The Queen of Sheba

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1 Heavenly Father, we thank Thee tonight for the privilege that we have of coming into Thy presence. We thank Thee for the Lord Jesus, who has brought us together and assembling us here one more time before the great coming of His presence. And we ask that you will bless us tonight in this feeble effort that we put forth. And doing Thy commission as Thou has commissioned us to go into all the world, disciple all nations, and signs would follow the believers.
We pray that You will manifest Your resurrection and Your great Word tonight in our midst. Forgive us of our sins, if we've sinned, tonight, Lord, as people who realize that we're not worthy to even call upon You. But, by grace Thou has redeemed us and we love You for it. And at one time we were counted aliens, away from God without hope, without life, but Christ died: the just for the unjust. And through the reconciliation of His death, we have been brought nigh unto God, insomuch that we are called sons and daughters of God.
It does not yet appear what we shall be in the final end. But we know we'll have a body like His own glorious body, for we shall see Him as He is. And in the face of all of this, Lord, as we look to Thee tonight, bless our efforts and help us to manifest His love to others. For we ask it in Christ's name. Amen.
You may be seated.

2 It's a great privilege to be here again tonight in the presence of this company and in the presence of the living God. And it's a ... it always is a great thing to our hearts as we speak of His blessed presence, and speak of His doings and what He has done for us. And we're very grateful to Him.
Now, this is the second night of our gathering. And the weather has been a little against us. And we, not having any certain sponsorship... We have come independent. We have come for fellowship, one with another, while the blood of the Lord Jesus, God's Son, cleansing us from all unrighteousness. We throwed open a door for everybody: whosoever will. It's soon, I guess I'll be sailing across the sea for another world-wide mission ---around the world for my fifth time.

3 And it's been very strange in our homelands here, and the people... It certainly has alarmed my emotions to see, not speaking of any certain group, or so forth, but of the general public: of the coldness and the indifference that the church is becoming in, on the North American continent; in our country, and in Canada also.
A few years ago I came in to Canada here, and had a meeting. The tinsel was all on the meetings. And people gathered to places to where the newspapers had reports of people driving as many as three thousand miles by taxicab, just to be in the presence of the outpouring of the Spirit.
Tonight, after much advertisement, and trying to cooperate with everybody, and showing the same spirit that we did when we first come, yet it's hard to get a little group of people to fill a little small arena like this. Then you could wonder why it is that minister's hearts are alarmed.

4 In Africa, our first gathering was better than a hundred thousand. And in one meeting alone, thirty thousand raw heathens accepted Christ as Saviour.
Bombay, India, it was estimated at five hundred thousand at the meetings. There's no way to get them in one certain place. They wouldn't let us have it outside the city because that a lady had been there just before me, a lady minister, and she had...
Not any criticism to the lady, remember, because I have, my first time, knowingly in my heart, to ever criticize a servant of God. There's many times I might disagree with their behavior, or try to talk to them, or maybe some doctrine, like, that they might be preaching, that I might speak with them that I didn't understand. They might be right in their doctrine. The Lutheran, the Presbyterian, and so forth, I just don't understand why that they do not accept the full gospel. I do not talk about my brethren.
And then, along in the Full-Gospel ranks, there's many doctrines that I might not agree with. But I never try to disfellowship with any brother anywhere.
But, the lady had caused some trouble to cause two men to be killed---stabbed to death in a riot. And they made me hold the meetings inside the city, and I only got about two nights. And the tremendous crowd, till they were smothering each other to death, laying on top and piled in streets and everything, till I had to leave.

5 Brother Tommy Osborn told me that my ministry, if I come ... that in Tokyo, this coming summer, that he expected at least two to three million converts. The ministry the Lord has given me, seemed like it went over the head of the educated people. But, in the lands where they still ... that's not taught, and they believe that God is real...
We accept Him as a ... oh, a mental conception. They have to have a reality and when they see it, that settles it. Tens of thousands swarms to Christ in one altar call.
In the same message, the same effort that we would put forth, maybe for, here, maybe two hundred people, three hundred (whatever would be here tonight), where maybe five or six tonight may come to Christ. Where with that same effort across the seas would bring a hundred thousand to Christ, see. That's the difference. See, the revival has left our country. We just as might as well face it.

6 In a breakfast a few months ago, was Billy Graham, one of the world's noted evangelists, a wonderful character, a great man of God; I had the privilege of shaking his hand. Our paths have crossed many places. At Zurich, Switzerland, he ended on Saturday evening, I began in the same place on Sunday morning. To start ... I wasn't there, my plane never landed quick enough so I could get a cab and get to the grounds, but I turned the radio on and I could hear him.
And many times our paths has crossed, but never got to shake his hand till he was in Louisville, Kentucky, across from my home town. There I shook his hand. It's always a privilege for me to meet men of God.
I heard him that morning as he raked and combed those ministers. How he reproved them in the name of the Lord, by the Bible. And he said, "I go into a city and work hard, and try my best to bring people to Christ. And when they give them a decision card," said, "you ministers write them a letter, instead of going and giving them a good warm handshake." Said, "And I come back in a year from then. Where I had ten thousand converts, I don't have ten." What's the matter? He said, "It's because of you ministers."
I sat there, my heart swelling and going down. I felt sorry for the man, not yet over forty-something years old, turning gray. And I know it's hard, away from his family. I sympathize with him. A servant of Christ.
But I thought, "Brother Graham, if you only knew what you do. But, you're burning out. But, you're combing through waters that's already been combed. Across the country, from place to place, though you have a great revival, thousands come up and accept Christ, in another year, none of them hardly---just a meager little few."

7 Remember, the called out of God is the elected. He said the kingdom is like a man who went forth and cast a net into the sea, and when he brought it in he had all kinds in there. He had crawfish, mud turtles, snappers. He had serpents. He had lizards, frogs. He had scavenger fish, and he had real fish. Only thing the minister's doing is seining with the gospel net. Whatever it was, all of them's caught in the gospel net. But, the nature of him; let him lay there a little while. If he's a frog he'll jump right away. If he's a turtle, just isn't but a few minutes till he says, "Well, there ain't nothing in this anyhow." Right back to the mud hole he goes. A crawfish will say, "Well, I tell you, it seemed like it was all right, but I tell you, I just don't..." See, he's a crawfish to begin with. You can't make nothing else out of him.
Christ never died just to let people have sympathy. Christ... God doesn't run His office that loose. You wouldn't run your office that loose. Christ never come from heaven saying, "Well, I'll die and perhaps maybe people'll feel sorry for me and come." No, sir. Christ died to call the election: the body elected before the foundation of the world, and them alone.
Jesus said, "No man can come to me except my Father draws him. And all that comes to me I'll give him everlasting life and raise him up at the last day." There you are, see. Christ died to save those who God, by foreknowledge, knowed would be saved. And so when...

8 It's a pitiful sight! But why does this happen, friends? It's because that this condition has to come. There's an atomic bomb laying there to settle the difference. That's right. God can't pour out his judgments upon a just people, and His mercy has sought and pulled and...
Different types of evangelists, the kind with the resurrected Christ with the miracles, them with the intellectual. He's called from every angle that He can be called just. Because He's given every man a chance.
The radio, the television and everything a blast, the newspapers, evangelists on the corners, and it's swept. And continually we grow wickeder and wickeder by the hour.
"As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the coming of the Son of man." It's just the hour. There's nothing can stop it. All the preaching I could do, and all the resurrection that Christ could show, and everything, will never stop it; the Bible says. But here's what we're responsible for: giving a voice against the wrong. That's right.
I could never stop ladies from wearing little old vulgar clothes. It's the nature of them. They already seen it. The devil presented it. They was subject to it. I could never stop men from drinking. Certainly not. I could never make the church spiritual. All the preaching I would do, it would never make it spiritual. But there'll be one now and then that's a fish. God wants them in the kingdom. I'll give my voice. I don't know who it is, but I'll preach it. And as I preach it, he'll hear. For "All the Father has given me will come to me." That's right.
And that's why I'm here. I'm combing again. I hope as soon as I come back from overseas to comb Canada completely through again. I want, in the generation that I rise with, to stand there and say, "I haven't shunned to declare the whole counsel of God as I knew it." Then the blood of the people would not be upon me. And then if God has sent His message, and He's combed the cities and showed the wonders and signs and everything else, and then the people continue to go on in sin, you're past hope.

9 I don't say this about Canada. I've said many times, if I was a young man, and they would let me, I'd make my home in Canada. I love Canada. But I believe that our little nation below us here, even motherhood has stooped to a place till it's a-past redemption. I don't mean that all mothers down there is not mothers. I don't mean that. I don't mean there's not any good people. But the wicked has overrode it to a place till if Christ doesn't come soon, there'll be no flesh saved for the rapture.
The hour is at hand. You've escaped a lot of it. But the television and radio has blasted it right into your nation here, and I see your stores and things becoming polluted and the people is becoming the same way.
Oh, spiritual people, arise, awake! The hour's at hand.

10 I never come to preach prophecy. Let us pray.
Blessed Father, tonight now as we open the Word, speak to us. Let it be known, Lord, that Thou art Christ the Son of God. And no matter how wicked the people are, it's only to fulfill Your blessed Word. And may the righteous see the name of the Lord as a mighty tower, and they run into it and are safe. Oh, blessed Redeemer, help us tonight to understand as we go into the Word. Let the Holy Spirit take the things of God and deliver them to each heart as we have need of. For we ask it in Christ's name. Amen.

11 I wish to read tonight just for a quotation out of the Scripture. And, tomorrow night, if the Lord is willing, I've got a message that's come on my heart in the last few days on my road up here; that I'm trusting that tomorrow, in my room, that the Lord will let me to speak on it tomorrow night. I trust that He will.
Tonight, it seemed good to the Spirit, that I should speak a few words on Matthew the 12th chapter and the 42nd verse; just by way of introducing. And tonight, I shall do something in my services tonight, the Lord willing, by revelation. It come to me in Maine last week. And this is the first time I am to undergo to try to do these things the way that I was instructed, to my honest and sincere belief, by the Holy Spirit that was in my room, about three weeks ago, or hardly that long.

12 Now, the reading of the Scripture. Matthew 12:42:
And the queen of the south shall rise up in the day of 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.

13 And now, I want to speak on this great instance. In the setting of the Scripture, tonight, the Lord Jesus had been upbraiding the Pharisees, because that they would not repent. And they come to Him and said, "Master, we would seek a sign from Thee."
And I hope that my congregation tonight can clearly understand, that they had already received many signs, but they did not believe them. If they... Jesus had said, "If you had've known me, you would have known my day." For the Scripture plainly had spoken out of the kind of signs that would be following the Messiah.
Last evening we spoke on some of those: how that Philip recognized the sign of the Messiah, and went to Nathanael. And Nathanael, being a member of the church in that day, as soon as that great outstanding sign was done before him (if anyone can remember), it was because Jesus said, "Before Philip called you, I saw you."
And Nathanael said ... quickly recognized that to be the Messiah. And he said, "Thou art the Son of God. You are the King of Israel."
And Jesus said, "Because I told you that, you have believed me. You can see greater things than these."

14 Then we took Him to the 4th chapter and found out there that a woman of another nation, she came. Oh, if we only had the time to go into it to notice that the first one to recognize that sign was a Jew. The gospel went to the Jew first. And the Jews all represented the remnant of the 144,000 that's to be called in the last days; which is returning into Jerusalem now by the thousands to receive the Messiah at His coming for His bride.
And the second time this miracle was performed was on a Samaritan (a woman, a castaway, a type of the Gentile church---a castaway). And she said, after a little talk with Him... He asked her for a drink and so forth, then He said, "Go call your husband."
She said, "I have none." That's true with the Gentile church: the called-out, the mixed breed.
And He said, "Thou hast said right, because you've got five husbands."
And as quick as He told her that she had five husbands, she quickly... Those big bright eyes sparkled, and looked at Him, and said, "Sir, I perceive that Thou art a prophet. For we know..." There you are. "We, the Samaritans, know that when the Messiah cometh, He'll do these things." But she couldn't understand who He was.
He said, "I am He that speaks with you."
Now, if that sign was done before the Jew, and before the Samaritan, there's only one class left: that's the Gentile. And the resurrected Christ is obligated to perform the same signs before the Gentiles. Won't you believe Him?

15 Now, these Pharisees in our text tonight said, "We seek a sign." And I want you to notice the sign He said. It's in a weak and an adulterous... See the Samaritan woman? A weak and an adulterous generation that seeks after a sign. "And there shall be no sign given them, but as Jonas..."
(Am I too loud for you? Would you cut that...? I believe just a little bit too much volume perhaps. Is that better? If it is, raise up your hands if that's better. Was it better the other way? Raise up your hands. All right, raise it up just a little. Not loud enough? All right. Now, step it up a little. How's that? Fine. Good.)
Jesus said that a weak and adulterous generation seeketh after signs. And the sign that would be given them would be as Jonas the prophet laid in the belly of the whale for three days and nights and come out. That would be the sign given. The sign of the resurrection would be the sign.

16 And it's today, the day that we live in, that's there's so much said about signs. And there's so much petty jealousy about signs. As you'll notice, it doesn't only lay in the church, but it lays in the realms of the scientific world, or the professional world.
For instance, the medical doctor. The medical doctors say, "You do not need an operation. Don't go over there, for he's nothing but a butcher." And the surgeon will turn around and say, "Don't take those sugar pills. You need an operation."
The osteopathic will say about the chiropractor, "He'll break your neck." And the chiropractor will say to the osteopath, "What good does it do to rub the outside; you have to get the inside."
The preacher will say, "The Methodist has nothing to do with it, we Baptists has got it." The Pentecostal say, "The Apostolic don't even know the Bible," and vice-versa. "Only our evangelists has the Word. They're the gifted men."
And the doctors will say, "The preacher ought not to practice divine healing." And the preacher will say, "The doctor's not even in the picture."
It all goes to show one thing: It's the wrong motive. And we know that each of those professions does good. For, we hear of people that are helped. And if the heart of the people were right, we would lock arms and hearts with each other, and pool our efforts together to try to help our fellowman to make life's journey a little more pleasant to him.

17 But it's money. If the operation's performed, the doctor may be out of giving his pills. If the vice-verse, and to each one... Each denomination thinks if they say something good about the evangelist of the other denominations, it will hurt them.
Oh, it's the motive! We ought to have the right type of motive, to try to be ... to help our fellowman. Jesus said, "If you do not love your brother who you have seen, how can you love God who you have not seen?"
And I believe if we would put our efforts together, and pray and help and try with everything that we can, it would make life more pleasant for all of us. And God would bless us more.
Now... But we find out that those things exist.

18 And Jesus was upbraiding those people and trying to condemn them, which He did condemn them. And many places where His outstanding miracles were performed, He said, "Woe unto you, Capernaum, which is exalted into heaven, shall be brought down to hell." And there's not even a sign of it today.
And every city that He predicted that would be cursed---every one of them---is in ruin today. And the ones that He blessed is still standing today. His words are infallible. They're the words of God.
Then He turns and says, "Why didn't they believe the sign that was given them?" Now, God through all ages has always had signs and gifts to men. In the days of Moses, in the days of Noah, in every generation, He's had gifted men that's done signs and wonders among the people.
Now, if you'll notice in the days of Moses, how that they refused to hear Moses; because they said, "Well, who made you a judge over us?" And for their penalty of unbelief, they was granted forty years more of punishment---because they would not hear Moses. And after they'd already seen signs and wonders that had been done among them, every one of them but Joshua and Caleb was refused to see the promised land, and all died in the wilderness.
It's a terrible thing to think of unbelief. Your eternal destination rests upon your faith. And your actions speak so loud that your words can't be heard. Your attitude towards the things of God...

19 Notice, He gave a very striking statement here. He said, "The queen of the south (which was of Sheba), shall rise up in the generation ... in the judgment with this generation and shall condemn it. For she came from the utmost parts of the world to hear the wisdom of Solomon."
Now, in that day God had chosen a man by election: Solomon. And him being king, and with the gifts, the people accepted it, because they almost were compelled to do it. He was the king.
In Moses' time, they did not want to accept it. In Noah's time, Elijah's time, they did not want to accept it. And when God sends a gift... Now, I want you to get it. When God sends a gift, He will vindicate that gift. And if the people will receive it... They've got a right to test first and look it over, like Nathanael did, and the woman at the well, and different places. But when it's proven to be from God, then if the people will reject it, there's nothing left but chaos.
And if the people will receive it, it will be a golden jubilee for that people---if they will receive it. But it all lays to the people; God does His part, [blank spot]

20 then if He sends the thing, it's up to the people to receive it or reject it. And each one, as an individual---not because of your church standing, but as an individual. It's doesn't lay within whether your church accepts it; it's whether you accept it.
Salvation is a personal work. It's a personal faith---not a universal church faith, but a personal faith in the Lord Jesus. No matter if father don't believe it, and mother don't believe it, it's what you believe.
And notice, when they did receive it, then great signs and wonders and jubilee broke out. But when they rejected it, then darkness and gross darkness come to the people.
And, oh, people of this last days, can't you see why gross darkness is falling on this country? The gospel of Christ has been rejected. You don't want to believe that, but it's a noted fact. It's the truth. It's too bad, but it's the truth.
And I think that if that be the case, that each one of us should take inventory of our own experience and our own standing with God and see how we stand in His sight-

21 --not by any tradition, not by any mental workup, but by that close, hidden communion. Not because of our intellectual conception, of His creeds, or of the creed of the church, or even of the knowledge that we have with the Word. For, some people knows the Word real well, but don't know the Author.
Moses knowed the Word real well ... but that blessed hiding place. Was it not ridiculous to see Moses standing in the king's court with all the celebrity, with the finest of language; trained in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and smart; but God had to take him out behind the mountain for forty years. God's schooling is always right. God schools His man.
And remember, as trained as an Egyptian, a sheepherder was an abomination. And isn't it strange to see how foolish it would seem in the hearts of them with wisdom; with the men with all the great intelligence, with all the great armies of Egypt laying at his command that he could do whatever he wished to; and would step away from his education, step away from his worldly wisdom, step away from his great associates, and go out behind the desert to become into his abomination to the people that he once associated with?

22 May I say this with reverence. If tonight, that when God calls men, many times he has to step out of the political ranks, out of the social ranks, and walk right into a place, if it would be necessary, if his associates had to say, "He's gone crazy," or "become a holy roller."
But it's that secret place. It's that spot. Oh, don't miss it, my loyal friends. Every one of you that's received Christ, of all your teachings, your fine pastors and your great affiliations with your churches (which is all right; don't misunderstand me), but you're trying to place that before this.
But that little time that God gets you away from all your associates; gets you way back in the corner. Brings you into a place, in a secret place, where that the wisdom of the world becomes so insufficient. To where all the education that you ever had doesn't mean nothing. Into that divine presence, till the lust of the eyes gets so dim you can't see it anymore. Until the love of money is completely vanished away from you. And then you stand there alone with Jehovah God. That's the things that count. That's the things that make you forget all you ever knew.

23 That's where Moses had to get. And what a beautiful picture: God revealing Himself there in a burning bush. And Moses knowed more about God in five minutes in the presence of that burning bush than he'd learned forty years in Egypt. That's the place: to be alone with God.
The next day on his road to deliver Egypt ... or, Israel out of Egypt, with his wife sitting on a mule with a little child under each arm, and the long whiskers blowing, and a stick in his hand, going down the road screaming at the top of his voice.
Someone said, "Moses, where're you going?"
"I'm going down to Egypt to take over."
A one-man invasion. Going against the greater in number than all the world had. The chariots and horsemen and spearmen, and bowmen of Egypt. And one little old, wrinkled-up eighty-year-old man, with a stick in his hand, and the white whiskers blowing; going down to Egypt to take over. And the thing of it was: he did it, because he had been alone with God.
There's where the church needs tonight, is not some fantastic, not some new denomination, but to be alone with God, where all selfishness, all malice, all fear, all unbelief, just fades away and God becomes preeminent. There it is. That's what makes a person different. That's what made Moses different. That's what makes you different.
When he went down that time with a vision---not with his education... He could have called more people together with his education than he could with his gifts, but Israel was ready then to receive, and they did.
Now... And what did they do? They were led out into the wilderness and led across Jordan to the promised land. What a marvelous thing.

24 Now, Jesus was exhorting them, and saying, "The Queen of Sheba, the Queen of the South, come from the utmost parts of the known world to hear the wisdom of Solomon." God had given a gift, and that gift was manifested. And when God ever gives a gift, He manifests it.
And perhaps, maybe, it become known throughout the world in them days, of Solomon's gift. The nations begin to learn of it. Great things begin to take place. And all the people with one heart and one accord begin to ... "Yes, Lord, we thank You, because we see this gift made real. And surely then, that Jehovah is still for us, if He'll send us a gift like that."
So, after Israel was convinced, they never separated with a cult, but with one accord they give witness to the gift. And then the outside world begin to hear of it. And everyone who passed by.
Somebody testified and said, "Oh, Jehovah is with us, for He has given us a great gift in our day. And we all rally around it. And we're more prosperous than we ever were." And that was the golden age of the Jew. "Oh, how He has blessed us physically, spiritually, financially." He'll always do it if you rally around Him. He's God.

25 Notice, and after a while, way down in Sheba, the furthest place of the known world, a little queen heard this message. Perhaps everyone that passed through the land heard of it, would come by and say, "You know what? There is a great gift in operation up in Israel. Oh, it is a powerful gift. You should see it."
And as she kept hearing one after one testifying without one flaw in it... "Faith cometh by hearing, hearing of the Word of God. Faith cometh by hearing."
Now, if one says, "Oh, it's a good thing," another says, "There's nothing to it," then people's all confused. But with one accord, they all give witness.
Everybody passing by told her, "Oh, there's a great gift up there. You should see it. It's marvelous. It can discern. Oh, their God must be the great one only God."
Isn't it too bad that we Americans can't give witness to the one true God? But instead of that, we want to make Him Methodist or He isn't God. We want to make Him Pentecost or He isn't God. We want to make Him Apostolic or He isn't God.
He's God regardless of our creed! He's God because He be found God. But we say, "We won't go to that arena. Why, we don't believe in no such stuff as that."
I think it's just as good as what Philip told Nathanael when Nathanael said, "How could there be anything good come from a place like that?"
He said, "Come and see."
That's the best way to be convinced. Read the Scriptures. Find out. Come see for yourself. The Bible said, "Prove all things and hold fast to that what's good." Prove it by the Bible.

26 Now this little woman, eight hundred years before Nathanael did this, she said, "I'll go see for myself." There's the way. That's the idea. "I keep hearing. I keep hearing the people passing through my kingdom and telling these things. I must go see for myself."
"Blessed are ye. Ye are the salt of the earth," said Jesus. What does the salt do? Salt makes thirst. And when you're salty for Christ, God creates a thirst to the outside world. "But if the salt has lost its savor, it's henceforth good for nothing but to be trod under the foot of men."
"Well, there's nothing ... then I hear there's arguments and fusses among them, there surely can't be nothing about it." Just to be trod under the foot of men. But with one unity, we all give one voice to the resurrection, and to Christ.
"If I be lifted up, I'll draw all men unto me."

27 Notice, now, as we see the Queen: enthusiasm begin to rise. What was it? God was dealing with her. Now, she was a pagan in Sheba. She was a Pagan, an idol worshipper. But she had heard of a living God that could produce something now. Not a declaration of creeds, but a living God that had given a gift to prove that He was a living God. So it created a thirst.
And I want you to notice what that little woman had to do to get to him. Now, if you'll take your maps, and map out... Now, she didn't come across the desert in a air-conditioned Cadillac. She had to come on camels.
You know, to get to Christ is no flowery bed of ease. It isn't just going up and sign your name to a book and say, "Well, I'm a member of the church now." You don't come that way. It costs something: that is a surrendered heart to the will of God.
Sometimes it cost you your friends. It will, if they're worldly friends. But "He that will not forsake even his own and follow after me is not worthy to be called mine." It costs something.

28 So, she made ready. And with the journey of camels it taken her at least three months to come from Sheba, across that burning desert, to find out whether that gift was right or not. No wonder Jesus said she'll raise up at the day of judgment and condemn this generation. What will it do to Saskatoon in the day of judgment?
He said, "She come from the utmost parts of the world, three months on camels, to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and a greater than Solomon is here." And they were condemning Him.
Listen. Notice, now, not only that, but she had to prepare for other things. Remember the sons of Ishmael, the Arabs, were on the desert and they were robbers. And not only did she prepare to come and see for herself, but she also prepared to support it if it was right. What attitude did you come in? She brought in laden camels, with gold and silver and frankincense and myrrh: royal spices which was never compared with on the earth, what she had. She was first coming to be convinced, and if she was convinced, then she was going to support it with everything she had.
We're not willing, hardly, to come the second night. And where it was to support something, my, that's out of the picture. "Oh, I couldn't do that." Then what will be in our generation?

29 Now, notice, God's obligated to send His sign. That's what they was talking about. God's obligated to send His sign and vindicate it. And then, you're obligated to believe it. Blessed be the Lord God! You're solemnly obligated to believe it. It tells the nature of you, whether it is or not.
I do not mean to be rude, but, brother, the time has come where we can't sit any more; we've got to preach. And "The Word is sharper than a two-edged sword, that cuts even to the marrow of the bone and a discerner of the thoughts of the heart." The Word.

30 She come prepared. And now look what hard a trial... The devil was putting all kind of scares in front of her. The sons of Ishmael, the Arabs, they'll rob you. They were robbers. And the devil'll say, "You're going to get off in some fanaticism. Don't you do it. You'll get in some error. It'll rob you of your experience if you try." That's just the very words of the devil today.
But the woman was determined. She knowed if it was truly the sign of God and God's gift, God was obligated to show it to her, for she hungered to see it. She went anyhow. No matter what anybody else said, what the eunuchs said, or what her advisors said, she had her own personal feelings that she wanted to find out.
I wonder what your advisors would do. I wonder what the people would say at your church if they knew you were sitting here tonight. It might be criticized. Your name might be took from the book. But if you're determined to find out whether it's the truth or not, God bless you.
God's obligated to show you that Christ is raised from the dead and is alive tonight. And He isn't accepted by mental conception; He's accepted by new birth, born again. And you become a part of God. "I give unto them eternal life." And that word eternal life comes for the word "Zoe," which means God's own life. And you can no more perish than God could perish, because He has accepted you and adopted you into His family, and you're a part of Him.
Oh, there you are. That makes the difference. How do you know that you are. "Then these signs shall follow them that believe." Then you can believe the supernatural. Then you can open your eyes of understanding. You can see the gospel unfolding around you then. First you must accept it, then you are born again. Then you become a new creature.

31 So, she come across the desert. And as she got closer, her anticipation begin to rise. The devil said, "Now, what if it isn't so?"
"Well," she said, "I've at least made an effort. If I don't see one thing, then I'll make this to my gods that I made an effort." But if she come, and the gift is true, and really of God, God's obligated to prove it.
So, she entered the courts of Solomon. And as she did she went up and... Now, look, she never come just for one night. She come to stay the whole meeting through. She was going to see it through. She was going to stay until she was convinced. She brought her maids and her eunuchs and everything right with her, and her little band.
And she unloaded right out in the palace courts, there. She unloaded the camels and things. And she said, "Now, I'll go and sit in the meetings and I'll watch, and I'll see for myself if it is of God. Then if it is, I'm going to accept it."

32 And she watched Solomon as the people were brought before him. And his great spirit of discernment proved a hundred percent every time.
Hallelujah! I know you think I'm beside myself. Maybe I am. But if it is, I have lost my earthly possessions and my earthly treasures and laid them up in heaven in Christ.
And she said, "I'll watch it." And as she seemed to come before that great mighty gift (not the man, he was just a man), but she watched that gift of God and she saw it, time after time, as it worked perfectly. And when she got ready to go, she went up to Solomon and she said, "All that I have heard has been right. And more than I ever heard is right." There you are. "It's all the truth. Now, I'm going to support it."
And she poured in the cinnamons and the spices and the rich treasures, just as you would when you say, "If it's the truth, I want it." Then pour in every treasure that you've got. All your heart, all your soul, all your love, all your devotion, all your self, all your songs; everything that you have, give it to Christ, if He's truly the Son of God and has raised from the dead. Support it with everything you are. Support it until you become so salty. Until the people in your community will say, "If there ever was a change, it's in that person there." There you are.
"If I'm ever a Christian I want to be like that man or woman, for they have love, joy, peace, longsuffering, goodness, gentleness, patience, meekness, and so forth. The nine fruits of the Spirit dwells within them. They're not easily provoked. You can't make them mad at you. They will not become angry. They're so loving that in their very presence you feel Christ." There you are. There you are.
That's what the church needs. Not because you can argue your religious standpoint. That doesn't mean it. It's your life that proves what you are.
That's what proved what God was when He come down. It was His grace that proved that He's the God of grace that visited the children of Israel.

33 But it was His divine holiness that required Moses to take off his shoes. Because the occupants of the house that he come from proved that it was a holy place.
God is holy. And it showed that His divine love and grace brought Him to His people. And it showed His holiness that Moses had to cover his face and take his shoes off to stand in His presence. Certainly it does.
Your life proves what you are by the fruits you bear. Jesus said, "By their fruit you shall know them." Not because they can argue religious standpoint. Not because they belong to the best church, they're in the best standing in the church, they're the best in the community; but what they are by life, and that alone.
Then a character like that when that woman had received and said, "I believe everything that I have seen. It is true. And God is real." And she accepted it. Then Jesus said about her, hundreds of years later, He said, "She'll raise up in the day of judgment and will condemn this generation. For she came in faith and looked with an honest heart and believed. And when she was convinced, she accepted it, being a pagan."

34 "And here you self-righteous church-going hypocrite," said, "You stand here and call me Beelzebub," and 'Master we'd seek a sign from you.'"
Said, "The sign will be given to you as Jonas raised from the whale's belly, so will the Son of man lay in the heart of the earth."
And now I say this, friends. When He was here on earth, He was the greatest sign that was ever brought to the earth.
I'm closing with this, listen. And they laughed at Him when He discerned their thoughts, and so forth, and said He was a spiritualist, a fortuneteller, Beelzebub, the chief of the devils.
And Jesus said, "You speak that against the son of man, it'll be forgiven you. But, when a greater yet comes, when the Holy Spirit is come, and you speak a word against that, it'll never be forgiven you in this world or the world to come."
So I wonder what this generation will answer at the day of judgment when the Queen of Sheba stands there. When the apostles stand there, when all the redeemed stand there, and this adulterous and sin-loving, church-going, pleasure-seeking generation, stands in the presence of God and He witnesses His resurrection here before the judgment, and you have to stand, what will you say then? I wonder. While you're thinking, let us pray.

35 Now, Heavenly Father, this is Thy eternal Word. And I realize that I am no more a boy, but it's got to... What few years or days, or whatever is determined in Your mind for me, I wish to surrender everything to Thee. And tonight, most holy God, as I stand in Thy presence, and plead for my own self and this people, wilt Thou cover us with Thy blood and take away our iniquity and our unbelief?
And grant unto us, tonight, favor, and revelation to believe with all of our heart. And let us who has professed so long, and belong to the church, and trying to say, "Well, we belong to such a church" or, "We have shouted" or, "We've been baptized a certain way" or "We've been sprinkled" "We belong to the greatest church"; "We have spoken with tongues"; or "We've danced in the Spirit," and still with those kind of a spirit that doesn't bear the fruit and love of Christ.
Oh, God, forgive us of our iniquity. And be our Judge tonight, Lord. And judge us as our faith reaches Thee and pleads for mercy and confessing our sins. And knowing that we could not stand in Thy presence, but only by the grace of God, through Jesus Christ.
Grant then, Father, tonight, that You'll give Your presence to us, and Thy grace to us, and forgive us of our sins in Thy presence. And help us and give us understanding. And operate, Lord, through the humble, little way that Your servant has been doing, according to your grace to the people.
And as the revelation struck me a few weeks ago, how to pray for the people, while on the North America continent, those who could not by faith reach out as they do in other lands. I pray that You'll help me tonight to understand, and the people to understand. And get glory, and heal the sick and save the lost. For we ask it in Christ's name, and for His glory. Amen.

36 The Lord bless you, my dear people. Now, I'm going to ask you a solemn thing. I am undertaking something here from this platform tonight that I have never did before. It is a revelation that come recently. And now, as it unfolds, I gave it a little trial last night to see if I could snatch from the discernment, as I brought the people to the platform one by one. How many was here last night that seen and believe?
Across the nation, if I should die this night, my testimony of Christ is truth. The first thing the Christian world knows it. The Bible teaches it. The Bible promises it. So, the Christian world knows it. And right here, humbly standing, that picture baffled the whole scientific world. They know it.
There is the picture of the same Angel of God that led the children of Israel: the pillar of fire. And His presence is here. Not me, but Him. It wasn't Moses, but it was Christ. Now it's up to you. I've laid every bit of it right on the Scripture. Now, I'm asking God, tonight...

37 It's always been a strange thing. Manager after manager's even quit me, because of... They say, "Brother Branham, the people go away and they're not prayed for.
I say, "Well, brother. In the meetings overseas..."
"But, oh, Brother Branham, you're not overseas."
I say, "Pass them through and I'll pray for them."
"Do you do that?"
They say, "Nothing was said to me," see, no anointing. "I wasn't prayed for."
And, oh, my office was crowded. It made me feel just like going overseas and staying till Jesus comes.
But yet the other day the Lord, by His grace, gave me a revelation. I tried to take two or three here on the platform, pray for them. I said, "All right. Now the rest of them I'll just pray for them. Let them come by and I'll pray for them." That's what He told me to do. But I've never been able to do it.
When I have discernment and catch one, two, then it's on me, just might as well stay with it. But He promised me... How many knows that's true? You've seen me try it hour after hour and failed, because when the anointing strikes it's there. But the other day in Maine, with Leo and Gene, He promised me that I could do it. And that's why tonight I'm standing solemnly on what He promised.
Last night, did you notice, after the discernment was over, something said to me, "Now you're weary. You must leave until they come to take me out." Then something in my heart said, "Stand there. Dismiss that church." In a few moments it was over, and I was dismissing the church. Went away feeling fine instead of weak. So, the Lord has promised me and I know He'll do it.

38 Now, I want to know how many in the meeting here tonight does not have a prayer card and wants to be prayed for, raise up your hands. I want those who does not have prayer cards. All right.
Now, I want to ask you something. Jesus Christ, the Bible said, is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Is that right? Saint John ... or, that was Hebrews 13:8. In Saint John 14:7, He said, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he also."
Then a woman pressed through the crowd once and touched His garment and went off and sat down. The multitude was thronging. He said, "Who touched me?"
And even Peter rebuked Him. Said, "But, Lord, the whole multitude's touching you."
He said, "But I got weak. Virtue went from Me."
Strength went from the Son of God by one woman touching. Then people wonder why you don't stand there hour after hour. Why, you couldn't do it. Certainly not.

39 Now, don't be shut up, but look at the Scripture. Look at the Angel was on the pool. The first one stepping in with faith, all the virtue the Angel left, maybe, for two months before it come back again. Another season, it come again. Then we wonder what it is. It's God grace that I ever stood ten minutes, or five minutes, as a sinner saved by grace. But, it's God's goodness before destruction strikes the nation. It's God's goodness to the people.
Now, I ask Him tonight, before we have anybody on the platform, to send His great holy Angel, which is the one who gives discernment, out into this audience anywhere. And to bring up somebody who touches His garment.
And if He has been here on earth and they touched His garment, and He recognized who it was and turned around and said, "Somebody touched Me," now He didn't know who was it ... or, who did it. He said, "Somebody touched Me."
Peter said, "All of them is touching You, Lord."
He said, "But I perceive that I've got weak."
And He looked around. He had discernment. How many believes that? Sure. He had discernment. And He looked around until someway, a secret of His own, the Father showed Him who the woman was.
When His eyes fastened right on that one little woman, she couldn't hide herself any longer. He knew who she was, what she done, what had taken place.
He said, "Thy faith has saved thee."
And after she'd even denied it, she was scared. Then she come and fell down and said, "Yes, Lord."
He said, "Daughter, be of a good courage. Thy faith has saved thee."
Saved thee---the same word "sozo." Every time, physically or spiritual: same atonement, same man, same day. "By his stripes we were healed. He was wounded for our transgressions. With His stripes we were healed." Same thing.

40 Now, the Bible said that "He's a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities right now." How many believes that's the truth? Right now He's a High Priest. He's sitting at the right hand of the Majesty on the throne of God, making intercessions on our confessions. Not on our mental work up, but our real confession.
Now, if He will manifest His presence in this audience tonight... And, there's not one person in this audience that I know, but Brother Sothmann, here, and Sister Sothmann, and their family. Brother Norman, and Sister Norman. And that little group of people about three rows back---my daughter-in-law, my son. That's all that I know. And you know... How many in here that knows that I don't know you, or nothing about you? raise your hand. I don't care who you are, raise your hand. I don't know nothing about you. Certainly I do not.
Now if Christ is risen from the dead, He's more than able, and will by His blessed presence...

The Queen of Sheba

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1 Let's remain standing just a moment now for prayer.
Lord, we want to thank You for Your goodness and for sparing our lives and for the privilege that we have of coming to Thee on this cold winter night, knowing that we are just the dust of the earth but inside us is a spirit that lives forever.
And we pray, Lord, that tonight that You will forgive us of our shortcomings and let us prepare our hearts to meet Thee in that day. These little brittle threads that we're walking on called, "the threads of life," we don't know just what time they may break and plunge us into an eternity. But as David of old said, "I will fear no evil for Thou art with me," if we go through the valley of the shadow of death, You're sure to meet us.
Keep us in perfect peace, Lord, as our hearts are stayed on You. Heal the sick and the afflicted. Get glory out of the service and bless these good people who has gathered here tonight on this cold night, defying the weather just to come to hear the Word of God. I know You'll send them away with a good full meal of Thy goodness, for we ask it in Jesus' name, Thy son. Amen. Be seated.

2 So very happy to be in tonight. And Billy come back just a few moments ago and said, "Daddy, there won't be a hundred people there on a night like this." Now we Southerners kind of have a little, you know, kind of thin blood, maybe. And this is cold weather to us.

3 Coming on the elevator a while ago the colored girl said, she said was, "Why, Reverend," she said, "this is just fine weather." Now I like it, I really do. I think that this is very good weather when it's dry and cold. Any weather is all right as long as the Lord is there.
I wish to hurry right in now and read the Word to you and then immediately speak and we'll pray for the sick. And tonight we expect God to do the exceedingly abundantly for us tonight. You know, some of the greatest meetings I've ever been in has been where just a little group was gathered together. See, you've got all kind of confined down to just a small group, sometimes like a house prayer meeting.

4 I was just telling Brother Sothmann today. I said, I was coming up to Houston, his home town, if the Lord willing, between the meetings, to go fishing with him. And I said, "I'd like to visit the little church out there."
And he said, "Well, it's just a little small group."
I said, "Bring them over to your house and let's get into the room and shut the doors and stay there all night and the next day, just talking about the Lord."
That's the way I like it just where we can get together now. Christ comes in big crowds or little crowds or He'll walk alone with you. Just anywhere you want to meet Him and your heart's right, He'll meet with you.

5 I just want to take a little short subject tonight, the Lord willing, and I don't know... You know evangelists sometimes when they're busy through the day with interviews and people coming, going, sometimes you don't even get a chance to look at the Bible. And I just picked up a little piece of paper a while ago that I had wrote something on, that I had talked on before, somewhere, I don't know. But I thought I would use it for a text tonight. Maybe it hasn't been in Chicago.
And now the tape boys are here, my boys, Brother Leo Mercier and Gene. And now they have the tapes here for sale. And as I was saying the other night, we don't sell them on Sunday. And through the week is when you have to buy them. And I'm sure, these boys... I've knowed them for years. They were some of my, kind of converts when they ... these two young men, one being formerly out of a Catholic home and the other... I don't know just where Brother Gene come from, what his people were, perhaps Methodists or something. And they come down to the meeting just to get a general conception of it. And the Lord spoke to them.

6 They followed on down to my home just as a little FBI outfit of their own to find out if those visions happen anywhere but in the meeting. And it just happened to be that the Lord just simply did some great things right there when they were present to see it, and I have called them my students. Fine boys, real, real Christian brothers. And I've learned to love those boys, and they're honest and square.
And they wanted to go along, do something in the meeting, and I let them go and take the tapes, because we had no one who really took them, any official one, and so they went to take the tapes and wanted to know if they could... The people begin to want the tapes. I said, "Boys, as long as they're not too high for the people."

7 And I ordered a tape here sometime ago from an evangelist and I can buy three of our own tapes, the same tapes, for what I had to pay for that one. So I know they're pretty close to just at cost. And that's the way we want to do it.
The books that I get from Mr. Lindsay who's, he was here last night, he knows just exactly what... They're not mine, they're his. We buy those books and he gives us a little cut off of them, then we have to pay the freight on them coming. Then we have to get someone to go sell them. In there you lose many of them. And just on a close margin and the books; even if I printed them, I don't think they would ever pay. So, the campaign holds them up.

8 The picture, it doesn't belong to me. That belongs to Douglas Studios. We have to buy them and sell them for what we pay for them. So, therefore, you see, it's not nothing at all that we have anything to make any commercial off of. We just do it... And they wouldn't be here, none of them unless it was something that you asked for, and we can let you have them. So, they're at the stands somewhere and you can tell your friends and those who want to receive them.
Now to the Word. In the Book of Saint Matthew, the Gospel, the 12th chapter and the 42nd verse. I wish to read just a little portion by the way of some ... to get some context. 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.

9 I like to think on this that when I have just read a portion of the eternal Word of the eternal God and how every little word in the Bible, you can lay hold on it because it's the truth. And men through all ages as they read it, they get something new. There's something about the Word.
I was just talking to Mr. Lindsay today in my hotel room. And I've noticed the visions and he spoke to me. And he said, "Brother Branham, sitting on the platform last night I was watching how the Spirit is beginning to even greater than it used to be."
And I said, "But what startles me, that it just simply seems like it may be me, that the people just can't grasp it."

10 He said, "They probably won't. As you spoke from the platform... It may be you'll have to seal your testimony with your blood someday, and then these things will wake up and they say, 'Well, we never knew that.'"
And that may be the outcome. How that I know myself that truly as a Christian believer, it comes from God. And I have never in one time ever seen it fail.
And to see even this picture... As a little boy, when I was only somewhere under three years old, I'm thinking about eighteen months. You'd think, "Brother Branham, you didn't see or remember that far."

11 I do. And I remember when it spoke to me as a little boy and down through life how I described it, years before they ever took the picture of it. And now they've got three official pictures of it. One from Germany and two from the United States, of the picture of the Angel of the Lord which scientists of Germany and scientists of the United States has put their seal upon it that it's a supernatural Being, described just exactly, that pillar of fire.
To my opinion, and if I'm wrong God forgive me, and as your brother, I think it's the same pillar of fire that led the children of Israel. I'm not saying that because it had its picture taken with me; because it's not to me, it's to the church, the entire church.

12 Now, if we notice, we know that it was the Angel of the Covenant that led the children of Israel, which was the Logos, or Christ, the Spirit of Christ. And when He was here on earth He said, "I came from God, and I go to God."
And then after His death, burial, and resurrection, Paul, on his road down to Damascus, was stricken down by a light, same pillar of fire. None of the rest of them saw it. Paul saw it. It was so real to him till it put out his eyes for a season.
Peter, it came in through a light, come through the bars into the prison and let him out of the prison.
Now we see that Scripturally, it looks like it's the same Pillar of Fire. And watch today, it does the same kind of works that it did when it was in our blessed Saviour, the Lord Jesus.

13 And how that goes over the head of people, I just can't understand it. But you know, it's certain things that it has to go and then after it's all over, the people will say, "Well, I didn't really see it that way." It has to be afterwards, just like George J. Lacy said, the FBI head of the fingerprinting and documents of photographs that said ... examined the picture.
Now, in that... Here sometime ago a vision came and told me about going to Africa. And I thought that it meant go to Africa first, then to India. And the Lord spoke to me and told me to go to Africa first, and then to India. Well, I thought that compared with the vision.

14 And then I forgot about it and went to India first, and then He condemned me at Portuguese, as you know the story. And said, "I thought I said to you 'Go to Africa first.'" And then I was condemned. And I thought all the time... And now it just comes up, the revelation begins to push me for Africa, and I read in the vision and the vision really said, "Go to India first and back to Africa." It's just exactly the way it's going to happen.
Now, see, the Lord spoke to me knowing that I would fail, but the vision can't fail. It's what God has already said and it can not fail. The vision: I've got it wrote in the flyleaf of my Bible; I will bring it down maybe and let you see it. How that it really reads that I will go to India first and then back to Africa, but He told me to go to Africa first and then to India, knowing that I would fail; but the vision can never fail. God has spoke it. It's got to be that way.

15 Oh, what a day that we live in! What a hour that we're now confronted with, the end time. The thing of it is that people look today just like in our text tonight, "Where did this come from? How's this wisdom, the carpenter's son?" They don't realize that it isn't the person; it's the Christ, the God.
Jesus said, "If I do not the works of my Father, then believe me not. But if I do the works of my Father, if you can't believe me, believe the works," see. And then it's written, "Although He'd done so many things, yet they could not believe because Isaiah said, 'Eyes and can't see, and ears and can't hear.'" Until He was dead, buried and rose again before they really ... the world realized that that was the Son of God.

16 Now, God through all ages has had a way of manifesting Himself to each and every generation through the ages. At the day of the judgment there will not be one excuse for anybody at any time. The infinite God has manifested Himself to every generation in some outstanding peculiar way. And God in sundry times, in divers manners spake to the fathers by the prophets in this last days through His Son, Christ Jesus. He's always made a way and it's always been the supernatural that has attracted the attention of the foreordained believer and blinded the eyes of those who are ordained to damnation. That's exactly right. You cannot believe unless God calls you to believe. That's exactly right.

17 The Scripture cannot fail. Jesus never come to earth just to say, "Well, I'll die and see who'll have mercy on me, and maybe they'll get saved." That wasn't the idea. He come to die who the Father by foreknowledge knew who would be saved, and He come to save that remnant that God before the foundation of the world knew that would be saved. That's exactly right. Said, "No man can come to me except my Father draws him first." That's right. Not him that willeth or him that runneth, but God that showeth mercy. That's correct.
Now, back in the ages, we want to base this little message around this: that back in the ages gone by, that God when He sent something to the earth to declare Himself to the people, if the people in general accepted it, they had a great time of jubilee. If they turned it down, they was rejected.

18 Jesus here has been speaking to the people and doing miracles. He was able to discern the thoughts of the people. And the well-trained scholars of that day of the church said He was Beelzebub. Now, when you go home, read this chapter and find out those scholars did not say out loud "He is Beelzebub," but they thought it in their hearts that He was Beelzebub. And Jesus could discern their thoughts. The Bible said so. They was just thinking it.
You don't have to say it out loud. God knows your thoughts. They were thinking in their heart that that man is a spiritualist. He is a soothsayer or some great chief demon, Beelzebub. And Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, then He began to tell them, "Can Satan cast out Satan? If he can, then his kingdom is divided against himself."

19 Then He made this altogether great statement, "If you call me Beelzebub, I will forgive you. But when the Holy Ghost is come, and you blaspheme that, there is never forgiveness, not in this world or in the world to come; you will never be forgiven for it."
Now, in the Gospel of Saint Mark as he quoted it, he said, "Because they called Him an unclean spirit." The works that He was doing---discerning their thoughts, and showing signs from God ---they called it a devil, an unclean spirit. The work of God was considered an unclean spirit. And Jesus said, "It's blasphemy which can never be forgiven."

20 What about America then? What about today that we're living in? What about the unpardonable sin that's been committed thousands of times then? Times thousands of times. When the church and the great teachers and so forth say, "Don't attend that meeting; why, it's the devil." They separate themselves eternally from the presence of God. No matter how great they are, how much they've preached and what all they've done, God's Word cannot fail. No matter who you are. There's no respect of persons. Teacher, scholar...
Jesus said those Pharisees who were so religious, that they had to come through a certain lineage and a certain birth, had to be trained, and holy, and just, and honest, and upright. He said, "Ye are of your father, the devil." That's right. The devil is religious and can put on very much pious and holiness actions. But God looks on the heart. Jesus said in a certain place, "How can you speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart speaketh the mouth." Then if your heart thinks one thing and your mouth speaks another, He said, "You are hypocrites."

21 So that's what's in the world today, greater than it was in that day. But now we see Him as they are saying to Him, "This man is Beelzebub, because He's a fortune teller. He's a soothsayer or some evil spirit." And Jesus referred back to them to the previous days of God's action. He talked of Jonah. Then He comes down to Solomon's day. Solomon was a great man. And he was a son of David and prefigured the Lord Jesus. His kingdom, of course, was earthly and it perished. But the Son of David, which is Jesus, His kingdom will never perish.
And we notice that in the days of Solomon, and Jesus declared that the day that they lived in was greater than the day that Solomon lived. And how much greater then even if the blasphemy would be forgiven then, and in this day it cannot be forgiven. What a greater day this is than it was then. Even when He walked in Galilee... His actions and His works today before men is all the more sinful to turn it down than it was when He was here on earth. Oh, if the church would only wake up to these things.

22 Now, notice. In the days of Solomon, God sent a great gift to the earth. It was a gift of discernment. And Solomon had this gift. And oh, all of the nation believed it. All of Israel, with one accord, when they seen this great wisdom of Solomon that the Lord had given him, the whole nation rejoiced because that God had given this great gift.
And you know, that's called the golden years of Israel. It was in their millennium as it was. Israel prospered more under Solomon than any other king, I guess, they ever had, because they believed the gift that God had sent. If they had turned it down, they'd have been whipped and taken out by other nations and so forth.

23 And today if God sends something and the church turns it down, how can we expect anything else but confusion? How can we expect anything else but denominations, and barriers, and setups, and all kinds of impersonations, and everything today. Because we turn it down. When God starts to do something in some, maybe, a realm of people, the others will say, "Well, that isn't our denomination. Well, we'll just get our own man to do that." And you cause carnal impersonations, which is evil in the sight of God and takes away from the real thing. That's right.

24 When they had a little boy raised up some time ago, and I went to see the little lad, about ten or twelve years ago... His name was little David Walker, a wonderful little preacher. He didn't tell little stories like mama coaxed him, how Jesus a little baby. He took off his coat and took a text and handled it like a man.
And I talked to some of the brethren. I had just been new in the Full Gospel realm. I didn't know they had the same trouble that we Baptists had, of all kinds of breakups. I thought they were angels. And so then we find out, one of them said, "Well, he belongs to the certain-certain group."
I said, "What difference does it make where his father belongs? He's a gift that God has sent to the church."

25 I said, "If you brethren would tear down your little different ideas, and get around that little boy, not let him get all puffed up, but send him, he'd win thousands of little children to the Lord, little boys and girls."
But what was it? Everybody got them a little David. Everywhere you went... The little fellow went to Miami and got in trouble and I went down to help him. And the whole two pages was full of little David. Jealousy! It shows that it's carnal and not of God. Any church that will do a trick like that is not of God. It can't be. And there's where we are today. They won't believe anything, but they try to impersonate it. And when they do, they have carnal conceptions of it. And when they do, they have carnal manifestations of it. It'll only produce it.
But not in Solomon's time. They all believed that God had sent them a Solomon, and he was God's servant. And they all rallied around that gift. They didn't have fifty Solomons; they had one Solomon.

26 And they never had fifty Moses.
There was a man one time by the name of Korah. He raised up and said, "Now, wait a minute. There's just as many prophets and holy men as there is Moses. Moses is not the only one."
God said to Moses, "Separate yourself from him." And He opened up the earth and swallowed him in.
The Bible predicts that in the last days that same thing will take place, and they'll perish in the gainsaying of Korah. That's right. That's the Scripture.

27 And notice, but in Solomon's time... Jesus pointed them to Solomon's time, of that great gift. Let's look at it. Now everybody began to testify, "The Lord God is with us. Indeed He is. For He has given unto us a great and mighty gift, our Brother Solomon. The Lord has give him the discernment that he can tell us the things that we should do. And how the Spirit of the Lord is upon our brother." And everybody in one accord.
That begin to spread out all through Palestine, and went from nation to nation, from place to place, until it become world wide that Solomon was God's servant and there was a great mighty gift sent from heaven that only heaven could send to a church and to... A mortal man could not do those things in himself. And all of them believed with one accord.

28 And see what it did? It built him a mighty temple. It give him the wealth of the world. It give him favor in every nation, all nations feared Israel because they seen the mighty unity among the people over a gift that God had sent them.
Finally, way down in the utmost parts of the known world, there was a little queen, a heathen. And she's called the Queen of the South here, which was Sheba. And she was away across the deserts to where her country was. And everyone passing through would say, "Oh, you should be up in Jerusalem, up in Palestine, for they have a great God up there Who has visited them with a great gift. And signs and wonders are taking place by one named Solomon, whom they have made king."

29 You know, faith cometh by hearing, hearing of the Word of God. Faith cometh by hearing. Now how can the outside world believe when the church is condemning one, lifting another and throwing this one out and putting this... How can they believe, see?
But not so then. With one accord everybody was testifying. It was a wonderful thing. And the little queen begin to hear this. Now she was not of the tribe of Israel. She was a Gentile heathen. But faith cometh by hearing, hearing of the Word. And when you keep hearing such testimonies, it starts the curiosity. People begin to wonder, "Could it be so?"
That's the way, no doubt, the little queen begin to feel. And by and by as faith kept building, she said, "You know, there's only one way for me to be sure of this, and that is: I'll go and see for myself."
That's the good thing. Don't take what somebody else said; go see for yourself. Be convinced.

30 And no doubt that the little woman had a lot to confront. And there was many things against her and against her going. The first thing, it was against her religion to go. Her church would not cooperate in that campaign up there. But it didn't make any difference to her. She wanted to find out. She wanted to be sure.
So one thing was, she had a long journey, and she was just a woman. And remember, in the deserts in those days the sons of Ishmael was out there, which were robbers. And now the little woman, as just something inside of her begin to tug that she just must go see for herself. I like that.

31 When Philip found Nathanael, and Nathanael said, "Now, could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth?"
Philip said, "Come, see for yourself. Come, be convinced."
And the little queen thought the same thing. How much better off that queen was for her thoughts, than tens of thousands, yes, millions in Chicago tonight. Throughout the newspapers and everything, the meetings advertised. Can you see how this nation is ripe for judgment? If God willing, if my voice gets a little better, I'm preaching on the modern sputnik in a few nights. So, then I've got to take something the next night, because it really hangs you in the dark place.
Now, notice. But to see the people of today rejecting Christ, just because of denominations. Because they're more satisfied to watch television and things, than they are to listen to the Gospel. Their hearts are not hungry. They don't care. Now, they wouldn't come out on a night like this. Many of the rich has got to drive limousines and Cadillacs out there, that read them ads and so forth. Why they say, "Our pastor says, 'It's a devil.'" And they believed him.
Oh, no wonder they become two-fold child more of hell than they was when they began. Certainly it is true.

32 Now this little queen, she said, "I'll go, and I'll find out."
I like that. Now she never went to see an angel. You know, people's got in their head to this day, that, if God would do anything, He'd have to do it by an angel. Send an angel down from heaven and let him do it. God don't send angels. Man is God's servant. God preaches the Gospel through men.
The Bible said that Elijah was a man subject to like passions as we are. Not an angel; a man. He was so human. And just with the ups-and-downs like you and I have, till it went over the head of the common people ... or, to all the people.

33 Jesus was so much human, so much man, just a carpenter's boy, no education of the world that we know of, a poor man. Where did He get this learning? He must've used "his, hain't, and tote, and fetch, and carry," like would today. Some grammar that wasn't polished up, said, "What school did He come from? Where did He get any learning? Isn't this the carpenter's son?"
Why, He's so human, so real and so humble until it went over the heads of the people. They didn't understand it. If it would have been Caiaphas, a high priest, or some great polished scholar, oh, they'd said, "Yes, your Honor, Honor Reverend Father. Yes, we believe that."
But God brings it down to humility and it passes the heads of the people. That's right. That's the way He's always done it.

34 Now, the queen wasn't going to see an angel; she was going to see a man that God had given a gift to, that was really proving to be true, so as she heard. So, she had to get ready to go.
Now, that desert was a long trip, if you measure it on your map. It would've at least take her three months to make the trip on the back of a camel. Well, you say, "Chicago is a little too far for me. I live on the north side. Way down at the Lane Tech High School. And it's winter time. If you would just bring it up here to my church or across the street, I'll probably visit once."
And you're going to heaven. Oh, sure. Yes sir.

35 You love the Lord. Your works prove what you do. By your fruit the people are known. If anything is laid in your lap, you don't appreciate it anyhow. It's something that you have to struggle for and sacrifice for (Certainly it is.) that you get joy out of.
Now, the little queen had something to confront. She had to ride three months over a desert, not in an a air-conditioned coach now, or neither in a Cadillac, but on the back of a camel through hot deserts. For what? God had been speaking to her heart, and she was determined to see whether this gift was right or not. There you are. She went three months to find out where it was, and people can't sit in a meeting three minutes to find out whether it's right or not. That's the difference. No wonder Jesus said, "She'll raise in the last days and condemn this generation." That's right.

36 Three months over a hot desert. Three minutes in a plush seat. What a difference. Come on a camel or in a Cadillac. You get the difference? What will this generation answer at the day of judgment when the Queen of Sheba rises? Certainly. What will the church say that turned the gifts of God down when that bunch of Israelites back there accepted something that wasn't half as great as what it is now? What will it? Ask.
Solomon went nowhere. They come to Solomon. They were hungering. They were thirsting. They were believing. And God was working. Today we're filled and fed and have need of nothing, as we say; and the Bible says, "Know not that you are poor, wretched, miserable, blind, and naked, and don't know it." That's the bad part: You don't know it.

37 If a man was naked out on the street and blind and knew it, he'd try to help himself. But when he doesn't know it, that's the pitiful part. Then the man is not mentally right. And the church is not spiritually right, for it doesn't know it. Jesus said, "If you would have knowed Me, you would have knowed My day."
Notice. Then she had another thing she made in her mind. "Now, I don't know; I've never seen it yet," as I said last night. After you have seen the work of God, then God can punish you justly, because you rejected it. And she had never as yet seen the work of God. But she said, "If it's right, I'm going to support it with everything that I've got." So, she loaded camels down with gold, and everything else, and myrrh, and frankincense. If the gift was really right, she was going to support it. That's right.

38 And if God's gifts are right, you don't have to support it so much financially, but you ought to support it with the praises of God, with testimony, with leading people to Christ and doing something for the glory of God. Not only your money or so forth, but everything that's in you. You should support the work of the Lord.
She laden the camel. And as she went, remember, with all that gold on those camels, thousands times thousands of dollars worth of gold, and precious jewels, and myrrh, and frankincense, smelling perfumes that was very costly. And when she went to see that if it was right, she was going to support it. Now, look what a chance she had to take. All them robbers in the desert just waiting for her.

39 But if God has called your heart, there isn't enough in the world to keep you away from Christ. All the threats that you'll be excommunicated from your church, all the threats that they'll lay you off at your work; there is nothing that will separate us, or stop us, from reaching our goal. When we really in our hearts get right, and our objective is right that we're going for the sincere part, and to find out if God has did this.
If Jesus is raised from the dead, let's support it. If He's the same, yesterday, today, and forever, let's stay by it. Let's do everything that we can to make the people see the kingdom of God.
She had to cross the desert, so away she took. Now if you are determined and it's for the right thing, God will make a way. After a while, we see the camels across the desert, the poor little woman sitting up there and the desert winds a blowing and her lips parching, but her eyes were set towards God. Though camels was stumbling along the road with a little bitty army, with guards she had, which the great desert full of Ishmaelites could have took them in a moment, but her heart was set: "If there is a Jehovah God and He's making Himself known, I want to be His servant."

40 There it is. Don't you worry. There was ten thousand times ten thousands of angels marching with that band as it went on. There wasn't an arrow could fly by night ... or, the terror by night, or the arrow of the day that could ever touch her. She was bound to find Jehovah. She was seeking for Him with a true heart.
So will He do you. If you'll just see the simplicity of it. God doesn't shine out in some kind of great glamour. He never does. His great hour is to come for that, when He reveals Himself from glory. But today He works in humility to do things like He's always done.

41 And here she goes. And the wind blowed, and the deserts are hot, but she's pressing on towards the mark of the high calling. She's going to arrive, because God will see to it that she arrives. Here she goes, a little woman with all this bunch of men and her little maids around her, and out through the desert they went.
There were no shady places to sit down and rest. She just stayed under a little canopy of a thing over top of her, and as the old camel beat back and forth across the desert. And the little woman sitting there jerking from side to side, day and night, through great dangers, beasts of lions, and things, in the desert. But she moved on. She was letting nothing stand in her way. All the bishops and doctors and archbishops in the world couldn't have stopped her. She was determined to find out whether it was right or wrong. No wonder she'll stand in the judgment with this generation. She was determined to find out whether it was right or not. And on she goes.
And finally, leading by the course, led by the Spirit, she come... You said, "Led by the Spirit?" Absolutely. Every person that makes a start towards God is led by the Spirit. Absolutely, she was. And the great angels guided her right into the gate of Jerusalem.

42 And when she goes up to the temple... Now, she didn't go up just to sit a few minutes to find out. She didn't go just to stay one day; she had to hurry back to her kingdom. She went to stay till she was convinced. That's the way to do it. Just stay till you're convinced.
She unloaded the camels and pitched her tents and so forth, and she held her treasures back, and so forth till she sat in on the meeting for awhile to find out if it really was the truth, of what she'd heard. Sure, she had faith to believe it was right, but then she wanted to see whether it was right or not.

43 So, as she went up to the meeting the next morning where Solomon sat and they brought to him the things, she begin to watch Solomon and know that he was just an ordinary man. And she seen the great discernment of the Spirit of God working through the man. She watched it meeting after meeting. She camped and watched. And finally when she was thoroughly convinced, she goes and gets all of her treasures, everything that she had; and she laid them at the feet of Solomon. And she said, "All that I heard those saints testify about is true, and more than I heard them say is true."

44 Why? It was more because it had come to her then, a heathen woman. Let her stand in the judgment against Presbyterians of today, Baptists, Methodists, Catholics, Pentecostals, Nazarenes, Pilgrim Holiness, Seven day Adventists, Christian Science. Let her stand in that day as a heathen she was, against people that's supposed to read the Bible daily and pray. Watch her testimony against these of this day. Yes, sir.
She was a heathen woman, but she come; and when she found it was the truth that that great gift God had given, she knew it was the truth then, for she had seen it with her own eyes. And Jesus said that she will rise in the day of the judgment and condemn priests and preachers and so-called religious people. She'll rise in the day of judgment and condemn this generation who was calling Him a devil. Think of it.

45 Think of it today that we're living. My brother, sister, and my friend, God always in every generation, He declares Himself. If the people would unite together around Christ and forget their little differences, what a great thing it would be. But in this day when He comes to show Himself again, every way, more than He did then...
Jesus stood on the banks of the Galilee, and He stood in Jerusalem and in the city. And He declared, "There's nothing I can do within Myself. First the Father shows me and I do what He says. But if I say..."
Seeing that He could do that, so they thought He was a spiritualist. But when they seen it come to pass, they knowed it couldn't be a spiritualist. But their great church status and so forth held them back from accepting it.
Nicodemus expressed it well when he said, "Rabbi, we know You're a teacher comes from God, for no man could do these things and miracles that You do except God be with him. We know it."

46 But why don't you accept it? Why don't they turn the Sanhedrin loose? Pharisees and Sadducees, and all, and say, "Go. This is the Messiah." Because it was their denominations and their pride and so forth that wouldn't let them go to an unlearned person as they thought. He had the learning of God. He didn't need the learning of the world. So, God had worked in Him.
As He had to do Moses: get all the learning of the world out of him first before he could get the learning of Christ in him. And today we try to poke the learning of the world in, and poke the learning of Christ out. That's right. Overshadowed with all kinds of degrees.
Now, today, friend, God still lives. Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And now what He said there, "Behold, I say unto you, a greater than Solomon is here." And they called it the devil.

47 And now He said, "These things that I do, it will be declared to another generation after Me, other sheep I have that's not of this fold. A little while and the world won't see Me no more; yet ye shall see Me, for I'll be with you, even in you to the end of the world. The things that I do shall you also." Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever. All these things that He promised and besides that come down in our mechanical age.
In the days when we're scientific, and proved it that He was the same by a scientific picture machine. Then what are we going to do? Here it is. If that angel doesn't do the works of Jesus Christ, then it's the wrong angel. But if it does the works of Jesus Christ, then it is the right angel. That's right. For He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
How did the Jews know He was the same? When He told that Jew, that real Jew, that Jew that was predestinated to eternal life, that Philip went and got. And he brought him over there and when he seen Jesus, He said, "An Israelite in whom is no guile."
He said, "When did you know me, Rabbi?"
He said, "Before Philip called you, you were under the tree. I saw you."
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48 What would He do to the generation of the Gentiles in their days as we are today. He did that to prove Himself to the Jews. He did it to prove it to the Samaritans. What will He do to prove it to the Gentiles? If He is the same for the Jew as He is for the Samaritan, He's the same for the Gentiles. What do the Gentiles do? Just as they did.
The great scholars, and rituals, and aristocratic, and so forth, and the educated, and smart, and so-called in the world. They say, "It's the devil. Have nothing to do with it, with a bunch of holy-rollers. Have nothing to do with it."

49 But God in the great resurrection will take that bunch of holy-rollers and condemn the world. That's exactly right. Certainly. Because they have believed, because they have read it in the Bible, and they have seen it for themselves. And they come through cold winds, and through snows, and everything else, to recognize the great gifts of God moving in this last days. And they say, "Oh, it's my Lord and my God."
Let us pray.
Lord, our refuge in every generation, the same yesterday, today, and forever. O eternal and blessed God, if we should get up from here right now and go home to our homes, we could go happy and rejoicing, because that we believe Your Word.

50 But we would ask tonight, that it maybe some here that's kind of disheartened as those who came from Emmaus one day. From Jerusalem going to Emmaus, You walked along the road with them, and talked with them, and preached to them. And they thought that You had kind of a strange way of explaining the Scriptures, for they said afterwards, "Did not our hearts burn within us as He talked to us along the road?"
But when You once got them in the little building and closed the door, You did something just like You did before You were crucified and had risen. And they recognized that it was You, for no one could do it like that but You. And they said it was the Lord. And they rushed back with the news.

51 Lord God, do the same for us tonight. Give unto us that which we know that no man can do. Just You alone. That they might go back through the winds with their soul so full of fire that they'll not even pay any attention to the cold wind, saying, "Did not our hearts burn within us? Was not we repaid? Not because the preacher preached or the choir sang, but because we seen Jesus manifesting Himself through His people."
Grant it, eternal God, for we love You, and we want to meet You someday when our life is finished here, that we will hear the Voice say, "Come up higher to a better world and to a better place."
While we're here, may we be lights, Lord, to shine in this hour of darkness just before the great destruction strikes and these cities become nothing but powder. Lord, always before judgment You send mercy. May the people not spurn it. We ask in Jesus' name. Amen.

52 Now, folks, I'm not ... can't explain the things that I know, the things that I feel in my heart. I can't express it. I'm not educated. I had no schooling for preaching. Therefore, I can't make my message just where it should be. And you forgive me for that. But usually, Brother Baxter and some of them goes, and they do the explaining. And they're preachers who are scholars and Christians, not only scholars but Christians, born-again men. They know how to set their sermons in order that can present it to the people in such a way that they can see it.
Now, that is not a gift of mine. I'm not able to do that. My gift is by vision that Christ promised would take place, see. And knowing I had no education and so forth. And maybe... I don't say maybe---I believe He intended that I wouldn't have any education, for I'd probably depend on that than what I do depend on. I solemnly wait every word from Him.

53 Now, I believe that He will manifest Himself. And if He will, will it make you go home light-hearted, and love Him more, and rejoice? If it would, would you just raise your hands to Him. [Unclear words.] The Lord bless you.
Is Gene here, Gene Goad and Billy? Oh, yes. All right. Let's see. What was...? 1 to a 100 last night. And I believe we started from 1. We don't never call up too many. Maybe anywhere from ten to fifteen, something like that, just enough... It doesn't make the difference.
The woman at the well, if she hadn't have been really consecrated to what that she was listening to, why it would have never done her no good.
The Pharisees that stood and seen Jesus do those miracles of discerning their thoughts and told them, said, "Why do you reason in your heart? Why do you call Me Beelzebub?" They'd never spoke it out. But He knew their hearts, and He said that to them.
All through the Bible, look at His ministry, everywhere. It's not that He just walked out and said, "Here, I'm going to do this." He said, "I do nothing till the Father shows Me first," see. That's right. Saint John 5:19. Watch His miracles, just... The people could do it.

54 And these things that's done here at the platform are really not exactly visions, and yet it is. It's your faith reaching to God and pulling from Him the things you desire.
Look at the woman with the blood issue. She touched His garment, and went back into the crowd. And Jesus said, "Who has touched Me?" They didn't know. He didn't know who had touched Him. Then He said, "I got weak." Then He knew that someone had touched Him. That was her using God's gift. She was using God's gift. Jesus didn't know nothing about it. But when she had touched it, He looked through the crowd until He could find her, who she was.

55 That was God's gift answering back to her faith. You see it? She believed it, and she herself used God's gift. Then the gift that was in Him, spoke to the person that had the faith, and told her what her trouble was, that had said her faith had saved her.
But now, when God wanted to use His gift, He just took Jesus and said, "Now, you go away from this home of Bethany here. After four days Lazarus is going to die, and then You come back and You'll raise him up." Well, Jesus went away. They sent for Him to come, but He knew the vision said not to come, for He said He did nothing till the Father showed Him. After four days He said, "Lazarus sleepeth."
Said, "If he sleepeth, he doeth well."
Said, "He's dead. And for your sake, I'm glad I wasn't there, but I go wake him."
That's right.

56 And at the tomb, He said, "Thank Thee, Father. Thou has heard Me already, but I said it for these who stand by." He didn't have to pray, but He knew it. Now, He never said He got weak there. How much greater was the power of God to raise the dead than it was to find who that woman was. But it was a woman using God's gift, or God using His own gift.
All right. Prayer card... Joseph just went to find out. Prayer card T, I believe he said. And then we had 1 to 15 last night. Let's take 85 to a 100 tonight then, take the last part of them. Now that'll give us fifteen tonight. And now, maybe tomorrow night we'll start, well, I won't say, see. Let's wait till tomorrow night.
J...

57 All right, then J instead of the other. All right. J. All right 85, 99, 500. That'd be fifteen. All right, J-85, who has it? The lady right here. Would you come here, lady? 85, 86, 87, 87. Brother Gene, would you come over here to lead them from the platform? 87, did anybody have it? 88? Who has prayer card 88? All right. 89? J-89, would you raise your hand? The lights are right in here. I can't see, so if you'll just raise your hand so. 89, is it already there? 89, 90?
Oh, that's all right, it doesn't matter. 90, would you raise your hand somewhere? Raise your hand, holler "Amen" if you can. Prayer card J-90. 90? Isn't it here?

58 You know, I wish if you would come get your card, see, that confuses me, you see. And right here is where I'm not supposed to be confused, see. If you get a card, don't take it. If the boy offers you one, don't you take it if you're not going to stay.
Thank you, ever who turned the light on. Don't stay.
If you're not going to stay, well don't take the card. If you take it, you come.
All right. J-90, 91. 91, has anyone got it?
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Oh, what a moment! You don't know how it makes you feel to stand here. I guess there's at least five hundred people, I guess, out there. More? Anyhow, I have stood before five hundred thousand, see. And taken Christ to the challenge before tens of thousands of heathens. There's nothing to be afraid of. God promised it. His words are just as true as He is true.

59 Now, here's a beautiful scene tonight of the Bible. I wonder what you Gentiles are going to say. Are you going to be as reverent and as respectable as the woman ... or, the Samaritans was when the woman came into the city, and told what the Lord Jesus had did for her. And she said, "By that..." She even told those people, "Isn't that the very Messiah?" Sure, see.
Scriptures are spiritually understood. How many knows that? You don't read the Scriptures or write out to understand them. God said He hid it from the eyes of the wise and prudent.
Look, even that vision, I wrote the vision out myself, and read it over a thousand times or more. I didn't see that I was supposed to go to India first. I thought I was supposed to go to Africa first. But then when this hour comes, here it is written right out in my own hand, see. I just couldn't see it. It was blinded to me till I went ahead and disobeyed God, that He might correct me and show that His Words are eternal and can't fail, see. I just couldn't read it that way.
Many said, "Oh, the Bible don't say these things." The Bible does say it. It becomes a reality. And God confirms His Word.

60 Now, we are strangers to each other, I suppose, lady. We are. The lady is a colored lady, me, a white man. That makes two different colors of people, two nationalities. And that's the same way it was in Saint John the 4th chapter, the Samaritan and the Jew. Both of them of different races of people, but Jesus let them know that God was no respect of race, that He made all races.
We all come from one father and mother, Adam and Eve; that was the first on the earth. That's where we come from. And our nations and where we lived, and changed our colors, has nothing to do with God. We're offspring. He has all kinds of trees. He has all kinds of flowers. God don't want us to be all just the same. Did you know that? Wished I could talk to some of these segregationalists and so forth, if they'd listen a minute. Yes, sir.
God made white flowers. He made blue flowers. He made red flowers. He made them different because He wants them different. He made us different because He wants us different, but we're all made to His praises. That's right.

61 This woman stands before me is a Christian. She could have been a atheist or a critic, but her spirit... Now, when the Holy Spirit is come, make me His servant. And if I'm His ambassador, and you believe that with all your heart, my word is His. His Word is mine. That's right.
If I went to another nation as an ambassador of this nation, then everything I say, this nation's got to back it up. That's right. Depends on what the other nation thinks about it. Then as I come as Christ's servant and I speak His Words and He confirms it and shows by the credentials of His Spirit that I'm telling the truth, then if you believe it, there's nothing that can stand in the way of getting what you want. All things are possible to them that believe.
Now, so the audience might know, here we are, first time ever meeting in life. We know not each other. We're just standing here. She was given a card, either by Gene, Leo, or Billy, or somebody.

62 They mix the cards up and hand them out to the people and anybody that wants them can have them. They give a few here, and a few here, and a few there, just... That's the way I tell them to do. I've never seen them give them out. But that's the way they're supposed to do.
And this lady knows that I know nothing of her, never seen her, and this is our first time ever meeting, as far as we know. [The lady speaks to Bro. Branham.] You was in one of my meetings, but never did come to the platform. All right. Then you've seen me, but I might've seen you in the meeting, but I don't know you, but Christ does.

63 Now, if you're here for some need... You say, "I'm sick. I have some disease." And I tell you why the Lord's going to heal you, you could doubt that, see. You wouldn't know whether my words was right or not there. But if the Lord will tell you something that you know I know nothing about, then you know that has to come from some supernatural power.
Well, you can say, "Well, the devil told him that." Then you get the devil's reward. If you say, "The Lord told him that," then you get the Lord's reward. Is that right, audience? Now, it's done by her; it'll be to you just the same. I have no idea what's wrong with the woman. I have no idea. But God does.
And I don't want her to tell me, because I don't know. I want it to come from a supernatural force to let this little audience, that I've just preached to, know that God has did this. Then it would be up to them to judge what they think about it.

