Exposition of Damnable Heresies

 Holiness Message Standards/

 false thunders failed.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION…………………………………………………………………..…III

MESSAGE OF HOLINESS IN RELATION TO CHRIST’S COMING………..…..1

MESSAGE OF HOLINESS PERVERTED BY CORRUPT PREACHERS…….....23

Heretical Article No. 42   Corrupt preachers behind the pulpit – False thunders

produced many ……………………………………………………………….……...…..31

Heretical Article No. 43  Immodest dressing of women promoted by corrupt

Preachers and False thunders………………………………………………………….....40

Heretical Article No. 44 High-heeled shoes, excuses provided by False thunders Preachers………………………………………………………………………………....55

THE MESSAGE OF HOLINESS IS UNCHANGEABLE………………………......61

Heretical Article No. 45 Dominating Females, subtly handling the message

And Word……………………………………………………………………………..…73

Heretical Article No. 46  Sissified men, women dominated………..…………..……....76

Heretical Article No. 47  Unruly children / Delinquent parents….....………………..81

HOLINESS OR HELL …………………………………….…………………….…….85

Heretical Article No. 48  “Television re-entered homes with videos- False

thunders promoted.....………………………………………………...…………..91

Heretical Article No. 49  Kissing before marriage - obligation to marry……..………101

Heretical Article No. 50   “Message believers can marry unbelievers and be

 equally yoked”…………………………………………….……..…………...105                   

PERFECTING HOLINESS-FALSE THUNDERS FAILED………………………110

Heretical Article No. 51   Worldly music. African beats, Adopted by message

 churches –False thunders promoted .………………………………………………….121

Heretical Article No. 52   Sports-ball teams, group competitions-preachers

and believers involvement…...………………………………………...………....125

Heretical Article No. 53  Foolish jesting and joking/smutty jokes, Also

behind the pulpit……………………………………………………………...…132

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS OF UNHOLINESS

Breaking the speed limit ………….……………………………………………………133

Smoking………………………………………………………………………………...134

Paying of tithes…………………………………………………………………………135

Mixed bathing…………………………………………………………………………..135

Child bearing - Birth control……………………………………………………...…….135

Christmas………………………………………………………………………….……136

Easter…………………………………………………………………………………...137

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FOREWORD

In anticipation of the great violations of message holiness standards that now exist, worldwide amongst message believers, many quotations were grouped together in advance many years ago to combat such work of Satan. While at that time most believers were established in the basic, elementary, holiness standards of the message, and certain articles were creeping into message churches, engaged in that most wonderful work under the direction of the author, was a gallant, vibrant and desperate youth, name Edward Soon. A book of compiled quotations were prepared for the personal use of several ministers desperate and determined to uphold such standards established by the prophet, William Branham based upon the Holy Scriptures. Quotations were employed that condemns televisions in the home, immoral dressings of women, high-heeled shoes, trimming of hair, and misconduct in various respects. They also included mixed bathing, worldly music, consumption of alcohol, tobacco smoking, sports, celebration of pagan feast days, and many unholy conducts, that are now endorsed by message preachers and practiced by message believers.

The selection of those quotations, are now added to many more selected by another vibrant, desperate and untiring young man in the work of the Lord, name Ronald Jack. With the joint efforts of both young men, and a few other brothers and sisters as typist, the major teachings of Brother Branham on the holiness standards of the message are now compiled in this book, which is in opposition to the violations of the prophet’s teachings.

Holiness standards were emphasized in several services, by the preacher and author, based upon the written Word, the message of the prophet, and especially those previously selected quotations. Many believers were gathered and over a thousand believers at intervals. He endeavored to compile in his work all that the Prophet taught and established on message holiness standards. Though many major items of the subject are included, there are several other articles that maybe found in the message that are not emphasized here because of inadequate space.

We trust that this work can serve as a pastors’ handbook, and a guide to believers in acquainting and edifying them with the Holiness standards of the message, which seem forgotten by many worldwide. This work is also intended to expose false prophets and false anointed ones in the endtime, to the elect of God. Jesus said “Ye shall know them by their fruits” (Matthew 7:15-20), the apostle Paul said that “a spiritual or a prophet” should acknowledge the commandments of the Lord from his message. (1 Corinthians 14: 37). Great emphasis is laid upon false thunders, in contrast to the destruction of the holiness message, which disproves the claims of great super-spiritual men of the revelation of the seven thunders. They with other thunderless preachers are identified with heresies numbers 42-53, in book six, entitled “Exposition of Damnable Heresies - Holiness Message Standards/ false thunders failed.”

This booklet is free of charge [freewill contributions are accepted to cover printing and postage costs] and may be reproduced by believers of the message of Malachi 4: 5-6, but strictly without alterations in any form.

We would like to give authorization for translation of this book into different languages; however, we would like to be informed of such, and would like copies of the same for approval. We also apologize for any typographical errors in this booklet.

Preached and written by Dalton Bruce in May and June 2002.

INTRODUCTION

From the time of the preaching of the endtime message that came to us by Brother William Branham, God’s servant and prophet, Mal: 4: 5&6 more than a generation is passed. If you were to count from the time that the Angel of the Lord came down to the earth in 1946, and sent him with a commission and gift of divine healing, throughout the world, it is more than forty years, and from the opening of the seals in 1963, next year 2003 will be one generation, which is forty years.

Much has happened in that generation. Another generation has arisen, who do not understand what is the original message. They do not understand what the original standards are, my purpose on this subject, is to acquaint you and message believers around the world with the holiness standards of the message that was established by Elijah the Prophet, Brother William Branham. The meaning of these holiness standards have been lost for many years, but thank God they are documented in his books and they were placed on magnetic tapes, as a proof to all mankind, of the holiness standards that were established.

I am to prove to you and the rest of the message world, that what we see as message ministers, believers, assemblies, and message standards are a far cry from what the Prophet of God established. Not only that, but it’s a far cry from what the people themselves once practiced and lived out in their daily lives, and also a far cry from what ministers used to preach as the message of the hour and holiness standards. I believe that this is vital, even because this is another generation that has arisen, that don’t know Moses, that don’t know about the Pillar of Fire, that don’t know about the struggles and the trials that men of God endured to uphold the holiness standards of this message. This subject is to acquaint you with these facts of what happened along the way, why the people who follow the message of the hour, are in their present unholy condition, why they have drifted so far away from original standards, original truths and the original pattern that was laid down by Brother Branham.

 I am hoping to bring out “why” and “when”, and I am trying to acquaint the Church of God with the things that caused this great drifting away from original standards. The only way that I could successfully achieve this goal, is to take the message in its original holiness standards, as laid down by the Prophet of God, and present it to you, and compare it with the standards that they practice. 

As a faithful witness who have preached holiness in its original standards, have seen the message people in their original standards, and have seen preachers in their original standards, as laid down by the Prophet of God, I can say by God’s grace that such original pattern and standards are established at Bethel throughout thirty-four years of preaching the message of the hour. It has not changed and we don’t decide to change them. I can say beyond a shadow of a                                                              III

doubt that Bethel is an example of the original standard of the message. The ministers are the original pattern of ministers that once preached this message. The conduct, the order and the doctrine that are established, match the original standard of the message. It has not changed.

I am sure at the end of this subject, many will find that boast to be true and even under-spoken, were they to visit with us. We have maintained the original standards, we have maintained the original doctrine and above all, we have the Spirit of God and His presence attendant upon the preaching of the message of the hour. The condition of the people that call themselves message believers today is a sad sight, and it’s a long way from the original message; they lack the Spirit, they lack the true understanding of this message, and above all, they lack the holiness standards of the message, and they have made it a thing of the past. 

It is important to state here, that the Holiness standards established by the prophet is based upon the scriptures. In his 1150 messages, he preached only what was allotted him by the Lord. This laid a foundation for Christians and especially message believers to understand that they must strive to fulfill all the commandments of the Lord, which are written in the Holy Scriptures and even obey the law of conscience, which accuses them of wrong doings of those things, which are not written in the Holy Scriptures. “Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and [their] thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another”;) (Romans 2: 15-16).

Therefore I do not suggest, indicate or establish by this work, that the Holiness standards preached by Brother Branham and contained in this book are all that God requires and that the rest of the scriptures based upon Holiness standards maybe ignored. “All scripture [is] given by inspiration of God, and [is] profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:  That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works”. (2 Timothy 3:16-17).

PUPPET PREACHERS, DEACONS

E-45 “ And then all the holiness in the Bible that's been preached and what

you've been taught, you still, you women strip yourselves and go half naked. You men do just as contrary. You set around, let your wife act like that, and dress like that, and say nothing about it. Well, you puppet. How would you ever make a preacher? How would you make a deacon? If you can't control your own house, what are you going to do in the house of God? That's the reason the house of God's in the shape it's in today. We need men with brass knucks to preach the Gospel, to uncover sin and show where it's at, not some little petty thing”. (Door.to.the.heart 58-0302).

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MESSAGE OF HOLINESS IN RELATION TO CHRIST’S COMING

“In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea,

And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight

Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan, And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?  Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:

And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to [our] father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.” (Matthew 3:1-10).

“Follow peace with all [men], and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.” (Hebrews 12:14).

We are the generation, that have witnessed the fulfillment of Malachi 4:5-6, where it is written “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…”, and verses 5 and 6 said “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD.” And we firmly believe that that scripture of Malachi 4 was fulfilled in the man called William Branham, God’s servant and prophet that was thoroughly avindicated by signs, wonders and miracles, as no other prophet was vindicated in human history, outside of our Lord Jesus Christ. John the Baptist was the first forerunner of the Lord’s Coming, and we believe that William Branham, God’s servant and prophet, is the second forerunner. This was clearly stated by an audible Voice from heaven at the banks of the Ohio River in United States.

The ministry of Elijah the prophet that was sent to us, William Branham, was typed out in the ministry of John the Baptist. Malachi 4 represents the prophet of this end-time and he was to come before the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. John the Baptist is represented in Malachi 3 and he was sent before the First Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Both the message of Brother Branham and the message of John the Baptist were two fold.

I want you to think on that. “And what are these two folds preacher?” The two folds of the message of both Brother Branham and John the Baptist were, number one: to preach a holiness message to the people, and the second fold of that message of each one of these prophets was: to introduce the Messiah. Oh this is so wonderful. The message of John the Baptist, which is a type of the message of William Branham, was two-fold. The first fold of the message is a holiness message and the second part of the message was the introduction of the Messiah. I believe that both prophets fulfilled their commission to the letter. The message that I am embarking upon on these subjects is the holiness message, not so much the introduction of the Messiah; I am embarking upon this holiness message to show you the purpose of this holiness message, the necessity of it, the importance of this holiness message. And I will stir up your pure minds right now, the purpose and the necessity of that holiness message are all summed up in Hebrews 12:14 “And without holiness no man no man shall see the Lord”. It is also spoken of in Matthew 5: “Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God.” Before you can see God manifested in human flesh revealed as the Son of Man, your heart must become pure. Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God.

You cannot see God on this earth outside of Him veiled in human form, for no man hath seen God and live. The message of holiness sent to us today had the same purpose that John the Baptist’s message had. It is written in Luke 1:17 by the prophesy of Zechariah his father, “and he shall go forth in the spirit and the power of Elias to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children”, and it went on to say, “…to turn them to the wisdom of the just, and to make ready a people for the Lord”. The purpose of the holiness message that was sent today was to prepare the people for the Coming of the Lord. If you miss the holiness message, and fail to apply the holiness message in your life, you will miss the Lord. That is how important it is. This message today was necessary, this holiness message, as the first part of the message of Elijah the prophet was necessary, even because in the Laodicean age, the church put Christ outside of the door, and they were blind, wretched, miserable, naked, and they did not even know it. That is why this message of holiness was necessary in the days of John the Baptist; the church had gone away from holiness standards. They went away from the laws of Moses. They went away from Jehovah God; and whenever the church comes to that condition of rejecting God, getting away from holiness standards, it’s about time that God send a prophet, and God send a messenger. God hid him away in the wilderness because his Holiness Message was so important, because if people missed that holiness message they would miss the Lord.    So God chose this John the Baptist from the age of nine.   He went away into the wilderness.   Then at the right time the Word of the Lord came unto John the Baptist.   He did not fool with women, he did not drink alcohol, and he did not smoke cigarettes. 

It was the same calling of William Branham at the age of seven, not nine but seven; and at the age of seven God called William Branham and warned him about smoking, drinking and immoral women, because his message of holiness was so important that God had to send a holy man, called William Branham, to bring a holiness message.   He had to send a correct example of holiness, a correct example of righteousness, and a correct example of purifying himself from the things of the world.  It is directly like John the Baptist.  And our prophet never smoked a cigarette in his life.  He never lived in adultery or in other sexual immoralities, and he never smoked one cigarette.  There was an Angel protecting him.    His mission was so very important. 

So, this Holiness Message that came today, like it came by John the Baptist, the purpose of this was to prepare a people.  Without that Holiness Message you would miss the Messiah.   Look at the Scriptures, brethren, that we just read in Matthew 3, and look at the nature of that first message that John the Baptist preached.   He preached repentance: for the Kingdom of God is at hand.   He came baptizing in correct water baptism; just what the Bible said, “to make a people prepared for the Lord.”  Now what was it?   He was preparing these people, and if the Messiah had come before that preparation of the heart, the mind, the spirit, everybody would miss the Messiah. But the Lord in His great wisdom and in His great plan, sent forth His prophet, and the first part of the Message of that prophet was a Holiness Message, because it is written, “without holiness no man shall see the Lord”.   If people were hoping to see the Messiah in that day, they had to come up to standard.  They had to come up to the standard of the Holiness Message.  

So, this Holiness Message was a great foundation and one of the greatest foundations to actually get a Revelation of the Messiah.    So, Brother Branham came into the world today and his first message was a Holiness Message like John the Baptist, and that was a solid foundation.  This solid foundation of a Holiness Message started with repentance.  “Repent ye, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”  He baptized them for the remission of their sins.  He rebuked the priests and the clergymen, and he demanded that they bring forth fruits worthy of repentance.   In other words, he wanted to see holiness established in their lives.    Just not say, “I am baptized in Christian baptism or I repent.” He wanted to see that this Holiness Message that he was preaching was lived out in the lives of the priests that were going to repent.   He said therefore, “bring forth fruits therefore worthy of repentance.”   Was it a holiness message?   Then the soldiers came to him and asked him, “What shall we do?”  He said, “Be contented with your wages.”  Holiness message.   He said, “if you have two cloaks give another to a next man.”   Holiness, righteousness.   What was John the Baptist doing in those six months of his ministry?    What was he doing?   He was preparing the people to meet the Lord.   He was making a people ready to meet the Messiah.   By what?    A Holiness Message.   A holiness message, preparing the hearts of the people. 

It is the same thing today, that when this man of God, William Branham,  when God sent him upon the face of the earth today, he came with a Holiness Message.   He was baptizing correctly, he was bringing the people out of organizations.   He was preparing their hearts for something, and that was to introduce the Messiah to them a little later. 

Now these holiness standards are of absolute necessity.  Why is it of such importance?   Why is it an absolute necessity, these holiness standards?   Why is it?   Because this Holiness Message, establishing holiness standards, is God’s plan and program to prepare the hearts of His people that they might recognize the Messiah, by Divine Revelation, when He comes.  You cannot live in sin, live contrary to the Holiness Message that was sent to us.  You cannot preach contrary to the Holiness Message, and establish that in the church and establish that in your lives and hope to have a Revelation of the Messiah.   This is God’s standard, this is God’s plan, and this is God’s program.  This is God’s program to prepare the hearts of mankind, and His plan involves the Spirit of Elijah to come with that Holiness Message. It happened before His First Coming and it happened again today.   I am confident that Brother Branham did introduce the Messiah to the Church of the Living God before his departure from this world, and we sincerely believe that that happened at the Opening of the Seals. And I boldly make this statement that it is a total impossibility, to see by Revelation, Jesus Christ in His Second Coming without having the holiness standards established in your lives.   The Holiness Message was the program, it was the standard, and it was the plan of Almighty God for the people to recognize the Messiah by Divine Revelation when He came the first time, and the reason that God sent a prophet today called William Branham, that started to bring a Holiness Message throughout the land of America and later, throughout the World, is that they might see and understand the Coming of the Lord. 

Now we want to get that straight brethren.  There are two folds of Brother Branham’s Message, Elijah.  It was a Holiness Message, and that Holiness message was preparing the hearts of the people to identify the Coming of the Messiah.  You cannot bypass that Holiness Message and claim to have a Revelation of the Messiah and the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, because that Holiness Message is first, then the introduction of the Messiah, and the Holiness Message had a purpose, and that was to prepare the hearts of the people to recognize the Messiah when He came back there, and it has the same purpose today. Yes, the Holiness Message of Brother Branham was that the people’s hearts would be prepared to see the Messiah when He came today, and He did come at the Opening of the Seals.

Now you fight up with that.  Go question Brother Branham.   My mission is “Message of Holiness in relation to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.”    For any human being to change the Holiness Message of Brother Branham, pervert it, modify, ignore, bypass, compromise, disbelieve, fail to practice and teach men so, is to miss the Coming of Christ.   For any man to change this Message of Holiness according to the revealed purpose that I just disclosed to you, is for that preacher, that man, that woman, whoever they are, to miss the Coming of the Lord.   He is revealed as Son of Man.   It is a total impossibility for any man to bypass the Holiness Message and yet claim to have a Revelation of Christ, yet claim to be preaching the Seven Thunders, because the Coming of Christ is under the Seven Thunders.  It’s a total impossibility.  Any man that is preaching the Thunders would magnify the Holiness Message, because in order for that preacher to preach the people into a Revelation of the Coming Messiah, he must have their hearts prepared by the Holiness Message. Therefore, he would highlight the Holiness Message in order for the people to receive a Revelation of the Messiah.    A true Servant of God today would not change the Holiness Message, he would not pervert the Holiness Message, he would not modify it, he would not ignore, he would not bypass, he would not compromise, he would not disbelieve, he would not fail to practice, and teach men so.   Any man that is doing that has missed the Coming of the Lord, and his claims of having a Revelation of the Son of Man is false.   His claim of Seven Thunders is a lie.   Both must go together.  The Holiness Message is first and the Coming of the Lord is next, and the Seven Thunders holds the Coming of the Lord.   

The Holiness Message was sent to the elected Bride in the end time to prepare her heart for the Revelation of the Seven Thunders.  Any man that claims seven thunders, which holds the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, and does not practice holiness and establish holiness in his congregation, is a false prophet.   He is a liar and anointed by the spirit of antichrist.    This Holiness Message was sent by the Ministry of Elijah, to prepare the people of God to see by Divine Revelation, the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, and I make this statement boldly, that “it is unchangeable.”   The Holiness Message of William Branham is unchangeable.   I don’t care who you are, how much Revelation you claim, how friendly you were with the prophet, what son, what daughter, what brother, what sister that you were to the prophet of God, you have no authority to change the holiness message, on the basis of Galatians1: 8-9, “But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.” And any man that try to change the holiness message of William Branham, my brother, let him be accursed. It is unchangeable.

Oh beloved, I hope that you are getting this.   This is a simple message. I am saying that the holiness message is first, then you could see the Messiah.   You cannot bypass that holiness message, pervert it, modify it, change or corrupt it and claim to have a revelation of the Messiah at the same time.   You are deceived of the devil and anointed by the spirit of antichrist! The example of what I just established is in history at the First Coming of Jesus. God sent a John the Baptist to bring back the Church to holiness standards, some took heed to him and the majority did not take heed to his holiness message.   Those that refused to take heed to the holiness message of John the Baptist, missed the Messiah. They were too great in their organizations.   They were too great a Pharisee and Scribe.  They were too learned in that time to hear a wild man from the forest. They rejected his holiness message and they failed to see the Messiah.

When they missed the Messiah, they persecuted Him as Beelzebub, prince of the devils.   If they had heeded his Holiness Message, they would recognize Him to be the Messiah, but they said, “Thou art Beelzebub, prince of the devils”, even because they rejected the Holiness Message.  That was the warning that John the Baptist gave them at the Jordan, when he saw the Scribes and the Pharisees came to him.    He said, “Who warned you to flee from the wrath of God to come, bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance.   And don’t begin to say that you belong to Abraham.” Yes. They did not heed that warning, and because they did not heed the Message of John the Baptist to them at the banks of Jordan, when the Messiah did come and John the Baptist did introduce the Messiah, those that were ready recognized the Messiah and they followed Him. Yes. They knew that He was veiled in human flesh, revealed as the Son of Man.  They recognized Him by Divine Revelation.   Many other eyes had seen Him. Thousands of eyes saw Him, but looking at Him with your natural eyes does not give you understanding.  You’ve got to understand the Second Coming of the Lord by Divine Revelation.  Yes. That is why thousands stood there but only a handful followed Him, because you’ve got to understand the Second Coming of Christ by Divine Revelation. 

Those that fail to heed the Holiness Message of William Branham, as John the Baptist’s message, would not have a Revelation of the Second Coming of Christ.    All those Pharisees did not heed the Message of John the Baptist, and when the Messiah did come, they called Him Beelzebub. They will do the same today; they will persecute the people with the Word of God.   They will persecute the Ministry of the Son of Man.   They will persecute the Ministry of the Christ, which is the Revealed Word of God, which is the Son of Man. And as that bunch of people back there missed it, they are going to miss it again. Yes.  

What did they do with the Messiah when they missed Him, when they rejected the Holiness Message, when they persecuted Him and when they called Him “Beelzebub”? What did they do? They crucified Him. Why? Their own Messiah that they looked for, for four thousand years since the Garden of Eden.  How did they manage to crucify Him? Because they rejected the Holiness Message of John the Baptist.   God in His mercy sent forth the Elijah Spirit to prepare a people for the Lord, and they did not heed that warning.    They knew too much.   By the time John the Baptist came there, they knew too much, so they crucified the Messiah.

Likewise, William Branham was sent to a rebellious house.   He was sent to a rebellious nation. The nation was America. Intellectual giants. Big brains.   Smart.   I want you to see the job that William Branham had and how tough that job was.    William Branham was sent to a rebellious house.    He was sent to a rebellious nation, United States, and he was sent to a rebellious generation.   A generation like unto the days of Noah, combined with a generation of Sodom and Gomorrah.    Can you see the work of this man called William Branham?   Can you see the labors of this man that was anointed by the Spirit of Elijah?    He was not only sent to one nation like John the Baptist. He was sent to a nation most rebellious. He was sent to a generation as world prophet. He was sent to a generation of unholy people, a generation of godless people, a generation of perverted people, immoral,  perverted,  sick.   Sexually immoral.   A wicked and

adulterous generation.  Can  you  evaluate  the job  that this man had as one man

against the whole world? 

Now, there was one time God called a prophet to send him to a small nation.      He said, “Ezekiel, I am sending you to a rebellious house, and the only way that I could send you to a rebellious house is to make your forehead harder than flint, and as adamant is harder than flint so I have made thy forehead, to send you to a rebellious house called Israel.”   If God had to specially anoint Ezekiel and give him a forehead harder than flint, which means, God invested courage, stamina, boldness and bravery into the life of Ezekiel, He blessed him with heroism; so did He to William Branham to face this rebellious generation.  Brother Branham was a hero of heroes.   His forehead was harder than flint and harder than adamant to face this rebellious generation, to face a rebellious church, to face rebellious people.    Just two or three rebellious people in a congregation is a hard thing for a minister, much more for a human being to stand up and face billions of people around the world, face the whole religious world, and face all the intellectual giants behind the pulpits.  God had to specially prepare Elijah the prophet. I thank God for Elijah the prophet.   God anointed William Branham with courage, with stamina, with boldness.   He anointed him with heroism.   He anointed him with bravery.    He anointed him by the Spirit of Elijah.    He alone against the whole world.    He was a hero of heroes.   I love that prophet.        Oh, beloved let us try to evaluate the courage of that man.   It was a supernatural courage. It was a supernatural bravery. It was a supernatural Spirit upon that man to face all the kings and all the monarchs and all the nations and to face all the sex perverts in Sodom and Gomorrah. To come against all the sexual vices of Sodom and Gomorrah.  To face a nation like America and face that Hollywood spirit.    God had to be with William Branham.  This further proves that he was truly the Elijah that was sent with a Holiness Message to prepare a people for the Lord.   

William Branham preached against unholiness as none other in human history.  He preached against unholiness more than any preacher in the pages of the Bible.  There is no record of any preacher, or any prophet, or any priest that have come against the vileness and the wickedness and the sinfulness and the perversions of mankind like the man called William Branham.  Why?  He lived in that age where sin had heaped up to the skies, from Genesis in the Garden of Eden to the climax and the termination of world’s history in our age. Sin has heaped up to the skies.  Things that other generations never dreamt about, never imagined, far as wickedness goes and sinfulness goes, are all heaped up in this generation.  No wonder why God has to burn it.  The proudest generation that ever lived upon the face of the earth is this generation. “...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. But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet.”   Let us maintain this holiness standard.

He rebuked, chastened and condemned the wrong acting of men and women from the  pulpit to the  bedchamber.  He truly had the Spirit of Elijah,

and that Elijah Spirit feared no man, that he walked right up to the King in the presence of Herodias and said, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.”  He lost his head for it, but he is in Glory tonight.  That’s the nature of the Spirit of Elijah.  They fear not king, he feared not monarchs, he feared not great intellectuals. No.  Called sin, sin; black, black; white, white.  Don’t you think that Spirit is supposed to fall upon the believers of this message?   Don’t you think, my brother, that since the days of William Branham, from 1965, that sin has grown?  And don’t you think that there are sins upon the face of the earth that were never even heard of by William Branham nor condemned by William Branham?  How much the End-time Bride should be anointed.  No wonder why the End-time Bride must come under the Lion’s anointing and roar.  He rebuked, he chastened and he condemned the wrong acting of men and women from the pulpit to the bedchamber.  That is what you’ll be hearing on the rest of these messages: his teachings, his condemnations, his rebukes, his chastisement of the vices of Sodom.  The dressing of Sodom, the sports of Sodom, the wickedness of Sodom.  You’ll be hearing it by his own words, by his own teaching, confirmed by the Scriptures.  He restored the Holiness Message.  He preached and established the holiness message in his lifetime.  He established standards, even as the Apostle Paul, even as the Apostle Peter and the rest of the Apostles.  He built upon the same foundation.  And we are built upon the foundation of the Apostles, Jesus Christ the Chief Cornerstone.  What a man!  No wonder why men worshipped him, which was unscriptural; and we don’t worship William Branham, we worship God.

Why would the Prophet of God be so fearless to present a Holiness message?  Why would he be so urgent in contending with women, contending with Hollywood, contending with America?  Why would he be so urgent?  Brother Branham knew what I am teaching you here tonight, and that is: Without holiness no man would recognize the Second Coming of Christ by Divine revelation. He knew his mission, he knew his purpose. John the Baptist knew his mission, he knew his purpose. Yes. He came to prepare a people to recognize the Coming of Jesus Christ, and Brother Branham likewise knew his mission.  That is why he put his life in his hands to establish that message.  Is it a small thing to tear down the Holiness message that Brother Branham established?  That is to spit in the face of Elijah the Prophet, and to spit upon all his labors.  This generation will account for it.

Brother Branham knew, without a shadow of doubt, that without holiness no man will have a revelation of the Son of man.  He knew very well that they could not have a revelation of the Coming of Christ.  He knew very well they could not have the Gifts of the Spirit; they could not have another outpouring until that Holiness message was established in the church and the people’s lives.  Why did John the Baptist say, “Repent, for the Kingdom of God is at hand?”  The Kingdom of God is the outpouring of the Holy Ghost. In other words, he was saying, clean up your lives, make your lives ready, be established in the Holiness message, otherwise you would not get the out-pouring, you will not see the Coming of Christ.  There is no human being that could by-pass the message of Holiness, every iota of it!  Every jot and every title of the Bible!  Every holiness standard that was set by William Branham!  There isn’t any human being could by-pass that.  It doesn’t matter how close you were to the Prophet.  You could be his wife, you could be his son, you could be his daughter, you could be who you are, you must obey the holiness message, otherwise you are lost.  He knew that without holiness no man could see the Lord. He knew that they could not have gifts. The great intellectuals came to him.  They said, “Brother Branham, why don’t you leave those women alone?” He said, “Instead of crying down on the women’s dress and all these other things, why don’t you teach them to have Gifts of the Spirit?”  Elijah said that if they do not know their ABC, how could they learn Algebra?  So the ABC was the Holiness message, which you must be established in first, before you have the outpouring of the Holy Spirit and before the gifts are manifested. 

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LEARN ABC’s -THE ALGEBRA IS THE SEALS ON THE BACK OF THE BOOK

“249    Notice, the end-time messenger, his job will be to get the saints ready, the Bride ready for the Bridegroom. That'll be his Message. Now, you want to learn abc's so you can study algebra later? When these other seals on the back is opened they'll only be revealed to them. (Evening Messenger  63-0116).

Of course, he was talking about the Seven Thunders.  He said, “you must be in the ABC to understand the Seven Thunders when it is revealed,” in so many words.  He said, “and if you do not learn your ABC, how are you going to learn Algebra?”

Let me show you the seriousness of this:  He was sent to a most rebellious generation, according to Malachi 4, “proud and wicked.”  He dealt with a generation of Sodom and Gomorrah that Hollywood produced in America.  He contended against all film stars, all the sex perverts of Hollywood and the rest of the world, lesbianism, and homosexuals.  He was hated by the religious world, despised by the evangelists of the religious system.  He fought and overcame the strong bulls of Bashan.  That is our Elijah the Prophet.  He felled the cedars of Lebanon and the oaks of Bashan.  He refused to listen to these mighty men and their warnings. One time they came to him and said, “Brother Branham you have an evil spirit in order to be preaching all these things against women;” in other words the holiness message; “let us lay hands upon you and cast that spirit out.”  Elijah the Prophet, whose forehead was harder than flint, he said, “Don’t you ever do that. Leave that Spirit right on me.”  And I am saying, “leave that Spirit right on us.  Leave that Spirit right on the preachers of Bethel.”  We are anointed for the job.  We maintain the holiness standard.  The women dress right.  The men act right.  We don’t condone adultery.  We don’t condone fornication.  We have the Spirit of God flowing among us, even because we are practicing the holiness message, and we are looking forward for another outpouring of the Holy Spirit.  Repent, for the Kingdom of God is at hand! Yes.

William Branham fought and overcame and we will also fight and overcome.  Brother Paul said, “I have fought a good fight.  I have finished my course.”  Our course will be finished one of these days.  Yes. Never mind all the wicked names, all the wicked scandals that they try to bring up on your pastors here, and on the church, spreading rumors that I believe that I am the Christ and people bow down and worship me. How many knows that to be a lie of the devil. [Congregation says, “Amen!”] A lie of the devil. Telling people that I believe I am a prophet and have the people here believing I am a prophet. How many knows that’s a lie of the devil. [Congregation says, “Amen!”] It’s a lie of the devil. When you cannot fight a people by the Word of God, you have to fabricate lies. They fabricate lies and say that Bruce’s life was immoral in the early days, and the older believers know that. How many knows that that’s a lie of the devil. [Congregation says, “Amen”.] Let me see your hands, come on. [Congregation put up their hands and says, “Amen!”] That’s a lie of the devil! I charge any man, any woman, new or old, to come and be a witness of such things, and you cannot produce the evidence. It’s a lie of the devil! The devil fights nasty friends, but the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds, bringing into captivity every imagination of the heart. Yes sir! Our warfare is not carnal.

This heroism displayed by Brother Branham proved that he was truly Elijah the prophet sent of God to prepare a people to see the Coming of the Lord. Great heroism. As the songwriter said, “Send some more Elijahs to pray the power down.” Yes! His heroism causes my mind to reflect to the days when he called down fire from heaven, and he called for a sword and killed four hundred of Jezebel’s prophets. Heroism. He was sent to prepare a people for the Lord. Listen to this friend, the Pentecostal world, which was the last move of God from 1906, the evangelists, the great men, set a trap for him with three hundred and fifty of their greatest ministers. He defeated every one of them.

John the Baptist and William Branham, their holiness message was to come first before the Coming Messiah, and as Israel rejected the holiness message of John, so too did the religious world, especially the Pentecostals, reject the holiness message of William Branham. Do you know why they hated William Branham and despised him? Not so much for the doctrines of the mysteries that he revealed, but for calling out their sins. Do you know why John the Baptist lost his head? For calling out sin. So John the Baptist died for his holiness message. This holiness message is what caused the Pentecostals to hate Brother Branham, because he rebuked their preachers. He rebuked the preachers’ wives. He rebuked the congregations everywhere he went, seven times around the world. He rebuked them as no other man ever rebuked. Talking about a Spirit of Elijah!

Now don’t miss this. When the religious world contended with William Branham and his holiness message, and despised and rejected that, they blasphemed their way, and they fulfilled Hebrews 6 and Hebrews 10. Tell the whole world that a little preacher down in Freeport here in Trinidad said that. There are men today preaching on the pulpit, on the radio and on the television, are nothing more than atomic fodder. They are walking dead, because they came against William Branham. Every minister, every church member, every evangelist, every man that sat and heard William Branham, saw those signs, saw those wonders and knew that that was God operating in a man, and reject the message of William Branham have blasphemed their way. Thus saith the Spirit! Every one of them. I make no apology. The whole of the religious world that came in contact with William Branham and rejected him and his message because he established holiness standards, are lost. There is not a hope for them in the world, and like Israel, still eating manna from heaven after they were cursed at Kadesh Barnea, so are these people today on the radio and on the television, just waiting for their carcasses to fall in the wilderness. And Jesus confirmed that. He said, “Your fathers did eat manna from heaven and they are every one dead.” Brother Branham said that that is eternal separation from God. And when you live contrary to the holiness message, and, as a preacher, establish contrary to the message of William Branham, your carcass will fall in the wilderness. God will curse you, you hypocrite! Wherever you are in any part of the world, God will curse you. You fulfill Hebrews 6, the blasphemy of the Holy Ghost, and Hebrews 10. That’s a sad thing friend.

Millions of people are going down the  road  to  destruction  today  because they rejected William Branham, Elijah the prophet, because of his holiness message, and a few other doctrines like serpent seed. Serpent seed doctrine is only an excuse. Godhead was only an excuse. Water baptism was only an excuse. The problem was the holiness message. They made contentions to show that they rejected William Branham on the basis of doctrine. It was not doctrine, it was the holiness message. That is what John the Baptist got his head cut off for, the holiness message. And they killed Brother Branham spiritually because of the holiness message. Give me a little time. [Congregation says, “Go ahead!”] But such heroism, my friends, proves that William Branham was truly sent of God; he was truly the Elijah; he was ordained to bring a holiness message to prepare a people out of Laodicea to see the Coming of the Lord. I believe a dead man should understand this Word. I believe a blind man’s eyes ought to come open tonight.

As   a   result   of   rejecting   Brother   Branham  and  his  holiness  message

Throughout  the Pentecostal   world, which sponsored his meetings, they missed

the opening of the seals, and the opening of the seals was the Coming of Christ to be revealed as the Son of man. They missed Him. Just as Israel missed the introduction of the Messiah at the Jordan, so the Pentecostal world missed the Coming of Christ, the Word, the Son of man, the opening of the seals, they missed Christ at the opening of the seals. Every one of them ought to have been singing, “Hosanna, Hosanna, blessed is He that cometh in the Name of the Lord.” They missed it. What was the portion of Israel? After Israel failed to recognize the Coming of the Messiah on account of the rejection of the holiness message, what happened to them? Every thing seemed to be normal. They crucified the Messiah and they went on preaching; oh yes, they are preaching today. They went on preaching, they went on singing, they went on with the Pharisee work and the scribe work. They went on like everything was normal. And the religious world goes on today like nothing has happened. They blaspheme William Branham. But something happened. About forty years after they had crucified the Messiah, the Roman general, Titus, moved in there with Vespian, his father, and they paid for the blood of the Messiah; so will it happen to this generation; they are going through the tribulation to face the wrath of God for rejecting that holiness message; Malachi 4 said that. Malachi 4 said that the proud, yeah and all that do wickedly shall be stubble, and the day that cometh shall burn them up saith the Lord of host.

God is going to burn the Pentecostal, Baptist, and Methodist churches, burn all those religions and stone them with hail stones from heaven. They are just awaiting their judgments. A man could come up against truth and blaspheme his way and still be religious after that, and still be a preacher behind the pulpit, and still have a big congregation, and have a big following in the world, just like you see these notable evangelists from the days of Brother Branham, but they are dead. When you come up against solid truth, God could curse you, and you are a walking dead. “It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. …A certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. (Hebrews 10:27,31). That’s what the Bible said.

They rejected that holiness message that came by Brother Branham. I am coming up to something children, hold tight, don’t get tired with me. There is a bunch of religious people today that sat and heard that holiness message that are awaiting their judgment for its rejection. This proved that they were not born again. When you pervert, when you modify, when you change, when you corrupt the holiness message that God send to you, it shows you are not born again, and you are not sealed of God. The whole of the Pentecostal world have no Seal of God, they are not born again. That’s what the Bible declares. They have no revelation, and they had no revelation back there of Christ. How are you going to reject the message of holiness and have a revelation of Christ at the same time? The holiness message is to prepare you to see the Lord by Divine revelation. You’re mad or what? Pervert, change the message of the hour, the holiness standards laid down by Elijah the prophet, who suffered so many years to establish that; you could bypass that and claim a revelation of Christ and claim thunders? I am going to come to your thunders in a while. Their thunders have destroyed the holiness message, corrupt, modify and changed the holiness message. It’s of the devil! I make no apology whatsoever. It does not match the scripture. It proves that they were not born again, they have no Seal of God, and they have no revelation. It shows that they were not even honest after Eternal Life, both ministers and churches.

