Otázky a odpovede, časť 3

 

 

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OTÁZKY A ODPOVEDE, ČASŤ 3 (QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS #3), 64-0830M, Branham Tabernacle, Branham Tabernacle, Jeffersonville, IN, 189 min

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1        Skloňme naše hlavy. Pane Ježišu, sme Ti dnes ráno vďační za príležitosť prísť do Tvojej prítomnosti v tomto čase obecenstva a sedieť tu v ponebeských miestach v Kristu Ježišovi. No, Pane, modlíme sa, aby si bol aj naďalej s nami, keď o Tebe budeme hovoriť. Nech sú naše srdcia plné radosti, keď sa dívame na Tvoje Slovo a Tvoje zasľúbenia, ktoré sú pre nás.

 Žehnaj nášho pastora, nášho spolupracovníka, všetkých bratov a sestry, ktorí sem prichádzajú stretnúť sa s nami a zhromaždiť sa tu na tomto malom mieste, ktoré sme ustanovili ako miesto zhromaždenia pre Teba. A modlíme sa, aby si nás žehnal vo všetkom, čo robíme cez deň. Prosíme o to v Ježišovom Mene. Amen. Môžete si sadnúť.

 [Brat Branham sa rozpráva s niekým na pódiu. – pozn.prekl.] Mám tvoju knihu.

2        Toto je pre mňa tak trochu takou malou úľavou. Mal som tu vzadu zhromaždenia, rozhovory; mal som mať buď rozhovory alebo ísť odpovedať na otázky. Takmer všetko, čo dnes ráno prišlo, boli videnia, a tak trochu som musel... Povedal som Billymu, že ak by brat Neville nebol veľmi zaneprázdnený, zobral by som túto kopu otázok a pribehol by som sem, trocha by som si uvoľnil myseľ. To je – trochu ma to unavuje, trochu... Tie videnia sú... Ale ľuďom bolo pomožené; to je tá hlavná vec. Tá hlavná vec je, že im bolo pomožené; to je tá dobrá časť. A tak, potom dnes popoludní si ich vezmem trocha skôr, aby som tak dnes popoludní mohol začať s mojím špeciálnym programom, s rozhovormi.

3        No, sme dnes ráno šťastní, že vidíme našich priateľov a... No, toto... Nemajte to Billymu za zlé. A tak potom... On mal oznámiť ľuďom, ak by som pokračoval v odpovedaní na tieto otázky. Myslel som, že by mi to tu mohlo zabrať tak asi hodinu alebo niečo na odpovedanie na tieto otázky. Niektorí z mojich... Nerád odchádzam; som rád, keď mám čistý štít. Rozumiete? Potom tieto otázky, a tak ďalej, bol by som rád, keby som mohol povedať, že to mám za sebou. Mám toho v mysli tak mnoho; spôsobuje to, že som nervózny. A nechcem byť ohľadom ničoho nervózny; v jednom z týchto dní odchádzam domov do Slávy. Ha.

4        Pred pár dňami mi jeden môj starý priateľ povedal, „Začínam byť tak unavený zo života v tomto 'kufri'.“

 Povedal som, „Drahý brat, chcem sa ťa niečo opýtať; chcem ti niečo povedať. Cnie sa mi po domove. Cnie sa mi po domove dobrých dvadsať rokov a nemám žiaden domov, kam by som išiel.“ Rozumiete? Je to pravda. Je to hrozná vec niečo takéto povedať. Mohol by som si sadnúť a plakať, že by som chcel ísť niekam domov. Nemám žiaden domov, kam by som išiel. Všade, kam idem, môžem tam zostať len zopár dní; potom som pripravený ísť niekam inam. Ja jednoducho – bol som taký; narodil som sa taký. Moja manželka ma nazýva 'Nepokojné Vetry.' Som jednoducho tu i tam. A to je hrozný stav, byť na tom takto, ale myslím, že taký musím byť kvôli mojej službe. Ale mnohí z vás obdivujú... No, obdivujeme, keď niekto robí niečo pre Boha, ale nikdy ste...

5        No, dnes ráno sme tu len skupina domácich. Vidíte? Ale cnie sa mi po domove. Chcem ísť domov a neviem, kam mám ísť. Poviete, „Čo keby si išiel do Arizony, je tam tvoja rodina.“ Je mi dobre tak dva alebo tri dni a potom musím ísť niekam inam. A idem tam, a potom je mi tam dobre tak dva alebo tri dni a potom musím ísť niekam inam. Takže nemám tu žiaden domov, do ktorého by som išiel, a cnie sa mi po domove.

6        No, existuje Domov. Jedného dňa tam pôjdem, ale najprv vám musím pomôcť. Vidíte? To je to, kvôli čomu tu som, aby som vám pomohol. A kým nepríde ten čas, kým vám už viac nebudem môcť pomáhať, potom chcem ísť Domov. Potom naozaj veľmi chcem ísť Domov. Ale niekde je miesto, ktoré sa mi bude tak veľmi páčiť, že sa už nebudem chcieť vrátiť naspäť.

7        Keď opustím Jeffersonville; som preč niekoľko týždňov; chcem sa vrátiť znova späť. Keď idem do Arizony; myslím si, že to je nádherné; chcem sa znova vrátiť späť. A keď idem niekam inam; chcem sa znova vrátiť späť. Idem sem, idem tam, a potom premýšľam, že chcem prísť zase sem. Prídem sem; som tu len pár dní a všetkých vás vidím; potom chcem ísť zase niekam inam. Vidíte? Mám deti roztrúsené po celom svete a ja – tých, ktorých som splodil pre Krista. A ja... Potom nemám žiaden domov. Chcem ich v jednom z týchto dní všetkých zhromaždiť spolu (Rozumiete?) – Otec to urobí a potom budeme mať Domov, kde už nebudeme musieť viac chodiť sem a tam. Rozumiete? Som unavený z toho potulovania sa bez žiadneho miesta zastavenia.

8        A komukoľvek by som poradil, nikdy nebuďte kotúľajúcim sa kameňom (Rozumiete?), pokiaľ to nie je nejaký druh služby, ktorý vás do toho povoláva, pretože... Dnes ráno by som dal čokoľvek, ak by som tu na zemi mal miesto, kam by som mohol ísť a povedať, „Toto je domov.“ Ja by som... Ak by som to mal, dal by som za to milión dolárov. Ak by som mal miesto, o ktorom by som mohol povedať, „Chlapče, tak veľmi to milujem; nechcem to viac opustiť,“ dal by som čokoľvek. Ale ja to neviem nájsť.

9        Som niečím takým, ako bol Abrahám; hľadám mesto. Vidíte? Neviem ho nájsť, ale viem, že tam je. Ale istotne si neviem zvyknúť na nejaké určité miesto na tejto zemi. Jednoducho to nevyzerá... Milí ľudia, pekné miesta, a keď idete sem, je tu príliš teplo; keď idete tamto, tam je príliš sucho; ak idete sem hore, tam je príliš zima; ak idete tam dole, tam je zasa príliš teplo. Vidíte? A vy... Nie je žiadne miesto; jednoducho to nie je domov. Nechcem míňať svoj čas vyplakávaním na vašom ramene, ale ja...

 No, sme vďační Pánovi. Amen. Buďte vďační za všetky veci. Som taký, pretože som taký. Boh ma učinil tým, čím som. A nemôžem byť ničím iným než tým, čím ma On utvoril, melancholický, a takéto veci. Hovoria mi, že taký musím byť, aby som mohol byť pomocou, pre ktorú ma sem On poslal. A chcem byť takým druhom osoby. Ak to je spôsob, akým mám byť, tak potom chcem takým byť. Čokoľvek, čo je Kráľovstvo Božej vôle, alebo Božia vôľa, to je to, čím chcem byť.

10        No, znova sa pomodlime. Pane Ježišu, ležia pred nami tieto otázky, Otče. Nedokážem ich zodpovedať, Pane. Som na tieto otázky nedostatočný, ale viem, že Ty si plne dostatočný, pretože to leží na ľudských srdciach. Použi ma, Pane, aby sa uvoľnili ich tlaky – či to urobíš, Otče? Prosím o to v Mene Ježiša Krista. Amen.

11        No, začneme s... Predpokladám, že toto nenahrávajú, takže to je len... Predpokladám, že je to v poriadku.

 No, jedna vec, ktorá... Ten dôvod, prečo sa trápim ohľadom tých otázok, vždy tam je jedna akútna vec, ktorá ma trápi: to je odpovedanie otázky ohľadom manželstva a rozvodu. Ó, tie telefónne hovory, listy, a jeden brat sa zabalil do deky a sedel na mojej verande od 12-tej až do svitania nasledujúceho rána. Odvšadiaľ mi volajú kazatelia, dva alebo trikrát ženatí, a tak ďalej – kazatelia. Chcem sa vás opýtať na jednu vec. Stále ich tu mám niekoľko, o ktorých viem. Neprezeral som si ich, ale viem, že stále ich tu niekoľko zostalo.

12        Zapamätajte si toto. Vy, ľudia, ktorí ste zosobášení a rozvedení a znova zosobášení, sľúbte mi túto jednu vec. Rozumiete? Vložili ste do mňa svoju dôveru. (Predpokladám, že toto sa nenahráva. Ja ne...) Veríte mi ako svojmu prorokovi poslanému od Boha, vášmu služobníkovi; potom prijmite moje slovo ohľadom tejto veci, urobíte to? Choďte a pokračujte vo svojom žití tak, ako ste. Nesnažte sa o nič iné, ale žite, len pokračujte, len žite šťastne. Máte... Ste spasení. Ak ste kresťania, pokračujte v žití pre Krista; On mal dôvod, prečo vás spasil.

13        No, keď sa vrátim, ak Pán dá, vysvetlím vám to pomocou Biblie. Rozumiete? A nebuďte rozrušení. Mnohí muži mi hovorili... povedali, „No, milujem svoju manželku, ale budem ju musieť opustiť; nechcem minúť vytrhnutie.“ Nerobte to. Zostaňte tak, ako ste, až kým ma znova nebudete počuť ohľadom tejto témy. Rozumiete? Potom, keď som... Nedokážem to objasniť v priebehu desiatich alebo pätnástich minút; to vysvetlenie tej veci zaberie nejaký čas, pretože to musí byť Písmo. Musí to byť TAK HOVORÍ PÁN. Ak to tak nie je, potom to nie je správne.

14        Poznám tieto otázky, o ktorých tu hovoril Ježiš, „Ak muž prepúšťa svoju manželku a vezme si inú, okrem príčiny smilstva, pácha cudzoložstvo; ktokoľvek by si vzal za ženu prepustenú, žije v cudzoložstve“... Tieto veci, On mal dôvod na to, aby to povedal. On bol Boh; to je Jeho Slovo.

15        No, poďme naspäť na počiatok a zistime, čo to všetko znamená (Rozumiete?), potom to prinesieme. Ale pokiaľ to neurobíme, len pokračujte rovno tak, ako ste na tom teraz, tak, ako ste to vždy robili, ak ste kresťania. Ak ste kresťanský pár a ste zosobášení a máte deti a takéto veci, nejaké malé zväzky, ktoré vás zväzujú, neopúšťaj teraz svoju manželku alebo svojho manžela. Nerobte to. Rozumiete? Čakajte, kým ma znova budete počuť hovoriť na tú tému. Sľúbite mi to? Zodvihnite ruku. No, dôverujete mi, a preto mi veríte. No, ak ste mi verili až takto ďaleko; no, verte mi ohľadom tejto témy ešte trocha ďalej.

 No, pozrime sa, mám tu dnes ráno niektoré veľmi dobré – niektoré... 

        325. Či všetci, ktorí idú do Nevesty, musia žiť v oblasti 1500 míľ okolo modlitebne (Myslím, že som to už mal minulú nedeľu. Budem ich musieť vziať a použiť ich, ako budem môcť.) – 1500 míľ okolo modlitebne, ako to vyznieva z druhej časti pásky “Budúci Domov Nevesty“? Vždy som si myslel, že Nevesta v čase vytrhnutia príde zo všetkých častí sveta. Mýlim sa?

16        Nie, môj drahý priateľu, nemýliš sa; máš pravdu. No, ak som povedal niečo na páske, čo by ťa viedlo do toho, aby si veril...

 No, nemám... Tieto všetky sú pre mňa teraz nové, do týchto som sa vôbec nedíval. Rozumiete? Toto je nová kôpka, ktorú som dostal minulú nedeľu, a vložil som ich naspäť do obálky a odložil som ich tam dozadu.

17        No, v tomto... Nie, Nevesta nemusí byť na žiadnom určitom mieste. Mnohí z nich budú v prachu zeme. Budú po celej zemi; budú zamrznutí v snehu na severe a v prachu tropických džunglí a všade po celom svete. Ale keď zaznie trúba Božia, mŕtvi v Kristu vstanú, zobudia sa a vyjdú von z prachu zeme, nezáleží na tom, kde sú. A teraz, pri tomto, to vzkriesenie bude univerzálne. Rozumiete? Každé stvorenie, kdekoľvek na zemskej guli, ktoré je v Kristovi, povstane s Ním, keď On príde (Rozumiete?), nezáleží na tom, kde ste.

18        Len pomyslite na tú arénu vo dňoch dávnych mučeníkov, vtedy, keď boli tí kresťania hádzaní do jamy s levmi a tie levy tých kresťanov zabili a zožrali ich telá. Vidíte? Jednako ich telá boli roztrúsené v odpade toho leva po tvári zeme. Nezáleží na tom, kde to je, nemôžete... Vidíte? Ste utvorení z určitej neviditeľnej hmoty, ktorá sa zhmotnila, a Boh tú hmotu privedie naspäť. Rozumiete?

19        No, to je tak, ako keď si vezmete bunku. Rozdelíte to od bunky, a potom to prichádza ku bunke, ktorá je v tej bunke, a potom do atómu, a do molekuly, a takto to ide ďalej; a nakoniec to končí v tom neviditeľnom. Ide to od prirodzeného, od niečoho, čoho sa môžete dotknúť, až do plynov; od plynov do kyselín – od kyselín do plynov – a plyny, takto ďalej, až sa to nakoniec zakončí v jednej veci a to je duch. A tento duch, ktorý obýval tieto plyny... Nemusia to byť tie isté plyny, ale črty toho, kým si, budú znova presne také, aké sú. Vidíte? Duch to mal pod kontrolou.

20        A teraz, inými slovami, keď sa stávate mladým mužom alebo mladou ženou, a takto, Boh si robí váš obrázok... No, nezáleží na tom, akí ste starí a zvráskavení, akí znetvorení, čokoľvek to bude, to sa rozvinie znova naspäť. A to telo môže byť zničené, znetvorené, spálené, zožraté levmi, alebo čokoľvek, ale ono bolo utvorené z plynov, zo šestnástich zemských elementov. To bol vápnik a draslík, ropa a kozmické svetlo, a tak ďalej, všetko to ide spolu, aby to utvorilo telo. No, nezáleží na tom, to je – je tým naplnená celá zem.

21        Ale teraz, tento obrázok je tou hlavnou vecou. Potom pri vzkriesení, tie plyny, kyseliny, a tie ostatné veci, prichádzajú rovno naspäť na miesto a znova vytvárajú ten obraz. No, tento obrázok nebol zachytený, keď ste mali šestnásť alebo osemnásť, alebo dvadsať rokov a boli ste na tom najlepšie. Kedy to bolo zachytené? Pred založením sveta to bolo dané do Božieho veľkého záznamu. A potom, to jediné, čo sa stalo, bolo to, že sa to pre vás prejavilo tu na zemi, aby ste mohli urobiť svoju voľbu. Rozumiete? Potom sa stávaš služobníkom Božím. On to predvedel, to z Neho robí Vykupiteľa, ako sme cez to už prešli.

22        Potom ten obrázok je absolútne... Toto je negatív. To, kde teraz žijete, to je tá negatívna časť. A čokoľvek, ak je niekde negatív, musí najprv existovať pozitív, aby mohol existovať nejaký negatív. A tak, ak toto je negatív, niekde musí byť pozitív. A toto nie je tou skutočnou vecou; toto je len určitý predobraz tej skutočnej veci, ktorá má prísť. Teraz ste to pochopili?

23        A tak sa nestarám o to, čo by s vami mohli urobiť; nemôžu zničiť ten portrét, ten obraz, ktorý je tam vo veľkej Božej galérii. To nemôže byť zničené; to je v nebi. Mohli by ste to spáliť, dať to zožrať levom, urobiť tomu čokoľvek chcete; ono to znova vyjde vpred s takou istotou, ako že dva plus dva sú štyri. Práve s takou istotou, ako to Boh vypovedal, ono to vyjde vpred. Takže nezáleží, kde ste...

24        No, ak ja... Myslím, že ak si prehráte pásku... (Neviem, kto to napísal; nebolo tam napísané meno, je to len malý kúsok papiera s modrým atramentom, je to napísané na papieri z malého diára. Vyzerá to, ako keby to bolo vytrhnuté z malého zápisníka.) Ale teraz pamätajte, pri tejto otázke, tam na páske, ak si to všimnete, povedal som toto, niečo o tomto (Teraz to nemusí byť slovo za slovom, ak si porovnáte túto pásku s tou druhou): Povedal som, „Napríklad, sme tu dnes ráno. Toto mesto, ktoré túžime vidieť, bude o rozlohe 1500 štvorcových míľ.“ Povedal som, „To by siahalo od Maine až po Floridu, a od východného pobrežia 800 míľ na západ od rieky Mississippi – 1500 štvorcových míľ.“ Povedal som, „Pomyslite na to, dnes ráno tu sedia ľudia, ktorí v skutočnosti prišli z takej vzdialenosti, z 1500 štvorcových míľ – sedia rovno tu.“ No, neviem, kde bude na zemi stáť ten chrám, ale mám takú myšlienku, že ten chrám bude stáť rovno niekde tam, kde je dnešná Palestína. Pravdepodobne rovno tam bude vrchol tej hory. Bude sa to tam týčiť. Samozrejme, potom už nebude viac mora. Vidíte? Tento svet má obvod 25 000 míľ, a tak 1500 míľ nie je z toho veľmi veľká časť. Ale toto veľké mesto bude stáť na tomto vrchu o pôdoryse 1500 štvorcových míľ.

25        No, ten dôvod, prečo tomu verím, je to kvôli proroctvám a veciam, ktoré sa týkajú vrchu Sion v Jeruzaleme a tých mestách. A to je to, kde prorok Abrahám hľadal to mesto, ktorého Staviteľom a Tvorcom je Boh. On to mesto hľadal v tej krajine. Verím, že to bude tam v tej krajine.

26        Tá krajina, sotva ju dokážete nájsť na mape. Je to maličká bodka. A pozrite na takú krajinu, ako je Rusko a Spojené Štáty, Južná Amerika, a všetky tie miesta tam... Prečo bol Boh taký zaujatý tým miestom (Vidíte?), tým jedným miestom? To je otázka. Nemôžem to dokázať, ale pre mňa to jednoducho tak vyzerá. Ale kdekoľvek to je, sme nasmerovaní tým smerom, tak chvála Pánovi za to.

27        No, ak ste nadobudli dojem, že som povedal, že to bude okolo 1500 míľ okolo modlitebne, potom to bol nesprávny dojem (Vidíte?), pretože to tak nebolo. Táto modlitebňa má... Toto je len malé miesto, ktoré bude zničené. A svet bude spálený a s týmto všetkým bude koniec. A táto Indiana a Spojené Štáty a všetko sa jednoducho roztopí a roztečie ako vosk a nezostane z toho nič než láva. Vidíte? Všetok hriech, všetka choroba, všetky zárodky, úplne všetko bude zničené. „A videl som nové nebesia a novú zem, lebo prvá zem...“

28        Premýšľajte. Boh staval tento svet 6000 rokov, dával ho dokopy, formoval ho. Ako to urobil? Biblia povedala, „Učinil ho z vecí, ktoré sa nevidia;“ to znamená, že On stvoril zem. No, všimnite si, toto je nádherné. Práve ten Stvoriteľ, ktorý stvoril zem za určitým účelom (satan ju zanečistil), On prichádza dole, aby vykúpil to, čo tu zostalo. A On odišiel niekam inam a naďalej je vo Svojej stvoriteľskej práci.

29        No, zabralo Mu to 6000 rokov, aby vytvoril zem, a zaberie Mu to dva dni, aby stvoril mesto, ktoré príde na zem. On je... „V dome Môjho Otca je mnoho príbytkov: ak by to tak nebolo, povedal by som vám to. Idem, aby som pre vás pripravil miesto (postavil mesto z priehľadného zlata, ulice zo zlata).“ Čo za nádherné miesto.

 Kde to On zoženie? Je tam dosť materiálov na iných zemiach alebo mesiacoch a hviezdach a takých veciach? On to nemusí robiť. On je Stvoriteľ. On odišiel, aby postavil mesto. Amen. To je pre mňa dostatočne dobré, pre vás nie? Je to dobré. Pretože, ak On postavil toto a ja sa z tohto radujem, čo to potom bude, keď On postaví toto nové? Ó, čo za nádherná vec. A tak som šťastný, že smerujem do toho mesta. V poriadku. 

 326. Brat Branham, milujem Pána, ale za posledný rok som čelila určitému problému. Niekedy sa zdá, že som takmer pomimo svojej mysle. Čo to je? Prosím, modli sa za mňa a môjho manžela.

30        No, ak tu nie je žiadne... Ak by táto osoba bola na osobnom rozhovore, ako niektorí z vás, ktorí ste tam boli dnes ráno, tam by sa ukázalo presne, čo to je, čokoľvek to je. Rozumiete? Pán by zjavil, o čo ide. Ale teraz, keďže neviem, kto si, a nesedíš tu; je tam len povedané 'sestra v Kristovi'...

31        No, ak sa to týka niečoho takého, že si urobila nejakú zlú vec, ktorá ťa trápila, potom to skontroluj s Bibliou a uvidíš, čo musíš robiť. Ale ak si nič neurobila a nie si z ničoho obviňovaná, pravdepodobne ide o tvoje nervy. Rozumiete? Môže to byť viacero vecí, ktoré sa stali: možno nejaký problém v tvojej minulosti. Možno, že tu táto žena môže byť v období prechodu. Vtedy je s ňou všetko zle, a pritom s ňou nie je nič zle, a jednako je s ňou všetko zle. A ona to nepredstiera; naozaj sa tak cíti; je to ako skutočné. Ktokoľvek, kto je nervózny, je na tom takisto. A nikdy nesúhlasí.

32        A vy, manželia, čo sa týka vašich manželiek, ak sú v tom období života, ak ste ich niekedy – ak niekedy bola tvojím miláčikom, nech je ním práve vtedy, pretože ona ťa potrebuje. Naozaj potrebuje tvoju pomoc; potrebuje niekoho, kto jej pomôže a porozumie ju. Rozprávaj sa s ňou, vezmi ju do náručia, ako keď bola tvojím zlatíčkom, a ona by tým mala byť. A porozumej ju, pretože ona prechádza cez obdobie, keď sa mení celé jej ustrojenie, a vtedy k nej musíš byť dobrý.

33        Myslím, že tam pán Rockefeller urobil fatálnu chybu. Národ ho miloval, pravdepodobne by bol naším ďalším prezidentom. Ale keď jeho manželka prišla k obdobiu prechodu a vošla do toho obdobia prechodu, a on ju opustil a oženil sa so svojou sekretárkou, vidíte, čo sa stalo? To ukazuje, že ešte stále existujú nejakí skutoční, rozumne zmýšľajúci Američania.

 No, mám rád pána Goldwatera alebo pána [Brat Branham luskne prstami – pozn.prekl.] Rockefellera. On je... Mám rád aj pána Goldwatera; mám rád každého. Ale nechcem... Niektorí z vás – niektorí z mojich bratov republikánov, ktorí tam sedia, počuli ma to povedať, ja...

34        Pozrite, ale ja nie som politik; chcem byť kresťanom. Rozumiete? A toto nie je miesto na politiku. Rozumiete? Aj tak je už s celou tou vecou koniec, čo sa toho týka; ale toto, o čom tu hovoríme, to je večné. Demokrat alebo republikán... Ó, to je taký neporiadok; nikdy to nemôže byť vykúpené. Je s tým koniec, tak sa ohľadom toho nehádajte. To, o čo ide, je žiť pre toto Kráľovstvo. „Lebo tu nemáme žiadneho zostávajúceho mesta, ale hľadáme to, ktoré má prísť.“ Amen. To je pravda. Tak veru.

35        A tak, politika sa nachádza na jednej strane plotu a ja som na tej druhej. Povedal som, „Volil som raz; to bolo pre Krista; som si istý, že vyhrám.“ Je to tak. Vidíte? Dostaneš hlas. Rozumiete? Boh hlasoval za teba, satan hlasoval proti tebe. No, tým smerom, ktorým pošleš svoj hlas, to je to, kam pôjdeš.

36        No, teraz, verím, že táto osoba je len... Budem si myslieť, že to je len nervozita. Ak tam nie je nič, čo by ťa obviňovalo, tak pokračuj vpred a len povedz, „Choď odo mňa preč, satan!“ Len pokračuj ďalej vpred. Vezmi iniciatívu a ži pre Boha.       

        327. No. Existuje nejaká okolnosť keď je dovolené, aby sa niekto znova zosobášil po rozvode, podľa (No, budem vidieť, či to je... Myslím, že sú tam dve alebo tri otázky na túto tému.) podľa Písem? Ak nezostávam v manželstve z minulej doby – existujú nejaké dôvody pre rozvod, kde by bolo dovolené sa znova oženiť? Kúpim si pásku (Áno.), aby som dostal túto odpoveď. Veľmi pekne ti ďakujem. Budem na to očakávať v nedeľu.

37        No, teraz, o tomto som hovoril, vidíte. Ne... Dovoľte mi, nech to nechám tak (Rozumiete?), až kým sa nedostaneme do miesta, kde teraz – kde to bude všetko objasnené. A teraz, len pamätajte, to bude vtedy, ak Boh dá, ako náhle sa znova vrátim späť. Ten ďalší krát, keď prídem, ak Pán dá, budem kázať na tú tému. Rozumiete? A teraz... A potom, každopádne to nahráme na pásku. A ak to raní, tak to raní; ak to vyjasní tú vec, tak to vyjasní tú vec. Ale buďte dobrej mysle. Rozumiete?       

 328. Drahý brat Branham, je možné, aby niekto mal krst Duchom Svätým a nemal by znamenia, ktoré by nasledovali, teda aspoň nie do nejakého budúceho času a podmienok určených Duchom?

38        No, táto otázka môže znieť trocha zmätene, ale je dobrá, veľmi dobrá. Vidíte? No, tu dostávam malú šancu, keďže zisťujem, že to teraz pôsobí tu na moju rodinu (Rozumiete?), mám na mysli vás, moju rodinu, a rodinu, ktorá je po svete, kde idú tieto pásky.

39        No, veľká časť môjho zhromaždenia je tvorená letničnými ľuďmi a je to kvôli tomu, že letniční sú posledným posolstvom, ktoré máme v denominačných radoch. A čo sa týka mňa, iste s nimi súhlasím viac než s akoukoľvek inou denominačnou cirkvou. Som naklonený k letničným, pretože to je to posledné posolstvo. A všetci moji obrátení, ktorých privádzam ku Kristovi, snažím sa ich nasmerovať do nejakého letničného zboru. Ale odsúdil som ich každým spôsobom, ktorým som vedel, že sa zmýlili v Písme, čo sa týka toho, že sú denomináciou a nie sú ochotní kráčať vo Svetle, keď im je to Svetlo predstavené. Ale jednako, ak by som si dnes mal vybrať nejakú cirkev na svete, vybral by som si letničných, čo sa týka denominácie. Ale keď to prichádza ku jednotlivcom, ako muži a ženy, vo všetkých tých denomináciách sú skutoční kresťania: metodisti, baptisti, presbyteriáni, luteráni, a tak ďalej. Ale hovorím o tých systémoch, v ktorých sa tí ľudia nachádzajú; nikdy nie jednotlivec, ale systém, do ktorého títo ľudia zostali chytení vo svojej denominácii. Teraz to jasne porozumejte (Vidíte?), že si myslím, že ľudia... Či to je rímsky katolík, svedok Jehovov, ortodoxný žid, čímkoľvek sú, mne to je jedno; ale oni sú jednotlivci, za ktorých Kristus zomrel, aby ich spasil.

40        A teraz, ja... A čo sa týka súhlasu s ich systémami, v ktorých sú... Verím, že tam u baptistov je práve toľko kresťanov, ako je u metodistov alebo u presbyteriánov alebo kdekoľvek. Sú to kresťania, skutoční veriaci. A rovno v rímskokatolíckej cirkvi sú skutoční ľudia, ktorí sú ozajstnými mužmi a ženami, ktorí milujú Pána. A oni sa k tej cirkvi nepripájajú kvôli tomu, aby boli zlí; oni sa tam pripájajú, aby boli v poriadku. Ale to je tam ten systém, ktorý smeruje ich myseľ nesprávnym smerom. A ak by sa niekedy stalo, že by som vytvoril denomináciu, potom som vás zviedol a priviedol do systému; nech je to ďaleko odo mňa. A nech ma Boh zachová v správnej mysli, aby som vás smeroval ku Ježišovi Kristovi, ku Slovu. Zostaňte s Tým. Rozumiete?

41        Ale teraz, táto osoba sa tu pýta otázku ohľadom toho, či je možné, aby mal niekto krst Duchom Svätým bez toho, aby ich nasledovali znamenia. No, to by bolo... Ak si znovuzrodený, potom si – ak si najprv narodený ako ľudská bytosť a si normálnou ľudskou bytosťou... No, odpovedám na to naozaj detským spôsobom. Ale ak si sa narodil ako normálna ľudská bytosť, budeš skutočne robiť veci, ktoré robí normálna ľudská bytosť. Je to tak?

42        Keď sa narodíš ako človek, budú ťa nasledovať prirodzené ľudské vlastnosti. Nebudeš žiť na strome a snažiť sa lietať s krídlami ako vták alebo niečo také. To by nebola normálna ľudská bytosť, prirodzené konanie ľudskej bytosti. Normálne konanie ľudskej bytosti by bolo pracovať, zosobášiť sa, mať rodinu a robiť tieto veci. To sú prirodzené normálne ľudské bytosti, pretože ste sa tak narodili. Potom, keď sa narodíš ako kresťan, narodený z Ducha Božieho, potom prirodzene prijímaš atribúty Krista. Rozumiete?

43        No, ak by sme si to vzali dnes ráno pri tomto zhromaždení, pri vás ľuďoch, ktorí tu sedíte a počúvate deň za dňom to učenie, a tak ďalej, zistili by ste, že sa jeden od druhého líšite, pretože ste odlišní. Ste odlišne utvorení; váš apetít je odlišný; jete odlišne; ale všetci z vás jedia jedlo. Ale teraz, len z... Jedna osobitná bytosť práve taká ako druhá, a navzájom sa od seba líšite. Pri kresťanoch je to takisto. Nemôžete povedať, „No, všetci...“ Všetci hovoria v jazykoch, všetci prorokujú, všetci robia... Vidíte?

44        Musíte si na tieto veci dávať pozor, pretože kresťan prijíma zvyky kresťana; a žijú ako kresťania. Ježiš povedal, „Tieto znamenia budú nasledovať tých, ktorí veria.“ Všimnite si: „V Mojom Mene budú vyháňať diablov; hadov budú brať alebo vypijú niečo smrtonosné; a budú hovoriť novými jazykmi.“ A tie veci jednoducho skutočne nasledujú kresťanov.

45        No, tá osoba tu napísala veľmi dobrú vec: „...alebo čakáme do nejakého budúceho času alebo podmienok určených Duchom Svätým?“ To sa mi páči. Vidíte? No, pochopili ste to? Keď to je určené Duchom Svätým... Boh určuje veci.

 A pri tomto, myslím, že ak by sa letniční ľudia snažili (ktorí počúvajú túto pásku), tak ma porozumiete, ak sa dostanete až sem, že prečo sa s vami nezhodujem ohľadom pretláčania tej myšlienky, že všetci musia hovoriť v jazykoch. Nemôžem vidieť, žeby to bolo správne, pretože to by bolo... Mám rád čerešňový koláč, ale nie je potrebné... A som ľudská bytosť. Ale nie je potrebné, aby som vám hovoril, „Ak nejedávaš čerešňový koláč, nie si ľudská bytosť.“ Vidíte? Ale jedenie čerešňového koláča je len jedným zo zvykov ľudskej bytosti. Rozumiete? Môžete so mnou ohľadom toho nesúhlasiť, ale je to pravda. No, jeden bude jesť toto a druhý bude jesť niečo iné.

46        No, Duch Svätý ustanovuje tieto úrady, ale keď sa snažíte donútiť sa do toho... Ak by som povedal, že musíte jesť čerešňový koláč, čo ak by vám čerešňový koláč spôsoboval vracanie? A jednako, vy by ste vracali a jednako by ste sa snažili jesť ten čerešňový koláč a vracali by ste a …?... Vidíte? Ubližujete si, a to je to, čo sa snažíte robiť, keď sa snažíte donútiť sa do toho, aby ste robili niečo, čo je v protiklade s Duchom. On má váš život ustanovený na určitú vec. Rozumiete tomu? Vidíte?

47        A ty, keď si naplnený Duchom, tu je jedno z najlepších znamení, o ktorom viem: si tak zamilovaný do Krista a veríš každému Slovu, ktoré On hovorí, že je to Pravda. Vidíte? To je dôkazom, že máš Ducha Svätého. A tvoj život je plný radosti, ó, a všetko je iné (Vidíte?), než ako to zvyklo byť. To je Duch Svätý.

48        No, tieto dary sú v Duchu Svätom. No, ak toto zhromaždenie, ktoré je tu dnes ráno, toto – jednoducho útulný zbor plný... (Preplnené miestnosti, iste, je to preplnené.) Ale v... Len... Neoznámil som, že budeme odpovedať na tieto otázky, ale títo ľudia jednoducho prišli. Všimnite si, ak by tu každá osoba bola dokonale v harmónii s Duchom Svätým, každý jeden z vás by bol naplnený Duchom Svätým a v harmónii s Duchom Svätým, tieto znamenia by jednoducho boli – po celý čas by sa to medzi vami množilo (Rozumiete?); jednoducho by to neustále pracovalo. Ale tam, kde je zmätok, kde sú rozdiely, a kde sme usadení, tam sa Duch Svätý nemôže pohybovať. Rozumiete? Nemôže pracovať cez ľudí. Vidíte?

49        A tam, ak by som povedal, „No, každý jeden z vás, hovorili ste v jazykoch?“

 „Áno.“

 „No, potom To máte.“

 „Hovorili ste v jazykoch?“

 „Nie.“

50        „Potom To nemáte.“ No, vtedy zo seba robím sudcu. Boh je Sudcom týchto vecí.

51        Ale sledujte, Ježiš povedal, „Tieto znamenia ich budú nasledovať.“ Vidíte? Tie skupiny, ktoré veria, celá prirodzenosť Ducha Svätého prúdi cez nich a všetci sú plní lásky a radosti a je to jednoducho jeden veľký zväzok skutočne božsky naplnených ľudí. Vidíte? To je Duch Svätý. A pri tomto, oni hovoria v jazykoch pri príležitosti, keď povstanú jazyky, no, alebo keď to je potrebné, tak hovoria v jazykoch. A ak je tam proroctvo, tak sa to hovorí. Ó, a je to jednoducho po celý čas dokonalé.

52        Opýtajte sa tých pätnástich alebo dvadsiatich ľudí, ktorí prišli dnes ráno na rozhovor, či tam bolo nejakým spôsobom nesprávne povedané jediné slovo – a úplne neznámi... Čo – Duch Svätý to tam vykopal a ukázal tie veci a jasne ich odhalil a povedal o nich. Vidíte? V tom nie sú žiadne chyby. Povedal im úplne presne, čo bolo toto a čo bolo tamto, a čím je toto a čo má byť urobené s tamtým, a takéto veci, a to, čo urobili a čo by mali urobiť. Vidíte? To je jednoducho... Jasne to usporiadal. Teraz musia na základe toho konať.

53        Minulý večer som sa rozprával s jedným párom a bol som doma, kde sme mali zhromaždenie, alebo skôr sme len tak sedeli okolo stola a rozprávali sme sa. A zrazu medzi nás náhle zostúpil Duch Svätý a niekomu som tam povedal, „Videl som určitého muža, a oni – on bol zmätený v mysli ohľadom nejakých vecí,“ a povedal som, „akoby v zmätku – v tom rozpoznaní.“ Povedal som, „No, teraz je to rovno tu.“ Povedal som, „Viem, čo si myslíš.“ A išiel som rovno dozadu a jednoducho som to vzal zoširoka a odpovedal som mu na každú otázku, ktorú mal ten človek v mysli – on... Nikto okrem neho ani nevedel, o čom hovorím. Vidíte? Ale on to porozumel. On vedel, o čom to celé bolo. Rozumiete? A čo to pre neho urobilo? To mu ukázalo, potvrdilo mu to, že Duch Svätý mi zjavil to, čo mal vo svojej mysli. Vidíte? A ostatným z nich som o tom nemusel hovoriť. Ten človek ma práve teraz počúva. No, je to pravda. No, vidíte, ako to je? To je potvrdenie.

54        No, ak by celý zbor pracoval v takejto harmónii, potom by sme medzi nami vyháňali diablov, brali hadov, pili smrtonosné veci, diali by sa všetky možné veci. Ale keď sa to snažíte nanútiť jednotlivcom, potom sa dostávate... To je znova letničné. Potom máte z toho Babylon, zamiešanie. Nemôžete to súdiť. Vidíte? Naše srdcia sú plné radosti a šťastia, ó, a vtáci spievajú... Všetko je nádherné, ó, jednoducho plní Ducha Božieho a sme tak zamilovaní do Ježiša, chceme sa modliť po celú noc.

55        No, nechcel by som tento zástup uviesť do rozpakov, dokonca ani samého seba. Ale zaujímalo by ma, či by som sa dnes ráno mohol opýtať, kto v tomto zástupe, alebo títo ľudia, ktorí prijali Ducha Svätého, pravdepodobne by 95 percent z vás zodvihlo ruky, že ste prijali Ducha Svätého. Potom by som sa otočil a dal by som vám biblický dôkaz – len jeden biblický dôkaz; a pochybujem o tom, že by sa zdvihla jedna alebo dve ruky. Rozumiete? Mohol by som len – jednoducho to zviazať do takého miesta, ale keď to robíte (Vidíte?), tak tiež raníte svoje zhromaždenie. Ale musíte ich dostať z toho detského stavu a dostať ich do stavu dospelosti. Rozumiete?

56        Ako tam minule niekto napísal tú otázku, bolo to tu, bolo tam povedané niečo o bratovi Juniorovi Jacksonovi. Niekto tam išiel a oni mu povedali, „Ty chodíš k tým 'mŕtvym makoviciam,'“ alebo niečo také. Brat Jackson... Pretože zhromaždenie brata Jacksona, oni im dovolia, aby hovorili v jazykoch priamo v zbore. Kedykoľvek pocítia Ducha a chcú hovoriť v jazykoch, tak idú a robia to. No, to je zbor brata Jacksona. To je úplne v poriadku. Nemám proti tomu nič, vôbec nič. Junior Jackson je jeden z mojich najlepších priateľov, a je to skutočne zbožný muž, naplnený Duchom Božím, a sme bratia. No, on nemusí jesť môj čerešňový koláč, ja môžem... Alebo ja nemusím jesť jeho jablčný koláč (Rozumiete?), ale obaja jeme koláč. Obaja úplne veríme tomuto Posolstvu. To je poriadok zboru. Povedal som, „Chcem, aby sa môj zbor snažil zísť spolu...“ Povedal som... Keď sme sa tu začali prelamovať, Duch Svätý hovoril v jazykoch, a tak ďalej, povedal som... Niekto mi povedal a riekol, „No, brat Branham, je to všetko pravé?“

57        Povedal som, „Nie som sudcom.“ Povedal som, „Poviem vám, čo robiť, podrobme to skúške. Nechajme to chvíľu tak ísť a podrobme to skúške, až kým to nebude postavené pred Slovo. Potom to pozorujte. Ak to je Duch Svätý, potom to pasuje rovno so Slovom; ak nepasuje, tak nie je.“ Vidíte? To je ten jediný spôsob, ako to môžete rozpoznať; potom sa to posúdi samé. Vidíte? No, ak to nie je Duch Svätý, tak to odletí, praskne to. Rozumiete? Ale ak to je Duch Svätý, potom to bude pokorne nasledovať tú jednu líniu, pretože to je to, čo to je; to je Duch Svätý, ktorý ide rovno podľa Svojho vlastného poriadku.

58        No, pri tomto hovorení v jazykoch, a tak ďalej, prajem si, aby každý jeden z vás hovoril v jazykoch. Iste to tak je. A mnohokrát, dobrí kresťania...

59        Vidíte, ak by som vám povedal, že to bolo na programe... Našiel som niekoho.. Nie na programe, prepáčte mi – bolo to dnes ráno pri tých rozhovoroch. Nejaká osoba (Predpokladám, že stále je tu v tejto budove.), oni... Týkalo sa to hovorenia v jazykoch... Tá osoba je opravdivou osobou, skutočnou osobou, a žila správne. A počula ma hovoriť o tom, že hovorenie v jazykoch nie je dôkazom Ducha Svätého – a ono ním nie je – ale poradil som tej osobe, aby prosila Boha, aby jej dal buď hovoriť v jazykoch alebo prorokovať, pretože to je prirodzenosť.

60        Tá prvá vec, išiel som k tej osobe a zistil som miesto jej narodenia a pod akým znamením bola narodená, a mohol som jej povedať, čo znamená jej narodenie. Akým spôsobom to bolo u nej stanovené v tej prirodzenej povahe, a to ju stavia do určitej línie. Potom, keď je znovuzrodená, nachádza sa tu v inej prirodzenosti. A potom, keď sa dostanete do tejto prirodzenosti, to je to vnútro, vo svedomí, vnútorné svedomie... To vonkajšie svedomie vás posúva jedným smerom; to je vaše prirodzené narodenie. Potom niečo urobia a čo to s nimi urobí? Nemôžu sa zorientovať a vrhne ich to do rozpolteného stavu. Nevedia, čo robiť. Povedia, „Pán chce, aby som robil toto...“

61        Ten vnútrajšok, „Ó, jednoducho viem, že to pasuje rovno s Písmom.“ A začnú to robiť a prvé čo zistíte, satan im na tomto vonkajšom ukáže všetky druhy nedostatkov. A potom povedia, „No, myslím, že som...“ Vidíte? Počúvajú satana. Vidíte? Musíte vziať to niečo vnútorné, to, čo je vo vašom vnútri a čo je podľa Písma. A nenechajte nikde stáť satana. To je jeho povinnosťou, aby tam stál a takto na vás búšil. Ale nepočúvajte ho.

62        Ale tá osoba, ja som jej povedal... Povedala, „No, ak by som si len bola istá, že mám Ducha Svätého.“ Vidíte? Skvelá osoba, skutočne oddaná osoba s Duchom Svätým, ale bolo by pre ňu dobré, aby mohla povedať, „Otče, daj mi toto, aby som sa na niečo mohla postaviť.“

63        No, ak by som to takto vyučoval, ľudia by sa načahovali a uchopili by to bez toho, že by mali to, čo mala tá osoba. Vidíte? Duch Svätý hovorí v jazykoch, ale najprv musíte mať Ducha Svätého, skôr, než môžete hovoriť v jazykoch. Teraz ste to pochopili? Tak, ak sa načiahnete a uchopíte ten dar hovorenia v jazykoch bez toho, že by...

64        No, pamätajte, to môže byť pravý dar; mohol by to byť Duch Svätý, ktorý by vo vás hovoril v neznámych jazykoch, a jednako by ste boli stratení a išli do pekla. Biblia tak povedala. Veríte tomu? Chceli by ste na to miesto Písma? Ak chcete miesto Písma, zodvihnite ruku. „Keby som hovoril jazykmi ľudskými aj anjelskými (Je to tak? V oboch, aj v tých, ktoré sa dajú rozumieť; a aj v tých, ktoré sa nedajú rozumieť, pravé jazyky Ducha Svätého), nie som ničím.“ Vidíte? Pokiaľ s tým nejde aj tá druhá vec. Môžete mať tamto (Vidíte?), a tak sa za tým nenačahujte bez toho, že by ste mali toto. Najprv prijmite toto a potom to tamto bude nasledovať.

65        No, dážď padá na spravodlivých aj nespravodlivých. Slnko svieti na prevrátených aj na dobrých. Dážď padá, aby dal dozretie úrode; ale taktiež dáva dozretie burine: ten istý dážď. Duch Svätý môže padnúť na skupinu ľudí a hovoria v jazykoch a bude to úplne pravdivé, roznesie sa to medzi ľudí a spôsobí to, že tam bude prorokovanie a bude to úplne pravdivé. Presne tak.

66        Niekedy môžete ísť za čarodejnicou alebo za nejakým médiom a oni vám povedia niečo, čo je úplná pravda. Pozrite na tú čarodejnicu z Endoru. Saul... Mohla by to byť úplná pravda; jednako to nie je to. Oni sú čarodejnice. Hovoria v jazykoch; videl som diablov hovoriť v jazykoch a písať v neznámych jazykoch. To nič neznamená. Ale tou skutočnou vecou je znovu Slovo. Naspäť ku tomu Slovu.

67        Tak vy tieto veci môžete robiť bez Slova. Ale keď máte Slovo a Ono to koná, potom sledujte, ako sa to presne vyplní, presne tá správna vec. Vidíte? Potom ste presne v jednej línii.

68        Áno, Duch Svätý si týchto ľudí používa tak, ako je určené podľa Jeho vlastnej Božskej múdrosti. Ale tá prvá vec...

69        No, čo? Dovoľte, nech vám to podám trochu z druhej strany. Opýtal by som sa, „Koľkí z vás majú Ducha Svätého? Zodvihnite všetci ruky.“ Povedal by som, „V poriadku, presvedčím sa, či Ho máte.“ Biblia povedala, že tí, ktorí mali Ducha Svätého, vzdychali a volali dňom i nocou pre ohavnosti, ktoré sa diali v meste. Nuž, koľko rúk by sa zodvihlo? Koľkí z vás nenachádzajú odpočinutie v noci, ste tak plní radosti a moci Božej, a tak skľúčení kvôli ľuďom, ktorí sú stratení, že dňom i nocou plačete a voláte kvôli tým ohavnostiam? Nebudete... Vidíte? Kto by bol taký v tomto meste? Koľko je takých v zbore? Podľa toho, čo hovorí Biblia, to bol dôkaz Ducha Svätého.

70        On povedal tým pečatiacim Anjelom (Ezechiel 9; je to tak), On povedal, „Vezmite... Prejdite mestom a označte znamením tých, ktorí vzdychajú a plačú nad ohavnosťami, ktoré sa dejú v meste. A tých ostatných, nech ich ten anjel skazy pobije.“ Je jedno, koľko majú členov a koľko vecí urobili. Povedal, „Umiestni...“ A muž, ktorý mal kalamár pisára, oblečený v bielom (čo reprezentovalo Ducha Svätého), vyšiel a poznačil všetkých, ktorí vzdychali a volali kvôli ohavnostiam, ktoré sa páchali v meste. No, poviete... A sledujte, čo tam takisto povedal, „Úplne ich vyhlaďte, malé deti, staré ženy, nemluvňatá, zabite ich všetkých.“ Malé deti? Áno.

71        Keď Józue vošiel do Kananejskej zeme, povedal, „Nenechajte nikoho z nich nažive. Pokiaľ je to rozkošné, malé nemluvňa, malý Amalech alebo Amorejec, zabite ich. Pamätajte, on vyrastie a bude Amalechom, poškvrní tábor.“ A keď sa tieto malé veci vracajú, ako ten nesúhlas s Božím Slovom, zbavte sa tých vecí. Je mi jedno, akej denominácii to patrí.

72        Hovoríte, „No, oni sú dobrí.“ Je mi jedno, akými dobrými ľuďmi oni sú. Pokiaľ sú proti tomu Slovu, zbavte sa tých vecí. To je rastúci malý Amalech. Vyzerá rozkošne, vyzerá nevinne; vyzerá, akože je všetko v poriadku, ale vy s tým nemajte nič spoločné. Držte sa od toho preč.

73        „Dobre, brat Branham, pôjdem sem dolu, pretože ja ne…“ Iba si zapamätajte, každý Amalech, všetko, čo popiera Slovo, držte sa od toho preč; nemajte s tým vôbec nič spoločné. Koľkí veria, že je to pravda? Samozrejme, že je. Vidíte? Držte sa od toho preč.

74        Kto vzdychá a narieka kvôli ohavnostiam, ktoré sa páchajú v meste. Kde to vidíte? Môžem vám ukázať desať tisíc hovoriacich v jazykoch na jedného, ktorý má skutočne bremeno kvôli hriechom... Oni sa nedokážu modliť ani hodinu. Ale viete o tom, že Biblia povedala, aby poznačil iba tých, ktorí vzdychajú a nariekajú kvôli ohavnostiam v meste? Koľkí z vás to niekedy čítali? Iste. To bol Duch Svätý, ktorý vyšiel, aby označil ľudí, a povedal anjelovi zhubcovi, „Vyjdi a pobi všetko, na čom nie je toto znamenie.“ A Božím znamením je Duch Svätý; je Pečať Božia.

75        No, kde sú tí ľudia, ktorí sú tak zainteresovaní? Môžem vám ukázať ľudí, ktorí vyskakujú hore a dole a vykrikujú v zbore; môžem vám ukázať ľudí, ktorí vykrikujú a pobehujú cez celú budovu; môžem vám ukázať ľudí, ktorí prorokujú a tie veci sa stanú; môžem vám ukázať tých, ktorí hovoria v jazykoch a behajú hore a dole cez budovy a hovoria veci, ktoré sa skutočne vyložia a stane sa to; ale kde je tá osoba, ktorá vzdychá a narieka kvôli ohavnostiam, ktoré sa dejú v meste? Kde je tá duša, ktorá má takéto bremeno? Ohľadom tohto by ste mohli obracať nejaké nové strany. Rozumiete, čo tým myslím?

76        No, snažil som sa k vám ľuďom hovoriť najlepšie, ako som vedel, a viesť vás, ako by otec viedol svoje deti. Ste mojimi deťmi; splodil som vás pre Krista skrze toto Evanjelium, ktoré kážem. Rozumiete? A chcem z vás vychovať plne dospelé deti. A jedného dňa vás chcem oddať Kristovi, ako to povedal Pavol, „Čistú Pannu.“ Nie je v tom Slove ani jedna vec, ktorú by vaše srdce nepotvrdilo s tým 'Amen.'

77        Hriech nemá... Samozrejme, že urobíte nesprávne veci, ale keď niečo, hneď prvá vec vás odsudzuje, „Otče, odpusť mi.“

78        Poviem toto. Pred chvíľou som sa práve pozrel na istého človeka. On sa ma nedávno pýtal na jedného milého chlapca. Boli sme poľovať na veveričky. Toho rána som ich ulovil päť a jednu som si nechal na popoludnie. V štáte Kentucky môžeš uloviť iba šesť kusov denne, taký majú limit. A ten dotyčný človek povedal, „Ja som ulovil deväť kusov.“ Kresťanský chlapec, milý mladík.

 Povedal som mu, „Nezachoval si sa dobre. Urobil si zle.“

 On povedal, „Nuž…“

79        Povedal som, „Ja som dnes ráno ulovil päť a jednu som si nechal na odpoludnie. A keď som ulovil tú jednu veveričku, pozrel som sa na strom a narátal som päť alebo šesť veveričiek, ktoré tam sedeli, a mohol som ich vidieť, ale odišiel som a nechal ich na pokoji.“ A povedal som, „Nedávno som tadiaľto prechádzal a prišiel som ku stromu, kde sedelo pätnásť až dvadsať veveričiek. Ulovil som len limit, ostatné som nechal tak a odišiel.“ Ďalej som povedal, „Ak prichádzam do tohto kraja a budem vám, mládencom, kázať a rovnako všetkým ostatným ľuďom to, čo je správne, musím žiť tým príkladom.“ V kresťanstve nezáleží na tom, čo hovoríš; ale záleží na tom, akým životom žiješ, čo robíš; musíš byť vzorom. Ste soľou zeme. Povedal som, „Potom, zákon hovorí... Ježiš povedal, 'Dávajte cisárovi, čo je cisárovo.' Pokiaľ prekročíš obmedzenú rýchlosť jazdy na ceste, čo robíš? Robíš zle, hrešíš. 'Dávaj cisárovi, čo je cisárovo, a Bohu to, čo je Božie.'“

80        Povieš, „No, zákony sú zlé.“ S tým nemôžem nič urobiť. Porušovať Ježišovo prikázanie je zlé. A ak nedáš cisárovi to, čo je cisárovo, vtedy robíš to, čo ti Ježiš zakázal robiť, a porušovanie zákona je hriech. Nie je to pravda?

81        Všetci sme vinní; robíme to. Ale ak na sebe vidíš, že robíš zlé, prestaň to robiť. Ľudia ťa pozorujú; ľudia nepôjdu do zboru, ale budú čítať teba, pozerajú sa na to, čo robíš.

82        Tak vezmi Krista do svojho srdca; to je skutočné… Kristus a Duch Svätý je to isté. Duch Svätý, “Kristus” znamená “Ten Pomazaný.” A Duch Svätý je to Pomazanie a ty si ten, ktorý je pomazaný. Vidíte? A to je Kristus v tebe, ktorý ťa pomazáva. Rozumiete, čo tým myslím?

83        Potom máš tú správnu vec. Potom ťa On môže použiť, v čomkoľvek ťa chce použiť, pretože si v Tele a si poddaný ktorémukoľvek z tých darov. Ale vidíte, mať jeden z tých darov pomimo Tela, to ti neurobí nič dobrého. „Hoci by som hovoril ľudskými a anjelskými jazykmi, nemal lásky, nič mi to neosoží. Hoci by som mal vieru a dokázal rozumieť všetky tajomstvá Božie, nič mi to neosoží. Hoci by som dal svoje telo ako zápalnú obeť, rozdal všetok svoj majetok chudobným, hoci by som mal vieru, že by som hýbal vrchmi, nie som ničím.” Vidíte? Nebuďte závislí na tých veciach. Duch Svätý je Bytosť; to je Boh, Boh v tebe, Osoba, Boh, ktorý rozsvietil celú tvoju bytosť. Si zmenený; si novým stvorením. Akákoľvek malá vec, ktorá je zlá, On ti povie, že to je zlé, potom prestaň; nerob to. „Otče, nechcel som to urobiť, odpusť mi.” Vidíte? A to je Duch Svätý.

84        Nestarám sa o to, ako veľmi si hovoril v jazykoch, ako veľmi si behal, ako veľmi si vyskakoval, ako veľmi si robil toto, to alebo tamto (Rozumiete?), čokoľvek si robil, nič by to neznamenalo, ak by tam vo vnútri nebol Duch Svätý, ktorý by ťa odsudzoval, čo sa týka dobrých a zlých vecí.

85        No, to je dôvod, prečo tu táto osoba má pravdu. Nech to urobí Duch Svätý. Ale teraz (Rozumiete?), no, to, čo spôsobuje toto... Dovoľte mi, nech to poviem s láskou, pokropené láskou a pomazané Slovom. Rozumiete? Ak by v tebe bol skutočný Duch Svätý, nemal by si o tom pochybnosti. Vieš to sám v sebe; je to individuálna vec medzi tebou a Bohom. Vidíte? Ty vieš, že sa niečo stalo; vieš, že tam nastala zmena, ak je tam čokoľvek; ale ty sám, ty si sa zmenil. Vidíte? Ty si ten, ktorý prešiel zmenou, tvoj vnútrajšok, a vieš, že to máš. Či si hovoril v jazykoch, či si vyskakoval, vykrikoval alebo čokoľvek iné, ty vieš, že v tebe žije Boh, že nechodíš podľa svojej vlastnej mysle; to je myseľ Kristova, ktorá ťa vedie s tým Slovom, presne tým smerom, ako Ono ide.

86        No, ale ja by som... Ak ľudia povedia, „No dobre, brat Branham, neveríš tomu, že by sme mali hovoriť v jazykoch?“ Vidíte? Potom ste úplne neporozumeli to, čo som práve hovoril. Samozrejme, že verím, že by ste mali hovoriť v jazykoch. A niektorí z vás ľudí... Vidíte? Ale vy máte toto a ja mám toto, ako tam vtedy ohľadom týchto 1500 míľ (Vidíte?), že to má byť okolo tejto modlitebne. Jednoducho, ak tomu nerozumiete, potom sa ma opýtajte. Vidíte? Ak niečomu nerozumiete, tak mi ohľadom toho napíšte. Hovorte len to, čo tu hovorím. Rozumiete? A ja... A vy... Ako povedal Pavol, „Nasledujte ma, ako ja nasledujem Krista.“ Rozumiete? Potom, ak uvidíte, že sa mýlim, potom odo mňa odíďte (Vidíte? To je všetko.), pretože by som bol nesprávnym človekom. Rozumiete?

        329. Prosím, objasni. Ľudia hovoria, že brat Branham je viac než človek; dokáže stvoriť veci a Ježiš môže vyzerať práve tak ako brat Branham.

87        No, dovoľte mi... Tá osoba, ktorá toto povedala, ktokoľvek to môže byť, neviem. Ale ja som váš brat. Rozumiete? Ježiš je vaším Spasiteľom. Ja nemôžem byť váš Spasiteľ, pretože On vás už spasil. No, ten, kto to povedal, si tu veľmi blízko pravdy, ale jednako tak veľmi ďaleko od pravdy. No, to je len – zdá sa mi to ako ženský rukopis, veľmi krásny rukopis. A povedal by som, že to je ženský rukopis, vy nie? Brat Capps, nemyslel by si si, že to bol ženský rukopis? Pekný rukopis. A neviem, kto to je. Vidíte?

88        No, „Brat Branham, mohol by Ježiš vyzerať ako ty, alebo ty si Ježišom, alebo niečo také?“ V jednom zmysle slova je to úplná pravda; v inom zmysle slova je to antikrist. To je rozdiel medzi správnym a nesprávnym. Robiť zo mňa Osobu Pána Ježiša Krista, to by som bol antikrist (Rozumiete?), lebo tá Osoba Pána Ježiša sedí po pravici Majestátu na výsostiach a znova sa vráti vo veľkej moci a sláve. Ale čo sa týka Jeho Života, ktorý bol v Ňom, že ten je na mne a na vás, ktorí Ho máte – to je úplná pravda; a stávate sa Kristom.

89        Pamätáte sa na moje posolstvo o malých Mesiášoch? Vidíte? Vy ste... Slovo “Mesiáš“ znamená “Ten Pomazaný.“ No, vy ste, ak máte Ducha Svätého, stávate sa “tým pomazaným.“ Vidíte? A potom, je mnoho rôznych “pomazaných ľudí.“

90        No, dávajte pozor, či je to biblicky pomazaný človek... Mnohí z nich sú pomazaní... Rozumiete? Celá tá vec je v tak veľkom zlepenci všetkých možných druhov zamiešania; a satan vošiel do vnútra so všetkou svojou prefíkanosťou a napodobnil to do bodky, takmer do bodky. Existuje iba jeden spôsob, ako si môžete byť absolútne istí; kontrolovať to Slovo za Slovom, Slovo za Slovom. To je ten jediný spôsob, ako to dokážete urobiť.

91 Ale čo sa týka mňa ako osoby, Williama Branhama, alebo ktoréhokoľvek iného muža či ženy, že by niekto bol Pánom Ježišom Kristom, naším Spasiteľom, to je nesprávne. Ale byť pomazaný Jeho Duchom, čo privádza do teba Jeho vlastnú Osobu Jeho Života...

92        Bolo to tak nádherne ukázané v predobraze pri Eliášovi a Elizeovi; keď bol Eliáš vzatý hore, ten starý prorok, išiel domov... A bol unavený a vyčerpaný; a tam za riekou bol zapriahnutý voz, aby ho vzal hore domov s ohnivými koňmi. A všimli ste si, že potom, keď Eliáš a Elizeus prekročili tú rieku (škola prorokov bola tam hore a pozorovali ich) a Eliáš si vzal svoj plášť a udrel rieku, a keď to urobil, ona sa rozdelila a on prešiel na druhú stranu. A povedal tomuto mladému prorokovi, „Prečo ma nasleduješ? Čo – čo si praješ?“

 On povedal, „Aby dvojitá porcia tvojho Ducha prišla na mňa.“

93        „Aby na mňa prišla dvojitá porcia toho mocného proroka?“ Povedal, „Prosil si o ťažkú vec; ale ak ma uvidíš, keď budem odchádzať, potom to na teba príde.“ Tak si dokážete predstaviť, ako sledoval toho proroka.

94        No, v tom dni ten prorok bol Slovom, pretože bol manifestáciou Slova pre svet. Rozumiete? A on vedel, že má prísť väčšia služba, pretože vyžadovala väčšiu vec. A keď bol Ježiš tu na zemi, On bol Eliášom. „Tieto veci, ktoré Ja činím, vy tiež budete činiť; väčšie než tieto budete činiť, pretože Ja idem k Môjmu Otcovi.“ No, ako to budete robiť? Sledujte Ho. Kto On je? Slovo. Vidíte? Sledujte Jeho.

95        No, keď to prichádza ku stvoreniu vecí, to je pravda. Ježiš nikdy nič priamo nestvoril a nepriviedol do existencie. On vzal najprv určitý materiál. Vzal vodu, učinil víno. Vzal chlieb a učinil viac chleba. Vzal rybu a učinil viac rýb. Ale On zasľúbil, že sa budú diať väčšie veci než to. Vidíte? Rozumiete? No, prečo? To sa deje v oveľa horšom dni, ako keď On bol tu. Vidíte? Stále to je On, ale používa tvoj príbytok. Rozumiete?

96        A táto osoba, ktorá je v tebe, čo je tvoje narodenie... Ty si John Doe; narodil si sa v určitom mesiaci a narodil si sa pod určitou hviezdou; narodil si sa pod určitou vecou a to s tebou má niečo dočinenia. Istotne má.

97        Viem, že som zvykol... Ocko zvykol hovorievať, „V tomto čase nemôžem sadiť tie zemiaky, pretože mesiac nie je na tom správne. Nemôžeš sadiť tie zemiaky, Billy.“

98        A povedal som, „Nesadím ich na mesiac; sadím ich sem do zeme.“

 Povedal, „V poriadku, ty chytrák, len si choď. Dostaneš pár úderov po hlave a niečomu sa naučíš.“ Stalo sa tak. Bolo to tak.

99        Poviem vám: vezmite dosku a položte ju tam na trávu, keď je nov-mesiac [keď nesvieti – pozn.prekl.] a sledujte, čo sa stane. Tá tráva ihneď zahynie. Položte to na svetlo mesiaca; môžete to tam nechať položené týždeň; vôbec to neublíži.

100        Pozorujte more, keď sa tam v diaľke mení mesiac. Keď príliv – keď vyjde mesiac, príliv ho nasleduje, a on je milióny míľ od zeme. Nie len to, choďte sem dole do štátu Kentucky a zapichnite do zeme tyč, až sa dostanete ku slanej vode; a pozorujte tú trúbku, ako hlboko to je, keď je mesiac – keď je príliv, a pozorujte, ako to ide, rovno pod zemou. Istotne.

101        Zasaďte niečo, čo sa rozrastá na povrchu zeme. Keď je nov-mesiac, sledujte, ako to pôjde dole a bude to ako reďkovka alebo repa. Zasaďte to tým iným spôsobom a sledujte, ako sa to bude rozrastať po povrchu zeme. Iste, nejako to s tým súvisí.

102        Prečo mal Áron na svojom náprsníku kameň narodenia každého jedného z tých patriarchov? Pozrite na tie matky, keď vypovedali tie slová. Keď tie matky a tie hebrejské ženy pri pôrode vypovedali určité slová ku tým deťom, ktoré sa rodili, to umiestnilo ich meno; to hovorilo o ich narodení; to ich umiestnilo do tej domoviny; a umiestnilo ich to vo večnosti.

103        V jednom z týchto dní, keď sa vrátim a nejaký čas tu zostanem, chcel by som vziať tú tému. Presne tak. A potom sledujte Jákoba, keď tam zomieral, keď položil ruky na tých patriarchov a požehnal ich, on presne hovoril, kde budú. A to je presne podľa ich mien a presne podľa ich narodenia. A, samozrejme, to má s vami niečo spoločné.

104        No, to je cesta vášho narodenia; to je to, čím ste, prirodzený muž alebo prirodzená žena. Ale keď sa znovuzrodíš, to nie je vonkajšie vedomie. Ten vonkajšok, to je to, čo vidíš, chutnáš, cítiš, voniaš, a počuješ, ale ten vnútrajšok toho – to je to, čím skutočne si. No, toto vonkajšie, satan ťa jednoducho pokúša a udiera tu na teba z každej strany; ale tam dole to nemôže urobiť, pokiaľ mu to nedovolíš. Pretože tu vo vnútri máš vieru a viera nepochádza z toho vonkajšieho vedomia, ono rozumuje. Ale vo viere nie je žiadneho rozumovania. Máš ju od Boha a vieš, že to tam je. Nestarám sa o to, ako veľmi to vyzerá zle, ty stále vieš, že to je dobre; to je TAK HOVORÍ PÁN. Vidíte? A to si z ničoho nebude robiť starosti. Nič to nemôže zastrašiť; to sa hýbe rovno vpred. Prekážky pre to nič neznamenajú; prebrodí sa to rovno cez ne, pretože to je Slovo. A Slovo je Meč a Slovo seká. Ten Meč sa preseká na slobodu zo všetkého. Rozumiete? Je potrebná ruka viery, aby držala to Slovo. Tá viera musí byť...

105        Teraz sa pozrite, keď to vnútorné vedomie... Tu je ten vnútrajšok; tu je ten vonkajšok. Tu vo vnútri je zjavená Pravda; tu vonku je argumentovanie. No, nevyzeralo by to rozumne, keby sme len povedali, „Poďme všetci jednoducho sem a pripojme sa ku Zhromaždeniam“? No, mám rád Zhromaždenia Božie; mám rád jednotárov; mám rád všetky tie cirkvi. „Prečo všetci jednoducho nejdeme a nepripojíme sa k nim, možno to bude na dobré.“ To je argumentovanie; ten vonkajšok. Ale dole vo vnútri, pozorujte to; keď sa tam pozriete, toto nebude súhlasiť, pozrite sa potom na Zhromaždenia. Mnohé veci, ktoré robia, myslím, že nie sú podľa Písma, a môžem im dokázať, že to nie je podľa Písma. A je tam v tom zamotaných tak mnoho myslí. Sú tam tisíce tých bratov a sestier zo Zhromaždení, ktorí veria tomuto Slovu, a neveria, že to, čo učia Zhromaždenia, je správne. Ale oni sú chytení v sieti.

106        Baptisti, presbyteriáni, jednotári a všetci ostatní, oni sú v tej sieti, kde sa zhromažďuje skupina ľudí a oni o tom argumentujú. A je tam tak mnoho ľudskej prestíže. Sedí tu nejaký biskup, generálny dozorca; on niečo povie, a čo povie tento malý chlapík tu? On sa bojí niečo povedať. „Súhlasím s tebou. Áno, je to v poriadku. Ehm. Áno, biskup alebo presbyter, je to presne tak.” On s ním súhlasí.

107        Aha, vezmime alkoholika na ulici, nejaký rádový občan ide dolu ulicou a hovorí, „Ten starý vandrák, nič na ňom nie je.” Priveďte ho tu dolu, urobte z neho policajta a dajte mu odznak a pištoľ. „Dobré ráno, Janko, je to tak milé znovu ťa stretnúť.” Vidíte. Prejavujú jeden druhému rešpekt.

108        Ježiš povedal, „Ako môžete mať vieru, keď máte rešpekt tohto druhu,” viete, vyžadujete... rešpektujete niekoho (Neviem teraz presne, aké je tam slovo.) – keď túžite po chvále jeden od druhého. Vidíte? Nemôžete to robiť.

109        A keď sa ľudia zhromažďujú v nejakej organizácii, oni si sadnú; a ten malý chlapík sa obáva niečo povedať, pretože biskup tak povedal, presbyter tak povedal. Ale neznevažujte toho človeka, verte, že je dobrým človekom; ale vždy pamätajte, Božie Slovo je pravda a všetko, čo je proti nemu, je nesprávne. „Nech je Moje Slovo pravdou a každé ľudské slovo lžou.” Rozumiete tomu? To je to, čo chceme robiť, veriť Tomu.

110        Nuž, pamätajte, my nie sme Slovo, ale my sme Slovo. Porozumeli ste tomu? Ježiš nebol Boh, ale On bol Boh. On bol človek, jednako On bol Boh. On mohol plakať a jednako mohol kriesiť mŕtvych. On mohol plakať za človekom, ktorý bol mŕtvy, a znovu ho vzkriesiť. On bol Jehova-Jireh, Jehova-Rafa, Jehova-Manasses; On bol Jehova, úplne, kompletne. On bol Jehova, a jednako bol Človek. On vlastnil zem a stvoril zem a nemal miesto, kde by zložil Svoju hlavu. Povedal, „Vtáky, ktoré som učinil, majú svoje hniezda a Ja nemám miesto, kde by som sklonil Svoju hlavu. Líšky, ktoré som stvoril, majú diery v zemi a Ja Sám nemám žiadnu, v ktorej by som bol pochovaný.” Je to tak. On si musel požičať niekoho hrob, v ktorom by bol pochovaný.

111        On stvoril lono, ktoré je v žene. On nemal žiadne lono, z ktorého by sa bol narodil; musel si požičať lono. On stvoril zem, a nemal miesto, kde by bol pochovaný; musel si požičať dieru v zemi, v ktorej by bol pochovaný, od Jozefa z Arimatie. Vidíte? Oni Mu museli požičať to miesto, jednako On bol Boh, dokázal, že bol Boh.

112        Tak, rozumiete? Nie sme... My sme malými Mesiášmi, ale nie tým Ježišom. On je naším Otcom; my sme len pomazaní Jeho Duchom a to je dôvod, že Jeho Život... A to privádza ľudí… viete, ak si nesadnete a nebudete o tom uvažovať, privedie to ľudí do toho, že budú veriť, „Nuž, tento chlapík bude tým Mesiášom.” Iste ním je.

 „Tento tu by Ním mohol byť.” Obaja sú. Rozumiete? „No, ako Ním môžu byť oni obaja?” Sú ich tisíce. Rozumiete?

113        Ale vidíte, Jeho Život bol na deň Letníc rozdelený. Keď zostúpil ten Ohnivý Stĺp, On sa rozdelil ako jazyky a sadol na každého jedného z nich; Boh, ktorý sa rozdelil medzi Svoj ľud, pretože Kristus a Cirkev sú jedno, tak, ako manžel a manželka sú jedno.       

        330. Brat Branham, ako mám ukázať mojej manželke, že sa o ňu skutočne starám, a predsa sa držím Slova (To je...) – držím Slova, ale stále dostávam takúto otázku: „Prečo neuvádzaš do praxe to, čo kážeš alebo čomu veríš?“

114        No, ak tá manželka, ak ti toto tá manželka hovorí, a má právo to povedať, tak sa radšej daj do poriadku. Rozumieš? Potom, ak ona – ak to hovorí, len aby bola zlá, pamätaj, Biblia povedala, „Bolo by ti lepšie, keby ti bol na krk zavesený mlynský kameň a bol by si potopený do hlbín mora, než uraziť najmenšieho z týchto Mojich maličkých.“ No, to je len tvoja otázka.

115        A možno, že táto manželka nie je takým typom osoby. Možno je odlišná – možno, že je dobrou osobou. Možno ťa len skúša, aby videla, čo budeš robiť.

116        No, naďalej ju miluj a nech v tebe vidí Ježiša. Rob to. Rozumieš? Len pokračuj vpred. Niekto... Dnes ráno som ukazoval taký príklad o jednej osobe, ktorá... Raz táto malá žena prijala Ducha Svätého. Bola to veľmi milá, malá osoba. Oni... Povedala... No, mala ťažký život a jej manžel bol alkoholik. A tak, ona bola vytrvalá; znášala to s ním. On hovorí, „Ak chceš ísť do zboru, zlato, choď si. Ale ja idem jednoducho do krčmy, tam dolu do Brown Derby. Choď a...“ A tak tam celý čas vysedávali, zvyklo to byť u Boniferovcov. Mnohí z vás starších si pamätáte, keď tam mal Bonifer na rohu… Myslím, že teraz sa to nazýva Brown Derby.

117        A tak tam celý čas vysedávali a raz, viete, jedného večera prišla na pretras otázka o cirkvi a o kresťanoch. A jeden z tých opilcov, ktorý tam sedel, povedal, „Už neexistuje niečo také ako kresťania.“ Povedal, „Neexistuje niečo také. Všetci sú bandou pokrytcov,“ povedal, „vidíš ich tu fajčiť, piť, robia to isté, čo my,“ a povedal, „nazývajú sa kresťanmi; nič také nie je.“

118        Jeden z tých opilcov sa postavil a povedal, „Moment. Existuje jedna, o ktorej viem.“

 Opýtali sa, „Kto to je?“

 Povedal, „Je to moja žena.“ Vidíte? Ona sa stala slanou. On to cítil celý čas.

 Niekto povedal, „Stavím sa, že keby sa dostala do úzkych…“

        Povedal, „Nie, ona je stále kresťankou; môžem vám to dokázať.“ Povedal, „Napadlo mi, čo urobíme; poďte k nám domov a ja vám ukážem, či je kresťankou alebo nie.“ Povedal, „Poďme ku mne domov a robme sa, že sme skutočne opití. Budeme sa správať, ako by sme boli opití na mol.“ Zaklopali na dvere, vošli dovnútra narážajúc do všetkého a... „Prečo si takto neposadáte?“ a tak ďalej. A ona ich všetkých posadila na stoličky (rozumiete, jeho hostí) a snažila sa, aby sa cítili tak vítaní, ako len mohli byť. On povedal, „Chcem, aby si nám pripravila nejakú večeru.“ A tak oni – ona odišla niečo pripraviť. On povedal, „Chceme vajcia so šunkou.“ Vedel, že to majú, a tak ona pripravila vajcia so šunkou. A keď to postavila pred nich na stôl, pozrel sa takto na ne, zodvihol tanier, hodil to o zem a povedal, „Vieš predsa, že nemám rád takéto vajcia. Poďte, chlapci, ideme odtiaľto,“ takto.

119        A, viete, oni vyšli von a posadili sa tam. A ona vyšla von a povedala, „Miláčik, je mi ľúto, že som to takto pokazila, pripravím ti iné.“

120        „Ách, nezmysel, dobre vieš, že ich nemám rád na tento spôsob,“ ďalej sa takto hneval. Vyšli tam, posadali si vonku a správali sa ako opití. Počuli ju, ako tam vo vnútri pokorne a potichu spieva:

        Musel snáď Ježiš niesť Sám kríž

        aby celý svet bol slobodný?

 Každému je daný kríž,

 a je tiež kríž pre mňa.

 Ten posvätený kríž budem niesť,

 až ma smrť oslobodí.

 Jeden opilec pozrel na druhého a povedal, „Toto je kresťanka; ona to má.“ A tá malá žena priviedla svojho manžela a tých ostatných v ten večer ku Kristovi. Vidíte? Prečo? Rozumiete? Buďte skutočne milí. Jednoducho si zapamätajte, On o tom všetkom vie.

121        A tak, sestra alebo brat, ktokoľvek to je, alebo toto je vlastne brat, pretože sa pýtal ohľadom svojej manželky; buď len slaný; ak je v nej niečo, čo môže byť smädné, ona bude smädná. Ak nie je, pamätaj, ak si dostal nesprávnu osobu, dostaneš tú správnu v miléniu. Len sa ďalej drž slova; všetko zlé tam bude napravené.       

        331. Brat Branham, je to pravda, že učíš to, že Nevesta nesmie navštevovať žiadny zbor, ak tam nekážeš ty, alebo inú modlitebňu – inými slovami, modlitebňu? (Je tam “inak,“ to znamená “inými slovami.“)       

 332. Taktiež, je to pravda, že učíš to, že nemusíme zachovávať nedeľu alebo sviatky, čo sa týka práce, rybárčenia, a tak ďalej?

(Alebo... Povedal by som, že to je nedeľa. Zdalo sa mi to ako nedeľa. Alebo rovno na spodku to vyzeralo – alebo nedeľa, predpokladám, že to je tak, sviatky alebo nedele. Áno, nedele, tak to vyzerá? [Brat Branham sa s niekým rozpráva. – pozn.prekl.] – sväté dni, sväté dni, nedele a sväté dni.)

122        Nie. Mýlite sa. Vidíte? Dovoľte, nech to prejdem a jednoducho na to odpoviem po poriadku.

 „Učíš, že Nevesta nesmie navštevovať žiadny iný zbor, ak tam nekážeš ty, alebo inak povedané, len tvoju modlitebňu?“ Nie, toto neučím. Tomuto neverím, ja tomu neverím. Sedia tu kazatelia, ktorí sú rozptýlení po celej krajine, a ja verím, že oni sú časťou tej Nevesty. Verím, že muž alebo žena môžu ísť do zboru, kamkoľvek sa im zachce, kde sa vyučuje Slovo. A verím, že ak tam neučia celému Slovu a vy nemáte možnosť ísť do zboru na nejaké iné miesto, kde sa vyučuje celé Slovo, choďte tam, kde učia polovicu Slova, pokiaľ sa nebudete môcť dostať tam, kde sa vyučuje celé Slovo. Ale nech už robíte čokoľvek, choďte do zboru. Robte to.

123        „Učíš tiež, že nemusíme zachovávať nedeľu alebo akýkoľvek svätý deň, ak ide o prácu alebo rybárčenie v nedeľu?“

124        Verím, že je to hriech rybárčiť, loviť alebo pracovať v nedeľu, keď môžete ísť do zboru. Nuž, verím, že porušujete Božie zákony. „Existuje také prikázanie?“ Tak veru. Nuž, v Starom zákone sme mali vzor dňa sabatu. To bolo celé... A Ježiš neprišiel preto, aby ste dodržiavali dni sabatu. Starým dňom sabatu bola sobota, ktorá bola koncom týždňa. Nedeľa je ôsmym dňom, alebo prvým dňom týždňa, kedy Ježiš vstal z mŕtvych.

125        Neverím, že je správne... No, ak si niekde ďaleko v lesoch, a ty si tam na loveckej výprave, v okolí nie je žiaden zbor alebo niečo také, jednoducho tam nie je nič, čo by si mohol urobiť; a ty by si chytal ryby, myslím si, že by to bolo v poriadku. Ale ak si blízko nejakého mesta alebo blízko miesta, kde sa koná bohoslužba, potom by si v každom prípade mal navštíviť nejaké zhromaždenie.

126        A verím, ak ide o prácu, verím, že ak sa vôl ocitol v jame alebo musí byť niečo v nedeľu urobené, choď a urob to, ak ide o niečo, čo nemôže počkať a musí to byť urobené. Ale ak to jednoducho odkladáš na nedeľu, aby si to mohol urobiť, alebo to jednoducho takto robíš, vtedy sa mýliš. Rozumiete? Nesmieme to robiť, musíme rešpektovať ten svätý deň.

127        A teraz, pamätajte, choďte niekam do zboru, na nejaké miesto. Ak... Mohol by som pomenovať určitú denominačnú cirkev, ale neurobím to, pretože táto cirkev, to jediné, o čom viem, že učia, a čomu tiež verím, je to, že oni hovoria, že veria tomu, že Ježiš Kristus je Syn Boží. No, ja tiež. Všetko ich ostatné učenie je... Veria v obmytie hriechov skrze vodu. No, to nie sú jednotári; oni robia to isté, ale nehovorím o nich. Veria, že skrze vodu nastáva obnovenie, a tak ďalej. A ja tomu neverím. A oni, ó, veria, že ak má niečo v sebe Božské uzdravenie, potom to je z diabla. A veria vo všetky... Že oni sú tou jedinou vecou, ktorá existuje, a to jediné, čo musíš robiť, je len zapísať svoje meno do tej knihy. A ak ho tam nemáš, potom si stratený. No, neverím tomu. Ale ak by nebola k dispozícii žiadna iná cirkev, do ktorej by sa dalo ísť (Nešiel by som tam s kritickým postojom.), išiel by som tam s úmyslom mojej prítomnosti a s tým, že by som vedľa niekoho sedel, a že Kristus v mojom srdci by tam niekoho mohol ovplyvniť. Choďte medzi nich, ale nebuďte účastní na ich nevere.       

        333. Brat Branham, chcem prijať Ducha Svätého. Chcem vedieť, čo mám robiť. Mám bremeno za moju rodinu, aby boli spasení. (A tá sestra sa tu podpísala.)

128        Ak chceš prijať Ducha Svätého, ak sa tu nachádzaš, dovoľ, nech ti niečo poviem, moja drahá sestra. A ja... Brat Neville, je to nejaká členka tohto zboru? [Brat Branham sa rozpráva s bratom Neville. – pozn.prekl.] Tam na spodku. Tiež si ich nepamätám. Ale ak si tu, sestra B-o-u-g-h, ak si tu, dovoľ, nech ti niečo poviem. Biblia povedala, „Požehnaní, ktorí sú hladní a smädní po spravodlivosti.“ Si tak veľmi požehnaná už len preto, že To chceš. Rozumieš? No, pamätaj, nie preto, že To máš, ale požehnaní tí, ktorí sú hladní a smädní po Tom, pretože oni budú naplnení. Len trvaj na tom.

129        „Čo mám urobiť pre svoju rodinu?“ Použi tú istú vieru, ktorú používaš pre seba, použi ju za svoju rodinu. Odovzdaj ich Pánovi a ver z celého srdca, že budú spasení. Nech to... Nech to nepríde len sem do tvojho prirodzeného zmýšľania, ale nech to spadne hlboko dole do vnútra, do toho podvedomia, a potom sú tvoji. Boh ti ich dáva, keď to máš tam dole.

130        Čokoľvek tu máš v srdci a prosíš o to, keď sa modlíš, ver tomu, že dostaneš to, o čo prosíš. No, už o tom viac nemôžeš pochybovať. Nemôžeš tomu veriť a zároveň o tom pochybovať. Koľkí to vedia? Nemôžete veriť a zároveň pochybovať. Musíte veriť tomu, že to, o čo prosíte, že to dostanete, potom On povedal, že vám to bude dané. Tak len ver za svoju rodinu a oni to dostanú.       

 334. Brat Branham, čo s naším synom, odvtedy – odvtedy si nekázal o trúbach? Pamätáš sa na ten sľub, ktorý si mi dal po telefóne ohľadom neho a tých siedmich trúb?

131        Nespomínam si na to. Nepamätám sa, čo to bolo. Ale čokoľvek to je, dajte vedieť Billy Paulovi, o čo ide. Čokoľvek som sľúbil, že urobím. Nespomínam si na to. Viete, ja – niekedy musím večer odpovedať na tridsať až štyridsať telefonátov v jednom čase (Rozumiete?), tak si nepamätám večer za večerom – niekedy, keď som na okolí – tak neviem, čo to môže byť.

        Čo s mojou katolíckou sestrou a bratom? Ďakujem ti.

132        Ó, táto osoba je z iného mesta, tam z Texasu... Ja – no, sestra, ak si z Texasu a dostaneš túto pásku, alebo ak bude páska (Predpokladám, že pri tomto nebude žiadna páska.), ale ak tam je... [Brat Branham sa pýta ohľadom nahrávania pásky. – pozn.prekl.] Nahrávajú pásku? Nahrávate to? V poriadku, ak sú... Tá páska... Potom ti poviem, o čo ide. Ak si... Na tejto páske, ak sa k nej dostaneš, pamätaj, „Čo s naším synom ohľadom siedmich trúb?“ Nespomínam si na to, jedine, že by som sľúbil, že sa na neho pozriem alebo niečo také, v čase siedmich trúb. Ak to tak je, stretnem sa s ním; pretože ja som nekázal sedem trúb, kázal som o sviatku trúb. Rozumiete tomu?

133        „A čo s mojou katolíckou sestrou a bratom? Ďakujem ti.“ Poviem ti, pani C-o-r-n-i-l-s-e-n... Ak tu tá pani je, príď dnes ráno za Billy Paulom. A ak nie, no, nerozumiem, o čo tam ide (Vidíte?); to je len otázka. Nedokážem to rozlúštiť (Vidíte?), o čo tam ide, pretože niečo som sľúbil ohľadom jej chlapca a trúb a ohľadom katolíckej sestry; a teraz si na to nespomínam. Len poď za Billym.

 Toto musí... To je len modlitebná prosba. Je tam meno tej osoby a je tam povedané, „bolesti hlavy a sínus.“ Tak to bola len... myslím, že ohľadom toho, aby som sa za nich pomodlil. V poriadku. 

335. Prosím, objasni manželstvo a rozvod. (Už som to urobil. Toto je sedem otázok – osem otázok na jednom kúsku papiera.) Prosím, objasni manželstvo a rozvod. (Urobil som to.)

        336. ...Mojžiš a Eliáš teraz na zemi? Sú Mojžiš a Eliáš teraz na zemi? Sú v Amerike?

134        Nie. Rozumiete? Nie, nie sú tu; nebudú tu, pokiaľ nebude Cirkev vzatá preč; potom Mojžiš a Eliáš... Koľkí tomu rozumejú? V poriadku. A pozrime sa... Nie je tu nikto podpísaný, a tak... V poriadku. Ktokoľvek sa pýtal na tieto otázky... Myslím, že ich tu je sedem; zaznačil som si ich sedem. V poriadku.       

        337. Vysvetli rozdiel medzi “Menom Ježiš“ a “Menom Ježiš.“ (Počkajte chvíľu.) Vysvetli rozdiel medzi “Menom Ježiš“ a “Menom Ježiša.“

135        No, oboje je to isté, pokiaľ sú použité tým istým spôsobom (Rozumiete?), aplikované na tú istú Osobu, Meno Ježiš a Meno Ježiša. Meno Ježiša a... Meno Ježiš – to je to, kto On je. Meno Ježiša je hovorenie o tej Osobe, tak to by bolo to isté... Myslím, že by to bolo... Neznie to rozumne? Vidíte? Meno Ježiš je samotná tá Osoba; a Meno Ježiša – to je, keď sa odvolávate na tú Osobu. Rozumiete?

136        Povedzme to takto. Moje meno je William. To som ja. V poriadku. No, poviete... Hovorím... Meno Williama, potom sa na mňa odvolávate. To je moje meno. Vidíte? Teda...       

 338. Zmenilo sa Meno Pánovo v rôznych 'časových obdobiach' ['dispenzáciách' – pozn.prekl.]?

137        Áno, tak veru. Raz bolo nazývané – On sa volal JA SOM; bol nazvaný Jehova, a mnohokrát sa to menilo. Poslednýkrát sa to zmenilo, keď sa Boh stal telom a prijal ľudské meno.

138        Jehova, JA SOM, a všetko toto, to sú tituly toho Mena. Vidíte? Keby si bol pokrstený v mene Jehovu, to by muselo byť v Mene Ježiša Krista. Ak by si bol pokrstený v mene Jehovu-Rafa, Jehovu-Manasses a Jehovu-Jirah, vo všetkých týchto, muselo by to byť Ježiš Kristus. Ten JA SOM je Ježiš Kristus.

139        Pamätajte, v ten deň tam stál a povedal, „Hovoríte, že ste jedli mannu na púšti...“

 „Naši otcovia jedli mannu...“

 On povedal, „A sú mŕtvi.“

140        A povedali, „No, teraz vieme, že si šialený, pretože ty si len človek a nemáš ani päťdesiat rokov, a hovoríš, že si videl Abraháma.“

 Povedal, „Prv, než bol Abrahám, JA SOM.“ Vidíte? On bol ten JA SOM. A všetky tie tituly a mená, ktoré kedy patrili Bohu, sa stali jedným ľudským Menom, Pán Ježiš Kristus. V poriadku. 

        339. No, ak sa čas zakončuje, keď boli otvorené Pečate, potom je... Ak sa čas zakončil (Prepáčte mi.), keď boli otvorené Pečate, potom sa zakončilo aj milénium, je to tak?

141        Nie, nie. Čas sa nezakončil, keď boli otvorené Pečate. Nerozumeli ste to. To, čo sa stalo, bolo to, že boli zjavené tajomstvá; nie, že sa zakončil čas. Rozumiete? Len sa pozrite. Teraz to naozaj pozorne sledujte, a ak máte pásku, tak si to prehrajte z tej pásky. Rozumiete?

142        Čas sa vôbec nezakončil, až kým... Toto musí byť nejaký po-milénista alebo niečo také – ten, kto sa opýtal túto otázku. Pretože vidíte? Potom, ako Cirkev odišla domov a vrátila sa naspäť na zem, potom máme tých tisíc rokov. Potom sa čas zakončí v novom nebi a novej zemi.

143        No, milénium nie je to nové nebo a nová zem. Po miléniu bude ešte stále hriech. Milénium je typom Noacha, ktorý vošiel do archy a bol prenesený a priviedol Cháma a tých ostatných na druhú stranu. A hriech dokonca vyšiel von z archy. Vidíte?

144        Ale Enoch, ten prenesený, bol typ na Nevestu, ktorá odišla hore, nie ten, ktorý v tom pretrval. Tak hriech bude ešte stále na druhej strane milénia, ale nie počas milénia. Vidíte? Počas milénia je pokoj. Vidíte? Ale s hriechom bude skoncované na druhej strane milénia, a potom sa zakončí čas.

145        A teraz, otvorenie siedmich Pečatí, ktoré bolo dané skrze Ducha Svätého; tých sedem Pečatí malo iba zjaviť to, čo bolo vynechané v časových obdobiach, ktoré sú za nami.

146        No, ako sa ma ohľadom toho jeden veľký teológ snažil zahnať do kúta, povedal, „Brat Branham, ty – Boh ti jedného dňa dá tajomstvo tých siedmich Pečatí. Tých sedem Pečatí, to bude niečo, čo sme sa ešte nikdy nenaučili, to bude niečo, čo dokonca ani nie je v Biblii.“ Nie, nie. Nemôže to tak byť, pretože ak to tak robíte, to by z toho urobilo... Ak by som vám povedal niečo také, bol by som falošným prorokom, pretože (Rozumiete?), toto Slovo... Tam... Všetko, čo je... Celé zjavenie Ježiša Krista je úplne dokončené v tomto Slove. Rozumiete? A ak sa sedem Pečatí týkalo siedmich cirkví, potom to už musí byť minulosťou, pretože sme v laodicejskom cirkevnom veku... A tých sedem Pečatí iba zjavovalo, čo tam vzadu oni vynechali, a otvorilo sa to, čo oni vynechali: to, čo vynechal Luther, to, čo vynechal Wesley a všetci tí reformátori a letniční a ďalej až do tohto prítomného času.

147        No, tá ďalšia vec, ktorá zostala, to je vychvátenie Cirkvi, návrat Mojžiša a Eliáša, panovanie v miléniu na zemi s Nevestou a Ženíchom po dobu tisíc rokov a potom súdna stolica, a potom úplné zničenie hriechu. Potom ho už nikdy viac nebude.

