22-1031P_LIFE_Message of the Hour Believers Tabernacle

Luk 14:15  And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things, he said unto him, Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God. 

Luk 14:16  Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many: 

Luk 14:17  And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready. 

Luk 14:18  And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused. 

Luk 14:19  And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused. 

Luk 14:20  And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come. 

Luk 14:21  So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind. 

Luk 14:22  And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room. 

Luk 14:23  And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. 

Luk 14:24  For I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper.

Mat 22:1  And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said, 

Mat 22:2  The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, 

Mat 22:3  And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come. 

Mat 22:4  Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage. 

Mat 22:5  But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise: 

Mat 22:6  And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them. 

Mat 22:7  But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city. 

Mat 22:8  Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy. 

Mat 22:9  Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage. 

Mat 22:10  So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests. 

Mat 22:11  And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment: 

Mat 22:12  And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless. 

Mat 22:13  Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 

Mat 22:14  For many are called, but few are chosen. 

MAN HAS ALWAYS TRIED TO MAKE EXCUSES, NOT TO RECEIVE GOD'S WORD OF HIS INVITATION.

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  34      Now, Jesus here is saying... Man has always tried to make excuses, not to receive God's Word of His invitation. Though it be firmly proven to them, that it's--that's it's His Supper and His invitation, but man is constantly making excuses. And if you read Saint Matthew 22, you'll find that the excuses were made there, also. And--and they try...

35    It went back into all ages. Went back into the age, and said a man bid them, and--and had a vineyard. And we find that parable. And how he sent his servants to collect from this vineyard. First servant come, what did they do? They run him off. The next servant come, they also stoned him. And they run servant after servant off; the cruel men. The king sent, finally, his son. And when his son came, we find out, that, "They said, 'This is an heir. We'll kill him, then we'll have all things.'" Then Jesus said to them, "The king sent forth and slew those murders, and burnt their cities."

IF YOU STEP OVER THE BOUNDARIES OF MERCY, THEN THERE'S ONLY ONE THING LEFT, AND THAT IS JUDGMENT.

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  36      Now, we see, when God gives a man an invitation, and to do something, or to receive the invitation that He's given him, and he returns it down, then there's nothing left, after mercy is spurned, but judgment. If you step over the boundaries of mercy, then there's only one thing left, and that is judgment. And we find that man has done that in all ages. It's happened, most every age, in the Bible.

37    When God sent Noah, His servant, and made a way of escape for all the people who wanted to--to be saved. But the people only laughed and scorned at Noah. But God made the way, but they had an excuse. It wasn't according to their--to their modern thinking. It didn't... It wasn't the way they wanted it, so they made excuses in the days of Noah.

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  38      They made excuses in the days of Moses. They made excuses in the days of Elijah. They made excuses in the days of Christ. And they make excuses today.

39    Now, Him speaking directly to Israel, the ones that was called to the feast, that I would also apply today to men, the church, who has been bidden to come to the feast, and won't do it, the spiritual feast of the Lord. And they won't do it. They don't want to do it. They've got other things to do. They find excuses.

40    Now, if Israel, two thousand years ago, would accepted the invitation that they were given, they wouldn't be as they are today. Two thousand years ago, Israel turned down the invitation to come to the wedding supper, and they turned it down and went into judgment. But, as Jesus said, they stoned and kill the prophets that was sent to them, by making excuses, now, the excuses they made in each day.

WE FIND, IN THE DAYS OF JESUS, THAT HE DIDN'T--HE DIDN'T AFFILIATE WITH ANY OF THEM.

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  41      We find, in the days of Jesus, that He didn't--He didn't affiliate with any of them. They said, "When did this Man get this learning? What school is He from? Is not This the carpenter's Son? Isn't His mother called Mary? Is His brothers, Joses and James, so forth? And isn't His sisters with us? Then where did this Man get this authority to do this?" See? Other words, He didn't affiliate with them. So they said, "He's Beelzebub. He's a Samaritan. He's got a devil, and He's mad. He's a--He's a... He's a Man that's got an evil spirit, on the line of religion, and has drove Him crazy. And that's what. He's out there like a wild man. Don't pay any attention to Him." And we know what happened to Israel. And they screamed out. They was so sure that that Man was wrong, until, oh, they condemned Him. He said, he said, "Let His Blood be upon us and upon our children." And It's been there ever since.

AND, BY DOING SO, HAD MADE THE WORD OF GOD OF NO EFFECT.

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  42      Jesus was trying to tell them that their excuses was what killed the prophets, and what killed the righteous that come. They accepted their creeds that men had given them, instead of taking the Word of God. And, by doing so, had made the Word of God of no effect.

43    Now, you've either got to say, in this, that This is God's will and God's desire, or either something else that you can crop up, that's better than what This is. Now, you have to take one or the other. You can't serve God and mammon. And you've got to say, "This is the Truth," or "That's part of the Truth," or "It isn't all the Truth," or "It isn't put together right," or "It isn't interpreted right."