Now, if God rejected a people called the Pentecostal people, by the millions, for turning down the holiness message of William Branham, perverting it, modifying it, changing it; those people He loved; God loved them; shall we escape? Shall you as message believers escape? [Congregation says “No!”] God will be unfair. Shall the preachers that pervert the message of holiness, shall they escape? [Congregation says “No!”] They cannot escape. The Bible says , “How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation…?” Hebrews 2:3. Shall we escape preachers, presently around the world; shall we escape if we fail to preach this holiness message? Shall we escape if we fail to establish the people upon holiness? Can we claim a Divine revelation? [Congregation says “No!”] It is a total impossibility. You cannot escape.

“Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art…” (Romans 2:1). God sent a prophet with a holiness message, and thou art inexcusable, O man, whoever thou art: message follower, organizational believer, sinner, or whoever you are, thou art inexcusable, O man: preacher, prophet, priest or king, “…for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things. But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things. And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?” (Romans 2:1-3). Message preacher, you cannot escape. The same God that judged the Pentecostal people for rejecting Elijah and the holiness message, if you pervert one iota of the holiness message and teach men so, God will curse you just the same. “Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal? Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?”  (Romans 2:21-22).    Can we escape?   [Congregation says, “No!”]

How shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation. There is no escape for a preacher that changed the dressing of the women, that bring back televisions in the home, that send the people back on the sports field. God will curse you like He cursed the evangelist that rejected the message of William Branham. You are not going to escape preachers. You are the ones that have the people in that condition. You have changed the holiness message. You compromised the holiness message. You modified the holiness message. You bypassed the holiness message, and you shall not escape, because you know the standards of the message. You read it in the books; you listen to it on the tapes. You are acquainted with it. You practiced it once upon a time. Second generation Christians, I am here to inform you that amongst the followers of Malachi 4 there were no televisions in the general assembly. Nobody was on the sports field in a general sense. No teams from one church played the next team. The women dressed modestly. We were a thunderless people. We had no heresies. Everybody was in unity. What we see today is a far cry from the original, and the followers of Malachi 4 have took the same course as every age, that they were red hot with a new message and then they started to drift like the Ephesian church, and went right down and stop doing the things that they supposed to do.

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THE CYCLE OF REVIVAL AND DEATH

88-1  “ Now history keeps repeating itself. In the generations of Israel we see revival in one generation, only to see the fires fading in the next. In the third generation, embers may be glowing slightly, but in the fourth there may be no vestige whatsoever of that original flame. Then God lights the fire again, and the same process is repeated. It is simply the manifestation of the truth that God has no grandchildren. Salvation is not passed on by natural birth any more than is there any truth to apostolic succession. It isn't in the Word. You start out with truly born-again believers, and when the next generation comes along they are no longer just plain Christians…” Unquote. A next generation is born under this message. Things have changed. The Spirit of God has taken its flight. The revival fires are burnt out. Quote:  “…but they have taken a denominational name and are now Baptists, Methodists, etc…They are not the same any more. The fervent desire to please God, the passion to know His Word, the cry for reaching out in the Spirit, all begins to fade and instead of that church being on fire with the fire of God it has cooled off and become a bit formal. That is what was happening back there to the Ephesians. They were getting a bit formal. The abandonment to God was dying out and the people weren't too careful about what God thought of them as they began to be careful about what the world thought of them. That second generation coming on was just like Israel. They demanded a king to be like the other nations. When they did that, they rejected God. But they did it anyway. That is the history of the church. When it thinks more of conforming to the world instead of conforming to God, it isn't long until you see them stop doing things they used to do and start doing things they wouldn't do initially. They change their manner of dress, their attitudes and their behaviour. They get lax. That is what "Ephesus" means: relaxed--drifting. That cycle of revival and death has never failed. All you have to do is recall this last move of God in the Spirit when men and women dressed like Christians, went to church, prayed all night, took to street corners and weren't ashamed of the manifestations of the Spirit. They left their old dead churches and worshipped in homes or old store buildings. They had reality. But it wasn't too long a time until they began to get enough money to build fine new churches. They put in a choir instead of singing unto God for themselves…They organized a movement and ran it by man. They soon began to read books that weren't fit to read. They let down the bars and goats came in and took over. The cry of joy was gone. The freedom of the Spirit was gone. Oh, they kept on with a form; but the fire had died down and the blackness of ashes

is about all that is left.” (Church age Book).

Brothers and sisters, Pentecost is gone, but there is a cycle of birth and death in every age. God sent a message to us in this age, there was a cycle of birth, and we are witnessing the cycle of death right in our age, and the cycle of death is reflected in people not carrying out the holiness standards of the message. We are witnessing the cycle of death amongst many message believers, churches and preachers right in our age. Oh yes! What happened is that a bunch of compromisers got behind the pulpit. A bunch of sissified preachers got into the message. Dirty handed men started to handle the message. Let me get on these compromisers.

Once upon a time people had no television in their home, preachers preached against it with all their might. Women wore dresses, even exaggerated, down to ankle length. Nobody was on the sports field. There was no thunders. Everybody was in unity and love. My preacher friends had the churches dressing like you dress; modestly, with loose garments, as women. We all agreed on doctrines. We all agreed on the holiness message. As the years went by, the television came back into the home. They sent the people on the sports field. The pastor’s wife start wearing tight clothing. They made the message and the preaching of the gospel a way of living. They condoned nakedness in the House of God, transparent clothing, women’s underclothes printed out on the fine material. The preachers started falling in adultery. Once upon a time we never had that. They started falling into fornication. They started bringing the Hollywood spirit from America. They started bringing the rebellious preachers, who rejected and modified the message of William Branham, into the churches. And they started bringing in the “thunders” from 1973-1974, and that grew over the years, and today you cannot make out a message believer on the street from a sinner and Pentecostal. I will show you on the other messages the holiness standards of dressing and all that goes with it. And what we had is a bunch of rebels with their own ideas, their own teachings and their own doctrines that came from America and perverted the people here.

Then these compromises by my preacher friends; they compromised because they could not control their wives. She wanted to dress in a certain way. They compromised with their daughters, and when they compromised with their wives and their daughters, they could not speak to the church after that. They compromised with friends. They compromised with deacons, with officers, because they were relying upon their tithes to live and they wanted a membership. That is what went on. I will pick up some of that a little later.

After destroying the holiness message by their thunders and their no thunders, some of them, and claiming Son of man revelation, claiming Revelation 10:1. After claiming all of that, on top of that claim to have the revelation of the seven thunders. Preachers, you are deceivers. You are liars. You are hypocrites. You could not change, modify, bypass and compromise the holiness message and have a revelation of the thunders at the same time. I have thoroughly proven that in the message and in the scripture.  The very purpose that God sent Elijah with a holiness message was to prepare your hearts to understand the thunders, which is the Coming of the Lord. And you want to tell me that you had the thunders since 1974, and instead of growing higher in holiness, you went downwards, and you resemble the Pentecostals, the Methodist and the Catholics. You lie! You are a dead hypocrite! And you know that you don’t have any thunders. You know that you don’t have a revelation of Christ. False claims. I will tell you what you have; ‘An antichrist spirit.’ It takes an antichrist spirit to destroy the message of holiness that William Branham brought, which he sweat, he labored, he begged and he pleaded to establish. You think it is one suffering that that man went through to establish that holiness message, and you destroy it by your false thunders. You have to be blind. After you destroyed the holiness message, now you claim to be the elites, you claim to have a revelation of Son of man, you have a revelation of Revelation 10:1, you’re living in the realms of the Spirit, you claim to have a revival of the thunders; you lie! “Without holiness no man shall see the Lord.” You’re blind. You’re not seeing the Lord. You have no revelation of the Son of man. You have no revelation of Christ. You have no revelation of the thunders. You lied! You bypass the holiness message, you pervert the holiness message, you destroy the holiness message; and the first man that claim those thunders in New York, he start destroying the holiness message, and that pattern went through the whole world. If a preacher’s gift comes from God, and his gift comes from Heaven, and he is truly sent of God, he would establish the holiness message of William Branham in his own life, his family life, and in the church. So these false anointed ones were sent here today, and Brother Peter spoke of them in 2 Peter 2: 1-3, and then on from verse 12, he spoke of these men. I do not have time tonight; we will pick them up on another night. But, these false anointed ones, were specially designed by Satan, God purposely loosed these spirits in the end-time, immediately after the days of the message of Elijah and the opening of the seals.

These  false  anointed  ones  were sent  here to test the followers of the message, and God knew about it. To test their sincerity, to see how sincere they are against adultery, how sincere they are against fornication, how sincere they are against the Hollywood styles, how sincere they are against the vices of Sodom. Everyday he is testing you. He will test you until he brings that outpouring, he would make you prove you sincerity and honesty. Don’t play any tricks on God. He’ll test your attitude towards His servants; test your attitude to good solid Truth. When a man lays out the Word like you hear tonight, and you have a resentful devil, whether it comes to you in books, videos or tapes, I tell you right here, you have a devil inside of you, because this that I am preaching is straight forward, clean as a whistle, and if you could fuss up against good solid Truth, you have a demon inside of you, and you need to repent. Oh yes! Maybe you’re committing adultery behind the pulpit; maybe you’re friending with some sisters in the church. We don’t have that nonsense here. This is a clean tabernacle. From the time it shows up, you either repent or go. That’s standard. Yes! These false anointed ones were sent to test the Bride in the end-time. God knows about it! He allowed it; He sent them upon the earth after the opening of the seals. He knows all about it. They are here, these false anointed ones, they are here to destroy the holiness message. That is how you know a false prophet, and I will prove it in the Bible to you. They cannot tally up with the holiness message.

Now see if you could comprehend this, the first thing that Satan attacked in the Garden of Eden was the holiness message. See if you could comprehend that. You say, “Brother Bruce that was disobedience to God.” I say, “holiness message.” What was the fruit? What was the sin? Don’t you know that the fruit over there was adultery, immoral living, and God warned them about that; and the first thing that Satan introduced when he showed himself, was that he caused Eve to break the holiness message of God. And that is how you know these stinking devils. How do we know Judas? He was a thief. He could not uphold the holiness message. How do you know these evangelists today that are cursed by Elijah? They could preach great swelling things, but they cannot practice holiness, nor teach the people holiness. Bring it up to the message. How do you know these creeps? How do you know these false anointed ones under the message? They cannot uphold the holiness standards. And then on top of that, Brother Peter said that they promise great things, when they themselves are servants to sin. They claim great swelling thunders, great swelling revelations, they have an adulterous spirit, compromising spirit, cannot establish the holiness message in the church. I will give you the scripture now, Jesus said, “ye shall know them by their fruits,” (Matthew 7:15-20), speaking of these false prophets. There is a way to identify them. They break down the holiness standards of the message, and they themselves are involved in the things of the world: television, sports, immoral dressing. Yes! They love it nice and easy; that is how you know these devils, ye shall know them by their fruits-by their teachings, which are corrupt, and by the lives that they live, and because they cannot establish the holiness message in the lives of the people, and yet claim to have Son of man revelation, yet claim to have seven thunders, yet claim that if people don’t listen to them they cannot go in the Rapture. All that you have to do children, learn this lesson tonight, don’t matter which man raises up, wherever you are in any part of the world, you examine and see what he is doing with that holiness message, see what he is doing with the little things that Brother Branham established. Listen to me friend, if Elijah was so great, who raised the dead, healed the sick, stop a storm, sent back the bees in their nest, stop the killer bull in its track, healed millions of people around the world throughout the years, and beloved, he had to practice the holiness message, he had to preach the holiness message in his church, and he kept that standard up until he passed away, is anybody greater than Elijah? Nobody is greater than Elijah. He was the greatest. There is only one greater than him, that is Christ. Do you catch these false prophets tonight, by this holiness message? [Congregation says, “Amen!”]

This   holiness   message  that  I am  talking  about  will  expose  every  false

prophet. This is the  measuring  rod that  Jesus said to use. Yes. He said, “Ye

 shall know them by their fruits.” Yes sir, that measures their birth, measures their baptism, measures their revelation, and measures their thunders. All the thunders you claim around the world, all you false thunders preachers who destroy the holiness message of Brother Branham, you are exposed! The thunders will cause you to live a higher life. It will cause you to live cleaner. You are falling in adultery, you are falling in fornication, and you have destroyed the holiness message of Malachi 4, you hypocrite! You servant of the devil! The Lord is coming in judgment. The Son of man that was revealed in mercy would one day be revealed in judgment to take vengeance upon the rejecters of this message.

SON OF MAN REVEALED IN MERCY AND JUDGMENT

  E-36    "In the days when the Son of man shall reveal Himself from heaven..." He's revealing Himself now to the church for mercy. The next time He reveals Hisself is in destruction to those who's rejected the Message. (Will the church go through the tribulation 58-0109).

Anybody that has the thunders, and claims a higher revelation ought to be living a higher standard of life. The Spirit of God ought to be flowing through that congregation, the songs ought to be a blessing, the testimonies ought to be a blessing, and the people’s lives ought to be a blessing. Yes, sir! You’ll find clean people without adultery and fornication, you find well-dressed people, off the sport fields, and everything that goes with it. I say the thunders are not revealed to them. It’s the Coming of Christ. It is not seven virtues, it is not the letter of the Word, and it is not the opening of the seals in a letterform. It is the Person of Christ revealed as the Son of man, the Living Word of God, and you cannot see Him by revelation, you are blind, until you established holiness in you life. Until you accept the holiness message of Brother Branham and contend for it, you are lost! Yes, my friend! Many preachers, many of my friends that once upheld these holiness standards, have now destroyed the holiness message. Their consciences are troubled; they know that they are wrong. If they touch that congregation, they loose their tithes, if they touch that congregation, three quarters of them will leave and go to the next “thunders church.” You want to tell me that that is God? What you are is a sissified preacher! and Brother Branham is going to describe you here. How many wants to hear Brother Branham describe them? [Congregation says, “ Amen!”]

TOO MANY SISSIFIED PREACHERS – HOLLYWOOD EVANGELISM

“And what's the matter today, we got too many little sissified preachers crossing the country with a bunch of Hollywood evangelism instead of the old fashion Bible, preaching the truth, too. That's what's the matter today. Yes, sir. I know that's hard, and I don't want to be rough, but I've got to answer at the judgment bar and everyone of you in your presence. If you never knowed it before, you know it now.” (God.making.His.promise 19/2/56).  

What is the problem in the message? The problem is not the people, the problem

is not the message believers, the problem is not the brethren; the problem is the sissified preachers. That’s the problem!

PREACHERS WITHOUT BACKBONES NEED THE HOLY GHOST

“And some of these sissified preachers stand in the pulpit, and let their choir sing, and then go out on the afternoon and stretch out in those things. Shame on you, to call yourself a man of God. You got a wishbone and not a backbone. If you had the Holy Ghost, It'd make you act different from that, and talk different from that, and make you call black black, and white white. Yes, sir. But the trouble of it is... Oh, my, you're so feminish anyhow, little sissy. Why don't you get a backbone, get the Holy Ghost. John the Baptist was the first one to receive the Holy Ghost, and he walked right up to old Herod, and said, "It's not lawful for you to have your brother's wife." Brother, that's the way a man filled with the Holy Ghost. When he sees something wrong, he calls it wrong. That's right. Certainly.(Making the valley full of ditches 28/7/5)

How many love that? What is the problem in the message? Sissified! Feminish! Wishbone, instead of backbone, no Holy Ghost, not called of God, that’s where the problem is.

SISSIFIED ELVIS PREACHERS INSTEAD OF MEN OF GOD

  E-79    “And a lot of you Pentecostal people stay home at night and watch televisions and things like that, and miss your prayer meetings, is because that your seminaries out here turned off some sissified Elvis preachers, instead of men of God who'll stand and tell you the truth. That's exactly right.” (Letting.off.the.pressure 18/5/65).

Brother Branham told us what the problem was, is a bunch of sissies, a bunch of wishbone preachers, a bunch of hens. Yes! Feminish. Yes sir! Some of them instead of crowing, they ought to be cackling, because they cannot control their wives, can’t control their children. Instead of crowing they need to start cackling behind the pulpit! Because they have sissified spirits, a woman spirit. Yes! A real man of God calls black, black; white, white. Yes sir!

A LOT OF SISSIFIED PREACHERS BYPASS THOSE THINGS

“A minister's wife one time, setting up there with a dress on; it was horrible looking. You say, "You ain't got no rights." I have got a right; that's the Word. Preach it all. You bypass those things, a lot of sissified preachers, because they haven't got the audac... Maybe they haven't even been called to preach in the first place. That's right. But a true servant of God will stay right with that Word. That's right. Minister's wife setting there all squeezed up in a dress with earrings hanging on, and makeup on, and short bobbed hair, when God condemns the whole thing as filth. And then saying you got the Holy Ghost? I was preaching here in Phoenix, not long ago, on something like that; and the minister's wife, setting on the pulpit with one of these boyish bobbed hair all kinked up, and with a dress that she couldn't even keep her underneath skirts from shining (She couldn't get down over her knees, was about four or five inches above her knees setting up there.), jumping up-and-down leading songs. I blasted it just as hard as I could. 'Course he won't invite me back. I don't expect to, but he knows what's right and wrong. When I stand at the judgment, it's not on my hands anymore.(Way.of.a.true.prophet 13/5/62)

And if you didn’t know these things that I said tonight, your blood is off my shoulders! I have declared the Word of God to you. It is off my shoulders now.

PROBLEM IS THAT SISSIFIED PREACHERS AFRAID TO TELL THE TRUTH

“You get God right down in your heart one time, you'll turn that vulgar thing

off the radio or television. That's right. Sure you will. All those wise-crackers

with all them dirty jokes and things, how that uncensored programs on televisions…and them people who call themselves Christians will miss church to see such stuff. I say, Los Angeles like the rest of America, you need a revival. And the trouble of it is, so many time, preachers behind the pulpit is so sissified, they're afraid to tell people the truth. It's a meal ticket or they get throwed out.” (Jehovah.jireh 17/4/59).

That is the same thing that has traveled down this message, a bunch of sissified preachers, a bunch of wishbone, instead of a backbone, cannot control their wives, then they cannot control the church, that’s what the messenger said, and

they are working for a meal ticket. That’s what it is.

YOU PUPPET-HOW COULD YOU MAKE A PREACHER OR A DEACON

E-45   “ And then all the holiness in the Bible that's been preached and what you've been taught, you still, you women strip yourselves and go half naked. You men do just as contrary. You set around, let your wife act like that, and dress like that, and say nothing about it. Well, you puppet. How would you ever make a preacher? How would you make a deacon? If you can't control your own house, what are you going to do in the house of God? That's the reason the house of God's in the shape it's in today. We need men with brass knucks to preach the Gospel, to uncover sin and show where it's at, not some little petty thing.” (Door.to.the.heart 58-0302).

Yes! I am saying that the problem with the people in the message today, is not the believers, it’s the pulpit, it’s the preachers are a bunch of bastards, it’s some false anointed ones behind the pulpit, it’s men who have crept in, ordained to this condemnation. It’s not the people of God. Get them one time here and if their name is on the Book, they are going to adhere to the truth, and that is why you came from all walks of life, organization, Pentecostal, Baptist, and the assemblies round about. You heard the truth. You were bound before. How many wants to hear what is the problem in the message? I told you it’s the preachers. Yes! Hear this. 

WEAK PULPITS-LETTING THE CHURCH GO SLOTHFULLY & SLOPPY

“What's the trouble today. We've got too many weak pulpits that's afraid to

preach an eternal burning hell, and to warn the people of the things, and letting

the church go just as slothfully and sloppy as it can be.”(Thirsting for life 30/6/57)

Brother Branham said that the preachers are afraid to preach about Hell and judgment, and they just allow the church to just go sloppy. Do you hear Hell preached  here?  How   many  hear   Hell  preached,  fire  and  brimstone,  to

holiness or hell? [Congregation says, “Amen!”] That is why the Spirit of God

is here. We have no problem here. The problem today is weak pulpits.

WEAKNESS OF THE PULPITS – THEY LET DOWN THE BARS

“Now you can preach all the liberation of women or men, what you want to, but that'll never change the Bible. God's Word is true, and that's to you Pentecostal people too. Yes, sir. Oh, you let down the bars someway, something happened. Used to be it wasn't the way it is now. It just because the weakness of the pulpit and just because you got mixed up in things. If the Holy Ghost taught you better back then, your mammy, and everything, and then you start doing this today, the Holy Ghost don't change.(Law.having.a.shadow56-0621).

If once upon a time the people practiced the right things and practiced holiness in the message, and they stop doing these things today, it shows that the Holy Ghost does not change. Therefore it’s another ghost.

PEOPLE GET ONE ANOTHER’S GHOST

 “A lot of times people get one another's ghost, instead of the Holy Ghost. You

watch them the way they act. You go into a church where the pastor is kind of a flighty, wild fired up and Moabite, watch the congregation be the same thing.” (Law.having.a.shadow 56-0621).  .

Do you see that? The people take the ghost of the pastor. You sit down under a false prophet and a false anointed one long enough, you will get his ghost, you will dress like his wife, you will dress like his children, you will live like him, and you will start committing adultery and everything. Yes, you take his ghost.

WEAK PULPIT – DID NOT STAY STRAIGHT, AND WITH THE WORD

“And we find today, a very comparative condition today as it was in the days of Jeremiah, that the nation itself altogether has gone into, more or less, idolatry; kind of a, I'd say, got away from God. And by doing that, it's been the weakness of the pulpit. Because if the pulpit would've stayed straight, and with the Word of God, God would be in every church like He is moving among us here. But they have led away from that.” (Broken.cisterns  23/1/65).

Brother Branham is saying that the Holy Spirit took it’s flight and left the churches, and the Holy Spirit was not moving in their churches as He was moving in the tabernacle in 1965, even because of the weakness of the pulpit. And why don’t you find the Spirit of God in those assemblies when you go to visit, and it’s hard to sit down for half an hour or one hour? It is because the Spirit of God is not there. They have lowered the standards of the message, and that is why the Spirit of God took its flight. Yes! Now let me say this in closing, when the Spirit of the Lord leaves an assembly, and leave a preacher, what he has to do is to institute programs to keep the people. That’s what Pentecost done, when the Spirit left them, they brought in bingo games. So now the followers of Malachi 4 have lowered the standards and brought heresies into the churches, the Spirit of God is not among them, so they must substitute programs. The programs that they have now are camp meetings, hiking, just like so-called Pentecost, and in the hiking there are fornications and adulteries by the younger people. They have camp meetings, they send them back to the televisions to hold them and they send them to the sport fields, and then one church plays the next church in competitions. They have instituted programs, to substitute for the Holy Spirit. That is what happened, that is exactly what happened. So now anybody that goes into sports and back into the televisions, camps and hikings, and all these Pentecostal things, they are trying to hold their congregations by programs instead of the Holy Spirit. Brother Branham did not institute such programs; he depended upon the Word and the Spirit of God. I thank God, and we ought to thank God that it’s not a program holding us here; it’s the Holy Spirit. It’s the Word of the Lord. We have no such sports in here, we have no such programs in here, we have no youth meetings in here, we have no Sunday school business inside of here, we are marching on, and listen to me, our joy is the Holy Ghost.

SUNDAY SCHOOL'S -THAT'S A METHODIST DOGMA.

  33-3    Each church trying to outdo another one in Sunday school. And Sunday school's not even spoke of in the Bible. That's a Methodist dogma. It was first called ragged school. Everybody now goes to Sunday school that can't stay for church, because they took something besides what God said. That's right. And remember, I never said I preached anything in inspiration in my life I had to take back, like I did the altars the other day and things, you know. Serpent's seed or any of that, let someone come and tear it down with the Word of God. (Sirs.we.would.see.Jesus  61-1224).

The keeping power is the Word; the keeping power is the Holy Spirit inside of here. How many believe it, how many are witnesses of these things? [Congregation says, “Amen!”] We have practiced this holiness message and we ought to thank God for the grace. Yes! We ought to thank God for His Spirit. This life is not a burden to us. No! It’s a joy. The Holy Spirit is our joy and the Christian joy ought to be the Holy Spirit, and the joy of the Lord is our strength. When you lose the joy of the Lord because the Spirit is not there, you have to go and partake in the pleasures of the world. So anybody that is practicing these things, all these preachers that are practicing these things around the world, they don’t have the Spirit of God in the churches, nor in their lives, nor the lives of the people. That is typical Pentecostal. You know that. Old Pentecostal brothers, you know that the church was on fire, but when they started backsliding, they had to institute programs to hold people, otherwise the people will go. So they had to bring the things of the world now, unholiness, into the church, compromise with it to have a church going. That’s the same way that the followers of Malachi 4 have gone, the same way that they have drifted.

ENTERTAINMENT SUBSTITUTED FOR THE GOSPEL

 E-22  “ But we got too many televisions, and too many radio programs, and

entertainments. A Christian wants to be entertained by the Holy Spirit. And too much world has leaked into the church. And they have substituted entertainment in the stead of Gospel preaching. The old fashion Gospel that saved your father and mother, it's just as good tonight as it was in that day and always will be. It's still the same thrill to the Christian heart as it was to saint

Paul who sealed his testimony with his blood.” (Mighty Conquerer 57-0808).                                                                                                          

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MESSAGE OF HOLINESS PERVERTED BY CORRUPT PREACHERS

“Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD.

Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD.

And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.

And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the LORD.” (Jeremiah 23:1-4).

“ Because strait [is] the gate, and narrow [is] the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.

A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither [can] a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.”  (Matthew 7:14-20).

So we are upon the subject of message believers, having drifted away from the Holiness standards of the message of the hour. We have embarked upon this subject to answer the questions of how, when, why, and by whom such a terrible thing took place. The ministry of Elijah the prophet, John and Elijah today, William Branham, their ministries were two-fold, and one fold was to bring a holiness message, to prepare the hearts of the people for the coming Messiah, because without Holiness no man shall see the Lord. Then, after that preparation, the second part of their ministry was to introduce the Messiah himself, to that people that were prepared. Those that were prepared under John the Baptist, seen the Lord by divine Revelation. Those that were not prepared, whose names were not on the Book of life, saw Him as a man and persecuted Him as Beelzebub, Prince of the devils. They could not see Him. You must see Him by divine revelation. Even though He comes back here with a robe, and He comes back here with a beard and He comes back here as how you see him in the photographs that the artist imagines, you would still have to understand Him by divine revelation, and your heart will have to be pure to see God veiled in human flesh. “Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God.”

So my  statement  there on  the ministry  of Elijah being two-fold could come up

for a  little  criticism  by  intellectuals,  because  of  all their knowledge that they

have in the message of the hour. There could be some “buts”, and “hows”, but I want to put in something here to shut the mouths of the critics; and that is, now that I said that the ministry of Brother Branham is two-fold, they might want to say that Brother Branham’s ministry had a first pull, a second pull and a third pull, which are three folds, and they can also say that Brother Branham came in three spirits, and that is the Spirit of Moses, the Spirit of Elias and the Spirit of Christ. I will shut the mouths of the critics, by saying, that that is not my subject. Therefore the three-fold ministry of Brother Branham, with the first, second and third pull, does not pertain to my subject at this present time, nor does the Spirit of Moses, the Spirit of Elijah and the Spirit of Christ that was attendant in Brother Branham’s ministry apply in the messages that I am preaching. I am dividing the forerunner’s message, and the type and the comparison has to do with John the Baptist’s message; and in this particular type that I am making concerning Brother Branham, and typing him out with John the Baptist of old, the message was two-fold: one, the holiness message, and the holiness message was to prepare a people to see the coming of the Lord by revelation, and without holiness no man shall see the Lord. Brother Branham brought a holiness message into the world. If I am to type him here as Moses, just for your edification, then I would type Brother Branham’s ministry as Moses, as Moses was a lawgiver, and the holiness message has to do with bringing law to the people, and the law comes before grace; therefore in this instance, we can also type the ministry of Moses that Brother Branham had as the bringing of the law, in that context of holiness and righteousness. But that is not our subject.

We were talking about these two folds, and these two folds are: one, the holiness message, and second, the introduction of the Messiah. Brother Branham indeed introduced the Messiah, but because he came to a rebellious house, a rebellious nation, and a rebellious generation, he said, at the Opening of the Seals, the people missed the revelation, even because they did not fully apply the holiness message of the Prophet. Therefore, they missed that revelation of the “Coming of the Lord”. However, he said it would come again. He said, “Be humble it will come again”, and he said, “Go on with the plain message”. The plain message was the holiness message that the people were to go and practice until that revelation comes again. We are fully established in the holiness message, and that is why the Spirit and the Presence of the Lord is amongst us, which we thank God for.

The people that follow this message, message believers, they have run true to form, according to the cycles of births and deaths of each revival. As we quoted from the Ephesian church age page 88, that the revival fires, in every age, it goes out and then a second generation takes over. Then you have second generation Christians and they start backsliding, and not doing the things that they used to do before. So they took on a form. It ran true. The followers of this message ran true to that course, according to Malachi 4 on page 88 of the seven church ages. Then soon after the revival fires start burning out and they start perverting the message, changing the message of the messenger like in every other age, it’s a sign that there is another revival on it’s way.

So the condition that we are looking at amongst the followers of Malachi 4 today, where they have perverted the message and almost destroyed the holiness message, is a sign that there is a Bride’s revival on it’s way, and we are promised one in seals page 253, “the bride has never had a revival yet, but she is promised one.” Yes, and we are looking for that Bride’s revival, and on account of looking for that Bride’s revival, we try to practice by the grace of God, by his mercy, by his Spirit, the holiness message, that we might be part of that revival, whenever it comes. Isn’t the Word clear?

I want to show you something here, which might be a little surprising to some. After Brother Branham preached for many years, this backsliding was even in his day, and he noticed that backsliding, he understood that the people were backsliding and they were falling away and death was setting in. I will quote to you, and I want my hearers abroad to interpret this however they want, but this is very strong here, but I could only quote the prophet and leave it for you to understand by divine revelation.

THEY TURNED IT INTO A HOG LOT

“And I remember that morning when I'd wakened up, and laying in the room, the upstairs right here on Seventh Street, Something said, "Rise up to your feet." And I got up. And I saw, as it was, a great place, and it was like a big--a place where there was a river run in--in the valley. And I got down there to the river and I understood it was a place where John the Baptist had been baptizing the people, and they had turned it into a hog lot. And I was very critical of it, just saying that this should not be done. And while I was there, there was a Voice spoke to me and took me up, and I noticed the Tabernacle in just about the state it's in right now, but there were so many people till they were just packed all in the Tabernacle in this condition, about the state it's at now. And I was happy, standing behind the pulpit, saying, "God, how good You are to give me a Tabernacle." And at that time, the Angel of the Lord spake to me, and said, "But this is not your Tabernacle." (Present stage of my ministry  62-0908).

BRANHAM TABERNACLE – AS MUCH FAULT AS THE REST OF THEM

“My friends, I don't want to hurt feelings, but I'm responsible for a Message, and that Message is "Come out of this mess." And if I asked you to come out, where am I going to take you to? Would I take you to the Branham Tabernacle? It's as much fault as any of the rest of them. But there's one Place I can take you to, where you're safe and protected from death, that's in Jesus Christ, God's Place of worship”. (God’s chosen place of worship 65-0220).

YOUR TABERNACLE WON’T EAT THE BREAD OF LIFE ANYMORE

“It was in the month of March, 1945, one morning about three A.M., that our Lord Jesus Christ gave me a vision. This He has done many times and I most humbly praise Him for it. Looking to my left, I saw a small heap of smooth-baked bread. There were white fowls standing near it, but they would not eat much of it. Then the Lord said to me, "Do you know them?" I said, "No." Then He said, "That is your Tabernacle, and they won't eat the Bread of Life anymore. I am sending you this way." Then I journeyed on westward. I was then brought to a plain where a platform was erected. Seemingly, it was under a large tent or auditorium. There were curtains drawn in back of the platform. The Lord then told me to pull back the curtains, and, when I did, I saw a great mountain of the Bread of Life. He then said, "Feed these," and turning around I saw white-robed people coming from everywhere, making up a large audience.” (I was not disobedient to the Heavenly vision ).

YOU’RE GOING ON TO AN OLD FASHION REVIVAL OR ELSE

“The people at the hour of decision now, you've got to make up your mind. This church has got to make up its mind. Every man comes to a place where there's a crucial hour. There was a crucial time come where you had to make up your mind, a judgment seat you was at. You had to say, "I am guilty or I am not guilty." When you're standing before the judge, you've got to make up your mind. And tonight the Branham Tabernacle's got to make up its mind. We're either going to go on or go back. That's right. You're going back to garlic, and leek, and stuff of Egypt, or you're going on with Angel's food to the Promised Land, where God made a promise. You're going on to an old fashion Holy Ghost revival, or you'll be wishy-washy, packing around, and pecking like a robin on a apple until the day you die. You've got to make your decision; you can't go on”. (At Kadesh Barnea 56-0527).

I am only quoting what the prophet of God said concerning his own tabernacle that he held in high esteem before that time. He said, it’s the best in the land and he also said in one place, because it is the best in the land, if I would find something better than this existing anywhere, I would take this tabernacle and merge it into that, because it is the best. And beloved I can say the same thing about this tabernacle, right now with the Word that we preach and the standards that we uphold and the presence of the Lord in our midst, that it is the best in the land, and in many parts of the world, we cannot find this. However, with the honesty of my heart and wanting you to go on with God and perfect holiness in your life, if I would find a tabernacle somewhere in this land here, I would take this tabernacle, and I would merge it right over there, and if there is a ministry that is more superior than what we have here, I will sit under that ministry for your sakes, and I would not be jealous, but I would thank God because I recognize one thing, and that is we are children of the kingdom and we are working for one purpose; and if God will send a man that have more than what we have here, I will humble myself to that, and sit down at the feet of that man, and say Amen! I badly need a rest anyhow! So I would like that, but up till now I have not found that. It is the grace of God, and this is no wild boast, but the shout of the King is in the camp. The presence of the Lord is guiding us to this Promised Land. Yes! We are expecting another revival. The only way that you will have another revival is to keep this same course of holiness and righteousness. You notice that even if I am not here, the presence of God is attendant in this building, it’s attendant in the songs, attendant amongst the brethren, and attendant with the other preachers, even because this is God and not man.  I thank God, and I am what I am by the grace of Almighty God, and I thank God for my brothers and sisters here and abroad and wherever people stand for the Word of God in this message, I thank God for each one of them. Yes! We are working for one Kingdom.

So now, this drifting, according to the message of the hour, even started with the greatest assembly in the world, the Branham Tabernacle. The vision says it was turned into a “Hog Lot”, exactly where John the Baptist was baptizing. It also said, that they would not eat the Bread of Life anymore; I am sending you West. It also said, this is not your tabernacle, and that was not something vague, it was the Angel of the Lord speaking. But then, although that was spoken, when he went West, there was a great curtain, and when he opened that curtain, there was a mountain of bread, and there were White-Robed people coming from everywhere, and then the Angel of the Lord said, feed these. Beloved, I believe that we are a part of those White-Robed people, and I believe that the Lord has White-Robe people throughout the world, and if their names are on the book, they will uphold the holiness message and they will see the coming of the Lord by divine revelation. I truly believe that.

So we here do not claim to be the only elected and the only Bride members. That will be dumb. We do not claim that everybody must come to this tabernacle here before they are saved or something like that. What we are saying is that you’ve got to come to Christ, you’ve got to establish Holiness, you’ve got to find the Lord, and you’ve got to understand the second coming of Jesus Christ, and in time, before the Rapture takes place, God will bring every person that is elected to that divine revelation. So what took place, as the revival fires went out; now these things happened right up in the sixties when they started to drift. Now imagine that one generation has passed, and what you are looking upon here today as the message and the product of the message, is a generation of people (Forty years and more have past), and what you are seeing does not even resemble the original in the least, except a few groups around the world that took God seriously and his message seriously and are practicing the message of the hour. But the general bulk of this whole thing, the prophet of God said, you would go on to a revival or you would die. And some of them don’t even believe in going on to a revival, they don’t even believe in going on to an outpouring, they don’t even believe in holy living, they just sit down and wait for the Rapture. They are deceived of the Devil!

Now I want to remind you again in more scriptures, that the people in themselves are not responsible for their condition, therefore I will put a title to this message here: “Message of holiness perverted by corrupted preachers”.  The ministry and preachers have betrayed the people of God, just like I read in Jeremiah, that the Lord pronounced a curse upon those shepherds, because they drove away the sheep and did not do what they were supposed to do. Can a man be genuinely called as a pastor, as a shepherd and do the wrong thing and lose favor in the sight of God, and God reject him? Yes! According to Jeremiah, those pastors were rebuked of the Lord and then the Lord said, “I would get shepherds that will feed my sheep”. That is exactly what happens in every age, and I want to remind you here that we are dealing with three classes of ministers: 

1.       The first class is the true servants of God.

2.       The next class is not anointed for the job although they maybe called, and they have a wishbone and no backbone, and they are a bunch of sissies.

3.       And then we are dealing with another bunch of ministers, false anointed ones in the end time that were prophesied to arise here after the Opening of the Seals.

