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TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY HARVEST OF SOULS
INDEX Twenty-first century harvest of souls versus unbelief
Heretical Article No.54
Oh lord, send laborers into the harvest
Heretical Article No.55 Harvest time and the last witness The gospel in power reaps the harvest
Heretical Article No.56 The gospel in power: then shall the end come
Heretical Article No.57
The son of man and his sickle reaps the harvest
Heretical Article No.58
Statements Of The Revivalist Robert Lee Lambert Other Available Books and Literature FOREWORD In June 2002, a tract was written composing of quotations of the prophet Elijah (Malachi 4:5-6), which pertaineth to the Harvest of Souls, which he knew that was yet in the field waiting to be harvest. Until the time of his departure, he did not reach those people. The tract spoke of three hundred thousand (300,000), souls in India, from which multitude he expected to have one hundred thousand (100,000) converts or more; a greater meeting in Africa, a mighty revival in Japan and a great tent meeting in Mexico. This little tract stirred the hearts of many message believers and ministers in Africa, India, and other parts of the world. It also inspired several ministers, in the U.S.A., one of whom was stirred in a greater measure, who took notice of the promises of God concerning the great harvest of souls, of the elected bride, before the rapture. A message was preached bringing more light on this subject by the Pastor of “Bethel The House of God”. The message was immediately documented by the U.S.A. Ct Pastor Kenneth Mcgahee. He was overwhelmed and blessed of the Lord, after hearing of such a harvest yet in the field, which lapped over from the twentieth century into the twenty first century. He further searched and found many quotations of the prophet, which fully supports this revelation. His desperate efforts resulted in the writing of this book. He became the Co-Arthur, with the Bethel Pastor, who preached several other messages pertinent to the great subject, which are included in this work. Such messages have inspired many believers, and we trust that it will be a blessing to many more who will read this book. Though this work maybe criticized, by many pessimistic believers stooped in their unbelief, we believe that all vision and prophecies given by the Lord to the prophet must come to past. “For the vision [is] yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry”. (HABAKKUK 2:4) 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 of Trinidad W.I. and Pastor Kenneth Mcgahee of Grace Covenant Church Ct. U.S.A. in June & July in the year 2002. INTRODUCTION And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. (Revelation 18:1-2) The Angel of revelation 18:1; prophesied to have great power and light, did truly lighten the earth with his glory. Since it was prophesied, by (Isaiah 60:2) the Prophet that darkness shall cover the earth and gross darkness the people. It was necessary that in such midnight darkness to have a cry made, “behold the bridegroom cometh go ye out to meet him” (Matthew 28:18-20). These events transpired in our age Laodicea (Revelation 3:14-22, 10&7). This ministry of power and demonstration of the Holy Spirit came at the time when the revival fires of 1906 by the early Pentecostal movement went out, and the great commission of Mark 16:15-18 Matthew 28:18-20, and the great promise of our Lord to the believer of Saint John 14:12 seemed forgotten. Signs, wonders and miracles recorded in the book of Acts, were things of the past. The churches were bound by formalities and many ministers were preaching that the days of miracles are past. When in 1933, A pillar of light appeared in the form of a star when a humble servant of God, was baptizing his 17th candidate in the name of Jesus Christ, (Acts 2:38,) and an audible voice from Heaven spoke at the Ohio River U.S.A , these words. “As John the Baptist foreran my first coming, even so your message shall introduce my second coming”. This great Phenomena was witnessed by 4000 thousand people, and as a result 400 hundred persons were baptized. It broke a national revival that went across United States. In 1946 a mighty angel visited William Marrion Branham, that event broke an international revival, spearheaded by that mighty evangelist. Most evangelists, of that era shared the power and the glory of that great revival. Certainly the earth was lightened with the glory of God. The world witnessed the power of God in Mighty signs, wonders and miracles the great commission of Mark 16:15-18, was demonstrated in a manner, that was foreign to the people of the middle ages, and which equally matched the power and demonstration of the Holy Spirit in apostolic times. The prophetic sign were displayed, in discernments of the thoughts of the heart, hundreds of thousands received, healing for their bodies, Cripple legs were made straight, cancers melted away, the dead were raised and thousands of other miracles, relative to the great commission was demonstrated. History bear record of this great event. The mighty acts of God are documented in many books, and eleven hundred and fifty magnetic tapes, all bearing record and confirming the word of God and the message of the hour sent by God to us through a mighty Prophet, anointed by the spirit of Elijah in fulfillment of Malachi chapter 4:5-6. That great ministry grew from one stage to another and climaxed in a third stage of the breaking of the seals (Rev:5-6), and the creative power of God. Temporarily demonstrating to the church the things, that will be accomplished in it’s full measure, before the rapture. William Branham declared his mission to the earth by the following statements. “My mission, that I believe that God has called me for... I--I have to say some personal things today, because that's what I told you I'd do (See?), and tell the world. My mission, I believe, to the earth is what? Is to forerun the coming Word (See?) the coming Word which is Christ. And Christ in Him has the millennium and has everything right there because He is the Word. See?” (Spoken word is the original seed 1962). “Were not building an organization. I'm not here this morning to build an organization. Christ never sent me to build an organizations. Christ sent me to build individuals to the statue of Jesus Christ that they might be the power house...?... dwelling place of His Spirit by His Word (Uh-huh.)--by His Word. See? Build up the individual to that place, not build an organization to a greater denomination, but build the individual to sons and daughters of God. That's the idea” (Stature of A Perfect Man 1962). Certainly this ministry was to restore the church back to the bride that she was at Pentecost, so she may continue to fulfill the great commission of Mark 16, which was demonstrated in his own ministry, which sent more than three million souls into the kingdom of God in the great harvest of the twentieth century. There were many souls, which he could not reach, though they are elected, to make up the bride of Christ. There are many places where he could not minister, many nations he could not enter, though he had many visions of God’s elected to be saved whom he could not reach, because of the hindrances of Satan, e.g. China, Japan, India, Africa, Mexico and other places. He went home with that great longing and desire of his heart unfulfilled. Thus the great harvest of the twentieth century lapped over into the twenty-first century, and has become the responsibility of the super church that is soon coming in power and demonstration of the Holy Spirit, to complete the ministry of Christ and the great commission given to the early church. (Church age pg. 171-172). The great commission is only fully accomplished when it goes unto every creature and to the uttermost part of the earth. “In these last days the true Bride Church (Christ's seed) will come to the Headstone, and she will be the super church, a super race, as she nears Him” (Church age pg 171-172). “Those in the bride do only His will. No one can make them do otherwise. They have 'thus saith the Lord' or they keep still. They know that it has to be God in them doing the works, fulfilling His own Word. He did not complete all His work while in His earthly ministry so now He works in and through the bride. She knows that, for it was not yet time for Him to do certain things that He must now do. But He will now fulfill through the bride that work which He left for this specific time”. (Church age Pg 171-172). Satan by his servants has destroyed this vision of the prophet for the endtime church bride. This book entitled “Exposition of Damnable Heresies, twenty-first century harvest of souls, versus unbelief” book seven, seeks to present the truth of Brother Branham’s teachings, that there is a harvest of souls yet in the field, which is composed of three classes of people. Members of the elected bride, the foolish virgins who comes under the inspiration of the bride; which eventually prepares her to withstand the Mark of the beast and die as martyrs for the message and the hundred and forty four thousand Jews, who receives the gospel message after it is turned over to Moses and Elias, by the gentile bride. The efforts of this work is to expose every heresy that stands in the way of God’s promises, his plan and his program for the endtime bride to complete the great commission of Mark 16. Unbelief has heaped up to the skies, the false anointed ones have many private interpretations to keep that twenty-first century harvests of souls in the fields, but they shall not prevail because “all that the father hath given me, will come to me and no man will pluck them out of my hands”, the Master declared. Several dead doctrines were exposed, along with their founders who establishes that all is over, no more revival, no more signs and wonders on a large scale, since the opening of the seals when the perfect word came forth; infact they propergate that the word itself is the only power on earth, and there is no need for the greater works of Christ, because all of that was only in Brother Branham and if anything is to be accomplished relative to the great commission Brother Branham will do so when he comes up in the first resurrection. Thus they have explained away the great commission to the church of Jesus Christ. Though many message believers expected God to move on the scene, with greater power by the third phase of the ministry of Brother Branham, which he confirmed until his departure in 1965. Pessimism set into the hearts of unbelievers like the children of Israel under Moses who perished in the Wilderness. This work is to establish faith in the promises of God and to establish that we the children of Israel can cross the Jordan and possess the land of promise. Though the Mamba snake of unbelief will try to stop the bride of Christ from entering into God’s promises. (Paradox 1961).
TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY “And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud [one] sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle. And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.” (Revelation 14:14-16). May the Lord add a blessing to the reading of His Holy Words. I want to entitle this little message, “Twenty-First Century Harvest Of Souls versus Unbelief.” This is a very striking scripture, which I would not justify here this morning, but a little later on and that is Revelation 14:14-16, as we just read; and the scriptures that followed that from verse 18 unto 20, speak of another harvest. So, in fact, there are two harvests that are recorded in Revelation 14. And just from the simple reading, anybody could understand that one harvest is unto life and the blessings of the Lord, and the next harvest recorded is unto destruction and wrath. We are not dealing with the harvest unto wrath and destruction, but I am dealing with verses 14-16, concerning the harvest, and I believe that there is going to be a great harvest of souls in this twenty-first century. I believe that we are part of that harvest, but this is not all. I believe that there are more souls to be harvested upon the face of the earth. I believe that the stage for that great harvest is now being set, because of world conditions and modern events that are now fulfilling prophecies. I believe that harvest is now ripe, just like the scripture says, “… for the harvest of the earth is ripe…”, then “the Son of man that sat upon a cloud, thrust in His sickle, and the harvest of the earth was reaped.” A very striking thing happened in 1963, and that is, there was a mysterious cloud that appeared over the desert of Arizona, which science photographed, and they declared it as a mysterious cloud that was not formed through water vapors. It was twenty-six miles high and thirty miles across the sky. There was something happening upon the face of the earth in that time, and in that season, and we believe that the Seven Seals Book was opened, and the mysteries of God were revealed to a human being, and that human being channeled that revelation down to the Church. But my point in relation to this scripture of Revelation 14:14-16 is I believe that cloud represented the Son of man, and it was a sign that a great harvest was going to take place soon after the appearance of that cloud. Needless to say that the cloud was photographed for the world to see and appeared in “Life magazine” I believe that cloud had something to do with this scripture where, “the Son of man was sitting upon a cloud,” and the commission went forth to “thrust in his sickle and reap the harvest, for the harvest of the earth is ripe.” I also believe that sickle was not an ordinary grass-knife or something just natural, but I believe that it was symbolic of a certain spiritual tool that the Lord will use in this hour to reap that harvest that is written about in Revelation 14.
GOD MUST FIND A TOOL FOR THE HARVEST – A SHARP SICKLE“Listen, we're at the end time, and I would say this with reverence and respect as the last couple of minutes is floating by. Look what God, to my opinion, will do and must do and will do in this last days, is to find a tool for the harvest. He's got to find a tool to thresh the floor. Any farmer, when he goes to his harvest, he has to have a tool to do it with. Certainly He's got to have a sharp sickle or something, some instrument to thresh out the grain. And the harvest is ripe. "God, take us in your hands. Make us bond servants of your love. Use us for tools to bring the realization to this sinful cursed earth that we're living in today, that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever”. (Paul .a. prisoner. of. Christ 63-0717). This will be justified later in many messages. But the Scripture is declaring that there is a harvest to be reaped by the Son of man and His sickle, and immediately after that harvest is reaped there follows another harvest, and that is a harvest unto wrath and destruction. This is clear, in the scripture, as a whistle. I am to prove to you that this harvest has not yet taken place; it is yet to come, and I firmly believe that the reason that this harvest has not yet taken place is because God is still getting His sickle ready. That sickle is in type of the 120 that went up into the Upper Room and then came down with an Outpouring of the Holy Spirit that shook the world, established the Christian Church, and reaped millions of souls for hundreds of years. I believe that there will be a repeat of Pentecost.
THE TRUE BRIDE OF LAST DAY WILL RETURN TO THE POWER OF PENTECOST“But thank God, in the last age there will be a group rise up, the True Bride of the last day, and she will listen to the Spirit. In that day of gross darkness the light will return by the pure Word and we will return to the power of Pentecost to welcome back the Lord Jesus Christ”. (Ephesian.church.age - church.age.book cpt.3). CHURCH WOULD RETURN TO BEING THE BRIDE SHE WAS AT PENTECOST“This age started just after the turn of the twentieth century. As it was to be the age in which the true church would return to being the bride she was at Pentecost, we know that there must of necessity be a return of dynamic power”. (Resume.of.the.ages - church.age.book cpt.10). There will be a church like the Apostolic church that Jesus Christ left upon the face of the earth, and I believe that there will be a great harvest of souls in the endtime here, by the power and demonstration of the Holy Ghost, Mark 16 in action, which is the Great Commission of our Lord Jesus Christ that He gave to the church. I believe that the Great Commission that started in the early church has not yet reached to the uttermost part of the earth and to every creature, but it will reach to the uttermost part of the earth and to every creature in the same fashion as the early church carried the Gospel at that time.
DEMONSTRATION OF POWER MUST BE TO UTTERMOST PARTS OF THE EARTH “ In Luke 24:49, Jesus told his disciples, "Tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem until you're are endued with power from on high." Acts 1:8, He said, "You shall receive power after this the Holy Spirit is come upon you. You'll be witnesses of Me in Jerusalem, Judaea, Samaria, and the uttermost parts of the earth." To know that this same blessing that was upon them, was go to the uttermost parts of the earth, even today, the same. It's never reached over about one-third of the earth till this time. After two thousand years, and we got two-thirds of the earth yet to go over with this same Gospel. For this demonstration of power must be to the uttermost parts of the earth. A few days later when Jesus was received up into the glory, the last words He said to His disciples, "Go into all the world and preach the Gospel. (That's the whole world now.) These signs shall follow them that believe. In My Name they shall cast out devils, speak with new tongues, take up serpents, or drink deadly things, it would not harm them. If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." It is written in the Scripture, that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, Hebrews 13:8. We cannot deny that; that's God's Word. The only way that I might bypass it to justify my unbelief. But if I have to look and say, "Is it the Word, yes or no. It is the Word." (Personal. experience. with. God 54-0724)
ONE THIRD OF THE WORLD IS ALL THAT'S HEARD ABOUT JESUS YET “He did commission us to preach the Gospel to all the world…and one third of the world is all that's heard about Jesus yet. But after all, passing tracts is not preaching the Gospel. "The Gospel came not in word only," said Paul, "but through power and demonstration of the Holy Ghost." (Life Story 54-0314). In order to carry out the Great Commission and complete the Great Commission in the endtime, we need another return of Pentecost. All these things will be proven in several messages. It is true that the early church carried out the commission, but the commission was to every creature and to the uttermost part of the earth, and every creature was not met, and to the uttermost part of the earth it has not gone, and it must go according to the Great Commission, Mark 16, “these signs shall follow them that believe, in my name shall they cast out devils” and on and on it went. You must have the Gospel in the power and demonstration of the Holy Ghost; otherwise the Gospel is not preached.
THE GOSPEL CAME NOT IN WORD ONLY, BUT THROUGH POWER E-49 Jesus said, "Into all the world, these signs shall follow… And the gospel come not in word only, but through power and manifestation of the Holy Spirit. The Bible said they went forth preaching every word, the Lord working with them, with signs following. (Great.commission 57-0804a). I believe that the stage is now set and everything is falling in place, creation is groaning. According to Romans 8, creation is groaning for the manifestation of the sons of God. There is a great cry: cries from the nations, cries from the oceans, cries from creation itself, the creature, they waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. I believe that scripture will be fulfilled in our day and our time. I believe that we will see the fulfillment of those scriptures in our lifetime, that creation will stop groaning by the manifestation of the sons of God. I believe that here today, this morning, there are sons of God, born-again sons of God, sons of God that are growing up into the virtues of Christ, that will be manifested one of these days, and they will be mightily used to stop creation from groaning. If you do not believe that you are wasting time. You are not a believer of the Bible. You are not a believer of the Message. But we firmly believe that all the promises that God made will come to pass.
SONS OF GOD ARE MANIFESTED BEFORE WE EVEN GO ANYWHERE “We are now coming to this great hidden mystery that's been hid since the foundation of the world and now being revealed in the last days to the sons of God. You believe that to be true, that sons of God are manifested before we even go anywhere?” (Manifested sons of God 60-0518)
SONS OF GOD MANIFESTED TO DELIVER ALL NATURE –HAD TO WAIT TILL THIS TIME “Now, the whole creation groaning, waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God. It’s a mystery that's been hidden since the foundation of the world, waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God. Tell me, my brother, tell me, my sister, when was the time that the sons of God was ever to be manifested outside of this time now? When were there ever a time in the history, this that manifest the time to deliver all nature? Nature, the nature itself is groaning, waiting for the time of the manifestation. Why, before the atonement was made, before the Holy Ghost was ever poured out, before all the Old Testament, on down there, there couldn't have been manifestation. It had to wait till this time. Now, all things has been brought, coming, shaping up to a headstone, to the manifestation of sons of God coming back, and the Spirit of God coming into these men, so perfectly, until their ministry will be so close like Christ's, till it'll join Him and His church together. (Adoption 60-0522E). MANIFESTED SONS - I BELIEVE WE'RE ON THE BORDER OF IT RIGHT NOW 76 And now, this may just choke you to death. But did you know that men that are sons of God are amateur gods?…Jesus said, "Did not your law say itself that you are gods?...Which, God said in Genesis 2 that they were gods, because they were--had full domain over the dominion of the world. He gives him dominion over all things. And he lost his godship; he lost his sonship; he lost his domain; and Satan took it over. But, brother, we are waiting for the manifestations of the sons of God, who'll come back and take it over again. Waiting for the fullness of time, when the pyramid gets up to the top, when the full sons of God will be manifested, when the power of God will walk out (Hallelujah.) and will take every power that Satan's got away from him. Yes, sir, it belongs to him...All right. He made man a god, a god in his domain. And His domain goes from sea to sea, from shore to shore. He has the control of it. And when Jesus came, being the one God without sin, He proved it. When the winds blowed, He said, "Peace, be still." Amen. And when the tree, He said, "No man eat from thee." "Verily, I say unto you, you, that's little gods, if you'll say to this mountain, 'be moved,' and don't doubt in your heart, but believe that what you've said will come to pass, you can have what you've said." Go right back to Genesis, to the original; what is it? Now, the world and nature is groaning, crying; everything's a moving what? For the manifestation of the sons of God, when true sons, born sons, filled sons speak and their word is backed. I believe we're on the border of it right now. Yes, sir. Say to this mountain let it be so. "Brother, I desire so-and-so, a certain thing done. I'm a believer in Jesus Christ." "I give it to you in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ." Amen. There's a manifestation. "Oh, brother, my crops are burning up out yonder. I haven't had any rain." "I'll send you a rain in the Name of the Lord God...?... bless your crop." Oh, waiting, groaning, all nature, waiting for the manifestations of the sons of God. God ordained it at the beginning. He gave man the domain. He gave Jesus Christ, and Jesus gave it in His Name, with this assurance, "Ask the Father anything in My Name, and I'll do it." Oh, Brother Palmer. Waiting for the manifestations of the sons of God, the position, the church…As I said, the Book of Ephesians is the Book of Joshua, and Joshua placing the people where they belong…God's wanting to place His church, sons and daughters of God. God, let me live to see it, is my prayer, so close till I can just feel it with my hands almost, look like; it's right there. That's what I've longed to see, waiting for the time when walk down the street; there lays a cripple laying there from his mother's womb, "Silver and gold have I none...?..." Oh, waiting for the manifestations of the sons of God (Hallelujah.), when God will make Hisself known, when they'll stop sickness, they'll stop cancer, they'll stop diseases. (Adoption AD.PT.4 60-0522E). The world is heading to a final climax. Nothing material will mean anything. Your houses, your lands, your jobs and all your achievements will mean nothing. The world is heading to a final climax, this world system and this world order; Sodom and Gomorrah is the description of the present world order. As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the days of the coming of the Son of man. As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the days of the coming of the Son of man. And the full description of the entire world system today (six billion people with all their achievements upon the face of the earth), is described as Sodom and Gomorrah. It cannot continue; and as the sins of mankind stank in the nostrils of God in the days of Noah, it is stinking tonight, and He cannot hold back his judgment. So, the final climax is after six thousand years, and I believe that there is an extension of time. When we crossed the six thousand years a couple years ago, there was an extension of time because of God’s longsuffering and because of God’s grace. And God’s grace caused us to slip over into this twenty-first century. We are living on borrowed time. We are living on an extension of time because of God’s grace and mercy. I firmly believe that this great harvest that was expected in the twentieth century has now come over to the twenty-first century, and we will not go very long into this twenty-first century because of the signs of the times that we are witnessing. Israel alone, which is the timepiece of the Christian Church, is like a powder-keg, ready to explode at anytime. They are either going to have an all out war, or things are going to shape up to bring in that covenant with Rome. There are only two things can happen there in all the tension, and that is for Israel to have an all out war, and the Mosque of Omar be blown down sometime or the other, or it is going to bring in Rome to make this covenant of Daniel 9:27. I believe that is right now in the making. We cannot go further. The economy of the United States is the lowest in five years, and something that I always anticipated for America is beginning to happen. I often time wondered, “Where is the plague to fall upon the land of America for the rejection of the Seventh Church Age Messenger?” My beloved, what did not meet them hasn’t passed them yet. Every time you reject a prophet’s message, a plague falls, and history proves it. All these things could be connected with the Bubonic Plague, which is called the Black Death, and all these other things. America rejected a mighty ministry, and she went on happily without any great disasters. I truly believe that the coming down of the Twin Towers was a sign of the beginning of sorrows for the United States. Jesus said when you see these things come to pass, it is the beginning of sorrows. And the world is now experiencing, and for some time has experienced, the beginning of sorrows. Fourteen million people are on the bread-line in Southern Africa, and what is happening in the East is going to come to the West shortly, because of the rejection of that mighty ministry of Christ. “Nations are breaking, Israel’s awakening, the signs that the prophets foretold. The Gentile days are numbered, with horrors encumbered. Return, oh dispersed, to your own.” Yes, that is true. So, the world is heading right now to her final climax. God in His mercy, before He has a world climax, it is His policy, it is His plan to send a warning before judgment. And the world came to a climax one time, and that was in the days of Noah, and if you notice, God’s policy was demonstrated, and that was, in that time, God sent a warning to all mankind, regardless of all their churches, regardless of all the religions they had in that time, God sent a final warning, because it was going to be a great climax of destruction. He was going to destroy man from off the face of the earth. God always sends a warning, and when he sends that warning He expects His people to take heed to that warning. When He sent this mighty ministry to America, He expected them to take heed, to correct their ways. Beloved, they rejected that message, and they rejected that warning of Christ through His servant, in a most ridiculous way. And they went on in peace for a long time, like nothing was happening, but something has begun to happen, brothers and sisters, in a serious way that I looked for, and that is, I believe that the plagues in America has begun to fall. We have what you call the Nile Virus. It’s deadly. Thirty states are affected with the Nile Virus. I read in the papers where it killed eighteen people already, and the virus is everywhere. I believe that all these things are signs unto us. What is happening in America is going to come to the Caribbean because we are no better than they are. I mean far as the nations are concerned, we are no better. The Lord will cause people, by His plagues and by amateur judgment, to cry upon their faces, and He will cause you to cry upon your faces to get out of here friends, because what is hitting the unsaved man is hitting the church likewise. Every flu that passes and hits the unsaved man also hits the church. And what about the greater plagues? Listen to me; God is going to push every believer, every brother and every sister into prayer. You’ll be living on your knees. When the Black Death passed, villages emptied, towns emptied, and to see a human being at that time in that area was like seeing a ghost. People just fled from one another. They knew that house was affected with Black Death, and they started running to the bushes and everywhere. They did not want to come in contact with that human being because of the sickness, and that sickness was spread by rats. And that came after the rejection of Wesley’s message. Something’s got to happen here, and it’s got to happen very soon. We have come to the final climax, and we are living on borrowed time. God sent forth a serious warning to all the world and to the whole of so-called Christendom. He sent a final warning. This warning was in the scripture, and it is recorded in Malachi 4:5-6, “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD.” To believers it will be great, to the unbeliever it’s dreadful. And He said in Mal. 4:1, that the earth is going to burn as an oven, and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble. We are living in the proudest generation that ever lived upon the face of the earth. The most corrupted, the most sinful, and the most wicked generation that ever lived upon the face of the earth is now existing upon the face of the earth, and there is only one solution to the whole thing, and that is to burn it. There was only one solution for Sodom and Gomorrah, and that was to send the angels down to pull out what they could pull out, and burn it. Although there was a man called Abraham pleading. The Lord was merciful. He said, “If you can find ten people in there that is righteous, I will save the city for those ten people.” My friend, out of a world filled with people today, it grieves the Lord, but there is only one solution to this whole thing, and that is to burn it. People are like ghosts in their manners, in their dressing, in their conduct, and everything. The world is going insane. A great amount of insanity you can see on the streets, if you look through a spiritual eye. And Malachi 4:5 was sent before that burning. People don’t like this man. They don’t like to hear his name, but we truly believe that the Spirit of Elijah rested upon William Branham, and when he came to the world today, he was God’s prophet, to bring a warning before judgment. That is God’s policy. If you notice in your Scripture, whenever God is about to destroy a nation, destroy the world, destroy a kingdom, it is always His policy to send a warning. Over the kingdom of Belshazzar, there was a writing of tongues: “Thou art weighed in the balances and found wanting……your kingdom is divided” In the days of Noah, in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah (and such examples are filled in the Scripture against Israel), He sent His prophets to them. And it behooves Almighty God to send Elijah the prophet in this endtime, before the burning, Malachi 4. We cannot get away from that. Don’t you say that is John the Baptist, because the world was not burnt after the preaching of John the Baptist. It is another prophet, and that prophet is to the Gentiles. Another thing we can notice in the Scripture is that whenever God sends His prophet to warn a nation, or warn the world, there is always a handful of people that believes, and that is so glorious. We believe that we are part of that handful of people today. It is the mercy of God that has opened your eyes, that has opened your ears. It’s the mercy of God that caused you to repent. The goodness of the Lord brought you to repentance. It is not how good that you were that caused you to choose the gospel and Jesus Christ. You could have rejected it like anybody else. Hundreds of people came in here, sat and heard what you heard, and got up and walked away from it, but something kept you. That, I believe, is the love of God. I believe it’s election down in the heart. I believe it’s the goodness of the Lord that brought you to repentance. You could have hardened your heart like anybody else and said, “I don’t believe a man, tell me about Jesus.” Yes, but the man was sent to tell you about Jesus. Yes. You could have followed the lies people spread that we worship a man called Branham here. That is the biggest lie; we worship Jesus Christ, and him only. We are believers of the Word. We don’t believe that a man is the Saviour. Jesus is the Saviour, but the man brought a message for Jesus, to tell us to baptise only according to Acts 2:38, in the name of Jesus Christ; to forbid women from preaching (1 Timothy 2:12); that a woman should dress modestly (1 Timothy 2:9); that God is one God, and He’s not a trinity (St John 4:24); that all organizations are headed back to the World Council of Churches, yes, back to Rome, yes, and there will be a one-world-government and a one-world-church. We believe that message because it’s the message of the Lord. Yes. So now, whenever God sends a message upon the earth, and a prophet, then somebody will always believe. Yes. In the days of Noah, only eight believed. What a sad thing! Out of a whole world, with billions of people in that time, can you imagine how corrupt man got, that the Lord said, “It repented me that I have made man upon the face of the earth.” And if He said that in the days of Noah, my friend, what is He saying tonight? I believe it’s a double repentance for God, yes, that it repented Him that He ever made man upon the face of the earth. Oh, that’s a horrible thing, my friend. Yes, it repented almighty God. What is He saying tonight when He looks down and sees all the homosexuality, all the sex perversions, all the drunkards, all the liars, all the thieves, all the criminals, all the violence, all the blood shed? I wonder what He is saying tonight. Let me tell you friends, God has got to burn it! He has got to destroy it, yes, because they have rejected His mercy. When you reject mercy, there is nothing left but judgment. Yes. But He always has a remnant that will believe, and we are part of those people, and we have other brothers and sisters around the world that make up that little group, and that is the pattern from Genesis come right back. Now, brothers and sisters, my emphasis, and my subject today is “Twenty-first century harvest of souls versus unbelief.” And in the coming of this great prophet, anointed by the spirit of Elijah today, there was a great harvest of souls that was prophesied to be here in the endtime. This is in your Bible, the twentieth century prophet. And there were other preachers on the field also reaping many souls for the Lord, but in this twentieth century here, we had a great harvest of souls, and this man was used of God to reap approximately three million souls under his ministry for the glory of God. He reaped these souls by great power, signs, wonders, and the Word of God.
