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PENTECOSTALISM
– 100 YEARS

POWER WITHOUT
CHRIST-LIKE CHARACTER

CHAPTER   5

<And unto the
angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the
faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;

I know thy
works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.

So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold
nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.

Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with
goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and
miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire,
that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and
[that] the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with
eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous
therefore, and repent.

Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man
hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him,
and he with me.

To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in
my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his
throne.

He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit
saith unto the churches.> (Revelation 3:14-22).

We are on the subject of “Pentecostalism - One
Hundred Years: Power Without Christ-Like Character.” That is what this
movement, this Pentecostal system has demonstrated for the past one hundred
years. Beginning from 1906, they have manifested power without character.

POWER APART FROM CHARACTER IS SATANIC

Quote
W.M.B.: 117-1 Unless we suffer with Him we cannot reign with
Him. You have to suffer to reign. The reason for this is that character simply
is never made without suffering. Character is a VICTORY, not a gift. A man
without character can't reign because power apart from character is Satanic.
But power with character is fit to rule.
And since He wants us to share even His
throne on the same basis that He overcame and is set down in His Father's
throne, then we have to overcome to sit with Him. (Smyrnaean Church
Age - Church Age Book Cpt.4).

We want the power of God, but we want character
because that is fit to rule and we shall reign with Him a thousand years in the
millennium and also reign with him forever.

This is very vital. We have been talking a lot from
history concerning the 1906 outpouring of the Holy Spirit, which the prophet of
God called, “baptism of the Holy Spirit”, and he was right. We
address that also as baptism of the Holy Spirit. We also address that as the
outpouring in 1906. So those are correct terminologies because in one sense of
the word, you could have a baptism tonight and have another one tomorrow and
you could have baptism after baptism after baptism, but then there is another
baptism, which is the baptism that came on the day of Pentecost. That is
something different. Whenever a man has that baptism then that is God coming
down to indwell his soul.

John 14:20 <At that day ye shall know
that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.>

So we have been speaking from the history and from the
Word of God. We have painted a picture that Pentecostalism (so-called
Pentecost) which started in 1906 was a true outpouring of the Holy Spirit and
we believe that and we contend for that. Just as certain as the move of God and
the revival that came by Luther was of God and the move of God by Wesley was of
God, so to the move of God in 1906 was of God. But I want to
prove in scripture here tonight, in a scriptural manner, and bring to you and
show you that people can have the power of God without having the virtues of
Christ, without having Christ-like, godly character. Any time you have power
without Christ-like character then you would manifest satanic works as well as you will manifest the works of God.  But on the other hand, there is
something coming from the inside, which is your evil nature down in there,
which is not yet changed.

What God did in 1906, giving the people an outpouring
of the Holy Spirit, the baptism of the Holy Spirit; I want to identify that in scriptures
for you, where that happened before. So God did not act out of context in the
least. He does those things to fulfill His perfect plan and perfect will. God
has a permissive will and he has a perfect will. He employs His permissive will
in order to perfect and to bring to pass His perfect will. I am saying that
1906 and that outpouring that the Lord gave to the people was by His permissive will. It was for many
reasons, He allowed that, which we cannot get into tonight, but one of the
things was to produce

Matthew 24:24
<For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew
great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive
the very elect.>

The first scripture that I will call to your attention
to show that power apart from character is satanic, is Revelation 3:14-22. What
happened at 1906 in that revival was fulfilled in the message to the Laodicean church. What we just read there is
the church that so-called Pentecost produced
by what they were given in 1906. Over the years as the church continued, this
is what happened and this here is one of the final things that the church did,
and that is to come to that Ladicean condition. The Lord denounced the church
there as blind, wretched, miserable and naked, who claimed that she was rich
and had need of nothing. When we look into the Bible, and we read the verses
from 14 to 22, we are reading about the production of 1906, after many years.
And this condition of the church did not start here at the end of one hundred
years. It started way before that and God sent a messenger to them to rebuke
them.  He was sent to the
Pentecostal church to tell them that they were wretched, miserable, blind,
naked and they don’t know it. He was also sent to counsel them to buy
gold tried in the fire.

So now that church had gone into an apostate
condition, and they were beyond redemption, but then there was a voice calling
individuals out of that system. Some of us came from that system. I always like
to site you as witnesses. Some of you spoke in tongues and prophesied. Some of
the older people were back there in the forties. They testified to me after the
meeting.  We have an old gallant
brother here, Brother Heath. He said, “Brother Bruce, I was there in
1949, and what you are saying is the truth.” He told me certain things
about dressing, concerning those women; they were very modest. Then a little
while after, Sister Norma Renner said, “Brother Bruce, I was there since
1948.”  I guess she was just a
little girl or teenager. Then Brother Renner, he was back there also. He bore
witness to the things that I am saying of the holy standards that used to be
amongst the people, and I believe that many more can testify of the blessings
that the Lord gave to the people to live up to a certain standard.  Now those are bygone days for
Pentecostals.

Right now, so-called Pentecost has no shame,
whatsoever. They have shorts and pants. You are talking about women in shorts
singing in the choirs. You are talking about women in pants hugging up men
breast to breast. Women behind the pulpit with high-heeled shoes and
mini-skirts, kicking up and preaching what they think is the Word. You have
ministers committing adultery and fornication. You have young people living in
fornication and adultery right in the House of God and the pastors cannot say
anything about it. Truly the Word did say,

Isaiah 28:8-9
<For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place
clean. Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand
doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.>

Matthew
18:3-4 <And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become
as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever
therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in
the kingdom of heaven.>

1906 baptism identified in scripture

So now in all what I said, people might still be
thinking, “How can that be? If the people’s natures were not
changed, how could they have gotten the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, an
Outpouring from God in 1906?” Even because it happened in the Scripture
before, and in the Bible, which I want to call your attention to. I will read
it right out of the Bible to you and this was happening before the day of Pentecost. Long before they went up to the Upper
Room, this was happening.

Who did this? Our Lord Jesus. Who sent this 1906
outpouring? It is the Lord. Why would the Lord do something like that? He had
plans for it. (Matthew 24:24).

Matthew
10:1-4 <And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them
power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of
sickness and all manner of disease.

Now the names
of the twelve apostles are these; The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and
Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother;

Philip, and
Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alphaeus, and
Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus;

Simon the
Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who
also betrayed him.>

Luke 10:1, 17-19 <After these things the
Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face
into every city and place, whither he himself would come.

… And
the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject
unto us through thy name.

And he said
unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.

Behold, I
give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power
of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.>

“All right, preacher, why did you read those
Scriptures?” Beloved, when those people received power from the Lord to
heal the sick, cast out devils, and heal all manner of diseases; their natures were not changed. In other words,
they did not yet have a revelation of the Son of Man nor had they gone up to
Pentecost. I am saying, that this ministry that was given to the apostles
including Judas the betrayer,0 the seventy and even others that were blessed,
is the same outpouring that happened
at 1906.

This out here in Matthew 10: 1-4 is power without
character. This is power without the virtues; this is power without
Christ’s nature.

And if you notice what happened here, is that those
men went out with that power but the five-fold ministry was not yet set and
they were quarreling amongst themselves of who will be the greatest. Showing
you that there was some pride, there was some self, and there was some
misunderstanding in their minds.

All right, another thing I want you to notice is that
Judas, the unrighteous, was right in
that bunch, partaking of that Power, that Christ was giving out. If you doubted
that their natures were not changed, then you have to admit that, because Judas
was one of the twelve, and he was a partaker of this power, and that was great
power; to raise the dead, heal the sick, cast out devils, and to heal all
manner of diseases.

This power was given to the Church and they were yet
in their evil natures. I am using this Scripture to identify what happened at Azusa Street. What
happened in 1906 is a repetition of
that ministry and of the commission that the Lord gave to the apostles. Over
there they had power and their evil natures were not yet changed, we proved
that.

So now there was the unrighteous partaking of
spiritual gifts. I will tie that down in the Word tonight, I will tie that down
in the quotations tonight, and I will tie that down in the history a little tighter
for you, that wherever this message may go, they cannot refute that. They will
have to throw away the Bible, throw away Brother Branham’s message, and
they will have to disregard the history.

I am pointing to this Scripture of Matthew10: 1-4, and I’m pointing
to Luke 10, the entire chapter, to
show that this here is a type of
what happened in 1906, where the
people received power to do signs and wonders and miracles, without Christ-like
character, and yet that was not the original baptism like the day of Pentecost.
So the unrighteous here was partaking of spiritual gifts.

