The Choosing Of A Bride Pt-3
(HIS CHARACTER, THE CHARACTER OF THE CHURCH)
THE TRUE CHURCH OF CHRIST, THE BRIDE, IS SO SOLD OUT TO HIM AND HIS PROMISED WORD, TILL THE VERY MIND THAT'S IN CHRIST IS IN YOU.
167 The true Church of Christ, the Bride, is so sold out to Him and His promised Word, till the very mind that's in Christ is in you. What a different!
THE MODERN
WORLD CHURCH AND ALSO THAT THE SPIRITUAL CHURCH ARE BOTH PREGNATED, TO GIVE
BIRTH TO SONS.
168 And we find today, that, the modern church,
a modern world church. The modern world church and also that the spiritual Church are both
pregnated, to give birth to sons.
169 One
of them, a denominational birth, is going to be give, one day to these days, at
the World Council of Churches, which will produce to the world the antichrist,
through a denomination. That's exactly the Truth. I may not live to see it. I believe I will. But, you young people,
remember that you heard a minister say that. That'll finally wind up. And that is the
mark of the beast, when she forms that World Council of Churches.
And she'll
give birth to her son, the antichrist.
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The
other is pregnated by the Word of God and will bring forth the Body, the
finished Body of Jesus Christ, which is the Bride. The Body of Christ isn't finished yet.
How many knows that? A man and woman is
one. And Christ is one Body, the Word. The Bride will have to be the rest of
that Body. And the two, together, makes the one Body again. Like Adam was
at the beginning: man, his wife, are one. Now,
She, the true Bride, so sold out to Him, that She use no mind of Her own. His
mind, of course, is His will, and His will is His Word.
JUST
DECEIT, THAT'S ALL. TRULY A BLIND LAODICEA CHURCH AGE, JUST EXACTLY WHAT THE
BIBLE SAID WOULD BE.
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Now look at the so-called
bride chosen by man, and compare the spiritual to the natural of
today, a modern Jezebel bewitched by her Ahab, Max Factor beauties, everything.
Look at the church, the same way, but a prostitute to the Word of the living
God; big denominations, big buildings, big money, big salary, all sold
out. Men standing in the pulpit endorsing that that's all right, and let
them get by with it. Just deceit, that's all. Truly a blind Laodicea Church Age,
just exactly what the Bible said would be. "Said, 'I am rich.
I set as a queen. I have need of nothing.' And knowest thou not that you're poor, miserable, blind, wretched,
naked: and don't know it." If that isn't THUS SAITH THE LORD, Revelations
3, I've never read It. That's what she is, and don't know it! Think of it.
THERE'S A MENTAL DEFICIENCY THERE SOMEWHERE.
THERE IS SOMETHING WENT WRONG WITH THEIR MIND.
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If you'd tell a man or a woman,
on the street, that was stark naked, and tell them they were naked, and they
say, "Tend to your own business," why, there's
a mental deficiency there somewhere. There is something went wrong with their
mind.
173 And
when you can read the Word of God, how that people should do, and this baptism
of the Holy Ghost that we have today, and, people, why, they look at you as if
you were crazy. You tell them, "You've got... They got to be born again.
They got to believe the Bible."
BUT THE WORD OF GOD ATTRACTS THE BRIDE OF
CHRIST.
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They say, "That was a Jewish fable, for years ago. Our church
has the way." Wretched,
miserable, blind, naked, and don't even know it. What a... And the Bible said that that's the
condition they get into.
How could a true prophet ever miss
seeing it? I don't know.
175 Drifting right into all of our churches, everywhere.
Just look at it, just in the modern
trend. "The old whore and daughters," of Revelations 17,
giving to the "poor, blind, miserable" people her doctrine of theology contrary to the Word of God. "And they found in her the
souls of slaves, and men and women of--of everywhere." Instead of
attracting the people...
176 Christ does vindicates His Word, which attracts the people.
He don't attract the people at churches that are attracted by big
denominations and big doings, and great big carry-on's and fancy things. But the Word of God attracts the Bride
of Christ.
WHILE, THE
TRUE BRIDE ATTRACTS THE ATTENTION OF GOD, BY KEEPING HIS WORD.