HARVEST - WORD AND POWER IS WHAT WE ARE SUPPOSED TO USE 303-2 God never told a man to labor thirty years and harvest nothing. He gave us the open door of Word and power and that is what we are supposed to use. (Philadelphian.church.age - church.age.book cpt.8). He applied the Great Commission of Mark the sixteenth chapter. He went back to the original. The original commission was to carry the gospel in Word and power. He carried the gospel in Word and power according to Mathew 28, according to Mark 16, according to I Corinthians 2:1-5, and according to I Thessalonians 1:5: the gospel came not to us in Word only, but it came unto us in Word and power. And he shook the world seven times, and reaped three million souls for the honour and glory of God. The dead were raised up, crippled legs were made straight, cancers melted away, and the secrets of the heart were made known, which is a prophetic sign. God vindicated His servant by signs, wonders and miracles. He preached the gospel in the power and demonstration of the Holy Ghost. Now, in all his reaping, this mighty man of God knew the scripture enough to understand that was not all of it. He knew that there was a great harvest still laying in the field. He knew the scripture that I just read. He knew that there was a great harvest yet on the field. He knew that out of six billion people upon the face of the earth, beloved, three million is not even like one drop of water in the ocean. He knew that there was a great harvest on the field. He expected to reap that harvest in his lifetime in the twentieth century, but the truth of it is, he did not. Therefore, that harvest of the twentieth century, that the prophet of God had seen by visions, and knew by the scriptures, came over now into the twenty-first century. Therefore, my message is “Twenty-first Century Harvest of Souls.” This harvest that the prophet of God had seen by visions, and through the Scriptures and prophecy; he knew that the harvest was laying there ; he was anxious to reap it; he dreamt about it; he saw visions about it. He wanted to reap that harvest so badly, but I will tell you why it was not reaped. It was not yet the time. The time had to come. “The time for thee to reap has come. The harvest of the earth is ripe.” The harvest has got to be ripe, the time had to come, and not only that, you’ve got to reap the harvest in the right way. You needed a sickle. Besides needing the sickle, you needed power to carry out the commission. It must be carried out like the early apostolic church, Mark 16 in action. Otherwise, the harvest cannot be reaped. The prophet of God waited and longed to reap this harvest. He had seen them in Africa. The stage is now being set in Africa; “The heaviness of the heart makes the heart better.” That starvation that the people are going through right now is not for nothing. It is going to bend the nation; it is going to soften the heart; it is going to cause a cry throughout the land of Africa, that they will be happy to hear that gospel when it passes by. Same thing in China. Same thing in India and the rest of the world. All these things are not happening by chance. Creation must groan before they see the manifestation of the sons of God. Creation must groan, and they’ve already started groaning, and then the sons of God will appear. This great harvest came over to the twenty-first century. This century is not going to go down the road and become an old man, friend. The time is too short. The prophet of God knew that to reap that great harvest that was yet on the field would take great, dynamic power, and the Lord told him what kind of power it would take to reap that harvest. It will take the demonstration of the power of God in creative acts. So now, the prophet of God came off the field, and leaned back, and he waited for the creative power of God to be manifested, which we called in Bride language “the third pull.” Now notice something with the third pull. It was to reap a certain harvest. It was fishing for a rainbow trout. The third pull was to reap a certain fish. Is that harvest? [Congregation says, “Amen!”] If he was trying to catch a certain fish, it was a harvest. So now, he knew that creative power, the great power of God, was ordained to go out and reap the rest of the harvest that was yet on the field. Now he longed for that; he waited, and he longed. From 1951 to 1965, after that great African meeting that saved one hundred thousand people out of many cities, and in one afternoon thirty thousand people repented. From 1951, he longed to get back to Africa, and he knew that there was a harvest laying in Africa, India, and different places. He never did go back but once, and he was forbidden to preach, in 1965. I want to state here, that harvest is not lost. The great prophet of God went home, but the harvest is yet in the field. Now, when he came to the last years of his ministry, he knowing that there was a harvest laying there in the field, he wondered what would happen. The Lord gave him that answer by a special word to him. He told him, “Pick up your pen and write.” It says that the ministry was not completed and Christ could not complete all that He had to do, but it will be completed by the Bride of Christ. The harvest that the prophet of God looked forward to, and wanted to reap so badly, the Holy Ghost concluded that it will happen by the Bride of Christ. Not only that, but it will happen by the harvest rain, which is the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the church of God.
HE’LL WILL NOW FULFILL THROUGH THE BRIDE THAT WORK WHICH HE LEFT " In these last days the true Bride Church (Christ's seed) will come to the Headstone, and she will be the super church, a super race, as she nears Him. They in the bride will be so much like Him that they will even be in His very image. This is in order to be united with Him. They will be one. They will be the very manifestation of the Word of the living God… Those in the bride do only His will. No one can make them do otherwise. They have 'thus saith the Lord' or they keep still. They know that it has to be God in them doing the works, fulfilling His own Word. He did not complete all His work while in His earthly ministry so now He works in and through the bride. She knows that, for it was not yet time for Him to do certain things that He must now do. But He will now fulfill through the bride that work which He left for this specific time. (Pergamean.church.age -church.age.book cpt.5).
CHURCH WILL RETURN TO PENTECOST - LATTER RAIN IS THE HARVEST RAIN 377-2 This age started just after the turn of the twentieth century. As it was to be the age in which the true church would return to being the bride she was at Pentecost, we know that there must of necessity be a return of dynamic power. The believers sensed this in their spirits and began crying to God for a new outpouring such as was in the first century. What seemed to be the answer came as many began to speak in tongues and manifest gifts of the Spirit. It was then believed that this was indeed the long awaited RESTORATION. It was not, for the latter rain can come only after the former rain which is the spring or TEACHING rain. The latter rain, then, is the HARVEST rain. (Resume of the Ages - Church.age.book cpt.10).
IN HER WILL BE THE FULNESS OF PENTECOST – HARVEST RAIN The people of God are being made ready by the Word of Truth from the messenger to this age. In her will be the fulness of Pentecost for the Spirit will bring the people right back to where they were at the beginning. That is "Thus saith the Lord." It is "Thus saith the Lord" for that is what Joel 2:23-26 says, "He will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain and the latter rain in the first month…And I will restore..." Now it says God is going to "restore". The Wesleyan Age did not restore. The Pentecostal Age did not restore. But God has to restore for He cannot deny His Word. This is not the resurrection of the Church; it is the "Restoration". God will take the Church right back to Pentecost of the beginning…God isn't going to plant a new Church, but is going to bring His original planting back to original seed. He is doing it as stated in verse 23, by the teaching, or "former" rain. Next will come the harvest rain or rapturing faith. (Resume of the Ages - Church.age.book cpt.10). The blessings came down to the church, and the end time church, like the apostolic church, must now reap this harvest, and it is going to happen in this twenty-first century. You say, “If God gave a man a ministry, then he must fulfill that ministry, and nobody else can fulfill it.” I defy that statement. Jesus said, “Behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest…And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours. (John 4:35-38). I want to call your attention to John the Baptist’s labors. He labored, and he called the multitude. Jesus came by and labored, and He called a multitude, but then after He preached He said, “The harvest is ripe.” He said, “It is white to harvest now, the harvest is getting ready to take place.” Do you know who reaped that harvest? Can somebody tell me? Out of the upper room, they came down with the Great Commission, and the power of the Holy Ghost, and they reaped that harvest in that age. So the labors that John put in, and the labors that Jesus put in, the Bride of Christ reaped the harvest in the early church, but she reaped it by the Great Commission, and the power and demonstration of the Holy Spirit. Heretical Article No.54: There Will Be No More Harvest Of Souls (And Other Connected Heresies)
Now, I am here to defy a great heresy, and to prove that it is satanic and contrary to the Word of God. There are men that have arisen who claim to represent the message of the hour and represent Christ, that now teach and preach that there will be no harvest, that the harvest is over, since the fathers fell asleep all things continue as they are, and since Malachi 4 went to sleep, there will be no more harvest upon the face of the earth, the Bride is already called and she is made up and she is about ready to go in the rapture. I declare that a lie. I declare that as the devil, and I declare that as a heresy. The harvest is not over. I have news for you, friend, the harvest of the Seventh Church Age by the Seventh Church Age Messenger is over for that age, but a cloud appeared after that, and on that cloud was the Son of man, and He was commanded to thrust in His sickle and reap the harvest of the earth, for the harvest of the earth is ripe. One reaping is over for the seventh church age, and another reaping for the Bride age has now begun. It’s the twenty-first century harvest of the hour; and if you are a sinner here today, a rum drinker, a cocaine addict, it doesn’t matter who you are, or what sins that you have committed, I want to stand as a gospel preacher here today and say that the blood is yet on the mercy seat. I am here to let you know that you could repent and have salvation. The Lord Jesus could forgive you for all your sins, and you could be baptized in Christian baptism right today. If you are a backslider today, you could make your life right this morning. I don’t care who you are; the blood is still on the mercy seat, yes sir. I defy this heresy that says that the harvest is over. I am talking about big, intelligent men; I am talking about men that claimed to be Christians for years, that preach such heresy that the harvest is over. I am saying that there was a harvest in the Laodicean Church Age. That harvest is over, and that’s the harvest of the Seventh Church Age Messenger, but there is another harvest to follow, and that is by the Son of man. Yes sir! So there is a harvest of the Seventh Church Age Messenger, and that has gone on, but there is a harvest of the Son of man, and the delay right now is that He is getting a sickle ready to reap the harvest.
THE HARVEST IS RIPE – GOD MUST FIND A SHARP SICKLE Look what God, to my opinion, will do and must do and will do in this last days, is to find a tool for the harvest. He's got to find a tool to thresh the floor. Any farmer, when he goes to his harvest, he has to have a tool to do it with. Certainly. He's got to have a sharp sickle or something, some instrument to thresh out the grain. And the harvest is ripe. (Paul.a.prisoner.of.Christ 63-0717). There will arise a Bride, in power and demonstration of the Holy Ghost, doing the same things like they did in the early church, and they will surpass the power of Pentecost, and they will manifest the creative power of God and reap the harvest of the end time, for the harvest of the earth is ripe. POWER OF GOD WILL SHAKE THE WORLD WITH THE CHURCH OF GOD E-62 I believe that the church of the living God is moving into a sphere now that's going to shake the whole world. That's the first time it's been since the days of Jesus of Nazareth to a human being. "Ask anything that you will, and it shall be given unto you, anything you desire." Don't you see the words of Jesus Christ being fulfilled? Oh, it's going to come to pass pretty soon. I'm looking for it to happen in this meeting. I'm wanting it to happen now, that that anointing will strike the whole church of the living God, and she'll rise to her feet like a mighty marching army. The sick will be healed by a word; the blind will see; the deaf will hear; the dead will be raised up; and the power of God will shake the world with the church of the living God. We're in the process of it now. I believe it's soon coming to pass. I believe it will be just exactly that way. I believe it's going to strike the church of God soon, and it's going to start a revival that'll shake the world. I believe it. (Speak to this mountain 59-1123). These people will be just like the Lord Jesus Christ in power, signs, and wonders. There will be a bunch of apostles that will be guiding that church. That is what guided the early church, a bunch of apostles, and there will be a bunch of apostles guiding this endtime church. Jump high or low, the apostolic gift is to set the church in order, and there isn’t going to be any order until God sets some apostles, in the endtime here, over the church of God, and I believe those apostles are right now in training. It is said that the harvest is over, and the Bride is called and ready for the rapture. It is not so. It is also said that the harvest is going on now, but not in power and demonstration of the Holy Ghost, it’s only by the Word of God from the seven seals because it’s a Word Bride, and the Bride is not caught by signs and wonders, but she is caught by the Word of God; therefore, we would not see power and demonstration of the Holy Ghost. It’s a lie of the devil! Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel unto every creature to the utmost part of the earth…And these signs shall follow them, to every creature and to the utmost part of the earth. The commission is until the gospel is finished. In the light of the Word of God, I declare this heresy to be contrary to the plan of God, contrary to the message of the hour, and contrary to the visions and prophecies of Malachi 4. This is a heresy of Satan to try to keep the souls of God’s people in prison. This is a heresy that is trying to keep the souls of men and women in the prison house of Satan, in the House of hell. The prophet of God saw these people in the House of hell. This heresy was invented by the devil to say that you cannot come out of prison because the blood left the mercy seat, the Bride is already made up, the sons of God are already called, all the elect of God are already gathered, and there is nobody to be saved again. It’s a horrible lie of the devil! It’s a wicked, dirty, filthy lie of the devil that is explaining away salvation from mankind to cause people to remain in the world, cause them to continue to be sinners, and cause them to continue to serve Rome and the World Council of Churches. It’s a lie of the devil! It is Satan! I don’t care who you are, you could repent right here today and be saved. You could have the correct form of water baptism in the Name of Jesus Christ. If you are a backslider, you could repent and put those sins under the blood and start all over here today. Yes. All who preach such a heresy are anointed of Satan. I make no apology. They are anointed of the devil, and anointed of Satan to work against God’s plan and program for the hour. Anointed of the devil to work against the Son of man; anointed of the devil to work against His sickle; anointed of the devil to work against the reaping of the harvest; and working against the plan of God for the fulfillment of Revelation 14:14-16. It makes you a servant of the devil. You have no right behind the pulpit, and you were never called of God to preach such a horrible lie of the devil. There are scriptures that verify that there is a great harvest in the endtime, which will be justified on this subject as we go along. I quote briefly to you Mathew 13, of the parable of the wheat and the tares. You are saying, as a heretic, that the harvest is over, nobody will be saved again, the blood is off the mercy seat, there is no more power to come to the church, the Bride is about ready, and she is going away in this dead condition. You are a liar; you are working against the plan of almighty God; you are contradicting the Scriptures; you are contradicting the visions of God, and you are contradicting the prophesies of God. Yes. Matthew 13 states that two seeds were planted: they were planted in the early church, the wheat and the tares. Jesus, interpreting that parable of Matthew 13, from the 37th verse, said, “The harvest is the end of the world.” There is a harvest before the world ends. Jesus said that the wheat are the children of the kingdom, and that the tares are the children of the wicked one. I am saying that the harvest is still going on; the tares are now being bound into bundles by the World Council of Churches. They are going into the World Council of Churches, and they will eventually be burnt by fire, through the tribulation, and in the lake of fire, and the wheat will be gathered into the garner on earth. There is to arrive a ministry of power, signs, and wonders that will gather God’s children from the organizations, from the Baptist, from the Pentecostals, from the Jehovah Witnesses, from the Seventh day Adventists. And the Lord is going to go down to the tombs of Gadarea, and He is going to bring out Legion again. He is going to go down to the whorehouses and bring forth a Mary Magdalene. Oh, glory to God! He is going to go up high into society and bring out again a Zacchaeus. I believe God. Go to the byways and compel them to come in, for they that were bidden to the feast are not worthy to taste of my supper. The organizations rejected William Branham, and they rejected Malachi 4. They rejected the gospel of peace, my brother. They rejected the gospel of power, but the Lord will turn to the streets. He will turn to the highways. He will turn to the byways. He is going to bring in the Rasta man, I’m telling you. He is going to bring in the hippies. He will bring in the prostitutes. That’s what the Bible declares. Yes. Go compel them to come in, for yet there is room. I say, “Yet there is room.” After the preaching of Malachi 4, yet there is room. Yes! Go bring in the halt, bring in the maimed, bring in the lame, that my house may be full. That ministry is yet to go out into the public, and it is going to go out by the Son of Man and His sickle. They are going to reap that harvest in this twenty-first century, beyond a shadow of a doubt. Oh yes! You say, “How can you be so sure that it’s going to be in the twenty-first century, preacher, and not the twenty-second? What about the twenty-second? I guess God has to tell a man that?” No, my brother, I am wise enough to know that if the cloud already appeared, then the Son of man is sitting on that cloud. Yes, sir! And if the Son of man is sitting on that cloud, He is going to thrust in His sickle. His sickle is now upon the face of the earth, and they are under training today in order to reap that harvest. The cloud has already appeared, and the Son of man is now standing upon the face of the earth. The next thing on the agenda is to thrust in the sickle and reap the harvest, for the harvest of the earth is ripe. I believe it. How many believe? [Congregation says, “Amen!”] Yes, my beloved. That is going to happen in our age. I am telling you as a gospel preacher that is going to happen in our age. The seals are already opened, the cloud appeared, and the Son of man is standing upon the face of the earth, revealed in His Word, right today upon the face of the earth. Yes sir! The sickle is now upon the face of the earth. How are you going to put that in the twenty second century? I say the sickle is now upon the face of the earth, and every one of us here belong to that sickle. You are a tooth in the sickle. I am a tooth in that sickle, and every night we come here we are being sharpened. The farmer must sharpen the teeth of the sickle, and then He will thrust in that sickle, for the harvest of the earth is ripe. Any man that preaches such a contrary doctrine is anointed of the devil. He is blind to the cloud. He is blind to the Son of man. He is blind to the sickle. Right in our age here today, the cloud appeared. Right here today, the Son of man is revealed, Luke 17:30. And if the cloud appeared, and if the Son of man appeared, then the sickle has got to be upon the earth right now. In that sickle there are apostles, there are prophets, there are teachers, there are evangelists, and there are pastors. And there will be gifted men of God with the nine diverse gifts, and the gospel is going to go out in power and demonstration of the Holy Ghost, “For the gospel came not to us in Word only, but it came unto us in the power and the demonstration of the Spirit.” So now, Matthew 13 speaks of this harvest of the wheat and the tares. Revelation 14:14-16 spoke of this harvest, and I am going to crown it off with this scripture, which will be justified a little later: “And this gospel,” Jesus said, “of the kingdom;” Matthew 24. “And this gospel…” Not a Baptist gospel, not a so-called Pentecostal gospel, not a Jehovah Witness gospel, not a Seventh day Adventist gospel, but “this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached as a witness unto all nations, then shall the end come.” I believe that with all my heart. Jesus has spoken. Let every man’s word be a lie, and God’s be true. Yes sir! It has not reached to the end of the earth yet. It has not covered the uttermost part of the earth. It has not gone in the power and demonstration of the Spirit. Only Malachi 4 carried it in the power and the demonstration of the Holy Ghost; now the sickle must carry it in the power and the demonstration of the Holy Ghost. Let somebody defy that. I am saying that there is a harvest yet on the field according to Revelation 14, according to Matthew 24, and the end isn’t going to come until you see a church rise in power and preach the gospel in demonstration of the Spirit and power. There won’t be many saved, that is true, because it is going to be a gospel of witness. “And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached as a ‘witness’ unto all nations, then shall the end come.” It has got to go out as a witness. But I assure you here today that every member of the Bride is going to come forth and be one body when that ministry goes out, because it is the reaping of the Bride. Yes, sir! Now, another class that this twenty-first century harvest will reap, strange as it might sound to you my friend, and that is that they will reap the foolish virgins, because the foolish virgins must come under an inspiration, and she must come out of the World Council of Churches, that she does not take the Mark of the Beast, because they are sincere and loving people. They are baptized wrong; they believe in three gods; they were taught that William Branham is a devil, but those people, when they hear the Bride preach the gospel, demonstrate the power, and expose the Mark of the Beast, they will come out, and when they come out by the millions, they will be charged under that inspiration. Now, that charge that she receives, and the witness of the power of God, is going to give her boldness, bravery, strength, and courage to die as martyrs for the gospel’s sake. They will be hanging around the Bride until the rapture takes place. According to Matthew 25, they said, “Give us of your oil.” They were lacking something. They were lacking the outpouring of the Holy Spirit to take them in the rapture. And the reason that these poor Christians that were in organizations, and now sitting in the assemblies following the message, did not go in the rapture, is because they did not have the oil to translate them to go in the rapture. They spoke in tongues, and they thought that was it. They danced in the Spirit, and they thought that was it. They accepted Jesus, and they thought that was it. I am proving to you, beloved brothers and sisters, that you could accept Jesus and go through the tribulation, because these two sets of virgins here, these wise and foolish virgins, they loved the Lord, and they were sanctified people, but the only thing that made the difference was the oil. Yes! They had everything in place, except that outpouring that they received on the day of Pentecost, and when they did not get that, they could not go in the rapture. But then what happened? While they went to buy, the Bridegroom came and took those that were ready. Now notice then, after the foolish virgins came, and they knocked, and they said, “Let us in.” It was too late. They will be hanging around the Bride, my brother, until that last hour. Do you know what a sad thing that is? Brothers and sisters, this thing that I am saying here sounds very little today, but this will be our brothers and sisters that wasted time, neglected to come to church, neglected to purge out the sins in their lives, played games with God, sat in the assemblies, in the prison houses, sat in organizations, and followed rumors and lies until it was too late. And when they did catch themselves, they came out now and said, “Give us of your oil.” “Oh, you mean the outpouring came? We want to get some.” It was too late, because they were not prepared. Beloved, this is the hour to prepare. Little fellow, little brother, little sister, this is the hour to prepare. Anything that you know that is troubling your life, no matter how hard it is, repent for it, divorce the thing, put it away. It is going to profit you nothing. If you’re seeking material things more than eternal life, put the thing away. You are the same ones that will come crying to Brother Bruce, beating on your chest, and now ready to confess. It will be too late. Confess now, children. I won’t be able to help you down there. None of the ministers will be able to help you down there. This is the time to do it. This is the time to clean up your life. Listen, all the proud spirits will humble down. All your haughty attitude will come down and be brought low. You will weep like a child. Brothers and sisters, I am persuaded better things of thee. We have been here a long time. By the grace of God we will make it in. Yes! Brothers, let us roll the stone away. Let us roll those stones away from our lives. Yes! Beg God. If you have a stubborn spirit, beg God to take it away. If you have a proud spirit, say “Lord take it away. Lord, I don’t want to end up in that bunch on that day. To know that I am left to go through the tribulation and all the brothers went in the rapture.” What a horrible time that is going to be. God, save my children. God, save my old mother. God, save my brethren, and save their children, is my prayer. Oh, yes, brothers and sisters, it will be a horrible time. I can’t dwell on it. Oh my Lord! Brothers and sisters, God’s Word declares that there is a harvest left in the field after the days of Malachi 4:5. His harvest was in the twentieth century, and now, the harvest that is left in the field is come over to the twenty-first century. Now, I want to ask these heretics outside there, internationally, you that say that all is over, the blood is off the mercy seat, and there isn’t any more harvest, I want to ask you, “What about the 144,000?” You’ve got to be a dead unbeliever. The blood has got to be upon the mercy seat in order to atone for Israel, the 144,000. And even though they are in a different category, they are yet the harvest. Yet it is the harvest. So all is not over. Oh, yes! All is not over. Also, the Bible told us about a great multitude that no man could number. In the same seventh chapter that speaks of the 144,000, it speaks of a great number that could not be numbered, and they made it in. It was the harvest. Now what people don’t understand is that when we speak of end-time harvest, we are speaking of people getting salvation here upon the face of the earth, and that includes the resurrection, and it includes the rapture too, because it’s an end-time harvest. It’s not a middle-ages harvest. If it was a middle-ages harvest, you’d call these souls, they would repent, live their Christian lives, and die. But the end-time harvest is different. The end-time harvest has to do with living, mortal people, and together with that, pick up the saints that went down in the grave, and take them away in the rapture. So it’s a harvest of both the dead and the living and it has to do with three classes of people, I will say, of the Gentiles, and that’s the wheat and the tares. In the wheat there is a foolish virgin and a wise virgin. So do you see the three classes there? Foolish virgins, wise virgins, and the tares. Then there is a fourth class outside of the Gentiles, which is the 144,000. That’s the harvest of the earth. And this has to do with the living saints on the earth, together with the dead saints, and that’s the harvest. That is why it has got to be in the end-time. Yes sir! So there we are, a great number. Now, the prophet of Malachi 4 confirmed that there is a great harvest left to be reaped. He confirmed that in all his teachings, in all his messages, he, William Branham, Malachi 4:5, confirmed, beyond a shadow of a doubt, through the Scriptures, through the visions, through the dreams and through the prophecies, that there is a great harvest yet on the field to be reaped. He confirmed that. This we will justify as we go along in the other messages. Twenty-first century harvest of souls: The prophet of God saw them in India. He saw them in China. He said, “You’ll have the greatest revival that you’ve ever heard about in Japan.” He saw them in Mexico. We will justify those things as we go along. These heretics are directly in conflict with the Scriptures. They are in conflict with the man called William Branham, the Word of God, the visions of William Branham, the prophecies of William Branham, the expectations of William Branham, and in conflict with the Scriptures that declare that there is a harvest to be reaped. Do you know what kind of unbelief it takes for devils, incarnated devils, to rise up and say that all is over, no more power coming to the church, and nobody isn’t going to be saved again? You pessimist! looking on the gloomy side of things and the dark side of things. To say that “since Malachi 4 and the seals were revealed, God reaps the harvest only by the Word” is a heresy. For any man to say that since Malachi 4 came and preached and demonstrated the power of God, that God has changed His program to reap the harvest only by the Word of God, you are a heretic. Any time a man will say that, he is assuming that Christ altered the Great Commission. And He has not altered the Great Commission. The Great Commission must be carried in the power and demonstration to every creature and into all the world. I quote two little Scriptures here, and one is I Thessalonians 1:5: “For our gospel came not unto you in Word only, but also in power.” And also in I Corinthians 2:1-5, Brother Paul said, “And I brethren, when I came to you…my speech and my preaching was not in enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the spirit and of power: that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.” I quote Brother Branham on this, from the Church Age Book, page 250:
ANY CHURCH WITHOUT THE MANIFESTATION WILL ACCOUNT TO GOD “250-2 And any people that is truly the Body of Jesus Christ (the true church) will manifest the same works as did Jesus and the Pentecostal church because the same Spirit will be in them. Any other church that does not have the Spirit and the manifestations is going to have to account to God.” (Sardisean.church.age Church.age.book cpt.7). So now, what is this unbeliever saying? What is this heretic saying? What is this pessimist saying, that “All is over, no more power to come to the church. Nobody can be saved”? You’re a devil! Only a devil talks like that! Anytime a man talks like that, he is trying to keep the souls of God’s elect in the prison houses, in the House of hell, and he is no more than a pessimist. There are a lot of pessimist preachers. Little children, pessimist means a man who looks at the gloomy side of things. Before he even tries anything he gives up: “I am not going to make it.” The wise man said that he says, “There is a lion in the way.” You unbelieving hypocrite! You are a pessimist. Yes. Pessimism has swallowed up a great bulk of the followers of Malachi 4, and there is a pessimistic attitude that is prevalent amongst the people. You say, “How do you define pessimism? How do you define these pessimists, preacher? How do you define this pessimistic attitude, Brother Bruce?” Unbelief? Unbelief of the devil! This heretic is full of unbelief. Yes! He is anointed by the mamba snake that is waiting at the Jordan to try to stop the church from going over. Pessimistic attitude! Now, the prophet of God met this, we will call it unbelief from now on. The prophet of God met this unbelief in organizations, and in the organizations, they tried to convince him that the gospel should be preached without power. They said that the days of miracles are passed. Oh, yes! They said that there is no more divine healing for today. Those were the kinds of spirits that Brother Branham fought against. Brother Branham fought against the dead doctrines of organizations that say, “There are no more signs, and there are no more wonders, and there are no more miracles; the gospel must be taken only in an intellectual form, through the world.” That was Brother Branham’s contention from the morning. He fought that with all his might. Yes! They were saying that the days of miracles are passed. He called them mules. Anybody that preaches this message, and says that we aren’t going to see the demonstration and power of the Holy Ghost in the endtime, in the church of God, you are a mule! The prophet of God said that these hybrid mules (theologians and gospel preachers) put their ears up and say that the days of miracles are past, “Hee Haw, Hee Haw, Hee Haw!” Yes! And the followers of this message and the preachers in this message start braying just like those donkeys: “No more power to the church, we’ve only got to wait for the rapture.” You aren’t no more than a mule. That’s how the prophet described you. Yes! He described them as vultures that cannot fly with the eagles. Yes. “Too hard to take the promises of God.” He described these unbelievers as crows. How many say, “Amen”? [Congregation says, “Amen!”] He described them as hawks. Yes, sir! Unbelievers in the power of God. The Bible said that these men will appear in the last days, Jannes and Jambres, and a bunch will appear in the last days, “having a form of godliness but denying the power of God: from such turn away.” Did the Bible command us to turn away? [Congregation says, “Amen!”] Any man that will rise up today, and be fundamentally correct in the message, baptize in Jesus name, and do all those other things, and deny that there is a power coming to the Church, he is an unbeliever, he is a heretic, he is propagating heresy, and you need to turn away from him. The Bible told us what to do with a man like that. Turn away, he is demon possessed. I believe in a living God. I believe in a living gospel. Yes! These same spirits, same demons, same devils, in the days of the prophet of God, they took his tapes and spliced them in order to make him say things that were wrong. Splicing tapes means that you cut off one portion and add it, and you cut off a little portion from another tape and put it there, and cut off a next little portion, and when you make up a tape, you make that man say all kinds of things contrary to the Word of God. He knew that was wrong, and those were people that even followed this message. That goes to show the unbelief that was in them. Yes! These same spirits that spliced the tapes are the same spirits on people that are splicing the message now. If they were so bold to splice the tapes, would not that devil make them contradict the message, and say what the message is not saying? Oh, yes! It’s the same devil. So now, they twist the message, and they twist the Bible to suit their doctrine, and they make Brother Branham say things that he didn’t want to say. Now, this pessimism was prophesied to be here just before the church is taken up, and he saw a vision of a mamba snake waiting at the Jordan. Do you know how that mamba snake was described as? “Unbelief.” I said, “Unbelief.” This unbelief that I am talking about in this heretic, this unbelief that I am talking about in this heresy, this unbelief that says, “All is over”, this unbelief that is saying, “The blood is off the mercy seat,” is a mamba snake! It’s a devil that is trying to discourage the church, discourage the people of God, and keep them in prison. It’s a mamba snake sitting at the Jordan, and above all, this mamba snake is trying to stop the church from going over into another outpouring of the Holy Spirit, which the land represents another outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Now, do you see how perfect the Word of God is? This is sitting right here, denying the power of God. Yes! So it’s the same spirit, and the prophet of God fought those spirits of unbelief. Any man that will twist this message to say those sort of things, my brother, it is blasphemy. Any man that would take the promise of God and put it for a day gone by is antichrist. That is what the messenger said, and I believe that. Yes! You put it for a day gone by: “All the harvest was in the twentieth century. All the miracles were in the twentieth century. All the souls were saved in the twentieth century. There isn’t nothing to happen in this twenty-first century.” You are a mamba snake! Yes! You are a pessimist, looking on the gloomy side of things. Oh, yes! I want you to hear it just like I am saying it here, when it goes out. This tape is going out too. Yes! You’ll hear it just like that. Oh, yes! Pessimism, unbelief, mamba at the Jordan. Sit down and waiting for Moses to resurrect. Sitting and waiting for Brother Branham to resurrect. You idolater! The Son of man is here, getting a sickle ready. Yes. So, the next time you’ll see Brother Branham is when the sickle brings him up, through the inspiration of the Son of man. Oh, yes, pessimism, unbelief, mamba at the Jordan. Anytime a man believes in a resurrection doctrine, he is devil-possessed; sitting and waiting for the resurrection of Brother Branham, you are an idolater. Yes, oh, yes, and because I don’t believe that, my partners there on the radio might not have me again. Yes, but what do I care? Both of them believe in the resurrection of Brother Branham coming back here to complete his ministry. It will be done in the Bride of Christ. Jesus Christ is still alive, yes, and the truth is still marching on. Yes, sir, sure. I will speak what the Lord put into my mouth. No man will control me. Radio or no radio, my brother, wrong is wrong, and right is right. Oh, yes. The resurrection doctrine is of the Devil! Have nothing to do with that! Christ is alive, and He is leading the church on. We are not waiting on a dead man. Only the dead wait on the dead. Yes sir, let the dead bury the dead. Yes, sir. Jesus said, “Come, thou, and follow me.” We are following Him. These heretics support this same dead doctrine of organization: no more power, no more signs, no more wonders. They support that dead doctrine. This spirit came over from organization right under the message. Oh, yes, but it came over here in a cunning, subtle, mamba snake form. Yes. Anytime you deny the power of God, you are saying that “The days of miracles are past, no more divine healing. The Church is going in this form out here now, in the rapture. The Harvest is being reaped without power, signs, and wonders right now.” You are saying that the days of miracles are past, yes, in a mamba snake form, just like the serpent in the Garden of Eden. Oh, yes. You try to keep this outpouring of God away, just like Israel. Yes, sir, the devil met them at the Jordan, and he tried to stop the church from going over. Yes, these same heretics are saying that the latter rain already fell. Don’t they know that the latter rain is the harvest rain? And don’t you know that you cannot have the harvest until the latter rain falls? Come on, I am proving to you that there is a harvest yet to be reaped. My brother, the seeds were sown in the former rain, and now the harvest rain must fall in order to reap the harvest. That is what the man of God declared, and the harvest rain has not fallen as yet, because it’s another outpouring of the Holy Spirit like the day of Pentecost. You are not going to see this harvest reaped until you see another outpouring of the Holy Spirit. That’s the only time you will see the harvest reaped. Before you get the harvest you must have the harvest rain. This is prophesied in Joel 2. “Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month. And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil. And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you. And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed. And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed. And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.” (Joel: 2:23-29).
THEY'RE TRYING TO MANUFACTURE A LATTER RAIN 55-4 Now, what they're trying to do, they're trying to manufacture a latter rain. Nonsense. Why, that latter rain will sweep the world, brother. (Spoken Word Original Seed 62-0318M).
IN LATTER RAIN GREAT SIGNS WOULD BE ACCOMPLISHED BY THE CHURCH E-36 The prophet said there'd be a former rain and a latter rain; in the latter rain would be both former and latter rain together--a great church universal that would sweep from one side of the world to the other side of the world. A great message, great signs and wonders, would be accomplished by this church. Daniel said the people that know their God in that day shall do exploits. That's exactly where we're living at in this day. (Mary’s Belief 61-0121). So these unbelievers say that there is no more outpouring, no more latter rain to come, no more harvest rain to come. They say that the third pull is already fulfilled, the tent vision is already fulfilled. You unbeliever you! You mamba snake! “The Bride’s revival has already taken place.” You are a mamba snake at the Jordan, full of unbelief. Yes, sir! What will happen to the souls in Africa? You want to leave them in the field? What will happen to the 300,000 people in Calcutta, India? You unbeliever, you want to leave them in the field? What will happen to Japan? What will happen to the Chinese? 1.2 billion Chinese, you want to tell me God is not going to save a Chinese man? I believe God! You want to tell me God would not save those children down in Mexico? You pessimist, you unbelieving goat! Yes, sir! Bend the prophet’s words to explain away God’s promises. I will show you two harvests right in the types here. There was a harvest by Moses, and he brought the people from Egypt land by signs and wonders and miracles, and he had a pillar of fire, and he had two signs. Was that a harvest under Moses? [Congregation says, “Amen!”] That was one harvest. That was a seventh day harvest, but there came a time, after the Mamba snake appeared at Kadesh-Barnea, there was another harvest, and that harvest came by Joshua, and that harvest took them straight over the Jordan into the Promised Land. There are two harvests of the endtime: one by Revelation 10:7, and one by Revelation 10:1, Christ, the Son of man, the revealed Word. One by a Moses and one by a Joshua. Joshua is the Holy Ghost, Joshua is Jesus Christ, and Joshua is the One sitting on the cloud, glory to God! Yes, and He came down with a cloud to reap the harvest and send the people over into the Promised Land. How many see those two harvests? [Congregation says, “Amen!”] One for the twentieth century, and the other for the twenty-first century. Glory to God! I believe with all my heart, with all my soul, and with all my mind. Yes sir. Oh, yes, so here we are children. This harvest is summed up in the Bride of Jesus Christ, and this dead doctrine is trying to take it away from us. Hear the nonsense one man wrote in a book. I call it the Dead Doctrine book. They picked out every little thing that seemed to be negative to show that all is over, blood is off the mercy seat, the third pull has already happened, the tent vision has already happened, and then they ask a question here: “Are you looking for something great to happen?” Yes! You fanatic! Yes, all the promises that God made will be fulfilled. Hear the quotation they gave to disprove that nobody should be looking for anything great to happen. Hear this: 132 Pentecostals said, "Oh, there's going to be a great thing happen." It's happening, and they don't know it. That's it. See? Yes, sir. "For where the carcass is there the eagles will be gathered, as sure as the world. That's what it said. What is the carcass? The Word. He is the Word, the Carcass, Christ, Christ in you, the same yesterday, today, and forever. (Seed.not.heir.with.shuck 65-0218). 102 Greatness is expressed in humility…real humility. (How.can.I.overcome 63-0825m). You must be so humble that you must never ask God for power. Be satisfied with your dead condition. All right: 494-4 22.Would the Bride of Christ have a ministry before the rapture? Sure. That's what's going on right now. See? The Bride of Christ... Certainly. It is the Message of the hour (See?), the Bride of Christ. Sure, She's consist of apostles, prophets, teachers, evangelists, and pastors. Is that right? That's the Bride of Christ. Sure, She's got a ministry, great ministry; it's the ministry of the hour; it'll be so humble... (Questions & Answers .on.the.seals 63-0324m).All these are perverted things. 1130-Q-375 375. Will there be a move of the Holy Spirit, signs, and wonders, and miracles done by the Bride before she goes away, or are we just waiting for His appearing? "Will there be miracles done by the Bride?" Yes, sir. It's being done right now. That's right. See? But don't look for something that great--or bring the heavens and close the heavens, it rain not. That goes into the Jews now. See? That doesn't pertain to this at all; that's Moses and Elijah to the Jews, not to this church at all. (Questions & Answers COD 64-0830M). In quoting the above, they purposely left out these words: "Will there be miracles done by the Bride?” 37 Now, most of our Pentecostal brethren (which I said earlier on the tape) that, they disagree with this. They're looking for a great, powerful something to happen. And, my brethren, if you'll listen real close and not--and listen, you'll find out that that great, powerful something has done passed. Jesus is ready to return. (Seventy.weeks.of.Daniel 61-0806). 6-3 The third is properly identified. See? (Look.away.to.Jesus 63-1229e). 237-4 {57} And then in the last hour this fellow is to come on and reveal the thing (See?), take up the Scriptures. It'll be properly identified. Yes, sir. And... Now, it won't be a great big thing now. It looks like here in the Bible it'd be something big. (The Third Seal 63-0320). These two above quotes were spliced to read: And then in the last hour this fellow is to come on and reveal the thing (See?), take up the Scriptures. It'll be properly identified (the third is properly identified)(Look away to Jesus- pg.6) Yes, sir. And... Now, it won't be a great big thing now. It looks like here in the Bible it'd be something big.(Third seal pg. 9). 42-1 Can't you see, Spirit-filled people, something's fixing to happen? Don't look for some great big universal something sweeping, nothing but the coming of the Lord Jesus…The resurrection is near at hand now. (Easer Seal 65-0410). Now, let's all say it together. We [Congregation says, "We"--Ed.] do not look ["do not look"--Ed.] for something big. ["for something big."--Ed.] But in Jesus' Name ["But in Jesus' Name,"--Ed.], we receive His promise. ["we receive His promise."--Ed.] That settles it. That makes it over...? (QA. on the seals 63-0324M). They took this quotation from a healing service on the Seals book, where the prophet was speaking of divine healing, teaching the people how to exercise faith for their healing. These interpreters purposely left out the first few lines to try to make the prophet say that we must not look for anything great, which when quoted in full reads:
DON’T LOOK FOR SOMETHING GREAT-SIMPLE THING OF BELIEVING 524-5e {425} Lord God, in Jesus' Name, grant this man's request. I pray for him, Lord with my prayer. Amen. I believe that if every person that come by here this morning, under this tremendous anointing, I believe if you'll just... Now, don't look up for some great big something. Just remember the simple thing of believing what He promised. Now, let's all say it together. We [Congregation says, "We"--Ed.] do not look ["do not look"--Ed.] for something big. ["for something big."--Ed.] But in Jesus' Name ["But in Jesus' Name,"--Ed.], we receive His promise. ["we receive His promise."--Ed.] That settles it. That makes it over...? (QA. on the seals 63-0324M). E-95 Little do people know that these hours are here, great things are going on. And now...Just like people of long ago, Lord, they've passed them, and they didn't know it. (From.that.time 62-0713). 198 Every church is looking for a great thing. The Pentecosts say, "Glory to God. There'll come a day that they're going to do this and they're going to do that." See, they are professors...They're looking yonder somewhere for a great time to come…Why do they do it? It's because that they are Christian professors). (Recognizing.your.day 64-0726m). My brothers and sisters, that is what they quote to explain away the promises to the Bride. Now the smallest child, if you had been following this teaching, should understand that. Brother Branham is talking to the Pentecostal church. He said the “Pentecostals” are looking for something great. He said, but their day is past, is that right? Their day is past. Brother Branham is speaking to the Pentecostal Church that heard his ministry and rejected it. There is no more revival coming to the Pentecostal Church. There is nothing more great coming to the Pentecostal Church. No sir, my beloved, they had their day. The ministry that was to them was the messenger of the Laodicean Church Age, and that reaping is over. There is another reaping coming, oh yes, and that has not begun yet. All right, now hear this: “Are you looking for Pentecost to repeat?” Yes! We are looking for Pentecost to repeat. This is what they quote here to show that Pentecost would not repeat, when I have a whole bundle of quotes here, and where Brother Branham said that the church must go back to Pentecost, where, in the Church Age book, page 376-380, Brother Branham gave a lesson there; he said, “There must be a return of dynamic power. Pentecost thought that they received it, but they did not get it. But, it must return in the end time.” Hear what they quote to show that there is no return of Pentecost. All right: 36-4 Here come Luther out in reformation; his words that--his church won't work today. Wesley's won't. Pentecostals won't. It worked in their day, but it's another day. This is the opening of the Seven Seals. I know it sounds strange to you, but God has vindicated it so perfectly, there's no question in it, just perfectly. I ain't scattering that to the local assembly here. I'm speaking to the people out across the nation. (Invisible union of the Bride 65-1125). And that Word, if It's the Word, for this day, God vindicates It so. If He doesn't, it's not the Word for this day. The Word that fell on the day of Pentecost will not work this day. No, sir, that was for Pentecost. This is for the Bride: going home of the Bride. We got something different. The Pentecostals represented that again. We're in the Bride age. No more than the Word of Noah would worked in the days of Moses. (Invisible.union.of.the Bride 65-1125). 216 If the true Spirit of God there, It'll direct it into the Word…The day of Pentecost, the Spirit directed it right into That, to Joel 2:38. See? The day of Luther, It directed it right into That; Wesley; in this last Pentecostal move; but this is another age; this is the calling out of the Bride. Not two thousand years ago at Pentecost, or the repeat, or the return. Pentecost... (Trying.to.do.God.a.service 65-1127b). 315 Brother, minister friend, nothing... Please understand me; I am your brother. Do you want to associate yourself and you church members of some church (Methodist, Baptist, or whatever you be), do you want to hold on in that denomination because your mother, your grandmother held on that? She come out of something to come into that; that was the Light of that day; that, like in the times of Noah. This is another day. You say, "Well, I had the...” This is not the day of Pentecost. The Pentecostal age is past. Pentecost is gone; this is harvest time. See? And the harvest time, the grain; the water's done been poured out; the grain's getting ripe. Come into the grain, my dear brother. (Modern.events.made.clear.by.prophecy 65-1206). 312 God, to the Pentecostal church of this day, the restoration of the gifts; may, Lord, those men, maybe some of them present here, some of them hearing the tape around the world, may they realize that this is the calling out of the Bride, not a Pentecostal message. The Pentecostal message was to restore the gifts back in the church. But this is a calling forth of the Bride, another message that was to come just before Sodom was to be burned. (Works.is.faith.expressed 65-1126). Now my brothers and sisters, how on earth fanatics could go off on something like that? How could you ever go off on something like that? Brother Branham is speaking of so-called Pentecost here. He said that we have passed from the Pentecostal age. That is all that Brother Branham is saying; and that was 1906. He said, “This is the Bride age now.” That is all that he is saying here. He said, “and we are not going back to that Pentecost of 1906.” Why? Because it was not the real thing; simple as that. He said, “ now we are not going back to 1906, that Pentecostal age there, because this is the Harvest Age. This is the harvest time.” Now, we are to be thinking of the harvest that is to be reaped here now. He said, “But you cannot do it until the Spirit falls on the grain.” Thank you, Father, for the Word. Thank you for your message this morning, Lord, and bless the message wherever it will go. Let it bring deliverance from the hands of these heretics, from the hands of the false anointed ones. I pray that you will bless it and inspire your people when they hear it, that the scales will fall off and their eyes will become open. We humbly thank you for this message this morning. Lord, bless your people abundantly. Help them to take courage and wait upon your promise. Thank you for each one, thank you for the words of life, thank you for the inspiration. Thank you for one another. Bless the ministers that will be coming after the intermission, and even bless them with great words, great revelations, and the same anointing of the Spirit, we pray. In the name of Jesus Christ, we pray with thanksgiving. AMEN.