64 There's nothing wrong with her. She's a healthy woman, but she has a blessful desire in her heart. This woman has come to me in hopes that I would pray for her, and lay hands on her that she might receive the Holy Ghost. That's exactly right. That's truth. Do you believe me to be His servant? You believe that would have to come from God?
Let's see if the Lord would say something else, just while we're standing here. I don't say that He would. Yes, there is another desire in your heart, and that's for a loved one, your husband. You want him to quit drinking. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. Those things are true, lady. Raise your hand up.
Now, do you believe that that Spirit that's talking with Brother Branham, that could make tears flow down your cheeks like that... You have a feeling like you've never had before, see. What is it? It's the Holy Spirit coming on you. It's the Angel of the Lord, that you're in the Presence. It's Him, the One who is your Savior and Redeemer. Now, I want to pray for you.
Lord God, give unto our sister here the desire of her heart. And that what she's asked for, may she go away tonight just as happy as the queen that come from Sheba to see a gift that You had sent to Solomon. And may she go to her home rejoicing and receive what she asked for. In the name of Jesus Christ, God's Son, we ask it. Amen. God bless you.

65 Now, do you believe? Are you all believing? Are you satisfied? See, it's the Lord. It's God. I have nothing to do with it. I don't have one thing to do with it. Now, I ask you all out there to go to praying, you out there in the line, out there that isn't in the line. I ask you to pray and to believe and have faith in God. Some of you without prayer cards...
I'm just taking my time because I know He's standing here. Oh, if I could only explain to you; there's no need of trying it. I couldn't. Now, can you see this? Look over there. It's right here.

66 You don't have a prayer card? You have a prayer card, lady? You don't. Do you believe that Jesus Christ has raised from the dead. Do you believe that He is here in the meeting now? You have trouble in your side and in your leg. If that's right, raise up your hand. Now, Jesus Christ makes you well. Go believe.
Are you convinced? Now, be real reverent. I want to talk to the lady. We are strangers to each other. I have never seen you in my life, but Christ does know you, doesn't He? And if Christ knows you, then He knowed you when you were born, He fed you all the days of your life, and all you are, He knows about. And if He will reveal to me...
I believe the last lady was here, was a colored lady. This is a colored lady. Are you the next in line, lady? There's a white woman. That'll get both white and colored race.

67 If the Lord Jesus will reveal to me what your trouble...? I want all the colored people that's in Divine Presence, believe with all their heart, raise your hands if you will, all of the colored people. This is your loved one.
One day, long years ago, there was a Man going up Golgotha. He had a cross on His back, and the hide was all rubbed from His shoulders. His garment was one big bloody splotch. And His little weak frail body fell under the load of the cross. And your father, Simon, came and picked up the cross and helped Him bear it.

68 Now, here stands his children tonight, after two thousand years, believing in the Christ who Simon helped to bear the cross. Sure He loves you. And He's here to help you. If He will permit me, just do what I say that He promised to do.
You're here for someone else. That's right. It's a man. Your brother-in-law, and he's a mental case. And you've come to ask me to pray for him. If I could heal him, I would do it. But our faith together in Him Who is present, will do it. Will you believe with me?
Lord, I pray that You will grant this request. And may our faith not move now, but may it be sufficient to heal that person who doesn't know enough to accept faith themselves. I pray this blessing in Jesus Christ's name. Amen. May you go, sister, and may it be just as you have thought it to be. God bless you.
That's a wonderful little book. Read it; it has life.

69 We are strangers to each other, so far as I know. I don't know, but I think that we're strangers. I've never seen you, as far as I know. Are we strangers to each other? We are. If the Lord will reveal to me what you're here for, will you believe? You're a white woman now. What about the white people out there, would you believe? This is your sister. Just like the woman at the well...
Now, see, I have no powers to heal. You know that. I'm just a man, like... If you have a husband like she did, see, or like your son, or whoever... I'm just a man, like any other man. But it's His gift. It isn't me that can do it. It's Him. He promised He would do it. Therefore, He permits me to do it by His grace and will.

70 You're here for someone else, too. And that's a mental case. Your sister. Do you believe that God will supply the need for that? With all your heart? For your husband, also. That's right. Arthritis, diabetes, heart trouble, with you. Believe now. You can have what you ask for, if you just don't doubt in your heart. The Lord bless our sister and give her the desire of her heart, through Jesus Christ. Amen.
Do you believe, white people? Then why do we wait, or tarry? Why not you be healed right now if you have need of it, see? Now, if you believe it, there's nothing that can take it away from you, see. If you believe it.
Now, if God is letting me do this through His permitted will, surely I speak the truth. Would God give such as that to a person that would teach error? God forbid. It wouldn't be. It wouldn't be. It's the truth.

71 Remember I say this, a man's got to be born-again before he can see the kingdom of God. Your little church differences makes no difference. If you're born-again, you're a son and daughter of God. And you got to be born of water and spirit. That's right. Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Just remember that. Believe that. Accept it.
He was wounded for your transgressions; with His stripes, you were healed. There's no man on earth that can heal you, no doctor, no hospital, no medicine. We haven't got one medicine that any doctor will say will heal you. If he does, he certainly doesn't know what he's talking about.
To heal is to replace or build tissue. No medicine will build tissue. Medicine will take germs and kill germs that's tearing down tissue, but it won't build the tissue. God has to do that alone, which is creation.

72 He is the only One who can create. Satan cannot create. He can pervert what's created, but he can't create. God is the only healer there is.
There never was a drop of medicine, hospital, or operation that ever healed anybody. The Bible said, "I'm the Lord who heals all your diseases." Medicine is all right. They take it to poison germs, just like rat poison to poison rats. But it doesn't heal the house where the rats has eats holes in it, you see. That's right. It doesn't patch the place. God has to do that through creation.
Operation is fine. It moves an obstruction, bad tooth, a growth, appendix, so forth. That's all right. It sets a broken arm when it's broke. That's all right. But God does the healing, see. God is the only one can heal. It's nothing, no mystery. It's just truth.

73 We're strangers to each other, I suppose. The Lord God knows all of us, doesn't He? If the Lord God will reveal to me what you're here for, will you believe now? I believe there was two colored women, and this is two white women. Is that right? I think. All right. This will set it. Then we will pray for the rest of the audience. This ought to be sufficient.
If the Lord will reveal to me what you are desiring, then you know whether it's the truth or not. There's something very strange about the woman, because every time that I look at her, there's a vision passes somewhere else. That's right.
And there's another woman included in this. That's your sister, I believe. And she's not here. And she's across water in some other place. It's not across Michigan, the lake, because it's a large stream of water. It's Sweden. And she has something wrong that she can't sleep at night. And she's coughing. It's asthma. That's right. THUS SAITH THE LORD.

74 And you have high blood pressure yourself, and heart trouble. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD.
Now, I don't know what I said. It's a mystery to me now. It's like I dreamed it. But that was the truth. That was my voice, but it wasn't me speaking. It was something else using my voice. Now, do you believe it was the Lord Jesus? With all your heart?
Does the audience believe the same? Then ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you, see. "Ask for this mountain to 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." Just believe it.
All right. Let us pray, sister.
O God our Father, be merciful unto this woman. And give unto her the desire of her heart. I ask this blessing for her, in the name of Your dear Son, the Lord Jesus. Amen. Don't doubt. Receive what you've asked for.

75 Now, if someone... Just so there's someone say, "The man reads the people's mind." Come here, lady. You know what mind reading is? Is take a number in your mind and guess at it awhile. Now, lady, you just lay your hand on mine. If looking this way with my back turned to you, if Jesus will reveal to me what your trouble is, will you accept it and believe it? May He grant it, is my prayer.
God knows I don't know you. But He does. But if you will believe Him with all your heart, your stomach wouldn't bother you anymore. You believe it's over? Then you can go and be made well.
God can heal heart trouble; it's just as minor to Him as a toothache. Do you believe that He will make you well? As you have believed, so be it unto you. God be with you, my brother, as you go.
Awhile ago when I said, "stomach trouble," that was your trouble too. Not only that, but she had the same trouble this man has, heart trouble. That's right. Now, do you believe? As you have believed, so be it unto you. Go, and may God be with you and make you well. Have faith now and believe.

76 How many's believing out in the audience? Now, look, see, you don't have... Look here, just this woman. Would you believe, lady, if I didn't say a word to you, would you still believe that Christ would make you well? Go, and the Lord bless you. Take my word for it and believe that He makes you well. Amen. All right, see. That's it. Don't have to be told.
What would you do, lady, if I told you what was wrong with you, would you believe me? If I didn't tell you, would you believe me anyhow? You don't know. All right. I'll tell you what's your trouble then. You got arthritis. That's right. Go believe, and you'll be made well. Amen. The Lord bless you.
All right, lady. Would you believe if I told you, make you believe more? Then your back will get well. Go believe with all your heart.

77 Come. You the same thing. Would you believe that you'd get well? Then the Lord grant it to you, sister, and it'll all be over. Amen.
Let's say, "Praise the Lord." Are you believing? See, it's not a telepathy.
You believe Jesus Christ to heal that heart of yours and make you well? Your heart trouble all be gone? It's a nervous heart. All right. Go believing now and get well. Have faith in God. God will grant it.
All right. Would you come, lady? Lady's trouble, female trouble, also heart trouble, nervousness. All right. You believe that God will make you well? Then go and Jesus Christ make you well. God bless you.

78 Have faith. Believe. Do you believe with all your heart? Believe. That's all there is. "If thou canst believe," said the Bible.
When I said "arthritis" just a few moments ago, the lady sitting there, a little scarf around her head, do you believe God healed you the same time with your arthritis? Well, you felt it, didn't you? Well, you got it right then. That's when you received it. That wonderful?
What do you think about it, the elderly lady that doubled her hands then like she was going to pray? Do you believe God would heal you of that gall bladder condition? You believe He would? Raise up your hand to Him then. All right. Now, you can be healed. Amen.
Have faith in God if you believe it.

79 What do you think, sitting here, lady? You believe that that head trouble will leave you and God will make you well? Sitting out there? If you believe it, you can have it. Sure. Amen. Just believe with all your heart.
What do you think sitting here, praying, got trouble with your feet? Do you believe God make you well? All right, you can have it. Amen.
Just believe. That's all. Just have faith in God. Certainly.
The young boy, sitting behind there, do you believe, sir, that skin trouble, you believe that God make you well? You do? All right. You can have what you ask for. Amen.

80 The lady sitting next to you there, got trouble with liver trouble, turned to you. All right you believe? You can have what you asked for. Go and believe. Certainly. See, the Holy Spirit is here. I'm just trying to conserve my strength.
All right. Was you the next lady to be prayed for? Do you believe? With all your heart? You do? All right. You think God'll heal that stomach trouble you got? You got intestinal trouble? That's right. You're not from this city. You're from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. You got internal troubles, intestinal troubles, and you've been in the hospital many times, at least fifteen or sixteen times in the hospital for operations, and the doctors says you got to go back again. That's "Thus saith the Lord."

81 Do you believe me to be God's prophet, His servant? Then go and the Lord Jesus rebuke this devil that's hid from the doctors, but you can't hide from God. Leave the woman, come out of her, in the name of Jesus Christ. Don't you doubt. Believe and you can have what you ask for, and it'll be over. Amen. Go in peace now.
Do you believe, every one of you? O Lord, send Your Spirit, the Holy Ghost, and charge this people with Thy Presence now. And may they be like the queen of Sheba, may they rise to their feet with the treasures of God in their heart, and be healed, everyone of them going home tonight made perfectly whole. In Jesus' name, I ask it. Amen.
Do you believe it? Do you accept it? Then stand up on your feet and receive it in the name of Jesus. May Brother Boze dismiss you all.

The Queen of Sheba

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1 ...now while we bow our heads. Gracious Lord, we come to Thee humbly, in the name of Thy beloved Son, the Lord Jesus, to pour out to Thee the adoration of our hearts, trying to express our love and gratitude to You for sending Him to the earth; that while we were yet sinners, Christ took our place in death, dying the innocent for the guilty.
On earth He was given the lowest name that there could be given man; but when You taken Him into Your hands and raised Him up, He received the highest name that could be given. He had no place to lay His head when He was on earth; but now He looks down to see heaven from His throne. We pray, God, that while you're looking down tonight, that You will remember us. Let Thy grace rest upon each of us.
Desperately in need of Thy Spirit, we would pray for mercy for the sinner, the unbeliever, for those who have wearied themselves away from the house of God. May they wind their way back tonight. Heal the sick, Lord. Show Your presence among us. And may there not be a feeble one in our midst when we leave tonight. Hear us, Lord, for we pray in the name of the Lord Jesus. Amen. You may be seated.

2 I could say one thing, that people certainly didn't come out to church tonight just to be seen on a night like this. We Southerners would stay home on a night like this. But it shows that you love the Lord. So, I'm so thankful for that, that you do love our blessed Lord.

3 And now, the services tomorrow, I think I'm to be with a brother in his Bible class for a few minutes just before he preaches. And then, tomorrow afternoon is an evangelistic service. And tomorrow evening is the closing of our little get-together. And I just trust to God that everywhere I go, from henceforth across America, I could find faith and people like I have found here. That's right.
So, I got several big meetings booked, and then for overseas. And so you pray for us.

4 And now, if you're visitors here, out of the city, I'm sure that Brother Summerall would be very happy for you to be here tomorrow, and he's got perhaps classes for the children and for all. I'm sure you'd be welcome here tomorrow morning if you're not at your own church, have a church of your choice to go to; why, I'm sure you'd be welcome here.

5 Now, tonight would be the last night on the tapes. You people have tape machines and like to hear your name and what the Spirit said to you in the line; Brother Mercer here is one of my associates in the meeting (He's a recorder), and Brother Goad, they take these tapes then the books and so forth. Now, tomorrow they won't have them because we've never permitted them to sell or do any transaction of business like that on Sunday. So, we'd be glad if you'd take care of that tonight if you desire them.

6 Now, I wish to turn for a Scripture reading in this blessed Bible. If the Lord willing, tomorrow afternoon or tomorrow night, I'm asking this, that evangelist singer (I believe he's a home singer here): Brother Golden. I got his record this morning. I certainly like his singing. Pardon me.
And the little ladies that sing, too, remind me of my wife and my sister-in-law when first started preaching, the little Baptist Tabernacle. They sang all the time, a little trio like that. It's brought old memories, while the brother was talking, I couldn't keep my eye from that scene. And so, I want him to sing tomorrow night and ask him, if he will, before the message, "The Keys." And I want to preach on "The Keys To The Heart," the Lord willing, just before the healing service.

7 And while, this afternoon thinking in my hotel room, just a little text that fell on my heart that I have used before, but I thought it might be good tonight just to bring it up. See, after being in the room praying, coming to the pulpit here, praying for the sick under anointing of a vision, it's a different Spirit than preaching, see. It's all the same Spirit, but a different gift. And so, when you shake yourself around like that from one anointing to another, it's never got the value to it that would have if you just walked right in and start the prayer line. It's too flat that way when we have these little meetings. I like to preach to them about three nights and let them get their prayer cards and get them, hold them and wait and be in prayer and then start the healing service. Then you come right in, walk right in to the platform, go to praying for the sick.

8 But, now, many times you might wonder why we don't get too many. Well, it could be so that we could run a little longer in the prayer line, but there's another meeting coming. You don't have to put up with me like my wife does and my associate. It certainly is a wrecking thing. Now, anyone who knows the Scripture realizes that a man, a mortal man like we are, to have something in the line of supernatural certainly does take the life out of you.

9 You know what twenty minutes of preaching under inspiration tears you down. It's been tested. It tears more out of you in twenty minutes of inspirational preaching than eight hours with a pick and shovel. Twenty minutes. Think of the difference.
Then what about a vision. One vision will do more to you than two hours of preaching, see. Because it gets you to a place where there's no need of me trying to say that I do understand it, because I do not understand it and no one else does. Just something we have to say, "Lord, You're good to us and we thank You." That's about all we can say. There's no way to explain it. We just have to accept it.

10 Now, I want to read from St. Matthew's Gospel, the 12th chapter, 42nd verse. Very familiar little text, perhaps maybe your pastor has preached on it many times.
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.

11 Jesus had just been called Beelzebub. His ministry had been questioned, and He had discerned their thoughts and knew what they were thinking. Isn't it wonderful and such a consolation to know tonight that He still knows our thoughts and what we're thinking? Your thoughts is louder in heaven than your voices on earth, for, "He is a discerner of the thoughts of the mind. His Word is sharper and quicker than a two-edged sword, piercing even to the thoughts of the mind." And He knows all things, therefore, He can deliver all things as God will permit.
Now Jesus said, "I do nothing except My Father shows Me first." And the Father would show Him things, and He would speak it.

12 Did you ever stop to think what a privileged people we are of this day? Living in the closing of this world's history and living in a time that when all kinds of isms, and all different creeds, and all that's going on, and yet in the midst of it all, our God rides in on the waves, and confirms His Word right before us.

13 Mohammedans: they're the greatest religion in number in the world. Mohammedans outnumber Christianity about three times. Buddha worshippers are greater than Christianity; that's throwing in Catholic and all. Christianity is either the third or fourth place in the religions of the world. But there's not a one of them that can prove any more than just psychology of believing if ... well, Mohammed was a great man; he died and he's coming back again. But there was only One that ever said, "I have power to lay My life down and power to raise it up again." And then prove it after He's risen up.

14 There could be fiction stories and say, "Oh, well, He never rose." Sometime ago when Brother Reedhead ... (What's his first name?) [ Someone says Perris.] Perris, Perris Reedhead came to my house.
Now, Perris Reedhead is a Baptist. And he came to me and he said, "Brother Branham, knowing that you were a Baptist, you ought to know truth as the Baptist think it, you know." He said, "What's these Pentecostals got?"
I said, "The Baptism of the Holy Spirit."
He said, "I was called of God when I was about six years old." And he said, "I have went everywhere; my mother schooled me." And said, "When I got my degree, my bachelor of arts," said, "I thought I'd find Christ there. So when I got my doctor's degree, I thought I'd find Christ. When I got my LL.D., I thought I would find Christ." But said, "I've got enough degrees that I could almost plaster your wall with them." He said, "But where is Christ? I didn't find Him in any of it." Says, "Has the teacher's been wrong?"
I said, "As an illiterate person as myself, I certainly wouldn't want to say that the teachers was wrong. They told you truth, but not all the truth."
Christ doesn't lay in degrees; He lays in faith, believing Him in the Person Christ.

15 He told me a story of a Mohammedan that had been reared, I believe, in their missions. I think in Sudan missions (Wasn't that?), the great Sudan missions.
And this Mohammedan, on his road back, Brother Reedhead said to him, said, "Sir," going back after being educated for something another in India. Said, "You're going back to work in your nation as maybe a electrical engineer," or whatever he had taken. Said, "Why don't you take back with you a Lord Jesus instead of that dead prophet that you are worshipping?"
He said, "Kind sir," he said, "what could your Lord Jesus do for me any more than my prophet can do?" He said, "They both wrote books; we call ours the Koran, you call yours the Bible, and we both believe the books."

16 Why he said, "Mister", he said, "our Christ has raised from the dead and your Mohammed prophet is still in the grave."
He said, "Did he raise from the dead? I would like to see him." Oh, he said, "How do you know that He raised from the dead?"
Mr. Reedhead said, "He lives in my heart."
He said, "So does Mohammed live in my heart."
He said, "Well, we have joy of knowing it."
He said, "Now, Mr. Reedhead, Mohammed religion can produce just as much psychology as Christianity: That we can shout just as loud and scream just as loud, dance just as hard and everything as you can." He said, "But we Mohammedans are waiting to see you teachers prove that Jesus raised from the dead." He said, "Mohammed never promised nothing but life after death." He said, "But Jesus promised to His teachers that the works that He did, they would do also. We're waiting to see those works."
He said, "Well, maybe you're thinking about in the Scripture there of Mark 16?"
He said, "That's one place, yes, sir."
He said, "Well, the better teachers know that Mark 16 from the 9th verse on is not even inspired, so that..."
He said, "What kind of a book are you reading? All the Koran is inspired."

17 And Mr. Reedhead said that he kicked the dust and changed the subject. That's right. Because that He knew just talking to the Mohammedan, he was defeated. He said, "And, Brother Branham, I'm here to find out something about God."
And there Morris ... or, Brother Reedhead has re... Perris Reedhead has received the Baptism of the Holy Ghost and is preaching the Gospel with signs and wonders following his ministry because that he believed, was hungering and thirsting for righteousness. God said, "They shall be filled." The Word is true.

18 And Jesus in His teaching here, He just had a lot of criticism and they had been talking about Him as every time where the supernatural is done, there is a mixed multitude. When Moses did the supernatural, a mixed multitude went with him and it caused trouble. Always when the supernatural is done, a mixed multitude goes. This revival is going on now; there's a mixed multitude.
The historians said it wasn't a strange thing that Martin Luther could protest the Catholic church and get by with it, but to keep his head above all the fanaticism that followed the reformation.
So, you find it. But what does the bogus claim? It only proves that there's a real one somewhere. When you see someone mocking religion, just remember there's somebody got religion. When you see somebody pretending to have the Holy Spirit, there's somebody that's really got it. That's right.

19 When you go into India, you find all the clowns laying on the spikes and doing little things for money: that's clowns. Some honest person back in the interior there is really cutting himself and bruising himself to try to appease his gods.
And always that pro and con, false and true, day and night. And Jesus was the Light of the world when He was here. And He's the light of the world tonight. There's no other light that can lead you out of the shadows of death, but the blessed Lord Jesus.

20 And in all ages, God has had men, and He's had His ministry in every age. God is supernatural. And when God comes on the scene, supernatural takes place, for He is supernatural. And His people always look for Him in the supernatural. Because when they become sons of God, they become the nature of God. And in that, they pick up that believing Him by faith, they believe that what God says is the truth, no matter how contrary it may seem.
Like Abraham of old, he called those things that was not as though they were, because God said so. And as he got older, the baby was promised for twenty-five years. And the Bible said he got stronger all the time waiting for the promise because it would be a greater miracle. And we call ourselves the children of Abraham and can't wait overnight for God, if He doesn't perform an outstanding miracle on us.

21 That's why we don't catch what faith really is. Faith is something: it may not take place in your hand if it's crippled, may not take place in your eye if it's blind; but faith takes it's solemn stand in the heart, and from there you call anything contrary to what that faith says as though it was not.

22 But the mixed multitude... And Jesus said ... begin to speak to them of other ages, how that God down through the age has always done the supernatural. And He was referring back to the prophet, Jonah. Then He came down to the one that we wish to base these few thoughts around for the next fifteen to twenty minutes.
That was in the days of Solomon. In all ages when God sends a gift to the people and they refuse it, it only makes the people go into chaos. But, when the people believes and accepts what God sends them, it is a golden age for that people. When He said in His own ministry, "How oft would I have hovered you as a hen would her brood, but you would not." They didn't know their day. And I'm just wondering if we as America know our day of visitation.

23 And I might say this just now because the Holy Spirit seems to be putting it on my heart: Be careful; Satan will try to tell you of something great way off in another age to come, or another coming along of another revival, and you may be living in the last part of all you'll ever get. It may be now. It's always been that way. They come, and the revival is gone, and they don't know it. Myself, I believe we're at the end. I don't look for nothing else but the coming of the Lord. I believe that everything that He has promised in the Scripture has been fulfilled.

24 I believe we are getting our last call. That's the reason, tired and weary, I stand at the platform night after night. And you know it's not for money. It's not for popularity; I shun those things. But, it's because it's something in me is driving me, and I know it's the Holy Spirit, that the message combs through the country back and forth until every fish has been caught in the Gospel net.

25 Notice, if the people receive it, then there is a great revival and a great time of jubilee.
Now, He was referring to Solomon. God raised Solomon up as a type of Christ, a son of David, and gave him a gift. Oh, how all Israel rallied around that gift. How they loved that gift, because it come from God to them. And any gift is not given to a man only for service. He becomes a servant of the people to whom he preaches and ministers the gift which God has given him. It isn't for his benefit. It is for the people's benefit.

26 And God raised up Solomon and gave him a great gift, and the people all rallied around it---Pharisees, Sadducees, whatever they might be. And whether he come from a Pharisee group, or a Sadducee, or whatever denomination that it was, they with one accord all rallied around the principle: what God had did. And one told the other and another told another until all the passers-by begin to hear of it. And they took it off into their country.

27 Would it not be a wonderful thing if we, in the American church tonight, would only pass the good news from one to another like that? Would it not be wonderful if it didn't sweep from nation to nation of the goodness that God has showed us here? But we, oh, we're very clannish. It's not in our denomination, so we don't know whether it can be truth or not. God always picks an individual to work in, not a denomination. Tell me one time that God ever clanned off to a denomination. God in all ages has worked through individuals. Exactly.

28 And in all times and all history, God always raised up a man outside of the denomination and blessed that man and give him a ministry. Martin Luther, John Wesley, on down, just bring them down through the age. Someone outside of the church, because it gets itself to a clan like, and then God can't move in it no more. It gets callused, brings up its doctrine, and ends it with a period. "This is what we believe and nothing else." Your tables of doctrine would be all right if you'd end it with a comma. We believe this plus as much more as we can hear from God. That would be all right then. Then you'd be interdenominational. And, oh, how the people get... And that's the reason the message can't strike the place that it should strike.

29 And I was thinking there of how Jesus spoke of Solomon and how the people coming and going, hearing the message. And way down in the utmost parts of the known world, there was a little woman that was a queen---a pagan---way down in Sheba. And she heard... Everybody coming by said, "You should go up into Israel. Their God has raised them up a man with a great gift, and this gift works marvelous. It's a gift of discernment, and you should see it work."

30 You know the Bible said, "Faith cometh by hearing." And everyone going through, and watching this great miracle being done by Solomon on his discernment... Finally, the little queen begin to hunger. She wondered if that really could be true. Then somebody else come by. "Oh, you should see it. Oh, we've never seen anything like it. They've got a mighty God up there in Israel, and around this gift they're in one accord. No one says anything against it, but everybody believes it." Oh, wouldn't that be wonderful if the church could do that?

31 Then, notice, the little queen begin to hunger to see it. She wanted to see it. And you know, there's just something about the power of Almighty God that when the supernatural is done, every heart that's really right with God, longs to see it. Man is a supernatural being. He come from behind a dark curtain there. He's going out behind that dark curtain. He longs to look across the curtain and see from where he come and where he's going. It's only natural that a man would do that, because he longs to do it.

32 Here some time ago in California, I was sitting in a meeting disguised (That's right.), because a brother was preaching, and I was just sitting there dressed a little different. And I happened to be sitting by a Episcopalian minister.
And the minister on the platform, after he had spoke about a hour and a half, went back behind the curtains and the valet changed his clothes and come back out because he was perspiring. That's just what that Episcopalian minister wanted. He said, "He doesn't behave himself like a servant of Christ." Well, I didn't think it was too much myself, but I sure go take up for my brother on the platform.
I said, "I think he's all right.
He said, "Are you one of these?"
I said, "I don't belong to this church, no sir."
He said, "Do you know what?" He said, "Years ago..." I bet it wasn't a Episcopalian; it was a Presbyterian. He said, "We had the greatest churches on this west coast. We had the whole thing sewed down." And said, "That that cult of Christian Science come along." And said, "They broke up our churches." And says, "Looks like this fellow is going to break up the Christian Science."
Oh, I thought that was just a good place for me to put my little bit in. So, I said, "Sir, if you Presbyterians would have fed the children the bread of life, you'd still been the leading church; but if you won't do it, God's able of these stones to rise children unto Abraham. He will feed His church. He promised to do it."

33 Oh, the great works of the living God. And then this little woman, after she'd been hearing about this, she thought she'd go see this for herself. That's a good way to find out. Don't take somebody else's word for it. Go find out yourself. Sit with an honest heart. Open up your heart and say, "Lord, now deal with me." And examine it by the Scriptures to see if it's right. And she decided to go, because the Word had been planted and she desired to see it.
I want you to notice: As it was with that little woman, so is it with every person that comes to God---it cost you a price. The first thing to begin with she was a woman. And she had to cross a desert, not in a air-conditioned Cadillac, or not in some great, beautiful plush car; but sitting on the back of a camel.
Look at the space between Jerusalem and the country she came from. It taken her at least three months to come to Solomon on the back of a camel. And we will hardly, in a nice car, drive a mile to get to prayer meeting. What a difference.

34 And a gift of God, most of the time, we say, "Oh, nonsense, nothing to it. Dr. Jones said so-and-so and that settles it." That's the reason we get nowhere. That's what's the matter with the world tonight. That's what's the matter with the church tonight. If it had only knowed its day.

35 Now, notice, in the desert in them days the children of Ishmael was there, and they were robbers. She had to think about that. She could have been robbed. So she said this, "I'm going up to see for myself, and if it is the truth, I'm going to support it with all I got." And she ladened her camels with gold and frankincense. She really brought an offering.
If it was truth, she wanted to support it. If it wasn't the truth, then she could bring her gifts back. But then what a shock that would have been for those Arabs in that day in the desert to have caught that little caravan coming through there with their little soldiers, and this little queen woman sitting up on top of a camel, and her little maids around her; just to rode in and shot them down and taken all that great treasure to themselves.
But if there is a hunger in your heart to see God, there isn't enough devils in all torment to keep you from seeing Him. He will make a way where there is no way. If you really want to see Him, and honest in your heart.

36 She had to think of those things. But when faith takes the preeminence, there is no more room for fear. They cast it away. She had one alternative: that was to see if that gift was right. So she ladened her camels with gold and costly things, and she got up on the camel and started. Perhaps traveling by night, being cooler across the great Sahara desert, as she come up through the sands. Oh, what a price. What a journey! But what an ambition tops it all, because in her heart there was something hungering and thirsting to find if there really was a God that could answer.

37 Now, she wasn't a Christian. She was a pagan. So she was coming up to find out about this God. It had been represented to her in a marvelous way: One who performs supernatural. So here she comes. And then when she got to the palace gate... She never come just to sit fifteen minutes and say, "I will watch and see how he goes on. If I don't like it, I will turn back." She unloaded the camels, fixed the tents and stayed till she was convinced.
Oh, if men and women would only do that instead of drawing your opinion and slipping out in a few minutes because the preacher said something that's a little different from your theology. If you'd just believe and sit there. God will reveal Himself to you. "Oh, I attended one night I didn't think much of it, so I just come away."
Not her. She said, "I'm going to see it through."
I like that: See it through, prove it. Find out whether it's the truth or not. If it's not the truth, have nothing to do with it. But if it is the truth, it's worth every ounce and every effort that we can put forth to serve the true and living God.

38 So she got up there, unloaded her camels. She came to stay till it was over. And I can see the little queen, as it was, on the first morning when the meeting was set, Solomon came out and took his seat. And while he was sitting there, they brought to him hard things. And I can see her as she stood back in the corner or somewhere in the great palace yard there, and Solomon sitting, and the people come. She seen the Spirit of the living God moving in human heart, and giving the discernment of right and wrong.

39 Oh, it must have thrilled her heart. She said, "The morning meeting was so great, I believe I will just stay till the evening meeting." So when Solomon sat again, and she seen the Spirit of God moving in that man, oh, it kept building more confidence and more confidence. And finally after a while, she was so convinced until she went and got her offerings and laid them down and presented herself. And here's what she said, "All that I have heard is the truth and more that I heard has been done." She stayed. What happened?
Jesus referred to that woman. Never had heard the Gospel before, but upon hearing, she come and examined it and found it to be so. So, Jesus said she will raise up in the day of the judgment and will condemn you bunch of self-styled, educated Pharisees who should have knowed different and has turned it down.

40 I say this humbly as Christ's servant: I believe that the Hottentots in Africa will rise in the day of judgment and condemn this United States. For if the mighty preaching, and the mighty revivals, and the great signs would have swept Africa as it has this nation here, they would've repented a long time ago, and victory fires would be built on every hill.
But we stay home on Wednesday nights and the prayer meetings to watch some television program that we should not even let be turned on in our house. And in spite of all the things that's done, we wade right on into sin every day. "Denying! Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof."

41 What will be in that day when that little queen rises up in this generation, when some won't come across the city or across the street to examine anything and see if it's right? If it is right, let's put our whole heart in it. If it's not right, have nothing to do with it. If it isn't the Word of God, then it's wrong. If it is the Word of God and His promise, God is obligated to His promise and He will keep every word that He said. Then if He does that to us, it shows that truly He has given to the church tonight gifts and callings and wonders, that He might bring Himself before the people.

42 He's healing. Every person in here is healed right now. The Bible says you are. Every sinner inside this door, and every sinner in the world is already saved and been saved since Jesus' death at Calvary.
You say, "Brother Branham, I was saved ten years ago." No, you accepted it ten years ago. He took away the sin of the world nineteen hundred years ago. But it's your personal faith in a finished work that brings the results. If you never accept it, you'll die and without mercy because you've judged the Son of God thus.
If you are sick tonight, "He was wounded for our transgressions, and with His stripes you were healed." It's a past tense. It isn't that I lay hands on you, or any other minister lays hands on you. It's your personal faith in a finished work that Christ has did. Certainly.

43 In the Bible times when they seen this manifestation of Spirit, they laid people in the shadow of a fisherman who couldn't write his own name (Known as the apostle Peter), and they were healed. They believed it. There was nothing in that man that could heal them, for he was just a man. But the healing laid in their personal faith in Christ that was in the man.
Oh, God, grant tonight, is my prayer, that every person in here will see the Lord Jesus in His great power and His manifestation of His Spirit. And receive Him and be healed and saved, while we bow our heads just a moment for prayer.

44 I'm wondering tonight as we sit with our heads bowed in the presence of His majesty, could you be as that little queen? Could you show the simplicity? That woman had never read no scrolls of Scripture. She just had to believe a testimony, and taken her three months to get to it to find out whether it was true or not. There her heart was satisfied, and today she's immortal among men. She's in glory and will rise in the judgment, with the generation of people who has had the opportunity to receive it and did not.
What did Jesus say? "Verily, I say unto you that a greater than Solomon is here." And even tonight... And I say this with respects and with a humble heart. And I trust that you'll wait just a moment and don't think I'm sacrilegious by my remark. A greater is here among us tonight than there was who said the words, because it's a glorified Jesus. He said, "You might say something against the Son of Man and it would be forgiven you, but a word against the Holy Ghost when He comes to do the same thing, will never be forgiven in this world or the world to come."

45 So, One that has been among us, died and rose again, is glorified in the presence of God tonight, comes back in the form of the third Person of the trinity, the Holy Spirit, and dwells in us and moves and proves Himself to be the same Lord Jesus. "A little while and the world sees Me no more, yet ye shall see Me, for I will be with you, in you. The works that I do, shall you do also. More than this shall you do, for I go to My Father." I wonder in the light of this Scripture, if you've come tonight, if you're not a Christian, would you raise your hand and say, "Brother Branham, pray for me just now. I here want to raise my hands to Christ and say I haven't lived the right life. Be merciful to me, Lord Jesus."

46 Is there a person in the buildings, anywhere in the overflows or anywhere just raise your hand, say, "Brother Branham, I'm not a Christian. Remember me; I want to get right. I come here tonight for a purpose. I come here, I heard about this as you've been preaching about a gift that the Lord God had given to the church. And I certainly don't want to be left out at that day. I don't want no trouble down at the river when I come down to the river. I want to be sure that I'm right. Remember me, Brother Branham, in your prayer." As you'll testify by raising your hand. Backslider, God bless you, lady. Someone else? Just a moment. God bless you, sir. God bless you, sir. That's good. Someone else? God bless you, lady. Bless you.

47 "I here will raise my hand, Brother Branham, to God." Now say, "Lord God, I've come maybe through the snow tonight as the queen come over the desert. Maybe this is my first night here. I've heard about these things. I want to know if it's truth or not. And I want you to pray, Brother Branham, that my heart will be humble, that I will be willing and able to receive the Spirit of Christ. Pray for me." God bless you.

48 Now, Heavenly Father, we ask for mercy for these who have raised their hands. Circumcise every heart now, and I might stand here hour after hour preaching, and yet one word from Thee, Lord God, would count more than all the preachers in the world could say in years. Just one word from You.
Oh, Lord, our hungry hearts do thirst as the hart panteth for the water brook; our souls thirst after Thee. Many coming in tonight raised their hands that they wanted to be remembered. God, I pray that You will give to them tonight the exceedingly abundance of Thy grace.

49 Bless every sick person in the building. And as I just said to them, I pray, Lord God, that it did not go over their head, but it went into the heart that they are already healed. Your power produced that in that all sufficient sacrifice at Calvary. There's where the purchase and power was given. And the great supreme sacrifice was made. And the requirement of an angry God was met. They're justified. The believer in accepting Your propitiation for his sins and his sickness.
O immortal and creator, stand near in these next few minutes, that Thy Word will not be found to be untrue, but that Thy Word might be made manifest.

50 O eternal, blessed God, hear the prayer of Your servant as I pray for this little group that's dared through the snowstorms tonight to come to the church hungering, and thirsting, and longing. They know they come from somewhere and they're headed somewhere.
O Lord, anchor every person's faith there in Calvary. And to our blessed Lord, when He was on earth and how He performed the miracles, and showed that He was the Messiah by discerning their thoughts---telling Philip where he was---and when He got Nathanael and how He told Nathanael that he was under a tree---told Peter his name. The woman touched His garment. The Samaritan woman couldn't understand who He was. She said, "I perceive that you are a prophet, but we know when the Messiah cometh, these things will be done." How she could say after that, "Come see the man that told me the things I've done. Isn't this the Messiah?"
Grant, Lord, that there will be the testimony of this church after the next few minutes.

51 Father God, take the words now and sanctify them and grant now that they'll become life in every heart. For if You stood here in the form of Your being, the people would have to have faith to get the benefits of Your presence.
When You come into Your own city, Capernaum, and to Nazareth, and to Galilee and around in many places; they said, "Oh, we heard You done it somewhere else. Now do it here." And many mighty works You could not do because of their sin, their unbelief. And we know that that's the original sin: is unbelief. And really the only sin.

52 I pray, Father, that You will bless now as we commit ourselves to Thee. And this little gift that Thou has permitted me to have of... I pray that You'll just work extremely great tonight. And what good would it do, Lord, if somebody out there couldn't catch it right quick and believe?
May it thrill the hearts of ministers. May they rise and lift up them feeble hands that's been hanging down. May the church rejoice, for we know that Redemption is nigh. Mercy has revealed itself and next will be judgment for those who have spurned mercy.
Grant it, Lord, now we are in Thy hands in the name of Jesus Christ, be merciful to us. Amen.

53 Real slowly on this song. I love that. How many loves that song, "Saviour, Saviour, hear my humble cry, while on others Thou art calling, do not pass me by." No wonder old blind Fanny Crosby could write that. "Whom have I on earth beside Thee, or whom in heaven but Thee?" Let's sing it quietly and slowly and inspirationally to the Lord, now. All right, somebody can lead it for us.
Pass me not, O gentle Saviour,
Hear my humble cry;
While on others Thou art calling,
Do not pass me by. (Now, quietly
and slowly now.)
Saviour, (in the Spirit of worship) Saviour,
Hear my humble cry;
While on others Thou art calling,
Do not pass me by.(Do you love Him?
Just raise up your hands. Slowly.)
Saviour ... (God's a Spirit and He longs to
be worshipped.)
Hear my humble cry;
While on others Thou art calling,
Do not pass me by. (Now hum it slowly.)

54 Lord God, Thou seest the hands, the faces, knows the heart. Somewhere along, amongst these prayer cards, I got to call someone. They'll be called to the platform. And if it pleases Thee tonight to manifest the resurrection of Thy Son, the blessed Lord, to us, grant that these out there will not be passed by. May everyone receive the benefits of Thy atoning grace tonight, and Thy healing power. For we ask it in Jesus' name, for His glory. Amen.
Oh, I just love this kind of a meeting. Don't you feel just real scoured out like? Just something that just took all condemnation. "There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus that walk not after the flesh (what their eyes sees and their ears hear) but after the Spirit." The Spirit giveth life.

55 Now believe Him tonight, friend of mine. How many was here last night? Let's see your hands. How many this is their first night? Let's see your hands. Oh, my. Then you last-nighters will just wait just for a moment. I'd like to talk to the ones that's here for their first time in the meeting.
My beloved friends, I do not claim to be a healer. If I said that, I would be telling something wrong. I'm just your brother. I do not heal the sick; I pray for the sick. God has already healed them. They've already been healed when Jesus died.
Now the only thing that God can do to make His Word real, is to get some good preacher who can preach the Word. That's the official and the initial way. "Faith cometh by hearing, hearing by the Word."

56 If it was you trying to give a enemy, that's been your enemy... I've often thought, if God will forgive His enemy's sins, won't He heal His children's sickness? And then, if you'd place before your enemy, or whoever, and told them your word, and they didn't believe it, and walked away from it, that would settle it with you and I. But not God. He's not willing that any should perish. So He sends gifts into the church to make known His presence. And I believe that we have been a partaker in this last days in the past thirty, forty years, have been partaker of every spiritual gift that's recommended to us in the Bible that Jesus died for. I believe that this now is the end time.

57 When Jesus was here on earth, He did not claim to be a healer. (Is there newcomers now?) He said, "It's not Me that doeth the works; it's My Father that dwelleth in Me." He doeth the works. St. John 5:19, He said, "The Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise."
And when He manifested Himself to Israel... First was to Peter and He give him his name. He didn't know him and never seen him before, but He told him who he was, and what his father's name was. How many you people believe that's the Bible? St. John the 1st chapter.

58 When Philip got converted, he went and found a friend, Nathanael, under a tree. He told him, "Come see who I've found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph."
He said, "Now, could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth?"
He said, "Come see."
On the road around, he instructed him, like your friends has you coming tonight. And when he got in the presence of our blessed Lord, he looked down and the Lord bid him, said, "Behold, here's an Israelite in whom there is no guile."
It's so surprising that he said, "Rabbi, when did You know me?"
He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." What eyes! Thirty miles around the mountain.

59 But He can see right down into your heart. He's omnipresent. Do you believe that? Omnipotent, infinite. Sure He is. He knows ... He knowed everything before the foundation of the world. He's all present, has all knowledge, all power. That proved that it was God in Him.
He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you."
He said, "Rabbi, You're the Son of God. You're the King of Israel."
See, they had a spiritual conception. Oh, I wish we had just a few minutes here. Would you bear with me if I say I will watch the clock for about three to five minutes?
Did you know the entire body of Jesus Christ is revealed through revelation? Did you know the things that's written in the Word, you have to read the Bible in between the lines? It's a love story. You believe that?

60 Now my wife sitting over there, I love her. God knows that. And when she writes me a letter when I'm overseas, and she knows I'm tired and weary, she will sit down and, "Dear Bill, I've just put the children to sleep. And tonight I'm thinking of you and been praying for you." Now, that's what she's saying, but I love her so much and she loves me that I can read between the lines. I know what she really means, see. It's a love affair.
And if you love the Lord like that, you read the Bible not as a newspaper, not in some theological seminary interpretation of it; but as a love letter. The Bible said so. Now how many knows that? Some of you.

61 Well, Jesus said, "I thank Thee, Father, that Thou hast hid it from the seminary students---the wise and prudent---and revealed it to babes such as would learn." See it from the eyes of smart and educated. It's revealed to babes such as will learn.
Notice, when Job was in trouble and he was fixing to die---he thought. And the angel of the Lord came, and the Spirit came on the prophet, and the thunders roared, and the lightnings flashed. And he stood up and said, "I know my Redeemer liveth. And at the last days He will stand on the earth; though the skin worms destroys this body, yet in my flesh I will see God." You know where he was buried?

62 Along come Abraham. And when Sarah, his sweetheart, when she died, did you notice where he buried her? In the promised land, right with Job. When Abraham died, he was buried with Sarah. Abraham begot Isaac; when Isaac died, he was buried with Abraham. Isaac begot Jacob and he died down in Egypt, but made his prophet son put his hand on his hip, and said, "Swear by the God of Abraham, you'll not bury my bones down here." Why? What difference did it make where he was buried? They were prophets. Spiritual revelation.

63 And when Joseph died, he said, "Don't you bury my bones down here, but someday God will visit you. You take my bones out of this Egypt, up yonder in the promised land and bury them." Why? Nothing wrote in the Word about it. But it was a spiritual understanding. They knowed that first fruits of the resurrection, that Redeemer that Job saw, would rise, and on Easter morning when He rose up, there come Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and the saints that slept under the dust of the earth come out and went into the city and appeared to many.

64 Go ahead, have the world. Take all your unbelief, everything you want. Bury me safely in Jesus, for those that are in Christ will God bring with Him at His coming.
All the formal and the rituals and so forth, just give me the plain old Gospel just the way it's written. Let me believe it in the simplicity that it's wrote in, and believe it just as a child would believe it. God made the promise. God keeps His promise. Certainly He will! Every word, He keeps it. And He's got to.

65 And how He made Himself manifested there to the Jews, it was a spiritual revelation. And Nathanael saw it. Peter saw it. The apostles saw it. They said, "That's the Son of God." But what did the educated Pharisees and Sadducees say?
Now, I'm not trying to make crutches for my ignorance, but speaking... Education is a wonderful thing, but it's been the greatest hindrance the Gospel has ever had. There's never been a barroom that hindered the Gospel like a somebody that's got more education than they got common gumption to know how to control it. That's right. You get so educated, you know more than God knows about it. Just take it the way it's written and believe it. That's the way God wants you to do it.

66 Then, the Pharisees and Sadducees said, "That's a evil spirit. He reveals that by Beelzebub, the chief of the fortunetellers." Then He went up to Samaria, and a woman that had lived in ill fame, as we believe here in America. So, she went out to the well to get some water and there sat a middle-aged man. He was only thirty, but the Bible said He looked to be fifty. His work must have broke Him down. You believe the Bible says that? Sure it did.
Said, "You say you seen Abraham; you're not even fifty years old yet?"
And how long... And He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM." Sure He was. The [Gap in the audio.]

67 Called Jesus the Son of God. There, He was there at the well. And this woman said, "We have no such dealings. No, it's not customary for you Jews to ask Samaritans."
He said, "But if you knew who was talking to you, you'd ask Me for a drink." He was catching her Spirit. And that's why... Remember, He's never manifested now only to the Jews, this is the Gentiles ... or to the Samaritans. Which there's only three races on earth: Ham, Shem, and Japheth's people: Jew, Samaritan, and Gentile. Half Jew and Gentile makes a Samaritan.

68 Now, watch. After close, and them three sons... He has to manifest Himself here. You notice Peter with the key? He opened it at Pentecost. He opened to Samaria at the house of Cornelius. And then she was opened to the world, see.
Jesus manifest Himself under a discerning spirit, telling the secrets of the hearts and where they'd've been---to the Jews; they believe. The others did not believe.
Now to the Samaritans, He said to the woman, "Go get your husband and come here."
She said, "I have no husband."
"That's right, you've got five, and the one you now live with is not yours." Watch what the woman said now, newcomer.
She said, "I perceive that You are a prophet. We know when the Messiah cometh He will tell us these things." She didn't know who He was.
He said, "I'm He that speaks to you."
She ran through the city and said, "Come see a man that told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the sign of the Messiah?"

69 If that's the way He manifested Himself to the Jews... and forbid them to go to the Gentiles. How many knows that? "Don't you go to any Gentiles."
And He manifested Himself to the Samaritans. The Bible said in Hebrews 13:8, "He's the same yesterday, today, and forever." He's obligated to make the same manifestation to the Gentile, and this is the end of the Gentiles. We're at the end. Then God is here to prove that He is just... And if He will come and manifest Himself to His humble servants here tonight, for we all believe Him and love Him and accept it. May the Lord grant it.

70 Last night I think we called first on card ... I believe we called from one to fifteen; is that right? All right, we taken the first fifteen last night; let's take the last fifteen tonight. That'd be eighty-five? What was that letter? I? eighty-five. Who has prayer card I-85? Raise up your hand [unclear words].
Billy give them out this afternoon. Just takes and gets up before you and mixes all the cards up. Gives them right out to ... no one knows where that prayer line is going to be called from right...? [Unclear words.] I start from somewhere.
Eighty-five? Raise your hand. All right. Stand right down here, lady. 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, on to a hundred. Stand up first. It's just a little, short ... then it's just a small space. It'll stand fifteen people.
All right. How many in here does not have prayer cards and you want the Lord Jesus to heal you, would you raise your hand? All over the building, anywhere.
How many has been in meetings before that knows that the Lord Jesus heals more out there in the audience than He does up here on the platform, many times. What is it now? I want your attention just a few minutes now.

71 What is this? What's it for? Who gets the benefit? It's the benefit whoever the Lord Jesus will reveal Himself. How many knows that the Bible said, "No man can come to me, except my Father draws him first."
All right, if you'll just be real reverent out there. Just be reverent, quiet, keep your place. Then God is able to reveal tonight here... And if He doesn't call you individually... How many knows that if He doesn't call you, that He's wanting to do for you the same things that He did here? Let's see your hands.
How many believes in their faith, if Jesus will appear tonight... Now, how can He appear? The Bible said He's the same. How is He the same?

72 I want to ask you something and I believe I mentioned it last night. How do you know what type of tree you're looking at? "By the fruit it bears," Jesus said. Is that right? If it's a apple tree, it has apples. It might have sycamore bark on it. But, if it's bearing apples, the life on the inside of it is a apple tree life. Is that right?
And if I told you tonight that the spirit of John Dillinger was in me, well, you'd expect me to raise back my coat and big guns and... I'd be a murderer. It'd be dangerous to be around me. What if I told you the spirit of some artist was in me? I'd take a great big canvas like that, stand back here with a brush and paint the ocean just as pretty for you, and catch them big licks of the waves, because his spirit is in me.

73 If I told you the Spirit of Christ was in me, then it ought to bear the same record of Christ. And if the Spirit of Christ is in you, it'll recognize it. "My sheep know my voice."
Now, you just believe. Remember I said there's nothing that I can do and there's no other man can do anything else but preach the Gospel and pray (That's all) unless God give him a sign to perform before the people.
What if Jesus was here tonight with this suit on He gave me? You walk up, say, "Lord Jesus, will You heal me?" You know what He'd say? "I've already done it. Can't you believe My word, what I said back there?"

74 If you was in a pawn shop and I redeemed you with a ticket---on a written ticket---that I have redeemed you, how can anyone else redeem you? How can I redeem you again when I've already redeemed you? The devil puts you in a pawn shop. God takes you out. And He's already did it. And the only thing you have to do is just walk out.
Now while they're lining up the people there, just you with prayer cards, come now 'cause it wouldn't be right to put any in the line that didn't have a card.

75 How many remembers the healing of Congressman Upshaw? I was just standing there talking like this when there's thousands of people standing there, and they was fixing to line up and I looked out. I seen an old man, and they'd bring him in a wheelchair. Oh, there was just wheelchairs all over the places in California. And I looked across and I seen a little boy playing on a haystack, and he fell and hit his back across ... over a frame, and it must have broke his back. I seen a doctor with little glasses hanging low on his nose (white mustache and white hair), working on him, but it was no good---too far gone. And I seen them boring holes in the house so that the people walking, it wouldn't vibrate on the floor. He was so bad. And that's the only thing I can say is what I'm looking at.

76 And just then, I seen there come a great man, a famous
speaker, and the vision left. And I looked around, and I couldn't find him. And they had just brought him in, I think, by a plane. And I said, "There's the old man sitting right there, now." And his wife is down with him... He's eighty-six years old, been in a wheelchair for sixty-six years. And there he was, bowing down. And you Baptist tonight, you surely ought to know him. He was the vice-president of Southern Baptist Convention.
So then, he said, "My son, how did you ever know that I fell on a hay frame?"
I said, "Sir, I didn't know."
He said, "It has to come from God, for that is the same type of doctor that operated on me, which is been gone for years." He said, "No minister anywhere..." Said, and they told me, said, "It's Congressman Upshaw."

77 Well, I didn't... He might've said somebody from India. I wouldn't knowed any different, because I didn't know no Congressman. And so Mr. Baxter said, "That's Congressman Willie D. Upshaw." I said I never heard of him.
So he said, "Will I be healed, my son?"
I said, "Sir, I don't know. The only thing I can say is what I see."
And I said, "Have you got the prayer line ready?"
And the boys down there said, "Just about." They started a woman up.

78 I looked out this way. Everybody had been there about a week. Everybody in one accord, all the doubts was gone away. And I seen a little doctor with a doctor's coat on, with tortoise shell glasses, hair combed back. Kind of little, flat, dark hair. Looks something like Brother Vayle here, but he had great big tortoise glasses on.
And he was looking down, shaking his head. And I described the doctor. I said, "He's just operated on a little colored girl for her tonsils, and he took them out, and it paralyzed the child."
Just then a way, way down in this section, down in this way, I heard somebody scream to the top of their voice, and here come a typical Aunt Jemima. Here she come, pulling a stretcher and a man trying to hold her stretcher back. She was just knocking ushers right and left.

79 She said, "Lordy, mercy, that's my baby." And she said, "That was the doctor man that operated on her." And so then, a big bunch of ushers caught her before she got to the platform. It wasn't right.
I said, "Now, look just a moment, Auntie." I said, "I could not heal your baby. If I could, I'd come down and do it; but I can't. It's your own faith that'll have to do it, or the child." I said, "But you way back through here, how did the Holy Spirit know that? Because you were over there believing."
She said, "My baby is laying here, parson, and it's been this way for two years."
I said, "That's the child."
She said, "Come, pray for it."
I said, "That wouldn't be right, Auntie. There's hundreds of people here holding prayer cards. And this is your first time in a meeting. You have no prayer card, you said." I said, "You just get down and pray, maybe the Lord will heal your baby."

80 And I said, "Bring this person." And they let the lady come up and I started to talk to the lady, and maybe people sitting right here was there that night. And when I started to talk to the lady, I looked back and I seen like a little streak---dark---and I kept watching it. Way down through the ... looked like an alley, this little Negro girl had a doll in her arm, rocking this doll, walking along. Oh, my. All the devils in torment couldn't stop it then. It was "thus saith the Lord."
I said, "Auntie, the Lord Jesus has made your baby well."
She said, "You mean my baby will be able to walk?"
I said, "It can now."
The little fellow raised up, said "Looky here, Mommy." And people began fainting around there. And we let the Mother take the baby by the hand, walk down through those long aisles, waving to the people.

81 And just as I turned, I seen the old Congressman in a brown pin striped suit on. He wore a blue suit with a red tie at the time. He was going right over the tops of the heads of the people. He was very southern hospitality, going along, going like this.
I said, "Congressman." (They run the address system to him quickly). And I said, "Haven't you got a brown pin striped suit?" He said, "My son, I just bought one yesterday."
I said, "Thus saith the Lord. It looks like that God would have healed you when you were about seventeen years old and your bones all young. Just wait till your eighty-six and then heal you." But I said, "He's healed you, Congressman."
He said, "Do you mean to say, my son, that I can rise from this chair?"
I said, "In Jesus' name, come here." And that man, being bound to his ... when they raised him up like President Roosevelt, with those great, big things over him (braces) and he walked. You know how he walked, if you knew him. And he threw those down, raised from his wheelchair, went to the platform and touched his toes like that. And stand up as a real man. And traveled the nation.

82 And in Billy Graham's meeting, he sat on the White House steps, singing, "Leaning On The Everlasting Arms." Jesus still lives and reins.
Because he believed! He's no respecter of persons. Just as real tonight as He was then. Only thing He's seeking for is to find someone who will have faith in Him.
All right, sir, you... Oh, excuse me. Here is the showdown. Here is the place where I'm going to be found a false prophet and God's Word unrevealed and be found in error, or it's going to declare it, that God still lives that reigns, that raised up Jesus from the dead.

83 How many Christians are here? Let's see your hands. Real believers. Then it represents your Saviour. Now if Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and we are the vine---He's the branch---then the vine will have to bring forth the type of life that ... the branch, rather, will bring forth the type of life that's in the vine. Is that right?
He said, "The works, these things that I do shall you also." Did He say it? "A little while and the world (cosmos, that means "world order,") will see me no more, yet ye shall see me, for I will be with you, even in you to the end of the world." The believers will see Me.

84 So far as I know, this is the first time I've ever laid eyes on the woman, as far as I know. Are we strangers to one another? Do you know me? Oh, you've been in my meetings. But I mean, I don't you, as far as that. As far as I know, to see you or look at you, I couldn't tell you. You was at the Indianapolis meeting last summer in June. Well then, I'd have no way of knowing what you're here for.
If He will reveal it, will you believe Him with all your heart? Will the audience believe Him? Now here's another picture like the man and the woman at the well: our Lord and the woman of Samaria. Now, this woman could be standing here a critic. I don't know. She could be standing here a Christian. I couldn't tell you.
Oh, how many was at the Wednesday meeting to see that fellow that run to the platform? They thought it was a telepathy and there taken that trouble. There is one man back there was.

85 When he run up the platform, he put on his card, he told... He went to the platform and he said, "How do you do?"
And I said, "How do you do, sir?" He said... I said, "There's nothing wrong with you."
He said, "Yes, there is." I was tired, right at the end of the line. He said, "Yes, there is." Said, "Look on my prayer card down there."
I said, "I don't care what you got on your prayer card."
He said, "I got TB, I got, oh, all kinds of stuff." See, I caught it right then what his trick was. He said, "Well, look on my prayer card."
I said, "I don't know what you put on your prayer card, sir; I have no way of knowing that. But I do know there's nothing wrong with you, now."
And he said, "Well, what happened?"
I said, "I couldn't tell you. You might've just sat out there and got healed [unclear words].
He said, "So, that's the way it is, is it?" And then the Lord came with a vision.

86 I said, "Why has the devil put in your heart to lie before God?" I said, "What you put on your prayer card, you have right now." I said, "You're a preacher, and that man sitting right there with that gray suit on in the balcony is the one that was with you last night. And you sat in the room with a little green spread over a table, and you told your wife that you knowed it was a telepathy. And you got a card and come in here.
That fellow raised up there and said, "Brother Branham, that's the truth. I was right there with him."
I said, "Now, what was on your prayer card you have." He died about six months later with a cancer. Uh-huh, uh-huh.

87 How about the meeting with this fellow that hires this guy to come and (not bewitch. What do you call them fellows that goes to the camp and throw spells on people? You know make them bark like a dog?) ... hypnotism.
And I was praying for the sick, and I kept feeling that evil spirit somewhere. And usually have some of them sticking around, you know. So, if you keep the Christians praying to keep it down.
So, then, it kept getting worse and I looked over and I saw the vision. I said, "Why have you done that? Why did you listen to the devil?" I said, "Because that you've done that, you'll not move from your seat." And the man is still paralyzed. That's right. They led him out of the building that night.
He has wrote letters many times, "Can I come to the meeting?"
I said, "Repent before God; you brought that on yourself. I have nothing to do with it." That's right.

88 So be careful. We're not playing church. It's the Lord Jesus. Hundreds of those things. How about that official in Phoenix there on the police force? You probably read that in your paper. Went completely insane right in the meeting. Sat there, he thought he knowed ... he thought it was psychology, but he come to find out it was the Spirit of the Lord Jesus. That's right.
How they drug me over the top of him in mud and everything, out there trying to get me to even put my hands on him, like that. I said, "Sir, I have nothing to do with that. You did that..."
His wife said, "But, Mr. Branham, don't be heartless."
I said, "It isn't me; it's his own sin before God." Brother, he brought it on himself; I'm not responsible for that. I'm only responsible for believers.
God said, "Get the people to believe you, and be sincere, nothing will stand before the prayer." But an unbeliever, I have nothing to do with it. May be dead now for all I know. There's just hundreds of those things that happened.
Wished I could tell you of Africa, of India, how the witch doctors will sit on bo... And don't you think they don't come up. They certainly will. Never a time, never one time that it ever happened but what the Lord Jesus moves in on the scene. He's God. Certainly. Now, just be real reverent. Keep your seat.

89 Lady, if I could help you some way and if domestic, financial, sickness, or whatever it was, there'd be very little I could do. But I want to say this, that I will be sincere to try to help you if anything that you need help for.
But now, if it's something that comes through the atonement, it's a finished work. It'll be your faith. If God will reveal to me, anoint what you have on your heart, would you believe it was the same Lord that talked to the woman...? I'm not your brother, now. I'm just a man. But believe it was the same Lord that talked to the woman at the well, said He caught what her spirit was, and then told her where her trouble was. Would you believe it to be the same?

90 Now be reverent. You are suffering with an extremely nervous condition. Then you have something wrong with your leg, too, that you want me to pray for. That's right. Raise your hand if that's true. You got more than that that you want me to say. Just to help you: You've had an operation. That was in your throat. Course, I can see the scar. They took out a goiter. But here's something else that you can't see. They want to do something else to it, now. That's from the operation, adhesions has growed in there, and they want cut them loose. That's "thus saith the Lord." That's right, isn't it? If it is, raise your hand. Now do you believe? You do?
Do you believe out there? There's something about the woman. I want to talk to her just a minute because she's got something else wrong or something on her heart.
It's for somebody else. That's a man and he isn't here. I can't pick up his spirit anywhere. That's right. It's your husband. That's what you're praying for. If that's right, raise your hand. If God will reveal to me what's wrong with your husband, will you believe for him? It's his ear. That's right. Go believe now. It'll all be over, in the name of the Lord Jesus.

91 Do you believe with all your heart? Now, is it Brother Branham? No, sir. That's exactly what Jesus did when He was here on earth. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. And He's here to declare Himself before the Gentile people just before His coming. Do you believe it?
If the Lord will tell me what's your trouble, will you believe Him, also? I want to get at least three people in the line. Three is a confirmation.
You're not here for yourself. You're here for somebody else. A relative, mother-in-law. And that is a mental case, insanity. That's right. Do you believe she will come out of it? If you believe, go and receive it just as you have believed and may the Lord grant it.

92 Do you believe that God will heal you of that heart trouble? You do? All right. You can have it, see. Now, see, she never touched... What did she touch? She's thirty or forty feet from me, but what did she do, friend? You say, "Is that in the Scripture?" Absolutely.
A woman touched His garment, He said, "Who touched Me? I perceive that I've gotten weak." Or, virtue (which is strength) gone. How many knows that? If He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, could you touch Him now? How many of you believers that reads the Bible knows that the Bible said, "He's a high priest that can be touched by the feelings of our infirmities?" It's all Scripture.
Now, it's over, sister. You can go home now. Your faith has made you well. You don't need a prayer card; just a faith does it.

93 We are strangers to one another, lady? This is our first time meeting, I suppose? But God knows us both. We were born maybe miles apart and years apart, but God knows both of us. If He will reveal to me what you're here for, will you accept it? You know we're both going to stand in His presence one day. If I could help you and wouldn't do it, I'd be an awful person.
You truly believing with all your heart? You believe that stomach trouble will leave? You're awful sincere about that, son. It's over now. Go eat your supper now, and enjoy it. Nervous condition caused that. It's a peptic ulcer condition. Just don't doubt. Go on; you're going to get well.

94 If the Lord will reveal what your trouble, will you believe it with all your heart? Our first time meeting, but isn't He wonderful? You're aware that something is going on. And you know, standing before your brother wouldn't make you feel like that. If the audience can hear my voice yet, that light, that pillar of fire that led the children of Israel, that was made flesh and dwelt among us, come from God and went back to God. Met Paul on the road to Damascus, that Pillar of Fire that blinded him. The One, His pictures hangs in Washington, DC. We've got it here, it stands between me and this woman.
The woman's got a load of troubles on her heart. That's right. She's suffering with something severely. A bladder trouble. That's bad, isn't it, sister? Awful nervous. You got someone on your heart. You got domestic trouble in your home. That's where your heart is. That's your husband. Immoral act, another person. And the man's got cancer, do you know that? He's dying. He's a sinner. That's true. Go believing, now. May God grant it. Lord, God.

95 Do you believe, lady? I'm a stranger to you. I've never seen you in my life but... You believe that stomach trouble left you? You believe it with all your heart? You can have it.
I keep seeing in here a baby with a rupture. I can't tell... Here, it's laying on this lady's lap. All right, lady. God bless you. You caught His garment just then. The Lord be with you, lady. The baby was [unclear words].
If thou canst believe, all things are possible. Just believe. Now the baby's gone from before me.

96 You are suffering with a extreme nervous condition. And the reason this nervous condition is rough, is because you've just gone through a time that women go through, called menopause. During the time of this menopause, you had a great struggle, an oppression of the enemy. You were prayed for during this time. And you got deliverance, but it's left you in a nervous condition. That's the truth.
Do you believe me to be God's prophet ... or, His servant? That's not all on your heart. You got something else. That's for a loved one. That's a sister. That sister isn't here. She's near a great lake. And the lake is Lake Eerie. And she's in a hospital. She's in Cleveland, Ohio. She's got cancer. The cancer is in the bowels. She's been operated on several times for it and is up for another operation. That's "thus saith the Lord." Believe now. May God grant your need.

97 I suppose we're strangers to each other, lady? Have we had three through the line yet? The Bible said, "In the mouth of two or three witnesses, let every word be established." Do you believe now? All your heart? Then what's left? Just your faith in Him. Your faith that says to the mountain that's before you, "Be thou moved and cast out of my way. Cancer you leave, blindness you leave, crippleness you leave. Be thou cast into the sea, for I'm moving on for the Lord Jesus." When you speak that word, something happens.
Do you realize that you're in the presence of the omnipotent God? That it's Him. The One that you'll stand before at the judgment. Did not He say, "If two or three will gather in my name, I will be in their midst." Then is His Word right?

98 Just a moment for this woman standing here. We got her up here. If we are strangers to one another, is that what's true? Perhaps this is our first time meeting? You was here last evening. You was sitting out in the audience. All right. Then I know nothing of you. You're a lot younger than I am and I've never seen you in my life. But if the Lord Jesus will reveal to me what you're here for, will you believe me to be His servant? Will the audience? Will it settle it forever? This woman and I here, both of us has raised our hands, we don't know each other. And here we are, standing here tonight, our first time ever meeting.

99 Now what could do it? Could I do it? It takes Deity to do it. Now you'll have to admit that it'll have to come through some supernatural power. Now it depends on what you think it is. If you think it's Beelzebub, then you get his reward. If you believe it's Christ, you get His reward. That's right. It depends on what you think.
And You in the audience keep praying. Oh, anything could just happen right now. You know, I'm sure, I pray that God has give me grace in your sight.
It just look like a mist in this building to me, because I'm just as shaky as I can be. Certainly I'm so weak, I can hardly get out of here. If one woman touched His garment and weakness went out of the Son of God, what about me, a sinner saved by grace?

100 A man born a virgin birth the only one ever in the world. And one woman touched His garment. Look what's happened tonight. What's doing this---what this woman? I know nothing about it. It'll have to take her own faith to do it. This is just a gift. I don't operate it; she does the operating. You do the operating. The woman done the operating.
Now in the big visions, God comes down and shows me all about some place to go and what to do and what'll take place. I tell the people just exactly. I'm forty-eight years old. Thousands times thousands and tens of thousands of them has happened. And not one time did ever one fail. Not one time the world over.
Go into countries and see the people and even know what their names are. I can't call their names. I can't speak it. I just spell it out. There it is, every time perfect. It's Christ manifesting Himself just before He comes in judgment.

101 Now, if the people can still hear. The lady must be very sick, because she's been in a doctor's care. And he's doing something about your arm, or it's wrapping something around your arm. It's for blood pressure. It's your blood pressure that's bad. That's right. And he's advising you, it's so bad till it's in a dangerous condition. That's right. That's "thus saith the Holy Spirit." He's advising you to do something in a ... I believe I hear him say, to go to Mayo. That's what he said. Do you believe that I'm looking at that pressure? It's two hundred and sixty: your blood pressure. Exactly right. But you're not from Minneapolis or Minnesota. You're from wooded country---flat, level, wooded country. You live near a place to where there's a lake. And the lake's in a odd ... Paw Paw ... Paw Paw Lake. And you're from Michigan. And you're near a city called Dowagiac. It's where you live. Your name is Evelyn Pierce. That's right. Now go and believe and be made well.
Let's say thanks be to the Lord Jesus and give Him praise. If thou canst believe, all things are possible.

102 Now, I caught thinking: it was reading minds. Lady, put your hand on mine here just a minute. If the Lord will reveal to me what your trouble, will you believe me as His servant? This lady. God will restore your blood to you and that anemia condition will leave. You believe that? Then go on your road and rejoice and be made well for the glory of God. Believe with all your heart.
I don't know the woman. Just put your hand on mine, lady. If the Lord God will reveal to me, looking this way so you see it isn't telepathy, see. If He will reveal to me what your trouble, you'll know whether it's the truth or not, won't you lady? Sure. May He grant it.
The woman is shadowed with death. There's a black shadow hangs over the woman. She's got cancer. That's right. Do you believe He will heal you? Go, receive your healing then and be made well for the glory of God. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

103 Do you believe God will heal that heart trouble sitting there? Then go on your road shouting and praising God.
Now you had heart trouble, too. And you almost had arthritis. So, go on your road; Jesus Christ makes you well. Do you believe it?
What do you think, lady? Do you believe God will heal that back trouble sitting there? Well, go on your road and rejoice and say, "Thank you, Lord Jesus, for doing these great things."
You got a lady's trouble, you're nervous and got heart trouble. You believe God will heal you? Go on your road rejoicing.
How many wants to go on their road rejoicing, thanking God? Raise up your hands. Stand on your feet. (I Will Praise Him, I Will Praise Him.) Are you ready? Let us pray.

104 Lord God, creator of heavens and earth, author of everlasting life, giver of every good gift, Your Spirit is here, Lord. It's baptized the people in power and faith. I charge the devil. He's guilty and he's a bluff and we've called his hand. In Jesus' name, depart from every sick or afflicted person. For the glory of God, I ask this. And it shall come to pass, for God hath promised it.
I will praise Him, I will praise Him,
Praise the Lamb for sinners slain;
Give Him glory all ye people,
For His blood can wash away each stain.
I will praise Him (Do you mean it?
Take my word as His servant. Raise
your hands, give Him praise; it'll go.)
Praise the Lamb for (Oh, He's here!
The Holy Spirit just moving over the
entire audience, baptizing them over
and over, finding a place to come in.)
For His blood can wash away each stain.

The Queen of Sheba

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1 Be seated. Thank you, Brother Vayle. And I'm sure that no one come out tonight just to be seen. It's a very bad night. And God bless your gallant souls for weathering this snow storm, to come to hear the Word of the Lord. And I trust that after this life is finished, that I will meet you in a place where we won't have to brave snow storms to worship the Lord. Now, I call that real, real Christianity. You don't come out just to be seen on a night like this or neither for curiosity. And I'm sure that the Lord will bless us in our gathering together tonight.

2 And now, I'm just a little hoarse, and I won't take but just a few minutes of time to speak, and then we will have the prayer line.
And now, you people that's got your prayer cards, while we're running through these lines of discernment, picking out somewhere a group of a few here and there, to pray for, hold your prayer card, because we're going to pray for all that's got prayer cards. So just keep your prayer card. Let us pray now:

3 Blessed God, it's grateful to Thee, and the adoration of our hearts go to You, when we see people coming through the snow, and the slick roads to come to worship Thee in the service. It shows, Lord, that the faith of our fathers are living still. In spite of dungeons, swords, or storms, God's great church marches onward. And we're so happy to be a member of that blessed body, looking shortly for the coming of our blessed Lord, who will receive us up into His kingdom, into His presence. There will we ever be with Him.
Oh, the glorious thoughts and the joy that sweeps through our souls when we look upon these promises, and the Holy Spirit bearing us record that they are true. And then, tonight, Lord, speak to us in Thy Word, and heal all the sick and the needy that's here. May each of them receive a reward for coming out tonight.

4 If there's any unsaved, may they get that great eternal reward of being saved from their sins.
I pray, God, that You'll stop this snow, send the rain, and wash it away, that we might have good nights while we're carrying this revival in Thy name. Bless our people that's here, our brethren and sisters, Your children. As they come to fellowship around the Word, may they be protected on these slick roads tonight going to their homes; protect them, that no harm and danger come to them. Grant it, Lord, and give us a great blessing.
Now, we're going to open the Word, and no man can open it but You. We can turn the pages back, if we're physically able, but Thou alone, Lord, can open the Scriptures to us. Though we would read it many times, it would be hid from our eyes unless Thou would open it. And we pray that You'll open to us the Word, and may we fellowship around it. For we ask it in the name of Thy blessed Child, Jesus Christ, our Saviour. Amen.

5 In Saint Matthew, the 12th chapter, just for a little Scripture reading, I wish to read the 42nd verse. And then to comment on this just a few moments, and you pray with me.
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.
May the Lord add His blessings to the reading of His Word.

6 Now, the tapes that Mr. Goad here, and Mr. Mercier have, they take them on the messages on recordings. They've got hundreds from all over the country. The outstanding ones was at Chicago, just recently. There's a group of five of them, if you people want them for recording ... or, your recorders. We had a real good PA system and every word was clear. And then, they have them, and they sell them just as cheap as they possibly can. I ordered one from a certain evangelist, not long ago, and I paid nine dollars for the tape. The boys, I think, gets about three dollars for them. And cheaper than that, I think, if you buy them in a group. Just about what the tape ... a little more than the tape is worth---what they have to pay for it, by buying them by the hundreds of dollars worth, at a time. So you can see my associates here, Mr. Goad or Mr. Mercier. They'd be glad to take care of it for you.

7 The reading of the Scriptures, tonight... We have read just a portion of the infallible Word of the eternal God. And Jesus had just been upbraiding them because of their hardness of their heart, because they had not believed him. Then we find that He, back in the former part of the Scriptures, in this same text ... or, chapter, they had called Him, Beelzebub, because He was doing the supernatural signs.
And if anyone knew that God always dwells in supernatural, because God, Himself, is supernatural. And His children, which are His offspring, is the nature of their Father. They also believe in the supernatural. So if they cannot believe in the supernatural, then the Spirit of God is not in them, dominating their life.
And these great cultured men, those days, the priest, and the rabbis, and the Pharisees, which were very highly cultured men, fine, educated scholars, knowed the Word just to the letter, and they had to live unspotted lives, because he that despised Moses law, died under two or three witnesses. And they would be stoned if they did anything wrong. So they must be a selected group, a scholarly group, an educated group. But God doesn't dwell in any of that. God dwells in humility, in an honest heart, such as will receive Him. And these men, had just said...

8 Now notice, when you go home tonight, read this 12th chapter of Saint John, and you'll see that these Pharisees never come right out and told Jesus that He was Beelzebub, but they thought it in their hearts, and He knew their thoughts. He perceived what they were thinking about. And they said in themselves, "This man is Beelzebub."
And Jesus, straightway, was condemning them for their evil thinking. And He went ahead to say ... of the great signs that had been in the earth. And He referred, previous to this, to the prophet Jonah.
And he said, "We would seek a sign from Thee, Rabbi."
And He said, "A weak and adulterous generation will seek after a sign, and there will be no sign given them, but the sign of the prophet Jonah. For as Jonah was in the belly of the whale for three days and three nights, so will the Son of man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights."