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Now notice. It's interesting
to--to notice how that--that the church tries to attract the attention of the
people by fine robes and dressed choirs, and bobbed-haired women and painted
faces. And they think... And it sang like an Angel. Lie like a devil,
run around all night to a dance like, think nothing about it. And that's what they think, "It's
all right. That's beautiful." But, you see, that's false-made. That's
not the Word of God.
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While,
the true Bride attracts the attention of God, by keeping His Word.
Now notice. Now let us notice Christ.
BUT HE
DIDN'T COME IN THAT KIND OF A BEAUTY, BUT HE ALWAYS COMES IN THE BEAUTY OF
CHARACTER.
179 You say, "Well, now, wait a minute,
what about this beauty you're talking about?"
180 The
Bible said, in Isaiah 53:2, that, when Jesus come, "There was no beauty of
Him, that we should desire Him." That right? [Congregation says,
"Amen."--Ed.] There's no beauty. If He would have come in the worldly
beauty, as Satan is today, the people would have run around Him and accept Him
the way they do the church today.
They would have believed Him,
received Him, as they do Satan today. Certainly, they would. But He didn't
come in that kind of a beauty, but He always comes in the beauty of character.
There, Christ wasn't a beautiful,
great, strong, stout Man. God doesn't choose that kind.
WE CHOOSE
BY SIGHT. GOD CHOOSE BY CHARACTER.
181
I remember one time a prophet went up to--to take a king, to make a
king out of Jesse's son, to take another king's place, Saul. And so Jesse
brought him out, his great, big, fine boy. He said, "The crown will look
right, on his head."
182 The prophet went to pour the oil on him. He
said, "God has refused him." And
He refused every one of them, till he come to a little, old stoop-shouldered,
ruddy-looking fellow. And he poured the oil upon him, and he said, "God
chose him." See? We choose by sight. God choose by character.
CHARACTER,
THERE NEVER WAS A CHARACTER LIKE JESUS CHRIST
183 Character, there never was a character like Jesus Christ. It
lives in you and manifests Him. We see it's true. It's not
worldly beauty of Him that attracts His Bride. It is His character, the character of the Church, that Jesus looks for;
not where it's big buildings, where it's great denominations, where it's big
membership. He promised to meet with
wherever two or three are gathered together. Truly. That's where the true believer rests his hopes,
is upon that Word of God being vindicated in Truth, what is. Choose by His Word, not a worldly-loving
group. They hate that.
184 No
wonder she is divorced from Him, because she's missed His revelation, and she
don't have it. He cares not for her,
the way she acts and does, and how much of this worldly stuff she has.
HE CHOOSES
A BRIDE TO REFLECT HIS CHARACTER
185
He's
looking for her character, the character of Christ. Now, just a
moment now. That's it. He chooses a Bride to reflect His character, to which
the modern churches of today certainly misses His--His program here, a million
miles, 'cause they deny This to be the Truth. So how could it be? Now, He's looking
for the day for that Bride to be formed, Hebrews 13:8, just exactly like It
was, like He was. It's got
to be His same flesh, same bones, same Spirit, same everything, just exactly
built up, and them two then become one. Until the church becomes that, they're not one. The character of
Him, the Word, for this age, must be molded. She must be molded like He is.
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Now, in closing, I want to say the reason that I said these things, and
I'll--I'll close. The other night, about three o'clock in the morning, I was
awakened up.
187 I take any of you to answer this. Have I
ever told you anything in the Name of the Lord but what it was right? It's
always been right. [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] So help me, God
knows that's true. There is no one,
nowhere in the world, of the thousands of things that's been told, that He has
ever missed one word of it. Always been perfectly come to pass.
188 Even to when I was at Phoenix, the other
day, or about a year ago it was, and told you about that Message on--on What
Time Is It, Sirs? And told you, "Seven Angels would meet out there,"
and be the opening of these Seals, and what. And there the--the Life magazine
packed the article of it, this great Flame going up in the air, thirty miles
high, twenty-seven miles across. They said they couldn't make out what it was;
don't know yet. And men setting right here in this building tonight, was
standing right there with me when it happened, just exactly what It said. He
told me the things was coming to pass, and happened just exactly. How each of
those Seals opened, and told the mysteries that had been hid down through them
ages of the reformers and so forth, just perfectly.
