A Greater than Solomon is here

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1 God, the Creator of heavens and earth, we want to thank Thee tonight for the blessings that we have received from Thee. How Thou has given unto us the riches of Thy kingdom. And we are unworthy of any of the blessings that Thou has given us, but we humbly bow to thank Thee for them. And we pray tonight that Thou will continue to pour out of Thy blessings upon us. And come to us tonight in the Word, and make the Word to live again in our hearts and in our beings. Forgive us of our sins and trespasses. And help us tonight to win souls to Thy kingdom. For we ask it in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. You be seated.

2 It is always good to come to the house of the Lord, especially here with this wonderful spirit moving among us. And now last evening I kept you just a little long, and tonight I'm going to try to hurry up.
We have quite a few nights ahead of us. Tomorrow night, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Sunday night we're to be here. Monday is an off day. I'm going to Mexico Monday. Be back Tuesday in time for the service Tuesday, all through till next Sunday. Then we go from there over to the Spanish people in the San Fernando Valley, up to Oakland at the Civic Auditorium, back into Kansas, over into Canada, back down to Indianapolis, over to Chicago, on. Booked for just about a year now, ahead. So, be in prayer for us.

3 And now as we minister tonight, we wish to read a portion of God's Word found in the 12th chapter of St. Matthew's Gospel, the 42nd verse. Listen close now to the reading of the Word.
The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
And may the Lord add His blessings to the reading of His Word. These next few nights we have given to praying for the sick. And we are trusting that God will continue to move, and to heal those that are sick and afflicted.

4 And now, before we can ever approach any subject, it must come from God's eternal Word. Now, healing is an act of faith, and faith cannot rest itself upon the shifting sands of men's theologies, but it can only rest upon the unmovable rock of God's eternal Word. Therefore, faith cometh by hearing, hearing of the Word of God.

5 And divine healing is not something that's just, oh, a totem pole or a hocus-pocus. It's a divine truth written in the Word of God, confirmed by the Holy Spirit. And it's not limited to any denomination, people, creed, color. It's to whosoever will, just as salvation is. It is a product of a finished work that we receive by faith in the great vicarious suffering and triumphant resurrection of the Lord Jesus.
So much is said today about healing and the different ways that it is approached. And there seems to be so much confusion about healing. As I tried last night with all my heart to make it clear that there is no other healing but divine healing. God alone stands in healing.

6 Now we certainly admire all that science has given us, but science is not a healing. Science is an assistance to the body. God does the healing. Science can set your arm. Science can move a tooth. Science can take out appendix, or a tumor, but never can science produce a re-creation. Creation is God alone. And God has healed every person that was ever healed. No matter what hospital, or doctor office, what clinic he went to. God did the healing. God does not share His glory with no one. He said He wouldn't. And He said, "I'm the Lord that heals all thy diseases." So we realize that many things has been done by hospital work, and by what the Lord has sent our doctors and science to do. And to that we are thankful and grateful.

7 Now we find many of them doctors and scientists who does not believe in God. And we find ministers the same way. Just about, I believe, more unbelieving ministers in divine healing I have seen than I have doctors. Now that is true with a worldwide travel. It's too bad, but we have them.

8 Now we notice when we are approaching on the medical side: Now, the medical doctor says that the (now, not in every case, no time) but many times the medical doctors will say, "The surgeon's wrong. They don't need an operation." The surgeon will say, "He don't need them sugar pills. You need an operation." Both of them'll say that the chiropractor's crazy. And the chiropractor will say the osteopathic. And one will with another, and many times they don't want the preacher to pray for the sick.
But I have come to this conclusion, that when you see attitudes like that, the motive behind it is wrong. We have to admit that there's been many lives saved and helped by operations, many helped by medicine, many helped by chiropractic, many helped by osteopathic, and many healed by prayer. So if the right kind of a motive was behind it, we'd put our arms together and march forward to try to help our suffering friends, humanity. The minister, the doctor, the chiropractor, the osteopathic, all together.

9 But when you see men who runs someone else down when the man is proving he's doing a good work, then there's a selfish motive behind it. It's either for money, for fame, or for something. God wants us to work---every one---hand in hand to try to make life's journey a little more pleasant as we're journeying through. But, oh, it seems to be in this day and time that there is so many things that's looked upon like that in the wrong light. And not only in this day, but in other days we find it the same way.

10 In Matthew the 10th chapter, we read in the Bible where God sent out His twelve apostles, and He gave them power to heal the sick, to cleanse the lepers, to raise the dead, to cast out devils; and to do it freely. Just as free as you receive it, freely give it. Now, we find these disciples sometime later...

11 By the way, a man said to me sometime ago, he said, "Brother Branham, you're right half way." Said, "God gave that power to the disciples only."
I said, "I can show you in the Bible where God gave the power to the church. Now you give me the verse and scripture of the Bible where God taken the power back from the church." God never gives anything and takes it back. He couldn't do it and be God. When God gives anything, it's forever and for eternity. It's God who's infinite and knows everything perfect.

12 We find these twelve apostles, about ten days after God gave them power to heal the sick and to cast out devils, to raise the dead. Oh, if we would only look, we'd find those men totally defeated on a epileptic case. Jesus came down from the mount and He finds them out there with a boy with epilepsy, and they could not cast the spirit out. Oh, they maybe were shouting, and praising the Lord, and kicking, and anointing with oil or whatever more; but they could not cast him out. And when Jesus came to the scene, the father of the child run up to Jesus and said, "Lord, I brought my boy to your disciples and they could not cure him. And if Thou can, help us." Then when this boy was brought into the presence of the Lord Jesus, he had the hardest fit he probably ever had, and stretched out like he was dead, insomuch that many said he was dead. But Jesus said, "Take him up; it's gone from him." And the boy was healed.

13 Now watch. Then the disciples came to Jesus alone, privately, and said, "Why could we not cast him out? Ten days ago you gave us power. Have you taken it back again?"
Jesus never told them He had taken His power back. Neither did He tell them that they didn't have the power to do it. He said, "It was because of your unbelief. Not lack of power; lack of faith to use what power you got."
And that's what's the matter tonight with the church and the people. It's not a lack of power. Why you born-again children of God has the power to move mountains. You've got the power, but you lack faith to operate what power God has given you.

14 Notice, and now how petty people can be. These disciples, just like other men, two or three days later they found a man casting out devils, and he was getting the job done; he was doing a real job. And the disciples found him, and just like men of our day, they said, "You come and join our denomination. You come hook up with us, because you can't do this unless you go with us." But they were just a little bit too late. God was already proving He was doing it. He heard Jesus say, "Whosoever will let him come." They were jealous because that this man was getting the job done and they could not do it.

15 And that's the way it is today. Who starts a jealousy is men in great prestige sometimes, who because of different denominational barriers or social prestige is afraid to come out and tell their church that the Holy Spirit lives today to make intercession, and will heal our sickness today just the same as He did then. And it's petty jealousy, because it's not in their denominations, not in their social ranks. But God can deal in any rank that He wants to deal in. That's His own sovereign will. Oh, how little that we can be sometimes on those things. And it does nothing but stand in the way of the real believer.

16 Now, we know that God always has had a way to help His people. In the reading of our lesson tonight, which just for a few moments, let's look at it. St. Matthew the 12th, and 42. We find Jesus had just been discussing because a spirit of deaf and dumb had went out of a person. He had been able with His great power to discern the thoughts of the people, and the Pharisees had been attacking Him. They could not figure out this great phenomena of how this man, a poor Galilean, how He could stand under supernatural power, and look into a man's face and tell him who he was, where he come from, and where he was going; to speak that a certain thing would take place, and it would happen exactly the way he said it did. They was trying to figure it out.

17 And so is the world today trying to figure it out. What makes this great transformation that changes men? And I wish to say this: it will never be figured out. I do not understand it, and you do not understand it, and no one else can understand it. It's in the realm of God alone. God has not asked us to understand it. He asked us to believe it. And if we understood it, it would not be an act of faith any longer. It would become a knowledge. And we're not saved, neither are we healed, by knowledge. We are saved and healed by faith, and that alone.

18 Jesus had just discussed it with them, and they could not understand this great thing that He was doing. So because that they could not understand it, they just branded it the devil. They could not accept it because of their social standing. For all that was to accept it was to be excommunicated from the church, and to be called a heretic. And they could not accept it. So if they could not accept it, there was only one thing they could do, was brand it the devil. And Jesus said, "If I by Beelzebub cast out devils, who does your children cast them out by?" And another place He said, "If I by the finger of God cast out devils..."

19 Oh, I want you to look at a beautiful thing here. When Jesus goes to cast out a devil, it's so little to Him till He just takes His finger to cast it away. That's all He has to use. Oh, blessed be His Holy name. He only uses a finger for the most powerful devil that could rise out of the burning hell. One little finger He casts it away. That's all He does. But when He's got a lost sheep gone astray, and when He goes to bring it back, He takes it and lays it over His shoulder. The strongest part of a man is in his back and shoulders. And he takes His most strongest part, not His finger. But a lost sheep: throws it over His shoulders and gently bears it back to the fold. When a devil's only used by a finger.

20 He was discussing with them. They had attacked Him. And the world has always attacked the gifts of God. And Jesus was God's greatest gift. Jesus was God's love gift to the church, and the church is God's love gift to Jesus. "God so loved the world that He gave..." see. "All the Father has given Me will come." See, it's a love affair.

21 And always in all ages God has worked through His gifts---gifts of the Spirit. God in sundry times and divers manners spake to the fathers through the prophets, but in this last day, through His Son Christ Jesus. Now, noticing, God works in His gifts; and when God sends His gifts those gifts always stand steadfast. They're always attacked by the devil, but they hold their color because they're from God. All the attacks that Satan could put upon them will never move one.

22 Oh, I'm so happy to know that. I'm so happy to know that I've lived long enough to see that brought to showdown time after time. God's gifts will always hold perfect. Sometimes not in the eyes of the world, but in the eyes of His children. It wasn't sent for the world. It was sent for the children.

23 A woman touched His garment and got virtue enough from Him to heal her. A Roman soldier put a rag over His face, and hit Him on the head, and said, "Now, you vision seer, tell us who hit you. We'll believe you." They felt no virtue. The mocking clergyman said, "If Thou be the Christ, just pull Your hands loose and come down off the cross. We'll believe you." The devil said, "Perform a miracle here before me. I will bring somebody here; let me see You do something before me, and I'll believe You're the Son of God."
Jesus said, "It is written, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." He never met the devil in the challenges that the devil challenged Him, but He triumphed over the devil in the working of God in Him. He spoiled and took every legal right that Satan had, at Calvary. Satan is only a bluff.

24 Now, God through the ages working through His gifts. We were reading tonight where He was talking to that generation, and He said, "The queen of the south come from the utmost parts of the then-known world, to see a gift of God that was given to Solomon by God." Said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, a greater than Solomon is here."

25 And watch. Could you imagine in that great, golden age when God was moving in His church, and it was growing, and he set a gift, and the gift come from God, and quickly it began to be known. People would pass through the land, and would see this great gift of God in operation. See how perfect it was. How that Solomon in his discernment was just as perfect as he could be. Not Solomon, but God's gift in Solomon. But it was a gift of God, and as they began to notice it... There's something about the working of the Holy Spirit that always stirs up a move. It brings the emotional part of the people out.

26 Last evening when I seen those people coming from the balconies and around, weeping, standing around the altar, accepting Christ as their Savior... I tell you there's something emotional when the Holy Spirit sweeps over an audience of people, and see their faces light up with some kind of a radiance that this world can never produce nothing like it. To see a little house-woman with a little checkered dress on, so bashful she couldn't meet the insurance man at the door, stand and sing the praises of God. It's emotional. God moves in that, and it stirs up an interest. After awhile somebody tells somebody else, "Oh, you should come to see." Oh, I love it. "You should come to see what's going on." No doubt that God's gifts has always caused an enthusiasm.

27 People passing by and seeing the great gifts of God in Solomon, working, they would spread it from one to another. And way down hundreds of miles below Palestine, a pagan queen, the queen of the south, everyone coming through Palestine would pass by her and say, "Oh, you should see what's going on."

28 Wouldn't it be nice tonight if people were that enthused about God's doings tonight? "Faith cometh by hearing, hearing the Word." And people would come through and tell her, the pass-throughers, "Oh, Queen, you should go up to Palestine. I'm telling you, it's marvelous. Their God has given them a gift, and it works in a man called Solomon. It's perfect." Well, as I said, faith cometh by hearing. When you begin to hear these things coming from different resources, it causes the faith to rise up. So the Queen of Sheba began to get a faith. And after awhile she decided she'd go see for herself.

29 Now, that's a good thing to do. Don't sit on the sideline and criticize. Come and see for yourself. Now, do you realize what a price this was for this little woman to pay? She had at least three months' journey on the back of a camel. And no wonder Jesus said, "That queen will raise up in the judgment, and shall condemn this generation. For a greater gift than Solomon was, is standing with you, and you're turning it down and saying it's Beelzebub. You say I'm a fortuneteller, and I'm a devil; and one greater than Solomon... And that little pagan queen will rise in the day of judgment, and will condemn this entire generation."

30 I wonder what would be said tonight after Jesus has died and rose again, and sent down the Holy Ghost with greater and more powerful things, and more of them than was ever done on the earth before. What will happen then to an educated, smart, intelligent people as we're supposed to be?

31 And this little woman, she must look one thing in the face. First she was a woman, and a wealthy woman, and with three hundred miles, now, not in an air-conditioned Cadillac, but on the back of a camel; but in her little heart, she was determined to find out whether it was the truth or not.
Oh, I love that. She wanted to know for herself. So if you become that determined, you won't let anything else stand in your way. No matter what it is, you'll be determined to find out. You'll never look to the circumstance; you'll follow your leading.

32 And as this little lady with the little caravan of camels and a few guards... Remember the children of Ishmael was in the deserts them days---robbers. And she was loaded down with gifts. She said, "If the thing is true, I'll put everything I've got to its use."
Oh, I love that. If we can find out tonight that the Bible is true, and Christ is raised from the dead, we ought to put everything we've got to the service of God: every talent, every hour, everything that we've got, and not let nothing stand in our way, but press until we really are convinced.

33 Now, she could've been robbed. The children of Ishmael could have come down. She had frankincense, and gold, and myrrh, silver; the camels were laden. What a pocket, what a setup for those bandits of the desert; and a helpless little woman. But you know what? No matter what the opposition looks like, if you are determined to find out truth, God will lead you and protect you to that thing.

34 She was determined. She'd heard. "Faith cometh by hearing, hearing of the Word." She was pressing her way on. And Satan would say, "Now, you're going to get held up. You're going to do this. This is going to happen." That's the same devil that talks today, same devil. But she was determined. And remember, she was a woman, out on that desert for three months. She come three months' journey through a desert on a camel to test and to see for herself if it really was a God of heaven who could send gifts.

35 And we sometimes sit back in our little religious terrapin shell, and wouldn't walk across the street to find out whether it was right or not. Then what will this generation come to in the day of judgment? When Jesus had just said, "Speak against me, the Son of man, call me a devil or a Beelzebub, and it will be forgiven you, but when the Holy Ghost is come, speak against that will never be forgiven you." Then what kind of people should we be? Now, we must be very reverent.

36 And as we notice, the little lady pressed her way on, for she was determined to find out. And God's hand protected her till she finally arrived at the place. If you're really, in your heart, trying to find out what's right, God will lead you to that spot. He will protect you all along the road, and bring you to that spot. And as we see her dismount from the camel out in the front of the palace... Now she didn't come to stay one night. She come and pitched tents and camps, and stayed till she was convinced. We can't stay but one night. Maybe one hour. Not even through one meeting. But she come to stay until she was convinced. And she held her gifts back until she found out.

37 But notice, day after day I could see the little queen, as she walked in the audience there and seen the people come before Solomon, watch that great gift begin to move. At the great earnestness that it was operated by, how the shrewd mind of God alone could do those things. She watched it in this case. She watched it in that case. She tested it. She watched it when different people would come, until after awhile she went, when she got ready to go, when she was convinced, she said, "All that I have heard has been right, and more than what I've ever heard, is right. It's greater than I even heard that it was."

38 And the Bible said that she will raise up in the last days and will condemn the generation of unbelievers. She come from the utmost parts of the earth to watch a gift of God work.

39 Now, how much history of the Bible have we since that day? How many generations has passed? How the Lord Jesus has come and gone. How the Holy Spirit has come down, through Luther, Knox, Sankey, Finney, all along down through the ages, and right down here in the final wind-up of it all. When every nation is sitting at needles' point. When missiles are in the skies. Tidal waves are hitting the banks. More people dying with heart trouble, especially men, than ever was known. The Bible said, "Men's hearts failing." Fear, perplexed of time, distress between the nations. And all these great signs that Jesus spoke of is here, and He's poured out His Holy Spirit, and set signs and wonders and gifts into the church, and the outside world's standing on a ring, mocking and making fun of it. What will be their final doom? Religious men.

40 But God could not pour out His judgment upon a just people and be just, Himself. They have to come to that place. Right at any hour that God would permit, when that final person is saved, when the completeness of the body of Jesus has been completed, Russia could send over a hundred or two hundred missiles and ten minutes' time there wouldn't be a living thing left on this continent. Right. They don't have to fly over by plane. They can send off a rocket in Moscow, and direct it to Washington and Central Street in Phoenix, Arizona, and land it there. Certainly. They don't have to move out of their back yard. And we've got some we could shoot back to them. And what will happen when these things take place? It's only the mercies of God as He's giving His last warning and call, calling a Gentile people out for His name.

41 Brethren, we're not out here to be seen. Neither are we out here for money. We're not out here for worldly fame. We're out here to try to do everything that lays within our human strength, and by the help of God to win every soul to Him as quick as possible. One day the last person will be saved. Then this generation will answer for what it's done to God's great gifts and things that's been sent before it. Let us think of these things while we call on Him, with our heads bowed.

42 O eternal God, honey is not sweet at all when we think of the sweetness of the fellowship of our blessed Lord Jesus, how He has washed us from our sins and has presented us as a chaste virgin. And we realize that there is no righteousness in us of our own, by our own merits, but we solemnly confess that we are sinners, and worthy of punishment, and eternal separation from His presence. But we confess that it was by His mercy that He called us.

43 And here we are tonight, and the great scientific world like it was in the days of Noah, how that the world become genius. The lineage of Cain, how they worked in the copper, and in the metals, and in the wood, and great craftsmen. But out of the lineage of Seth come forth the religious line, and the message went forth just before the coming. What happens before a coming, the junctions of time? There is a message given, angels appear, prophets are raised up; God giving warning. O God, may the people see the handwriting on the wall. The time is at hand.

44 And for this people who are here tonight, confessing their faith in Thee, believing that Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God, that has both died, buried, and rose again for our justification. And has sent back the Holy Spirit tonight to fulfill the Word that He promised: "The things that I do, shall you also. Even more than this shall you do, for I go to the Father. A little while and the world won't see me no more. Yet ye shall see me, for I will be with you, even in you to the end of the world."

45 And we see You come on the scene after the preaching of the Word. You are so lovely that, after the preaching of the Word, yet You will rise among Your people, and show to the outside world that You are alive. They're without excuse, Lord. And we pray for the Gospel's sake and for the Word's sake that it might be fulfilled, that You'll rise in our midst tonight after the preaching of the Word, and will confirm the Word, that You are the living Lord Jesus, and will speak to hearts here tonight, will heal the sick and afflicted; that will do the same things here among us that You did when You walked in a corporal body among us many years ago. Grant it, Lord. For we ask it in Christ's name. Amen.

46 Now, in the event that the Holy Spirit, through a divine gift, would come tonight and do the things that Jesus did when He was here on earth, how many would rejoice to see Him, and would love to see Him, and would accept Him? May the Lord bless you is my prayer.
I'd like to just make this statement. Is there a sinner or a backslider here tonight, would say, "Mr. Branham, if I can see the Lord Jesus perform among this people tonight, the same things He did when He was here on earth, I will be a believer and surrender my life to Him." Would you raise your hand? Somewhere over the building? God bless you. Someone else? All right. Anybody up in the balcony this way? Say, "If the Lord Jesus will do just as He did in the days gone by, I'll believe Him."

47 How many people in here that are born again and has the Holy Spirit? Raise your hands. Everywhere in here. Well, I guess it's about a hundred percent all Christians.
All right, we will call a prayer line and pray. How many here has never been in one of my meetings, let's see, one of my meetings before? There's quite a number. All right. My beloved friends and newcomers, you've come, I'm sure, for what good you could get for your soul, and I pray that God will feed you with manna.

48 Now, I cannot heal people. Anyone knows that. I do not claim to do that. And there's no one else can heal people, outside of God. You could go and have pneumonia. You'd go to the doctor, and he'd give you penicillin and put you under an oxygen tent; put another man next to you, and one will die and the other one will live, see. It's not determined whether you do this or that. It's determined by God. God holds your life in His hand.

49 When Jesus was here, He did not claim to be a healer. And if Jesus couldn't claim to be a healer, how much more me, a sinner saved by grace, could I be a healer, or any other man. He said, "I do nothing ... it's not me that doeth the works; it's My Father that dwelleth in Me. He shows Me first what to do, and I do what He shows Me to do." St. John 5:19. Now, if He will do that tonight, that's a confirmation that He's alive and here with us. We're going to believe Him.

50 And, now, there'll be some come to the platform. I don't get to too many. It weakens me so. The brethren are here to watch. And we had many meetings, got many more ahead, the Lord willing. But just if Christ will do those things that He did, just one time, that's enough. That settles it.

51 Now, last evening, I believe, had prayer cards; we called from one to fifty, and some of them got up, some of them wasn't here. Tonight let's call from... I believe it was I, prayer card I. I, let's call from 50 tonight. And who has prayer card I-50, would you raise up your hand? I-50. All right, lady over here. I-51. It's got a little letter. It's just a little square card that's got a letter and a number. I-50, and I-51, who has that one? If you can... If you can't raise up, the ushers will pack you up here. I-51, would you raise your hand? I-52. Maybe they're in the balconies. All right. Number, 53, 52, 53.

52 That has to be like dumb driven cattle. Longfellow's famous psalm of life said, "Be not like dumb driven cattle. Be a hero in the strife." God doesn't have to just keep using repetitions. He asked us not to use vain repetition. But when Moses was sent down to deliver the children of Israel, he was given a sign to do: to heal his hand of leprosy, perform a miracle with a stick. And when he did that one time, every Israelite followed him right on. Isn't it strange tonight that it takes so much for us? But God's not willing that any should perish, but that all might come to repentance.

53 Now, is it a woman that's... Would you come here, lady? Now, I want to ask you all to be just as reverent. Now, of course, if you want to thank the Lord, praise the Lord for... Well, that's just fine. We want you to, too. But try to, just in your heart.

54 How many here doesn't have prayer cards and you want God to heal you? Let's see your hands. All right. Just about everywhere. Now remember, the Bible said that He's a high priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. Then if you'll touch Him, you can get your healing just the same sitting there, as you can anywhere. He's everywhere. He's omnipresent.

55 Now here is a lady standing before me. I suppose that we are strangers to each other, have never seen each other. But God knows us both; doesn't He?
Now, here's a picture like St. John the 4th chapter: a man and a woman. If God will reveal to me what the lady's here for, what her trouble is, or something that she knows that I know nothing about (Not knowing her, I know nothing of her.), will each of you believe on the Lord Jesus with all your heart? May the Lord bless you.

56 Now, lady, not knowing you, and our Lord Jesus talked to a woman one time at the well. And He talked to her till He found her trouble. Then He told her her trouble. And she said, "That was the sign of the Messiah." Said, "We know when Messiah cometh He will do this." But she didn't know who He was.
And He said, "I am He that speaks to you." If that was the sign of the Messiah then, it's the sign of the Messiah today.

57 When Philip went and found Nathanael, and he come, and He told him where he was and what happened to him before he come there. Told him he was a believer, and what he did before he come. Then he said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God." He was a Jew. And you're a Gentile. And if the Samaritan believed because Jesus said that to her, and said that was a sign of Messiah (The true Jew believed because that sign was done, knowed it was the sign of the Messiah.), what would you do as a Gentile if He did the same thing, if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, if He'd do the same thing? You be the judge, whether it's right or not. Would you believe it was the Lord Jesus? Would the audience believe it with all their heart, as Gentiles?

58 Now see, my part is finished. I've preached it, I've testified of it, now the rest of it's up to God. And then if God does His part, then it's up to you. And it's you.

59 Now, the lady knows ... or, has just said that we did not know each other. This is our first time meeting in life perhaps. You saw me before. From the audience or something? You went through a prayer line before. Not in this meeting? Not in this meeting. Well, therefore, I don't know what you're here for. Thousands of people pass through the prayer line. Was it another meeting when I was in Phoenix somewhere? It was. Well, see, I wouldn't know, and probably wouldn't know tomorrow if you'd say you went through tonight. I wouldn't know.

60 But there's something. You do this: Whatever that you want from God, in your heart you start praying to God for Him to let me know what you want. And then, may God reveal it. And if He does, then we're all here, as it was under oath, that we believe that it would be the Lord Jesus.

61 Now, if the audience can still pick up my voice by the microphone... If anybody's ever seen a picture of that Light, that Angel, it's standing between me and the woman. And I see the woman is suffering with some kind of a trouble that's under her ribs, making her sick at her stomach, and a cramping a... It's gallbladder trouble she's suffering with. And then she had an accident, and she's hurt her back, and she wants prayer for that. That's the truth, isn't it, lady? If that is, raise up your hands. Now, do you believe? Now, the lady is the judge. I've never seen her.

62 Now, more I would talk to the woman, more He would say. But there's others here to be prayed for, and I don't... Well, just let's talk to the woman just a moment. Just keep your eyes closed and pray. Now you pray again, and let's see what He would say. I could just pray for her and let her go ahead, but I will see if He says something else. He may not.

63 I see a little girl coming before me. The little girl is somewhat about twelve years old. And she's suffering with a tremendous nervous, and this woman's praying for that girl. That's right, raise up your hand. Do you believe now with all your heart? Has He raised from the dead? Could you be as good as the Queen of Sheba: accept it as coming from God?

64 Let us pray, lady. Our Heavenly Father, in the name of the Lord Jesus, bless this dear woman who I bless with all my heart in Your name, for her desires to be given. Amen. God bless you, mother. Go and don't fear. Have faith and believe.

65 Now be real reverent. If I can remember just right, sir, the lady that just passed, I drew a scene of the Gentiles ... or, the Samaritans. And a woman come, and was told of what was wrong with her. She has had an immoral life. And when Jesus told her what was wrong with her, well, she recognized that that was the sign of the Messiah. And then seeing that you are a Christian, you believe that Jesus was Messiah, and is still Messiah, and will always be Messiah. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

66 Then there was a man came to Him one time, and his name was Nathanael. Philip had found him and brought him to the meeting. And when he stood before the Lord, the Lord told him of something that he had done. Something had taken place in his life before he come to that meeting. And what did this Jew say to him? Said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God."

67 Now, the woman, it was told by her, and now as you as a man. If Christ will tell me something... Now I don't know, you might be here for somebody else, and you might be here for financial, domestics; I don't know. You may be sick. I can't tell you. You know I don't know you. But if He'll tell me what you're here to see Him for, then I'll be acting as the branch to Him, the vine. I have no energy of my own. If I don't know you, well that settles it. That lets the human part out. But if He will energize, and will let me know what you are here for, then you'll have to admit that it's Him. Then you'll believe. Well may He let me know something that's happened in your life. Then you know whether that's the truth or not.

68 Now if the audience can still here my voice... The man is very conscious that something is going on. I see the man moving from me, and he's in a hospital room or something. He's been operated on about two times. And that was for the stomach, or it was the liver. Now, they don't know what it was. They don't know yet, and you're still having your symptoms. That's the truth. If that is, raise up your hand. The reason they can't find it, sir, the doctor can't see spirit. He can only see what he can look at with his eyes, or feel with his hands. But the Holy Ghost is here, and knows that it's a devil. Are you willing to surrender yourself to the Spirit that's speaking to you now, the Holy Spirit?
Then God, with this anointing of the Holy Spirit, which is written in the Bible by our Lord Jesus, "These signs shall follow them that believe. If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." And I condemn the devil that's tormenting our brother, and may it leave him in Jesus Christ's name. Amen. Now go rejoicing, brother, and be made well for God's glory.

69 Do you believe? With all your heart? Do you believe me to be His servant? [Lady says, "Absolutely, without the shadow of doubt."] Such a confession. Then that's easy. Yes, you believe, and you've got a right to believe. You've just recently been healed with arthritis. That was last night in the meeting. You were somewhere in the audience. That's right. Down in there. And you're here tonight, standing for somebody else: your brother. And that brother has asthmatic trouble, and a heart trouble. Which asthma has strained his heart. That's exactly right. Now, will you take that handkerchief that's in your hands? Send it to him, and may he be healed in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

70 If thou canst believe, all things are possible. Dost thou believe? You believe, sister? All right. If you'll believe with all your heart, the arthritis will leave you, and won't come back. Will you accept it? All right.

71 Yes, you raised up your hand. Kidney trouble will leave you, if you'll believe, out there, with all your heart. You believe it? Amen.
Woman standing here, and a man before me. It couldn't be the same, you see. It was coming from there.
You're not here for yourself. You're standing for someone else. I'm not reading your mind. You're aware of that. But if God will reveal to me what you're here for, and who you're here for, or something on that order, you will accept it? You're standing for a relative of your husband. It's a nephew. And he has spells, just falls out like. Your husband needs healing too (Doesn't he?), from that rupture. You believe that God would heal him? All right, then go and receive it in the name of the Lord Jesus. Amen.

72 If thou canst believe! Are you convinced that Jesus Christ has raised from the dead? Now be real reverent. Don't move around.

73 The little thin lady sitting, looking at me there, with the little floweredly dress, she's suffering with complications. She has many things wrong. But she's trying so hard to be healed. That is right, lady. That's right. The complications, just everything's wrong. That's what they told... [Gap in the audio.] Now, if that's right, raise up your hand. Now, sister, you go on home (It's over.) as soon as the meeting's over. Your faith touched Him.

74 That thrilled the lady sitting right behind you with glasses on, looking at me. Yes, you that turned, looked sideways at the girl, and you all looking together. That gave you a thrill (Didn't it?) to see that little lady healed. Do you believe God take them headaches away from you? That's what you had, wasn't it?

75 The little lady sitting next to you, with the stomach trouble, she thinks that she can be made ... healed too. If she'd believe...
Asthma, do you believe it would heal you, sir? You believe that God will heal you of the asthma? If you do, raise up your hand. All right. Amen.

76 The little lady with her hands up there, from Tallahassee, Florida. That's right. You know how I know? It's the capitol. There's a lot of great big oak trees around there, and that's where you're from. You got cancer. But you're here to believe that God's going to make you well. If thou canst believe, all things are possible. You believe?

77 Little lady sitting right down here, praying too. She's got sinus trouble. Also got a bladder trouble. She wants God to make her well. If thou canst believe, all things are possible. Do you believe it lady? With the little, polka-dot dress on, like. Raise your hand up. You believe? Then you can have it. As thou hast believed, so be it unto you.

78 Oh, He is wonderful: Jesus, God's Son. Are you believing? Sir, is this the... I suppose we're strangers to each other. Perhaps our first time in life to ever meet. God knows you and He knows me. So now, if I could help you and wouldn't do it, I'd be a brute---I wouldn't be worthy of preaching the Gospel; I'm not anyhow. But it's not my worthiness that I'm standing here. I'm standing here to represent Somebody who is worthy. I'm not worthy, and no one else is worthy to do it. But I'm only representing Him. And He loves you, and He wants to do something for you. And do you believe that He sent me to help you by a divine...? Now, He didn't give me anything to heal you with, because that's already done. He can only give me something to vindicate that I was sent from Him. The audience believe that? Oh, it's wonderful to see Him.

79 Be nice to eat again, wouldn't it? Them old ulcers are such an awful thing. Stomach ulcers. That's right. I don't know you, never seen you. There's someone else with ulcers too, kind of in the... Will you believe? Look here, sir, just a moment. This is our first time meeting. [Gap in the audio.] If you'll believe with all your heart... Say, by the way, you're not from here. I see like blue waters is licking up along the coastline. You live in a coastal state. And you come from the west and north, coming south, coming this way southeast coming here. You are from California. That's right. And you're from a city called Live Oaks or some ... Live Oaks. And if Jesus could tell Peter who he was, do you believe He can tell me who you are? B. A. Vaughn. B. L. Vaughn from Live Oaks, California. Do you believe?

80 Come here. O eternal and immortal God, be merciful, our God, unto the needy tonight, and heal those who are so sick. Bless this man who I bless in Thy name, and may he receive that he has asked for, in Christ' name. Amen. Believe with all your heart now. Go and be healed.

81 We just want to show you something. Heart trouble is a bad thing, and a dangerous thing, but Christ lives in our heart. Do you believe that? All of you out there with heart trouble, raise up your hands---got heart trouble. Look here, see. There's no way of telling us which is which. Stand up on your feet then. Praise be to God. If that evil thing will leave this man, the same God that would heal this man would heal you. Do you believe it? The prayer of faith shall save the sick.
Sister from Lubbock, Texas, believe that now.

82 Let us pray. O eternal, Immortal God, I pray Thee to be merciful unto these who are standing now. And I pray that You'll cast away the evil from them, and may the Holy Spirit just now do a work in the hearts of these people that will finish it. Then they may be completely healed and go from this building tonight, rejoicing and shouting the praises of the Lord. I ask it in Jesus Christ' name. Amen.

83 God bless you, brother. God bless every one of you. Go with faith, believing, and believe that God will do it. And the asthma will leave too, brother. Just as you sit down and raise up from the chair. Everybody's got asthma, stand to your feet. Stand to your feet, everyone that suffers with asthmatic. Here's the time that you'll see God do a great thing. Come here, brother.
O eternal, everlasting God, who raised up the Lord Jesus, and is here tonight. Satan you're exposed. You are defeated. You've been defeated two thousand years, and the people is just now finding out. Come out of these people, thou spirit of asthma. In Jesus' name we challenge thee, by the faith of the resurrection. Amen. The Lord bless you, brother. May it never bother you again.

84 You walked a lot different when you raised up then. If you'll believe with all your heart, you'll never have to turn sideways to get off the street no more, or get out of the bed with arthritis. God will have you well. You believe it? It's gone now, so just go on your road rejoicing and thanking God.

85 A ladies' trouble. Female disorder. God can heal that the same as He can heal anything else. All the ladies that's suffering with this ladies' trouble, stand to your feet just now, to be healed by this prayer. Oh, here's the way to get people healed.
How many was standing up a few moments ago, feel you're healed? Raise your hands. You that stood up since we've been... Just look. It's the work of God.

86 O eternal and blessed Father, we bring this persons into Thy presence now, by the way of prayer, holding them there in the name of Jesus. And we condemn the enemy that's making our sisters suffer. Leave them, Satan, and come out, in the name of Jesus Christ, God's Son. Amen. God bless you, lady. Now go. Now don't think so. It's a [unclear words]. That's the reason I rebuked it.

87 Oh, are you happy? Are you satisfied that God of heaven still sends gifts to the earth? God of heaven has vindicated His Word, that He raised up His Son, Jesus, and He's right here now. He's present. And He can make every person in here completely well, right now if you'll believe it. Would you accept it? How many would believe it? Just remain with your hands up. Now raise your head up towards heaven. In the prayer line, too. Raise your hands up.

88 Now, if you have trusted me to be the servant of the Lord, and I have preached to you the Bible, and it is the truth, for Christ has come down and permitted me to prove to you that He is here, and living, and raised from the dead; then hear me speak the solemn truth. "He was wounded for your transgressions. With His stripes you were healed." You've got the power in you, if you've got the faith to exercise it. Do you believe it? Satan, leave this audience, in the name of Jesus Christ. Come out of this people, in Christ' name.
Stand to your feet. Give God praise. Just raise to your feet and give Him praise. I believe every one of you is healed. Give God praise and glory. Amen.

A Greater than Solomon is here

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1 Thank you very much. That is awful sweet of all of you. Coming to you, as I've said this morning, tired and wore out, I hardly haven't had a day off since Christmas. And then, I leave for home at three o'clock in the morning, get home and unload my car; about two hours, and take right back to Philadelphia again, to begin there Sunday. So it's just constantly on the move.
Now, I know you got... I see you got fans, if you just got the electricity to operate it. So it's very hot, and I will just be as brief as I can on the message and start right into praying for the sick.

2 There is no way for me to express how I appreciate this visit here to Southern Pines, and our cooperation with Brother Thomas, and all the other cooperating ministers of all the different denominations, and to you people. I certainly appreciate this. It's been four days that quickly went. You got a lovely country, a lovely people. A people is what makes the ... what the country is. I don't care how hot it would get or what, if you got nice people there, it's a nice country. That's what makes it. And it's people that I'm expecting to spend an eternity with.
I've been invited out to your homes; I wished I could come. I know each one of you has got the best cook there is in the country, and I'd sure like to come out and have dinner with you, and would enjoy sitting down, and talking to you for several hours. I can't do that, just on these little stays like this.

3 And then, many people think that I'm an isolationist. I'm not an isolationist, no, but I can't be a servant of Christ and a servant of man at the same time. So I have to keep myself away in prayer, and meditation, in order to be my best at the pulpit.
And I'm ashamed that I had to come all worn out. As I told you the other day, I've lost twenty pounds of weight since Christmas; there's my coat, see. And I really can tell it. And not so much physically tired, as it is mentally tired. Just been healing services, most of the time. I cut off two nights of it here, so that we could get just a little bit of rest to make on.
And the other one is the Christian Businessmen's Convention. Sunday afternoon is in Philadelphia, at some big tabernacle, seats several thousand people; I'm to have the service there Sunday afternoon. And Monday night at the convention hall, I open the Christian Businessmen's Convention, for the worldwide convention. Pray for me. I really need your prayers, that God will use me and help me to be His servant and your brother in the Word.

4 Now, Billy said awhile ago, I believe, that when we was coming in, that they taken a love offering for me. That wasn't exactly necessary. I'm sorry even to have to accept it, but I never asked them to do that. I never come for that purpose. I'm a poor man; I need money to live on, and operate, and my operations are small. I've kept my meetings real humble.
I was on the field before Brother Roberts. Brother Roberts has come to my meeting. I was in Kansas City, Kansas, and he was in Kansas City, Missouri, in a little ragged tent over there, and just a little handful of people. He come and sat on the sideline one night. I met him back in the hall; we got our pictures together. He said, "Do you think God could hear my prayer for the sick?"
I said, "He'd hear anybody's prayer, Mr. Roberts, that'll be sincere."

5 Mr. Roberts is a smart man: four years of psychology, and a fine education, smart and shrewd. He knows how to handle things. God could use him. And he went forth, and now, he really has a great work across the nations.
Now, God wouldn't permit me to do that. First place, I haven't the education. I hardly have any education, and so then, I couldn't do that. I have no psychology; I don't even have a grammar school education---just the seventh grade. So I couldn't do nothing like that, and God knew it. Instead of letting my meetings blast out, and many opportunities has been given me, but yet I feel that God don't want me to do it.
Now, how could I come here, and perhaps four nights, and I'd imagine (I don't know), but I'd imagine all of us are poor folks, about a two hundred dollar love offering would be just about sufficient.

6 How could Oral Roberts stay here for two nights or four nights, with a two hundred dollar love offering? Not because that he wouldn't want to come, but he can't come. He's got himself under such obligations, till it takes him about seven thousand dollars a day to operate, every day in the week. The last I heard was seven thousand, probably more than that now, with his many other stations of television. He couldn't come here. He would love to do it.
Oral Roberts is a good man. I know him, and he would come here with all of his heart, but he can't do it. And when you invite him, and he says, "I can't do it; got to be so many hundred churches cooperate." He don't mean that to be indifferent; he's means that he can't do it; he's under such obligation.
But you see, I've never let my ministry get like that. It's real small. My obligation's about a hundred dollars a day at my office, home, is about a hundred dollars a day. So therefore, I can go anywhere. And then, if the Lord wants me to preach before a hundred thousand, five hundred thousand, He just puts it on somebody's heart, and they send me. I don't have to worry about no money. Don't need any, so I don't have to worry about it.

7 See, I had a birthday recently, and I was ... I think I was twenty-five or just a little past it. I was born in 1909; that'd make me a little ... about twenty-five, wouldn't it? Just a little over: forty-nine. So I've been in the ministry, twenty-seven years, and never took up an offering in my life. I pastored the Baptist church for seventeen years, and never received a penny of salary, or took an offering all the time. Worked as a state Game Warden in Indiana, and made my living. Never took an offering in all my life.
I remember one night, I usually tell it, especially, when my wife's not along, that I got to the place I couldn't make ends meet. Did you ever get in that place? Sure, we all do. And I said, "Honey, I'm going to take up an offering tonight."
She said, "I will go over and watch you do it." And she gets her seat and sits down. Now, not that people wouldn't do it; certainly, they would. They'd give me anything they had. But I was young, and I just had Wednesday and Sunday services, and that's all. I could work, so why not work, and not be an obligation to them. All the money I got, I put right in the church, everything outside of my living.

8 And so, I went, told the old deacon of the church, I said, "Go, get my hat, Uncle Jim, will you?" We didn't have a collection plate or nothing, never had one in the church. I said, "Go get my hat; I'm going to take an offering." I said, "Folks, I'm at a little hard place, if you've got a few cents that you'd throw into the collection plate, I've got an obligation of about five dollars, and I can't make it." I said, "If you'd help me, I'd appreciate it."
And Uncle Jim went to get my hat. There was a little old woman used to sit in front of me; she had on one of those aprons that had the pocket on the inside. Did you ever see one? Sure, you southern mothers. My old grandmother used to pack a little old cane pipe in there; she'd get down and put it in her pocket like that. How many's ever seen one of those little old ... I believe it was chalk, or something or other, pipe was made out of, and had a long cane, the old grandmas used to smoke? Mine did. She wouldn't want none of the men to see her smoke, so she'd hide it in that underneath pocket, where she'd carried her tobacco. She'd hold it under there, and talk to the men like that, and that old pipe look like it'd burn her finger up. And so she would...

9 And this little old woman had one of those little aprons, and she reached down there, and got one of those little old pocketbooks that snaps on the top, begin to reach down there for a few nickels. Brother, I couldn't have took that. Why, that'd have haunted me all my life. "Oh," I said, "I was just teasing you; I didn't mean that."
The old fellow, standing there with the hat in his hand, he said, "What must I do, Brother Branham?"
I said, "I was just teasing to see what you'd do. Hang up my hat."
And there was an old man, used to ride a bicycle, from Dowagiac, Michigan, by the name of Ryan---old Brother Ryan. If I'd ask tonight, perhaps many of you knew him---good friend of mine. He rode an old bicycle down there. And I used to say it backslid, but it didn't backslide, it was wore out. And he left it for me, and I went up to the ten-cent store, and got two cans of paint, and painted it two different colors, and put a sign on it, "For sale for five dollars," sold the old bicycle, didn't have to take up an offering after all.
That's the closest I ever come to taking an offering in my life. So when you put in a portion of your living, by God's help and His grace, I promise you, the best of my knowledge, it'll go for the kingdom of God. Everything...

10 I've got three children, wife, widowed mother, mother-in-law that's a widow, great obligations, the office and so forth. I send out thousands of prayer cloths a week, around the world, and we have ten different offices, in ten foreign nations that operates through this one little place. And then, people, if they didn't send in offerings to me, out of the mail, I would to have to fold up, right then; that's all. Because I just couldn't make it, because my obligation's a hundred dollars a day, and I... In the last year, I spent the last six months, constantly on the field; each campaign has put me back two or three hundred dollars behind, each time, on the campaign. So you see what I mean.

11 And anyone knows, and we have books there, but I buy those books at forty cents less; I buy them from Gordon Lindsay. And I buy those pictures; they're copyrighted by the Douglas Studios of Houston, Texas. I have to buy all those things, and I sell them just so that... Why, I lose on each batch of them. First thing, there's a lot of them messed up when I get them; next thing you have to pay for somebody to sell them. The next thing, I give a lot of them away; if anybody wants them and haven't got money to pay for them, take them anyhow, see. So we don't... We're not here for money; we're here to try to help make life a little easier for you, through the kingdom of God. Now, God knows; that's my heart. Let that always be my objective and my motive. Thank you kindly. God bless you.

12 And if I never see you again this side of the great river, on the other side where the breezes will be blowing cool, down by the evergreen trees, I will be waiting for you, just across the river, on the other side.
The ministry, that I now testify to you to be the truth, that same testimony will be on my lips, when I meet there. It's amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now I'm found. I was blind, but now I see.

13 I wish to read just a little Scripture. Was going to preach tonight, and made an announcement that I was going to preach on the overcoming faith. But hot like this, I wouldn't have time. I'm going to take just a little text from something else, and preach from it.

14 First, these handkerchiefs are laying here to be prayed over. There's been a number of them; I've tried to catch it each night. If they're not here, you don't have your handkerchief here, and you want one that I've prayed over, just send to my office: Jeffersonville, Indiana. I will send you one free, post paid, there's no obligation to it at all. And I don't want your mailing list, because I have no radio, television programs, nothing else. I have a hard time paying secretaries to answer. Might be a little delay, but we will get it by and by.
But now listen, you'll get a letter, where there's a routine letter, around the world, where a half a million people are praying at the same time. Some people gets up at two o'clock in the morning, foreign fields, to pray, make that three o'clock chain here of prayer around the world, everyone praying for each other. And miracles, thousands of times more than happens in the meetings... Sure, I reach a bigger audience.
But now, when you get that little piece of cloth, that isn't made up by a secretary. I prayed over that myself. Now, many of you think, and do say in your letters, "Brother Branham, anoint this handkerchief for me."
Well, I know, you Nazarenes, and many of you believe that, and that's perfectly all right. Whatever God blesses, I'm for it. But if you will notice the Scripture, they never anointed handkerchiefs, they taken from the body of Paul, handkerchiefs and aprons. And the sick and afflicted was healed.

15 I believe Paul was a fundamentalist. Don't you believe so? And I don't believe Paul would do that without Scriptural authority. You know where I think he got it? When the Shunammite woman went to Elisha, and he took his staff, and said to Gehazi, "Go, lay it on the child." See, everything that he touched, he knew was blessed, if he could get the woman to believe the same thing, see. Everything that he touched was blessed. He knew that, because the Holy Spirit was on him. And Paul, I said, being a fundamentalist...
Here's a little remark. In traveling the world, I found two classes of people. One of them is the fundamentalist; the other is the Pentecostal. The Pentecostal has got a lot of faith, but they don't know who they are. The fundamentalists know who they are, but haven't got no faith with it.
It's just like a man that's got money in the bank, and he can't write a check, and the other man can write a check, and hasn't got no money in the bank. If you could ever get them two together, to get a Pentecostal to recognize who he is, or get a fundamental to recognize that all of his fundamental teachings, yet Christ, the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life. Then you've got it made.
So I pray that someday I will see that great uniting together of all the body of Jesus Christ, coming together, as one great big body; then the rapture shall come. Before we open the Scriptures, let us pray.

16 Dear God, as silence swept over this building, just then, when I said, "Let us pray," we are all very conscious tonight that there is God in heaven, who knows the secrets of the heart. As Daniel said in his day, "There is a God in heaven." And You know the secret of our hearts, and I would pray tonight, Dear God, that You would reveal to us Your Son in the power of His resurrection, to forgive all of our iniquity, and to heal all of our diseases.
Speak through Thy Word, O eternal God, and let the Holy Spirit take it and plant it into the listener's hearts, that there might come forth out of there, a great revival, one of the old-fashioned type, that would sweep from coast to coast, before Jesus comes. Grant it, Lord. Save the lost tonight and heal the sick. For we ask it in Jesus' name, Thy Son. Amen.

17 In the 12th chapter of Saint Matthew's gospel, and the 24th verse, we wish to read for a moment, these words. It's a little text that I've read many times, and spoke on it. And the reason I taken it tonight, is because I could hurry with it, to get to the point that I wish to get to, before prayer for the sick. And while I'm praying and speaking, I want every person in here to have this in your mind: that as soon as prayer begins to go for the sick, every one of you is going to get up and walk out of the building well. Don't have nothing else in your mind. Keep thinking that. "If there be any praise, if there be any virtue, think on these things." You cannot get anything from God with a negative thought. "He that cometh to God, must believe that He is, and a rewarder of those that diligently seek Him." Now, the 42nd verse:
And the queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.

18 Our Lord had just been called by the doctors of His day (that is, the theologians), Beelzebub. And He had been upbraiding the cities that He had just been preaching in, and performing signs and wonders, as we read the other night of what His ministry was in His day, how that He was able to discern the thoughts of the heart by the Spirit of God.
And the church people of His day thought He was a mind reader, or a witch doctor of some sort, and called Him an evil spirit. And our Lord said, "If you say that to Me, I will forgive you, but someday the Holy Spirit is coming, then He will do the same work that I do, and then one word against that Holy Spirit doing the same work, will never be forgiven unto a man in this world, nor in the world that is to come." He said, "If I do not the works of My Father, then don't believe Me. But if I do the works of My Father, then believe the works."

19 Now, what is the works of the Father? Now, He plainly declared it, that how He represented His ministry to the people, was by the spiritual people. Now, there is two churches: there's the church natural; there's the church spiritual. And mixing those together, which there's no way to segregate them, as Jesus said, "A sower went forth and he sowed seeds. Some sowed good seed, and a evil man sowed tares. And the husbandman (which was the pastor) said, 'Shall we pull out the tares?' He said, 'You'll root up the wheat with it. Let them grow together.'"
So there's no way of separating church natural and church spiritual. But the church spiritual is the elected church, called out and set aside by God alone. And they are the ones that will hear the Word of the Lord.
No matter how hard---it seems strange to say it---but some men are predestinated to eternal destruction; the Scripture says so: "Men of old, foreordained to this condemnation, to turn the grace of God into lasciviousness," in the chapter of Jude. So we don't like to think those things, but there's some people who will never be saved, no matter what you do, and they're very religious.

20 And the antichrist spirit is a religious spirit; don't forget that, dear people. And how blessed are your eyes that do see, and hear, and understand; for you cannot understand, unless God reveals it to you. For the whole church is built upon a spiritual revelation of Jesus Christ being the Son of God.
Every time you hit it, you hit mixed multitudes, especially when supernatural's done. Moses went out of Egypt with supernatural; a mixed multitude went.

21 Luther, many of you Lutheran people, why, history claims it wasn't a mystery how that Martin Luther protested the Catholic church and got by with it, but how he could hold his head above all the fanaticism that followed the revival.
And that's what it is today. And you non-Pentecostals, that's what... Let me say this as a Baptist: I know the Pentecostals has a lot of nonsense. They have a lot of flesh and a lot of carrying on, but brother, there is a genuine Holy Spirit among them. That is right. So you Pentecostals that can hold your head into Calvary, and into the Word, and not on sensations, but according to the Word, and still walk before God, blessed are you. You've got the cream of the crop---Spirit and Word.

22 And Jesus had went about, just as fundamental as those Pharisees claimed to be, and when He done His works, they was expecting it to be something else, but because He could discern the thoughts of their hearts... Like when Peter came, He said, "Your name is Simon, and your father's name is Jonas."
When Philip went and found Nathanael, and told him who he had found, why, he couldn't understand it, that the Messiah would come out of Nazareth, out of that kind of a denomination ... or, no denomination at all. He couldn't understand it, and he said, "Come, see for yourself."
And when he come, Jesus said, "Behold an Israelite, in whom there is no guile."
And he said, "Rabbi, when did You know me? I'm a stranger to you."
He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you."
And Philip said ... or, Nathanael, rather, said, "Thou art the Christ; Thou art the King of Israel." See, the real true, elected recognized that to be God, when the real priests and scribes stood by and said, "That man is a fortuneteller." And anyone knows that fortunetelling's of the devil.
So they called the Spirit of God an unclean spirit, and Jesus said, "When the Holy Spirit come and made Hisself manifested, He'd do the same works that He did, and a word against it would be unforgivable." So you see the hour we're living.

23 Look at the Samaritan woman. As soon as Jesus told her the secret of her heart, she said, "We're looking for the Messiah to come, and He will tell us those things. But who are You? You must be the prophet."
He said, "I'm He that speaks to you."
She ran into the city and said, "Come, see a man that told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the Messiah?" And the Samaritans believed Him, because they were an outcast.

24 Now, I would like to say this: Jesus speaking here, said, "Oh, thou Capernaum, thou art exalted into heaven, because you think you have got the best synagogues, all those swell ministers, and everything, and you're very religious. You're so swelled up and so pious, till you are exalted into heaven, but I say unto thee, thou shalt be cast down into hell."
Where is Capernaum today? At the bottom of the Dead Sea. Every city that received Jesus, they stand today. Every city that He cursed, is gone today. Sure, He was more than a prophet; He was God manifested in the flesh.

25 And notice, He goes back into the Scriptures, and begin to show (as I wish to in the next fifteen minutes) that all ages, God has always had His people and had the supernatural working in all ages. When God sends a gift to the earth, if that generation receives that gift, then they become a blessed people; and if they turn it down, they become a cursed people, always.
Look at the generation in Jesus' day. God sent the greatest Gift that was ever sent to that generation; that's what He said, "There's a greater than Solomon here." And they turned it down, and called Him a fortune-teller. Where are they today? Scattered to the four winds of the world, the temple burnt. See, they turned it down.
And Jesus was referring---the chapter ... the verse before this ---of the days of Jonah. He said, "As it was..."
They come to Him and said, "We would seek another sign." And He said, "There will be a wicked, and an adulterous generation, that'll seek after a sign, and they will get a sign." I'm off of my text, but I want to get this to you.

26 Do you believe that we are living in one of those wicked, and adulterous generations? Certainly, we are. As I've said many times, that this nation can never escape the damnation and wrath of God. I'm an American. Many of the Branhams are buried yonder on the fields, blowed up in the wars. And if it was to come tonight to make a choice, America's my country. I love it. But I don't love the sins that it's doing. God loves America, but He hates her sin. And sin is a reproach to any nation, and don't think because our forefathers, at Plymouth Rock, founded this upon the principles that it did, that we escape judgment. Israel was God's own beloved wife, and she paid for her sin. David was a man after God's own heart; he paid for his sin. And we will pay for our sin.
If God doesn't judge America for her unrighteousness, as an infinite, holy God, He'd be duty-bound to resurrect Sodom and Gomorrah and apologize for sinking them and burning them up. Certainly, we're bound for judgment. There's no way out of it. So just get ready to escape the damnation of the wrath of God, by fleeing to Jesus Christ.

27 Now, He referred to Jonah, and I believe that what He told Jonah, He was speaking of this day. Now, He said, "They were seeking a sign, and they would get a sign, the sign of the resurrection. For as Jonah was in the belly of the whale for three days and nights, the Son of man shall be in the heart of the earth for three days and nights. And then, the resurrection would be the sign to a wicked and an adulterous generation."
Anyone knows that Scripture has a compound meaning, and history repeats itself. Do you believe Scripture has a compound meaning? All right.
Take this one here, just comes in my mind, where in Matthew 3, it said, "Out of Egypt, I've called My Son." Run the reference to that and see if it didn't mean Jacob. Certainly, it did: Jacob, God's son; it meant Jesus, God's Son. It had a compound prophecy, many times has it.
And so, I believe that we've come back to a wicked, and an adulterous generation. And this generation has to receive the sign of the resurrection to dovetail with my first night's sermon, of "The Signs That He Did Then." He's never done them since in all the age, until the closing of the Gentile dispensation that we're now living in. And this wicked, and adulterous, and Christ-rejecting generation, has received the sign of the resurrection, the last sign to be given to the church.

