Ma; ukážte Mi, kde som neveril Slovu." Ona tvrdí, že má moc odpúšťať hriechy, ale to prichádza jedine skrze Slovo. Je to tak. Jedine Boh môže odpúšťať hriechy. Je to pravda? Či to nepovedali tak tí farizeovia? Čo to bolo s tou bandou, tých slepých pokrytcov? Prečo? - pretože oni nevideli, že to bolo Slovo, ktoré stálo pred nimi! On JE Slovo! Sláva Bohu! Preto On mohol odpúšťať hriechy. On bol Boh! On bol Slovo, ktoré sa zamanifestovalo.
100Teraz katolícka cirkev hovorí, že Ježiš im dal moc. On ju dal. On dal cirkvi moc. To je pravda. My tomu veríme. Všetky jej dcéry sú smilnice. Všetky jej dcéry, jej denominačné dcéry, sú smilnice. "Brat Branham, to je veľké slovo." To nie je moje slovo; to je Jeho Slovo. Je to presne tak. To nie je moje, to je Jeho.
101No dobre, ako? Vy poviete, "A ako sú oni smilnice? Ako sa oni stali smilnicami? Prečo, oni sú dobrí ľudia. Tak ... " Ja o tom nič nehovorím. Ja nehovorím čo sú. Ja nehovorím, že katolíci nie sú dobrí ľudia. Oni sú tak dobrí, ako ktokoľvek iný. Oni sú tak isto ľuďmi, ako my. Ale čo sa týka tej starej cirkvi, ona je zlá. Protestanti sú dobrí práve tak - metodisti sú práve tak dobrí ako baptisti alebo letniční, alebo ktokoľvek iný. Oni sú všetci rovnakí.
102Jedná sa však o to, ako potom ona môže byť smilnica? Prečo? Otestujte ju Slovom. Podľa toho to môžete poznať. Vyskúšajte ju raz na Slove a budete vidieť čo ona povie. "Ó, samozrejme, učili sme sa na seminári, že v ich dňoch - to je - ono to tak bývalo, ale (ha-ha) to bolo dávno, vo dňoch apoštolov. To bolo len pre apoštolov." Vy tak zvaná Cirkev Kristova ... "hovorte tam, kde hovorí Biblia a mlčte ..." Nuž, rád by som vás počul čo máte teraz do povedania. Nie, vy ste ticho. Pred Božím Slovom všetko utíchne, brat. Žiadny človek sa nemôže chváliť. Je to tak.
103Všetky jej dcéry sú smilnice. Ako? - tak isto ako ich matka - páchajú duchovné smilstvo voči Slovu. Tak sa katolícka cirkev stala smilnicou. Tak sa jej dcéry stali smilnicami. Tá istá vec, duchovné smilstvo voči Slovu. Ona a jej dcéry majú lono smilnici. Z nich môže prísť len smrť. Boh nemôže priniesť život cez smrť, a všetko čo sa rodí mŕtve, nežije. A ako povedal Jób, "Môžete priniesť čistú vec z nečistej - nie nikto." Tak veru. No, ako ona môže niečo zrodiť, keď ona sama je mŕtva? Ako ona môže byť panna, keď je smilnica? Vidíte, tu to máte. To je všetko.
104Ó, teraz narazíme na niečo skutočne bohaté, plné vitamínov, od Genesis do Zjavenia. Všimnite si, a ona a jej dcéry majú lono smilnici. Skrze ne môže prísť jedine smrť. Ak sa chcete pripojiť do organizácii, myslíte si, že ste v poriadku, vidíte kde sa dostávate. Dostávate sa rovno do prostriedku smrti. Presne tak. Ak to teraz nemôžete vidieť, tak ste duchovne slepí, vidíte.
105Nuž, vráťme sa teraz naspäť a znovu to vezmime, a poďme tam pre niečo. Pamätáte sa aká bola téma na zhromaždení minulú nedeľu? - Brána do Duši. Pamätáte sa? Nuž, je telesné lono; a je lono pre ducha. Veríte tomu? Je duchovné lono a telesné lono. A myseľ je lono pre ducha. Prečo? Nuž zapamätajte si, povedal som vám minulú nedeľu a nakreslil som vám to tu, existuje päť zmyslov, cez ktoré vstupuje to semeno z vonku do vnútra: zrak, chuť, hmat, čuch a sluch; päť vo vnútri: svedomie, a tak ďalej, z vnútra - päť. A na strane života sa nachádza len jedno. Je to, že vy ste založený na základe slobodného morálneho rozhodnutia prijať to, vziať to dovnútra, alebo to nechať vonku. Vidíte?
106Takto cudzoložstvo ... takto je páchané duchovné cudzoložstvo. Keď vy, hoci to dobre viete podľa Slova, ale skrze obcovanie vašej mysli vpúšťate dovnútra diablove klamstvo, ktoré je proti Slovu Božiemu - to je presne to, čo urobila Eva. Prv skrze to duchovné obcovanie, ktoré sa odohralo tým, že uverila Satanovej lži v lone svojej mysli, to poškvrnilo jej dušu, vložilo smrť do duši; potom sa uskutočnil ten telesný akt. A to je ten jediný spôsob, ako kedy žena môže spáchať cudzoložstvo voči svojmu mužovi, že nechá prv nejakého muža nahovoriť ju do toho a potom prijme iného muža, ktorý nie je jej mužom. Potom ona spácha cudzoložstvo. A keď nevesta Ježiša Krista necháva ľudské vierovyznania a dogmy zaujímať miesto Božieho Slova, pácha cudzoložstvo.
107Či nepovedal Ježiš, "Ktokoľvek pozrie na ženu, už s ňou spáchal cudzoložstvo vo svojom srdci - pozrie žiadostivo na ženu, už s ňou spáchal cudzoložstvo?" Prečo? On dovolil, že to prišlo do jeho mysli. To je lono; to začína tie veci dávať do pohybu. Satan vstupuje ... my sme boli zasiatí Slovom.
108"Jedného dňa prinesiem na zem život a znovu ju sformujem, znovu naplním zem." To v čom sklamala Eva, to urobila Mária. Ona vzala Slovo. Eva vzala Satanovu lož. Mária vzala Slovo Božie. A skrze Máriine semeno sa zem znovu napĺňa, znovu skrze jeho Nevestu, skrze Slovo, a prinesie Milénium. Skrze to sa rozširuje Slovo, a to Slovo je zasadené do každého predurčeného srdca, a Duch prichádza dole a podlieva to, a oni nemôžu zomrieť. "Ja ho znovu vzbudím v posledných dňoch." Och, brat, sestra, to je - to je skutočnosť.
109Čo to je? - myseľ je lono pre Ducha. Čo? - vziať to dovnútra, alebo to nechať vonku. Tak páchajú cudzoložstvo, tak že hovoria - nechajú nejakého Satanovho, diablovho ducha položiť do nich niečo čo je proti Slovu Božiemu; potom ona spáchala cudzoložstvo. Eva prijala (počúvajúc na to) nesprávne semeno, Satanovu lož, čo bolo proti Jahweho Slovu. Výsledkom toho bola smrť.
110Nuž, za chvíľu opustíme túto tému, ale chcem aby to bolo skutočne jasné, prv ako dôjdem ku miestu, kde budem musieť zakončiť. Preskočím tu teraz nejakú stranu - za minútu.
111Nuž pozrite sa, Eva čo? Čo ona urobila? Ona prijala nesprávne semeno. Ako to urobila? - tak, že uverila Satanovej lži. Koľkí hovoria, že je to pravda? Prečo, určite je to pravda, určite. Ona prijala Satanovu lož. Čo ona zrodila, tým že to prijala? Satan povedal, "Vieš toto je slávne. Toto je nádherná vec. Či nevieš, že si bola kvôli tomu stvorená? Prečo, ty si skutočne bola stvorená za týmto účelom."
"Och, naozaj?"
"Och, je to príjemné na pohľad. Je to dobré. Mala by si - mala by si to skúsiť."
"Ale Pán Boh povedal, nie-nie-nie-nie toto, ešte nie. My nesmieme! Nie, nie!"
"Ale vieš -"
"Och, ak to urobíme, my - "
"Och, vy skutočne nezomriete." Ten diabol s úlisným jazykom. On nemá kopytá ani rozvetvený chvost, nie, ako sa vám to snažia nahovoriť, aby ste tomu verili. On je úlisný chlapík za kazateľňou. Je to tak. Alebo nejaký malý "Riki" s vlasmi sčesanými dole, ako kačica, sedí niekde tam, aby ublížil nejakej matkinej dcére. To je ten chlapík ... prichádza s malým roztomilým, ako malý ... Och, nechám to tak.
112Nuž, lono - Eva, prijala nesprávne semeno slova. Nuž, počúvajte teraz skutočne pozorne. Z kerujeme to teraz rovno dole, ak Pán dovolí. Ona prijala nesprávne slovo. Čo to spôsobilo? - to bolo Satanove klamstvo, on povedal, že ona bude múdra; prečo, ona môže patriť do veľkej cirkvi, bude mať v meste dobrú povesť; prečo, bude taká, ako tí ostatní ľudia. Skutočne, to je presne to čomu uverila Jahweho nevesta. To je presne to. To je presne to, čo sa Satan snažil povedať, keď Slovo prišlo ku Márii, ale ona jeho striasla preč zo seba.
Povedala, "Ako sa to môže stať?"
On povedal, "Duch Svätý ťa zatieni. To je Slovo Božie."
Ona povedala, "Nech sa mi stane podľa Tvojho Slova." To prinieslo Život. Tu to máte.
Nuž, viete čo povedal Satan, "Oni sa ti budú smiať."
113To malé dievča s ružovými lícami nevenovalo tomu žiadnu pozornosť. Vyšla tam rovno hore do Júdei a povedala, "Vieš, ja budem mať decko"; prv ako čokoľvek pocítila, pretože Slovo tam už bolo vložené. To bolo všetko. Ona nemusela ísť druhý krát cez modlitebnú radu. Tak veru; ona tomu verila. Ona nemala žiadnu známku života; nemala vôbec žiadny príznak tehotenstva; vôbec nič nepociťovala; všetko bolo presne tak, ako predtým, ale ona išla a každému hovorila, "Ja budem mať decko." Prečo? - Boh to tak povedal. Čo to je? - Abrahámove Kráľovské Semeno.
"Abrahám, či s tou ženou budeš mať dieťa?" "Boh to tak povedal."
"Dobre, ale to si mi hovoril pred dvadsiatymi piatymi rokmi."
"Ja viem, ale Boh tak povedal." To je to. Tu to máte. To je to isté.
Čo hovoríte dnes? "No dobre, viete, denominácie vás vykopnú."
"Ale Boh to tak povedal; Boh to tak povedal."
"Dobre, viete, ak sa takto dáte pokrstiť - "
"Dobre, Boh to tak povedal. To je ono. To je ono."
114Tu máte vaša pannu; to je ona. Nie len čo sa týka krstu, ale všetko ďalšie ... i ten ďalší zbytok Slova, vidíte. Tak, čo ...? S Evou to bolo obojako, telesne aj duchovne. Prv a zakaždým to tak je - Nuž, povedal som vám a prosil som vás dnes ráno, sestry, aby ste mi odpustili, že sa o tom tak zmieňujem - zakaždým, keď žena urobí nesprávny krok - hovorím teraz o Kristovi a Neveste - ale zakaždým, keď žena robí nesprávny krok, ona to prv musí prijať do svojej mysli. Je to tak. Nejaký darebák ju musí presvedčiť, a ona to poslúchne napriek svojmu vlastnému presvedčeniu. Potom je spáchaný ten akt. A tak prv, to narazilo na Satanovu - to narazilo na Evinu myseľ, a v lone svojej mysli ona zapochybovala o Slove Božom, a potom nastal ten skutočný akt.
115A ten jediný spôsob, ako sa vôbec môžeme znovu zrodiť, je prijať najprv Slovo do lona svojej mysli, a potom ešte na to zostúpi Duch a spôsobí to. Tu to máte. To je to, čo to spôsobuje. To je skutočné učenie Evanjelia, brat. Verím, že ak by tu dnes stál svätý Pavol, on by v tejto chvíli učil tú istú vec. V poriadku.
116Aké to pri nej malo následky? - spôsobilo to telesnú i duchovnú smrť. Aké to má následky pri tých, ktorí prijímajú inakšie slovo, zachádza to do tejto samopašnosti, ktorú oni dnes majú? - obojaká, telesná i duchovná smrť. Oboje, telo i duch budú zničené, nebudú viac existovať. Je to presne tak.
117Všimnite si, lono Márii - lono Márii, tá telesná myseľ, vidíte, bola panenským lonom. Prečo? Ona uverila Božiemu Slovu. Bez ohľadu na to, koľko to iní kritizovali, či koľko iných vecí, niekto druhý o tom povedal, to s tým nemalo nič spoločného; ona bez ohľadu na to verila Božiemu Slovu.
118Ó, prajem si, aby som to mohol vyjasniť. Chápete to? Vidíte, prv, to bola jej myseľ. Prv, ako sa ten akt vôbec uskutočnil v jej telesnom lone, musel sa prv uskutočniť tu, bolo treba nechať vojsť Ducha, aby vykonal tú ostatnú robotu. Ó, prv, ako sa môže uskutočniť to ozajstné duchovné narodenie, to Slovo sa muselo nájsť vo vašej mysli; uveriť tomu. "Ten kto čuje Moje Slová a verí Tomu, ktorý Ma poslal, má Večný Život a nepríde na súd (alebo nepôjde cez obdobie súženia), ale prešiel zo smrti do Života." To je ono.
119Ó! Všimnite si teraz: panenské lono, jej myseľ, panenská myseľ, bolo treba aby verila Božiemu Slovu. No dobre, vy poviete, "No pozri sa sem. Ó," poviete, "Brat Branham, to by mohlo byť takto; to nie je možné. John Wesley by to bol videl; Taký a taký by to bol uvidel."
120Skutočne, diabol mohol povedať to isté Márii: "Kto ty si? Veď, ty si najbiednejšia v celom meste. Ty si nie nič iné ako mlátka, šestnásť ročná - osemnásť ročná, ktorá tu nosí vodu zo studni; tvoj otec zomrel, a tvoja matka je tam tá stará slepá žena. Nuž, ako ty kedy budeš - Anna bola jej matka, bolo nám povedané - ako ty kedy budeš mať ...?"
121 "Počúvaj, moja stará matka je slepá žena, ale ona je zbožná žena. Ona skrze svoje ústa zasiala semeno v mojom srdci. Prečítala som to z Božieho Slova, že Boh povedal v Izaiášovi 9: 6, že 'Panna počne'."
122Haleluja! Či to môžete vidieť? Slovo sa stáva telom. Tu to máte. Boh bude mať Cirkev. Ona bude narodená zo Slova Božieho, pretože to je Živé Slovo Božie. Vidíte to?
"Ako to vieš?"
"Ale, to bude ... "
"Vieš ako ťa budú od teraz nazývať? Budú ťa nazývať ... "
mi vôbec nevadí. Nech sa mi stane podľa Slova Pánovho."
123Ó, mohli by to všetci dnes povedať? Ó, ak by mohli ľudia skutočne zo svojho srdca, všetci z nás, ak by to tak mohli povedať, vidíte: "Nech sa mi stane podľa Tvojho Slova Pane." Ó! A skutočne to tak myslieť. Jeden alebo dvaja alebo niekde tam sa zodvihne niekto predurčený, ktorý to tak skutočne myslí, a brat, budeš vidieť lietať iskry, hneď potom; je to pravda - keď si to tam skutočne dostal, aby si to splnil, to je to čo prichádza, keď tá vlaha začne padať na to Slovo. Tak veru.
124Nuž, čo to bolo? - panenské lono mysli, panenské lono pre to decko. A výsledky? - Večný Život. Eva, tak dobrá žena, ako ona bola; bola panna, ale najprv dovolila, že skrze slovo, skrze diablovu lož, vošla do nej pochybnosť. Čo on urobil? - skontaktoval sa s ňou nesprávnym spôsobom. Čo bolo jej decko? - smrť.
125Mária: panenská myseľ, panenské lono. A keď sa ju diabol snažil pokúšať, a on prišiel - a ten anjel prišiel potom ku nej a povedal, "Ty budeš mať dieťa," Satan povedal, "Nuž, bolo by lepšie, aby si o tom bola potichu." Anjel povedal, "To je skutok Boží." A ona bez pochyby myslela o Izaiášovi 9: 6; povedala, "Ajhľa som, služobnica Pánova." Aký to malo výsledok? - panenské zrodenie; Večné Slovo v nej, a ona zrodila Večný Život.
126No dobre, Jahweho nevesta, zmiešala - Jahweho nevesta, zmiešala semeno. "Ako si to povedal, brat Branham? Dnes ráno si povedal, že Jahweho nevesta spáchala cudzoložstvo."
127Nechcem to tak nechať. Nuž, dobre sa na to teraz pozrime. Nuž, máme ešte hodinu, tak sa mi vidí. Nuž, dostal som sa potiaľto. Budem musieť z toho niečo preskočiť a začať v tom čítať len na niekoľko minút, vidíte. Proste prečítať to tak rýchlo ako len budem môcť, aby som to zakončil. A teraz ešte hodinu, a verím, že to zakončíme, ak ma len znesiete a budete sa so mnou modliť.
128Nuž, kedy vlastne Jahweho nevesta urobila chybu? No dobre. Čo poslal Jahwe Svojej neveste dole do Egyptu? On zasľúbil Abrahámovi, že Jeho nevesta, to semeno, bude pohostínom v Egypte za štyristo rokov. Je to tak? Prišiel čas aby sa vyplnilo Slovo - sme v čase, aby sa vyplnilo Slovo? - o vyslobodení, o vzatí. No dobre, ako oni dostali to Slovo? Dostali ho z nejakej organizácii, nejaká skupina ľudí sa zišla dokopy (kňazi) a povedali, "Nuž, bratia, budem tu mať voľby, a oni prebehli v porozumení, že my budeme mať organizáciu nazvanú "Farizeovia" a skrze ňu bude Boh pracovať?" Boh nikdy nerobil niečo také, nikdy to tak nerobil.
129Čo im On poslal? - proroka. A Slovo Pánovo prichádzalo ku prorokovi, vzbudil ho rovno medzi nimi, proroka, a pomazal ho a potvrdil ho rovno v ich strede, medzi všetkými tými diablami, ktorí tam konali svoje, so zázrakmi a všetkým iným - pretože Mojžiš stál na Slove.
130Ujal sa tej hromady ľudí; zmiešané zástupy sa s ním vydali na cestu. Keď sa dostali oproti zasľúbenej zemi, prv ako tam vošli, Jeho drahá nevesta spáchala cudzoložstvo s Moábom. No, povedzte mi teraz či to neurobila. Ako to urobila? Vystúpil prorok, ktorý klamal proti Slovu Božiemu, a jednako mal všetky znamenia a všetko - všetky obrady, on bol tak duchovný ako Mojžiš, alebo práve ako ...?...
131Pozrite sa! počúvajte! počúvajte teraz pozorne. Tu v tábore sedí Izrael, nedenominačný. Je to tak, čo to bolo? Oni mali so sebou pomazaného proroka. On mal Stĺp Ohňa, skalu, z ktorej vytekala voda a napájala ich. Oni činili všetko v poriadku. A dávajte pozor, oni mali sedem oltárov; to je dokonalé. Na tých oltároch bolo sedem čistých zvierat - baranov, a baran reprezentoval príchod Kristov.
132 Moáb - čo sa stalo? Keď tam prišiel Balám, on tam postavil sedem oltárov, presne tak, ako mali oni. Nehovorte, že neboli fundamentálni, pretože by ste mali dobre vedieť o čom hovoríte. Ježiš povedal, "To by zviedlo aj Vyvolených." Duchovné zja... Vy To zachytávate, to Slovo, a vidíte to zamanifestované Slovo.
133Pozrite sa, oni boli tu; a tu bol Moáb. On vidí - Bez pochyby, on bol biskup, skutočne, veľký muž, a postavil sedem oltárov. Položil na ne sedem baranov - hovoriac tým, že verí, že má prísť Mesiáš. Bratia, ak by oni prichádzali na fundamentálnom základe, Boh by sa musel priznať ku obidvom z nich.
134Keď Kain postavil oltár Pánovi (Satanov syn, postavil oltár Pánovi), on postavil taký istý oltár ako Ábel. Oni obidvaja ctili Boha; oni obidvaja chodili do cirkvi; oni obidvaja platili svoje poplatky; oni tam prišli a ctili toho istého Boha - a jeden bol prijatý a ten druhý zatratený. Ako ku tomu mohlo prísť?
135Ježiš povedal, "Na tejto skale zbudujem Svoju cirkev." Katolícka cirkev hovorí, "Tam je skala, cirkev je zbudovaná na nej; alebo, že Peter bol tou skalou." A katolícka cirkev hovorí, že Peter je tam pod tým pochovaný. To je lož, ale - tak ďaleko, ako môžem vidieť do toho času, oni povedali, že tam bol pochovaný Peter, Biblia hovorí, že on bol tu v Jeruzaleme. On nikdy nebol v Pal... tam. Ale oni aj tak hovoria, že tam bol. Nie je v podstate záznam o Pavlovi, že tam kedy bol, ale to je história. Ale oni hovoria, že Peter ... No, nech je tam pochovaný. Ak aj bol, čo to mení na veci? To nebolo to, čo Ježiš o tom povedal. Vidíte, ako oni vzali tú materiálnu vec a zmiešali to.
No dobre, a protestanti hovoria, "Nie! Ježiš povedal, že On je tou Skalou."
136Nuž, On to nikdy nepovedal. On povedal, "Požehnaný si Šimon, syn Jonášov; telo a krv ti to nezjavili" - "Ty si Kristus, Syn Živého Boha." Telo a krv - (On sa to nenaučil v nejakom seminári.) "Nenaučila ťa to nejaká denominácia, ale Môj Otec, ktorý je v Nebesiach ti To zjavil, a na tej Skale (na duchovnom zjavení Pravdy Božieho Slova) Ja postavím Svoju Cirkev, a brány pekelné ju nepremôžu."
137Moáb urobil to isté. On tam prišiel, a učil deti Izraelove; povedal, "Nuž, pozrite sa sem, priatelia" (nuž, to je to isté čo urobili medzi letničnými, pozrite sa, teraz), "no pozrite sa sem, či nie sme všetci rovnakí? Či neveríme v toho istého Boha? My sme všetci rovnakí." Moábove deti, to boli Lotove dcéry. Vidíte celú tú skupinu, ktorá tam utiekla? Stále je "vlasom v koláči." Vidíte? Tu ich máte, s podvodom. Vidíte, oni tam boli, a oni mali to - "Prečo," ona povedala, "nuž, pozri sa sem, ty vieš, že sme všetci rovnaký." (Koľkí z vás vedia, že to boli Lotove deti? Skutočne - od ich vlastného otca - cez cudzoložstvo.) A povedali, "Nuž, my sme všetci rovnakí. Viete, vy metodisti a vy baptisti, vy letniční a všetci; prečo, skutočne, my chceme trochu vášho oleja. My sme všetci rovnakí." A čo oni urobili? Oni sa vydávali a ženili medzi sebou! A to je to, čo letniční urobili pre protestantov. Uzavreli manželstvo s federáciou cirkví; urobili zo seba denomináciu, a kde sú? Presne tak ako Izrael: daní nabok, kvôli duchovnému i doslovnému smilstvu. Boh ju potom odmietol. Ešte aj tie deti, ktoré sa stali Samaritánmi boli zlorečené. Či je to tak? Skutočne bola daná nabok. Jahwe ju dal nabok.
138Kristova nevesta urobila to isté - zmiešala svoje denominačné semeno a Krista, svojho zasnúbeného muža, dala nabok. A vy, vyschnutá banda letničných; čo sa s vami deje? V Zjavení, v 3. kapitoly a v 20. verši, nachádzame v proroctve, že v Laodicejskom Veku je Ježiš Kristus vystrčený von zo Svojej vlastnej cirkvi, klepe na dvere [Brat Branham to ilustruje klepaním po kazateľni. – pozn.prekl.] snaží sa dostať naspäť - najdojímavejší obraz v Biblii. Čo ona urobila? Ona sa oddala smilstvu. Keď Ježiš prichádza, kvôli čomu on klepe? Ježiš prichádza späť, aby získal Svoju Nevestu; a keď On prichádza, klepe na dvere [Brat Branham 6 krát zaklepal po kazateľni. – pozn.prekl.], bolo pred Ním zamknuté.
139"No, ty sem nemôžeš prísť; nemôžeš tu robiť evanjelizáciu. Daj - ukáž mi tvoj ordinovací dekrét" - človek naplnený Duchom Svätým, skutočne verní ... Slovo Božie sa manifestovalo v Jeho službe. Nemôžete nič proti Nemu povedať, ohľadne morálky ani ničoho. Kto Ho môže z toho obviniť? Prichádza skrze nejakú denomináciu: "No, nie je Jednotár; nie je zo Zborov Božích; je trojičiar. Nie je Trojičiar, je zo Zborov Božích."
140Vy biedna banda nemanželských detí; hanbite sa! Boh je vystrčený von; ale čo povedal Ján (ten posledný posol tam pred Jeho príchodom)? "On je schopný z týchto kameňov vzbudiť deti Abrahámovi. Neprichádzajte a nehovorte, my patríme do toho a my patríme do tam toho. Boh môže .... z týchto kameňov vzbudiť deti Abrahámovi."
141No dobre, ideme ďalej. Ó, ako to milujem! Kristova nevesta, tak isto ako Adamova nevesta a všetky ostatné, zmiešala semeno a vystrčila von Krista kvôli denominácii. Ona to skutočne urobila. Samozrejme ona to urobila. Ona odmietla Boha (aby bol jej mužom), ako to urobila Eva, prijala Satanove smrteľné klamstvo, a výsledkom toho bol kúkoľ: smrť, narodila sa z nej, formálna cirkev. Povedzte teraz, že to nie je pravda!
142Kde sú vaši letniční? - sú formálnejší ako baptisti. Skutočne, viete čo? Vyzerá to teraz ako nedobrý obraz, či nie? Ale čo povedal Joel, v Joelovi 2: 28? "Ale Ja prinavrátim, hovorí Pán." Tento Laodicejský vek ... klepe na dvere, [Brat Branham zaklepal 4x po kazateľni. – pozn.prekl.] snaží sa dostať naspäť - najsmutnejší obraz v Biblii.
143Tak ako Adam našiel svoju ženu tehotnú so semenom smrti od Satanovej lži, ktorú ona prijala, Jozef našiel svoju ženu tehotnú so Semenom Božím, skrze Slovo, ktoré ona prijala.
144O čom to všetko hovorí? Čo sa vám snažím povedať? Nuž, vy, ktorí ste na vlnách, vy, ktorí sedíte vonku vo svojich autách, vy, ktorí ste tu v modlitebni, vidíte prečo som zaujímal ten postoj, ktorý som sa snažil zaujímať práve tu a prečo som to kritizoval? To nie je to, že som mal niečo proti tým mužom, alebo proti tým ženám; Ja nič proti ním nemám, ale ja proste nemôžem postupovať na takých - na takých zásadách. Ja to proste nemôžem robiť, pretože to je nesprávne.
145Ako ... mám tu Písmo, ktoré by som rád zameral na Ježiša, na Jeho pokušenie; keď sa Ho on snažil dostať, povedal, "Dám Ti všetky tieto kráľovstvá sveta. Oni sú moje. " Vidíte? S tou istou vecou on prišiel ku Eve (vidíte?) prv, skrze to, že by premenil chlieb - jednalo sa o jedenie a tak ďalej - vidíte. "Dám Ti toto všetko, ak sa mi budeš klaňať - len príď a pripoj sa ku našej skupine ..."
Ježiš povedal, "Napísané je, človek nebude žiť len na samom chlebe, ale na každom slove, ktoré vychádza z úst Božích."
146Čo to je? Niektorí z vás kazateľov teraz, ktorí ste príliš prestrašení aby ste zaujali svoje stanovisko; bojíte sa, že oni vám ani nedovolia prísť do organizácii: "Čo iné budete potom robiť? - oni vás vykopnú!" Je mi vás ľúto. V prvom rade, za vašu slabosť. Je to tak. Kde je vaša viera v Boha? Mne povedali to isté. Skutočne. Pracoval som sedemnásť rokov, až kým ma Boh dostal von a postavil ma okolo tohoto, a potom som si pomyslel, "Nuž, Satan, poď teraz." Vidíte v čom to je. Keď si skutočne uvedomíte, že Boh vám zjavil Pravdu ohľadne toho, neexistuje nič na svete, čo by vás v tom mohlo premôcť. To je všetko. Vy ste úplne neporaziteľní; nie vy, ale Boh, ktorý je vo vás. Nie Kristus, nie telo, ale Slovo, ktoré bolo v Ňom. Nie Mária, ale Slovo, ktoré sa z nej narodilo.
147Nuž, tak človek bude žiť skrze čo? - nie skrze svoje lístky na obed, ale skrze Slovo Božie; nie skrze svoju organizáciu, ktorá vám zabezpečuje miesto. "Nuž, dovoľ nech sa pozriem na tvoje odporúčajúce listy. Máš dobré postavenie? Musíme to na tom skontrolovať. Aha, áno, môžeš zastávať tú hodnosť na sto percent. Dobre, môžeme ťa prijať na niekoľko dní, aby si kázal a mal evanjelizáciu, vyskúšame ťa a budeme vidieť čo budeš robiť." Čó-ó, och! Ako Boh vôbec môže pracovať v takejto skupine? - dvakrát mŕtvi, vytrhnutí s koreňmi, vykorenení, prehnití a všetko ďalšie. Ó, existuje ešte niečo iné.
148Ó ľudia, Boh nech vás žehná. Počúvajte ma! Ja nemôže veriť ničomu, jedine Božiemu Slovu, a chcem aby Ono bolo mojím životom, všetkým tým čím ja som. Chcem aby ste robili to isté. Nech vaše chodenie, vaše reči, vaše zachovávanie, všetko čo robíte, bolo podľa Slova Božieho. Nech myseľ Kristova vstúpi do vás, a to spôsobí, že budete tehotní so Slovom. Ak nie - ak necháte, aby vstúpila do vás myseľ denominácii, budete tehotní denomináciou. Ak dovolíte, aby myseľ Kristova vstúpila do vás, On nemôže zapierať Svoje vlastné Slovo, pretože On je Boh. Vy budete tehotní so Slovom a budete Mu veriť. Nestaráte sa či vás vyhodia, vykopnú, vyženú, a zavrú pred vami všetky dvere, vy sa ďalej budete zachovávať tak isto! Amen! Musím sa ponáhľať.