And the Bible said, that, "The Word of God is no private interpretation." No one else is supposed to put an interpretation to It, It's written just the way God wants It interpreted. Just what It says, That, that's what is supposed to be. Just take It the way It's said, way It's wrote down Here.

44    Now, they accept their creeds. They make God's promises of no effect to them. They bypass That. They'll skip away from It.

THEY REJECTED IT. AND TODAY, THE COUNTRY IS GONE, AND THE CHURCHES CAN'T HAVE CHURCH, ONLY UNDER PERMISSION.

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  45      Now, if Russia had accepted the pentecostal Blessing, seventy-five years ago, when the Holy Ghost fell in Russia, they wouldn't have been communists today. Now, seventy-five years ago, they had a great revival in Russia. God come among them, and they had great revivals, way into Siberia. And what did they do? They rejected It. And today, the country is gone, and the churches can't have church, only under permission. And they are doomed into judgment. Has gone off on this wild tantrum of communism; sold out to the Devil.

46    Fifty years ago, the Holy Ghost fell in England. Just after that come George Jefferies, and F.F. Bosworth, and Charles Price, Smith Wigglesworth, those great warriors of the faith, fifty years ago, and offered England the Holy Ghost revival. But what did they do? They laughed at them, put them in jail, called them crazy, thought they had lost their minds. The churches refused the people to come hear them. And they healed the sick, and cast out devils, and done great works. And because that England, as a nation, rejected the Gospel, her--her sins is knowed throughout all the world. There's hardly a--a more of an apostate nation in all the world, even including Rome and France, than England. She's a mother of apostasy. Right where Finney and many of the great men preached, in the--the Haymarket, and Charles G. Finney, and Wesley, and on down, and she turned It down.

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  47      And now, even last week, or two, in the papers, you find out where their great men has so weakened to the--to the sex of women, until spies come in. And their head man found some more of them. The magazines has packed it. Their sin of scandal, right in their government, has sowed their disgraceful name across the world. Why? She rejected the Truth. She had her excuse, and she's finished. England is all washed up, with God, long time ago. If...

48    America, fifteen years ago, when the great healing revival continued on from pentecost, broke out in the nation, and there was a revivals on the capital, Washington, DC. The presidents, vice-presidents, great people, governors; great things taken place, governors and--and men were healed. Like, Congressman Upshaw had been a cripple for--for sixty-six years, and they could not turn their face and say it wasn't so. It was right before them, but they turned It down.

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  49      And, tonight, that's the reason this nation stays. She is doomed. There is no hope for it, at all. She's crossed the line between judgment and mercy. And she's elected in what she has here, to control the nation. And she is rotten, to the core. Her politics is rotten. The morals of this nation is lower than anything I can think of. And her religious system is rottener than the morals. She becomes, in doing this, she has now joined herself, all these churches, and of the nation, into the federation of churches, and has taken the mark of the beast. What a thing! Why? Christ give them the opportunity, "Come to My feast," the feast of pentecost, which means "fifty."

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  50      When the Holy Spirit poured out on Russia, they was called to a feast of pentecost, spiritual feast, and they turned It down. England, the Holy Ghost was poured out upon them, and they turned It down. America, the Holy Ghost was poured out upon them, and they've turned It down.

51    He bid three times. Three times, He sent out, and they did not listen to the feast. Then He sent again, and He said, "Go and compel those people to come. The table has got to be set. The table is ready. There is still room." And I believe, that, maybe, maybe within the next few months, or something, or year, or whatever it is, God is going to send another shaking across the country, for there is somebody still out there, somewhere, that's a predestinated Seed, that the Light has to fall on, somewhere, somewhere in the world. The nation, itself, is gone.

BUT, IF IT'S RIGHT, YOU OWE YOUR LIFE TO IT.

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  56      When God sends the Holy Ghost and knocks at a man's door, and he deliberately turns It down, sometime he's going to turn It for his last time, and then you won't be a privileged character. You can set in a church and listen to the Gospel, and agree with the Gospel. You might do so much as say, "I know It's right," but never put a finger on It, to help It, yourself. See? You just listen to It, 'cause you say, "I believe It's right." That's just sympathizing with It.

I could say, "I believe that's a ten thousand dollars." That don't mean I got it. See? I could say, "That's good cold water," but refuse to drink it. You know what I mean?

And this is Eternal Life. And to refuse to do it, one day you'll cross the line between judgment and mercy, and then you won't be have the privilege to come and receive It.

57    To you people who come here. I'm not responsible for those who... or--or other ministers are speaking to. But, if It's right, you owe your life to It. What more could you ever find, that would be more of a benefit to you, than to know that you can have Eternal Life?

BY REJECTING THE DAY OF VISITATION, IT SEPARATES YOU FROM GOD.

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  58      What if I was giving away capsules here, that, scientifically proven, scientifically proven that this capsule would make you live a thousand years? Well, I--I'd have to get a militia out here, and swarm them away from the place. You wouldn't have to make an altar call for it. You just have to beat them away from it, to live a thousand years.