28 Now, look at Jonah. Many people think that Jonah was a terrible person. Jonah was a prophet of the Lord, walking in all the will of the Lord. You say, "Why did he do what he did?" He never done anything contrary to God's will. You can't, if you're in Christ, do anything contrary, if you're walking humbly, and upright. It may seem like you do, but you don't do it. Nothing happens providential. The footsteps of a righteous man is ordered of the Lord, and all things work together for the good, to them that love Him. How can you take those Scriptures, and compare them with any other, and then break them. The Scriptures cannot be broken.
Oh, you say, "He took a ship and went to Tarshish, instead of Nineveh, when God sent him to Nineveh, and he went to Tarshish." Let's just look at it a few minutes, find out. It's the way you look at it. You run over the top of it and say, "Oh, you're a Jonah." I'd like to be one, certainly. He was a man of God.

29 Notice him, when he went to go to Nineveh, there was no ship, so he took a ship to Tarshish. When he got on the sea, the sea got angry, because the preacher was backslidden. And they tied his feet and hands, and threw him out of the ship. And God had a big fish to swallow him.
Now, anyone knows that a fish prowls through the water till it finds its food, then it goes to the bottom of the sea, or the lake, or wherever you're fishing, and puts its little swimmers on the bottom and rests. Feed your goldfish and watch them. They'll go right to the bottom of the bowl, put their little fins down here and rest.
Now, this fish, God prepared him, and he prepared a preacher for his dinner. And he went up. And throwed him into the whale's mouth, and he went down to the bottom of the sea---with his hands behind him, tied---his feet tied.
I've often wondered, how that people in this day and time, would ever look at their symptoms and read that story. That's what's the matter, that people don't get healed. You go to looking at your symptoms. You can't look at your symptoms and be healed. You've got to look at a promise that God made.

30 Here, some time ago, I went to a place where a boy was dying; it's been about ten years ago. An old sainted man come to me, and he said, "Brother Branham, will you go to my son; he's dying with black diphtheria."
I said, "Yes, sir, as soon as the service is over, I will go." And I went to the place where the young man was dying, and he'd been unconscious two days.
Why, the doctor wouldn't let me go in. He said, "Are you a married man?"
I said, "Yes, sir. I have a couple of children."
He said, "Well, I can't let you go in there; you'll carry that disease."
I said, "Doctor, if I can't trust God for that, I've got no business praying for that boy."
And he said, "I can't let you go in."
I said, "Let me go in, and then ... give him the communion or something." I said, "Are you Catholic?"
He said, "I am."
I said, "If a priest come here to give him the last rights, if he was Catholic, would you let him in?"
He said, "That's different; the priest hasn't got children."
I said, "But I want to ask you something. This is just as sacred to us as that is to you." And I said, "Let me go in."
He said, "See to it. It's upon your own hands."
I said, "God will." And he dressed me up like a Ku Klux Klan.
And I went in there to see this boy, and he was unconscious. A little nurse, standing there (a very lovely, little lady), and I got down on one side. The child was unconscious. And the nurse said, "Mrs..."
The lady, said ... I think the lady's here tonight. I want to get through this before I tell her, who she is.
And I said... The nurse said to her, said, "You know that your son is dying?" I think the little nurse just said that for my benefit.
And I said, "Well, if he is dying, God is a Saviour." And she just kind of turned her little painted-up lips, and looked sideways, and I said, "Let us pray." And the old father and mother got down on one side of the child; I said, "Lord God, the God who made heavens and earth, You said, 'Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, believe that you receive them.' And it is also written, 'If thou shall say to this mountain, be moved, and don't doubt in your heart, but believe that what you say shall come to pass, you can have what you say.' That is Your Word, and that's what we're doing, Lord." And I say, "I lay hands upon this boy, and condemn this death in the name of Jesus Christ." Raised up; the old father raised up, wiped the tears out from under his glasses, and he took mother in his arms, he said, "Mother, think of it; isn't it glorious? He's going to live now." The boy just as far gone, just barely breathing. And the nurse said...
"Oh, she said, "It's wonderful, Fred, it's wonderful." Said, "He's going to live now. Thank you, Lord."

31 And the little nurse looked over, didn't know what it was all about, and she said, "Sir, do you understand that the best doctors we got in this country has said that that child will be dead within the next five hours?" She said, "This cardiogram thing for his heart." I don't know nothing about it. She said, "It's went all the way down, and never in medical history, when that ever drops, does it ever come back again."
And the old father walked over, put his arms around the little nurse, and he said, "Honey, see, I feel sorry for you. You're looking at that chart, that machine, because that's all you're trained to look at." Said, "You're looking at that machine; I'm looking at a divine promise, that was made by God." The boy is married and got two children now. Miss Bartell, if you're here... All right. There you are. See, that's what makes things real. It depends on what you're looking at.

32 Jonah, when he was in the belly of the whale, if anybody would have symptoms, Jonah would've had. Well, if he looked this way, it was whale's belly. If he looked back this way, it was a whale's belly. Everywhere he looked, it was whale's belly. He had seaweeds around his neck, laying in vomit in the whale's belly. Why, no wonder, he had a good case of symptoms.
He was a lot worse case than what you could have tonight. There's no one here in that condition. But you know what Jonah said? He said, "They're lying vanities. I won't look at anymore whale's belly, but once more, Lord, will I look towards Your holy temple." Amen. Why?
He knowed when Solomon dedicated that temple, Solomon prayed a prayer, and he said, "Lord, if Thy people be in trouble anywhere, and will look towards this holy place, and pray, then hear from heaven." And Jonah, if you want to call him backslid, hands behind him, tied, feet tied, on a stormy sea, in the belly of a whale, plumb down at the bottom of the ocean, he refused to look at anything but that temple, because there was a prayer over that temple.
If Jonah could look to the temple that was made by man, and have that kind of faith, in those conditions, how much more can we tonight, under any circumstance, look to heaven, where Christ sits at the right hand of God, with His own blood to make intercession upon our confession. Depends on what you're looking at.

33 You know what God did? He must've put an oxygen tank or something in there. He kept that prophet alive for three days and nights, and took him on a ride, all the way across the ocean to Nineveh.
Nineveh was a large city, many thousands of people. They were idol worshippers, and they worshipped gods, and their great god was the god of the sea, the whale. All of them were fishermen. Here they was out there pulling their nets, sinful as the United States is now, and the first thing you know, in come the whale (He was a god to them.), opened up his mouth, stuck out his tongue, and the prophet walked off like a gang plank. There come the god, spitting the prophet out. No wonder... See, God had to do it that way. God knows what He's doing. No wonder they repented at the preaching of Noah ... or, Jonah. Because why? That he was... The whale-god spit him out on the bank.
The prophet walked right out of the whale's mouth and begin to preach. Sure they repented. God does things in supernatural ways, His wonders to perform. Certainly.

34 Jesus said, "As Jonah laid in the belly of the whale three days and nights, the Son of man shall be in the heart of the earth three days and nights, when He rises." And in that day, then the wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after signs, that'll be a sign to them.
Now, if Jesus is still dead, then He was just a man. But if He's raised tonight, been alive two thousand years, since His death, burial, and resurrection, then the Bible said, "He is the same yesterday, today, and forever." Then if He's the same, He will act the same, do the same: same works, same miracles, same power, same grace. He's the same God, and this Gentile closing age sees it. Then He said, "And the queen of the south shall rise in the day of judgment with this generation and shall condemn it, for she came from the utmost parts of the world to hear the wisdom of Solomon."

35 Now, in the days of Solomon, God gave Solomon a great gift. It was a gift of discernment. All Israel rallied around that gift. Oh, they thought it was wonderful. And anyone knows that that was the greatest age that Israel ever lived in. Why? They all rallied around the gift. There was a great temple built. No war during Solomon's age (No, sir.). They were afraid of him, because the people were one accord with God.
And you know what? The best shelter we have tonight, is not to get a scientist who could create a bomb greater than the cobalt bomb or the hydrogen bomb, but to get some man who can stand with some power, that would shake America back to God again. It'd be the greatest thing that could happen: shake all the people in America, that claims to be Christians, back to the Saviour again, away from their creeds, and away from their little old fancy, fantastic things, and get back to the living God again. That would be the greatest thing could happen: worth more than all the bombs that could be created, the best protection we have.

36 Notice, and in the days of Solomon, that great gift, everybody rallied around it, and they begin to speak of it, and you know the news of it went to all the world in that day. Everybody coming by, said, "Those people are one accord. Why, they've got a great gift that God sent them." And they all believed that gift.
Wouldn't it be wonderful tonight if just the church people in America, that would believe the greatest gift that God ever sent to the world was the Holy Ghost, and would rally around it? If you Methodist would break down your bars, and you Baptist would break down your bars, Presbyterians, and Pentecostals, Nazarenes, Pilgrim Holiness, and all of you would break down your little bars, and let the Holy Ghost come in among all of us, and create a godly, brotherly love, and respect, there'd be a power strike this nation, that newspapers would pack it, and radio, around the world. But they won't do it. Each man has his own tree, and they won't get together.

37 But they was all in one accord then, and they'd go up before Solomon, and they'd watched that great gift; how they spoke of it, everywhere. And the news, finally, went to the utmost parts of the known world, way down in Sheba. And there was a little queen down there; she was a heathen to begin with, but you know, God's no respect of person: He saves anybody that wants to be saved.
Now, watch. When they went down there, the people would come by, every traveler that would pass through Palestine, everyone would come by, would say to somebody, say to the little queen, "Say, I just passed through Palestine; you never seen such in your life. Their God is a great God. He's not a dead God; He's a living God. And He's give a man by the name of Solomon... Well, they even made him their king, and he's got a great power of discernment, that could only come from God."
Well, you know, faith cometh by hearing; hearing of the Word of God. So that created a hunger in the little queen's heart. And everyone was talking about it, so she decided she'd go see for herself. That's a good idea. That's a whole lot better than just sitting at home and criticizing. That's a whole lot better than saying, "My denomination is not cooperating with this revival."---a lot better. So she said, "I will go see for myself."

38 Now, she had a lot to confront, a lot more than you would have. First thing, she was a woman. The next thing, she was a pagan. Now, in order to go, she'd have to get permission from her pagan priest. So she goes over to the archbishop of her church, and she said, "Bishop, I have heard... I brought my pastor along (He don't agree with me.), but I hear that up in Palestine, that they got a God that's given them a great gift, and His great presence, working through a man, is manifesting the presence of a living God."
"Ah," the bishop said, "Uhm, uhm, now, Queen, do you know you're a charter member of this congregation? And now, we will not tolerate any such nonsense as that. Now, you know there's no such stuff as that. If there was anything in the sign of the supernatural or something, our god Dagon, and all the rest of them, would have it here, see. So there's nothing to it; it's a bunch of nonsense; it's make up."
She said, "But you know, I would like to go see for myself." That's a good idea. Go find out.

39 Why, I can hear the bishop, and the archbishop, and all of them get together, say, "Now looky here, you may be queen, but remember, if you go to some kind of fanaticism like that, we will excommunicate you from the church, and you won't get the last rites when you die, and you won't be able to be buried in our cemetery out here (Sure.), where your mother was buried, and your papa was buried, all that."
She said, "But look, bishop, there's something in my heart, that makes me want to go find out." Blessed are they that do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled. There's nothing going to stop them. "Oh, she says, "now wait a minute. I will go."
And he said, "Now look, if there's any curiosity you have, why don't you go get your prayer book, and come on over to the church, and we will talk it all over."

40 I can hear her say, "Wait, a minute. My mother come up through this church, my father come up, by brothers and sisters come up, and I've come up for forty years in this church, and all I've heard is a big bunch of creeds: no life at all. If there is such a thing as a living God who can produce a living gift, I want to find it." Oh, my, we need some more queens like that. "All I've known is a bunch of prayers, and a song book, and so forth, and you talking about some great god, but where is he? Is he living? I've never seen a move; mama never seen a move; and grandma never seen a move out of him. So where's he at?"
That's what I say today, "If Jesus Christ isn't the same yesterday, today, and forever, where is that God that was once great?"

41 What good does it do to give your canary bird (as I said the other night) a lot of vitamins to make strong wings and keep him in a cage? What good does it do to preach a historical God, if He isn't the same God tonight? What good does it do to preach a God of Moses, if He isn't the same God tonight? What good does it do to preach a Christ that healed and performed miracles, if He isn't the same tonight? If He isn't, I want nothing to do with Him. For the Bible said, "He's the same yesterday, today, and forever." If that isn't the truth, then the Bible is a lie. And if it is the truth, then the Bible is right, and there's a living God, not a dead form of creeds and denominations, and little things, and prayer beads, and books to read, and so forth. Mohammed can produce that. Buddha can produce that. Any idol can produce that, and can produce just as much psychology. Let me tell you something, my brother: There's only One that ever lived, and died, and rose again, and remains the same tonight; that's Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God, who lives and reigns, and answers every word, and every promise that He said.

42 I know you think I'm excited; if you felt like I did, you'd be excited too. I know He's real, not because it's in my heart, one reason, yes. Mohammedan says, "He's real, because Mohammed's in my heart." Well, let me see Mohammed do the things that he did when he was a-living. I could show you Jesus does the same thing. Sure, He's the living God.
So the queen said, "Now, you can just rub my name off the book. Do whatever you wish to. I'm tired of these old creeds. I going up to find out whether this thing's right or not." And when she got ready to go, she wasn't going bare-handed. She loaded up some camels with gold, and frankincense, and money, and she said, "If it's right, I'm going to support it. If it isn't right, I will bring my money back." That's a good thing. That's right.
If you people were a little more sincere about that, and supported something that really had God in it, instead of so many old things that you do support: some million dollar building, where it's nothing but a big morgue somewhere; walk into it and the spiritual thermometer is ninety below zero, somebody say, "Amen," the rest of them would faint. What's the matter? If Christ performed a miracle, you'd get throwed out of the building.

43 Puts me in the mind of a funeral house. They take a corpse in there, and then put some more fluid in to be sure he don't come to life. They take you in there, and inject these old things, "The days of miracles is past." "There is no such a thing as divine healing." "The Holy Ghost lived way yonder years ago; there's no such a thing as Pentecost anymore." Brother, that's embalming fluid from hell. Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today, and forever. That's right.
If He isn't He's just a bunch of creeds. Some people limit God to creeds. We might not be able to walk where Joshua did, to shout down the wall of Jericho. I might not be able to walk like Enoch did, and take a little stroll, and go home with Him without death. But I'd never stand in somebody's way, that did have faith to do it. That's right. I'd pray for them, and thank God for them, instead of criticizing, making fun of them.

44 So the little queen, she had a lot to confront. Now, did you ever measure the distance between Sheba and Palestine? And now, she didn't come in a air-conditioned Cadillac, or some big coach. She come on the back of a camel. And it didn't take her just a hour or two; it taken her three months to come. And some people today won't walk across the street. What'll she do in your generation, when she stands there with this generation? If she come on the back of a camel for three hundred miles, not along a nice pined highway, like we got here, but through a desert to hear a gift... And Jesus said, "She will stand in the day of judgment and condemn that generation." And we got two thousand years of Bible teaching with the same Holy Spirit tonight, doing the same powers, and works, and we won't come across the street, or even ride a mile in a nice air-conditioned car. What will she do to this generation?

45 Oh, you have to watch Elvis, Arthur Godfrey, "We Love Suzy," or something like that. Entertain. That's what's the matter with American people: They want entertainment; they don't want the gospel. When you get your preacher, and you go to vote for him in your church, what do you do? You'd get a man that's a little, sissified, Hollywood something, that'll lay out here all night, stretched out on the beach somewhere, and have a little social party, play bingo down in the church basement, soup suppers, and boil up some old tough rooster, sell it for fifty cents a plate, to pay the preacher. If you preach the gospel, he'll lay it down there and make the people pay tithes, you wouldn't have to do such things as that. That's man-made creeds. Then you call that religion.
Get up on a Sunday morning, and preach a ten minute sermon; if he goes over ten minutes, the deacon board takes him back, and the next conference they vote him out. Shame on you! What we need tonight is a gospel handled bare-handed, an old-fashioned, God-sent, sky-blue, sin-killing religion, and the Bible Holy Ghost back into the church and in the members. That's right.

46 That little queen was hungry, and she didn't care what the price was; she come anyhow. She come across the desert. Now notice, the sons of Ishmael was in the desert in those days; they were robbers, and they were by the thousands. What would that little caravan of camels, a little woman with two or three little women sitting with her, four or five eunuchs around, and a little army of about forty or fifty men. Why, them sons of Ishmael, would run right down, and tramp them down, and take the ten of thousands of dollars worth of gold. But there's something about it. When a man wants to find Jesus, really wants to find God, there's nothing stands in his way. There's no preacher, no bishop, no creed, no mama, no papa, no church member, no nothing else can come between you and God. If your heart's a hungering, you'll go anyhow. You'll go.

47 She said, "I hear, if there's a living God, He honors His people, and He's give a man a gift, and that gift is marvelous, I hear; I'm going anyhow." She started off on her way; she traveled ninety days across that burning Sahara desert on the back of a camel, about two miles an hour, across the desert. But God seen that she arrived safely. He will see the same thing for you, if you really are hungering and thirsting for God, to find out something: if our God still lives, if He still has the same power, is He the same yesterday, today, and forever. If you hunger for it, and see if God don't bring it to you.
Here she comes, and finally she arrived at the gate. When she did, she never come just to say, "I will sit five minutes, and if Pastor Solomon says one thing that's contrary to what bishop so-and-so said, I will get right up and walk out." That's the American attitude. "I won't listen one minute." She didn't even know Christianity. She didn't know about Jehovah, but she got the scrolls and begin to study what He was.
That's it: Get your Bible, and look into it. "They're the Word of life, they are they that testify of Me," said Jesus. "Search the Scriptures." She come to do so.

48 She didn't come just to stay for just one night; "Well, if I don't get prayed for tonight, I won't come back anymore." No, no. She had something on her heart. She camped in the palace yard; she unloaded the camels, set up her tents, and got ready to stay for awhile. That's the way to do it.
She said, "I'm going to stay till I'm convinced." What if men and women of America would be that sincere. "I will stay till I'm convinced. I will search the Scriptures, and see if that great God that promised that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, if He will do the same things today that He did yesterday. I will search the Scriptures. I will not criticize it; I will be sincere; I will search the Scriptures." Do that, and you'll stand on the justified side in the judgment with the queen. But criticize it, and run out, when you don't even know what you're talking about, find where you stand in the day of judgment. God's duty bound to send it; it's up to you to receive it, whether you want it or not. God pokes His religion down nobody's throat. The preacher might do it, but God doesn't.

49 Notice, when she come up there, she said, "I'm going to stay till it's over. When I'm convinced, all right." Now, the next morning I can see her dressed up in her best clothes, and her little princesses around her, and the eunuchs, and so forth, and they went up to the gate. And they stood there; the great congregation was gathered. She said, "Now, I'm going to see; I've heard that he could discern the thoughts of the mind, a great power of discernment. And there is a God who can produce that. Our gods don't do that. They don't have enough life in them to do it. We just got a bunch of books and creeds that tells us about some god that was. We got some statues and things, but it's lifeless. But that man really is a servant of a God that produce that, then I'm going to be the servant of that God." Good.
She walks up and takes her seat ... her position. Pastor Solomon comes out, stands up to the platform, and begins to speak a little while about the great Jehovah, and they brought him a case. And as soon it comes to Solomon, there is a power of discernment that brought the truth out. What do you think that little pagan thought? Say, "I believe I'm already convinced."
After while another case comes up. Solomon was just a man, but seeing that there was something in the man, a gift that come from God, that was supernatural. Said, "Well, say, I've watched this two days now, and there hasn't been one mistake. My prayer card will be called after while. Finally, she comes before Solomon, and Solomon, the Bible says, "Makes known to her all the things that she desired." What did she do? She walked right straight out among the people, and she said, "All that I heard was the truth, and more than I heard is the truth." And she made her stand publicly, and she went home with a God in her heart, that was a God of the supernatural. [Gap in the audio.] ... was a God revealed to her through His servant, the secrets of her heart.
And Jesus said, "She will stand in the day of judgment," with that Solomon with a little spoonful of the gift of God. And Him with the whole fullness of the Godhead bodily, and calling Him a devil, and a Beelzebub, said, "She will stand in the day of judgment, and condemn this generation." What will she do to this generation? What will she do?
What did she say? She said, "Blessed are the men that goes with you, blessed are the people that follow you, for they stand daily to see this great wisdom that God has given you, this great spirit of discernment. Happy are your eunuchs, and happy are your cup bearers, and those who work with you, for they are privileged to stand by your side, and see the discernment of God daily." Jesus said, "She will stand in the day of judgment, and condemn this generation.

50 Wonder... In closing I wish to say this, "Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He's obligated. He's still the living God. He isn't dead. He's raised again. I wonder, tonight... I was reading a little story sometime ago about a Danny Greenfield in Central America. He was an evangelist, about seventy-five or one hundred years ago. And he won a lot of souls to Christ, and he dreamed one night that he died. Of course, he went up to heaven. When he got up to the door, there was a... The doorkeeper come out, and said, "Who approaches this holy place?"
And he said, "I'm Danny Greenfield, the American evangelist. I've won many souls to our Lord, and I come to take my position and my place in heaven."
"Just a minute, sir," said the caretaker. Goes back, "What did you say your name was?"
"Daniel Greenfield."
Looks it over and says, "There's not one here."
"Oh," he said, "you must be wrong, sir." Said, "I preached, and I won souls to Christ."
He said, "I'm sorry, sir, your name's not on this book, and you'll have to get away from the gates."
"Why," he said, "what can I do?" The Angel said, "The only thing I know to do, you might appeal your case to the great white throne judgment, if you desire to stand there."
"Why," he said, "I have no other choice."
Said, "All right."

51 He said he began to move, and going through space; he was going faster and faster. After while, he come into a presence of a light; he began to slow up, slow up. Finally, he come to a perfect stop. One light wasn't coming from any certain place, but was all around him---right in the center of this light. Said, "What a place to stand." Brother, I hope I never have to stand there.
After while a voice said, "Who approaches My throne of justice?"
And he said, "I'm Danny Greenfield, the American evangelist; I approach Your throne of judgment, oh, Lord." He said, "They condemned me at the gates, and said my name wasn't on the book, and I appeal my case to Your justice."
He said, "All right, Danny Greenfield, I will judge you according to My laws." He said, "Danny Greenfield, did you ever tell a lie in your life?"
"Why," said, "I was ready to say, 'Certainly I was an honest man.' But," said, "I remembered then, that there was a lot of things that I had said that wasn't just exactly true." Said, "Yes, Lord, I lied."
Said, "Danny Greenfield, did you ever steal in your life?"
He said, "I thought, if anything I could answer for, that I'd always been honest." And said, "In the presence of that light, I remembered a lot of little shady deals that I'd pulled."

52 Brother, that's the way it is tonight. While you're sitting here in church, while you're healthy as you are, you might feel all right, but in the presence of that white throne judgment, there's going to be a lot of things will show up then. You're mortal, looking as a mortal. Don't you never trust your merits at all.
He said, "Yes, Lord, I've stole."
He said, "Daniel Greenfield, My justice requires perfection. Was you perfect in your life?"
He said, "No, Lord, I wasn't perfect." And said, he was listening, and heard that great thunder come forth, "Send him to eternal destruction from My presence."
Said, "Seemed like my bones," he said, "was coming apart, listening for that great blast coming from somewhere." And said, "I heard the sweetest voice I ever heard in all my life." Said, "No mother's voice could have been like that." And said, "I turned to look, I saw the sweetest face I ever saw. No mother's face could look like that." Said, "He walked up to me, put His arms around me, and hugged me up close to His side. And He said, 'Father, it is true that Daniel Greenfield wasn't perfect in his life, but,'" said, "'one thing that Daniel Greenfield did do, in his life, he stood for Me. And while he's here, I will stand for him.'"
Brother, my church can't stand; my denomination can't stand; my righteousness can't stand, and neither can yours, I want to do like the queen of Sheba, I want to make my stand, tonight, for the Lord Jesus. If you were dying tonight, who would stand for you in that holy place? Think of it, while you bow your heads just a moment.

53 Before you see one supernatural sign, before Jesus comes to declare Himself any more than the preaching of the Word, how many here tonight would raise up your hand and say, "God, solemnly I raise my hand to say, 'I will stand for You here; You stand for me there. I now, will make my stand, boldly, and claim that You are the same.'" God bless you there, sister. God bless you. You, my brother. You. Yes, just look at the hands.
Forty, fifty hands, right here in the two center rows. "I will make my stand, boldly, Lord. I've heard the minister say tonight that You are the same yesterday, today, and forever. You haven't died. They told me about this meeting, that You come in and perform, and show Yourself here among the people, in great signs that You performed in the age of the Jews, when they were rejected, at the end of their generation. They tell me You're performing again. Lord, I've read Your Bible. I know that's right. I know that's Your promise. Before I see it done, I believe what the Word said; I make my stand tonight for You." Raise your hand. On the balconies to my right, God bless you all along there.
Balcony to my left, would you raise your hand, say, "This is my hand, Lord; I will make my stand." God bless you, along there. Be sincere; remember, this may be the last opportunity you'll ever have to make a stand. Before day breaks in the morning, the doctor may be at your house, take your pulse, shake his head, and say, "There's nothing can be done; it's a heart attack." You feel them icy veins cooling off, the pulse coming up your sleeve, and you press a dying pillow. "Oh, if I could only get back to that meeting once more, and hear that voice say, 'Raise your hand.'" It may be too late then; why don't you do it now?

54 Say, "What difference does that make of I...?" God bless you, down through these aisles. I see you. Just keep raising your hand. God sees every one of you. "I will make my stand."
When you raise your hand, what does it do? It signifies to God, the depths of your heart cries out for mercy. "As a hart panteth for the water brook, my soul thirsts after Thee, Oh, God." "I now will take my stand, eternal and righteous God. I will do everything that there is within my power to serve You the rest of my days. I will be like the queen of the south; I will make my stand right here by raising my hands in the presence of this audience. I will stand for You."
Would there be some more, just before closing, that hasn't raised their hand, and want to be remembered in this prayer. God bless you up there, young lady. Yeah. Teen-age, that's good sister, greatest thing you ever done. God bless you here, sister, dear. Yes, you're just at that changing of life now.
God bless you, back there, dad, with your hands up. He sees you. Certainly, He does. "I boldly take my stand now for Jesus in the hour of my death..." God bless you way back in the back, brother; He sees your hand. Certainly, and your name goes on the book, and there's not enough smut in hell to cover it over. That's right. It's wrote by the blood of Jesus Christ. "He that heareth My words, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath (present tense) eternal life, and shall never come to the condemnation, but has passed from death unto life." Have faith in God.

55 All right, you that raised your hands, be ready for prayer. Now, accept Jesus. Immediately after the healing service, I want to see you up here to give thanks to God. If you really meant it from your heart, when you raised your hand, I will assure you by the promise of God, that your name was put on the Lamb's book of life, and Jesus stands for you. If you meant it, "He that heareth My word and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life (What is everlasting life? Eternal life, the Holy Spirit.), and shall never come into condemnation, but has passed from death unto life.
Father, God, You seen their hands. Before one thing has been performed, these people, upon the Word alone, has come and raised their hands, many of them. They've accepted You as their Saviour. Thank you for them, Father; they're the trophies of the message, though come from a nervous person, chopped up, but yet God took it, and planted it into the heart that's... Two or three hundred has raised their hands.

56 Eternal God, I pray that Your blessings rest upon them. May they have life everlasting just now. Fill them with the Holy Ghost. Never turn them away, Lord, and I know You won't. You said, "No man can come to Me except My Father draws him first. All that comes shall have everlasting life, and I will raise him up at the last day." And they are given to Jesus as love gifts from His Father. Who can pluck them from the hand? No one.
I pray, Father, now, that You'll keep them by Your grace until that great day, which may be tomorrow, that they'll have to stand in the presence of God. No matter what they'd ever done: they could be so true; they could be so loyal; they could dress so descent, act so nice, and join every church, and be lost. Nothing in our hands we bring. There's nothing we could do would merit anything. We just trust in Your grace. And when we do that, then our life is changed and bears fruits of Christ.
Grant it, Lord. I present them to You now. Keep them Father, I pray. And if I never shake their hand on this earth, may I be privileged to it at that day, when we cross over the river. For I ask it in, Jesus' name. Amen.

57 Sorry to have kept you this long. I just get started, and I just don't know... You're such a lovely people. I say this one thing: you southern people, you really have something. I've been to your cities, around the little places, going into your merchants, going into the filling stations, shaking the hands of the people; I've never met a finer people. That's right. Wonderful, good old, southern handshake, and a little, "You all come and see us." That's just as America as hickory smoked ham and sorghum molasses. That's really what I love. Some of the best old hearts that ever beats, is under an old blue shirt, out here in a cotton patch somewhere. You know that. Truly, God bless you, is my prayer.

58 Now, I never come here as a deceiver; I'd rather be home tonight. I'd rather be at my little old tabernacle, down there, speaking to them, or out somewhere on the bank, fishing. I'd rather be anywhere, than to be here and be a hypocrite or a deceiver. What good would it do all my efforts, and me standing here so tired, I can't hardly see? What good would it do me to stand here and then be a deceiver? "Depart from Me, you worker of iniquity; I didn't even know you," would be my lot. God knows. I don't come for money. It's not popularity; I shun that. What is it? Because that... God, I love Him. He gave me a message to bring to you, and I'm doing it in the best that I know how. You receive it; it's for you. Surely, honest heart, God would reveal that.

59 Now, it's almost impossible to get a prayer line up here, just to say... It wouldn't be right for me to say, "I will take this bunch in here; I will take these first five rows." That wouldn't be right. It wouldn't be right to say I will take them first rows on the front. That wouldn't be right; it'd leave these off. We have to give out prayer cards in order to keep the people lined up.
I guess there's seven hundred people here tonight, maybe, and then in seven hundred people, I'd say there's at least five hundred of them that want to be prayed for. You want to see it? Everyone in here that wants prayer from God, raise your hands. I will show you. Everybody, be honest. There you are. I'd say six hundred and ninety-five wants to be prayed for. Now, I can't take all of them, and whose going to be first?

60 Now, used to, when we'd go to the meeting, we would... [Blank spot in tape.] Brother Boswell told me... [Blank spot in tape.] ... one while we're there. Well, the ones that's in there the first day, he got there. If you wasn't there... If you come in the second day, emergency case or anything else, you didn't get it. You didn't have no card. That wasn't right.
So then we said, the next thing we would do, we would give out prayer cards every day---every day give out a new bunch of cards. The ones left from the day before, we'd cancel them off. Anybody that had a prayer card, just throw their old one down, take a new one. Be all right. And we would give them out like that.
Then it got so, that if you didn't ... if they got past twenty or twenty-five, "I don't want that one." Throw it down. "It'll never be called, because you don't call over twenty or twenty-five." Sometimes I don't get to two or three. But said, "It'll never be called. No."

61 So then, we couldn't do that. So then I said, "Well, I will tell you what we will do. We will give the prayer cards out everyday, the same way, cause that's just, and I will take a little kid off the front row, and let them count, and wherever they stop counting, we will start from there." Believe it or not, mama put junior up there, stopped right at her number. We're still dealing with human beings. That wouldn't work.
So then, the way we got to doing it, we sent down the prayer cards everyday. The boys... I got three here that can give them out. The three: the two tape boys, Gene and Leo, and Billy. The ministers don't, because if they do, they'd cause hard feelings if they don't get to their minister friends. These are two boys that's with the meeting.
They come down before the people and mix them cards all up, every one of them. Give anybody a card that wants; the boy don't know where the line's going to start from. The man don't even know what prayer he's getting when they come out. And so, that way, at night time, I don't know. No one could know anything. When we come, wherever the Lord puts on my mind, I start from there.

62 Now, I've been criticized, say, "Oral Roberts will pray for five hundred while you're praying for three." That's right. But God's doing... Oral Roberts is doing what God told him to do, and I'm doing what God told me to do, see. I'm not Oral Roberts, and Oral Roberts is not me. We're two servants of Christ, with two different ministries.
But to my way... See, laying on of hands (Bear with me, ministers.), it's a Jewish tradition, never was given to the Gentiles. Look, Jairus, said, "Come, lay Your hand on my child, and she will live." That was a Jew. The Roman centurion said, "I'm not even worthy that You come under my roof; just speak the word." There's the Gentile.
Jesus turned and said, "I've not seen faith like that in Israel." But we're taught those traditions, "Lay hands on the sick. Lay hands on the sick." Brother Roberts, standing there, and lay hands on the sick, lay hands on the sick. Great percent of them come right back over in my prayer line, want to know what's wrong, see. There you are. Works slow...

63 I want to ask you something. If you went to a doctor's office, and you said, "Doctor, I'm having a persistent headache all the time." and he give you an aspirin and sent you home, that wouldn't be a doctor. He just wants to get you out of his office. A real doctor would diagnose that case, till he found out what's causing those headaches. Then you can't have a cure till you find the cause, where it'll work. Is that right? That's the reason I'm slow; I watch.
What if God put a curse on somebody, and I'd come around with a gift and took it off, see. How about... Do you know you can get yourself in trouble with gifts? That's why prophetic messages and prophetic people are very strange and strict.
Look at Moses. Do you believe Moses was a prophet? God trusted him. Said, "Go down there and speak to that rock; don't smite it. Speak to it." And Moses went down there, and got angry, and smote the rock. He brought the water, whether it was the will of God or not. Is that right? And that broke the Scriptures. One place in the Scripture I find it broke, Christ had to be smitten twice. The water come all right, but God dealt with Moses. Is that right?
How many remembers Elisha? He was a young fellow, went bald-headed early; and when he went down through there, they didn't believe him. They didn't believe Elijah went up. So they begin to tease him, saying, "Old bald-head, old bald-head, why didn't you go up?" Had them little children running out. And Elisha turned around, that prophet, and put a curse on those children in the name of the Lord. And before they got home, two she bears killed forty-two little, innocent children. Now, that ain't the nature of the Holy Spirit. You know that, see. But it was a prophet angered. You have to watch what you're doing.

64 Pentecostal people, let me say this with love: That's the reason you're not getting anywhere, see. You've got gifts. You, Baptists, the same way. The gifts that's in the church, God give the church the power, but He never took it away from the church. I can show you where He give it to the church, you show me where He took it away. You've got the power, but you don't know how to use it. You're not reverent enough. That's the reason you all speaking with tongues; you just use it any way. Irreverent, some be speaking in tongues; others doing this, and just like a Babylon. Don't to that. Put those things in their places. Put all your gifts in there, your teachers, your apostles. Put everything in its place, and then operate in decency and in order. You'll find God is a God of order, and He will bring the thing right up then.
That's what made the people afraid of you, because it's the way you've acted with what God give you, see. Reverence those gifts. Just don't make them a little happen, fly by night. Test them. If they're of God, if they prove to be God, then they're God. If they are not, get the thing away from you. You don't want it. Why receive a substitute, when the Pentecostal skies are full of the real. That's what's the trouble...

65 You know, I'd like to bring a big tent and pitch it here for a little while, right among you good people, and just stay so we can have a afternoon teaching service amongst ministers, and things, and let the churches be set up, you know. I believe the Holy Ghost would help us do it.
The Lord bless you. I oughtn't to have got off on that, but anyhow... In our little church, if any man thought he spoke with tongues, somebody thought he did, and somebody had a gift, if them gifts there was no interpreter, they wasn't allowed to speak in the congregation. Find out if that's not the Scripture. They had a place they met; all the gifts, they met together, hours before the church ever come. I was in the study, and when they went in there, if one spoke with tongues, wait, another one give an interpretation. It couldn't be repeating Scripture; God said, "Don't use vain repetitions, like heathens do." He's already wrote that. It must be a direct message to somebody.
Then before it can be received then, two or three witnesses, at least three ... two out of three had to witness it was of God, or it wasn't received. If they said, "It's of God." they wrote it down. They signed their name to it. "Thus saith the Lord: tomorrow at two o'clock, tell Brother Jones to move away from that railroad track; there's going to be a wreck out there; his house will be torn up in the wreck." They wrote it down. They thought it was of God. All right.

66 Then after while, maybe a Spirit of prophesy come among them. That wasn't in the main auditorium where sinners and things were sitting; that was in their own room, the gifts operating. Then the first thing you know, some prophecy hit one.
Now, there's a lot of difference between a gift of prophesy and a prophet. A gift of prophecy may be on one tonight, never again, on another the next night. It's them nine spiritual gifts that works in the body, but a prophet is born a prophet. All down through the life it's, "Thus saith the Lord." A gift of prophecy has got to be judged. But you never seen anybody stand before Isaiah or Jeremiah to judge them. No. But the Bible said, "If one prophesies, let two or three judge whether it's right or not." See, Satan can slip in there.

67 And then, these discerners with the spirit of discernment, then it says, "Thus saith the Lord, tonight there'll be a woman coming from a certain place; she will have a green scarf over her head; she will be brought in. She's from Ohio, and have Brother Branham to lay hands on her, but first, before doing that, tell him to tell her that when she was a treasurer in a certain church, she stole money; that's the reason she's paralyzed. 'Make that right.' God will heal her."
Discerner raised up and said, "It was of God." The other one said, "It's of God."
All right, they put that message down. When it come to the platform, a little buzzer rang from my study; I walked out; here these prophecies was; I give it to the people, right the way it was wrote here, with man with discernment on it. Right. No slip ups. There they was.

68 Then, that night there come a woman in, she's in a wheelchair, cot or whatever it was, she's brought up there, green scarf, all the congregation's looking for it. There she was. I said, "Lady, you stole money out of the treasury when you was a young..."
"That's right, Brother Branham; that's right. God forgive me, I will make it right."
"Stand up on your feet, Jesus Christ makes you makes you well." There it was.
"Brother Jones, move away. Tomorrow at two o'clock, it's going to happen." All right, he moves away, it happens. Fine, we thank the Lord, go on. But what if it don't happen?
Now, there's an evil spirit among them. They don't get that no more till they pray that thing away. I say, "You don't want that spirit on you. You don't want no phony, you don't want no hoax, you want the real Holy Ghost, or don't have any at all. There you are.
Put your church in that kind of order, watch what Pentecost rises to, see. That's the way Paul had it done. That's the way it's done in the Scripture. But just not while somebody's speaking, one raise up and speak in tongues, go to make an altar call, another one speaks in tongues, no interpretation. Well, that's... No wonder it's Babylon. You've got something real, and the outside world's a hungering for it, but not the way you're giving it to them. That's right. They long to find God.

69 I'm a Baptist myself; I deal with Baptists, Presbyterians; they sit there in my office by the dozens. They want it, but it's the way you're presenting it. You get back to the Bible. Do it the way God said, then the whole world will go to hungering to be like you. Amen.
Don't get angry with me. I'm your brother; I love you. That's the Word of God. You do that, and find out what happens. There won't be any slip ups; God's right there to vindicate what He says to be true.

70 Now, there's a hundred prayer cards. Where's the boys? How many... What cards did they give out today? Oh, I'm sorry, I'd... What's say? I---I-1 to a 100? Where did we start? We called from... Where did we start from the other night? One? Let's start from somewhere else then tonight. It's prayer card, "I," like your eye here. "I," let's start from 50. Who has I-50? Raise up your hand. Maybe it's... You sure you give to a 100? Maybe we will start somewhere else then. All right. We will start from... Oh, I'm sorry. All right. Prayer card, I-50, come here. I-51, raise up you hand, if you will. I-51, where are you at? Prayer card, I-51.
Look... Somebody look... There's two people here in chairs. Have you got cards? All right. Either one then, you can both use your hands? All right. Fine. See, it might be somebody's deaf, can't hear. Look around at your neighbor's card. I-51. I'm sorry. Well, that's good. Might be a deaf person. All right. Some... Come over here. I-52, raise up your hand. See, this is not an arena now. 52? Thank you, sister. 53? Come right over here, lady. 53? Who has I-53, raise your hand? All right, lady. I-54? 54, raise your hand, please. 55? Come right over on my right side. 55? Who has... Was yours 55, the lady here? 55. 56? Who has I-56? All right, lady. 57? I-57? Raise your hand, quickly. 57? 58, raise your hand quickly, please. 59? [Blank spot in tape.]

71 "Who touched Me?" Did anybody ever read that story? All right. "Who touched Me?"
And Peter rebuked Him; he said, "Don't say, who touched You. Why, Lord, everybody's touching You."
He said, "But I perceive that virtue has gone from Me." He got weak. How many knows that virtue means "strength"? Certainly. Strength. "I got weak." And He looked around until He found the woman, told her what her trouble was, and pronounced her healed, said her faith had made her whole. Is that right?
Now, does the Bible say that Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today, and forever? Hebrews 13:8? Does the Scripture say that He's right now a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities? The One that I told you, not at the temple of Solomon, but at the house of God, sitting on the right hand of God, His corporal body, making intercessions on our confession, a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities...? Does the Bible say that in the book of Hebrews? What do you say, preachers? Is that right? Then if He's the same High Priest, He'd have to act the same if He was touched. Is that right? Then how would He act? He'd say the same thing.

72 Now, if you people here will keep your seats, be reverent, don't stir around, just be reverent, and be real quiet, and just look to God, and say, "Lord, I've read in the Bible, and since Monday night meeting, I've searched that thing over. I see that that's exactly the truth. How many knows that it's the truth? How many's read the Bible, says it's the truth?
Jesus promised that this day, that He'd pour out His Spirit again this day, and the prophet said, "As the sun shined in the east, and there'd be a day that wouldn't be day nor night, but in the evening time it would be light." How we went through those Scriptures, and showed how Jesus in the closing of that Jewish age presented Himself like that, and bypassed the Gentiles. They wasn't looking for Him to come. But today, we are looking for Him to come. Are we? All right. Then, if there's... God is called on the scene to act, and the way He acts on, makes His decision the first time, if He's infinite and perfect, every time He's called on the scene, He will have to act the same way, or He acted wrong at first. Is that right? Then at the close of the Gentile age, if we get to go into Glory, just upon our creeds and denominations, and the Israelites ... the Jews was not permitted to do that, and had to accept the sign from Him, that they called a fortune-teller, to condemn them, and the Gentiles get in without that, then He's an unjust God, that acts with one people one way, and another people another way, see. He can't do it. He's got to be God, and He's got to act the same in every case. Now, if He does it, how many will love Him, and receive Him? All right.

73 The Spirit of God is upon me, as His humble servant, to minister in the name of His Son, Jesus. The Angel of the Lord, which you see on the picture, is here at this platform, "Thus saith the Lord." And I take every spirit of every person in here, under my control for God's glory. Do as you are told to be done. You shall see the glory of God. Be reverent.
All right. Frank, is this the man? All right.
Knowingly, there's not a person here that I know, outside of Dr. Vayle, that I can see. All in here is strangers to me. But you look to Christ now. Find out if that Angel of the Lord, that pillar of fire, back there, if that's the same Spirit was on Jesus Christ, it'll produce His life tonight. If it produces any other life besides His, it isn't Him. If it does, every tree is known by the fruit it bears. Then there's a scientific world knows it, and the church knows it. What will you do with it?
In the Bible there was a man by the name of Philip, who went and found his friend Nathanael, and brought him to the meeting the first time that Jesus had ever met Nathanael, and He said to him, "You're an Israelite, in whom there's no guile."
He said, "When did you know Me, Rabbi?" And He told him where he was, or something was on his heart before he come to the meeting, and he recognized Him to be the Christ.

74 Would you do the same thing, young man? I don't know you. Are we strangers to one another? [The young man says, "You just spoke to me this morning going to breakfast.] I spoke to you, this morning going to breakfast. All I said was, "How do you do," or something like that? That's the only meeting we've ever had. I have no more idea what you're there for, sir, than nothing in the world. You're just a young man; that's all I know. God knows. I did not discourse with you, or say anything to you, or ask you any questions, or you told me nothing. Is that right?
If the Lord will tell me what's your trouble... Now if I said, "You're sick, go lay my hands on you, you go to get well," you could believe that. But then, what if the Lord goes back down in your life, and gets something that you know I know nothing about, then that'll have to be a miracle. Anyone knows a miracle is something cannot be explained. That would be a greater miracle than for this, my brother sitting here, to rise up from the wheelchair and walk tonight, or for sister---greater miracle. Now, if He does, then what does it?
Now, here I am. Do you realize where I'm standing, you Christians? Anybody want to walk here and take this place? You're welcome. Take the prayer line, you're welcome. Everyone in that prayer line that knows that I don't know you, raise up your hands, everyone of you in that prayer line. See, everyone. Everyone out in here, that knows I don't know, raise up your hand.
Now (See?), no slip up; it has to be God now or I told a lie. But if you stand for Him, He will stand for you, if you're called to do so.

75 Now, here I am; my hand's to God. We don't believe in swearing, but both of us had our hands up, that we've never met before in life---just a man walked here to the platform. If the Lord God will reveal to me what you are here for... If you're sick, I couldn't heal you, because I have no power to heal you. But if the Lord God would tell me what you're here for, your trouble, like He did the woman at the well, or something like that, would you believe that He loves you, and would want to give you what you desire? All right. That's good. Would the rest of the audience believe it, when you see me and the boy here both, by the side of God's Bible here, with our hands in the air, that we've never met before, no more than he said, "How do you do, this morning." I said, "How do you do?" to him.
Now, there has to be something happen. Now, here it is. God's got to speak or I'm a liar, and if He doesn't, then His Word's wrong, because He promised He'd do it. He said, "I am the vine; you are the branches. The works that I do, shall you also."
Now, to you out there that hasn't prayer cards, you pray; you say, "Lord, let him turn to me like he did there. I may be a little skeptic, Lord, but forgive me, and let him tell me. I know he don't know me; it'll take all the doubts out of my heart." See if He doesn't do it.

76 As I say, I've never met you. We were probably born years apart, miles apart, and our first time to have a conversation. But if the God of heaven, whose fed you all your life, that knows you, and He knows me, if He will tell me your trouble, will you believe me to be His prophet ... or, His servant?
If the audience can still hear my voice, the young fellow standing several feet from me, but between me and him stands that light. And the young man's aware that's something's going on. What it is, I see he's not standing here for himself; I see a child appear. It's a little girl; she's got polio, and he's standing... God bless you, son. May the Lord God grant you your request is my prayer. Amen. God be with you, son.
Do you believe? What is it? The queen of the south come from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, by a gift, and behold a greater ... not me now), a greater than Solomon is here: the Holy Ghost, the same Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost that was upon Christ working in His church. If that young man would've never believed, it would've never happened.

77 This woman here, I do not know you, lady. I've never seen you in my life. This is our first time meeting, is it? If it is, would you just raise up your hand? All right. Take Saint John 4, just now, for an example; see if Jesus lives today, if He's raised from the dead. A man and a woman met the first time in life, a Samaritan woman, and a Jewish man. Jesus was sitting at the well; the woman come up to draw water. He asked her for a drink; she said, "It's not customary, segregation."
And Jesus went to talking to her, till He found where her trouble was, and He told her where her trouble was. How many ever read the story? And He told her her trouble, said, "Go get your husband and come here."
She said, "I have none."
"That's right, you got five."
And she said, "Sir..." She never called Him a devil. She never called Him a fortune-teller, like the preachers did. She said, "Sir, I perceive that You're a Prophet." She knowed more about God than the preachers did, though she was a prostitute. She said, "I perceive that You're a Prophet. We know when the Messiah cometh, that'll be the sign of the Messiah. The Messiah shall tell us all things." Does the Bible say that? Say, "Amen", if it does. Certainly. Then if that was the sign of the Messiah then, if He's raised from the dead and is a living, it's the sign of Messiah tonight, for He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.

78 Now, here's the woman; we're not the same age, first time we've ever met. Never met you in my life; know nothing about you. And if God will reveal the secret in your heart to me, then it'll have to come through some power; be up to you to... If you say it's a devil, then you get his reward; you say it's God, you'll get His reward. I don't know you; God does. I'm just a man.
The lady, if the audience can still hear my voice, she seems to be leaving from me; she's very conscious that something's going on. And the woman is suffering with something wrong with her feet. She has a foot trouble. That's right. If that's right, raise up your hand. How would I know it? Would you say, I guessed it? Let me show you. God grant it, if He will. Be reverent. She's a good person; let me talk to her just a little longer, if we have to cut the line a little, talk to her, so you'll see.
I don't know what I told you. Ever what it was was the truth, because it wasn't me speaking; it was Something else speaking. I'd be just like that microphone, a mute; unless something speaks through it, it can't talk. I couldn't say nothing's wrong with you, or about you, not knowing it, unless Something spoke through me. It'd have to be.
Do you believe it was God? You do? Thank you. "You shall see greater things than this," Jesus said that to Nathanael. Yes, I see the woman coming back; it's her feet, and they're bad. And she's had one, two, three operations on those feet. That's correct. And by the way, you are a nurse, to begin with. That's right. You have to stand on your feet. That's true. Do you believe me to be God's prophet? I tell you something else; you're a church member; you go to church. And your church, you're a Baptist; that's "thus saith the Lord." If that's right, raise your hand. Go home and be well. Your faith makes you whole. Amen.

79 Do you believe? Just have faith in God.
We are strangers to each other, I suppose, lady. Our first time meeting. If the Lord God... Now, something happened, just a minute. I seen a dark shadow pass in the spirit, and it isn't this woman.
Now, somebody touched Him. Over in a corner here, epilepsy, you have epilepsy, don't you, lady? Fall out. That was that dark spirit. Don't worry. Do you believe God with all your heart? Go home and they'll leave you. Have faith in God.
I want to see, just a minute. Lady, did you have a prayer card? You don't have a prayer card? You didn't have a prayer card. I don't know you, do I? Never knowed you, you never had a prayer card? All right, but your faith... You touched something; what did you touch? Your faith touched the High Priest; He turned around. The devil got excited; that's what happened. Just reject it; when it starts again, just turn it down, walk away; you'll get well.

80 You lady, you believe me to be His servant? If God will reveal to me what you're here for, will you believe with all your heart? You're suffering, one thing, with something that puts around your arm. A doctor's pumping up... It's high blood pressure. That's right. I see you in a doctor's office. He's pumping the blood up, and he says it's high blood, too high for your age. That's right. Kind of heavy man. Correct. Now, you know I wouldn't know that; I wasn't there with you. But I was just a moment ago; God knows everything that you've done. Now, do you believe?
Just a moment, there's something else wrong with the woman too, because I see him do something else. Yes, he's examining you; you got a heart trouble. That's the truth. And you've got a skin trouble, and that skin trouble is odd; it's underneath your arms. That's right. And you've got trouble with your head. Do you believe God knows who you are? Miss Pearl. That's exactly right. Go home. Jesus Christ makes you well. Amen. You know when it happens. Just have faith in God.

81 Sister, dear, I don't know you. Never seen you in my life, but God knows you. If God will reveal to me what you're here for, will you believe me to be His servant, and will accept it? What you're here for, for me to pray for, is your eyes. Now, someone's going to say, sure she has glasses on; that's the reason he said it. No, it wasn't. Let's find out. You've got nerve trouble too, a bad nervousness. That's right. Eyes and nervousness. Miss Matthews, you can go on your road home and be well. Jesus Christ heals you. That took all the doubt out, didn't it? Amen. Have faith in God; don't doubt.
Now, see, I'm getting so weak, the audience is beginning to get blinded out, like to me. Just believe now. Have faith. Now, Jesus, here at the platform, working this way, is just the same Jesus out there. Do you believe it?

82 The lady sitting right there with that skin disease, skin trouble. You believe the Lord will make you well? You do? All right, you can have your healing.
The lady next there has a... Another one across from you, second, has a skin disease too, that's right. Now, if you believe me to be God's prophet, put your hand on the woman in the middle of you; she has diabetes. Put your hand on her, and you can all be well.
Do you believe? What did they touch? They touched the High Priest, not me. I don't know them; never saw them in my life. Have faith in God, see. Just believe.

83 Ever who that was that He called, wherever it was... You say, "How is it done, Brother Branham?" I just watch that light, the way it goes. And the light stands over someone, it breaks, and I watch the vision, what happens. Jesus said, "I do nothing until the Father shows Me first, what to do." Is that right? Saint John... He saw in a vision what to do, or He told something wrong. "Verily, verily I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself but what He sees the Father doing." Then they called Him a fortuneteller, the Spirit of God. What is a fortuneteller? A perverted spirit, it's a devil. Fortunetellers don't preach the gospel, and call to repentance, and pray for the sick, and so forth. It's your faith in God. He's a living God. Just be reverent.

84 Someone, please. I keep seeing a younger woman than you, but I don't know where she's at. Keeps leaving. Be reverent now.
Way back towards the back, I can't tell you how many ... where it's at. It's a man, sitting right here, the light's right over him; he's got a gall bladder trouble. He's praying for it. Way back towards the end. He's praying also for his father-in-law, which is a cripple. Do you believe, sir? Raise your hands, if you believe. If that's the truth, wave your hands like this. You have no prayer card? No. All right. Go home and find it the way you believed it, in the name of the Lord Jesus.
What did he touch? What did he do? Ask him. He was praying, and God heard him. If that's right, sir, wave your hand. The man back there that was just healed, wave your hand if that's right, if you was praying, see. No matter where you're at. Have faith in God.
Do you believe me to be His servant? You're aware, sister, that something's going on. Standing in the presence of a man wouldn't make you feel that way, because you're a Christian, and this Holy Spirit is so close to you, 'cause your whole face and your being becomes lit up to me. It's moving. See, I'm God's servant; you're God's servant. And God has give me a gift to express to you His love, or the finished work He's done for you, see. You are a Christian, I mean a born-again Christian. All right.
You're suffering with an extreme nervous condition. You get mental nervous, and you're worst time is in the evening. You get real weak, and sit down. You hate to see the sun get low, and make streaks in the skies; I see you kind of hiding your face from it. And Satan's been telling you that you are going to loose your mind from it. He's a liar. You're in the presence of Christ. Here's another thing: that you believe me to be His prophet, that you know ... or, His servant... That name stumbles people; I'm not His prophet; I'm just a man, see. But you also, are suffering with pyorrhea of the gums. That's "thus saith the Lord." And you want me to also pray, what's just been praying about, that you're overweight. That's right. And you have a great request on your heart, and a loyal request: you want to be a mother, to embrace a baby in your arms. That's "thus saith the Lord." Go and receive it; I bless thee, my sister, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

85 Have faith in God. Don't you doubt.
I don't know you, lady. God does know you, but you believe me to be His servant? Just a minute.
You've got female trouble and kidney trouble. You've been sitting there praying for the last few minutes. That's the woman I seen awhile ago, and you're up for an operation for it, but you refused to have it, because you've prayed before you come to the meeting, and said, "Lord God, let me get in that line, and I will be healed." If that's right, raise your hands up to God. All right. Go home and be well; your faith made you well.
Do you believe me to be His servant? I don't know you. God does know you, but if He will reveal to me what you're here for, what your trouble is, will you accept it? It's all over the building everywhere; everyone be real reverent. Have faith, don't doubt. Here it goes.
The little woman sitting right on the end there, suffering with nervousness, praying in her heart, "God, let him call me." That's right, lady, with your handkerchief up, if that's what you was praying, wave your hand like this. He heard your prayer. The little lady with the white collar on, "Thus saith the Lord," go home, your faith has made you well. I challenge your faith, anywhere, to believe it.

86 You're here for someone else; that's a child. That's your grandchild, and your grandchild is not here; it's in another state, Georgia. And he's got some kind of a breaking-out, the child has, and it's got something wrong with the muscles. It's a skin disease and the muscles. That's right. And here, that you might know that I be God's prophet: you're fixing to go to the mission fields right away. That's "thus saith the Lord." Go, and God go with you, and believe with all your heart, and receive what you've asked for. Do you believe? Come believing now.