 Always get that sorted out. These shepherds that the Lord rebuked by Jeremiah 23, they were genuine shepherds. Those prophets that prophesied for Ahab, they were born prophets, Israelites prophets, but you have backslidden pastors, backslidden prophets and that is right through the Bible. “The gifts and callings of God are without repentance”. So some of them have genuine gifts, but they never repented, they were never sanctified, they were never born again, never had the Holy Spirit, therefore they are disqualified to lead the Church of God. And then there is another servant of God that is genuine, and he will wait on the Spirit and wait for his nature to be changed, in order to lead the people of God. (Romans Chapter 12). And then there are those that are Satan’s five-fold ministry. There is Satan’s five-fold ministry that is working right now under the message, according to prophecy, and we could go a long ways to tell you about the man dressed in white that sowed the seed, and then there was a man dressed in black that came and sowed tares. One was the Son of man ministry that sowed the seed, and the next was the five-fold ministry of Satan: false prophets, eighth messengers, teachers, etc., and they went around the world sowing their seeds.

So now, that’s the mixture that the message is in right now; the people cannot divide these three classes of ministers. So now, when you touch that false anointed one, you find that certain people so love their pastor, they say, “You should never speak evil of my pastor.” If his eye is black, it is black, and if his eye is white, it is white. And if a man of God has a discernment to know that man is off the Word of God, he needs to rebuke him. If he has a revelation to know that that is a direct servant of the Devil, then he is in place to rebuke that man. Now, you, the congregation may not have that discernment, that is why God put a shepherd over you and he must know the wolves, and these false anointed ones. Now there is a bad side and a good side of this ministry. Satan has a ministry, and Jesus prophesied that false prophets shall arise, and they shall come to you in sheep clothing, and he said, “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.”

So now, these false prophets, pastors, teachers, missionaries, or whoever they are, they come to you looking soft, tender, smiling and nice. Wool is a nice, soft thing! They come to you in sheep clothing, they look very smooth, very nice, they could smile, and they have wonderful personalities. Yes! Now if you don’t have discernment on the devil and on the antichrist spirit that was released from the time of the seals, then you will look at the niceness of how nice the wool is. The shepherd has a revelation of the Anti-Christ spirit that was revealed from the Opening of the Seals, you may not be able to see the wolf in the sheep clothing, but the pastor stands up right there and says, “he is a wolf. There is a wolf in that bag, there is a wolf in that sheep clothing.” Then that shepherd is going to take the staff and beat that clothing, he is going to beat the sheep clothing until the wolf jumps out and run.

So now, whatsoever doth make manifest is light. So now you can see nice ministers and say, “Oh my, they are going to take the Word”. Brother, you don’t know the wolf like that. You’ve got to apply the shepherd’s staff, and as you take the shepherd’s staff, when you hit one blow it is going to sound hollow, because it isn’t stuck on to the wolf, so there is a hollow spot and you will hear a certain sound; you’ll hear them start to grumble, you’ll hear they cannot take the revelation, and then as you hit a next staff, then the chastisement is going to cause that wolf to jump out of the bag, and he’ll start to run, and then the sheep is going to see and say, “But wait, it is a wolf”. You see, you cannot lead yourself brethren, you need a shepherd. The reason that God gave you a shepherd, it’s because you cannot lead yourself. Yes! The shepherd must have the discernment to know the wolf, that is why I am saying that if the shepherd is genuinely called of God, anointed of the Spirit, born again and has a revelation of the Opening of the Seals, which is a revelation of the son of man and a revelation of the man of sin, it’s totally impossible to deceive him, because he heard the voice and a stranger he cannot follow. And beyond a shadow of a doubt, that’s the ministry you are sitting under. You are sitting under ministers, you are sitting under shepherds that have the devil’s number, and certain things that we may chastise, you may think in your carnal mind that we should never preach about that. One person is upset because a certain false preacher was put out of here, that’s the job of the ministry. That’s not your business! [Congregation says, “Amen!”]. We will answer for that. That man committed adultery after preaching the so-called thunders for years, and lived in adultery for ten or twelve years and then ascend the pulpit again without repentance, and then wants to show up here and sit down amongst the saints of God. NO! A man cannot live so corrupt and then re-ascend the pulpit and be accepted as a minister. That is against Holiness standards, and I am about to show you that in the Word of God tonight. Oh, yes!

 “Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ”. (Jude 1-4).

Now, that’s the same thing that has repeated under this message. Under this message of God we have these men who crept in. They are the false anointed ones that Brother Branham prophesied about. You don’t know the false anointed ones. It takes a revelation of your shepherd to know the false anointed ones. Without a true shepherd you will be lost. Don’t matter how much you could read, how much you could write, how much you could study, how much you could investigate, how much detective you could play, my beloved, it takes the grace of God to bear witness to you that that’s a shepherd of God, and if you follow that shepherd you will come out right. Alright.

“But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not…”. (II Peter 2:1-22).

And right down the line it tells you about these corrupted men that were coming under that message. Now the plan of Satan does not change.  Right under this message we have a devil’s five-fold Ministry; I make no apology for that; and we have God-called men without a backbone, and they are a bunch of jelly-fish and boneless preachers, and what made them that way is that they lack the Spirit of God, they lack the New Birth, they lack discernment on the devil and the devil is kicking them like a football, but the Lord said that He is going to dismiss those shepherds, those pastors, and He is going to bring true shepherds to His people.  There is a Ministry right now in-training of: apostles, teachers, evangelists, pastors and prophets, right now upon the earth, but you will never know your position until the outpouring comes, so don’t rise up and play no prophet here for me, and prophetess. For a man to claim that he is a prophet at this time, unless God’s audible Voice calls him and tells him that, he is an utter fool; he’s got to be a fool.   That is why I tell you, for me to claim to be a prophet or something right now, I will have to be a big fool.  It shows that I don’t understand the revelation of God.  The sons of God are placed and these offices are placed when the Outpouring comes into the Body. That is where the “Placing of the Sons” is. 

Look at the Apostles; none of them knew who was who until the Day of Pentecost, until the Upper Room, none of them knew who they were.  But before that, they were fighting and saying, “Who is the greatest in the Kingdom of God”. Jesus said, unless you humble yourselves you can’t have nothing.  It is after they went into the Upper Room, then Peter started saying, “Peter an Apostle of Jesus Christ”, then Jude said; “Jude the Servant of God”.  The only thing that would straighten this mess right now upon the face of the earth is a bunch of New Testament Apostles, and God is going to loose them on this mess.  There is going to be another revival to bring them on the scene, and they are coming down the road, friend. All is not lost. With all what we are seeing amongst the follows of Malachi 4, God loves his people, and their only way of deliverance is for God to loose some New Testament Apostles. Don’t you know that that is His program to straighten the Church? God’s program to straighten the church is always apostles.  Look in the New Testament, anything that went on in the Church, they sent for Peter, they sent for Paul. An apostle had to come down and straighten the thing. Those gifts are setting right now amongst God’s people in many parts of the world, and they will make manifest in a short while. I am hearing the sound of abundance of rain. Something has got to happen shortly. Yes!

So the great problem today amongst message believers is not the believers, they are our brothers and sisters; it is a mixture of ministries. You have the true gifts of God that God really called them and they are sincere.  There are other persons who are really called, but gifts and callings are without repentance; and then there is another bunch of them that are directly false-anointed ones; creeps that were fore-ordained for this day; “came from hell and are going back to hell”.  It only takes revelation on the anti-christ and revelation on the son of man to know these kinds of people and divide the true servants of God from these other types.

So the real problem that cause these problems today are the false anointed ones, and men of God that are called of God, but do not have the goods, they don’t have the revelation, they don’t have the stamina.  The only thing to give you this kind of stamina to stand up against the whole world is the born-again experience. The only thing to keep you down the “middle of the road,” going on with the holiness message for years upon years is the born-again experience, it’s a revelation.  Beloved, like one brother rightly said last night; he said, “You have two children in a house, and it is so hard to rule it. Something good has got to be here, because you have about eight hundred people, and it is going right, everything is in order.” Beloved, that is only common sense. If a person is honest and sincere; and I believe that that brother is honest to come here and discern that and understand that. He said, “Brother, it is so hard to deal with two children in a house, and for you to have this kind of standard here, God has got to be here. The Spirit of the Lord has got to be here.” May the Lord bless that brother for his honesty and sincerity.  I discern a sincere spirit and attitude in that brother.

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HERETICAL ARTICLE NO.42

CORRUPT PREACHERS BEHIND THE PULPIT-FALSE THUNDERS PRODUCED MANY

So now what we have today, we went through these quotations. Brother Branham said, “The condition of the people is because of the weakness of the pulpit”. He said “…because some of them are sissified.”  He said, “Some of them have a wishbone instead of a backbone.” On another quotation he said, “They are boneless preachers”. That makes them jellyfish; jellyfish preachers.  On another quotation, he said,  “They are feminish.”  I am in place, right today, as a Servant of God, to thrash the Ministry in the very same way; call black, black and white, white; right there because it is in the Message. Yes! But they have a love gospel around the message;  “Don’t say nothing against that Tabernacle, don’t say nothing against this brother, don’t say nothing.” If they are wrong, they are wrong, if their eye black, it is black, if it is white, it is white. That is the only way the Church is going to go down the middle of the road.  If they are sissies, they are sissies, if they are boneless, they are boneless, if they are jellyfish, they are jellyfish.  If they have wishbones, they have wishbones. If they are adulterers they are adulterers. If they are deceivers, they are deceivers, because they are corrupting God’s people.

So now these corrupt preachers that came in under this Ministry are the problem. There are few genuine servants of God around the world that really love this Message, and strive to uphold the holiness Message of the prophet, but, the bulk of this Ministry, I tell you right now, are corrupt preachers.  If you will look around locally and find the history of the preachers that handle the Message in this country, three-quarter of them were sometimes guilty of adultery and sexual immorality.  I have the history of it.  I know when they came in, and I know where they function right now, and I have their history.  So now, what is the problem is that these corrupt preachers have the people in this condition, and I want to show you something.  When a man lived sexually immoral after coming to this pulpit or any pulpit…we don’t condone that here…when he lived in fornication, lived in adultery, when he becomes a child-molester, when he was charged as a murderer while he claimed to be a Christian and handled the Word of God, and claimed to be in the five-fold Ministry, he is a disgrace to this Message, and he is disqualified from standing behind the pulpit, according to the Word of God.  These are the kind of men that have the people in that condition. Left to themselves, the people would study the Word, look into the Message, and they would understand what holiness is. But these corrupted wretches, bastards, false anointed ones, creeps, crept into the Message and their natures are not changed.  They are disqualified from preaching the gospel, and I want to declare something here tonight and that is anytime that Ministers will get those kinds of corrupt men that commit fornication, adultery, child-molesters, former murderers, former money scamps, who after preaching this Message, fell into such degradations of sins, and bring them back behind the pulpit on the grounds of repentance and the excuse that David committed sin, I am saying that it’s a heresy. I declare that to be a heresy. Nobody, that commits such sins or misled God’s people, or scattered the flock of God according to Jeremiah 23..; Notice that when those pastors, even though they were called of God and they felt a calling in their lives, when they did certain things to scatter the sheep, drive them away, never went and searched for them and bring them back into the fold, the judgments of the Lord upon them is that He visited those pastors with judgment and He chose other shepherds for the sheep, and He said “I will go and search them and bring them out from the different countries and bring them into one fold.” I believe that that prophecy holds well for today, because He is the Lord that changes not. These adulterers; those false-anointed ones; these money lovers have scattered God’s sheep, and God is going to send out shepherds, and He will gather His sheep into one fold.  

It’s  a  terrible  heresy  to  bring  a man  back behind the pulpit on the grounds of

repentance; and may I state here: that a minister could fall, a deacon could fall

into sin and he can repent and God could give him grace and save the man as a repentant sinner, but he needs to sit in the congregation and beg for mercy, and cry for mercy all the days of his life for bringing such a reproach upon the Word of God.  I quote to you Proverbs 6: 32-33. The Bible says, “He that committed adultery with a woman lacketh understanding.” “He that doeth it…”, the Bible said, “…he destroyeth his own soul and his reproach shall not be wiped away.”  Any man that lived in such sins, any man that brings in a false doctrine, any man that brings in false teachings, that scatter the sheep of God, any preacher, any pastor and any so-called prophet that brings in heresy and lead the children of God astray to follow a certain doctrine, a certain heresy, a certain man, beloved, he has proven himself disqualified.  He has proven himself not born again. He has proven himself without the Spirit of God, and on account of that, he has failed his duties, and failing his duties he should never ascend the pulpit again in his life, because his reproach shall not be wiped away; and according to 1Timothy 3, the Bible said, “a bishop must be blameless; the husband of one wife.”  He must be blameless. And when a man commits these sins and leads God’s children away from the Word of God, he is blameful, and his reproach shall not be wiped away.  Such a man should hold his seat. 

There are men in this country, and I have the history of it, that while they were on the pulpit; I am talking about preachers for twenty-five and thirty years, while they were on the pulpit, they were living with teenagers. I am telling you. One man was living with the song-leader’s daughter, and when it came out, he married the little girl. Oh yes, and marrying the little girl, he covered it up and probably it did not come out, but according to the Scripture, marriage does not change your nature. If you live so vile and so wicked, you are a nasty old man, and you are not born again of the Spirit, and you don’t have the Holy-Ghost that you claimed that you got in so-called Pentecost.  So-called Pentecost cannot give anybody the Seal of God.  It’s a total impossibility.

Another man came crying to me, he said, “Brother, do you think that this is right? My daughter’s living in the pastor’s house and she is staying in there alone with him day and night.”  Months passed along and I came to find out that the both of them got married. That’s the nasty hands that are handling this Message, and that’s the pattern around the world.

Recently, we challenged what you call a pedophile. This pedophile, which is a child-molester, for many years on the pulpit and for several years under this message, had been molesting young girls and claims to be a missionary, and that God called him to China.  We had him in a Minister’s meeting here and the Holy Ghost spoke to him and let him know that, “you are a disgrace Mr. Missionary.”  I am going to put that case right into this book, and let it go right here as an example of how to deal with these pedophiles, how to deal with these adulterers, how to deal with these fornicators, how to deal with these nasty-handed men that are trying to handle this Message. I have his own testimony where he admitted in front of all of us Ministers, that he is guilty of that, and on top of that justifying himself that he should be a preacher. I told him you are a disgrace, your reproach shall not be wiped away, and the only way for you to be saved is to sit down under a pastor somewhere. He is determined that he is a Minister. I said, “We have no part nor lot with you”. That’s the way to deal with a spirit like that. Brother Branham recommended the same.

EXCOMMUNICATE FOR IMMORAL LIVING

591-506    I think if anybody was to be disfellowshipped, would be because of immoral living, or something like that, that he wasn't a fit person, like a man coming in here defiling our girls or insulting our women, and things like that, and still professing to be one of us here... See? Now, if he's out somewhere else coming in, why, we have to do something about it, but, when it comes to a person like that, a immoral person trying to make love to our wives, or insult our daughters, or, you know, something another like that, or do something immorally around her, or taking our little boys out and making perverts out of them, or something, those things should be taken up, and then that fellow should be excommunicated from the fellowship and not permitted to take communion with it; because we're not supposed to do that. We're not. "If any eats unworthily, is guilty of the Blood and body of the Lord," on that person. (Questions.and.answers 61-0112).

SEXUALLY IMMORAL “MISSIONARY” DISCIPLINED

Dear Sir.  Missionary

Christian greetings to you. This letter has become necessary to you, since you did not attend a ministers meeting, which you were invited to in mid March 2002 by one of our deacons, Frank Deo. The purpose of that meeting was to discuss certain sensitive issues of which you are well aware, which is affecting your ministry and some of your flock. Nevertheless another meeting was held on 8^th April. Present were about 25 ministers and deacons. Your matter took priority and a conclusion, and decision was arrived at from the scriptures and the message, sanctioned by all the ministers. The ministry is hereby informing you of such important decision by this letter.

In our decision you are deemed unfit by God, his word, and anointed servants to re-enter any pulpit as a pastor or missionary, (as you propagate yourself to be). It was brought to our attention that you have resumed services at your home recently, after several years of closing down your church, your legs being then broken and by the condemnation of your own sinful conscience.

The ministry has deemed you unfit to hold any office in any assembly, because we have proof that you are a sexually immoral man, a child molester (pedophile). Several adopted daughters and other people have been sexually violated by you, while you used the pulpit for many years. These crimes became known in your neighborhood and church and also amongst the people, which you pastored. Several of them are witnesses and you yourself partly admitted to these hideous crimes and failed to return to the office to give us a detailed account.

The ministry having had knowledge of your wicked, immoral conduct and crimes against innocent children, which can bring you many life imprisonments, did not report you to the relevant authorities as you now assume, because of fear and guilt of sin. However we were precautious not to allow you to use our pulpit at Bethel. Since we had your files through investigations. Nevertheless we allowed you and your flock to enjoy our services, on grounds of the scripture, mercy and forgiveness through the cross of Jesus Christ. Since you did meet, the scriptural requirements of not using the pulpit, you were not reminded about your hideous crimes because of our love and forgiveness, knowing that God can forgive any sin except for the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost, which is turning down present reveal truth and calling it a lie because of selfish motives (Hebrews 6 vs. 4-6; 10: 26). We warn you of this great sin, having heard of your blasphemous remarks against the ministry of Christ. 

The scriptural qualifications of a preacher is recorded in 1 Timothy 3: 1-7 also in Titus chap. 1, upon those scriptural grounds the ministry have judged you unfit, to stand behind any pulpit. God’s requirement is that a bishop must be blameless and above reproach in the house of God and amongst the un-saved. (Proverbs 6: 32-33) “But whoso committed adultery with a woman lacketh understanding. He that doeth it destroyeth his own soul. A wound and dishonor shall he get and his reproach shall not be wiped away”. You as a self- appointed pastor and missionary have broken the scriptures in the rudest manner by crimes against innocent children and many in your area are aware of this and you have a great reproach to bear that cannot be wiped away. Therefore it is a shame and disgrace, a stumbling block and blasphemy for you as a shameless hypocrite to ever stand behind a pulpit again, in you lifetime. Our advice to you is to hold on to the horns of the altar and cry for mercy, that God may forgive you for such wicked crimes. You are destroying your own soul, you are not born again nor filled with the Holy Spirit. You are yet lost in your sins.

Your immoral spirits have fallen upon some of your church members. You are totally responsible and will answer to God for setting the wrong example, and passing on your spirit to innocent people. Several have confessed their sins in the pass who was affected by your spirit.

It was brought to our attention that you kisses your sister-in-law and play with her buttocks and make faces at her and passed it off as a joke. Some suspect that you may be H.I.V Positive since she is an AIDS patient. A similar jesting attitude of yours was manifested at Bethel, which several brethren had to over-look because of your age, you made faces at children which is foolish jesting scared them almost to their hurt in running from a monster like you, what was your purpose? Knowing your character there is a spirit in you to molest little children in various ways and we believe that if you had the opportunity, that you will defile these little girls that you tormented by your foolish jesting,

while you visited this assembly.

We  know  that  it is  your  religious  and legal  rights  to  re-open  your

church  and   ascend   the   pulpit   in   your   wicked,   loathsome,  hideous,  and

abominable manner of life. Therefore we can only advise you on scriptural grounds and call you to repentance as ministers concerned about your soul and the sheep of God. If you would continue in this unscriptural course that you have taken, after thirty days of this notice, this letter will be publicly read at Bethel church and you would not be allowed to fellowship amongst us. The sheep of God who refuse to sit under your ministry are welcomed to fellowship amongst us. Please be notified that I reserve the right to supply the information on this letter to any person that will request it, especially to those parties to whom you may give a lying report of your dis-fellowship from amongst the saints of Bethel church. May you find mercy through Christ is our Prayer.

                                                                                                   Your Servant for Christ

                                       From the Ministers of Bethel and others represented

MAKE THAT UP WITHIN THIRTY DAYS OR YOU'RE NO MORE ONE OF US

  196   If some brother's been overtaken in a fault, go to him and see if you can't get reconciled with him...And then if he won't listen to you, then take somebody with you as a witness. And then if he won't see that witness, then, say, now I'll take your pastor. Then you tell him, say, "I'm going to tell it to the church, and in thirty days from now, if this brother here's willing to be reconciled. You won't do it. And if you won't make that up within thirty days, then what's going to happen, you're no more one of us." The Bible said, "If he won't hear the church, then let him be unto you as a heathen and a Publican." (Why are we not a denomination? 58-0927).

Such a man is not born again, and I’m going to quote Brother Branham here:

DEFILE A MAN’S WIFE – YOU’RE NOT BORN AGAIN

“ And if you still got the things of the world in you, you're not born again... and go right back out and defile a man's wife, break up a man's home…you are not dead to the world yet, you are alive with it…And a man that's born of God, you cannot call him back into that rotten muss of sin anymore. He's dead, and he's born again. He's a new creature. (You.must.be.born.again 61-1231).

When a man falls in the degradation of sins of the world he’s not born again, according to this Message.

UNBELIEF IS THE SEED OF UNHOLINESS

 15-2    There was no death in that Eden…There was no--nothing else but holiness, purity, and Eternal Life. Now, by unbelief in all of God's Word has brought the seed of unholiness in Satan's Eden. (Satan's.eden  65-0829).

YOU COMMIT ADULTERY BECAUSE YOU DON’T BELIEVE

E-25 Unbelief is sin. Why do you do that? It's because you don't believe…You lie, steal, commit adultery because you don't believe…Now, you do that because you're an unbeliever. If you do that, and say you're a believer, you're not a believer. Your own testimony, your fruits prove that you're not. You've got to get rid of that before you're even a believer. (Presuming 62-0408).

LIVE IN ADULTERY-YOU HAVEN’T GOT THE HOLY SPIRIT

193 You've seen people claim to have the Holy Spirit, and live in adultery, and drink, and everything else; they haven't got It. (Perseverance 62-0218).

ADULTERY-YOU DO THAT BECAUSE YOU’RE AN UNBELIEVER

E-46 You smoke, lie, steal, drink, commit adultery, because you're not a believer. A believer doesn't do that. (Led.by.the.spirit 59-0407).

I AM AGAINST A CHRISTIAN COMMITING ADULTERY

I have nothing against a sinner drinking. I have nothing against a sinner committing adultery, nothing against the sinner doing this. But what I'm talking about is these people who are supposed to be Christians and then doing that. (The Supernatural. 56-0129).

“Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin (Unbelief); for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God” 1 John 3:9. According to the prophet of God, a man that commits adultery, be it preacher or lay member, he’s not born again and does not have one speck of the Holy Ghost in him. He is an unbeliever. Therefore that proves that he never had any divine revelation, that unbelieving nature was still down inside of him, and the prophet of God said that that unbelief is the seed of unholiness. I am double proving here from the very words of the prophet and the scriptures, that a man who went out and committed adultery, more so when he was a preacher, was never born again; his nature is still corrupt, and Jesus said that it is a total impossibility for that corrupt tree to ever bring forth good fruit. Your fruits prove that you are not a believer, the prophet of God said. Doubt it if somebody can. Then if a man is not born again and the world is in him, how could he lead a church? How could he preach salvation? How could he get people born again? If a man is deceived of the devil by a cult, by a heresy, led away with two, three and four different doctrines, how can he lead Gods children down the middle of the road? Total impossibility! Totally impossible! So now, such ministers should really be in the scrap heap of ministers. There is a scrap heap of ministers, and when these men fall into such degradation, and when they fail their duties, God has a scrap heap where he throws these ministers into. The prophet of God said that such men belong to the scrap heap.  You are saying, you boneless preacher; you are saying, you sissified preacher, you are saying, without a backbone, that they belong to the pulpit. The prophet said that they belong to the scrap heap, and I believe what Malachi 4 said.  That’s where they belong.

SCRAP HEAP OF MINISTERS WHO STUMBLED ALONG THE ROAD

  23-2    But so many of us try to do the works of Christ before the reflection of

Christ is in us. Now, there's the trouble. We find those things happening. You

know it. I know it. We see these stumbles along the road. We find the scrap heaps of ministers, of Christians, piled along the road. Is because they didn't go into it right. (Stature of a perfect man 62-1014).

Isn’t that wonderful?  The prophet of God said that they try to preach the gospel

before they can reflect Christ in their lives, and they belong to the scrap heap of ministers that you can see along the road.  Yes! Let me illustrate for thirty seconds what is that scrap heap: “I used to preach the gospel. I used to follow the message, you know”.  “I had my church right in Chaguanas”.  “I used to preach the Thunders, you know”. “I am the first man that brought the Thunders here, you know”. “I am the one that baptized the Exodus Leader you know.” Yes, you’re talking from the scrap heap, you hypocrite, and that is where you belong. You should remain in the scrap heap, and if you remain in the scrap heap you will have more mercy, but for coming up behind the pulpit, the judgments of God are upon you.  Galatians 5: 16,19 condemns you from preaching the gospel. “This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh…Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness.1 John 3:9 condemns you. 1 John  2:16,19 condemns you. “ For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.  “If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.”  Matthew 16:17 says that the gates of hell cannot prevail over you if you have a divine revelation. Anytime a false prophet walk-up inside of here and deceive Bruce and I start following a cult, it shows that I am not born again.  That is why all those devils that crossed my path, they got exposed, because you have a man that is born again of the Spirit, and anointed of the Spirit, and gifted of the Spirit, and has a revelation from the Opening of the Seals to lead you down the middle of the road.  That’s the secret of it. Yes! That is to my congregation. If somebody believes differently, go ahead and believe differently, but you all are witnesses of that. [Congregation says, “Amen!”]

There was not one false prophet that ever arose here that ever infiltrated this congregation.  They never were able to put in their doctrine.  There was not one challenge that came here that was not put down by the Word of God.  Yes! Even because the Lord is leading us; and you have men trained up in the same way.  You have men here, ministers, deacons trained up in the same way. The devil doesn’t have a chance.  Yes! You hang your souls on what I teach you, and what I preach to you, because I speak to you by divine revelation. So it’s heresy for you to bring them back on your pulpit from the scrap heap.  Oh yes! You can’t bring men from the scarp-heap. There is a Minister’s qualification; there is a deacon’s qualification; there are tenders’ qualifications. Anytime, a man’s wife is not walking right, and children are not walking right, they are disqualified. The Bible brings that out in Titus 1:1-7, and I Timothy 3. The Bible says that a minister’s family and the deacon’s family must be in the faith. Is that right?  [Congregation says, “Amen!”] And anytime a son or a daughter backslides in a Minister’s home, he cannot live under his roof and continue to preach the gospel. That is Bible, and we have an example of the prophet. Billy Paul’s own testimony. He said when he backslid his father called him and put him out of the house.  Oh yes! That was man of God.  He said, “Son, God gave me this house to raise you kids and so. If you would lead that life, then I will always be daddy, but you cannot live here, I am going to preach the gospel,” and he continued to preach the gospel. Have you seen that example here the same way? [Congregation says “Amen!”] It doesn’t matter if it’s my mother, father, wife, whoever it is, the gospel is the gospel. Yes! Ministers, deacons, tenders, anybody that holds an office in the house of God, you must be qualified for it.

Now these false prophets and false teachers and false pastors, they are the ones that are responsible for changing the holiness Message, and I want to prove that to you, how simple that is. Jesus said, “How can ye being evil bring forth good fruits.  A corrupt tree will bring forth corrupt fruit and a good tree will bring forth good fruit.” And he said “…a corrupt tree cannot bring forth good fruit, and a good tree cannot bring forth corrupt fruit.”  If I am truly born again, if I am truly called of God and anointed for this job, you don’t have to pray every day and ask God, “Don’t let Brother Bruce backslide.” No! A good tree cannot bring forth corrupt fruit, that’s what Jesus said. What are you afraid of? God is taking care of that. Pray that God anoint me more, pray that God give me more grace, and pray that God give me the stamina and the courage to go on.  I need your encouragement, I need everything, but as far as backsliding is concerned, I am not going to backslide, I assure you that, because a good tree cannot bring forth corrupt fruit, and I believe that I am a good tree.  The Bible said that if you put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister, nourished up in the Word of God, and if these things abide in you ye shall never fall.  There is a people who will never fall.  You don’t sit down and worry about falling and backsliding. My brother, “The gates of hell shall not prevail over you.”  The shout of the King is in the camp.

Jesus said;  “How can ye being evil bring forth good fruits”. Now let me slow down a little bit and show you where the problem is. These evil men that have crept in under the Message, and these called servants of God that are not born again and don’t have the Spirit of God, the Bible said that they still have a conscience of sin. For the sinner being once purged (by the Holy Spirit, by the Born-again experience, by the Blood of Christ), should have had no more conscience of sin. So now here you have men who took up the Message, took up the Bible, and go before a congregation to preach to them, who were not purged from their sins, their consciences, their souls and their appetites love the world, their minds are carnal (To be carnally minded is death. To be spiritually minded is life and peace. The carnal mind cannot be in subject to the Spirit of God, because it’s enmity against God), a rank sinner, not born again, not changed by the Holy spirit, and he takes up a Bible and takes up the Message.  Beloved, first of all, unless a man is born again he cannot understand the kingdom of God. He doesn’t understand the Message. He doesn’t know about the Spirit of God, and here this man comes up here and he is going to preach to a congregation, and his nature is not changed.  Can that tree bring forth good fruit? Let me hear your voices. [Congregation says, “No!”] The answer is, “no”, because his nature is corrupt, and for all you know, he is a false anointed one, for all you know, he is a seed of the Devil.  I quote Brother Branham on, “Ye must be born-again,” he said, false prophets brings false word and produce false birth. 

FALSE PROPHETS BRINGS FALSE WORD AND HAVE FALSE SENSATIONS

120    “But the true Word comes to the true prophet, and he tells you the true Word. You follow that true Word, and you get a true experience of the Word, because the Word is made flesh in you, and you become God's son…False prophets bring false words. What do they do? Have false sensations. (You.must.be.born.again  61-1231).

Now a man cannot pass-on more than what he has in him spiritually. Now if this man has a corrupt nature that is what he will pass on to you. If a man is in deception that is what he will pass on to you!  If a man is an adulterer that is what he will pass on to you; and the Prophet of God said that, “the congregation takes the spirit of the pastor, and they take the ghost of the pastor instead of the Holy Spirit”. Yes! So we have something here. So they can only produce corruption. So the bulk of it that is handling this Message worldwide are corrupt natured men.  “Now how could you say that Brother Bruce?”  I could say that because of the fruits that they are bringing forth.  Ye shall know them by their fruits.  Didn’t Jesus say, “Ye shall know them by their fruits?”  Then what are we afraid of? When your pastor stands up here, take the Word of God and judge something, I am judging by the fruits that they bear.  Didn’t Jesus said, “Ye shall know?”  How could people say that you can’t know who is true, who is false, who is this, who is that, and we have to be careful of how we’re talking?  It shows to me that you don’t have a divine revelation, and you need to shut up and let a man of God that has a revelation speak.  Yes, Jesus said, “Ye shall know”, and He told you how to know: “Ye shall know them by their fruits”, and I could know something by the fruits that it bears. My beloved, if you are a Trinidadian here, and I send you outside and I say, “Tell me what kind of tree that is?”  The leaves might bother you, but you look for the fruits. You’ll say, “This is a mango tree.” Do you know why? Because you have the knowledge of it. If I bring a brother from the United States, and say, “What kind of tree is that?” He’d say, “I don’t know.”  Especially if I carry him by a cashew tree; he is in school. He’d say, “What is that there?” He might be eating nuts everyday in the States, but when he sees this big fruit and this thing hanging there, he’d say, “I don’t know”. Somebody who has the revelation has to tell him what kind of tree that is. And that is what God’s shepherd is there for.

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HERETICAL ARTICLE NO. 43

IMMODEST DRESSING OF WOMEN PROMOTED BY CORRUPT PREACHERS AND FALSE THUNDERS

 So now, listen to this properly; this corrupt nature, carnal nature, and natural nature of this man, he cannot understand the things of God. This nature cannot adjust to the holiness Message, because this nature is unholy.  It could adjust to Sodom and Gomorrah. It could adjust to the styles of the world. It could adjust to the fashions of the world. It could adjust to the music of the world, because that nature is corrupt. Do you see what is happening? Now, he is pastor of this Church, and a sister that just came from Sodom and she heard the voice of the beloved prophet, and she read a book and she heard that God sent a prophet; she comes to pastor Wolf and ask Pastor Wolf; she came with her mini-dress now, and high-heel shoes, she came with bobbed-hair, and the styles and vices of Sodom. So she comes to Pastor Wolf and ask Pastor Wolf, “If this dress is wrong”, and he said, “Sister you could take it down just a little”. Brother that is what his nature is revealing to him. His understanding of modesty and holiness is not right, because he is a corrupt tree to begin with. He cannot direct the Church into holiness and righteousness, and when he cannot establish the holiness message of Brother Branham, it shows that he is not born-again, he has no revelation of the Message of the hour and he don’t know Christ.  Now you see how simple this thing is?  So now that is how this second heresy, that I will count out to you, that is how it came into the Message, and they changed Brother Branham’s directions on moral dressing. The dressing of the women in the Message generally has changed from the instructions that Brother Branham gave. It’s a heresy, and I want to acquaint you with the teachings of Brother Branham concerning modest dressing.  How many’s with me? [Congregation says, “Amen!”]

Now, I want you as the congregation, to hear what Brother Branham said about women’s dressing, and I want you to compare what Brother Branham said with what we have seen amongst the followers of Malachi 4, and compare it with what you see here in Bethel, as I read. Alright, first of all, when a man stands up and preach holiness like that, they brand him as ‘a legalist,’ because these carnal minds cannot understand the holiness message, and they will call a man like that ‘a legalist’, that he has the people under terrible fear and causes them to do these things by Law.  They lie. “It’s the holiness Message.”  I’m reading this here: 

PASTOR -THEY’RE LIBERATING WOMEN FROM COMMON DECENCY

E-40    “A Christian woman preacher sent a girl down here the other day that looked like she was poured into her clothes. She said, "Oh, Brother Branham, you're from the old school. Our pastor liberates women." I said, "Liberate them from what?" They're liberating them from Christ and common decency. Oh, very famous, the woman is... certainly. But anything that does that's a child of hell. "By their fruit you shall know them.” (Handwriting on the wall 9/3/58).

Now people think that I am a hard preacher?  Look at what Brother Branham said out here.  He said; “preachers that were not establishing the holiness message and they call that liberation for the women, that so long they have these women in these kinds of long dress and all these other things”, and a woman came up there and started telling him that, “our pastor liberates women.”  Do you know that there is a liberation system that is going on in the Message now?  The things that they practiced for many years, decency for women and had the women in the kitchen and had the women off the jobs, they have a liberation programme now going on, and the liberation programme is that they changed modest dressing. Yes. Hear how Brother Branham concluded this. He said,  “...But anything that does that is a child of Hell. By their fruits you shall know them.” Let somebody jostle with Malachi 4.  If I stand up here and I say this evening that all these men that purposely change the moral standards of the Message of the women are children of hell, it will offend a lot of people, but I will let Brother Branham say that again. “...But anything that does that is a child of hell. By their fruits you shall know them”. You know a child of hell by the fruits that they bear.  

THEY DON’T HAVE THE OLD FASHION RELIGION THEY USE TO HAVE

E-85   “The time is come when the clergyman has raised up to be some kind of actors in a skit. What's the matter today? They don't have the old fashion religion they used to have. Today you got too much Hollywood evangelism, some little sissified guy with manicured hair, and stand up to a bunch of women with earrings hanging down like the devil's stirrups, and enough paint on their face to paint a barn, and bobbed hair... That used to be a sin among you Holiness people. What happened? You did run well. The Bible still says it's a sin. That's right.” (Five.junctions.of.time  56-0122).

GOD DON’T CHANGE – YOU CHANGED

E-49    Why, you old fashion Methodist, you years ago, how you used to have the rules and things in the church, and today, women who call themselves sainted people, filled with the Holy Ghost, walk the streets with little old short clothes on, and their girls lay out on beaches all night and smoke cigarettes and call yourselves Christians. Shame on you. "A tree's knowed by the fruits it bears." Then you wonder why you don't have power in your church and in your life. There it is…What's the matter? What's happened? It ain't like it used to be. Well, God don't change. The Gospel don't change. Something changed; you changed. (God making his promise 56-1209a).

This is the same boat that the followers of Malachi 4 are travelling in. They used to practice holiness at one time. What happened to it today? Something is wrong with the consciences of the preachers.  Yes! Literal children of Hell have taken up the Bible and started to preach the Message, saying that they are liberating women from the Branhamite fashion, and when we hold up the holiness Message in Bethel, they call it a uniform.  Those are the same clothes they used to wear a few years ago.  They call it a uniform, and persecute our sisters, and laugh at them, and call themselves “holiness people.”

WEARING PAINT - MISS DOG MEAT– GOD GIVES HER TO THE DOGS

  E-61    So when you see woman wearing paint, you know that's Miss Dog Meat; God gives her to the dogs, that's all she's good for is dog meat. (It.wasn't.so.from.the.beginning 61-0411).

You think that Brother Branham was some sweet bread preacher?  Sometime a little roughness comes out from the preacher’s mouth here, and then it becomes questionable.  Some things that Brother Branham said to shake people out of themselves and their sins, you’d be surprised. You ever heard that assertion  “Miss Dog meat?” Do you know whom he’s referring to? Jezebel was the only woman that painted her face in the Bible, and when he met a woman like that he said, “Miss Dog meat.”

UNCENSORED PROGRAMS – HOLLYWOOD PROSTITUTES IN HELL

 E-34    Turn your radios on now." The vulgar, dirty, filthy things that's permitted, uncensored programs...What do you think them Hollywood prostitutes in hell today would do if they could return? They'd make it different. But their influence upon the world, has set the world in a flame of corruption. (Handwriting.on.the.wall  58-0309).

That is some serious blows. I will settle down here and let you do the judging.