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How, standing up on top the hill, men, three or four of them standing
right here present now, yes, more than that. Going up the hill, the Holy Spirit
said, "Pick up that rock." We were hunting. He said, "Throw it
up in the air, and say, 'THUS SAITH THE LORD.'" I did. Down from there
come a little funnel of wind. I said, "Within twenty-four hours, you'll
see the hand of God." Men setting right here present now.
190 The next day, about ten o'clock, standing
there, I said, "Get ready. Get under the car there," a veteran. I
said, "Something is fixing to happen." It was a clear sky, right up
in a big canyon. Down come a whirling Fire from Heaven, just as hard as It
could scream, hit the walls like that. I--I was standing right under It. I took
off my hat, held my head. It come about three feet or four feet above me, and
cut a ditch plumb around that wall like that, and blasted. And went back up in
the air, and whirled around again, and come down, three times, even had cut the
tops of mesquite bushes out, for two hundred yards. Hear them fellows saying,
"Amen"? They were there when it happened, see, and made three blasts.
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When they got out from under the cars and everything, come back over,
said, "That would hit you, there wouldn't been a greasy spot."
192 I said, "It was--It was Him. He was
talking to me." God speaks by a whirlwind. See? And there was that same
Pillar of Fire that you see on the picture, standing there.
And when It
went up, they said, "What is it?"
I said,
"Judgment is striking the West Coast."
193 Second day from there, Alaska like to sunk.
See? It struck once, there, the first blow.
194 Where, you have to do something, to
symbolize it. Like a man put some salt in a cruse, and throwed it in the water,
and said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, let there be sweet water." And
another one, Jesus picked up water and poured it into a jug, and--and made wine
out of it.
195 You have to have something, to symbolize.
That's what that was, that went up in the air and come down. That started that
little whirlwind. Within twenty-four hours, It had shook that mountain till it
cut a ridge around it.
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Rev. Mr. Blair sitting here, I'm looking right at him now, he was up
there and picked up some of the pieces of it, and so forth. Here is Terry Sothmann,
them, and standing here, and Billy Paul. And brothers, some of many of these
others setting in here, that was right there to see it happen when It tore it
out.
197 That's not fiction. That's the truth. That
wasn't back in the Bible days. That's now. See? [Congregation says,
"Amen."--Ed.] That same God that's always showed me these things, and
they've come to pass, exactly to the letter. Never have they failed one time.
Now I'm bragging on Him.
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A few weeks ago, I was in a vision. And I was standing up on a--a high
place, and I was to see the preview of the Church. And I noticed, coming from
my... I was standing more like this way, facing the West. And coming this way
was the lovely bunch of women, real nice dress, long hair fixed nice in the
back, sleeves, and skirts down neatly. And they were all in a marching tune,
like, "Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war, with the cross of
Jesus going on before." And as they passed by, I stood, and there was
Something there, some Spirit, was God, and said, "There is the
Bride." And I looked, and my heart was happy. And She went around this
way, and passed around behind me.
199 After while, when she come back this way,
It said, "Now the modern church will come into preview." And here
come the Asian church up. I never seen such a filthy bunch.
200 Here come the other churches up, of the
different nation. They looked horrible.
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And I--I say this because I'm duty bound to tell the truth, before God.
And when He said, "Here comes the church of America now, to be
previewed." If I ever seen a bunch of devils, it was that. Them women were
stripped naked, with an old gray-looking thing, like a color of an elephant's
hide. And they was holding it in front of them, with no upper part on it at
all. And they were doing this kind of stuff, that, these--these dances that
these kids do out here, that twist and stuff, and that kind of music going on.
And when I seen Miss U.S.A. come up, I almost fainted.
202 Now, this is THUS SAITH THE LORD. You
believe me to be His servant. You believe me now. I wouldn't say that for
nothing in the world. There's not enough money in all the world to get me to
say that if it wasn't true.
203 And when she come by, that was the
filthiest-looking thing I ever seen. I thought, "God, as hard as preachers
and we brethren have labored to get You a Bride, and that's the best we could
do." She was twisting, holding this in front of her, like one of these
hula skirts of a thing, holding it in front of her parts, her lower part, like
this, dancing and twisting like these kids do out here on the... on these
vulgar shows that they have, twisting. That was Miss Christianity of America.