87 That back trouble left you sitting there, while you was sitting there, sister, just go on your road. The kidneys and things, just go on your road---nervousness. You're healed anyhow. Go believing God.
Your heart trouble left you while you were standing here. Go on your road and rejoice. Say, "Thank you, Lord." You're already healed. All right.
Come here, lady; you're nervous. By that, it's because you have a stomach trouble, a peptic condition. You can't eat right. Sours on your stomach; get acid on your teeth. That's right. I see you backing away from the table. Coffee upsets you, or anything like that, that's got an acid in it. Go home and eat. Jesus Christ makes you well. Believe with all your heart.

88 Come. Just a minute. Something happened. Be reverent. What do you think, sir? Do you believe? This man sitting here, you were deeply in prayer about something, and you were believing. I don't know you; far as I know, I've never seen you in my life, but God knows you. If God will tell me what you're praying about, will you believe me to be His prophet ... or, His servant? You got varicose veins. You want God to heal them. If that's right, stand on your feet. Now, will you do something for me, as a brother, will you mind me as God's prophet? Stop smoking; God will heal you. Will you do it? Raise up your hand; promise me you will. Then sit down. Go, get healed.
Your heart trouble left while you was standing here. Go on your road, and rejoice, and say, "Thank you, Lord."

89 Watch this audience here, I want to show you. A great percent of this audience is suffering with the same thing you are: nervous condition. You just go to pieces; you can't hold yourself. That's right. God's real, isn't He? Watch here. Everybody's got nervous ... bothered with nervous trouble, stand up on your feet, just a minute, everywhere. How could you ever call all them, and everyone of them believing it? Just look at there. Stand here just a minute. Just stand on your feet just a minute. I want to show you something from God.
I see you trying to get off of something. It's a step. Stepping sideways, arthritis. That's right. Everyone that's bothered with arthritis any way, stand up on your feet.
You got a lady's trouble; you've had it for a long time. It's a ovary, abscess; you have a drainage from it. There's many of those out there in the audience. Watch. Every woman suffering with lady's trouble, stand to your feet. Stand right over here just a minute.
Nervousness, about ready for a break. Stand right just a minute; the nervous people's already to their feet.
Oh mercy, here's a black shadow: cancer. Do you believe God will heal you? You know, that's right, mother. Stand out. Everybody that's bothered with cancer, stand to your feet, anywhere.
Now, they're touching me in the back; I know that means that I'm about to fall. You see? So just a minute.

90 God knows every one of you. I've been just as honest with you as I know how to be. Have I found grace in your sight? Do you believe that I tell the truth, God backs it up to be the truth? If a man says anything, that can be one thing, but if God don't speak that it's the truth, it isn't the truth. But if He speaks it is the truth, then you believe God. Is that right?
Now, you do what I tell you to do. Just do as I tell you. If every sick person in here..., see. Look, I couldn't call all those; there's too many of them. Every one of you is believing. And listen, every one of you is healed, if you'll believe it right now. Healing is something that Jesus done for you, nineteen hundred years ago. What about you in the chairs with polio and stuff, and is crippled. Don't think you're not ... you're past curing. Have faith just now. I can't heal you, but your life, you can't hide. Believe God, right now, every one of you, and stand on your feet, believe God, and accept your healing, and God will make every one of you well. If you believe it, stand up, accept it, raise up your hands, say, "Thank you, Lord, for my healing." Here it is, the Holy Ghost moving over the building. In Jesus Christ's name, I ask the devil to leave the building, and every person in Divine Presence may be made completely whole by the stripes, and the power of the Lord Jesus.

A Greater than Solomon is here

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1 Good evening, friends. It's a great privilege to be back here in the auditorium again tonight, or the field house. And we're so happy to have this opportunity to speak with you again; but I hope not as long as I did last night. My son was talking to some of the ministers, and they said, "About how long does Brother Branham speak?"
He said, "Oh, not too long, till he speaks on the subject of Abraham. Sometimes he just gets lost."
Last night I was here about two hours and forty-five minutes. Someone said to him this morning, said, "What will Abraham [unclear words]?"
You're such a nice people, and I like to speak to people that the Word responds to, see precious souls coming to the Lord. That makes it real nice. It's one of the greatest joys of my heart.

2 I remember one time when I was a young minister I... There was another minister friend of mine, his sister. I had taken her home after church one night. We were going up the road, and she was kind of a formal Christian---nominal, as I would say---and I believe that she believed in Christ, and so forth. But she hadn't went as deep as what I think a Christian should go, to profess Christianity. And she said, "How about tomorrow night going to the show?"
I said, "I don't go to shows."
And she said, "Well," said, "they got a skating rink down here. How about go skating?"
I said, "I don't go skating."
She asked me three or four different places, and I said, "I don't do that."
She said, "Well, as a young man here about twenty-two years old, where do you get any pleasure?"
I said, "In the house of the Lord." I said, "That..."

3 And a few nights after that I was in a church, and the young lady was sitting back there. And so, that night I made an altar call, and about twenty people came up around the altar, weeping young folks. And I motioned to her. I said, "I get more joy out of that than all the world could afford."
It's such a thing that you know... You feel when you lay down at night you've done something, try to help somebody. That's what we're here for, to try to make life's burdens just a little lighter for you, see, and to help those who doesn't know Christ to know Him.
Praying for the sick ... I was coming up the steps, and I heard them mention about Friday night for the emergency cases. Well, that's true. When we get down and pray for all the emergencies---they set that night, of course, for that.

4 Now, divine healing does not rest upon... Remember, the laying on of hands, that's all right. Now, that's the American people. They have to have hands laid on them, or they just don't believe it. That's all. You got to touch them some way, or it doesn't work. And...
But now, if you'll just bear with me just a moment---not to be different---but that is not the way God deals with Gentiles. That was the Jewish tradition. You remember the Jew said to Jesus, "My daughter is very sick, and she is dying." Said, "Come lay your hand on her, and she'll get all right." Jewish.
But when He went to the Roman's house, the Gentile, he said, "I am not even worthy that you come under my roof. Just speak the word," see. And Jesus turned around to the Jews, and said, "I haven't seen such faith as that in Israel," see.

5 Now what did that Roman say? "I'm a man under authority, and I'm a centurion." That meant he had a hundred men---a century---a hundred men under him. And he said, "I say to this man, 'Go,' and he goes; this man, 'Come,' and he comes." For why? He was over them. He was a master over them.
And what did he say by telling Jesus that? That He was ruler, could rule all sickness; and anything that He said had to be. Oh, isn't that a real way to be? "You just say my son lives, and he lives. Just speak the word. That's all you have to do."
Now Durban, South Africa, recently... I don't know whether the boys has ever put that book out yet, or not, on Africa, written by Captain Julius Stadsklev. We'd come into Durban, South Africa, where we'd had meetings in Johannesburg, and oh, my! such things that would take hours to say what the Lord did.
But when we went to Durban...

6 I'll never forget. Sidney Smith, the mayor of Durban, came and got me, and he said, "Oh, Brother Branham." Said, "This is African history." He said, "You..." Said, "They've been pouring in here for about five days." And said, "They're four or five days away, yet bringing their loved ones by home-made carts, the way they could pack one another."
When the lion comes, they push them up a tree till the lion leaves; then go down, bring them on, trying to get them to the meetings. For they had heard of what the Lord had did over in another place---Johannesburg, and Bechuanaland, and many of the places. And so...
And I tell you, Christianity in Africa is a weakening thing. It certainly is, because we have taught reading, writing, and arithmetic, instead of doing what Jesus told us to do. He said, "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel. These signs shall follow them that believe." Now, He never said, "Go teach the word." He said, "Preach the gospel." And the gospel is demonstration of the risen Christ. That's the Holy Spirit. Paul said the gospel come not in word only; but through the power, manifestations, demonstrations of the Holy Spirit. It would have to be to fulfill Mark 16.

7 And I was going out ... Mr. Sidney Smith and I, the mayor of Durban, going out to the race track, where... It's the second greatest race track in all the world. And then there they were ... all the places taken up, all the way across the track, and the place was filled on the other side. That was just our second day there. We had one day left. It was on a Sunday afternoon.
Oh, you know how people can give an evangelistic count of being, some of them, half-a-million. You know how they do. So, I judged a lot less than what they said the people was.

8 But today people are trying to see how many people you can get out. That doesn't have anything to do with it. It's whether Christ is there or not, see. That's the main thing. And I would rather be just by myself, and be with Him, than be with ten million and Him not there. It's just wherever He is, and that's the main thing. It isn't who can get the greatest crowd, and swing it out in papers, and all that.
Why, the Catholic church can beat all of us on that. In the United States, Mr... President Kennedy could beat all them, I suppose, here in the United States. So, it isn't crowds. God doesn't dwell in crowds. He dwells in humble hearts. "Wherever two or three are gathered in my name, I'll be in their midst." That's what we want to look at; not the great flowerly things, but the reality of a risen Lord Jesus.

9 Now, then in this meeting I noticed so many of them there that had little tags around their throat. They didn't wear any clothes, most of them. They were primitive natives. And so, I said, "What's the tags around their throat for?"
He said, "Oh, that's marked. They're Christian."
I said, "And packing idols?"
"Oh, yes, they pack idols anyhow." And now that's the strength of so-called Christianity.
And so, I... What do they do? Some mother sends her child there to be a missionary, thinking he'd be a David Livingston. And what happens? He lives in the finest hotel, and a nice car to ride out to the compound, have a little dance out there when they bring them up out of the diamond mines, and pass them out some tracts. What do they know about that?

10 But David Livingston days are not now. They don't go back in the jungles. And that's the strength of missionaries in the foreign lands. Trying to educate them, ABC's, and what do you do? You make them a two-fold child more of hell than they was when they started.
They get downtown. Women have to pack guns in their pocketbooks, to keep from being ravished. When he is out in the tribe, in his tribal condition he's all right. Only thing he needs is Christ, because he's got tribal laws that will outdo Christianity anyway you take it.
For instance, in one tribe there, if a young woman isn't married till she's a certain age, she has to take off tribal paint because she has been disgraced. And before she is married, she's tested for her virgincy. If she be found guilty, she has to tell the man that done it. They're both killed together. (What if that happened in the United States? There'd be a lot of dying, wouldn't there? amongst called Christians, see.) So, they don't need morals. What they need is to know a saviour.

11 So there they were, a-pouring in there. And there was one guy there, a little fellow, going along there with a idol in his hand. And I said... He said, "Would you like to talk to him? He's a Shungai." They have the Koza, and the Shungai, and Vazuga, and the Zulu, and so many different of the tribes.
And he said, "He's a Shungai. I can speak his language." Said, "Call him anything you want to. I'll interpret for you." And the mayor drove his car up.
I said, "Hello, Thomas." I called him Thomas, because being a Christian, packing an idol. And I said, "Hello, Thomas." I said, "Are you a Christian?" He believed in "Amoyah." Amoyah is a word, comes from an unseen force, like the wind. "Amoyah." He believed in "Amoyah."
I said, "Why do you pack the idol for?"

12 Well, he had a good reason. His daddy packed it. One day a lion got after his daddy. He set the little idol down, made the fire, and said the prayer the witch doctor told him. The lion got scared and run away.
I said, "I'm a leo yacta." Leo, lion; yacta is hunter. I said, "I hunt lions, and I know the nature of them. The prayer nor the idol never scared the lion away. The fire did. The animal's scared of the fire."
Oh, well, he would pack it anyhow. If the unseen one failed, this one wouldn't. So there's the strength of Christianity.

13 But when that day ... when the meetings started I sent Billy down to give out prayer cards. Oh, mercy! You just couldn't think about such a thing. He didn't even have hardly any clothes on him when he got out. The people ... and they had to have them. I've got a picture of it in colors, where they had them fenced off by tribes, thousands times thousands. I had fifteen interpreters. When I'd say, "Jesus Christ, the Son of God," I'd go get a drink of water, and sit down, till one...
I used to hear the Pentecostal people speak in tongues. I thought, "My, that can't be right." But after that day, I realized it was right. There's not a sound can be made unless it means... You know, I believe the Bible said something like that. There's no sound without a significance. You see that there's a meaning to every sound. There's something. The trumpet gives the uncertain sound.

14 So one of them would go... I would say, "Jesus Christ, the Son of God." One of them would go [imitating one interpreter, then another interpreter]. That's "the Son of God, Jesus Christ," and others would make all kinds of funny warbles in their throats, like birds. But that meant "Jesus Christ, the Son of God." They was interpreted to their tribes of ten thousand Mohammedans there. And so, then... They're the kind that's supposed to be hard. They come from the old Medes or Persians, who change not or alter not.
And so ... I met one missionary. He said, "Think of it, Brother Branham. I've been here thirty years, and I've got one precious jewel."
I said, "What's that?"
"I won a Mohammedan to Christianity." That's really something, for a missionary to win a Mohammedan to Christianity.

15 So that day... When I said, "Well, now, we cannot have prayer cards to line the people up, so I'm going to ask a missionary of each tribe to get at least one or two out of each tribe, and bring them here to the platform."
Well, they had a platform built something higher than this, quite a bit higher, all the way across the race track---big speakers sitting up from everywhere. And I said ... I quoted them the story of Jesus. I said, "Now as far as healing is concerned, or salvation, it is something that He has already done for you. It's yours. You just have to accept it. Divine healing, the same way.
"But a question that's in your mind," I said, "perhaps---like it is in most minds of the Americans, and so forth everywhere---is He really alive? Or did the Jewish tradition that they stole Him from the grave, and took Him away, is that it?" Said, "That's what you wonder."
I said, "Now, the thing is that He claims to be He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. Then, if He is, will not He do as He did yesterday?" Just give them the plain story, taken me about an hour to do it, just talking, to get it to them. Finally they agreed.

16 Well, the missionaries had the people lined up. There was about eight or ten medical doctors, and there was all different denominations piled around there from everywhere. And on the battlefield we don't ask, "Are you Methodist? Are you Baptist?" Brother, it's trying to get heathens there, that's all. Even Catholic priests was there dressed, not as Catholic priests, but with clothes on, like the natives. See, you're on the battlefield then.

17 It's just like I said last night. If we go to battle you don't say, "Are you a Hoosier? Are you a Corn Cracker? Who are you?" It don't make any difference. We're for one thing. That's for the nation. That's the way we stand in Christianity. That's the way we should stand at home, like that. We'd have a greater front to fight with, if we'd only do it.
And so then, when ... the first one come up was a Mohammedan woman. And I said, "Do you speak English?"
"No."
So the Mohammedan interpreter came. And so, the woman was a thoroughbred, dotted between the eyes and so forth, with a red dot, which means she's truly Mohammedan; and a denial of Christ.
So I said, "Why do you come to me as a Christian? You being a Mohammedan, why didn't you go to your priest?"

18 They believe in God. That's the children of Ishmael. Every morning that great gong rings out there, and the priest comes out, and says, "There's one true and living God (that's right), and Mohammed is his prophet."
We believe there is one true and living God, and Jesus is his Son. And they say, "Far be it from God having a son---a Spirit having a son." So they don't believe that. So, then, of course, they have to be that way. They are Ishmael's children.
So then when ... this woman, I said, "Why didn't you go to your priest?"
She said, back through the interpreter always, she said, "I believe that you could help me."
I said, "Have you ever read the New Testament?"
She said, "I have."

19 And I said, "Then, if you've read the New Testament, if Jesus Christ is that prophet that was spoke of, that should come by ... Moses spoke of the prophet that should come, would He be a prophet?"
She said, "He would be."
I said, "Then if he died and rose again... Your god, your prophet, is dead and buried. And at his grave, for two thousand years, changing guards every four hours [I've been there], a white horse ---expecting him to come and ride the world down." But I said, "He's dead, his grave is there, and he's buried beneath it, and he's gone."
And I said, "But our Lord Messiah, the prophet of God..." I said, "The Son of God, when He was here on earth... When He left He sent back his Holy Spirit upon the church to do the same things that He did, and show that He was still the prophet amongst them." I said, "Do you believe that?"
She said, "If it is so I believe it."

20 I said, "Then as a Mohammedan to a Christian, or a Christian to a Mohammedan," I said, "you perhaps... I ... say in this section is all Mohammedans. There's at least ten thousand of you sitting in here." I said, "This woman, I can't speak her language. But now, if this Jesus is Messiah, and the Messiah---as I have quoted to you from the Bible what He did when He was here on earth to prove that He was Messiah, and they failed to recognize it... Only those who were ordained to life..."
I said, "Then if He would be alive, and would promise that the works that He did we'd do also, would you believe that, you Mohammedan people?" And they raised up their hands.

21 So I turned to her, and I said ... looked, and I seen the vision.
I said, "Now, your husband is a short man. He has a black moustache. And your name is [I had to spell it out. I couldn't pronounce it]." And she raised her hand that was true.
I said, "You were in a doctor's office the other day. The doctor was bald, and he was not too old a man. He examined you, and he said you had a growth, or a cyst on your left breast. Your husband waited in the hall for you."
And the tears run down her cheeks. She said, "That's true."
And I said, "Now, what do you ... will you accept Jesus as your saviour?"
She said, "I now renounce Mohammed, and accept Jesus Christ as my saviour."
I said, "Then in the name of Jesus Christ, I pronounce you healed. Go let your doctor examine you, and bring me his testimony."

22 The next come was a woman that was a white woman. She was Afrikaans. Now, there is a difference between African, that's the dark man. Afrikaans is the Boer, the white man in Africa. And I said, "Do you speak English?"
It's a bilingual country, and she said, "I do."
I said, "Then, do you believe that God sent his Son to die in your stead?"
She said, "I am a Christian, Mr. Branham."
And I said, "Well, then do you believe me to be his servant?" You have to watch the words you say to them. And I said, "Do you believe that?"
She said, "I believe the story that I read in your book is true. I believe that you are God's servant."

23 I said, "Then, if I am God's servant, if I could heal you and would not do it, I would be a awful person---if I could help you in any way." And I said, "The only way I could help you is through a divine gift. If He was standing here Himself, He could do no more, because for your healing, and so forth, He's already did it."
She witnessed that. I looked at her, and I said, "You've been to a doctor also, and he said that you had a cyst on the ovaries."
She said, "That is true."
And I looked, and I seen a funeral procession. I said, "Prepare yourself for death."
And she said, "What do you mean?"
I said, "You are not going to live but a little bit." And in ten minutes the woman had sat down by her husband, and dropped in a heart attack. She was dead.

24 Now if I'd be a healer, I'd have healed her.
And that same night, the mayor of the city, a friend of his died---an old woman sixty years old. And I was sent to the place where she was, and she was raised up from the dead, see. It's God. He does just what He wants to.
Now remember. You who read in these Christian Businessmen, when they put in there "has raised the dead," remember before you can put that in public, you have to have documented statements from doctors, and so forth, that that's true. And everything you read in there, we've got documented statements of it.

25 That baby that died there in Mexico... As you read, that baby died that morning at nine o'clock, signed by a doctor. And it was ten o'clock that night when the little Catholic woman was standing down there, screaming, and going on, where thirty or forty thousand people... And I sent Brother Moore down to pray for the baby. Why, thirty or forty ushers couldn't hold her out of the line. She'd run between their legs, and everything, trying to get up there; and raining just as hard as it could rain.

26 I looked out and seen a little baby standing, smiling, looking at me.
I said, "Bring it here." Just no more than laid hands on the little wet blanket, and the little fellow began kicking and screaming. She jumped down to say a "Hail, Mary!", and I said, "That's not necessary. Give God praise," and went on.
And so then, Brother Espinoza went to the doctors, chased it down the next day, and we have a signed statement from the doctor that the baby died with double pneumonia that morning at nine o'clock, and this was about ten-thirty the following night, so when the baby come to life ... a signed document.

27 That you find about Finland, I have the mayor of the city, with his own seal, that he was standing present, when the boy had been laying dead, crushed by an automobile; and was raised up from the dead by a vision that was told here two years before it happened, see. So, these are all documented statements that they are true.
Now, the end of that revival that afternoon ... or, the end of that meeting, there was a little cross-eyed boy had come next. And the poor little fellow, he'd... I'd tell you what ... the way they eat, but it'd make you sick. What they find to eat, if it is full of maggots, that's just more meat. So they don't pay any attention to it, you see. They build up inoculation from it, so they eat. And so blood was all over his little belly, and he was a Zulu.

28 The Zulu is a great big, strong man. He throws his assegai with his hands, pin a lion to the ground. The Songhai, many of those are little fellows that let the lion jump right into the spear. They drag this... What we call spear, they call assegai.
So this little fellow coming on the platform, I said, "Now, the audience can see the little lad is cross-eyed." I said, "Anyone knows that." I said, "Now, I could not heal the child, anyone knows. But," I said, "now, if the Holy Spirit could reveal what caused that, or how it happened..." I looked at the little boy, and I said, "Yes, his father and mother are rather rare for Zulus. His mother is an extremely thin woman, and they are Christians. And the hut that they live in, as you go into the right hand side of the door, there is a picture of Christ hanging on the wall. And the baby was born cross-eyed."
And about a hundred yards from me, the father and mother raised up to give witness to ... the Zulu interpreter got it all.

29 And while I looked back at the little boy, his eyes were just as straight as mine. I said, "Anyone sees that the little fellow is healed. So just pass him on." So I started on.
In a few minutes I heard a fuss back there on the platform, and looked around. There was a little British doctor, and this little doctor was fussing about it. And so, Brother Ern Baxter... I know many of you know Brother Ern Baxter. And how many ever heard of F. F. Bosworth? I heard that he had ... I heard that was one of the last men that held a divine campaign healing here in this city, or around this country. You couldn't have had a better.
F. F. Bosworth, when I ... when he was dying, I grabbed him in my arms and cried, "My father, my father, the chariots of Israel, and the horsemen thereof." He was a man who brought dignity and power to the Pentecostal church---F. F. Bosworth.

30 Well, he was on the platform, and he come, he said, "I want to talk to you."
And the man said, "Now, while Brother Branham is under the anointing, you'll cause a race riot here," or something, because they had militia out there anyhow, watching, because they have tribal wars.
And so I said ... turned around, and I said, "What's the matter, doctor?"
He looked at me, and said, "How did you know I was a doctor?"
I said, "What are you so curious about?"
He said ... then they let him come up, and he said, "Mr. Branham, what did you do to that boy?"
I said, "Nothing."
He said, "What kind of a shenanigan are you trying to pull?"
I said, "What do you mean?"

31 He said, "That boy, what did you do to him? Did you hypnotize that boy?" He said, "I put him up on the platform right there myself, and he was cross-eyed. Now he isn't cross-eyed." Said, "Did you hypnotize him?"
I said, "And then the British Medical Association gives you license to practice medicine, and know no more about hypnotism than that?" I said, "If hypnotism will straighten a child's eyes, don't you think you fellows ought to be practicing up a little bit on hypnotism?"
And he said, "I am curious, Mr. Branham." He said, "I'm a Christian. I've been raised in the Anglican church." He said...

32 Now the calla lilies there, sisters, you ought to see them. Our little ones are about like that. Some of them's eighteen inches across, growing wild in the desert ... in the jungles---yellow, and white. There was great big bouquets of them, sitting all over.
He said, "Now I know there is a God, because that lily couldn't live without life." He said, "That life is hidden somewhere in the lily." He said, "I know there is a God. But being tangible enough to straighten the eyes of a cross-eyed child, I can't understand that."

33 I said, "Mister, I never touched the child. It was before the audience here. They seen the child cross-eyed, between here and..."
He said, "Something between there and here happened."
I said, "Jesus Christ healed him."
And so Mr. Bosworth got him by the arm, and said, "Sir, you'll just have to go back."
And he said, "Wait just a minute." There was a big web back here, because it was carrying so far ... for several city blocks where they were laying, and so forth. He said, "Just a moment." He said, "Mr. Branham, do you tell me that Jesus Christ is so tangible that he could make cross-eyes come straight?"
I said, "That is right. By faith, if you believe it."
He said, "Then I accept Him as my personal Saviour."

34 And when I left at Johannesburg about six ... about ten days later, there was about twenty or thirty thousand people out there saying good-bye. And he jumped over the fence beyond the guards, and run out and grabbed me around the neck; and has become a missionary. And when he throwed his arms around my neck, he started speaking in tongues out there on the plat... out there on the place. Now he is a medical doctor to the missionary doctor, back in the great lands of Africa tonight.
The next come on the platform (if you'll excuse me for taking just this much time for a testimony), they... The next man come. They led him like a dog. They had a chain around his neck. And, I could not explain what it was because ... a mixed audience. But the man had never had a bath in his life. He was probably in his twenties, walked on his hands and feet, with a chain on his neck. He wasn't even mentally right.

35 And so they brought him up.
I said, "That poor mortal. If anybody could help that man, and would not do it, is not even worthy of living themselves." I said, "I could not help him, no more than if the Holy Spirit would tell me what had happened to him." I said, "I can do that by a divine gift. But if he will believe," I said, "then I'll pray for him."
And so, I started to look at him. I said, "He was born that way." And it happened to be, his parents wasn't sitting very far. And I said, "But now, since I got his attention, he is thinking about his brother. His brother was riding," I said, "either on a yellow goat, or a yellow dog, and he hurt his knee, and he walks on two crutches." I said, "He is much younger and thinner than this man." But I said, "Wherever his brother is, thus saith the Lord, he's healed." I said, "He doesn't have to walk on his clubs no more."

36 And about a city block away, I heard a scream. And here he come, jumping just as hard as he could, with the clubs in his hands. He was healed. Well, then it taken us about twenty minutes to get him quietened.
During that time I looked, and I saw a vision above him. The man was standing up normal. I thought, "Oh, my! Here is the time to get my audience now." And I said, "If God will make this poor crippled mortal to be well, how many of you people will accept Jesus as your saviour?" And as far as you could see---the black hands up like that. I knew it was going to happen, because I'd done seen the vision, you see. When you see that, that's all over then. There ain't enough devils out of hell could stop that then, because it's already ... it's a finished work. Only thing is, just wait.
That's exactly what our Lord said. That's what any one of the Bible... Jesus said, "I do nothing till I see the Father doing it first." So it is exactly. So I looked at the man. I knew he was going to be well. So I said, "To you Mohammedans out there... ?" Their hands went up.

37 Now I said, "Stand up on your feet. Jesus Christ makes you well." And he tried...
You know, they clown a lot for the tourists. I thought he was doing a tribal dance. He was taking his hands like this---poor man, not even mentally right. And I said, "I didn't mean that. I didn't mean that." The interpreter was trying to tell him I said, "Stand up," and he was going [Brother Branham imitates the man] ... like his dance, you know, trying to do it on his hands and feet, no clothes on---just a clout.
And I got a hold of the chain. I said, "Stand up. Jesus Christ makes you well."
And when he got ... why, he stood to his feet for the first time in life. There, the tears running off on to his black belly, spatting like that.

38 I seen thirty thousand blanket natives come to Jesus Christ in one altar call. I said, "How many of you will receive Christ as personal Saviour?", and thirty thousand stood to their feet. And I said...
Brother Baxter said, "Brother Branham, I think they meant physical healing."
I said, "I'll take it through the interpreters again." I said, "I did not mean physical healing. I meant that you accept Christ as your saviour, God's Son. And if you're sincere, break your idols on the ground." And it looked like a dust storm, like an atomic bomb had hit, and the mushroom of dust go up like that.

39 And the next morning, Sidney Smith called me. He said, "Brother Branham [Monday morning]," he said, "you've never seen nothing like this." Said, "Go to the window of your hotel that faces the seaside, and watch coming down the street." And I looked, coming down the street, and there was seven van loads.
Now you that knowed F. F. Bosworth knows he doesn't give evangelistic count. I made a congregational prayer. There was four people on the platform. I made a congregational prayer, and F. F. Bosworth estimated 25,000 miracles performed at one time. Why, it was ten times bigger than Pentecost. And now...
And here's an ...

40 they're coming down the street the next morning, seven of those big African vans (my! much longer than our trailer trucks here) just piled full of old things that they'd packed them on; and clubs, and stretchers, and carts, and things they wheeled them in on.
And here they was coming behind. They were sitting in it the day before; and the next day walking down the street, singing, "Only believe, all things are possible. Only believe." I've heard it many a time ---and it's thrilled my soul every time I hear it, because it's been my theme song for years---but never did it strike my heart like that, to hear thirty ... all those thousands times thousands of natives coming down the street, no longer in war.
I got a piece out of the Durban paper, said within three months' time, I forget how many firearms, and loads of things that they had stole, and bringing it back. They were through with sin.

41 Let me say another thing here. We're supposed to be in civilization. Them women, standing on there, them women... One gave birth to a baby, sitting not twenty feet from me. She never had no doctor. She just picked the little fellow up, and laid him next to her. Having given birth to the baby, give a little posterior protoplasm stimulation; and she raised it up to her breast, and began to nurse the baby---and went right on rocking the baby, listening to me preach. Just as primitive as they could be.
But you know what? As soon as they received Jesus Christ as personal saviour, standing there with nothing but a little clout, about that much, hanging around the front of them like that, when they left that ground they folded their arms to walk away from the presence of men, to get clothes to put on.

42 Now why is it we call ourselves Christians, and taking more clothes off every year? Now I can't understand that. When a raw heathen receives Christ, they begin ... they realize that they are naked, and fold their arms (the ladies) and walked away. God help America! In the midst of my heart, feel the tears drop down. "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how oft would I have hovered you as the hen does her brood." But let me warn you, the hour is near at hand.
(Somebody has left a ten dollar bill laying here. I don't think it was for me, so ... probably was in the collection, or something. It belongs to someone. I hope I don't... I'll lay it right underneath this Bible, whoever ... what it's there for.)
Now I'm sorry to keep you long, but I just once in a while like to testify. I'll try not to be over four hours tonight, if I possibly can help it. And if I'm over that, somebody pull my coat. I don't mean to joke, but I just said that because, in tension... Let's clear up now.

43 And before we approach the Word, let's approach the author. How many knows Booth-Clibborn? William Booth-Clibborn? Oh, he's an orator---preaches in seven different languages---and he is a bosom friend of mine. He wrote my favorite song, "Down From His Glory," and he's a ... oh, he wrote, "Behold the Bridegroom Cometh," and many of those songs. He's an Englishman, but he's up in Oregon now. He's a fine man, a real good man. But he's such a ... oh, my! he knows ... he can preach the Bible in Greek, preach it in anything he wants to. He preaches in seven languages.
So, one day he and I was at Shreveport with Brother Moore, and we were discussing something, and I had the opposite side of the argument. And I said something or other about it to Brother Booth, and he said, "But listen here, young fellow." He said, "You just don't know your Bible."
I said, "That may be true, Brother Booth. But I know the author real well."
He said, "Now, isn't that cute?" Said, "Jack, you have to love him anyhow."
So, I would rather know the Author than know his Book, because He will reveal the Book if we know the Author. So before we get into the Book, let's speak to the Author with our heads bowed, if you please.

44 Great, omnipotent, eternal, infinite God, we humbly approach thy throne of mercy because we've been bidden to come by the Lord Jesus, by saying, "If you'll ask the Father anything in my name, I'll do it." Then we come with the blessed assurance of knowing that we will get what we ask for. There isn't one shadow of doubt in our hearts. If there is, forgive us, Lord, for it's sin to disbelieve God's Word, and his promises.
We ask that the Holy Spirit will come with us tonight. We'll get into these few arranged words from the context of this text that I have drawn tonight to speak to this, the purchase of thy blood.
And I am aware, Father, that ... how I would feel if I held in a glass, tonight, two drops of the literal blood of your precious Son. How I would hug it to my heart, have to hold it sideways to keep my tears from dropping in it, to know that it was that blood that saved me, healed me. By that blood, I become a son of God by his grace. How I would cherish it, and be careful that I set my foot just right. I wouldn't want to make a stumble to spill it for nothing.

45 But, Lord, tonight, in your own sight, you have put into my hands a greater treasure to You than that blood; for You have put into my hands tonight the purchase of that blood. For, truly, You thought more of your people than You did of your own blood, because You shed your blood for them.
Then how must I approach them, Lord? Sincerely, honestly, full-surrendered heart; with assurance waiting on the Holy Spirit for the anointing that the words that I say will meet me in my face at the day of the judgment, when your children stand there. God have mercy on us.
I pray that You sanctify this speaker, and the hearer. Anoint the words that it might fall into the hearts of the people, that it might bring forth a hundred fold. This is our objective. Our motive is to see the kingdom of God go on. God, we believe it's your will. So may it come to pass that we will see Jesus Christ save sinners, bring home backsliders back to the fellowship, and heal the sick through faith in his name. Amen.

46 Now, laying aside all of our thoughts, the little things that we might have thought or said, let's approach this in a divine order.
I like to read the Word, because that my word will fail. I'm a man. But I read his Word. Then if nothing else ... you get nothing else, you'll get something when I read the Word. In Matthew 12:42, we read these words:
And the queen of the south shall rise ... in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
I would like to take that for a text. "A Greater than Solomon is Here."

47 Now, Jesus had been rebuking his generation for not believing his ministry. How plain God had made it, and yet they did not believe it. And they had come to Him seeking a sign, and He'd give them a sign.
And they knew, and was taught better, never to try to believe a straight theology, because there's too much, too many of that. But God always a-vindicated Himself by a sign that confirms a theology.
Now, if there's Bible students here, which ... I'm in a Bible college, and I'm speaking before smart ministers and students. And any one knows that in the Old Testament they had a law that was the Ten Commandments. And then they had what they called the Urim Thummim. That Urim Thummim was a conglomeration of lights that reflected from the breastplate that Aaron wore, of the twelve stones that represented the twelve tribes of Israel, their birth stones.

48 Now, when a prophet prophesied or a dreamer dreamed a dream, no matter how real it looked... The theology might be perfectly, exactly right. But before they could accept it from being from the Lord, they took them down to the Urim Thummim, and let this prophet prophesy towards that Urim Thummim, or the dreamer tell his dream. And if the Urim and Thummim never moved, it was wrong. But if the Urim and Thummim went into a supernatural, and performed a conglomeration of lights supernaturally coming from it of a sign, then the prophet was right. That was the vindication. Remember Saul? How he said the Urim wouldn't answer him, and so forth? See, that was their way of knowing it.

49 Now, today, after that Aaronic priesthood ceased, God has another way, another Urim and Thummim. That's the Bible. If the man preaches anything that's contrary, and not found in the Word of God, then I'll leave it alone. But if he preaches what's in the Word, and God comes back and vindicates by the Urim sign that it's the truth, then that's God witnessing that that is right. To disbelieve that is to be doomed.
Jesus ... the Jews were taught to believe that they would have a Messiah. And they were told that this Messiah would be a prophet. And they'd been told that He would do the sign of the prophet.
Now, Israel had a way of testing a prophet. For if a prophet prophesied, and that what he said didn't come to pass, then he wasn't a prophet. Let him alone. But if it did come to pass, then listen at him because God had sent him. Now,

50 and this Messiah was the chief and God of all the prophets. He was over all of them.
God only had one major prophet in any generation. There never was two on the field at one time. Elijah and Elisha walked arm-in-arm, but he never become fully a prophet until Elijah's robe dropped upon him. That's true, see.
They had minor prophets, and so forth, but a prophet is a man who is born and predestinated and foreordained for that generation. The Bible teaches that. That's right. By God's foreknowledge He set a certain person for that. Now, then when Jesus came and fulfilled all the words, that He was supposed to be that prophet... Don't you know, they asked Him, "Who does men say I am? What do they say?"
"Are you that prophet?" they said.
"You've said it."

51 Or, "We're looking for a prophet." The woman at the well, as we talked of the other night, said, "We know that when the Messiah cometh, He'll be that prophet. He's that anointed One. He'll show us the sign of the Messiah."
Jesus said, "I am He that speaks to you."
She went into the city and told the men. "Isn't this the very Messiah? He told me the things that I've done." And the men believed on Him. Now remember, He never healed any sick because... He was God. He knew that Philip was coming down to heal the sick after Pentecost. He just talked to them. Never performed one more miracle. But that proved that He was the Messiah, because He knew the secret of the heart.

52 Now, how many believes, in this audience---with you Methodist, Baptist, Pentecostals, and whatever you are---how many of you believe that the Bible is true in St. John 1, where it says, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God ... and the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us?" Is that right? That was Christ.
How many believes, then, Hebrews 4? where it says the Word of God [which is Christ. Is that right? He is the living Word]... The Word of God is sharper than a two-edged sword and even a discerner of the thoughts of the heart. Back to the Word again, and the Word is with us.
Now how does the Word of the Lord come? The Word came to the ... the Word of God came to the prophets. They never questioned, because he had the Word of the Lord; because what he said come to pass. So it was the Word of the Lord, and Jesus come performing that.
And they called Him a fortune-teller, Beelzebub, a devil. And calling the work of God an evil spirit He said was blasphemy of the Holy Ghost, and would never be forgiven, in this world nor the world that is to come.

53 No wonder He was rebuking them, telling them.
They said, "We seek a sign," and after He'd proved the very Messiahic sign. And they were so stooped in their theology until they didn't want to see it. They just didn't want to. That's all. It was plain before their face.
Now any man that knows ... that's got his right mind, and will know the Bible, knows that Jesus never come contrary to the Scripture. He came with the Scripture, but He come contrary to their theology. And that's the way the Holy Spirit's come in the last days. It's come exactly with the Scripture, but contrary to people's theology. That's plain that it comes that way.

54 Now, He was rebuking them because they did not believe his Messiahic sign, and they called it an evil spirit. Read just the rest of the chapter ... the first of the chapter and see what had happened. When He told Nathanael there that day, said, "I saw you before you was under ... when you was under the fig tree I saw you."
Nathanael being an ordained man to eternal life, he said, "Rabbi, thou art the Son of God, the King of Israel."
He said, "Blessed art thou," see. "Because I told you this, you believe? You can see greater things than this." See, He's ready then to move on up into another sphere as soon as he ... he'd see greater things. Said, "You'll be able to see the angels descending and ascending upon the Son of man," now, because he was coming into higher heights.

55 If you that's just accepted Christ by justification, accept Him by sanctification and clean up your life. You're still smoking. Watch what happens, how much different. You look back to justification. You who just standing justified, and never received the baptism of the Holy Ghost, step up into that sphere, then look back down at the rest of it, see. Just keep walking, till after awhile you get so light, you just could walk on up in the rapture.
We used to sing an old song, "Each day brings me one round higher, higher," see. That's what we ought to do---never build the same fire on the grounds the second night. Just keep climbing higher and higher.

56 I was in Phoenix a few days ago, and they sang a little song, "I'm going up, up, up." They said they went up till they struck the Milky White Way. That's what we got to strike. And then he took a home run, when he hit the Milky White Way. So that's what we're to do. But Jesus performing and showing to his own people exactly according to the Scriptures ... and He was provoked at them. And it said, "Many mighty works He could not do because of their unbelief."
Now, when they call the same Holy Spirit in this day a hoax, a mental telepathy, how can you expect a revival? How can you expect ... when Jesus plainly said, and the prophets prophesied, at the evening time these things would happen. Wish we had a month to stay here and teach it, so that you'd see with infallible proof that it is.

57 And then when America looks at it, they make fun of it. "Holy roller, fortune-teller, a mental telepathist." Anybody that would call the discernment of spirit a mental telepathy, the man is insane. He doesn't know the first step of mental telepathy, because his psychology... It proves that he doesn't know what he's talking about. It shows his own ignorance of the profession that he claims to be. He doesn't even know the first step of psychology, if he calls discernment of spirits psychology. People get it...
They've got to make an answer for something. And when they do, instead of praying and asking God to reveal it, they just draw their own opinion. That's their opinion, like it is in the garden of Eden. The fig leaves was the best, so they accept it like that. "My church don't believe it, and that settles it."
It's what God said; not what your theology said. It's what the Bible said about it. That's the condition that Jesus found the church.

58 So we realize... (And I am not going to keep you like I did last night, if I can possibly help it. Friends, I only speak by inspiration, can only say as He says say. And that's why it takes me a long time sometimes.) But, I want you to notice that God in all generations, all down through the Bible, He's always had his time that when He sent his signs, wonders, and gifts amongst the people ... and, so that in the great general resurrection He could be just. For He can stand the man here. Don't you try to deny it then, for here stands the person that He spoke to you through; and you're without excuse. It's what He said about the queen there you know.

59 Now, and any time that God ever sent a gift to the world, and the people received it, they become ... it was a golden age for them. But when they rejected it, they went into chaos and disaster, and into punishment. Now, you Bible historians, or ... just speak when one time... Did they ever reject God's gifts and his signs, and they ever prospered? One time when they were going to battle, He spoke. God spoke to them, and said. "If you wish to prosper, do my prophets no harm. Believe my prophets, if you want to prosper."
Well, now, we know that if this United States of America would accept the gift of God that's sent to it... Which, out of America has went evangelists, and missionaries, that started a healing revival world-wide---as the angel of the Lord thirty-one years ago spoke down there at the river, when that light ... pillar of fire hung there.

60 And them papers packed it, "Mystic light appearing over local Baptist minister, a boy, while baptizing five hundred at the Ohio River." And He said, "As John the Baptist was sent to forerun the first coming of Christ, this message shall forerun the second." Here we are. Has it did it? From there sparked Oral Roberts, Tommy Hicks, Osborn, and so forth. Around and around the world they've went. It's did it.
Notice. Now, if America would receive God's gift, it would be a golden age for us---if all of the American churches would accept God's gift. What is God's gift to the church? The Holy Ghost. What if all the American people that believe in Christ would receive the Holy Ghost. They wouldn't have to wonder who was going to be in the Sputnik, or who's going to be in the machine 180 miles around. That church would be in glory before they could get a Sputnik started. That's right.

61 And you don't have to worry about... Now, they're so scared. Why, if we would receive God's gift to us, why, we wouldn't have to try to dig holes to hide from the atomic bomb, and put all this newscast out to build a shelter to get into.
I want to ask you something. They claim that this new hydrogen bomb... And that's the only one we know of. We don't know what they've got back in the sleeve. But they can stand in Moscow, Russia, and time a bomb right on this building by the stars, and guide it by radar---and got it placed at every major nation, and every major city in the world. Just pull one string, and there she goes. Somebody is going to drink too much vodka, one day. There it'll be.

62 And every nation's standing... We've got the same thing. And one of them bombs is going to get into somebody's radar screen, one of these days, and there she goes. And that could happen before morning.
But before that happens, the church is going up. That's right. So if that is that close, how close is the coming of Christ, if that has to go before that happens? I don't believe the church goes through the tribulation. I don't believe there's a scripture to support it. Now, if I'm different, you all just throw that out, as a bone off the chicken I've said, or a seed out the... See.

63 But remember, there wasn't a drop of rain fell till Noah got in the ark. There was no fire fell at all till Sodom ... Lot come out of Sodom. Jesus said, "As it was in them days, so will it be in the coming of the Son of man." The church already is... It don't have to be judged; it's already been judged. For it judged Christ, and Christ stood its judgment. When we are in Him, we are free from judgment. If God judges you, then He's unjust.
Christ took our judgment for us, and by one Spirit we are baptized into that body. "He that believeth on me has everlasting life and shall not come into the judgment." St. John 5:24. "He that heareth my words and believeth on Him that sent me, has everlasting life and shall not come to the judgment; but has passed from death unto life." That's the gospel.
Oh, how happy we should be, just watching and waiting for that glorious time. Now. But America condemns it, throws it out. They'd rather have their theology.
Now Jesus referred here to Solomon. But before He did that...

64 There's one man here that I'd like to talk about just a minute, and that's that fellow Jonah. So many people turn Jonah down, say, "Oh, he's a Jonah." But Jonah never got out of the will of God. How can a prophet get out of the will of God? He was God's prophet. How could he?
I was reading a book, here not long ago, on something of it. Might have been fiction; it might have been true. But Jonah took ... God told him to go to Tarshish. Elijah told Elisha to tarry back in Gilead, too. But he went on, see.

65 But we have to watch. God leads his children, and the footsteps of the righteous is ordered of the Lord. They are led by the Holy Spirit. Sometimes we think they're making a mistake. But if the Spirit's leading you, go do it anyhow.
... the Holy Spirit tells some of you people in wheelchairs, "Get up and start walking," walk anyhow. How're you going to do it? That's not your business; just listen to what the Spirit says. Tells you to come to the altar, repent---do it. "My neighbor ... my pastor..." I don't care what he says. What the Holy Spirit says, go do it. Sons of God are led by the Spirit of God.
Now. Many times I've went to cities. I've thought I made a mistake, but I just kept on battling on. After awhile it wasn't a mistake.

66 Jonah was supposed to go to Nineveh. Nineveh was a city almost the size of St. Louis out here, thousands of people. And they got away from God, and began to worship idols. And we know the story.
Jonah was supposed to go to Nineveh, but he took a ship to Tarshish. So, if he'd have went to Nineveh, the story would not have been written like it is. So, he was on his road to Tarshish, and the great sea began to roar and carry on. And Jonah, the good, honest man, told them that it was his sin and they bound his hands and feet, and throwed him out in the ocean. And God had a big fish there to swallow him.
You know, I've always felt sorry for Jonah, because... A lot of people look like... They say, "My hand's crippled. Well, I was prayed for. It's no different." "My tummy hurt; no different." As long as you look at that, you are not going to be any different. You've got to look at what God said.

67 Here some time ago, I went to pray ... about fifteen years ago, for a young man laying dying with black diphtheria---mother and father crying for me to come. Well, I went there. And the doctor was a Catholic doctor, and he wouldn't let me go in. Said, "You a married man?"
I said, "Yes, sir."
"Got children?"
I said, "Yes, sir."
He said, "I can't let you go in." He said, "That's contagious."
I said, "Sir, I'm a minister of the gospel."
He said, "I don't care." Said, "That's contagious. You're not inoculated from it."
I said, "Well, that may be true, too, but God will take care of me."
He said, "Listen, sir," he said, "I can't let you go in."
And I said, "Well, the mother and father are standing there crying."
He said, "The boy is dying. He has been dying for the last twenty-four hours."

68 I said, "I want to ask you something, doctor. Now, we differ in theology," I said, "you being Catholic, and me Protestant. But," I said, "we're worshipping the same God. You're just taking a different road. But I'd like to ask you something. If that was a Catholic boy laying in there dying, and the priest was standing here, and that boy was crying, wanting ... the father and mother begging for that boy to receive the last rites of the church, would you let him go in?"
He said, "Why, certainly."
I said, "I mean as much to them as the priest would to that Catholic boy."
And he said, "But wait a minute. The priest is not a married man; you are."
And I said, "If I'm willing to sign a statement that I'm responsible, and it won't happen to me..."
I finally persuaded him, and he dressed me up like a Ku Klux Klan, and all over my face...

69 And I went in there, and there was a little nurse there. And the boy had been unconscious for two days. And I do not understand anything about medicine. But anyhow, they put a cardiograph test on him, and some kind of a something that went all the way down the hand, and he was just barely living. I forget how many times his heart was beating per minute.
And so, the old father and mother standing there, said, "Oh." He said, "Mother, look. Brother Branham is here. It's going to be ... the Lord's going to heal him now."
I prayed for him. I said, "Heavenly Father, I come here now as your servant. I come with faith. You let me in by some means beyond that doctor. He squeezed over a little bit, and let me come in. And now I lay hands upon this precious dying boy, and I call for his life to be restored to him, in the name of Jesus Christ."
I got up,

70 and the mother and father began to hug one another, and saying, "Isn't it wonderful, mother?"
And I said, "Do you believe?"
"Oh," said, "certainly."
So went on. I started out, and the little nurse walked over there. And they were just shouting and praising God for the boy's healing (he never moved), and the mother ... the little mother and father rejoicing.
So the nurse come over. She said, "Sir," she said, "I believe in faith myself." She said, "But how can you stand there and carry on like that, and your only child laying here dying?"
"Oh," the father said, "he is not dying. He is living. He is going to live."
"Why," she said, "how do you figure anything like that?"
Said, "Why, he's a-living, sure."

71 She said, "Listen, sir." Said, "It is good to have faith, and we all believe in faith in God." See, there you go back to that hybrid theology again, see. And said, but said...
When that hand, whatever it was... Now, if there's a doctor present, I don't know what it was. But somehow, ever ... when it ever went down that low, that heartbeat with this disease, it never has been known in history to ever come back again.
The sainted old man put his arm around the little nurse's neck. He said, "Honey," said, "you're trained to watch that machine. That's what you know about." Said, "I don't blame you. That has done a lot of good things." He said, "But you see, it depends on what you're looking at." Said, "You're looking to what that machine says. I'm looking at what a promise of God said."
And that boy is a missionary in Africa tonight, the father of two children, preaching the gospel.

72 It depends on what you're looking at. The Bible ... the Christian looks at the unseen. Not what you'll see here, but what God said. It's a promise. Don't care what science says or anything; it's what God said.
You know people talk about symptoms. I think Jonah had the worst case of symptoms I ever knowed of. Remember, he was in the belly of a whale. And now, he was way out in the ocean a couple days journey. Perhaps it was forty fathoms deep there. And there was a storm on the sea, and his hands was tied behind him.

73 And you know what he was doing?
The fish, when it feeds and gets a belly full, he goes down to the bottom of the sea to rest. Just feed your goldfish and see what happens. He goes down and rests. So he has this prophet in his belly, so he's pretty well filled up. So he went down to rest.
And there he was, with his hands tied behind him. And if he turned over in the vomit of the whale, when he looked this way it was whale's belly; this way was whale's belly. Everywhere he looked was whale's belly. Now, there's nobody here in that bad a shape tonight. You know that.
But you know what that prophet said? He refused to see the whale's belly. He said, "They're lying vanities. I won't look at them." He said, "But once more will I look to your holy temple," for when Solomon dedicated the temple he prayed---a man, an earthly man who later backslid. When he dedicated the temple of God, he prayed. He said, "Lord, if thy people be in trouble anywhere, and look towards this holy place and pray, then hear from heaven."
He had that much confidence in the prayer of Solomon, a man, by a earthly temple.

74 And God, I don't know what He done. He must have put an oxygen tank in there, or something. But He kept him alive for three days and nights, and delivered him at Nineveh where he was supposed to go.
And if Jonah could have that much faith in a man's prayer---an earthly man that later backslid, to a earthly tabernacle built with hands---how much more we, under these circumstances, can have faith in the blood of Jesus Christ, who stepped out of the earthly temple to the right hand of God, the Father, with his own bloody garments making intercession upon our confession. How much more can we deny any symptom that's contrary to the faith of God that's leading us. How can we do such a thing?
Now, today... Jonah wasn't altogether that, but he also ... Jonah was in the will of God.

75 Now, the people had begun to worship beasts and animals. That's what heathens do, worship animals. I see all these people with little old dogs around, and practicing birth control. I believe it's just about got back to America again.
So then, we come back, and we find that they worship... The god of the sea was the whale. They were fishermen by occupation. All the men were out fishing with their nets.
And one day about eleven o'clock in the day, here come the sea-god in. The whale raised up out of the sea. All the men got scared because the great sea-god was coming in. It run up to the bank, licked his tongue out for a gangplank, and the prophet walked right off; and began to prophesy, "Repent, or this place will perish in forty days."
Right down through the street he went with his bald head shining, "Repent, or this place will perish. Repent, or the place will perish." Sure. The god spit the prophet out. Sure. God knows how to do things. He knows just how to make everything work right.
Jesus referred to him here. "A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after signs," He said, "seeking after signs." But He said, "They will receive a sign. For as Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and nights, so the Son of man..."

76 Now, I want to ask you something. Quickly now, because I see we got to hurry. I want to ask you something. What generation was He talking about? How many knows the Scripture always has a compound answer? Sure it does. "Out of Nineveh ... out of Egypt I've called my son," Matthew 3. Run that reference back. It was Jacob, his son, He called out. Also, Jesus, his Son, see. All right.
Now, if He was talking about a wicked and an adulterous generation, it was this generation---a wicked and a evil ... an adulterous generation. And He said they would receive a sign. Now, put on your caps, put on ... open up your heart. Besides that, put a spiritual funnel out to catch it. Remember, He said, "This wicked and adulterous generation would receive a sign." What kind of a sign? The sign of the resurrection.
You get it? Christ alive tonight, among us doing the same things that He did. A wicked and adulterous generation will receive a sign of the resurrection. That's exactly, exactly what the scriptures promised. We'll receive a sign of the resurrection.
Now quickly to my closing thoughts. Wish we had more time, but we haven't.

77 Then He come to Solomon. In the days of Solomon... Now, give me your undivided attention for about ten minutes.
In the days of Solomon it was a golden age. God gave a gift to the earth. It was the gift of discernment. Solomon had a discernment. How many knows that? And he could discern, because it was from God. The word of God was with Solomon. He could discern. Why, all the people rallied around that gift. Oh, my!
And any minister knows that was Israel's golden age. No wars, and they built the temple, and everything was at peace, and everything---because they received the gift that God sent. And them days they didn't have television (Thank the Lord!) but they ... the only way they had to carry news was from lip-to-ear. And every caravan passing through would hear about this great gift. They'd go over to Solomon's church and look at it, then go back and take it to nations, till his fame scattered everywhere.

78 Way down in Sheba (mark it on your map, how far it is), plumb down across the Sahara Desert, people coming through down... There was a little queen down there, and she heard of the fame. Everybody would come through and pass through Egypt, say, "Oh ..." or pass through Israel, would say, "You should go up into Israel. Oh, their God is a living God. He's moving among them. They got a man up there is anointed with his Spirit, and he does things that a man can't do. It's a supernatural."
And the little queen began to hear of it, everybody talking of it. What if we'd just go talking about our God like that, how He gives the Holy Ghost, and peace, and joy, understanding---oh, wouldn't it be wonderful?
Now faith cometh by hearing the word of God. Now, her little heart began to hunger. You know you can't talk about God unless it makes your heart hunger, if there is anything in you anyhow. So her little heart began to hunger. "Oh, I wonder if that's true." Next caravan come through, "Have you been up in Israel? They tell me they've got a revival going on up there."
"Yup, yup, yup, yup."
"Did you see it?"
"Yeah. Oh, I tell you, I never seen such! Why, there is not a human being on earth ever was known of... That wisdom, that discernment is perfect."
"Did you see it?"
"Oh, it worked on me. I know it was," see. "Sure, it was wonderful. Oh, you ought to have seen it. Oh, that man, he... Why it couldn't be the man. I felt his hand. I shook his hand. He wears clothes like we do, but he is anointed with the Spirit of God, and he gives God all the praise. He said God give him the gift to lead the people. Oh, how everything is glorious. You should see it."

79 Faith cometh by hearing.
Now today, we'd say, "Ha, hmm. We're Methodist. We're Baptist. We got no need of that kind of stuff." No. That's the reason we don't get nowhere. "Holy rollers, that bunch of Pentecostals. Nah, nothing to that. Bunch of holy rollers," see.
Go ahead. Our name's on a bomb out yonder somewhere. We'll get it. We'll get the reward, don't worry. So then... They did the day they rejected Jesus. They did the day they rejected the rest of them, rejected Noah, and all down through, and God never fails. He's always the same. So we'll get it.

80 Now we notice the first thing happened. Now let's just watch for a few more minutes. Now the little queen began to thirst, hungering and thirst. What did Jesus say? "Blessed are they that do hunger and thirst for righteousness." Just even whether they got it or not, they're... Just thirsting for it you're blessed.
So she said, "I must go see." So the first thing she does, she has to go see her pastor, her bishop, you know, before she can come. So, you know she's a dignitary, you know.
So I can see her go up and say, "Holy father, they tell me that the Israelites up there has got a revival going on, and their God is come down living in a man, and he's got a powerful discernment, and there's nothing like it."