IMMORAL DRESS WITH YOUR BODY SHOWING THROUGH IT

  314    “Sister…would you wear these little old skirts and things that they wear today of this immoral dress, with your body showing through it out there on the street? Did you know every man that looks upon you commits adultery with you in his heart? And you present yourself like that. Do you know, women, you that wear makeup, there's only one woman in the Bible that ever wore makeup? And God fed her to the dogs. (Modern.events.made.clear.by.prophecy 65-1206).

Brother Branham fully declared that a woman should not wear any garment where her underneath clothes is imprinted or is showing.

WOMEN DRESSED TO HIDE THEIR BODY – DIDN’T WANT MEN LUSTING

E-44    They dress themselves more attractive. Where the women used to wear

great big dresses, and sleeves and long skirts, and hid their body because they didn't want man lusting for them (they lived for one man that chose them for wife); today the women pour themselves into little clothes, and immorality is on such a move and a rampage 'till it's beyond even thinking. (Conflict.between.God.and.Satan  62-0531).

WATCH HOW THEY DRESS – REAL EVIDENCE OF THE NEW BIRTH

343-3 “Take a good look around you. Examine the people as they walk by. In the multitudes you see, can you pick out those that have the appearance of Christians? Watch how they dress, watch how they act, hear what they say, see where they go. Surely there ought to be some real evidence of the new birth amongst all those we see go by. But few there be. Yet today the fundamental churches are telling us they have millions saved and even Spirit-filled. Spirit-filled? Can you call women Spirit-filled who go around with frizzy bobbed hair, shorts and slacks, halters and briefs, all painted up like Jezebel? If these are adorned in modest apparel as becometh Christian women, I would hate to think what it would be like if I had to witness a display of immodesty.” (Laodicean.church.age church.age.book cpt.9).

YOU DON’T WANT THAT DRESS THAT HANGS LOOSE

 E-46   You done seen Martha Susianna out yonder wear some other kind. See? You want to dress like her. You don't want that dress that hangs loose. You want that one's like you're poured into it, because that you seen Susie on the television and the radio and in the magazine.” (Painted.face.Jezebel  56-1005).

Did Brother Branham establish loose clothing? Was he against tight clothing? [Congregation says, “Amen!”] And I would add right here, that if a

woman is wearing loose clothing, she should not call a semi-loose clothing, a loose clothing, even because she must have enough material in that clothing, whether she’s walking, it must not imprint her form. If she is bending, it must not imprint her form, and all these other things that goes with it. Alright.

BECAUSE SOME PREACHER FAILED TO HOLD HIS POST OF DUTY

149    “What makes good women put on them vulgar clothes and get out there?…It's because, not that child; that child don't know any better; but because some preacher in the pulpit has failed to hold his post of duty. That's exactly right. Sure. Women get on the street, and all sexy-dressed and things like that, and sinners look at them and don't know that she is actually just as guilty

as she lived with that man.” (Strait.is.the.gate  59-0301m).

Do you see where the problem is? The problem is behind the pulpit. If the pastor had a backbone, and if he was called of God and had the Holy Spirit inside of him, he would preach the message, he would get the people born again, and then they would practice holiness automatically, because the gospel will be so forceful, that dressing becomes a secondary matter. Life becomes the important thing; and if I want eternal life, and I am preached into such a place where I am convinced that I must have life eternal, then I will automatically do the things that are right. That’s the system in this congregation. I don’t go around with a big piece of stick. No! I preach the Word of God, then people hear the Word of God and they become interested in eternal life above all things, then dressing and all these other things are secondary. Oh yes!

SQUEEZED UP IN A DRESS-I BLASTED IT

29-2   “ Minister's wife setting there all squeezed up in a dress …with a dress that she couldn't even keep her underneath skirts from shining (She couldn't get down over her knees, was about four or five inches above her knees setting up there.)…I blasted it just as hard as I could. 'Course he won't invite me back. I don't expect to, but he knows what's right and wrong.” (Way.of.a.true.prophet 62-0513).

There are people in this message that practice these nastiness, who came in right here from other churches. It’s a disgrace; and claim to be in the message.

LITTLE OLD TIGHT DRESS-THEY DON’T KNOW WHAT DECENCY MEANS

46-5   “They don't know what decency means. Out here with a little old tight dresses on, and things like that, and men lusting after them, and think that they're decent. You might not have done nothing wrong, sister, but let me tell you something; you're a tool of the devil. And at the judgment bar, THUS SAITH THE LORD, you'll answer for committing adultery, and your soul will be gone. You know better; you know it now, anyhow.” (Way of a true prophet 62-0513M).

MOTHER HUBBARD SKIRTS-THEY WOULDN’T BUY THEM DRESSES

E-79    If I sold those old fashion Mother Hubbard skirts to the women today, you think they'd buy them? Certainly not. They want something that they can pour themselves into, that looks like the skin on a wiener. They just want to be so tight, walking down the street, about four or five different degrees, pushed in, pushed out, and reared back on a pair of heels, their head stuck out. I don't mean that for joke…Now, it's true. They wouldn't buy them dresses. The other night on the platform, a little Indian woman come up there. I wanted to shake her little hand. Up at Brother Groomer's church, She had a dress on like my mother wore. I thought, "Well, bless your heart, lady." And the Lord healed her right there, 'fore she even got to me. (Way.of.a.true.prophet  63-0119).

Do  you  see  what  Brother  Branham  referred  to as modesty? Do you see what

practicing holiness caused this woman? He said, before she reached him she was

healed. America has perverted the whole world through their Sodomite condition, through their Hollywood stuff, through their television; and there are women there that you could preach from Genesis to Revelation, explain to them what is modesty, they just don’t know what is modesty. They were brought up under that system. They could only think in a certain way. I pity them. Not referring to our sisters in Connecticut.  They dress just like you all, and you know what a stand that is in America. They have to pay a price, and I admire the sisters there.

SHORT DRESSES MAR OUR TESTIMONY–THERE’S SOMETHING WRONG

949-Q-244    244. “Brother Branham, what do you think about our sisters in the church wearing such short dresses? Doesn't it mar our testimony and set the wrong example for our young people in this our church? It seems so.. to see  a grown woman wearing a dress so short that it shows her knees when she walks.

I agree with you one hundred percent. It's a disgrace, but tell me what to do about it. I preach it just as hard as I know how to preach it; they do it the same. So it's their judgment, 'cause the Word's went forth. Yes, I'm certainly against them little old skintight dresses...I constantly fuss at my kids, Becky and Sarah. I don't care how little they are... I just fuss at them all the time...Meda takes Becky apart every day about it. See? Dresses plumb up... 'Cause kids, you can expect that in kids, and you have to correct them; but when it comes to a woman, there's something wrong there.” (Questions and answers COD 23/8/64).

SEXY DRESSES ARE SPIRITS

996-15    And I tell these women, when they make themselves look sexy in these dresses, that God's going to make you answer for committing adultery…You listen real close, and remember that those things are spirit. (Questions.and.answers  64-0823e).

SLITS IN SKIRTS

Brother Branham made reference to slits in skirts, but he called it “scandal skirts” as it was termed in that time, where women put a slit to show their underskirts. He said what would a Christian woman want to do that for, and said that a Christian sister who asked if it was alright to wear that is not right with God. Today this style is very prevalent among message churches, especially the

so-called thunder groups.

SCANDAL SKIRTS - SHOW THEIR UNDERNEATH GARMENT

1008-66    “Do you women remember here not long ago they had what they called "scandal skirts"? I think they're coming out again, or they got--supposed to be... They're scandalous now instead of scandal… And they'd cut their skirt up high, about a foot high every time, then wear some kind of a underneath garment look pretty. And when they would make a step, it would show this underneath garment with the lace. (Questions.and.answers  COD  64-0823).

SCANDAL SKIRTS – THE LOVE OF GOD’S NOT EVEN IN YOU

E-58 A girl asked me the other day, said, "Brother Branham, they're beginning

to wear a scandal skirt." I said, "What's that?… she said, "the girls are wearing

skirts that's cut down this way that shows their underskirt. Do you think it's

wrong for a girl to do that?" I said, "Sister, what in the world does the Pentecostal Holy Ghost filled girl want to show her underskirt for?"...If she'd been right with God, she wouldn't have had to ask that…I said, "Don't ask me foolish questions…The Bible says, "If you love the world or the things of the world, it's because the love of God's not even in you." And your own life tells about it..."By their fruits you know them." (Why 61-0413)

DRESS THE WAY YOU’RE CERTAIN – DON’T TAKE ANY CHANCE

"If it's a question, leave it alone. You can't be certain. Dress the way you know you're certain. See? Don't take any chance." (Uncertain sound 62-0714).

Brothers and sisters, can we call this wicked, immodest dressing, that you have witnessed here by visitors, and where you visited the people in the message, can you say that that compares with Brother Branham’s understanding of modesty? [Congregation says, “No!”] Impossible! I am saying that it is direct disobedience, and who gave them that liberty, and who gave them that recommendation are corrupt preachers whose eyes are full of adultery. What advice do you think that an adulterous preacher could give, whose eyes are full of adultery? Do you think that he could preach to the women modest dressing in the right way? [Congregation says, “No!”] It’s a total impossibility. He loves to see the shape of women. He has eyes full of adultery. He loves to see them in their tight clothes. It is nothing to him. He loves to see them in short dresses. He loves to see their under-clothes print out in their clothing. Why? Because he has a nasty nature, and he still has the vices of Sodom embedded in him, so he is a heretic to begin with, and he implanted heresy in the churches. This is what we observed; I had been watching them for the past months, real good, and I want to say here that this is what the false seven thunders, since 1974, produced on the women worldwide. They have long dresses; many of them go down over the knees; but what happened is that it is tight on their hips. Did you observe that? [Congregation says, “Amen!”] Tight on the hips, and very fine material. I call that a mermaid dress, even because it makes the woman look like a mermaid, and you see all the movements in the woman, you see her form. It is disgraceful, it is stink, it is corrupt, and it is the product of the false thunders. It is the product of adulterous preachers, fornicative preachers, and pedophiles. That’s the nature that is directing that dressing. And I want to say that some of those same men once had their congregations dressing right, just like you sisters. I used to be in almost all the churches preaching, until they went away with cults and isms and unholiness. Then they did not want a preacher like me again. I became a legalist.  And over the period of time, Brother Branham called this kind of style a sack. That sack style came out in about 1962-1963. You remember those days? [A brother says, “Yes!”] The ungodly people cried down that style, and it was a talk right through the country of how bad the women were dressing. It’s a sack, and the followers of Malachi 4 that sit under these preachers that are not born again, don’t have the Holy Ghost, and don’t have a backbone; those preachers have the women dressing in sacks. Brother Branham condemned sacks.

WOMEN WEARING SACK DRESSES – THEY GOT PREACHERS LIKE THAT

E-29 “. No wonder women are wearing sack dresses and shorts and things like that; they got preachers and deacons like that. It's a meal ticket, in the stead of a commission from God then.” (Sign.of.the.time 58-0520).

Then, another  kind  of  material  I noticed,  that  is  thin and shows the woman’s

undergarment.

THIN SHIRT-SHOWS UNDERNEATH GARMENT-SHOULD NOT BE DONE

608-62    I certainly do not agree with that, you know, the skirt part up here, the two pieces; one of them is down here and one kind of up here; it's a shirt like they wear." And so it's real thin and shows that underneath garment that they have around there. I don't think that--that should be done. I don't like that; I really don't." (QA.God.being.misunderstood  61-0723e).

LITTLE OLD SKIRTS WITH YOUR BODY SHOWING THROUGH

314 Would you wear these little old skirts and things that they wear today of this immoral dress, with your body showing through it out there on the street? (Modern.events.made.clear.by.prophecy  65-1206).

A woman must be conscious of something like that. A pastor must be seeing that. Other women must be seeing that. How is it when we come in contact with them and they come here for a couple hours, you have to turn your heads men? And it’s a disgust to your soul, and if you don’t hold yourself, you just go and tell them about the nasty look that they have. They are fully conscious, but I will tell you what happened; that preacher has no more conscience of sin. His eyes are full of adultery and he loves to see that. His nature is not changed. That is what caused the holiness message standards to be broken. It’s not the servants of God. It’s backslidden preachers. There are men there that are false anointed ones, purposely sent in to the congregations to destroy the holiness message.

Let me stop for a minute. “Brother Bruce, why would Satan send false anointed

ones to destroy the holiness message?” You should give me the answer. Can you give me the answer tonight? If you know the answer say “Amen”. [Congregation says, “Amen!”] Come on, if you heard the message yesterday tell me why. Why would Satan send false anointed ones to destroy the holiness message? He wants to stop the people from seeing the Lord. Are you seeing Satan’s strategy? If Satan could destroy the holiness message, he could stop the people from seeing the Lord by divine revelation, because they are no longer pure; and blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

So now these servants aren’t any joke servants. They are anointed by the Devil to corrupt the women. When they corrupt the women, they corrupt the church. A woman is the backbone of a nation; she is the backbone of society, she is the backbone of the house; and when these false anointed ones came in, in order to get members in the church, they broke down the standards of dressing. They don’t want to come to Bethel again. No! These hypocrites and bastards, they make it easy for the women and they know that that is wrong. They read it in Brother Branham’s message. They have all these quotes, they have computers, and they have quotation books. They know that it’s wrong, but they have no backbone.

PEOPLE WILL GO TO HELL BECAUSE PASTOR LET DOWN THE GOSPEL

E-31    “That's what's the matter, pastor. What's the matter, our people will go to hell is because you let down the Gospel in the pulpit; that's exactly what it is. If you  preach the Gospel, the power of God unto salvation, have an old fashion altar call and have people cleaned up in their life, it would be different. It would be examples set forth in Christianity. That's right. But we've let down the bar somewhere.” (Expectation  55-1001).

IF HE DON’T TELL THEM-HE’S NOT A FIT SERVANT FOR CHRIST

126   “And you pastors…If he's got no more respect for Christ than to let his congregation get by with that without... Now, They might do it out there behind him, but if he don't tell them about it, he's not a fit servant for Jesus Christ. That's exactly right. He is not fit to be a servant of Christ. A servant of Christ should be fearless; it's a cause that comes to the Bible. Certainly.” (Why.are.we.not.a.denomination?  58-0927).

SISSY PASTOR LET HIS CHURCH GET BY WITH SUCH THINGS

E-84    “And a pastor will let his church get by with such things as that without blasting the tar out of it from the pulpit, he's a sissy. What we need is men. The Gospel--not with rubber gloves, but with the power and demonstration of the Holy Ghost with the Word... The Bible says these things are wrong. It's wrong for people to do that way, to act that way. It ought to be preached, and lived, and everywhere. Ought to... The church needs a purging, a cleaning out.” (Marriage.of.the.Lamb 62-0121e).

They are a set of boneless preachers; and because they cannot control their wives, their wives bring the style in the church and their daughters bring the styles in the church, and they know that if they touch their wife or touch their daughter, it will bring a separation, and on account of that, they have to keep quiet, and then they cannot allow their wives and daughters, and then after tell the congregation not to do that; it will bring a split in the church.

PASTOR LET HIS WIFE WEAR SEXY CLOTHES-WOMEN TOOK EXAMPLE

“But we begin to creep in and let down the bars. We took the wrong example. The women acted like the pastor's wife. He let her go haywire, cut off her hair, wear any kind of sexy clothes, never rebuked. And the other women say, "If Sister So-and-so can do it, I could too." Don't make that your example. God told you what to do; stay with that.  Then when you do that, you fail God and you also fail His people, failing His people. When you fail them, you fail God. God set you there to be a watchman, and when you see sin creeping in, instead

of cutting the thing off, they entice it.” (Just.one.more.time.Lord 63-0120e).

THAT DON’T EXCUSE YOU

E-55 “But Marilyn Monroe, or somebody, bobbed off their hair. And then some

preacher's wife did the same thing, and you think you got a right to do it. That

don't excuse you from the Word of God.

BONELESS SISSIFIED MEN – YOU AIN’T GOT THE HOLY GHOST

51    “And you men, you poor, little, boneless, sissified things, you, that would let your wife do such a thing as that, that shows what you're made out of. That's the reason you ain't got the Holy Ghost like you profess to have, or you'd have enough something about you to make her act like a lady, as long as she lived with you anyhow. Amen. That sounds old fashion, cutting. But that's what the church needs today is an old fashion, Holy Ghost washing out, and hanging out, and drying out, and ironing out by the Holy Spirit. Sure.” (Church and it’s condition 5/8/56).

I will put this in here, many of those women preach to their husbands, and they have a preaching devil upon them. But they know enough not to come behind the pulpit. So they preach their messages to their husbands, and their husbands do their preaching. So we have women preachers in this message, but they preach in the bedroom; and they preach strife and contention to their husbands, and he do their preaching from behind the pulpit. That is how the Devil passes. He makes a round. The devil makes a round in the woman preacher and preaches from the bedroom. Then the husband is so sissified, and together with that he doesn’t have a message, so he is glad for it. Then he comes and he preaches strife and contentions when somebody interferes with his daughter, interferes with his wife, interferes with his children, and comes up and pretends that he has discernment now, and crackdown on people who say anything against his family, and against his friends, and against his cousins, so the whole thing becomes a family business. It becomes a family affair.

YOU PREACHERS LET YOUR WIFE LEAD YOU AROUND

E-55 “And you preachers let your wife lead you around. What a shame…A servant of Christ can't control his own house, how's he going to control the house of God? "Well," you say, "Brother Branham, that's just some minor things." All right, let's get the minor things straightened out, then we'll go to something bigger. Then we'll talk about the Holy Ghost, and the things of how to

receive Divine gifts.”(Investments 63-0126).

Alright, clothing again. Then you have tight dressing that expose their forms. I’m talking about ministers’ wives that used to dress like you when they were under my preaching. They could not joke around. In those days I had a little more zeal. I would go and point them right in their face, right down in the congregation and say you are a disgrace to this church. They turned against me for that. One fellow turned against me. He start crowing now. He said, “I don’t know why you’re always on my wife?” “I don’t know why.” Today he has her like a barrel. Tight like a barrel, right in the house of God.

MINISTER’S WIFE IMMORALY DRESSED-REBUKED BY THE PROPHET

 29-2    “ A minister's wife one time, setting up there with a dress on; it was

horrible looking. You say, "You ain't got no rights." I have got a right; that's the Word. Preach It all. You bypass those things, a lot of sissified preachers, because they haven't got the audac... Maybe they haven't even been called to preach in the first place. That's right. But a true servant of God will stay right with that Word. That's right. Minister's wife setting there all squeezed up in a dress… and the minister's wife, setting on the pulpit with one of these boyish bobbed hair all kinked up, and with a dress that she couldn't even keep her underneath skirts from shining (She couldn't get down over her knees, was about four or five inches above her knees setting up there.), jumping up-and-down leading songs. I blasted it just as hard as I could.” (Way.of.a.true.prophet 62-0513).

Three quarters of these preachers on the pulpit were guilty of adultery some time or the other. Their natures are corrupt. These tight dresses are kind of modified. So they have these tight dresses, and they expose their form. When they walk the dress tightens. If they stand up straight, it is a little slack. They’re playing tricks on God. So while they stand up straight, the dress looks okay. And some of them don’t even know how to walk; some long strides that when they walk their body is printed out. When they bend over, it’s a disgrace. You want to call that modesty. You want to say that that compares with Brother Branham’s teachings, you lying preacher. You want to say that that compares with the quotations of Brother Branham? Impossible! He said that, a Christian dress would hang loose.

These same corrupt men, with their corrupt nature, are the very ones that allow, permit and tolerate unclean living among married people in their congregations, because their natures are corrupt. The Bible and this message are against unclean living amongst Christians, in any form (even if they are married), be it buggary, be it oral sex, or any of these vulgar things that are accepted in Sodom today. It’s dirty, filthy, stink, rotten, of an animalistic nature, and low to the core, and Brother Branham condemned it. The prophet of God saw them under discernment; Ministers I am talking about, and they passed on their Sodomite ghosts to the congregations. Romans 1:24-28 condemns such unholy living.

FILTHY LIVING AMONGST MARRIED PEOPLE- MINISTERS

1128-306 I don't believe in filthy living amongst Pentecostal people, holiness

people, even if they're married. I don't believe in that. No, sir. Some of this dirty stuff that's--that's so horrible…I meet ministers out there, where on the discernment, I feel like I could turn them over my knee and give them a little "Gospel protaplasma stimulation." Yes, sir. My, to see a man that would try to take his little wife, and dirty, filthy, that's a... You understand what I mean? I think you ought to be ashamed of yourself as a man of God to... You just be a husband; be a sweetheart. Respect her like you always respect her. Don't pay any attention to these, some of these non-sexy books--or these nonsense in this sexy books, and things that you read about, and all this stuff, and everything like that. Get that filthy stuff out of your mind. The Bible said not let one dirty conversation come among you when you profess holiness. Treat that little lady like she's your little sweetheart. If she's sixty years old, you be just the same. You be that gallant boyfriend; remember, you are. You don't try none of these new things, and I know what I'm talking... And you just be a husband, a genuine brother, a genuine Christian. I know that sounds... But…I got a right to say what I want to you. You see? You're my kids; you live right. And you women, live the right way to your husband. And you husband's, live the right to your wives. Be real, real nice and respect one another just with... And your family relations and so forth like that, let it be just as reverently, and godly, and agreed with among you and everything as it can be. Don't never push, and shove, and be dirty and vulgar. (Questions and Answers COD 64-0830)

Can these corrupt preachers with their corrupt natures establish these holiness standards of modest dressing amongst their congregations? No sir, Jesus said, “A corrupt tree cannot bring forth good fruit”. Those pastors, they led these women and these men into deception. Yes. So there we are. I am going to deal with a very important item here right now; I am going to deal with the tops of women. We have tight tops, and these tight tops narrow down into the belly, and it holds tight across the breast. It’s contrary to the message. It’s contrary to modesty, contrary to the Spirit of God. All these things come from the television, all these things come from Hollywood. Let me elaborate a bit. There is a style today, for several years now, where a woman chooses to show a piece of her breast. I don't know if you noticed this style in the world? Sometimes quarter of her breast, sometimes half breast, and sometimes whole breast. Then she opens her belly and shows her belly to the public. It takes a nasty human being, it takes a nasty mother, it takes a nasty father, it takes a corrupted father and a corrupted mother to allow their daughter to walk out of the house like that. You shameless parents, you shameless hypocrite! God is going to burn you with fire! If I had the voice of an archangel to cry against that I will let the whole world hear me. It’s evil, wicked, mean and slothful. Yes sir! Talking about wickedness! They are interested in showing out their bellies and showing out their breast. I am going to show you where the prophet of God condemned that even in the slightest form, that even though a Christian believer have on all her clothes, for her to strap up her breast and cause herself to look like a Hollywood something the prophet of God condemned that as evil. We as Christians should never pattern from the world.

So, some of these women that have blouses on, and they open right down and have a kind of vest or something, and their breast is all bagged up. Excuse the expression, some don't understand, I have to talk plain English, some are playing dumb, some are playing ignorant. Yes. They bag up their breast and let a piece show out. Christians must not take up that pattern from the world and bring it in the House of God and modify that or transform it a little bit. The Bible said, be not conformed to the world, but be transformed, you must not look like the world. The woman is responsible for the top of their body just as certain as she is responsible to hide the under part of her body. Yes. The prophet of God condemned that. Alright, I am going to read this here for you first.

WOMEN STRAPPING UP THEIR BREAST TO LOOK SEXY  – IT’S UNGODLY

925-23    I was talking the other night to some friends of mine where we was way back up in the mountains, and a young woman...And we noticed standing there, a couple of brothers and I, the lady nursing her baby. She just removed her breast from her dress and begin to nurse the baby; and it was kind of amazing for a minute; that's the way my mother nursed me. It's exactly right. I have more honor for a woman like that than I do some of these women that put a little old strap under them to throw theirself out: don't even look like a human being. They got a purpose in doing that; that's sexy, ungodly. A woman wear ever so many clothes and try to make herself look like something she isn't. Why, women ain't actually that way; it's some kind of Hollywood stuff. And the devil spirit get on them women to make them try to attract attention of men through sex. A woman's breast was given her for the baby to nurse. The woman's right in the primitive line, but she's lined right. I have more respect for that, for that woman like that, 'cause that's the way her mother raised her…But when you come to go on the outside and maybe wear ever so much of a blouse or so forth, and then boost yourself out there with straps and things, that looks ungodly and cause men... Do you realize that's a spirit of the Devil on you? Oh, yeah. So you don't want to do that, sister. Don't you do that; that's Hollywood's makeup and a trap of the Devil. When you do that, you make men think the wrong thing about you; and when you do that, then you're guilty of committing adultery with that man, because you presented yourself that way to him. You can't help the way you're built, but just go and stay the way God made you. See? Don't try to make yourself something that you're not. Just stay human being. That awful? (Questions  and Answers  COD  64-0823M).

IT’S A SPIRIT

119    And when they got this fellow from Texas, and take them women out there and use them underneath clothes to make them look like they were something that they wasn't, and such things as that, and let them get by with it... And now what do they do? It went to creeping in. It's a spirit. (Why.are.we.not.a.denomination?  58-0927).

WOMEN’S UNDERNEATH CLOTHES THAT MAKES THEM LOOK SEXY

  E-34    When did it start? Look back through the history. It started back there in the days of Clara Bow. And with this scheming, ungodly Texan, went out there and made these women's underneath clothes that made them look sexy. (Handwriting on the wall 58-0309m).

Maybe some never thought that the prophet of God covered those grounds but he did, and what I am talking about and what the prophet was talking about is that a woman must have the upper part of her body in a modest way and do not follow these kind of a fancy business, and excuse me, I got to speak very plain. Hollywood has invented a kind of a brassiere, and the kind of a strap that cause a woman’s chest to push out, to make her look like a Hollywood star. Then they put on some kind of a tight bodice on top of that, they pull it like that, where you could see a line from bust to bust. It's ungodly; it’s of the Devil! No Christian Sister should be doing that; no message believer should be doing that. Why are you doing that? Get the right kinds of strap. No under clothes should be showing, top or bottom. Anybody that you see doing that in this tabernacle, they know better than that, and they should not be doing that.

So the question of these tops came in. You are in the style, and some are paying for material three hundred dollars a yard. Yes. Two hundred and fifty dollars. That is why your husband has to work day and night. Even a millionaire shouldn't allow his children or his wife to be spending so much money; and a millionaire is smarter than that, that is why he is a millionaire. It’s people who are scrunting does that.  They “never see come see”. The Bible talk about costly array; you should not be wearing costly material. If you were living in the days when they sewed dress with flour bags, you would know how to save a penny. That is why some women have their husbands working day and night. He gives her money to buy groceries; she goes and buys expensive cloth. One yard cost two hundred and fifty dollars, and they have to wear three or four yards. Madness! Let me tell you something, nobody isn’t getting my money to spend so you know, and my wife knows better, my children know better; they know better than that. I am very conservative.  I don't want to spend a bad penny. I always feel that every penny that I save, I could give a poor brother. That is my thinking. Yes. Not because I am stingy. It’s the same man who would take all and give it away, but I believe in being conservative. I believe in saving. I don't believe in throwing away an egg. I don't believe in breaking a roti in half, eat half and throw away the next half. No. I don't believe in fruits ripening there and I letting it rot. No sir. It hurts me on the inside; somebody’s hungry somewhere in Africa, they are weeping, and you have money to buy a three hundred dollars dress. You want a new fridge every year. You are living for this world. If we are Christians let us walk as Christians. Yes, it is condemned by the prophet of God.

When young women would put that much material in their clothing to make it more skimpy, and bring up their sleeves a little more, and cut it a little lower down here and bring it up a little way, what you’re trying to do is to show your belly. You want to be like the world, and you are no more than a prostitute. Deacons have to come after you and say that your clothes are too skimpy, your bodice and your skirt are too skimpy. You as a woman ought to have better morals than that, and should be ashamed when a man has to tell you that.

Just  to show you how low morals have fallen. I was in a certain place there with

other Ministers and a couple other Brothers. A woman came from another message church, a bunch of women were in the background and everything, she comes up to these four men and said, “Excuse me, can you tell me where the toilet is?” You are a whore! You have lost all your morals. A decent Christian woman, she doesn’t even have to be a Christian, that's her secret. I as a man, if I have to ask for a urinal or a toilet, even to men, it embarrasses me, much more to come up to four men, and left all the women in the background. The only thing I could conclude is, you’re looking for a man. Next thing you would invite me in the toilet with you.  You have a nasty spirit! I investigated the situation, and came to find out that she has four illegitimate children in the world. I said, Oh, that’s where that spirit came from. And I saw her jamming up on a believer, hip to hip. Yes sir. These are the kinds of spirits that follow this message.

Then, they have a low neck now. The women in the world show out half of their breast now, and their bellies are showing out. Christian people wants to show a little piece of their breast. Oh yes, and they want to show their chain together with it. So they cut their neckline down here low, and they put the chain where it could be seen, and a little piece of their breast is showing.

DRESS ORDERLY FROM NECK TO KNEES

E-20    “Whole world's become a conglomeration of immorality. I heard the other day that some man down in Florida was going to pass a law, that women had to dress orderly from the neck to the knees to come on the street. I'll move to Florida if it is. Yes, sir. (Prince 56-0815).

You are a nasty woman. You cannot be born again. You don’t have a conscience in you of morality. For you to practice morality, you’ve got to have a conscience for morality. A preacher should never have to tell you how to dress. A natural conscience will tell a woman that she is naked, and when you cross that conscience, something is wrong with you.

YOU'RE TRYING TO EXPOSE YOURSELF TO BE MODERN

E-76   “Those naked women, five minutes before that didn't know they were naked. And as soon as the Holy Spirit struck that bunch, them women folded their arms and walked off the ground. Now, you mean to tell me in your modern churches, you let your women strip theirselves off out here half naked before men, and tell me that is Christianity? It's worse than heathens. A heathen can realize and accept Christ; they'll cover up their nakedness, and you're trying to expose yourself to be modern.” (Stand still 57-0518).

TIGHT DRESSES ABOVE KNEES-SHOWS EVERY MOVE THEY MAKE

“And some of those women on the platform with their dresses above their knees and cut so tight, and shows every form, every move they make, and their underneath clothes showing through their dresses, just as bad as wearing shorts, bikinis, or anything else.” (Thinking.man's.filter 65-0822e).

A woman must know  that her  under-clothes  are imprinted.  If you   have a

conscience, even as a man, and you wear something, and you feel a little funny. It’s a moral conscience. But what has happened is that these people have no moral conscience. It was not restored. We are going to close just now. Now I am saying that that’s a heresy, all these dressings that I just named out. The majority of these “thunders” preachers in this country and even abroad, found themselves in adultery, and those are the men who brought out these styles. There are many of them who preach those false thunders, who still try to uphold a standard; but they have this immorality among the women, because the big boss in New York brought out those styles, and he said that that isn’t nothing. God will deal with that man. He has perverted a lot of people around the world.

So a lot of these corrupted preachers, who perverted the holiness message of Brother Branham, belong to the false thunders that started in New York and other places. They destroyed the holiness message and they destroyed the lives of  people, and they are in the scrap heap of ministers, locally and abroad. Let the musicians come forward. Scrap heap of ministers. And we have a heap down here, and every once in a while, they come from the scrap heap and re-enter the pulpit. They want me to compromise with that. We would not compromise with that for nothing. That is why we exposed that missionary. I said, “you are a disgrace, and all your visitation to this assembly must stop immediately until you disclaim that you are any missionary or any kind of a minister. You are a disgrace.”

They have destroyed people’s lives. They are a scrap heap of ministers locally and overseas. They dress women in high heel shoes, and all the dressing that they think that they are dressing modestly, does no fit the descriptions that Brother Branham gave. Do you know why their ideas and their understanding of modesty does not fit Brother Branham’s? Because they have a different spirit. They all have a different spirit than Elijah the prophet, and that is why. Different spirit all entirely. Preachers that brought in these styles into the churches, locally and abroad, they once stood for correct dressing when certain men of God were around, who established holiness and righteousness. But from the time they were deceived of the Devil, and started following false prophets and heresies by different men that came from the United States, everything changed. It goes to show that they were never born again. Whenever a man claims to be born again and follow a cult, and follow a heresy, it proves that he is not born again. And anytime they change the holiness message standards, it proves that they are not born again.

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HERETICAL ARTICLE NO. 44

HIGH-HEELED SHOES – EXCUSES PRODUCED BY FALSE THUNDERS PREACHERS

Yet another of the prophet’s teaching that they made a heresy and a cult on, is on the subject of high-heeled shoes. They try to make a difference between high-heels and spike-heels. All the women in this country once wore shoes like our sisters here, who maintained the holiness standard. When false thunders came in and perverted the holiness message, a bunch of women from this country went up to the godfather in New York, who sowed this contrary seed in their hearts. These women returned to Trinidad, got the Deacons in a meeting and demanded that the prophet meant spike-heels and not high-heels. You told a lie! The prophet of God condemned both of them, and nobody could show us anywhere where he made a difference as this heresy is suggesting. He used the same scripture in Isaiah 3 to condemn both high-heel and spike-heel shoes, showing you that whether he said high-heel or spike-heel, he was referring to the same article using both phrases interchangeably at times.

ISAIAH 3 SPEAKS OF HIGH-HEELED SHOES

116        The Bible speaks that, Isaiah 5. How she'd walk with high-heeled shoes

on, tinkling her feet as she went along.” (Flashing.red.light 63-0623e).

ISAIAH 3 SPEAKS OF SPIKED-HEELED SHOES (WOMAN ON HIGHWAY)

Well,  there  was a  lady  come  by,  had on a great big pair like they wear today,

spike-heeled shoes. And she come by and I said, "Wait a minute, sister. You can't walk that highway with that."...You know what the Bible said in Isaiah, 5th chapter…mincing as (have to twist…making a tinkling with their heels (See?), the daughters of Zion in the last days. (Rising of the Sun 65-0418M).

HIGH-HEELS SHOE (WOMAN ON HIGHWAY)

  163 God said, "Come here, Moses. Come up here on top. You're been a faithful servant. (like the woman with the high heels: "You've climbed..." See?) Look over yonder. See the promised land?" (Does God change His mind 65-0418E).

You say, “Where are you getting scriptures for high heels now preacher?’ Everything that we need to know is in this Bible. Listen to what the prophet of God said. Alright, see if this sounds to you like high-heeled shoes. Isaiah 3:16-22. “Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty…” (The daughters of Zion is the Christian church. So-called Christian people in the world are haughty; proud.) “…and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes…” Long eye women; have a husband and they are watching another one on this side. “…wanton eyes…” That is lustful eyes. “…stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet…”  Walking and shaking up as they go. Does that sound like high-heeled shoes to you? [Congregation says, “Amen!”] That is high-heel. It shows that the end-time Christian church will put on high-heels and have lustful eyes. Now notice that that tinkling of the feet and high-heeled shoes are connected with lust. Why would a woman want that? Because she wants to twist. The prophet of God said that an immoral woman and a snake twist alike.

SHE TWISTS LIKE A SERPENT

  93 She's not pretty; she's a serpent (That's right.), twists like one, acts like one, stings like one. Keep away from her. (Thinking.man's.filter 65-0822e).

So this is your scripture here, “…walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet”. Now this is not only the high-heeled shoes making a “cluck, cluck, cluck”, a tinkling with their feet. Now your shoe heel could be broad, and it has a little heel on it, and if it is making that kind of noise for attraction, then something is wrong. Anybody that’s making that kind of noise with their feet, they are trying to gain attraction. Now hear what kind of judgment the Lord is going to visit this generation with for such conduct-lustful eyes, haughty spirit, stretch forth necks.

“…Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts. In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon, The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, the bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings…”Where’s the scripture for the earring?” Right here. The Lord said He’s going to take it out.  “…The rings, and nose jewels…” Do you think this Bible is a joke-Bible? Don’t you see people boring their nose right inside of here and putting a ring on it? Does anybody here know where we used to put that ring? In the bull’s nose. So now when you start putting rings in your nose, you’re an animal, you’re a beast, and you have an animalistic character in you. “…The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins...” It’s just showing you about all this decoration for pride. I am not saying that a woman shouldn’t wear a ring or something like that, but we are talking about this decoration for lust and pride. And that is the same emphasis that I lay upon the chains, that if you are wearing it for a style, then you are a show-off kind of a woman. And I’ve seen some fellows also with chains. Because the prophet of God allowed the women to wear a little necklace, the men came out with a dog chain. Well maybe you are a sister. He said that he allowed the sisters a little necklace, if their boyfriend gave them that. Men in this message went and put on chains also. How is it that you joined the ladies like that?

“…The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails…”  And then the Lord said that He’s going to strip them naked. “…And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink…” You’ve never seen an age of perfume like this, and cosmetics. “…and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty. Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war. And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.” Now this is showing the judgment that is going to come upon these organizations: all these so-called churches that promote all of these things. It goes to show the Tribulation they will go through, they will forget to dress. Not all of these items here are wrong, but it’s just showing you the pride of how they are well set and they think that they are looking so nice and so beautiful.

 “MISS UNIVERSE”

A certain woman from this country once won a “Miss Universe” pageant. I really want to know what is so pretty in this woman. Brother, I was thinking about that; it’s not the beauty they’re going by. You see this Sodom and Gomorrah condition, it’s who could strip themselves the most naked, and that is what that woman won for. That woman had a certain garment, I looked at it on the papers, and her nakedness was partly showing, and that is why she won. That name alone, “Miss Universe” is blasphemy. When you say, “Universe,” that takes in the whole of heaven, earth and everything. It’s blasphemy. That woman won that because she went and stripped herself half-naked; ninety-nine percent naked. That is why she won that. It’s sinful brother, and God is going to judge it. As far as God is concerned, it’s an abomination in His sight, and Christian people don’t go for that. Christian people buying newspapers and looking at that and admiring that, something is wrong with your spirit. For you to be talking about that and rating that up, you have a spirit of the world. You ought to resent that. You ought to hate that. You ought to be critical of that. Yes! You ought to recognize that as the devil! How do you think that woman looks in the sight of God? The Bible says that she is an abomination in the sight of God. And if that is an abomination in the sight of God, it is an abomination in the Christian’s eye. We don’t favor it. And to show how the world love sin and love the sinner, all the Government leaders and the whole of the country rated it up. God is going to burn it! And we are against it with all our hearts and all our soul.