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So help me, by the help of God, that's what it looks like in His face.
I--I just... I start... I could have fainted. I thought, "All the trying,
and the preaching, and the persuading?" Every one of them with bobbed
hair, and they were twisting and carrying on, holding this in front. They come
around, where I was standing there with this supernatural Being. I couldn't see
Him. I'd hear Him talking to me; was right around me. But when they turned this
way, they hold this. And just twisting and laughing and going on, carrying on
like that, holding this in front of them.
205 Now, me standing in His Presence there, and
His servant. "And of all I tried, that's the best I could do?" I
thought, "God, what good did it do me? What good did it do? All the
crying, and begging, and persuading, and the great signs and wonders and
miracles that You showed. And how I stood there, and go home and cry after
preaching to them and things, and what good did it do me? And then I have to
present something like that for You, for a Bride?"
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And as I stood there, looking, she passed on by. And you can imagine the
back part of her, with nothing on, holding this in front of her as she went
shimmying by, like that, to this twist, throwing her limbs out like that. And,
her, oh, it was vulgar, how she was carrying on, her body shaking around like
that. Now I...
207 You say, "What does it mean, Brother
Branham?" I don't know. I'm just telling you what I seen.
208 And when she passed by like that, I looked
at her. Oh, I just got real faint. I just turned around. I thought, "God,
I'm condemned. There--there's no need of me trying any now. Just might as well
quit."
209 Mrs. Carl Williams, if you're setting here,
and that dream that you told me about, a while ago, that you had the other
night, that's been bothering you, there it is. The steering wheel is taken from
my hand.
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Then, I just thought, "I--I just might as well forget it." I
was gone.
211 Then, all at once, I heard It coming again.
And coming up on this side come the same Bride that went around this a way.
Here come them little ladies again, and each one of them was dressed in their
national garb from where they come from, like Switzerland, Germany, and so
forth, each one wearing that kind of garb, all long hair, just exactly like the
one at the first. And here they was coming, walking. "Onward, Christian
soldiers, marching as to war." And when they passed by the preview stand
where we were standing, just all at once, every eye went that way. And then
they turned back, and on they went, marching, and just as they started to going
right up into the sky.
212 This other one went up to a brink of a hill
and went down, like that.
213 These started marching right up into the
sky. And when they went to marching, I noticed a couple of little girls in the
back, looked like they might be of some foreign girl, like Sweden or
Switzerland, or somewhere. They started to look around, and got... I said,
"Don't do that! Don't get out of that step!" And as I screamed like
that, I come to, in the vision, standing there with my hand out like that. I
thought, "Well..."
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That's the reason I said what I have, tonight. I want to ask you a
question. Is it later that we think? Could She already be called and chosen,
sealed away? There won't be one extra one, you know. Could it be possible? Oh,
yeah. Oh, yeah.
215 Remember what I said, other day at the
breakfast. In the pollen of breeding male and female, there's a million germs
goes forth, million eggs goes forth. But there's only one of them live, and,
yet, they're every one just alike: one out of a million. Every one of them, the
same egg and the same kind of germ. One of them lives. The rest of them die.
216 No one can tell which is the one that's a
ripe egg, and, oh, what about it. God has to decide that, whether it's going to
be a boy or girl, blond or brunette, or whatever it's going to be. God decides
that. Not the first one meets, but the first one God has decide. Maybe one come
up here, and one... If you ever noticed, in the test tube, to see them come
together. I've watched it. God has to decide that. One, every one of them, just
alike, but by election. The natural birth is by election. God takes one out of
the million.
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217 When Israel left Egypt, on their road to the
promised land, they were approximately two million people. Every one of them
was under the same sacrificial lamb, or they wouldn't have lived. Every one of
them listened to Moses, the prophet. Every one of them was baptized to him, in
the Red Sea. Every one of them danced, the women with Miriam, up-and-down the
side of (when) the seashore, when God destroyed the enemy. Every one of them
stood with Moses, and heard him sing in the Spirit. They, every one, eat manna
out of the wilderness, that dropped down from Heaven. New manna, every night,
which is a type of the Message, every one of them eat from it. But, out of the
two million, how many made it? Two. One out of a million.
