25-0728P_GOD'S ADMONITION PT-4 (VOICE OF WARNING)

 

25-0728P_GOD'S ADMONITION PT-4 

(VOICE OF WARNING)

Isa 38:1  In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live. 

Isa 38:2  Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, 

Isa 38:3  And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore. 

Isa 38:4  Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying, 

Isa 38:5  Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years. 

1Th 5:2  For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. 

1Th 5:3  For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. 

1Th 5:4  But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. 

1Th 5:5  Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. 

1Th 5:6  Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. 

Luk 17:26  And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. 

Luk 17:27  They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. 

Luk 17:28  Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; 

Luk 17:29  But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. 

Luk 17:30  Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed. 

*GOD SENDS PREACHERS AND EVERYTHING AND GIVES WARNING, SENDS HIS SPIRIT AND WARNS THE PEOPLE.

THE.RESURRECTION.OF.LAZARUS_  EVANSVILLE.IN  SUNDAY_  53-1122

E-33    Then when Jesus... About the time that God was going to do something... Before God does anything He always sends mercy before judgment. He always sends warning. And when man won't heed the warning, there's only one thing left, that's judgment. That's right. "If you die in your sins, where I am you cannot come." God sends preachers and everything and gives warning, sends His Spirit and warns the people.

Now, before He sent Jesus, He sent a warning to the people to make ready His coming. And may I stop here just a minute to say this with a deepest of sincerity: I believe the things that you're seeing taking place today across the world, is a warning: Jesus is coming.

…..Let the pressure come on brother, it'll push you to God. You don't have to wonder whether you're a Methodist or Baptist; just start praying; God will take care the rest of it. You just start tak... Just pray, get close to God.

*AND ALL THROUGH THE AGE, GOD'S ALWAYS WARNED. HE SENDS MERCY, AND IF THEY SPURN MERCY, THERE'S NOTHING ELSE LEFT BUT JUDGMENT.

BELIEVEST.THOU.THIS_  CHICAGO.IL  SUNDAY_  53-0906A

E-31    …..So that begin with Him, and then He went out through capital punishment. He come in by the way of a stable door, and went out through capital punishment. That's the way the world received the Lord Jesus Christ.

But just before His--His birth, God always makes a preparation for things. Don't you believe that? I want you to listen close. I believe today with all my heart... Now, this is just Brother Branham speaking. You see? I believe that the things that you see are taking place now, is a preparation. God is preparing something just before a climax. God always warns the world, and then if they won't--will not receive warning, then there's only one thing left; that's judgment.

Noah warned the world, and they would not receive it. And all through the age, God's always warned. He sends mercy, and if they spurn mercy, there's nothing else left but judgment. But the merciful Father will send mercy first.

  E-32    Now, this time just before the coming of the Lord Jesus they had men... The church had got down to a place till it was very few that was looking for it, just unconcerned about like they are today. Just... But God always has had a remnant of people who believed him.

*… HE SENT A VOICE OF WARNING AND WARNED THE PEOPLE TO FLEE FROM THE WRATH THAT WAS TO COME.

GOD'S.PREPARATION_  LOUISVILLE.KY  THURSDAY_  54-0401

E-20    …..God always makes a preparation. Before He does anything, He always gives ample time, much warning, and then those who spurn that love, of warning, there's nothing left but judgment. They must receive judgment.

Before God destroyed the antediluvian world in the days of Noah, He sent a voice of warning and warned the people to flee from the wrath that was to come. And the warning, the voice of warning was so contrary to the church setup of that day, until the people laughed him to scorn and thought he was a crazy man; for he--he spoke of something that was impossible as far as man was concerned for it to happen. Lord said He was going to rain water down out of the skies, and it had never rained, not even dew fall, until that time. But yet he said He was going to do it.

And here's where he based his--his text, where he based his thought and his faith was in, because God said He was going to do it. That's a good reason. When God says He's going to do anything, just believe it; because He's going to do it.

  E-21    If God come down in this building tonight and said, "It's going to rain tomorrow," well, if I went everywhere, I'd take my umbrella. It'd be easy for me to take umbrella if the sun was shining ever so bright, 'cause I know it was going to rain. And when God says anything, He's going to do it, and you can just depend...

If He says, "Don't plant any crops this year, there won't--there won't be anything raised," you'd never see me putting any seed in the ground; 'cause it'd be easy for me to believe that God said so. And what God says, it's easy for me to believe that He'll do it. That is today, on the ministry.