81 "My daughter, (ahem, ahem) I am the holy reverend father, and you really understand that if there was anything in the supernatural line going on, our church would have it. [We still have them, you know.] So don't fool with that bunch. That's illiterate bunch up there. There's nothing like that. That's just a make believe. There's nothing to it. Don't go up."
"Well," she said, "look. If it was in our church, then why haven't I seen it in our church? [There's a good question.] Why don't I see it? Now, I've been here... My grandmother belonged to this church. My grandmother and grandfather were members here. My great-grandfather and -grandmother was here. And we have never seen one move of anything supernatural.
"So now, you tell me all of this, and these idols, and so forth. And you got a lot of books here, and a lot of theology; but I don't see them. But they tell me that something's alive up there [Amen. I like that.], something that's real, something that can produce itself [Hallelujah!]. Not hybrid; but it can produce the right thing."
"Well," he said, "Now, my daughter, listen. Do you realize that you have a social standing? You belong to all these clubs, and things. If you go, you know what's going to happen?"
"I don't care what happens."
Boy, when a man and woman goes to hungering for God, there is nothing going to stop them. She goes back down. I wish we could linger longer on it, but we've got to hurry.

82 So she goes back down, and she said, "You know what? I'm going anyhow. So I don't care if they excommunicate me, and take my name off the book. I'm going anyhow. It don't make any difference. If our church is not cooperating with it, that don't mean a thing. I'm going because something in my heart is telling me there is a living God somewhere, and I am determined to find Him." Amen!
Now, when you get that, there is nothing going to stop you. No holy fathers, or bishops, or nothing else is going to stop you. No pagan ceremonies, or no man-made theology, or anything else, if God is pushing at your heart. If He isn't woe, unto you. God be merciful to you.
Then we find out, she said, "Well, now, if they take my name off the book..."
All the sisters got around, said, "You are the queen."

83 She said, "I don't care what I am. I've got to answer this call that is calling."
When the deep calls to the deep, there has got to be a deep to respond to that call. That's right. Before there's a fin on the fish's back, there had to be a water first for him to swim in. If you believe in divine healing... Do you do it? Say, "Amen." That shows there is divine healing somewhere. That's right, because you'd never have that crave.

84 I got a little boy (out of the paper the other day) where he'd eat the erasers off of his pencils, and his mammy found him eating the pedal off of a bicycle. They took him down to the laboratory to ... or the clinic, to test him, to find out his little body needed sulfur. He found it in rubber. Why? That's where sulfur is at---in rubber. See, before there could be a crave for sulfur there had to be a sulfur, to respond to that crave.
Before there could be a creation, there has to be a creator to create the creation. Hallelujah! And if tonight we're here hungering for divine healing, there's a fountain open somewhere. You're hungering for more of God, there's more of God somewhere, or you wouldn't have the hunger. That's only the law of God, one of his laws---like sowing and reaping, and so forth.

85 Notice now. She got ready. She said, "Now, wait a minute. It might not be true. I don't know, but I believe it is. So you know, if it is true I'm going to take a lot of money. I'm going to support it. And if it isn't true, I can bring my money back."
You know it would do Pentecostal people good to take her advice. So many people support things on radio that laugh and call you a holy roller, make fun of you. And yet you support radio programs with such stuff as that, with your good, hard-earned, money. I'd put it where it really done good. That's right. Ministers never told me to say that. I don't talk to no one during the meetings. I'm alone in the room. But that's true. If it's right, it's worth not only your money; it's worth your life, it's worth everything. If it isn't right, leave it alone.
So I imagine she bought up all the scrolls, and tried to read what Jehovah was. That's a good way. Find out what He is, and then you see whether it's Him or not.

86 That's the way people ought to do today. Read what Jesus was yesterday, then see if it's Him today. That's right. See if He acts the same today as He did yesterday. See if it's the same Spirit, same God all the way through the Bible. See if it's Him. See if He shows the same things. Then, if your theology is contrary to that, get rid of your theology, and get God. That's right.

87 Now, remember now. Look. She had a lot of perils to go through. That little queen had a lot to face her. Remember. What did she do? She probably scouted herself up a little army---a bunch of eunuchs ---and some maidens to go with her. And remember, she had a long ways to travel.
And besides, Ishmael's children was in the desert, and they were robbers. Well, what an easy thing that would be with all that she had took---much gold, spices that ... didn't know nothing about, the rest of the world, and frankincense, and great costly treasures. Why, that little... Them Ishmaelites, them fleet-footed riders could've rode in there, and killed that little band off, and took that money, and went in a few minutes.

88 But you know, when something is moving in your heart to find God, you don't know no fear.
Say, "Can I walk, Brother Branham?" If you really are hungering to walk, God's putting it in your heart... You say, "I might make a mistake." What mistake? God will take you through it. Don't you never worry there, if God's telling you in your heart.
Say, "Brother Branham, I'd like to preach the whole gospel, but I'm afraid to. They'd excommunicate me. They'd take my papers away from me." Throw it back at 'em, and then start walking with God!

89 Nurse told me the other day, said, "I believe divine healing, but," said, "they'd take my sheepskin away from me. If anybody professes divine healing up on the hospital" (where I prayed for some people and they were healed), said, "if I profess it, they'd take my nurse's rights, my sheepskin away from me."
I said, "That's a goatskin. Throw it away, and get a real sheepskin," I said. "Get a ... where the blood of Jesus Christ is wrote." That's true. Anything ... I believe in medicine, I believe in doctors. I believe in hospitals. But don't be a fanatic. Don't go to that extreme, to know that them things are the only thing. God is the one that does the healing. Them's only nature's...
I believe in machinery. I believe in automobiles, and I believe in soap to wash your hands with, and clothes that we wear, and machines, and things. I believe in that. But it ain't going to hinder my faith in Almighty God to know that He is the one that gives them, and sends them to me. That's exactly right. Sure.

90 Now, we notice she had a lot to conflict her. But, you know, when anybody is really thirsting for God, there ain't nothing going to stop them. She moved on.
Now remember. She didn't just go in fifteen minutes. Did you measure the distance? You know how long it takes? How long it takes to drive it? Well, first thing, she had to pass over the Sahara Desert. And she didn't go in an air-conditioned Cadillac. No. But she went on the back of a camel. It taken her three months to make it. Three months! No wonder Jesus said, "She'll stand in this generation and condemn it,"

91 when people live across the street won't come. Got cars, and transportation, and everything else, and still... That shows she'll stand with this United States in this generation, in the days of her resurrection, and condemn this nation. Jesus said so. That makes it right.
She didn't come in an air-conditioned coach, or a Cadillac. She probably had to travel by night in the little caravan, and a few eunuchs with her. But she was determined to find out whether that was of God or not. All along reading, and had to travel at night; daytime, little oasis somewhere or other, the howling winds, and read the scrolls---what God was and what He would ... what she'd expect if it was God.

92 And when she finally got there...
Now she never come to stay ... like some people at Bloomington, or so forth, come. They'll come in, and sit down a minute. "I'll go. Somebody, my maid, my so-and-so, they asked me to go. So, I guess I'll go. But if he says one thing contrary to what I believe, I'll stomp right out." That shows your ignorance. That shows what kind of a home you was brought up in. I was brought up in a mountain home in Kentucky, but my mammy raised me better than that, to give respects. If I come, I'd stay till this ended, or I wouldn't come at all. But get right up, and, "First thing he says I don't believe, away I go. There you are. Go right ahead.
Then ...

93 but she come to stay. When she finally arrived at the gate, what did she do? She unpacked the camels, fixed her tent, and prepared to stay till she was satisfied. Look into the Scriptures, till she examined it to see whether it was right or not. Now that's the way we should do. No wonder she'll condemn this generation. She's got to. She'll condemn it. She stayed. Not say, "Well, if they preach over twenty minutes, brother, I'm gone." But she stayed for day after day. She come because there was something in her heart pulling to her.
You say, "But, Brother Branham, it might mean I'll lose two hours' sleep." It meant a kingdom to her. But it meant life to her also. (You think I'm hard, but I'm not, see. I just want you to know truth.)

94 So she stayed there. She unloaded her camels, and she set up. I can imagine, next morning ... a little drama, now, in closing. She goes over to the... She said, "I'll find out now. I know just about what Jehovah is, because I've read the prophets, and I know what it'll be."
Well, the church bells tolled, and the music played. After awhile pastor Solomon came out, came out on the platform, and noticed the first one with a prayer card, or whatever they had, coming up, who ... however they had to select it. Come up. She noticed that discernment was perfect. I imagine her little heart began to beat. Next one come up, perfect. Next one come up, perfect. Next one come up, perfect. Oh, my! Imagine back to her tent she went, and called her little maids in, said, "Oh, it's just exactly, just exactly according to this Word, this Scripture here I read. It's according to what everybody else told me. I'm going to get me a card, and get up there too. Yes, sir. So I'm going to go.

95 So she got her position, and when she come to a place to where she was going to get up, got her preparation rather... And when she got ready, when she come up before Solomon, the Bible said that there was nothing hid from Solomon before her. He told her what was in her heart.
You know what that little heathen woman done? She turned, because Solomon said it, and she knowed it was from God. She said, "Blessed be the Lord God." Watch the words. Elohim, the great Jehovah. "Blessed be the Lord your God, that gives you these things. All that I heard was true, and more than I heard [because it happened to her, you see], more than I heard is true." And she said, "Even blessed are these men that are with you, that stand here daily, watching before you this gift work. Blessed are they that are with you. Oh, this is glorious," she said.

96 And Jesus said, "She'll stand in the day of the judgment, and condemn this generation, because a greater than Solomon is here." O God, be merciful to us is my prayer.
I would like to go on a little further. "Blessed are the people that's with you, that constantly see this go all the time. All that I heard is right, and more. More than I thought was, is right."
Let us bow our heads. Lord Jesus, You are still the same God. There is no difference in You. You are God on the housetop, You're God in the mountain, You're God in the valley, You're God of the sea. You're God of heavens, You're God of creation. You're the God of our life. You're the God of everything there is. You are God.
I pray Thee, Lord, that as this little group of people---just two or three hundred people sitting here together tonight... Yet, You come all the way from heaven to hear the cry of one blind beggar. You come all the way from heaven one time to answer, or cross the ocean to one man that was insane, the maniac of Gadarea---healed that one man and returned to your home. You would come from glory tonight to confirm your Word, because the Bible says You watch over it to confirm it.

97 O God, let it be that they'll not notice this poor illiterate dumb man that's standing here, trying to speak the Word. But may the great Holy Spirit come and speak. They're a lovely audience, Lord. I love to talk to them. I keep them too long each night. But, Father God, one word from You will mean more than a million billion that I could say. Come and prove that what I've said is the truth, that a greater than Solomon is here. Come and prove to them, Lord, that You are the resurrected Lord Jesus, keeping your Word.
I commit myself, and this church, and these sick people into your hands in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

98 Now, will you wait another ten minutes or fifteen? I won't have time ... and where is Billy Paul? What cards did he give out Monday? Do you know? or the day that I gave out ... Sunday, was it, the day that I prayed for the sick? What was he? A, A's? All right. What's Paul's number? First part of them was from 1. Let's call from the last part of them. Let's see. Let start from ... where? Let's start from 75. Let's see if we got them.
Is A1 ... is A75 here? Raise up your hand. Somebody look at your card. No? Well, we'll start from somewhere else. All right. All right, A75, is that right? Come right here, young fellow. A76, where is it at? All right, mister. A77, raise up your hand.

99 We'll get to all of them. We'll just have to call them as we can. 77, where was it at? 77, 78, who has A78? Come here, 78.
Now, there's something wrong somewhere. 75, 76, who's got 77? 76 ... say he's got 76? Who has prayer card A76? All right. Somebody raised their hand wrong. Don't do that. You get us confused. All right, 76, 77, 78, 79 ... 79 raise up your hand, please. All right, 80?
Now if you can't get up, you people in the wheelchairs... You got a prayer card? Oh, you don't have to have a prayer card to get healed. This is just people coming to the platform. Now, 71 or ... where did I start? I forget. 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80. 81, 81, raise your hand, 82 raise your hand if you can. 83, 84, 84. All right, 85, 86, 87, 87.
Look at your neighbor. It might be somebody deaf, and can't hear. Look at your neighbor's card. Look in the ... got it? All right. 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 2, 3, 4, 5, 96, 97, 98, 98. 98, did ... I missed it. 98, raise up your hand. 98 [blank spot] ... a prayer card, and you're sick, and you want God to heal you, raise up your hands. Raise up your hands, wherever. Everywhere.
Now please, don't be in no hurry. Just keep quiet, just a few minutes. You'll... What could be any more essential? If the world stood still... If they were going to create a bomb that would blow up the rest of the world, that wouldn't be essential. If you was going to receive $100,000,000, it still wouldn't be essential. Is our God alive? Is our faith in vain? Is He real, or is He not real?

100 If I said to... If every one of them wheelchairs, people sitting there... I think the reason is they come in, they come in, they're going to have a prayer... We're going down and pray for all the wheelchairs tomorrow night, is it? Or when is it? Friday night, they give for the wheelchairs. That don't ... you don't ... necessary that... You can be healed right now. Don't wait till Friday night. I challenge you, in those wheelchairs, to look this way and believe that I am God's prophet ... or, excuse me, God's servant, please. (See, that word scatters, and beats people.) I'm not a prophet. I'm just his servant. You believe that with all your heart.

101 I cannot heal you. No, sir. Nor nobody else can heal you. It's your own faith that does it. But, if you'll realize that it's the same Jesus... When He was here on earth He said, "I do nothing till the Father shows me." Is that right? St. John 5:19. Jesus ... well, think. Never performed one miracle until God showed Him (not told Him, but showed Him) by a vision; or the Bible told something wrong, Jesus told a lie. So He couldn't do it. He's God.
Jesus said in St. John 5:19, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in himself but what He sees the Father doing: that doeth the Son likewise." See if that's not in your Bible---King James, or Moffatt or any translation you want to take. See if it isn't the same thing. If ... the original Greek Diaglott, if you want to, you'll find the same thing. "I do nothing until I see the Father..." In other words, He acted out in drama.

102 Now, while they're getting them lined up, I want to ask you one thing. Look. There was a woman one time in the Bible, that she didn't have no prayer card for the sick. But she said, "I believe that that man is the Son of God. So if I can just touch his garment, I'll be made whole." How many knows that's the truth? And she touched his garment. Is that right? She went back out in the audience. Maybe she was sitting down like you are. Maybe she stood up. I don't know.
But Jesus stopped, and everybody was putting their hands around Him, you know, saying, "Rabbi, we're glad you're over here. Come, Rabbi. We've heard many things that you've done in Galilee. We'd like to see you perform something over here." "How do you do, Rabbi? Come, go home for dinner with me."

103 That little woman slipped up. Now, physically, He couldn't have felt it, because that garment hangs loose, and it's got an underneath garment. So, I wouldn't have felt it if it was on my coat tail here, as we call it. And how about that big, loose garment? But He spiritually felt it.
Watch what He said. He said, "Who touched me?"
And Peter got so provoked, he said ... he rebuked Jesus. The Bible says that Peter rebuked Jesus. Said, "Why would you say a thing like that? Why, you sound like you're an insane. Why, everybody is touching you. Why would you say a thing like that?" Rebuked him.
He said, "I perceive that I got weak." Is that right? Now you read in the King James, "virtue went out of him," which is strength. "I perceive that I've got weak."

104 Well, if one vision, one person, made the Son of God get weak, what would it do to me, a sinner saved by his grace? Now when... You can't take too many. You know that. You fall right over.
And when Jesus said, "Greater things than this you do." You get the Greek Emphatic Diaglott, and find out if it ain't right, "more than this shall you do." Instead of greater; more. You couldn't do no greater, but you can do more of it, because there'll be more shall you do.
Now. And He looked around over the audience till He found the woman, and He said ... told her that she'd had a blood issue, and her faith had made her whole. Is that right? Now how many believes that He is still that same Christ tonight?
How many knows that the New Testament, the book of Hebrews, said that He is right now, this minute, our high priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities? How many knows that? If He is the same high priest, He'd act the same way. He's the vine; we are the branches. He cannot do nothing. He is waiting for us to do it. He made us joint heirs, and we're workers with Him.

105 Now you touch Him with your infirmities, you without a prayer card. You touch Him. And if I've told you the truth, then He'll speak back through me, and say the same thing to you as He said that day.
How many would love Him, and believe Him, and worship Him, and die for Him if He'd do that tonight before us, after we'd get through with them?
Heavenly Father, that's as far as any man can go. The next is yours, Father. You have to speak, for I can speak no more. Now it's at the showdown. Is your word right, or is it not right? And let all these people in these wheelchairs, all these people with heart trouble, all these people with TB, cancer, whatever it might be, let them Father, touch tonight. May every person in here be healed. Oh, eternal God, I pray for every one of them.

106 Hear my prayer, Father. I just ... with all my heart, how I would just love to see you heal every one. And Father, You have healed every one.
I pray for their faith, then, that it will not fail in this hour; that they will know that there's never been nothing like this since the days of Christ, Himself. And You promised it would be back in this last days, and here it is. Grant it, Lord.
I'm depending on You. I'm saying that boldly, because I believe that You will do, tonight, the same as You always have done. I commit myself to You in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

107 Now let it be well known to this audience, that I do not claim to be our Lord Jesus Christ. How many understands that? Jesus is in heaven. When He comes, every knee shall bow and every tongue confess. But I do say that his Spirit, the Holy Spirit, is here. And by a divine gift of that Holy Spirit...
When I was a little boy, only a few months old, I saw my first vision. Tens of thousands of them has happened since then, and not one of them has ever failed.
I'm talking to people here that's been with me around the world. And raise your hand, if I ever said anything in the name of the Lord but what come to pass. Anybody here that ever hear me mention something in "thus saith the Lord" that it ever failed to be right, raise your hands, and come tell me about it. See, it's true then. It's God. Man can't do that.

108 And remember, now, you people in the wheelchairs, and all of you, or you without prayer cards: it isn't whether you're here or not. That... Me touching you, it won't have a bit of good. You touching me won't do a bit. But if you'll touch Him, it'll happen---because He's already purchased your healing.
Let's hear you say that together. "He has already healed me. Lord, help my unbelief that I may believe, and touch the high priest that can be touched by the feeling of my infirmities." Now you've got it.
Now remember.

109 All of you in that line that knows that I know nothing about you, raise up your hands---all that's in that prayer line, every one. All that's in the audience that knows that I do not know you or anything about you, raise up your hands. There you are.
Now here's the Bible says it, here's the Bible promised it. The Holy Spirit ... and if this works, you remember ... which it will. You remember this great joy that you feel, this thing called the Holy Spirit, that it's true.

110 Now listen (to you Pentecostal people), didn't Paul say, "If one of you speak in tongues, and there be no interpreter, the unlearned will say, 'Why, you're mad.' But if there be a prophet among you who will prophesy, and reveal the secrets of the heart, then they'll fall down and say, 'Truly, God is with you.' "? Is that right?
Well, if you believe in speaking in tongues, how can you deny this? See what I mean?

111 Now, who is the first one? Who is on the end of line? This ... are you, young fellow? Would you come here? A young boy, think of it.
Now, I never seen that boy in my life, as far as I know. We are strangers to one another. If that's right, raise up your hand, sir, by this Bible. I never seen him in my life, know nothing of him. But he is standing here for something. Perhaps he's sick. I don't know. I have no idea.
If he is sick, then I cannot heal him. But if I just lay my hands on him, say, "You can be healed. Praise God. You're healed. Go believe it," well, that's all right. If he'd believe it, he'd get healed, I believe. If he truly believed it; not make-belief, but really believed it. Don't you believe that? The boy would get healed.

112 Maybe it's financial troubles. Maybe it's domestic trouble. Maybe he's married, and he and his wife's having trouble. Maybe he and his girlfriend's having trouble. Maybe he's not married. I don't know what he's there for. I have no idea.
But it will take the God of heaven to reveal it. Now if He does, every person in here will know it will have to be some spirit.
The boy may be a student of this school here. I don't know. If it is, and the Holy Spirit does something from him, I trust that he will be gentleman enough to go tell them, see. That's right. I hope it is. Pardon me. (Oh, this thing kind of... All right? Now, I don't know who's on the mike.)
I don't know when the visions strike. You realize, I'm looking somewhere, and seeing something that happened way back somewhere else, maybe go years back, and everything.

113 Now I'm going to ask you to be real reverent. When the Holy Spirit does anything, and you want to praise Him, that's what you should do. But while we're sitting... Now, let's reverently and quietly move into the Shekinah, in the presence of God. To me and this young man here, who never met in our lives, standing here---earth people here, that's going to eternity to meet God, and answer at that day of the judgment, we are looking across God's Holy Bible.
You are a man that ... perhaps some of them gave you a prayer card, and it just happened to be tonight that your number was called, and that's all you know about it. We're standing here. And if God will reveal to me the secret in your heart, and tell you ... and if He'll tell me to tell you what you're here for, or what's wrong with you, or something that which you know I know nothing about you, would you believe it with all your heart, young man? Would all the audience believe with all their heart? For me, and this young man, standing here, there's two men, eternity-bound people over God's Bible laying here, see.
Now Lord, it's up to You. I can only speak your Word, and your Word is the truth, and I approached it in the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, confessing this that was ministered to me by an angel, which cannot fail because it's God.

114 No, you are not from this school. You're not even from this state. You're from out of state. You come from Missouri, here. That's right. You're a minister, a young minister. You're in confusion, of what about your ministry. What must you do? That's been on your heart and mind. You're trying to seek even for a private interview, for me to find out what to do with your ministry. Stay where you are. He's fixing to move you. Do you believe me?
Here is another thing. You got somebody on your heart you are praying for. It's a man. He's dying with cancer and you are standing here in his behalf. Those things are true? They are? Do you believe now you'll get what you ask for? Then go. God's peace be with you.

115 Now let us just raise our hands. Pentecostal people, how can you hold your peace, when the very God that you love is so straight and so true. Just believe. Sworn affidavits, the Holy Spirit. All right.
I do not know you, lady. I want you to look at me across the Bible. I do not know you, do I? We're strangers to one another. But if Jesus Christ will reveal to me ... in your heart, just like He talked to the woman at the well, and would reveal to me something that you know... If it was anything, I wouldn't know, because you know I don't know you, and you don't know me. Those things are true?
Say, "What are you doing, Brother Branham?" It's the Word of God in here that is sharper than a two-edged sword, a discerner of the thoughts of the heart ---Christ, the living Word of God, making Himself known in infallible proof. Do you believe me to be his prophet? or his servant?

116 Yes, you're sick. If God will describe me where your sickness is, will you believe? It's in your kidneys, and in your bladder. If that's right, raise your hand. One is causing the other. Comes from your kidneys, irritation in the bladder. You've fought it quite a while. It's going to leave you now. Do you believe that? You're not from right here. You're from another city, but you're from Illinois, Urbana. That's right. U-r-b-a-n-a. That's true, isn't it? If I tell you who you are, will it help you? Mrs. Potts. Have faith. Do you believe with all your heart? That should settle it.
Just be reverent, be real reverent. Give us just about five more minutes. Next person, please.

117 Come look across the Bible. The God of heaven knows both of us. He knows why you're here; He knows why I'm here. But to know you, I do not. I have no idea what you're here for. But if the God of heaven will reveal to me what you're here for, will you believe me to be his prophet?
Now then, I could not heal you. You know that. But it'll only raise your faith to heal. What would it do to you people there in the wheelchairs? Just look, just believe now. Your hour is close, if you'll just believe it right now.
Please don't walk around. See, each one of you is a spirit, and I've got each one of your spirits in contact, like a breath. The anointing of the Holy Spirit ... everything is sinful when that comes on you. Everything you look at is sinful. And to disobey... That's what He told me to do: "Get the people to believe you, and then be sincere."
When I say, "Be quiet, don't move around," and you don't do it, that shows you don't believe, see.
That reflects back, and the Holy Spirit says, "Leave, leave them alone."
But I cry to Him day and night, "Lord, don't do it yet. Let me try again," because I realize what heaven is.

118 Did you ever read the little testimony in the Christian Businessmen, the little translation or vision I had the other night? I want every person in here to get one of those. If you ain't got the money, take it anyhow. I'll pay for it. You've read it? Isn't that beautiful? How could I ever let someone miss that place there?
You're nervous, complications, lots of things wrong with you. But there's one main thing you have on your heart. It's for somebody else. That's a younger person. It's a woman. It's your daughter. She's awfully nervous, and she's had an operation that's caused it.

119 You're not from here. Originally you're from Arkansas. Do you believe God can tell me who you are? Will it help you? Mrs. Martin, go home. Jesus Christ makes you well. Have faith, don't doubt. Believe on the Lord.
Now, it's weakening me. Brother, please. Everybody, please, quiet, sit still. Please, please, please. I ask, "Please, don't get up." Please. It leaves me, you see, and then I have to come back again, see. Please, just be reverent. All right.

120 I suppose we are strangers to one another, are we, sir? All right, sir. We are strangers. The Lord Jesus can reveal to me what your trouble is, will you believe me? I hate to tell you this. Do you want me to tell you anyhow? You're shadowed, cancer. You are shadowed to death. You've had some habits you've got to give up. That's right. Will you do it? Let me show you something. I feel another spirit moving in. It's the devil. You are trying to get right with God. Frankly, you've just been baptized. That's right.
That lady sitting there with leukemia, do you believe Jesus Christ make you well? If you have faith, He'll do... Do you accept it? Do you believe that He'll heal and make you well? Have you got a prayer card? You don't. See, it's cancer, too, sister. You don't have to have a prayer card. Raise up your hand to Christ---the lady sitting there with the little red coat laying across her lap.
Don't you all see that light hanging over the woman?

121 I want to ask something. You be honest with me. When I spoke cancer and death, something strange happened to you. Is that right? You had a funny feeling-like come over you. Is this right? If that's right, wave your hand so that the people there'll see, see. It's death, too, on the woman. It's leukemia, or that's what the doctor said, and he's right.
Now, you're both under the shadows of death. That dark streak coming from this, what is it? It's that devil in here called cancer. Cancer is a Greek word, or a medical word, means "crab." But it's a devil. It's a killer, a tormentor. It's on this man, and in that woman. And see, he was calling for help to try to get this man to disbelieve it, and the Holy Spirit beat him to it, and throwed faith on the woman. She touched something. See, that devil thought he could get by with it. Will you both believe on Jesus Christ, accept Him as your healer? Raise your hand. Then, in the name of Jesus Christ, I condemn that devil to leave you both. Go and be well.

122 If there is anybody here that is a skeptic, you ought to be ashamed of yourself. You are worse off than they were.
How do you do? Is there no usher there to take up those prayer cards? The people are crossing it up, with the prayer cards in their hands. Now, if you'll just wait, just a moment or two longer, honestly we'll quit. See, when you are moving, get up, and move around, it just throws the contact of the Spirit off.
It's in the audience. That man sitting right there with arthritis, do you believe that God will make you well? All right, sir. You were praying, wasn't you, sir? Look how far he is from me. All right. Believe with all your heart, and the arthritis will leave you.

123 The man sitting right back here behind ... two or three behind him there, got prostate trouble. Mister, you was praying that ... something struck you when I said, "arthritis." That meant something ... struck you. If that is right, raise up your hand---man, kind of bald-headed, wearing glasses. That's exactly right. You believe me to be his prophet? Then I pronounce you healed in the name of Jesus Christ. The man right behind him got a lot of faith just then. Right. I don't know you, sir, but you're suffering with nervousness and complications. If that's right, raise up your hand. Receive your healing. Jesus Christ makes you well. Have faith. Don't doubt.
Nervous, anemia, high blood pressure, that's right. Is that right, lady? Raise your hand. Do you accept your healing? All right. In the name of Jesus Christ...

124 What did you raise your hand, back behind there, for. The woman. Do you believe me to be God's prophet? Do you believe God can tell me what your trouble is? With all your heart you'll accept it? You have a ladies' female trouble, and eczema. If that's right, stand on your feet. Then go home, and be healed in the name of Jesus Christ.
Can't you see it's the Lord Jesus? I challenge any of you to believe that. Them people out there with no prayer cards, or nothing else, just believe Him. Do you believe me to be his prophet? If God will reveal to me the things in your heart... ?
You see, it's just about got me, so I can't stay here much longer. Don't ... please... Look at me. As I said... Like Peter and John passed through the gate called "Beautiful" said, "Look on us."

125 You suffer with your eyes. You want prayed for. 'Course you say you got on glasses. Not only that, but you suffer with your ears. You got trouble up in your nose that you can't see. If that's right, raise your hands. Yes, sir. They don't know what it is, but it's actually fungus---stops up your nose up there. That's right. And another thing. You got chest trouble. That's right. You're not from this city. You're not from this country. You are from Michigan. That's right. Your name is Mrs. Swanson. Now go home and be healed in the name of Jesus Christ.

126 Do you believe, every one of you? Then lay your hands over on one another. Now just keep [unclear words]. Put your hands on one another, ever where you are. Put your hands on each other, in the presence of the Holy Ghost.
I just can't see any farther, because all of you've done turned white out there. Looks like there's just a light over every one of you. If I have found grace in your sight, if you believe me---you in the prayer line here, wherever you are---if you believe with all your heart, and I've found grace in your sight... The Holy Spirit is so dense in here tonight, till there is like a light all over, where I can't see people out there no more. It seems to be so anointed, there's only one thing can keep you from being healed. That's your unbelief. You don't need a prayer card, ever where you are. The Holy Spirit has got the whole place illuminated with his power. Wherever you accept it, raise up.
Satan, I rebuke you, devil. In the name of Jesus Christ come out of this audience, and leave them.

A Greater than Solomon is here

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1 It's really nice to be back here in the pulpit tonight in the service of the Lord. A special greeting to my brethren up here in the ... behind me in the pulpit. And I'm so happy to be here. I wonder, where is my friend, Chris Berg? I can't place him or see him. Where's he at? Oh, there you are, Chris. Keep off of my grizzly bear! [Brother Branham laughs.] Oh, what a great time Chris and I had the last time up here. I've been looking every night for him.

2 And I made a mistake, I believe. I said I was out and eat dinner with the Bentrude family out here, and I find out it isn't Bentrude. I think it was Bentrude's daughter, married someone else. I forget ... Niestead. Well, Brother and Sister Niestead, if you're here, I'm sorry, but I think you were the Bentrude to begin with. I think that's right. I'm not sure, but I think that's right. So I was halfway right. But, anyhow, I said they was killing me with kindness, and that's just about the way it went. So we are very grateful.

3 And I understood today through the brother from Dawson Creek (I call him Brother Eddie) that my old friend, Brother Durney, is still living, and that... I believe another missionary from up there brought me word that Della was healed when she put that handkerchief on her breast with the tumor. I'm so happy for that. And I hear that Mr. Durney being sick ... and I want to visit him as soon as I get to Dawson Creek, and go talk to him about salvation of the Lord; because he promised me when I left that he would pray and would ask God to help him.
A very fine old man, that's just lived his life in the bushes and never taken the second thought of God, I guess; but now, maybe, while he's on his bed I can really talk to him now. So, sometimes God has to lay us on our back to make us look up, you know. He has a way of doing things. But he wrote me a letter about his daughter, and told me about her, and said she was the only daughter he had that didn't smoke, and things, and he was so glad for her. And then another brother missionary from up there come and told me about the wonderful thing that the Lord Jesus had did for them. And I'm trusting that God will continue to be with them.

4 Now this little get together, and time of fellowship... I didn't know there was this many preachers in the country. Honest, I didn't know that. That's fine. Well, I'm glad to see you got good spiritual leaders here, and they'll teach you the way of the Lord. And I am here just in answer to prayer, and running over the ground that they have laid. If there's any credit to be given, give it to the men who came in here and established the work. And they've prayed, and have believed that God would do these things in the last days, and has taught you that they would happen, and here they are happening now right before our eyes.
Now we want you to remember that prayer is the most mighty force that there is in the world---is prayer. Prayer even changes the mind of God. How many know that? God told a prophet one day, "Go up and tell a king, Hezekiah," said, "go tell him to set his house in order, because he's going to die."
And then when prophet Isaiah (Could you just imagine the embarrassment of that prophet?), when he went up along the side, and the poor people outside the gates, "O great prophet, what is the word of the Lord for our noble king?"
"Thus saith the Lord, he's going to die."
There stood the soldiers at the gate, "O great prophet, what is the word of the Lord from our king?
"Thus saith the Lord, he's going to die."
Hezekiah asked his condition. "Going to die, you're not coming off of this bed."
And he knowed that was the word of the Lord, so he turned his face to the wall and wept bitterly. Said, "Lord, I beseech Thee to consider me. I've walked before You with a perfect heart." That's a great testimony. "I've walked before You with a perfect heart." He wanted fifteen more years of life.

5 Looks like that if God wanted to grant it to him---he was the greatest man in the kingdom---looks like He would just have said, "All right, Hezekiah, I'm going to let you live for fifteen more years." But you see, God has a system, the way to do things. Instead of that, God went down into the little brush arbor out into the bush somewhere where Isaiah the prophet was, and said, "Go back and tell him that I heard him. I'm going to grant it to him." Now, see, prayer changed things. See, prayer changed things.
Well, the embarrassment of that prophet coming back, "Why are you returning, prophet of the Lord?"
"Thus saith the Lord, he's going to live."
The soldiers, "What about it?"
"Thus saith the Lord, he's going to live." See what did it? Just from death unto life, prayer changed it. Changed the situation from death to life. It'll do the same thing for you. It'll do the same thing for me. It's our attitude towards God.

6 And now remember that if you've asked anything and do not believe in your heart that it's going to happen, it won't happen, no matter how many times you ask. But when you do believe, there's nothing to keep it from happening. It's got to take place. It just has to.
I'm fifty two years old and I've been in the ministry for ... this is about thirty one years. And I have knowed of these visions happening ever since... I was yet no more than two years old when the first vision... I believe that gifts and callings are without repentance. I believe they are gifts that are give to us by God's own mind.
Now there's nine spiritual gifts that goes in every local body. We believe that---I Corinthians 12. But there is five gifts that's ordained of God for the church, the body gifts. What is the first? Apostles, and that is not ... really, in our day it's a missionary, because apostle and a missionary is the very same word. A missionary means "one sent." Apostle means "one sent." Apostles, prophets, teachers, pastors, evangelists. See, five gifts. Now, a man cannot be an apostle because he wants to be. God sets those in the church. And he cannot be a prophet because he wants to be.

7 Now, there's gifts of prophesy in the church, but there's a lot of difference between gifts of prophecy and a prophet, see. A gift of prophecy has to stand before three judges and be judged before it could even be given to the church, whether it's right. It could be on this woman tonight, and never come again the rest of her life. Might be on this woman the next night, and that man the next night. See, it's local gifts in the body. But prophecy is a office---a prophet---that's from birth, see. Comes from birth.
Jeremiah was a prophet. God said, "Before you was even formed in your mother's womb I knowed you and sanctified you, and ordained you a prophet to the nations." John the Baptist, 712 years before he was born, Isaiah saw him: "The voice of one crying in the wilderness."---a prophet of the Lord. Jesus Christ was the Son of God from the garden of Eden, the woman's seed that was to bruise the serpent's head.

8 Old Congressman Upshaw said, "You can't be nothing that you hain't." A congressman of the United States, running for president. He knowed better, but he just used my language, my way of expressing it. But that is true. You can just be ... and that's what's the matter with us today, friend. All the whole world seems to be that way. If we would just be what God makes us to be, then you're... The trumpet will not give an uncertain sound then. It'll give a certain sound, and all the world will know it, you see, when it's sounded right.
And so, a minister cannot be a minister because his papa and mother wants him to be a minister. He has to be called of God to be a minister. There would have been nothing do my heart any better than to know that my son Billy Paul would have been a minister. But to send him to school and make a minister out of him, I'd rather he'd been a spittoon cleaner than to have been that---something that he's not. See, excuse that rude expression. I shouldn't have said that, see. Doesn't sound nice here, but you know what I mean. I'd rather he would have been something else.

9 But God has used Billy. He's been a right-hand man to me, my son. Because when we first started giving prayer cards out, we come to find that... Had one man in there first was a minister. We had an awful time about prayer cards. The first, we would send them to everywhere we was going to have a meeting. All the sponsoring pastors would get a hundred cards for their congregation. The first pastor got his group in, that about settled it. The rest didn't get there. So then we started ... said, "Well, we'll go down the first day we come and give out all the prayer cards and..." Now, that's not for little church meetings; that's for the big auditoriums. And so, well, the first day we'd have to give out couple ... three hundred prayer cards; and didn't do anybody any good to come in late, because he sure didn't get in the prayer line because we couldn't take it all up. Four, five, or six a night just done all we could do.
And then the next we had, we had a minister to give out the prayer cards. Well, come to find out when he got into the city, in his own organization, he had to show a little favor to them or they'd excommunicate him, or cause hard feelings.

10 And then I put just an ordinary man in, and found him trying to sell prayer cards. Man said, "If you'll guarantee my wife will be in the front row, I'll give you five hundred dollars." And somebody overheard it, and got it in before it happened. So then that stopped that. Then I taken my brother. I knowed he wouldn't sell a prayer card.
That's what the world'll be looking for, you know, something like that. But anyone that knows the meetings, money has been the last thing in our meetings. I've tried to hold a good clean name. I never took an offering in my life. I've been preaching thirty-one years. Never took an offering in my life, and never asked for one. Never intend to. That's not ... we don't come for money. We come to see what good we can do. Try to pitch in with these brothers here to help pull the load along. That's what it's for.
These gifts could make me a multimillionaire in a few day's time. You know what it is. Yeah, I guess you read in the paper where that multimillionaire in California sent me $1,500,000 in one offering. The F.B.I. agents brought it to us. Well, I tell you, I said, "I even refuse to look at it. I don't take money." I couldn't have no money, such things as that. Oh, mercy. Me? I ain't got ... I haven't got the mental powers to take care of that much money. So then, what if it would? I'd have to worry with it, see. Let them worry with it. If I need it, the Lord will say, "Give him so much," you see. So then, that's all right.

11 I was talking to Oral Roberts, the great gallant soul, Brother Roberts. That man has to have around ten thousand dollars a day. Whew! Well, God knowed what He was doing when He didn't put that responsibility on me. I sure couldn't do that. Ten thousand dollars a day. That would run me wild to have to get ten thousand a day. And the other... Well, now, what if I had to have thousand a day, and the Lord called me to come up here to Grande Prairie, what would I do about it? See? I don't have any radio programs, don't have nothing to sell, and I don't have to have ten cents a day, see.
Only thing I have to do is just keep myself free from all things, so I can go wherever He tells me. If it's down to a... I held a revival of two nights in a place that held thirty people. I know it was miserable. It was about ten below zero and just standing out there freezing, with little sick babies and things. But the Lord told me to go, so I just went. And then if He wants me to go to Africa to preach to a hundred thousand, two hundred thousand, He puts it on somebody's heart to send me a check to go over, so I just go on over. So, see, my Father owns all of it, and I don't have to worry about it. Just ... I like to be like that where I can just go wherever He tells me to go, see.

12 My, Chris, we couldn't go bear hunting if I had to have ten thousand dollars every day. I just couldn't do it. But I'm glad just to be free so I can come to my brethren---the little brother, got a little bitty church, or wherever the Lord leads---just go where He leads. That's the way I like to be---free, see. Nothing to bind me or hold me, and ready to go anywhere, anytime, whatever He says do. And I've found it a great life. Very fine.
And I can say this sincerely from this pulpit (which may be the last message I ever bring to the human race, see). I'm fifty-two the other day, and I have never in my life ever sincerely asked God for anything, but what He gave it to me, or told me why He couldn't do it. That's right. Many times I've asked for things He's refused me, but He'd tell me why. It's always ... his way is best. And I find out if He'd've give it to me, it would've ruined me, you see. So I just go along, say, "Lord, whatever You want me to have, here I am." So He always takes care of me.

13 But watch in the meetings. Whenever you hear ... when the discernment is on, He's telling you, you're doing that yourself. You don't know it, but it's your own spirit, like the woman touching his garment. But when He speaks back, that's what you're pulling, yourself, from God. See, God wasn't using his gift. All of us know that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. Now, we know that Christ Jesus, the fullness of the Godhead bodily dwells in Him. But to us, we have the Spirit by measure, given to each one to profit withal.
Now, but say, for instance, if I went out here to the ocean and took a spoonful of water out of the ocean, you'd never miss it, see. But I could take that spoonful of water to the laboratory and it's got the same chemicals in it that the entire ocean's got. It's just not as much of it. Well, then, when we think of the Spirit of Christ that we have in us, see, it's just a spoonful to what was in Him, see. He had all of it in Him. All that God was, He poured into Christ; all that Christ was, He poured into the church.

14 How many Pentecostals is here? Let's see your hands, Pentecostal people. All right. Do you know what God did on the day of Pentecost? The Bible said they were gathered and praying in the upper room, and suddenly there came a sound from heaven as a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues, like fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now, we know that God was that pillar of fire that led the children of Israel through the wilderness. What was God doing then? He was separating ... them tongues of fire was the separating, that big pillar of fire, and dividing Himself among his people.

15 Then, brethren, what more we could do! Brother, my, together we'll stand; divided we'll fall. So what the great ... if the great church of God, if the devil can get into them and make them say, "I'm this, and because you belong to this we just can't associate together," he won't have to shoot a shot---we're fighting one another, see. But when that wall is broke down, and we are not divided, all one brethren are we, see. All one Spirit in Christ, God dividing Himself among us together, that together we might be the great ransomed church of the living God. Then you're going to see something happen then.

16 Now, noticing, when He speaks to you, if He speaks back, "It's thus saith the Lord, certain certain things will happen," now, you put that down. You might not be able to see a scratch difference right then. May be some time that you will not see it. God makes a promise, but He keeps his promise. I like to refer to this. Did you know that some people just think that because it doesn't happen instantly, that that's all, that God didn't hear you? That's a mistake. If you believe it, it happened. But if you didn't believe it, why, it don't make any difference, it wouldn't happen anyhow. But if you believe it, it's a finished product right then, when you believe it.
Now, there's so many things I could refer to. One time there was a couple of little women. I like to refer to that, because it always stuck with me. It was on the platform, there was a little lady came up on the platform and ... a little housewife, little mother. And the Holy Spirit said to her, "You are So-and-so, you're a certain-certain woman."
"Yes, yes."
"And you suffer with a stomach trouble which is... You was at a doctor a few days ago, and he told you you had a gastric ulcer."
"Yes, that is so."
"Your husband works at a certain certain..."
"Yes, that is so," all this.

17 Then she started off, and then the Spirit spoke, "Thus saith the Lord, 'You're healed.' "
Oh, my, that has to happen. That just has to happen.
Then she went home. And she said, "Well, I'm healed. Husband, before I get there I want you to buy me a hamburger." Like to killed her. Couple days later she was still... She'd get so sick when she'd eat.
And her husband finally said, "You're bringing a reproach upon the cause." Said, "You shouldn't testify that."
Two weeks passed. She was still trying to eat. Just as sick as ... when she'd take it. Her husband went to the doctor, told him. Said, "It'll kill her."
But she said, "Look. That man did not know me, and if a Spirit was standing there, or with him, that could tell him who I was and what my trouble was, I believe it was the Spirit of God." And she said, "Live or die, he spoke 'Thus saith the Lord.' " Said, "I believe it. That's right. I believe it."

18 Couple of mornings after that, which had been somewhat ... four weeks after she'd been prayed for... See, that didn't mean she wasn't healed. She was healed right then. Abraham was given a promise that he'd receive a son, and twenty-five years later before he got it, but he was strong in faith, giving praise to God. That's what real Pentecostals ought to be, Abraham's seed.
So one morning, she said... Well, I was then about three hundred miles away from the place, in another revival meeting, and she come to the place to testify. She said, "My husband went to work that morning." She said, "Oh, my stomach was burning." And she said, "After awhile, I was washing my dishes, and I was weeping." She said, just thinking, "O God, how great You are. How great! You make the sun to shine. You do all these great things." And said, "How great Thou art, O God."---like that, just praising his name

19 as she stood there. Said a real funny feeling went over her. Said she thought, "Wonder what that was?"
Now, you don't have to feel nothing. Jesus never did say, "Did you feel it?" He said, "Did you believe it?" You believe it.
But then she felt something go over her. She said, "Well, I don't know what that was." Said, "Strange feeling. I feel so good." She just went ahead. Said, "Maybe I was just praising the Lord, the Holy Spirit blessed me." She went on washing dishes.
She got real hungry. So (I guess all mamas are like this), the kiddies had left some oats in the plate. So she got real hungry. And that was the thing that would just burn her up, was oats. So she just taken a spoonful or two of oats and ate. So after she'd swallowed them, she thought, "Well, it can't burn no worse." But in a few moments, it wasn't burning. So she got her a couple more spoonfuls---didn't bother her. And she got her a piece of toast---that didn't bother her. So she just went and fried her two eggs, and got her some toast, and a cup of coffee, and had a gastronomical jubilee. She just sat down and ate a good breakfast. She waited about an hour and a half, two hours. She just felt fine---getting hungry again.

20 So, she felt so good, she run down to the neighbor. And her neighbor had been farther down the prayer line (the night before) and there'd been a great big growth on her neck. And the same thing happened. Told her all about it, said, "Thus saith the Lord, 'That growth shall disappear.' " And so she wanted to run tell her neighbor a few doors down the street what happened. And said when she got there she thought they was having a funeral service or something, all the screaming and going on she ever heard. She jerked open the door, and here was the woman, standing with a sheet in her hand. And she said, "What's the matter, dear?"
She said, "You know what? I got up late this morning," and she said, "I can't find that thing anywhere. It's left my throat. I shook every sheet and everything, and I can't find it nowhere."
And here they both was, giving testimony.
What was it? When God had pronounced it... That angel had passed through the neighborhood confirming the word that He'd spoke in the name of the Lord, see. "Though it tarries, yet will it speak." Is that right, brethren? It must speak. So always keep that in mind.

21 Oh, you're so nice I can't even hardly get a text. I got something on my mind I want to say. I'll just ... you'll bear with me just a few minutes extra, won't you? So, we hope to get into the prayer line after a bit.
So, when we went to Africa just recently... To show you ... now, I do thank God for schools, for churches, and for all that He has done. I'm so grateful to God. But yet, did you know that wasn't the commission? The general commission was, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature." Now in order to preach the gospel, the gospel came not in word only, but through the power and the manifestations of the Holy Ghost. Now, if you follow it on down, I'm quoting Mark 16: "These signs shall follow them that believe." Just teaching the Word will not do that. It must be the Holy Spirit manifesting the Word, see. But what did we do? We went along and made schools, and organizations, and churches, and hospitals---which is very nice. We cannot say one thing against them. But that wasn't the idea.

22 Now, when I went to Africa, I remember it... Now, my Baptist brethren here, please don't... I love you. You're my brothers, see. But I was a Missionary Baptist minister for years, and when I'd tell them about these things, it scared me to death. They said it was of the devil, and, oh, I didn't want nothing to do with the devil, because I loved the Lord Jesus. And never knew nothing about it till He appeared to me and told me what it was. Now when I come back and told Dr. Davis, general overseer, and I said, "Dr. Davis, I met that one who talks to me, and it was a man. And he told me these things. He told me I was to preach all around the world, and these things would take place."
And he said, "With a seventh grade education, I suppose, Billy, you're going to preach to kings and monarchs?"
I said, "That's what He said, brother."
He said, "Billy, what did you eat that night for supper?"
I said, "Well, then, Dr. Davis, if that's it, I just might as well give you my fellowship card right now," I said, "because to me it was God. I don't know what it was to you, see." And of course you've heard it in the Voice of Healing, he's preaching divine healing himself now.

23 So, however, when the angel said that... And when I went into Africa, and found... In Africa, what did I find? I'm not degrading nothing. I'm very thankful for everything that the Lord has did. All of you remember that---everything the Lord has done, I'm thankful. But I'm trying to say we're living in another day, above that now, see. We're getting up to where God wants to do greater things than what He has done.
He wants to bless his church. He wants us to come together, and not argue about "I'm the Assemblies of God," or "I'm the Church of God." What difference does it make? We're Christ's. That's it, see. We are Christ's. Not ... we mustn't think that. And one of us riding one-humped camels, two-humped camels, and three-humped camels. What difference does it make? Jacob dug one well and the Philistines run him away from it, and they called it "Malice." He dug another well and the Philistines run him away from it and he called it "Strife." He dug another well. So he said, "There's room for us all." So I think that's the way to do it. Those on all different kinds of camels, we can ride right on up and get a drink. There's room at the fountain for all of us.

24 So when I got there, I thought I would find, maybe, the missionaries ... David Livingstons on every corner. But what did I find, but... My, missionaries was different than what I thought it was. They had the compound out there where the colored man that could not keep tribal paint on anymore...
They could come here and teach us morals, them people could, in Africa. Sure, they could. For instance, in one tribe, there in the Bazutus, if the... (There's Songhai, Bazutu, Koza, oh, my, so many different tribes.) But if a young lady (they never know how old they are), but if a young lady is not ... some man has taken her... They have polygamy. But if some man hasn't taken her for a wife at a certain size, she has to take her tribal paint off and leave the tribe, because there's something wrong. If she is ... before she is married, or taken for wife, she's examined for her virgincy. If she be found guilty, she has to tell the man that's done it. They're both killed together. Be a lot of deaths around the United States anyhow, if they'd search them out like that. But there's no night life among them. No, sir. They're clean, moral, as they can be.

25 And, then, they came in by the tens of thousands to the meeting when we gathered at Durban. Billy was with me. I said, "Son, go down and give out some prayer cards this afternoon."
And then when he come back in a few moments (he and the mayor of the city, Sidney Smith), said he didn't have pockets in his coat. He said, "Give out prayer cards? You go down there and try it once!" He said, "You can't do that, Daddy."
So I said, "Well, okay."
So, Mr. Smith, Sidney Smith, the mayor of Durban, he taken me out. Said, "Brother Branham, of all the history of Africa, there's nothing like this ever been seen." And he said, "That Durban race track is so full of people till they're all the way across the track on the other side. Thousands times thousands, over a hundred thousand, just laying there." Said, "They're coming from strange ... from all parts of the country." And they brought their loved ones, for weeks at a time. Bring them through the jungles, to where they had to... The lion would get after them and they'd have to shinny them up the tree. (Excuse that expression. That's ... I know you all have better English than I do ... we do down there.) And so...

26 I got a little Georgian over here, I want him to talk for you one of these days. You talk about having the gift of interpretation. You Yankees up here will really have to have it to hear these Georgia people talk. They come up to a filling station, asked for a motel, and they wanted to know if they wanted ... said they wanted some old tires. Georgia. So, however...
And we went out, started out to this great place where we were going. And as we got out there, going out, we seen these natives in the city. Blanket natives, now, and they had a little tag around their neck. And I said to Sidney Smith, I said, "Mayor, what is those tags?"
He said, "Oh, they're Christians."
I said, "Well, what are they packing an idol for?"
He said, "Ask them." He said, "That man," said, "he's a Songhai. I can speak his language. Drive up, call him anything you want to." So we drove up beside of him, and I called him Thomas, because I thought that'd be a good name for him---supposed to be a Christian, packing an idol.
And I said, "Thomas."
"Yes."
"Are you a Christian?"
"Yes, yes, yes," he's a Christian.
I said, "What are you packing the idol for?"

27 Oh, his father packed it, see. That was a good reason. One day the lion got after his father, so he set the little idol down and built a fire, and said a prayer the witch doctor told him. The lion run away. So it was God.
"Oh," I said, "I'm a yahkta." Yahkta means "hunter." Leo means "lion." "Leo yahkta," I said, "the fire scared the lion away, not the witch doctor's prayer."
"Oh, well, if amoya [amoya means "the wind," unseen force like God, that you don't see, you know, like the Holy Spirit], if he failed, this one wouldn't." So he just packed it for safety first. That's the strength of Christianity.
Sidney Smith said, "See?" Said, "You see why it's hard to get in here as a missionary?"
I said, "Yes, sir." We went on to the meeting.

28 So that afternoon, way across the track... I had taken... I had to have fifteen different interpreters, see. You'd speak one word, then... Say, "Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came to the earth to save sinners." Well, I'd go get a drink of water, and sit down, talk to somebody ... come through all them interpreters. You have to write down what you said to know where to come back. So I'd give them a simple little message of the Bible, what Jesus was.
And I said, "Each of you missionaries go get three people out of some tribes out there and bring them up." There was about ten thousand Mohammedans there too, which were Indians. Now, not our American Indians, but the Indian from India. So I said... They're very, very hard. I seen one missionary there said, "Oh, Brother Branham, I've been here twenty years. I've got one precious jewel." See, the Mohammedans came from the old race of the Medo-Persians and they do not change or alter their laws, you know.

29 So once a Mohammedan, brother, you don't change them, see.
So, as it went on... So then they called the... I said, "Get three out of each one of the tribes and bring them." So they got down there, and finally brought them around. And the first one on the platform happened to be a Mohammedan woman with a red dot between her eyes. And she was a thoroughbred Mohammedan.
And I said, "Do you understand English?"
She said, "Yes, sir."
And I said, "Well, are you a Mohammedan?"
She said, "I am." (I think you pronounce that, "You're a Mohammedan.") But she said, "I am."
And I said, "Then, why did you come to me as a Christian? Why did you not go to your priest?"
She said, "I believe that you can help me."
"Oh," I said, "as a Mohammedan you should not believe that. You should believe that if Mohammed is ... if the prophet Mohammed is God's servant..." They believe in God, see. They're children of Abraham, but not of the promise. We understand that, see. So they ring that big bong of a morning, and say, "There's one true and living God, and Mohammed is his prophet."

30 We say, "There's one true and living God, and Jesus is his Son," see. Now, that's the difference.
And the Mohammedans say, "Far be it from God having a son, the Spirit having a son." And so they...
I said, "Well, why didn't you go to your priest?"
She said, "I believe you could help me."
"Well," I said, "did you ever read the New Testament?"
She said, "I have."
"Have you considered Christianity?"
She said, "I have considered it."
I said, "Why did you choose Mohammedan?"
She said, "Well, because that I think that... The Mohammedan religion made no promises; but the Bible of Christianity made promises, through Jesus the prophet, that his disciples would do the same thing He did." And said, "Mohammed made no such promise. Therefore ... they both promised life after death and I've seen not one of the prophet Jesus, his disciples, doing what He did. Therefore I am a Mohammedan." That's a very good, sensible answer, see.
And I said, "Well, Jesus gives a lot of joy."
She said... Now, Mohammed can produce just as much psychology as Christian religion can. Just as much emotion---they can shout just as loud, they can scream just as loud, they can go through just as much as we do, see. That's right. So if you don't know what you're talking about, you better stay away from them, see. Just leave it alone.

31 "Well," I said, "then you've read the New Testament. Jesus---as you called Him, the prophet---I call Him the Son of God." I said, "Truly He was a prophet. The Old Testament characters are to believe on their prophets, and He was the King-prophet, the God-prophet. And they were looking for Him. That's just what I brought in my message."
She said, "Correctly, sir. Therefore I asked to be the one to come up."
I said, "How many of you Mohammedans out there know this woman?" Many of them. I said, "Now, if Jesus, the Son of God, has anointed me with his Spirit, and I can tell you then, just like He would if He was standing here..." I said, "For healing you, He's already done it. All the attributes of his salvation that He purchased for us at Calvary is already over. The only thing He could do would be prove that He was Messiah. That's right. Promised his disciples to do the same."
Said, "I understand."

32 And the Holy Spirit came. I told her who she was by the Holy Spirit. I said, "Now, your husband is a short, heavy-set man wearing a moustache. He was at a doctor the other day with you. And he give you a female examination. He told you you had a cyst on the ovary. That's the truth." I said, "What about it now?"
She said, "I accept Jesus Christ as my Saviour." That afternoon nearly ten thousand Mohammedans did the same thing. See, not theology, but to see the power of God.
The next come was a white Afrikaans woman. Told her that she had a lump in her breast, but to prepare for death. I'd seen her funeral service. They'd taken her from the ground dead. That same night a woman had been dead about four hours (a friend to the mayor) was raised back to life again. A young woman, dying ... see, if I could heal, I'd have healed her. I said, "I can only say what I see."