That woman wore a high-heeled shoes, she could have touched one of those stars. Pulled her clothes and showed her legs with, I would say, half her underwear, and she won. My brother, if that doesn’t prove that we are living in Sodom, I want to know what will. It goes to show the amount of Sodomites around us. And these filthy Sodomites appreciate that. The Presidents and Prime Ministers have Sodomites spirits on them, and the people of this country have Sodomite spirits on them in order to appreciate that so much, and the world have Sodomite devils upon them, and God is going to burn it with fire and brimstone. It was cursed already by the prophet Elijah. I hope that none of you young girls are admiring that and thinking that you want to be a “Miss Universe”. It’s death! That isn’t anything to admire. It’s something to scorn. I scorn a woman like that, and you will see that they destroy that woman’s soul. They kill that poor young woman. Somebody was crying on the radio of how she made “Miss Universe”. Boy, I couldn’t take it, I shut the radio off. I said, “if only you know what you did to your daughter?” You taught her to strip herself before the entire world. How many people saw her on television, and how many men lusted after her. She is going to answer on the Day of Judgment for adultery and fornication. They damned that poor young woman’s soul. She doesn’t know better. No. It’s the parents who brought her up like that. It’s sickening! Christians don’t appreciate that. Christians don’t admire something like that.

Yes, on the high-heeled shoes. Brother Branham condemned high-heel shoes. High-heeled shoes is of the devil. They made a heresy on that.  Brother Branham explained  a certain dream of a woman who said that she could show him how she can walk this narrow road with a high-heeled shoe.  She fell into a dark chasm. 

YOU CAN'T WALK THAT HIGHWAY WITH THAT

33-5    Now, I was saying that a person has to come by these three steps to be able to walk that highway. Well, there was a lady come by, had on a great big pair like they wear today, spike-heeled shoes. And she come by and I said, "Wait a minute, sister. You can't walk that highway with that." And I said, "You can't do that." And she said, "Aw." She said, looked around at the rest of the women and said, "Don't believe him; he's a madman. Don't believe him. I'll show you I can be justified, sanctified, and filled with the Holy Ghost and still walk that."…I just let her go, couldn't do no more about it, couldn't stop her. And she jumped up on the highway, she looked back at the sisters and said, "See, I told you." She started to run up... You know what the Bible said in Isaiah, 5th chapter, said they'd have outstretched necks (they have to; they're pitched over. See?), mincing as (have to, have to twist)--mincing as they go, making a tinkling with their heels (See?), the daughters of Zion in the last days. And she started up that highway just as hard as she could run, and after while the road got narrower and narrower. She started reeling, mincing like that, and off she went. And mother said, "The horriblest screams that I ever heard in my life was that woman falling into those flames and smoke, going down, down like that." Said I turned around and said, "See?" She just obeyed everything but one Word (See?), everything but one Word. (Rising of the Sun 65-0418M).

“Thunders” people today want to show us that they could preach “thunders” and wear high-heeled shoes.   They are going to fall into a dark chasm.  False thunders brought out all those heresies.  That narrow road is the road to life. “Straight is the gate, narrow is the way that leadeth to life.” And she fell over into that smoke and flames and was lost. You cannot get to heaven in a high-heeled shoe. And I say that the people in the message need to stamp out all of this nonsense. That shoes could be an inch, it could be a half-inch, and if it is narrowing down and tapering down, it is going to cause you to twist. Is that right? [Congregation says, “Amen!”] And the women ought to know better than that. And if a woman is honest in her conscience, even though she wears a horseshoe and it is causing her to walk in a certain way, she will try to change it. She wouldn’t wait for the minister to say, “Take off the high-heeled shoe.” It could be half inch, it could be one inch, and that thing is tapered down and built in a certain way, it is going to cause you to walk in a wrong way. It is going to cause you to walk in a funny way. Yes. I say away with all the high-heeled shoes. Quit the thing. You cannot get to heaven in those high-heeled shoes.

YOU PUT A STUMBLING BLOCK IN THE OTHER'S WAY

E-69    You put a stumbling block in the other's way. See you women sometimes… out there on the street, walking around with heels about that high, mincing down the street. (Thy seed shall possess gate. 62-0121M).

Brothers and sisters, we come to a close of this little message here tonight, and I proved to you three heresies on the holiness message and how they pervert it. I will continue, and I will bring from the prophets words on television and all that goes with it, to show you that they have destroyed the holiness message by their false thunders in every aspect, and they have their own teachings, they have false thunders and a corrupted holiness message. That is not the original message. It’s not the original standard. It’s a second generation that is following the false anointed ones today. That is where the followers of Malachi 4 are sitting, and Brother Branham dreamt that dream where they were behind ten inches thick bars, and that is where they are sitting today. God’s children are wrapped up in all these assemblies. God’s children, they are behind these bars, and they are awaiting their deliverance, and that deliverance will come. The only thing to bring deliverance is an outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

When God brings anybody this way, they are chosen and they are elected of God. It is not an easy thing to come and say that I belong to this assembly friend. You have to cross over many scarecrows, and you have to start all over in your Christian life. You have to correct certain things in your home. You have to correct certain things in your dressing, and that is what makes it hard. So now any man could say this is the truth, but let me tell you something friend; do you know why you see people come and they swear that this is the truth, and you don’t see them again? When they see the price that they have to pay, and the cost of this thing, they go home and count the cost, and they realize that “I can’t pay the price. I’d better stay right in my assembly where I could get the thing for a penny, but down at Bethel it’s costing a dollar, so I will stay with the penny assembly.” You stay with the penny assembly and you’re going through the tribulation friend. You’d better pay the price. Brother, we are paying the price tonight. On a Monday night, here we are for about two to three hours. We are paying the price.

Your time is not wasted. My time is not wasted up here. Come out to church brethren. Come out on your service days; listen to the Word of God. You’ve got to take shape. Come out brothers and sisters. Continue to pray. Seek the face of the Lord children. Let the presence of the Lord bathe you. It takes God to hold you in such an hour. You stay away from service for just a couple days; you’ll see how natural you start feeling. Go down to the towns a little bit and you’ll get a headache, you start lusting after women as men there, all kinds of things start happening. We don’t want to go that way friend. We want to be constantly in the Spirit, constantly in His presence. I’m telling you, you’ve got to draw closer to the Lord brethren, and you ought to be thankful for the grace that God has given to you. You could have been caught up in one of those assemblies, under some of those corrupted preachers. And some of you were. Some of you were corrupted. Some of you were under some of those preachers, but the grace of God brought you out. So let us come and give Him thanks then, give Him praise, come in here and pray. Give the Lord thanks for what He has done. Don’t take it for granted friends. We will continue on this message. I am not done as yet, but a next night.

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THE MESSAGE OF HOLINESS IS UNCHANGEABLE

Thank you for your wonderful Presence, your wonderful Spirit.  In your Presence we are strong.  In your Presence is where our souls become humble.  Fed with the Bread of Life that came down from Heaven.  In your Presence, that is where we will be throughout Eternity.   Let your great Spirit and Presence come within our souls beyond measure.   It is our joy, it is our peace, it is our satisfaction.   Come Lord.   Bless the Words of Life this morning.   Bless your people.   Let the Word become Life into the hearts, minds and souls of your children, wherever it may go.   Prosper It.   Let it bring forth much fruits.   May many souls find deliverance in such a dark and dismal hour.  Darkness has covered the Earth, gross darkness the people. We thank God that you have a Light shining, and we are walking in that Light.   Bless and undertake for your people.   Bless and undertake for your Servant.  Look down upon us.    Give me the right words, and help your people to hear the words aright, for in hearing there is Life, in understanding there is Life.    As the wise man said, “In all thy getting, get understanding.”   And Lord we pray that you will open up the understanding of your people to the spirit of anti-christ and to the Spirit of Christ.   For this reason the Seals were opened. Without such Revelation we would go through the Tribulation. 

We humbly thank you that we have such a Revelation today, such preachers, such men to handle the Words of Life. Bless your people that are fasting and praying, and waiting on your Spirit.    I don’t know where I can find the like, that will come and purge their souls for these couple days, once a month, even before they take the Lord’s Supper.   Bless them all and all under the sound of my voice.  May they find Eternal Life.   Above all things, let us dwell in the New World together.    Bless your people in a special way Lord, and bless the Words of Life.   Let the same sweet Spirit flow through the congregation, even unto the joints and marrow, into every fiber of the soul, bringing Eternal Life to your children.   All these blessings we ask in thy Name, the Name of thy Son, Jesus Christ.    Look down upon your children. Thank you Lord for Calvary.   Thank you for calling us in such a dark and dismal hour.  Thank you very much for salvation.  Lift your hands to Him children.   Thank Him for calling us.   [Congregation rejoices].   Thank You Lord.  Thank Him for Life, the Revealed Word of God, the mighty Ministry He sent on Earth, through Malachi 4.   That was not sufficient, He Himself came, the Son of Man revealed.    The Words of Life brought unto us.    We humbly thank you. We give you the praises, the honor, the glory, in the Name of Jesus Christ.    And the congregation say... [Congregation says “Amen!”]    Amen.

“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;

 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.

For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen,

being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and

Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: 

Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. (Romans 1:18-32).

May the Lord add a blessing to the reading of His Holy Words. You may be seated. Our scripture reading was taken from Romans1: 18-31.

We have another message here this afternoon, on “The Message of Holiness Is Unchangeable.” I noticed in the scriptures, that when the Lord came in His first coming, there were a lot of changes from the Old Testament to the New Testament. I noticed that there were many laws in the Old Testament that the people had to abide by: ceremonial laws, sabbatical laws, laws of inheritance, laws of the feast days, and we could go on telling you about the different kinds of laws that existed in the Old Testament. There was a very important section of the law, which was called the moral law, which was the holiness law. And I noticed that in the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, some of these laws, like

the sabbatical laws, laws of inheritance, laws that governed slaves, laws that governed masters; I noticed that they  were changed, but if you noticed in the

Scripture  that  the  moral  law of God of the Old Testament never changed.

The moral law of God was unchangeable, therefore the moral law of God was incorporated into the New Testament. Noticing that the sabbatical law had been changed or magnified. I noticed, in the Ten Commandments, that thou shall not commit adultery, thou shall not steal, thou shall not kill, thou shall not covet and the other laws that goes with it, were retained in the New Testament, but notice that that fourth commandment on the sabbatical law, there were many sabbaths in the Old Testament; there was a sabbatical year, there was a sabbath for the land, there was a sabbath day, which was the Saturday, and every seven years was a sabbath for the land, you could not plant on the seventh year. But bypassing all of those things, if you search your scriptures properly you’re going to see that the moral law of God never changed. It was magnified, it was made harder, while the other laws were spiritualized, but these remained as is, and it became even harder. So now all those laws in the Old Testament about going with a beast and man going with man, women going with women and all the corruption of sexual immoralities that was written against by Moses, like in Deuteronomy 23, like in the book of Leviticus, they were never altered, even because the law came in that sin might appear to be sin. Sin, in that respect of the moral law, existed before the law and we could trace it right back to the Garden of Eden. It was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and if you notice what came out of that tree was sexual immoralities, and the moral law surrounds sexual immorality, and there was little or no change, and what ever was changed, it was magnified, but the natural law remained concerning these vices that came out of that tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and that is where the problem of the human race is.

The problem of the human race, all that lived, all that died, and all that live today, is hooked-up in that tree of immorality. Romans 1 gave us a wonderful description of sexual immoralities. The holiness laws of God are recorded right here in the pages of the Bible, Romans 1: 18-32, and it tells you that there is a judgment that will come upon all that will practice such unholiness. This holiness of God that is recorded in the pages of the Bible, preached unto us by the apostles and prophets, and God sending a prophet today by the name of Elijah to remind us of these holiness standards of God from Genesis to Revelation, cannot be altered, cannot be changed, cannot be modified, because this is the thing that separated God and man in the Garden of Eden. Sin, unholiness, sexual immoralities, perversion, hybridization, these are the things that separated man from God in the garden of Eden, and it is plainly recorded in the book of Romans, how God destroyed mankind throughout the generations, since the beginning of the world, and how corrupted that man became in every generation, when they reached the heights of sexual immoralities, then the wrath of God was revealed from heaven against

all ungodliness and against all unrighteousness of men who hold the Truth in unrighteousness. They held the Truth in unrighteousness. That simply means that after knowing the Truth by a messenger, by a prophet, by a preacher, after knowing the Truth, they still went ahead and was evil, wicked and unrighteous, and willfully put God out of there minds. It’s a beautiful chapter and I know that I cannot justify all those scriptures here this afternoon, but it is wonderful and beautiful to think of how this was laid out by the apostle Paul, "because that which may be known of God is manifest in them for God hath shown it unto them.” They were not ignorant people. These are not people that don’t know right and wrong. These are people that know right and wrong, and in every way God had revealed Himself to them through nature, through the creation, through the birds, through the beasts, through the seas, through the skies, through the stars the moon and the sun. Through these things. Even though some could not read or write, they knew that God existed and that He is a holy God. They will be judged: To whom much is given, much will be required of him. What about this generation, where in every home almost, there is a Bible?

Time will fail to really deal with this chapter. But after they knowing truth, turn down that truth and wanted to go their own way, the Bible said: and the Lord gave them up to reprobate minds to do those things which are not convenient; men with men, women with women, working that which is unseemly. Man came to the fullness of beastly passions, expressed among their own selves, and when we see those things upon the face of the earth, it shows that the wrath of God is revealed from heaven.

You and I are living in a generation like that! The wickedness that is in man’s heart, we have surpassed the sins and the sexual immoralities of every generation that ever lived upon the face of the earth, that the prophecies that are being fulfilled today are both the days of Noah and the days of Sodom and Gomorrah combined together. The wickedness in this world today is heaped up after six thousand years. You are talking about unholiness and unrighteousness having come to its maturity, to its perfection, heaped up to the skies. It is a stink in the nostrils of God, and God cannot hold back His judgment. It is only the Blood of Jesus Christ on that altar that is holding back the wrath of God. But even though His blood is there, I want you to know that the wrath of God is already revealed from heaven. The mighty prophet Elijah threw up that stone in the air at a certain time in his ministry and he said, “Judgment, Judgment, Judgment”. There came a whirlwind from heaven, and blew off the tops of trees, and cut the stones out of the mountain, and that whirlwind went down into Alaska and almost sunk Alaska; and that tremor went throughout the world. It was a sign and a warning to mankind of what God is about ready to do to this generation: six billion people upon the face of the earth. And just like when God came down, He bargained with Abraham, and He said, “If you can find ten righteous people in Sodom and Gomorrah, I will save this city for that ten.” Beloved, and if God could not find that number in those cities over there, I tell you, with the sins that are heaped up to the skies today, I doubt He could find ten in a city today. Of all the millions of cities in the world, I wonder if He could find ten in every city?

The sins of this world are terrible; and you as Christians, as you walk the streets, if you are comfortable in seeing and hearing and looking at the condition of people; and worse again if you can mix right among them and be comfortable, something is wrong with your salvation. Definitely wrong! The sins of this world are supposed to vex our souls as it vexed the righteous soul of Lot in Sodom. It must not be a put-on friend, it must be a deep cry and a sigh and an agony, a hatred and a bitterness for the wickedness of mankind: their songs, their dressings, their adultery, their fornication, their pride, their boastfulness, it ought to trouble our souls. And when it does, it shows that we are going out of Sodom; it shows that the angels of God are around us; it shows that we are leaving this place, and we would not burn with the rest of the world. How that ought to encourage our hearts. But if you are comfortable, may your souls be troubled this morning. It’s a horrible, horrible time! We live amongst a perverted people. We live in an age and a day where everything is perverted. Everything is perverted: men are perverted, women are perverted, children are perverted, nature itself is perverted. They hybrid from trees, to animals, to birds, to fishes. This was Satan’s plan and intention from Genesis, when he started his hybridization program, and it got God angry, and He brought judgment for that one hybridization in the Garden of Eden, when beast hybrid its seed with the human race. It angered God and He threw Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden.

Beloved can you imagine the anger in God’s soul today, when He looks down and sees everything on earth perverted and hybridized. Nothing is natural any more. As Christians walk the earth, and look, and hear the news, look at people on the streets, everything is just hybridized, perverted. Can you be comfortable in a place like this? [Congregation says, “No!”] Cannot be comfortable friend. Terrible world we are living in. The spirits of the Devil, the spirits of perversion, the spirit of sexual immorality, the spirit of perverting the Word of God, perverting Christian people, the spirit of perverting churches, they are also here. Nothing is left. Where can you go and find a church that is not perverted, outside of a handful of people? Where can you find preachers that are not perverted? All these things that we are seeing upon the face of the earth are the judgments of Almighty God for the rejection of Malachi 4. Everything that you hear on the television, on the radio and on the evangelical field today in a way of perversion: Sodomites handling the Word of God, Lesbians behind the pulpit; from Romans 1, they’re the curses of Almighty God, where God gave them up to reprobate minds because they never appreciated the truth that God sent to them. Malachi 4, William Branham, God’s servant and prophet, the last and seventh church age messenger, went around the world seven times, and God sent a gift of divine healing to prove that he was a living God in the midst of man. They are without excuse. “Thou art inexcusable O man whosoever thou art that judgest.” When a preacher comes up to the pulpit, he is in the place of a judge. And that word there, “Judge,” is speaking of a preacher that comes up behind the pulpit. “Thou art inexcusable O man whosoever thou art that judgest.”

God sent a holiness message into the world today by His prophet, and if these people are inexcusable who heard the prophet once or twice and seen the power of God demonstrated, what about us who sat under this message and have the tapes and have the books, know the inside and the outside of this holiness message, and will bypass, and will go back to the television and to the sports field, live loose, young people will run out in fornication and adultery, men will commit adultery, women adultery, after you sit under the message of the hour? I want to tell you, “To whom much is given, much will be required of him.” It is better you had not known the truth, the scripture said, than after knowing it to be entangled again with the yoke of bondage. And “he that knoweth to do good and doeth it not shall be beaten with many stripes.” There are great judgments coming upon the followers of this message that search the pages of the message of William Branham and listen to the tapes, and know the Bible and know about this holiness message, and will turn down that message and pervert it and modify it and change it, and preachers also changing that message and teaching men to do the same thing. “Few there be that find it.” When you look at it from this angle, it narrows down. Not everyone that saith, “Prophet, prophet, message, message, Lord, Lord” shall enter the kingdom of God, but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Not everything that follows this message is Bride. There is a mix-multitude following this message, and one of the great deceptions of the preachers today, and the people that follow this message, is that they address this mix-multitude as “the Bride”. The Bride is in the mix-multitude, and the Bride will adhere to the holiness message of God, she will follow every letter.

We are that generation that has come to this age of Sodom and Gomorrah where all things are perverted: man and woman, beast and nature itself; and this generation is on God’s agenda to be burnt by fire. “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. But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings…” (Malachi 4:2). And we ought to thank God today that we fear the Name of the Lord, for “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom” (Psalms 111:10). When you start fearing the Lord, you would do what is right, and you’ll respect Him. That’s not a fear of torment. When you respect, when you reverence him, when you adore what He did on Calvary, when you adore all His sacrifices for you and I, when you see the value of eternal life…That is why I don’t beat you with a big stick here. Sometimes I don’t preach on these kinds of holiness of dressing or nothing for years. Now, but all that I try to show you is the importance of life, and if you could see the importance of life, all these holiness things will fall in place. And we have something here going my beloved, and that is, we’re a people that love life. Eternal life and its importance was preached to us for many years. And the question might be asked, “How do you as a pastor have all these hundreds of people living right and doing right, and acting right, and have them here on Saturday and Sunday of every month fasting and praying, and if you will call them again, they will come again?” My beloved, the love for eternal life that is in my bosom, I have preached it unto God’s people and they have caught the vision, and after catching the vision of eternal life then the holiness standards will take care of itself. And if you don’t love life, you will go out and live like a dog. If you don’t love life and appreciate this, you will be thinking of committing adultery, fornication, living as a sex pervert. It goes to show that you did not hear the Words of life. You did not appreciate what Christ did for you on Calvary. It’s a horrible thing to despise the blood of Jesus Christ. They that despise Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses, and you have a sorer punishment coming according to Hebrews 10:28-29. It’s a terrible thing friend. The people that follow this message worldwide, they have a tiger by the tail. They know what is right and they know what is wrong, but because of the tides of the age; the spiritual tides. Listen to me friend, because of the spirits that are loosed in Sodom, the powerful anointing of the devil, when these spirits butt up at message believers, they find the easy way out. They don’t want to pay the price to stand up against these perversions. They don’t want to pay the price to live clean. They don’t want to bear the pains, but they want eternal life; and preachers came under that cowardly act, believers came under that cowardly act.

This holiness message of William Branham that he sent to us is in direct conflict with the vices of Sodom and Gomorrah, and there is a handful of people that are supposed to be representing this holiness message against the whole world of perverts, sin cursed people, that are established in their wickedness, pride and self. It’s a great challenge. The challenge is too great. But God sent a man before us. As one human being he faced the whole world of Sodom and Gomorrah. He faced the whole world of perversions. He opposed every scientist. He opposed every preacher. He opposed every church. He opposed men and women as one human being, reading the Bible and bringing forth a holiness message. That is heroism. Why shouldn’t we follow a prophet like that? Why shouldn’t we follow a message like that? Why shouldn’t we come under that kind of an anointing as preachers of this message? We ought to have that influence from the tapes. We ought to have that influence from the message. We ought to have that influence falling upon every man, every woman, every boy and every girl, because he did that by a certain Spirit, and the Spirit that he did that by was the Eagle’s anointing: God’s power to conquer. There was a power that God sent in every age to conquer, and the Spirit to conquer in this hour is the Eagle’s anointing. You’ve got to come under that anointing of the Spirit.

“Why is this holiness message unchangeable preacher? Remind us again.” Beloved this holiness message is unchangeable because it is the moral law of God that cannot be altered. It is to prepare the Bride in the end-time to see the second coming of Jesus Christ, for “without holiness no man shall see the Lord”.

And in this Sodom age, in this age of perversion, in this age of wickedness, in this age of violence, in this age of fear, in such a time, the Son of man is revealed. If you are a Sodomite, you cannot see the revealing of the son of man. If you are a pervert and you want to live like that, if you are a perverted preacher, perverted message follower, perverted disciple, perverted man, perverted woman, under the spirit and the anointing of Sodom and Gomorrah, it is a total impossibility to have a revelation of the son of man. “He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.”  (1 John 5:12). “Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.” (John 6:53). And  the Lord will only reveal himself as the son of man unto those that accept the holiness message, believe that holiness message, and have decided in their hearts to contend for that message, and like I said, you don’t have to be perfect to get that revelation, and you don’t have to be faultless to receive that revelation, but God looketh upon the heart of man. He is looking at what you are aiming at. He is looking at what your purpose is; and if your purpose is, “I have accepted that holiness message. Lord, give me the grace to fulfill every standard to the letter?” The minute you did that my friend, and you are truly sincere about that, the Lord could give you a revelation of the son of man right then, and a lot of faults could still be hanging on, and a lot of things from Sodom could still be hanging on in your life. So don’t get me wrong, I am not saying that you’ve got to become faultless or perfect. I am saying that you just got to submit to God, submit to His message, and submit to the will of God, and you come like Jesus, “Not my will but thine be done”. You surrender your will, yet you might be able to see many things hanging-on on you, and you hate them, you don’t want them there; but you could be born again by a revelation of the Son of man. That’s the dividing line. But there are people that are not willing to accept that holiness message, because they are like the children of Israel that reached to Kadesh Barnea, and when they saw the challenge that awaited them in the promise land, the cowardly way was that, “We are not able to take the land.” I am saying that we are more than able to take the land. I say, we are more than able to fulfill the requirements of God, because it is not in our strength, it is in His strength. All that He wants is an open heart, an open mind, and open souls submitted to Him, and He will give you the grace to fulfill every iota of it. In any case, we are not resting upon our righteousness, but His, and Christ is our righteousness. The only kind of preacher today, that will stand against the things of Sodom and Gomorrah, are the ones that are described by Brother Branham. He knew the price.

Let me stop preaching for a minute. If you would go in the rapture there is a price to pay. You will have to make up your mind to stand up against every perversion of Sodom and Gomorrah and not be perverted yourself, and not come under those spirits of Sodom and Gomorrah, and be anointed by those spirits of Sodom and Gomorrah. If you grow weak and fall, rise and shine again. Anything that comes under the anointing of this age of perversion and wicked spirits of Sodom and Gomorrah that are loosed from the days of Noah and the days of Sodom and Gomorrah, and don’t try to get rid of that from your life, and settle down with it instead, you are going through the tribulation for a purging. The tribulation is the purging of the saints. I say, pay the price now. There are many that follow this message that are going through the tribulation, because their minds are not made up to pay the price. The preachers minds are not made up to stand up against the forces of the enemy in Sodom, and if the preachers minds are not made up to stand up for holiness and righteousness and denounce Sodom and Gomorrah in the lives of the people and their churches, they are going to lead them through the tribulation, and you cannot send out a better influence. Let me start quoting, there are a lot of quotations. Alright.

WE NEED MEN WITH BRASS KNOCKS TO PREACH THE GOSPEL

E-45    And  then  all  the holiness  in  the Bible  that's  been  preached and what

you've been taught, you still, you women strip yourselves and go half naked.

You men do just as contrary. You set around, let your wife act like that, and dress like that, and say nothing about it. Well, you puppet. How would you ever make a preacher? How would you make a deacon? If you can't control your own house, what are you going to do in the house of God? That's the reason the house of God's in the shape it's in today. We need men with brass knucks to preach the Gospel, to uncover sin and show where it's at, not some little petty thing. (Door.to.the.heart 58-0302).

That's the kind of a preacher it takes to stand up against this age of Sodom and Gomorrah and all the spirits. If you do not have a man like that behind the pulpit, you are going through the tribulation. If you are sitting under a pastor, under a minister, belong to some church where that preacher is not constantly calling out sin and exposing Sodom and Gomorrah, those spirits will sit right on you. You want preachers with brass knuckles that would not compromise with Sodom and Gomorrah in the least. Where is the problem today? The problem is that we are lacking those kinds of preachers behind the pulpit. Right in this message today, that is why the message believers are in that condition, because we do not have these kinds of men preaching the Gospel.

WE NEED PREACHERS THAT WON’T HOLD BACK ON THOSE THINGS

E-59    What we need today is men. We need Gospel preachers. And any preacher that'll stand in the pulpit and hold back on those things, I got little respect of him being called of God. Right. A man that's ashamed to stand in the pulpit and tell the God's truth, when he knows it's an immoral thing for a woman to cut her hair.  A man's got a right to leave his wife and give her a divorce when she cuts her hair. The Bible said so. Who's the head of the woman? Her husband. And the Bible said, "If a woman cuts her hair she dishonors her head." No dishonorable woman should be lived with. (Seal.of.God  61-0216).

IT'S WRONG FOR YOU NOT TO BE THE HUSBAND OF YOUR HOUSE

76 Do you know It's wrong for you not to be the husband of your house, your wife get a little temper spell and kick you out the door, and you say, "Yes, bless your heart, honey, I'll come right back"? How can you be a tender at the house of God when you can't even control your own house? That's exactly right. Do you know, sister, that your husband is not only your husband, but he is your ruler? God said so. Because that the husband was not deceived, the woman was deceived. (Position.in.Christ  60-0522m).

That's your problem right today in the message. The same problem that you had in the last move of God, Pentecost had after 1906, that they could not receive Brother Branham's message when it came, is the same problem today among the followers of Malachi 4. You have a bunch of compromising preachers behind the pulpit. Yes. You have a bunch of sissified preachers behind the pulpit. You have men that are not fully men of God. Some of them are not called and those who are called are not anointed for the job. They are not born again, and they don't have the Holy Spirit, many of them. Now if you enter the pulpit with a carnal nature, like I said, evil nature that was not purged from Sodom and Gomorrah, then you are perverted, you are a product of perverted Sodom and Gomorrah. How can a perverted spirit and a perverted man handle the Word of God and not hybrid it. No wonder why you don't understand the holiness message. No wonder why they don't understand the ABC's, even because their spirits are perverted. Yes. Jesus spoke of these creatures and He said, “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits.” And I don't care what man handles this message of the hour, he is known by his fruits. Let us see what he is doing with the holiness message. That is why I cannot agree with these “thunders” that came up after 1973. The “thunders” that came up after 1973 did more to destroy the holiness message than any other preacher upon the earth, and they are known by their fruits. If that was the thunders, it would bring the people right up to a holy standard. It will brighten them right up and cause them to establish the holiness message in their lives, because without holiness no man shall see the Lord. But these false thunders that arose in 1973, destroyed the holiness message. Yes. There was a downward trend, even since the days of Brother Branham, but people were trying to adhere to the holiness message. But from the time those “thunders” came in, it took a greater downward trend, and over the years, they have almost destroyed all the holiness standards of the message of Brother Branham. Is that God? It’s of the Devil!

People through those false thunders became so heavenly minded that they were off no earthly value, and any time a Christian becomes so heavenly minded that they are of no earthly value, they are going to Hell and through the tribulation. Those “thunders” took them up unto a certain height of pride, and a certain dimension, that all that the people were hearing, and all that the preachers were preaching was “thunders, thunders, thunders, thunders, thunders.” Yes, and they thought that they were so spiritual that they could change, they could modify and they could pervert the holiness message of Brother Branham, and that is what started over there in New York. Yes! The first man that claimed the thunders, he started to alter the holiness message. I know his followers don't like that and all you “thunders” preachers that will listen to these tapes and will read this book, don't like that, but that's the truth. That's the truth of God's Word. I am a witness to that, and we have witnesses right here. People practiced this holiness message to the letter in this Country under my preaching and under my inspiration until those “thunders” came in, and when those false thunders came into this Country, it swelled the people's head, it blew their heads out of context, yes, and all that they think they had to rely upon was “the thunders, the thunders, the thunders, the thunders”, and soon after, they started to change and pervert and get rid of the holiness standards from the Church.  Those that were trying to hold up the holiness standard, they labeled them as legalists, and that was my name, and that was my accusation, from many of those false prophets, that I am a legalist.   But I want to tell you something, friend, I held on to my legalism and I am yet standing with the Word of God, and you were not “legalistic” and you “bit the dust.”  You became an adulterer, a fornicator, you followed false prophets, you followed a resurrection doctrine, and you followed all kinds of deceptions, and some of them even closed their churches for four to five years.   Those are the same ones that brand me as a legalist. If legalism will carry the Church down the road, then give us legalism. [Congregation says, “Amen!”] You brand the Holiness Message as “legalism”, you hypocrite!   You brand the true preachers of God as legalists, even because whilst I was among them they could not have done the wrong things. I would call out the preacher’s wife, call out sisters, call out the brethren, and I would establish the Message of Brother Branham, and I would call white, white, and black, black.   Yes sir.   My legalism held me up to this hour after thirty-four to thirty-five years, and you claimed that you were liberating the women, and you were very liberal.   You liberated them so much till you led them into adultery, led them into fornication, and led them away from the Word of God, you hypocrite!   The judgments of God are upon you, after you have judged God’s servants that tried to stand up for this Holiness Message.

I am saying as a witness, that after 1973, when those thunders came in, they perverted the Holiness Message.    That is why all these so-called thunders that started in New York and spread around the world is of the Devil!    I make no apology.   And I am still asking the preachers that preach the “thunders” today; I am asking them, “Where did you get your thunders from, after ten years of silence?” They will have to admit, if they trace back their genealogy, they will have to trace it back to New York, or trace it back to some false prophet as an eighth messenger.  They could not get that out of Brother Branham’s Message because it was not Brother Branham’s message. It is of the Devil! Anything that will change, anything that will transform the Holiness Message, is of the Devil!  And if the law of the Medes and the Persians changeth not and is not altered (and that is with the boast of man), I am saying that the Words, of the Almighty God and His Son Jesus Christ altereth not, and it is not changed, neither from the Old Testament to the New Testament, the Holiness Message is not altered, and there isn’t a man big enough to alter that without going to Hell. Listen to me, our example is not a prophet’s wife, our example is not a prophet’s daughter, our example is not a prophet’s son, but our example is the prophet.   “Take for an example the prophets that have spoken to you in the name of the Lord.”   That is where our example is. I don’t care what any high spiritual man does. I don’t care what the prophet’s son does, or what the prophet’s daughter, or what the prophet’s wife does, or what some man that was close to the prophet does, I am going to follow what he himself taught, and he taught modest dressing and loose dress for the sisters.   That is what he taught.   I believe that.   [Congregation says, “Amen!”]  We believe that.   Yes.   Any man that changes that is going to Hell.    Anybody that alters the Holiness Message is going to Hell.    I don’t care who he is.

So these seven thunders heresies have changed the Holiness Message of God, and the Holiness Message was very simple: no adultery, no fornication, no homosexuality, no lesbianism, no sexual perverts, and no immoral dressing.   That is what we are dealing with. No immoral dressing, no high-heeled shoes, got to keep your home in order, no sports, no television, and a woman must keep her place and not voice her opinion on spiritual matters, and a man must hold his place as a man.   The Holiness Message is very simple, very, very simple.  That is what we are dealing with.   And I am taking what people interpreted or modified, changed or perverted, and I am comparing it with what Brother Branham taught us, and it is going to come out right.

People have willfully closed their eyes. They have modified the message and they compromised. I will tell you how they compromised, how they changed, and how they modified it.   They changed it, they compromised it and they have modified it to fit the vices of Sodom and the styles of Sodom, even because they didn’t have the guts to stand up against the power of perversion in Sodom and Gomorrah. So they bend the Holiness Message to fit the vices of Sodom, the styles of Sodom and the music of Sodom. Galatians 1:8 said to curse them: “Though we or an angel come from Heaven and preach any other gospel, let him be accursed.” And I say, that that holds true for today, that anybody that changes this Messenger’s Message in the least, the curses of God are upon him. There is no man, no thunders, no great revelation, no great man that followed Brother Branham, is able to change this Message of the Hour.    You are not able to change the holiness standard.   Yes sir.   You better forget the food.   Keep your attention here on the Word of God.   We are talking about the things you have to fight against, friend, everyday in your life: in the school, on the job, on the street, on the radio, and sometimes in the church. Oh yes.   You have to fight.    Don’t you think you are going in this Rapture without a battle? You will have to fight. You will have to struggle. You will have to cut your appetite. You will have to put down you lust. You will have to put down your greedy appetite, be satisfied with one wife, one husband, yes, satisfied: “Godliness with contentment is great gain”.   Yes sir.   You will have to beat this body and bring it into subjection. You are called upon to mortify, not modify, but mortify the deeds of the body.   But what have the preachers in this Message done?  They have modified.    Brother Paul didn’t say modify, but mortify the deeds of the body.   Yes, but what have these corrupted preachers done?    It is not the people altogether, it is these preachers that are not called; the false anointed ones behind the pulpit today.   These wolves are behind the pulpit today. These creeps that came up. They are handling the Message today.   Yes.   And do you know how they keep the people in bondage, and how they cast a shadow on the real Men of God that try to hold up the holiness standards?    They cast a shadow by preaching a love gospel, and they say, “We should never criticize no group, we should never criticize any preacher, we should never criticize anybody, each one of us has weaknesses.” I am not talking about weaknesses, but I am talking about the corruption.  I am talking about the corruption of the Holiness Message. That is what I am talking about.  The “love gospel” tries to shield these adulterers; and scores and hundreds of these so-called thunder preachers lived in adultery and fornication.   They started falling by the scores, by the dozens, claiming to have a Bride’s Revival.   God shut their mouths. There is going to be a real Bride’s Revival.   It takes another outpouring of the Holy Spirit to bring a Bride’s Revival. Yes. This is the wickedness that the so-called thunders have done; they destroyed the Holiness Message.  Yes. Compromised on standards of holiness, compromised on doctrines, and called it weaknesses.   Adulterers and immoral preachers tried to handle the Message and brought up a reproach against the name of William Branham, and against the Message of the Hour. Yes. The prophet of God sweated it out to fight against that spirit, and you will have to do the same. Don’t you think you are waltzing in friend? No. You will have to fight against this perverted spirit from the bedroom come right back up to the street.   These are spirits that are loosed.  Don’t touch them and don’t let them anoint you, otherwise you will lose your soul in this hour. 

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HERETICAL ARTICLE NO.45

DOMINATING FEMALES SUBTLY HANDLING THE MESSAGE AND WORD

I hope you get what I am saying, children.   Friends, because these kinds of perverted men started to handle the Word of God and handle the Message without a born-again experience, yet in their evil nature, they passed on their ghosts to the people. The prophet of God said, “False prophets bring false word and produce false birth.” from: Ye Must Be Borned Again.    He said the people take on one another’s spirit instead of the Holy Spirit, that’s on: Spirit Speaks Through the Prophet.  And he said that they take on the ghost, and millions of people go up and are possessed of demons, when they follow these kinds of men.  You’d better thank God for clean preachers today.   You’d better thank God for God-called men that uphold this Holiness Message and have not passed on their spirits and their ghosts to you, my friend, but they have passed on the Holy Ghost. They have passed on the Word of God. And what can a corrupt preacher produce more than corruption? According to Matthew 7, a corrupt tree cannot bring forth good fruit.   And if people sit under these corrupt preachers, all that they can bear are corrupt fruits.  That is all they would produce.  They produced corrupt fruits, they produced hybrid Christians.  Yes. They produced compromising men, compromising women. They produced dominating females.  That’s the kind of a congregation and that’s the kind of a home that such preachers will produce. Yes.  They will produce dominating females.   They will produce a congregation that will have the same spirit. They will dress in a certain way. They will have contentions and strife.