And, yet, scientifically proven that the Eternal God, all His power of His resurrections, which promise you Eternal Life, and Satan will put his legions out there and keep you away from It. See? Yet, you can look, and sensible enough to look in the face of It and see It's right, but then turn It down. See?

59    Something, some kind of an excuse. "It's too hot. I'm too tired. I will, tomorrow." Just some kind of an excuse, that's all they do. By rejecting the day of visitation, it separates you from God. 

PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP TO CHRIST.

129    A Christian is not a tool, or some kind of a mechanical wrench to a great big religious regime. That's right. A Christian is not some kind of tool that keeps a religious organization moving. A Christian, that is not a Christian. A Christian is to be Christ-like. And a Christian cannot be a Christian until Christ comes into the man, the Life of Christ in him. Then it produces the Life that Christ lived, and you do the things that Christ did.

130    What am I talking about? Personal relationship to Christ. What is it? Is your life worthy of the Gospel?

Joh 17:1  These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: 

Joh 17:2  As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. 

Joh 17:3  And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. 

Joh 17:4  I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. 

Joh 17:5  And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. 

Joh 17:6  I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. 

Joh 17:7  Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. 

Joh 17:8  For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. 

Joh 17:9  I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. 

Joh 17:10  And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. 

Joh 17:11  And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. 

Joh 17:12  While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled. 

Joh 17:13  And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. 

Joh 17:14  I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 

Joh 17:15  I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. 

Joh 17:16  They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 

Joh 17:17  Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. 

Joh 17:18  As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. 

Joh 17:19  And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. 

Joh 17:20  Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; 

Joh 17:21  That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 

Joh 17:22  And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: 

Joh 17:23  I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. 

Joh 17:24  Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. 

Joh 17:25  O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. 

Joh 17:26  And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them. 

Ecc 6:11  Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better? 

Ecc 6:12  For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun? 

 

22-1028A_THE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL

Dan 5:1  Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. 

Dan 5:2  Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein. 

Dan 5:3  Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them. 

Dan 5:4  They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone. 

Dan 5:5  In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. 

Dan 5:6  Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another. 

Dan 5:7  The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spake, and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and shew me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom. 

Dan 5:8  Then came in all the king's wise men: but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation thereof. 

Dan 5:9  Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in him, and his lords were astonied. 

Dan 5:10  Now the queen, by reason of the words of the king and his lords, came into the banquet house: and the queen spake and said, O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be changed: 

Dan 5:11  There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers; 

Dan 5:12  Forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will shew the interpretation. 

Dan 5:13  Then was Daniel brought in before the king. And the king spake and said unto Daniel, Art thou that Daniel, which art of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Jewry? 

Dan 5:14  I have even heard of thee, that the spirit of the gods is in thee, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom is found in thee. 

Dan 5:15  And now the wise men, the astrologers, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known unto me the interpretation thereof: but they could not shew the interpretation of the thing: 

Dan 5:16  And I have heard of thee, that thou canst make interpretations, and dissolve doubts: now if thou canst read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about thy neck, and shalt be the third ruler in the kingdom. 

Dan 5:17  Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another; yet I will read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the interpretation. 

Dan 5:18  O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour: 

Dan 5:19  And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down. 

Dan 5:20  But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him: 

Dan 5:21  And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will. 

Dan 5:22  And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this; 

Dan 5:23  But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified: 

Dan 5:24  Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written. 

Dan 5:25  And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. 

Dan 5:26  This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. 

Dan 5:27  TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. 

Dan 5:28  PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians. 

Dan 5:29  Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom. 

Dan 5:30  In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain. 

Dan 5:31  And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old. 

BABYLON

We are confronting something. There is not a bit of doubt in any heart here, but what there is something that’s fixing to take place. And being Christians and the timepiece, that the world has not got the answer to this day…Science hasn’t got the answer to this day. And the most pitiful thing, and part of it, the church hasn’t got it, when we ought to be the place where people can come and find these things. But we have drifted away.

8 Now, in every age at the junction of each age, there’s always been warnings before judgment. And if people spurns warnings, there’s nothing left but judgment. There’s only two things: mercy and judgment. And when you spurn mercy, judgment has to come automatically.

9 And anyone could look upon the streets, and read the newspapers, and listen to the—the radio. And we all are aware that something is wrong. And being that it is wrong, God’s Bible never leaves us without an answer to these things. And to see the condition our nation has got into, we know that there cannot be anything left but judgment to us. And I say this statement without any apology. If God lets the United States of America, our lovely country and home, get by without judgment, He will be duty bound to resurrect Sodom and Gomorrah and apologize for burning them up. That’s right. For we’re guilty of the same sins.

10 God loves sinners but hates his sin. And so you see, God has to act the same every time. He cannot act one way at a certain time, and that same kind of a crisis rise, His action on the first has to be on the second the same way, or He acted wrong when He acted in the first place.