*GOD KEPT HARDENING PHARAOH'S HEART. (BUT HE SAID, "NOW, I'M GOING TO MAKE A WAY OF ESCAPE, BECAUSE I'M GOING TO SEND DEATH OVER THE LAND.")

GOD'S.PROVIDED.WAY_  CONNERSVILLE.IN  SATURDAY_  53-0613

E-16    Moses took God's provided way when they were down there in Egypt. How they going to get out? It... God kept hardening Pharaoh's heart. But He said, "Now, I'm going to make a way of escape, because I'm going to send death over the land."

Say, listen, here's something striking. Watch, plague after plague after plague, but the last plague fell was death, just before the deliverance.

Notice it. How striking it is today. Jesus said there'll be--perilous times shall come, men's hearts would fail; how He said they'd be distress between the nations, sea a roaring, tidal waves that's never been heard of before, bursting forth in the seas. How that in all these things, signs would be coming to pass. Just like it was in the days of Noah, it would be again. How marvelous.

But remember, the last plague that fell was death. And the last thing... God has give us warning after warning, warning after warning. Now, the last thing that's come is death, spiritual death. The churches are dying spiritually. That's right, friend.

*…THERE'S A DEEPER EXPERIENCE THAN THAT. YOU'VE GOT TO GET THAT PERSON TO WHERE THE HOLY SPIRIT TAKES CONTROL OF THAT LIFE BY THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. THAT'S GOD'S PROVIDED WAY.

GOD'S.PROVIDED.WAY_  CONNERSVILLE.IN  SATURDAY_  53-0613

E-17    We talk about the revival in America; we haven't got any revival. We've got a lot of church joining, but we haven't got any revival.

One of the famous evangelists, not long ago, where had claimed thirty thousand in six weeks (or twenty thousand, I believe it was.), about six weeks after that, couldn't find twenty people. The reason of it is this, friend, is because they just have the people just to make a confession, just stand up and set down. That's good. That's all right, as far as you go.

But, brother, there's a deeper experience than that. You've got to get that person to where the Holy Spirit takes control of that life by the baptism of the Holy Spirit. That's God's provided way.

*GOD HASN'T GOT ANY SHORTCUTS. YOU COME BY THE CROSS, BORN AGAIN, FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST, OR YOU'RE GONE. NO SHORTCUTS, YOU GOT TO COME GOD'S WAY.

GOD'S.PROVIDED.WAY_  CONNERSVILLE.IN  SATURDAY_  53-0613

  E-18    God's provided way was the only thing that floated. Your popularity won't last during that day. It won't stand in that day. I don't care what you got. God hasn't got any shortcuts. You come by the cross, born again, filled with the Holy Ghost, or you're gone. You're lost. No shortcuts, you got to come God's way.

What if I started home tonight and said, "Let's see now, the beeline would be right like this." I'd get stuck in mud. They've provided a highway. I've got to take the mark and follow it.

*THOSE WILD ANIMALS HEARD THE SOUND AND TOOK THE WARNING OF GOD BY THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND WENT TO SAFETY…..EVERYTHING THAT'S NOT IN THE BODY OF CHRIST WILL BE LEFT HERE.

PREPARATION_  OWENSBORO.KY  WEDNESDAY_  53-1111

E-36    I can just imagine... Let's look at this just a moment. God was preparing, Noah's preaching. And the first thing you know, why one day there come a thunder.

I hear someone say, "Oh, a blast went off somewhere."

But a--a cloud begin to rise. Now, I can see the great big Polly Parrot setting out there, looking over to the mother Polly Parrot and say, "Mother, that's what Noah said." I can see the little monkey drop the cone there and say, "Come on, Mammy, we're headed for the ark." The old camel eat and say, "Come on, let's go." Two by two they went into the ark led by the Holy Spirit. It goes to show that man hasn't got the gumption of a wild animal sometimes. That's right. Those wild animals heard the sound and took the warning of God by the Holy Spirit, and went to safety.

And today man hears the sound of the coming of the Son of God and rejects and refuses to hear it. Amen. You know that's the truth. But God preparing... Seems ridiculous.

I can hear someone say, "Well, if it does rain, I'll get on me a big poplar log and ride." But the big poplar log sunk. And so will every poplar log sink when Jesus Christ returns. Everything that's not in the Body of Christ will be left here. "As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the coming of the Son of man."

*JESUS SAID, "WILL I FIND FAITH WHEN I RETURN?