33 The next was a little cross-eyed boy come in the line. Little Zulu. Any of you brothers missionaries? The Zulu, you know what the Zulus are. Great big, heavy-set, average about three hundred pounds. They throw their assegais, you know; the little Songhai has to maneuver his. A big Zulu. Then, they had eaten this diet, you know---that blood and ever what ... they jell it together. And his little eyes was as crossed as they could be.
And in Africa, they... You sisters like lilies? Oh, I think they're beautiful. They have some of them sixteen inches across. Great big calla lilies up on the platform, some yellow. They're just wild in the jungle. So then, when this little boy come up on the platform, I said, "Now, anyone can see that his eyes are crossed."
Was you in Africa at that time, brother? Was you there? No, India. Oh, yeah. Well, maybe I'll get a chance to speak of India. Was you there when I was in India? That's where I had my greatest gathering, at Bombay. Five hundred thousand at one time. So then, there's where I seen... Well, I can't go into that, but there was a ... He's done so much, I tell you, it's wonderful.

34 And then, this little boy standing there, and I said, "Anyone is close enough can see the child is cross-eyed." I said, "I could not straighten his eyes." I said, "I have nothing to straighten his eyes with. But," I said, "maybe the Holy Spirit might be to reveal to me something that caused it, and then maybe it would cause the little lad to have faith to believe in Christ." And I said to him, "Look at me."
And the interpreter (Zulu interpreter) said, "Look at me." And the little fellow looked up.
I said, "He was born that way." I said, "Now, his mother and father are thin people, strange for Zulus." I said, "But he come out of a Christian home, because in their little hut there's a picture of Christ on the right hand side of the wall as you go in." And about a hundred yards back, the father and mother raised up their hand, saying that was right. When I looked back at the child, his eyes was as straight as mine. I said, "Of course anyone ... see something's happened---his eyes, already straight. Pass on by, son." And they passed him by.

35 And just then I heard a fuss. How many ever knowed Brother Bosworth? Old Brother Bosworth used to be one of my... F. F. Bosworth. He was standing there, and I heard him carrying on something over there, some kind of a fuss. And it was a British doctor, and he was going on. He said, "I want to talk to him!"
Brother Bosworth said, "You can't do that now, sir," said, "you'd just cause a riot." You had to space them off. They was having tribal wars, too, you know. And so, said, "You cannot do that now." Said, "When our brother is under that anointing he prays for the sick." He said, "Just believe."
Said, "I want to speak to him."
I turned around. I said, "What's the matter, doctor?"
He said, "How did you know I was a doctor?"
I said, "Well, what do you want?"
He said, "I want to ask you, Mr. Branham, what did you do to that boy?"
I said, "Nothing."
He said, "I put him on the platform."
"Well," I said, "that's very nice."

36 He said, "His eyes is straight now. Here he stands." He had his hand on his head. Said, "I put him on the platform there, his eyes was crossed. I've got my hands on him here, and his eyes is straight." Said, "Now, Mr. Branham, I can understand your telepathy [that's speaking to the people, and telling them about their desires, and what they've done]"; but said, "I want to ask you something. Did you hypnotize that child?"
I said, "Did the medics of the British Medical Association give you license to practice medicine, and know no more about hypnotism than that? If hypnotism will straighten a child's eyes, don't you think you doctors should start practicing hypnotism?"
He said, "Mr. Branham, I want you to know that I've been raised to believe in God."
I said, "That's very fine, doctor." And then some more came up. I said, "Just a minute. Let him alone."

37 And he said, "Well," said, "I know that God is in that lily. It couldn't grow ... it's got life that we cannot find. We cannot find the germ of life. We know that God is in the lily or it could not live." But said, "Tell me, is that God that you're speaking of so tangible that He could take that baby's crossed eyes and make them come straight? and you ten feet away from him."
"Well," I said, "Doctor, is his eyes straight?"
Said, "Yes, sir."
"Well," I said, "did I touch him?"
"No, sir." He said, "Then that makes God somewhere between here and there, doesn't it?"
I said, "Just everywhere." And so then somebody started to pull him away.
He said, "Just a moment." There was a big web mike because they had, oh, maybe five hundred yards, still people, you know, out like that, the big mike. He walked up to that mike. He said, "Then I accept Jesus Christ as my Saviour."
I want to tell you something. When I was leaving Durban about two weeks after that, there was about twenty, thirty thousand people there, waving good-bye and everything, you know. "Come back, come back." It made the head ... two and three pages of paper every day---in the meetings, what our Lord did. And there, in that, you what he did? He run out on the ramp, jumped over from the guards, and run out there and throwed his arms around me, like that, and hugged me, and started speaking in tongues. And he said, "Brother Branham, I'm a Christian. I'm returning into the fields to be a missionary," that British doctor.

38 And that finished that day. The next was a boy that was so deformed... (Excuse me, my sisters, if I make the wrong mistake ... make a mistake, rather, saying something that I should not say.) But they do not wear clothes, you see. They're just as naked as they come into the earth. And when the boy come up on the platform, young fellow, he walked on his hands, like this. And he was all bent over, and such a horrible condition, and they had a chain around his neck.
And I said, "Look at that poor mortal. If anyone could help that boy and would not do it, why, he would be a hypocrite." I said, "If I had anything at all I could heal the poor fellow with, I'd certainly do it. But I cannot do it. You know that. But," I said, "maybe the Holy Spirit could reveal to me something that might cause him to have faith that God would heal him." And so I turned to look, and when I was looking at him, the vision... I can't explain that. You can't explain God. There's no need of trying. If you did, it would (pardon me) it would not be by faith anymore.

39 So the boy was there. He looked to be, oh, I'd judge him to be somewhere in his twenties---twenty-two, twenty-five, somewhere like that. And I said, "Now I've got his attention." And now, remember, he was walking on his feet, the back parts sticking way up like this, and swayed in the back like a horse---you know, swayback horse---and walking on his hands, like that. And he was thinking I wanted him to do a tribal dance. The people that leaves the tribes, they come in, and they clown for the tourists by doing tribal dances. He was going "Uh, ba, ba, ba, ba."
And I said, "If I can just get his attention a moment, catch his spirit." And I said, "Oh, what he's thinking of now, he's really not thinking of himself." I said, "This boy became that way when he was just a child." And just then his father and mother raised up, way down here. That was true, see. I said, "He's also from a Christian, a professed Christian, home." That was right.

40 I said, "But what he's thinking of is his brother. Now," I said, "his brother was either riding on a yellow goat or a yellow dog, and he fell and hurt his leg. He's walked on two sticks now for the past three or four years." And as I looked back I seen his brother going, running, leaping, like that, and I said... Watched it, and I said, "But, thus saith the Lord, his brother is healed." And went ahead, like this. And way down, oh, almost two city blocks, I heard a great scream. And they had about, I guess, three hundred soldiers---militia, you know---to kind of keep order. And here his brother come with these sticks over his head, jumping just as hard as he could.
Well, it taken about twenty minutes to get them quietened again, you see, to get them quietened. I looked back again to him, and I said, "Now, I cannot do nothing but pray for the boy." And I seen like a blue shadow above him, and I looked, and in the vision here he stood, up on his feet. Oh, brother! All the devils out of hell couldn't stop it then.

41 If He would tell me that George Washington was going to rise from the presidential graveyard, I'd invite the world to come watch it done. Right. I've seen thousands times thousands of visions, and I'll take anybody to record, never one of them failed. It can't fail, it's God. How can God fail?
So I knowed the boy was going to be healed, and I thought, "Here's my chance, right now." I said, "How many here will receive Christ as their Saviour if this boy will be made well?" Just as far as I could see, those black hands---Songhai, Bazutus, everywhere, like that, Indians---everywhere. And I said, "Stand up on your feet, son. Jesus Christ makes you well." Of course the interpreter told him that, but the boy wasn't even mentally right. So he just kept going, "Uh, ba, ba, bla, bla," and trying to do a dance. He thought we was bringing him up there to clown, you see, to dance. So I walked over and took ahold of the chain that they had on him, where they'd led him. I said, "Stand up on your feet, Jesus Christ makes you well." And the boy stood up.

42 And when he did, the tears dropped off on his black belly. He stood there, and looked around like that, for the first time in his life. That crowd just went into a frantic. There he was. Not only was he healed, straightened up, but in his right mind, see.
I said, "How many of you will receive Jesus Christ now as personal Saviour, one who loves you?" And I said, "Stand to your feet." Thirty thousand blanket natives stood at one time.
You Canadians know Ern Baxter, don't you? Brother Ern Baxter? He was standing right there at the platform. And Brother Baxter said, "Brother Branham, I believe they meant a physical healing."
I said, "Let me run it through the..."
And old Brother Bosworth just weeping. He said, "Brother Branham," he said, "the Holy Spirit's just taking my life from me."
And I said, "I did not mean physical healing. I meant to receive Christ as Saviour. You that's packing idols, if you understand, break your idols on the ground." And like a dust storm, the way them idols broke. Thirty thousand raw blanket natives come to Christ in one altar call. Just think. That's ... let's see. Thirty, ten, twenty, thirty ... well, that would be about ten times the size of Pentecost. That's right. About ten times the size of Pentecost.

43 And the next morning the mayor called me, over to my hotel room. He said, "Brother Branham, go to your window, the side that faces the lake, right away."
Brother Bosworth had been there. Said, "Brother Branham, I estimate..."
And I said, "Now you that wants to be prayed for, just believe the Christ that I'm talking about." And I offered one congregational prayer. Now there'd only been about three people on the platform. Offered one congregational prayer, and there was a estimated of 25,000 outstanding miracles took place at once. See, they're not indocumated: "We are Methodist." "We are Baptist." "We are Presbyterian." "We are Oneness, Twoness, Threeness," and you know, all that stuff. They know nothing about it. They're just looking for a God that had something that could answer back, see.

44 Then you know what? I went to the window, and coming down that street (if I shall live to be a hundred and could be in my mind, I shall never forget that) there come seven big British vans (I don't know that you know what they are or not---about as long as from here back to that wall.) loaded full of crutches, boards, wheelchairs, instruments, that they had been packed out of the jungles for hundreds of miles, and weeks coming, like that. There they was in them, the seven van loads, piled up to the top. And behind that come Zulus, Bazutus, Songhai, Kozas, and all those, behind it---that was in those things the day before---coming down the street, singing in their own native tongues, "Only believe, all things are possible." Oh, what an hour!
You Canadian women don't do this, but I'm going to say this for what is in America. The American women get so every year they take off a few more clothes. Just get down to ... first short dresses, now to little bitty things that looks like men's clothes, and things to wear. It's a disgrace. It's a shame. It's a... A woman said to me, she said, "Brother Branham, I don't wear shorts." She said, "I wear slacks."
I said, "That's worse. The Bible said it's an abomination for a woman to put on a garment that pertains to a man." That's right. And I said, "You should never do that."
Said, "Well, they don't ... when you go to the store you can't buy nothing else than them sexy like clothes."
I said, "Some day you'll answer at the judgment bar for committing adultery. You might be as pure as a lily to your husband. You might be as pure as a lily to your boyfriend. But the Bible said, Jesus said, 'Whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her in his heart.' " And I said, "If you put yourself out there and dress like that, and the sinner looks at you and lusts after you, who's guilty, you or the sinner? And he's going to answer for that, and who did he commit the adultery with? You. Who's guilty? You, for presenting yourself like that." And I said, "You'll be guilty of committing adultery when that sinner has to answer for committing adultery. Whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her.' Who's guilty? You. That's right."
This lady said, wrote me a letter, she said, "Mr. Branham, they don't make clothes like you're talking about. This is the only kind."
I said, "But they still have goods and they sell sewing machines, so there's no excuse about it," see. That's right.

45 Listen. I want to say this. Just remember this, if they ever start wearing shorts in Canada and things, you see. If they ever do, you just remember this. There was blanket native women, young and old, not knowing which is right and left hand, standing there, nothing but a clout of beads on. Just as naked over their body as they could be, not knowing they were naked. But the very minute that they accepted Jesus Christ as personal Saviour, they folded their arms to walk out from the presence of men.
Then tell me why, that if these people who call themselves Pentecostal or Christians or Methodist or Baptist, how is it each year you claim to have the same Christ, and the same Holy Spirit, and trying to expose yourself more every year? Why would that Holy Spirit make a woman cover herself up, to get out of the presence of men, and when you see them the next day they've got some kind of clothes on? Why would it make some put on clothes, and others take them off? God doesn't work like that. There's something wrong somewhere, brethren. Oh, my. Let's get away from our social ideas and get back to the gospel. Amen. Back to the truth, back to the Word. No wonder we can't have a church. How could God ever build a church upon a foundation like that? Let's go back to the truth, brother, sister.

46 I'm so sorry. I ought to call the prayer line right now. But let's talk. Are you in a hurry? Let's bow our heads just a moment. Forgive me, folks, for taking that much time. I just get ... I told you I come up here to rest. I'm kind of nervous and I come up to rest, and ... excuse me.
Most holy God, right into thy holy presence and before the throne of mercy we come presenting ourselves now. We are a unworthy people, Lord. Thou art God, full of mercy, full of goodness. Be Thou near us to forgive us.
When my heart thinks of Africa, of India, O God, how it bleeds. How could I spend tens of thousands of dollars for foolishness, and poor little kiddies laying there dying, with swelled up bellies, with nothing to eat. O God, help us to understand. How could we ride around in a fleet of Cadillacs, new ones every year, and all these things, and our brothers over yonder are preaching the gospel with no shoes on? They'll stand in the day of judgement thus. What can we do? Us here arguing whether we should go to this church or that one. O America, America, how oft would He have hovered you?

47 Thank You, Father, for the true Spirit of God, for this time of fellowship around the testimonies, and with the brethren, and this grand little place called Grande Prairie. How we thank You for these fine Scandinavian, German, Indians, and so forth, that's separated themselves from the things of the world, and has consecrated their lives to Thee to be thy loving children; not caring what the world shall say but believing that You're the Christ, the Son of God, trying to live examples before the people that all men might see Christ in them.
We thank You for it, Father, as we open the Word. No man can open it, Lord, only... Any man that's physical enough to pull back the pages could do that, but we read in the Bible that there was one sitting upon the throne ... [Gap in the audio].

48 ... life to our hungry hearts. We thirst for Thee, O God. As the hart panteth for the waterbrook, our soul thirsts after Thee, O God. Tear us down, our selfishness. Take the world out of us, Lord, and make us sweet, humble, meek, God-fearing Christians. Our spirit's all broke up, so ... it is written, "He that goeth forth sowing in tears, will doubtless return again, rejoicing, bringing with him precious sheaves." That's our desire, Lord.
Bless Grande Prairie, Lord. Bless its ministers, bless its people. God, I pray that You'll make them angels of mercy, angels of light. Grant it, Lord, for we're living in the closing scenes now. Soon You shall come and we'll see Him. All troubles will be over then. Until then, Father, keep us anointed with thy love and thy Spirit, giving us the bread of life that we might serve others. It's this purpose we ask in our hearts, in Jesus' name. Amen.

49 Over in the book of St. Matthew's gospel, the twelfth chapter and the forty-second verse, just for a little context. I'm ashamed to keep you here this long, but I know I've only got one more night. And I just wish we had a long time. I've never gotten to preach to you yet. I usually just get on a little testimonies because, then I don't get off on... Preaching, you're anointed this way; discernment is this way, see. And you shake yourself, one from the other. So just to talk to you a little while, I want to read a little portion of Scripture here, because my words will fail; God's words will not fail.
And the queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
I'd like to use that for a context: "A Greater Than Solomon is Here." When you go home you might read the previous chapter and this chapter.

50 Jesus had been rebuking these Pharisees of his days because they had failed to recognize He was their Messiah. They had been satisfied. And the people of that day, it was a whole lot like today, that the people were looking to the church for salvation. Now, I make this statement: if you are a Catholic and you're looking to the church for salvation, you are lost; if you are a Baptist and you're looking to the church for salvation, you are lost; if you are a Pentecostal and you're looking to the church for salvation, you are lost. But if you are Catholic, Pentecostal, or Baptist, or whatever you may be, and you're looking to Jesus Christ for salvation, you're saved. For by faith are we saved, see.

51 Now today the people has got it to a place till they are looking to the church for salvation. The church doesn't bring salvation. Salvation is of Christ, see. The church doesn't have salvation; Christ has salvation. Now, I would like to say this---that they looked to the church for salvation, and what did they get? Creeds and organizations and so forth, and that's the same thing today. So they were satisfied to believe that that was God's perfect will, for them to have ... and those creeds and so forth, and to do those things.
So now, we find out that during that time Jesus came on, a perfect answer to their prophecy that He was to come. Now, all of us admit that Jesus did not come contrary to the Scriptures. He come exactly with the Scriptures, but contrary to the way that the priests had told the people that He would come. Now the prophets had talked about... For instance, Isaiah said, "All the mountains skip like little rams, and the leaves clap their hands; and the high places is made low and the low places made high," at the coming of John the Baptist.

52 Why, I expect the people thought that God would just open up the corridors, and send down the golden stairs, and a great mighty prophet, dressed in the priest's clothes, would walk down and say, "I am the voice of the one crying in the wilderness. I have just come from the corridors of heaven to greet Caiaphas here, and a great job he has done," and to the different priests, and what job they had did. That's the way they was expecting it.
But what did it happen? An old fuzzy-faced-looking woodsman come out of the wilderness with not a... He went in the wilderness at the age of nine---Zachariah's son, born a odd birth. Come out of the wilderness, standing on there rebuking those priests, and saying, "You generation of snakes in the grass, who warned you to flee from the wrath that's to come?" Whew! What a different man, see. What was he? Standing in mud up to his ankles. Dressed in fine clothes? A piece of sheepskin wrapped around him, with a camelskin belt on. But, oh, my, how he shook the regions! He had the gospel. It was altogether different.
And they said, "This is a wild man---drowning people with water. Yeah, he's a... My, what a guy that is!"

53 Then when Jesus came---a black name behind him as an illegitimate child, being born out of holy wedlock, an outcast, and so forth---and here He comes forth, discerning the hearts of the people and telling them their thoughts and perceiving their thoughts; and doing exactly what God said He would do and the prophets said He would do. Then they said, "This man is a devil."
See, they said... They had to answer to their congregation. They were standing there. It was beyond a doubt that he was doing it, so they had to make something another. So they just said... Instead of studying it out in the Scriptures as Jesus said to study the Scriptures ("Search the Scriptures. They are they which testify of me," He said.), instead of doing that, they answered to their congregation, "He is Beelzebub, the chief of the devils." Now anyone knows that a fortune-teller is a devil. That's all. It's a devil spirit. But, see, they were calling the Spirit of God a devil spirit. That's the reason Jesus told them that was blasphemy of the Holy Ghost and should never be forgiven, see.

54 Now, and so He'd done these signs, and they was ... He was rebuking them because they had not believed it. They wanted to ... they could not believe. And yet the Jews were commanded to seek for that kind of a sign. Now don't the Bible say the Jews seek signs, the Greeks wisdom? Paul said, "and we preach Christ crucified," see. The Jews would seek signs, because they were commanded to do so. That's the reason they were doing it, so they would not miss their Messiah, see, because He was to be a sign to the church, to the people. And He had done exactly what He was supposed to do, and yet they did not believe Him because of their traditions. So Jesus was rebuking them for their unbelief. They should have believed it, but they did not.
And we find out that in all generations---everywhere, in all generations---where God appears, supernatural signs come. There never has been a revival... Take Luther, Wesley, whoever it might be. Divine healing and great signs and wonders accompanied every revival, for God is supernatural, and where the supernatural is, supernatural will be done. And the reason it's supernatural, because supernatural spirit gets a hold of the people and performs supernatural things, see. God is a creator, and if He is in our heart, why, the Spirit will always say "Amen" to his Word.

55 Now in the Old Testament they had two ways of knowing whether a man was right. First they had a law. There's the ten commandments. But if a prophet prophesied and then ... a dreamer dreamed a dream, they had another way of finding out. No matter how good it sounded, see, they had a way of supernatural. God always vindicated Himself. Don't forget this! God vindicates Himself by supernatural, all ages.
Then here come a man that was a prophet, and he'd prophesy, and it sounded just so real with his theology. It sounded so real that it was perfect. But you see in this day they'd been four hundred years without a prophet. So they said ... they got a bunch of man-made theology. I don't say this to disregard, but, brethren, that's what we got into again, see---just man-made conception of what church ought to be, what Christ ought to be. Not to be different now---if I said that just to be different, then God have mercy on my soul. I ought to be down here at the altar. But I've got to tell the truth, see.

56 Now, watch. And the minister brethren know this, that if a prophet prophesied, or a dreamer dreamed a dream, no matter how good it sounded they taken him first to the (what's called) Urim Thummim. Now that was a breastplate that Aaron wore---twelve stones of the twelve tribes, that hung on a post in the building. They taken this prophesier or this dreamer down there, and he prophesied or told his dream before the Urim Thummim. And if the supernatural lights begin to flash---God, moving against this twelve stones, made a conglomeration of lights like a rainbow---that was God saying, "It's true." But if it did not do it, then they did not believe it. No matter how well it sounded, it was wrong.
Now, when that priesthood was done away with, the Aaronic priesthood, then that Urim Thummim was taken away. But in this priesthood, the Melchizedek priesthood, we also have a Urim Thummim. No matter how well a minister can tell you that the days of miracles is past, that there is no such a thing as speaking in tongues in this day, there is no such a thing as the baptism of the Holy Ghost, that won't flash on God's Urim Thummim. And the Urim Thummim of this day is the Bible.

57 If the Bible says it's so, how can you say it was just for the apostles? Peter said on the day of Pentecost, "Repent, every one of you, be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to them that's afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call."
I can clearly show you where God gave the church power to heal the sick. Now, somebody show me where He said, "Now, I'll take it back." Show me that, where it's at. It isn't there.
The power's in the church but the church has forgot it. They don't practice it. They don't put it into practice. So you see it's become again a theology, a man-made theology. And when it does, it doesn't compare with God's Bible. God's Bible still remains the same. "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. The works that I do shall you also. Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the world," see. Oh, it's... "He that believeth on me, though he were dead yet shall he live, and whosoever liveth and believeth on me shall never die. Believeth thou this?" He said.
Martha said, "Yea, Lord: I believe that You're the Son of God that would come into the world."
Said, "Where have you buried him?"

58 Something had to happen when real faith is brought up with the Word of God. Therefore, brethren, the Word of God is right every time.
But those priests had wound it around and made traditions. "We are Pharisees. We wash the pots this way."
"We're Sadducees. We wash them this way." Oh, my! What is it? Taking one from... It's like today: "I'm a Methodist this week, a Baptist this week." You know what? It's just like taking a corpse from one morgue to another. That's just exactly about the truth. If you're a-joining churches, why don't you forget about it and get your name written in the Lamb's book of life in heaven? There's where it will never be changed. That's right, written by the name and the blood of Jesus Christ in heaven. There you won't have to change it from church to church. Your name...
There's only one church, one Christian church, and there's only one way into it. Not handshaking, not sprinkling, not some form of baptism of water; but by one Spirit we are all baptized into one body, and become members of the body of Christ.

59 Now, but you see they've took their traditions and made the commandments of God of none effect.
Jesus was trying to tell them, "I've come just exactly the way the prophet said I would come, and you would believe it not."
And just a word behind here---they said, "We would seek a sign from thee. We would seek a sign." Oh, every generation God has had gifts in his church.
Now, we notice (before we get to our text) He referred back to Jonah. And a lot of people has always thought of Jonah as being a man that missed the will of God. I don't believe that any man walking in the will of God can miss the will of God. I don't believe that any man walking in the Spirit can miss the will of God. He might think he did, but God makes it all work together right. He brings everything out right.

60 Some of you ministers have thought, "Oh, my, why did I come to this place? What happened over here? Why did I leave this? But I felt led to do it." I talked to a little minister today---brother here on the platform---leaving the church and going to the Indians, where he just has to go here and there, wherever he can. Leaving a fine church. Said he felt led to do it.
I said, "Son, stay with your leading."
It don't matter if you have to lay on your stomach and drink branch water and eat soda crackers, and you had to swap chicken three times a day---stay in the will of God. That's right. No matter what the price is, stay with it. God called it.
Now, we find that that be true. Now, notice another thing.

61 Then we find that he referred to Jonah. He said, "As it was in the days of Jonah... An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign. There'll be one given them." As it was in the days of Jonas... Now, Jonah, we know, we think, that God sent him over to Nineveh but he got on the road and went to Tarshish. We think the prophet backslid. He didn't backslide.
I was reading something on him here not long ago. It sounded very good to me, and here's the way it went. Jonah got on the boat, and he went down... And people thought that he was out of the will of God, but he was in the will of God. We know a storm came up, and they tied his hands behind him and his feet, and throwed him out into the water. And God had a big whale to come up, or a big fish, and swallow him.

62 And anyone knows that when a fish eats, it usually goes down into the water and then rests its swimmers, its floats, swimmers, on the bottom of the water. Feed your little goldfish and watch what happens. It gets its little belly full, he'll go right down, put his little swimmers against the bottom, and rest awhile, see. He's got his tummy full, so he just goes down to rest. Well, when this whale got his tummy full of preacher, he goes right down to the bottom to rest.
I always felt sorry for Jonah. You know, Jonah, if there's anybody that's got a reason to talk about symptoms... So many of us say, "Well, I was prayed for, but I'm still sick." What has that got to do with it? You were asked to believe; not to feel, but believe. And you say, "Well, I was prayed for---I had a bad hand---two nights ago. No difference, I guess I missed it." Well, you missed it at the beginning, see. If you would have believed it at the beginning, you'd've never paid any attention to that, see.

63 Talk about symptoms, Jonah had symptoms. Look here, now---he was down in the belly of the whale, hands tied behind him, feet tied behind him, in a stormy sea, probably forty fathoms deep in the sea, in the belly of the whale, the vomit of the whale all around him. He looked this way, it was whale's belly; that way, it was whale's belly; everywhere he looked was whale's belly. There's nobody here that bad off tonight, I'm sure. Oh, whale's belly everywhere he looked.
But you know what he said? He refused to see it. He said, "They are lying vanities; but once more will I look to your holy temple, Lord." Oh, my!
Jonah knew that when that temple was dedicated, that Solomon prayed, and said, "God, if thy people be in trouble anywhere and will look to this holy temple and pray, then hear from heaven." And Jonah had confidence that that man had faith in God, and God heard Solomon's prayer. And God kept that man alive three days and nights in the belly of that whale, and delivered him over to the right place. Whether He put a oxygen tank in there, I don't know what He done, but He kept him alive.

64 And if Jonah, under those circumstances, in that condition, could look to a temple that was made by man and prayed over by a man, how much more ought we tonight, under these conditions, look away from a temple but to the throne where God sits there, and Jesus on his right hand with his own bloody garments making intercession for our profession, sitting as a high priest upon a throne. Symptoms doesn't mean anything to us then. God said so and that's all. Jesus is sitting there tonight to make your confession right before God. He's a high priest to make intercessions upon our confession. You've got to believe it, and confess it that it's so and then Jesus can go to work on it for you.

65 Oh, yes. God kept him alive three days and nights. And we find him there. And we was told that all the Ninevites had turned away from God and went to worshiping animals, which is a heathen trait, and they was... Most all around Nineveh, it was on the seashore, so the occupation was fishing. And the god of the sea was the whale. He was the largest specie in the ocean, and that was the god of the ocean. One day about forenoon, when they were all out there fishing, the thousands of them fishing, all at once up come the big whale god. Run up to the shore and licked his tongue out, and the prophet walked right out of his mouth. Sure they repented. Certainly. The god of the sea delivered the prophet right up. God knows how to do things. So, He had to put him in the whale's belly, don't you see?

66 So Jonah didn't misbehave ... God. He didn't mis ... he minded God. God did that to show that He was God. Let him walk out of a whale's mouth right out on the shore, and that was the god delivering the prophet. Sure they would hear him. I can him see him going through the street, and that bald head shining, saying "Repent, or in forty days this city will be destroyed." Why, they put sackcloth on their animals. They repented. Yes, sir.
Oh, Jesus referred back, and said, "An evil and a..." I'm going ... listen to this. Said, "An evil and an adulterous generation seeks after signs." Seeks after signs---everybody's got to have a sign. This one's got... "A evil and an adulterous generation." I'll tell you one thing---if you'll listen close, you'll find out he was talking about this generation. A wicked, evil, and an adulterous ... like Sodom.

67 I was in Los Angeles a few weeks ago in a great revival there for the Assemblies of God, on the Municipal Auditorium in Long Beach. Picked up a paper, and homosexual has increased 40%---men with the natural use of life perverted. Look, nations are crumbling. Sin has took over. What do they do to the... ? What have they done all along to the church of God? Laughed at them and called them holy rollers and Pentecostal fanatics. They've got it coming to them. The nations has got it coming.
All these nations has to give way, for there's coming a kingdom. Hallelujah! (Going to call me a holy roller anyhow, so you might as well get used to it right now.) Yes, I believe in it. There's coming a kingdom and a king. Oh, my!

68 We notice Jesus said, "A wicked and an adulterous generation will seek after a sign, and they'll get it." They'll get the sign, that wicked and adulterous generation. "For as Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and nights, so must the Son of man be..."
What kind of a sign would this wicked, adulterous generation get? The sign of the resurrection. Amen. That's what we find now. Christ alive among us, the sign of the resurrection. Amen. The Christ of Galilee doing the same things, the same works with his people, living amongst mortals, performing the signs of a living God among them. That wicked and adulterous generation we're living in has got the sign of Jonas, the resurrection---the resurrection power that can lift the sinner from the life of sin. Can take sinful women---unbelieving, ungodly, demon possessed---make believers out of them. Take men as low and stooped in morals, make gentlemen out of them. As it was in that day, a wicked and adulterous generation would receive a sign, and it would be the sign of the resurrection.

69 Remember in last night's message, or yesterday afternoon, that we are living in the last days, in the sign of Abraham's seed getting the same last sign. I ask any man or woman to tell me one sign promised in the Bible outside of this last sign. Show what it was, how Abraham... Brought through justification, Luther's age; sanctification, Wesley's age; Holy Spirit, Pentecostal age, confirm-ing, placing the gifts in his church; and then appear, with his back turned, and discern the thoughts that Sarah, in the back and behind him like that... And the next thing was a fire to the unbelievers, and the transfiguration of Abraham's body and them to receive the promised Son. Search the Scriptures and show me.
We're at the end time, church! We're at the end of the road. Scoffers, ungodly (excuse me, I'm not wanting to yell at you), but scoffers, end-time signs that we're living in now. Perverted hearts, perverted minds, contrary to God. "Heady, high minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. Trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, and despisers of those that are good." You say that's communists. That's confessed Christians. The Bible said, the very next verse, "Having a form of godliness but denying the power of God, from such turn away." That's scriptural. He brought them into that sign.

70 Then the next, we find out, He referred then to Solomon's time. Every generation God has had gifts, down through the ages. Now, notice in the days of Solomon. All you Bible readers know that was the golden age to Israel. God sent them a gift. They believed it. The days of Solomon there was no war. They was all afraid, because the people were with one heart, one accord. God gave Solomon a gift of discernment, and it was so powerful till every person in Israel, all of them, believed it. They built the temple. There was no wars, and the nations sent them in gifts and things. I'll say this: because they believed in their ... popularity was strung all over the world, the mightiest nation there was in the world.
I'll say tonight that Canada, United States, our hopes is not built on somewhere we could go into a bomb shelter to hide from the atomic bombs. How could you ever dig out of reach of it? Why, the ones that we know about will blast a hole in the earth a hundred and fifty feet deep for a hundred miles square. That's the ones we know about. What about the ones we don't know about? Why, if you dig five thousand feet you'd ... well, of course, you'd be into lava. But if you went fifteen hundred feet, why, the concussion of that would break every bone in your body. There's no way to dig around it. The hour has come.
But we do have a bomb shelter. It's not made out of steel; it's made out of feathers. "Under his wings we will abide." When the bomb falls, we'll be in glory. But you notice this hour has arrived to us.

71 Now, what if all of the ... Canada, all of the United States, all of us here together, would believe on the gift that God has given us, the Holy Ghost? Why, you wouldn't have to worry about Russia. Why, the nations would fear. God would put a fear upon them. He did it when they went into Palestine. Remember what Rahab the harlot told the spies? "Fear ... we have no life left in us, because we heard what God did for you." God can do the same thing, but what are we trying to do? Make our own achievement. Why not take God's way of doing it?
What would happen in Canada tonight if every man and woman that professed to be Christians would come together and pray and accept the baptism of the Holy Spirit? The nations would be so scared of Canada! Only a little bitty handful of people here, the great big dominion as you are; but you'd have the nations on their knees. Certainly, you would. Because, we just don't accept it, that's all.
In the days of Solomon they all accepted.

72 Could you imagine everybody coming through Palestine said, "Oh, have you ever attended church yet?"
"Oh, well, of course, I worship another..."
"No matter what you worship."
"Oh, I've heard of your..."
"Come over. Come over and see the great gift that God's give us. Oh, we've got a ... our God is a living God. Our God's given us a great gift. Why, it's upon one of our brothers. We made him king. And you should come see this gift. Oh, it's perfect. It's a discernment. And people come to him, see it. Why..."
Them days they didn't have television (thank the Lord), and so ... or things like we have today. And the only way they know is bring in news from lip to ear and through the caravans as they pass the country. And everywhere people coming through, in the commerce and trade, and so forth, they'd go away, say, "You should go up in Israel. Oh, you should see what their God has did. He's put his Spirit upon a man, and that man has wisdom, discernment. It's so powerful that nothing can stand before him."
What a great thing that was. Oh, the people would wonder. All nations feared. They sent thousands of sheep and oxen, everything, to make peace with them. "We don't want that people angry with us, because you know it's written it's better that a millstone hanged at your neck, you know, and drown..."

73 So finally the word got way down into Sheba. That's across the Sahara desert, down in the south. "The queen of the south," Jesus referred to it. And then He said that when this little queen... Everybody coming through, and passed through these great caravans of camels and things, they'd all say, "Well, how are things going up in this nation?"
Everybody, "Well, fair."
"But you ought to go to Israel! Oh, it's the most magnificent thing you ever seen! Their God has put his Spirit upon one of the brothers, and them people are in one accord [There you are!]. Every Israelite believes in him." Oh, if we'd just get ourself in one accord, put our hearts... Not because we're Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, but put our hearts upon the gift, the Holy Spirit. One accord---Methodists believe it, Baptists believe it, Pentecostals believe it, Presbyterians believe it, Catholics believe in it. Oh, my, wouldn't it be a... Oh, that'd be in the Millennium!

74 Sure, one accord. "Everybody believes it. You should just see them. Oh, my, how that their God pours out his wisdom upon that man! You never seen anything like it. There's nothing can stand before him. And he's just a man, but it's God's Spirit upon him."
Well, how does faith come? By Spirit. The little queen'd say, "Is that right?" Yes, faith.
Then the next caravan come through. "Wait a minute. Have you been to Israel?"
"Yes."
"Is it... ?"
"Oh, it's certainly true. You never seen such in your life. I stood in the meeting there one day and I seen that man discern the people till ... it just had to be something supernatural."
"Blessed are they that do hunger and thirst for righteousness." See, "faith cometh by hearing, hearing the Word of God." Now, she begin to thirst to go see for herself.

75 Now remember, she had a lot to confront. First thing, she was a pagan. Now she'd have to go down to her church and get permission to leave. Let's take ... let's go with her a while, what do you say?
She goes down. She says, "Holy reverend father, I've heard that there's a great supernatural power up in Israel. They're having a revival. And they tell me that their God has put his Spirit upon a man, and he does works that a man cannot do. It has to be their God doing it."
I can hear him say, "Hmm, uh-huh [the bishop, you know]. My daughter, do you realize that your grandmother belonged to this church? Your great-grandmother belonged to this church, her great-grandmother belonged to this church. You are a member here. And you're a dignified person. You are a queen. Don't you never associate yourself with that bunch of holy rollers [you know] people [excuse me], that bunch up there, because they're just a little..."

76 "Oh, but, sir, they tell me that the Spirit of their God is upon a man, see, and he does works like God does, like their God."
"Listen, my dear queen. I am your father bishop, and if there was such a thing as that, it would happen in our congregation."
You know them spirits don't die. They just keep living on, see. "It would happen with us if there was such a thing, but being it's not in our denomination, why, of course, there's nothing to it. It's just emotion. It's probably telepathy. Oh, we have heard of such things as that but it's rumors. Don't pay any attention to it."
That didn't satisfy her. She said, "But, sir, look, they tell me that it is a living God."
"Dear, look at the gods that we have here."
"Yes, that's right. All the books and gods, but I never seen nothing move in them. Grandma didn't see nothing move in them, and her grandma didn't see nothing move in them. They're nothing but a bunch of words. They're nothing but a bunch of idols. But they tell me that is a living God, who lives in human beings [amen]. I want to see something real [bless her little heart]. I want to see something that's got some life to it; not a dead idol, not a dead formal theology."

77 "I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heavens and earth; I believe in the Holy Roman Catholic church..." And say that's the Apostle's Creed? Show me what the Apostle's Creed's like in the Bible. Not a word of it in the Bible. That's right. It's man made theory. I don't mean to be mean now; I just want to tell you what's truth. But before you can make a board stick, you have to drive it in, and clinch the nail, and we got to clinch this, see. Whoever heard such a thing as Apostle's Creed? No, it's nonsense. All those creeds, they don't get you nowhere. You've said it for years and you're still wandering about in sin and groping in darkness, having a form of godliness. And when the Holy Spirit performs something, you call it a devil. You're sealing yourself away from God all the time. That's right. Listen, brother and sister, don't you be like that. Wake up! We're at the end-time.

78 "Oh," said, "now, dear if there was any miracles to be done, our church would have it here." That didn't satisfy her. "Now, remember you are a queen. You belong to the Rebekahs [Or some other society. You are a member of the Kiwanis, or...]. You cannot associate yourself with such low trash as that bunch up there, you see."
You have that thrown in your face. A member of what? I'd rather be a member of the body of my God and to have all your societies throwed into a trash can. Right. Stand for Christ. "On Christ, the solid rock, I stand. All other ground is sinking sand." Anything contrary to that Word, let it...
"Let every man's word be a lie," said God, "and mine be the truth." That's right. Sure. Let every man's word be a lie.

79 Well, her little heart was still hungering. You know, if you're hungering, God'll make a way for you. Some of them say, "Don't go over to that. That's Pentecostal." What difference does it make? God speaks to your heart, go anyhow. No one has to ask the bishop whether you can go or not. God's speaking to you. Who's going to judge, the bishop or God, see?
Now the first thing you know, she said, "Well, I'll go anyhow."
"Well, we'll take your name off the book."
"Well, just take it off. That's right. I'm going. I'm going, because something inside of me hungers! [Oh, when the deep calleth to the deep, the noise of thy waterspouts...] I'm going anyhow."
"Well, will you bring disgrace upon your mother's religion?"
"Mother's or not mother's, there's something in my heart telling me to go find out for myself. I'm not going to stand out here and criticize it with you. I'm going to find out for myself. [God bless her little heart. That's the way.] I'm going to buy every Hebrew scroll of every prophet that ever spoke. I'm going to see what their God was like. And if their God is real, and put Himself---what He was to those prophets---upon that man, I'll say, 'He's God.' " Amen. That's the way to do it. Search the Scriptures, see if they're right or not. Amen. (I'm not amenning myself, but amen means "so be it.") I believe it with all my heart.

80 Here, now, she had a lot to confront. I can see her get her little camels together, her bunch of little maids together, a bunch of eunuchs. And now she said, "You know what? I'm going up there, and I'm going to find out. And if it's true, I'm going to support it." So she loaded her camels with gold and frankincense and silver, rich stuff. Now she said, "If I get up there, and if it's so, I'm going to support it. If it isn't so, I can bring my money back."
That would be a good thing for Pentecostal people to learn. Supporting programs on tele ... on these here radio that'd stand around and laugh and call you a holy roller afterwards. That's right. Support your pastor, support your church, support the cause that stands for the right things. That's right. She said, "If it's not right, I'll bring my money back. If it is right, I owe something to it." That's the way we should feel. If this be God, not only our money---our money's little---but we owe Him our hearts, our time, our talents, and everything that we have, we owe it to God. If it's right, let's go into it with everything we got. If it isn't right, go find what is right, then get into it.

81 Jesus said, "If I cast out devils, you can do it a better way, come do it. You can do it better, then come do it a better way," He said. "But if I cast out devils by the finger of God, know the kingdom of God's come nigh unto you. Now," He said, "if you've got a better way than the Scriptures says, let's see you produce it." That's right.
I said that at a big college the other night, when the dean and all them was sitting there. He didn't know. Now, like that man sitting there thinking that, didn't know that I was catching it right on the platform. Sure. He sat back there thinking, "Oh, he sure has got ... certainly is a psychologist. He certainly is."
I said, "Then if I am a psychologist, Dean, I ask you to come here to the platform and carry this service on. I have no Ph.D. and know nothing about psychology. If you got a better way of doing it, then come here." Dean of the school. I said, "There's a doctor of psychology. Come up here and perform it. Come on. You're doctors of psychology. But if you can't do it, then keep still about it." Right. That's right. "If you can't do it, can't produce it, shut up! Let God alone." Right. Oh, it was a mighty quiet bunch.

82 So we find the little queen, she got everything ready to go. And she loaded up her camels. Now, remember, she had a lot to confront. Remember, in them days the sons of Ishmael was in the desert, and they were robbers. Oh, what an easy prey for that bunch of fleet riders, to ride right in on that bunch of little guards and chop them down, and that few little women there, and cut them to pieces, and ... crossing that Sahara desert and then what would they do? Take all that wealth to themselves.
But, you know, if you're thirsting for God, if you're hungering, there's no fear in your faith. You know, when you're hungering for God, there isn't ten million devils can keep you away from Him. You believe God, there isn't a devil can hold you. You don't think about the circumstances. You've got one objective, that's go to God, regardless of who says anything about it. Oh, it could have been easy for them; but, you see, if you are hungering and thirsting, you shall be filled. God will see that you get there. She never thought nothing about that.

83 How long the journey was? Measure how far it is from Palestine, where the temple was built, all the way down to where the queen's palace was in Sheba, across the Sahara desert. And she didn't go across there in a air-conditioned Cadillac. She went across on a camel. It takes ninety days, three months, on the back of a camel. Some people won't come across the street to hear it. Automobiles, and airplanes, and everything---no wonder Jesus said, "She'll rise in the day of judgment and condemn this generation. She came from the utmost parts of the world to hear the wisdom of Solomon, but a greater than Solomon is here," He said. Certainly. And a greater than Solomon is here tonight---the Holy Spirit, the very God of Solomon. A greater than Solomon is here.
What did she do? After crossing the desert... She began to travel by night, because the direct rays of that sun will beat the hide right off of you. And here she come through ... those camels, riding on there, reading those scrolls, what Jehovah was. Amen. On her way the devil said, "You better go back."
"I'm determined to find it." Oh, brother, blessed are they... Here he come. "Now we see that, Jehovah does this. He appeared in the prophets, He did this, this is his way. The prophets foretold things. Here's a man with that same spirit of discernment. And if that works, I'll find out. I'll go see, and I'll see if it's right." Finally she arrived at the gate.

84 Now, she was different from the women of 1961, see. That version of them, they come in, sit down a few minutes, "If he says one thing contrary to our priest, we'll stomp out." That shows you was raised poorly. That's right. That's right. Shows what kind of home you came out of, see. No. She come to stay till she was satisfied whether it was right or wrong. She'd search it with the Scriptures and try it out and see if it was right. She come to stay till she was convinced over and over.
She put up her little tent and unpacked the camels, and scooted her money back to other places, and set the guards around. And the next morning I can imagine her fixing her hair all up, you know, and getting her hands clean, and her face, and putting on her best garments, and she goes over to church. She sits down. And all the bands, the trumpets sounded, and the music played, just before the church started. And after a while, out come pastor Solomon, walked out to the pulpit, began to speak.

85 And when the first person come up, she said, "Now, I'll see. I know just exactly what Jehovah is, their God. I'm going to see if He works like that. He knows the thoughts of the heart. He knows the secrets of the mind. So we'll see. I know that man's a man. I see him standing there. He's got clothes on, he's just a man, like any other man. So I'll just see if that is God in that man." So the first thing, a person come across the platform to Pastor Solomon, and he told them, the secrets made known. Then her little heart began to jump.
Next thing, the next day, more was said. The next day, more was said. Day after day, and finally her prayer card was called, and so (maybe not like that) anyhow, you know... But she got into the prayer line. She said, "Now, I'll see what he says when he gets to me."
So after a while she walks up on the platform to where he was. "How do you do?" And the Bible said that there was no question in her heart but what was made known to Solomon. Amen. Brother, it worked on her then.

86 What did she do? She turned to the congregation. "I am the queen of the South. I've heard about this great gift that your God give to this man. And I know he's just a man. I shook his hand, I looked at him. He's a man. But there's a Spirit on him, for he didn't know me, but God has revealed to him what's in my heart." She said, "His God can be my God. The things that I heard about Him is wonderful. They were all true, and more than I heard."
For why? It worked on her, see. It was her own experience. "More than this. It's greater than I heard about." And she said, "Even blessed is the men that's with him all the time to see this thing working. Blessed are the men." She'd never worship no other god but that God. Why? She was hungering and thirsting. Her heart had been satisfied.
Jesus said she'll stand in the day of judgment and condemn this generation of Jews and Gentiles, for she came from the utmost parts of the world to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, a greater than Solomon is here. Oh, we've had about 2,500 years of teaching and experience since then, but a greater than Solomon is here---the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ in spirit form, living in his church, and bringing to pass the same thing that He did when He was here on earth, showing his resurrection to the adulterous generation.

87 What was the matter with her? Why did she say it? Listen, friends, in closing, this way. She had seen something real. And any honest hearted person that's mentally balanced, and honest and sincere, wants to see something real. That's what the world's looking for today. It's not a bunch of theology, not of some man that can... Jesus never did say, "Well, if I do not the teaching of my Father..." He said, "If I do not the works of my Father, then don't believe me. But if I do the works of my Father, then believe the works. If you can't believe me as a man, believe the works that I do of my Father."
She seen something real. She seen something. Not a bunch of creeds wrote out, but she seen something real. That's what people wants to see today, honest-hearted---something that's real.

88 In closing, I say this. Everybody knows that... I don't say I'm a hunter; I just like to hunt. My mother's mother came from the Cherokee reservation. My conversion, since I... The first money I ever earned was twenty-five cents. I bought a steel trap, started trapping. I've been in business ever since. So, I just love to get alone in the woods. I see God in the woods. Go up into the mountains, climb up on top of the mountain and watch the sunrise, and stand there and scream before God.
Here some time ago, over in Colorado... I'm a guide in Colorado, worked on ranches. One day the rancher and I had went elk hunting. We'd done got all the dudes in and out, so we went elk hunting. We went away on back where the tenderfoot (as you call them), cheechakos couldn't go. So we went way up high. And he went over in another range. I wouldn't see him for about a week. I tied up my saddle horse. Had been kind of... That day had been a ... dry season. The elk hadn't been run down yet. And I'd went way up high to the timberline. It'll come a rain, and it'll freeze, and then come a snow, and then it'll come rain, and then the sun will shine. You know how it is, the fall of the year.

89 I was walking along through there, my eyes closed, saying, "Glory to God. You're so great, Father. Oh, You're so great. Way up here alone, where there's no gasoline or cigarettes. O God, no wonder you can live up here." I was just going along praising God. First thing you know there come a little storm across the mountains. I got in behind a tree. There was a blow-down there. It was almost to timberline. I got down, got down behind this tree, and sat down there a little bit, and the storms blowed real hard. I had my head down like this, saying, "God, You are wonderful. You're the God of the mountain, You're the God of the valley. You're God when we're poor, You're God when we're rich. You're God when we're sick, You're God when we're happy. You're a God when I'm hunting, You're a God when I'm crying. You're God in God. And I just..." After a while the storm let up. I looked around, and I thought, "Well, praise the Lord. Storm's over. I guess I'll go hunting for my elk now."
I started to move out. And all at once I looked across toward the west, towards Canada, this way. The big sun had come across into this province here, and was peeking its great eye through the crevices in the rock. I looked around. I thought, "Oh, yes, Jehovah." I looked back over here, and there was a rainbow, because the evergreens had froze over, you know, and the sun was shining against them, caused a rainbow to form across the valley. And I thought, "There He is. He's up here. He's to look upon as jasper and sardine stones, Revelations 1, Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, He that was, which is, and shall come, the root and offspring of David, the morning star, the lily of the valley." Oh, my, there He was, in the rainbow. I thought, "O God, how great Thou art." I thought, "Oh, how wonderful!"

90 About that time, I heard an old elk bugle. Chris, you know what I mean. Heard that, "Whee-hoo," like that, and I thought, "Oh, my. He got lost in the storm. He was bugling for the rest of them." I thought, "There it is. The deep, the wild, calling." An old gray wolf got to howling on the hills, his mate answering down at the bottom. Then, brother, I tell you, the real part came out of me. I stood there and cried like a baby. I said, "O God, how wonderful! There You are in the rainbow, there You are in the calling of the elk, there You are in the call of the wolf. You're God everywhere. Oh, how wonderful!" I said, "Praise be to God!"
And around and around and around the tree I went, shouting top of my voice (might as well tell you the truth), hollering, "Glory to God! Hallelujah!" I didn't care. Anybody shouts to let anybody else hear him shout, they're a hypocrite. Was nobody in forty miles of me. I was just jumping up and down, running around the tree, hollering, "Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, praise God!" I could see God everywhere. He was real. My, I run around and around. If somebody come in the woods, they'd have thought somebody was out of the insane institution up there. I'd go around. I didn't care. I was having a good time, blowing off some of the steam. I was having a wonderful time. "Hallelujah! Hallelujah!"

91 I stopped, and I said, "O God, why should I ever go down out of this mountain. My! Let me live and die up here, bury me up here. Take me home. I'll set my gun here, let my son Joseph find it some day. Let him hunt with it. Lord, take me up now. Let me go." Oh, just having a wonderful time. I had always thought sometime I'd come up missing in the woods. "Let me go, Lord, walk out. Take me. Like Elijah did---send the horses along." I was, oh, just having such a wonderful time there.
All at once I stopped, and when I did, a little old... I don't know whether you got them here or not. Yes, Chris, I believe you trapped them, them little old pine squirrels. He's a blue coat policemen of the woods. Noisiest thing you ever heard in your life, and not big enough to do anything. Jumped up on a stump and said, "Chatter, chatter, chatter. Chatter, chatter, chatter. Chatter, chatter, chatter."
I said, "Now wait a minute, little feller." I said, "What you so excited about? You didn't like that? Now watch this." And around and around the tree I went again. I said, "How did you like that?" I said, "You like that?" I said, "You know what I'm doing? I'm worshiping our Creator. You ought to do the same thing. Don't fuss at me." And I went ahead, and said, "Oh, if you only knew Him the way I know Him! He's the one that gives you pine cones, see. Shame on you! Don't bother me when I'm worshiping. Shut up!" And around and around the tree I went again.

92 About that time I noticed the little fella wasn't noticing me. His little eyes bugged out on his cheek. He had it cocked down in the bush, like that. I thought, "What's the matter?" Directly, a great big eagle had been forced down in the storm come up. I thought, "Oh, that's what he's all excited about, that eagle." The wind had blown him under there. I thought, "Well, now, God, why would You break me up from running around and around this tree here." I believe God makes everything happen right. I said, "Why would You break me up from running around and around this tree here to let me see that little old pine squirrel with that eagle? What about the eagle? Old vulture," I said. "What's he ... sitting there anyhow?"

93 I looked at him. I thought, "Well, God, could You be in that eagle?" I looked at him, and I thought, "Yes, You are, because he's not scared." That's one thing, he wasn't afraid. I said to him... And God don't want a coward. If you're ashamed to testify, don't go to the altar, you're ashamed to say, "By his stripes I'm healed," you're ashamed to say, "Yes, I received the Holy Ghost." Hallelujah! God wants to put a backbone, not a wishbone, in you, wants to make you somebody, give you a testimony.
As Buddy Robinson said, "Give me a testimony like a saw log, put plenty of knowledge in the gable end of my soul, let me fight the devil as long as I got a tooth, then gum him till I die." And that was his testimony. Old Uncle Buddy, you know. And so ... he meant that too. So then, eighty-five years old, run sixty thousand miles a year in a little Chevrolet car, still preaching the gospel. He wrote a book, sold a million copies. Didn't know the difference between a noun and a pronoun. Said, "I didn't know. I just wrote the thing [unclear words]." But he was a great man of God.

94 Now notice this eagle. I thought, "Why are you not scared? You know what? I could take my rifle and shoot you." Of course he knowed I admired him too much to do that. He looked at me, and I thought, "Well, he's not scared of me, because he knowed..." I watched him. He kept feeling them wings, you know, see if them feathers wasn't running [unclear words]. I thought, "Sure, that's the reason he's not afraid. He's got a God given gift---wings. He's got confidence in that God-given gift. He knowed he could be in that timber before I could get my hand on that gun. He had confidence.
If an eagle can have confidence in his wings as a God-given gift, how much more ought we to have confidence in a God-given gift of the Holy Spirit, could carry us away. Watched his feathers as they moved. I thought, "Brother, I love you too much to shoot you, see." I watched him.

95 After awhile I noticed he wasn't bothered about me. He was watching that little old pine squirrel going, "Chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter." He had enough of it after awhile. He just made one big bounce, maybe flopped his wings about twice, and went plumb beyond that timber. And when he did, that's when I seen what God was doing. That big fellow never flopped anymore. He just knowed how to spread his wings, and every time the wind would come in, he'd ride up on it. After a while he kept going up, up, up (not moving a feather), up, up, up, till he become just a little spot.
There I was, standing there with my hands up to heaven, saying, "Oh, glory to God. That's it. It's not flop, flop, I'm a Pentecostal today. Flop, flop, I'm a Baptist tomorrow. Flop, flop, I'll go to Oral Roberts' meeting. Flop, flop, I'll go to Brother Branham's meeting. Flop, flop, I'll go to Tommy Hicks." No! It's knowing how to set your wings, your wings of faith in the power of God. Every time the glory wave comes in, ride up on it.
He left that little old earth-bound chipmunk sitting there, saying, "Chatter, chatter, chatter, days of miracles is past, no such a thing as divine healing, no such thing as the Holy Ghost." He got tired of listening at it, so he just set his wings and moved away. Oh, my, that's it, friends. Just set your wings in faith.

96 In the north woods I used to hunt with a boy about half Indian. His name is Bert Caul. He was one of the finest hunters I've ever hunted with. You never had to worry about Bert. Anywhere in the woods, you didn't have to worry about him. He'd come in, let him alone. And we used to love to hunt together. But he was the meanest man I ever seen. He had eyes like a lizard. And he used to laugh at me being a preacher. And he was a fine fellow, but he was just mean. And he used to love to shoot fawns just to make me feel bad. Now, remember, it's all right to shoot a fawn. That's all right, but not just to be mean---just to shoot it and let it lay there, and laugh about it. That's wrong. That's murder.

97 And so he used to say, "Aw, preacher, you're like the rest of them---chicken-hearted. You'd be a good hunter if it wasn't you was so chicken-hearted."
I said, "Bert."
He said, "Oh, I thought you was a hunter."
I said, "I am a hunter, but not a killer, see. There's a lot of difference in that word."
He said, "Aw, get next to yourself, Billy. Get next to yourself. Now, you wouldn't shoot a fawn?"
I said, "I've shot a many fawn." I said, "God ... Abraham killed a calf and fed it to God, and He eat it. That's right. So there's no harm killing a fawn if the law says you can have it. It's all right, but don't do it just to be mean, just to show off." So he did that just to show off.