We are mortals, and we’re—we’re finite mind. And He’s infinite. Therefore, we get smarter and more educated as the days go on, and the generation rise and falls. But God was perfect to begin with. He does not get any smarter, because He was infinite. And then if the infinite God was called on the scene to act, and the way He acted the first time, it will have to be His decision every time when the same crisis arise.

11 Therefore, if a man was a sinner, and God was called on the scene by the sinner to save him, and God had mercy and saved that sinner, the next sinner comes, He’s got to save him, or He did wrong when He saved the first sinner.

And when a sick man came to God for mercy, and God granted that sick man healing of his body, when the second sick man comes, He’s got to grant the same or He acted wrong when He granted the first man healing.

So if sin was to be judged by God, and He pronounced judgment because of sin, when that sin arises again, He’s got to judge it again, or He did wrong by judging it in the first place. So when Sodom and Gomorrah, and their sins was judged thus, then if America is committing the same sins, God’s got to give this nation the same judgment, or He did wrong when He judged Sodom.

    58-0618 - Handwriting On The Wall Rev. William Marrion Branham

15 Now, our subject starts tonight with one of these junctions. And that was…Our scene opens up in Babylon. And Babylon appears in the first of the Bible; it appears in the middle of the Bible; and it appears in the last of the Bible. Now, there is nothing on earth now but what always has been. It come out of Genesis, every ism. If you’ll go back and study close, you’ll find that every ism on the earth today, begin in Genesis. Because it means “the beginning, the seed.” And all the sin that you see on the earth today began in Genesis.

And I want to ask you something, “What is sin?” Sin is righteousness perverted. Did you ever think of that? You married men that has wives, and you live with your wife; she is your wife. And she’s just as pure and holy as she was before you married her in the sight of God, if you’re legally married. But the same act with another woman, would be perverting righteousness unto unrighteousness, which would condemn your soul to hell for doing it, yet the same act. All unrighteousness is righteousness perverted. Sickness is health perverted. Death is life perverted. Everything that is, was.

16 And now, Babylon appearing in the first of the Bible, in the middle of the Bible, and in the last of the Bible, it behooves us to kind of study about Babylon. The first, it was built by Nimrod, which was the son of Ham. And it was a great city. And all the round and about cities paid tribute to this great city. And it was like a great organization that all the rest of the churches paid tribute to this one great leadership, headship. And it was founded in the—the valley of Shinar, which was one of the valleys, one of the greatest richest places in the known world of that day, and the river Euphrates…Tigris, passed above it, and the Euphrates went right through the valley. And this information could be gotten from Hislop’s “Two Babylons” and many of the ancient writers.

17 And as we notice, it was built for the purpose of being predominant, ruler over. And God never did intend any city or any man to rule one over the other. We are all the same creatures of God, made in His image and in His likeness.

And this great city was built…Let’s take a look at it. It was a hundred and twenty miles around this city. And the walls of this city was eighty feet across the wall. You could run a chariot race around that wall just as hard as a horse could gallop. And every street in the city was some two hundred feet across. Now, in those days the cities had very small streets. I’ve been most of the world, and some of those old cities, like in Norway and so forth, they—the cities are so small, that, well, they can’t even get an automobile through the street because it was a little carriage went through the street.

18 But in those cities, streets of Babylon, they was wide across as this auditorium, practically. And many chariots could come down. And if we notice, as the chariots came and every city, every gate opened up, and they led straight to the palace, which set in the center of the city.

I was reminded of it not long ago, when I was in Rome. Every road leads to Rome. Every street, looks like, it leads to the Vatican. Instead of having a milepost, they had the virgin holding the Christ child pointing towards the city.

But all the city, the streets led right straight up to the palace. And before the palace there was great steps that run down, and the river Euphrates came through the city right in front of the palace.

19 And in this great city there were great walls and great gates that were made of solid brass, some hundred feet high. And I want you to notice, swinging gardens all along those walls, and the city in the—the city in the center of it had the palace and the river Euphrates running by it, just the pattern of heaven. What was it? It’s a perverted heaven that was designed by the devil. And was called first the Gates of Paradise, and later was called Confusion, which means “backslidden.”

See, it’s the devil that’s trying to unite all of the world under one great ecclesiastical head. They’ve always tried it. And they’re making a very good show out of it today.

20 And in this city they had the greatest army; they had the best material that could be gotten from all the world was brought to them; and the whole world paid tribute to this city. And when in such a place as that, all behind the walls, how secure they felt. The best scientists, the best brain that they had, the best chariots, the best horses, the best-dressed soldiers, more to eat, the best-clothed people, and were safe behind such walls.

Ain’t that the very beautiful picture of this country, with the best that could be gotten, and the best scientist that could be gotten, the best dressed army that there is.

But then when they got behind these walls, they thought they could live just any way they pleased to do, and would be all right because they were safe.

21 And that’s been the attitude of our people in this country, that because we have the best and the greatest and the most powerful army, and the best guns and the best machinery, and the best food, and the best everything, we felt like we were safe. But remember, the God of heaven cannot be closed out by any kind of a wall, whether it be a natural wall or a ecclesiastical wall. God looks down from the heaven, and there is nothing that He doesn’t know about. Or didn’t know from the beginning that it would be that way. He’s the infinite God.

