Pentecostalism
under the message:

Wilderness
temptations

19/11/2006 57 x 2006

<Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye
should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all
passed through the sea;

And were all baptized unto Moses in the
cloud and in the sea;

And did all eat the same spiritual meat;

And did all drink the same spiritual drink:
for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.>

<…But with many of them God was not
well pleased:…>

(God has to be
pleased with you.)

<…for they were
overthrown in the wilderness.

Now these things were our examples, to
the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of
them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to
play.

Neither let us commit fornication, as some
of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them
also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.

Neither murmur ye, as some of them also
murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.

Now all these things happened unto them for
ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the
world are come.

Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth
take heed lest he fall.

There hath no temptation taken you but such
as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted
above that ye are able;>

(Yes. I love
those words: “above that ye are able.”)

<… but will with the temptation
also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from
idolatry.> (I Corinthians 10:1-14).

1906
OUTPOURING WAS NOT THE RETURN OF PENTECOST

May the Lord add
a blessing to the reading of His holy words. I do not
want to weary your patience this evening, but we have no where to go. I think
that when we come here we come home, it is an evening where everybody just run around the country trying to get a little peace, a
little joy of some kind, but this is our peace, this is our joy. Yes, and we
enjoy the presence of the Lord.

I will preach a
little bit on: ‘Pentecostalism Under The Message: Wilderness Temptations.’ For
some that may not understand what I mean by “Pentecostalism.” What
I am saying is that Pentecostalism has crept right under this message, and many
are based upon Pentecostalism. But what is Pentecostalism? In our understanding
after publishing Book Fifteen, four hundred pages and it is on the internet which
was taken from about eleven messages preached in Connecticut and here, it is
fully detailed. Just to give you a little understanding of Pentecostalism, in
way of remembrance. There was a great move of God in 1906. We believe that to
be a great move of God that started with a brother called Seymour, and then there was another man who
claimed to be the Father of that great movement called Parham. And of course we
realized that he was a sodomite, and charged for sodomy with young boys.

So now, that
gave us the indication of what 1906 Pentecostalism was based upon. But all the
same, it was a genuine move of God. God did outpour His Spirit. Now, this was
made very plain in the Church Ages Book, 377, 380. The prophet of God said that,
it was not the return of Pentecost. That is fully established in the message
that, it was not the return of Pentecost. It was not the Latter Rain. He
clearly brought that out. That was not rapturing faith. He said, “That
was an outpouring of the Holy Spirit mixed with demon power, and devils
manifesting the gifts of the Spirit.”

Quote W.M.B.: 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 not, for the
latter rain can come only after the former rain. In it was a mixture of the
unrighteous partaking of Spiritual blessing and manifesting in the Holy Ghost
as we have. (A Resume Of The Ages – Church
Age Book Cpt.10).

Now, we went
through eleven messages and we combed the history to show you the error of
Pentecostalism, and it is now going out, circulating around the world. The name
of that book is called, ‘Pentecostalism
- One Hundred Years Versus Pentecost.’

This 1906
outpouring was fully accepted by all Pentecostals that, it was the return of
Pentecost, thus they called themselves Pentecostals. People that belong to that
movement do not even know how they came by that name. But they thought that Pentecost
had returned, and they called themselves Pentecostals. So now, the prophet of
God after denouncing that, or the article of Pentecost, he said, “There
must of necessity be a return of dynamic power, and there must be a true return
of Pentecost. “

Quote W.M.B.:  379-1 But
what about the true seed? It will happen just as we have said. 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." (A Resume Of
The Ages – Church Age Book Cpt.10).

TRUSTING
PENTECOSTALISM FOR THE RAPTURE

Now, out of that
movement came forth many, many great men of God. The time will fail to go back
to that but we are familiar, and we combed the history, and we showed you right
up how Pentecost was developed, we came to 2006: one hundred years of
Pentecostalism. Beyond a shadow of a doubt it is irrefutable, we challenged the
world on the histories, on the Scriptures, on their teachings and we proved
that it turned out to be one of the biggest money making rackets,
that the world has ever known. It became one of the biggest disgrace
to Christianity, because of the fruits that it bore. Yes! It started and was
built partly upon sodomy, and then all kinds of adulteries, fornications, and
lies, you name it. And we proved that Sodom and Gomorrah had taken over
the movement, and then we came up to modern times.

But then,
in-between there we were still saying that it was a move of God. The people were
genuinely anointed of God, and they had the Spirit of God, and they were gifted
people, and many millions were saved amongst them who were sincere and honest.
So now, do not get me wrong, that I am saying that all those people were lost,
and they were a bunch of hypocrites. No! When I say Pentecostalism, I am
talking about people trusting that anointing of 1906, trusting the
manifestation of the gifts and all that goes with it, for their salvation,
because they preached, because they prophesied, because they worked miracles,
because they worked signs, because they sang, because they can play music, and they
were anointed. We do not doubt that at all.

Now, but there
is an underlying factor here and that is you could manifest in the Spirit what
you want, and you could preach what you want, you could dance and sing. But if
you deny the Word of God and the messenger that God sends to you, you do not
have the Spirit of God and the anointing in your soul. There is a difference of
being anointed on the outside flesh, and being anointed on the soul. To be
anointed on the soul is eternal life, and to be anointed on the body outside, represents
Judas and many other people.

Judas was a man
anointed and we brought that out very plainly, that Judas was a man who was built
upon Pentecostalism, and when I say Pentecostalism, I mean an imitation of the real article of the Day of Pentecost. Yes.
That is what I mean. I am saying that this same article of Pentecostalism that
has about four to five hundred million Pentecostals around the world, trusting
that anointing to go in the rapture, as their salvation, I am saying that many
followers of the message today, trust Pentecostalism to go in the rapture, and
they are denying another outpouring of the Holy Spirit, but the prophet said
that you will receive the Token or you will perish, and there must be of
necessity be another outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

Quote W.M.B.:  9-5 And
we've come up through justification and so forth, but this is the time that the
Token has to be applied. I told you last Sunday, I had something I wanted to
talk to you about; this is it. The time that when you just
can't play with it. It's got to be done. If it's ever going to be done,
it's got to be done now; because we can see that the wrath is about ready to
pass through the land, and everything from under that Token will perish. The
Blood has identified you. (The Token 63-0901m).

Quote: 35-3 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).

What we have
here today is people around the message who are built upon Pentecostalism, and
act like Pentecostals, manifest gifts like Pentecostals, sing like them and
preach like them, which is not a problem. But, I am saying that right under the
message they are trusting that article, of so-called Pentecost to take them in
the rapture, and all that could do for you, is to take you through the
tribulation. I challenge the world upon that statement that I made, and I put
that right upon the internet, and asked the entire religious world to defy what
I am saying, and not a man has written up to now, to refute that from the
message nor from any other source. That is the truth, from the history, from the
Bible and from the message. And I like the quote what the brother read just
now: “Say what the prophet said.”

Quote W.M.B.: 285 Don't add what I've said, don't take away
what I've said. Because, I speak the Truth as far as I know It,
as the Father has given to me. See? Don't add to It; just say what I said.
(God's Only Provided Place Of Worship 65-1128m).

We believe everything that the prophet
said. And when he said that, “There will be another outpouring of the
Holy Spirit,” that is true too. When he said, “You will have the
Token or you will perish,” we believe that too, and when he said that, “1906
was a counterfeit of the real article of Pentecost,” we believe that too.
Now, this article of so-called Pentecost, many times the prophet of God referred
to it in his message.

Quote W.M.B.:  162
The choice of your conduct, you could... You can't mix it now. You're either
for God or against God, and the outward expressions shows exactly what's on the
inside. See? 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).

FOLLOWERS
OF THE MESSAGE HAS THE 1906
ANOINTING

Now, you and I
know very well that a man cannot have the genuine Holy Ghost, the seal of God
and be lost and go to hell, because he is sealed unto the Day of Redemption.
Therefore the prophet of God was speaking about another article, which the people
were calling the baptism of the Holy Spirit; and that same article Judas had
it, and we proved that throughout eleven messages, that article was an Old
Testament article. We proved that. That article came before the Day of
Pentecost, and the apostles were anointed, seventy were anointed and they
worked signs, and wonders and miracles, and they did all kinds of miracles and
signs. But, something happened along the way and that is, there was a man
called Judas that got the same anointing, and he was an unbeliever together
with the seventy. When they heard the deeper revelation of God, on the Son of
Man, they denied it, and they walked with Him no more, and only twelve
disciples remained with Jesus, and one
of them was a Devil. That man worked signs, and wonders and miracles.