148        No, nie... Zakončenie... Pečate vôbec nezakončili čas. Časy a obdobia budú, až kým neskončí milénium. Nie. Čas bude stále trvať, až kým neskončí milénium.       

        340. Čo sa týka milénia, je to tisíc rokov? Nemohla by to byť len jedna generácia?

149        Nie. V Biblii je jedna generácia vymeraná na štyridsať rokov. Ale Biblia povedala, „A oni žili a kraľovali s Kristom tisíc rokov.“ Bude to tisíc rokov na zemi, pretože tisíc rokov na zemi je iba výpočtom času podľa Božieho prirovnania, ako jeden deň. Tisíc rokov na zemi je pre Boha iba jeden deň, podľa Božieho výpočtu času. Koľkí tomu teraz rozumejú?

150        Tak to je ten deň sabatu, keď Cirkev už nebude viac zápasiť s hriechom. A satan je spútaný na krátke obdobie, tisíc rokov, pretože všetci jeho poddaní sú v pekle, a jeho... Cirkev, ktorá je na zemi, je vykúpená a je rovno v prítomnosti Krista, takže on nemá nič, s čím by mohol pracovať. A tak, to nie je nejaká reťaz, ako som hovoril, nejaká kovová reťaz; to je reťaz okolností; on nemá nič, čo by mohol urobiť. Je bezmocný a bezbranný, len čaká na vzkriesenie tých poddaných; potom sú oddelení ako ovce od kozlov.       

        341. Či neprišla kráľovná zo Šéby ku Šalamúnovi kvôli tomu, aby ho otestovala a zistila, či meno Pánovo bolo skutočne Šalamún alebo nie? (Myslím, že som tomu neporozumel. Počkajte chvíľu.) Či neprišla kráľovná zo Šéby ku Šalamúnovi kvôli tomu, aby ho otestovala a zistila, či meno Pánovo bolo skutočne Šalamún alebo nie? (Toto som možno nepochopil. Prepáčte mi len na chvíľu. Dovoľte, nech to prečítam ešte raz.) Či neprišla kráľovná zo Šéby ku Šalamúnovi kvôli tomu, aby ho otestovala a zistila, či meno Pánovo bolo skutočne Šalamún alebo nie?

151        Nie. Ona vôbec neprišla kvôli tomu, aby zistila, či Božie meno je Šalamún. Šalamún bol kráľ. Ona prišla a povedala, riekla, „Skutočne je Boh so Svojím kráľom a s jeho ľudom.“ Vidíte? Prišla a bola otestovaná – otestovala Šalamúna ohľadom jeho daru, pretože vo svojom srdci mala veci, ktoré jej Šalamún zjavil, a to ukázalo, že bol Božím kráľom na zemi.

152        Spomeňte si, ako tam dole, myslím, že tam odkiaľ pochádzala – dole v tej zemi Šéby, odkiaľ prišla, ľudia tam chodievali, viete, a hovorili o veľkých veciach, ktoré sa diali, že tam hore majú Boha, ktorý pomazal ich kráľa; a ako bol ten kráľ pomazaný od Boha. Nemyslím, že ona si myslela, že Šalamúnovo meno – alebo že Božie meno bolo Šalamún, pretože ak by to tak bolo, to by z nej znova urobilo pohanku. Vidíte? Tak ona to mohla urobiť. V srdci si mohla myslieť, že Boh bol Šalamúnom, a Šalamún bol Bohom, pretože ona bola od začiatku pohanka. Ale keď jej Šalamún zjavil tajomstvo v jej srdci skrze dar rozpoznania, ktorý bol vtedy nazvaný 'múdrosťou'; on to rozpoznal; ona vedela, že Boh je so Šalamúnom, pretože potom... Oni mali... Ona zistila... Ak prišla s týmto vo svojej mysli...

153        Ak tu táto osoba, ktorá položila túto otázku, ak sa pýta, „Či ona potom vedela, že skutočne Šalamún... že meno Pánovo bolo skutočne Šalamún?“ Vidíte? Šalamún nebol Pán; zistila by to od ľudí, pretože oni uctievali Jehovu, a bola tam tá veľkolepá archa a veľkolepý testament; archa, v ktorej boli Pánove prikázania. A oni jej porozprávali o vrchu Sinai a rozličných miestach, kde boli. A potom mohla uvidieť, že Boh toho testamentu bol v tomto mužovi, pretože on mal rozpoznanie, ktoré prináležalo jedine Bohu. Vidíte? Tak ona vedela, že Boh bol v Šalamúnovi. Ale teraz, takto to mohlo vyznieť, ak sa ten človek pýtal na toto. Ale, „Či ona vedela, že meno Pánovo bolo skutočne Šalamún?“ Možno to nenapísali takým spôsobom, ako to mysleli. Vidíte? A tak, myslím, že by povedali toto: „Že Pán bol v Šalamúnovi.“ Áno, iste bol. Pretože, ak je toto tou otázkou, iste to tak bolo. Ona spoznala Boha, pretože sa o tom zmienila. A ona by neuctievala žiadneho iného boha. A myslím, že povedala, že bude vždy... Videla prečo... Vyrazilo jej to dych; nezostali jej žiadne otázky. Šalamún jednoducho zjavil celú vec a ona spoznala, že Boh bol s ním.       

 342. Boli sme zosobášení pred 21 rokmi civilným úradníkom. Bolo to zle?

154        Áno, to ste urobili zle. Manželstvo patrí do domu Božieho. Ale to, že ste zosobášení, tu je to, kedy ste naozaj zosobášení: vy ste zosobášení vtedy, keď si navzájom dáte sľub, keď si navzájom sľúbite, že si jeden druhého vezmete. Ten verejný úradník vám mohol dať potvrdenie; čiže legálne právne podmienky spoločného súžitia ako manžela a manželky, aby ste neboli len neformálni manžel a manželka. Ale keď tomu dievčaťu sľúbiš a toto – ty sľúbiš tomu mužovi, že budeš pre neho verne žiť, a prijímaš ho za svojho manžela, potom ste zosobášení. Spomeňte si, ako som to minulý týždeň vysvetľoval; myslím, že to bolo vtedy. Vidíte? Keď jej sľúbiš... Rozumiete?

155        Dokonca v starej Biblii, ak sa nejaký muž zasnúbil s dievčaťom a ... Poznáte tie zákony, ktoré sa toho týkajú. No, to bolo to isté ako cudzoložstvo. Istotne bolo... Keď jej to sľúbil, tým to bolo vybavené.

156        Niekto minule položil takú otázku: „Je anulovanie to isté ako rozvod?“ Vidíte? Priatelia, keď mi dávate takéto otázky, neviete, čo to pre mňa znamená. Mám tu veľa priateľov, ktorí tu sedia a sú ženatí druhý alebo tretíkrát. Uvedomili ste si, že hovorím k môjmu vlastnému synovi, Billy Paulovi? Či by som mal ušetriť Billy Paula? Určite nie. Billy Paul sa oženil s nejakým dievčaťom a prišiel a povedal, „Ocko, idem sa ženiť.“

157        Umýval som auto, povedal som, „Spadol si na hlavu,“ len som ďalej takto umýval auto.

 On povedal, „Idem sa ženiť.“ 

 Povedal som, „Ó, ale choď,“ a pokračoval som takto ďalej. Išiel a povedal to mame, ona sa mu vysmiala. Viete, čo urobil? Utiekol s nejakým deckom ešte na škole a zobrali sa. My sme tú svadbu anulovali, otec toho dievčaťa a ja. My sme tú svadbu anulovali, ale on bol aj tak ženatý. To je môj chlapec, ktorý tu teraz sedí a počúva ma. Presne tak.

158        Prišiel ku mne s tým dievčaťom, s ktorým teraz žije, moja nevesta. Môj malý vnúčik… Povedal, „Ocko, zosobášiš ma?“

159        Povedal som, „V žiadnom prípade.“ To je môj vlastný syn. Myslíte, že ma to nereže až do kosti, keď som ho nosil na rukách a urobil som všetko, čo som mohol, a bol som pre neho otcom i matkou? Myslíte, že ma to nezabíja, keď to musím povedať? Ale je to pravda. Určite. Môj chlapec je tu a počúva… Moja nevesta a môj malý vnúčik tu práve teraz sedia… Ale ja som mu povedal, že je to zlé (Rozumiete?), pretože musím. Som zaviazaný ku tomu Slovu.

160        A poviem toto: zosobášil vás úradník? Mali ste byť zosobášení kazateľom v zbore. To sa sluší pre kresťana. Ale keďže ste už učinili ten sľub a slávnostný prísľub, a boli ste zosobášení pred 21 rokmi, potom si myslím, že je to v poriadku.

 Poviete, „No, ja...“

161        Mohla by povstať otázka, „Mal by som radšej prísť a nechať sa znova zosobášiť?“ Ak chceš. Nemaj v mysli nič, čo by trápilo tvoju vieru, pretože ak tam niečo je, potom nemôžeš ísť ďalej než potiaľ; zastavíš sa hneď tam. Keď prichádza ten otáznik, to je to miesto, kde končíš, rovno tam. Ale čo sa týka mňa, myslím, že by to bolo v poriadku.

162        Ten človek, ktorý ma pokrstil v Mene Pána Ježiš Krista, ma nakoniec vyhnal zo zboru, pretože som s ním nesúhlasil ohľadom žien kazateliek. To nespôsobilo, že by som sa znova išiel prekrstiť. Vidíte? Iste nie. Rozumiete? Je to v poriadku.

163        Ale pamätajte len, tieto veci do mňa sekajú. Sedia tu moji blízki priatelia, muži a ženy, ktorí by si vylúpili oko a dali by mi ho, ak by som ich o to poprosil (Tak veru.), a sú druhýkrát zosobášení, niektorí aj trikrát, práve teraz tu sedia. A môj vlastný chlapec, môj vlastný vnúčik, moja nevesta, ktorých milujem... Pozrite na Billyho, ako som za ním stál a ako on stál za mnou, ale pravda je pravdou, je to skutočná pravda.

164        Mám... Dnes by som mohol vyjsť sem a zavolať niekoho z týchto zhromaždení Božích alebo niektorých z týchto ľudí a povedať im, „Úplne som sa mýlil; nezostanem so Slovom, zostanem s vami.“ Pravdepodobne by som bol čoskoro veľmi populárnou osobou s takým darom Božím. Ak by som umiestnil všetok svoj vplyv do jednej z tých organizácií, pravdepodobne by som mal medzi nimi veľké meno. Nestarám sa o nejaké moje meno medzi nimi. Milujem ich; to je pravda. Ale musím zostať pravdivý. Ak by som to urobil, bol by som pokrytec.

165        A bol by som pokrytcom, ak by som tu zastal a kvôli môjmu vlastnému synovi, ktorý tu sedí, a on dal tomu dievčaťu sľub, a ja by som povedal... Ak by nemal ani nad sebou vyrieknutú tú ceremóniu, nezáleží na tom, či niekedy s tou ženou žil alebo s ňou spal, s tým dievčaťom, alebo čokoľvek by to bolo, keď učinil ten sľub, potom je ženatý, Billy Paul alebo nie Billy Paul. Je to úplná pravda. Keď učinil ten sľub, potom je ženatý. Ak by išlo o mňa, bolo by to tak isto.

166        Musíme byť úprimní. Ak nemôžem byť úprimný s mojím chlapcom, potom nemôžem byť úprimný s vami. Ak nie som úprimný s vami, potom nebudem úprimný s Bohom. A chcem, aby ste verili tomu, že to, čo vám hovorím, je mojím čestným presvedčením. Nerobte z toho nič iné; len to hovorte tak, ako som to povedal (Vidíte?), pretože vám poviem pravdu.

167        No, takýmto spôsobom s vami často nehovorím, pretože ste mojimi deťmi, tak vás nazývam. Splodil som vás pre Krista skrze Evanjelium. A zatiaľ čo sme tu spolu, len naša vlastná skupina, ktorá tu sedí, tak som vás trocha oholil. Ale chcem vám povedať: keď ku mne prídete a opýtate sa na čokoľvek, odpoviem vám najlepšie, ako viem. Ak je to v Slove, nestarám sa o to, či ma to odsudzuje; mám na sebe mnoho chumáčov, ktoré majú byť oholené. Presne tak.

168        Ale ak sa ma opýtate na čokoľvek, poviem vám ohľadom toho. Ak vám niečo poviem, poviem vám pravdu. Vždy som sa snažil žiť takýmto spôsobom. To je spôsob, ako chcem žiť a zomrieť; byť s každým úprimný.

169        Nedávno ku mne prišlo jedno malé dievča; tá žena tu teraz nie je. Tom Simpson, mnohí ho poznáte. Tom je milý chlapík; nie je tu nikto z jeho ľudí. (Myslím, že všetci tí ľudia odišli späť, okrem Freda, ktorý tu stále je... Fred Sothmann, neviem, či tu je alebo nie, ale myslím, že sú tu.) Ale Tom Simpson, on prišiel z Kanady s Fredom. A oni... (Poznáte brata Freda, nášho dôverníka.)

170        A brat Tom, mnohí ho tu poznáte. A Tom je milý človek; je to skvelý chlapík; a takisto aj pani Simpsonová. Keby len počúvala, čo som jej povedal, tiež bude znova chodiť. A ona sedí ochromená v tom invalidnom vozíku. Ona bude chodiť, ak len urobí to, čo som jej povedal, aby urobila. A len to sledujte a vidzte, či to nie je pravda. Rozumiete? No, ale ona musí urobiť to, čo jej bolo povedané, ak očakáva, že sa to stane.

171        A jedno z jej malých dievčat, sú to milé malé dievčatá... Keď boli také maličké, bral som si ich na kolená a hral som sa s nimi. Teraz sú už príliš veľké; sú takmer ženami, majú desať alebo dvanásť rokov. A tak, jedna z nich ku mne prišla a povedala, „Brat Branham, sníval sa mi sen.“ A porozprávala mi ten sen. A povedala, „Čo to znamená?“

 Povedal som, „Neviem, zlatíčko.“ Budem sa modliť, a ak mi to Pán zjaví, potom ti poviem.“

172        Povedala, „V poriadku.“ O pár dní sa znova vrátila späť, povedala, „Máš ten sen?“

 Povedal som, „Nie, zlatíčko, nemám to; On mi to nezjavil.“

173        Približne za jeden alebo dva týždne sa znova vrátila, povedala, „Brat Branham, čo ohľadom toho sna?“

 Povedal som, „Neviem.“ No, vyzeralo to, že je tak trocha sklamaná.

174        Pamätajte, keď ma prosíte, aby som vám niečo povedal, a nedostanem to od Pána, ja som tiež sklamaný. Ale nebudem pokrytcom alebo klamárom; poviem vám pravdu. Ak mi to On povie, potom vám o tom poviem; ak to On nepovie, potom to nepoviem. To je všetko, čo môžem urobiť. A chcem, aby ste mi takto verili.

175        A teraz, myslel som si, že viem, čo ten sen znamenal, podľa mňa, ale ako by som to vedel naisto; ja musím tú vec znova uvidieť. A nikto z vás nemôže ukázať prstom na žiaden čas alebo miesto, kde som vám niekedy dal výklad sna v Mene Pánovom, a že by to nebolo presne tak. Tak veru. Nikdy som vám nepovedal nič v Mene Pánovom, čo by sa tiež nevyplnilo, presne tak, pretože som... To je On. A potom to nie je moja zodpovednosť; to je On; je to Jeho zodpovednosť.

176        Povedal som, „Pozri, Trudy, čo ak by sme išli do Arizony. A čo ak by som ti prišiel povedať, že keď tam prídete, 'TAK HOVORÍ PÁN, tvoj malý brat bude (malý Johnny, to je ten, ktorého si doberám, že má stále otvorené brucho)...'“ Povedal som, „Čo ak by ho na ulici niečo zrazilo a ja poviem, 'Vieš, čo sa stane, niečo ho zrazí na ulici; a ty prídeš ku mne a povieš, 'Brat Branham...', alebo lepšie povedané, 'Poďme, vezmime ho k bratovi Branhamovi.' A potom budeš pobehovať naokolo a nájdeš ma, ako stojím na schodoch a rozprávam sa s nejakým mužom v bielom obleku. A potom len položím ruky na malého Johnnyho; on znova ožije a začne behať.'“ No, povedal som, „Potom pôjdeš na západ a prvé, čo zistíš, jedného dňa začuješ mamu aj ocka, ako kričia, a pozrieš sa a tam leží malý Johnny, ktorého práve niečo zrazilo. Čo budeš robiť?“ Vidíš? Veríš mi. Vidíte? A chcem, aby ste mi verili, nejdem vám nič hovoriť len ako nejakú domnienku; poviem vám pravdu, alebo vám nepoviem nič. A povedal som, „Potom by si prišla ku mne a povedala, 'Ó, malý Johnny,' alebo by si prišla ku svojej mame, 'Ó, malého Johnnyho niečo zrazilo. Je mŕtvy. On zomrel.'“

177        Prišiel by doktor, skontroluje mu oči, skontroluje mu srdce, jeho dýchanie, „Je mŕtvy; vezmite ho do márnice.“ Čo by si urobila?“

 Povieš, „Počkajte chvíľu. Počkajte chvíľu. Vezmeš ho do náručia; poďme.“ Amen.

 „Kam to ideš, Trudy?“

 „Neviem.“

 „Čo to máš?“ V náručí držíš svojho malého mŕtveho bračeka a ideš ďalej dole ulicou. Ľudia povedia, „Je to dievča šialené?“ Nie. Ona má TAK HOVORÍ PÁN. Čo sa stane?

178        Hneď vieš, povieš svojmu otcovi a mame, „Počkajte, nájdeme brata Branhama. On bude stáť na nejakých schodoch a rozprávať sa s mužom v bielom obleku. Tamto stojí. Pozrite, čo sa stane.“ Nebola by v tvojej mysli ani štipka pochybnosti. Prišla by si tam a povedala, „Brat Branham, vieš, čo si mi hovoril.“

 „Áno, Trudy. Johnny, vstaň.“ Vyskočil by a išiel by po ulici.

179        Ale čo ak by som ti povedal určité veci len ako nejakú domnienku, o ktorej by som si myslel, že je to správne, povedal by som ti to ako TAK HOVORÍ PÁN, a pritom by to nebolo správne a nestalo by sa to, nikdy by sa to nevyplnilo; potom by si ohľadom toho chlapca bola vystrašená na smrť. Nevedela by si, či ho máš priniesť alebo nie.

180        Boh ma sem poslal, aby som vám pomohol, a chcem byť pre vás pomocou. A nezáleží na tom, ako to seká, bolí, alebo čokoľvek, musím to aj tak povedať.

181        Ale čo sa teraz týka manželstva a rozvodu, prosil som vás ako brat, vyčkajte, pokiaľ ohľadom toho odo mňa nebudete počuť. Rozumiete? Len pokračujte ďalej tak, ako ste žili. Zaberám tu týmto mnoho času.

182        „Pred 21 rokmi sme boli zosobášení (Áno.)... civilným úradníkom.“ Drahá sestra, drahý brat, raz mi jeden obchodník povedal, že vošiel do cirkvi (On bol kresťan.) hore v Connecticut alebo niekde tam hore, prišiel do veľkej cirkvi, vošiel tam, aby sa modlil. To nebolo – on bol letničný, ale vošiel tam, aby sa modlil. A povedal, že keď tam vošiel a kľakol si v tej cirkvi, aby sa modlil... povedal, že dlho šoféroval, bol unavený, trocha sa mu cnelo za domovom, je to obchodník a predáva veci pre fabriky. A prišiel tam, aby urobil nejaké obchody alebo niečo také, potom išiel okolo cirkvi a pomyslel si, „Pôjdem... Myslím, že tam pôjdem a pomodlím sa.“ Dvere boli otvorené; povedal, že vošiel dnu. Nikoho nepočul, tak si kľakol a začal sa modliť. Potom, čo sa tam modlil, bol tam asi hodinu, povedal, že náhle začul, ako buchli nejaké dvere alebo niečo také; myslel si, že to je nejaký správca alebo niekto z tej cirkvi. Povedal, že po chvíli uvidel, ako prichádza – počul niekoho rozprávať. Prekĺzol tam, aby sa pozrel a poobzeral, aby videl, či to bol nejaký správca. A pred oltárom stál nejaký muž a žena, držali sa za ruky, on povedal, „Beriem si ťa, drahá, aby si bola mojou zákonitou manželkou.“ Vidíte?

 Povedala, „Beriem si ťa, drahý, aby si bol mojím zákonitým manželom.“

 „No,“ povedal, „toto je divné,“ povedal, tento letničný človek, on riekol, „tento muž a žena sa sobášia bez kazateľa.“ Vidíte? A tak len sedel a čakal; a potom, ako učinili svoje sľuby, že budú žiť verne jeden voči druhému, a že ich rozdelí jedine smrť, objali sa, pobozkali sa, otočili sa a s úsmevom na tvári kráčali preč. On povedal, „Počkajte chvíľu.“ Povedal, „Zaujímala by ma jedna vec; som tu cudzincom.“ Povedal, „Vy ste sa vzali?“

 Povedali, „Áno.“

 „Bez kazateľa?“

 Povedal, „Nie.“ Povedal, „Sme manželmi štyridsať rokov.“ Povedal, „Pred štyridsiatimi rokmi sme sa vzali rovno tu pri tomto oltári a každý rok sa vraciame späť a obnovujeme naše sľuby.“ To je dobrá myšlienka. Vidíte.

183        Ale čo sa týka manželstva, keď jej to sľúbiš, ona prijíma tvoje slovo; ty prijímaš jej slovo; a Boh prijíma slovo vás oboch. Rozumiete? Tak nedávajte sľub, pokiaľ... [Prázdne miesto na páske. – pozn.prekl.]       

343. Ak si ich zostrihajú v... Sú to dlhé vlasy, ak si ich vpredu zostrihajú? (Aha. No, počkajte chvíľu; dovoľte, nech sa tu na to pozriem. Ja...) Sú to dlhé vlasy, ak si... (No, možno tým mysleli toto.) Sú to aj naďalej stále dlhé vlasy, ak si ich vpredu zostrihajú?

184        Už viac nie; oni to ostrihali. Vidíte? Ale tak ako muž, ktorý si trikrát skrátil nohavice a stále to nestačilo. Čo hovoríš? Čo hovoríš? [Brat Branham sa rozpráva s niekým v obecenstve. – pozn.prekl.] Ó, to je to, o čom hovoria. Ako si doberám moje malé dievča, ona povedala... Hovorím tomu „hriva“, viete, ofiny, alebo čokoľvek to je, viete, tu vpredu.

185        No, viem si predstaviť tie deti, ktoré si strihajú vlasy vpredu... Možno vám o tom povedala vaša mama (Rozumiete?), ak si praje, aby ste to tak mali. Myslím, že by to tak trocha vyzeralo, ako by sa tá žena pozerala cez spätné zrkadlo, ak jej už minulo okolo dvadsaťpäť a chce si ich strihať takto vpredu, aby vyzerala ako nejaké malé dieťa. Pozeraj sa sem, kam ideš, sestra, nie tam, kde si kedysi bola. Rozumiete?

186        Ale teraz, čo sa týka strihania vlasov, poviem vám toto. Nemôžem – nemám žiadne miesto Písma, ktoré by hovorilo, že si môžete toľko odstrihnúť a viac už nie. Nemám na to žiadne miesto Písma; nemohol by som vám to povedať, sestra alebo brat, ktokoľvek to je.

187        Poviem vám jedno. Prial by som si... No, viem, že moje deti to tiež urobili, Rebeka a Sára, videl som, keď si ostrihali vpredu vlasy a zozadu si urobili nejaký vrkoč a tu vpredu to takto upravili. Ja ne... No, nezastávam ich. Vidíte? Nie veru. Čo sa mňa týka, prial by som si, aby sa nožnice ani nedotkli ich vlasov. Ale keď majú dlhé vlasy, takto im visia dole, a len ich pristrihnúť tu vpredu od ich očí, čo sa týka malých detí, možno. Neviem, či by to bolo zlé; nemyslím, že áno. Vidíte? Ale keď... Ak môžete, ja – čo sa týka vás sestier, ja by som ich len nechal tak, ako ich Pán urobil. Vidíte?

188        A, samozrejme, viem, že ženy chcú vyzerať pekne; to je prirodzenosť; a to je to, aké majú byť. Rozumiete? Mali by také byť. A tak, to je v poriadku, ale na druhej strane, nevyzerajte ako svet (Rozumiete?); neberte si vzor zo sveta. Zlé veci... Chcete si ich tak strihať, ale nestrihajte si teraz vlasy. Ak vám dole visia vrkoče, alebo akokoľvek máte vlasy, nechajte ich dlhé. Nestrihajte si ich, aby ste vyzerali ako svet. Ak sú to len malé dievčatá...

189        Môj strýko tam v New Yorku mal malé dievčatko. Ona mala tie najkrajšie vlasy. Také tmavohnedé a nosila vrkoče. Moja mama zvykla mať... Jej vrkoče siahali až po zadnú stranu kolien. A toto malé dievčatko malo tiež takéto vrkoče; volala sa Jacqueline. A určitú časť z nich mala takto sčesanú dole a inú mala takto zastrihnutú. A teraz, to bolo asi pred pätnástimi, osemnástimi alebo dvadsiatimi rokmi. A divil som sa, prečo si nesčesala dozadu všetky vlasy, vyzeralo by to krajšie, než keď to mala takto, ako to dnes majú títo moderní Beatles, viete. Ó, a to je pravda, nemyslím, že by som to takto robil. Čokoľvek, čo vyzerá ako tí Beatles, to vyzerá ako zo sveta, no, tak s tým nič nemajte. Áno

.        344. Môj manžel a ja nevidíme rovnako Bibliu, pravdy – ako túto pravdu, ktorú kážeš. On tomu nerozumie. Mala by som s ním chodievať do cirkví, keď neverím ich učeniu? Veľmi sa ohľadom toho trápim.

190        Áno. Ak si manželka tohto muža a on ťa neodsudzuje, ty nemôžeš odsudzovať jeho (Rozumieš?), pretože manžel je posvätený skrze manželku. Vidíš? A verím, že ak chodí do nejakej denominačnej cirkvi alebo do niečoho takého, chce, aby si tam chodievala s ním... Vidíš? Ak nie si... Vidíš? Nič ti tam nemôže ublížiť, pretože ty aj tak nejdeš počúvať, čo tam hovoria, pretože si tu povedala, že neveríš ich kázaniu. Vidíš? Tak to ti neublíži, ale iba preukazuješ rešpekt svojmu manželovi. Poddávaš sa mu a možno, že tým, že to robíš, budeš... Ak tam učia a robia veci... Si vyučená oveľa vyšším veciam než to; budeš slaná; on to uvidí a príde k Pánovi. Myslím, že ja by som išiel. Ó, fíha, pozrite, koľko je hodín.       

        345. Hovorí Zachariáš 4 a Zjavenie 11:3-12 o tej istej bytosti? Pozri sa na Zachariáša 4:12-14 a Zjavenie 11:4. (Oni sa tu podpísali – brat a sestra z tohto zboru.)

191        Pozrime sa, Zachariáš 4. Ó, áno, to sú tie dva olivové stromy. Áno, dva olivové stromy a Zjavenie 11 je... Ó, áno, to je ono. Tá istá vec. Tu sú oni dvaja. To je Mojžiš a Eliáš, dva olivové stromy.

Modli sa za nášho... To je modlitebná prosba.

 Prepáčte, toto nemôžem prečítať pred... Je to ohľadom rodinných vzťahov. Áno, dám to sem ku tejto. Nemôžem to prečítať na verejnosti. Aj tak budú mať osobný rozhovor, takže... 

        346. Brat Branham, je zlé... [Brat Branham sa rozpráva s niekým na pódiu. – pozn.prekl.] (Čo tam je povedané? Čo ohľadom nedele? Práca?) Je zlé pracovať v nedeľu?

192        Práve som to objasnil. Ak je ten vôl v jame, vytiahnite ho von, ale nestrkajte ho do jamy len kvôli tomu, aby ste ho mohli v nedeľu vytiahnuť.

        Brat Branham, budeš tu na ďalšiu nedeľu kázať?

193        To je len taký dotaz. Nie, sestra, brat, ktokoľvek si. No, tieto tu len tak ležali. Musel som ich tam položiť, alebo niekto ich vložil do toho zväzku.

 Brat... Toto je pre teba, brat Capps, „Zaspievaš pieseň 'Nikdy nezostarneme'?“ Musel som to mať v... Mám ich tu niektoré zamiešané.

347. Brat Branham, niekto chce vedieť, prečo si nebol (s-p-o...) spomenutý v Biblii. Verím, že si Habakuk 2:1-4. (Vyhľadaj to, brat Neville, Habakuk 2:1-4) Nech to prečítajú a preštudujú, 3. kapitola... myslím, že mená a predobrazy tých 4 kapitol, verím, že to je o tebe.

194        No, zatiaľ čo to hľadá, to je Habakuk 2:1-4. Brat alebo sestra, ktokoľvek sa opýtal tú otázku (Nie je tu žiadne meno; to je v poriadku), som rád, že sa pýtate na tie veci. Potom viem, čo máte na srdci (Rozumiete?), a potom vám odpoviem. Nie. Vidíte? Nemusíš mať nevyhnutne svoje meno v Biblii (Rozumiete?), ale (Vidíte?), pokiaľ si v Biblii, tam – pokiaľ si v Kristovi, tak si v Biblii; si v Ňom (Vidíte?), v Biblii. Rozumiete? Pokiaľ si v Kristovi, tak si v plnosti Biblie. Vidíte? Si vo svojej plnej pozícii, keď si v Kristovi. Všetci tomu rozumiete?

195        Našiel si to, brat Neville? Čo? Áno. Habakuk – Habakuk... Nečítal som to. Myslím, že to sem bolo položené len dnes ráno. Habakuk 2:1-4. Pozrime sa na to. Habakuk 2 – Habakuk 2, a od 1-4:

Postavím sa na svoju stráž, stanem si na vežu a budem vyzerať, aby som videl, čo mi bude hovoriť, a čo odpoviem na svoje karhanie.

A Hospodin mi odpovedal a riekol: Napíš videnie, a to zreteľne na doskách, aby čitateľ prebehol po ňom.

Lebo ešte bude videnie na určený čas, ale na konci bude hovoriť a neoklame; keby predlelo, čakaj naň, lebo istotne prídem a nebudem meškať.

Hľa, nadutá je, nie je priama jeho duša v ňom, ale spravodlivý bude žiť svojou vierou.

196        No, viem si predstaviť, že táto drahá osoba, ktorá sa toto pýta... Vidíte? To je niekto, kto ma miluje, inak by to nenapísali. Vidíte? No, nemohol by som povedať, že moje... V Biblii nie je napísané moje meno, William Branham, ani tvoje meno tam nie je, ktokoľvek si, ale jednako sme v Ňom. A tieto...

197        A teraz, v Biblii vidíme známe miesta, ktoré sa na niečo odvolávajú, ktoré hovoria určité veci. Rozumiete? No, ak dávate pozor, v Biblii sa história opakuje. Vidíte? No, dám vám teraz jedno miesto Písma ako príklad. (Vidím, že mnohí si tie veci zapisujete.) No, v 3. kapitole svätého Matúša, tam je povedané, „A keď Boh povolal z Egypta Svojho Syna, aby mohlo byť naplnené to, čo bolo povedané, 'Z Egypta som povolal Svojho Syna...'“ No, ak máte Scofielda alebo akúkoľvek inú Bibliu s odvolávkami, ak si tam pozriete tú odvolávku, ten text za okrajom, to vás privedie naspäť na miesto, kde On povolal Jákoba, Izrael, z Egypta. Vidíte? Ale Jákob bol Jeho syn, ktorého povolal z Egypta; taktiež Ježiš bol Jeho Syn, ktorého povolal z Egypta. Tak vidíte, Slovo Božie nikdy nekončí. Vidíte? Identifikujeme samých seba v Biblii s rozličnými... Koľkí z vás si pamätajú na moje posolstvo o tom identifikovaní sa s kresťanskými postavami; Phoenix, Arizona, tam som to kázal. Áno, mnohí z vás to majú na páske. Vidíte? Zidentifikovaní s kresťanskou postavou. Rozumiete? Ak si kresťan, môžeš sa v tom Písme kdekoľvek zidentifikovať, a ak nie si kresťan, tiež sa môžeš identifikovať v Biblii. Rozumiete? Tak myslím, že to by mohlo pomôcť. Chcel by som ich prebrať toľko, koľko len stihnem.       

348. Brat Branham, niektorí ľudia hovoria, že milosť skončila a nikto nemôže byť spasený. No, je to pravda? (Som rád, že som si vytiahol práve túto otázku.) Pozorujeme a modlíme sa – pozorujeme modlitebné rady a vyzerá to, že niektorí stále nachádzajú milosť. (No, to je prvá otázka z dvoch.)

198        „Skončila milosť?“ Nikdy si to nemyslite. Rozumiete? Len pokračujte a robte všetko, čo môžete, až kým nebudete vzatí preč. Rozumiete?

199        „Všimli sme si, že v modlitebnom rade niektorí ľudia stále nachádzajú milosť.“ Istotne. Milosť – tie dvere sú otvorené. Vidíte? Myslím, že ste mohli k tomuto prísť kvôli – táto myšlienka môže ležať medzi... Vidíte? Nemám čas, aby som každé z týchto miest Písma umiestňoval na ich správne miesto (Rozumiete?), každú z týchto vecí na jej správne miesto. Oni... V modlitebnom rade nachádzate milosť; istotne.

200        Ak by som vedel, že Ježiš prichádza dnes popoludní, robil by som presne tie veci, ktoré robím aj teraz (Rozumiete?), len by som pokračoval ďalej. Milosť je vždy otvorená. Vidíte?

201        A teraz, to miesto, o ktorom si myslím, že to máte odtiaľ – to je ohľadom zakončovania siedmich cirkevných vekov a že bolo uvoľnených sedem Pečatí. Vidíte? Sedem Pečatí, to prejavilo, čo sa deje – čo sa stalo. Siedmy cirkevný vek, sme na konci siedmeho cirkevného veku. Keď hovorím na konci, to neznamená, že toto je teraz práve tá hodina, práve tá minúta. Pamätajte, Biblia tam vtedy v čase Pána Ježiša povedala, Pavol povedal, „Čas je na blízku.“ Viete si predstaviť, ako dlho to bolo v Božom čase? To bolo včera. Čo sa týka môjho času, tak to bolo 2000 rokov. Vidíte? Čas je na blízku. Vidíte? To, čo Boh nazýva na blízku; to nie je to, čo my nazývame na blízku. Rozumiete?

202        Tak len naďalej verte, naďalej sa modlite, pokračujte vpred... Boh má stále otvorenú milosť; len do nej vchádzajte tak rýchlo, ako len môžete. Boh to zastaví, keď príde ten čas to zastaviť. Vidíte? Nuž..

.        349. Brat Branham, je pravda, že by nikto okrem teba nemal kázať? Videli sme ťa, ako si ordinoval nejakých mužov. Neveríme, že by si to robil, keby nemali kázať.

203        Pre milosrdenstvo! Brat, sestra, ktokoľvek ti povedal, že nikto okrem mňa nemôže kázať, ja by som bol pre Boha určite biednym jedincom s tým všetkým. Nie. Každý muž, alebo ten, ktorý vo svojom živote cíti povolanie od Boha, nech začne kázať; potrebujeme ich.

204        Boží muži sú pomazaní po celom svete, aby kázali Evanjelium. Vidíte? Som len jedným malým kamienkom na pláži medzi mnohými veľkými kameňmi. Rozumiete? A tak, ja... Je ich tam mnoho, ktorí sú viac spôsobilí, viac hodní, vo všetkom viac zdatnejší ku kázaniu, než som ja; som len jednou malou pokornou osobou, ktorá tu leží. Som jedným zrnkom pšenice v celej sýpke. Vidíte? Tak to je len... Viete, čo tým myslím.

205        Každý muž, ktorý je povolaný od Boha, je potrebné, aby kázal Evanjelium.       

 350. Ako sa môže kresťan vnoriť hlbšie do lásky Božej?

206        Čítaj Slovo a modli sa. Čítaj Slovo Božie a modli sa. Budem sa ponáhľať, aby som ich stihol toľko, koľko len budem môcť.

Zadal som jednu otázku, ale opýtal som sa to (n-e-s...) nesprávne. Chcem vedieť, či budeš mať zhromaždenie s uzdravovaním predtým, ako opustíš mesto. Ak nie... môžem mať s tebou osobný rozhovor?

 No, mimochodom, myslím, že táto osoba bola dnes ráno na rozhovore. Samozrejme, mali sme zhromaždenie s uzdravovaním – mali sme tiež zhromaždenie s uzdravovaním. 

        351. Brat Branham, prosím, objasni 1. Korinťanom – 1. Korinťanom 11... 11 a verš 4–6. Znamená to nejaké ešte iné pokrytie okrem vlasov, alebo sú dlhé vlasy tým jediným pokrytím, ktoré potrebujeme? (Nájdi mi 1. Korinťanom 11. Pozrime sa na to, 1. Korinťanom 11:4.) Tam je povedané, že keď sa modlíme... (Ó, áno, on – tu to majú. Oni hovoria...) Keď sa modlíme alebo prorokujeme, môžeme si vziať naše vlasy... Môžeme... (Pozrime sa na to; majú tu niečo prečiarknuté čiarou.) Keď prorokujeme – keď prorokujeme, môžeme si vziať naše vlasy, keď sme... (Vy hovoríte...) Keď prorokujeme, môžeme si nasadiť naše vlasy alebo ich máme dať dole?

208        Ak máte príčesok, môžete, ale ja by som – alebo ak nosíte jednu z tých Beatles parochní alebo niečo také, ale... Ak by som v nejakej vyzeral dobre, pravdepodobne by som aj ja nejakú nosil, ale to – nie Beatles parochňu, ale obyčajný príčesok.

209        Ale to je v poriadku. Ak nemáš žiadne vlasy a chceš nejaké mať. Ak to môžeš urobiť, je to úplne v poriadku. Tak veru. Ak nejaká žena, ak nemá dostatočne dlhé vlasy, chce si ich predlžiť, povedal by som, nasaď si to, sestra.

210        Ak nejaký muž trpí nachladnutím a podobne, a chce nejakým spôsobom... alebo aj čo sa týka jeho vzhľadu pre jeho manželku, ak by chcel nosiť nejaký príčesok, nech to urobí. Tak veru, áno. Nie je na tom nič zlé (Nie veru.), tak isto, ako keď ide o vaše zuby alebo umelú ruku alebo čokoľvek iné. Ak od teba príroda niečo zobrala a je to tak užitočná vec, len smelo choď do toho, je to úplne v poriadku.

211        Ale tu je povedané, „Môžeme si nasadiť naše vlasy alebo ich máme dať dole, keď sa modlíme alebo prorokujeme?“ Čo to v skutočnosti znamená?

212        V poriadku, prečítajme to, brat Neville... tu... od 4 do 6, v poriadku, no dobre.

Každý muž, keď sa modlí alebo keď prorokuje a má pokrytú hlavu, hanobí svoju hlavu. (To je, ak má dlhé vlasy. V poriadku.)

Ale každá žena, keď sa modlí alebo keď prorokuje s nepokrytou hlavou, hanobí svoju hlavu (To je jej manžel.), lebo je to jedno a to isté, ako keby sa bola oholila.

Lebo ak sa žena nepokrýva, nech sa aj ostrihá;... (Ak si chce strihať vlasy, nech sa rovno úplne oholí. Vidíte? Ak nedokáže mať...) ...ale ak nie je žene mrzká vec – ak je žene mrzká vec ostrihať sa alebo sa oholiť, nech sa pokrýva.

213        Nevidím tam nič ohľadom nasadenia alebo zloženia vlasov dole, pokiaľ žena chce... On hovorí, ak ona hovorí, že ich treba strihať, potom nech si ich oholí úplne celé. Vidíte? Pretože ak nie, potom nech má vlasy; pretože jej vlasy sú jej pokrytím. Ale čo sa týka muža, aby on mal pokrytú hlavu, dlhé vlasy ako žena, a stál by tak za kazateľňou, vyzeral by tam ako žena. Vidíte? Takže on to tak nemôže mať. Rozumiete?

214        To znamená, že oni si nasadzujú príčesok, alebo ho dávajú dole... Myslím, že tá osoba sa tam mohla zmýliť vo svojom zmýšľaní ohľadom toho, že to tam hovorilo o mužovi, ktorý prorokuje s pokrytou hlavou, potom si on dáva dole svoje pokrytie. Vidíte? Nie. To neznamená, že on mal dlhé vlasy; to znamená, že ak je on pokrytý... No, len to čítaj trocha ďalej, ty, kto si sa opýtal tú otázku, a zistíš, že hlavou ženy je jej manžel. Koľkí to vedia? A hlavou muža je Kristus; a tak, muž by si mal strihať vlasy kvôli Kristovi, pretože v Ňom je muž i žena a všetko. On je otcom, matkou, sestrou, bratom, všetkým. Ale v mužovi je iba mužnosť. A tak si musí strihať vlasy kvôli Kristovi; ale v žene je iba ženskosť, tak ona môže mať svoje pokrytie; pretože jej manžel je nad ňou. On je jej pánom, jej vládcom; a tak, ona musí mať dlhé vlasy.

215        A potom, ak ona hovorí, že si ich musí strihať, potom nech sa úplne oholí. A povedal, že ak je to pre ženu hanbou alebo potupou (a ona má vyzerať pekne), aby mala úplne oholené vlasy, potom nech má na hlave svoje pokrytie; nech má svoje dlhé vlasy. Vidíte? A tak, to je... Každý... Všetci tomu rozumiete? Myslím tým, znie to v poriadku? Ak áno, ak ste to porozumeli, povedzte, „Amen.“ Rozumiete? [Zhromaždenie odpovedá, „Amen.“ – pozn.prekl.] V poriadku

.        352. Brat Branham... (Teraz nám zostáva už len desať minút.) Brat Branham, tam, kde žijeme, nemáme žiadneho kazateľa, ale v nedeľu večer mávame len zhromaždenie, kde počúvame pásku. Mali by sme brať naše deti do inej cirkvi na nedeľnú školu? Sú zhromaždenia, kde sa počúva páska, dostatočné?

216        No, nech je to podľa toho, ako sú na tom vaše deti. Rozumiete? No, ak vezmete vaše deti, ktoré sú malé; a dáte ich tam do nejakej skupiny, vtlčú do nich veci, ktoré by nemali vedieť; to by som nerobil. Ak sa zdá, že sa dokážu dostatočne učiť z pások a takých vecí... A vy, povedzme, že by ste ich dali do katolíckej cirkvi, vzali by ste ich do katolíckej cirkvi, vzali by ste ich do niečoho takého; to by som neradil. Rozumiete? Ak oni...

217        Ale teraz, ak tam máte malý pekný zbor, kde s vami nesúhlasia možno v dvoch alebo troch veciach, a vaše deti chcú chodiť na nedeľnú školu, a tamto sú ľudia plného Evanjelia alebo niečo také, no, to by bolo úplne v poriadku. Ale vidíte, ale keď prídete na miesto, kde... Záleží na tom, ako to berú vaše deti, vidíte? Sledujte, čo robia vaše deti, čo – ako na to reagujú.       

        353. (Pozrime sa na to.) Ak nemáš zbor, do ktorého by si chodil, mal by si potom len počúvať pásky?

 Áno. To je – ja by som – ja... To by bolo v poriadku.

        354. Musia mať vaše deti prežitie, aby mali Ducha Svätého? Ak vidia to Posolstvo času konca, majú Ducha Svätého?

218        Každý musí mať to prežitie. Vaše deti nemôžu vojsť nijakým iným spôsobom, jedine rovnako ako vy. Rozumiete? Musia sa znovuzrodiť. V Kráľovstve Božom nie sú žiadne vnúčatá; všetko sú to deti. Oni to musia mať, musia mať prežitie s Bohom, aby vošli dnu, práve takisto ako vy. No, dúfam, že by som mohol vziať túto; to je..

.        355. Drahí milovaní: (Pozrime sa na to.) Ohľadne Písma z Efežanom 4:11 až 13, či my všetci... (Pozrime sa na to.) …či nadobudneme celé to zdokonalenie svätých skrze pásky, alebo by sme mali byť tu, kde pôsobia dary Ducha a rozličné úrady v zbore, aby nám to pomohlo k zdokonaleniu? Naše srdcia uverili celému Slovu Pánovmu.

219        No, táto osoba je z Oregonu. No, môj milý... Myslím, že viem, o koho ide. Vidíte? To je... Ó, áno, viem, istotne viem. Tvoj chlapec... Ak tu je tá osoba, viem, že si – ak nie si, mohlo to byť minulú nedeľu. Rozumiete? Toto môže pochádzať z predošlej nedele. Ale tvoj syn lieta ako ochranca prírody (Vidíte?), a on kontroluje... On je – myslím, že to on ma pozval, aby som s vami išiel poľovať na losy do Oregonu, kde... A myslím, že to je v poriadku. No, poznám túto osobu z listu skrze... a tak...

 Nie. Oni chcú prísť sem do zboru kvôli zdokonaleniu. Vidíte? Aby sme tu v zbore mali navzájom obecenstvo, ale zdokonalenie prichádza medzi nami a Bohom. Krv Kristova je tým, čo nás zdokonaľuje v Duchu Svätom.

220        No, hovorí, že v zbore sa prejavujú dary. No, nemáme tu veľmi veľa prejavujúcich sa darov, ale niektoré z nich máme. Máme dar jazykov a dar proroctva (dvaja alebo traja z nich).

221        Myslím, že tu náš brat Higginbotham, kdekoľvek sa nachádza, on má dar hovorenia v jazykoch. A máme s nami nášho brata Juniora Jacksona a on hovorí v jazykoch. A potom máme dvoch alebo troch z nich, ktorí to vykladajú. Brat Neville, náš pastor, ktorý tu je, on tiež hovorí v jazykoch a niekedy prorokuje, a Pán na neho prináša...

222        Práve minule niečo povedal. Volal do domu, kde som práve bol, že prorokoval nad nejakou osobou, povedal im, že nejaký opilec – že v ňom náhle nastane veľká zmena alebo niečo také. A ten muž prišiel od anonymných alkoholikov, stále bol alkoholikom, a už 68 dní sa ani nedotkol alkoholu, ani na to nebral žiadne lieky, ani nič podobné. To bol brat Neville, ktorý nad ním prorokoval.

223        A tak, sme – máme tu medzi nami nejaké dary, ktoré pracujú a veľmi radi budeme mať obecenstvo s kýmkoľvek z vás, ktorí sem pricestujete alebo sem prídete pracovne alebo chcete prísť a mať s nami obecenstvo, urobíme pre vás čokoľvek, veľmi sa z toho tešíme. Vidíte? Ale teraz, čo sa týka zdokonalenia – to patrí Kristovi.

 No, pozrime sa, ešte jednu alebo dve. 

 356. Brat Branham, budeš taký dobrý a vysvetlíš tú fotku, ktorú urobil brat Arganbright? Otázka číslo 1. Tá druhá je ohľadom tej druhej fotky na stene, to svetlo, ktoré je okolo teba, tá pracka, a tak ďalej.

224        No dobre, niečo vám poviem. Oni sa tu podpísali a teraz tu nie sú. Rozumieme tomu. To je brat a sestra Jackson z južnej Afriky; vrátili sa naspäť. Tak my tomu rozumieme; vysvetlili sme to.       

 357. Kedy bude cirkev, ktorá... Kedy bude vzkriesená cirkev, ktorá zomrela počas súženia? Budú oni tiež čakať až do vzkriesenia bezbožných? Budú žiť znova počas milénia?

225        No, to je dobrá otázka. Zaslúži si viac času, než jej môžem dať, ale len aby som mohol... Rozumiete? Nemám... Zostali mi asi dve tretiny z toho, s čím som dnes ráno začal – prešli dve hodiny. Je ich tak mnoho, že sa ich jednoducho nedá prebrať. Rozumiete? A chcem ich prebrať toľko, koľko len môžem, nevidím, kde všade sú. Viem, že sú tu tiež niektoré veľmi dobré, ktoré by sa mali prebrať, ako napríklad vysvetlenie semena hada a iné veci; ale poponáhľam sa a rýchlo vojdeme do tohto.

226        „Bude cirkev, ktorá zomrela počas obdobia súženia (Rozumiete?), vo vzkriesení?“

 V tom druhom vzkriesení, v tom druhom zmŕtvychvstaní.

227        „Budú tiež čakať do vzkriesenia bezbožných?“

 Spravodliví a nespravodliví budú vzkriesení v tom istom čase.

 „Budú žiť znova počas milénia?“

228        Nie. A ostatní mŕtvi neožili, až sa neskončí tých tisíc rokov. No, to je celkom krátke, ale som si istý...       

 358. Čo myslel Pavol tou voľnosťou a slobodou v Kristovi? Ako ďaleko je sloboda od zákona?

229        No, nie ste zviazaní zákonom. Povedzme, ako napríklad, tu je tá istá vec; vysvetlím to rýchlo v tej prirodzenej veci. Napríklad, tu vonku je napísané, že môžeš ísť po ulici iba 30 míľ za hodinu, rýchlejšie nemôžete ísť. V poriadku. No, ak by som išiel po ulici 40 míľ za hodinu, zákon ma odsudzuje. Ale ak idem po ulici iba 30 míľ za hodinu, nie som pod zákonom. Rozumiete? To je sloboda v Kristovi (Vidíte?), tá istá vec.

230        Nie si zviazaný zákonom tak dlho, ako... Ak nekradnem, neklamem, nefajčím, nepácham cudzoložstvo, ktorákoľvek z tých vecí, tak nie som zviazaný zákonom. Rozumiete? Som slobodný od zákona; som v Kristovi.       

 359. Ako to cítiš ohľadom kontroly pôrodnosti?

231        Dnes ráno som ohľadom toho mal niekoľko rozhovorov. Radšej by som s vami hovoril o tých veciach osobne (Rozumiete?), o tých veciach, pretože sú slová a veci, ktoré musím povedať, a ktoré by som radšej povedal, ak tam bude len manžel a manželka...

232        A existuje možnosť, ako to robiť správnym spôsobom. Povedal by som to tak všeobecne. V živote ženy je tak mnoho dní, kedy je neplodná. Rozumiete? V poriadku. Nuž...

233        No, niekedy by to dieťa mohlo tú ženu zabiť; ak by mala dieťa, mohlo by ju to zabiť. Na to tiež chcete dávať pozor. Rozumiete? Tak ohľadom toho buďte naozaj opatrní. Rozumiete? Viete, to je prinášanie života, to je to, kvôli čomu ste tu na zemi.

234        Ak je tvoja manželka chorá a ďalšie dieťa by ju mohlo zabiť, tak by som to nerobil. Nemyslím, že Pán by chcel, aby si to robil. A príďte ku mne ohľadom tých vecí osobne; budeme mať súkromný rozhovor. Dovoľte, nech s vami hovorím osobne (Rozumiete?), a môžem cítiť...

235        Vidíte, každý jednotlivec, dokážem povedať, či mi klamú, alebo nie. Rozumiete? Hovoria mi rôzne veci. Radšej by som vás videl... Rozumiete? Pretože ak to máte takto, vtedy neviete. Ide o to, že to sú individuálne veci a podobne; nedokážem takto povedať, či hovoria pravdu alebo nie. Rozumiete?       

 360. Prečo bude satan prepustený na krátky čas po tisícich rokoch zo Zjavenia 20 a 3, a Zjavenia 20:27?

236        Prečo bude prepustený? Aby išiel zhromaždiť svojich ľudí pri druhom vzkriesení, pretože satan tiež musí stáť pred súdom. Rozumiete? Musí byť odsúdený.

 Ó, táto kniha je ich plná. Neverím... A tu je ďalšia obálka, ktorá je ich plná. Dovoľte, aby som sa teraz naozaj veľmi poponáhľal.

361. Brat Branham, prosím, objasni Skutky 9, verš 7 a Skutky 20 – Skutky 22. verš. (Vyhľadáš mi to, brat Neville?) Prosím, objasni Skutky 9, verš 7.

237        No, zatiaľ čo to hľadá, pozriem sa, či môžem rýchlo prebrať ďalšiu otázku. Začínate byť unavení? Viem, že ste.

Prosím, objasni tajomstvo prenesenia Nevesty. Ako a kde sa to stane, miesto, kam ide Nevesta. (Či to nie sú dobré otázky? To je naozaj pekné, mohol by som tu len stáť celý deň...)

 No, teraz len chvíľu, verš – verš... Skutky 9, verš 7 (Ďakujem ti, brat Neville.) – 9, verš 7:

A mužovia, ktorí s ním spolu cestovali, stáli ohromení, bez slova, ktorí síce hlas počuli, ale nevideli nikoho.

238        No, viem, kam tým mierite. Vidíte? No, na tom ďalšom mieste je to povedané naopak. No, neviem, čo sa tam stalo. Neviem vám to povedať, pretože na tom druhom mieste to oni počuli. Na jednom z nich, tam to nevideli, a na tom druhom mieste to videli a nepočuli. Koľkí z vás to niekedy predtým videli v Biblii? Ja áno, a nedokážem to vysvetliť. Rozumiete? Ja... Pán by mi to musel zjaviť. Pred chvíľou som vám o tom hovoril; musím s vami byť úprimný. Vidíte? Neviem. Je mi ľúto. Ak to nedokážem vysvetliť, budem dostatočne úprimný, že vám poviem, že to neviem. Ale ja – nebudem sa to snažiť vyriešiť, keď to neviem.

239        Nedokážem to vysvetliť, pretože na jednom mieste je povedané, že videli to Svetlo a nepočuli ten Hlas, alebo niečo také; a na tom druhom mieste videli – počuli ten Hlas, ale vôbec nevideli to Svetlo. Nedokážem to vysvetliť. Rozumiete? Neviem, čo sa stalo, a nebudem to vedieť, pokiaľ mi to Pán nezjaví; tak isto, ako by som vám nemohol hovoriť o manželstve a rozvode. Nevedel som o tom, až kým mi to On nezjavil.

240        A dokonca dnes ráno, Pán Boh, Stvoriteľ nebies a zeme vie, že toto je pravda; dnes ráno On dokončil celú tú vec, povedal mi tie veci ohľadom manželstva a rozvodu. Je to tak. A preto vám hovorím, dovoľte mi, aby som to všetko dal dohromady. Preskúmal...

241        Keď jedna z tých vecí, ako semeno hada, keď mi to bolo predstavené, nemohol som to tak vidieť, nič; ale len som to ďalej sledoval a prvé, čo zistíte... Potom sa musíte dostať preč od samého seba, a potom to Duch Svätý začína otvárať. No, chcem, aby to niekto teraz skúsil odsúdiť. Vidíte? To nemôžu.       

 362. Prosím, objasni tajomstvo prenesenia Nevesty.

242        Jednoducho premena (Rozumiete?); teraz naše telá... Povedzme to tak, že naše. Viete, čo tým myslím, keď to tak hovorím? Nechcem byť neúctivý. Nechcem tým povedať 'naše'; nechcem tým povedať, že 'tento zbor'; mám na mysli každého veriaceho.

243        Abrahám, On očakával zasľúbeného syna, ktorý mu bol zasľúbený. Je to tak? A Cirkev očakáva zasľúbeného Syna. Nevesta (Je to tak?), Nevesta očakáva zasľúbeného Syna.

244        Predtým, ako ten zasľúbený syn mohol prísť ku Sáre a Abrahámovi, ich telá museli byť premenené. Je to pravda?

245        Bola príliš stará na to, aby mala dieťa. Nemala v prsiach žiadne mliečne žľazy; jej prsia vyschli. Jej lono bolo neplodné; bola sterilná. Nemohla mať dieťa; jej srdce bolo príliš staré na to, aby zvládla pôrod. Tak čo sa stalo? Boh ju premenil znova naspäť na mladú ženu. A On urobil Abrahámovi to isté, pretože povedal, že jeho telo bolo ako mŕtve. Vidíte? A On musel premeniť ich telo, aby mohli prijať zasľúbeného syna.

246        A my nemôžeme prijať zasľúbeného Syna (ktorý je nám dnes zasľúbený), v týchto telách, v ktorých žijeme; tieto telá sú hriešne.

247        Toto prvé vedomie riadi toto telo pomocou zraku, chuti, hmatu, čuchu a sluchu, a to nám všetkým spôsobuje problémy; mudrujeme a všetko také. Ale to nové telo, ktoré pochádza z tohto nového narodenia (nie tohto prvého vedomia; ono pominie)... To je to niečo vnútorné, čo žije. Každý, kto tomu rozumie, povedzte, „Amen.“ [Zhromaždenie odpovedá, „Amen.“ – pozn. prekl.]

248        To nie je tento vonkajšok, zrak, chuť, hmat, čuch a sluch. To nie je to. To je poddané smrti a zomrie, ale tá vnútorná časť teba, tu dole vo vnútri, vnútrajšok, to je osoba, ktorá nemôže zomrieť. Rozumiete? A to je osoba, od ktorej začína ten nový Život, z tohto nového narodenia; a to buduje inú osobu, ktorá je na obraz tejto osoby, ktorou si; okolo toho života. Porozumeli ste tomu?

249        Takže potenciálne je to tu vo vnútri a čo to je? Slovo, ktoré bolo zasľúbené pred založením sveta. A okolo tamtoho, toto iba odzrkadľuje ten negatív; tamto bude odzrkadľovať pozitív, Slovo. Rozumiete? A tá istá vec je – alebo prenesenie Nevesty bude to isté. Slovo, ktoré je v tebe, okolo toho Slova sa zmaterializuje telo; a to isté sa stalo so Sárou.

250        Predtým... Keď to staré telo, ktoré mala, to prvé telo, ono muselo byť premenené, aby vyprodukovalo toho syna. Porozumeli ste tomu? Tamto telo to nedokázalo urobiť. Toto telo to nedokáže urobiť, takže musí byť takisto premenené, aby prijalo Syna.       

 363. Ako sa to stane, a kam ide Nevesta?

251        Ide do slávy, do neba na svadobnú večeru, práve ako v predobraze Izáka a Rebeky, keď Rebeka išla stretnúť Izáka. Pamätajte, Eliezér teraz reprezentuje to posolstvo, ktoré vyšlo od Abraháma, Eliezér vyšiel nájsť nevestu pre Izáka. V chládku večera našiel krásnu Rebeku, dievča tmavšej pleti, ktorá vyšla von s vedrom na vodu. A Eliezér sa modlil, povedal, „Pane Bože, daj mi teraz dobrú cestu a úspech pre môjho pána Abraháma.”

252        A on povedal, „Choď, neber mu spomedzi Filištínov – neber ju.” Choď tu medzi jeho ľudí, ukazuje tým, že Nevesta Kristova a Kristus sú si pokrvní príbuzní, lebo Rebeka a Izák boli bratranec a sesternica.

253        A tak išli a táto nádherná Rebeka vyšla von a nabrala vodu a on sa modlil… a napojila ťavy a všetko ostatné. A potom si všimnete, že poslednú voľbu musela urobiť sama Rebeka. On žiadal otca o dievča, žiadal matku o dievča, a oni ani jeden nedokázali súhlasiť. Chceli, aby ešte chvíľu ostala. On povedal, „Nezdržujte ma v mojej práci.”

254        A Rebeka musela rozhodnúť, lebo on povedal, „Ona je tým dievčaťom, nech ona rozhodne.”

255        A len čo jej to bolo predstavené, jej myseľ bola rýchlo pripravená, povedala, „Ja pôjdem.” Vysadla na ťavu a odišla stretnúť... Pozrite sa, práve tá ťava, ktorú napojila, bola tou ťavou, ktorá ju zobrala ku jej ženíchovi a do celého jej úspechu. A tá istá ťava, tá istá moc toho (zviera v Biblii reprezentuje moc)... A práve tá moc, ktorej dávame vodu a chválu (Amen. Rozumiete?), vodu, život, chválu Slovu, je práve tým, čo nás vezme do slávnej zeme na stretnutie s Ženíchom. Tak veru. Amen.

        Vyzerajúc príchod toho šťastného dňa milénia;

 Keď príde náš požehnaný Pán;

 Zobrať preč Svoju Nevestu, ktorá na Neho čaká.

256        A pamätajte, Izák opustil stan a stál vonku na poli a premýšľal neskoro popoludní (Amen.), keď uvidel, ako prichádza Rebeka. A ona ho nikdy nevidela a on nikdy nevidel ju, ale to bola láska na prvý pohľad. Ona sa doňho zaľúbila a on do nej, a ona bola ešte zahalená. Amen. Ó.

257        A pozrite, keď ho uvidela, jej srdce bolo tak plné radosti. Ona nevedela, za koho sa ide vydať, len skrze vieru. Amen. A pamätajte, Ježiš opustí Kráľovstvo a my Ho nestretneme v sláve; máme Ho stretnúť na povetrí, medzi nebom a zemou, kde bol rozpätý, aby nás vykúpil. A on stretol Rebeku v strede, medzi jej domom a svojím domom. Amen. Zobral ju do svojho domu a oženil sa s ňou a zdedil všetko, čo mal jeho otec. Amen. Ó, dokonalé, jednoducho dokonalé. V poriadku.

        Otázka: Či Boh oddeľuje muža a manželku v...

258        Túto radšej neprečítam. Rozumiete? Musel by som k tomu niečo povedať. Rozumiete? Všetkých vás poznám, ale toto je nahrávané (Vidíte?), a tak to radšej neurobím. To je niečo ohľadom... Tá osoba, ktorá to napísala, vieš, o čo ide; a radšej sa s tebou stretnem na osobnom rozhovore. Vidíte? Radšej nebudem... Nemyslím, že by to bolo vhodné čítať. Rozumiete? Je to v poriadku, tá osoba, nie je ohľadom toho nič zlé; opýtali sa legitímnu otázku, ale myslím, že by pre mňa bolo lepšie, aby som sa na to pozrel pri osobnom rozhovore. Nemyslíte? Ktokoľvek to... Viete, čo to je, ktokoľvek ste.

259        Ó, už sme vyčerpali náš čas, priatelia. Mali by sme radšej zakončiť a ísť k nášmu obedu. Koľko ešte chcete, aby som tu strávil času? Ó, len – áno, možno ešte trocha. Ak niekto musí urýchlene odísť, nenechajte si prihorieť obed. Ale ak len – ak vaša... A ja budem pravdepodobne jesť v Blue Boar alebo u Pryora alebo na niektorom z tých miest, a oni vás pravdepodobne nebudú obťažovať. Ak musíte odísť, nech vás Boh žehná; chápem to. Vidíte? A vezmem len asi... Tieto sem položím a to bude všetko, na čo budem odpovedať. Potom pôjdem... Tieto... Zaberie to asi pätnásť alebo viac minút, potom skončím.       

        364. Mám dve dcéry, ktoré sú vydaté za mužov v d-e-... a oni veria tomuto Posolstvu. Oni – denominácii... (To je ono.) a oni veria tomuto Posolstvu a stoja za Tým a prijali... Čo majú robiť? Prišla voči nim opozícia. Čo máme robiť?

260        Pevne stojte. Absolútne. Ukážte svoje farby. To je ono; nepripájajte sa k nim. Nie veru. Nehovorím, aby ste medzi nich nechodili, nemali obecenstvo alebo niečo také, pokiaľ môžete mať obecenstvo; ale čo sa týka zmeny jedálnička, viete, holubica sa nemôže kŕmiť s kaňou.       

 365. Brat Branham, objasnil by si, prosím, Mareka 13:27? Taktiež, brat Branham, čo sú to za ľudia v Zjavení 20:7 a 9, ktorí vedú vojnu proti svätým? Odkiaľ prišli? Bude nejaké prenesenie ako v prípade Noeho rodiny?

261        Zjavenie 13 – alebo nie, Marek 13:27, brat Neville. Zjavenie 20. Máš tam svoju Bibliu, brat Capps? Zjavenie 20, a vyzerá to, že 7 a 9. Myslím, že zatiaľ čo to hľadajú... Tu, rovno tu to má. Zjavenie, ako to teraz bolo? Marek 13:27; 13 a 27.

A vtedy pošle svojich anjelov a zhromaždí svojich vyvolených od štyroch vetrov, od konca zeme až do konca neba – od najvzdialenejších častí zeme až do najvzdialenejších častí neba. [Podľa Biblie KJV – pozn. prekl.]

262        To hovorí o vzkriesení, prenesení, odchode hore. On pošle Svojich anjelov, aby ich zhromaždili. Premýšľali ste niekedy nad tým, kto sú tí anjeli? Hmm? Poslovia. Aha. On ich zhromaždí spolu, privedie ich dokopy (Rozumiete?), privedie ich, spojí ich dokopy od najvzdialenejších častí zeme až do najvzdialenejších častí neba; Slovo, ktoré sa zamanifestovalo na zemi. Vidíte? Pochopili ste to? Slovo bolo vypovedané; tu je To zamanifestované. Vidíte? V poriadku, brat Capps. Pozrime sa.

A keď sa dokonalo tých tisíc rokov, satan bol prepustený zo svojho žalára.

263        V poriadku. Práve som cez to prešiel a vysvetlil som to, či nie? Ohľadom toho, ako bude prepustený zo svojho žalára na konci tých tisícich rokov?

 V poriadku, no, mám tu ešte jednu. Len chvíľu. 

        366. Brat Branham, bolo to z Boha, alebo to bolo z môjho vlastného konania, keď tie veci, ktoré sa stali – keď... pokušenie... bolo to... (Pozri sa, či to vieš rozlúštiť. Je to dobrý rukopis, ale moje vzdelanie je biedne. Čo tam je povedané? Nemyslím, že na to dokážem odpovedať. Brat Capps, ani ja, to nedokážeme rozlúštiť... Je tam povedané...) Bolo to... (Jedine, že by to bola zdravotná sestra. Niečo ohľadom ošetrovateľstva.) Bolo to z Boha, keď som prestala robiť zdravotnú sestru, alebo to bola moja chyba?

264        Neviem. Radšej by som sa s tým stretol na osobnom rozhovore. Rozumiete?

 No, ošetrovateľstvo je legitímna vec, ako zdravotná sestra. Povedal by som... No, tá osoba nikdy... Neodložil som to len kvôli tomu, že som povedal, že na to nebudem odpovedať, pretože pre tú ženu to znamená práve tak mnoho, ako znamená vaša otázka pre vás alebo moja pre mňa. Vidíte? Ale teraz, ak to je zdravotná sestra, ak si prestala pracovať ako zdravotná sestra len kvôli tomu, že si si myslela, že by si nemala pracovať... No, myslím, že ošetrovateľstvo by sa malo vykonávať viac menej zo súcitu. Rozumiete? Mali by ste to pociťovať, ako napríklad nejaký doktor.

265        Doktor, ktorý je dobrým doktorom, bude ľuďom pomáhať bez ohľadu na to, či majú nejaké peniaze alebo nie – skutočný doktor. Vidíte? A myslím, že kazateľ, ktokoľvek, naša služba by mala byť jeden druhému, aby sme jeden pre druhého urobili život aspoň trocha lepším.

266        Ja... Keď mi povedali, že mám od tohto zboru brať sto dolárov týždenne ako mzdu, no, to ma takmer zabilo. Nuž... Pani Wilson, viem, a pravdepodobne aj jej syn, a oni tu sedia, pamätajú sa, že pred rokmi, keď som tu kázal po dobu sedemnástich rokov a nikdy v živote som nezobral ani cent. Akúkoľvek malú čiastku peňazí, všetko, čo som mohol zarobiť, dával som to rovno do toho. Vidíte? A keď mi povedali, že to musím brať kvôli týmto zhromaždeniam, takmer ma to zruinovalo. Rozumiete? Samozrejme, verím, že to je v poriadku, ale to som len ja (Vidíte?), nechcem nič, žiadne peniaze, to jediné, čo chcem, je vaše priateľstvo a Božiu priazeň s nami.

267        Milujem vás (Vidíte?); milujem vás a chcem, aby ste boli v poriadku; a aj ja sám chcem byť v poriadku. A teraz, chcem, aby ste mi verili; ja vám verím. A ak ku mne prídete s otázkou, chcem ku vám byť úprimný. A ak vám niečo poviem v Mene Pánovom, chcem, aby ste urobili presne to, čo som vám povedal. Neodchyľujte sa od toho ani o kúsok, a myslím, že potom budeme vychádzať dobre. Vidíte? A potom, ostatní...

268        A tak teraz, ak to je ošetrovateľstvo... A myslím, že ak máš na srdci byť zdravotnou sestrou... Nie každý môže byť zdravotnou sestrou. Zdravotná sestra je niekto, kto je jemný a láskavý ku ľuďom, ó, a myslím, že skutočná zdravotná sestra... Ak ste niekedy boli chorí v nemocnici, alebo niečo také, a vidíte skutočne milú zdravotnú sestru, ktorá príde a spraví, že sa cítite komfortne, alebo niečo také...

269        Mal som operáciu kvôli – keď som bol vtedy postrelený; musel som ísť do nemocnice. Bola tam taká zdravotná sestra, volal som ju 'Sladká uhorka', pretože oni – ona mala v ústach stále nejakú uhorku a jedla ju. Takto to bolo celý čas. A mal som len okolo štrnásť rokov a bol som postrelený. A ona bola len malá osoba a ona – tie prestrelené nohy, obe boli takmer rozstrelené, a ona položila jeden vankúš sem a druhý vankúš tam; a po celý čas mi stále pomáhala. A stále som premýšľal, (Bol som len malé dieťa.) – myslel som, že by som sa s ňou mohol oženiť, pretože ku mne bola tak láskavá a milá. No, ja... To... Vidíte, to niečo znamená (Rozumiete?), to niečo robí.

367. Rád by som sa opýtal otázku. Číslo 1: Je dámske pyžamo... (No, len chvíľu počkajte; nech si to prečítam.) …je mužským odevom? Je zlé ohýbať konce... (Nie, toto bude v poriadku.) Je dámske pyžamo mužským odevom?

270        Ha-ha. Chlapče, nehovorte mi, že sa nemôžu opýtať niečo, čo ich páli. Ha-ha-ha. Neviem. Ha-ha. Nechám to na vás, aby ste sa rozhodli. Nemali by ste sa v tom parádiť pred ľuďmi; to viem. Takže to je jasné, ale čo sa týka ísť v tom do postele, ja neviem. Pri tejto otázke sa budem tiež musieť stiahnuť do úzadia. Povedal som vám, že budem úprimný, ak niečo neviem. Nebudem ohľadom toho hovoriť svoje vlastné myšlienky (V poriadku.), jedine, že by ste chceli poznať môj názor. Ak chcete, potom vám poviem. Rozumiete?

 No, pamätajte, to nie je – toto môže byť na milión míľ nesprávne. Myslím, že by vyzeralo pekne mať na sebe nočnú košeľu. Ale ak... Ale to je len na tebe. No, nemôžem vám o tom hovoriť, pretože by som to nemohol podložiť. No, to som ja, nie On, pamätajte na to. Rozumiete? 

 368. Je to zlé, keď si žena pristrihuje končeky vlasov?

 Myslím, že sme cez to prešli pred pár minútami (Vidíte?), čo sa týka tých malých... Predpokladám, že tak volajú tie malé veci, ktoré takto visia dole...

369. Brat Branham, na jednej z pások siedmich cirkevných vekov si spomenul, že Judáš bol ospravedlnený, posvätený. Boli to autentické (Táto je dobrá.) – vysvetli – prežitie – autentické prežitia milosti, ktoré on prijal? Taktiež si sa zmienil o tom, že Judáš mal svoje meno v Knihe Života, a jednako vieme, že odišiel do hádesa a bol stratený. Ako môže nejaká osoba mať svoje meno v Knihe Života a jednako byť stratená? Alebo prečo Boh umiestňuje mená osôb do Knihy Života, keď vie, že na konci budú stratení?

271        No, táto je veľmi dobrá, či nie? Hmm. No, toto by bolo fajn. No, budem musieť len spoliehať na Pána, aby som na toto odpovedal, pretože to musím preskúmať. Pozrite sa.

 Za prvé – v našich cirkvách som sa zmienil o tom, že Judáš mal svoje meno v Knihe Života. No, to je pravda. No, vieme to, pretože Ježiš im povedal, keď tam boli všetci vyslaní (Matúš 10), aby vyháňali diablov, kázali Evanjelium, zadarmo dostali, zadarmo dali; a oni sa vrátili naspäť s radosťou, pretože sa im poddávali diabli. Je to tak? A Ježiš im povedal; a On povedal ich mená (kto oni boli, koľkí boli vyslaní); a oni sa navrátili a tiež Judáš Iškariotský, ktorý Ho i zradil... Vidíte? Vrátili sa s radosťou, pretože sa im poddávali diabli. No, vidíte, ich postoj bol tam nesprávny. Rozumiete? Nesmiete sa radovať kvôli tomu, že máte moc pohnúť s nejakým diablom. Vidíte? Nesmiete to robiť; musíte sa radovať z toho, že ste vôbec prijali dostatok milosti, aby ste boli spasení. Vidíte? Rozumiete? Nesmiete sa radovať... To je to, ako ľudia...

272        Obyčajne tí ľudia, ktorí majú dary, sú tými ľuďmi, ktorí dary nechcú. Vidíte? Pavol sa od tej veci snažil utiecť; takisto Mojžiš. Takýto veľkí vodcovia sa snažia od tej práce utiecť; vedia, čo pred nimi leží. Boh...

 Vidíte, ak vezmete nejakého človeka, ktorý stále hovorí, „Ó, Pane, naplň ma mocou a pôjdem tam von a budem vyháňať diablov.“ Nikdy to nebude robiť. Boh vie lepšie, než aby dôveroval niekomu takému. Vidíte? On by to nikdy nerobil.

273        To je ten chlapík, ktorý s tým nechce mať nič do činenia. Vidíte? To je ten človek, ktorého môže Boh vziať a niekedy ho niečomu naučiť. Rozumiete?

 Tak potom sa Judáš vrátil naspäť s radosťou, všetci z nich, ktorých mená... On povedal, „Neradujte sa tomu, že sa vám poddávajú diabli, ale radujte sa z toho, že sú vaše mená zapísané v Knihe Života.“ No, ak si všimnete a vezmete Daniela, tiež. Vidíte?

 Pretože tvoje meno je v Knihe Života (pretože je v nebesiach, tvoje meno zostalo rozpoznané), to stále neznamená, že si spasený. Rozumiete? Nie si obrátený, až kým neprijmeš Ducha Svätého. Pamätajte na to. Si iba potenciálne obrátený. Rozumiete? Nie si...

274        Ak by ste ma prosili o dub a ja by som vám dal žaluď, potenciálne máte dub, potenciálne, ale ešte sa nevyvinul. To je dôvod, prečo verím v istotu takým spôsobom, ako verím.

 Ak by som prosil o kukuričné pole a vidím tam takto vysokú kukuricu, potenciálne mám kukuričné pole. Ešte to nie je vyvinuté, niečo by sa mohlo stať. Rozumiete?

 No, ty si na svojej ceste cez ospravedlnenie a posvätenie ku krstu Duchom Svätým. Ale keď si skutočne pokrstený Duchom Svätým, potom si v Kráľovstve. No, poviete, „Brat Branham, je to pravda?“

275        Nemám teraz čas, aby som vám ukázal miesta Písma; vyhľadajte si to, keď sa vrátite domov, pretože neviem... Moja myseľ.. Musím sa pozrieť sem do mojej konkordancie, aby som to ukázal. Ježiš povedal Petrovi, ktorý bol spasený i posvätený... Veril na Ježiša, bol posvätený. Svätý Ján 17:17, Ježiš tam povedal, „Posväť ich, Otče, skrze Pravdu; Tvoje Slovo je Pravda.“ A On a Slovo sú to isté. Oni boli posvätení, potenciálne, skrze Pravdu, Slovo, Pravdu. A potom, Ježiš povedal Judášovi – alebo Petrovi, tej noci, keď bol zradený, povedal, „Potom, keď sa obrátiš, upevňuj svojho brata – potom, keď sa obrátiš.“

276        Ten človek Ho nasledoval tri roky a mal meno v Baránkovej Knihe Života a vyháňal diablov a konal mocné skutky, uzdravoval a robil všetky druhy – kázal Slovo a všetko možné a stále nebol obrátený. Vidíte? Ste vedení do obrátenia. Rozumiete?

277        Dieťa, ktoré... Keď sa dokonal ten akt medzi vajíčkom a spermiou alebo génom... Ale keď oni... Potenciálne to dieťa tam je, keď je ten akt vykonaný. Potom sa vyvinie to telo, to je druhé štádium; ale to dieťa sa tu musí narodiť a potom prijíma dych života. Ešte tam nie je dych života. Poviete, „Ó, ono je živé.“ Nie, nie je. To sú malé nervy, svaly, ktoré sa mykajú. Vidíte? Dieťa neprijalo život, pokiaľ sa nenarodilo. A ty sa môžeš mykať a vyskakovať, ale nie si... Vidíte? Musíš sa narodiť. Rozumiete, čo tým myslím? V poriadku.

278        No, on potom povedal, že... „Zmienil si sa o tom, že Judáš mal svoje meno v Knihe Života, a jednako vieme, že odišiel do hádesa a bol stratený. Ako môže nejaká osoba mať svoje meno v Knihe Života a jednako byť stratená?“ No, dovoľte, že tu pre túto drahú osobu pripojím jeden detail.

279        No, všimnite si, Biblia povedala, že keď Daniel videl... On napísal prvú Knihu Zjavenia, Daniel. A všímame si, že v tom videní Ho videl prichádzať ku Starodávnemu času, ktorého vlasy boli biele ako vlna. Koľkí si pamätáte, že ste to čítali? A všimli ste si, že Ján v Zjavení prišiel k tej istej veci – Zjavenie 1? A On tam stál; Jeho vlasy boli biele ako vlna, Jeho nohy a ako vyzeral; Starodávny času. Starodávny času, to je, To nemalo žiaden čas – Ten Večný. A On prišiel... No, sledujte to. A svätí prišli na zem a knihy boli otvorené a iná Kniha bola otvorená, ktorá bola Knihou Života: jedna Kniha. Oni prišli na súd a... On prišiel a s Ním prišlo desaťtisíc desaťtisícov. Je to tak? Ktorí Mu slúžili, Nevesta, Kráľovná a Kráľ...

280        Kto je v dome tvojou malou kráľovnou? Ona ti posluhuje, pripravuje ti jedlo. Je to tak? (To jedlo budete mať teraz neskoršie.) Ale keď ti ona slúži, to je to, čo... Nevesta slúži Kristovi, Slovom. „Človek nebude žiť na samotnom chlebe, ale na každom Slove.“ Vidíte? Ona slúži Slovom Kráľovi, manifestuje Jeho zasľúbené Slovo vo veku, v ktorom žije. Amen. Ó, niečo som povedal, neuchopili ste to, ale...

281        Všimnite si. Ó, táto otázka bola veľmi dobrá. Vidíte? Slúženie vo veku, Slovom. No, všimnite si. A Ona prišla – On prišiel a desaťtisíc desaťtisícov prišlo ku Nemu; a nastal súd a boli otvorené knihy; a iná Kniha bola otvorená, ktorá je Knihou Života; a oni boli tak súdení. Kto to bol, kto prišiel? Nevesta, ktorá nemusela prísť na súd; ona je slobodná od súdu.

282        Iná Kniha bola otvorená, ktorá bola Knihou Života, a tí, ktorí mali svoje mená v Knihe Života, museli byť súdení podľa tej Knihy. A Judáš Iškariotský vyznával, že je veriaci a mal svoje meno zapísané medzi nimi v Knihe Života. Je to tak? On tvrdil, že má večný Život. A jeho meno bolo umiestnené v Knihe Života. Tak on musí... No, on musí byť potom súdený, aby sa videlo, prečo odsúdil Slovo Života, predal Ho za tridsať strieborných. Niektorí to predajú za to, aby boli metodistami, baptistami alebo čokoľvek ďalšie. Predal svoju pozíciu z Knihy Života. A on bude súdiť – bude tam musieť zastať a byť podľa toho súdený, podľa Slova. Vidíte? To je to, prečo to Judáš musí urobiť. Rozumiete? Judáš musí prísť na súd. Jeho meno bolo v Knihe Života, ale to neznamená, že je spasený. Musí sa postaviť pred súd.

283        Spiaca panna bude stáť rovno tam pod tými istými okolnosťami. Všimnite si, Ježiš povedal v svätom Jánovi 5:24, „Ten, kto čuje Moje Slovo (To je ten, kto To dokáže prijať, nie ten, kto To len počuje, ako je To kázané, a ide ďalej a hovorí, 'Nezmysel.' Rozumiete?); ten, kto prijíma Moje Slovo – ten, kto čuje Moje Slovo a verí (nie, že sa len robí, že verí; ale skutočne verí) v Toho, ktorý Ma poslal (ktorý je Slovo), má večný Život a nepríde na súd; ale prešiel (minulý čas) zo smrti do Života.“ To je ono.

284        Tak Judáš mal svoje meno v Knihe Života (To je úplná pravda.), ale bol odsúdený, pretože urobil čo? Predal svoje práva prvorodenstva.

 Ezav sa narodil v rodine so zasľúbením Božím. Najstarší syn mal prvorodenstvo. Koľkí to vedia? Skrze zasľúbenie Božie, Ezavovo meno bolo v knihe kvôli prvorodenstvu (Je to tak?), ale on to vymenil za porciu divých tekvíc – alebo hrachu. Bol hladný po tom, aby si naplnil svoje brucho, jeho stravný lístok, on vymenil svoje práva prvorodenstva za stravný lístok a nemohol nájsť miesto na pokánie.

285        Tí špehovia, ktorí tam vyšli, aby prešpehovali tú zem, prišli a dokonca jedli hrozná, ktoré priniesol Józue a Kálef. A jednako, čo urobili? Predali svoje práva prvorodenstva.

286        Ježiš povedal – alebo Pavol, keď hovoril pod inšpiráciou Krista v Židom, 6. kapitole, „Lebo je nemožné pre tých, ktorí už raz boli osvietení a stali sa účastnými Ducha Svätého a ochutnali rôzne moci budúceho veku; keby odpadli, zase sa obnoviť ku pokániu, ktorí sebe znova križujú Syna Božieho a Krv Zmluvy, ktorou boli posvätení, povážili za nesvätú vec a opovrhli dielami milosti...“ Pre takú osobu je nemožné, aby sa niekedy navrátila späť.

287        Všetci, okrem Józuu a Kálefa, zomreli a zahynuli na púšti, jednako boli veriaci, jednako ich mená boli v knihách.

288        A tu hovorí Pavol o tom, že ak človek niekedy príde do miesta, že zostal spasený a posvätený (Krv posväcuje; Židom 13:12 a 13 hovorí o tom, že Krv posväcuje.), a potom príde rovno ku bráne krstu Duchom Svätým a kvôli nejakej prestíži alebo denominácii odmietne vstúpiť dnu, tam je povedané, „Tá osoba je stratená a nikdy nemôže byť spasená.“ Vidíte? Pretože opovrhol dokonca samotnými tými dielami milosti, ktoré ho povolali do toho miesta a ukázali mu to, a potom sa otočí a odíde od toho preč. Považuje Krv Zmluvy, ktorou bol ukrižovaný – Krista, ktorý bol ukrižovaný – za nesvätú vec. Pretože tá Krv, ktorá ho spasila a ospravedlnila a posvätila, ho privádza hore ku krstu Duchom Svätým. A potom od toho odchádza preč a opustí to...

289        No, sledujte ten vzor. Zaberám mnoho času, ale pozrite sa. Judáš Iškariotský nasledoval tie isté cesty. Bol ospravedlnený skrze vieru v Pána Ježiša a potom Ho prijal ako svojho osobného Spasiteľa. Bol posvätený a dostal moc, aby vyháňal duchov; mal svoje meno umiestnené v Baránkovej Knihe Života. Ale keď to prišlo ku Letniciam a krstu Duchom Svätým, plnosti Slova, on ukázal svoje farby. To je presne to, čo urobili tí špehovia z Kanána; to je presne to, čo urobil Ezav.

 To je presne to, čo urobil satan Eve v záhrade Eden: „Istotne Boh neurobí...“

 Ale ona povedala, „Boh povedal...“

290        On povedal, „Áno, viem, že je povedané to; viem, že je povedané tamto, ale istotne...“ Vidíte? Po celý čas tá istá vec, a tak je to aj dnes.

291        Cirkev prechádzala cez ospravedlnenie, Martin Luther; cez posvätenie, Wesley. Ale keď to prichádza ku času krstu Duchom Svätým, oni ukazujú svoje farby; nechcú s tým mať nič spoločné. Nazaréni, pútnici svätosti; cirkev Božia, všetci tí, ktorí tam veria v posvätenie, nemôžete na to ukázať prstom; je to pravda. Ale keď to prichádza ku tej hraničnej čiare, keď to príde rovno hore ku tomu miestu, aby prijali Ducha Svätého kvôli novému narodeniu, potom čo urobí diabol? Chodí naokolo a snaží sa to prekrútiť. Ó, urobí všetko, čo je v jeho moci, aby zadržal ľudí od toho.

292        Oni prišli s takou vecou a hovoria, že musíš hovoriť v jazykoch. Alebo že musíš mať nejakú senzáciu. Musíš robiť toto... Ty musíš byť do toho narodený. Nenechaj nikoho, aby ti hovoril, že posvätenie a Duch Svätý je tá istá vec, pretože nie je. Istotne nie je.

 Počujete tohto nazaréna, ktorý tam vzadu kričí, „To nie je.“ Vidíte? On vie, že v tom je rozdiel, pretože istotne je – brat Capps, náš vzácny brat. Vidíte?

293        Iste, nazaréni... Nikto nemôže povedať ani slovo proti tým milým nábožným ľuďom; sú tak milí, ako len môžu byť. Cirkev Božia, nazaréni, slobodní metodisti, tí ľudia sú skutoční, ale keď to prichádza ďalej ku skutkom Ducha, oni povedia, „Ó, to je diabol.“ A čo tým robia? Rúhajú sa Duchu Svätému. Keď to robia...

294        No, čo je to rúhanie? Tam nie je žiadneho odpustenia. Je to pravda? Ten, kto už raz bol osvietený, stal sa účastným a ochutnal z nebeských darov (ochutnal Božie posvätenie: zostal očistený od cigariet a nečistých žien a všetkých takýchto druhov života) – a ochutnal z nebeských vecí (vidieť, že prídu až k tej hraničnej čiare, ako to urobili tí špehovia, ktorí jedli z toho hrozna... Vidíte? Ale čo musia urobiť? Musia sa rozísť so svojou denomináciou, aby mohli do tohto vojsť. Vidíte? Rozumiete?) – ochutnali z nebeských darov; vidiac, že sebe znova križujú Syna Božieho a Krv Zmluvy, ktorou boli posvätení, povážili za nesvätú vec.

295        Posvätenie je, keď tvoje meno ide do knihy ako veriaci. Tvoje slovo – tvoje meno je napísané v Jeho Krvi. Rozumiete? Posvätenie to robí; a ty prichádzaš ďalej, keď ti On dôveroval až takto ďaleko, a potom prídeš hore a povieš, „No dobre, či to On vedel?“

296        Áno, On to vedel. On vedel od začiatku, že sa s tým nerozídeš. On vedel, že Judáš sa s tým nerozíde. Poznal ho od začiatku; on bol synom zatratenia. Ale tá vec sa musela vyplniť. Vidíte? Slovo sa muselo vyplniť, aj keď ako predobrazy a tiene. Ó, mohli by sme na tom zostať hodiny.       

        370. Brat Branham, keď si kázal posolstvo o sedemdesiatich cirkevných týždňoch – sedemdesiatich týždňoch (Prepáčte mi.) Daniela, myslím, že si sa tam zmienil o tom, že celý posledný týždeň alebo posledných sedem rokov začne vtedy, keď je Nevesta vzatá vo vytrhnutí.

297        Nie, nie, nie, nie, nie, nie, nie, nie. Máte to nesprávne (Vidíte?), nie celých sedem týždňov. Ten týždeň začal vtedy, keď Ježiš prišiel na zem. Povedal, „Mesiáš, Knieža, príde a bude prorokovať a uprostred siedmich týždňov bude vyťatý.“ A Ježiš kázal presne tri a pol roka, čo je polovica sedemdesiatich týždňov, siedmich dní, týždňa – dňov v týždni. Vidíte? A zostáva tri a pol roka.

298        No, keď prídu na zem Mojžiš a Eliáš, čo je Zjavenie a Zachariáš... (Brat Coomer a sestra Coomer, vaša otázka, to bolo to isté.) No, keď oni... Keď Zachariáš 4 a Zjavenie 11, tie dva olivové stromy, a tak ďalej – to je Mojžiš a Eliáš – keď oni prídu na zem, prorokujú 1264 dní. Čo to je? Presne tri a pol roka. To je presne tá istá vec. Nie... Rozumiete? Ktokoľvek je táto drahá osoba. Veľmi, veľmi pekné, je to napísané na papieri s náboženským záhlavím, riadkovaním, a takými vecami, a je to veľmi pekné. A je to veľmi dobrá otázka, ale (Vidíte?) nepochopili ste to, čo som hovoril. Nikdy som neveril, že by tu bolo celých sedemdesiat týždňov. Mesiáš bol vyťatý. Koľkí si pamätáte, ako to tu bolo kázané? Istotne. Vidíte? Sedem týždňov.       

        371. Odvtedy to vyzerá, že prvých tri a pol roka bolo naplnených počas služby (No, rovno tu to máte.) Ježiša, ale vyjadrenie 'uprostred týždňov' vyzerá, že je aplikované iba na antikrista, ktorý ruší svoju zmluvu s... (Nie, ten antikrist ruší svoju zmluvu na konci posledných tri a pol roka. Vidíte?) Ako som pochopil z pásky o Danielovi, prvých 69 týždňov skončilo, keď Ježiš prišiel do Jeruzalema v roku 30 nášho letopočtu, a tak, tých tri a pol roka Jeho služby by bolo zahrnutých v tých 69 týždňoch; a celé posledné týždne – a celý posledný týždeň alebo 7 rokov by stále ešte mali byť naplnené a začali by pri vytrhnutí. Prosím, objasni to pre mňa.

299        Vieš, brat, sestra, ktokoľvek to je, kto sa opýtal túto otázku. Veľmi dobré (Vidíte?), ale myslím, že máš trochu zamiešanie v tom, čo som povedal. Rozumiete? No, keď Ježiš prišiel do Jeruzalema (To je presne tak.), to bol koniec... Vidíte? On rovno odtiaľ išiel a bol ukrižovaný. Vidíte? A On prorokoval polovicu sedemdesiatich týždňov, čo je tri a pol roka. No, On bol vyťatý a Jeho duša učinila obeť. A teraz, potom by malo prísť... V týchto posledných dňoch, stále je tam zasľúbených tri a pol roka pre Židov. A počas tohto času bolo zhromažďovanie svätých ku vytrhnutiu Cirkvi.