Now those same people that went out in that kind of
ministry, there came a time that they had to quit that ministry, and then go up
to Pentecost. One hundred and twenty made it up to Pentecost, and the Lord
said,

Luke 24:49
<And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the
city of Jerusalem,
until ye be endued with power from on high.>

Acts 1:8
<But ye shall receive power,
after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses…>

Showing you that the power that was given to the
Apostles before the day of Pentecost was temporary
power. It was a baptism, it was an
outpouring of the Holy Spirit, but there was another one to come. They were
supposed to go up to Pentecost and wait for that Outpouring, and within that
period of time, three and a half years; they were to be prepared for the real article on the day of Pentecost. Now friends, let me say something here,
this power that was given unto them, never anointed the soul.

1906 BAPTISM – NOTHING TO DO
WITH THE SOUL

The prophet knew that those who were receiving the 1906
baptism, were yet in their evil natures, as it did not anoint the soul. He said
as follows:

BAPTISM OF THE HOLY GHOST – HAS NOTHING
TO DO WITH YOUR SOUL

Quote W.M.B.: 100 Notice,
we find today that people... There's many people just can't believe it, even
Spirit-filled people. I'm going to give you one that'll choke you. The baptism of the Holy Ghost don't mean
you're going in, not at all, not on that, don't have anything to do with your soul. That's the baptism. See? Here's
the inside soul in here, that has to come from God. But then on the outside you
have five senses, and five out--inlets to your contact your earthly home. The
inside, you have a spirit, and in there you have five outlets: your conscience,
and love, and so forth, five outlets to that spirit. Remember, in that spirit you can be baptized with
the genuine Spirit of God and still be lost.
It's the soul that lives; that was ordained of God.

Didn't Jesus
say, "Many will come to Me in that day, and say, 'Lord, haven't I cast out
devils, done great and mighty works, prophesied, the great gifts of God?'"
He said, "Depart from me, you that work iniquity, I never even knew you. (Modern Events Made Clear By Prophecy 65-1206).

If that power anointed the soul, then Judas’
soul was anointed. When your soul is anointed; it will change your soul. So now, I am tying down what I said in the
Scriptures, that this is the exact thing that happened in 1906. It was the
doing of the Lord.

Now notice
that one man who shared in that ministry amongst the twelve, was a big
hypocrite; he had hate in him, malice in him, he had murder in him and he was a
traitor and he came from Hell and went back to Hell as the son of perdition.

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

It was the unrighteous partaking of spiritual gifts.

Now notice that the
seventy, in Luke 10, who also received that power and the same commission,
after a certain time, when the deeper things of God came, they said,

John 6:60 <Many therefore of his disciples, when
they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it.>

And the Bible said
that they walked no more with him and he was left with twelve apostles. (John 6:66-71)

If he was left with twelve apostles, it goes to show that
the seventy had unbelief in them and they left him and walked away because of
the teachings of the Word of God. They were still in their evil nature and they
received a power that could have come upon them to work signs, work wonders,
glorify God, rejoice over the miracles and signs; revival could have followed
them, and then that Baptism could have left
them. That baptism could have come upon them and yet they could go to Hell.
It came upon Judas and he went to Hell.

YOU COULD HAVE THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY
GHOST AND BE LOST AND GO TO HELL

Quote W.M.B.: 162 The
cocklebur, many of you think, "I got the baptism of the Holy Ghost; I'm
going to heaven." That don't mean one thing that you're going to heaven.
No, sir. You can have the baptism of the Holy Ghost every hour in your life and
still be lost and go to hell. The Bible says so. See? It's exactly right. (Leadership 65-1207).

My beloved, how could the prophet say something like
that when Ephesians 4:30 says,

<And
grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of
redemption.>

Friends, he very well knew that what they received in 1906 was not a return of Pentecost
but it was what Judas received. The genuine Holy Ghost fell upon Judas because
the rain falleth upon the just and the unjust,
and the rain is the Spirit.

So when Brother Branham made that statement in 1965,
he was correct, and he knew what he was saying. He was referring to the article
of 1906, and it was the Baptism of the Holy Ghost, but their natures were not
changed, and they did not have the virtues of Christ in them.

BAPTISM OF THE HOLY GHOST – HAS NOTHING TO DO
WITH THE INSIDE

Quote W.M.B.: 144 You say, "I got the baptism of
the Holy Ghost." That don't mean that you're saved, not by a long ways. Looky here, you are a triune being. You
are... Inside this little fellow here is a soul;
the next is a spirit; and next is a body.

…Didn't Jesus say the rain falls on the just and
the unjust? …Don't the Bible say in the last days there shall come false
christs, not false Jesus now, false christs, anointed ones, falsely anointed to
the Word. …"Oh glory, I got the anointing..." And it's a genuine anointing. Remember, Caiaphas
had it too and prophesied. So did Balaam have it and prophesied, but that don't
have nothing to do with this inside. (The Rapture 65-1204).

Quote: 20-5 Now, I shunned saying this a few days ago,
thinking that the church would be spiritual enough to catch it (and maybe I
better turn this tape off right now, 'cause I don't want it to get out amongst
brethren.); but you could speak with tongues, you could shout, you could dance,
you could cast out devils, do anything you want to, and still not have the Holy
Ghost.

Didn't them
disciples come back rejoicing and shouting because the devils was subject unto
them? And ... Right among them was Judas? Did not Jesus say in that day, when
He come, that "Many will come to Me and say, 'Lord have not I cast out
devils and in Your Name done mighty works,' and I'll say, 'Depart from Me, you
workers of iniquity, I didn't know you.'" Those things are not indications
of the Holy Spirit. By their fruit
you shall know them. (Blasphemous
Names 62-1104m).

Therefore if you have power, if you have the baptism of
the Holy Spirit that they received in 1906, without character; it could make
you jump up, it could make you shout, it could make you live a certain amount
of Christianity, you could feel that you are in communication with God, it
could make you come to Church, but friends, if your nature is not changed, then
you could be lost and go to hell.
And this is that baptism that he was talking about, which you could get every
hour in your life and go to hell.

So now this 1906 outpouring, kept on outpouring itself
throughout all the years, with other men, and it was baptism after baptism
after baptism. Now you could have all of that in you and you could feel this
Presence of the Lord here, you could feel the anointing of the Lord, you could
really enjoy the singing, you could really enjoy the preaching, you could enjoy
a lot of things in Christianity, but friends, if down inside of you, you have
resentment for your brothers and your sisters, if you have hate down in there,
if your mouth blows up against the ministry, if you have your own opinion, and
after the message is preached you go and contradict the message, get your
family together and tell your neighbor and different ones in the church that,
‘I don’t believe that’. Then you’re an unbeliever.

If you can hear the Word of God preached and tell you
don’t associate with people that come against the ministry, that come
against the Word of God, that speak evil, and then you will put down the Word
of God and you will walk your own way and say, “Well, that’s my
buddy, that’s my husband, that’s my wife, that is my child”,
and you will tolerate the evil speaking against the Word of God, you yourself
are an unbeliever. You are backslidden
in heart.

I believe that people that have Christ-like character
in them will keep the commandments of the Lord.

John 14: 15
<If ye love me, keep my commandments.>

You just don’t be a forgetful hearer and hear
the Word of God and let it come out the next ear and go out and walk in your
way. Every self led person that just leads their own life and want to walk
their own way are not sheep but they are goats
and they would not hear the voice of God. That is why God gave you a shepherd.
That is why God give you the Word. That is why He sent a prophet.  You cannot have your own opinion after the
prophet of God declared his message. When he declares his message, you are
wrong and he is right. That is the
way that we believe this message. We are wrong and he is right. Hatred and
malice and unforgiveness are a flashing red light that shows that the soul is
not yet transformed and yet you could have the Holy Ghost baptism.

Now this is clear proof in the Bible in Matthew 10 and
Luke 10 of an outpouring of the Holy Spirit under our Lord Jesus unto both the righteous and the unrighteous:
Judas and the seventy along with the true servants of God. It was a blessing
from the Lord. It was used for a certain time. It was under the permissive will
of God. Why would the Lord send the baptism upon people whose natures are not
changed? He has a purpose behind it.

DIFFERENCE OF 1906 BAPTISM OF THE
HOLY GHOST AND ACTS 2:4

They received power without Christ-like character and
it was Satanic, even because you will misuse
the power of God. Power with character is fit to rule. That is why that article
on the day of Pentecost comes to faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance,
patience, Godliness and brotherly kindness. Now that is the character of Christ. That is the divine
nature of Christ and that is what the true article is coming to.

Quote
W.M.B.: 21-2 Now, you say, "Brother Branham, did should
we speak with tongues?" Absolutely, that's gifts of God. But those gifts
of God without these virtues in
them, makes a stumbleblock to the unbeliever. It's not accepted by God. This
has to be first. And when you have faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance,
patience, godliness, and brotherly love, then the Holy Ghost comes down and
seals you as a unit, as same as He seals the church ages as a unit. (Blasphemous Names 62-1104m).