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.>

Now, what the
prophet was speaking about on “Leadership”
is right. He was speaking about the article that preceded the article of Pentecost,
which a man could lose today for misbehaving himself. And those same people
that received that article, had to go up to the Upper Room
to receive another outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

I am saying that
the people that follow this message are
anointed, and they are gifted, and they are anointed preachers. But that
article that they are using came from 1906, and it cannot take them in the
rapture. They need another outpouring of the Holy Spirit! They will receive the
Token or perish! Could anybody refute that? [Congregation
says, “No!”] Not in the light of the message of God. There are
dozens of places where Brother Branham
said, “You say, you have the Holy Ghost, that does
not even mean that you are saved.” (Quote WMB)

When this ministry
and great revival broke in 1946, beloved, that same article was given out to
many, many evangelists. That was a repeat of what happened before the Day of
Pentecost with the twelve and the seventy. These evangelists came under the
ministry of William Branham, and they confessed with their own mouths, that he
was the “father of that revival” and the greatest evangelist known
in modern times. All right! If you doubt me check that encyclopedia called, ‘Wikipedia
Encyclopedia,’ right on your internet and see the testimonies that he was
the father of that revival. And out of him came forth other great evangelists
like Oral Roberts, T.L. Osborne, Tommy Hicks, and everyone of them, and a
thousand faith healers one time were gathered to honour William Branham, for
being the father of that great revival.

During that time
there went forth a great anointing of the Holy Spirit, and men were gifted of
God, look at this repeat of Judas, in that time when the revival was about over,
to show you that that was not the genuine article of Pentecost they were
receiving, they rejected the Word of God. They rejected the message that was
sent to them by God, through His prophet. It is the same thing Judas did, and
that made manifest the false anointed ones. So, all those great evangelist had
the same article as Judas, and Peter had the same thing. It was a genuine article, and they were genuine
gifts. Now, what we see in the world tonight, yes, on the television, and on
the fields and in other places, is that same anointing working.

Now, the
followers of Malachi 4 are in the same
boat tonight, and they are running around the world today, evangelizing as
apostles, and they call themselves prophets and everything, and they cannot
manifest the power of God. Now, do not get me wrong. I am not saying that there
are no miracles, and the day of miracles is past. I believe a man could raise
the dead. I believe that a man could heal the sick. But my beloved, if you have
the genuine article of Pentecost, another Book of Acts will be written. That is
what the prophet said. We got to say exactly what he said.

Quote W.M.B.: 113 And, listen, Jesus
said, "I am the Vine; ye are the branches." And if a branch brings
forth a vine, and that vine bears grapes, the next branch comes forth, it'll bear just like the first branch did.

Oh, you say, "Brother
Branham, but we, look at all these churches." That's grafted vines. Now,
you can graft citrus fruit. You can take an orange tree and put a lemon on it
and it'll grow. That's what you--man grafted in. And these
organizations is what man grafted in. It's a lemon all the time. It'll
grow because it's stuck out in the church name. But let me tell you; if that tree ever puts forth another branch itself,
it'll bear an orange. And if the power of God ever puts forth another
church, it'll be another Pentecost.
And another Book of Acts will be wrote behind it,
because it's the church
of God. (Five
Definite Identifications Of The True Church
Of The Living God 60-0911e).

I am asking the
great anointed ones that are in the message today: where is the book of Acts?
You had forty years since the prophet of God went his way. Where is that book
of Acts? They are sitting powerless,
and the majority of them are denying another outpouring of the Holy Spirit. But
we believe in an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. It must come to pass, it is a great necessity to the endtime church. Now,
that is the truth of the Gospel. That is in the message everywhere.

Pentecostalism
has crept under the message, beloved, and I do not have the time tonight, but
as we go along with this if the Lord leads, I am going to show you the same manifestations, fanaticism and
cult practices that we went through the histories, of people falling down on
the ground, women uncovering themselves, men running with sheets to cover them,
and where so-called Pentecost has sport fields, and the churches play against
one another, it is that same things under the message today; when the prophet
of God condemned the thing. He said;

Quote W.M.B.: 25 Them young girls so drunk they couldn't
hardly stand up, and in the room all night with them boys, and awfullest dirty talk you ever heard in your life. I put
pillows over my head like this to try to go to sleep. Out in the floors, drunk,
and running up and down the floors like that, religious...

Now, I can expect these sinful people like
now, that call themselves sports, out here in the bowling game. One of my kids
would start towards a bowling alley, I'd run him out of the country (uh-huh).
Call that sport; that's not sports. What's this... If
you want to be right, get right with God. True. (Jezebel Religion 61-0319).

Now, I believe
that is the truth too. I believe that is the Word too. So, here they are
running around the world today, instead of seeking God for another outpouring
of the Holy Spirit. Do not get me wrong. I am not saying that they should not
go. No! I am not saying that they are not sincere, and that they are not honest
in what they are doing, but beloved brothers and sisters, we have to carry the Gospel in the right way. Because
the Gospel came not in Word only, but it came in Word and Power, and that is
right through the message of Brother Branham.
I wrote another book there, E.O.D.H. Book Seven, that speaks about endtime harvest, many quotations are in there, where the prophet of
God said that the Gospel must go in power. I do not think you could finish reading
them. So, we are trying to say what the prophet of God said.

What is it? Beloved,
what happened is that, under this
message, we have a mixed multitude that came out of organization, called by
Malachi 4. We have three kinds of believers. Now, that is undeniable. We have
the false anointed ones, right under this message. Demon possessed men,
handling the message of the hour, standing behind the pulpit. We have some of
God’s genuine servants, and then we have make-believers under the
message. Now, that is why I often time, preached to you and said, “We as
followers of the message, we have three kinds of believers sitting right here
in Bethel.”
Have you ever heard me say that? [Congregation
says, “Amen!”] Now, we are not preaching such foolishness, that
we are the Bride and all the other people that follow the message, are not the
Bride. I believe that there are sincere children right in so-called Pentecost,
and right in the Catholic Church. Sincere people right in the Hindu religion
and the Muslim religion. I am looking forward for God to save many Muslims, and
many more Hindus. Now, that is not our teaching, that we alone are the Bride.

MESSAGE
FOLLOWERS ARE BULIT UPON
PENTECOSTALISM

I am saying that
the article that many people are built upon that now follows the message is Pentecostalism, and that will keep them earth bound. And they
are proud with it, just like you hear over the television, and over the radio, proud
with it and they come forth as the mighty power of God. “I just lift my
hands and they fell back.” My beloved, all that is okay, but what about
when those people fell backward what are they receiving? What kind of lives are they living when they get up from there? You
want to tell me women in pants! That is contrary to the Word of God. Adulteresses,
and adulterers and whoremongers, receiving the true article of Pentecost?
Impossible! For you to receive that Holy Ghost, you must be holy, because He is
a Holy Ghost.

They claims around the world that people are receiving the Holy
Ghost; they are not receiving the Holy Ghost. Absolutely not! They did not get
that true Pentecostal article in 1906, and it came right up here today. I will
tell you how it came over. When this message went out in this country, and
other places there were people that were already in Pentecost, and they had
that anointing, they were gifted, they were preachers, they were deacons, they
were song-leaders and everything, and when they heard the message, instead of
contending for what the prophet of God said, “Contend for another article
of Pentecost,” they brought over what they had there. It was genuine and
they came and took up the message and started preaching. They have churches and
they brought over their seeds. That
is the truth. And right under the message every seed is bringing forth after its
own kind. We have as much Pentecostals under this message, as there are in
organization, right under the message. We have Baptists, we have Catholics, we
have Methodists, and we even have Hindus and Muslims, with their same seeds
that they never changed. And they brought them over here and they are as badly
divided as so-called Pentecost, with all the assemblies. That is the reason for the divisions, because they
brought over their different seeds, they brought over their different spirits,
they brought over their gifts, which were genuine and here friends, they are
trying to handle a message of God. Yes, with that anointing and deny another
outpouring of the Holy Spirit and deny another revival to come. O yes. Now, it
goes to show the unbelief that has heaped up to the skies.

I am not saying
that everybody in organizations is lost, friends. We had belonged to
organization. And just that we left those same things behind, of women falling
on the ground, men running with sheets
to cover their nakedness. It is the same thing that they have right now
around the message, and call it the baptism of the Holy Ghost. We will not
settle for that! We left that behind! Pentecostalism has crept under the
message, and we have three kinds of believers, and we have a mixed multitude
ever since the days of the prophet. This did not happen until the
prophet’s death.