300        No, nedostanem sa cez všetky, brat – brat, sestra.       

 372. Prosím, objasnil by si 1. Korinťanom, 7. kapitolu, verš 1 a 9?

 (Vyhľadaj to, brat Neville, 1. Korinťanom, 7. kapitola, verš 1.)

373. A bude každý pravdivý veriaci konať skutky, o ktorých hovoril Ježiš, ako je to vyhlásené v svätom Jánovi 14:12 (Nie presne to. Nie.): Uzdravovať chorých, vyháňať diablov, kriesiť mŕtvych (Myslím, že to nie je v svätom Jánovi 14, ale to je v poriadku. Tu ide o Matúša 16.), alebo je to len pre Eliáša? Musí veriaci činiť všetko to – ten, ktorý skutočne verí? A ak je naozaj skutočným veriacim, bude kriesiť mŕtvych a robiť veliké zázraky?

301        No, to sa nachádza medzi veriacimi. Vidíte? Každý človek nemá tie dary a to neznamená, že to bude robiť iba jedna osoba; to budú skupiny ľudí. Ako napríklad, čo ak by sme tu v zbore mali malé dievčatko alebo malého chlapca alebo niekoho, koho by sme skutočne veľmi milovali, a odišiel by od nich život? Celá cirkev by sa zišla spolu a modlili by sa a postili, „Pane, zmiluj sa nad tým dieťaťom.“ Vidíte? Boh by ho mohol vzkriesiť.

302        Koľkí ľudia niekedy čítali nicejských otcov a také veci? Viete, takto to robili v tej ranej cirkvi. Všetci sa spolu zišli, viete, a niekedy dokonca vzbudili zmŕtvych svojho pastora a rôznych iných, ak Boh uznal za vhodné, že to tak má byť; ale oni to robili.       

 374. Ak je cirkev spasená, aj keď nejde do vytrhnutia, ako verím, že si to učil, ona potom musí ísť cez súženie kvôli očisteniu. Ale čo s tými, ktorí sú mŕtvi, ako budú oni očistení?

303        V poriadku. Tí, ktorí majú to... Nevesta nepotrebuje žiadne očistenie; ona je už očistená. A tí, ktorí sú tam mŕtvi – tí, ktorí idú cez... Rozumiete? Oni nikdy neprijali Svetlo, ktoré prijala táto Cirkev tu hore; oni žili pod svojím ospravedlnením, posvätením, a takto ďalej. Žili podľa Svetla, ktoré mali. Možno v takom spôsobe, že trpeli a cez čokoľvek prešli s – a ich prenasledovania... Ale teraz, v tomto čase vytrhnutia, ako je tento (Vidíte?), teraz musí nastať čas, že táto nevesta bude – tí, ktorí odmietnu tú Hlavovú časť Nevesty – budú musieť trpieť za svoje odmietnutie, pretože tamtým nebolo Evanjelium vtedy tak jasne podané, ako je to dnes jasne podané pre vás. Rozumiete? Vidíte to tak jasne. Prešli ste cez všetky tieto roky a príklady, boli otvorené Pečate, zostal vyložený ten cirkevný vek, a všetko také. Je to tak jasné, že to nemôžete minúť. Vidíte? A potom, ak to plne odmietnete, ostáva len jedna vec, budete kvôli tomu trpieť.

304        Našiel si to, brat Neville? Čoho sa to týka? Ja len – pôjdem teraz radšej ďalej, pretože začína byť neskoro. Vidíte? Sedem – sedem, deväť... Pozrime sa.

Ale ak sa nevedia zdržať, nech sa oženia, poťažne vydajú, lebo je lepšie oženiť sa, poťažne vydať sa než horieť.

305        V poriadku. To je ohľadom nečistého žitia. Namiesto toho, aby nejaký muž, chlapec, dievča alebo niekto iný, keď majú známosť a vedia, že by sa mali vziať, tak potom choďte a vezmite sa. Myslím, že ste porozumeli tomu, čo som chcel povedať, či nie? Vidíte? Nežite tu nejaký nečistý život, pretože to nie je správne. Rozumiete? V určitom zmysle je to tvoja sestra, ak ste kresťania. No, ak to je svet; tak to je svet; pes žerie psa. Ale toto dievča, s ktorým chodíš, to je tiež tvoja sestra. Bude matkou tvojich detí, ktoré prídu. Neži okolo nej nejakým nečistým životom; ukáž, že si skutočným kresťanským džentlmenom. Ži takým spôsobom, ako by mal žiť kresťanský džentlmen. Rozumieš? A správaj sa ku nej ako ku svojej sestre, a keď sa vezmete, stále sa tak ku nej správaj.

306        Môžem na toto hneď teraz odpovedať. Neverím v nečistý život medzi letničnými ľuďmi, ľuďmi svätosti, dokonca aj keď sú zosobášení. Neverím tomu. Nie veru. Niektoré z týchto nečistých vecí... je to tak strašné... Niekedy sa dostávam na tieto... Nie dnes ráno, nie, to nehovorím. Ale mám na mysli v časoch, keď som vonku v Kalifornii a na rôznych takých miestach. Stretávam tam kazateľov, pri ktorých pri rozpoznávaní cítim, že by som ich mohol prehnúť cez koleno a dať im malý výprask Evanjelia. Tak veru. Ó, vidieť muža, ako sa snaží vziať svoju malú ženu, a špina, nečistota, to je... Rozumiete, čo mám na mysli? Myslím, že by si sa ako muž Boží mal hanbiť... Buď len manželom, buď miláčikom. Rešpektuj ju, ako si ju vždy rešpektoval. Nevenuj žiadnu pozornosť týmto… niektorým z týchto ne-... sexy kníh – či skôr, týmto nezmyslom v týchto sexy knihách a takým veciam, o ktorých čítaš, a všetko to, všetko také. Vyhoď tie špinavé veci von zo svojej mysle.

307        Biblia povedala, aby medzi vami nebolo jedinej nečistej konverzácie, ak vyznávate svätosť. Správaj sa k tej malej dáme ako ku svojmu miláčikovi. Ak má 60 rokov, rob to takisto. Buď tým galantným priateľom; pamätaj, ty si.

 Neskúšaj nič z týchto nových vecí, a ja viem, čo hovorím... A buď len manželom, skutočným bratom, skutočným kresťanom.

 Viem, že to znie... Ale... Ste moje deti. Mám právo vám povedať, čo chcem. Rozumiete? Ste moje deti; žite správne.

308        A vy, ženy, žite správne voči svojmu manželovi. A vy, muži, žite správne voči svojim manželkám. Buďte skutočne, skutočne milí a rešpektujte jeden druhého… a vaše rodinné vzťahy, a tak ďalej, nech je to len tak úctivé a zbožné a nech je taký súhlas medzi vami so všetkým, ako len môže byť. Nikdy sa netlačte a nestrkajte a nebuďte nikdy nečistí a vulgárni.

309        Majte porozumenie, hovorte so svojou ženou. Ak je niečo vašou prirodzenosťou, a pre ňu je to iná prirodzenosť, hovor s ňou o tom. Sestra, ty sa snaž robiť to isté voči nemu. A tak isto… Rozumejte jeden druhému a buďte skutoční kresťanskí džentlmeni a kresťanské dámy a navzájom si buďte bratom a sestrou. Vždy pamätajte, ste Božie deti a ste z kráľovskej rodiny. Máte kráľovskú krv; nie je na svete lepšia krv ako tá vaša. A to je pravda. A kráľovská krv sa ukazuje sama. To je to, čím je; ona je kráľovská. Všetci, ktorí tomu veria, povedzte, „Amen“. [Zhromaždenie hovorí, „Amen“ – pozn.prekl.] Tak veru. Ukážte, čím ste. Som synom Kráľa, som synom Kráľa. Moja manželka je dcérou Kráľa. Ako budem zaobchádzať s dcérou toho Kráľa? Ako bude ona zaobchádzať so synom toho Kráľa? Rozumiete, čo mám na mysli? Buďte naozaj úprimní.       

 375. Bude nejaké hnutie Ducha Svätého, znamenia, divy a zázraky, ktoré sa budú diať skrze Nevestu predtým, ako odíde preč, alebo už len očakávame na Jeho zjavenia sa?

310        Myslím, že na tejto otázke budem musieť zakončiť, pretože ich zostalo príliš mnoho, než aby som to stihol prebrať. A začína byť naozaj neskoro. Teraz je za päť minút trištvrte na jednu, mám ich tu možno okolo tridsať alebo štyridsať. Odpoviem na toto najlepšie, ako mi to čas dovolí – zaberiem ešte ďalšie tri minúty. Dostanem sa ku nim, keď to bude možné. Rozumiete? Neviem, kedy sa ku nim budem môcť dostať; urobím, čo môžem. Radujete sa z nich? Ja... Tiež mi to pomáha. Vidíte?

 Prísť sem a takto ich vziať, predtým, ako do nich vôbec nazriete (Vidíte?), potom tam dostanete niektoré veci, na ktoré nemôžete odpovedať, a dúfal som, že si vyberiem... Viem, že tu je jedna otázka ohľadom semena hada. Veľmi som si ju chcel vytiahnuť; chcel som to objasniť. Vidíte? Ale myslím, že som ju minul, tak budem len... Možno Pán nechcel, aby sa to urobilo takým spôsobom, ale bola to otázka ohľadom semena hada. Aby niekto na páske nehovoril, „No, on to preskočil.“ Koľkí vydržia ešte dve minúty na túto tému? Aha? V poriadku.

311        No, počkajte, dovoľte, že najprv objasním túto. Pozrime sa. „Bude...“ Nie. Táto otázka znie takto: „Stanú sa zázraky, ktoré vykoná Nevesta?“ Áno. To sa deje práve teraz. Je to tak. Vidíte? Ale neočakávajte na niečo veľkolepé – alebo otvoriť nebesia a zatvoriť nebesia, aby nepršalo. To teraz ide ku Židom. Vidíte? To sem vôbec nepatrí; to je Mojžiš a Eliáš, ktorí sú poslaní ku Židom, vôbec nie ku Cirkvi. Prečítajte si prvé tri kapitoly Zjavenia; rovno tam uvidíte, čím je Cirkev. To sa celé týka Cirkvi. A keď sa ona vracia naspäť s Nevestou, keď sa ona vracia naspäť a... Prečítajte... Ak chcete vedieť o Cirkvi, čo sa jej týka, čítajte prvé tri kapitoly Zjavenia a potom choďte do 19. kapitoly a začnite čítať odtiaľ (Vidíte?), vtedy dostanete Nevestu. Tam ten zvyšok je pri Židoch.

312        No, čo sa týka semena hada. Neviem to tu nájsť, pretože ako môžete vidieť, je ich tu veľká kopa. Ale tá osoba povedala, „Ak had - ak to semeno hada... (Vidíte?) Žena, ona dostala syna od Pána, ona tak povedala.“

 No, myslím, že minulú nedeľu som vysvetľoval, ako ho dostala od Pána. Ak ho vôbec dostala, tak ho dostala od Pána (Rozumiete?), pretože to muselo prísť od Pána. Pretože Boží zákon má... bude poslúchať Boha. Presne tak.

313        On ustanovil slnko, aby svietilo; slnko svieti. On ustanovil, aby dážď padal na spravodlivých i nespravodlivých; to sa deje. A semená, ktoré sú zasadené na akomkoľvek poli, či už sú dobré alebo zlé, oni vyrastú; to je semeno. A ak je nejaké semeno zasadené, bez ohľadu na to...

 A ten jediný spôsob, ako tento had mohol zasadiť semeno, on bol tým jediným zvieraťom, ktoré bolo hneď pod ľudskou bytosťou. Pretože pri tej evolúcii ľudstva, keď sa človek – Boh sa vznášal nad zemou... A On začal privádzať vtáctvo a od vtáctva prešiel ku rozličným ďalším veciam, potom ku šimpanzovi, a od šimpanza ku hadovi.

314        No, On toho hada tak zmenil (To sa muselo stať.), aby to zmiatlo túto generáciu, ktorá sa snaží nájsť nejakú kosť, ktorá vyzerá ako z nejakého druhu zvieraťa, ktoré bolo čiastočne človekom a čiastočne zvieraťom, aby povedali, že to je to, kde človek... Oni to stratili od šimpanza; iba že šimpanz nemá inteligenciu. Šimpanz nemá dušu; nemôže premýšľať. On má len... On môže... Len nejaký hluk a on môže... Kôň urobí, „ihi-hí-hoo,“ alebo niečo také... Pri psovi, „Poď sem, Fido, urob kúsok. Preskoč to.“ A postaví tam prekážky a také veci, oni to urobia skrze emóciu, skrze počutie, a také veci, a akciu; ale čo sa týka myslenia a porozumenia, oni to nedokážu. Nevedia, že sú nahí; nevedia, že sú samcom a samicou, takto, nepoznajú rozdiel. Nemajú žiadne také zákony ako...?... Vidíte? Nedokážu to. Ľudská bytosť je jediná.

 A to ďalšie zviera ku ľudskej bytosti bol had. Biblia povedala, že bol najchytrejší zo všetkých zvierat poľných. Chytrejší, on mal takmer dušu. On mal miesto pre dušu, ale čo urobil? Zapredal sa satanovi, aby oklamal Boha, pokúsil sa. Koľkí to potiaľto rozumejú?

315        Satan, had, on mal takmer dušu. Boh vedel, že budú hľadať tie kosti, a v hadovi nie je jedinej kosti, ktorá by vyzerala ako ľudská. On bol... To je kliatba, ktorá je na ňom. On stál na svojich nohách práve tak ako človek.

316        Všimnite si, potom to semeno, ktoré bolo hneď pod tým ľudským semenom... Sám satan, ten duch, on vedel, že to bolo jediné semeno, ktoré by mohlo oplodniť ženu, pretože šimpanz by to nedokázal. Oni sa to snažili zmiešať a všetko také; to nebude fungovať. Ale on vedel, že ten gén života, ktorý bol v šimpanzovi, by neprišiel do poľa ženského vajíčka; ale vedel, že semeno hada to dokáže, tak on konal s hadom.

317        A Adam nikdy nevedel, že tento skutok by sa mohol stať. Rozumiete? Ona bola učinená ženským pohlavím. Iste, ona by k tomu neskôr prišla; ale vidíte, suverenita Božia, že On sa chcel ukázať ako Spasiteľ, a tak ďalej, ako som to mnohokrát objasňoval... Ale satan toto vedel, lebo on ku nej prišiel vo forme tohto hada, ktorý bol zvieraťom, a prišiel ku nej. A ona prv otehotnela od satana.

318        A ak si všimnete, udiali sa tam len dva akty a narodili sa tri deti. Skúmajte Písma. Ona porodila dvojičky. Jeden z nich bol semenom hada; ten druhý bol Ábel. Ona zlákala svojho manžela a povedala... Vidíte? Potom ukázala svojmu mužovi, čo to bolo, a on s ňou potom tiež žil a ona priniesla toto dieťa. A chcem vám ukázať, že ona bola tehotná s dvojičkami od dvoch rozličných... Ona bola... To je rýdza žena.

319        Ich semeno je silné. Pozrite sa sem. Abrahám si vzal svoju vlastnú sestru. No, ak by si dnes nejaký muž vzal svoju sestru, jeho deti by boli idioti. Vidíte? Ale ľudská bytosť... A tu Jákob – alebo Izák, on si vzal Rebeku, ktorá bola jeho vlastná sesternica, vlastná pokrvná sesternica, pokrvná príbuzná (Vidíte?), dcéra Abrahámovho brata.

320        Všimnite si teraz pri tomto (Vidíte?), tam je – ľudská rasa bola tak silná. No, ak si všimnete, to boli po celý čas dvojičky. Tam bol... Kain a Ábel boli dvojičky; a Ezav a Jákob boli dvojičky. Ježiš a Judáš pochádzali z toho istého pokolenia a boli v tom istom zbore. A dokonca Duch Svätý a antikrist majú byť dvojičky, tak blízke, že by to zviedlo aj samotných vyvolených, ak by to bolo možné. Pochopili ste to? V poriadku.

321        No, aby sme toto dokázali, chcem, aby ste si otvorili Júdu – myslím, že to je 17. verš – alebo 14. verš Júdu a je tam povedané... No, všimnite si toto. No, zakončím. Všimnite si. Aby sme celú tú vec zakončili a vyjasnili, najprv On povedal, „Položím nepriateľstvo medzi tvoje semeno a hadovo semeno.“ Vidíte? No, ona nemá semeno. A tak to, ako toto semeno dostala, to bolo satanovo semeno. Kain bol satanov syn. Ona nemala žiadne semeno, a tak ho obdržala skrze sexuálny akt. A keď to urobila, ono jej bolo dané od Božieho nepriateľa. A potom, keď jej Boh dal Semeno, to nemalo nič spoločné so sexom. Pochopili ste to? Otrokyňa a jej dieťa budú vyhnaní, pretože nebudú dediť so slobodnou ženou a jej dieťaťom.

322        A všimnite si, potom jej bolo dané Semeno, ktorým bol Kristus. Ani jej vajíčko... No, protestanti chcú veriť, že to bol panensky narodený hemoglobín – že to bola stvorená Krv Božia, v ktorej ležal ten zárodok, ale povedali, že to bolo jej vajíčko. Nie veru. Vajíčko nemôže prejsť dole cez tú trubicu do lona, pokiaľ tam nie je senzácia. Potom umiestňujete Boha s... že Duch má sexuálny akt so ženou. Ako sa to mohlo stať? To bola kompletne stvorená vec od Boha, aj vajíčko, aj ten zárodok.

323        A On bol Syn Boží, nie syn Márie, lebo On ju nikdy nenazýval matkou. On ju nazýval 'Žena' – nikdy nie matka. Ona nebola Jeho matkou. To bol Syn Boží a Boh je jeden. Pochopili ste to?

324        No, ďalšia vec, aby sme to dokázali a upevnili, ak sa niekto s vami bude niekedy hádať, poďte sem naspäť do Knihy Júdu, myslím, že to je 17. verš (14. alebo 17. verš), on povedal, „No, Enoch...“ Chcete, aby som to prečítal? Máte toľko času? Poďme a potom budem... Teraz budem vedieť, pretože páska sa tu stále točí a mohli by sme to v tomto teraz zamiešať. Dovoľte, nech sa pozriem, či to je 14. verš:

...prorokoval aj o nich siedmy od Adama Enoch, keď povedal: Hľa prišiel Pán so svojimi svätými myriadami.

325        No, poďme naspäť do 5. kapitoly (Myslím, že to je to.) v Genezis, a potom poďme tiež do Knihy Lukáša (Prajem si, aby som to dokázal nájsť; mám to tu všade pozapisované – ak by som to tu mohol nájsť.) a zistíte, že v tých rodokmeňoch – nikde v Biblii... Ak... Pozrite sa. Ak Noe – ak Enoch je siedmy od Adama, Biblia to povedala, „Adam a potom jeho syn Set,“ pretože Kain nebol Adamovým semenom. Tam je povedané, že Adam splodil Seta a Set splodil... Jared; Jared splodil, a celú cestu až k Enochovi; a Enoch bol siedmy od Adama. Nikde nie je vôbec hovorené o tom, že by Kain vôbec bol zahrnutý niekde v rodokmeňoch Božích.

326        No, len sa pozrite a zistite, či to tak je alebo nie; preskúmajte to. A prichádza Lukáš a znova to menuje a ukladá to tam od Adama. V celej tej veci Kain nie je spomenutý ani raz. A ak bol Enoch (Vidíte?) siedmy od Adama, kde tam vošiel Kain? Pretože Biblia povedala v tých rodokmeňoch, že Adam splodil svojho syna Seta. A Set splodil Jareda a Jared splodil Toho-a-toho, a takto ďalej; a Kain tam nebol spomenutý ani raz. Potom nemohol byť synom Adama. Takže musel byť synom hada a nemohol by byť synom bez toho pohlavného styku. Amen. Ak to tak nebolo, potom bol panensky narodený, potom by bol synom Božím. Nechcem, aby sa z toho nejako vyhovorili.

327        No, ten istý Boh, ktorý to zjavil, to je ten istý Boh, ktorý mi povedal o vašom manželstve a rozvode. Keď On hovorí tie veci, môj brat, sestra... Som vaším bratom, človekom. Ale keď to On hovorí a to tam udrie, nedokážem vám to vysvetliť. Nemusím sa o to ani snažiť, pretože to nedokážem. Ale to nebolo ani jediný raz nesprávne. Aj keď som to ja sám tak vôbec nevidel; nemohol som to tak vidieť, ale jednoducho som sa toho držal; a potom to On začína zjavovať, potom len – to ma jednoducho ohromí. Rovno tam to bolo a ja som to nevidel. Vaše vzdelanie je preskočené a vaše rozumovania sú obídené a všetko také; tak, ako bol obídený Kain.

 No, ak by sme mali čas ísť naspäť do Genezis a začali by sme čítať... Pozrime sa, či by som to len mohol vziať a nájsť to tu. Neviem to naisto, či to dokážem alebo nie. Pani Woodová, pamätáš sa, keď som vám to minule ukazoval? Len čo... Bola to 5. kapitola? Číslo 5, aha. V poriadku.

Toto je kniha rodov Adamových. V deň, v ktorý stvoril Boh človeka, učinil ho na podobu Boha.

Muža a ženu ich stvoril a požehnal ich a nazval ich meno Adam, v deň, v ktorý boli stvorení.

A Adam žil sto tridsať rokov a splodil synov – a splodil syna na svoju podobu a podľa svojho obrazu a nazval jeho meno...

(Kain? [Zhromaždenie odpovedá „Nie.“] Ako nazval jeho meno? [Zhromaždenie odpovedá „Set.“] Kde je potom ten prvorodený, ktorý má práva prvorodenstva? Nie je o ňom ani zmienka. Set bol jeho synom.)

328        No, znova sem prichádzame a zisťujeme kde bolo povedané... A teraz, Eve bol daný syn, pretože Kain zabil Ábela. No, všimnite si to, ako budeme pokračovať:

A Adam žil sto tridsať rokov – žil sto tridsať rokov a splodil syna – splodil syna na svoju podobu a podľa svojho obrazu a nazval jeho meno Set.

A bolo dní Adamových po splodení Seta osemsto rokov, a splodil synov a dcéry.

A bolo všetkých dní Adamových, ktoré žil, deväťsto tridsať rokov, a zomrel.

A Set žil sto päť rokov a splodil Enoša. (A takto to ďalej pokračuje a on je siedmy – Enoch je siedmy od Adama.)

 No, nepamätám si, kde to je presne v Lukášovi. Máš to tiež zaznačené, pani Woodová? Ona a ja... Minule som jej to ukazoval v... Čo hovoríš? Myslím, že máš pravdu, sestra Woodová. Zaznačili sme to tam v jej knihe, keď sme boli – v jej Biblii, kde som to ukazoval... Tu to je, áno, tie rodokmene. V poriadku.

329        No, ak si tu všimneme... V 3. kapitole Lukáša máme tú istú vec, ktorí synovia, a tak ďalej...

...a Noeho, ktorý bol Lámechov,

ktorý bol tiež synom Matuzalema, ktorý bol tiež synom Enosa, ktorý bol synom Jareda, ktorý bol synom Malalehéla, ktorý bol synom Kainana,

ktorý bol synom Enosa, ktorý bol synom Seta, ktorý bol synom Adama, ktorý bol synom Božím.

 Kde je v tom Kain? Kde je Kain v tom prvorodenstve? Ktorému patrí právo prvorodenstva; odkiaľ potom prišiel? On bol satanovým semenom, a nie Božím, ani Adamovým, pretože meno Adamovho syna bolo Set. Kain, semeno hada, zabil jeho prvého syna, čo bolo predobrazom a tieňom toho, že had tiež zabíja jeho iného Syna, Ježiša. A Set zaujal jeho miesto v tých rodokmeňoch, čo znamenalo vzkriesenie, že rodokmene Božie budú kompletne ďalej pokračovať.

330        Chcem vidieť, že by ho tam teraz niekto umiestnil a povedal, že to nebolo semeno hada. V Božích rodokmeňoch to nebolo uznané, ani v rodokmeňoch ľudskej rasy, v rodokmeňoch Adama, v ničom z toho. Je to tak? Koľkí tomu veria, povedzte, „Amen.“ [Zhromaždenie hovorí, „Amen.“ – pozn.prekl.] Iste. On tým nebol; on bol semenom hada a nie semenom Adama.

331        Ona povedala, že to bol Adamov syn. To nebol Adamov syn. Povedala, „Nadobudla som ho od Boha.“ A ona musela; to bolo semeno. To bolo semeno, ale to bolo semeno hada. Rozumiete?

332        A On potom musel prísť naspäť skrze pannu, aby 'vyčistil' ten sexuálny akt, ktorý sa tam stal. Adam bol umiestnený sem na zem, ale on vôbec nezistil, že sa má stať otcom. Rozumiete, čo tým myslím? Satan to vedel, dostal sa ku Eve predtým, ako sa tam dostal Adam. A to je to, kde dnes leží celá tá vec. A brat, to je to, čo dnes robí z manželstva a rozvodu a všetkého možného taký veľký zmätok, ako je dnes. Je to úplne žalostné. Vidíte? Ale ja... Boh učinil cestu, za čo sme vďační.

333        Milujete Ho? Či nie je nádherný? No, je semeno hada pravda? Premýšľal som nad tým, že niekto na páske by si možno mohol myslieť, že som sa bál na to zaútočiť. Vidíte? A tak by hovorili, „No, on to druhýkrát preskočil. Bojí sa do toho pustiť.“ Nie sme takí. Pokiaľ je v tom Pán, tak je to v poriadku.

        Viete čo, ako som raz hovoril o tom orlovi, ktorého som pozoroval, ako cítil svoje krídla, viete. A pomyslel som si, „Ty sa ma nebojíš?“ Mal som tam svoju pušku; povedal som, „Mohol by som ťa zastreliť.“ On vedel, že by som ho nemohol zastreliť; bol som od tej pušky príliš ďaleko. Povedal som, „Či sa nebojíš?“ On len pretočil svojimi veľkými očami a zadíval sa na mňa. Sedel tam malý čipmunk /pruhovaný severoamerický vevericovitý hlodavec/ a rapotal, „Ča, ča, ča, ča, ča; roztrhám ťa na kusy, roztrhám ťa na kusy.“ On si toho čipmunka vôbec nevšímal, ale unavil sa z toho, že ho počúval. A tak, po chvíli len raz mocne zamával, takto vyletel a len nastavil svoje krídla. A vedel, ako má tie krídla nastaviť, jednoducho odletel preč z dohľadu. Vidíte? Videl som, ako sa z neho stala iba taká maličká vec, len maličká bodka.

334        Brat Fred, myslím, že som ti to ukazoval. Všimol som si teraz tam vzadu brata Freda, keď pred chvíľou zakričal, „Amen.“ Myslím, že som ti ukazoval to miesto; a tiež brat Wood, kdekoľvek si, tam hore v tých horách, kde sa to stalo. Videl som toho orla. Ja... On bol donútený pristáť kvôli tej búrke a ja som tam stál za týmto stromom.

335        Poľoval som na losa (a bolo už trocha neskoro), a to bolo v októbri a bol tam sneh a podobne. Tento brat tam bol minulú jeseň s nami, brat Ján a oni, rovno hore na vrchu Corral Peaks, kde sa to stalo.

336        Stál som tam; stál som za týmto stromom. Trocha snežilo a pršalo a ja som tam stál. Ten orol tam zastal a bol donútený pristáť. Priletel tam, veľký, obrovský, vyzeral ako nejaký obor, veľký hnedý orol. Zosadol tam a rozhliadal sa naokolo, pomyslel som si, „Nuž...“ Mal som naozaj dobrý čas; vykrikoval som, „Chvála Pánovi! Haleluja!“ Chodil som kolom dookola okolo nejakého kríku, takto som tam vykrikoval. Pozrel som sa tam dole; mohol som počuť, ako zavíja nejaký kojot. Viete, ako zvyknú zavíjať.

337        Minulý rok, keď som bol tam dole, keď – práve predtým, ako začalo pršať, oni začali zavíjať; to bol malý vlk, viete. Milujem ich počúvať.

338        Potom som v diaľke začul ručiaceho losa, „Víí-húú“. Jeho partnerka mu potom tam v diaľke odpovedala. (Ďalší týždeň, za dva týždne budem na nich poľovať, ak Pán dá.) A tak potom, keď som to tam počul, ó, je to tak zbožné byť tam hore. Ó, ja jednoducho... Tam hore je moja katedrála, kde s Ním hovorím, a potom prichádzam sem dole a hovorím ku vám. Rozumiete?

339        A tam hore, ó, je to tak nádherné, jednoducho relax. Len som tam stál, pomyslel som si, „Ó, Bože...“ Díval som sa, potom prestalo pršať a ihličnany boli pokryté mrazom, od Corral Peaks až po Sheep Mountain sa takto rozťahovala dúha, naprieč tým smerom. A pomyslel som si, „Ó, Bože, pozri. Hmm,“ pomyslel som si, „Tam si Ty, Alfa a Omega, Počiatok a Koniec. Tu to smeruje dole a týmto smerom. Ty si Ten istý včera, dnes i naveky, sedem cirkevných vekov, sedem zlatých svietnikov. Tam si, Bože, aký si nádherný.“

340        A ja som len vykrikoval; odložil som pušku; behal som okolo stromu a vykrikoval, „Sláva Bohu! Chvála Pánovi!“ – takto dookola okolo toho stromu. Mal som tam hore ohromný čas, len Pán a ja, viete.

341        A po chvíli z tých krovín priletel ten orol a jednoducho sa na mňa díval. Pomyslel som si, „No, nepáči sa ti to?“ Povedal som, „Starý chlapče, uctievam toho istého Boha, ktorý ťa stvoril.“ Vidíte? A on len uprel svoje veľké šedé oči a díval sa na mňa a ja som tam takto vykrikoval.

342        A tá malá borovicová veverička (každý, kto bol niekedy poľovať v horách, ona je takým policajtom lesa), a ona tam vyskočila (malé stvorenie, nebola dostatočne veľká, aby mohla niečo urobiť, ó, ale čo za hluk) – a poskakovala tam, skákala hore a dole, viete, „Hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi,“ takto vyvádzala.

343        A ten orol ju pozoroval; a pozrel sa na mňa. Pomyslel som si, „Ó, Pane, no, prečo si ma zastavil kvôli niečomu takému?“ Rozumiete? Povedal som, „Pretože, vieš, uctieval som Ťa. Chceš, aby som niečo uvidel na tom orlovi?“ Povedal som, „Vyruším ho, alebo ide o tú borovicovú veveričku?“ Stál som tam a pozoroval som ich; pomyslel som si, „Budem ho trocha pozorovať.“ Povedal som, „Jedna vec, ktorú som si na ňom všimol; on sa nebál.“ To sa mi páči; nebyť vystrašený. On tam stál, ten veľkolepý vták. Povedal som, „Vieš čo?“ (Moja puška bola opretá o strom.) Povedal som, „Vieš, že by som ťa mohol zastreliť?“ On vedel lepšie než to; on vedel jednu vec: nedokázal by som to urobiť; príliš som si ho cenil. Vidíte? On tam stál, nebol ani trocha vystrašený.

344        A pomyslel som si, „Mohol by som ťa zastreliť.“ No, videl som ho; on sa na mňa takto pozrel a hýbal krídlami, viete, smerom dozadu. Viete, ako to zvyknú robiť, ich krídla, viete. Veľkolepé krídla, asi takto dlhé, viete, a on bol veľký chlapík. Sedel tam a ja som ho pozoroval. A to bolo predtým, ako som vedel tieto veci; toto je roky a roky dozadu, možno pred dvadsiatimi rokmi.

345        A pozoroval som ho; po chvíli, ako som ho pozoroval... Pomyslel som si, „Čo on... On sa nebojí, to si cením. Ale čo je tak zbožné na tom orlovi?“ Keď som videl ten veľký hákovitý zobák a tie veľké oči; pomyslel som si, „Chlapče, on je skutočným vtákom.“

346        No, nikto... Ak by sa ho snažil nasledovať jastrab, on by sa rozpadol. Nič ho nedokáže nasledovať. Nie. Nie. Na to by bolo potrebné lietadlo. Tak veru. Žiaden vták ho nemôže nasledovať; on ide tak vysoko. A potom, on má oči; on tiež dokáže vidieť rovno na zem, potom, čo je tam hore, vidí do veľkej diaľky.

347        No, Jehova pripodobnil Svojich prorokov ku orlom (Vidíte?); On ich takto vyzdvihol hore. Musia byť špeciálne utvorení. Pozrime sa. Predurčení, narodení pre ten účel (Vidíte?), aby boli takto vyzdvihnutí. A potom vy... Na čo by vám bolo dobré ísť tam hore, keď nedokážete vidieť, kde ste? Rozumiete? Na čo by bolo dobré dostať sa tam hore, ak neviete, čo robíte? Vidíte? Rozumiete?

348        Na čo je dobré vyskakovať hore a dole, vykrikovať, hovoriť v jazykoch, ak neviete, o čom to celé je? Vidíte? Zatiaľ čo ste tam, musíte rozumieť. Vidíte?

349        A tak som ho potom pozoroval, viete, ako sa tam pohyboval. Stále som... Obdivoval som ho; bol to taký nádherný vták. A jednako, on by pravdepodobne zjedol niečo z môjho jelenieho mäsa a tých vecí, ktoré som... Pozoroval som ho a po chvíli som si pomyslel, „Vieš, čo on...“

350        Po chvíli sa unavil. Nemyslím, že sa unavil z toho, že sa díval na mňa, ale myslím, že ho unavilo počúvať tú malú veveričku, ktorá tam sedela. Viete, dnes ich máme v tábore veľmi mnoho. Viete o tom? Vidíte? „Hi, hi, hi. Dni zázrakov pominuli. Nie je niečo také ako Božské uzdravenie. Tieto veci už viac nemáme.“ Vidíte? Malá k zemi pripútaná veverička, čipmunk, ktorý tam sedí na pni. „Musíš patriť do tohto. My sme...“ Vidíte? Sedí tam a hore-dole rapoce. Ó, ona vibrovala, tak veľmi sa triasla.

351        Jeho to omrzelo počúvať a urobil jeden obrovský skok a tá vetva, na ktorej sedel, sa takto otriasla. Tá vetva sa takto zatriasla a on odtiaľ odletel. Vidíte? Zamával krídlami a vyletel cez tie stromy. A keď to urobil, pozoroval som ho. Vidíte? On sa nebál, pretože on mohol cítiť prítomnosť svojich Bohom-daných krídel. Vedel, že tie krídla ho mohli vziať preč z akéhokoľvek druhu nebezpečenstva. Vidíte?

352        A tak, to je spôsob, ako sa chceme cítiť. Toto je Slovo a Ten, ktorý to Slovo napísal, On je mojimi krídlami. Nie som vystrašený zo Slova; to vás prevedie cez akýkoľvek druh problému, ktorý existuje. To je Meč, ktorý si rovno cez to preseká cestu. Nikdy sa o to nestrachujte. Rozumiete?

353        Potom som ho pozoroval. On už viac nemával, iba nastavil svoje krídla. Vidíte? A to – zakaždým, ako ten vietor podišiel zospodu, on sa len zodvihol, stúpal vyššie a vyššie.

 Stál som tam so založenými rukami a díval som sa na neho až kým z neho, nebola len maličká bodka, ktorá sa sotva dala vidieť. A pomyslel som si, „Bože, to je to. Nejde o to bežať sa pripojiť ku tomuto a bežať sa pripojiť ku tamtomu; a robiť toto, to alebo tamto; ide len o to nastaviť svoje krídla (Vidíte?); vedieť, ako nastaviť svoje krídla viery do Slova Božieho a odplachtiť preč od všetkého toho nezmyselného rapotania, ktoré je tu i tam. Áno. „Nebo i zem pominú, ale Moje Slovo nikdy nepominie.“

354        No, dnes popoludní vás mám približne ďalších dvadsiatich. No, vy, ktorí máte dnes popoludní mať tie rozhovory, no, stretnite sa s Billym, pretože myslím, že oni sa budú snažiť začať trochu skôr, a ja ich nestihnem všetky. Ak budem môcť, chcem sa dostať ku všetkým, ku ktorým sa budem môcť dostať. A toto som neurobil kvôli tomu, že... Billy toto ani nevedel (Vidíte?), ale moja myseľ bola po tých asi dvadsiatich videniach, ktoré tam dnes ráno boli, tak zničená (Rozumiete?), že až – alebo čokoľvek to bolo... To vás tak trocha dostane do... A Billy povedal, „Prečo nejdeš von a neurobíš si malý... Oddýchni si, choď von a odpovedz na niektoré z tých otázok.“

 A povedal som, „Brat Neville má svoje posolstvo.“

 Povedal, „Pôjdem mu to povedať.“ Tak on odišiel.

 Brat Neville povedal, „Príď.“ A tak som potom vstal a prišiel som sem. A niektorí z nich čakajú na dnešné popoludnie. Prepáčte, že som vás tu zdržal až do jednej hodiny, ale budem – predpokladám, že pozajtra budem musieť odísť, aby som sa mohol znova vrátiť do Arizony.

355        Pamätajte, ak Pán dá, ten ďalšíkrát, keď sa vrátim späť, chcem vám kázať o – ukázať vám v Písme správnosť ohľadom manželstva a rozvodu. Toto... A potom, ja... A potom, len to nechám... Ukážem to presne tak, ako to je, potom to odtiaľ uvidíte. A tak, až do toho času, buďte dobrej mysle; nech vás Pán bohate žehná. Môžme povstať? [Nejaká žena v zhromaždení hovorí proroctvo. – pozn.prekl.] Chvála Pánovi!

        Milujem Ho, milujem Ho, (Či Ho milujete?)

        lebo On prv miloval mňa

 a vykúpil moje spasenie

 na Golgote.

356        Milujete Ho? No, zatiaľ čo to budeme znova spievať, potraste si navzájom rukami.

        Milujem Ho, milujem Ho,

 lebo On prv miloval mňa

 a vykúpil moje spasenie na Golgote.

357        Ó, či to nie je nádherné? Ó! Billy chcel, aby som ohlásil, že po požehnaní vám chce niečo povedať, vám ľuďom, ktorí chcete mať tie osobné rozhovory. Rozumiete? Chce sa s vami na chvíľu stretnúť. Ale teraz to cítim tak, že toto je chvíľa uctievania. Tieto... Milujete Ho uctievať v Duchu?

        A vykúpil moje spasenie na Golgote.

358        Ó, či to nie je nádherné? Ó, milujem Ho. Vo svojom srdci. Ak poznám svoje srdce, viem, že Ho milujem. Verím, že vy tiež. Takto sme spoločne Jeho deťmi. Navzájom sa milujeme. No, nemôžem Ho milovať bez toho, že by som miloval vás. A ak hovorím, že Ho milujem, a vás by som nemiloval, Biblia hovorí, že som klamár. Vidíte? A ak ja... Ak chcete – ak by ste chceli milovať mňa alebo moju rodinu... Bolo by tam na výber, čo by som ja chcel, aby ste robili, buď milovať mňa alebo milovať moju rodinu; potom milujte moju rodinu. Bol by som radšej, keby ste milovali Billy Paula než mňa. Ak to prichádza ku takémuto druhu rozuzlenia, bol by som radšej, keby ste to tak robili. Chcem, aby ste počúvali mňa, pretože Billy nie je kazateľom. Ale chcem, aby ste počúvali mňa, to, čo vám hovorím; ale keď – ak chcete niekoho milovať, skutočne ich milovať, poviete, „Chcem milovať buď teba alebo Billyho...“ – potom milujte Billyho. Rozumiete? Boh to pri nás cíti tak isto. A my nemôžeme... Potom viem, že nemôžete milovať Billyho bez toho, že by ste milovali mňa, pretože on je mojou časťou. Vidíte? Tak ja nemôžem milovať Boha bez toho, že by som miloval vás, pretože vy ste časťou Boha. A my sa navzájom milujeme. Ó, myslím, že to je také nádherné. Nemyslíte, že piesne sú niečím pekným potom, čo sme odpovedali na tieto veci, kde nás to spolu viaže? Hmm, ó, je to také skutočné.

        Milujem Ho, milujem Ho,

 lebo On prv miloval mňa

 a vykúpil moje spasenie na Golgote.

OTÁZKY A ODPOVEDE, ČASŤ 3 (QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS #3), 64-0830M, Branham Tabernacle, Branham Tabernacle, Jeffersonville, IN, 189 min

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1 Let's bow our heads. Lord Jesus, we're grateful to Thee this morning for the opportunity to come in Thy Presence in this time of fellowship, and to set here in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Now, Lord, we pray that You'll continue to be with us as we speak of Thee. May our hearts be full of joy as we look upon Thy Word and Thy promises to us.

Bless our pastor, our associate, all the brethren and sisters that come here to meet with us and congregate here in this little spot that we have designated for a meeting place for You. And we pray that You'll bless us in everything that we do through the day. In Jesus' Name we ask it. Amen. (Can be seated.)

[Brother Branham has conversation with someone on platform--Ed.] I got your book.

2 This is kinda just a small relief for me just a little bit. I had the services back here, interviews; I was to have interviews or either--or--or to take and answer the questions. Pretty near everything come in this morning was visions, and I just kinda had to... I told Billy, if Brother Neville wasn't too busy, I'd grab up this bunch of questions and run out here, kinda relieve my mind a little. It's--kind of gets me down, kinda... Them--them visions are... But the people was helped; that's the main thing. The main thing, they were helped; that's--that's the good part. And so, then I'm going to pick them up a little earlier this afternoon, so I can get started this afternoon on my specials, the interviews.

3 Now, we're glad this morning to see our friends and... Now, this... Don't hold this against Billy. So then... He's supposed to notify the people if I was going to continue to answer these questions. I thought it might give me maybe a--a hour here or something to answer questions. Some of my... I like--I don't like to leave; I like to wipe my slate clear. See? Then these questions and so forth, I--I just like to say, I--I--I got this done. I get too much in--on my mind; it makes me nervous. And I don't want to be nervous about anything; I--I'm going home to glory one of these days. Ha.

4 An old friend of mine said to me couple of days ago, said, "I'm getting so tired of living in a suitcase."

I said, "Brother dear, I want to ask you something; I want to tell you something. I'm homesick. I been homesick for twenty years, and I ain't got no home to go to." See? That's true. That's an awful thing to say. I could set down and cry to go somewhere home. I ain't got no home to go. Everywhere I go, I can't stay there a few days; I'm ready to go somewhere else. I just--I been that way; I--I was born that way. My wife calls me "Restless Winds." I just--I just here and there. And that's an awful fix to be in, but I guess I had to be that way for my ministry. But many of you admire the... Well, we admire doing anything for God, but don't you never...

5 Now, we're just a bunch of home folks this morning. See? But I'm--I'm homesick. I want to go home, and I don't know where to go. You say, "What about going out in Arizona, your family's there?" I'm all right for two or three days, and I got to go somewhere else. And I go there, and then I'm all right there two or three days, and I got to go somewhere else. So there just ain't no home to go to, and I'm homesick.

Well, there is a home. I'll--I'll go to that one sometime, but I've got to help you first. See? That's what I'm here for, is to help you. And till that time comes, till I can't help you no more, then I--I want to go home. I want to go really home then. But there is a place somewhere, I'm going to like so well, I won't want to come back.

7 I'll leave Jeffersonville; I'll be gone a few weeks; I want to come back again. I go to Arizona; I think that's wonderful; I want to come back again. And I go somewhere else; I want to come back again. I go here, go there, and I--then I think I want to come here. I get here; I'm just here a few days, and I see you all; I want to go somewhere else. See, I got my children scattered out over the world, and I--I--them that I have begotten to Christ. And I... Then I don't have no home. I want to get them all together one of these days (See?)--Father will, and then we'll--we'll have a home where we won't have to roam around no more. See? Get tired rambling and no place to stay.

8 And I'd advise anybody, never be a rolling stone (See?), 'less it's some kind of a ministry that calls you that way, 'cause... I--I'd just give anything this morning, if I had a place here on earth that I could go and say, "This is home." I'd--I'd... If I had it, I'd give a million dollars. If I had a place that I could say, "Boy, I just love this so well; I don't want to leave it no more," I'd--I'd give anything. But I--I can't find it.

I'm something like Abraham was; I'm looking for a city. See? I can't find it, but I know it's there. But I certainly can't get adjusted to any certain place on this earth. It just don't look like... Fine people, fine places, and you go here it's too wet; go out there it's too dry; go up here it's too cold; go down there it's too hot. See? And you... There's no place; it just ain't home. Don't take up my time crying on your shoulder, but I'm...

Well, we're thankful to the Lord. Amen. Be thankful for all things. I am thus, because I am thus. God made me what I am. And I can't be nothing but what He made me, melancholy, and those kind of things. They tell me I just have to be that way in order to be the help that He sent me here to be. And I want to be that kind of a person. If that's the way I was supposed to be, that's what I want to be. Whatever's the Kingdom of God's will, or God's will, that's what I want to be.

10 Now, let's pray again. Lord Jesus, these questions lay before us here, Father. I can't answer them, Lord. I--I'm insufficient for these questions, but I know that You are All Sufficient, because it's on the people's heart. Use me, Lord, to relieve their pressures, won't You, Father? In the Name of Jesus Christ I ask it. Amen.

11 Now, we're going to start on... I guess they're not taping this, so it's just a... It's all right, I suppose.

Now, the one thing that... Reason I worry about questions, always there's one cute thing--acute thing, rather, that always bothers me: that's answering the question on marriage and divorce. Oh, my, the phone calls, the letters, and one brother wrapped hisself in a blanket and set on my porch from 12 o'clock until daylight the next morning. Ministers calling from everywhere, married two or three times and all, ministries... I want to ask you one thing. I got several of them still in here I know. I haven't looked them through, but there's several of them still in here.

12 Just remember this. To you people who are married, and divorced, and remarried, promise me one thing. See? You've put your confidence in me. (I--I guess this is not taped. I don't... ) You--you--you've--you believe me as your prophet sent from God, your servant; then you take my word for this, will you? Go on living just like you are. Don't you try anything else like it, but live, just go ahead, just live happy. You got... You're saved. If you're Christians, you go ahead living for Christ; He had a reason to save you.

Now, when I come back, the Lord willing, I'll explain that to you in the Bible. See? And don't get upset. Many men told me, said, "Well, I love my wife, but I'm--I'll just have to leave her; I--I don't want to miss the rapture." Don't you do that. Stay just as you are till you hear from me again (See?) on this subject. Then when I... I can't explain it in ten or fifteen minutes; it's going to take some time to explain it, because it's got to be the Scripture. It's got to be THUS SAITH THE LORD. If it isn't, it isn't right.

14 I know these questions that Jesus said here, "If a man puts away his wife and marries another save the cause of fornication commits adultery, whosoever marries her put away, liveth in adultery"... These things, He had a reason to say that. He was God; that's His Word.

Now, let's go back to the beginning and find out what it all means (You see?), then we bring it up. But till we do that, just go right on as you are now, just like you always have been doing, if you're Christians. If you are a Christian couple, and you're married, and got children, and things like that, some little ties that bind you, don't leave your wife or your husband now. Don't do that. See? Wait till you hear me again on the subject. Will you promise me that? Raise up your hand. Now, you've confided in me to believe me. Now, you--you believe me this far; now, believe me just a little bit farther on the subject.

Now--now, let's see, I got some real good ones here this morning, some...

16 325. Do all who go in the Bride have to live within the fifteen hundred miles of the Tabernacle (I believe I had that again last Sunday. I'll just have to pick them up and use them as I can.)--fifteen hundred miles of the Tabernacle, as it sounds like on tape number two of the "Future Home of the Bride"? I always thought that the Bride would come out of all parts of the world at the time of the rapture. Am I wrong?

No, my dear friend, you are not wrong, you're right. Now, if I said anything under the tape that would lead you to believe...

Now, I haven't... These are all new to me now, I've never looked in--in these here. You see? These are new bunch that I got the other Sunday, and put them back in this envelope, and laid them back in there.

17 Now, in this... No, the Bride doesn't have to be in any certain place. Many of them will be in the dust of the earth. They'd be around the earth; they'd be frozen in the--the snow in the north, and--and dust of the tropical jungles, and--and all around the world. But when the Trumpet of God shall sound, the dead in Christ shall arise, waken, and come out of the dust of the earth, no matter where they are. And now, in this, the resurrection will be a universal. See? Everywhere every creature on the ball of the earth that's in Christ will come forth with Him when He comes (See?), no matter where you are.

Just think of the arena in the days of the early martyrs, that when those Christians were throwed into lions' den, and those lions killed the Christians and eat up their bodies. See? Yet they were scattered, their bodies was in the wastage of the lion across the face of the earth. No matter where it is, you can't... See, you're made up of a substance that's unseen made material, and God will--will give that--that substance back. See?

19 Now, like you take a--a cell. You break it down from a cell, and it comes in then to a--a cell in a cell, and into a atom, and a molecule, and on down like that; and finally it ends up into the unseen. It goes from a natural, something you put your hands on, to gases; from gases into acids--acids into gases, and gases, on back like that, till it finally all winds up to one little thing, and that is spirit. And this spirit who has occupied these gases... It might not be the same gases, but the features of what you are will be exactly what they are again. See? The spirit has controlled that.

And now, in other words, when you become a young man or a young woman, and like, God takes a picture of you... Now, no matter how old and wrinkled, how disfigured, whatever it will be, that will wind right on down through. And that body may be destroyed, disfigured, burnt, eat up by lions, whatever it is, but it was made up of gases, sixteen elements of the earth. That was calcium, and potash, and petroleum, and cosmic light, and so forth, all goes together to make up the body. Now, no matter, that's--the whole earth is filled with that.

21 But now, this picture is the main thing. Then in the resurrection, those gases, and acids, and things comes right back into the place and develops this picture again. Now, this picture was not taken when you was sixteen, or eighteen, or twenty years old at your best. When was it taken? Before there was a foundation of the world it was put in God's great file. And then, only thing it did was featured itself here for you to make your choice. See? Then you become a servant of God. Him foreknowing it, makes Him a Redeemer, as we've been through it.

Then that picture is absolutely... This is the negative. The negative part of life is where you're living now. And anything, if there is a negative, there's got to be a positive before there can be a negative. Therefore, if this is a negative, there's got to be a positive somewhere. And this ain't the real thing; this is only a foreshadow of the real thing that is to come. Now you got it?

So, I don't care what they would do with you; they cannot destroy that profile, that picture in God's great gallery up there. It cannot destroy it; it's in heaven. You could burn it up, feed it to the lions, do it anyway you want to; it'll come forth again just as sure as the two twos is four. Just as sure as God spoke it, it'll come forth. So no matter where you are...

24 Now, if I... I think if you'll play the tape... (I don't know who wrote it; no name signed, just a little piece of paper with blue ink, wrote out of a little notebook. Look like it's been tore off from a little--a--a little notebook.) But remember, on this, in--in this question now, in the tape, if you'll notice, I said this, something on this (might not be word by word now, if you check this tape with the other one): I said, "For instance, we are here this morning. This city that we long to see will be some fifteen hundred miles square." I said, "That would reach from Maine to Florida, and from the eastern seaboard to eight hundred miles west of the Mississippi River, fifteen hundred miles square." I said, "Think of it, right here this morning, there's people setting right here that--that's actually come from that much distance, from fifteen hundred miles square, setting in here." Now, I don't know where the temple will set on the earth, but I have an idea that the temple will set right about where Palestine is now. That will probably be the top of the mountain right there. It'll reach out. 'Course, there'll be no more sea then. See, this world's 25,000 miles around it, but fifteen hundred miles is not very much out of that. But this great city will set on this fifteen hundred square mile mountain.

25 Now, the reason I believe that is because of the prophecies and things concerning Mount Zion in Jerusalem and those cities. And there's where Abraham the prophet was seeking for that city, and it was whose Builder and Maker was God. He looked for that city in that land. I believe it'll be where that land is.

That land, you can hardly find it on the map. It's a little bitty dot. And look at the land that Russia, and United States, South America, and all those places there... Why was God so zealous of that place (See?), of that one place? That's the question. I can't prove it, but it just looks that way to me. But wherever it is, we're headed that way, so praise the Lord for that.

27 Now, if you got the impression that I--that I said it would be in--around fifteen hundred miles of the Tabernacle, that was a wrong impression (You see?), 'cause it won't. This Tabernacle has... This is just a little place that's going to be destroyed. And--and the world will be burnt up, and this will all be done away with. And this Indiana, and United States, and everything will just melt and just wax out yonder into nothing but lava. See? All sin, all disease, all germs, all everything else will be destroyed. "And I saw a new heavens and a new earth, for the first earth..."

Think. God was six thousand years in building this world, putting it together, forming it. How did He do it? The Bible said, "He made it out of things which does not appear"; that is, He created the earth. Now notice; this is beautiful. The very Creator that created the earth for a purpose--Satan defiled it--He come down to redeem what was left on here. And He has gone somewhere else and is in His business yet creating.

29 Now, it taken Him six thousand years to make the--the earth, and He's going to take two days to create the city that goes on the earth. He's... "In My Father's house are many mansions: if it was not so, I would've told you. I'll go to prepare a place for you (build a city out of transparent gold, the streets out of gold)." What a beautiful place.

Where will He get it? Is there any materials on the other earths, or the moons, and stars, and things? He don't have to have it. He's a Creator. He's gone to build the city. Amen. That's good enough for me, ain't it for you? That's good. For if He built this one, and I enjoy this one, what's it going to be when He builds this new one? Oh, my, what a wonderful thing. And so I'm glad that we're bound for that city. All right.

30 326. Brother Branham, I love the Lord, but for the past year I have been--I have been faced with a problem. Seems sometimes I've almost been out of my mind. What is it? Please pray for me and my husband.

Well, if there is no... If this person was on private interview, like you people been in there this morning, it would pull that out what it is, whatever it is. See? The Lord would reveal what it is. But now, that I don't know who you are, and you're not setting here; it just said, "a sister in Christ"...

Now, now, if it is--if there's something that you have done that's wrong, that's bothered you, then check it with the Bible and see what you must do. But if you haven't done anything and you're not condemned of anything, it's perhaps your nerves. See? It could be many things that happened: maybe some trouble back in your life. Maybe it's a--a woman here might be in the menopause time. That's when everything is wrong with her, and there's nothing wrong with her, yet everything's wrong with her. And she's not just putting on; she really feels that; it's just as real. Any person that's nervous is that way. And don't never disagree.

32 And you husbands to your wives, when they're in that time of life, if you ever--if she ever was your sweetheart, you let her be right then, 'cause she needs you. She really needs your help; she needs somebody to help her and understand her. Talk to her, take her up in your arms like--like--like she was your sweetheart, and she should be. And--and understand her, because she's going through a time that her entire make-up is changing, and you must be good to her at that time.

I think that's why Mr. Rockefeller made a fatal mistake. He was loved by the nation, would've probably been our next president. But when his wife took menopause, and went in menopause, and he left her and married his secretary, you see what happened? That shows there's some real good thinking Americans yet.

Now, I like Mr. Goldwater, or--or Mr. [Brother Branham snaps his fingers--Ed.] Rockefeller. He's a... I like Mr. Goldwater too; I like everybody. But I--I didn't want to... Some of you--some of my brother Republicans setting out there hear me say that, I...

34 Notice, but I'm not a politician; I--I want to be a Christian. See? And this is not a place for politics. See? The whole thing's gone anyhow, that way, but this that we're talking about is eternal. Democrat or Republican... Oh, it's such a mess; it can never be redeemed. It's over, so don't argue about that. The thing to do is live for this Kingdom. "For here we have no continuing city, but we seek one to come." Amen. That's right. Yes, sir.

So politics is one side of the fence, and I'm on the other. I said, "I--I voted once; that was for Christ; I'm sure to win." That's right. See? You got a vote coming. See? God voted for you, the devil voted against you. Now, which way you cast your vote's where you're coming out.

So--so now, I believe this person is just... I'm going to think that it's just nervous. If there's nothing condemning you, go right on and just say, "Get away from me, Satan!" Just move right on. Take the initiative and live for God.

37 327. Now. Is there ever any condition wherein it's permissible to remarry after divorce, according to (Now, I will see if this is a... I think there's two or three questions on this.) according to the Scriptures? If I do not--if I do not remain married in--from previous times, it--is there any grounds for divorce that permits you even to remarry? I will be--I will be (b-u-i-) the--buying the tape (Yeah!) to get this answer. Thank you very much. I will look for it Sunday.

Well now, I have said this, you see. Don't--don't... I--I... Let me just leave that alone (You see?) until we get to a place where--now where we will--this will all be straightened out. And now, you just remember, that's God willing, as soon as I come back again. The next time I come, the Lord willing, I will preach on that subject. See? And now... And then, we will tape it anyhow. And if--if it hurts, it hurts; if it clears up, it clears up. But you just be of a good courage. See?

38 328. Dear Brother Branham, is it possible for one to have the baptism of the Holy Ghost and not to have the signs following, at--at least not until the--some future time and conditions appointed by the Spirit?

Now, that might sound like a mixed-up question, but that's a good one, very good. See? Now, here gives me a little chance, that I find that's working with my--my family here now (See?), I mean you, my family, and the family out in the world where we--where our tapes go.

39 Now, a great part of my congregation is made up of Pentecostal people, and because Pentecost is the latest message that we have in the denominational ranks. And to me, I certainly agree with them more than any other denominational church. I hang towards the Pentecostal, because it is a--the later message. And all my converts that I bring to Christ, I try to direct them to some Pentecostal church. But I have condemned them in every way that I knowed how, that they were wrong in the Scripture by being a denomination and not willing to walk in Light when Light's presented to them. But yet, if I had to take my choice today to take any church in the world, I'd take Pentecostal when it come to denomination. But when it comes to individuals, as men and women, there's genuine Christians in all them denominations: Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Lutherans, and so forth. But I'm talking about the systems that these people are in, not never the individual, but the system that these people has been caught into in their denomination. The... Clearly understand that now (See?), that I--I think the people... If they're Roman Catholic, Jehovah Witness, Orthodox Jew, whatever they are, that doesn't matter to me; but they are individuals to which Christ died to save.

40 And now, I... And agreeing with their systems that they're in... I believe there's just as many Christians out there in the Baptist, as there is in the Methodists, or the Presbyterians, or whatevermore. They're Christians, real believers. And right out in the Roman Catholic church there's genuine people in there that's real men and women that love the Lord. And they don't join that church to be wrong; they join that to be right. But it's a system in there that directs their mind the wrong way. And if ever comes to a time that I'd make a denomination, I have deceived you and have brought you into a system; far be it from me. And may God keep me in my right mind to direct you to Jesus Christ, the Word. Stay with That. See?

41 But now, this person here is asking the question about the possibility of having the baptism of the Holy Ghost without signs following them. Now, it would... If you are born again you are--if you are born first as a human being and a normal human being... Now, I'm answering this in a--in a--a real juvenile way of doing it. But if you're born a normal human being, you will actually do the things that a normal human being would do. Is that right?

When you're born as a human, the natural traits of a human being will follow you. You won't live in a tree, and try to fly with your wings like a bird, or--or--or something like that. That isn't--that wouldn't be a normal human being, the normal actions of a human being. The normal action of a human being would be to work, have--marry, have family, and do these things. That's natural, norman--normal human beings, because you're born that. Then when you're borned a Christian, borned of the Spirit of God, you naturally take up the attributes of Christ. You see?

43 Now, if we took here this morning in this congregation where you people set here and listen day after day and so forth to the teaching, you'll find out you'd be different one from another, because you--you're different. You're--you're make up different; your--your appetites are different; you--you eat different; but you all eat food. But now, just from... With one individual being just like the other one, you're different one from another. Christians do the same thing. You can't say, "Now, all..." Do all speak with tongues, do all prophesy, do all... See?

You have to watch these things, because a Christian takes up the--the habits of a Christian; and they live like a Christian. Jesus said, "These signs shall follow them that believe." Notice: "In My Name they shall cast out devils; they shall take up serpents or drink deadly things; and they'll speak with new tongues." And--and them things just actually follow Christians.

45 Now, the person has a very good thing here: "... or do we wait until the future time or the conditions appointed by the Holy Spirit?" I like that. See? Now, you get the idea? When it's appointed by the Holy Spirit... God appoints things.

And there, I think if the Pentecostal people would try (that listens to this tape), you'll understand me if you will get here why I different with you pressing that idea that they must all speak with tongues. I--I cannot see that right, because it'd be... I like cherry pie, but there's no need... And I'm a human being. But there's no need of me trying to tell you, "If you don't eat cherry pie, you're not a human being." See? But eating cherry pie is just one of the habits of a human being. See? You might disagree with me upon that, but--but it--it's true. Now, one will eat this, and one will do something else.

46 Now, the Holy Spirit appoints these offices, but when you try to force yourself into it... If I said you had to eat cherry pie, what if cherry pie made you vomit? And yet, you'd vomit and try to eat cherry pie and vomit, and...?... See? You're--you're--you're hurting yourself, and that's the way you try to do when you try to force yourself to do something that's contrary to the Spirit. He's got your life 'lotted for a certain thing. Do you understand that? See?

And you, when you're filled with the Spirit, here's one of the best signs I know: you're so in love with Christ and believe every Word that He says to be the truth. See? That's the evidence that you have the Holy Spirit. And your life's full of joy, and--and oh, my, everything's different (See?) than what it used to be. That's the Holy Spirit.

48 Now, these gifts are in the Holy Spirit. Now, if this congregation this morning, this--just a nice snug church full with... (The overflow rooms, 'course, is filled up.) But in the... Just a... (Not announcing we was going to answer these questions, but these people have just come in.) Notice, if every person in here was in perfectly harmony with the Holy Spirit, every one of you was filled with the Holy Ghost and in harmony with the Holy Ghost, these signs would be just a--multiplying among you all the time (See?); it'd just be constantly going. But where there's confusion, where there's difference, and where we set up, the Holy Spirit can't move itself. You see? It can't operate through the people. See?

49 And there, if I said, "Now you, each one of you, did you speak in tongues?"

"Yeah."

"Well, you got It. "Did you speak in tongues?"

"No."

"You haven't got It." Now, I'm making myself a judge. God is the Judge of these things.

But watch, Jesus said, "These signs shall follow them." See? The groups that believe, the whole nature of the Holy Spirit flows through them, and they all are full of love, and joy, and--and just a great bundle of--of--of--of real godly-filled people. See, that's the Holy Spirit. And in--in there, they speak with tongues on the occasion that tongues arise (why), or necessary for that, they speak with tongues. And if there's a prophecy, it speaks. And oh, it's just exactly perfect every time.

52 Ask those fifteen or twenty people that went in there on interview this morning if there was one word in any way, missed in any way, and perfect strangers... What--the Holy Spirit dig right down in there, and get them things, and bring them right out, and tell it to them. See, see? There's not no mistakes in it. Tell them just exactly what this, and what this was, and what that is, and what this is to be done, and things like that, and what they've done, and what they should do. See? That's just... Set it right in order. Now, they've got to act on that.

53 The other night I was talking to a couple, and I was at a--a home where we was having a meeting, or just--was just setting around a table talking. And all at once, the Holy Spirit dropped among us, and I said to someone there, "I seen a certain man, and they--he was confused in his mind about some things," and I said, "like in the confusion in the--in the--the discernment." I said, "Now, it's right here now." I said, "I know what you're thinking." And I went right back and just took a round about way and answered every question that man had in his mind to him, that he... Nobody knowed even what I was talking about but him. See? But he got it. He knowed what it was all about. You see? And that was what to him? Showing him, confirming to him that the Holy Spirit was revealing to me what was on his mind. You see? And I didn't have to tell it to the rest of them. The man's listening at me right now. Now, that's right. Now, you see how that is? That's a confirmation.

54 Now, if the whole church would work in harmony like that, then among us we'd be casting out devils, taking up serpents, drinking deadly things, all kinds of things going on. But when you try to force that to individuals, then you get yourself... That's Pentecostal again. Then you get Babylon, confusion. You can't judge that. See? Our hearts are full of joy and happiness, and, oh, my, the birds are singing, the... Everything's wonderful, my, just full of the Spirit of God, and we're so in love with Jesus, we want to pray all night.

Now, I wouldn't embarrass this crowd, or even myself to you. But I wonder, if I could ask this morning which one in this crowd, or this people that had the Holy Ghost, it'd probably be ninety-five percent of you raise your hands that you had the Holy Ghost. Then I'll turn around and give you a Bible evidence--just one--a Bible evidence; and I doubt whether there'd be one or two hands go up. See, see? Just could--just tie it in such a place, but when you do that (See?), you're also hurting your congregation. But you've got to get them out of that babyhood and get them into manhood. See?

56 Like someone wrote the question the other day, was up here, said about--said something about Brother Junior Jackson. Somebody went down there, and they said, "You're going down to the 'dead beans,'" or something or other like that. Brother Jackson... Because Brother Jackson's congregation, they let them speak with tongues just in the church. Wherever they feel the Spirit and want to speak in tongues, they go ahead and do it. Well, that's Brother Jackson's church. That's perfectly all right. I've got nothing against that, not a thing. Junior Jackson's one of my best friends, and a real godly man, filled with the Spirit of God, and we're brothers. Now, he don't have to eat my cherry pie, I can... Or I don't have to eat his apple pie (See?), but we're both eating pie. We both believe this Message exactly. That's the order of the church. I said, "I want my church to try to come together..." I said... When we begin to break out here, the Holy Spirit speaking in tongues and so forth, I said... Somebody asked me, and said, "Now, Brother Branham, is all that genuine?"

57 I said, "I'm no judge." I said, "Tell you what, let's bring it to a spot. Let it go awhile and bring it to the spot until the Word is presented on it. Then watch it. If It's the Holy Spirit, It copes right with the Word; if it doesn't, it won't." See? That's just the only way that you can tell it; then it--it judges itself. You see? Well, it--it'll fly up if it isn't the Holy Spirit, it'll fly loose. See? But if It is the Holy Spirit, It'll just meekly follow right in line, 'cause that's what It is; It's the Holy Spirit going right to It's own order.

58 Now, in this speaking in tongues and so forth, I wish every one of you spoke in tongues. I sure do. And many times, good Christians...

You see, if I tell you that was on the program... I found someone--not program, excuse me--on the interviews this morning. A person (I guess they're still here in the building.) that they... About speaking with tongues... The person is a genuine person, a real person, and they've lived right. And they've heard me say the evidence of the Holy Ghost wasn't speaking in tongues--and it isn't--but I advised that person to ask God to let them either speak in tongues or prophesy, because it's the nature.

60 The first thing, I went to that person and found their birthplace, and what sign that they were born under, and could tell what their birth was. Which way it set in their natural nature sets them in a certain line. Then, when they're reborned again, they're over here in another nature. And then, when you find into this nature, that's the inside, in-conscience, inside conscience... The outside conscience moves you in one way; that's your natural birth. Then they'll make up something and it puts them what? Under a four, and puts them in a split condition. They don't know what to do. They'll say, "The Lord wants me to do this."

The inside, "Oh, I--I just know it's--it's--it--it lines up with the Scripture." And they'll start to do it, and the first thing you know, Satan on this outside will show them all kinds of defects in it. And then they say, "Well, I guess I..." See, see? They listen to Satan. See? You've got to take that inside something, that what's on the inside of you that's Scriptural. And don't let Satan stand anywhere. It's--that's his duty to stand there and pound at you like that. But don't you listen to him.

But that person I told them. They said, "Well now, if I could just be sure of having the Holy Ghost." See? A dandy person, real loyal person with the Holy Ghost, but it would be good for her to say, "Father, just give me this for something to stand on."

63 Now, if I taught it like that, people would reach out and get a hold of that without having what that person's got? See? The Holy Ghost does speak with tongues, but you got to have the Holy Ghost first before It can speak with tongues. Now you get it? So, if you reach out and get a hold of a gift of speaking in tongues without...

Now remember, that can be a genuine gift; that could be the Holy Ghost speaking in you with unknown tongues, and you'd be lost and go to hell. The Bible said so. You believe that? Would you like to have Scripture on it? You want Scripture; raise your hand. "Though I speak with tongues as men and angels (is that right? Both the one that can be interpreted and that cannot be interpreted, genuine Holy Ghost tongues), I am nothing." See, unless that other goes with it. You can have this (See?), so don't reach after that without this. Get this first, and then that'll actually follow it.

65 Now, the rain falls on the just and the unjust. The sun shines on the wicked and the good. The rain falls to ripen the crop; it ripens the weed also: the same rain. The Holy Spirit can fall in a group of people, and speak in tongues, and make it exactly true, sprawl in amongst the people, and make it prophesy, and be exactly true. That's exactly right.

Sometimes you can go to a--a witch or a medium, and they can tell you something that's exactly right. Look at the witch of Endor. Saul... It could be exactly true; that still isn't it. They're witches. Speaking in tongues, I've seen devils speak in tongues, and write in unknown tongues. That don't mean anything. But the real thing is that Word again. Back to that Word.

So you can do these things without the Word. But when you get the Word, and It does it, then watch it just exactly come to pass, exactly the right thing. See? Then you're exactly in line.

68 Yes, the Holy Spirit uses these people as it's appointed by His own Divine wisdom. But the first thing...

Now, what? Let me just give you a little twister here just a minute. I'd say, "How many has the Holy Ghost?" All of you raise up your hand. I'd say, "All right, I'll see if you have." The Bible said that they that had the Holy Ghost sighed and cried day and night for the abominations done in the city. Now, how many hands would go up? How many of you can't rest at night, so full of joy and the power of God, and so sad for the people that's lost, that day and night you weep and cry for the abominations? You won't... See? Who would be that in the city? How many of that's in the church? That's what the Bible said the Holy Spirit evidence was.

70 He told the sealing Angels (Ezekiel 9, that's right), He said, "Take... Go through the city and set a mark upon those who sigh and cry for the abominations did in the city. The rest of them, let the destroying Angel destroy them." No matter how much members they was and how many of the things they done, said, "Put a..." And a man with--a ink horn writer, dressed in white (which represented the Holy Spirit) came forth and put a mark upon all them that sighed and cried for the abominations done in the city. Now, you say... And watch what he said in there also. "slay utterly, little children, old women, babies, kill them all." Little children? Yes.

When Joshua entered the land of Canaan, he said, "Don't you let one of them live. If it's a cute little baby, a little Amalekite, or a Amorite, kill it. You remember, he'll grow up to be an Amalekite; he'll pollute the camp." And when those little things come back like that disagreeing with the Word of God, get rid of that thing. I don't care what denomination it belongs to.

You say, "Well, they're good..." I don't care how good a people they are. If they're contrary to that Word, get the thing out of you. It's a growing little Amalekite. Looks cute, looks innocent; it looks like it's all right, but don't you have anything to do with it. You stay away from it.

"Well, Brother Branham, I--I go down here, because... Well, I don't..." You just remember, any Amalekite, anything that denies the Word, stay away from it; have nothing to do with it at all. How many believes that's the truth? Sure it is. See? Stay away from it.

74 The sigh and cry for the abominations that's did in the city... Where do you see that? I can show you ten thousand speaking in tongues to one that's really burdened for sin... That can't even pray a hour. But did you know the Bible said to mark only those who sighed and cried for the abominations in the city? How many ever read it? Sure. That was the Holy Spirit come forth to mark the people, and said to the destroying Angel, "Go forth and destroy everything that doesn't have that mark upon them." And the mark of God is the Holy Ghost; is a Seal of God.

Now, where is them people that's that interested? I can show you people that jump up-and-down and cry in a church; I can show you people that shout and run all over the building; I can show you people that prophesy, and it comes to pass; I can show you those who speak in tongues, and--and run up and down the buildings, and say things that actually interpret and it comes to pass; but where is that person that sighs and cries for the abominations that's did in the city? Where's that burdened soul? You could turn some new leaves on that. See what I mean?

76 Now, I've tried my best to--to--to tell you people and lead you like a daddy would lead his children. You're my children; I have begotten you to Christ through this Gospel that I preach. See? And I--I--I want you to raise up fully matured kids, or--or children. And I want to present you to Christ that day, as Paul said, "A chaste virgin." There isn't a thing in that Word but what your heart will punctuate "amen" to it.

Sin don't have... 'Course you'll do things wrong, but when the other, the very first thing condemns you, "Father, forgive me."

78 I'm going to say this. Just looked at a person a few minutes ago. It was asked me by a fine boy the other day. We was hunting squirrels. That morning I got five; I left one of them for that afternoon. You only get six in the state of Kentucky; that's the limit. So this certain person said, "I got nine." Christian boy, fine kid.

I said, "You done wrong. You did wrong."

He said, "Well..."

I said, "I had five that morning, saved one for that afternoon. And when I got that one squirrel, looked in a tree, and counted five or six setting right there where I could look at them, walked out and left them." I said, "I walked up in through here not long ago, and there was about fifteen or twenty setting there. I just took the limit, and walked away, and left the rest of them there." I said, "If I come to this country, preaching to you boys and you people here the thing that's right, I've got to live that example." Christianity ain't what you say; it's what you live, what you do; it's an example. You're the salt of the earth. I said, "Then, the law says... Jesus said, 'You give Caesar them things that belong to Caesar.' You break that speed law out there, what are you doing? You're doing wrong; you sin. Give Caesar what's Caesar's, and God's what's God's."

Say, "Well, the law's wrong." I can't help what wrong it is; it's wrong to break Jesus' commandment. And if you don't give Caesar the things that's Caesar's, then you did what Jesus told you not to do, and a transgression of the law is sin. That right?

We're all guilty; we do it. But when you see yourself wrong, stop it. People are watching you; people won't go to church, but they'll read you, see what you do.

82 So get Christ in your heart; that's a real... Christ and the Holy Spirit's the same thing. Holy Spirit, "Christ" means "the anointed One." And the Holy Spirit is that Anointing, and you are the one that's anointed. See? And it's Christ in you anointing you. See what I mean?

Then you got the right thing. Then He can use you to anything He wants to use you in, 'cause you're in the body and subject to any of those gifts. But see, to have one of the gifts outside of the body, it would do you no good. "Though I speak with tongues of men and Angels, have not charity, it profit me nothing. Though I have faith and can understand all the mysteries of God, profit me nothing. Though I give my body to be burnt as a sacrifice, give all my goods to the poor, though I have faith to move a mountain, I am nothing." See? Don't depend on those things. The Holy Spirit is a Being; It's God, God in you, the Person, God, that's lit your whole entire being. You're changed; you're a new creature. Any little thing that's wrong, He'll tell you that's wrong, then quit; don't do it. "Father, I didn't mean to do that, You forgive me." See? And that's--that's the Holy Spirit.

84 I don't care how much you spoke in tongues, how much you run, how much you jumped, how much you did this, that, or the other (See?), whatever you done, it wouldn't mean a thing if the Holy Spirit wasn't in there to condemn you on the things that's right and wrong.

Now, that's the reason this person here is right. Let the Holy Spirit do it. But now (You see?), now, what's causing this... Let me say it with love, sprinkled with love and--and anointed with the Word. See? If the genuine Holy Spirit was in you, you wouldn't question that. You know it yourself; it's an individual thing between you and God. See? You know that something's happened. You know that there's a change, whether there's any--anything else, you yourself, you're the change. See? You're the one who's done the changing, inside of you, and you know you have it. Whether you spoke with tongues, whether you jumped, shouted, or anything else, you know that God lives in you, that you don't walk with your own mind, it's the mind of Christ that leads you with that Word, just exactly the way It goes.

86 Now. But I would... If people say, "Well then, Brother Branham, you don't believe we ought to speak with tongues?" See? Then you get exactly backwards what I've just said. Sure, I believe you should speak with tongues. And some of you people... See? But you get these, and I get these, like back here this fifteen hundred miles (You see?), being here at the Tabernacle. Just, if you don't understand it, then ask me. See? Write it back to me if you don't understand. Just say what I say here. See? And I... And you... As Paul said, "You follow me as I follow Christ." You see? Then you see I'm wrong, then get away from me (See? That's all), 'cause I'd--I'd be the wrong person. See?

87 329. Please explain. People are saying Brother Branham is more than a man; he can create, and Jesus can look just like Brother Branham.

Now, let me... The person said this. Whoever it might be, I don't know. But I am your brother. See? Jesus is your Saviour. I cannot be your Saviour, for He has already saved you. Now, you're so close to being the truth there, and yet so far from the truth, the person that told this person this. Now, it's just a--looks to me like a woman's handwrite, very beautiful handwriting. And I'd say that was a woman's handwrite wouldn't you? Brother Capps, wouldn't you think that was a woman's handwrite? A pretty handwrite. And I don't know who it is. See?

88 Now, "Brother Branham, could Jesus look like you, or you be Jesus, or something like that?" One sense of the word, that's exactly the truth; another sense of the word is an antichrist. That's the difference between right and wrong. To make me the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ, would be an antichrist (See?), for that Person of the Lord Jesus is setting at the right hand of the Majesty on high, and will come again in great power and glory. But for His Life that was in Him being upon me, and upon you who have Him, it's exactly the truth; and you become Christ.

You remember my message on Messiahettes? See? You are... The word "Messiah" means an--"the anointed One." Now, you are, if you have the Holy Spirit, you become the anointed one. See? Then there's all kinds of anointed ones.

90 Now watch, if it's a Bible anointed one... Many of them are anointed... See? The whole thing is in such a great conglomeration of every kind of a mix-up; and--and of--Satan with all of his cunningness come in and impersonated just to the dot, almost to the dot. There's only one way you can absolutely be sure; check the word by word, word by word. That's the only way you can.

But to me as a--a person, William Branham, or--or any other man or woman to be the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour, that is an error. But to be anointed with His Spirit, which brings His own Person of His Life into you...

92 It was so beautifully typed in Elijah and Elisha, when Elisha was taken up, the Elijah, the old prophet, going home... And he was tired and weary; and there was a chariot hooked across the river there, and he--to take him up home with horses of fire. And did you notice then, when Elijah and Elisha crossed the river (the school of the prophets was up there watching them) and Elijah took his mantel and--or--struck the river, and when it did, it divided, and he went across. And he said to the young prophet, "What--what are you following me for? What--what--what do you wish?

He said, "That a double portion of your spirit come upon me."

"A double portion of that mighty prophet come upon me?" He said, "You've asked a hard thing; but if you see me when I go away, then it'll come upon you." So you can imagine how he watched the prophet.

94 Now, in that day that prophet was the Word, for he was the manifestation of the Word to the world. See? And he knowed there had to be a greater ministry come, because it required a greater thing. And when Jesus was here on earth, He was the Elijah. "These things that I do shall you do also; greater than these things shall ye do, because I go unto My Father." Now, how you going to do it? Watch Him. Who is He? The Word. See? Watch Him.

95 Now, when it comes to creation of things, it's true. Jesus never right straight out created anything and brought it into existence. He took a substance first. He took water, made wine. He took bread and made more bread. He took fish and made more fish. But He promised that greater things than this would be done. See? You see? Now, why? It's in a more evil day than it was when He was here. See? It's still Him, but using your tabernacle. See?

And this person that's in you, which is your birth... You are John Doe; you were born in a certain month, and you were borned under a certain star; you were borned under a certain thing, and that has something to do with you. Certainly does.

97 I know I used to... Papa used to say, "I can't plant them potatoes at this time, because the moon isn't right. You can't plant them potatoes, Billy."

And I said, "I'm not planting them in the moon; I'm planting them here in the ground."

Said, "All right, smart-aleck, go on. You get a few bumps on your head and you'll learn something." I did. I did.

I tell you: take a board and lay it down out there on the grass in the dark of the moon and watch what happens. That grass will die right now. Lay it on the light of the moon; you can let it lay there a week; it won't hurt it a bit.

100 Watch that sea when that moon changes yonder. When the tide--when the moon goes out, the tide follows it out, and it's millions of miles from the earth. Not only that, go down here in the state of Kentucky and sink a rod down in the ground till you get into the salt water; and watch that pipe, how deep it is when the moon--when the tide's in and watch how it goes out, plumb across under the earth. Certainly.

You plant something that spreads out on top of the earth. In the dark of the moon watch it go right down and make it like a radish or turnip will. You plant it back the other way and watch it spread out on top the earth. Sure, it's got something to do.

102 Why did Aaron have on his breastplate the birthstone of each one of those patriarchs? Look at those mothers when they give the utterance. When them mothers and them Hebrew women in labor giving utterance to those children being born, it placed their name; it told their birth; it put them in the homeland; and set them over to eternity.

One of these days when I come in and stay a little time, I want to take that subject. Exactly. And then watch Jacob, when he was dying there, when he laid his hands upon the patriarchs and blessed them, he was telling them exactly where they would be. And that's exactly according to their name, and exactly according to their birth. And sure, it has something to do with you.

104 Now, that's your birth path; that's what you are, a natural man or natural woman. But when you're reborned again, that's not the outside conscience. The outside is what you see, taste, feel, smell, and hear, but the inside of that is what you really are. Now, this out here, Satan just tempts you and knocks you around every way here; but down here he can't do it unless you let him do it. For in here you've got faith, and faith don't come from the outer conscience, it reasons. But in faith there's no reason. You've got it from God, and you know it's there. I don't care how much it looks wrong, you still know it's right; it's THUS SAITH THE LORD. See? And there's nothing going to bother that. Nothing can bother that; it's moving right straight on. Difficult means nothing to it; wades right on through it, for It's the Word. And the Word's the Sword, and the Word cuts. The Sword cuts Itself free from everything else. You see? Takes the hand of faith to hold that Word. That faith's got to be...

105 Now see, when that inside conscience... Here's the inside; here's the outside. It's revealed in here, Truth is; out here, it's reason. Now, don't it look reasonable if we'd just say, "We just all go over and join the Assemblies"? Now, I like the Assemblies of God; I like the oneness; I like all of those churches. "Why don't we all just go and affiliate with them, maybe do some good." That's a reason, the outside. But down on the inside, watch it. When you see out here, this will--this will disagree, then look at the Assemblies. Many things that they do that I don't believe it's--it's Scriptural, and can prove it to them it's not Scriptural. But there's so many minds packed up in it. There's a thousands of those Assembly brothers and sisters who believe this, the Word, and don't believe what the Assemblies teach to be right. But they're in the web.

106 The Baptists, the Presbyterian, the oneness, and all the rest of them, they're in that web where a group of men gets together and they reason it. And there's so much prestige about a man. Here's a bishop setting here, general overseer; he says anything, what's the little fellow going to say? He's afraid to say anything. "I agree with you. Yeah, that's right. Uh-huh. Yes, Bishop, or--or Presbyter, you're--that's exactly right." He agrees with him.

Here, let's take an alcoholic out here on the street, that--an ordinary citizen pass down the street and say, "The old bum, nothing to him." Take him down here, put him on the police force, and put a badge on him, and a gun on him. "Good morning, John, it's so nice to see you again." See? Respect to one another.

Jesus said, "How can you have faith when you have respects of that type," you know, solicit us, respects one (I don't just remember just how the word goes there.)--but when your desire--respects one from another. See? Can't do that.

And when men gets together in a organization, they set down; and the little man's afraid to say anything, 'cause the bishop said so, the presbyter said so. But don't disregard the man, believe him to be a good man; but always remember, God's Word is right and all others contrary is wrong. "Let My Word be true, and every man's word be a lie." See it? That's what we want to do, is believe that.

110 Now remember, we are not the Word, but we are the Word. Uh-huh. Now, you got it? Jesus was not God, but He was God. He was a Man, yet He was God. He could cry, and yet He could raise the dead. He could cry for a man being dead and raise him back up again. He was Jehovah-jireh, Jehovah-rapha, Jehovah Manasses; He was Jehovah, all completely. He was Jehovah, and yet He was a Man. He owned the earth, and made the earth, and had not a place to lay His head. He said, "The birds that I made has got nests, and I haven't got a place to lay my head. The foxes that I created, has holes in the ground, and I haven't even got one Myself even to be buried in." That's right. He had to borrow somebody's grave, to be buried in.

111 He created a womb that was in a woman. He had no womb to be born in; he had to borrow a womb. He created the earth and had not a place to be buried in; he had to borrow a to--hole in the ground to be buried in, Joseph of Arimathaea. See? They had--they had to--had to borrow a place, yet He was God, proved that He was God.

Now, you understand? We are not... We are Messiahettes, but not that Jesus. He is our Father; we're just anointed with His Spirit, and that's the reason His Life... And that gets people. See, if you don't set and think it through, it gets people to believe, "Well, this guy would be the Messiah." Sure he is.

"This one over here could be." They both are. See? "Well, how can there be two of them?" There's thousands of them. See?

But you see, His Life is separated on the day of Pentecost. When that Pillar of Fire came down, It separated like tongues and set upon each of them, God dividing Himself among His people, because the church and Christ is One, just as the husband and wife is one.

114 330. Brother Branham, how am I supposed to show my wife that I really care for her and yet play--or stay with the Word (That's)--stay--stay with the word, but still having a question like this said: "Why don't you practice what you preach or believe?"

Well then, if the wife, if the wife is saying this to you when she's--has a right to say it, you better get right. See, see? Then if she, if--if she is saying it just to be evil, remember, the Bible said, "It was better that a millstone was hanged at your neck and drowned in the depths of the sea than even to offend the least of these, My little ones." Now, that just your question.

And may be that this wife is not that type of person. Maybe she's a different--maybe, she's a good person. Maybe she's just testing you to see what you'll do.

116 Now, stay in love with her and let her see Jesus in you. You do that. See? You just go on. Some... I give a little illustration this morning about a person that... One time this little woman had--had received the Holy Ghost. And she was a very sweet little person. They... She said... Well, she'd had a hard life, and her husband was an alcoholic. And so, she just kept on; she bore with him. He says, "You want to go to church, honey, take off. But I just go down to the saloon, down at the old Brown Derby, down here. Go and--on." So they hung out down there all the time, used to be Bonifers. Many of you old-timers here remember when Bonifer had there on the corner of... It's called Brown Derby now, I believe it is.

117 So, hanging around down there, and the first thing you know, one night come up a question about church and about Christians. One of the old drunks setting there said, "There ain't no such a thing as Christians any more." Said, "There is no such a thing. All this bunch of hypocrites," said, "you see them out here smoking, drinking, doing the same thing that we do," and said, "call themselves Christians. There is no such."

This one drunk raised up and said, "Just a minute. There's one that I know about. "

Said, "Who is it?"

Said, "It's my wife." See? She'd become salty. He was catching it all the time.

He said, "I bet if she was put to a squeeze..."

He said, "No, she's still a Christian; I'll prove it to you." Said, "I tell you what let's do; let's go up home, and I'll show you whether she's a Christian or not." Said, "Let's go up home, and now, let's really be drunk. We're going to act like we're really drunk." Knocked at the door, come in staggering over everything and--and... "Why don't you set around this a-way," and everything. And she set them all a chair and (his guests, you know)--and tried to make them just as welcome as could be. Said, "I want you to fix us some supper." And so they--she went out and fixed some. Said, "we want ham and eggs." He knowed they had it, so they fixed the ham and eggs. When he got there at the table, he looked at them like that, picked up his plate, and slammed the stuff on the floor, said, "You know, I don't like my eggs like that. Come on boys let's get out of here anyhow," like that--like that.

119 They went out and set down like that, you know. And she come out; she said, "Dear, I'm--I'm sorry I didn't get them fixed; I'll fix some more for you."

"Oh, nonsense, you knowed I didn't want them that way in the first place," just carrying on like that. They went out there, and set down, and act like they was drunk. They heard her in there kind of snubbing to herself, singing real low voice:

Must Jesus bear the cross alone,

All the world go free?

There's a cross for every one,

And there's a cross for me.

This consecrated cross I'll bear,

Till death shall set me free,

One drunk looked at the other one, said, "She's a Christian; she's got it." And that little woman led her husband, plus these others to Christ that night. See? Why? See? Just be real sweet. Just remember, He knows all about it.

So, sister, or brother, whoever it might be, or brother, it is here, 'cause he asked about his wife, you just be salty; she'll get thirsty if there's anything in her to thirst for. If it isn't, remember, if you got the wrong person, you'll get the right one in the Millennium. You just keep on going; all wrongs will be made right there.

122 331. Brother Branham, do you teach that the Bride must not attend any church unless you are there preaching, or else the Tabernacle--other words, the Tabernacle? (Got "else," means other words.")

122a 332. Also, do you teach that we need not keep the--the Sunday or holidays, as working, fishing, or so forth? Or... (I'd say that was Sunday. It looked like Sunday to me. Or right at the bottom it look like--or Sunday, I guess it is, holidays or Sundays. Yeah, Sundays, that what it look like? [Brother Branham speaks to someone--Ed.] Holy days--holy days, Sunday and holy days.)

No. You're mistaken. See? Let me go over and just answer it as I come by.

"Do you teach that the Bride must not attend any other church unless you are preaching--preaching or else, otherwise, the Tabernacle?" No. I don't teach that. I don't believe that; I do not believe it. We've got ministers setting here that's scattered all around through the country, and I believe they are part of that Bride. I believe that a man or woman can go to church anywhere they want to go that teaches the Word. And I believe, if they don't teach the whole Word, and you can't go to church any other place where they teach the whole Word, go where they teach half the Word until you can get to where they teach the whole Word. Go to church whatever you do. Do that.

123 "Also do you teach that we must--we must--need not keep Sunday, or any holy day, or--or working--or--like working, or fishing on Sunday?"

I believe it's a sin to fish, and hunt, and work on Sunday when you can go to church. Now, I believe you're transgressing the laws of God. "Is there a commandment to such?" Yes, sir. Now, in the Old Testament we had a type of the Sabbath day. It was all... And Jesus did not come for you to keep Sabbath days. The old Sabbath day was Saturday, which was the end of the week. Sunday is the eighth day, or the first day of the week, which Jesus rose on.

I do not believe it's right to... Now, if you're way away into a wilderness somewhere, and you're out there on a hunting trip, there's no church around, or anything like that, and there's nothing you can do; and if you was fishing, I believe that would be all right. But if you're around in the city, or around where church is going on, you should attend church by all means, somewhere.

And I believe, as far as working, I believe if the ox is in the ditch, or something has to be done on Sunday, you go ahead and do it, if it's something that you couldn't help, it had to work that way. But if you just do it, and wait till Sunday to do it, or just do it like that, you're wrong. See? We must not do that, we must respect that holy day.

127 And now, remember, go to church somewhere, some place. If... I--I could call a certain denominational church, but I wouldn't do it, because this church, only thing I know that they teach that I believe is, they say they believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. Well, I do that. All their other teaching is... They believe in--in remissions of sins is by water. Now, it isn't the oneness; they do the same thing, but I'm not talking about them. They believe that--that regeneration by water, and so forth. And I don't believe that. And they, oh, they believe if anything's got Divine healing in it is of the devil. And they believe in all... They're the only--they're the only thing that there is, and the only thing you have to do is just put your name on that book. And if you ain't got it there, you're lost. Now, I don't believe that. But if there was no other church to go to (I wouldn't go there critical.), I'd go there with the intention of my presence, and me setting by somebody, that the Christ that was in my heart might influence somebody there. Go among them, but don't be partakers of their unbelief.

128 333. Brother Branham, I want to receive the Holy Ghost. I want to know what to do. I am burdened for my family to be saved. And the sister signed her name.