149Ó, Kristus si teraz vyberá Nevestu aby bola tehotná Jeho vlastným Semenom - Slovom v Jej lone (duchovnom lone) a ... vo Svojej mysli, a nebude miešať s tým žiadne denominačné nezmysly. Ona je Mu pannou.
150Och, pamätám sa, ako som sedel tam v izbe, bol som tam tri dni a modlil som sa a očakával na Pána a postil sa. Keď to prišlo na mňa, pomyslel som si, "Ó, Bože, čo to je? Som tu v nejakom obraze, som tu! Ak toto všetko prinesiem do zboru, kde budem? Dostanem ich do háklivej situácii, čo mám robiť? Videl som cirkev v každom predobraze a tieni a vo všetkom - ukázané, že je po nej. Čo budeš robiť?"
151A potom, rozmýšľal som o tomto Slove, "Ja prinavrátim, povedal Pán; Ja prinavrátim." Pamätajte, stará borovica, keď ju zasiahne oheň a spáli ju, ona zo seba strasie semeno. To semeno zrodí novú sosnu. Je to tak. Ten starý strom zhorel s organizáciou a so všetkým ďalším, ale stále pozostáva Semeno Slova, a ak ... Božie Slovo, Ono sa znovu navráti a zreprodukuje, a je to tak isté, ako že stojí ten svet. Áno, to ju nemôže minúť.
152Všimnite si, ale Kristus - veríme, že sme v čase konca, či nie? Či veríte, že prv ako teraz budeme mať úrodu, musíte zasiať semeno? Vidíte prečo som sa nechal odstrčiť cirkvami, hovoria na mňa všetko možné; nazývajú ma všetkými rôznymi menami a všetkým možným, a ja len stojím rovno na tom Slove? Vidíte? Je rastlina; semeno zostalo zasiate; ono je už zasiate, priatelia. Už je zasiate. Môžem to teraz povedať. je po tom. Je to tak; ona bola zasiata (Ó, áno.); tak isto bolo zasiate denominačné semeno, i každé iné.
153Ako náš veľký vzácni brat Billy Graham povedal práve tu v Louisville - povedal, "Pavol mohol vziať Bibliu -" vzal Bibliu a povedal? "Nuž Pavol mohol ísť do nejakého mesta a mal tam evanjelizáciu. Mal jedného obráteného; za rok sa tam vrátil a skrze toho jedného tam bolo šesť obrátených." Povedal, "Ja môžem ísť a evanjelizovať šesť týždňov a mať dvadsať tisíc obrátených a prídem tam za šesť mesiacov a sotva nájdete dvadsiatych!"
154Čo to je? Oni nie sú obrátení. Oni sú obrátení do denominácií, to je všetko. Samozrejme, vy ste museli siať - vidíte, vy ste siali denominačné semeno, to je to čo dostanete. "Poď teraz, brat; pripoj sa ku cirkvi; zapíš svoje meno do knihy." To je všetko čo oni vedia. Je to tak.
155Letniční urobili to isté. Oni hovoria v jazykoch a tak ďalej. To je všetko, čo musíte robiť; to stačí. "Poďte, pripojte sa ku cirkvi." V poriadku, obdržíte svoj falošný krst i všetko ďalšie a idete ďalej, a to je všetko čo musíte robiť. Vidíte?
156Ale keď prichádza Kristus, On prichádza pre pannu s ... pre Cirkev, ktorá nemá ani jednu poškvrnu a vrásku denominácii, ani ničoho iného, čo by s tým bolo zmiešané, žiadne dogmy. To bude len Slovo a jedine Slovo.
157Nuž! Ó človeče, tu sme! Nech je požehnaný Pán! Nuž, prichádzame do Tela, aby byť Kristovou Nevestou. Aby teraz byť Jeho telom z Jeho tela, a kosťou z Jeho kosti. Budeme sa teraz ponáhľať. Telom z Jeho tela a kosťou z Jeho kosti. Prečo ne... (pýtam sa vás) prečo všetky tie vaše dažde tam predtým, nedoviedli Nevestu ku Kristovi? Chcem aby ste mi na to odpovedali!
158Ak Jeho príchod sa oneskoruje; veríme tomu. Tak ako to bolo vo dňoch Noeho, trpezlivosť. On pripravuje Svoju Nevestu. Prečo tieto dažde ne ... prečo vy letniční, dávno pred rokmi (keď ste začali pred štyridsiatymi alebo päťdesiatymi rokmi) - prečo ste nepriviedli Krista, Ženícha, ku Neveste? Nechám to chvíľu vsiaknuť. Prečo? Preto, že ste ju sami učinili tehotnú svojimi denomináciami; to je presne to čo ste urobili. On si nevezme za ženu smilnicu. On si vezme za ženu pannu. Je to otvorene, ale je to Pravda. Poznáte to otvorene. Nemusíte sa diviť. Ne je to žiadna táranina, čo o tom hovorím; povedal som vám Pravdu.
159Prečo ste ju nepriviedli? Prečo ste nepriviedli Krista - nepriviedli Krista ku nej? Pretože ona nie je dopasovaná. On ju našiel v cudzoložstve ... práve kvôli tomu jej deti, keď sa narodia, nežijú naveky. Adam našiel svoju ženu tehotnú. To je ten dôvod, že Jahwe musel vziať pohanskú nevestu - našiel ju tehotnú. Presne tak isto si teraz musí Kristus vziať Nevestu. On túto, tak zvanú skupinu, našiel tehotnú. On bude siať Svoje Semeno; niekto ho dostane, pretože oni sú predurčení, aby boli Cirkvou na konci tej cesty.
160Tak ako Adamova i Jahweho, On ich našiel tehotných s ľudskými denominačnými doktrínami. Ako Božia Pravda v Genesis jedna, každé semeno bude rodiť podľa svojho druhu. Tak keď Duch spadol na ňu bol tam človek, aby naplnil jej lono denominačnými semenami svojho vlastného myslenia; a preto sa s ňou muselo stať to čo sa s ňou stalo, a Kristus nemohol ku nej prísť. Och, je to tvrdé, však?
161Jedného dňa, bol som tam v zelenom mlyne, modlil som sa tam niekoľko dní; od vtedy prešlo už mnoho rokov. Išiel som sem do Mishawaka. (Nikdy som to ešte nepovedal na pásku.) Išiel som do Mishawaka. Vy sa pamätáte na toho černošského chlapca? Práve som našiel letničných ľudí; Nikdy som nevedel, že existuje niečo také. A išiel som tam a našiel som ich, a myslel som, že mám okolo seba hromadu anjelov. Videl som ich hovoriť v jazykoch i všetko. Nikdy pred tým som o tom nepočul, ale oni tam boli, behali hore dole a hovorili v jazykoch. Myslel som si, "Ó, to je nádherné!" Boli tam tie staré U.P.C. a P.A W. [skratky letničných cirkví – pozn.prekl.] a všetky ostatné. Oni mali - to bola vtedy segregácia medzi bielymi a farebnými; oni museli mať svoje konferencie hore na severe. A to bolo v Mishawaka, v Indiáne.
162Ó! Mal som 1.75 dolára - čo stačilo len na to aby som sa mohol dostať domov. Dal som z toho päť centov za nejaké staré pampúchy či rožky (dva alebo tri dni staré) zašiel som dole a nabral som si za krčah vody z vodovodu, odišiel som odtiaľ von do kukuričného poľa, vybral som sedadlá zo svojho starého Forda a položil som ich na zem; tak som žehlil svoje nohavice tej noci (z ľahkého materiálu, ktoré som mal na sebe) a starú košeľu - rozhalenku. A na ďalšie ráno so tam znovu išiel. Nechcel som jesť s nimi. Bol som pozvaný, ale som nechcel s nimi jesť, pretože som nemal nič, čo by som im dal na oferu.
163A tak som išiel zistiť či budú v ten deň tancovať; a oni poskakovali; oni budú spievať v Duchu. A myslel som si, "Ó, to dobre zneje! Och!" Jeden muž povstal a hovoril v jazykoch, a druhý to vykladal. A, brat, to sedelo. Oni volali ľudí tam v publiku. Myslel som si, "Ó brat, to je nádherné!"
"Povedz pani Jones alebo tej a tej , Poď hneď teraz; Pán ju volá" -a tu ona prichádza. Je to tak.
164Potom, tento jeden hovoril v jazykoch, a ten druhý to vykladal. Pomyslel som si, "Ó! Milénium je hotové rozpočať. Toto je to." A tak - "Keby som si len mohol potriasť ruky s tými zbožnými mužmi," myslel som si. A išiel som za jedným z nich, keď som bol vonku a prechádzal som sa tam. Oni ma nepoznali; bol som tam takým nepatrným človekom. A keď mali takú malú prestávku, prechádzal som sa tam dookola a stretol som jedného z tých mužov a potriasol som mu ruku a povedal, "Ako sa máš, brat?"
165Viete, Boh mi tu dal taký malý dar, aby som mohol zistiť veci, keď mi ich On chce dať poznať, viete. Myslel som si, "Keby som sa s ním len mohol porozprávať a nechať ho niečo povedať, zistil by som, či to bola skutočne pravda alebo nie." A tak som videl, že vyzerá, ako keby bol vedúcim toho, a potriasol som mu ruku. "Ako sa máš, brat?" povedal, "Ako sa máš?" A za chvíľu som sa s ním rozprával, bol to skutočný kresťan; bol, a ja som si pomyslel, "Chvála Bohu?"
166Po chvíli, ako som prešiel za roh, narazil som na toho druhého muža, a povedal som, "Ako sa máš, brat?" a dal som sa s ním do reči. A ak som sa kedy rozprával s pokrytcom, tak on bol jedným z nich. On bol čiernovlasí a mal decko s blondínou - dve deti s blondínou. Videl som to vo videní, rovno pred sebou.
167Nuž, pomyslel som si, "Nuž, som skutočne zmätený. Nuž, ako môže ten istý Duch - raz byť na mužovi - bohabojnom mužovi, a za druhé na diablovi, pokrytcovi?" Pomyslel som si, "Bože, radšej to všetko nechám tak, nerozumiem tomu." Mal som len okolo devätnásť, dvadsať rokov, a myslel som si, "Radšej to tak nechám. Nuž, neviem. Ako to tak môže byť? Nemôžem nič o tom povedať, nemôžem nič proti tomu povedať, ale viem, že tento muž nie je v poriadku." A ten istý Duch, pozoroval som to, padal tam a pôsobil ten istý efekt. Myslel som si, "Tu na tom, niekde nie je niečo v poriadku. To je to."
Povedal som tomu mužovi - On povedal, "Prijal si už Ducha Svätého?"
Povedal som, "Myslím, že nemám to čo vy."
Povedal, "Chvála Pánu! Hovoril si niekedy v jazykoch?"
Povedal som, "Nie, pane."
On povedal, "Tak to nemáš."
Povedal som, "Nuž, hádam to nemám." Vidíte? Povedal som, "Toto je niečo nové. Nikdy som to nevidel ani nepočul o tom." A povedal ...
On povedal, "Nuž, choď tam dovnútra a vezmi ... skutočne, ona je tam kvôli tebe.
Povedal som, "Ďakujem pane." A myslel som si, "Brat, ja nechcem to čo ty máš!" Tak potom - prizeral som sa tomu za chvíľu, a po chvíli som odišiel a išiel som von, do lesa, tej noci, a myslel som si, "Bože, buď milostivý, idem domov." A odišiel som domov. Nemohol som povedať nič pre ani proti tomu.
168Raz, bol som tu hore v zelenom mlyne (v mojej malej nenápadnej jaskyni. kde stále chodím ako viete). Bol som tam kvôli niečomu inému. Bol som tam tri alebo štyri dni na pôste a na modlitbe. Bolo tam potuchlo, v tej jaskyni, a ja som vyšiel jedno popoludnie a - bolo pekne a svietilo slnko - pomedzi listy. Bol tam starý kmeň, ktorý spadol takto dole rovno pod tým (dole smerom ku potoku), a ja som si tam sadol a pretieral som si oči (bol som nejaký čas tam v tej tmavej jaskyni). A položil som takto Bibliu, a myslel som si, "Nuž, myslím, že si prečítam niečo z Biblii." A vystrel som sa na chrbát, opretý tu o ten konár a oddychoval som ležiac na chrbte; Bol som celý zaprášený.
169A začal som čítať, a keď som zodvihol Bibliu, bolo to Židom 6. kapitola, vidíte. "Lebo je nemožné tých, ktorí už raz boli osvietení; stali sa účastníkmi Svätého Ducha, keby odpadli, zase obnoviť ku pokániu. Lebo zem, ktorá pije dážď ... berie podiel na požehnaní od Boha ... Ale tá, ktorá rodí tŕnie a bodľač, je blízka zlorečenstva ... aby bola spálená."
170Pomyslel som si, "Nuž, čo to je? - STOP!" A myslel som si, "Čo to bolo?" "Ó," povedal som si, "Zdá sa mi, že to niečo je" - išiel som ďalej. Nebol som - Bol som tam na modlitbe ohľadne niečoho iného. A znovu som položil svoju Bibliu. Povedal som si, "Nuž, hádam ju otvorím niekde inde a budem si niečo čítať," takto, a zafúkal vietor a otvoril ju znovu tam kde predtým. Ja som ju mal otvorenú v Starom Zákone; vietor zafúkal a otvoril ju znovu na Liste Židom v 6. kapitoly. Znovu som sa pozrel, a bolo to tam. A tak som sa pozrel; zodvihol som ju, a znovu som to čítal - niečo. "Dobre," pomyslel som si, "ó! stávaš sa poverčivým, Bill?"
171A tak, pomyslel som si, "Nuž, budem tu čítať," a nemohol som ... začal som čítať, ale nemohol som sa na nič sústrediť. Pomyslel som si, "No dobre, myslím, že pozdvihnem ruky a budem chváliť Pána." Položil som Bibliu takto dole; zodvihol som ruky, aby som chválil Pána. A Keď som zodvihol ruky, zavanul vietor, "Fúú," [Brat Branham napodobňuje vietor. – pozn.prekl.] znovu zavanul, a keď zavanul, pozrel som sa tam; Židom 6. kapitola. Znovu som to čítal. Pomyslel som si, "Čo to znamená? Nemôžem tomu porozumieť." Zabudol som už o tých letničných predstavách. Potom - Pomyslel som si, "Čo to znamená?"
172A sedel som tam a rozmýšľal, "Je tam v tom niečo, Pane?" Pomyslel som si, "Nuž, verím vo vyvolenie, áno - tí, ktorí raz boli osvietení; stali sa účastníkmi Ducha Svätého (vidíte?), a ochutnali Slovo Božie - " Povedal som, "To sú okrajoví veriaci, ktorí prídu takmer až do tých skutočných vecí, a potom odídu naspäť; práve tak, ako tí vo dňoch Jozueho." (Jozua a Kálef prešli ďalej, na druhú stranu, ale títo zostali len na hranici, vidíte, okoštovali a videli dobré skutky Božie, a potom to odmietli.)
173Ľudia sedia po celý čas v zbore, a hovoria, "Ja tomu verím, brat Branham," ale vôbec sa nepohnú tým smerom. Vidíte, pre nich je to nemožné, aby kedy cez to prešli. A tak oni potom prídu na to miesto, a vy kážete tým ženám s krátkymi vlasmi; po roku majú také isté krátke vlasy. Kážete im, a oni robia presne to isté, vidíte. Nikdy nevidia - okrajoví veriaci. Vy poviete, "Ó, áno, ja verím, že je to pravda."
Povedal som, "Samozrejme, ja tomu verím." Ale toto - keď to prišlo do tohoto miesta - "Ale taká. ktorá rodí bodliaky a tŕne je blízka zlorečenstva, ktorej koniec je aby bola spálená." Pomyslel som si, "Čo to znamená? Nemôžem to pochopiť."
174A sedel som ...?... a rozmýšľal som, "Bože, ak je toto niečo, čo mi chceš dať poznať, som tu a usilujem o videnie od Teba, Pane, aby som vedel čo so službou tam dole, a chcem aby si mi to povedal, Otče." A pozrel som sa a krížom cez to údolie, ktoré sa tiahne smerom (ja som sa nachádzal povyše Charlestonu) - tiahne sa smerom na New Market, tým smerom, (krížom ponad ten kopec), a pozrel som sa a videl som, akoby dúha visela nad tým údolím. A cez túto dúhu som videl, že sa niečo otáča, a pozrel som sa, a to bol svet. A tu išiel muž, oblečený v bielom.
175Nuž, mnohí z vás ste tu príliš mladí, aby ste to poznali. Pamätáte sa, keď sme zvykli rozsievať semená - založili ste si na bok také veľké vrecko, a naberali ste to rukou a rozhadzovali? Pán Wood, ty sa budeš na to pamätať - keď sa takto sialo. Brali to do ruky a takto to rozsýpali. Nechali nech ich vietor zaveje do zeme.
176A videl som muža oblečeného v bielom, ako takto prechádzal krížom cez svet a rozsieval semená. A pozoroval som ho, ako prechádzal rovno dookola celej zemi. A myslel som si, "Zaujímavé, čo to znamená." A potom, pozrel som sa; a len čo sa on otočil chrbtom, tu prichádza ozajstný podvodník, prechádzal okolo, a takto sa obzeral. Mal plné vrece a sial za ním kúkoľ. Obišiel okolo zeme; stále sa pozeral, zakrádal sa a rozhadzoval takto tie semená, a obišiel okolo zeme.
177Potom som videl, ako to vyrástlo. A vyrástla pšenica a vyrástol i kúkoľ, tŕnie, ostne, bodľačie. A to oboje rástlo spolu. A potom prišlo veľké sucho, a videl som tú drobnú pšenicu, ako mala ovisnutú svoju drobnú hlávku a [Brat Branham napodobňuje ako vzdychala. – pozn.prekl.] a skoro zomierala, vzdychajúc po vode. A videl som ten malý kúkoľ, ako mal ovisnutú svoju hlavu [Brat Branham napodobňuje vzdychanie. – pozn.prekl.] takmer zomieral a vzdychal po vode. A každý sa začal modliť za vodu, a zrazu prišiel veľký dážď, ako odpoveď na tú modlitbu. A ten dážď prešiel po celej zemi, a len čo voda spadla na zem, tá malá pšenica poskočila a zavolala, "Sláva! sláva! sláva! sláva!" A kúkoľ poskočil a začal kričať, "Sláva! sláva! sláva! sláva!"
Nuž, pomyslel som si, "Nuž, čo to je?" A hneď potom - "No dobre, že tá pšenica kričí, to dokážem pochopiť; ale čo to má znamenať s tým kúkoľom?" Potom On povedal, "Čítaj Židom 6."
178Dážď padá na spravodlivých i na nespravodlivých. To je to, čo sa deje; preto sme do teraz nemali pripravenú Nevestu pre Krista. Zasiali sme denominačné semená namiesto Slova. Čo to spôsobilo? - prinieslo to viacej denominačných detí. Je to tak. Ale medzi tým je nejaká pšenica, ktorá tam spadla. Je to tak.
179Ale pozrite sa, ten istý Duch spôsobuje, že skutočný, opravdový, rýdzi veriaci hovorí v jazykoch, ten skutočný Duch, ktorý činí ozajstného veriaceho kresťanom (vidíte, pretože To je zavlažovanie Slova, Semena), ten istý Duch činí na tom inom semene nejakú náhradu, tak ako to čo skrížila Eva, On spôsobuje, že to skrížené sa tak isto raduje, tak isto vykrikuje, cíti sa tak isto plné radosti, ako tí ostatní. Ale aká je pravda ohľadom neho? - to semeno je od počiatku zlé!
180A tak, všetky naše telesné demonštrácie neznamenajú nič! "Hoci by som hovoril ľudskými jazykmi aj anjelskými a lásky keby som nemal, nič mi to neprospieva. Hoci by som mohol vrchy prenášať a lásky keby som nemal, nič mi to neprospieva. Hoci by som rozdal všetko svoje imanie, aby som nakŕmil biednych, a lásky by som nemal, nič mi to neprospieva. Keby som hovoril ľudskými jazykmi aj anjelskými, bolo by to len, ako cvendžiaci kov a zvučiaci zvon. Vidíte, to nie je nič. Počúvajte, cirkev: Letniční - nič! Prečo? To je skrížené semeno. Ono nemôže prísť do Slova.
181Nuž, tu to máte. To telo, ktoré zrodí Kristovo telo, znovu musí byť ... pochádza z panenského lona. To Slovo, tak veru! Preto - počúvajte teraz - preto ona vyprodukovala "o milión viac v roku 44." (To bolo heslo baptistov.) Preto letničné denominácie nemohli dať duchovné narodenie aby to priviedlo manifestácie a Krista, pretože to bol len dážď siatia, a ona zrodila denominačnú cirkev a je zjednotená s tým veľkým evanjelickým hnutím, a odišla cestou Kóreho. Odišla s denomináciami, to je ten dôvod.
182Nuž, poďme naspäť do Starého Zákonu a vezmime nejaké predobrazy, a potom ešte na niekoľko minút niečo začnem a potom vás už nechám ísť. Poďme naspäť do Starého Zákonu a vezmime nejaké predobrazy, aby sme dokázali tieto veci. Nuž, strávil som tu pri tom niekoľko hodín, aby som to poukladal. Nuž, zmeníme teraz tému, zmeníme program. No prv, mám niečo, len čo sa dostanem ... mám tu niekoľko strán, a potom musím ... Ó! ó! ó! - rozhodne nie tak! Musím sa skutočne ponáhľať. Budem to teraz čítať. Tak rýchlo ako len budem môcť, pretože viem, že teraz máme už len veľmi málo času. Ste unavení? [Zhromaždenie odpovedá "Nie". – pozn.prekl.] Nie! Dobre, tak to som len ja. Ideme ďalej, to je v poriadku.
183 Nuž, preto máme všetky tieto veci ktoré máme. Nuž, všetky tieto veci, ktoré som povedal, ak sú nie v súlade s Bibliou - ak nepasujú presne so Slovom Božím - sú nesprávne. Sú nesprávne. A celý tento obraz - Nuž, preberiem rýchlo niektoré z nich (nebudem to vysvetľovať, len to rýchlo preberiem, aby sme to mohli porozumieť; Sľúbil som vám to, tak rýchlo ako to len budem môcť).
184Mám tu miesto, kde som sa dostal tak do Ducha. Zvolal som zbor, aby som to ukázal a dokázal to tu v Slove, presne to čo sa odohrávalo po celý čas, a potom keď som to urobil, rozmýšľal som, "Pane, mám tu teraz tých ľudí - Budem ich tam mať zhromaždených; čo im budem môcť povedať? Nemôžem predpovedať budúcnosť. Nemôžem im povedať čo robiť. Čo mám robiť? Nechám ich stáť na pokraji?" A zodvihol som ruky a povedal som, "Bože, myslím, že to robím podľa Tvojej vôli. Nikdy som to neurobil, nikdy predtým som to neurobil" - preto, že to semeno nebolo ešte zatiaľ zasiate. Povedal som, "Teraz mám - verím, že teraz prišiel pre mňa čas aby som to povedal; ale teraz, čo mám hovoriť?"
185A práve tak jasno, ako vy počujete môj hlas, niečo povedalo, "Vezmi svoje pero." Prečítam vám to za chvíľu. A keď som bol s tým hotový, bolo to tu, práve tá odpoveď. Ja som vôbec nevedel čo píšem. Ja som len začal písať; a keď som bol s tým hotoví, odložil som pero; a pozrel som sa hore, "Ó, Bože buď milostivý, je to tu, rovno tu. To je to čo hľadám." Nuž, sú niektoré veci, ktoré som musel obísť. Dostaneme sa do toho za chvíľu, keď Pán dá.
186Celý Starý Zákon bol predobrazom, ktorý ukazoval na Krista a na Jeho Cirkev. Veríte, že Adam a Eva ukazovali na Krista a na Jeho Cirkev? Veríte, že Jahwe a Jeho Žena ukazovali na Krista a na Jeho Cirkev? Nuž, ak toto sú predobrazy a toto je ten skutočný obraz, on musí byť taký, ako ten predobraz, pretože ten predobraz je vzatý z - ten skutočný obraz je vzatý z toho predobrazu. Kristus je Hlava, ten skutočný Kameň Boží. Veríte tomu? To skutočné Slovo. Nevesta je to Telo.
Chcete ku tomu nejaké miesta z Písma? Môžete si ich vyhľadať (Myslel som, že to prečítam, ale nebudem to teraz čítať) 1Petra 2: 1-6; Efežanom 5: 22; (vidíte?) 1Petra 2: 1_6; Efežanom 5: 23. Prečítajte si tú kapitolu, obidve.
187Starý Zákon: Kristus, pozrite sa sem. Vezmime si napríklad toto. (Možno, ak mi moja žena nevzala ten dolár. Tu je. Platila pred chvíľou nejaké sendviče. Prepáčte mi, priatelia, nemám to tak hovoriť, ale - ja mám dobrú ženu.) Nuž, na zadnej strane tohoto doláru - (Ak by to nebolo pre ňu, nemal by som ten dolár, myslím; Božia milosť nám to dáva a ona mi pomáha.) Nuž, na jeho zadnej strane, vyzerá ako, keď sú to naše peniaze, tá Americká pečať na ľavej strane doláru má byť tou veľkou pečaťou v tejto krajine. Je to tak? No dobre, prečo je to pyramída, ktorá je nazvaná veľká pečať? Dokonca vaše peniaze musia o tom svedčiť. Áno, zakaždým, keď posielate nejakú pohľadnicu, alebo poštu, musíte vydať svedectvo - to dáva svedectvo: rok nášho Pána, tisíc deväťsto šesťdesiat dva. Všetko vydáva svedectvo o Kristovi. Vidíte?
188Všimli ste si tú veľkú pečať, že to je pyramída? Či vedel kto kedy, že na ich pyramídu nikdy nebol položený štítový kameň? Koľkí to vedia? Skutočne. Ja som bol tam v Egypte, v Káhire; videl som to. Nikdy nemali štítový kameň. Prečo? - on bol odmietnutý, ten uholný kameň. To bol uholný kameň, ktorý držal túto budovu - to je kľúčový kameň. Koľký z vás vedia čo je to kľúčový kameň? Keď je postavená tá klenba, potom ten kľúčový kameň to drží dokopy. Ten uholný kameň, ktorý drží tú budovu, je to tak? A tým uholným kameňom na pyramíde bol štítový kameň - to bol ten kľúčový kameň, ktorý drží všetko dokopy. Nuž, tento kľúčový kameň bol odmietnutý.
Všimli ste si, tam hore, to stojí nad tým, hore nad tou pyramídou. Nuž, čo to reprezentovalo, keď to Enoch staval?
189Tuto je to čo sa stalo: práve taký je príchod cirkvi Evanjelia. Vidíte, teraz dole v tej širokej časti pyramídy, to reprezentuje tie včasné dni reformácii - len sa nazývať kresťanom a nesúhlasiť s katolíckou cirkvou, to znamenalo, že ste mohli byť za to zabitý. Potom ďalej prichádza ... oni kázali ospravedlnenie z viery.
190Potom ďalej prichádza - nuž, dávajte pozor ako znovu naspäť prichádzajú tie tri veci. Ďalej prichádza John Wesley, ktorý kázal posvätenie. Cirkev sa stáva čím ďalej tým menšia. Vidíte, takto sa zužuje.
191A potom po dňoch posvätenia, po Johnovi Wesleyovi, prichádza letničná cirkev, a Boh vyberá z toho zbytok; každého kto prijíma Slovo, vidíte. Nuž, keď to prišlo dole ku letničným, tam to bolo odseknuté ešte viacej, pretože to bolo prinavrátenie darov. Privádza to rovno ďalej hore - Čo to je? Tu dole, to má ďaleko od toho, aby to vyzeralo ako hlava. A čím ďalej, tým je to trošku bližšie ku hlave. Tu hore je to ešte bližšie, ale to musí byť presne dopasované s tým zbytkom toho. To musí byť vybrúsené. V tej pyramíde, môžete vziať žiletku, a nedokážete ju strčiť medzi tie dva kamene, kde bola malta; tak presne to pasuje dokopy. Hovorí sa, že Šalamúnov chrám bol taký istý. Vidíte?
192Boh vyberá von Vyvolených z letničnej cirkvi (z toho kríženca), vyťahuje ich von a dovádza Slovo do zakončenia. A to si musí byť tak blízke, až samotné Slovo splynie s týmto Slovom. Tam prichádza Hlavový kameň, volajúc, "Milosť, milosť, predivná milosť" - Hlavový kameň. Tu ste vy, ako toto, vidíte, na tomto. [Brat Branham ukazuje do obecenstva viditeľnú ilustráciu. – pozn.prekl.] Vidíte, ako to tu ide ďalej? A to sa stáva tesnejšie a tesnejšie a tesnejšie (tá služba), až to príde sem - tu je Luther; ospravedlnenie, ospravedlnený. Tu prichádza Wesley: posvätená skupina. Tu prichádzajú letniční: prinavrátenie darov.
193Nuž, Boh vyberá z tade, vybrusuje skupinu, aby vyrobil službu, presne takú, ako to Slovo tam, pretože to musí byť dopasované so Slovom. Tam je Nevesta; Berie Ju hore.
194Nuž, Kristus sa zamanifestoval, aby zničil skutky diablove. Veríte tomu? Nuž, nedokážem to všetko vysvetliť; Ja budem cez to len prechádzať, teraz už rýchlo; dotknem sa len tých najdôležitejších miest, aby ste tu nemuseli byť príliš dlho. Kristus sa zamanifestoval, aby zničil diela diablove. Je to pravda? Veríte to všetci? Preto On - Čo On bol? - Božie Slovo, ktoré ničí skutky toho kríženia, diabla. Je to tak? On sa na to zjavil, aby to vykonal; On sa narodil aby bol taký, aby zničil skutky diablove.
195Nuž, Jeho Telo má robiť to isté, pretože to Telo je - to Telo a Hlava dokopy. Je to tak? Ak Kristus je Hlava - bol Slovom, Jeho Telo musí byť tým istým, čím bola Jeho Hlava. Je to tak? A Cirkev Slova, zrodená zo Slova. Panenské narodenie zo Slova, nie denominačné teraz. Panenské narodenie zo Slova.
