22-0801P_VICTORY DAY_REGULAR WEEKLY PRAYER MEETING

Rev 15:1  And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God. 

Rev 15:2  And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God. 

Rev 15:3  And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints. 

Rev 15:4  Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest. 

Rev 15:5  And after that I looked, and, behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened: 

Heb 11:32  And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets: 

Heb 11:33  Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, 

Heb 11:34  Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. 

Heb 11:35  Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection: 

Heb 11:36  And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: 

VICTORY DAY

32 And if the Lord will, I would like to take a text from that, to call it a V-day, Victory Day, as we symbolize that, a complete victory.

33 These people, that in the chapter that we’re…have just read, had just gotten the victory. I think that the word victory is a great word in the English language. It means that you have—you have defeated the enemy, and you’ve overcome, and you are a victor holding victory. And we sing songs and cheer in a victory. And here we find that there was something, these people had come to this sea of glass, mingled with fire. And they had gotten the victory over the beast, over his image, over the mark, and the letter of his name. All these things, they had gotten the victory over them, and were victors standing on the other side, on the sea of glass mingled with fire, singing the songs of praise to Almighty God.

34 Now, to speak of victory and V-days, and so forth, it brings us back to the thought of war, when we think of V-day. Because, just recently, in the last few years, we come to a—a—a day that we called V-day, of the war, where they gotten the victory over the enemy. And it’s too bad that we have to think it, but the world has been soaked with human blood ever since the blood of righteous Abel.

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    Rev. William Marrion Branham

35 The first human blood to strike the earth was righteous Abel. And he, the reason he had to shed his blood, was because that he had been right with God. And God had accepted his—his atonement that he had, by faith had offered to God, this lamb.

36 And his jealous brother, being jealous of him, slew righteous Abel. And that same reason has, just about, caused the shedding of all human blood upon the face of the earth. And the old earth is certainly soaked with it, of all across the world, human blood. We…There’s a reason for that. There is some reason that they would be, that this human blood was shed. And we find that the first reason was because of jealousy, that—that Cain was jealous of Abel because that God accepted Abel’s sacrifice. And Hebrews 11 tells us that—that—that, “Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than that of Cain, and God testifying by it.” And Cain, course, being jealous of this, because his sacrifice was rejected, and Abel’s accepted. And Abel did this by faith. The Bible said that he did this “by faith.”

37 Seeing that—that, the two boys trying to find favor with God, to come back, because they know that they were just fresh from the garden of Life. And they had fell, on the other side, by the transgression of their parents, had made them subjects to death; just like we all stand, this morning, subjects to death. And they wanted to know how to get back into that place where they could find Life again. And, in doing so, they—they were trying to find favor with God.

38 And Cain offered a beautiful sacrifice of flowers and the fruits of the field, or whatever it was he put upon the altar.

39 But Abel, by spiritual revelation, revealed to him that it was not the fruit of the field that caused the death. “It was blood that caused the death.” So, he offered back blood of an innocent substitute, and God accepted it. And that has been God’s propitiation for our sins, ever since that very day. No other way, because if He had accepted on any other basis, then we’d have had to come to that basis, to be, to find favor with God. But God accepted only the innocent blood of an innocent subject. See?

40 And therefore, if the beauty and the big places would have been God’s acceptance, today we’d…We would have wondered, “Would He come back on the backside of the desert, to this little home setting here by the railroad track? Would He come back here and meet with us?” But if it had been a great cathedral, or the beauty that—that Cain offered, why, we’d find we’d just been talking to ourselves, and to the air.

41 But God came on the basis of the shed blood. So, no matter, today, how small we are, how poor we are, or how much we would like to be, offer to God a greater place, but God wouldn’t accept it, no more than He will right now, because we’re coming on the basis of the shed Blood of an innocent Substitute, which is Christ dying for us sinners.

42 Now, the reason that this Blood has been shed, is because, I believe, that man wants to…God invites man to look, but man wants to—to show himself. Man wants to look at what God is trying to show him, on the basis of his—his own idea about it. See? God is trying to show man something, but the man wants to accept it upon what he…the way he looks at it.

43 But it’s just like anyone wanting to show a scene. There’s got to be a reason to show this scene. There’s…If you say, “Look yonder at the mountain,” now there’s something there that struck your attention, that you’re trying to ask me to look at that mountain. See? Or, “Look at this tree,” see, there is something about that tree that you want me to see.

44 Now, God is trying to get man to look to that innocent Substitute for a way back. And man wants to look at it in his own way. He don’t want to see what God is trying to show him, in this innocent Substitute. Therefore, that’s what’s caused the trouble. Then, when man does, as it was, picks up the glasses, to view off in a long distance, to see what God is trying to show him, he fails to focus his glasses right.