(Song) – There’s room at the cross for you There’s room at the cross for you Though millions have come There is still room for one Yes, there’s room at the cross for you. HARVEST TIME QUOTATIONS
And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. He already had healed the people. But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd. Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly [is] plenteous, but the labourers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.( Matthew 9:35-38). (Matthew 13:37-43).
May the Lord add a
blessing to the reading of His Word. It’s wonderful to be in the house of the
Lord this morning, feeling the presence of the Lord and hearing the worship of
the saints. I sure enjoyed the song that the Heath family sang this morning
about crossing over Jordan. We want to welcome all of the visitors in our
midst. We are so happy to have you here. We are having a wonderful time preaching some mighty messages on Harvest Time. we are very grateful to the Lord for what has been said; and what has transpired so far. Today we have the whole day to serve the Lord. We have more ministers coming after a little while, Brother Renner, Brother Timmy; and then communion this evening. We plan to have a grand time in the Lord. My heart was very stirred hearing the messages and the quotations. I believe that this is the greatest hour that people could be living in the history of the world. We know that God in His Word promised to send a prophet before the Coming of the Lord; The Great and Terrible Day of the Lord. It’s a great day for the believers, those that are saved, but it’s a terrible day for the unbeliever. Before the world is to be burnt, God was to send Elijah the prophet, and God did send him. We found him to be none other than William Marrion Branham. He was to come before the end of the world. Now just as sure and as true as Malachi 4:5 was sent and was promised to be sent, also in Matthew 13:9, where Jesus speaks about harvest being the end of the world, that is also true. We are living in the closing hours of time. We are living at a time of harvest. We are living at a time that, if we say that we are living at the end of the world, “Well, God sent a prophet, Malachi 4:5”, then we are literally saying that this is harvest time, according to the Scriptures. But notice that people following the message of Brother Branham talk about Brother Branham, believe in Brother Branham, as we do here, and they talk about all that the great man of God did in his ministry, but they miss the fact that a great portion of the harvest is yet to be reaped. The devil has moved on the scene, and he has tried to take away the anticipation of the message believers to believe in anything after Brother Branham. Notice that some have come forth saying, “All is over. All is in Brother Branham.” They say that there is no Bride’s ministry, but we know that is untrue. When they say that all was in Brother Branham, and nothing more is to happen, the devil, through that influence, kills the anticipation, kills the outlook, kills the living for Christ and wanting God to do something after William Marrion Branham. So I intend to infallibly prove that there is more to come after the days of William Marrion Branham. I want to bring to you the facts on Harvest Time. I am going to entitle this little message “Harvest Time Quotations.” Whatever God had promised for the Bride in this hour, that is what we want. Notice here that God sent Elijah, the prophet. We found him to be William Marrion Branham, Malachi 4:5. He saw many visions, from the age of three until 1965, when the Lord took him home. The majority came to pass in his lifetime. Many are in the process of fulfillment. He saw the destruction of America. That has not happened yet, because we are still living here. Others are yet to be fulfilled, which seem to involve him personally. Because of this, many preach a resurrection doctrine. We do not look for a private resurrection of Brother Branham, but we look for Brother Branham to come up when the rest of the saints come up. We do not look for a private ministry after his resurrection, but we look for the Bride’s ministry to go forth, and for the Lord to call forth the dead from the graves. There is no message or Scriptural basis for a private resurrection of Brother Branham. The following visions seem to be forgotten, or explained away by
message believers, and also the ministry around the message today. But all visions that the prophet saw must come to pass. “Though the vision linger, it must surely come to pass”, and that holds well for the following visions. God cannot allow these predestinated souls to be lost in Africa, and in India. Therefore, we firmly believe that the promise of God made to Brother Branham, that was not fulfilled in his day, must be fulfilled by his ministry. The man has gone on with the Lord, but his ministry yet exists, and will accomplish, without failure, all that God promised. It will happen in, and through, the Bride of Jesus by the coming of the Headstone, outpouring of the Holy Spirit, that will surpass the day of Pentecost.
TRUE BRIDE WILL COME TO HEADSTONE, AND WILL BE THE SUPER CHURCH “In these last days the true Bride Church (Christ's seed) will come to the Headstone, and she will be the super church, a super race, as she nears Him. They in the bride will be so much like Him that they will even be in His very image. This is in order to be united with Him. They will be one. They will be the very manifestation of the Word of the living God.” (Pergamean Church Age, Church Age Book page 171).
HE WILL FULFILL THROUGH THE BRIDE THAT WORK HE LEFT FOR THIS TIME “…Those in the bride do only His will. No one can make them do otherwise. They have 'thus saith the Lord' or they keep still. They know that it has to be God in them doing the works, fulfilling His own Word. He did not complete all His work while in His earthly ministry so now He works in and through the bride. She knows that, for it was not yet time for Him to do certain things that He must now do. But He will now fulfill through the bride that work which He left for this specific time.” (Pergamean Church Age, Church Age Book page 172) Oh, my, I have some nice quotations! I have the Durban meeting and the fruit of harvest. I want you to understand that Brother Branham reaped many souls into God’s Kingdom. He was a part of the harvest that God talked about here in the end time. Many souls were won to the Lord through the ministry of Brother Branham-- upwards of two and a half to three million people. Brother Branham said he was a revivalist, and I believe that. Brother Branham never came with a tract. Brother Branham never came with just a tape recorder. Brother Branham never came just quoting the Bible, yet he did, the infallible Word of God. But like Paul, Brother Branham came in power and demonstration of the Gospel. When he went worldwide, that is what set aflame the hearts of the people around the world, not just a tract, not just a tape recorder, not just a quotation, not some theology of the Bible, but he came with the living Christ down on the inside! And that is the way we want to go. I want to read, before we go into the deeper things, some of Brother Branham’s Harvest Time quotations of his trips. One place I read where Brother Branham was in travel for 58 hours, traveling on airplanes, to get to the different places of the world! In another message, he said he traveled seven times around the world, bringing the Gospel to many nations, people, kindred, and tongues.
IT'S A PIONEERING, SPEARHEAD AFFAIR “Now, in giving out of a night, there's only one legitimate way that we have found to do it. As several times across seas, I just come a few weeks ago from Zurich, Switzerland, where the Lord in five nights give us fifty thousand converts. And in Africa recently, we had thirty thousand one afternoon. And now, just as soon as I leave this meeting I go home to go to Frankfurt, Germany, to the stadium that Hitler built there for cricket games, but I'm going to hold the Gospel services in there, and I trust that God will save many in Germany. “Then I come up to Berlin for two nights, there with Hal Herman, the very noted movie director that was converted in the meetings, my meetings in California, and is preaching the Gospel to the Germans. And then from there to Alsace-lorraine, France. And then over to the famous Brother Jack Schuller. I want to stop see him, a Methodist brother, old Bob Schuller's boy, who is down, a personal friend of mine who's oversees in Ireland now. And we're expecting a great time, a time of fellowship. We were together just a few weeks ago just before he spoke for Brother Fuller on The Old-Fashioned Revival Hour when he was in down just below... just out of Pasadena there in a tent meeting. “Now, and then come back and a few meetings in California... And then if the Lord willing, down to Sydney, Australia, and back up. We want to go down the Amazon River where we know that there's many people who has never heard the Gospel the first time. And in this way, it's a pioneering, spearhead affair...” He classified what he was doing as a “pioneering, spearhead affair.” We look for more to come after Brother Branham. “…It's something that brings not only the theology of the Bible, but the living Christ among the people, that proves to them. It works so much greater in foreign countries than it does in America, because we have been so indocumated with different teachings and so forth, till many times we fail to get the real power out of the Gospel, because we try to make it so complicated; and to see how simple it is, we miss it by that way.” (Jesus Christ the Same 55-0806)
THE MOST PATHETIC SIGHTS THAT I EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE “So then went on to Cairo, Egypt, and Athens, Greece, on down into--to different parts of the country, and then wound up in Bombay. And I tell you: I don't believe that I could come out of what I seen in Bombay in ten years, of what it was. I... It's the most pathetic sights that I ever seen in my life, from around the world...” (Word Became Flesh India Trip 54-1003M). If you read his story about going to India, that first trip, it took Brother Branham, when he got home, a week to recover from that poverty stricken nation, and people begging and living in the streets by the tens of thousands of people, so poor, hardly clothes to wear, with nothing on their feet, no food to eat. Brothers and Sisters, we have meals every day. We have roofs over our heads. With food and raiment, we ought to be content. But Brother Branham suffered a shock to his literal system. When he got back from India, he had a hard time recovering because of the sincerity of his heart toward how those people lived in India, and his heart was poured out with compassion towards those people.
I’VE NEVER BEEN TO JAPAN YET “…This is practically all but the extreme East. I practically visited all the countries of Europe and Asia, and through that part of the country, even to the borderlines of Russia, but never been in Japan yet. And that's supposed to be next on the program, this, Australia and New Zealand and Japan. My next stop, from where I was at, was Hong Kong, China. We was just around on the other side, way closer to come to the United States, coming this a way. We just had to stop at Hong Kong, Tokyo, Formosa, and Guam, Wake, Philippines, then here. Instead of that, we go plumb back around this other way, to come--come in again.” (Word Became Flesh India Trip 54-1003M). Brother Branham was circling the globe to win converts to the Lord Jesus Christ. And he did win them. I don’t have time with it, but you remember when he looked beyond the curtain of time there, they came by the millions. Now I have a big nugget about Japan, and you heard Brother quote this in his message.
GREATEST RELIGIOUS MEETING EVER-I WANT TO TAKE JESUS TO JAPAN “Trusting that some glorious day that we won't have to travel like this to meet each other. But wanting to make an appointment with each of you, that after it's all over, how I would like to go home with each of you tonight, stay all night with you, get up in the morning and talk of the things of God, and the fellowship that we could have around the Word of God in your home. And be there, and eat with you, and fellowship, I just can't do it; because the harvest is ripe and the time is close at hand. So I must be going on. But someday I want an appointment with you, that we'll set down in another Kingdom, the Kingdom of the Father, on the other side. And then we'll just have forever to be together. “And I certainly covet the prayers of each of you people. Now, it won't be long, if God willing, I'll be going across to the foreign soil, Africa, India, through Asia, Japan. We're looking for the greatest religious meeting that's ever been in the history of the world when we come to Japan. There's only two thousand full Gospel people there. And they are worshipers of Buddha and their god is defeated. They're a great nation without a god. So I want to take Jesus to them.” (Blind Bartimaeus 57-0127). Brother Branham looked for part of the harvest to be reaped out of Japan. “We’re looking for the greatest religious meeting that’s ever been in the history of the world when we come to Japan.” Now I’m going to be going into Brother Branham’s quotations on Africa and India, but I want to read a quotation that is very striking. I am not going to try to interpret it, but I will read it to you, and you could think about it.
EXPECTING A GREAT MEETING IN AFRICA-SOMETHING ABOUT NEW YORK “Well, I just kept on speaking, if I said, ‘I'm awfully tired tonight. I'm really worn out.’ I said, ‘We're expecting a great meeting here in Africa. We just closed one in New York City, and...’ Now, there's something about New York City. Now, you watch. Remember, there's something about New York City. Don't forget that, you hear? All right. I had just left New York, New York. I said, ‘I'm so tired.’ And I watched that. Then I seen this boy again coming, walking across the audience, and he didn't have this crutch under his arm anymore. He was just normal and well, with his leg just a normal size.”(Africa Trip Report 53- 1109). Now what the prophet saw I am not at liberty this morning to try to explain to you, because he didn’t say what it was. But I know if I were to ask you, “Do you know anything about New York City?” I know what your answer would be-- “The Twin Towers.” If Brother Branham saw something about that, I do not know. But at the time he’s talking about Africa, he also says, “Remember New York.” We also know that New York holds the world’s Stock Exchange. Is that right? Is it something else about New York City that Brother Branham is referring to? I don’t know, but right now, watching New York, I know about the Twin Towers, and I know that we’re looking for a Bride’s Revival to go to Africa and around the world. So I am not trying to interpret what he meant here. He didn’t elaborate. I am just telling you, “Watch New York.”
I HAD A VISION OF GOING OVER TO INDIA AND INTO AFRICA “I want to tell you the infallibility of visions. And in... I'd had a vision recently of going over to India and into Africa. And the Lord had told me; He said, ‘You go to Africa first, then up to India.’ And through some mix-ups and so forth, the manager said to me... “And I wrote the vision immediately after I had the vision that morning. And then when the manager, as we call him that for the time being, had made an arrangements to go into India. And he didn't kinda like Africa very much. So he said to me in Chicago; he said, ‘Brother Branham, let's just bypass Africa and go on to India.’ “I said, ‘That is up to you, brother; wherever the Lord wants me to labor, all right.’… “Now, so in Africa, He didn't want to go. And I said, ‘All right, we won't go.’ Then, on the road back I went to my room. And when I did, there was a Light hanging there at the door. He said, ‘You go to Africa like I said.’ I called brother back in a few minutes and said, ‘We're going to Africa.’ I waited for a year, and finally how I done it I don't know, but another way come up. I found my road on my way back to India. When I--I meet--met Lisbon, Portuguese, where I was to have a meeting there and go on over and had a healing service right in the shadows of the Vatican city in Rome... But while I was in Portuguese, I fell sick; I didn't know why… “… And I said, ‘Billy, I don't think I can make it till morning.’ And I was just so sick. I just--just couldn't--I couldn't breathe no more. I was so sick, my breath would not even come hardly, had to force my breath, and that way all night. “And the next morning I started into the bathtub to take a... bathroom to get in one of those big tubs, a towel twice size of these tables. And so I was going to take a bath. There hung that Light hanging there. And it said, ‘Didn't I tell you to go to Africa first?’ I fell on my face and begin weeping. Then I said, ‘Lord, I just let me go somewhere and get me a little cabin out in the mountains, and trap, and hunt like I've always wanted to. I couldn't be Your servant; I haven't not even got the mental powers to serve You.’ I said, ‘I forgot all about that.’ And I wrote it down and got it. I thought I had it in my pocketbook now, but I haven't, but I've got it on paper. “Well, I went on. He told me to go on up to India, which I did. And then when I come back thinking, for four years now, that I disobeyed the Lord. And when I... Looking on that vision wrote out, which I've read it hundreds of times. The vision said that I would go to India first, and then back to Africa. But He told me to go to Africa first and then to India.” (Great Commission [also called Spiritual Revelation] 58-0301B).
DURBAN - A NEW MEETING, GREATER THAN THE OTHER ONE WAS “But when He come this time, He set me down in a Durban meeting, geographically; I was looking just the way the Durban meeting was, looking south. I was in the north. And there was a great Durban meeting, just the same meeting. And I noticed that meeting begin to turn blue, raised up off the ground, the people, and faded away towards the west. “Now, I talk slow, now, so the people can get it, and is writing. Faded towards the west… And just then I looked in front of me again this away, only it was towards the south, and there was a new meeting, greater than the other one was.” (Africa Trip Report 53-1109) He had a meeting in 1951. Then the Lord showed him, after getting into problems there, Brother Branham got real sick. He got African Amoeba, which is a parasite that goes into your intestines and other portions of your body, and he almost died, because he did not go to Africa first. He went to India. As much as Brother Branham talks about Brother Baxter and Brother Bosworth, both of them tried to influence him to have other meetings than go to Africa first. I don’t have time with it. You can read it on the ‘African Trip Report’. Because of the pressure of the people saying, “We’ve already set up the meetings, the ball parks, the auditoriums, they’ve all been paid for Brother Branham; you’ve got to go.” He said, “But the Lord said, ‘Africa first!’.” And when he listened to those men, the Angel of the Lord said, “All right, you want to go; you can go, but you will pay for it.” And Brother Branham almost died. It was a little while later that Brother Branham came into this vision. He had just had the meeting in Africa, but now the Angel of the Lord is showing him another great meeting--future events, future prophesy.
VISION OF GREATER DURBAN MEETING – AND 300,000 IN INDIA MEETING “Now, I talk slow, now, so the people can get it, and is writing. Faded towards the west… And just then I looked in front of me again this away, only it was towards the south, and there was a new meeting, greater than the other one was. And there was beautiful people: Men and women with their hands up, a praising God. And I said, ‘ Are all those white people?’ And I looked, and I seen the Africans, the great dark race standing in there. And just then, I heard something going, just making a real humming noise, like a dynamo a running. “And I looked up, and here came another Angel. This One standing by my side was the same Man that always talks. And here come another One from heaven, and He had great oscillating Light turned on. And this Angel caught me by the shoulders and turned me to the east. And as I looked to the east, I never seen so many people in all my life, and they wasn’t Africans. They looked like they… They had a sheet wrapped around them like this, and just pulled it up and stuffed it down like the Indians wear, up around Calcutta, and up in that way. And they were little bitty, skinny men. And they had their hands up, just a praising God, and a screaming my name as loud as they could to come that way. “And I looked, and the Angel that stood just above me then, He was a great, mighty looking Fellow too. And He had this great light in His hand, oscillating. And He turned It on, and It went way back through the hills. And just as far as I could see, was nothing but a solid mass of people. “And then, the Angel that was standing near me, when I seen all of that turning that way, He said…I heard the number just as plain as you hear me. He said, ‘There’s three hundred thousand of those in that Branham meeting.’ “And I pitched forward in the floor. My strength was gone. I raised up, looked around, and I heard something going… The leaves turning, and I looked, and here come my Bible right down, and It was turned to the same Scripture where I read tonight. And then It was turning back towards the front of the Bible, and as It turned back towards the front part, It stopped on Joshua, the 1st chapter, and a finger begin to read down, point down along the lines. ‘The Lord thy God is with thee wheresoever thou goest. No man shall stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so will I be with you. Be very courageous…’ And so forth like that, till It read down there, most of the chapter, 1st chapter of Joshua. And then, It went away. “At that time, I had came to, and I heard somebody knocked on the door; it was my wife setting there. She was knocking at the door, and she said, ‘Can I come in?’ Oh, I thought, ‘That’s strange. My wife asking me to come in.’ I said, ‘Yes.’ “She said, ‘I started in here three o’clock this morning.’ Now, she’s very timid, but is very spiritual. This is the first time this ever happened in our home. She said, ‘There’s Something told me not to go in there, there was a vision going on.’ And from three o’clock, this was six o’clock, it’d been three hours I was in that vision. And we went out and was talking of it, and I was telling her.” (Africa Trip Report 53-1109). Notice here that the Lord made it a great important factor, and impressed upon Brother Branham for almost three hours concerning this greater meeting that would come to Africa and India. So much so, that when his wife went to go into the room: “Don’t go in there, there’s a vision going on.” Though Brother Branham has left the scene, this vision of Africa and India, and these three hundred thousand people, has yet to come to pass; but it will come to pass.
I LOOK FOR A HUNDRED THOUSAND CONVERSIONS AT ONE TIME. “And now to finish telling you this vision. I seen it open up before me. And a Man came to me; He had some sheets of paper. And He took those sheets; He said, ‘Insomuch that you was thinking of what would be your future,’ and He threw them like that, and they went plumb up in the heavens. I’ve got it wrote out here in the Bible. Just like laying yonder in the cornerstone, that what would take place in the last days; and everyone knows what that was; it’s been just exactly the Word. It will be just this way. He said, ‘Your future’s clear.’ And He said, ‘As you was thinking of that trouble that you’ve had; that’ll all leave. You won’t have it anymore.’ Then He said, ‘Another thing,’ said, ‘you’ve been wondering about how to hold your services.’ “…Then He set me down at Durban, South Africa, where we had a hundred thousand people in the meeting, the last meeting. Had thirty thousand converts in one day, when they seen what the Lord had did, how He done the great and mighty works. And there, then I was setting back there again; He showed me another crowd just like it showed that crowd passing away. “Then He turned me this way, and an Angel came down with a light, flash it on. I just seen oceans of people, and they were Indians wrapped in Indian garb. He told me, said…And I seen the Angel come real near. And I said, ‘Who are these people?’ “And He, the other Angel who was standing by me, the One that you see back there in the picture, well, He come near me; He said, ‘There’s three hundred thousand of those in that meeting.’ Now, you mark it in your Bible, (Mark it.) and watch what the report is. When I return from India, there’ll be three hundred thousand people attend the meeting there at one time. I look for a hundred thousand conversions at one time. See? It’s the only thing that’ll stem the tide of Communism now, when forty percent of India has already turned Communist.” (Israel in the Homeland 53-0329). Listen close. This is what Brother Bruce was speaking of the other night.
