178 Let me tell you something, brother. Listen to this, and I say this with respect. Hallelujah. All hell can't stop it. It's ordained of Jesus Christ to be so, and it will be. "For upon this rock I'll build My church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." How, what is it, what kind of a church? "Flesh and blood has not revealed it to thee, Peter. But My Father which is in heaven has revealed it to you (Spiritual revelation by the Holy Ghost, of the Word of God). On this rock I'll build My church, and the gates of hell can't prevail against it." She's moving on.
E-32 I never was in Milltown in my life till that... Went over there and told her just exactly what God said and said, "Rise up, Christ has made you whole." She didn't pay attention, she wrote said, "How can she rise, she hasn't been up for eight year, or nine years and eight months? How..." And five minutes from then she was out in the yard walking around blessing the leaves. Look like a skeleton, people would faint to look at her. How was she standing? I don't know; God's power lifted her up. There she was standing. She was standing under the power of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Any other person that'll dare to
take God at His Word, will stand. How can they? It's a supernatural power that
stands you, lifts you up there. Take that power off of her, she'd crumble like
a pile of bones. No, the only time she's ever been in bed since then is been to
go to bed at night and go to sleep. She's a piano player down there now at the
Milltown Baptist church, where I was pastor. All right. That's what it is
when God speaks all hell moves, that's
everything, can't stand in His Presence.
E-41 Now, Sarah, a little woman way in her eighties, and she had the baby. Now, why couldn't Hannah have... And Hannah did the same. Now, how about Elisabeth? But John said, or not John, excuse me; Zacharias said, "Oh, she couldn't do it. She's too old."
Look. Here's the sovereignty of God. The Angel said, "I am Gabriel Who stands in the Presence of God. And My words shall be fulfilled in their season. And because you've doubted My word, you'll be dumb till the day the baby's born." Hallelujah.
When God says anything, commissions it and sends it to the earth, all hell might explode, but it'll never change God's Word. It'll be anyhow. God's done spoke it. That makes it right. Shew! Oh, that settles it with me. When God says so, I believe it, don't you? That's it. All right.
63 Brother, you just let something on the phenomenal side start, and watch how every rogue hound in hell go to hollering at him, craving blood. Is that right? True.
I'll tell you, Peter preached a sermon on the day of Pentecost, and three thousand souls were saved. The devil never even moved out of his bed. That's right. "Oh, well, let them alone." See?
But he passed through the gate called Beautiful the next day, and healed a man crippled from his mother's womb, and all hell turned loose on him (That's right.), throwed him in the jail and kept him there overnight. Yes, sir. Put him into prison, the inner cell there, because the phenomenal. The devil said, "I can't let this thing get started now, Divine healing. If they do, they really will knock my props out from under me." That's right. "Cause, I might fool them around with a little theology once in a while. But I sure can't fool that real Thing that comes out and the people see it done; I'll just stop this before that other group gets on the--the scene."
99 Tried to put his arm in. He's got to have someone to direct him how to put his arm in. Then when he gets his arm in his little jacket he knows he's all right.
That's the way it is with every born again Christian, when
he really gets into God, he watches his life with God's Word and he realizes
he's lined up with every bit of it. He's got long-suffering, gentleness,
quietness, meekness, power, faith, love, joy, peace. He ain't tossed about like
a troubled seas. He ain't worrying about every little thing. He ain't jumping
here and there like a bottle stopper on a windy ocean. He's set. His heart's
pure. His thoughts is pure. His intentions are pure. His alternative's right.