If you want to receive the Holy Ghost, let me tell you something, my dear sister, if you're here. And--and--I... Brother Neville, is that a member of the church here? [Brother Branham has conversation with Brother Neville--Ed.] At the bottom there. I don't--I don't remember them either. But if--if you're here, Sister B-o-u-g-h, if you're here, let me tell you. The Bible said, "Blessed are they that do hunger and thirst after righteousness sake..." You're so blessed to even want It. See? Now, remember, not that you--you--you've got It, but blessed are they that hunger and thirst for It, "for they shall be filled." Just stay right with it.

"What must I do for my family?" Use the same faith that you're using for yourself, for your family. Commit them to the Lord and believe with all your heart that you're going to be saved. Let it... Don't let it just come on your natural thinking here, let it drop way down on the inside, that subconscious, then they're yours. God's give them to you when you've got it down here.

Whatever you have in your heart here and ask for it, when you pray, believe that you receive what you ask for. Now, you can't doubt it no more. You can't believe it and doubt it the same time. How many knows that? You can't believe and doubt at the same time. You've got to believe that what you ask for, you receive it, then He said it would be given to you. So you just believe for your family, and they'll get it.

131 334. Brother Branham, what about our son since--since are not on the--not preaching on the Trumpets? Remember the promise you gave me over the phone concerning him and the Seven Trumpets?

I don't remember it. I don't remember what it was. But whatever it is, you let Billy Paul know what it is. Whatever I promised, that I'll do. I don't remember. You know I--sometimes I get--maybe of a nighttime answer thirty, forty calls in one time (You see?), so I don't remember night after night--sometimes when I'm around--so I don't get whatever it is.

What about my Catholic sister and brother? Thank you.

132 Oh, this person's from way out of town, way away in Texas. I... Well, sister, if you--if you're from Texas and you get this tape, or if there is a tape (I guess there won't be no tape on this), but if there is... [Brother Branham inquires about taping the service--Ed.] Are they making a tape? You're making it? All right, if they're... The tape... Then I tell you what. If you... On this tape, when you find this, remember, "What about our son when--about the Seven Trumpets?" I don't remember about that, 'less I promised to see him or something during the Seven Trumpets. If I did, I'll see him; 'cause I didn't preach the Seven Trumpets, I preached the Feast of the Trumpets. You understood about that?

"And what about my Catholic sister and brother? Thank you." I will tell you, Mrs. C-o-r-n-i-l-s-e-n... If the lady's here, see Billy Paul this morning. And--and if not, well, I'll--I'll--I--I don't understand what it is (You see?); it's just a question. I--I can't make it out (See?), what it is, 'cause I promised something about her boy and the Trumpets and about a Catholic sister; and I--I don't--it's not in my mind now to remember. Just see Billy.

This must... That's just a prayer request. Gives the person's name and said, "headaches and sinus." So that was just... Just pray for them, I guess. All right.

134 335. Please explain marriage and divorce. (I've already got that. This is seven questions--eight questions on one piece of paper.) Please explain marriage and divorce.

I did.

134a 336. Moses and--and Elijah on earth now? Are Moses and Elijah on earth now? Are they in America?

No. See? No, they're not here; they won't be until the church is taken away, then Moses and Elijah... How many understands that? All right. And let's see. They don't have any name signed to this, so... All right. If ever who asked these questions... I believe there's seven of them; I've gave--marked seven. All right.

135 337. Explain the difference between the "Name of Jesus," and the "Name of Jesus." (Wait a minute.) Explain the difference between the name "Jesus" and the "Name of Jesus."

Well, they'd both be the same if they're applied the same way (You see?), applied to the same Person, the name Jesus, and the Name of Jesus. The Name of Jesus and the name--name Jesus is Who He is. The Name of Jesus is speaking of the Person, so it'd be the same... I think that would... Doesn't that sound sensible? See? The name Jesus is the Person Itself, and the Name of Jesus is you referring to that Person. See?

Say, my name is William. That's me. All right. Now, you say... I'm speaking... The name of William, then you're referring to me. That's my name. See? Now.

137 338. Has the Name of the Lord changed in the different dispensations?

Yes, yes. It was once called--He was called the I AM. He's called Jehovah, and He's changed many times. The last time it was changed was when God became flesh and took a human name. Jehovah, I AM, and all of those, are titles to a Name. See? If you was baptized in the name of Jehovah, it'd have to be the Name of Jesus Christ. If you was baptized in the name of Jehovah-rapha, Jehovah Manasses, and Jehovah-jireh, all of those, it'd have to be Jesus Christ. The I AM is Jesus Christ.

Remember, standing there that day, and He said, "You say you eat manna in the wilderness..."

"Our fathers eat manna"

"And are dead." He said.

And they said, "Well, we know now you're crazy, because you're just a man and not over fifty years old, and say you seen Abraham."

He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM." See? He was the I AM. And all the titles and names that ever belonged to God was made one human Name, the Lord Jesus Christ. All right.

141 339. Now, if time ceases when the Seals were opened, then--is... If time ceased (pardon me) when the Seals were opened, then the Millennium is also--then the Millennium is also finished, is it not?

No, no. Time didn't cease when the Seals were opened. Misunderstood it. What happened, the mysteries was revealed, not time ceased. See? Just look. Watch real close now, and will--play your tape if you got it from a tape. See?

142 Time never ceased until the... This must be a post-millennialist or something that asked the question. Because see? We got a thousand years after the church has gone home and comes back upon the earth. Then time ceases in the new heavens and new earth.

Now, the Millennium is not the new heavens and new earth. There will still be sin after the Millennium. The Millennium is a type of Noah going in the ark, and carried over, and brought Ham and them on the other side. And sin even come out of the ark. See?

But Enoch, the translated one, was a type of the Bride that went up, not the one that was carried over. So sin will still be on the other side of the Millennium, but not during the Millennium. See? During the Millennium is peace. See? But sin will be dealt with the other side of the Millennium, and then time fades out.

And now, the opening of the Seven Seals that was given by the Holy Spirit, the Seven Seals only was to make known what had been left off in the dispensations behind us.

146 Now, as some great theologian tried to corner me on that, he said, "Brother Branham, you--God someday will give you the secret of those Seven Seals. Those Seven Seals will be something that we've never learned yet, that it'll be something that's not even in the Bible." No, no. It won't be that, because if you do, that would make it a... If I told you that, I'd be a false prophet, because (You see?) this Word... There... Everything that's--that's... The whole revelation of Jesus Christ is all completed in this Word. See? And if the Seven Seals pertained to the seven churches, it had to be already past, because we're in the Laodicea church age... And the Seven Seals was only revealing what they had left off back there, and it opened up what they had left: what Luther left, what Wesley left, and all the reformers, and Pentecostals, and down to the present time.

147 Now, the next thing left is the translation of the church, the return of Moses and Elijah, the Millennium reign upon the earth with the Bride and Groom for a thousand years, and then the judgment bar, and then a total annihilation of sin. It'll never be no more at that time.

Now, not the... Cease... The Seals never ended time. Time or seasons until after the Millennium. No. It'll still be time until after the Millennium.

149 340. Does the Millennium have to do with the one thousand years? Could it not be a generation?

No. A generation allotted in the Bible is forty years. But the Bible said, "And they lived and reign with Christ one thousand years." It will be one thousand years upon the earth, 'cause one thousand years upon the earth is only counted a time, for parable like to God, as one day. One thousand years upon on the earth is only one day with God, as God counting time. How many understands that now?

So it's that Sabbath day when the church will no more labor against sin. And Satan is bound for a little season, a thousand years, 'cause his subjects is all in hell, and his... The church that's on earth is redeemed and right in the Presence of Christ, so he has nothing he can work on. So it's not a chain, as I said, a log chain; it's a chain of circumstance; he has nothing he can do. He's helpless and hopeless, just waiting for the resurrection of the subjects; then they're separated as the sheep from the goats.

151 341. Did not the queen of Sheba come to Solomon to test him--test him to find out for herself if the--if the name of the Lord was truly Solomon or not? (I don't believe I get that. Just wait.) Did not the queen of Sheba come to Solomon to test him to find out for herself if the name of the Lord was truly Solomon or not? (I--I don't, maybe I don't understand this one. Just... Excuse me just a minute. Let me read it again.) Did not the queen of Sheba come to Solomon to test him to find out for herself if the name of the Lord was truly Solomon or not?

No. She never tested to find out if--if God's name was Solomon. Solomon was a king. She come, and she said, she--she said, "Truly God is with His king and with His people." See? She come and was tested--she tested Solomon about his gift, because she had things in her heart that Solomon revealed to her, that showed that he was God's king upon earth.

152 You remember down in, I believe, down in--in--in--where she come from, down in the land of--of--of--of Sheba where she came from, the people would come through, you know, and--and tell about great things that's going on, that they had a God up there that has anointed their king, and the--how the king was anointed of God. I don't believe she thought that Solomon's name--or God's name was Solomon, 'cause if she did, that would make her a pagan again. See? So she--she could've did that. In her heart she could've thought that God was Solomon, and Solomon was God, 'cause she was a heathen to begin with. But when Solomon revealed to her the secret in her heart by a--a gift of discernment, which was called then, wisdom; he discerned that; she knew that God was with Solomon, 'cause then... They had... She found out... If she come with that in her mind...

153 If the--if the person here, the questioner, is asking, "Did she know then that truly Solomon--the name of the Lord was truly Solomon?"... See? Solomon was not the Lord; she'd found that out by the people, 'cause they worshipped Jehovah, and there was the great ark, and the great testament, the--the ark that the Lord's commandments was in. And they'd told her about on Mount Sinai and the different places where they'd been. And then she could see that God--that God of that testament was in this man, because he had--he had discernment which only belonged to God. See? So she knew that that God was in Solomon. But now, it might read that way if the questioner ask that. But, "Did she know that the name of the Lord was truly Solomon?" Maybe they didn't write it just the way they was thinking. You see? So I think maybe they'd say--say this: "That the Lord was in Solomon." Yes, sure did. 'Cause if that's the question, sure. She knowed God, because she made that remark. And she wouldn't worship no other god. And I believe she--she said she'd always... She seen why... She had no breath left in her; she had no questions left in her. Solomon just revealed the whole thing, and she knowed God was with him.

154 342. We--we were married twenty-one years ago by the justice of the peace. Was--was it wrong?

Yes, it was wrong for you to do that. Marriage belongs in the house of God. But being that you are married, here's when you're really married: you're married when you vow one to the other, when you promise one another that you're, that you'll take one another. The justice of peace could give you license; that's legal terms of living together as husband and wife without being common-law husband and wife. But when you promise this girl and this--you promise that man that you'll live true to him, and you take him to be your husband, you're married then. You remember, I explained that last week, I believe it was. See? When you promise her... See?

Even in the old--in the old Bible, if a man was betrothed to a maid, and... You know the laws on that. Why, it was just the same as an adultery. Certainly was, when he promised, that was it.

156 The question was asked the other day, "Was a annulment--annulment--an annulment the same as a divorce?" See? When you ask me those questions, friend, you don't know what that does to me. I've got many friends setting here that's married two or three times. Did you realize I'm talking to my own son, Billy Paul? Would I spare Billy Paul? No, indeedy. Billy Paul got married to some little girl, and come up, and said, "Daddy, I'm going to get married."

I was washing my car; I said, "Butt your head against the wall," just kept on washing my car like that.

He said, "I'm going to get married."

I said, "Oh, go on," just kept on like that. He goes around and tells his mother, and his mother laughed at him. You know what he done? Run off with some little kid still in common school and got married. We annulled the wedding, the father of this girl and myself. We annulled the wedding, but he was married just the same. He's my boy setting here listening at me now. That's exactly.

He come to me with the girl that he lives with now, my daughter-in-law. My little grandson... He said, "Daddy will you marry me?"

I said, "By no means." That's my own son. You think that don't cut me to the core when I packed him in my arms and done everything I could do, and I've been both father and mother to him? You think that don't kill me to say that? But it's the truth. Certainly. My boy setting here listening at... My daughter-in-law and my little grandson setting right here now... But I tell him it's wrong (See?), because I've got to. I'm duty bound to that Word.

160 And I say, you got married by a magistrate? You should've been married by the church, by the minister. That's the decent thing to do for a Christian. But being that you have already made that promise, and vow, and been married twenty-one years ago, I think it's all right.

You say, "Well I..."

The question might be, "Should I come and be married again?" If you wish to. Don't have nothing in your mind that bothers your faith, 'cause if anything's there, you can't go no further than right there; you stop right there. When that question mark come, that's where you end, right there. But I, for me it would be all right.

The man that baptized me in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ finally run me out of the church, because I wouldn't agree with him on women preachers. That didn't make me be rebaptized again. See? Surely not. See? That's all right.

163 But just remember, these things are cutting to me. I got bosom friends setting here, men and women that would take their--lay their--pull their eye out and give it to me if I'd ask them for it (Yes, sir.), and they're married twice, sometimes three times, setting right here now. And my own boy, my own grandson, my grand--and my daughter-in-law that I love... Look at Billy, how I stood by him and how he stood by me, but to say truth or truth, it's truth's truth.

I've got... I could go out here today and call up some of these Assemblies of God or some of these people and tell them, "I've--I'm--was all wrong; I ain't going to stay with that Word, I'm going to stay with you." I'd probably be a very popular person pretty soon with a gift of God. To throw all my influence to one of those organizations, I'd probably have a big name among them. I ain't caring about my name among them. I love them; that's the truth. But I got to be truthful. I--I--I'd be a hypocrite if I did that.

165 And I'd be a hypocrite if I stood here because my own son setting here that was promised to a girl, and I said... If--if he never even had the ceremony said over him, no matter if he ever lived with the woman, or slept with her, the girl, or whatever it was, when he made that vow, he's married, Billy Paul or no Billy Paul. That's exactly the truth. He's married when he made that promise. If it's me, it's the same.

We've got to be honest. If I can't be honest with my boy, I can't be honest with you. If I ain't honest with you, I won't be honest with God. And I want you to believe what I tell you to be my honest-to-goodness opinion. Don't make anything else out of it; just say it the way I said it (See?), 'cause I'm going to tell you the truth.

167 Now, I don't talk to you all like that too often, because you're my children, I call you. I've begotten you to Christ through the Gospel. And while we're here together, just our own group setting here, I--I shave you down a little bit. But I want to tell you: when you come to me and ask anything, I'm going to tell you the best that I know how. If it's in the Word, I don't care if it condemns me; I've got many knots should be shaved off of me. Exactly.

But when you ask me anything, I'm going to tell you. If I tell you anything, I'm going to tell you the truth. I've always tried to live that way. That's the way I want to live and die that way, to be honest with anybody.

169 A little girl come to me not long ago; the woman's not here now. Tom Simpson, many of you know him. Tom is a nice fellow; none of his people are here. (I think all the people went back, unless Fred's still here. I... Fred Sothmann, I don't know whether he's here yet or not, but I--I think they are.) But Tom Simpson, he come down from Canada with--with Fred. And they... (You know Brother Fred, our trustee.)

And Brother Tom, many of you know him here. And Tom's a fine man; he's a dandy guy; and so is Mrs. Simpson. If she'd only listen to what I tell her, she's going to walk again too. And she's setting in that wheelchair crippled up. She's going to walk if she'll just do what was said do. And you just watch and see if that isn't true. See? Now. But she's got to do what she was told to do if she expects to do it.

171 And one of her little girls, sweet little girls... I... When they was little bitty things, I'd take them up on my lap and play with them. They're too big now; they're almost women, ten, twelve years old. And so, one of them come to me, said, "Brother Branham, I had a dream." And she told me the dream. And she said, "What does that mean?"

I said, "Don't know, honey. I'll pray, and if the Lord gives it to me, I'll tell you."

She said, "All right." A few days she come back, said, "Got that dream?"

I said, "No, honey, I haven't; He hasn't revealed it to me."

About a week or two later she come back, said, "Brother Branham, what about that dream?"

I said, "I don't know." Well, looked like she was kind of disappointed. I...

174 You remember, when you ask me anything to tell you, and I don't get it from the Lord, I'm disappointed too. But I ain't going to be hypocrite or a liar; I'm going to tell you the truth. If He tells me, I'll tell you; if He don't, I won't. That's all I can do. And I want you to believe me that way.

And now, I thought I knowed what the dream meant in my mind, but how did I know. I have to see the thing over again. And not one of you can lay your finger at any time or anyplace, where I ever told you the interpretation of a dream in the Name of the Lord but was exactly that way. Yes, sir. Never have I told you anything in the Name of the Lord but what come to pass too, just that way, because I'm--I... It's Him. And then it ain't my responsibility then; it's Him; it's His responsibility.

176 I said, "Look, Trudy, what if we're going to Arizona. And what if--if I come told you that when you got out there, 'THUS SAITH THE LORD,' your little brother is going (little Johnny, the one I tease about having his belly open all the time)..." I said, "What if he gets run over on the street and I say, 'You know what's going to happen, he's going to get run over on the street'; and you're coming up to me and--and you're going to say, 'Brother Branham... Go take him to Brother Branham,' rather. And then you're going to hunt around, and you find me standing on a steps talking to a man with a white suit on. And then, I'm just going to lay my hands upon little Johnny; he's going to come to life again and run along." Now, said, "Then you go out west, and the first thing you know, one day you hear your mother screaming, your daddy screaming, and look, and little Johnny's been run over. What would you do?" See? You believe me. See? And I want you to have confidence in me. I ain't going to tell you nothing just presumingly; I'm going to tell you the truth, or don't tell you nothing. And I said, "Then you come to me and say, 'Oh, little Johnny,'--or come to your mother, 'Oh, little Johnny's run over. He's dead. He's dead.'"

177 The doctor come, pull his eyes back, check his heart, his respiration; "He's dead; take him to the morgue." What would you do?

You're going to say, "Wait just a minute. Wait just a minute. Take him in my arms; let's start walking." Amen.

"Where you going, Trudy?"

"I don't know."

"What you got?" You got your little dead brother in your arms. Just keep walking down the street. People say, "Is that girl crazy?" No, sir. She's got THUS SAITH THE LORD. What's going to happen?

First thing you know you say to your father and mother, "Wait, we'll find Brother Branham. He'll be standing on the steps talking to a man with a white suit on. There he is standing right there. Watch what happens." Not a doubt in your mind. Walk up there and say, "Brother Branham, you know what you told me."

"Yes, Trudy. 'Johnny, wake up.'" Jump off and go on down the street.

179 But what if I just presumingly tell you some things that I think is right, and tell you in that manner, THUS SAITH THE LORD, and it isn't right, and it don't happen, it never comes to pass; then you'd be scared to death of the little boy. You wouldn't know whether to bring him or not.

God sent me here to help you, and I want to be a help to you. And no matter if it cuts, hurts, or whatever it is, I got to say it anyhow.

181 But now on the case of marriage and divorce, I've asked you like a brother, hold your peace until you hear from me. Hear? Just go right on as you have lived. (I'm taking up too much of the time there.)

"We were married twenty-one years ago (yeah)... justice of the peace." Sister dear, brother dear, one time a salesman was telling me he walked into a church (He was a Christian.) up in Connecticut or somewhere up there, great big church, just went in to pray. It wasn't--he was a Pentecostal, but he went in there to pray. And said when he got in there and knelt down in the church to pray... said he was riding along, was tired, kinda homesick, he's a salesman, and he's selling stuff, and said he--for--to factories. And he went in there to--to make some buys or something, then he come by the church, thought, "I'll go... I believe I'll go in and pray." The door's open; said, he went in. Didn't hear nobody, so he knelt down and started praying. After he was praying there, stayed about a hour, said, directly he heard some doors slam or something; he thought it was a custodian or something of the church. Said, after while he noticed here come--he heard somebody talking. He slipped up there to look, and looked around to see whether it was the custodian. It was a man and woman standing before the altar holding one another's hands, said, "I take you, dear, to be my lawful wedded wife." See?

She said, "I take you, dear to be my lawful wedded husband."

"Why," he said, "this is a strange thing," said, this Pentecostal, he said, "this man and woman getting married without a preacher." See? And so he just set down and waited; and after they made their vows to live true to one another, only death would separate them, they put their arms around one another, kissed each other, turned around and walked out smiling. He said, "Just a moment." He said, "I'm kinda curious; I'm a stranger." Said, "You all getting married?"

Said, "Yes."

"Without a preacher?"

He said, "No." Said, "We been married forty years." He said, "We got married right here at this altar forty years ago, and every year we come back and renew our vows." That's a good idea. See?

But as far as married, when you promise her, she takes your word; you take her word; and God takes both your word. See? So just don't promise 'less... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]

184 343. When they cut it in... Is long--is long hair when they cut it in front? (Huh. Now, wait a minute; let me get this here. I...) Is long hair when they...

Well, I--I--maybe they mean this: "Is it long hair any longer when they cut it in front?" Not any longer; they've cut it off. See? But like the man that had the trousers cut them off three times and still too short. What say? What say? [Brother Branham has conversation with someone in audience--Ed.] Oh, that's what they're talking about. As I tease my little girl, she said... The "booms" I call them, you know, bangs, or whatever it is, you know, across the front here.

Well, I imagine those kids that's cutting their hair in front... You--maybe your mother could tell you about that (See?), if she wants you to do that way. I think it'd look kinda--kinda a little bit like a woman was looking through the rear view if she passed about twenty-five years old and wanted to cut them off in front like that, look like some little kid. Look on out here where you're going, sis, not where you've been. See?

186 And now, but cutting the hair, I--I--I'll tell you this. I can't--I--I ain't got no--no Scripture to say that you can cut so much of it and can't do the other. I--I haven't got no Scripture for that; I--I couldn't tell you that, sister, or brother, ever who it is.

I say one thing. I wished... Now, I know my kids has done that too, Rebekah and Sarah, I seen when they cut their hair off here in front, and plait it back here in the back, and make these things across the front, like this. I--I don't, I--I... Now, not holding them. See? No, sir. To me, I wished they didn't even put a scissors on their hair at all. But when they got all long, hanging down like this, and just cut the front of it out of their eyes, little kids maybe. I--I wouldn't know whether that'd be wrong; I wouldn't think so. See? But when you get... If you can, I--for you sisters, I'd just let it the way the Lord made it. See?

188 And of course, I know women wants to look pretty; that's nature; and that--that's what they should be. See? They should be that way. And so, that's fine, but just don't--don't; otherwise like this, don't look like the world (See?); don't pattern after the world. Things wrong... You want it cut off, like that, but don't cut your hair now. If you got the braids hanging down, or--or whatever it is in your hair, you leave it long. Don't cut it like it's going to look like the world. If you're just them little girls...

189 My uncle used to have a little girl up there in--in New York. She had the prettiest hair. It's kind of dark brown and she'd wear her plaits... My mother used to be able to... Her plaits hit down here in the back of her knees. And this little girl had plaits like that too; her name was Jacqueline. And she had combed part of it down like this and cut it off like this. And now, it's been about fifteen, eighteen, twenty years ago. And I used to wonder, why didn't she just comb the whole thing back, it'd look prettier than having it just like, off here like these modern Beatles they have now days, you know. And a... Oh, that's right, I don't believe I'd do it. Anything look like them Beatles, that looks like out of the world, so let--now, just leave that alone. Yeah.

190 344. My husband and I don't see alike on the Bible, the truths--like this truth that you preach. He doesn't understand. Should I go with him to churches when I don't believe their teaching? I'm very troubled about this.

Yes. If you are a wife to this husband, and he don't condemn you, you don't--you mustn't condemn him (See?), because the husband is sanctified by the wife. See? And I believe, if he goes to some denominational church or something like that, he wants you to go down there with him... You see? If you don't be... See, there's nothing there can harm you, 'cause you're not going to listen to what they're saying anyhow, 'cause you done said here you don't believe their preaching. See? So it ain't going to harm you, but you're just showing respects to your husband. You're yielding yourself to him, and maybe in doing so, you--you'll... If they teach and do the things down there... You're taught much higher things than that; you'll be salty; he'll see and come to the Lord. I believe I would go ahead. My goodness, look here what time it is?

191 345. Does Zechariah 4 and Revelations 11:3-12, speak of the same being? See Zechariah 4:12-14 and Revelations 11:4. They signed their name to it--Brother and sister of the church here.

Let's see, Zechariah 4. Oh, yeah, that's the two olive trees. Yeah, the two olive trees and Revelations 11 is... Oh, yeah, that's it. Same thing. That's them both. That--that is Moses and Elijah, the two olive trees.

Pray for our... That's a prayer request.

I'm sorry, this I can't read it before... It's about family relationships. Yeah, put that with this one over there. Can't read that to the public. They're on private interview anyhow, so--so...

192 346. Brother Branham, is it wrong to--to... [Brother Branham speaks with someone on platform--Ed.] (What does that say? What on Sunday? Work?) Is it wrong to work on Sunday?

I've just explained that. If the ox is in the ditch, take him out, but don't push him in the ditch just to get him out on Sunday.

Brother Branham, will you preach here next Sunday?

That's just a question. No, sister, brother, ever-who it is. Now, these are some just was laying out here. Must've laid--laid them, or somebody put them in the package.

Brother... This is to you, Brother Capps. "Will you sing, We'll Never Grow Old?" I must have got in the... I got some of the rest of them mixed up.

194 347. Brother Branham, someone wants to know why you were not (m-e-n...) mentioned in the Bible. I believe you are Habakkuk 2:1-4. (Get that, Brother Neville, Habakkuk 2:1-4) Let them read this and study it, 3rd chapter... think name and types of four chapters, believe--I believe is you.

Now, while he's hunting that, it's Habakkuk 2:1-4. Brother or sister, ever who ask the question (There's no name; that's fine.), I--I like for you to ask those things. I know what's on your heart (See?), and then I'll tell you. No. See? You wouldn't have to necessarily have your name in the Bible (See?), but (You see?), as long as you're in the Bible, there--as long as you're in Christ, you are in the Bible; you're in Him (You see?) in the Bible. See? As long as you are in Christ, then you are in the fullness of the Bible. See? You are in your full position when you're in Christ. All understand that?

195 Do you have it, Brother Neville? What? Yeah. Habakkuk--Habakkuk... I haven't read it. This was just put in here, I guess, this morning. Habakkuk 2:1-4. Let's see it. Habakkuk 2--Habakkuk 2, and 1 to 4:

I will stand upon the watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch and see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer I--I am--when I am reproved.

And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.

For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because I will surely come, and I will not tarry.

Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.

196 Well, I--I'd imagine this dear person that asked this... You see? It's somebody that loves me, or they wouldn't write that. See? Now, I could not say that my... The Bible does not call my name--my name, William Branham, or call your name whoever it is, but we are in Him anyhow. And these...

And now, you see familiar places that refer to in the Bible, that says certain things. You see? Now, if you'll watch, history repeats itself in the Bible. See? Now, let's just give you Scripture for one now. (I see many of you writing it down.) Now, in the 3rd chapter of Saint Matthew, It said, "And when God called His Son out of Egypt that it might be fulfilled which was spoken, 'Out of Egypt I call My Son...'" Now, if you've got a--a Scofield or any other reference Bible, if you'll follow that reference there, that margin reading, it'll bring you back to where He called Jacob, Israel, out of Egypt. See? But Jacob was His son that He called out of Egypt; also Jesus was His Son that He called out of Egypt. So, see, the Word of God is never ending. See, we are identify ourselves in the Bible with different... How many remembers my message on identifying yourself with Christian characters, Phoenix, Arizona, where I preached it? Yeah, many of you has got it on the tape. See? Identified with Christian Character. See? You can identify yourself anywhere you want to in that Scripture if you are a Christian, and if you're not a Christian, you can identify yourself in the Bible. See? So I think maybe that would help. I want to get as many of these as I can.

198 348. Brother Branham, some say mercy is over and no one can be saved. Now, is this true? (I'm glad I got this one.) We watch and pray--we watch the prayer lines, and it seems some are still finding mercy. Now, that's the first question, you got two.

"Is mercy over?" Don't never think that. See? Just keep right on doing everything you can until you're taken away. See?

"We notice in the prayer line some's finds mercy." Sure. Mercy's--the doors are open. See? I think where you got this--this thought might lay between... See, I don't have time to give each one of these Scriptures their right place (You see?), each one of these things their right place. They... In the prayer line you find mercy, certainly.

If I knowed Jesus was coming this afternoon, I'd be doing just the thing I'm doing right now (See?), just continuing right on. Mercy is always open. See?

201 And now, where I think you get it, is about the finishing of the Seven Church Ages and the Seven Seals being loosed. See? The Seven Seals, it's manifested what takes place has--what has took place. The seventh church age, we're at the end of the seventh church age. When I say the end, that doesn't mean it's this very hour, this very minute. You remember, the Bible said, back in the times of--of the Lord Jesus, Paul said, "For the time is at hand." Do you realize how long that was in God's time? That was yesterday. My time, it's been two thousand years. See? The time is at hand. See? What God calls at hand is not what we call at hand. See?

So just keep on believing, keep on praying, keep on... God's still got mercy open; just keep flowing into it as fast as you can. God will do the stopping when it's time to stop. See?

203 349. Now. Brother Branham, is it true that no one should preach but you? We have seen your--we have seen you ordain men. We do--don't believe you would do that if there were not--if they were not to preach.

Mercy. Brother, sister, ever who told you that nobody's to preach but me, I'd sure be a poor subject to God with all that. No. Every man or that feels a call of God upon his life, get into the ministry and start preaching; we need them.

Men of God are anointed all over the world to preach the Gospel. See? I'm just one little pebble on the beach among many big stones. See? So I... There's just many that's more eligible, more worthy, more of anything to preach than me; I'm just one little, humble person laying out here. I'm one grain of wheat in a whole garner. See? So that just a... You know what I mean. Any man that's called of God needs to preach the Gospel.

206 350. How can a Christian get deeper in the love of God?

Read the Word and pray. Read the Word of God and pray. I'm going to hurry, just get as many as I can.

I turned in one question, but asked it (i-n-c-) incorrectly. I want to know if you are going to have a healing service before you leave town. If not... have to do--I--get a personal interview with you?

Now, by the way, I think this person was on interview this morning. 'Course, we had a healing service--we have had a healing service too.

208 351 Brother Branham, please explain I Corinthians--I Corinthians 11--11 and verse 4 through 6. Does not this mean a s-e--separate--separate c-o--covering from the hair, or is the long hair the only covering we need? (Get me I Corinthians 11. Let's see, I Corinthians 11:4.) It says when praying... (Oh, yeah, he--they got it here. They say,) In praying or prophesying can we take our hair--can we... (Let's see, they got a line drawed through something here.) When prophesying--when prophesying can we take our hair when we... (You--you say,) Can we take our hair on or off when we're prophesying?

If you--if you got a hairpiece, you might, but I'd--or wearing one of these Beatle wigs, or something, but... If I could look right in one, I'd probably wear one myself, but it--not a Beatle wig, but a--a hairpiece.

210 But that's all right. If you ain't got no hair and you want one. If you can do it, that's perfectly all right. Yes, sir. If a woman, her hair isn't long enough, she wants a switch of hair in it, I'd say, put it on, sister.

If a man takes bad colds and things, and wants a--some way--even to his appearance to his wife, if he wanted to wear a hairpiece, do it. Yes, indeedy. Nothing wrong with that (no, sir.) no more than you would be your teeth, or artificial arm, or anything else. If nature has some--taken something from you and it's so handy you go ahead, that's perfectly all right.

But it says here, "Can we take our hair on or off when praying or prophesying?" What does this actually mean?

212 All right, read, Brother Neville... here... like 4--4 to 6, all right, all right.

Every man praying or prophesy,... his head covered, dishonors his head. (That is, if he's got long hair. All right.)

But every woman that prayeth or prophesy with her head uncovered dishonors her head:... (That's her husband.)... for that is even all as one if she were shaven.

For if a woman be not covered, let her also be shorn:... (If she wants to bob her hair, make her shave it all off slick. See? If she can't have...)... but if it be not a shame for a woman to be--be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.

I don't see nothing on taking on or taking off of hair there, unless the woman wants... He says, if she says she has to cut it, then let her shave it all off slick. See? Because if she doesn't, let her have her hair; because her hair is her covering. But for a man to have his head covered, long hair like a woman, standing in the pulpit, he'd look like a woman up there. See? So he mustn't have that like that. See?

214 That's--that mean that they're taking on hair or off... I think the person might've got mistaken in thinking there that it meant a--a man prophesying with his head covered, then he takes his covering off. See? No. That isn't that he had long hair; it means, if he's covered... Now, you read on down just a little further, you that asked the question, and you'll find out that the woman's head is her husband. How many knows that? And the man's head is Christ; therefore, a man should cut his hair because of Christ, 'cause in Him is both man, woman, and all. He's both father, mother, sister, brother, all. But in a man it's masculine alone. Therefore, he must cut that off because of Christ; but in the woman is feminish alone, so she could have her covering; because her husband is over her. He is her lord, her ruler; so therefore, she must have long hair.

And then, if she says she must--she has to cut it off, then let her be shaved. And said, if it's a shame or disgrace for a woman, who's supposed to look pretty, and having her hair all shaved off, then let her have her covering on her head; let her have long hair. See? So it's... Anybody... All explain it? I mean, does it sound all right? Say, "Amen." if it does, if you got it. See? [Congregation replies, "Amen."--Ed.] All right.

216 352. Brother Branham... (We got just ten minutes now.) Brother Branham, we have no preacher where we live, but we have tape service on Sunday night only. Should we take our children to another church for Sunday school? Are the tape services sufficient?

Well, let that be according to the way your children are going. See? Now, if you get your children, they're young; and you get them out into some kind of a group out there, that'll just pound the stuff into them that they--that they--they shouldn't know; I wouldn't do it. If they--if they seem to learn enough from the tapes and things... And you, say, you put them over in a Catholic church, take them over to Catholic church, take them over to something like that; I wouldn't advise that. See? If they...

But now, if you got a nice little church over there that maybe disagree two or three things with you, and your children wants to go to Sunday school, they're full Gospel people, or something, why, that's perfectly all right. But see, but when you come to a place where... Depends on how your children take it, See? Watch what your children does, what--how they react to it.

218 353. Let's see. If you don't have a church to go to, should you just listen to the tapes?

Yes. That's--I'd--I... That'd be fine.

218a 354. Do your children have to have an experience to have the Holy Spirit? If the--if--if they see the end-time Message, do they have the Holy Spirit?

Every one must have an experience. Your children cannot go in on no other way but the same way you do. See? They've got to be borned again. There's no grandchildren in the Kingdom of God; they're all children. They must have it, must have an experience with God to go in, just the same as you. Now, I hope I can get this. It's...

219 355. Dearly beloved: (Let's see.) About the Scripture of Ephesians 4:11 through 13, do we all (Let's see.)--do we get all the perfecting of saints through the tapes, or should we be here, where the gifts of the Spirit are operating and the different offices of the church to help perfect us? Our hearts have believed all the Word of the Lord.

Now, this person is from Oregon. Now, my dear... I believe I know who it is. See? It's... Oh, yes, I do, I certainly do. Your--your boy... If the person's here, I know you're--if you're not, it might've been last Sunday. See? This might've come in from last Sunday's. But your--your son flies conservation (See?), and it's--he controls... He's--I think he's the one that invited me over to go elk hunting with you over in Oregon, where... And I think this is right. Now, I know this person by letter by... and so...

No. They want to come here to the church for the perfecting. See? That we--we get fellowship one with another here at the church, but the perfecting comes between us and God. The Blood of Christ is what perfects us in the Holy Spirit.

220 Now, in the church says, "... has the gifts operating." Now, we do not have too many of the gifts operating here, but we have some of them. We have the gift of tongues, and--and the gift of prophecy (two or three of them).

I think our Brother Higginbotham here, ever where he's at, he's got a gift of speaking in tongues. And we got our Brother Junior Jackson with us, and he speaks with tongues. And then we got two or three of them interprets. Brother Neville here also, our pastor, speaks with tongues and sometimes prophesies, and the Lord brings upon him...

Just the other day he said something. He called upon a phone in a house where I was at, that he prophesied over a person, told them that a drunken man would--there'd be a great change in him right away or something like that. And the man has come out of the Alcoholics Anonymous, still an alcoholic, and for sixty-eight days hasn't even touched alcohol, or no medicine for it, or anything. That was Brother Neville prophesying over them.

So we are--we have some of the gifts operating among us, and we'll be very glad to fellowship with any of you, that has a way, that you're working, or wants to come and fellowship with us, anything we can do, we're very happy about it. See? But now the perfecting belongs to Christ.

Now, let's see, about one more or two more.

224 356. Brother Branham, will you be kind enough to explain the picture taken by Brother Arganbright? Question one: the second on the--the second picture on the wall, the light around you, the buckle, and so forth.

Well now, I tell you what. They signed their name, and they're not here now. We understand it. It's Brother and Sister Jackson from South Africa; they've gone back. So we understand that; we've explained that.

225 357. When will the church who--when will the church who did--who d-i--died during the tribulation and--be resurrected? Will they also wait until the resurrection of the ungodly? Will they live again during the Millennium?

Now, that's a good question. Deserves more than the time I could give it, but just so I can get... See? I haven't... I've got at least two-thirds of what I started with this morning--been two hours. Just so many you just can't get to them. You see? And I just want to get as many as I can, just not seeing where they are. I know there's some real good ones in here too that should be known, like the serpent's seed to be explained, and things; but I'm going to hurry and get into this real quick.

226 Will the church who died during the tribulation period (See?) be in the resurrection?

The second resurrection, second resurrection.

Will they also wait until the resurrection of the ungodly?

The just and the unjust will be raised at the same time.

Will they live again during the Millennium?

No. And the rest of the dead live not for the end of the thousand years. Now, that's pretty short, but I'm sure...

229 358. What does Paul mean by freedom and liberty in Christ? What way is freedom from law?

Well, you're not bound by law. Say, for instance, here's the same thing; I'll explain in the natural way, quickly. For instance, out here it says go down the street, thirty miles an hour is all the faster you can go. All right now. Now if I go down the street forty miles an hour, I'm condemned by the law. But if I go down the street just thirty miles an hour, I'm not under the law. See? That's freedom in Christ (See?), the same thing.

You're not bound by the law as long... If I don't steal, lie, smoke, commit adultery, any of those things there, I'm not bound by no law. See? I'm free from the law; I'm in Christ.

231 359. How do you feel about birth control?

I had some of that on the interviews this morning. I'd rather talk personally with--with you on those things (See?), on those things there, 'cause there's words and things that I have to say, that I--I'd rather say it if the husband and wife...

And there is a possibility of it being done in the right way. I'd say it to--for general. There is so many days in a woman's life that she's not fertile. You understand? All right. Why...

Now, there's sometimes a--a child would kill a woman; if she had a baby it'd kill her. You want to watch that too. See? So just be real careful about that. See? See, that's bringing life, so what you're put here on the earth to do.

If your wife is sickly, and another--a child would kill her, I--I--I wouldn't do it. I don't think the Lord wants you to do it. And you--you come to me personally on them things; have it on private interview. Let me talk to you personally (You see?) and I can feel...

235 See, each individual, I can tell whether they're lying to me or not. See? They tell me different things. I'd rather see you just... See? 'Cause you put it out like this, you don't know. It's 'cause there's an individual and things like that; I can tell it, whether they're telling the truth or not. See?

236 360. Why will--why will Satan be loosed a little season after the thousand years of Revelations 20 and 3, and Revelations 20:27?

Why will he be loosed? Is to go to gather up his people on the second resurrection, 'cause Satan has to stand the--the judgment also. See? He has to be condemned.

Oh my, this is a--a book full of them. I don't believe... And here's another letter full of them. Let me get some real, real, quick here now.

237 361. Brother Branham, please explain Acts 9 verse 7 and Acts 20--Acts 22nd verse. (Would you get it for me, Brother Neville.) Please explain Acts 9 verse 7.

Now, while he's getting that, I'll see if I can get another one right quick. Are you getting tired? I know you are.

Please explain the mystery of the translation of the Bride. How it will take place and where, the place, the Bride goes. Isn't them lovely questions. That's really nice, I'd just stand here all day...

[Brother Branham answers question 361--Ed.] Just a minute now, verse--verse... Acts 9 verse 7 (Thank you, Brother Neville)--9 verse 7:

And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing the voice, and seeing no man.

238 Now, I know where you're going. See? Now, the next place said that they--vice versa. Now, I--I don't know what taken place there. I just can't tell you, 'cause the next place they heard. One of them, they didn't see it, and the next place, they seen it and didn't hear it. How many has ever seen that before in the Bible? I have, and I can't explain it. See? I... The Lord will have to reveal it to me. I--I told you awhile ago; I have to be honest with you. See? I don't know. I'm sorry. If I--if I can't explain it, I'll be honest enough to tell you I can't. But I--I won't tackle it when--when I don't know.

I can't explain that, for one place it said they saw the Light and never heard the voice, or something like that; and the next place they saw the--heard the voice and never saw the Light. I can't explain it. See? I--I don't know what happened, and I won't know until the Lord reveals it to me; no more than I could tell you about marriage and divorce. I didn't know until He revealed it to me.

240 And even this morning, the Lord God, Creator of heavens and earth knows this to be the truth, this morning He finished up the whole thing, telling me about marriage and divorce. That's right. That's the reason I say, let me get it all together. Search...

When one of those things like the serpent's seed, when it was presented to me, I--I couldn't see it, nothing; but I just kept following that, and the first thing you know... Then have to get way away to yourself, and then the Holy Spirit begins to open it up. Now, I want somebody try to condemn it now. See? Can't do it.

242 362. Please explain the mystery of the translation of the Bride.

Just a change (See?), our bodies now... Let's say our. You know what I mean when I say that? I don't mean to be sacrilegious. I don't mean to say ours; I don't mean to say this church; I mean to say every believer.

Abraham, He was looking for a promised son that was promised him. Is that right? And the church is looking for a promised Son. The Bride (Is that right?), the Bride is looking for the promised Son.

Before the promised son could come to Sarah and Abraham, their bodies had to be changed. Is that right?

She was too old to have a baby. She had no milk veins in her breast; her breast was dried up. Her womb wasn't fertile; she was sterile. She could not have the baby; her heart was too old to stand labor. So what happened? God changed her back to a young woman. And He did Abraham the same thing, 'cause He said his body was as good as dead. See? And He had to change their body in order to receive the promised son.

And we cannot receive the promised Son that's promised us today in these bodies that we live in; these bodies are sin.

247 This first conscience controls this body with see, taste, feel, smell, and hear, and it's just got us all scrupled up; we reason and everything else. But that new body, that comes from this borned again (not this first conscience, it'll pass away)... It's that inside something that lives. Everybody understand it say, "Amen." [Congregation replies, "Amen."--Ed.]

It's not this outside see, taste, feel, smell, and hear. It isn't. It's subject to death and will die, but the inside part of you, down in here, inside, that is the person that cannot die. See? And that's the person that the new life starts from, from this new birth; and it builds another person in the image of this person you are, around that life. You get it?

249 So potentially it's in here, and what is it? The Word promised before the foundation of the world. And around there, this only reflects the negative; that will reflect the positive, the Word. See? And the same thing is--or the translation of the Bride will be the same thing. The Word that's in you, the body will materialize around that Word, and the same thing did by Sarah.

Before... When that old body that she had, that first body, it had to be changed in order to produce a son. You get it? That body could not do it. This body cannot do it, so it'll have to be changed the same way to receive the Son.

251 363. How will it take place and when is--where is the--where is it the Bride goes?

It goes to glory, heaven for the Wedding Supper, just in type like Isaac and Rebekah, when Rebekah went to meet Isaac. Remember Eliezer, representing now the message that went forth from Abraham, Eliezer went forth to find a bride for--for Isaac. He found the beautiful Rebekah in the cool of the evening, a little dark-skinned girl coming out with a water pot on. And Eliezer prayed, said, "Lord God, give me good journey now and success for my master, Abraham."

And he said, "Go, don't take him amongst the Philistines--don't take her." Get over here amongst his people, showing that the Bride of Christ and Christ is blood relation, 'cause Rebekah and--and Isaac were cousins.

253 And so they went down, and this beautiful Rebekah come out and got the water and he prayed--and water the camel and whatevermore. And then, you'll notice Rebekah had... The final choice had to come to Rebekah. He asked the father for the girl; he asked the mother for the girl; and they neither one could agree. Wanted her to stay awhile. He said, "Don't hinder me on my work."

And Rebekah had to make the choice, 'cause he said, "She is the maid; let her make the choice."

And as soon as it was made to her, quickly her mind was made up; she said, "I'll go." And she mounted upon the camel and went to meet the... Look, the very camel she watered was the camel that packed her to her bridegroom and all of her success. And the very camel, the very power of (that beast in the Bible represents power)... And the very power that we give water and praise to (Amen. See?), water, life, praise to the Word, is the very thing that packs us into the gloryland to meet the Bridegroom. Yes, sir. Amen.

Watching for the coming of that glad Millennium day;

When our blessed Lord shall come,

Catch His waiting Bride away.

256 And remember, Isaac had left the tent and was standing out in the field meditating in the late afternoon (Amen.) when he saw Rebekah coming... And she'd never saw him and he'd never saw her; but it was love at the first sight. She fell in love with him and he with her, and she was even veiled. Amen. Oh, my.

And look, when she seen him, her heart was so full of joy. She didn't know who she was going to marry, but by faith. Amen. And--and--and remember, Jesus will leave the Kingdom, and we'll not meet Him in glory; we're to meet Him in the air, between heavens and earth, where it's expanded to redeem us. And he met Rebekah in the middle, between her home and his home. Amen. Took her into his home, and married her, and fell heir to everything his father had. Amen. Oh, perfect, just perfect. All right.

Question: Does God separate man and wife in...

258 I--I better not read this one. See, see? It's a--it's a--might have to say a word. You see? I know you all, but these--these--this is taped (You see?), so I--I better not. It's something about... The person that wrote it, you know what it is; and I--I better see you on a private interview. See? I better not... I don't think it would really be nice to read that. See? It's--it's all right, the person, there's nothing wrong with it; they asked a legitimate question, but I--I think it'd be better for me to see that on a private interview. Wouldn't you think so? Just ever who... You know it is, whoever you are.

259 Oh, my. Oh, we're already past our time, folks. We--we better close up and go--go into our dinner. How much time do you want me to stand--spend here? Oh, my, my. Just a--just a--Yeah, just a--maybe just a little bit. If ever who has to go right quick, don't let your dinner burn. But if you--if your... And--and I'll probably be eating over at the Blue Boar, or Pryor's, or some of them places, and they probably won't bother you. If you have to go, God bless you; I understand. See? And I'm just going to take about... I'm going to lay out these right here, and that's all that I'm going to answer. Then I'm--I'm going to... These right... It'll be about--take about fifteen more minutes, then I'm going to go leave.

260 364. I have two daughters married to man in the d-e-a-v and they believe this Message. They--denominations (That's right.), and they believe this Message and have taken a stand for It, and have received... What should they do? They have received opposition. What shall we do?

Hold your stand. Absolutely. Show your colors. That's it; don't give in to them. No, sir. I don't say, don't go among them, fellowship, or something like that, as long as you can fellowship; but when they come to changing the diet, you know, a dove can't eat with a buzzard.

261 365. Brother Branham, would you please explain Mark 13:27? Also, Brother Branham, what about the people in Revelations 20:7 and 9, what--that make war against the saints? Where do they come from? Will there be a carrying over as with the--Noah's family?

Revelations 13--or no, Mark 13:27, Brother Neville. Revelations 20. You got your Bible there, Brother Capps? Revelations 20, and it looks like 7 and 9. I think I, while they're getting it... Here, he's got it right here. Revelations, what was it now? Mark 13: 27, 13 and 27.

And then shall he send his angels, and... gather together his elect from the four winds, and shall--and the--utmost parts of the earth to be and--to the utmost parts, of heaven--utmost parts of the earth to the uttermost parts of heaven.

That's talking of the resurrection, the translation, going up. He'll send forth His angels to gather. Did you ever think what the angels are? Huh? Messengers. Uh-huh. He'll gather them together, congregate them together (See?), bringing them, bind them together from the utmost parts of the earth to the utmost parts of heaven, the Word that was been made manifest on earth. See? Get it? The Word's been spoken; here It's manifested. See? All right, Brother Capps. Let's see.

And when the thousand years was expired, Satan was... loosed out of his prison,

All right. I just got through explaining that, didn't I, how he'd be loosed out of his prison at the end of the thousand years?

All right, now I got another one right here. Just a minute.

264 366. Brother Branham, was it of God, or was it of my own doings when the things that took place, when (t-e-) tempted... Was that... (See if you can make that out. It's good writing, but my education is poor. What does it say there? [Brother Branham speaks with Brother Neville--Ed.] I--I don't believe I can answer that. Brother Capps or I can't make out... Said,) Was it... (Unless it--it--it--it was, if--if it was a nurse. Something about nursing.) Was it of God when I stopped nursing, or was it my fault?

I wouldn't know. I'd rather see that on private interview. See?

Now, nursing is a legitimate thing, just as a nurse. I'd say... Now, the person never... I didn't throw that back just to say not to answer it, 'cause that means just as much to that woman as your question means to you or mine to me. See? But now, if it's a--if it's a--a nurse, that you just quit nursing because you thought you shouldn't work... Well, I think nursing should be more like of mercy. See? You should think of doing something, like a doctor.

265 A doctor that's a good doctor, we'd help a man regardless whether he had a penny of money or not, a real doctor. See? And I think a minister, anybody, our service should be to one another, because make life just a little better for each other.

I... When they told me I had to take a hundred dollars a week from this church for a salary, why, it liked--liked to kill me. Now... Mrs. Wilson, I know, and probably her son, and them setting here, remember years ago, I preached here seventeen years and never took a penny in my life. Ever--ever little money, everything I could make, I put right into it. See? And when they told me I had to take it in order to be in these meetings, it liked to ruined me. See? 'Course, I believe it's all right, but just to me (You see?), I don't want nothing, no money, only thing I want is--is your--your friendship and God's favor with us.

I--I love you (See?); I love you, and I want you to be right; and I want to be right myself. And now, I want you to believe me; I believe you. And if you come with me to a question, I want to be honest with you. And if I--I tell you in the Name of the Lord, I want you do just exactly what I told you do. Don't you vary from it a--a bit, then I think we'll get along all right like that. See? And then, others...

268 And so now, if it's nursing... And I think if you, in your heart to be a nurse... There can't everybody be a nurse. A nurse is somebody that's gentle and kind to people, and oh, I think a real nurse... If you ever been sick in a hospital, or something, see a real nice nurse who'd come and make you comfortable, or something or other...

I had an operation for--when I was shot that time; I had to go to the hospital. Had a little old nurse out there, I called her "Sweet Pickles," because they--she'd always have a pickle in her mouth eating it. That was all the time like that. And I was just only about fourteen years old, and I'd been shot. And she was just merely a little fellow anyhow, and she'd--them shot legs, pretty near both of them blowed off like that, and she'd put a pillow here and a pillow there; and all the time she was always helping me. And I always thought (I was just a little kid.)--I thought I could marry her, because she was--she was so kind and nice to me. Well, I... That... You see, that means something (See?) to do something.

270 367. I'd like to ask a question. Number one: Is lady's pajamas... (Now, wait just a minute; let me read it. [Brother Branham reads the question to himself--Ed.] ... pertaining to men's garments? Is it wrong to turn the ends of... No, this will be all right). Is a lady's pajamas pertaining to a man's garments?

Ha ha. Boy, don't tell me they can't ask you some burners. Ha ha ha. I don't know. Ha ha. I'm just going to let you do the deciding of that. You shouldn't be parading around before people with them on; I--I know that. So that way it would be, but in the--in going to bed I--I--I don't know. I'm going to have to back up on that one too. I told you I'd be honest if I didn't know. I'm not going to put my own thought about it (All right.), unless you want my own thought. If you want that, I will tell you. See?

Now remember, it isn't it--it--this--this could be a million miles wrong. I think it'd look nice to have a nightgown on. But--but if you--but if you... But that's just up to you. Now, I can't--I can't tell you that, 'cause I couldn't back it up. Now, that's--that's--that's me, not Him, remember. See?

271 368. Is it wrong to trim the ends of woman's hair?

I believe we just went through that a few minutes ago (See?), for the little... I guess they call them--them little things that hang down like that...

271a 369. Brother Branham, one of the tapes of the Seven Church Ages you mentioned that Judas had been justified, sanctified. Were these genuine (There's a good one.)--explain-- experience--genuine experiences of grace that he received? You also mentioned that Judas had his name on the Book of Life, and yet, we know he went to hades and was lost. How can a person have their name on the Book of Life and still be lost? Or why does God put persons' names on the Book of Life when He knows that they will be lost at the end?

Now, that's a good one, isn't it? Hmm. Now, this would be good. Now, I'll just have to depend on the Lord to answer this, 'cause I'm just prowling out--probing out, rather. Look.

First in the--our churches, I mentioned that Judas had his name on the Book of Life. Now, that's true. Now, we know that, 'cause Jesus told them when all of them was sent out (Matthew 10), to cast out devils, to preach the Gospel, freely received, freely give; and they returned back rejoicing, because the devils was subject to them. Is that right? And Jesus told them, and He called their names (which ones they was, how many was sent out); and they come back and Judas Iscariot which also betrayed Him... See? They come back rejoicing because the devils was subject unto them. Now, see, the attitude was wrong there. See? You mustn't rejoice 'cause I got power to make a devil move. See? You mustn't do that; you must rejoice because you've even received enough grace to be saved. See, see? You mustn't rejoice... That's how people...

272 Usually people that has gifts are people who don't want gifts. See? Paul tried to run from the thing, so did Moses. Great leaders like that try to run from the job; they know what lays before them. God...

See, if you take a guy that always, "Oh, Lord, fill me with power, and I'll go out here, and I'll cast devils." He'd never do it. God knows better than trust anybody like that. See? He'd never do it.

It's that guy that don't want nothing to do with it. You see? That's the guy that God can take him and teach him something sometime. You see?

So then, Judas come back rejoicing, all of them, that the names... He said, "Don't rejoice that the devils is subject to you, but rejoice because your names are written in the--on--on the Book of Life." Now, if you notice and take Daniel also. The... See?

Because your name is on the Book of Life (because it is in heaven, your name has been recognized), that still doesn't mean that you are saved. See? You're not converted, until you receive the Holy Ghost. Remember that. You're only potentially converted. See? You're not...

274 If--if you ask me for a--for a oak tree and I give you an acorn, potentially you have an oak tree, potentially, but it isn't developed yet. That's the reason I believe in the security as the way I do.

If I--if I ask for a cornfield, and I see corn up about that high, potentially, I have a field of corn. Not--it isn't developed yet, something could happen. See?

Now, you're on your road through justification and sanctification to the baptism of the Holy Ghost. But when you're genuinely baptized with the Holy Ghost, you're in the Kingdom. Now, you say, "Brother Branham, is that true?"

275 I haven't got time now to--to give you Scripture; you just look it up when you get home, 'cause I don't know... My mind... Have to look back here in my concordance to pick it up. Jesus told Peter, who had been both saved and sanctified... He believed on Jesus, was sanctified. St. John 17:17, Jesus said, "Sanctify them, Father, through the Truth; Thy Word is the Truth." And He and the Word is the same. They were sanctified, potentially, through the Truth, the Word, the Truth. And then, Jesus told Judas--or--or Peter the night of the betrayal, He said, "After you are converted, then strengthen your brother"--after you're converted.

276 The man had followed Him for three years and had name on the Lamb's Book of Life, and had cast out devils, and done great works, and healed, and done all kind of--preached the Word, and everything, and still wasn't converted. See the... You're leading to conversion. See?

The baby that... When the act has taken place between the--the egg and the sperm, or the gene... But when they... Potentially, the baby's there when the act is done. Then the body is developed, second stage; but the baby has to be born here, and then it receives the breath of life. It is not yet the breath of life. You say, "Oh, it's alive." No, it isn't. That's little nerves jerking, muscles. See? The baby hasn't received life till it's born. And you may jump and jerk, but you're not... See, see? You got to be born. You know what I mean? All right.

278 Now, now, he said then that take... "You mentioned that Judas had his name on the Book of Life, and yet, we know that he went to hades and was lost. How can a person, then, have his name on the Book of Life and still be lost?" Now, let me get one more little thing in here for this dear person.

Now notice, the Bible said when Daniel saw... He--he wrote the first Book of Revelations, Daniel. And we notice in the vision he saw Him come to the Ancient of time Whose hair was as white as wool. How many remember reading that? And did you notice, John in Revelations came to the same thing, Revelations 1? And He stood there; His hair was as white as wool, His feet and the way it looked: Ancient of time. Ancient of time, that is, It had no time, the Eternal One. And He came... Now, watch. And the saints come to the earth and the books were opened, and another Book was opened, which was the Book of Life: one book. They came to the judgment, and the... He came, and with Him came ten thousands times ten thousands. Is that right? Ministered to Him, the Bride, Queen and King...

280 Who is your little queen in the home? She ministers food to you. Is that right? (What you're late on now.) But when she--when she ministers to you, that's what... The Bride ministers to Christ, the Word. "Man shall not live by bread alone, but every Word." See? She ministers the Word to the King, manifesting His promise Word in the age that She's a-living in. Amen. Ah, I said something then, you didn't get it, but...

Notice. Oh, my. That was a good one. See? Ministering in the age, the Word. Now, notice. And She came--He came, and ten thousands times ten thousands came to Him; and judgment was set, and the books were opened; and another Book was opened which is the Book of Life; and they were judged thus. Who was this that come? The Bride which did not have to come to judgment; she's free from judgment.

282 Another book was opened which was the Book of Life, and those who had their name on the Book of Life had to be judged out of that Book. And Judas Iscariot professed to be a believer, and he had his name written among them on the Book of Life. Is that right? He claimed to have Eternal Life. And his name was put on the Book of Life. So he has to... Why, he has to be judged then to see why did he condemn the Word of Life then, sell out for thirty pieces of silver. Some sells out to be a Methodist, Baptist or whatmore. Sold out his position from the Book of Life. And he'll judge--he'll have to be--stand there and judged by that, by the Word. See? That's why Judas had to do it. See? Judas has to come to the judgment. His name was on the Book of Life, but that don't mean he's saved. He has to stand the judgment.

283 The sleeping virgin will stand right there under the same--same things. Notice, Jesus said in St. John 5:24, "He that heareth My Word (That's he that can receive It, not he that just hears It preached and go on saying, 'Nonsense.' See?), He that receiveth My Word--He that heareth My Word and believeth (not make-believeth, but truly believe) on Him that sent Me (which was the Word) hath Everlasting Life and shall not come to the judgment; but hath (past tense) passed from death unto Life." That's it.

284 So Judas had his name there on the Book of Life (That's exactly right.), but he was condemned, because what did he do? He sold out his birthrights.

Esau was born in a family with the promise of God. The oldest son had the birthright. How many knows that? By a promise of God, Esau's name was on the book for the birthright (Is that right?), but he swapped it for a mess of wild gourds--or peas. Hungry to fill his belly, his meal ticket, he swapped his birthrights for a meal ticket and could find no place to repent.

Those spies that went with--over to spy out the land, came and even eat the grapes that Joshua and Caleb brought back. And yet, what did they do? Sold out their birthrights.

286 Jesus said--or Paul speaking with the inspiration of Christ in Hebrews the 6th chapter: "For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted of the power of the world to come; if they shall fall away, to renew themselves again unto repentance, seeing that they crucify to themselves the Son of God, and count the Blood of the covenant, wherewith they were sanctified, an unholy thing, and done despite to the works of grace..." It's impossible for that person to ever come back.

Them, every one besides Joshua and Caleb, died and perished in that wilderness, yet they were believers, yet their names were on the books.

288 And here, Paul speaking, if a man ever comes to a spot that he's been saved, and sanctified (The Blood sanctifies; Hebrews 13:12 and 13 says the Blood sanctifies.), and then comes right up to the gate of the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and because of prestige or denomination refuses to walk in it, said, "That person is lost and can never be saved" (See?); for he's done despite even to the very works of grace that's called him up to that place and showed it to him, and then turn around, walk away from it. He counts the Blood of the covenant wherewith he was crucified--Christ was crucified as an unholy thing. Because the Blood that saved him, and justified him, and sanctified him brings him up to the baptism of the Holy Ghost. And then walks away and leave it...

289 Now, watch that pattern. I'm taking a lot of time, but look. Judas Iscariot followed those same tracks. He was justified by believing on the Lord Jesus and then accept Him as his personal Saviour. He was sanctified and give power to cast out spirits; put his name on the Lamb's Book of Life. But when it come to Pentecost and the baptism of the Holy Ghost, the fullness of the Word, he showed his colors. That's exactly what the Canaan spies did; that's exactly what Esau done.

That's exactly what Satan done to Eve in the garden of Eden: "Surely God will not..."

But she said, "God said..."

He said, "Yeah, I know that says that; I know it says this, but surely..." See, the same thing all the way down through, and so is it today.

291 The church has fallen through justification, Martin Luther; through sanctification, Wesley. But it, when it comes to the time of the baptism of the Holy Ghost, they show their colors; they want nothing to do with it. Nazarene, Pilgrim Holiness, Church of God, all those there who believe in sanctification, you can't lay a finger to it; it's truth. But when it comes a borderline, come right up to that spot to receive the Holy Ghost for the new birth, then what'd the devil do? Come around and try to twist it around. Oh, he's--he'll do everything that's in his known power to keep people out of there.

They brought around on, and say you have to speak with tongues. or You have to have a sensation. You have to do this. You have to be borned into it. Don't let no one tell you that sanctification and the Holy Ghost is the same thing, 'cause it is not. Certainly is not.

Listen at this Nazarene back here hollering, "It is not." See? He knows there's a difference in it, 'cause it certainly is--Brother Capps, our gallant brother. See?

293 Sure, Nazarene... There's nobody can say a word against them fine religious people; they're just as nice as they can be. Church of God, Nazarene, Free Methodist, those people are real, but when it comes down to the works of the Spirit, they say, "Oh, oh, that's the devil." And what'd they do there? Blaspheme the Holy Ghost. When they do that...

Now, what is blasphemy? There's no forgiveness. Is that right? He that once enlightened, made partakers, and tasted of the heavenly gifts (partasted--tasted of God's sanctification: cleaned up from cigarettes, and filthy women, and all kinds of life like that)--and tasted of the heavenly things (to see that they'll walk up to that borderline like those spies did that eat part of the grapes... See? But what do they have to do? They had to break up their denomination to come over into this. See? Say--See?)--tasted of the heavenly gifts; seeing that they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and count the Blood of the covenant wherewith they were sanctified an unholy thing.

295 Sanctification is when your name goes on the book as a believer. Your word--your name is wrote in His Blood. See? Sanctification does that; and you come up, when He's trusted you up to this far, and then come up and you say, "Well, would He know it?"

Yes, He knowed it. He knowed you wouldn't do it in the beginning. He knowed Judas wouldn't do it. He knowed him from the beginning; he was the son of perdition. But them thing has to be fulfilled. See? The Word has to be fulfilled, although types and shadows. Oh, my. We could stay on that for hours.

297 370. Brother Branham, when you gave the message on the seventy church weeks--seventy weeks (Pardon me.) of Daniel, I believe that you mentioned that the full--the full last week or last seven years will begin when the Bride was taken in the rapture.

No, no, no, no, no, nah, nah, nah. You got that wrong (See?), not the full seven weeks. The--the week started when Jesus came on earth. He said, "The Messiah, Prince, shall come and prophesy, and in the midst of the seven weeks, He'll be cut off." And Jesus preached exactly three and one half years, which is half of the seventy weeks, the seven days, week--weekdays. See? And there's three and one half years left.

Now, when Moses and Elijah comes on earth, which is Revelations and Zechariah... (Brother Coomer your--your and Sister Coomer's question there was--was in the same.) Now, when they... When Zechariah 4 and Revelations 11, them two olive trees and so forth--which is Moses and Elijah--when they come on earth they prophesy 1,264 days. What is it? Exactly three and one half years. There's exactly the same thing. Not... See? Ever who this dear person is. Very, very, beautiful, wrote--wrote on paper with religious head write--lines here and things, and it's very fine. And it's a very nice question, but (See?) you didn't get it, just what I said. Never did I believe that the whole seventy weeks would be over here. Messiah's cut off. How many remembers that in preaching up here? Certainly. See? Seven weeks.

299 371. Since then, it seems like the first three and one half years was fulfilled during the ministry (Well, here you've got it right here.) of--of Jesus, but the expression, "midst of the weeks" seems to be applied only to the antichrist breaking his covenant with the... (No, that antichrist breaks his covenant at the end of the last three and one half years. See?) As I understood Daniel tape, the first sixty-nine weeks ended when Jesus rode into Jerusalem A. D. 30, so that three and one half years of His ministry would be included in the sixty-nine week's; and the full last weeks--and the full last week or seven years would still be fulfilled and would begin at the rapture. Please clarify this for me.

You know, brother, sister, ever who it is that's asked this question. Very fine (See?), but I believe you got a little mixed up on what I said. See? Now, the--when Jesus came into Jerusalem (That is exactly right.), that was the end of... See? He went right straight in from there and was crucified. See? And He--He did prophesy half of the seventy weeks which is three and one half. Now, He was cut off, and His soul was made a sacrifice. And now, there would come then... In this last days, there's three and one half years still promised to the--the Jews. And the--in--during this time was a gathering up of the saints for the rapture, the church.

Now, I ain't going to get all these through, brother--brother, sister.

300 372. Would you please explain I Corinthians chapter 7, verse 1 and 9? (Get it, Brother Neville, I Corinthians chapter 7, verse 1, now)

301 373. And will every true believer do the works that Jesus said, as stated in St. John 14:12 (Not exactly. No.): heal the sick, cast out devils, raise the dead (I don't think that's in St. John 14, but it's all right. It's Mark 16.), or--or are--is this only to be Elijah? Must the believer do all that--of this--do really--that really believe? And if he really is a real believer, will he raise the dead and do great miracles?

Now, that is among the believers. See? Every man doesn't have those gifts, and don't mean that just one person will do it; there'll be groups of people. Like for instance, what if--if we had a little girl here in the church, or a little boy, or somebody that we love real well, and life would go out of them. The whole church would get together, and they'd go to pray and fasting: "Lord, have mercy on that child." See? God could raise it up.

How many ever read the Nicene Fathers and them? You know, that's the way they did it in the early church. They'd all get together, you know, and even raise up their pastor sometime and different ones like that, if God seen fit to do it; but they did it.

303 374. If the church is saved even though she does not go in the rapture, as I believe you taught, she must go through the tribulation for purifying. But what about these that are dead, how will they be purified?

All right. Those that have that... The Bride don't need no purification; She's already purified. And those that are--are--are dead back there, these that go through... See? They never received the Light that these church up here has received; they lived under their justification, sanctification, so forth like that. They lived to the Light that they had. Maybe in a--in a way that--they suffered, and whatever they went through with, and their persecutions... But now, in this rapturing time like this (See?), there will have to come a time now that this bride will--that rejects the Head's part of the Bride--will have to suffer for her rejection, because the Gospel wasn't made plain to them back there, like it's made plain to you today. See? You see it so plain. You done had all of those years and examples, the Seals opened, the church's age laid out, and everything like that. It's just so plain you can't miss it. See? And then, if you fully reject it, there's only one thing do, suffer for it.

304 Did you get that Brother Neville? What does it pertain to? I just--I better--better go now, 'cause it's getting too late. You see? Seven--seven, nine... Let's see.

But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

All right. That's for just dirty living. Instead of a man, a boy, girl, or something or another when they're going together and--and they know that they should be married, go ahead and get married. I think you--you'd understand what I mean, don't you? See? Don't just live a dirty little life there, 'cause it's not right. You see? That's your sister in one sense, where if you're a Christian. Now, if it's the world, it's the world: dog eat dog. But this girl that you're going with, that's your sister too. That will be the mother of your--your children that will come. Don't live a dirty little life around her, show that you're a real Christian gentleman. Live like a Christian gentleman ought to. See? And treat her like your sister, and when you get married, still treat her that way.

306 I might answer this right now. I don't believe in filthy living amongst Pentecostal people, holiness people, even if they're married. I don't believe in that. No, sir. Some of this dirty stuff that's--that's so horrible... I get in here sometime on these... Not this morning now, no, I ain't saying that. But I mean on times I am out in California and different places like that. I meet ministers out there, where on the discernment, I feel like I could turn them over my knee and give them a little "Gospel protaplasma stimulation." Yes, sir. My, to see a man that would try to take his little wife, and dirty, filthy, that's a... You understand what I mean? I think you ought to be ashamed of yourself as a man of God to... You just be a husband; be a sweetheart. Respect her like you always respect her. Don't pay any attention to these, some of these non-... sexy books, or these nonsense in this sexy books, and things that you read about, and all this stuff, and everything like that. Get that filthy stuff out of your mind.

307 The Bible said not let one dirty conversation come among you when you profess holiness. Treat that little lady like she's your little sweetheart. If she's sixty years old, you be just the same. You be that gallant boyfriend; remember, you are.

You don't try none of these new things, and I know what I'm talking... And you just be a husband, a genuine brother, a genuine Christian.

I know that sounds... But the... You're my kids. I got a right to say what I want to to you. You see? You're my kids; you live right.

And you women, live the right way to your husband. And you husbands, live the right to you--to--to--to your wives. Be real, real nice and respect one another just with... And your--your family relations and so forth like that, let it be just as reverently, and godly, and agreed with among you and everything as it can be. Don't never push, and shove, and--and be dirty and vulgar.

309 Understand, talk to your wife. If--if one nature is to you and another nature to her, talk it with her. You--you try to do the same thing to him, sister. And the same way... Understand one another and be--be real Christian gentlemen and real Christian ladies, and--and brother and sister with one another. Always remember, you're God's children, and you're from a royal family. You're a royal blood; there's no better blood in the world than yours. And that's right. And a royal blood shows itself. That's what it is; it's royal. All believe that say, "Amen." [Congregation replies "Amen."--Ed.] Yes, sir. Show what you are. I'm a--I'm the--I'm a son of a King; I'm the son of the King. My wife's a daughter of a King. How would I treat that King's daughter? How would she treat that King's son? See what I mean? Be real genuine.

310 375. Will there be a move of the Holy Spirit, signs, and wonders, and miracles done by the Bride before she goes away, or are we just waiting for His appearing?

I'm going to have to close on that one, I guess, 'cause I just got too much here to get to. And it's getting real late. It's twenty minutes until one now, and I got about thirty or forty of them maybe here, maybe. I'll answer this the best of my time--I--just take the next three minutes. I'll get these when I can. See? I don't know when I can get them; I'll do the best I can. Do you enjoy them? I... It helps me too. See?

To come here and grab them like this, 'fore you even look into them (You see?), you get some things you can't answer, and--and I--I was in hopes I'd pick up... I know there's one in here about serpent's seed. I wanted to get it so bad; I wanted to explain it, See? But I guess I just missed it, so I'll just have... Maybe the Lord don't want it done that way, but it was on the serpent's seed. Less somebody on that tape would--going to say, "Well, he did--he bypassed that." How many will suffer two more minutes for it? Huh? All right.

311 Now wait, let me get this one first. Let's see. "Will the--the..." No. This question here is this: "Will there be miracles done by the Bride?" Yes, sir. It's being done right now. That's right. See? But don't look for something that great--or bring the heavens and close the heavens, it rain not. That goes into the--the Jews now. See? That doesn't pertain to this at all; that's Moses and Elijah to the Jews, not to this church at all. Read the first three chapters of Revelations; you get what the church is right there. That's all to the church. And when she comes back with the Bride, when she comes back and... Read... If you want to know about the church, what pertains to it, read Revelations the first three chapters, and then go over to the 19th chapter and start reading from there (See?), you get the Bride. The rest of it is in the Jews there.

312 Now, to the serpent's seed. I can't find it in here, 'cause you can see it's just a great pile of them. But the person said, "If the serpent--if the serpent's seed (See?)... The woman, she--she got a son from the Lord, she said so."

Well, I believe last Sunday, I explained how she got it from the Lord. If she got it at all, she got it from the Lord (See?), because it had to come from the Lord. Because God's law has... It'll--it'll obey God. Exactly.

He ordained that the sun should shine; the sun shines. He ordains that the rain shall fall upon the just and the unjust; it does it. And seeds planted in any field, whether they're good or bad, will come up; it's a seed. And if the seed's planted, regardless...

And the only way this serpent could plant the seed, he was the only animal next to the human being. For in the evolution of mankind, when man--God brood upon the earth... And He begin to bring up birds, and the--from birds He come to different things, then chimpanzee, and from the chimpanzee to the serpent.

314 Now, He changed that serpent in such a way (That had to be done.) that would confuse this generation, who's trying to find a bone that looks like some kind of an animal that was part man and part animal, to say there's where man... They've lost it from the chimpanzee; only the chimpanzee doesn't have an intelligence. The chimpanzee has not a soul; he cannot think. He just has... He--he can... Just a--a noise, and he can... A horse, "gee," "haw," or something like that... A dog, "Come here, Fido, do a trick. Jump over."... And setting blocks and things like that, they do that by emotion, by hearing, and things like that, and action; but to think and to understand, they can't. They don't know they're naked; they don't know the male and female, the difference, like that. They have no laws of such...?... See? They can't do it. The human being is the only one.

And the next one to the human being was the serpent. The Bible said he was the most subtle of all the beast of the field. Smarter, he--he--he'd almost had a soul. He had a place for a soul, but what did he do? He sold out to Satan to deceive God, try to. How many gets it now that far?

315 Satan, the serpent, almost had a soul. God knowed they'd look for those bones, and there's not a bone in a snake that looks like a man. He was... That's the curse of him. He stood upon his feet just like a man.

Notice, then that seed, which was next to the human seed... Satan himself, the spirit, knew that that was the only seed that would pregnate the woman, 'cause the chimpanzee won't do it. They've mixed it and everything else; it won't do it. But he knowed that the germ of life that was in the chimpanzee, would not come to the field of the woman--egg; but he knowed the serpent's seed would do it, so he dealt with the serpent.

317 And Adam had never knew that this act could be done. See? She was made a female. Certainly, she would've come to it later; but you see, the sovereignty of God to display Himself as Saviour and--and so forth, as I've explained many times... But Satan knew this, for he come to her in the form of this serpent, which was the beast and--a--a beast, and came to her. And she was pregnated by Satan first.

And if you'll notice, there was only two acts done, and there was three children born. Search the Scripture. She gave birth to twins. One of them was serpent's seed; the other one was Abel. She enticed her husband and told... See? Then she showed her husband what it was, and then he lived with her also, and she bore this child. And I want you--to show, she was pregnated with twins by two different... She was a... That's virgin woman.

319 Their seed is strong. Like look here. Abraham married his own sister. Why, if a man'd marry his sister today, his children would be idiots. See? But the human... And here Jacob--or--or Isaac married Rebekah which was his own cousin, own blood cousin at that, blood relation (See?), Abraham's brother's child.

Notice, notice now, on this (See?), there's--the human race was so strong. Now, if you notice it's always been twins all along. There was... Cain and Abel were twins, and Esau and Jacob were twins. Jesus and Judas come out of the same tribe and in the same church. And the--even the Holy Spirit and the antichrist is to be twins, so close that would deceive the very elected if possible. Have you got it? All right.

321 Now, to prove this I want you to take Jude the--I believe the 17th verse--or the 14th verse of Jude and said... Now, now, notice this. Now, I'll close. Notice. To cut the whole thing off to make it right, first place He said, "I'll put enmity between your seed and the serpent's seed." See? Now, she doesn't have a seed. Therefore, how she got this seed was Satan's seed. Cain was Satan's son. She had no seed, so she received it through sexual intercourse. And when she did it, it was given to her by God's enemy. And then, when God gave her a Seed, It had no sex at all into It. You get it? The bondwoman and her child cast out, 'cause won't be heir with the freewoman and her child.

322 And notice, then she was given a Seed which was Christ. Neither her egg... Now, the Protestant wants to believe that it was a virgin born hemoglobin, that was the created Blood of God where the germ lays, but said it was her egg. No, sir. That egg cannot come down through that tube into the womb unless there be a sensation. Then you put God with a--a Spirit having sexual intercourse with a woman. How can it be done? It was a created matter of God altogether, both egg and germ.

And He was the Son of God, not the son of Mary, for He never did call her mother. "Woman," He called her, never mother. She wasn't His mother. It was the Son of God, and God is One. Get it?

324 Now, another thing to prove this and nail it down, where if anybody ever fusses with you, go back here in the Book of Jude, I think it's the 17th verse (the 14th or 17th verse), he said, "Now, Enoch..." You want me to read it? Have you got that much time? Let--let's--and then I'll get... Now I'll know, 'cause the tape here is going on, and we--we might get it mixed up in--in this now. Let me see if this is a--14th verse:

.. Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these things, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with him ten thousands of his saints,

325 Now, go back unto the 5th chapter (I think it is) of Genesis, and then go also over into the Book of Luke (wished I could find it; I wrote it all down here--if I could find it in here) and you'll find out that in the genealogies, nowhere in the Bible... If... Look. If Noah--if Enoch is the seventh from Adam, the Bible said, "Adam and then his son Seth," because Cain was not Adam's seed. It said Adam begot Seth, and Seth begot... Jared; Jared begot, all the way down to Enoch; and Enoch was the seventh from Adam. Nowhere did it ever speak that Cain was ever considered to be anything in the genealogies of God.

326 Now, just look and find out if it's so or not; search it out. And Luke comes over and names it right back again, and puts down from Adam. Not one time is Cain ever mentioned in the whole thing. And if Enoch (See?) was the seventh from Adam, where did Cain come in? Because the Bible said that in the genealogies, that Adam begot his son Seth. And Seth begot Jared, and Jared begot So--and--so, on down; and not one time was Cain ever mentioned. Then he could not be the son of Adam. So he had to be the son of the serpent, and he couldn't be a son without intercourse. Amen. If he wasn't, he was virgin born, then he'd be a son of God. I don't want them to get out of that one time.

327 Now, the same God that revealed that, is the same God that told me about your marriage and divorce. When He says those things, my brother, sister... I'm your brother, a man. But when He says that, and that strikes down in here, I can't explain it to you. There no need of me trying to do it, 'cause I couldn't. But it's never one time been wrong. Although, I couldn't see it myself at all; I couldn't see it, but I just hold on to it; and then He begins to reveal it, then I just--it just floors me. There it was right there, and I didn't see it. You--your education is bypassed, and your reasons are bypassed, and everything else; so was Cain bypassed.

Now, if we had time to go back here into Genesis and begin to read... Let's see if I could just pick it up and find it back here. I don't know for sure whether--whether I could or not. Mrs. Wood, do you remember when I was showing you that the other day? Just what... Was that the 5th chapter? The 5th, uh-huh. All right.

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the days that God created man, in the likeness of God created... him;

Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day that they were created.

And Adam lived a hundred year--and thirty years, and begot... sons--and begot--begot a son in his own likeness, and--and after his own image; and he called his name... (Cain? What'd he call his name? Where--where is that firstborn who had the birthrights then? Never even mentioned him. Seth was his son.)

328 Now, we come over here again and we find where that said... And now, Eve was given a son, because Cain killed Abel. Now, notice as we go on:

Adam and days creat--And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years--lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot a son--begot a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:

And--and the days of Adam after he... begot Seth were eight hundred and--years: and he begot sons and daughters:

And all the days of Adam lived were nine hundred and--and thirty and--years: and he died.

And Seth lived an--a hundred and five years, and begot Enos:... (And on down till it goes on down, and he is the seventh, Enoch is the seventh from Adam.)

Now, I don't remember just where in Luke. Have you got that marked too, Mrs. Wood? She and I... I was showing it to her the other day over in... What say? [Brother Branham converses with Sister Wood--Ed.] I believe you're right, Sister Wood. We marked it down there in her book where we was--in her Bible where I was showing... Here it is, yeah, the genealogies. All right.

329 Now, if we will notice here... In the 3rd chapter of Luke we get the same thing. "... which sons and so forth... and Noah, which were a Lamech, which also sons of Mathusala, which also the son of Enoch, which was the son of Jared, which was the son of Maleleel, which was the son of Cainan, which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God." Where did Cain come in? Where's Cain at, the firstborn? The birthright's to him; where'd he come from? He was the Satan's seed, and not God's. Wasn't Adam's either, 'cause Adam's son's name was--was Seth. Cain, the serpent's seed, slew his first son which was a type and shadow of the serpent also slaying his other Son, Jesus. And Seth took his place in the genealogies, which meant the resurrection, that the genealogies of God would completely be carried on.

330 I want to see somebody put him in there now and say it wasn't the serpent's seed. It wasn't recognized in the genealogies of God's, or neither the genealogies of the human race, the genealogies of Adam, any of the rest of them. Is that right? How many believes it, say, "Amen." [Congregation replies, "Amen."--Ed.] Sure. He was not; he was the serpent's seed and not Adam's seed.

She said that was Adam's son. It was not Adam's son. She said, "I got it from God." And she had to; it was a seed. It was a seed, but it was serpent's seed. See?

And He'd had to come back a virgin then in order to clear up that sexual act that'd been done. Adam was put here on earth, but he'd--he'd never found out that he was to be a father. You understand what I mean? Satan knowing this, he got to Eve before Adam got there. And there's where the whole thing lays today. And brother, that's what makes marriage and divorce and everything else such a scrumble as it is today. It's most pathetic. See? But I... God has made a way, to which we are thankful.

333 Do you love Him? Isn't He wonderful? Now, is the serpent's seed right? I thought maybe somebody on the tape would--might think I was afraid to attack it. You see? So they'd say, "Why he bypassed it twice. He's just afraid take a hold of it." We're not of that. As long as the Lord's in it, that's all right.

You know what, as I said that eagle that time I watched feeling his wings, you know. And I thought, "Aren't you afraid of me." I was--had my gun setting there; I said, "I could shoot you." He knowed I couldn't shoot him; I was too far from that gun. I said, "Are you afraid?" He just walled his big eyes and looked at me. A little chipmunk setting over there going, "Cha, cha, cha, cha, cha; I'll tear you to pieces, tear you to pieces." He wasn't paying attention to that chipmunk, but he got tired listening at him. So after while, he just made one big flop, went out like that, and just set his wings. And he knowed how to maneuver those wings, just flew plumb on out of sight. See? I just seen him just become a little bitty thing like that, just a little speck.

334 Brother Fred, I believe I showed you. I spotted Brother Fred back there now, when he hollered "Amen." awhile ago. I--I believe I've showed you that spot up there, and Brother Wood, wherever you are, way up in the mountains up there, where that taken place. I seen that eagle. I... He was forced down in that storm, and I was standing behind this tree.

Was hunting elk (and along a little later), and it was in October, and snows and things. This brother here was up there last fall with us, Brother John and them, right upon top of Corral Peaks where it was at.

336 I stood there, and I stood behind this tree. Snow a little bit and rain a little bit, and I was just standing there. That eagle standing there, and he got forced down. He flew up on there, great, big monster-looking fellow, a big, brown eagle. Set up there and looked around, I thought, "Well..." I--I was having a--a real good time; I was screaming, "Praise the Lord. Hallelujah." Around and around and around the bush I was going, shouting like that. I looked down there; I could hear that old coyote hollering. You know how they get to hollering.

Last year down there, when--just before it'd start raining, they'd start hollering; it was a little wolf, you know. I just love to hear them.

338 Then I could hear the elk way over here, in a, "Whee hoo" [Brother Branham imitates an elk--Ed.] bugle. Then way over here the mate answer him. (Next week, week after next, I'll be hunting them, the Lord willing.) So then, hearing that over there, oh, it's just so godly to be up there. Oh, I--I just... That's--that's my cathedral up there where I talk to Him, and then come down here and talk to you. See?

And up in there, oh, it's so wonderful, just relaxing. Just standing there, I thought, "Oh, God..." I looked, then the rain come out, and the evergreens was froze over, and a rainbow swept across that from Corral Peaks plumb over to Sheep Mountain, over that way, across that way. And I thought, "Oh, God, looky there. Umm," I thought, "there You are, Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End. Here it comes down and here, there. You're the same yesterday, today, and forever, the seven church ages, the seven golden candlesticks. There You are, God, how wonderful You are."

340 And I was just a--shouting; I set my gun down; I went around the tree hollering, "Glory to God. Praise the Lord," around and around the tree like that. I was just having a big time up there by myself, just the Lord and I, you know.

And after while that eagle come up out of that bunch of brush and just looked at me. I thought, "Well, you don't like that?" I said, "Old boy, I'm worshipping the same God that made you." See? He just batted his great big gray-looking eyes and looked around at me, and me hollering like that.

A little, old pine squirrel (anybody ever hunt in the mountains, he's--he's the policeman of the woods), and he jumped upon there (a little old fellow, not big enough to do nothing, but oh, what a noise)--and jumped up on there, jumping up-and-down, you know, "Yah, yah, yah, yah, yah, yah, yah, yah, yah, yah, yah, yah," just carrying on like that.

343 And that eagle was watching him; he'd look over at me. I thought, "My, Lord, well, what'd You stop me on something like that?" See? I said, "Because, You know, I was worshipping You. You want me to see something on that eagle?" I said, "I'll stir him, or is it on the pine squirrel?" I stood there and watched them; I thought, "I'll study him just a little bit." I said, "One thing I noticed him, he wasn't afraid." I like that, not afraid. He stood there, that great big bird; I said, "You know what?" (My gun was setting up against a tree.) I said, "You know, I could shoot you?" He knowed better than that; he knowed one thing: I wouldn't do it; I admired him too much. See? There he was standing there, not a bit afraid.

And I thought, "I could shoot you." Now, I'd seen him; he'd look around at me like that. And he kept making his wings, you know, go back. You know how they do like that, their wings, you know. Great big wings about this long, you know, and he was a big fellow. He was setting there, and I looked at him. (And that was way before I knew these things; this is years and years ago, maybe twenty years ago.)

345 And I watched him; after while I see him. I thought, "What's he--what's he... He's not afraid, so I admire that. But what's so godly about that old eagle?" Seeing that great, big, hook bill come out like that, and them big eyes; I thought, "Boy, he's a real bird."

Now, nobody... A hawk, if he'd try to follow him, he'd disintegrate. There's nothing can follow him. No, no. It'd take an airplane to do it. Yes, sir. No bird can follow him, so--he goes so high. And then, he's got eyes; he can see right down to the ground too, after he's up there, see way off.

Now, Jehovah likened His prophets to eagles (You see?); He'd lift them up like that. They had to be special made. Let's see. Predestinated, born for that purpose (See?), be lifted up like that. And then you... What's good of you going up there if you can't see where you're at? See? What's the use of getting up there if you don't know what you're doing? See, see?

What the use of jumping up-and-down, shouting, speaking in tongues if you don't know what it's all about? See, see? You got to understand while you're there. See?

349 So then, I watched him, you know, as he moved around there. I kept... I just admired him; he was such a beautiful bird. And yet, he'd probably eat some of my deer meat and stuff that I'm... I watched him, and after while I thought, "You know, what--what's he..."

After while he got tired. I don't think he got tired looking at me, but I think he got tired listening at that little old chipmunk setting over there. You know, we got so many of them in the camp today. You know? See? "Cha, cha, cha. Days of miracles is past. No such thing as divine healing. Don't have these things no more." See? Little old earthbound chipmunk that's setting up on that stump. "You have to belong to this. We're--we're--we're the..." See, see? Setting there just a--chattering up-and-down. Oh, he was vibrating, he was shaking so hard.

He got tired of listening at it, and he just made one great, big jump, and just shook that limb where he's setting on, like that. The limb shook, like that, and he went right out. See, he flopped his wings and just parted through that timber there. And when he did, I noticed him. See? He wasn't afraid, because he could feel the presence of his God given wings. He knowed them wings could pack him away from any kind of danger. See?

352 And so, that's the way we want to feel. This is the Word, and the One Who wrote the Word is my Wings. I'm not afraid of the Word; It'll pack you right through any kind of trouble there is. It's a Sword that'll cut Its way right straight through. Don't you never worry about it. See?

I noticed him then. He didn't flop, he just set his wings. See? And that--every time the wind would come in, he'd just raise up, get higher and higher.

I stood there, and fold my arms, and looked at him till he was just a little spot I could hardly see no more. And I thought, "God, that's it. It's not run join this, and run join that, and do this, that, or the other; it's just setting your wings (See?); knowing how to set your wings of faith into the Word of God, and sail away from all of this nonsense of chatter-chatter here and chatter-chatter there. Yeah. "Heavens and earth will pass away, but My Word shall never fail."

354 Now, I've got about twenty of you again this afternoon. Now, you that's on--that's--interviews for this afternoon, why, you see Billy, 'cause I think they're going to try to start just a little early for me to get them all in. If I can, I want to get every one of them that's possible that I can get. And I did this, not because... Billy didn't know this (See?), but my mind was so wound up after about twenty visions in there this morning (You see?) till it--or ever what it was... It just kinda gets you in a... And Billy said, "Why don't you go out and take a little... Relax, go out, and answer some of them questions there."

And I said, "Brother Neville's got his message."

Said, "I'll go tell him." He went around.

Brother Neville said, "Come on." So then, I raised up and come out here. And some of them is waiting for this afternoon. Sorry to kept you here till 1:00 o'clock, but I'll be--guess I'll have to leave day after tomorrow, so, to go on back to Arizona again.

355 Remember, the Lord willing, the next time I come back, I want to preach on--to you about--show you in the Scripture the correctness of marriage and divorce. This... And then, I... And then, just let it... Lay it out just the way it really is, then you'll see it from then on. So till that time, be of a good courage; the Lord bless you real richly. Can we stand? [A prophecy is given from a lady in the congregation--Ed.] Praise the Lord.

I love Him, I love Him, (Do you?)

Because He first loved me,

And purchased my salvation

On Calvary's tree.

You love Him? Now, let's shake hands with one another while we sing again.

I love Him, I love Him,

Because He first loved me,

And purchased my salvation

On Calvary's tree.

Oh, isn't that wonderful? Oh, my. Billy wanted me to announce, that after the benediction, he's got a word to say to you people here that wants them private interviews. You see? He wants to meet you just in a few minutes. But I feel right now, just a moment of worship. These... Don't you love to worship Him in the Spirit?

And purchased my salvation

On Calvary's tree.

358 Oh isn't it wonderful? Oh, I--I love Him. In my heart I love Him, if I know my heart. I believe you do too. So together we are His children. We love one another. Now, I cannot love Him without loving you. And if I say that I love Him and don't love you, the Bible said I'm a liar. See? And if I... If you want to--if you wanted to love me or love my family... The choice was, which do I want you to do, love me or love my family; you love my family. I'd rather you'd love Billy Paul than love me. If it come to that kind of a showdown, I'd rather you'd do it. I want you to listen to me, 'cause Billy's not a minister. But I want you to listen to me, what I tell you; but when--if you want to love somebody, really love them, you say, "I want to either love you or Billy," you love Billy. See? God feels the same way about us. And we cannot... Then I know you can't love Billy without loving me, 'cause he's part of me. See? So I can't love God without loving you, because you're part of God. And we love one another. Oh, I think it's so wonderful. Don't you think the songs are something's pretty after we have these--answering these things, where it puts us in a twist? Uhm, uhm, oh so real.

I love Him, I love Him,

Because He first loved me,

And purchased my salvation

On Calvary's tree.