196Telo je riadené skrze Hlavu. Je to pravda? Moje telo sa nemôže hýbať, až kým mu moja hlava nepovie, aby sa pohlo. Nuž, čo ak moja hlava je mäso a moje telo betón? - nemôže sa to hýbať. Hlava môže povedať, "Hýb sa, hýb sa, hýb sa, hýb sa, hýb sa," ale tam nič nie je do čoho by ten povel mohol byť zaslaný. Je to tak? No dobre, ak moja Hlava je Kristus a moje telo je denominácia, ako to bude fungovať? Ako môže spolupracovať cudnosť so smilstvom?
197Och, milujem to, bratia; Hovorím vám. Rád by som chvíľu o niečom z toho kázal. Spôsob, akým to Telo môže fungovať je skrze Hlavu, a Hlavou je Slovo. Je to pravda? Hlavou je Slovo.
198Porovnajte teraz tú modernú cirkev. Prečo nemáme v nej zázraky? Prečo nemáme v nej Slovo? Nemožno to Slovo dostať do nej; denominácia to zastavila. Skutočne.
199Povedzme, že tu prichádza dobrý, posvätený muž Boží, káže Slovo Božie, tak presne z Biblii, ako len môže; denominácia: "Och! Nie! Nie veru! Berte ho z tadiaľto preč!" Vidíte? Telo sa nemôže pohnúť; vyfučala para - musela.
200Nuž, Telo nesie (skutky nesú) skutky a robí skutky, ktoré mu Hlava rozkazuje robiť. Povedzte mi, kde On kedy povedal, "Zorganizujte sa"! Povedzte mi, kde Hlava povedala, "Pre ženy je to v poriadku, že si strihajú vlasy"! Nieto tam takej zmienky. Povedzte mi, kde, kedy Hlava povedala, "Ja činím tieto skutky, ale vy ich nebudete činiť"! Povedzte mi to! Ale Hlava povedala toto, (ak si chcete zapísať to Písmo, poviem vám ho: Ján 14: 12), "Skutky, ktoré Ja činím, vy tiež budete činiť." To je Jeho Telo, vidíte.
201Vidíte teraz, prečo som bol taký horlivý ohľadne toho druhu semena, ktoré som sial pre Telo? Ten dážď bude padať veľmi skoro; mám na mysli ten skutočný dážď. A on musí mať Semeno na ktoré spadne. Dúfam, že budem žiť aby som to mohol vidieť. Rozumiete teraz? To bude to živé Slovo, tak ako bolo na počiatku - to vypovedané Slovo Božie, ktoré má Svoju moc; pretože to je v Ňom, v Jeho vlastnom Tele, pracujúce Svojím vlastným spôsobom. Pozrite sa na zasľúbenia, ktoré Boh dal tomuto Telu.
202A teraz prichádzame do niečoho. Prichádzame ku vrchu Sion, teraz. Pozrime sa, čo On povedal ohľadne tohoto Tela - mám na mysli to panensky zrodené. [Brat Branham poklepal sedem krát po kazateľni. – pozn.prekl.] Vidíme teraz napodobeniny toho. Vidíme to každý deň. Ale poďme do toho skutočného Tela a pozrime sa, čo On o tomto povedal. Pozrime sa. V poriadku, tu je to, čo On zasľúbil.
203Veríte, že Ján 3: 16 je pravda? Musím to proste prečítať. To je to o čo chodí. V poriadku. Vy - ja môžem - Každý kto verí v Jána 3: 16: "Boh tak miloval svet, že dal Svojho Jednorodeného Syna," a tak ďalej, nech povie, amen. [Zhromaždenie odpovedá, "Amen!" – pozn.prekl.] Vyzývam vás, aby ste verili aj ten zbytok z toho! Ja teraz hovorím o Tele.
204Vezmime ev. Jána 20 a začnime tam. No dobre, vezmime ev. Jána dvadsiatu kapitolu, a dívajme sa. Ján dvadsiata kapitola a začneme pri, ó, povedzme od 19. verša. Ev. sv. Jána 20, (Dúfam, že to je to, čo som si tu poznačil), a začneme od 19. verša. Počúvajte teraz pozorne.
205Vyzývam vás aby ste tomu verili! Ó, ja to proste milujem. Ó, keby som len mohol - prajem si aby som mohol proste vidieť Ducha Svätého vznášať sa tu, takto; a povedať, "Nuž, to som Ja." Počúvajte:
A keď bol večer toho dňa, prvého dňa týždňa, a dvere, kde boli učeníci zhromaždení, boli zamknuté...
(dvere, kde boli učeníci zhromaždení, boli zamknuté) ...zo strachu pred Židmi, prišiel Ježiš a zastal si doprostredku a povedal im: Pokoj vám!
... (a keď to povedal)
...A keď to povedal, ukázal im svoje ruky a svoj bok.
...(A keď jeho učeníci ... pozrime sa ... jeho bok a keď ...)A
tak zaradovali sa učeníci, keď videli Pána.
Vtedy im zase povedal Ježiš ... Pokoj vám!
...(Ó, ste pripravení?)... ako mňa poslal Otec, ...
(On je Slovo, Semeno, Slovo - Semeno) ...tak ja posielam vás.
(Veríte tomu? Nezastavujte sa; je toho viacej.)A keď to povedal, dýchnul na nich a povedal im: Prijmite Svätého Ducha!
Keby ste odpustili hriechy niektorých ľudí, sú im odpustené, a keby ste zadržali hriechy niektorých ľudí, sú im zadržané.
206Je to Pravda? Komu to On povedal? - Semenu, Slovu. Prečo? - len oni mohli byť narodení skrze Slovo. To je ten dôvod. Veríte tomu? Vezmime Matúša 16 teraz, za chvíľku. Matúš 16: 19. Čítajme to za chvíľku. V poriadku:
A dám ti kľúče nebeského kráľovstva, a čokoľvek by si zviazal na zemi, bude zviazané aj na nebi; a čokoľvek by si rozviazal na zemi, bude rozviazané aj na nebi.
207Vyzývam vás aby ste tomu verili. A ak je toto nie Slovo, potom Ján 3. 16 je tiež nie Slovo. Prečo prijímate jedno a neprijímate druhé? Celé Slovo Božie je pravda, ale to musí prísť do panenského lona, kde neleží nič okrem toho Semena. Veríte tomu? No dobre, dávajte na to dobrý pozor.
208Viem, že tá smilnica si na to robí nárok, a oni odpúšťajú hriechy skrze moc svojej denominácii. Ale pozrite sa na ich deti: v každej tanečnej sále, strihajú si vlasy, maľujú sa ako šašovia, muži žijú poza domom so ženami iných mužov, flirtujú všade na uliciach, spoločne sa chodia kúpať; a všetko ďalšie. Skutočne, oni odpúšťajú; oni odpúšťajú hriechy svojím vlastným spôsobom, ale ich ovocie ukazuje čo to je. Nepostupujú správne, nie veru. Čo oni robia? - nosia šortky, strihajú si vlasy, maľujú sa. Ježiš povedal, "Podľa ich ovocia ich poznáte," - to je ten druh semena, ktorým oni sú. To je to, čo to je.
209 Denominačné semeno dáva denominačné odpustenie. To je presne tak. Boh povedal, "Nech je Slovo podľa Svojho druhu," a tak to je. Je to tak. Ó, brat, Písmo je pravdivé. Veríš tomu?
210A Duch Svätý vydáva svedectvo o tom predurčenom dare, o ktorom cirkev tvrdí, že ho má. Skrze čo? Skrze podlievanie Slova, punktujúc to Slovo svojím amen.
211Keď Ono hovorí, "Čiňte pokánie a dajte sa pokrstiť vo meno Ježiša Krista" - "AMEN!" Keď Ono hovorí tieto ďalšie veci - "AMEN!" To je to: "AMEN" na všetko, vidíte. To dotvrdzuje Slovo. A Boh skrze ... predurčil ten dar, aby prišiel, aby odpustil hriechy, ale to bolo dané do Tela-Slova naplneného Duchom, pretože jedine Slovo môže odpúšťať hriechy, pretože Slovo je Boh.
212Akí verní boli farizeovia. Zmienil som sa o tom dnes ráno, že sa do toho dostaneme, ale zabral som svoj čas. Ale farizeovia hovorili, "Tento človek odpúšťa hriechy. Vieme, že on sa rúha. Len Boh môže odpúšťať hriechy, a tento človek odpúšťa hriechy" - nevediac, že to bolo Slovo. Slovo odpúšťa hriechy, pretože Ono je Boh. A keď sa stanete, nie svojím vlastným - Boh to vie - vedel to a predzedel skrze predzvedenie, kto vezme tento Dar, a kto to použije tým správnym spôsobom. Tí, ktorí to majú, sú potvrdení skrze Slovo Božie, každým ostatným Slovom a Duchom. Je to jasné? Niektorí sa vám budú snažiť povedať, aby ste verili, že to prichádza skrze vzdelanie, učenosť, a vedecké stupne; ak budete chodiť do školy tak dlho; ak sa stanete biskupom, ak budete študovať, aby ste sa stali pápežom, alebo ak sa stanete kardinálom, alebo niečím takým (takí nejakí by nás chceli mať za to, aby sme verili, že to je to, z kade to pochádza) keď ľudia skrze položenie rúk, vás učinia niečím, aby ste to robili. Ale oni sú pomimo Slova!
213Rimanom 11: 29 hovorí, "Boh neľutuje darov svojej milosti a svojho povolania." To dáva Boh. A tak isto Ján 15: 16, ak si to chcete zapísať. Dobre teraz počúvajte. Aký bol rozdiel medzi Ježišom a denomináciami v Jeho čase! Oni poukazovali späť na Neho - Rád by som to za chvíľu predstavil, pozrite sa. Oni poukazovali za seba, tam dozadu na tie časy a budú hovorili, "My sme učeníci Mojžišovi. My vieme, že Boh sa zjavil Mojžišovi v tom horiacom kríku, my to vieme." Oni to vedeli - oni poznali tú históriu o Mojžišovi, ale nepoznali Mojžišovho Boha, pretože On stál pred nimi v Jánovi 6 a povedal, "Prv ako bol Mojžiš - prv ako bol Abrahám, JA SOM" - horiaci krík. Oni poznali Mojžišovu históriu.
214Tak je to aj dnes. Oni poznajú toho Boha - oni tvrdia, že poznajú Slovo Kristovo, ale nepoznajú Boha, ktorý bol v Kristovi. Namaľovaný oheň - kto sa môže zohriať pri namaľovanom ohni - pri nejakých seminárnych prežitiach? Oni poznali Mojžiša, ale nie jeho Boha.
215Ježiš by mohol povedať a povedal amen! Počúvaj teraz, brat. Ó! Cítim sa teraz ako David, točiac s tým prakom. Dúfam, že nevyzerám pred vami ako svätokrádežník, priatelia. Som v poriadku, ale sa proste cítim tak dobre. Práve som sa začal teraz dobre cítiť.
216Ježiš by mohol povedať a povedal, "Otec, ktorý Ma poslal je vo Mne, a ako On poslal Mňa, tak Ja posielam vás" - Svojim učeníkom. "Otec, ktorý Ma poslal je so Mnou. Ak Ja nečiním skutky Slova, zasľúbeného od Môjho Otca, potom Mi neverte, pretože to sú oni, ktoré svedčia o Mne." Haleluja! Ó, Cirkev, kde si? Ježiš povedal - oni povedali, "Ó, my vieme, že Boh toto robil, ale nie dnes." Ježišovi povedali to isté - "My vieme, že s Mojžišom bol Boh."
217"Ale ten Boh, ktorý bol so Mnou je vo Mne, pretože ak neveríte tomu, pozrite sa čo je napísané o Mne. Pozrite sa čo Písmo hovorí, že budem robiť, a ak nevypĺňam Písma, potom Mi neverte."
218Dovoľte mi povedať toto, nech to nevyznie ako svätokrádež, ale dovoľte mi to povedať o Posolstve, ktoré kážem: Ak Boh toto nepotvrdzuje ako Pravdu, potom to nie je pravda; ale ak to Slovo potvrdzuje, že vám hovorím Pravdu, potom verte Slovu! Oni sú to, ktoré svedčia, či vám hovorím Pravdu alebo nie. Oni sú svedectvom; oni svedčia o mojej - o službe, ktorú mi On dal. On zasľúbil toto, že to bude v tých posledných dňoch. Tu to je! On povedal čo to bude robiť. Tu to je; ideme teraz rovno do toho! Vidíte či je to pravda alebo nie.
219Nech o tom svedčí Boh. Ak skutky, tie veci, ktoré ja kážem nesvedčia spätne o tom, že je to pravda, tak potom to nie je pravda; ale, ak Slovo o tom hovorí, a tu to je, tak potom čo s tým budete robiť?
220Ježiš povedal, "Ja vás poznám; vy si myslíte, že poznáte Mojžiša. Vy poznáte - môžete poznať ... históriu Mojžiša, ale nepoznáte jeho Boha; pretože Ja som bol pred Mojžišom. Ja som bol Ten ktorý hovoril ku Mojžišovi. Ja som ten JA SOM; Ja som Slovo." Oni to nemohli vidieť, pretože oni boli z ich otca, diabla. Ich denominácie im to nedovolili vidieť. To nezastavilo Slovo, aby tak isto postupovalo ďalej. Ono spadlo na niektorých, a z tade prišla Nevesta v tej generácii.
221No dobre, aký rozdiel - namaľovaný oheň. Ježiš zvykol hovoriť, "Otec, ktorý Ma poslal je so Mnou, a skutky, ktoré Ja činím svedčia o tom, pretože Ja robím tie isté veci, o ktorých Písmo povedalo, že ich budem robiť." Židia poznali svojho historického Boha. Tak isto je to teraz, áno. Oni preto poznali toho historického Boha, pretože oni mali historické semeno! Prečo oni neprijali Jeho? - pretože to semeno bolo skrížené s denomináciou. Ježiš vedel Kto Ho poslal, pretože Ten, ktorý Ho poslal bol v Ňom, a On nebol zviazaný so žiadnou denomináciou. Amen! "Povedzte mi ktorú - ktorú školu vychodil?" oni povedali. "Skadiaľ On vzal túto múdrosť? Skadiaľ pochádza toto učenie?" Oni nemohli nájsť školu, do ktorej by On kedy bol chodil, a jednako, ako dvanásť roční ohromoval zákonníkov a farizejov. Ó! To sa vyplnilo.
222Prečo Mu nepovedali niečo ako decku? On bol Božím Slovom. Oni nemohli proti tomu obstáť. Nie divu, že ľudia žasli nad Jeho učením. Čítali ste to niekedy? Marek 1: 22; ak si to chcete zapísať. Ľudia žasli nad Jeho učením, pretože On učil ako taký, ktorý má moc. On vedel o čom hovorí. Vidíte? Cirkev teraz má mať dvojnásobnú mieru Ducha. Pretože to je pravda, ako Eliášov plášť, ktorý spadol na Elizeusa (dvojnásobná miera), to isté prichádza od Ježiša Krista.
223Vy teraz hovoríte, "Ó, brat Branham, ty hovoríš o Jeho Cirkvi." Je to tak. To je Jeho Telo. Či nie je moja žena časťou môjho tela? Či nie je tvoja žena časťou tvojho tela? Telo z tvojho tela, kosť z tvojej kosti; svätý zväzok, je to pravda? Preto si kresťan nemá brať za ženu smilnicu, vidíte? To nie je správne. Nie veru, lebo to rozbíja všetky veci Božie.
224Vy hovoríte, "Ó, nuž, brat Branham, počkaj za chvíľu; ty hovoríš o Duchu Kristovom, ktorý je na - " Biblia hovorí, že to bude. Je to pravda? Izaiáš 9: 6 hovorí? "Dieťa sa nám narodilo, syn nám je daný; A nazvú Jeho meno: Radca, Knieža Pokoja, mocný Boh, Otec večnosti, a Jeho kráľovstvu nebude konca, a vláda bude na Jeho ..." Na čom? [Zhromaždenie odpovedá, "Na Jeho pleci". – pozn.prekl.] To je časť Jeho Tela. To je Jeho Telo, či nie? Jeho plecia sú Jeho Telom. V čom sa nachádza tá vláda na zemi? - v Jeho Tele. Svätí budú súdiť svet. Je to pravda?
225Pavel povedal, "Či sa opováži niekto z vás, kto má spor s iným, súdiť sa pred nespravodlivými a nie pred zborom?" Je to tak. Svätý budú súdiť svet. Kde na čom bude tá vláda? - na pleciach, Jeho Tela. Vláda na Jeho pleciach. To je časť tela.
226Čo to je? - Jeho moc na zemi. Božia moc na zemi, to je Jeho Slovo, ktoré sa stalo telom v Jeho Tele tu na zemi, a uskutočňuje to. Mojžiš ...
227Počúvajte, vynecháme niečo z toho. Boží poslovia stále boli odmietnutí. Veríte tomu? Mojžiš bol odmietnutý. Je to tak? Ježiš bol odmietnutý. A Lukáš povedal, v 10: 16 (ak si to chcete poznačiť, v poriadku) - odmietnutý; 1 Samuelova 8: 7, Božie Posolstvo bolo odmietnuté. Boh mal posla, proroka, ktorý sa nazýval Samuel. Veríte tomu? Odmietli jeho i jeho Posolstvo. Oni prijali svet. To je zákon Boží. To ide - neviem či to povedať alebo nie. Toto je Boží zákon. Boží zákon, to je prijať potvrdeného sluhu. Dokážeme to za chvíľu. Chcem vziať niektoré tu z týchto miest Písma: Ján 13: 20. Pozrime sa len; Mám tu niečo poznačené. Ja len - niečo - prišlo mi to na myseľ hneď potom - Aha, tu to máte.
Amen, amen vám hovorím, že ten, kto prijíma toho, koho by som poslal, mňa prijíma; a kto mňa prijíma, prijíma toho, ktorý mňa poslal.
228Potvrdený sluha. Ó, brat, rovno tu, leží okolo tisíc kázní. Vidíte? Je to tak. Ó, to je zákon Boží; PRIJAŤ TO!
229Samuel prišiel tam dole a povedal, "Chcem sa vás niečo opýtať. Povedal som vám niekedy niečo v Mene Pánovom, čo by sa nebolo stalo?"
"Nie."
"Vzal som niekedy nejaké ofery, aby som postavil veľké budovy a robil veľa veľkých vecí, a oslávil seba samého?"
"Nič také!"
Či dokázal Boh, že odpovedal na Slovo, ktoré som povedal?"
"Áno!"
"Tak, prečo ma potom nepočúvate?"
230Ježiš povedal farizejom ... "My vieme, že si sa narodil zo smilstva." On povedal, "Kto z vás Ma môže usvedčiť z hriechu? Dovoľte Mi ukázať vám Božie Slovo a uvidíme, či Mu budete veriť. Uvidíme, či To Boh potvrdzuje vo vás. A dovoľte Mi povedať o Sebe. Ak Ja hovorím Sám od Seba, tak Som klamár; ale ak hovorím z Boha a Boh hovorí cezo Mňa, skrze Jeho Slovo, potom je to Pravda. Tak potom, kto verí Slovu Božiemu: Ja alebo vy?" Aha! Tu to mali!
231Ježiš povedal, "Ten kto prijíma tých, ktorých som Ja poslal, Mňa prijíma." A teraz - tých ktorých On posiela. "A tí, ktorí Mňa prijímajú, prijímajú Toho, ktorý Ma poslal." Prajem si, aby sme mali čas zdržať sa pri tom.
232Vy môžete slúžiť Bohu jedine, keď ... vy môžete slúžiť Bohu jedine, keď - veríte sluhom, ktorých Boh posiela. Vy na zemi môžete slúžiť Bohu jedine (vidíte), keď vám Boží sluhovia, ktorí sú poslaní na zem, skrze božskú inšpiráciu vykladajú Slovo.
233Veríte tomu? Chcete si na tú tému poznačiť niektoré miesta Písma? 1 Korinťanom 4: 16. Pavol povedal, "Nasledujte mňa, ako ja nasledujem Krista." Tak isto, 11: 1; Lukáš 10: 16. Vidíte čo On povedal; čo tam Ježiš povedal. Lukáš 10: 16. Verím, že sme tu celkom tesne pri tom. Pozrime sa ešte raz, čo to tu hovorí. Lukáš 10: 16, zatiaľ čo si oni zapisujú tie ostatné miesta. Nuž, to je 1 Korinťanom 4: 16 a tiež 11. 1 a Lukáš 10. 16. No, prečítajme to. Idem tu do Lukáša 10: 16, len to prečítam, zatiaľ čo sa všetci dívate teraz na tie druhé, len za chvíľu. No dobre, tu to máme.
Kto vás počúva, mňa počúva, a kto vami pohŕda, mnou pohŕda: a kto mnou pohŕda, pohŕda tým, ktorý ma poslal.
234To dokazuje, že Boh hovorí Svoje Posolstvo skrze Svojich sluhov. Vždy to tak robil; je to tak.
235Nuž, moc veriacej cirkvi: Kristus má všetku moc na nebi i na zemi. Veríte tomu? Čo potom, ak je On vo vás? Má Kristus všetku moc? Matúš 28: 18. V poriadku.
236On je to Semenové-Slovo vo Svojom Tele, a On v nás, sa stáva Semenovým-Slovom v nás. Čo - všetko čo bol Boh, On prelial do Krista, a všetko čo bol Kristus, bolo preliate do Cirkvi; to je tá moc.
237Dávajte teraz pozor! Zapamätajte si Boží zákon reprodukcii. Nuž pamätajte, podľa svojho druhu. Je to tak? Semeno Kristovo, Slovo, musí prísť skrze Jeho Telo. (Och, začínate byť unavený? No dobre, už teraz len chvíľku. Vydržme po tichu a modlime sa.) Chcem aby ste tomu skutočne dobre porozumeli. Chcem to rozobrať. Semeno Kristovo musí, m-u-s-í, musí prísť skrze Jeho Telo - nie skrze denomináciu, ale skrze znovuzrodené Semeno Slova - musí prísť cezeň.
238Zapamätajte si teraz, čo to je? Kristove Semeno - Ako prichádza moje semeno? - skrze moje telo. Ako príde semeno jabloni? - skrze jej telo. Semeno prichádza skrze telo, a Cirkev je Telo Kristovo. Je to tak? Tá Biblická Cirkev. Toto zrodenie vydáva na svet Jeho samého v tele (to je znovuzrodenie). Jeho Cirkev je Jeho Slovo, a tak ľudia môžu vidieť potvrdenie slova zo Židom 13: 8: "Ježiš Kristus ten istý včera, dnes i naveky." Veríte tomu? Toto nie sú teraz denominační kríženci. Toto sú tí, ktorí na obežnej dráhe čakajú na to odrátanie (Viete čo mám na mysli.), pripravujúci sa vyletieť rovno hore. Sláva! Toto nie sú denominační kríženci, nezostávajú tam, nie. Nie veru. to je Semeno.
239Pavol sa obával, že ľudia budú zvažovať na nejaké veľké slová, ktoré by on mohol povedať (niečo z jeho vzdelania). 1 Korinťanom 2: 1-8, ak si to chcete zapísať. 1 Korinťanom 2: 1_8, Pavol povedal, "Neprišiel som ku vám hovoriac vznešené slová (nejaké intelektuálne reči, viete), aby vaša viera nespočívala na nejakých seminárnych veciach, ale som prišiel ku vám s prostotou, v moci a demonštrácii Ducha, aby vaša viera mohla spočinúť v Slove Božom. Tak veru."
240Hoci tie denominačné cirkvi, čo do počtu, prevýšia Nevestu v pomere tisíc ku jednej ... Veríte tomu? Veríte tomu, že to učí Biblia? Izaiáš 54: 1. On to zasľúbil. Preto ... chcete aby som to prečítal? No dobre, prečítajme to. Ak chcete vidieť, kde to je, kde to On zasľúbil, že oni ju čo do počtu prevýšia, poďme do Izaiáša 54: 1.
Prespevuj, neplodná, ty, ktorá nerodíš, jasaj a pokrikuj radostne, ty, ktorá nepracuješ k pôrodu, lebo viacej synov bude mať opustená, ako má synov tá, ktorá má muža! Hovorí Hospodin.
241Je to tak? Viacej bude mať detí smilnica, než ako vydaná žena. Skutočne, mnohonásobne ich prevýši, čo do počtu. Hoci ich bude početne viacej, oni nemajú opravdového otca!
242Nuž, tie denominačné druhy sú reprezentované v Júdovi 8-13. To je tá svetská cirkev. "Bezvodé oblaky, vypeňujúce svoje vlastné hanebnosti." Letničná cirkev je reprezentovaná tou denominačnou skupinou v 2.Timoteovi 3: 1_8. "Majúc formu pobožnosti" - ich semeno vyprodukovalo ich druh.
243Všimnite si, ten eunuch ... Ó tu sa teraz dostaneme do niečoho hlbokého. Dávajte teraz pozor, táto Semenová-Cirkev, táto skutočná Cirkev s tým skutočným opravdovým semenom. Všimnite si, ten eunuch bol so všetkými doktormi teológie. Nuž, zapamätajte si, Boh nikdy nepoveril - Boh nikdy nepoveril Svoje kázanie a Svoje Evanjelium nejakému Anjelovi. Koľkí z vás to vedia? Koľkí z vás vedia, že Galaťanom 1: 8 hovorí, "Ak by prišiel aj Anjel z neba a kázal niečo iné než ... to čo oni kázali, nech je prekliaty"? Tak ten Anjel nemá pravdu, ak hovorí niečo iné, ako Slovo. Boh zostúpil dole poniže Anjelov, a poručil to ľuďom, ktorí boli synmi. Veríte tomu? Nuž, dávajte pozor! On to nikdy neporučil Anjelom. Všimnite si, On to neurobil.
244Nuž, Filip bol na Letnice v Jeruzaleme, na zhromaždení. Koľkí na to povedia "Amen"? Ten eunuch, on bol so všetkými tými doktormi teológie a doktormi Písma a so všetkými možnými. Ale prečo nič neobdržal? On sa vracal domov, študujúc proroka Izaiáša.
245Hoci Anjel nasmeroval Filipa ku nemu, ale ten zárodok Života musel prísť cez to telo - cez Filipa. Ó, brat, teraz sme pri tom. Odkiaľ prišiel ten zárodok? Cez toho Anjela? Anjel mu ukázal, kde má ísť. Anjel je posol; a tu je syn. Filip mal ten zárodok, to Posolstvo, Slovo. To je to, ako sa môže narodiť dieťa. Filip položil na neho svoje ruky. Filip ho pokrstil vo Meno Ježiša Krista. Potom prišiel Duch Boží. Tak veru.
246Nuž, ten zárodok musel prísť cez to telo. Aké telo? - Kristove Telo. Tak veru. A Filip bol článkom toho Tela.
247Počúvajte teraz, to isté sa odohralo v Skutkoch 10: 48. Peter bol na postreší domu. Anjel ho nasmeroval do Kornéliovho domu, ale z kade prišlo Slovo? - z Tela. Cítim sa skutočne dobre; Cítim sa, ako keby som uháňal v pred. Anjel prišiel a povedal, "Neboj sa, nenazývaj nič nečistým, len choď; nič nerozmýšľaj." A zatiaľ, čo Peter hovoril tieto slová - nie ten Anjel, nie kardinál - zatiaľ, čo Peter hovoril tieto slová. Čo on bol? On bol to telo. On mal Slovo. To Slovo sa uchytilo. Ó, brat! Ó! Ó! Anjel ho nasmeroval, ale ten Život prišiel cez Telo Kristovo.
248Pavol, na svojej ceste do Damašku, bol nasmerovaný videním; ale Ananiáš (tam bol ten zárodok) mal Slovo. Amen! Ten prorok Ananiáš, videl videnie a ono povedalo, "Choď tam a polož na neho svoje ruky."
249Povedal, "Brat Saul, Pán sa ti zjavil na ceste, ako si sem išiel." Ako to on vedel? On mal Slovo. Slovo Pánovo prichádza ku prorokovi. Prorokoval, išiel tam a povedal, "On ma sem poslal, aby som mohol položiť na teba ruky, a ty budeš uzdravený a prijmeš Ducha Svätého - prijmi svoj zrak!" A šupiny spadli z jeho očí, a on vstal a dal sa pokrstiť vo Meno Ježiša a išiel študovať Písma. Anjel ho nasmeroval. To je pravda. Ale, Pavol mal ten zárodok Semena.
250Je treba Ducha Božieho, aby dal tomu Semenu Večný Život. Ó! Ó!
251Sú ešte stále dve hodiny? Viem o tom. Chcem potom niečo prečítať. Dovoľte mi prečítať to, už len okolo desať minút, dovolíte? Mal som dobrú predstavu - Mohol by som pri tom pozostať, ale radšej sa tu posuniem ďalej, a skončíme na čas. Je pol piatej a päť minút. Neviem kedy sa dostaneme do Georgie! Prajem si aby som sa mohol pri tom zastaviť a trochu to skomentovať, ale budem to len čítať, skutočne pomaly.
252A tak počúvajte pozorne. Tu je to, kvôli čomu som vzal pero, časť z toho. Vidíte, priatelia, prečo som sa staval, tak ako som sa staval? Vidíte prečo zápasím proti ... vyjsť preč z tých denominácií a vojsť do skutočnej Cirkvi Božej? Vidíte prečo sa to muselo dostať von zo Slova? To nemôže prísť skrze ľudskú múdrosť; to musí prísť skrze Slovo Božie. Preto verím Slovu, presne tak, ako je Ono napísané. Ja nechcem nič dodávať ani nič uberať; len to kázať tak, ako to je; len zotrvávať v chode.
253Nuž, bratia (vy všetci, ktorí počúvate tú pásku), ak nesúhlasíte so mnou, budem sa za vás modliť; ak sa ja mýlim, modlite sa za mňa. Budem teraz len čítať niečo - chcem aby ste to pozorne počúvali. Tu je to, kde Duch povedal, "Vezmi pero." Musím z toho niečo vynechať, ale niečo z toho vám musím oznámiť.
254No dobre. Nuž, tu je to čo sa vám snažím povedať: zákon reprodukcii spočíva v rodení podľa svojho druhu (Genesis 1: 11). V týchto posledných dňoch, skutočná Cirkev - Nevesta prichádza ku Hlavového kameňu. Bude to super Cirkev; super Rasa, keď sa dostanú tesne ku tomu veľkému Hlavovému kameňu. Oni budú tak veľmi podobní - tak veľmi podobní na Neho, že až budú Jeho doslovným obrazom, za tým účelom, aby s Ním boli spojení. Oni budú Jedno. Oni budú dokonalou manifestáciou Slova Živého Boha. Denominácie toto nemôžu vyprodukovať. Toto bude - Oni budú produkovať svoje vyznania a dogmy zmiešané so Slovom a - a budú prinášať krížený produkt.