Brother Branham was the
messenger to the Pentecostal people, and they so accepted him for thirty long
years. When he came by, he was their messenger. He loved those people, he preached
among them, healed their bodies by the power of God, supported their ministers
and everything, and they supported him. Almost all of the evangelical meetings
throughout the world, it was Pentecostals who supported them and sponsored William Branham.
He was not a stranger in so-called Pentecost. No!

So now, since
that time, there had been a calling out from organization. I will call it an exodus.
There had been an exodus out of organization, following the man called William
Branham, with a message. We came in very late. Way after the prophet was dead,
we heard the message. You could be as sincere as could be, you could love the
Lord, and you could belong to that system of Pentecostalism, and not go in the
rapture. That is my emphasis. That is what I said on Book Fifteen. That is what
I am trying to put over to the people, that they are relying on the wrong
article. If you do not believe me now, you will believe me then, and that divides the foolish virgins and the
wise virgins. The foolish virgins were based upon Pentecostalism, and the wise
virgins were built upon another outpouring of the Holy Spirit. That divides it.
Yes sir!

INDIVIDUALS   BULIT UPON PENTECOSTALISM

Now
friends, we come right down to us. Bethel,
The House of God, wherever you are, you can be founded upon Pentecostalism, as
an individual sitting under the truth. If you fail to move on
with God, and press into the kingdom
of God. We have
seen that manifested over the years. You say, “How is it that a man could
look so genuine, and after five, ten, fifteen or twenty years that man could
show up with such infirmities in his life, and then backslide, and deny the
message, and deny the Word of God?” The answer is right here, my friends.
He was anointed, he was gifted, he was used of God, but never pressed on to
have his soul anointed, and they took it for granted, knowing that they have
those things in their lives, ‘knowing that you are a sodomite, knowing
that you are an adulterer, a fornicator, a liar, and a thief,’ and then
because they feel the anointing of God, because they could preach, because they
could sing, because they could dance in the Spirit, and because they enjoy the
presence of the Lord, they take it for granted that God will overlook that in
their lives. It never happened in this world. It is the patience of the Lord. It
is longsuffering of the Lord and He said,

Hebrews 3:7 <Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost
saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,

Harden not your hearts, as in
the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness.>

Genesis 6:3 <And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also
is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.>

A
man has to be a dead hypocrite to hear the Word of God, from Elijah the prophet,
and in the way, which you have heard it for years, and then after that
entertain sodomy in his life, entertain adultery, entertain a lying tongue and
sit down there for years. There comes a day when the Lord will say, “I
demand that you be either hot or cold,” and the Lord will spit him out of
His mouth. We have seen that time and time again. That is the answer. There is
no wondering. No! When that happens that the Lord spits people out of His mouth, they become a trial to many people,
by their stink.

I
believe it was a trial to a lot of people when Judas was made manifest. Imagine
that Jesus claimed to have the truth,
and all the apostles claimed to have had the truth, and after they claimed to
have the truth, such things could have come out of that ministry that Judas backslid, found out to be a
thief. I said, “A thief.” Sold out Jesus for thirty pieces of
silver, and went and hung himself. I believe those that were looking for a
social gospel, and hypocrites in their hearts, they found an excuse. It became
a trial to the borderline believers. It became a trial to the hypocrites that
wanted the world, and wanted an excuse, and thousands fell with that.

How
many ended up in the Upper Room? Where were the multitudes of five thousands,
and ten thousands, and hundreds of thousands? Where did they go? When they
heard of bloodshed, when they heard of murder, and all those other things, they
said, “I can not be associated with that.” They were looking for a
social gospel, and some of them had their hearts in the world already, so they
found an excuse, to take their leave. Oh yes! That is what happened.

Now,
those same people that had an excuse to leave the Gospel, left Jesus, and left the Word of God, they concluded in
their minds, because of Judas and said, “Well, I thought it was truth, but finally it turned out to be a
cult. I have to pull the people out, from under that cult. After all Jesus was proven to be a cultist, and we made a big
mistake, wife, we made a big mistake, brother. Sorry for taking you down to
that meeting that day.” Now, that man who concluded that,
was an unbeliever and a make-believer all the time. Yes. He was worried about
the tithes that he paid, worried about the money in the bag, worried about this
doctrine, and the next doctrine, and he was fighting all the time, and God done
that to get him out, to make manifest his colours. Thousands backslid.

Now,
let me just prove to you the dishonesty of the heart. Those same people that
had an excuse to leave the truth, because it looked like it was just a cult,
when it became public, and a big scandal, of the great treasurer, apostle, minister,
and preacher, under Jesus. That is who
Judas was. Yes, he backslid, and he was out to be a thief, and he found out
that Jesus was “wrong”, so
he sold Jesus for thirty pieces of
silver, and got rid of him. See how that Devil is? Now, the Devil has not
changed his strategies.

That
same man who found an excuse to leave the truth, friends, look on the other hand. He
might have been a soldier, and all kinds of things happened to other soldiers
and great generals; he never left the army. Maybe he was a teacher, and there
were all kinds of things going on in the teaching service. Different ones were held
for defiling young boys and girls right in the teaching service; then he ought
to have left the teaching service. If it was a bank: we had other things where
they locked up great men in the States, for all kinds of fraud, so then they
should have left the bank work. Do you see how dishonest people are? [Congregation says, “Amen!”]
For the natural things they will bear the reproach, but for the Word of God
they do not want to pay anything, and God will curse them for that deceit in the heart. Now, everybody that was
looking for an excuse, to make their way out from under the truth, found an
excuse during that time.

Now,
if we would run the line right: people could be sitting right here today, and
under the sound of my voice, that are based upon Pentecostalism. I am not
saying that we are good and everybody is bad, friends. Now, if they do not move
from where they are, with all the pleading, and all the preaching and all the
crying and become desperate, they will perish, because it was declared already
by the prophet that you will become desperate, or you will perish, and it takes
desperation to move off, from that kind of system and anointing. And beyond a
shadow of a doubt, that is presently the system
that governs the message of the hour. We have sincere people and
everything, and that is why they manifest like the other churches, and they are
no better than Pentecostals. They are no better than the organizations with the
exception of a true message that the prophet of God brought to us, and even
that they have perverted to suit themselves. There we are.

PENTECOSTALISM REPRESENTED IN THE BIBLE

Pentecostalism
was represented throughout the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. Do not
underestimate that statement. Pentecostalism is represented from Genesis to
Revelation. Friend. There was a man called Cain who
relied on Pentecostalism, and Abel did not. There
was a man called Ishmael who relied
upon that, but Isaac wanted something
better. Abraham and Lot: and Lot depended upon going so far with God, and then,
we had Judas and Jesus in the New Testament, and then, after that time we had
the Nicolaitans and the Apostolic
Church. And then, we
could look back in the Old Testament and see King Saul who was anointed, and we
look back and see the sons of Eli, that were committing fornication right in
the church. I am talking about the Temple
of Israel. They were committing
fornication right in the church, and those men were anointed and they were
gifted of God.

Let
me put a little note here on Saul, to
prove what Pentecostalism is. Now, you could be fully anointed, and you could
be swifter than an eagle, and you could be stronger than a lion even as Saul
and Jonathan, but friends, when you fIll your cup
with a certain amount of iniquity, that Spirit could leave you, and that is
exactly what happened to all the evangelists today. After they rejected the
message of the hour, Oral Roberts went out and built a hospital, and they went
into all kinds of programs, and you hardly hear about these men. Now, even
because of the rejection of the Word of God these men lost the Spirit that they received under the messenger, their messenger and our messenger. And the Bible said that the
Spirit left Saul and an evil spirit troubled him.

I
have news for you that when that Spirit left Saul,
there was another man in the wilderness that was being anointed, as the coming
king. I am typing Saul as the
backslidden church, and I am typing David
as the church of God to arise in the endtime, with the true
anointing of the Holy Spirit, and the genuine article of Pentecost. Now, that
genuine article is to come upon the endtime church, which is David, which is the only church that will be able to
take up the challenges of Goliath, which is the mark of the beast coming down
from Rome. The only church in the endtime. And at that time,
backslidden Saul will realize that he does not have the goods. That man was
completely defeated, as big and strong as he was, he trembled in his boots and
David stood there. Yes. And the message the prophet of God preached for that
is, ‘Just One More Time, Lord.’
Anoint me just once more Lord. And he said, “God is going to anoint the
church, just one more time to take up the challenge of Goliath.” We are
looking for that. He said, “Somewhere, in the back part of the desert, God
is training the church, for the last great kill.