Dominating female, let us get that.    I’ll stop for a moment to explain what I am saying.   A dominating spirit on a sister, a wife or woman, married or unmarried, whoever she is, is a spirit of Sodom and Gomorrah, because Sodom, and in this Sodom Age are where the spirits of people are perverted. It is the Age of perversion.   This is that Age of perversion.   So now, a dominating female is just not a common thing. If you cannot submit your spirit over to your husband and you know that you have a dominating spirit, and you are a dominating female, whether you are single or married, and you have a man-like attitude that want your way and you are self-willed, and you are a dominating female, you cannot settle anything in low tones, you need to get rid of that.   That is a perversion of Satan in Sodom.   You are under the anointing of the Devil.   If you cannot be corrected without answering back as a woman, if you cannot let your husband make the decision without retaliating, without fussing, without kicking up, without butting up, if you are not obedient to your husband, if you are not obedient to your father, you have a perverted spirit. It’s a spirit of Sodom. You have got to get rid of it, brethren. And we have the Grace of God here to help you. There are people that are willing to do differently but they don’t have a pastor to help them, because their pastor’s spirit is perverted to begin with, he needs help and he is ruling under his wife, he is ruling under his daughters. They cannot help the congregation. I quote quickly:

A DOMINATING FEMALE IS THE GREATEST CURSE IN THE WORLD

214-3 It is most worthy of note that the very name Thyatira means, "Dominating Female."…Now a dominating female is the greatest curse in the world…” Unquote. Who wants to be the greatest curse in the world? Nobody. But there are spirits of Sodom that perverts people. “…Paul said, "I suffer not a woman to teach or to USURP authority." From the Garden of Eden onward, woman has constantly and successfully tried to take control over the man, and right today it is a woman's world with the goddess of America being a naked female…Now a woman is not meant to have an iron disposition. She is, according to the Holy Scripture, to be submissive to the male. That is commanded of her. Woman who is truly female, all female, will be of that disposition. Not a door mat. No real male makes a female a door mat. But she will want to be under authority and not rule over the male, for he is the head of the house. If she breaks that image that God made for her, she is perverted. Any male that lets the woman take authority has also broken that image and he is perverted. That is why a woman CANNOT WEAR THAT WHICH PERTAINETH TO A MAN OR CUT HER HAIR. She is never to wear garments that pertain to a male or cut her hair. When she does she is intruding into the male domain taking authority and perverting herself. And when a woman invades the pulpit which it is COMMANDED SHE MUST NOT DO, she shows what spirit she is of. Being a dominating female is antichrist and the seeds of the Roman Catholic Church are in her though she may deny this ever so vehemently. But when it COMES TO THE WORD, Let God be true and every man's word a lie. Amen. (Thyatirean.church.age  church.age.book chpt.6).

It’s a horrible thing, children, if you as a sister, in any part of the world, in any congregation or present here, if you are a young woman growing up, if you are a married woman and you see that your spirit cannot be submissive to the male, to your pastor that preaches the Word of God, recognizing the authority of a male, beloved, you have a hang-over from Sodom and Gomorrah. You cannot go in the Rapture with that. You cannot bawl out your husband, that when he says one word, you say five, you say ten.   You cannot talk back to you husband like a man.   The spirit that you are reflecting is a Sodom and Gomorrah spirit.   You are going through the Tribulation with that, and you will have to go through the Tribulation and then become purged of that perverted spirit in you.  Beg God children; we all came from Sodom and Gomorrah. We were born in that age, and you as women must know your spirits. You must know how humble you are, how submissive you are. You must know how bossy you are. You must know how rowdy you are. You must know how disobedient you are. We were born with that. We got into this and we grew up in an environment like that, but you must surrender that. You are not going to be re-made overnight, but friends, while I’m preaching the Word of God here, you can surrender that. But there are people that have those spirits upon them and are not willing to surrender it. Yes, and if you are not willing to surrender that, you are wasting time. You are going through the Tribulation as sure as the world.

I will tell you what, when you have a dominating spirit against your husband at home, you will manifest that towards your pastor, because this is a male spirit that is preaching the Word of God here, and he will mash your corn. He will do something contrary to your liking. He will speak about the children in a way that you don’t like, yes, your daughter, your son; then what happens is that you will be pulled in and swelled up like a bullfrog. Yes. You won’t want anymore counseling from him.  You won’t want to come back to his office again, because he is straight on line with the Word, and you have a masculine spirit in you that is resisting that male spirit.   It will run in conflict with your pastor.    And when you want to rule your husband at home and your pastor gives another advice, what will happen to you? It will run in conflict, because he will listen to the pastor and not you.  Now that is reflecting a Sodom spirit.   That is reflecting a perverted spirit.    This is the kind of a woman that wants her own bank account. She wants her own motorcar, she wants her own house. She wants to go wherever she wants, and come back when she wants, because she has a masculine spirit. Now do you see what is happening friend? And because of that masculine spirit, she would try to overrule the man, over the son of God; and then if he has a sissified spirit, then he is going to come under that spirit, he is going to be ruled over by that spirit.

What about if the pastor is not born again and he doesn’t have the Holy Spirit, and such a dominating spirit gets upon his wife? Do you see where the church has a problem? The church now has a problem because she would help him make decisions. She would tell him what to do. And then she would be a woman preacher in the bedroom and her husband would do her preaching on the pulpit.   Oh yes. She will have contentions in the church of God.   She would boss-up the deacons, she will bawl out the men. She would dominate the women in the church, because she is a curse. She is a dominating female. She would want to have the rule over the women. She would want to claim that she is more spiritual than anybody, and then the pastor will consider her that way. She will bring strife and contention to the pastor, and the pastor would do her preaching. When she has offences in the congregation with the other sisters, her husband would stand there as if he discerned something.   And then her daughters will fall under that same kind of a spirit. Oh yes.

I don’t believe neither that men should take advantage on their wives. And be constantly rebuking that woman day and night because she doesn’t answer back and because she is humble, and because she knows that she has to find her place. You should not let that woman be crying with hard words. You need to repent. Yes, balance off this thing. That is what is happening friend.  

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HERETICAL ARTICLE NO. 46

SISSIFIED MEN, WOMEN DOMINATED

Now this dominating spirit of women, as men in Sodom and Gomorrah, if you don’t have a back-bone, you can come under fear of your wife.  You can come under fear of her quarrelsome attitude, and you could cow down as a man.    And as long as you do that, you break your image and you are going through the Tribulation. And I am afraid that this is what has happened around the Message.  Perverted preachers have passed on their perverted ghosts to men, and it’s heresy.    It is of the Devil.    It was condemned by Malachi 4.  

HE’S SO SISIFIED HE DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT HE BELONGS TO

E-59    You say, "You're always talking about our women." All right, men, I'll comb you down once then. Let me tell you something. Any man that'll let his wife smoke cigarettes and wear shorts, I got little respect of him even being a man. He's so sissified he don't even know what he belongs to. He ain't a man. That's right. Oh, hallelujah. That's right. He's a poor excuse for a man. Oh, he may be six foot tall, weigh two hundred pound, but that don't look like a man to me. That shows who's boss around your house. She'll stomp her foot, "I'll you right now," and you'd bow down like you was a sick kitten. What's the matter? What we need today is men. (Seal.of.God  61-0216).

POOR, LITTLE, BONELESS, SISSIFIED  MEN AIN'T GOT THE HOLY GHOST

51    And you men, you poor, little, boneless, sissified things, you, that would

let your wife do such a thing as that, that shows what you're made out of. That's the reason you ain't got the Holy Ghost like you profess to have, or you'd have enough something about you to make her act like a lady, as long as she lived with you anyhow. Amen. That sounds old fashion, cutting. But that's what the church needs today is an old fashion, Holy Ghost washing out, and hanging out, and drying out, and ironing out by the Holy Spirit. Sure.   (Church.and.its.condition 56-0805).

This same thing has happened in the Message because of the false thunders.  They gave the women authority to voice their opinions on magazines, on the Internet, in the church and everywhere.  They have perverted the Message of the Hour, and it is contrary to Brother Branham’s teaching.  Brother Branham’s teaching is that the woman ought to sit with a veiled face in the house of God.   Now they have them voicing their opinions by the hundreds on the Internet.   Yes, voicing their opinions on church matters.  Voicing their opinions to their husbands, and their husbands doing their preaching. Yes. You are a poor excuse of a man. You are a boneless sissified thing. That is what our prophet said. Yes, and you want to claim to have the Holy Ghost? But you don’t have the Holy Ghost.    And there are men following this Message that supposed to be holding offices, for ten - twenty years, have their wives in pants, lipstick, bobbed hair, allow them to go to Carnival and then come back and claim to be following this Message.  You are a boneless hypocrite and you are going through the Tribulation.   You don’t have one speck of Holy Ghost. You are not born again of the Holy Spirit. Any man that allows that is a sissy to begin with, and he is no Christian. That is going on right now in the Message. There are men that have their wife in America working for six months; he has to go up there after six months to meet her. Children gone one way, marijuana smoking, young girls gone out with a big belly, and claim to be tenders in the house of God, claim to be deacons in the house of God. That is what the message has become. Is that contrary to what Brother Branham said? [Congregation says, “Amen!”] Anything contrary to what Brother Branham said is a heresy. That is why they cannot agree with Bethel. That is why I became a scapegoat, because I am standing for holiness and righteousness. Anything that will pervert Brother Branham’s message is of the Devil. Anything contrary to the holiness standard is heresy, and I say that this is heresy.

MEN, YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO BE THE HEAD OF THE HOUSE

113    Wonder if you women are willing to let your hair grow out? Wonder if you men have got enough courage to tell her that? You're supposed to be the

head of the house. She's the neck; she turns you. That's contrary.” (Just.one.more.time.Lord 63-0120e).

AFRAID TO STAND UP AND AFRAID OF HIS LITTLE WIFE

140    You never seen men that was afraid to stand up and afraid his little wife would leave him or something another, because he took the initiative. Well, men were men in them days. They spoke; they were men; they governed their house. They were the head of the house. But this fancy American.

(Just.one.more.time.Lord 63-0120e).

I’m talking about sissified men. That is what makes up the majority of the people that claim to be following this message. I am saying that their wives are in America living what she wants, and a man have to go up there once a year to see his wife, and he claims to be following this message. You’re a big hypocrite, and on top of that talk like a Pharisee, like if you have so much love divine, and like if you’re living this message. You’re a hypocrite! Oh yes.

BIG BUNCH OF SISSIES-SEEMS LIKE THERE’S NOT EVEN MEN ANYMORE

131    Long hair is a Nazarite vow. It showed that you've cut yourself from the world to obey the Word. Amen. Samson let his hair grow out for a Nazarite vow. Now, we realizing these things...And women dressing and acting and doing, and men permitting them to do it, big bunch of sissies... It seems like there's not even men anymore. You see men wearing pink shoes, and preachers on the pulpit, something like that. That's a disgrace. I like to see men again that's absolutely men. Looks like there's a power that drives them to do it; it's the devil and the pressure of this day. That's right. Sometime a man weighing two hundred pounds, and muscles like that, and not a ounce of man in him; acts like some big sissy out here. Let men be men. Let women be feminish; let them be ladies. When the Token's applied, they turn back to that. God made them different, and they are different. Men wants to look like women; women wants to look like men. Goes to show there's a perversion, a dark spirit hanging over, gross darkness over the people. It's the hour of the calling out. There's a darkness over Egypt before the calling out, then the token was applied. It's time for the church to get the Token or gross darkness is upon the people. Gross darkness... (Token  64-0208).

A POOR EXCUSE OF A MAN-LITTLE HOPES OF YOU EVEN BEING A MAN

E-89    A man who would let his wife go out and run around all night with some drunk, come in next morning, and say, "Yes, dearie, I hope you had a nice time," you're a poor excuse of a man. Any man'd let his wife get out there, and wear shorts, and these little old bathing suits, bikinis, or ever what it is, and lay out amongst these people. I got little hopes of you even being a man. That's right. Man's not measured by how much his biceps are, how big a muscles he is. He's measured by his character. That's exactly right. And character comes from the Word of God, and that alone. (An Absolute. 63-0127).

Oh yes. Do you think Brother Branham was some kind of a sweetbread preacher? You’re talking about speaking to America, friend. You’re talking

about speaking to all these Hollywood stars and Politicians. You’re talking about theologians. You’re talking about educated people. And wherever he went, he spoke just like that. And hear this. This might shock you.

YOUR HUSBAND’S A SISSIFIED SUBSTITUTE-A DISGRACE TO MANKIND

E-46    They put her out here to these public works. And during the time of the

war, right in New York City, more illegitimate children was born in the city of New York, of prostitute women, and their husbands overseas, than there was soldiers killed in the four years of war. When a woman gets out of the kitchen she's out of her place. Whether she's preaching the Gospel or whatever she's doing, she's out of her place…Paul speaking saying you obey your husband...But your husband's so pantywaist…”

Excuse the expression sisters. Unquote. I am trying to let you know how Brother Branham fought this perversion, and the labors he put into it. Would you think Brother Branham would say something like that? Yes. Quote.

“…such a sissified substitute as a Christian, he's a disgrace to mankind, let alone the Kingdom of God that'll let you do such a thing. Because he fears you more than he does God. You'll kick him out; he don't care if God kicks him out; he can go to the Presbyterians or the Methodists. But if you'd kick him out, Oh, my, what's going to happen?"... You goddess and you goddess lover, why

don't you get a backbone in you? (Mark of the beast 15/7/56).

Brothers and sisters, this is a terrible thing I am talking about. It’s the perversion of America, the perversion of Hollywood and the perversions of Sodom and Gomorrah Brother Branham was fighting against, and he had to fight against these perversions, and he said that a man like that, that would allow his wife to do such a thing is a disgrace to the kingdom of God, a disgrace even to mankind.

MEN DRESSED LIKE A WOMAN

110 They dress like a man; and there's men dress like a woman. Cut their hair the same…Only way you can tell one from another if you tell a dirty joke, a man will blush; a woman won't. (When.their.eyes.were.opened64-0212).

MEN WANTS TO LOOK LIKE WOMEN-SUCH A PERVERSION

E52 God doesn't change. His nature doesn't change. He made women different from men, and men different from women. He dressed them different and wants them to stay that way. Women wants to look like men, and men wants to looks like women. Oh, my. Such a perversion. (Voice.of.the.sign 64-0321e).

MEN WITH EARRING IN THEIR EAR

179    I was in New York, the other week…for miles was nothing but these teenage hoodlums with earrings in their ear, and ratted hair, legotards on, and girls with little bikinis, they called it, on like that, out on the street…Oh, what is

the matter with this country? It's because it's a sign of a moral-decayed, God-rejected nation. (World.again.falling.apart 63-1127).

MEN WALKING AROUND WITH SHORTS-BIG SISSIES

142 Your Sodom and Gomorrah god, that's come among you..."Even our little kids, beatle haircuts and bangs across their faces, little perverts starting out. Our women is gone, beyond redemption. Our men has become big sissies, walking around with little short pants on and acting like a girl, and hair hanging down their necks…We're Sodomites, and the fire and the wrath of God waits for us. (Trying.to.do.god.a.service 65-0718).

DON'T TRY TO BE A SISSY AND WEAR WOMEN'S CLOTHES

1167-Q-408 And I think he looks the "gaumiest" looking sight to see these men come down the road, young or old, with a pair of these bikinis on, ever what it is. I think that's the dirtiest looking sight I ever looked at. That's right. I think he don't know what side of the race he belongs on.. And you know what? I just heard a few months ago, the American Army's going to dress that way. Yep. The Army's coming out next year, or year after next, all in shorts. How big a bunch of sissies can we get? God made a man to look like a man, and act like a man, and dress like a man…And men, you dress like a man; don't try to be a sissy and wear women's clothes. And women, don't you try to be masculine and wear a man's clothes, because God don't want you to do it; the Bible condemns that. (Questions and answers  COD  64-0830E).

MEN WALKING UP AND DOWN THE YARDS HALF NAKED

It's demons that strips your clothes. There never was but one person in the Bible that ever tore their clothes off of them, and that was a man that was demon possessed. And he comes in a mild form today...It'll make you cooler if you'll take off your clothes. Men walking up and down the yards half naked, and women likewise. It's getting so there's no more respect than there was with dogs one for the other. What's the matter? I'm not trying to hurt you. I'm only trying to tell you it's demon possession and you're listening to enticing spirits that's telling you that's all right. But it's a lie. (Enticing spirits 55-0724).

A MAN WITH HIS WIFE’S UNDERCLOTHES ON

189    I like to see a man when he's a man. I hate to see one with his wife's underclothes on out here, and slicked up along the side; and a roller hanging down here in front, and two cones of hair hanging down like bangs cut in front. That, I couldn't call that a man. He don't know what side of the race he belongs on. See? The man is wearing his wife's underneath clothes; she's wearing his overalls (See?), just a perversion, right around. And that's the same thing it is with nations, with people, with churches, with everything. Oh, God, where's the end of the thing? The coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, that's the end of it. (Thirst 65-0919).

JEANS PULLED DOWN OVER HIS HIPS

E-42    A Presbyterian church, put on a beatnik play of the crucifixion. They had a boy dressed up with his candy stripe shirt on and jeans pulled down over his

hips, and he was Jesus. (Greatest.news.flash.in.history 61-0424).

PANTS PULLED WAY DOWN

A bunch of these here boys...Beatniks, or ever what...? That there flat-looking hair cut on the top, and a duck sitting on the back of their neck or something, overall jackets on, and their pants pulled way down like this. Boys, be a man.

You got better making than that. (Uncertain.sound 15/4/61).

PULL OVERHAULS DOWN ACROSS THEIR HIPS

See  the  little boys  out  in  the  schools,  when  they  have  to  pull  their  little

overhauls down across their hips and let their hair grown out like a bunch of hoodlums, to act like Elvis Presley. (Handwriting.on.the.wall 58-0309M).

PERVERSIONS - AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF SODOM

Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah…What was it? A day just like that day. Look at perversion, homosexuals…homosexual is on the increase forty percent over last year. Boys, man living with one another, living in hotel rooms, Perversion. The natural course of life being perverted, because women has belittled themselves and becomes so common, it's perverted man, perverted minds: women living with women, man living with man. Just what God said would take place. "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." (Be.certain.of.God_  59-0708).

SOME LITTLE RICKY WITH A HOLLYWOOD HAIRCUT

E-57    And today the most of the people don't want a man that'll stand and tell the truth about it. They want some little Ricky with a Hollywood haircut, and perfume all over, and walk right up here, and talk about some theology that he learned off of some cemetery, or seminary... But now, excuse me. It's all the same place, the home of corpses. (Be not afraid 63-0607).

MEN WITH HAIRCUT LIKE A WOMAN - IT'S A PERVERSION

80  Hair cut like a man, wearing man's clothes; and then man turn around, wearing women's clothes, and a haircut like a woman. See, it's a perversion, the whole thing. Your food's perverted. Your life's perverted, your thirst, perverted. Your desire is perverted. It's a day of perversion. (Thirst 65-0919).

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HERETICAL ARTICLE NO. 47

UNRULY CHILDREN/DELINQUENT PARENTS

That is what we have following this message, brothers and sisters, a bunch of sissified men that cannot control their homes. And do you know the excuse that is outside there friend, in this message? “Well my wife is unsaved, so she lives what ever life she wants, and she is in the same house. My daughter and my son are unsaved, so they can play music in the house; Rasta music, Rock and roll music; and they could do what they want inside of the house: come in and drink and smoke.” And these sissified men condone those things with their wives and with their children, because they are not born again. They don’t have the Spirit of God. Hear this.

I HAVE TO BE CHANGE AND PERVERTED TO EVER LIVE

WITH MY WIFE IF SHE’S DOING IT

316-157    And you men that'll let your wives do those kind of things, I've got little hopes of you as a man. And that's right. Any man that'll let his wife get out on the street and act like that, brother, you ought to be wearing her clothes. That's right. I won't say my wife won't do it, but I have to be changed and perverted to what I am now if I ever live with her while she's doing it. (Hebrews.chapter.7.pt.1 57-0915e).

THAT’S THE DAY SHE AIN’T MRS. BRANHAM NO MORE

E-32    “And you men, you poor little boneless back thing you, that'll let a woman, your wife walk around and blow cigarette smoke through her nose, and wear shorts, and act like that around your house, and you're not man enough... You are a poor substitute as a son of God. I don't say mine will never do it. If she ever lets down, the devil gets a hold of her, she'll do it; but that's the day she ain't Mrs. Branham no more. That's right. That's the truth. Stand up. God don't put wishbones in men. He puts backbones in men, Gospel bones, that'll stand for the truth.” (Mark.of.the.beast  56-0715).

This is Elijah speaking, and the prophet of God said that he is not saying that his wife would never do those things. He said, “but I would have to be changed and  perverted to continue to live with my wife as long as she is doing that, and that's the day she ain't Mrs. Branham no more.” Therefore preacher, therefore deacon, therefore tender, therefore man that follow this message, if that was good for Elijah, it is good for everybody, that while you live with your wife, while she is doing those wrong things, then you have changed and therefore you are perverted. Brother Branham said that the only way that he could do that as a man of God, is that he had to change his purpose and he had to be perverted. Therefore I am proving from this quotation from the Hebrew book, chapter seven, that you are perverted, and you are not born again. That is the only way you could have a wife like that, and have children playing rock and roll music in your house, and living the life that they are living. Oh yes.

ALL HIS FAMILY MUST BE IN SUBJECTION AND IN THE FAITH

354-7   The  Bible  requires  a  deacon  to  be  a married man. He must be the

husband of one wife. And then another man which was a very honorable man, very qualified for the job and would made a loyal man, as a brother suggested him. Then after investigating the case, that the brother had just recently come into this faith; his wife doesn't believe in it. Then that disqualified the man as the office, because he must have all his family in subjection. They must be also in the faith, because it would be a conflict. (Placing.of.deacons 58-0720e).

The prophet of God also said in Three kinds of believers 24/11/63, that a deacon must control his family well. Brothers and sisters, everything that changes the holiness message of Brother Branham is a heresy and a heretic, and any time you go away from Bible principles you are a heretic.

UNRULY CHILDREN-HE NEEDS A GOOD OLD FASHION LIMB SKINNING

54    I went into a house here not long ago to visit a sick man, and a lady was setting there. And a little old Oswald come in, hat setting on the side of his head, said, "Mammy, is dinner ready?" She said, "Honey, we haven't had time" said, "this morning to get any dinner." Said, "I'm fixing you a sandwich," said, "there's some oranges." He walked over and got ahold of an orange, looked at it, bit into it, throwed it up against the wall as hard as he could; the juice run down; said, "If that's all you got around this place, then I'll get out," like that. I thought, "O God, he ought to be mine for about five minutes." Boy, I'd jerk the hide off of him like he'd never knowed it was jerked off. But them lay there, pity and baby. What he needs is a good old fashion limb skinning. That's what we need, some old fashion homes again, and some preachers that'll stand behind the pulpit and preach the truth, and lay it down where it belongs to be led. Amen. That's true. Oh, my. (Church and it’s condition 5/8/56).

Did Brother Branham believe in discipline? He said that that fellow should be mine for five minutes. I would jerk the skin out of him. “Hide” you know. He said I would take out his skin, he wouldn’t know when his skin leave his body. “Five minutes I want him for,” and I believe that prophet. Yes. When Billy-Paul backslid and misbehaved, Brother Branham called Billy-Paul and said, “Son, the Lord gave me this house to bring up you children” and such and such, he said, “then you cannot live here if you want to lead that kind of a life.” There are preachers today that have their sons smoking marijuana, cussing and drinking, and playing Rock and Roll music, and have them right in the house and standing behind the pulpit. I say, you’re backslidden. I say, it’s a heresy. You’re not a man.

GET YOU A STICK AND SKIN HIM-SPARE THE ROD, SPOIL THE CHILD

E-70  Get you a stick and skin him. That's what you need. Look what you raised up out of that "Junior, honey." Little Martha you know will stomp her feet and tell her mammy, "You go shut up; I ain't going to do that." Good thing they didn't have my daddy. All this stuff, see what you got? A bunch of juvenile idiots. Just exactly what you got. Insane, just exactly. The insane asylum's filling up with them. Beatniks, that's what caused, "Junior, dear." The Bible said if you spare the rod, you spoil your son. (Rejected.king 60-0610).

SHAME ON YOU, MOTHER AND DAD

E-27 And you that let your children, your young girls, get out with these boys, in these modern rock-and-roll carry-ons...Shame on you, mother and dad. You say, "Well, they just do as they want to." You still got paddles. I got two up

there; I don't know what they'll be, but if this old man Branham lives long

enough and keeps his right mind, they may go, but they'll be full of blisters while they're there. It's a disgrace. (Handwriting on the wall 9/3/58).

IT’S PARENTS DELINQUENCY

E-60 You all talking about juvenile delinquency…I think it's parent delinquency, instead...The Bible said, "Spare the rod, you spoil your child," and that's exactly right. You'll never find nothing any better.  On my home they had the ten commandments hanging up over the door on a hickory stick about that long. And, brother, I had all ten of them across my back, and up and down my legs, pretty near every day. It done me good though. Pop took me out behind the house, and I danced a little jig. But I knowed not to do it the next time, when he got through with me. There'd be a whole lot better life, if we had some more daddies to do that today. (Behold.a.greater.than.solomon.is.here 62-0721).

THAT'S WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE TONIGHT

E-20    And now, some of you talk about the illiteracy of the hillbillies up in Kentucky there...They could teach some of you city people how to behave yourself. Your little Martha Ann come in of a nighttime, and mess-up all over her face, and half drunk, and smoking a cigarette, and blowing it through her nose, and the stomp her foot, and scream at you. Let her do that to one of them old Kentucky mammys one time. She'd top a hickory, boy, or take something, or a barrel slat. When she got through, she'd know who was mammy around there. If you'd do that, you wouldn't have so many wrong men, and boys and girls in the world tonight. Let one of them strip theirselves in some these old dirty clothes like you let your kids wear out here, little old shorts…And let them one time. You would find out how illiterate they were. She'd beat her till she'd be so full of welts, you couldn't get the clothes over the top of them. That's what needs to be done tonight. That's right. (Making the valley full of ditches 28/7/56).

Did Brother Branham believe in discipline? [Congregation says, “Amen!”] Yes sir. He said the hillbillies put them to shame because they discipline their children. That is what we have following this message today: perverted children, perverted wives, perverted preachers, dominating females, children out of order, preachers out of order and all that goes with it. The kinds of homes that represent this message today is just like so-called Pentecost: allow their children to do what they want, mad vex when you bring a complain. Every time that you pick up for that child, and you know that he is wrong, you bring a spirit of the devil upon him. Every time that you don’t try to be the man of the home, your spirit becomes a little more perverted. Every time you back answer your husband sister, and you would not try to put that spirit away, that spirit becomes stronger upon you. You have unruly children, sissified men; but my point that I am trying to drive home, very strong, is that the majority of people were alright until the so-called thunders came our way; until these preachers thought that they climbed up in the atmosphere and got it; until New York influenced the world with their thunders. And what it is that happened? Soon after these men brought their thunders to this part of the world, the holiness standards were broken down; preachers started falling in adultery. We had one or two before that without thunders, but when that thunders revelation of the devil, the devil’s thunders, came this way, it destroyed the holiness message, and through the years, you cannot even know who follows the message from who doesn’t; and people that came in and met that kind of dressing; that kind of system; and met those kinds of people, and all that they know is that they recognize that as the message and the standards of the message. I am giving you the correct standards. That is not the correct standard. Tight dressing is not the correct standard. High-heeled shoes is not the correct standard of dressing.  That was perverted in New York, and they put the women in high-heeled shoes, tight dresses, and the latest fashions of New York. All these kinds of nonsense, the so-called thunders brought this way.  You want to tell me that that is God? Anything that destroys the Holiness Message that the prophet of God suffered for, is of the Devil. Anything that falls under these perversions of Sodom and Gomorrah is of the Devil.  Have nothing to do with it. But we shall have the real Thunders. It will be broken to the public one of these days. Then you are going to see, it will make the Bride ready. These false thunders never made the Bride ready. It made her unready. It put her back where she was before. But it’s coming. It will be broken to the public shortly.

Lift your hands to him.   Thank Him, brothers and sisters, that you are not caught up in that net today. Thank you Savior, thank you Lord. Give Him the praise and give Him the honor, because you are not caught up in that net today. Oh, I could have been passing my rotten ghost to you. But, beloved, I have the Holy Spirit. We have the holiness standards here. If you are a little sister here this evening that know that you have a dominant attitude, why not surrender it? Give it up brethren, give it up sisters. Brother, if you have that attitude that walk over your wife as a doormat, always abusing her, telling her hurtful words, give up that spirit. You are a perverted man if you are not the man of your house, beloved, change that attitude today.  You will destroy yourself, destroy your wife, and destroy your children. You will go through the Tribulation. Let us surrender that. And in His Presence, my beloved, that could be taken away right today.   Thank you Father, for your Word. I want to pray for you, brethren. Oh Lord, we live in a terrible age. Lord, we are people of this age. We come from that kind of background.  Many things from Sodom trouble our minds and our hearts.   And Lord, I pray for your people that need prayer today and power over these wicked spirits and vices of Sodom, too many, Lord to mention here.    I pray that Your Presence and Your Spirit will sweep over their souls even at this moment and break that yoke of the enemy. Bless your children. Help them to accept that by faith and go on pressing the battle. Help them, Lord, to be true men. Help the women to be real sisters.   I pray that wherever this message will go, it will help your people throughout the world.   And, Lord, bring them away from Sodom and Gomorrah.  Make them ready for the Rapture. We pray and ask these blessings in Jesus Christ’s Name, Amen.

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HOLINESS OR HELL

I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him [that is] from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.

Love not the world, neither the things [that are] in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

For all that [is] in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.  (I John 2:14-17).

 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?

And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in [them]; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean [thing]; and I will receive you,

And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. (II Corinthians 6:14-18).

May the Lord add a blessing to the reading of his holy Words.

The title of this message this morning is “Holiness or Hell”. The scripture declared that without holiness no man shall see the Lord, and if you do not come up to standard by his grace and by his mercy, there is only one place left for you and that is through the tribulation or hell, so it’s holiness or hell, and that holiness is so very important in order to see the face of the Lord, and to understand the revelation of the son of man by divine revelation. In order for you to go in the rapture you must see the Lord, but not in a physical form, because He is not in a physical form here today upon the earth. He is in the form of his Word, the form of his theophany, and even though He was here in his physical form, you could not just look with the natural eyes and see the Lord by the natural eyes, and go in the rapture. That is not God’s plan. Brother Peter seen him for three and a half years with his natural eyes and yet Jesus asked him, “Whom do men say that I the son of man am”. He turned right around and said, “Whom say ye that I the son of man am Peter?” And Brother Peter coined the right words, and He said, “flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.” So Christ is known by divine revelation. Christ is not known by theology or the schools of theology, He is known by divine revelation to a sincere and humble heart, whether you are educated or uneducated, and the new birth is tied up in a revelation of the Son of man. I quote Brother Branham: “You say, Well, Brother Branham, what is the new birth?" It is the revelation of Jesus Christ personally to you” (Christ is the mystery 63-0728). He is revealed to the gentiles as Son of God and Son of man.  Therefore, you could not have a revelation of Jesus Christ as Son of David, and be born again, neither could you have a revelation of Jesus Christ only as the Son of God, and be born again, because that came through the church ages and that is why they made a trinity. Therefore the Son of man was to be revealed in the end time when the conditions of the world return like the days of Sodom and Gomorrah. We are that generation that is now living in that age of Sodom and Gomorrah. How many are persuaded that we are living in that age? [Congregation says, “Amen!”] Then by saying “Amen”, you have just committed yourself to something here, which is, you have just admitted that the Son of man, who is supposed to be revealed, is a reality, because the world has come to the conditions of Sodom and Gomorrah, and in such a time the Son of man was to be revealed. So any man that will preach we are living in an age of Sodom and Gomorrah must admit from the same scripture in Luke 17:30, that the Son of man is revealed, and since he has been revealed, did you get a revelation of the son of man, who is He? Where is He? How He came? And when He came? are very important. You hear that revelation, don’t try to figure it out, don’t fight it, and don’t get upset. Beloved, you believe Brother Branham, you believe his message. God bless you, but right in the message of Brother Branham he said that the Son of man must be revealed, and Brother Branham is gone but the Son of man is still revealing Himself and will continue to reveal Himself unto Israel, through the two prophets. So the Son of man revelation is here now upon the face of the earth, and the Lord will reveal that to a simple humble people that have accepted the holiness message, and with all their hearts, with all their souls, with sincerity and honesty are determined to fulfill that holiness message. As I said in way of encouragement here this morning, that even though you might have a lot of things hanging on upon you, you don’t have to be perfect to get a revelation like that. All that the Lord wants you to do is to submit and recognize that holiness message, and then in the course of time while you strive and struggle to overcome your weaknesses, right there the Lord is going to give you supernatural grace by a revelation of Jesus Christ that the gates of hell cannot prevail over you and cause you to go back and live unholy, live in adultery and be deceived of the devil. Any man that is deceived of the devil, interpretations, cults and isms and is taken in adultery and fornication, money schemes and different things like that, and claim to have had a revelation of the Son of Man, is not born again yet, because it proves that the gates of hell did prevail over him. That is clean as a whistle.

So it is Holiness or hell. Without a revelation of Jesus Christ you are going through the tribulation and possibly unto hell, and in order to get that revelation, though you were born in church here and though you claim to be a Christian, you must be aspiring to fulfill that holiness message. And as I said, the holiness message is very simple, it is made up of denouncing the things of the world. You must dress right, you must act right, both men and women. Men must treat their families in the right way.  They must get the television out of their homes; they got to get out of the sports field. All this makes up the holiness message. You must hear the right songs, you must sing the right songs. Yes, and all that goes with it. So we have come through many of these standards of holiness in our past messages and there are a few yet left. But I don’t want to hustle this down because we want to get every iota of it, that you can also consult these messages if you are in doubt. So it’s holiness or hell.

And right here it tells us in 1 John, and this scripture verifies what I am saying, and what the Bible is saying, this verifies all that was preached by Malachi 4, William Branham as the holiness message of God, right in this scripture. This one scripture here alone covers the entire holiness message of God, and even though new things have come up into the world, that was not condemned by Brother Branham, or even condemned by the Bible, a Christian conscience, anointed by the Holy Spirit, they who are born again, it will lead them through, and it will condemn those things. Yes, the Holy Spirit will condemn those things.

So I love this scripture here:  “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. (I John 2:14-17). I am saying, it’s holiness or hell. It’s either we adhere to the holiness message or you would be lost. Yes, that is what the Bible is declaring. “But he that doeth the will of God abideth forever”. So  there we are! “Abideth forever”.

So now the whole world with all that it can offer is summed up in three things: “For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life”. In these three items, all the world and all the people that ever existed upon the face of the earth, and now exist, are paraphrased in these three items here. “The lust of the flesh” picks up all immoralities that were ever committed and are going on in the world today. “The lust of the eyes” covers what we could desire, the natural things of this life, including immorality, a car, a house, even a mango tree, a dog, covetous of somebody’s wife, greed for money, greed for house, jealousy over a sister because of a dress. The lust of the eyes. And the last one – “The pride of life”. You talking about the pride of life. Beloved, can we finish preach out these scriptures? We cannot finish preach out those scriptures, because in those three items, the apostle, moved by the Holy Ghost, summarized all humanity and the whole world – Cosmos, the world order. Yes, right there, paraphrased the whole world. Oh my God! Brothers and sisters, the Word of God is sweet. Yes, sweet, sweet, sweet to my soul. How people would not read their Bibles, I cannot understand. And he went further, and he said, “…And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.” This world with everything in it, the world order, will pass away. All what you are trying to achieve in an education, all the money you heap up, all the good clothes you have, all the boast you have about your children, your house, your beauty, how handsome, how educated, where you work, will pass away, but he that doeth the will of God is going to abide forever. And what is the will of God? To keep His Word. He that doeth the will of God, he that would keep the Word of God, he that will repent, that will be baptized in Jesus Christ’s name, he that will follow in the pathways of righteousness, he that will be born again, he that will have the Holy Ghost, he will abide forever. My God! Could you evaluate that? Abide forever. I’ll live for a million years, and one billion years, and it hasn’t got started yet because eternity never started and it will never come to an end, and we would never get tired of living, and sisters, you would never lose your beauty. As beautiful as you are, just let a few years pass around and you will see how ashamed you will be to look at yourself in the mirror. I met many sisters, and I said, “What is your age?” And they blush. It’s something with humanity my brother, there is sadness when you start growing old! They don’t want to reveal their age. No. You see you were not born to grow old. Now that is why. It is something in humanity that tells him that he is supposed to live forever.