That is what the apostles and the church had. That is
what the hundred and twenty had. That is what William Branham had and it came
to the character of Christ. When that comes to the character of Christ, that
Holy Ghost could never leave you. That baptism could never leave you and there is only one time you have to be baptized
with that baptism because there is one Lord, one faith, and one baptism. (Ephesians 4:5). That one baptism is
what they received on the day of Pentecost. After they got that they
didn’t have to go and get a next baptism. There is one baptism, the
genuine baptism on the day of Pentecost, but there are many fillings.

They received that power without character in 1906. It
is a great blessing to have it. It keeps you from lying and stealing and
cussing. It could cause you to work signs and wonders and miracles with it. You
could jump over a mountain. You could open the Red Sea
with it. I am telling you the truth. Don’t underestimate that. You can
raise the dead with it. You can cleanse the leper but if you don’t have charity you are lost. Charity is the real article because Brother Paul said though
I have faith and though I have knowledge to understand all mystery and though I
have faith that I could remove a mountain and have not the true article like it
was on the day of Pentecost, which is charity, I am nothing. (1 Corinthians 13: 1-13).

MANIFESTATION IS NOT EVIDENCE OF HOLY
GHOST

Quote
W.M.B.: 166-3 Now comes this very
good question I know that you are all anxious to ask. Why isn't the
manifestation an evidence of being baptized with the Holy Ghost, because you
surely could not manifest the Holy Ghost unless you truly were Spirit-filled? Now I wish I could say
that is right, because I don't like to hurt people or walk on their doctrine;
but I wouldn't be a true servant of God if I didn't tell you the whole counsel
of God. That is right, is it not?

Just let us take a little look at Balaam. He was
religious, he worshipped God…but he was not a True Seed prophet…he
led the people of God into sins of fornication and idolatry…the Spirit of
God manifested through him in one of the most beautiful portions of absolutely
accurate prophecy the world has ever seen? But he never had the Holy Ghost.

…what do you think of Caiaphas, the high
priest?... he prophesied the kind of death the Lord should die…no record
of him being a Spirit-filled and Spirit-led man like dear old Simeon or that
sweet saint called Anna. Yet he had a genuine manifestation of the Holy
Ghost…If you are truly filled with the Spirit of God you will have the
evidence of the WORD in your life. (Pergamean
Church Age - Church Age
Book Cpt.5).

PENTECOSTALS MANIFEST GIFTS WITHOUT BEING
BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST

Quote: E-33
“Oh, you can say, "Now, Brother Branham, I tell you: I know what I've
got it because I can pray for the sick and they can be healed…You're wrong. I heal the sick…But
you can do those things without being
first fundamentally baptized into
Christ…Through faith you can do great things and yet not be borned again
of the Spirit of God. Be careful there. It's a danger line, Pentecostal people.” (Position Of A Believer In Christ 55-0227a).

GENUINE HOLY SPIRIT UPON A ROTTEN SCAVENGER, WORKING
MIRACLES

Quote: 229 “Same now. Notice, the vultures of Jesus day
was also casting out devils:
anointed ones… Caiaphas the high priest prophesied... a rotten scavenger,
a weed and a thistle setting among the wheat; but the Spirit was upon him, the genuine Holy Spirit of God. The Holy
Spirit of God was upon Him to preach, prophesy, and foretell it to come to
pass, and denied and crucified the very vindicated Word of the hour… Now,
take Matthew 24:24: "False christs, anointed ones will rise. And they'll
be false prophets, prophesying (See?), and will deceive the very elected if it
was possible." You got it now?” (Anointed Ones at End time 65-0725).

Now I hope you are getting that dividing line there.

All right, so now they in 1906, they lacked the
virtues. They lacked the nature of Christ and that is why the message called “Stature of a perfect man”
was preached by the prophet, and he detailed God’s plan and program to
get the true article of Pentecost. The people under the Pentecostal system were
yet in their evil natures and that traveled right down through twenty-five
years, fifty years when Brother Branham celebrated Azusa Jubilee with them,
seventy-five years and right up to one hundred years, the people are still in
their evil natures and it is manifested in their lives, the way they act and
the way they do things, yet they proved to have the baptism of the Holy Spirit
of 1906, sure.

BAPTISM TO TRINITARIAN & ONENESS
BELIEVERS

Quote W.M.B.: 45 I was
right up here in Indiana, at a certain place
called Mishawaka.
The first group of Pentecostal people I ever seen is called the Pentecostal
Assemblies of Jesus Christ…There's many a genuine, real genuine Holy
Ghost born again Christian in their rank. And God gave them the Holy Ghost by
being baptized in Jesus' Name, and He's give the others the baptism of the Holy Ghost being baptized
in Father, Son and Holy Ghost. So God give them the Holy Ghost who obeys Him,
so who--who got, who obeyed Him? There you are. (Demonology 2 Religious 53-0609).

METHODIST, PRESBYTERIANS, LUTHERANS
RECEIVED BAPTISM OF THE HOLY GHOST

Quote: 16 I believe each one of you Methodists
and Presbyterian and Lutherans, that never had experienced the baptism of the
Holy Spirit, was in some formal church that did not believe in the genuine new
birth, and has now received the baptism of the Holy Ghost, is a perfect example
of a paradox. Because something happened to you that changed your whole being,
and anyone could look at that and know that what a paradox is: a miracle. (A Paradox 63-0801).

Now we are thankful to the Lord because some of us
were in that certain time and we received that baptism. If you came out of
organization and you were a sincere person, really seeking God and meant
salvation and you spoke in tongues and you prophesied and you lived a life for
Jesus Christ, you had that baptism. Do not despise that. Could the apostles deny the power that was placed upon
them before the day of Pentecost? No, they would be foolish because Jesus
called them and He anointed them and gave them power. They proved that they had
that power because a revival broke. They went out and done signs and wonders
and miracles. How can they turn around now and deny that they ever had the
power of God? There was only one thing they had to admit to, and that was their natures were not changed, and then
they had to admit that that power could not take them in the rapture, but they
needed to go to Pentecost.

Now Jesus behaved like they never had any power. At
the end of their ministries He came by, and said, “Tarry in Jerusalem until ye be
endued with power from on high. Then you are going to preach for me.” (Luke 24:49, Acts 1:8). That is a
different thing all entirely. We are not
denying in the least that that was the baptism of the Holy Spirit. People
get confused they think that we are preaching that nobody has the Holy Ghost.
That’s a far cry. We all have the Holy Ghost.  Many of us experienced this baptism over
there in our churches: Pentecost, Church
of God, etc. Many people
experienced a genuine anointing. They knew they were dealing with God. I will
have you to know though that in it was a mixture of demon power and certain
people whose purpose was not right was under the power of demons, also speaking
in tongues, also prophesying, with demons upon them. In it was a mixture of demon power.

1906 RETURN OF PENTECOST – A TOTAL
IMPOSSIBILITY

It was power without character, the fathers of that
1906 revival had the wrong foundation
and they were built upon theology. They were built upon Bible schools. They
were built on racism. They were built on Trinitarianism. They were built on
tongues as the initial evidence of the Holy Spirit and my friend, above all,
the father of Pentecost was charged for sodomy
with young boys. I want you to judge for yourself when you hear the tapes and
read this book, whether God is going to send a return of Pentecost on anything
like that. It is a total impossibility. It is a total impossibility for the
great outpouring of the Holy Spirit to have returned in 1906, but we have to
admit they received something, and I am identifying what they received in 1906,
in the Bible tonight, and I am identifying over here in Revelation 3: 14-22 the
condition that the church fell into because they did not have the character of
Christ. That was the result.

Now let me confirm, by the words of the prophet, what
I am saying. I am boldly declaring to the entire world that what they received
in 1906 was not the true article of Pentecost. It was an outpouring. It was a
baptism of the Holy Spirit and I am proving tonight that that was power without
character and that is why it became Satanic, evident by Revelation 3:14-22. Evident by what we see on the television. Evident by what we see on
the street. Evident by the fruits that they bear, evident by all these thieves
on the radio. Evident by all these sodomites behind the pulpit, evident by all
these adulteresses behind the pulpit, and all the nakedness of so-called
Pentecost. There isn’t any question about that at all.

Pastor McGahee so wonderfully read that and put it on
the message for me. So I am quoting from the Church Age page 363 and 377, and I
am verifying what I said for the past two nights and what I am saying tonight,
that 1906 was not a return of Pentecost. Let Brother Branham speak to us.

IT LOOKED LIKE A RETURN OF PENTECOST
– BUT IT WASN’T

Quote W.M.B.: 363-3 “About
the turn of the century the hunger for God that was generated in the
Philadelphian Age brought a cry for the Spirit of God. And when the cry was
answered by God sending forth manifestation in tongues, interpretation and
prophecy, a group immediately, and most contrary to the Word, drew up a
doctrine that tongues was the evidence of being baptized with the Holy Ghost.
Tongues were far from evidence. They were manifestation, but not evidence. The
falsity of the doctrine can not only be seen by a lack of Scripture to
substantiate it, but those who subscribed to the doctrine immediately organized
on the basis of the doctrine, proving that they were not in the truth as they
would have people believe. Oh, it looked good. It looked like the return of Pentecost.
But it proved it
wasn't. It could not be, for it organized.” (Laodicean Church Age - Church Age Book Cpt.9).