9 Now, let's stop just a little bit on Jonah. Now, Jonah had received a commission from God to go to Nineveh. And there's nothing just providential; all God's great wheels turn perfect. Everything is working just exactly the way He knows that it would work. Nothing is just providential: it so happened. God is omnipotent and omniscient. He knows all things and has all power.
Then as Jonah went on his road over to Nineveh ... or, to Tarshish, rather, trying to find a easier way, because it seemed like the ship was going that way, so maybe, the Lord just would send him to this place, to Tarshish instead of Nineveh. He thought, "Maybe that's the way God worked."
God don't always work on the easy road, and things that's at your hand. You have to struggle to do the will of God sometimes.

10 So then, we find our prophet then tonight, as he got on the ship, and there come a great uproar of the sea. And they tied his feet and his hands, and threw him out of the ship. And God had a great big fish prepared for him, and he swallowed the preacher. And there, after the fish feeds... Anyone knows that when a fish feeds, he goes to the bottom and rests himself with his swimmers against the bottom of the lake, or the brook, or the sea, or whatever he's in.
Feed your little goldfish and watch them. Just as soon as they got their little belly full, they'll go right down in the bottom of the jar, and there they'll rest.

11 Well now, this stormy sea, and this prophet, backslidden, hands tied behind him, feet tied, in the belly of the whale, in the bottom of the ocean... I've always thought of this when I see people that look to symptoms. If there ever was a person who had a right to have symptoms, it was Jonah. Look at his condition; there's no one in that condition here tonight. And he was backslid, out of the will of God, feet and hands tied, in the belly of the whale, vomit all over him, sea weeds around his neck, laying in the bottom of the sea. If he looked this way, it was the whale's belly; if he looked this way, it was whale's belly. Everywhere he looked, it was whale's belly.
Now, there's none of us that bad off. And you know what he said? He refused to see the whale's belly. He said, "They are lying symptoms, lying vanities." Watch what that man said, down in that condition. He refused to see his circumstance, and he said, "Once more will I look towards Thy holy temple." Oh, if we could only see that.

12 And Jonah knew that when Solomon dedicated that temple, 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 based his confidence in the prayer of Solomon. And under those circumstances... And if Jonah under those circumstances could base his faith in a prayer of a man that was an earthly man that later backslid, and to an earthly temple which was tore down, how much more ought we tonight, under the little circumstances that we have, to look to the temple where Jesus sits at the right hand of God, with His own blood to make intercession upon our confession---yes, at the right hand of God, to make intercession. Why, our little symptoms means nothing. Oh, how God wants us to look at what He says.

13 Abraham took God at His word, and called those things which were as though they were not (as though they were), because God said so, just kept believing it.
Oh, if we could only look away from these little afflictions, and little light things that we have, these little ups-and-downs, and troubles. They're so little and insignificant. Sometimes, they're put on us to try our faith.

14 Now, we will notice... Now, if you ever read the history of Nineveh, they were a greater city ... or, a bigger city than St. Louis is now, over a million population, I guess, and around about in Nineveh. They were so illiterate, till they didn't know right from left hand, and they worshipped idols. And their sea god was the whale, and you see how God had to get that message to them? The whale swallowed Jonah and kept him in his belly for three days and nights, and when all the fishermen was down there at the sea, the god vomits the prophet up on the bank. Sure, they would hear his message---supernatural---because the god of the sea had sent forth his prophet to preach, and they believed the message.
And Jesus said, "That will be like manner, that a weak and adulterous generation (which we are now living in) as the sign of Jonah, so would it be now."

15 And you notice, that the sign that He was going to give to the weak and adulterous generation was the sign of the resurrection, the resurrected Lord Jesus, that the earth had to let Him loose on the third morning, and He raised from the dead, and is alive tonight, right here in our midst to do the works of God among us. How glorious is the Word of the living God.
Then He said, "And the queen of the south shall rise up in the last day with this generation and condemn it, because she came from the utmost parts of the world to hear the wisdom of Solomon. And behold, I say unto you, a greater than Solomon is here."

16 Now, God, in all generations has had His servant and His prophet, or His message, somewhere in the earth going at all times. God has never been without a witness. And in every generation they received the witness of God. And then, if the people received that witness, then that is a golden age for that generation. If they turn that witness down, then it is a dark age for that generation.
Now, God had done a great thing in the days of Solomon. And we all know, as readers of the blessed Word, that that age of Solomon was considered the golden age of Israel. They built the temple. The whole world paid them tribute, in the reign of Solomon, which was a foreshadow of Christ, the Son of David.
And notice, God gave Solomon a gift of discernment, and all of the nation, the entire economy of Israel, all believed that with one accord: everywhere, every place, on every lip, "Oh, God has visited us with a great gift." And that's the reason the nation prospered.

17 Now, would it not be great today, if we, the people of God would accept the Gift of God that He sent us, that is, the Holy Ghost? If we would only, with one accord, if this whole nation would accept Christ, the Holy Ghost, the Gift that God has sent us, and there would be no denominational barriers between us, and we'd be one heart, and one accord, I'd say, "Brother, it would be better protection than all of the bombs that any scientist could create." We would have a protection, and our protection would be made out of feathers, for under His wings we would be abiding just as safely as we could be, if the nation would just accept it. But how can we get the message across when we're all divided, and in different notions, and guns trained on each other, and that's what makes it hard.

18 Now, we notice, when that begin to take place and the entire church begin to testify, and accept and believe with all their heart in that great gift that God had sent them... Why, certainly, the other nations begin to hear of it. And a way down, across the Sahara desert, way down into Ethiopia, the queen of Sheba, she lived in the utmost parts of the known world, of that day. And no doubt, this little pagan queen down there... Now, she was not a believer; she was a pagan. And when she was... Every one would come by, and hear of this great gift that was up in Israel and Palestine. They would go down, and the passer-by would tell in all different parts of the country, "Oh, you should be up in Palestine. They're all united with one heart and one accord. And their God has sent them a great gift, and God has made that man the king. And with one accord, they all believe." Oh, wouldn't that be a real example for the church today? "Just one accord, they're all in one accord. And oh, their God is performing miracles." Isn't that a rebuke to us today, as a nation and as a church? "Their God is doing great things among them."

19 And you know, every time somebody would come by from up that way, they would tell that to the little queen. "Now, faith cometh by hearing, hearing the words of God." And you know, when you really begin to speak of the supernatural, and of a God who still lives, there's something about it in every man's heart that has any spirituality at all, he longs to see behind that curtain. Every man is it, because inside of him, he's a supernatural being. He's got a spirit that motivates him, that makes him to move, and to talk, and to think, and he is a supernatural being.

20 And this little woman, being a queen, she begin to draw up a lot of enthusiasm, for everybody was telling the same thing. That's the way we want to do it: all speak the same, glorifying God. Not one say, "Well, I'm a Baptist; we don't cooperate with such. Oh, I'm a Presbyterian; I'm not Pentecostal." Don't make any difference what it is, what denomination, or what tag they're wearing, if you're a son and daughter of God, you can't keep away from it. That's right.

21 I used to do a lot of riding. My father was a rider. I'm not much of a rider, but I've done a lot of ranch work through my life. I used to work on the old Tripod, which I go hunting on now, many times in Colorado. In the springtime, when we'd ride out there with the cattle, they had the drift fence coming down from the Arapaho Forest, and we herded, the Hereford Association grazed the Troublesome River valley. (That's between Berthoud Pass and Rabbit Ear Pass; you can catch it on Forty---Troublesome River.)
And way up, about twenty-five miles up there, our ranch was at the head of the river. And all the association would drive their cattle up there in the spring time. If you could raise as much as a ton of hay, you could put a cow on the forest. That was the quota from the Chamber of Commerce, and you had to have a brand. And a many a day I've sat there after riding for days getting the cattle up to the drift fence, and watch the ranger standing there as he counted them, and marked them, as they went through.

22 And I sat there, and I've watched the Diamond T go across. I watched the Lazy R cross, our Tripod, the Turkey Track just below us. And I noticed, sitting there with my leg across the horn of the saddle, as they passed that drift fence, the ranger wasn't too much concerned about what kind of a brand they had on them, because they done been checked on that. But he was concerned about what kind of a blood they had in them. Nothing could get in there but a thoroughbred Hereford, nothing else. The blood tag is what counted, the last gate.
And I think that's the way it will be at the end of time; God won't look whether we are oneness, or twoness, or threeness, or fiveness, or whatever we are; it'll be the blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son. He will look for that blood sign at the end of the journey. Oh, if we could just be in one accord and respect the Gift that God has given us.

23 Then we notice, also, that after that little faith got built up, and someone else, testifying, some traveler said, "Oh, you should see the great miracle working. You know, I believe that Israel has a true God up there, because all of our idols, they don't speak."
We got a lot of theology, but there's nothing in it. No matter how good the theology is, if it don't speak back... A God of history is no good if He isn't the same today. What good does it do to feed your canary bird all kinds of vitamins to make it have good wings, and then keep it in a cage all the time? It doesn't do any good. What we want to be is free, get out so we can spread our wings, our wings of faith in the power of the resurrected Christ, and soar above this carrying-on here on earth.

24 And we notice then, they begin to create a desire, till finally, she said, "All this that I've been hearing, I believe I will go up and find out for myself."
That's a good way. Don't sit across and say, "Well, my church isn't cooperating." Go anyhow. She did. She was on her road, whether they were Pentecostal or Presbyterian, it didn't make any difference to her. Her heart was hungry, because God was leading her. And sons and daughters of God are led by the Spirit of God.

25 Notice this little woman. Now, being a woman, she had a lot of difficult before her. Now, she said, "I'm going to take enough food and so forth to stay, and I'm not going up there just for one night and hear the preacher preach; and if I don't like what he says tomorrow night, I won't go back."
She was going to stay till she was convinced. That's the way to do it, stay till she was satisfied. She was going to examine it by the Scriptures, and see whether that gift was right or not.
And notice, she said, "If it is right, I'm going to support it." She took a lot of gold and frankincense. She was going to do something about it. If it was real, it was worth something. If it wasn't, she was going to bring her gold back. That's the way to do it. It's the truth.
Now, I'm not plugging for offerings for our churches and things, I'm just telling you that it's not only worth your money, it's worth your time, and your life, and your devotion, and everything that you are, if it's right. Your testimony, all that you are, it's worth every bit of it, because it costs what He had to bring it to you.

26 Now, she got ready. Now, the first thing, she was a woman. Now, she had to cross a desert. Mark the time. You know how long it taken a camel to cross from where her palace was to Solomon's palace? It taken three months, three months, not in an air-conditioned Cadillac, but on the back of a camel, through the hot sun. Oh, my, and some here in America won't walk across the street to see it. They're not concerned, but she was; something was digging at her heart.
Oh, God knows His own. "All that He foreknew, He's called. All that He called, He justified. All that He has justified, He has glorified. No man can come to Me except My Father draws him first."
So you see, the Gospel can be preached in the power and the demonstration of the resurrection, and people's hearts can be so hard till they're not even concerned any more. See the condition of the day we're living in? But there's where we're living. I'm saying this because I appreciate, tonight, your sacrifice, not through a desert, but through a slick streets and over roads for hundreds of miles. It shows that God still draws the people, regardless. They come, regardless; weather doesn't stop them.

27 And she came, and she... And another thing she had to do... Remember, she being a woman and laden down with gold, and the sons of Ishmael was in the desert and they were robbers... What a setup that would've been for them: a little woman with a few guards around her, sitting on the back of a camel, perhaps, had to travel mostly by night, because the desert is so hot in the daytime, no water, just what she could pack on the camels. Oh, she had a lot to confront, but she was determined.
And if a man or a woman is determined, God will go with them and see that it comes to pass, and they get their desires. If something is thirsting, if the deep calls to the deep, there's got to be a deep to respond to it. Before there was a fin on a fish's back, there had to be water for him to swim in first. Before there was a tree to grow in the earth, there had to be an earth first for it to grow into.

28 I read sometime ago where a little boy eat the erasers off of pencils in school. Then his mammy caught him eating the pedal off of a bicycle, and she took him down to the clinic. And when they examined the little fellow, he needed sulfur. Sulfur is found in rubber. Now, before there could be a crave for sulfur, there had to be a sulfur somewhere to respond to that crave.
And as long as you're willing to drive through a snow storm to come to Christ to be healed, there's got to be a fountain open somewhere. As long as you crave... As long as this church craves for more of God, there's more of God somewhere to respond to that crave. "The deep calling to the deep," as David said, "at the noise of Thy water spout."
The deep calling... Before the deep can call, there's got to be a deep to respond to that call or there'd be no call. So if there wasn't a Bible to tell me that Christ healed, to see you here tonight under these conditions, I'd still say, "There's a fountain open somewhere." Certainly.

29 That little queen that desired to know a living God, there was a living God somewhere for her to find. No matter what the circumstances was, she was going to do it anyhow. She put all the materials on the camels---the spice, myrrh, frankincense, and the great costly things, that cost literally thousands times ten thousands of dollars. Today you couldn't buy them for the many, many times more than you would've got then. It'd cost in the millions to get it. But she ladened her animals, and she got her little caravan started, and as she started off across the desert, all them circumstances... But yet, something in her heart was pulling her. "Oh, if that is the truth." Now, she's on her road, but "Is it the truth?"

30 So when she arrived, she didn't come just to stay a hour; she took her camels, and put them away, and put up her tents and whatever she had, held her gifts to herself. She went into the church; that morning when Solomon took the pulpit, and they begin to bring the cases up to him, she marveled at that great spirit of discernment. But she said, "I will come back tomorrow, when he's sitting." And she stayed, and day after day she watched it without one failure. God can do anything but fail. She watched it. How perfect it was. And then, when she was thoroughly convinced in her heart, being a pagan, she was thoroughly convinced that there was a God who lived---not an idol but a living God, because He was working in His living creature, showing Himself, that He was God. And she said, "All that I have heard was right, and more than I heard is right." She was thoroughly convinced. She gave her gold; she gave her gifts to support it, and to build in the temple of God, and to do everything that she could do to support it.
And Jesus said, "She will rise up in the judgment, with you well trained Pharisees, and condemn you." Amen. I feel religious right now. You don't think a Baptist shout, you might... Yes. "She will rise. She will stand up in the day of 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, a gift of wisdom, discernment, and verily I say unto you, that a greater than Solomon is here."

31 And tonight, when they just called Him, Beelzebub, He said, "I will forgive you for it, but when the Holy Ghost is come and does it, there'll never be forgiveness for that."
So I say that Jesus, after His death, burial, and resurrection, His power is stronger and more persuading tonight, than it were back there in that day. So what will she do to this generation? For this is God's last call, sending the Holy Ghost into the church to call His people. It's God's last call.

32 She wasn't scared. She didn't care what the presbyters was going to say when she got back, what the bishops and all of them was going to say. She stood publicly, and she said, "All that I heard is the truth, and more than I heard is the truth." She stood for God, and she supported the thing, and she stands today, immortal with the words of Jesus Christ that says, "When she rises on the scene in the resurrection, her obedience to God will condemn that generation. For she stood for what was right, when God had sent His gift to the earth, and it was being manifested. She came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon."

33 Some time ago, across to Central America, here there's a minister by the name of Daniel Greenfield. And he went to sleep one night, and he dreamed. And he dreamed that he died, and he was taken up to the gates of paradise.
And when he knocked at the door, the doorkeeper came, said, "Who art thou that desires to enter these gates?"
He said, "I'm Danny Greenfield." Said, "I am the American evangelist."
Said, "Just a moment, sir. I will see if I can find any record of you here." He came back, and he said, "There's no record here of you."
"Oh," he said, "there must be something wrong. Surely, my record is there."
"No, there's no record here."
Said, "Well, what shall I do?"
Said, "There's only one thing that you can do, if you wish to. You can appeal your case to the white throne judgment, if you wish to appeal your case."
And he said, "Well, if that's all I can do; I will do it."

34 So he said He begin to move out through space. He said it seemed for some time he traveled just in space. And after awhile, he come into where it begin to get light, lighter, lighter, and the lighter it got, slower he begin to move. And finally, right in the center of this light, he stopped. There was no certain place it was coming from, but just all around him, extreme light. Just many times stronger, and more brighter than the sun. And he said he looked around, and after a while, a great deep voice said, 'Who art thou, that stands before My judgment?"
And he said, "I'm Daniel Greenfield, the American evangelist. I came to the gates of paradise, and I was asked to come here to Your judgment seat to have my case pleaded."
Said the voice came back and said, "Very well, Daniel Greenfield, I will try you at My judgment seat." And He said, "I have a law that you must be tried by." Said, "Daniel Greenfield, did you ever tell a lie while you was on earth?"
He said, "I thought I'd been a truthful man, but in the presence of that light," he said, "I seen a lot of things that I had said that wasn't right." And he said, "Yes, Lord, I lied."
He said, "Daniel Greenfield, did you ever steal while you were on earth?"
And he said, "If anything I thought I'd been, I'd been honest." But said, "In the presence of that great light, I seen a many a little shady deal I pulled."

35 Listen, friends, you might think you're all right now, but in the presence of that light, it'll be different. It'll certainly be different. You might be a good church member; you might dress good; you might help the poor. That might be all right, but oh, in the presence of that light, that white throne judgment...
And then the voice said, "Daniel Greenfield, was you perfect in your life?"
"Oh," he said, "no, Lord, I wasn't perfect." And said he was listening for a great blast to come from somewhere and say, "Then depart from Me." Said his bones begin to come unjointed, as it were, and he was trembling, knowing that he would sink into a devil's hell in a few minutes, to be there for eternity.
And said while he was facing that, and listening for the voice, he said, "I heard a voice behind me, was the sweetest voice I ever heard in all my life." He said, "It was sweeter than any mother's voice, that I ever heard." And said, "When I turned, I seen the sweetest face I ever saw." And said, "He put His arm around me, and He said, 'Father, that's true; Daniel Greenfield wasn't perfect in his life, but there's one thing he did: when My glory was made known, Daniel Greenfield stood for Me on earth. Now, I will stand for him up here.'"

36 Oh, God, let that be my plea tonight. Let me stand for Him like the Queen of Sheba did in the face of critics. Let me take my position and stand for Him, for on that day, no merit will I have; I will trust in His alone.
If you were going tonight, who would stand for you there? Let us think of that just a moment while we bow our heads.

37 Sinner friend, would Jesus stand for you tonight? Backslider, you church member that's never received God's gift, the Holy Ghost, and you're ashamed of it because your church don't teach it. "If you're ashamed of Me before men, him will I be ashamed before My Father and the holy angels." Don't you never try to stand by the teachings of a mortal man. Don't you never try to stand with that spirit that you have; it's condemned from the garden of Eden. It's not a face lifting the church needs, it needs a birth. You must be born again. And if you haven't received that blessing of being born again, and know that you've passed from death unto life, I wonder if you'll just---with your heads bowed---if you'd just raise your hand and say, "Christ, by this, I promise by Your grace, I will stand for you from this night, henceforth."
Would you raise your hand, anywhere in the building. God bless you, lady. God bless you. God bless you, sir. God bless you, back there. Up in the balcony, along the rows back there in the bleachers. Someone up there, just raise your hand. Say, "Brother Branham, pray for me."

38 We have to cut this short now, because it's time to start the prayer line, but I'd just like to see if someone would raise your hand (some more, rather) and say, "I haven't lived the right life." God bless you, sir.
"I know that I've seen a many time I took down, when I ought to have stood for Jesus. I took the place of the Pharisee, a religious person one day said, 'Take away this man, and give us Barabbas.' The man who had done nothing but fill the country with love, and signs, and miracles, and wonders... "But away with Him."
"When they voted for this revival, I actually put my hand against it, but now I'm going to change it. I'm going to raise my hand to God, and say, 'Be merciful to me.'"
God bless those little fellows up there, ten, twelve year old children, just at the turning spot. All right. Someone else? Just raise your hand, say, "Remember me, Brother Branham."

39 You say, "Does that do any good to raise my hand?" Absolutely. God bless you, sir. God bless you, lady. That's right. What does it do? It changes from death to life, if you mean it. God bless you, sir, over here. I see you too, you, lady, way to the left. God bless you, back there, at the back of the bleachers. You next, sir, right down the line there. God sees you. What does it mean? What did Jesus say? "He that heareth My words, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into the judgment, but has passed from death unto life."

40 "What does holding my hand up do, Brother Branham?" Well, we got a science that tells us that gravitation holds your hand down. There's no possible way to scientifically prove that your hand can raise up, according to gravitation. That's what keeps you on earth. Gravitation holds you here. It holds your hand down. What made your hand go up? It goes to show that there's something in you, a spirit of life, that's made a decision. And you know that you're wrong, because a Spirit of God has spoke in you. And you raise your hand towards your Creator to recognize that you're wrong, and asking His mercy. You defy every law of science, right there. You break the law of gravitation, because there's a supernatural something in you, that causes you to raise your hand and make a decision for Christ.

41 Would you do it? Someone else that hasn't done it, just before we pray? God bless you back there, sister. God bless you here, my brother. God bless you in the balconies. Yes, that's right. Up in there, and along the rows, God sees your hand, brothers, sisters. Certainly, He does. When you stand by doing that, you're standing for Christ. When you raise your hand, you fully declare to God that you're sincere. And what is it? A Spirit, right by you, over you, talking to you, saying, "What have you done for Me?"
What if you die in a heart attack tonight? What if you're laying on your pillow, and you wake up, and you feels your hands getting cold. You scream for a doctor; he comes, says, "It's a heart attack; he's gone." And you feel your pulse getting icy, wife, mother, babies, whoever it is, screaming over you. Then you've refused to stand for Christ; whose going to stand for you then? Oh, my beloved friend, stand for Him. Make your stand now, gallantly, saying, "Yes, Lord Jesus, I now take my stand. On Christ, the solid rock I stand; all other grounds is sinking sand."
"I know I've never been born again. I know I have never met peace with Christ, and I want to do it now, and God be merciful to me." That's good. God bless you. Let us pray:

42 Dear God, who brought again the Lord Jesus from the resurrection, and appearing to us here nightly, showing us that the sign that He promised, as Jonah was in the heart of the earth, so shall the Son of God be in the heart of the earth ... or, Jonah in the belly of the whale, the Son of God in the heart of the earth.
He's raised from the dead. He's here now. Be merciful to us, Lord. We love You, and we're Your children. And many hands has went up. You said, Your own words, "No man can come to Me, except My Father draws Him. And all that comes to Me, I will give them eternal life and will raise them up at the last day." That's Your Word, Jesus.

43 Now, the preaching of the Gospel, that's the trophies of the message. They have raised their hand, and now, God, who called them, and drawed them is presenting them now to His Son as love gifts. Now, they become the love gifts of God to His Son, to be the members of His church. Fill them with the Holy Ghost, Lord. Pour out upon them, Thy divine Spirit. Make them gallant soldiers to stand for You, here in this present day. And I'm sure, in the life that is to come, You'll stand for them, when death's cold river comes before them, and the waves of old Jordan begins to dash against their soul. They can scream at the bank, "Send out the lifeboat, Father," and two glossy wings of the Holy Ghost will come down over the stormy Jordan and bear their souls into the kingdom of God, crossing by the way of the cross.
God, grant it just now; I present them to You, as the fruits of the message. In Jesus' name. Amen.

44 Give us, sister, a little chord, "There Is A Fountain Filled With Blood." Oh, let's just change that: "My Faith Looks Up To Thee." Would you give us that chord? How many knows that old song? Now, how many feels real good---just scoured out? Feel the Holy Spirit's just been in here, and just scoured us out. Do you feel good? Just raise up your hands. Oh, that's wonderful.
Now, if just preaching is all we have, we have to wonder. But God is here to confirm exactly what He's promised. All right. "My Faith Looks Up To Thee." One verse:
My faith looks up to Thee,
Thou Lamb of Calvary,
Saviour divine!
Now hear me while I pray,
Take all my sin away,
O let me from this day,
Be wholly Thine!
Now, real quietly, let's hum it. Just raise your hand up.
While life's dark maze I tread,
And griefs around me spread,
Be Thou my guide;
Bid darkness turn to day,
Wipe sorrow's tears away,
Nor let me ever stray
From Thee aside. [Brother Branham hums.]

45 O Lord, the Word has gone forth, and now, Lord God, Thou does never leave a generation without Your supernatural works. And these young Christians, some twenty-five or thirty raised their hands, they needing mercy. And I pray, God, that these people, tonight, as soon as the service is closed, will walk up to these cooperating ministers here, shake their hand, and say, "Pastor, I want to come to your church. I want to be baptized. I want to take my stand in your flock. And I want to stand there, and be a gallant soldier to Christ, as long as life is in my body." Grant it, Lord.
Now, maybe this is their first time to be in a meeting. They maybe have never seen that You still give gifts, and You've given us the Holy Ghost in this last day, and He promised the thing of the resurrection.

46 Now, holy God, grant that these Christians will be privileged tonight to see the power of the resurrected Jesus. Grant it, Lord, that they might go back like the queen of Sheba, after they've made their stand, and after she'd made her stand. Back across that desert she went.
Oh, it seemed, no doubt, a lot shorter going back. Oh, she was so happy. The camels walked different. All of them were singing hymns to Jehovah. Things had changed. The desert wasn't half so hot.
Grant, Lord, that on their road across the icy streets, and roads, tonight, it'll be the same thing. May they rejoice as they go along, knowing they passed from death unto life, and have seen the resurrected Jesus, the sign to a weak and adulterous generation. Grant it, Father. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen.

47 (What? X, 1 to a 100. What was it last night. H?) They gave X's tonight, prayer card X. Last night was H's. Tonight's X. Hold your H's, we will get you up here just as quick as we can. When we give a group of cards out, we're waiting for the weather to get a nice group in here and everything, so we could start, really having a regular prayer lines the way we want to have them. Now, but now we're just holding on.
How many's never been in one of the meetings before? Let's see your hands. How many's never been in one of my meetings? Just look. I do not claim to be a healer, my Christian friends. I'm not a healer, but here's my contention, that I contend that Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He raised from the dead. He's not dead; He's alive. And when He was here on earth, the works that He did, He promised He would do again in the last day: "He that believeth on Me, the works that I do... (Saint John 14:7.) He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he also." He said, "A little while and the world sees Me no more, yet, ye shall see Me, for I will be with you, even in you, till the end of the world. The works that I do..." What kind of works did He do?

48 He said He did not heal people. How many knows that? "It's not Me that doeth the works, it's My Father that dwelleth in Me. And the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing."
That's the reason when He went and got Nathanael and brought Him to Him, the Jew... When Philip went and got him, he said ... found him under a tree, and he said, "Come, see who we found: Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph."
He said, "Could any good thing come out of Nazareth?"
He said, "Come, see."
Maybe that's what many of the sinners thought tonight, "I will go see. I will find out." That's the best way to do. Come find out.
And when Philip, on the road back, had told him, no doubt, but what when Peter come, which was... First he wasn't Peter; he was Andrew ... or, Simon, rather. And then on his road... He was Andrew's brother. And when he come up to him, He'd never seen him before, He said, "Your name is Simon, but I'm going to call you, Cephas," which is Peter, "a little stone." And He said, "Your father is Jonas." That startled him.
That was Jesus yesterday. He's got to be Jesus today if He's the same. Is that right? All right.

49 Then this Philip, of the same city of Bethsaida, went over and found his friend, and his name was Nathanael. He said, "Come, see who we've found." He was under a tree praying when he found him. Said, "Come, see who we've found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph."
He said, "Could any good thing come out of Nazareth?"
Said, "Come, and see." On the road around, he no doubt told him what had been taking place.
When he walked up in the front of Jesus, Jesus said, "Behold an Israelite, in whom there's no guile." He could've been a Arab; he could've been a Greek; they all dress the same, turbans and robes. But He said, "You're an Israelite, in whom is no guile."
He said, "Rabbi, how did You know me? Whence knowest Thou me?"
And He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." Thirty miles around the mountain... That was Jesus yesterday.
What did this Jew say, this real true Jew? He said, "Rabbi, You are the Son of God. You are the King of Israel."
Jesus said, "Because I told you that, you believe?"
What did the Jew say, the real orthodox stiffy? He said, "He's Beelzebub, a fortuneteller, a devil."
Jesus said, "I forgive you for that, but when the Holy Ghost is come and does the same thing, it'll never be forgiven you to speak against it. It's blasphemy of the Holy Ghost."

50 When He met the Samaritan woman at the well, He said, "Woman, bring Me a drink."
She said, "The well's deep; You have nothing to draw with, and it's not customary for you Jews to ask us Samaritans that." They had a law of segregation, like it is in parts of the south, for the colored and white, a law of segregation: "We have no dealings with one another."
He said, "But if you knew who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink. I give you water you don't come here to drink."
The conversation went on; what was He doing? Contacting her spirit. And when He found out what her trouble was... How many knows what her trouble was? She was living with five husbands.
And He said, "Go get your husband and come here."
She said, "I don't have any."
He said, "That's right; you got five, and the one you have now is not your husband."
Now, watch what she said, "Sir, you're Beelzebub." No. "That's a telepathy." No. What was it? She was looking for something to happen. She knowed the time was at hand. She said, "Sir, I perceive that You're a prophet." She said, "We, we, Samaritans, know that when the Messiah cometh, He will do these things, He will tell us these things." But she didn't know who He was.
He said, "I'm He, that speaks to you."
And she run into the city, and said, "Come, see a man who told me what I've done. Isn't this the Messiah?"

51 But remember, He never done that before any Gentiles. And He told His disciples, "Don't go to the Gentiles." Why? This is their age. That was the closing of the Jew ... that was the last sign that the Jews received. How many knows that? The Jews and Samaritans. And this is the last sign to the Gentiles. We're at the end road.
God gets my throat a little better, I want to try to preach a little this week, if God willing, if my throat gets so I can. All right. We're at the end time now. I want to talk on that, "The End Time," maybe Sunday afternoon or some night. Now, be reverent.

52 Now, Jesus said, in Saint John 5:19. "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself." Was that the truth? Could He lie? Not and be the Son of God. "The Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise."
So then, Jesus told the truth then. He had to tell the truth. He was the Son of God. So He never did one miracle until God showed Him first what to do. How many knows that's the truth? Not one miracle, until God showed Him first what to do.

53 Now, Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever, then to declare Himself in this generation, He's got to do the same in order to be the same. Is that right? How many believes that now? Raise up your hand.
Now, to you young converts, and to you newcomers, if Jesus will appear here on the scene and will do the same thing that He did back there in them days, to prove that we're at the end of the age... And never through the age has it ever been till now. I ask any historian to bring me the history. Never has it been, until this age, right now, in the last few years, last five or six years. Never has He done it, never.

54 A woman touched His garment, and He said, "Who touched Me?" He couldn't feel it. The Palestinian garment has a underneath garment, and a loose robe, and she touched the border of His robe, which hung that far from His leg. Said, "Who touched Me?"
Why, Peter rebuked Him, said, "Every one is touching You."
He said, "But I got weak. Virtue's gone from Me." And He looked around till He found the woman, and He told her what her trouble was and said that her faith had healed her. How many knows that? How many knows that the Hebrew book says, "That Jesus Christ is a High Priest, today, that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities."? Is that right? How would He act? He's the vine; we're the branches. The vine doesn't bear fruit; the branches does. The church is the fruit bearers today, see. My hands is His hands. Your hands is His hands. Your eyes and my eyes is His eyes. He just uses us as yielded branches.
Father God, the rest is Yours now. Let it be known tonight, that You're the Son of God that's raised from the dead. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen.

55 Let's see. I believe in... What was that H last night, and X tonight. All right, we went up around twenty or twenty-five last night, I think. Didn't we? In the line? Let's start from twenty-five tonight. X-25. We just start from anywhere, doesn't matter. Who's got X-25? Look at your card now, you got... The lady over there? Would you come right here, sister? 25, 26? X-26, would you raise your hand right quick? Look at your card, your neighbor. Someone... If one of the ushers would watch this lady here, maybe she couldn't raise her hand. She's in a wheelchair. All right.
X-26, raise your hand quickly. All right. 26, 27? That's right, raise your hand so I can see you, right quick. Now, 27, so we can... [Blank spot on the tape.]

56 Mouth of two or three witnesses, let every word be established. Now, I'm going to ask you to do one thing. Be just as reverent as you can. Don't move around; sit real still.
How many doesn't have a prayer card, and you want God to heal you? Raise your hand. Raise your hand so I'll see where you're at. All right. Now, you do this. That's in every section and everywhere. You just look to God and say, "Lord God, if that man's told me the truth, speak to me. I believe that You're the High Priest that sits at the right hand of God. And I believe that You can be touched by the feeling of my infirmities. And if You are the same yesterday, today, and forever, doing that in the prayer line, then You've got to be the same to speak to me. Now, I look to You; by faith, I believe that I touch Your garment. And now, if You are, and You're now the Vine, and we are Your branches, then speak through Brother Branham, and have him call me."
I challenge your faith in Christ's name, to do that and see if He does, see. It's just Scripture. How many knows all that's Scripture? Certainly it is, a promise of God.

57 Now, if the engineer will watch; I know this microphone is not too loud, and I don't know when a vision comes; you're in another world. You don't even ... I don't know what I say myself. I just have to say it while I'm looking. When I come out of the vision... That's the reason I don't take too many, because you can't tell whether it's vision or not, see. And you don't know which. But just be reverent. I seen as many as fifty come through at a time. If the faith is good, I don't talk too much for Him, just let them pass through. But now, here...
How many in here are strangers to me, that I don't know? Raise your hands. Everybody that knows that I don't know you. Well, it's a hundred percent.
You had up your hand too, lady? All right then, we're strangers to one another. Now, here is a woman and a man. Now, to you people here, let's just take our time now for about... We got fifteen minutes to let out on time.

58 Now, look, this is our first time meeting. I never seen you in my life, and perhaps this is our first time meeting. If that's right, would you just raise your hand?
Now, I want you to watch, the audience, when you really strike a real believer. Watch the expression on their face as soon as that anointing hits them.

59 How many has seen the picture (Have you showed it yet?) of the Angel of the Lord? Let's see your hand, now. Yeah. It's here now. You remember, that's vindicated by the FBI, the head of it, see. Now, that's the Angel of the Lord, that I've been... If this is my last sermon to preach, if this is my last time to appear in public, there's millions of the people of the church knows that's the truth. And the scientific world can't deny it, because it's scientifically proved. My word has been the truth. Because God has vindicated it with His church, and it's vindicated to the scientific world.

60 In Germany, they taken three pictures. Taken a big camera, and sat there, and asked if they could take it. When the anointing come down, it did it. Did the same thing in Switzerland, like that, great big pictures of it. They got them as high as this platform here, through Germany. You know how many come to the Lord in that meeting I had there? Fifty thousand in five nights, in Germany. That's communists too, the most of them.
Communists are communists because the church let down. That's exactly. They'll worship a real God, but He has to be real. I don't blame them. That's right. If God's God, let Him be God. If it isn't, then we're no better off to be a Mohammedan, be a Buddhist, anything. Let's believe the real God.

61 Now here's the picture. Now, if Christ remains the same, which is the theme of my campaign. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, and here's a woman, and both of us... I don't know whether she's a Christian or not. I suppose she is. She's standing here for something. She might be a critic. She might be a hypocrite. She might be an infidel. She might be sick and needy. She may be a saint of God. I don't know. This is our first time meeting. But if the Holy Spirit will reveal to this woman, like He did the woman at the well, what she's here for... And if she's a critic, watch what happens to her. Just watch her.
How many's been in the meetings when you've seen critics come? They're sitting paralyzed, insane, and everything else, see. All right. Now, watch what takes place.

62 The God of heaven still lives. Now, I hold my hands; I don't know the woman. This is our first time meeting. She did the same; she don't know me.
Now, if this is like the woman at the well, only we're both Anglo-Saxon people, white people ... but a woman and a man, the same thing. Now, if I'd speak to her just a moment, and tell her... Well, I'd say, "Woman, you're sick; you're going to get well. Go on." She'd have a right to doubt that. But what if God goes back and tells her something back yonder that she knows whether it's the truth or not? That would be the ... that would make it right. Would that be right, lady? That's right. All right. Now, may the Lord grant it.

63 How many of you will believe, if He will do this to this woman, right here? And remember, Christians, pray for me. I'm standing here in the name of the One you love, and I love, Jesus Christ. And if God keeps this promise, He keeps all promises.
Now, you're here for some cause. I know not. God does. The woman wants me to pray for her, for severe nervous condition she has. She gets real gloomy spells that comes on her; and especially in the late part of the day, she gets real weak. That's true. Also, you have something wrong with your throat that you want me to pray for. You're aware that something's near you, aren't you? Your brother wouldn't make you feel like that.

64 Right between me and you stands that light that you seen on that picture.
You're not from this country. You're from another country, and you're praying for somebody that's there. And that's an elderly man; it's your father. And he's got something wrong with his breathing. That's right. And that's in Maryland, isn't it? You return; God give you the desire of your heart, in the name of His Son, Jesus.
Are you convinced that the Lord Jesus lives and reigns? You say, "Brother Branham, what is that? Yielding yourself. It's yielding to the Holy Ghost. You that's sick and afflicted, yield yourself to the Holy Ghost, to believe, see. Just yield. Now, out there, are you believing? Are you praying?

65 Now, the lady here, we're stranger to each other, are we, sister dear? We are. Well, we were born years apart, but God knows us both.
Now, just a moment. I see the looks of a woman; she's gray-headed; she's praying. Can't you see that? Look here. Right there, the lady sitting right there looking right at me, kind of gray-headed. She's right beyond the woman with the black hair there. She's about three in the row. She's got a little checkered collar on. She's praying because she has heart trouble, and she wants God to heal her. That's exactly the truth. Do you believe it, lady, that God will make you well? You accept it? All right, raise up your hand. All right. Your heart trouble's left you now. You touched something, didn't you? All right. It wasn't me. You're forty feet away from me, but you touched the High Priest, simple child-like faith to believe. Be reverent now. Just believe with all your heart.

66 We're strangers, you said, to each other? If the Lord God will reveal to me, my sister, what you're here for... I got an old mother at home, tonight, praying for me. When I see anyone that's probably been a mother and aged, my heart just goes out. You are suffering also with a nervous condition. But that's not the kind of nervousness---it's a worry about something. It's not a nervous, just like shaky, but you're worrying about something; you're nervous. And also, your eyes has been getting worse; they're going out like, they're going blind. And that you might know to me to be God's servant, you're suffering with a bad cold right now, also. That's "thus saith the Lord." Those things are true, aren't they? If that is, would you just raise up your hand so the people can see?
Now, do you believe? Now, watch, there's something with the woman. She's worried about something. And if God will reveal what she's worried... I could pass her on now, because I believe she's going to get what she asked for. That what her trouble was, I don't know till I hear the tape again. But now, you believe God could reveal what you're upset about? How many believes that He could do it? Now, you just believe me to be God's servant. You do believe it. I know you do, lady. Now, yes, the woman is worried about a son ... or, grandson, it is, and that grandson has demon oppression, just oppressed and upset. And He's not here. He's not even in this country. He's from Ohio, in a city that's got a college at it, which it's Chillicothe, Ohio. That's a "thus saith the Lord." You believe the Lord Jesus, that He lives? The Lord God grant to our sister her desire. Amen. God bless you, sister, give to you the desire of your heart.

67 Are you believing with all your heart, now every one? Now, I think that's at least three, but let's just a little bit longer. All right, bring the next lady.
How do you do, young lady? This our first time meeting? It is our first time meeting? Do you believe the Lord Jesus has raised from the dead? If the Lord God, what you see Him doing... Now, you know it has to come through supernatural. Well, it depends on what you think it is. If you think that it's a evil devil, then you get his reward. If you believe that it's the Lord Jesus, according to His promise, what I've been preaching, then you have His reward. I cannot say myself, what you would believe; God could tell me. I don't know. Now, just be real reverent.

68 Sitting there, wiping on your nose like that... You believe God healed you of that chest trouble? You do? It's over now; you can go home, be well. Just do like the little woman. She was sitting there when I said awhile ago, she had been praying in her heart that God would say to me, let me speak to her for she was badly in need. It's a nervous condition that's got her a congestion here in her chest. That's exactly right. If that's right, lady, hold up your hand. The little lady's just sitting there just now, right... That's right. How would I know what she was praying about? How did I know the word she said to God? See, you can't hide from Him, you know. He's here, the presence of the Lord.

69 Young lady, if the Lord will reveal to me what you're here for, you will believe me to be His servant, you believe that Christ is wanting to get to you, what you have need of? If I could help you and wouldn't do it, I'd be an awful person. I wouldn't be fit to stand here on what's called a pulpit. I'd be a bad man. But I'm here to help you, if I can. And the only way I can help you is by letting the Holy Spirit reveal something to me that'll help you to have faith in His finished work.
You're suffering with a lady's trouble, a female disorder. That's right. You believe me to be His servant? You do. You've also been praying here lately for somebody else. And that's a woman, and that's your mother. And she has colitis, and she's not here. And she don't live in this state; she lives in West Virginia. That's "thus saith the Lord." Now, believe and you can have what you've ask for. God bless you, sister.

70 We are strangers to each other, I suppose. This is our first time of meeting. You was here in the meeting last night, but this is our first time meeting. I don't know you.
It seemed awful close. Just keep on believing. If the Lord God, who raised up His Son from the dead... You believe we're living in the last days? You believe that God promised these things? If that was the sign of the Messiah back there, when our Lord would tell the people what their troubles was, and so forth, and where they'd been, and who they was, or something other like that... He promised that those things He did, we'd do also. And that wasn't to be done until the ending of the Gentiles, because the Jews and Samaritans had already received it.
You believe that He ... this is the end time, and the sign of the end time? May God help you. If the people can still hear my voice, this woman has something coming onto her, which is a stiffness, an arthritis, that's bothering her. And I see you're having tremendous pains in your sides. You've had an operation, had a kidney removed. That's right. I see the doctor, kind of a heavy-set man, one kind of a tall thin man, and they're taking the kidney. You're not from this city; you're from a place called Elkton, and your name is Maude McDaniel. You believe now with all your heart? Then go on your road and rejoice, and God be merciful to you.

71 Do you believe with all your heart? Just have faith in God, don't doubt.
Do you believe them feet's going to get well? Sitting here on the front row. You was the one who was touching Him awhile ago. All right. They're going to be well.
You took off your glasses, sitting there wiping your nose like that. You believe me to be God's servant? You do? You want help too, don't you? Your trouble's in your shoulders. That's right, raise up your hands. It's all gone.
What about you with your hands up, next to him there? You believe me to be God's prophet ... or, His servant? You do? Your troubles with your hands is what you want God to ... me to pray for. That's right. Now, go and receive your healing, all of you and...

72 We're strangers to one another. I don't know you. I've never seen you. This is our first time meeting.
Something happened. Someone right through here. It's a man sitting right back here. Raised your head up over top of this black headed man. You're suffering with heart trouble, and you want God to heal you. That's right. You was praying and asking God just then, "Let it be me, Lord." If that's right, raise up you hand. All right. You receive what you ask for. Go on your road and be well. Amen.
Do you believe? All of you? With one accord, you believe? Have we had three yet? All right.

73 Now, be real reverent. We've got a man on the platform here. Just a moment. Just exactly time... Now, you just keep believing there; we don't know what the Holy Spirit might do. Are you convinced? Do you truly believe, friend?
I wouldn't come here to deceive you, my brother. What good would it do me? I'm here as your brother. I love you. That's why I come. And I love Christ, and Christ sent me here just like God sent Him up to Samaria. He didn't know what to do. He was going to Jericho, but He had need to go by Samaria. Why? Father sent Him up there. He said, "I do nothing till the Father shows Me." He sent His disciples away, the woman come up. He begin to talk to her, then He found her trouble.

74 I don't know who you are. You're strangers to me. I don't know who you are, but God sent me here. And I just come here and yield myself to His Spirit, like Christ did then, and He shows me what your trouble ..., just like then. And that woman run into the city and told everybody she come in contact with, "Come, isn't this the very Messiah?" Well, if that was sign of Messiah then, it's the same today, if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Here's a man. I don't know you, sir. Is this our first time meeting? If God will reveal to me what your trouble is, will you accept it as Christ trying to help you? Now, let's just take our time with this man. If the men, women, children in this building, here both of us, we've never met before in life. This is our first time.

75 Now, this makes awful weak, can you see how drops of sweat stand out on my hands, and so forth. It just gets so... It looks like now to me, that this audience is just becoming milky like, around. What is that? That's your faith doing that; it's the Holy Spirit settling in the building, you see. Oh, what could happen? Oh, if you could just break that little crust.
Sir, I see you a much younger man than what you are now, and a doctor shaking his head. He give you up. That's exactly right. You've got an inward trouble. That's right. You're scared that it's cancer now. That's true. That's been long ago. How could God go back in years like that, and know you, what you did? You suffer with a gland trouble too. And you have a stomach trouble too. That's right. If God will tell me who you are, will you accept now, 'cause He's right with you now. You know that. You're Mr. Miller. All right. That's right. Now, go on your road, and rejoice, and be glad. God bless you.

76 Are you believing with all your heart? Look, friends, you're now much farther than you was last night. If I be God's servant, and telling you the truth, I'm telling you the truth, right now. Right now, every one of you, Christ has raised from the dead, and when He died at Calvary, He stripped the devil of every power he had, see. You are healed now, each one of you. And so, this is true. The very Angel, who guides me, and says it, right in this building, it's beginning to look kind of a ... I believe I just quoted it.
Don't think I'm beside myself, but there's a great deep anointing in the building, right now. I believe, if you'll believe what I'm telling you, right now, to be the truth, it'll settle it. Will you believe it? Will you promise to believe it? What more could He do? See, I can't heal no one. It's His Spirit. Not the people in the prayer line; it's the people out there, anywhere.
Now, just look this way and believe, and see if God doesn't do it, see. It's the truth. It's God's Spirit. Now, I've try to lay it with the Scriptures. God has come and proved that it's the truth. Now, Jesus Christ, God's Son, heals every one of you. Now, there's only one thing to keep you from not having it, that's that little dark shadow between the milky way and you. That's right.
If we can pray a prayer of faith to make that shadow move, then the Holy Spirit can drop upon you, like dew drops of mercy, and make every person in here well, right now.

77 In Durban, South Africa, amongst raw heathens, I've seen twenty-five thousand wheelchair, cots, and stretcher cases, healed at one time, when just one of these things was done on the platform---twenty-five thousand. And the next day seven big van loads of carts, and stretchers, and clubs, went down the street singing, "Only Believe," with thousands of black, naked natives walking behind it singing, "Only Believe."
If those natives, who never heard of God before, could accept Christ and get that, what about us, who are filled with the Holy Ghost and sitting in the presence of God, now to see this in this civilized country. God be merciful to us. Let us bow our heads. Let's be sincere. Let every man and woman look to God just now.

78 Eternal and blessed Father, the hour is close; the people has to go over these slick roads. And I thank Thee for them. And O God, I'm trying with all that's in me to this loyal group of people, not to drag out the prayer line, not to drag anything, but to try to tell them the Bible truth. And You've been so kind tonight, to come down and vindicate that to be the truth.
Your Bible says in Hebrews 11, "God vindicates ... or, testifies of His gift."
Now, Lord, let the Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead, move into every person in Divine Presence. And I condemn any devil, or any power of unbelief, that would try to hold this great universal blessing from these people tonight; I condemn the enemy in Jesus Christ's name.
Satan, leave this place. Come out of this people, and let the Holy Ghost fall in a great rush of a shield, blessings upon the people, and fill each one, and heal them, in the name of Jesus Christ.

79 If you believe me to be God's servant, and I've found grace in your sight, I don't care what's wrong with you, stand on your feet and give Him praise for your healing, and you shall have it, right now. In the name of Jesus...

The Queen of Sheba

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1 Stand just a moment now for prayer, as we bow our heads.
Dear God, we are thankful to Thee for the privilege that we have of assembling together once again. And we would ask that Your blessings be upon us tonight, to save the unclean, and to heal those who are sick and afflicted, and to bless those who are blessable tonight. And may we have a great outpouring of Thy Spirit.

2 Bless the ministering brethren. Tomorrow being the Sabbath, and we're to go forth tomorrow to witness for You throughout the city, and we pray that You'll bless every pulpit in this city, and adjoining cities, and around the world. And may the ministers be a new light to the people, and grant, Lord, that many great miracles will be wrought tomorrow through the name of Thy Son, the Lord Jesus, in their pulpits, and in the ministry throughout the nations. Give us likewise tonight, Lord, something extraordinary, that these dear people, who have come through the rain and mud, to come to hear the Gospel, may they go home light hearted, and rejoicing with a satisfied soul, that they have been in the presence of the Lord Jesus.
Grant these things, Father, for we ask them in the name of Thy Child. Amen. You may be seated.

3 Some have said today that many called on the telephone, telling of their experience of healing last night in the audience. And some of them has been saying that they were not even on the platform; they were just sitting in the meeting and some time through the day, they recognized that the sickness that they had was gone. So I like that. We can't say then that, "So-and-so, certain ministers laid their hands on me, and..." See, God gets all the glory. And I just love that, when God gets the glory, because it's all to His glory that we're intending for Him to receive, all for His glory.

4 Now, in the Bible tonight, we wish to take a little text just for a few minutes. And now, tomorrow night is the closing of our little campaign, just three nights to kind of get acquainted with you people. And then, it seems strange: just the time we get acquainted, then we say, "Well, see you some other time." Seemingly, it's been that way for the last twelve years around the world, just get acquainted and hurry.

5 If God is willing, and when I come back from overseas this time, I'm going to try to get me a tent or something, so you don't have to hurry out of a city: just set it up and stay there awhile. And I'm sure it will be better, because you'll... If people doesn't know just how to take a hold of divine healing, there's more to it than just walk up and say, "I believe," and walk away.
If a patient has something like a tumor, or something of that order, that patient will feel better right away, but within about seventy-two hours, they'll get sicker than they ever was, because that lump or whatever it is, the life that was in that lump is dead. And the lump's still there. So it begins to break up. And then, when it does, the heart pumps the blood, and the blood purifies the body, so it sets in a fever. And the patient seems to think, "Oh, I've lost my healing." Why, the faith that could take the life out of the tumor, unbelief will bring it back again. There they lose their healing. They just don't know the approach.

6 But remember, in dealing with---like a substance, a tumor, we're not dealing with that lump or the cancer. What is a cancer? It's a life, and it's not your life; it's another life. It's a multiplication of cells. And what caused it to be there? It's another life that's come into yours to kill you. The Bible calls it a devil. We call it cancer today, which is a medical term, which comes from the word "crab." But the Bible calls it a devil, a killer.
Now, we're not dealing with that little house that it's grown in; it develops cells just like you did. Did you know you came from one little cell? That cell came from your father. The germ went into the egg, which was your mother, and out of there developed, cell begin to swell and cell on top of cell, until it made you what you are today.

7 And now, that life that you have in you now, through these cells, are good cells, cells of your life. But here comes a cancer, or tumor, or any other disease along, and it's a different cell, and a different germ. And what is it to do? If it's against your life, then it's death. So it is a demon, and we're not dealing with that robe that it lives in, that house; we're dealing with the life that's in that house.
Just like if I was dealing with you, if you were the cancer, and I'd be ... try to just rub your body until it's no more, but just take the life out of it. It'll go back to the dust of the earth. That's what casting out demons is, is calling the life of that out. The substance is still there, the body.

8 But what happens to a little animal if it gets killed? What happens to a deer, you hunters up here, if you kill it today and throw it on the scales and weigh it? You tell your comrades that your deer weighed so much, but put it on the scales in the morning and see what it'll weigh, pounds lighter. Anything does, it shrinks for so long, until corruption begins to set in, then it swells, and gets heavier, and bigger than it was at the first place.
That same thing happens to a tumor or cancer. Then the patient begins to say, "Well, I've lost my healing." The best sign in the world that you've got it. And that's why, many times running in, like little meetings like this, we don't get a chance to have those afternoon meetings of instructions and telling people how to hold to God. We just got to take a chance on the people having faith, regardless of how they feel, or what evidence of anything reoccurring; they still believe it. Stay right with it. That's the main thing.

9 Now, I want to read some of God's blessed Word, that's found tonight in the book of St. Matthew, the twelfth chapter, and the forty-second 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.
May the Lord bless His Word.

10 Jesus, in the previous chapter, had just been upbraiding the cities because of their unbelief. You know, unbelief is one of the most hideous things that can strike a person.
And there is only two faculties that can govern you; that's either faith or unbelief. You cannot be halfway between; there's no black-white birds, or drunk-sober men, sinner-saints. You're either a believer or not a believer. And the only sin that there is, is unbelief.
You might be ever so religious and never tell a lie. You might be such a church member, till all the neighborhood would say, "What a renowned person," and still be a sinner in the sight of God. You're not judged by that; it's by your faith. "He that believeth not is condemned already."

11 If righteousness is what pleases God, which it does, but all that God requires, the Pharisees were found blameless, but yet Jesus said, "Ye are of your father, the devil," because they did not believe---that horrible thing of unbelief.
And Jesus had done many works in the cities, and said to them, "Oh, you, Capernaum, who are exalted into heaven, shall be brought down to hell. If the mighty works had been done in you ... that's been done in you, had been done in Sodom and Gomorrah, it would've been standing until this day."
That great unbelief, self-styled, exalted into heaven, holier than thou, that attitude... And Jesus had done mighty works in Capernaum, and they had called him, Beelzebub, the prince of the devils, and He was upbraiding them because of it.

12 And I say this with respects: Friends and Christians, if God lets this nation get by... He just can't let him get by with this awful wave of sin that's sweeping our nation. If God would let us go on in the way we are, without judging, then He being just would have to raise Sodom and Gomorrah, and apologize for destroying them, with such a wave of sin of the same kind.

13 God is no respect of nations or people. He loves the sinner, but He hates sin. And we are doomed; just mark that, you who I see are taking notes, that I said it. There is nothing left for America but judgment; that's all. So just get ready for it. But the church will be gone before the judgment comes. God promised it.
We've just had a few weeks to stay on those things to build up to it. But listen, Jesus had said that if the works had been done in Sodom that had been done in these cities, they would've repented.
And then, we understand that God in all ages has had gifts and wonders that He's worked through, calling the people. In every age, practically, God has had a servant, or somewhere a person sometimes, that He could lay His hand on, or a people. He's never been without a witness, and He never will be without a witness, as long as there is an earth, to bear witness.

14 And He'd been referring back to the days, He said in the previous meeting, like as in the days of Jonah, the prophet. And He was concerned, because they had called the Spirit that was in Him, Beelzebub. That means He was a demon power. And if you will notice, because He had discerned their thoughts and knowed what they were thinking... They never called Him Beelzebub to His face; they wasn't even gentlemen enough to do that. They thought in their heart, and Jesus said He perceived their thoughts. They thought He was Beelzebub, and they were all upset because He didn't agree with them in their theology. And some came to Him, after all He had done, and said, "We would seek a sign from Thee."
And He said, "A weak and an adulterous generation will seek after a sign, and there will be no sign given this adulterous generation, except the sign of Jonah. For as Jonah was in the belly of the whale for three days and nights, the Son of man will lay in the heart of the earth for three days and nights."

15 Before we get to our text, or what I wish to say, I would like to examine that quotation from our Lord. They were seeking a sign, and He said that a weak and adulterous generation would seek for a sign. And I believe that our Lord was referring to this generation. All Scriptures has compound meanings (any student knows that); for instance, in Matthew 3, when He said, "That it might be fulfilled out of Egypt, I've called My Son." If you'll run the reference to that, it was His son, Israel, but it also pertained to His Son, Jesus. Scriptures have compound meaning.
And Jesus said that a wicked and weak generation, adulterous, would seek for a sign. Now, I want you to listen close. He said they will receive a sign, and that sign will be the resurrection sign, the resurrection; for as Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights, the Son of man must be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights.

16 And when God gave Jonah the commission, and he went down to Nineveh, he found a ship at leisure, so he couldn't get his ticket and his fare, maybe, down to Nineveh, so he just went to Tarshish. And they found out that he got in trouble.
I think that's what's the matter with the Christian church tonight: we're in trouble. We've took the wrong road. And God's not in trouble; it's the church that's in trouble. God wants us to be all one, wants us to have fellowship one with another, while the blood of His Son, Jesus, cleanses us from all unrighteousness. But we draw little walls and say, "Now, we will not cooperate in such a meeting. No, we can't do this, because our church is not in it." Oh, what a weak petty thing, like little juveniles.

17 And notice then the ship begin to rock, and Jonah was in trouble. And they bound his feet and his hands, and threw him overboard, and God had a great big fish all prepared to swallow him. I've always had a deep sympathy for Jonah. He was in a terrible condition, yet he was a prophet of the Lord.
Now, anyone knows that a fish prowling through the water is hunting for its prey. And as soon as it has eaten, it goes to the bottom and rests itself, with its swimmers on the bottom of the water ... of the pool. Feed your little goldfishes and watch what takes place. He will go right down to the bottom of the pool, and there rest himself. And here was this fish, after he'd swallowed this prophet, down at the bottom of the sea, many fathoms deep.

18 And let's just notice tonight, you people in the wheelchairs, and you that's on crutches, and maybe feel like that you can't be well. We have never come into any situation like Jonah was in. The first place, he was backslid, and he had his hands tied and his feet tied, and he was in the whale's belly, way down in the bottom of the sea, and a storm on the sea. If he looked this way, it was a whale's belly. If he looked backwards, it was a whale's belly. All around him was whale's belly.
You talk about a good case of symptoms, Jonah had it. I don't think that any of us could have that kind of symptoms. But you know what he said? He knew God, and he said, "They are lying vanities; I won't even look at them."
For he knew that when Solomon dedicated the temple of God, that he prayed and said, "Lord, if Thy people be in trouble anywhere, and look towards this holy place and pray, then hear from heaven." And he had confidence, under those symptoms, to have confidence in the prayer of Solomon and believe that God heard the prayer of Solomon.

19 And the whale kept him in his belly for three days and nights, and delivered him right in the right place. God just turned the whale around and taken him on a taxi ride across the country, till he got from Tarshish to Nineveh. And God kept him alive, because he said, "I will not look at my symptoms; I will look to Thy holy temple."
And if God did that, under those symptoms and that circumstance, how much more will He, tonight, under this circumstance with our symptoms, if we will not look to a temple made with hands of men, but to the temple of heaven, where Christ sits at the right hand of God, making intercessions upon our confession. How much more will He deliver us? I will not look at my symptoms; I will look at what Jesus said. Said, "By His stripes, I am healed," and I confess it, for God can do nothing for you until first you confess it. The Bible in Hebrews 3, said, "He is the High Priest of our confession." Now, the King James has "profess." But "profess" and "confess" is the same thing.

20 He can do nothing till first you confess that He's did it, and accept it as your own personal property. You can't get saved by beating on the altar, or can't get saved by paying your tithes, or keeping some days, or abstain from meats. You don't get saved by that. It's by faith are you saved, and that through the grace of God. You have to accept it first, and believe it as your own personal property, then you are saved. Same way by healing.
So tonight, let us look away from our symptoms, and remember that God still lives, and His promise is still true. And Jesus sits at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven to make intercessions as a High Priest, on anything that you confess that He's done for you, that was in the redemptive blessing. If that isn't simple, here a little baby boy or girl could understand. He sits as the High Priest to make intercessions upon anything that's right, that you ask Him.

21 And He said in Mark 11:24, "Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them." Whatever it is, pray and believe that you receive it now (present tense), and it shall be given to you. You can have it, if you'll believe it when you ask for it, because quickly before the Father, He goes to work to make intercessions upon your confession. That settles it. That's the reason the people are being healed just sitting around in the meeting. It doesn't take a special evangelist to come through; it just takes your faith in the all sufficient Christ, and the omnipresent Christ, who is everywhere, anywhere, that you'll call upon Him, He's there to meet the condition, a very present help in the time of trouble.

22 Then Jesus referred to the day of Solomon. And God through the ages, when He gives gifts unto His people, if that gift is turned down, that nation becomes ruined, that generation perishes. But if it is accepted, then that is the great light time for the people. And He was referring to the gift of God that came in the days of Solomon.
Now, God gave Solomon a gift, and we all know (you who read the Bible) that that was Israel's golden age, of Solomon. And as soon as they seen that gift working in Solomon, seeing that great power of discernment, the people all rallied around him. And no matter what he said, they did it, because they believed him, and they believed him to be God's servant, and God has to honor that. And no matter what God does, if you don't come with respect to His gift, you'll never receive nothing from it.

23 What if Martha and Mary... I believe it was Martha, when she ran out to meet Jesus, seemingly she had a right to upbraid Him. He had left her, and her brother had died. And yet not come to her call, He just ignored it and went on. But when she went to see Him, seemingly she could've said, "Why did You not come when I called You?" If she'd said that, she'd have never got what she asked for. But she went with respects, and she said, "Lord, if Thou would have been here, my brother would not have died. But even now, whatever You ask God, God will give it to you." That's the way it must come. It must come, because that it's your respect. She was respecting it. She knowed that the Shunammite woman went to Elisha and got what she desired. And she knowed if God was in the prophet Elisha, surely, He was in His Son Jesus.

24 Sometime ago, there was a woman who said to me, that belongs to a denominational church, who doesn't believe that Jesus was anymore than a prophet. Friend, He was more than a prophet. He was either God or the greatest deceiver this world's ever had. He was divine. And this certain woman said to me, "Mr. Branham, you put too much bragging on Jesus being divine."
I said, "He was divine, and I cannot brag half enough on Him."
And she said, "If I prove to you by the Bible, that He was not divine, will you accept it?"
I said, "Certainly, if the Bible said so. But I don't believe you can prove it by the Bible."
And she said, "In Saint John, the eleventh chapter, the Bible said, 'When He went down to the grave of Lazarus, He wept.'" Said, "You see, He could not be no more than a human and then weep."
I said, "Sister, your argument is too thin. He was both God and man. And when He went to the grave of Lazarus, He wept like a man. But when He stood and pulled His little frame together, and said, 'Lazarus, come forth,' and a man that had been dead four days, stood on his feet and lived again, that was more than a man."

25 He was a man when He come down off the mountain, was hungry, looking for something to eat on that tree. It was a man when He was hungry, but it was more than a man when He taken five biscuits and two pieces of fish and fed five thousand. That was more than a man.
He was a man when virtue had gone from Him all day, and He laid on the back of a little ship, and the waves where ten thousand devils of the sea swore they'd drown Him. And He being asleep and got tired; He was a man. But when He put His foot on the brail of the boat, looked up and said, "Peace be still" and the winds and the waves obeyed Him, that was more than a man.
He was a man when He cried at Calvary for mercy, but He proved that He was God when He broke the seals, and raised from the tomb, and declared Himself to be the resurrection. He was God made manifest in the flesh, God in Him.

26 And Martha, she respected that and believed it. And in the days of His flesh on earth, many respected it, received His reward. But He was telling these people of other great people, who came on the earth, and how they respected it, and what they got, and those who turned it down, what they got.
And now, in the days of Solomon God had given him His gift, and all the churches rallied around him. The news must have swept throughout all the countries. And I just wonder, in this last days when the Holy Spirit is coming down, and great revivals are hitting the nation like Billy Graham, and Jack Schuller, and Oral Roberts, and many of those great evangelists, and God doing great signs and wonders before the people, would it not be wonderful if all would put their hearts together and rally around that? Why, all the world would come to Christ in one year's time or less. But we just split up in divisions, and as long as they're shooting at each other, Satan just steps back and lets them unload their guns. So if we can get together, and put our hearts together, our efforts together, and our prayers together, we will get somewhere.

27 So they respected that great gift of Solomon, that God had given Solomon. And here he was in the temple doing things, and the people ... all the passers-by must have thought, "Oh, this is a great thing." And everybody (no one talking against it), everybody for it; they said, "Our Brother Solomon, God has give him a great gift, and oh, you should come and see it." to all the people who came by, and the news spread everywhere.
And way down into the south, in the land of Sheba, a little queen down there, a little pagan queen, everybody seemingly come by her place would say, "You should see the great things that's going on in Israel. Great, mighty wonders are being done by a gifted man from their God, one by the name of Solomon. Oh, his wisdom is unmatched. His discernment is perfect; never a case fails. He's just perfect on it."

28 You know, faith cometh by hearing, hearing the Word of God. And you know, the Bible said that we are the salt of the earth. And if the salt is still got its savor in it, and contacts, it is a savor. But if the salt has lost its strength, if our testimonies are so irregular, and one day we're up and the next day we're down, and this way we're believing, and the next day we're not, how can a sinner man find anything from us? See, we must take our stand for God, and ever remain until death sets us free.

29 And this little queen hearing this, she said, "Oh, I wonder if that really is true?" So finally, she made up in her mind that she'd go and see for herself. I like that: just don't take somebody else's word about it; come, find out for yourself, like Nathanael did last evening in our message.
So as the enthusiasm begin to draw her closer, the time come when she set that she was going.
Now, remember, she had a lot of opposition against her. She was a pagan. And what do you think the bishop of her pagan church would say, if she told him that she was going up into another country to hear another preacher? What do you think taken place? Now, she had all of that to confront. Well, maybe the pope of her church, or some bishop, or something of her temples, would say, "Now, just a minute, queen, you will pollute our whole nation if you go there."

30 But you know, there's something about it, that when God goes to speaking to a heart, there's nothing can stop it from finding out what's calling him, when God goes to calling. And she would say to the priest, I suppose, "Sir, I'm just going up to find out for myself. Here we are here, worshipping an old bunch of dead creeds, that's been handed down to us, and we see nothing else but some theology and some writing on some tablets or something, but they tell me that their God is real and manifests Himself right out before the public." I like that kind of a God (not a God of history), a God that's present tense, a God that's the same yesterday, today, and forever. What He was yesterday, He is the same today in every way.
And she said, "I want to go find out."
"Well, if you go, we will excommunicate you."
"Well, you just as well get ready, for I'm going anyhow." So she said, "Now, if I go, and I find out that it's true, then there's one thing I'm going to do: I'm going to support it with everything I got." So she ladened down some camels with gold, and myrrh, and frankincense, and costly things. But first, she kept her gifts until she was going to find out whether it was the truth or not, whether it was just a little fly-by-night, or a little ... some kind of an emotion that raised up. She wanted to know whether it was the truth. If all these things she had heard by the word, if they were made manifest and proved to be right, then she was for it. That's a good sensible approach.

31 If the Word says so, or something promised, and that promise is kept, then there's nothing to say, but you must believe or be turned aside, alienated.
You notice: and she ladened her camels, and got everything ready to go. And now, remember, she had a long journey before her. She just didn't have to come from across the city; she had to travel about three months over a burning desert. Measure the distance from Palestine down there. And she didn't have an air-conditioned Cadillac either, or some great air-conditioned coach to come in. But she had to sit on the back of a camel. But if her heart ... something in there was calling, she's on her road regardless of the circumstance.

32 And if God could speak to you, tonight, that He's present, and He's the God that heals you, there is no one could talk you out of it. And if He whispers to the sinner that you are saved, and I am your Saviour, there's not enough doctors of theology in the country to explain it away from you. You know it. Every believer has a sacred sand or a backside of a desert, where he can put his finger: "There I met God." If it's just theology, they can explain it away from you, but they can't when you've had that experience of meeting God and your life has changed.

33 So something had happened to her. The deep was calling to the deep. And if the deep calls to the deep, there's got to be a deep to respond to it. As David said, "At the mouth of Thy water spouts ... the noise of Thy water spouts," rather...
If there's a deep in here calling, there's got to be a deep to respond to it. Before there was a fin on a fish's back, there had to be water first for him to swim in to use that fin, or he wouldn't have had no fin. Before there was a tree to grow in the earth, there had to be an earth first to grow in, or there'd been no tree.
Which was first, a sinner or a Saviour? Which was first, a sickness or a healer? Blessed be His Holy name. He was first! There was a Saviour to express Himself; that's why He lets it happen: to magnify Himself to His subjects, to let them know that He is.

34 Notice, here some time ago, I read a piece in the paper where a little boy eat the erasers off of a pencil at school. And the teacher sent word to his mama and told her about it. And one day, to the mother's surprise, the little lad was out on the back porch eating the pedal off of a bicycle. So she got alarmed, and she got the little lad and took him down to the clinic. And the doctors give him an examination, and come to find out, that his little system needed sulfur. Now, sulfur is found in rubber. Now you see, before there could be a crave for sulfur, there had to be a sulfur to respond to that crave, or he'd never have a crave.
And you are here tonight, because you believe there is a God that can heal. And before there is a creation, there has to be a Creator to create that creation. And the very reason that you're here, is a sign that there is a fountain open somewhere, or you'd never have the desire to come. Something is pulling. It's a Creator God trying to bring you to the presence of His Being, to let you recognize that it's His goodness and mercy to you.

35 And it was the same God who spoke to the little queen to let her know in the sincerity of her heart, that He was God. And she had decided to go, regardless of the cost. And she knowed then she'd support it. That's the way; if it's right, support it. If it isn't, have nothing to do with it. So she ladened some camels. And another thing she had to confront, with all that wealth she had to cross the desert.
Now, just think, of three months on the desert, and some people in Hartford, won't come across the street to see the same. "Oh, it's too rainy." or, "My church is not cooperating." What will it be in the day of judgment, when that little queen stands with you? What will it be when Solomon stands, and when Jonah stands, and all Nineveh who repented at his preaching?

36 If you understand a little history, the god of Nineveh was a whale, and when the whale brought the prophet right up before the fishermen, and spit him out on the bank, a miracle. Lot of things are providential; it was God's will that Jonah went down there like that. He had to show a miracle.
And that's what He's doing now, showing a miracle. The resurrection of His Son after nineteen hundred years, He remains the same, and the wicked and adulterous generation see it. What will they be in the day of the judgment, when those of Nineveh, who didn't know right and left hand, repented at the preaching of Jonah? How much greater is it now? And the little queen, she started off...

37 Now another thing, she had all that wealth, and the children of Ishmael were on the desert, and they were robbers. What a setup. Why, they'd take that great group of fleetfooted riders, with their spears, and ride on her little caravan there, and murder them, and have all that wealth to themselves. She had that to confront.
Now, you don't have that to confront to come across the street, or around the city, or from some nearby place. You don't take you three months, through a hot burning desert, sitting on the back of a camel. Now, in all sincerity, I wonder tonight, how many present would take that same journey? Think of it.
But she did it, being a pagan, and hearing that there was a living God, who had presented a gift to the earth. She come to see the gift of God working through a man. And she took off on her journey, leaving her friends, her priests, her everything behind, because God was tugging at her heart.
No wonder Jesus said, "No man can come to Me, except My Father draws him."

38 All of Hartford won't be saved. There'll be millions of church members, throughout the world, will just perish with the world. Now remember, that God has elected that some are going to be saved, and there's not enough power in hell to keep them from coming to Jesus. And God will manifest Himself just the same. He's manifest Himself... The whole world has a chance, but they won't receive it. Jesus said so: "Straight is the gate that leads to life, broad is the way to destruction, and many there be go in, and few there'll be, that'll be saved. As it was in the days of Noah, and in the days of Lot, so will it be in the coming of the Son of man." There's nothing can break that. That's said, and it's God, and His Word's just as eternal as He is.

39 Now, here she comes, and she didn't come now, say, "I'm going over and sit ten minutes, and if I don't like the way that preacher Solomon preaches, I'm going to get up and get out. If he says anything contrary to our theology, I'm going to leave; I just won't stand and listen to it. (That would be the 1958 version of it.) I will see if he says anything contrary to our creeds." She didn't say that.
"I can't go but one night, because we've got to have a card party, and we've got to sit up on this night to see... What is that television, "We love Suzy," or something like that? Could you imagine hungry-hearted people staying to watch such tommyrot as that, and Arthur Godfrey, and Elvis Presley, and call themselves Christians and listen to such nonsense as that? It shows what's in their hearts.
The Bible said, "If you love the world, or the things of the world, the love of God's not even in you."

40 No, she come not to stay just an hour, or through one night's service; she made her camp, and stayed there till she was convinced. I like that. She come to stay till it was over. She just brought her maidens, and all; and she just pitched camp and stayed there. I can see her out in the courts, and they said, "When's the next meeting going to be?"
"It just ended tonight, queen."
"But Solomon... Well, is he a saint?"
"No. He's just a man."
"Is he holy?"
"No, there's a holy God dealing with him."
"Well, I'd like to see who he is."
"Just go over to the meeting in the morning. You'll see him."

41 And I can see the little queen get herself a seat and sit down, and Solomon came out. And all the people around were talking, "Oh, it's a small thing; you should see our God working through our brother." Wouldn't that be wonderful to have church like that? Wouldn't that be wonderful to have even our nation working together in harmony, and knowing our God still lives, reigns just the same as He ever was, doing the same things? The nations from everywhere would flow in here. And that's the reason we've got communism. I feel sorry for them. It's because of the weakness of the churches in Russia what made communism hatch out.

42 Sitting right in this building tonight, I believe, Mrs. Isaacson, my Finnish interpreter, that was there in Finland when a vision came forth, and that little boy was raised from the dead, laying on the side of the road, which the vision was told two years before it happened. And that night when twenty-five thousand in the Messuhalli and then turn that twenty-five thousand out and let me speak to another twenty-five thousand. When I was going down the street, there stood Russian soldiers; and when I passed by a little Finnish soldier trying to protect me from the crowd to get to the Messuhalli, they stood with their Russian salute with tears running down their cheeks, and they said, "We will receive a God like that." Sure, a God of power, but their creeds is no more than our creeds.
And I've seen with my own eyes, Russian soldiers put their arms around Finnish soldiers and pat one another on the back, and kiss on the side of the neck, and call each other brother. And any power that will make a Russian and Finn hug one another will settle wars forever; that is the question. Christ is the answer. You'll never do it by passing tracts or teaching theology. It'll be the power of His resurrection that'll prove to them that Christ still lives.

43 She came to watch. I can imagine just before the service began, the nervousness of the little queen. She begin to wonder, "Now, I don't care what happens; I'm going to stay for several days. I'm going to stay till I find out whether it's real or not. I will not draw my conception, maybe, the first time, then maybe something would happen this morning that I might not just understand, but I'll come back again. I will stay till the service is over; I'll watch everything."
And when the cases was brought before Solomon, and the Spirit of God was there to discern that case, that little woman watched. She waited, and when she had been fully convinced, she stood up one morning, and she said, "All that I heard was the truth, and more than I heard was the truth. For I've seen more than what anybody every testified about." And Jesus said she will rise in the day of the judgment and condemn this generation of priests and church going people.

44 And if Jesus said that about her in that generation, how much more today will that queen rise in the generation that we're living in, and condemn this church-going bunch of people who would laugh and call the Spirit of God a mental telepathy or something? Oh, how critical hours we're living in.
And now, I want you to remember, Jesus promised that the weak and adulterous generation would receive one sign, and that would be the sign of the resurrection. The Bible says that. And what is the resurrection of Jesus Christ? To declare Him to be the same yesterday, today, and forever, to do the same things that He did, or to be called the same thing that He was, the Spirit of God being an unclean thing, which would condemn the generation of unbelievers, and save the generation that believed.