98 So one day I was up there, and he said, "Well, Billy, you're a little late coming up this time." And he had a little whistle he'd made, and he took that little whistle and he'd blow it, and it sounded like a little baby fawn (that's a little baby deer), calling for its mammy.
And I thought, "Bert, you wouldn't do that."
He said, "Aw, go on, Billy."
So, we always took a thermos jug full of hot chocolate, because it warms you up, you happen to get turned around or something. (I'm sorry to be late, but I'll close right now.) Said, "I'm..." We started out, and those white tail deer... Oh, my, you talk about Houdini being an escape artist---he was an amateur. You ought to see them after it's shot at once. Oh, they can get away like... You just see where they were. And so, then, they were so fast. And hunting season had been in two weeks. And, why, we walked all morning, didn't even see a track. Along about noon time we usually sat down, eat our lunch.

99 So it was about noon. We come into a little clearing, about three or four times the size of this church here, like that. And so Bert sat down. And we hadn't seen a track nor nothing. And we usually separate along about noon, and he goes one way and I go another and get back in some time that night to our spike camp, where our horses and things were.
So, then when Bert sat down, he went to reach in back like this, in his bosom. I thought he was going to get his thermos, you know, to get his chocolate. So when ... he started to pull something out and it was that little whistle. And I said, "Bert, you wouldn't blow that."
He said, "Aw, preacher, get next to yourself," looked up to me with them lizard eyes, you know. Took this little whistle, and he blowed it. It sounded like a little fawn crying.
Well, to my surprise, right across that place a big mother doe (that's the mother deer) stood up. She was hid, you see, under the brush. She stood up. That's irregular. Not ... in this country it might not be, but that country it is. Very irregular for a doe to raise up, or any deer, that time of day, about eleven o'clock.

100 She raised up. She looked around. What was the matter? She was a mother, a baby was in trouble. She looked around. I can just see those great big ears and them brown eyes looking around.
And old Bert looked up to me with them lizard eyes. I said, "Bert, you wouldn't do that." So he blowed it again, and the mother deer walked right out of the brush into the open. Now she wasn't putting nothing on. She was a mother. That was something born in her, a mother. Her baby was in trouble. She was looking for it. She looked around, walked out in the opening. I seen him... We never carried shell in the chamber, when we're hunting together like that. So he had a 30.06. He pulled it back real easy and throwed that shell up there, 180 grain mushroom. He was a dead shot. My! Seen him raise up like this and lay that cross hair across that loyal heart of that mother.
I thought, "Oh, my. How can you do it, Bert? How can you do it? How can you be so cruel? In a moment that poor deer, that loyal heart in that mother, she won't have any heart. You'll blow it plumb through her, see. How can you do it? And her looking for her baby, you deceiving her like that."

101 She walked out. And when the bolt went down on the model .70, when it went down like that, the deer spooked. Looked around, and she saw the hunter. Would she jump? No, sir.
She knowed she was facing death, but her baby was in trouble. She kept moving on, slowly, looking for that baby, them big ears up, looking, that nose up. She seen the hunter, and she knowed it was death just in a moment, but that didn't make any difference to her. Her baby was in trouble. She wasn't putting on nothing, like a lot of church members do. There was something real. She was born a mother. She looked around.
I said, "I can't look at it." I turned my back. I thought, "O God, don't let him do it. Don't let him do it, Lord. There's deers in this woods. Don't let him kill that poor precious mother. Don't let him do that. She's got a fawn somewhere or she wouldn't be acting like that. She thinks it's lost. It's crying for her. Don't let him do it, Lord." I waited a minute, just listening any time to hear that gun go off. And I knowed if it went off, she'd sure be a dead deer. And she wasn't standing thirty yards from him, right in the clearing.

102 I just kept waiting, but the gun never went off. I waited, waited, the gun still didn't go off. I thought, "What's the matter?" and I turned around. Them steel nerves in that half Indian ... was going like this, shaking like that, and he turned around, and tears running down his cheeks. He throwed the rifle on the ground. He grabbed me around the legs. He said ... [Gap in the audio.]
With your eyes closed, praying, how many in here would like to be the type of Christian that that deer was a mother? Would like to have the love of Christ so in your heart that you could display Christ? Not something put on, but a real ... a birth that makes you a Christian, like a birth made that deer a mother. If you'd like to have that kind of an experience, will you raise up your hand? God bless you. God bless you, everywhere.

103 Our heavenly Father, this simple little story, and yet people know that they need You, Lord. They need to be a Christian. They want to be. We all want to have something real that we can say to the world that Thou art Christ, the Son of God. Grant it, Lord, tonight. May that experience come to every one of us. In this little building, maybe 150 people, more than half of them raised up their hands that they wanted that kind of an experience. Lord, it shows that they lack that kind of an experience. May Christ tonight in his loyal holiness show this audience that He loves them, and can give them that experience of being a real born Christian. Not nothing put on, but a real experience. Grant it, Father. Through the name of Jesus, the Son of God, I ask it. While we have our heads continually bowed, is there someone here tonight, or how many, rather, that would like to accept Jesus as your Saviour, and say, "Brother Branham, like the queen of the south, I want Christ. Like the mother deer, I want to be a real Christian. I've never become a Christian. I've never taken Him as my Saviour. But tonight I want to do it." Would you just stand up to your feet a minute, say, "I want to be remembered in prayer."
Jesus said, "He that will confess me before men, him will I confess before my Father and the holy angels."
Would you just stand at this time, say, "I've never stood for Him before"? God bless you. God bless you. That's good. Stand, some others now ... God bless you. Someone else? Just stand to your feet. God bless you.

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1 Thank you, very much. Let's remain standing just a moment if you will, while we go to God in prayer. As we bow our heads now before Him, I wonder if there's any special requests we'd like to be known to God by an uplifted hand. You raise your hand and your heart, say, "God, remember me on certain..."
Our heavenly Father, it's a grand privilege tonight to come and say "Father" to the creator of heavens and earth, knowing that He's concerned about us so much that He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish, but have eternal life. We're so thankful tonight that we have believed, and have received eternal life by our faith in Him.

2 Now we have many requests among us tonight, Father. You've seen every hand. You know every reason behind that hand being raised. Answer, Father. I lay my prayer with theirs upon the altar, my faith with theirs, and ask that the merciful God will grant the requests, as we plead over the bloody sacrifice, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now bless the message tonight, and bless the people who are here to receive it. Bless the ones that give it. And may the Holy Spirit have the right of way in every heart. May we leave here tonight, happy and rejoicing, and saying, "Did not our hearts burn within us as we met in his presence again?" For we ask it in Jesus' name. Amen. Be seated.

3 Very happy indeed again tonight to be here after last evening, and a glorious time with the Lord. Had such a wonderful fellowship last night around the Word of God. I was having breakfast this morning with someone, and we were talking about it. Immediately I met another person, and someone had been in the meetings, and they said, "Brother Branham, I was in your former meetings when you first started about fifteen years ago over here on the West Coast. It was down here at ... Santa Rosa, I believe, is the place. Santa Rosa? And one night there there was a gentleman trying to get in the prayer line---and a minister was with me then. Billy has took his place. He would give out prayer cards, and keep the lines straight. And oh, my! People would drive a thousand miles in a taxicab just to get to the meeting.

4 And he kept wanting... Mr. Brown had put him out of the prayer line two or three times. He didn't have a prayer card. I heard him say, "Well, I only wanted to speak to him."
So I said, "What is it, sir?"
He said, "I just wanted to know how you spell your last name."
And I said, "B-r-a-n-h-a-m."
And he said, "That's it, mother," and walked over and sat down.
And I thought, "Well, now, that's strange. Why would he ask a thing like that?" I said, "May I ask...?"
He said, "Well, sir, about twenty-five years ago, when Pentecost actually first come to the West Coast," he said, "wife and I received a gift of the Spirit."
One of them would speak with tongues and the other would give the interpretation and give prophesies. And they wrote it down.

5 And said, "Tonight when I come home, I was reading in the paper an article of you being up here at Santa Rosa." He said, "And I said to my wife, 'Honey, doesn't that sound familiar to you somehow?'" (And them people may be sitting present right now for all I know.) Said, "Doesn't that sound...?"
Said, "Oh, well," said, "paper's been writing this minister up."
And said, "But that sounds familiar."
And after dinner, they went up in the attic and got some old---garret up there---and got this suitcase out, or the old something that they carried their prophecies in---an old yellow piece of paper. And one of them had spoke in tongues, and the other one had prophesied. And said "Thus saith the Lord, 'It shall come to pass just before the end time that my servant, William Branham, will come up the West Coast praying for the sick.' " And said ... spelled "W-i-l-l-i-a-m B-r-a-n-h-a-m"---and that with old yellow paper of twenty-five years before that. And I'd have been about seven or eight years old. It'd have been about 1915, somewhere along there, see, that it happened.

6 And the West Coast holds many great memories to me, and I'm constantly going on this West Coast. Why? Civilization has traveled with the sun. The oldest civilization we have is in the east, and there's where the Holy Spirit first fell, was in the east. And civilization has traveled westward, and has come to the West Coast, just a mile or two over here. So, I suppose, we're on the sea. We go right back east again. Here's where all the heap of everything has pounded up, here on this West Coast, over here. Here's where both good and bad, the worst and the best, comes together---right here at the West Coast.
Before I leave the West Coast this time ... this is probably my last mission trip up and down here. And I want to preach on "When the East and West meets." And I've had the context-like in my heart for a long time.

7 I was saying to this person... Said, "Brother Branham, when you come, it was just a little gift. Every once in a while in the line, you'd catch somebody, and take a hold their hand, and stand there a few minutes, and look them in the eye and say, 'You have a certain disease,' and it was always right.
"But you prophesied, and you said there would come a time ... that the angel of the Lord had told you---that commissioned you to go that---you'd know the very secret of their heart, and would tell the people the things that they had done, and would do, and so forth. You prophesied that would come to pass."
And said, "Your ministry today is a hundred percent plus higher than it was then, 'cause everything that you prophesied would come to pass, has did it, and your ministry is greater." Said, "You stood last night to ... some woman down along the line," said, "just reeled off her history, what was going on." And said, "The people seemed to say, 'It's real nice.' "
And said, "Just ... when you'd take the people by the hand in the first place, and just say one thing, the people'd rush to the altar as fast as they could." And said, "You made an altar call last night." And said, "Was there people sitting there?"

8 I said, "Backsliders, sinners, and everything else, see." And said, "Not one would respond." I said, "You see, God's gifts become perfected, but the revival's been over for a long time," see. The revival's gone.
Nineteen fifty-six I prophesied in Chicago that Billy Graham that year would return and cancel his meetings. Tommy Osborn would return, and America would see its last call. And from then the revival would die. Now, just count back and see. We got that on record, see. And the revival is gone.
See, the light has to ... the water has to fall on seed that's got life, or it won't come to life. There's no life there to bring it to life. "All the Father has given me will come, and no one can come except my Father has called him," see. That's right. So today ... The revival ended.

9 The ministry of Oral Roberts: I remember the first time I met Oral Roberts---little, ragged tent sitting on the other side. I was in Kansas City, Missouri ... Kansas, and he was in Kansas City, Missouri. We met around behind the stage, shook hands with me. And he said, "Brother Branham, do you think God would answer my prayers for the sick?"
I said, "He'll answer anybody's prayer for the sick." And we got our pictures together. It's in the old copy of the "Voice of Healing." Many of you have it, perhaps. And there, Oral started out.
Look how his ministry has growed, and now into the millions and millions and millions of dollars---now building a great big school of theology.

10 I think of Billy Graham, right down here in Los Angeles when all the Youth For Christ got to praying for him; how that the newspaper wrote him up critical---criticized him about saying the lion, Leo, kicked him in the belly and said, "See if that's one's fat enough" to lay his head onto. Think of a minister saying something like that. Today, they'd be scared to say it. But Billy Graham, his ministry has growed in such a way, see.
Oral Robert's ministry has growed. The little gift that God gave him prophesied. Look how it's growed, see. But yet, the revival is dying, dying, dying.

11 Billy Graham said in Louisville, when he was in my hometown, and he sat there... I was at his ministerial breakfast. He said, "I go into a city, and I'll have there six weeks' meeting, and get thirty thousand [What is it he calls them? confessions? or decisions.], thirty thousand decisions." Said, "I come back in six months, I can't find thirty."
He said, "Paul went into a city, and he got one decision for Christ. He come back a year later, and found thirty or forty from that one." He said, "Now, there's something wrong." Sure, see.

12 Just when the revival's going, and the Spirit of God is moving, God is moving with the people. Then when He gets that crop out, weeded out, that's it. That's for that generation. Remember, He said, "As it was in the days of Noah, wherein eight souls were saved, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man," see. Each generation will just produce so many. And that's the way you see it today. Everywhere it's just a dying away, a falling away. Sin is collapsing in everything.

13 We've come to meetings... I was at a meeting just down in Los Angeles last week at the exhibit yard there, where the place was packed out, of great crowds of people. And they seemed to all love the Lord. But it seemed like it's just almost over. Make an altar call; and honest, you couldn't get no one up to the altar. No one.
And when you do, they're not really Christians. They're ... what they are, I mean, just confessors. They are people who's once knowed the Lord, and just backslid away, coming back. So that ain't ... we couldn't call them converts. They've been converted when they accepted Christ. They just fell away---just renewing their fellowship, see. But converts, there's not a dozen a year, I guess, around ... especially in our little meetings. So you see it's just about gleaning over the fields.
But yet, the sovereignty of God to be sure that every one is caught, every grain is preserved! Even the pieces that was left off of the twelve baskets is picking up, see. God lets nothing... He combs back and forth through the fields again, to catch it again. Aren't we thankful that we have a Father like that?

14 Now tonight ... last night I said, "We'll let you out at nine thirty." Ten o'clock before I got out. So, I'm always late. You know, my mother told me I was a full nine-months baby. I was really a little late getting here, and I've always been late.
Here some time ago I was preaching at a United Brethren church, and I was just about an hour late. So the minister, when he got up to a waiting congregation standing around the walls, he said, "I now introduce you to the late Mr. Branham." When I got married my wife had to wait on me about an hour and a half. I held her there for a long time. If I can just be late for my funeral, that's the next thing. If I can just stay here long enough to be late for that, that's what I want to be---real late on that one.

15 But some, you know, knows how to say it, and educated scholars to know how to place it out there; and I just, I just have to reach up and get it and just... And I love to reach after it so much that I just don't know when to stop reaching, you see. And so, that's the only way I've got of doing it, so you bear with me a little bit.
And I got an alarm clock here that they give me over in Switzerland, but I'm just ashamed to make it alarm while I'm preaching, you see. So ... they gave it to me. I guess that was a hint. But I preached sort of a short sermon the other day at the Tabernacle at home---six hours, just six hours. Don't get scared. I don't do that now. The manager back here would pull me off before that time.

16 Let us turn tonight for a scripture reading over in the book of St. Matthew, 12th chapter. Let's read a little for a context. Now what little time we got, let's set it in for the kingdom of God now, see.

17 Now, the Lord spared my life a few days ago---all of you has learned about it---when that gun blowed up in my face, you see. You see all around my eyes, and them marks and things, that's where a Weatherby Magnum blew up in my face, and blowed the barrel on the fifty yard line, and cut down everything around me; and should have just cut my whole body plumb in two---that close to my eye when I was shooting targets on a range.
And the man that was standing with me is in the service tonight, sitting right back here looking at me. He should have just picked up my legs, that was all. And it never hurt me.

18 It weakened... Fifteen pieces made a half-moon right below the sight, and went plumb back to the back of the eye ball---this one; went through and knocked the top of the tooth off, and cut me through the face. And three or four pieces stuck in the skull and sinus glands, around like that. Never bothered me.
So it looked like that He spared my life for some reason, and I'm here to place every bit of time right in on the kingdom of God. (While we're looking, let me get...)

19 Now, the gun was not an original Weatherby Magnum. I've always wanted a Weatherby Magnum. As you know, I hunt big game the world over. And I've always wanted one, but never thought I could afford one. And then, some of my friends might have bought me one. But I couldn't see them pay nearly three hundred dollars for a gun when I got missionary friends that ain't got shoes on their feet. So I wouldn't do that.
And Brother Art Wilson, up here, gave Billy Paul, my son, a little 257 Winchester---new one. And a friend of mine that has a Weatherby company, or Weatherby agency, said, "Brother Branham, I can have that gun rebored for you for a Weatherby for just a little of nothing." Said, "Let me do it." Said, "It won't cost me over ten or fifteen dollars. Here it is, right in the Weatherby magazine. It's guaranteed."
I said, "Well, okay," and he took it.

20 And I ought to've knowed enough about a gun to know that when I shot the first round of shells to find the powder, just between the primer and the outside ring it swole. I ought to've knowed it was leaking there, but I never noticed it, I was so thrilled with the gun. And the next time I put a shell in, and pulled it down, it went off.
I learned a lesson there, see. When you're becoming a Christian, or want to be a Christian, just don't fool around with this here handshaking stuff, this here overnight conversion. It'll blow up somewhere down along the road. Now, if that had been a Weatherby Magnum, began a Weatherby Magnum, brought out a Weatherby Magnum, it would've been all right. It would have been made for the shell. But when you're trying to put a big shell that goes in another gun, in something that ain't able to stand it, see...

21 If you want to be a Christian, you be borned again. Die to yourself, and start from the bottom and come forth. There won't be no blow-ups along the road. You'll be able to hold the charge that the Holy Ghost puts in you. That's right. If you don't, you'll never be able to stand it. That's all. The Lord bless you.
That's a rude thing to say, isn't it? But I hope you get what I'm talking about. I believe that you've got to die so dead till you're no more yourself. That's all. And then, be borned again new, a new creature in Christ, built from the very bottom of your soul all the way through---a real borned again Christian. Then the Holy Spirit knows what kind of load to put in you. That's right. You'll be able to pack it.
If you try to impersonate somebody else being a Christian, you're going to blow up somewhere. There's going to be a blow somewhere in it. Don't try to impersonate. Be a real genuine article of God, or don't ... just stay the way you are, see. That's right. Just don't make any confession. All right.

22 In Matthew the 12th chapter, beginning at the 38th verse:
Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee.
But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall be no sign ... given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:
For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented not at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
The queen of the south shall rise ... in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
Now, may the Lord add his blessings to the reading of this word.

23 Jesus had been rebuking that generation. If you read the previous part of the verse, the verse before it, they had called the sign that... He had given them a scriptural sign that He was the Messiah. We spoke on it last night. And they had declared it to be Beelzebub, a fortune-teller, a devil. The very thing that they seen Him doing, those Pharisees...
Now they never said it right out in their heart, in their lips. They perceived it in their hearts. They said it within themselves, "He is Beelzebub, the prince of the devils," and Jesus knew what they were thinking about. And He told them, said that sin... When the Holy Spirit come to perform the same sign that He gave, a word against it would never be forgiven. He'd told the city...

24 The most horrible thing that there is, friends, is unbelief. That's the only sin that there is. There is no other sin but unbelief. I was preaching on that some years ago in a Methodist church. It was a nice big Methodist church, and they ... most of them, or some of them, believe in holiness, the southern Methodists. And they were ... I was preaching about... I said, "Committing adultery is not a sin." I said, "Telling lies is not a sin. Taking the Lord's name is not a sin."
That was just too much for some dear old sister sitting there, with her little collar all up around. She said, "I pray you tell me, what is sin?" She just couldn't hold it any longer.
And I said, "Sin ... sin is this, my sister, see. Sin is unbelief. They do these things. They commit adultery, they tell lies, and they do these things. It's the attributes of unbelief. If they were believers they wouldn't do those things. They're unbelievers. That's the reason they do it. It's just the attributes proving that they are unbelievers, for Jesus... The Scripture plainly teaches us that "He that believeth not is condemned already," see. You can't even get started. So, the most horrible thing there is is unbelief.

25 Why is it people say, "The days of miracles are past"? 'Cause they're sinners.
A man met me not long ago, said, "I don't care what you do, and how many proofs you could show, I still don't believe in divine healing."
I said, "It wasn't given for unbelievers. It was only given for believers." That's right. It's only for those that believe; not unbelievers. They haven't got a chance. Don't criticize them, but just think of that shape that those poor people are in, see.
Jesus said, "You got eyes, and you can't see. You got ears, you can't hear." And yet the highest of scholars in religion, the teachers and theologians of that day, Jesus said, "You blind Pharisees leading the blind," see; because they did not believe Him, when the Scriptures plainly stated that's what the Messiah would be. And they called Him a devil. That's right. See. Unbelievers.

26 He said, "No man can come to me except my Father draws him first." And here's the gracious thing about it: "All the Father has given me will come." That's the part. I like that. Yes, sir! "All the Father has given me will come," and I'm happy for that. So we don't know who is, and who is not. We just scatter forth the seed. That's all we can do. Some falls by the wayside, some falls this way, and that way; but some does fall on good ground (that's right), ground that's been prepared by God to receive the seed.

27 I think of that little woman that we spoke of last night, the little prostitute. How that little woman, standing there in the condition she was---five husbands and living with the sixth one---and what a horrible shape that poor little woman was in; and yet, you know, she actually knowed more about God than a big bunch of the clergy of this United States. She sure did. She knowed more about it than the high priest, and them of her day, for they said, "That's a devil."
But as soon as that eternal light shone upon that predestinated seed, it come to life right quick. They saw it. They recognized it right quick. Look at the shape she was in. There was plenty big churches in her day, plenty of them. She didn't go to any of them. She just waited, because she seen there was something...

28 But the Bible says the antichrist in the last days would deceive all who dwelt upon the earth whose names were not written in the Lamb's book of life before the foundation of the world, see. Now, there it was, and when that light flashed across that little woman's path, she turned. And she didn't say, "You are Beelzebub." She said, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet."
What was it? That light had caught it. Right quick that seed come to life, see. Something in there in her, she seen it. She was ordained to see it. She was called of the Father, had been given ... the life had been given from the foundation of the world. And as soon as that light flashed across her... No matter how much ecclesiastical training had been seen, they was blind to it; but when that light of God flashed across that little woman, she saw it.

29 She said, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. We know that when the messiah cometh, he'll tell us these things." There it is, see. It has to be put in there by God, and Him alone.
Jesus had rebuked them. He said, "How can you be so blind?", telling them, "How could you ... your unbelief...?"
And then they come to Him, and after all these ... and then they said, "Master, we would see a sign from thee."
And now notice, He said, "A wicked and an adulterous generation seeks after a sign [What kind of a generation? A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign], and it will get a sign. And there will be no sign given that wicked and adulterous generation, only the sign of Jonas." Jonah.

30 They will receive the sign of Jonas, a wicked and an adulterous generation. Let's stop for a minute. He surely was speaking of this generation. See, look. Did ever you see such an adulterous generation? Maybe some of you might not know it. In traveling around the world, there is no greater crime wave of adultery than there is in America. It's the worst of all. They've even got clubs now---Los Angeles, Chicago, several big clubs, New York---where they all go together, and the men pitch their keys in a hat, and some woman reaches in there and gets it. That's her husband till they meet again. Wicked and adulterous.

31 I was reading in a Hollywood ... or in a newspaper down in Los Angeles here. I flew over Los Angeles out here on a call, and I picked up a newspaper when I was flying across in a plane. And it said that homosexuals on the West Coast had increased, I believe, twenty or thirty percent in the last year. Sin of Sodom. As He said, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be..." Wicked, adulterous. All we find, our telecasts, our newspapers, our signboards, everything, just full of vulgar dirt, filth, corruption, half-dressed women. It's a disgrace.

32 And why? That's the kind of a spirit that's in people desiring that. How could you sell a woman an old pair of button shoes like mother used to wear? Why, yet, they got more leather in them than a dozen pair that they wear today---better leather. But you couldn't get fifty cents a pair for them. They'd rather have a little split, or something, that they paid twenty-five dollars a pair for because it looks like the neighbors', or some Hollywood star.
Christians do that, too. What a shame! We are not supposed to pattern after Hollywood. Hollywood shines with brightness. But while Hollywood shines in brightness and glamour, the gospel glows with humility. There is a difference between shining and glowing. And the church is beginning to shine with polished scholars, and education, biggest church, and So-and-so. And our full gospel people's getting right in that same trend. It's a shame! Glowing with humility in Christ.

33 My, I didn't want to start preaching. I said in this meeting I was going to stand here and talk about divine healing. All right. Let's go back to it. All right. A wicked and an adulterous generation seeketh after a sign. And they will receive the sign, the sign of Jonas.
Now Jonah laid in the belly of the whale for three days and nights. So must the Son of man lay in the heart of the earth for three days and nights. Then listen. Bring it to yourself. It may be a new light on the Scripture. It may be something, but it's in the Scripture. The sign of Jonas would be the sign of the resurrection. The wicked and adulterous generation that's seeking a sign will get a sign of the resurrection.

34 Now we got resurrection by history. But then we got resurrection by sign, that Jesus Christ lives tonight in his church. He's not dead; He's alive. St. John 14:12, Jesus said, "He that believeth on me..." Not, "professes to believe," but He said, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also. More than this shall he do, for I go to the Father."
I know King James says here, "greater." They couldn't do no greater. He raised the dead, He healed the sick, He stopped nature, He done everything. But the right translation in the original Hebrew, yet it says, "more than this." Christ was in one man there, and Christ is in his church universal now. "More of the same works will you do, for I go to my Father."
"A little while and the world [cosmos, world order] sees me no more. Yet ye shall see me, for I [Now, "I" is a personal pronoun as I have said.], I will be with you, even in you [how long?] to the end of the world." "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever."

35 The evening lights are shining, and this generation is receiving the sign of Jonas, the Christ that they thought they got rid of. The church crucified Christ two thousand years ago, and they could not kill Him no more. He said, "I'm alive forevermore." And here He is after two thousand years among his people, showing Himself, with the same things He did back there He's doing right here again. Two thousand years has passed. He is alive forevermore, and has the keys of death and hell. Amen!
I'm so glad of that. Oh, it would make a Baptist shout. That's right. I feel pretty religious myself right now, when I think about that. Think about it. He is positive alive! Not dead; alive!

36 I said a little thing here not long ago that sounded profound to me. I thought of Israel down in Egypt---slaves. God's people, slaves. And one day, coming down out of the wilderness come a prophet with a light over him. And he told them that there was a promised land flowing with milk and honey. They had never seen it. Nobody had ever been over there. But they believed that prophet. It was according ... his prophecy was according to the Word, and they believed him.
They followed him till they come to a place called Kadesh-barnea, the judgment seat of the world. There was one great spring with several little tributaries, which we could go into details if we had time to explain what that was---where the waters of life goes from the throne to the churches and so forth. But it was the judgment, and judgment begins at the house of God.

37 And then, at this Kadesh-barnea there was one among them named Joshua, which means "Jehovah-saviour." He crossed over the Jordan, where none of them had been before, spied out on the land and brought back the evidence that it was a glorious land, with good ... filled with milk and honey. And everything that God had promised was in that land was there. He'd brought back the evidence after crossing the river Jordan (nobody had ever been over there), come back. Why, there was grapes growing ... two men packed one bunch. "What a place it is Jehovah has give to us. His words are true." They didn't want to believe it. Yet two of them, Caleb and Joshua, quietened the crowd while they explained it.

38 Finally they crossed the Jordan. They inherited the land. They didn't have to be slaves, their daughters ravished, their sons killed at the ... and the bake ovens, or in the slime pits, and so forth, under the rulers of cruel, dark Egypt. They didn't have to do it no more.
They could have their own trees. They could grow their own vineyard. They could raise their children in peace. Other nations respected them. How I'd like to go in on that---a pattern of this nation.
Then the first thing, you know what happened. After awhile they got old, began to die. Graveyards become on the hillside of that glorious land. And no matter how God had blessed them, they still had to die.

39 Then there came another great warrior, come down from glory. His name was Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of God. He told them that there was a land where a man don't die, that there's life after death. Nobody had been over there yet, and come back. And He came to his Kadesh-barnea, Calvary, where He not only stood judgment (the judgment seat of the world), but the world was judged there, and He paid the penalty of our sins at Calvary.
After Calvary He crossed what we call the Jordan of death. On the third day He rose up again, coming back from that land, bringing the evidence that a man, when he dies, he lives again. We are alive. We don't have to take... Now He said, "I'm going to give you the earnest of this, give you the evidence of it. But wait up there at the city of Jerusalem until I send you the evidence that that land is good. That land frees you from sin."

40 And now today after two thousand years, we still stand with the earnest of our salvation, the evidence, to look down and see where we were once unbelievers, where we were once dead in sin and trespasses, and now we've raised with Him in the resurrection. We died with Him; we raised with Him; and we are sitting tonight in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, already raised with Him in the resurrection (amen), with everything under our feet. Amen! Sickness, death, hell, all done destroyed by our great warrior, at whose right hand we stand by. Amen.
What's the scare? No wonder one of them come and said, "Death, where is your sting? Grave, where is your victory? Thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. I've fought a good fight. I've finished the course. I've kept the faith. And there is a crown laid up for me that the Lord, the righteous judge, will give me at that day---not only me, but all those who love his appearing." Amen.
What if He'd have lived in this day? I can't stay with my text tonight somehow.

41 Now, they was condemning Him. He had showed them that He was the Messiah. That little prostitute woman, she said, "Sir [in so many words that we would understand], that's the sign that the Messiah's going to do." And they disbelieved it, see.
Now He said there'd be an adulterous generation that will seek after a sign, and they'll get it. And it will be the sign of Jonas. As he was in the belly of the whale, and rose again out of the belly of the whale after three days, the Son of man will rise again.
Of course, any Scripture reader knows that all Scripture has a compound answer, all prophecies. Take your marginal reading, like "Out of Egypt I've called my son," Matthew 2, and find out if that don't refer back to out of Egypt he called Joseph, see. Joseph was his son, and so was Jesus his son. It always has a compound meaning. So then, that also ... that generation did not believe the resurrection sign to both Samaritan and Jew.
And now here it is again, after two thousand years of ecclesiastical scruples, and ballups, and everything else. And again that Messiahic sign appears among us, and they still turn their heads from it, say, "I guess it's all right," see. A wicked and an adulterous generation will seek after a sign, and they'll get it.

42 You know, so many people always condemn poor old Jonah. He was a prophet. Said he was out of the will of the Lord. I'm going take up for him a little while. I don't believe that that prophet was out of the will of the Lord. I believe the Bible said that all things work together for good to them that love God. A man surrender his life to God, and trying to walk in the footsteps of God, God makes everything work right for him. True.

43 We find Jonah...
'Course, God told him to go to Nineveh, that great city about the size of St. Louis, Missouri, over there---all in idolatry. They worshipped the animals, and the god of the sea was a whale, and they had all kinds of gods. Wicked, adultery, all kinds of things was going on, till their sins even come up before God. And He sent this prophet down there to cry out against their sins.
Now, if that prophet went down there just in them days, and cried out against the sin, them people would have laughed at him and walked away. So God had him to take the other ship. And he took his ship, and went ... instead of going to Nineveh, he goes to Tarshish. On his road down there, a storm came up. We know the Bible. And they bound his hands and feet, and throwed him out. And the whale swallowed him.

44 I know they brought a whale to Louisville, the bones of one, on a flatcar not long ago, and the man was making a talk. Said, "Now," said, "you've often heard ministers say that the whale swallowed Jonah." Said, "Looky here, a football couldn't go through his throat." He said, "That shows that that Bible story was a legend."
That was too much for me. I just waited till I got my chance. I said, "Sir, I'd just like to say something to you. You're saying that because you don't know the Bible." I said, "God said He prepared a fish. This was a different kind. That's right. He had a throat big enough Jonah could've jumped in it," see. I said, "That was a special whale that God prepared. God prepared a fish. Yes, sir. He made him big enough to swallow Jonah."

45 God brings his Word to pass. I don't care how many critics says, like it was in the days of Noah, "It isn't going to rain." It rained anyhow. God said so. And what God says, God's able to perform. What He says, Abraham believed it that way. And all of Abraham's children believes that way. And if we be in Christ, we are Abraham's seed and heirs with him, with the promise.
Then we got to have the faith that Abraham had in the Word of God. That's right. That's what brings the things to pass, is faith in what He said. You'll never move it no other way but have faith in what God said. You must take his Word above everything else. Let every man's word be a lie, and God's be true. What God said, just believe it.
If you can't believe it that way, you'll never get nowhere with God. You might be able to join a church somewhere, but I mean get somewhere with God, see. That's a whole lot different.

46 Now we find out that this whale swallowed Jonah. And then anyone knows... You sisters, can you feed your little goldfish? When it gets its little belly full, it goes right down to the bottom of the little jar you got him in, the little vase, or ever what it is. He goes down there, and puts his little swimmers right down on the bottom and rests, because he's fed. He's prowled through the waters until he has found something to eat. When he gets his tummy full, he goes right down and rests.
Now this certain big fish that God prepared had his tummy full of the prophet, so he goes down to the bottom of the sea to rest. It might have been about forty fathoms down there.
And I have often heard people say, "I was prayed for last night. Look at my hands. They're still crippled. My stomach hurts just the same." It's going to always do that, too. See, you are looking at the symptoms. Don't look at symptoms; look at God's Word.

47 Here some time ago a precious old patriarch, about fifteen years ago, a lovely old brother... He had one son, and that son was dying. He had black diphtheria. And he asked me ... kept day and night to get me to go pray for that boy, and I was just so busy I couldn't do it. Finally, I got a chance to run over. The doctor wouldn't let me go in. Said, "You're a father; you got children. You just can't go in there."
And I said ... I perceived he was Catholic, and I said, "I want to ask you something. If I was a priest, and had to go in to give him the last rites, would you let me?"
He said, "That's different."
I said, "Not to these people it isn't. I'm just as much to those people as your priest is to you." And I said, "I'm going in to anoint him for life, not for death."
And he said, "Well, he's dying."
I said, "Well, if he is, then won't you respect the faith of these people?"

48 And he dressed me up like a Ku Klux Klan and finally sent me in there. And so, we went in there, and the little nurse come around, and she watched. And she was kind of upset about me coming in anyhow. The cardiograph---some kind of a machine there they were looking at---had went way down. The heartbeat was only so many times.
And so I prayed for the boy just a few words of prayer, and laid my hands over on the little fellow. He was about twelve, fourteen years old. And I said, "Heavenly Father, upon the basis of the faith of this old father and mother calling me to pray for this child, and upon your Word, you said, 'These signs shall follow them that believe. Now, if they lay their hands on the sick they shall recover.'"
I said, "I've just come from the meeting where I seen You do great signs and wonders. I believe to be a believer. If I'm not, help my unbelief, O God." I said, "For the sake of this child, I lay my hands upon this child and bless it in the name of Jesus Christ for its healing, that it will be well. Thank You, Lord, for giving us the promise. I believe it." Committed it to God, walked away.

49 And the old father raised up, and put his arms around the mother, and they hugged one another. Said, "Mother, isn't it wonderful? Isn't it wonderful?" Not one change in the child---still laying there, pumping artificial respiration to him with pulmotor on him. Said, "Isn't it wonderful? O, thank God for healing our son!"
And that little nurse just stood there and looked. She was just a kid, just about eighteen, twenty years old, a little Snicklefritz as I'd call it, you know, standing there chewing that ... popping that gum, looking around like that. She said, "Did you understand what the physician said?"
And the old daddy turned around, and said, "I understood very well, child," he said.
She said, "How can you stand there, and laugh, and pat one another like that, when your child ... laying here dying?"

50 And the old father cleared the tears back out of his eyes, and throwed that bald head back, and looked her in face. He said, "My child, my son is not dying; he is living."
She said, "Sir, of all medical history, when that chart [ever what that hand is that drops down on there] ... it's never been known in all medical history for that hand to ever come back again. The boy is dying. He's been in a coma for two days. He is dying."
He put his hand over on her shoulder. He said, "Honey, look. You are trained to look at that machine." Said, "That's what you are looking at. I'm looking to a promise."

51 The boy's married, and got two children now. What is it? See, it depends on what you are looking at. Don't look at the symptoms. If you fulfill what God said, believe it. That settles it. He's done it. That finishes it. It's all over. The boy never changed for three or four days later, but he got well because that father and mother wouldn't have nothing else on their mind. They wouldn't let the devil put his trash in their mind. They stayed right with it, and they held it. He lives. He's a missionary in Africa tonight, with two children.
Would you like to know who that was? That's Bob Bosworth. That's exactly who it is---old Dr. Bosworth's boy. Now, there you are.

52 Now. This preacher... I've always thought of people having symptoms ... if anybody had a right to have symptoms it was Jonah. Now he was... It's all right if you want to think he was backslid. He's got his hands tied behind him, his feet tied. He's in the belly of the whale, probably forty fathoms under the water, with a storm on top. Every which way he looked, it was whale's belly---laying there in that vomit, looking all around. He looked this way, it was whale's belly; that way it was whale's belly. Everywhere he looked it was whale's belly.
And he knowed that he was in the bottom of the sea. The fish had swallowed him, went down at the bottom on the sea. And there was a storm on the ocean, when he wasn't even safe in the ship up there. And here he is in the belly of the whale. Now, he had a good case of symptoms---he could have had. But you know what he said? "They are lying vanities. I will not believe it."
You can't hide a saint from his prayer, no matter... David said, "... I make my bed in hell, He'll be there." That's right.

53 Now, he believed that when Solomon dedicated that temple, and prayed and said, "Lord, if thy people be in trouble anywhere, and look towards this temple and pray, then hear from heaven."
He turned over on his back, the best direction he could get which was east, north, west, or south, towards that temple, and begin to pray. Oh, my! And God, by that kind of faith... I don't know what He did. You scientists want to argue about it. I don't know. He could have put a oxygen tent down there, for all I know. I don't know what He done, but He kept him alive for three days and nights.
And the man that prayed that prayer, Solomon, finally backslid, and the temple was tore down. And if Jonah, under those circumstances with that kind of symptoms that he could've had, refused to have it, how ought we tonight? when we don't look towards a temple that a man dedicated, we don't look towards a man that backslid, but we look towards heaven, where Jesus sits at the right hand of God in the majesty on high, ever living to make intercession upon anything that we confess that He has done.
God is able to provide a oxygen tent, or whatever it takes. He is still Jehovah-jireh. The Lord will provide for Himself whatever He has need of.

54 Then we see people over the earth being healed everywhere, and taken care of like that; and then human ... a little bit of symptom, "My finger ain't no better; my tummy still hurts." What difference does that make? Don't look to your tummy; look to what God said. God made the promise. It's God's business to take care of it.

55 What about Abraham? When God told him he was going to have a baby by Sarah... He married her when she was about seventeen years old, and he was ten years older than her. They had lived together as husband and wife all their years. And Abraham was seventy-five and she was sixty-five, when God made the promise. She was about ten years past menopause then, change of life. And there she was. And God said, "You are going to have a baby by her."
Why, I can see Sarah say, "My husband's a man of God. He is a prophet." She started making booties, getting the Birdseye ready, and everything ready. She was going to have this baby.
Could you imagine an old couple going downtown now, and saying, "Doctor, we want to make arrangements at the hospital. I'm seventy-five. My wife is sixty-five"? God ... faith is ridiculous to everything but the person that's got it. That's all. But the one that's got it knows what he is talking about. He's anchored.

56 After the first month passed (See, Sarah was past that time), " Honey, how do you feel?"
"No different."
"Glory to God! We'll have it anyhow. God said so."
One year passed. "Honey, ain't you felt no different yet?"
"Not a bit."
"Hallelujah! It will be a year greater miracle than it was if it had happened last year." He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong, giving praise to God. Sure.
After twenty-five years passed, now he's a hundred and she is ninety. "How are you feeling, darling?"
"No different. But I still got the booties. We're waiting for it. We are going to have it anyhow."
Why? God said so. That settles it. God said so. That takes every wish, care, everything else out. You know it's going to happen, because God said so. That settles it.
And we are supposed to be the seed of Abraham. If we have the Holy Spirit, we are the seed of Abraham, the royal seed of Abraham through the promise---not through Isaac, the natural, but through Christ, the supernatural. You minister brethren know what I speak of. But they was going have it anyhow; believed it.

57 Jonah believed it. No matter where it was at, what conditions, how many symptoms, God made a promise. "If thy people be in trouble..." Solomon prayed and said, "Lord, if thy people be in trouble and look to this holy place, then hear them."

58 Jonah, the prophet, was in trouble in the belly of the whale, in the bottom of the sea. And he turned towards the temple and prayed, and refused to see the whale's belly. "I don't see nothing but the Temple, the Shekinah glory. I see the pillar of fire hanging over it. I see Solomon, God's anointed, standing there with his hands up, praying. God, you'll answer me." He got to breathing good. The ropes come off his hands. He might have stood up; might have sat down. I don't know what he did. He stayed there for three day and nights.
After a while that old whale circled all the way around, on a taxi trip around through the bottom of the sea. And after a while, about ten o'clock one day, all the fishermen was out there on the sea. And they had prayed to the gods of the sea that morning, you know, to give them a good successful day. Living in adultery, and everything else, walked out into the sea, and was pulling their nets.
After awhile up come the sea god. Licked out his tongue, and the prophet walked right out of his mouth, began to say, "Repent! Repent, for within forty days this place will be destroyed." God knows how to do things. The god spit forth the prophet. Amen. He walked right down through Nineveh saying, "Repent!" Yes.
Jesus said, "As Jonas was in the belly of the whale for three days and three nights, so will the Son of man be..."

59 God through all ages has sent gifts and recognitions and signs to the people. Prophets has always been signs. Every time you see a prophet rise, you'd better be careful---judgment's on its road. Look at Noah, look at Moses. Look at Jeremiah before going into Babylon. Look at John the Baptist before the rejection of Israel. And oh, so forth, all along. Prophets are signs, and the Jews were commanded to believe these prophets. And when they come forth with these messages, God, through all ages, He was telling this wicked generation what they had done.
And listen, every age that God sends a gift to the church, and the church receives it, it's a golden age for the church. But when the church rejects it, it's judgment for that age.

60 Now, there come an age of Solomon Jesus referred to. Now, we all know that the days of Solomon was a golden age of Israel---no wars, and all the nations feared them. Why? God gave them a gift, and the whole nation believed it with one accord. It was a golden age.
If we Americans would only do that tonight, all the missile race and atomic bomb, and all these other things could be sunk out in the middle of the sea. God has give this nation a great gift---the Holy Ghost. But they don't believe it. Even the clergymen, tens of thousands of them, reject it. The church has turned it down, when it's doing the very same things it did at Pentecost, and down through the age, until the Roman cankerworm and palmerworm eat it up. But He said, "I will restore it again, saith the Lord." He will.

61 Now notice. Solomon in his days, how great that he had a gift of discernment, and all the people rallied around that gift. Nobody talked against it. What if it was today that everybody, even Full Gospel people, would just talk just so glorious against ... about the Holy Spirit? how wonderful it is to everybody. What if every man in America that claimed to be a Christian just rallied around the gift of the Holy Spirit? Oh, my! The millennium would be on. Sure it would.
But our little petty differences between..., our organizational fences, and so forth, has separated them as far as the east is from the west. And God will never be able to do nothing to us until them walls are broken down, and we become one in Christ. That's right.

62 We find them there, and there they was. All, everywhere you'd go, say, "Oh, wasn't it wonderful? They tell me that God came upon Solomon yesterday, and a great thing taken place. Oh, glory to God!" Somebody else told somebody else, and somebody else, "Oh, hallelujah to God!" It was a golden age.
What if the church was like that today, brethren? Wouldn't it be wonderful? Oh, what could we do? Wouldn't it be wonderful! There would be no ... nothing would...
We would have a bomb shelter all right. It wouldn't be dug down in the ground. Them bombs will blow a hole in the ground 150 yards, or 200 yards, or something like that, deep in the ground, and spread out for 150 miles. Why, if you were a thousand... If you was down into the lava, it would break every bone in your body.
You can't dig down; you have to dig up to get out of the way of it. We have a shelter. It's made out of feathers: under his wings. Amen. Carried away. I'm so glad for that shelter (yes, sir) under his wings. Why, the dust won't be settled till we'll be in Glory, safely under his wings. Oh, how that great wings of an eagle will pack us out of here one of these days.

63 Now, and we find out then, that in this great time, God moving, the whole nation blooming into one great, glorious, thing... Why, you know, it didn't only stay in that nation, but it went to other nations---nation by nation.
They didn't have television then. It'd have polluted the world like they have now with it. Everybody staying home on Wednesday night to see, "We Love Suzy," or some kind of a silly thing like that! Christians!
That shows what kind of a spirit is in people, when they love that kind of Hollywood tommyrot, filth and dirt; married several times, living out there like dogs, and then come around with this stuff. And then people stay home from prayer meeting. It shows where their heart's at. That's the reason there can't be a revival. That's right.

64 However, that's your pastor's place, see. He tells you that. Listen. I'm just telling you, too, so you'll know my part. Believe of it, too. I believe the same thing. Yes, sir. Oh, God! What we need is a revival, coming all the way from the pulpit to the janitor. Stir it up---an old-fashioned, backwoods, sky-blue, God-sent Pentecostal revival! That's right. Not whitewashed; but washed white. That's right. Not saying ... talk about the glory of God, but the God of glory revealing the glory of God. That's what we need in the church today.

65 Notice, that great age of Solomon, how it went on. How glorious! Other people began to tell others. And they traveled then by caravan, and so they come through, a group of camels going into another country. And they'd go down in another country, and say, "Say, I'm telling you, that Israel! You never seen such in your life. They've got a revival going on up there, the God of glory is among them! And they've took that man with that great gift, and made him their king. And God is honoring everything he does, just perfect."

66 You'll finally reach plumb down to the utmost parts of the earth, to Sheba. That's a long ways down there---way down below the Sahara desert. And there's a little queen down there. You know, somebody come by and told her about it, and she just couldn't wait till the next caravan come.
"Did you hear? Did you come through Palestine?"
"Yes."
"Is it so?"
"Oh, it's just... I went and seen it. It's marvelous!"
Faith cometh by hearing the word of God. Her little heart began to hunger. See, what was it? The light flashed on that seed, though she wasn't a Jew. She was a heathen, but she was ordained to eternal life. She heard it. Others might've heard it, and paid no attention to it. "Oh, nonsense. Bunch of holy rollers."
But she believed it. There was something on the inside of her said, "That sounds awful good."

67 Next time another caravan come through, "Did you pass through Palestine? Tell me."
"Oh, wait! I know what you are going to ask me. Them people are one heart, one accord, the whole nation. And God is working with them. They've got a man up there that's got a gift of discernment. You never seen anything like it---God working with them."
She didn't know what discernment was. She was a pagan. "What do you mean by that?"
"It means that the God of all wisdom comes down in a man, and reveals the secrets of the people to him." Oh, what a wonderful thing that was! Her heart began to hunger.

68 Now she had a lot of opposition. She sure did. But her faith didn't have any. You know, faith don't have no opposition. No. You might have a whole lot, but your faith doesn't if its real true borned-again faith. Her faith had no opposition.
Now, she was a pagan. Let's give a little drama here so the kiddies will get it. The next morning I see her get up, take her bath, and get ready. Her little maids got her ready. Remember, she's a queen. And she takes off over to the temple to say her morning prayers, and everything she had to do, you know; and meet the holy father, and all of them---probably kiss his rings and his feet, and so forth, and do all of her religion.
And while she got up there, she said, "Holy Father, I wish to say something to you. I understand that up in Palestine, they've got a God up there that's living in a man, showing himself through a man."

69 "Hmmm, my daughter..." There's your opposition. "Now, that's just nonsense. Those people are always that kind of people, always something going on. There's really nothing to it. About crossing Red Seas, and all these kind of things, there's nothing to it, child. If there was anything going on like that, your own god here would be producing it. It would be upon your own priest."
But you see, God has ways of doing things. "It would be right here in your own organization. If anything took place like that, it would be right here."
If I could hear that little queen, she might have had a good answer to him. She might have said, "Now, listen. My mother served in this temple. She read all of your books. She taught me all the books. Her mother taught her all the books. Her mother taught her all... For generation after generation we have seen statues, and idols, and heard of stories. But we haven't seen one move of anything yet.
"And they tell me that there is something up there that's real. There's something real. You can see it with your eyes, and watch it move, through a man called Solomon."

70 "Now look here, daughter. You are a queen. You wouldn't mix up with such a bunch of people like that. You wouldn't do that. You just couldn't afford to lower your prestige."
"Prestige or no prestige, something tells me that I must go. Someone brought me a scroll, and I read that that's what their God is---Jehovah---and He is reacting Himself in that man. Now I haven't seen one of those idols move yet; but we find Him in a man."
"Oh, nonsense! Now look, daughter. If you do that, though you be queen, I'm high priest. I will have to excommunicate you from this loyal faith that your great-grandmother, mother, mother, mother and so forth, all served in this temple."
"Well, you might as well take my name off the book right now, because I'm going."

71 You know, there is something about it. When God gets a hold of a human heart there is nothing going to stop them. That's right.
Now she goes back. She had a lot of opposition. She had to first forsake her church. Then she said, "Now, let me think. If that is right... Now, I'm only taking somebody else's word. If that's right, I'm going to take some money up there, and support it. But if it isn't right, I'll bring it back."
Now that would do good for Pentecostal people to hear some of that. Support radio programs that make fun of you---that's right, radio programs that make fun of you---and your own man begging for money (that's right) to support his own program. That's right.
If it's of God, stay with it. If it's not of God, get away from it. "If God be God, serve him," said Elijah. "If he isn't God, then find out who is God. Then serve it."

72 She heaped some camels full of ... big packs full of diamonds, and frankincense, and myrrh, and so forth, and she loaded them down. Now, she had some good philosophy. "If it's of God... I'm studying the books of what that God is. And if I see Him reacting Himself in that man, I know He's God that's concerned about his people, and living in his people. And I'm going to find out."
Now remember. She had a long drive. It takes ninety days---three months---on the back of a camel through the hot Sahara desert (on the back of a camel, not a air-conditioned Cadillac now---on the back of a camel), to come from Sheba to Jerusalem. Think, ninety days! No wonder Jesus said she'll stand in the last days and condemn this generation. She come all that distance and made all that sacrifice to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and people won't come across the street right here in Santa Maria. Look what she did. Why, the light had flashed on that seed, and come to life. No matter what the...

73 Listen, here is another thing. Remember, Esau's children was in the desert in them days, and they were fleet-footed horsemen, and robbers. What ... easy it would be---for that little bunch of guards that she had---to cut them right down, and take all that treasure.
But you see, faith don't see any opposition. I don't care if the husband's against it, the wife's against it, if this is against it, and that's against it. If you've really got faith for your healing, you're going to hold on to it. I don't care, even the doctor says it's not so, you're going to believe it anyhow. It knows no opposition, stays right with it.

74 Bunch of little eunuchs with her (her guard), and a few maids with her on a camel; probably traveled by night (it was so hot in the desert), and rest at the oasis through the day. And she was reading these scrolls what Jehovah had promised. She wanted to be sure that she read the Word, and seen that this gift compared with the Word.
There's the thing to do. Check it. Check these things that's going around today, and see if it is of the Lord. Check it with the Word.

75 You know, God had a way of doing things in the Old Testament. If it was ... a prophet prophesied, and he went down to the Urim Thummim---the breast plate that hung in the temple. And then, when they prophesied ... and if the Urim Thummim with supernatural lights flashed on that, the prophet was telling the truth. If it didn't, no matter how real it sounded, it was wrong. Or the dreamer, or whatever it was, it was wrong if the Urim Thummim didn't flash it to be the truth. Now the Aaronic priesthood, when it ceased, the Urim Thummim went with the breastplate.
But God's got another Urim Thummim. That's the Bible. Let it flash in the Bible. And let the lights go, like, flash through the Bible. Say, "God promised it, and here it is. It's a promise." Then you know you're right. God and his Urim Thummim: "If they speak not according to the law and prophets, there's no light in them." Now let that be the light.

76 She was going to find out. She read it. All through the daytime she sat under the trees, and read these scrolls of the different prophets. And she was watching to see what would take place when she got there. Finally she arrived. She arrived in the courts.
Now, a lot of people---when a revival comes to town talking about God, a Pentecost revival---some of them say, "Well, I believe I'll go over and hear the holy rollers tonight." And they'll go over and sit down. And the first thing that's said that crosses up their little petty doctrine, whether it's scriptural or not, out the building they go. That's all of it.

77 She didn't come for that. She just unpacked her camels, and set up the tents, and she was going to stay there till she was convinced. That's a good idea. I like that. She had all the scrolls. She could read, and see whether it was right or not. She'd compare it with the Word that this God had spoke of.
She was a smart woman. She sure was. We need more of them today. Then it would be better-dressed women, wearing long hair, getting away from shorts and everything else, like they should do. Instead of pattern after some down here in Hollywood, they would be patterning after God's example here in the Bible. That's right.

78 Then remember, sister, while I'm on the subject: a woman that dresses like one of these skinned wieners out here on the street, walk down the street... Do you know Jesus said, "Whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her in his heart already?"
You say, "I'm just as pure as a lily." You may be to your husband, or your boyfriend, but if you dress yourself like that, and a sinner looks on you like that, and he answers for it at the day of the judgment, who did he commit it with? You. Whose fault is it? Yours, for you presented yourself. That's right.

79 "Oh," you say, "that's the only kind of dresses they make."
They still make sewing machines, and sell goods. There is no excuse, because that old lusting spirit come upon women, driving a many a pure lady into such tommyrot. That's the Word of the Lord. We've got to restore back again that real faith that was once delivered back at the beginning. Our Pentecostal churches, termites has eat the foundation out from under it with such nonsense. Sure. The Bible said so. It's a shame and a disgrace. Used to be it was wrong for them to do it, but now they've let down the bars.

80 An old Methodist minister used to sing a song, said:
We let down the bars,
We let down the bars;
We compromised with sin.
We let down the bars,
The sheep got out.
But how did the goats get in?
You let down the bars. That's what it was. Got back on some kind of a dogma. Then holler about the Roman church, and their dogma; and we got it right here in our own backdoor. Pot can't call kettle dirty. No, sir. Yes, sir. There's the Bible right before us, sir.

81 It's an abomination. A woman said to me, "I don't wear shorts." Said, "I wear these [what do you call them?] slacks."
I said, "That's worse than ever. The Bible says it's an abomination for a woman to wear a garment that pertains to a man." It's a shame.
Oh, our women, our men... And you men, with a wishbone instead of a backbone, to let your women smoke cigarettes, and act like that. Shame on you! I don't call that a ruler of his own house. I call that led around by the ears somewhere. Shame on you! Oh, "Our whole body," Isaiah said, "has become putrefied sores." We need a house cleaning, and a Holy Ghost revival, for the coming of Lord Jesus Christ---a cleaning [unclear words]. That's right. You know that's right.

82 Now here we go. The little queen took off her bundles and set them down, put up her tents, and she was going to stay till she was convinced. I can see her come in the first morning. The trumpets played, and the organs played, all the music played, and the psalteries and all went on. And they had a great meeting that morning. They rejoiced in the Lord, and praised the Lord while a thousand trumpets blasted out his glory. And the sacrifice was made. The smoke went up, and people fell on their faces and worshipped. It was all new to her.

83 Then after a while, Pastor Solomon come walking out. Oh, how everybody loved him! My! Wouldn't it be wonderful if our people just loved the Holy Spirit when He come down like that? We'd just obey, and be in ... so submissive to Him.
Pastor Solomon walked out very quietly, bowed himself to the people. And yet a king, but in his humility, sweet and humble. Didn't pray for great things---just to have wisdom to lead his people.
And she begin to notice the prayer line as it was that morning, that the secrets of the people's heart was being made known. I imagine she stayed up all night long, reading those scrolls. "I seen it with my own eyes. I seen it with my own eyes. I watched it."

84 Finally her number was called. Her time come. She come up before Solomon. And the Bible said there wasn't one thing that God didn't make known. Oh, my! Her heart must... She got so thrilled, she turned around and blessed the God of Solomon. And she blessed the men that went with him. She said, "Blessed are you who sit here, and your eyes behold this glory day by day." Amen. No wonder Jesus said she will rise in the day of the judgment and condemn that generation, because a greater than Solomon was there. That's right.