HOW COULD
THIS BE THE REAL THING - IT WAS NOT

Quote: 377-2 “This age
started just after the turn of the twentieth century. As it was to be the age
in which the true church would return to being the bride she was at Pentecost,
we know that there must of necessity be a return of dynamic power. The
believers sensed this in their spirits and began crying to God for a new
outpouring such as was in the first century. What seemed to be the answer came
as many began to speak in tongues and manifest gifts of the Spirit. It was then
believed that this was indeed the long awaited RESTORATION. It was not,
for the latter rain can come only after the former rain which is the spring or
TEACHING rain. The latter rain, then, is the HARVEST rain. How could this be
the real thing when the Teaching Rain had not come? The Prophet-Messenger
who was to be sent to TEACH the people and turn the hearts of the children back
to the Pentecostal fathers had not yet come. (Resume
Of The Ages - Church Age Book Cpt.10).

If somebody did not understand, the prophet of God
said that the 1906 experience was not the return of Pentecost it was not the
real thing. A blind man could see that.
A deaf man could hear that. It was not the real thing and the reason that he
gave is that the messenger had not brought the Word yet. This is showing you
that the Word must come first before the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. That is
Bible now. Jesus the Word came first and then they went up to Pentecost.

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

Quote W.M.B.: 377-2 Thus
what was thought to be the restoration and the final quickening unto the
rapture had not come. In it was a mixture of the unrighteous partaking of
Spiritual blessing and manifesting in the Holy Ghost as we have kept pointing out
to you. In it also was devil power as men were under the control of devils, yet
no one seemed to realize it. Then, to prove that it was not the REAL, these
people (even before a second generation had appeared) organized, and wrote
their unscriptural doctrines and built their own fences as every other group
ahead of them did. (Resume Of The Ages - Church Age Book Cpt.10).

Now this here verifies what I am saying.

Quote
W.M.B.: 380-2 Now before we close, I want to bring this
thought. All along we have been talking about the Seed of Wheat being buried,
then sending up two shoots, then the tassel, then the true ear. This might make
some wonder if we said that the Lutherans didn't have the Holy Spirit just
because they taught basically justification. It might make some wonder about
the Methodists, etc. No sir, we are not saying that. We are not talking about
the individuals or the people, but the AGE. Luther had the Spirit of God, but
his age was not the age of full restoration by another outpouring like in the
beginning. It was the same with Wesley, Booth, Knox, Whitefield, Brainard,
Jonathan Edwards, Meuller, etc. Surely they were full of the Holy Ghost. (Resume Of The Ages - Church Age Book Cpt.10).

For a man to fight
the words of the prophet, and still think that he has the article of Pentecost
because he received something that made him feel good, he has to be an
unbeliever in the message. I have just proven to you from the Bible, I took it
back to the message of the prophet, where he said in his own words that 1906
was not the true article. Yes sir! And he told us what the article was. He said
it was an outpouring of the Spirit, he said it was the unrighteous partaking of
spiritual gifts. He said in it was demon power. He called them devils.

All right, how do we reconcile that? Now friends, many
times when there is an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, the devil sends his army down there to see what is going on
because it is going to attack his kingdom.

EVERY TIME GOD MOVES, SATAN IS THERE TO
MOVE ALSO

Quote
W.M.B.: 70-2 Have you ever studied the history of revivals?
Now a revival signifies a move of God in power. And every time God moves, Satan
is there to move also. It never fails. In the days of the great Welsh revival
(and most people don't know this), the insane asylums filled up quickly, and
there was a great display of devil power to take away the attention from God.
It is written that in Wesley's day the people would do most peculiar things
that were definitely of Satan to try to mock the goodness and power of God. In
Luther's day it is said that the miracle of his ministry did not lie in the
fact that he successfully protested the Roman Catholic Church, but the miracle
lay in the fact he could, and did, stay sound and sane amidst the fanatics who
were often filled with, and guided by, wrong spirits. And if you have been
aware of this last day ministry, you will have noted the same invasion of false
and wicked spirits. It has to be that way. Now I hope and trust you are
spiritual minded enough to get that, and capitalize on it. (Ephesian
Church Age - Church Age
Book Cpt.3).

Then what happens, he has his demons and they will
start impersonating the Holy Ghost. So when one fellow receives the Holy Ghost
and starts speaking with tongues, then the devils power comes upon the next
fellow whose motive is not right, who has pride in him, who has lust in him,
who has ambition in him and he doesn’t want to pay the price of
sanctification, but he wants the power. Just like Judas. And what happens is
that he will get power, but it is devil power. Then that devil power will start
speaking in tongues. And they already think that anybody that speaks with
tongues has the Baptism of the Holy Ghost like Peter James and John. So that is
what entered the Azusa Street
Mission after just a few days. It
was demon power, and like Brother Branham said, they never even realized it.
How are you going to realize what is the devil from what is not the devil if
you believe that everybody that speaks in tongues has the Holy Ghost? You
cannot know that, and besides that, you don’t know that because you did
not have the Word in 1906. Yes, but let the devil come in here now. It’s
a different thing. If you start speaking in tongues and prophesying, I would
let you prophesy, I will let you speak in tongues, but beloved, I will examine
you life! And if you life does not match the Word of God, I would ask you to
sit down. So we believe in speaking in tongues, we believe in prophesying and
we believe in divine healing, but then you have to be living a sanctified
life.  You’ve got to come up
to that place.

Now here is the Bible, here is the quotation of the
prophet and here is the history. How are we going to deny it there on the
field? I have tied down my two messages in the Word of God, by quotations of
Brother Branham and I am nailing a nail down tonight in this third message of
One Hundred Years of Pentecostalism and I declare
to the world that I believe that they received an outpouring of the Holy Spirit,
I declare to the world that that was a baptism of the Holy Spirit, yes, but I
also believe that it was a baptism of the Holy Spirit without Christ-like
character. I don’t believe that those people had Christ-like character in
them; because their lives proved it afterwards.

To further prove this subject tonight I want to
examine the men that came out of that revival and the women that came out of
that revival. We are going to go back into some history and deal with those
individuals that I called out last night, and we want to study the ministries
just briefly. I want you to judge if that is the character of Christ or if it
is power without character.  I
assure you from the beginning right down to the end; it was power apart from
character.

I am still asking those who would deny that 1906 was
not the true article of Pentecost and you claim to have the true article of
Pentecost; when did you receive it?
I am asking, when did it come? Did it come with Brother Bosworth?  Did it come with Oral Roberts?  Did it come with A.A. Allen?  Did it come with the women
preachers?  Did it come with Jack
Coe? Did it come with Tommy Hicks?
Did that outpouring like on the day of Pentecost come with William
Branham? I am here to tell you, “NO!!” And if it did not come with
him, we are still looking for it. And he himself was looking for it. And he
said in dozens of quotes to look for it, it is coming, the latter rain is
coming, the Power of God is coming, and there is going to be another outpouring
of the Holy Spirit.  So that alone
verifies that it did not come in the days of Brother Branham, but there is
something that came in the days of Brother Branham and it is called the Former Rain, sowing the seeds.

FORMER RAIN HAS GONE FORTH –
WAITING FOR THE LATTER RAIN

Quote
W.M.B.: 45-6 Now, the seed must be planted, and then it must
have water in order to grow. Now, you say, "Well, Brother Branham (I'm
going to express your thoughts on there.), we've had the water." So be it.
That's correct.

…All
right, but now wait, what did we have in that planting time? The former rain. "Oh," you say,
"Brother Branham, nonsense." Now, wait just a minute. You take the
word "former" in Joel 2 and look at it and see if the Hebrew
word--…"moureh" means: "teaching." Amen. The teaching
rain has went forth.

…Billy Graham has struck the world.
The Pentecostals struck the world, and the Word has struck the world. Now,
what's the matter now? She's now waiting for the latter rain. That's when she produces her fruits. Oh, I hope you
get it. (Spoken Word Original Seed
62-0318m).

You must be able as young men and as preachers to
prove what you say in the Bible.  I
don’t believe in going around and just saying, “Brother Branham
said, Brother Branham said.” Now all the people can say, “Brother
Branham said”, but they cannot put back what Brother Branham said in the
Bible. That has become a stumbling block around the world; because here you are
witnessing to a man that doesn’t believe in Brother Branham, and you say,
“Brother Branham said, Brother Branham said”, like a parrot. But I
believe in taking what Brother Branham said and put it back into the Bible.
Then quote the Prophet of God. Just not only quote the Prophet of God.

So power apart from character is satanic, and that
makes up the sum of the Revival of 1906 with all the other revivals that came
right down the line.