45 The ones who laughed at Noah's rain coming, the rain drowned the wicked world and saved Noah. The same Spirit today that the world's calling fanaticism, and some kind of a devil name that's been tacked onto the church, saying they're a bunch of illiterate, holy-rollers... I've sailed the seven seas and traveled every nation on the earth nearly, and I've never seen a holy-roller. There's no such a thing. It's a name that the devil tacked onto the church of the living God, only a scarecrow.
Where do you put a scarecrow? on a sour apple tree? Let the birds have that. But the scarecrow is around the good tree that's valuable. And God has a tree that's valuable; that's His resurrected Son, who stands in our midst tonight, in the power of the Holy Spirit to do and perform that which He did when He was here on earth. That's His Word, His promise.

46 What are we going to do when we come? Will we stand and take our place as believers, if He will perform as He did? If He will show to us, as I said last evening, the same sign that He proved to them that He was Messiah, if He will do the same works, so that the world can say it's the devil or something like that to condemn them and save you. I wonder if we'd stand, take our position with Him?
Some time ago, across Central America, about fifty years ago, there was an evangelist (and I'm closing), and his name was Daniel Green. He dreamed one night that he died, and he went up to heaven. And when he got to the gate, the caretaker come out, and said, "Who art thou, that's approaching this gate?"
He said, "I'm Daniel Green." He said, "I was a great American evangelist. I've helped save thousands of souls."
Said, "Just a moment, sir." And he went in, looked in the book; he said, "I don't have your name, Mr. Green."
"Oh," he said, "surely you have my name."
Said, "No, it's not here."
He said, "Well, what can I do?"
He said, "You might appeal your case to the great white throne judgment, if you desire to. That's the only hope you have."
He said, "Well, if that's my only hope, I must take it."

47 And said, "He felt himself moving, and he went through space for some time. After a while it begin to get light, lighter, lighter. And the lighter it got, slower he begin to go. And finally, he come to a standstill. There was no certain place the light was coming from, but it was just everywhere. And he heard a voice; he said, "Oh, what a place to stand in."
And he heard a voice saying, "Daniel Green, I hear that you've appealed your case to My judgment bar."
He said, "Yes, Lord. I have appealed my case to Your justice."
He said, "I will judge you then according to My laws." He said, "Daniel Green, did you ever tell a lie when you were on earth?"
He said, "If I thought I'd did anything, would have been a truthful man." But said, "In the presence of that light, I seen where I had said things that wasn't right." Said, "Yes, Lord, I did. I lied."
He said, "Then Daniel Green, did you ever steal?"
He said, "I thought I'd been honest, but in the presence of that great light, I seen a many little shady deal I pulled." And so will you or I.

48 It might be all right sitting here in this school auditorium; it might be all right out there in your church, but in the presence of that light, there'll be things that you had forgot about a long time will come up before you. There'll be little times when you said, "That bunch of holy-rollers; I will have nothing to do with them." You forgot it a long time ago, but it's still there, it lives on.
"Oh, I believe it's nonsense; I believe it's a mental telepathy." It'll meet you at the judgment bar. It sure will. How you judge Him, you'll be judged there.

49 And then he said, "A voice came forth, and said, 'Daniel Green, was you perfect when you were in life?"
"Oh," he said, "no, Lord, I was a long ways from being perfect." Said, "I was expecting to hear a blast come forth, 'Depart from Me, you horrible sinner.'" And said, "Felt like that every bone in me was coming apart, and I was listening to hear that great blast, and to see myself sink into a devil's hell." He said, "I heard the sweetest voice I ever heard in my life." And said, "When I turned to look, I saw the sweetest face I ever saw." Said, "No mother's voice or face could ever look so sweet." And said, "He walked up close to me and put His arm around me, and He said, 'Father, that is true. Daniel Green was not perfect on earth, but there's one thing he did do: when he was on earth, he stood for Me, and now, here I will stand for him.'"
Oh, God, let that be me tonight, in all of my mistakes, and all, let me stand for Him, for at that day I will need Him to stand for me.

50 I wonder tonight, if you were dying, sinner friend, who would stand for you? Your pastor can't; your mother can't; or some saint can't. It takes Christ and Him alone. Let us think of it, while we bow our heads, just a moment for prayer.
You might have come to see a gift of God as the queen of Sheba did. I'd like to ask you a question while you're praying. Would you say, "Search me, Oh, God, and see now; I've never seen this happen, but I've just arrived at the courts. I know there's nothing in that little man standing on the platform, but I've come by faith, expecting to see something happen. And I know that You will do it. And Lord, I want to accept You as my Saviour, and I want to stand for You, right now, that at that day, You'll stand for me."

51 How many in here, that'll just quickly... We can't call you up here, but would just raise up your hand and say by that, "God, be merciful to me." God bless you, lady. God bless you. Oh, my, thirty, forty hands, fifty, yes, more than that maybe. "God, be merciful to me. I now want to accept Christ as my personal Saviour. I want to make this all-sufficient stand for Him right now. I believe that I'm in His presence, and I want to stand for Him, so that He will stand for me on that day."
Would there be some more that would raise your hand? Up in the balcony, raise your hands. Young folks, you're right at the crossroads of life. Listen, sister and brother, oh, this is your hour. God bless you, young man. That's a gallant thing. God bless you. God bless you over there. That's good.

52 You say, "Brother Branham, what does it do when I raise up my hand?" It changes you from death to life, if you mean it. I'm taking your word, and God will.
You know, according to science, you can't move your hand; gravitation's supposed to hold your hand down to your side. But when you defy gravitation, raise up your hand towards your Maker, it shows that there is a Spirit in you that's made a decision. And you've defied the laws of nature, you... God bless you, sir. You've defied the laws of gravitation and you raised your hand towards the Creator, that you believe that made you and say, "I now accept You, Lord, as my Saviour." God put your name on the book, the very minute you do it. You pass from death to life.

53 Just look what's taking place in here, tonight. What has it been? Pray now. Maybe there would be another, or maybe more, that would like to, by raised hand, while everybody's with their heads bowed, praying, "God, I now raise my hand, not to the preacher, but to You, Lord. I'm convinced that You're the Son of God, and I want You to be my Saviour, and I raise my hand to stand for You, tonight." Put up your hand, will you, while we pray? God bless you, back there, sir. That's very fine. God bless you, little one. Maybe God has never even ... you've never seen the Holy Spirit move in power, but you're just accepting it beforehand. Greater is he who has never seen and yet believe the resurrection. God bless you, sir, down here. Certainly.

54 Now, are You finished up? I just believe this, that God said, "No man can come to Me except My Father draws him. And all that comes to Me, I will give him everlasting life, and raise him up at the last day." Saint John 5:24 says, "He that heareth My Word (Now, "He" is a personal pronoun---not a church, a group of people---a person.), He that heareth My words and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath (present tense) everlasting life, and shall never come to the judgment; but has passed from death unto life."
Then the black clouds of death has sailed from over fifty or seventy-five people in here tonight, and the light clouds of light that has come to them. Let us pray:

55 O blessed God, my heart is thrilled to see the little congregation of people, merely a handful, gathered out here tonight, and many of them, who just hearing the Word makes their stand. They even come in greater than the queen of Sheba; she waited to see the power of God working through Solomon. But these people have not waited; they believed the Word, and have made their confession of their wrong, and have accepted Jesus as their personal Saviour.

56 O God, it's a new day and a new life for them. Bless each one of them. They are Yours, Lord. [Blank spot on the tape.] ... drawed them through the preaching of the message. They're trophies of tonight's message, and of Thy grace. And now, Thou hast give them to Thy Son as a love gift. No man can pluck them from Thy hands. Someday, if I never did shake those hands that raised tonight, I believe when life is all over, and the great table is set at the wedding supper, and the tears are running down our cheeks for joy, that the King shall come out and wipe all tears from our eyes, and say, "Children, don't cry no more; it's all over. Enter into the joys of the Lord, that's been prepared for you since the foundation of the world."

57 I believe I will shake hands with them there. God, bless them; they're Yours. Give to them the best that You have in Your kingdom, Lord, for them. Grant that they'll live long lives, and be healthy, and happy, and serve You all the days of their life. May they be lighthouses in the community where they live, and in the city, and in their churches. Grant it, Father; they're Yours now. In the name of Your Son, Jesus, I present them to You as the trophies of the message. Amen.

58 Oh, there's something about the Gospel that just scours you out. Do you feel that way about it? [Congregation says, "Amen."] It's so simple, just so simple that it goes over the top of the heads of the people that are looking for something, some great something, but it's simple.
Now, we're going to call the prayer line and pray for the sick, and believe that God will heal the sick and the afflicted that's in the building tonight.
Now, I wish you would just remain as quietly as you can now. And how many in here feel real good in your soul? Just raise your hands. Oh, that's just fine. God bless you, my dear friends.
Now, I want to ask you something. The Lord Jesus, when He was here on earth, and He promised, in our message tonight, that this generation that we're now living, would see the sign of the resurrection. That would be the only sign that was given to the generation will be the sign of the resurrection. The Scripture teaches that Jesus remains the same yesterday, today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8).

59 How many's here for your first time, you wasn't here last night? Let's see your hands, all over the building. Well, it's a good thing that the crowd here last night didn't come back. Two-thirds of them are newcomers.
Now, last time I was speaking on... I suppose Dr. Vayle has tonight, give you an explanation of how that Jesus claimed not to do any works Himself, but it was through vision that He seen, that His Father showed Him what to do. Do you believe that? Saint John 5:19: Jesus said, "The Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise."

60 If you'd notice, He passed through a place where there was a great multitude, maybe several thousand people. Historians tell us that they laid at this pool of Bethesda, and when the Angels troubled the water, they would stab one another trying to get in first to test their faith against the Angel. And remember, the first one got healed, all the strength of the Angel was gone for another season. They waited, maybe, for months. One man had been waiting for years. And Jesus passed through this same place, where a few days before, a woman touched His garment, and He turned around; He said, "Who touched Me?"
And all of them denied it. And Jesus said, "But I got weak; virtue went from Me." And He looked around over the audience, until He found the person that touched Him. He told her what her trouble was, that her faith had made her well.

61 Now, that was Jesus yesterday. The Bible said He's the same today and a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities.
If that isn't true, then I would lay this Book down and leave here, because if it isn't the truth, I want nothing to do with it. But I found that every word is the truth. You can rest your soul... I may not have faith to make it all act right, but I believe it anyhow. I will never stand... I might not have faith to walk like old Enoch did, and take the little walk and go home in the afternoon, not have to die. I may not have that kind of faith; I may not have faith enough to shout down the walls of the city like Joshua did, but I will never stand in somebody else's way that had that faith. I will thank God for that faith. What faith I have, I'll love Him, and ask for more.

62 Now, if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and the woman touched Him, and He did not know, or... He can't lie; He was God. So the woman touched Him, and He said, "Who touched Me?"
And Peter said, "Well, the whole multitude's touching You." That's the way they're doing today.
But He said, "I perceive that virtue has gone from Me. (That's strength.) I got weak." And He looked around at the water was on the pool ... the Angel, rather, on the water, and said, "Well, I got weak." So He found the woman and told her.
Now, if He's the same, and the Bible said in the book of Hebrews, "He, now, is a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities." How many Bible readers would say, "Amen", just now? [Congregation says, "Amen."] Well then, if He is a High Priest now, He's got to act like He did then, to be the same yesterday, today, and forever. Is that right? Nothing till the Father shows Him.

63 Now, He told the truth, therefore, He never performed one miracle until God showed Him by a vision what to do, according to His own Word (Saint John 5:19). Search the Scriptures. No prophet ever did anything at random; it's always God. No flesh can glory in the sight of God.
And Jesus did not call Himself a divine healer. No, He said, "It's not Me that doeth the works; it's My Father that dwelleth in Me. He showeth Me, or doeth the works. I just act out what He shows me to do."
And He was standing in multitudes of people, and people would come up to Him, and He'd know who they was, and what their names were, where they come from, what they had done in their life. How many knows that? Would you say, "Amen"? [Congregation says, "Amen."]

64 The woman at the well, He talked to her, and He told her where her sin was. And she run into the city, and said, "Come, see a man who told me the things that I've done? Isn't this the Messiah?"
That woman knowed more about God than half the preachers in the world today. That's right. Being a prostitute, she was better taught. She knowed more about it than all the religious trained Pharisees of their day.
They said, "This is the devil. Well, this man... That's the devil. He's a fortuneteller."
But what did the devil say about it? "We know who You are, the Holy One of God."

65 How about up there when Jes... when Paul and Silas was doing the works of God, and that little fortuneteller run out and said... Why, the preachers all said, "These men are awful men; they turn the world up-side-down." That was the religious men.
But this little old fortuneteller said, "They're men of God, who tell us the way of life." Who was right, the preachers or the devil? That's pretty flat, but that's the truth. Who was right when they hollered, "Away with such a man, away with such a man. He's nothing but a Beelzebub?"
And the devil said, "We know who You are, the Holy One of God, why do You come to torment us before our time comes?"
Who knowed the most, Caiaphas or Satan? Satan. See, they just get so word bound, so church bound, till they can't accept the spiritual part of it. It goes over their heads.

66 Look, when Philip went and found Nathanael and brought him ... found him under a tree and he come to Jesus. And Jesus was going to manifest Himself before the Jewish race, and He said, "Behold, an Israelite, in whom there's no guile."
He said, "Rabbi, when did You know me?"
He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you."
What did he say? "Thou art the Son of God. Thou art the King of Israel."
He said, "Because I told you that, you believe Me?"
What did the woman say? "This man told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the very Messiah?" That was the sign of the Messiah.

67 Peter come, didn't know right and left hand hardly, couldn't write his name, an ignorant and unlearned man. He came up before the Lord Jesus, and Jesus looked at him, said, "Your name is Simon, and from henceforth you shall be called Peter, and your father's name is Jonas."
What do you think he thought? Certainly. That's Jesus yesterday. He manifested Himself, and declared Himself before the Jews and the Samaritans. There's only three races, Jews, Gentiles, and Samaritans. The Samaritan's half Jew and Gentile. That's all, Ham, Shem, and Japheth's people. Now, He said, "Don't you go to the Gentiles," and neither did He go. But He waited for this age, and this is the end; the Gentile has been heathens. Now, we come through all this church age, reasoning the Bible, having schools, and theologians and so forth, and all.

68 Now it's come down to the end; they ought to realize it. Now, He's promised He would do it again. If He declared Himself and made Himself Christ to them people, and don't do the same at the end of the Gentile age, then He isn't the same yesterday, today, and forever. That's true.
Now, if it comes to healing, I could come, and line you people up here as you come by, and lay hands on every one of you. That might be all right. I have nothing against that. My dear brother, Oral Roberts, and many other ministers do that. Your pastor anoints with oil; that's exactly Scripture. That's their gift from God. This is another. But if you knew that the One who wrote this Bible was standing present in the church, working in the church...

69 Now, remember, He said, "A little while and the world will see Me no more." Is that what He said? What is the world? The world order; "They will see Me no more, yet ye shall see Me." That's the elected, the church. "For I (personal pronoun), I will be with you, even in you to the end of the world." Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. "The works that I do, shall you do also." Do you believe that? "The works, the things that I do, so will you do also. I am the vine; ye are the branches." The vine cannot bear fruit; it's only got the life it gives to the branch, and the branch bears fruit. The church of Christ is the branch. Now, if you go to the branch and don't find the fruit of the vine, then there's something wrong. It isn't in the branch, Christ Jesus. But if it is in the branch, Christ Jesus, it'll bear the fruits of Christ.

70 You know what? How many here has got prayer cards? Let's see your hand. How many doesn't have prayer cards---let's see your hands---wants to be prayed for? Raise your hands, them that hasn't got prayer cards, hasn't got prayer cards and wants to be prayed for, raise your hands up, all over the building, the balconies, wherever you are. Well, there's about twenty times ... or, not twenty times, there's many times more without prayer cards than there is with prayer cards.

71 I believe if you will bear with me just a moment, I'm going to put God to a showdown, just now, and see if He will do something for us. I'm going to take those who do not have prayer cards, and I just want you, out there in the audience ... and I don't want you up here. I want you out there in the audience... I'm going to give you a scripture. I will take this scripture. Last night we took another. Tonight, we will take this scripture: that He is now a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. How many believe that with all your heart? Well then, if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and you touched Him tonight like that woman did, would He not have to act in the same way to be the same? If you did that, He'd have to act, and if He's living in the church, then He will act just like He did back there.

72 Now, let us pray, just a moment, and each of you put on your heart, and say, "Lord God, I'm now drawing a little line, and from this hour..." The reason I'm doing this, because this whole group come to Christ just a few moments ago. This is something new. But the whole group came to Christ, and I'm going to believe that God is going to help this group of people tonight to see that Christ is out there with you, that He is the High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. Upon that scripture, to see it manifested.

73 Now, Lord, it's in Your hands. Now, we submit ourselves to Thee, all this group of believers, and Thy humble servant. I just submit myself to You, and this audience to You. These souls raised their hands and said they believed before they have even seen anything take place.
Lord, with Christ that we have been speaking of, and has give them the word of His promise, that He would work in His church just as He did back there and would forever, let it be known that this is the end of the Gentile age, and we are Your church, and You're working through us tonight. Give me faith, Lord; give them faith, and may Thy great name be honored, for we ask it in Jesus' name. Amen.

74 Now, let us just be real reverent---no one going, now---just be real reverent. Sit still just a moment. And just like in your heart, you were saying, "Now, I know that the Scriptures are true, and I'm going to believe God tonight with all that's in me. I'm going to believe that God is going to speak to me tonight, and I'm going to touch His garment. And He, by my faith touching His garment... Lord, You use Brother Branham's voice to turn and tell me just like You did the woman at the well, just like that Christ did in His time here on earth, and I will believe then that You're working through me, and through Brother Branham."
You just do that. See if He isn't the same. And if He is the same, and will prove that He is the same, will you all give Him praise and glory for His goodness? Now, just be reverent and pray.
I have no... There's not a person before me, that I know. I do not see ... I believe this is the song leader, sitting right here. Is that right? Are you the boy that leads, I met down in New York? And I believe that's Dr. Barton sitting right there. Is that right? Well, the rest of our group is on the platform.

75 How many out there knows that I do not know you, or know nothing about you? Raise up your hands to God, so that you can just see. All right.
Now, let His Spirit... Now, if He is the same, His Spirit working in us, which is the branches, then the great vine is here, in the Spirit vine. Then He begins to move through the outlets of our heart. Well, what do we do? Just yield ourselves. Just like I said last night, "This microphone is a perfect mute, unless something is speaking through it." So will I be here. What will I know about you? I've never seen you. But I would be a perfect mute until the Holy Spirit does something for you, and then comes here and speaks the thing through me. That's a gift of God that He promised. It's never been since the last apostle until this time. Search the history, theologians and historians. Why? Because this is the end of the Gentile age. It'll go by; they'll never recognize it, only the ones who are supposed to.

76 Did you know they never knowed Elijah; they never knowed John; he's done gone. Jesus said, "That's the Elijah that was to come. They didn't know Jesus, till He was dead, buried, and rose again. They didn't know Saint Patrick; they call him a Catholic, but he was about as much as I am. They didn't know him till after he was dead. Saint Francis of Assisi, a walking preacher with a Bible under his arm, not till after he was dead. Joan of Arc, they said she was a witch and burned her to a stake. Hundred or two years later, found out she was a saint. And 'course, they done penance, dig up the dead bodies and throw them in the river. And today, it's no less. God sends it anyhow; goes right over the people. He calls that what He has chosen. It's God in all.

77 I'm just waiting; I am perfectly helpless. God may not do it, but let us believe that He will, because I don't know; this is something new. May He grant it. I just have to watch. We haven't the pictures; I don't think they're with Gene. None of the [Gap in the audio.] ... picture is hanging in Washington, DC, by the FBI, the only supernatural being that was ever photographed in all the world, the pillar of fire that led the children of Israel.
How many has ever seen the picture? Let's see your hands, all over the building, that's never seen that picture. Some of you. We will have it soon, but not now. We're completely out. It's not mine; it belongs to the American Photographers Association, the Douglas Studios in Houston. They took it down there that night when He stood right there before thirty thousand people, it comes right in the meetings. Just believe with all your heart now.

78 What a solemn time. What could happen just now, the church in one accord. Now, just a moment. Here stands... I see a woman; she's sitting back in the audience; she's looking at me now. She's wearing glasses, got a feather on the side of her hat. Are you praying for something, sister? The lady, right here, sitting next to the man with the white shirt on. Yes. One that just turned and looked at the man with the white shirt. You, are you praying for something? You wanting God to do something for you? You are. You don't have a prayer card, do you? No. It's the lady behind you, lady, that I happened to speak to her. I wished... See, it's right over that lady. Look like you could see that light, the emerald colored light hanging right there by the lady. That's the Holy Spirit in the form of a light.
Now, wait, critics, don't you think that isn't the Holy Spirit. What was it called Paul on the road to Damascus?

79 If the Lord God will tell me what's your trouble there, would you believe me to be His servant, the lady I'm speaking to there? You will? Well, do you believe God will heal that rupture for you, and make you well? If you do, stand up on your feet. Now, that's the lady that... Yes, that's it, you. You don't have a prayer card, but you were praying, and you have a rupture, or you had one. What did you touch? I've never seen you, never knowed nothing about it, but God knows you. He knows your trouble. If that's true, what your trouble was, raise your hand, if that's right. Now, go and be well.
Do you believe He lives? Certainly, He does. He never fails. I challenge any of you to pray.

80 Here's a little girl, sitting here. Little girl's looking down. Do you believe, little lady, on the Lord Jesus? Do you? Little green dress on, sitting there. Yes, that's her. Do you believe the Lord Jesus? Got trouble with your back, haven't you? That's right. You have a prayer card? You don't? Okay, you don't need one. Let me tell you; your back trouble's gone. That's your daddy sitting next to you. Do you believe me to be God's prophet? You do? If God will tell me what your trouble, will you believe me as His servant? You have kidney trouble. If that's right, raise up your hand. All right. You don't have it now.
That's your son, sitting there smiling. That's right. You believe? You believe with all your heart? You have trouble with your neck, haven't you? A broken neck. You also had rheumatic fever, didn't you? You don't have it now. Now, do you believe the Lord Jesus? Just have faith and believe Him.

81 I do not know the people. Anybody that's been called, if I didn't know you, raise your hands up, the people that has been called, the Holy Spirit has called. Raise up your hands, if I'm strangers to you, ever who was talked to, raise up your hands.
Now, have faith; don't doubt; believe God. If thou canst believe.
Here sits a lady with her head bowed now, gray-headed. Do you believe me to be God's servant, lady? Sitting there praying. She's still in prayer. You, you have need of anything from God? You have a strange feeling around you now, a real sweet humble feeling. Is that right? Raise up your hand. All right. That's the Holy Spirit. I don't know you. If that's right, raise your hand way up high. Do you believe the Lord God will answer prayer for you? You got a burden on your heart. That's right. And that burden is for your son. He has cerebral palsy. That is true. Do you believe with all your heart? Then receive what you asked for. If thou canst believe.

82 Dr. Barton, was you talking to the woman something? Was she sick? All right, lady, look at me. All right. Look up here. If thou canst believe, all things are possible. She's in prayer for somebody else. Mary; that's her given name. She's praying for a daughter of hers, and that daughter has a mental break. That's what she's praying for. Happens to be you with your hands on her; you're her daughter too. That's right. Do you believe me to be God's servant? I don't know you, do I? If God will reveal to me what you're there for, or something to you, would you believe me as His servant? You suffer with arthritis. You do have. That's right. Your name is Mrs. Bennett. That's right. You've come from a place called West Hartford. That's right. Your house number is 167 North Main Street, Hartford, Connecticut. That's right. Believe now, and go home well. I challenge you.
This lady, sitting next to you, is praying too there. When I said, "Arthritis," to you, she's sitting there praying for her mother, who has arthritis. That's right, isn't it, lady? Raise up your hand, if that's right. All right. You believe me, and your mother will get well.

83 Can't you believe? Anywhere, just have faith, don't doubt. Somebody over in this section, believe God.
Here. Looky here; there's a light. See it? There's the Holy Spirit. You say, "Do you see that, Brother Branham?" Only thing I can say; I see the light that's science put on paper and said, "Psychology, the camera won't take it." It's hanging over a man right there.
He's got some kind of a little reddish looking sweater on. He's praying for some loved one. And that loved one is a woman. And it's his sister, and she's in a mental institution. That's right. I'm a stranger to you, am I? I am. All right. You believe with all your heart. By the way, that's your wife sitting there next to you. She's in trouble too. She has a tumor, and she also has gland trouble. Her name is Ruth Edwards. That's true. And you're from Brookfield, Massachusetts, both of you. That's "thus saith the Lord." Go home; you're well now.

84 If thou canst believe. If that isn't the Bible of Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever, I don't know the Scriptures or neither do you. How great Thou art.
Just be reverent now. Something's happened, but I didn't see where it was. Do you believe Him with all of your heart? Oh, He is so real, friends. How many, with all their heart, believe that our Lord Jesus...? Now, you know that had to come through a supernatural power. I have no way of doing it. It's God; it's your own faith; you're doing it. That's you doing it; you're believing it. I could not say a thing, unless you are touching His garment.

85 Here a few weeks ago, in Chicago, there was a colored lady sitting out... This is on record, authentic, and she was praying for a loved one, down somewhere in Arkansas. And I said to her, "You've got sclerosis of the liver, but you're praying for your sister, that's a maniac in an institution in Little Rock, Arkansas."
She said, "That's true, sir."
I said, "She's in a padded cell."
Said, "That's right."
"But," I said, "she's delivered, for she's just now come to herself."
And the next morning the matron come in and let her out, give her a dismiss. And the following night she flew to Chicago, and had her dismissing card, and stood and testified, the following night. Certainly. That happens all the time. If thou canst believe. He's the same Jesus. Oh, how wonderful.

86 The lady sitting here praying, her head's bowed. She's sitting right before me; she's got some flowers on her hat. Miss Rush, you I'm speaking to, if you just raise up your head a minute. That's you. Do you believe me to be His prophet or His servant? Yes. You believe with all your heart? You believe the Lord God can give you the things you desire? Well, God bless you. You were praying then for it. Certainly, you were. Your trouble's in your throat. You got trouble in your throat, in your bowels, and in your spine. That's right. Correctly. You're not from this city; you're from Newport, Rhode Island. That's exactly right. Now, go back home; you're well. Jesus Christ makes you well.
Do you all believe with all your hearts? Raise up your hands and say, "I now believe, as the queen of Sheba, as she seen the gift of God work in Solomon; it settles it with me." All right. The Lord bless you.

87 Now, I'm going to ask you to do something for every one of you to be healed. This going on, it makes me weak, you see it does look at the perspiration from my hands and all, and now the whole crowd's just becoming like this. You're believing. If God has give me favor in your sight, believe me now, as His servant. I've told you from the Word, and He's confirmed that I tell the truth. And if I tell the truth on one thing, I tell it now. You're every one already healed, and been healed for nineteen hundred years. The presence of Christ confirms the Word, and you're every one healed. Do you believe it? If you do, the Bible said, "These signs shall follow them that believe. They shall lay their hands on the sick, and they shall recover." Lay your hands on one another and let's pray. I don't care what your trouble is; let's believe God.

88 Heavenly Father, we bring to You this audience, and we snatch them right out of the hand of the devil. Satan, you are defeated, and the Holy Ghost has exposed you, and declared that in this generation, of the wickedness of this nation, yet there is people, who's gathered here tonight, who believes on the Lord God. And they have seen His presence, knowing that it could not be a man do that, that it's vindicated the Bible and the resurrection.
O Lord God, I pray that You'll send the shower of the Holy Spirit and power over this audience, that'll shake every one of them to their senses to realize that the great Holy Ghost is here and has made them well. Grant it, Lord.
Satan, I defeat you through the blood of the Lord Jesus, and His vicarious sufferings at Calvary. You are defeated, Satan; come out in the name of the Lord God and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

89 All of you that believes that you're healed by the power of God, stand up on your feet and give God praise. Don't be afraid. If you accept it, stand up.
Give us a chord, "I Will Praise Him," sister. Oh, isn't that wonderful? What about in the wheelchairs? Are you afraid? Don't be scared. All right.
[Congregation sings, "I Will Praise Him."] That's right.
Now, get out of all that starchy feeling, break yourself loose, and raise your hands to the great Creator, who stands present to judge us, and sing it with all that's in you. Sing it. [Congregation sings, "I Will Praise Him."]

The Queen of Sheba

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1 Let us remain standing as we bow our heads for a word of prayer.
O Lord, we are grateful tonight for this opportunity to bring the gospel of Thy precious Son to the peoples. And we pray that You will meet with us tonight, and will make the gospel that was preached by the apostles be made alive tonight in our midst. May every hungry heart be fed with the good things of God. May the sinners be condemned of their unbelief, and accept the Lord Jesus as their personal Saviour. Father, we would pray especially for the sick and the needy; may this be an hour of deliverance for them. We not only pray for those that are present tonight in this great audience, but we would pray for those who are in the radio audience, who were not able to get here tonight by some reason. Let Thy Holy Spirit, O God, come to their bedsides, or wherever they may be, and raise them up from their sickness that they might live and serve Thee. Grant these blessings, in the name of Jesus, we ask it. Amen. You may be seated.

2 I am just a little hoarse in my voice. I've been speaking this afternoon for some time in an evangelistic service here at the Temple. And then, just coming from other meetings also. And they had some sort of a little bug flying around at home. I don't know what they called it. Those that the doctors cannot name, I think they just call it "virus." And I don't know what the little fellow's name was, but I'm sure sorry that he tried to get in my throat. Satan must've sent him there, because of this oncoming meeting. I come anyhow, because I know in whom I have believed. And I'm persuaded that He's able to keep that which we have committed to Him against the day.
I found it in my life's journey, and especially in my ministry, that when Satan makes a big fight, he knows there's a great blessing laying ahead. So it's always at those times that we like to go on.

3 Now, our precious Brother David DuPlessis has just brought a wonderful message, in so much, that I changed my text when I was standing in the room listening to him to just a little short message before we pray for the sick.
The reason that I do this, is to catch the feeling of the spirit of the people. Now, that is essential. We should do that. You can take one man preaching, an evangelist, and let the evangelist who has the anointing sit down, and then the pastor get up to make an altar call, it's hard to do it. You have to catch the spirit of the people.
And I believe that we're living in a great needy time, a needing of the Spirit of God in our churches and among our peoples. And we're trusting that this coming week, the Lord willing, to see a great revival start here at the Angelus Temple, and spread throughout the country. We're praying to God for this.

4 Now, I want to call your attention to just one scripture found in God's Holy Word, Saint Matthew 12:42. And I was going to speak tonight on the subject of "When The Eagle Stirs Her Nest And Fluttereth Over Her Young." Being that we're running just a little bit late, maybe that'll keep. I wish to read from this part of the Scripture.
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.

5 Our Lord had been rebuking many of the people who had been following Him and had seen His great miracles, and still they had not repented. And He was upbraiding the cities that He had been in, in the previous part of this chapter; because in these cities He had performed a sign that all believers should know that was the sign of the Messiah. We spoke on it last evening, and how that those who, seemingly, that God had ordained to eternal life by His foreknowledge, had believed on it; and how that He had drawed His disciples to Him by this thing---that He had performed this sign. And they who was looking for the God-prophet to come, they knew that that was He. But many of them had disbelieved.
And in the previous part of this chapter He was saying to them, after He had performed these works, and they had said that He was an evil spirit ... on Him was a spirit of Beelzebub, which was an evil spirit.
And to make it in words so we would understand, that they believed that the Spirit that He had---that could tell Peter who he was, and what his father's name was, not seeing him before; and could tell Philip where he was before he came to the meeting, and discerned the thoughts of their hearts---they classed it as an evil spirit: a fortune-teller, or some evil devil. And Jesus had told them, "If you speak that against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven you. But when the Holy Ghost is come, to speak against that, it would never be forgiven."

6 And we find out that it was just as He said. And He was speaking there, and said, "Thou, Capernaum, which are exalted into heavens, shall be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works had been done in Sodom and Gomorrah that has been done in you, it would've remained until this day." A degraded, polluted city as Sodom was, and yet Jesus said if them signs would've been done in Sodom, it would've remained.
And we find last night that the sign that He was doing was done by an Angel that was later called God, just outside of Sodom, to Abraham and to Sarah and their host. But He never did that down in Sodom.
And He also referred to Jonah, the prophet. And in all ages God has had men that He could put His hand on to do His work. Now, God chooses men, not machines. He chooses men to work through. He chose the prophets of the Old Testament. He chose His own Son of the New Testament, and the apostles. And on down through the age, He's always had people who would believe Him. God has never been without a witness. Sometimes it's gotten down till just a few. But always, there is a remnant.

7 And He was referring back to Jonah. And many times we like to say about Jonah, of him being backslidden. Now, I'm not holding up so much for what he did, but I believe that all things work together for good to them that love God.
Sometimes we do things that we do not understand our own doings, if we are led by the Spirit of God. Every child of God in my hearing ... or, hearing of my voice, rather, knows that some times that you do things that you think yourself is ridiculous, when you become so closed in with God, when the Holy Spirit gets you in such a condition till you're fully surrendered to Him.
I've seen men so filled with the devil, until it would take several men to hold them. And then if Satan can put that kind of a power on a man fully surrendered to him, how much more power can the Holy Spirit put on a man that's surrendered to Him: to make a person in a wheelchair rise and walk, to make the shadow of a man dying with cancer on a cot to jump to his feet, screaming under the power of God. For how much stronger is God than the devil?

8 And Jesus was speaking about Jonah, and He told the story of how it happened. We're all familiar with that story.
And let's stop just for a minute to straighten my expression that I made about Jonah. I do not believe he was backslid. I believe that he was... He did what God told him not to do, but God knew all the time that he was going to do it, for God's infinite, and He knows all things.
And Jonah was taken out into the sea on his road to Tarshish. And a great storm came up, and they bound his feet and hands, and throwed him out, and a big fish swallowed him; went down to the bottom of the sea, many fathoms deep. And he kept alive for three days and three nights. I believe that to be the truth, for the Word of God said it's the truth.

9 And we are told, or I have read, that the people of Nineveh were worshippers of idols, and their sins had got great. And one of their gods, especially the god of the sea, was a whale. And it was the god of the sea, because it was the largest specie in the sea.
And the people, their occupation was fishing. And as all of them at their task that morning---drawing in the nets of fishes---and all of a sudden, up comes the god of the sea, opens up his mouth, and the prophet walks out. Sure they repented. It was all in order.
God knows how to do things; we just have to follow. No matter if it seems ridiculous, go do it anyhow, if the Spirit of God is leading.

10 And they repented in sackcloth and in ashes, because a miracle like that taken place.
And here was Jesus standing there performing the signs of the Messiah, and that generation called it the working of a devil. Jesus said they'll raise up, for they repented with the preaching of Jonah; and they'll rise in the day of the judgment with this generation and condemn it.

11 Then He goes to the little queen of the South in the days of Solomon. Now, God had give a great gift to Solomon. And anyone who reads the Scriptures knows that when God sends a gift to the earth and the people reject that gift, it's always chaos to that generation. They never prosper. They end up in judgment upon the nations. And if they accept the gift that God sends, it's usually a millennium for those people. They are blessed.
And we know, as Bible readers, that in the days of Solomon was a golden age for Israel. Why? Because that all the people with one accord rallied around that great gift that Solomon had from God.
I wonder what would take place tonight if all the churches in the United States would rally around the gift that God has give us---that is the Holy Ghost, God's gift. What if all the churches would break down their barriers and would rally around that great gift of Godly, brotherly love and the baptism of the Holy Spirit? It would be the greatest defense this nation could have. It would be better than all the scientists, and atomic bombs, and so forth that they could invent.

12 For that's what God wants us to do, all of us in our different denominations, is to recognize one another as brothers and sisters, rallying around this great gift of God, which is the Holy Ghost, that comes with power and manifestation and demonstrations of His presence. Then there would not be one cruel word spoken against any move of God. We'd all be one, and one great big bundle of Godly love. That's what it's going to take for the church to go in the rapture.
Paul said, "Though I might speak with tongues like men and angels, and have not love, it profits me nothing." I could discern or have all the wisdom of the Scriptures and know them all, and have faith to move mountains, I am still nothing.

13 What a disappointment it's going to be at the judgment, when men who's thought that they were all right because they had faith to heal the sick, they had faith to operate a gift, and had great meetings, great evangelistic services, and won souls... Jesus has forewarned us of those things: "Many will come to me in that day and say, Lord, have I not cast out devils in your name? and in your name done many mighty works?" Then He said He would confess to them, "Depart from me, you workers of iniquity; I never knew you."
It takes more than the power of gifts. It takes more than joining church. It takes the birth of the Holy Spirit to break down our walls and to unite us together as one great Christian body moving for one objective and one goal.

14 They did that in the days of Solomon. Why, everybody came by, they would speak of it as something great. Solomon had a gift of discernment---wisdom. And people coming by would say, "Oh, don't you leave (they would say to the passer-by), until you come and see what the Lord our God has done for us."
Would not that be wonderful to hear it again tonight? "Come and see! Our God is a living God!"

15 The news made headlines. The only way they had to send news then was from lip to ear. And that news swept out all over the world, the known world, that there was a great God up in Israel, who was manifesting Himself through His servant Solomon. And all the people with one accord was rallying around it. Unity. There's power in unity.
Then the news finally come to the little queen, all the way across the Sahara Desert, way down in the utmost parts of the known world of that day, down into Sheba. Why, every traveler would come by that's passed through Israel would say, "Oh, you should go up there and see those people! Why, they're just as bold as they can be. They know there's not a flaw about their religion."
That's the way we want to believe it. There's nothing wrong with the Holy Spirit. It's a perfect gift of God to the church.

16 And they would keep speaking about the great things that Solomon would do.
Now, faith cometh by what? Hearing, hearing the Word of God. And you know, when this word kept coming to this little queen, she begin to believe that it was the truth, and she begin to thirst to go find out about it.
Oh, Jesus said, "Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt has lost its savor (or its strength) it's henceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and trod under the feet of man (made roads out of)."

17 Well, I do not wish to be critical, but to a certain degree we are letting this great blessing go to that. The strength of the Holy Spirit should be in every member of the church. "What do you mean, strength?" The power of the resurrection. The life that Jesus gave for the church should be operating in every member of it---the body. The strength. Salt will only save if it contacts. But it must contact. And if the church gets that burden on their heart to contact someone, get someone saved, then the strength's coming back into the church again and into the people.
And this little woman... First place, she had a lot of difficults. The odds, as we would call it in the world, was against her. The first place, she was a woman. And then, she was a pagan, a worshipper of idols. And being in her position, the queen, she'd have to ask release from her own church before she could go up and attend that revival.

18 Well, you can imagine what the pagan priest would say to her. "Now look, my dear; do not be carried away with such little fantastic things. If there was any God to be made manifest, we would have it right here in Sheba. Our church would have it. We'd be the ones that was doing it."
If that isn't a good attitude towards many peoples today. I trust that you don't think I'm criticizing. I'm just making a declaration of facts.

19 Now, notice. And she longed to go. And he would... They'd go get out the scrolls and say, "Now, looky here. This great god of ours is so-and-so..."
She'd say, "I heard my grandmother talk about that. And she said she heard her grandmother talk about it. But all we have is some written words of a god that once existed. Where is he today? They tell me that those people up there in Israel has got a living God, who's living among them, operating through them. I want to see it!" "Blessed are they that do hunger and thirst: for they shall be filled."

20 She made ready. She was a sensible woman. She ladened some animals down with gold, and silver, and frankincense, and many great stones of great price. Let's think that she said this in her heart: "I'm not going to sit down here in Sheba and just be a wet rag. If they've got a revival going on that manifests the presence of a living God, I'm going up to find about it. For if they've got that among them, we haven't got it among us. And I want to stop these creeds, and find where there is something that can talk back!" Bless that woman's heart. She was hungering and thirsting for God.
And she ladened these animals with these gifts, and perhaps she said this: "I'm going up. I ain't going to take nobody else's word. I'm going to find out for myself. If it's the truth, I will support it. If it isn't the truth, I will bring my gifts back." That's a good idea.
If God's in it, put everything behind it you got: your soul, your heart, your mind, your talent. All that you've got, give it to the glory of God. If He isn't God, then let it alone and find out where there is a God. If it isn't the truth, let it alone; find out what is truth.

21 So then she had to cross the Sahara Desert. Now, this company of... She had a few guards, eunuchs from the temple, a few maids to wait on her. Do you know how long it would take to cross the desert from Sheba to Jerusalem by camel? Takes three months. No wonder Jesus said she'll stand in the day of judgment and condemn this generation! Why, some people in Los Angeles won't drive a Cadillac up here to hear about it. Look what she had to do: come across the Sahara Desert on the back of a camel. But there was something in her heart thirsting to find out if there was a God, and if He lived and He lived in His people.
When you get to thirsting like that, there's nothing going to hold you away from it. I don't care what they call the people; they've been called all kinds of names. So was Jesus called "Beelzebub." Don't make any difference what the people says; it's what God is saying.

22 And so she took off. Here's something else had to confront her: The children of Ishmael was on the desert, fleet-footed riders, robbers, murderers. Well, what a prey that would be for them. Why, that great band of men could ride in on that little company and mop it out in a few moment's time. And look at the thousands of dollars of money and wealth she had on these camels. Why, it was a set-up for them.
But, you know what? Her faith and desire to see the kingdom of God, God stopped it for her. He made a way for her.
And I say to both visible and invisible audience, if your heart is so hungering and thirsting to come to God, God will make a way for you to get to Him. He's always did it, and He always will.

23 She never took the second thought. If you take the second thought, saying, "Well, now, wait a minute. If the Holy Spirit would come upon me the way it does some of those people, and my boss tomorrow would let out a few curse words standing in my presence, why, you mean I might walk up to him and have to tell him, 'Now, here, that's not right for you to do that. You're cursing my Lord. I don't appreciate that.' He might fire me." You just let the Holy Spirit come on you once, God will take care of the rest of it. He will have everything prepared. Don't take no thought for tomorrow. Tomorrow will take thought for the things of tomorrow. Today is the day.
She was determined. She got on these camels, and they had to travel perhaps by night because the desert was so hot in daytime. Pressing on. Satan on every little mirage out in the desert saying, "You can't make it; it's false; there's no need of going. Why, you're laughed at; you're excommunicated from your church. What if you get up there and start acting like those people? Well then you'd be throwed out sure enough. And think of your prestige; you're a great person here in Los Ang... or, Sheba. You have a great name. You must remember you come from a great high standard of people. And here you're going with a bunch of polluted up there in Israel. Why, you shouldn't do that."
But she was determined. There was something inside of her moving her! The deep was calling to the deep! Something calling to... She was thirsting and hungering for a taste of the righteousness of Almighty God. She'd pull through anything to get to it.

24 She finally arrived at the gate. Now, she didn't come to stay just for one night; or sit in and wait till the pastor preached a little bit, and said something was against her theology, and then she'd pick up her hat and go home. That's the modern trend of it. "If I'll go over there... But just let him say one thing that's against our creed, I will get right up..." That shows poor raising to begin with. Then, she said, "I'll just go in and if I don't like the way they conduct the services, I will take my camels and turn back." Jesus never would've said about her what He did if she had had that attitude.
If you come to criticize, the devil's going to show you plenty to criticize. If you come to find fault, the devil's going to show you plenty of fault. But if you come hungering and thirsting for God, the angels of God will direct you to the spot to find it.

25 She unloaded her camels out in the parking lot. She went in with this determination, "I'm going to stay till I am satisfied and convinced whether it's right or wrong. I've heard about these things, now I'm going in to find out." No doubt but what she brought many scrolls, reading the Hebrew language, and so forth, of the promises of this Hebrew God. See if what Solomon was talking about was corresponding to the Scriptures that this God had made promises of these things. So she had a general conception of what it was going to be.
And any man that... Any man at all that reads the Bible could walk into a church, in ten minute's time could almost tell whether it's right or wrong. As I said this afternoon, "It wasn't so from the beginning."

26 They left Jesus at Nazareth ... or, at Jerusalem at the Feast of Pentecost. If the first branch, which was in the vine, brought forth a Pentecostal branch, the second branch is like the first one, because it's getting its life from the same resource. And if we are in Christ, and He is the vine and we are the branches, this church should be another Pentecostal church filled with the Holy Ghost, and dominated by the Spirit of God. We left Him at Pentecost. We got to go back.
She had read, found out what Jehovah was, what His Word was. Search the hearts, the discerner of the spirit, promising that some day a great God-prophet would come that would be the Redeemer, and He'd give gifts to men, and so forth. She had an idea what it would be.

27 So I can see her comb her hair, and fix her clothes just right, to look nice. She goes into the church, as it was, that morning, the courts of Solomon. And the people ... the trumpets were playing, the music was beautiful. And she sits down to listen.
And after a while, out come Pastor Solomon. And they had some cases lined up for him. And when one came before him, what a knowledge of discernment he had! He knew, somehow, what to tell these people.
I'd imagine she kind of scratched her head and said something like this: "Say, there must be something to this." Another case come, and another case; the days passed. Finally her prayer card was called, or she got into the line. And when she got... She wasn't just going to ... she was going to wait till her number was called. She was going to stay there and look it over. And when she got up before Solomon, she looked at him; he's just a man. But the Bible said that there was nothing hid from Solomon about the woman. The Spirit of discernment was on Solomon, and he told her all the things that she desired.

28 What did she say? Did she want to class him Beelzebub? Certainly not. She stood right out, being a pagan heathen, stood right out amongst all the people, and she said, "All that I have heard has been the truth. And more than I have heard," for she'd seen it with her own eyes, and the miracle had been performed on her. And she said, "Blessed is the men that stands here by you day by day, to see these things happen. Blessed is your cup bearers. Blessed are those which are associated with you that stand in your presence and to see great works of the living God."
Jesus said, because she did that she will stand in the judgment with that generation of theologians and condemn them, "for she came from the utmost parts of the world to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here."

29 Solomon just had a gift. Jesus was the giver of the gift. And the same Jesus, when He was on earth, said, "The works that I do shall you do also. A little while and the world sees me no more, yet ye shall see me. I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world (not the age of the apostles, but the end of the world). The world won't see me no more, but ye shall see me." How long? To the end of the world. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever.
And after two thousand years of Bible teaching, and scholars, and schools teaching it, how are we going to escape the wrath of the damnation of the wrath of God when this generation is called into view? This nation is ripe for judgment. We will never escape it. Remember, I speak in the name of the Lord. We are doomed! She's past repenting. She's gone!
The only thing that the Holy Spirit's trying to do is call out those children, "Come out from among them!" We've had Billy Grahams, and Oral Robertses, and great men who's crossed this nation and done everything in the book nearly, and the people still sit paralyzed.

30 In Louisville, Kentucky, a few months ago, there was a little lady come down through one of the ten cent stores. She was taking things and showing them to a little baby that she had in her arms, about three or four years old. The little fellow just sat and stared. And after while she picked up a little thing that jingled, and she shook it. The little fellow just stared. And she'd caused such a commotion, until the people in the store had noticed her odd acting. Then she just collapsed as she went over the counter. And she begin to scream, "Oh, no, no! He's no better!"
And some lovely people walked up and said, "What is wrong?"
She said, "My little boy. A few months ago, he just sat staring. It just come on him all at once, and he doesn't seem to pay any attention to things that he should listen to, that little boys of his age should be interested in." Said, "I took him to the doctor; the doctor said he's better." But said, "He isn't better." And she begin to weep.
And I just wonder if that isn't something like the Pentecostal church today, that God shook every spiritual gift before them that He can, trying to attract their attention, to come together, love one another as He prayed that we might be one, that we would love one another. Shaking His gifts, and we sit and look as if we were paralyzed.

31 I got two little girls sitting back there, Rebekah and Sarah. They're both daddy's little girls. When I go out, why, they're always waiting for me to come back. They love daddy. And you know how daddy loves them.
There's a little parable: One morning I'd come in early, and the kiddies had waited long. And I was late, so they had to go to bed. Their mother put them to bed. And I couldn't rest that morning, so I got up early, and sitting out in living room in a chair. I'd had meetings, and I was so worn-out, I just couldn't sleep. And I'd got up early, sitting in the chair. After while I heard a scramble in the children's bedroom. Becky had woke up, and she wondered where daddy ... if he'd got in. Here she come through the house just as hard as she can. Behind her come her little sister, about so tall.

32 Now, Becky was big. She was about thirteen, long-legged and skinny. Sarah's a little chumpy fellow, her pajamas feet about twice the size they ought to be. She was a falling over most everything in the house. And Becky come and jumped right a-straddle of my leg, and her big long legs hung down to the floor. She could balance herself pretty well.
I think about like the churches sometime. They're older than this move of God, the Pentecostal. And they may have both feet on the ground. That's all right. We appreciate that.

33 And she put her arms around me to hug me real tight. She said, "My daddy!" And when she heard Sarah her little sister coming, she turned and looked at Sarah. She said, "Sarah..." Sarah reminded me of this little church that's just started. You know, it isn't very old. Sometimes it gets up in the air, and down on the ground, and flopping around, in and out. She said, "Sarah, I want you to know one thing: I was here first, and I've got all of daddy, and there's nothing left for you."
Little Sarah dropped her little lips down, here little brown eyes kind of watering. She turned to go away. I winked at her and motioned my finger, and stuck my other leg out. Here she come, all smiles, and jumped up on that leg. She couldn't hold herself; she couldn't touch the ground.
You know, they get a little up-side topsy-turvy sometime when they get drunk on the Spirit, you know---but as long as they're there.
So I just took both arms (I had to to hold her on my leg, she was too short, she hadn't growed enough.) and I hugged her up close to me. And she rolled that little head around, them little black eyes stuck out and looked at Becky. She said, "Rebekah, my sister, I want to tell you something too." Said, "It may be true that you got here first. And it may be true that you've got all of daddy. But I want you to know one thing: Daddy's got all of me."
So that's the way I feel about this religion. I don't know all the ins and outs maybe of the Bible. I know the Author of the Bible real well. And just as long as He's got all of me, that's all I care for. If I'm so completely surrendered to Him and to His will, that He can work His works, let the world say what they want to.

34 And she will rise in the day of the judgment and condemn this generation, for she came from the utmost parts of the world to hear the wisdom of Solomon, a gift. And yet I say unto you that a greater than Solomon is here.
Let us pray. Precious Lord, we are now standing at a crossroads. We've been brought to a place to whether it is ... we must accept it or discard it. We cannot go out the doors of this place tonight as we were when we come in. We either go out better or worse. Lord, grant that every man and woman in here will go out filled with the Holy Spirit, go back to their home church and be a real Christian in it. Grant it, Lord.

35 And now, as Brother DuPlessis has been speaking, and we have told of the great Messiahic gift, the last sign to the church that was to appear just before the judgment, I pray, God, that You'll make Yourself known to this church tonight that You are not dead, but You are alive; and the God that they worship, the Jesus that they love, is walking side by side with them, and knows the very thoughts of their heart.
And when we shall close the service tonight, may all unbelievers or so forth come forward and give their hearts to Thee. And as we go on our roads home, may we say like those who came from Emmaus on that first resurrection morning... After Jesus had gotten them together and closed the door, He did something just the way He did it before His crucifixion. They knew that no man did it that way but Him. And they understood, and their eyes opened, and He vanished out of their sight. And they said as they hurried back to tell the others, "Did not our hearts burn within us as He talked to us along the way?"
Once more, Lord, in this great church of Angelus Temple, I pray, God, that You will once more, tonight, come into our midst so real and so tangible that every person in here may see You do the works that You did before Your crucifixion, that they might know their God lives. Heal the sick, save the lost. And may we all commit ourselves to Thy Spirit, that we might be instruments that He might work through us. We ask it in Jesus' name. Amen.

36 Jesus said in one case, "If I do not the works of my Father who sent me, don't believe me."
Now, I want you to know clearly that I am not a divine healer, and I don't believe there's one in the world. I believe that divine healing is on the same basis of salvation. Jesus Christ paid the price of sin at Calvary, and you cannot touch sin unless you touch sickness, because sickness is an attribute of sin: maybe not what you done, but what someone done before you. Because we never had no sickness until we had sin. When sin came, sickness followed it. And that's true.

37 How can you preach the gospel of salvation and then deny divine healing, has been more than I ever could understand. Jesus died at Calvary; every sin was settled. The only thing you do now is look and live. Believe it. He was wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes you were healed.
If I had power to heal anybody, I certainly would do it. I sure would. I know what is means to be sick. I have no power to heal. No other man does. If he does, then what happened to Calvary?
God cannot do anything twice. By His stripes you were healed. If He stood here tonight with this suit that He gave me, He could do not one thing toward your healing unless you believed it. He proved it in the Scriptures: "Many mighty works he could not do, because of their unbelief." It's the same tonight. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. But those who believe, could.

38 Now, the main thing is this. If we can ... He will come in our midst and prove that He's in our midst, then that gives every person an opportunity to look and live.
I believe I heard Brother Shakarian, a few moments ago as I come up, speaking about the Caribbean Islands where we just left. And that judge that morning was standing there talking, and Sally Olson was interpreting to give him the message, so astonished. Said it was ... "When this Brother Branham leaves, God don't leave the island." Said, "He put all the emphasis on God."

39 And when the meeting was over, they took carloads of little old carts and wheels that they'd drove together to bring their loved ones on, crutches and clubs, laying covered all over the fields where they just got up and left them.
And here we sit here tonight in America. We ought to be ashamed of ourselves! If we ... the trouble I've... I feel more sorry for America than anywhere else, because they don't know which way to turn. This one's saying this and that one's saying that.
Jesus said, "Let every man's word be a lie and mine be the truth." He is a-living! He died, He rose again, He's alive forevermore! He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.

40 Now, we're late. Tomorrow night by this time, we expect to be gone---Sunday night. I'm kind of ashamed. I've got a... The Lord has given me, rather, a way that I could operate my ministry a little different than what I used to: that is, that the visions just come, and then I let it go till I strike another one that really needs it, and then let it go to that one, and then go on till I see someone really in need, or some sin hanging on the person, then I stop that one.
But I don't believe my ministry of the first type---to take the line and search it by the Holy Spirit---has ever been done here. So being it won't take very long for that, let's have it that way tonight. And then tomorrow night, I'll start my new ministry that the Lord give me.

41 Now, last evening, before we had had anybody here---so anyone would see that the prayer card don't have nothing to do with the healing of the person---the great Holy Spirit come down and went over this building, telling, talking to the people, telling them just what it was, and healing the people. How many was here to witness it? Raise your hands. That was before anything ever happened.
How many's here that's never been in one of my meetings before, raise your hands. Near half the congregation.
Now, I claim that Jesus ... that the coming of the Lord is near. The last sign that's ever showed to any generation before the chaos has ... before the destructions happen, the Messiahic sign is given to that people. It was given to Abraham before the destruction of Sodom. It was given to the Jews before God turned from them. It was given to the Samaritans before God turned from them.

42 And now, there's one generation, one people left from Ham, Shem, and Japheth's people: that's the Gentiles. We've had two thousand years of theology. We've had healings. We've had miracles all down through there. But now we're at the end time. The Messiah is drawing closer. The hour is at hand.
I know that you've had so many sensations and things, till it seems like they don't catch it, like the baby. Open up your understandings tonight before God and let Him move upon you.
If God can prove to be here, the resurrection of Jesus Christ, that He is in this building, and He is with His people, how much more would you want? It ought to make you to throw your crutches down, jump from your wheelchairs, get out of here, go on the street tomorrow saying, "Did not our hearts burn within us as the Holy Spirit spoke to us tonight?"

43 Don't wait. Satan can make you put it off till tomorrow night, that's just one night longer, and that much harder to get to it. Believe it right now. If you'll believe, you shall receive. And if the Lord Jesus will appear in our midst to these hundreds and hundreds of people sitting here tonight, and will perform and do just like He did before He was crucified, how many will say, "It'll settle it with me forever, that Jesus Christ is alive, and I will take Him as my Saviour?" Raise your hands, will you? Thank you.
And radio audience, I wish you could be here to see this great massive people sitting here with their hands up, witnessing that they would accept the Lord Jesus. Maybe some of them are sinners. Some of them...
What is sin? Why, a person can be just as loyal to church as they can be, a member of the finest church in Los Angeles, and still be a sinner. A preacher can stand behind the pulpit and preach a gospel message that would shake the whole audience, and still be a sinner. Sin is unbelief. If you believe Him not, you're condemned already.

44 Now, I believe the boys told me there that they gave out one bunch of prayer cards this afternoon. We want to stand them up, so it'll be reverent. Everybody has a chance to get the prayer card, get into line. Now, Brother Duffield or any of the pastors here didn't give out those prayer cards; these boys give them out. They stand up here and mix them up before you, and then come out and give anybody a card that wants one.
Therefore, if you're from the Temple or... Your pastor had nothing to do it, or neither did Brother Duffield, or anyone here at this church, or any other church. They just give it out, and you come as you're called. It's not a push, and a shove, and a fuss, and so forth. This is a house of God. It's not an arena.

45 I've seen them when you try to take six rows of men in India, where nearly five hundred thousand had gathered. And they'd break through those lines and jump over one another, run through the legs of the officers trying to get through. Why, you couldn't preach or pray for the sick like that; there's too much confusion. The Holy Spirit is timid. Everything must be decently and in order for the Holy Spirit.

46 Was that... Prayer cards L was give out. And we're going to start at number 1, and line up as many as we can. Let's see. I believe it'd be just as easy for them to come this a-way.
Who has prayer card number 1? Raise up your hand. A lady, come right here. Number 2, raise up your hand. All right, sir. Number 3. Come right down here, lady, if you will. That's right, right along front of the... Number 3, raise up your hand. Way back in the back. Now, just wait till your number is called. Number 4, raise up your hand. Back over here. [Gap in the audio.] Fifteen minutes now.

47 Do you realize that this, now, what I have preached about, what you've heard about, what the Bible has told, it's either got to be proven now to be the truth or it's wrong? Now comes the showdown. Is Christ alive? If He is, He will make Hisself known.
To you Pentecostal people, did not Jesus say ... or, Paul (I beg your pardon) Paul said to the Corinthian church, "If all speak with tongues and one come in unlearned, they'll say you're mad. But if one prophesies and reveals the secret of the heart, then they'll fall down and say, 'God is with you.'" How many knows the Bible says that? Raise your hands. Sure. See, how could you say it was something else when Paul, and Jesus, and the Holy Spirit just keeps going on with it.

48 Now, to you that's in the prayer line, how many of you know that I do not know you or know nothing about you---your cause? Raise your hands, will you? All right. Every one of them. I don't see a person there that I've ever seen in my life. Now again, so the audience---visible audience---can see it. Every one of you in the prayer line that knows that I do not know you, or know what's wrong with you, or know your desires, or what you're here for, raise up your hands again. All right. You see it? All right.
Now, neither do you out there. The only person... I thought I seen Brother Julius Stadsklev here somewhere. I guess it was this afternoon, he was sitting along here somewhere.
Now, here is a showdown now for the next few minutes. Now, remember, it's not me. Now, just be seated. Keep your seats, and be real quiet just for a moment. Now, it's not me. I don't know these people; those people don't know me. My hand is before God. I don't know a one of them. And they raised their hands the same. They don't know me; I don't know them. So something's got to take place if these Scriptures are made true. All right.

49 Now, this is a woman coming here now. I suppose that mike is alive there too, is it? You can stand right there then, lady.
Now, here we are meeting, a man and a women, the first time in life to meet. I do not know her, never seen her. I suppose this maybe the first time we've ever come this close together unless ... knowing in our life. If that's right, raise up your hand. That's right. The first time we've ever met. All right.
But she's here for some cause. Now, what can happen? What can Jesus do with this? When I've already said, if she's sick, "By His stripes she was healed." But He's still the same Jesus yesterday, today, and forever.

50 One time---in Saint John 4---this come together again, a man and a woman. Jesus met the woman of Samaria, and she ... He asked her for a drink. You know the story. And Jesus kept talking to her till He found out what her trouble was. How many knows what her trouble was? She had five husbands, living with the sixth one. And when He told her that, she said, "I perceive that you are a prophet. We know when the Messiah cometh, he will tell us theses things." That was the sign of the Messiah.
If He's the same Messiah today... He's gone away and the body of flesh---Jesus---was crucified. God raised it up and set it on His throne. But the Spirit that was in Him has come back upon His church. And it's a yielding to the Holy Spirit.

51 I don't know her; she don't know me. Now, if she believes... All right. She might be a critic. She might be a hypocrite. She might be a Christian. She might be sick. She might need finances, spiritual aid. I don't know nothing about her. If she's a critic, watch what happens to her in the next few minutes. You've been in meetings before, you, and seen what happened then. Now, here's where the... That's another Ananias and Sapphira case.
But now, I will speak to her just like our Lord spoke to that woman till He found her trouble. Then if... Let her be the judge. Now, if I walked up and said, "Sister, you're sick," that might be right, might be wrong.
If she said, "Yes, of course he knowed I was sick, I'm in the prayer line," (well, it could be that she wasn't sick) and laid my hands on her, said, "Praise the Lord, you're going to get well," well, she should believe that. But what if the Holy Spirit comes here, and goes back down her life, and tell her what she has been? Now, she knows whether that's the truth or not. And if He knows what has been, surely He will know what will be. You believe that?

52 I just want to talk to the woman just a moment. Being that this is our first time meeting... And you're quite sure that there's something taking place, because standing before a man wouldn't make you feel as you're feeling now. Did you ever see that picture of the Angel of the Lord, that Light, over where I was standing, that they taken? In Phoenix, Arizona. You saw it. All right. That same light is between you and I now.
Now, if that is the same Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel, He come and was made flesh. He said, "I came from God, and I go back to God." After His death, burial, and resurrection, and ascension, He met Paul on the road to Damascus. And what was He back again? That Pillar of Fire. Put Paul's eye's out, made him blind for a season. And He said, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?"
He said, "Who are you, Lord?"
He said, "I'm Jesus," the Pillar of Fire.
Now, if the life of the vine produces something here, it's got to produce the same fruit here. Then if the Holy Spirit is in here, it'll... That same Pillar of Fire that's standing between you and I now, you being a woman and me a man, and if It can reveal to me what you're here for, then God's interested in taking care of your needs. Is that right? Now, you be the judge.

53 If the audience still hears my voice... The woman seems to be going from me. And she's suffering with a nervous condition. That's what she wants me to pray for. And that nervous condition causes a smothering around your heart; you congest, can't breathe; you've been to the hospital. That's true. If that's true, raise up your hand. Now, what do you believe did that?
Is He the same yesterday, today, and forever? I catch that feeling from somewhere, that you thought I guessed that. I did not guess that.

54 Let me speak to her again. I do not know what I told you, for it wasn't me speaking. I don't know you. But Something was using my lips to speak, told you the truth. If that's right, you be the judge. Raise your hand if that's right, told you the truth. All right. Yes. The woman, it's her... It's a man. It's her husband. He's suffering also. He's here. That's right. If I tell you what's wrong with your husband, will you believe it's the Holy Spirit speaking? He has arthritis. That's right. And you got daughter here also. You believe God can tell me what's wrong with your daughter? She's got a back trouble and weakness. That's right, isn't it? They're both going to be well, and so are you. Go on your road home; Jesus Christ makes you well. The Lord bless you.

55 Do you believe that the Son of God has risen from the dead, and He's here tonight in the form of the Holy Ghost? Now, He's just willing to do for you as He does here. Believe Him. Have faith.
Now, the woman standing here is also a stranger. I do not know you. You don't know me, no more than you know me just by reading, or something like that. That's right. Now, if the Holy Spirit will reveal to me what you're here for, will you believe it to be Him? You'll know it'll have... You'll know it will. That's fine. The lady is suffering with a high blood pressure. I see them put that around your arm, and pump that little thing up. And it said that it was too much even for your age. And your eyes are bad. Another thing, if you pointed your finger toward your eyes then, and it might make a slip for someone to the people out there that they might think that I said that, but I seen that anyhow. Let's stop again and talk a minute.

56 There's something wrong with your throat also. And your throat stops up, and you have to take some kind of drug to open it up. Yes. And then you have another thing, something about your ... it's a swallowing, or something. If You'll believe with all your heart, your high blood pressure, and everything will leave you, and you can go and be made well. Do you believe it? Go and rejoice, and say, "Thank you, Lord Jesus. Amen." All right.
Do you believe with all your heart? We are strangers. You have a growth too. And that growth is on a female gland---your ovary, says your doctor. That's right. If that's true, raise your hand.
Somebody praying out there. I can't see... One vision will break, and it's just breaking from everywhere. It's your faith that's a-doing it. Just like the woman that touched the garment of the Lord Jesus. She pulled from Him, see.

57 I'm trying to confine to speaking to you alone. Whatever He told you was the truth. That's right. Oh, I see now, an examination. Shows that it was a ... pending an operation for a growth on an ovary. May I tell you this, then you know whether I'm telling the truth or not, if you believe me to be His prophet, His servant. You got someone on your heart you're praying for. If you'll believe with all your heart, to... Looked like a man that has a polioed condition. If you believe with all your heart, and will accept the Lord Jesus, and believe that He will do it, it'll all be settled for you. You can go home and be well. You believe that? Go and be made well in the name of the Lord Jesus. All right.

58 Come forward. Do you believe? Here's something: I saw a vision a few moments ago of a woman having something wrong with the throat. It's this woman here. She's had an operation for it.
Do you believe that God will hear and answer prayer for you? You do believe it. Margaret, that's your name. You're a lady preacher. Go on your road and rejoice. God's going to make you well. Amen. God bless you, Sister.
I suppose we're strangers to each other. God knows you; do you believe that? If God will reveal to me what you're here for, will you accept Him as your healer and Saviour? You suffer with something in your blood, a diabetes. That's right. And you have heart trouble. And you are a lady preacher, also. And may you know this, and you'll know whether it's true or not: You got a husband at home suffering with the same thing, that can't hardly move around with the same thing. Believe it with all your heart, go home and both of you get well in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Go, and may God be with you.

59 If thou canst believe! All things are possible to them that believe. Do you believe that? Do you believe His presence is here? Jesus said, "If you can believe, all things are possible."
Now, here stands a woman. She's a colored woman. Here's a perfect picture of Saint John 4. Do you believe God can reveal to me what your trouble is? You do. Well, you're not from this city; you've come from the south coming this a-way. You're from Long Beach. That's right. You got an enlarged heart. Go home and tell Jess and them it's all right. If thou canst believe. Now, I don't know the woman; that's the Holy Spirit that says those things.

60 You might criticize that woman. But if you'd been healed of something like that, you'd shout too, if you had been. Isn't that something! If you'd believe with all your heart, you'd have another Azusa Street revival. That lady's gone for Long Beach to spread the news just as hard as she can.
I keep feeling it coming that I'm reading the people's mind. I'm not.
Come here, lady. I don't know you. Just put your hand on mine for a point of contact. I never seen you in my life. If I look this a-way and tell you what your trouble is, will you ... you'll know whether it's the truth or not, won't you. All right. It's a lady's trouble---female trouble. If that's right, raise your hand. It's left you now. Go home and be well. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.

61 Now, come here, lady. Out here in the audience, be reverent just a moment. Lay your hand... It's a tumor. You're ready for operation. You believe the Lord will make you well? If you do, raise your hand. All right, raise up your hand and believe Him. Go on your road and rejoice then. Be happy. Believe Him with all your heart.
Look this way, lady. That old asthma about kills you sometimes; you can't hardly breathe at night. Go home, believe the Lord Jesus and get well. Believe with all your heart, and you'll be made well.
You have a serious condition, a heart trouble. You believe that Jesus will make you well? Go rejoicing and say, "Thank You, Lord Jesus," and you shall get well.

62 All right. Come, lady. Do you believe that this anemic condition is going to leave you and Jesus Christ will make you well from anemia? Go rejoicing, and be happy. And thank the Lord.
You're shadowed for death, because darkness is around you. Cancer. But will you believe that God will make you well? You accept it? Go home and rejoice, and say, "Thank you, Lord Jesus, for making me well."
See, it's your faith that does it. Amen. Have faith. Sure.
You believe that He makes you well now? Just go on your road with... That's the way, and rejoice.
Come. You're fixing for an operation for a tumor. Do you believe God will take it away from you? Go and rejoice. According to your faith, so be it unto you.

63 Come lady. You want to go eat your supper now and get over that stomach trouble? Go eat your supper then in the name of the Lord Jesus and be made well. You believe it with all your heart. You shall receive it. Amen. May the Lord grand it.
All right, Sister. When I said stomach trouble to her, something happened to you. A little cold feeling went through you. You were healed. Go on your road and be made well.
Your back trouble has left you. It did you when you were sitting down here awhile ago when I was preaching. Go on your road and be made well in the name of the Lord Jesus.

64 Nervous heart. But Jesus will heal you. You believe He will make you well? Go on your road and rejoice and be made well.
What do you think about it, young lady? Why, it's for the baby. Do you believe me to be God's prophet, the servant of God? That baby's in a terrible condition. I don't know you; you don't know me. But do you believe God can reveal to me the trouble with that baby? It's just a baby. You believe it, sir? Will you both serve God with all your hearts? How many will believe if God will make known to that baby? The baby's blind. That's true. I can't see its eyes. Maybe you'd know this. The baby went blind because of some disease the mother had before the baby was born, while she was pregnant with the baby. That's right. Measles. Go on your road and rejoice, and believing the baby will receive its sight. If you can believe.

65 Have faith in God. All right, your back trouble is gone. Go on your road and rejoice, and be happy thanking the Lord Jesus.
Arthritis will never kill you if you'll believe God. Go on your road and rejoice, and say, "Thank You, Lord Jesus, for Your goodness."
Come. A female trouble---a lady's trouble. You believe with all your heart? Go on your road and rejoice and be happy, and say "Thank You, Lord Jesus."
Heart trouble. Do you believe that God will heal you of heart trouble? You got other things too, but that's the main thing that's bothering you. Go on your road rejoicing.
Your back was healed while you was standing in the line. Go on your road rejoicing, and thank God.

66 Do the rest of you believe with all your heart? He's God! Every one of you is healed right now, if you'll believe it! Do you believe it?
Let us bow our heads just a moment. That same God that heals the sick, saves the soul. If there's a person here in Divine Presence that's convinced that the Holy Spirit is confirming His Word, raise up your hand, say, "I want to accept Him." That's wonderful. Thank you. How many sinners are here that did not believe, and now you do believe, raise up your hand---unbelievers that now believe? That's fine. Dozens and dozens of hands up.
I want to ask you something. Would you walk right here? If God will hear my prayer, and will answer for these people that's afflicted, and so forth, won't He hear for your condition? Come forward just now and stand here just a minute. Let's have prayer together. Will you do it? Come out. Raise right out of your seats. Stand up, all you that desire to be prayed for for these things, like a ... it's a soul's conditions, spiritual conditions, sinners that wants to be saved, come forward here just a moment. Come up here in the presence of Almighty God. Not because He isn't back there, but here's His vision.

67 Something stopped me. I was going to call some more of them prayer cards, but something said, "Call that line to repentance!" How do I know that a preacher isn't walking down the aisle at this time that'll be the one that God will use in these last days? How do I know that right in this building tonight is not something that God's calling for? Sure He is, or He wouldn't have stopped that prayer line.
Come forward now to accept the Messiah. Accept Him as your Messiah. You Jewish people, get up and come down here! You've always said if Jesus could prove that He was the resurrected, and would do the sign of the prophet, you would believe Him. Now Jesus is here. This is not me; I'm a poor man, uneducated. But the Messiah is here. Hallelujah! Thanks be to God. Come forward!

68 Come, all you souls of sin oppressed---there's mercy with the Lord. Come now while you're in His presence. Kneel around the altar here, all you people that wants to give your lives to the Lord Jesus while He's present, while the Holy Ghost is here present now. I don't know what He will do in a few minutes, for something told me to stop that prayer line and make that call.

69 That's right. Come on down out of the balconies everywhere. Walk down here just now, you that's not right with the Lord, and be reconciled to God. One of these nights, you're going to be called upon by the angel of death. Then this Angel that's here tonight, the Holy Spirit, you're going to call for Him, but He might do the same thing that you probably will do now, just sit still. You move now; He will move then. God bless you. (Come right on down this way boys, and help them down in there if you will.) Come right on out of the balconies now if you will. Where's Billy? Got a song? Sing "Just As I Am."
Just as I am, without one plea,
But that Thy blood was shed for me,
And that Thou bidd'st me come to Thee,
O Lamb of God, I come, I come.
%#Just as I am, and waiting not
To rid (Rid my soul of what?) my soul
(How many?) of one dark blot,
To Thee whose blood can cleanse each spot,
O Lamb of God, I come, I come.

70 Are you here without Christ tonight? Are you going to walk away from these doors here in the Presence of Christ after He's been offered to you, and proven Himself alive, knowing the secrets of your heart? Don't you realize that's Him that's speaking to you now?
Many of you church members sitting here, you members of the church, that's professing Christianity and living a upside-down life (up on the mountain top, down in the valley, can never be stable), why don't you come right now? Why don't you come? This is your opportunity to come. Come on now. Will you come while we sing again?
Come on, lukewarm church members. Come, receive Christ. Be filled with the Spirit. You that's thirsting for the Holy Ghost, will you come now while the Holy Ghost is present, who knows your hearts? Just come, stand around the altar here a minute.
And that Thou bidd'st me come to Thee,
O Lamb of God, I come, I come.

71 Did you think, friends, the presence of the Holy Spirit, the Jesus that raised from the dead, nineteen hundred years has been moving in and out among the people on earth, and is here tonight, performing, doing, and fulfilling His promise that He made, moving upon the people. Can't you come and dedicate your life to Him anew again? Won't you come and make yourself known around the altar of God? This is for you, sinner friend. This is for you, lukewarm church...

The Queen of Sheba

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1 Let's bow our heads now just for a moment of prayer before we start the further part of the service. Our heavenly Father, we are grateful indeed for this grand privilege of assembling ourselves together, on this lovely Sabbath evening, to worship Thee and to give Thee thanks and praise for all that You have done for us. We look back down the trail of our life, we can see the many things that your kindness has granted to us, your hand of mercy in time of trouble, and we thank Thee for it. We pray, Lord, that You will receive our thanks tonight. And as we are going into the closing of this little three-night service, we want to thank You for all that You have done for us---for the greatness of Your presence, for the manifestations of the Holy Spirit, and for the hunger and thirsting of Thy children.
Lord, it is written, if we ask for bread, we will not get a rock.; if we ask for a fish, we would not get a serpent. Thou has granted this to us, that we are thirsty for the bread of life. O Lord, feed us with Thy goodness and Thy mercy. Forgive us of our sins and our trespasses against Thee.