Quote W.M.B.: 81 God, send us another church
just before the end time, that the power of the Holy Ghost can come into her in
the demonstrations of the Spirit, and Mark 16 can follow the church, Acts 2:4,
Acts 2:38, all of it will be following right along with the church. Signs and
wonders accompanied the apostles. Great signs of His resurrection accompany
them. While we're in prison, surely God's growing a crop somewhere, for the last great kill. May it be you, my
Christian friend here this morning; may it be your strength has begin to grow. I pray that this message this morning, and
out into the land to where this will go, I trust that this message will help
bring the vitamin to your system that'll grow a spiritual power back into your
life again. (A Deceived Church By The World
59-0628m).

Just once more, Lord, just once more. Let there be a camp meeting on the
side of a hill, like there was on the hill at the upper room. Let there come a
sound from heaven, like a rushing mighty wind, fill
all the house, visible evidence of the resurrected Christ.
(O Lord Just Once More 63-0628m).

And
there are people around the world today who have caught on to the vision, of another outpouring of the
Holy Spirit, and they are preparing for that. The letters come in, brother,
keep on coming. There are too many to read to you. Everybody is confessing
faith in that great outpouring of the Holy Spirit, because all these great
ministries that rose up with “thunders” and “thunders”,
and “thunders revealed”, are washed up now. The thunders are not
revealed, and anybody that says that, is not saying what the prophet said. (Seals,
567 to 578,) the prophet declared that the thunders were not revealed. Yes sir!
But it will be revealed to the public about the time that the rapture is about
to take place.

Quote W.M.B.: 575-6 {392But there'll be… seven voices of these thunders that
will reveal the great revelation at that time. So I believe, to us... If we
don't know it, and it won't be knowed till that time,
but it will be revealed in that day, in the hour that it's supposed to be revealed
in. So the thing for us to do is to be reverent before God and serve Him, and
do all that we know how to do, and live good Christian lives.

Here now, we find that the Sixth Seal has
been opened to us; we see it, and we know that this Seventh Seal cannot be
broke to the public until that hour arrives. (The
Seventh Seal 63-0324e).

That
is what he said. That is it. And then there will come forth a power, through
that great thunders revelation, in
order to take up and challenge the Pope, and stand against
the Mark of the Beast. Around that
time what will happen, is that all that claim to have the great article of
Pentecost, and they do not want anymore of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit,
will be trembling like backslidden Saul, and they will be happy to see David.

He
was a very nashy, little fellow, the smallest in the whole of the Israelite
army, and he came across there and said, “Who is that uncircumcised
Philistine that defies the army of the living God? Is there not a man to go out
and fight against him?” And they said, “No. No man has taken up the
challenge.” He said, “I will go and fight against him.” He
had the anointing of God upon him. He said, “I will go and fight against
this Goliath.” King Saul started talking to him, he said, “But
listen, this man had been a warrior from his youth, and you are but a little
fellow, a little lad, you are not even a soldier.” He said, “I want
to give you some testimonies. I was tending my flock in the back part of the
desert, and a lion came up, I caught him by the beard and killed him bare handed,
and a bear came up and I killed the bear too.” Saul
opened up his eyes, and he realized that was the anointing that was upon him
one time, and that little lad convinced the king and all the generals that he could have done the job, because he
spoke with authority and he spoke with an anointing. Do you know what a
contrary thing it is to put your life, and the whole of Israel’s life,
and all the army, into the hands of a little fellow, just about twelve or
fifteen years of age? That man had to speak with authority, and the Holy Spirit
had to swirl around there, and anoint Saul and say, “Yes, he will
go.”

They
tried to dress him up with all kinds of shields and different things. He said,
“I do not want that. He said, “I am accustomed fighting in a
certain way.” Yes sir! He said, “The same revelation, the same Word,
that killed the lion and killed the bear, is able to kill this uncircumcised
Philistine, and I will feed his carcass to the birds, because he has defied the
army of Israel,
and the name of God. He is going to die today.” The man had a revelation.
And he picked up those stones running to the brook there, yes sir. He was so
small and this giant was so big. I guess his sword was longer than David. And
he took up his little slingshot, and when Goliath seen him, he said,
“Have you sent out a dog, to fight against me? Where did you get this
little rascal? I will put him on the end of my spear and show you.”

And
little David started running behind those rocks, he put a stone in his
slingshot, and he started swirling it around, around, and around, and around,
and around, and had Goliath like that. (Brother Bruce illustrates) When you are small you
could fit anywhere. Humble yourself in the sight of the Lord and you could fit
anywhere. Oh yes. And he swirled that stone, and old Goliath
wanted to know what in the world was going on. He was expecting a man with a
sword and a spear, but here is a man coming with a slingshot: “I do not
even know what it is. I have never even seen one of them.” And he started
swinging it around, and I imagine Goliath’s head going around and around.

Yes!
When he heard the true revelation, his head was spinning like that, and old
Goliath got dizzy. It was not the stone that killed the giant. No, my brothers and sisters. He let that stone go, and the
Holy Ghost, followed the stone, and anointed it, and that stone hit Goliath like a big rock. Yes sir! “Bham!!” and
burst his skull. It was not the little stone. It was the Lord
Jesus. It was the Spirit of God
that anointed the stone, and when it hit him, it felt like a thunderbolt of
lightning and Goliath fell. He ran up there, and took
his own sword, and chopped off his head, took him up by his “Rasta hair”,
and carried him to King Saul
and threw it. Yes sir. He said, “Let me tell you it is the power of God.
I never did that in myself.” He said, “Where is the wife you
promised me?” O yes. Glory to God! Yes sir!

Before
the Lord presents, this Bride to Christ, Goliath must be slain, this unbelief must be slain. Unbelief
has heaped up to the skies amongst the followers of Malachi 4, and there is
Pentecostalism right under the message today, and they are going through the wilderness.
You say, “At what stage has the followers of Malachi 4, 5-6 reached?”
They are yet in the wilderness, and
they have not yet crossed Jordan,
and Moses died and left the children
of Israel
in the wilderness. He left them in the wilderness. Brother
Branham left his followers in the
wilderness. Now, that is the truth.

MESSAGE FOLLOWERS PRESENT STAGE OF JOURNEY

Now, Israel under Moses.
A lot of the people were built upon Pentecostalism though they were following a
true prophet, with a true message. One remarkable thing of Pentecostalism,
is that though it was anointed by the Spirit, gifted of the Holy Ghost,
demonstrated signs and wonders, and miracles there is unbelief in the Promised
Land, and the Promised Land is another outpouring of the Holy Spirit, and that
is where it is today. There is unbelief in the promise of God.

Now
Moses came with only one great message, with all the
messages that he preached and that was, “Come out of Egypt and let us go into the
Promised Land.” After they came out from Egypt land the next revelation was:
“Let us go to another Outpouring of the Holy Ghost. You will have the
Token or you will perish.” There was to arise a
man like Moses today, and the Bible
said,

II Timothy <3:8 Now as Jannes
and Jambres withstood Moses, so do
these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds,
reprobate concerning the faith.>

There
ought to have arisen a man like Moses
in the endtime to lead an exodus. That is why the prophet of God preached, ‘The
Third Exodus’. There was a
third exodus, and in this third exodus here, Moses
was the one that led that exodus. His name was William Branham
and he led an exodus of believers out of all organizations, but mainly Pentecostals.
So now, Malachi 4, 5&6, God’s servant and prophet, Revelation 3:14,
the messenger to the Laodicean church age, Revelation 10:7, the man to open up
all these mysteries of God in the endtime, was the man called William Branham.
People get the wrong idea and think that we worship William Branham. No sir.
That is a lie that was fabricated by a man called Hagin, a liar, because he
wanted to be a prophet, and I have a booklet right now in circulation here, and
friends, that is a hideous lie that they made on William Branham,
but he was the messenger to Pentecost and God’s children. William Branham led
another exodus, and as certain as Moses
had three kinds of believers, and a mixed multitude following him out of Egypt land, the
same way they followed Brother Branham.
(Believe it or doubt it;) that is the truth. Three
kinds of believers followed this message today, and William Branham
led a mixed multitude out of Egypt
land.

WHEN SUPERNATURAL IS DONE PEOPLE GET EXCITED & A MIX MULTITUDE
FOLLOWS

Quote W.M.B.: E-29 He got kinda
excited when the supernatural came. Listen close. That's what makes men get
excited. But you shouldn't be excited. You see, that's what made a mixed
multitude go out of Egypt,
that perished in the gainsaying of Korah. That's what's made the
Pentecostal church is the confusion it is tonight. The supernatural's been
done, and a mixed multitude went out. Hear.Ye.Him
56-0611.