MESSAGE FOLLOWERS HAVE BAPTISM FROM
1906

Now the followers of the Message who came from
organization were sincere and honest to God and they partook of that baptism of
the Holy Spirit. “Do the people that follow Brother Branham’s
Message have the baptism of the Holy Ghost, Brother Bruce?” Yes, they
have it. But it cannot take them in the rapture. They came from their
organizations and brought what they received from their organizations, and some
of it is devil power; and some of it is the true anointing of God, the true
baptism of the Holy Spirit. And neither of them could go into the rapture.
Those with demon power pervert the message; they cannot go in the rapture with that.
And those with the true baptism which they received from that genuine anointing
cannot go in the rapture with that. It is a total impossibility! That is why I’m preaching that there must be
another outpouring of the Holy Spirit, otherwise none of you will go anywhere,
including myself, including this church, those of you listening in India, you
are included, Africa, the Philippines, wherever this DVD will go, you cannot go
in the Rapture unless you receive the outpouring of the Holy Spirit that is coming
today. You will have the Token or you will perish. That was the declaration
after the Seals.

RECEIVE
TOKEN OR PERISH

Quote
W.M.B.: E-29 Now, the token is not the Blood; it is the Life
that was in the Blood, the Holy Spirit...
I don't care how religious you are, unless you've received the Holy Ghost,
you'll perish. It's the only way.
There's not another Scripture to do anything, only that alone. "Grieve not
the Holy Spirit of God whereby you are sealed
until the day of your redemption," Eph.4:30. (Jehovah Jireh 64-0403).

TOKEN
BY ONE SPIRIT BAPTISM

Quote: 35-3 Notice,
they were not just yet come together to talk about the message. They come
together to apply the blood, to apply
the token. That's what you must do. Pastor
Neville, and to this congregation,
trustees, deacons, to you brethren, it's time that we laid aside all the
foolishness of the world, time we laid aside everything else. We've seen enough
now, that we're positive, sure, and the Token must be applied. Without it,
you're going to perish; you must perish. That is the only thing. Oh, don't come
together, say, "I believe it." Get beneath it. Get into it. How to do
it? By one Spirit we're baptized into the Body of Jesus Christ. Everybody
believe with all your heart. See? He was not responsible for any out from
beneath it. (The Token  63-0901M).

PEOPLE BEING MADE READY FOR FULLNESS OF
PENTECOST

Quote
W.M.B.: 379 1-2 The people of God are being made ready by the
Word of Truth from the messenger to this age. In

her will be the fulness of Pentecost for
the Spirit will bring the people right back to where they were at the
beginning. That is "Thus saith the Lord." It is "Thus saith the
Lord" for that is what Joel 2:23-26 says, “He will cause to come
down for you, the rain, the former rain and the latter rain… I will
restore. (Resume of the Ages - Church
Age Book Chapt.10).

RESTORATION BACK TO PENTECOST

Quote: 379-2 Now it
says God is going to “restore”. The Lutheran Age did not restore
the church; it started a reformation. The Wesleyan Age did not restore. The
Pentecostal Age did not restore. But God has to restore for He cannot deny His
Word. This is not the resurrection of the Church; it is the
“Restoration”. God will take the Church right back to Pentecost of the beginning. (Resume of the Ages - Church Age Book Chpt. 10).

SPIRIT TO BE POURED OUT WITHOUT MEASURE
– GROUP

Quote: E-81 We're
nearing something. You'll hear a sound of abundance of rain. For one of these
days the curtains will be drawed back from the heavens, and God will pour out His Spirit without measure upon that group of
people that's fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas. And what
a meeting we'll have. Yes, sir. (Maniac
of Gadara
54-0720A).

LOOKING FOR ANOTHER SURGE OF THE SPIRIT
IN CHURCH – RAPTURING FAITH

Quote: 23 And I'm
looking for a time of a break forth
of the Spirit of God in these last days that we're now living in, for another
surge of the Holy Spirit into the Church for a rapturing faith, just before it
comes. (The Token 63-1128E).

BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT INTO THE BRIDE
FOR RAPTURING GRACE

Quote: 15-1 That's
the reason I do believe that when that Bride is called out and elected and set
in the Book of Life, there'll come a sound from heaven that'll take such a baptism of the Holy Spirit into that
Bride that'll take Her from the earth in a
rapturing grace. God promised it.
(Three Kinds Of Believers 63-1124e).

Why message BELIEVERS HAVE fallen
from their original standard of holiness

We want to know what is happening around the message;
why have the people dropped their standard of holiness? Why? After many years, and we are so close to this
Rapture, the people brought back the televisions into their homes, and are
going to the movies, and how is it the young women and even the older women
wear tight clothing, dress immoral, why are the preachers falling in adultery,
why are the lay members living in fornication, and why have they all become
like organizations with their own heresies and theology? Why are there so many
divisions, and where is this five-fold
ministry that they boast about? They talk about the five-fold ministry
meeting whenever ministers are gathered together. I walk into those places
friend, and I only find a two-fold. Most of them are pastors and some say they
are evangelists. Where are the apostles, where are the prophets and where are
the teachers that are lining up the Word of God? Now do you see how dumb this
thing is and they say that this is the five-fold ministry. No, it is a
three-fold. And if you find a prophet there, he is a false prophet! He cannot
prove that he’s a true prophet. If you find an apostle there, he only
took that name as an apostle; and he doesn’t know what an apostle
is.

So the women have gone back into immoral dresses and
preachers are committing adultery. You ask, “What is the reason for this, Brother Bruce?”
The reason is that they are relying on that baptism of 1906. Exactly what happened to so-called Pentecost,
their churches, their ministers and their lay members is happening around the
message for the past years. They cannot deny that, because friend, that Power
of the Holy Spirit that was given in 1906 is fast fading away. I could say a lot more here. That covenant is
closing. A new day is dawning where the Token is required or you will perish.
That is the truth of it.

Yes. That is the truth of it. So now
because they manifest these things and they are going away from the Word of
God, it is a clear indication that they are depending upon that baptism. So
they will tell you outright, “I received the baptism of the Holy
Spirit.” I don’t deny that.
Yes, you got the baptism, but what you got cannot carry you in the
rapture. You say, “A man cannot preach unless he has the baptism of the
Holy Spirit.” Yes, so be it. But that cannot carry the preacher in the
rapture. This is a different thing
here, friend. And the apostles and disciples had to give that up, and tarry in Jerusalem until they got
the article of Pentecost by a changed nature. You must have a changed nature. That
is the most important thing. And I believe we have that kind of a people right
here under this ministry.

If your nature is changed it is a total
impossibility for you to miss this
Outpouring of the Holy Spirit. If you’re a believer and you’re not
a skeptic of this Word, your nature is changed. It shows there is faith down in
there. Yes. You believe that Word. You love that Word. You support that Word.
You love your brothers and sisters. You respect the ministry. You respect
Christ. You have reverence in His house. Yes. You are not a gossiper. You are
not a talebearer. You don’t listen to unbelief from father, mother, brother or sister. From the time
unbelief starts spewing out of a person’s mouth you have enough
discernment to shut them up and walk away.

Friends, the worst thing that anybody
could do is to listen to unbelief from whoever is speaking that. You
don’t know the power of that unbelief.  What it is that brings that unbelief is
a demon from Hell. And Eve thought that she could have listened to the unbelief
from the serpent and argue with him and get away. And he was quoting the Word.
Yes. He said, “God said you shall die, but I am saying ye shall not
surely die.” That was unbelief in God’s Word. She should not have
stood there. She should not have listened to the words of the serpent. She
should not leave Adam, her pastor. She needed a pastor. If she had her pastor
there, the pastor would have pointed out the devil and say, ‘That’s
the devil!’ But she left the house and went down the road and she met
another preacher. Oh yes.

Anybody that is spewing unbelief against
that message and that promise, they are trying to take you through the
tribulation. And that could be an unbelieving serpent right down inside of
them. That could be a serpent seed that you are sleeping with right in your
bed. That could be a seed of the serpent that you are walking down the road
with and you put your hand around and say, ‘This is my best
friend.’ People have husbands, they have wives, they have children that
speak evil of that Word of God and they would not resist them. Boy, I tell you, I can’t stay with a man for
more than a few minutes who will be spewing unbelief out of his mouth.  No! How could you take that as a
Christian? It goes to show that something is wrong with your salvation. Something is wrong with your
soul! Yes. When you could get into a conversation, and join in and speak evil
of the pastor, join in and judge the Word that is preached here, something is
wrong.