And when people think they are secure, then sin sets in. If there would be by chance, those here tonight who are Swiss, I would not want to hurt your feelings, but I was just recently come from Switzerland. And oh, you talk about an independent bunch; they are. They haven’t had a war for hundreds of years. They haven’t got nothing to fight for. So they are just real indifferent (if you’ll excuse the street expression), kind of puffy like.

    58-0618 - Handwriting On The Wall Rev. William Marrion Branham

THE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL

27 And may the Lord add His blessings to the reading of His Word. All the old things, of the Old Testament, was only a shadow of the new things to come. Those things happened back there, to give us the—the foreknowledge of what we might expect in this day, if we serve the Lord, and what we might expect if we do not serve the Lord. And if we serve Him half-heartedly, or whole-heartedly.

28 In Hebrews, it said, “Seeing that we are compassed about with such a great cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every sin, every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us, that we might run with patience the race that is set before us.”

29 Now, all those old things, Daniel…I’ve chose the Book of Daniel; like it very much. Haven’t taught on It for quite a little while. But, because, it was a pre-shadow of the great day that we’re living in. And, in Daniel’s day was the issuing in of the Gentile age. God had dealt with the Jews till this time, and now He is turning to the Gentile. And in this great prophecy, and visions and dreams of Daniel, and of Nebuchadnezzar and Belteshazzar, and many of the characters that’s in the Book of Daniel, was all set in order; that we might see today. And how that, in the vision of Daniel, of seeing the interpretation of the image of the beast, and everything of the Gentile age, just how one kingdom would succeed another, until it come down to the very end days that where we’re living now.

32 How little…How man in days past, and in even in this day, how they misjudged things by not taking it from the Word of God. What a vital mistake England made then. What a vital mistake they give, by giving back India her rights. But they don’t realize those things, because they do not read the Bible. And if that be true amongst nations, how much more is it amongst mankind, tonight, who do not value their life, day by day, to read the Bible and see what God has laid in His Word for every man; and your attitude towards God and towards His Word.

33 During this time of the carrying away into Babylon, was a very marking time. First, they were carried down into Egypt. Second, they were carried into Babylon, and the Gentiles was issued in. And then, the third, they were carried, or scattered by the Roman Empire.

34 And 1947, on May the 7th, they were once more recognized among the nations of the world, for the first time for twenty-five hundred years, the Jews was. The beginning of the end. The fig tree putting forth its buds. The old six-point star of David, the oldest flag that’s ever flown on the earth, rose to the flagpole again, for the first time for twenty-five hundred years, marking a definite promise that God said to the Hebrew prophets would take place. “He would raise up an ensign.”

35 And when we see that waving over Jerusalem, tonight, seeing God hardening the hearts of men like Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, and all those to persecute the Jews, and run them back to the homeland, we know the time is at hand. Oh, what a day and what an opportunity, that even the weakest of Christian has today, to testify for the glory of the Lord Jesus. What an opportunity to do something that the prophets desired to do. And it’s laid into the hands of the feeblest Christian. The little housewife, it’s in her hands today, to testify to the Lord Jesus and His resurrection.

36 And the Jews had gotten away from God, got cold, backslid. And God permitted a strange nation to come in, which had been prophesied by the prophets, and would scatter them and carry them away, because they had got away from God.

37 And now, if God so loved the Jews and were His first chosen, as a people. He called the Jews out. And, yet, when they sowed, they had to reap what they sowed. And we’re not expelled, or we’re not immune from God’s judgments, when we disobey His commands. That’s right. That goes for nations, or individuals, or churches, or whatever it is. When we disobey God, we will receive judgment for it. God is just, and can do nothing else. But, “Every man shall receive a just recompense of reward for his deeds that’s done.”

38 And, now, how that in that great time of sliding away, and the falling away of the Jews, and God permitted a heathen nation to come over and carry away the chosen, down into captivity, because they had not served the Lord with a full heart. Very beautiful picture of the day we’re living. Yet, we have been a chosen and a selected people, a blessed people, above any of the rest of the world. But when we forget God’s commandments, and cause the great drinking and rioting, and divorce and adultery, and things that we are putting up and making it absolutely legal in this nation, God has got nations that can come and take it any time He wants to.

40 Notice, in there, God had a servant down there by the name of Daniel, a young prophet about forty years old, who was serving the Lord with all of his heart, and God had a work for him to do. And in the carrying away of Babylon…

41 Remember, if God has a work for you to do, all the demons out of torment can’t take you. They just can’t startle you in any way. God has got a purpose for the Holy Ghost Church, and all the devils of hell will never be able to take it away. God has got a purpose for It. And It’ll never be destroyed, until God lets It fulfill the purpose that He has ordained It to do. And It will.

42 And remember, as Daniel went with the Hebrew children down in there, I want you to notice, many of them already worldly-minded, many of them didn’t care, while they just go with the tide of least resistance.