THE MIXED MULTITUDE IS PULLING THE PEOPLE BACK IN THE THINGS OF THE
WORLD

Quote: E-52  I
say that God in every church has His members…They are the ones who love
the Lord Jesus
with all their heart and with all their soul. You'll find them reading their
Bible in prayer meetings, doing everything they can for the Kingdom of God.
That's right. But the mixed multitude's just overpowering and worldly and
trying to pull them back into the things of the world. What we've got to have
today is another Kadesh-Barnea (That's right.), where judgment begin. At Kadesh
Barnea 56-0527.

GOD MADE US A PROMISE TODAY & THERE’S A MIX MULTITUDE

Quote: E-53 But, brother,
the same God that made them that promise is making us every promise that He
made them. Why do we doubt it? "What are you trying to say, Brother
Branham? Is it a mixed multitude?" Yes, exactly that's right. It's a mixed
multitude. And we're at Kadesh right now.
(At Kadesh
Barnea 56-0527).

Now,
these three kinds of believers followed for many reasons. Some followed because
of the signs, and wonders, and miracles. When it was finished they dropped off.
Some followed because of better living, promised land, and Moses said milk and honey. So, they had milk and
honey in their minds. Some followed because they wanted to get away from the task masters’ whip, and that is
where we came from. We were under the task master, and we had whips on our
backs through oppression, depression and suppression. And we came from a life
of the world. Many of us were unhappy people. Some of us had everything, but
never had peace. And some followed Moses because of ambition, because of
gaining knowledge, and those are the kinds of people that follow the message
today. Some followed to make the message a platform and the name of William Branham
a platform. Some followed for position and few followed for eternal life.

Now
these people, picture it now, we are typing out here, the people that followed
this message from way down in organization. I will go back as far and early as
1933 right up to1946, they were following a Moses.
Now, this man had dynamic signs and wonders and miracles, as no other preacher
had. That is documented in histories, documented everywhere. It is useless to
even argue about something like that. They said that the most supernatural
ministry of modern times, William Branham had it. Why didn’t they listen
to him? The most supernatural ministry, Moses
had it. Ten great wonders down in Egypt land, and that was to bring
the people out. William Branham was mightily used of God to bring the people out
of organization, that is why he was gifted in such a way, miracles and signs
and wonders, the dead was raised, the crippled legs were made straight, King
George the sixth was prayed for and got healed. Congressman Upshaw sixty years
on a wheel chair was healed of God. This thing was not done in a corner, and Moses’ ministry was not in a corner. No. It was
indicated by signs and wonders and miracles. You are talking about shaking the land of Egypt, but God’s intention was to
bring a people out.

WILDERNESS TEMPTATIONS FOR ALL

He
finally got the people out, and they started to follow, but there was a mixed multitude with a different
purpose. Yes. They had a different purpose. They sang, they danced, they cried,
they testified about how Moses was such a great man. Oh my. They had honour and
they had respect. Let us stop for a moment. Friends, that types out the message
today, and the millions that acknowledged William Branham
as a prophet, and a great servant of God. When those miracles and signs went down,
they went back to the organizations, and then a group that stayed true to the
message came forward, and they were marching to the Promised Land.

Now
watch. You could testify what you want with your mouth and you are supposed to
testify. You are supposed to dance, you are supposed to cry, you are supposed
to sing, you are supposed to honour the prophet of God, you are supposed to be
thankful for his Word, but on the back part of your mind, whether you testify, or
not, brothers and sisters, you must past through wilderness temptations. You said, “This is truth.” You
said, “It is the greatest message you ever heard.” You said, “It
is the greatest preacher you ever heard.” You testified that, “This
is the presence of God; this is the power of God.”

Every son that the Lord receiveth He
chasteneth and He trieth, and if ye are without chastisement then are ye
bastards and not sons. After you hear this message, you have a wilderness
journey. Every one of you believers here that embraced Christianity, and embraced
this message, you have a wilderness journey as an individual, and you will go
through wilderness temptations. That is to prove your testimonies. That is to
prove the singing. That is to prove the music that you play. That is to prove your tears. That is to prove your
testimony about Moses. I am telling
you the Gospel truth.

Can
you imagine people leaving Egypt
and coming out of bondage how they rejoiced, and how they praised, and how much
noise that they made, and how the trumpet sounded? But little did they know
that the Lord was going to try every one of them, and He had a certain method
to try them. This method that He was going to employ is his everlasting method.
Though His Son was sinless, He used it
on His own Son, and the Bible said, “Jesus
became perfect by the things which he suffered.” (Hebrews 2: 9-10).

And
he sent him to the wilderness to be tempted forty days and forty nights.
“A sinless Son of God, God passed him through wilderness
temptations?” You understood me just right. Woe be
unto you, and woe be unto me that are sinners saved by grace. We have a
wilderness journey, and it could be sickness, it could be separation, it could
be hypocrisy surfacing, and I will show you right in the Bible here, that you
have a wilderness journey. When you embrace this message and you embrace
Christianity, you have a wilderness journey, and the wilderness journey gets tough
sometime. And as you draw closer to the Promised Land, it become
more ridiculous, and stronger. You will see more deceit,
you will see Judas showing his colours. Yes friends, you will see brothers turn
to enemies and you will see men that you count upon become enemies. So now, why
would the Lord send His beloved children through wilderness temptations and
pass them through a wilderness journey like that? God said it right in the
Bible.

Deuteronomy 8:2 <And thou shalt remember
all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the
wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart,
whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.>

Friends,
if you have a mixed multitude going down the road, and they claim to be going
to inherit the Promised Land, which would have eventually become an eternal
kingdom, would not God have to shake out the unbelievers and the make
believers? And does He not have a method in doing that, and His method is
perfect? Exactly! So, He has His method and you cannot tell God what to do.
Here is a mixed multitude and everybody is saying they are believers and God
knows differently. And this is what God said of Israel, “I passed you through
this way, through the way of the Philistines that I may know what is in thee.”
Because all those three kinds of believers cannot enter into the Promised Land.
They will fight, and they will curse, and they will kill the elect of God. They
had the wrong spirit. They had the wrong interpretation, and the Lord was going
to see to it that all of them did not enter that Land.

And
friends, let me tell you something. If you love something in this world more
that God, something is coming to stumble
you out of the way. A fornicator could rise up in the house of God, an
adulterer could rise up in the house of God, a minister could fall, and from
the time that minister falls, because your heart was in the world, and because
you were a borderline believer, and because you were a dead hypocrite that
never believed from the beginning, you could start saying, “I told you it
was a cult. It proved out now, it is a cult.” Imagine that! It was a cult
because Judas fell, it became a cult in the minds of certain people that wanted
the world, and who did not believe from the beginning. And ten men could commit
adultery in the bank, but they still go back to work in the bank, I am saying.
Come on. How much corruption comes out of the police force? They never leave
their jobs, they could bear that reproach for the natural, but for the
spiritual they are offended. Anybody that gets offended, it goes to show that
you are one of those other kinds, instead of the good seed that brought forth a
hundred fold. And Jesus said:

Matthew 13:21 <…by and by he is
offended.>

They started off real
joyfully, “we are going to the Promised Land,” and then because
they had no root in themselves, persecution arose and then they brought no
fruit to perfection. My brothers, and sisters, anytime you see men fall here,
and fall around the message, fall in adultery, fall in fornication and sodomy,
it is happening for our examples. That we do not even have to have historical
examples, but we must have living examples, in the message and around the world,
that you could pinch your conscience, and say, “I better clean up this thing in the bedroom. I better clean up this
tongue of mine. I better clean up this. My God, I have certain things down inside
there and I might be next.” You say, “Brother
Bruce, I do not want to be
next.” You do not have to be next. Yield to the Spirit,
get rid of the nasty thing. Commit yourself to the Lord. You say, “I feel
hopeless. I have spoken all kinds of things against everybody.” I say,
clean up the nasty thing, start anew, and let us go forward. We are going
forward.

Friends,
the Lord had a reason for passing them through the wilderness journey. That is
His perfect method, number one and that was to separate the unbelievers from
the make-believers. Did He accomplished that at the end of it under Moses, and
the pure children of God went over the Jordan, and the rest of them died
in the wilderness? That is the same under this message today. Friends,
everything that follow this message, and everything that preach this message is
not God. Yes. Some is of the Devil, and some is of God, and the Bible said:

Ephesians 5:11 <And have no fellowship
with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.>

Any
man that you see want to be good
with everybody, and “you preach what you want, and I preach what I want,
and another fellow preach what he wants,” you are a big compromiser, and
a dead hypocrite. Yes. I hope you hear me there in Africa and in India. Because
of money, because of popularity you compromise with this one and that one. The
prophet of God said:

Quote W.M.B.: E-24 Now, total separation from all
unbelief... And remember, Abraham the patriarch was never absolutely fully
blessed until he obeyed exactly what God said do. And we'll never, never, never
be blessing, and have the blessings until we obey what God said do.
(Jehovah Jireh 64-0402).