2 We pray, Lord, that because of this little gathering, that it'll start such a thirst in the city and around about, that there will be an old-fashioned revival break out through the city and go nationwide. Grant it, Lord.
Hear us as we pray and as we read the Word and speak of the Lord Jesus. We pray that You'll open every heart. We would not forget those that are sick and afflicted and so in need tonight, Lord, of your healing power. Some of them, your beloved physicians here of the earth has done all that they can do for them and they're at the end of the road, so as to speak. But Thou, O Lord, Thou art our stay. Thou art a refuge, a very present help in the time of trouble. We have the God-given right and privilege to call upon Thee. We pray that You'll heal the sick tonight in the hospitals. The convalescents, we pray for them, that You'll heal them also, Father. Get glory unto Thyself. And when we leave the service tonight may we say like those coming from Emmaus, "Did not our hearts burn within us, as He talked to us along the way?" For we ask it in Jesus' name. Amen. You may be seated.

3 There's just one regret tonight, that this is the last service of this little meeting. But if it be the Lord's will and the people's desire, I'd like to come back to Tifton sometime for a meeting when we could have more time to stay. I want to say that what people I have met since I've been here has been some of the nicest people I've ever met in my life. I do not say that to be complimentary; I only say it because it's in my heart and it's true. Lovely, fine people. You know, I know that some of the truest hearts that beats is under an old blue shirt---perhaps with a patch on it, but there's where you meet real men. I'm so glad to meet that type of people.

4 I want to thank each and every one of you for your kindness and cooperation. There was one thing they did that I did not agree with---that was last night taking an offering for me. And they taken up a hundred and some dollars (seventeen, a hundred and seventeen dollars, or something), brought it to me. I don't know how to give it back to you. I never come for that purpose. I never took an offering in my life. Money's not the subject; it's your soul. It's the good that we can do. I've been in the ministry thirty years (I'm an old man) and I have never yet taken up my first offering. And if I would've took offerings I would've (or taken the people's money), I'd've perhaps had one time given me one-and-a-half-million dollars at one time from the Mission Bell Winery (Mr. Archaleon, the owner, his wife being healed of cancer). I refused to even look at the check ... or, the money draft.
What would I want with a million-and-a-half dollars? There's only one thing I could do with it: give it away. And if I'd take it---it's taxable---the government takes the biggest part of it before I could give it away.

5 So you see, we don't want money; we just want you to believe God. Believe the Bible and live right, because all that we have on this earth we're going to lay down and leave it one of these days. It's just those things that's eternal that count. So ... but being that it was given (the hundred and something ... seventeen dollars, something, the brethren told me), thank you, my precious friends.
I will take that right straight to the mission fields to feed some hungry children (see them laying on the street with their little bellies swelled up from starvation), do everything I can to make it count. And at that day when the rewards are given out, you'll see where it went. God ever bless you. There's a portion of your living that we share with others.

6 I want to thank the ministers (I suppose this is their line), wherever they are, for their fine cooperation in this little three days, just almost unnoticed. I've got three or four or five more of them, just little spots, before going overseas for a world-wide trip, Africa and Asia and Europe and around the world. Thank you, my brethren, for your fine cooperation. If we ever get to come back, we'll come first and consult all you brethren and find when you haven't got any meetings going on; and maybe kind of pitch a tent outside the city, or something like that, so we can stay a long time and all of us together working together for one great cause, the Lord Jesus. That's the only way that we can ever... We go into the city, it must be a cooperation with all churches---Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Pentecostal, Nazarene. You can surely get together for a revival for the saving of souls. I believe we can if we just pray and ask the Lord.

7 Then I want to thank the court for this place. We were just going to drop by, and went out in the country here, and some precious brother that let us have his church... The people were standing in the cold, and then they changed it right quick and brought it here. And tonight I noticed cars all up and down the street here with people in them, standing out back in the back, down the halls, couldn't get in. And so we're thankful to the court for their fine cooperation. Someone said today (and I just quoting someone else) that the judge came and said, "Well, you need some more room, or you might need my office; here is the key." I just hung my coat in the judge's office. God bless that man. I pray that his court of justice will ... and he'll serve so well that in the day that when he has to stand before the judge of the earth, and the trials of his court be brought before Him, that the Master, the great Judge, will say, "It was well done, my good and faithful servant."

8 May the Lord bless you all.
Hearing testimony... Last evening I gave a testimony of some brother that met me on the street with a ... told me that his little girl having her eyes scratched out. And I come and repeated it right behind him here last night, not knowing that he'd said anything about it. Billy was telling me, I believe, of some couple that he'd met that's got an Assembly of God school out here. My son went to Waxahachi Assembly of God School in Texas. Waxahachi, Texas. And they were... This girl said many years ago (the woman, the boy's wife, minister), that when she was just a little girl, just a little tiny tot, that they brought her to Pensacola, I believe it was, where we was having a meeting, and I prayed till I couldn't stand no longer.
Many times I'd get so weary, the visions would leave, and I'd just have to stand and the ministers would lift my hand and lay it on the people as they passed by.

9 And she said she had so many ulcers till it was thought that she couldn't live. And her mother brought her by, took her hand and laid it over on my hand, went by. The ulcers left, and she's in just perfect health. See, it wasn't my hand that done it. That had nothing to do with it. It was the mother's faith, her faith in God. Jesus said, "It isn't I that doeth the works. It's the Father dwelleth in me, He doeth the works." And you'll only get from God the things that you're expecting from God, in the way you approach God. You approach Him with reverence, with faith, every word is true.

10 Now, there's handkerchiefs laying here I want to pray over. Now, many of you, you know the scriptures on that. Many times ministers anoint those handkerchiefs with oil and send them to the people. That's perfectly all right. I believe that anything the Lord Jesus will bless, I'm just for it. But scripturally, in the Bible, Paul didn't anoint the handkerchiefs. They taken from his body handkerchiefs and aprons.
I believe Paul was a fundamentalist. You know where I believe he got that in the Scripture? Where Elijah ... or, Elisha sent the staff with his servant Gehazi, and said, "Lay it on the baby." Elisha knew that everything he touched was blessed. And so the staff that he'd walked with, he said, "Go lay that on the baby." But the woman's faith wasn't in the staff; it was in the prophet. So she wouldn't leave him until the prophet laid his own body on the baby; and the baby come to life. It depends on where your faith lays.
But in the handkerchiefs ...

11 I remember in South Africa, at the last trip at Capetown. And I was there, and I believe it was ten or fourteen sackfuls of handkerchiefs and letters in this great ... what we call grass sacks, burlap sacks. And the writer in the paper said, "Brother Branham's superstitious. He was praying over handker-chiefs." Just not knowing the Scripture, of course. But we're glad to pray over these. And if you do not have one up here, you're on the outside of the building or anything, if you wish me to pray over one, just write me. I'm not trying to get your address. We have nothing to sell, no radio broadcasts, no nothing, nothing at all. It's absolutely free. Just anything that we can do to help you, make life a little better for you, make the way, the rough places, a little more plain, that's what we're here for. Just write us: Jeffersonville, Indiana. We'll send it to you as quick as we possibly can.

12 Now, if I've missed anything, the little brother that played the music, and the different ones, and the ministers, the Lord bless you richly for your kindness and everything. If I've missed someone, well, I didn't mean to. The Lord be with you all.
And I'm going to ask you one favor. That is... Over in Africa and India where we stand there, where there's twenty times as many witch doctors as in this building tonight, and they're there trying to cast spells on you and everything, you better know what you're talking about. You better be sure that He sent you. But when the winds are blowing hot and heavy, and I'm under a lot of pressure, can I be thinking of Tifton, Georgia, that the people are praying for me? Will you be doing that? Thank you.

13 Dear heavenly Father, I pray that You'll help us now as we're journeying together. Many here tonight I'll never see again, if I come back in six months. A crowd like this, and old people, even young that might be killed in accidents, there'll be somebody missing. I'll never see them no more until the judgment. I pray, Lord, that there'll not be one person missing, but all will be there under the blood of the Lord Jesus, ready to go into eternal life with Him forever. Help us now as we open the Word.
We realize that the Word is Your Word, and it's of no private interpretation. The Holy Spirit wrote the Bible. So we pray that the Holy Spirit will interpret the meanings of the Scriptures to us tonight in such a way that He might plant seed of the Bible in every heart, that when the service shall be ended, that each person will receive that what they've come for, for we ask it in the name of the Lord Jesus. Amen.

14 I'm sorry that the people ... they're standing, no place to sit down to listen. You'd be comfortable and could get more out of the service, of course. But to you who are now ... got your Bibles, and you like to kind of follow the scriptures, turn with me to the book of St. Matthew, twelfth chapter, and we'll begin from the twelfth chapter at the thirty-eighth verse for just a portion.
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 an adulterous generation seeketh ... signs; 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 belly of the whale; 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 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.
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.
May the Lord add His blessings to the reading of His Word.

15 We find Jesus, tonight as we move in upon the scene of His sermon and His speech to the people, He was a bit disturbed with the people because of the cities that He had been into and had been preaching and showing them the sign of His Messiahship, at the attitude that they'd taken towards it. Last evening we spoke on what was the sign of the Messiah---what type of a sign would it be, and how the people were to know, and how that He gave that sign to the Jews, and those that received it had eternal life. Those that rejected it was turned away into condemnation, to everlasting separation from the presence of God.

16 Then we find also that He went to Samaria, and the Samaritans received that sign as He spoke to the woman and told her of her condition. And the Samaritans believed the testimony of the woman. Jesus did not perform any miracles in Samaria, because we find out later that Philip went down after Pentecost and there he healed the sick. Jesus laid the foregrounds for it.
And if you'll notice, it's very strange in the preceding, or the previous scripture of this text tonight, when He was quoting Isaiah the prophet, how that Isaiah said that He would be a light unto the Gentiles. That's very outstanding, for the very sign that he was showing was... Otherwise, Dr. Scofield, in his Bible, in the footnotes, predicts that it will be at the last day when the Gentiles will receive the sign of the Messiah. Christ being Messiah, they didn't get it in their day.
We've only had a day of theology. We come in the reformation of Luther. The Protestants and the Catholics come in after about six hundred years, or three hundred years after the death of the last apostle. They failed to get the Messiahic sign. Of course they were Romans and Anglo-Saxons, and now...

17 But in here Isaiah spoke that it would be for the Gentiles in the last days.
But Jesus was upbraiding these people because that they had rejected to understand the Scriptures, with all their great churches and their great mighty leaders, scholarships, priests of a certain lineage of priests, holy men that no man could lay one finger to their immorals or their lives. But yet in all that they failed to see the real thing. Now, if goodness and mercy, if holiness and righteous living pleases God, then He had to accept the Pharisees.
But you see, my precious friend, sin is not immoral living. Sin is not drinking whiskey. Sin is not committing adultery. You do that because you're not a believer. That's the attributes of unbelief. You do that because you're not a believer. But if you are a believer, you do not do those things. So there's only one original sin, and that's unbelief. The Scripture says, "He that believeth not is condemned already."

18 You can't even get to the first base. You're condemned before you start if you're not a believer in every word of God.
For if the Holy Spirit is in you, you are a believer and the Holy Spirit that wrote the Bible will say "amen" to every promise. Everything that God says, it'll "amen" it back. But if the Holy Spirit isn't in you and you're just intellectually trained... Which I have nothing against it---intellectual training, schooling, college. That's wonderful if you've got the Holy Spirit with that to back up what you're talking about. But as the Scripture said, "In the last days ... having a form of godliness and denying the power thereof."

19 Now, Jesus had met this type of people, and the sign had been given them, and they had classed it as an evil spirit doing it. They said, "This man is Beelzebub," in the same chapter that I just read. "This man does this; he's a fortune-teller." Beelzebub was a devil, and anyone knows that fortune-telling is of the devil. But you see, it's a spirit, and the Bible teaches us that in the last days that those spirits will be so close it would deceive the very elected if possible. But watch them by the fruit that they bear. Fortune-tellers are out there on the street making money; and they're guessing, and they're taking telepathy and mental psychology. But the power of God preaches the gospel, and warns of the hell that there is before you and a heaven to go to, and calls sinners to repentance, and heals the sick, and does good things. Then "by their fruits you shall know them."

20 But these men could not give an answer to their church. The thing had been done, and there was something wrong, and they had to give an answer. So they just placed it off, and said, "Why, he's the prince of all the devils."
Jesus said, "I'll forgive you for it, speaking that word against I, the Son of man; but when the Holy Ghost is come [referring back to Isaiah's scripture of the Gentiles in the last days] one word against it will be never forgiven in this world or the one that is to come." So it behooves us in these last days, that when we are seeing strange sights, to be careful; place it on the Scripture, and if God said so, then believe it. If He did not say it, then be real careful---if it isn't in the Bible and a promise of God.

21 Now God, in all generations, has always ... never been without a witness. He's always had a witness somewhere. Though it's gotten down sometimes maybe to one person, but God has always, and always will, have a witness---somebody He can lay His hand on. And Jesus was His witness in that day. And His witness today is the Holy Spirit, God's witness in the earth.
Now, we find that they was rejecting Jesus. And Jesus was speaking how they had rejected the other witnesses; and predicted that they'd still reject it in the days to come, but there would be some that would receive it. "Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way and few there'll be that find it," because, "Broad is the way, that leads to destruction, and many will go in thereat."

22 And He referred back, we notice, to men who God had sent before Him. And He spoke once, we read a few moments ago, of Jonah. I feel sorry for Jonah because so many people condemn that prophet. He doesn't deserve to be condemned. He was a prophet of the Lord who did just exactly what God led him to do. I was reading one time before... He was sent to Nineveh but taken a ship to Tarshish, and got in trouble out on the sea and was throwed out of the ship, bound hand and foot, and throwed into the sea and swallowed by a whale.
And then when the whale had fed, went down to the bottom of the sea to rest hisself at the bottom... That's the way a fish does when it eats. Feed your little goldfish and watch them; they'll go right down to the bottom and rest.

23 And this great whale had been prowling through the waters, and he found this prophet falling through the waters, and he'd picked him up in his great huge mouth and had swallowed him. Scientists sometimes don't want to believe that, but God had prepared this fish. This was a different kind of a whale. God prepared this one to swallow a preacher. So it was a different fish.
And notice, though, when he had his hands and feet bound, and he was in the belly of the whale, in the bottom of the sea, and a storm on top... Now, some people look at their symptoms: "My pastor prayed for me last night, but my hand's no better." That has nothing to do with it. If you are really a believer, you don't even look at that. It's already settled forever! God heals you. What if Abraham would've looked the next month to see if Sarah was going to have the baby? He never noticed that; he just noticed what God said. And any true believer looks to the promise, not what the symptoms are around them. They look what God said.

24 And Jonah down there in the vomit in the whale's belly, speaking of symptoms, he had a right to have them. If he looked this way was a whale's belly, he looked back this way it was whale's belly. All around him was whale's belly, but what did he say? He didn't believe any of it. He turned himself over in the whale and he said, "Lord God, once more will I look to your holy temple." Not at his symptoms, not at the condition, not how far his hopes had gone, but he said, "I'll look to your temple." Because when Solomon dedicated that temple he said, "Lord, if thy people anytime be in trouble, and will look towards this holy place and pray, then hear from heaven;" and he believed that God heard Solomon's prayer.
And Jonah in those conditions---there's no one here in that condition, as bad off as that---but in that condition, he could refuse to look at his symptoms. And so, "I look towards the temple"---a natural temple where a natural man built, where a natural man, a real man that would just ... a sinful man that later backslid. And could believe God, that He heard the prayer. How much more ought you and I, under these conditions, to look to heaven where Jesus sits at the right hand of God to make intercessions upon our confession? He refused to see the symptoms, had nothing to do with it.

25 I want to straighten Jonah in your mind's thinking. The people of Nineveh, if you've studied the history, they were fishermen, very wicked, and they worshipped idols. God knows how to do things. Just follow the leading of the Spirit. Jonah had to take that because ... that ship because he was led to. And now after three days and nights he stayed in the belly of the whale... The people of Nineveh worshipped the idols; and their god of the sea, where they made their living, was the whale. And while they were all out in their fish boats fishing, here come the god up, and licked his tongue out. The prophet walked out on his tongue like a gangplank, with a message of repentance, of miracles. God always performs miracles when He's around. Sure they would believe it; the god spit the prophet out. Sure. And they repented at the preaching of Jonah.

26 And Jesus said that "... a greater than Jonah is here." He said those people who didn't know which was right and left hand will rise in the judgment and condemn this generation, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah. Nothing like that was ever said in the Scriptures that He would do that, but He did it. But here was Jesus, from Genesis was predicted to come, being the Messiah, and He would be a God-prophet; and they failed to recognize Him. Said, "They'll rise in the day of the judgment and condemn this generation."
One more little quotation on Jonah before we go somewhere, a different case. Did you notice they said, "Sir, we would seek a sign of Thee." Now listen at Him. And if some critic might get ahold of it, they said... "A wicked and an evil and adulterous generation seeks after signs." If that prophecy was ever fulfilled, it's today. When did we ever have a more evil and an adulterous generation? When the divorce courts are full of marriage and divorcing---marrying and giving in marriage, Jesus said it would be. A Reno, Nevada. Leading people married four or five different times---just leave one wife and marry another, and leave a husband and marry another. Just like ... worse than animals.
When was there a more evil and an adulterous generation?

27 He said, "They will seek after a sign." And they will get it! Look at the Scriptures. He said, "They'll get a sign. For as Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and nights, so the Son of man will be in the belly of the earth ... or, the heart of the earth, three days and nights." What kind of a sign will that wicked and evil adulterous generation get? The sign of the resurrection: Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. That's the sign that they were promised. God keeps His Word. They get ... they are getting, and they've gotten it, the sign of the resurrection---the Lord Jesus manifesting Himself amongst people by the same signs and wonders that He did when He was on earth. They will receive a sign.

28 Then he said, "The queen of the south shall stand in the day of judgment with this generation and condemn it, for she came from the utmost parts [of the known earth at that day] to hear the wisdom of Solomon." Now, speaking of the time of Solomon, now any theologian and Bible reader knows that was the millennium almost for the Jews. It was when Israel prospered, and great wonders were done, and great signs and so forth taken place. And they built the temple in the reign of Solomon, which was the son of David, a type of the Lord Jesus. And it was all... David had fought down the nations till they all feared Israel. And to make that a golden age for them, God sent a mighty gift amongst the people.

29 When God sends a gift to the people and they recognize it, it's always a golden age. But when they refuse it, there's nothing left but a chaos for that generation. Now, listen closely. If God has sent the Holy Spirit in this age for a sign and we reject it, there's nothing left but a destruction. But if we refuse it, we're sure to be blowed off the earth. The atomic bombs are hanging ready now, each one afraid to pull the trigger. But some day they'll have too much vodka and press the trigger. And when that bomb passes through that radar sound, when it goes through there, there'll be others go the other way; and you know what will take place. The world can't stand it. And the gospel's being preached and Christ is being made manifested to the people just before the rapture, or the taking away, of the church.
Before that can happen the church will be gone. And if we know that that could happen before morning... And before that happens the church will be gone. Before one drop of rain fell, Noah was in the ark. Before one speck of fire fell from the heavens, Lot was out of Sodom. Before that atomic bomb can whistle the nations, the church will be gone to glory. As it was in the days of Noah and in the days of Lot... See the preparation we spoke of last night? We're here.

30 And all the people with one accord rallied around that great gift that God gave Solomon. Everybody believed it. What if we'd all believe it today? Don't take the whole nation. What if all the churches would believe the Holy Spirit and rally around the Holy Spirit the way they rallied around Solomon? And which is the greatest, Solomon or the Holy Spirit? A greater than Solomon is here and the people doesn't want to believe it. Kind of tears down worldly prestige. The Holy Spirit makes you do things that you didn't think you would do. But we go to school and we get highly educated, and we feel like that we have to go according to that trend. And the Holy Spirit comes in and works with a humble little bunch of people, and then somebody that's a little higher tries ... or little longer, got a bigger name, begins to say, "Oh, they're just a bunch of common, aw, backwash."

31 Reminds me of my little girls. I got two little girls, and one of them's name is Rebekah, the older, and the other one's name is Sarah, a little short fellow. And they're both Daddy's little girls. And here some time ago I'd been out on a meeting, and Mama and the girls were waiting up to see me; and I was too late, getting in around three o'clock in the morning. So the little girls climbed in their little pajamas and went to bed. Waiting for daddy, their eyes got heavy, and they had to go to bed. I'd come in and I was tired from a big campaigns, and I slept a little while and got up early and sat in a chair.

32 After a while, back in their bedroom I heard a noise---the pillows and covers a-flying, you know what I mean. And they were just a-carrying on because it was daylight. Wonder if Daddy had got home yet?
And through the floor they come running, and I was sitting in the parlor in a chair. And Rebekah was longer-legged than Sarah so she could outrun her---she's about four years older. And she come running through just as fast as she could and jumped a-straddle of my knee and throwed both arms around my neck and begin to say, "Daddy, we're so glad to see you home!" (Oh, you know how that makes your heart feel.) And then, coming behind her, her little sister, her pajama feet too big. Becky's old pajamas she was wearing, you know (the hand-me-downs) how it is in the family. And she had Becky's pajamas which was too big for her, and she was stumbling and falling. Becky beat her, so she jumped up, straddled my leg; and her legs was long and she could reach down to the floor. She balanced herself well, and throwed both arms around my neck, and said, looked around and said, "Sarah, my sister, I want to tell you something. I've got all of Daddy, and there isn't any left for you."
Now, that's the way some people try to spend ... long time way back when the early ages was starting, the churches think that they've got all of it, because they've been on the earth a little longer.

33 But poor little Sarah, I felt so sorry for her, her little eyes dropped down. Her little ... her lip dropped down, her little brown eyes began to shed like a tear. She started to turn away because her sister had all of Daddy. And Becky leaning her head over on my shoulder, just a-hugging me, because she had all of Daddy. I looked at Sarah and her little countenance dropped down, she started to cry. I winked at her and motioned my finger and stuck out the other leg.
Here she come as hard as she could and jumped right up on my leg. She was too short-legged. She was the young church, you know, she's topsy-turvy; she just get to shouting, screaming, you know, don't know where... But, see, I knowed she might fall off my leg so I just took both arms and held her like this, because I was afraid she might fall. I hugged her, and she got up into my bosom, and she turned over to her sister and said this, she said, "Now, Rebekah, my sister, I want to tell you something." She said, "It may be true," she said, "that you've got all of Daddy, but I want you to know that Daddy's got all of me."
So that's what it is. It isn't ... I want Him to have all of me. God, take me all, whether I know my ABC's or not. Whether I know whether I can compete with the rest, I don't try. Just surrender yourself and let God have all of you. That's what we should do. "God, take all of me."

34 So, in the days of Solomon, God had his church all together, like He did at Pentecost, only He had the nation. What would happen tonight if all the nation would rally around the Holy Spirit? Why, it would be the best bomb shelter they ever got. I said once before that I had a bomb shelter. It wasn't made out of steel, but it was made out of feathers---under His wings. That's the best bomb shelter I know of: under His protection.

35 And everybody come by, the strangers passing through Israel going up to Jerusalem, they'd hear about the great gift of God being in operation. So they'd come and look. And there's nobody can ever see God's gifts operate but what it thrills them---if they've got anything about God at all in them. So these people ... it scattered worldwide. Everybody begin to hear across the world about God operating with His people, a great gift He had sent.
Now, it'd be the same thing today if we'd just all rally around Him. But what we do, we pull a little bunch off here, and say, "I'm Presbyterian," "I'm Methodist," "I'm Pentecostal," "I'm Nazarene." Oh my, you're trying to rally... Now the denominations are fine, every one of them's good. But the thing of it is, you're trying to make your denomination... Make Christ the center. The denomination is fine, but make Christ your center. When you do, then all men is your brethren of like precious faith, that believe in God. You got room for God. Don't never end your doctrine with a period; end it with a comma. "We believe this, plus as much as the Lord will show us." Just keep on going.

36 Now, that's all right then. But when you say, "This is the only thing. It's got to be just the way we believe it," then you're wrong, see. God comes in and just upsets the little apple cart, and shows that you're not the only pebble on the beach. So then that ... God does it. He does it always.
That's what He did to the Pharisees. Taken a baby born in a manger, raised up with a bad name behind Him as a illegitimate child and poured His fullness into Him. He done signs and wonders that believers was watching for, and they knowed He was the Messiah.
Now, watch just a minute. Find the word got all through the utmost parts of the earth to the queen. Down in Sheba was where it really was. And you know everybody would come by this queen... They didn't have television and radio and the press then, so it'd be from lip to ear. So finally the word got down to the queen that she was ... that up in Israel there was a great gift of God and it was in operation. God had showed a great sign to that generation.

37 Faith cometh by hearing. That's how you know, is when you hear. And everybody talking about it, it made a hunger come in the little queen's heart.
Everybody'd come by and say, "Oh, you should stand up there in the courts! Why, Solomon, the servant of the Lord God of Israel, stands up there and you never seen such discernment. It's beyond anything." You know, if you've got any inkling of God anywhere, that begins to give you a hunger. And finally she made up her mind that she'd come see for herself. She just wouldn't take everybody's word, she'd come see for herself. That's a good thing to do---come see.

38 So I'd imagine she bought up all the Hebrew Bibles that she could find; and she read in them what Jehovah God was like, because she was a pagan. Now, in order to go to visit, and see whether this sign of God was right, she had to get permission from her church. So I can imagine her going over to the church, and she said to her pagan priest, "Father, I've heard that there is a God in Israel that's alive, and He's took one of His servants and is manifesting Himself through that servant."
Oh, I can hear the pagan priest say, "Now, wait a minute, daughter. If there was anything supernatural to be done, it would come through our church. It would be through us. Don't believe those kind of things."
But you know, when you start to meet God, the devil is going to throw everything in your way that he can throw in your way. That's his duty to do it. And he's going to hinder you in every way, but if you are determined, God will make a way. Let's break in on their conversation, her and the priest.

39 Supposing that he said this, he said, "Now, don't get mixed up in some fanaticism now. Better be careful what you're doing, because I've heard them Israelites screaming and hollering around an ark up there. So you don't want to get mixed up in that, my child, because you have big prestige, you are a queen."
She said, "But, father, there's something in my heart burning; I must go."
"Oh," he said, "maybe you'd better come and take confession of your wrong," or something. And "You know you mustn't do that because, you see, we've got the history here of our bible, of our history, of our gods."
I can hear her answer something like this, "Yes, my grandmother heard that, my mother heard that, I've heard that since a little child. You've got words, you've got writings; but up there they've got a living God! I want to see something that's real, something that's alive. We've got all kinds of writings, but I want to see One that can write, and then come fulfill it." So do I. I don't want to serve a God that just wrote something, and went off and died. I'm glad we serve a God tonight that could write, and return, fulfill what He said He would do. Though they killed Him, the grave couldn't hold Him---He rose again. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.

40 And then, oh, she turned her back on the priest and walked out. If you're determined to find Jesus, to get to God, God will make a way for you.
Now she sits down and thinks it over: "It's a long ways up there. So now, what if I go up there and it is right, and really what I've been told, if God, their God, is God? He don't only have writings, but He has ... confirming that writing; He makes his promises true, and that is the Spirit of God working? If it is, I owe all I have to it." That's exactly right. If God is God we owe our life to Him, we owe our all to Him, we owe everything to Him. So she said, "If it is so, I will support it." So she laden camels with gold, and with spices and perfumes, many riches. She thought this: "If it is of God I will support it; if it isn't of God, I can bring my gift back. [That's good sound sense.] So I will make ready, where if it is, I'll be prepared."
Now, with all of this gold, she had to travel... Mark on your map from Jerusalem down to Sheba. It taken three months to make the trip. Not in an air-conditioned Cadillac or in a coach or an airplane, but on the back of a camel. No wonder Jesus said, "She'll stand in the day of judgment and condemn this generation." Some won't come across the street to hear, to see a gift of God. They'll turn their nose up at it and walk away.

41 But she was determined. No wonder Jesus said, "No man can come unless my Father draws him, and all the Father has given me will come to me."
Now, another thing, if she had all that riches, wasn't she simply afraid of the children of Ishmael, who were robbers on the desert in those days, those fleet-footed horses? Why, they'd fall in on her little caravan there and murder her, and think it would be ... why, they'd take everything she had, all that gold and things. But you know, there's something about it when you want to meet God that there's nothing will stand in your way. You're going on anyhow! You're blind to the dangers, you're blind to the criticism, you're blind to anything else. God is your only motive, and you're going to find Him. You let every person in here tonight seeking the baptism of the Holy Spirit be that determined: I don't care what anyone says, you're going to see it anyhow. Anyone in here sick, don't care what anyone says, you're going to be healed anyhow. Watch what takes place. That's where it lays, friend.

42 She was determined. She never thought of dangers; the only thing she thought of was getting to God. And she ladened her camels, and she got her princes, her bodyguards, a few of those guards to walk with her. And they must have traveled by night---three months!---to see a gift of God. I wonder if there's that much sincerity in the world today. And Jesus said she's going to stand with us in the day of the judgment.
Wonder what she'll do to the United States in them days. What will her testimony weigh out against the Americans after we've had thousands of years of testimony of God, with all the schools and churches and things? What will her testimony weigh against the Americans, would condemn it and call it the devil and walk away? And a greater than Solomon is here. The Holy Spirit is here. Wouldn't walk across the street, only to laugh at it. Many thousands, millions of them.

43 But she made her way across the desert. Not thinking of the troubles, but she made her way.
Finally she arrived at the palace yard. I can see her unladen her camels and put up her tents and so forth. So they was in the courts, and the next day she wanted to attend one of the meetings to see what it would be. She'd finally, after three months of travel, after maybe a year or more of hearing about it, she finally arrived. After she got to the place, she might have had to stand, too. But that morning when they brought Solomon out, the servant of the Lord, and the elders gathered and ... she said, "Now, I'm not coming to criticize. I'm just going to sit down and look for myself, and just compare it with the Scriptures and with the testimonies I've heard."
And when the hymns were sang and so forth, and the service started, why, they brought someone up to Solomon. He looked just an ordinary man. That's all he was, but there was something about him that he wasn't himself that morning. God came down. They never seen such discernment, how every case, he was perfect in it. She said, "A man can't be that perfect, just can't be. There has to be something."

44 Out to the tent she goes. And I imagine all night long she read those Hebrew scrolls again. The next morning she goes back. Now, she never come just to say, "Well, I'll go in and sit down five minutes. If I don't like what he says, I'll get up and go out." That's the American attitude. But she come to stay until she was convinced. She wanted to examine it, and stay with it. She come prepared for that. So the next day and perhaps the next day, and for many days... Of course she didn't, but let's say she had a prayer card and she was waiting.
Finally it come her time to come before Solomon. Now, she said... See, she'd watched so many others, so she said, "I believe it's going to be all right." And when she got before the gift of God that was in Solomon, why, Solomon told her everything, the Bible says. Said that God never withheld one thing but told everything that the woman had desired in her heart. And when she seen it done on her, she turned and she said to the audience (a pagan), she said, "All that I heard was right, and more than I heard." She said, "Truly, God is with you." She said, "Blessed is the men who stays with you and sees these things daily. Blessed are the people, and blessed is the God that you serve, who gives these great things." But, the witness,

45 she believed it.
She had an awful time getting to it in her age. That's all God had in her age for her, she believed it; and they were standing there watching greater things than Solomon did, and yet they did not believe it, and called it the devil. He said, "She'll rise in the judgment with this generation, and condemn it: because she came from the utmost parts of the earth to see a spirit of discernment, and a greater than that is with you."
I say tonight, friends, though Jesus Christ being the Son of God standing where He was, He was not yet glorified. He'd not yet been proven. He had a chance at Gethsemane to turn it down but ... He hadn't been proven. But today He's proven by God. He died and buried and rose again, and after two thousand years He's alive yet tonight---a greater sign than it was when He walked on the earth. A greater than Solomon is here!

46 Oh, my, I believe the honest in heart wants to see something real. Words are fine, but will that word work? If God made a promise of healing, will it work? If He made these promises, will it work? If He said, "The things that I do shall you do also, and more than this because I go to my Father," will it work? Now, I know the King James says "greater," but nothing could be... If you notice the original, it said "more." He stopped nature, raised the dead. You could do no greater, but you could do more of it. He was in one person then, His Son, God was Jesus. And now He's in the church universal around the world. "More than this shall you do because I go to my Father."

47 Real, honest-hearted people, you Georgians. I believe you to be honest and sincere, honest-hearted. That's the reason you're here tonight. Not as I'm condemning a man's church. Every one of them is fine. We're brethren. But the hour has come when we've got to lift up above our denominational feelings, come into brotherhood---a brotherhood with one another and with Christ. And that's what these things are for. God sends something real to draw the honest heart to Him.
I am a hunter, as many of you know. I used to hunt in the north woods. And I hunted with a man called Burt Caul, one of the best shots I ever hunted with. And I'm a guide in many of the states, a licensed guide. My mother is a half-Indian. She come off the reservations---her mother did. My father is Irish. Just enough of the blood to make me long for the outside. I'd like to preach to you sometime on my experiences, how I found God in nature. God lives in nature.

48 And I used to go up there and hunt with him, because you never had to worry about Burt ever being lost. He knowed where he was at and a good shot. But he was the meanest man I ever seen. He was so cruel hearted. And one year I went up there... He used to shoot little baby fawns just to make me feel bad. I said, "Burt, you don't have to do that. There's no need of you shooting a little baby fawn. We got plenty of time. Hunt a deer, one that's old."
"Oh," he said, "preacher, you're chicken-hearted. That's what's the matter with you bunch of preachers," said, "you're just chicken-hearted."
I said, "Burt..."
He said, "I thought you was a hunter."
I said, "I'm a hunter, but I'm not a killer." I said, "That's wrong." I was a game warden for seven years just before coming into the ministry. Now, I said, "I'm a conservationist and I don't believe in doing that"; though it was legal to shoot a fawn---but not a dozen.

49 But he'd do it just to be mean, to make me feel bad.
You know there's people like that in the world, or just make fun of you just to make you feel bad, say something evil about you. It isn't the person; it's the devil in that person, that's all. That person loves his wife just the same as you love yours, and so forth, likes to eat, and sleep, and drink, and be sociable, and things; but they just do it because the devil has control of them. That maniac in Gadarea, that man loved and everything. But he was so possessed of the devil until the devil used his tongue to speak: "We know thee, thou Holy One of God, why do you come to torment us?" That wasn't that man; it was the devil using his voice.
And a man can be so full of God till God can use your voice, too. Did you ever notice a maniac, it takes several men to hold him? His power is so great because he's so possessed with the devil. This man could break chains. If the devil can give a man that much power, how much more can He give you in these wheelchairs power of His Spirit to rise. Wheelchairs or nothing could hold you if God really gets ahold. Not when a preacher gets ahold; but when God gets ahold, something takes place! I'm not beside myself, I know right where I am; but I just feel religious. If God really could take ahold of this church tonight, what would take place? He's here. His Spirit is here. He wants to do it. He longs to do it! if we'll just let Him. "I can, if you will."

50 Now notice. One year I went up to hunt with Burt, and we started hunting. He said, "I want to show you something, Billy."
I said, "All right."
He reached down in his pocket (and he had eyes looked like a lizard anyhow), and he looked over with them lizard-looking eyes and he blowed this little whistle, and it sounded like a little baby fawn crying for its mama. I said, "Burt, you wouldn't do that!"
He said, "Aw, preacher, get next to yourself." Said, "Sure, I'm going to do it. I'm going to hang a string of fawns all the way across this room just to show them to you."
Said, "Oh, Burt, you're so wicked." And I said, "Why don't you be a Christian? You'd stop that stuff."
He said, "Aw, go on, Billy."

51 We went hunting that day. There was about six or eight inches of snow, just enough to track good. It was a little late in the season and so ... I'd had to work late and I didn't get up there at the time of my vacation. And we started up over the White Mountains off of Highway 2 coming from New Hampshire---down through New Hampshire, from Berlin coming down through, going over to Lancaster by the highway, crosses ... only one through the Presidential Range. We was going up towards Mount Washington. And it was a little chilly, and we hunted all morning long. Deers were very scarce. They'd been hunted and they was ... them little fellows, when a gun fires, they take for cover. You don't see them no more till the next spring. And they were hiding, and we'd hunted all morning and did not even see one track.

52 And we come to a little opening where there was a snowdrift. The winds had blowed, the snow had drifted up, oh, three or four feet high. And Burt just kind of, as we'd call it, hunkered down. He reached back in his bosom here. It was about eleven o'clock. We always carried a thermos jug of hot chocolate---where if we got hurt, or got real cold or something, we'd drink this hot chocolate, and kind of the candy, the sweetness-like in there, would kind of warm you up---and maybe a sandwich. Well, I thought Burt was getting hungry, so we'll just eat a sandwich here. He'd kind of hunkered down and went back in his bosom, but when he brought it out, it was that little whistle. And we were in a little clearing about three or four times the size of this courtroom. And he looked up at me with that lizard-looking eyes of his, and he laughed to himself.
I said, "Burt, you wouldn't do that." And he gave it a blow. And to my surprise, just across the place a big mother doe stood up. Now, that's unusual. Oh, she was a pretty animal. Now, the doe is the mother, and she was standing there. I was so close to her I could see her great big pretty ears sticking up. And turned and looked up to me again with them lizard eyes, and he blowed it again. Now, that's unusual that time of day for a deer to raise, but she heard the cry of a baby.
And he blew it, and she walked right out into the open. Now, they never do that. They never do that because, if they'd even raise up, they'd stay under cover; but she walked right out in the open.

53 And he looked up at me, and I thought, "Oh, Burt, you couldn't do that." I heard the click of the bolt when that 30.06 ... throwed in there a shell and locked it down. And he was a dead shot. And he leveled the rifle. I thought, "Oh, mercy." She never ... if she heard that click of the rifle... And when she looked, them big ears stood up, and those big brown eyes, and she seen the hunter. Why, usually they'd be gone like a flash; but not her---she was a mother. A baby was in trouble. Though it meant death, her baby was in trouble.
She couldn't help it. She wasn't putting something on. She didn't have a make-believe, there was something in her. She was born a mother, and her baby was calling---death or no death. She looked at the hunter, and I seen them still arms raise down with that rifle.

54 I thought, "Oh, my, Burt, how can you do it? That loyal heart of a mother beating for her baby, and another minute, when you squeeze that trigger with them cross hairs laid across her, you'll blow her loyal heart plumb through her." (That close. I was thirty yards from her.) I thought, "There won't even be one piece of heart left in her, that heart that's beating so loyal as a mother. How can you do it, Burt?" I couldn't watch it. I turned my head. I said, "Heavenly Father [in my ... quietly], don't let him do it. How can he do it when he sees that mother? Something in her she can't help it, she's a mother."
I kept listening, and the gun never went off. I waited a few seconds, and still the gun never went off. And I turned to look and the gun barrel was going like this. He looked around at me and throwed the gun on the ground. He grabbed me by the pants leg and he said, "Preacher, I've had enough of it. Lead me to that Jesus that you're talking about. I want to know Him."

55 What was the matter? He'd went to church all of his life. He'd seen hypocrites and everything else; but he seen something real. He seen something that wasn't a put-on. He seen something that was really godly. That old mother deer's display of loyalty as a mother led that cruel-hearted hunter to God right there on that snowbank. Unloaded his rifle and said, "I'll never shoot a little fawn as long as ... day I live." He's a deacon in one of the Baptist churches in New Hampshire now.
What is it? Brother, sister, wouldn't you like to be a Christian, as much Christian as she was a mother? Wouldn't you like to display your loyalty and your faith to Christ? No matter what it cost you, stand out there with something in you? You can't do it until it's born in you. If you haven't had that experience, something in there that makes you ... something that's real to you---not because you belong to a church; because that Christ lives in you---something that is real, would you like to have that? How many in here right now? While people with their heads up, just raise your hands and say, "Brother, I'd like to be as much Christian in my heart to display the loyalty to Christ as that old mother deer was to be a mother." Raise your hand. God bless you. Let us pray.

56 Lord, the queen of the south stood like that mother deer, in the midst of the people, and she professed and said that truly this come from God. Something had happened to her. God had spoke to her heart. And You assured us that she was not dead, but she would stand in the resurrection and would condemn those who refuse to hear You. I pray tonight, Lord, in the name of Your Son, Jesus, that You will let the Holy Spirit take every hand that was raised tonight, and those who ought to have raised their hands, and along with me, Lord, and create in us a loyalty, a realness---such a real experience of the new birth, of being born of the Spirit of God, till we can display before the world and before the people we work and associate with a real display of Christianity. Grant it, Lord.
You know every heart here and the hunger that's therein. Fill it, Lord, according to Your riches and Your grace. I commit them to Thee.

57 Now, Lord, I pray that You'll walk out on the scene tonight. Come, Lord, riding on the waves, come down in the whirlwind, come in the pillar of fire. Let the people know that these things ... that You have also sent the Holy Spirit as a witness in this day as You said You would do it.
And may every person here be so full of Your Spirit until there'll not be a feeble person in our midst when the service is over. May those who are not Christians become Christians. Those who have accepted You as Saviour and has not yet been born of the Spirit, filled with the Holy Ghost, we pray that they'll receive it tonight; that those that are sick and afflicted will walk away with the assurance resting in their heart, something that will make them stand in the trials of the devil to try to take it away from them. Yet they can say, "It is written, by His stripes I'm healed."

58 Many will not be in the prayer line. Many will be standing on the outside that wants healing. Lord, let them know that You're in reach of everyone. You're able and willing to give them the strength and the faith that will stand no matter what their conditions or physical beings look like. They'll still believe it, and confess it, and You'll bring it to pass, and the neighborhood where they live will see that there's something real, that the Holy Spirit has moved on them.
Sinners, drunkards, those who has lived immoral, broken their vows to their wives and their husbands, sweethearts that's untrue---let them see, Lord, that it takes God to make a man or woman what they should be; stand boldly tonight and confess You, and be filled with the Spirit of God, and go away from here just as gallant a Christian as the old mother deer that I have told about was a mother. Grant it, Father. We'll praise Thee, for we ask it in Jesus' name. Amen.

59 I know you're tired, standing, and I've preached lengthy (almost nine o'clock), but it's just a few more minutes now. Now, just these little... I'm not a preacher. You know that. My gift is something else. You've got ministers here who are trained. I'm untrained, and my old seventh-grade education doesn't go very far. But I love to tell what I know, I love to share it with someone else. But my ministry is to the sick; and through the sick we catch the sinner. It's just like taking a bait and putting it on a hook. You don't show the fish the hook; you show him the bait. He takes the bait and gets the hook. So that's the way with preaching the gospel. It's to show you, show you Christ. And in there He can get ahold of you, and lead you and guide you, and take you out of the contaminated stream where you're dying with sawdust in your gills, and put you into the waters of eternal life where you can swim freely. He's only trying to do something good for you.

60 Now, there is no man in the world that can heal another man. We know that. The doctor could not do it. There's no medicine that can do it. There never was a medicine that healed anybody, and never will be. And there's not a sound-minded doctor would say that there was. If he does, he needs mental healing. I've been interviewed at Mayo Clinic. They said, "We do not profess to be healers, Reverend Branham. We profess that we assist nature. There's one healer---that's God." God is the only healer. And what God does for His healing, He's already made preparations for you; the only thing you have to do is receive it.
Looky here. (That kind of didn't go very good, I'm afraid.)

61 What if I was cranking my car or doing something, I broke my arm and run in to the doctor and said, "Doctor, heal it. You are a healer."
He'd say, "Brother Branham, you need healing in your head!" And that's right. Now, he can set it, but God has to heal it. He can take a tooth out, but God has to heal where the tooth came out. He can extract appendicitis, but God has to heal.
Someone said, "What about penicillin for a bad cold?" Well, penicillin is like... You got a house full of rats and they're eating holes in the house. You put out some rat poison, it kills the rats---but it don't patch the holes. Penicillin kills the germs, but God has to restore that back again where the germs has been. Certainly. There's no healing but God.

62 Look, if I cut my hand with a knife and fell down dead here, there isn't a medicine in the world could heal my hand. Any medicine that healed my hand, a cut in my hand, would heal a cut in my coat. Well, you say, "It wasn't made for the coat, Brother Branham. It was made for the human body." All right. Let me fall down dead, and you take me over to the morgue and embalm my body with a fluid and make me look natural for fifty years, give me a shot of penicillin every day. Let the doctors come dress it, sew it up, and fifty years from today it looks exactly like it was when it was cut. Well, you say, "Sure, the life is gone out of you." Then which is the healer, the medicine or the life? You tell me what life is and I'll tell you who God is.
See, God is the healer. Now that doesn't discard medicine. Medicine doeth good, and a merry heart doeth good like medicine. Now, but God is the only healer.

63 So the only way that you can... If your doctor's done all that he can do, God is here to make you well. When you become so filled with His Spirit and power and faith that you can raise yourself to a faith to walk out on something real (God), then you're going to walk, live, and be all right. He wouldn't take one and not the other. He'd take them all.
Now, my ministry is the ministry that the Lord Jesus used here on earth, as the Father used Him, for discernment. We went through it last night. Most all of you, I guess, was here last evening. Now, we give out prayer cards every day fresh because that we believe that somebody, and everybody, gets healed.

64 Now you just remember, pastors, from last night's meeting there's many people that sat here, that wasn't around that prayer line, was healed. I could tell it. My son said, and my brother here, when we went out the door, said, "You stayed a little too long."
I said, "I know it, but how could I help it? Them lovely people standing there waiting and ... I just stayed, that's all." Today I've just laid around all day because I felt it very bad. So, you see, it's your faith. It's your faith in God, your own individual faith. If I could heal you, I sure would do it. I would be glad to, but I can't. But with a divine gift... The first... "Faith comes by hearing, hearing the Word." Then when faith comes, and you hear the Word, if that won't work... As far as you or I would be concerned, if people don't believe our word that would settle it; but not God. After He sent His Word, then He set in the church first apostles, prophets, evangelists, and pastors, and so forth, in His church to perfect the church. Now, these things are gifts that God sets in the church.

65 Now, I forgot, but Billy told me that he give out prayer cards, but I can't... Card B, 1 to 100? 1 to 100? All right, where did we start from last night? Where? Let's start from somewhere else tonight. Let's start from 25 tonight. B25. Prayer card B25. The lady has it? Come right here. B26.
It's got a B on it and a number 26. The boys comes down, one of the boys mixes them all up together and hands them to anybody that wants them, see. You can have them. It's just a number to be called. You don't have to have your prayer card. Where one's healed here on the platform, there's twenty-five healed out there. Certainly. It's your faith. How many was here last night to see that happen? Raise up your hand, all out through the audience, no matter who you are.

66 Let's see, where did we start? B what, 25? 26, 27, B27, 28, 29, 30, 31. Did I say 31? B3l, 3l, 32. The reason we do this, we don't want them all race at one time. It's not an arena, it's a church now, see. It keeps everything decently and in order. How many see that that's right? The only way you can do it. What if I said, "How many here wants to be prayed for?" How many does, raise up your hand. Now, who's first? We're not going to get to too many, that's one thing sure, because it just kills me. And there'll be ... for every one here there'll be somebody out in there receive it, see.

67 How far did we get to there, brother? What say? B32, B32. Oh, you got it. B33, 34, B34, 35, 36. Did I say 36? B36, 37, 38, 39. 39, would you raise your hand, ever who has it, please. 40, 40, B40, all right. (Is that enough? You got some more room down there? Some more room?) All right, 41, 42. What's the number? 42, who has it? Is that 42 raising up there? B43, prayer card B43, 44, 45, 45. Over here, come. 46, B46, 47, 47. Look and see, somebody look. I see a lady here that's got a prayer card. What say? 47. Let's take it on to 50. You pile them out there somewhere. 47, 48, who has 48? 49, 49 way in the back, way back. All right. They got them all over the building. 49. Let the lady come down. 50, who has B50? Prayer card B50, would you... Is it here? I'm sorry. Back there wherever it is, come. B50.
That way... They got a whole crowd standing in here

68 and so let's let them line the people and get them picked out in the hall and down the steps. And now I want to ask ever ... was you standing up there, sir? All right, come on in here. All right. Now let's hold it there just for a little bit. Now, how many in here that does not have a prayer card and you want God to heal you? Raise your hand. Well, it's practically everywhere. All right.
Jesus said... If there's someone here that wasn't here last night when we went through the instructions (while they're lining the people up),

69 Jesus said in the Scripture, or the Bible said of Jesus, rather, that when He passed through the multitude, why, went ... going over into a certain country and there was people in there that was all around Him and greeting Him. And there was a woman had a blood issue; and she pressed through the crowd and touched the border of his garment, for she said, "If I must even touch the border of his garment, I'll be made well." How many remembers that story? And quickly He felt it. Now, we illustrated last night: Here was the garment around the Master, with an underneath garment. He did not physically feel it, for she touched this; but that on the inside felt it.
And He said, "Who touched me?"
And Simon Peter as much as rebuked Him and said, "Why do you say such a thing? All of them is touching you."
He said, "But I perceive that I have gotten weak; virtue has gone from Me." And He looked all around over the audience until He found the person. Then, when He found the person, He said ... told her about her blood issue, that her faith had healed her. Is that right? Her faith had healed her.

70 Now, the Bible said that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. That's true. And to these clergymen here, and to back in there, doesn't the Scripture teach us, the New Testament, that He is a high priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities? Well, if He's the same high priest---the same yesterday, today, and forever---then if He is touched, He'll act the same way that He did yesterday because He can't do no more. He's the same high priest.
And remember this, friends. While we're getting the people ready, I want to leave this with you. If anyone ever asks you on it, do you believe that God is infinite? Then if God is ever called on the scene (a crisis arises, and God is ever called on the scene to act), the way that God acts the first time, He has to forever act the same way. If He doesn't, He acted wrong when He acted the first time. If a sinner called on Him to be saved, He's got to save that sinner, if He saved the first sinner that called on Him. That's right. If He was called on for sickness and He healed the first man by his faith, He's got to heal the next man and every other person that comes to Him; or if He didn't, He did wrong when He healed the first one, because He's infinite.

71 Now, I can say something, I'll have to take it back because I'm just a man. You can say something with all good intentions, but you have to take it back many times. You're finite, you're just a human. But He's God. He doesn't know ... He isn't any smarter today than He was at the beginning. He's perfect from beginning to end. He's the same, so His decisions is always the same---perfectly. So the God that we serve (just remember this, keep it in your mind), the God that we serve has always been God and always will be God. He cannot change.
And to manifest Hisself before Israel, to show that He was the Messiah, and the ending up of that Jewish dispensation, He showed signs of discernment, like He did to Philip, when he went and got Nathanael and brought him. He told him, "I knowed where you was at. You're an Israelite. Saw you under the tree before you come to the meeting."

72 When he went and got Simon Peter, brought him, He said, "Your name is Simon, your father's name is Jonas." Oh, my, that got him. And when He told Nathanael, He said, "Behold an Israelite, in whom there's no guile!"
He said, "Rabbi [reverend, preacher, teacher, the word really means teacher], when did you know me? You never seen me in your life. How do you know that I'm a just man and a Hebrew?"
He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you."
He said, "Rabbi, you're the Son of God; you're the King of Israel." That was a real true Jew.
That great, starchy Jew said, "He's a devil. He's a fortune-teller." That's when Jesus said what I spoke about while ago.

73 Then He had to go down in Samaria. Remember, there's only three classes of people. That's Ham, Shem, and Japheth's people. How many remembers that Jesus gave Peter the keys to the kingdom? We all know that. And on the day of Pentecost, who opened the kingdom of God? Matthew, Mark, Luke, John? Peter. Philip went down and baptized the Samaritans, but yet the Holy Ghost had come upon not them; and he sent up to the men that had the keys. Coming down, laid hands upon them, opened up the dispensation to the Samaritans. He went up to the house of Cornelius to the Gentiles, and opened up at Cornelius's house, and since then it's been to anybody, or whosoever, see. No more was the keys used, because the kingdom's open.

74 Now, when Jesus come, He made Himself known to the Jews because they were looking for a God-prophet to rise, which would be the Messiah. How many understands that? Deuteronomy 18:5, when God said, "I'll raise up a prophet among your brethren, like unto Moses. And it'll come to pass, that every soul that will not hear this prophet, he'll be cut off from amongst the people." And they were looking for a prophet, a God-prophet, a man, Immanuel. Spoke in Isaiah and said how "I'll give you an eternal sign; that a virgin shall conceive, and bear a child, and He'll be Immanuel"---God with us, God manifested in the flesh.
See, all it is, is God condescends. God's holy, above sin. Sin had not yet been judged, so to make Hisself on the law of redemption, He had to be a near kinsman on the law of redemption, like Ruth and Naomi, Boaz. God made Himself a body, his Son created in the womb of Mary, a blood cell. Do you believe that? And Jesus was born without sexual desire. He was born a virgin birth. That blood cell was made by Jehovah God.

75 Then after He was baptized in water, John saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and going on Him, a voice saying, "This is my beloved Son, [correctly like this] in whom I am pleased to dwell in." God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. Jesus said, "It's not me that doeth these things, it's my Father. The Son can do nothing in Himself but what He sees the Father doing." And then God was with us. God above us, God with us in Christ. Immanuel, God with us.
And then when that blood cell was broke at Calvary, and the blood was shed, the Spirit... Under the old dispensation, sin was just covered. Not forgiven; covered, because the blood of goats and bulls would not take away sin. It only covered it. But when the life that was in the animal that died... The life could not come back and be a spirit with the human being, because it was animal life without a soul. But when Jesus died, it was the soul of God; and when that cell was broke, it sanctified a church, that the Holy Spirit could live in us who were sexual born. Then it's God above us; God with us; now it's God in us.
"A little while, and the world won't see me no more;" said Jesus, " [That's cosmos, the world order, it won't see me no more.] yet ye shall see me: [ye, the church, the believers] for I [and anyone with a grammar school education knows I is a personal pronoun], I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world." Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever.

76 If the first bunch of people... He's the vine, John 15, and we are the branches. Now, the vine does not bear fruit. The branch bears fruit as it's energized by the vine. And if the first branch out of that vine produced a church that wrote a book of Acts, the second branch will do the same thing. And every branch that comes out of that vine will be energized by the same life that's in the vine. Amen.
I'd like to come down sometime and talk this over with you. Oh, it's no secret what God can do, if He can get people who'll believe Him. Now, there's ... I hope there's no one leaves here tonight disappointed. There's no reason for it. Some of you are here, maybe, with heart trouble, may not live but just a little while. Others with cancer won't live but a little while---your doctor has done all he knows to do. Here's those ... two or three people sitting here in wheelchairs might live a normal life, a long time, but you'll never come out of the wheelchair unless God helps you. That's right.

77 But usually, when you take a person in a wheelchair, they think, "Well, I'm hopeless." No, you're not. No more harder for God to heal you than it would be to stop a toothache. He's infinite God. You just have to let Him have control and then place a faith in here, and it goes to work.
Right immediately you might not see nothing happen, but you remember St. Mark 11:24? Jesus passed by a tree, there was no figs on it. He said, "No man eateth from thee," and went on. They didn't see no difference in that tree. But way down beneath the ground, at the roots, it started dying; and within twenty-four hours, when they passed by again, it had begin to wither. That's the same thing takes place with a cancer when God's Spirit curses that thing. You might go back to the doctor, it looks just the same, but way down deep it's a-dying. Way down deep upon you, if you accepted Christ as your healer (maybe you can move that finger just a little teeny bit more), God's on the job. "Believe what you say shall come to pass, and you can have what you say." If that isn't true, then God isn't true, then the Bible isn't true.

78 Now, what does He do? Now, He doesn't give men power to heal, neither to save. No man can forgive your sins---it's already forgiven. You just have to accept your pardon. No man can heal you, but God has already did it. You just have to accept it, that's all. And maybe you have mustard-seed faith, just a little bit. But if you've got mustard-seed faith, just hold on to it. Mustard seed won't mix with nothing else. And if you got real faith that won't mix with no unbelief, hold on to it. It'll wind you around the curve, and finally you're out of the cage, you're in the light. Just hold on to it.
Hold to it like Abraham did: twenty-five years with a perfect testimony he never staggered with unbelief. And all the time he got older, and the case got more impossible. But instead of getting weaker and saying "Well, I guess I never got it," he was strong, giving praise to God. "If it didn't come when I was seventy-five, it'll come when I'm eighty. If it don't come till I'm eighty-five, it'll be greater than it was if it come when I was seventy-five." Went on to a hundred, and God performed the miracle---turned him back to a young man. Him and Sarah, a young woman, they raised children. And after that, after forty-five years later, he had seven more sons. God is God.
Yes, sir, turned them back to a young man and woman again.

79 You've probably read my literature on that. It's exactly what He done. Why did the king of Gerar down there fall in love with Sarah (a little grandma, a hundred years old) looking for a sweetheart? She was a beautiful young woman. He turned her back to a young woman to show what He'll do to all Abraham's seed. Some of these days, Mother, the wrinkles will leave your face. Dad, that gray hair will drop away. The God of Abraham will come. Things will be changed then. We'll come back in the splinter...
Tell me one thing, answer me this: Why was it when you eat food (the same food you eat now) when you was fifteen years old, you was renewing your life every time you put food into your body (you renew your life blood cells), you got stronger and stronger till about twenty-five; and now no matter how much you eat you're going down. Explain it to me.

80 Pouring water out of a jug in a glass, it gets about half full; then the more you pour, the farther down it goes. It's an appointment you've got with God. You're going to meet it, too. That's exactly right. Yes, sir.
But remember (you believe on Him), " He that heareth my word and believeth on him that sent me has eternal life, and I'll raise him up at the last day." That's right. It'll raise him up. God moves... And there'll never be an old person resurrected old. They'll be young there forever. That's exactly. Christianity is based upon not replacement, reincarnation, but resurrection. The same one went down come up, but in the splinter of immortality, made like unto His own glorious body, where He's able to subdue all things unto Himself. That would make a Baptist shout. Yes, it would. Oh, it's real, real, real.
And to think that we don't have to guess about it. The God that made the promise is right here tonight to show Himself among us, resurrected from the dead. Two thousand years, and still alive tonight. Then if eternal life rests within you, it's just as alive as it was ... well, it just always was alive. And it's got you under its control, and "I will raise you up at the last day." God is real. Isn't He wonderful?

81 All right. Now we'll begin the prayer line. How many in here is strangers to me, that I do not know you or know anything about you? Raise up your hands. Down the prayer line, every one of them. How many you got out there now? Fifty? Be hard to get them through. We will not stop just the discernment on each one, but that people might understand and know... We'll get just as many through as we possibly can.
You out there pray. Now, just take all your worries and things and cast them over to the side. This is that moment, friends, that you've stood and waited for.
Now I must cease right now, because from here on it can't be me.

82 What if Jesus was standing here wearing this suit that He had Brother Palmer to give me? What if He had on this suit, and this woman was standing before Him, and she'd say, "Sir, I'm sick. Will you heal me?" You know what His answer would be? "Child, I did that when I died for you back yonder at the cross." Is that right? Well, now the only thing He could do would make some kind of a sign to let her know---say something to her---that He was there, or know that it was Him. Is that right? Now, I don't know nothing about her, but by a gift I surrender myself to Him and He speaks through my lips.
God doesn't have any lips but yours and mine. He doesn't have any ears or eyes but mine and yours. Did you know that? We are the branches, He's just the vine. The vine doesn't bear fruit. The branches. See, He's here in the form of spirit. He will come physically some day in a corporal body, but now He's spirit in His church. "At that day you'll know that I am in the Father and you in me and I in you," and so forth, see. That day you'll know it, see. "I and my Father working in you." See, God in us.

83 Now, if He is the same as He was then, and giving His last call to the Gentiles... Remember, that settled the Jewish dispensation, after they'd had years of theology and teaching. Now the church has had them years---the Gentiles. Now it's coming to their end. Now here's a case tonight exactly of St. John the fourth chapter. A man and a woman meets, and God wants to show to the Samaritans that He is God and that's His Messiah. Now the Messiah is the Holy Spirit, not me. Now understand that. I'm a man just like you, but the Messiah is the one that's here, the supernatural one. Each one of you has got part of Him in you, see. That's the Messiah.
Now, by a gift ... it has to come somewhere.

84 Now if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, and this woman standing here and has a need... I don't know her need, might not be as that woman's was. I don't know what her need is. But if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and He wants you all to believe in Him, and know that He is the same (like He wanted the Samaritans to know), He'd perform the same thing that He did then. Is that reasonable? And that's not only reasonable, that's what the Scriptures said that He would do.
Now, here I've never seen the woman in my life. If I did, I didn't know her. Now, I guess this is our first time meeting. You don't know me? [Sister answers.] She said I didn't know her but she was back ... she was out to service Friday night out there. Of course I would never know somebody sitting back in the meeting. I don't know nothing about her, never seen her, have no idea. She might be having domestic trouble at home, she might not even be married.
She may be ... she might be standing there just as a deceiver, see. She might be standing there as a ... just a...

85 She's saying, "Thank you, Jesus"; that don't mean she's a Christian. I've heard hypocrites say that a lot of times, go out and take another man's wife home with him. Sure. And say, "Thank you, Jesus." Certainly. That don't mean nothing. You've got to be born of the Spirit of God, have something in here that makes you a Christian. That's right.
She might be standing for someone else. Who is she? Where did she come from? I don't know. God knows that; I don't. But now if the Holy Spirit is here, as I say He is... I want you to listen to this, mother, young ladies, all of you in here. Listen. If Jesus Christ has raised from the dead and can prove that He's alive, then every one of his promises can be made just as true to you tonight as it was to them in Galilee.
But is He alive? That's the next thing.

86 Now, Jesus said this generation would receive the sign of Jonah---the resurrection. Now, is He alive? Is this Jesus that we're talking about... We know He was crucified, died, buried. The Jews said He was stole away, but is He alive? He said He would be. He'd come back again in the form of the Holy Ghost, be with us, do the same works, working through us to the end of the consummation, or the age. Now, if He is, He'll act the same way. He wouldn't do anything different.
Now, the only thing I can do is to submit myself to a gift, and then see what He says. Now, if He will do such... Both the lady and I with our hands up and the Bible laying here, we've never met in our life. And many of you out there no doubt, God will go right out there tonight if you'll believe. He'll say... You do this, you say, "Lord Jesus, I have a need in my heart. I know that preacher don't know me."

87 Someone was telling me last night, when they went by, they said, "I know that man didn't know me. He had no way of knowing me." Certainly I do not, but God does know you. He knowed you before the world ever was founded. He knowed you. He knowed every flea would be on the earth and how many times he would bat his eyes. He's infinite, see. He knowed the end from the beginning. Now, He wouldn't act a different way. He'd have to act the same way.
You say, "Brother Branham, you're stalling for something." I am, that's exactly right. If He don't come, I'll just have to leave here, that's... I'll just pray for the sick. I'm totally helpless, I've got to wait for Him.

88 How many seen the picture of it? They've got pictures in Washington, D.C.
Now, in the name of Jesus Christ I take, in the Holy Spirit, every soul that's sitting present for the kingdom of God's sake. Obey what you're told, from henceforth it'll be Him. Let the audience know this (if I never see you again until the resurrection): the Spirit, the Life, the pillar of fire, the same One that led the children of Israel, that you see on that picture, it'll show the same signs. That was Jesus. He was, in Him, the pillar of fire. How many knows that? Before Abraham was, I AM. I AM at the burning bush. If He acted like that in a man... He's here now. That same pillar of fire isn't two foot from where I'm standing right now. That's true.
Now, what He does, I don't know. God bless you. Sometimes it makes me completely unconscious nearly if I try to get this whole prayer line. But if I don't see you no more this side of the river, I'll see you on the other side one of these days. God bless you. God be with you.

89 Now, heavenly Father, we commit ourselves to Thee. Thank You for coming. We know the meeting is all in your control now. And I pray that You'll take your humble servants: I, your servant, to use my eyes and lips; your servants out there, with their ears and heart to hear and to see. And through us together, working together, all of us, may the power of God take full control of this meeting. May there not be a sinner be able to leave the building without being saved. May no one that hasn't got the Holy Ghost ... may they be filled tonight with the Spirit (of all churches, denominations). May every sick person, every afflicted person be healed. We commit it to You now. Speak from henceforth, Lord. In Jesus' name. Amen.
Be just as reverent as you can. Now to speak to the woman. Our Lord met the woman at the well and I'm doing the same thing here that He did there (He talked to her just a moment) because I've been preaching. What was He trying to do? The Father had sent Him up there. He had needs go by Samaria, and He did nothing till the Father showed Him. St. John 5:19. Then He went to Samaria. Then He didn't know what to do. This woman come out. He was just waiting. He begin to talk to her. Said, "Woman, bring me a drink."
She said, "It's not customary for you to ask a Samaritan such. You're a Jew."
He said, "But if you knew who you were talking to, you'd ask me for a drink."

90 The conversation went on till He found where her trouble was. That's the same thing I'm trying to do now by His Spirit---find what's wrong with her. What are you doing standing here? You be the judge whether it's right or not, see. I can only ... I don't know, but if He tells me, you know whether it's right or not. And then when He found her trouble, her trouble was immoral. Said, "Go get your husband and come here."
She said, "I have no husband."
He said, "You've said right. You've had five; the one you're now living with is not your husband."
She said, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. We know, we Samaritans, we know that when the Messiah cometh, He'll tell us these things. But I don't know who you are."
He said, "I'm he."

91 Now, if you're a woman of the United States, do you believe the Messiah would do the same thing today? Are you taught to believe that, to believe that He'd do the same thing? I believe that. Now, you're aware that something is going on. It's the angel of the Lord coming between you and I, settling to you. The woman is suffering with something wrong in her breast. That's true. If that's right raise your hand. Now, you see, you don't see it. Now, do you believe? That's His Spirit.
Now, she's a wonderful person. She's a Christian, a real Christian. Now, she's a lovely person to deal with. Let's talk to the woman just a moment, see what the Holy Spirit will say. Then the next one ... we'll just pray for a few, so we can get the line through.

92 Then you start praying out there, every one of you that have needs, just start praying. Say, "God, that man doesn't know me, but let me touch Your garment. Then You use his lips and speak back, then I'll be assured that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever, giving his final sign to the Gentile church, the called-out church, the separated group, like Abraham and his group."
Now, sister, I don't know what I said, see. Whatever it is, it's on the tape over there, see. Whatever it was was right, wasn't it? Now, I have no way of knowing you. I wouldn't know you from anyone. But that's the only way ... there's something supernatural here now that knows you, see. You're aware of that. You think it is the Lord Jesus? You think it is His Spirit speaking through me? Thank you.

93 Yes, I see the woman, her trouble. See it back again now. It's in her breast. That's right, and she's got trouble with her side. That's true. Got trouble with your heart, trouble with your throat. That's right, isn't it? I didn't guess that. The Holy Spirit's here to reveal, knows. She knows whether that's right or not. She raises her hand solemnly that's true. Now, you know that there's something here, some spirit that knows that woman, coming from the Bible, a promise of God. Isn't He wonderful? Do you believe Him now? Just let that settle down.
I don't know you. God does. What if God would tell me who you are? He knowed Simon Peter, He knowed Philip. You think He knows you? Would that help you? Mrs. Taylor, go home, you're over your sickness. Jesus Christ makes you well

94 the lily of the valley, the morning star, the rose of Sharon, the lily of the valley, He that was, which is, and shall come, the root and offspring of David. Oh, His majesty, His mercy, His goodness, the Holy Spirit of God here at the platform.
For your baby? Many suffers with the same disease. You believe its little heart will get well and it'll be all right? You believe? Father God, the baby's too little to have faith. May it be well in Jesus Christ's name. Amen. Don't doubt; the baby will live. Go home and be thankful to God now.
Come, sister. How do you do? We're strangers to each other. I feel that coming from somewhere, I'm reading their minds. Don't do that. You hinder the meeting. Here, put your hand on mine, sister. Now, if God shows me out here what your trouble is, you raise your hand if it's true. You suffer with a ladies' trouble, female trouble. If that's right, raise up your hand. This lady here, ladies' trouble. Now is that mind reading? You're healed now, sister, you can go on back home.

95 You don't have to come up with that arthritis; you done got well. Trouble in your back. Just turn and go right on home, saying "Thank you, Lord Jesus, for healing me." If you can believe. Do you believe? Have faith now, don't doubt. All right.
I don't know you. I'm a stranger to you, but if God will tell me about you... It's our first time meeting, but if God will tell me about you, you'll believe? Nervous, got a hernia. Reverend Orr, go home and be well. God bless you.
Your heart trouble is all right. Go right... The arthritis will leave you if you'll believe. Will you believe it? [Brother Branham continues prayer line.]

96 You believe with all your heart? Just have faith in God. Believe, don't doubt! Have faith in God. All right.
You, lady, do you believe with all your heart? Want to stand right there? You believe God will talk to me about you standing there? (I turned my head around because there's people out there praying. I was trying to catch where it was at.) I want to talk to you just a minute. If God will tell me what your trouble is, or where your trouble is, or something, you'll believe with all your heart? You got nervousness, heart trouble. That's right. Something wrong with your eye, growth on your right eye. That's right. You want to be healed. Mrs. Todd, go home and be well. Jesus Christ...

The Queen of Sheba

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1 [Pastor introduces Brother Lamsa.] ... he speaks the language and can read the language and read the original documents in which the New Testament was written. So with him, it is so wonderful that he can read directly from the original script the very words that Jesus and the disciples spoke and wrote.
He felt that these translations that we have are not always correct and true. And that's where the criticism comes in, because he criticizes the King James version, and some people think that St. Paul preached from the King James version. They almost worship it, it's so wonderful. I think all translations might leave something to be desired. So I'm not going to vouch for any translation, but I know that God has seen to it that the translations are such that nobody will miss heaven if they'll do what's written in the Scriptures.
Dr. Lamsa has in thirty years worked on a translation that is direct from the original, and now there is a Bible published which is his translation.
When I spoke to him yesterday, he said to me, "I would like to meet Brother Branham because I have heard so much of him." To my surprise he told me a few things that I've asked him to tell you himself, tonight, about the Word and about visions.
This morning Dr. Lamsa, Brother Branham, and a few of us had breakfast together. And you know, I never saw two men that were more like two long-lost brothers that had found each other and understand each other. When Brother Branham tells a vision, Dr. Lamsa's got a vision. He sees visions, too, and I sensed this morning that God has done great things for this man.
I'm glad the Lord sent him to America. I'm glad he's in Tulsa while we are here, and tonight he's with us on the platform; and I'm going to ask Dr. Lamsa to take a few minutes now to speak to us of what the Lord has laid on his heart, and how he has been impressed by Brother Branham and his ministry. Dr. George Lamsa, or if you can't say "Doctor," say "Brother."
[Dr. Lamsa speaks.] Thank you very much. [Unclear words] Ladies and gentlemen, I am greatly honored to stand here today and to join with you in praising the Lord, and believe in his Word, and ... his Word which heals the sick and changes the sinner into the saint.
I am a great believer in the Word of God in the Bible. I studied my Bible in God and read in English, because I was educated at the English college which was opened in the [unclear word] of Reverend Titrees, in Turkey. This was before the World War I.
I was told by Oxford and Cambridge men that the King James Bible was a translation from Latin or a compilation from the former translations, and that the other translations were made from Greek, and the Greek was a translation from the Hebrew dialect. And we know the Hebrew dialect is a transcription of the original Hebrew which is the Aramaic, the language of Padan Aram---the language of the land in which Jacob's children were born, the land which sent Abraham from Mesopotamia to Palestine.
So I was led by God to make the translation of the Bible simply because I discovered so many discrepancies, so many errors, in the other translations; and there are so many of them. Not the King James---I think the King James is the best translation we have.
But when I read those words of our Lord in the King James text which read like this---"If any man should come to me, and does not hate his father, and his mother, and his wife, and his children, and his sister, he cannot be a disciple of me."---I was horrified, because I have always told the Moslems and the others and the other people that the only prophet in the world who has spoken about love of God is Jesus Christ, because Jesus Christ has told us not only to love our fathers and mothers and sisters and brothers but to love our enemies.
And when I compare them to the original, years ago, the original read, "He who comes to me and does not put aside his father and his mother and his children and his wife and sister and brother, he cannot be my disciple." The word put aside has been confused with the word to hate, because these ancient languages have a very small vocabulary, and sometimes one word has from ten to fifteen meanings. You have to be a native to be able to translate it. You have to be a native to know.
When American man tells you, "I have a friend, he was very wealthy, but he has lost his shirt," nobody in Asia would know what the "loss of shirt" meant in this country. But in your country you understand it. There are thousands of idioms like that.
But I wanted this evening to tell you one thing which is in my heart, and which is in the heart of every ancient Christian in the middle East, and even in the heart of the Moslems who are not Christians. We all believe in God's direction. We all believe that God is constantly leading us. God is constantly talking to us.
We know that 40% of the Bible when it was written is based on the visions, v-i-s-i-o-n. When I came to America, I studied here, and I have spoken to nearly 7,400 churches and colleges and seminaries. And when I told some of the professors in this country that 40% of the Bible is based on the vision which men of God saw, they never heard of it. They thought that the book of Isaiah was written when Isaiah was eating breakfast or having a conference and writing the book. All these books came through visions at the time when men's minds is at peace during the silent hour of the night.
And my dear friends, the word Bible, in Aramaic, it means "light"---the light of God. In Hebrew it means "the law." But when you take the Aramaic word original is derived from Aramaic word "Arah." Arah means to "see through your mind," not through your eyes.
When you read the first chapter of the Bible, you are told that God created light, and God created seas and this and that. And there was first day, and the second day, and third day; and yet the sun was not created. The sun was created on the fourth day. So the author of the Bible, the inspired man of God who wrote Genesis, when he said light, he meant "understanding, reannah." Reannah means "mind," because these truths in the Bible, we can only ascertain them or see them through our mind, not through our eyes.
This book, it cannot be approached through human under-standing. One to have had visions. One has to go deeper and deeper. One has to sit in silence in order to be able to hear the voice which is in this Book. And all of you will agree with me that all the prophets of God, all great men, even Jesus Christ, who is the Son of God, and who is the only Saviour of our world, He Himself went in the desert.
He went for forty days to think things over to know more about God, because He was God, yet He was a man, too. But He went to the desert. For forty days He was there. So Elijah was in the desert, Moses was in the desert, Paul went three years in the desert. Why? To commune with God.
I believe there is a second sense [sixth sense]. The birds have it. Some of these birds come from the North Pole, fly to the South Pole, without any charter. Here you have to go to a school for ten years in order to be able to pilot a jet or a plane; but a duck can do it without any training, because God gave the birds that sixth sense, the sixth intelligence which directs the whole nature.
And man has it. Why? I know it. I'm not here introducing to you any new doctrine. I met Dr. Branham today. I have never seen him before. I have heard of him.
But I wanted to tell you that you will find so many evidences of the sixth sense, or to connect the forces of nature in the Bible. When God said to Moses, "Go back to Egypt, and Aaron your brother will meet you," Moses at that time was about 400 miles, far away from Egypt; and yet the Lord God spoke to Aaron. He said, "Your brother is returning, you better go to greet him." And when Moses and Aaron come together, they arrived there.
I can show you instances where Paul (he was in a city in Asia Minor then) at nighttime he's called to go to Macedonia, because "they need you there." And Peter is called that "Cornelius wants you," and Cornelius is told that "Peter wants you." All these persons in the Bible, but we have lost it.
And some people will ask me, "Is Brother Branham right or is he correct in doing what he's doing?"
I said, "There are hundreds of evidences in the Bible, but I cannot explain how it is done, neither you." No one can, except those who have experience with God. I know Paul have experience with God, Peter have experience with God, Moses had experience with God, and Elijah. And all these men of God were able to commune, not only with God, but they were able also to transmit messages from one to another.
I don't want to take your time, I'm not here really... I'm so honored to be here today. I am here in the city as a guest of Oral Roberts, a great prophet and seer of your city, which, I believe, time will come, his name also will be inscribed in those golden pages that have given humanity such a wonderful literature.
But I want to testify to you that we must not belittle these things. We must not say that the prophecy is lost, prophecy has no more value. It had in those days. No.
The Holy Spirit is more operative today than ever before. Why? Because we are more in difficulty today than any time in the history of the world. We are today at a crucial point. We are confused between communism, atheism, materialism, and Christianity. And the only thing to direct us is God---not human, not books written by men, but the visions from the highest. Those are the true directions, and those are the forces which will save the world. I pray God the time will come that there will be more courageous men in this country like Oral Roberts, and like Reverend Branham, because I believe we need them.
I wouldn't accept any doctrine, anything, if it wasn't in the Bible. I don't care if the President of the United States would tell me this thing should be so, I would say, "No," because I made a promise to myself when I processed the Bible that I will never add one word, I will never omit a word, and I will never deny a truth for sake of that other people do not believe in it. There is so much evidence in the Bible about what Brother Branham is doing; and all we need to do it to understand him, to study deeper, and to be patient, and to praise the Lord God to give us also vision and understanding to be able to do what he's doing.
And when it comes to healing, I believe in that with all my heart, because my people, even today in the garden of Eden, we have no dentists, no doctors. For all these centuries, we were living there believing in God and the Bible. And when the people were sick, they came in and touched the Bible---not the King James, but some of the Bibles in that part of the world which were written in the skins and are very old.
So this Bible which I translated is just like King James. There's no difference except one thing. There are about twelve thousand passages in this Bible which are very clear. In this Bible you read, "My God, my God, for this I was spared, for this I was kept." And all other Bibles you read, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" And yet Jesus said, "All of you will forsake me, but my Father will not forsake me. I and my Father are one. I came for this hour." So, I haven't done anything to change King James.
In conclusion I just want to say this word to you. I was spared myself. All my people were destroyed in the World War I. A sister taken captive seven years old, a brother eleven years old. We never found them again. All of our gold and silver and money and lands, we lost them. Why? Because we believe in Jesus Christ as our God and our Saviour. But then these ancient Bibles were spared in the garden of Eden. And why did the Lord God lead me here? I came here without money. I came here through the direction. And when I arrived here I had all opportunities, because I spoke some English. But then the Lord God said, "You've got to translate this Bible. You're the only surviving man from that area who knows this ancient language, who knows Aramaic, and who knows the Bible to do it."
I tried not to do it. I cried many times in my bed, "O Lord God, I don't want to do it. This is a hard thing. People don't know what Aramaic is. People don't know any other Bible but King James."
But the Lord God said, "You've got to do it."
And when I made my mind, believe me, miracle after miracle has been wrought in my life. I thank doctor, I thank Oral Roberts, and I thank Brother Branham, and thousands of American people who have stood by me.
And today this Bible is read by thousands of copies, and we hope to have edition in London, and an edition in Japan. Why? Because the Bible says, "All are passing, but God's truth endureth forever." Everything has changed, everything will change, one nation will come, another will go, but the Word of God, the Bible, will be here for thousands of generations to come. May the Lord God bless you, and grant your requests, and heal your wounds, and receive your prayers. Of all of you who have come, I know you are very sincere. I have never felt, for years, such a congregation. Last night I was here too, like you, because I feel the vibration of your hearts, of your minds, that you have such tremendous faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. And when people like you come for healing and when a man of God believes in healing, I believe there is nothing between you and God. May the Lord God bless you and grant your requests. I am indeed very happy to be here this evening. Amen.
[Brother Branham speaks.] Let us remain standing just a moment. We're going to bow for prayer. Is there any here would like to be remembered in prayer before God, when we take you to the throne of grace now? The Lord grant your request, while we pray.
Our heavenly Father, we are approaching Thy throne of mercy in the all sufficient name of the Lord Jesus, Thy Son. We confess that we are weak, Lord, and need Thy help. Our great adversary and Thy adversary, the enemy, is going about like a roaring lion devouring what he can. But Thou hast promised, "I'll never leave thee nor forsake thee." And we so solemnly believe that, Lord, knowing that "Wherever two or three are gathered in my name, there I'll be in the midst of them." We believe that with all of our hearts.