43 And isn’t that just about the picture of our country today? And this may be shocking, but it’s about the picture of the church today, let alone the nation; just float with the tide of least resistance. Ever way the wind blows, just set your sail, go right on.

44 O God, give us men like Daniel. Give us Christians like Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, who are willing to sacrifice or forfeit every right that they have, to become a servant of the Lord.

45 Notice. Daniel, when he went down into Babylon, he knowed he was going among unbelievers, the uncircumcised. And when he went down there, he knowed he would be entangled with them; not because that he wanted to be, but because the nation had fell and he had to go into captivity with them. But God was with him as an alien. I love that. No, though we be an alien, God still will be with you.

46 A little story, I don’t know…I’ve told it so many times. I might have told it at the tabernacle, but it comes right into my heart at this time. Here some time ago, down into the southlands, they used to buy slaves. And they would buy them and have the brokers to go buy, just like they do a used car lot today; selling people, the colored race, for slaves. And when they did, people would go by the old plantations, and they’d see a bunch of slaves; if they looked like good workers, he would offer a certain price, buy these slaves and take them and sell them for good workers somewhere else, and make a profit on the exchange.

47 Now, one day a broker came by, and he saw a bunch of slaves working on a certain plantation, a hundred or more slaves, and they were sad because they were away from home. Many times they would whip them because they wouldn’t work. They thought they’d never go home again; babies they would never see; papa and mama they would never see; their relation they would never see. And they were very downcast, as it’s so easily to become, especially when you are oppressed.

48 That’s what the devil likes to work on you, and oppress you. You know, that’s a trick of the devil, to oppress. But when the Christian knows his legal rights! Amen! When you can quote God’s Word, “I’ll never leave thee, nor forsake thee,” that takes all the oppression away. And the clouds begin to clear back. But if you just know that God has promised, and God is faithful! He can keep His promise, or He would never promised it.

49 And then this broker come by and he noticed one of those slaves. Oh, my, he wasn’t like the rest of them. You didn’t have to whip him. He was right up, with his chest stuck out, and his chin up. And he was just willing to work or do anything, just real snappy, brilliant fellow. And the broker said, “I’d like to buy that one.”

He said, “He…” The owner said, “He is not for sale.”
He said, “Why, what is it?” He said, “Is he a boss over the rest of them?”
Said, “No. He is just a slave.”
“Why,” said, “maybe you feed him a little better than you do the rest of them?”
Said, “No, he eats out there in the galley with all the rest of them.”
“Well,” said, “what makes him so much up-and-at-it?”

50 Said, “I’ve always wondered myself, till I found out something.” Said, “You know what I found out? That his father is the king of the tribe. And though he’s an alien, yet he knows he’s a son of the king.” Amen.

51 Brother, though we be alienated in this world, where sin and chaos is, yet, stick out your chest and throw up your eyes, you’re sons and daughters of a King. What kind of a person ought…

He did that to keep up the morale of the rest of them.

52 And that’s what we got to do, who is born again of the Holy Spirit, keep up a good courage. What kind of a people we should—we should be, knowing that our Heavenly Father is the King.

53 Only one thing, the slave never knew he would ever go back home again. But, there’s one blessed thing, we know we’re going Home someday. Amen. Jesus said, “I will come again and receive you unto Myself. That where I am there you may be also. And don’t let your hearts be troubled. Don’t think about anything else, but keep your mind on these things.” That would make a mockingbird sing at the middle of the night. When, he can know!

54 I’ve often wondered. I see Brother Wright sitting over here. I used to preach down at the Baptist church. I’d see that old mockingbird sit out there at nighttime and sing in that cedar bush. And I wondered what made him sing. And I got to reading up, on the birds. And I find out that what he does, I notice on a cloudy night, he would just sing now and then; he was watching for the stars. And every time he sees the stars shining, he knows the sun is shining somewhere, so he starts singing.

55 And I think that’s the way it is with Christians. As long as we can feel and know that the Presence of God is with us, a little glory falling down once in a while, a good old-fashion revival, or an old hallelujah song that makes us sing with all of our hearts, for we know the Holy Spirit is still falling somewhere. God is still getting glory. What a wonderful thing!

56 Daniel, an alien, away from home, way down, but watch what he did. “He purposed in his heart, that he wouldn’t defile himself with the king’s doings down there.” Oh, the king’s fancy foods, and all of his dainties that he was to eat upon, and his wines, liquors, but he purposed in his heart, while he was an alien, he would keep hisself for God. Amen.

57 There you are. Though the world forsake you, yet everybody laughs at you and calls you every fanatical name that can be called, purpose in your heart to do that which is right. Purpose in your heart that you’ll have nothing to do with the world.

58 We’re living in the shadows of the Coming of the Lord. What can you promise yourself, anyone? What can any nation promise? There’s not a promise left. Nothing is left. There is chaos in everything. There is nothing this way, you can see. But look up That way, every promise in the Word is true. Some glorious day, Jesus shall come, and all these things will be taken away, and Christ will reign.