Oh, they'll come from the east and...

OTÁZKY A ODPOVEDE, ČASŤ 3 (QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS #3), 64-0830M, Branham Tabernacle, Branham Tabernacle, Jeffersonville, IN, 189 min

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1        Skloňme naše hlavy. Pane Ježišu, sme Ti dnes ráno vďační za príležitosť prísť do Tvojej prítomnosti v tomto čase obecenstva a sedieť tu v ponebeských miestach v Kristu Ježišovi. No, Pane, modlíme sa, aby si bol aj naďalej s nami, keď o Tebe budeme hovoriť. Nech sú naše srdcia plné radosti, keď sa dívame na Tvoje Slovo a Tvoje zasľúbenia, ktoré sú pre nás.

 Žehnaj nášho pastora, nášho spolupracovníka, všetkých bratov a sestry, ktorí sem prichádzajú stretnúť sa s nami a zhromaždiť sa tu na tomto malom mieste, ktoré sme ustanovili ako miesto zhromaždenia pre Teba. A modlíme sa, aby si nás žehnal vo všetkom, čo robíme cez deň. Prosíme o to v Ježišovom Mene. Amen. Môžete si sadnúť.

 [Brat Branham sa rozpráva s niekým na pódiu. – pozn.prekl.] Mám tvoju knihu.

2        Toto je pre mňa tak trochu takou malou úľavou. Mal som tu vzadu zhromaždenia, rozhovory; mal som mať buď rozhovory alebo ísť odpovedať na otázky. Takmer všetko, čo dnes ráno prišlo, boli videnia, a tak trochu som musel... Povedal som Billymu, že ak by brat Neville nebol veľmi zaneprázdnený, zobral by som túto kopu otázok a pribehol by som sem, trocha by som si uvoľnil myseľ. To je – trochu ma to unavuje, trochu... Tie videnia sú... Ale ľuďom bolo pomožené; to je tá hlavná vec. Tá hlavná vec je, že im bolo pomožené; to je tá dobrá časť. A tak, potom dnes popoludní si ich vezmem trocha skôr, aby som tak dnes popoludní mohol začať s mojím špeciálnym programom, s rozhovormi.

3        No, sme dnes ráno šťastní, že vidíme našich priateľov a... No, toto... Nemajte to Billymu za zlé. A tak potom... On mal oznámiť ľuďom, ak by som pokračoval v odpovedaní na tieto otázky. Myslel som, že by mi to tu mohlo zabrať tak asi hodinu alebo niečo na odpovedanie na tieto otázky. Niektorí z mojich... Nerád odchádzam; som rád, keď mám čistý štít. Rozumiete? Potom tieto otázky, a tak ďalej, bol by som rád, keby som mohol povedať, že to mám za sebou. Mám toho v mysli tak mnoho; spôsobuje to, že som nervózny. A nechcem byť ohľadom ničoho nervózny; v jednom z týchto dní odchádzam domov do Slávy. Ha.

4        Pred pár dňami mi jeden môj starý priateľ povedal, „Začínam byť tak unavený zo života v tomto 'kufri'.“

 Povedal som, „Drahý brat, chcem sa ťa niečo opýtať; chcem ti niečo povedať. Cnie sa mi po domove. Cnie sa mi po domove dobrých dvadsať rokov a nemám žiaden domov, kam by som išiel.“ Rozumiete? Je to pravda. Je to hrozná vec niečo takéto povedať. Mohol by som si sadnúť a plakať, že by som chcel ísť niekam domov. Nemám žiaden domov, kam by som išiel. Všade, kam idem, môžem tam zostať len zopár dní; potom som pripravený ísť niekam inam. Ja jednoducho – bol som taký; narodil som sa taký. Moja manželka ma nazýva 'Nepokojné Vetry.' Som jednoducho tu i tam. A to je hrozný stav, byť na tom takto, ale myslím, že taký musím byť kvôli mojej službe. Ale mnohí z vás obdivujú... No, obdivujeme, keď niekto robí niečo pre Boha, ale nikdy ste...

5        No, dnes ráno sme tu len skupina domácich. Vidíte? Ale cnie sa mi po domove. Chcem ísť domov a neviem, kam mám ísť. Poviete, „Čo keby si išiel do Arizony, je tam tvoja rodina.“ Je mi dobre tak dva alebo tri dni a potom musím ísť niekam inam. A idem tam, a potom je mi tam dobre tak dva alebo tri dni a potom musím ísť niekam inam. Takže nemám tu žiaden domov, do ktorého by som išiel, a cnie sa mi po domove.

6        No, existuje Domov. Jedného dňa tam pôjdem, ale najprv vám musím pomôcť. Vidíte? To je to, kvôli čomu tu som, aby som vám pomohol. A kým nepríde ten čas, kým vám už viac nebudem môcť pomáhať, potom chcem ísť Domov. Potom naozaj veľmi chcem ísť Domov. Ale niekde je miesto, ktoré sa mi bude tak veľmi páčiť, že sa už nebudem chcieť vrátiť naspäť.

7        Keď opustím Jeffersonville; som preč niekoľko týždňov; chcem sa vrátiť znova späť. Keď idem do Arizony; myslím si, že to je nádherné; chcem sa znova vrátiť späť. A keď idem niekam inam; chcem sa znova vrátiť späť. Idem sem, idem tam, a potom premýšľam, že chcem prísť zase sem. Prídem sem; som tu len pár dní a všetkých vás vidím; potom chcem ísť zase niekam inam. Vidíte? Mám deti roztrúsené po celom svete a ja – tých, ktorých som splodil pre Krista. A ja... Potom nemám žiaden domov. Chcem ich v jednom z týchto dní všetkých zhromaždiť spolu (Rozumiete?) – Otec to urobí a potom budeme mať Domov, kde už nebudeme musieť viac chodiť sem a tam. Rozumiete? Som unavený z toho potulovania sa bez žiadneho miesta zastavenia.

8        A komukoľvek by som poradil, nikdy nebuďte kotúľajúcim sa kameňom (Rozumiete?), pokiaľ to nie je nejaký druh služby, ktorý vás do toho povoláva, pretože... Dnes ráno by som dal čokoľvek, ak by som tu na zemi mal miesto, kam by som mohol ísť a povedať, „Toto je domov.“ Ja by som... Ak by som to mal, dal by som za to milión dolárov. Ak by som mal miesto, o ktorom by som mohol povedať, „Chlapče, tak veľmi to milujem; nechcem to viac opustiť,“ dal by som čokoľvek. Ale ja to neviem nájsť.

9        Som niečím takým, ako bol Abrahám; hľadám mesto. Vidíte? Neviem ho nájsť, ale viem, že tam je. Ale istotne si neviem zvyknúť na nejaké určité miesto na tejto zemi. Jednoducho to nevyzerá... Milí ľudia, pekné miesta, a keď idete sem, je tu príliš teplo; keď idete tamto, tam je príliš sucho; ak idete sem hore, tam je príliš zima; ak idete tam dole, tam je zasa príliš teplo. Vidíte? A vy... Nie je žiadne miesto; jednoducho to nie je domov. Nechcem míňať svoj čas vyplakávaním na vašom ramene, ale ja...

 No, sme vďační Pánovi. Amen. Buďte vďační za všetky veci. Som taký, pretože som taký. Boh ma učinil tým, čím som. A nemôžem byť ničím iným než tým, čím ma On utvoril, melancholický, a takéto veci. Hovoria mi, že taký musím byť, aby som mohol byť pomocou, pre ktorú ma sem On poslal. A chcem byť takým druhom osoby. Ak to je spôsob, akým mám byť, tak potom chcem takým byť. Čokoľvek, čo je Kráľovstvo Božej vôle, alebo Božia vôľa, to je to, čím chcem byť.

10        No, znova sa pomodlime. Pane Ježišu, ležia pred nami tieto otázky, Otče. Nedokážem ich zodpovedať, Pane. Som na tieto otázky nedostatočný, ale viem, že Ty si plne dostatočný, pretože to leží na ľudských srdciach. Použi ma, Pane, aby sa uvoľnili ich tlaky – či to urobíš, Otče? Prosím o to v Mene Ježiša Krista. Amen.

11        No, začneme s... Predpokladám, že toto nenahrávajú, takže to je len... Predpokladám, že je to v poriadku.

 No, jedna vec, ktorá... Ten dôvod, prečo sa trápim ohľadom tých otázok, vždy tam je jedna akútna vec, ktorá ma trápi: to je odpovedanie otázky ohľadom manželstva a rozvodu. Ó, tie telefónne hovory, listy, a jeden brat sa zabalil do deky a sedel na mojej verande od 12-tej až do svitania nasledujúceho rána. Odvšadiaľ mi volajú kazatelia, dva alebo trikrát ženatí, a tak ďalej – kazatelia. Chcem sa vás opýtať na jednu vec. Stále ich tu mám niekoľko, o ktorých viem. Neprezeral som si ich, ale viem, že stále ich tu niekoľko zostalo.

12        Zapamätajte si toto. Vy, ľudia, ktorí ste zosobášení a rozvedení a znova zosobášení, sľúbte mi túto jednu vec. Rozumiete? Vložili ste do mňa svoju dôveru. (Predpokladám, že toto sa nenahráva. Ja ne...) Veríte mi ako svojmu prorokovi poslanému od Boha, vášmu služobníkovi; potom prijmite moje slovo ohľadom tejto veci, urobíte to? Choďte a pokračujte vo svojom žití tak, ako ste. Nesnažte sa o nič iné, ale žite, len pokračujte, len žite šťastne. Máte... Ste spasení. Ak ste kresťania, pokračujte v žití pre Krista; On mal dôvod, prečo vás spasil.

13        No, keď sa vrátim, ak Pán dá, vysvetlím vám to pomocou Biblie. Rozumiete? A nebuďte rozrušení. Mnohí muži mi hovorili... povedali, „No, milujem svoju manželku, ale budem ju musieť opustiť; nechcem minúť vytrhnutie.“ Nerobte to. Zostaňte tak, ako ste, až kým ma znova nebudete počuť ohľadom tejto témy. Rozumiete? Potom, keď som... Nedokážem to objasniť v priebehu desiatich alebo pätnástich minút; to vysvetlenie tej veci zaberie nejaký čas, pretože to musí byť Písmo. Musí to byť TAK HOVORÍ PÁN. Ak to tak nie je, potom to nie je správne.

14        Poznám tieto otázky, o ktorých tu hovoril Ježiš, „Ak muž prepúšťa svoju manželku a vezme si inú, okrem príčiny smilstva, pácha cudzoložstvo; ktokoľvek by si vzal za ženu prepustenú, žije v cudzoložstve“... Tieto veci, On mal dôvod na to, aby to povedal. On bol Boh; to je Jeho Slovo.

15        No, poďme naspäť na počiatok a zistime, čo to všetko znamená (Rozumiete?), potom to prinesieme. Ale pokiaľ to neurobíme, len pokračujte rovno tak, ako ste na tom teraz, tak, ako ste to vždy robili, ak ste kresťania. Ak ste kresťanský pár a ste zosobášení a máte deti a takéto veci, nejaké malé zväzky, ktoré vás zväzujú, neopúšťaj teraz svoju manželku alebo svojho manžela. Nerobte to. Rozumiete? Čakajte, kým ma znova budete počuť hovoriť na tú tému. Sľúbite mi to? Zodvihnite ruku. No, dôverujete mi, a preto mi veríte. No, ak ste mi verili až takto ďaleko; no, verte mi ohľadom tejto témy ešte trocha ďalej.

 No, pozrime sa, mám tu dnes ráno niektoré veľmi dobré – niektoré... 

        325. Či všetci, ktorí idú do Nevesty, musia žiť v oblasti 1500 míľ okolo modlitebne (Myslím, že som to už mal minulú nedeľu. Budem ich musieť vziať a použiť ich, ako budem môcť.) – 1500 míľ okolo modlitebne, ako to vyznieva z druhej časti pásky “Budúci Domov Nevesty“? Vždy som si myslel, že Nevesta v čase vytrhnutia príde zo všetkých častí sveta. Mýlim sa?

16        Nie, môj drahý priateľu, nemýliš sa; máš pravdu. No, ak som povedal niečo na páske, čo by ťa viedlo do toho, aby si veril...

 No, nemám... Tieto všetky sú pre mňa teraz nové, do týchto som sa vôbec nedíval. Rozumiete? Toto je nová kôpka, ktorú som dostal minulú nedeľu, a vložil som ich naspäť do obálky a odložil som ich tam dozadu.

17        No, v tomto... Nie, Nevesta nemusí byť na žiadnom určitom mieste. Mnohí z nich budú v prachu zeme. Budú po celej zemi; budú zamrznutí v snehu na severe a v prachu tropických džunglí a všade po celom svete. Ale keď zaznie trúba Božia, mŕtvi v Kristu vstanú, zobudia sa a vyjdú von z prachu zeme, nezáleží na tom, kde sú. A teraz, pri tomto, to vzkriesenie bude univerzálne. Rozumiete? Každé stvorenie, kdekoľvek na zemskej guli, ktoré je v Kristovi, povstane s Ním, keď On príde (Rozumiete?), nezáleží na tom, kde ste.

18        Len pomyslite na tú arénu vo dňoch dávnych mučeníkov, vtedy, keď boli tí kresťania hádzaní do jamy s levmi a tie levy tých kresťanov zabili a zožrali ich telá. Vidíte? Jednako ich telá boli roztrúsené v odpade toho leva po tvári zeme. Nezáleží na tom, kde to je, nemôžete... Vidíte? Ste utvorení z určitej neviditeľnej hmoty, ktorá sa zhmotnila, a Boh tú hmotu privedie naspäť. Rozumiete?

19        No, to je tak, ako keď si vezmete bunku. Rozdelíte to od bunky, a potom to prichádza ku bunke, ktorá je v tej bunke, a potom do atómu, a do molekuly, a takto to ide ďalej; a nakoniec to končí v tom neviditeľnom. Ide to od prirodzeného, od niečoho, čoho sa môžete dotknúť, až do plynov; od plynov do kyselín – od kyselín do plynov – a plyny, takto ďalej, až sa to nakoniec zakončí v jednej veci a to je duch. A tento duch, ktorý obýval tieto plyny... Nemusia to byť tie isté plyny, ale črty toho, kým si, budú znova presne také, aké sú. Vidíte? Duch to mal pod kontrolou.

20        A teraz, inými slovami, keď sa stávate mladým mužom alebo mladou ženou, a takto, Boh si robí váš obrázok... No, nezáleží na tom, akí ste starí a zvráskavení, akí znetvorení, čokoľvek to bude, to sa rozvinie znova naspäť. A to telo môže byť zničené, znetvorené, spálené, zožraté levmi, alebo čokoľvek, ale ono bolo utvorené z plynov, zo šestnástich zemských elementov. To bol vápnik a draslík, ropa a kozmické svetlo, a tak ďalej, všetko to ide spolu, aby to utvorilo telo. No, nezáleží na tom, to je – je tým naplnená celá zem.

21        Ale teraz, tento obrázok je tou hlavnou vecou. Potom pri vzkriesení, tie plyny, kyseliny, a tie ostatné veci, prichádzajú rovno naspäť na miesto a znova vytvárajú ten obraz. No, tento obrázok nebol zachytený, keď ste mali šestnásť alebo osemnásť, alebo dvadsať rokov a boli ste na tom najlepšie. Kedy to bolo zachytené? Pred založením sveta to bolo dané do Božieho veľkého záznamu. A potom, to jediné, čo sa stalo, bolo to, že sa to pre vás prejavilo tu na zemi, aby ste mohli urobiť svoju voľbu. Rozumiete? Potom sa stávaš služobníkom Božím. On to predvedel, to z Neho robí Vykupiteľa, ako sme cez to už prešli.

22        Potom ten obrázok je absolútne... Toto je negatív. To, kde teraz žijete, to je tá negatívna časť. A čokoľvek, ak je niekde negatív, musí najprv existovať pozitív, aby mohol existovať nejaký negatív. A tak, ak toto je negatív, niekde musí byť pozitív. A toto nie je tou skutočnou vecou; toto je len určitý predobraz tej skutočnej veci, ktorá má prísť. Teraz ste to pochopili?

23        A tak sa nestarám o to, čo by s vami mohli urobiť; nemôžu zničiť ten portrét, ten obraz, ktorý je tam vo veľkej Božej galérii. To nemôže byť zničené; to je v nebi. Mohli by ste to spáliť, dať to zožrať levom, urobiť tomu čokoľvek chcete; ono to znova vyjde vpred s takou istotou, ako že dva plus dva sú štyri. Práve s takou istotou, ako to Boh vypovedal, ono to vyjde vpred. Takže nezáleží, kde ste...

24        No, ak ja... Myslím, že ak si prehráte pásku... (Neviem, kto to napísal; nebolo tam napísané meno, je to len malý kúsok papiera s modrým atramentom, je to napísané na papieri z malého diára. Vyzerá to, ako keby to bolo vytrhnuté z malého zápisníka.) Ale teraz pamätajte, pri tejto otázke, tam na páske, ak si to všimnete, povedal som toto, niečo o tomto (Teraz to nemusí byť slovo za slovom, ak si porovnáte túto pásku s tou druhou): Povedal som, „Napríklad, sme tu dnes ráno. Toto mesto, ktoré túžime vidieť, bude o rozlohe 1500 štvorcových míľ.“ Povedal som, „To by siahalo od Maine až po Floridu, a od východného pobrežia 800 míľ na západ od rieky Mississippi – 1500 štvorcových míľ.“ Povedal som, „Pomyslite na to, dnes ráno tu sedia ľudia, ktorí v skutočnosti prišli z takej vzdialenosti, z 1500 štvorcových míľ – sedia rovno tu.“ No, neviem, kde bude na zemi stáť ten chrám, ale mám takú myšlienku, že ten chrám bude stáť rovno niekde tam, kde je dnešná Palestína. Pravdepodobne rovno tam bude vrchol tej hory. Bude sa to tam týčiť. Samozrejme, potom už nebude viac mora. Vidíte? Tento svet má obvod 25 000 míľ, a tak 1500 míľ nie je z toho veľmi veľká časť. Ale toto veľké mesto bude stáť na tomto vrchu o pôdoryse 1500 štvorcových míľ.

25        No, ten dôvod, prečo tomu verím, je to kvôli proroctvám a veciam, ktoré sa týkajú vrchu Sion v Jeruzaleme a tých mestách. A to je to, kde prorok Abrahám hľadal to mesto, ktorého Staviteľom a Tvorcom je Boh. On to mesto hľadal v tej krajine. Verím, že to bude tam v tej krajine.

26        Tá krajina, sotva ju dokážete nájsť na mape. Je to maličká bodka. A pozrite na takú krajinu, ako je Rusko a Spojené Štáty, Južná Amerika, a všetky tie miesta tam... Prečo bol Boh taký zaujatý tým miestom (Vidíte?), tým jedným miestom? To je otázka. Nemôžem to dokázať, ale pre mňa to jednoducho tak vyzerá. Ale kdekoľvek to je, sme nasmerovaní tým smerom, tak chvála Pánovi za to.

27        No, ak ste nadobudli dojem, že som povedal, že to bude okolo 1500 míľ okolo modlitebne, potom to bol nesprávny dojem (Vidíte?), pretože to tak nebolo. Táto modlitebňa má... Toto je len malé miesto, ktoré bude zničené. A svet bude spálený a s týmto všetkým bude koniec. A táto Indiana a Spojené Štáty a všetko sa jednoducho roztopí a roztečie ako vosk a nezostane z toho nič než láva. Vidíte? Všetok hriech, všetka choroba, všetky zárodky, úplne všetko bude zničené. „A videl som nové nebesia a novú zem, lebo prvá zem...“

28        Premýšľajte. Boh staval tento svet 6000 rokov, dával ho dokopy, formoval ho. Ako to urobil? Biblia povedala, „Učinil ho z vecí, ktoré sa nevidia;“ to znamená, že On stvoril zem. No, všimnite si, toto je nádherné. Práve ten Stvoriteľ, ktorý stvoril zem za určitým účelom (satan ju zanečistil), On prichádza dole, aby vykúpil to, čo tu zostalo. A On odišiel niekam inam a naďalej je vo Svojej stvoriteľskej práci.

29        No, zabralo Mu to 6000 rokov, aby vytvoril zem, a zaberie Mu to dva dni, aby stvoril mesto, ktoré príde na zem. On je... „V dome Môjho Otca je mnoho príbytkov: ak by to tak nebolo, povedal by som vám to. Idem, aby som pre vás pripravil miesto (postavil mesto z priehľadného zlata, ulice zo zlata).“ Čo za nádherné miesto.

 Kde to On zoženie? Je tam dosť materiálov na iných zemiach alebo mesiacoch a hviezdach a takých veciach? On to nemusí robiť. On je Stvoriteľ. On odišiel, aby postavil mesto. Amen. To je pre mňa dostatočne dobré, pre vás nie? Je to dobré. Pretože, ak On postavil toto a ja sa z tohto radujem, čo to potom bude, keď On postaví toto nové? Ó, čo za nádherná vec. A tak som šťastný, že smerujem do toho mesta. V poriadku. 

 326. Brat Branham, milujem Pána, ale za posledný rok som čelila určitému problému. Niekedy sa zdá, že som takmer pomimo svojej mysle. Čo to je? Prosím, modli sa za mňa a môjho manžela.

30        No, ak tu nie je žiadne... Ak by táto osoba bola na osobnom rozhovore, ako niektorí z vás, ktorí ste tam boli dnes ráno, tam by sa ukázalo presne, čo to je, čokoľvek to je. Rozumiete? Pán by zjavil, o čo ide. Ale teraz, keďže neviem, kto si, a nesedíš tu; je tam len povedané 'sestra v Kristovi'...

31        No, ak sa to týka niečoho takého, že si urobila nejakú zlú vec, ktorá ťa trápila, potom to skontroluj s Bibliou a uvidíš, čo musíš robiť. Ale ak si nič neurobila a nie si z ničoho obviňovaná, pravdepodobne ide o tvoje nervy. Rozumiete? Môže to byť viacero vecí, ktoré sa stali: možno nejaký problém v tvojej minulosti. Možno, že tu táto žena môže byť v období prechodu. Vtedy je s ňou všetko zle, a pritom s ňou nie je nič zle, a jednako je s ňou všetko zle. A ona to nepredstiera; naozaj sa tak cíti; je to ako skutočné. Ktokoľvek, kto je nervózny, je na tom takisto. A nikdy nesúhlasí.

32        A vy, manželia, čo sa týka vašich manželiek, ak sú v tom období života, ak ste ich niekedy – ak niekedy bola tvojím miláčikom, nech je ním práve vtedy, pretože ona ťa potrebuje. Naozaj potrebuje tvoju pomoc; potrebuje niekoho, kto jej pomôže a porozumie ju. Rozprávaj sa s ňou, vezmi ju do náručia, ako keď bola tvojím zlatíčkom, a ona by tým mala byť. A porozumej ju, pretože ona prechádza cez obdobie, keď sa mení celé jej ustrojenie, a vtedy k nej musíš byť dobrý.

33        Myslím, že tam pán Rockefeller urobil fatálnu chybu. Národ ho miloval, pravdepodobne by bol naším ďalším prezidentom. Ale keď jeho manželka prišla k obdobiu prechodu a vošla do toho obdobia prechodu, a on ju opustil a oženil sa so svojou sekretárkou, vidíte, čo sa stalo? To ukazuje, že ešte stále existujú nejakí skutoční, rozumne zmýšľajúci Američania.

 No, mám rád pána Goldwatera alebo pána [Brat Branham luskne prstami – pozn.prekl.] Rockefellera. On je... Mám rád aj pána Goldwatera; mám rád každého. Ale nechcem... Niektorí z vás – niektorí z mojich bratov republikánov, ktorí tam sedia, počuli ma to povedať, ja...

34        Pozrite, ale ja nie som politik; chcem byť kresťanom. Rozumiete? A toto nie je miesto na politiku. Rozumiete? Aj tak je už s celou tou vecou koniec, čo sa toho týka; ale toto, o čom tu hovoríme, to je večné. Demokrat alebo republikán... Ó, to je taký neporiadok; nikdy to nemôže byť vykúpené. Je s tým koniec, tak sa ohľadom toho nehádajte. To, o čo ide, je žiť pre toto Kráľovstvo. „Lebo tu nemáme žiadneho zostávajúceho mesta, ale hľadáme to, ktoré má prísť.“ Amen. To je pravda. Tak veru.

35        A tak, politika sa nachádza na jednej strane plotu a ja som na tej druhej. Povedal som, „Volil som raz; to bolo pre Krista; som si istý, že vyhrám.“ Je to tak. Vidíte? Dostaneš hlas. Rozumiete? Boh hlasoval za teba, satan hlasoval proti tebe. No, tým smerom, ktorým pošleš svoj hlas, to je to, kam pôjdeš.

36        No, teraz, verím, že táto osoba je len... Budem si myslieť, že to je len nervozita. Ak tam nie je nič, čo by ťa obviňovalo, tak pokračuj vpred a len povedz, „Choď odo mňa preč, satan!“ Len pokračuj ďalej vpred. Vezmi iniciatívu a ži pre Boha.       

        327. No. Existuje nejaká okolnosť keď je dovolené, aby sa niekto znova zosobášil po rozvode, podľa (No, budem vidieť, či to je... Myslím, že sú tam dve alebo tri otázky na túto tému.) podľa Písem? Ak nezostávam v manželstve z minulej doby – existujú nejaké dôvody pre rozvod, kde by bolo dovolené sa znova oženiť? Kúpim si pásku (Áno.), aby som dostal túto odpoveď. Veľmi pekne ti ďakujem. Budem na to očakávať v nedeľu.

37        No, teraz, o tomto som hovoril, vidíte. Ne... Dovoľte mi, nech to nechám tak (Rozumiete?), až kým sa nedostaneme do miesta, kde teraz – kde to bude všetko objasnené. A teraz, len pamätajte, to bude vtedy, ak Boh dá, ako náhle sa znova vrátim späť. Ten ďalší krát, keď prídem, ak Pán dá, budem kázať na tú tému. Rozumiete? A teraz... A potom, každopádne to nahráme na pásku. A ak to raní, tak to raní; ak to vyjasní tú vec, tak to vyjasní tú vec. Ale buďte dobrej mysle. Rozumiete?       

 328. Drahý brat Branham, je možné, aby niekto mal krst Duchom Svätým a nemal by znamenia, ktoré by nasledovali, teda aspoň nie do nejakého budúceho času a podmienok určených Duchom?

38        No, táto otázka môže znieť trocha zmätene, ale je dobrá, veľmi dobrá. Vidíte? No, tu dostávam malú šancu, keďže zisťujem, že to teraz pôsobí tu na moju rodinu (Rozumiete?), mám na mysli vás, moju rodinu, a rodinu, ktorá je po svete, kde idú tieto pásky.

39        No, veľká časť môjho zhromaždenia je tvorená letničnými ľuďmi a je to kvôli tomu, že letniční sú posledným posolstvom, ktoré máme v denominačných radoch. A čo sa týka mňa, iste s nimi súhlasím viac než s akoukoľvek inou denominačnou cirkvou. Som naklonený k letničným, pretože to je to posledné posolstvo. A všetci moji obrátení, ktorých privádzam ku Kristovi, snažím sa ich nasmerovať do nejakého letničného zboru. Ale odsúdil som ich každým spôsobom, ktorým som vedel, že sa zmýlili v Písme, čo sa týka toho, že sú denomináciou a nie sú ochotní kráčať vo Svetle, keď im je to Svetlo predstavené. Ale jednako, ak by som si dnes mal vybrať nejakú cirkev na svete, vybral by som si letničných, čo sa týka denominácie. Ale keď to prichádza ku jednotlivcom, ako muži a ženy, vo všetkých tých denomináciách sú skutoční kresťania: metodisti, baptisti, presbyteriáni, luteráni, a tak ďalej. Ale hovorím o tých systémoch, v ktorých sa tí ľudia nachádzajú; nikdy nie jednotlivec, ale systém, do ktorého títo ľudia zostali chytení vo svojej denominácii. Teraz to jasne porozumejte (Vidíte?), že si myslím, že ľudia... Či to je rímsky katolík, svedok Jehovov, ortodoxný žid, čímkoľvek sú, mne to je jedno; ale oni sú jednotlivci, za ktorých Kristus zomrel, aby ich spasil.

40        A teraz, ja... A čo sa týka súhlasu s ich systémami, v ktorých sú... Verím, že tam u baptistov je práve toľko kresťanov, ako je u metodistov alebo u presbyteriánov alebo kdekoľvek. Sú to kresťania, skutoční veriaci. A rovno v rímskokatolíckej cirkvi sú skutoční ľudia, ktorí sú ozajstnými mužmi a ženami, ktorí milujú Pána. A oni sa k tej cirkvi nepripájajú kvôli tomu, aby boli zlí; oni sa tam pripájajú, aby boli v poriadku. Ale to je tam ten systém, ktorý smeruje ich myseľ nesprávnym smerom. A ak by sa niekedy stalo, že by som vytvoril denomináciu, potom som vás zviedol a priviedol do systému; nech je to ďaleko odo mňa. A nech ma Boh zachová v správnej mysli, aby som vás smeroval ku Ježišovi Kristovi, ku Slovu. Zostaňte s Tým. Rozumiete?

41        Ale teraz, táto osoba sa tu pýta otázku ohľadom toho, či je možné, aby mal niekto krst Duchom Svätým bez toho, aby ich nasledovali znamenia. No, to by bolo... Ak si znovuzrodený, potom si – ak si najprv narodený ako ľudská bytosť a si normálnou ľudskou bytosťou... No, odpovedám na to naozaj detským spôsobom. Ale ak si sa narodil ako normálna ľudská bytosť, budeš skutočne robiť veci, ktoré robí normálna ľudská bytosť. Je to tak?

42        Keď sa narodíš ako človek, budú ťa nasledovať prirodzené ľudské vlastnosti. Nebudeš žiť na strome a snažiť sa lietať s krídlami ako vták alebo niečo také. To by nebola normálna ľudská bytosť, prirodzené konanie ľudskej bytosti. Normálne konanie ľudskej bytosti by bolo pracovať, zosobášiť sa, mať rodinu a robiť tieto veci. To sú prirodzené normálne ľudské bytosti, pretože ste sa tak narodili. Potom, keď sa narodíš ako kresťan, narodený z Ducha Božieho, potom prirodzene prijímaš atribúty Krista. Rozumiete?

43        No, ak by sme si to vzali dnes ráno pri tomto zhromaždení, pri vás ľuďoch, ktorí tu sedíte a počúvate deň za dňom to učenie, a tak ďalej, zistili by ste, že sa jeden od druhého líšite, pretože ste odlišní. Ste odlišne utvorení; váš apetít je odlišný; jete odlišne; ale všetci z vás jedia jedlo. Ale teraz, len z... Jedna osobitná bytosť práve taká ako druhá, a navzájom sa od seba líšite. Pri kresťanoch je to takisto. Nemôžete povedať, „No, všetci...“ Všetci hovoria v jazykoch, všetci prorokujú, všetci robia... Vidíte?

44        Musíte si na tieto veci dávať pozor, pretože kresťan prijíma zvyky kresťana; a žijú ako kresťania. Ježiš povedal, „Tieto znamenia budú nasledovať tých, ktorí veria.“ Všimnite si: „V Mojom Mene budú vyháňať diablov; hadov budú brať alebo vypijú niečo smrtonosné; a budú hovoriť novými jazykmi.“ A tie veci jednoducho skutočne nasledujú kresťanov.

45        No, tá osoba tu napísala veľmi dobrú vec: „...alebo čakáme do nejakého budúceho času alebo podmienok určených Duchom Svätým?“ To sa mi páči. Vidíte? No, pochopili ste to? Keď to je určené Duchom Svätým... Boh určuje veci.

 A pri tomto, myslím, že ak by sa letniční ľudia snažili (ktorí počúvajú túto pásku), tak ma porozumiete, ak sa dostanete až sem, že prečo sa s vami nezhodujem ohľadom pretláčania tej myšlienky, že všetci musia hovoriť v jazykoch. Nemôžem vidieť, žeby to bolo správne, pretože to by bolo... Mám rád čerešňový koláč, ale nie je potrebné... A som ľudská bytosť. Ale nie je potrebné, aby som vám hovoril, „Ak nejedávaš čerešňový koláč, nie si ľudská bytosť.“ Vidíte? Ale jedenie čerešňového koláča je len jedným zo zvykov ľudskej bytosti. Rozumiete? Môžete so mnou ohľadom toho nesúhlasiť, ale je to pravda. No, jeden bude jesť toto a druhý bude jesť niečo iné.

46        No, Duch Svätý ustanovuje tieto úrady, ale keď sa snažíte donútiť sa do toho... Ak by som povedal, že musíte jesť čerešňový koláč, čo ak by vám čerešňový koláč spôsoboval vracanie? A jednako, vy by ste vracali a jednako by ste sa snažili jesť ten čerešňový koláč a vracali by ste a …?... Vidíte? Ubližujete si, a to je to, čo sa snažíte robiť, keď sa snažíte donútiť sa do toho, aby ste robili niečo, čo je v protiklade s Duchom. On má váš život ustanovený na určitú vec. Rozumiete tomu? Vidíte?

47        A ty, keď si naplnený Duchom, tu je jedno z najlepších znamení, o ktorom viem: si tak zamilovaný do Krista a veríš každému Slovu, ktoré On hovorí, že je to Pravda. Vidíte? To je dôkazom, že máš Ducha Svätého. A tvoj život je plný radosti, ó, a všetko je iné (Vidíte?), než ako to zvyklo byť. To je Duch Svätý.

48        No, tieto dary sú v Duchu Svätom. No, ak toto zhromaždenie, ktoré je tu dnes ráno, toto – jednoducho útulný zbor plný... (Preplnené miestnosti, iste, je to preplnené.) Ale v... Len... Neoznámil som, že budeme odpovedať na tieto otázky, ale títo ľudia jednoducho prišli. Všimnite si, ak by tu každá osoba bola dokonale v harmónii s Duchom Svätým, každý jeden z vás by bol naplnený Duchom Svätým a v harmónii s Duchom Svätým, tieto znamenia by jednoducho boli – po celý čas by sa to medzi vami množilo (Rozumiete?); jednoducho by to neustále pracovalo. Ale tam, kde je zmätok, kde sú rozdiely, a kde sme usadení, tam sa Duch Svätý nemôže pohybovať. Rozumiete? Nemôže pracovať cez ľudí. Vidíte?

49        A tam, ak by som povedal, „No, každý jeden z vás, hovorili ste v jazykoch?“

 „Áno.“

 „No, potom To máte.“

 „Hovorili ste v jazykoch?“

 „Nie.“

50        „Potom To nemáte.“ No, vtedy zo seba robím sudcu. Boh je Sudcom týchto vecí.

51        Ale sledujte, Ježiš povedal, „Tieto znamenia ich budú nasledovať.“ Vidíte? Tie skupiny, ktoré veria, celá prirodzenosť Ducha Svätého prúdi cez nich a všetci sú plní lásky a radosti a je to jednoducho jeden veľký zväzok skutočne božsky naplnených ľudí. Vidíte? To je Duch Svätý. A pri tomto, oni hovoria v jazykoch pri príležitosti, keď povstanú jazyky, no, alebo keď to je potrebné, tak hovoria v jazykoch. A ak je tam proroctvo, tak sa to hovorí. Ó, a je to jednoducho po celý čas dokonalé.

52        Opýtajte sa tých pätnástich alebo dvadsiatich ľudí, ktorí prišli dnes ráno na rozhovor, či tam bolo nejakým spôsobom nesprávne povedané jediné slovo – a úplne neznámi... Čo – Duch Svätý to tam vykopal a ukázal tie veci a jasne ich odhalil a povedal o nich. Vidíte? V tom nie sú žiadne chyby. Povedal im úplne presne, čo bolo toto a čo bolo tamto, a čím je toto a čo má byť urobené s tamtým, a takéto veci, a to, čo urobili a čo by mali urobiť. Vidíte? To je jednoducho... Jasne to usporiadal. Teraz musia na základe toho konať.

53        Minulý večer som sa rozprával s jedným párom a bol som doma, kde sme mali zhromaždenie, alebo skôr sme len tak sedeli okolo stola a rozprávali sme sa. A zrazu medzi nás náhle zostúpil Duch Svätý a niekomu som tam povedal, „Videl som určitého muža, a oni – on bol zmätený v mysli ohľadom nejakých vecí,“ a povedal som, „akoby v zmätku – v tom rozpoznaní.“ Povedal som, „No, teraz je to rovno tu.“ Povedal som, „Viem, čo si myslíš.“ A išiel som rovno dozadu a jednoducho som to vzal zoširoka a odpovedal som mu na každú otázku, ktorú mal ten človek v mysli – on... Nikto okrem neho ani nevedel, o čom hovorím. Vidíte? Ale on to porozumel. On vedel, o čom to celé bolo. Rozumiete? A čo to pre neho urobilo? To mu ukázalo, potvrdilo mu to, že Duch Svätý mi zjavil to, čo mal vo svojej mysli. Vidíte? A ostatným z nich som o tom nemusel hovoriť. Ten človek ma práve teraz počúva. No, je to pravda. No, vidíte, ako to je? To je potvrdenie.

54        No, ak by celý zbor pracoval v takejto harmónii, potom by sme medzi nami vyháňali diablov, brali hadov, pili smrtonosné veci, diali by sa všetky možné veci. Ale keď sa to snažíte nanútiť jednotlivcom, potom sa dostávate... To je znova letničné. Potom máte z toho Babylon, zamiešanie. Nemôžete to súdiť. Vidíte? Naše srdcia sú plné radosti a šťastia, ó, a vtáci spievajú... Všetko je nádherné, ó, jednoducho plní Ducha Božieho a sme tak zamilovaní do Ježiša, chceme sa modliť po celú noc.

55        No, nechcel by som tento zástup uviesť do rozpakov, dokonca ani samého seba. Ale zaujímalo by ma, či by som sa dnes ráno mohol opýtať, kto v tomto zástupe, alebo títo ľudia, ktorí prijali Ducha Svätého, pravdepodobne by 95 percent z vás zodvihlo ruky, že ste prijali Ducha Svätého. Potom by som sa otočil a dal by som vám biblický dôkaz – len jeden biblický dôkaz; a pochybujem o tom, že by sa zdvihla jedna alebo dve ruky. Rozumiete? Mohol by som len – jednoducho to zviazať do takého miesta, ale keď to robíte (Vidíte?), tak tiež raníte svoje zhromaždenie. Ale musíte ich dostať z toho detského stavu a dostať ich do stavu dospelosti. Rozumiete?

56        Ako tam minule niekto napísal tú otázku, bolo to tu, bolo tam povedané niečo o bratovi Juniorovi Jacksonovi. Niekto tam išiel a oni mu povedali, „Ty chodíš k tým 'mŕtvym makoviciam,'“ alebo niečo také. Brat Jackson... Pretože zhromaždenie brata Jacksona, oni im dovolia, aby hovorili v jazykoch priamo v zbore. Kedykoľvek pocítia Ducha a chcú hovoriť v jazykoch, tak idú a robia to. No, to je zbor brata Jacksona. To je úplne v poriadku. Nemám proti tomu nič, vôbec nič. Junior Jackson je jeden z mojich najlepších priateľov, a je to skutočne zbožný muž, naplnený Duchom Božím, a sme bratia. No, on nemusí jesť môj čerešňový koláč, ja môžem... Alebo ja nemusím jesť jeho jablčný koláč (Rozumiete?), ale obaja jeme koláč. Obaja úplne veríme tomuto Posolstvu. To je poriadok zboru. Povedal som, „Chcem, aby sa môj zbor snažil zísť spolu...“ Povedal som... Keď sme sa tu začali prelamovať, Duch Svätý hovoril v jazykoch, a tak ďalej, povedal som... Niekto mi povedal a riekol, „No, brat Branham, je to všetko pravé?“

57        Povedal som, „Nie som sudcom.“ Povedal som, „Poviem vám, čo robiť, podrobme to skúške. Nechajme to chvíľu tak ísť a podrobme to skúške, až kým to nebude postavené pred Slovo. Potom to pozorujte. Ak to je Duch Svätý, potom to pasuje rovno so Slovom; ak nepasuje, tak nie je.“ Vidíte? To je ten jediný spôsob, ako to môžete rozpoznať; potom sa to posúdi samé. Vidíte? No, ak to nie je Duch Svätý, tak to odletí, praskne to. Rozumiete? Ale ak to je Duch Svätý, potom to bude pokorne nasledovať tú jednu líniu, pretože to je to, čo to je; to je Duch Svätý, ktorý ide rovno podľa Svojho vlastného poriadku.

58        No, pri tomto hovorení v jazykoch, a tak ďalej, prajem si, aby každý jeden z vás hovoril v jazykoch. Iste to tak je. A mnohokrát, dobrí kresťania...

59        Vidíte, ak by som vám povedal, že to bolo na programe... Našiel som niekoho.. Nie na programe, prepáčte mi – bolo to dnes ráno pri tých rozhovoroch. Nejaká osoba (Predpokladám, že stále je tu v tejto budove.), oni... Týkalo sa to hovorenia v jazykoch... Tá osoba je opravdivou osobou, skutočnou osobou, a žila správne. A počula ma hovoriť o tom, že hovorenie v jazykoch nie je dôkazom Ducha Svätého – a ono ním nie je – ale poradil som tej osobe, aby prosila Boha, aby jej dal buď hovoriť v jazykoch alebo prorokovať, pretože to je prirodzenosť.

60        Tá prvá vec, išiel som k tej osobe a zistil som miesto jej narodenia a pod akým znamením bola narodená, a mohol som jej povedať, čo znamená jej narodenie. Akým spôsobom to bolo u nej stanovené v tej prirodzenej povahe, a to ju stavia do určitej línie. Potom, keď je znovuzrodená, nachádza sa tu v inej prirodzenosti. A potom, keď sa dostanete do tejto prirodzenosti, to je to vnútro, vo svedomí, vnútorné svedomie... To vonkajšie svedomie vás posúva jedným smerom; to je vaše prirodzené narodenie. Potom niečo urobia a čo to s nimi urobí? Nemôžu sa zorientovať a vrhne ich to do rozpolteného stavu. Nevedia, čo robiť. Povedia, „Pán chce, aby som robil toto...“

61        Ten vnútrajšok, „Ó, jednoducho viem, že to pasuje rovno s Písmom.“ A začnú to robiť a prvé čo zistíte, satan im na tomto vonkajšom ukáže všetky druhy nedostatkov. A potom povedia, „No, myslím, že som...“ Vidíte? Počúvajú satana. Vidíte? Musíte vziať to niečo vnútorné, to, čo je vo vašom vnútri a čo je podľa Písma. A nenechajte nikde stáť satana. To je jeho povinnosťou, aby tam stál a takto na vás búšil. Ale nepočúvajte ho.

62        Ale tá osoba, ja som jej povedal... Povedala, „No, ak by som si len bola istá, že mám Ducha Svätého.“ Vidíte? Skvelá osoba, skutočne oddaná osoba s Duchom Svätým, ale bolo by pre ňu dobré, aby mohla povedať, „Otče, daj mi toto, aby som sa na niečo mohla postaviť.“

63        No, ak by som to takto vyučoval, ľudia by sa načahovali a uchopili by to bez toho, že by mali to, čo mala tá osoba. Vidíte? Duch Svätý hovorí v jazykoch, ale najprv musíte mať Ducha Svätého, skôr, než môžete hovoriť v jazykoch. Teraz ste to pochopili? Tak, ak sa načiahnete a uchopíte ten dar hovorenia v jazykoch bez toho, že by...

64        No, pamätajte, to môže byť pravý dar; mohol by to byť Duch Svätý, ktorý by vo vás hovoril v neznámych jazykoch, a jednako by ste boli stratení a išli do pekla. Biblia tak povedala. Veríte tomu? Chceli by ste na to miesto Písma? Ak chcete miesto Písma, zodvihnite ruku. „Keby som hovoril jazykmi ľudskými aj anjelskými (Je to tak? V oboch, aj v tých, ktoré sa dajú rozumieť; a aj v tých, ktoré sa nedajú rozumieť, pravé jazyky Ducha Svätého), nie som ničím.“ Vidíte? Pokiaľ s tým nejde aj tá druhá vec. Môžete mať tamto (Vidíte?), a tak sa za tým nenačahujte bez toho, že by ste mali toto. Najprv prijmite toto a potom to tamto bude nasledovať.

65        No, dážď padá na spravodlivých aj nespravodlivých. Slnko svieti na prevrátených aj na dobrých. Dážď padá, aby dal dozretie úrode; ale taktiež dáva dozretie burine: ten istý dážď. Duch Svätý môže padnúť na skupinu ľudí a hovoria v jazykoch a bude to úplne pravdivé, roznesie sa to medzi ľudí a spôsobí to, že tam bude prorokovanie a bude to úplne pravdivé. Presne tak.

66        Niekedy môžete ísť za čarodejnicou alebo za nejakým médiom a oni vám povedia niečo, čo je úplná pravda. Pozrite na tú čarodejnicu z Endoru. Saul... Mohla by to byť úplná pravda; jednako to nie je to. Oni sú čarodejnice. Hovoria v jazykoch; videl som diablov hovoriť v jazykoch a písať v neznámych jazykoch. To nič neznamená. Ale tou skutočnou vecou je znovu Slovo. Naspäť ku tomu Slovu.

67        Tak vy tieto veci môžete robiť bez Slova. Ale keď máte Slovo a Ono to koná, potom sledujte, ako sa to presne vyplní, presne tá správna vec. Vidíte? Potom ste presne v jednej línii.

68        Áno, Duch Svätý si týchto ľudí používa tak, ako je určené podľa Jeho vlastnej Božskej múdrosti. Ale tá prvá vec...

69        No, čo? Dovoľte, nech vám to podám trochu z druhej strany. Opýtal by som sa, „Koľkí z vás majú Ducha Svätého? Zodvihnite všetci ruky.“ Povedal by som, „V poriadku, presvedčím sa, či Ho máte.“ Biblia povedala, že tí, ktorí mali Ducha Svätého, vzdychali a volali dňom i nocou pre ohavnosti, ktoré sa diali v meste. Nuž, koľko rúk by sa zodvihlo? Koľkí z vás nenachádzajú odpočinutie v noci, ste tak plní radosti a moci Božej, a tak skľúčení kvôli ľuďom, ktorí sú stratení, že dňom i nocou plačete a voláte kvôli tým ohavnostiam? Nebudete... Vidíte? Kto by bol taký v tomto meste? Koľko je takých v zbore? Podľa toho, čo hovorí Biblia, to bol dôkaz Ducha Svätého.

70        On povedal tým pečatiacim Anjelom (Ezechiel 9; je to tak), On povedal, „Vezmite... Prejdite mestom a označte znamením tých, ktorí vzdychajú a plačú nad ohavnosťami, ktoré sa dejú v meste. A tých ostatných, nech ich ten anjel skazy pobije.“ Je jedno, koľko majú členov a koľko vecí urobili. Povedal, „Umiestni...“ A muž, ktorý mal kalamár pisára, oblečený v bielom (čo reprezentovalo Ducha Svätého), vyšiel a poznačil všetkých, ktorí vzdychali a volali kvôli ohavnostiam, ktoré sa páchali v meste. No, poviete... A sledujte, čo tam takisto povedal, „Úplne ich vyhlaďte, malé deti, staré ženy, nemluvňatá, zabite ich všetkých.“ Malé deti? Áno.

71        Keď Józue vošiel do Kananejskej zeme, povedal, „Nenechajte nikoho z nich nažive. Pokiaľ je to rozkošné, malé nemluvňa, malý Amalech alebo Amorejec, zabite ich. Pamätajte, on vyrastie a bude Amalechom, poškvrní tábor.“ A keď sa tieto malé veci vracajú, ako ten nesúhlas s Božím Slovom, zbavte sa tých vecí. Je mi jedno, akej denominácii to patrí.

72        Hovoríte, „No, oni sú dobrí.“ Je mi jedno, akými dobrými ľuďmi oni sú. Pokiaľ sú proti tomu Slovu, zbavte sa tých vecí. To je rastúci malý Amalech. Vyzerá rozkošne, vyzerá nevinne; vyzerá, akože je všetko v poriadku, ale vy s tým nemajte nič spoločné. Držte sa od toho preč.

73        „Dobre, brat Branham, pôjdem sem dolu, pretože ja ne…“ Iba si zapamätajte, každý Amalech, všetko, čo popiera Slovo, držte sa od toho preč; nemajte s tým vôbec nič spoločné. Koľkí veria, že je to pravda? Samozrejme, že je. Vidíte? Držte sa od toho preč.

74        Kto vzdychá a narieka kvôli ohavnostiam, ktoré sa páchajú v meste. Kde to vidíte? Môžem vám ukázať desať tisíc hovoriacich v jazykoch na jedného, ktorý má skutočne bremeno kvôli hriechom... Oni sa nedokážu modliť ani hodinu. Ale viete o tom, že Biblia povedala, aby poznačil iba tých, ktorí vzdychajú a nariekajú kvôli ohavnostiam v meste? Koľkí z vás to niekedy čítali? Iste. To bol Duch Svätý, ktorý vyšiel, aby označil ľudí, a povedal anjelovi zhubcovi, „Vyjdi a pobi všetko, na čom nie je toto znamenie.“ A Božím znamením je Duch Svätý; je Pečať Božia.

75        No, kde sú tí ľudia, ktorí sú tak zainteresovaní? Môžem vám ukázať ľudí, ktorí vyskakujú hore a dole a vykrikujú v zbore; môžem vám ukázať ľudí, ktorí vykrikujú a pobehujú cez celú budovu; môžem vám ukázať ľudí, ktorí prorokujú a tie veci sa stanú; môžem vám ukázať tých, ktorí hovoria v jazykoch a behajú hore a dole cez budovy a hovoria veci, ktoré sa skutočne vyložia a stane sa to; ale kde je tá osoba, ktorá vzdychá a narieka kvôli ohavnostiam, ktoré sa dejú v meste? Kde je tá duša, ktorá má takéto bremeno? Ohľadom tohto by ste mohli obracať nejaké nové strany. Rozumiete, čo tým myslím?

76        No, snažil som sa k vám ľuďom hovoriť najlepšie, ako som vedel, a viesť vás, ako by otec viedol svoje deti. Ste mojimi deťmi; splodil som vás pre Krista skrze toto Evanjelium, ktoré kážem. Rozumiete? A chcem z vás vychovať plne dospelé deti. A jedného dňa vás chcem oddať Kristovi, ako to povedal Pavol, „Čistú Pannu.“ Nie je v tom Slove ani jedna vec, ktorú by vaše srdce nepotvrdilo s tým 'Amen.'

77        Hriech nemá... Samozrejme, že urobíte nesprávne veci, ale keď niečo, hneď prvá vec vás odsudzuje, „Otče, odpusť mi.“

78        Poviem toto. Pred chvíľou som sa práve pozrel na istého človeka. On sa ma nedávno pýtal na jedného milého chlapca. Boli sme poľovať na veveričky. Toho rána som ich ulovil päť a jednu som si nechal na popoludnie. V štáte Kentucky môžeš uloviť iba šesť kusov denne, taký majú limit. A ten dotyčný človek povedal, „Ja som ulovil deväť kusov.“ Kresťanský chlapec, milý mladík.

 Povedal som mu, „Nezachoval si sa dobre. Urobil si zle.“

 On povedal, „Nuž…“

79        Povedal som, „Ja som dnes ráno ulovil päť a jednu som si nechal na odpoludnie. A keď som ulovil tú jednu veveričku, pozrel som sa na strom a narátal som päť alebo šesť veveričiek, ktoré tam sedeli, a mohol som ich vidieť, ale odišiel som a nechal ich na pokoji.“ A povedal som, „Nedávno som tadiaľto prechádzal a prišiel som ku stromu, kde sedelo pätnásť až dvadsať veveričiek. Ulovil som len limit, ostatné som nechal tak a odišiel.“ Ďalej som povedal, „Ak prichádzam do tohto kraja a budem vám, mládencom, kázať a rovnako všetkým ostatným ľuďom to, čo je správne, musím žiť tým príkladom.“ V kresťanstve nezáleží na tom, čo hovoríš; ale záleží na tom, akým životom žiješ, čo robíš; musíš byť vzorom. Ste soľou zeme. Povedal som, „Potom, zákon hovorí... Ježiš povedal, 'Dávajte cisárovi, čo je cisárovo.' Pokiaľ prekročíš obmedzenú rýchlosť jazdy na ceste, čo robíš? Robíš zle, hrešíš. 'Dávaj cisárovi, čo je cisárovo, a Bohu to, čo je Božie.'“

80        Povieš, „No, zákony sú zlé.“ S tým nemôžem nič urobiť. Porušovať Ježišovo prikázanie je zlé. A ak nedáš cisárovi to, čo je cisárovo, vtedy robíš to, čo ti Ježiš zakázal robiť, a porušovanie zákona je hriech. Nie je to pravda?

81        Všetci sme vinní; robíme to. Ale ak na sebe vidíš, že robíš zlé, prestaň to robiť. Ľudia ťa pozorujú; ľudia nepôjdu do zboru, ale budú čítať teba, pozerajú sa na to, čo robíš.

82        Tak vezmi Krista do svojho srdca; to je skutočné… Kristus a Duch Svätý je to isté. Duch Svätý, “Kristus” znamená “Ten Pomazaný.” A Duch Svätý je to Pomazanie a ty si ten, ktorý je pomazaný. Vidíte? A to je Kristus v tebe, ktorý ťa pomazáva. Rozumiete, čo tým myslím?

83        Potom máš tú správnu vec. Potom ťa On môže použiť, v čomkoľvek ťa chce použiť, pretože si v Tele a si poddaný ktorémukoľvek z tých darov. Ale vidíte, mať jeden z tých darov pomimo Tela, to ti neurobí nič dobrého. „Hoci by som hovoril ľudskými a anjelskými jazykmi, nemal lásky, nič mi to neosoží. Hoci by som mal vieru a dokázal rozumieť všetky tajomstvá Božie, nič mi to neosoží. Hoci by som dal svoje telo ako zápalnú obeť, rozdal všetok svoj majetok chudobným, hoci by som mal vieru, že by som hýbal vrchmi, nie som ničím.” Vidíte? Nebuďte závislí na tých veciach. Duch Svätý je Bytosť; to je Boh, Boh v tebe, Osoba, Boh, ktorý rozsvietil celú tvoju bytosť. Si zmenený; si novým stvorením. Akákoľvek malá vec, ktorá je zlá, On ti povie, že to je zlé, potom prestaň; nerob to. „Otče, nechcel som to urobiť, odpusť mi.” Vidíte? A to je Duch Svätý.

84        Nestarám sa o to, ako veľmi si hovoril v jazykoch, ako veľmi si behal, ako veľmi si vyskakoval, ako veľmi si robil toto, to alebo tamto (Rozumiete?), čokoľvek si robil, nič by to neznamenalo, ak by tam vo vnútri nebol Duch Svätý, ktorý by ťa odsudzoval, čo sa týka dobrých a zlých vecí.

85        No, to je dôvod, prečo tu táto osoba má pravdu. Nech to urobí Duch Svätý. Ale teraz (Rozumiete?), no, to, čo spôsobuje toto... Dovoľte mi, nech to poviem s láskou, pokropené láskou a pomazané Slovom. Rozumiete? Ak by v tebe bol skutočný Duch Svätý, nemal by si o tom pochybnosti. Vieš to sám v sebe; je to individuálna vec medzi tebou a Bohom. Vidíte? Ty vieš, že sa niečo stalo; vieš, že tam nastala zmena, ak je tam čokoľvek; ale ty sám, ty si sa zmenil. Vidíte? Ty si ten, ktorý prešiel zmenou, tvoj vnútrajšok, a vieš, že to máš. Či si hovoril v jazykoch, či si vyskakoval, vykrikoval alebo čokoľvek iné, ty vieš, že v tebe žije Boh, že nechodíš podľa svojej vlastnej mysle; to je myseľ Kristova, ktorá ťa vedie s tým Slovom, presne tým smerom, ako Ono ide.

86        No, ale ja by som... Ak ľudia povedia, „No dobre, brat Branham, neveríš tomu, že by sme mali hovoriť v jazykoch?“ Vidíte? Potom ste úplne neporozumeli to, čo som práve hovoril. Samozrejme, že verím, že by ste mali hovoriť v jazykoch. A niektorí z vás ľudí... Vidíte? Ale vy máte toto a ja mám toto, ako tam vtedy ohľadom týchto 1500 míľ (Vidíte?), že to má byť okolo tejto modlitebne. Jednoducho, ak tomu nerozumiete, potom sa ma opýtajte. Vidíte? Ak niečomu nerozumiete, tak mi ohľadom toho napíšte. Hovorte len to, čo tu hovorím. Rozumiete? A ja... A vy... Ako povedal Pavol, „Nasledujte ma, ako ja nasledujem Krista.“ Rozumiete? Potom, ak uvidíte, že sa mýlim, potom odo mňa odíďte (Vidíte? To je všetko.), pretože by som bol nesprávnym človekom. Rozumiete?

        329. Prosím, objasni. Ľudia hovoria, že brat Branham je viac než človek; dokáže stvoriť veci a Ježiš môže vyzerať práve tak ako brat Branham.

87        No, dovoľte mi... Tá osoba, ktorá toto povedala, ktokoľvek to môže byť, neviem. Ale ja som váš brat. Rozumiete? Ježiš je vaším Spasiteľom. Ja nemôžem byť váš Spasiteľ, pretože On vás už spasil. No, ten, kto to povedal, si tu veľmi blízko pravdy, ale jednako tak veľmi ďaleko od pravdy. No, to je len – zdá sa mi to ako ženský rukopis, veľmi krásny rukopis. A povedal by som, že to je ženský rukopis, vy nie? Brat Capps, nemyslel by si si, že to bol ženský rukopis? Pekný rukopis. A neviem, kto to je. Vidíte?

88        No, „Brat Branham, mohol by Ježiš vyzerať ako ty, alebo ty si Ježišom, alebo niečo také?“ V jednom zmysle slova je to úplná pravda; v inom zmysle slova je to antikrist. To je rozdiel medzi správnym a nesprávnym. Robiť zo mňa Osobu Pána Ježiša Krista, to by som bol antikrist (Rozumiete?), lebo tá Osoba Pána Ježiša sedí po pravici Majestátu na výsostiach a znova sa vráti vo veľkej moci a sláve. Ale čo sa týka Jeho Života, ktorý bol v Ňom, že ten je na mne a na vás, ktorí Ho máte – to je úplná pravda; a stávate sa Kristom.

89        Pamätáte sa na moje posolstvo o malých Mesiášoch? Vidíte? Vy ste... Slovo “Mesiáš“ znamená “Ten Pomazaný.“ No, vy ste, ak máte Ducha Svätého, stávate sa “tým pomazaným.“ Vidíte? A potom, je mnoho rôznych “pomazaných ľudí.“

90        No, dávajte pozor, či je to biblicky pomazaný človek... Mnohí z nich sú pomazaní... Rozumiete? Celá tá vec je v tak veľkom zlepenci všetkých možných druhov zamiešania; a satan vošiel do vnútra so všetkou svojou prefíkanosťou a napodobnil to do bodky, takmer do bodky. Existuje iba jeden spôsob, ako si môžete byť absolútne istí; kontrolovať to Slovo za Slovom, Slovo za Slovom. To je ten jediný spôsob, ako to dokážete urobiť.

91 Ale čo sa týka mňa ako osoby, Williama Branhama, alebo ktoréhokoľvek iného muža či ženy, že by niekto bol Pánom Ježišom Kristom, naším Spasiteľom, to je nesprávne. Ale byť pomazaný Jeho Duchom, čo privádza do teba Jeho vlastnú Osobu Jeho Života...

92        Bolo to tak nádherne ukázané v predobraze pri Eliášovi a Elizeovi; keď bol Eliáš vzatý hore, ten starý prorok, išiel domov... A bol unavený a vyčerpaný; a tam za riekou bol zapriahnutý voz, aby ho vzal hore domov s ohnivými koňmi. A všimli ste si, že potom, keď Eliáš a Elizeus prekročili tú rieku (škola prorokov bola tam hore a pozorovali ich) a Eliáš si vzal svoj plášť a udrel rieku, a keď to urobil, ona sa rozdelila a on prešiel na druhú stranu. A povedal tomuto mladému prorokovi, „Prečo ma nasleduješ? Čo – čo si praješ?“

 On povedal, „Aby dvojitá porcia tvojho Ducha prišla na mňa.“

93        „Aby na mňa prišla dvojitá porcia toho mocného proroka?“ Povedal, „Prosil si o ťažkú vec; ale ak ma uvidíš, keď budem odchádzať, potom to na teba príde.“ Tak si dokážete predstaviť, ako sledoval toho proroka.

94        No, v tom dni ten prorok bol Slovom, pretože bol manifestáciou Slova pre svet. Rozumiete? A on vedel, že má prísť väčšia služba, pretože vyžadovala väčšiu vec. A keď bol Ježiš tu na zemi, On bol Eliášom. „Tieto veci, ktoré Ja činím, vy tiež budete činiť; väčšie než tieto budete činiť, pretože Ja idem k Môjmu Otcovi.“ No, ako to budete robiť? Sledujte Ho. Kto On je? Slovo. Vidíte? Sledujte Jeho.

95        No, keď to prichádza ku stvoreniu vecí, to je pravda. Ježiš nikdy nič priamo nestvoril a nepriviedol do existencie. On vzal najprv určitý materiál. Vzal vodu, učinil víno. Vzal chlieb a učinil viac chleba. Vzal rybu a učinil viac rýb. Ale On zasľúbil, že sa budú diať väčšie veci než to. Vidíte? Rozumiete? No, prečo? To sa deje v oveľa horšom dni, ako keď On bol tu. Vidíte? Stále to je On, ale používa tvoj príbytok. Rozumiete?

96        A táto osoba, ktorá je v tebe, čo je tvoje narodenie... Ty si John Doe; narodil si sa v určitom mesiaci a narodil si sa pod určitou hviezdou; narodil si sa pod určitou vecou a to s tebou má niečo dočinenia. Istotne má.

97        Viem, že som zvykol... Ocko zvykol hovorievať, „V tomto čase nemôžem sadiť tie zemiaky, pretože mesiac nie je na tom správne. Nemôžeš sadiť tie zemiaky, Billy.“

98        A povedal som, „Nesadím ich na mesiac; sadím ich sem do zeme.“

 Povedal, „V poriadku, ty chytrák, len si choď. Dostaneš pár úderov po hlave a niečomu sa naučíš.“ Stalo sa tak. Bolo to tak.

99        Poviem vám: vezmite dosku a položte ju tam na trávu, keď je nov-mesiac [keď nesvieti – pozn.prekl.] a sledujte, čo sa stane. Tá tráva ihneď zahynie. Položte to na svetlo mesiaca; môžete to tam nechať položené týždeň; vôbec to neublíži.

100        Pozorujte more, keď sa tam v diaľke mení mesiac. Keď príliv – keď vyjde mesiac, príliv ho nasleduje, a on je milióny míľ od zeme. Nie len to, choďte sem dole do štátu Kentucky a zapichnite do zeme tyč, až sa dostanete ku slanej vode; a pozorujte tú trúbku, ako hlboko to je, keď je mesiac – keď je príliv, a pozorujte, ako to ide, rovno pod zemou. Istotne.

101        Zasaďte niečo, čo sa rozrastá na povrchu zeme. Keď je nov-mesiac, sledujte, ako to pôjde dole a bude to ako reďkovka alebo repa. Zasaďte to tým iným spôsobom a sledujte, ako sa to bude rozrastať po povrchu zeme. Iste, nejako to s tým súvisí.

102        Prečo mal Áron na svojom náprsníku kameň narodenia každého jedného z tých patriarchov? Pozrite na tie matky, keď vypovedali tie slová. Keď tie matky a tie hebrejské ženy pri pôrode vypovedali určité slová ku tým deťom, ktoré sa rodili, to umiestnilo ich meno; to hovorilo o ich narodení; to ich umiestnilo do tej domoviny; a umiestnilo ich to vo večnosti.

103        V jednom z týchto dní, keď sa vrátim a nejaký čas tu zostanem, chcel by som vziať tú tému. Presne tak. A potom sledujte Jákoba, keď tam zomieral, keď položil ruky na tých patriarchov a požehnal ich, on presne hovoril, kde budú. A to je presne podľa ich mien a presne podľa ich narodenia. A, samozrejme, to má s vami niečo spoločné.

104        No, to je cesta vášho narodenia; to je to, čím ste, prirodzený muž alebo prirodzená žena. Ale keď sa znovuzrodíš, to nie je vonkajšie vedomie. Ten vonkajšok, to je to, čo vidíš, chutnáš, cítiš, voniaš, a počuješ, ale ten vnútrajšok toho – to je to, čím skutočne si. No, toto vonkajšie, satan ťa jednoducho pokúša a udiera tu na teba z každej strany; ale tam dole to nemôže urobiť, pokiaľ mu to nedovolíš. Pretože tu vo vnútri máš vieru a viera nepochádza z toho vonkajšieho vedomia, ono rozumuje. Ale vo viere nie je žiadneho rozumovania. Máš ju od Boha a vieš, že to tam je. Nestarám sa o to, ako veľmi to vyzerá zle, ty stále vieš, že to je dobre; to je TAK HOVORÍ PÁN. Vidíte? A to si z ničoho nebude robiť starosti. Nič to nemôže zastrašiť; to sa hýbe rovno vpred. Prekážky pre to nič neznamenajú; prebrodí sa to rovno cez ne, pretože to je Slovo. A Slovo je Meč a Slovo seká. Ten Meč sa preseká na slobodu zo všetkého. Rozumiete? Je potrebná ruka viery, aby držala to Slovo. Tá viera musí byť...

105        Teraz sa pozrite, keď to vnútorné vedomie... Tu je ten vnútrajšok; tu je ten vonkajšok. Tu vo vnútri je zjavená Pravda; tu vonku je argumentovanie. No, nevyzeralo by to rozumne, keby sme len povedali, „Poďme všetci jednoducho sem a pripojme sa ku Zhromaždeniam“? No, mám rád Zhromaždenia Božie; mám rád jednotárov; mám rád všetky tie cirkvi. „Prečo všetci jednoducho nejdeme a nepripojíme sa k nim, možno to bude na dobré.“ To je argumentovanie; ten vonkajšok. Ale dole vo vnútri, pozorujte to; keď sa tam pozriete, toto nebude súhlasiť, pozrite sa potom na Zhromaždenia. Mnohé veci, ktoré robia, myslím, že nie sú podľa Písma, a môžem im dokázať, že to nie je podľa Písma. A je tam v tom zamotaných tak mnoho myslí. Sú tam tisíce tých bratov a sestier zo Zhromaždení, ktorí veria tomuto Slovu, a neveria, že to, čo učia Zhromaždenia, je správne. Ale oni sú chytení v sieti.

106        Baptisti, presbyteriáni, jednotári a všetci ostatní, oni sú v tej sieti, kde sa zhromažďuje skupina ľudí a oni o tom argumentujú. A je tam tak mnoho ľudskej prestíže. Sedí tu nejaký biskup, generálny dozorca; on niečo povie, a čo povie tento malý chlapík tu? On sa bojí niečo povedať. „Súhlasím s tebou. Áno, je to v poriadku. Ehm. Áno, biskup alebo presbyter, je to presne tak.” On s ním súhlasí.

107        Aha, vezmime alkoholika na ulici, nejaký rádový občan ide dolu ulicou a hovorí, „Ten starý vandrák, nič na ňom nie je.” Priveďte ho tu dolu, urobte z neho policajta a dajte mu odznak a pištoľ. „Dobré ráno, Janko, je to tak milé znovu ťa stretnúť.” Vidíte. Prejavujú jeden druhému rešpekt.

108        Ježiš povedal, „Ako môžete mať vieru, keď máte rešpekt tohto druhu,” viete, vyžadujete... rešpektujete niekoho (Neviem teraz presne, aké je tam slovo.) – keď túžite po chvále jeden od druhého. Vidíte? Nemôžete to robiť.

109        A keď sa ľudia zhromažďujú v nejakej organizácii, oni si sadnú; a ten malý chlapík sa obáva niečo povedať, pretože biskup tak povedal, presbyter tak povedal. Ale neznevažujte toho človeka, verte, že je dobrým človekom; ale vždy pamätajte, Božie Slovo je pravda a všetko, čo je proti nemu, je nesprávne. „Nech je Moje Slovo pravdou a každé ľudské slovo lžou.” Rozumiete tomu? To je to, čo chceme robiť, veriť Tomu.

110        Nuž, pamätajte, my nie sme Slovo, ale my sme Slovo. Porozumeli ste tomu? Ježiš nebol Boh, ale On bol Boh. On bol človek, jednako On bol Boh. On mohol plakať a jednako mohol kriesiť mŕtvych. On mohol plakať za človekom, ktorý bol mŕtvy, a znovu ho vzkriesiť. On bol Jehova-Jireh, Jehova-Rafa, Jehova-Manasses; On bol Jehova, úplne, kompletne. On bol Jehova, a jednako bol Človek. On vlastnil zem a stvoril zem a nemal miesto, kde by zložil Svoju hlavu. Povedal, „Vtáky, ktoré som učinil, majú svoje hniezda a Ja nemám miesto, kde by som sklonil Svoju hlavu. Líšky, ktoré som stvoril, majú diery v zemi a Ja Sám nemám žiadnu, v ktorej by som bol pochovaný.” Je to tak. On si musel požičať niekoho hrob, v ktorom by bol pochovaný.

111        On stvoril lono, ktoré je v žene. On nemal žiadne lono, z ktorého by sa bol narodil; musel si požičať lono. On stvoril zem, a nemal miesto, kde by bol pochovaný; musel si požičať dieru v zemi, v ktorej by bol pochovaný, od Jozefa z Arimatie. Vidíte? Oni Mu museli požičať to miesto, jednako On bol Boh, dokázal, že bol Boh.

112        Tak, rozumiete? Nie sme... My sme malými Mesiášmi, ale nie tým Ježišom. On je naším Otcom; my sme len pomazaní Jeho Duchom a to je dôvod, že Jeho Život... A to privádza ľudí… viete, ak si nesadnete a nebudete o tom uvažovať, privedie to ľudí do toho, že budú veriť, „Nuž, tento chlapík bude tým Mesiášom.” Iste ním je.

 „Tento tu by Ním mohol byť.” Obaja sú. Rozumiete? „No, ako Ním môžu byť oni obaja?” Sú ich tisíce. Rozumiete?

113        Ale vidíte, Jeho Život bol na deň Letníc rozdelený. Keď zostúpil ten Ohnivý Stĺp, On sa rozdelil ako jazyky a sadol na každého jedného z nich; Boh, ktorý sa rozdelil medzi Svoj ľud, pretože Kristus a Cirkev sú jedno, tak, ako manžel a manželka sú jedno.       

        330. Brat Branham, ako mám ukázať mojej manželke, že sa o ňu skutočne starám, a predsa sa držím Slova (To je...) – držím Slova, ale stále dostávam takúto otázku: „Prečo neuvádzaš do praxe to, čo kážeš alebo čomu veríš?“

114        No, ak tá manželka, ak ti toto tá manželka hovorí, a má právo to povedať, tak sa radšej daj do poriadku. Rozumieš? Potom, ak ona – ak to hovorí, len aby bola zlá, pamätaj, Biblia povedala, „Bolo by ti lepšie, keby ti bol na krk zavesený mlynský kameň a bol by si potopený do hlbín mora, než uraziť najmenšieho z týchto Mojich maličkých.“ No, to je len tvoja otázka.

115        A možno, že táto manželka nie je takým typom osoby. Možno je odlišná – možno, že je dobrou osobou. Možno ťa len skúša, aby videla, čo budeš robiť.

116        No, naďalej ju miluj a nech v tebe vidí Ježiša. Rob to. Rozumieš? Len pokračuj vpred. Niekto... Dnes ráno som ukazoval taký príklad o jednej osobe, ktorá... Raz táto malá žena prijala Ducha Svätého. Bola to veľmi milá, malá osoba. Oni... Povedala... No, mala ťažký život a jej manžel bol alkoholik. A tak, ona bola vytrvalá; znášala to s ním. On hovorí, „Ak chceš ísť do zboru, zlato, choď si. Ale ja idem jednoducho do krčmy, tam dolu do Brown Derby. Choď a...“ A tak tam celý čas vysedávali, zvyklo to byť u Boniferovcov. Mnohí z vás starších si pamätáte, keď tam mal Bonifer na rohu… Myslím, že teraz sa to nazýva Brown Derby.

117        A tak tam celý čas vysedávali a raz, viete, jedného večera prišla na pretras otázka o cirkvi a o kresťanoch. A jeden z tých opilcov, ktorý tam sedel, povedal, „Už neexistuje niečo také ako kresťania.“ Povedal, „Neexistuje niečo také. Všetci sú bandou pokrytcov,“ povedal, „vidíš ich tu fajčiť, piť, robia to isté, čo my,“ a povedal, „nazývajú sa kresťanmi; nič také nie je.“

118        Jeden z tých opilcov sa postavil a povedal, „Moment. Existuje jedna, o ktorej viem.“

 Opýtali sa, „Kto to je?“

 Povedal, „Je to moja žena.“ Vidíte? Ona sa stala slanou. On to cítil celý čas.

 Niekto povedal, „Stavím sa, že keby sa dostala do úzkych…“

        Povedal, „Nie, ona je stále kresťankou; môžem vám to dokázať.“ Povedal, „Napadlo mi, čo urobíme; poďte k nám domov a ja vám ukážem, či je kresťankou alebo nie.“ Povedal, „Poďme ku mne domov a robme sa, že sme skutočne opití. Budeme sa správať, ako by sme boli opití na mol.“ Zaklopali na dvere, vošli dovnútra narážajúc do všetkého a... „Prečo si takto neposadáte?“ a tak ďalej. A ona ich všetkých posadila na stoličky (rozumiete, jeho hostí) a snažila sa, aby sa cítili tak vítaní, ako len mohli byť. On povedal, „Chcem, aby si nám pripravila nejakú večeru.“ A tak oni – ona odišla niečo pripraviť. On povedal, „Chceme vajcia so šunkou.“ Vedel, že to majú, a tak ona pripravila vajcia so šunkou. A keď to postavila pred nich na stôl, pozrel sa takto na ne, zodvihol tanier, hodil to o zem a povedal, „Vieš predsa, že nemám rád takéto vajcia. Poďte, chlapci, ideme odtiaľto,“ takto.

119        A, viete, oni vyšli von a posadili sa tam. A ona vyšla von a povedala, „Miláčik, je mi ľúto, že som to takto pokazila, pripravím ti iné.“

120        „Ách, nezmysel, dobre vieš, že ich nemám rád na tento spôsob,“ ďalej sa takto hneval. Vyšli tam, posadali si vonku a správali sa ako opití. Počuli ju, ako tam vo vnútri pokorne a potichu spieva:

        Musel snáď Ježiš niesť Sám kríž

        aby celý svet bol slobodný?

 Každému je daný kríž,

 a je tiež kríž pre mňa.

 Ten posvätený kríž budem niesť,

 až ma smrť oslobodí.

 Jeden opilec pozrel na druhého a povedal, „Toto je kresťanka; ona to má.“ A tá malá žena priviedla svojho manžela a tých ostatných v ten večer ku Kristovi. Vidíte? Prečo? Rozumiete? Buďte skutočne milí. Jednoducho si zapamätajte, On o tom všetkom vie.

121        A tak, sestra alebo brat, ktokoľvek to je, alebo toto je vlastne brat, pretože sa pýtal ohľadom svojej manželky; buď len slaný; ak je v nej niečo, čo môže byť smädné, ona bude smädná. Ak nie je, pamätaj, ak si dostal nesprávnu osobu, dostaneš tú správnu v miléniu. Len sa ďalej drž slova; všetko zlé tam bude napravené.       

        331. Brat Branham, je to pravda, že učíš to, že Nevesta nesmie navštevovať žiadny zbor, ak tam nekážeš ty, alebo inú modlitebňu – inými slovami, modlitebňu? (Je tam “inak,“ to znamená “inými slovami.“)       

 332. Taktiež, je to pravda, že učíš to, že nemusíme zachovávať nedeľu alebo sviatky, čo sa týka práce, rybárčenia, a tak ďalej?

(Alebo... Povedal by som, že to je nedeľa. Zdalo sa mi to ako nedeľa. Alebo rovno na spodku to vyzeralo – alebo nedeľa, predpokladám, že to je tak, sviatky alebo nedele. Áno, nedele, tak to vyzerá? [Brat Branham sa s niekým rozpráva. – pozn.prekl.] – sväté dni, sväté dni, nedele a sväté dni.)

122        Nie. Mýlite sa. Vidíte? Dovoľte, nech to prejdem a jednoducho na to odpoviem po poriadku.

 „Učíš, že Nevesta nesmie navštevovať žiadny iný zbor, ak tam nekážeš ty, alebo inak povedané, len tvoju modlitebňu?“ Nie, toto neučím. Tomuto neverím, ja tomu neverím. Sedia tu kazatelia, ktorí sú rozptýlení po celej krajine, a ja verím, že oni sú časťou tej Nevesty. Verím, že muž alebo žena môžu ísť do zboru, kamkoľvek sa im zachce, kde sa vyučuje Slovo. A verím, že ak tam neučia celému Slovu a vy nemáte možnosť ísť do zboru na nejaké iné miesto, kde sa vyučuje celé Slovo, choďte tam, kde učia polovicu Slova, pokiaľ sa nebudete môcť dostať tam, kde sa vyučuje celé Slovo. Ale nech už robíte čokoľvek, choďte do zboru. Robte to.

123        „Učíš tiež, že nemusíme zachovávať nedeľu alebo akýkoľvek svätý deň, ak ide o prácu alebo rybárčenie v nedeľu?“

124        Verím, že je to hriech rybárčiť, loviť alebo pracovať v nedeľu, keď môžete ísť do zboru. Nuž, verím, že porušujete Božie zákony. „Existuje také prikázanie?“ Tak veru. Nuž, v Starom zákone sme mali vzor dňa sabatu. To bolo celé... A Ježiš neprišiel preto, aby ste dodržiavali dni sabatu. Starým dňom sabatu bola sobota, ktorá bola koncom týždňa. Nedeľa je ôsmym dňom, alebo prvým dňom týždňa, kedy Ježiš vstal z mŕtvych.

125        Neverím, že je správne... No, ak si niekde ďaleko v lesoch, a ty si tam na loveckej výprave, v okolí nie je žiaden zbor alebo niečo také, jednoducho tam nie je nič, čo by si mohol urobiť; a ty by si chytal ryby, myslím si, že by to bolo v poriadku. Ale ak si blízko nejakého mesta alebo blízko miesta, kde sa koná bohoslužba, potom by si v každom prípade mal navštíviť nejaké zhromaždenie.

126        A verím, ak ide o prácu, verím, že ak sa vôl ocitol v jame alebo musí byť niečo v nedeľu urobené, choď a urob to, ak ide o niečo, čo nemôže počkať a musí to byť urobené. Ale ak to jednoducho odkladáš na nedeľu, aby si to mohol urobiť, alebo to jednoducho takto robíš, vtedy sa mýliš. Rozumiete? Nesmieme to robiť, musíme rešpektovať ten svätý deň.

127        A teraz, pamätajte, choďte niekam do zboru, na nejaké miesto. Ak... Mohol by som pomenovať určitú denominačnú cirkev, ale neurobím to, pretože táto cirkev, to jediné, o čom viem, že učia, a čomu tiež verím, je to, že oni hovoria, že veria tomu, že Ježiš Kristus je Syn Boží. No, ja tiež. Všetko ich ostatné učenie je... Veria v obmytie hriechov skrze vodu. No, to nie sú jednotári; oni robia to isté, ale nehovorím o nich. Veria, že skrze vodu nastáva obnovenie, a tak ďalej. A ja tomu neverím. A oni, ó, veria, že ak má niečo v sebe Božské uzdravenie, potom to je z diabla. A veria vo všetky... Že oni sú tou jedinou vecou, ktorá existuje, a to jediné, čo musíš robiť, je len zapísať svoje meno do tej knihy. A ak ho tam nemáš, potom si stratený. No, neverím tomu. Ale ak by nebola k dispozícii žiadna iná cirkev, do ktorej by sa dalo ísť (Nešiel by som tam s kritickým postojom.), išiel by som tam s úmyslom mojej prítomnosti a s tým, že by som vedľa niekoho sedel, a že Kristus v mojom srdci by tam niekoho mohol ovplyvniť. Choďte medzi nich, ale nebuďte účastní na ich nevere.       

        333. Brat Branham, chcem prijať Ducha Svätého. Chcem vedieť, čo mám robiť. Mám bremeno za moju rodinu, aby boli spasení. (A tá sestra sa tu podpísala.)

128        Ak chceš prijať Ducha Svätého, ak sa tu nachádzaš, dovoľ, nech ti niečo poviem, moja drahá sestra. A ja... Brat Neville, je to nejaká členka tohto zboru? [Brat Branham sa rozpráva s bratom Neville. – pozn.prekl.] Tam na spodku. Tiež si ich nepamätám. Ale ak si tu, sestra B-o-u-g-h, ak si tu, dovoľ, nech ti niečo poviem. Biblia povedala, „Požehnaní, ktorí sú hladní a smädní po spravodlivosti.“ Si tak veľmi požehnaná už len preto, že To chceš. Rozumieš? No, pamätaj, nie preto, že To máš, ale požehnaní tí, ktorí sú hladní a smädní po Tom, pretože oni budú naplnení. Len trvaj na tom.

129        „Čo mám urobiť pre svoju rodinu?“ Použi tú istú vieru, ktorú používaš pre seba, použi ju za svoju rodinu. Odovzdaj ich Pánovi a ver z celého srdca, že budú spasení. Nech to... Nech to nepríde len sem do tvojho prirodzeného zmýšľania, ale nech to spadne hlboko dole do vnútra, do toho podvedomia, a potom sú tvoji. Boh ti ich dáva, keď to máš tam dole.

130        Čokoľvek tu máš v srdci a prosíš o to, keď sa modlíš, ver tomu, že dostaneš to, o čo prosíš. No, už o tom viac nemôžeš pochybovať. Nemôžeš tomu veriť a zároveň o tom pochybovať. Koľkí to vedia? Nemôžete veriť a zároveň pochybovať. Musíte veriť tomu, že to, o čo prosíte, že to dostanete, potom On povedal, že vám to bude dané. Tak len ver za svoju rodinu a oni to dostanú.       

 334. Brat Branham, čo s naším synom, odvtedy – odvtedy si nekázal o trúbach? Pamätáš sa na ten sľub, ktorý si mi dal po telefóne ohľadom neho a tých siedmich trúb?

131        Nespomínam si na to. Nepamätám sa, čo to bolo. Ale čokoľvek to je, dajte vedieť Billy Paulovi, o čo ide. Čokoľvek som sľúbil, že urobím. Nespomínam si na to. Viete, ja – niekedy musím večer odpovedať na tridsať až štyridsať telefonátov v jednom čase (Rozumiete?), tak si nepamätám večer za večerom – niekedy, keď som na okolí – tak neviem, čo to môže byť.

        Čo s mojou katolíckou sestrou a bratom? Ďakujem ti.

132        Ó, táto osoba je z iného mesta, tam z Texasu... Ja – no, sestra, ak si z Texasu a dostaneš túto pásku, alebo ak bude páska (Predpokladám, že pri tomto nebude žiadna páska.), ale ak tam je... [Brat Branham sa pýta ohľadom nahrávania pásky. – pozn.prekl.] Nahrávajú pásku? Nahrávate to? V poriadku, ak sú... Tá páska... Potom ti poviem, o čo ide. Ak si... Na tejto páske, ak sa k nej dostaneš, pamätaj, „Čo s naším synom ohľadom siedmich trúb?“ Nespomínam si na to, jedine, že by som sľúbil, že sa na neho pozriem alebo niečo také, v čase siedmich trúb. Ak to tak je, stretnem sa s ním; pretože ja som nekázal sedem trúb, kázal som o sviatku trúb. Rozumiete tomu?

133        „A čo s mojou katolíckou sestrou a bratom? Ďakujem ti.“ Poviem ti, pani C-o-r-n-i-l-s-e-n... Ak tu tá pani je, príď dnes ráno za Billy Paulom. A ak nie, no, nerozumiem, o čo tam ide (Vidíte?); to je len otázka. Nedokážem to rozlúštiť (Vidíte?), o čo tam ide, pretože niečo som sľúbil ohľadom jej chlapca a trúb a ohľadom katolíckej sestry; a teraz si na to nespomínam. Len poď za Billym.

 Toto musí... To je len modlitebná prosba. Je tam meno tej osoby a je tam povedané, „bolesti hlavy a sínus.“ Tak to bola len... myslím, že ohľadom toho, aby som sa za nich pomodlil. V poriadku. 

335. Prosím, objasni manželstvo a rozvod. (Už som to urobil. Toto je sedem otázok – osem otázok na jednom kúsku papiera.) Prosím, objasni manželstvo a rozvod. (Urobil som to.)

        336. ...Mojžiš a Eliáš teraz na zemi? Sú Mojžiš a Eliáš teraz na zemi? Sú v Amerike?

134        Nie. Rozumiete? Nie, nie sú tu; nebudú tu, pokiaľ nebude Cirkev vzatá preč; potom Mojžiš a Eliáš... Koľkí tomu rozumejú? V poriadku. A pozrime sa... Nie je tu nikto podpísaný, a tak... V poriadku. Ktokoľvek sa pýtal na tieto otázky... Myslím, že ich tu je sedem; zaznačil som si ich sedem. V poriadku.       

        337. Vysvetli rozdiel medzi “Menom Ježiš“ a “Menom Ježiš.“ (Počkajte chvíľu.) Vysvetli rozdiel medzi “Menom Ježiš“ a “Menom Ježiša.“

135        No, oboje je to isté, pokiaľ sú použité tým istým spôsobom (Rozumiete?), aplikované na tú istú Osobu, Meno Ježiš a Meno Ježiša. Meno Ježiša a... Meno Ježiš – to je to, kto On je. Meno Ježiša je hovorenie o tej Osobe, tak to by bolo to isté... Myslím, že by to bolo... Neznie to rozumne? Vidíte? Meno Ježiš je samotná tá Osoba; a Meno Ježiša – to je, keď sa odvolávate na tú Osobu. Rozumiete?

136        Povedzme to takto. Moje meno je William. To som ja. V poriadku. No, poviete... Hovorím... Meno Williama, potom sa na mňa odvolávate. To je moje meno. Vidíte? Teda...       

 338. Zmenilo sa Meno Pánovo v rôznych 'časových obdobiach' ['dispenzáciách' – pozn.prekl.]?

137        Áno, tak veru. Raz bolo nazývané – On sa volal JA SOM; bol nazvaný Jehova, a mnohokrát sa to menilo. Poslednýkrát sa to zmenilo, keď sa Boh stal telom a prijal ľudské meno.

138        Jehova, JA SOM, a všetko toto, to sú tituly toho Mena. Vidíte? Keby si bol pokrstený v mene Jehovu, to by muselo byť v Mene Ježiša Krista. Ak by si bol pokrstený v mene Jehovu-Rafa, Jehovu-Manasses a Jehovu-Jirah, vo všetkých týchto, muselo by to byť Ježiš Kristus. Ten JA SOM je Ježiš Kristus.

139        Pamätajte, v ten deň tam stál a povedal, „Hovoríte, že ste jedli mannu na púšti...“

 „Naši otcovia jedli mannu...“

 On povedal, „A sú mŕtvi.“

140        A povedali, „No, teraz vieme, že si šialený, pretože ty si len človek a nemáš ani päťdesiat rokov, a hovoríš, že si videl Abraháma.“

 Povedal, „Prv, než bol Abrahám, JA SOM.“ Vidíte? On bol ten JA SOM. A všetky tie tituly a mená, ktoré kedy patrili Bohu, sa stali jedným ľudským Menom, Pán Ježiš Kristus. V poriadku. 

        339. No, ak sa čas zakončuje, keď boli otvorené Pečate, potom je... Ak sa čas zakončil (Prepáčte mi.), keď boli otvorené Pečate, potom sa zakončilo aj milénium, je to tak?

141        Nie, nie. Čas sa nezakončil, keď boli otvorené Pečate. Nerozumeli ste to. To, čo sa stalo, bolo to, že boli zjavené tajomstvá; nie, že sa zakončil čas. Rozumiete? Len sa pozrite. Teraz to naozaj pozorne sledujte, a ak máte pásku, tak si to prehrajte z tej pásky. Rozumiete?

142        Čas sa vôbec nezakončil, až kým... Toto musí byť nejaký po-milénista alebo niečo také – ten, kto sa opýtal túto otázku. Pretože vidíte? Potom, ako Cirkev odišla domov a vrátila sa naspäť na zem, potom máme tých tisíc rokov. Potom sa čas zakončí v novom nebi a novej zemi.

143        No, milénium nie je to nové nebo a nová zem. Po miléniu bude ešte stále hriech. Milénium je typom Noacha, ktorý vošiel do archy a bol prenesený a priviedol Cháma a tých ostatných na druhú stranu. A hriech dokonca vyšiel von z archy. Vidíte?

144        Ale Enoch, ten prenesený, bol typ na Nevestu, ktorá odišla hore, nie ten, ktorý v tom pretrval. Tak hriech bude ešte stále na druhej strane milénia, ale nie počas milénia. Vidíte? Počas milénia je pokoj. Vidíte? Ale s hriechom bude skoncované na druhej strane milénia, a potom sa zakončí čas.

145        A teraz, otvorenie siedmich Pečatí, ktoré bolo dané skrze Ducha Svätého; tých sedem Pečatí malo iba zjaviť to, čo bolo vynechané v časových obdobiach, ktoré sú za nami.

146        No, ako sa ma ohľadom toho jeden veľký teológ snažil zahnať do kúta, povedal, „Brat Branham, ty – Boh ti jedného dňa dá tajomstvo tých siedmich Pečatí. Tých sedem Pečatí, to bude niečo, čo sme sa ešte nikdy nenaučili, to bude niečo, čo dokonca ani nie je v Biblii.“ Nie, nie. Nemôže to tak byť, pretože ak to tak robíte, to by z toho urobilo... Ak by som vám povedal niečo také, bol by som falošným prorokom, pretože (Rozumiete?), toto Slovo... Tam... Všetko, čo je... Celé zjavenie Ježiša Krista je úplne dokončené v tomto Slove. Rozumiete? A ak sa sedem Pečatí týkalo siedmich cirkví, potom to už musí byť minulosťou, pretože sme v laodicejskom cirkevnom veku... A tých sedem Pečatí iba zjavovalo, čo tam vzadu oni vynechali, a otvorilo sa to, čo oni vynechali: to, čo vynechal Luther, to, čo vynechal Wesley a všetci tí reformátori a letniční a ďalej až do tohto prítomného času.

147        No, tá ďalšia vec, ktorá zostala, to je vychvátenie Cirkvi, návrat Mojžiša a Eliáša, panovanie v miléniu na zemi s Nevestou a Ženíchom po dobu tisíc rokov a potom súdna stolica, a potom úplné zničenie hriechu. Potom ho už nikdy viac nebude.