I love how the apostle John put this together. He said, “And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.” And that is the purpose of our gathering this morning and all the other days, and throughout the decades that have passed us here like the old rock of ages. Our purpose is to do the will of God, and we are gathered again here this morning that we might find out what is the will of God for us to do. I am trying to acquaint you with the will of Almighty God, the will of God for you as children of God. Sometimes we slip up, sometimes we are ignorant, sometimes we forget, sometimes we are heavy because of manifold temptation, sometimes we get weak and we fall, we don’t know if we are going or coming, but if our purpose is to do the will of God, have no fear, He will take you through. He promised that. He is faithful that promised. “… Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: (Luke 22:31-32). Oh, Peter’s faith never failed my friend. No, Peter did believe, he had a revelation, and since he had that revelation of the Son of man, the gates of hell could not have prevailed over him, therefore that faith never failed. No, but Peter got a little weak and he denied the Lord and he repented immediately.

Some deceived preachers that followed one deception, two deceptions, three deceptions and led the whole church into deception, into all kinds of soul mating, closing down the church and all kinds of things, make that an excuse and say, “You see, Peter was deceived, therefore we were deceived in the same way, but we were born again”. Anytime you claim to have a revelation, and a stranger you follow, you never heard the voice. “My sheep hear my voice and a stranger they would not follow.” And anytime you leave a God-given shepherd and you leave a God-given messenger and prophet, and follow a fanatic, a cultist, and follow a false prophet, and follow a false Christ, it proves you never were born again, the gates of hell prevailed over you. Anytime you commit adultery after that, you were never born again. If you commit fornication, homosexuality, if you led the church back into the world and into ungodliness, and bring back television, bring back sports and bring back the vices of Sodom, it shows that you are a corrupted preacher, and the tree is known by it’s fruits; “By their fruits ye shall know them.”

You could claim how much you want, and you could claim that you are born again, let me see the fruits that you are bearing. The fruit that people are bearing is to bring back television, bring back sports, and bring back the nasty clothing. You are not born again. Message followers, when you were established in the right way, and after years you turned that down and follow something like that, you are a heretic, and that is what I am dealing with. Any man that changes these holiness standards of the message is a heretic, and any changes on the holiness message is heresy.

This scripture of 1 John condensed the whole world, and that can fit right in the age of Sodom and Gomorrah and work together with the vices of Sodom and Gomorrah because it includes Sodom, it includes the days of Noah and it includes our age. “All that is in the world is the lust of the flesh”, that’s Sodom and Gomorrah; “and the lust of the eyes”, greed, television eye. You say, “Where is the scripture for television?” Right there, 1 John. Right inside of there, the lust of the eyes, that is television scripture. And if you love the television, you have an item of the world, and it’s the lust of the eyes, and “the pride of life”, a big junk of this world: “You know who I am?” You are no more than a dog. “Do you know where I work?” Yes, if it’s loading garbage, it wouldn’t make a difference. Too much pride! Get a little education stuff up in your head. “You know who I am?” Who are you? A dog. Without Christ you are a dog. Oh yes. The only good inside of us is the Word of God, “call no one good but God.” This scripture here fits right into Sodom and Gomorrah, and then you can chain Romans 1 together with that, showing you the contents of the world.

The contents of the world are like garbage. Beloved, when you get out of here one of these days and step into that body, and you look back and see where you came from, you will realize that you were living on a Labasse heap, with all kinds of maggots, dead dogs and dead people, with putrefying sores right around you. You would never want to come back. And that is what God is seeing from where He is. He is looking at the world in its condition. You might say that that’s an irresponsible statement Brother Bruce. Well, what happened to the prophet when he went out of his body, and the angel started talking to him, and he said, “You mean to say that I must go back into that carcass, into that corruption?” he wasn’t crying for his wife nor children. “You mean to say that I must go back there?” “Yes, you’ve got to go back, I have some work for you. You’ve got to live in the carcass until the time comes.” But one day he left the carcass again, and the angel never told him he would have to go back. He said, Take your rocking chair and rock until the rest of the Bride leave their carcasses here upon the earth and are translated. Oh glory to God!

A Christian life is a happy life. This is a happy morning. Where the Spirit of God is there is liberty. In the presence of God there is fullness of joy, and at his right hand pleasures forever more. Nobody should be sad this morning. If you are sad, you are longing for the world or you are heavy because of manifold temptations. I say drop the temptation. Drop the troubles behind. Yes sir, let us go forward, we have something to be happy about. We have something to be glad about. Any tears here this morning are tears of gratitude, tears of gladness, tears of praise, and the Lord loves that. Yes. There’s a time to worship and a time to pray. Don’t be bound down by the Devil. The Devil has kicked the people of God for too long. It is about time that we kick him like a football. I say, forget all your troubles this morning, forget all your temptations, and forget all your weaknesses. The devil caused you to do something wrong and then keep punching you and saying, “You hypocrite, you this, you that”. I say shake the Devil out. Shake the Devil away from you. Yes! Cast down those kinds of conceptions, throw the doubts away. You don’t have a pastor like that here this morning. You ever see me enter this pulpit gloomy and halfway, “Oh brethren, you think I’ll make it?” I am not bothering if I will make it. I already made it. Yes sir! My theophany is up there. There is another Brother Dalton up there, and there is another brother you up there as long as you love the Lord, and as long as you have the love of the Father inside of you. I say cast the doubts away, “Doubt your doubts” the prophet of God said. Yes sir! Give Him a praise offering. [Congregation worships in the Spirit.] Oh yes. The Devil brings that over you and binds you as a Christian. You can’t pray, you can’t worship, you can’t sing, you can’t walk, you can’t smile, and you can’t talk. Brothers and sisters, you are not going to cow-down under that. No sir. Even though the ship is going to lean on one side, the flag is flying real high. We are going to make it to the harbor. Glory to God! We are going to make it to the harbor for sure.

Well, if you are a dead hypocrite that don’t care nothing about the Word, and don’t care nothing about life, don’t care nothing about salvation, you’re just hanging on until you get through with something in the world, then I can’t account for you. But we are people that love the Lord, we are people that want the Word, we are people that want life. We made many sacrifices. How could you accept from the devil that you can’t make it? You could make it. What do you mean that you can’t make it?  The devil says, you don’t have this; you aren’t born again, this and that. What you don’t have you are going to get it. All that you’ve got to be is sincere. Open up your ears and understand the Word of God, and in all thy getting get understanding, and whatever you don’t have, the Lord will give you. Fear not, only believe. All things are possible to them that believe. Oh, but thank God.

We live in an age of perversions. Everything is perverted except God and a true revelation. The churches are perverted. The preachers are perverted, and those that were escaping out of organizations, in the form of message believers, by a message that God sent through Malachi 4, did run well, but they themselves became bewitched. Like Brother Paul said, “Ye did run well, who had bewitched you?” And we’ve come to find out that preachers that were not called, the false anointed ones, came into the message and bewitched the people of God. Bewitched them by destroying the holiness message, and then claim to be preaching thunders. And we had a downward trend since that time that they brought these false thunders in. The people’s attention went off to these “thunders”, getting it all in their heads, and lived in an imaginary world. They lived a fictitious Christian life and then they neglected the holiness message that they were practicing for many years. Yes! They have bewitched the people by these delusions, and then when they bewitched these people by delusions of “seven thunders”, then they neglected the holiness message of God. They bypassed the simple teachings of the prophet, and by bypassing the simple teachings of the message, they brought back the very things into the house of God that were condemned by the prophet as unholy and unscriptural.

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HERETICAL ARTICLE NO.  48

  TELEVISION RE-ENTERED HOMES, WITH VIDEOS – FALSE THUNDERS PROMOTED

So I’ll take one item here, and this is a heresy that came into the message, and it is concerning television. The prophet of God was dead set against television. Why would Elijah the prophet speak so hard against television? I have here about one hundred and twenty quotations against television that was spoken by Brother Branham. Why would he be so hard against television? Beloved, it’s very simple to understand. Television became the transport service of all perversions upon the earth in Sodom and Gomorrah. Perversion of men, perversion of women, perversion of sex life, perversion of children, perversion of clothing, perversion of music. Everything that was perverted in this generation, television became the transport service to the rest of the world. So the television is an invention of the Devil to transport his wickedness, his sin, his unholiness, his unrighteousness, his nastiness from Hollywood, yes, from the lowest nation upon earth. The most corrupted and the most proud nation upon the earth is America, and they indoctrinate the whole world with those corruptions from Hollywood. And when I speak of television, if Brother Branham was here and he knew what was on the Internet, and the nasty sins and vices that are on the Internet, he would be against the Internet just as much. He would preach against the videos that certain Christians take, and they spend as much time in those videos, and some of them look at blue movies. I’m talking about message believers looking at blue movies, and looking at videos, and spending hours upon hours. So that is just as bad as what Brother Branham spoke about television. He lived in the television age when the Internet was not invented, so he spoke against that. He spoke against the cinemas, and he spoke against the television. But the corruption of television, many people have not evaluated it. It is the transport service of Satan to carry that nasty, wicked corruption to humble and clean nations in Africa, China, India and the rest of the world. That was the transport service.

Listen to me, if you cannot see the evil of that television by what I just said there, you’re a blind man. It carries the lust of the flesh, it carries the lust of the eyes, and it carries the pride of life. The television took in everything, and it takes it through the world. And if you claim to be a message believer, and you will steal away and go and watch blue movies, you are demon-possessed. If you’ll stick your eyes in that, you’re a nasty Christian; you don’t have one speck of the Spirit, and you are not born again. You are a dead hypocrite! After all that the prophet of God established, you have to be a terrible, demon-possessed person, old or young, to have cable T.V. They want the cable T.V. so that they can look at the blue movies on it. Yes. And they think that because they are not showing their children that, then it is okay for them to look at it. No. You are not born again. You are not a Christian. You have a devil upon you and you are allowing Sodom and Gomorrah to swallow you up. You have to be full of lust in you to watch on those screens and see those blue movies of man and wife making love and having sex on the screen, naked as they were born. You have to be a nasty believer, a nasty Christian. You’ve got to be a dead hypocrite. You’re demon-possessed. And I don’t care which preacher allows the congregation to do that. I don’t care how close they were to the prophet. I don’t care how long they had been in the message, and how much they say that they are looking at censored T.V., you have a devil in you preacher, and you have betrayed the people. And these “seven thunders” preachers are the ones that re-introduced the television back into the house. We have witnesses right here. We have a minister that used to preach with them. We have people that used to follow them. We have a deacon here that used to follow them. Everybody had televisions in their homes. When they heard the holiness message, they repented and they are seated here this morning. Oh yes.

Brother Branham was dead set, against it and the reason he was dead set, is because it transported everything that is immoral and everything that is perverted. Everything of the world you can see on that. And if you have your Internet and you secretly log on to those kinds of things on the Internet service, you’re a dead hypocrite. A woman made a child right on the Internet. Had her right there making a child that anybody could see. Skin up, naked, made a child that the whole world could see on the Internet. You rotten, filthy Jezebel! Jezebel is a holy queen in front of that woman. Yes sir! It’s a horrible thing. And for you to be in that Internet looking at those things, I tell you, you’ve got to have a spirit. And for you to buy movies, have them in your house and secretly look at them, it’s as good as watching television. Yes, you have the same devil inside of you. Yes!

That television got popular the same time that the world came to the age of free love. The age of free love was in the sixties, about the time of the opening of the seals, when those demons were loosed on the earth. And that television carried free love to the rest of the world, to show the whole generation, educate them about homosexuality, educate them about fornication, show them that it is nothing, it is acceptable. They brought those things that were confined to the bedroom right on the screen, right out into the public. That television became a teacher. That television educates the people, and it educates them how to have sex right out in the open in the car parks and how to make love in public. All these people that were backward in the West Indies, backward in Africa, they behave worse than the Americans and worse than the Hollywood stars. That stinking devil got upon them. Like dogs, right in the mall, right in those business places. Stinking hypocrites! This world, God is going to burn it! Yes sir! And he promised to burn it. “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.”  (Malachi 4:1). And any hypocrite under this message will burn with it too. Yes sir! People under this message take chances with their souls and act very pious. How could you have your head in a television and come out right? No, you’ve got to be demon-possessed. Yes sir!

So he was against that television with all his heart because it was the age of free love, and that age of free love used the media of television and magazines to transport that throughout the world and corrupt Indians, corrupt the Chinese, corrupt the Negroes and corrupt the White man throughout the world. You want to tell me that - that thing is of God? And these preacherss, when they got the “thunders”, their thunders told them to bring it back into the people’s homes. You are corrupted! Yes! And they made a heresy with it. They found one quotation of Brother Branham, and I am going to read it. All the “thunders” preachers and all that look at television, they rely upon one quote of Brother Branham to support their television viewing. And I want to show you that it is the serpent that’s twisting the Word and twisting the message. It is an evil nature that is grabbing at some excuse to do what is not right, and ignore all that the prophet of God said and want to hold on to one quotation. I quote to you from question and answers in 1959.

TELEVISION–ONE OF THE MOST DAMNABLE THINGS TO THE HUMAN RACE

  428-Q-93    The first question tonight: Brother Branham, I think television is a curse to the world. What do you think about it? Well, ever who wrote it, I'm going to agree with you. They have made it a curse to the world. It could be a blessing to the world, but they've made it a curse. Anything like that, my dear people, is what you look at yourself. If television is a curse, then the newspaper is a curse, then the radio is a curse, and many time the telephone is. See, see, see, see? It's what you make out of it. But being that the brother said the other night, that there's hardly any programs on the television anymore; that's too much money. A poor preachers that preaches the Full Gospel can't afford a program on the television. So therefore... Brother said the other night, I believe, somewhere, said, "Dust off your radio," or somebody, or, "Bring it back out of the corner and listen to them programs." That's right. But, dear person, ever who you are, I certainly agree with you. It's become one of the most damnable things to the human race. (Question and answers on the Holy Ghost 59-1219).

They rest on this quotation where Brother Branham said that he agreed with a brother that it is a curse to the whole world, and Brother Branham said, “Well, it could have been a blessing but they made it a curse.” He said, “But you know, it’s what you look at yourself, and besides that, it’s what you make out of it, and there is hardly any program on the television anymore that you can look at.” He said, “The preachers are too poor to put on a program on the television.” So, they took this quotation and ignored a hundred and something, where, “Brother Branham said “it’s what you make out of it.” In other words, they want to take the curse of the world and make something good out of it, when he himself said that there is hardly anything you could look at. Now I am saying that anybody that twist this quote is a heretic, and whosoever bring back a television in the home and preach that, you are a heretic and you are condoning heresy in the church of God.

Now you don’t read one quotation, but you got to read all of them. Let me take a few out of an hundred and twenty, or I will have you here for a few hours again. I could only read a few of them for you, and when you are satisfied that - that is Brother Branham’s teaching then we will stop. Now I am dealing with a heresy of bringing back the television into the home. I read:

ELVIS PRESLEY, A 1947 VERSION OF JUDAS ISCARRIOT

“Look at Elvis Presley, a 1947 version of Judas Iscariot, joins the Assemblies of God, Pentecostal, speaking in tongues for the Holy Ghost, and sent more souls to torment than all the bootleg joints there's been in the last fifty years. Perverted the mind of little teenage children all over the world, till little girls would grab off their underclothes and throw it on the platform, and him to autograph, so vulgar that they won't show him on the television from his waist down, the way he... his body. (The Holy Ghost, speaking in tongues for evidence.) Oh, brother, if the Holy Ghost was there, It wouldn't act like that. You know better than that. Certainly not. God loves cleanness and purity and holy.” (Hebrews Chapter 6  57-0908E).

ATTRACTED BY TELEVISION-THEY’RE NOT TRULY BORN AGAIN

E-29    And that's what's the matter today, all the nation goes into sin: whiskey joints, the people getting cold and formal, uncensored radio programs, uncensored television programs. And it's so fascinating, and sin is so beautiful until it attracts the attentions of the people. And if they're not truly borned again, where their attraction is on Christ and single minded, they'll go after that stuff. They'll act like those people. And the spirit of that will get on them. It used to be the old Pentecostals wouldn't let their children even go to picture shows. The devil pulled one over on their eyes. He brought the picture show right in the house. That's right. (Balm in Gilead 61-0218).

Is that right. There we are. Anybody that is in a television and have their head in a television, is not born again according to the prophet, right on this quotation. You are not born again. If you are taking chances and you are watching television and you are in the Internet and in the magazine, or whatever you are doing, it shows you are not born again of the Spirit. So perverted preachers that allow these things in their churches are not born again. To bring back that in the house of God you are not born again. Some people think that they will take the television and they will monitor it for their children, and they would only look at certain things. You are deceiving your own self and you are a hypocrite to your own heart. You know better than that. You will be watching the wrong thing sooner or later. Okay. I’ll read here:

YOU ARE PRESUMING YOU GOT THE HOLY GHOST

You that claim you have the Holy Ghost, and you that's got long hair, and wear your dresses neat and everything like that, and you'll stay home on Wednesday night to watch a program, a television program, instead of going to church to prayer meeting, you're presuming you got the Holy Ghost. For when the Holy Ghost is in there, the love of God is so constrained in you, till you just can't stay away from the people. You that has to be forced to prayer. (Presuming62-0117).

You don’t have the Holy Spirit according to the message of Brother Branham even though you have a long dress, and even though you have long hair, and even though you dress neat, and you will stay home to look into that television, you don’t have the Holy Spirit. And any hypocrite that will buy a television and hide it in their house and miss church, when everybody is absent from around them, to watch at that television, they are Devil possessed. You are not born again, you don’t have the Holy Spirit, and as much as you have read in Brother Branham’s message and heard the holiness standard preached here, you will have to be a dead hypocrite to be hiding a television inside of your bedroom and be looking at that secretly, you are a nasty hypocrite and inside of you is full of lust, full of the world. That’s the only way that you could do that. Alright.

IT SHOWS WHAT KIND OF SPIRIT'S IN YOU.

45-2    Look what we want. Look at our television. That's what we want. We want some of these comedians to stand up there and turn all kind of dirty jokes, and we stay home from prayer meeting on Wednesday night, or the preacher'll let out early so that you can go and see it: some old filthy, dirty, five or six times married prostitute, cracking dirty jokes, sexy dressed, and carrying on like everything, and you love that better than you love the house of God. It shows what kind of spirit's in you. (Way of a true prophet  62-0513M).

It’s  not  me  being  hard, it is not I being legalistic. If you condemn me as a legalist then Brother Branham was one. I am saying what the prophet of God said. You got to have a dirty nasty ghost in you to have your eyes in that television, and it won’t be long until that television will start corrupting you, because you will want the styles from the television, you’ll want to live like that woman on the television, and those spirits will demon-possess you. Oh yes!

THAT SHOWS WHERE THE PEOPLE'S HEARTS ARE.

52    We've got to move with the Word. And today we're getting so slothful, the church is getting so worldly, and so indifferent, and so their minds so muddled up with television, and "We Love Suzy" and some of these old things, and staying home. That shows where the people's hearts are. You can tell them these things are wrong, and they think you're crazy. What is it? "Lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God." See? Oh, the greatest pleasure I know of, is to be to pray until I can realize that I'm in the Presence of God, and recognize it. I think that ought to be the thrill of the church is the Presence of the Holy

Spirit. (Presence of God unrecognized 64-0618).

I love that so much. Brothers and sisters, this tabernacle is an example of that, and the majority of the people are examples of what Brother Branham said here. Our joy does not come from a television nor sports, nor worldly singing, nor all these things. Our joy is the presence of the Lord. That is why we can spend almost two days sitting in the presence of the Lord. That is why we can sing that song for three quarters of an hour without stopping, “In His presence”. Yes. And the songwriter said, “In His presence, then I am strong”, and that song has not grown old. It is our joy, it is our peace; and when you can enjoy the presence of God in the service like that, and you become part of it, and you just worship, and you just weep before Him, and it breaks your heart, and you could come out and say, “That was a mighty service”, and you feel the presence of God and know that He is standing amongst us, then you are God’s people, then you are striving to fulfill the holiness message, but Christ cannot come where they have changed these holiness standards. The Holy Spirit has taken its flight from many assemblies. They have grieved away the Holy Ghost, and they must find new entertainment for the people. If they don’t find entertainment for the people, the people would leave the church, so they’ve got to give them back their televisions because the preachers live unholy and the people live unholy, the people became corrupted and the preachers became corrupted. Therefore, when the Holy Ghost is not in the house of God you got to have programs, you got to take them to the sports-field, you got to have one of the deacons as a captain. Yes sir! You have to organize hikes, you have to organize camp meetings, and you have to give them the televisions. So now when you live contrary and drive the Holy Ghost out of the house of God, the preacher must substitute programs. When they brought in the thunders heresy, God was offended with that wicked doctrine of perverting the greatest revelation on earth, the Holy Spirit took it’s flight, then they had to bring back worldliness in order to keep the people in the church to mind the preachers, mind these hypocrites. They want the tithes, they want the offering, but they want to lead the people of God to hell. That’s the truth too.

SATAN DECEIVED HER BY TELEVISION

18-1    And that is just exactly what's happened today. She's been deceived by television, by magazines, by these people, these--all these fine things that they're going out on the streets. Modern girls, they look at magazines, and they look at pictures; they look on the streets; they see the clothing in the shops. How Satan, that great instrument of hell has come down amongst the people and deceived them into these things. And the woman thinks she's all right. And she's dead and don't know it. She's far from God. (Invisible.union.of.the.Bride 65-1125).

TELEVISION, THE VERY PITS OF HELL

243    And we just put up with anything that's evil and call it religion. "Oh, well,

We go to church." Go right home, stay home on Wednesday night and watch the television, the very pits of hell. (Seven.church.ages   54-0512).

When you look into a television you’re looking into the very pit of hell.

WON’T NEVER BE ONE IN MY HOME - GOD TOLD ME NOT OT DO IT

241   We don't have television. There won't be one in my home, never. You want them, that's up to you. But God told me not to do it. (Power.of.transformation 65-1031M).

DON’T WANT THAT EVIL THING IN MY HOUSE

We rent from a woman that has the television in her house. I never intend to have one in my house. No, sir. I don't want that thing in my house. I'd blow it out with my shotgun. I don't want nothing to do with that evil thing. No, sir. But took a... (God’s Power to transform 65-0911).

Yes sir! God told his prophet not to have one. He said he would blow it out with a shotgun, but the “thunders” preachers blow it in. They blow it into the church. These preachers blow it right into the houses of the people. Oh yes. Now there are so many quotations, about a hundred and twenty quotations on television here alone. I would just paraphrase some of these where Brother Branham is speaking against television. He said, I will blow it out of my house with a shotgun. He say, it’s the cause for impersonation (The uncertain sound 18/12/60), he said, its controlled by satan (Hebrews pt.3 6/10/57), the television corrupts our children (Why are we not a denomination 27/9/58), the television corrupts the world (Hearing recognizing acting on the Word 21/2/62), he said, television is death (Thirsting for life 30/6/57), television is dirty food (As eagle stirreth 2/4/60), all that you have on the televisions are dirty programs (Q&A 3/1/54). He said, you need to sacrifice that T.V. (Flashing red light 23/6/63, Just once more 28/6/63), Elvis Presley is a modern Judas (Hebrews chp.6 pt. 2 8/9/57), and it give false comfort (Hebrews chap. 3 1/9/57). He said,  if you go after T.V. shows you are not borned again, you have no Holy Spirit (Balm in Gilead 18/2/61, Presuming 17/1/62. He said, people say that you could have great success by the television but great success is by the power of God and the demonstration of the Holy Ghost, not the television (Deceived church by the world 28/6/59, The true easter seal 2/4/61), television is a helevision (The basis of fellowship 14/2/61), it hinders the blessings of God (His wonders to perform 12/1/58), Hollywood took over the pulpits (Influence 30/11/63)-and that is what happened television took over the pulpits in the assemblies of the message. He said, the Holy Ghost moved out on account of the television (Identified masterpiece of God 5/12/64. He said, I have none (Thirsting for life 30/6/57), the church is impersonating the dressing and the hair styles of the movie stars (Thy loving kindness 28/2/58), there is a television in every house (A blushing prophet 25/11/56), it influences the soul (Leadership 7/12/65), I was never on television (The end time evangelism 3/6/62. He said, keep away from television (God’s power to transform11/9/65), look to Christ not television  (A blushing prophet 25/11/56), people love televisions and they view it and they love television more than God (Oneness of unity 28/1/58, Smyrnaen church age 6/12/60, Greater than Solomon 28/6/63, The sign of this time 13/11/630), it produces madness, television cause sickness and mental insanity (God’s provided place of worship 25/4/65), it cause children mental deficiency (One in a million 25/4/65, God’s power to transform), and the Methodist had a rock and roll party on the television (Former and latter rain 3/3/60). He said, you now have the movies in your home when Pentecostals would not go to the theatre house (Way of a true prophet 13/5/62, The evening messenger 16/1/63). He said, anytime you have your head in a television you have no spiritual joy (Balm in Gilead 18/2/61), the pastor allow the television to the congregation in order that he might get pay (Faithful Abraham 15/4/59). The people bawl out the pastor when he don’t finish in time for they to go and see their shows (Ephesian church age 5/12/60). He said, the Pentecostals are lead away by television (Modern events made clear by prophecy 6/12/65), the people are caught in the web of televisions (Shalom 12/1/64, One in a million 25/4/65), television perverts people (Satan’s Eden 29/8/65). He said, people want the television, they don’t prayer (Just one more time Lord 20/1/63), it produces unclean fruits (Oneness of unity 28/1/58). He said, I am against television (Harvest time 12/12/64, God’s power to transform), prostitutes are idolized on television (Teaching on Moses 13/5/56), television replaces pray (A blushing prophet 25/11/56, Handwriting on the wall 8/1/58), it replaces church services (The church and its condition 5/8/56, Their eyes were opened 21/4/57), separate yourself from television (The token 28/11/63), the stars have become idols (Be certain of God 25/1/59), television is rotten (Their eyes were open 21/4/57, Hebrews chp. 2 25/8/57). He said, a monster’s got them grabbed (voice of the sign 21/3/64), people are too busy with the television (When their eyes were opened 16/4/64), too much television they have (As eagle stirreth 2/4/64), they’re looking at uncensored programs (Q&A 28/6/59), the television is unclean, you only have vulgar stuff (Q&A 3/1/54). He said, you’re a wandering star if you are looking at television (God’s power to transform 11/9/65), watching television manifest the spirit you have in you (Way of a true prophet 13/5/62,Voice of the sign 13/3/64. Yes! You’re devil possessed, for you to love the world and things of the world on that television. All that television has is the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life. Come on, that is what it has in it, and for you to sink your head in a television and look at blue movies, watch those nasty things, and take your pattern to dress, take your pattern to talk and take your pattern for the rest of the things, you’ve got to have a devil inside of you. Holiness or Hell! You’re bound for hell. He said, television has deceived the women (Invisible union of the Bride 25/11/65), he would not sell his birthright for a television (Thirsting for Life 30/6/57), and he said, your old Adamic nature drifts towards the television (Leadership 7/12/65). Tell me you could have one in your house now without breaking the Word of God.

Beloved, all that I quoted there came from about a hundred and thirty quotations against television taken from 1953-1965, about four hundred tapes, and they only have one quotation there where they think that they have a point, where Brother Branham says, “it’s what you make of it”. I condemn this heresy as of the devil, I condemn this thing as of the world, and any preacher, whether he claims to preach thunders or don’t preach thunders, and bring back that in the houses of the people, and that preacher has one into his house for his family to look at, is devil possessed. I don’t care if he is a prophet, if he is a pastor if he is a teacher or an evangelist or even “God come down”, you’re devil possessed. You want to tell me that after the prophet spoke on four hundred tapes, that these men could pull out one quotation, rest upon it and try to fight everybody that teaches against television. Beloved it shows that you are not born again as preachers, it shows that you don’t have the Holy Spirit, it shows that you are a corrupted teacher and all that you could produce is corrupt fruit, right there. Let me ask you children, do you think that the majority of the preachers that preach this message around the world and broadcast thunders could come and quote these quotations on the pulpit, like you hear me quote this morning? Let me here your voices. [Congregation says, “No!”] No! They cannot handle those quotations, it would expose them as hypocrites, and it would expose them as perverters of the message. It will expose their thunders as being from the pit of hell. Any thunders that would bring back the television in the house, bring it back in the lives of the people and in the pastor’s house, came from hell. Yes sir! You are not born again.

These stinking Hollywood stars bring their bedroom business in the open right on the screen, teach young men and young women, to do that in public teach men how to kiss one another in their mouth, these stinking homosexuals, right on the television, right on the blue movies. I am talking about sex acts friend. I went through New York once in my lifetime to see what it looks like, and I saw a big signboard said, “Live homosexuality on stage”. God will burn America; the prophet of God prophesied that. A little lower down, two buildings away, “Twenty-five cents to see a naked woman”. Yes friend, a naked female, twenty-five cents; “Twenty-five cents to see live homosexuality on stage.” Yes sir! Took me to another place, only homosexuals living there. Man hugging up man, kissing them, holding hands and crossing the street; only men, a whole big section, only homosexuals. Took me to a next place, only lesbians, a big section; women hugging up women, kissing them, crossing the streets. They took me to a next place, they said, “This is the prostitution area”. Said, “That is where the Trinidadians come down and get their diseases and bring them back to the Caribbean. Do you think that this world could continue in the state that it is in? God is going to burn it, and any hypocrite that practice that is going to burn with it, even though you claim to believe this message, even though you claim to be a Christian, God is going to burn you together with Sodom and Gomorrah, just like he burned Lot’s daughters that did not want to come out of Sodom. Yes, and what we are seeing today is Sodom and Gomorrah. Do you see that Sodom and Gomorrah spirit? Even though they came out of Sodom, that Sodom and Gomorrah spirit was upon Lot’s daughters. Did you ever think of that? They came out of Sodom but the spirit of Sodom was still in them. People came out of organization but Sodom spirit’s still in them. People follow this message but the Sodom spirit’s still in them. What do you think caused those two girls to go live with their father? It’s a Sodomite spirit, a spirit of incest; and any man that commits incest, he’s got to be devil-possessed; you have more guts than a boley to lay with your own daughter. You’re a nasty human being. You make me feel to vomit when you could live with your own daughter. When a mother could live with her own son…I had confessions overseas, a big man came and told me, “I have something I’ve lived with for my whole life Brother Bruce, I want to get it off my chest”. I said, “Speak on”. He said, “I lived with my mother”. I asked, “What caused you to live with your mother?” He said, “My father went to the army and I was seventeen years of age, and she took me upon the bed and told me to live with her”. My brother, that’s the world we live in. That’s a Sodomite condition. That’s a spirit that overtook the age. Boy I tell you! It takes plenty guts, you have to be filled with thousands of demons to go live with your mother. You have to be a nasty human being, not fit to live upon this earth, condemned for hell. Same thing with a man that would live with his daughter. You’re a nasty human being. All these things are condemned in the scripture, and the moral law in the Old Testament never changed; it was punishable by death. Yes sir! All these things are right in the law of God. Incest. I had confessions made to me, people lay with beast, yes sir, and it is prevalent. You talk about the wickedness that comes from television.

 I happened to glance at a paper the other day, and a screen star, she said she is a virgin and she is about to be married; and when they interviewed her and they asked her, “Are you truly a virgin?” she said, “I am a virgin as far as the bodily evidence is concerned, but then I had many sexual experiences with my boyfriend.” My brothers and sister, do you know what they do today to try to save their virginity? I was shocked to hear that young girls allow men to use them from behind; buggary and oral sex, and that is prevalent even in this country. I learned from a brother who knows a lot of people in high societies and everything. I could not believe it, and that is their method of trying to save their virginity. Excuse the expression there people, but you’ve got to know. Buggary! And you hear those rape cases and read of them on the papers, and if you want to know what is going on in the world today you will hear that a man raped a woman and he committed buggary also with her. That is the stinking world. How long is this world going to go on in that condition? God is getting ready to burn it, and if you are a sinner here, you better repent this morning. If you are a hypocrite sitting here, you’d better repent this morning. You’d better get those demons out from inside of you. God will curse it; he will burn it, that’s what the Bible said. I believe God. How many believe God? [Congregation says, “Amen”.] I believe God. Elijah has already come. He has already preached his message. The next thing on the agenda is a burning. And the televisions, they sent forth all of these vices throughout the world. They get that education. They got it from the film stars. People never used to do that before. No. They got it from right inside of there, and they show you on the cable T.V., they show you on the blue movies. Thank God I’ve never seen one in my life, and I don’t care to see none. A man has to be a nasty person, woman has to be a nasty person to sit down for an hour, two hours and watch a sex act between a man and a woman. Something is wrong with you. You have a stomach like a Cobeaux (Vulture). You have to be a nasty human being friend.

All these sought of things; they make kissing like nothing. Teach all those nations that wouldn’t even lift their hands and hold their wife’s hand in public, they get them so brave, and they carry what is confined to the bedroom outside. Yes. And that is condemned. I am going to read that for you. These things, people condone under the message now. Yes, that isn’t nothing. I will give them something here too:

THE CHURCH IS EAT UP WITH SPIRITUAL VENEREAL DISEASE

88  The church is eat up with spiritual venereal, of all kinds of isms and everything else. It's wrong. (Second.Coming.of.the.Lord 57-0417).

And the message followers are eaten up with spiritual venereal disease of isms on the thunders, so that is what caught the followers of Malachi 4. Everything that preaches false thunders, you have venereal disease of isms; you drop your germs all about the place.

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HERETICAL ARTICLE NO. 49

 KISSING BEFORE MARRIAGE - OBLIGATION TO MARRY

MEN KISSING WOMEN – DON’T YOU DO THAT – SHAKE HANDS

 671-134    Someone told me sometime ago about they'd seen that two or three times at my church here,… And if you're setting here this morning, I'm going to dig this to you right good. See? Women, young women, coming up and these men kissing these women. Don't you do that. Don't you... You keep away from there. You remember that. If she's young, single, or whatever she is; she'll be somebody's wife someday. And you haven't got no business doing that. Stay away from her. If you want to greet her, then be a son of God, shake her hand and say, "How do you do, sister." And let that settle it right there. See? Stay away from those things; it's filth. And it'll soon get you into trouble... Sin is so easy, and it's so appetizing, and so pleasant. It's so easy to fall right into it. The best thing to do is, the very even appearance of it, stay away from it. Get back. Be a real Christian. (Questions.and.answers  COD  61-1015m).

Brother Branham condemned any kind of a greeting with men and women kissing. It’s filth, and we don’t condone it here. They started that around the tabernacle once and he condemned it.

DON’T KISS NO MAN IN THE LIPS - IT ONLY STARTS A PERVERSION

671-137 And for men kissing one another, if you kiss your brother on the neck, and you want to do it, that's all right. Don't kiss no man in the lips, and on the mouth, or anything like that, because that's not right. No, that shows there's a little something wrong to begin with. See? So just stay away from there; shun that. Don't start that around this tabernacle here. No, we'll certainly won't stand for that at all. See? don't kiss people in the mouth, 'cause that won't work; that's not right. And it only starts a perversion. It starts homosexuals and things. I've seen the churches, and the preacher'd come in, reach, and grab every sister, and hug her and kiss her, and set her down. "How do you do, sister, Hallelujah.” Reach over and get this one and kiss her, go right down through the church like that. To me that's wrong. (Questions & answers COD 

61-1015m).

We don’t preach that. I have not seen it around the message people, to be honest with you. I’ve got to be honest, and that is complimentary. If that is going on where my eyes did not see, I condemn it, it’s unholy and it’s unscriptural. Now hear this. This goes off into another little thing:

SHOULD NEVER KISS UNTIL MARRIED-IT’S POTENTIAL ADULTERY

50    I went to a certain place the other night to get something to eat, and the little boys and girls up there hugging and kissing like I don't know what. And do you know, my little sister, that that's potentially an adultery? When a man kisses you, he's potentially committed adultery with you. You should never let him kiss you until you're married, for the glands, both male and female glands, is in the lips. And when male and female glands come together, let it be where it may be, you have potentially committed adultery. And you shouldn't let a boy kiss you until that veil is raised on your face and you're his wife. Don't do that. It's committing adultery. It's mixing male and female glands. Children is born by crossing glands. So it's almost a public adultery again, everywhere. Look on the screens and everything you see, a slobbering and a carrying on. No wonder immorality is on the incline. How can they do it and spurn themselves all up by kissing those women in the mouth, knowing that that's adultery. God won't forgive it unless you repent. (The Oddball. 64-0614e).

Brother Branham said that when a young lady, unmarried, allow a man to kiss her, it is potentially adultery because the glands are in the lips. Now many people, they make such a great difference with fornication and adultery. I am quoting to you here to show you that Brother Branham said that young girls who were not married kissing men out there, it is potentially adultery. The word fornication is used interchangeably and it means whoredom, and sometimes it is used for unmarried people and sometimes it is also applied to married people. Brother Branham is using it in the very same context here. Yes, fight with that whoever wants to fight with that.