And he knows he lines up with the Word of God. All
hell can't move him. He's lined with the Word of God. He's got
Divine love, purity in his heart for every man and woman. He's got his... He's
abstained from the things of the world. They're dead to him. He don't want them
no more. Why, you couldn't make a Holy Ghost girl put on a pair of them ungodly
looking clothes and get out there for nothing. No, sir
E-36 Standing there in that great faith, not a make believe, but a real faith, a vision broke forth. I said, "Yes. You come from northern Texas, near Lubbock." I said, "You brought her here in a yellow Buick car, coming along where there was a half of the road was concrete and the other half was--was tar." I said, "You started turn the corner and you were both laughing, had the top down, you almost had a wreck." And she just screamed to the top of her voice. And I said, "And THUS SAITH THE LORD; she's healed." That's right. And there...
Next day, she like to set the
town afire. She stirred the nest of the devil. Let me tell you. If you want
the devil stirred up, just start preaching Divine healing. Peter preached on
the day of Pentecost, and three thousand souls was saved, and Satan never even
moved. But the couple days afterwards, he healed a man at the gate called
Beautiful who was lame, and all hell turned loose on
him. That's right. The devil don't like to see God display His
power. He thinks he's got a lot of power, but he's--he's finished. Amen. Our
Christ is predominant. Take the initiative; don't let him push something
on you.
E-12 Notice. And another thing that He did back there. We notice that during the time of this great turmoil, when men's heart begin to wax cold and away from God, women became such a idol. When the sons of God seen the daughters of men that they were fair, become a sexual order. Look at it today, what we're living in. Not speaking against honorable women, no, sir; they're God's instrument. But those who cared not for themselves, how there's so many on the opposite side, going about marrying and given in marriage. God said so in the Bible. Jesus said before Noah's time at the end, they were marrying and given in marriage.
How the great turmoil is in the world today. And we realize that a--one thing that caused that, the Bible said that the spirits, great spirits came down, evil spirits, and got into these people and done these things. And we see the same evil spirits working in our day.
And now, notice again, that not only that, when all hell turns loose, all heaven turns loose also. When the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of God raises up a standard against it. And these two forces has always showed at the junction.
E-20 At the age of forty when Moses was standing by the riverside, or the desert side, God came down in the form of an Angel. And God, before He destroyed Egypt and pulled His children out, and changed the whole dispensation, He appeared on the earth and sent Angels to the poor and the needy. He performed signs and wonders, and He showed Moses His glory. How that he could take a stick and perform a miracle. How he could put his hands in his bosom and heal it with leprosy.
What was it? Was at the change in time, was at the junction roads. And the great unchanging God, Who was in--in--unchangeable, Who performed those things at the junctions of time in the past, how much more will He do now when all hell is set arrayed and the end time is here. He's the same. He doesn't fail. Omnipotence meets the miraculous. Certainly.
E-34 But then, just before that God brought the showdown to show Who was God, there come a time that there was a prophet came into the land by the name of Elijah, who was anointed with the message of God. And he performed the miraculous and proved that omnipotence still was miraculous. The prophet stood out there and closed the heavens, that it didn't rain in the days of his ministry. And he brought the rains down out of the heavens and give the earth. And Angels appeared on the scene (Hallelujah.), baked him some corn bread, that kept him forty days alive while he was out there in the wilderness with God.
Angels appear in the end time. All the prophets and the signposts point, saying this day that Angels will appear, prophets will arise, signs and wonders. And if God did that for those little junctions back there, what will He do now when all hell turned loose? All heaven will turn loose. Angels appearing, signs and wonders on the earth, the counterfeits arising, God proving which is right and wrong. Amen.
E-5 How many read the sermon, "When Omnipotence Speaks, Miracles Happen"? Did you? You believe that? Certainly. Omnipotent spoke at ever junction. And when the Church cooled off, and, then Omnipotence spoke; miracles takes place. And this is the junction of all junctions; this is the end time. The end of the whole history of the world is right now at hand. So you can expect Omnipotence to speak, and you can expect the greatest and mightest miracles that's ever happened on the earth will happen in the next few years to come, if Jesus tarries. It will be.
Then watch for Satan to raise up his too. When--when all heaven turns loose, all hell turns loose too. And it's prophesied that there'd be a Jannes and Jambres on the earth in the last days, who would almost impersonate the real thing so close it'd deceive the very Elect if possible. See? So we're looking for all of that.