THE INDIANS HAS GOT TO SEE THE POWER OF GOD IN DEMONSTRATION “Look,…(I say this with respect) if the church can’t produce no more than reading, writing, and arithmetic, and the psychic side of the Gospel, the Indians are finished. The Indians, like the natives of Africa, has got to see the power of God in demonstration.” (Israel In The Homeland 53 0329) Now when Brother Branham was overseas on his “Harvest Tour” (we’ll call it that), something very interesting took place.
AND THESE SIGNS SHALL FOLLOW THEM THAT BELIEVE.’ WE’VE FAILED “…I’m a missionary myself. But the miserable part is when some old mammy washes over a washboard to help support a missionary on the field, and when you get over there to find them riding around in an air-conditioned Cadillac, and preaching at a compound. I wonder how many David Livingstones I’d find. Frankly, I’ve only seen one what I called a missionary, a little crippled boy from Rhodesia. “One of the greatest churches that I know of in the Protestant realm… I was coming down out of southern Rhodesia, and I’d been up there in a meeting. And I seen that American passport. There was three little girls, and a boy. “And I said, ‘I see that you got American passports.’ He turned and said, ‘Oh, you speak English.’ I said, ‘I’m an American.’ I said, ‘What are you?’ He said, ‘ Oh, we’re missionaries.’ I said, ‘That’s fine.’ And I said, ‘Where you from?’ And they was from my backyard almost, where the great seminary’s at. And I said, ‘That’s good.’ I said, ‘I’m from Jeffersonville, Indiana.’ ‘Oh,’ he said, ‘you are?’ I said, ‘How long you been over?’ He said, ‘Going on two years.’ And I said, ‘How many souls have you won to Christ since you’ve been over?’ Ducked his head. And I said, ‘Sisters, how many have you won to Christ since you been over?’ But just before I did that, he said, ‘What’s your name?’ I said, ‘Branham.’ ‘Oh,’ he said, ‘you’re the one that caused that big stir down in Africa down there, down in South Africa.’ I said, ‘I don’t know whether there was any stir or not.’ He said, ‘Well, we heard that you was a holy-roller.’ I said, ‘Thirty thousand raw heathens come to Christ day before yesterday.’ I said, ‘That’s more than all of our churches has done in our missionaring in a hundred and fifty years over there. And I found missionary, or natives coming in with a tag on their neck as missionary of - - as Christians, packing an idol in their arm.’ “I said to that little boy and girl; I said, ‘You ought to be back home washing your mammy’s dishes, taking care of the babies.’ It’s exactly right. Go down there and, go down to the compound, and say a few words to them natives, when they have a dance, and pass out some tracts. What does a poor, ignorant native know about a tract when he don’t even know which is right and left hand? We’ve miserably failed God. Why? Is because Jesus said, ‘Go into all the world and preach the Gospel.’ He never did say, ‘Go in all the world and build churches.’ He never did say, ‘Go, build schools.’ He never did say, ‘Go, build seminaries.’ He said, ‘Preach the Gospel, and these signs shall follow them that believe.’ We’ve failed.” (Door To The Heart 58-0316E).
HIS LAST COMMISSION ‘ALL THE WORLD’ -IT NEVER HAS GOT THERE YET “Oh, it takes Christ’s Eternal Life to bring the Word of Life to vindication, made flesh. Oh, my goodness. “Takes the Holy Ghost to operate the Word of God. When Jesus said, “Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature…”Now look, Mark 16, His last commission ‘all the world …’ It never has got there yet. See? ‘…all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature. He that believeth (in all the world) and is baptized shall be saved; he that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe. (They’ll shake hands with the…No. They’ll be good church members? No.) In My Name they shall cast out devils. They shall speak with new tongues. They shall take up serpents, or drink deadly things, it won’t harm them. If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover.’ Oh, my. How far? Every creature. How much? All the world till He comes again. These signs shall… ‘He that believeth on Me, the works that I do, shall he do also. Even greater then this will he do, for I go to My Father.’ Oh, how we can walk away from that is more than I can say.” (Man That Can Turn On Light 63-1229M).
THERE WILL BE A MEETING IN INDIA – PROBABLY 150,000 CONVERTS “Now, and I thank you from the depths of my soul for your offering. I will do all that I can to glorify God. I’m trying my best now to get back to… I’m sure by… I told you the vision this afternoon, and there will be a meeting that I will hold somewhere, and I believe it’s in India, near Bombay, that there’ll be three hundred thousand people, and I don’t know how many converts there will be in that meeting, probably run up to a hundred and fifty, two hundred thousand people, converted. And the little fragments that’s left over this afternoon and tonight, will go for that purpose. And at that day, God reward you, each one for giving it is my prayer.” (God Testifying of His Gifts 52-0713E).
MEETINGS-AFRICA & INDIA (GOD MAKES HIMSELF KNOWN TO 300,000 PEOPLE) “…I had one meeting that I’m going to. I know where that meeting is. That meeting is in one of them in South Africa, the other one is in India. And that’s going to be a real meeting. That’s going to be where God makes His self known to three hundred thousand people. (Faith In The Son Of God 52-0715).
THE HARVEST IS RIPE, AND THE LABORERS ARE FEW “But I have come to this place that I want to explain what stage of time we're living in according to the ministry that the Lord give me. And I wanted to record it from the Tabernacle. It came on my heart last spring, but I waited till I got back here so I could get a--a recording of it to send it to you peoples of the world. “It's been about thirty-two years ago, that when the Lord Jesus, within a hundred and fifty yards of where I'm present, standing now, here in Jeffersonville at Eighth and Penn Street, the morning when I laid the cornerstone on this Tabernacle, just being then merely a swamp. And I lived just across the way to my left here. It was before I was married. I was living with my father and mother. That the Lord Jesus woke me up the morning that the cornerstone was to be laid, about, early about six o'clock. And I had been lying in bed for some time, with my heart full of joy, thinking of this great time that the Lord God was going to give me a tabernacle to preach in. I was merely a young boy then. And that day I... The girl that I was going with, which was soon to be my wife the following year was to be with us the day we was to lay the cornerstone. “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--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.’ ‘And I said, ‘Then, Lord, where is my Tabernacle?’ “And He taken me up in the Spirit again, and set me down in a grove. And way down the grove was just rows of trees setting just level, about twenty feet tall or thirty. And they looked like fruit trees, and they were in great big green buckets. And then I noticed to my right hand and to my left hand, there was a empty bucket on either side, and I said, ‘What about these?’ And He said, 'You're to plant in them’" So I pulled a limb from the tree to my right and placed it in a bucket on the right side, and a limb from the left hand and placed it in a bucket on the left side. Quickly they growed all the way into the skies. “And He said, ‘Hold out your hands and gather the fruit thereof.’ And in one hand fell a great yellow apple, mellow and ripe. And in the other hand fell a great yellow plum, mellow and ripe. And said, ‘Eat the fruit thereof because it's pleasant.’ And I ate from one and from the other: very delicious. You know the vision, it it's wrote in one of the books, I think, ‘Life Story,’ or ‘Prophet Visits Africa.’ “And just then I held up my hands, and was shouting the glory of God. And all of a sudden that Pillar of Fire came down over the top of those trees, and the roar and the lightnings flashed, and the winds blew real hard, and the leaves begin to blowing from the trees. And I looked way down, it was in the shape of this Tabernacle, the way it sets now. And at the end where the pulpit would be, there were three trees, and those three trees taken shape of three crosses. And I noticed that both plums and apples were gathered in a clusters around the middle cross. And I ran real fast, screaming to the top of my voice, and fell down upon this cross, or by the cross, and threw my arms around it. And the winds begin to shake, and the fruit from the cross, and it fell all over me. And I was so happy, just rejoicing. And It said, ‘Eat the fruit thereof, because it's pleasant.’ And then this circling of Fire called out, said, ‘The harvest is ripe, and the laborers are few.’ And He said, ‘Now, when you come to yourself again, or come out of this, read II Timothy 4: II Timothy 4.’” (Present Stage of My Ministry 62-0908). Brother Branham quotes the Scripture. Now how many knows, in his harvest, he had nowhere to send those converts? He planted them in their own buckets. But we know that harvest is coming, and there were many hundreds and thousands and millions of people that Brother Branham planted in their own buckets, because he had no where to send them. The harvesting of this fruit will be by that Pillar of Fire and a Sound that comes from Heaven like a rushing mighty wind.
A LARGE TENT OR AUDITORIUM-LARGE AUDIENCE OF WHITE ROBED PEOPLE “It was in the month of March, 1945, one morning about 3:00 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. “At the beginning of this vision, seemingly, I was walking northeast on a road when the Spirit turned me and pointed me toward the west. I was facing a great mountain. It seemed to be the mountain of the Lord! It had a towering, high church steeple on the top of it. I was then asked to go west toward the mountain. “I entered the mountain through a door and on the inside I was met by a woman who had on a garment that might have been snow white at one time. Now the garment was very soiled. She asked me if I was Bro. Billy Branham and I replied, ‘I am.’ She then introduced herself as Mrs. Methodist. “I asked her why the spots on that lovely white garment. She replied, ‘I have been so busy.’ I then said to her, ‘That's right; you Methodists have so many organizations and societies in your church, you haven't had much time for the Lord.’ Then she said, ‘I was told that you were being sent to me. Maybe I should awaken my husband!’ Then she disappeared. “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 booklet page 1-2) I trust, by the grace of God, that we are white robed people. How I love that!
PRAY YE, THE LORD OF THE HARVEST TO SEND LABORERS INTO HIS HARVEST “Why did Jesus stand here one time look out upon the harvest... How many believes He was the Lord of the harvest? Sure, we all do. And He looked out upon the harvest; He said, ‘Pray ye, the Lord of the harvest to send laborers into His harvest.’ Now, in other words, ‘You ask Me, to do just what I know that's got to be done; but yet, you got to ask Me for it.’ Said, ‘You have not because you ask not.’ Is that right? ‘You ask not because you believe not.’” (Faith in Action 55-1003) Brother Branham is telling us right here on “Faith in Action” that we are supposed to be praying and crying unto the Lord, “Lord, send laborers into the Harvest.” Didn’t you just hear that the other night? He is quoting the Scripture from Luke 14:16, where there were three bids made to come to the feast, the supper.
THERE'S SOMEBODY STILL OUT THERE THAT'S A PREDESTINATED SEED “He bid three times. Three times He sent out, and they did not listen to the feast. Then He sent again, and He said, ‘Go and compel those people to come.’ The table's got to be set. The table's ready; there's still room. And I believe that maybe--maybe within the next few months or something, or year, or whatever it is, God's going to send another shaking across the country, for there's somebody still out there somewhere that's a predestinated seed, that the Light has to fall on somewhere, somewhere in the world. The nation itself is gone.” (Is Your Life Worthy 63-0630E page 12).
POWER OF GOD WILL SHAKE THE WORLD WITH THE CHURCH OF THE GOD “I believe that the church of the living God is moving into a sphere now that's going to shake the whole world… “Oh, it's going to come to pass pretty soon. I'm looking for it to happen in this meeting. I'm wanting it to happen now, that that anointing will strike the whole church of the living God, and she'll rise to her feet like a mighty marching army. The sick will be healed by a word; the blind will see; the deaf will hear; the dead will be raised up; and the power of God will shake the world with the church of the living God…” The power of God will shake the world with the Church of the Living God. “…We're in the process of it now. I believe it's soon coming to pass. “And just remember, just as I told you about--from the discernment, taking the hand, to the secrets of the heart, how them things is fulfilled every time, so has this happened just exactly the way it said it would be. And it's just exactly with the Scriptures.” (Speak To This Mountain 59-1123). Now according to what I just read there, that’s greater than a tract. That’s greater than a Spoken Word Book. That’s greater that a tape recorder. This is the Church of the Living God, with Power inside of her to shake the world one more time. There will be a great Harvest to come. There will be another outpouring of the Holy Sprit. There will be another revival. This will be my last quote. Brother Branham talked about his first trip to Africa, where thirty thousand came to the Lord. I have another quotation of Brother Branham where he believed that it would be this next meeting to Africa that the Lord would harvest twice that amount. I long to see it. Brother Branham has been gone almost forty years, and no tract, no Spoken Word Books, no tape recorder has ever produced those hundred thousand souls to be won to the Lord, nor a meeting of three hundred thousand in India. No tape, no tract, no Spoken Word Book has produced double the amount of Brother Branham’s first African trip. Beloved, Brother Branham has gone on, but the Bride’s revival is yet to come.
HE WILL PLACE INTO THE CHURCH ALL THE POWERS CHRIST HAD IN HIM “When he's getting his schooling, his training... Yet, he might not be able to exercise all authority; he hasn't got it yet. He's still a son, but he hasn't been placed. “God placed on Him that robe of immortality, showing that He had received Him. That's the thing that God will do to His sons here on earth some day. He will call you aside, Church, if you'll only obey Him and stay on the Word and believe it. And He will place into the Church, before the coming of Jesus Christ... He will place into the Church... All the powers that Christ had in Him will be in the Church. All that God was, He poured into Jesus; all that Jesus was, He pours into the Church. God wanting His work done, He sent it into His Son; the Son wanting the work done, sent it into the Church. ‘At that day you'll know that I'm in the Father, the Father in Me, and I in you, and you in Me.’ At that day, because the same power of God, was in Jehovah God, rested in Jesus Christ. The same power that rested in Jesus Christ, rests in the placed sons in the body of Christ. “Placing of a son... Take him out in a certain place, have a ceremony before Angels, and place him positionally what he is in the body of Christ. Then that person has the authority. Let me say this, if you count me a fanatic from this night on. That very same thing that I'm speaking of will be done. There'll be a power put into the Church, and now is coming in…” (Hear Ye Him 60-0313). How many say he had Power? --Power enough to win thirty thousand converts to the Lord in Africa in one meeting.
THERE WILL BE A POWER PUT INTO THE CHURCH - SPEAK THE WORD “…There'll be a power put into the Church, and now is coming in, that the Holy Spirit will so anoint the people, till they'll speak the Word and It'll create Itself right there. We haven't seen powers like's coming into the Church now. I know it for a fact. “‘Say unto this mountain be moved. Don't doubt in your heart, but believe that what you've said shall come to pass, you can have what you have said.’: the placing of the Church in position, where the fullness of the power of the Holy Ghost comes into the Church. Then critics mouths will be shut. It'll be a short time. Jesus come right off the mountain, went straight to Calvary. Notice, it won't last long, but it'll be here.” (Hear Ye Him 60-0313). Oh, my, that’s so wonderful! I hope you enjoyed those quotes as much as I did. We are in for a great time! Look at the souls of the people around the world. I believe Brother Bruce was telling me, “1.2 billion people in China. I forgot how many million in Japan. Brother Branham said, “We will have one of the greatest meetings in Japan.” What about what he saw with the tent in Mexico? How could we say that it’s all over and we’re just waiting for the rapture, and the last one will come in? Beloved, that’s selfish. I want to see the harvest of the world reaped. Just as sure as God sent Malachi 4 and 5, and that scripture is true, also the end of the world is a time of harvest. We are living in the greatest hour in the history of the world. There will come a power to the Church, and the harvest of the earth will be reaped. I hope that something was said to encourage your heart. O LORD, SEND LABORERS INTO THE HARVEST
And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the Gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd. Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest. (Matthew 9:35).I will stop there for a moment. The will of God for you and me, the Church of the Living God today, every little brother, every little sister, every teenager, every woman, and every man, is that God send forth laborers into the harvest. That’s the will of God for you. You say, “I don’t have anything to do. What is the woman’s place? What is my place as a teenager? What is my place as an old man?” PRAY, that the Lord send forth laborers to reap this harvest that is laying there. So you should not be in doubt from now on what you should be praying about. The greatest thing that you could pray for is the salvation of a soul. Matthew 9:38 Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest. Now you can’t just pick up a Bible and go out and preach and think that you are called to preach. The Lord has to send you. He said, “As the Father hath sent me so send I you.” You must be sent into the field of harvest before you can do any job. Let’s look at Revelation 14. And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle. And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.(Revelation 14:14-16). If we continued to read from the 17th to the 20th verse, it speaks of another harvest, but this harvest here was unto wrath and judgment. So there are two great harvests of the earth. One unto eternal life, and one unto death. Let us talk a little bit tonight. I am not preaching these days. I am just trying to “Come let us reason together saith the Lord”. That saves my throat and helps things to soak in just a little bit. Some people call it teaching, but I feel like it is a little fellowship between the ministers and the saints. That way, I could catch the attention of the little ones. I like to always to remember that they are souls, too. Sometimes they think that they come to church with Mommy and Daddy, and that is their duty. No, you are here for eternal life. That is why you were baptized. You are here to take care of your soul and make your soul ready for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, that you may be raptured with your mommy and daddy. That is why you are assembled here. This service belongs to you; you are a part of this service. You don’t come here for any other reason: to meet your friends, or sleep, or just to be bored, and wait until the service is over. You should give your attention, Little Ones, when you come to service. Give your attention. Let’s hear what Brother Bruce is saying this evening. Let us hear what the ministers are saying, Bro. Kenny, Bro. Timmy; let us hear what they are saying in God’s Word. If you feel that you are not born again, that you are not saved in your heart, say, “Lord, save me. Save me, Lord.” If you don’t understand, say, “Lord, help me to understand Your Word. I don’t understand; I lack understanding. Lord give me understanding.” The only way that you will get understanding is to desire it. We are assembled here to learn. We are assembled to take care of our souls. This is the body here. The soul lives in this body. When you die, the soul comes out of this body. If it is prepared through forgiveness of sin, through the born-again experience, then you go into a happy place. If you do not repent and be baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and have your soul prepared, then your soul goes to a place of torment. No little fellow here wants to go to torment, no little girl, nobody here in their correct reasoning and thinking wants to go to a terrible place of torment, to remain there for a thousand years, tormented by demons and darkness. Then after that, you are cast into a lake of fire, and you remain there for millions of years. Now, nobody wants that. So that is why the Scripture says, “ For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him shall not perish, but have everlasting life.” That’s the golden Scripture. Yes, it’s the golden Scripture; no matter where we go, we have got to come back to that Scripture. That is why we are assembled here. Every night, we are assembled for a purpose, not to see one another, not to see who dressed better than the next one. We are here for a greater purpose. So our little subject tonight, if you would open up your little minds, you can comprehend that the little message is saying, “Oh Lord, Send Laborers Into The Harvest.” Now, the Bible is written in parables, in symbols, and sometimes, in many places, it is written plainly. When we speak of a harvest, it is a parable that the Lord was speaking in. Now, He is speaking here, and He is typing out a farmer; several parables in the Bible type out farming. Like a farmer planting the seed in the ground, waiting for it to grow. Then, after that it is reaped, it brings forth fruit. There are many parables that we could go in to prove that, but our Lord speaks in the terms of a farmer, sometimes in the terms of a shepherd. There is one parable where He said, “And the sower went forth to sow his seed; and some fell by the wayside.” You know how that goes. Another parable in the 13th chapter, He spoke about a man that sowed good seed in his field, and at night an enemy came and sowed bad seeds. All those things are not just farming, children, it has to do with great wisdom, great truths. It has to do with eternal life. So, when you are hearing , you are not just hearing about harvest and a seed and a sheep. This has to do with you. Yes. This seed is the Word of God. The seed falls into your heart, which is the ground. Your heart is the ground. Then it is supposed to bring forth fruits. Those fruits are eternal life: eternal life that you will receive. In the Scripture that we just read there, our Lord spoke in a way of parable. He said, “The harvest is plenteous, but the laborers are few. Pray the Lord of the harvest that he may send laborers into the harvest.” What is He talking about? This harvest is plenteous. It means there are many souls in the world to be saved. They are lost, but they are ready to be saved. The harvest is plenteous. We could say the same thing today. Out of a world of six billion people, the harvest is plenteous, but the laborers are few. So the harvest that He is talking about is lost souls: people that don’t know about church, people that don’t know about Christ, people that don’t know about salvation, people that don’t know they have a soul that needs to be saved. They are on their way to hell, and they don’t know it. But our Lord, with His great vision, looked out there. He said, “The harvest is ripe.” He said, “The harvest is plenteous.” He said, “… but the laborers are few.” These laborers are preachers, servants of God that must be sent. You don’t pick up a Bible and go preach. The Lord must call you supernaturally to preach His Gospel. So these laborers are preachers that would be called and sent of God, in a certain way, in a particular way, according to the will and plan of God, to go and reach these souls. But then the Lord is saying that these preachers cannot go in the will of God until you pray, the Church prays; until you cry out, you talk to God, who is the Lord of the harvest. He is the Lord of the harvest. God is over all. He is God of the whole world. So now you have to pray to the Lord, and say, “Lord send forth your true servants, because the world today is filled with false prophets.” This is the day that Jesus prophesied about: “Many false christs and many false prophets shall arise, and shall deceive many.” This is that day, and the Church ought to come under a burden of prayer. They ought to come under a burden of concern, a burden for souls. You cannot really pray for that until you come under a burden for souls. He said, “Pray the Lord of the harvest that he might send forth laborers into the vineyard, and reap this harvest.” Do you understand? Do you see how wonderful the Scriptures are? Now the same way that there were souls to be won in that day of the First Coming of the Lord, in the days of the apostles, there are souls to be won today. Look at the masses of humanity upon the face of the earth. Look at the corruption of sin. Sin has gone to the ends of the earth. People that used to be moral, sin has corrupted them. In your Scriptures that I just read, Revelation 14, and Matthew 13, I am quoting those scriptures to show you that there are souls to be won in this age, which is called the harvest. We are not harvesting corn or grapes or potatoes, children. We are to harvest souls, souls of men and women. God is not interested in potatoes and corn. He is interested in harvesting souls. So now the harvest of these souls is when you go into a country, go amongst a nation, go amongst a people, and then you preach the Gospel and you convince them that they should repent and change their lives, and accept Jesus Christ, and serve Him. If you preach to three hundred thousand, and one hundred thousand repent, we have reaped the harvest of souls in that place. That is going to be people that will live eternally in a new world. Everybody that rejects that Gospel, after hearing that Gospel by that sent preacher, will go down to hell. So now that is the next reaping there that is unto death. There is one reaping to life, one reaping to death. I am pointing out to you and identifying a harvest of souls. And what I mean, I am identifying in Scripture that there are souls to be saved in the end time, right in the age in which we are living. And if there are souls to be saved in this age that we are living, then the Church, you and I that know that, need to come under a burden of prayer. Our duty, and God’s will for you, as a brother or sister, is to enter into that feeling, enter into that burden, that we might pray the Lord that He save these souls. Now if you don’t care who dies and who lives, then I doubt that you are saved. When we hear those cries, and we hear the letters from abroad, of people crying out in Africa and India, and how thankful they are for receiving these tracts and these books, it ought to help you to understand that there is somebody that wants to be saved. That there is a cry, there is a Macedonian cry. And if somebody is crying there, we ought to be crying to the Lord. And say, “Lord, let this outpouring come! Let your power come! Anoint these brethren, Lord. Give them gifts of the Spirit, that they might go out and deliver these children of God.” That is what you should be doing as a sister, or as a brother who doesn’t even have a ministry. Don’t tell me you have nothing to do, friends. Don’t tell me you don’t know what your position is as a woman. I am telling you what your position is as a woman. Yes. Your position as a woman is to pray the Lord that He sends forth your husband, your son, your brother, your daddy, in order to reap these souls. That is what the commandment of the Lord is. You are not supposed to preach, that is true. No, but you could pray that the Lord sends the preacher and anoints the preacher. For a woman to preach is contrary. I Timothy 2:12 (Everybody knows that.) I Corinthians 14:34-35. It is contrary for a woman to preach the Gospel. These two Scriptures here: Revelation 14:14-16 and Matthew 13, speak of a harvest of souls in the end time. Now, both Scriptures are alike. In Revelation 14, it shows you two great harvests: one of the good, and one of the bad; one of life, one of death. In Matthew 13, it shows you two harvests: one of the good, and one of the bad. But Jesus was a little more explicit over here in the parable, where He said the wheat and the tares. When they asked him to unfold the parable, He said, “Okay, the tares are the children of the wicked one, and the wheat are the children of the kingdom.” And then He said, “The harvest is the end of the world.” We are living in the end of the world. This harvest that we are speaking