TEMPTATONS
MAKES MANIFEST THE SINS OF THE HEART

That
is the only way that we will enter the Promised Land: that was to separate the
believer from the unbeliever. Now, let me put this in here: Not only separate
the make believer and the unbeliever, but friends, that was to make manifest
the believer. Did not Joshua and Caleb shine like stars, because they confessed faith
and said that “we are more than able to take the land?” That is the
big issue in the message today.
People want to settle for a dead organizational something, “revival’s
over, this over, the next over. There is no more next outpouring of the Holy
Spirit,” and sit down there and wait for the rapture in their
Pentecostalism, and dead condition, and powerless condition, and hope to go in
the rapture. They are not going without another outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
They are not going without that article.

This
is to make manifest the real children of God. I am telling you that if you are
not for this one hundred percent, something is coming to offend you, and take
you out of the way. Believe Brother Bruce. If you have sins that you will hold
on to in your life: Bethel, (House of God) in Africa, House of God wherever you are, God will bring it to
a showdown. Though he suffers with you for five or ten years and you have those
nasty things in your life, one day He will say, “Okay, I am tired
striving with you.” He will withdraw His grace from you and then you will
become like a beast. Fight the very thing, turn back on your testimony, turn
back upon the very brothers that you washed feet with, and had communion, and
hugged them. That is the kind of spirit that will fall on a man. That is the
truth of it. Even because you entertain those things in your life, young man! young woman!

When
you see a person get up from here, and they just walk out and behave like they
are mad. They go out and get any man or woman in the world, drink rum, pass in
front of the church as if they never knew Christianity. God spit out some of
them from His mouth. He is fed-up and tired; and they are tired of hearing the
Gospel, they are tired of hearing the voice of pleading. God is tired and then He
spits them out. People think that God is a sweetbread God. Somehow the Lord
will save them. After they sat and heard the Word of God, and all the advice,
all the counsel, and then get up and treat this Word of God, as an unholy thing.

The
Bible said, “They crucified Christ the second
time afresh, and they are fit for the burning.”

Hebrews
6:6-8 <If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing
they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

For
the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft
upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by
whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:

But
that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and
is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.>

May
God bring back such people before it is too late. I believe that a man could
blaspheme the Holy Ghost friend. Yes. I believe we have the Holy Ghost but
there got to come another outpouring of the Holy Spirit, because the Spirit
that we have now cannot take anybody in
the rapture. You cannot go in the Rapture with that alone.

The
Lord said that He passed them through the wilderness to prove what was in them.
Children, everyday the Lord is trying to prove what is in you, and he will make
you manifest it everyday. He will make the Word come down and see your attitude
to that Word. He will let correction come down and see your attitude to that. See
if you want to stone Moses. You as an
individual, God have picked out a wilderness journey for you. I hope everybody
is hearing me. It is chosen of God, and your own wilderness temptations are hand picked by God.
Mine may not be yours, and yours may not be mine. But your own wilderness
journey is hand picked by God, as an individual to suit your life, and your
needs. It is to make you manifest the deceit that is in the heart. Make you
manifest what you love the most. It is to prove what you held back from God,
because the judgement must be set. And although God knows
what is in a man, and He could judge that man fairly because He had known that
heart and soul. To set the judgment, He must make a man manifest what he
has in his heart, to have witnesses for the judgment, because He keeps His laws,
and He said,

Matthew
18:16 <…in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be
established.>

When
you manifest that, the Lord has witnesses; the elect will be the witnesses, and
you will judge angels, messengers, the Bible said.

I
Corinthians 6:3 <Know ye not that we shall judge angels?>

Yes,
and God will make you manifest what is in your heart. Why does He bring that
particular temptation? It is  not that he is tempting you. He
allowed you to be tempted by the Devil, because He knows that you are able to
bear it. So, when a man says, “That the temptation was so great, and I just
could not stand.” He is a liar. Whether its sickness, whether it is
troubles, whether it is father, whether it is mother, whether it is the pastor,
whether it is backslidden Parham, whoever it is, He knows that you are able to
bear it. You are without excuse, and when you will say, “This fellow fell
who brought me here fell, I think I cannot make it. I
am really sincere, I am really honest, but I do not want to be identified with
a cult.” You are a heretic! You are a deceitful wretch! A deceitful hypocrite that wants the world.

Parham is not the problem. The
backslidden fellow is not the problem. It is you that is the problem. You want
something in the pub. You want something in the hotel. You want something in
the dancehall, and you were lusting for the things of the world. That is why
you could follow a false prophet. Yes. God sends heresies into the church. Yes.
“Brother Bruce, I feel your tongue slipped there, you know.” I am
saying that God sends heresies into the church. Yes, and the Lord said He
allows heresies that those that those that are among you may be made manifest.

I Corinthians 11:19 <For there must be also heresies among you,
that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.>

In
other words, if you are approved before God as an elect, you will ride over
that heresy, and you will show up in that time, as a real child of God, and
when these things start rolling around, and who fall, fall and who want to go,
go, friends, you will stand up like a hero, and you will stand as an approved
son of God, an approved daughter of God, you will stand as approved Caleb, and
as approved Joshua. I am telling you the truth. I do not know how long I
preached for, but the truth is sweet.

God
knows every one of you, but you have to manifest that. He will make you
manifest that by these wilderness temptations. Every one of
you. What may be your wilderness temptation may not be mine; and what I
think that you should just ride over, could be a terrible thing under the fifth
rib, because you love that thing. Your wilderness temptations could be your
children, because your life is wrapped up in that affection, and you will sell
the Word of God any day for those children. You become a big compromiser and a
worthless person that cannot stand for the Word of God.

Do
you know that there was a shorter way to the Promised Land, and the Lord
purposely chose the longer way? Yes, and God has many ways to deal with His
children. He could give them a flowery
bed of ease. What about if He had given Israel a flowery bed of ease, do
you know what would have happened? Those three kinds of believers would have
ended up in the Promised Land, and would have given the children of God hell,
day and night. No make-believer is going in, no skeptic is going in, nobody
that disagrees with the prophet of God is going in and nobody with their
interpretation is going in. No sir! You’ve got to come up to standard.
Nobody that holds back anything, nobody on the sports fields is going in. The
prophet condemned that. Say what the prophet said. Yes, and if that was what
the prophet said, “Why do they have the sports facilities all around the place in the plain message?”
Even because it is Pentecostalism! Pentecostalism. Why
are they dressing immorally? Why do they have these televisions in their homes
still? When we preach about that they say that “it is legalism.”

Now,
you find that a hypocrite will sit right under the truth and hide a television
in the bedroom. That is only manifesting the hypocrite that he is. I am telling
you. People sit under this truth, friends, and they have their own program of what
they want to obey, and what they do not want to obey. And on top of that, they
could find fault with everybody in the church. Let somebody slip, and they have
a beam in their own eye and they try to take out the mote from their
brother’s eye. That is how it goes.

I
am saying that God’s method is perfect. It is to make manifest the mixed multitude. It is to
manifest the unbelief in the Token’s Land. That is why God sends you
through the wilderness journey, to make manifest your unbelief in the
outpouring of the Holy Spirit. That is where He has the followers of Malachi 4
right now. There was a shorter way; and this Rapture could have taken place in
the days of the prophet, if God had so planned it. And everybody looked for the
rapture in that time, but He chose the longer way. Forty long years have
passed. And what they should have done in three days, a three days journey it
took them forty years, and after that they crossed over. What caused that?
Unbelief in the promise of God; and that land types the outpouring of the Holy
Ghost. And that is where the followers of Malachi 4:5 & 6 are now standing,
with unbelief in another revival, unbelief in another outpouring of the Holy
Spirit. They interpret everything as fulfilled already. “The tent meeting
is fulfilled already.” Oh, “revival is over.” Which revival
is over? They cannot answer that one. They already have the article of
Pentecost. You do not have it! You are built upon Pentecostalism, and that is
why you are powerless, and that is
why the church is powerless. Yes sir! You must go back to another outpouring of
the Holy Spirit. And the prophet of God said on the Church Ages tape,

Quote W.M.B.:  276 Jesus ain't going to
stand outside of your door and knock all the time. There's a time when He'll
get enough and turn away, then you'll do the knocking but you'll never find
Him. Come while there's time. Come while there's a knock. Don't you compromise with anything less than the baptism of the
Holy Ghost like they got at Pentecost, with the same type of water baptism, the
same things that they did there. Don't you let nothing put anything in your heart less than that. (PUT TITLE OF THE MESSAGE.)