148        No, nie... Zakončenie... Pečate vôbec nezakončili čas. Časy a obdobia budú, až kým neskončí milénium. Nie. Čas bude stále trvať, až kým neskončí milénium.       

        340. Čo sa týka milénia, je to tisíc rokov? Nemohla by to byť len jedna generácia?

149        Nie. V Biblii je jedna generácia vymeraná na štyridsať rokov. Ale Biblia povedala, „A oni žili a kraľovali s Kristom tisíc rokov.“ Bude to tisíc rokov na zemi, pretože tisíc rokov na zemi je iba výpočtom času podľa Božieho prirovnania, ako jeden deň. Tisíc rokov na zemi je pre Boha iba jeden deň, podľa Božieho výpočtu času. Koľkí tomu teraz rozumejú?

150        Tak to je ten deň sabatu, keď Cirkev už nebude viac zápasiť s hriechom. A satan je spútaný na krátke obdobie, tisíc rokov, pretože všetci jeho poddaní sú v pekle, a jeho... Cirkev, ktorá je na zemi, je vykúpená a je rovno v prítomnosti Krista, takže on nemá nič, s čím by mohol pracovať. A tak, to nie je nejaká reťaz, ako som hovoril, nejaká kovová reťaz; to je reťaz okolností; on nemá nič, čo by mohol urobiť. Je bezmocný a bezbranný, len čaká na vzkriesenie tých poddaných; potom sú oddelení ako ovce od kozlov.       

        341. Či neprišla kráľovná zo Šéby ku Šalamúnovi kvôli tomu, aby ho otestovala a zistila, či meno Pánovo bolo skutočne Šalamún alebo nie? (Myslím, že som tomu neporozumel. Počkajte chvíľu.) Či neprišla kráľovná zo Šéby ku Šalamúnovi kvôli tomu, aby ho otestovala a zistila, či meno Pánovo bolo skutočne Šalamún alebo nie? (Toto som možno nepochopil. Prepáčte mi len na chvíľu. Dovoľte, nech to prečítam ešte raz.) Či neprišla kráľovná zo Šéby ku Šalamúnovi kvôli tomu, aby ho otestovala a zistila, či meno Pánovo bolo skutočne Šalamún alebo nie?

151        Nie. Ona vôbec neprišla kvôli tomu, aby zistila, či Božie meno je Šalamún. Šalamún bol kráľ. Ona prišla a povedala, riekla, „Skutočne je Boh so Svojím kráľom a s jeho ľudom.“ Vidíte? Prišla a bola otestovaná – otestovala Šalamúna ohľadom jeho daru, pretože vo svojom srdci mala veci, ktoré jej Šalamún zjavil, a to ukázalo, že bol Božím kráľom na zemi.

152        Spomeňte si, ako tam dole, myslím, že tam odkiaľ pochádzala – dole v tej zemi Šéby, odkiaľ prišla, ľudia tam chodievali, viete, a hovorili o veľkých veciach, ktoré sa diali, že tam hore majú Boha, ktorý pomazal ich kráľa; a ako bol ten kráľ pomazaný od Boha. Nemyslím, že ona si myslela, že Šalamúnovo meno – alebo že Božie meno bolo Šalamún, pretože ak by to tak bolo, to by z nej znova urobilo pohanku. Vidíte? Tak ona to mohla urobiť. V srdci si mohla myslieť, že Boh bol Šalamúnom, a Šalamún bol Bohom, pretože ona bola od začiatku pohanka. Ale keď jej Šalamún zjavil tajomstvo v jej srdci skrze dar rozpoznania, ktorý bol vtedy nazvaný 'múdrosťou'; on to rozpoznal; ona vedela, že Boh je so Šalamúnom, pretože potom... Oni mali... Ona zistila... Ak prišla s týmto vo svojej mysli...

153        Ak tu táto osoba, ktorá položila túto otázku, ak sa pýta, „Či ona potom vedela, že skutočne Šalamún... že meno Pánovo bolo skutočne Šalamún?“ Vidíte? Šalamún nebol Pán; zistila by to od ľudí, pretože oni uctievali Jehovu, a bola tam tá veľkolepá archa a veľkolepý testament; archa, v ktorej boli Pánove prikázania. A oni jej porozprávali o vrchu Sinai a rozličných miestach, kde boli. A potom mohla uvidieť, že Boh toho testamentu bol v tomto mužovi, pretože on mal rozpoznanie, ktoré prináležalo jedine Bohu. Vidíte? Tak ona vedela, že Boh bol v Šalamúnovi. Ale teraz, takto to mohlo vyznieť, ak sa ten človek pýtal na toto. Ale, „Či ona vedela, že meno Pánovo bolo skutočne Šalamún?“ Možno to nenapísali takým spôsobom, ako to mysleli. Vidíte? A tak, myslím, že by povedali toto: „Že Pán bol v Šalamúnovi.“ Áno, iste bol. Pretože, ak je toto tou otázkou, iste to tak bolo. Ona spoznala Boha, pretože sa o tom zmienila. A ona by neuctievala žiadneho iného boha. A myslím, že povedala, že bude vždy... Videla prečo... Vyrazilo jej to dych; nezostali jej žiadne otázky. Šalamún jednoducho zjavil celú vec a ona spoznala, že Boh bol s ním.       

 342. Boli sme zosobášení pred 21 rokmi civilným úradníkom. Bolo to zle?

154        Áno, to ste urobili zle. Manželstvo patrí do domu Božieho. Ale to, že ste zosobášení, tu je to, kedy ste naozaj zosobášení: vy ste zosobášení vtedy, keď si navzájom dáte sľub, keď si navzájom sľúbite, že si jeden druhého vezmete. Ten verejný úradník vám mohol dať potvrdenie; čiže legálne právne podmienky spoločného súžitia ako manžela a manželky, aby ste neboli len neformálni manžel a manželka. Ale keď tomu dievčaťu sľúbiš a toto – ty sľúbiš tomu mužovi, že budeš pre neho verne žiť, a prijímaš ho za svojho manžela, potom ste zosobášení. Spomeňte si, ako som to minulý týždeň vysvetľoval; myslím, že to bolo vtedy. Vidíte? Keď jej sľúbiš... Rozumiete?

155        Dokonca v starej Biblii, ak sa nejaký muž zasnúbil s dievčaťom a ... Poznáte tie zákony, ktoré sa toho týkajú. No, to bolo to isté ako cudzoložstvo. Istotne bolo... Keď jej to sľúbil, tým to bolo vybavené.

156        Niekto minule položil takú otázku: „Je anulovanie to isté ako rozvod?“ Vidíte? Priatelia, keď mi dávate takéto otázky, neviete, čo to pre mňa znamená. Mám tu veľa priateľov, ktorí tu sedia a sú ženatí druhý alebo tretíkrát. Uvedomili ste si, že hovorím k môjmu vlastnému synovi, Billy Paulovi? Či by som mal ušetriť Billy Paula? Určite nie. Billy Paul sa oženil s nejakým dievčaťom a prišiel a povedal, „Ocko, idem sa ženiť.“

157        Umýval som auto, povedal som, „Spadol si na hlavu,“ len som ďalej takto umýval auto.

 On povedal, „Idem sa ženiť.“ 

 Povedal som, „Ó, ale choď,“ a pokračoval som takto ďalej. Išiel a povedal to mame, ona sa mu vysmiala. Viete, čo urobil? Utiekol s nejakým deckom ešte na škole a zobrali sa. My sme tú svadbu anulovali, otec toho dievčaťa a ja. My sme tú svadbu anulovali, ale on bol aj tak ženatý. To je môj chlapec, ktorý tu teraz sedí a počúva ma. Presne tak.

158        Prišiel ku mne s tým dievčaťom, s ktorým teraz žije, moja nevesta. Môj malý vnúčik… Povedal, „Ocko, zosobášiš ma?“

159        Povedal som, „V žiadnom prípade.“ To je môj vlastný syn. Myslíte, že ma to nereže až do kosti, keď som ho nosil na rukách a urobil som všetko, čo som mohol, a bol som pre neho otcom i matkou? Myslíte, že ma to nezabíja, keď to musím povedať? Ale je to pravda. Určite. Môj chlapec je tu a počúva… Moja nevesta a môj malý vnúčik tu práve teraz sedia… Ale ja som mu povedal, že je to zlé (Rozumiete?), pretože musím. Som zaviazaný ku tomu Slovu.

160        A poviem toto: zosobášil vás úradník? Mali ste byť zosobášení kazateľom v zbore. To sa sluší pre kresťana. Ale keďže ste už učinili ten sľub a slávnostný prísľub, a boli ste zosobášení pred 21 rokmi, potom si myslím, že je to v poriadku.

 Poviete, „No, ja...“

161        Mohla by povstať otázka, „Mal by som radšej prísť a nechať sa znova zosobášiť?“ Ak chceš. Nemaj v mysli nič, čo by trápilo tvoju vieru, pretože ak tam niečo je, potom nemôžeš ísť ďalej než potiaľ; zastavíš sa hneď tam. Keď prichádza ten otáznik, to je to miesto, kde končíš, rovno tam. Ale čo sa týka mňa, myslím, že by to bolo v poriadku.

162        Ten človek, ktorý ma pokrstil v Mene Pána Ježiš Krista, ma nakoniec vyhnal zo zboru, pretože som s ním nesúhlasil ohľadom žien kazateliek. To nespôsobilo, že by som sa znova išiel prekrstiť. Vidíte? Iste nie. Rozumiete? Je to v poriadku.

163        Ale pamätajte len, tieto veci do mňa sekajú. Sedia tu moji blízki priatelia, muži a ženy, ktorí by si vylúpili oko a dali by mi ho, ak by som ich o to poprosil (Tak veru.), a sú druhýkrát zosobášení, niektorí aj trikrát, práve teraz tu sedia. A môj vlastný chlapec, môj vlastný vnúčik, moja nevesta, ktorých milujem... Pozrite na Billyho, ako som za ním stál a ako on stál za mnou, ale pravda je pravdou, je to skutočná pravda.

164        Mám... Dnes by som mohol vyjsť sem a zavolať niekoho z týchto zhromaždení Božích alebo niektorých z týchto ľudí a povedať im, „Úplne som sa mýlil; nezostanem so Slovom, zostanem s vami.“ Pravdepodobne by som bol čoskoro veľmi populárnou osobou s takým darom Božím. Ak by som umiestnil všetok svoj vplyv do jednej z tých organizácií, pravdepodobne by som mal medzi nimi veľké meno. Nestarám sa o nejaké moje meno medzi nimi. Milujem ich; to je pravda. Ale musím zostať pravdivý. Ak by som to urobil, bol by som pokrytec.

165        A bol by som pokrytcom, ak by som tu zastal a kvôli môjmu vlastnému synovi, ktorý tu sedí, a on dal tomu dievčaťu sľub, a ja by som povedal... Ak by nemal ani nad sebou vyrieknutú tú ceremóniu, nezáleží na tom, či niekedy s tou ženou žil alebo s ňou spal, s tým dievčaťom, alebo čokoľvek by to bolo, keď učinil ten sľub, potom je ženatý, Billy Paul alebo nie Billy Paul. Je to úplná pravda. Keď učinil ten sľub, potom je ženatý. Ak by išlo o mňa, bolo by to tak isto.

166        Musíme byť úprimní. Ak nemôžem byť úprimný s mojím chlapcom, potom nemôžem byť úprimný s vami. Ak nie som úprimný s vami, potom nebudem úprimný s Bohom. A chcem, aby ste verili tomu, že to, čo vám hovorím, je mojím čestným presvedčením. Nerobte z toho nič iné; len to hovorte tak, ako som to povedal (Vidíte?), pretože vám poviem pravdu.

167        No, takýmto spôsobom s vami často nehovorím, pretože ste mojimi deťmi, tak vás nazývam. Splodil som vás pre Krista skrze Evanjelium. A zatiaľ čo sme tu spolu, len naša vlastná skupina, ktorá tu sedí, tak som vás trocha oholil. Ale chcem vám povedať: keď ku mne prídete a opýtate sa na čokoľvek, odpoviem vám najlepšie, ako viem. Ak je to v Slove, nestarám sa o to, či ma to odsudzuje; mám na sebe mnoho chumáčov, ktoré majú byť oholené. Presne tak.

168        Ale ak sa ma opýtate na čokoľvek, poviem vám ohľadom toho. Ak vám niečo poviem, poviem vám pravdu. Vždy som sa snažil žiť takýmto spôsobom. To je spôsob, ako chcem žiť a zomrieť; byť s každým úprimný.

169        Nedávno ku mne prišlo jedno malé dievča; tá žena tu teraz nie je. Tom Simpson, mnohí ho poznáte. Tom je milý chlapík; nie je tu nikto z jeho ľudí. (Myslím, že všetci tí ľudia odišli späť, okrem Freda, ktorý tu stále je... Fred Sothmann, neviem, či tu je alebo nie, ale myslím, že sú tu.) Ale Tom Simpson, on prišiel z Kanady s Fredom. A oni... (Poznáte brata Freda, nášho dôverníka.)

170        A brat Tom, mnohí ho tu poznáte. A Tom je milý človek; je to skvelý chlapík; a takisto aj pani Simpsonová. Keby len počúvala, čo som jej povedal, tiež bude znova chodiť. A ona sedí ochromená v tom invalidnom vozíku. Ona bude chodiť, ak len urobí to, čo som jej povedal, aby urobila. A len to sledujte a vidzte, či to nie je pravda. Rozumiete? No, ale ona musí urobiť to, čo jej bolo povedané, ak očakáva, že sa to stane.

171        A jedno z jej malých dievčat, sú to milé malé dievčatá... Keď boli také maličké, bral som si ich na kolená a hral som sa s nimi. Teraz sú už príliš veľké; sú takmer ženami, majú desať alebo dvanásť rokov. A tak, jedna z nich ku mne prišla a povedala, „Brat Branham, sníval sa mi sen.“ A porozprávala mi ten sen. A povedala, „Čo to znamená?“

 Povedal som, „Neviem, zlatíčko.“ Budem sa modliť, a ak mi to Pán zjaví, potom ti poviem.“

172        Povedala, „V poriadku.“ O pár dní sa znova vrátila späť, povedala, „Máš ten sen?“

 Povedal som, „Nie, zlatíčko, nemám to; On mi to nezjavil.“

173        Približne za jeden alebo dva týždne sa znova vrátila, povedala, „Brat Branham, čo ohľadom toho sna?“

 Povedal som, „Neviem.“ No, vyzeralo to, že je tak trocha sklamaná.

174        Pamätajte, keď ma prosíte, aby som vám niečo povedal, a nedostanem to od Pána, ja som tiež sklamaný. Ale nebudem pokrytcom alebo klamárom; poviem vám pravdu. Ak mi to On povie, potom vám o tom poviem; ak to On nepovie, potom to nepoviem. To je všetko, čo môžem urobiť. A chcem, aby ste mi takto verili.

175        A teraz, myslel som si, že viem, čo ten sen znamenal, podľa mňa, ale ako by som to vedel naisto; ja musím tú vec znova uvidieť. A nikto z vás nemôže ukázať prstom na žiaden čas alebo miesto, kde som vám niekedy dal výklad sna v Mene Pánovom, a že by to nebolo presne tak. Tak veru. Nikdy som vám nepovedal nič v Mene Pánovom, čo by sa tiež nevyplnilo, presne tak, pretože som... To je On. A potom to nie je moja zodpovednosť; to je On; je to Jeho zodpovednosť.

176        Povedal som, „Pozri, Trudy, čo ak by sme išli do Arizony. A čo ak by som ti prišiel povedať, že keď tam prídete, 'TAK HOVORÍ PÁN, tvoj malý brat bude (malý Johnny, to je ten, ktorého si doberám, že má stále otvorené brucho)...'“ Povedal som, „Čo ak by ho na ulici niečo zrazilo a ja poviem, 'Vieš, čo sa stane, niečo ho zrazí na ulici; a ty prídeš ku mne a povieš, 'Brat Branham...', alebo lepšie povedané, 'Poďme, vezmime ho k bratovi Branhamovi.' A potom budeš pobehovať naokolo a nájdeš ma, ako stojím na schodoch a rozprávam sa s nejakým mužom v bielom obleku. A potom len položím ruky na malého Johnnyho; on znova ožije a začne behať.'“ No, povedal som, „Potom pôjdeš na západ a prvé, čo zistíš, jedného dňa začuješ mamu aj ocka, ako kričia, a pozrieš sa a tam leží malý Johnny, ktorého práve niečo zrazilo. Čo budeš robiť?“ Vidíš? Veríš mi. Vidíte? A chcem, aby ste mi verili, nejdem vám nič hovoriť len ako nejakú domnienku; poviem vám pravdu, alebo vám nepoviem nič. A povedal som, „Potom by si prišla ku mne a povedala, 'Ó, malý Johnny,' alebo by si prišla ku svojej mame, 'Ó, malého Johnnyho niečo zrazilo. Je mŕtvy. On zomrel.'“

177        Prišiel by doktor, skontroluje mu oči, skontroluje mu srdce, jeho dýchanie, „Je mŕtvy; vezmite ho do márnice.“ Čo by si urobila?“

 Povieš, „Počkajte chvíľu. Počkajte chvíľu. Vezmeš ho do náručia; poďme.“ Amen.

 „Kam to ideš, Trudy?“

 „Neviem.“

 „Čo to máš?“ V náručí držíš svojho malého mŕtveho bračeka a ideš ďalej dole ulicou. Ľudia povedia, „Je to dievča šialené?“ Nie. Ona má TAK HOVORÍ PÁN. Čo sa stane?

178        Hneď vieš, povieš svojmu otcovi a mame, „Počkajte, nájdeme brata Branhama. On bude stáť na nejakých schodoch a rozprávať sa s mužom v bielom obleku. Tamto stojí. Pozrite, čo sa stane.“ Nebola by v tvojej mysli ani štipka pochybnosti. Prišla by si tam a povedala, „Brat Branham, vieš, čo si mi hovoril.“

 „Áno, Trudy. Johnny, vstaň.“ Vyskočil by a išiel by po ulici.

179        Ale čo ak by som ti povedal určité veci len ako nejakú domnienku, o ktorej by som si myslel, že je to správne, povedal by som ti to ako TAK HOVORÍ PÁN, a pritom by to nebolo správne a nestalo by sa to, nikdy by sa to nevyplnilo; potom by si ohľadom toho chlapca bola vystrašená na smrť. Nevedela by si, či ho máš priniesť alebo nie.

180        Boh ma sem poslal, aby som vám pomohol, a chcem byť pre vás pomocou. A nezáleží na tom, ako to seká, bolí, alebo čokoľvek, musím to aj tak povedať.

181        Ale čo sa teraz týka manželstva a rozvodu, prosil som vás ako brat, vyčkajte, pokiaľ ohľadom toho odo mňa nebudete počuť. Rozumiete? Len pokračujte ďalej tak, ako ste žili. Zaberám tu týmto mnoho času.

182        „Pred 21 rokmi sme boli zosobášení (Áno.)... civilným úradníkom.“ Drahá sestra, drahý brat, raz mi jeden obchodník povedal, že vošiel do cirkvi (On bol kresťan.) hore v Connecticut alebo niekde tam hore, prišiel do veľkej cirkvi, vošiel tam, aby sa modlil. To nebolo – on bol letničný, ale vošiel tam, aby sa modlil. A povedal, že keď tam vošiel a kľakol si v tej cirkvi, aby sa modlil... povedal, že dlho šoféroval, bol unavený, trocha sa mu cnelo za domovom, je to obchodník a predáva veci pre fabriky. A prišiel tam, aby urobil nejaké obchody alebo niečo také, potom išiel okolo cirkvi a pomyslel si, „Pôjdem... Myslím, že tam pôjdem a pomodlím sa.“ Dvere boli otvorené; povedal, že vošiel dnu. Nikoho nepočul, tak si kľakol a začal sa modliť. Potom, čo sa tam modlil, bol tam asi hodinu, povedal, že náhle začul, ako buchli nejaké dvere alebo niečo také; myslel si, že to je nejaký správca alebo niekto z tej cirkvi. Povedal, že po chvíli uvidel, ako prichádza – počul niekoho rozprávať. Prekĺzol tam, aby sa pozrel a poobzeral, aby videl, či to bol nejaký správca. A pred oltárom stál nejaký muž a žena, držali sa za ruky, on povedal, „Beriem si ťa, drahá, aby si bola mojou zákonitou manželkou.“ Vidíte?

 Povedala, „Beriem si ťa, drahý, aby si bol mojím zákonitým manželom.“

 „No,“ povedal, „toto je divné,“ povedal, tento letničný človek, on riekol, „tento muž a žena sa sobášia bez kazateľa.“ Vidíte? A tak len sedel a čakal; a potom, ako učinili svoje sľuby, že budú žiť verne jeden voči druhému, a že ich rozdelí jedine smrť, objali sa, pobozkali sa, otočili sa a s úsmevom na tvári kráčali preč. On povedal, „Počkajte chvíľu.“ Povedal, „Zaujímala by ma jedna vec; som tu cudzincom.“ Povedal, „Vy ste sa vzali?“

 Povedali, „Áno.“

 „Bez kazateľa?“

 Povedal, „Nie.“ Povedal, „Sme manželmi štyridsať rokov.“ Povedal, „Pred štyridsiatimi rokmi sme sa vzali rovno tu pri tomto oltári a každý rok sa vraciame späť a obnovujeme naše sľuby.“ To je dobrá myšlienka. Vidíte.

183        Ale čo sa týka manželstva, keď jej to sľúbiš, ona prijíma tvoje slovo; ty prijímaš jej slovo; a Boh prijíma slovo vás oboch. Rozumiete? Tak nedávajte sľub, pokiaľ... [Prázdne miesto na páske. – pozn.prekl.]       

343. Ak si ich zostrihajú v... Sú to dlhé vlasy, ak si ich vpredu zostrihajú? (Aha. No, počkajte chvíľu; dovoľte, nech sa tu na to pozriem. Ja...) Sú to dlhé vlasy, ak si... (No, možno tým mysleli toto.) Sú to aj naďalej stále dlhé vlasy, ak si ich vpredu zostrihajú?

184        Už viac nie; oni to ostrihali. Vidíte? Ale tak ako muž, ktorý si trikrát skrátil nohavice a stále to nestačilo. Čo hovoríš? Čo hovoríš? [Brat Branham sa rozpráva s niekým v obecenstve. – pozn.prekl.] Ó, to je to, o čom hovoria. Ako si doberám moje malé dievča, ona povedala... Hovorím tomu „hriva“, viete, ofiny, alebo čokoľvek to je, viete, tu vpredu.

185        No, viem si predstaviť tie deti, ktoré si strihajú vlasy vpredu... Možno vám o tom povedala vaša mama (Rozumiete?), ak si praje, aby ste to tak mali. Myslím, že by to tak trocha vyzeralo, ako by sa tá žena pozerala cez spätné zrkadlo, ak jej už minulo okolo dvadsaťpäť a chce si ich strihať takto vpredu, aby vyzerala ako nejaké malé dieťa. Pozeraj sa sem, kam ideš, sestra, nie tam, kde si kedysi bola. Rozumiete?

186        Ale teraz, čo sa týka strihania vlasov, poviem vám toto. Nemôžem – nemám žiadne miesto Písma, ktoré by hovorilo, že si môžete toľko odstrihnúť a viac už nie. Nemám na to žiadne miesto Písma; nemohol by som vám to povedať, sestra alebo brat, ktokoľvek to je.

187        Poviem vám jedno. Prial by som si... No, viem, že moje deti to tiež urobili, Rebeka a Sára, videl som, keď si ostrihali vpredu vlasy a zozadu si urobili nejaký vrkoč a tu vpredu to takto upravili. Ja ne... No, nezastávam ich. Vidíte? Nie veru. Čo sa mňa týka, prial by som si, aby sa nožnice ani nedotkli ich vlasov. Ale keď majú dlhé vlasy, takto im visia dole, a len ich pristrihnúť tu vpredu od ich očí, čo sa týka malých detí, možno. Neviem, či by to bolo zlé; nemyslím, že áno. Vidíte? Ale keď... Ak môžete, ja – čo sa týka vás sestier, ja by som ich len nechal tak, ako ich Pán urobil. Vidíte?

188        A, samozrejme, viem, že ženy chcú vyzerať pekne; to je prirodzenosť; a to je to, aké majú byť. Rozumiete? Mali by také byť. A tak, to je v poriadku, ale na druhej strane, nevyzerajte ako svet (Rozumiete?); neberte si vzor zo sveta. Zlé veci... Chcete si ich tak strihať, ale nestrihajte si teraz vlasy. Ak vám dole visia vrkoče, alebo akokoľvek máte vlasy, nechajte ich dlhé. Nestrihajte si ich, aby ste vyzerali ako svet. Ak sú to len malé dievčatá...

189        Môj strýko tam v New Yorku mal malé dievčatko. Ona mala tie najkrajšie vlasy. Také tmavohnedé a nosila vrkoče. Moja mama zvykla mať... Jej vrkoče siahali až po zadnú stranu kolien. A toto malé dievčatko malo tiež takéto vrkoče; volala sa Jacqueline. A určitú časť z nich mala takto sčesanú dole a inú mala takto zastrihnutú. A teraz, to bolo asi pred pätnástimi, osemnástimi alebo dvadsiatimi rokmi. A divil som sa, prečo si nesčesala dozadu všetky vlasy, vyzeralo by to krajšie, než keď to mala takto, ako to dnes majú títo moderní Beatles, viete. Ó, a to je pravda, nemyslím, že by som to takto robil. Čokoľvek, čo vyzerá ako tí Beatles, to vyzerá ako zo sveta, no, tak s tým nič nemajte. Áno

.        344. Môj manžel a ja nevidíme rovnako Bibliu, pravdy – ako túto pravdu, ktorú kážeš. On tomu nerozumie. Mala by som s ním chodievať do cirkví, keď neverím ich učeniu? Veľmi sa ohľadom toho trápim.

190        Áno. Ak si manželka tohto muža a on ťa neodsudzuje, ty nemôžeš odsudzovať jeho (Rozumieš?), pretože manžel je posvätený skrze manželku. Vidíš? A verím, že ak chodí do nejakej denominačnej cirkvi alebo do niečoho takého, chce, aby si tam chodievala s ním... Vidíš? Ak nie si... Vidíš? Nič ti tam nemôže ublížiť, pretože ty aj tak nejdeš počúvať, čo tam hovoria, pretože si tu povedala, že neveríš ich kázaniu. Vidíš? Tak to ti neublíži, ale iba preukazuješ rešpekt svojmu manželovi. Poddávaš sa mu a možno, že tým, že to robíš, budeš... Ak tam učia a robia veci... Si vyučená oveľa vyšším veciam než to; budeš slaná; on to uvidí a príde k Pánovi. Myslím, že ja by som išiel. Ó, fíha, pozrite, koľko je hodín.       

        345. Hovorí Zachariáš 4 a Zjavenie 11:3-12 o tej istej bytosti? Pozri sa na Zachariáša 4:12-14 a Zjavenie 11:4. (Oni sa tu podpísali – brat a sestra z tohto zboru.)

191        Pozrime sa, Zachariáš 4. Ó, áno, to sú tie dva olivové stromy. Áno, dva olivové stromy a Zjavenie 11 je... Ó, áno, to je ono. Tá istá vec. Tu sú oni dvaja. To je Mojžiš a Eliáš, dva olivové stromy.

Modli sa za nášho... To je modlitebná prosba.

 Prepáčte, toto nemôžem prečítať pred... Je to ohľadom rodinných vzťahov. Áno, dám to sem ku tejto. Nemôžem to prečítať na verejnosti. Aj tak budú mať osobný rozhovor, takže... 

        346. Brat Branham, je zlé... [Brat Branham sa rozpráva s niekým na pódiu. – pozn.prekl.] (Čo tam je povedané? Čo ohľadom nedele? Práca?) Je zlé pracovať v nedeľu?

192        Práve som to objasnil. Ak je ten vôl v jame, vytiahnite ho von, ale nestrkajte ho do jamy len kvôli tomu, aby ste ho mohli v nedeľu vytiahnuť.

        Brat Branham, budeš tu na ďalšiu nedeľu kázať?

193        To je len taký dotaz. Nie, sestra, brat, ktokoľvek si. No, tieto tu len tak ležali. Musel som ich tam položiť, alebo niekto ich vložil do toho zväzku.

 Brat... Toto je pre teba, brat Capps, „Zaspievaš pieseň 'Nikdy nezostarneme'?“ Musel som to mať v... Mám ich tu niektoré zamiešané.

347. Brat Branham, niekto chce vedieť, prečo si nebol (s-p-o...) spomenutý v Biblii. Verím, že si Habakuk 2:1-4. (Vyhľadaj to, brat Neville, Habakuk 2:1-4) Nech to prečítajú a preštudujú, 3. kapitola... myslím, že mená a predobrazy tých 4 kapitol, verím, že to je o tebe.

194        No, zatiaľ čo to hľadá, to je Habakuk 2:1-4. Brat alebo sestra, ktokoľvek sa opýtal tú otázku (Nie je tu žiadne meno; to je v poriadku), som rád, že sa pýtate na tie veci. Potom viem, čo máte na srdci (Rozumiete?), a potom vám odpoviem. Nie. Vidíte? Nemusíš mať nevyhnutne svoje meno v Biblii (Rozumiete?), ale (Vidíte?), pokiaľ si v Biblii, tam – pokiaľ si v Kristovi, tak si v Biblii; si v Ňom (Vidíte?), v Biblii. Rozumiete? Pokiaľ si v Kristovi, tak si v plnosti Biblie. Vidíte? Si vo svojej plnej pozícii, keď si v Kristovi. Všetci tomu rozumiete?

195        Našiel si to, brat Neville? Čo? Áno. Habakuk – Habakuk... Nečítal som to. Myslím, že to sem bolo položené len dnes ráno. Habakuk 2:1-4. Pozrime sa na to. Habakuk 2 – Habakuk 2, a od 1-4:

Postavím sa na svoju stráž, stanem si na vežu a budem vyzerať, aby som videl, čo mi bude hovoriť, a čo odpoviem na svoje karhanie.

A Hospodin mi odpovedal a riekol: Napíš videnie, a to zreteľne na doskách, aby čitateľ prebehol po ňom.

Lebo ešte bude videnie na určený čas, ale na konci bude hovoriť a neoklame; keby predlelo, čakaj naň, lebo istotne prídem a nebudem meškať.

Hľa, nadutá je, nie je priama jeho duša v ňom, ale spravodlivý bude žiť svojou vierou.

196        No, viem si predstaviť, že táto drahá osoba, ktorá sa toto pýta... Vidíte? To je niekto, kto ma miluje, inak by to nenapísali. Vidíte? No, nemohol by som povedať, že moje... V Biblii nie je napísané moje meno, William Branham, ani tvoje meno tam nie je, ktokoľvek si, ale jednako sme v Ňom. A tieto...

197        A teraz, v Biblii vidíme známe miesta, ktoré sa na niečo odvolávajú, ktoré hovoria určité veci. Rozumiete? No, ak dávate pozor, v Biblii sa história opakuje. Vidíte? No, dám vám teraz jedno miesto Písma ako príklad. (Vidím, že mnohí si tie veci zapisujete.) No, v 3. kapitole svätého Matúša, tam je povedané, „A keď Boh povolal z Egypta Svojho Syna, aby mohlo byť naplnené to, čo bolo povedané, 'Z Egypta som povolal Svojho Syna...'“ No, ak máte Scofielda alebo akúkoľvek inú Bibliu s odvolávkami, ak si tam pozriete tú odvolávku, ten text za okrajom, to vás privedie naspäť na miesto, kde On povolal Jákoba, Izrael, z Egypta. Vidíte? Ale Jákob bol Jeho syn, ktorého povolal z Egypta; taktiež Ježiš bol Jeho Syn, ktorého povolal z Egypta. Tak vidíte, Slovo Božie nikdy nekončí. Vidíte? Identifikujeme samých seba v Biblii s rozličnými... Koľkí z vás si pamätajú na moje posolstvo o tom identifikovaní sa s kresťanskými postavami; Phoenix, Arizona, tam som to kázal. Áno, mnohí z vás to majú na páske. Vidíte? Zidentifikovaní s kresťanskou postavou. Rozumiete? Ak si kresťan, môžeš sa v tom Písme kdekoľvek zidentifikovať, a ak nie si kresťan, tiež sa môžeš identifikovať v Biblii. Rozumiete? Tak myslím, že to by mohlo pomôcť. Chcel by som ich prebrať toľko, koľko len stihnem.       

348. Brat Branham, niektorí ľudia hovoria, že milosť skončila a nikto nemôže byť spasený. No, je to pravda? (Som rád, že som si vytiahol práve túto otázku.) Pozorujeme a modlíme sa – pozorujeme modlitebné rady a vyzerá to, že niektorí stále nachádzajú milosť. (No, to je prvá otázka z dvoch.)

198        „Skončila milosť?“ Nikdy si to nemyslite. Rozumiete? Len pokračujte a robte všetko, čo môžete, až kým nebudete vzatí preč. Rozumiete?

199        „Všimli sme si, že v modlitebnom rade niektorí ľudia stále nachádzajú milosť.“ Istotne. Milosť – tie dvere sú otvorené. Vidíte? Myslím, že ste mohli k tomuto prísť kvôli – táto myšlienka môže ležať medzi... Vidíte? Nemám čas, aby som každé z týchto miest Písma umiestňoval na ich správne miesto (Rozumiete?), každú z týchto vecí na jej správne miesto. Oni... V modlitebnom rade nachádzate milosť; istotne.

200        Ak by som vedel, že Ježiš prichádza dnes popoludní, robil by som presne tie veci, ktoré robím aj teraz (Rozumiete?), len by som pokračoval ďalej. Milosť je vždy otvorená. Vidíte?

201        A teraz, to miesto, o ktorom si myslím, že to máte odtiaľ – to je ohľadom zakončovania siedmich cirkevných vekov a že bolo uvoľnených sedem Pečatí. Vidíte? Sedem Pečatí, to prejavilo, čo sa deje – čo sa stalo. Siedmy cirkevný vek, sme na konci siedmeho cirkevného veku. Keď hovorím na konci, to neznamená, že toto je teraz práve tá hodina, práve tá minúta. Pamätajte, Biblia tam vtedy v čase Pána Ježiša povedala, Pavol povedal, „Čas je na blízku.“ Viete si predstaviť, ako dlho to bolo v Božom čase? To bolo včera. Čo sa týka môjho času, tak to bolo 2000 rokov. Vidíte? Čas je na blízku. Vidíte? To, čo Boh nazýva na blízku; to nie je to, čo my nazývame na blízku. Rozumiete?

202        Tak len naďalej verte, naďalej sa modlite, pokračujte vpred... Boh má stále otvorenú milosť; len do nej vchádzajte tak rýchlo, ako len môžete. Boh to zastaví, keď príde ten čas to zastaviť. Vidíte? Nuž..

.        349. Brat Branham, je pravda, že by nikto okrem teba nemal kázať? Videli sme ťa, ako si ordinoval nejakých mužov. Neveríme, že by si to robil, keby nemali kázať.

203        Pre milosrdenstvo! Brat, sestra, ktokoľvek ti povedal, že nikto okrem mňa nemôže kázať, ja by som bol pre Boha určite biednym jedincom s tým všetkým. Nie. Každý muž, alebo ten, ktorý vo svojom živote cíti povolanie od Boha, nech začne kázať; potrebujeme ich.

204        Boží muži sú pomazaní po celom svete, aby kázali Evanjelium. Vidíte? Som len jedným malým kamienkom na pláži medzi mnohými veľkými kameňmi. Rozumiete? A tak, ja... Je ich tam mnoho, ktorí sú viac spôsobilí, viac hodní, vo všetkom viac zdatnejší ku kázaniu, než som ja; som len jednou malou pokornou osobou, ktorá tu leží. Som jedným zrnkom pšenice v celej sýpke. Vidíte? Tak to je len... Viete, čo tým myslím.

205        Každý muž, ktorý je povolaný od Boha, je potrebné, aby kázal Evanjelium.       

 350. Ako sa môže kresťan vnoriť hlbšie do lásky Božej?

206        Čítaj Slovo a modli sa. Čítaj Slovo Božie a modli sa. Budem sa ponáhľať, aby som ich stihol toľko, koľko len budem môcť.

Zadal som jednu otázku, ale opýtal som sa to (n-e-s...) nesprávne. Chcem vedieť, či budeš mať zhromaždenie s uzdravovaním predtým, ako opustíš mesto. Ak nie... môžem mať s tebou osobný rozhovor?

 No, mimochodom, myslím, že táto osoba bola dnes ráno na rozhovore. Samozrejme, mali sme zhromaždenie s uzdravovaním – mali sme tiež zhromaždenie s uzdravovaním. 

        351. Brat Branham, prosím, objasni 1. Korinťanom – 1. Korinťanom 11... 11 a verš 4–6. Znamená to nejaké ešte iné pokrytie okrem vlasov, alebo sú dlhé vlasy tým jediným pokrytím, ktoré potrebujeme? (Nájdi mi 1. Korinťanom 11. Pozrime sa na to, 1. Korinťanom 11:4.) Tam je povedané, že keď sa modlíme... (Ó, áno, on – tu to majú. Oni hovoria...) Keď sa modlíme alebo prorokujeme, môžeme si vziať naše vlasy... Môžeme... (Pozrime sa na to; majú tu niečo prečiarknuté čiarou.) Keď prorokujeme – keď prorokujeme, môžeme si vziať naše vlasy, keď sme... (Vy hovoríte...) Keď prorokujeme, môžeme si nasadiť naše vlasy alebo ich máme dať dole?

208        Ak máte príčesok, môžete, ale ja by som – alebo ak nosíte jednu z tých Beatles parochní alebo niečo také, ale... Ak by som v nejakej vyzeral dobre, pravdepodobne by som aj ja nejakú nosil, ale to – nie Beatles parochňu, ale obyčajný príčesok.

209        Ale to je v poriadku. Ak nemáš žiadne vlasy a chceš nejaké mať. Ak to môžeš urobiť, je to úplne v poriadku. Tak veru. Ak nejaká žena, ak nemá dostatočne dlhé vlasy, chce si ich predlžiť, povedal by som, nasaď si to, sestra.

210        Ak nejaký muž trpí nachladnutím a podobne, a chce nejakým spôsobom... alebo aj čo sa týka jeho vzhľadu pre jeho manželku, ak by chcel nosiť nejaký príčesok, nech to urobí. Tak veru, áno. Nie je na tom nič zlé (Nie veru.), tak isto, ako keď ide o vaše zuby alebo umelú ruku alebo čokoľvek iné. Ak od teba príroda niečo zobrala a je to tak užitočná vec, len smelo choď do toho, je to úplne v poriadku.

211        Ale tu je povedané, „Môžeme si nasadiť naše vlasy alebo ich máme dať dole, keď sa modlíme alebo prorokujeme?“ Čo to v skutočnosti znamená?

212        V poriadku, prečítajme to, brat Neville... tu... od 4 do 6, v poriadku, no dobre.

Každý muž, keď sa modlí alebo keď prorokuje a má pokrytú hlavu, hanobí svoju hlavu. (To je, ak má dlhé vlasy. V poriadku.)

Ale každá žena, keď sa modlí alebo keď prorokuje s nepokrytou hlavou, hanobí svoju hlavu (To je jej manžel.), lebo je to jedno a to isté, ako keby sa bola oholila.

Lebo ak sa žena nepokrýva, nech sa aj ostrihá;... (Ak si chce strihať vlasy, nech sa rovno úplne oholí. Vidíte? Ak nedokáže mať...) ...ale ak nie je žene mrzká vec – ak je žene mrzká vec ostrihať sa alebo sa oholiť, nech sa pokrýva.

213        Nevidím tam nič ohľadom nasadenia alebo zloženia vlasov dole, pokiaľ žena chce... On hovorí, ak ona hovorí, že ich treba strihať, potom nech si ich oholí úplne celé. Vidíte? Pretože ak nie, potom nech má vlasy; pretože jej vlasy sú jej pokrytím. Ale čo sa týka muža, aby on mal pokrytú hlavu, dlhé vlasy ako žena, a stál by tak za kazateľňou, vyzeral by tam ako žena. Vidíte? Takže on to tak nemôže mať. Rozumiete?

214        To znamená, že oni si nasadzujú príčesok, alebo ho dávajú dole... Myslím, že tá osoba sa tam mohla zmýliť vo svojom zmýšľaní ohľadom toho, že to tam hovorilo o mužovi, ktorý prorokuje s pokrytou hlavou, potom si on dáva dole svoje pokrytie. Vidíte? Nie. To neznamená, že on mal dlhé vlasy; to znamená, že ak je on pokrytý... No, len to čítaj trocha ďalej, ty, kto si sa opýtal tú otázku, a zistíš, že hlavou ženy je jej manžel. Koľkí to vedia? A hlavou muža je Kristus; a tak, muž by si mal strihať vlasy kvôli Kristovi, pretože v Ňom je muž i žena a všetko. On je otcom, matkou, sestrou, bratom, všetkým. Ale v mužovi je iba mužnosť. A tak si musí strihať vlasy kvôli Kristovi; ale v žene je iba ženskosť, tak ona môže mať svoje pokrytie; pretože jej manžel je nad ňou. On je jej pánom, jej vládcom; a tak, ona musí mať dlhé vlasy.

215        A potom, ak ona hovorí, že si ich musí strihať, potom nech sa úplne oholí. A povedal, že ak je to pre ženu hanbou alebo potupou (a ona má vyzerať pekne), aby mala úplne oholené vlasy, potom nech má na hlave svoje pokrytie; nech má svoje dlhé vlasy. Vidíte? A tak, to je... Každý... Všetci tomu rozumiete? Myslím tým, znie to v poriadku? Ak áno, ak ste to porozumeli, povedzte, „Amen.“ Rozumiete? [Zhromaždenie odpovedá, „Amen.“ – pozn.prekl.] V poriadku

.        352. Brat Branham... (Teraz nám zostáva už len desať minút.) Brat Branham, tam, kde žijeme, nemáme žiadneho kazateľa, ale v nedeľu večer mávame len zhromaždenie, kde počúvame pásku. Mali by sme brať naše deti do inej cirkvi na nedeľnú školu? Sú zhromaždenia, kde sa počúva páska, dostatočné?

216        No, nech je to podľa toho, ako sú na tom vaše deti. Rozumiete? No, ak vezmete vaše deti, ktoré sú malé; a dáte ich tam do nejakej skupiny, vtlčú do nich veci, ktoré by nemali vedieť; to by som nerobil. Ak sa zdá, že sa dokážu dostatočne učiť z pások a takých vecí... A vy, povedzme, že by ste ich dali do katolíckej cirkvi, vzali by ste ich do katolíckej cirkvi, vzali by ste ich do niečoho takého; to by som neradil. Rozumiete? Ak oni...

217        Ale teraz, ak tam máte malý pekný zbor, kde s vami nesúhlasia možno v dvoch alebo troch veciach, a vaše deti chcú chodiť na nedeľnú školu, a tamto sú ľudia plného Evanjelia alebo niečo také, no, to by bolo úplne v poriadku. Ale vidíte, ale keď prídete na miesto, kde... Záleží na tom, ako to berú vaše deti, vidíte? Sledujte, čo robia vaše deti, čo – ako na to reagujú.       

        353. (Pozrime sa na to.) Ak nemáš zbor, do ktorého by si chodil, mal by si potom len počúvať pásky?

 Áno. To je – ja by som – ja... To by bolo v poriadku.

        354. Musia mať vaše deti prežitie, aby mali Ducha Svätého? Ak vidia to Posolstvo času konca, majú Ducha Svätého?

218        Každý musí mať to prežitie. Vaše deti nemôžu vojsť nijakým iným spôsobom, jedine rovnako ako vy. Rozumiete? Musia sa znovuzrodiť. V Kráľovstve Božom nie sú žiadne vnúčatá; všetko sú to deti. Oni to musia mať, musia mať prežitie s Bohom, aby vošli dnu, práve takisto ako vy. No, dúfam, že by som mohol vziať túto; to je..

.        355. Drahí milovaní: (Pozrime sa na to.) Ohľadne Písma z Efežanom 4:11 až 13, či my všetci... (Pozrime sa na to.) …či nadobudneme celé to zdokonalenie svätých skrze pásky, alebo by sme mali byť tu, kde pôsobia dary Ducha a rozličné úrady v zbore, aby nám to pomohlo k zdokonaleniu? Naše srdcia uverili celému Slovu Pánovmu.

219        No, táto osoba je z Oregonu. No, môj milý... Myslím, že viem, o koho ide. Vidíte? To je... Ó, áno, viem, istotne viem. Tvoj chlapec... Ak tu je tá osoba, viem, že si – ak nie si, mohlo to byť minulú nedeľu. Rozumiete? Toto môže pochádzať z predošlej nedele. Ale tvoj syn lieta ako ochranca prírody (Vidíte?), a on kontroluje... On je – myslím, že to on ma pozval, aby som s vami išiel poľovať na losy do Oregonu, kde... A myslím, že to je v poriadku. No, poznám túto osobu z listu skrze... a tak...

 Nie. Oni chcú prísť sem do zboru kvôli zdokonaleniu. Vidíte? Aby sme tu v zbore mali navzájom obecenstvo, ale zdokonalenie prichádza medzi nami a Bohom. Krv Kristova je tým, čo nás zdokonaľuje v Duchu Svätom.

220        No, hovorí, že v zbore sa prejavujú dary. No, nemáme tu veľmi veľa prejavujúcich sa darov, ale niektoré z nich máme. Máme dar jazykov a dar proroctva (dvaja alebo traja z nich).

221        Myslím, že tu náš brat Higginbotham, kdekoľvek sa nachádza, on má dar hovorenia v jazykoch. A máme s nami nášho brata Juniora Jacksona a on hovorí v jazykoch. A potom máme dvoch alebo troch z nich, ktorí to vykladajú. Brat Neville, náš pastor, ktorý tu je, on tiež hovorí v jazykoch a niekedy prorokuje, a Pán na neho prináša...

222        Práve minule niečo povedal. Volal do domu, kde som práve bol, že prorokoval nad nejakou osobou, povedal im, že nejaký opilec – že v ňom náhle nastane veľká zmena alebo niečo také. A ten muž prišiel od anonymných alkoholikov, stále bol alkoholikom, a už 68 dní sa ani nedotkol alkoholu, ani na to nebral žiadne lieky, ani nič podobné. To bol brat Neville, ktorý nad ním prorokoval.

223        A tak, sme – máme tu medzi nami nejaké dary, ktoré pracujú a veľmi radi budeme mať obecenstvo s kýmkoľvek z vás, ktorí sem pricestujete alebo sem prídete pracovne alebo chcete prísť a mať s nami obecenstvo, urobíme pre vás čokoľvek, veľmi sa z toho tešíme. Vidíte? Ale teraz, čo sa týka zdokonalenia – to patrí Kristovi.

 No, pozrime sa, ešte jednu alebo dve. 

 356. Brat Branham, budeš taký dobrý a vysvetlíš tú fotku, ktorú urobil brat Arganbright? Otázka číslo 1. Tá druhá je ohľadom tej druhej fotky na stene, to svetlo, ktoré je okolo teba, tá pracka, a tak ďalej.

224        No dobre, niečo vám poviem. Oni sa tu podpísali a teraz tu nie sú. Rozumieme tomu. To je brat a sestra Jackson z južnej Afriky; vrátili sa naspäť. Tak my tomu rozumieme; vysvetlili sme to.       

 357. Kedy bude cirkev, ktorá... Kedy bude vzkriesená cirkev, ktorá zomrela počas súženia? Budú oni tiež čakať až do vzkriesenia bezbožných? Budú žiť znova počas milénia?

225        No, to je dobrá otázka. Zaslúži si viac času, než jej môžem dať, ale len aby som mohol... Rozumiete? Nemám... Zostali mi asi dve tretiny z toho, s čím som dnes ráno začal – prešli dve hodiny. Je ich tak mnoho, že sa ich jednoducho nedá prebrať. Rozumiete? A chcem ich prebrať toľko, koľko len môžem, nevidím, kde všade sú. Viem, že sú tu tiež niektoré veľmi dobré, ktoré by sa mali prebrať, ako napríklad vysvetlenie semena hada a iné veci; ale poponáhľam sa a rýchlo vojdeme do tohto.

226        „Bude cirkev, ktorá zomrela počas obdobia súženia (Rozumiete?), vo vzkriesení?“

 V tom druhom vzkriesení, v tom druhom zmŕtvychvstaní.

227        „Budú tiež čakať do vzkriesenia bezbožných?“

 Spravodliví a nespravodliví budú vzkriesení v tom istom čase.

 „Budú žiť znova počas milénia?“

228        Nie. A ostatní mŕtvi neožili, až sa neskončí tých tisíc rokov. No, to je celkom krátke, ale som si istý...       

 358. Čo myslel Pavol tou voľnosťou a slobodou v Kristovi? Ako ďaleko je sloboda od zákona?

229        No, nie ste zviazaní zákonom. Povedzme, ako napríklad, tu je tá istá vec; vysvetlím to rýchlo v tej prirodzenej veci. Napríklad, tu vonku je napísané, že môžeš ísť po ulici iba 30 míľ za hodinu, rýchlejšie nemôžete ísť. V poriadku. No, ak by som išiel po ulici 40 míľ za hodinu, zákon ma odsudzuje. Ale ak idem po ulici iba 30 míľ za hodinu, nie som pod zákonom. Rozumiete? To je sloboda v Kristovi (Vidíte?), tá istá vec.

230        Nie si zviazaný zákonom tak dlho, ako... Ak nekradnem, neklamem, nefajčím, nepácham cudzoložstvo, ktorákoľvek z tých vecí, tak nie som zviazaný zákonom. Rozumiete? Som slobodný od zákona; som v Kristovi.       

 359. Ako to cítiš ohľadom kontroly pôrodnosti?

231        Dnes ráno som ohľadom toho mal niekoľko rozhovorov. Radšej by som s vami hovoril o tých veciach osobne (Rozumiete?), o tých veciach, pretože sú slová a veci, ktoré musím povedať, a ktoré by som radšej povedal, ak tam bude len manžel a manželka...

232        A existuje možnosť, ako to robiť správnym spôsobom. Povedal by som to tak všeobecne. V živote ženy je tak mnoho dní, kedy je neplodná. Rozumiete? V poriadku. Nuž...

233        No, niekedy by to dieťa mohlo tú ženu zabiť; ak by mala dieťa, mohlo by ju to zabiť. Na to tiež chcete dávať pozor. Rozumiete? Tak ohľadom toho buďte naozaj opatrní. Rozumiete? Viete, to je prinášanie života, to je to, kvôli čomu ste tu na zemi.

234        Ak je tvoja manželka chorá a ďalšie dieťa by ju mohlo zabiť, tak by som to nerobil. Nemyslím, že Pán by chcel, aby si to robil. A príďte ku mne ohľadom tých vecí osobne; budeme mať súkromný rozhovor. Dovoľte, nech s vami hovorím osobne (Rozumiete?), a môžem cítiť...

235        Vidíte, každý jednotlivec, dokážem povedať, či mi klamú, alebo nie. Rozumiete? Hovoria mi rôzne veci. Radšej by som vás videl... Rozumiete? Pretože ak to máte takto, vtedy neviete. Ide o to, že to sú individuálne veci a podobne; nedokážem takto povedať, či hovoria pravdu alebo nie. Rozumiete?       

 360. Prečo bude satan prepustený na krátky čas po tisícich rokoch zo Zjavenia 20 a 3, a Zjavenia 20:27?

236        Prečo bude prepustený? Aby išiel zhromaždiť svojich ľudí pri druhom vzkriesení, pretože satan tiež musí stáť pred súdom. Rozumiete? Musí byť odsúdený.

 Ó, táto kniha je ich plná. Neverím... A tu je ďalšia obálka, ktorá je ich plná. Dovoľte, aby som sa teraz naozaj veľmi poponáhľal.

361. Brat Branham, prosím, objasni Skutky 9, verš 7 a Skutky 20 – Skutky 22. verš. (Vyhľadáš mi to, brat Neville?) Prosím, objasni Skutky 9, verš 7.

237        No, zatiaľ čo to hľadá, pozriem sa, či môžem rýchlo prebrať ďalšiu otázku. Začínate byť unavení? Viem, že ste.

Prosím, objasni tajomstvo prenesenia Nevesty. Ako a kde sa to stane, miesto, kam ide Nevesta. (Či to nie sú dobré otázky? To je naozaj pekné, mohol by som tu len stáť celý deň...)

 No, teraz len chvíľu, verš – verš... Skutky 9, verš 7 (Ďakujem ti, brat Neville.) – 9, verš 7:

A mužovia, ktorí s ním spolu cestovali, stáli ohromení, bez slova, ktorí síce hlas počuli, ale nevideli nikoho.

238        No, viem, kam tým mierite. Vidíte? No, na tom ďalšom mieste je to povedané naopak. No, neviem, čo sa tam stalo. Neviem vám to povedať, pretože na tom druhom mieste to oni počuli. Na jednom z nich, tam to nevideli, a na tom druhom mieste to videli a nepočuli. Koľkí z vás to niekedy predtým videli v Biblii? Ja áno, a nedokážem to vysvetliť. Rozumiete? Ja... Pán by mi to musel zjaviť. Pred chvíľou som vám o tom hovoril; musím s vami byť úprimný. Vidíte? Neviem. Je mi ľúto. Ak to nedokážem vysvetliť, budem dostatočne úprimný, že vám poviem, že to neviem. Ale ja – nebudem sa to snažiť vyriešiť, keď to neviem.

239        Nedokážem to vysvetliť, pretože na jednom mieste je povedané, že videli to Svetlo a nepočuli ten Hlas, alebo niečo také; a na tom druhom mieste videli – počuli ten Hlas, ale vôbec nevideli to Svetlo. Nedokážem to vysvetliť. Rozumiete? Neviem, čo sa stalo, a nebudem to vedieť, pokiaľ mi to Pán nezjaví; tak isto, ako by som vám nemohol hovoriť o manželstve a rozvode. Nevedel som o tom, až kým mi to On nezjavil.

240        A dokonca dnes ráno, Pán Boh, Stvoriteľ nebies a zeme vie, že toto je pravda; dnes ráno On dokončil celú tú vec, povedal mi tie veci ohľadom manželstva a rozvodu. Je to tak. A preto vám hovorím, dovoľte mi, aby som to všetko dal dohromady. Preskúmal...

241        Keď jedna z tých vecí, ako semeno hada, keď mi to bolo predstavené, nemohol som to tak vidieť, nič; ale len som to ďalej sledoval a prvé, čo zistíte... Potom sa musíte dostať preč od samého seba, a potom to Duch Svätý začína otvárať. No, chcem, aby to niekto teraz skúsil odsúdiť. Vidíte? To nemôžu.       

 362. Prosím, objasni tajomstvo prenesenia Nevesty.

242        Jednoducho premena (Rozumiete?); teraz naše telá... Povedzme to tak, že naše. Viete, čo tým myslím, keď to tak hovorím? Nechcem byť neúctivý. Nechcem tým povedať 'naše'; nechcem tým povedať, že 'tento zbor'; mám na mysli každého veriaceho.

243        Abrahám, On očakával zasľúbeného syna, ktorý mu bol zasľúbený. Je to tak? A Cirkev očakáva zasľúbeného Syna. Nevesta (Je to tak?), Nevesta očakáva zasľúbeného Syna.

244        Predtým, ako ten zasľúbený syn mohol prísť ku Sáre a Abrahámovi, ich telá museli byť premenené. Je to pravda?

245        Bola príliš stará na to, aby mala dieťa. Nemala v prsiach žiadne mliečne žľazy; jej prsia vyschli. Jej lono bolo neplodné; bola sterilná. Nemohla mať dieťa; jej srdce bolo príliš staré na to, aby zvládla pôrod. Tak čo sa stalo? Boh ju premenil znova naspäť na mladú ženu. A On urobil Abrahámovi to isté, pretože povedal, že jeho telo bolo ako mŕtve. Vidíte? A On musel premeniť ich telo, aby mohli prijať zasľúbeného syna.

246        A my nemôžeme prijať zasľúbeného Syna (ktorý je nám dnes zasľúbený), v týchto telách, v ktorých žijeme; tieto telá sú hriešne.

247        Toto prvé vedomie riadi toto telo pomocou zraku, chuti, hmatu, čuchu a sluchu, a to nám všetkým spôsobuje problémy; mudrujeme a všetko také. Ale to nové telo, ktoré pochádza z tohto nového narodenia (nie tohto prvého vedomia; ono pominie)... To je to niečo vnútorné, čo žije. Každý, kto tomu rozumie, povedzte, „Amen.“ [Zhromaždenie odpovedá, „Amen.“ – pozn. prekl.]

248        To nie je tento vonkajšok, zrak, chuť, hmat, čuch a sluch. To nie je to. To je poddané smrti a zomrie, ale tá vnútorná časť teba, tu dole vo vnútri, vnútrajšok, to je osoba, ktorá nemôže zomrieť. Rozumiete? A to je osoba, od ktorej začína ten nový Život, z tohto nového narodenia; a to buduje inú osobu, ktorá je na obraz tejto osoby, ktorou si; okolo toho života. Porozumeli ste tomu?

249        Takže potenciálne je to tu vo vnútri a čo to je? Slovo, ktoré bolo zasľúbené pred založením sveta. A okolo tamtoho, toto iba odzrkadľuje ten negatív; tamto bude odzrkadľovať pozitív, Slovo. Rozumiete? A tá istá vec je – alebo prenesenie Nevesty bude to isté. Slovo, ktoré je v tebe, okolo toho Slova sa zmaterializuje telo; a to isté sa stalo so Sárou.

250        Predtým... Keď to staré telo, ktoré mala, to prvé telo, ono muselo byť premenené, aby vyprodukovalo toho syna. Porozumeli ste tomu? Tamto telo to nedokázalo urobiť. Toto telo to nedokáže urobiť, takže musí byť takisto premenené, aby prijalo Syna.       

 363. Ako sa to stane, a kam ide Nevesta?

251        Ide do slávy, do neba na svadobnú večeru, práve ako v predobraze Izáka a Rebeky, keď Rebeka išla stretnúť Izáka. Pamätajte, Eliezér teraz reprezentuje to posolstvo, ktoré vyšlo od Abraháma, Eliezér vyšiel nájsť nevestu pre Izáka. V chládku večera našiel krásnu Rebeku, dievča tmavšej pleti, ktorá vyšla von s vedrom na vodu. A Eliezér sa modlil, povedal, „Pane Bože, daj mi teraz dobrú cestu a úspech pre môjho pána Abraháma.”

252        A on povedal, „Choď, neber mu spomedzi Filištínov – neber ju.” Choď tu medzi jeho ľudí, ukazuje tým, že Nevesta Kristova a Kristus sú si pokrvní príbuzní, lebo Rebeka a Izák boli bratranec a sesternica.

253        A tak išli a táto nádherná Rebeka vyšla von a nabrala vodu a on sa modlil… a napojila ťavy a všetko ostatné. A potom si všimnete, že poslednú voľbu musela urobiť sama Rebeka. On žiadal otca o dievča, žiadal matku o dievča, a oni ani jeden nedokázali súhlasiť. Chceli, aby ešte chvíľu ostala. On povedal, „Nezdržujte ma v mojej práci.”

254        A Rebeka musela rozhodnúť, lebo on povedal, „Ona je tým dievčaťom, nech ona rozhodne.”

255        A len čo jej to bolo predstavené, jej myseľ bola rýchlo pripravená, povedala, „Ja pôjdem.” Vysadla na ťavu a odišla stretnúť... Pozrite sa, práve tá ťava, ktorú napojila, bola tou ťavou, ktorá ju zobrala ku jej ženíchovi a do celého jej úspechu. A tá istá ťava, tá istá moc toho (zviera v Biblii reprezentuje moc)... A práve tá moc, ktorej dávame vodu a chválu (Amen. Rozumiete?), vodu, život, chválu Slovu, je práve tým, čo nás vezme do slávnej zeme na stretnutie s Ženíchom. Tak veru. Amen.

        Vyzerajúc príchod toho šťastného dňa milénia;

 Keď príde náš požehnaný Pán;

 Zobrať preč Svoju Nevestu, ktorá na Neho čaká.

256        A pamätajte, Izák opustil stan a stál vonku na poli a premýšľal neskoro popoludní (Amen.), keď uvidel, ako prichádza Rebeka. A ona ho nikdy nevidela a on nikdy nevidel ju, ale to bola láska na prvý pohľad. Ona sa doňho zaľúbila a on do nej, a ona bola ešte zahalená. Amen. Ó.

257        A pozrite, keď ho uvidela, jej srdce bolo tak plné radosti. Ona nevedela, za koho sa ide vydať, len skrze vieru. Amen. A pamätajte, Ježiš opustí Kráľovstvo a my Ho nestretneme v sláve; máme Ho stretnúť na povetrí, medzi nebom a zemou, kde bol rozpätý, aby nás vykúpil. A on stretol Rebeku v strede, medzi jej domom a svojím domom. Amen. Zobral ju do svojho domu a oženil sa s ňou a zdedil všetko, čo mal jeho otec. Amen. Ó, dokonalé, jednoducho dokonalé. V poriadku.

        Otázka: Či Boh oddeľuje muža a manželku v...

258        Túto radšej neprečítam. Rozumiete? Musel by som k tomu niečo povedať. Rozumiete? Všetkých vás poznám, ale toto je nahrávané (Vidíte?), a tak to radšej neurobím. To je niečo ohľadom... Tá osoba, ktorá to napísala, vieš, o čo ide; a radšej sa s tebou stretnem na osobnom rozhovore. Vidíte? Radšej nebudem... Nemyslím, že by to bolo vhodné čítať. Rozumiete? Je to v poriadku, tá osoba, nie je ohľadom toho nič zlé; opýtali sa legitímnu otázku, ale myslím, že by pre mňa bolo lepšie, aby som sa na to pozrel pri osobnom rozhovore. Nemyslíte? Ktokoľvek to... Viete, čo to je, ktokoľvek ste.

259        Ó, už sme vyčerpali náš čas, priatelia. Mali by sme radšej zakončiť a ísť k nášmu obedu. Koľko ešte chcete, aby som tu strávil času? Ó, len – áno, možno ešte trocha. Ak niekto musí urýchlene odísť, nenechajte si prihorieť obed. Ale ak len – ak vaša... A ja budem pravdepodobne jesť v Blue Boar alebo u Pryora alebo na niektorom z tých miest, a oni vás pravdepodobne nebudú obťažovať. Ak musíte odísť, nech vás Boh žehná; chápem to. Vidíte? A vezmem len asi... Tieto sem položím a to bude všetko, na čo budem odpovedať. Potom pôjdem... Tieto... Zaberie to asi pätnásť alebo viac minút, potom skončím.       

        364. Mám dve dcéry, ktoré sú vydaté za mužov v d-e-... a oni veria tomuto Posolstvu. Oni – denominácii... (To je ono.) a oni veria tomuto Posolstvu a stoja za Tým a prijali... Čo majú robiť? Prišla voči nim opozícia. Čo máme robiť?

260        Pevne stojte. Absolútne. Ukážte svoje farby. To je ono; nepripájajte sa k nim. Nie veru. Nehovorím, aby ste medzi nich nechodili, nemali obecenstvo alebo niečo také, pokiaľ môžete mať obecenstvo; ale čo sa týka zmeny jedálnička, viete, holubica sa nemôže kŕmiť s kaňou.       

 365. Brat Branham, objasnil by si, prosím, Mareka 13:27? Taktiež, brat Branham, čo sú to za ľudia v Zjavení 20:7 a 9, ktorí vedú vojnu proti svätým? Odkiaľ prišli? Bude nejaké prenesenie ako v prípade Noeho rodiny?

261        Zjavenie 13 – alebo nie, Marek 13:27, brat Neville. Zjavenie 20. Máš tam svoju Bibliu, brat Capps? Zjavenie 20, a vyzerá to, že 7 a 9. Myslím, že zatiaľ čo to hľadajú... Tu, rovno tu to má. Zjavenie, ako to teraz bolo? Marek 13:27; 13 a 27.

A vtedy pošle svojich anjelov a zhromaždí svojich vyvolených od štyroch vetrov, od konca zeme až do konca neba – od najvzdialenejších častí zeme až do najvzdialenejších častí neba. [Podľa Biblie KJV – pozn. prekl.]

262        To hovorí o vzkriesení, prenesení, odchode hore. On pošle Svojich anjelov, aby ich zhromaždili. Premýšľali ste niekedy nad tým, kto sú tí anjeli? Hmm? Poslovia. Aha. On ich zhromaždí spolu, privedie ich dokopy (Rozumiete?), privedie ich, spojí ich dokopy od najvzdialenejších častí zeme až do najvzdialenejších častí neba; Slovo, ktoré sa zamanifestovalo na zemi. Vidíte? Pochopili ste to? Slovo bolo vypovedané; tu je To zamanifestované. Vidíte? V poriadku, brat Capps. Pozrime sa.

A keď sa dokonalo tých tisíc rokov, satan bol prepustený zo svojho žalára.

263        V poriadku. Práve som cez to prešiel a vysvetlil som to, či nie? Ohľadom toho, ako bude prepustený zo svojho žalára na konci tých tisícich rokov?

 V poriadku, no, mám tu ešte jednu. Len chvíľu. 

        366. Brat Branham, bolo to z Boha, alebo to bolo z môjho vlastného konania, keď tie veci, ktoré sa stali – keď... pokušenie... bolo to... (Pozri sa, či to vieš rozlúštiť. Je to dobrý rukopis, ale moje vzdelanie je biedne. Čo tam je povedané? Nemyslím, že na to dokážem odpovedať. Brat Capps, ani ja, to nedokážeme rozlúštiť... Je tam povedané...) Bolo to... (Jedine, že by to bola zdravotná sestra. Niečo ohľadom ošetrovateľstva.) Bolo to z Boha, keď som prestala robiť zdravotnú sestru, alebo to bola moja chyba?

264        Neviem. Radšej by som sa s tým stretol na osobnom rozhovore. Rozumiete?

 No, ošetrovateľstvo je legitímna vec, ako zdravotná sestra. Povedal by som... No, tá osoba nikdy... Neodložil som to len kvôli tomu, že som povedal, že na to nebudem odpovedať, pretože pre tú ženu to znamená práve tak mnoho, ako znamená vaša otázka pre vás alebo moja pre mňa. Vidíte? Ale teraz, ak to je zdravotná sestra, ak si prestala pracovať ako zdravotná sestra len kvôli tomu, že si si myslela, že by si nemala pracovať... No, myslím, že ošetrovateľstvo by sa malo vykonávať viac menej zo súcitu. Rozumiete? Mali by ste to pociťovať, ako napríklad nejaký doktor.

265        Doktor, ktorý je dobrým doktorom, bude ľuďom pomáhať bez ohľadu na to, či majú nejaké peniaze alebo nie – skutočný doktor. Vidíte? A myslím, že kazateľ, ktokoľvek, naša služba by mala byť jeden druhému, aby sme jeden pre druhého urobili život aspoň trocha lepším.

266        Ja... Keď mi povedali, že mám od tohto zboru brať sto dolárov týždenne ako mzdu, no, to ma takmer zabilo. Nuž... Pani Wilson, viem, a pravdepodobne aj jej syn, a oni tu sedia, pamätajú sa, že pred rokmi, keď som tu kázal po dobu sedemnástich rokov a nikdy v živote som nezobral ani cent. Akúkoľvek malú čiastku peňazí, všetko, čo som mohol zarobiť, dával som to rovno do toho. Vidíte? A keď mi povedali, že to musím brať kvôli týmto zhromaždeniam, takmer ma to zruinovalo. Rozumiete? Samozrejme, verím, že to je v poriadku, ale to som len ja (Vidíte?), nechcem nič, žiadne peniaze, to jediné, čo chcem, je vaše priateľstvo a Božiu priazeň s nami.

267        Milujem vás (Vidíte?); milujem vás a chcem, aby ste boli v poriadku; a aj ja sám chcem byť v poriadku. A teraz, chcem, aby ste mi verili; ja vám verím. A ak ku mne prídete s otázkou, chcem ku vám byť úprimný. A ak vám niečo poviem v Mene Pánovom, chcem, aby ste urobili presne to, čo som vám povedal. Neodchyľujte sa od toho ani o kúsok, a myslím, že potom budeme vychádzať dobre. Vidíte? A potom, ostatní...

268        A tak teraz, ak to je ošetrovateľstvo... A myslím, že ak máš na srdci byť zdravotnou sestrou... Nie každý môže byť zdravotnou sestrou. Zdravotná sestra je niekto, kto je jemný a láskavý ku ľuďom, ó, a myslím, že skutočná zdravotná sestra... Ak ste niekedy boli chorí v nemocnici, alebo niečo také, a vidíte skutočne milú zdravotnú sestru, ktorá príde a spraví, že sa cítite komfortne, alebo niečo také...

269        Mal som operáciu kvôli – keď som bol vtedy postrelený; musel som ísť do nemocnice. Bola tam taká zdravotná sestra, volal som ju 'Sladká uhorka', pretože oni – ona mala v ústach stále nejakú uhorku a jedla ju. Takto to bolo celý čas. A mal som len okolo štrnásť rokov a bol som postrelený. A ona bola len malá osoba a ona – tie prestrelené nohy, obe boli takmer rozstrelené, a ona položila jeden vankúš sem a druhý vankúš tam; a po celý čas mi stále pomáhala. A stále som premýšľal, (Bol som len malé dieťa.) – myslel som, že by som sa s ňou mohol oženiť, pretože ku mne bola tak láskavá a milá. No, ja... To... Vidíte, to niečo znamená (Rozumiete?), to niečo robí.

367. Rád by som sa opýtal otázku. Číslo 1: Je dámske pyžamo... (No, len chvíľu počkajte; nech si to prečítam.) …je mužským odevom? Je zlé ohýbať konce... (Nie, toto bude v poriadku.) Je dámske pyžamo mužským odevom?

270        Ha-ha. Chlapče, nehovorte mi, že sa nemôžu opýtať niečo, čo ich páli. Ha-ha-ha. Neviem. Ha-ha. Nechám to na vás, aby ste sa rozhodli. Nemali by ste sa v tom parádiť pred ľuďmi; to viem. Takže to je jasné, ale čo sa týka ísť v tom do postele, ja neviem. Pri tejto otázke sa budem tiež musieť stiahnuť do úzadia. Povedal som vám, že budem úprimný, ak niečo neviem. Nebudem ohľadom toho hovoriť svoje vlastné myšlienky (V poriadku.), jedine, že by ste chceli poznať môj názor. Ak chcete, potom vám poviem. Rozumiete?

 No, pamätajte, to nie je – toto môže byť na milión míľ nesprávne. Myslím, že by vyzeralo pekne mať na sebe nočnú košeľu. Ale ak... Ale to je len na tebe. No, nemôžem vám o tom hovoriť, pretože by som to nemohol podložiť. No, to som ja, nie On, pamätajte na to. Rozumiete? 

 368. Je to zlé, keď si žena pristrihuje končeky vlasov?

 Myslím, že sme cez to prešli pred pár minútami (Vidíte?), čo sa týka tých malých... Predpokladám, že tak volajú tie malé veci, ktoré takto visia dole...

369. Brat Branham, na jednej z pások siedmich cirkevných vekov si spomenul, že Judáš bol ospravedlnený, posvätený. Boli to autentické (Táto je dobrá.) – vysvetli – prežitie – autentické prežitia milosti, ktoré on prijal? Taktiež si sa zmienil o tom, že Judáš mal svoje meno v Knihe Života, a jednako vieme, že odišiel do hádesa a bol stratený. Ako môže nejaká osoba mať svoje meno v Knihe Života a jednako byť stratená? Alebo prečo Boh umiestňuje mená osôb do Knihy Života, keď vie, že na konci budú stratení?

271        No, táto je veľmi dobrá, či nie? Hmm. No, toto by bolo fajn. No, budem musieť len spoliehať na Pána, aby som na toto odpovedal, pretože to musím preskúmať. Pozrite sa.

 Za prvé – v našich cirkvách som sa zmienil o tom, že Judáš mal svoje meno v Knihe Života. No, to je pravda. No, vieme to, pretože Ježiš im povedal, keď tam boli všetci vyslaní (Matúš 10), aby vyháňali diablov, kázali Evanjelium, zadarmo dostali, zadarmo dali; a oni sa vrátili naspäť s radosťou, pretože sa im poddávali diabli. Je to tak? A Ježiš im povedal; a On povedal ich mená (kto oni boli, koľkí boli vyslaní); a oni sa navrátili a tiež Judáš Iškariotský, ktorý Ho i zradil... Vidíte? Vrátili sa s radosťou, pretože sa im poddávali diabli. No, vidíte, ich postoj bol tam nesprávny. Rozumiete? Nesmiete sa radovať kvôli tomu, že máte moc pohnúť s nejakým diablom. Vidíte? Nesmiete to robiť; musíte sa radovať z toho, že ste vôbec prijali dostatok milosti, aby ste boli spasení. Vidíte? Rozumiete? Nesmiete sa radovať... To je to, ako ľudia...

272        Obyčajne tí ľudia, ktorí majú dary, sú tými ľuďmi, ktorí dary nechcú. Vidíte? Pavol sa od tej veci snažil utiecť; takisto Mojžiš. Takýto veľkí vodcovia sa snažia od tej práce utiecť; vedia, čo pred nimi leží. Boh...

 Vidíte, ak vezmete nejakého človeka, ktorý stále hovorí, „Ó, Pane, naplň ma mocou a pôjdem tam von a budem vyháňať diablov.“ Nikdy to nebude robiť. Boh vie lepšie, než aby dôveroval niekomu takému. Vidíte? On by to nikdy nerobil.

273        To je ten chlapík, ktorý s tým nechce mať nič do činenia. Vidíte? To je ten človek, ktorého môže Boh vziať a niekedy ho niečomu naučiť. Rozumiete?

 Tak potom sa Judáš vrátil naspäť s radosťou, všetci z nich, ktorých mená... On povedal, „Neradujte sa tomu, že sa vám poddávajú diabli, ale radujte sa z toho, že sú vaše mená zapísané v Knihe Života.“ No, ak si všimnete a vezmete Daniela, tiež. Vidíte?

 Pretože tvoje meno je v Knihe Života (pretože je v nebesiach, tvoje meno zostalo rozpoznané), to stále neznamená, že si spasený. Rozumiete? Nie si obrátený, až kým neprijmeš Ducha Svätého. Pamätajte na to. Si iba potenciálne obrátený. Rozumiete? Nie si...

274        Ak by ste ma prosili o dub a ja by som vám dal žaluď, potenciálne máte dub, potenciálne, ale ešte sa nevyvinul. To je dôvod, prečo verím v istotu takým spôsobom, ako verím.

 Ak by som prosil o kukuričné pole a vidím tam takto vysokú kukuricu, potenciálne mám kukuričné pole. Ešte to nie je vyvinuté, niečo by sa mohlo stať. Rozumiete?

 No, ty si na svojej ceste cez ospravedlnenie a posvätenie ku krstu Duchom Svätým. Ale keď si skutočne pokrstený Duchom Svätým, potom si v Kráľovstve. No, poviete, „Brat Branham, je to pravda?“

275        Nemám teraz čas, aby som vám ukázal miesta Písma; vyhľadajte si to, keď sa vrátite domov, pretože neviem... Moja myseľ.. Musím sa pozrieť sem do mojej konkordancie, aby som to ukázal. Ježiš povedal Petrovi, ktorý bol spasený i posvätený... Veril na Ježiša, bol posvätený. Svätý Ján 17:17, Ježiš tam povedal, „Posväť ich, Otče, skrze Pravdu; Tvoje Slovo je Pravda.“ A On a Slovo sú to isté. Oni boli posvätení, potenciálne, skrze Pravdu, Slovo, Pravdu. A potom, Ježiš povedal Judášovi – alebo Petrovi, tej noci, keď bol zradený, povedal, „Potom, keď sa obrátiš, upevňuj svojho brata – potom, keď sa obrátiš.“

276        Ten človek Ho nasledoval tri roky a mal meno v Baránkovej Knihe Života a vyháňal diablov a konal mocné skutky, uzdravoval a robil všetky druhy – kázal Slovo a všetko možné a stále nebol obrátený. Vidíte? Ste vedení do obrátenia. Rozumiete?

277        Dieťa, ktoré... Keď sa dokonal ten akt medzi vajíčkom a spermiou alebo génom... Ale keď oni... Potenciálne to dieťa tam je, keď je ten akt vykonaný. Potom sa vyvinie to telo, to je druhé štádium; ale to dieťa sa tu musí narodiť a potom prijíma dych života. Ešte tam nie je dych života. Poviete, „Ó, ono je živé.“ Nie, nie je. To sú malé nervy, svaly, ktoré sa mykajú. Vidíte? Dieťa neprijalo život, pokiaľ sa nenarodilo. A ty sa môžeš mykať a vyskakovať, ale nie si... Vidíte? Musíš sa narodiť. Rozumiete, čo tým myslím? V poriadku.

278        No, on potom povedal, že... „Zmienil si sa o tom, že Judáš mal svoje meno v Knihe Života, a jednako vieme, že odišiel do hádesa a bol stratený. Ako môže nejaká osoba mať svoje meno v Knihe Života a jednako byť stratená?“ No, dovoľte, že tu pre túto drahú osobu pripojím jeden detail.

279        No, všimnite si, Biblia povedala, že keď Daniel videl... On napísal prvú Knihu Zjavenia, Daniel. A všímame si, že v tom videní Ho videl prichádzať ku Starodávnemu času, ktorého vlasy boli biele ako vlna. Koľkí si pamätáte, že ste to čítali? A všimli ste si, že Ján v Zjavení prišiel k tej istej veci – Zjavenie 1? A On tam stál; Jeho vlasy boli biele ako vlna, Jeho nohy a ako vyzeral; Starodávny času. Starodávny času, to je, To nemalo žiaden čas – Ten Večný. A On prišiel... No, sledujte to. A svätí prišli na zem a knihy boli otvorené a iná Kniha bola otvorená, ktorá bola Knihou Života: jedna Kniha. Oni prišli na súd a... On prišiel a s Ním prišlo desaťtisíc desaťtisícov. Je to tak? Ktorí Mu slúžili, Nevesta, Kráľovná a Kráľ...

280        Kto je v dome tvojou malou kráľovnou? Ona ti posluhuje, pripravuje ti jedlo. Je to tak? (To jedlo budete mať teraz neskoršie.) Ale keď ti ona slúži, to je to, čo... Nevesta slúži Kristovi, Slovom. „Človek nebude žiť na samotnom chlebe, ale na každom Slove.“ Vidíte? Ona slúži Slovom Kráľovi, manifestuje Jeho zasľúbené Slovo vo veku, v ktorom žije. Amen. Ó, niečo som povedal, neuchopili ste to, ale...

281        Všimnite si. Ó, táto otázka bola veľmi dobrá. Vidíte? Slúženie vo veku, Slovom. No, všimnite si. A Ona prišla – On prišiel a desaťtisíc desaťtisícov prišlo ku Nemu; a nastal súd a boli otvorené knihy; a iná Kniha bola otvorená, ktorá je Knihou Života; a oni boli tak súdení. Kto to bol, kto prišiel? Nevesta, ktorá nemusela prísť na súd; ona je slobodná od súdu.

282        Iná Kniha bola otvorená, ktorá bola Knihou Života, a tí, ktorí mali svoje mená v Knihe Života, museli byť súdení podľa tej Knihy. A Judáš Iškariotský vyznával, že je veriaci a mal svoje meno zapísané medzi nimi v Knihe Života. Je to tak? On tvrdil, že má večný Život. A jeho meno bolo umiestnené v Knihe Života. Tak on musí... No, on musí byť potom súdený, aby sa videlo, prečo odsúdil Slovo Života, predal Ho za tridsať strieborných. Niektorí to predajú za to, aby boli metodistami, baptistami alebo čokoľvek ďalšie. Predal svoju pozíciu z Knihy Života. A on bude súdiť – bude tam musieť zastať a byť podľa toho súdený, podľa Slova. Vidíte? To je to, prečo to Judáš musí urobiť. Rozumiete? Judáš musí prísť na súd. Jeho meno bolo v Knihe Života, ale to neznamená, že je spasený. Musí sa postaviť pred súd.

283        Spiaca panna bude stáť rovno tam pod tými istými okolnosťami. Všimnite si, Ježiš povedal v svätom Jánovi 5:24, „Ten, kto čuje Moje Slovo (To je ten, kto To dokáže prijať, nie ten, kto To len počuje, ako je To kázané, a ide ďalej a hovorí, 'Nezmysel.' Rozumiete?); ten, kto prijíma Moje Slovo – ten, kto čuje Moje Slovo a verí (nie, že sa len robí, že verí; ale skutočne verí) v Toho, ktorý Ma poslal (ktorý je Slovo), má večný Život a nepríde na súd; ale prešiel (minulý čas) zo smrti do Života.“ To je ono.

284        Tak Judáš mal svoje meno v Knihe Života (To je úplná pravda.), ale bol odsúdený, pretože urobil čo? Predal svoje práva prvorodenstva.

 Ezav sa narodil v rodine so zasľúbením Božím. Najstarší syn mal prvorodenstvo. Koľkí to vedia? Skrze zasľúbenie Božie, Ezavovo meno bolo v knihe kvôli prvorodenstvu (Je to tak?), ale on to vymenil za porciu divých tekvíc – alebo hrachu. Bol hladný po tom, aby si naplnil svoje brucho, jeho stravný lístok, on vymenil svoje práva prvorodenstva za stravný lístok a nemohol nájsť miesto na pokánie.

285        Tí špehovia, ktorí tam vyšli, aby prešpehovali tú zem, prišli a dokonca jedli hrozná, ktoré priniesol Józue a Kálef. A jednako, čo urobili? Predali svoje práva prvorodenstva.

286        Ježiš povedal – alebo Pavol, keď hovoril pod inšpiráciou Krista v Židom, 6. kapitole, „Lebo je nemožné pre tých, ktorí už raz boli osvietení a stali sa účastnými Ducha Svätého a ochutnali rôzne moci budúceho veku; keby odpadli, zase sa obnoviť ku pokániu, ktorí sebe znova križujú Syna Božieho a Krv Zmluvy, ktorou boli posvätení, povážili za nesvätú vec a opovrhli dielami milosti...“ Pre takú osobu je nemožné, aby sa niekedy navrátila späť.

287        Všetci, okrem Józuu a Kálefa, zomreli a zahynuli na púšti, jednako boli veriaci, jednako ich mená boli v knihách.

288        A tu hovorí Pavol o tom, že ak človek niekedy príde do miesta, že zostal spasený a posvätený (Krv posväcuje; Židom 13:12 a 13 hovorí o tom, že Krv posväcuje.), a potom príde rovno ku bráne krstu Duchom Svätým a kvôli nejakej prestíži alebo denominácii odmietne vstúpiť dnu, tam je povedané, „Tá osoba je stratená a nikdy nemôže byť spasená.“ Vidíte? Pretože opovrhol dokonca samotnými tými dielami milosti, ktoré ho povolali do toho miesta a ukázali mu to, a potom sa otočí a odíde od toho preč. Považuje Krv Zmluvy, ktorou bol ukrižovaný – Krista, ktorý bol ukrižovaný – za nesvätú vec. Pretože tá Krv, ktorá ho spasila a ospravedlnila a posvätila, ho privádza hore ku krstu Duchom Svätým. A potom od toho odchádza preč a opustí to...

289        No, sledujte ten vzor. Zaberám mnoho času, ale pozrite sa. Judáš Iškariotský nasledoval tie isté cesty. Bol ospravedlnený skrze vieru v Pána Ježiša a potom Ho prijal ako svojho osobného Spasiteľa. Bol posvätený a dostal moc, aby vyháňal duchov; mal svoje meno umiestnené v Baránkovej Knihe Života. Ale keď to prišlo ku Letniciam a krstu Duchom Svätým, plnosti Slova, on ukázal svoje farby. To je presne to, čo urobili tí špehovia z Kanána; to je presne to, čo urobil Ezav.

 To je presne to, čo urobil satan Eve v záhrade Eden: „Istotne Boh neurobí...“

 Ale ona povedala, „Boh povedal...“

290        On povedal, „Áno, viem, že je povedané to; viem, že je povedané tamto, ale istotne...“ Vidíte? Po celý čas tá istá vec, a tak je to aj dnes.

291        Cirkev prechádzala cez ospravedlnenie, Martin Luther; cez posvätenie, Wesley. Ale keď to prichádza ku času krstu Duchom Svätým, oni ukazujú svoje farby; nechcú s tým mať nič spoločné. Nazaréni, pútnici svätosti; cirkev Božia, všetci tí, ktorí tam veria v posvätenie, nemôžete na to ukázať prstom; je to pravda. Ale keď to prichádza ku tej hraničnej čiare, keď to príde rovno hore ku tomu miestu, aby prijali Ducha Svätého kvôli novému narodeniu, potom čo urobí diabol? Chodí naokolo a snaží sa to prekrútiť. Ó, urobí všetko, čo je v jeho moci, aby zadržal ľudí od toho.

292        Oni prišli s takou vecou a hovoria, že musíš hovoriť v jazykoch. Alebo že musíš mať nejakú senzáciu. Musíš robiť toto... Ty musíš byť do toho narodený. Nenechaj nikoho, aby ti hovoril, že posvätenie a Duch Svätý je tá istá vec, pretože nie je. Istotne nie je.

 Počujete tohto nazaréna, ktorý tam vzadu kričí, „To nie je.“ Vidíte? On vie, že v tom je rozdiel, pretože istotne je – brat Capps, náš vzácny brat. Vidíte?

293        Iste, nazaréni... Nikto nemôže povedať ani slovo proti tým milým nábožným ľuďom; sú tak milí, ako len môžu byť. Cirkev Božia, nazaréni, slobodní metodisti, tí ľudia sú skutoční, ale keď to prichádza ďalej ku skutkom Ducha, oni povedia, „Ó, to je diabol.“ A čo tým robia? Rúhajú sa Duchu Svätému. Keď to robia...

294        No, čo je to rúhanie? Tam nie je žiadneho odpustenia. Je to pravda? Ten, kto už raz bol osvietený, stal sa účastným a ochutnal z nebeských darov (ochutnal Božie posvätenie: zostal očistený od cigariet a nečistých žien a všetkých takýchto druhov života) – a ochutnal z nebeských vecí (vidieť, že prídu až k tej hraničnej čiare, ako to urobili tí špehovia, ktorí jedli z toho hrozna... Vidíte? Ale čo musia urobiť? Musia sa rozísť so svojou denomináciou, aby mohli do tohto vojsť. Vidíte? Rozumiete?) – ochutnali z nebeských darov; vidiac, že sebe znova križujú Syna Božieho a Krv Zmluvy, ktorou boli posvätení, povážili za nesvätú vec.

295        Posvätenie je, keď tvoje meno ide do knihy ako veriaci. Tvoje slovo – tvoje meno je napísané v Jeho Krvi. Rozumiete? Posvätenie to robí; a ty prichádzaš ďalej, keď ti On dôveroval až takto ďaleko, a potom prídeš hore a povieš, „No dobre, či to On vedel?“

296        Áno, On to vedel. On vedel od začiatku, že sa s tým nerozídeš. On vedel, že Judáš sa s tým nerozíde. Poznal ho od začiatku; on bol synom zatratenia. Ale tá vec sa musela vyplniť. Vidíte? Slovo sa muselo vyplniť, aj keď ako predobrazy a tiene. Ó, mohli by sme na tom zostať hodiny.       

        370. Brat Branham, keď si kázal posolstvo o sedemdesiatich cirkevných týždňoch – sedemdesiatich týždňoch (Prepáčte mi.) Daniela, myslím, že si sa tam zmienil o tom, že celý posledný týždeň alebo posledných sedem rokov začne vtedy, keď je Nevesta vzatá vo vytrhnutí.

297        Nie, nie, nie, nie, nie, nie, nie, nie. Máte to nesprávne (Vidíte?), nie celých sedem týždňov. Ten týždeň začal vtedy, keď Ježiš prišiel na zem. Povedal, „Mesiáš, Knieža, príde a bude prorokovať a uprostred siedmich týždňov bude vyťatý.“ A Ježiš kázal presne tri a pol roka, čo je polovica sedemdesiatich týždňov, siedmich dní, týždňa – dňov v týždni. Vidíte? A zostáva tri a pol roka.

298        No, keď prídu na zem Mojžiš a Eliáš, čo je Zjavenie a Zachariáš... (Brat Coomer a sestra Coomer, vaša otázka, to bolo to isté.) No, keď oni... Keď Zachariáš 4 a Zjavenie 11, tie dva olivové stromy, a tak ďalej – to je Mojžiš a Eliáš – keď oni prídu na zem, prorokujú 1264 dní. Čo to je? Presne tri a pol roka. To je presne tá istá vec. Nie... Rozumiete? Ktokoľvek je táto drahá osoba. Veľmi, veľmi pekné, je to napísané na papieri s náboženským záhlavím, riadkovaním, a takými vecami, a je to veľmi pekné. A je to veľmi dobrá otázka, ale (Vidíte?) nepochopili ste to, čo som hovoril. Nikdy som neveril, že by tu bolo celých sedemdesiat týždňov. Mesiáš bol vyťatý. Koľkí si pamätáte, ako to tu bolo kázané? Istotne. Vidíte? Sedem týždňov.       

        371. Odvtedy to vyzerá, že prvých tri a pol roka bolo naplnených počas služby (No, rovno tu to máte.) Ježiša, ale vyjadrenie 'uprostred týždňov' vyzerá, že je aplikované iba na antikrista, ktorý ruší svoju zmluvu s... (Nie, ten antikrist ruší svoju zmluvu na konci posledných tri a pol roka. Vidíte?) Ako som pochopil z pásky o Danielovi, prvých 69 týždňov skončilo, keď Ježiš prišiel do Jeruzalema v roku 30 nášho letopočtu, a tak, tých tri a pol roka Jeho služby by bolo zahrnutých v tých 69 týždňoch; a celé posledné týždne – a celý posledný týždeň alebo 7 rokov by stále ešte mali byť naplnené a začali by pri vytrhnutí. Prosím, objasni to pre mňa.

299        Vieš, brat, sestra, ktokoľvek to je, kto sa opýtal túto otázku. Veľmi dobré (Vidíte?), ale myslím, že máš trochu zamiešanie v tom, čo som povedal. Rozumiete? No, keď Ježiš prišiel do Jeruzalema (To je presne tak.), to bol koniec... Vidíte? On rovno odtiaľ išiel a bol ukrižovaný. Vidíte? A On prorokoval polovicu sedemdesiatich týždňov, čo je tri a pol roka. No, On bol vyťatý a Jeho duša učinila obeť. A teraz, potom by malo prísť... V týchto posledných dňoch, stále je tam zasľúbených tri a pol roka pre Židov. A počas tohto času bolo zhromažďovanie svätých ku vytrhnutiu Cirkvi.