59 Isn’t it a wonderful hope to know that these old frail, fragile bodies, that we’re living in, and these little brittle threads of life that we’re walking on, someday will give way? And every mortal wheel that’s turning, will stop, and we’ll take a trip over to Zion’s hill, to live in the Presence of God forever. Like a new man and a new woman, young and in the splendor of youth, to be that way forever.

The old will be young There, forever,

Transformed in a moment of time;

Immortal, shall shine in His likeness,

The stars and the sun to outshine.

60 What a glorious assurance we have of this, because God’s Eternal Word, Who has been true in all ages, has promised it to the believer. What have we got to worry about? Not a thing. But, just be happy about it.

61 Now, Daniel said, “I’m going to purpose in my heart, no matter how much pressure they put on me, how much they laugh and say I’m a holy-roller, that won’t bother me a bit. That won’t faze me one bit. I’m going to stay true to God, no matter what comes to pass.” That’s the way. Then you’re going to get somewhere when you start with that attitude.

62 Remember, it’s the motives that you have towards anything, that determines what you’re going to get out of it. It’s your motives. If your motives is right, you’ll be all right. But always make your motives right. Serve the Lord for one purpose, because you love Him; not because you’re afraid of hell, not because you’re afraid of dying; but because you love Him, Who loved you when you were unlovable. That’s it.

    56-0902 - The Handwriting On The Wall  Rev. William Marrion Branham

63 What a marvelous quotation of the poet! And that’s right. Take all of everything else, but give me love. If I had every gift in the Bible, and could exchange it for love, I’d never wink an eye; I’d take it right now. Let me feel the blessings of the Lord Jesus and His Divine love into my heart, that’s shed abroad by the Holy Ghost, and I’ll exchange any gift in the Bible for that. Yes, sir. I’d exchange a—a domain, if I was a king and sitting on a throne, and the world was my domain, I’d give every penny of it, and forfeit a million years on this life, in this world here, to have the love of Jesus Christ that’s shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost. There is nothing to compare with it. So, purpose in your heart now that you’ll serve the Lord, no matter what the world says.

64 Oh, how tricky the devil is! How sly he is, friends! Watch him out in the scope of the little ministry that the Lord has given me, around the world and different nations, and seeing that sly hand of the devil, so tricky. How easy he can upset you, and make it look like it’s the truth. Yes, sir.

    56-0902 - The Handwriting On The Wall Rev. William Marrion Branham

 

22-1024P_PERFECT STRENGTH IN PERFECT WEAKNESS PT.18 (ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD ACCORDING TO GOD'S PURPOSE)

Psa 89:49  Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth? 

Psa 89:50  Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people; 

Psa 89:51  Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed. 

Psa 89:52  Blessed be the LORD for evermore. Amen, and Amen. 

Rom 8:27  And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. 

Rom 8:28  And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. 

Ecc 7:12  For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it. 

Ecc 7:13  Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked? 

Ecc 7:14  In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him. 

Ecc 7:15  All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness. 

Ecc 7:16  Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself? 

Eze 14:23  And they shall comfort you, when ye see their ways and their doings: and ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord GOD.

1Th 5:18  In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. 

Isa 48:9  For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off. 

Isa 48:10  Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. 

Isa 48:11  For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another. 

Isa 48:12  Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last. 

Rom 9:11  (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) 

Pro 16:1  The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD. 

Pro 16:2  All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits. 

Pro 16:3  Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established. 

Pro 16:4  The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil. 

Pro 16:5  Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished. 

Pro 16:6  By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil. 

Pro 16:7  When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him. 

Pro 16:8  Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.

Pro 16:9  A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps. 

Pro 3:1  My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: 

Pro 3:2  For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee. 

Pro 3:3  Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: 

Pro 3:4  So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man. 

Pro 3:5  Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. 

Pro 3:6  In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. 

Pro 3:7  Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil. 

Pro 3:8  It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones. 

Pro 3:9  Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: 

Pro 3:10  So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine. 

Pro 3:11  My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction: 

Pro 3:12  For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

Eph 1:8  Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence; 

Eph 1:9  Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: 

Eph 1:10  That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him: 

Eph 1:11  In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: 

Eph 1:12  That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ. 

Eph 1:13  In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, 

*GOD HAS A TIME AND A REASON FOR THAT TIME TO FULFILL ALL HIS WORK.

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  11-2    God has a time and a reason for that time to fulfill all His work. God knows just exactly what He's going to do. We don't. We just have to receive It as He gives It to us. But He knows, and there's nothing going to go wrong with what He--He's planned to do. It's all has to come about. There has to be sometimes rugged and hard things to only bring out the real true nature of the object.

You know, rain is born in a jagged, ragged, lightning strowed, thundering skies. And if we didn't have rain, we wouldn't live. But you see what it takes to bring rain? Thunder, lightning, flashing, anger; and out of there comes rain.

A seed must die, rot, corrupt, smell, and go back to the dust of the earth in order to bring forth new life.