E-58 The Bible said He's the High Priest and can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. Now, He's here in Spirit form. You can touch Him with your sickness.
Now in closing... And may the Lord help you to believe it. If Jesus Christ will return. Now, He--He can't come here in a corporeal body. When His body comes from glory, every eye shall see Him, every knee shall bow, every tongue confess. Is that right?
Now, all this isms going around. My poor little children, you be careful as you're waiting around. 'Cause they's everything in the world... Remember when all... In the last days the Bible said that the devil would go about like a roaring lion, lying wonders, deceiving. Is that right? And when all hell opened up, remember all heaven open up, too. See?
E-42 It can be impersonated; it can be pretended. People can act like they're so-and-so, and they can be swayed with every little thing. But a man that's ever borned of the Spirit of God, his--his course is set towards the North Star. Hallelujah. And all hell will never shake him. That's right. I don't say he won't make mistakes; I won't say he won't slip and fall. That's right. But as soon as he can get his feet again, he's eyes is set on the Star yonder, and he moves on. Sure.
Elected. Now, the Bible says... And I know that's the Word of the living God. The Bible said this. Listen now. See?
"And the beast, and the false prophet (p-r-o-p-h-e-t, singular,) and the beast of power, the trinity of hell, just like the trinity of God... Now watch. And he caused all, both small, great (That's rich or poor.), bond or free, male or female, man or a woman, child, or whoever who it was. He caused all, both small and great, to receive a mark in their forehead, and are sealed into the kingdom of darkness.
Now, there's two seals a going on today. And you don't know just what time... Oh, brother, let this go way down deep. You don't know what time, that you that's on the borderline today is going to make your final decision. That's right. You can't totter too long. "My Spirit will not always strive with man." So you may toddle along for a while, but, "My Spirit will not always strive with men being on the borderline."
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E-40 "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." Now, a word is a thought expressed. God had in His mind what to do, but when He expressed it, it had to come into existence. It become a--it's become a reality because it was God's Word expressed.
And there isn't... May you take me to record this morning, friend. There isn't enough power in all hell can ever defeat the purpose of God. God will do it anyhow.
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E-41 And as I've often said... I hit a little spot last night in the church that I didn't know I was saying it, but how that Satan is not a--a healer. And the Lutheran college where all those were converted recently, when I... The man debated with me on the subject, said Satan could heal. And when you hear anyone say Satan can heal, he's wrong.
Only God can create. Satan cannot create. He can only pervert what has been created. There's only one omnipresent. Satan cannot be omnipresent. God alone is omnipresent, omnipotent, infinite.
And no medicine can create cells to heal. There's doctors that can cut out old cells; there's ones that can straighten arms, or set arms, or pull extractions of the tooth; but there's no one, no powers in all the earth and all hell that can create cells outside of Almighty God. "I am the Lord that heals all your diseases." How petty, how childish, juvenile, that even great intellectuals can be when they get away from the Word of God.
E-26 The Bible said that in the last days the antichrist would deceive the very elect if possible. If you'd stood with me in the jungles of Africa, and watched those heathens produce blood in their hands, pour it into a skull and drink it, you'd know better. Certainly. You see the... I believe in signs and wonders, but they got to be God's signs and wonders.
At the junction of every time that I'm going to speak on in a few nights... Listen to this, brother. When all heaven opens up all hell opens up with it. The Bible said in the last days that they'd say, "Lo, He is in the desert. Lo, He's here. Lo, He's there," all kinds of signs and wonders. Said, "Believe it not, for as the lightning cometh from the east and shineth even to the west, so shall the coming of the Son of man be." And every eye shall see Him, every knee shall bow, every tongue shall confess. Certainly. In the last days this is to happen.