255Prvý syn, bol vypovedaným Semenovým-Slovom Božím. Bola mu daná nevesta. (Opakujem len to čo povedal Duch, a ja som to zapísal, ako som vám povedal, vidíte.) Nevesta plodiaca - aby sa mohol plodiť. Ona upadla - (Vidíte, nato mu bola daná nevesta, aby zrodil znovu samého seba, ďalšieho syna Božieho, ale ona upadla skrze skríženie, vidíte.) Aby sa plodil - ale ona upadla; spôsobila, že zomrel.
256Druhému synovi, ktorý bol vypovedaným Semenovým-Slovom Božím, bola daná nevesta, ako Adamovi, ale prv ako sa s ňou mohol oženiť, ona tiež upadla; pretože jej bolo dané slobodné morálne rozhodnutie, ako Adamovej žene, aby verila Božiemu Slovu a Žila, alebo, aby zapochybovala o to a zomrela - a ona zapochybovala a zomrela.
257Potom z malej skupiny skutočného Semena Slova, Boh predstaví Kristovi milovanú Nevestu, Pannu - Pannu Jeho Slova - a skrze nich a nimi bude vyplnené všetko, čo bolo zasľúbené v Jeho Slove ohľadne tej Panny, ktorá nepozná žiadne ľuďmi zostavené vyznania alebo dogmy. Slovo zasľúbenia v Ňom samom, ako to bolo v Márii - Sám Boh sa zamanifestoval. On sám bude konať, podľa Svojho vlastného, zasľúbeného Slova, aby tak vyplnil všetko, čo je o Ňom napísané. Ako to On urobil, keď prišiel z toho panenského lona (čo je teraz typom toho duchovného lona), tak to urobí teraz tá Panna, prijímajúc Jeho Slovo: "Nech sa mi stane ako si povedal," hoci to bolo povedané skrze Anjela, no jednako to bolo napísané Slovo. (Izaiáš 9: 6) Oni Ho budú milovať (milovať Jeho-), a budú mať Jeho schopnosti, pretože On je ich Hlavou, a oni sú Jeho poddaný, poddaní Jeho Hlave. Kristovou Vrchnosťou bol On.
258Všimnite si tú harmóniu. Ježiš nikdy neurobil nič, až kým to nevidel robiť Otca, alebo až kým Mu to prv Otec neukázal. (Harmónia medzi Bohom a Kristom, vidíte Ján 5: 19) Tak bude Nevesta, a On Jej ukazuje Svoje Slovo Života (On jej ukazuje), a ona to prijíma. Ona nikdy o tom nepochybuje.
259Nič Jej nemôže uškodiť, ani smrť; pretože ak je Semeno zasadené, voda ho znovu vzbudí. Amen. (Nuž, mám na to veľké, hlasné Haleluja!) Tu je to tajomstvo: Slovo je v Neveste, a tiež zmysel Kristov aby vedela, čo On chce urobiť so Slovom, a Ona to robí v Jeho Mene. Ona má TAK HOVORÍ PÁN.
260Potom je to oplodnené; a tak Duch Svätý to podlieva, až to narastie a slúži svojmu účelu. Oni činia jedine jeho vôľu. (Amen! Budem tomu veriť.) Nikto ich nemôže presvedčiť o opaku. Oni majú TAK HOVORÍ PÁN, alebo sú potichu. Potom oni budú činiť skutky Božie. Pretože to On sám je v nich, vedie ďalej Svoje Slovo do úplného vyplnenia, ako to robil vo Svojom čase. Všetko - keď On tu bol - On nevyplnil úplne všetko, keď On tu bol, pretože ešte nebol ten čas.
261Nuž, stojme ako Jozue a Kálef. (Nuž, dávajte dobre pozor, toto bude mať duchovný podklad.) Nuž, stojme ako Jozue a Kálef, ako vidíme, že tá Zasľúbená Zem prichádza na dohľad. Ten čas je blízko. Aby tomu porozumieť - Jozue po Hebrejsky znamená Spasiteľ a reprezentuje toho zasľúbeného vodcu posledného času, ktorý tam vovedie Cirkev. Kálef reprezentuje toho ozajstného veriaceho, ktorý zostal s Józuom. Boh začal s Izraelom ako s pannou, so Svojim Slovom, ale oni chceli niečo iné. Tak, urobila cirkev v tom poslednom čase.
262Všimnite si, ako Boh nerušal s Izraelom ďalej, až kým nenastal Jeho vlastný stanovený čas. (Počúvajte teraz. Toto bude niečo znamenať.) Jozue čakal na ten čas! Ó koľko - Bez ohľadu na to koľko ľudí mohlo povedať, "Boh nám dal tú zem, to zasľúbenie; poďme teraz a zaberme ju." Oni mohli povedať, "Jozue, ty si stratil svoje poverenie. Ty si to načisto utratil. Prečo niečo nerobíš? Ty si vo chvíli zvykol poznať to, TAK HOVORÍ PÁN, a čo bola Božia vôľa." Ale tento múdry, Bohom poslaný prorok poznal zasľúbenie Božie, ale tiež vedel čakať na to zasľúbenie - na jasné rozhodnutie od Boha ohľadne jeho času.
263(Tie podobenstvá? No, dávajte pozor.) A keď prišiel ten čas, Boh to dal Jozuovi, ktorý s Ním zostal pri Slove, pretože On sa nemohol spoľahnúť na iných; On sa mohol spoľahnúť na neho. Tak sa to zopakuje!
264Tak, ako ten veľký pomazaný prorok Mojžiš, on vedel, že Boh ho použije, pretože On to Mojžišovi dokázal, že je Jeho sluha, skrze jeho zvláštne narodenie. V tom pravom čase, že ak ... bol čas na vyslobodenie Abrahámovho semena. (Chápete to?) Mojžiš nezostal v Egypte a nediskutoval s nimi o svojich otázkach z Písma. On sa vôbec nerozčuľoval s kňazmi, ale odišiel na púšť a čakal na Pána, až kým ho tí ľudia neboli pripravení prijať. Boh zavolal Svojho proroka na púšť. Boh vydal svedectvo; On ho vybral, ale to čakanie nebolo kvôli Mojžišovi, ale kvôli tým ľuďom, aby boli pripravení prijať Mojžiša. Mojžiš si myslel, že tie deti porozumejú, že je poslaný. (Ja som to nepísal, to písal On ; tak je to aj teraz.)
265Ako Eliáš, po tom, čo ten mocný potvrdený prorok, ku ktorému prichádzalo Slovo, zakončil kázať svoje Posolstvo tej modernej Americkej skupine, ktorá nasledovala prvú dámu s jej ostrihanými vlasmi a Jezábelinu namaľovanú skupinu - Boh potvrdzoval Svojho proroka; zakaždým, keď prorokoval, to bola Pravda - Boh ho musel zavolať preč z poľa práce, zatiaľ čo trápil tú generáciu hroznými pohromami, za to že odmietli Posolstvo Jeho proroka a Slovo Božie, ktoré im On poslal.
266Boh ho poslal do skrýši na púšť. Dokonca ani kráľ ho nemohol vyvolať. A tí, ktorí sa ho snažili nahovoriť proti vôli Božej, zato že tak robili, zomreli! Ó, sláva! Ó! Ó! Ale keď Boh prehovoril ku Svojmu vernému prorokovi skrze videnie, tam vonku na púšti, on prišiel s tým TAK HOVORÍ PÁN. Čo on urobil? Išiel rovno do Slova, späť do Slova. Priniesol dvanásť kameňov a zvalil ich dokopy.
267Ako Ján Krstiteľ, Kristov verný predchodca, pomazaný prorok, žiadna škola jeho otca, žiadna škola farizejov, žiadna denominácia, ho nemohla zavolať z púšte, kde ho Boh poslal, prišiel až v tedy keď počul Boží Hlas, Mesiášov, Baránkov!
Počúvate duchovnou mysľou? Čo ešte viac tu môžem povedať! Niečo tu teraz preskočím.
268Aký rozdiel dnes! Mnohí, tak zvaní evanjelisti, tvrdia, že majú pre ľudí odpoveď od Boha, presne tak, ako to urobil Kóre - zapieral, hádal sa ohľadne autority Božieho potvrdeného, pomazaného proroka, Mojžiša. Tvrdil, že on má odpoveď. To bol tiež spôsob na získavanie peňazí - zlaté teľa, ako to mnohí robia dnes - veľké budovy, veľké školy, inkubátory na liahnutie ich vlastného semena. A vtedy - ľudia vtedy, tak ako aj teraz, boli tým nadchnutí, hoci počuli pravdivé Slovo Božie cez pomazaného proroka, ktorý bol potvrdený.
269Oni boli nadchnutí Kóreho lžou. Boží potvrdený prorok, a Boh vedel ... a oni vedeli, že Boh im povedal - Izrael to vedel, že Boh im jasne povedal, že On potvrdí Svojho proroka, Svojím Slovom. Kóre nebol prorok podľa Písma, ale ľuďom sa to zdalo ohromne dobré; tak isto, ako je to aj teraz. Dnes - dnes je to krv na rukách, gule ohňa na pódiu, olej na vašich prstoch; a tá istá vec produkuje ženy kazateľky, krátke vlasy - ostrihané, makeup ... Čo to máte? Nepomysleli by ste si, že ľudia by na to naleteli, ale oni naleteli Kóremu, a oni robia to isté teraz a odvracajú sa preč od pravdivého Slova, ku denomináciám. V krátkosti: to ukazuje, aký druh semena je v nich.
270Ale vďaka Bohu, že celý Izrael nepodľahol Kóremu. Niektorí zostali s Mojžišom, tým pomazaným prorokom so Slovom Božím. Tak isto je to dnes s mnohými Božími Vyvolenými, skrze Jeho Slovo a Jeho Ducha.
271Pamätajte, kúkoľ, pleva, majú byť zhromaždené a zviazané do snopov. Je to tak? Toto sa stalo. Tie odpadlícke zorganizované cirkvi sú zviazané tesnejšie, než ako kedykoľvek predtým. Oni sú zviazané dokopy vo federácii cirkví, pripravené na oheň Božieho súdu. (Ja som toto nenapísal, cítim, že to On napísal.) Letniční sú plní toho, tak zvaného ... tak isto ako oni. Pšenica Slova bude jedného dňa zobraná, potom keď odídu ku Majstrovi.
272Boh zasľúbil (buďte opatrní!) - Boh zasľúbil Malachiáša 4 na tieto posledné dni, a Malachiáš 4 sa ešte nevyplnil, ale to sa musí vyplniť, pretože to je oplodnené Slovo Božie, vypovedané cez Malachiáša, proroka. Ježiš sa na to povolal. To má byť práve pred druhým Kristovým príchodom.
273(Dobre teraz počúvajte.) Každé Písmo, ktoré sa ešte nevyplnilo, sa musí vyplniť, pred tým časom. Biblia má byť ukončená - má sa zakončiť; Pohanské zriadenie sa má zakončiť s cirkevným vekom. Keď príde ten pomazaný posol, samozrejme, on zasadí Semeno celej Biblii, rovno od hada do posla, vo včasnom daždi. Potom on bude odmietnutý denominačnými ľuďmi, ako jeho predchodca - Ján a Eliáš, ako to bolo povedané skrze nášho Pána - ľudia - ako bol prv odmietnutý Eliáš, za času Achaba. To sa stane tu v tejto krajine, pretože táto krajina je typom Izraela.
274Čítate alebo počúvate o Náboženstve Jezábeli. Ako táto krajina - naši predkovia aby ... aby mohli oddávať Bohu česť, tak ako chceli, prišli do tejto krajiny a vytlačili z nej pôvodných obyvateľov a zabrali ju; tak urobil Izrael, zabrali tú zem, keď odišli z Egyptu. Mali sme pobožných mužov, ako boli Washington, Lincoln. Oni mali veľkých pobožných mužov, ako David a tak ďalej. Potom oni mali na tróne Achaba s Jezábeľou, ktorá stála za ním a dirigovala ho - tak ako teraz máme my! A tak, v tomto čase, a v tejto krajine sa zjaví tá osoba. Pretože to je v Písme, a to je TAK HOVORÍ PÁN.
[Prezidentom USA v rokoch 1961 - 1963 bol John Fitzgerald Kennedy. – pozn.prekl.]
275Potom v tom pozdnom daždi vystúpi do popredia hora Karmel, odhalenie - (kto je KTO) - Biblia sa vyplní do písmena. Ján Krstiteľ, Jeho posol pred Jeho tvárou v Malachiášovi 3, zasial včasný dážď a bol odmietnutý cirkvami (denomináciami - farizejmi a sadúceami) vo svojom čase. Ježiš prišiel a mal na hore Premenenia odhalenie - (kto je KTO). Tento predchodca týchto posledných dní zaseje včasný dážď. Ježiš (Jeho Slovo) bude tým odhalením - (kto je KTO), medzi denomináciami a vyznaniami. Keď On príde, to odhalenie - (kto je KTO) - nastane Vytrhnutie Jeho Nevesty! Prvé bolo na hore Karmel; druhé bolo na hore Premenenia; tretie bude na hore Sion! Sláva!
276Eliášove zachovávanie, Mojžišove zachovávanie, Jánove zachovávanie, spôsob ako opustili pole svojej služby ... mnoho ľudí ich neporozumelo. To bolo preto, že oni boli odmietnutý, a tak isto ich Posolstvo. Semeno bolo zasiate; potom prichádzal súd, a oni boli pre ľudí znakom od Boha, že súd je na blízku. Sadenie sa skončilo.
277Verím, že jedného dňa, tá skutočná Nevesta Kristova bude prinútená prestať kázať Slovo Božie. Biblia o tom prorokuje v Zjavení 13: 16 (ak si to chcete zapísať). Denominácie To nasilu zastavia, alebo ich donútia prijať ich "znamenie." Potom, keď (sa to stane) Baránok vezme Svoju Nevestu a odsúdi za to tú smilnicu.
278Pamätajte, Mojžiš, ktorý sa narodil, aby vykonal tú prácu, musel čakať na Boha, na ten zvláštny dar do tej roboty. (On musel odísť späť a čakať.) A v tom vyznačenom čase od Boha, musel byť na tróne určitý faraón. A ľudia museli byť žiadostiví Chleba Života, prv ako by ho Boh poslal späť. Nuž, skrze tisíce tých, ktorí činia zázraky, bola stvorená, v tomto poslednom čase, generácia vyhľadávajúca znamenia, ktorá nevie viacej ... nevie nič o skutočnom pohybovaní sa Boha v Jeho Slove, v týchto posledných dňoch.
279Ako som povedal, "Dajte im krv a olej a telesné demonštrácie na pódiu, a oni to budú podopierať, bez ohľadu na to, či to je Božie Slovo alebo nie, či je to podľa Písma alebo nie." Ježiš nás varoval pred takými vecami v poslednom čase. Ako som povedal, v Matúšovi 24, dva duchy, veľmi si podobné, zvedú i Vyvolených, keby to bolo možné. Ako ich môžete rozoznať? - podrobte ich skúške Slova. Podľa čoho to môžete poznať? - hovorte Slovo; a dívajte sa, čo oni o tom povedia. Ak oni neveria Slovu, nemajú v sebe žiadny zárodok Semena. Oni sú z toho zlého a zvádzajú vás. Ako bola zvedená prvá nevesta, potom bola zvedená druhá nevesta, oni zvádzajú tretiu nevestu skrze skrížené Slovo - alebo sa ju snažia zvádzať.
280Boh nikdy neumiestnil znamenia pred Svoje Slovo. (Amen! to je ostrá poznámka.) Boh nikdy neumiestnil znamenia pred Svoje Slovo. Oni boli pridané, aby dokázali Slovo, ale Slovo je na prvom mieste.
281Aby som to dokázal, Eliáš povedal tej žene, "Najprv upeč pre mňa nejaký posúch." Potom dávajte pozor, stane sa zázrak. Poďte najprv do Slova a potom očakávajte na zázrak. Semeno - Slovo samotné, je to čo Duch Svätý oživuje. Nuž, či môže byť poslaný od Boha nejaký posol, ktorý verí len niečo z Písma a nie celé Slovo? - zapiera časť z Neho.
282Skutočný prorok Boží bude rozhlasovať Slovo v tých posledných dňoch; denominácie ho budú nenávidieť. On nebude brať na ne žiadny ohľad. On bude takým, akým bol, keď prišiel pri prvom Kristovom príchode. "Vy plemeno vreteníc!" Ale tí predurčení budú počúvať a pripravia sa na odrátanie ku štartu. To Kráľovské Semeno Abrahámovej viery (ako on) sa drží Slova Božieho, bez ohľadu na následky, pretože on bol predurčený. Posol z Malachiáša 4 sa zjaví v Božom vyznačenom čase. My všetci na neho čakáme. Veríme, že on príde. To je podľa Jeho Slova; to bude v čase konca, ktorý to čas je teraz, aby sme to videli.
283On bude správne posvätený Slovu, ako oni vždy boli; preukázaný Božím Slovom - a potvrdený. Boh potvrdí to čo on káže, že je to Pravda, ako to urobil pri Eliášovi; pretože to je Eliáš, ktorý prichádza, pripravujúc ľudí na Sionské - Vytrhnutie. Ježiš povedal,, že v tých posledných dňoch to bude tak, ako v čase Lota. Jeho kázanie bude v Duchu a v jednej línii so Slovom Božím. Pretože, tak mnoho vecí bolo nazvaných Božou Pravdou, mnohí neporozumejú tohoto skutočného posla. (Napísal som tu p-r-o-r-o-c-t-v-o), proroctvo. Pretože - pretože tak mnoho vecí od podvodníkov bolo nazvaných Božou Pravdou, mnohí opravdiví kazatelia nezrozumejú tohoto posla.
284Tak ako proroctvá času konca sa budú opakovať, verím, že tak ako ten prvý predchodca, ktorý prišiel z púšti a volal, "Ajhľa Baránok Boží!" tento druhý predchodca bude pravdepodobne robiť to isté, tým že bude smerovať ľudí do Slovom zrodenej Nevesty. Nevesta Kristova bude nasmerovaná do nebies pri zjavení sa Ježiša, volajúc, "Ajhľa Baránok Boží!" vyjde z jeho úst. Bože pomôž nám, aby sme boli pripravení na tú blízku udalosť. Nuž, radšej tu už prestanem.
285 Veríte? Načo toto bolo? Máte teraz lepšie porozumenie? To je Slovo, priatelia. Trvalo to okolo šesť hodín (veľmi blízko ku tomu), päť a pol, alebo šesť hodín. Je toho oveľa viac, čo by malo byť povedané, ale skutočne, Duch Svätý za tento čas to ponoril hlboko do vás, tak že viete o čom hovorím. Sme v čase konca. Semená sú teraz zasiate; pozdný dážď je hotový prísť.
286Pamätajte, veľmi skoro nastane také denominačné zoskupenie; bude to strašné. A oni sa spoja dokopy, do tejto federácii cirkví, a potom takýto zbor nebude môcť fungovať (nakoľko oni vedia). To je v tom čase, keď sa zjavy Ježiš, a On ukáže kto je Nevestou a kto nie.
287A zapamätajte si, kresťanskí priatelia, ja som človek; ja môžem robiť chyby, ale Boh, súc Bohom, nemôže robiť chyby. Každé Slovo, ktoré bolo napísané sa musí vyplniť, Ježiš to tak povedal. A tak tu v Písme máme veci, ktoré sa musia vyplniť, a to je jedna z tých vecí - že príde tento bojkot. Ale prv, ako tento bojkot bude môcť prísť (pečatenie znamením šelmy), musí byť zasiate Semeno, aby Boh vzal preč Cirkev. Rozumiete teraz tomu? Semeno musí byť zasiate. Denominačné semeno - aby urobiť podobu, alebo obraz šelmy (rímskej cirkvi); a tiež musí byť ozajstná Nevesta.
288A my rozumieme, že tá tak zvaná nevesta je odmietnutá - Adamova nevesta odmietla priniesť Život. ona priniesla smrť; my sme jej produktom (naše telo); my všetci zomierame. Pozrite sa na nás, môžete to vidieť.
289Jahweho nevesta zomrela; On sa s ňou rozviedol a vzal ľudí z pohanov pre Svoje Meno. Je to tak? Jeho meno - tak ako žena, nevesta, prijíma mužove meno. Nuž čo ona urobila? To isté, čo oni urobili predtým, urobila zo seba denomináciu; poškvrnila sa. Ale v každej generácii, každé prebudenie prinesie nejakého proroka Božieho (prorok, to znamená kazateľ, ozajstný kazateľ Slova, ktorý trvá na Slove), a oni priniesli prebudenie, ktoré zhromažďuje Vyvolených z tej generácii. Potom ona ide do semena. Potom to Boh už nikdy viac nepoužije. Pýtam sa ktoréhokoľvek teológa, alebo historika, aby mi ukázali aspoň jeden krát, kde by nejaká denominácia znovu povstala; nikdy. Ona zomrela, keď sa stala denomináciou, a tam ona leží.
290Rozmýšľam o Dawingovi Moodym, o Moodyho Biblickej škole - mŕtve ako polnoc. Mám na mysli metodistov, letničných, prezbiteriánov, luteránov, nazarénov, pútnikov svätosti; povstali bohabojní mužovia, Buddy Robinson a George Whitefield, a všetci týto veľkí bohabojní mužovia, ktorí kázali Evanjelium, a tá generácia prijala semeno, ktoré bolo zasiate pre ich časť. Tak ako obilie - či to bolo steblo, či to bol lístok, či to bol klas, či to bolo zrno, čokoľvek to je, ten kazateľ prinášal Slovo na ten deň. Ono vyvolávalo zo štyroch vetrov zeme a vzalo Vyvolených tej generácii. A skrze tých Vyvolených je budovaný Dom živého Boha.
291Nuž, táto služba tu, ich musí vybrúsiť do toho stupňa, až tie isté skutky, ktoré činil Ježiš ... pretože, keď On príde, ten Hlavový kameň, presne na to zapasuje, pretože oni ... tam nastane potom Vytrhnutie, a oni budú vzatí, a ten ostatok toho tela príde s tým; a Ona odíde do Neba. Nie denominácia, priatelia; Cirkev Božieho Slova. Veríte tomu? Sú tu nejaké vreckovky.
Nuž, idem - idem a neviem kde. Hľadám, tak ako vy, vôľu Božiu. Prajem si aby som mohol zostať v tejto modlitebni; ale nemôžem. Je tisíce - počujem ten krik - nečistý duch ich trápi. Takmer nemôžem spať. Počujem kričať malé deti a vidím matky, ako sa tlačia cez modlitebnú radu so svojimi deťmi, vidím matky ako ovievajú svoje deti, ako držia nad nimi nejakú plachtu, aby ich chránili pred dažďom vonku na dvore. Moje srdce krváca kvôli ním.
292Kaď som staval túto modlitebňu, v ten deň, keď som tam kládol ten uholný kameň, pamätám sa na to videnie v to ráno. Je to napísané rovno tu na tom uholnom kameni; bolo povedané, "Toto nie je tvoja modlitebňa. Konaj dielo evanjelistu; plne dokazuj tvoju službu." Milujem to; Milujem Božie deti, kdekoľvek sa nachádzajú. Neviem, kde ma On povedie. Neviem; čakám. Čakám už rok. Môžem čakať dva roky. Môžem čakať tri roky, neviem. Nepoznám to ďalšie pohnutie. Čakám naň. Ale, myslím, že podľa Písma, Slovo bolo zasiate. To ďalšie je príchod Ducha.
293Billy Graham môže kázať kdekoľvek; Oral Roberts, tí pobožní mužovia, môžu kázať kdekoľvek. Pán ma môže poslať siať ešte niekde semeno (na nejaké pole), ale verím, že náš národ je zasiaty, a verím, že ona je teraz pripravená na čas žatvy.
294Keď Duch spadne a nastane pohnutie medzi ľuďmi, tie denominácie sa zletia dokopy, a to je tak isté, ako že tu stojím za kazateľňou. A Cirkev Božia bude vytlačená, a oni urobia taký rozruch až to spoja a uvedú bojkot proti každému, kto ku ním nepatrí. Rím, bude vládnuť svetom len na hodinu. Ona bude vládnuť len na krátky čas. Nie komunizmus - rímsky katolicizmus, bude vládnuť svetom v spolupráci s protestantizmom, v denominačnej forme cirkvi, ktorú Boh odmietol. To je tak blízko, ako poznám Slovo Božie.
295Milujem vás. Cením si vás. Možno že tu znovu budem v nedeľu o týždeň. Idem teraz dole na Floridu, ak Pán dá, do Georgie na zajtra večer. Mám niekoľko menších zhromaždení roztrúsených dookola. Ak ma Pán bude viesť, mám ich plný poznámkový blok - ten ktorý mi raz poslal brat Roberson - či brat Borders. Myslím že je tam ... že tam bolo zapísaných tridsať či štyridsať zborov, ktoré sú ochotné spolupracovať, ale vyzerá to tak, že Duch ma zdržuje. Neviem prečo. Neviem prečo. A tak sa modlite za mňa, ja sa budem modliť za vás. Spolu môžeme obstáť. Nech nám Boh pomáha. Nech by tu ani jeden z vás nikdy nesklamal a neminul ten veľký čas, ktorý nadchádza.
296Nuž, bol som obvinený z mnoho vecí, priatelia, a som vinný mnohých vecí. Som bezohľadný; to je pravda. Neviem prečo to tak je. Niekto ma vystrčil na roh a spôsobil, že musím bojovať. Neviem; je to povaha. Urobil som veci, ktoré by som nebol urobil, nie úmyselne, ale ukoristil som v tom. A to je to čoho sa tak obávam, to čo vidím v tomto čase (v tomto čase v ktorom my žijeme) a vy teraz vidíte čomu verím. Chcem počuť od Boha, ak je to vôbec možné, prv ako učiním nejaký krok, vidíte, pretože Ho nechcem sklamať. Všade chcem byť s Ním. A chcem aby ste sa modlili za mňa.
297A pamätajte, povedal som vám Pravdu. Nuž, ďakujem vám, že ste tu sedeli celý deň (Od včasného rána); Mnohí z vás stoja popri stenách a v predsieňach, bolia vás nohy, mnohí sedíte vonku v autách; máte takmer vybité batérie od počúvania, a tu to je: Všetko je na páskach. Tí chlapci tam vzadu to nahrali, a budete mať možnosť to dostať.
298A keď to dostanete, vezmite si to domov a študujte to skutočne pozorne a rozumne, a hľaďte čo vám Pán zjaví. Milujte Ho? Kde je Teddy? Ešte prv ako sa pomodlíme nad týmito vreckovkami a za ľudí, chcem sa modliť za každého jedného z vás. Chcem teraz spievať túto pieseň, a potom brat Neville povie svoje ohlásenia ohľadne ďalšieho zhromaždenia.
Milujem Ho, milujem Ho;
(Milujte Jeho Slovo? Potom milujete Jeho.)
Pretože On prv miloval mňa;
A vykúpil moje spasenie
na Golgotskom kríži.
299.... myslím, že sám Boh, dáva božský výklad; a som si istý, Pane, že keď som priniesol Slovo, Ono spadne na tých na ktorých je Ono predurčené spadnúť. Tvoje Slovo je Pravda. Otče, je mi ľúto, že mnohokrát som Ťa sklamal. Prosím aby si mi odpustil. Prosím aby si odpustil môjmu publiku, tomu viditeľnému i tomu neviditeľnému, všetky ich hriechy; Aby sme si uvedomili, Pane Bože, že sme na konci cesty. Každý hriech je rovno tu pred nami. Som si istý, že tá duchovná myseľ, Pane, sa uchytí toho čo som práve povedal pred pár minútami. Modlím sa, aby oni porozumeli, Pane, že čo ... že kde sa nachádzame. Sme tu ...
1 [The Afternoon Service begins here, after a short intermission of approximately ninety minutes--Ed.]]
Well, now, that's fine, Brother Kidd. That's a dandy. Exactly where we're at. [Brother Kidd says something to Brother Branham--Ed.] Amen. He wants to say a word about his healing.
2[Brother Kidd says, "Yes. I'm the fellow that got healed, two years ago. And I'm half made ready for the quitting drawer. Mom called Brother Branham, and he came over, him and--him and his son. And they left home here at two o'clock, and he came and prayed for me. How... I didn't have no feeling from--from--from my waist, down, not a bit. And an hour after he prayed for me, he was gone, feeling all come back. God healed me of the cancer. They said, 'He doesn't have no kidneys.' I got some new ones. Don't know, but God's got them started. But it's me was happened. Eighty-one-year-old, been searching all around through the years, helped bring a reformation on Pentecost. That tickles me to death. Brother Branham tells it, 'They all got to building little walls of partition between one another, and they can't have a revival.' That's right. He's right about that." Congregation laughs--Ed.]
3That's just it. Brother Ed, that's what it did. Oh, isn't that wonderful? I like that little testimony, brother.
4Now the car radio is hooked up, is what they say in here, this part here.
5Everybody feeling good now? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Well, now, we'll start right in now until midnight, then we'll... ["Amen."] We are so happy that the Lord has helped us and blessed us.
6Now, before we start again, let's just have a little word of prayer to the One Who we're talking to now.
7 Gracious Heavenly Father, You hear the testimony of this godly, saintly, old man. Down through the age, him and his little wife, working together, and how that she had to hold onto You, and beg You to make a preacher out of her husband, and here he is. And then when he was laying there, dying, the best doctors in the country saying, that, "He's gone. He can't live but a few hours. It's done. His body is eat up with cancer. He could never walk another step. The infection in his ankles, and so forth, has done took him away." Here he is, years later, still going. We're just so thankful, Father. It goes to prove, that, when the Word is planted, then watered, It'll bring forth the crop.
8Now we pray, Father, that You'll let us lay out the Words this afternoon, from Thy Word. It is Thy Word, and we want to lay It out just the way It is. And then You water It, Lord, with the Spirit. We ask, as we commit ourselves, with the Message, to You, that You use us, in Jesus' Name. Amen.
9 Now, to hurry right up. My wife was telling me this morning about how hard the people, you know, and their legs cramping and things--the ladies, and--and more people like myself getting a little old and have to stand around like that. I appreciate that, your loyalty. And now, we'll get right straight back to the message and go on. I don't want to be in too much hurry, and yet I want to hurry up enough to try to get it finished this afternoon if I possibly can.