It takes the pounding of gold, turned over and over, back and forth, and pounded until all the dross is taken out of it. Not because it shines, 'cause iron pyrite, what is known as fool's gold, shines like real gold; but you put the two together... You set them out to one side, you can hardly tell them apart; but put them together, you can tell it. And the beater always has to beat till he--he sees his own image reflecting in the gold.

 

*EVERYTHING HAS ITS TIME, ITS SEASON, AND IT HAS ITS WAY; AND GOD IS BEHIND EVERY MOVE.

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  11-6    And God sets a time and has a purpose for everything that He does. There's nothing happens just accidentally to those who love the Lord and are called according to His calling. See, we are predestinated. And everything works just right for that; because He cannot lie, and He said that was so, that everything has its time, its season, and it has its way; and God is behind every move. And sometimes you think that everything's going wrong. It's up to us. Those things are put upon us, trials and wonderings; it's testing to see how we will react on a action.

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  11-7    Some time ago in--up in Vermont, Brother Fred and I went over on the New York side, across the Lake Champlain. And we had got over on the New York side, and I went up in a mountain where that--up on the Hurricane Mountain, where I used to hunt. And there, I remember when I was lost, and how that God would--led me back just by the Holy Spirit alone through a storm that... I'd have died, perished, and so would my wife and Billy down in a little camp miles away. And I was turned around.

And there was just a little snow we pulled through to get into the camp early in the spring. And I was standing there talking to Brother Fred, and the Holy Spirit said, "Go out to yourself," and I moved out into the bush a little place, and He told me, "There's a trap set for you. Be careful now." But He didn't tell me how or what.

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  12-2    I come back and told Brother Fred, went to the church that night in the auditorium and announced it to the people, and the next night it happened. And then standing there when He told me upon some mockers. He said, "It's in your hands. Do with them; whatever you say will happen right now."

There you are. For somebody irreverent, ungodly, and they were making fun and scoffing at the meeting, a young man and a young woman. And he was trying to--vulgar love make with her in the building, and everybody's attention while I was trying to preach. He'd pull her head back and climb up in her lap, and throw her head back and try to kiss her, and going on like that in the meeting, drawing the attention.

And the Holy Spirit said, "Now, he's--they're in your hands. What will you do with them?" There was a holy hush. Everybody set deathly quiet. And I thought, "O God, what must I do?"

Then I remembered if it happened in the warning of the Holy Spirit two days before. I said, "I forgive you."

Now, that was what He wanted me to say. See, because after all, I--I've been guilty, maybe not of that, but I--I--guilty. And guilty of the least is of the whole. So I said, "I forgive you." And there's witnesses setting here now was there then. Then the Holy Spirit fell through.

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  12-7    Now, you see, I believe that all these things had a meaning. What would you do with the power? How would you... See, the reaction of an action, something that is come as an act, then how do you react to that action? Do you understand what I mean? What would you do? And maybe all of this has worked up to where we're at now. I don't know. I--I just can't say.

THE WORD HAS ALWAYS BORE A REPROACH.

But there's always been some way... And remember, that the reproach of--of the Word has... The Word has always bore a reproach. All through the ages, God's anointed Word has always been reproached, and that's the reason it's so hard for people who doesn't understand would know how to accept that reproach.

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  13-1    Can you remember the disciples returning back and rejoicing because they figured that they were counted worthy to stand the reproach of His Name? He said, "All that live godly in Christ shall bear a persecution," the reproach of the Word.

*THERE'S NOT ENOUGH DEVILS IN TORMENT BUT WHAT GOD'S WORD WILL BE MADE MANIFEST.

You always have to stand this reproach in order to give your testing to see. Every man that comes to Christ must first be child-trained for the--for the purpose that God has ordained you for. And remember, if you could just keep quiet... Remember, if He's called you for this, there's nothing that can keep it from happening. There's not enough devils in torment but what God's Word will be made manifest. You're born for a purpose. And nobody can take your place. You might have impersonators and everything else, but they'll never take your place. That's right. God's Word will triumph. It cannot fail.

There's where every Christian ought to stand, knowing that--that... And trials will come up and seem every way to you. But remember, God has a purpose, and it all will work right.

God’s Approval

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The cloudy skies and storms of life are no signs of God's disapproval. Neither are bright skies and still waters signs of His love and approval. His approval of any of us is only IN THE BELOVED. His love is elective which He had for us before the foundation of the world. Does He love us? Ah yes. But how shall we know? We shall know because He SAID SO, and manifested that He did love us for He brought us to Himself and gave us of His Spirit, placing us as sons. And how shall I prove my love to Him? By believing what He said, and by conducting myself with joy amidst the trials that He in His wisdom allows to come to pass.

Rom 8:28  And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. 

Rom 8:29  For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 

Rom 8:30  Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. 

Rom 8:31  What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? 

Rom 8:32  He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? 

Rom 8:33  Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. 

Rom 8:34  Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. 

Rom 8:35  Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 

Rom 8:36  As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 

Rom 8:37  Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 

Rom 8:38  For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 

Rom 8:39  Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.