85 Brother, sister, what happened? She seen something real for her first time in life. (We just want to have more time, but we ought to be closing right now.) She seen something real for her first time. It was something that was genuine, something that wasn't put on.
She seen something that come from God. That man couldn't have that wisdom of himself. He would know the secrets and reveal it. A gift. He was a prophet, and he could understand and tell them.
And here Jesus, the anointed Son of God standing there, was greater than Solomon, and they called it a spirit of the devil. "He's a fortuneteller."
He said, "That queen will arise in the judgment with this generation, and condemn it."

86 Now, if she rises and condemns that generation, how much more will she condemn this generation, after two thousand years of the gospel, with sweat and toil, and the Holy Spirit working in the churches and confirming it, with the printed Bible and everything laying before us? And we see his works going on, and yet we stand as if we was a haystack somewhere. Why, the little queen... I'll close in saying this. She seen something that was real.
Now listen, just before we stop, and call the prayer line, I'd like to say this: I like to hunt as you know. I told you about the gun. A little story comes to my mind I want to tell you, just before closing.

87 I used to ... before I went into the evangelist work, I used to have a baking powder can. I saved nickels and things. When I was a game warden, I worked and I pastored a Baptist church---a Baptist Tabernacle in Jeffersonville---for seventeen years, without one penny of salary. I never drawed a salary. Never took a offering in my life. So I dropped my nickels, when I'd get paid, in there to take a hunting trip once a year.
And I used to hunt up in the north woods with some friends up there. And a good hunter, a fellow I hunted with, his name was Caul, Burt Caul. Fine fellow, about a half Indian. Also, he was a good hunter. I liked to hunt with him because you never had to hunt him up. He knowed where he was at. And a good shot, my! He was a dead shot, but the meanest man that I ever met in my life. That man was actually mean. He had eyes like a lizard, and they sat sideways, you know, like that.

88 And he used to shoot little fawns just to make me feel bad. And he'd shoot... You know what a fawn is. It's a little baby deer. And he'd shoot them does, mother does and fawns, and things. Now, it's all right. If the law... Now, I'm not ... you hunting brothers, I'm not condemning killing a fawn. That's all right, if the law says kill it. But just to shoot them just for fun, that's wrong. That's murder. In my book, it's murder (that's right) to kill them just to be killing. Now, not because it was a fawn...
Now Abraham killed a calf, and God eat it. So it's not the sex, or the size; but it's just killing them to be cruel to kill. That's what Burt would do, just to be mean, to make me feel bad. He'd shoot those little fellows, and watch them tumble over, just for fun.

89 And one year I went up there. It was kind of late, and I went up. And Burt, he had been waiting for me for two days. I told you I was always late, and even on my hunting trips. So he ... I was late.
He said, "Where have you been, preacher?"
I said, "I just couldn't get off from work, Burt." We was right in time of quail season. I said, "I couldn't get off from work."
He said, "Well, it's going be late." Said, "Been hunting up here now for several days." Said, "Them little white tails are like Houdini, the escape artist. They're gone just in a second."
And I said, "Well, we'll try it. We know where we're at. We got about ten days now. We'll get one."

90 So we started off that morning, and he said, "I want to show you something, preacher. You never seen nothing like it."
I said, "What is it, Burt?"
Reached down in his pocket, and pulled out a little whistle, and he whistled it, blowed it. And it sounded just like a little baby fawn, crying for its mama.
I said, "Now, Burt, you wouldn't be that cruel."
And he said, "Oh, you're like all the rest of the preachers. You're too chicken-hearted to be a hunter." He said, "Get next to yourself, fellow."
I said, "Burt, that's not being chicken-hearted. That's just acting with sense." I said, "Don't you do a thing like that, Burt."
He said, "Aw, go on, Billy. What's the matter with you?"

91 So, we always carry some chocolate. Chocolate is better than coffee, because it's stimulating. Sometimes you get turned around in the woods, may have to stay out over night. And you'd better have a little chocolate with you, or something, to keep you warm through the night, if you can't find some dry stuff to make a fire.
So we hunted till up about eleven o'clock, and we didn't see a track or a sign. About four inches, six inches of snow, good tracking weather---not a sign nowhere. Moonlight night---'course, them deer feeding at night. But we couldn't find even a track. And I said, "Well, it's going to be pretty bad."

92 We walked on, about eleven o'clock. And all at once, he kind of ... we come to an opening. It was about twice the size of this building here. Burt kind of stooped down, and he put his hand back in his coat like this, and I thought "Well, we're going eat a bite of lunch, and maybe separate, and him go one way and I another, and work our way in. Nine or ten o'clock tonight we'd be back to our camp."
So he reached down there, pulled out this little whistle, and I said... Now I thought he was going to get his lunch, but he pulled out this little whistle. And he put it up to his mouth, and give a little call like a little baby fawn, bleating for its mammy, you know, like that. And when he did that, he looked up at me.

93 And I noticed right across the little opening there a great big, beautiful doe stood up. See, she was hid, but when she heard that call of that baby, she was a mother. Instinct in her rose up. Now, she wouldn't have ordinarily done that at that time of day. But I could see them big ears like that, and those big brown eyes looking around. What was it? A baby, and a mother. And he looked over at me, and them lizard eyes looked up at me.
I thought, "Burt, you wouldn't do that. You wouldn't do that."
He said, "Shh," and he took that whistle again, and he blowed it again. And the deer stepped right out into that opening. Oh my! That's unusual. And I seen him look up again, pull that lever back, and throwed that big 180 grain bullet in that 30.06---a dead shot.

94 I seen him level down like this, you know. And I thought, "Oh, oh. Just a second more, and he'll drive the heart of that mother, that loyal heart, plumb through her, see---that big 180-grain mushroom going right through that loyal heart, a mother looking for her baby. How could you be so deceitful!"
She stomped when the latch went out on the gun. You know what it is, in a model seventy---when the latch goes down it makes a little noise. She turned. She seen the hunter. Now usually she spooked, we call it---gone, like that.
But not her. She was right in the face of death, but her baby was in need. She was loyal. She wasn't a hypocrite. She wasn't putting something on. She wasn't a make-believe; she was a mother. There was something in her was mother. And I thought, "O God, there's a lesson. 'Yet a mother may forget her suckling babe, but never will I forget you. Your name's engraved on the palms of my hand.' "

95 I thought, "Burt, surely you can't do that." I was behind some bush to the deer, but I was looking through some snow hanging on the little spruce, and watching. And I seen that gun come up there. And oh, my! what a crack shot he was.
I couldn't look at it. I thought, "That loyal mother!" I thought, "How real. She's walked right out there in the face of that." And them ears, that nose, she caught that hunter sitting there; but that didn't make her no difference. She was ready to go to death. Why? That baby was crying. And she was trying to find it. She was a mother. There was something inside of her was mother---inside of her. She was born a mother, and she was looking for that baby. She wasn't noticing the danger. It didn't make any difference. She was watching for that baby.

96 I turned my head. I couldn't watch it. I turned my head. I said, "Heavenly Father, be merciful to Burt. Don't let him do it, God. That precious mother standing there with that real loyal heart beating beneath there, looking for her baby... Don't let him do it, Father." And I kept standing there, praying to myself. I was listening to hear that gun crack any minute. But the gun didn't go off.
After about a full minute or two, I turned around, and the gun barrel was shaking like this. And he looked up to me, and the tears was streaming down out of them eyes. He looked at me, and his lips was quivering. He throwed the gun on the bank. He said, "Billy, I've had enough of it." He grabbed me by the pants leg, and said, "Lead me to that Jesus that you are talking about." He's a deacon in a Baptist church.

97 What's the matter? What was it? He saw something real. He seen something that wasn't put on. He seen something that was genuine, a real mother---something inside, that she wasn't afraid of death. She wasn't afraid of nothing, because she was a mother. Her baby was in need.
God, make me a Christian to love my Lord... Like that mother was, as much mother as she was mother, make me a Christian.
With our heads the way they are now, with our eyes toward God, how many in here would like to be that kind of a Christian---as much Christian as that deer was a mother? Would you say, "God, be..."

98 Let us bow our heads. Heavenly Father, I guess long will I remember the story. I remember feeling them hands of Burt, as he grabbed a hold of my trouser leg, pulling on me; and the tears dropping off on that white snow. The expression on his face had changed him. He had seen something that was real. He wanted to be a Christian. And there on that snow bank that day, a cruel-hearted man with a heart of stone was melted, because that he saw something real.
The queen of Sheba saw something real. She was convinced. The woman at the well, she saw something real. She said, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. We know Messiah is coming." She saw something real.
Philip saw something real. Bartimaeus saw something real when his eyes come open---a man that could open his eyes that was blind.

99 God, may we tonight see Jesus, see his power that changes our lives from sinners to Christians; from unbelievers, and doubters, and skeptics to true, unadulterated, Christian believers.
Bless every heart that was beneath those hands that went up. May they have no rest. May they be on the cold snow banks, too, until that realization that God has made them a real Christian in their hearts, to love God in the face of death, in the face of anything. Christ is first, the call of God and his Word. Grant it, heavenly Father.
We'll wait now, and trust that You---until this altar call is finished---will make yourself so real to us that we can leave here tonight like the queen of Sheba, going back down to her own country. She was convinced there was something real; Burt, coming from the woods, there was something real. Peter never wanted his nets no more. There was something real that he had saw. God, grant tonight that we'll see the real also, and realize that it is Christ in our midst. We ask it in Jesus' name. Amen.

100 Every time I think of that little old story up there of that mother deer... I don't know what become of her. Burt started screaming at the top of his voice. I looked up. Them lizard eyes had done changed to a sweet expression. His lips was quivering, his arms around my legs. He said, "Lead me, Billy, to that Jesus."
See, even though the churches and things he had been going around that held their peace, the rocks was able to cry out. That mother deer's life had cried out. There was something genuine, something that wasn't just ecclesiastical polish. It was something had come real, that wasn't afraid, that was genuine.
God grant tonight that my Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, will make Himself so real to you, till you'll see the real thing and will become his disciple, and be healed of your sickness.

101 I believe we started from A number 1 last night, called up a bunch of them. I don't know. I think there was a lot of them missing that we didn't get to. Let's start tonight from somewhere else.
Let's start from fifty, A50. Who has it? Prayer card A50. Well, maybe that's not there either. So we'll start from somewhere else, then. Pardon? I'm sorry, lady. Come right over here. A50, A51? Right here. 52? Who has prayer card 52? Would you come here, if you can. If you can't, we'll pack you. 53? Raise up your hand. 53? Right in front of me? 53? All right. 54? Who has 54? You, sir? 55? Somebody with prayer card 55. Would you stand? Is that... No. 55? Pardon me. 55?
Now we we'll have to hurry. We're going to be late again. 55? Say it in Spanish, somebody who can speak Spanish. [Someone says, "Cincuenta y cinco."] 55. They might have stepped out. If they step in, remember, during the time, they can come in the line. 56, 57? All right, thank you. 58, 59, 60, 60, 60?

102 The reason we do this, so they won't be running, cramming over each other. 60 not here? Oh, yes. 60? All right. 61, 62? That's good. 62? Raise up your hands so we can see you, see. 62, 63, 64, 65? That's the way to do it. 65? Just take your card, and give it to the usher, or Billy, or some of them down there. 65, 65, 66. Well, okay.
Please don't take the cards unless you want to... See, you knock somebody else out, somebody come... Maybe I preached a little long, and they had to go home. Maybe it's my fault. Forgive me. Might have been I preached too long. All right.

103 Now how many doesn't have prayer cards and you want the Lord to heal you, and you believe that He will heal you? Raise up your hands. All right. Just have faith now. Don't doubt; have faith. Remember there was a little woman one time that touched the border of his garment and she didn't have a prayer card either. But He looked around till He found her.
How many was here last night? Let's see your hands. Well, I guess all of you were here. You understood what taken place. Now, would you stand up a moment, lady? Now, I suppose that you and I are strangers. We are probably born miles apart and years apart. You are just a girl, and I'm a middle-aged man. This is our first time meeting, I suppose. You was in one of my meetings when you were younger. Was that here in California? Where? In Oregon. Probably back in my early ministry?

104 Well, I don't know you, of course. You've just seen me. I've seen millions of people since then, and been... I never remember anybody like that anyhow. By the way, I wouldn't know what was wrong with you, or... Let's just find out if the Lord will tell me what's wrong with you, then; just let alone anything else, just what's wrong. Would it convince you that...? You'd know whether I'm telling you the truth or not, wouldn't you? Would it convince the audience? Would you believe you'd see something real?
Here is a girl; with both of us... Now I don't know what's wrong with her, she knows; 'cause she's just a young lady standing there. Somebody ... the boy comes down, and gives these prayer cards out. And people are out there---with prayer card, or without prayer card, it doesn't matter. They just have faith. That's all you have to have.
And here we are, and there's something wrong with the girl. If there is, then if the Holy Spirit will reveal it, if that isn't exactly the same thing that Jesus condemned that generation... It's exactly. And the same thing that He promised, as last night, for this generation; and said to speak against it would be blasphemy of the Holy Ghost, and would never be forgiven a person.

105 Now, here it is. Now something has to take place. Here's where we can say... In traveling, I was entertained one afternoon in India in the temple of the Jains, where seventeen different religions in there, every one of them against Christianity; every one of them---Buddhist, Mohammedan, all of them, against. Sikh, Jain, and what more was in there, and they was every one against Christianity.
But every religion in the world is false but Christianity. Every founder is dead. Buddha died about 2300 years ago. Mohammed, he died after Christ. Then we find all these founders are dead. Confucius with his philosophy, and all different ones, they're dead. Their founders are dead. But Christ died, and rose again, is alive forevermore.

106 Our religion produces a man that founded it---Christianity---and He's here with us. Nothing can kill Him. He's alive forevermore. And said, "The works that I do ... if ye abide in me and my word in you, ask what you will and it will be given to you. He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also."
Now, if Christ stood here tonight with this suit that He gave me, and was standing here, and the woman sick, and if He would... Could He heal her? Now, be careful now before you say, "Amen." Could He heal her? No, sir. He'd say He'd already done it. Is that right? Sure. "My child," He'd say, "I have already did that. By my stripes you were healed. Don't you believe this?" see. It's already done, see.

107 He wouldn't heal her. He's already done it. He might do something to confirm to her that it was Him, see. And He'd do it in the same way He did back there, to prove back there that it was Him. Is that right? Now, how did He prove it? We went through it last night. I bypassed it tonight just for Solomon. But now, tomorrow night maybe we can get into it again.
Now notice. He would do it the same way, because He can't make another decision. He's done made the decision, and that's God's final. What God says once He ever remains the same. That's the reason you can believe the Word. It never changes.

108 Now if the Holy Spirit will come on me, and... It's just a gift. I can't make it work. It has ... I don't operate it; it operates me, see. And your faith will have to do it, see. No matter what He would do to me, it takes your faith to do it. Like He said to the woman, "Thy faith has saved thee," see. That's his method of doing it. That's the way ... He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, and that's the way He operates, just the same way. He can't change. He's ever God.

109 Now, the only way ... if He would tell you this... Now, if I come up and said ... you said, "Brother Branham, I'm sick," I say, "All right. Come here (lay my hands on you), praise God." The Bible said, 'These signs shall follow them that believe. Lay hands on the sick, they shall recover.'" That'd be all right---maybe, like Brother Roberts, or some of them with that real bulldog faith, grab a hold of it. That's Brother Roberts. I can't take his place; he can't take mine. We're two different ministers---two different gifts, see.
But, if I told you, "Yes, you're sick. I'll lay my hands on you, and you'll get well," now, if you'll believe it, you'll get well. But what if something stands here and tells you what's wrong, what has been, and what will be? Then it's hard to doubt that, isn't it? You got something to hold on to. That's right.

110 Now, you are facing an operation. That's right. And that's a tumor. Do you believe He can tell me where the tumor is? Would it help you? It's in the stomach. Do you believe that you won't have to have it, and it will be gone? Then don't never doubt it. It's all over, in the name of the Lord Jesus, if thou will believe.
Now you go ask the young lady, whatever was told her. Ask her if she knowed me, or anything about it; ask what was told her, find out if it's truth or not, see. Now, if she'll ever remain... Whatever was wrong with her, if she'll ever remain with that faith that... I noticed that light just fell right over her, and the dark shadow that was hanging there, left.
Now, if she'll ever remain with that faith, and won't turn it loose, she'll get well. If she doesn't, then something else will have to take place, see. Now, I do not ... I'm not the healer. God is the healer, and your faith in what God has already done for you.

111 How do you do? Now, we are strangers to each other. God knows us both. But do you believe that God could reveal to me something of your life, something like the woman that was just here? Would it...? Here again, just like our Lord met the woman at the well, two people, a man and a woman met for the first time in life. Here it is again, a man and woman meets for the first time in life. And, we being strangers to each other, then if there was any way in the world I could do to help you, and would not do it... I wouldn't be fit to stand behind this Bible here, if I could help you and wouldn't do it. I couldn't call myself a servant of Christ.

112 And you might be so sick the doctors has give you up. You might be standing there for somebody else. It may be financial, it may be domestic trouble. I don't know. You are just someone standing there. But He does know. And if He will reveal it to me, would it help you? All right. You look at me, then.
Now the reason I say it like that, Peter and John said at the gate... The reason I said that, I felt it come in, see. Like Peter and John at the gate said, "Look on us," see, "look on us." And they looked earnestly. Yes, there is something about blood. I see the woman spitting out blood. It's a rupture from the liver, and blood vessels, and it fills up on the inside of you, and you have to spit it out. That's "Thus saith the Lord." You believe that God can heal you of that?

113 The very Spirit that's here... You know there's something anointing me to tell you. You know whether it's the truth or not. Do you believe, then, that I'm a believer? You believe it to be God? It has to come from some source. Do you believe it to be God? Then come here, and just let me lay hands on you. Now, Father, it's between life and death. Let the Spirit of life heal the woman in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Don't doubt. Just go believing it with all your heart.

114 How do you do? We're strangers to each other, I suppose. I don't know you. Now, it's something happening. Somebody in here that looks different from this woman, that's praying ... a way ... great faith... Keeps coming between me and the woman. It's a different looking person. I'll find it in a minute. Somebody is touching... She's right in line with the woman, right behind her. High blood pressure, gray-headed lady with white-looking thing on, sitting there praying about high blood pressure. Raise up your hand, if that's true. You believe God? All right. Then the blood pressure will leave you. A different-looking person was standing between me and the woman. She was in line with her. She had...

115 Now I want you to believe me with all your heart. I'm just talking to you to see what He would tell me. You say, "What are you doing, Brother Branham?"
Contacting your spirit, like He did the woman at the well. Said, "Bring me a drink," and went talking about religion, and so forth, and worship and a place to drink at, and so forth. But God ever remains God. You are suffering. One thing, you are extremely nervous, weak. That's right. Your weakness comes in the afternoon mostly, right after you get your work done, at sundown, or something like that. You get extremely weak. That is true.
Another thing, you've got a growth that you're praying about, that growth in your back. And if you believe that God will heal it... You believe that he'll do it? You've had an operation, a tumor. That's right. Your husband's had a stroke. That's right.
Pauline, do you believe that God will make you well? Mrs. Pauline Capps, you go believe it with all your heart, and God will make you well. Don't doubt. Have faith. Believe God with all your heart.

116 Do you believe? Jesus looked upon the audience and perceived their thoughts. Is that right? Perceiving their thoughts. Now, the Word of God, Hebrews 4, is sharper than a two-edged sword, even a discerner of the thoughts of the heart. Is that right? And Jesus was the Word. Do you believe that? And He is the Word, and the Bible is Jesus in printed form. And it takes his Spirit to quicken those words, and bring them to life again. Do you believe that? Now, if you'll all believe that, and be just as convinced upon the evidence that God promised it...

117 Your wife's in trouble. I don't know her. I've never seen her in my life. She's rather heavy-set, and that's right. And she's suffering weakness, and everything, but her main thing is menopause. Change of life has made her nervous. That's right. Just believe, and it will be all right, sister, all your troubles.
God in heaven knows I've never seen that woman in my life. But here was this woman here, standing here. I knowed it must be his wife because I seen him in the house with her. Now he knows that. Just have faith. Never let no one cram nothing in your ears, brother. You believe with all your heart now. Ask her if I ever met her, or knew her. No, sir. I never seen her in my life, and God in heaven is my judge, and this is his Bible. But how could this woman here be standing by this man here ... and see them going through the house together? Had to be his wife. I just waited till I was sure before I said it, because... Sometimes that way sin is called out in the same way, see. But I seen that actually was his wife.

118 How do you do? I'm sorry. I just happened to turn around there, and seen a woman standing by the side of this man, and I just had to ... have to do just as He tells me, see. Something real, something to get a hold of. Now you suffer, you do, sister, with headaches---have real, terrific headaches. You got a burden on your heart, and that's for a young fellow. It's your son, and he's in a backslidden condition, and got an infection. If that's true, raise up your hand. Believe now with all your heart, and may the Lord God grant your request. Don't doubt.
I just want to put my hands on you. I challenge your faith.

119 I challenge it in the name of the Lord Jesus. You believe that the real Christ, the Son of God, is not dead, but He's with us tonight.
You know what's the matter with the Pentecostal church? Is this: it's seen too much. That's right. One time an old ... a poet was going to the sea in England. He had wrote about the sea, what he had read in books. He thought ... he went down, and he was so thrilled because he was going... (I'm saying this to kind of jerk away. That ... too much anointing makes me so weak, I just pull myself out of it.) And so ... going to the sea, and he met an old salt. You know what I mean, a sailor coming from the sea. And he said, "Where goest thou?"

120 He said, "Oh," the poet said, "I'm going to the sea. I have read about it, and I have wrote about, and I've talked about it. But I've never seen it. Oh, I want to smell the salt water. I want to see the pretty white caps dip up, and see the reflection of the blue sky, hear the gulls scream."
And the old salt twisted his pipe a few times, and spit, said, "I was born on it sixty years ago, and I don't see nothing so thrilling about it." Spit, and went away. Why? Why wasn't it so thrilling to him? He'd seen so much of it till it become common. And that's what's the matter with you Pentecostal people. You've seen so much of the Holy Spirit till it's become common to you. One thing like that would set thirty or forty thousand heathens to praying right quick in Africa. That's right. One thing.

121 I'll tell you one night what happened. Just one little thing had taken place. I seen thirty thousand blanket natives break their idols on the ground, and come to Jesus Christ. And I seen women standing there, mother-naked---just a clout that wide on them---and standing there and didn't even know they were naked. And I asked them---Mr. Baxter, Mr. Bosworth, and them, said, "Brother Branham, I think they meant for healing."
I said, "I did not mean physical healing. I meant you want to receive Christ." And they had little idols sprinkled with blood of animals, and so forth. I said, "If you are sincere, break your idols on the ground." And it looked like a dust storm come up, where they broke them mud idols on the ground. And I said, "Right on this place raise your hands to Christ, and say, 'The God that could interpret, and make this man like this, is the God of the Bible.' Believe it and raise up your hands."

122 And when them women put their hands down, and walked away from there, they folded their arms like this to walk away. A few days later they'd found some kind of rags to cover themselves up with. How in the world could a native, a blanket native that don't even know which is right and left hand, and the very minute she receives Christ she recognizes she is naked; and women who is supposed to be filled with the Spirit taking more off every year? Explain that to me. They'll rise in the generation, in this generation, and condemn this generation. We're superstitious, and all kinds of thoughts and everything else; where they're simple-child to believe. Amen.

123 I did that, see, so much ... so I can pray for the rest of these people. So much of it gets me to a place I get so weak I almost... You say that isn't so. Well, it is so. If you know Scripture, it is so. Jesus got weak from one woman touching Him, one person. Now, I couldn't stand one person, or no one else could, if He didn't say, "More than this shall you do, for I go to the Father," see. That's right. Daniel saw one vision, troubled in his head for many days.

124 All right, the next person ... or are you the next person? All right, sir. We are strangers to one another, sir. We don't know each other, but God does know us. Now, just so that I can get the anointing back enough to pray for the rest of the people here, if God will reveal to me what's wrong with you, will you believe me to be his servant? You will. You do anyhow. That's the way I like it. All right, Reverend---a minister, Mr. Gee---Reverend Gee, you have arthritis. If you believe with all your heart walk off of here, and get well, be made well.
Now that made you feel real strange when I said arthritis. Now, if He can heal it for that man, He can heal it for you. Just go right off the platform, saying, "Thank you, Lord Jesus.

125 Back trouble, kidney. You believe that God can make you well? Just go right off the platform saying, "Thank you, Lord Jesus. I'll believe with all my heart."
All right, come young lady. Look at me as you come. You are just a child. It's hard to have diabetes, and be a young child like that. Do you believe God can heal you? You do? You accept it? All right. Go off the platform saying, "Thank You, Lord," and be made well.
Look here, honey. You're just a child. I've got a little Rebecca out here, just about your size and age. Now you've got a stomach trouble. It's bothering you in your stomach. Ulcers from a nervous condition. Do you believe God will make you well? If you do, walk off the platform, and eat what you want to, and believe God with all your heart. All right.
You have the same thing, nervous upset stomach. Go right off the platform saying, "Thank You, Lord Jesus. I believe You with all my heart." Just don't doubt at all. All right.

126 Come right up here, sister. 'Course I see you leaning on there. A woman of your age would be that way. But there's surely something else different besides just a ladies' age. It is. Yes, one of your main things is nerves. You've been bothered with them for a long, long time. Do you believe this is the time you are going to be healed? Then accept your healing in the name of Jesus Christ, and go off the platform saying, "Thank You, Lord God," and go be made well. Amen. Have faith.

127 Now you are a young woman and nervous. But yours is just the time of life that's striking you to be nervous at this time. Go, believe. Illusions, everybody telling you to "get next to yourself. There ain't nothing wrong." But they are lying. There is something wrong. There's a dark shadow over you. Yes, sir. How can you go down through a... If you go down through a building, or a dark alley... There's got to be something that's got to certainly frighten those nerves first, before you'll be frightened. Ordinarily you wouldn't do it.
There is a darkness around you. But I want to tell you now, it's left you while you're standing there. If you go, and believe with all your heart, get well. You are going to be all right, sister. Just go on. Now you can be all right.
Well, you suffer with a lady's trouble, and have for many years. And one of your great things, you are afraid you are going to be crippled up with arthritis. If you believe with all your heart, you'll never be crippled with arthritis. Go and believe God in the name of the Lord Jesus.

128 "And the queen of the South shall rise in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for she come from the utmost parts of the earth to see the wisdom of Solomon. And behold a greater than Solomon is here." The Holy Spirit is here. The Holy Ghost, the God of heaven, the resurrected Lord Jesus is here. Do you believe it? Try to shake it out of one of their minds that's been here before, and find out. Ask them how they felt when they passed by here, watching that light settle down over them.
Have you ever seen the picture of it? the one the scientists took the picture? If you haven't, Mr. Woods has it back there, I guess. You do, Brother Woods? Where are you at? I guess he still has the picture. It's right there. It's a copyright from George J. Lacy, the head of the FBI. It hangs in Religious Hall of Art, the only supernatural being ever photographed.

129 Now, look. What was it that led the children of Israel from Egypt? A pillar of fire. Is that right? How many knows that that was Christ? Certainly, the angel of the covenant. It was Christ. Then, when He was here on earth, He said, "I come from God; I go to God." Is that right? After his death, burial, and resurrection, and ascension we find out that Saul of Tarsus was on his road down to arrest a bunch of people that was in this way. And on the road down, a great big light---pillar of fire---struck him down. And he raised up, and He said, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?"
He said, "Who are you, Lord?"
He said, "I'm Jesus. I come from God, return to God."

130 Here's that same light. Hallelujah! What? The same Jesus yesterday, today, and forever. What is it? It's doing the same thing. That first was God above you; then God with you in his Son; now God in you in the Holy Ghost---the same pillar of fire, proved by the scientists, proved here among you. To me it's as real, as positive as the love of that mother deer.
It's the real God of the Bible. It's the real confirmation of the last days. We are here in the presence resurrected; and in the presence of Jesus Christ with Him in his resurrection, for we have denounced our unbelief. We believe that God's Word is the truth, and He is here confirming it and proving it's right. Do you believe it?

131 Have you ever accepted Him as your Saviour? Do you know Him as your Saviour? If you got your name on a church book, and that's all you know, leave that where it's at, but come here and know Him.
You say, "I'm a Bible student, but I've never been borned again. I don't know nothing about the Holy Spirit." Not to know his Book is life, but to know Him. Know Him; not the Word. Him. Satan knows the Book. Certainly.
A fellow said to me one time... I was talking about the security of the believer. Said, "You don't know your Bible."
I said, "But I know the author." That's the main thing. I know the author. To know Him is life. That's right. And if you don't know Him, why not come up here now and stand right here in his presence?
Now you know I wouldn't do that unless the Holy Spirit was telling me that there was people in here that should do that. Just the same as He knows the hearts of the people, He knows your condition. Search yourself back, and see if the life of Christ is reflecting itself in your daily walk. Find out.

132 Let's bow our heads now, just a moment. I feel that this is essential. You raised your hand awhile ago you'd like to be a Christian, as much Christian as that deer was a mother. If you want that, and really mean it with all your heart, and you meant that, why not come up here and receive that, while we keep our heads bowed. As I have said before, I'm not much to persuade people. If the Holy Spirit in the preaching of the Word doesn't bring full persuasion, there's no need of me trying anything of my own, 'cause I'm bringing somebody up there under emotion. But if the Holy Spirit Himself can't convince you that you are wrong, look back at your life. Look at the way you live. Some of you ladies... [Someone speaks in tongues; someone interprets. Congregation is led in singing.]

133 Won't somebody else come and join in with them now? Someone that doesn't know Christ? Or someone would like to pray with them? Somebody's not close enough to God would like to renew your vows again? Someone without the baptism of the Holy Ghost? Come right up around now, while the waters are troubled. Now's the time to step in. Come on up, each one of you now, would like to come up and pray, would like to say, "Lord, make me what I ought to be. Just mold me. I'm going down to the potter's house. Just mold me, and make me, Lord. I'm going to offer prayer now. I'm coming down to the potter's house, to get molded up, and fixed up right. Going down to get broke up first, so I can be re-molded."

134 Come around. That's right. There's room for all of us around the fountain of the Lord. He's here. We know He's here. His presence is here. That feeling that you have in your heart, that's God. That's Him. That's Him, moving, operating, just his Holy Spirit. That's it. Oh, I like that. Move right on down. That's good. Oh, wonderful.
Wonderful, wonderful, Jesus is to me,
Counsellor, Prince of Peace, Mighty God is He;
Saving me, keeping me from all sin and shame,
Wonderful is my Redeemer. Praise his name!
Oh, wonderful, wonderful, Jesus is to me,
Counsellor, Prince of Peace, Mighty God is He;
Saving me, keeping me from all sin and shame,
Wonderful is my Redeemer. Praise his name!
Now everybody, just raise up your hands now, and praise Him, and give Him praise. Thank Him.

A Greater than Solomon is here

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1 God bless you. Anyone that couldn't preach behind that wouldn't be called a preacher, would they? Wonderful, beautiful, well done. Certainly appreciate that in my lovely brother. I was just inquiring about him, how close he was for the next meeting. I think he's from (I didn't get it just right), from another province, or something. But that's really fine. So thankful that God has given this brother this lovely talent to sing his praises. You know, it all goes to make the gospel. I was preaching the other day, down in the States there, on four ways of seeing God. You know... and there's a thousand ways of seeing God, if you just look around. He's everywhere.

2 Now, we're sorry that we kept you so late last night, when you was awful hot in here. Some of the friends that was with me said, "Whew!" They was just fanning away. So then someone said, "That doesn't bother the Indians though." Said, "They stay right there all night, testify the rest of the night." So I'm grateful. Maybe when I go, just get up and start testifying, telling about what the Lord did for you.

3 How many of you ever hear of Tommy Osborn? He's a very precious friend of mine, and he goes to the old country much, over across the seas, a missionary. And he said one time... I was going to... I was on my road to South Africa, and he came to the meeting. And when I walked out on the stage at New York City, that place where they do all that wrestling, the big arena there... And the place was packed out and jammed together.
And I was walking out across the stage, and Tommy come running over and grabbed me around the waist and started hugging me. And I said, "Tommy, what you doing way up here?"
"Just say farewell to you, and ask God's blessings on you while you're gone overseas." He's one of my converts to Christ in the healing ministry. And he said...
And I said, "I guess you're wore out, Tommy." He'd been preaching so much.
Said, "No. I don't have any discernment, and have to get wore out." Said, "You know what I do? I just stand there for fifteen minutes, and tie the devil up in a knot with the Word." Said, "He can't get out of it. Then I have them pray for one another, and then I get me a chair and sit down, and listen to them testify till daylight," he said. Said, "One will get up and testify and tells what God did for him, and that makes the other one believe, and he gets up and testifies. And while he's testifying another one's getting up." And said, "I just sit there, and clap my hands and have a good time."

4 Oh, my! It's wonderful to see how God has his different ministries, you see, how He works it. This lovely brother here singing, that's a ministry of song. And others has a ministry. See, God has set in the church predestined gifts. One of them is... first is apostles, prophets, teachers, pastors, and evangelists.
Now, apostles is actually what we would call today... we give them a new name, missionary. A missionary is an apostle. Now the word "missionary" means one that is sent. And the apostle means one that is sent, the same thing. But how they ever wanted to be called apostles... or missionaries instead of apostles, I don't know. But a missionary must have the call of God, and sent of God--one sent.

5 A prophet is a seer who sees the people's hearts, and foretells the things that's coming to pass. And now, there's a gift of prophecy. That's in the church with the local members. It falls upon any of them. They give a prophecy. Then it cannot be received to the church until it's been judged by two or three witnesses. And then, they have to put their seal on that, to say it's of God. Then they have to watch to see if it happens. Then it may never fall on that brother or sister again. It may be on another one the next... That's a gift of prophecy.
But a prophet, p-r-o-p-h-e-t, is borned a prophet, always, from... Was ordained that before the world ever even began, see. Now you take like Jesus Christ, the King of prophets. He was, from the garden of Eden, the seed of the woman, prophet. And Moses was borned a proper child, a prophet. John the Baptist--why, Isaiah saw him 712 years before he was born, and said he was the "voice of one crying in the wilderness," 712 years before he was born. Jeremiah--God said before he was even formed in his mother's womb that He knew him, and sanctified him, and ordained him a prophet to the nations, see.

6 Prophets have the Word of God, and are borned a prophet. A gift of prophecy is different. That's a gift. Now there's nine... there's five ordained gifts in the church--apostles, prophets, teachers, pastors, evangelists. Now that is the five gifts that God places in the church by his foreknowledge.
Then there's nine gifts that's locally in the church--speaking in tongues, interpretation of tongues, and gifts of wisdom, and knowledge, and prophecy, and so forth. Them's nine spiritual gifts that operates through the church. But then there's five office gifts that God puts in the church. And, oh, how we love to see them all operating in the...
One of them is the pastor, teacher, and those things. Then the others comes along in confirmation. Gifts are to magnify. God's just got it so even a fool will not be excused, will he? It's so simple the way God has made them. I like that.
The more simpler you become, the greater you'll become before God. That's right. Don't never try to lift yourself up. When you do, you're bringing yourself down, see. He that exalts himself shall be abased.

7 Not long ago I was... Am I doing something wrong here, brother? Oh, thank you. Thank you. I probably wasn't sounding right, back there.
There was... recently I was in... the people had sent me a letter to come to a great rally in a great city in United States--Chicago--to a Pentecostal rally. Well, I couldn't go anyhow, but I hadn't answered the letter back, and the man that was in charge sent me word, "Don't you come."
"Well," I thought, "that's all right."
So then they got some great minister that had a great name, and my, how... it was some big Bible school teacher. And when the man come up that night, he had a great big book. It had pages, and he gave that intellectual talk as he read it from the pages, and turned it back--a very fine intellectual talk, see.
But the saints of God just sat still. It wasn't going over. He knew it. When he got up, chest swelled out, collar turned around, you know, and all this to-do. And he found out that that didn't go with the people of God. And when he seen it didn't go... So he just closed up his books, and walked back down with his head down, real humbly walking away.
There was an old saint sitting back in the corner, punched the other one, and said, "If he would have went up the way he come down, he'd have come down the way he went up." That's about right. Humble ourselves before the Lord. That's the way to do it.

8 And I was just thinking... When I was sitting out there (drove up and listening to Brother Borders finish up his message), I was thinking about my Indian brethren. I hope this is all right. I remember in Phoenix, Arizona, we had a circus tent and I was having a meeting there. And there was an Indian came in from... I think he was a Navaho. And he come in... very typical Navaho, you know, with a blue band wrapped around his head, and scarlet shirt on. And he didn't sit down in the seat. He just sat right down on the floor, see.
And so, Billy had been giving out those prayer cards, and coming down, mixing them up and handing them out to the people. And when people come up on the platform with a toothache, and the other one had... Maybe he had a... you know, a tummy-ache or something another, some little minor something.
And I said to Billy, I said, "Son, quit giving them cards out to them people with nothing but just toothaches when there's people sitting there with cancer, dying. They must get on the platform. Ask the people what's wrong with them, and then give them a prayer card. Somebody... get something up there that's dying, 'cause they just got one more night, and we got to close. And there's about five thousand people there to be prayed for, and they're real sick.
So Billy got up on the microphone. He said, "Daddy said just give these cards to people that was really sick." Said, "Now when I give them out to you, you tell me what's wrong with you and I'll give you a card." And he said, "Just people that's got toothaches, and so forth, and things like that, having little headaches, 'course, that's a big problem to them; but it ain't a problem like a man dying, and heart trouble, or something real bad."

9 So, I'm going to call him Chief. He was sitting over in a corner, on the dust on the floor, and he walked up to Billy, patted him on the back, held out his hand.
Billy said, "Chief, what's wrong?" Said, "Daddy told me to ask what was wrong with the people."
He said, "Me sick."
He said, "How are you sick, Chief?"
He said, "Me sick."
Billy said, "Well, I don't know what to do." He said, "All right. You sit down. I'll get to you in a few minutes."
He watched him, them little eyes watching. When that little bunch of cards got pretty low, walked up and tapped him again. He said, "Me sick."
And so, Billy said, "Chief," said, "you'll have to tell me what's wrong with you. Daddy said just to give these cards to people that was real sick. What's wrong with you? How are you sick?"
He said, "Me sick."
Billy said, "All right, Chief. You take this and write on it 'Me sick.' "

10 So it happened to be, he got in the prayer line the next night, the following night. So he come up there. 'Course the Lord begin to speak, telling him what was wrong, and so forth.
And so I said, "Chief," I said, "do you believe the Lord'll heal you?" He looked at me. I seen he didn't get it very good. I said, "Do you believe the Lord'll heal you?"
He said, "That right."
And I said, "Will you be a good boy afterwards?"
He said, "That right." Everything I said to him, he said, "That right."
Come to find out, there was only two words he could say. He had learned that--"Me sick" and "That right." I met him about, oh, six or eight months later down there. I said, "There's that Indian brother." I went over to him. I said, "How are you, fellow?", like that.
He said, "That right."
Some one in the missionary out there said he was healed, see. He was healed. That's all he knowed. "That right." That's all you have to know. "That's right." So we are very grateful for that simple faith. The only thing you have to know is, "That's right," when we talk about the Bible. That's right.

11 A Chinaman one time (There may be some Chinese here tonight), he said, "You Americans don't read right." He said, "You all read across the page like this." Said, "I am going to read John 3:16 for you." He said, "You say, 'God so loved the world, He gave his only begotten son... whosoever believeth on Him shall not perish.' " Said, "You're saying, 'No, no, no.'" And said, "We Chinese, we read up and down the page, 'God so loved the world, He gave his only begotten son.' " That right. That right.

12 Traveling around meeting different people in different nations, it's amazing but to find out all God's children are wonderful people. No matter what language, what they are, they're all God's children, and very sweet. And I love them all. Norwegians, Swedes and Finns... In Finland, that's where the little boy was raised from the dead. You probably read the story there.
And that's five straight times, by doctor's examination that five people, being dead, being... by the grace of God, through a vision called their life back to them again. And that's signed doctor's statements, you see. You read that in the "Christian Businessmen" not long ago about the little Mexican baby?

13 Now that... you see, before you put anything in print you've got to be able to prove it, see. You can say it. That's all right, 'cause you can deny it. But when you put it in print, you better have it right. And so this little Mexican baby, the doctor signed that it had died that morning, down in Mexico there. There was thousands. Well, one altar call produced 20,000 people at one time. And this little Mexican baby...
Now, they were all Catholic, and they were... Oh, it's such a... just... they come there at nine o'clock at morning, and wait till I got there at nine that night, waiting for us to come. And I come on the platform. Been raining all day, just pouring down, and they stood right there, right in that rain.

14 Night before that there was an old Mexican brother come across the platform, no shoes on, trousers all ragged, an old hat sewed up with twine cord. And he was coming across the platform, shaking, like that. He reached in his pocket and got out some beads to say a "Hail Mary." And I said "That's not necessary." The interpreter, Brother Espinoza... some of you Assembly of God people would know Espinoza. He's with... And so, he was my interpreter. And I said, "That's not necessary."
So he come up, and I looked. And there I was, standing there with a good pair of shoes on, nice suit somebody give me; and there that poor old brother was--didn't have no shoes, didn't have no suit. His coat was ragged, no shirt at all, dusty. Probably the old fellow never had a good meal in his life. And I just got through eating a fine meal.

15 Remember, he's a man that Christ died for, same as me or anybody else. Got just as much right as I have. Probably a bunch of little kiddies at home--or maybe young folks then, 'cause he'd have been about the age of my father--and there was totally blind.
And I put my foot up side of him. The congregation couldn't see. Oh, the platform was about as long as this building is across, and I put my shoe up side of his foot to see if it would fit him. I'd give him my shoes. And I thought that... and his feet was much larger.
Then I tried my shoulders to his shoulders. My coat wouldn't fit him. I thought, "O God, there he is." And I seen his gray hair hanging down, his eyes white. I thought, "If I could only help him some way." You've got to feel for people, or you can't do no good when you pray for them. You've got to feel for them. I thought, "What if my daddy would've lived? He'd have been about that age." He was probably somebody's daddy. And I thought...
And then, just think that Satan has been so evil to him. Nature has got him in the condition he's in probably, in this poverty-stricken... And here he don't even have eyesight to see to get around.

16 I put my arm around the old fellow, and I said, "Heavenly Father, I pray for this dear old man." I looked at him standing out here in a vision in front of me, looking right at me. Oh, my! There ain't nothing going to stop that, when that vision comes. Yes, sir.
I seen he could see. I just pulled him away from me like that, and he hollered, "Gloria a Dios!" That means "Glory to God." There he could see as good as I could. And the next night there was a pile of old shawls and hats that was about three foot high and about fifteen, twenty yards long (How they'd ever know who it belonged to, I don't know.), just piled together to be prayed over.

17 When I got to the platform, Billy, my son, said to me... We had just started preaching. Brother Espinoza... I walked up. We had three nights, all we could be there. I said, "Now, I'm going to speak tonight, as I did last evening, telling you all what Jesus was; and you seen Him here go out through the congregation. You seen Him restore sight to the blind. Look, laying there. What a pile of old crutches, and chairs, and things that the people sat in!"
I said, "It goes to show that their faith in the risen Lord has did this." And I said, "Now, faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
And Billy come to me and said, "Daddy, I've got almost three hundred ushers on this side." And he said, "They can't hold a little woman." And said, "She's just about so high, young woman." Said, "She's got a dead baby, and she's been standing in that rain out there." And said, "Mañana never give her..."

18 Mañana. The word "Mañana" means "tomorrow," and he was so slow till I called him "tomorrow." He was supposed to come after me... They'd say at five o'clock, and he'd get there about eight-thirty, or nine, see. And I called him Mañana.
He said... He was giving out prayer cards. Billy just had to watch that he didn't sell one, you see. That's what we have to watch, not... A person giving out prayer cards has a responsible job, and that's the reason I have my own son giving them out, 'cause people... could be something done bad. And so then, he just watched him, and he give out the prayer cards.

19 And said, "He's give out all the prayer cards, and this little woman didn't get one." And said, "Them people has been standing" just as far as you could see around that big bull ring there, with a... Been standing there all day, since eight or nine o'clock that morning when they opened the gates, and this was about nine-thirty that night, maybe quarter to ten.
And said, "And that little woman has climbed through them ushers. She's got a dead baby wrapped up in a blanket. She wants you to pray for it." And said, "She climbs over the top of their shoulders, runs between their legs." And said, "We just have to get back there, and kick her off the platform, see, 'cause I can't let her up here without a prayer card; 'cause it'll cause a riot, you see; 'cause them people's stood there that long waiting for a prayer card."

20 And brother Jack Moore (many of you all may know him, from Shreveport, Louisiana), somebody might have heard him. He's a very fine man. He was on the platform. And I said, "Brother Moore, that woman wouldn't know me. Go over and pray for the baby, wherever it is over there, and she'll never know the difference."
He said, "Okay, Brother Branham."
He started off, and I said, "Now, Brother Espinoza, interpret." I said, "As I was saying, Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the..." And looked, and right here in front of me was a little Mexican baby sitting there. It was a little dark brown face, and it was laughing at me. It didn't have any teeth, just its little gums showing, right here in front of me.
I thought, "Wonder if that's that baby." And I stopped. I said, "Don't interpret." I said, "Brother Moore, wait a minute." I said, "Billy, make a way, and bring that woman up here to the platform."
And so they brought the little woman up, and she come up.
She fell down on her knees, begin to holler, "Padre, Padre." That means "Father." She was Catholic, see. "Padre, Padre."
And I took her by the hand. I said, "Stand up. Stand up." And she held her little stiff baby out, about this long, under a blanket, just soaking wet. Oh, it was just pouring rain all day, and it was real wet. And I said, "Know English?"
And she just kept saying, "Padre, Padre." And Brother Espinoza told her to keep quiet.
And so, I put my hand on the little blanket like that, and the little stiff, cold, form. I said, "Heavenly Father, I know You don't have to heal to prove Yourself. You heal to fulfill your Word." I said, "We all know that You're God, but just a moment ago a vision came before me, as You know--a little baby. Was it this baby, Father? If it wasn't..."
About that time it went "Waa! Waa!" and began to kick its little feet like that, and there it was alive.

21 So I said to Brother Espinoza, I said... And she just started screaming, and fell backwards like that. And so, I said... Beautiful little lady, just a little thing, about maybe in her twenties, probably her first baby.
And so, I said to Brother Espinoza, "Now don't you say nothing about that, now, see. Because, first thing, put a runner with the baby, and find out... Let her doctor sign the statement, see, 'cause we don't want nothing..." It must be true, see. You don't want nothing... Someone reads anything, you want it to be the truth. It mustn't be something wrong, because that wouldn't be right before God.
And so... went, and the doctor signed the statement that the baby died with pneumonia that morning at nine o'clock in his office. And that was at ten, about ten o'clock that night. Been dead all that time, and lives in Mexico today, healthy and happy, see, because Christ lives. Christ lives. And what does it take? Simple faith.

22 I said to your pastor, Brother Eddie Byskal, I said to him tonight, or this afternoon when I was speaking with him, I said, "It's just too bad that we didn't have the full six weeks we've been coming up the coast to be right in here amongst the people."
He said, "Brother Branham," said, "that's not one third of the Indians." He said, "They are commercial fishermen, and they're all out in these islands, and out through here."
I said, "Oh, my. How I would like to get in a little boat, and go from island to island among them." Not only that, but I noticed last night in the meeting, some of you Swedes, and Norwegians, and Germans sitting back there, Canadians--wonderful faith. God bless you. You're wonderful people. We have a great Saviour that loves us all. And I am here...

23 I could not heal you. If I could heal you, I'd do it. You know I'd do that. If I could take... if to heal you... if I could take a quarter, twenty-five cents, and lay it on the ground and push it up and down this street all day long with my nose, and then see you get healed, I'd do it. God knows my heart. Here's the Bible. And that's right. I'd do it. But that wouldn't do no good, see. But, and now if somebody ever comes by and says, "I can heal you," don't you believe that, see, because even medicine don't heal. God's the only healer there is. "I'm the Lord thy God that heals all thy diseases."

24 When this little Canadian, Donny Martin... You read the story in "Reader's Digest," when they brought him all the way down there--so spastic and drawed that John Hopkins, Mayo Brothers, and all, turned him down. And he came down to Costa Mesa, and was in the meeting. And the Holy Spirit spoke. "Reader's Digest" wrote up, said, "The evangelist didn't ask the boy. He told the boy who he was, told him what he had done, and where he come from, and what about it." And he was healed, see.
And then I was called in at Mayo Brothers for an interview for that, and they said... I said, "Well..." They never put Mayo Brothers' name on there, but there... they had the "Reader's Digest," and the father had said it. But of course the writer wouldn't say that about a hospital, and what it said.
Many great... if you read the article, it said many great clinics through the United States and Canada had turned him down. And a spastic, drawed up, name was Donny Martin. October's "Reader's Digest," about four years ago. And then, he said this little boy about eight years old...

25 Oh, it's a pathetic story, how this little Canadian brother come down on a sled. He said he knowed some deaf and dumb girls that was brought to my meeting, before that, and the Lord healed one. And one of them is a singer in church, and the other one is a telephone operator. So, was both deaf and dumb.
So he said, "We're not whipped, Donny. Let's go and tell..." And the mother and them thought they could maybe take fifty dollars, and all of them come to the United States, and take Donny to the meeting, and everything else. It wouldn't even pay one of their ways on a airplane. They had to come by bus; couldn't even come by train. And when they got there, they had to take Travelers Aid to get out there to where the meeting was.
And the Holy Spirit told him who he was, where he come from, and so forth--little drawed-over father, holding his baby. And so... Then it told him exactly what would happen. The Lord healed the child to the glory of God. And when being interviewed on that, they said at Mayo Brothers, "Reverend Branham, we don't profess to be healers. We only profess to assist nature. There's one healer. That's God." That's the best, see.

26 The doctor can set an arm where it's broke, but he can't heal it. The doctor can pull out a tooth, but he can't heal where it come out of. He can cut out an appendix, but who's going to heal? See, there's no medicine that will build cells. Cells is growth, see, and nothing can heal that. No one can. And to have growth is a multiplication of cells, which is creation. And there's one creator: that's God. And He has to knit that place together, put that bone together. The doctor can set it but, you see, it takes calcium, potash, and so forth, to go into that bone to mend it together.
Now, if I was cranking my car out here, or fooling with it and broke my arm, and I run into a doctor, and said, "Doc, you're a healer. Heal my arm right quick. I want to finish my car," he'd say, "You need mental healing boy." That's right. "Well, if you're a healer, heal my arm." He's not a healer, see.
He'd say, "I can set your arm. God has to heal it."
So then, see, the Scripture's always right. "I'm the Lord who heals all of thy diseases." That's right. We're thankful for hospitals, and medicine, and so forth. They aid nature, but they do not heal. No, they're not healers. God's the healer. The Scriptures cannot lie, see.

27 Now, I guess that's the reason I take so much time. You're so nice, I just stand and talk to you, and there you are. But you know what? I'm just passing through this time. I don't have but a little bit to stay with you. But I want to make a date with you. Can I do it? all of you? After we cross over the river on the other side, and we become young men and women again, I want a thousand years of appointment with each one of you.
We'll sit down by the evergreen trees, and sit down there and talk, and there'll come Abraham by, and we'll raise over and shake hands with Abraham; and Daniel will come by, and we'll shake hands with him; and jump around, and shout a little bit, and sit back down, and just talk about Port Alberni when we had the meeting here. Now that sounds like to some people it might be fiction. But that's truth. Amen. That's just as truth as it can be.

28 Now, before we pray for the sick, or whatever we do, now, I want you to know that divine healing... We do not try to make that our great hold. A doctor, F. F. Bosworth--a good friend of mine--just went to heaven recently, a real old man. Many of you has heard of Fred Bosworth. There was a godly, saintly, old man. And he said, "Divine healing is just like going fishing." Said, "You never show the fish the hook; you show him the bait. He grabs the bait, and gets the hook."
So about 86% of Jesus' ministry was on divine healing. It attracts the attention, of something supernatural being done, and the people then believe in a mighty God. That does it, you see. So, divine healing is a minor, and you can never major on a minor. That's right, Mrs. Byskal, isn't it? That's right. You can never major on a minor.

29 So we have to remember that this here is just something... Now, my real way of seeing it... Now we have great men in the world today, great men: Tommy Osborn, and oh, who all? Oral Roberts, and those men. You got great men through Canada here, goes by, healing with prayer, laying hands on the sick. Oh, I respect that. Oh, my. They're men of God. Great faith to hold on.
But, someone wrote me a letter years ago when I first started. He said, "Brother Branham..." Good criticism, and I appreciate that. It makes you know where you're standing, as long as people don't get, you know, oh, real mean about it--just wants to be a brother and tell you where you're wrong. I appreciate that. I'll always admire criticism, as long as it's right. And then, this man said, "You know, Brother Branham," he said, "Oral Roberts will pray for five hundred, while you pray for two." He said, "You are the slowest man I ever seen."
"Well," I said, "that's true." Wrote him back.
But he said, "Brother Roberts can stand up there, and lay hands on them like that, and pray for them as they go through, and pray for them like that, and here you're still standing there dealing with one," see.
I said, "But you see, God gave Brother Oral Roberts a way to pray for the sick, and He gave me another way to pray for the sick. And Brother Oral Roberts does it his way that God told him; I do it the way God told me." That's right.

30 I said, "Now, here's what it is. When you're looking... What, for instance, if you got great faith... (Just let me say something. Usually them that miss this, comes in.) Now say for instance, we got great faith, and here stands a man on the platform having a great time shouting, and the glory of God around." I said, "Now, maybe this man stole some money, he lived evil, maybe run around with some woman immorally, or he done a murder or something, that God had put this sickness on him." You know God uses sickness for whips to bring us to Him. You believe that? Sure is. Look at Job, chastening of the Lord.
Now you have to notice, prophetic gifts can get yourself in trouble. Certainly can. Now what if this man's done something evil; and I'm standing there, great big (what we call in America) bulldog faith, and I grab a hold of him, say, "Hallelujah, Hallelujah! Satan turn him loose! Glory to God!" And I take that disease off of him; and God put it on him for a purpose. I'm in trouble with God. You see what I mean?

31 Maybe you don't get it. Wait, let me give you some scripture. I know you won't doubt the Scripture. Here, let's take Moses. How many believe Moses was a prophet? A great prophet. God told Moses, "Go down there and speak to the rock." And Moses went down there, and done what God told him not to do. He smote the rock. He smote it the first time, but God told him speak to it. And the rock was Christ. He was smitten once. It spoke of the weakness of the blood of Christ then. And Moses smote it the first time, waters came forth. Then they cried again, and kept crying for more water, and something else, and God told him to go down and speak to the rock.
But he smote it; the waters didn't come. And he smote it again. He had power to do it. He was a prophet. And the waters came forth. That's right. What did God do? Said, "Come up here, Moses." Said, "You see the land yonder? You're not going in. You didn't obey Me down there at the rock." You remember the story, don't you? He had power to do it, but he better watch the way he used that power.

32 Look at Elisha. He was bald-headed, and he was coming down the road, and some little children began to say, "Old bald-head, old bald-head, why don't you go up like Elijah did?" making fun of him. Now that was all right. Them little kids, they didn't... Maybe it was their parents that taught them to do that, those little fellows. They was making fun of this prophet. But they got him angry, and he turned around and put a curse on those children, in the name of the Lord. And two she-bears come out of the woods, and killed forty-two little innocent children.
Now that don't sound the nature of the Holy Spirit, does it? No. Kill them little children, see. But a angered prophet, he cursed them children. Had to be recognized, because he was a prophet, see. So you have to watch.