PREPARATION_  OWENSBORO.KY  WEDNESDAY_  53-1111

  E-37    Jesus never asked this, "Will I find righteousness? Will I find people that's living good?" Goodness and righteousness is what-what... Jesus said, "Will I find faith when I return? Will I find..."

Somebody, oh they say, "I got faith."

Well, faith without works is dead. "Will I find somebody who will stand at My Word and say, 'Every Word's right.' I'm not scared whether this one says so, or that says so, or nothing. I believe in God, and I'm accepting It, and standing right there on It." That's the thing. God is preparing a Church today to be saved just as He did in the days of Noah and that ark. And the Body of Christ today is that ark.

Why, you say, "We all believe that."

*…THERE WAS SUCH A PULL TILL EVEN THE ANIMAL CREATION KNEW THAT SOMETHING WAS WRONG.

GOD'S.PROVIDED.WAY_  WEST.PALM.BEACH.FL  TUESDAY_  53-1201

  E-30    But I tell you, there was such a pull till even the animal creation knew that something was wrong. I can see the old mother bird setting up there, and the father bird just a singing away. That first clap of lightning, the first time that signs and wonders begin to happen, I can see father bird say, "Mother dear, come on, let's get right straight to the ark, because that's exactly what Noah said was going to happen. That's the Spirit of God moving in us, let's go to the ark."

I can see the old mother camel out there eating on the side of the hill, and the father camel over here. When the first bolt of lightning went through the sky and the signs and wonders begin to appear, I can hear father camel say to mother camel, "Come on, that's it. Something's tugging on the inside of here, something's moving me; I've got to get into the ark." I tell you; God had ordained that they'd come into the ark.

*I BELIEVE THAT EVERY MAN OR WOMAN THAT'S ORDAINED OF GOD TO HEAR THE VOICE OF GOD, HEARS THAT TUG, THEY SHOVE TO THE ARK AS FAST AS THEY CAN GO, GET INTO SAFETY…

GOD'S.PROVIDED.WAY_  WEST.PALM.BEACH.FL  TUESDAY_  53-1201

  E-31    And I believe that today when the signs and wonders are appearing everywhere of the coming of the Son of God, I believe that every man or woman that's ordained of God to hear the voice of God, hears that tug, they shove to the ark as fast as they can go, get into safety; for God's provided way for man to escape. That's right. You see signs appearing, wonders appearing, mysterious things a happening, sure, flying saucers through the air and everything else. Jesus said, "There'd be signs in the heaven above and in the earth below, pillars of fire and vapors of smoke; it shall come to pass before the great and terrible day of the Lord shall come."

He spoke all these things, the sea a roaring, tidal waves breaking, and everything, man's hearts failing. Greatest time of heart trouble we've ever had. Fear, perplex of times, distress between the nations... Oh, my. How the prophet said, "That horseless carriages here that race in the broad ways, and seem like torches and run like lightning." Everything that was spoke of, we're looking in the face of it today.

GOD'S.PROVIDED.WAY_  WEST.PALM.BEACH.FL  TUESDAY_  53-1201

  E-32    What is it? It's God's warning to you people, "Prepare to meet God." Get ready.

"Why should I prepare to meet God, Brother Branham?" Brother, you prepare for a wedding; you prepare for anything else. When you see these things coming, you prepare to meet God. Every time you see a gray hair in your head, that means you better prepare to meet God. Every time you pass an undertaker's establishment, that means, prepare to get ready to meet God. Every time a baby's born, remember, prepare to meet God. Every time a funeral procession passes, prepare to meet God. Every time you hear the Gospel as a warning, prepare to meet God.

God has a way of escape; get into Jesus Christ now, where you're safe. Each one of those animals went right in, two by two, into the ark. God always makes a way for those who are really wanting to escape the wrath of God.

GOD'S.PROVIDED.WAY_  WEST.PALM.BEACH.FL  TUESDAY_  53-1201

  E-33    That doesn't show they're sinners, not at all. Sometimes God does permit sickness to come. But if you know in your heart like Job did, that you were clean and clear before God... Job had some comforters to come too, and set with their backs turned to him for seven days, accusing him to be a secret sinner. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]

"Thou speakest like a foolish woman. The Lord gave, and the Lord taken away, blessed be the Name of the Lord." Brother, he had... He knowed one thing, that God was the alternative; God was all he had to hold onto. So "Blessed be the name of the Lord." Said, "I come into this world naked; I'll go out naked, but blessed be the Name of the Lord."

A man in that condition, a man that's willing to hold on to God's Word, God's under obligation to send him something. God's under obligation to take him to it.