E-38 "I believe every word you say is the truth, Brother Branham," and a dark shadow hanging over him right then. I'd just rather not know it. I want to love him anyhow, I do anyhow. If I don't, then I go back to God. But you imagine what kind of a life I have to live. You'd imagine how hard it is to come to children that you love, and know you're going to have to stand yonder... I'm a man forty-seven years old, biggest part of my life is finished. And I've got to stand before God, but I've got to answer with this Book. That's exactly right.
And I've went into meetings. I want to ask you something. You go into a meeting, a pastor that jerks his head, watch everyone of the congregation jerk their head. You go to a--a meeting that a pastor's a real wildfire...?... run-about, you watch everyone of the congregation act the same way. But you go into a place where a pastor's a solid Gospel teacher, all hell will never move that church. That's right.
56-129 When His earthly
work had been finished here on earth... He came to the earth; as soon as He did,
the Morning Star declared Him to be the Son of God. He shook every devil that
He come in contact with. Blessed be the Name of the Lord. Devils trembled and
shook, and begged for mercy in His Presence. Yes, sir. All hell knowed Who He was.
He walked humble. He had not a place to lay His head on a rainy night. The very animals that He created, the birds of the air has nests, and the foxes has dens, but the Son of man doesn't have a place to lay His blessed head. Sure He was.
He became sin, became low and forsaken. But the devils knowed Who He was. They pleaded for mercy; they said, "Why do you come to torment us before our time comes." And while the preachers was calling him Beelzebub, the fortuneteller; the devils was calling Him the Son of the living God, was begging for mercy.
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341-304 But now, I do believe that the Bible teaches of a literal burning hell. The Bible teaches that, that the sins and wickedness will be punished forever and forever. That's not eternity now. That's maybe for ten billion years. It may be for a hundred billion years, but sometimes it has to have an end. For everything that had a beginning, has an end. It's those things which has not a beginning, that has no end.
You remember that lesson now? How
we went back and found out that everything that had a beginning was perverted
(See?), a perversion off of the main. And finally, it winds back up to a
eternity. And then all hell, all suffering, and all
memory of such, will be vanished for eternity. Everything that begins, ends.
E-1 Let us remain standing just a moment now, with our heads bowed for a word of prayer.
Blessed Lord, we are grateful to Thee to know that how Thou doth guide the eagle through the pathless air. You guideth some through the waters and some through the floods; some through deep trials but all through the Blood. How You lead Your children. Nothing can stand in the way of the great, mighty Church of the living God; it shall prevail. Though all hell is against it, it will prevail, because going ahead of it is a great and mighty Conqueror, the Lord Jesus.
We would ask You to bless us tonight, Father. We stand as humble children waiting to hear from Thee. Speak to each heart tonight in a great and mighty way. Close our hearts to any unbelief. Open the gates of faith, Lord, and ride right in on the winds of the Holy Spirit. Heal the sick and the afflicted that's in our midst. Bless those, Lord, who are weary along the road. We would ask You, Lord, also, to save the lost, that one who's fell by the wayside.
E-16 Now, we would think also today upon destructions trying to destroy. We have Christ on promise. We think of the Hebrew children when God had a purpose for them, when they were down in Babylon, and the furnace was het seven times hotter than it ever was heated to destroy the purpose of God. And all Babylon was on a rage. They were determined, Satan was, to destroy the purpose of God, for he knew those children was going into the furnace, so he made the furnace, when they heated it, seven times hotter to be sure that the program of God would be destroyed.
But God wanted to display His power. And all Babylon and all hell could not defeat that purpose. No, sir. No matter if they could've heated that furnace a million times hotter, it would've never destroyed the purpose of God. God wanted to show that He was a God of deliverance. And He'd bring deliverance to whomever He desired to bring it, and nothing would interfere with His program.
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272 "O Death, where is
your sting? Grave, where is your victory?" You may bury me one of these
days from here. I don't know. But, brother, I'll not be dead. I tell you that.