ONE BIG CONGLOMERATION OF KISSING-ALMOST PUBLIC ADULTERY

115    People will stay home, that's call themselves Christians, and listen to such characters as Pat Boone, and look at them things, they look at them kissing them women, and things out there. When no man should ever kiss a woman till he's married to her. That's male and female glands crossing. Let it be wherever it may be; it's wrong. It's potentially a sex act. When male and female glands touch, it's a sex act. A man kiss a man in the mouth, it'd make him vomit, or a woman a woman. Why is it different? It's a sex act, potentially. That's right. A type of Christ kissing His Bride. See? You should never do that. But look at it today, all these movies and things, and one big conglomeration of kissing and hugging. And it's absolutely almost public adultery everywhere, and the people so blind they don't see it. That's right. Everything's in a Sodom condition, Sodomite everywhere,as the Bible said.(Presence.of.God.unrecognized64-0618)

CHRISTIAN MEN AND WOMEN NOT TO KISS ANOTHER ON GREETING

  669-Q-156    156. Is it right for Christian men and women to kiss one another on greeting? No, sir. No indeedy. You kiss one woman, brother, that’s

your wife (See?), or your child, or what... See?…Don't you never get that started. No, sir. You keep away from women. Shun away from them. Exactly right…That thing even got over in Pentecost, and it's called "free love." And when you get anything like that, you stay away from it. That's right…I don't care how holy you are; you're still a man. And I don't care how holy she is; she's still a woman. Stay away from it till you're married. You just do that… A female has a female gland, sex gland. A male has a male gland, sex gland. And those glands lay in the human lips. That's right. And here's another thing might be brought up, men kissing one another in the mouth. That's dirty. That's filth. And what does it do? It starts homosexuals. Stay away from that. A guy asked me not long ago, said, "Brother Branham, why, they greeted one another with a holy kiss." That was before handshake come in. It's a greeting. They didn't shake one another's hands; they put their arms around one another; they kissed one another on the back of the neck, not on the lips, in the face. That starts a perversion. Stay away from it. Don't never do that. Now-a-days, we shake hands with one another. If you want to... You got your arm around your brother, and kiss him on the neck, or he kisses you on the neck, that's all right. But don't you kiss that woman, and don't you let that woman kiss you…When you see the first twist in anything like that, get away from it; stay away from it. That's the ground you should not be on. Satan will present something to you that'll wreck your soul and send you to hell. Stay away from it. Shun the very appearance of evil.  (Questions and answers 61-1015m).

YOU ARE MORALLY OBLIGATED TO MARRY HER

201    Did you know any man that kisses a woman is morally obligated to marry her? Potentially it's a sex act. Sure, it is. Yes, sir. What is it? It's the male glands in a man's lip and the female glands. When male and female glands comes together, it's sex. (God's.provided.place.of.worship  65-0425).

As for this church and message believers, whenever young people, old people, married people will go out and kiss up with another man, and kiss one another, then it is potential adultery; and if you go out and kiss an unmarried sister, and you had been involved in kissing etc. you are obligated to marry her. Is that the prophet’s teaching? He said that that becomes your wife. It takes demon possession for children to grow up in the house of God, and after growing up in the house of God to go and lay with an unsaved man, or live in fornication. You have to cross your conscience a million times. You have to be a nasty teenager. You have to be demon-possessed. You have to be a dead hypocrite to fall so low as to go out there and let a man do what he wants with you; an ungodly man smoking cigarette, drinking rum. After a person grows up in the house of God, taught by their mothers, taught by their fathers: “Don’t let anybody touch you here darling. Don’t let anybody tell you anything; if they do anything to you come to me.” And that wretch, beyond that, will go and unveil all her clothes in front of an ungodly man and perform oral sex. You have to be a disgraceful Christian to do that. Disgraceful hypocrite! You’ve got to be demon-possessed. You kill that mother, you kill that father when you fall so low as a dog!

You know how hard it is for a mother to bring up a young girl, teach her from a baby: “Darling don’t let anybody touch you. That is what you mothers should be doing. If you are not doing that you are not performing your duty. You mothers have to perform that duty. You have to tell your children, “Don’t let this happen, don’t let that happen, if any man touch you, come and tell me. Any man that touch your legs, any man that tries to kiss you, come and tell me”. And if you are not doing that you are not the right kind of a mother. I am a father, and that’s the way I brought up my children. Yes, if they want to find out something from me, they come and ask me. I don’t want them to go and ask a prostitute about sex, and ask them about this and that. They are free to come to me. The young girls here, they want to talk to me, they write me a letter, they come and ask me. They don’t have to go and find out from some man. They don’t have to go and experience it. We have youth group counsel.

Yes, so when you have your head in a television, and you are looking at blue-movies and you sit and hear the Word of God preached to you. If you have a godly pastor, beloved, and you will be so low down, wicked, nasty, as a human being to go and unveil all your clothes in front of an ungodly man and perform oral sex, you have to be a wicked human being. Yes and God could curse you right in that act because you know better than that. And young men that sit under the Word of God, beloved, wherever you are, following the message, and you have a godly pastor, and you would run around and kiss a girl in church or kiss a girl in the public, my beloved, you are a stinking human being to pervert a next man’s daughter and you are obligated to marry her if she is a Christian. That is what the Word says. That is what the message says.

CONFESSION TO YOUR MARRIAGE PARTNER

(ADULTERY AND FORNICATION)

And when you as a young woman would kiss around, or live in fornication, or you as a married woman or a married man go out there and live unfaithful to your marriage partner, even if you as much as allow another man to kiss you as a married woman, or you as a man would kiss around with a woman other than your wife, you have broken your marriage vows and that must be confessed to your marriage partner if you would ever enter the kingdom of God. You say, “Preacher, I already confessed that to God”. The prophet of God said that you must confess that to your marriage partner. There are three scared trusts that was given to a woman, one of those trusts is your purity, and anytime you defile yourself before you marry to a man, you must confess those things to that man before he takes your hand in marriage, and if you don’t and he finds that out after, he can divorce you and marry another woman. 

YOU HAVE TO CONFESS IT TO YOUR HUSBAND

  401-Q-91 Brother Bill, what is the difference between fornications and adultery, Matthew 19:9? Jesus said in Matthew 19:9, "Whosoever putteth away his wife and marries another, except it be for the cause of fornications, commits adultery." The difference between fornications and adultery, the word could be applied either way. But to make it clear what he was talking of there, that--a woman that's unmarried cannot commit adultery, because she has no husband to commit adultery against. It's uncleanliness for her. She has to confess that to her husband before they are married if she's did that. If not and her husband finds it out later, he has a right to put her away, because she took a false vow. For the Bible said, "Be it well..." or ritual says. "Be it well known to you (I have it in mine) if any couples are joined otherwise than God's Word does allow, their marriage is not lawful…A woman come not long ago, and she said, "Oh, I've confessed all that." She was nervous, and had a breakdown, and said, "I confessed all that to God." I said, "You have to confess it to your husband. It wasn't God that you committed adultery against; it was your husband." That's right. And if a man marries a woman and she has lived unclean before she marries him, and then she comes to him, if they've been married ever so long, and then she comes to him and says, "Honey, I want to tell you something. I did run out with another man; I never told you,"Jesus said he has a right to put her away and marry another, because they're not married in the beginning, 'cause she falsely told a lie against him. (Questions and answers COD 59-0628e).

HE HAS A RIGHT TO PUT HER AWAY AND MARRY ANOTHER WOMAN

  13-6   She has a sacred trust of virtue committed to her by her Lord: a certain virtue. Nothing else holds it but a woman. That's right. That's committed to her by God. She must not defile that virtue. If she even does something wrong, she must confess that to her husband before he takes her; and make it right…If she doesn't and she lives with her husband for ten years and then confesses it, he has a right to put her away and marry another woman. That's the Scripture. Fornication is unclean living. "Joseph, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife, for that which is conceived in her if of the Holy Ghost." He was minded to put her away privately (See?), after he'd already engaged to her. When you are engaged to her, as far as God's concerned, you're married to her. (Invisible.union.of.the.Bride 65-1125).

You have all of this free love right under the message. You have people go right out and live like a dog, and all that the preacher would do is come up on the pulpit and preach against fornication and adultery.  No discipline at all. Brother, let me tell you something, the deacons would be on your heels here, because we don’t want you as a fornicator or adulterer or whoremonger to drive the Spirit of God out of this tabernacle. Anytime a minister allow these things to go in the House of God, anytime they allow these things to get away in the House of God, they’ll grieve the Spirit of God away. And that is what happened to the assemblies that follow this message. They compromise. Too much “thunders”, and they compromise with the holiness message. There we are.

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HERETICAL ARTICLE NO. 50

MESSAGE BELIEVERS CAN MARRY UNBELIEVERS

AND BE EQUALLY YOKED

 Now we come to the heresy of unequal yoke that message believers allowed in the House of God. They allowed the women, they allowed the men to go out and catch unsaved women and unsaved boys outside in the world and come back right in the House of God and marry both of them. It is unscriptural. You are a sinner preacher, when you take an unsaved person and you take a Christian and marry them together. You are a hypocrite! Yes, it is an unequal yoke. You will answer before God; minister’s children, deacon’s children, people in the House of God. This is condemned by the prophet.  Anytime you as a minister perform a blessing upon an ungodly man and a Christian woman or vice versa, you are breaking the Word of God. It’s an unequal yoke, and we want to hear the words of the prophet on that.

How is it preachers, that you could read the prophet books, how you could listen to the tapes and continue to condone and compromise the Word of God in such a way, when 1Corinthians 6:14-18 is standing right there to tell you that, “you should not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers? For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what fellowship hath light with darkness?” Yes, it’s condemned by the Word of God. I don’t care how long you wait for a husband. I don’t care how long you wait for a wife.

And the reason why some women wait so long for a husband, they are looking for a film star. Yes, they don’t want a young boy that would work hard. They want a handsome looking man. And the reason why it’s vice versa, is because they look for some kind of a film star. You are going to get what you are looking for you hypocrite. Oh yes! This is not an hour to look for beauty, it isn’t the hour to look for society, you’ve got to find the will of God. It’ll take a young man that is low down; hypocritical, a young woman low down, hypocritical to go out and lust after ungodly people, to marry them, bring them back in the House of God to get baptized. After you live in fornication, after you live in adultery, and live like a dog, you pass the woman “round the road”, nobody knows how she ends up inside of the church, but then she sits in the House of God waiting for some water to baptize them.

“Brother Bruce, I feel you’re really hard.” I am trying to save your life you hypocrite. You are full of lust, and your lust is getting the better of you. You need to kneel down and pray and fast and say, “God give me power over this will, give me power over this lust”. You don’t search for a woman and a man by beauty, by money, by house and land. You’ve got to seek the will of God. Yes. You don’t build up one girl’s hope and then jump over and take a next girl. You don’t build up the hopes of a man and then run across and take a next man. You are a slut!  Yes sir! You ought to pray for the will of God. 

NOT GOOD FOR SINNERS AND CHRISTIANS TO MARRY TOGETHER

E-16  You know, boys, I'm telling you tonight, and you young ladies, be careful who you marry; you'll have a broken home the first thing you know. And it's not good to--sinners and Christians to marry together. Don't be unequally yoked together, 'cause that's what got Ahab. She was pretty little thing, yes, paint all over her face, eyes like a lizard…You know, the wisest man in the Bible outside of Christ died a heathen idolater because of a bunch of pretty women? Solomon. Pulled him away from God. Don't yoke yourself up unequally. And I've seen many people come to the platform, and be healed, and walk away, and mix up with unbelievers, and their sickness come right back to them again. (Separation.from.unbelief  55-0228).

NO BELIEVER SHOULD EVER MARRY AN UNBELIEVER

“5    And then in his wedding, instead of marrying among his own people, he went over and married a sinner, an idolater, worship of idols. He married Jezebel. And she was not a believer. And no believer should ever marry an unbeliever, under no circumstances: should always marry believers.” (Be.certain.of.God 59-0125).

Is that me being hard or is that the prophet’s words? Is that the Bible? Did Brother Paul stand for the same thing?  Yes sir. Holiness or hell!

ABRAHAM DID NOT WANT HIS SON TO MARRY AN UNBELIEVER

  E-13    “Abraham was determined that he did not want his son to marry an unbeliever. That would be good decision for a Christians today, who are sons and daughters of Abraham, to make the same decision about their children. Now, it didn't make any difference how pretty those unbelieving girls were, and how nice a women they were, but Abraham did not want his son connected with that kind of stuff.” (Time.of.decision 59-0611).

Brothers and Sisters, Abraham did not want his son to marry an unbeliever because he was a friend of God. Yes. And there are people that claim to belong to this message, when their daughters and sons are not getting a partner quick enough in the House of God, they will secretly go and woo some unsaved and bring them around the house. Yes. Then they will woo them to come and get baptized in order to catch a man for their daughter, and in order to catch a woman for their son. You are a hypocrite! Yes Sir, and you are not acting as a son of Abraham at all. You get that Devil off from you father; you get that Devil off from you mother. “Where do you preach that pastor?” Right here. That is why it’s so straight.

GOD WANTS HIS PEOPLE SEPARATED FROM UNBELIEVERS

138    God wants His people to be separated from unbelief and unbelievers. So

many of you people make a mistake in this, sometimes letting your children play

out here a little Oswald. See?...You be sure who your daughter goes out with at nighttime. See, see? Maybe you raised her a godly little old girl around the church, and the first thing you know she gets out with Oswald or some of them, and he's a atheist, unbeliever, and her life will come up ruined and you don't know what he is. You see? Then he'll marry her, and look where your kids are, your grandchildren then. You see? Be careful. God wants His people to be separated. (End.time.evangelism 62-0603).

WHEN HE CHOOSES A WIFE IT SHOWS WHAT’S DOWN IN HIM

10-2    So you must make the right choice. Again, the kind of a woman that a man would choose will reflect his ambition and his character. If a man chooses the wrong woman, it reflects his character. And what he ties himself to shows truly what's in him. A woman reflects what's in the man when he chooses her for wife. It shows what's down in him. No matter what he says outside, watch what he marries. (Choosing.of.a.Bride 65-0429e).

When a man chooses a wife it reflects the character that is inside of him. Yes! And when you go and choose a prostitute from the world, an ungodly woman, living in the world, maybe committed fornication with ten men, and you want to go and pick up that for a wife and pass her in for a baptism, you are a dead hypocrite. It shows that there is nothing down inside of you. It shows that there is hypocrisy, that there is a serpent down inside of you. You are not born again; your character is a nasty one. Your appetite is like a corbeaux (Vulture) that goes and pick up something from the garbage heap, then brings it in the house of God and pass it in some water and eat it. You are a corbeaux. Unequal yoke.

HE’S FALLEN FROM GRACE IF HE MARRIES A WOMAN LIKE THAT

25-4    But her spiritual character is far from that being the homemaker that Jesus Christ is coming to receive.   If any Christian would marry a woman like that, it shows he's fallen from grace. His taste of God and his taste of a home (what a home ought to be) is far when he choose a woman like that. No, sir, she sure wouldn't fit a Christian's taste. (Choosing of a Bride 65-0429E).

I don't believe in any Christian marrying an ungodly man or woman. And that is in the message system out there. They go and get their partners in the world and come back and pastor blesses it. Yes.

Oh God! I hear on the Radio, the News, and a child crying for hunger, and a woman crying with the baby, and a man bawling for hunger. Boy, it ought to rip your heart. You’re going to hear some letters this afternoon of a man writing me of their hunger and starvation, four to five states, ten million people. A brother wrote, he said, “Thirty-four people died in the village”, he said, “Oh God Brother! Send some money for me. I want to buy some corn”. Yes, Brothers, I sent some, I don't know if it would reach him. In a famine stricken area they’re bursting every letter, yes; they want to take out every penny. He said, “Only ten people came to church brother, the rest of them are hungry and starving home”. I tell you, you better thank God for your food. I was telling the brethren, I’ve never seen a man starve to death in my life. We are a happy people. And I doubt any of you have ever seen that. One man I met in my lifetime that was starving to death. He was neglected, an old man, and myself and a friend went over there and gave him food and he revived after many days, You don't know Brethren, You don’t know the agony…? Oh boy, that child cry and the mother wail, and  you hear other voices behind weeping  and wailing for food. Ten million people on the bread line. Yes sir! And you have money to buy a three hundred dollar dress. You want a new fridge every year. You are living for this world.

When this goes out, these preachers will be exposed. We are against this immoral  spirit in  every way,  and I  am  disappointed  if there  is such  a person

inside of here that fits this preaching this morning, who have their head in a television, in the internet, spending time behind those videos, loosing prayer, loosing the Word, friending with an unsaved man. It’s a disgrace, If anybody is guilty of the things that I preached. Brothers, not one person in here is supposed to be guilty of such because I had been preaching that from since you were a child. Some of you became mothers and grandmothers, you are without excuse. These are the things that I proclaimed for the past thirty five years as a Gospel preacher, and I preached Holiness before I ever knew Brother Branham and I had women dressing the same way here before I had known the message; and for you to say that you did not know that you should not be with an ungodly man, for you to say I did not know it was wrong to marry an unsaved, person television, sports or whatever, you are a dead hypocrite, you will account for every drop of sweat. I take courage because of loyal men and women that will sit there for hours and hours and hear the Word of life. Though they are not guilty of these things, they are happy that sins are called out, they are happy that the Gospel is being preached, they are happy that somebody else is hearing and is going to hear these things, they wait for the hour of deliverance. You will give an account, God has cursed many already for their attitude. For you to hear a pastor killing himself to lead you to life and sit down there with a resentful Devil and a hateful spirit and a critical mouth, criticizing your ministers to your children, to your husband, to your wife, to your brothers, to your sisters, to your neighbors, you’ve got to be a dead hypocrite and possibly a Judas. That is what Judas done. People of God that are really elected love that Shepherd. That Shepherd leads them to life, they honor and respect him. Yes, they adore, they don't want anything to happen to that Shepherd. No. For they to lose that Shepherd is a great thing, they run the danger of being scattered. Smite the Shepherd and the sheep shall be scattered.

For you to commit fornication and sit in the presence of God you are a Devil. For you to look at blue movies and come and sit in the presence of God, you are a Devil. Yes. Possibly a child of Hell running around with an unsaved woman, running around with an unsaved man, you have to be demon possessed. You are an unbeliever, you never heard the Word of God. You don't believe this message. You don't believe your pastor. You listening to them rock and roll music from day to day, you dead hypocrite. Lie in your pastor's face and sit down and sleep. That is what get you sleepy, you have a devil inside of you. To whom much is given much is required of him. To him that knoweth to do good and doeth it not shall be beaten with many stripes. You are going to account. 

You have heard more truth than any people ever heard in all the world, and that is no wild boast friend. You have seen examples, godly examples, more than any people have ever seen. You have seen a display of Christianity and unselfishness my beloved, more than any people have ever seen in the world. And you are going to account for it.

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PERFECTING HOLINESS-FALSE THUNDERS FAILED

“Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; as obedient children, not fashioning your selves according to the former lust (desires) in your ignorance…”

I want to explain that just a little, and in case I don’t justify it, “…as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lust…” In other words the way that you lived before, the desires you had before, the taste for things of the world that you had before, don’t fashion yourselves, according to the former lusts in your ignorance. While you were ignorant of the Word of God, don’t fashion yourselves in that way. “…But as He which had called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation, because it is written, be ye holy for I am holy” (1 Peter 1:13-16). Now that word conversation is always translated testimony, not necessarily speaking,

 “Having therefore, these promises dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. Isn’t that wonderful, let us read that again together; Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.” (2 Corinthians 7:1)

May the Lord add a blessing to the reading of his holy Words, you may be seated.  Oh my brothers and sisters, the Word of the Lord is so precious, yes, like it is written in the scripture, “And the Word of the Lord was precious in those days”. And if it was precious in those days, I believe that it ought to be even more precious today, now that the seals book is opened, the Word of the Lord is supposed to be even more precious, so that when we read our Bibles, we must have a love flowing from our hearts, and we must feel the sweetness of reading the Bible. We just don’t read the Bible like any ordinary storybook you know. There are many days that I don’t take up my Bible and read it, not because I am backslidden, but because I don’t feel impressed enough to approach it with the sincerity and the honesty, that I want to approach the Bible with. I feel I must not pick up my Bible in the natural like that, because of some law or commandment. I feel like when I pick up my Bible and I open up the Words of God, I must be able to realize that God is speaking to me, and that’s the right approach, and then the Holy Spirit must flow through the Words of God and then you feel blessed of the Holy Spirit. So our little subject tonight, “Perfecting Holiness”, and for a subtitle “false thunders failed”. We are called in scripture to perfect holiness. We are called in scripture to be ye holy, for I am holy. God is demanding holiness from his children. We are called in scriptures to be like God, “Be ye perfect, even as your father in heaven is perfect.” (Matthew 5). We are called to perfection, and in Hebrew 6 Brother Paul said, “leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ let us go on to perfection”. The master builder spoke this in his day. This holiness and this perfection will never be achieved in our own selves; you cannot perfect yourself or make yourself holy. How that comes about is that you must have the holy God dwelling in you by His Spirit, by a change of nature, and through the blood of Jesus Christ, and if you have the Lord Jesus Christ dwelling in you by His Spirit, then automatically you would manifest holiness, for he said, “Be ye holy for I am holy”. And if you have a Holy Spirit in you, you must manifest holiness. So it is not by your good works or by your practice or by how much you have achieved in this life, but it’s how surrendered you have become.

You must surrender your life to Him, that no matter how impossible His demands are in the scripture; His rules; His regulations; His commandments; and His will for you, you yield to that will just like the Lord Jesus yielded. It was hard for him to go to the cross to be crucified but He said, “not my will but thine be done”, and we ought to be crucified daily, and Brother Paul said, “I die daily”. You have a cross to bear, and Jesus said, “He that will come after me let him take up his cross and follow me”, and as Jesus Christ was crucified upon his cross you must be crucified upon your “cross”, your old nature must be crucified. So it’s not a matter of a legalistic affair or practicing something, it’s a matter of surrendering that will to God. “Lord if that is your will for me to be perfect like you, Lord I yield my vessel to you”, and then come to church you don’t have to worry, come to church find the right pastor that has that vision, find that right pastor that has the Holy Spirit in him, and then you sit under that ministry, and as you sit under that ministry and hear the Words of life, then you would perfect holiness in your life.

A little scripture just came to my mind, (Eph:4:11-15) “the five fold ministry was set in the house of God for the perfecting of the saints”. You aren’t going to come to this holiness standard and perfect holiness in your life until you find a true gift, for the five fold ministry was set in the house of God for the perfecting of the saints. You need a pastor from here until the outpouring, yes, to tell you that your clothes isn’t right, your shoes isn’t just right, your hair is just not right, your words aren’t just right, your thoughts are not right, the home is not right “for the perfecting of the saints for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, yes till we all come into the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the son of God unto a perfect man”. The prophet of God said in “The statue of the perfect man” that, that’s the unit that goes in the rapture. The unit that goes in the rapture is a man with faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, Godliness, and brotherly kindness, and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, the capstone, comes upon him and then he has perfected holiness in his life.

So now you must strive to perfect this holiness and come up to the standard of holiness because if you do not do that you just would not have a revelation of Christ, because no man can see the Lord except he is holy. “Without holiness no man shall see the Lord.” Now if you hear the gospel and in your mind you think, “Well boy, these things I will try to live, but the rest of it there, I don’t think I am able with that”, you will never be born again, you will never go in the rapture until you change that conception. “Well everybody has to understand that I am a weak person.” The Bible says, “Be ye strong in the power of His might.” “We are more than conquerors through Jesus Christ.” Satan says that you are not able. That’s true, you cannot push that mountain over into the sea, and that mountain is your old nature. You cannot overcome that old nature; it takes a supernatural miracle from God. Yes. So you must strive to perfect holiness in you life.

Now, Jesus said, “By their fruits ye shall know them”. Now if the Holy Spirit is inside of you by a born again experience, and if you have seen the Lord Jesus Christ, then as a Christian you must be bearing those fruits. You cannot manufacture them: the mango tree doesn’t manufacture mangoes and the sheep don't manufacture wool; it bears wool; the mango tree bears mangoes. So Jesus said, “By their fruits ye shall know them”, and the prophet of God throughout his message, you would notice that Brother Branham used that holiness standard to judge everything that names the name of Christ and is identified with Christianity, he used that very Scripture: “By their fruits ye shall know them”. Jesus used that very same Scripture and commanded the believer; Brother Branham used that same Scripture and commanded the believers to judge by that very same measuring rod. “Ye shall know them by their fruits”. Yes. And the Apostles in the New Testament times, if you would read your Scripture and observe very carefully, that they used that very same measuring rod to show the church who was false and who was true; not the great swelling revelations they could preach.

Now, briefly consider Jude, and you would see how he used that same method of, “by their fruits ye shall know them” to expose those spirits of the devil. He said, “Certain men are crept in”. Notice in the reading of Brother Peter, 2Peter 2, he said that “there shall be false prophets among you who shall bring in damnable heresies”. But then he starts to rake down those false prophets, “having eyes full of adultery, who shall make merchandise of you”, and he kept naming out those things to show you that don't matter what they speak and who they are, as long as they don't manifest that holiness standard and establish that in their lives, they have the wrong spirit and they are false prophets.

Notice how Brother John took that same Scripture in 1John and he showed them that, when these antichrists arose in their time, he exposed those same spirits and showed them, that if they are not living Christianity and establishing holiness standards, then it’s a wrong spirit. Yes. And let me say this here brothers and sisters, regardless of a preacher's ability, his intellectualism, how many mysteries that he can preach, how many signs and wonders he has following and how wonderful is his personality, how well dressed with a clergy gown, how nice he could speak, how handsome he is, how eloquent he could speak, it doesn't matter what they do upon the face of the earth in the name of Christ in the name of Christianity and do not manifest that holiness message its the wrong spirit. I am laying my life and faith upon Matthew 7:15-20, where Jesus said, “Beware of false prophets that comes to you in sheep clothing but inwardly they are ravening wolves, ye shall know them by their fruits”. He was speaking to his disciples, He was speaking to his preachers, He was speaking to his apostles. There isn’t any uncertainty about false prophets arising whenever truth and whenever the message of God comes to the earth; and we had a great message that came today by Brother Branham, Malachi 4, Revelation 10:7, Revelation 3:14, and you must have false prophets come in. Now if that was the measuring rod back in Jesus' day, wouldn't that be the measuring rod today? If that was the measuring rod that all the Apostles used, isn't that the same thing today? And if Brother Branham came and used that same measuring rod, isn't it the same thing today? Then what is it that prohibits me from using that rod today?

There is a teaching around the message that says that nobody should call anybody false and they should never say that any man is a false preacher or he is not preaching the Word of God. This is one that does it, and I am based upon that Scripture that Jesus said, “Beware of false prophets that come to you in sheep clothing but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits”, and he continued to give me the understanding of how to know a false prophet, how to know somebody that is true and how to know somebody that is false. He continued to edify the church of God, He said, “A good tree cannot bring forth corrupt fruits”, cannot, it is impossible for it to bring forth corrupt fruits, “and  a corrupt tree cannot bring forth good fruit”. So don't matter how much a preacher can do and what is his ability spiritually, if his nature is not changed, as hard as he may try, he cannot establish holiness in his congregation. Is that the Scripture? [Congregation says, “Amen!”] He cannot establish holiness in his congregation. He cannot bring forth good fruit, he’s got to pervert the holiness message somewhere, and as simple as we are going through these holiness messages for the past four messages, by the simplicity of this holiness message of Brother Branham, the Bride must be able to judge every person, every preacher, every man, every woman, every lay member, of what kind of a life is in that person .

If a man claims to be son of man, prophet, God come down in flesh, preacher, pastor, evangelist, missionary, he raised the dead, he healed the sick, he moved a mountain and throw it into the sea, move a tree and plant it in the highway, there is only one way that you could know if that is the spirit is of God and if that man has a change of nature, and that is you’ve got to see what kind of a life he's living and what he is teaching on the holiness message. You want to find out who you are as an individual and to know what kind of a life that is in you? Okay, there is a measuring rod here, “By their fruits ye shall know them”. If you are a hypocrite that's going to commit fornication and hide from the believers and come back and sit down there very pious, you have a devil inside of you. If you are committing adultery, and you raise your hands and worship the Lord and say, “I believe this message”, you have a devil inside of you, I don't care who you are. If you have a Television locked up inside of the bedroom, you are a dead hypocrite. If you’re out on the Sports field, you are a dead hypocrite. You don't have the love of God inside of   you. That is it.

Now there is a great saying in the message, when you talk to them they say, “It’s the Word, the Word.” Yes, the Word, you know the false prophets by the Word. Yes. What part of the word? Now if a man comes preaching thunders and a man comes preaching lightening and a man comes preaching whatever he wants to preach, all right, that is word, you’re calling that Word. So now what they are talking about this “word” is the interpretation that, that preacher is bringing, how high and mighty he could explain the mysteries, but then Jesus is giving us something here to judge this prophet that claims to be receiving revelation from God, that claims to be bringing thunders, that claims to be bringing lightening, that claims to be bringing earthquake too and that is after you bring an earthquake, after you flash your lightening, after you roll your thunder, there is only one thing that I as a believer and a preacher here has to judge you by, and that is by your fruits, by their fruits we shall know them. Am I making sense? I don't care if you raise the dead, heal the sick, cast out devils, I don't care if you preach all the mysteries of Brother Branham and you cannot adhere to his holiness message you have a devil in you. You are demon possessed! If the Holy Spirit is inside of you, you must manifest holiness standards. Jesus continues, He says, "A good tree cannot bring forth corrupt fruits." If the Holy Spirit is inside of me friend, and my nature is changed, then I become a good tree. I cannot come and deviate from the holiness message and change your dressing and send you back to the Television, send you back to the Sports field. No, it is impossible for that mango tree to bear tamarind. You don't be afraid of your Pastor falling, if he is born again, and if the Holy Spirit is holding him. No brother, I cannot be a tamarind. I am a good tree. I can't be a tamarind. It is mango for thirty-five (35) years now.

Did I ever lead you astray to follow a false prophet? Did I ever come here and had to confess to adultery? [Congregation answers, "No!"] Fornication? [Congregation answers, "No!"] Did I ever scheme you for your money? [Congregation answers, "No!"] No, I am like Samuel, not a prophet, but Samuel stood up there and he said, "Have I defrauded any man?" Have I stolen your donkey? Have I stolen your cattle? Have I done this and have I done that?” Now, he had a clean testimony even because Samuel was a good tree and he could not bring forth corrupt fruit.

Anytime you see a man bring forth corrupt fruit, he is corrupt in his nature. Now you judge your own selves my friends. Listen to me, nobody knows you like you. No man knows the spirit of a man save the spirit of man that is in him; and you are with yourself more than anybody, and you know all the secrets, all the chances that you take, you know your motives and objectives sitting here today, after hearing the message. If you have a surrendered heart towards that message, that “Lord I want to go right, I want to manifest everything that is right”, then the Lord is with you. But there are people that sit there and choose what they want to live and what they don't want to live. You aren’t going no where friend! You cannot say that I take ninety-nine percent and leave one percent. You are not going anywhere, I am not going to fool you; you are not going to go anywhere. Yes. “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God” (Matthew 4:4). So let me stress that again, Beloved, I am not preaching legalistic standards of holiness and trying to get everybody to do right by using a rod over their heads. No, there is a holiness standard that was laid down by the prophet of God.

There is a holiness standard that was laid down in the Old Testament and the New Testament. Some of the holiness standards in the Old Testament were incorporated in the New Testament. Man was not able to keep the law in the Old Testament. God made a way through grace that He can bring His spirit inside of man, and when He brings His spirit inside of a man, even though you may have it like the size of a shirt button, friend, that Spirit is going to help you to manifest holiness, because you’ve now become a good tree, and that good tree cannot bring forth corrupt fruit. No, you don't go backwards, you are going forward. You are a good tree and that is why you are here trying to serve the Lord, trying to overcome. It hurts you when you make a mistake, you spend restless nights; you pray over your weaknesses, you want to get strong. Yes. You are a good tree, that is why you have those desires. Let me emphasize that again, regardless of the preacher's ability, intellectualism, mysteries, signs and wonders following, regardless of the sheep's clothing. I will stop there. What is the sheep's clothing? “Wonderful personality, soft and tender; the nicest man that you ever found.” When I speak of false prophets, I am not talking of terrible people; I am not attacking the personality of the man. I am not saying that the man is a bad man. I am saying that inside of him, his nature is not changed and he could only bring forth corrupt fruit. Yes, sheep's clothing. They are exposed by their lives. They are exposed by deviating from the holiness message and by not establishing the holiness standards of the message.

Nobody is greater than Jesus. Nobody is greater than William Branham. No man has the authority to change the holiness standards of this message in the slightest way. Anybody that does that is a corrupt tree. It doesn't matter where you run. It doesn't matter how many mysteries you preach, you must come back to Matthew chapter seven, "Ye shall know them by their fruits." That fits lay member, it fits prophet, priest or king. That is the way that you judge every prophet and messenger that is sent to you. That is how everything is judged from any office that uses the pulpit. Give it a chance, even though they bring fire down from heaven. Give it a chance and see what they are doing with the holiness message. How holy are they living? How righteous are they living? Hear what Jesus said, He said, "Except your righteousness exceed the righteousness of the scribes and the Pharisees ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of God."  He says there isn't a way in the world for you to enter into that outpouring of the Holy Spirit unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees. Let that go home, friend.

Anybody that would deviate from the holiness message, I don't care how many mysteries that they preached; Brother Paul said, "Though I have knowledge to understand all mysteries and have not charity, I am become as a sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal." You are like a tambourine that's making noise. So, it’s not how much you can quote Brother Branham and understand the mysteries that were revealed. Many mysteries were indeed revealed and men have become great intellectuals under this message, great intellectuals in the Bible schools. They could tie-up those theologians, but you don't judge by how much mysteries a man knows, it is what he lives and what he establishes the congregation on, in the holiness standard because, by their fruits ye shall know them. So anybody that deviates from that, their nature is not changed. So a false prophet's nature is not changed, he's not born again. These false prophets that you need to be aware of, that comes to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves, are not born again; they are corrupt trees, and a corrupt tree cannot bring forth good fruits. “Ye shall know them by their fruits.” So that is how you know a false prophet from a true prophet, a good pastor from a bad pastor. I don't care how soft they speak. I don't care what are their personalities, they can take their cars and run you from here to Toco, in the middle of the night, you call them anytime they are there, that's the good old priest that the Prophet spoke about, their nature is corrupt. How do you know that their natures are corrupt? They will deviate from the holiness message. Jesus said that they are corrupt trees, they cannot bring forth good fruit, and they cannot live out and establish people on the holiness message. They cannot have a church like this. They cannot have women dressing like this for thirty-five years. They cannot keep the church clean. From the time adultery shows up it is in or out, fornication in or out. They cannot. It is a total impossibility. They say, "Brother Bruce is a servant of God but he preaches by psychology. He is one hundred percent on the Word of God, but you see the people worship him as Christ." You lying dog! You are a lying dog, and that alone shows that you are not born again, otherwise you would not lie on a servant of God.

No matter where they run, how high they jump, how great they preach, how many signs and wonders; what I am telling you here picks up every evangelist on the field, picks up every preacher, every church, every lay member, every preacher in the message and everything that name the name of Jesus Christ. This will always expose them. What I have preached and established on the holiness message for these four to five nights, and what Brother Branham preached for thirty something years, will always expose that false prophet there, “Ye shall know them by their fruits”. It will always expose them regardless of their personalities and abilities. Now most of these men have wonderful personalities and Brother Branham compared the personality of Jesus with the personality of the Pharisees. He said that the good old priest was so wonderful to the people and this renegade Jesus so called came into the temple, plaited a cord of ropes, kicked the money changers out, threw out the cage and whipped the priests and said, "It is written that my house shall be called a house of prayer." He said that if you were there, who would you have thought to be the servant of God, that

rough fellow out here or the good old priest? It is not all together judged by that.

Now when He said, "Ye shall know them by their fruits", preachers interpret that to mean how soft you could be, how nice, how much you can smile. No, that is not what it is saying. It is not only speaking of love and joy and all these things. It is speaking of the holiness standards, and then when you practice the holiness standards there is something that goes with it and that is, it is verifying that you are preaching the truth. Now, get that. That is very technical there. It goes to show that the Spirit of Truth is dwelling in you, and if the Spirit of Truth is dwelling in you, then you are a man of truth and only because you are a man of truth, now can you establish that holiness. Alright, people don't like me to say this but I will say it still because I am not living by them you see, and I don’t go begging around for a place to preach: Thus all the thunders that started from New York and anybody that claims prophet-hood are judged by the measuring rod that Jesus gave us to measure with. These seven thunders that they claim started in 1974 on a thunder revival, destroyed the holiness message of Brother Branham. Now how can I accept that to be God on the basis that the Lord Jesus said, "Ye shall know them by their fruits", when these false thunders destroyed, compromised, perverted, modified and blatantly changed the holiness message standards that Brother Branham laid down in the message. Corrupt preachers. They changed the dressing that Brother Branham established, they brought dominating females: writing magazines, have their own websites, preaching in the bedroom to their husband, husband comes out on the pulpit. It produced a bunch of sissified men that cannot control their homes. Those thunders sent the people back to the television. The preachers fell in adultery and fornication, and likewise the congregation. They married their people to unsaved partners. Can we accept that as God? [Congregation says, “No!”] On the basis of what Jesus said, if something claims to be high, mighty, lightning, thunder and earthquake, and come our way, and claim to be the thunder revival; something rise up and claim to be the prophets that will go around the world to reap the harvest, eighth messengers arose all around the world, and then after they preach their swelling revelation, and would destroy the holiness message that Brother Branham labored to established, would you call that God? Let me hear your voices. [Congregation says, “No!”] I say it’s the devil. I am saying! It’s a false prophet. I am saying to beware of false prophets that come to you in sheep clothing.

In order to protect themselves from the Sword of the King and exposure by true servants of God, do you know what these false prophets formulated? These false prophets formulated a doctrine called the love gospel: “Touch not, taste not, handle not, don’t speak evil, don’t call another brother’s doctrine false and don’t say that, that brother is a false prophet, and don’t you ever say ‘antichrist’, and don’t you say anybody is off the message. We ought to be in unity and love”. You lying hypocrite! That is exactly what Jesus said, “They come to you in sheep clothing”. That’s sheep clothing. You are showing that the evidence of this love and truth is your soft pe