10Then as soon as we're finished, we're going right straight then to--to Tifton, Georgia, not for a--a continued meeting; we're at the high school auditorium there just for one night; that's tomorrow night, and just a preaching service; and I'll have some ordinary little text or something I preached on right here, because it's just to visit with the people there. They haven't got a regular stayed meeting or anything. So we...
11 And now, we--we left off, this morning, speaking on our text found over in Genesis, the 1st chapter, the--the 11th verse, mainly. The Spoken Word Is The Original Seed.
12And now my purpose this morning, and today, is to try to explain to the people. [Brother Branham asks someone, "That on? Yeah."--Ed.] Try to explain to the people, of my action, now, why that I have did the things that I have done. And realizing, that, these tapes are being taped and will be sent out. Many people will probably be hearing them after I'm away from here, if Jesus tarries. But I want to say that I believe the Word of God, that It, That, is the Truth.
13 Now, we left off where that the... of the last days, what's happened to the ministry of the evangelists that a few years ago were just burning the country up, and seems like all of them has just stopped. Now, I don't mean they're off the field. They're still going, but there's no result, seems like. They're not getting anywhere. See? What's the matter? The field is done sowed. See? Now remember. Don't forget.
14 Someone asked me to repeat that Hebrew word again, in Joel, the 2nd chapter, Joel 2:28, where he's speaking of the coming of the former and latter rain. The word "former" is the Hebrew word m-o-u-r-e-h, moureh, which means teaching. In other words, it'll be a teaching rain and a harvest rain. Now we've had the teaching rain, and we're ready now for the harvest rain. You know, the first rain is when you plant the seed, that starts your crop growing. Then just before it matures, there comes another crop. That's what they call the harvest rain. We know when it is. The spring rains, and then the rains about June, it makes your crop. Now, the rain, we find out, was the Spirit.
15 And now we left off at where I gave my thoughts of what the whole thing will be. That is, I believe that the--that the--the rain has been brought, the rain. That's the reason we're quietening down, because the ground is already sowed over. You can't find anywhere, hardly, but what's been sowed. And it's went out through radio, television, tapes, word, everything. It's sowed the country down. It's planted seeds. Now, what seeds was planted, you cannot get nothing else from it but what seeds that was planted. Can you understand now? It'll be the seeds that's planted. Now, the Spirit will fall, but It'll bring a harvest of the seed that It falls on. Now, remember. All right.
16 I predict that the two denominational groups, Pentecostal and the evangelical groups, will work together in a denomination, will unite themselves together and will become a member, all of them, of the Federation of the Council Churches, or the Council of Churches. They already belong to it, all of them. And there will come, through them, a forcing, or a boycott, that will stop everything but what belongs to that union of churches. That's what a... The Bible said that there would be a boycott, even to such a way it would 'cause people to not buy or sell unless they had received this: the mark of the beast, which is Romanism; and the image of the beast, which is Protestantism. That the image... The beast had power, authority, to give the image life, to speak, and it did. And that's the Confederation of Churches, when they confederate themselves together.
17 Now there's many young people here. I don't know, Jesus may come this afternoon. He may come next year. I don't know when He'll be Coming. But, remember, if I do not live to see that Day of His Coming... Which, I hope that I will, and somehow believe I will. Now, if I do not see it, do not let this Word ever depart from your ears and your heart. See? Just remember, I speak in the Name of the Lord.
18 Now, I believe with all my heart, that's the way it'll wind up. There will be like a union, a--a boycott. All such places as this here will be closed down. And you'll not be able to speak unless you got a--a permission, or a license from this Federation of Churches, to hold a service. It's almost... It shows it does that now, even in the denomination. It shows where it's at. Yes, sir. You have to have it. And that's where it'll wind up at. That's my prediction, as a servant of Christ, through the understanding that I have of the Word, and the inspiration. That's where it'll come. The... All signs are pointing to the end. I just got through speaking on that. And it's even to the...
19The unwise virgin has beginning to cry out for Oil. Now, remember, she was a virgin. And if she's a virgin, she's a church. See? We'll get to that this afternoon, in Revelation 17. If she's a virgin, she's a church, 'cause the church is a virgin.
Paul said, "I espouse you to Christ, as a chaste virgin."
20 The prostitute, of Revelation 17, was a church. John admired her because of her--of her beauty, what she was. She was a beautiful thing. But, yet, "In her was found the blood of every saint of Jesus Christ, had been murdered in her." That's right. I believe it's sixty-eight million, on the martyrology, that the Roman Catholic church has put to death since--since Saint Augustine of Hippo. Sixty-eight million Protestants has been killed, and recorded on the record of the martyrology, by the Catholic church, because of disagreeing with her doctrine. No wonder the Bible said, "In her was found the blood of every martyr."
21Now, now, didn't Jesus say there come a time, "They would kill you, thinking they were doing God a service"? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] And they are sincere about that. They're not hypocrites. They believe that. They're taught that.
22And when that Word... When--when that Word is planted there, It's got to bring a crop. Sure, It has. Remember, we're staying with, "the Seed." That's our text, our Seed. The spoken Word of God is a Seed. See? It's got to come back to this Word, and that Word will produce what It says.
23 That's the reason I believe in Divine healing. That's the reason I believe in visions. That's the reason I believe in Angels. That's the reason I believe in this Message, is because It comes from the Word of God. And anything outside the Word of God, I don't believe it. It could be so, but still I'll just stay with what God said, and then be sure that I'm right. Now, God can do what He wants to. He's God. But as long as I stay with His Word, then I know that's all right. I believe that.
24 Now, this unwise virgin is a woman. She's a church, but she's unwise. See? She's just been dilatory, and yet she's called--she's called herself the Bride.
25And remember, everything runs in a three, for perfection. Three is the number of perfection.
26God's offices: Father, Son, Holy Ghost. God the Father was the God that lived in the Pillar of Fire. He was trying to draw Israel to Him. They wouldn't come. God the Father lived in the Son, which made Him God the Son; same God, expressed image of God, the Seed of God manifest, trying to draw the people to Him. They crucified Him. The Holy Ghost is the same God that was at the beginning, in the Son of God, and now here (the other office of God) in the last days, living in the Church; trying to bring the Word, the spoken Word, like other two offices did, to the people, and they reject It. It's the same thing. It's the three offices or manifestations of one God in action. And God in His people today, in action, is God in action. See? It's God in the people.
27 Lord willing, I want to speak on that, tomorrow night, "God in His universe, God in His Son, God in His people," and so forth. Now, I have spoke on that before, here, I believe.
28 Now, then, this unwise virgin, when she went to buy Oil. She was sent to buy Oil. When she did, she found out that she was too late. Why? Why, friend? The seeds are done planted. See? There was three, up to the Sodom time.
There's always been a number of three, all the time.
29There's three comings of Christ. He came once to redeem His Bride. He comes, the next, in the Rapture, to catch away His Bride. He comes again, in a Millennium, with His Bride.
30 Everything is in three's. Three's is a perfect number. Five is the number of grace; seven, completion; twelve, worship; twenty-four... or--or forty, tempted; and fifty is the jubilee. The very word, pentecost, means jubilee, "fifty." See? Now, and now, God, in His numerals, He's perfect in His numerals. He's perfect in His Word. He's perfect in His action. He's perfect in everything, because He's a perfect God. Yeah.
And we see that in these virgins...
31Now, look, there is called a "whore," in the Bible. Now, I want my sisters to--to forgive me. I'm... That's what the Bible said. Today I'm speaking just plain. Calls her, "The whore, and a mother of harlots," which is the same thing. Now, if you notice, there is a "whore" spoke of, in the Bible, that's a church. A "harlot" spoke of, of the Bible, that's a church. And a "Bride" spoke of, in the Bible, and that's a Church. There's the three. We'll get into them, after while, showing whose brides those are, and how they been rejected, and all about it, if the Lord willing.
32 Now, the first thing, I want to say this before I forget it. Do not, never fear communism. Communism is only working in the hands of God. It's an ungodly affair just like King Nebuchadnezzar was, but He sent him over there and chopped Israel out because of their disobedience. When, the prophet told them what was coming, and he told them to stay in their land and remember God. They wouldn't do it. They went on, anyhow, and king come right out and got them, anyhow, 'cause He said he would. Communism is a thing that's...
33The reason that communism rose up is because the illegitimacy of the Catholic church, overseas, in Russia. They took all the money, and had--had everything hoard up, and that's all there was to it. That's exactly what made communism.
34 When that little boy was raised from the dead, up there in Finland, them big communistic soldiers standing there with a salute when I passed by, and the tears running down their cheeks. Said, "We'll receive a God like that, sure, a God that can raise the dead and keep His Word. Sure." See? But when it comes to just going to church, and living like the Devil and everything else, like the rest of the world, making nothing, then they don't believe in it. And, to be honest, I don't either. That's right. That's right.
35There's no Scripture that says communism will rule the world. But there is a Scripture, and all the Scripture, said Romanism will do it. So keep your eyes on that.
36 Look, tonight. Just look what happened even last night. This senator of Kentucky, said about having a Republican in the--in the seat up there now, representing the state of Kentucky. And said, "He's a Protestant, and makes no bows of it," him a Catholic. They're getting just as bold as they can be. And, remember, there's other things that goes with that.
37Unwise virgins' time, we see that. Things that's never happened, that none of the men, the teachers, down through the age could say these things like we can now, 'cause they're here. Now, the unwise virgin and the hybrid Pentecostals, that's the same thing, hybrid with the things of the world.
38 Now remember, I'm pentecostal, but not Pentecostal by denomination. I resent that. I'm pentecostal by experience. We must have... The Methodist are pentecostal, the Baptist are pentecostal, the Catholic are pentecostal, if they've got the pentecostal experience. You cannot organize pentecost, because it is a--an experience, and it's God. And God cannot be organized.
39 Now, now, Jesus has told us these things would come, now, told us about what would take place; the unwise virgin would rise up, and the things that she would do; and how that the people would call out, in their days, and want Oil, but they'd be too late. See?
40Now watch them three, them three churches. There is the prostitute; she didn't come for nothing, now, she is self-centered in herself. There was the unwise virgin, which is the Protestant church. And there was the Bride. See? Now, there is the three stages of the church in the last days. Now watch. We're going to bring them right straight out from Genesis, and bring them out here and place them in Revelations, in the Rapture, the Lord willing.
41 All these things look real. Pentecost looks real. Think the... "Why, I belong to a Pentecostal organization." That don't mean no more than if you lived in a hog pen. Wouldn't make a bit of difference. Wouldn't. It's just a sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal, yeah, no matter where you belong, if you're not born of the Spirit of God and receive the Holy Ghost. And the reason...
42If you haven't, don't believe all the Word of God, you haven't received the Holy Ghost yet. Right. That's exactly right. The Holy Spirit... When you hear the Truth, and the Holy Spirit don't lead you to It, then there's another spirit in there keeping you away from It. So, the spirit you got in you ain't the Holy Spirit. Oh, yeah.
43 Now we find out, as went on, said, "As Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses." We talked about that, how that these things would be in the last day now.
44And last quotation we had, was that, "God made every seed after its kind." That's His... See? Then when He made His man in His image, was a Seed of His Word. And when Jesus was made flesh, He was the--the flesh of the Word of God. And when we receive the Word of God, then we become God's Word in our flesh. See? The Church should be in that condition.
45 Now, then, after He made man in His Own image... "In the image of God created He him." Now, after He did this... Now don't miss this. After God made His--His man in His Own image, by His Own spoken Word, now, that was the perfect man. But where the fall came, was when He took from him a by-product, and made him a bride. That's where the trouble is now. If you were spiritual, have already caught it. See? See? He... It wasn't Adam that got in trouble. It wasn't Adam that doubted the Word. It was his bride that doubted the Word.
46And it isn't Jesus that's doubting the Word, for He was the Word. See? It's His bride. There's where the hybreeding comes.
47 Didn't come through Adam. Shame on you who don't see that. See? It's not Adam's fault. He had nothing to do with it. If death come by Adam, then it come by God. Death come by a crossbreeding.
48Death can't come by God's Word. Death comes by crossbreeding It to denomination, and creed instead of Christ, dogma instead of the Word. It doesn't come by the Word. The Word is Life. Jesus said, "My Words are Life." And the Spirit quickens that Word and makes It Life. To crossbreed It, there's where the death comes from.
49And if Adam be God's Word, His spoken Word, His original Seed, for He was the first then by creation, then His second Adam was also by creation, spoken Word. You follow? [Congregation says, "Amen"--Ed.]
50Now, Adam did not decei-... was not deceived. But his bride was deceived. Christ, today, is not deceived. The Word is not deceiving. It's the bride that's doing the deceiving, by the Word. You see it? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]
51 Now, He gave him a bride, a type of the second Adam. He gave the first Adam a bride; she fell. He gave the second Adam, Christ, a bride; she fell. That's exactly. Why? She's not an original. She is a by-product.
52The bride today is a by-product. See? She, she calls herself the bride. But what she is, she's made up of a material of organization, not of the Word; so much Word in it, to make it kind of a by-product, to make it hypocritical. Eve believed most of the Word, but she doubted one part of It. Today, she can't even get Acts 20... or Matthew 28:19 straight with Acts 2:38. See? It confuses her. That's just one little place, of the hundreds of others.
53 Now, the bride of Adam was a type of the second Adam's bride. Now, Adam's bride...
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54Adam's bride could not wait. God had told Adam and Eve, "Multiply and replenish the earth." It was an oncoming thing, a promise. She was not his wife, as yet, because she... had never lived with her.
55The bride of Christ is not His wife yet. The Wedding Supper is to take place. Get it? Notice, oh, this is rich.
56She got in a hurry, and what did she do? She crossed her seed. She mingled it with the serpent's seed. And when she did, she brought a--a... What did she bring? She brought a child of death. A child, that, she perverted every child after that.
57And when the church of Jesus Christ was perverted in the time of Rome, after her virgin birth, and was given to Christ at Pentecost, she... What did she do? She crossed herself with Roman dogma. And the Protestant church has done the very same thing. She can't wait.
58 A woman engaged to a fine, young, clean man, and before they come together, what's she done? She is found pregnant by someone else. Then her own seed, which is betrothed... Her own body, which is betrothed to her boyfriend, her engaged husband, is found full of seed of another man. What a disgrace!
That's exactly what Adam found.
59That's what Christ has found. Couldn't wait. That's what's the matter with the people today. They can't wait for the real Holy Spirit to take the Church in position. They've got to manufacture something, work up something. "Initial evidence, speaking in tongues," to get more members in the church. All these kind of tommyrot, instead of waiting upon the Lord for the real manifestation of the resurrection of Christ making Himself known among the people. She can't wait.
60 What did she do? She went out and become pregnated with denominationalism. First was Assemblies of God, then come the Oneness, then come whatmore after that. Now the so-called bride is pregnated with all kinds of tommyrot, disgrace. The women won't pay a bit more attention to what God's Word says, than nothing in the world, neither will the men, or even the preachers, then call that a bride.
61What is it? She is pregnated. Christ's bride has become pregnant with the world, dressing like the world, acting like the world, big churches, fine. What? It shows what she is. She is of the Devil. That's what Satan done at the first place, was try to build a big beautiful kingdom in the Heaven, and was kicked out for it, excommunicated from Heaven. And that's what Christ's modern bride is, she's kicked out, because she's excommunicated from God, because she is a whore and not a virgin. It's deep, but I hope you get it.
62 Adam's bride could not wait, but she mingled her seed, illegally. Illegally!
63We are supposed to believe God's Word, and That alone. Now, brethren, here and on the tape, do you see why I'm contending for that Word, Word by Word? I've told you I believe that is God's Truth. God has protected that Bible. He's got to judge the world by something, through Jesus Christ which is the Word. And this Word was made flesh, to become Jesus Christ. I'm just letting It soak in. Remember the Word!
64And now He finds her all messed up. You think He'd marry such a thing as that? Never. He's holy. She couldn't wait. Illegal!
65 That's what Adam found. Now, brethren, sister, look back. If you look at a shadow of anything, it's the very expression of the real image that's coming. So, you see, Adam had to find the wife pregnant. And she said, "The serpent beguiled me." Now we... you...
66I'm going to take it both ways, just in a few moments, the Lord willing, see, show you that's impossible for it to be anything else.
67 Now, Adam's bride could not wait, but she went forward first.
68That's the way, today, the bride today. She wants to manufacture something. "Glory to God," she's got to work it up, on the platform. She's got to have everything. See? What is she doing? Manufacturing something.
69Look where it's going. You can see there's nothing to it. It's a phony. Exactly right. If it wasn't, this world would be aflame with the Power of God; the church would be on fire. Oh! What? Dead would be raised, and all kinds of things would be taking place.
70But what did she get sowed up with, before Christ could get to her. Before He got to her, to plant His Own Seed, what did she have? Weed seeds, the world, denominational seeds. That's the reason why she's reaping her harvest right now.
71I hope you don't make you upset, but I hope It gets right down to a place where I'll trust that God has given It to you. See?
72 Now, she mingled her seed, illegally, illegal to the Word. What was she trying to find? Now listen close. What was she after? Wisdom.
73Wisdom! And that's what she's done today. She sent her preachers away to schools, incubated them out, on a machine, psychology, all kinds of stuff that should... not even in the Bible. And she's incubated her--her--her eggs. And when she's done, she's brought out a product of a--a bunch of people that--that will compromise anything, and refuse the very Message of God, not knowing what she's doing. She's ignorant of it. She don't believe, she don't think she's wrong.
74Neither did Eve think she was wrong. Eve thought she was right. And if that was a type, and this is the antitype, it'll have to work the same way the type did. Now that's just, to me, that just two times two equal four.
75 Now notice what happened to Eve's children, the first one that was born.
76Now, if God said, "Multiply," to his bride, to Adam's bride, "and replenish, multiply and replenish the earth," that was God's commission. And she would have done it, and he would, mixing themselves together. But what happened? When Adam got ready to come to her, she was already a mother. See what I mean?
77Now the same thing has happened to Christ's church, Christ's bride. Now we're going back farther than that, in a minute.
78Notice, in this bride, what did she do then? Her first child come forth, it was a bastard child. And he was full of death, and caused death, and every one since then is death. Now you see it had to be sex. Why you dying, if it wasn't sex?
79When, God give a commission which cannot perish. God's Word is Eternal. It cannot fail. When He said, "Multiply and replenish the earth," that was God's Eternal purpose. To carry that out, you cannot die. Because It's His Word, you have to live.
80If that child been brought forth right, there'd have been no death. But she couldn't wait.
81 That's what's the matter today. You want some kind of a phony make-up, with screaming, jumping, speaking in tongues, or something, instead of waiting for the real Word of God to be made manifest through the Bride.
82Them kind, that takes the Word, is God's true Bride bringing forth Children. They can't die. A Child the Bride brings forth on the Word, can't die, because It's the Word. Amen. Did you get it? She can't die, 'cause she's... That Child can't die, because he's a Word-Child, he's a Seed-Child, he's an Eternal Child. Hallelujah!
83That's exactly what Jesus Christ was, a spoken, Eternal Child. Didn't have to die, but He did it in order to pay the debt. That's the only way it could be paid. Nobody else could do it; they was all sexual born, after the Devil, his plan. You got it now? See?
84 But every man, no matter whether he's the pope, priest, bishop, whatever he is, he dies because he's a--he's a hybrid. That's exactly. He was born between Satan and Eve. And they call it whatever you want to. It was Satan and Eve. The original Word had nothing to do with it. The original Word was Life. He had hybrid It, and it brought death.
85And when the church, today, that's called themselves Pentecostal, called themself Baptist, whatever they want to, when they hybreed this Word with dogma, it produces a dead child. And she can't have no Life in her. She's dead, and her children is dead. God said, "I'll throw her in a bed of worldliness, and kill her children." God said so, in Revelations. How many knows that's true? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] "Put her in a bed of worldliness," that's where she's at, "and kill her children, even with fire." We watch where the... What happens to the tarriers that's among the wheat? Be burned.
86Oh, you can't make the Word lie. It's the Truth. Sometimes your scruples up, and we might make It wrong. But if you'll keep It running straight, It'll run one-two, one-two, one-two, one-two, right on.
87 "Throwed her in a bed of worldliness." She can't bring forth nothing but dead children. Then, if a denomination can only bring forth a hybrid child, why do you want to belong to it for?
88Now, brethren, that's the reason I'm against it. She's a "whore," to begin with. The Bible said she was a "harlot." That's plain words, but I told you I was going to talk plain today. That's what she is. She commits spiritual fornications, by taking dogma and creed instead of the Word, teaching her children to do the same thing.
89Now, her children are come from the womb, dead. She's got to die, that's exactly right, just the same as every man. Listen. Just as sure as every mortal person that breaks the womb of a woman will die, so will every person that's born by them will die, 'cause she's a hybrid, illegitimate, and her children are illegitimate. That's correct. I hope that don't go over your head.
90 Now, Jehovah had a bride, once. Adam had a bride. Jesus had a bride. Jehovah had a bride. You know that? He had to put her away. She become a whore, so He put her away. That's exactly what He said. She become a whore, prostitute. What caused her to do that? I wish we had time to read it. I may get to some of it, after while. Right now... It was in the time of Samuel, when Israel had a King, a God. And she was a virgin. She was going to produce something. And what happened? She begin to look around and see the other nations had kings, so she wanted to be like the rest of them.
You backwashed Pentecost, that's exactly what you done.
91 This old preacher sitting here, nearly a hundred years old, today. When pentecost broke through, back there, you couldn't tell them nothing about no organization. They wouldn't listen to that. They called that the things of the Devil, and them men were right.
92But what did you do? You had to act like the rest the churches. You had to organize it. Then, as he said, you drawed fences between you, went to teaching, "Musn't teach this. Glory to God! Hallelujah! This way," and jump up-and-down and speak in tongues. Said, "Put him in as a member; he's got her." He's not baptized right, neither with the water nor with the Spirit. He's wrong, and his fruits proved it. He's got the wrong kind of seed to grow on. "Bless God, brother, we'll lay hands on you here, and make you an elder. I'll tell what you--you... We're going to build this organization here till it's going to be bigger than the Assemblies." That's just the way it's went. Read the Pentecostal history and see if that isn't so, or any of the church. The Baptist wants to outdo the Methodist. The Methodists wants to outdo the Lutheran. The Lutheran wants to outdo the Catholic. Everyone wanting to outdo, outdo somebody. See? That's the--that's the spirit of the organization.
93 Jesus said, "But few there'll be will be saved. Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, and but few there'll be that'll find it." Just a few! If He said "few," that's the Word of God, that Seed, there'll be a few. Won't be no tens of billions and billions. It'll just be a few that'll find It. Them was predestinated to It, they hear It.
The former rain has went forth now.
94 Now, Jehovah had a bride that He loved, but she went whoring (What'd she do?) after the--the other powers of the world.
95And what did He do with this godly, old, anointed prophet? Which, the Word of the Lord comes to the prophet. He came. That old prophet, Samuel, walked up to him. He said, "Children, gather around me a minute. I want to talk to you, all of you. What do you want a king for? Jehovah is your King."
96What do you want a creed for? The Bible is your creed. The Bible is the Truth. The creeds are lies. You're dead, man-made.
97"Apostles' creed," show me that in the Bible. Whoever heard of such a thing, "I believe in the communion of saints"? Anybody believes in the communion of saints, is a spiritualist, communion of the dead. There's only one intercessor between God and men, that's Christ; and He's not dead, but He's alive forevermore, raised from the dead. Protestants swallow that down, with a round collar, and I don't know what else; with all the catechisms of the churches, swallow it right down just the same. They love it, sure, like the rest of the world.
98 "Oh, you know, we used to be pentecostal. We stood down on the corner, with a tambourine in our hand, and prayed. And the women standing there, and their long hair hanging down, and praising God, and things like that."
99Oh, my, goodness! You know better than do that. They'd laugh right in your face, a real Christian would; stand out there with a pot of bobbed hair up like that, and a big pan of paint on like that, and a dress looked like a skinned-down wiener. And going out like that, and calling yourself, out there, "a saint of God"? You know better than that. So does the world know better than that. Shame on you. You better stay off the corner, you can't produce no more than that. I'm not critical. I'm not beside myself. I'm telling you the Truth, and you'll find out in the days to come, that. But it's just like it's always been. It'll always go over, then they won't see it till it's too far. They've did it every time. They've done done it.
100 Jehovah's bride wanted to go whoring after the rest the people, like the rest of them. That's what Jesus' bride wanted to do.
101Old Samuel, who the Word came to! Who do the Word come to? The prophets. What? That old prophet walked up, said, "Now just a minute, children. What do you want to go out after that for?" Said, "Have I ever told you anything in the Name of the Lord, but what come to pass?" Remember that? How many ever read that? Sure, you have. "Have I ever told you anything in the Name of the Lord, what come to pass? Another thing, did I go out, holding big campaigns or so forth, and taking all your money away from you? Did I?" He said, "I ever beg anything?" I'm talking about Samuel now, yeah, somebody the Word of the Lord came to. Said, "Did I ever ask you to--to--to put in so-much, and do such-and-such?"
102"No." They said, "No, you never did that. You never did tell us anything but what was right."
He said, "Then why would you want to go out after that?"
103They said, "Samuel, you, you're so right. But we want it, anyhow."
That's just exactly what the Pentecostal church done.
104 That's the reason I don't join them. Sure. I want to stay a virgin before God, with His Word. Whether they... I don't have to have no great big shows and things like this. I've refused it. I didn't want to get myself tied up. That wasn't my wisdom; that was God's wisdom. If I had to go out, so I could... had to sucker around with the people and the Devil, and tell them, "Yes, I have to have so-much for a telecast, and I have to have so-much for this. You got to pay for it," I'd have to pull strings like that, too. But I've never told you nothing in the Name of the Lord but what come to pass. I never told you nothing but the Word. Judge, yourselves. Have I ever asked you for anything? No, sir. No. God has taken care of that. I don't have no big programs to support. I wouldn't have one. Every one that belongs to God will hear God. Just feel led of the Spirit where to go and what to do, and do that, that's all is necessary. Keep that. Not a great big money-making program with millions of dollars in it, millions and millions and millions, and some of them now building millions and billions of dollars in it.
105 I--I don't feel bad about criticizing. It's due criticism. I don't want to hurt nobody's feelings. But I'd rather hurt some man's feelings, to hurt God's feeling. If He commissioned you and sent you out here, do these things, and proved it amongst the people, then you ought to hear It. I'm telling you the Truth. God is proving it's the Truth. Only by... Not only His signs, but He's proving it by His Word, it's the Truth. That's exactly right.
106 So Jehovah's bride went whoring. And what did she do? She brought forth a bunch of illegitimates again. Is that right? We know it's the Truth. Even had to be taken away by King Nebuchadnezzar, and so forth.
107Christ's bride has done the same. What's the matter? Can't wait. Oh, no. Huh-uh. Just can't wait. They have to manufacture something. They can't wait for the Holy Spirit to come and get into the Church. See, they have to get more in their denomination.
108If it had stayed the way it was back yonder, a hundred years ago or fifty years ago, when pentecost first started out in this latter day, when the Word begin to be preached; if it had stayed like that, she probably wouldn't had over fifty members, today. That's right. But they would be Blood-washed. They'd have the Power of God in them. The world would be shaking under her tremendous impact of the Word, flesh, being spoke, Word by Word.
109But, today, why, it's a sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal. That's right. Just become nonsense, a laughing block, a disgrace to the world, disgrace to God.
110 I went into a place, three brethren. Two brethren and I went into the place across from Springfield, Missouri, the other morning for breakfast, coming from Arizona. And a little lady there that Brother Woods called my attention to, that looked like our Sister Collins; blond, the big bunch of hair in the back. And he said, "Doesn't that look like Brother Wilbur Collins' wife?"
111I said, "It does." Here come an older lady out. I said, "I imagine that's her mother. Look at the big bunch of hair." I said, "That's right here by the Assembly of God church, Assembly of God headquarters. That's where... reason they're like that."
112And a whole lot of little sisters setting in there with water-head hair, out like that. That was the students. Little "ricky" and all of them out there, you know, carrying on. All of them packing the Bibles under their arms. So we watched them till they all went out, snickering, laughing, carrying on, just like the modern. That's--that's the crop of Pentecost coming on for tomorrow, if there is one. Why? Why? Why? Because that's the seeds been sowed. Exactly right.
113 When she went out, all of them went out, this little lady come back around, said, "Could I do anything for you all?"
I said, "Like to ask you a question."
"Yes, sir."
114I said, like as a stranger. I thought she might know us. And I said, "Isn't that a Bible school across there?"
She said, "Yes, sir, it is."
115I said, "I guess you get a whole lot of trade from there." Now, that was Brother Fred Sothmann setting out there, and Brother Banks Wood there, two of the trustees of the church. And I said...
She said, "Yes, it is."
I said, "I suppose you belong there?"
She said, "No." Said, "I'm sorry. I don't."
116And I said, "The reason I thought that was because that pretty, long hair you have. I suppose that's your mother?"
117Said, "No, sir." Said, "She just works here." She said, "No, I don't..." Said, "I like long hair. I got a little girl. I just have her to wear long hair, too." And said, "My husband likes long hair."
118 I said, "God bless him." And so she said, well, she said... I said, "Well, it's strange. Was them the students in here, them girls with them pushed-out hair cuts like that, like the first lady?"
"Yeah." When we walked...
I said, "Thank you."
119Walked out. I said, "God put that woman there for a rebuke to that bastard-born bunch of kids over across the street." That's right.
120Illegitimate, after the things of the world! How many women after Jezebel, the first lady of that land, how many of them you think is in Heaven, tonight, today? See? See? Things of the world! "If you love the world or the things of the world, the love of God is not even in you." There they are. What is that? The cream of tomorrow's crop, in Pentecost, the biggest movement in the nation. There you are. That's the bride. I don't get it. All right.
121 What's she trying to do? Oh, she manufactures a little jumping on the platform. Not making fun of it; it's alright. She manufactures something else. Why? To get members in the church. What's the matter? She just can't wait. See? She can't wait for God to do it. They got to get members in there somewhere. So they tell them, "You have to do that," and away they go. See? There's the seed, coming right up. "You have to do it." I've...