No, sir. Oh, we shall rise, hallelujah, we shall rise. On that resurrection
morning when death's bars are broken, we shall rise, hallelujah, we shall rise.
There's nothing can keep me from rising. There ain't
enough devils in all hell can keep me from rising. There ain't
enough nothing nowhere to keep me from rising. I have the promise of God; I
have the Holy Spirit. I got Zoe, God's Eternal Life, resting in here. This old
carcass come from there, and God's brood me out of the ground.
E-30 No man has a right to preach the Gospel; no person has the right to call themselves a Christian, until they can go back to a certain time in their life, where they could come on that sacred sands at the backside of the desert, where they know that they have met God. All the infidels in the world, and these intellectuals giants taking the Bible and explaining away all the days of miracles. "They're past. There's no such a thing as Divine healing, all this stuff, like speaking with tongues, interpretation of tongues, and gifts of healing, and the baptism of the Holy Spirit." They can slip in, take your mind and twist you in such a way until they can take that away from your memory. They can explain it away.
I want you to get this, and don't
you never let it pass from you. But if a man's ever stood on that sacred
sands at the backside of the desert, when he meets God face to face, there's
not enough devils in all hell could take that away from
him. He knows he met God. He knows he had an experience; he talked to
God. Regardless, of what the opposition is, he can say, "From that time,
something changed in me."
E-62 Oh, I love that. God grace to His children, the power of faith, the power of prayer, changes things. Oh, brother, sister, we're living in the shadows of His justice, the shadows of His coming. That same God that lived in Abraham's day is just the same God, today; He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. All hell can never break one of these promises. God stays with His promise. There's nothing that can ever change Him. Oh, if we could only believe Him, only realize that...
People, I'm telling you, you're Pentecostal people are seeing so much, and have through your life since you've become children of God, seen so much of the goodness, and mercy, and glory of God till it's become too common to you and... It's too common. You--you--you don't... It--that makes you lose faith.
Oh, you just think there's many people maybe that... You go over the Africa, down into Asia, down into Australia, some of them people's never seen it. And let some of them African natives, they see that happen, the glory of God fall like that, my, they believe it, take that old idol and break in the ground, and embrace Jesus Christ, 'cause they've never seen it before.
E-47 When they knowed He was that Prophet, and a Roman soldier put a rag around his head, and closed his eyes, and took a stick and hit Him on the head and said, "Now, if you be a prophet, tell us who hit you, and we'll believe you." The inoculation held.
He don't mind the devil. "I do what the Father shows Me. I only do what the Father shows Me to do." Proved that the inoculation held.
When men, they reached over and got his face and jerked out big hands fulls of beard. Hocked, the big drunken spit and put it in His face, the inoculation held. When His own children cried for His Blood, the inoculation held. What did He say? "Father, forgive them. They know not what they do."
When He was riled upon, He riled not back. The inoculation held. All hell was looking to see if that would hold. He was making a way for you and I, making an example.
71-1 Not say, "My church done..." My church has nothing to do with it. It's an individual, one person. All hell is against this teaching. All hell's against this truth, but it is the truth. Jesus never said, "Now, Peter, you, and John, and all the rest of the people, you've got the revelation now; the whole church is saved." No, it was to him personally. "I say unto thee ('thee,' not to them,) to thee, thou art Peter, upon this rock I'll build My Church." And the word "Peter," means "a stone"; "stone" means "the confessed one, or the separated one."
Upon a certain stone, upon
a certain thing (See?), a called out, the Church called out, upon this stone,
upon this revelation. "Flesh and blood never revealed it to you, but upon
this revelations (called out group) I'll build My Church in them, and all the
gates of hell will never be able to withstand it. Not one hair of your head
shall perish. You are Mine; I'll raise you up in the last day, give unto him
Eternal Life and raise him up at the last days." There it is, the
revelation. Not them, but him, an individual: not a group, an individual. All hell's against it.