218 There's approximately five hundred million
Christians in the world tonight, counting Catholic and all. Five hundred
million so-called believers in the world. If the Rapture come tonight, that
would mean... if one out of a million was the count. I don't say it is. But if
it was, five hundred people, in the next twenty-four hours, would be missing.
You'd never even hear of it. There'll be that many missing, anyhow, can't even
be counted for.
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Then it could be, happen to us, friend, like it did when John the
Baptist came. Even the disciples said, "Why did the Scriptures say, why do
the--the apostles or the prophets say, why does it say that Elias must first
come and restore all things?"
220 He said, "I say unto you that Elias
has already come, and you didn't know it."
221 One of these days we could be left setting
here, "What about the Rapture before the tribulation sets in?"
"It's
already come and you didn't know it."
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All the Body, sealed in, just keeping It in step. I ain't saying it's
that way. I hope it isn't that way. But, friend, when it lets...
223 If we got a feel in our heart, tonight,
that we should straighten up our lives, and the things that we have done, let
me advise you, as a minister brother. I'm going to say this for my first time,
over the pulpit. I've stretched out farther tonight, on This, than I have on
anything else, any time, anyhow, before the public, because I've had a great
freedom in these meetings. If you believe me to be God's prophet, you listen to
what I've told you. If there's one little tinkle of feeling in your heart, you
go to God right now. You do it.
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Stop just a minute, men. Look at your--your creeds that you serve. Look
in your churches. Is it just exactly with the Word of God? Have you met every
qualification? Say, "I'm a good man." So was Nicodemus, and so was
all the rest. They--they were fine. See? That don't have nothing to do with It.
225 And, women, I want you to look in the
mirror, and look what God requires a woman to do. And see in God's mirror, not
in your church mirror now, in God's mirror; and see if you could qualify, in
your life, the spiritual Bride of Jesus Christ.
226 Ministers, think the same. Do you cut
corners here, to save somebody's feelings over yonder? Would you do this if it
wasn't... and they'll put you out of the church? If you are feeling that way,
my dear brother, let me warn you, in the Name of Jesus Christ, flee from that
right now.
227 And, lady, if you can't measure up to the
qualification of a Christian, not as a nominal Christian; but in your heart,
and your life is patterned exactly like God's marriage certificate here says it
has to be.
228 And, church member, if your church isn't
like that, can measure up to God's qualification of His Word, get out of it and
get into Christ.
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That is solemn warning. We don't know what time, and you don't know what
time, that this city one day is going to be laying out here in the bottom of
this ocean.
230 "Oh, Capernaum," said Jesus,
"thou who exalted into heaven, will be brought down into hell. For, if the
mighty works had been done in Sodom and Gomorrah, it'd have been standing to
this day." And Sodom, Gomorrah lays in the bottom of the Dead Sea. And
Capernaum is in the bottom of the sea.
231 Thou city, who claims to be the city of the
Angels, who has exalted yourself into heaven, and sent all the dirty, filthy
things of fashions and things, till even the foreign countries come here to
pick up our filth and send it away, to your fine churches and steeples, and so
forth, the way you do. Remember, one day you'll be laying in the bottom of the
sea, your great honeycomb under you right now. The wrath of God is belching
right beneath you. How much longer He will hold this sandbar hanging out over
that? When, that ocean out yonder, a mile deep, will slide in there, plumb back
to the Salton Sea. It'll be worse than the last day of Pompeii. Repent, Los
Angeles.
232 Repent, the rest of you, and turn to God.
The hour of His wrath is upon the earth. Flee while there's time to flee, and
come into Christ.
Let us pray.
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Dear God, when, in my spirit, is shaking, my heart is dropping teardrops
of warning. Grant, O God, that men and women will not think of what I've said
as a joke, and the church people will not think of it as something that was
prejudice or against them. May they see, Lord, it's in love.
234 Thou barest me record, Almighty God, that
up-and-down this coast I've went, year after year, proclaiming Your Word. Bear
me record, O God, if it would happen tonight, I've told the Truth. Thou knowest
this vision of the Bride is the Truth. I've took Your Name by it, Lord, and
said it was THUS SAITH THE LORD. And I feel that I'm conscious, Lord, of what
I'm doing.