300        No, nedostanem sa cez všetky, brat – brat, sestra.       

 372. Prosím, objasnil by si 1. Korinťanom, 7. kapitolu, verš 1 a 9?

 (Vyhľadaj to, brat Neville, 1. Korinťanom, 7. kapitola, verš 1.)

373. A bude každý pravdivý veriaci konať skutky, o ktorých hovoril Ježiš, ako je to vyhlásené v svätom Jánovi 14:12 (Nie presne to. Nie.): Uzdravovať chorých, vyháňať diablov, kriesiť mŕtvych (Myslím, že to nie je v svätom Jánovi 14, ale to je v poriadku. Tu ide o Matúša 16.), alebo je to len pre Eliáša? Musí veriaci činiť všetko to – ten, ktorý skutočne verí? A ak je naozaj skutočným veriacim, bude kriesiť mŕtvych a robiť veliké zázraky?

301        No, to sa nachádza medzi veriacimi. Vidíte? Každý človek nemá tie dary a to neznamená, že to bude robiť iba jedna osoba; to budú skupiny ľudí. Ako napríklad, čo ak by sme tu v zbore mali malé dievčatko alebo malého chlapca alebo niekoho, koho by sme skutočne veľmi milovali, a odišiel by od nich život? Celá cirkev by sa zišla spolu a modlili by sa a postili, „Pane, zmiluj sa nad tým dieťaťom.“ Vidíte? Boh by ho mohol vzkriesiť.

302        Koľkí ľudia niekedy čítali nicejských otcov a také veci? Viete, takto to robili v tej ranej cirkvi. Všetci sa spolu zišli, viete, a niekedy dokonca vzbudili zmŕtvych svojho pastora a rôznych iných, ak Boh uznal za vhodné, že to tak má byť; ale oni to robili.       

 374. Ak je cirkev spasená, aj keď nejde do vytrhnutia, ako verím, že si to učil, ona potom musí ísť cez súženie kvôli očisteniu. Ale čo s tými, ktorí sú mŕtvi, ako budú oni očistení?

303        V poriadku. Tí, ktorí majú to... Nevesta nepotrebuje žiadne očistenie; ona je už očistená. A tí, ktorí sú tam mŕtvi – tí, ktorí idú cez... Rozumiete? Oni nikdy neprijali Svetlo, ktoré prijala táto Cirkev tu hore; oni žili pod svojím ospravedlnením, posvätením, a takto ďalej. Žili podľa Svetla, ktoré mali. Možno v takom spôsobe, že trpeli a cez čokoľvek prešli s – a ich prenasledovania... Ale teraz, v tomto čase vytrhnutia, ako je tento (Vidíte?), teraz musí nastať čas, že táto nevesta bude – tí, ktorí odmietnu tú Hlavovú časť Nevesty – budú musieť trpieť za svoje odmietnutie, pretože tamtým nebolo Evanjelium vtedy tak jasne podané, ako je to dnes jasne podané pre vás. Rozumiete? Vidíte to tak jasne. Prešli ste cez všetky tieto roky a príklady, boli otvorené Pečate, zostal vyložený ten cirkevný vek, a všetko také. Je to tak jasné, že to nemôžete minúť. Vidíte? A potom, ak to plne odmietnete, ostáva len jedna vec, budete kvôli tomu trpieť.

304        Našiel si to, brat Neville? Čoho sa to týka? Ja len – pôjdem teraz radšej ďalej, pretože začína byť neskoro. Vidíte? Sedem – sedem, deväť... Pozrime sa.

Ale ak sa nevedia zdržať, nech sa oženia, poťažne vydajú, lebo je lepšie oženiť sa, poťažne vydať sa než horieť.

305        V poriadku. To je ohľadom nečistého žitia. Namiesto toho, aby nejaký muž, chlapec, dievča alebo niekto iný, keď majú známosť a vedia, že by sa mali vziať, tak potom choďte a vezmite sa. Myslím, že ste porozumeli tomu, čo som chcel povedať, či nie? Vidíte? Nežite tu nejaký nečistý život, pretože to nie je správne. Rozumiete? V určitom zmysle je to tvoja sestra, ak ste kresťania. No, ak to je svet; tak to je svet; pes žerie psa. Ale toto dievča, s ktorým chodíš, to je tiež tvoja sestra. Bude matkou tvojich detí, ktoré prídu. Neži okolo nej nejakým nečistým životom; ukáž, že si skutočným kresťanským džentlmenom. Ži takým spôsobom, ako by mal žiť kresťanský džentlmen. Rozumieš? A správaj sa ku nej ako ku svojej sestre, a keď sa vezmete, stále sa tak ku nej správaj.

306        Môžem na toto hneď teraz odpovedať. Neverím v nečistý život medzi letničnými ľuďmi, ľuďmi svätosti, dokonca aj keď sú zosobášení. Neverím tomu. Nie veru. Niektoré z týchto nečistých vecí... je to tak strašné... Niekedy sa dostávam na tieto... Nie dnes ráno, nie, to nehovorím. Ale mám na mysli v časoch, keď som vonku v Kalifornii a na rôznych takých miestach. Stretávam tam kazateľov, pri ktorých pri rozpoznávaní cítim, že by som ich mohol prehnúť cez koleno a dať im malý výprask Evanjelia. Tak veru. Ó, vidieť muža, ako sa snaží vziať svoju malú ženu, a špina, nečistota, to je... Rozumiete, čo mám na mysli? Myslím, že by si sa ako muž Boží mal hanbiť... Buď len manželom, buď miláčikom. Rešpektuj ju, ako si ju vždy rešpektoval. Nevenuj žiadnu pozornosť týmto… niektorým z týchto ne-... sexy kníh – či skôr, týmto nezmyslom v týchto sexy knihách a takým veciam, o ktorých čítaš, a všetko to, všetko také. Vyhoď tie špinavé veci von zo svojej mysle.

307        Biblia povedala, aby medzi vami nebolo jedinej nečistej konverzácie, ak vyznávate svätosť. Správaj sa k tej malej dáme ako ku svojmu miláčikovi. Ak má 60 rokov, rob to takisto. Buď tým galantným priateľom; pamätaj, ty si.

 Neskúšaj nič z týchto nových vecí, a ja viem, čo hovorím... A buď len manželom, skutočným bratom, skutočným kresťanom.

 Viem, že to znie... Ale... Ste moje deti. Mám právo vám povedať, čo chcem. Rozumiete? Ste moje deti; žite správne.

308        A vy, ženy, žite správne voči svojmu manželovi. A vy, muži, žite správne voči svojim manželkám. Buďte skutočne, skutočne milí a rešpektujte jeden druhého… a vaše rodinné vzťahy, a tak ďalej, nech je to len tak úctivé a zbožné a nech je taký súhlas medzi vami so všetkým, ako len môže byť. Nikdy sa netlačte a nestrkajte a nebuďte nikdy nečistí a vulgárni.

309        Majte porozumenie, hovorte so svojou ženou. Ak je niečo vašou prirodzenosťou, a pre ňu je to iná prirodzenosť, hovor s ňou o tom. Sestra, ty sa snaž robiť to isté voči nemu. A tak isto… Rozumejte jeden druhému a buďte skutoční kresťanskí džentlmeni a kresťanské dámy a navzájom si buďte bratom a sestrou. Vždy pamätajte, ste Božie deti a ste z kráľovskej rodiny. Máte kráľovskú krv; nie je na svete lepšia krv ako tá vaša. A to je pravda. A kráľovská krv sa ukazuje sama. To je to, čím je; ona je kráľovská. Všetci, ktorí tomu veria, povedzte, „Amen“. [Zhromaždenie hovorí, „Amen“ – pozn.prekl.] Tak veru. Ukážte, čím ste. Som synom Kráľa, som synom Kráľa. Moja manželka je dcérou Kráľa. Ako budem zaobchádzať s dcérou toho Kráľa? Ako bude ona zaobchádzať so synom toho Kráľa? Rozumiete, čo mám na mysli? Buďte naozaj úprimní.       

 375. Bude nejaké hnutie Ducha Svätého, znamenia, divy a zázraky, ktoré sa budú diať skrze Nevestu predtým, ako odíde preč, alebo už len očakávame na Jeho zjavenia sa?

310        Myslím, že na tejto otázke budem musieť zakončiť, pretože ich zostalo príliš mnoho, než aby som to stihol prebrať. A začína byť naozaj neskoro. Teraz je za päť minút trištvrte na jednu, mám ich tu možno okolo tridsať alebo štyridsať. Odpoviem na toto najlepšie, ako mi to čas dovolí – zaberiem ešte ďalšie tri minúty. Dostanem sa ku nim, keď to bude možné. Rozumiete? Neviem, kedy sa ku nim budem môcť dostať; urobím, čo môžem. Radujete sa z nich? Ja... Tiež mi to pomáha. Vidíte?

 Prísť sem a takto ich vziať, predtým, ako do nich vôbec nazriete (Vidíte?), potom tam dostanete niektoré veci, na ktoré nemôžete odpovedať, a dúfal som, že si vyberiem... Viem, že tu je jedna otázka ohľadom semena hada. Veľmi som si ju chcel vytiahnuť; chcel som to objasniť. Vidíte? Ale myslím, že som ju minul, tak budem len... Možno Pán nechcel, aby sa to urobilo takým spôsobom, ale bola to otázka ohľadom semena hada. Aby niekto na páske nehovoril, „No, on to preskočil.“ Koľkí vydržia ešte dve minúty na túto tému? Aha? V poriadku.

311        No, počkajte, dovoľte, že najprv objasním túto. Pozrime sa. „Bude...“ Nie. Táto otázka znie takto: „Stanú sa zázraky, ktoré vykoná Nevesta?“ Áno. To sa deje práve teraz. Je to tak. Vidíte? Ale neočakávajte na niečo veľkolepé – alebo otvoriť nebesia a zatvoriť nebesia, aby nepršalo. To teraz ide ku Židom. Vidíte? To sem vôbec nepatrí; to je Mojžiš a Eliáš, ktorí sú poslaní ku Židom, vôbec nie ku Cirkvi. Prečítajte si prvé tri kapitoly Zjavenia; rovno tam uvidíte, čím je Cirkev. To sa celé týka Cirkvi. A keď sa ona vracia naspäť s Nevestou, keď sa ona vracia naspäť a... Prečítajte... Ak chcete vedieť o Cirkvi, čo sa jej týka, čítajte prvé tri kapitoly Zjavenia a potom choďte do 19. kapitoly a začnite čítať odtiaľ (Vidíte?), vtedy dostanete Nevestu. Tam ten zvyšok je pri Židoch.

312        No, čo sa týka semena hada. Neviem to tu nájsť, pretože ako môžete vidieť, je ich tu veľká kopa. Ale tá osoba povedala, „Ak had - ak to semeno hada... (Vidíte?) Žena, ona dostala syna od Pána, ona tak povedala.“

 No, myslím, že minulú nedeľu som vysvetľoval, ako ho dostala od Pána. Ak ho vôbec dostala, tak ho dostala od Pána (Rozumiete?), pretože to muselo prísť od Pána. Pretože Boží zákon má... bude poslúchať Boha. Presne tak.

313        On ustanovil slnko, aby svietilo; slnko svieti. On ustanovil, aby dážď padal na spravodlivých i nespravodlivých; to sa deje. A semená, ktoré sú zasadené na akomkoľvek poli, či už sú dobré alebo zlé, oni vyrastú; to je semeno. A ak je nejaké semeno zasadené, bez ohľadu na to...

 A ten jediný spôsob, ako tento had mohol zasadiť semeno, on bol tým jediným zvieraťom, ktoré bolo hneď pod ľudskou bytosťou. Pretože pri tej evolúcii ľudstva, keď sa človek – Boh sa vznášal nad zemou... A On začal privádzať vtáctvo a od vtáctva prešiel ku rozličným ďalším veciam, potom ku šimpanzovi, a od šimpanza ku hadovi.

314        No, On toho hada tak zmenil (To sa muselo stať.), aby to zmiatlo túto generáciu, ktorá sa snaží nájsť nejakú kosť, ktorá vyzerá ako z nejakého druhu zvieraťa, ktoré bolo čiastočne človekom a čiastočne zvieraťom, aby povedali, že to je to, kde človek... Oni to stratili od šimpanza; iba že šimpanz nemá inteligenciu. Šimpanz nemá dušu; nemôže premýšľať. On má len... On môže... Len nejaký hluk a on môže... Kôň urobí, „ihi-hí-hoo,“ alebo niečo také... Pri psovi, „Poď sem, Fido, urob kúsok. Preskoč to.“ A postaví tam prekážky a také veci, oni to urobia skrze emóciu, skrze počutie, a také veci, a akciu; ale čo sa týka myslenia a porozumenia, oni to nedokážu. Nevedia, že sú nahí; nevedia, že sú samcom a samicou, takto, nepoznajú rozdiel. Nemajú žiadne také zákony ako...?... Vidíte? Nedokážu to. Ľudská bytosť je jediná.

 A to ďalšie zviera ku ľudskej bytosti bol had. Biblia povedala, že bol najchytrejší zo všetkých zvierat poľných. Chytrejší, on mal takmer dušu. On mal miesto pre dušu, ale čo urobil? Zapredal sa satanovi, aby oklamal Boha, pokúsil sa. Koľkí to potiaľto rozumejú?

315        Satan, had, on mal takmer dušu. Boh vedel, že budú hľadať tie kosti, a v hadovi nie je jedinej kosti, ktorá by vyzerala ako ľudská. On bol... To je kliatba, ktorá je na ňom. On stál na svojich nohách práve tak ako človek.

316        Všimnite si, potom to semeno, ktoré bolo hneď pod tým ľudským semenom... Sám satan, ten duch, on vedel, že to bolo jediné semeno, ktoré by mohlo oplodniť ženu, pretože šimpanz by to nedokázal. Oni sa to snažili zmiešať a všetko také; to nebude fungovať. Ale on vedel, že ten gén života, ktorý bol v šimpanzovi, by neprišiel do poľa ženského vajíčka; ale vedel, že semeno hada to dokáže, tak on konal s hadom.

317        A Adam nikdy nevedel, že tento skutok by sa mohol stať. Rozumiete? Ona bola učinená ženským pohlavím. Iste, ona by k tomu neskôr prišla; ale vidíte, suverenita Božia, že On sa chcel ukázať ako Spasiteľ, a tak ďalej, ako som to mnohokrát objasňoval... Ale satan toto vedel, lebo on ku nej prišiel vo forme tohto hada, ktorý bol zvieraťom, a prišiel ku nej. A ona prv otehotnela od satana.

318        A ak si všimnete, udiali sa tam len dva akty a narodili sa tri deti. Skúmajte Písma. Ona porodila dvojičky. Jeden z nich bol semenom hada; ten druhý bol Ábel. Ona zlákala svojho manžela a povedala... Vidíte? Potom ukázala svojmu mužovi, čo to bolo, a on s ňou potom tiež žil a ona priniesla toto dieťa. A chcem vám ukázať, že ona bola tehotná s dvojičkami od dvoch rozličných... Ona bola... To je rýdza žena.

319        Ich semeno je silné. Pozrite sa sem. Abrahám si vzal svoju vlastnú sestru. No, ak by si dnes nejaký muž vzal svoju sestru, jeho deti by boli idioti. Vidíte? Ale ľudská bytosť... A tu Jákob – alebo Izák, on si vzal Rebeku, ktorá bola jeho vlastná sesternica, vlastná pokrvná sesternica, pokrvná príbuzná (Vidíte?), dcéra Abrahámovho brata.

320        Všimnite si teraz pri tomto (Vidíte?), tam je – ľudská rasa bola tak silná. No, ak si všimnete, to boli po celý čas dvojičky. Tam bol... Kain a Ábel boli dvojičky; a Ezav a Jákob boli dvojičky. Ježiš a Judáš pochádzali z toho istého pokolenia a boli v tom istom zbore. A dokonca Duch Svätý a antikrist majú byť dvojičky, tak blízke, že by to zviedlo aj samotných vyvolených, ak by to bolo možné. Pochopili ste to? V poriadku.

321        No, aby sme toto dokázali, chcem, aby ste si otvorili Júdu – myslím, že to je 17. verš – alebo 14. verš Júdu a je tam povedané... No, všimnite si toto. No, zakončím. Všimnite si. Aby sme celú tú vec zakončili a vyjasnili, najprv On povedal, „Položím nepriateľstvo medzi tvoje semeno a hadovo semeno.“ Vidíte? No, ona nemá semeno. A tak to, ako toto semeno dostala, to bolo satanovo semeno. Kain bol satanov syn. Ona nemala žiadne semeno, a tak ho obdržala skrze sexuálny akt. A keď to urobila, ono jej bolo dané od Božieho nepriateľa. A potom, keď jej Boh dal Semeno, to nemalo nič spoločné so sexom. Pochopili ste to? Otrokyňa a jej dieťa budú vyhnaní, pretože nebudú dediť so slobodnou ženou a jej dieťaťom.

322        A všimnite si, potom jej bolo dané Semeno, ktorým bol Kristus. Ani jej vajíčko... No, protestanti chcú veriť, že to bol panensky narodený hemoglobín – že to bola stvorená Krv Božia, v ktorej ležal ten zárodok, ale povedali, že to bolo jej vajíčko. Nie veru. Vajíčko nemôže prejsť dole cez tú trubicu do lona, pokiaľ tam nie je senzácia. Potom umiestňujete Boha s... že Duch má sexuálny akt so ženou. Ako sa to mohlo stať? To bola kompletne stvorená vec od Boha, aj vajíčko, aj ten zárodok.

323        A On bol Syn Boží, nie syn Márie, lebo On ju nikdy nenazýval matkou. On ju nazýval 'Žena' – nikdy nie matka. Ona nebola Jeho matkou. To bol Syn Boží a Boh je jeden. Pochopili ste to?

324        No, ďalšia vec, aby sme to dokázali a upevnili, ak sa niekto s vami bude niekedy hádať, poďte sem naspäť do Knihy Júdu, myslím, že to je 17. verš (14. alebo 17. verš), on povedal, „No, Enoch...“ Chcete, aby som to prečítal? Máte toľko času? Poďme a potom budem... Teraz budem vedieť, pretože páska sa tu stále točí a mohli by sme to v tomto teraz zamiešať. Dovoľte, nech sa pozriem, či to je 14. verš:

...prorokoval aj o nich siedmy od Adama Enoch, keď povedal: Hľa prišiel Pán so svojimi svätými myriadami.

325        No, poďme naspäť do 5. kapitoly (Myslím, že to je to.) v Genezis, a potom poďme tiež do Knihy Lukáša (Prajem si, aby som to dokázal nájsť; mám to tu všade pozapisované – ak by som to tu mohol nájsť.) a zistíte, že v tých rodokmeňoch – nikde v Biblii... Ak... Pozrite sa. Ak Noe – ak Enoch je siedmy od Adama, Biblia to povedala, „Adam a potom jeho syn Set,“ pretože Kain nebol Adamovým semenom. Tam je povedané, že Adam splodil Seta a Set splodil... Jared; Jared splodil, a celú cestu až k Enochovi; a Enoch bol siedmy od Adama. Nikde nie je vôbec hovorené o tom, že by Kain vôbec bol zahrnutý niekde v rodokmeňoch Božích.

326        No, len sa pozrite a zistite, či to tak je alebo nie; preskúmajte to. A prichádza Lukáš a znova to menuje a ukladá to tam od Adama. V celej tej veci Kain nie je spomenutý ani raz. A ak bol Enoch (Vidíte?) siedmy od Adama, kde tam vošiel Kain? Pretože Biblia povedala v tých rodokmeňoch, že Adam splodil svojho syna Seta. A Set splodil Jareda a Jared splodil Toho-a-toho, a takto ďalej; a Kain tam nebol spomenutý ani raz. Potom nemohol byť synom Adama. Takže musel byť synom hada a nemohol by byť synom bez toho pohlavného styku. Amen. Ak to tak nebolo, potom bol panensky narodený, potom by bol synom Božím. Nechcem, aby sa z toho nejako vyhovorili.

327        No, ten istý Boh, ktorý to zjavil, to je ten istý Boh, ktorý mi povedal o vašom manželstve a rozvode. Keď On hovorí tie veci, môj brat, sestra... Som vaším bratom, človekom. Ale keď to On hovorí a to tam udrie, nedokážem vám to vysvetliť. Nemusím sa o to ani snažiť, pretože to nedokážem. Ale to nebolo ani jediný raz nesprávne. Aj keď som to ja sám tak vôbec nevidel; nemohol som to tak vidieť, ale jednoducho som sa toho držal; a potom to On začína zjavovať, potom len – to ma jednoducho ohromí. Rovno tam to bolo a ja som to nevidel. Vaše vzdelanie je preskočené a vaše rozumovania sú obídené a všetko také; tak, ako bol obídený Kain.

 No, ak by sme mali čas ísť naspäť do Genezis a začali by sme čítať... Pozrime sa, či by som to len mohol vziať a nájsť to tu. Neviem to naisto, či to dokážem alebo nie. Pani Woodová, pamätáš sa, keď som vám to minule ukazoval? Len čo... Bola to 5. kapitola? Číslo 5, aha. V poriadku.

Toto je kniha rodov Adamových. V deň, v ktorý stvoril Boh človeka, učinil ho na podobu Boha.

Muža a ženu ich stvoril a požehnal ich a nazval ich meno Adam, v deň, v ktorý boli stvorení.

A Adam žil sto tridsať rokov a splodil synov – a splodil syna na svoju podobu a podľa svojho obrazu a nazval jeho meno...

(Kain? [Zhromaždenie odpovedá „Nie.“] Ako nazval jeho meno? [Zhromaždenie odpovedá „Set.“] Kde je potom ten prvorodený, ktorý má práva prvorodenstva? Nie je o ňom ani zmienka. Set bol jeho synom.)

328        No, znova sem prichádzame a zisťujeme kde bolo povedané... A teraz, Eve bol daný syn, pretože Kain zabil Ábela. No, všimnite si to, ako budeme pokračovať:

A Adam žil sto tridsať rokov – žil sto tridsať rokov a splodil syna – splodil syna na svoju podobu a podľa svojho obrazu a nazval jeho meno Set.

A bolo dní Adamových po splodení Seta osemsto rokov, a splodil synov a dcéry.

A bolo všetkých dní Adamových, ktoré žil, deväťsto tridsať rokov, a zomrel.

A Set žil sto päť rokov a splodil Enoša. (A takto to ďalej pokračuje a on je siedmy – Enoch je siedmy od Adama.)

 No, nepamätám si, kde to je presne v Lukášovi. Máš to tiež zaznačené, pani Woodová? Ona a ja... Minule som jej to ukazoval v... Čo hovoríš? Myslím, že máš pravdu, sestra Woodová. Zaznačili sme to tam v jej knihe, keď sme boli – v jej Biblii, kde som to ukazoval... Tu to je, áno, tie rodokmene. V poriadku.

329        No, ak si tu všimneme... V 3. kapitole Lukáša máme tú istú vec, ktorí synovia, a tak ďalej...

...a Noeho, ktorý bol Lámechov,

ktorý bol tiež synom Matuzalema, ktorý bol tiež synom Enosa, ktorý bol synom Jareda, ktorý bol synom Malalehéla, ktorý bol synom Kainana,

ktorý bol synom Enosa, ktorý bol synom Seta, ktorý bol synom Adama, ktorý bol synom Božím.

 Kde je v tom Kain? Kde je Kain v tom prvorodenstve? Ktorému patrí právo prvorodenstva; odkiaľ potom prišiel? On bol satanovým semenom, a nie Božím, ani Adamovým, pretože meno Adamovho syna bolo Set. Kain, semeno hada, zabil jeho prvého syna, čo bolo predobrazom a tieňom toho, že had tiež zabíja jeho iného Syna, Ježiša. A Set zaujal jeho miesto v tých rodokmeňoch, čo znamenalo vzkriesenie, že rodokmene Božie budú kompletne ďalej pokračovať.

330        Chcem vidieť, že by ho tam teraz niekto umiestnil a povedal, že to nebolo semeno hada. V Božích rodokmeňoch to nebolo uznané, ani v rodokmeňoch ľudskej rasy, v rodokmeňoch Adama, v ničom z toho. Je to tak? Koľkí tomu veria, povedzte, „Amen.“ [Zhromaždenie hovorí, „Amen.“ – pozn.prekl.] Iste. On tým nebol; on bol semenom hada a nie semenom Adama.

331        Ona povedala, že to bol Adamov syn. To nebol Adamov syn. Povedala, „Nadobudla som ho od Boha.“ A ona musela; to bolo semeno. To bolo semeno, ale to bolo semeno hada. Rozumiete?

332        A On potom musel prísť naspäť skrze pannu, aby 'vyčistil' ten sexuálny akt, ktorý sa tam stal. Adam bol umiestnený sem na zem, ale on vôbec nezistil, že sa má stať otcom. Rozumiete, čo tým myslím? Satan to vedel, dostal sa ku Eve predtým, ako sa tam dostal Adam. A to je to, kde dnes leží celá tá vec. A brat, to je to, čo dnes robí z manželstva a rozvodu a všetkého možného taký veľký zmätok, ako je dnes. Je to úplne žalostné. Vidíte? Ale ja... Boh učinil cestu, za čo sme vďační.

333        Milujete Ho? Či nie je nádherný? No, je semeno hada pravda? Premýšľal som nad tým, že niekto na páske by si možno mohol myslieť, že som sa bál na to zaútočiť. Vidíte? A tak by hovorili, „No, on to druhýkrát preskočil. Bojí sa do toho pustiť.“ Nie sme takí. Pokiaľ je v tom Pán, tak je to v poriadku.

        Viete čo, ako som raz hovoril o tom orlovi, ktorého som pozoroval, ako cítil svoje krídla, viete. A pomyslel som si, „Ty sa ma nebojíš?“ Mal som tam svoju pušku; povedal som, „Mohol by som ťa zastreliť.“ On vedel, že by som ho nemohol zastreliť; bol som od tej pušky príliš ďaleko. Povedal som, „Či sa nebojíš?“ On len pretočil svojimi veľkými očami a zadíval sa na mňa. Sedel tam malý čipmunk /pruhovaný severoamerický vevericovitý hlodavec/ a rapotal, „Ča, ča, ča, ča, ča; roztrhám ťa na kusy, roztrhám ťa na kusy.“ On si toho čipmunka vôbec nevšímal, ale unavil sa z toho, že ho počúval. A tak, po chvíli len raz mocne zamával, takto vyletel a len nastavil svoje krídla. A vedel, ako má tie krídla nastaviť, jednoducho odletel preč z dohľadu. Vidíte? Videl som, ako sa z neho stala iba taká maličká vec, len maličká bodka.

334        Brat Fred, myslím, že som ti to ukazoval. Všimol som si teraz tam vzadu brata Freda, keď pred chvíľou zakričal, „Amen.“ Myslím, že som ti ukazoval to miesto; a tiež brat Wood, kdekoľvek si, tam hore v tých horách, kde sa to stalo. Videl som toho orla. Ja... On bol donútený pristáť kvôli tej búrke a ja som tam stál za týmto stromom.

335        Poľoval som na losa (a bolo už trocha neskoro), a to bolo v októbri a bol tam sneh a podobne. Tento brat tam bol minulú jeseň s nami, brat Ján a oni, rovno hore na vrchu Corral Peaks, kde sa to stalo.

336        Stál som tam; stál som za týmto stromom. Trocha snežilo a pršalo a ja som tam stál. Ten orol tam zastal a bol donútený pristáť. Priletel tam, veľký, obrovský, vyzeral ako nejaký obor, veľký hnedý orol. Zosadol tam a rozhliadal sa naokolo, pomyslel som si, „Nuž...“ Mal som naozaj dobrý čas; vykrikoval som, „Chvála Pánovi! Haleluja!“ Chodil som kolom dookola okolo nejakého kríku, takto som tam vykrikoval. Pozrel som sa tam dole; mohol som počuť, ako zavíja nejaký kojot. Viete, ako zvyknú zavíjať.

337        Minulý rok, keď som bol tam dole, keď – práve predtým, ako začalo pršať, oni začali zavíjať; to bol malý vlk, viete. Milujem ich počúvať.

338        Potom som v diaľke začul ručiaceho losa, „Víí-húú“. Jeho partnerka mu potom tam v diaľke odpovedala. (Ďalší týždeň, za dva týždne budem na nich poľovať, ak Pán dá.) A tak potom, keď som to tam počul, ó, je to tak zbožné byť tam hore. Ó, ja jednoducho... Tam hore je moja katedrála, kde s Ním hovorím, a potom prichádzam sem dole a hovorím ku vám. Rozumiete?

339        A tam hore, ó, je to tak nádherné, jednoducho relax. Len som tam stál, pomyslel som si, „Ó, Bože...“ Díval som sa, potom prestalo pršať a ihličnany boli pokryté mrazom, od Corral Peaks až po Sheep Mountain sa takto rozťahovala dúha, naprieč tým smerom. A pomyslel som si, „Ó, Bože, pozri. Hmm,“ pomyslel som si, „Tam si Ty, Alfa a Omega, Počiatok a Koniec. Tu to smeruje dole a týmto smerom. Ty si Ten istý včera, dnes i naveky, sedem cirkevných vekov, sedem zlatých svietnikov. Tam si, Bože, aký si nádherný.“

340        A ja som len vykrikoval; odložil som pušku; behal som okolo stromu a vykrikoval, „Sláva Bohu! Chvála Pánovi!“ – takto dookola okolo toho stromu. Mal som tam hore ohromný čas, len Pán a ja, viete.

341        A po chvíli z tých krovín priletel ten orol a jednoducho sa na mňa díval. Pomyslel som si, „No, nepáči sa ti to?“ Povedal som, „Starý chlapče, uctievam toho istého Boha, ktorý ťa stvoril.“ Vidíte? A on len uprel svoje veľké šedé oči a díval sa na mňa a ja som tam takto vykrikoval.

342        A tá malá borovicová veverička (každý, kto bol niekedy poľovať v horách, ona je takým policajtom lesa), a ona tam vyskočila (malé stvorenie, nebola dostatočne veľká, aby mohla niečo urobiť, ó, ale čo za hluk) – a poskakovala tam, skákala hore a dole, viete, „Hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi,“ takto vyvádzala.

343        A ten orol ju pozoroval; a pozrel sa na mňa. Pomyslel som si, „Ó, Pane, no, prečo si ma zastavil kvôli niečomu takému?“ Rozumiete? Povedal som, „Pretože, vieš, uctieval som Ťa. Chceš, aby som niečo uvidel na tom orlovi?“ Povedal som, „Vyruším ho, alebo ide o tú borovicovú veveričku?“ Stál som tam a pozoroval som ich; pomyslel som si, „Budem ho trocha pozorovať.“ Povedal som, „Jedna vec, ktorú som si na ňom všimol; on sa nebál.“ To sa mi páči; nebyť vystrašený. On tam stál, ten veľkolepý vták. Povedal som, „Vieš čo?“ (Moja puška bola opretá o strom.) Povedal som, „Vieš, že by som ťa mohol zastreliť?“ On vedel lepšie než to; on vedel jednu vec: nedokázal by som to urobiť; príliš som si ho cenil. Vidíte? On tam stál, nebol ani trocha vystrašený.

344        A pomyslel som si, „Mohol by som ťa zastreliť.“ No, videl som ho; on sa na mňa takto pozrel a hýbal krídlami, viete, smerom dozadu. Viete, ako to zvyknú robiť, ich krídla, viete. Veľkolepé krídla, asi takto dlhé, viete, a on bol veľký chlapík. Sedel tam a ja som ho pozoroval. A to bolo predtým, ako som vedel tieto veci; toto je roky a roky dozadu, možno pred dvadsiatimi rokmi.

345        A pozoroval som ho; po chvíli, ako som ho pozoroval... Pomyslel som si, „Čo on... On sa nebojí, to si cením. Ale čo je tak zbožné na tom orlovi?“ Keď som videl ten veľký hákovitý zobák a tie veľké oči; pomyslel som si, „Chlapče, on je skutočným vtákom.“

346        No, nikto... Ak by sa ho snažil nasledovať jastrab, on by sa rozpadol. Nič ho nedokáže nasledovať. Nie. Nie. Na to by bolo potrebné lietadlo. Tak veru. Žiaden vták ho nemôže nasledovať; on ide tak vysoko. A potom, on má oči; on tiež dokáže vidieť rovno na zem, potom, čo je tam hore, vidí do veľkej diaľky.

347        No, Jehova pripodobnil Svojich prorokov ku orlom (Vidíte?); On ich takto vyzdvihol hore. Musia byť špeciálne utvorení. Pozrime sa. Predurčení, narodení pre ten účel (Vidíte?), aby boli takto vyzdvihnutí. A potom vy... Na čo by vám bolo dobré ísť tam hore, keď nedokážete vidieť, kde ste? Rozumiete? Na čo by bolo dobré dostať sa tam hore, ak neviete, čo robíte? Vidíte? Rozumiete?

348        Na čo je dobré vyskakovať hore a dole, vykrikovať, hovoriť v jazykoch, ak neviete, o čom to celé je? Vidíte? Zatiaľ čo ste tam, musíte rozumieť. Vidíte?

349        A tak som ho potom pozoroval, viete, ako sa tam pohyboval. Stále som... Obdivoval som ho; bol to taký nádherný vták. A jednako, on by pravdepodobne zjedol niečo z môjho jelenieho mäsa a tých vecí, ktoré som... Pozoroval som ho a po chvíli som si pomyslel, „Vieš, čo on...“

350        Po chvíli sa unavil. Nemyslím, že sa unavil z toho, že sa díval na mňa, ale myslím, že ho unavilo počúvať tú malú veveričku, ktorá tam sedela. Viete, dnes ich máme v tábore veľmi mnoho. Viete o tom? Vidíte? „Hi, hi, hi. Dni zázrakov pominuli. Nie je niečo také ako Božské uzdravenie. Tieto veci už viac nemáme.“ Vidíte? Malá k zemi pripútaná veverička, čipmunk, ktorý tam sedí na pni. „Musíš patriť do tohto. My sme...“ Vidíte? Sedí tam a hore-dole rapoce. Ó, ona vibrovala, tak veľmi sa triasla.

351        Jeho to omrzelo počúvať a urobil jeden obrovský skok a tá vetva, na ktorej sedel, sa takto otriasla. Tá vetva sa takto zatriasla a on odtiaľ odletel. Vidíte? Zamával krídlami a vyletel cez tie stromy. A keď to urobil, pozoroval som ho. Vidíte? On sa nebál, pretože on mohol cítiť prítomnosť svojich Bohom-daných krídel. Vedel, že tie krídla ho mohli vziať preč z akéhokoľvek druhu nebezpečenstva. Vidíte?

352        A tak, to je spôsob, ako sa chceme cítiť. Toto je Slovo a Ten, ktorý to Slovo napísal, On je mojimi krídlami. Nie som vystrašený zo Slova; to vás prevedie cez akýkoľvek druh problému, ktorý existuje. To je Meč, ktorý si rovno cez to preseká cestu. Nikdy sa o to nestrachujte. Rozumiete?

353        Potom som ho pozoroval. On už viac nemával, iba nastavil svoje krídla. Vidíte? A to – zakaždým, ako ten vietor podišiel zospodu, on sa len zodvihol, stúpal vyššie a vyššie.

 Stál som tam so založenými rukami a díval som sa na neho až kým z neho, nebola len maličká bodka, ktorá sa sotva dala vidieť. A pomyslel som si, „Bože, to je to. Nejde o to bežať sa pripojiť ku tomuto a bežať sa pripojiť ku tamtomu; a robiť toto, to alebo tamto; ide len o to nastaviť svoje krídla (Vidíte?); vedieť, ako nastaviť svoje krídla viery do Slova Božieho a odplachtiť preč od všetkého toho nezmyselného rapotania, ktoré je tu i tam. Áno. „Nebo i zem pominú, ale Moje Slovo nikdy nepominie.“

354        No, dnes popoludní vás mám približne ďalších dvadsiatich. No, vy, ktorí máte dnes popoludní mať tie rozhovory, no, stretnite sa s Billym, pretože myslím, že oni sa budú snažiť začať trochu skôr, a ja ich nestihnem všetky. Ak budem môcť, chcem sa dostať ku všetkým, ku ktorým sa budem môcť dostať. A toto som neurobil kvôli tomu, že... Billy toto ani nevedel (Vidíte?), ale moja myseľ bola po tých asi dvadsiatich videniach, ktoré tam dnes ráno boli, tak zničená (Rozumiete?), že až – alebo čokoľvek to bolo... To vás tak trocha dostane do... A Billy povedal, „Prečo nejdeš von a neurobíš si malý... Oddýchni si, choď von a odpovedz na niektoré z tých otázok.“

 A povedal som, „Brat Neville má svoje posolstvo.“

 Povedal, „Pôjdem mu to povedať.“ Tak on odišiel.

 Brat Neville povedal, „Príď.“ A tak som potom vstal a prišiel som sem. A niektorí z nich čakajú na dnešné popoludnie. Prepáčte, že som vás tu zdržal až do jednej hodiny, ale budem – predpokladám, že pozajtra budem musieť odísť, aby som sa mohol znova vrátiť do Arizony.

355        Pamätajte, ak Pán dá, ten ďalšíkrát, keď sa vrátim späť, chcem vám kázať o – ukázať vám v Písme správnosť ohľadom manželstva a rozvodu. Toto... A potom, ja... A potom, len to nechám... Ukážem to presne tak, ako to je, potom to odtiaľ uvidíte. A tak, až do toho času, buďte dobrej mysle; nech vás Pán bohate žehná. Môžme povstať? [Nejaká žena v zhromaždení hovorí proroctvo. – pozn.prekl.] Chvála Pánovi!

        Milujem Ho, milujem Ho, (Či Ho milujete?)

        lebo On prv miloval mňa

 a vykúpil moje spasenie

 na Golgote.

356        Milujete Ho? No, zatiaľ čo to budeme znova spievať, potraste si navzájom rukami.

        Milujem Ho, milujem Ho,

 lebo On prv miloval mňa

 a vykúpil moje spasenie na Golgote.

357        Ó, či to nie je nádherné? Ó! Billy chcel, aby som ohlásil, že po požehnaní vám chce niečo povedať, vám ľuďom, ktorí chcete mať tie osobné rozhovory. Rozumiete? Chce sa s vami na chvíľu stretnúť. Ale teraz to cítim tak, že toto je chvíľa uctievania. Tieto... Milujete Ho uctievať v Duchu?

        A vykúpil moje spasenie na Golgote.

358        Ó, či to nie je nádherné? Ó, milujem Ho. Vo svojom srdci. Ak poznám svoje srdce, viem, že Ho milujem. Verím, že vy tiež. Takto sme spoločne Jeho deťmi. Navzájom sa milujeme. No, nemôžem Ho milovať bez toho, že by som miloval vás. A ak hovorím, že Ho milujem, a vás by som nemiloval, Biblia hovorí, že som klamár. Vidíte? A ak ja... Ak chcete – ak by ste chceli milovať mňa alebo moju rodinu... Bolo by tam na výber, čo by som ja chcel, aby ste robili, buď milovať mňa alebo milovať moju rodinu; potom milujte moju rodinu. Bol by som radšej, keby ste milovali Billy Paula než mňa. Ak to prichádza ku takémuto druhu rozuzlenia, bol by som radšej, keby ste to tak robili. Chcem, aby ste počúvali mňa, pretože Billy nie je kazateľom. Ale chcem, aby ste počúvali mňa, to, čo vám hovorím; ale keď – ak chcete niekoho milovať, skutočne ich milovať, poviete, „Chcem milovať buď teba alebo Billyho...“ – potom milujte Billyho. Rozumiete? Boh to pri nás cíti tak isto. A my nemôžeme... Potom viem, že nemôžete milovať Billyho bez toho, že by ste milovali mňa, pretože on je mojou časťou. Vidíte? Tak ja nemôžem milovať Boha bez toho, že by som miloval vás, pretože vy ste časťou Boha. A my sa navzájom milujeme. Ó, myslím, že to je také nádherné. Nemyslíte, že piesne sú niečím pekným potom, čo sme odpovedali na tieto veci, kde nás to spolu viaže? Hmm, ó, je to také skutočné.

        Milujem Ho, milujem Ho,

 lebo On prv miloval mňa

 a vykúpil moje spasenie na Golgote.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS #3, 64-0830M, Branham Tabernacle, Branham Tabernacle, Jeffersonville, IN, 189 min

1 Let's bow our heads. Lord Jesus, we're grateful to Thee this morning for the opportunity to come in Thy Presence in this time of fellowship, and to set here in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Now, Lord, we pray that You'll continue to be with us as we speak of Thee. May our hearts be full of joy as we look upon Thy Word and Thy promises to us.

Bless our pastor, our associate, all the brethren and sisters that come here to meet with us and congregate here in this little spot that we have designated for a meeting place for You. And we pray that You'll bless us in everything that we do through the day. In Jesus' Name we ask it. Amen. (Can be seated.)

[Brother Branham has conversation with someone on platform--Ed.] I got your book.

2 This is kinda just a small relief for me just a little bit. I had the services back here, interviews; I was to have interviews or either--or--or to take and answer the questions. Pretty near everything come in this morning was visions, and I just kinda had to... I told Billy, if Brother Neville wasn't too busy, I'd grab up this bunch of questions and run out here, kinda relieve my mind a little. It's--kind of gets me down, kinda... Them--them visions are... But the people was helped; that's the main thing. The main thing, they were helped; that's--that's the good part. And so, then I'm going to pick them up a little earlier this afternoon, so I can get started this afternoon on my specials, the interviews.

3 Now, we're glad this morning to see our friends and... Now, this... Don't hold this against Billy. So then... He's supposed to notify the people if I was going to continue to answer these questions. I thought it might give me maybe a--a hour here or something to answer questions. Some of my... I like--I don't like to leave; I like to wipe my slate clear. See? Then these questions and so forth, I--I just like to say, I--I--I got this done. I get too much in--on my mind; it makes me nervous. And I don't want to be nervous about anything; I--I'm going home to glory one of these days. Ha.

4 An old friend of mine said to me couple of days ago, said, "I'm getting so tired of living in a suitcase."

I said, "Brother dear, I want to ask you something; I want to tell you something. I'm homesick. I been homesick for twenty years, and I ain't got no home to go to." See? That's true. That's an awful thing to say. I could set down and cry to go somewhere home. I ain't got no home to go. Everywhere I go, I can't stay there a few days; I'm ready to go somewhere else. I just--I been that way; I--I was born that way. My wife calls me "Restless Winds." I just--I just here and there. And that's an awful fix to be in, but I guess I had to be that way for my ministry. But many of you admire the... Well, we admire doing anything for God, but don't you never...

5 Now, we're just a bunch of home folks this morning. See? But I'm--I'm homesick. I want to go home, and I don't know where to go. You say, "What about going out in Arizona, your family's there?" I'm all right for two or three days, and I got to go somewhere else. And I go there, and then I'm all right there two or three days, and I got to go somewhere else. So there just ain't no home to go to, and I'm homesick.

Well, there is a home. I'll--I'll go to that one sometime, but I've got to help you first. See? That's what I'm here for, is to help you. And till that time comes, till I can't help you no more, then I--I want to go home. I want to go really home then. But there is a place somewhere, I'm going to like so well, I won't want to come back.

7 I'll leave Jeffersonville; I'll be gone a few weeks; I want to come back again. I go to Arizona; I think that's wonderful; I want to come back again. And I go somewhere else; I want to come back again. I go here, go there, and I--then I think I want to come here. I get here; I'm just here a few days, and I see you all; I want to go somewhere else. See, I got my children scattered out over the world, and I--I--them that I have begotten to Christ. And I... Then I don't have no home. I want to get them all together one of these days (See?)--Father will, and then we'll--we'll have a home where we won't have to roam around no more. See? Get tired rambling and no place to stay.

8 And I'd advise anybody, never be a rolling stone (See?), 'less it's some kind of a ministry that calls you that way, 'cause... I--I'd just give anything this morning, if I had a place here on earth that I could go and say, "This is home." I'd--I'd... If I had it, I'd give a million dollars. If I had a place that I could say, "Boy, I just love this so well; I don't want to leave it no more," I'd--I'd give anything. But I--I can't find it.

I'm something like Abraham was; I'm looking for a city. See? I can't find it, but I know it's there. But I certainly can't get adjusted to any certain place on this earth. It just don't look like... Fine people, fine places, and you go here it's too wet; go out there it's too dry; go up here it's too cold; go down there it's too hot. See? And you... There's no place; it just ain't home. Don't take up my time crying on your shoulder, but I'm...

Well, we're thankful to the Lord. Amen. Be thankful for all things. I am thus, because I am thus. God made me what I am. And I can't be nothing but what He made me, melancholy, and those kind of things. They tell me I just have to be that way in order to be the help that He sent me here to be. And I want to be that kind of a person. If that's the way I was supposed to be, that's what I want to be. Whatever's the Kingdom of God's will, or God's will, that's what I want to be.

10 Now, let's pray again. Lord Jesus, these questions lay before us here, Father. I can't answer them, Lord. I--I'm insufficient for these questions, but I know that You are All Sufficient, because it's on the people's heart. Use me, Lord, to relieve their pressures, won't You, Father? In the Name of Jesus Christ I ask it. Amen.

11 Now, we're going to start on... I guess they're not taping this, so it's just a... It's all right, I suppose.

Now, the one thing that... Reason I worry about questions, always there's one cute thing--acute thing, rather, that always bothers me: that's answering the question on marriage and divorce. Oh, my, the phone calls, the letters, and one brother wrapped hisself in a blanket and set on my porch from 12 o'clock until daylight the next morning. Ministers calling from everywhere, married two or three times and all, ministries... I want to ask you one thing. I got several of them still in here I know. I haven't looked them through, but there's several of them still in here.

12 Just remember this. To you people who are married, and divorced, and remarried, promise me one thing. See? You've put your confidence in me. (I--I guess this is not taped. I don't... ) You--you--you've--you believe me as your prophet sent from God, your servant; then you take my word for this, will you? Go on living just like you are. Don't you try anything else like it, but live, just go ahead, just live happy. You got... You're saved. If you're Christians, you go ahead living for Christ; He had a reason to save you.

Now, when I come back, the Lord willing, I'll explain that to you in the Bible. See? And don't get upset. Many men told me, said, "Well, I love my wife, but I'm--I'll just have to leave her; I--I don't want to miss the rapture." Don't you do that. Stay just as you are till you hear from me again (See?) on this subject. Then when I... I can't explain it in ten or fifteen minutes; it's going to take some time to explain it, because it's got to be the Scripture. It's got to be THUS SAITH THE LORD. If it isn't, it isn't right.

14 I know these questions that Jesus said here, "If a man puts away his wife and marries another save the cause of fornication commits adultery, whosoever marries her put away, liveth in adultery"... These things, He had a reason to say that. He was God; that's His Word.

Now, let's go back to the beginning and find out what it all means (You see?), then we bring it up. But till we do that, just go right on as you are now, just like you always have been doing, if you're Christians. If you are a Christian couple, and you're married, and got children, and things like that, some little ties that bind you, don't leave your wife or your husband now. Don't do that. See? Wait till you hear me again on the subject. Will you promise me that? Raise up your hand. Now, you've confided in me to believe me. Now, you--you believe me this far; now, believe me just a little bit farther on the subject.

Now--now, let's see, I got some real good ones here this morning, some...

16 325. Do all who go in the Bride have to live within the fifteen hundred miles of the Tabernacle (I believe I had that again last Sunday. I'll just have to pick them up and use them as I can.)--fifteen hundred miles of the Tabernacle, as it sounds like on tape number two of the "Future Home of the Bride"? I always thought that the Bride would come out of all parts of the world at the time of the rapture. Am I wrong?

No, my dear friend, you are not wrong, you're right. Now, if I said anything under the tape that would lead you to believe...

Now, I haven't... These are all new to me now, I've never looked in--in these here. You see? These are new bunch that I got the other Sunday, and put them back in this envelope, and laid them back in there.

17 Now, in this... No, the Bride doesn't have to be in any certain place. Many of them will be in the dust of the earth. They'd be around the earth; they'd be frozen in the--the snow in the north, and--and dust of the tropical jungles, and--and all around the world. But when the Trumpet of God shall sound, the dead in Christ shall arise, waken, and come out of the dust of the earth, no matter where they are. And now, in this, the resurrection will be a universal. See? Everywhere every creature on the ball of the earth that's in Christ will come forth with Him when He comes (See?), no matter where you are.

Just think of the arena in the days of the early martyrs, that when those Christians were throwed into lions' den, and those lions killed the Christians and eat up their bodies. See? Yet they were scattered, their bodies was in the wastage of the lion across the face of the earth. No matter where it is, you can't... See, you're made up of a substance that's unseen made material, and God will--will give that--that substance back. See?

19 Now, like you take a--a cell. You break it down from a cell, and it comes in then to a--a cell in a cell, and into a atom, and a molecule, and on down like that; and finally it ends up into the unseen. It goes from a natural, something you put your hands on, to gases; from gases into acids--acids into gases, and gases, on back like that, till it finally all winds up to one little thing, and that is spirit. And this spirit who has occupied these gases... It might not be the same gases, but the features of what you are will be exactly what they are again. See? The spirit has controlled that.

And now, in other words, when you become a young man or a young woman, and like, God takes a picture of you... Now, no matter how old and wrinkled, how disfigured, whatever it will be, that will wind right on down through. And that body may be destroyed, disfigured, burnt, eat up by lions, whatever it is, but it was made up of gases, sixteen elements of the earth. That was calcium, and potash, and petroleum, and cosmic light, and so forth, all goes together to make up the body. Now, no matter, that's--the whole earth is filled with that.

21 But now, this picture is the main thing. Then in the resurrection, those gases, and acids, and things comes right back into the place and develops this picture again. Now, this picture was not taken when you was sixteen, or eighteen, or twenty years old at your best. When was it taken? Before there was a foundation of the world it was put in God's great file. And then, only thing it did was featured itself here for you to make your choice. See? Then you become a servant of God. Him foreknowing it, makes Him a Redeemer, as we've been through it.

Then that picture is absolutely... This is the negative. The negative part of life is where you're living now. And anything, if there is a negative, there's got to be a positive before there can be a negative. Therefore, if this is a negative, there's got to be a positive somewhere. And this ain't the real thing; this is only a foreshadow of the real thing that is to come. Now you got it?

So, I don't care what they would do with you; they cannot destroy that profile, that picture in God's great gallery up there. It cannot destroy it; it's in heaven. You could burn it up, feed it to the lions, do it anyway you want to; it'll come forth again just as sure as the two twos is four. Just as sure as God spoke it, it'll come forth. So no matter where you are...

24 Now, if I... I think if you'll play the tape... (I don't know who wrote it; no name signed, just a little piece of paper with blue ink, wrote out of a little notebook. Look like it's been tore off from a little--a--a little notebook.) But remember, on this, in--in this question now, in the tape, if you'll notice, I said this, something on this (might not be word by word now, if you check this tape with the other one): I said, "For instance, we are here this morning. This city that we long to see will be some fifteen hundred miles square." I said, "That would reach from Maine to Florida, and from the eastern seaboard to eight hundred miles west of the Mississippi River, fifteen hundred miles square." I said, "Think of it, right here this morning, there's people setting right here that--that's actually come from that much distance, from fifteen hundred miles square, setting in here." Now, I don't know where the temple will set on the earth, but I have an idea that the temple will set right about where Palestine is now. That will probably be the top of the mountain right there. It'll reach out. 'Course, there'll be no more sea then. See, this world's 25,000 miles around it, but fifteen hundred miles is not very much out of that. But this great city will set on this fifteen hundred square mile mountain.

25 Now, the reason I believe that is because of the prophecies and things concerning Mount Zion in Jerusalem and those cities. And there's where Abraham the prophet was seeking for that city, and it was whose Builder and Maker was God. He looked for that city in that land. I believe it'll be where that land is.

That land, you can hardly find it on the map. It's a little bitty dot. And look at the land that Russia, and United States, South America, and all those places there... Why was God so zealous of that place (See?), of that one place? That's the question. I can't prove it, but it just looks that way to me. But wherever it is, we're headed that way, so praise the Lord for that.

27 Now, if you got the impression that I--that I said it would be in--around fifteen hundred miles of the Tabernacle, that was a wrong impression (You see?), 'cause it won't. This Tabernacle has... This is just a little place that's going to be destroyed. And--and the world will be burnt up, and this will all be done away with. And this Indiana, and United States, and everything will just melt and just wax out yonder into nothing but lava. See? All sin, all disease, all germs, all everything else will be destroyed. "And I saw a new heavens and a new earth, for the first earth..."

Think. God was six thousand years in building this world, putting it together, forming it. How did He do it? The Bible said, "He made it out of things which does not appear"; that is, He created the earth. Now notice; this is beautiful. The very Creator that created the earth for a purpose--Satan defiled it--He come down to redeem what was left on here. And He has gone somewhere else and is in His business yet creating.

29 Now, it taken Him six thousand years to make the--the earth, and He's going to take two days to create the city that goes on the earth. He's... "In My Father's house are many mansions: if it was not so, I would've told you. I'll go to prepare a place for you (build a city out of transparent gold, the streets out of gold)." What a beautiful place.

Where will He get it? Is there any materials on the other earths, or the moons, and stars, and things? He don't have to have it. He's a Creator. He's gone to build the city. Amen. That's good enough for me, ain't it for you? That's good. For if He built this one, and I enjoy this one, what's it going to be when He builds this new one? Oh, my, what a wonderful thing. And so I'm glad that we're bound for that city. All right.

30 326. Brother Branham, I love the Lord, but for the past year I have been--I have been faced with a problem. Seems sometimes I've almost been out of my mind. What is it? Please pray for me and my husband.

Well, if there is no... If this person was on private interview, like you people been in there this morning, it would pull that out what it is, whatever it is. See? The Lord would reveal what it is. But now, that I don't know who you are, and you're not setting here; it just said, "a sister in Christ"...

Now, now, if it is--if there's something that you have done that's wrong, that's bothered you, then check it with the Bible and see what you must do. But if you haven't done anything and you're not condemned of anything, it's perhaps your nerves. See? It could be many things that happened: maybe some trouble back in your life. Maybe it's a--a woman here might be in the menopause time. That's when everything is wrong with her, and there's nothing wrong with her, yet everything's wrong with her. And she's not just putting on; she really feels that; it's just as real. Any person that's nervous is that way. And don't never disagree.

32 And you husbands to your wives, when they're in that time of life, if you ever--if she ever was your sweetheart, you let her be right then, 'cause she needs you. She really needs your help; she needs somebody to help her and understand her. Talk to her, take her up in your arms like--like--like she was your sweetheart, and she should be. And--and understand her, because she's going through a time that her entire make-up is changing, and you must be good to her at that time.

I think that's why Mr. Rockefeller made a fatal mistake. He was loved by the nation, would've probably been our next president. But when his wife took menopause, and went in menopause, and he left her and married his secretary, you see what happened? That shows there's some real good thinking Americans yet.

Now, I like Mr. Goldwater, or--or Mr. [Brother Branham snaps his fingers--Ed.] Rockefeller. He's a... I like Mr. Goldwater too; I like everybody. But I--I didn't want to... Some of you--some of my brother Republicans setting out there hear me say that, I...

34 Notice, but I'm not a politician; I--I want to be a Christian. See? And this is not a place for politics. See? The whole thing's gone anyhow, that way, but this that we're talking about is eternal. Democrat or Republican... Oh, it's such a mess; it can never be redeemed. It's over, so don't argue about that. The thing to do is live for this Kingdom. "For here we have no continuing city, but we seek one to come." Amen. That's right. Yes, sir.

So politics is one side of the fence, and I'm on the other. I said, "I--I voted once; that was for Christ; I'm sure to win." That's right. See? You got a vote coming. See? God voted for you, the devil voted against you. Now, which way you cast your vote's where you're coming out.

So--so now, I believe this person is just... I'm going to think that it's just nervous. If there's nothing condemning you, go right on and just say, "Get away from me, Satan!" Just move right on. Take the initiative and live for God.

37 327. Now. Is there ever any condition wherein it's permissible to remarry after divorce, according to (Now, I will see if this is a... I think there's two or three questions on this.) according to the Scriptures? If I do not--if I do not remain married in--from previous times, it--is there any grounds for divorce that permits you even to remarry? I will be--I will be (b-u-i-) the--buying the tape (Yeah!) to get this answer. Thank you very much. I will look for it Sunday.

Well now, I have said this, you see. Don't--don't... I--I... Let me just leave that alone (You see?) until we get to a place where--now where we will--this will all be straightened out. And now, you just remember, that's God willing, as soon as I come back again. The next time I come, the Lord willing, I will preach on that subject. See? And now... And then, we will tape it anyhow. And if--if it hurts, it hurts; if it clears up, it clears up. But you just be of a good courage. See?

38 328. Dear Brother Branham, is it possible for one to have the baptism of the Holy Ghost and not to have the signs following, at--at least not until the--some future time and conditions appointed by the Spirit?

Now, that might sound like a mixed-up question, but that's a good one, very good. See? Now, here gives me a little chance, that I find that's working with my--my family here now (See?), I mean you, my family, and the family out in the world where we--where our tapes go.

39 Now, a great part of my congregation is made up of Pentecostal people, and because Pentecost is the latest message that we have in the denominational ranks. And to me, I certainly agree with them more than any other denominational church. I hang towards the Pentecostal, because it is a--the later message. And all my converts that I bring to Christ, I try to direct them to some Pentecostal church. But I have condemned them in every way that I knowed how, that they were wrong in the Scripture by being a denomination and not willing to walk in Light when Light's presented to them. But yet, if I had to take my choice today to take any church in the world, I'd take Pentecostal when it come to denomination. But when it comes to individuals, as men and women, there's genuine Christians in all them denominations: Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Lutherans, and so forth. But I'm talking about the systems that these people are in, not never the individual, but the system that these people has been caught into in their denomination. The... Clearly understand that now (See?), that I--I think the people... If they're Roman Catholic, Jehovah Witness, Orthodox Jew, whatever they are, that doesn't matter to me; but they are individuals to which Christ died to save.

40 And now, I... And agreeing with their systems that they're in... I believe there's just as many Christians out there in the Baptist, as there is in the Methodists, or the Presbyterians, or whatevermore. They're Christians, real believers. And right out in the Roman Catholic church there's genuine people in there that's real men and women that love the Lord. And they don't join that church to be wrong; they join that to be right. But it's a system in there that directs their mind the wrong way. And if ever comes to a time that I'd make a denomination, I have deceived you and have brought you into a system; far be it from me. And may God keep me in my right mind to direct you to Jesus Christ, the Word. Stay with That. See?

41 But now, this person here is asking the question about the possibility of having the baptism of the Holy Ghost without signs following them. Now, it would... If you are born again you are--if you are born first as a human being and a normal human being... Now, I'm answering this in a--in a--a real juvenile way of doing it. But if you're born a normal human being, you will actually do the things that a normal human being would do. Is that right?

When you're born as a human, the natural traits of a human being will follow you. You won't live in a tree, and try to fly with your wings like a bird, or--or--or something like that. That isn't--that wouldn't be a normal human being, the normal actions of a human being. The normal action of a human being would be to work, have--marry, have family, and do these things. That's natural, norman--normal human beings, because you're born that. Then when you're borned a Christian, borned of the Spirit of God, you naturally take up the attributes of Christ. You see?

43 Now, if we took here this morning in this congregation where you people set here and listen day after day and so forth to the teaching, you'll find out you'd be different one from another, because you--you're different. You're--you're make up different; your--your appetites are different; you--you eat different; but you all eat food. But now, just from... With one individual being just like the other one, you're different one from another. Christians do the same thing. You can't say, "Now, all..." Do all speak with tongues, do all prophesy, do all... See?

You have to watch these things, because a Christian takes up the--the habits of a Christian; and they live like a Christian. Jesus said, "These signs shall follow them that believe." Notice: "In My Name they shall cast out devils; they shall take up serpents or drink deadly things; and they'll speak with new tongues." And--and them things just actually follow Christians.

45 Now, the person has a very good thing here: "... or do we wait until the future time or the conditions appointed by the Holy Spirit?" I like that. See? Now, you get the idea? When it's appointed by the Holy Spirit... God appoints things.

And there, I think if the Pentecostal people would try (that listens to this tape), you'll understand me if you will get here why I different with you pressing that idea that they must all speak with tongues. I--I cannot see that right, because it'd be... I like cherry pie, but there's no need... And I'm a human being. But there's no need of me trying to tell you, "If you don't eat cherry pie, you're not a human being." See? But eating cherry pie is just one of the habits of a human being. See? You might disagree with me upon that, but--but it--it's true. Now, one will eat this, and one will do something else.

46 Now, the Holy Spirit appoints these offices, but when you try to force yourself into it... If I said you had to eat cherry pie, what if cherry pie made you vomit? And yet, you'd vomit and try to eat cherry pie and vomit, and...?... See? You're--you're--you're hurting yourself, and that's the way you try to do when you try to force yourself to do something that's contrary to the Spirit. He's got your life 'lotted for a certain thing. Do you understand that? See?

And you, when you're filled with the Spirit, here's one of the best signs I know: you're so in love with Christ and believe every Word that He says to be the truth. See? That's the evidence that you have the Holy Spirit. And your life's full of joy, and--and oh, my, everything's different (See?) than what it used to be. That's the Holy Spirit.

48 Now, these gifts are in the Holy Spirit. Now, if this congregation this morning, this--just a nice snug church full with... (The overflow rooms, 'course, is filled up.) But in the... Just a... (Not announcing we was going to answer these questions, but these people have just come in.) Notice, if every person in here was in perfectly harmony with the Holy Spirit, every one of you was filled with the Holy Ghost and in harmony with the Holy Ghost, these signs would be just a--multiplying among you all the time (See?); it'd just be constantly going. But where there's confusion, where there's difference, and where we set up, the Holy Spirit can't move itself. You see? It can't operate through the people. See?

49 And there, if I said, "Now you, each one of you, did you speak in tongues?"

"Yeah."

"Well, you got It. "Did you speak in tongues?"

"No."

"You haven't got It." Now, I'm making myself a judge. God is the Judge of these things.

But watch, Jesus said, "These signs shall follow them." See? The groups that believe, the whole nature of the Holy Spirit flows through them, and they all are full of love, and joy, and--and just a great bundle of--of--of--of real godly-filled people. See, that's the Holy Spirit. And in--in there, they speak with tongues on the occasion that tongues arise (why), or necessary for that, they speak with tongues. And if there's a prophecy, it speaks. And oh, it's just exactly perfect every time.

52 Ask those fifteen or twenty people that went in there on interview this morning if there was one word in any way, missed in any way, and perfect strangers... What--the Holy Spirit dig right down in there, and get them things, and bring them right out, and tell it to them. See, see? There's not no mistakes in it. Tell them just exactly what this, and what this was, and what that is, and what this is to be done, and things like that, and what they've done, and what they should do. See? That's just... Set it right in order. Now, they've got to act on that.

53 The other night I was talking to a couple, and I was at a--a home where we was having a meeting, or just--was just setting around a table talking. And all at once, the Holy Spirit dropped among us, and I said to someone there, "I seen a certain man, and they--he was confused in his mind about some things," and I said, "like in the confusion in the--in the--the discernment." I said, "Now, it's right here now." I said, "I know what you're thinking." And I went right back and just took a round about way and answered every question that man had in his mind to him, that he... Nobody knowed even what I was talking about but him. See? But he got it. He knowed what it was all about. You see? And that was what to him? Showing him, confirming to him that the Holy Spirit was revealing to me what was on his mind. You see? And I didn't have to tell it to the rest of them. The man's listening at me right now. Now, that's right. Now, you see how that is? That's a confirmation.

54 Now, if the whole church would work in harmony like that, then among us we'd be casting out devils, taking up serpents, drinking deadly things, all kinds of things going on. But when you try to force that to individuals, then you get yourself... That's Pentecostal again. Then you get Babylon, confusion. You can't judge that. See? Our hearts are full of joy and happiness, and, oh, my, the birds are singing, the... Everything's wonderful, my, just full of the Spirit of God, and we're so in love with Jesus, we want to pray all night.

Now, I wouldn't embarrass this crowd, or even myself to you. But I wonder, if I could ask this morning which one in this crowd, or this people that had the Holy Ghost, it'd probably be ninety-five percent of you raise your hands that you had the Holy Ghost. Then I'll turn around and give you a Bible evidence--just one--a Bible evidence; and I doubt whether there'd be one or two hands go up. See, see? Just could--just tie it in such a place, but when you do that (See?), you're also hurting your congregation. But you've got to get them out of that babyhood and get them into manhood. See?

56 Like someone wrote the question the other day, was up here, said about--said something about Brother Junior Jackson. Somebody went down there, and they said, "You're going down to the 'dead beans,'" or something or other like that. Brother Jackson... Because Brother Jackson's congregation, they let them speak with tongues just in the church. Wherever they feel the Spirit and want to speak in tongues, they go ahead and do it. Well, that's Brother Jackson's church. That's perfectly all right. I've got nothing against that, not a thing. Junior Jackson's one of my best friends, and a real godly man, filled with the Spirit of God, and we're brothers. Now, he don't have to eat my cherry pie, I can... Or I don't have to eat his apple pie (See?), but we're both eating pie. We both believe this Message exactly. That's the order of the church. I said, "I want my church to try to come together..." I said... When we begin to break out here, the Holy Spirit speaking in tongues and so forth, I said... Somebody asked me, and said, "Now, Brother Branham, is all that genuine?"

57 I said, "I'm no judge." I said, "Tell you what, let's bring it to a spot. Let it go awhile and bring it to the spot until the Word is presented on it. Then watch it. If It's the Holy Spirit, It copes right with the Word; if it doesn't, it won't." See? That's just the only way that you can tell it; then it--it judges itself. You see? Well, it--it'll fly up if it isn't the Holy Spirit, it'll fly loose. See? But if It is the Holy Spirit, It'll just meekly follow right in line, 'cause that's what It is; It's the Holy Spirit going right to It's own order.

58 Now, in this speaking in tongues and so forth, I wish every one of you spoke in tongues. I sure do. And many times, good Christians...

You see, if I tell you that was on the program... I found someone--not program, excuse me--on the interviews this morning. A person (I guess they're still here in the building.) that they... About speaking with tongues... The person is a genuine person, a real person, and they've lived right. And they've heard me say the evidence of the Holy Ghost wasn't speaking in tongues--and it isn't--but I advised that person to ask God to let them either speak in tongues or prophesy, because it's the nature.

60 The first thing, I went to that person and found their birthplace, and what sign that they were born under, and could tell what their birth was. Which way it set in their natural nature sets them in a certain line. Then, when they're reborned again, they're over here in another nature. And then, when you find into this nature, that's the inside, in-conscience, inside conscience... The outside conscience moves you in one way; that's your natural birth. Then they'll make up something and it puts them what? Under a four, and puts them in a split condition. They don't know what to do. They'll say, "The Lord wants me to do this."

The inside, "Oh, I--I just know it's--it's--it--it lines up with the Scripture." And they'll start to do it, and the first thing you know, Satan on this outside will show them all kinds of defects in it. And then they say, "Well, I guess I..." See, see? They listen to Satan. See? You've got to take that inside something, that what's on the inside of you that's Scriptural. And don't let Satan stand anywhere. It's--that's his duty to stand there and pound at you like that. But don't you listen to him.

But that person I told them. They said, "Well now, if I could just be sure of having the Holy Ghost." See? A dandy person, real loyal person with the Holy Ghost, but it would be good for her to say, "Father, just give me this for something to stand on."

63 Now, if I taught it like that, people would reach out and get a hold of that without having what that person's got? See? The Holy Ghost does speak with tongues, but you got to have the Holy Ghost first before It can speak with tongues. Now you get it? So, if you reach out and get a hold of a gift of speaking in tongues without...

Now remember, that can be a genuine gift; that could be the Holy Ghost speaking in you with unknown tongues, and you'd be lost and go to hell. The Bible said so. You believe that? Would you like to have Scripture on it? You want Scripture; raise your hand. "Though I speak with tongues as men and angels (is that right? Both the one that can be interpreted and that cannot be interpreted, genuine Holy Ghost tongues), I am nothing." See, unless that other goes with it. You can have this (See?), so don't reach after that without this. Get this first, and then that'll actually follow it.

65 Now, the rain falls on the just and the unjust. The sun shines on the wicked and the good. The rain falls to ripen the crop; it ripens the weed also: the same rain. The Holy Spirit can fall in a group of people, and speak in tongues, and make it exactly true, sprawl in amongst the people, and make it prophesy, and be exactly true. That's exactly right.

Sometimes you can go to a--a witch or a medium, and they can tell you something that's exactly right. Look at the witch of Endor. Saul... It could be exactly true; that still isn't it. They're witches. Speaking in tongues, I've seen devils speak in tongues, and write in unknown tongues. That don't mean anything. But the real thing is that Word again. Back to that Word.

So you can do these things without the Word. But when you get the Word, and It does it, then watch it just exactly come to pass, exactly the right thing. See? Then you're exactly in line.

68 Yes, the Holy Spirit uses these people as it's appointed by His own Divine wisdom. But the first thing...

Now, what? Let me just give you a little twister here just a minute. I'd say, "How many has the Holy Ghost?" All of you raise up your hand. I'd say, "All right, I'll see if you have." The Bible said that they that had the Holy Ghost sighed and cried day and night for the abominations done in the city. Now, how many hands would go up? How many of you can't rest at night, so full of joy and the power of God, and so sad for the people that's lost, that day and night you weep and cry for the abominations? You won't... See? Who would be that in the city? How many of that's in the church? That's what the Bible said the Holy Spirit evidence was.

70 He told the sealing Angels (Ezekiel 9, that's right), He said, "Take... Go through the city and set a mark upon those who sigh and cry for the abominations did in the city. The rest of them, let the destroying Angel destroy them." No matter how much members they was and how many of the things they done, said, "Put a..." And a man with--a ink horn writer, dressed in white (which represented the Holy Spirit) came forth and put a mark upon all them that sighed and cried for the abominations done in the city. Now, you say... And watch what he said in there also. "slay utterly, little children, old women, babies, kill them all." Little children? Yes.

When Joshua entered the land of Canaan, he said, "Don't you let one of them live. If it's a cute little baby, a little Amalekite, or a Amorite, kill it. You remember, he'll grow up to be an Amalekite; he'll pollute the camp." And when those little things come back like that disagreeing with the Word of God, get rid of that thing. I don't care what denomination it belongs to.

You say, "Well, they're good..." I don't care how good a people they are. If they're contrary to that Word, get the thing out of you. It's a growing little Amalekite. Looks cute, looks innocent; it looks like it's all right, but don't you have anything to do with it. You stay away from it.

"Well, Brother Branham, I--I go down here, because... Well, I don't..." You just remember, any Amalekite, anything that denies the Word, stay away from it; have nothing to do with it at all. How many believes that's the truth? Sure it is. See? Stay away from it.

74 The sigh and cry for the abominations that's did in the city... Where do you see that? I can show you ten thousand speaking in tongues to one that's really burdened for sin... That can't even pray a hour. But did you know the Bible said to mark only those who sighed and cried for the abominations in the city? How many ever read it? Sure. That was the Holy Spirit come forth to mark the people, and said to the destroying Angel, "Go forth and destroy everything that doesn't have that mark upon them." And the mark of God is the Holy Ghost; is a Seal of God.

Now, where is them people that's that interested? I can show you people that jump up-and-down and cry in a church; I can show you people that shout and run all over the building; I can show you people that prophesy, and it comes to pass; I can show you those who speak in tongues, and--and run up and down the buildings, and say things that actually interpret and it comes to pass; but where is that person that sighs and cries for the abominations that's did in the city? Where's that burdened soul? You could turn some new leaves on that. See what I mean?

76 Now, I've tried my best to--to--to tell you people and lead you like a daddy would lead his children. You're my children; I have begotten you to Christ through this Gospel that I preach. See? And I--I--I want you to raise up fully matured kids, or--or children. And I want to present you to Christ that day, as Paul said, "A chaste virgin." There isn't a thing in that Word but what your heart will punctuate "amen" to it.

Sin don't have... 'Course you'll do things wrong, but when the other, the very first thing condemns you, "Father, forgive me."

78 I'm going to say this. Just looked at a person a few minutes ago. It was asked me by a fine boy the other day. We was hunting squirrels. That morning I got five; I left one of them for that afternoon. You only get six in the state of Kentucky; that's the limit. So this certain person said, "I got nine." Christian boy, fine kid.

I said, "You done wrong. You did wrong."

He said, "Well..."

I said, "I had five that morning, saved one for that afternoon. And when I got that one squirrel, looked in a tree, and counted five or six setting right there where I could look at them, walked out and left them." I said, "I walked up in through here not long ago, and there was about fifteen or twenty setting there. I just took the limit, and walked away, and left the rest of them there." I said, "If I come to this country, preaching to you boys and you people here the thing that's right, I've got to live that example." Christianity ain't what you say; it's what you live, what you do; it's an example. You're the salt of the earth. I said, "Then, the law says... Jesus said, 'You give Caesar them things that belong to Caesar.' You break that speed law out there, what are you doing? You're doing wrong; you sin. Give Caesar what's Caesar's, and God's what's God's."

Say, "Well, the law's wrong." I can't help what wrong it is; it's wrong to break Jesus' commandment. And if you don't give Caesar the things that's Caesar's, then you did what Jesus told you not to do, and a transgression of the law is sin. That right?

We're all guilty; we do it. But when you see yourself wrong, stop it. People are watching you; people won't go to church, but they'll read you, see what you do.

82 So get Christ in your heart; that's a real... Christ and the Holy Spirit's the same thing. Holy Spirit, "Christ" means "the anointed One." And the Holy Spirit is that Anointing, and you are the one that's anointed. See? And it's Christ in you anointing you. See what I mean?

Then you got the right thing. Then He can use you to anything He wants to use you in, 'cause you're in the body and subject to any of those gifts. But see, to have one of the gifts outside of the body, it would do you no good. "Though I speak with tongues of men and Angels, have not charity, it profit me nothing. Though I have faith and can understand all the mysteries of God, profit me nothing. Though I give my body to be burnt as a sacrifice, give all my goods to the poor, though I have faith to move a mountain, I am nothing." See? Don't depend on those things. The Holy Spirit is a Being; It's God, God in you, the Person, God, that's lit your whole entire being. You're changed; you're a new creature. Any little thing that's wrong, He'll tell you that's wrong, then quit; don't do it. "Father, I didn't mean to do that, You forgive me." See? And that's--that's the Holy Spirit.

84 I don't care how much you spoke in tongues, how much you run, how much you jumped, how much you did this, that, or the other (See?), whatever you done, it wouldn't mean a thing if the Holy Spirit wasn't in there to condemn you on the things that's right and wrong.

Now, that's the reason this person here is right. Let the Holy Spirit do it. But now (You see?), now, what's causing this... Let me say it with love, sprinkled with love and--and anointed with the Word. See? If the genuine Holy Spirit was in you, you wouldn't question that. You know it yourself; it's an individual thing between you and God. See? You know that something's happened. You know that there's a change, whether there's any--anything else, you yourself, you're the change. See? You're the one who's done the changing, inside of you, and you know you have it. Whether you spoke with tongues, whether you jumped, shouted, or anything else, you know that God lives in you, that you don't walk with your own mind, it's the mind of Christ that leads you with that Word, just exactly the way It goes.

86 Now. But I would... If people say, "Well then, Brother Branham, you don't believe we ought to speak with tongues?" See? Then you get exactly backwards what I've just said. Sure, I believe you should speak with tongues. And some of you people... See? But you get these, and I get these, like back here this fifteen hundred miles (You see?), being here at the Tabernacle. Just, if you don't understand it, then ask me. See? Write it back to me if you don't understand. Just say what I say here. See? And I... And you... As Paul said, "You follow me as I follow Christ." You see? Then you see I'm wrong, then get away from me (See? That's all), 'cause I'd--I'd be the wrong person. See?

87 329. Please explain. People are saying Brother Branham is more than a man; he can create, and Jesus can look just like Brother Branham.

Now, let me... The person said this. Whoever it might be, I don't know. But I am your brother. See? Jesus is your Saviour. I cannot be your Saviour, for He has already saved you. Now, you're so close to being the truth there, and yet so far from the truth, the person that told this person this. Now, it's just a--looks to me like a woman's handwrite, very beautiful handwriting. And I'd say that was a woman's handwrite wouldn't you? Brother Capps, wouldn't you think that was a woman's handwrite? A pretty handwrite. And I don't know who it is. See?

88 Now, "Brother Branham, could Jesus look like you, or you be Jesus, or something like that?" One sense of the word, that's exactly the truth; another sense of the word is an antichrist. That's the difference between right and wrong. To make me the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ, would be an antichrist (See?), for that Person of the Lord Jesus is setting at the right hand of the Majesty on high, and will come again in great power and glory. But for His Life that was in Him being upon me, and upon you who have Him, it's exactly the truth; and you become Christ.

You remember my message on Messiahettes? See? You are... The word "Messiah" means an--"the anointed One." Now, you are, if you have the Holy Spirit, you become the anointed one. See? Then there's all kinds of anointed ones.

90 Now watch, if it's a Bible anointed one... Many of them are anointed... See? The whole thing is in such a great conglomeration of every kind of a mix-up; and--and of--Satan with all of his cunningness come in and impersonated just to the dot, almost to the dot. There's only one way you can absolutely be sure; check the word by word, word by word. That's the only way you can.

But to me as a--a person, William Branham, or--or any other man or woman to be the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour, that is an error. But to be anointed with His Spirit, which brings His own Person of His Life into you...

92 It was so beautifully typed in Elijah and Elisha, when Elisha was taken up, the Elijah, the old prophet, going home... And he was tired and weary; and there was a chariot hooked across the river there, and he--to take him up home with horses of fire. And did you notice then, when Elijah and Elisha crossed the river (the school of the prophets was up there watching them) and Elijah took his mantel and--or--struck the river, and when it did, it divided, and he went across. And he said to the young prophet, "What--what are you following me for? What--what--what do you wish?

He said, "That a double portion of your spirit come upon me."

"A double portion of that mighty prophet come upon me?" He said, "You've asked a hard thing; but if you see me when I go away, then it'll come upon you." So you can imagine how he watched the prophet.

94 Now, in that day that prophet was the Word, for he was the manifestation of the Word to the world. See? And he knowed there had to be a greater ministry come, because it required a greater thing. And when Jesus was here on earth, He was the Elijah. "These things that I do shall you do also; greater than these things shall ye do, because I go unto My Father." Now, how you going to do it? Watch Him. Who is He? The Word. See? Watch Him.

95 Now, when it comes to creation of things, it's true. Jesus never right straight out created anything and brought it into existence. He took a substance first. He took water, made wine. He took bread and made more bread. He took fish and made more fish. But He promised that greater things than this would be done. See? You see? Now, why? It's in a more evil day than it was when He was here. See? It's still Him, but using your tabernacle. See?

And this person that's in you, which is your birth... You are John Doe; you were born in a certain month, and you were borned under a certain star; you were borned under a certain thing, and that has something to do with you. Certainly does.

97 I know I used to... Papa used to say, "I can't plant them potatoes at this time, because the moon isn't right. You can't plant them potatoes, Billy."

And I said, "I'm not planting them in the moon; I'm planting them here in the ground."

Said, "All right, smart-aleck, go on. You get a few bumps on your head and you'll learn something." I did. I did.

I tell you: take a board and lay it down out there on the grass in the dark of the moon and watch what happens. That grass will die right now. Lay it on the light of the moon; you can let it lay there a week; it won't hurt it a bit.

100 Watch that sea when that moon changes yonder. When the tide--when the moon goes out, the tide follows it out, and it's millions of miles from the earth. Not only that, go down here in the state of Kentucky and sink a rod down in the ground till you get into the salt water; and watch that pipe, how deep it is when the moon--when the tide's in and watch how it goes out, plumb across under the earth. Certainly.

You plant something that spreads out on top of the earth. In the dark of the moon watch it go right down and make it like a radish or turnip will. You plant it back the other way and watch it spread out on top the earth. Sure, it's got something to do.

102 Why did Aaron have on his breastplate the birthstone of each one of those patriarchs? Look at those mothers when they give the utterance. When them mothers and them Hebrew women in labor giving utterance to those children being born, it placed their name; it told their birth; it put them in the homeland; and set them over to eternity.

One of these days when I come in and stay a little time, I want to take that subject. Exactly. And then watch Jacob, when he was dying there, when he laid his hands upon the patriarchs and blessed them, he was telling them exactly where they would be. And that's exactly according to their name, and exactly according to their birth. And sure, it has something to do with you.

104 Now, that's your birth path; that's what you are, a natural man or natural woman. But when you're reborned again, that's not the outside conscience. The outside is what you see, taste, feel, smell, and hear, but the inside of that is what you really are. Now, this out here, Satan just tempts you and knocks you around every way here; but down here he can't do it unless you let him do it. For in here you've got faith, and faith don't come from the outer conscience, it reasons. But in faith there's no reason. You've got it from God, and you know it's there. I don't care how much it looks wrong, you still know it's right; it's THUS SAITH THE LORD. See? And there's nothing going to bother that. Nothing can bother that; it's moving right straight on. Difficult means nothing to it; wades right on through it, for It's the Word. And the Word's the Sword, and the Word cuts. The Sword cuts Itself free from everything else. You see? Takes the hand of faith to hold that Word. That faith's got to be...

105 Now see, when that inside conscience... Here's the inside; here's the outside. It's revealed in here, Truth is; out here, it's reason. Now, don't it look reasonable if we'd just say, "We just all go over and join the Assemblies"? Now, I like the Assemblies of God; I like the oneness; I like all of those churches. "Why don't we all just go and affiliate with them, maybe do some good." That's a reason, the outside. But down on the inside, watch it. When you see out here, this will--this will disagree, then look at the Assemblies. Many things that they do that I don't believe it's--it's Scriptural, and can prove it to them it's not Scriptural. But there's so many minds packed up in it. There's a thousands of those Assembly brothers and sisters who believe this, the Word, and don't believe what the Assemblies teach to be right. But they're in the web.

106 The Baptists, the Presbyterian, the oneness, and all the rest of them, they're in that web where a group of men gets together and they reason it. And there's so much prestige about a man. Here's a bishop setting here, general overseer; he says anything, what's the little fellow going to say? He's afraid to say anything. "I agree with you. Yeah, that's right. Uh-huh. Yes, Bishop, or--or Presbyter, you're--that's exactly right." He agrees with him.

Here, let's take an alcoholic out here on the street, that--an ordinary citizen pass down the street and say, "The old bum, nothing to him." Take him down here, put him on the police force, and put a badge on him, and a gun on him. "Good morning, John, it's so nice to see you again." See? Respect to one another.

Jesus said, "How can you have faith when you have respects of that type," you know, solicit us, respects one (I don't just remember just how the word goes there.)--but when your desire--respects one from another. See? Can't do that.

And when men gets together in a organization, they set down; and the little man's afraid to say anything, 'cause the bishop said so, the presbyter said so. But don't disregard the man, believe him to be a good man; but always remember, God's Word is right and all others contrary is wrong. "Let My Word be true, and every man's word be a lie." See it? That's what we want to do, is believe that.

110 Now remember, we are not the Word, but we are the Word. Uh-huh. Now, you got it? Jesus was not God, but He was God. He was a Man, yet He was God. He could cry, and yet He could raise the dead. He could cry for a man being dead and raise him back up again. He was Jehovah-jireh, Jehovah-rapha, Jehovah Manasses; He was Jehovah, all completely. He was Jehovah, and yet He was a Man. He owned the earth, and made the earth, and had not a place to lay His head. He said, "The birds that I made has got nests, and I haven't got a place to lay my head. The foxes that I created, has holes in the ground, and I haven't even got one Myself even to be buried in." That's right. He had to borrow somebody's grave, to be buried in.

111 He created a womb that was in a woman. He had no womb to be born in; he had to borrow a womb. He created the earth and had not a place to be buried in; he had to borrow a to--hole in the ground to be buried in, Joseph of Arimathaea. See? They had--they had to--had to borrow a place, yet He was God, proved that He was God.

Now, you understand? We are not... We are Messiahettes, but not that Jesus. He is our Father; we're just anointed with His Spirit, and that's the reason His Life... And that gets people. See, if you don't set and think it through, it gets people to believe, "Well, this guy would be the Messiah." Sure he is.

"This one over here could be." They both are. See? "Well, how can there be two of them?" There's thousands of them. See?

But you see, His Life is separated on the day of Pentecost. When that Pillar of Fire came down, It separated like tongues and set upon each of them, God dividing Himself among His people, because the church and Christ is One, just as the husband and wife is one.

114 330. Brother Branham, how am I supposed to show my wife that I really care for her and yet play--or stay with the Word (That's)--stay--stay with the word, but still having a question like this said: "Why don't you practice what you preach or believe?"

Well then, if the wife, if the wife is saying this to you when she's--has a right to say it, you better get right. See, see? Then if she, if--if she is saying it just to be evil, remember, the Bible said, "It was better that a millstone was hanged at your neck and drowned in the depths of the sea than even to offend the least of these, My little ones." Now, that just your question.

And may be that this wife is not that type of person. Maybe she's a different--maybe, she's a good person. Maybe she's just testing you to see what you'll do.

116 Now, stay in love with her and let her see Jesus in you. You do that. See? You just go on. Some... I give a little illustration this morning about a person that... One time this little woman had--had received the Holy Ghost. And she was a very sweet little person. They... She said... Well, she'd had a hard life, and her husband was an alcoholic. And so, she just kept on; she bore with him. He says, "You want to go to church, honey, take off. But I just go down to the saloon, down at the old Brown Derby, down here. Go and--on." So they hung out down there all the time, used to be Bonifers. Many of you old-timers here remember when Bonifer had there on the corner of... It's called Brown Derby now, I believe it is.

117 So, hanging around down there, and the first thing you know, one night come up a question about church and about Christians. One of the old drunks setting there said, "There ain't no such a thing as Christians any more." Said, "There is no such a thing. All this bunch of hypocrites," said, "you see them out here smoking, drinking, doing the same thing that we do," and said, "call themselves Christians. There is no such."

This one drunk raised up and said, "Just a minute. There's one that I know about. "

Said, "Who is it?"

Said, "It's my wife." See? She'd become salty. He was catching it all the time.

He said, "I bet if she was put to a squeeze..."

He said, "No, she's still a Christian; I'll prove it to you." Said, "I tell you what let's do; let's go up home, and I'll show you whether she's a Christian or not." Said, "Let's go up home, and now, let's really be drunk. We're going to act like we're really drunk." Knocked at the door, come in staggering over everything and--and... "Why don't you set around this a-way," and everything. And she set them all a chair and (his guests, you know)--and tried to make them just as welcome as could be. Said, "I want you to fix us some supper." And so they--she went out and fixed some. Said, "we want ham and eggs." He knowed they had it, so they fixed the ham and eggs. When he got there at the table, he looked at them like that, picked up his plate, and slammed the stuff on the floor, said, "You know, I don't like my eggs like that. Come on boys let's get out of here anyhow," like that--like that.

119 They went out and set down like that, you know. And she come out; she said, "Dear, I'm--I'm sorry I didn't get them fixed; I'll fix some more for you."

"Oh, nonsense, you knowed I didn't want them that way in the first place," just carrying on like that. They went out there, and set down, and act like they was drunk. They heard her in there kind of snubbing to herself, singing real low voice:

Must Jesus bear the cross alone,

All the world go free?

There's a cross for every one,

And there's a cross for me.

This consecrated cross I'll bear,

Till death shall set me free,

One drunk looked at the other one, said, "She's a Christian; she's got it." And that little woman led her husband, plus these others to Christ that night. See? Why? See? Just be real sweet. Just remember, He knows all about it.

So, sister, or brother, whoever it might be, or brother, it is here, 'cause he asked about his wife, you just be salty; she'll get thirsty if there's anything in her to thirst for. If it isn't, remember, if you got the wrong person, you'll get the right one in the Millennium. You just keep on going; all wrongs will be made right there.

122 331. Brother Branham, do you teach that the Bride must not attend any church unless you are there preaching, or else the Tabernacle--other words, the Tabernacle? (Got "else," means other words.")

122a 332. Also, do you teach that we need not keep the--the Sunday or holidays, as working, fishing, or so forth? Or... (I'd say that was Sunday. It looked like Sunday to me. Or right at the bottom it look like--or Sunday, I guess it is, holidays or Sundays. Yeah, Sundays, that what it look like? [Brother Branham speaks to someone--Ed.] Holy days--holy days, Sunday and holy days.)

No. You're mistaken. See? Let me go over and just answer it as I come by.

"Do you teach that the Bride must not attend any other church unless you are preaching--preaching or else, otherwise, the Tabernacle?" No. I don't teach that. I don't believe that; I do not believe it. We've got ministers setting here that's scattered all around through the country, and I believe they are part of that Bride. I believe that a man or woman can go to church anywhere they want to go that teaches the Word. And I believe, if they don't teach the whole Word, and you can't go to church any other place where they teach the whole Word, go where they teach half the Word until you can get to where they teach the whole Word. Go to church whatever you do. Do that.

123 "Also do you teach that we must--we must--need not keep Sunday, or any holy day, or--or working--or--like working, or fishing on Sunday?"

I believe it's a sin to fish, and hunt, and work on Sunday when you can go to church. Now, I believe you're transgressing the laws of God. "Is there a commandment to such?" Yes, sir. Now, in the Old Testament we had a type of the Sabbath day. It was all... And Jesus did not come for you to keep Sabbath days. The old Sabbath day was Saturday, which was the end of the week. Sunday is the eighth day, or the first day of the week, which Jesus rose on.

I do not believe it's right to... Now, if you're way away into a wilderness somewhere, and you're out there on a hunting trip, there's no church around, or anything like that, and there's nothing you can do; and if you was fishing, I believe that would be all right. But if you're around in the city, or around where church is going on, you should attend church by all means, somewhere.

And I believe, as far as working, I believe if the ox is in the ditch, or something has to be done on Sunday, you go ahead and do it, if it's something that you couldn't help, it had to work that way. But if you just do it, and wait till Sunday to do it, or just do it like that, you're wrong. See? We must not do that, we must respect that holy day.

127 And now, remember, go to church somewhere, some place. If... I--I could call a certain denominational church, but I wouldn't do it, because this church, only thing I know that they teach that I believe is, they say they believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. Well, I do that. All their other teaching is... They believe in--in remissions of sins is by water. Now, it isn't the oneness; they do the same thing, but I'm not talking about them. They believe that--that regeneration by water, and so forth. And I don't believe that. And they, oh, they believe if anything's got Divine healing in it is of the devil. And they believe in all... They're the only--they're the only thing that there is, and the only thing you have to do is just put your name on that book. And if you ain't got it there, you're lost. Now, I don't believe that. But if there was no other church to go to (I wouldn't go there critical.), I'd go there with the intention of my presence, and me setting by somebody, that the Christ that was in my heart might influence somebody there. Go among them, but don't be partakers of their unbelief.

128 333. Brother Branham, I want to receive the Holy Ghost. I want to know what to do. I am burdened for my family to be saved. And the sister signed her name.