What comes from this pulpit is one hundred percent Word. I say that without any
embarrassment or fear.  I preach one
hundred percent Word.  The ministers
here preach one hundred percent Word. Those that follow this Word of God preach
one hundred percent Word.  You say,
‘But nobody is perfect.’
That’s a different subject.
I am not talking about us being perfect.  I’m talking about preaching one
hundred percent Word.  That is why
nobody is able to defeat us.  That
is why we can stand here and say, “We challenge the world.”
That is why we can send those tapes and that is why we can send those
books and throw it out in the public and say, “Challenge
that!”  Do you know what that
is?  The opening of the Seals
brought one hundred percent Word.
And we are in direct line-up with the seals, and the Christ who came
from the seals.

So friends, all those people that have
that baptism from 1906, regardless of where they received it: in organization,
under anyone of those men, or under the plain message, that cannot qualify them
for the rapture.  Now that is the
anointing that dominates the age from 1906, and it is still here up to
today.  You cannot presently receive
more than what God has allotted for the age.  For you to get more than what God
allotted for this age, He has to give another Outpouring of the Holy
Spirit.

EXAMINATION OF THE
CHARACTERS, LIVES AND MINISTRIES OF

1906 PENTECOSTAL
PIONEERS

I am going to turn my attention now to
examine some more ministers, who were used of God.  But in-between
there I want you to examine these men’s character. And I want you to judge in yourself if the original
Pentecostal blessing, with all the signs and wonders that they did, if it came
with those men.  It did not come in
1906.  I am going to examine these
men.  I would not give you the whole
history. I am just taking out the important things.

William
Sowders: We start with
one of the Pentecostal fathers.

“He was a policeman and he was a
fisherman and he received the Holy Ghost in 1913.  He formed an organization called the Gospel of the Kingdom.”

Unquote. Does that resemble Pentecost?  It does not.

“Although without a formal doctrinal
statement, most of Sowders’ churches’ beliefs include two persons in the Godhead, no literal Hell, a
Bride of Christ consisting of 144,000, restoration of the fivefold
ministry.”

Unquote. It was restored down there, he claimed.
“Every church outside of the body of Christ was a part of Babylon; Satan was not a
fallen angel, women cannot hold an office of the ministry…” Unquote. He was correct there.

“… moderation in dress and
behavior.  He was able to start
three hundred churches with 75,000 believers in the fellowship.  His ministry affected churches in U.S., Haiti,
Europe and Africa. William Sowders always
stressed the need for Jesus to be the head of the church and not himself, which
is why the work he started has continued and grown since his death.”

Unquote. Now, I am saying that does not resemble
Pentecost in the least.  And
Pentecost goes right back to the original.

Maria
Woodworth-Etter arose,
who died in 1924.  “She was a
famous evangelist in the founding years of the Assemblies of God.  She was born again in 1857.  When disease took five of her children,
she had a vision which led her to dedicate her life to the ministry.”

Unquote.
A woman getting a vision under
this Pentecostal system to dedicate her life to the ministry.

“After spending over forty years of
her life preaching thousands of sermons across America,
Woodworth-Etter built her tabernacle in Indiana,
and dedicated it in 1918. Now the tabernacle is called Lakeview Church.
It drew many future leaders of the revival, including Aimee. She died at
eighty.”

Unquote. So she produced another woman preacher.

George
Jeffreys was another
man.  Much was not said about
him.

Aimee.
She died in 1944. Now woe be unto these people if they came in contact
with the message and turned down the message of the hour. Woe be unto them if
they came in conflict with the prophet of God, Brother Branham.

“This woman was raised in a
Christian home. As a teenager, however, she became an avowed Atheist and began her public speaking
career at the age of thirteen in this context, writing letters to the
newspapers defending evolution, debating local clergy, etc.

She was married and shortly thereafter she
and her husband embarked on an evangelical tour, first to Europe and then to China
where they arrived in June 1910. Shortly after they disembarked in Hong Kong, however, they both contracted malaria. Robert Semple died of the disease. Aimee recovered, gave birth to a daughter, and
she returned to the United
States.”

Unquote. This woman is going to build what you
call the Foursquare
Gospel Church.

“After the birth of her son,
McPherson suffered from postpartum depression and several serious health
issues. After what she described as a near-death experience in 1913, she
embarked upon a preaching career in Canada
and the U.S.
By June 1915 she had left home and was on the road preaching full time. She had
a gospel car, and it was a touring car.
She had all kinds of slogans marked up on the car, and she was preaching
in public through a bullhorn.  And while the car moved, she used to
type out her sermons until she reached to the next assignment. She started her
own newspaper and she called the newspaper The Bridal Call.

Although her husband initially made
efforts to join her on her religious travel, he soon became frustrated with the
situation and by 1918, had filed for separation. His petition for divorce
citing abandonment was granted in 1921.”

Unquote. A woman preacher not cooking her husband’s food and not staying home and being
a wife to her husband and a house cleaner broke up her marriage. So he divorced
her.

“At that time, women at the pulpit
ministry were rare- those who wore make-up and jewelry in the pulpit,
non-existent. Her uniqueness in this respect, her flamboyance, and her unashamed use of low-key sex appeal to attract converts, endeared her to a crowd of
followers in Los Angeles.
She would invariably appear before parishioners in a white gown, carrying a bouquet of flowers.”

Unquote. So you could see the show business from Hollywood
was adopted right there into Pentecostalism. So she had signs, she had wonders,
she had miracles; and would not cook her husband’s food. She would not
stay home; her feet abide not in her house (Proverbs
7:11).

“She
kept a museum of crutches, wheelchairs, and so forth as demonstrations of her
success. She was also strongly influenced by the Salvation Army.”

Unquote.
So you see the root of the Salvation Army there; she propagated the Salvation
Army.

“She was the first woman in history to preach a radio sermon and with the opening of the Foursquare Gospel in 1924,
she also became the first woman to be granted a broadcast license.”

Unquote. This woman was all man. The first to be on the radio preaching, first to receive a
broadcast license. She put on all kinds of jewels and made her appearance.
First woman to come behind the pulpit with jewels and all these kinds of
things. All right.

“She
made the most of the show-business atmosphere of Los Angeles to incorporate
entertainment into her religious meetings, using stage props, contemporary
music, and morality plays (which she called illustrations), with elaborate
costumes and scenery, to their best advantage to draw listeners. She even wrote
and produced a couple of operas, and at one meeting made a dramatic entrance
riding a motorcycle down the isles
of the temple.”

Unquote.  Now you are talking about a masculine spirit on a woman preacher.
You are talking about Hollywood
being introduced into Pentecostalism. And that is what we have today with all
the Benny Hinns that we have on the television. The whole thing has become a
Hollywood show to attract people as converts and this woman had no shame whatsoever
and she had the Baptism of the Holy Ghost. And I guess probably she got it
every hour of her life.  But
friends, this woman took a motorcycle to make a show, and rode it straight down
the isles.  Show business!

“She was also very skillful at
fundraising. Collections were taken at every meeting, usually with the
admonishment of ‘no coins
please.’ When the 1.5 million Angelus
Temple opened its doors,
construction was already entirely paid for through private
donations.”

Unquote. Do you know what was 1.5 million in that
time? Boy I tell you, that more looks like a billion to me today. “She
was not universally loved.”

Unquote. Because women were now getting on the
pulpit, and there were men who were men at that time and hated the acting of a woman
like that.  Yes. They could not
receive that. Even the Ku Klux Klan was against her.

“She also received several death
threats in 1925, and a plot to kidnap her was foiled in September of that year,
thus setting the stage for the episode for which she is best known.”

Unquote. Now this preacher woman, who got the Holy
Ghost friends, she’s now going to fake
her own kidnapping and cause the
death of two of her members who went searching for her. You want to tell me that
is Christ-like character? How many say that is power without character? [Congregation says, “Amen!”] That
is power without character manifested in this woman right here.

“On May 18, 1926, she went to a beach with a
secretary to swim. Soon after her arrival she disappeared. It was generally
assumed at that time that she had drowned.”

Unquote. So they went out searching for her and
the papers published that.  And the
believers were around there day and night at the ocean.

“Futile search for the body resulted
in one parishioner drowning and another diver dying from exposure.” Unquote. I guess to the cold.

“After thirty-two days, she stumbled
out of the desert in Mexico,
just across the border from Douglas,
Arizona. She claimed that she had
been kidnapped, drugged, tortured, and held for ransom in a shack in Mexico,
then had escaped and walked through the desert for about thirteen hours to
freedom.  Several problems were
found with McPherson’s story. Her shoes
showed no evidence of her thirteen-hour walk; indeed, they had grass stains on them after a supposed
walk through the desert.”

Unquote. Does the desert have grass? The shack could not be found and then this
woman showed up fully dressed while she disappeared wearing a bathing suit and
was wearing a watch given to her by her mother, which she had not taken on her
swimming trip. Yes.

“Several witnesses then came forward
stating that they had seen she and Ormiston…” a man, “…at various hotels over the thirty-two day
period.”

Unquote. Woman preacher, filled with the Holy
Ghost. Received the baptism. Faked her own kidnapping. That goes to show that
you could get that baptism of 1906, just like Judas, and then betray the Lord.
This is playing out right here in this woman’s life.