2 People has sent in letters here, Father. And in these letters are handkerchiefs and pieces of cloth that goes to the sick and needy. And, O Father God, we are taught in the scriptures that they taken from the body of St. Paul handkerchiefs or aprons, evil spirits left the people and diseases was healed. Now as we have said before, we know we're not St. Paul, but you still remain Jesus, the Son of God. And we do not believe that it was Paul that did this; it was your Spirit, Lord, answering the faith of the people. And today there is the same need and the same cry, and You're the same God. May the same results come, for we commit them to Thee for that purpose.
Thou didst see the hands of this audience. You know the heart of every one. May they receive just what they've asked for. Grant it, Lord.
Hear us now

3 as we read the Word; impart the Word to us by Thy Holy Spirit. And when service is finished tonight, and we start to our different homes, may we be able to say like those coming from Emmaus, "Did not our hearts burn within us?" Do something tonight among us just like You did before the crucifixion, that the world might know that You have risen from the dead, and You're no longer dead but a living Lord forevermore. In Jesus' name we ask it. Amen.
You may be seated.

4 I have been thinking today that they misnamed Chicago, being Windy City. I think it should have been Tulsa. I could hardly sleep last night, the wind was so hard. I thought, "Many times have I been in Chicago, but never such a wind as we had last evening." And then the service, it was so hard, the wind blowing and making a noise, it was rather a bit of confusion. But it all paid up today to get to meet some precious people.
I had the privilege of meeting Dr. Lamsa today, the translator of the Lamsa translation of the Bible, and such a privilege. You know, I would rather you'd give me a little rose bud right now than a whole wreath after I'm gone. I think maybe he'd think the same thing. I certainly can ascribe to his translation, for meeting him and finding such a lovely spirit of a real true Christian believer. God bless his gallant soul. I don't know as I've ever met any more spiritual man than Dr. Lamsa. May the Lord richly bless him.

5 Then I had the privilege today, in the private interviews and so forth, meeting many other fine people. Got lovely people here in Oklahoma. I certainly appreciate them.
I have just a little bit of kindred of Oklahoma. I think my mother lived here for a few years right near Tulsa here. And so then they moved on down to a place in Texas called Paris, Texas. Then from that they went to Kentucky, moved out to Indiana, and then back to the West. And my father was a rider. And Mother and Dad were married then. So then they kind of settled down in Kentucky, and moved then after my birth to Indiana, and there we have been since.
So it's a great people in this United States, a great world, a great people everywhere, where you find God's people. No matter what color or what country they're from, they're always the same. Way down in Ceylon and many different places, you take those people which hardly know right hand from left, when they receive the Holy Spirit, they act just the same as you do when you receive it. Not knowing what is right or left hand, some of them, and they act the same way you do when you receive the Holy Spirit. So we're thankful for that.

6 Now we must get right along, because tonight we promised to run a little line of prayer for the sick. I do not claim to heal people. I don't believe there is anybody would do that. We just claim that we pray for them.
And someone said, "Are you a divine healer, Brother Branham?"
I said, "No, sir, I'm not a divine healer. But I've certainly had some great answers to prayer." So thank the Lord for that. But anything that we can do to help some... What I'm here for is to try to make the burdens of life just a little bit lighter for you. It's kind of a struggle anyway you take it. We all know that. And if we can lighten up each other's load just a little bit, I think it shows such a real brotherly love and care for each other.

7 Now I want to read from the Scriptures tonight, in St. Matthew the twelfth chapter, if anyone is keeping the scriptures down, and the forty-second verse of the twelfth chapter.
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.
Jesus had been kind of upbraiding the cities and the people because they had not believed on Him. And He had showed to them all the works of God, but they had become so ecclesiastical-like, until they had their own ways and their own ideas. Just like today, many of us has got drawed up just how the Lord will come. And sometimes they break off and make a denomination out of it because one believes He'll come on a white horse, the other on a white cloud.
What difference does it make as long as He comes? That's the main thing, be ready. So I believe that when He comes, it will probably be altogether different than what we've got figured out anyhow. So I haven't got any set way; I'm just wanting to see Him come, that's all. Just be ready when He gets here.

8 And so they had their ways fixed, and their theology had been upset a little bit. And they had denied Him, even had called Him that low name of Beelzebub, which was the prince of the devils. When Jesus came to the earth, He was given the lowest name that could be given, He went to the lowest city that could be, He had no place to lay His head.
And when God exalted Him, He taken Him higher than the heavens---till heavens, He has to look down to see it. He give Him a name above every name, that everything in heaven and earth is named Jesus Christ. What God did for Him; and what we did for Him. We mistreated Him; but God exalted Him.

9 And now He had been telling them how He had done, and what the miracles and signs that He had done, and said, "If these things would have been done in other generations, why, it'd been yet standing, the cities." And it's strange---some good theologian could tell you the cities that He cursed is not there today; the cities that He blessed remains till this day. It's very striking. And I've heard real good Bible scholars speak of it.
But Jesus had come in every form of the Messiah that the Bible predicted Him to come in. He'd come as the God-prophet. He had come just exactly the way the Bible said He would come, and yet they missed seeing Him. Oh, may that not be our attitude when He comes the second time.

10 Now they was failing to see his supernatural work. The people, the churches, had gotten so far away from the supernatural until they could not give an answer to their congregation for the supernatural that was being done, so they just had to class it something. Instead of figuring it out, laying aside their thoughts and going to the Scriptures, why, instead of doing that, they just answered their congregation, said, "Why, he's the devil, that's all. He's just a fortune-teller or something. There's nothing to him."
But then when He did that supernatural, it usually blinds those who are blinded to those things. It makes them worse. But in every generation God has always had His agents. It's got down sometimes to merely one. But God always had somebody in every generation that He could lay His finger on, some people that He could put His finger on say, "This is my people, and they'll do as I tell them to do."

11 And Jesus had been referring back the forty-first verse of this same chapter, He had spoke about the days of Jonah and Nineveh. Many people...
I'd like to speak, just a moment before I get to my text, on Jonah. So many people condemn that prophet. He should not be condemned. The steps of the righteous is ordered of the Lord, and He makes everything work just exactly right. Now I believe God had a purpose in sending Jonah to Tarshish instead of Nineveh. I believe that was God's purpose, to confirm his Word to the Ninevites. Then when Jonah, on his road to Tarshish, a great storm came up, as we know, and he told the captain of the ship that he was in fault. And they tied his hands and feet, throwed him over the ship's side into the water. The Scripture says that this great fish swallowed him.

12 I never forget, some time ago a man said to me (who knowed a lot about science), he said, "That story cannot be true, Brother Branham."
I said, "Why?"
He said, "The swallow of a whale isn't big enough to swallow a man."
I said, "But, sir, you just don't read the Scriptures right. This is a special prepared fish. God fixed this one just right. God had a fish prepared for it. He enlarged his swallow so Jonah could get in." God can do wherever He wants to. The Bible said that God had a fish prepared for him that could swallow him. He was a special one.

13 And then when the fish, prowling through the water, hunting something to eat... And when a fish has fed, if you'll feed your little goldfish, watch them. They'll go right down to the bottom of the bowl and rest their little swimmers on the bottom, after they have fed. Then after perhaps this big fish had swallowed Jonah and had went down then to the bottom of the sea... I wouldn't know how many fathoms deep it would be out there from Nineveh. But could you imagine the condition this poor prophet being in?

14 You know, I think if anybody had a right to claim symptoms, it would have been Jonah, you know. Look at him. We want to think he was backslid, though he wasn't. And he was on a stormy sea, in the belly of a whale, hands and feet tied, seaweeds all around his head, in the vomit of the whale, laying in the bottom of the sea. Now, there is nobody here that bad off. I'm just sure of that. But just to show that you can't hide a real believer from God.
Now, I can just imagine seeing Jonah turn over on his back. And talk about a good case of symptoms! He looked this way it was whale's belly, back this a-way was whale's belly, everywhere he looked was whale's belly. He was in an awful condition, a lot of symptoms.
But you know what he said? "They are lying vanities." He said, "Once more will I look towards Your holy temple, Lord." For Jonah remembered that when Solomon dedicated that temple, he prayed, and said something like this in his prayer: "Lord, if Thy people be in trouble anywhere and then look towards this holy temple and pray, then hear from heaven." And Jonah had faith in God and faith in the prayer of Solomon. And God delivered him from the whale's belly.

15 Now there's no one here in that bad a condition. We're not in a whale's belly, and we're here seeing the hand of God move every night. And if Jonah could place that kind of faith in the condition that he was in, in the belly of a whale in the bottom of the sea, and refuse to see anything contrary to the answer to his prayer when he looked to a temple (where a earthly man prayed and a earthly people built the temple), how much more ought we to have faith to look to heaven where Jesus sits at the right hand of God to make intercession upon our confession? Why, certainly. Nothing should be able to stand in our way.

16 Jesus, the Son of God, who was crucified, dead, rose again on the third day, ascended into heaven, sent back the Holy Spirit that bears record night after night that He's here. Then how much do we keep looking, saying, "Oh, look at my hand, look at my finger"; "I'm still sick at my stomach." Oh, my. That's terrible. "Once more will I look to Your holy temple, Lord," where He's sitting there tonight, with His own bloody garments wrapped around Him, making intercessions upon our confession. Oh, how...
It depends on what you're looking at. If you're looking at your symptom, you can't get well. But refuse to see your symptom; look at what God said. It depends on what you're looking at. And the Christian always looks at the unseen.

17 That's the only way you can be saved, is by faith. You've got to look at the unseen. And the whole armor of Christianity is supernatural. The people...
How the man can say that he believes in God, and preaches in a church, and says he does not believe in the supernatural when the full armour of God, the full armour of Christianity, is supernatural? What is the armour of Christianity? Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, goodness, meekness, patience, faith, Holy Spirit---all those things are supernatural.
What is love? What is joy? Go down to the drug store and buy me a quarter's worth of it. I need it right now, see. You can't buy love, joy, peace, long-suffering, goodness, patience, gentleness, faith. You can't buy it, it's supernatural. And the whole armour of the Christian is supernatural. And we're bidden by the Scriptures to put on the whole armour of God, be girded about, the whole armour.

18 Jonah turned over in that whale's belly, looked away towards the temple the best that he knowed, towards the top of the whale, and begin to pray. And God turned that big fish around, took him right straight to Nineveh for a purpose. Now we believe that most of the Ninevites must've been backslidden, and it went off...
I read a story one time where many of them had turned to heathenism, and they were worshipping idols, and they believed that the whale was the god of the sea. And while their occupation was fishing... Here comes the whale swimming into the shore, the god of the sea opens up his mouth and spits the prophet out on the bank. No wonder they heard him. God knows how to work things. He knows how to make things. You can take that version of it if you like, that might be all right.

19 But watch, the main thing was this: that they asked Jesus, "Show us a sign."
And Jesus said, "A weak and an adulterous generation seeks after a sign." And they'll get a sign. What kind of a sign? A resurrection sign. And I believe that we are now living in the time of a weak and an evil generation of mixed-up, confused theologians, and churches all bundled together, till people don't know what to believe. But Jesus said that that weak generation would receive a sign of the resurrection, and I believe we receive it now. Jesus Christ is not dead. He's alive, and here tonight to live in us and perform and do just exactly what He promised to do. Oh, He said if Nineveh ... if the generation then would have been like Nineveh... Then He goes on to the days of Solomon, and He said, "In the days of Solomon..."

20 Now anyone knows that any time that God sends a gift to the earth and the people turns that gift down, it's always chaos to that nation and that people that turns down the gift of God. Jesus was the greatest gift God ever give to the world, and the Jewish people turned it down and scattered throughout the world from that time since. And when God sends a gift and the people refuses to see it and refuses to take it, then it's scattered---the people is---and they're like sheep having no shepherd.

21 And I think if we tonight would only do as they did in the days of Solomon...
God sent a gift of discernment to Israel and He put it upon Solomon. And as soon as the people saw that this great power of God, of discernment, was upon Solomon, they cherished the gift, honored the man, made him king. And any Bible scholar knows that that was the golden age for Israel. The days of Solomon, it was called the golden age. Israel prospered. They built the temple. Hardly any wars at all. All nations feared them, because that they had honored what God sent to them.
Oh, if tonight, you talk about a bomb shelter... They're trying to dig so many hundred feet beneath the earth to find a place to make steel places so that you can escape the atomic bomb. Well, anyone knows that that bomb would hit the earth and blow a hundred feet deep. If you were five hundred feet below it, it would break every bone in your body.
But there is no shelter here on earth but one. There is a shelter, and it's not made out of steel, it's made out of feathers. Under His wings is the place to stay. Is the best shelter that I know of, is beneath His protecting wings.

22 Now, in the days of Solomon, all gathered around and rallied around that great gift of God that was sent to the church and to the people. Now, what if America today would rally around the gift that's been sent them? What if we would---all of the American people, where this great gift has been poured out in these last days, the gift of the Holy Ghost---what if all the ministers, all the laity, all the churches together would rally around the Holy Ghost, the gift of God that's been sent to us to guide us, and direct us, and set us in order? But we got so many bishops and archbishops and men.
God intends the Holy Spirit to lead the church. That's our Leader. That's the One that was sent to us, and we're to be dominated by Him and Him alone that directs us. Then we stay in the Word, level in the Word. The Holy Spirit feeds you sheep food, and sheep food is the Bible, and it feeds on the Holy Spirit. The soul that's hungering for God feeds on the Word of God.
Now if we'd all rally around that, we wouldn't have to dig one foot under the ground. We wouldn't have to fear any atomic attack, because we'd already be in the safety.

23 There wouldn't be any confusion among us. We'd all be rallying around, and nations...
Russia... Oh, Russia is just as hungry for it as we are. In Finland, when that little boy was raised from the dead that night, being killed in that automobile accident, as you all know (and in the books, it's printed)... And the little boy, I had seen him two or three years before in a vision. I had people to write it in their Bibles that it would come to pass. When that little boy was raised from the dead that afternoon... That night when I went down to the Messuhalli, there were thousands of Russians standing there, and them soldiers standing there with that Russian salute, the tears running off their cheeks, said, "We will receive a God like that." Sure.
They come to find God and you give them a bunch of creeds. They want something real that they can take ahold of. I don't blame them.

24 That's what started communism, when the church let down and let people feed out of trash cans. A hungry child will eat from a garbage can. The only reason he does it, because he's not invited to a clean table. It's the church's fault. Absolutely, it's the church's fault. God didn't intend such as that. But they find the weakness and just no more than belonging to a lodge when you belong to the church. Shame on us.
When people come to the church, we ought to have all the spiritual gifts and the power of God operating that would make them people thirst. Did not Jesus say, "Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt has lost its savor, it's henceforth good for nothing, but to be trod under the foot of men."? That's exactly what they've done with it. When the salt lost its contact of strength, when the church lost its power, it becomes no more than any other lodge. It's true.

25 But salt is a savor if it contacts, if it's got any strength in it. If you got meat here and salt here, you've got to get them together---that's exactly right---to save the meat. Salt saves if it contacts. But if the salt's lost its strength, you could pour it all over the meat and it would ruin anyhow.
That's what's been the matter: people joining church putting their name on the book without knowing Christ as their Saviour, without being filled with the Holy Spirit; men hungering for God coming into the church and finding nothing, just a bare ... a little intellectual talk about some star, moon, or something like that, or who's going to be the next president. Those things are all right, but not in the pulpit. The pulpit is the judgment seat. It's where God's power ought to be preached in His power. It's exactly right.

26 But in the days of Solomon how different. They all rallied around. Oh, that was just wonderful. And when they all rallied around this gift, what happened? His fame and the fame of God began to spread out through all different nations. Now them days, they didn't have televisions and telegrams and telephones and so forth. The only way they sent message was from lip to ear. And everybody passing through ... all Israel... Could you just imagine Israel's heart burning when some stranger would pass through? "Oh, you should go up to the temple. The Lord our God has sent a gift. It's abiding upon our brother Solomon. God has made him a king before us, and that gift is upon him. You should come and see the wisdom of discernment that that man has."
While the people would pass by, their hearts would be happy. They'd go tell somebody else, and the fame of Israel spread world-wide, until it come to the utmost parts of the earth, way down in Sheba. Now, that at that time, I suppose, was the far ends of the earth, of the civilized knowing world at that time.

27 There was a little queen down there. And let's think that she was a pagan. And every time a camel caravan would come through, somebody coming from up around in Palestine (that's all the way across the Sahara desert, now) would come down in there and say, "Say, you know what? You should go up into Palestine. Those people up there has got a God. They call him Jehovah. And He's not a dead God; He's a living God. He's isn't an idol. Why, He's living right in a man called Solomon. Why, you never seen such in your life. Why, his power of discernment is far beyond anything a human could think of. They got something that you can lay ahold of and say that their God lives."
You know faith cometh by hearing. So many people testifying, it come to a place that the little queen's heart began to come alarmed. Well, after a while, she, hearing so many testimonies... And faith cometh by hearing: "No discord about it at all. You should go see. One hundred percent right, every person comes up. You should look at it. It's a wonderful gift from God. And they got a great God."

28 Well, this little queen... Let's just think it this way. One day she sat down and she read her pagan scriptures. Well, it's promising about a great god that lived in this idol or something another. Grandmother had knowed it, and Grandfather had thought of it, and so forth. But after a while, she come to hear these testimonies. It wasn't some written theology; it was a living reality. And I'll tell you, there's not a person in the world that ever come from behind the curtain, into this light that we live in called "life," but what wonders where he goes when he goes beyond here. It's just the instinct in a man to do that. We all seek; we want to know what's beyond the curtain. We're searching for that.
The little queen began to hunger and thought, "Oh, I believe I'll go." And after awhile she made up her mind, "I'm getting tired of listening to others telling me about that. I don't know whether it's right or not, but I'm going to see for myself."
That's the way to do it. Go find out for yourself. Don't stand home and criticize.

29 When Philip found Nathanael, he said, "Come see who we found---Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."
He said, "How could there be any good thing come from Nazareth?"
He said, "Come see." That's the best thing to convince yourself. "Come find out." Philip give Nathanael the best answer any man could give. "Come be convinced yourself."

30 Well, the little woman thought she'd go and be convinced whether it was right or not. But now she had a lot of things to face her, a lot more than you and I have, to try to find out truth. First thing before she could go, she was a queen, and she was in great authority. And no doubt that her name on the great church book there was pretty heavy. So the first thing she ought to do would be go talk to her pagan priest and ask him permission if she could leave the church and go up and find out about this other religion.

31 Well, you can just imagine what kind of an answer she got. Why, I can just see that pagan priest, you know, standing there and say, "Now, wait a minute, daughter. You know you don't want to follow vain philosophies like that, because, I tell you, if there was any god alive, it would be our god."
You know we may not have pagans, but we've got the same kind of priests all right. Yes, sir. "If God was going to do anything supernatural, He'd do it here in our church. He wouldn't go over there and do it; He'd do it here." But you know the thing of it is, God does it where He wants to and how He wants to, and it's not up to us to question God.

32 Then we find out, I can see the priest say, "Now look, daughter, your grandmother, your great-grandmother, and way behind her all worshipped this great idol here. It's a great god."
She said, "Yes, sir, that's probably true. I've got all the scrolls on it. But I've heard all this scroll over and over and over and over, what he would do, what he would do; but I haven't seen him make one move." That's a good answer, "I haven't seen one thing. All I see is a chunk of stone sitting there." If that's all you got, brother, you're just about as bad off as she was. That's right. Some big chunk of stone of a building or something another that's called "this is my church," "this is my denomination." Them are all right, but that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about a living God, one that's not dead, one that's alive right now, one that's here just as real as He ever was real. He promised it.

33 And then she said, "Now, look, sir. I've never seen him move, I've never seen him do anything. My grandmother never saw him do anything and neither did her mother. And I've lived up to this time, and I hear that there is one that is alive. I'm going to see Him. No matter what you think, I'm going anyhow." I like that courage. Find out for yourself.
She said, "Now, if it isn't right, I'll come back and tell you it isn't right. But I'll know in my heart whether it's right or not." I can imagine before she started that she had some thoughts in her mind like this: "What if it isn't right? Well, what if it is right? Now, if it is right, and there is a living God that's moving alive among people and showing Himself alive---not a stone but a living God---if it is, I'm going to support it with everything I got. It's worth-while."

34 She saddled up her camels and took great loads of silver, gold, myrrh, frankincense. She got ready to make her start.
Now she might have thought this: "If it's true, I'll support it; but if it isn't true, I'll bring my money back home." That's a good thought for America. Maybe I oughtn't to've said that. I'll just wait a minute and let it soak way down. If it's God, support it with prayer, with all that you've got. Do everything that you can to press it forward. Not so much with money, a little money now and then helps it of course, but... When it's needed, help; but the main thing is keep the money as far out of it as you can. Put yourself in there instead of your money. God wants you on the altar, not your money. It's better for you to...
And this Easter coming on, always makes me kind of halfway spiritually sick. My spiritual gastronomics can't dissolve that. When they go up and put a big pot of lilies on the altar... God don't want lilies on the altar; He wants you on the altar. Altars wasn't built for lilies. Cain thought so. You see what happened. The altar was built for you. You are the gift that wants to be on the altar.

35 And she said, "If it's not so, I'll return back with my money." Now, when she got her camels all ready... And, of course, there was none of those people down there wanted to go, perhaps. And remember, she had a long journey, and she had to cross the Sahara Desert. And she didn't have an air-conditioned Cadillac; she had a camel to ride on. And that hot boiling sand... No wonder Jesus said, "She'll stand in the day of the judgment and condemn this generation." She come plumb across that desert, taken her three months to do it; and some people won't walk three minutes across the street to see the manifestation of the living God living among His people, but will class it as a bunch of holy rollers. No wonder this nation's due for judgment.

36 There she had to cross that desert, and remember, the sons of Ishmael was in the desert in that day. Them fleet riders and great robbers, what a easy prey for ... that little army that she had with her, and a few maids along. The little lady, sitting upon a camel, perhaps had to travel by night. The direct rays of that sun would burn her up nearly in the daytime. Hunting, and seeing if they could follow a star by night to a certain water hole out in the Sahara, coming across---oh, she had a lot of things to think about.
But listen, let me say this. When God ever speaks in a human heart and begins to draw them, there isn't enough devils out of hell to stop them from getting to it. They'll go to it. "My sheep hear my voice."
Something begins to dig in a man's heart. "There's a God somewhere; I'm in search for Him." He'll search and move and hunt and turn over until he finds it.

37 And as David said in the days gone by, "When the deep calleth to the deep...". If there's a deep calling, there's got to be a deep to respond to it. Listen, if there ... no scripture telling me that there was divine healing (you people sitting here tonight), I'd still believe that there was.
Look, before there can be a creation, there has to be a creator to create the creation. Maybe that's Greek to you, but listen. Here some time ago, I read in a paper, a city below us, where a little boy was eating the erasers off of pencils. And the teacher was all disturbed about it and sent word to the mother. The mother found the little fellow out on the porch eating the pedal off of a bicycle---rubber. So she taken him down to the clinic, and they examined the little fellow; and they found out that his little body needed sulfur, and sulfur was in the rubber. But before he could desire sulfur, there had to be some kind of a sulfur out there to respond to that desire, or he would have never desired it.

38 And as long as human beings search and hunger and thirst---calling for the power of God---there's got to be a power of God somewhere to respond to it. Before there can be a creation, there has to be a creator in there creating that creation. When a man longs to see God, there has got to be a God somewhere that created that desire in him. If the deep's calling to a deep, there's got to be a deep to respond to that, because the deep had to be first there to create the call that's in you.

39 Now, that little woman was on her road. Everything against her, but when once she got a feeling that God was a real God, God was real, she began to thirst. Another one come in, said, "Oh, I seen him stand... One of the most mysterious things I ever seen, but he solved it right out under the power of his God, and told them exactly the answer."
Oh, it just shook the little queen. She said, "Oh, I must see it. I must see it. I'm a human being. My life, my eternal destination, is before me. I must see it." Nothing's going to stop her.
You don't think of dangers, you don't think of criticism, you don't think of what somebody else is going to say.

40 When that angel of the Lord met me up there that night... All my brethren in my church told me, said, "Them visions of ... that's the devil. You're a spiritualist." But when ... I just couldn't see how it could be and me loving Him the way I did. When I met Him up there that night (oh, brother), the deep was calling to the deep, and there was something responded to it.
I went to the overseer of the church. He said, "Billy, you had a nightmare."
I said, "If that's the way this church feels about it, here's my fellowship card."
Said, "Oh, I didn't mean it that way, but you know such-and-such can't happen."
I said, "All right, I might as well give up the fellowship now, because you're going to kick me out after awhile anyhow. So I might as well get started free and clean and get going." So there it was. When the deep was calling, there's something to respond to it.

41 Now, some of them said this great big Goliath out there---medical science and all this fine cultured churches... I said, "I can't help how much Goliath it is, God's still God. The God of David still lives. The God of Abraham still lives. The God of Jacob lives. The God that was in Christ is living tonight. He reigns, and I know He's real."
There's something, that no matter what the difficult is, you want to go anyhow, because you've got an objective. And if you'll take the right motive towards that objective, you'll get there. You've got to have the right motive towards your objective. That's the way I always find the will of God. First, think if it's the will of God, then my motive and my objective to it. If it's the right motive, then the objective I have...

42 If God would say, "Go over there and preach to this group," I'd say, "Well how much will I get in a love offering?" Of course, that's all cut out. I get a hundred dollars a week, no matter whether I preach or don't. That settles it. But even before that, before I was on a salary (don't make any difference where it was), the right objective is see what you can do for the kingdom of God. Go where He leads you to go, no matter where it is, whether it's little or small. I've never permitted my meetings to grow or get any size. I don't need much money. I have one little end of a trailer with two typewriters in it, two boys I'm paying, that's all. Because why? God might call me to a little place over here. Just recently held a revival in a church that held twenty. Then if He wants me to go overseas and preach to 100,000 or 200,000, whatever it is, He puts it upon somebody's heart to send me over there the same time He gives me the call. Oh, it's nothing like it. Live for Him, trust Him day by day, lead where the deep calling.

43 The little woman said, "I'm going anyhow." And across the desert, regardless of any of the things that people said, no matter, she pressed on. Well, finally she arrived at the gate. I can see her take all the camels' weights off of them and put the gold in the tent. Now, she didn't come just to say, "I'll go in. I heard of this evangelist. I'll go in and sit down; but if he says one thing against my church doctrine, I'll get right up and go out." That's the 1960 version of it. People knowed better in that day. I think that shows poor raising in the first place. That's right. "If it's anything contrary to me, if he says one word, I'll get right up and go out. I won't listen to him no more. No, sir. I won't listen to him."
See, you don't come with the right kind of a motive, you don't come with the right objective---trying to find God. You're just trying to get your knowledge all twisted up. You haven't got a hunger of God, yet. You get hungering for God, you'll stay till it's over, like she did.

44 She put down her tent and everything, and got ready, and camped out there in the palace court somewhere, and said, "I'm going to stay here till I see it through. If it's right, it's right; if it's wrong, it's wrong." So, I can imagine seeing her go down in Jerusalem and buy all the Hebrew scrolls there was, to find out just what kind of a nature this God was that they were talking about. [Gap in the audio.]
"... then you think you have eternal life. And they testify of me. If the things you see then is not scriptural, then don't believe it." That's the way she was going to do, take the scrolls and ... "Let's see what kind of God this Jehovah is." And she got all read up. She said "I know just what He's going to be now."

45 If you'd just do that, if the people of America would just have that much audacity, if they would just absolutely give that much consideration to God... Did He promise to do this? Is it His will? Did He promise He would? Is it the Holy Spirit? What kind of a nature is it? How does it act? That's what you ought to do. Find out if it's the Holy Spirit.
Walk up and say, "I believe God Almighty; I believe Jesus is His Son; I take ..." and be confirmed? Never was such a thing. It's not confirmed; it's being borned of the Holy Ghost, born of the Spirit. See if the thing is right; search it over, and see if you're supposed to be sprinkled, or baptized by immersing. See if you're supposed to join the church, or receive the Holy Ghost. I've been with the Branham family, next Wednesday, fifty-one years. They never did ask me to join the family. I was born a Branham---that's the reason. And you're borned in the church of the living God. It's an experience. You become a new creature. You're a child of God, a son of God.

46 And if the Spirit of God dwells in you, it'll bear record with His own Word.
And one say, "Well, that was for another day," remember, you ain't got the Spirit of God in you. If the Bible says, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever," you say, "In a certain way," then, remember, that's the devil in you. That's right. It's not God. God say, "Yes, sir." to every word. That's "Amen. Amen. I wrote it. Amen." Men of old, when they were moved by the Holy Ghost, wrote the Bible. How can the Holy Ghost ever deny it?
(I'm not yelling at you. I've been used to preaching outside, so... I know you're not hard hearing, but I'm not ... I just feel religious, that's all, I just feel real good. It's the Holy Spirit, because I know the thing that I'm talking about is the truth---it's God's truth.)

47 That little woman moved up there. And I can imagine her, seeing the first day, combing her hair right quick and washing her face and get over there. She said, "I'll see what all the congregation..." Here was people from everywhere gathered into the big courts. And after a while, after they'd sang some of the Psalms, I can see Pastor Solomon come out, walk out up to his seat, sit down on his throne. And the first thing here come a case up. And as soon as it come up, she said, "Now, I'll just see about this and see how this works. I heard there was so much wisdom. Now look at that poor little woman [or whoever it is standing there]. We'll see about it." When it come up to Solomon, he told her exactly the right thing, her little heart begin to beat. "My, that must be true. Let's see these scrolls. Just exactly right. That must be right."

48 Day after day passed. She sat. She going maybe at nighttime, sat by the candle light, read, read, read, the Scriptures. Read Isaiah, read all the prophets, getting ready, wondering just what was going to take place. Go back the next day, and see that same God she'd read about, living in one of His human mortal creations, declaring Himself through that man, that man so submitted to God that God worked through him. Not the man. The man was just a man like you or I. They think, the church today, it ain't the...
Peter called the Mount of Transfiguration once the "holy mountain." I don't believe the apostle meant "holy mountain," because the mountain wasn't holy; it was a holy God on the mountain. It ain't the holy church; it's the Holy Ghost in the church that makes it holy. It ain't a holy people, a holy man. There's no such as holy man, holy church, or holy this or that. It's the Holy Spirit in the church, in the people, the holy God moving Himself through the people. That's it. The fountain, the inexhaustible fountain of life, is Christ. You cannot exhaust His great love and power and willingness to do for you. His goodness and mercy, it's beyond human understanding. We just lay in there and bathe in it, that's all, in His mercies.

49 Then she watched day after day. Finally it come a time to her prayer card was called, or whatever it might've been. Might not have been a prayer card, but whatever it was, her time come to walk up before him. Now, she said, "I've got some things..." But the Bible said that there was nothing hid from Solomon but what he knowed about her. Amen. Nothing hid. He told her all things. If that...
What kind of Spirit was that on Solomon? Solomon? No, sir. It was the same Spirit that spoke to a woman at the well and told her where her ... while she was living in adultery... And she went and told the people, "Come see a man who told me all the things that I did." She knowed if He could tell her that one thing, He could tell her all things. And there was nothing hid that Solomon didn't tell her.

50 What did she say? You know what she did? She stood publicly before the audience of the people, and she said, "All that I have heard of you, all the good things that I have heard about you, they were true and more than what I ever heard about you." She had experienced, herself.
And if you don't believe the Holy Ghost is real---what you've heard about---just get the experience yourself and see what happens. See if you won't say, "More than what... I used to watch people enjoy the blessings of God. I thought it was all right, so I wanted it." But when you get it, then you'll say, "It's more than what I ever saw," because it's something that happened to you. When Christ reveals Himself to you, not in an intellectual form, but in a new birth form.

51 She stood up there, not only that, she recognized that that man had God in him, and that was a gift of God. She said, "All I heard's true, and even more than I've heard." And she said, "Even blessed is the men that's with you. Blessed is the men that sits here with you daily that sees this great gift of God performing. Blessed is the people that's with you that stand now." Think about a pagan saying that. She witnessed that that was the true God.
And Jesus said, "She'll stand up in the day of the judgment and will condemn this generation," that will not walk across the street; or will walk in and sit down, look around a little bit, and say, "Oh, there's nothing to that," and walk away. In the day of the judgment

52 (if she would condemn that generation), just a few generations after Solomon, and Jesus said, "A greater than Solomon is here." And it's greater now than what it was when Jesus was here, for they told Him that He was a Beelzebub, called the acting of the Spirit of God as a spiritualist or something, and called Him Beelzebub because He did that; and Jesus said, "I'll forgive you, but when the Holy Ghost is come, to speak a word against it will never be forgiven in this world nor the world to come." So one of the greatest gifts that God has ever given was His Son, to sanctify a people that the Holy Spirit might show itself.
And still that little woman, if she'd condemn that---this is two thousand years later---what will she do when she stands in the presence of Tulsa at that day?

53 What will she do when she stands in the presence of the whole United States in this generation? She'll condemn it, for she had no limitations. Her heart was hungry, and she recognized it. She sought God, she looked over the scrolls, she seen it was right, and then she accepted it, and stood and blessed him, blessed the people, and was so happy that she come.
I'm so glad that one day I found it to be the truth. Oh, it's been, "Thou the stream of all my comfort, more than life to me, whom have I on earth beside Thee, or whom in heaven but Thee." Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. Let's embrace Him, the true gift of God, the Son of God in the form of the Holy Spirit. Let us bow our heads.

54 Before praying, with your heads bowed and your eyes closed, how many would like to be remembered in prayer tonight, saying, "Brother Branham, remember me before God. I recognize that the Holy Spirit is here on earth today, that the great powers of God still works through believers as Jesus promised: 'The works that I do shall you do also. He that believeth on me [St. John 14], he that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he also.'" How did He make Hisself known Messiah? By knowing the secrets of their hearts. That's always been a sign of God through the age. Would you like to be remembered? Raise your hands. God bless you, everywhere.

55 As Thou has said in Thy Word, Lord, "Blessed are the eyes that can see and the ears that can hear." And truly no man can come except you draw him. We thank Thee for the Holy Spirit. We thank Thee for these people that's here tonight that has received the Holy Spirit. We pray, heavenly Father, that all here that has not received it will receive it tonight. Cleanse their hearts from unbelief, and may they just simple and child-like faith believe it, confessing, open up their heart, and He'll certainly come to their abode. Grant it, Lord.
The services are drawing close now, Lord, to a prayer line where Your servant ... I'll pray for the sick, if it be Your will. I pray, Lord, that if there be sinners here, unbelievers... Oh, they may be theologians, they may be staunch church members; but if they still haven't received the Holy Spirit or believe on Him, they're still unbelievers.

56 Truly, Lord, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness; and then God give him the seal of circumcision as a confirmation of his faith. So is it today, Lord. We might say that we believe, but until we receive the Holy Ghost, it's never been confirmed. For it is written in the book of Ephesians, fourth chapter and thirtieth verse: "Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby you are sealed until the day of your redemption." Let it be tonight, Lord, that You'll seal many away into the kingdom of God, until the day of redemption. May they become full believers tonight, and You confirm it by giving them the Holy Spirit.
Now, O Lord, I would pray Thee, God, let Him come now and just humble our hearts, and bring us to a stop, to where that He could work through us and in us, to will His will and to do His will, for we ask it in Jesus' name. Amen.

57 [Someone speaks in tongues and one interprets:
"... saith the Lord, that draweth nigh unto thee. And the Lord, Thy God, wouldest say: Open thine heart and search them and break up thy fallow ground, and give thyself to Me, for I am the Lord Thy God. And I've spoken even unto thee, this night, My Word. I have give thee of My Spirit; and therefore, I would reveal and unveil Myself to thee, that thou mightest be in readiness, not only to meet Me, but to serve of me, to obey Me and to perform the Word of God. For verily, My Word shall not return void, but it shall accomplish that whereunto it has pleased Me to sent It to thee. I am Thy God, Thy Deliverer. I am thy God, thy Shield, and thy Buckler. Rejoice in thine heart and praise me, and I shall show thee My glory."]

58 Almighty One, praise be to the Lamb. Now, if you understand, friends, that's the Spirit of the Lord speaking. Now, the Bible said if one speaks, another one interprets. Now, the Lord said He was ready to unveil your eyes and show Himself to you. Oh, how wonderful. Aren't you happy for it? Wonderful.
My son said they gave out fifty prayer cards, G 1 to 50. We will call those cards just a moment. And now, usually, for the last few nights, we haven't been giving prayer cards. We've been having discernment, just the people praying. Do you like that? I just love that. But many people wants to have hands laid on them. And we're right here to do that. Yes, sir.

59 Now G number 1, who has it? Prayer card number 1 now [blank spot in tape].
If He's the high priest ... and does the Bible say He's the same yesterday, today, and forever? Do you believe that, sister dear? All right. You believe that He is. Do you believe that, little lady sitting here in the chair? You believe that He's the high priest? Okay. Now, He can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. If I could, my precious people, if I could I'd come right down there and go around through the building and heal everybody here. I would just love to do that. I believe you believe that. I would do it; but I can't. I can't do it. It's already done. Jesus has did that.
He can't forgive your sins; He's already forgive them.

60 But now it won't do you any good until you accept it, you believe it. You say, "Yes, Lord, I accept what You did for me." Then you're saved.
And then you say, "I want You to heal me, Lord." He's already done it. Then you just have to accept what He's done. Now He's the high priest sitting at the right hand of Almighty God, making intercession upon our confession, or profession (it's the same word), so whatever, now... He can't do nothing for us till we already say that He's done it. We have to confess it, or profess it, that He's done it, then He can go to work on it and make intercession. Is that right, brethren? Is that the scripture? Making intercession on our profession...
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61 Now, and the Bible said in the book of Hebrews (now we have some of the best scholars in the world, tonight sitting here), in the book of Hebrews, that it's written that He is a high priest now, ever-living, making intercession upon our confessions. And He's also a high priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. We can touch Him with our infirmities. Then, if He is a high priest (and He is) that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities, then if He's the same... Hebrews 13:8 said, "He's the same yesterday, today, and forever."
Now, and He said, "The works that I do shall you also." Now, what works did He do to make people to understand that He was Messiah? See. Because He showed them the sign of a prophet that He was Messiah. They knew it, because Moses said that He would be a prophet. How many understands that? How many knows that 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." Then Jesus Himself... That Word is truth. He never did one miracle until God showed Him a vision on what to do. How about it? That's right. A vision on what to do.

62 Talk about visions... This brother translator here was telling me today that about 40% of the Bible is visions. And we... Just as he said (he made a beautiful illustration), said, "Pin your arm up and don't use it for a few months, and find out what happens. It gets so weak it can't be used." That's what the church has done with these things, with all the gifts of God. You just pin them up; they're not usable, see.
Let them loose, exercise faith, get some muscles in it. Let me tell you, faith has got hair on the chest. When faith speaks, everything else sits down. That's right. That's right. When it speaks, everything else shuts up.
Now, if Jesus is a high priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities, then do you figure (you out there that doesn't have a prayer card), do you believe you could touch His garment tonight? Do you believe you could?

63 Now, if you get real hysterical, and say, "Oh, oh, let me hurry, let me try," no, you're going to lose it right there, see.
Faith is so simple, you don't know you have it. That's right. It's just a gift. It's just, say, well... Can you touch that Bible? Sure. How do you know you can? Only by faith, because... It's just become so common to me, I just reach out and get it. Well, that's the way faith is. It's just so simple: you just reach out and get it. Now you believe.

64 You're all strangers. How many in this prayer line is strangers? Raise up your hands. (Strangers to me, I mean.) All right. How many out there's strangers to me? Raise up your hands. Now, we're not in some ouija board, like the devil. We're out here before these flood lights and before the people, in the presence of God to ask God to do what He said He would do.
Now this line here is not a line of discernment. We know we just pray for these people. Discernment comes from out there. These people... How many knows... ?
[A person in the audience prophesies.] Amen.

65 Have faith, sweetly have faith. Now, just... I want you in the prayer line, now, watch the audience, see. And you pray and just ask the Father, "Father God, Thou knowest my need and You know that I have need of healing. Will you help me?" Just humbly, just come like that poor little woman with that blood issue; and she touched the border of His garment and was made whole.
Over here in the corner, you raised your hand awhile ago you wanted to be healed? You think your heart's going to be all right now, you're going to be healed? You had heart trouble, didn't you? Wasn't you praying, "Lord, let it be me?" Raise up your hand if that's right. All right. Your heart trouble's finished now. Now, I do not know the man, but watch. Did he touch me? He's thirty feet away from me. See, he touched something; and something spoke through me, that was all. It wasn't me. I'm just like... This here microphone's a complete mute without there's something to speak through it. That's the way we are. How do I know that man? I never knowed ... how'd I know what was wrong with him? I don't.

66 Now here, that you might know again. Here sits a man, sitting right back here, suffering with heart trouble, little [unclear word] on, his shirt open. That's right, isn't it, sir? All right. He healed you right then. Your faith made you whole. What did he do? He touched, not me. I don't know the man, have never seen him. But he was desperately ... and he was praying, "Oh, Lord, let Brother Branham speak to me." Ask him if that's right or not. Raise your hand if that's right, sir. Raise up your hand if you was sitting there praying for me. Now, a God that can hear prayer can answer prayer, don't you think so?

67 A lady sitting right back here, got something wrong with her hands. You believe that God will heal you, lady, with something wrong with your hands, sitting there? You want to be healed? All right. Your faith touched Him, then. Your hands will get well.
That lady sitting right behind you there, she's had an awful operation, and she's praying also. Is that right, lady? Raise up your hand. All right. You're going to get well. Where the doctors fail... Satan hid from the doctors, but he can't hide from God. He knows right where he's at, so he's gone. Have faith in God.
This lady sitting right over here close to where that baby is being rocked back and forth there. She's praying about a foot trouble, but do you believe God will heal the feet? If you believe it... All right. Stand up, lady, so that they'll know who I'm talking about. That's it. You, right there, sister, just tell God that you love Him. Do you love Him? All right, then you can go home and be well. Lord bless you. That's very fine.

68 And by the way, when you sat down, that lady right next to you was so thrilled, having that bladder trouble, but it's gone too, sister. You can stand up on your feet and accept it, also. So, you're healed. Do you believe with all your heart? Now, you see... Now we know His presence is here. Now be reverent.
Now, if anyone knows that when a vision strikes, it weakens you. How many knows that? How many knows that the Son of God said when a woman touched His garment, He said, "Who touched me?" And He looked around and said, "I perceive that virtue [that's strength] has gone" from Him and that takes strength. What would all these people here, if the Son of God---one woman touching Him and there's seven or eight people across there, then, see---and you're still touching... If I just speak, you see, it's your faith.

69 But now, this line here, you believe. Now Jesus said, "These signs shall follow them that believe." Look, the other night, coming by, I laid hands on a little boy blind. Walked right out of there and started down the steps and received his sight. How many was here when that happened? Sure. Little boy born blind, about sixteen seventeen years old, began to scream back, "Oh, Brother Branham, I can see!" Sure. I can't heal. I can just obey a commandment, see. That's what I do here when He told me that these things would come to pass. And let me tell you something now---the new ministry that's coming up will be so far beyond this. I've already seen it working four or five times. There's many of the people that's with me knows that to be true. We're facing, ready for a great hour.

70 But that you might know...
Here's a fine person standing here. We're strangers to one another, are we, lady, you and I? Well, He don't... But I have no idea what's the woman... You said something, sister? I didn't... Oh, I've prayed for you before. Of course, I wouldn't know that, my... I don't know what's wrong with you now. God knows that I don't remember you, see. But just that the people might see that God is just as great here, out there, just wherever your faith is, right now, just to settle down, see.
I'm trying to throw myself off from you to keep from your faith pulling this way. And the first thing you know, I just wilt right down---you just can't stand so much. Pray for someone, then turn around change the subject, and pray for someone again, just to keep strength up, to keep my promise to lay hands on the American people.

71 We never have to do it overseas. Just one thing to be spoke out like that, the whole group just raises up, leaves wheel chairs and everything else, and goes on home. That's all over, see. But there's so many confusions of different teachings here in America they don't know what to believe. Right. One says, "Oh, telepathy"; other one, "the devil." One says, "Do this." Poor people. Listen. "Let every man's word be a lie and God's be true." That's just the only way to say it. He's here. He's already healed you; you just accept it.

72 Now look, lady, if the Lord Jesus will reveal to me something of you that you know I don't know nothing about you, and if the Lord Jesus will reveal something to me that you know it has to come supernatural, would it make you believe better? It would? Would it make the audience believe better?
Now she's close to me here, see, just real close. Now, this is the same picture as St. John 4, a man and a woman meeting for the first time, sitting here, just maybe the little well with a panoramic like this. Now, Jesus began to talk to her. Now, you're not the woman and I'm not Him, but His Spirit still lives, see. In that time it was in the flesh called the Son of God. And now we're adopted sons of God by His grace, so that His work can carry on, see, to still declare it.

73 The lady is very, very sick. She's got a female trouble, lady's trouble. That's right. If that's right, raise up your hand. You believe now? I keep feeling somebody saying, "He's guessing that." Stop thinking that. You hurt the meeting. I'm not guessing that. That's the power of God. Here. Stand still a minute, see. Now just so they get that out of their mind... Let's see, I don't know what it was, but, just a minute till I finally... Yes. You've been to a doctor. It's a female... Yeah. Not only that, you're up for an operation. That's right. And you have a kidney trouble. You have a bladder trouble. You're not from this country. You're from Missouri. Your name's Miss Hildreth. Now go back up there and be made well in the name of Jesus Christ. God bless you, sister. Your faith has made you whole. Just believe with all your heart.

74 Do you believe now, as you come? If I don't say one thing, will you believe? If I lay hands on the sick, the rest of you going to believe it now? Come right on now. Everybody, pray now for these people.
Father in heaven, may the power of Almighty God rest upon the woman and heal her. Amen.
All right, come. Do you believe, sister? What if I told you you was healed while you was sitting in the chair when that come upon you? It's gone.
Do you believe now, sister, this whole church is praying for you? Heavenly Father, I lay hands upon her and ask for her healing in Jesus' name. Amen.
Come. Now, you know that I know what's wrong with you; but if I don't say nothing, would you believe anyhow? Then go eat your supper. Your stomach trouble left you. You can go eat.
Do you believe, sister? In the name of the Lord Jesus, may she be healed.

75 Come, sir. Do you believe the heart trouble left you when you come up the step a few minutes ago? If I told you it did, would you believe it? Go on your road, saying, "Thank You, Lord."
Come now. Do you believe with all your heart, sister, and that arthritis will go away and you'll be made well? Lord, I pray that you'll grant it in Jesus' name. Amen.
Come. Now, you know I know what's wrong with you, don't you? You want me to tell you? I believe you do. All right. Now, you're awful young for that, but you got a nervousness. Now, that's right. A mental nervousness, upset, and you get real weary late of an afternoon and drop things. That's exactly what you do. Got a mind that thinks ... you're always crossing bridges before you get to them. Forget it. Go home. Jesus Christ makes you well. Believe with all your heart.
Come. Father God, in the name of the Lord Jesus I pray that You'll heal and make well this woman. Amen.

76 Father, I pray that in Jesus' name that You'll heal her. You going to believe now, Sister Tomlin?
Come. You going to believe for him with all your heart, sister? Heavenly Father, You took the little boys and put your hands on them and they were healed. I pray now in Jesus' name. Amen. The Holy Spirit's here, just the same Holy Spirit that knows all about things. Now if you don't doubt at all, he'll get over it and be all right. Go believing, see.
Now you people coming through, when your ... you know, you keep thinking, you keep wondering, watching to see if I'm going to tell you. If ... they'll come get me and take me out of the line. And the rest of them won't get through the line, see. So don't do that, see. He's still here. He knows all about it. He knows everything. Don't you believe that?

77 Do you believe that, lady? Are we strangers to one another? God knows us both, doesn't He? You believe God can tell me what your trouble is? If He'll do it for this woman, will the rest of you believe for the rest of the night with all your heart? Raise up your hands. Here's my hands---I don't know the woman, never seen her. All right, just have faith. Got broken ribs. That's right. That's what's wrong with you, exactly right. You got a burden on your heart for somebody else you're praying for---that's your father-in-law. That's right. And he's blind, got cancer of the stomach. You mind if I say the rest of it? He was too poor to come to the meeting. He didn't have money for him to come to the meeting. Here, put that on him in the name of the Lord [unclear word] and he'll get well.
[Brother Branham continues to pray for the sick while the audience is shouting and praising God.]

78 Nervousness did it. Made a peptic ulcer, caused that acid in your mouth and things after eating. Go get you a hamburger---your peptic ulcer is healed in Jesus' name. Our heavenly Father, I pray for this boy. May the power of God ... will make him well [unclear word] believe with all your heart. God bless you, fellow. Have faith.
What do you think about the little baby? That's what you want prayer for. Do you believe that God could tell me what's the matter with it? Would that help you? I see it's a serious thing. It's a brain trouble, kind of like mental retarded like. It's had three operations of no good. You believe God can hear my prayer? Then I cast... [Brother Branham continues to pray for sick while audience is shouting and praising God.] Don't doubt. He'll be all right.

79 Lord, I pray that You'll heal him in Jesus' name. In the name of Jesus Christ, go believe with all that's in you. [Break in tape.]
Something happened in the audience. Somebody was healed in the audience. Just a moment, I'll get it.
Are you the one to be prayed for? Do you believe God? Something wrong with your lungs, got trouble in your lungs. You just had a nervous breakdown. You're not from here; you're from California. You're a minister. Mr. Allsop. Go home and be well.

80 O Lord, come I pray in Jesus' name that You'll grant it, Lord.
Come, sister dear. Everybody pray now in sweetness. Pray, pray, pray. In Jesus name [unclear word].
Come, sir. Believe with all your heart and you can remove your trumpet. In the name of Jesus Christ. I know you have. Believe.
This little cripple boy, O Lord, I pray that You'll heal the little lad. May he return back walking and rejoicing in Jesus' name. Amen. Don't doubt, believe with all your heart. All right.
Come, sister dear. Believe with all that's in you. In the name of the Lord Jesus may she be healed.
Come, brother, with all the faith that you can. In the name of Jesus Christ may you be healed. Amen.
Come. O Father God, in the name of Jesus Christ may she be healed. Pray, all the church. Pray together now. What if this was your children passing through here?
Come. O God, I pray that You'll heal the little lad and make him well, in Jesus' name.

81 Come, sir. Lord, in the name of Jesus Christ grant his request Father.
Come. Heavenly Father, grant this request and may she be healed for the glory of God. Amen. God bless you. Don't doubt. God bless you.
Father God, I pray that You'll grant his request [unclear word]. In the name of Jesus Christ, may it be so. Amen.
Come now, believing with all your heart. Are you believing with all your heart? O heavenly Father, I pray that in Christ's name that You'll grant this request, and may she be healed for the kingdom of God's sake. Amen.
In the name of Jesus Christ may he be healed, Father, for the kingdom of God's sake. Amen. Look how many people's praying for you out there, Dad. You've got to make it. You've got to.
Father God, in the name of Jesus Christ, grant her healing for Your glory. Grant it.
Do you believe for the little one? Bring him here. O God. Don't doubt anymore, see. You keep trying, but don't do that. Father, cursed be the devil that done this evil. May the child get well. Do you believe that God hears that? I tell you---to be sure that you'll know---you put a string around its head, and then you measure it tonight. Cut the string off. Then tomorrow morning, or tomorrow night, before you come back, measure it again; and then show me how much it shrank, and lay it up here on the desk, and watch how much it shrank. Have faith.
Are you going to believe, laying there? Going to believe, all of you? Have faith now. Just whatever you believe.

82 Now, are you to be prayed for? Do you believe the Lord Jesus? Do you believe me to be His prophet, or His servant? Do you believe me to be His servant? Prophet staggers the people, see. I know somewhere they're listening at me, see. Very weak. But do you believe that God will hear prayer? All right, listen. Your trouble is in your side. That's right. You've got a loved one you're praying for. And that loved one is in ... kind of a mental case. That's right. Do you believe he'll get well? Do you believe that handkerchief you got will catch it? Mrs. Hammer. That's your name. You're not from here. You're from Oklahoma, Wagner. Now return back and take that handkerchief and believe with all your heart.

83 Do you believe out there with all your heart, each one of you? Do you believe, everybody? I tell you what you do. If you can, reach over and lay hands on somebody. Lay hands on... Young man, lay your hands on her, will you? Lay your hands upon that little girl. All right, someone walk over there and lay your hands [unclear words]. All of you. Are you believers? Say, "Amen." Come here, brethren. Take one of these mikes, each one of you. Bow your heads. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who is present now, knows your heart. I am so weak I can't hardly stand it. Now you can realize the condition.
Jesus said, "These signs shall follow them that believe. If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." If you're a believer, just lay your hands on somebody and pray for them, and they'll pray for you. Now I'm going to pray for all of you, and God will hear my prayers. God will hear your prayer. And I don't care what's wrong with you, you just believe right now, and you're going to get well, every one.

84 A little girl there was crippled, sitting in a wheel chair, has raised up in the name of the Lord.
Now, Lord, I pray that your power and grace will be sufficient at this time in the people's hearts, like the queen of Sheba, will they stand and say, "Truly God is in the midst of his people." And Satan, you [unclear word] the people, I charge thee as a deceiver, I charge thee as having no power---you're only a deceiver. Jesus Christ triumphed over all the powers you have and stripped you from every power. You're deceiving the people, and you've been exposed tonight. Come out of these bodies in the name of Jesus Christ. Leave them people [unclear words].

The Queen of Sheba

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1 ... now while we approach His throne. Our gracious heavenly Father, we humbly come into Thy presence with bowed heads and also bowed hearts here. For we realize that this one thing, that we someday shall stand in Thy presence to give an account for our lives. Therefore, while we are a-living and have our right mind, we long to find peace and to know that the blood has been applied at the lintel of the door of our hearts and upon the posts. And we stand in reverence today before Thee to ask that You will cover our sins, our unbelief, with the blood of the Lord Jesus, and that day we might stand faultless and blameless in the presence of God, covered by the blood of His own Son.

2 And, Lord, we would ask that You would bless this group of people that has gathered here this afternoon for no other purpose but to magnify Thy name, and to add to the church those that would be saved, and to do all that lays within our power to see the kingdom of God and the purpose of God established in the earth. Bless these, my brethren, who are here on the platform, these ministers, pastors, shepherds of the flock. We pray, Lord, that something will be done that'll stir them like never before. Let the Holy Spirit come among us this afternoon and do the exceedingly, abundantly above all that we could do or think.

3 And we ask, Lord, for their flocks that's gathered in, that they will be inspired, and the Christians will be more determined to live for You than ever before in their lives. And for the stranger that's within our gates today, we would pray especially for them, that they too might join with this great fellowship of believers, if they have not already did so. And we would ask, Lord, and not forget those that are convalescent, that are shut-in because of sickness and troubles. We ask that You'll be near unto them. Heal their sickness and straighten out their rough places, Lord, that they too might run with patience the race that's set before us.
When we leave today may we go to our homes, like those coming from Emmaus, saying these words: "Did not our hearts burn within us, as He talked to us along the way?" Let this all be to the glory of God, for we humbly bow our heads and our hearts as His servants, in Jesus' name. Amen. You may be seated.

4 I am so glad today to be here at Klamath Falls, in this lovely little auditorium with these friends of Christ, and to continue our fellowship with the Holy Spirit in the way that He has dealt with us and done for us. We certainly do appreciate all His blessings.
And last evening when we saw many come down to the altar to surrender their lives to the Lord Jesus, how we thank the Lord for that. That's the main purpose that we are here for. For I do believe in the full gospel, and divine healing, and all that Christ died for, but if you get healed by divine healing, sooner or later, if you live long enough, you'll be sick again.

5 Someone said one time... There was a man that was a critic wrote in a book, a critic of a famous denominational church. And he wrote in the book a criticism of my ministry. And he said, "Well," he said, "to show that... What I draw the conclusion about the meetings was this." Said, "There was no doubt but what there was some power there that would understand the secret of the heart." Said, "I had friends there that had ... that discernment was on them." And said, "They knew that was right." He said, "But for the healing, it could not have been right." He said, "Because that there was a man sitting in the balcony [which was a friend of his at another church, a brothering church, neighboring church], the man had a serious kidney trouble which he'd had for many years." And said, "Brother Branham called the man by name, and we brought him in there from another city."
And said, "He told him of his serious kidney condition, and even some things that happened along the road, when he was sitting in one of the balconies." And said, "We know that was true." And said, "The man was normal and well for about three years---which he had not been since a boy---and then," said, "it come on him again." Said, "Therefore, it could not've been of God," said, "because if God had healed him, he'd have been well. For if a man's once healed, he's healed."

6 It just goes to show, how if... A person has to be ordained of God to believe, or they'll never believe anyhow. They have nothing to believe with, see. They just don't have no depths of their soul. I have knowed of many men that has been put under a oxygen tent, and given penicillin, and so forth by the doctor, and completely healed with, say, pneumonia. And the person left the hospital, completely well with pneumonia; and a week later, die with pneumonia. He just taken pneumonia again, that's all. But he was healed.
And then when the late honorable brother Jack Coe had his trial, when a certain denominational church had took sides with a infidel to fight against Brother Coe down in Florida at his trial; and then the judge, willingly to show justice, and yet the church men (as the paper gave) had turned against Brother Coe, and had joined up with Joe Lewis, the free thinker, the infidel---and calling themselves a notable church. But just because they were so against Christ and against healing... But just shows how it comes out all right.

7 The judge said, "Mr. Coe, do you still claim that this child was healed?"
He said, "I claim Christ healed the child."
And he said, "He took his braces off on one side of the platform in the presence of Mr. Coe, walked across the platform and fell at his mother---crippled." And he said, "Could you show me any place... If there's any one here can show me any place in the Bible that Christ ever did a trick like that, I will be willing to forfeit the case."
And Rev. Gordon Lindsay (one of your Oregon boys here) raised up and said, "I can produce the case."
And Mr. Lindsay gave him the case. He said, "One night Jesus came walking on the water." And he said, "Peter screamed from the boat, and the rest of them said, 'If Thou be the Christ, the Lord, bid me to come to You on the water.' And Peter stepped down out of the boat and started walking towards Jesus, normally, on the water. But when he got scared, he sank."
That settled it. Certainly. You can be healed one minute and sick the next, see. It depends on how long your faith holds out. And faith is all what... Divine healing and salvation is nothing that we as individuals can do. It's already a finished work that Christ did at Calvary. It's our faith in that finished work.

8 I might say to this audience this afternoon, "How many is Christians?" Perhaps ninety-five percent, or maybe a hundred, raised up their hands, they're Christians. As long as you believe that, all right. But the minute that you begin to think that you're not, that's the time you start sinking right there. That's the time your testimony is negative. Divine healing lasts just as long as your faith lasts with it, your salvation the same. Because every thing of God is by faith, and nothing of God can be proven by natural.
Look at the whole armor of God, is faith. What is the armor of God? Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, patience, faith. Just look what goes in the armor---everything's supernatural. You cannot handle it with your hands; you have to believe it. Go down to the store and buy me a quarter's worth of divine love. Buy me a dollar's worth of faith. You cannot purchase it. It's a gift of God, and you have to believe it. You have to believe it. As long...

9 And then if you say that you're saved and still live for the things of the world, your fruits prove that you're not saved. Certainly. I've always said that I'm very strict. I believe holiness, exactly. And I said I... But if you just make yourself dress like a holy person or act like a holy person, that doesn't make you a holy person. See? You'd just be making out that. But if the Spirit within you makes you live that way, then you know you're all right. That's how you judge yourself; then you're not judged. You're not condemned with the world, as long as you have judged yourself by the life that the Spirit within you makes you live. Oh, that's God.

10 Now, in these meetings, we do not have what we call "major" on divine healing, because divine healing is a minor, and you can never major on a minor. You... Divine healing is just something that God added to the church. And no one can preach salvation of the soul without preaching divine healing for the body. It's just like if an animal had me by the side here, and was just cutting my side out with his paws, there's no need of just chopping off his foot or his paw that he's got in my side. Just knock him in the head---it kills the whole animal.
Well, that's the way that Christ did. When He died for sin, He killed every attribute of sin, see. He killed the whole thing. And before we had any sin, we had no sickness. Sickness is an attribute of sin. Without sin, they had no sickness. Sickness is a result of sin, and you cannot deal with sin without dealing with sickness. "He was wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we were healed." So when you stop the sin question, you also affect the sick question. All of it is taken care of together. And that's what Christ died: a full man, a full death, a full resurrection, for a full church, for a full gospel. That's right. And therefore, it all goes together. Now, we notice...

11 You say, "Well, then, Brother Branham, your ministry's noted as divine healing." Sure, certainly. Divine healing attracts. It... About 85% of Jesus' ministry was divine healing. Did you know that? As old... The late Dr. F. F. Bosworth used to say, "You never show the fish the hook; you show him the bait. He grabs the bait, and he's got the hook."
So that's the way it is. People come to see the power and the miracles of God. And when they see that, actually God catches them with the hooks in the jaw right there, because they know that there's something real.

12 When I went into Bombay, India, and many of the other places, the Archbishop of the Methodist church and them met me there at the ... when they had garlands and everything hanging out. They said, "Well, Brother Branham, don't come here saying you're a missionary." Said, "We know more about the Bible then you Yankees will ever know."
And that's about the truth. Yes. It's an Eastern book. Well, if you ever go to the East and study the Bible, it's a brand new book than what you read of it here in the West. We try to make an Eastern book compare with the western way of living; you can't do it. The parables and things are just perfect; they're still there. And they had the Bible two thousand years before we was a nation. So there you are, see.

13 They said, "We know about the Bible. We understand that God has given you a gift that makes this Bible live again. That's what we're interested in, not missionaries." Said, "We have plenty of that here. But we understand that God has given a gift to you that'll make this Bible live its life again, a book of Acts over." Said, "That's what we're interested in knowing."
I said, "Jesus Christ remains the same yesterday, today, and forever." That's just exactly. I said, "He hasn't changed one bit." And that's when the Lord began to work in there.

14 Now, we have great men. America is going to be more condemned than any nation in the world at the day of the judgment, because it's had such great men in it, in its beings, in its walls here, inside its domain. Because that there's been revival after revival sweep across this country, and yet people continually indulge right on in sin, getting worse every day, see. The church even, itself, cooling off and getting away from God. It's a pity. But what can we do about it? The Bible predicted these things would come, and it's going to be here.
You say, "Well, why are you crying out about it?" Because someone has to cry out against the wrong, so that at the day of the judgment, there'll be a voice recorded. That's right. That you know... They knowed better, and all the signs...

15 Not long ago, when we were coming into Bombay, I just... Something come on my mind then. I was reading an article in the paper that where they said, "The earthquake must be finished; the birds are flying back."
About three days before the great earthquake came (as you read in your paper)... Why, all India isn't like this country. It's got... Their fences are not woven wire as we have, and their buildings are mostly all built out of rocks they can pick up on the fields; their fences are built out of rock. And the little birds go back into these rocks and make their nests. And the cattle, in the afternoon like this, they stand in the shade of those walls.

16 Well, they noticed that about two days before the earthquake appeared, all the little birds left the rocks---left their nests, their homes---and went out into the fields, lived in the trees. The cattle and sheep wouldn't stand around the walls no more; they stood out in the middle of the field, leaning against one another. And the earthquake came and shook the walls down. If the little fellows would've been there, they'd been crushed. The cattle would been killed, the sheep would've been killed.
Now, if the God that led the animal life into the ark is still the same God, by instinct He led them away from danger, away from them walls which was falling. Well, if a bird, and a sheep, and a cow, and the animal life can have instinct enough to be led away from danger, how much more ought the Church of God to flee away from the walls of the things of the world now, when it's just about ready to crumble. Get out, friends. Stand for Christ, believe in Christ.

17 Now, I believe that these ministries that we have today across the world, one different from the other one... I was watching Brother Oral Roberts just a few moments ago in the room. (They have a television in the room they had for me.) And I heard them announce that Oral Roberts... And I went over and turned the television on; they did. And I seen Oral praying for a little sick baby from up in Canada, had a bad eye. And I believe the parents was Catholic. And Brother Roberts, in his real way of faith, he slammed his hand down on the little baby and prayed for it, and the little baby was healed.
Now, that's a real gift of faith that Brother Roberts has. And we know that Brother Jack Coe, he used to have a little anvil laying by the side of his desk. Somebody come up with glasses on, he'd take the glasses off and break them up with the hammer, throw them over. Have crutches, he'd take their crutches first, and chop them up, and throw them away. He burnt every bridge. They only had one Jack Coe, you know. The world couldn't stand two at one time. God rest his precious soul---he certainly was a gallant man of faith. One of the greatest I ever seen in my life was Jack Coe. Well, now... And he's gone on to glory today. His work was finished and Satan could not have took him till his work was finished.

18 Now, there are men, one different from the other altogether. And in the ministry the Lord has given me... Most those men were theologians, great teachers and scholars. Mine is not. Mine's more of a prophetic message. And the way I teach divine healing is a work at the cross that has been completed for you, and if you'll just only recognize it, you can receive it.
Now, Brother Roberts and those great gallant men... You say, "How do you place their ministry to yours?"
They're using Scripture, "By laying on of hands." Now, that's true; that is a Bible doctrine. How many knows that? "They shall lay hands on the sick; they shall recover." But if you'll just bear with me a moment, I want to show you that wasn't a Gentile commission. No, sir.

19 Jairus said, "Come lay your hands on my daughter, and she will be healed." Jewish ... Jews always was laying on hands, everything is laying on hands. But watch the Gentile---it wasn't so.
"I'm not worthy that you come under my roof. Just speak the word and my servant will live."
And He turned around and said, "I never seen faith like that in Israel."
There it is. We're supposed to be on a higher level than that was. We're living on the closer of the world's end than we were then. The Gentile way is to believe the Word. That's exactly right. To recognize...
Look at that Gentile.

20 He said, "I'm a man under authority." He was a centurion, which means that he had a hundred men under him, a Roman centurion. And he said, "I'm a man under authority. And I say to this man, 'Go,' and he goes; this man, 'Come,' and he comes. He has to; he's under my authority. And I didn't even thought myself worthy to come to you, none of my nation. I sent a Jew to you." And said, "Only thing you have to do is just speak the word."
What did he recognize there? That every sin, and every disease, and every thing else was under His authority. "Just say 'Go' and it will go."
See what he did? Now, that's what I'm trying to get the American people to see. That it doesn't... You don't have to wait for a special time, for a certain evangelist to come through and to pray for you. Your pastor is sufficient. If the pastor isn't there, your neighbor's sufficient. If the neighbor isn't there, your husband or wife is sufficient. And if there's none of them there, just raise up your hands; He's sufficient always. Just wherever you are, believe it. Believe it. It's a finished work.

21 And last night, I wasn't intending to... That discernment, or gift, it weakens me. It troubles me quite a bit. And I've got a full month of meeting right ahead of me now. And then, I was trying to keep away from it for a night or two, and just go and preach a little while, if you could put up with it. And then at the end of the service, the Holy Spirit... When I started to leave after that altar call, the Holy Spirit moved down. I watched over the building, here went that light moving from person to person. See, it was something ready to happen. And there it did happen, see.
Now, in the right way, if you could've received it right, at that time if every person in here would've looked up, it'd finish the sick question with every one of you, if every one of you could've received it. That's Christ bringing Hisself into the presence of the people, that they might know that He is not dead, but He's alive forever more. He's a-living. And as long as you know the one that wrote the Word and give the promise is living right here with you, He's just as real today as His promise, as He was when He was back there. That makes Him the same yesterday, today, and forever.

22 Now, the American people are taught so many different ways. That's what makes it hard. Go into Africa, and to the Belgian Congo, or to Tanganyika, or wherever you wish to go, or some of them countries that hasn't been indocumented with so many different things...
One of our ministers stand up and say, "Well, I don't know, that might be telepathy. I wouldn't fool with it."
Others stand up, "Oh, that's truly the devil. No one should ever fool with that."
The other one stand up, "No, I believe it's of the Lord."
What does the people know what to do? They just don't know how to receive it. It's supernatural; it's great; and they don't know how to receive it. But you go into there, they haven't any of those documents. They pack a idol under their arm, sprinkled with blood. Only thing they know is their heathen god. When they see something... That heathen god cannot produce any supernatural, and when they see something supernatural take place, they're ready to break that heathen god and receive Christ.

23 At Durban, South Africa, where I seen one miracle---There'd been four people on the platform and one miracle performed there out of that.---I seen thirty thousand blanket heathens break their idols on the ground and receive Christ.
The next morning, Sidney Smith (the mayor of Durban) come up and said, "Brother Branham, just a minute. Watch your window," said, "if you can hear it."
We went to the window, and here come down seven big cattle trucks---big cattle trucks---full of crutches, wheelchairs, and sticks, and things that they'd walked on. They don't have real things like we have. And just one thing had taken place, just one thing. Just... And ten thousand Mohammedans received Christ at one time there---ten thousand recorded Mohammedans at one time.

24 Now, they put that picture in the paper the other day about Billy Graham, and about this Mohammedan giving the challenge. And you seen this other paper come out, and said, "Why didn't you call attention to that?" See? Well, they just like a place of oasis, but ... some place that they could throw off on Brother Billy Graham, or something like that. But when it comes to divine healing, they know it's right; they know the power of God. They seen it right there, and so then...
And here come all these cattle trucks, and the people that had been in these cots and stretchers the day before, was walking down the street, singing in their native language, "Only believe; all things are possible, only believe." I sat in that window and I wept like a baby, see, to see them coming down the street, see, knowing that one day... And them even in tribal wars, but they were all one.

25 I got a clipping out of the Durban paper that said that within the space of six months after that, in the Songhai tribe alone, I forget how many truckloads of ammunition, and firearms, and rings, and things that they'd brought back. And the ... back to their place, because the people were truly converted. They wanted no more to do with anything wrong.
And now here is one more thing before closing. (Forgive me if I hurt you. I don't mean to.) What I can't understand, in America where we're supposed to be civilized, each year our women takes off a little more clothes. And there stood those naked women, nothing on at all, a clout, standing there and never even knowed which was right and left hand. And as soon as they received Christ as personal Saviour, they folded their arms to walk away from the people and get some clothes. And if Christ on a native woman, a heathen, will make her realize that she's naked, and to some of our own Pentecostal women, claiming to have the Holy Ghost and continually stripping themselves out here to act like some movie star or some other... I can't understand it. There's something went wrong somewhere, see.