about is prophesied for the end time. The Bible prophesied that there would be more saved in the end time. It is recorded in your Bible here. Those that are to be saved in the end time and go in the rapture are called the wheat. In Revelation 14, we saw One like unto the Son of man sitting upon a cloud. And an angel cried out and said, “The harvest of the earth is ripe. Thrust in thy sickle.” And He thrust in His sickle and He reaped the harvest of the earth. All these things are symbolic; it means something. The Son of Man sitting on the cloud means something. The sickle means something. The reaping means something. What He reaped means something. All that it means is that our Lord Jesus Christ still has people to save in the end time. He has people here to save in the end time before the rapture takes place. And He must save those people to take them away in the rapture. Now, this could very deep here, Revelation 14:14-16. The One that is responsible for the reaping of the harvest in the end time is the Son of Man. That brings us back to Luke 17:30. That is Jesus Christ. So now, there is a harvest of the end-time to be reaped. It is going to be reaped by the ministry of the Son of man. There we are. But I’m not dealing with that subject right now, of the Son of Man reaping the harvest. We preached that many times. But I’m just dealing with the fact that there is a harvest. Everybody that is living in the world is not going to hell. As bad as it is, as sinful as it is, everybody is not going to hell. The Lord has a bunch of people that will be saved in the end time. Let us deal with Matthew 13 just briefly. There are two groups here that are to be reaped. And Little Ones, one group is the bad people; and the next group is the good people. Now, you cannot get good in yourself. You have to be washed by the Blood of Jesus Christ. You have to come the way of repentance. You have to come the way of the born-again experience. You have to come the way of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. God has to make you righteous. However, this parable is speaking of two harvests. It is speaking of the tares (bad people) and the wheat. Alright. There we are. Let us deal with the first harvest. This parable here of the 13th chapter of Matthew covers two thousand years. The Gospel was first preached by our Lord Jesus Christ. He sowed the good seed. It came down through two thousand years. The harvest is in the end time. We are living in the end of the world. What is happening through the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is that they have made about a thousand different organizations and religions. They have perverted the Gospel in every fashion and in every form. They have turned the Gospel into a money making racket. You see what is coming out of the Catholic Church. Now, that doesn’t surprise us. We had been teaching that for better than twenty, thirty years. We have all kinds of books written by that fellow called Chiniquy (The Priest the woman and the confessional). This is the first time I’m mentioning anything on the pulpit concerning the scandals of the Catholic Church. They will never change. Do you believe, my brother, all that they are doing in expelling priests and everything like that, you think that Church will ever clean up? It will never clean up! That had been going on for two thousand years. They will never change. That is only a front to deceive more people to show how strict the Catholic Church is. They are not strict! The pope, himself, is involved in that kind of wickedness! The cardinals and all the priests are involved in those kinds of satanic things. So, that doesn’t bother us. Let me get back to this. The binding of the tares in the end time is all the churches, together with all the religions of the world, coming together in a World Council of Churches. Now this is strange doctrine, friend. That’s all the churches coming together in a World Council of Churches, to be burnt. They are going through the tribulation for perverting the Word of God, for preachers living in adultery and preaching behind the pulpit, and turning the Gospel into a money making racket. They are being bound right now in a World Council of Churches. This World Council of Churches, because of the economy of the world, the money failing, children, what is going to happen is that the Catholic Church has the most gold in the world. The next people that have the gold, is the Jews. They are going to put their money together. The economy is going to fall, according to Bible prophecy; and then what will happen, there will be a one-world government, and a one-world church. People like you and I, that are independent, and do not serve an organization, but only serve Christ, they will close down the churches like this. They will boycott us. It is going to be like the early days of the apostles where they will call for your houses, call for your lands, call for your life. But I want to tell you, Little Fellows, don’t be afraid. About that time, something will happen upon the earth and we will not face that kind of persecution. The Lord will take us away before that time. Yes, but we will see these things happen. That’s according to Bible prophecy. The Scripture for that is Revelation 13 and Revelation 17. Okay. It tells you there that everybody that does not bow down to that system will be killed (right in plain words in your Bible—Revelation 13). So, you better get ready to go. You better get ready to get out of here. Now, those who will be persecuted by the Pope, and by the World Council of Churches, are the people that failed to prepare themselves to go away in a rapture. Don’t you take any chances on your soul, children. You have got to be ready. You could come to church every day, and you could do a lot of religious things, but you have got to be born again to go in the rapture. You have got to be born again to go away in the rapture. You must have the Spirit to translate you. That is what divides the foolish virgin and the wise virgin, Matthew 25. One had the oil, and the next one never had the oil. The ones that had the oil went away with the Bridegroom; and the ones without the oil, what happened? They remained here. That is what we are talking about. It takes something to take you in the rapture. It takes a strong power to take you in the rapture. So now, that is settled, where the tares are bound into bundles. The tares are in all the religions and all the organizations, right today. They are in those religions, and they are coming together in a one-world-government and a one-world-church, believe it or not. That is going to be the revival of the Roman Empire. Right now, you see what is happening in Europe? All the walls are broken down? And they are coming together? The man that will be the head of that is the Pope, believe it or not. The wheat is the people that will not go into the World Council of Churches. These are true wheat seed, true children of God. Something happened on earth that was preparing them, all the time, not to take the mark of the beast. And what has happened in this time is that God, knowing that the mark of the beast will come down, which you will find in Revelation 13, He knowing that the mark of the beast will come down, and the mystery of iniquity will prevail over the people. People will not know if they are going right, left, center, up or down. Now, in this time, He fore-ordained a prophet to come just before the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, and that is in Malachi 4. It says, “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…” We don’t want to be burnt up, Children. No. “… 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.” Is that right? And He said, “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD.” Now, that is not John the Baptist. If it was John the Baptist, the world was supposed to be burnt after John preached. John the Baptist is Malachi 3; and Jesus confirmed that. Is that right? But Malachi 4 is another prophet in the end time here that is to come before the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Is that right? And we know that prophet to be none other than the man called William Branham, because God bore witness to that. Each one of us knows the story, that at the banks of the Ohio, when this man was baptizing, a Voice spoke out and said, “As John the Baptist fore-ran my First Coming, so shall my prophet, William Branham fore-run my Second Coming. Is that right? [Congregation says, “Amen”]. And a light appeared. Four thousand people were gathered; four hundred got baptized. We heard all those stories. A pillar of fire accompanied him, just like a pillar of fire accompanied Moses. Alright. Now God, knowing that there will be a harvest in the end-time and all these false prophets will take over the radio stations, the television, they will take over the evangelical field, take over all the religions and all the organizations, my beloved, it behooves God to send a foreordained prophet in the end-time. The foreordained prophet is in Malachi 4. A prophet is not anybody that just jumps up and says, “I am a prophet.” There is a way to identify a prophet. There is a way that you know a true prophet from a false prophet, and Jesus said how to know a true prophet from a false prophet. Alright. So now we are just not following this prophet because he said he was a prophet, because there are millions that say they are prophets too. And if we are to follow every man that says that they are prophets, you know, and this and that, we’ll be a lost and confused people. No, but Malachi 4 was a foreordained prophet; and it is right there for anybody to read. It tells you that God will send Elijah the prophet; that is going to be a man anointed by the spirit of Elijah, just like John was a man anointed by the spirit of Elijah. That is right in your Bible, St. Luke 1, I believe it is. John was anointed by the spirit of Elias. He said he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias. Yes. Right in Luke 1. Zachariah prophesied it. He said he shall go before Him in the spirit and power of Elias. And he had a different name, and his name was called John. Jesus had to come by and say “Well, this man was Elijah.” And today, we had a man called Branham. He’s a hated man through the world, and that is one of the signs of a true prophet: that when He sends a prophet in the world everybody would hate him and try to kill him. So that is a true sign. Yes. What I am trying to get at is that God, knowing that there is a harvest here in the end time, beloved, he sent forth this prophet to help to reap that harvest. Now you see what I’m getting to? Revelation 14. Matthew 13. These wheat aren’t going to be gathered together mysteriously, like that. Everybody would not read their Bible, or belong to an organization, and be gathered for the rapture. No. There are too many false prophets on the earth. There’s got to be an absolute. Yes. You check your Bible from Genesis to Revelation. When God’s people went away from His Word and went astray, and when false prophets took over the church and the people of God, God sent a prophet. That is why He sent an Ezekiel; that is why He sent a Jeremiah; that is why He sent a Moses; and that is why He sent a John the Baptist before His First Coming, because the people strayed from divine order. Isn’t that true? So Little Children, what I am telling you is the truth. It is in the Bible; it is in the 4th chapter of Malachi. God sent a prophet today, because He loves you; He wants to save you; He doesn’t want you to be burnt. Yes. He is a true prophet; we have not followed cunningly devised fables. You have not followed a cult or an ism here. No, you have followed the truth. This was not an ordinary man; God proved that he was His servant. Yes. The first thing a true prophet will bring you to is the Word. That’s the first thing a true prophet will call you back to--the Word. And William Branham forbid a woman from preaching. He preached One God. He told the women, “Dress modestly.” He said that all organizations are of the devil. Is that right? He didn’t believe in any Bible schools, any kind of seminaries, and all those other things. A true prophet of God will bring you back to the Scriptures. Oh, he brought us back to the Scriptures. Now keep my point there in mind. He sent His prophet, William Branham, anointed by the spirit of Elijah, Malachi 4, in order to reap some of this harvest that He had written about here in the Bible. Revelation 14, Matthew 13, and there are other Scriptures that tell you about this harvest. Harvest means people to be saved. How are you going to face this generation? How are you going to face this generation, friend, this sinful and adulterous generation, this proud generation? Everybody knows everything; everybody belongs to a religion; everybody belongs to an organization; everybody has a Bible; and everybody could interpret the Bible for themselves; everybody thinks they could read the Bible and find out what is right and wrong. You can’t! If you could have done that, God never sent John the Baptist; He never sent a prophet; He never sent Jesus. When He sent Jesus, they had the Bible, and He said, “Search the Scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life, and they are they which testify of me.” Exactly. Do you know that those great Pharisees and scribes were reading the Bible more than everybody? And they were expecting the Messiah? Those that read the Bible more when Jesus did come said, “You’re a devil!” And they crucified him! And do you know who the ones are that persecuted William Branham today? They’re the religious people--these Pentecostals. Yes. They claim to be the most religious people. They’re the ones that persecuted William Branham. And they told a lie, that the people that believe him worship William Branham. They lied. We worship Jesus Christ, and we don’t worship William Branham. William Branham is God’s prophet; William Branham is Jesus’ prophet that He sent in the end time. That’s the truth of it. So this grace Gospel preacher that God sent, by William Branham, had to do with the reaping of the harvest in the end time. Now according to history, his ministry started in 1933. We have books to verify that; films to verify that; we have 1150 tapes to verify that. And from 1933 to 1965, his ministry was effective in this world. In 1948, an angel appeared to him and sent him with a ministry of divine healing around the world. He went around the world seven times. When he went, he started to reap the harvest. Now look in your Bible and see what the harvest is and understand what harvest is, children. Brother Branham was sent to reap the harvest. Now when he was sent here, he went preaching amongst the Pentecostals. He went to India; he went to Africa. And under his ministry he sent two and one half to three million souls into the kingdom of God. Two and a half million souls is the count of the Assemblies of God, alone. Now, you’re talking about a harvest. That harvest has to do with these Scriptures that I just read. It is a part of that harvest, but that is not all of it. Now that is my contention here, under this little discussion is, that is not all of it. In one single meeting, Brother Branham made one altar call, and 30,000 blanket natives repented. He went in another place and 10,000 Muslims repented. He went to India, and half a million people attended the meeting. By count, there was over two and one half to three million people that was saved under the ministry of William Branham. That is not counting those who were saved later on, after 1965, and who follow the message today. Think of how many that is. Alright. The prophet of God after reaping these souls for Jesus Christ, the Lord showed him several visions. I believe in visions. The Bible said, “The young men shall see visions. Old men shall see dreams.” Did the Bible say that? The Bible said, ”If there is a prophet among you, I the Lord will speak unto him in…” What? “Visions and dreams. And if what he said is come to pass then believe him.” William Branham saw thousands of visions. And every one of them came to pass, and there are yet a few of them in the process of fulfillment. In 1933, he prophesied of a Second World War, and he called Hitler by name. He prophesied that Ethiopia was going to fall. And it takes too much time to tell you about what he prophesied. How do you know a prophet? When God sends a prophet, he prophesies things to come to pass, and they come to pass. That is how you know a prophet. And then he will bring you back to the Word of God. He will bring you back to the Word of God. Oh yeah. So that was a great Gospel preacher, not in himself. He never belonged to an organization; he never belonged to a religion, no, just like any other prophets. Whenever a prophet came, they didn’t go join the religions. Did John the Baptist belong to his father’s religion? No, he ran away from the house at nine years of age. Did Jesus belong to the Pharisee’s religion? No. And Dr. Saul, didn’t he have to leave his religion? Alright. A prophet doesn’t come belonging to a religion and an organization. And because he doesn’t belong to them, they persecute him. And so was this man called William Branham. Yes, although he was among them and preached for them. So now, after preaching the Gospel and winning about 3 million souls for the Lord Jesus Christ, Brother Branham knew that there were more souls to be won in Africa, and in India, and in Japan, and in Mexico, and in many other parts of the world. The prophet of God was laying his faith on these Scriptures here. On these Scriptures he knew that there is a harvest of many souls to be won. He knew that after he won 3 million souls, that was not all of it. That is what I’m trying to get at. And, knowing that that is not all of it, the Lord confirmed that. The Lord showed him visions of souls that are yet to be won in Africa, and you know how that goes. Brother Branham went to Africa, and he had one of the greatest meetings. The Lord showed him a vision and told him that there will be a greater meeting than what you had. He said after that is done, that is going to pass away into history, and then the revival is going to go into India. He said when you get to India, there will be 300,000 souls over there that will be gathered to hear the Gospel; 100,000 will accept the Gospel. There will be black men. There will be skinny Indians. They will be wearing that cloth, loincloth. The Indian people call that a dhoti. That’s a kind of cloth pants. So now, Brother Branham did not know that name. Actually, people in Trinidad, many years ago, used to wear those pants when they came from India. They came from Calcutta. The name of those pants is called a “dhoti.” And Brother Branham saw them in the “dhoti.” And he specified that those are not Africans. Those are not black men. He said, “I already have seen the great white race, and have already seen the great black race, but now I was looking at something else.” And the Angel of the Lord took a light and showed him all those masses of people, and the Angel asked him, “Do you know how many people are in there?” He said, “No.” He said, “There are 300,000 people in there. And the voice that the Angel spoke with shook him out of the vision. Brother Branham said, “Mark that down in your Bible. It must come to pass.” Although he reaped a certain amount of the harvest, he knew by vision, by revelation, that there are more to be won. He knew that there was a great harvest in Africa and he said, “Africa is first! No matter what happens, Africa is first!” The reaping will be first over there. I’m not saying they are going to start there. The reaping between Africa and India, Africa will be first ahead of India. Where can we see the harvest prophesied again? We see the harvest prophesied in Mexico. Remember the Tent vision? Where can we see the harvest prophesied again? Remember the prophet of God went down to a great big mountain of bread, and there was white robed people coming from everywhere to eat from the mountain of bread? That’s your harvest again. Do you know that the prophet of God said that the greatest meeting that you will ever hear about will take place in Japan? Yes, we have a quotation right here. These souls are right now over there in Japan, in Mexico, in Africa, in India. And not because the other countries were not called out, or seen by vision, it means that there are no souls there. Don’t you think we have souls in China, the biggest population of the world, 1.2 billion people, and in India, 1 billion people? I believe that there is yet a harvest to reap. This was seen by the prophet of God, and none of his visions ever failed at any time. He called Hitler by name before Hitler ever came here, and he prophesied a lot of things. Now these souls that the prophet of God had seen to be saved over there, and whom the Bible spoke of in Mathew 13 and Revelation 14, these souls are not touched yet. This harvest is yet in the field. This harvest out here that is left in India and Africa, and the rest of the world. “He taken me out in the Spirit. Listen, Brother Jackson, you never heard this, none of the rest have. And He set down at Durban, South Africa, in that same booth, standing there before those tens of thousands, and thousands of people there. And I looked and I seen all that meeting gather together, and fade off to my right. Geographically, I was standing this way. And it faded to the left going this way, turning blue. And then right before me, stood blocked off streets like that, with people standing there, with their hands up praising God. Then He turned me to the east, and looked that way. And I seen people standing there with clouts, like on, like the Indians wear. And there were thousands of them, and they had their hands up air, just a praising God and screaming and praising God. And I couldn't even see the end of them.” (Early Spiritual Experiences. 52-0713a).E-59 “ And as I looked to the east, I never seen so many people in all my life, and they wasn't Africans. They looked like they... They had a sheet wrapped around them like this, and just pulled it up and stuffed it down like the Indians wear, up around Calcutta, and up in that way. And they were little bitty, skinny men. And they had their hands up, just a praising God, and a screaming my name as loud as they could to come that way. And I looked, and the Angel that stood just above me then, He was a great, mighty looking Fellow too. And He had this great light in His hand, oscillating. And He turned It on, and It went way back through the hills. And just as far as I could see, was nothing but a solid mass of people…He said... I heard the number just as plain as you hear me. He said, "There's three hundred thousand of those in that Branham meeting." (Africa.Trip.Report 53-1109).“I had been very much constrained to go to India. And yet, as many of you might know, the Indian trip wasn't the success that it should've been, because I failed to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit, and never recognized it after He give me a vision to go to Africa first and then to India.” (India Trip Report 57-0126B).“I seen an Angel, which speaks to me, stands by my right side, and I was setting in Africa, at Durban, the same place, right where I left off and failed the Lord. He was sending me right back again to begin. I saw great throngs of people, but the meeting raised into the air, and faded away as a shadow. I looked back and saw again; there was many people setting, even greater than the first meeting. Then the Angel which was speaking to me, turned me to the east, which would be that way. And there was so many people, that I couldn't even numerate. They went over hills, and an Angel, smaller than the One which was standing by me, came from the--above with a light, a oscillating light, and it showed over the hills at the people. And they looked like Indians, half dressed. They were rejoicing and praising God as I spoke to them. And I heard the Angel, which was above me, say to the Angel standing by my side, "There are three hundred thousand of those in that Branham meeting." And see if that's right or not.” (Divine Healing 54-0620E).“And then He came and He turned my head like this, back over to the east, towards the east, towards India. And there were tens of thousands with clouts on, dark-looking men. They had their hands up in the air. They were praising God. They were jumping-up-and down, and screaming, and praising God. Thousands of them was receiving Christ. And I said, "Wonderful. "And about that time, I heard Something coming right above me, and here come down a great Light out of heaven. And It was like an oscillating Light, and It went way back over the field, for about a half a mile or more. And there was nothing but a solid mass of people, just standing, packed in. I said, "O Lord, are all those black men?" And then He turned me back to this group here in front of me again. There was beautiful, white people, standing with their hands up in the air like this, praising God. Then He turned me back again like that. And then the Angel come real near; I could tell He'd been here. And I heard the number that He called. Remember this. He said, "There's three hundred thousand of those in that very meeting." I came to myself. I heard His number. Remember, I'm going to hold a meeting somewhere east of Durban, I believe in India, that'll consist of three hundred thousand people. That's before it comes to pass, that you might know. Just as I have said, about the little boy being raised in Finland. Many of you heard that testimony before it was ever--before we even left the United States, a year before, that little boy would be raised from the dead, and so forth.” (Faith.Africa.Trip.Report_Zion. 52-0725).“He showed me another crowd just like it showed that crowd passing away. Then He turned me this way, and an Angel came down with a light, flash it on. I just seen oceans of people, and they were Indians wrapped in Indian garb. He told me, said... And I seen the Angel come real near. And I said, "Who are these people?" And He, the other Angel who was standing by me, the One that you see back there in the picture, well, He--He come near me; He said, "There's three hundred thousand of those in that meeting." Now, you mark it in your Bible, and watch what the report is. When I return from India, there'll be three hundred thousand people attend the meeting there at one time. I look for a hundred thousand conversions at one time.” (Israel.In.The.Homeland Jeff.In Ic 129-147 Sunday_ 53-0329). “My meetings has been slowly failing since that time. Though I went to India with nearly a half a million standing there, but that wasn't doing what God said do. And I feel that my meetings will never be a success until I go right straight back and make that thing right. No matter what I do, it's Africa first, 'cause you've got to do it. There lays God's eternal Word laying there. I knew better than that. But I've got to go back. And I feel that this coming year is the time I'll crawl out of the shell by the help of the Lord. This glorious old Gospel who's been growing easy like a oak tree, but I believe she's about ready to spread forth her branches now. I believe It. This great Message and great thing, I believe that the Lord let us shake the world again for the glory of God.” (Hebrews.Chapter.7.Pt.1 57-0915e).“Wrote them a letter, I said, "Remember, I've tried to get into Africa for years again, feeling that my ministry isn't finished in Africa. I have no..." Why would I have to go to Africa, when I got six, seven hundred cities right here in the United States calling (See?), just right here, without leaving Canada, Mexico, or any of those places? Why should I want to go there? But it's something in my heart that pulls me to Africa. There--those people, there--there is something about them that I love, and I want to go just for the colored people only. And there's something in a lot of them, them leaders, they don't feel I should do that. But I--I want to go to my colored friends. That's where the Lord called me.” (Ashamed of Him-3 N-9 65-0711). “And now they're needy. Many of those people, those white people, can have doctors and everything. But them poor natives live out there, and half rot. And I feel they're the ones that looks like they'd receive It. They're the ones…And so I wrote them a letter back, and told them that. I said, "Remember, at the day of the judgment, let them boney hands reach out of the smoke, condemn you. Their blood be upon you, not on me, 'cause I've tried for about ten years to get back."… I never seen any more devout people. They've got about a hundred and fifty ministers over there, baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, and they're just burning the country up. The Message is just sweeping Africa, everywhere, aviators and great men coming, being baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ…I found out what the trouble was. Now, I think, about October, the Lord willing, I can go back and have a meeting and everything, full cooperation, everything else (See?), in Africa now. I got to the bottom of it and found out where it was at, what caused it. Up here, writing, this one has got this to say, and something's got something to say, and this one there. The best thing to do, is go find out, yourself. And I know where the trouble was, and what the reason of it was; it was because of so many people gathering together, the government wouldn't let me have it. Now, if the Christian Business Men or any organization, which will bring us in, then the government automatically because it's the organization is represented with the government, the government sends militia protection. If there'd be twenty-five men out of one denomination, twenty-five out of another, still they won't receive that. It's got to be the head of this organization. And Christian Business Men is a nonsectarian organization representing all the churches. Doctor Simon, their head over there, a very fine man, I got to meet him and talk with him. And they are taking the meetings, and all the rest of the churches is coming in together. See? And I believe we'll have one of the greatest meetings that's been had in Africa.” (Ashamed of Him 65-0711). When was there ever a gathering of 300,000 in Calcutta, India, to hear the message of Malachi 4:5&6. Or when was there ever a greater gathering of people and a greater ministry which surpassed the Durban, South Africa meeting, in the history of Brother Branham’s meetings, or the history of the message since his departure? If the great names in this message cannot prove this, I challenge them to believe that it is yet to be fulfilled. And let not the voices of idolaters be echoed to say that Brother Branham must return from the dead to fulfill those visions, for it will prove that you are twice dead, plucked up by the roots. God will accomplish this through the Bride of Jesus (Church Ages page 170-172). Heretical Article No.55:Substitute Evangelism By Electronic Mediums and Literatures