So now, the government charged her and they received documents
from hotels in her own handwriting. But she stuck to her story that: “She
was approached by a young couple at the beach who had asked her to come over
and pray for their sick child, and she was then shoved into a car and drugged
with chloroform. However, when she was not forthcoming with answers regarding
her relationship with Ormiston
(who was recently estranged from his wife) Judge Samuel Blake charged her and
her mother with obstruction of justice on November 3rd.”

Unquote. Evangelist, friend. Baptism of the Holy
Ghost, 1906.  Outpouring just like
Peter. This woman is acting just like Mary Magdalene. No brother.  This is something else.

“Theories and innuendo abounded: she
had run off with a lover; she had an abortion; she was recovering from plastic
surgery; she had staged the whole thing as a publicity stunt. No satisfactory
answer, though, was ever reached, and soon after the Examiner
erroneously reported that district attorney Asa Keyes had dropped all charges.
Keyes decided to do exactly that on January 10, 1927, citing lack of evidence.”

Unquote.
Her own signature, and that of the man that she was moving around with
was in the hotel books, yes, and they got it.  Now this is a display of the Holy Ghost.
And that shows you and I here, that this is power apart from character.
The woman had crutches and wheelchairs as evidence of God using her. Yes. But
inside of her, all these things came out because her nature was not changed.

“Soon after that, she became involved
in a power struggle for the church with her mother and daughter, and she
suffered a nervous breakdown in
1930. She married again, this time to an actor and a musician, David
Hutton.”

Unquote. It goes to show what kind of a spirit was
in this woman. She had an actress spirit; everything about her was just acting.
And that is what the church was built upon: acting. So now when she married to
this actor:

“She was away in Europe.
She was incensed to discover Hutton was billing himself as “Aimee’s
man” in his cabaret singing act.”

Unquote. He made her a laughing stock, telling the
whole world in his song that he is a preacher’s husband. But he did not
put it in those words. He made a scandal off of it.  I’m saying that Pentecost made the
Bible and the name of the Lord, a laughing stock. Now after she preached that
nobody should marry if they have a living spouse, she went out and married
against her own doctrine and teaching.

“According to The Preachers
by James Morris, she was buried with a live telephone in her casket to ensure
her survival in the event of bodily resurrection.”

Unquote. I never heard of that one. I think that
that is better than the followers of Brother Branham who believe in the
resurrection doctrine. They should have put down a telephone there too. So they
said, just in case this “holy woman” happens to resurrect in the
coffin, instead of digging up all that dirt, she just has to make a call to the
deacons to come and get her out of there. So they put a live telephone down in there.

“Her son took the church over and
continued a worldwide ministry with two million members, over ninety percent of
whom are outside the United
States in different countries.”

Unquote. This woman carried this Hollywood
show business with all her false doctrines, gave out what she had, and has two
million following.  Brethren, we
need the outpouring of the Holy Spirit to deliver such people. Those people
will never be delivered until that outpouring of the Holy Spirit comes and God
walks out there and exposes those leaders.

David
du Plessis.  This fellow here claimed to receive the
baptism of the Holy Spirit and he only died in 1987. You heard a lot of him
here from Brother Lambert. Brother Lambert called him a devil incarnated in
human flesh. This man was called, “Mr. Pentecost”. The reason he
was called “Mr. Pentecost” is that he was used to bring this
speaking in tongues and bring this Holy Ghost that they received in 1906, right
into the charismatic movement, right into the ecumenical movement, and into the
Catholic Church. So he was called Mr. Pentecost. So now, all his labors were
spent to help build the World Council of Churches and join the World Council of
Churches together with the Catholic Church by the experience of 1906.

“He was a member of staff and
Pentecostal observer at the World Council of Churches in 1954 and 1961,
respectively, and was invited to serve as Pentecostal representative at the
Second Vatican Council.”

Unquote. Now that is what this outpouring is
ringing out. That is what the Holy Ghost that he received done for the church of God:
help form the World Council of Churches and taking the church back to Rome. Can this article
take the people in the rapture? [Congregation
says, “No!”] It cannot take the people in the rapture!

Brothers and sisters, this article here,
was given by God under His permissive will and Judas shared in it, the
unrighteous shared in it, the seventy shared in it, but they have their old
evil nature. After Judas manifested what he manifested, he was still a murderer
in his heart, he was still a man hating and he was still full with jealousy.
Now that is exactly the same article that they got in 1906, and it traveled
right up here. There are Pentecostals today that will kill you because you
believe in the message of Brother Branham. They are full of hate and wickedness
down on the inside.

Kathryn
Kuhlman. She was the
example of Benny Hinn. She only died in 1976, and it says:

“She was a great American
evangelist. She was born again at the age of 14 in the Methodist Church.
A man left his wife to form a professional alliance with Kuhlman, and after his
divorce was final, married her in October 1938. This resulted in the
deterioration of Kuhlman’s ministry, and they left their area. Then in
1948, he divorced her and then she went on with her ministry. In 1972, she was
granted an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree by Oral Roberts
University. In 1973,
Benny Hinn attended one of her ‘healing crusades’, which was a
catalyst for his life as a charismatic preacher.”

Unquote. So the point here is that Mr. Benny Hinn,
who is now alive and the most popular televangelist on the field today, was
influenced by this woman who used to always wear a white gown. And that is
why Benny Hinn wears only white to preach and that is where he got this thing
about pushing down the people and slaying the people, because that was her kind
of ministry, claming that that is the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. Now
in-between here, I am sure that those people heard of the message of Brother
Branham. She only died in 1982. Woe be unto those people. Maybe they were the
very enemies of Brother Branham, making it hard for him to preach the Gospel.
They must have come to see the power of God.

William
Branham. They have him
documented in the Wikipedia Encyclopedia, and this is the
most truthful report that I have
ever read about in any book concerning Brother Branham. They gave a countdown
of his ministry.

“William Marrion Branham  (April 6, 1909, Kentucky - December 24,
1965) was an influential Bible minister sometimes credited with founding the
Latter Rain Movement within American Pentecostal churches, elements of which
are present in most modern Pentecostal and Charismatic churches (although
William Branham denied any specific connection with the movement). Many
consider him a false prophet who taught heretical doctrines, although many
today acknowledge him as a true prophet. Branham is considered by many to have
initiated the faith healing movement that began in 1947. Other subgroups in the
Pentecostal and Charismatic movements were partially influenced by Branham,
including the Latter Rain Movement, Manifested Sons of God, and Kingdom Now
theology. His ministry had effects felt around the world, and it fostered a number of other ministers who became internationally known. The whole intent of his
ministry was to turn Christian hearts back to the scriptures and their
experiences to match that of the Apostles. His theme was ‘Jesus Christ
the same yesterday, today, and forever’.”

Unquote. Even Pentecostal people testify to that
fact. They heard all his prophecies that he made and they said that “he
made prophecies that Los Angeles
will sink”, and such like. They said that “he denounced the
trinity, and although people disagreed with him, he was able to prove it in the
Bible.”

Unquote. All right, hear this, what the
Pentecostals have to say about Brother Branham in the Full Gospel Fellowship
International:

“Branham’s legacy and influence
- Branham’s popularity continued through the last years of his life.  In its February 1961 issue, the Full
Gospel Men’s Voice (now the Full Gospel Businessmen’s Fellowship
International) glowed: ‘In Bible Days, there were men of God who were
Prophets and Seers.  But in all the
Sacred Records, none of these had a greater ministry than that of William
Branham, a Prophet and Seer of God… Branham has been used by God, in the
Name of Jesus, to raise the dead!’ Branham’s teachings and
notoriety had a profound influence on the Pentecostal and Charismatic
movements.”

“Though Branham has been dead since 1965, there are
thousands around the world who regard him as a prophet, and the fulfillment of
Malachi 4:5. Branham taught that the Seven Church Ages of Revelation represent
Seven Church Ages. Each of these Church Ages has a messenger. He taught that
the succession of messengers was the Apostle Paul, Iraeneus, Saint
Martin, Columba, Martin Luther, and John Wesley. Branham did not
mention who the last messenger was. It may be difficult to measure
Branham’s influence on other evangelists in his time period. But he
certainly led the way in the pioneering tent revival, which would lead to the
era of tele-evangelism. Branham is often mentioned as the leader of the first
revivalist preacher of the second wave of Pentecost that swept the country
after World War II. The first wave being Parham, Seymour, and others. Among
those who began around the same time of Branham, and part of the second wave of
Pentecostalism, late 1940’s to the mid-1950’s, were Jack Coe, Billy
Graham, Oral Roberts, and A. A. Allen. It is interesting to note that Branham
was one of the first faith preachers, evangelists who not only preached a
latter rain, a latter day visitation of God’s Spirit, but also emphasized
faith for the healing, as did Coe, Roberts, and Allen.”