122 I'm a missionary. I've seen the Africans take blood of an animal and pour it over theirself, like this, stark naked, men and women. Putting paint on their face. That's where it come from. Paint come from a heathen trait; not for us human beings, Christians, believers, never was. Wasn't on... One woman, in all the Bible, ever painted herself, that was Jezebel, a devil. So then she... They put paint on their face. Big long things in their ears, like blocks of wood, Zulus. It is a block of wood, make the flesh of the ear hang way down there. Sometimes split their lips, and put them way out. Think it looks beautiful. Put, over their breast and down around their legs and things, blood, then take and make stripes like a zebra. And shout, dance in the spirit, and speak in tongues, and worship devils. Evidence of the Holy Ghost?
123 I've been right there in India when they had the fire walkers, and everything else, and know it's the truth. A great big idol there with rubies in the ears, for earrings, and things like that. And they put torments, and sticking things through their flesh, and--and beat themselves. And sew their lips up if they've lied, and doing penitence. And run a saber through their lips here, or through their chin, up through their nose, and stick it out like that. Take big fishhooks, with like Christmas tree balls on it, fill it full of water, and hook thousands of them over their body, right through the flesh. And go over there and dance around this idol, like that, and kill a goat and do worship like this. And walk right through red hot fire, without a scorch. Some of you Pentecostals try it.
124 But it was done, the Hebrew children, but they never tempt the Lord thy God. They was just thrown into it. They didn't try to manufacture something.
125That's what's the matter with Pentecostals today, they're manufacturing something. They can't wait. O God! They just can't wait, so they commit adultery. Amen. Tares, to manufacture something, and what does it bring forth? Like it did the first time, the first bride that couldn't wait.
126She brought death through a bastard-born child, which we all are children of. But God came in the flesh, to give us another Birth, to bring us back to original sons and daughters of God. See? There you are. The Life sperm of Eve never happened. It never did. Why? She mingled it. Kept it away, instead of Adam coming to her for a bride, when the time appointed would be. Just like Christ will, would have come to the group. Christ would have come to His Church. He promised to do it.
127God promised to multiply them, but they had to wait until God's time.
128 That's what's the matter today. They don't want to wait God's time. They want to get something else. And so the Devil has got the wisdom right there to give it to them, make an organization, be bigger than the rest of them.
129Now do you see why I'm against it? Sure. I'm against it, with everything that's in me. As long as the Word is in there, It'll always be against it. God is against it. God said He was. That's right.
130 Just couldn't wait, so the sperm of Eve never happened. Hybrid to Satan's lie, his lovely bride become polluted. And so has Christ's bride. The bride, what made her become polluted, Adam's bride, now? Because she never stayed with God's Word. That right?
131I ask. Now, if it's not so, don't say it. But if it is so, say it. The reason that God's... The reason that Adam's bride... There's the three: Adam, Christ, God. The reason that Adam bride never did bear right, the Life Child, is because she disbelieved God's Word. If that's right, say, "Amen." [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] The reason that Jehovah's wife was put away, or His bride, was because that she rejected God's Word, the prophet. That right? ["Amen."] The reason that Christ's bride is put away in divorcement, is because that she has rejected the Word of God, like Eve did, like the rest of them did. ["Amen."] Exactly. All whores, all polluted, their husband couldn't get to them. They was already pregnated 'fore their husband got to them. O God, if that ain't a pitiful sight! Think of a young man coming to a woman, and find her with seed of some other man in her. What a thing! That's what God has done. That's what Adam done. That's what Christ has done. Oh! Yes.
132 Never stayed with the Word, and caused a--a hybrid condition. That's what Israel did. See where she's at? That's what Christ's bride did. See where she's at? Right back with the rest of them.
133Christ's Pentecostal bride did the same. She can't bring forth spiritual, Word Children, for she is a hybrid herself. How can she do it, when she's hybrid herself with the denominations? Done joined up with them, and everything, just the same as they are. In with the Council of Churches, everything else, just as hybrid as the rest of them are. How can she do it? She can't.
134 Now, I just got so much to say, and I just got to hurry over these. I... Each one of them I want to preach on. See? Now watch.
135 The true Bride, hallelujah, there's going to be One. Why? She's predestinated. She won't be denominated, because She's predestinated. See? She don't have to worry about some denomination. She's already predestinated to take the place. Look. Like Mary...
136I want you to get this now, and don't fail. Are you ready? Say, "Amen." [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]
137When Christ comes to His Bride, She will be a virgin like Mary was. For God will not bring Christ through a womb of a whore, and neither will He bring the Bride. He can't bring His Word through a whore of His Word.
138Them is horrible words, but that's what the Bible says. I'm saying what It says. Cause, It's... This has got to be understood.
139 The prove, true Bride, like Mary, will have a virgin womb for the Bride of the Word, which is Christ. When Christ, the Word, comes to the Bride, She'll be the same as He is, a virgin by the Word. O God!
I hope--I hope it's going over, Brother Neville. I...
140See? See? I hope you understand. What was He? Word, the Word of God. "Upon His vesture He had a Name written, 'The Word of God.'" "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word, made flesh and dwelt among us." He is God, and God is the Word.
141 And when His Bride comes, She'll be the same product that He is. Virgin! Did Christ belong to a denomination? Did Jehovah? Neither does His Bride. She is part of Him. She needs no dogma. She won't have any. She'll be absolutely virgin. How? By the Word. Amen. She'll punctuate every Word God says, with an, "Amen! Amen!" Oh! "Be it unto me according to Thy Word. Amen!" Oh, my! There you are. Punctuate God's Word.
142Have a virgin womb. What will She come out of? A virgin womb, the Word. What did Jesus come out of? A virgin womb. See?
143 When Adam come to his wife, she was pregnant. She had done something. She was mixed. She was hybrid, the child, and it died. But when Joseph come to his bride, she was pregnated, but with Life. Adam's wife, or Adam's bride, when Adam... Before they came together; just like Joseph and Mary, just like Christ and the Church now. Don't you see it? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] See?
144And before they came together, Adam and Eve, she was pregnated with the corrupt seed from the serpent. And when Adam come to his wife, he found her pregnated to death. See? Death! How? Spiritually and physically dead.
145But when Joseph, the human, come to his wife... Glory! Can't hardly hold her. She was pregnated with Life, the Word of God, flesh in her womb.
146 Bring back that spoken Word, bring back that Word of God which was Word here, come through a human's womb. Amen. God will do it, anyhow. He spoke it, and it's got to be so. Amen. That's our God. Oh, that's rich, brethren, if you can dissolve It, you can hit It.
147 That's where he found, when--when Adam come to his wife, she was pregnated with the wrong seed. When Jo-... That seed died. Joseph come to his, she was pregnated. Now, what caused the different pregnation? Because that Adam's wife doubted the Word. That right? Joseph's bride believed the Word. The difference.
148So, what is it, then? It's the Word, oh, that precious Word. It is. The World was formed by the Word of God. Hallelujah! There is my stay, right there. Let all denominations and everything else fall, do what they going to. On that Word I stand.
149That's why I've done what I've done. That's why I've downed denominations. Say, "Well, he's just a... breaks up churches." They said the same thing about our Lord. See? They say it every time. See?
150 Now, now, He found her. Christ comes to His bride; what does He find her? Same thing. Why? When she first started out... Now listen. I don't want you to miss this. When she started out, she was a virgin. She was going to be all right. She went right on, that early church, used to be wonderful. God gave Him a bride, and what did she do? If you know history, in 606, she goes right down there and pregnates herself with Roman dogma, an organization. And from that, on, that old "mother whore," in the Bible, give birth to churches, and they were "harlots," which is a whore. That's Protestants, because they was, every one, born right out of her, and every one took her own thing, organization. Now you see why I'm against it? All right.
151 Now, for the birth of the Word is Christ, not of polluted with denominations. The early Church, no denominations, just the Word, and Spirit irrigated. Brother, the... God laid the Word down like that, and the Holy Spirit irrigated It, and there She went. She brought forth children. Certainly.
152 But this church can't do it. She's too denominated. See? She can't do it. She's got the world mixed up with her. Look what they did, now. Now what?
God confirmed His Word through His Body. That right? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]
153Then she went whoring, like Adam's wife did in Eden, and Jehovah's wife did in the days of Samuel, that took a king. Divorced God, her espoused Husband and His Word; and His prophet, His outlet to His Word; and went whoring, like the rest the nations. And God divorced her. Same has He done today. Same act.
154 Sons of the bride commit adultery, see, with the... The bride, God's Son... His bride from Pentecost, virgin with the Word, went whoring and committed adultery just like Adam's wife did, just like Jehovah's wife did. And here is the Son's wife, she goes whoring, committing adultery with the Roman gods; plural, gods! And for her lovers' sake, the Roman gods, tried to take her own Husband and split Him into three, to please her lovers. God have mercy on a... Sure, they got hundreds of gods; oh, sure, Astarte, the sun-god, and--and Baalim, the sun-god, and the queen of heaven, and all that stuff there. So, the bride, to please her ill-famed lovers.
155Didn't God speak over there in the Songs of Solomon's, and tell about how His wife was nothing but a prostitute, and set with herself open all the time, and took every lover come by? I'm talking plain, but that's what the Bible said. Every man that wanted to run with her, could run with her.
156That's the same thing the bride of Christ has done. Opened up herself to every old dirty, filthy habit of every organization they ever had, doing the same thing.
157 I'm going to get criticized for This. That's all right. I'm going to be blessed for It, too, for It's going to be the Truth. It's God's Truth. Cause, He wants It said, and here It's... I'm trying my best to say It. See?
158 She tried to please her many lovers. Doing so, she hybrid, tried to hybrid with her lovers, the Word of God. So it would not work, so she said, "Denounce That," and made her own word. Now she claims to be the Word, herself. But don't let Catholics... or the Protestants call Catholics, 'cause they do the same in the council of their own churches, whoring. No wonder they're called harlots. That's rough, isn't it? That shook the skin off your back, but that's what it takes to do, to wake you up sometime. Right. That's exactly what she done. She left Jesus, the Word-Husband.
159 And like Samuel, they left Samuel and took Saul. Left the prophet, anointed with the Word, and took a king with a scepter. When, she finally would have come to the King, the scepter in the Millennium. But now she's rejected. He went to the Gentiles for a Bride. That right? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] It's the Word.
160 Now, she left Jesus, the Word; Jesus, the Word; and married another man, called the pope, with dogma. Now she hasn't got Jesus. She's got a pope. Now we haven't got... The Protestant hasn't got Jesus. It's got a denomination, same thing, an image unto the beast. So, she can't give Word-Birth to her children, none of them. She is a harlot, herself. The Bible said she was. "She had a cup in her hand, and was giving out her doctrine to the people, which was an abomination, the filthiness of her fornication." What is a fornication? It's living unclean. And for her doctrine she is giving to the people, is the filthiness of her fornication. "And the kings of the earth, and all, was made drunk with the wine of her fornication." Exactly right. Look at them. Boy, they would cut your throat, in a minute, for that. Not only Catholics, but Protestants.
161 Listen, you Methodists. Who killed Joseph Smith? Now crow. Although, I don't believe in his doctrine, neither do I believe in yours. That's not out there; it's here. That's the reason. Joseph Smith had just as much right to preach his religion here in this nation, as you do, but you killed him up here in Illinois. Shot him, without a cause, because he had something a little different. Then you holler about the Catholic church. Come out of that bunch of nonsense, you Methodists that's ordained to Eternal Life. John Wesley would turn over in his grave; acting like that. Sure, she will. John Wesley never established no such a church as that. A bunch of rickies and elvises did it after John's death, that's right, not John Wesley.
162Not them old early pentecostals ever made such an outcome as this. It's the same group, after this death. That's right. Jesus Christ wouldn't establish something like we got now, called Pentecost, neither would the Holy Ghost. But it's something you got here, instead.
163But the Holy Ghost is something they can't kill now. It's going to take a Bride, anyhow. Amen. Going to take One, anyhow. He said He would; predestinated Her.
164 She left Jesus, her Word-Husband, to marry a pope, so she can't give Birth, spiritual Birth. She can give denominational birth, now. She got plenty of seed of that. She can't give spiritual Birth. She, because she was a harlot, only thing she can give is denominational life and a lot of ballyhoo.
165Catholic church, itself, is made upon a few superstitions of Christianity and--and a bunch of Romanism.
166And a Pentecostal church is just as bad, a bunch of jumping, and shouting, and speaking in tongues, and things like that. When it comes down, enough temper to fight a buzz saw, and turn you out of their congregation. If God come in there and raised the dead, if you didn't agree with them, they'd run you out if you don't belong to their organization.
167 Now, this old "mother harlot," I'm going back to her a minute. She claims power to forgive sins. But, you're not judged by your claims, you're not known by your claims. You're known by your works. How could she forgive sin? Look at her.
168When Jesus did the same thing, they said... "Condemn Me, show Me where I disbelieve the Word." She claims power to forgive sins, but that comes only by the Word. That's right. God, only, can forgive sins. Is that right? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Didn't those Pharisees say that? What was the mind, the matter with a blind bunch of hypocrites? Why? Because they didn't see that was the Word standing with them. He is the Word. Glory to God. That's the reason He could forgive sins. He was God. He was the Word manifested.
169 Now the Catholic church said Jesus gave them power. He did; He give the Church power. That's right. We believe that.
170All her daughters are harlots. All her daughters, her denominational daughters, are harlots. "Brother Branham, that's a big Word." It ain't my Word. That's His Word. That's exactly. It's not mine. It's His. All right.
171"How," you say, "how are they, how did they become harlots? Well, they're good people, so-and so."
172I don't say a thing about that. I'm not saying what they are. I ain't saying the Catholic is not good people, as good as anybody. They're human beings, like we are. But, when it comes to that old church, she's wrong. The Protestant is just as good. The Methodist is good as the Baptist or Pentecostals, or anybody else. They're all the same.
173 But the thing of it is, how then can she be a harlot? Why? Give her the Word test. That's how you know it. Uh-huh. Try her on the Word, once, and see what she says. "Oh, of course, we're taught in the seminary that--that them days don't... It's a... It used to be that way, but, huh, that was way back in days of apostles. That was only for the apostles, only." You so-called church of Christ, "Speak where the Bible speaks, and silent..." Well, I'd like to hear you do some speaking now. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. No. You shut up. God's Word shuts everything up, brother. No man can brag. That's right.
174 All her daughters are harlots. How? By the same as their mammy, committing the spiritual fornications against the Word. That's how the Catholic church become a whore, that's how her daughters become harlots, same thing, spiritual fornication against the Word.
175She and her daughters has a whoring womb. Only death can come from them. God can't bring life through death. And anything that's born dead is not alive. And can a... Like Job said, "Can you bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No, not one." Right. How can she give birth, herself, when she is dead, herself? How can she be virgin when she's a whore? See? There you are. That's the whole thing. Oh, my!
176 Now we're going to hit something real rich, full of vitamins, from Genesis to Revelation. Notice.
177And she and her daughters has a whore's womb. Only death can come from them. If you want to join the organization, think you're all right, you see where you're landed. You're landed right in the midst of death. Just exactly. If you can't see that now, you're spiritually blind. See?
178 Now, let's go back now and pick up again, and come down for something. You remember what last Sunday's service was? "The gate to the soul." You remember? Now, there is a womb of the physical. There is a womb for the spirit. Did you believe that? There is a spiritual womb and a physical womb. And the mind is the womb to the spirit. Why?
179Now remember. I told you last Sunday, and drawed it out here for you. These five senses that enters this seed from the outside; see, taste, feel, smell, hear. Five on the inside; conscience, and--and so forth, from the inside five. Now, on the Life side, there's only one. That's, you're on the basis of free moral agency, to accept, take in or let out. See?
180 That's how adultery... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Just a minute. [Blank.spot.on.tape.]
181That's how adultery is committed, spiritually; when you, knowing better, by the Word of God, by the intercourse of the mind, take in a lie of the Devil, against the Word of God.
182That's exactly what Eve done, with a spiritual intercourse, first, that come by believing Satan's lie, into the womb of her mind. That polluted her soul, set death in the soul, then the natural act taken place.
183And that's the only way that a woman ever can commit adultery against her husband, is to first let some man talk her into it, and then receive another man that's not her husband. Then she's committed adultery.
184 And when the bride of Jesus Christ lets man-made creeds and dogmas take the place of the Word of God, she is committing adultery. Did not Jesus say, "Whosoever looketh upon a woman... has committed adultery with her already in his heart; looketh upon a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already"? Why? She let it come into his mind. That's the womb that starts the things moving. Satan come in.
185We were sowed with the Word. "Some day, I'll bring the Life into the earth and re-multi-... replenish the earth." What Eve failed to do, Mary did. She took the Word. Eve took Satan's lie. Mary took God's Word. And through Mary's Seed, replenishes the earth again, through His Bride, through the Word, and will bring up the Millennium. Through that goes forth the Word, and the Word is planted into every predestinated heart. And the Spirit comes down and waters It, and they cannot die. "I'll raise him up again at the last days." Oh, brother, sister, that's--that's real.
186 What is it? The mind is the womb for the spirit, (What?) to take in or let out. That's how they commit adultery, is taking, let some Satan, devil spirit put in them something against the Word of God. Then she's committed adultery.
187Eve received... Listen to this. Wrong seed-word, Satan's lie against Jehovah's Word, results was death.
188 Now, we'll get off of this subject, in a few minutes. But I want to get it pounded out real good before it gets down, the place I have to stop. I'm going to skip a page here, about now, a minute.
189 Now look. Eve, what--what did she do? She received the wrong seed. How did she do it? Believing Satan's lie. How many says that's right? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Why, sure, it's right. Sure. She received Satan's lie. What'd she bring forth, by doing it? Satan said, "You know, this is glorious. This is a wonderful thing. Do you know you were made for that? Why, you were actually made for this purpose."
"Oh, was I?"
190"Oh, it's pleasant to the eye. It's good. You should. You should try it."
191"But the Lord God said, 'Not--not--not that, not yet.' Wait, wait a minute. No. No."
"But, you know..."
"Oh, if we do, we'll..."
"Oh, you surely won't die."
192That slick-tongued Devil. He ain't got hoofs and forked-tail, no, like they'd try to make you believe. He's a slicker behind the pulpit. Right. Uh-huh.Or, some little ricky with his hair combed down like a duck, sitting on his back out there, to harm some mother's daughter, that's the guy come around with a little cute-like little... Oh, I'll let that go.
193 Now, the womb, Eve received the wrong seed-word. Now listen real close now. We're going to drive this right down, if the Lord willing. She received the wrong word. What did it do? It was Satan's lie, said, "She would be wise."
194"Well, she could belong to the big church. She would be well thought of in the city. Why, she'd be like the rest of the people." Huh! Sure. That's exactly what Jehovah's bride believed. That's exactly.
195That's exactly what Satan would have tried to said when the Word come to Mary. But she shook him away.
Said, "How can this be?"
196Said, "The Holy Ghost will overshadow you. It's the Word of God."
197Said, "Be it unto me according to Thy Word." That brought the Life. There you are.
198"Well, do you know," Satan said, "they'll all laugh at you." That little rosy-cheeked girl didn't pay any attention to that.
199Right up in Judaea she went. "You know, I'm going to have a baby," before she felt anything, because the Word had already been set there. That was all. She didn't have to go through the prayer line, second time, you know. No, no. No, sir. No, sir. She believed it. She didn't have any sign of life. She never had no sign of pregnancy, at all. She never felt nothing. There's... Everything had been just like it was. But she went, telling everybody, "I'm going to have a baby." Why? "God said so." What's that? The royal Seed of Abraham.
"Going to have a baby, Abraham, by that woman?"
"God said so."
"Well, you told me that, twenty-five years ago."
"I know, but God said so."
200 That's it. There you are. That's the same thing. What do you say today?
"Well, you know the denomination will kick you out."
"But God said so. God said so."
"Well, you know, if you get baptized like that..."
201"Well, God said so." That's it. That's it. There's your virgin. There she is. Not only to baptism, but anything else, the rest the Word. See?
202 So, what? This was both, physical and spiritual, with Eve. First, and any time.
203I told you, and asked you, this morning, sisters, to forgive me, so I can mention that. Any time that a woman takes the wrong step... I'm talking about Christ and Bride now.
204But any time a woman takes a wrong step, she has to first receive it in her mind. Right. Some slicker has to persuade her, and she listens to it against her own better judgment, then the act is committed.
205So, first, it hit, Satan hit Eve's mind. And in the womb of her mind, she doubted God's Word, then come the actual act.
206 And the only way that we can ever be born again is, first, in the womb of the mind, receive the Word, and then the Spirit comes on top of That and brings It to Life. There you are. That's what does it. That's the real Gospel teaching, brother. I believe, if Saint Paul was standing, today, he'd teach the same thing I do, in this hour. All right.
207What was the results with--with her? Physical and spiritual death.
208What is the results of those who accept the other way? It goes into this frolic today that they got, both physical and spiritual death. Both body and spirit shall be annihilated, be no more. That's exactly right.
209 Note, Mary's womb. Mary's womb, the physical mind, see, was virgin womb. Why? She believed God's Word. No matter how much anybody criticized, how many things somebody else said, that didn't have one thing to do with it. She believed God's Word, regardless. Oh, I wish I could just get that over. Are you getting it? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] See? See? First was her mind. Before the act ever taken place in her literal womb, the act had to take place in here, first, to let the Spirit come in to do the rest of the work. Oh, my!
210Glory! Before the actual, spiritual Birth can take place, the Word has to find Itself through your mind, believe It. "He that heareth My Words, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath Eternal Life, and shall never come to the Judgment, but is... or through the Tribulation period, but has passed from death unto Life." That's it. Oh, my!
211 Now notice. Virgin womb, her mind; virgin mind, to believe God's Word.
212You say, "Now look here. Oh, say, Brother Branham, it couldn't be that way. It's impossible. John Wesley would have saw it. So-and-so would have saw it." Huh!
213Sure, the Devil could have said the same thing to Mary. "Who are you? Why, you're the poorest of the city. You ain't nothing but a young'n, sixteen years old, eighteen, down here packing water out of this pump. Father, dead; your mother, an old blind woman down there. How in the world you've ever... How?" Anne was her mother, we're told. "How in the world you ever going to do that?"
214"Listen, my old mother is a blind woman, but she's a godly woman. Through her lips, she's planted a seed in my heart. I've read it out of God's Word, that God said, in Isaiah 9:6, 'A virgin shall conceive.'"
215 Hallelujah! Can you see? The Word takes flesh. There you are. God is going to have a Church. It's going to be born of the Word of God, because It is the living Word of God. Do you see it?
216"How you know it? Why, it's going... You know what you're going to be called, from this on? You're going to be called..."
217"I don't care what I'm called. That has nothing about it. Be it unto me according to the Word of the Lord." Oh, could everybody say that today? Oh, if--if people could really, from your heart, all of us could say that, see, "Be it unto me according to Thy Word, Lord." My! Really mean it. One or two, or somewhere out in there, It's going to pick up some predestinated that really means that. And, brother, you're going to see sparks flying right then. That's right. When you really got that there, to meet that what's coming, that irrigation begins to fall on that Word. Yes, sir.
218 Now, what was it? A virgin mind, womb, virgin womb for the baby. Results? Eternal Life.
219Eve, a good a woman as he... as she was, virgin as she was, but first she let the doubt come in, by the word, a devil's lie. What did he do? Brought her into contact in the wrong way. What was her child? Death.
220Mary, virgin mind, virgin womb. When the Devil tried to tempt her, and he come... And the Angel come to her then and said, "You're going to have a baby."
Satan said, "Now, ah, better inquire about That."
The Angel said, "It's an act of God."
221And she no doubt thought of Isaiah 9:6. She said, "Behold the handsmaid of the Lord." What's the results? Virgin birth, Eternal Word in her, and she brought forth Eternal Life. All right.
222 Jehovah's bride mixed, Jehovah's bride mixed seed. "How did you say now, Brother Branham? This morning, you said, 'Jehovah's bride committed adultery.'" I won't leave it out.
223Now let's watch real close now. Now we got just about another hour, I guess. I've got some over here, I'm just going to have to skip some, then start reading just in a few minutes, see, and just read just as fast as I can, to get it out. Now, another hour, I believe we'll be out, if you'll just bear with me and pray with me. See?
224 Now, where did Jehovah's bride ever do wrong? All right. Jehovah sent what down to His bride in Egypt? He promised Abraham that His bride, the seed, would sojourn in Egypt for four hundred years. That right? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] The time come for the Word to be fulfilled.
225Are we time for the Word to be fulfilled? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Sure. For deliverance, taken out. All right.
226How did they get the Word? Did they form an organization, a bunch of men get together, and priests, and say, "Now, brethren, we'll have a--a vote here. And is passed, unanimously, that we're going to have an organization called the 'Pharisees', and, through that, God is going to work"? God never did do a thing like that, never did.
227 What did He send them? Prophet. "And the Word of the Lord came to the prophet." Raised him right up among them, a prophet. And anointed him and vindicated him, right in the midst of all the other devils a working, with miracles and everything else, because Moses stayed with the Word.
228Picked that bunch of people up; mixed multitude started with them. When they got across, towards the promised land, before they got there, His precious bride committed adultery with Moab. Tell me she didn't do it, now. How did she do it? A lying prophet, against the Word of God. Yet, he had all the signs, and all ritualistic, he was just as spiritual as Moses, or just as well.
229 Look. Listen. Listen close now. Here sit Israel in a camp, an interdenominational. Right. What was it? They had anointed prophet with them. They had a Pillar of Fire. A rock that water came out of, to water them. They were doing all right. And what? They had seven altars. That's perfect. On them altars went seven clean animals, rams. And a ram represented the Coming of Christ.
230 Moab. What happened when Balaam went down there? He built seven altars just exactly like they had. Don't talk on them, fundamentally, 'cause you better know what you're talking about.
231Jesus said, "It almost deceive the very Elected." Spiritual, revealed. You catch It, then It's the Word, you see the Word made manifest.
232Look. Here they was up there; here was Moab. His stay... No doubt but he was a bishop, sure, great guy. And he built seven altars. He put seven rams on them, speaking that he believed that there was coming a Messiah. Brother, if they come to fundamentalism, God had to recognize both of them.
233When Cain built an altar to the Lord, Satan's son built an altar to the Lord, he built the same kind of an altar that Abel built. They both worshiped. They both went to church. They both paid their dues. They both obligated. They got down and worshiped the same God. And one was received, and the other one lost.
How's it come? Jesus said, "Upon this rock I'll build My Church."
234 The Catholic church says, "There's a rock there, the Church is built on it. Or the... And Peter was that rock." And the Catholic church says that Peter is buried in them. That's a lie, but, as far as I can ever see. From the time they said Peter is buried in there, the Bible said he was over here in Jerusalem. See? He never was in Pal-... over there. But, anyhow, they say he was there. There's actually not a record of Paul ever being there, but in history. But they say "Peter," he'd be buried there, if he was. What difference does that make? That wasn't what Jesus was talking about. See how they got the material thing mixed up?
235 Well, the Protestant said, "No. Jesus said He was that Rock." Now, He never said it.
236He said, "Blessed art thou, Simon, the son of Jonas. Flesh and blood didn't reveal It to you, 'Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God.' Flesh and blood... You never learned It in a seminary. Some denomination didn't teach you This. But My Father which is in Heaven has revealed It. And upon this rock, the spiritual, revealed Truth of God's Word, I'll build My Church. And the gates of hell can't prevail against It."
237 Moab did the same thing. Come down there and he taught the children of Israel, said, "Now looky here, friend." Now, that's the same thing he done Pentecost. Now look. "Now looky here, aren't we all the same? Don't we believe the same God? We're all the same." The children of Moab was Lot's daughter. See that old bunch, escaped down there? Still a hair in the biscuit. See? There they are, gaggy. See? They was up there. And they had... "Why," she said, "now looky here, you know we're all the same." How many knows that that was Lot's children? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Sure. From their own daddy, adultery, and said, "Now, we're all the same."
238"You know, you Methodists, and you Baptists, and we Presbyterians, and all... Why, sure, we want some of your Oil. We're all the same." And what did they do? They married among them. And that's what Pentecost did to the Protestants. She married in a federation of churches. She denominated herself. And where is she? Just exactly like Israel was, put away for both spiritual fornications and literal fornication. God refused her, from then on. Even those children which become Samaritans was cursed. That right? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Sure, she was. Jehovah put her away.
239 Christ's bride did the same, mixed her denominational seed, and put Christ, her espoused husband, away. You dry-washed bunch of Pentecostals! What's the matter with you? Revelations, the 3rd chapter and the 20th verse, we find, in prophecy, Jesus Christ outside of His Own church, in this Laodicean Age, knocking on the door, trying to get back. [Brother Branham knocks on the pulpit five times--Ed.] The most pathetic picture in the Bible. What'd she do? She took on whoredom.
240 When Jesus comes, what's He knocking for? Jesus come back to receive His Bride, and when He come to knock at the door, He was fastened out. [Brother Branham knocks on the pulpit six times--Ed.] "Why, you can't come in here. You can't hold a revival. Get... Let me see your ordination papers." A man filled with the Spirit of God, the real, true God Words, God's Word made manifest among his ministry, not one thing you can say against him, immorally or anything. Who can accuse him of it? Come to a denomination, "Why, he ain't Oneness. He ain't Assembly. He's Trinity. He ain't Trinity. He's Assembly." You poor bunch of illegitimates. Shame on you. God, on the outside!
241But what did John say, that last messenger down there, before His Coming? "He's able of these stones to rise children to Abraham. Don't you come, saying, 'We belong to this. We belong to that.' God can, these stones, rise children to Abraham." All right.
As we go on now, oh, how I love this!
242 Christ's bride, as same as Adam's bride and all the rest, mix the seed and put Christ out, for her denomination. She sure did it. She certainly did it. She refused God, her to-be husband, like Eve did. Accepted Satan's death-lie weeds. In a results, a dead, formal church has been born from her. Now, "You lie." Say, "That's a lie." Where is your Pentecostal? More formal than the Baptists are. Sure. You know what? It looks like a bad picture right now, don't it?
243But what did Joel say, in Joel 2:28? "But I will restore, saith the Lord."
244 [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Uh! As Adam found his wife pregnated with the seed of death, of Satan's lie she had accepted.
245Joseph found his wife pregnated with the Seed of God, which, the Word she had accepted.
246What's it all about? What am I trying to say? Now, to you people on the--on the air, you people out in the car, you people in the tabernacle, do you see why I have stayed the way I've tried to stay right here, and denounce that? It's not I got anything against them men, them women. I haven't one thing against them, but I--I just can't go on that--that ground. I just can't do it, because it's wrong.