26 Now, you may think I'm just an old fogey, but, brother, that's only common sense. That's right. That's the only gospel truth, so there's something wrong somewhere, friend. What we need is somebody to say it, somebody to tell it, and somebody to live it. Now, that's exactly true.
Now, may the Lord help us. And talking like this, because I know I don't want to take too much of your time---your churches will be tonight. You visitors, I know, had a good time at the meetings this morning, and they'll be having services tonight. And we put ours in the afternoon, so that we wouldn't interfere with that service. I want to pray for the sick. Each one of you that's here from visiting churches, you're welcome this week to come. We expect to have a great time in the Lord this week. Now once more may we pray before we open the Word.

27 Lord Jesus, we are conscious of Your presence. We know that You are here, and You've got Your children assembled together this afternoon, men and women who would die for You, freely; men who are gallant, who stand in the pulpit and proclaim the message of Christ without compromising any way, yet with meekness and sweetness. Father, we pray that You'll bless every one in divine presence.
Now, the Bible says that, "Faith cometh by hearing, hearing of the Word." And as I read this afternoon this little text that I have chosen for the message, I pray that You will take the Holy Spirit and draw from it a context, that would bring the truth of Christ into every heart and divine healing in reach of every sick person.
And when we pray for the sick, may You answer prayer. And may, even before the line can be called and the sick be prayed for, God, I pray that in Jesus' name, that You'll heal the people before that time comes, that they might know it doesn't lay within a man; it's in the power of their faith to believe on the Lord Jesus. We ask it in His name. Amen.

28 In Saint Matthew, the twelfth chapter and the forty-second verse, a very familiar text to many of the folks who follow the meetings. I would like to try to approach it in around another stand---another way.
And the queen of the south shall rise up in the last days 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.
Matthew 12:42. When you go home, you might read the entire chapter of Matthew twelve.

29 Now, Jesus at this time was rebuking the people, because they had not understood His ministry. And they were looking for a Messiah to come. They were looking for a deliverer to take them out from under the yokes of their bondage. And when He came, He came in such a way, in the great day that they lived in... The most organized, ecclesiastical system the world ever knowed, they had it then. We are aware of that. God, through Moses, gave them the ten commandments, and they taken those commandments and run them out into different sects, and so forth like that.
But all down through the age, there'd been a little remnant was holding on to the truth of God, just a small group. The church of God has always been in the minority. How many knows that? That's truth, always in the minority. When Jesus came, there was just about a dozen---Simeon, John the Baptist, and Joseph and Mary, and just a few like that, was holding on with the truth.

30 Now, and when He came, He came in such a different way than the people was expecting Him to come (or had been taught that He would come), until He confused them in such a way, till they didn't recognize Him.
I believe it will be the same thing when He comes again. Each man has him a chart. "He's going to come riding on a white horse." The other one said, "No, He's coming in a white cloud." What difference does it make as long as He's coming? See? If He's on a white cloud or a white horse, I don't care. Only thing, just so I'm right to go with Him when that time comes, that's the main thing. But they fall out on that. One will start a group over here, the other one a group over here---just whether He's going to ride a white horse or a white cloud. So it doesn't make any difference, just so He comes. That's the main thing, is to believe He is coming.

31 But when Jesus came, He came exactly in the way that the Scriptures predicted He would come, only it didn't line up with their teaching of that day. They had the Messiah coming... They were watching for His second coming instead of His first advent. That's what they was confused on. He was coming in power. They were looking for Him to take a rod of iron and rule all nations. And when He come meekly, borned in a manger, illegitimate background behind him (as the world thought), borned in a manger, a peculiar boy... All of His ways were odd---tearing up the churches, splitting them up, and telling them they were hypocrites (and Pharisees and the Sadducees and all of them). Condemned the whole thing, and stood there alone by Himself.
And they said, "Why, we know that your word is wrong." Said, "In Israel it takes two to make a witness."
He said, "I'm one, and my Father that works in me is the next one, so we have two. And if I do not the works of my Father then don't believe me; but if I do the works of my Father and you can't believe me, believe the works that you might be saved," see. God was bearing record.

32 Many people are following signs. It isn't the sign; it's the voice that goes with the sign. Moses, when he was given two signs, God told him, "If they won't hear the voice of the first sign, then they will hear the voice of the second sign." Each sign is just a sign. Men has gifts and things, but watch what's behind it. Satan can impersonate anything almost. He is an impersonator, and he can impersonate. But watch the kind of voice that it is. What does it do? The voice of the sign.
Take a person walk up, big, what they can do, and all this thing, don't you pay no attention to that. God's Spirit is a meek Spirit, humble Spirit, full of love and compassion, looking to all people and bringing all people to a knowledge of Christ.

33 Now, Jesus had come just exactly the way that He ... they said ... the Bible said He would come. And He did just exactly what the Bible said He would do. And yet, they did not believe Him. He performed the Messiahic sign and showed them that He was the Messiah (in the very same chapter), and they called Him a Beelzebub, a devil, because He was able to discern their thoughts. And they thought that He was a devil.
Now, the Bible had plainly told them. Moses, their leader who they looked to, he told them that "when ... the Lord your God shall raise up a Prophet likened unto me, and it shall come to pass that whosoever shall not hear this Prophet will be cut off from the people."

34 Now, the Messiah was to be a prophet. And when this sign of the prophet was given among them, then, oh, they didn't look for that; they looked for a man with a rod of iron that could go out and do great things and beat down a nation.
See, America is certainly sold on big things and noisy things; but God comes in neither big things or noisy things. When Elijah was back in the cave, there went a thunder by, God. He just let it pass by. A wind went by. They had rushing mighty winds and everything else pass by, but God wasn't in it. But when a still, small voice spoke, the prophet veiled his face and walked out---He spoke. It's that still small voice that we fail to hear. We're looking for roars and thunders, and things like that, and sensations. But God ... you can be deceived in sensation. We want to stay with the Word to know whether we're right or not---that's the blueprint. Stay with the Word, and the Word is right.

35 And the Bible had spoke and predicted the way He would come, and many of those who were ordained before to eternal life, they heard Him and they recognized Him. Philip, Peter, many of those, when they come up, He'd tell them who they were. Quickly, they'd say, "That's the Messiah."
But the Pharisees couldn't answer to their congregations, so they had to brand it something, and they just said, "It's the devil."
And Jesus was rebuking them and upbraiding them cities that He'd done great works in, because of their hearts was hardened and they... And He was telling about in all ages... God in all ages, through every age, has had signs and wonders and a messenger in the earth---in all ages. Every age that ever come, He had a messenger. And if the people believed that message, the nation prospered; if it did not believe that message, that nation was condemned and went into chaos. Just look back through the history of the Bible and you will certainly find it.
If God sent a message...

36 And usually the message doesn't come with some great big blare, something big. It's something small. Watch Noah, the fanatic. Look at Abraham. Just watch down through the Bible, and even Jesus Himself---humble, lowly, outcast, black name behind Him, everything. Look at John. A man born in the wilderness, no schooling at all, piece of sheepskin wrapped around him and hairy all over, and looked like one of these here fuzzy worms, out there a-preaching repentance and eating wild locusts and honey. Isn't that something? And these great, fine, self-styled clergymen there, oh, schooled to the very point, could speak every Hebrew word exactly, and their grammar and their theology was perfect. And God took something like an old fuzzy worm out there in the wilderness and sent forth and condemned the whole thing.
Even when Jesus come, He said, "There never was a man borned of a woman as great as John the Baptist." That's right. God does things small, but powerful.

37 Now, the Bible spoke and said (speaking of John being a forerunner there) said, "Every high place will brought low; every low place will be lifted up; the mountains will skip like little rams, and all the trees clap their hands."
What was it? An old fuzzy-faced man with a piece of sheepskin around him, drowning people almost with water, standing out on the banks of the Jordan blasting away against the churches.

38 Look when Jesus come. They'd expect a Messiah to come down the golden corridors, a full-grown man with a rod of iron in His hand, driving chariots, and angels all around Him, great big flowery things; and would come down and take over, and boost Rome out, and consume the whole thing, and give the kingdom over to Israel. What did He come? A baby, Jehovah-baby born in a manger over a manure pile. That's right; that's exactly. In the stink of a stable He came down. No place He ever went to school or ever entered school, nowhere at all. Went about doing miracles and signs, and the people condemned Him.
When He come to be baptized down on the Jordan, just an ordinary man walking along the side of the street ... or, side of the road, come down into the wilderness to be baptized by this old bearded minister down there. See, God works His own ways, and people's... You got to humble yourself, and...

39 You know, great bright things is what blinds the eyes of the people. Eve was looking for a new light; she got it. The Bible said in the last days that the devils would be ... turn themselves into ministers of light. Look at the very first sin was ever performed, was Satan wanted a greater and a brighter kingdom, a great thing; and went over in the north and set his own kingdom up to outshine Michael. It's always those bright things.
We're not monkeys. Monkeys reach after bright things. Let's be men and women, sensible, sit down, look at the gospel, see what it says, and follow the leading of the Holy Spirit. You'll never be able to know God, until the Holy Spirit comes into you. That's exactly.

40 The Bible said that "no man can call Jesus the Christ, only by the Holy Ghost." If you've never received the Holy Ghost, you don't know that He's the Christ yet. Remember that. You're only walking towards that light.
You can say, "My pastor said so." That's true. "My Bible said so." That's true. "My mother said so." That's true. "My church believes it's the Holy Ghost." That's true, but what about you? As an individual, you don't know until you've received it. And when you receive the Holy Ghost, then you are a witness that He's alive forevermore. Now, the Holy Ghost is within you now, and then you watch Him as He works. If the life of Christ is in you, it'll produce His life in you.
"The works that I do shall you do also." The same works, because it's the same life. If the life in a watermelon vine produces a watermelon, well, the next branch that comes out, it'll produce another watermelon. Every time it'll be a watermelon. And if the church is really anchored in Christ, every church will write a book of Acts behind it. That's exactly right, because the first one wrote a book of Acts behind it. So, there we are.

41 And Jesus had surely proved to them that He'd give them the sign of the Messiah, that the end time was there for them; and they did not believe it. And He was upbraiding them and telling them. And He referred back then (back in the verse preceding this one, the forty-first verse), He preferred there ... referred, rather, to Jonah: "In the days of Jonah..."
I always felt sorry for Jonah. So many people condemn Jonah. Why, Jonah was a prophet, he was a great man of God. You hear them say, "Well, he's a Jonah." I believe that Jonah did just exactly what God told him to do.
I don't believe that any servant of God led of the Spirit can get out of the will of God, because as long as he's led by the Spirit, that's God's will. Sometimes he does things that he don't even know what he's doing hisself and don't realize why he does do it, but it's God working it around for the good. "Everything works together for good to them that love God," said the Scripture.

42 And Jonah, surely God told him to go to Nineveh, but somehow or another, unknowingly to the prophet, he took the wrong ship and went down to Tarsus, or towards that way. A sea come up, and the waves begin to roll, and the winds blowed. I always felt sorry for Jonah. You know, they bound his hands and his feet, throwed him out of the ship, and a big fish swallowed him.
And anyone knows that when a fish eats its dinner---or its meal---it goes to the bottom and rests its swimmers on the bottom of the water, the bottom of the lake. You feed your goldfish and watch what happens---they'll go right down at the bottom of that little jar and rest. He prowls through the water until he finds his food; after he's eaten, he goes down and rests.

43 Now, this big whale... The storm on the sea had come up, and Jonah had been thrown out, and God sent this whale by there to pick up Jonah. And he swallowed Jonah and went down into the bottom of the sea to rest himself. And there was Jonah, tied hands and feet in the bottom of the sea in the belly of a whale. You talk about symptoms, Jonah had them. He had a right to have symptoms. Looky there. If he looked this way, it was the whale's belly; if he looked this way, it was whale's belly; everywhere he looked, it was whale's belly.
Now, there's nobody in here in that condition, is there, sister? You wouldn't be in that condition, or you there, any of you. None of you is in that condition. Now, no one was ever in that position that Jonah was in. His hands was bound, his feet was bound, he was in the belly of the whale, maybe twenty fathoms deep in the sea, and on a stormy sea. Talk about symptoms, he really had it. But you know what he said? "They are lying vanities, I will not look at them no more. But once more will I look to your holy temple."

44 Why? When Solomon dedicated that temple, he prayed up there. And he said, "If any of thy people be in trouble anywhere and look towards this temple, then hear from heaven, Lord." And he had confidence in what the prophet's prayer was for, that he would be heard from heaven. And he refused to look at the symptoms of the whale's belly and looked again towards the temple. You can't hide a saint from prayer, I don't care where you go. You can put him any condition. The Hebrew children in the fiery furnace, Daniel in the lions' den, wherever it may be, a real believer holds on to that prayer. I don't care what takes place, he holds on to that prayer.
You know what happened. God made that whale sick at his stomach, and he vomited him up on the shore. Now, if God would answer Jonah's prayer under those conditions, looking towards a temple that a man made, the temple where a man prayed, a temple where there was a mercy seat was overshadowed with the blood of a sheep, how much more will He today, when we look away from our symptoms, our crippled condition, our cancer, our tumor or whatever we have, or our sin, and look to the throne of God, where Jesus stands at the right hand of the majesty with His own blood to make intercession upon our confession.

45 Forget your symptoms! As long as you look at your hand and say, "It's twisted," it'll always be twisted. "I refuse to look at it anymore. I look to Thy holy temple, oh, Lord." I'm telling you, something will get sick; Satan will, when you go to beginning like that. I want you see how God made this so real.
Then, we're told that the Ninevites would become idolaters, and they worshipped the animals. All idolatry worships animals. And then, we notice that their sea god was the whale, because he was the master of the sea. And their occupation at Nineveh were fishermen. And here all the men were out, thousands of them (a city as big as Portland, Oregon), and they were all out there in their boats a-fishing. And here come their god, whale god, in, licked out his tongue, and a prophet walked right out the gangplank. Sure, they'd hear his message. The whale god had spit the prophet out. Certainly. God knows how to do things. It might be simple, but He knows how to do it. He knows how to reach the heart of men.

46 The whale opened up his mouth and out walked the prophet, their god. And he said, "Except you repent, in forty days this place will sink!"
Right in that Scripture we're reading here this afternoon, Jesus said, "As it was..."
Look what they asked there first. They said, "Show us a sign, master." The Pharisees said to Him, said, "Show us a sign."
He said, "An evil and an adulterous generation seeks after signs, and there will be no sign given them but the sign of Jonah. For as Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and nights, so the Son of man must be in the belly of the whale three days and nights."
Now, you spiritual minded people, open up. What's that? What's that? Don't just read right over it. Let the Spirit catch it for you. Watch! What kind of a generation was seeking after a sign? This generation. This is that evil and adulterous generation that would seek after a sign. Everywhere every little sign they seek after it. Said, "There would be no sign but the sign of Jonah."
What was Jonah the sign of? The resurrection! The resurrection! That's the thing we're seeing now, the sign of the resurrection. Jesus lives, He isn't dead. He's in our midst, doing the same thing that He did then. That's the sign that that generation would receive.

47 He said, "Oh, you're speaking of the generation right then." No, sir. Look at the signs they received then from Him. He was speaking of this generation, an evil and an adulterous generation. Looky here now in our country. Adulterous! Is like Sodom and Gomorrah, certainly it is, and on the increase daily.
That evil and an adulterous generation will seek after a sign, and they'll get it. He promised they would get it. They'd get a true sign from heaven. Compare that with the days of Sodom. "So shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." I hope you get that, see. "There'll be a sign given them," He said. God's Word is exactly on the dot every place through the Bible.

48 Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." Look at that Angel down there to the church elect, what he done. Look at Jesus, what He done in His generation. Look down here at this generation, what He's doing now. They'll receive a sign, but they won't believe it. There you are. But it come just the same. "A evil and an adulterous generation will seek after a sign." And they'll have it. It'll be given to them. "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."
But the resurrection will be the sign. And the resurrection sign is given to the church in this last days. The Angel of the Holy Spirit in the meetings, showing the same things, doing the same things across the nation, proving that Jesus Christ has raised from the dead just the same yesterday, today, and forever. That's the generation that will receive it.

49 Then He comes to the queen. The queen (we call her the queen of Sheba), " The queen of the south," He said here. Said, "She will rise in the last days and condemn this generation." She will rise in the last day---that's with the generation of the last days. "She will rise with them and will condemn it, because she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon. And yet I say unto you that a greater than Solomon is here."
Now, let's take the little queen in the days of Solomon, and listen close. Now, all Bible scholars know that the days of Solomon was the golden age of the Israelites. That was the times they had no wars to amount to anything. They built the temple. And all the nations after David had feared Israel and had brought him great things, and riches, and power, and a powerful army. No one bothered them.

50 And then they had... God gave them a gift. God gives gifts in all generations, a gift of His presence. Now listen. Then we find out that Solomon, after he received this gift of discernment, it was put into action. And people from everywhere believed him. Now, what if they'd have turned that gift down? Why, they'd have been a lost country. But they believed it. Every one believed it. No matter what Solomon done, they still stayed with it. They believed that he was a servant sent from God.
Oh, what if the Christian church tonight... What if the Christian church today could believe the gift that God sent them---the Holy Ghost? What if they would receive it? What if all denominations would rally around the Holy Spirit, as Israel rallied around Solomon with that gift? The Holy Spirit is a gift to the church, and the church turns it away and shuts it off with our doctrines, and our theologies, and things, our man made creeds. We shut Christ right out, don't let the Holy Spirit come in, no miracles, no shouting, no speaking with tongues, no praises of God.

51 Well, if the Holy Spirit done that in the book of Acts, it'll do the same thing today, because the book of Acts is not the acts of the apostles; it's the acts of the Holy Spirit in the apostles. And it's the same Holy Spirit in the Church today. It would act the same way and give the same results. Why accept a substitute when the skies are full of real Pentecostal power? We don't have to have a substitute; we can have the real. I know it's the truth, my brother and my sister. It's true. Now, the acts of the Holy Spirit...
Notice in this queen now ... Solomon, rather, first. We find out that in the days of his ministry, all the people rallied around and around Solomon. And everybody talked... There was nobody talking against him, everybody was for him.

52 Now, what if the whole Christian church today would rally around the Holy Ghost? Nobody'd say, "It's fanaticism." Nobody'd say that it isn't so. Every American would say, "Oh, my, in our nation we have received the Holy Ghost." What if our most beloved president Eisenhower, and all the candidates and so forth for this election, and all the people were just in one accord, and they'd be going around saying, "Oh, we are so blessed! We are so blessed. The Holy Spirit has visited us, and He's in our midst." He is.
Look, when I stepped off the ship yonder, the airship in India, they said, "We don't want to know your theology. We don't want to hear you say you're a missionary. We understand that God has give you a gift to make the Bible live again. We want that!"
That's it! Oh, brother! If the whole ransomed church of God would rise in the power of the Holy Ghost, nations would fear this nation. They got atomic bombs now, and they're going to blow it to bits one of these days, and you know that. "The heavens will be on fire," said Peter, "and the earth will burn with the fervent heat," and so forth. We know it's coming. But what if we...?

53 People today trying to dig down into the earth to find a bomb shelter, to put the government down in Kentucky somewhere in one of the caves. Now they've got a bomb that they can't even hide in a cave from. You go a hundred and seventy-five feet deep in the ground, or if you had it made out of solid steel five hundred feet in the ground, the concussion of that would kill every... It'd break every bone in your body. Certainly it would. Blow a hole in the earth hundred and fifty miles square, hundred and fifty ... seventy-five feet deep in the earth, how're you ever going to get away from it? Well, I'll tell you right now, the church has a shelter. It's not made out of steel; it's made out of feathers. Under His wings the church will abide, and will be lifted up into glory away from the things of the world. Sure.
Oh, if the nation would only listen and receive and rally around the gift, this would be a golden age. The gift is the Holy Spirit that God sent back. "Behold I send the promise of my Father upon you. Tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem till you're endued with power from on high."

54 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."
They say, "Well, that was just for them."
Was it? He said, "For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." The gift is to whosoever will can come. And by the praying Americans, and these old forefathers that come forth fighting this good fight of faith, and established this nation upon the principles of the Bible; and it's their children that's held on to God that's brought the revival that's been brought in America. But they're in a minority.
The others, the Communistic forces in the churches and... You see this big rally about these ministers and all of them, this great church doings here, even packing Communistic cards in their pockets, leaders of these international churches and so forth. It's all just honeycombed all through. It has to come that way, that there is no other rock or no other foundation but Jesus Christ. "Upon that rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell can't prevail against it." Amen! That's the idea.

55 There was the queen ... or Solomon, all the people rallying around. Why, the news got scattered everywhere. Well, just through the little forces of the church, the news of the Holy Spirit falling here and giving great meetings has called these ministers around the world, everywhere, just in that little force, what's it doing? Pulling out the elected, pulling out God's children from everywhere: "My sheep hear my voice." They're coming from everywhere, coming to the Lord---from Germany, from Switzerland, from Africa, from India, from Asia. All over the world they're coming. Revival fires are built on every hill almost.
People, the elected... The rest of them making fun of them, call them holy-rollers and fanatics. That doesn't mean one thing. But rest assured that it's the purpose of God that they would condemn you, that He might be able to condemn that. Certainly. If they condemn you, they condemn Him. "For as much as you've done to the least of these my brethren, you have done it to me, any of these that believe in me. And these signs shall follow them that believe in me." That's how you'll know. Not professing to believe, but "The signs that I do, they'll do also." That'll be a vindication, a voice to their ministry that they're telling the truth.
Men and women, wake up to the fact that we're living in the last days. We're under the shadows of His mercy right now, but one day we will be under the shadows of judgment, because we have rejected the shadows of mercy. Flee to the Rock.

56 Then, what? Notice, all the people rallied around Solomon. The gift was mighty. It done great things. They never seen anything like it. They knowed it had to come from God. Such discernment, they never seen such. All the passers-by, they'd want to go by and see Solomon. They'd want to see it.
Why, Nehru, and other ... and Khrushchev, and them, wouldn't be coming to this nation just to see what good roads we have, to take over. They wouldn't want to be seeing what kind of a capitol buildings we have, how much riches we have, and how our farms, how much agriculture or so forth. They wouldn't be coming to see that. If we all rallied around the Holy Spirit, they'd be so hungry for God, they'd be so scared of it, because they know that God controls every fiber of the earth. Yes, that's what we need today is men and women rallying around the gift of God, the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit working in them, showing His presence with them, that they might ... people (other unbelievers) might see that it is God.

57 Now, we find out that the people passing by found out about Solomon, and his fame spread all over the world, and went all the way down (the Bible said) to the utmost parts of the earth. Now, that was the utmost parts of the known world at that day. And if you'll notice, it's quite a distance from Palestine down across the Sahara desert, into where she was queen, the queen of Sheba.
Now, let's think. Everybody coming by would pass by the little queen, you know, and they'd say, "Well, we are travelers. We've been up in the certain-certain countries. Oh, you should go to Palestine! They are a mighty people. They're all of one accord. The whole nation is blooming in riches. And they've got a man up there that's got a gift from their God, that that man performs just like their God would do, if He was standing there."
You know, faith cometh by hearing, see. And that little queen would say, "What do you know about that?"

58 Oh, then the next fellow come by, "Yes, little queen. We've come by and we've been traveling, our caravans with the camels. And we passed through Egypt, we come through all the countries. And when we come to Palestine, say, they've got a mighty God up there, a living God. Oh, we got gods in our country, of course, but they got a God that acts in His people. He's a real God. You should see it! They even took this man Solomon, and made him their king. And oh, their God is powerful. You should see Him."
You know, faith cometh by hearing, hearing of the Word. If a man has anything about him of God, when he hears the works of God, he will begin to hunger. She begin to consider taking a little trip. Must she ... expect this. Now, she lived in a heathen land, we know. She was a heathen, a pagan, herself.

59 But let's just take a little drama now. I'd imagine now, her prestige, before she could leave the country, she'd have to consult her church and her pagan priest, if she'd be able to go.
So I can see her go over to her priest, and she said, "Holy father, I've heard great news of the Israelites, that their God up there has anointed one of their brethren. And he's a great man, that he shows wonders, and signs, and wisdom, and can discern the thoughts of the people, and great things that he's doing up there."
I can hear the pagan priest say, "My child, you know you are a queen, you are a member of this church, the church of this great nation that you're a queen over? Did you know your great-great-great-great grandmother, and all down were queens before you, would you disgrace your church and your people to attend such a fanatical meeting as that? Why, if gods was ever to do anything, our gods would do it in our church." If that isn't the attitude today, I never knowed it. Yes, sir.

60 "Why," she'd say, "but listen. I understand that He is not some one that we talk about. Now, you've talked about these idols here that we serve, and I've never seen one of them move all my life. And you keep telling what they are, and what they're going to do, and what they will do, and what they did do. I've never seen one move of it. Only thing I've got is just some words here I've been reading about it. But they tell me that their God is alive. I want to find something real!"
That's the hunger of every human heart. They want to find something real. They knowed they come from a somewhere dark, and they enter in here, and go back to that land again that they don't know. They're looking to find something a-past the curtain. That was her heart.

61 Well, I can hear the priest tell her now, "Daughter, if you go up there, we will excommunicate you from the church. We will just take your name right off the book, and you won't be a member of this church any longer."
But you know what? If the hunger of God comes into a human heart, there's nothing in the world going to stop them. That's right. When the heart begins to hunger...
David said in the Bible, "When the deep calls to the deep..."
Now, if there's a deep calling, there's got to be a deep to respond to it. Do you believe that? Now... In otherwise like this, if before there... Well, I read sometime here a few years ago in a paper, about a little boy eating erasers off of a pencil in school. Teacher would give him another pencil, he'd eat the eraser off of it. And his mammy found him one day out eating the pedal off of a bicycle on a [Gap in the audio.] ... had to be a sulfur to respond to that crave. You see what I mean?

62 In otherwise, before there can be a creation, there has to be a Creator to create the creation. And as long as you're here today (you people that's sick) hunting for divine healing, because you believe that there is a God that can heal the sick, that shows there is a fountain open somewhere for healing. Being that you're wanting more of God, because that there is fountain somewhere where you can find more of God... When the deep calls to the deep, there's got to be a deep to respond to that call.
Now, the little queen, hearing about a living God who was living with His people, it created a thirst. "Blessed are they," said Jesus in Matthew 5, "that do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled."
There's a respond when you thirst; there's something to quench that thirst. Our creeds, our denomination will never satisfy that thirst; you've got to find the reality of a living God. And the only way you'll ever do it, is be filled with His Spirit. That is the quenching of that thirst. He is the satisfying portion to His church, the all-sufficient One, that satisfies every longing. When a man leaves the things of the world and comes to Christ, he finds that all-sufficiency in Christ, when he finds Christ.

63 Now, then she begin to thirst, and... Of course, the priest told her she could not go. But you know, there's something about it, if a person wants to find God, there's nothing going to stop them from it.
Now, the little lady had some hindrances. And every person that tries to come to Christ will find hindrances. It's everywhere. You just start it one time and find out. Start a closer walk with God, find out what'll happen. Just try it. The devil's at the door to stop you every way.
Now, the first thing, she was the queen. And she had a long ways to travel. She had to leave her church, she had to forsake her priest, she had to forsake her church.
But Jesus said that "whosoever will not even forsake father, mother, husband, wife, children, and all, and come after me, is not worthy to be my disciple." It's a forsaking, a sacrifice, to give up.
You say, "Well, I... You know, I belong to the certain clubs, I belong to these parties, and we all do..."

64 You've got to forsake everything, and you have to make your choice now. Are you ready to forsake everything to follow after Him? If God goes to putting a thirst in your heart, you'll forsake everything in the world. I walked away from my own father and mother, a home. I got a wife and three children sitting right out there now. If they would tell me, "No more preaching," I'd walk right straight away from home---yes, sir, as much as I love them, die for them right here easily. But Christ is all.
He's my objective, and my motive to Him is to sacrifice everything that I have to follow Him, whether I'm called a fanatic, whether I'm called a divine healer, a holy-roller, whatever it might be. I don't care for the things of the world. I don't believe any Christian does. We want to follow Christ. That's my objective: follow Him, lift Him up. That's what we need today, is people of that ... willing to sacrifice.

65 Now, the little queen had some smart ideas I'd like for you to notice. She said, "Now, I have never seen this, I don't know nothing about it." So, I'd imagine the first thing the little queen did was purchase her a Bible, so she could read and find out. She said, "Now, if it's some kind of a put-up, it won't be according to the Bible---their Bible. But if their Bible has predicted such a thing, then it will be right."
Now, that's what Christians ought to do. When you come to a meeting, don't condemn; first search out the Scriptures. What if they'd have been that sincere with Jesus?
Said, "Search ye the Scriptures, for they are they that testify of me, and in them you think you have eternal life. You think you have eternal life, and they testify of me." That's right, surely.

66 He told the Pharisees, those great clergymen of that day, said, "You can look at the sun, and it's lowering, and you say, 'Tomorrow it's going to be foul weather; and if it's clear, tomorrow it will be fair weather.'" Said, "You hypocrites! You're supposed to be clergymen, and you can discern the things of the world better than you can discern the signs of the times."
If that ain't the truth today. Everybody interested in who'll be President. I am too, but what difference does it make? I want to know who'll be King of eternity: Christ. That's the main thing. I want to know about my nation. I'm interested in it. I'm an American, I'm interested in my nation. But brother, let that be second; my God is first. Yes, sir.

67 But the thing of it is, they take the nation, the things of the world, "Who'll be ... who'll play this play with certain-certain movie star?"
A lot of people, many people today---church members, Pentecostal people, Baptists, Presbyterians---can tell you more about the movie life than they can the Bible life. More children can tell you about Davy Crockett, or Gunsmoke, or some of them, than they can about Jesus Christ, is because that's what they're taught in their homes. And then talk about juvenile delinquency---it's parent delinquency and church delinquency! That's exactly right. Clergy delinquency of preaching the Word, and God working with the church, confirming the Word with signs following.

68 Ananias and Sapphira was living in the church, on the fat of the church, and never called out and told their sins, because they were the heaviest payers there is in the church. Some Ananias with a great job can put in $5,000 a year; he could drink, smoke, gamble, commit adultery, and he can be deacon at the same time. Brother, I'm telling you, when the Spirit of God comes into the church, it'd tear that thing open and rip it out, like He did when He come the other time to the temple. Money changers.
"Lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, despisers of those that are good, heady, high-minded, having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof; from such turn away." I'm quoting the Scripture, I Timothy 3.

69 Now, when you see those things taking place and know that the hour that we're living, the sincerity the church ought to be in, and yet just fabulous. You go down here at the market, or go tonight for dinner, and they set you out a bowl of soup, and a big spider is in it, well, you'd want to sue the company. Certainly. A fly is in it, you would ... why, you'd call the waitress and bawl her out like everything. And yet you'll walk right around, and take some man-made theology, and push it down your throat: "Join the church and that's all you have to do."
"Except a man be born again, he can no wise enter into the kingdom. And these signs will follow them after they're borned again." See? That's what Jesus said. That brings the mark of distinction to the church, the signs and wonders of the resurrected living Christ, living in the church. They don't want it today.

70 But that little queen wanted it. But the first thing she wanted to know, was it Scriptural or not. She studied all the Scriptures. Then she said, "I'm going to do another thing. I'm a queen, and if that message is right, I'm going to support it." And she ladened camels with gold, and myrrh, and frankincense, and all kinds of costly apparel, and such. She said, "If it's right, if that God is real God, then I'm through with this thing I have been serving, and I'm going to support it with everything I've got."
That's the attitude. Listen. God's not concerned so much about your money, but He wants you to support Him with all you are. He don't want ten percent of your money so much as He wants your time, your talent, your testimony, and all that you are, to be given into His hands, so He can control you. He wants to be your Lord. Not only your Saviour, but your Lord---lordship, to govern you.

71 And she said, "I will support it if it's right; if it's not, I can bring my money back home." That's a good sensible thing for a lot of Americans to listen to. I think so today, too. Every kind of a program, and support it, and they condemn the very thing that you believe in. That's right. Go out and support radio preachers and things.
I'm not condemning that. I have no radio program, never intend to have. Could have been on television? Sure. Had buildings and churches and so forth? I condemned it, turned it away. I want to be humble. I want to stay to a place, till I can go to anywhere, under any condition, and preach wherever God leads me to go with no strings tied. No, nothing at all, just be free to do and say what the Holy Spirit says say. That's my motive. Yes, sir. Stay with that. Just be led by His Spirit.

72 What if I had to make ten thousand dollars a day? What if I had to make a thousand dollars a day? You think I could be at Klamath Falls? Certainly not. I couldn't. Of course I don't have to have anything, just enough to feed my children. God sees to that, so that's all that's necessary. So there we are. No supports and things like that. Now, I believe that God gives ministers radio and television programs. I believe that with all my heart. But He didn't give it to me.
Now, the thing of it is, if you're supporting the right thing... But why would you support a thing that condemns Pentecost, and divine healing, and the power of the Holy Ghost, and makes fun of it? And you turn around, and let your own preacher on the radio starve, and have to cut his program off---and support such as that. I don't understand it. And I know thousands that does it. I'd support exactly what I believed in and what I thought of. I'd stay loyal to it till I died, yes, sir, with everything---not only my money, but my soul, my experience, my testimony, my presence, my... Everything that I could do, I'd support it.

73 And that little queen had the same idea. No wonder she will stand in this last day and condemn the generation today. Yes, she was going to support it with all she had. She put her gold and things...
Now, the next thing, she had to go a long ways to get to hear this man they talked so much about. Now, she had to cross the Sahara desert. You know how long it'd take her to do it? Take her about three months, ninety days. And she didn't come in a air-conditioned Cadillac. No, she come on the back of a camel. That's right.
No wonder she will condemn this generation. The people won't even walk across the street to hear a message like it, to see the Spirit of God move and do wonders. They'll sit in their front yards and criticize it, go to the places and condemn it. And she came from the utmost parts of the world on the back of a camel, have to travel by night.

74 Another thing, look what was in her road. The sons of Ishmael was in the desert in that day. They were robbers, and her with all that money, crossing the desert, a little handful of soldiers and a few maidens with her, as bodyguards, four or five eunuchs standing around her. And traveling out there with this great fleet of fleet-footed, horse-riding Arabs that come across the desert there and could take everything she had, and murder her and let them lay there.
But you know something? When you've got a hunger in your heart for God, danger don't even stand in the way to you. You just keep moving on, climbing on. There's nothing going to separate us from the love of God that's in Christ. Keep moving on. She just kept going on, she never thought of the death.
Anyhow, if you're hungering for God, the devil will put every obstacle he can in your way; but Christ will move it out of the way. Just walk in the light, as He is in the light; just keep moving on, and God will make a way for you. He's promised to do it, and He will do it. That's right.

75 She started. She packed up her camels, she put all of her gifts on. She started across the desert, perhaps traveling by night. It was so hot. The direct rays of that sun in that Sahara desert, it'd almost cook the meat right off your bones. And here she come across. Why? Day after day, week after week, day after day, month after month, traveling on across the desert on these old camels from one oasis to another, starving for water, her tongue hanging out, parched lips, all of her men walking along, any time that they could be robbed or killed. Didn't make any difference, she's on her road to see if this thing is right or not.
And think, right here in this city... Think today at the people. This place could be packed and jammed, the yard standing full, the people with their hands in the air, praising God when they see great signs and wonders taking place, the wonders, the miracles, the very Scripture being fulfilled, the sign of the resurrection to a wicked and adulternous generation, but will they do it? No wonder she'll stand in the last days and condemn this generation, as Jesus said.

76 Now, we find, finally she arrived at the gates safely. And when she arrived... Now remember, a lot of people come into a meeting like that, if they're going to see some miracle of God going to be performed, or being performed, they'll say, "Well, I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll just walk in, and I will sit down; and if that preacher says one thing that I don't agree with or my church don't agree with, I will get right up and walk out." That shows illiteracy. That's exactly. That shows poor raising to begin with.
Now, she came in not to stay and see if the pastor said anything (pastor Solomon), said something that she didn't agree with or whether her church... She knowed that her church didn't agree with that. But she come in to sit down, to take the Scriptures, and to stay until she was convinced one way or the other. That's the way to do it. Take the things that claims to be of God and test them with the Scripture to see if they're scripturally. If they're scripturally, they're right.

77 Here she comes in now. And she takes off all of her packs off the camels. She puts up her little tents out there in the palace courts. And she's just going to stay until she's convinced. I wish American people would have that same kind of idea.
"I don't care what the pastor says, what John Jackson says, or what my denomination says, I'm going to stay till I'm thoroughly convinced whether it's right or not. And I'm going to compare it with the Scripture, word after word and page after page, and I'm going to see whether it's right or not." She stayed until she was convinced, till she would know.

78 Now, let's take her first morning. Well, I hear all the hymn singing, the bells ringing, and Solomon came out to the pulpit, to his judgment, his throne seat, sat down, pastor Solomon. The church sang the hymns, and the trumpets blowed, and the music instruments played, and all the congregation come around. I can see the little queen get her seat back there. Said, "I'll just watch now and see what takes place."
Here come someone up, and the first thing you know, she said, "Now, I'll see whether it's right or not." And she watched it. She said, "I've heard how this God is a God that does these things. I'm going to see if that Spirit of God is in this man, this servant of His."

79 And when the first person come up, Solomon with his great power of discernment, discerned it perfectly and told her. Oh, my. The little queen's heart begin to beat fast. Day after day, and time after time, it happened.
Let's say (she didn't, of course), but let's just say she got a prayer card but she wasn't called for a long time. But after awhile, her time come to come before Solomon. And the Bible said that there was nothing hid from Solomon, but he revealed to her all the things that she should know. He told her about it.
And when she seen this, she said, "Now, I see it works on others. I wonder if it works on me. Somehow I believe that that's right. I've made the sacrifice, I've come a long ways, and I tell you what I'm going to do---I'll get up and see if it works on me."
So she got up there, and Solomon told her all things. The Bible said, "Nothing was hid from Solomon." Through the spirit of discernment, a gift of God, he discerned everything that he should tell her. And it satisfied her in such a way, she gave all of her gifts to the church, to the cause.
And she stood and here's what she said, "Blessed are the men that are with you, that stay with you, that minister to you, continually with you, for their eyes behold this all the time."

80 Not only blessed is the people and all, but blessed are they that see this done day after day. "Blessed are the men that they go along with you, that see these things done meeting after meeting, time after time. How blessed it is."
And she seen all the glory and God, and she was a convert. And Jesus said, "She will stand in the last days and condemn this generation, because she come to hear the wisdom of Solomon and a greater than Solomon is here."
Let me say to you this afternoon, friends: a greater than Solomon is here. The Holy Spirit Himself is here, the agent of God, the resurrected Jesus in spirit form; God has sent Him back to dwell in His church, to be with us, to move, and to bless us, and to give us His presence, and to do the works that He did. Oh, if we could only grasp it, if you could only get a hold of it!

81 What made that little queen...? In closing, may I say this, just something comes on my mind. The reason that she said that and the reason she did it, is because for her first time she saw something real. Something real. She saw something that could not be explained by human mind, it was supernatural. She seen something that she knew that was real.
A little story ... or not a story, it's the truth. Everyone knows that I hunt. I've hunted. My mother is a half-Cherokee Indian, and I love the Indians, I love to hunt. My conversion never taken it out of me. I hunt Africa, Asia, everywhere. I'm not a killer, but a hunter. So I love... I'm a conservationist, was a conservation officer for year after year, seven years in Indiana. And I believe in conserving game. I believe to be in the woods, to be alone, there's something about it.

82 I used to hunt up in the north woods, and I ... to be alone. That's where my first Bible come from. I could hear the wind blowing through the trees, watch a tree die and then live again, watch a flower go down in the fall of the year and come up in spring. I knowed there was a God somewhere. I watched sap stand in the tree in September---August and September, and never a cold breeze ever hit it---but before the cold breeze ever hits that tree, what is it? that sap runs down into the roots and hides through the winter. If it doesn't, it'll die through the winter time. And then the spring of the year, here it comes back bringing apples again, producing.
What intelligence runs that sap down into those roots? Tell me. Put water on a bucket, and set it on the top of a post, and see if it will go down to the bottom of the post. Certainly not. Certainly not. An intelligence runs it down. God is in nature everywhere, working in nature, and that was my first Bible.

83 And I used to go hunting with a fellow, Burt Caul. My wife here knows him well. And so, we were ... go up there in the woods to hunt, and he was one of the best hunters I ever hunted with. He was also a part Indian. And you never had to worry about losing him---he'd come in. He was all right, he knowed his place. And he was a dead shot, one of the best I ever seen. And you never... Sometimes you take a person in the woods, you don't know where you're going to leave him, and have to keep watching him, then hunt him up, or he'll stray off somewhere; but never Burt. Just let him alone, he was all right.
And we loved to hunt together; we knowed one another. He was a fine fellow, but the meanest man I ever seen in my life. That guy was really cruel. Cold-hearted? I never seen a man so cold-hearted. He used to kill fawns just to make me feel bad. And he'd shoot... You know, a fawn's a little baby deer. You Oregon people know what they are. And he'd shoot them just to make...

84 Now, it's all right to take a fawn. Abraham killed a calf and fed it to God. That's right. It's all right to kill a fawn if the law says to kill it. They are conservationists, they know what can be killed and what not. But then, if... But not just kill a bunch of them to be mean. That's mean.
And so, one day I went up to see him, and we was going hunting. And he had invented some kind of a little whistle, that made it go like a little baby fawn crying for its mammy. And I thought... I said, "Burt, you're not going to use that."
"Oh," he said, "Preacher, you're too chicken-hearted. Get next to yourself."
And I said, "Burt, don't you do that."
"Oh," he said, "go on. That's the way with you preachers," said, "you're too chicken-hearted. Yeah, go on."

85 We went hunting that morning, and it was along in the season, and deers was scarce, because the first gun goes to firing, they get to cover up there, because there's a lot of hunting. We always take us a sandwich and a little Thermos bottle full of hot chocolate, because it gives nourishment and heat quick to the body. If you'd happen to hurt yourself or something, it'd be a pick-up.
And deers was very scarce. We walked from about daylight till about eleven-thirty, and had not even seen one track. About eight or ten inches of snow on the ground, good tracking weather. We'd went all down through the big beeches, and up through the places in the hardwood, and on into the other---birch, and so forth---and the green timbers, and seen nothing, not even a track.

86 We come to a little clearing about the size of this building, this auditorium. And Burt just stooped down like this, started reaching back in his shirt. I thought he was going to get his lunch, and we'd eat lunch. And usually then, we'd separate at noon, and one goes one way and one another, and we'd get back to camp at night.
And reaching back in here, I started to let my gun down, and I started to get my lunch. And when he come out, he had this little old whistle. And he looked up to me with them lizard-looking eyes of his. And I thought, "You're not going to do that, Burt."
And he took that little whistle, and he blew it. It sounded just like a little baby fawn (you've heard them) crying for their mammy. And he blowed this whistle, and he looked up at me and kind of laughed. And to my surprise, just across the opening, a great big beautiful doe stood up. Oh, she was a beautiful looking animal---see those great big brown eyes, those big ears peaking. I looked at her. What was she? She was a mother, see. And a baby was in trouble, and she begin looking around. "Where's that baby at?"
And he looked up at me again like that, and I said... He was going to do it anyhow.

87 I seen him pull back that lever on that 30.06; a dead shot he was. And he blew it again; she straightened those big ears up. Now, that's altogether unnatural for a doe to do that in hunting season right that time of day. And she walked right out into that opening, looking around for that baby, where it was at. And when he started to raise his head up, the doe seen him.
Well now, usually, they what we call "spook" at that. You see? They get scared, they run away. But not her. She throwed them big ears, and those big, brown eyes looked down that way, where the hunter's top of his cap coming up. And I seen him level that rifle, put that cross hair right across her loyal heart. I thought, "Oh, Burt, how can you do that? How can you kill that mother looking for her baby?"
Now, I'd talked to him about the Lord, and he'd just laugh at me. And I said, "Burt, how can you do that? How can you ever kill that poor mother?"

88 Now, she wasn't a hypocrite. She wasn't putting that on, she was real. She was born ... something in her was a mother, and a baby was in trouble. And she was a mother. The instinct in her, mother instinct, would walk right in the face of that gun, knowing that she was going to her death. What difference did it make? She was going to find that baby, it was in trouble. She wasn't putting nothing on. And I seen him level that shoulder down, and, oh, my, them cross hairs right across that heart.
I thought, "In about another second, he'll blow that loyal heart of hers plumb through the other side, that big hundred and eighty grain bullet go out of there." I thought, "Oh ... mushrooms, blow a hole about like that. And I thought, "He'll just blow that loyal heart of that mother plumb through the other side." I thought, "How can he be so cruel?" And I said, "I just can't watch it." I turned my head. In my heart I said, "Lord God, please help him. Don't let him do that. Look at that display of real motherhood, look at that real thing."

89 Now, that mother walking right out... Not a hypocrite, not putting on like a lot of church members do, act like they're Christians. When a showdown comes, they're ashamed of it. She walked right out there with something real. She stood there and was ready to meet her death. Because why? Inside of her she was a mother and a baby was in trouble.
I was praying. I thought, "Lord, don't let him do it." And I waited, waited. The gun never fired. I thought, "Wonder what's the matter?" I turned to look, and the gun barrel's going like this. Them steady nerves had broke. Grabbed the gun and throwed it on the ground. And I was standing on a little drift of snow about like that. He threw his arms around my trouser legs and he said, "Billy, I've had enough of it. Lead me to that Lord Jesus that you're talking about."

90 What was it? "If they hold their peace, the rocks will immediately cry out." What did he see? He saw something real. He saw something that he couldn't even see in a lot of ministers or Christians. He saw in that deer a loyalty, something real, that was real. That deer preached the best sermon to him that any preacher could ever preach. She had something real that he could lay ahold of and know there was a real motherhood. And if there's a real motherhood, there's a real God, there's a real salvation. There on that snow bank, I led him to the Lord Jesus Christ, and he's a deacon in the First Baptist Church now, a loyal Christian---because he saw something that was real.
O God, let us be real. Let's not have some kind of a form of religion. Let's have something real, that people can see that God lives in us. Let us bow our heads just a moment.

91 I want to ask you a sincere question. As you well know now, that I'm not a clergyman, not a speaker. I'm uneducated. But in my heart, there's something that's real. I found a Christ that means the same to me as that fawn did to that doe. He's more than my life, ready to give it any time. And I sacrificed it to Him thirty-one years ago. He gets sweeter day by day, as my days are growing weaker now, and I'm getting old.
Is there a person here this afternoon... Or how many people, should I say, would like to have the reality of Christ in their heart, as this mother deer did for her baby? Would you like that reality? While your head is bowed, would you just raise your hands and say, "Pray for me, Brother Branham. I want Christ now to put so much real love in my heart for Him as the mother deer had for her baby." Would you raise your hand? Say, "Remember me in prayer."

92 God bless you, sir. God bless you, God bless this young fellow here, out here. Oh, up in the balcony? Someone up in there say, "Remember me, Brother Branham, as you pray." God bless you up there. Sure, God sees your hands where ever you are.
God bless this sister sitting here in the wheelchair. Bless you, sister dear. May be a mother and know what motherhood means. And you know how loyal that is to those children, let it be that way for Christ. He will give it to you. He will give you that Spirit of His---of His Holy Spirit in your heart.
Would you like, someone else? Just raise your hand. Say, "Does that mean anything, Brother Branham?" Certainly. You pass from death to life when you do that. "Blessed are they that hunger and thirst." God bless you, my brother, sitting right here.

93 Would there be someone else just before we go? We won't call the altar call right now. No, we just ask you to raise your hands, to pray. We're going to pray for the sick.
God bless this young colored lady sitting here. Just look like a girl just at the crossroads of life. God bless you, young lady. When this teen-age reckless age of rock'n'roll and stuff going on, you taken the choice of the right road for Christ. May God ever bless you, my sister.
Someone else would just say, "Remember me, brother, in prayer. While you're praying, may God have mercy on me."
God bless you, my brother, here, and the one just across the aisle. Yeah, God bless you. There, that young girl back there, God bless you, honey. And the little girl, God be with you. That's wonderful.

94 All right, is there another that knows that you haven't got that kind of love? You couldn't display that loyalty to Christ. You'd like to, but you haven't got it. Maybe you belong to church. Wouldn't hurt you to raise your hand and say, "I'd love to have it, Brother Branham. I'd love to feel in my heart towards Christ..."
God bless this little girl sitting here. "I'd like to feel in my heart like that---towards Christ like that mother deer did to her baby." Would you...
One, a cruel hearted man... God bless you over there, yes, to the right. I see you, sir. God be with... And I'm sure He does. Not even a sparrow can fall without Him knowing it. He knows your hand when it goes up. He knows the hunger and thirst in your heart. And He said, "Blessed are they that do hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled."
Would there be another before prayer? All right. God bless you, sir. Yes. God bless you back there. Yes, God sees you. I'll just wait a moment, maybe another would raise their hand. You'll never forget raising your hands, I will assure you of that. You'll never forget. Maybe laying on a highway somewhere bleeding, hearing an ambulance coming, the blood running from your veins, and you know you're gone, you'll remember you raised your hand. Will you... Someone else before we close? All right, let us pray.

95 Our blessed heavenly Father, they came from the east and west, north and south to hear the wisdom, spirit of discernment that was on Your servant, Solomon. And when Your Son, the Lord Jesus, was here on earth, He told them, that how they had condemned in their generation the thing that Solomon's generation had cherished. And how that they had prospered in Solomon's generation, and how they would be polluted in His generation; and yet He was greater than Solomon.
And today, Father, it's a greater day than it was the day that when You visited us here on earth in a body of flesh. For in those days, the real atonement had not yet been made. God dwelt in one man---that was His Son, Jesus. And now, after the atonement's made, the whole ransomed church can bosom God. God can come into the bosom of His church. And the Holy Spirit...

96 You said, "If you speak against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven you," when they called You Beelzebub, because You were discerning the thoughts of their minds. They should have knowed that was the Spirit of God there. It was on Solomon, upon the prophets, and here it was made in its fulness in You. And they spoke against You and called You an evil name, called the work of the Holy Spirit a devil. And You said, "I will forgive you for that. But when the Holy Ghost is come, you speak against that, it'll never be forgiven."
Well, the Holy Spirit, after it had been in You and then come upon the church, here it is today---which would be greater then, because Your life has sealed a work for the Holy Ghost and brought it to the church. And yet, "a word against it will never be forgiven." And here He is today, the lovely Holy Spirit, the person of Christ, standing in our midst, doing the same thing that He did. Scripturally, from Genesis to Revelation, according to the last days, He was to be here and do these things, and here He is. Father God, how we thank You for this.

97 And I pray today that each one of those who raised their hand, recognizing upon this simple little affair that happened, Lord, about my good friend, your servant, now, Burt... How that that took that cruel hearted man---when You didn't have anybody in that country seemed like that could do it, I myself could not even lead him to You---but he saw that real something in that deer, more than he could see in me or any other man. But God, You showed it by an old mother deer, and she led him to You. Bless his loyal soul, Lord. I pray today that through the simple story, of telling it, many has raised their hands.
Give them their desire, Lord. May it, through the simplicity of faith, reach up and take ahold of the throne of God, and say, "Lord, pour the golden vial of oil of God's Holy Spirit into my heart." Then they'll be ready to die for Christ, display His love, His loyalty in their workshop, in their homes, in their organizations, wherever it might be. Grant it, Lord. I commit them to You now, in the name of Jesus Christ, Thy Son. Amen.

98 Do you love Him? Let's just sing one verse of one of my favorite old songs: "I love Him, I love Him because He first loved me." And while we do this, we're going to have the healing service, or the prayer service for the sick just in a little bit. Now, let's just sing now, raise up our hands. (All right, brother.)
I love Him, I love Him
Because He first loved me
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary's tree.
Now, while we hum it through once... This is a mixed audience---Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterian, Pentecostal. Let's sweetly just take a hold of somebody's hand sitting next to you and say, "God bless you, brother and sister," while we sing that again.
I..................
........first loved me
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary's tree.
[Brother Branham hums.] Now, the message is over; just worship Him in the Spirit. Paul said, "If I sing, I'll sing in the Spirit. I worship, I'll worship in the Spirit."
[Brother Branham hums the rest of the song.] Don't you love that sweetness of the Holy Spirit?
I love Him (Just mean it with all
your heart.) love Him,
Because He first loved me
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary's tree.
Oh, isn't He real? So real in our hearts, so good, so full of mercy. Blessed be His holy name. Now, we're going to call the prayer line, pray for the sick while this lovely anointing...
Don't the Word just kind of scour you out? Feel good and clean. How many feels that way? Just like...
[Gap in the audio.]
Drawn from Immanuel's veins,
And sinners plunged beneath that flood,
Lose all their guilty stains.
Lose all their guilty stains,
Lose all their (Aren't you so glad
there's a fountain?)
And sinners plunged beneath that flood,
Lose all their guilty stains.

99 Now, as the same spirit of worship ... Billy, did you give out prayer cards? How many? 50 to a 100. What's on your services...?
[Gap in the audio.] ... the power of God. You break your arm, you don't go to the doctor and say, "Heal my arm." You say, "Set my arm, doctor." God heals it.
You say, "I got appendicitis, doctor; cut it out." He don't heal you; he just takes out the appendicitis. He can't build the tissue. God builds the tissue. Is that right? He does the healing. God does the healing, not the...
Billy, has that lady there got a prayer card? Well, just let her sit there for now, see. I will bring her up here and pray for her in just a minute. Now, what say? All right. There was some man setting here a few minutes ago. He's still sitting here. All right, let's bow our heads just a minute for prayer.

100 O Lord, the hour is near at hand, now, when something must be done. I, just as sincerely as I know how, brought this simple little message of Your grace and power. And I was thinking that it would be earlier, and we'd bring up four, five, ten people, and You'd send Your Spirit of discernment. But it seems, Lord, that the people would rather that I would just pray for them. So, Lord, maybe that's the way You've built their faith this afternoon. If that be right, Father, then I pray that You'll anoint me so with the Holy Spirit that people when they come by, they'll not come just coming by, just their friend and brother, but they'll know that standing on the platform here somewhere, unseen to our eyes, is the Lord Jesus to confirm every word that He has written, all that He has said. Give the audience faith to believe. Grant it, Father. I pray in Jesus Christ's name and for His glory. Amen.

101 The great Physician..........
........thizing Jesus,
He speaks the drooping heart to cheer,
Oh, hear the voice of Jesus;
Sweetest note on seraph song,
Sweetest name on mortal tongue,
Sweetest carol ever sung,
Jesus, blessed Jesus.
Honey, it was a meeting about like this (I'm addressing my wife setting there), when they was all just about like this, at Fort Wayne, Indiana, that night. It was mostly Dunkard, and Amish, Mennonite. And a little sister back there, that was trying to seek the Holy Ghost, she had... I never forget that long, beautiful white hair done up. She had a white dress on. She was playing. And they was bringing a little crippled baby to me.
And I held the little baby in my arms, and I said to the mother, "Do you believe that the Lord Jesus will heal the little baby?"
And she said, "I believe, sir."
And just then... I prayed for the little baby, and I started to hand it back to the mother, and the mother set it down. It started running across the floor, she fainted. The people begin screaming. And that girl received the Holy Ghost, jumped up from the piano, her hair fell down, and that piano constantly played, "The great Physician now is near, the sympathizing Jesus." And several hundreds of people standing there watching those ivory keys move: "The great Physician now is near." The altar filled and all up and down the aisles and everything, weeping and crying, those Mennonites, and Amish, and so forth, coming to the Lord Jesus. I couldn't even pray for no more, just screaming to God for mercy. They seen something real. "The great Physician now is near, the sympathizing Jesus." All right.

102 Now, without the discernment... How many's here has seen the discernment, know about it? Raise up your hand, way up, your hand. That's right. Now, you know it could be done; but to pray for all this line, I couldn't do that.
Oh, my. That little baby. Any one can see the baby's face. Is it your baby, sister? Oh, what a pity. Come here just a minute. I'm sure you all would forgive me. Let's just find out what that is. Will you? Huh? See, that's the Holy Spirit. Would it help you? Would it help you? Would it help the congregation? I was just saying that little story about the little boy at Fort Wayne, and then about the baby. You look to me.
Now, I don't say that ... you know what I mean, like Peter and John passed through the gate called Beautiful and said to the crippled old man, "Look on us. Look on us." That means just pay attention to what I'm saying. Give heed.

103 The baby... Something's happened. And if the Holy Spirit will be able to tell me about that, would it help your faith to believe that He'd make it well? It would. I know I hit those spots. I had it here not long ago. I was wondering about crossing over. I had an experience I aim to tell to the church this week sometime, what happened.
Now, you know, lady, if I could help that baby and would not do it, I don't deserve to be behind this Bible here. No, sir. I'd be an impostor. I shouldn't even be allowed to brought ... come behind the pulpit. But if I could help it, I would do it. But the only thing that I...
If Jesus was standing here with this suit on that He gave me, He couldn't do no more than to tell you that when He died at Calvary, He purchased the healing of that baby. Now, these clergymen can tell you that's truth. Isn't that right, brethren? He did.

104 Then if He was standing here, and you'd say, "O Lord Jesus, will you heal my baby? Let it get well. I love you, Lord, and I will raise the baby to serve You, if You'll just heal my little baby."
Maybe it burnt itself or whatever it was, I don't know. But whatever it was, if You just heal my baby, I'll promise I will raise it to serve You."
Well, He'd say, "My daughter, I've already healed your baby at Calvary."

105 Now, how would you know that was Him telling you that? Well then, He'd do just like He did when He was here on earth. He'd tell, like the woman that touched His garment, see, something like that. You know what I mean? Tell you about the baby. And that would help you to believe that it wouldn't be your brother then; it would be the Lord Jesus that's here. Is that right? How many understands that? All right. May the Lord help.
Sister? To the baby? No, it isn't a burn. It looks like it, but it isn't. That's the results of some treatments. Doctors has done everything they could for the baby, but it's sort of a tumorous condition, like blood cells is all run together. And you've had it to several doctors, they've turned it down. "There's nothing can be done for it," they say.

106 But you don't believe that. You believe that God will let your baby get well. That's right. It's true. You're not from this city. No. You believe you can take it back to Eugene, and it will be all right, and God will make it well for you? Do you believe with all your heart that God will make it well? Let us pray. Bow your heads.
Our heavenly Father, in the light of Calvary, in the presence of the Holy Ghost, I condemn this devil that's did this to this baby. You've hid from the doctor, but you can't hide from God. Come out from this baby and let this baby be well. I charge thee by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, whose presence is here now, that you defile this baby no longer. Amen.
Now, don't you doubt a bit. The thing will leave the baby's face. It's been thought as a birthmark, like. But don't... Just go ahead and believe, and the baby will get all right.

107 You believe now with all your heart? How about some of you out there in the audience now with no prayer cards? You believe with all your heart? So that you'll know the Holy Spirit's here. Be reverent, pray.
You sitting there weeping, got someone on your heart, haven't you? It's a little one too. It's in a hospital in Portland, got club feet. The child's going to be operated on tomorrow. That's "Thus saith the Lord." You believe with all your heart, the child will come out all right. Amen.
What did she touch? What to her... Ask her. I never seen the woman in my life. She's a total stranger. If that's right, wave your hand back and forth, lady. See? Is every bit of that He said was true? If it is, wave your again. Stand up to your feet, if that's the truth. There it is.

108 Now, do you believe that the presence of Christ is here? Then believe with all your heart now, while you pray with me. We can't linger too long here. If we do, it's going to... You know, it'll take too long to do it. It's hard to stop it when it once starts.
That man sitting there with the hand up like this, suffering with hay fever. Do you believe that God will make you well? I don't know you, do I? You don't know me, but God knows us both. But you have hay fever. If that's right, raise up your hand. What did you contact? The Spirit of God. Now, go and believe, and it will leave you. Hay fever isn't a disease; it's a condition of the nose. Just believe with all your heart, and it'll leave you, and you'll never have it again, if you believe.
Blessed be the name of the Lord. Tell me that Jesus Christ isn't the same yesterday, today, and forever? He certainly is the same. "If thou canst believe..." It just keeps moving in the audience. Let's just start... Everybody help me pray.

109 Now, sir, if I don't say a thing and just pray for you, you'll believe, won't you?
Lord Jesus, I condemn the sickness of his body and ask for his healing in Jesus' name. Amen. God bless you, brother. Come ... going now.
You know that I know what's wrong with you, don't you? If I don't say a word, just pray for you, you'll believe. The nervousness has left you. So go on and be... Praise the Lord.
Come, believe with all your heart. Now, sister, you realize that He knows all about you. But if I just lay hands on you, the Bible said, "These signs shall follow them that believe. If they lay hands on the sick, they shall recover." Come.
Father, I lay hands upon her. In the name of Jesus, may she recover. Amen. Now, go thanking the Lord, just like it's already finished and gone.
Come, sister dear. Do you believe that God will heal you and make you well? Come, now.
Heavenly Father, I pray that You'll take this ... thing off of my sister. And may she wake up in the morning a different woman. Grant it, Father, in Jesus' name. Amen.
Now, go believing, sister. Don't doubt.

110 Come, brother dear. Believe with all your heart. Precious Lord, I pray that You'll heal my brother as I lay hands upon him. In the name of Jesus Christ, may he be healed. Amen.
Don't doubt; believe with all your heart.
You believe, brother? All right, come now. In the name of the Lord Jesus, may my brother be healed. Amen.
Bless you. Don't want to be crippled up all your life, do you? You know that I know what's wrong with you. You understand that. Every person passed, it could not be hid now at all. This arthritis will soon get you, if God don't help you. But He will help you now. Do you believe that?
Lord God, I charge this devil, by the name of Jesus Christ, that it will leave this woman, and then be healed. Amen.
Have faith. Do you believe? You believe with all your heart now? See? We can't stop with... See, the Holy Spirit... It's hard for me to keep from calling them. As soon as they've come, it looks like that you'd catch it, but you can't get to all of them. But the same Holy Spirit...
Do you believe that I believe God? Do you believe that? Jesus said, "These signs shall follow them that believe. If they lay hands on the sick, they'll recover." Is that right? Then you believe with all your heart.

111 Here, are you the next person to be prayed for? I don't know you; God knows you. If God will reveal to me something about you that you know that I do not know, would you believe me to be His servant? Would that help you out there? See? All right.
Now, you just look at me and believe with all your heart that God is going to tell me something about you that'll help you, see. And you'll know whether it's the truth or not, because you know. Something in your life, or something or other that you know about, you'll know whether that's truth or not, because you're a witness of it. I don't know you. I doubt whether you know me or not, unless it's just by hearing me somewhere. But I don't know you, no way at all of knowing nothing about you. It'd have to be revealed by Spirit if I know about you. Is that right?
One of your troubles is a nervous condition. You have spiritual problems. That's exactly right. Your physical condition is a kidney. You only have one; the other one's gone. That's right. You have a burden on your heart---that's for your husband. Is it all right for me to say what he is? He drinks, and you're praying for him. That's "Thus saith the Lord." Now, is that all right? Go and believe now, and receive in the name of Jesus Christ.

112 Just have faith; don't doubt. Everybody pray. Now, the same Holy Spirit is here just the same every time.
God, I charge this enemy in the name of Jesus to leave this baby. Amen. You believe now, sister dear, that he will be all right?
Father God, I pray that You'll heal our sister in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
Come, sister. Now, you're aware that I know what's wrong with you. And let me show you how I know how ... what you're... How many people out there's suffering with a nervous condition, just mental nervous, upset? Raise your hands up. Look here. See, same as yours. Now, if you can be healed standing here, they can be healed out there. Is that right? So, if you'll just believe that the presence of the Lord Jesus is here, you can be healed. Do you believe it? Then go and be well in the name of Jesus Christ. Just believe that I've told you the truth.

113 What if I told you, "You raised your hand down there awhile ago and you got healed." Would you believe me? All right, you were. When you accepted the Lord Jesus there, He taken care of it right then. God bless you.
All right. Now, you're suffering with heart trouble. That's right. Many of them out there's suffering with heart trouble. But do you believe that Jesus heals the heart that He lives in? Come here. In the name of Jesus Christ, may this woman be healed of this heart condition. Amen. Go and believe now with all your heart.
Come, brother dear. Believe. Lord Jesus, I pray that You'll heal him in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Go, don't doubt a thing now, brother. Believe with all your heart.
Our heavenly Father, I pray that You'll heal our sister in Jesus' name. May she go and be well. Amen.
Come believing. All right, sir. You want to go eat your dinner and feel good over it? Then go eat in the name of Jesus Christ.
Why is it just the discernment? Remember, friends, discernment doesn't heal. Discernment only... The voice of the discernment is what does the healing the voice of the discernment. You believe that?
Sitting on the end of the row back there, trouble with your eyes, with your throat, with your ears. You believe God makes you well? The man with the little striped thing across his shirt like this. I don't know you, never seen you. But something struck you right then, didn't it? That light appeared right over the top of your head. That's exactly what was wrong with you. If that's right, raise up your hand. All right, go home and be well. Jesus Christ heals you.

114 I never seen the man. Now, how many knows that that's exactly what...? Jesus looked out over the audience when the woman touched His garment, and He said, "Thy faith has saved thee." Is that right? She got well, see. Well then, does the Bible say that He's the High Priest right now, that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities? Is He the same God that came up when Simon come up before Him, and He said, "Your name is Simon"? Is that the same God that knowed his name? Do you believe He knows the same thing, can do the same thing? You believe He knows your infirmities?
You know that He perceived their thoughts? This is not only perceiving their thoughts, it's telling what they were, what they are, and what they will be, see. It does more than that---it reveals sin. How many's seen it reveal sins and call it out, and tell men, point out the women they're living with and everything. If you don't want that done, you better make it right before you come on the platform. It'll certainly do it.

115 How many's been in the meetings (raise your hands now) and seen that done? Raise your hands everywhere. Certainly it will. It's perfect, it's God. Sometimes people have more faith then they think they have. You try to make yourself have faith. Don't do that; just humble yourself. A man sitting right there, the light's still around him right there. Didn't even... It surprised him he had that much faith. That's right. But he had it just...
Isn't that right, sir? If that's right, raise up your hand, the man that's healed right down here. That's right. It just surprised you; you don't think you have it. But it's just simple. Just believe it.
Here. Here's a man standing here. I don't know you. That's right. You don't know me, I suppose. God knows you. You know me just by seeing in the audience and things like that, but not this way. You think that God... If He would tell me what you're here for, or something, would it make you have a lot of faith to believe? It would make you... It might make you have faith. All right.

116 What if I told you that you're here to have this little lump taken off of your head there? That's exactly what you're here for. If that's right, raise your hand. Now, the audience might say, "Sure, Brother Branham, you're looking at him." All right. If this is the Spirit of Jesus Christ, He will know the man. I will have contact with him. That's right.
You're not from here---from a city called Lakeview. Is that right? They call you Bill, don't they? If that's right, raise up your hand. Now, you got faith? Then go and be healed. Jesus Christ makes you well. Have faith.

117 Anyone sees this is a little afflicted child. All of you bow your heads while we pray for this little child. Bring him, don't have to say it. You know... You believe that God will take this little fellow, and take this away from him and let him get well?
Lord, I lay hands upon him in the name of the Lord Jesus, condemn the devil that's done this evil to the child. May the child return even this week and show ... the mother show what's happened to the baby. In Jesus' name, I commit him to the hands of God. Amen.
God bless you, sister. I want...
Come, little fellow. Lord Jesus, bless this little one and make it well, through Jesus Christ's name. Amen. All over, it's all over...

118 Come, sister dear. Our heavenly Father, I pray that You'll bless the woman and heal her in Jesus' name. Amen. Have faith, now.
Bring the little lad. Do you believe that God can make him well? Our heavenly Father, I hold this little boy close to me and ask that the power of Almighty...
[Gap in the audio.] ... if it isn't for You. I pray that You'll let this little child be so healed, that the people will know that You're God. That this child may return back into this audience before this series of services closes this coming week, and show that God has healed her, and her little legs are well, and she's walking again.
Oh, you devil that's done this, I charge you by God, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, whose presence is here now, leave the child! And may the strength of God take the place of this brace, that the child will walk in the power of the Spirit of God the rest of her life. Amen.
Will it be that way, sir? It will. God bless you, you shall have what you've asked for. I give you the child in the name of Jesus Christ for her healing.

119 All right? You the next person? This is all the line? Well, young fellow, I'm a stranger to you. I don't know you, and you don't know me, but God knows us both. If the Lord will tell me what you're here for, will you believe? Would it cause you to believe? You would believe. All right. How many would it help the audience? It would help.
Something strange about you. You are... You're actually a nervous, upset---a nervous condition. You've come from a long ways to be prayed for. You're not really an American. You're German. You're from Germany, and you've come here to be prayed for. And I see you arrived at Jeffersonville, and I was gone, and you come over here for me to pray for you all the way from Germany. I send you back to Germany in the name of Jesus Christ a well man. Do you believe me?
I cast the evil from this man in the name of Jesus Christ. Come out of him. May he return to his people a well man, and when I return there to Germany, Lord, for a meeting, may this young man be a testimony. In the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
You're healed. Go back home well. Auf wiedersehen. Praise the Lord. Do you believe?

120 What about you sitting in that wheelchair? You believe God can heal you? Will you believe me to be His prophet? If I could take you out of that wheelchair, I'd do it. I can't do it, but God can do it. If God will reveal to me what you're sitting there about, will you obey me as His prophet? Cancer eating you up in the bowel. Will you obey me as His prophet? You'll die sitting there. You can't go anywhere there. You may be weak, under strength, but...

The Queen of Sheba

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1 Let's just remain standing a moment while we pray. Let's bow our heads. Our gracious heavenly Father, we thank Thee for this grand privilege of approaching thy throne of mercy again tonight, in the all-sufficient name of Jesus, thy Son. We thank Thee because that we have the perfect assurance that if we ask anything in his name, it will be granted.
So there are many here tonight who are needy. They're sick in body. Some of them are sick in soul. And we pray, Father, that You will supply everything that they have need of---salvation for their soul above all things, then healing for the sick, joy for those that are sorrowing, hope for those who are hopeless. Grant it, Lord.
And when the service shall end tonight, and we go to our different homes, places of abode, may we say like those who came from Emmaus that day, "Did not our hearts burn within us as he talked to us along the way?", for we ask it in Jesus' name. Amen. You may be seated.

2 It's such a privilege to be back here again tonight, in this Long Beach Municipal Auditorium. It's been several years since I was here---about '46 or '47, somewhere like that.
I believe I followed the service of a great servant of the Lord, Dr. Charles Fuller---used to have the "Old Fashioned Revival Hour." It used to start and was created here. Great servant of the Lord. I hear now that he doesn't have his services here anymore. Always wanted to meet Brother Fuller. I never had that grand privilege.

3 I remember coming into South Africa about seven or eight years ago. The audience was about two hundred and fifty thousand people. Some of you Long Beach people, you'd never guess what they greeted me with when I come on the platform: singing in about fifteen different languages all blending together, "Heavenly Sunshine." They were singing "Heavenly Sunshine," which I believe was Dr. Fuller's theme song here. And I always thought if I got to meet him I would like to tell him that---that his messages had got down into the ... way down into South Africa. And those precious people loved him. And knew me, being an American, sang "Heavenly Sunshine," or "Sunlight," ever which way it goes. And they were singing it in fifteen different languages altogether. You never... But all blending just perfectly. The Holy Spirit... When people get together and the love of God starts moving upon them, there's no friction. It's just all one great big body moving together.
Dr. F. F. Bosworth, which was one of the managers, he just stood... He'd led symphonies. He'd taken the Dowie seventy-five piece band to Madison Square Garden in the days of Dr. Alexander Dowie. And he said he had trained the choir---you'd get somebody a few octaves, or ever what you call it, high and some too low. But said those raw heathens, blanket natives---didn't know which was right and left hand, and them at war with one another, had to separate them in tribes---yet they were not one octave out at all; everyone blending right together, "Heavenly Sunshine."
If anybody knows Brother Fuller, tell him that for me. I don't guess I'll... May never get to see him. He's a busy man, and I don't like to take the time. But it would certainly thrill him.

4 The gospel---and yet in its simplicity---is the greatest drawing card the world has ever known. Jesus said when He was here on earth, "If I be lifted up, I'll draw all men unto me." Black, white, yellow, brown, whatever their color or race is, the gospel still holds the center of attraction to every man and every woman.
And I do believe that our churches should be just a little farther advanced in the gospel than what we are. I think that we contribute that. I do, and if I'm wrong I pray the Lord forgive me. I think we try to look back too much to see what somebody else has done or said, instead of looking forward to Christ. He's our leader.
A few hundred years ago ... I may be mistaken in this quotation, but I'd say three hundred years ago, I believe it was a scientist in France that tried to take a ball and whirl it around the earth, or something another. Might have been 150 years ago. And whirled it around the earth with the speed... And claimed if any vehicle on earth would ever move the terrific speed of thirty miles an hour that gravitation would lose its hold, and go right off the earth. Now that was scientifically proven in that day. Do you think any scientist would look back, and say ... to that? Certainly not. I see where they've got a plane now (I forget) around five thousand miles an hour it can fly. And they don't stop even at that. They keep going on, on.
But we Christians, and we clergymen and ministers, we try to look back in our school, and see what Mr. Moody said about it, what Mr. Sankey said, or Finney, or Knox, or Calvin, or any of those. Now, they were great men in their day. But see, we're always looking back. Let's look forward, see. We've got untapped resources.

5 And now, science can only climb so high. Then they have to leave, go back. The tree of knowledge only produces so much. That was set before us in the Garden of Eden, and a human being is prone to live from that tree of knowledge. But it never was God's plan for us to live by that tree of knowledge.
The first time man took a bite from the tree of knowledge, he separated his fellowship from God. Every time he takes a bite off that tree, he destroys himself, continually. He bit off gun powder. Look what that does---kills his comrades. Bit off automobiles. That kills more than the gun powder. Now he's got an atomic and hydrogen bomb. Still eating from that tree of knowledge, which finally will send him back to his destination.

6 But the tree of life that he left willfully, to eat from the tree of knowledge, then there's where he leaves alone. I believe that science now ... I was tested by one of those meter tests on your arm, about this light, angel of the Lord. And the scientific picture that was taken of it, you have it right here now. It's been taken over the world at different places---a picture of the same pillar of fire that followed the children of Israel, scientifically proven.
George J. Lacy, the head of the FBI of fingerprinting documents, he examined it to see if it was right. He said, "It's not psychology." Said, "The mechanical eye of the camera won't take psychology."

7 Now instead of advancing on, and see what God promised, we look back to see what some brother behind us said. Let's don't look back; look forward. Keep moving on, on. We have untapped resources.
Jesus said in St. Mark 11:23, "Whatsoever ... if you say to this mountain, 'Be moved,' and don't doubt in your heart, but believe that what you have said will come to pass; you can have what you said." No conditions, it's just unlimited.
"Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, believe you receive them. You shall have them." Whatever---divine healing, joy, peace, anything.
Now, you say, "Brother Branham, what if we'd ask for something that ... somebody's life to be taken, or some evil thing?"
Well, you couldn't really have Christian faith for a thing like that. It takes a Christian spirit to ask Christian things, to receive things from Christ. You must have...