Unquote. That
is the most truthful report that I have ever read concerning Brother Branham.
Every one of them tries to put him down. May the Lord bless those Pentecostal people for that. And this is another
account of Brother Branham.

“The person universally acknowledged as the
revival’s father and pacesetter was William Branham.” The sudden
appearance of his miraculous healing campaigns in 1946 set of a spiritual
explosion in the Pentecostal movement which was to move to main street USA by
the 1950’s and give birth to the broader charismatic movement in the
1960’s, which currently affects almost every denomination in the country.
Branham filled the largest stadiums and meeting halls in the world. As the
pacesetter of the healing revival, Branham was the primary source of
inspiration in the development of other healing ministries. He inspired
hundreds of ministers to enter the healing ministry, and a multitude of
evangelists paid tribute to him for the impact he had upon their work. As early
as 1950, over one thousand healing evangelists gathered at the Voice of
Healing, the name of Branham’s magazine convention to acknowledge the
profound influence of Branham on the healing movement.”

Unquote. This
latter portion was taken from the Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic
Movements, 1988. Now brethren, their own mouths testify of this great thing
that the Lord has done.

Jack Coe.  Brother
Branham spoke of him. He was a man so full of the Holy Ghost, when he came to
heal you, he used to cuff you anywhere the sickness was. If in your belly,
he’d hit you a punch. Hit you on the back, on the head. He was a wild
kind of preacher. Brother Branham loved him. So he came from an alcohol and dope
background, and he said:

“God told him that He’s giving him his
last chance. Then the Lord healed him from malaria. Then he started to preach.
And in starting to preach, he had a lot of opposition. His ministry only lasted
12 years.”

Unquote. Now
the Bible did not say, “Thou shalt cuff, and they shall be healed.”
No. “Thou shalt lay thy hands upon them and they shall recover.”
One fellow who came from a certain background, said, “Brother Bruce, I
want to tell you that anybody that I lay my toe upon, they are healed. What do
you think about it?” I said, “I never read that in the Scriptures,
but they that lay their hands upon the sick, they shall recover.” So he
stopped laying his toe upon people for their healing, and started using his
hand. So you have all these kinds of wild things in so-called Pentecost, and in
religions.

One time Coe was so ambitious that he went down to
Oral Roberts’s tent and measured it right around. And he went and built a
tent bigger than Oral Roberts’s own. Then he could tell everybody,
“I have the biggest tent, bigger than Oral Roberts’.” Now,
you see, power apart from character is Satanic.  So it went on and Coe died in his
thirties. A young man. I believe the Lord saved these people.

“At his death, his magazine circulation was
350,000.”

Unquote. He
was joined with the Voice of Healing, which was considered as Brother
Branham’s magazine. The editors there were Jack Moore and Gordon Lindsay.
So they started that magazine. He had the largest church in 1954 in Dallas, Texas.
He was associated with the Assemblies of God. He got a lot of persecutions.
Again, brother, power apart from character is Satanic.

“Coe taught and preached fervently on divine
healing, and it would be during a revival service he was holding in Miami in 1956 that
Coe’s beliefs would be brought into the nation’s arena. Coe was
charged on February 6, 1956.  He was
charged for practicing medicine without a license.”

Unquote. Imagine
that! Because he pulled the crutches off of a young boy, and let the boy walk. And
then the boy fell down and was damaged. So the only charge they could have
given to Coe was to practice medicine without a license. So the magistrate
dismissed the case. So he had one or two funny beliefs. And he had an untimely
death. He did not believe in medicine, he did not believe in going to the
doctors.

“Coe’s revival messages centered upon
healing, and he was adamant about not taking medicine and visiting doctors. He
preached and talked that consulting a doctor was connected with the mark of the
beast.”

Unquote. You
are talking about Pentecostal fanaticism.
Now these men could not have what they had on the day of Pentecost and inject
those errors in the Word. They could not do what they done; that is why I am
reading this to show that power apart from character is satanic. But there was
a man on the scene brethren, who had the real goods, who never went off into
fanaticism. His name was William Branham.

A. A. Allen. He had one of the most dynamic ministries, in divine
healing that went across the world, and across the nations. But then one day
they caught him and charged him for being drunk and driving. They call it a
D.U.I. And then after having that great ministry and a place that he built
called miracle valley, his death certificate says that he died from
“…a probable heart attack, with a secondary cause of death due to
“acute alcoholism and fatty infiltration of the liver: alcohol blood
level 0.36. Contributing to the cause of death was the “ingestion of
alcohol.” Unquote. Now these men were in
the days of William Branham.

Oral Roberts. He went on with divine healing and at a certain time
he did not know what happened. Then he went down there and built a hospital.
And he built a building which was the second highest in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
And then he went on until that man came right down and said, “God said
that if I don’t get eight million dollars from the people that he would
kill me.” Yes, right here on the Pentecostal history. And brethren, he
collected nine million after that because they do not want ‘beloved Oral
Roberts’ to die. Money Satan.

Now after he built all of these things in Oklahoma, it did not
last but about eight years. He had to sell some buildings for cell towers. He
built a hospital and said that God told him to put seven hundred and seventy
seven beds. Friends, after he built that, the government said that you cannot
have that much. You can only have a certain amount: a few hundred. Up to this
time the hospital is shutdown and that vision has never come to pass.

I am saying that Oral Roberts never had what they had
on the day of Pentecost. Jack Coe never had it. All the men I just read about,
except William Branham, never had it. We are still looking for it. One thing
that I may mention about A. A. Allen here, which is very vital, and that is, he
was the first man that identified poverty with a spirit. He is the man that
brought that teaching out on the spirit of poverty, that if a man is poor he
has a spirit and he is the first man that started preaching on the blessing plan
of the Lord and prosperity, upon which Pentecostals are now trading by the
millions, telling the people that if they give they will prosper and if they
are poor they have a spirit. I wonder what he will say about Jesus.

Jesus said foxes have their holes and birds of the air
have their nests, but the son of man has not where to lay his head. I wonder
what he will say about Lazarus that went into Abraham’s bosom after he
died. Do you see how contrary that is to the scripture?

Now I have proven to you and to all my hearers
tonight, that power apart from character is satanic. And what they received in
1906, all their leaders, right down the line through this hundred years of
Pentecostalism, prove that their natures were not changed. It shows that they
had power without character, and Judas had the same, the seventy had the same,
and the apostles had the same, but the apostles had to sacrifice that power and
that baptism and their outpouring in order to go up and get the true outpouring
of the Holy Spirit.

We came from that background and many of us came from
those kinds of churches. But when we heard the token preached, and we heard
William Branham declare that you will have the token or perish, we forfeited
what we had back there. We forfeited our heresies, our dogmas, our creeds, our
experiences, our visions, and our dreams. We forsook all of that and here we
are contending for the token: another outpouring of the Holy Spirit. And we are
encouraging the world and all the brethren in the message around the world to
do the same. We recognize that you
have the baptism, we recognize that outpouring, but we are saying that you
cannot go in the rapture under those conditions. You must have the Token or
perish.

PASTOR KENNY MCGAHEE’S
COMMENTS

Amen and amen.
How many enjoyed that?  [Congregation says “Amen!”]  To me it’s just getting plainer
and getting sweeter.  I believe that
you ought to support Brother Bruce one hundred percent. This is Life.  This is eternal Life; this is the
message of the Lord to us.

I have been in the Message a long time, but I have
never heard a man come and preach like Brother Bruce has these last three
services on this subject, this topic, and bring it out so plain and so clear
that a fool should not err therein.
It’s irrefutable.  You cannot deny what that servant is
preaching from this sacred desk.
All of his effort is to try to get the people to understand that what
they have out there (what we used to have) won’t work at this time.  We must have that Token and we must have
Power for service.

All of the Baptisms, all that we had, thank God for
it. Beloved, even God winked at our ignorance but now He’s requiring for
you and I to come up to that mark. As long as you think that you have something
that’s genuine, that you think will work, then you have no need to look
for anything else, but the servant of the Lord is standing up here all of these
different days preaching to us, preaching to our brothers across the world, to
try to show them in all earnestness and all laboring, and even preaching to you
with rebukes, to show that what the people presently have is not enough.
That’s the effort. I thank God.

Brother Bruce, I love that message tonight and I agree
with that one hundred percent. This church agrees with that one hundred percent.
[Congregation says, “Amen!”]
We are contending for that great Promise to be poured out on us.  Thank you very much for that
message.

Try to come in here prayed up. Many came in early
tonight to help support the service. We’re going out of here refreshed,
revived, and we thank God for His Word. Beloved, like I said, in my whole life, listening to Brother
Branham, Brother Lambert and all the servants of God all of these years, I
never heard what I heard in these last few services lined up like that. If it
wouldn’t offend any here or overseas, I believe it is of the Holy Ghost. Amen!

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