247 How I got a Scripture here I'd like to take, on Jesus, on His temptation, when he tried to get Him! Said, "I'll give You all these kingdoms of the world. They're mine." See? Same thing he come to Eve. See? First, by turning the bread, about eating, so forth. See? "I'll do all this if You'll worship me. You just come join our group."
248Jesus said, "It's written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that comes out of the mouth of God.'"
249 What is it? Some of you preachers now, that's too scared to take your stand, afraid that they won't even let you come into the organization. What else you going to do, then? They'd kick you out. I feel sorry for you, first thing, for your weakness. That's right. Where's your faith in God?
250They told me the same thing. Sure. I worked seventeen years, till God got me out and built me around this, and then I thought, "Now, Satan, you come now, see where it's at."
251When you really realize that God has revealed to you the Truth of the thing, there's nothing in the world is going to defeat you in it. That's all. You're absolutely undefeatable; not you, but God that's in you. Not Christ, but, not the body, but This, the Word that was in Him. Not Mary, but the Word that was born from her.
252 Now, so, man shall live what by? Not by his meal ticket, but by the Word of God. Not by your organization that furnish you a place. "Well, let me show your credentials. Are you in good standing? Got to check on it. Well, yes, you, you stand in rank, about a hundred percent. Well, we can receive you for a few days, for a revival, try you out and see what you'll do." Oh, my! How can God ever work in a bunch like that, "Twice dead, plucked up by the roots," rooted, rotted, and everything else? Oh, my! There's another one.
253 Oh, people, God bless you! Hear me! I can't believe nothing but God's Word. I want It to be my life, everything that I am. I want you to do the same. Let your walks, your talks, your moves, everything you do, be in the Word of God. Let the mind of Christ come into you, and--and that'll pregnate you with the Word. If you don't, if you let the mind of the denomination come in, you'll be denominational pregnated. If you let the mind of Christ come into you, He can't deny His Own Word, 'cause He's God. You be pregnated with the Word, and believe It. I don't care if they put you out, kick you out, run you out, and every door is closed, you'll go just the same. Amen. Whew! I got to hurry now. Ah!
254 Christ is now taking Himself a Bride, to be pregnated with His Own Seed-Word in Her womb, spirit-womb in--in Her mind, and won't mix with any the denominational trash with it. She is a virgin to Him.
255Oh, I remember sitting there in a room, three days in there, praying and waiting on the Lord, and fasting. When that struck me, I thought, "O God, what is it? Here I am, in a picture. Here I am. If I bring up this much to the church, where will I be? I'll be have them on a limb. What can I do? I've done seen the church as every type and shadow, and everything else, shows she's gone. What will You do?"
256Then I thought of that Word, "I will restore, saith the Lord. I will restore." Remember the old pine tree, when the fire hits her and burns her down; she shakes off a seed, though. That seed brings forth a new one. That's right. The old trees are burnt up with organization and everything else, but there still remains a Seed of Word. And God's Word, It'll come right back, reproduce Itself, just as sure as the world. Yes. Now, now, she won't miss it. Notice. But Christ...
257 We believe we're in the end time. Do we? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Do you believe that before you have a crop, now, you have to plant a seed? ["Amen."] You see why I've let churches turn me out, tell me everything, call me all kinds of names, everything else, and just stay right with that Word? ["Amen."] See? There's a plant, Seed been planted. It's already been planted, friend. It's already done. I can say it now. It's over. Right. She's done been planted. Oh, yeah. So is denominational seed, all the rest of them.
258 Like as our great, precious Brother Billy Graham said right here in Louisville, said, "Paul could take a Bible..." Took the Bible, said, "Now, Paul could go into a city and hold a revival. He'd have one convert. Go back the next year, he's got sixty from that one." Said, "I can go and hold a six-weeks revival, and have--have twenty thousand converts. And come back in six months and can't find twenty."
259What is it? They're not converts. They're converts to denominationalism, that's all. Certainly. Got plant... See, you plant denominational seed, that's what you get. "Come now, brother, join the church, put your name on the book." That's all they know. Right.
260 Pentecost has done the same thing. "Speak in tongues, and so forth, that's all you have to do. That's got it. Come on, join the church." All right. Get your false baptism, and so forth, and go on, "And that's all you have to do." See?
261But when Christ comes, He's Coming for a virgin with... a Church without even one spot or one wrinkle of denomination or any other thing, dogmas mixed with it. It's going to be Word, and That alone.
262 Now, oh, man, here we are! Blessed be the Lord! Now we come to the Body to be the Bride of Christ, now to be His "flesh of His flesh, and bone of His bone." Now, we'll hurry up now. "Flesh of His flesh, and bone of His bone." Why didn't...
263Ask you a question. Why didn't all your rains, back yonder, bring the bride to Christ? I want you to answer me that. If... His Coming is overdue. We believe it. (Like it was in the days of Noah, long-suffering, He's getting His Bride ready.) Why didn't these rains... Why didn't you Pentecostals back yonder, a few years ago, when you started, forty, fifty years ago, why didn't you bring Christ, the Bridegroom, to the bride? Going to let that soak, a minute. Why? Because you pregnated her, yourself, with your denomination. That's exactly what you done. He won't marry a whore. He'll marry a virgin. It's flat, but that's the Truth. You know It, in a flat way. You don't have to wonder. I don't stumble around about It. Tell you the Truth. Why didn't it bring her? Why didn't it bring Christ, bring Christ to her? Because she's not fit. He found her in adultery.
264 Exactly the reason children don't live forever when they're born; Adam found his wife pregnated.
265That's the reason Jehovah had to take a Gentile Bride; found her pregnated.
266That's exactly the way Christ has to get Him a Bride now; He's found the so-called group pregnated. He's going to sow His Seed. Somebody is going to get It, because they're predestinated to be a Church at the end of the road.
267 Like Adam and Jehovah's, He found them pregnated with man-made doctrines of denominations. Like God's Truth, in Genesis 1, "Every seed has brought forth after its kind." So, when the Spirit fell on her, man had been there to her womb, and filled it with denominational seeds of his own thinking, so that's why she got to be the way she is, and Christ could not come to her. Hum! That's hard, isn't it?
268 One day, I was up in Green's Mill. I had been praying for a couple of days; been many years ago. I went up here to Mishawaka. I never said this on tape before. I went to Mishawaka. You remember about the colored boy? I had just found Pentecostal people; never knowed there was such a thing. And I went up there and found them; I thought I had a bunch of Angels. I see them speaking in tongues and things. I never heard of it, before. But there they was, running up-and-down the floor, speaking in tongues. I thought, "My, that's wonderful." The old U.P.C., and P.A. of W., and all them kinds, they merged. They had... There was a segregation between the white and colored then. They had to have their convention up north. It was at Mishawaka, Indiana. My!
269 I had a dollar and seventy-five cents, just enough to get me home. I put a nickel of it in some old u-... old donuts or--or rolls, about two or three days old. Went down and got me a jug of water, at the hydrant. And went out in a cornfield. And took my seats out of my old Ford, and laid it down; pressed my britches for that night, seersucker pants I had on, and a little old T-shirt. And the next morning I went down again. I didn't want to eat with them. I was welcome, but I didn't want to eat with them, 'cause I had nothing to put in their offering.
270And so I went to find out. That day, they would dance, and they would prance, and they would sing in the Spirit. I thought, "Oh, my, that sounds good. Uh!" One man would raise up and speak in tongues, and this one give the interpretation. And, brother, it was so. He called people, back there in the audience. I thought, "Oh, brother, that's wonderful."
271 "Tell Miss Jones," or So-and-so, "come right now. The Lord is calling her." Here she come. That's right.
272Then this one speak in tongues, the other one interpret. I thought, "Oh, my, my! The Millennium is fixing to start. This is it. And, so, if I could just shake the hands of them godly men," I thought.
273And I went over to one of them, when I was outside, walking around. They didn't know me. I was a little old fellow out there. And so I went walking around the church, and after while, when they had a little recess. And I met a man out there, and I... one of them. And I shook his hand. I said, "How do you do, brother?"
274 Now, you know, God has given me a little gift here, to find out things when He wants me to know it. See? I thought, "If I could ever get him to speak, and let him say something, I'd find out whether it was really true or not."
275So I seen that, looked like be the leaders of it. I shook his hand. "How you do, brother?"
Said, "How do you do!"
276And I talked to him a little bit, and he was a real Christian. He was. I thought, "Praise God!"
277After while I come around the corner, hit this other man. I said, "How do you do, brother?" And got to talking to him. If I ever talked to a hypocrite, there was one of them. He was a black-headed man, and he had a baby by a blond-headed woman. Two babies by a blond-headed woman. I saw it in the vision right before me.
278 I thought, "Now I'm really confused. Now, how could that same Spirit, one be on a man, and a godly man, the other one on a devil, hypocrite?" I thought, "God, I--I better leave the whole thing alone. I don't know." I was only about nineteen, twenty years old. I thought, "I just better leave the thing alone. Well, I don't know. How in the world could that be? I can't say nothing about it, can't say nothing against it, but I know that man is wrong." And that same Spirit, I watch It, It'd fall in, take the same effect. I thought, "There's something wrong here, somewhere. That's all there was to it." I said to this man...
He said, "You ever receive the Holy Ghost?"
I said, "I don't believe I got what you fellows have."
Said, "Glory to God! You ever speak in tongues?"
I said, "No, sir."
He said, "You ain't got her."
279 I said, "Well, I--I don't guess I have." See? I said, "This is something new. I never seen It, heard of It." I said, "Well..."
280He said, "Well, go over in there and get her. Sure. She is for you."
I said, "Thank you, sir."
281I thought, "Brother, I don't want what you got." So then I--I looked at it a little bit. I went on around, a little while, and went on around.
282I went out in the woods that night, and I--I thought, "God, have mercy. I'm going home." I went home. I couldn't say nothing for it or against.
283 One time, I was up here at Green's Mill, at my little old cave where I always go, that you know about. I had been in there, on something else. Three or four days, I had been up there fasting and praying. Got musty in the cave, and I come out, one afternoon. It was pretty, and sun was shining, leaves. There was an old log had fell down like this, just below it, down towards the creek. And I sit down on there, rubbing my eyes, been back in that dark cave for a while. I laid the Bible down like that. I thought, "Well, I believe I'll read some out of the Bible. And I'll lean back against this limb here and just rest myself, and lean back." I was dusty, all over. And I started to read.
284 And when I picked up the Bible, it was Hebrews, the 6th chapter. See? "For it is impossible for those that have once enlightened, made partakers of the Holy Ghost, see if they should fall away, to renew themselves again to their repentance. See the rain cometh upon the earth, oft, to dress it, prepare for that which we have, thorns and thistles, which is nigh unto rejection, is to be burned."
285I thought, "Well, what's..." I stopped. I thought, "What was that? Oh," I said, "guess just something." It went away. I wasn't... I was up there praying about something else. And I laid my Bible down again.
286I said, "Well, I guess I'll turn over and get me something to read," like that.
287And the wind come and blowed it right back. I was in the Old Testament. Blowed it right back to Hebrews, the 6th chapter. I looked down again. There it was. I looked. I picked it up. I read it again, same thing. "Well," I thought, "my, you getting superstitious, Bill?"
288 So I thought, "Well, I'll read here." And I--I started to read, and I couldn't get interested in nothing. I thought, "Well, I believe I'll just raise up my hands and praise the Lord." I laid the Bible down, like that. Raised up my hands, and praised the Lord.
289When I raised up my hands, the wind went, "Whew!" Blowed again. And when it did, I looked down there, Hebrews 6. I read it again.
290I thought, "What does that mean? I can't understand." I had done forgot about the Pentecostal idea. Then I thought, "What does that mean?" I was sitting there. I thought, "Is there something in there, Lord?"
291 I thought, "Now, I believe in election. Yeah. 'They which were once enlightened, partakers of the Holy Ghost,' see, 'and have tasted the Word of God.'" I said, "That's them borderline believers that'll come right up, almost to the real thing, and then go back, just like them was in times of Joshua."
292Joshua and Caleb went on over. But these just stayed borderline, see, "tasted." They seen the good works of God, then refused it. People sit around in church, all the time, say, "I believe That, Brother Branham," but never make a move towards It. See, it's impossible for them to ever go across. So, then, they come to that place. And you preach to women with short hair, next year they got short hair just the same. Preach to men to do, they do just--just the same thing, you see; never see. Borderline believers who say, "Oh, yes, I believe It's right."
293 I said, "Of course, I believe that. But, this, when it come to that place, 'But thistles and thorns, which is nigh unto rejection, whose end is to be burned.'" I thought, "What does that mean? Can't get it."
294I set there a little bit. I thought, "God, if this is something You want me to know? I'm up here seeking a vision from You, Lord, to know just what to do about a ministry down there, and I want You to tell me, Father."
295And I looked across the hollow, going on up towards... Was way in above Charlestown, going towards New Market, that way. I crossed over the hill. And I looked, and I seen there like a rainbow hanging over the valley. And through this rainbow, I seen something turning. I looked, and it was the world. And here went a Man dressed in white.
296 Now, many of you people here are too young to know this. You remember when we used to broadcast seeds with our... put a great big bag on your side, take your hand and throw it? Mr. Woods, you remember of that, broadcasting seeds like that. Take them in your hands and spray them out like that, let the wind blow them into the--the dirt.
297And I seen a Man dressed in white, going across like that, sowing seeds. I watched Him go plumb around the curvature of the earth. I thought, "Wonder what that means?" Then I looked. Just as soon as He got His back turned, here come a real slicker, come around, looking like that. He had a sackful, and he was sowing weeds behind Him. He went around the earth, still looking, sneaking, you know, throwing them like this. And he went on around the earth.
298 Then I seen it come up, and up come wheat. And up come weeds, stickers, thorns, thistles. And they was both growing, together.
299And there come a great drought. And I seen that little wheat hold its little head over, going, "Heh, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh!" Just dying for water. And I seen the little old cocklebur with his head hanging over, "Heh, heh, heh, heh!" Just dying for water. And everybody begin to pray for water.
300And all at once, the great rains come up, in answer to prayer. And away went the rains, across the earth. And soon as the water hit the earth, that little wheat jumped up, said, "Glory! Glory! Glory! Glory!" And up jumped the little cocklebur, holler, "Glory! Glory! Glory! Glory!"
301Well, I thought, "Now what's that?" And just then... "Well, that wheat was a shouting. I can see that. But what did that cocklebur meant?"
302Then He said, "Read Hebrews 6."
303 "The rain falls on the just and the unjust." That's what's the matter. That's what we... why we didn't have a Bride ready for Christ now. We sowed denominational seeds instead of the Word. What has it done? Brought some more denominational children. That's right. But in among there is some wheat has fallen. Right. But, look, the same Spirit that makes the real true--true genuine believer speak with tongues, the real Spirit that makes a genuine believer a Christian, see, because It's irrigating a Word, a Seed. That same Spirit makes something, substitute to It, like Eve's hybrid, makes the hybrid just as happy, just as much shouting, feel just as much joyful about It as the rest of them. But what is the truth of it? The seed is wrong, to begin with. So all your fleshly demonstrations don't mean nothing.
304 "Though I speak with tongue of men and Angels, and have not charity, it profit me nothing. Though I could move mountains, and have not charity, it profit me nothing. Though I give all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profit me nothing; I speak with tongue like men and Angel, it becomes like sounding brass and tinkling cymbals." See? It's nothing.
305Listen, church! Pentecostal? Nothing! Why? It's a hybrid seed. It can't come to the Word. Now, there you are.
306 The Body that gives birth to Christ's Body, again, must be come from a virgin womb, the Word. Right.
307That's why. Listen to this. That's why she produced, "A million more in '44." That was a Baptist slogan. That's why the Pentecostal denominations, that could not give spiritual Birth, to bring forth the manifestations and the Christ, because it was only a sowing rain. And she's brought forth a denominational church. And she's consolidated with the--with the great Evangelicals, and she's gone in with the way of Korah. She's gone with the denominations. That's why.
308 Now let's go back to the Old Testament, for some types. Then, I'm going to start here, in a few minutes, on something, and let you go. Let's go back to the Old Testament, for some types, to prove these things. Now, I've took several hours here, laying this on. Now we're going to change the subject, change the program.
309Now, first, I've got something, just when I get to... I got a--a few pages here, then I got to... Oh, my, my, my, surely not, that. I'll just have to hurry, real quick. I'll read it, see, just read as fast as I can, 'cause I know we haven't got but just a--a very short time now. See? Now, are you tired? [Congregation says, "No."--Ed.] Oh, well, then, it's me. All right. Go ahead, that's all right.
310 Now, that's why we got all the things that we've got. Now, all these things I've said, if they don't jive with the Bible, or--or dovetail with God's Word, they're wrong, they're wrong, all this picture. Now I'm just going to hurry over some of this, not explain it. But just hurry over it, so we can get to it, and, I promise you, as quick as I possibly can.
311I got a place here, where I got so in the Spirit. I was... I got the church up, to show it and prove it in the Word here, exactly what's happened, all along. And then when I did, I thought, "Lord, I got the people standing here now. I'll have them standing there. What can I tell them? I can't predict a future. I can't tell them what to do. What will I do? I'll leave them standing on a limb." I raised up my hand, I said, "God, I think I'm doing this by Your will. I've never did this, never did before, 'cause the Seed hadn't been sowed yet." I said, "Now I've got... I--I believe it's time for me to say it. But, now, what am I going to say now?"
312 And just as plain as you hear my voice, Something said, "Pick up your pen."
313I'll read it to you, in a minute. And when I got through, there it was, just the answer. I didn't even know what I was writing; just started writing. And when I got through, I laid the pen down. I looked. I thought, "God, have mercy! There it is, right there. That's what I'm looking for." Now, there's some things I had to bypass. We'll get to it, in a little bit, the Lord willing.
314 All the Old Testament was types that point to Christ and His Church. You believe Adam and Eve pointed to Christ and His Church? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed] You believe Jehovah and His wife pointed to Christ and His Church? ["Amen."] Well, if them are--are--are types, and this is the antitype, it has to be like the type. Cause, the type takes from the--from the... The antitype takes from the type.
315Christ is the Head, the true Stone of God. Do you believe that? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] The true Word! The Bride is the Body. You want some Scriptures on these, so you can look them up? I--I was going to read the Scriptures, but I won't. First Peter 2:1 to 6, Ephesians 5:22... See? First Peter 2:1 to 6, Ephesians 5:23. Read that chapter, both of them, in there. See? The Old Testament: Christ.
316 Looky here. Let's just take this, for instance. Maybe if my wife didn't take my dollar... Here it is. Pay for some sandwiches, a while ago. Excuse me, friends, I oughtn't to have said that. But I got a good wife. Now, on the back of this dollar... Wasn't for her, I wouldn't have had the dollar, I guess. God's mercy giving it to us, and her helping me.
317Now, on the back of this, looks like, if that be our money, the American seal on the left-hand side of the dollar ought to be the great seal in this country. Is that right? But why is it, the pyramid, called the great seal? Even your money has to testify of it. Yes.
318Every time you send a post card, or a mail, you have to testi-... It testifies, "The year of our Lord, 1962." Everything testifies of Christ. See?
319 You notice that, the great seal, it's a pyramid? Anybody ever knowed that the pyramid never had the capstone put on it? How many knows that? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Sure. I've been there in Egypt, Cairo. Yeah. Never had the capstone. Why? It was rejected, the cornerstone. That was the cornerstone that held this building, and the keystone. How many knows what a keystone is? When the arch is built, then the keystone holds it together. The cornerstone is what holds up the building. Is that right? ["Amen."] And the cornerstone in the pyramid was the capstone, was a keystone, held the rest of it together. Now, this keystone was rejected. Did you notice up there? It's standing up above it, up above the pyramid.
320 Now what did that represent when Enoch built it? Here is what taken place. It's just like the Gospel Church coming. See?
321Now, down in the wide part of the pyramid, represent the early days of reformation. Just to call yourself a Christian, deny the Catholic church, meant you get killed for it. Then along come... They preached justification by faith. Then along...
Now watch the three come back again.
322Along come John Wesley, preaching sanctification. The church become in the minority more, see, come down this way.
323 And then after John Wesley's days of sanctification, come the Pentecostal church, and God took a remnant out of that. Each one accepting the Word. See? Now, when it come down to the Pentecostals, it cut it down a lot closer, because it was the restoration of the gifts, bringing it right on up.
324What is it? Way down here, it's a way away from the looks of the head. Down here, it's a little closer to the head. Up here, it's a little closer. But that's got to be, absolutely, to fit with the rest of it. It's got to be honed.
325In that pyramid, you can take a razor blade and you can't run between them rocks where the mortar was; it's so fitly put together. They said Solomon's temple was the same. See?
326 God is taking the Elect out of that Pentecostal church, that hybrid, pulling It out, and finishing up the Word. And it's got to be so close until the Word Itself will blend with this Word. There comes the Headstone, crying, "Grace, grace, amazing grace." The Headstone!
327Here you are, like this, see, on there. See how it way wide down here? And it keeps getting closer, closer, closer, the ministry. After while, here come... Here is Luther; justification, justified. Here come Wesley; sanctified bunch. Here come Pentecostal; restoration of the gifts. Now God is taking from there, honing out a bunch, to make a ministry just exactly like that Word there, because it's got to fit with the Word. There's the Bride; take Her up.
328 Now, Christ was manifested to destroy the works of the Devil. You believe that? Now, I can't explain all this. I'm just going to go through it, just quickly now, hit the high place so you won't stay too long. Christ was manifested to destroy the works of the Devil. Is that right? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] You all believe that. That's why He... What was He? God's Word, which destroys the works of the hybrid, the Devil. Is that right? He was done, to do that. He was born to be that, to destroy the works of the Devil.
329Now, His Body is to do the same. Because, the Body is, head and body is together. That right? If Christ is the Head, was the Word, His Body has to be the same thing as His Head was. That right? A Church of the Word, born of the Word, virgin-born from the Word! Not denominational now; virgin-born from the Word!
The way the Body operates is by the Head. That right?
330 My body can't move until my head tells it to move. Well, what if my head is flesh and my body is concrete? Huh! Can't move. Head can say, "Move, move, move, move, move," but there's nothing to send a message to. That right? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]
331Well, if my Head is Christ, and my body is a denomination, how is it going to work? How can purity and a whore work together? Uh-huh.
332I love it, brethren, I'll tell you. I like to preach on some of this, a while. The way the Body operates is by the Head, and the Head is the Word. That right? The Head is the Word.
333 Compare the modern church now. Why don't we have miracles in it? Why don't we have the Word in it? It can't get the Word to it. The denomination stops It. Sure. Say, here comes a good, sainted man of God, preaching the Word of God, just as straight off the Bible it can; the denomination, "Uhm! No. No, sir. Get him out of here." See, body can't move. See? Chugged off, has to.
334 Now, the Body carries the works, carries on the works, and does the works that the Head commands It to do. Ha-ha-ha!
335Tell me where He ever said, "Organize." Tell me where the Head all--all say, "It's all right for women to cut their hair." Huh? Mention it. It's not there. Tell me where the Head ever said, "These works I do, but you shall not do them." Tell me that.
336But, the Head said this. You want to put the Scripture down, I'll give it to you. John 14:12, "The works that I do shall you also," that's His Body. See?
337See now why I have been so zealous of the--the kind of Seed that I planted for the Body? The rain is going to fall pretty soon now; I mean, the real rain. And it's got to have Seed to fall on. I hope I live to see it. Do you understand now? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] It will be the living Word as It was at the beginning, the spoken Word of God; have His Power, for It is in Him, in His Own Body, working His Own way.
338 Look to the promises that God gave this Body. Now we're coming to something. We're coming to Mount Zion now. Let's look what He said to this Body; I mean, virgin-born. Now we see the--we see the impersonations of it. We see it every day. But let's come to the real Body, see what He said about This. Let's look. All right. Here is what He promised.
339Do you believe that John 3:16 is right? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] I've just got to read this. That's all there is to it. All right. You, I may... Everybody that believes John 3:16, "God so loved the world, He give His only begotten Son," so forth, say amen. ["Amen."]
340I dare you to believe the rest of It. I'm talking about the Body, now.
341 Let's take John 20, to start with. All right. Take John, the 20th chapter, and let's see. John, the 20th chapter, and we're going to begin at the, oh, I'd say about the 19th verse. Saint John 20, I believe that's what I got marked down here, and beginning with the 19th verse. Now listen close.
342I challenge you to believe it. Oh, I--I just feel good. Oh, if I could just... I--I wish I could just see the Holy Spirit just huddle over here, like that, see, say, "Now, it's Me." Listen.
... the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled... doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for the fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and said unto them, Peace be unto you.
And when he had said... And when he had so said, he showed unto them his hands and his side. And when his disciples... (Let's see.)... his side. And when... Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the Lord.
Then said Jesus unto them... Peace be unto you:... (Oh, are you ready?)... as my Father has sent me, (He's the Word, the Seed, Word-Seed), so send I you.
343You believe it? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Don't stop. There's more of it.
And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:
Whose soever sins you remit, to them they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins you retain, they are retained.
344 Is that the Truth? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Who did He say that to? The Seed, the Word. Why? They could only be born by the--by the Word. That's the reason. You believe that? ["Amen."]
345Let's take Matthew 16 now, just a minute. Matthew 16:19, let's read this, just a minute. All right.
And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shall bind on the earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsover thou shall loose on the earth shall be loosed in heaven.
346I challenge you to believe it. If that ain't the Word, John 3:16 ain't the Word. Why should take some and not take the other? All the Word of God is right, but It's got to come into a virgin womb, where nothing but the Seed lays there. You believe it? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] All right.
347 Now watch this real close. I know the harlot claims it, and they do remit sins by their denominational power, but look at their children. Every dance hall, cut their hair, painted up like clowns, men out living with other men's wives, flirting, running around on the street, mixed bathing, everything else. Sure. They forgive, they remit sins, in their own way, but their fruit shows what it is. Not right for them. No, sir. What they do? They wear shorts, cut their hair, wear make-up. Jesus said, "By their fruits they are known," the kind of seed that they are. There is what it is. Denominational seed gives denominational forgiveness. Exactly right.
348God said, "Let the Word be after Its kind." And so It is. That's right. Oh, brother, the Scriptures is true. You believe it? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]
349 And the Holy Spirit bears record of the predestinated gift that the Church claims She has. What? By watering the Word, punctuating in the Word, with an "amen." When It said, "Repent and be baptized, Name of Jesus Christ." "Amen." When It says these other things. "Amen." That's it. "Amen," to everything, see, It punctuates the Word. And God by... predestinated the gift to come, to remit sins, but it was given to the Spirit-filled Word-Body. Cause, the Word can, only, forgive sins, because the Word is God.
350 How true the Pharisees was! I mentioned, this morning, we'd get to this. And I've took up my time. But the--the Pharisees said, "This Man forgives sins. We know He's a blasphemer. Only God can forgive sins. And this Man is forgiving sins." Not knowing that That was the Word. The Word forgives sins, 'cause It's God.
351And when you become not your own... God knows, knowed, and foreknew by foreknowledge, who would take this gift and who would use it in the right way. Those who have it are vindicated by the Word of God, with the rest of the Word and Spirit. That clear?
352Some would have you believe it comes by schooling, scholarship, degrees; if you go to school so long, if you become a bishop, study to be a pope, or you become a cardinal, or something like that. That, some would have us believe that that's where it comes from, when man, by laying on of hands, make you something to do it. But they are off of the Word.
353 Romans 11:29 said, "Gifts and callings are without repentance." God gives it. And also John 15:16, you want to write it down.
354Listen close now. How different Jesus was, in His days, from the denominations of His day. They would point back to him... How I'd like to hold on this a while! Whew! They would point back over their shoulder, back down through the time, and say, "We are Moses' disciples. We know that God appeared to Moses, in the burning bush. We know."
355They knowed, they knowed the history of Moses, but they did not know the God of Moses. Cause, He stood before them, in John 6, and said, "Before Moses was, before Abraham was, I AM," the burning bush. They knowed Moses' history.
356So is it today. They know the God... They claim they know the Word of Christ, but they don't know the God that was in Christ. Painted fire! Who can get warm by a painted fire, a seminary experience? They knowed Moses, but not his God. Jesus could and did say...
357Amen. Listen at this, brother. Whew! Now I feel like David winding that sling up now. I hope I don't seem sacrilegious to you, friends. I'm all right, but I just feel good. I'm just getting, feeling fine now.
358 Jesus could and did say, "The Father that sent Me is in Me. And as He has sent Me, so send I you," to His disciples. "The Father that sent Me is with Me. If I do not the works of the Word promised of My Father, then don't believe Me, because they are the ones that testify of Me."
359Hallelujah! Oh, church, where you at? Jesus said...
They say, "Oh, we know that God did do this, but not today."
Jesus say, "The same..."
"We know God was with Moses."
360"But the God that was with Me is in Me. Because, if you don't believe it, see what's written of Me. See what the Scripture said I would do, and, if I don't fit the Scriptures, then don't believe Me."
361 Let me say this, not sacrilegious, but let me say that about the Message that I'm preaching. If God don't vindicate This to be the Truth, then It's not. But if the Word vindicates I'm telling you the Truth, then believe the Word. They are what testify whether I'm telling the Truth or not. They're the testimony. They--they testify for my... for the ministry He gave me. He promised this in the last days. Here it is. He said what it would do. Here it is. We're going right into it now. You see whether it's the Truth or not. Let God do the testifying. If the works, the things that I'm preaching don't testify back, that it's the Truth, then it's not the Truth. But if the Word speaks of this, and here it is, then what are you going to do about it?
362 Jesus said, "I know you. You think you know Moses. You know, might have know history of Moses, but you don't know his God. For, I was before Moses. I was the One that talked to Moses. I'm the 'I AM.' I'm the Word."
363They couldn't see it, 'cause they're of their father, the Devil. Their denominations wouldn't let them see it. That didn't stop the Word from going on, just the same. It fell on some, right, and from that come a Bride, that generation. All right. How different, painted fire!
364 Jesus could--could say, "The Father that sent Me," is with Him. "And the works that I do, testify, because I do the same things the Scriptures said I would do."
365Jews knew their historical God. Same now. Yes. Why did they know the historical God? Is because they had the historical seed. Why did they not receive Him? Because it was hybrid with denomination.
366Jesus knew Who sent Him, for He that sent Him was in Him.
367And there was no denomination tied to Him. Amen. Tell me which one. "What school did He come from?" They say, "Where did He get this wisdom? Where was this learning come from?" They couldn't find a school that He ever went to.
368 And, yet, at twelve years old, He confounded the scribes and the Pharisees. Oh, my! That spoke of it. Why didn't they say something to Him, as a kid? It was God's Word. They couldn't withstand That.