    63-0421 -  Victory Day

    Rev. William Marrion Branham

Now, the Bible is the Word, and the Word is God. So, that is our binoculars. That’s our glasses. But, then, when we go to looking in the Bible, and seeing four or five different ways, well, it needs focusing, you see. And we—we got to bring the thing into the place where we see the one solemn purpose for God.

47 But man wants to start an organization, run this way. And the other one wants to, “Well, I don’t…I think I can be a bigger fellow than him, so I’ll start over here. We’ll school our boys better, and we’ll do this and so forth.” See? They fail to get the glass in focus. God wants them to see one thing, and that’s the innocent Blood that was shed for their sins. That’s exact. That’s the real thing, no matter. We don’t need an organization. I have nothing against them, only they…the damage that they do, to pull people out and separate brotherhood and things.

48 But we only need to look at one thing, and that’s our Substitute. That’s right. And that Substitute is Jesus Christ.

49 And then today you see how we are twisted out in organizations. And they say, “The Methodists is having a revival. Course, that don’t mean the Baptists. That’s the Methodists. And these are having a revival, and so forth.” And they—they cut the other fellow out, all the time. But we don’t want to see it that way.

50 We want to keep pulling that focus till we find out that there is one God. When you see three of them out there, you better focus the glass a little better. See? You’re—you’re seeing something wrong. So you’d better bring it in, and find out there is one God over us all, and He’s the God of the human race.

51 And if He’s God, at all, He’s interested in every human being, because it’s His creation. And He’s interested in the children. He’s interested in the old age and the middle age. He’s interested in the—the colors of us, and the white, the brown, the black, the—the yellow, the different shades of our skins from the country that we come from and our forefather. He’s interested in all of us. He’s just not interested in the Jews, alone, or in—or in the yellow race, black race, white race, whatever it is.

52 He’s interested in the whole human race, and trying to get the human race to focus His Word down to one thing, and say, “There is one God, and that God give an innocent Substitute, by coming; becoming, Himself, Man, in order to take away sin, to save the whole human race.” John the prophet so beautifully illustrated, “Behold the Lamb of God, that takes away the sin of the world,” whosoever. The whole sin problem is settled right there in that one innocent Substitute.

53 But when man begins to get a hold of God’s binoculars here, he—he begins to…He looks at so much of the natural, he fails to see the spiritual application that the Word gives.

    63-0421 -  Victory Day

    Rev. William Marrion Branham

94 And then those spirits get jealous of another spirit. And what do they do? They cause war. That’s right.

95 Now, you see, every nation is controlled by Satan. The Bible said so. He’s the god of the nations. Satan took Jesus up, top the mountain, and said…showed Him all the kingdoms was in the world, all the kingdoms, in a moment of time. Said, “These are mine. I do with them anything I want to.” Said, “I’ll give them over to You, if You’ll worship me.”

96 Jesus said, “Get behind Me, Satan.” He knew He was going to fall heir to them in the Millennium. See? So, He didn’t have to bow down to him. He knowed they was going…

    63-0421 -  Victory Day

    Rev. William Marrion Branham

98 Then we find that, because that people do this, and—and cause these great fusses, and so forth…Now, see, as long as Satan controls it, there is going to be wars and troubles, and war. Jesus said, in Saint John…Saint Matthew 24, said, “You’ll hear of wars, and rumors of wars, and wars, and war.” Why? Cause, the prince of the earth, the Satan, the power of the nations…There is a national spirit here, a national spirit here. It’s devils. They can’t get along with one another. See?

99 Did you ever take a bunch in the Eskimo country up there, where we go on dogsleds, northern Alaska, and way up around in the Northwestern Territory? When the—the guide there was tying off these dogs, called Huskies…And he tie one here, and one out there, and one over here.

I said, “Why you doing that for?”

100 Said, “They are so full of the devil, they’d kill one another.” See? Just—just kill, that’s all they think about.

101 Well, that’s—that’s the devil, you see. He’s a killer. He, just he, the—the nation just…Even devils fighting devils. See? They just fight one another.

But, God is all love, see, so you can’t do nothing but love one another.

102 So, you see, the whole principle bases right back again to them spirits, exactly back to the beginning. Genesis is the seed chapter, and it produces everything, then, that we have in the earth today.

103 Now we have wars and victories, great victories. One nation will come in and beat down the other one, say, “Glory! We got the victory. We beat them up.” And—and then, the first thing you know, they’ll become friends and shake hands, and have a trade between one another.

104 And after while, it’s another president, or another king will come in, or another ruler, another system. And, first thing you know, here they are, their grandchildren are back with guns, fighting one another, again. “Wars, and rumors of wars.” And this other one will run up over the other one, “Now you’ll serve me, you know. I’m the victor, and you’re the—you’re the one that’s out.” And so forth. You just…

    63-0421 -  Victory Day

    Rev. William Marrion Branham