Say what the prophet said,
and you will come out right as the brother advised. Yes sir. This was to make
manifest the deceit that was in Israel,
the hypocrisy, what was deeply hidden in the recesses of their heart. Make
manifest their pride, make manifest their lust, make manifest their perversion,
make manifest their lies and unbelief, make manifest their ambitions and their
compromising spirit. That was why the Lord passed them through the wilderness,
and that is why He passes you through sicknesses. That is your wilderness
journey. That is why He passes you through there, friends, where nobody seems
to care for you and love you. He wants to see how you will manifest. That is
why He turns your children against you; that is why it does not seem like many
brothers appreciate you. That is your wilderness journey. And the Lord is going
to make sure that you are properly tried. Whatever is in there got to surface.
My advice is when it surfaces, put it in order. Do not fight me, do not fight
the message, and do not bend the message to suit your lust. No! Follow the Word
of God. He will make you manifest everything that is down inside of there.

Friends,
these people that followed Moses after
seeing ten mighty miracles that never took place in the history of the world,
do you not think that they should have been determined to purge out all those
things, and leave those things in Egypt
land and leave the golden calf in Egypt land? Do you not think that
they ought to have left their lust in Egypt land, and their nasty
appetites, and their murmurings and their complaining? But they brought it over
under the message of Moses. It is the
same today, right under the message, and these are the same people that preach
against Pentecostals. You need to take the beam out of your own eye and then take
out the mote that is in Pentecostals eyes. Yes sir! They are the same ones that
are condemning Pentecost; and they are dressing like Pentecost, falling down
like so-called Pentecost, naked like so-called Pentecost, high heeled shoes and
sports on the field like so-called Pentecost. You want to tell me that you are
following the message. No. This is going out on streaming to India and other
places, and the videos will go later.

I
believe that Parham had enough time, after seeing that great display of power,
signs and wonders, he had enough time to purge out his sodomy, purge out his
vice, but he had loved those little boys and to pervert them,
more than the Word of God. And when a man is corrected by Seymour, and he wants to retaliate, and then
carry Seymour
to court he is in condemned row. You are in condemned row and you’re
ready for the noose on your neck. You got to quickly repent before the noose
takes your neck. (Hebrews 6: 4-6). It
is bad enough to commit sin. It is bad enough to be exposed in love, but let me
tell you, when you retaliate against the Word and correction in that manner,
you are in condemned row, and
anything that joins that will end up in condemn row. You will be devoured by
that spirit. I believe that we have heard enough of the Word, not to hold back
anything in our hearts. And if we have things in our minds and our hearts we
must be striving to overcome them.

Proverbs 28:13 <He that covereth his sins
shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.>

That
is what the Bible said. And any time a man covers his sin that is the end of
him, and in such a manner to go to such an extent as to fight Seymour and bad talk Seymour in that
time, under that great anointing that came in 1906; I cannot see how Parham
made it into heaven.

Now,
let us look at Moses there, typing out
the people under the message, typing out the prophet of God. God passed them
through the way of the wilderness, to prove what was in them. And if you want
to find out what was in those lovely people that were shouting, and testifying,
and praising God when they came out of Egypt land, almost two million
strong, read the Book of Exodus. They were the nastiest generation that ever
walked the face of the earth. The most rebellious people that ever walked the
face of the earth but I have news for you. This
generation is worst than that. They have rejected the message of God today.
You are talking about pride and self. The Bible said:

Malachi 4: 1 <For, behold, the day
cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do
wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith
the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.>

Malachi 4: 5 <Behold, I will send you
Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD.>

William Branham
fulfilled that scripture, of Elijah
the prophet. We ought to listen to that message not the man: the man is gone,
but that is Jesus’ message. God passed them through the wilderness to
prove what was in them. And friends, do you know what He had done? He loosed Satan,
after they had testified and jumped up and praised. And after God sent His
prophet, and a message, He loosed the false anointed ones, immediately after
the days of the prophet. That is what is functioning under this message today.
The false anointed ones, the true servants of God, the true people of God and
three kinds of believers.

Now,
look at the attitude of those people. They came to the Red
Sea. God was going to give them a trial of their life. He led
them; they finished rejoiced. After you rejoice, He is going to try you. He led
them the long way, not the short way. There is no short cut to this outpouring.
So, He led them through the long way, and He told them purposely: “I led
you through the long way and the way of the Philistines, that I may prove what
is in thee.”

“Moses,
come this way, follow the Pillar of Fire.” And the Pillar of Fire led
them between two mountains, with a Red Sea in
front and the army coming behind. This was going to bring out something that Moses himself had not anticipated. And when the
pressure arose, and you could be at the Red Sea today in your wilderness journey, and
friends, you are going to manifest only what is in you. And hear what these
lovely message believers started saying. They turned back in blasphemy against Moses and said:

Exodus 14:11 <And they said unto Moses, Because there were no
graves in Egypt,
hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore
hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?>

They
were the same people that had seen all those miracles. Yes. And the big leaders were stirring up the people. Those that
were suspicious that it was a cult, stirred up the people and they said, “Stone
him! Stone Moses! We thought that he
was a true servant of God, but stone him!” Is that not the same Devil
today that will stir up backsliders and unbelievers. It
takes a ringleader to do it? [Congregation
says, “Amen!”] “Stone Moses! Stone him! It is a cult! We
proved that it is a cult! We are all trapped! Before we die, kill Moses! We
have proven that it is a cult! Stone Moses!
Kill him!”

Numbers 14:4 <And they said one to
another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.>

“Let
us repent.” Moses said, “Ten times have you seen the miracles of
God and yet you do not believe.” How many times we seen the hand of God?
How many times you seen the miracles of God, in your life? Do you think it is a
simple miracle to bring you from your gambling den, and your whore house, and
bring you out of your shorts, and bring you out from the world? They are great
miracles. And after a while people just turn their backs on that grace they wait
for something to come up in the House of God to have a reasonable excuse. In an
hour of temptation you will only
manifest what is in your heart.

Those
people had those things in their hearts right along from Egypt, even on
their journey with all their rejoicing, and all their praising. They were
lusting after the things of Egypt.
They left Egypt but God said,
that their hearts were yet in Egypt.
Moses stood up at the Red Sea, and one of the greatest and notable miracles
that ever took place. That should have cast down everybody’s unbelief.
That should have put an end to all the murmuring, but it did not happen. No!
No! It did not happen. Those people saw that fantastic miracle, and yet they
found it convenient to murmur later. And Moses
took his staff and rolled back the Red Sea:
drowned all the unbelievers. They came over on the next side beating
tambourines, Miriam singing songs and
dancing.

Now,
you think friends that would have straightened everybody, but they were a mixed
multitude. Deceit was in the heart that though they seen the Red
Sea opened. Yes And He brought them to the mountain of God,
where they heard the very voice of God that spoke to Moses.
That never convinced them. They
still found it convenient to murmur, when the temptations came.

So,
they had a murmuring again at the time when they wanted water. You are talking
about blasphemes. They murmured against Moses
and you know, that man had loved them so much that he
touched the rock one time and water came out. Oh yes! And that man got so angry
with their rebellion that he said:

Numbers 20:10 <…Hear now, ye
rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?>

He
broke the Word of God, broke every type in the Bible, because of that bunch of
people. After they had seen the Red Sea opened.
After they seen fire fall from heaven and ten miracles in Egypt.
Brother Paul
spoke of their unbelief.

Hebrews 4:6 <Seeing therefore it
remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached
entered not in because of unbelief:>

That
is what is predominant among the followers of Malachi 4 today. They do not
believe that there is another outpouring of the Holy Spirit, and make-believe that they are in some
great evangelism, some great apostolic ministry. They are all liars. They are
not in any great apostolic ministry. They are powerless and they need to go
back to Pentecost. That is the Gospel truth of it.

As
we come closer to the Token’s land, this outpouring of the Spirit, there
will be greater trials than we have seen under Moses.
None of these people died for their murmuring in the early period of their
journey. Do you know where their death started coming? When anointed men arose,
built on Pentecostalism, where gifted men arose, intellectual men arose, and
those are the kinds of people that brought death to the people. That is your
false anointed ones under the message. You say, “Where is the false anointed ones typed out under Moses? Korah, Abiram and Dathan. They were anointed
and gifted, two hundred and fifty princes, singers with them, and this was
going to bring death to the people. Now, every time Satan moved on that journey
he devoured some. The group was large so he devoured sometimes thousands, even
twenty-three thousand.