Though this might sound strange to many people, friend, it’s heresy to settle down for substitute ways of evangelizing the message and deny the perfect plan and will of God. This harvest is not won by a substitute way of evangelism. They are not won by television programs. They are not won by radio programs. They are not won by literature. They are not won by tapes and books. They are not won by Internet programs. These souls are not won by the Spoken Word Books. They are not going to be won by the tapes, because that way of carrying the Gospel is not the perfect will of God. It is a substitute way that belonged to the Dark Ages. Now I am not saying that people should not have that, but I want to prove something to you. In all the literature, tapes, Internet, and whatever, television programs, and all the so-called evangelists, money hounds, adulterers, fornicators, liars, thieves, in the name of God, and in the name of evangelists and preachers, why don’t they go into China? They had hundreds of years to go into China. Why don’t they penetrate China? Brothers and sisters, I am telling you, and I am proving to you, the way to evangelize and to win these souls in these countries that was seen by vision, and is written in the Bible here, is not by television programs. It is not by radio programs. It is not by literature; it is not by the Spoken Word books, it is not by tapes. If it was by tapes, friends, those tapes had been going out as early as 1960, 1958. Is that right? It never penetrated China; it never won the souls in Africa; it never met the 300,000 souls in India. Oh, yes. That proves that we need something greater, and I am challenging every follower of the message. I am challenging any man that writes a book, any man that writes a tract, any man that is on the Internet. I am challenging them. They had better than 40 years to win these souls here that were seen by vision and that were written about in the Scriptures here, and they’ve failed up ‘til now. They will never win those souls until they come to God’s perfect plan and program, and I will show you God’s perfect plan and program in a minute, how God is going to reach those souls. That is why I am telling you, my friends, the tracts that we write, the books that we write, the tapes that we sent out, the web-site program that we have, is a substitute. That could only do so much, and that is okay. We’ve got to do something before God’s program comes into action, but that is not true evangelism. No, it is a substitute. Yes, sir. Why haven’t they penetrated China? Why did they not penetrate Japan? Why did they not put down Buddha? They had 2,000 years to do it. Come on, 2,000 years! Why didn’t they do something? Let me tell you something, friend; not even Brother Branham could have penetrated China. We need something greater than what Brother Branham had. Why don’t they penetrate India? What about the 300,000 souls there? Do you think God is going to lose them because Brother Branham died? No! It is a prophecy. It has got to come to pass. Where are they? Why don’t they penetrate it with the Spoken Word Books? Why don’t they penetrate it with the tapes? Why don’t they penetrate these things with the preachers that they now have? Everybody is in the message. Everybody is an evangelist. Some of them are prophets; some of them are apostles; some of them are message preachers, message believers. Oh, they are evangelizing the world. This is not evangelism! Yes, sir, this is the permissive will of God, by the books and tapes, and the books and tapes should go out. The tapes should go out. We should do what we are doing, don’t get me wrong, but that is not the perfect will of God. Those books and tapes could only get those souls hungry. It could only get them a little stirred up. Just like you heard from those letters, friend. It is only whetting the appetite. You hear how those people start calling? You hear how they set dates for you to come? It is revealing a hunger. It is revealing a thirst. When they read their Bible, they want to see a living Christ. They want to see a living God. Why do you think they ran Billy Graham out of India? This is the reason they ran Billy Graham out of India. They said, “ Listen to me. If you come here to be a theologian and to tell us about theology, and come here to pass out literature, we want you to know that we had the Gospel before America, and as far as knowing the Bible, we have known that a long time. We want to see somebody that will make this Bible live.” That is the reason they ran Billy Graham out, and they ran several other evangelists out, but there was a man that went there that they didn’t run out. His name was William Branham. There was a man that went to Africa that they never ran out. When he landed there, there was 100,000 people gathered. He said, “Listen to me. If the Jesus that I preach does not come tonight and give this man his perfect sight after I finish preaching, then run me out.” The Lord Jesus came and gave the man his sight. William Branham went to Finland. Remember that time? An accident took place. He saw a vision that the little fellow would come back to life. He walked outside; he looked at the vision to compare it, and he stood there, and all those communistic soldiers standing there. He said, “Let me tell you something, if God does not come and bring back this child’s life when I call for it, then I am a false prophet; run me out of Finland.” Is that right? He called for the boy’s life and the fellow lived. Yes. Those communistic soldiers started crying, and they said, “Russia once served God, and if this is God, then we will serve God. We will accept, and serve a God like this man is serving.” Yes, Sir, and that is what these souls are waiting for. These souls are waiting to see a living God. They are tired with dead religion. They are tired with evangelists stealing their money. They are tired with theology. They are tired with dead preachers. They are tired with dead theologians, and nothing like that will wake them up. They are not going to wake up. These souls are out there, and television is not touching them. What the television is doing is corrupting them. Yes, a bunch of women, my brother, on the television are kicking up their heels and preaching. They are out of the will of God. They are devil possessed, wearing high heel shoes, short dresses, pants, and preaching the Gospel, contrary to the word of God. I Timothy 2:9. Deuteronomy 22:5, says that a woman should not wear a garment that pertaineth to a man. I am saying that there is a harvest outside there to be reaped, confirmed by the Scriptures and confirmed by Elijah the prophet through visions. I am asking the followers of Malachi 4, why don’t you go and touch those people in Mexico? Why don’t you go into China? You have the message; you’re a great evangelist; you’re evangelizing the world? You expect the rapture to take place any day. The rapture is going to take place and leave those 300,000 down there? Leave the white robed people? Leave the people in Japan? Leave the people in China? No, you’re a selfish goat! Then they want to preach a doctrine, “All is over.” “There isn’t going to be anybody saved again.” Oh, yes! “We are the Bride.” You aren’t the Bride! If you were the Bride, you would be like the day of Pentecost. When you want to know what the Bride is, look at the Early Church, and you will know what the Bride is. Yes, Sir, you’re far away from the Bride. Yes Sir, far away. That isn’t the Bride. What you saw following the message is the mixed multitude, and the Bride is in the mixed multitude. Soon she will come out of there. God has children in every organization, but all organizational system is of the devil, and that is where we were. Belonged to organization, Baptist, Pentecostal, Methodist, Independents, Catholics and everything. The Lord brought us out. So God has children in every organization, but the system is corrupt. All Bible schools are of the devil! None of God’s children ever went to Bible school. None of them used a preacher’s license. Where did that come from? It’s of the devil. All those things have their roots in the Catholic Church. How many are enjoying this? [Congregation says, “Amen!”]. All your Spoken Word books, all your tapes, all the tracts that we write, all the books that we write, all the internet programs, will never shake those people in Africa, never shake those people in India. It will never penetrate China, never penetrate Japan. What’s the matter with people? All these things are substitutes. There is a power of God that has got to come to the Church. The only thing that shook the people and shook the known world, in the early Church, was when Jesus said, “ Tarry ye in Jerusalem until ye be endued with power from on high. Then shall ye be my witnesses.” Is that right? [Congregation says, “Amen!”]. When Paul and Barnabas went to a certain place, they said, “These men who have turned the world upside down, have come hither also, to turn this city upside down.” And that is what the power of God will do in somebody. What the world wants to see is the power of God. It wants to see a sanctified, holy life, where a man doesn’t commit adultery and be a money thief, yes, Sir, and be a scamp behind the pulpit. That is what they want to see. They want to see someone live the life and they want to see somebody demonstrate the power of God, and they are going to see it. Now, do you know that is apostolic pattern? Now, don’t dodge the Word. You cannot dodge the Word, friend. That is apostolic pattern. That is how the Gospel went. You say, “I don’t believe in great signs and wonders and miracles.” Then you’re an unbeliever. Jesus said in St. John 14:12, “…The works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.” Greater works are promised to the Church of God. You say, “Brother Branham has gone already and we aren’t supposed to do anything.” You’re an unbeliever. The Bible promised us greater works, and the greater works must be seen before the rapture takes place. When you talk like that, they say, “Well he’s a sign seeker and he’s a wonder seeker.” I’m not a sign seeker, my brother, but I’m laying claim on every promise that God made in the Book. “We shall lay hands upon the sick and they shall recover. The works that I do shall you also do, and greater works than this shall ye do.” That is what is promised to us. Yes, there we are. They claim to be evangelists? Apostles? Missionaries? Why don’t you go to Russia? The prophet of God said, “All that Russia needs is one man filled with the Holy Ghost.” Go in there, let me see you. Go to China. Many souls to be won there, 1.2 billion. You run from there, and do you know where they want to come? They want to come to America. Uh, huh. All these little preachers from these other countries want to come and evangelize America. They want to come and evangelize here. The harvest is in their country. The harvest is in Africa, the harvest is in Japan, the harvest is in China, the harvest is in India. America had her day, and the Holy Spirit is offended in this nation, and flew away to other lands seeking souls, because they rejected a mighty ministry; they rejected a mighty prophet. They sent human dung in an envelope to William Branham, and they said, “This is what we think of you.” So now, some people out there don’t know the harvest is right in their lands. You Indians in India, don’t think about coming to America to evangelize, they’ve heard enough. You Africans don’t think of leaving your sheep there and coming to America to evangelize. You have fertile grounds in India. You have fertile grounds in Africa. America is barren ground! This here is a preacher’s graveyard. Yes, Sir. They treated that prophet like a dog. After tens of thousands of people were healed, mighty miracles and signs too numerous to speak about, treated that prophet like that. America is doomed. I know that people don’t like to hear that, but America is doomed. She rejected a mighty ministry. God chose to send that prophet, Elijah, in your land, this country, and they rejected him. That is why you win more souls in those countries. That is why you can still baptize hundreds in other lands. Three to six months pass here, and not one person gets baptized. Why? The land, the ground, is barren. But I will tell you this, God still has his people here. He still has a handful, children. He still has his elect right through, from state to state, but what I am talking about is as the nation. This nation has polluted the whole world, through Hollywood, and their Sodom and Gomorrah practices, and they are going to pay for it. God has gone into foreign lands, and in these foreign lands are where those souls are. They are right outside there. God has one more blessing for this country, one great blessing. And He will send it to His children. There we are, friend. I am saying that television, radio, Internet, tracts and books are not the perfect will of God; they are a substitute. All the Spoken Word Books that are going out, that is not evangelism. All the tapes that they are sending out is not evangelism. I am proving that right here. They have not touched the three hundred thousand. They have not touched the white robed people. They have not touched the people in Africa. Where are the greater meetings? They have not gone into China or Japan. You cannot penetrate those countries with out the power of God. You cannot penetrate those countries with your intellectualism. They hate an intellectual Gospel; they hate theology; they hate Bible schools. It has made them slaves for years upon years. Yes, they hate it. They run them out of India. They run them out of Russia. Do you know what has Russia as communists? It’s the Catholic Church. They stole all the money, and then they kicked them out. Do you know what has Latin America in the poverty that it is in there? The Catholic Church. Exactly. What the Catholic Church did not finish, these bastard evangelists are doing today. Robbing the people of their money on a blessing plan that they have. “Give me all you have, and then God is going to bless you.” There is no plan in the Bible like that. There is no scripture for the demon of poverty, to be cast out. If you say that there is a demon of poverty, Jesus had one, and John had one. Yes, they are lying. They are lying. Nothing will touch these souls. That is why when God sent William Branham today, as the mighty prophet of God, he endued him with power. Hundreds of thousands of people received their healing. The dead were raised five times. The crippled legs were made straight. The miracles and signs are too many to mention here. We have them on books and tapes. The power of God. Now that is God’s system of evangelism. God’s system of evangelism is what he demonstrated today. William Branham demonstrated. That was the perfect will of God. That is why he won three million souls and sent them into the Kingdom of God. You say, where did he get that pattern from? He got that pattern from the Bible. When Jesus came, did He go out in power? [Congregation says, “Amen!”]. Before He got that power on the banks of Jordan, He never preached the Gospel. He never opened a church; never preached the Gospel. It’s only when He got the power on the banks of Jordan, that He went out in power. Let me show you the Gospel pattern. Then He wanted to send out some men to preach the Gospel too. He called twelve men. The 10th chapter of Luke, 10th chapter of Matthew. The Bible said that He anointed them, and He gave them power to heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out devils. That’s your Bible, and He sent them out. Is that God’s Power? In that very scripture, the 9th chapter of Matthew, He said that the harvest is plenteous, but the laborers are few. In order to send these men into the field now, He anointed them in the 10th chapter, and sent them out to preach the Gospel. That wasn’t sufficient; He wanted to send some more. He got seventy. The Bible says that He anointed them, and that He gave them the same power, and sent them out. They came back to him, and they said, “Even the devil was subject to us in Your Name.” That is apostolic pattern. That is Bible pattern. Jesus came with great power. His twelve came with great power. The seventy came with great power. That wasn’t sufficient and He did not reap the harvest; there was some more in the field. I am saying after Jesus came, after the seventy went, after the twelve, after three and a half years ministry, there was still a harvest in the field. They wanted something great; they wanted something more powerful. Jesus said, “Hold it, brethren,” He said, “Don’t go anywhere.” After His resurrection, he said, “ I’ll tell you what to do now, tarry ye in Jerusalem until ye be endued with power from on high, then you will go. Then shall you be my witnesses.” Is that right? And when that power came upon them, they did the mighty works of Jesus Christ. The greater works of Jesus Christ. Now, they started to cut down the harvest, three thousand in the day of Pentecost, a few days after, five thousand. And they won millions of souls by the power of God. Anybody that doesn’t believe in the power of God, something is wrong with them. I believe in a powerful God. I believe that He could create another world if He wants. I believe that He could speak things into existence. I believe He could raise the dead, heal the sick, cast out devils, but I don’t believe in all these impersonations that are going on, on the radio. All this set of “slaying.” Come up there, and this great man puts his hand like that, and they fall backward. When you are slain by the power of the evangelist, and you wake up from the ground, are you living any better life? You are still an adulterer and a fornicator? If that was the power of God, you would stop your adultery, you would stop your fornication. I don’t believe in all this speaking of tongues without an interpretation. It is of the Devil. What are we trying to do? Because God sent a prophet today, and exposed all of these things, here we are not mixed up in any kind of fanaticism. We are not speaking in tongues without interpretation, and we are not running after these divine healers anywhere. They can’t do anything. They are a bunch of bastards. And this is the pattern that the people follow in the message, too. They are trying to carry the message intellectually into all the world. And you are not going to touch the harvest. Those that are not doing that are waiting on the resurrection--unbelievers in the power of God. The Bible speaks of such people in the end time, denying the power of God. That proves that what I am saying is right. And I make this statement boldly here: these harvests, these souls that the prophet of God saw, and what the Bible spoke about to be reaped in the end-time, will never be reaped without the power of God. They will never be reaped without another outpouring of the Holy Spirit. There has to be another outpouring of the Holy Spirit; and there is a people upon earth that is now in preparation for that. It will never be reaped. You cannot touch those three hundred thousand. You cannot touch China. You cannot touch Japan. You cannot touch Africa. You cannot touch Russia, until you have the great power of God. That is how Paul went. That is how the apostles went. That is how Jesus went. That is how the seventy went. That is how William Branham went. That is why all the evangelists came from under Brother Branham's ministry: Oral Roberts, T.L. Osborne, Tommy Hicks, A.A. Alan. They came from under Brother Branham's ministry. When they saw the great power of God demonstrated, they thought that they had a ministry too. History proves that all of them hatched out from under William Branham. Oh yes, they are ashamed to accept that, but they went out with a certain kind of power and impersonation without bringing the people back to the Word. Yes, and these servants of the devil are now taking the people back to the World Council of Churches. See if any of them preach against the World Council. Rubbing shoulders with the Pope. I’m telling you. Rubbing shoulders with the Pope. So all of these evangelists, money evangelists, they are taking the people back to the World Council of Churches, into a one-world religion, back to Rome. This did not William Branham, because he was a true Prophet of God. What I am showing you is apostolic pattern. Apostolic pattern is not television, not radio, not literature, not Internet, not books, although those things are good. They wet the appetites of the people, it helps them, but that is not evangelism. The Spoken Word Book is not evangelism; that is not the way that Brother Branham went. Tapes are not evangelism. Evangelism is when an outpouring comes and anoints these laborers, and they go into the vineyard. What the Church should be doing now, every woman, every man, every boy, every girl should be weeping and wailing and crying, “Lord, send your outpouring. Send laborers into the vineyard. These people are suffering; they are hungry; they are starving. Send laborers into the vineyard.” God’s plan to reap the harvest, I will give to you. First of all, the harvest must be ripe. You cannot reap it before time. The next thing is that you cannot reap that harvest until God gives the command. You have to pray to Him that He will send laborers into the vineyard. Thirdly, is that there must be a people that come under a burden to pray that God send forth preachers to do it. Then the next thing is that God must anoint His servants and send them in power. He said, “As the Father hath sent me, so send I you.” Now, when the Father sent Him, did He send Him in Power? And when Jesus sent His apostles, did He send them in power? So now, it’s the power and the true Word of God that will reap this harvest. Believe it or not, friend, that harvest is outside there, and there isn’t a man that can touch it with his tapes, or books, or Spoken Word--I believe in the Spoken Word Books. We support the printing and everything. We send out tracts and everything, but I am telling you, that is not the perfect will of God to reap this harvest. Two great harvests are written in your Bible, one is for the evil; and one is for the good. Two great Scriptures are standing there, Matthew 13 and Revelation 14. The ministry of the Son of Man will reap the harvest. There is coming another outpouring of the Holy Spirit, and God will anoint His laborers. When He anoints those laborers, He is going to send them into the harvest. Then you will hear about the harvest in India, the harvest in Africa. Then you will hear about in-roads into China. You will hear about in-roads into Japan. You have never seen evangelism yet. This dead thing, they are talking about evangelism. This dead thing they are talking about carrying into all of the world, with tapes and books, it will never work. I believe in a living God. I believe in a living Gospel. I believe that God is going to shake Africa one more time, shake India one more time; He is going to shake China; He is going to shake Japan. “All is over” is of the Devil! Anybody that says that “all is over,” is of the Devil! Anybody that says, “Everything is in Brother Branham”, is of the Devil! Unbelievers. God is still God. Preachers from foreign lands trying to come here and do what? Evangelize here? This isn’t a place to evangelize. They are already cursed of Almighty God. Anybody that could settle down for an intellectual Gospel, and call that evangelism, and say we are going away like this in the rapture, you are a heathen. You’re an unbeliever. You deny the very visions of Brother Branham. You deny the very Scriptures that talk about the harvest. We are going to see the greater works of God. We are going to hear about another outpouring of the Holy Spirit, and that is the only thing that will touch those people in those places. Let us do what we can, meanwhile. The little tracts and the little books are whetting their appetites. It is helping them to understand that there is something coming down the road. They want to tell me that they sent the Spoken Word Books and the tapes, and just now it is going to cover the world, and that is all. You lied! You are deceived of the Devil. I believe in the tapes; I believe in the books; I believe in literature. But I believe that the only way that the world is going to be evangelized is by the power of God. The prophet of God said, “The Gospel is not preached until it is backed up by signs and wonders,” and I believe that. We are in for some things friend. We are in for something great. Something is coming. Yes, Sir. And get my point there: with all the harvest that the prophet spoke about, and the Bible spoke about, these Spoken Word Books, and all the literatures that they sent out with the tapes and videos, haven’t touched it. Did you hear about India, three hundred thousand? All right. Did you hear that they penetrated Russia? Did you hear that they penetrate China, where Brother Branham couldn’t get in? Did you hear about the white robed people? Did you hear about the tent? Did you hear about the Mexican children? NO! The tapes and books cannot do it! And I am proving that you had thirty-something years to do it, with your tapes and books and all your Spoken Word Books, and you never touched it! The only thing that will touch it is the power of God, another outpouring of the Holy Spirit! And we are promised that. “…When he shall come to be glorified in his saints.” That’s what the Bible said. “…When he shall come to be glorified in his saints.” That is going to do it. In six months time, that harvest will be reaped. “Within three months to six months,” the prophet of God said, “the harvest will be reaped.” So may the Lord bless your hearts. Give Him a praise offering. [Congregation worships and praise in the Spirit]. Praise Him. Praise Him. Thank you for Your Word, tonight. <prayer omitted, praise, singing..etc> People need the Lord, throughout the world---Russia, China. They need the Lord, too. Japan needs the Lord, too. Yes, Sir. Selfish people want to go away in the rapture, and leave those in China and Japan and Russia, who never heard the Word of God! Selfish goats! Let us pray that God sends forth laborers into the vineyard!
HARVEST TIME AND THE LAST WITNESS And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And ye are witnesses of these things. And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.(Luke 24: 47). (Acts 1:8) but ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. By the time we finish the little message this morning you will have a better understanding of God’s purpose, plan and program for you, and what he wants done here in the end time. I believe with all of my heart, that we are coming up to the time of the commission, the great commission for the church. I also believe that we are approaching the End-Time Evangelism for the Bride of Christ.
I want to hit something very hard here first
thing this morning. It never was the intention or perfect will of God to just
send Brother Branham around the world, and have him in his great ministry
displaying the power of God, just to take Brother Branham home and have people
sit around and wait for him to resurrect. It is wrong to believe in a private resurrection of Brother Branham, to come back and fulfill the things in the visions of India, and Africa, and Japan ,and the White Horse Rider, and the Last Climax, and the Mexico Trip with the tent. It’s a heresy to try to bring that man of God back and place him in all of those visions after he’s gone on. There is no scripture for it. There is no scripture in the Bible to bring Brother Branham back in a private resurrection. Brother Branham will come up in the general, or first, resurrection. I love the prophet of God, but Brother Branham came as a sheaf wave offering. Seven times around the world, he went in power and demonstration of the Gospel to prove to you and I what the Bride of Christ must do here in the End Time.