235 So I pray Thee, Lord, in Jesus' Name, let
people shake themselves, tonight, and flee from the wrath that is to come, for
Ichabod is wrote over the doors and over the nations. A black check mark has
come across it. The Spirit of God is grieved away from it, and they're weighed
in the balances and found wanting. The feast of King Nebuchadnezzar has
repeated again, with drunken parties and half-dressed women, calling themselves
Christians.
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O God of Heaven, have mercy upon a sinful world and a sinful people,
Lord, as we are tonight. God, I'm trying to stand in the breach and ask for
Divine mercy, that You'll speak into this crowd tonight and call Your Bride to
attention, Lord, to march not by the sign of any creed, but by the sound of the
Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Grant it, O God. Let it be known, this night,
that Thou art God, and Thy Word is Truth. While, solemnly, in the face of this
people, we call them to attention of Thy Word.
237 In the Name of Jesus Christ, I pray for
them, Lord. They have seen You, beyond any shadow of doubt, move across their
crowds and tell them what's in their heart. And Thou knowest, Lord, that, right
now, what's going on. Thou knowest that to be Truth, O God. And I pray Thee, in
Jesus' Name, let the Holy Spirit intercede again, Lord, and pull from this
audience, Lord, those who are written in the Lamb's Book of Life. Grant it, O
God. I pray with all my heart.
238 These people, naturally, Lord, would give
me the last penny they had, to support the Message. They'd do anything that
they could. But, O God, when it comes to coping with It, and coming into It, I
pray, God, that this will be the night that You'll reward them and pour down
Your Holy Spirit upon this convention. And may there not be a frolic or jumping
around, but a weeping and a crying, and a repenting, holding onto the horns of
the altar, while we see judgments roaring beneath us, tonight. Grant it, God. I
pray as sincerely as I know how, in the Name of Jesus Christ.
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My brother, sister, I--I don't know what more to say, if I found grace
in your sight, by the power of God, if you believe me to be His prophet. This
is the first time in public I've ever said that. But I feel a strange warning
of some sort. I'm not prone to this. You know I'm not. I don't act like this. I
hesitated to speak that Message and say those things. I run sideways and
everything else, to keep from doing it. But It's been said, and It'll stand at
the Day of the Judgment, as a witness that I've told the Truth. That's THUS
SAITH THE LORD GOD!...?...
240 Oh, Pentecost, run for your life. Flee to
the horns of the altar and cry out, before it's too late, for an hour will come
when you can cry and it'll do no good. For Esau sought to find a place, of his
birthright, and couldn't find it. I commit you, oh, California. Oh, convention
of the Full Gospel Business Men, who I love, who I've left and strung to, with
all my heart, I commit you to Jesus Christ, tonight. Flee to Him! Don't let the
Devil ever cool you off from This. Stay right with It until you're, every one,
filled with the Holy Ghost, insomuch, that will make you come to this Word,
that will make you women straighten up, that will make you men straighten up.
If you'd say you've got the Holy Ghost, and won't cope with the Word, it's
another spirit in you. God's Spirit is on His Word, the Messianic, the anointed
Word. The Bride must be a Messiah-ette, the anointed Word.
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241
Let us stand to our feet, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. If you
never hear my voice again... But, God willing, I'm setting to Africa, in a few
hours. I may never return. I don't know. But I tell you, with all my heart,
I've told you the Truth. I haven't shunned to declare to you everything that
God has told me to say. And I've said It in the Name of the Lord.
242 It's a solemn moment. I don't know how to
express it. I've tried to leave the pulpit three or four times, and I can't do
it. This is a solemn hour. Don't you never forget it. This is the time that,
maybe, God may be making His last call. I don't know. He'll make His last call,
some day. When? I don't know. But I'm telling you, according to that vision, it
looks like that that Bride is about finished.
243 Look at the nominal churches coming in.
When the sleeping virgin come for Oil, she failed to get It. The Bride went in.
The Rapture went up. "While they went to buy Oil, the Bridegroom
come."
244 Are you asleep? Wake up, quickly, and come
to yourself. And let us pray, each one, like we were dying at this minute, in
the Name of the Lord. Let's, each one, pray in your own way.
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