33 Notice, in that line. I see what the trouble of the person is, tell them. Then watch over, see what they're going to say, or do. See what He tells me to do. If there's something there wrong, it still remains black and dark and cold, I say, "Go, and the Lord bless you." But then if it isn't, and I see it's being done, see them in the future, then I say, "Thus saith the Lord," you see. Then you see it's all right, then. It'll happen.
Now, just pray, believe, and some day I hope to get back with you, so we can stay a long time together. So, if the Lord willing.

34 Now I want to read a familiar little text out of the Scripture, and it's found in St. Matthew in the 12th chapter, and begins with verse 41:
And the men of Nineveh shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
And the queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
Now I would like to take for a subject, "A Greater Than Solomon is Here"--a greater than Solomon is here--and for a text, "Recognizing God's gifts and signs." Now may we pray.

35 Our heavenly Father, we have just read from your Word, and You are the Word. And You've always been the Word. And now, we thank Thee that we have faith to know and believe that everything is running just exactly on schedule. Tonight this meeting is just exactly on time, and the world and all of its achievements is just exactly on time.
O Father, when passing through the World's Fair a few days ago, looking at the achievement that man has done, and how he's progressed, how the people had gathered from around the world to see what the world was doing, finding their best that they have did. Germany, England, Switzerland, the world around, was displaying what they had been able to improve upon.
Then Lord, we come over to this little city way back here at Port Alberni, where some isolated Indians from off the island, who knows what it is to thank God for a good catch of fish, honest and sincerely; who can stand on the mountain and watch the sun set and cry; give praise to God when the birds wake at morning and begin to sing; and can see God in nature, and hear him scream in the gulls, watch him lap his great wings in the air...

36 But we have gathered here for a spiritual world fair, to see what God's been able to do with his church through the age; how He's come from confession to gifts, and signs, and speaking in tongues, and wonders; and now right down to the last sign, God in his great affair, showing to the world what He's been able to do with his people. And we're so glad to be represented tonight, Lord, among a group of people that believes it, and sincere, and travels everywhere to find the goodness of God.
Now, heavenly Father, bless thy Word. Bless thy people everywhere. Save the lost, Lord. O God, they must go some day, we know. And I trust, Lord, that tonight it'll come to pass that we will be the kind of Gentiles that Jesus admired.
We read in the Bible where Jairus... His little girl laid sick, dying, and he said, "Come lay your hands upon my child, and she will be well."
But when the Roman Gentile, he said, "I'm not worthy that You'd come under my roof. Just speak the word, and my servant shall live," then You turned, and looked at Israel, and said, "I've not found faith like that in Israel."
Now, Father, we're not trying to lay hands upon the sick, that when I leave they might say that "a certain brother come by and laid hands on me." But, Father, I pray that they will see that what... the motive in my heart, and the objective of thy Word, that I'm trying to bring to them that their Saviour, Jesus, is with them. He's ever living. He's alive. Two thousand years of criticism, and coldness, could not kill Him. He's still alive, right in our midst tonight.
And let the people see his presence, see Him working, not wait to someone to lay hands upon them; but by faith believe the resurrected Christ, and receive their healing, and their salvation; go up and down the islands everywhere, testifying like the little lady we spoke of last night, at the city of Sychar, and over in the land of the Samaritans. Grant it, Lord.
We are your servants, humbly committing ourself with this text tonight. Speak, Lord. We are in your hands. Do with us as You see fit. In Jesus' name we ask it. Amen.

37 Now, in these meetings, to the clergymen, I have tried to keep it very simple--just the message and of healing, so that we can watch our Lord. Now many times people go around, you know... And it's just human. They say, "Oh, Brother So-and-so, hallelujah, don't you think he had a gift of God? He laid hands on me. Hallelujah!"
No. That was your faith that did it, see. It was your faith; not the brother's hands. It was your faith, see, because if there is healing in some man's hands, then what happened to Calvary? There's where He paid the price of our healing. It's our individual faith in his finished work. Any man knows that, you see. Now, therefore, I have not come trying to say, "Let's all come up and lay hands on you." I'm trying to say this to build your faith.

38 Now, what if one of you Indian brethren, or sisters, would get sick way out on one of those islands? You think, "Well, I'm poor, ain't got no money. If I could go down to the States, go way down to Brother Branham, go way over to Oral Roberts..." Well, maybe Brother Roberts, you'd... probably takes months to get in.
I got three hundred sitting there on a waiting list now, from all over the world. But that's for private meeting. See, when we come in there, I take a case like that, we never leave it. We leave it alone until God reveals. It takes God to reveal what he must do, what he has done and so forth like that. Now them's private interviews. That's something in life. We got the plan laid out in the Bible here, but the private life of things... Oh, it would take years. I could write volumes of books on what I've seen Him do. And not one time did it ever fail. Not one time does it ever fail. Just ask anybody at any place. It never does. It can't fail. It's God. There's one thing God cannot do. He cannot fail. He can't fail.

39 Now. Believe now. Now, Jesus was rebuking that generation for not believing his sign, that He had proved to them that He was the Messiah. Now, we took that last night, how He was the Messiah because He was the Word. Is that right? Now Messiah means the Christ, the anointed one. And then He was to be the King, the God prophet, and here was the Spirit in Him. Now, remember the ones who really stayed with the scripture teaching, they recognized Him. But those who went off with the other church in their traditions, they missed it, see.
And Jesus told those teachers. He said, "You with your traditions, you take the commandments of God, and make them of none effect." Now what would they do with their tradition today, saying, "The days of miracles is past." That's a tradition. "There's no such a thing as divine healing." That's tradition, not the Bible. I can show any man where Jesus ordained his church and commissioned it to all the world, to every creature, and these signs shall follow them that believe. Now, I want somebody to show me a spot of Scripture where He's taken it away from the church. It's not there. It's still in the church. It's the traditions that's twisted it out.
And that's the reason they didn't recognize Jesus, because their traditions had twisted away and got some... They thought the Messiah would come, and no doubt they built a temple, and said, "He'll come down the corridors of heaven. They'll beat the angelic band, and He'll come in like that." And what was He? Born in a manger, in a barn where cows and animals was, in a little box of straw; and was supposed to be a illegitimate birth--his mother and father not married. Oh, my! The devil painted an awful picture for Him.

40 And they said, "A man like that? No! What school did He come from? Where did He get his education? Why, his daddy was a carpenter, and then say He's the Son of God." See, they couldn't believe that. But yet, He was so phenomenal until they couldn't deny it was there. And then they just said, "Oh, he's of the devil." And that's the same thing today. They'll class it the same way, because wisdom is justified of her children. Did you know...?
As I made a remark last night, I felt it sweep over the audience, and kind of had a funny feeling when it returned. But when I said, "Education has been the mark of antichrist all through the ages"... Education is the worst enemy the gospel ever had.

41 Listen. I'm off the subject, but just a moment. Let's just take the lineage. There was Cain and Seth. Abel was killed, and Cain was brought in his place--death, resurrection of Christ. And Cain's children were all smart, intelligent scientists, all down through to the days of Noah. And Seth's children were humble farmers, sheep raisers, peasants all the way through. It's always been that way, see.
When Jesus come, the Pharisees and Sadducees and educators, look where they were at. Religious? Oh, holy? My! You couldn't put a finger on their life. But you see, they were unbelievers. Anything that doubts one punctuation of God's Word is an unbeliever. I don't care how religious you are, Satan's religious, too. You've got to believe the Word. And if you've got the Holy Ghost, the Holy Ghost will punctuate every word, every sentence with an "Amen," see. It'll never take from it. It'll believe it, see.

42 So, when Jesus came, where did He get his disciples? Did He go to Caiaphas now, and say, "What's the smartest group you got?" He bypassed those. They wouldn't believe Him.
Where did He go? He went and got the Indians of that day, the fishermen down on the river. That's exactly right--men who couldn't even sign their own name. The Bible said that Peter and John were both ignorant and unlearned. That's right. But they could heal a man at the gate called Beautiful in the name of Jesus Christ; and it pleased God to give a man that couldn't sign his own name the keys to the kingdom, saying, "Whatever you bind on earth, I'll bind in heaven."

43 Why does education play such a part today, twisting the people away from God instead of bringing them to God? Paul... you say, "What about Paul?" But what did Paul say? He had to forget all he ever knowed, and he said, "I never come to you with the wisdom of man, with enchanting great words, that your faith would be built upon such; but I come to you in the power of the Spirit, that your faith would be in the resurrection of Jesus Christ."
[Gap in the audio]... and was saying to them, rebuking them because they had not believed Him. He said, "If I do not the works of my Father then don't believe me." And here He was telling them...

44 Now remember, God in all ages has always done the supernatural, because He is supernatural. Did you ever think what God was? Let me give you just a small picture now, before I go... (Oh! I guess I won't be able to. Yes, I am. I'm going to try it anyhow.) In the beginning before there was anything it was God. Before there was a meteor, before there was a light, before there was a atom, before there was a molecule, He was God. But He couldn't... He was the great controlling power of everything. And He was... everything in Him.
Now in Him was attributes. You know what at tribute means? Raise up your hand, anybody knows what attribute... show you know what a attribute is. Something that it's in you; it's got to display itself. Like an attribute... like you love scenery, and when you see that scenery, something just, oh, my! it just thrills you.

45 Now in God... He wasn't God yet, because God is an object of worship, and there was nothing to worship Him. He was God, but He wasn't God in that manner. Then He must've created angels. Then they began to worship Him. Next, He had a attribute to be a father. Next thing He had a attribute to be a son. Next thing He had a attribute to be a healer. Next thing He had a attribute to be a saviour, see. And all these things had to display themselves, see. And God to make a man sin, so He could punish him? No. And He put him on the basis of free moral agency, and man sinned himself. And so, therefore, God became a saviour then, see.
So it's just only the attributes of God displaying themselves that we see, and everything is perfectly on time. Every gift, everything's moving just exactly according to the tick of the watch. She's right there.

46 Now, Jesus in his time, He came to display the attributes of God. In Him... God was manifested in Him. Notice. Now, He'd showed this Messiahic sign. It was... unbelieving. And God in all ages has had signs to the people. And now, when the people believed that sign, it was a golden age to the people. But when they disbelieved it, it was chaos to the people. Right. Now, let me quote that again, 'cause I'm only going to take just a few minutes, now. Look. When God sends a gift, and the people believe it, it's a glorious time for the people. But when God sends a gift, and the people turns it down, that generation goes into destruction. Now, notice. What if the world today would receive God's gift?

47 Let's go back for a minute. Noah come with a gift of God as a prophet, saying there was coming a storm that was going to cover the whole world with water. Now, it didn't meet with scientific ideas of that day. Remember, they were greater scientists then than we are now. They'd built the pyramids, and Sphinx, and we couldn't build that now. They embalmed the body to make it look natural. Even to this day--a mummy--we couldn't make it. They had coloring that we can't touch. They were greater scientists than we have today. And now, they probably could shoot radar to the moon, too.
And Noah, this man standing out there after hearing from God, and preaching, prophesying that God was going to destroy the world with water... It was going to rain down out of the heavens. Why, I'd hear... the scientist'd come up there, and say, "Look, we've got an instrument that we can shoot plumb to the moon." You know, it had never rained in them days. God watered the earth up from the springs, never been no rain in the skies. The earth, leaning back after the antediluvian destruction, causes the rains.
So Noah said that it was going to rain from above, and the people didn't believe it. Science says, "There's not one drop of rain up there. No water. How could it rain?"
Noah would say, "If God said it's going to rain, and rain's coming from up there, God's able to put rain up there," see.
But the people didn't believe it. One day she rained, see. And that race, because they did not believe it, they were destroyed--the whole world.

48 Years later come a prophet named Moses, came down out of the wilderness, a pillar of fire over him. And he was bringing them the promise of God, telling them that God had promised by his Word to take them to a land that was flowing with milk and honey. And he had this pillar of fire over him, and God was working with him, to prove to those Jews that he was a prophet.
He said, "Tomorrow get everything ready, because a certain-certain thing will take place." And it happened. Just exactly. He was a prophet.

49 Notice. I thought the other day how glorious that must have been for Israel when they heard that. They believed him. Notice, they were slaves. They'd throw them out molded bread. They eat it, or done without. If those Egyptians wanted to take their young daughters and ravish them, what could they do about it? Nothing. Go and take their young sons, and kill them, what could they do about it? Nothing. They were slaves, and yet they were God's people. Amen.
Notice. Now, here they were God's people in that kind of a shape, and down come this prophet, with "thus saith the Lord," according to the Scriptures. "God, our Father, met Abraham, and told him that his seed would sojourn in a strange land for four hundred years; then He'd bring them out with a great promise and power. He would deliver them, and take them to a good land where Abraham sojourned. And the time is at hand."

50 Any man could have said that, but this man had a pillar of fire over him. And he was a prophet. What he was saying was happening just exactly the way he said. Oh, my!
Israel believed it. What did they do? They marched out of Egypt under that pillar of fire, on the road to a promised land that they had never seen, or knowed nothing about. And none of them had ever been there, but they went because God's word bid them to go. They were in the line of duty.
(I hope I'm not too loud. I've been used to preaching outdoors and things. Just a minute. Notice. I'll stand back a little.)
Notice, they followed that prophet through the wilderness, and God fed them in the wilderness. He supplied all their needs, rained bread out of the heavens of a nighttime, and fed them; and took them up till they come to a place called Kadesh-barnea. Kadesh-barnea was one time the judgment seat of the world.

51 And they had a great warrior with them called Joshua. And the word "Joshua" means "Jehovah-saviour." He went out of the camp, crossed over the Jordan. Nobody'd ever been over there now. They didn't know the land was there, only by the promise of God. And he crossed over the Jordan, went over into the promised land, and brought back the evidence that the land was just exactly what God said it was, see. It was there.
And it was then that the people--ninety percent of them--disbelieved Joshua. They had to wander a while. But God making the promise, He took them over. How lovely. They didn't have to work under Pharaoh. They could marry their wives, build them a little house on the place, raise their own grub and stuff, and eat it, and raise their children in peace. The nations feared them, and so forth. And after a while the hillsides of that lovely land become spotted with graves.

52 Then along came the greatest warrior of them all--Jesus. And He said that God has prepared a place where there's no death, amen, where we can live forever, build houses and inhabit them, plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them, and we'll not leave it for somebody else. Amen. "In my Father's house are many mansions. If it wasn't so I would have told you. I'm going to prepare a place for you, and return again to receive you unto myself, that where I am there ye may be also." He promised it, that there's life after death. Another great Joshua. Nobody's ever been over, and come back. Just another great Joshua.

53 Notice. Then when he got to that place, he met his Kadesh-barnea, the judgment seat for all of us--Calvary. There's where He was judged for the sins of the world. He crossed over the Jordan of death, that we know it, over into the other land, died. He died so until the sun quit shining, the moon wouldn't shine, and, why, the earth had a nervous chill when the rocks shook out of it, when He died. And He died, but on the third day, He come back from across Jordan, bringing back the evidence that a man lives after he dies here. What a great warrior!

54 Now He said, "I'm going to give you the earnest of your salvation." You know what the earnest is? Is the down payment. Like if I wanted to buy a boat from one of you Indian brethren, and I went out and said, "How much you want for the boat?"
You say, "Two thousand dollars."
I'd say, "Well, I'll tell you what I'll do. I'm going to give you fifty dollars to hold it for me until next week. Will you do it? Will you hold it for me?"
"I'll do it, Brother Branham." Then you give me a receipt, and I'll give you fifty dollars. Now you can't sell that boat, because I got first bid on it. That's the earnest that I'm going to get the boat. It belongs to me.
Well, now, God came back, and said, "Go up there to Jerusalem, and wait. I'm going to send you the earnest of your salvation. And they were up there all in one accord, and one place, and suddenly there came the earnest, come down from heaven like a rushing mighty wind. It filled all the house where they were sitting.

55 Now looky here. We can look back and see where we were once unbelievers. We seen once where we'd have walked around a meeting like this and laughed at it. We seen once back in our lives where we would have criticized divine healing. We... one time we didn't believe in God. One time we didn't believe in his Word. But now we have been raised up from that, lifted up, died in Christ, buried with Him, raised with Him in his resurrection, and now sitting in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Once...
See, the earnest. Here we are today in the earnest of our salvation. We stand here tonight already dead, buried in Christ, and raised with Him, and sitting in heavenly places, enjoying spiritual things coming back from across the way. See, heavenly places. Oh, my! It makes us shout to think about it.

56 Like an old colored woman, Negro woman sister, said down in the States, she said, "Dr. Branham," said, "I's want to give a testimony."
"Go ahead, sister. Testify."
She said, "I wants to say this, people. I hain't (that's a word they use in the South)," said, "I hain't what I ought to be, and I hain't what I want to be. But then, another thing I know, I hain't what I used to be." That's good. She knowed something had happened. Amen. So ought every man that's borned of the Spirit of God know you're not what you used to be. Amen.
I ain't what I want to be, and I ain't what I ought to be; I ain't what I used to be either, see. I have raised with Him. Now, I'm this high up, waiting for my change to come.

57 Now. Moses. Moses was God's servant. Now, Jesus speaking here, He said, "The men of Nineveh shall rise in the judgment because they repented at the preaching of Jonah." Jonah was a prophet.
Now a lot of people just talk bad about poor old Jonah, and they said he was a backslider. I don't think so. I think the Bible says that the footsteps of the righteous is ordered of the Lord. Now, we do things that we don't understand why we do it, but we just keep still. As long as we're led of the Spirit, go do it anyhow. It may be contrary to our thinking, but when the Holy Spirit said "Go," we go.
For instance right now I've got a meeting... be set in New York--I'd have it this week--where there was three hundred Spanish-speaking people taking Madison Square Garden that seats nineteen thousand. And wanted this very week here that I'm in here, to be in New York, see. But the Holy Spirit led me over here. Seems like it'd be contrary. But I don't know why, but I'm here. You see, children of God are led by the Spirit of God. We don't understand, see.

58 Now, the other brethren can go to them people. Now, like Brother Roberts, he couldn't go there... he couldn't come here. He has to have, around, I think, it's around fifteen to twenty thousand dollars every day--television programs, and all kinds of things, and a three-million-dollar building there to operate. That brother couldn't come here. You couldn't support nothing like that. You can't afford to do it, see. And neither could Tommy, and his great program With thousands of missionaries across the land. He couldn't do it.
So you see, the Lord never let me grow up like that. He just let me stay so I could go in any little corner, 'cause I don't need nothing but just his presence. That's right. I was on the field before any of those brethren. But you see, the Lord has spoke to me, saying, "Don't get none of that. Don't get mixed up in money. Leave it alone."
I never took an offering in all my life. I've been preaching for thirty-one years, and never took an offering in my life, see, because... And I held meetings as much as 500,000 in one congregation. Then I went and held a meeting where the church only seat twenty people, but the Lord said, "Go," see. It's wherever He says, "Go," go.

59 Here not long ago... You've heard of Brother Roberts, the great man. And I went... oh, he's a sweet brother, very good friend of mine. And I went to his great big building. I went over to Tommy. And Tommy was down here at Portland when that maniac ran out to kill me that night on the platform. You've heard the story. Great big fellow, and said, "I'm going to knock you out there in the middle of that audience. I'll break your neck."
And the Holy Spirit said, "Because you've challenged the Word of God, you'll fall over my feet."
Said, "I'll show you whose feet I'll fall over," pulled back his big fist.
And I said, "Come out of him, Satan," and he fell across my feet, just exactly. There he was.
So Tommy was standing there. The police run out, and said, "We're after that man to put him in jail." Said, "Is he dead?"
I said, "No, sir. But roll him off my feet," see. He weighed about... over about two-fifty, so they rolled him off my feet, and there he was.
He said, "Is he healed?"
I said, "No, sir. He worships that spirit." I'd led those two little police to Christ in the dressing room back there at the Portland Auditorium.

60 Now, you see in that, Tommy became a servant of God, and now he... and going out in the fields, done a great work. And Brother Oral, there was his great building. It's a great thing to think that one man, one man could put up about a two and a half, or three million-dollar-building. Whew! My! Look at...
I went in Oral's place, and there's five hundred IBM machines running. His letters never touch human hands. There's a machine picks them up, writes it off, takes it down, folds it, and sends it out. Goes to the bank and gets money, and brings it in by great big truck, and dump it in a... A conveyor runs around in different languages. They pull them out, like that, and they take care of the money. Why, you never seen anything like it in your life. And it's a great thing. And Oral taking me through to show me, and Brother Fisher, and one of the missionaries with him there.
And then I'd seen Brother Tommy with his great big place over there. I thought, "How wonderful, how good." And I happened to look out. Brother...

61 The police come up, and said, "Brother Branham, you can't get out that door." Said, "There's fifty people standing out there waiting for you." Said, "They're just waiting to see."
And I said, "Well, is there a back entrance?"
Said, "Yes. Go out through this way." And they said, "We'll send a man around to pick you up."
And I walked out in the back parking lot. I was walking up and down there looking at that great big building. Oh, my! Just like... I never seen anything in any part of the world like it. A little Pentecostal boy did it.
I thought, "Isn't that wonderful?" I thought, "God, how wonderful." I thought, "Just think of Brother Tommy's place, where... how that great, big, almost a city block, just in making books; and secretaries, and so forth, and IBM machines running. I thought "My! I'd hate for them to come to my place to look mine over." I got one little typewriter sitting in the end of a trailer. And I was trying to get someone to help me answer my letters.
And I thought, "But, boy! I wouldn't have all that responsibility for nothing. I ain't got brains enough to take care of that." I thought, "God knowed that."

62 I was standing there, and then I got real melancholy. I got thinking, "God, each one of the brothers said that they seen the ministry You gave me, and it started them on the field." I said, "To that, I'm grateful. We're all working for one big place up there called heaven." And I said, "I'm thankful for that. But," I said, "I suppose maybe you couldn't trust me, and you knowed that I wouldn't be able to take up money like that. And I wouldn't have the intelligence to know what to do with it if I took it up." And I said, "I guess it just happens to be that way."
I was standing there; kind of felt a little choked in my throat, because... I don't say this... I just say this is the truth. I heard a voice just as plain as you hear me, said, "But I am your portion."
I said, "Thank You, Lord. I'll go anywhere, any place, at any time. I want to do what you'd have me to do," and thanking God. Now, Brother Osborn, and Brother Roberts, and Brother... all those precious brethren throughout the world, we're all working for one place. One place, you see.
And this... the little gift that the Lord give me is to press into these little corners. You can't be all tied up with money, and programs, and things like that. Just press into the little corners, and get the thing started. That's all. And I'm thankful for this portion. I'm so glad He is my portion, and He's the one that I'm waiting on.

63 Now, Jonah had a ticket to go down... wanted to go to Nineveh, what God called him to do, but he went to Tarshish. Now you think, "Well, he done exactly what God told him not to do." But just a minute. If a prophet is led of the Lord, it always comes out right. Now, he got out there and the storm come up, and the seas got rough and the boat was sinking. And they tied Jonah's hands together, and his feet together, and throwed him overboard in the ocean, and a whale swallowed him.

64 Now, not long ago they had a whale laying on a big flatcar down at Louisville, Kentucky, about fifteen years ago, or maybe twenty. And they was giving a lecture. And the little scientist that was giving the lecture was making fun of the Bible. Here's what he said. Said, "Now, I want you people... you know the legend..." Legend? This Bible's not a legend. It's the truth. And he said, "... the legend about the whale swallowing Jonah."
He said, "I want you to notice. You couldn't take a good-sized baseball and put it in the throat of that whale. So as far as that legend, there's nothing to it. This is a good, ordinary-sized whale, and the whale could not have swallowed a man because he wouldn't have went through his swallow. It's... the most you could stretch it would only be about four inches that the man could have went through. And he could not have done it."
That was just too much for my Irish background, you know. I said, "Mister, I want to say a word."
He said, "Yes, sir. What is it?"
I said, "You just don't know your Bible." I said, "God said that He prepared this fish. This was a special-built bird. See, God prepared this fish. It was a different type."
This one, he could have... he could've swallowed a house if he wanted to. God can do what He wants to. The Bible said God prepared a fish. Oh, he had a big throat in him, you see.

65 And so Jonah went into the belly of the fish. And you ladies know now, when you feed your little goldfish, you know what he does? He goes right down to the bottom of the little basin, and puts his little swimmers against the bottom and rests. He's got his belly full, see. He's laying there just resting. He's done prowled through the waters until he found his food, and went down and rested. That's the way fish does when they feed--get a bellyful, they go back. The trout out here will get under a rock somewhere and rest. That's the way.
And I imagine this big old fish got a bellyful of this prophet. So he goes down in the water, and goes down to the bottom, and lays down.

66 Now you talk about Jonah being in a condition. He was in a bad shape. Lot of people talk about symptoms. They say, "Well, I was prayed for last night, but, hmm, I still got the pain." That don't have nothing to do with it. "I was prayed for. My hand's still crippled." That don't have nothing to do with it. If you believe it, you don't look at that, you look at a promise, see. You're not looking at the hand. That's what we call symptoms, looking at symptoms.
Now, there's nobody in here could have symptoms like Jonah. Brother, he had the awfullest case of symptoms I ever seen. Look here. Now, he was out on the ocean, his hands and feet tied behind him, and he was in the belly of the whale, probably several fathoms deep--laying in the vomit in the whale's belly on a stormy sea. Now, you talk about symptoms!
He looked this way; it was whale's belly. That way was whale's belly. Everywhere he looked was whale's belly. There's nobody in that bad a shape here. Look what... look at the symptoms he had. But you know what he said?
He said, "They're lying vanities. I won't believe any of it." He said, "Lord...," turned over on his back, the vomit all around him, seaweeds around his neck. He said, "Once more will I look to your holy temple." Oh, not look at the whale's belly, or the circumstance, but, "look at your holy temple."
Solomon... when Solomon dedicated that temple he prayed. He said, "Lord, if thy people be in trouble at any time, and look to this holy place, then hear from heaven." And Jonah acted upon Solomon's prayer. And God... I don't know what He done. He put a oxygen tent down there, or something, and He kept him alive for three days and nights.

67 Now, we're not in that bad a shape. There's none of us as bad off as Jonah was. That's right, 'cause here's the Holy Spirit here. We're not in the belly of the whale, we're not in that condition. But if Jonah, under those circumstances, could look to a temple that a human being prayed when he dedicated it (and the man that prayed backslid later), and God heard his prayers; how much more under this circumstance can we look towards heaven where Jesus sits at the right hand of God, ever living to make intercession on our confession? My, my! I won't look at my tummy-ache, I won't look at my heartbeat funny, I won't look at my crippled hand. But I'll look towards the promise, for He sits there ever living to make intercession. Amen.

68 I want to show you something now, show where God knows what He's talking about. Now, the people of Nineveh--that was a big city about a half a million people, pretty near the size of St. Louis, Missouri; and they were heathens. They were in all kinds of sin. They worshipped animals, and idols, and everything, and their occupation was fishermen. And so, the whale was the god of the sea.
So all of them was out about eleven o'clock fishing, all the fishermen pulling their nets out there in the sea, and the first thing you know, up come the sea-god, the whale. Run up to the bank, licked out his tongue, and the prophet come walking right out on the bank. Sure they repented! God knows what to do. God knows how to do things to people that wants to believe, see.
Jonah wasn't out of the will of God. See, the whale-god spit the prophet right out on the bank. Sure they're going to believe his message. There he come out.

69 And Jesus said that, you know, that there was a greater than Jonah there. But notice what He said. Now a little bit before we go into another subject, look. Jesus said... They said, "Master, we would see a sign." (Three verses behind where I started reading.) " Master, we would see a sign."
He said, "A weak and adulterous generation seeks after a sign." Is that right? And He said, "There will be no sign given that generation..." Now listen, close. How many knows that Scripture repeats itself constantly? We know it. And He said, "There will be no sign given that weak, wicked, adulterous generation." That's this generation.

70 There never has been so much in all the world of wickedness and adultery as there is right now, perversion. Well, homosexuals, perversion, women on the streets stripped, every... It's just terrible, the way people are doing all over the world, and especially in the States. And it's getting to be almost as bad in Canada. It's too bad, but it's true. That big nation, this little nation's a pattern off of it. Don't take your pattern from them, take your pattern from up here, Christ.
Notice. And there they were, a wicked... He said, "There will be no..." Now listen, close, so you won't miss it. They will receive a sign. "As Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and nights, so the Son of man will be in the heart of the earth three days and nights." They will receive that sign.
What is the sign of? The resurrection. You get it? That's exactly what we're getting now, the sign that He's not dead. He's raised from the dead, and among us, doing the same things He did when He was here on earth. And the wicked and adulterous generation, see, will receive that sign.

71 Then, one more, closing. He said, "And the queen of the south shall rise in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it. For she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon. And behold a greater than Solomon is here."
Now listen, in closing. In the generation of Solomon, God gave a gift to the earth, and that was a gift of discernment. And it fell upon Solomon, and all the people believed it with one heart. What if all the people today would believe... what if Canada and the United States would believe their gift that God sent them, the Holy Ghost? What if all the people that professed to be Christians just believed it? Why, we wouldn't have to worry about Russia's atomic bombs, and all them things.
You'd never be able to dig out away from the atomic bomb. Well, the thing... people are digging holes, and down in the States they're going down in caves, and making government offices. Well, that atomic bomb, the one they got now that will burst the earth, I believe it's three or four hundred feet deep, and for 150 miles square. Well, if you was ten thousand feet under the earth, plumb down into the lava, it would break every bone in your body. You can't dig away from it.
But we've got a bomb shelter. It's not made of steel, it's made of feathers--under his wings. Amen. Be lifted up. That's right. Before that bomb drops, we'll be in glory. What's the matter? Then they say we're crazy. If I am crazy, leave me like I am. I feel better this way. I like to stay this way.

72 Now notice. Now, in Solomon's time, everybody believed that gift. Oh, my! Everybody, they wasn't going around saying, "Oh, he's, oh, Assemblies, and he's, oh, this, and he's, oh, that." No. They was all with one accord. They believed it.
And how everybody coming by... They didn't have jet planes, and things in them days; they had to travel through camel caravans. And when they passed through, they'd say... Go down the other parts of the world, say, "You ought to hear up in Palestine. They got a God up there, and that God is making Himself known through a man."

73 Now, see, pagan worship is to prostrate yourself before the idol, the imaginary god, and believe that the imaginary god is talking to you. Christianity is vice-versa. God takes a living man that prostrates himself before Him, and speaks his own words through the living man, not through an idol. Just turns right around from pagan worship--idol worship--to Christian worship.
Now. They said, "They got a man up there that's... their God that they worship, speaks through that man with discernment. Oh, it went everywhere. All nations feared them. They sent in gifts and everything. No wars in time of Solomon. No. He was... they thought he was too smart. It wasn't him; it was God, the Holy Ghost in him, that was making him smart.

74 Now, that news came way down across the earth into the land of Sheba. And if you'll measure on your map, it's a long ways down there, across the Sahara Desert. And this little pagan queen, she was a heathen. And people coming in, saying, "Oh, you ought to see up there in Palestine. Such-and-such, and such-and-such." My! How they'd think about that!
Now you know, faith comes by what? Hearing the word of God. Now the little woman would say, "What?" You know God in her, she believed that there was a God. And so, when that faith begin to touch her, that there was one, she begin to look for Him. And everybody would come in. When they come into her kingdom (camel caravans going through, you know, traders, and so forth, with silks and linens and so forth, and produce, and whatever they had, coming through), why, she'd call them into her palace, and say, "Did you come through the way of Palestine?"
"Yes."
"Is it so?"
"It's so. It's so. You never... You know, them people are one heart and one accord. You never seen such in your life. Their God has given them a gift, and displaying it through a man. And they've made that man their king. Oh, my! They all believe it. Every one of them."
"Well, did you get to see it?"
"Yes."
"Is it so?"
"Sure, it's so."
Oh, my! She wants to see it then, you know, when you hear about it. Now. She decided that she was... She got all the scrolls, and she begin to read what that God was. See, she was a heathen, and she begin to read what Jehovah was, see his nature. She said, "Then that must be Jehovah's nature that's displaying Himself in this man, because Jehovah, they say, is all wise, and He foretells things."

75 So now, being the queen, she had a lot to go through with. She had to go over to her pagan priest, and ask permission to go, from her church. Well, you know what? I imagine that pagan priest, said, you know, "But you see, look here, girlie. You're a queen. You can't go down with that illiterate bunch, you know. You can't do that. You're a queen. And you know what? Why, you know, you would get out of your own class if you got down..."
She said, "But, sir, I want to go. Something tells me I want to go."
"Oh, but you can't do it, child. You cannot do it. Now listen. We know they say all these kind of things up there. They crossed the Red Sea, and it dried up, and they rained bread out of heaven. But just legends. There's nothing to it."
You hear that same old devil talking today. The devil takes his man, but never his spirit. God never takes his Spirit, either. He might take his man, but the Holy Ghost was on Christ, come back for the church to the end of the world, to do the same thing. Notice. Now, them big old scholars and things of that day, and that great big old bunch of Pharisees, they still live. Their spirits is right on others, you see. And God's Spirit still lives just the same, confirming his Word, going on. Depends on what you want to believe. That's all.

76 Now, if we notice. Then he said, "Now, there's no such a thing as that." Said, "Now, if there was anything to that, our idols, our church, would be doing it."
You get that, the same thing today. "Now, if there's anything to divine healing, the great So-and-so church would believe it. The great So-and-so church would do it," see. But you know, God does things to suit Himself. He don't have to ask anybody about it. He's the self-sufficient One, see. He don't have to ask nobody. So God was doing it.
You know... little heart begins to hunger for God, there's nothing going to stop it. And she said, "Sir, I'm going anyhow."
"Well, if you do, I'll give you your church letter."
Said, "You might as well give it, because I'm on my road." So she... See, nothing going to stop the person that comes to Christ that really believes Him. When you hear the Word of God, and know it's moving, there's nothing going to stop you. That's all. You're coming, anyhow.

77 And now remember, that little lady had a lot of difficults. I see her pack her camels, and here she thought of something.
She said, "Now, wait a minute. If that's truly... if that gift is right, then I'm going to support it." So she got a lot of gold, and frankincense, and stuff, and packed it on camels. She said, "I'll take it with me, but if it isn't so, then I'll bring my money right back."
That could teach Pentecostal people something--supporting meetings, and meetings that hate the very thing that you stand for; let your own church go without. They do it in the States. I hope you Canadians don't do it. But they do it down there, and just to be popular. "I give so-and-so to such-and-such." Oh, my! Skim milk.
Notice. Now here he was. She put everything together, and she put it on her camels, all that money, thousands times thousands of dollars worth of gold. And remember, Ishmael's children, the Arabs, they were robbers in the desert then. How easy it would have been for them to... them fleet horse riders to ride right in, and kill that bunch of little guards around that queen, and take that money and fly away in five minutes.
But you see, if you're determined to know God, you don't know no fear. Faith knows no fear. That right? You don't care what the doctor says, what anybody else says, you believe it, see. And she wasn't thinking about the robbers, and this, that, and the other. She was thinking about getting over there and seeing God working in a man.

78 And now, remember. She... How long do you think it took that woman? She didn't have an air-conditioned Cadillac to come in. No. She had to ride on the back of a camel. You know how long it taken the camel train to get from Sheba to Palestine? Three months, ninety days, through a hot Sahara desert, the hottest place in the world on the back of a camel--trying to come to see a gift of God. No wonder Jesus said, "She'll rise in the judgment and condemn this generation," see. She might have traveled by night. Daytime she laid up in the oasis, and read the scrolls, the Scriptures, to see what Jehovah was. She finally arrived at the gate.

79 She didn't come, say, "Well", like people do today, "I'll go in, sit down. If he says one thing that's contrary to my belief, I'll get right up and walk out." That shows ignorance. But she come to stay till she was convinced. She'd read the Bible, she seen what Jehovah meant, and what Jehovah was, and what Jehovah had promised. She wanted to see if that Jehovah they talked about was in that man.
I imagine her priest told her, said, "Well, now looky here. Here's our great Dagon. Here's our great idol here."
She said, "Yes. My great-great-great-great-great-grandmother served them, and they haven't done nothing but stood there as a statue all the time. They don't breath, they don't move, there's nothing happened. And they say this God's a living God, doing something."

80 That's it. Amen. I feel kind of religious right now--a living God; not a dead one. What good's a God that could open the Red Sea if He can't do the same today? What good is a God that could heal a leper in the days gone by, if He can't do the same today? A historical God's no good, if He isn't the same God today. That's right. He is the same God today--yesterday, today, and forever, the same one--only asking the same faith, that they exercise.

81 Now, she's at the temple. She unpacks out there in the temple yard, put up her tents, put her money back in a corner, put her little eunuchs around to guard it. And the next morning, maybe she got up early, her and her little maids was with her. And they went in and sat down, probably way back in the back of the church. And they sang all the songs, and the trumpets blowed, and everything, and after a while Pastor Solomon came walking out.
How all the people said, "Oh! Praise God. There's our pastor." And they walked out, Pastor Solomon on the platform. And she watched that day the very things that she'd heard told taking place.
And day after day she went studying the scrolls. She waited till her prayer card was called, or whatever it was she had to get up there, her appointment with Solomon. And when she got up on the... there before Solomon, the Bible said that there wasn't nothing hid from Solomon. He revealed everything that she wanted to know.

82 Isn't that the same God that was in Christ, that knowed the secrets of the heart? What did she say? She turned (now, being a heathen), she turned, and she said, "All that I heard was right, and more than that." It'd been done to her, you see. She was a witness of it. The same thing that Nathanael and them saw (last night), and Jesus doing the same thing, revealing the secrets of the heart. Here twenty-five hundred years before... no, about eight hundred years before it happened, here stood Solomon doing the same thing that Christ did when He come. It's the same God, you see?
What did she say? "Blessed are those who are with you, that see this gift working all the time. Blessed are the men that sits here daily, and sees that happening all the time." And she become a believer.

83 And Jesus said, "She'll rise up in the last day and will condemn this generation," because she came from the utmost parts of the earth to see the gift of God in operation and believed it. And people today won't walk across the street. That's right. They won't drive a nice car to the meeting. If anything, they'll make fun of it. And the very Christ predicted that a wicked and adulterous generation that would be seeking for signs would receive the sign of the resurrection. No wonder. What was the matter?
In closing, I say this. She seen something real. That's what real believers wants to see--something real. Remember, the very thing that saves the real believer, condemns and sends to hell the unbeliever. The very water that saved Noah, drowned the unbeliever. The same judgment that saved the believer, killed the unbeliever. The same Spirit today that the believer receives will condemn, in the day of the judgment, the unbeliever, see.

84 Just a little story to my Indian brethren, and all. I like to hunt. Oh, I just love to hunt. My, my, that's my second nature. My conversion never took that out of me. And I'd like to tell you a little story about hunting right here--where God told me exactly (your pastor, Brother Byskal remembers it; Brother Sothmann, back there), where He told me exactly what I was going to do, where I'd go, a caribou I'd get, where he'd be laying, a man would have a green checkered shirt on, and would kill a grizzly bear before I got back. Is that right? Is that right, Brother Sothmann? Hundreds of people I told.
Went right there, and Eddy heard me tell it the day before we left down there. Two days later he stood right there, and seen every bit of it come just to pass as I told. I said the horns would be exactly forty-two inches high.
And the guide said, "Forty-two exactly?" Said, "Brother Branham, after..." He said, "Where's that grizzly bear up on top of this mountain?" Said, "Brother Branham, according to what you told me, that... you're going to kill a grizzly bear before you get back to where Eddie Byskal is standing with a green checkered shirt on." And his wife had put it in his camp bag, and he told me he didn't even have one.
I said, "Well, then, there's going to be somebody's going to have it, 'cause it's going to be there." And he had that green checkered shirt on.
He said, "Before we get back there?"
He said, "Brother Branham, I had a brother had epilepsy. And you told me when he had this fit again to jerk his shirt off and throw it in the fire, and he wouldn't have it any more." Well, he did, and God healed him of it. Now he said, "Then I can't disbelieve it. But where's that bear going to be?"
I said, "He's Jehovah-jireh. He can provide Himself a bear to make his Word come to pass." And when we was just about half a mile from them (being about three miles from them), when we was about a half-a-mile from them, I was standing...
He said, "Brother Branham, we've just got a half-a-mile further. Where's the bear?"
I said, "Don't you...?" I said, "What's that, Bud?" There was a nine foot, silver-tipped grizzly standing up on top of the hill, looking right at me.
He said... we got within five hundred yards. He said, "Brother Branham, did you ever shoot a grizzly?"
I said, "I've shot many bear."
He said, "You better shoot him from here."
I said, "No. The vision said I was right up on him."
He said, "Oh, Brother Branham!" He said, "Shoot him in the back, now," said, "'cause if you don't shoot him in the back, they're great fighters."
I said, "I know. But this one in the vision I shot in the heart."
He said, "Oh!"
And I said, "Just keep going, Bud."

85 We went over in the other little coulee, and come up, and then we was right close to him, about two hundred yards. I said, "This is just right." I said, "Wait till he looks around." Looked like a big hay stack. He turned and looked at me.
I had a little bitty rifle. And just as he turned and looked at me I shot him right smack in the heart. And here he rolled over the hill, like that, as hard as he could come, like that. And Bud stood there, turning white in the mouth. He said, "Brother Branham, I didn't want him on my lap."
And I said, "Neither did I."
He said, "Now, if them horns are exactly forty-two inches when I get down there, I'm going to have a screaming fit."
I said, "You better have it right here, because it's going to be that way."
He said, "I've got a measure in my saddle bag."
And we got down there. The vision said a little hand would hold the horns. I pulled up beside of Brother Eddie there. I said, "Now watch that boy hold that horn." And he went around, and got that tape measure, brought it out, put it down the base of the head. That little hand: his boy, Blaine, held it, went up there.
Bud said, "Mercy, Brother Branham, right smack on the nose, forty-two inches!"
I said, "Bud, He never fails. He tells just exactly." Oh, He's God! When we can see something real and genuine... That's what that queen wanted to see, something real.

86 I used to hunt with a half-Indian brother of mine. His name is Burt Caul. He's a Britanner, and he lives up here (or Englishman), lives up in New Hampshire. Great hunter. I love to hunt with him. You didn't have to fool about letting him get lost. He knowed his way back. But he was the meanest man I ever seen in my life. That guy was really wicked. He had eyes like a lizard, and he always... look at me with them lizard eyes, and scare me to death anyhow.
But he used to say to me... He used to shoot little fawns--you know, little baby fawns. Now, it's all right. I've killed fawns when... If the law says you can kill a fawn, kill it. That's all right. Abraham killed a calf, and fed it to God. There's nothing in the size of anything, or the sex of it. But just to kill them to be mean, that's wrong. You shouldn't do... just kill to be mean.
That's one thing about the Indian. Reason he was the great conservationist we ever had, he took just what he had to use. If he caught more, he turned it loose. The white man was a murderer that went out and shot the buffaloes out, and so forth, for targets. That's the bad guy, that's doing things like that.

87 But Burt used to shoot them just for fun, to make me feel bad. He said, "You preachers are chicken-hearted." So that's what... you know what I... (Is that word used up here, chicken-hearted?) Chicken-hearted. Said, "That's what's the matter with you preachers."
So one day I went up there, and he'd made him a little whistle, to make it sound like a little baby fawn, with that little brrr. Crying, like it was crying for its mammy.
And I said, "Burt, you wouldn't do that."
He said, "Oh, you chicken-hearted preacher." He said, "Billy, you'd be a good hunter if you wasn't a preacher."
But I had to get his game about every fall anyhow, see, so I just let him go. So I said, "Burt, you wouldn't do that."
He said, "What's wrong with killing a fawn?"
I said, "Nothing. But just to shoot it to leave it lay there, go over and shoot another one, just to act mean", I said, "that's bad, Burt. You shouldn't do that. That'll grow up into a big buck some day, maybe a doe, have many other deer. You might have children some day wanted to hunt," so forth.
"Nah, nonsense," he said, just as wicked as he could be.

88 So that day it was way late, and we have the white-tailed deer up there. And you talk about Houdini being an escape artist, he's an amateur for one of them. Boy, he'd be gone like that. You had to be fast, and quick, and a dead shot to hit him. And then, after they've been shot at a few times...
So, it was kind of late in the season, and we'd hunted all morning. Not even a track--about six or eight inches of snow. We always packed a thermos jug full of hot chocolate, where if we got caught out in a storm at night, or something, we'd keep going all right. So... we had a sandwich in our coat.
And about eleven o'clock, I thought, "Well, we haven't even seen a track, nor nothing." Moonlight nights, and they'll eat at nighttime, you know, feed; and go in the day, lay under brush piles, back in the heavy timbers.
And so we was getting up nearly timberline and I thought maybe... Burt was leading the way. And we'd get up on top of the mountain, then he'd separate and go one way, and me the other. And we'd come around, and maybe we'd get in that night, or the next morning, one. And if we killed a deer we'd know where to go get him, and so forth; take a horse and go after him. So then I thought...

89 He'd come to a little opening about three or four times the size of this building here, and he kind of hunkered down on a snow drift, kind of hunkered. (That word ain't used here, is it? I'm a Southerner.) In other words, he... squatted? Squatted down like this. And he got down there, and he went to get back to get in his coat.
I thought he was going to get his sandwich, and so I went in after mine. I thought, "Well, we'll separate here. I'll go one way, and he the other, and hunt back this afternoon."
He reached back and he pulled out this little whistle. I said, "Now, Burt." He looked up at me with them lizard eyes looking at me, and kind of that little sneering laugh on his face. He pulled out that little whistle like that, and he blew it. And when he did, a great big doe stood up just across the way, across that little opening.
I thought, "Oh, oh. Oh, she made a bad move then." Now that's strange. They won't do that usually. You Indian brethren know that, when they're hunted.
And then, he looked at me and them lizard eyes and he laughed, and he blew it again. And that mother doe walked right straight out into that opening. Now that's altogether strange for them there to do that.

90 Now, a doe is a mother deer, you know. I could see her great... I got close enough to see her big eyes, them big ears sticking up so graceful. She walked right out there.
Now what was the matter? She wasn't putting on a show. She was a mother. She was borned a mother. The instinct of mother was in her, and her baby was crying. She wasn't cared about fearing anything; she was coming to find her baby.
And we never carry a shell in the barrel. So he put a shell up, a .30-06 hundred and eighty grain mushroom bullet, and he pulled it up there. He was a dead shot. And when the... his model 70 Winchester... And when he pulled the lever down like that, the click of the gun, the deer spooked, looked, and she spotted the hunter. But she never run.
Now you know that's strange. But she was a mother. Her baby was in trouble, and she was borned a mother, and she was hunting for her baby. And she looked at that hunter, big nose up, looking like that, trying to find her baby. She'd heard it cry. She wasn't putting on an act. It was genuine. She was a mother.

91 I seen him level down, a dead shot, and I thought, "Oh, my. He'll blow her heart plumb through the other side. How can he deceive her like that? How can he be so mean as to do that? blowing that whistle, and getting that mother deer out here and shoot her. Doubtful he'd ever take her in."
And I thought, "That loyal heart of that deer will be blowed out of her." And I looked, and I see him leveling down right. And I thought, "As soon as that crosshair in that scope come right across that loyal heart, he'd blow it plumb through her." I turned my back. I couldn't look at it.
I started praying. I said, "Heavenly Father, how can he do it? How can he do it, Lord? And he won't listen to me talking about You." I said, "How can he do it?" And I was there kind of praying to myself behind a bush.
I listened for the gun to fire any minute, but it didn't fire. I waited. It didn't fire. I looked around, and it was going like this. He couldn't hold it no more. He looked around, the great big tears running down his cheeks. His black Indian hair fell down in his face. He threw the gun down on the bank, said, "Billy, I've had enough of it. Lead me to that Jesus you're talking about."

92 What was it? He saw something real. He saw something that wasn't put on, artificial. He saw the real display of motherhood after her baby, something that was genuine. O God, make all of us that kind of a Christian.
How many in here would like to be the kind of a Christian that that deer was a mother? Your heart, danger, or nothing else... sees something great, see something that's real. Then God, oh, may his blessings...

93 Let's bow our heads just a moment. Each one of you in your own heart pray, say, "God, make me that kind of a Christian." Just silently to yourself. O God, our Father, grant unto thy servants, O Father, pardoning of sin. Hear us as we cry. Bless us, now. Reveal our sins to our hearts, and make us real Christians. Let grace and mercy abound in our hearts. Grant it, Lord.

94 They saw something real, and they were ready then. They saw something that could not be manufactured. It had to be something that was real. It wasn't a manufactured thing. And we've got a God tonight.
That man is a deacon in a church. Right there on that snowbank, with his arms wrapped around my frozen pant legs, he said, "Billy, there's got to be a God somewhere." Said, "Is there a God that can make me a Christian, as much as that deer is a mother?"
I said, "Yes, Burt. His name is Jesus. Will you receive Him?"
He said, "With all my heart, Billy, I receive Him."
I knelt down in the snow, took the shell out of his gun, put my arm around his neck. There praying together, he received Jesus as his Saviour. That's been about twenty years ago. He's a faithful member of the body of Christ now. Wonderful brother.

95 Now while we're praying, how many here, in divine presence, with your heads bowed, would say, "I would like to be that kind of a Christian."? Maybe you've never accepted Christ as your Saviour, and you'd say, "God, be merciful to me. I've always wanted to be a Christian, but really, I've never seen nothing that would just make me... nothing real like that. But I really believe that there is a God and I want to accept Him as my Saviour." Will you raise your hand? Say, "Pray for me, Brother Branham." God bless you, sir. Another? God bless you, lady, and God bless you, God bless you, you, and you. God bless you back there, lady. Some another?
Now, you may be a member of a church. I'm not talking about membership. I'm talking about it's you being a Christian, genuine. Death would mean nothing to you. You love Jesus so that He's just... You love Him like a mother would love her baby. You know, you talk about the love that He has for you? He said, "Can a mother forget her suckling babe?" Said, "She might. But I can't forget you. Your names are engraved on the palms of my hands."

96 Now the queen of the south come to see the wisdom of Solomon. Here was Jesus, after all these hundreds of years, was doing the same thing. And He said she come to hear Solomon. And here was He with the same gift, only greater, and promised that in this day they would receive the sign of the resurrection. God, make us real. Pray now. God be with you. Just pray, just silently to yourself, saying, "Be merciful, Lord. I now repent of all my sins. I believe on Him."
God bless you, trusting that it's faith in your heart. Now raise your heads. Look this way. I am your brother. I've come to tell you the truth. The God that gave the gift to Solomon is the same God tonight. Jesus stood there, being God manifested in the flesh, and showed the people.
Now the Bible predicts that in the last day the Spirit of God will manifest itself in the same way. Just before the coming of the Son of God, it would be like it was at Sodom. Do you believe that? Now let the God that you have accepted as your personal Saviour, let Him speak tonight.

97 How many of you people here that...? I'm going to omit the prayer cards right at this time. How many people here that doesn't have a prayer card? Now you do not have a prayer card, and you believe that God will heal you. Raise up your hands, say, "I will believe." All right.
Now you look this way just a moment. Being a stranger to you, now if Jesus stood here tonight wearing this same suit that He gave me years ago... Now, if you come to Him, and you said, "Lord, will you heal me?" He couldn't do it. He's already did it. You believe that, don't you? "By His stripes..."
But He could prove to you that He was Christ. And the only way you'd know it--not by the way He was dressed, not the scars on Him, but the ministry He would have, He would be the Word. And the Bible said the Word of God is sharper than a two-edged sword, and a discerner of the thoughts of the heart. Is that right? Now, how many knows that's truth, say, "Amen."
Now the Bible said that Jesus now is a high priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. Is that right? Now, if He's the same high priest, how about your faith touching Him, and watch and see... Now, if I'm...

98 Listen. Do you believe He would have anything to do with a hypocrite? Jesus? No, sir. Do you believe He'd associate Himself in lies? Not our God. No. But our God is responsible for His Word. Is that right? And humbly, He's permitting this to be done, not because He has to, but to show the people that He is God, and keeps His promise. God.
Some of you people back there, you Anglo-Saxons, do you believe it with all your heart? Raise up your hand, say, "I believe it. Before I see anything real done, I believe it."
The Indian people, do you believe with all your heart? Raise up your hand.

99 Now again, I'm going to ask you. You without a prayer card, raise up your hand. Now, you haven't got a prayer card. Raise up your hand, the white people back there. All right.
Now I want you to pray. You people back there, pray, and say, "Lord Jesus, that preacher doesn't know me. But You know me." Now you can take your hand down and pray. And say, "Lord Jesus, if You're a high priest, You let me touch You."
And then you... Turn around--like the woman that touched His garment, and He turned around and said, "Who touched me?"
And Paul, or Peter, said, "Lord," he rebuked Him. "All's touching You."
He said, "But I perceive that I got weak." Virtue, strength went from Him.
Now, if one little woman touching Him, using the gift of God, if one little woman touching Him caused Him to get weak, what about me, a sinner saved by grace? But what did He say? "The works that I do shall you do also. More than this shall you do." Now the King James says, "greater." But in the original translation... There's nothing could be greater. He healed the sick, He raised the dead, He stopped nature, He done everything. But, "more than this shall you do", all around the world, (See?), " for I go to the Father."

100 Now you pray. You know what's wrong with you, and you pray. And if you've never seen nothing real done, and He will appear here tonight, in His presence... Now not me. And no matter how much gift I have, you have to have faith, too, 'cause it's your faith that operates it. It's not me.
The woman, she touched His garment and He got weak. That was a woman using God's gift. But when He went away from the house of Lazarus, and went away and come back, and raised up a man had been dead four days, He never said He got weak then. That was God using His gift. Do you believe that? 'Cause He said at the grave, you know, "I thank Thee, Father, that thou has already heard Me. But for these I said it," see. He said, "I do nothing till the Father showed Me." That's the reason He didn't go back when they sent for Him. Now pray.
If I be God's servant... Now, if anybody thinks this is false, come up here and do it. Let's see you do it, if it's false. Pretty quiet. Then it isn't. It's of God. It's God's Bible. Now you believe. And just believe now, all...

101 I'm nervous. This is eleven straight meetings for me, and I'm just wore out. You know it. Night after night, every night, strength, virtue. And through the day, He'll send me down on the corner and say, "Stand here. There'll be a guy come by on a wheelchair." That's the big visions.
These are the little ones. You're causing these. That's the one that God gives. Say "This man comes by, and he did a certain thing, at a certain time. He'll be pressing around the corner. Just speak to him, and raise him up out of the chair, and go on. Let nobody know who does it." You hear it up here in papers, and things like that. Nobody knows who it is. He sends me down there, and says, "Do this." see. That's God using his gift.
Now you do it. You use God's gift and say, "Great high priest of God, let me touch You. And You use Brother Branham to speak to me. And if You'll just tell me what's my trouble, and what... this, or something that in my heart I'm praying for, I'll believe with all my heart." And then you'll be able to say, like the mother deer, like... you'll see something real, like Burt Caul saw.

102 Now here, here it is. Thank you, Lord. Look over this way. How many seen that picture on the paper tonight? You see it? Did he show it here? All right. You know that pillar of fire you saw in the paper? There it is. It's standing right there. It's over a little woman, sitting way back here, towards the back, a little lady. She's wearing glasses. She's kind of thin. She's suffering with an allergy.
Do you believe, sister? You put up your hand a few minutes ago you didn't have a prayer card. You don't have a prayer card, do you? Stand up on your feet. Is that what you're suffering with? If that's right, raise up your hand. And if I'm a stranger to you, wave your hand like this. I want to ask you something. Right now you feel a real sweet feeling, don't you? Just real... I'm looking right at that pillar of fire circling right around that woman right now. Your faith has made you whole. Jesus Christ. Now do you believe?