If you want to receive the Holy Ghost, let me tell you something, my dear sister, if you're here. And--and--I... Brother Neville, is that a member of the church here? [Brother Branham has conversation with Brother Neville--Ed.] At the bottom there. I don't--I don't remember them either. But if--if you're here, Sister B-o-u-g-h, if you're here, let me tell you. The Bible said, "Blessed are they that do hunger and thirst after righteousness sake..." You're so blessed to even want It. See? Now, remember, not that you--you--you've got It, but blessed are they that hunger and thirst for It, "for they shall be filled." Just stay right with it.

"What must I do for my family?" Use the same faith that you're using for yourself, for your family. Commit them to the Lord and believe with all your heart that you're going to be saved. Let it... Don't let it just come on your natural thinking here, let it drop way down on the inside, that subconscious, then they're yours. God's give them to you when you've got it down here.

Whatever you have in your heart here and ask for it, when you pray, believe that you receive what you ask for. Now, you can't doubt it no more. You can't believe it and doubt it the same time. How many knows that? You can't believe and doubt at the same time. You've got to believe that what you ask for, you receive it, then He said it would be given to you. So you just believe for your family, and they'll get it.

131 334. Brother Branham, what about our son since--since are not on the--not preaching on the Trumpets? Remember the promise you gave me over the phone concerning him and the Seven Trumpets?

I don't remember it. I don't remember what it was. But whatever it is, you let Billy Paul know what it is. Whatever I promised, that I'll do. I don't remember. You know I--sometimes I get--maybe of a nighttime answer thirty, forty calls in one time (You see?), so I don't remember night after night--sometimes when I'm around--so I don't get whatever it is.

What about my Catholic sister and brother? Thank you.

132 Oh, this person's from way out of town, way away in Texas. I... Well, sister, if you--if you're from Texas and you get this tape, or if there is a tape (I guess there won't be no tape on this), but if there is... [Brother Branham inquires about taping the service--Ed.] Are they making a tape? You're making it? All right, if they're... The tape... Then I tell you what. If you... On this tape, when you find this, remember, "What about our son when--about the Seven Trumpets?" I don't remember about that, 'less I promised to see him or something during the Seven Trumpets. If I did, I'll see him; 'cause I didn't preach the Seven Trumpets, I preached the Feast of the Trumpets. You understood about that?

"And what about my Catholic sister and brother? Thank you." I will tell you, Mrs. C-o-r-n-i-l-s-e-n... If the lady's here, see Billy Paul this morning. And--and if not, well, I'll--I'll--I--I don't understand what it is (You see?); it's just a question. I--I can't make it out (See?), what it is, 'cause I promised something about her boy and the Trumpets and about a Catholic sister; and I--I don't--it's not in my mind now to remember. Just see Billy.

This must... That's just a prayer request. Gives the person's name and said, "headaches and sinus." So that was just... Just pray for them, I guess. All right.

134 335. Please explain marriage and divorce. (I've already got that. This is seven questions--eight questions on one piece of paper.) Please explain marriage and divorce.

I did.

134a 336. Moses and--and Elijah on earth now? Are Moses and Elijah on earth now? Are they in America?

No. See? No, they're not here; they won't be until the church is taken away, then Moses and Elijah... How many understands that? All right. And let's see. They don't have any name signed to this, so... All right. If ever who asked these questions... I believe there's seven of them; I've gave--marked seven. All right.

135 337. Explain the difference between the "Name of Jesus," and the "Name of Jesus." (Wait a minute.) Explain the difference between the name "Jesus" and the "Name of Jesus."

Well, they'd both be the same if they're applied the same way (You see?), applied to the same Person, the name Jesus, and the Name of Jesus. The Name of Jesus and the name--name Jesus is Who He is. The Name of Jesus is speaking of the Person, so it'd be the same... I think that would... Doesn't that sound sensible? See? The name Jesus is the Person Itself, and the Name of Jesus is you referring to that Person. See?

Say, my name is William. That's me. All right. Now, you say... I'm speaking... The name of William, then you're referring to me. That's my name. See? Now.

137 338. Has the Name of the Lord changed in the different dispensations?

Yes, yes. It was once called--He was called the I AM. He's called Jehovah, and He's changed many times. The last time it was changed was when God became flesh and took a human name. Jehovah, I AM, and all of those, are titles to a Name. See? If you was baptized in the name of Jehovah, it'd have to be the Name of Jesus Christ. If you was baptized in the name of Jehovah-rapha, Jehovah Manasses, and Jehovah-jireh, all of those, it'd have to be Jesus Christ. The I AM is Jesus Christ.

Remember, standing there that day, and He said, "You say you eat manna in the wilderness..."

"Our fathers eat manna"

"And are dead." He said.

And they said, "Well, we know now you're crazy, because you're just a man and not over fifty years old, and say you seen Abraham."

He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM." See? He was the I AM. And all the titles and names that ever belonged to God was made one human Name, the Lord Jesus Christ. All right.

141 339. Now, if time ceases when the Seals were opened, then--is... If time ceased (pardon me) when the Seals were opened, then the Millennium is also--then the Millennium is also finished, is it not?

No, no. Time didn't cease when the Seals were opened. Misunderstood it. What happened, the mysteries was revealed, not time ceased. See? Just look. Watch real close now, and will--play your tape if you got it from a tape. See?

142 Time never ceased until the... This must be a post-millennialist or something that asked the question. Because see? We got a thousand years after the church has gone home and comes back upon the earth. Then time ceases in the new heavens and new earth.

Now, the Millennium is not the new heavens and new earth. There will still be sin after the Millennium. The Millennium is a type of Noah going in the ark, and carried over, and brought Ham and them on the other side. And sin even come out of the ark. See?

But Enoch, the translated one, was a type of the Bride that went up, not the one that was carried over. So sin will still be on the other side of the Millennium, but not during the Millennium. See? During the Millennium is peace. See? But sin will be dealt with the other side of the Millennium, and then time fades out.

And now, the opening of the Seven Seals that was given by the Holy Spirit, the Seven Seals only was to make known what had been left off in the dispensations behind us.

146 Now, as some great theologian tried to corner me on that, he said, "Brother Branham, you--God someday will give you the secret of those Seven Seals. Those Seven Seals will be something that we've never learned yet, that it'll be something that's not even in the Bible." No, no. It won't be that, because if you do, that would make it a... If I told you that, I'd be a false prophet, because (You see?) this Word... There... Everything that's--that's... The whole revelation of Jesus Christ is all completed in this Word. See? And if the Seven Seals pertained to the seven churches, it had to be already past, because we're in the Laodicea church age... And the Seven Seals was only revealing what they had left off back there, and it opened up what they had left: what Luther left, what Wesley left, and all the reformers, and Pentecostals, and down to the present time.

147 Now, the next thing left is the translation of the church, the return of Moses and Elijah, the Millennium reign upon the earth with the Bride and Groom for a thousand years, and then the judgment bar, and then a total annihilation of sin. It'll never be no more at that time.

Now, not the... Cease... The Seals never ended time. Time or seasons until after the Millennium. No. It'll still be time until after the Millennium.

149 340. Does the Millennium have to do with the one thousand years? Could it not be a generation?

No. A generation allotted in the Bible is forty years. But the Bible said, "And they lived and reign with Christ one thousand years." It will be one thousand years upon the earth, 'cause one thousand years upon the earth is only counted a time, for parable like to God, as one day. One thousand years upon on the earth is only one day with God, as God counting time. How many understands that now?

So it's that Sabbath day when the church will no more labor against sin. And Satan is bound for a little season, a thousand years, 'cause his subjects is all in hell, and his... The church that's on earth is redeemed and right in the Presence of Christ, so he has nothing he can work on. So it's not a chain, as I said, a log chain; it's a chain of circumstance; he has nothing he can do. He's helpless and hopeless, just waiting for the resurrection of the subjects; then they're separated as the sheep from the goats.

151 341. Did not the queen of Sheba come to Solomon to test him--test him to find out for herself if the--if the name of the Lord was truly Solomon or not? (I don't believe I get that. Just wait.) Did not the queen of Sheba come to Solomon to test him to find out for herself if the name of the Lord was truly Solomon or not? (I--I don't, maybe I don't understand this one. Just... Excuse me just a minute. Let me read it again.) Did not the queen of Sheba come to Solomon to test him to find out for herself if the name of the Lord was truly Solomon or not?

No. She never tested to find out if--if God's name was Solomon. Solomon was a king. She come, and she said, she--she said, "Truly God is with His king and with His people." See? She come and was tested--she tested Solomon about his gift, because she had things in her heart that Solomon revealed to her, that showed that he was God's king upon earth.

152 You remember down in, I believe, down in--in--in--where she come from, down in the land of--of--of--of Sheba where she came from, the people would come through, you know, and--and tell about great things that's going on, that they had a God up there that has anointed their king, and the--how the king was anointed of God. I don't believe she thought that Solomon's name--or God's name was Solomon, 'cause if she did, that would make her a pagan again. See? So she--she could've did that. In her heart she could've thought that God was Solomon, and Solomon was God, 'cause she was a heathen to begin with. But when Solomon revealed to her the secret in her heart by a--a gift of discernment, which was called then, wisdom; he discerned that; she knew that God was with Solomon, 'cause then... They had... She found out... If she come with that in her mind...

153 If the--if the person here, the questioner, is asking, "Did she know then that truly Solomon--the name of the Lord was truly Solomon?"... See? Solomon was not the Lord; she'd found that out by the people, 'cause they worshipped Jehovah, and there was the great ark, and the great testament, the--the ark that the Lord's commandments was in. And they'd told her about on Mount Sinai and the different places where they'd been. And then she could see that God--that God of that testament was in this man, because he had--he had discernment which only belonged to God. See? So she knew that that God was in Solomon. But now, it might read that way if the questioner ask that. But, "Did she know that the name of the Lord was truly Solomon?" Maybe they didn't write it just the way they was thinking. You see? So I think maybe they'd say--say this: "That the Lord was in Solomon." Yes, sure did. 'Cause if that's the question, sure. She knowed God, because she made that remark. And she wouldn't worship no other god. And I believe she--she said she'd always... She seen why... She had no breath left in her; she had no questions left in her. Solomon just revealed the whole thing, and she knowed God was with him.

154 342. We--we were married twenty-one years ago by the justice of the peace. Was--was it wrong?

Yes, it was wrong for you to do that. Marriage belongs in the house of God. But being that you are married, here's when you're really married: you're married when you vow one to the other, when you promise one another that you're, that you'll take one another. The justice of peace could give you license; that's legal terms of living together as husband and wife without being common-law husband and wife. But when you promise this girl and this--you promise that man that you'll live true to him, and you take him to be your husband, you're married then. You remember, I explained that last week, I believe it was. See? When you promise her... See?

Even in the old--in the old Bible, if a man was betrothed to a maid, and... You know the laws on that. Why, it was just the same as an adultery. Certainly was, when he promised, that was it.

156 The question was asked the other day, "Was a annulment--annulment--an annulment the same as a divorce?" See? When you ask me those questions, friend, you don't know what that does to me. I've got many friends setting here that's married two or three times. Did you realize I'm talking to my own son, Billy Paul? Would I spare Billy Paul? No, indeedy. Billy Paul got married to some little girl, and come up, and said, "Daddy, I'm going to get married."

I was washing my car; I said, "Butt your head against the wall," just kept on washing my car like that.

He said, "I'm going to get married."

I said, "Oh, go on," just kept on like that. He goes around and tells his mother, and his mother laughed at him. You know what he done? Run off with some little kid still in common school and got married. We annulled the wedding, the father of this girl and myself. We annulled the wedding, but he was married just the same. He's my boy setting here listening at me now. That's exactly.

He come to me with the girl that he lives with now, my daughter-in-law. My little grandson... He said, "Daddy will you marry me?"

I said, "By no means." That's my own son. You think that don't cut me to the core when I packed him in my arms and done everything I could do, and I've been both father and mother to him? You think that don't kill me to say that? But it's the truth. Certainly. My boy setting here listening at... My daughter-in-law and my little grandson setting right here now... But I tell him it's wrong (See?), because I've got to. I'm duty bound to that Word.

160 And I say, you got married by a magistrate? You should've been married by the church, by the minister. That's the decent thing to do for a Christian. But being that you have already made that promise, and vow, and been married twenty-one years ago, I think it's all right.

You say, "Well I..."

The question might be, "Should I come and be married again?" If you wish to. Don't have nothing in your mind that bothers your faith, 'cause if anything's there, you can't go no further than right there; you stop right there. When that question mark come, that's where you end, right there. But I, for me it would be all right.

The man that baptized me in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ finally run me out of the church, because I wouldn't agree with him on women preachers. That didn't make me be rebaptized again. See? Surely not. See? That's all right.

163 But just remember, these things are cutting to me. I got bosom friends setting here, men and women that would take their--lay their--pull their eye out and give it to me if I'd ask them for it (Yes, sir.), and they're married twice, sometimes three times, setting right here now. And my own boy, my own grandson, my grand--and my daughter-in-law that I love... Look at Billy, how I stood by him and how he stood by me, but to say truth or truth, it's truth's truth.

I've got... I could go out here today and call up some of these Assemblies of God or some of these people and tell them, "I've--I'm--was all wrong; I ain't going to stay with that Word, I'm going to stay with you." I'd probably be a very popular person pretty soon with a gift of God. To throw all my influence to one of those organizations, I'd probably have a big name among them. I ain't caring about my name among them. I love them; that's the truth. But I got to be truthful. I--I--I'd be a hypocrite if I did that.

165 And I'd be a hypocrite if I stood here because my own son setting here that was promised to a girl, and I said... If--if he never even had the ceremony said over him, no matter if he ever lived with the woman, or slept with her, the girl, or whatever it was, when he made that vow, he's married, Billy Paul or no Billy Paul. That's exactly the truth. He's married when he made that promise. If it's me, it's the same.

We've got to be honest. If I can't be honest with my boy, I can't be honest with you. If I ain't honest with you, I won't be honest with God. And I want you to believe what I tell you to be my honest-to-goodness opinion. Don't make anything else out of it; just say it the way I said it (See?), 'cause I'm going to tell you the truth.

167 Now, I don't talk to you all like that too often, because you're my children, I call you. I've begotten you to Christ through the Gospel. And while we're here together, just our own group setting here, I--I shave you down a little bit. But I want to tell you: when you come to me and ask anything, I'm going to tell you the best that I know how. If it's in the Word, I don't care if it condemns me; I've got many knots should be shaved off of me. Exactly.

But when you ask me anything, I'm going to tell you. If I tell you anything, I'm going to tell you the truth. I've always tried to live that way. That's the way I want to live and die that way, to be honest with anybody.

169 A little girl come to me not long ago; the woman's not here now. Tom Simpson, many of you know him. Tom is a nice fellow; none of his people are here. (I think all the people went back, unless Fred's still here. I... Fred Sothmann, I don't know whether he's here yet or not, but I--I think they are.) But Tom Simpson, he come down from Canada with--with Fred. And they... (You know Brother Fred, our trustee.)

And Brother Tom, many of you know him here. And Tom's a fine man; he's a dandy guy; and so is Mrs. Simpson. If she'd only listen to what I tell her, she's going to walk again too. And she's setting in that wheelchair crippled up. She's going to walk if she'll just do what was said do. And you just watch and see if that isn't true. See? Now. But she's got to do what she was told to do if she expects to do it.

171 And one of her little girls, sweet little girls... I... When they was little bitty things, I'd take them up on my lap and play with them. They're too big now; they're almost women, ten, twelve years old. And so, one of them come to me, said, "Brother Branham, I had a dream." And she told me the dream. And she said, "What does that mean?"

I said, "Don't know, honey. I'll pray, and if the Lord gives it to me, I'll tell you."

She said, "All right." A few days she come back, said, "Got that dream?"

I said, "No, honey, I haven't; He hasn't revealed it to me."

About a week or two later she come back, said, "Brother Branham, what about that dream?"

I said, "I don't know." Well, looked like she was kind of disappointed. I...

174 You remember, when you ask me anything to tell you, and I don't get it from the Lord, I'm disappointed too. But I ain't going to be hypocrite or a liar; I'm going to tell you the truth. If He tells me, I'll tell you; if He don't, I won't. That's all I can do. And I want you to believe me that way.

And now, I thought I knowed what the dream meant in my mind, but how did I know. I have to see the thing over again. And not one of you can lay your finger at any time or anyplace, where I ever told you the interpretation of a dream in the Name of the Lord but was exactly that way. Yes, sir. Never have I told you anything in the Name of the Lord but what come to pass too, just that way, because I'm--I... It's Him. And then it ain't my responsibility then; it's Him; it's His responsibility.

176 I said, "Look, Trudy, what if we're going to Arizona. And what if--if I come told you that when you got out there, 'THUS SAITH THE LORD,' your little brother is going (little Johnny, the one I tease about having his belly open all the time)..." I said, "What if he gets run over on the street and I say, 'You know what's going to happen, he's going to get run over on the street'; and you're coming up to me and--and you're going to say, 'Brother Branham... Go take him to Brother Branham,' rather. And then you're going to hunt around, and you find me standing on a steps talking to a man with a white suit on. And then, I'm just going to lay my hands upon little Johnny; he's going to come to life again and run along." Now, said, "Then you go out west, and the first thing you know, one day you hear your mother screaming, your daddy screaming, and look, and little Johnny's been run over. What would you do?" See? You believe me. See? And I want you to have confidence in me. I ain't going to tell you nothing just presumingly; I'm going to tell you the truth, or don't tell you nothing. And I said, "Then you come to me and say, 'Oh, little Johnny,'--or come to your mother, 'Oh, little Johnny's run over. He's dead. He's dead.'"

177 The doctor come, pull his eyes back, check his heart, his respiration; "He's dead; take him to the morgue." What would you do?

You're going to say, "Wait just a minute. Wait just a minute. Take him in my arms; let's start walking." Amen.

"Where you going, Trudy?"

"I don't know."

"What you got?" You got your little dead brother in your arms. Just keep walking down the street. People say, "Is that girl crazy?" No, sir. She's got THUS SAITH THE LORD. What's going to happen?

First thing you know you say to your father and mother, "Wait, we'll find Brother Branham. He'll be standing on the steps talking to a man with a white suit on. There he is standing right there. Watch what happens." Not a doubt in your mind. Walk up there and say, "Brother Branham, you know what you told me."

"Yes, Trudy. 'Johnny, wake up.'" Jump off and go on down the street.

179 But what if I just presumingly tell you some things that I think is right, and tell you in that manner, THUS SAITH THE LORD, and it isn't right, and it don't happen, it never comes to pass; then you'd be scared to death of the little boy. You wouldn't know whether to bring him or not.

God sent me here to help you, and I want to be a help to you. And no matter if it cuts, hurts, or whatever it is, I got to say it anyhow.

181 But now on the case of marriage and divorce, I've asked you like a brother, hold your peace until you hear from me. Hear? Just go right on as you have lived. (I'm taking up too much of the time there.)

"We were married twenty-one years ago (yeah)... justice of the peace." Sister dear, brother dear, one time a salesman was telling me he walked into a church (He was a Christian.) up in Connecticut or somewhere up there, great big church, just went in to pray. It wasn't--he was a Pentecostal, but he went in there to pray. And said when he got in there and knelt down in the church to pray... said he was riding along, was tired, kinda homesick, he's a salesman, and he's selling stuff, and said he--for--to factories. And he went in there to--to make some buys or something, then he come by the church, thought, "I'll go... I believe I'll go in and pray." The door's open; said, he went in. Didn't hear nobody, so he knelt down and started praying. After he was praying there, stayed about a hour, said, directly he heard some doors slam or something; he thought it was a custodian or something of the church. Said, after while he noticed here come--he heard somebody talking. He slipped up there to look, and looked around to see whether it was the custodian. It was a man and woman standing before the altar holding one another's hands, said, "I take you, dear, to be my lawful wedded wife." See?

She said, "I take you, dear to be my lawful wedded husband."

"Why," he said, "this is a strange thing," said, this Pentecostal, he said, "this man and woman getting married without a preacher." See? And so he just set down and waited; and after they made their vows to live true to one another, only death would separate them, they put their arms around one another, kissed each other, turned around and walked out smiling. He said, "Just a moment." He said, "I'm kinda curious; I'm a stranger." Said, "You all getting married?"

Said, "Yes."

"Without a preacher?"

He said, "No." Said, "We been married forty years." He said, "We got married right here at this altar forty years ago, and every year we come back and renew our vows." That's a good idea. See?

But as far as married, when you promise her, she takes your word; you take her word; and God takes both your word. See? So just don't promise 'less... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]

184 343. When they cut it in... Is long--is long hair when they cut it in front? (Huh. Now, wait a minute; let me get this here. I...) Is long hair when they...

Well, I--I--maybe they mean this: "Is it long hair any longer when they cut it in front?" Not any longer; they've cut it off. See? But like the man that had the trousers cut them off three times and still too short. What say? What say? [Brother Branham has conversation with someone in audience--Ed.] Oh, that's what they're talking about. As I tease my little girl, she said... The "booms" I call them, you know, bangs, or whatever it is, you know, across the front here.

Well, I imagine those kids that's cutting their hair in front... You--maybe your mother could tell you about that (See?), if she wants you to do that way. I think it'd look kinda--kinda a little bit like a woman was looking through the rear view if she passed about twenty-five years old and wanted to cut them off in front like that, look like some little kid. Look on out here where you're going, sis, not where you've been. See?

186 And now, but cutting the hair, I--I--I'll tell you this. I can't--I--I ain't got no--no Scripture to say that you can cut so much of it and can't do the other. I--I haven't got no Scripture for that; I--I couldn't tell you that, sister, or brother, ever who it is.

I say one thing. I wished... Now, I know my kids has done that too, Rebekah and Sarah, I seen when they cut their hair off here in front, and plait it back here in the back, and make these things across the front, like this. I--I don't, I--I... Now, not holding them. See? No, sir. To me, I wished they didn't even put a scissors on their hair at all. But when they got all long, hanging down like this, and just cut the front of it out of their eyes, little kids maybe. I--I wouldn't know whether that'd be wrong; I wouldn't think so. See? But when you get... If you can, I--for you sisters, I'd just let it the way the Lord made it. See?

188 And of course, I know women wants to look pretty; that's nature; and that--that's what they should be. See? They should be that way. And so, that's fine, but just don't--don't; otherwise like this, don't look like the world (See?); don't pattern after the world. Things wrong... You want it cut off, like that, but don't cut your hair now. If you got the braids hanging down, or--or whatever it is in your hair, you leave it long. Don't cut it like it's going to look like the world. If you're just them little girls...

189 My uncle used to have a little girl up there in--in New York. She had the prettiest hair. It's kind of dark brown and she'd wear her plaits... My mother used to be able to... Her plaits hit down here in the back of her knees. And this little girl had plaits like that too; her name was Jacqueline. And she had combed part of it down like this and cut it off like this. And now, it's been about fifteen, eighteen, twenty years ago. And I used to wonder, why didn't she just comb the whole thing back, it'd look prettier than having it just like, off here like these modern Beatles they have now days, you know. And a... Oh, that's right, I don't believe I'd do it. Anything look like them Beatles, that looks like out of the world, so let--now, just leave that alone. Yeah.

190 344. My husband and I don't see alike on the Bible, the truths--like this truth that you preach. He doesn't understand. Should I go with him to churches when I don't believe their teaching? I'm very troubled about this.

Yes. If you are a wife to this husband, and he don't condemn you, you don't--you mustn't condemn him (See?), because the husband is sanctified by the wife. See? And I believe, if he goes to some denominational church or something like that, he wants you to go down there with him... You see? If you don't be... See, there's nothing there can harm you, 'cause you're not going to listen to what they're saying anyhow, 'cause you done said here you don't believe their preaching. See? So it ain't going to harm you, but you're just showing respects to your husband. You're yielding yourself to him, and maybe in doing so, you--you'll... If they teach and do the things down there... You're taught much higher things than that; you'll be salty; he'll see and come to the Lord. I believe I would go ahead. My goodness, look here what time it is?

191 345. Does Zechariah 4 and Revelations 11:3-12, speak of the same being? See Zechariah 4:12-14 and Revelations 11:4. They signed their name to it--Brother and sister of the church here.

Let's see, Zechariah 4. Oh, yeah, that's the two olive trees. Yeah, the two olive trees and Revelations 11 is... Oh, yeah, that's it. Same thing. That's them both. That--that is Moses and Elijah, the two olive trees.

Pray for our... That's a prayer request.

I'm sorry, this I can't read it before... It's about family relationships. Yeah, put that with this one over there. Can't read that to the public. They're on private interview anyhow, so--so...

192 346. Brother Branham, is it wrong to--to... [Brother Branham speaks with someone on platform--Ed.] (What does that say? What on Sunday? Work?) Is it wrong to work on Sunday?

I've just explained that. If the ox is in the ditch, take him out, but don't push him in the ditch just to get him out on Sunday.

Brother Branham, will you preach here next Sunday?

That's just a question. No, sister, brother, ever-who it is. Now, these are some just was laying out here. Must've laid--laid them, or somebody put them in the package.

Brother... This is to you, Brother Capps. "Will you sing, We'll Never Grow Old?" I must have got in the... I got some of the rest of them mixed up.

194 347. Brother Branham, someone wants to know why you were not (m-e-n...) mentioned in the Bible. I believe you are Habakkuk 2:1-4. (Get that, Brother Neville, Habakkuk 2:1-4) Let them read this and study it, 3rd chapter... think name and types of four chapters, believe--I believe is you.

Now, while he's hunting that, it's Habakkuk 2:1-4. Brother or sister, ever who ask the question (There's no name; that's fine.), I--I like for you to ask those things. I know what's on your heart (See?), and then I'll tell you. No. See? You wouldn't have to necessarily have your name in the Bible (See?), but (You see?), as long as you're in the Bible, there--as long as you're in Christ, you are in the Bible; you're in Him (You see?) in the Bible. See? As long as you are in Christ, then you are in the fullness of the Bible. See? You are in your full position when you're in Christ. All understand that?

195 Do you have it, Brother Neville? What? Yeah. Habakkuk--Habakkuk... I haven't read it. This was just put in here, I guess, this morning. Habakkuk 2:1-4. Let's see it. Habakkuk 2--Habakkuk 2, and 1 to 4:

I will stand upon the watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch and see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer I--I am--when I am reproved.

And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.

For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because I will surely come, and I will not tarry.

Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.

196 Well, I--I'd imagine this dear person that asked this... You see? It's somebody that loves me, or they wouldn't write that. See? Now, I could not say that my... The Bible does not call my name--my name, William Branham, or call your name whoever it is, but we are in Him anyhow. And these...

And now, you see familiar places that refer to in the Bible, that says certain things. You see? Now, if you'll watch, history repeats itself in the Bible. See? Now, let's just give you Scripture for one now. (I see many of you writing it down.) Now, in the 3rd chapter of Saint Matthew, It said, "And when God called His Son out of Egypt that it might be fulfilled which was spoken, 'Out of Egypt I call My Son...'" Now, if you've got a--a Scofield or any other reference Bible, if you'll follow that reference there, that margin reading, it'll bring you back to where He called Jacob, Israel, out of Egypt. See? But Jacob was His son that He called out of Egypt; also Jesus was His Son that He called out of Egypt. So, see, the Word of God is never ending. See, we are identify ourselves in the Bible with different... How many remembers my message on identifying yourself with Christian characters, Phoenix, Arizona, where I preached it? Yeah, many of you has got it on the tape. See? Identified with Christian Character. See? You can identify yourself anywhere you want to in that Scripture if you are a Christian, and if you're not a Christian, you can identify yourself in the Bible. See? So I think maybe that would help. I want to get as many of these as I can.

198 348. Brother Branham, some say mercy is over and no one can be saved. Now, is this true? (I'm glad I got this one.) We watch and pray--we watch the prayer lines, and it seems some are still finding mercy. Now, that's the first question, you got two.

"Is mercy over?" Don't never think that. See? Just keep right on doing everything you can until you're taken away. See?

"We notice in the prayer line some's finds mercy." Sure. Mercy's--the doors are open. See? I think where you got this--this thought might lay between... See, I don't have time to give each one of these Scriptures their right place (You see?), each one of these things their right place. They... In the prayer line you find mercy, certainly.

If I knowed Jesus was coming this afternoon, I'd be doing just the thing I'm doing right now (See?), just continuing right on. Mercy is always open. See?

201 And now, where I think you get it, is about the finishing of the Seven Church Ages and the Seven Seals being loosed. See? The Seven Seals, it's manifested what takes place has--what has took place. The seventh church age, we're at the end of the seventh church age. When I say the end, that doesn't mean it's this very hour, this very minute. You remember, the Bible said, back in the times of--of the Lord Jesus, Paul said, "For the time is at hand." Do you realize how long that was in God's time? That was yesterday. My time, it's been two thousand years. See? The time is at hand. See? What God calls at hand is not what we call at hand. See?

So just keep on believing, keep on praying, keep on... God's still got mercy open; just keep flowing into it as fast as you can. God will do the stopping when it's time to stop. See?

203 349. Now. Brother Branham, is it true that no one should preach but you? We have seen your--we have seen you ordain men. We do--don't believe you would do that if there were not--if they were not to preach.

Mercy. Brother, sister, ever who told you that nobody's to preach but me, I'd sure be a poor subject to God with all that. No. Every man or that feels a call of God upon his life, get into the ministry and start preaching; we need them.

Men of God are anointed all over the world to preach the Gospel. See? I'm just one little pebble on the beach among many big stones. See? So I... There's just many that's more eligible, more worthy, more of anything to preach than me; I'm just one little, humble person laying out here. I'm one grain of wheat in a whole garner. See? So that just a... You know what I mean. Any man that's called of God needs to preach the Gospel.

206 350. How can a Christian get deeper in the love of God?

Read the Word and pray. Read the Word of God and pray. I'm going to hurry, just get as many as I can.

I turned in one question, but asked it (i-n-c-) incorrectly. I want to know if you are going to have a healing service before you leave town. If not... have to do--I--get a personal interview with you?

Now, by the way, I think this person was on interview this morning. 'Course, we had a healing service--we have had a healing service too.

208 351 Brother Branham, please explain I Corinthians--I Corinthians 11--11 and verse 4 through 6. Does not this mean a s-e--separate--separate c-o--covering from the hair, or is the long hair the only covering we need? (Get me I Corinthians 11. Let's see, I Corinthians 11:4.) It says when praying... (Oh, yeah, he--they got it here. They say,) In praying or prophesying can we take our hair--can we... (Let's see, they got a line drawed through something here.) When prophesying--when prophesying can we take our hair when we... (You--you say,) Can we take our hair on or off when we're prophesying?

If you--if you got a hairpiece, you might, but I'd--or wearing one of these Beatle wigs, or something, but... If I could look right in one, I'd probably wear one myself, but it--not a Beatle wig, but a--a hairpiece.

210 But that's all right. If you ain't got no hair and you want one. If you can do it, that's perfectly all right. Yes, sir. If a woman, her hair isn't long enough, she wants a switch of hair in it, I'd say, put it on, sister.

If a man takes bad colds and things, and wants a--some way--even to his appearance to his wife, if he wanted to wear a hairpiece, do it. Yes, indeedy. Nothing wrong with that (no, sir.) no more than you would be your teeth, or artificial arm, or anything else. If nature has some--taken something from you and it's so handy you go ahead, that's perfectly all right.

But it says here, "Can we take our hair on or off when praying or prophesying?" What does this actually mean?

212 All right, read, Brother Neville... here... like 4--4 to 6, all right, all right.

Every man praying or prophesy,... his head covered, dishonors his head. (That is, if he's got long hair. All right.)

But every woman that prayeth or prophesy with her head uncovered dishonors her head:... (That's her husband.)... for that is even all as one if she were shaven.

For if a woman be not covered, let her also be shorn:... (If she wants to bob her hair, make her shave it all off slick. See? If she can't have...)... but if it be not a shame for a woman to be--be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.

I don't see nothing on taking on or taking off of hair there, unless the woman wants... He says, if she says she has to cut it, then let her shave it all off slick. See? Because if she doesn't, let her have her hair; because her hair is her covering. But for a man to have his head covered, long hair like a woman, standing in the pulpit, he'd look like a woman up there. See? So he mustn't have that like that. See?

214 That's--that mean that they're taking on hair or off... I think the person might've got mistaken in thinking there that it meant a--a man prophesying with his head covered, then he takes his covering off. See? No. That isn't that he had long hair; it means, if he's covered... Now, you read on down just a little further, you that asked the question, and you'll find out that the woman's head is her husband. How many knows that? And the man's head is Christ; therefore, a man should cut his hair because of Christ, 'cause in Him is both man, woman, and all. He's both father, mother, sister, brother, all. But in a man it's masculine alone. Therefore, he must cut that off because of Christ; but in the woman is feminish alone, so she could have her covering; because her husband is over her. He is her lord, her ruler; so therefore, she must have long hair.

And then, if she says she must--she has to cut it off, then let her be shaved. And said, if it's a shame or disgrace for a woman, who's supposed to look pretty, and having her hair all shaved off, then let her have her covering on her head; let her have long hair. See? So it's... Anybody... All explain it? I mean, does it sound all right? Say, "Amen." if it does, if you got it. See? [Congregation replies, "Amen."--Ed.] All right.

216 352. Brother Branham... (We got just ten minutes now.) Brother Branham, we have no preacher where we live, but we have tape service on Sunday night only. Should we take our children to another church for Sunday school? Are the tape services sufficient?

Well, let that be according to the way your children are going. See? Now, if you get your children, they're young; and you get them out into some kind of a group out there, that'll just pound the stuff into them that they--that they--they shouldn't know; I wouldn't do it. If they--if they seem to learn enough from the tapes and things... And you, say, you put them over in a Catholic church, take them over to Catholic church, take them over to something like that; I wouldn't advise that. See? If they...

But now, if you got a nice little church over there that maybe disagree two or three things with you, and your children wants to go to Sunday school, they're full Gospel people, or something, why, that's perfectly all right. But see, but when you come to a place where... Depends on how your children take it, See? Watch what your children does, what--how they react to it.

218 353. Let's see. If you don't have a church to go to, should you just listen to the tapes?

Yes. That's--I'd--I... That'd be fine.

218a 354. Do your children have to have an experience to have the Holy Spirit? If the--if--if they see the end-time Message, do they have the Holy Spirit?

Every one must have an experience. Your children cannot go in on no other way but the same way you do. See? They've got to be borned again. There's no grandchildren in the Kingdom of God; they're all children. They must have it, must have an experience with God to go in, just the same as you. Now, I hope I can get this. It's...

219 355. Dearly beloved: (Let's see.) About the Scripture of Ephesians 4:11 through 13, do we all (Let's see.)--do we get all the perfecting of saints through the tapes, or should we be here, where the gifts of the Spirit are operating and the different offices of the church to help perfect us? Our hearts have believed all the Word of the Lord.

Now, this person is from Oregon. Now, my dear... I believe I know who it is. See? It's... Oh, yes, I do, I certainly do. Your--your boy... If the person's here, I know you're--if you're not, it might've been last Sunday. See? This might've come in from last Sunday's. But your--your son flies conservation (See?), and it's--he controls... He's--I think he's the one that invited me over to go elk hunting with you over in Oregon, where... And I think this is right. Now, I know this person by letter by... and so...

No. They want to come here to the church for the perfecting. See? That we--we get fellowship one with another here at the church, but the perfecting comes between us and God. The Blood of Christ is what perfects us in the Holy Spirit.

220 Now, in the church says, "... has the gifts operating." Now, we do not have too many of the gifts operating here, but we have some of them. We have the gift of tongues, and--and the gift of prophecy (two or three of them).

I think our Brother Higginbotham here, ever where he's at, he's got a gift of speaking in tongues. And we got our Brother Junior Jackson with us, and he speaks with tongues. And then we got two or three of them interprets. Brother Neville here also, our pastor, speaks with tongues and sometimes prophesies, and the Lord brings upon him...

Just the other day he said something. He called upon a phone in a house where I was at, that he prophesied over a person, told them that a drunken man would--there'd be a great change in him right away or something like that. And the man has come out of the Alcoholics Anonymous, still an alcoholic, and for sixty-eight days hasn't even touched alcohol, or no medicine for it, or anything. That was Brother Neville prophesying over them.

So we are--we have some of the gifts operating among us, and we'll be very glad to fellowship with any of you, that has a way, that you're working, or wants to come and fellowship with us, anything we can do, we're very happy about it. See? But now the perfecting belongs to Christ.

Now, let's see, about one more or two more.

224 356. Brother Branham, will you be kind enough to explain the picture taken by Brother Arganbright? Question one: the second on the--the second picture on the wall, the light around you, the buckle, and so forth.

Well now, I tell you what. They signed their name, and they're not here now. We understand it. It's Brother and Sister Jackson from South Africa; they've gone back. So we understand that; we've explained that.

225 357. When will the church who--when will the church who did--who d-i--died during the tribulation and--be resurrected? Will they also wait until the resurrection of the ungodly? Will they live again during the Millennium?

Now, that's a good question. Deserves more than the time I could give it, but just so I can get... See? I haven't... I've got at least two-thirds of what I started with this morning--been two hours. Just so many you just can't get to them. You see? And I just want to get as many as I can, just not seeing where they are. I know there's some real good ones in here too that should be known, like the serpent's seed to be explained, and things; but I'm going to hurry and get into this real quick.

226 Will the church who died during the tribulation period (See?) be in the resurrection?

The second resurrection, second resurrection.

Will they also wait until the resurrection of the ungodly?

The just and the unjust will be raised at the same time.

Will they live again during the Millennium?

No. And the rest of the dead live not for the end of the thousand years. Now, that's pretty short, but I'm sure...

229 358. What does Paul mean by freedom and liberty in Christ? What way is freedom from law?

Well, you're not bound by law. Say, for instance, here's the same thing; I'll explain in the natural way, quickly. For instance, out here it says go down the street, thirty miles an hour is all the faster you can go. All right now. Now if I go down the street forty miles an hour, I'm condemned by the law. But if I go down the street just thirty miles an hour, I'm not under the law. See? That's freedom in Christ (See?), the same thing.

You're not bound by the law as long... If I don't steal, lie, smoke, commit adultery, any of those things there, I'm not bound by no law. See? I'm free from the law; I'm in Christ.

231 359. How do you feel about birth control?

I had some of that on the interviews this morning. I'd rather talk personally with--with you on those things (See?), on those things there, 'cause there's words and things that I have to say, that I--I'd rather say it if the husband and wife...

And there is a possibility of it being done in the right way. I'd say it to--for general. There is so many days in a woman's life that she's not fertile. You understand? All right. Why...

Now, there's sometimes a--a child would kill a woman; if she had a baby it'd kill her. You want to watch that too. See? So just be real careful about that. See? See, that's bringing life, so what you're put here on the earth to do.

If your wife is sickly, and another--a child would kill her, I--I--I wouldn't do it. I don't think the Lord wants you to do it. And you--you come to me personally on them things; have it on private interview. Let me talk to you personally (You see?) and I can feel...

235 See, each individual, I can tell whether they're lying to me or not. See? They tell me different things. I'd rather see you just... See? 'Cause you put it out like this, you don't know. It's 'cause there's an individual and things like that; I can tell it, whether they're telling the truth or not. See?

236 360. Why will--why will Satan be loosed a little season after the thousand years of Revelations 20 and 3, and Revelations 20:27?

Why will he be loosed? Is to go to gather up his people on the second resurrection, 'cause Satan has to stand the--the judgment also. See? He has to be condemned.

Oh my, this is a--a book full of them. I don't believe... And here's another letter full of them. Let me get some real, real, quick here now.

237 361. Brother Branham, please explain Acts 9 verse 7 and Acts 20--Acts 22nd verse. (Would you get it for me, Brother Neville.) Please explain Acts 9 verse 7.

Now, while he's getting that, I'll see if I can get another one right quick. Are you getting tired? I know you are.

Please explain the mystery of the translation of the Bride. How it will take place and where, the place, the Bride goes. Isn't them lovely questions. That's really nice, I'd just stand here all day...

[Brother Branham answers question 361--Ed.] Just a minute now, verse--verse... Acts 9 verse 7 (Thank you, Brother Neville)--9 verse 7:

And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing the voice, and seeing no man.

238 Now, I know where you're going. See? Now, the next place said that they--vice versa. Now, I--I don't know what taken place there. I just can't tell you, 'cause the next place they heard. One of them, they didn't see it, and the next place, they seen it and didn't hear it. How many has ever seen that before in the Bible? I have, and I can't explain it. See? I... The Lord will have to reveal it to me. I--I told you awhile ago; I have to be honest with you. See? I don't know. I'm sorry. If I--if I can't explain it, I'll be honest enough to tell you I can't. But I--I won't tackle it when--when I don't know.

I can't explain that, for one place it said they saw the Light and never heard the voice, or something like that; and the next place they saw the--heard the voice and never saw the Light. I can't explain it. See? I--I don't know what happened, and I won't know until the Lord reveals it to me; no more than I could tell you about marriage and divorce. I didn't know until He revealed it to me.

240 And even this morning, the Lord God, Creator of heavens and earth knows this to be the truth, this morning He finished up the whole thing, telling me about marriage and divorce. That's right. That's the reason I say, let me get it all together. Search...

When one of those things like the serpent's seed, when it was presented to me, I--I couldn't see it, nothing; but I just kept following that, and the first thing you know... Then have to get way away to yourself, and then the Holy Spirit begins to open it up. Now, I want somebody try to condemn it now. See? Can't do it.

242 362. Please explain the mystery of the translation of the Bride.

Just a change (See?), our bodies now... Let's say our. You know what I mean when I say that? I don't mean to be sacrilegious. I don't mean to say ours; I don't mean to say this church; I mean to say every believer.

Abraham, He was looking for a promised son that was promised him. Is that right? And the church is looking for a promised Son. The Bride (Is that right?), the Bride is looking for the promised Son.

Before the promised son could come to Sarah and Abraham, their bodies had to be changed. Is that right?

She was too old to have a baby. She had no milk veins in her breast; her breast was dried up. Her womb wasn't fertile; she was sterile. She could not have the baby; her heart was too old to stand labor. So what happened? God changed her back to a young woman. And He did Abraham the same thing, 'cause He said his body was as good as dead. See? And He had to change their body in order to receive the promised son.

And we cannot receive the promised Son that's promised us today in these bodies that we live in; these bodies are sin.

247 This first conscience controls this body with see, taste, feel, smell, and hear, and it's just got us all scrupled up; we reason and everything else. But that new body, that comes from this borned again (not this first conscience, it'll pass away)... It's that inside something that lives. Everybody understand it say, "Amen." [Congregation replies, "Amen."--Ed.]

It's not this outside see, taste, feel, smell, and hear. It isn't. It's subject to death and will die, but the inside part of you, down in here, inside, that is the person that cannot die. See? And that's the person that the new life starts from, from this new birth; and it builds another person in the image of this person you are, around that life. You get it?

249 So potentially it's in here, and what is it? The Word promised before the foundation of the world. And around there, this only reflects the negative; that will reflect the positive, the Word. See? And the same thing is--or the translation of the Bride will be the same thing. The Word that's in you, the body will materialize around that Word, and the same thing did by Sarah.

Before... When that old body that she had, that first body, it had to be changed in order to produce a son. You get it? That body could not do it. This body cannot do it, so it'll have to be changed the same way to receive the Son.

251 363. How will it take place and when is--where is the--where is it the Bride goes?

It goes to glory, heaven for the Wedding Supper, just in type like Isaac and Rebekah, when Rebekah went to meet Isaac. Remember Eliezer, representing now the message that went forth from Abraham, Eliezer went forth to find a bride for--for Isaac. He found the beautiful Rebekah in the cool of the evening, a little dark-skinned girl coming out with a water pot on. And Eliezer prayed, said, "Lord God, give me good journey now and success for my master, Abraham."

And he said, "Go, don't take him amongst the Philistines--don't take her." Get over here amongst his people, showing that the Bride of Christ and Christ is blood relation, 'cause Rebekah and--and Isaac were cousins.

253 And so they went down, and this beautiful Rebekah come out and got the water and he prayed--and water the camel and whatevermore. And then, you'll notice Rebekah had... The final choice had to come to Rebekah. He asked the father for the girl; he asked the mother for the girl; and they neither one could agree. Wanted her to stay awhile. He said, "Don't hinder me on my work."

And Rebekah had to make the choice, 'cause he said, "She is the maid; let her make the choice."

And as soon as it was made to her, quickly her mind was made up; she said, "I'll go." And she mounted upon the camel and went to meet the... Look, the very camel she watered was the camel that packed her to her bridegroom and all of her success. And the very camel, the very power of (that beast in the Bible represents power)... And the very power that we give water and praise to (Amen. See?), water, life, praise to the Word, is the very thing that packs us into the gloryland to meet the Bridegroom. Yes, sir. Amen.

Watching for the coming of that glad Millennium day;

When our blessed Lord shall come,

Catch His waiting Bride away.

256 And remember, Isaac had left the tent and was standing out in the field meditating in the late afternoon (Amen.) when he saw Rebekah coming... And she'd never saw him and he'd never saw her; but it was love at the first sight. She fell in love with him and he with her, and she was even veiled. Amen. Oh, my.

And look, when she seen him, her heart was so full of joy. She didn't know who she was going to marry, but by faith. Amen. And--and--and remember, Jesus will leave the Kingdom, and we'll not meet Him in glory; we're to meet Him in the air, between heavens and earth, where it's expanded to redeem us. And he met Rebekah in the middle, between her home and his home. Amen. Took her into his home, and married her, and fell heir to everything his father had. Amen. Oh, perfect, just perfect. All right.

Question: Does God separate man and wife in...

258 I--I better not read this one. See, see? It's a--it's a--might have to say a word. You see? I know you all, but these--these--this is taped (You see?), so I--I better not. It's something about... The person that wrote it, you know what it is; and I--I better see you on a private interview. See? I better not... I don't think it would really be nice to read that. See? It's--it's all right, the person, there's nothing wrong with it; they asked a legitimate question, but I--I think it'd be better for me to see that on a private interview. Wouldn't you think so? Just ever who... You know it is, whoever you are.

259 Oh, my. Oh, we're already past our time, folks. We--we better close up and go--go into our dinner. How much time do you want me to stand--spend here? Oh, my, my. Just a--just a--Yeah, just a--maybe just a little bit. If ever who has to go right quick, don't let your dinner burn. But if you--if your... And--and I'll probably be eating over at the Blue Boar, or Pryor's, or some of them places, and they probably won't bother you. If you have to go, God bless you; I understand. See? And I'm just going to take about... I'm going to lay out these right here, and that's all that I'm going to answer. Then I'm--I'm going to... These right... It'll be about--take about fifteen more minutes, then I'm going to go leave.

260 364. I have two daughters married to man in the d-e-a-v and they believe this Message. They--denominations (That's right.), and they believe this Message and have taken a stand for It, and have received... What should they do? They have received opposition. What shall we do?

Hold your stand. Absolutely. Show your colors. That's it; don't give in to them. No, sir. I don't say, don't go among them, fellowship, or something like that, as long as you can fellowship; but when they come to changing the diet, you know, a dove can't eat with a buzzard.

261 365. Brother Branham, would you please explain Mark 13:27? Also, Brother Branham, what about the people in Revelations 20:7 and 9, what--that make war against the saints? Where do they come from? Will there be a carrying over as with the--Noah's family?

Revelations 13--or no, Mark 13:27, Brother Neville. Revelations 20. You got your Bible there, Brother Capps? Revelations 20, and it looks like 7 and 9. I think I, while they're getting it... Here, he's got it right here. Revelations, what was it now? Mark 13: 27, 13 and 27.

And then shall he send his angels, and... gather together his elect from the four winds, and shall--and the--utmost parts of the earth to be and--to the utmost parts, of heaven--utmost parts of the earth to the uttermost parts of heaven.

That's talking of the resurrection, the translation, going up. He'll send forth His angels to gather. Did you ever think what the angels are? Huh? Messengers. Uh-huh. He'll gather them together, congregate them together (See?), bringing them, bind them together from the utmost parts of the earth to the utmost parts of heaven, the Word that was been made manifest on earth. See? Get it? The Word's been spoken; here It's manifested. See? All right, Brother Capps. Let's see.

And when the thousand years was expired, Satan was... loosed out of his prison,

All right. I just got through explaining that, didn't I, how he'd be loosed out of his prison at the end of the thousand years?

All right, now I got another one right here. Just a minute.

264 366. Brother Branham, was it of God, or was it of my own doings when the things that took place, when (t-e-) tempted... Was that... (See if you can make that out. It's good writing, but my education is poor. What does it say there? [Brother Branham speaks with Brother Neville--Ed.] I--I don't believe I can answer that. Brother Capps or I can't make out... Said,) Was it... (Unless it--it--it--it was, if--if it was a nurse. Something about nursing.) Was it of God when I stopped nursing, or was it my fault?

I wouldn't know. I'd rather see that on private interview. See?

Now, nursing is a legitimate thing, just as a nurse. I'd say... Now, the person never... I didn't throw that back just to say not to answer it, 'cause that means just as much to that woman as your question means to you or mine to me. See? But now, if it's a--if it's a--a nurse, that you just quit nursing because you thought you shouldn't work... Well, I think nursing should be more like of mercy. See? You should think of doing something, like a doctor.

265 A doctor that's a good doctor, we'd help a man regardless whether he had a penny of money or not, a real doctor. See? And I think a minister, anybody, our service should be to one another, because make life just a little better for each other.

I... When they told me I had to take a hundred dollars a week from this church for a salary, why, it liked--liked to kill me. Now... Mrs. Wilson, I know, and probably her son, and them setting here, remember years ago, I preached here seventeen years and never took a penny in my life. Ever--ever little money, everything I could make, I put right into it. See? And when they told me I had to take it in order to be in these meetings, it liked to ruined me. See? 'Course, I believe it's all right, but just to me (You see?), I don't want nothing, no money, only thing I want is--is your--your friendship and God's favor with us.

I--I love you (See?); I love you, and I want you to be right; and I want to be right myself. And now, I want you to believe me; I believe you. And if you come with me to a question, I want to be honest with you. And if I--I tell you in the Name of the Lord, I want you do just exactly what I told you do. Don't you vary from it a--a bit, then I think we'll get along all right like that. See? And then, others...

268 And so now, if it's nursing... And I think if you, in your heart to be a nurse... There can't everybody be a nurse. A nurse is somebody that's gentle and kind to people, and oh, I think a real nurse... If you ever been sick in a hospital, or something, see a real nice nurse who'd come and make you comfortable, or something or other...

I had an operation for--when I was shot that time; I had to go to the hospital. Had a little old nurse out there, I called her "Sweet Pickles," because they--she'd always have a pickle in her mouth eating it. That was all the time like that. And I was just only about fourteen years old, and I'd been shot. And she was just merely a little fellow anyhow, and she'd--them shot legs, pretty near both of them blowed off like that, and she'd put a pillow here and a pillow there; and all the time she was always helping me. And I always thought (I was just a little kid.)--I thought I could marry her, because she was--she was so kind and nice to me. Well, I... That... You see, that means something (See?) to do something.

270 367. I'd like to ask a question. Number one: Is lady's pajamas... (Now, wait just a minute; let me read it. [Brother Branham reads the question to himself--Ed.] ... pertaining to men's garments? Is it wrong to turn the ends of... No, this will be all right). Is a lady's pajamas pertaining to a man's garments?

Ha ha. Boy, don't tell me they can't ask you some burners. Ha ha ha. I don't know. Ha ha. I'm just going to let you do the deciding of that. You shouldn't be parading around before people with them on; I--I know that. So that way it would be, but in the--in going to bed I--I--I don't know. I'm going to have to back up on that one too. I told you I'd be honest if I didn't know. I'm not going to put my own thought about it (All right.), unless you want my own thought. If you want that, I will tell you. See?

Now remember, it isn't it--it--this--this could be a million miles wrong. I think it'd look nice to have a nightgown on. But--but if you--but if you... But that's just up to you. Now, I can't--I can't tell you that, 'cause I couldn't back it up. Now, that's--that's--that's me, not Him, remember. See?

271 368. Is it wrong to trim the ends of woman's hair?

I believe we just went through that a few minutes ago (See?), for the little... I guess they call them--them little things that hang down like that...

271a 369. Brother Branham, one of the tapes of the Seven Church Ages you mentioned that Judas had been justified, sanctified. Were these genuine (There's a good one.)--explain-- experience--genuine experiences of grace that he received? You also mentioned that Judas had his name on the Book of Life, and yet, we know he went to hades and was lost. How can a person have their name on the Book of Life and still be lost? Or why does God put persons' names on the Book of Life when He knows that they will be lost at the end?

Now, that's a good one, isn't it? Hmm. Now, this would be good. Now, I'll just have to depend on the Lord to answer this, 'cause I'm just prowling out--probing out, rather. Look.

First in the--our churches, I mentioned that Judas had his name on the Book of Life. Now, that's true. Now, we know that, 'cause Jesus told them when all of them was sent out (Matthew 10), to cast out devils, to preach the Gospel, freely received, freely give; and they returned back rejoicing, because the devils was subject to them. Is that right? And Jesus told them, and He called their names (which ones they was, how many was sent out); and they come back and Judas Iscariot which also betrayed Him... See? They come back rejoicing because the devils was subject unto them. Now, see, the attitude was wrong there. See? You mustn't rejoice 'cause I got power to make a devil move. See? You mustn't do that; you must rejoice because you've even received enough grace to be saved. See, see? You mustn't rejoice... That's how people...

272 Usually people that has gifts are people who don't want gifts. See? Paul tried to run from the thing, so did Moses. Great leaders like that try to run from the job; they know what lays before them. God...

See, if you take a guy that always, "Oh, Lord, fill me with power, and I'll go out here, and I'll cast devils." He'd never do it. God knows better than trust anybody like that. See? He'd never do it.

It's that guy that don't want nothing to do with it. You see? That's the guy that God can take him and teach him something sometime. You see?

So then, Judas come back rejoicing, all of them, that the names... He said, "Don't rejoice that the devils is subject to you, but rejoice because your names are written in the--on--on the Book of Life." Now, if you notice and take Daniel also. The... See?

Because your name is on the Book of Life (because it is in heaven, your name has been recognized), that still doesn't mean that you are saved. See? You're not converted, until you receive the Holy Ghost. Remember that. You're only potentially converted. See? You're not...

274 If--if you ask me for a--for a oak tree and I give you an acorn, potentially you have an oak tree, potentially, but it isn't developed yet. That's the reason I believe in the security as the way I do.

If I--if I ask for a cornfield, and I see corn up about that high, potentially, I have a field of corn. Not--it isn't developed yet, something could happen. See?

Now, you're on your road through justification and sanctification to the baptism of the Holy Ghost. But when you're genuinely baptized with the Holy Ghost, you're in the Kingdom. Now, you say, "Brother Branham, is that true?"

275 I haven't got time now to--to give you Scripture; you just look it up when you get home, 'cause I don't know... My mind... Have to look back here in my concordance to pick it up. Jesus told Peter, who had been both saved and sanctified... He believed on Jesus, was sanctified. St. John 17:17, Jesus said, "Sanctify them, Father, through the Truth; Thy Word is the Truth." And He and the Word is the same. They were sanctified, potentially, through the Truth, the Word, the Truth. And then, Jesus told Judas--or--or Peter the night of the betrayal, He said, "After you are converted, then strengthen your brother"--after you're converted.

276 The man had followed Him for three years and had name on the Lamb's Book of Life, and had cast out devils, and done great works, and healed, and done all kind of--preached the Word, and everything, and still wasn't converted. See the... You're leading to conversion. See?

The baby that... When the act has taken place between the--the egg and the sperm, or the gene... But when they... Potentially, the baby's there when the act is done. Then the body is developed, second stage; but the baby has to be born here, and then it receives the breath of life. It is not yet the breath of life. You say, "Oh, it's alive." No, it isn't. That's little nerves jerking, muscles. See? The baby hasn't received life till it's born. And you may jump and jerk, but you're not... See, see? You got to be born. You know what I mean? All right.

278 Now, now, he said then that take... "You mentioned that Judas had his name on the Book of Life, and yet, we know that he went to hades and was lost. How can a person, then, have his name on the Book of Life and still be lost?" Now, let me get one more little thing in here for this dear person.

Now notice, the Bible said when Daniel saw... He--he wrote the first Book of Revelations, Daniel. And we notice in the vision he saw Him come to the Ancient of time Whose hair was as white as wool. How many remember reading that? And did you notice, John in Revelations came to the same thing, Revelations 1? And He stood there; His hair was as white as wool, His feet and the way it looked: Ancient of time. Ancient of time, that is, It had no time, the Eternal One. And He came... Now, watch. And the saints come to the earth and the books were opened, and another Book was opened, which was the Book of Life: one book. They came to the judgment, and the... He came, and with Him came ten thousands times ten thousands. Is that right? Ministered to Him, the Bride, Queen and King...

280 Who is your little queen in the home? She ministers food to you. Is that right? (What you're late on now.) But when she--when she ministers to you, that's what... The Bride ministers to Christ, the Word. "Man shall not live by bread alone, but every Word." See? She ministers the Word to the King, manifesting His promise Word in the age that She's a-living in. Amen. Ah, I said something then, you didn't get it, but...

Notice. Oh, my. That was a good one. See? Ministering in the age, the Word. Now, notice. And She came--He came, and ten thousands times ten thousands came to Him; and judgment was set, and the books were opened; and another Book was opened which is the Book of Life; and they were judged thus. Who was this that come? The Bride which did not have to come to judgment; she's free from judgment.

282 Another book was opened which was the Book of Life, and those who had their name on the Book of Life had to be judged out of that Book. And Judas Iscariot professed to be a believer, and he had his name written among them on the Book of Life. Is that right? He claimed to have Eternal Life. And his name was put on the Book of Life. So he has to... Why, he has to be judged then to see why did he condemn the Word of Life then, sell out for thirty pieces of silver. Some sells out to be a Methodist, Baptist or whatmore. Sold out his position from the Book of Life. And he'll judge--he'll have to be--stand there and judged by that, by the Word. See? That's why Judas had to do it. See? Judas has to come to the judgment. His name was on the Book of Life, but that don't mean he's saved. He has to stand the judgment.

283 The sleeping virgin will stand right there under the same--same things. Notice, Jesus said in St. John 5:24, "He that heareth My Word (That's he that can receive It, not he that just hears It preached and go on saying, 'Nonsense.' See?), He that receiveth My Word--He that heareth My Word and believeth (not make-believeth, but truly believe) on Him that sent Me (which was the Word) hath Everlasting Life and shall not come to the judgment; but hath (past tense) passed from death unto Life." That's it.

284 So Judas had his name there on the Book of Life (That's exactly right.), but he was condemned, because what did he do? He sold out his birthrights.

Esau was born in a family with the promise of God. The oldest son had the birthright. How many knows that? By a promise of God, Esau's name was on the book for the birthright (Is that right?), but he swapped it for a mess of wild gourds--or peas. Hungry to fill his belly, his meal ticket, he swapped his birthrights for a meal ticket and could find no place to repent.

Those spies that went with--over to spy out the land, came and even eat the grapes that Joshua and Caleb brought back. And yet, what did they do? Sold out their birthrights.

286 Jesus said--or Paul speaking with the inspiration of Christ in Hebrews the 6th chapter: "For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted of the power of the world to come; if they shall fall away, to renew themselves again unto repentance, seeing that they crucify to themselves the Son of God, and count the Blood of the covenant, wherewith they were sanctified, an unholy thing, and done despite to the works of grace..." It's impossible for that person to ever come back.

Them, every one besides Joshua and Caleb, died and perished in that wilderness, yet they were believers, yet their names were on the books.

288 And here, Paul speaking, if a man ever comes to a spot that he's been saved, and sanctified (The Blood sanctifies; Hebrews 13:12 and 13 says the Blood sanctifies.), and then comes right up to the gate of the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and because of prestige or denomination refuses to walk in it, said, "That person is lost and can never be saved" (See?); for he's done despite even to the very works of grace that's called him up to that place and showed it to him, and then turn around, walk away from it. He counts the Blood of the covenant wherewith he was crucified--Christ was crucified as an unholy thing. Because the Blood that saved him, and justified him, and sanctified him brings him up to the baptism of the Holy Ghost. And then walks away and leave it...

289 Now, watch that pattern. I'm taking a lot of time, but look. Judas Iscariot followed those same tracks. He was justified by believing on the Lord Jesus and then accept Him as his personal Saviour. He was sanctified and give power to cast out spirits; put his name on the Lamb's Book of Life. But when it come to Pentecost and the baptism of the Holy Ghost, the fullness of the Word, he showed his colors. That's exactly what the Canaan spies did; that's exactly what Esau done.

That's exactly what Satan done to Eve in the garden of Eden: "Surely God will not..."

But she said, "God said..."

He said, "Yeah, I know that says that; I know it says this, but surely..." See, the same thing all the way down through, and so is it today.

291 The church has fallen through justification, Martin Luther; through sanctification, Wesley. But it, when it comes to the time of the baptism of the Holy Ghost, they show their colors; they want nothing to do with it. Nazarene, Pilgrim Holiness, Church of God, all those there who believe in sanctification, you can't lay a finger to it; it's truth. But when it comes a borderline, come right up to that spot to receive the Holy Ghost for the new birth, then what'd the devil do? Come around and try to twist it around. Oh, he's--he'll do everything that's in his known power to keep people out of there.

They brought around on, and say you have to speak with tongues. or You have to have a sensation. You have to do this. You have to be borned into it. Don't let no one tell you that sanctification and the Holy Ghost is the same thing, 'cause it is not. Certainly is not.

Listen at this Nazarene back here hollering, "It is not." See? He knows there's a difference in it, 'cause it certainly is--Brother Capps, our gallant brother. See?

293 Sure, Nazarene... There's nobody can say a word against them fine religious people; they're just as nice as they can be. Church of God, Nazarene, Free Methodist, those people are real, but when it comes down to the works of the Spirit, they say, "Oh, oh, that's the devil." And what'd they do there? Blaspheme the Holy Ghost. When they do that...

Now, what is blasphemy? There's no forgiveness. Is that right? He that once enlightened, made partakers, and tasted of the heavenly gifts (partasted--tasted of God's sanctification: cleaned up from cigarettes, and filthy women, and all kinds of life like that)--and tasted of the heavenly things (to see that they'll walk up to that borderline like those spies did that eat part of the grapes... See? But what do they have to do? They had to break up their denomination to come over into this. See? Say--See?)--tasted of the heavenly gifts; seeing that they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and count the Blood of the covenant wherewith they were sanctified an unholy thing.

295 Sanctification is when your name goes on the book as a believer. Your word--your name is wrote in His Blood. See? Sanctification does that; and you come up, when He's trusted you up to this far, and then come up and you say, "Well, would He know it?"

Yes, He knowed it. He knowed you wouldn't do it in the beginning. He knowed Judas wouldn't do it. He knowed him from the beginning; he was the son of perdition. But them thing has to be fulfilled. See? The Word has to be fulfilled, although types and shadows. Oh, my. We could stay on that for hours.

297 370. Brother Branham, when you gave the message on the seventy church weeks--seventy weeks (Pardon me.) of Daniel, I believe that you mentioned that the full--the full last week or last seven years will begin when the Bride was taken in the rapture.

No, no, no, no, no, nah, nah, nah. You got that wrong (See?), not the full seven weeks. The--the week started when Jesus came on earth. He said, "The Messiah, Prince, shall come and prophesy, and in the midst of the seven weeks, He'll be cut off." And Jesus preached exactly three and one half years, which is half of the seventy weeks, the seven days, week--weekdays. See? And there's three and one half years left.

Now, when Moses and Elijah comes on earth, which is Revelations and Zechariah... (Brother Coomer your--your and Sister Coomer's question there was--was in the same.) Now, when they... When Zechariah 4 and Revelations 11, them two olive trees and so forth--which is Moses and Elijah--when they come on earth they prophesy 1,264 days. What is it? Exactly three and one half years. There's exactly the same thing. Not... See? Ever who this dear person is. Very, very, beautiful, wrote--wrote on paper with religious head write--lines here and things, and it's very fine. And it's a very nice question, but (See?) you didn't get it, just what I said. Never did I believe that the whole seventy weeks would be over here. Messiah's cut off. How many remembers that in preaching up here? Certainly. See? Seven weeks.

299 371. Since then, it seems like the first three and one half years was fulfilled during the ministry (Well, here you've got it right here.) of--of Jesus, but the expression, "midst of the weeks" seems to be applied only to the antichrist breaking his covenant with the... (No, that antichrist breaks his covenant at the end of the last three and one half years. See?) As I understood Daniel tape, the first sixty-nine weeks ended when Jesus rode into Jerusalem A. D. 30, so that three and one half years of His ministry would be included in the sixty-nine week's; and the full last weeks--and the full last week or seven years would still be fulfilled and would begin at the rapture. Please clarify this for me.

You know, brother, sister, ever who it is that's asked this question. Very fine (See?), but I believe you got a little mixed up on what I said. See? Now, the--when Jesus came into Jerusalem (That is exactly right.), that was the end of... See? He went right straight in from there and was crucified. See? And He--He did prophesy half of the seventy weeks which is three and one half. Now, He was cut off, and His soul was made a sacrifice. And now, there would come then... In this last days, there's three and one half years still promised to the--the Jews. And the--in--during this time was a gathering up of the saints for the rapture, the church.

Now, I ain't going to get all these through, brother--brother, sister.

300 372. Would you please explain I Corinthians chapter 7, verse 1 and 9? (Get it, Brother Neville, I Corinthians chapter 7, verse 1, now)

301 373. And will every true believer do the works that Jesus said, as stated in St. John 14:12 (Not exactly. No.): heal the sick, cast out devils, raise the dead (I don't think that's in St. John 14, but it's all right. It's Mark 16.), or--or are--is this only to be Elijah? Must the believer do all that--of this--do really--that really believe? And if he really is a real believer, will he raise the dead and do great miracles?

Now, that is among the believers. See? Every man doesn't have those gifts, and don't mean that just one person will do it; there'll be groups of people. Like for instance, what if--if we had a little girl here in the church, or a little boy, or somebody that we love real well, and life would go out of them. The whole church would get together, and they'd go to pray and fasting: "Lord, have mercy on that child." See? God could raise it up.

How many ever read the Nicene Fathers and them? You know, that's the way they did it in the early church. They'd all get together, you know, and even raise up their pastor sometime and different ones like that, if God seen fit to do it; but they did it.

303 374. If the church is saved even though she does not go in the rapture, as I believe you taught, she must go through the tribulation for purifying. But what about these that are dead, how will they be purified?

All right. Those that have that... The Bride don't need no purification; She's already purified. And those that are--are--are dead back there, these that go through... See? They never received the Light that these church up here has received; they lived under their justification, sanctification, so forth like that. They lived to the Light that they had. Maybe in a--in a way that--they suffered, and whatever they went through with, and their persecutions... But now, in this rapturing time like this (See?), there will have to come a time now that this bride will--that rejects the Head's part of the Bride--will have to suffer for her rejection, because the Gospel wasn't made plain to them back there, like it's made plain to you today. See? You see it so plain. You done had all of those years and examples, the Seals opened, the church's age laid out, and everything like that. It's just so plain you can't miss it. See? And then, if you fully reject it, there's only one thing do, suffer for it.

304 Did you get that Brother Neville? What does it pertain to? I just--I better--better go now, 'cause it's getting too late. You see? Seven--seven, nine... Let's see.

But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

All right. That's for just dirty living. Instead of a man, a boy, girl, or something or another when they're going together and--and they know that they should be married, go ahead and get married. I think you--you'd understand what I mean, don't you? See? Don't just live a dirty little life there, 'cause it's not right. You see? That's your sister in one sense, where if you're a Christian. Now, if it's the world, it's the world: dog eat dog. But this girl that you're going with, that's your sister too. That will be the mother of your--your children that will come. Don't live a dirty little life around her, show that you're a real Christian gentleman. Live like a Christian gentleman ought to. See? And treat her like your sister, and when you get married, still treat her that way.

306 I might answer this right now. I don't believe in filthy living amongst Pentecostal people, holiness people, even if they're married. I don't believe in that. No, sir. Some of this dirty stuff that's--that's so horrible... I get in here sometime on these... Not this morning now, no, I ain't saying that. But I mean on times I am out in California and different places like that. I meet ministers out there, where on the discernment, I feel like I could turn them over my knee and give them a little "Gospel protaplasma stimulation." Yes, sir. My, to see a man that would try to take his little wife, and dirty, filthy, that's a... You understand what I mean? I think you ought to be ashamed of yourself as a man of God to... You just be a husband; be a sweetheart. Respect her like you always respect her. Don't pay any attention to these, some of these non-... sexy books, or these nonsense in this sexy books, and things that you read about, and all this stuff, and everything like that. Get that filthy stuff out of your mind.

307 The Bible said not let one dirty conversation come among you when you profess holiness. Treat that little lady like she's your little sweetheart. If she's sixty years old, you be just the same. You be that gallant boyfriend; remember, you are.

You don't try none of these new things, and I know what I'm talking... And you just be a husband, a genuine brother, a genuine Christian.

I know that sounds... But the... You're my kids. I got a right to say what I want to to you. You see? You're my kids; you live right.

And you women, live the right way to your husband. And you husbands, live the right to you--to--to--to your wives. Be real, real nice and respect one another just with... And your--your family relations and so forth like that, let it be just as reverently, and godly, and agreed with among you and everything as it can be. Don't never push, and shove, and--and be dirty and vulgar.

309 Understand, talk to your wife. If--if one nature is to you and another nature to her, talk it with her. You--you try to do the same thing to him, sister. And the same way... Understand one another and be--be real Christian gentlemen and real Christian ladies, and--and brother and sister with one another. Always remember, you're God's children, and you're from a royal family. You're a royal blood; there's no better blood in the world than yours. And that's right. And a royal blood shows itself. That's what it is; it's royal. All believe that say, "Amen." [Congregation replies "Amen."--Ed.] Yes, sir. Show what you are. I'm a--I'm the--I'm a son of a King; I'm the son of the King. My wife's a daughter of a King. How would I treat that King's daughter? How would she treat that King's son? See what I mean? Be real genuine.

310 375. Will there be a move of the Holy Spirit, signs, and wonders, and miracles done by the Bride before she goes away, or are we just waiting for His appearing?

I'm going to have to close on that one, I guess, 'cause I just got too much here to get to. And it's getting real late. It's twenty minutes until one now, and I got about thirty or forty of them maybe here, maybe. I'll answer this the best of my time--I--just take the next three minutes. I'll get these when I can. See? I don't know when I can get them; I'll do the best I can. Do you enjoy them? I... It helps me too. See?

To come here and grab them like this, 'fore you even look into them (You see?), you get some things you can't answer, and--and I--I was in hopes I'd pick up... I know there's one in here about serpent's seed. I wanted to get it so bad; I wanted to explain it, See? But I guess I just missed it, so I'll just have... Maybe the Lord don't want it done that way, but it was on the serpent's seed. Less somebody on that tape would--going to say, "Well, he did--he bypassed that." How many will suffer two more minutes for it? Huh? All right.

311 Now wait, let me get this one first. Let's see. "Will the--the..." No. This question here is this: "Will there be miracles done by the Bride?" Yes, sir. It's being done right now. That's right. See? But don't look for something that great--or bring the heavens and close the heavens, it rain not. That goes into the--the Jews now. See? That doesn't pertain to this at all; that's Moses and Elijah to the Jews, not to this church at all. Read the first three chapters of Revelations; you get what the church is right there. That's all to the church. And when she comes back with the Bride, when she comes back and... Read... If you want to know about the church, what pertains to it, read Revelations the first three chapters, and then go over to the 19th chapter and start reading from there (See?), you get the Bride. The rest of it is in the Jews there.

312 Now, to the serpent's seed. I can't find it in here, 'cause you can see it's just a great pile of them. But the person said, "If the serpent--if the serpent's seed (See?)... The woman, she--she got a son from the Lord, she said so."

Well, I believe last Sunday, I explained how she got it from the Lord. If she got it at all, she got it from the Lord (See?), because it had to come from the Lord. Because God's law has... It'll--it'll obey God. Exactly.

He ordained that the sun should shine; the sun shines. He ordains that the rain shall fall upon the just and the unjust; it does it. And seeds planted in any field, whether they're good or bad, will come up; it's a seed. And if the seed's planted, regardless...

And the only way this serpent could plant the seed, he was the only animal next to the human being. For in the evolution of mankind, when man--God brood upon the earth... And He begin to bring up birds, and the--from birds He come to different things, then chimpanzee, and from the chimpanzee to the serpent.

314 Now, He changed that serpent in such a way (That had to be done.) that would confuse this generation, who's trying to find a bone that looks like some kind of an animal that was part man and part animal, to say there's where man... They've lost it from the chimpanzee; only the chimpanzee doesn't have an intelligence. The chimpanzee has not a soul; he cannot think. He just has... He--he can... Just a--a noise, and he can... A horse, "gee," "haw," or something like that... A dog, "Come here, Fido, do a trick. Jump over."... And setting blocks and things like that, they do that by emotion, by hearing, and things like that, and action; but to think and to understand, they can't. They don't know they're naked; they don't know the male and female, the difference, like that. They have no laws of such...?... See? They can't do it. The human being is the only one.

And the next one to the human being was the serpent. The Bible said he was the most subtle of all the beast of the field. Smarter, he--he--he'd almost had a soul. He had a place for a soul, but what did he do? He sold out to Satan to deceive God, try to. How many gets it now that far?

315 Satan, the serpent, almost had a soul. God knowed they'd look for those bones, and there's not a bone in a snake that looks like a man. He was... That's the curse of him. He stood upon his feet just like a man.

Notice, then that seed, which was next to the human seed... Satan himself, the spirit, knew that that was the only seed that would pregnate the woman, 'cause the chimpanzee won't do it. They've mixed it and everything else; it won't do it. But he knowed that the germ of life that was in the chimpanzee, would not come to the field of the woman--egg; but he knowed the serpent's seed would do it, so he dealt with the serpent.

317 And Adam had never knew that this act could be done. See? She was made a female. Certainly, she would've come to it later; but you see, the sovereignty of God to display Himself as Saviour and--and so forth, as I've explained many times... But Satan knew this, for he come to her in the form of this serpent, which was the beast and--a--a beast, and came to her. And she was pregnated by Satan first.

And if you'll notice, there was only two acts done, and there was three children born. Search the Scripture. She gave birth to twins. One of them was serpent's seed; the other one was Abel. She enticed her husband and told... See? Then she showed her husband what it was, and then he lived with her also, and she bore this child. And I want you--to show, she was pregnated with twins by two different... She was a... That's virgin woman.

319 Their seed is strong. Like look here. Abraham married his own sister. Why, if a man'd marry his sister today, his children would be idiots. See? But the human... And here Jacob--or--or Isaac married Rebekah which was his own cousin, own blood cousin at that, blood relation (See?), Abraham's brother's child.

Notice, notice now, on this (See?), there's--the human race was so strong. Now, if you notice it's always been twins all along. There was... Cain and Abel were twins, and Esau and Jacob were twins. Jesus and Judas come out of the same tribe and in the same church. And the--even the Holy Spirit and the antichrist is to be twins, so close that would deceive the very elected if possible. Have you got it? All right.

321 Now, to prove this I want you to take Jude the--I believe the 17th verse--or the 14th verse of Jude and said... Now, now, notice this. Now, I'll close. Notice. To cut the whole thing off to make it right, first place He said, "I'll put enmity between your seed and the serpent's seed." See? Now, she doesn't have a seed. Therefore, how she got this seed was Satan's seed. Cain was Satan's son. She had no seed, so she received it through sexual intercourse. And when she did it, it was given to her by God's enemy. And then, when God gave her a Seed, It had no sex at all into It. You get it? The bondwoman and her child cast out, 'cause won't be heir with the freewoman and her child.

322 And notice, then she was given a Seed which was Christ. Neither her egg... Now, the Protestant wants to believe that it was a virgin born hemoglobin, that was the created Blood of God where the germ lays, but said it was her egg. No, sir. That egg cannot come down through that tube into the womb unless there be a sensation. Then you put God with a--a Spirit having sexual intercourse with a woman. How can it be done? It was a created matter of God altogether, both egg and germ.

And He was the Son of God, not the son of Mary, for He never did call her mother. "Woman," He called her, never mother. She wasn't His mother. It was the Son of God, and God is One. Get it?

324 Now, another thing to prove this and nail it down, where if anybody ever fusses with you, go back here in the Book of Jude, I think it's the 17th verse (the 14th or 17th verse), he said, "Now, Enoch..." You want me to read it? Have you got that much time? Let--let's--and then I'll get... Now I'll know, 'cause the tape here is going on, and we--we might get it mixed up in--in this now. Let me see if this is a--14th verse:

.. Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these things, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with him ten thousands of his saints,

325 Now, go back unto the 5th chapter (I think it is) of Genesis, and then go also over into the Book of Luke (wished I could find it; I wrote it all down here--if I could find it in here) and you'll find out that in the genealogies, nowhere in the Bible... If... Look. If Noah--if Enoch is the seventh from Adam, the Bible said, "Adam and then his son Seth," because Cain was not Adam's seed. It said Adam begot Seth, and Seth begot... Jared; Jared begot, all the way down to Enoch; and Enoch was the seventh from Adam. Nowhere did it ever speak that Cain was ever considered to be anything in the genealogies of God.

326 Now, just look and find out if it's so or not; search it out. And Luke comes over and names it right back again, and puts down from Adam. Not one time is Cain ever mentioned in the whole thing. And if Enoch (See?) was the seventh from Adam, where did Cain come in? Because the Bible said that in the genealogies, that Adam begot his son Seth. And Seth begot Jared, and Jared begot So--and--so, on down; and not one time was Cain ever mentioned. Then he could not be the son of Adam. So he had to be the son of the serpent, and he couldn't be a son without intercourse. Amen. If he wasn't, he was virgin born, then he'd be a son of God. I don't want them to get out of that one time.

327 Now, the same God that revealed that, is the same God that told me about your marriage and divorce. When He says those things, my brother, sister... I'm your brother, a man. But when He says that, and that strikes down in here, I can't explain it to you. There no need of me trying to do it, 'cause I couldn't. But it's never one time been wrong. Although, I couldn't see it myself at all; I couldn't see it, but I just hold on to it; and then He begins to reveal it, then I just--it just floors me. There it was right there, and I didn't see it. You--your education is bypassed, and your reasons are bypassed, and everything else; so was Cain bypassed.

Now, if we had time to go back here into Genesis and begin to read... Let's see if I could just pick it up and find it back here. I don't know for sure whether--whether I could or not. Mrs. Wood, do you remember when I was showing you that the other day? Just what... Was that the 5th chapter? The 5th, uh-huh. All right.

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the days that God created man, in the likeness of God created... him;

Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day that they were created.

And Adam lived a hundred year--and thirty years, and begot... sons--and begot--begot a son in his own likeness, and--and after his own image; and he called his name... (Cain? What'd he call his name? Where--where is that firstborn who had the birthrights then? Never even mentioned him. Seth was his son.)

328 Now, we come over here again and we find where that said... And now, Eve was given a son, because Cain killed Abel. Now, notice as we go on:

Adam and days creat--And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years--lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot a son--begot a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:

And--and the days of Adam after he... begot Seth were eight hundred and--years: and he begot sons and daughters:

And all the days of Adam lived were nine hundred and--and thirty and--years: and he died.

And Seth lived an--a hundred and five years, and begot Enos:... (And on down till it goes on down, and he is the seventh, Enoch is the seventh from Adam.)

Now, I don't remember just where in Luke. Have you got that marked too, Mrs. Wood? She and I... I was showing it to her the other day over in... What say? [Brother Branham converses with Sister Wood--Ed.] I believe you're right, Sister Wood. We marked it down there in her book where we was--in her Bible where I was showing... Here it is, yeah, the genealogies. All right.

329 Now, if we will notice here... In the 3rd chapter of Luke we get the same thing. "... which sons and so forth... and Noah, which were a Lamech, which also sons of Mathusala, which also the son of Enoch, which was the son of Jared, which was the son of Maleleel, which was the son of Cainan, which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God." Where did Cain come in? Where's Cain at, the firstborn? The birthright's to him; where'd he come from? He was the Satan's seed, and not God's. Wasn't Adam's either, 'cause Adam's son's name was--was Seth. Cain, the serpent's seed, slew his first son which was a type and shadow of the serpent also slaying his other Son, Jesus. And Seth took his place in the genealogies, which meant the resurrection, that the genealogies of God would completely be carried on.

330 I want to see somebody put him in there now and say it wasn't the serpent's seed. It wasn't recognized in the genealogies of God's, or neither the genealogies of the human race, the genealogies of Adam, any of the rest of them. Is that right? How many believes it, say, "Amen." [Congregation replies, "Amen."--Ed.] Sure. He was not; he was the serpent's seed and not Adam's seed.

She said that was Adam's son. It was not Adam's son. She said, "I got it from God." And she had to; it was a seed. It was a seed, but it was serpent's seed. See?

And He'd had to come back a virgin then in order to clear up that sexual act that'd been done. Adam was put here on earth, but he'd--he'd never found out that he was to be a father. You understand what I mean? Satan knowing this, he got to Eve before Adam got there. And there's where the whole thing lays today. And brother, that's what makes marriage and divorce and everything else such a scrumble as it is today. It's most pathetic. See? But I... God has made a way, to which we are thankful.

333 Do you love Him? Isn't He wonderful? Now, is the serpent's seed right? I thought maybe somebody on the tape would--might think I was afraid to attack it. You see? So they'd say, "Why he bypassed it twice. He's just afraid take a hold of it." We're not of that. As long as the Lord's in it, that's all right.

You know what, as I said that eagle that time I watched feeling his wings, you know. And I thought, "Aren't you afraid of me." I was--had my gun setting there; I said, "I could shoot you." He knowed I couldn't shoot him; I was too far from that gun. I said, "Are you afraid?" He just walled his big eyes and looked at me. A little chipmunk setting over there going, "Cha, cha, cha, cha, cha; I'll tear you to pieces, tear you to pieces." He wasn't paying attention to that chipmunk, but he got tired listening at him. So after while, he just made one big flop, went out like that, and just set his wings. And he knowed how to maneuver those wings, just flew plumb on out of sight. See? I just seen him just become a little bitty thing like that, just a little speck.

334 Brother Fred, I believe I showed you. I spotted Brother Fred back there now, when he hollered "Amen." awhile ago. I--I believe I've showed you that spot up there, and Brother Wood, wherever you are, way up in the mountains up there, where that taken place. I seen that eagle. I... He was forced down in that storm, and I was standing behind this tree.

Was hunting elk (and along a little later), and it was in October, and snows and things. This brother here was up there last fall with us, Brother John and them, right upon top of Corral Peaks where it was at.

336 I stood there, and I stood behind this tree. Snow a little bit and rain a little bit, and I was just standing there. That eagle standing there, and he got forced down. He flew up on there, great, big monster-looking fellow, a big, brown eagle. Set up there and looked around, I thought, "Well..." I--I was having a--a real good time; I was screaming, "Praise the Lord. Hallelujah." Around and around and around the bush I was going, shouting like that. I looked down there; I could hear that old coyote hollering. You know how they get to hollering.

Last year down there, when--just before it'd start raining, they'd start hollering; it was a little wolf, you know. I just love to hear them.

338 Then I could hear the elk way over here, in a, "Whee hoo" [Brother Branham imitates an elk--Ed.] bugle. Then way over here the mate answer him. (Next week, week after next, I'll be hunting them, the Lord willing.) So then, hearing that over there, oh, it's just so godly to be up there. Oh, I--I just... That's--that's my cathedral up there where I talk to Him, and then come down here and talk to you. See?

And up in there, oh, it's so wonderful, just relaxing. Just standing there, I thought, "Oh, God..." I looked, then the rain come out, and the evergreens was froze over, and a rainbow swept across that from Corral Peaks plumb over to Sheep Mountain, over that way, across that way. And I thought, "Oh, God, looky there. Umm," I thought, "there You are, Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End. Here it comes down and here, there. You're the same yesterday, today, and forever, the seven church ages, the seven golden candlesticks. There You are, God, how wonderful You are."

340 And I was just a--shouting; I set my gun down; I went around the tree hollering, "Glory to God. Praise the Lord," around and around the tree like that. I was just having a big time up there by myself, just the Lord and I, you know.

And after while that eagle come up out of that bunch of brush and just looked at me. I thought, "Well, you don't like that?" I said, "Old boy, I'm worshipping the same God that made you." See? He just batted his great big gray-looking eyes and looked around at me, and me hollering like that.

A little, old pine squirrel (anybody ever hunt in the mountains, he's--he's the policeman of the woods), and he jumped upon there (a little old fellow, not big enough to do nothing, but oh, what a noise)--and jumped up on there, jumping up-and-down, you know, "Yah, yah, yah, yah, yah, yah, yah, yah, yah, yah, yah, yah," just carrying on like that.

343 And that eagle was watching him; he'd look over at me. I thought, "My, Lord, well, what'd You stop me on something like that?" See? I said, "Because, You know, I was worshipping You. You want me to see something on that eagle?" I said, "I'll stir him, or is it on the pine squirrel?" I stood there and watched them; I thought, "I'll study him just a little bit." I said, "One thing I noticed him, he wasn't afraid." I like that, not afraid. He stood there, that great big bird; I said, "You know what?" (My gun was setting up against a tree.) I said, "You know, I could shoot you?" He knowed better than that; he knowed one thing: I wouldn't do it; I admired him too much. See? There he was standing there, not a bit afraid.

And I thought, "I could shoot you." Now, I'd seen him; he'd look around at me like that. And he kept making his wings, you know, go back. You know how they do like that, their wings, you know. Great big wings about this long, you know, and he was a big fellow. He was setting there, and I looked at him. (And that was way before I knew these things; this is years and years ago, maybe twenty years ago.)

345 And I watched him; after while I see him. I thought, "What's he--what's he... He's not afraid, so I admire that. But what's so godly about that old eagle?" Seeing that great, big, hook bill come out like that, and them big eyes; I thought, "Boy, he's a real bird."

Now, nobody... A hawk, if he'd try to follow him, he'd disintegrate. There's nothing can follow him. No, no. It'd take an airplane to do it. Yes, sir. No bird can follow him, so--he goes so high. And then, he's got eyes; he can see right down to the ground too, after he's up there, see way off.

Now, Jehovah likened His prophets to eagles (You see?); He'd lift them up like that. They had to be special made. Let's see. Predestinated, born for that purpose (See?), be lifted up like that. And then you... What's good of you going up there if you can't see where you're at? See? What's the use of getting up there if you don't know what you're doing? See, see?

What the use of jumping up-and-down, shouting, speaking in tongues if you don't know what it's all about? See, see? You got to understand while you're there. See?

349 So then, I watched him, you know, as he moved around there. I kept... I just admired him; he was such a beautiful bird. And yet, he'd probably eat some of my deer meat and stuff that I'm... I watched him, and after while I thought, "You know, what--what's he..."

After while he got tired. I don't think he got tired looking at me, but I think he got tired listening at that little old chipmunk setting over there. You know, we got so many of them in the camp today. You know? See? "Cha, cha, cha. Days of miracles is past. No such thing as divine healing. Don't have these things no more." See? Little old earthbound chipmunk that's setting up on that stump. "You have to belong to this. We're--we're--we're the..." See, see? Setting there just a--chattering up-and-down. Oh, he was vibrating, he was shaking so hard.

He got tired of listening at it, and he just made one great, big jump, and just shook that limb where he's setting on, like that. The limb shook, like that, and he went right out. See, he flopped his wings and just parted through that timber there. And when he did, I noticed him. See? He wasn't afraid, because he could feel the presence of his God given wings. He knowed them wings could pack him away from any kind of danger. See?

352 And so, that's the way we want to feel. This is the Word, and the One Who wrote the Word is my Wings. I'm not afraid of the Word; It'll pack you right through any kind of trouble there is. It's a Sword that'll cut Its way right straight through. Don't you never worry about it. See?

I noticed him then. He didn't flop, he just set his wings. See? And that--every time the wind would come in, he'd just raise up, get higher and higher.

I stood there, and fold my arms, and looked at him till he was just a little spot I could hardly see no more. And I thought, "God, that's it. It's not run join this, and run join that, and do this, that, or the other; it's just setting your wings (See?); knowing how to set your wings of faith into the Word of God, and sail away from all of this nonsense of chatter-chatter here and chatter-chatter there. Yeah. "Heavens and earth will pass away, but My Word shall never fail."

354 Now, I've got about twenty of you again this afternoon. Now, you that's on--that's--interviews for this afternoon, why, you see Billy, 'cause I think they're going to try to start just a little early for me to get them all in. If I can, I want to get every one of them that's possible that I can get. And I did this, not because... Billy didn't know this (See?), but my mind was so wound up after about twenty visions in there this morning (You see?) till it--or ever what it was... It just kinda gets you in a... And Billy said, "Why don't you go out and take a little... Relax, go out, and answer some of them questions there."

And I said, "Brother Neville's got his message."

Said, "I'll go tell him." He went around.

Brother Neville said, "Come on." So then, I raised up and come out here. And some of them is waiting for this afternoon. Sorry to kept you here till 1:00 o'clock, but I'll be--guess I'll have to leave day after tomorrow, so, to go on back to Arizona again.

355 Remember, the Lord willing, the next time I come back, I want to preach on--to you about--show you in the Scripture the correctness of marriage and divorce. This... And then, I... And then, just let it... Lay it out just the way it really is, then you'll see it from then on. So till that time, be of a good courage; the Lord bless you real richly. Can we stand? [A prophecy is given from a lady in the congregation--Ed.] Praise the Lord.

I love Him, I love Him, (Do you?)

Because He first loved me,

And purchased my salvation

On Calvary's tree.

You love Him? Now, let's shake hands with one another while we sing again.

I love Him, I love Him,

Because He first loved me,

And purchased my salvation

On Calvary's tree.

Oh, isn't that wonderful? Oh, my. Billy wanted me to announce, that after the benediction, he's got a word to say to you people here that wants them private interviews. You see? He wants to meet you just in a few minutes. But I feel right now, just a moment of worship. These... Don't you love to worship Him in the Spirit?

And purchased my salvation

On Calvary's tree.

358 Oh isn't it wonderful? Oh, I--I love Him. In my heart I love Him, if I know my heart. I believe you do too. So together we are His children. We love one another. Now, I cannot love Him without loving you. And if I say that I love Him and don't love you, the Bible said I'm a liar. See? And if I... If you want to--if you wanted to love me or love my family... The choice was, which do I want you to do, love me or love my family; you love my family. I'd rather you'd love Billy Paul than love me. If it come to that kind of a showdown, I'd rather you'd do it. I want you to listen to me, 'cause Billy's not a minister. But I want you to listen to me, what I tell you; but when--if you want to love somebody, really love them, you say, "I want to either love you or Billy," you love Billy. See? God feels the same way about us. And we cannot... Then I know you can't love Billy without loving me, 'cause he's part of me. See? So I can't love God without loving you, because you're part of God. And we love one another. Oh, I think it's so wonderful. Don't you think the songs are something's pretty after we have these--answering these things, where it puts us in a twist? Uhm, uhm, oh so real.

I love Him, I love Him,

Because He first loved me,

And purchased my salvation

On Calvary's tree.

Oh, they'll come from the east and...