8 Always remember, church, God's words are true. I believe the right mental attitude towards any divine promise of God will bring it to pass, if you can look at it in the right way.
But remember. Here's been my standard in life. I have tried to do this. The first thing, I want to find out whether it's the will of God or not. Then I know it's God's will. The next thing is my objective to it, and my motive in doing it. Then, if it's the will of God, and my objective is right, and my motive is right, I have faith that it will be done. Because, first, it's the will of God, and my objective is to glorify Him, and my motive is to give Him all the glory. So there's no selfish motives about it.
If you have a selfish motive, it won't work. If your objective is to make money for yourself, or something, why, you'll never succeed. And then try to do something outside of the will of the Lord, then it won't work to begin with. So there is genuine faith, but you must come into the real channel of God to have that genuine faith.
There's human faith, then there's faith of God. And you must have the godly faith to believe. Then to have godly faith, you must have the mind of Christ in you. Then, that's how God projects to you. Visions, revelations, and all these things comes by the mind of Christ being in you. Do you get it? Let the mind that was in Christ be in you.

9 Well, it thrills me tonight, again, to say to be back here in Long Beach, after many years. I remember when I first come in here, there was a whole lot of doubt about the ministry. I was about the only one on the field at that time having healing campaigns. I remember how it was so criticized. I remember the night when I left here. And I'd listened to the thrilling message of Dr. Fuller. I sat right along out here that afternoon, and heard his great, stirring, powerful teaching message. I'd seen his audience leave---fine people, intelligent, nice-looking, clean people---seen them all leave the building. That was his audience.
And now here come mine in, in strait jackets, wheel chairs. And I thought, "That's quite a little thing different to that stature of faith, you see. You've got to know. But it was a challenge to the Word of God, which God had promised that was true, and He'd stand behind it.
Around the world I've been with this message. Not one time has God ever failed me. And after about fourteen years since being in here, I stand tonight with the same message to Long Beach that I had when I come here: Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. He's not diminished one bit. He has never failed me.
I've stood before witch doctors, and devils drinking blood in a human skull; and calling on the devil, and challenge you right down. And I've never seen one time that a challenge was ever made but what God moved on the scene, and done a great thing. I challenge your faith tonight to believe the Lord Jesus.

10 We have had a great week, or two weeks, with Brother Buntain of the Assembly of God Church, here in the city. I have learned to love Brother Buntain as a brother could only love another. I didn't hardly know him when I come in here. I had heard of his gallant father, in Canada, which is a great man, servant of Christ. Then I met his brother, had that privilege. I met other brethren here, and fellowshipped with them---fine singing, fine ministers. The little lady that just sang---Miss Piper, I believe her name is---such a lovely voice. It should be going all the time for Christ, everywhere. All these things should be working wherein it's a little later than you think. I believe we're near the...

11 Am I standing too close to the microphone? Can you hear me better if I back off like this. Is that better? All right. I want you to hear what I speak, but I don't want to have my voice rebounding. Now the acoustics here is usually very good. It was the last time we were here. I'd like to come back some time, if it would be pleasing to God, the will of God, and pleasing to the people. And maybe we'd get such a place as this. Instead of just having one church on the sponsorship, have all of them sponsoring it; then we could come here for an extensive meeting.
I will pray to that end, if you'll pray the same. And then maybe we could set it far enough ahead of time, until we could get the precious trustees, or whoever it is, overseers of this auditorium now, being that they're building one much larger out here; that we could use it some time for a ten-day meeting, or something. I believe that it would be wonderful to come---anything that would be to please, or to do something for God.

12 And now, when I mentioned a few moments ago Assemblies of God, now, that's just one denominational church. We don't for myself, as everyone knows, that I was ordained at about twenty-one years old---and that's been about thirty-one years ago---in the Missionary Baptist Church, to which I have nothing evil that I could say of the Missionary Baptist Church, or any other denomination.
I've took this stand: that if the Catholic Church... A Catholic---a Roman Catholic, or Orthodox, or whatever he may be---if he's looking to the Catholic Church for salvation, the person's lost. If the Baptist is looking to the Baptist Church for salvation, he's lost. If the Pentecostal is looking to the Pentecostal Church for salvation, he's lost.
But if the Catholic, Pentecostal or Baptist, Presbyterian, or whatever, if he is solemnly trusting in Jesus Christ, he's saved. Because it's "by faith are you saved, and that by grace," see. Catholics can be saved, Baptists can be saved, Pentecostals are saved, because that we all accept what Christ did for us. It's our own personal faith in a finished work that Christ did for us. Therefore, I have never drawed a denominational boundary, or had a barrier. I've tried to reach out, take everyone in my arms, and point them to the cross and that...
Dear dying Lamb, thy precious blood
Shall never lose its power
Until all the ransomed church of God
Be saved to sin no more.
Ever since by faith I saw that stream
Thy flowing wounds supplied,
Redeeming love has been my theme,
And shall be till I die.
That's my slogan, I might say. And then next, Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever.

13 Thank you all for all your kindness and mercies, and your generous hands that you've shook to me, and the kind things that you've done in your letters. And we're answering them just as fast as we can. And the little prayer cloths that I have prayed over, many of them I haven't got out yet. And if you want one (it's absolutely free), just write me at Jeffersonville, Indiana, and I'll send you one. Post Office Box 325. But if you can't think of that, just Jeffersonville, Indiana. It's a small city of about thirty-five thousand, and our mail is great.

14 Now, I'm not trying to get your address, for I have no programs at all. I have nothing, no programs. We have books, but them books ... we buy them from somebody else, to bring them to the meeting. I have no radio, no television, no nothing else. I'm not under obligation to nothing, or nobody, but God alone. I can go to a church little or big. I don't have to have any certain amount of money. There's nothing designated.
I'm fifty-one years old; been preaching thirty-one years, and never took a offering in my life. That's right. It's no money hooked into it at all.
People give me little things so I can live, and help support the ministry, which is appreciated. That goes into a foundation that my church... Myself, I get one hundred dollars a week for my living. And outside of that, well, that's all I have. And that's all I need.
And I don't believe that the gospel of Christ was ever made to commercialize. I believe that it's not to be done, and I do not believe that servants of Christ should try to be showmen. I believe they're supposed to be humble, take the place of Christ who we... His life in us represents Him to the public.

15 Now we find out that He said, "The foxes have holes, and dens. The birds have nests. But the Son of God doesn't have a place to lay his head." He didn't have to be that way. I think the sweetest word in the Bible, one of them: "Father, I sanctify myself for their sake." He had a right to a wife. He had a right to a home. He had a right to the pleasures of life, like we have---the comforts of life, at least.
But He was sanctifying Himself, because He was training twelve men that would stir the world with the gospel. And if He could do that, how much more ought we to sanctify ourselves? Now, let's ... just one more word to Him before we approach the Word of the author. Let's approach Him once more in prayer.

16 Lord, it's your Word. We pray that You'll make it real to us tonight. Now we know that it's written that "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." And as we read thy Word, we know it will not fail. Our words will fail, because we are mortal and we're finite. But Thou art infinite, and the immortal, eternal God.
And as I approach thy Word, I approach it under that type of faith, that your words cannot fail. And if I read this Word, then if the people who have gathered here tonight go home, they can at least say they heard something eternal, because it was your Word. Then, Father, if the gospel came not only by the hearing of the Word---faith came by that---but the gospel was to manifest, or demonstrate the power of the Holy Spirit that's in the Word; for 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.
Then we're taught over in the book of Hebrews that the word of God is sharper than a two-edged sword, cutting asunder even to the marrow of the bone; and the word of God is a discerner of the thoughts of the heart. The intents of our heart and mind, the Word of God can reveal it. Because the living Christ, who is the living Word, comes into our living souls, reveals the secret of the heart, for He is the Word. Let the Word speak, Father, and the meditation of our hearts be acceptable unto Thee, O Lord, for we ask it in Jesus' name. Amen.

17 In the book of St. Matthew's gospel, the twelfth chapter, forty-second verse, we'll read this for a portion, for a text.
And the queen of the south shall raise 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.
Jesus, in the previous readings of here... I wish when you'd go home ... to read this glorious chapter. And Jesus had been upbraiding them, and rebuking them, because they had not believed Him. He came, He said, in his Father's name and they received him not. He said, "Another will come in his own name, and then you'll receive him."
And that's right. We come, and make our churches, and have our denominations, and you're ready to say, "Yes, I belong to the Baptist, the Presbyterian." You receive that easily. But to receive Jesus, hunh-uh, they don't want it.

18 Now He said, "I come..." And when He did come, the people did not recognize Him. He came just exactly the way the Scriptures said that He would come. He came, and He was the Jewish Messiah. And not only Jewish Messiah, He was the promised seed of Abraham that we have so taken through the week of studying, and over at the church.
And He came to his own, and his own received him not. And He presented Himself to his own. And He came to Israel, which was the church of God, and the people of God, and the nation of God. And He came to his own, and his own received Him not. But as many as did receive Him, to them gave He the power to become sons of God, to them that believed on his name.

19 Now we find out that there was three classes of people. We sprang from three sons of Noah: Ham, Shem and Japheth. And that was Jew, Gentile, and Samaritan. If you noticed, Peter by revelation was given the keys to the kingdom, because God knowed that he had the revelation of the Scripture; for He asked his disciples in whole, "Who does man say I, the Son of man, am?"
And one said, "You are Elias."
The other one said, "You're the prophet."
One said, "Moses."
He said, "But I'm asking you, who do you say I am?"
And Peter said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God."
And Jesus said, "Blessed art thou, the son of Jonas. Flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my father which is in heaven. [See, it was a revelation.] And upon this rock I'll build my church, and the gates of hell cannot prevail against it," see. It was a direct revelation that had been made known to the apostle, that He was the Son of God.
Now if the church of God still exists, then those in the church have come in there by spiritual revelation, because that's how we come into the church. But many of us tried to come in through doctrinal theology, and so-so and all right, which I speak nothing against that. But I'm trying to differentiate between what is really truth, and what is part truth. The revelation that God reveals to you that that is his Son, who died in your stead, then that's the revelation who He is.

20 Now, Jesus said, "Come," and He had proved to the people by every means that the Scripture had said that He was the Messiah that they looked to come. Now many of them had drawn the wrong conception of his coming, and that's the reason He was misunderstood. Pardon the expression, but that's the reason tonight He's misunderstood. They draw the wrong conception of what He is.
Now, I believe while I was standing there I heard my associate here read the Scripture, of saying that the campaign themes are always Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. He quoted Hebrews 13:8, that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Now, when He came, the great group of Israel was certainly eyes opened wide, looking for a Messiah. But they were looking for Him in the way that they had been taught that He would come. Well, now, any good spiritual thinking, or even an intellectual thinking person, would know that He did not come contrary to the Scriptures. He come contrary to their understanding of the Scriptures, not contrary to the Scriptures. But they had been taught by their teachers in such a way that... The teachers had the wrong conception of Him. And may I not hurt feelings by saying this, but perhaps it could be that way again. You know, if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, He probably will come a little different than what we are expecting Him to come. That's only a logical, sensible way to approach such a thought, I would believe, in this day.

21 Now we will see then, that when He came the Messiah was supposed to be according to the prophet Moses, who was really the one who predicted his coming, and said, "The Lord your God shall raise up a prophet liken unto me." Now, any good theologian would have knowed that that Messiah had to be a prophet, or his attributes that followed him would be prophetic, because that Israel was always commanded to believe their prophets. They always would.
But we have to draw this under consideration, too, that not all can come to Christ. For He said, "No man can come to me, except my Father draws him first: And all the Father has given me will come to me." Look at the millions that received ... that did not receive Him in that day, and the minority that did receive Him.
Now let's place that over on today and look at it squarely the way it should be.

22 Now we see, as He come, that He did do the sign of the Messiah. And as many times through the week we have tried to produce that, and show it over, and over and over again, all the way from Genesis to Revelations we found it. Is that right, class, this week? That's what the Messiah would be.
[Blank spot.] ... he was anointed. The prophet always has the Word of the Lord, a true prophet, see. The prophet said that "They have eyes and cannot see [they could not see the miracles], they have ears and they cannot hear," see. Isaiah said so, so we know then that they had to be that way. Not that God intended it for it to be that way, but by his foreknowledge He knew it would be that way, for He is infinite.
So if He's infinite, He knew the end from the beginning. And that's the reason He could predict the end from the beginning. He knew, because He was God. And if He is not infinite, then He is not God. But we know He is infinite, and we are the finite. We get things so mixed up, and so settled that we're right, then God with his infinite mind just rides so far over the... "My thoughts are higher than your thoughts," said God. His ways are higher than our ways. So we must submit ourselves to his way.

23 Now we've heard of all kinds of things taking place. We've heard of Elijahs; we've heard of virgin Marys all over the country; and we've heard of all kinds of sensations, and everything like that---which, I am not here to speak against that. I am here to say that any angel of God, or any messenger of God, must stay strictly in the Word of God.
In the old Bible, they had a way to find out whether it was the truth or not. They had ... in their Mosaic laws they had what they called the Aaronic priesthood, and then ... the Levitical priesthood, rather, and Aaron was the high priest carrying on his breast the stones of each birth of the patriarchs. They hung that breastplate up, and then it was called the Urim Thummim.
And when a prophet prophesied, if he went to the Urim Thummim and he told his prophecy, or told his dream, and that supernatural lights didn't reflect back in a conglomeration of lights, then I don't care how good it sounded, it was wrong. They refused it. All good teachers know that, that they refused it. It had to witness to the Urim Thummim. And now, of course, when that priesthood ended, then there was another priesthood come in after the order of Melchisedec.
Now today, we do not have the birthstones of the patriarchs, but we do have a Urim Thummim, and that's God's Bible. Jesus said, "Heavens and earth will pass away, but my words shall never pass away." And in the book of Revelation, which is the revelation of Jesus Christ, He said, "If anybody will add to or take away from it, the same will be taken his part out of the book of life." This is the Urim Thummim.
Joseph Smith met an angel. It wasn't scriptural. Now, if any angel, or anything that is contrary to God's Word... This is the full revelation of Jesus Christ. So, therefore, stay with it.

24 Then, Jesus making Himself known to his brethren by speaking to Simon, and telling him who He was, and who his father was, Simon recognized immediately that He was the Messiah. Do you believe that God, before the foundation of the world, knew that that thing would happen like that? Jesus said so. "He knew them before the foundation of the world." So God had called them.
Now, when Nathanael came, he was also ... as I heard the brother here speaking a few moments ago, that was proven. And Nathanael, being a scriptural man, he knew that that was the Messiah, what the Messiah would do. The woman at the well, as he referred to it, and how many more times? Zacchaeus up in the tree, hiding from Him. Stood right under the tree and said, "Zacchaeus, come down. I'm going home with you for dinner."
Blind Bartimaeus, going down in the crowd, and them throwing stuff at him, and screaming and making fun of him---yet his faith stopped Him. And not only stopped Him, but it healed the man.
A woman touched the borders of his garment, went off, and sat down. He said, "Somebody touched me." And the apostle rebuked Him for saying such a word. And He looked around over the audience till He found the woman, and told her of her blood issue, and said her faith had saved her, see. It was perfect---the sign of the Messiah---and they refused to recognize it.

25 Now my contentions is, is this on the Scripture, that He did those signs before both Jew and Samaritan; but not to the Gentile. Not once, because the Gentiles wasn't looking for no Messiah. But are we Gentile Christians tonight looking for a Messiah?
He promised us in Luke. He said that when we seen the sign of Sodom, that's the way it would be at the coming of the Son of man. You remember that? How that Lot down there, the borderline believer down in Sodom, the church member, all messed up with the world, and his theology all messed up; but there was a modern Billy Graham went down there, and they preached the gospel, and brought Lot and them out.

26 But Abraham was already out. The word "church" means called-out, the called-out group. In other words, God calls for separation.
The world today calls for mixers. Many of the people, choosing your pastor, you want to get someone who will mix, who will go down and go bathing on the beach, or take a little friendly drink with you, or tell a little smutty joke, or something. That's too much in the Protestant realms today. But the people wants a mixer, but God calls for separators. Separate yourself from it. "Yoke not up with unbelief." That's God's way of doing it; the world has a different conception.

27 Now as we look farther into the Word, we find the church called-out, the elect. There was an angel who spoke to them, and gave them a sign. And there was a strange man dwelling in flesh, that Abraham later called "Elohim," God Almighty. And so, he noticed that this man was sitting ... had his back turned to the tent.
And just the chapter before this, God had met Abraham, and give him a name from Abram to Abraham; Sarai to Sarah, and princess, and he addressed them both by their priestly, or God-given names. Elohim (H-e-m), taken part of his name---Abraham from Abram. "Ham," part of God's name, because he was to be also a father by seed to many nations---a father of nations. Now. You notice what taken place there. Now the angel, with his back turned to the tent, he said, "Where is Sarah, thy wife?" How did he know her name was Sarah? How did he know he was married? How did he know all these things?
Said, "She's in the tent behind you."
And he said, "I'm going to visit you according to the time of life."
And Sarah laughed within herself. When she did, the angel said, "Why did she laugh, saying in her heart that 'I'll not be able to do this, and I'm too old,'" and so forth? How did He know that?

28 Now Jesus plainly... Now listen close. Don't miss it and be just as reverent as you can. Notice, that promise was made just to recur again at the coming of the Lord, see.
Now Jesus, being misunderstood, what did they say when they seen Him doing the signs of the Messiah? They said, "He's Beelzebub."
Well, now, we know that Beelzebub was a devil. He was the chief of the devils. And otherwise they called Jesus, in perceiving the thoughts in their heart, a fortune-teller, or a mind reader, or something like that, which we know that that is of the devil. Certainly. And it is a perverted... Something that has been real has been perverted. The devil cannot create; the devil only perverts what God's created. There's only one creator. That's God.
What is a lie? Is the truth misrepresented. What is a bad woman? Is a good woman that's been perverted, see. Anything that's perverted is of the devil. Anything in its original condition is of God, see. God is the only creator, and the devil cannot create. He has to pervert what God has created. Keep that in your mind.
Now they called the Spirit of God that was doing these great signs to prove that He was Messiah, they called that an evil spirit. And Jesus said that "I will forgive you for this. But when the Holy Spirit comes to do the same thing, one word against it will never be forgiven in this world, neither in the world that is to come." Watch how stern.

29 Now before judgment can strike, mercy comes first. Then after mercy... Then, if you spurn mercy, there's only one thing left---that's judgment. Judgment follows mercy, after it's been spurned. They spurned Christ. Judgment followed. They spurned the prophets. Judgment followed.
And as much as it hurts me, as an American citizen, I must say that this nation has spurned mercy. So it's ready for God's divine judgment. Look what's gone to this nation. All kinds of things. Great men, like I just spoke of a few minutes ago: Charles Fuller, Billy Graham, Jack Schuller, Oral Roberts, Tommy Hicks, T.L. Osborn. Great men have crossed this nation, shaken it. And it continually wades in sin, blindly moving right on.
Some of them will be influenced by the ministry of these great men, and will come in and join church, and go right out and live the same way they always lived. When you profess the name of Jesus Christ, abstain from all sin. "Let every man that names the name of Jesus Christ," the Scripture says, "depart from sin."
But what do we... ?

30 What is sin? Unbelief. There's only one sin, unbelief. You commit adultery, you smoke cigarettes, you curse, you drink, because you're an unbeliever. If you was a believer you wouldn't do that. Them things are attributes of unbelief. A true believer's soundly solid, based on Christ. And there's nothing will shake him. But because that you're waving, pulling off to one side, that's the reason you have these things happen in your life. True unadulterated faith will hold you faithfully against the cross. It will.

31 Now, He upbraided them, and told them... Because that they did this, He began to say (and I'm coming down to my text now) that the queen of the south should rise, and condemn the generation. They had told Him that He was Beelzebub just a few verses behind this, and He had rebuked them for their unbelief.
He had told them that they'd had a day but they had spurned it. He said once, "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how oft would I have hovered you as a hen does her brood. But you would not. Now, you're left."
And I believe that the great Holy Spirit in the hearts of men and women in America who are Christians, can feel it crying, "Great America, America, how oft would have I given you a revival. How oft I would have gathered you together, but you would not. You love the things of the world more than you love the things of God, so there you are." Then there's nothing left but divine judgment will have to fall, separation from God.

32 Now we find out that through all generations God has had gifts. Every generation through the Bible, as I've got many scriptures here that I could refer to here, that through the different ages that God has had divine gifts.
And now, I want to say this to the clergymen. I want you to tell me, or mention to me, in history one time of any historian, or any time that God ever poured out his blessings and had a revival, but what supernatural signs followed that revival. Every revival they've had healings, and speaking with tongues, and demonstrations of the Spirit, in every revival. It's the signs of God. God ... where God is there is signs, because God is a sign-working God.
Jesus never did say, "Did you believe me because I had my Father's teachings?" He said, "If I do not the teaching of my Father, don't believe me."? He said, "If I do not the works of my Father... Don't believe me if I do not do the works."

33 We have went and made schools, and Bible schools, and seminaries, and built fine buildings, but that certainly was not the commission. Them's all right. I can't say nothing evil against them. They've played their part. But that wasn't the commission. The commission was, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel." Preaching the gospel was to demonstrate the power. It had to be. What's the next verse say? "And these signs shall follow them that believe."
The manifestations, or the demonstrations, are the works of the Word made positive. When the Word is preached, signs of the Word confirms the Word to be true. If it doesn't, it doesn't come from the heart of faith. It doesn't anchor in the heart of faith.
Did not Jesus say that some sowed seeds, and when it did, it fell by the wayside and the birds gathered them? Some went in stony ground, and riches of the earth choked them out, like briars, and so forth? And didn't He say some went over, and brought forth a hundredfold? See, you must first let the Word fall in the right type of faith. And then that faith produces what the Word said, because the Word is a seed.
The Word of God, right here, is a seed that a sower sowed. And every seed will produce its kind, if it's put in the right atmosphere and the right condition.

34 You can't hide it. You can't hide genuine life.
You take natural life, botany life. Let that sun come warm. Now, like in my country, the little seed drops off, out of these flowers. They die. They have a funeral procession. The skies cry down great big October tears, and buries them in the ground. The seed bursts. The pulp runs out. That isn't the end of that flower.
Just let the sun, the s-u-n, who has control of all the life of botany... Then when it begins to shine upon the ground, and get it in a certain temperature ... No other temperature will do it. Nothing else will put that color in there but the sun. So, you let it get in the right temperature, the right atmosphere, and that little germ of life---hid somewhere in the dirt---will come forth again.
Did you ever lay concrete walk, and notice in the spring of the year? Where is your thickest of the grass? Right around the edge of the walk. What is it? It's that seed that was buried under that walk. And when the temperature gets right, the season gets right, you can't hide life. It'll work its way right through, and come stick its little head up and praise God, because it's life. You can't hide it when the s-u-n is a-shining. Just as sure as the s-u-n brings botany life, the S-o-n brings eternal life, and you can't hide it. It'll shine forth. There's something has to happen.
Jesus said, "If they hold their peace, the stones will immediately cry out." Something takes place. When God, the eternal God, begins to shine his Spirit down, those that are ordained to life will recognize it. They will come and walk in the light, live in the light.

35 And He said, "Verily, I say unto you a little while and the world [cosmos, which means the world order] will see me no more; yet ye shall see me, for I ["I" is a personal pronoun there], I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the consummation," all the way down.
"Go ye into all the world." Not just to this generation; all the world. You that say that the ... want to say that the signs of the apostles was the only ones had the Holy Spirit, only ones that could do miracles, how can you read the history of the church, and say such a thing as that? What about Polycarp? What about Irenaeus? What about St. Martin? What are you going to do with those men? Columba, all of those, what are you going to do with them?
Hundreds of years later, they still healed the sick, raised the dead, spoke in tongues, cast out devils. How're you going to hide it? As long as that Son, S-o-n, of God's Holy Spirit shines on the church, signs and wonders will appear. You can't hide it. It's there.
Read this with me, Mark 16: "Go ye into all the world [It's never reached all the world yet.] preach the gospel [Demonstrate the power. How much?], to every creature," see. "These signs shall follow them that believe..." How far? All the world, every creature. You just can't hide it. He never did say, "Go teach the Word." "Go preach the gospel. Demonstrate the power of the Holy Ghost."

36 Now, if you don't know the Word, how will you know the signs? "These signs..." You've got to know the Word to know what you're talking about. If you take it from some man's conception, then you never got it the way Peter got it. Then you'll draw your own idea about it. But Jesus told Peter, "Flesh and blood did not reveal this to you but my Father which is in heaven. And upon this rock I'll build my church, and the gates of hell can't prevail against it."
Now, to see whether it's right or not, go back and get the pre-Nicene Fathers, or the Nicene Council and the historians of the age, and find out whether each time when people believed that Word it produced just exactly what it said it would produce.

37 I seen not long ago where they went into the garners of Egypt, and got some wheat that was put in there about twenty-five hundred years ago. Yes, more than that---about three thousand years ago---put in there by Joseph. Some of the wheat had been laying there for all those years, and planted it in the ground and it produced again.
No matter how long this gospel lays here... Two thousand years we've had mockers and scoffers in saying the days of miracles is past; but put that Word in the right kind of a heart, it'll produce again, just exactly like it did at the first time, 'cause it's the Word of God. It's got to come into a channel of faith. As long as it laid in the garner it didn't mean nothing. It just stayed there as a memorial.

38 I was surprised in Rome. They've got authentically nineteen different nails that were nailed in Jesus' hands. Every one said, "We got it."
"Our church has got it."
"We got it." Nineteen nails that they can prove; when there was only three, see. Everybody wants a nail.
Here not long ago a great (you understand what I mean) ... a great one came forth with a piece, "Here's a piece of the original cross." What difference does that make? I don't care how many nails you got, how many pieces of cross you got. We need to produce this Word again. Put it not on a cross, on a nail, but on the living atmosphere of the Holy Spirit that brings forth the results.
God's Word under the right atmosphere will produce exactly what it says it will do. It's got to be in the right atmosphere, though. You can't lay it over in a seminary, or some Bible school that don't believe in signs and wonders. It'll never break forth and bring life there. The atmosphere is wrong. But you got to put it in the right atmosphere. What kind of an atmosphere? A surrendered atmosphere. Stay there until it does go to growing and taking life. That's the idea.

39 They never did say, "If I do the teaching of my Father..." He said, "If I do not the works of my Father..." The teaching, anybody could teach it; but let's see the works be done.
You can say, "Oh, He's a great God." Sure.
We go in the Bible schools. Now, I'm not condemning them, but I'm trying... I hope you don't understand me wrong. I'm not condemning Bible schools, but I'm condemning that what you say ... that you teach these things; and then knock the whole foundation out to say it was in some other age.
It's just like giving your canary bird vitamins to build him up good strong wings, and put him in a cage. What good does it do to do that? Why build his wings up, if you're going to keep him caged up? What the church needs today is the opening up of these barriers that's holding them, and some Pentecostal Holy Ghost vitamins poured back into the church, and it'll change the atmosphere. That's right. They'll hatch. It'll bring forth eagles instead of chickens.

40 Chicken---he's a bird, but he's a half-brother. He don't know nothing about the heavenlies. He don't know what it means to be up there.
One of the most pitiful sights I ever seen was... I went down to a cage one time, my little Sarah and I. We were walking around, and I heard a noise. And a big eagle, someone had caught him, and he'd just beat all the feathers off of his head, the ends of his wings. And he'd get back across the cage, and he'd come flopping. And he'd hit his head against his wings, and the feathers would fly, and he'd fall back.
I seen him laying there, and them big gray eyes looking around. Why? He was a heavenly bird. He lives in the heavens. That's where his heart is. But through the cunningness of men had trapped him, and put him in this cage, and he was trying to beat himself out with his own power---beat right against the sides.
I thought "That's pitiful." I walked away from there almost crying. I thought, "I wish they'd sell it to me." I hate to see anything caged up.
I hate to see the church caged up. Yeah, just beating yourself to death, and everything else, with all kinds of soup suppers, and dinners, and classes, and societies, and things like that. My! You wasn't born to be like that. No.

41 And I noticed the old fellow. I thought if I could just... I thought, "Well, that's a pitiful sight."
Sarah said, "Daddy, that poor bird."
I said, "Yes, honey."
Said, "What's he beating his head... ?"
I said, "He's trying to get out of them bars."
Said, "What makes him want to. Why don't he just sit down and be satisfied?"
I said, "He can't. See, honey, his nature is up there. That's where he ought to be. Them big wings was give him to hold himself up there in the air, to look down, fly high."
And I turned away from there. I thought, "That's a pitiful thing. But I know something more pitiful: to see a church that calls itself the church of God, the church of Jesus Christ, caged up in a cage, when actually they can read the Bible and find out they're not born to be caged chickens in a barnyard. They're supposed to be eagles, that can set their wings in the rushing mighty wind that comes down. They don't have to flop. They just know how to hold their wings, and fly away up into where all things are possible, into a place that takes them out of this caged-in places we sit."
"Days of miracles is past. There is no such thing as divine healing. There's no Holy Spirit." Oh, it's pitiful. What can you do?

42 Now, Jesus speaking to them, He gave them some signs. And as my time is just about gone, I'd like to refer to some of those signs. Watch here. He said (just the verse behind it), " As the days... As it was in the days of Jonas, the prophet..." God in all generations has had signs and wonders. He's had servants that He dealt with, sometimes just one. Did you know that? Got down in the days of Noah to one. And he gets to a type; also said so in the coming of the Son of man, and so forth. He got down into a place ... but He's always had his servants.
Now listen close, in the next few minutes, now. I think exactly I got fifteen minutes to be on time.

43 Notice, always when God sent his servants, and sent his gifts to his servants, if that people believed those gifts it was a golden jubilee for the people. But if they rejected them signs and gifts that He gave them, it always ended up in chaos.
Now, ask any clergyman that you want to, or any historian, which I know sitting in our presence is some of the best historians that I know of. I've just been talking to them. And that is right. They always fail when they fail to recognize God, and his gifts, his signs. God always has... Where God goes is always signs and wonders. He promised it. These signs shall... Not maybe; they will. Now, it's always been foretold it would be.

44 Now, notice, He talked to them about the days of Jonas.
He was upbraiding them because they failed to see his Messiahic sign. But the woman at the well recognized it, didn't she? She said... "Go get your husband." Said, "I have none." Said, "That's right. You've had five. And the one you're living with now is not your husband."
She said, "Sir, I perceive that you're a prophet. Now we know when the Messiah cometh, this is going to be the Messiahic sign. We know this is... The Messiah will do this, but who are you?"
Jesus said, "I am he."
And she run into the city and said, "Come see a man who's told me the things that I did. Isn't that the very Messiah? Isn't that what the Messiah is supposed to be?" And the men of the city believed on Jesus because of the saying of the woman. Do you see it?

45 Now, Jesus was there, doing those things. And they'd turned Him down, so He said, "As it was in the days of Jonah..."
Everybody always made fun of Jonah. I'm going to take up for Jonah. Jonah had a lot more credit than people give him credit for. A lot of them said, "Oh, he's an old backslider." No, he wasn't. The footsteps of the righteous is ordered of the Lord, and Jonah was a prophet. God did that purposely, let him take that ship to Tarshish instead of Nineveh.
Always felt sorry for him when he was in the belly of that whale. You know, some people always look at their symptoms, saying, "Look at my hand. I was prayed for. It's no better." It never will be, like that. You don't look at your hand; you look at a promise.

46 Prayed for a boy here a few years ago. Old father and mother come got me to pray for him. He had black diphtheria, and the heart had went so low till the cardiograph showed that it was just gone. And they made me dress up like some kind of a Ku Klux Klan---the doctor did---to take me in there.
The doctor was Catholic, and he wouldn't let me go in because I'm married, and had children.
And I said, "Doctor, would you let the priest go in there to give him the last rites?"
He said, "Yes, but you're not a priest." Said, "A priest wouldn't have children to go to."
I said, "But he sits in a confession booth."
He said, "Go ahead." And he let me go.
So, I went in there. And the old father and mother got on one side, said, "Brother Branham, all we want you to do is to say the word."
I went in there, and prayed, laid hands on the baby ... the boy---was about twelve years old. I said, "Heavenly Father, this is a promise. This is what You promised. I lay hands upon this young man now, and I ask for his life because that You promised it. These people believe it, and they sent for me to come here. This is all I know to do, is lay my hands upon him because You said, 'These signs shall follow them that believe.' "
I laid hands on him, walked away, and I said, "Now, the Lord bless you."

47 And the father grabbed the mother, and said, "Oh, sweetheart, isn't this wonderful?" The boy never showed one speck.
And the little nurse... After the father and mother just crying, hugging one another, rejoicing because the boy was well, see. Why, the boy hadn't changed a bit.
And that little nurse said, "Why, sir! Do you realize what this is? How can you act like that, and your child dying?"
Said, "My child's not dying. My child's living, and is going to live. He said, "Well..."
She said, "Sir, I want to tell you something." Said, "You see that electrocardiograph thing?"
Said... I don't understand what she said, but said, "When that hand [or, ever what it was] went all the way down here, it's never been known in medical history ever to come back again." Said, "The boy's dying." Said, "His heart is just beating so many times now to the minute." Said, "It'll never come back again. And besides, the disease has got him in such a fix, it's so advanced, till there's nothing can be done. The boy's dying."
And I'll never forget that gallant old father. He took that little nurse, and put his arm around her. She was just a kid. And he said, "Look, lady, I don't blame you. You study to watch that chart." Said, "That's what you know---your study, and told by history, and by your doctors and everything." Said, "You're looking at that chart. That's all you know about." But said, "I'm looking to a promise."
You know who that boy is? It's Bob Bosworth, in South Africa tonight, preaching the gospel, a married man with a family. That's right. Why? It depends on what you are looking at, see. You look at God. Look at his promise.

48 Now, I always thought if someone had a good case of symptoms, and had a right, it was Jonah. Now, he was in the belly of the whale on a stormy sea, hands and feet tied behind him, laying down in the whale's belly full of the vomit. Now, if you looked this way it was whale's belly; that way, it was whale's belly; that way, it was whale's belly. Everywhere he looked, it was whale's belly.
Now, I don't think there's anyone here that bad off. That's a terrible condition to be into. But do you know what he said? He said, "They're lying vanities. I'll not look at them." But he said, "Once more will I look to thy holy temple."
When Solomon dedicated the temple he prayed... When that pillar of fire came in, the smoke behind it, and went down behind the holy place, he dedicated the temple, and said, "Lord, if thy children be in trouble anywhere, and will look to this holy temple and pray, then hear from heaven." And he believed that would be right, because Solomon was a servant of God, and he prayed. And what did God do?
Now, I couldn't tell you scientifically. He might've put an oxygen tank down there. I don't know what He done. But he kept that prophet alive for three days and nights in the belly of that whale. Is that right?

49 Well, now, if He'll do that on them circumstances, the faith in a man that finally backslid... Solomon did. His wives drawed him away from God. If he had that much confidence in Solomon's prayer, and that kind of a condition under those circumstances, how much more ought we tonight, under these circumstances, to look away from our symptoms to the right hand of God, where Jesus stands with his own blood making intercession upon our confession.
"Once more will I look to thy holy temple," where the living resurrected Son of God stands with his own bloody clothes before God, to make intercessions, plead for us as a high priest, upon what we confess that He's done. My!
Look what God did.

50 I read a little story not long ago. I might inject it here if you don't mind. Notice. You know all the people of Nineveh... It was a great city, pretty near the size of St. Louis up here. All right. We know that they went down there, and they were ... all had got away from God. They were heathens, and they were worshipping idols. And their occupation there by the sea, of course, was fishermen.
All the men went out early in the morning, thousands of boats out on the sea, and they drawed in fish. It was a great import, and they exported fish and things for a living. And now, the god of the sea was a whale. And just think of all the men out there on ... out there in their fish boats, out there fishing; and all the women and children standing on the bank waiting for hubby to come in bringing the fish, and the catch, and so forth.
And the first thing you know, the god of the sea raises up, the whale; runs up to the bank, licks out his tongue for a gang plank, and the prophet come walking right out of his mouth. Sure. No wonder they repented. Sure. They repented because the god had produced a prophet, and they listened to his words because he came there supernatural.

51 And notice, Jesus said that a wicked and an adulterous generation seeks after signs. Did he say that? Right here it is, previous verse. "A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after signs. And they will receive no sign except like the prophet, Jonas, was in the belly of the whale three days and nights, the Son of man must be in the heart of the earth three days and nights."
Now what was the sign that a wicked and adulterous generation would receive? The sign of the resurrection. Well, now, tell me, when did we ever have a more wicked and adulterous generation, when perverts is here in California increasing twenty to thirty percent every year? when in our own government they claim that thirty-five or forty percent are homosexuals, as it was in Sodom? Tell me when we ever had anymore wicked... Why, people do things that the ancient people wouldn't think about doing---the cruel punishment, wicked, unbelieving, unregenerated; every evil imagination in a man's heart like it was in the days of Noah. That's the generation he was talking about.
A wicked and an adulterous generation will receive what kind of a sign? The sign of the resurrected Jesus. The sign of the resurrection, they would receive it. Now it says so right here in the Scriptures.

52 Now then he goes down to the closing text: "And as it was in the days of Solomon so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man, for in the days of Solomon the queen of the south come from the utmost parts of the known world to hear the wisdom of Solomon."
Now let's take Solomon in his age just for a moment. Solomon was a great man of God who God gave a gift to. His gift was discernment. How many know that? Sure it was. All right. And look at all of Israel. How many Bible teachers here know that that was Israel's golden age? Sure it was. They built the temple. They done greater things. There was no wars, or nothing. Why, sure. Why? They were all with one accord giving praise to what God had done for them. Every one of them rallied around that great gift, and Israel was at peace with the rest of the nations.

53 Let me stop here a minute.
If America would take its science and try to find research to cure cancer or something that would do somebody good instead of trying to ... here, I'll change that. If America would turn to its gift from God and would receive God's gift that's in the nation now, they wouldn't have to build bomb shelters and things to protect themselves. The whole world would fear this nation. There's only one weapon against Communism and that's Christ. Christ is what Communism fears.

54 I was standing there in Russia or, not in Russia but in Finland, when the little boy---you read it in the magazines and things---when that little boy was raised from the dead. And there, when you're in Russia, when you're forty miles off of the place you were born you have to have a visa to show that you got business to be away from ... forty miles from where you was born. And when that went out over that radio, that day that that little boy had been raised from the dead from laying there...
Many of you people sitting right here that wrote that in your Bible two years before it happened when I told you. How many is in here tell me they heard, and I told you to write in your Bible that there'd be a resurrection of a little boy; that I'd cross through the West and all that? How many is here remembers that story? Raise up your hands. Look at there, see. All around over the building. Two years before it happened. And there the little boy...
Wasn't it just exactly the way it said it would be? Sure. God always does it just the right way. Now, just the way He says it's going to be, that's the way it's going to be. That's the reason his Word, his time, and everything, is going to be just exactly like He said it. No matter who don't believe it, it's going to be that way anyhow, see.

55 So when I come to the Messuhalli that night, they'd put about thirty thousand in, then make them go out, and another thirty thousand come in for me to speak to. And then when I was coming down the street, here's them little Finnish soldiers---never had shaved yet, just boys---about six of them in front and six of them in the back.
And there stood those Communist Russian soldiers, standing there with that Russian salute. When I passed by, with tears running down their cheeks, grabbed them Finnish soldiers, and hugged them. Anything that will make a Finn hug a Russian, and a Russian hug a Finn will change wars, and settle them forever.
They said, "We will receive a God like this."---a God that's got power, a God that can show Himself God.
What it is, our churches has just bottlized it down to a lodge. It's more than a lodge. It's the baptism into the body of the living resurrected Jesus Christ with power and signs and wonders. That's the gospel. That's Christ. That's God.

56 Notice him. Sure. Solomon, everybody rallied around him. Everybody would say ... oh, everybody in one accord. They said, "Oh, come see the great gift that our God give us. Come see the great gift that our God give."
When God give us the gift of the Holy Ghost ... that's our gift, the Holy Ghost. God sent us the Holy Ghost. What do we do? Laugh at it. Call them "holy rollers." Run them off on the corner. Tell them they're insane, they're out of their mind, they don't come from our schools, they're nothing but a bunch of tongues people. That's the reason we receive judgment.
What did they do on the day of Pentecost? What did them Jews do? Laughed and made fun of it. What did they do a few years later? Titus besieged the gates, and slaughtered them right in there, till the blood run out the gates, and turned the place upside down. Tore down the temple. They've been scattered ever since. Right.
We'll get the same. You've turned down the gift of God, the Holy Ghost. You substituted a handshake, or a letter from some other church to take its place. The Holy Spirit is not a handshake, neither is it a letter, it's the gift of God with power from on high to demonstrate to the people.
That's the Spirit of God that lives into us that makes it, and shows it, and proves to the people by signs and wonders that it is God. Hallelujah! I know you'll call me a holy roller after this, but maybe I am one. I feel very religious right now, anyhow. Notice. God, demonstrations, powers, proving Himself that He is God. That's Scripture. You cannot deny it but what it's the truth.
Gifts of discernment. Now all...

57 Just think. The people passing by'd say, "Oh, you should come to our nation, see our great powerful God. Why, He works among our people. He does great signs and wonders. We got a king called Solomon. You should see the great discernment that man's got. Why, it's beyond thought." Well, you know faith cometh by hearing, doesn't it? Hearing the Word of God.
So the news went all over the world, everywhere ... heard about this. And they all began to fear because ... not fearing Solomon, but fearing God, because the living God was showing... Finally the news got way down into Sheba, way down, about---hundreds of miles down: about three hundred miles down south, way down across the Sahara Desert. Measure it on your map, and see how far it was.
Now, they didn't have television in them days, and radio, and newspapers, and telephones. They just traveled by the lip-to-the-ear, and caravans would come through, and bring the news. And everybody coming down into Sheba would say to the little queen, "Say, you should go up into Palestine. You know, they got a God up there that's so blest them people, they're all with one accord. There's not no friction among them at all. And they got a brother up there, they call him Solomon. They've made him the king. And they tell me that God just uses him for everything they got ... they have need of. He's just able to tell them,

58 you know."
And faith cometh by what? Hearing. And blessed are they that do hunger and thirst after righteousness ... they shall be filled. So the little queen began to hunger. She thought, you know, "I'll have to go see that." Now, remember, she's got a lot of prestige, you know, because she's a queen. So, I suppose she said, "Before I do this, now, I'd better go ask our pastor whether I can go or not, see, because I have to get permission from my denomination because that's another denomination. So I'd better go ask my pastor if I can go ... my priest."
So I can see her walk over, her little guard with her.
She said, "Holy father, may I have the permission from you---from this great holy church that we have here in Sheba---may I have the permission from you? They're having revival up in Palestine. May I be able to attend that revival?"
"Nonsense, my daughter. Now, if there was such a thing as that... I've heard that nonsense, too. There's nothing to it. It's just a bunch of holy rollers. There's nothing to it. But look. If there was any power in any god, it would be in our god right here. It would come to our organization. It would be ours, if there was anything to it," see.

59 Oh, brother! You know, the devil takes his man, but never his spirit. That's right. God takes his, too, but never his Spirit. He took Elijah, but his spirit came upon Elisha; then came out on John the Baptist.
He took his Son, Jesus, but the Holy Ghost come back in the church to do the same works. "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also," see. Keeps going on down. And the devil takes his man, but never the spirit. Them two spirits are still warring with one another, right on down.

60 Now, said, "No, you cannot go."
Well, she said, "Listen. You know there's something down in my heart." You know, there's something about it. When God gets a hold of a human heart, they do funny things.
Said, "But you know what? I've had, holy father [or dear bishop, general overseer], I have had such a great desire to go. I've always heard of those meetings, and I would like to go."
"Now, look, child. We'll just excommunicate you right off of the book," see. "We'll just take your name right off of this organization if you go."
Well, she said, "But, look. I want to say... I won't do no harm. I'll come right back down here, of course, as soon as the revival's over, soon as I go up."
"But you cannot go. I've made that declaration. And that's what the rest of them says, and that's what we have to stand by. Now if there was anything like that going on, it would be right here with us."

61 I can see that little queen, God moving on her heart. She squared herself off, and said, "I want to tell you something. [We need more of them.] I've been in this thing for years and years. My mother was in it. My grandmother was in it. And all I've seen is a bunch of papers, a bunch of writing, and talking about some god. But I haven't seen any kind of a move at all of any. I don't want these dead things. They tell me they got one up there that's a-living, that lives in his people, and that's what I want to see." Amen. God give us some more queens of Sheba in Long Beach.
"I want to see something that's got life in it. I want to see something that... I've been reading all the scrolls of the old ... of their books up there, and they tell me that that God is a God that knows the secrets of the heart. And they tell me that that man Solomon up there, the pastor, is just able to do these things, and it's wonderful. And I'm going to see it."
"If you do, I'll just take you right off the book."
"Well, you might as well take me right now, because I'm going."
I like that. "I'm going anyhow."

62 Well, now, notice. When she had what ... she cost her. You know, it's not cheap to come to Christ.
That's what's the matter with you American people today---us American people. Everything's so easy---no suffering, no nothing. We haven't had no wars, so we can just act as nasty as we want to.
I went into Switzerland, and you'd hear them ringing the bells, you'd think the millennium was on. That's right. But what do they do? They don't even believe that Jesus was virgin born. They got the old Zwingli doctrine, believe that He was the son of Joseph. But they ring them chimes till I thought the millennium had started. Woke me up one Sunday morning, and I didn't know what was taking place---about an hour and a half.
And there come about eighty or ninety glass-top buses from Germany. You know, Switzerland don't have any wars. They don't have to worry about anything. They're just as nasty and independent as Americans are. And they come right down through there, and the first thing you know ... come down to ... Germany come down.
And when we went to the meeting that night (Brother Arganbright, sitting here, he was right there), what was it the Holy Spirit called? Everyone was a German, and left the Swiss sitting right there, with all their chimes and so forth, see.
It takes suffering. You have to dig.

63 Oh, my! If you only knew! It's not easy. Anything that's handed to you on a platter, you don't enjoy it. Certainly. You can't appreciate what's give to you.
... God told Moses, said, "I give you Palestine. I've swept out all the houses, and hung up the curtains. You all just go right up and live there." Would that been it, they never would have enjoyed it.
He said, "I've give it to you. It's full of giants. You'll have to fight every inch of the way. But every place the soles of your foot steps, that's possession. Go take it. Sure, I'll be with you."
That's the way divine healing is. That's the way the Holy Ghost is. Everything you can walk behind you, is ... footsteps is possession. Keep walking. Keep going. That's the way. You just move your finger. Couldn't move it at all. You move it that much today, move it that much more tomorrow, and that much more the next day. Just keep on moving, moving, moving, moving. Footsteps is possession.

64 Notice, quickly now. That girl had a lot to face her. What she had to do now, she said... You know, she had some good reasonable things. She said, "You know what I'm going to do?" She said, "I'm going to take some money along with me. If it's the truth, if it is, I'm going to support it. But if it isn't, I'll bring it right back."
Oh, brother! Couldn't that teach Americans something? Yes, sir. Support things that laugh and make fun of you. That's right. Programs that laugh, and call you holy roller, and yet you support it with your money, and your own missionaries over yonder living on two bucks ... little platefuls of rice a week, with no shoes on their feet. Shame on you!
Put your money on something that's got God in it, and move it on. Not because it's all flowered up, and six-million-dollar buildings behind it, and things like that with theology. And take their missionaries up, and give them a mental examination by a worldly psychiatrist, to see whether they got enough mental power to be a missionary. God is the one to judge that by the Holy Ghost. Yes, sir. We don't need that stuff. We need God. Notice, then, how far can people just get away?

65 Now the little queen, she said, "If it's not right, I'll bring my money back." So she loaded on all kinds of jewels and frankincense, and everything.
Now, look, another thing. What if she'd have thought with all this money, she had to cross the Sahara Desert. And you know, Ishmael's children was out there, and they were all robbers. What if they'd have overtaken that little caravan of hers, just a few eunuchs, and some girls along with her. What would have happened? Why, they'd have robbed her in a minute, and took all the money.
But you know, if God is calling to your heart, you don't know no fear at all. You just keep going. You don't care what anybody else says, or anything else. You keep moving, when you're hungering and thirsting for righteousness.
Remember, too... No wonder Jesus said she'd stand in the last days, and condemn this generation. You know how long it'd taken her to cross there? It takes three months, ninety days. And she wasn't in a air-conditioned Cadillac, either. No, no. She crossed on the back of a camel, to hear the wisdom of Solomon. And Jesus said, "A greater than Solomon is here."
And the same thing here. The Holy Spirit's here, and people won't even cross the street to hear it. That's right. A greater than Solomon is here.

66 She come up to the place. Watch when she crossed. When she got up and come up to the courts of Solomon, now I imagine... Could you imagine... ? (I'm going to make her an American citizen.) She come in. "I'll go down and sit down, and hear that old holy roller just a few minutes, 'cause the neighbor over here (my maid) told me I ought to go. If he don't say the right thing just exactly, I'll get right up and walk out." Oh, my! "He'll either say what I believe he ought to say, or I won't listen to him at all."
That's where we're standing tonight. That's right. "If he says one thing that my pastor said was wrong, I'll just get right up and walk out." You'll stand with her too in the day of judgment. Then you'll be judged together, see. For a greater than Solomon is here; the Holy Spirit is here.
And she come ninety days on the back of a camel, through the hot burning sands to hear the wisdom of Solomon. She didn't come just to go in, and say, "I'll go in, and I'll find out. And if I don't like it just right, I'll get up and get out."
Nope. She built her camp right out in the courts. She said, "I'm going to stay till I'm convinced. I'm going to take the Scriptures and I'm going to find out. [She done read them all through what God's supposed to be]. And I'm going to see if it's right."

67 So, I imagine the next morning she cleaned herself up, and her little maids, and she went over to the church, and she got her seat and sat down. After a while the trumpets played, the hymns sang, and Pastor Solomon come walking out. Walked out, and the first thing you know... Maybe they had the line started. Maybe they had a number, or card. I don't know how they did it.
The first one came up. The little queen said, "Now, I'm going to see. I'm just going to watch and see whether this is right or not, see if that's really discernment."
Here come a person up. Maybe it was a man. And first thing you know... She seen that Solomon was just a man, so she said, "Now, I'm going to see where that God is. I see there's a man, but I want to know where that supernatural God is." So she watched that man. "Yep, he walks like a man, talks like a man, looks like a man. He's a man, that's all. But now where is that supernatural coming from?"
So when this man stood there, the first thing you know, the spirit of discernment come upon Solomon, and he told him the secrets of his heart. I imagine the little queen's heart begin to beat fast. The next one, the same thing. Next one, same thing. Next one, same thing.

68 She went home that night, maybe, and prayed out in her tent. Next day she came back, sat again. She said, "I believe I'll get a prayer card." So she ... or something, whatever it was. "I'll go up."
So then, finally her number come. Now, we could stay a long time on that, but to save time we're fixing to close. Finally come her time. And when she finally come up before Solomon, the Bible said that there wasn't nothing hid from Solomon that she wanted to know. God just poured it down upon Solomon, and told her every secret that she wanted to know. Isn't that wonderful?
You know what she said? She stood... Now, she didn't go back and say "I believe this is mental telepathy. I believe it's..." No, no. She stood, and she said, "All that I heard was wonderful. But it's greater than what I thought it was. It's greater because it worked on me." Amen.
Jesus said, "She'll stand in the last days with this generation and condemn it, because she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon." What was it? She saw something real. The world is living today for something real. Don't you think so? They want something that's got a foundation.

69 Not long ago ... and I'll close on this little story I'm fixing to tell you now. I used to hunt in the north woods. How I love to hunt! I hunted with a fellow name Caul, very fine man. But he was the meanest man I ever seen when it come to being cruel-hearted. He would shoot little fawns just to make me feel real bad about it.
And I'd say, "Don't do that, buddy. Don't..."
He'd say, "Oh, preacher, get next to yourself. You're chicken-hearted. That's what's the matter with you preachers."
I said, "No." I said, "I don't believe it's wrong to shoot a fawn." I was a game warden for years, and I said, "If the law says you can shoot a fawn... But just don't do it to be mean. Abraham killed a calf and fed it to God. It's all right to kill a fawn, if the law says so. But just not kill eight or ten of them just to make a fellow feel bad."

70 He had eyes just like a lizard anyhow. He always ... I didn't mean that like that. He was just kind of an odd-looking sort of fellow. And he used to want to make me feel real bad. So he said to me...
One day he was up there. I went up to hunt with him. He had a little whistle. He'd train this little whistle ... he could blow it, and sound like a little baby fawn crying for its mammy (You know what a little fawn is, a little fellow), and call its mama.
I said, "Burt, you wouldn't do a thing like that, would you?"
He said, "Ahh, Billy, get next to yourself. That's the way with you preachers. You're too chicken-hearted."
I said, "No, no, Burt. That's not right." I said, "Don't do that."

71 Well, he was a good hunter. You never had to hunt him up. He knowed where he was at. And so we'd go out, and we had great times together. He was a good ... oh, he was a dead shot. And so we hunted of a morning. We'd always put some hot chocolate in a thermos jug back here. There was about six inches of snow on the ground, good tracking weather. And we went up through the notch, and over on the Presidential Range. It got about eleven o'clock in the day, and it was way up in the season. And when them white-tail deer...
You talk about Houdini, an escape artist---you ought to see one of them. So they can really get away. Brush is thick and they'd get under the brush piles, and everything, and hide through the daytime, and then graze at night. So then, they won't come out unless you just run them out.
So Burt stopped at this little clearing, got ... oh, perhaps big as the main floor of this auditorium. He stopped about eleven o'clock, and started reaching back in his coat.
I thought, "Well, time we'll just have a sandwich, and we'll separate." And he goes one way; I go another. We'd been walking for about three or four hours right up the mountain. Then he'd go down the other side, and I'd come the other. We'd meet in some time that night at our regular pitched camp.

72 So I seen him reach back, and I thought he was going after his hot chocolate. And when he come out he had this whistle, and I said, "Burt, you wouldn't blow that thing." He looked at me with them lizard-looking eyes. He said... And put it in his mouth like this, and blowed. It sounded just like a little fawn crying for its mama. And I never ... I didn't think it would work.
So just about that time---just across the clearing---a great big mother doe stood up. Oh, she was a beautiful thing, and she was close enough till I could just see her big brown eyes. And I looked at him. He looked up at me, and he grinned-like.
I said, "Burt, you wouldn't kill that mother, would you?" And he looked at me like that, and he got down and blowed it again.
Now usually ... that's unusual for a deer to do that. When he blowed it again, that mother stepped right out into that opening. Now that's strange. They won't do that even anytime, hardly, especially hunting season after the guns has fired, and things. But she walked out into that opening.
What was it? She wasn't a hypocrite. She was a mother. There was something in her was genuine. It was a mother. A baby was in trouble, and she wanted to find where her baby was. Didn't make any difference how much danger it was. The danger didn't even bother her mind.

73 I can see them big ears now, just standing up like that, that mouth chewing like that, them big brown eyes looking around.
He looked up at me like that, pulled the... We never carried a load up in our guns, so he pulled, put that lever down on the 30.06, 180 grain bullet, mushroom. He leveled down like that. I thought, "Oh, my!" I thought, "Burt how can you do it?" I said, "That precious mother after her baby..." And he just kind of snickered, leveled out---just a dead shot, I knowed. Boy, within a second or two he'd blow that precious loyal heart plumb out of her, because he was a real shot.
I thought, "How can he be so wicked, and that mother giving that display of real motherly love!" Her baby was in trouble. She didn't care about...
And when the bolt went down, and the gun raised up, the deer saw the hunter. She looked, and she spooked. "Spooked" means just jumped, you know, just a minute. And she looked at the hunter. But she'd heard that baby, and she knew that her death was right on her. But did she run? No, sir. She was looking to see where that baby was first.
Oh, I thought, "Such loyalty! Such loyalty! And that precious loyal heart, Burt, are you going to blow it out of that mother like that?"

74 I seen him leveling down like this. I thought, "I just can't look at it." I turned my back. I thought...
I said, "Heavenly Father, how can he be so wicked? And yet be such a nice man in one way, and be so cruel in his heart---to blow that precious mother's heart plumb out of her, that loyal heart beating there for that baby. How could he do a thing like that?"
And I noticed the gun didn't fire. And I waited, and I waited. I thought, "Why didn't it fire?" I looked around and the gun barrel was going like this. And he looked around at me, and those eyes had changed. Great big tears were running down his cheeks.
He threw the gun on the ground, and grabbed me by the pants leg, and said, "Billy, I've had enough of it." He said, "Lead me to that Jesus you talk about."

75 What was it? He seen something real. He seen something that wasn't put on. He seen a real mother's love that would walk right in the face of death. It wasn't a sermon I preached, it wasn't a song that was sung; it was a display of something that was so real, that he seen something real. And that mother's loyalty led that man. He's a deacon in a Baptist church there now. Mother's love being real.
Oh, sinner friend, or lukewarm church member, wouldn't you like to have the love of Jesus Christ to display to the world, as loyal to Christ as that mother was to her baby? Would you raise your hand, and say, "Pray for me, Brother Branham, that I'll be that type of Christian."
Raise up your hands. God bless you. God bless you. "I want something real, Brother Branham. I want something that's lasting. I want to be as much Christian as that deer was a mother." Put your hands way up now, so I can pray. God bless you. God bless you. Let us bow our heads.

76 Heavenly Father, the hands were so many I could not number them. They were all around, everywhere---up in the balcony, the front, and the back, and on the sides, and all everywhere around through the main floor. They raised their hands, Lord, because that they believe You. They want something real. They want something that's not put on, something that's just real. I pray that You give it to them, Father. Give unto them the real Holy Spirit. May they return to their church happy and rejoicing.
Now, it's written in the Word, St. John 5:24, "He that heareth my words (that's what I've been preaching on), and believeth on him that sent me, has everlasting life, and shall not come to the judgment; but has passed from death unto life."
Now, Father, I hold that---that's your Word---I hold it before You. And You who are omnipotent, omniscient... And You know every hand that went up. Why did they put their hand up? Because there is a spirit in them, and there's a spirit standing by them that said, "You're wrong. You want to be that kind of a Christian. Put up your hand now, and I'll save you."
And they raised up their hand. They made a decision. That decision was that they desired to live a different life. And You said, "He that heareth my words, and believeth on him that sent me, has everlasting life, and will not come to the judgment; but has passed from death unto life."
You also said, "No man can come to me except my Father draws him; and all that the father has given me will come to me. I'll give him everlasting life and raise him up at the last day." Now, Father, that's your Word and as your servant tonight, I claim every one of them souls for You. I claim them every one.
I pray, God, that as they have come now to You, to this fountain filled with blood; that they'll be saved safely, and will go away from here tonight and seek and find the baptism of the Holy Spirit that will seal them away from the things of the world. Grant it.

77 While we have our heads bowed... There's no place to call an altar call here, but I just wonder if every one of you that raised your hand would just stand up to your feet. The rest of you, keep your heads bowed. Just raise up to your feet, just a minute.
I believe you were sincere. Raise up, every one that raised their hands, stand up just a minute. All that raised their hands, everywhere. That's right. Come up, everywhere. Just remain standing just a moment for prayer. Every one that raised their hands, stand up. Is that all now, every one? All right.
In the presence of the Shekinah glory of the Holy Spirit, that you now have believed upon because of the preaching of the Word, and the manifestation of his Spirit... I do not believe... I believe every one of you with all my heart. I do not believe that you just raised your hand just for the fun of raising it. I believe that you raised it because you were sincere. You believed that you were wrong.
And if you're willing to confess your wrong and stand like you have now, then I believe that God and his Word---that keeps every word that He promised---has forgive you of your sins. Not because that you feel like it, not because that you deserve it, but because that He promised it. It's his Word. And you are willing, and know that you've been wrong, but you do believe that He died and them great black clouds hanging over the cross that day, He was standing your judgment. And without anything at all, you do accept that as your pardon. If you will do that, accept his grace for your pardon, would you just raise your hand to Him---everyone that's standing up, raise your hands. That's all I ask you to do, in your heart. God bless you. There's a 100%, every one of you now.

78 I want you people that are Christians to raise your head, and just turn around, and shake hands with every one of them that's standing up, and say, "Welcome into the kingdom, precious pilgrim."
Shake hands with them, you Christians. Tell them that you're thankful to God, each one of you. Say, "I'm thankful." Invite them to your church now. Tell them "Come over to my church. Come over with us, and you might receive Christian baptism, that you might receive the Holy Ghost." That's right.
Oh, isn't He wonderful? Now let us just thank the Lord now.

79 Heavenly Father, we thank Thee for these souls. I may never shake hands with them here on earth no more, never have the opportunity maybe. I hope I do, but if I don't, on that day when the fog is low, the old ship of Zion is blowing, when we start to board the ship, I'll meet them. I'll see them there, Lord, with their tickets in their hand. Say, "It was at Long Beach, Brother Branham, on that Sunday night."
O God, how happy I'll be---to know that I'll meet them there. The young will be old ... the old will be young there forever, and there'll never be any more sickness and sorrow nor death. What a wonderful time it will be.
I thank You for this, Father. They're yours, and I present them to You as trophies of Jesus Christ, his Spirit and his presence here tonight. I give them to You, Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, because they are love gifts to Christ. Amen.

80 Now, you may be seated. God bless you. Now before we change the position of the meeting for a prayer line, let's just sing one time, will you, all together before we call the prayer line, "I love Him, I love Him, because He first loved me." All right, can we sing?
I love Him, I love Him,
Because He first loved me;
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary's tree.
Oh, doesn't that sound beautiful, brethren? I wish you could be up here and listen to that. Isn't that beautiful? Now I want you to bow your heads, and sing it softly, and sweetly in your tenor, or bass, whatever you're singing. Just sing it the old-fashioned country style now.
I love Him, I love Him,
Because He first loved me;
And purchased my salvation,
On Calvary's tree.

81 Oh, isn't He beautiful? Oh, don't we just love Him? Wonderful. Now, friends, I know I did keep you a little bit long. But this is Sunday night. Bear it just about fifteen more minutes, or twenty. We're going to call a prayer line.
Now how many believe that the Scripture teaches that Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever? How many knows that the Bible says that He is a high priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities? That's right.
If He is the same yesterday... And how many believes that we're at the end of the Gentile age? How many Bible readers with your hands up will wave, like this, and believe that He promised that He would do the same things to the Gentiles' closing that He did at the Jewish?
See, here's what it is. If God is ever called on the scene to make a decision, the way He makes it... He's eternal. It has to be the same every time when He's called again. So when He was called on the earth, to come to the earth to declare Himself the Messiah, to end up the Jewish and Samaritan age, He's got to do the same thing when He comes on after... The Jews had four thousand years. We've had two thousand years at the end of the age, to come on the scene, do the same thing. Is that right?

82 Well, now, if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, He's got to be the same in principle, the same in power, the same in manifestation. Only thing ... is a corporal body. His body is at the right hand of God the Father in heaven, sitting on the throne. Do you believe that? A high priest. And now his Holy Spirit is here which ... the Spirit was upon Christ---which is God in human flesh, your flesh, my flesh.
As the blood cleanses us, He preaches the gospel through the preacher, prophesies through the prophet, and reveals the secret hearts; speaks through tongues, interprets tongues, and everything's sitting in order. Do you believe that?

83 All right.
Now let's call the prayer line. Now, he told me he give out prayer cards, but I'll say I don't know what and where. Oh! Billy, you're so little, I always miss you. All right.
to 100, J. All right. Number 1. Who has J, like in Jesus? J? Look, it's got a J and a number: J, number 1. Who has it? Raise up your hand. You sure? All right. Come right over here, lady. Number 2. Who has J number 2? Would you raise your hand?

84 [Blank spot] ... in my life. And she's a stranger to me, because we just held our hands ... that we were strangers to one another.
Now, I don't know her; neither does she know me. But now, she's here for some purpose. What is it? Is she sick? Maybe so. Maybe she's here for somebody else. Maybe it's domestic trouble. Maybe it's financial trouble. Maybe it's something else. I don't know, see. I don't know. God does know.
Now, if she's coming here, ordinarily, like the healing services, I'd lay my hand upon her and say, "God, heal the woman. I'm a believer. I ask it to be done so. Amen." Now, the woman would have a right to go away and believe, if she believed that that's the Word of God, "Lay hands on the sick." Is that right? She'd have a right to believe that.
But now, what if the Holy Spirit comes, and reveals something to her that's down in her life, tells her what has been? And if He can tell her accurately what has been, surely she can believe what would be then. Is that right? Now, how many know that that's what Jesus did? Raise up your hands. That's what He done. That's exactly.

85 Now if He's here... Now He's here in the form of the Holy Spirit.
Now this is a panoramic, just like the well was in St. John 4. A beautiful picture again: a man and a woman, first time meeting in life, this lady and I for the first time in life to meet. And now it's right here, where we've never met before. Now if Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever...
Now, something would have to reveal what she's here for, and she'd know that's true. Is that right, lady? Somebody would have to reveal it. Something'd have to come to do it. Isn't that right?
Well, then if it comes... Now, she could say it's the devil then. That's up to her, see. If she'd say it was Christ... It would have to be a spiritual power. If she says the devil, then she'd get the devil's reward. If she says Christ, she gets Christ's reward. But if she'd say the devil, and it was Christ, then what has she done? She's sealed herself forever from the kingdom of God. Is that what Jesus said? "When the Holy Ghost comes, speak a word against it, it will never be forgiven," no matter who you are.
You say, "But I've preached the gospel, Brother Branham."
So did them priests. They were raised through generations of priests, and had preached the gospel. And Jesus strictly told them, and they lost their lives. That's right. Just one way to God. That's all. That's the way of truth, and life.

86 Now if you just stand right out here ... you don't have to stand... Just stand right back out this way, so the people can see you, and see me. Now here's like the woman at the well. Now she's not the woman, and I'm not the Lord Jesus, but his Spirit is here. And He'd know ... can tell her. Now if He would...
"Now," you say, "Brother Branham, what did Jesus do there?"
Well, the Bible said, "He had need go by Samaria."
I don't know why the Father sent Him up there, because He said in St. John 5, St. John 5:19; "Verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing in himself, but what he sees the Father doing..."
How many knows that scripture? Jesus never performed one thing until God showed Him in a vision what to do. Is that right? St. John 5:19: "Verily, verily [absolutely, absolutely], I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what he sees the Father doing ... that doeth the Son likewise."

87 Now then, if this woman with her hand up that she's a stranger to me, and I'm a stranger to her, then if the Holy Spirit, by his promise in what I've taught you, will come here and will do the same thing that He did then---reveal the secret of the woman's heart or do what it is, and tell her something about herself---let her be the judge whether it's right or not. How many in here will believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for your healing?
All around everywhere, raise up your hands if you'll believe it. There's at least 95%. Of course, some wouldn't believe it, no matter what He done. It ain't for unbelievers. It's just for believers. There was some standing in his crowd didn't believe it. That won't hurt the believers. No. They know it's truth.

88 I have no more idea what you are here for than nothing, but God does know what you are here for. If He will reveal it to me, then you'll know whether it's truth or not, whatever He does.
Now, yes, if the audience can still hear my voice, the light that you see in the picture is standing between me and the woman. She's moving away from me, kind of a jerking, glimmering light. Yes. I see her examinations shows that she's got a swelling stomach---stomach, got a bad stomach swelling. If that's right, raise up your hand. Do you believe? Now you said you'd believe if He would reveal it. Do you now believe?
Now I don't know what I told her, 'cause it wasn't me that told her. It's just yielding yourself to the Spirit.
Now I keep feeling that in every meeting, somebody say, "He guessed it. He guessed it." You don't guess these things.
All right, see if it was a guess.

89 You seem to be a nice person. You are a Christian. I can feel your spirit, see, that you're welcome. Same thing Jesus said to Nathanael, an Israelite.
Now let's see if ever what... Yeah, I see it coming again. It was a stomach condition, swelling stomach, he said. That's right. That's what the doctor said, a swelling stomach. Here's another thing---that you got some kind of a rectal trouble. That's right. You think it's some kind of an allergy-like, or some kind of a itching sensation. That is true. [Woman says, "The doctor says there's no cure for it.] There's no cure for it. That's right. But there is in Christ. [That's right.]
If God will tell me what I see ... your name on that paper there He's got before me (I see him standing there) will you believe me to be his prophet? Miss Martin. It's over now. You can go home, and be made well.
Now, critic, what about that? Now you believer out there, believe with all your heart now. Just have faith. Don't doubt. Believe with all your heart. Now keep real ... just keep your position. Sit still. I never seen the woman, see. I never healed her; God healed her. How did He heal her? Her own faith did it. The healing is already completed at Calvary. Your salvation was completed at Calvary. How do you know that? Is that right? All you have to do is accept it.

90 Now, here's another lady, and our first time. We are strangers to one another. God knows us both, though, doesn't He? Well, then if the Lord Jesus will reveal to me something that I... Of course, you see me getting ... looking like that. That's just because it's made me weak, vision. See, the audience knows, anyone knows, Jesus ... a woman touched his garment. He said He got ... virtue went... Virtue is strength, you know that. And Daniel saw one vision; he was troubled at his head many days.
Well, then, if Jesus, being Son of God... If one woman touching Him, what would it do to me, see? Me, a sinner saved by grace. Because He said, "The things that I do shall you also. More than this shall you do." The King James says "greater," but get the regular translation---says "more," more could you do. It's his promise.

91 Now if the Holy Spirit will reveal to me what your trouble ... or something, as He did the other ones that went by, would you believe with all your heart? Would it cause the audience to believe with all their heart? See, God doesn't do this for show. He does this because He promised He would do it, and for his glory, see. And I'm telling you, it's not me. I don't know one thing.
I'm holding my hand here before God and this Bible here. This woman is a stranger to me. All of you are strangers, as far as I know. But if God will reveal to me by the Holy Spirit... Now, the Bible says, "The Word of God is sharper than a two-edged sword, even a discerner of the thoughts of the heart."
Now, Jesus when He was here on earth, He was the Word, wasn't He? That's the reason He could discern the thoughts---perceive, so forth. He was a God-prophet. That's the reason the prophets... How could they discern? Because they were the Word of God.
The Word of God came to the prophet. Is that right, audience?
Now if the Word of God still comes, then the Word of God can... Hebrews says the Word of God is a discerner of the thoughts. His Word, his promise come into human flesh, makes it a discerner of the thoughts of the heart.

92 Now, you're not here for yourself. Someone else you're here for---your husband. That's right, isn't it? He's in a dying condition. You believe God can tell me what his trouble is? Cancer of the bladder. If that's right, raise your hand. Will you believe that God will heal him? I'll pray the same thing. Let me lay my hands on you, and you represent him.
Lord Jesus, spare this man. Bring this to pass, Father. I ask humbly as your servant, in Jesus' name. Amen.
God bless you, sister. Now don't doubt. Do you believe that now? Jesus said, "As you have believed, so will it be unto you." Have faith. (Nobody will ever know what that does to you. Now, the audience just seems blinded to me.) Now, just have faith now.

93 Are you the next person? You and I are strangers, I suppose, to one another. Oh, you've been in a healing line before, somewhere else, in some other city? In Lake Street, in California. And, oh, I prayed for you before, at Lake Street. How long ago has it been? Oh, it's many years ago. Therefore, we wouldn't know one another, then. No. But God does know us both.
And do you believe that God can make known to me something another... Of course, it come this same way. Then you're here for something else. Now you would have faith, then, wouldn't you? You have faith. All right. If the Lord will reveal it---I trust that He will.
You're not here for yourself, this time. You're here for someone else---a brother, very, very ill at the point of death. And I'll tell you something that you know, that you might believe me to be his prophet, or his servant. (Excuse me, that word prophet staggers the people, you see. That's the reason I don't say it.)
But, it's his wife. She's in serious condition. She's about to have a nervous breakdown, because of waiting on him. You have a real strange feeling on you now, don't you? Take that handkerchief that's on your hand while that feeling's on you, and lay it on them. They'll recover. Don't doubt. God bless you. Do you believe with all your heart now? Don't doubt; have faith in God.

94 Sitting right there, low blood pressure, the lady looking at me. Do you have a prayer card? You don't. All right. It's all right. He's done called you. I see it. You have to take blood transfusions. That is right. But when I was talking to that woman, something happened to you. A real strange feeling went over you. If that's right, raise up your hand. This little lady sitting right here in front. All right. And you said within your heart, "Lord, let it be me tonight." Now stand up, if them things are true. Stand up on your feet. Your troubles are over now. Jesus Christ makes you well.
I want to ask the audience one thing. What did that woman touch? I do not know her; I never seen her in my life. If we're strangers, wave your hand like this, sister. Wave your hand like this, so the people will know that we're strangers. I don't know you.
What did she touch? The high priest. She's twenty yards from me. She never touched me, did she? But she touched something that spoke through me, and told her what she was praying about, what she said, and how she felt. Is that right? Do you believe now with all your heart?

95 Now don't move, please don't, see. If you do that... See these men standing here? They're watching every move I make. And as soon as they see that I have enough, they'll take me from the platform. So to move, disturbs. See, I'm in contact with your spirit. That's what I'm trying to do. I'm here trying to help you. If you're... Nothing won't go wrong. You'll catch your bus. Just sit still. Just wait, just two or three more, or something. Let it...

96 How do you do? We are strangers to each other. I do not know you, but God does know you. Yes. How many is this has went through? Has it been enough for a confirmation? Two? This... I thought it had been a dozen through. Well, maybe it's just me. All right. You, sister, God knows your heart. He knows my heart. But if He will beyond any shadow of a doubt, we being strangers to one another, reveal Himself to us, will it make you believe? Will it make the audience believe? How many knows that it's totally impossible for me to do that? Let's see your hands.
Now with your hands down, How many accept it to be Jesus Christ according to his promise and his Word? Raise your hands. That is true, my brother, sister. I'm telling you the truth, see. This is his Word. Maybe a little strange from what you've ever seen, but it's his promise. He promised He would do it.

97 I have no idea what you're here for. I've never seen you, so, therefore, I have no idea what you're here for. But God does know what you're here for. He knows you. He knows me. He knows all of us. Is that right? But if He will reveal to me something about you that I don't know, then you'll know it come from Him.
You've had something like a stroke that bothers you. That's right. You're Swedish, aren't you? I could see that water rolling, and I could see where you was from. You've had an accident, and it knocked you out, and you were out for quite a while---several days. And then, you still have evil effects from it. You won't have it no more. That turned light right around you. Jesus has healed you now. Go on your road and be made whole.

98 Are you believing with all your heart?
Now, you say, "You're looking right at those people, Brother Branham. You're reading their mind."
I am not. Here. Come here, lady. Touch my hand. If God will reveal to me looking this way, what's your trouble, you'll accept it, won't you? Then your heart trouble's left you. Just go on your road rejoicing. Do you believe that with all your heart?
Here. The Bible said the angel down there, that was a man that was anointed, was called Elohim, that He had his back turned to the tent. Is that right? How about if I turn my back, and you pray. I see...