I Peter 5:8 <…the devil, as a
roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.>

Although
he cannot conquer the church many times, he is lurking around to see who he could devour, and that man who
is slack, and not alert to the spirit, he catches him and eats him. All kinds
of trash are down in his soul, and he is not trying to purge those things out. Somebody
starts whispering in his ears, and he receives it. The serpent, the Devil could
be right on your bed, just like Job’s wife. She said:

Job 2:9 <…curse God,
and die.>

Satan could be right next to you, and if you are not built
up right that snake starts hissing in you. When a snake starts hissing, he is
ready to bite you? Don’t you know that when that rattle snake starts
hissing and making that noise, he is already set and he is coming to kill you?
But people do not understand that. They hear an old serpent starts hissing in their ear on the telephone that the
minister is a deceiver, the minister is a cultist, he is this
and he is that. That is a serpent hissing and it is getting ready to bite you!
Run for your life! That is how it goes. People do not have that sense around
the message. They stand right there and they think they could hear everything. Brother Branham said:

Quote W.M.B.: Listen. It can batter against you, but it can't get to you until you
accept it. When Satan walked up to Eve and said, "You know, the fruit's
pleasant," she stopped for a moment. Oh, that's when she made a
mistake, when she stopped for a moment. Don't stop for nothing. You've got
the message. Jesus lives; God's a Healer; that's the message. Don't stop for
nothing, no reasonings, no nothing else.

But she stopped for a moment. That's when
Satan walked right into that mind. Said, "Well, it sounds
reasonable." Oh, don't do that. Just take what God said. (The Greatest
Battle Ever Fought
62-0311).

She
thought that she was able to argue with the serpent, and overcome that
intellectual mind but the Devil from that serpent jumped on her, and she went
out of control, friend, until she started seeing just like the serpent. It is a
fruit to be desired and pleasant to the eyes. In other words, “I now catch what you are saying.
You know I did not make out that Bruce
and how false he is all the time. It took me fifteen years to find out that
Bruce is a false prophet.” You are very unspiritual to take fifteen years
to find that out. You sound like a goat. Now, that is the kind of serpent that
hisses in people’s ears. And when you start listening to unbelief in the
Word of God after saying “Amen” for five years, ten years, fifteen years or twenty years: “Amen!
Amen! Yes! Yes! There is not a man like my Pastor. There is not a man like Brother Bruce!”
There is a wilderness journey of temptation coming for you. God is going to put
you through a test, and He will bring a serpent to hiss in your ear.

Eve thought that she was strong enough. So too did Doctor Miriam. That serpent started hissing in
her ear and she thought that she was strong. She told me, “Nothing can
happen to me. I am not bothering about it.” I said, “Do not listen
to that!” She fought and fought, and fought, and stood up for a year or
two; and friends, that serpent swore: “I will get you out of Bethel. I would not stop
preaching to you until you leave that cult.” One day, it stopped hissing
and bit her. I pity the poor woman.

Another
arose called Absalom. He thought that he was strong enough
to go and listen to the serpent. He went mocking, and the spirit from that man,
jumped upon him and bit him. Now, notice in all those uprisings it devoured some souls. You know the history of it. Those
are personal testimonies now. One group rose up: “the Brawler” and
it devoured a few souls. Do you know what caused them to be devoured? They had
things in their lives which they did not want to give up. They had unbelief.
They were fully convinced that it is a cult, that they had belonged to for ten
years or fifteen years. And then the Devil made another attack, took up another
handful and went with them. As much as they heard the Word of God they catered
to unbelief. Other attacks came, and another attack followed and a few always
goes:

I
preached a message last year: ‘Soul
Devouring Offenses’, and if you don’t correct those offences,
Satan will devour you. Why did not those souls listen to what I was saying? Some
people are possessive of the Pastor, and the Pastor’s family, and if they
do not get the treatment they expect, they have a standoff and are all puffed
up. What about if everybody in the congregation gets possessive of the Pastor?
He would not be able to rest day nor night. And that is a Devil upon a person
that will come up and say, “They do not like me but they like my
husband.” It is a Devil: and they have no evidence of that, but yet cater
to that kind of a spirit. That is a spirit of the Devil to take away their
soul. That is a serpent hissing in your ear. And that was the problem in that
church. Jezebel was not loved as she expected to be
loved. That is the way the Devil works.

Now,
the same Miriam that danced and sang after the Egyptians were drowned, and she
made a song about it, she came to that place, and became so possessive of her
brother, and she became super spiritual insomuch that she said:

Numbers 12:2 …Hath the LORD indeed
spoken only by Moses? Hath he not
spoken also by us?

And
she started finding fault with Moses. The man that opened the Red sea.
The man that brought fire from heaven. The man that led them to the mountain where God spoke to Israel.
And the Lord came down and said, “Were you not afraid. Miriam, were you not afraid to speak evil of my servant
that you heard  preached the Word of God, as no
man preached it?” (Numbers 12:8) The
power of God departed from the church. That woman found it convenient to speak evil
of Moses. That stopped the journey of
the church. And the Lord came down and told Moses,
that they should come before him.(Numbers 12:4-5) God
was going to kill them. And Moses
being a prophet realized what was happening, he knelt down and said, “Lay
not this sin to the charge. Oh Lord, have mercy upon them.” The Lord
turned right around and said in other words, “I heard you Moses, but I still have to give them something,
especially that woman with the long
tongue, disrespectful to you and to your wife.”

I
wonder what caused Miriam to behave
like that. Maybe she thought that Moses did not give her enough attention as a
sister, and she did not get enough attention from Moses’ family and wife.
Maybe she had a quarrel with the Ethiopian woman before and she had malice that
she never purged it out. Do you see where it surfaced? She had to have
something against that woman. She had to have ambition and jealousy, so when it
came up to that place: “Has God spoken to Moses
alone? Hath he not spoken by us?” She spoke evil of Moses
concerning the Ethiopian woman (Numbers
12:1). It never said what she said, but it had to be nasty, she spoke evil.

You
could imagine the nasty things that came out of Miriam’s
mouth that brought God down, and summoned them to the temple, and caused the
pillar of Fire, and the cloud to move from the tabernacle? “Everybody
talks about that woman but I tell you, you do not know that woman. And Moses, like he is blind, he cannot see that
woman’s fault. I do not have anything to do with them.” That was
the kind of spirit. Imagine that she said, “Everybody talk
up about Moses’ wife.” And
maybe the Ethiopian woman was dead, because I never read of her in the
scriptures. He had another wife, which was Jethro’s daughter. But that
jealousy, malice and hatred was passing on, and that tongue convinced Aaron. What do you think the Devil was doing? He was
making them find fault with the woman, to come against the ministry, and they
were blind to that.

The
Devil comes and starts touching the
minister’s children,  watching at their faults and
watching at the other things, but little do that person know, the Devil is coming for their soul. The
next thing is to attack the ministry and God will cut them off. That is the
kind of strategy of the Devil, but people do not estimate that. People puff
themselves up because they do not get the attention they want. You are possessive,
and God will rub your nose on the ground, until you get away from that self-centeredness. You want everybody
to pamper and pet you.

Doctor Miriam came to my door one day. We were
going down to an island. I got an invitation to go with somebody. She said,
“It is only one set of people that goes with you all the time.”
Could you imagine something like that? Somebody has to think of themselves very
highly. In other words, they are qualified and you are only carrying certain
people, indicating partiality. Look at that in the Bible,

Mark 9:2 <…Jesus
taketh with him Peter, and James, and John,
and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by
themselves…>

And
Jesus could have been charged for partiality. But, you see, the fact is that Jesus did not want Judas in that Mount transfiguration
experience. No. If a minister is spiritual he knows the spirits of people, and
if he is going somewhere, he do not want that spirit around him, because that
spirit is a buffeting spirit, pride, self and fuss. I cannot stay around a
fussy person.

Miriam’s sin slowed down the journey. The Bible
said:

Numbers 12:15 <…and the people
journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again.>

God
never spared her. She turned white as snow. They journey of Israel stopped
temporarily in that time. And anytime you see that you have sins in your life
on your wilderness journey, beloved, it is going to stop your individual walk, to the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
Anytime you have heresies, anytime you have interpretations, anytime you have
malice, hatred, jealousy, it is going to stop your march to the Promised Land.
And if you keep it there long enough you are going to end up like Parham. I am
not joking. May the Lord bless you all. Amen.