369No wonder the people were astonished at His Doctrine! Did you ever read that? Mark 1:22, if you want to put it down. "The people was astonished at His Doctrine, because He taught like somebody that had authority." He knowed what He was talking about. See?
370The Church now should have a double portion of the Spirit. For it is true, like Elijah's garment that fell upon Elisha, a double portion, the same thing come from Jesus Christ. Now, you say, "Oh, Brother Branham, you're talking about His Church." That's right. That's His Body.
371Isn't my wife part of my body, and your wife part of your body? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] "Flesh of your flesh, and bone of your bone," by holy union. Is that right? ["Amen."] That's the reason a Christian shouldn't be married to a harlot. See? That's not right, no, sir, 'cause it breaks all the things of God.
372 You say, "Oh, now, Brother Branham, wait a minute. You talk about the Spirit of Christ being upon..."
373The Bible said It would. Is that right? Isaiah 9:6, It said--said, "Unto us a Child is born, Son is given; name shall be called Counsellor, Prince of Peace, mighty God, everlasting Father. And of His kingdom there shall be no end. And the government shall be upon His..." What? [Congregation says, "'Shoulder.'"--Ed.] That's part of His Body. My! That's His Body. Is it? ["Amen."] "His shoulders" is His Body. Where is the government on the earth at? In His Body.
374"Saints shall judge the earth." That right? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Paul said, "I dare you go to court with one another, and not take it before the church." Right. See? "Saints shall judge the earth."
375Where is the government going to be upon? Upon the shoulders, His Body. "The government upon His shoulders," that's a part of the Body. What is it? His earthly strength. God's earthly strength is His Word made flesh in His Body here on earth, bringing to pass.
376 Moses... Listen. Let's bypass some of it. God's messengers always has been rejected. You believe that? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Moses was rejected. Is that right? ["Amen."] Jesus was rejected. And Luke said, in 10:16, if you want to write that down. All right. Rejected!
377First Samuel 8:7, God's message was rejected. God had a messenger, a prophet, called Samuel. You believe it? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Rejected him and his message. They took the world.
378This is a law of--of God. This is going to... I don't know I'm going to say this or not. This is a law of God. God's law is to receive a vindicated servant.
379Let's just--let's just prove that, a minute. I want to take one of the Scriptures here, John 13:20. Let's just see. I got something wrote down here, I just kind of get in my mind just then. Oh, yeah, here are.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receives whosoever I send receives me; and he that receives me receives him that sent me.
380A vindicated servant! Oh, brother, there's a thousand sermons laying right here now. See? That's right. Oh, my! It's a law of God. Receive It.
381 Samuel come down and said, "I want to ask you something. Have I ever told you anything in the Name of the Lord that didn't come to pass?"
Said, "No."
382"Have I ever took up any offerings to build big buildings, and do a great lot of thing and glorify myself?"
"No."
"Has God proved, to answer the Word that I've said?"
"Yep."
"Well, why don't you hear me?"
Jesus said to the Pharisees...
"We know You're born in fornication."
383 He said, "Which one of you can condemn Me of sin? Let Me show you God's Word, see if you'd believe It, see if God vindicates It in you. And let Me speak of Myself, if I speak Myself, I'm a liar. But if I speak of God, and God speaks through Me, by His Word, then it's the Truth. Then, who believes the Word of God, Me or you?" Ha-ha! That had it.
384Jesus said, "He that receives them that I send, receives Me." And, now, them that He send. "And them that receives Me receives Him that sent Me." Wish we had time to linger on that. You can only serve God as... You can only serve God as you do and--and believe the servants that God sends. You can only serve God on earth, see, as God's servants that's sent on earth by Divine inspiration interprets the Word to you. You believe that? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]
385 You want to put down some Scriptures for it? First Corinthians 14:16. Paul said, "You follow me as I follow Christ," also, 11:1. Luke 10:16, see what He said, what Jesus said there. Luke 10:16, believe you're right close to it here. Let's see what it says one time here, Luke 10:16, while they're writing the rest of them down. Now, that's First Corinthians 14:16, also 11:1, and Luke 10:16.
386Now let's read. I'm getting to Luke 10:16, here, just to read while you all looking at the other now, just for a moment. All right. Here we are.
He that heareth you heareth me;... he that despises you despises me;... he that despises me despises him that sent me.
387That proves that God speaks His Message through His servants. Always has. That's right.
388 Now, the power of the believing Church. "Christ has all power in heavens and earth." You believe that? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Now, what if He's in you? Has Christ got all power? ["Amen."] Matthew 28:18. All right. He is the Seed-Word in His Body. And He, in us, becomes the Seed-Word in us. What? All that God was, He poured into Christ; and all Christ was, was poured into the Church. That's the power.
389 Now watch. Remember God's law of reproduction, now, remember, "After its kind." That right? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] The Seed of Christ, the Word, must come through His Body. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
390Are you getting tired? [Congregation says, "No."--Ed.] All right. Just a minute now. Let's just hold quiet and pray. I want to get this in, real good. I want this to grind down.
391The Seed of Christ must, m-u-s-t, must come through His Body; not through a denomination, but through a born-again Seed of the Word, must come through. Now, remember. What is it? Christ's Seed.
How does my seed come? Through the body.
How does the apple tree seed come? Through the body.
392Seed is through the Body, and the Church is the Body of Christ. That right? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] The Bible Church! This Birth produces (that's the new Birth) Himself in Body, His Church, is His Word, so that people can see the confirmation of Hebrews 13:8, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever." You believe it? ["Amen."] These are not domi-... denominational hybrids, now. This is those that's in the orbit, waiting for the countdown, you know what I mean, fixing to take a rocket. Glory! These are not denominational hybrids; not standing in Here, they're not. No, sir. It's the Seed.
393 Paul was afraid that the people would watch some kind of a big words that he could say, some of his education. First Corinthians 2:1 to 8. You want to put it down. First Corinthians 2:1 to 8, Paul said, "I never come to you, speaking words intellectual, you know, that your faith might be in some seminary thing. But I come to you with the simplicity, in the power and demonstration of the Holy Ghost, that your Word... that your faith would rest in the Word of God." Yes, sir.
394 Although, the denominational churches will outnumber the Bride, a thousand to one. Do you believe that? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] You believe the Bible teaches it? ["Amen."] Isaiah 54:1. He promised it. For the...
395Do--do you want me--you want me to read it? All right, let's get it. You want to see where it's at, where He promised that they would outnumber. Let's get over to Isaiah 54, 53, 54:1.
Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.
396Ha-ha-ha-ha! That right? More are the children of the whore than the married Wife. Sure. Outnumber us, many time. Though they--though they be more in numbers, they have no true father.
397Now, the denominational kinds is represented in Jude 8-13. That's the secular church, "Clouds without rain, foaming out their own shame."
398The Pentecostal church is represented, of that denominational group, in Second Timothy 3:1 to 8, "Having a form of godliness." Their seed produce their kind. Notice, the eunuch...
399 Oh, here, we're going to get in something deep now. Now watch this Seed-Church, this real Church with the real, true Sperm.
Notice, the eunuch had been with all the D.D.'s.
400Now remember, God never committed... God never committed His--His preaching and His Gospel to an Angel. How many knows that? How many knows that Galatians 1:8 said, "If an Angel come from Heaven and preach something else beside they had preached, let it be accursed"? So, the Angel is wrong if he's different from the Word. God came on down below Angels, and committed It to man, which were sons. You believe that? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Now watch. Now, He never committed It to Angels. Notice, He did not do it.
401 Now, Philip had been up to Pentecost, Jerusalem, to worship. How many says "amen" to that? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]
402The eunuch, he had been with all the D.D.'s and L.D.'s, and everything. But why didn't he get something? He come back down, studying the prophecy of Isaiah.
403Although an Angel directed Philip to him, but the Germ of Life had to come through the Body, Philip. Ah! Oh, brother, now we're on the line. Where did the Germ come from? Through the Angel? The Angel showed him where to go. An Angel is a messenger. Here is a son. Philip had the Germ, the Message, the Word. That's how a Child can be born. Philip laid his hands upon him. Philip baptized him in the Name of Jesus Christ. There come forth the Spirit of God. Sure. Now, the Germ had to come from the Body. What Body? Christ's Body. Correct. And Philip was a member of the Body.
404 Now listen. The same thing took place in Acts 10:48. Peter was on the house top. An Angel directed him to Cornelius' house. But where did the Word come from? The Body. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh! I feel pretty good, feel like traveling on. An Angel come and said, "Don't worry. Don't call nothing unclean. Just go on, don't think nothing."
405"And while Peter spake these Words," not the Angel, not the cardinal. "While Peter spake these Words." What? He was the Body. He had the Word. The Word took hold. Oh, brother! Whew! Huh! Oh, my! Angel directed it, but the Life come through the Body of Christ.
406 Paul, on his way to Damascus, a vision directed him. But Ananias had the Germ, had the Word. Amen. That prophet, Ananias, saw a vision that said, "Go up there, lay your hands on him."
407Said, "Brother Saul, the Lord appeared to you in the road, coming down here." How did he know? He had the Word. The Word of the Lord came to the prophet. Prophesied, went up there and said, "He come, has sent me up here, I might lay my hands upon you, and you would be healed and receive the Holy Ghost. Receive your sight." The scales fell off his eyes. He rose, was baptized, the Name of Jesus, went to study.
408Angel directed it, that's right, but Paul had the Seed-Germ.
409It takes the Spirit of God, the Seed, to give Life Eternal. Whew! My!
410 Is it two o'clock yet? [Congregation laughs. Someone says, "It's after."--Ed.] I know it. Uh! I'm going to read some, then. Let me read just for about ten minutes. Will you? ["Amen."] Got a good notion, I could stay here, but I just better move on a little bit here. And we got our time. It is twenty-five minutes until five. I don't know what time we'll get in Georgia. I wish I could stop and comment on this just a little bit. But I'm just going to read it real slowly. Listen close. Here is what I picked up the pen for, part of it.
411 Do you see, friends, what I have, way I've stood the way I have? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] See why I'm contending, "Get away from them denominations and get a real Church of God"? ["Amen."] See why It's got to come out of the Word? ["Amen."] It can't come by the wisdom of man. It's got to come by the Word of God. That's the reason I believe the Word just the way It's written. I won't add nothing or take nothing. Just preach It that way, just keep going.
412Now, brethren, you all on the tape, if you disagree with me, I'll pray for you. If I'm wrong, you pray for me.
413I'm going to read some now. Just... I want you to listen real close to this. Here is where the Spirit said, "Pick up the pen." I'd have to leave some of It go, but I've got to bring some of It to you. All right.
[Brother Branham reads paragraphs 414 through 441--Ed.]
414 Now, here is what I'm trying to say to you. The law of reproduction, bring forth of its kind, Genesis 1:11. These last days, true Church-Bride comes to the Headstone, will be the super Church, a super Race, as the... nears the great Headstone. They will be much like, so much like Him, even they will be in His very image, in the order to being united with Him. They will be One. They will be the very manifestation of the Word of the living God. Denominations can never produce This. This will be... They will produce their creeds and dogmas, mixed with the Word, and--and brings a hybrid product.
415 The first son was spoken Seed-Word of God. He was given a bride. (I'm just reviewing. The Spirit now is picking up what I said. See?) A bride, produ-... to produce himself. She fell. See, that's what... The bride was given, to produce himself again, another son of God. But she fell, by hybreeding, see. Produce himself; but she fell, caused him to die.
416The second Son, a spoken Seed-Word of God, was given a bride, like Adam. But before He could marry her, she had fallen, also. For she was put to a free moral agency, like Adam's wife was, to believe God's Word and live, or doubt It and die. And she did.
417 Then from a little group of the true Seed of the Word, God will present Christ a beloved Bride, a Virgin, a Virgin of His Word. And through them, and by them, will be fulfilled all that has been promised for His Word in the Virgin who knows no man-made creeds or dogmas.
418The Word of promise in Himself, like It was in Mary, God Himself made manifest. He will act Himself, by His Own Word of promise, so to fulfill all that has been written of Him, as He did when He came from the virgin womb. Type of the Spirit womb now, so will the Virgin now, accepting His Word, "Be it unto me as Thou has said." Though it was said by an Angel, while it yet was the written Word, Isaiah 9:6.
419They will love Him, love His, and will have His potentials, for He is their Head. And they are His subjects, subject to His Head. Headship of Christ was His.
420 Notice what harmony! Jesus never did anything until seen of the Father, or, the Father showed Him first. Harmony between God and Christ, see, John 5:19. So will the Bride, and He shows Her His Word of Life. He shows Her, and She receives It. She never doubts It. Nothing can harm Her, not even death. For if the Seed be planted, the water will raise It up again. (Amen. Then I got a great big "Hallelujah!") Here is the secret. The Word is in the Bride, and the mind of Christ, to know what He wants done with the Word. And She does it in His Name. She has THUS SAITH THE LORD. Then It is germitized, so the Holy Spirit waters It until It is grown and serves Its purpose.
421They do only His will. (Amen. I'll believe that.) No one can persuade them different. They have THUS SAITH THE LORD or they keep still. Then they will do the works of God, for It is Himself in them continuing His Word to fulfill, as He did complete in His days. All things, when He was here, He did not complete all when He was here, for it was not time yet.
422 Now let us stand like Joshua and Caleb. (Now watch close. This is going to have a spiritual background.) Now let us stand like Joshua and Caleb, as we see the promised Land coming in sight. It's nearing the time to be given. Joshua, in Hebrew, means Saviour, and represents the promised end-time leader to take the Church over. Caleb represents the true believer who stayed with Joshua. God started Israel as a virgin with His Word. But they wanted something different. So did the last-day church.
423 Notice how God did not move Israel until His Own appointed time. (Now listen. This is going to mean something.) Joshua waited for that time. No how matter, how much people might have said, "God gave us the land, the promise. Let us go now and take it." They might have said, "Joshua, you lost your commission. You're all washed up. Why are you not doing something? You used to do, know THUS SAITH THE LORD in a moment, and what was the will of God." But this wise, God-sent prophet knew the promise of God, but also knew to wait for that promise, a clear-cut decision from God for his time. (See these parables. Now watch.) And when the time come, God gave it to Joshua, who had stayed with Him, by the Word, for He could not trust others. He could trust him. So will it repeat.
424 Like the mighty anointed prophet, Moses, knew God would use him. For He had proved Moses to be His servant, by his peculiar birth, at the right time that it, deliverance for Abraham's seed was at time. (Are you getting it?) Moses never stayed in Egypt and argued his Scriptural points with them. He never fussed with the priests. But he went to the wilderness and waited on the Lord, until the--until the people was ready to receive him. He had come to testify of them, but they would not receive him. God called His prophet to the wilderness. God had testified He had chose him. But the waiting was not by Moses, but for the people to get ready to receive Moses. Moses thought the children would understand that he was sent. (I never wrote it; He did.) So is it now.
425 Like Elijah, after that mighty, vindicated prophet that the Word of God came to, had finished preaching His message to the modern American groups of the First Lady, with their bobbed-hairs and Jezebel-paint groups. God confirming His prophet; every time he prophesied, it was the truth. God had to call him off of the field, until He plagued that generation with mighty plagues, for rejecting the message of His prophet and the Word of God that He had sent to them. God sent him into the wilderness, in hiding, not even the king could call him out. And them that tried to persuade him against the will of God, died for doing so. (O God! Whew. Uh!) But when God spoke to His faithful prophet by a vision, out of the wilderness he come with THUS SAITH THE LORD. What did he do? Straight to the Word, back to the Word he went, brought the twelve stones and rolled them together.
426 Like John the Baptist, Christ's faithful forerunner, the anointed prophet. No school of his father, no school of Pharisee, no denomination could call him from the wilderness where God had sent him, until he heard the Voice of God. "The Messiah is at hand." (Are you listening, spiritual mind? What more could I say here. I'm skipping something here now.)
427 How different today, many so-called evangelists claim they have the answer for... from God, for the people. Just as Korah did, denying, disputing the authority of God's vindicated, anointed prophet, Moses, claiming he had the answer. This was a money-making scheme, too, a golden calf; as many do today, big building, big school, hatch-out incubators of their same seed. And then people, then as like now, fell for it. After they had heard the true Word of God, through an anointed prophet that was a vindicated, they fell for Korah's lie. God-proven prophet, and God knew... and knew God had told them. Israel knew God had told them, distinctly, that He would vindicate His prophets by His Word. Korah was not a Scriptural prophet, but it looked awful good to the people, same as it does now. Today, today it's blood on your hands, balls of fire on the platform, oil in your fingers. And the same thing produces women preachers, short hair, bobbed, make-up. What do you have? You would not think that people would fall for it, but they did for Korah. And they do the same thing now, and turn away from the true Word, for denominations. Shorts, shows what kind of a seed that's in them.
428 But, thank God, all Israel never fell for Korah. Some stayed by Moses, the anointed prophet with the Word of God. Same is it, today, with many of God's Elected, by His Word and His Spirit.
429 Remember, the tarriers, the weeds, are to be gathered and bound in bundles. (That right?) This has come to pass. This apostate organization churches is bound tighter than they ever was bound. They are bundled together in a federation of churches, ready for the fires of God's judgment. (I never wrote this. I feel that He did it.) Pentecostals are full of, so called, the same as them. The wheat-Word will be gathered some day, after They leave, for the Master's.
430 God has promised... Be careful. God has promised Malachi 4 for this last day. And Malachi 4 has not yet has been fulfilled, but it must be fulfilled, for it is a germitized Word of God spoken through Malachi the prophet. Jesus referred to it. It is to be just before the Coming of Christ, the second time. (Listen close now.) All Scripture that has not been fulfilled, must be, before that time. The Bible is to be finished, to--to be finished. The Gentile dispensation is to be finished, with the church age, when this anointed messenger arrives. Of course, he will plant the Seed of the entire Bible, plumb from the serpent to the messenger in the former rain. Then he will be rejected by the denominational people, as his forefather, John and Elijah, as was spoken by our Lord.
431 People, as Elijah was the first time, to Ahab's time, it will happen here in this country, as this country is a type of Israel. (Read or hear Jezebel Religion.) As this country, our forefathers, for worship the way they wanted to, come to this country and pushed out the natives and took over, so did Israel take over when they come up out of Egypt. We had godly men, like Washington, Lincoln. They had great, godly men, as David and so forth. Then they got an Ahab on the throne with a Jezebel behind him, to direct him. So have we.
432 So it's at this time, in this country, that that person will appear, for it's in the Scripture and it's THUS SAITH THE LORD. Then in the latter rain there will come forth a Mount Carmel, a showdown. Bible fulfilled, to the letter! John the Baptist, "His messenger before His face," in Malachi 3. Planted a former rain and was rejected by the churches, the denominations, the Pharisees and Sadducees in his day. Jesus came and had the Mount Transfiguration showdown. This forerunner, of the last days, will sow for the former rain. Jesus will be the showdown between denominations and creeds, which is His Word, when He comes, a showdown, the Rapture of His Bride. The first was Mount Carmel, the second was Mount Transfiguration, the third will be Mount Zion. (Glory!)
433 Elijah's behavior, Moses' behavior, John's behavior, leaving their field of service, many of the people didn't understand them. It was because they was rejected, and their Message. The seed had been sown. Judgment was next. And they was a sign to the people, from God, that judgment was at hand. Planting was over.
434 I believe, some day, the real Bride of Christ will be forced to stop preaching the Word of God. The Bible prophesies of it, in Revelations 13:16. (If you want to put it down.) Denominations will force It to stop, or take its mark. Then, when, the Lamb will take His Bride and judge the whore for this.
435 Remember, Moses, born for the work, had to wait on God for the extra gift for the job. He had to go back and wait, and for the time appointed by God. A certain pharaoh had to be on the throne, and the people had to be wanting the Bread of Life, before God would send him back.
436Now, with thousands of sign-workers in this last day, has created a generation of sign-seekers that knows no more nothing about the true move of God and His Word in these last days. (As I have said...) Give them blood and oil, and fleshly demonstrations on the platform, and they'll support it, whether it's God's Word or not, whether it's Scriptural or not. Jesus have warned us of such things at the end time. (As I have said...) In Matthew 24, two spirits, very close alike, "Deceive the very Elected if possible."
437 How can you tell them? Give them the Word test. How can you know it? Speak the Word, see what they say about It. If they don't believe the Word, they have no Seed-Germ in them. They are of the evil one, and deceive you. As the first bride was deceived, and the second bride was deceived, they are deceivers of the third bride, by hybreeding the Word, or trying to. God never placed signs ahead of His Word. (Amen. That's a scorcher.) God never placed signs ahead of His Word. They were added for proof of the Word, but the Word is first. To prove it, Elijah said to the woman, "Bake me a cake first," then watch the miracle happen. Come to the Word, first, and then watch the miracle. The Seed-Word, Itself, is what the Holy Spirit energizes.
438 How can a messenger sent from God just believe some of the Scriptures and not all the Word, deny part of It? The true prophet of God will proclaim the Word in the last days. Denominations will hate him. He will not pull any punches on them. He will be like he was when he come at the first coming of Christ, "You generation of vipers." But the predestinated will hear and will make ready for the countdown. The royal Seed of Abraham's faith, like him, holding to the Word of God, regardless, for he was predestinated.
439 The messenger of Malachi 4 will appear at God's appointed time. We are all looking for him. We believe he will come. That is according to His Word. It will be at the end time. Which, it is time now for to see it. He will be--he will be correctly dedicated to the Word, as they have always been indicated by God's Word and a vindicated. God will vindicate what he preaches to be the Truth, as He did Elijah, for it is Elijah coming, making ready for the Mount Zion Rapture. Jesus said, "In the last days it would be like Lot's time."
440His preaching will be with the Spirit and strength line of God's Word. Because so much has been called God's Truth, many will misunderstand this true messenger. (I've got wrote here, p-r-o-p-h-e-c-y, "Prophecy.") Because, because so much has been called God's Truth by fakers, many true ministers will misunderstand that messenger.
441 As, the end-time prophecies will repeat, I believe. As the first forerunner came from the wilderness and cried, "Behold the Lamb of God," the second forerunner will probably do the same by pointing the people to a Word-born Bride. The Bride of Christ will be pointed to the skies, at the appearing of Jesus. Screaming, "Behold the Lamb of God," will come forth from his lips. (God help us to be ready for this near event.)
I better leave it, from right here.
442 Do you believe? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Why has this been? Have you a better understanding now? ["Amen."] It's the Word, friends. This has been about six hours, right close to it, five and a half, or six hours. There is much more could be said. But surely the Holy Spirit, by this time, has--has sunk It so deep in you, that you know what I'm talking about. We are at the end time. The seeds are sowed now. The latter rain is fixing to come forth.
443 Remember, there will be such a denominational gathering pretty soon, it'll be terrific, and they will bring themselves together into this Federation of Churches. And then this kind of a church will be put out of operation, as far as they know. It's at that time, that Jesus will appear, and He will show which is Bride and which is not. And remember, Christian friends, I'm a man, I can make mistakes. But God, being God, cannot make a mistake. All the Words that's been written must be fulfilled. Jesus said so. So we got things here in the Scripture that must be fulfilled, and that is one of the things, this boycott to come.
444But before this boycott can come, of the marking of the beast, there has to be a Seed sowed, for God to take a Church out of it. You understand now? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] A Seed has to be sowed. A denominational seed, and they're to make a form or an image to the beast, the church of Rome. And there has to be a true Bride. And we understand that the so-called bride is rejected.
445 Adam's bride rejected to bring Life. She brought death. We're her product, our bodies. We all die. Look at us, you can see.
Jehovah's bride died. He divorced her.
446And took a people out of the Gentiles, for His Name. Is that right? His Name; like a woman takes a man's name, the bride. Now what's she done? The same thing they did the other time, denominated herself, polluted.
447But in every generation, every revival brings forth some prophet of God. A prophet is a preacher, true preacher on the Word, that stays with the Word, and they bring forth a revival that gathers that Elect out of that generation.
448Then she goes into seed, then God will never use it again. I ask any theologian, any historian, to tell me one time that a denomination ever rose up. She never. She died when she denominated, and there's where she laid. I think of Dwight Moody, the Moody Bible, dead as midnight.
449 I think of the Methodists, the Pentecostals, the Presbyterians, the Lutherans, the Nazarenes, the Pilgrim Holiness, godly men raised up, Buddy Robinson, and--and George Whitefield, and all those great, godly men that preached the Gospel. And that generation received the Seed that was sown for their part. Like the corn, whether it was the stalk, whether it was the leaf, whether it was the tassel, whether it was the grain; whatever it is, that minister brought the Word of that day. It called from the four winds of the earth and took the Elect of that generation. Through them Elected ones, has built the House of the living God.
450 Now, this ministry here has to hone into a place till the very same works that Jesus did, because, when He comes, the Headstone will catch right into It. Because they won't... There will be a Rapture come, and they'll be taken, and the rest of the Body will come with It, and She'll be gone into Heaven. Not a denomination, friend; a Church of the Word of God! You believe it? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]
Here is some handkerchiefs here.
451 Now I go. I go, I know not where. I am seeking, as you are, the will of God. I wish I could stay at this tabernacle; can't do it. There's thousands; I hear the cry, the unclean spirit tearing them. I can't sleep, hardly. I hear little children crying, and see mothers push their kids through the prayer line; see some mother fanning a baby; holding a sheet over it, keep the rain off of it, in the yard. My heart bleeds for them.
452 When I built this tabernacle, the day I laid the cornerstone out there, I remember that vision, that morning. Got it wrote right there in the cornerstone, said, "This is not your tabernacle." Said, "Do the work of an evangelist. Make full proof of your ministry." [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] I love it. I love God's children everywhere. I don't know where He's going to lead me. I don't know. I'm waiting. I been waiting for a year. I may wait for two years, I may wait for three. I don't know. I don't know the next move. I'm waiting for it. But I think, according to the Scripture, the Word has been sowed. The next thing is the coming forth of the Spirit.
453 Billy Graham may preach everywhere. Oral Roberts, them godly men, may preach everywhere. The Lord may send me to sow Seed somewhere else, some field. But I believe our nation is sowed down. I believe she's ready for the harvest now.
454When the Spirit falls, and there becomes a move amongst the people, them denominationals will swing together just as certain as I'm standing in the pulpit, and the Church of God will be ousted. And they'll make it such a racket, until they'll confederate it, and put a boycott on anybody that don't belong to them.
455Rome will rule the world for just an hour. She'll rule for a little piece. Not communism. Romanism will rule the world, with the cooperation of Protestantism, in a denominational form of church which God has rejected. That's as close as I know the Word of God.
456 I love you. I appreciate you. Maybe I'll be back about Sunday, a week. I'm going down, Florida now, the Lord willing; down in Georgia, for tomorrow night. I got a few little meetings scattered around, if the Lord leads. I got a book full of them, that Brother Roberson... or Borders sent me, the other day. I guess there's, well, there's places where there's thirty and forty churches are willing to cooperate, but the Spirit seems to hold me. I don't know why. I don't know why. So you pray for me, I'll pray for you, that together may we stand. May God help us. May there not be a one of you here that'll ever fail and will miss that great time coming.
457 Now, I been accused of a lot of things, friends. And a lot of things I'm guilty of. I'm neglectful; that's true. I don't know why it is, somebody has to push me in the corner, make me fight. I don't know. That's a nature. I done things that I should not have done, not willfully, but I--I plundered at it. And that's what's make me so afraid, in seeing in this day, the day that we're living at, and you see now what I believe. I want to hear from God, if all possible, before I make a move, see, 'cause I don't want to fail Him. I want to be with Him, everywhere. And I want you to pray for me.
458 And, remember, I've told you the Truth. And I thank you for setting here all this day, since early this morning. Many of you is standing around the walls, in the halls, yet, feet and legs cramping. Setting out in the cars, your batteries run down, almost, from listening. And here it is, it's all on tape. The boys has taped it back there. You'll be able to get it. And if you do get it, take it home and study it real closely, wisely, and see what the Lord will reveal to you.
459Do you love Him? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Where is Teddy? [Someone says, "Right here."] Just before we pray for these handkerchiefs and the people, I want to pray for each one of you. I want to sing this song now. And then Brother Neville will make his announcements for the other service.
I love Him, I love...
You love His Word? Then you love Him.
Because He first loved me
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary's tree.
460 [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... giving Him reverence. And been here now for the hours of preaching now, explain, doing the best I know how, for my fellow man, trying to get them to understand the things that I have said, and why I have done these things. I bring to You now, Lord, this people, this people visible and the people that will hear the tapes hereafter. [Blank.spot.on.tape.] May God Himself give the Divine interpretation. And I'm sure, Lord, if I brought the Word, It'll fall on them that It's predestinated to fall on. Thy Word is Truth.
461Father, I'm sorry that I failed You, many times. I pray You'd forgive me. I pray You forgive my audience, visible and invisible, of all their sins. That, Lord God, we realize that we're at the end of the road. Every sign is right here before us. I'm sure the spiritual mind, Lord, catches what I've just said a few minutes ago. I pray that they'll understand, Lord. And what we're... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... where we're at. We're near His Coming. We can hear the breaker. They are close.
462 Help us, Lord. Help us. I pray for every person sitting here. I pray for these handkerchiefs, and brethren listening to tape. Help me, Lord, to pray a prayer of faith, for all.
463Now, to those that are openhearted to God's Word, by faith, I plant this Seed. I plant It in the Name of Jesus Christ, in faith in God. But, Lord God, I commit them to You now. Water It. Send the Spirit upon It, Lord, that germitized Word there; that You're the same great God, to heal; same great God, to save; the same great God, in resurrection. You're God. May It produce a crop, a Bride for our Lord Jesus, a sanctified womb of the heart, to receive the Word. Grant it, Lord. I command them to You, to pick from here, Lord, (if possible, every one), Your Bride, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
I love Him,...
... salvation
On Calvary's tree.
All together now, with your hands up.
I love Him, I love Him
Because He first loved me
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary's tree.
464 Now, after the Word has had six hours of exhortation, I command you to the first step. "Repent," and look up, "and be baptized," in a few minutes, "in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sin, and God promised to give you the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you and your children, and to them that's far off." It's to the Methodists, Baptists, Catholic, Presbyterians. "And whosoever will receive the Word, let him come." You believe it? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]
465I give you now the pastor, for baptismal service. He'll make ready now, for we make ready for baptism. Brother Neville.
Now be seated just a moment.
466Our Brother Neville, now, our pastor, will tell you about the order of the service right now, just in a minute. God bless you, till I see you.