What the people have done, because Brother
Branham left much emphasis on the Seventh Seal and the Seven Thunders, is try to
go out and produce a false ministry for the Bride by these so-called private
thunders, and false thunder interpretations, crossing the earth today, but we
find that there is no holiness in it. Their “thunders” have not produced a
creative “speak the word” ministry for the Bride, nor have their false thunders
gathered the people together for revival. People live in all kinds of sin
following Brother Branham’s message, they have their different interpretations
of the Seven Thunders
GOD'S GOING TO SEND ANOTHER SHAKING ACROSS THE COUNTRY 51 He bid three times. Three times He sent out, and they did not listen to the feast. Then He sent again, and He said, "Go and compel those people to come." The table's got to be set. The table's ready; there's still room. And I believe that maybe within the next few months or something, or year, or whatever it is, God's going to send another shaking across the country, for there's somebody still out there somewhere that's a predestinated seed, that the Light has to fall on somewhere, somewhere in the world. The nation itself is gone. …How can it be that the churches can ever get into the condition that they are now? Is because they have rejected and refused the Message of God, the invitation to come to the feast... 56 When God sends the Holy Ghost and knocks at a man's door, and he deliberately turns It down, sometime he's going to turn It for his last time. And then you won't be a privileged character. You can set in a church and listen to the Gospel and agree with the Gospel. You might do so much as say, "I know it's right," but never put a finger on it to help it yourself. See? You just listen to it, 'cause you say, "I believe it's right." That's just sympathizing with it. I could say, "I believe that's a-ten thousand dollars." That don't mean I got it. See? I could say, "That's good cold water," but refuse to drink it. You know what I mean? And this is Eternal Life. And to refuse to do it, one day you'll cross the line between judgment and mercy, and then you won't be--have the privilege to come and receive it. To you people who come here... I'm not responsible for those who are--are--other ministers are speaking to. But if it's right, you owe your life to it. What more could you ever find that would be more of a benefit to you than to know that you can have Eternal Life? …By rejecting the day of visitation, it separates you from God. 60 Now, we notice. And in the Old Testament, they had what they called the Jubilee year. That was when all the people that was slaves could go free, when the Jubilee sounded. And then if the man did not go out, if there was some excuse that he could give that he didn't want to return to his land, then he had to be marked in the ear with an awl by the post in the temple. And then no matter how many Jubilees come along, that man was sold out. He could never no more come back as a citizen in Israel no more. What did he do? He rejected his invitation. He didn't have to pay nothing. The debt of his slavery was over. His family was free. He could go right back to his homeland and get his own possession. But if he refused to do it, then he wasn't allotted no more with Israel, and his possession was give to another. (Is Your Life Worthy of the Gospel 63-0630E). Like the priest in the Old Testament, who went forth sounding the trumpet of jubilee, that the people could go free, Brother Branham sounded forth the Gospel Trumpet around the world seven times, that the people today could go free, and go back to receive the power that the early church had, but that was lost at Nicea, Rome. To turn down that invitation, that message, cuts you off from Almighty God. We are in a serious hour. This last witness that is to come upon the earth, whatever is not saved, whatever has not yet turned their hearts to God here in America, the Bride of Christ, what is left here in America will have to gather in under this last witness. And then this Gospel will leave America. It will go to the foreign fields, and the last place it will end up will be in Israel. And they will receive the same power that’s given unto the Gentiles. We are at the end. Notice here that the Gentiles came in at Cornelius’ house. They were given seven dispensations of time for repentance, “ Church Age time.” At the end of the last Church Age, William Branham came to the Laodicean Church Age, showing you and I that the Gentile dispensation is closing off. And after the Gentile dispensation, what takes place is that the Gospel will one day turn to the Jews. Israel is gathered in Its homeland, coming from all parts of the world. They are looking for Messiah. They’re at the Wailing Wall, crying. And this nation saw the greatest demonstration of power in the history of the world, where Congressman Upshaw was healed, where God had storms stopped, created squirrels, tumors came off of people. Cancer was healed by the thousands. The dead were raised. It was in the newspapers, it was in the White House. In all of that, the religious church systems of this world, denominational and organizational, turned that prophet of God down. That is why this nation is gone. And one day, according to a vision that Brother Branham had, atomic bombs will fall on America. He saw America as a burning ash heap. He saw California slip beneath the sea. The last witness of God is coming upon the earth. There will be no other Gospel! Hear me loud and clear, there will be no other Gospel sent forth for these Gentiles! This is the last message. You will either accept it, and believe it, and come up to an outpouring of the Holy Ghost, or you will remain here and go through the tribulation. We have a chance, we have an opportunity this morning, and we have had for years and years and years. This is the last Gospel to the Gentiles. And It’s just about ready to turn to the Jews! I do not believe that it is all over. You say, “Put that in the Scripture, Brother Ken.” Here it is, Romans 11:25-28: For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins. As concerning the gospel, [they are] enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes. It’s the last call to the Gentiles. We are living in the closing days of time, as far as salvation to the Gentiles is concerned. There will be a power come to the Church, as we have been hearing by our precious Brother Dalton, God’s servant. That Harvest-coming, will gather the Bride from around the world. And don’t forget that underneath this Harvest will be the foolish virgins, which is a greater number than the Bride itself. One went to get oil, and one did not: Mathew 25. We haven’t had much time to go over it in great detail. Notice also that there must come forth a demonstration of power by the Bride of Christ here in the End Time that will match and rise above the scientific knowledge that is in the world today. This is a scientific age. This is an age of heady, high minded people (II Timothy). And these people of this world, their education has risen to the highest in the history of the world. And it’s a Scientific Age. They want to analyze everything. They want to figure out everything. They can’t take the simplicity that, “in the beginning God created.” It’s too hard for their brain. God made the human body. Who is a greater doctor than God himself? Not only the body, but what about the soul? The understanding of the God that we serve is far, far greater than any scientific knowledge in the world today. That’s why the Lord amazed them when He allowed the picture to be taken of the Pillar of Fire. And it’s the only scientific document in the history of the world, taken down in Houston, Texas; and it testified that God was with William Marrion Branham. Why didn’t you see that Pillar of Fire over Billy Graham? Why didn’t you see it over Oral Roberts, A. A. Alan, and all the so-called evangelists today, and preachers out in the land? It’s because Brother Branham had the word and the rest of them did not have it. We are coming into something here that will even be questioned by scientists today. They cannot understand the creative power of God, and yet that is coming for the Church. Now Brother Branham came sowing the pure seed Word of God. And then remember, according to the vision, the Son of Man sowed the pure seed word of God. Remember, after the seed was sowed, then there came the one in black, sowing the seeds of discrepancy. Brother Branham sowed the true, pure seed of God. Since the prophet went home, people have risen all over the country and all around the world sowing seeds different than what he preached. When a man says that revival is over, he’s sowing a seed of discrepancy. When a man says that there will be no manifested sons to come, he’s sowing a seed of discrepancy. When they try to bring Brother Branham up in a private resurrection, or put him in a ministry during the last thirty or forty days here upon the earth at the resurrection, they’re sowing seeds of discrepancy. I believe with all my heart that there is yet a great ministry laying ahead for the Bride of Jesus Christ.
THAT SAME GREAT POWER OF CHRIST WOULD COME UPON HIS CHURCH “We've had enough to join church and put our name on the books, and so forth, but in the evening time that same great power of Christ would come upon His Church just like it did back there on the eastern. In the western it would be the same. So that's why I want to speak on evening-time evangelism.” (The End-Time Evangelism 62-0603). 107 See, we're at the end time. But, you see, we've changed dispensations from the old church age of back here where that dismal day was, just join church and put your name on the book; until the evening Light, the restoration, the return again of the Holy Spirit upon the earth; another Pentecost, another sign, another thing was to take place. And the people doesn't believe It, because they're so set like they was in the days of Jesus. See? Matthew 24. Jesus told of this day; He said the Jews would gather again at the last day. He said, "When you see the, fig tree putting forth its buds, then know the time is at hand. He said, "There'll be "perplexity of time, distress between nations, the sea a-roaring; man failing of heart trouble…there would come a time that the church would be lukewarm, the Laodicean church age in the last day. See? What is it? It's Jesus (the last age) predicting the end of this age. …but the church becomes so churchy with their creeds, with their dogmas, and their make-beliefs and their manmade theories, until they miss that Word. Now, you can see what evening-time evangelism is going to be. See? What is it? The ones that carry It is going to be called crazy. They'll be so different. 110…II Timothy 3:1. The Holy Spirit speaks of a great intellectual age at the end time. Did you know that? Why is it? I go overseas and have a hundred-fifty, two hundred thousand, five hundred thousand, and the people are just... Just one thing that you see done every day that the meetings goes on nearly here in the Tabernacle, up to ten, twenty and thirty thousand will fall on their feet--from their feet, to give praise to God. They see It. What's the matter it don't take place in America? It's a intellectual time. They want someone who can speak not of judgment, not of these things, because it breaks them up from their fellowship with their clubs and--and their--their lodges, and--and the ungodly things that they belong to. Now the Spirit speaks expressingly, that in the latter times... (See?),... latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits,... doctrines of devils; (and so forth.) See? Look how they would be heady, high-minded: big shots. Excuse it, but you know what we call the big shot, the street expression now. We all know it better to say it like that. "Heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God.” (The End-Time Evangelism 62-0603).
HAVING A FORM OF GODLINESS. BUT DENYING THE POWER THEREOF You go out and you try to relax yourself, and people are all in the ball games. You want to go out to fish on the ocean, people are all on their pleasure boats. It’s become an age of pleasure crazy people. People are pleasure mad. They’re not interested in the Gospel. They’re interested in how much more money they can make to buy what they want. But God is interested in His Word, and He has a people that’s interested in His Word, and in that great power to come. But you'd rather stay and watch that than attend the prayer meeting. "Lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God." Let a ball game come in town, or the Colonels and Giants, or ever what it was happen to meet out here somewhere, they close the churches to get to attend it. They're church members, having a form of godliness. But what? Denying the power thereof. Having a form of God, but say, "God doesn't do these things. See, there's no power to it; you just accept and do this, that." See, no change of life, no nothing, it's just--just belong to church. "Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof. From such turn away,”(‘The End-Time Evangelism’ 62-0603) What the Lord
is now doing is looking for true witnesses. I want to read some very powerful
quotations of Brother Branham to you because Brother Branham is going to tell us
what a true witness is.
WITNESSES TO THE UTTERMOST PARTS OF THE WORLD They were in one place in one accord, expecting God to keep His Word. For in Luke 24:49, He said, "Tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem until you're endued with power from on high." Acts 1 says, "When the Holy Ghost is come upon you, then you'll be witnesses of Me in Jerusalem, Judaea, Samaria, and to uttermost parts of the world. (‘Believest thou this?’ 50-0716). And on the day of Pentecost when our Manna come from God out of heaven after the Church was inaugurated and the baptism of the Holy Ghost was to come, Jesus said, "Behold I send the promise of My Father upon you. But tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem until you're endued with power from on high. After this, the Holy Ghost is come upon you, You'll be witnesses of Me, Jerusalem, Judaea, Samaria, Erie, Pennsylvania, and to the uttermost parts of the world." Amen. (‘Resurrection of Lazarus 51-0729a). 181 Like speaking last night to the missionaries. I said, "Yeah, you go over here to school and you learn your theology, and go out here, reading, writing, and arithmetic, and go to Africa and make a twofold child more of hell, out of the native, than you did in the first place." But I said, "Jesus, when He was commissioned His disciples to go be missionaries," He said, 'Behold, I send the promise of the Father upon you, but tarry ye first in the city of Jerusalem,' not in some seminary, not in some school of ethics. He said, 'Tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem until you're endued with power from on High. Behold, I send the promise of the Father upon you, but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem till you're endued with power from on High. After this the Holy Ghost is come upon you, then you shall be missionaries, or witnesses, unto Me in Jerusalem, Judaea, Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the world.’” (‘Go Tell My Disciples’ 53-0405s). How many enjoyed that? We have some deeper quotations here.
WITNESSES TO THE UTTERMOST PARTS OF THE EARTH 27 And now, I want to read some in the New Testament, in the 1st chapter of The Acts Of The Apostles. I think this should be called The Acts Of The Holy Spirit In The Apostle. … And now, just for a few moments, I want to use the subject of: "Witnesses." 42 Jesus here was appointing His apostles for a qualification of the Holy Spirit before they were to go be witnesses. And my subject tonight is, "A Witness." Now, in courts, a witness has to know something. Just anybody can't come in and be a witness. It's got to be somebody who knows something. And that's the way it is when we're witnessing for the Lord. It takes somebody who knows something. So Jesus thought--said this, that before they could become His witnesses, they had to wait in Jerusalem until they were endued with power from on high, then they would be the witnesses all over the world: in Jerusalem, Judaea, Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth. (‘Witnesses’ 53-0405e).
WITNESSES WITH POWER THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE WORLD E-46 Acts 1:8. "But you shall receive the Holy Ghost after this the... You shall receive power after this, the Holy Ghost has come upon you. You'll be witnesses of Me in Jerusalem, Judaea, Samaria, and Connersville, Indiana, and the uttermost parts of the earth." What? After you become a deacon? No. After you get out of the seminary? No. After you become a preacher? No. "After you have received the Holy Ghost, you shall be My witnesses with power throughout the entire world." Every God called witness must be endued with power from on high before he can be a witness. A witness has to know something, see something, know what he's talking about. Amen. I feel religious. (‘God’s Provided Way’ 53-0613). E-70 Brother, I've went through everything for this. I love our Lord. I love Him with all my heart. I don't care what the world said. They turn me out of the church. They say, "Why, Billy, you're crazy, you had a nightmare. What'd you eat for supper?" I had the pleasure of telling Doctor Davis the other day, what he called fanaticism... In South Africa where I made one day's altar call and thirty thousand received Jesus Christ. That's more than all the missions put together has won to Christ in the past hundred years. The general orders of a missionary is, "Tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem," not down in some cemetery or seminary, or whatever you want: both dead places. All right. "Tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem until you're endued with (an education? No. Until you learn theology? No.), until you're endued with power from on high. After this the Holy Ghost is come upon you, then you'll be witnesses of Me in Jerusalem, in Judaea, in Samaria, in Chicago, Illinois, or to the uttermost parts of the earth." That's right. (‘Why I am a Holy Roller’ Chicago, IL 53-0830a).
TARRY YE IN JERUSALEM TILL YOU'RE ENDUED WITH POWER What you need today... A missionary program was not never stitch and sew party. It was, "Tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem till you're endued with power from on high. After this the Holy Ghost is come upon you. Then you'll be witnesses of Me in Jerusalem, Judaea, Samaria, Owensboro, Kentucky, and the uttermost parts of the world.” (‘I Will Restore’ Owensboro, KY 53-1110) Now notice here, watch all of those statements of Brother Branham. Brother Branham is telling us that to be a true witness, you must have power. And the general order is, “Tarry in Jerusalem.” Notice here, that this power that came on the day of Pentecost-- that group that found the first coming of the Lord began to tarry in a certain place. They knew that power was to come, and they stayed right there and waited for that power because they could not be true missionaries, as witnesses, until that power came to them. Isn’t that beautiful? Now you say, “All right, I understand that we need power to be true witnesses. I understand the quotes of Brother Branham.” I want to let you know that it will not just remain there with the Gentiles. Listen close to the scriptures in this quotation from Brother Branham.
THE TWO WITNESSES IN THE LAST DAYS 70-70 Look at them two witnesses in Revelations 11, "I'll give power unto My witnesses, and they'll close the heavens in the days of their prophecy. They'll send plagues upon the earth as they will." There they are, the two witnesses in the last days. (‘Questions and Answers’ Jeff, IN 54-0103m) Not only will the Bride of Christ in the end time will be true witnesses with the power of God, the two witnesses to Israel will have that same power. They’re called “two witnesses.” And as the Gentiles need power to be witnesses, they too will need that same power to close the heavens, and to send plagues upon the earth.
WE HAVE ONLY WITNESSED TO ONE-THIRD OF THE EARTH E-7 And now, there was the Gospel must be witnessed to all the earth, beginning at Jerusalem, and to go through Judaea, Samaria, and all over the earth. And according to statistics of the church and of... We have only witnessed to one-third of the earth to this time. Two-thirds of the earth has never known or heard the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. What a disgrace for two thousand years of commission given by the Creator Himself, and we have been so neglectful, until two thirds of the population of this earth has never heard the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, in order to be a witness, a witness must first be qualified. In the courts of our land, in the Supreme Court, and all the courts of justice, a witness must be first examined before he can be a witness. And if the courts of our land in justice would require an examination before becoming a witness, then how much more will the God of heaven require an examination and a qualified witness before we are recognized in His sight as a correct witness. (‘Witnesses’ Chicago, IL 56-1004) With our precious Shepherd, Brother Robert Lambert, Brother George Parylla, Brother Carlton, McGahee, our ministers today, and our dear Pastor and Shepherd, Brother Dalton Bruce, we have been examining, throughout the years, these so-called “witnesses for the Lord” who are out on the field today, and we find them without power. They do not have what they are saying they have. Therefore, they are bogus witnesses, unqualified to be out on the field today. Men throughout the country are running without a message, and God never did send them. A true witness must receive power, and the general order is, “Tarry in Jerusalem until ye be endued with power from on high.”
THEY MUST RECEIVE SOMETHING FIRST BEFORE THEY CAN BE A WITNESSES E-8 So He gave this commission to the disciples, or the hundred and twenty that they should wait at the city of Jerusalem until they were qualified to be witnesses. There was a certain specification that they must meet before they could be qualified as a witness, and this witness was to be... This qualification was to be the coming of the promised Holy Spirit to fill the Church with unction. And the word "unction" comes from the Greek Word, "dynamite" where it means to--an explosion. They must receive something first before they can be a witness. (‘Witnesses’ Chicago, IL 56-1004) God’s qualification for a true witness and the last witness to this Gentile world will be another outpouring of the Holy Spirit that must come upon the Church.
GOD NEVER SENDS A MAN, UNTIL HE HAS MADE HIM A QUALIFIED WITNESS God never sends a man, until first He has made this man a qualified witness. Now, in the court, before you can ever be a witness you have to either be an eye or an ear witness. You can't say, "Lord, somebody said, somebody said, somebody said." They'd throw your case out right now. They will not receive that. Any attorney knows that, that you cannot be a witness unless you have seen it yourself. (‘Witnesses’ Chicago, IL 56-1004) On the day of Pentecost they were eye witnesses of that outpouring. They had an ear to hear the sound of a rushing, mighty wind, and they saw that pillar of fire. When that power came down upon the Church, the hundred and twenty in that hour, then they could be true witnesses and be sent forth with the Gospel.
YOU ARE MY WITNESSES AFTER THE HOLY GHOST IS COME ON YOU Oh, if the great holy Church only realized its power to do these things. But there's so much doubt and fear and trembling, wondering if it will, "Could it happen?" As long as that exists, the Church can never stand upright. And when every talk of fear is vanished and the Holy Spirit is completely in control of the Church, then all fears are gone, and that Church has the power. See? Why, they have everything that heaven owns behind them. They're ambassadors of the throne. Absolutely. An ambassador of Christ has the authority, and everything that Christ owns belongs to that ambassador. And He said, "Go ye into all the world; you are My witnesses after the Holy Ghost is come on you." And what is a witness? Is an ambassador, is to come and witness something. The whole powers of heavens is right in your hands. Oh, why do we set, and the church is barren, and we set dormant? Is because that we don't recognize these things. (‘QA. Hebrews Part 3’ Jeff, IN 57-1006)
ONE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND IN THE MEETING E-7 I'd like to draw your attention to the Word of the Lord this morning for just awhile. I want you to pay the utmost attention to it. Listen closely. The value of this Word... After twenty-five years of ministry for the Lord in His work and in His Word, and after this being coming in my twelfth year of international evangelism, and by the grace of God to meeting tens of thousands of people, and seeing our Lord in our own campaigns... When... Now, as I have seen to Him, oh, right in towards two million people, or million five hundred thousand somewhere along in there in the meeting, I've come to this conclusion. And of all of our efforts and so forth, it's impossible for God to do anything for the people until the people first get settled on whether it's truth or not. (‘Believe from the Heart’ Jeff, IN 57-0623) How many believe? I read in one place that Brother Branham had come in contact with, directly or indirectly (I believe was his words), over ten million people. It was the most powerful display of the Gospel since the days of Pentecost. And what the Lord is about to do will totally eclipse what Brother Branham did. Just as a double portion of what Elijah had, came upon Elisha. We are looking for a great power to come to the Church, and Brother Branham said it would be here, and it will shake the world. I hope I said something to help you this morning. God’s last witness to this earth is a power that is to come into this Gentile Bride and in one day that Gospel will turn to the Jews.
NOT ALL THE PLANT IS USED IN THE HARVEST 285-1 (SARDICEAN CHURCH AGE) Thus the grain of wheat that became a plant for the harvest is the record of the church. And even as not all the wheat plant is wheat seed, and as not all the plant is used in the harvest, so with the church:--all the church is not the bride, and neither is it all given eternal life, but a PART of it is gathered into the garner, and a PART of it is kept that it might enter into eternal life in the second resurrection, and PART of it which is accounted chaff is burned in the lake of fire. And this is exactly what John the Baptist and Jesus said, for John said that the wheat would be garnered and the chaff burned. Jesus said, “Bind the tares, and then gather the wheat.” The ecumenical move will bind the tare churches together, for the tares must be bound FIRST, and though their end is burning, they are not burned at their binding but are reserved to a later date, which is at the end of the thousand years, or the second resurrection. But once the tares are bound the rapture can take place and does so at some time between the binding and the revelation of antichrist. Then will come the day when ALL stand together as seen in Daniel. The King will be there with His bride and in front of them will be the multitudes who are to be judged. Yes. ALL are there. All the books are opened. A final disposition of ALL is made. The harvest is indeed over. The books once opened are closed. THE GOSPEL IN POWER REAPS THE HARVEST
Thank you Lord, thank you savior. One day this song will be a reality. We believe that you will come in a mighty rushing wind, and you will fill all the house where we are sitting. You will fill our temples with the great outpouring of the Holy Spirit. We have waited for many years, but we believe that it will soon be a reality, even here in the East. Many years, many souls, many servants of God, looked forward for that outpouring of the Holy Spirit. We believe that you have chosen this area here in the East to outpour your spirit, and we believe that it will be fulfilled. There was a chosen place; there was an appointed time; there were a chosen people, out of the many that followed the message of the hour in that day. We believe that you have a chosen place, and a chosen people. We have a people today that are desperately looking for that promise, and it is going to come like the day of Pentecost, only to a people that are desperately looking, praying, fasting, and seeking your face expecting your promise to be fulfilled, blessing your name for the fulfillment of that promise. We believe that your promise will be fulfilled. Help us, bless us, and anoint us that your spirit may continue to flow amongst us. That your presence continues to be with us Lord, for out of your presence shall come forth the refreshing, like the day of Pentecost. Bless your children and prepare every heart here in this building today. That if you would pour out your spirit here tonight that all may receive that great blessing. We do not see why that you should not pour it out in your appointed time, and how do we know that this is not the appointed night?. Help us to be prepared, bless the word, bless your servants here, bless your people let everyone be prepared here, abroad, and your bride church around the world, that will receive that great promise. We believe that you will draw them by your spirit. As it fell in Jerusalem, and out from Jerusalem it went to the different parts of the world. We believe that you are God and you do not change your plans. Your program does not change; you are the same yesterday, today, and forever, and there has to be some place upon the earth where your spirit is outpoured, and we believe and we are expecting that to happen here in the east, according to the word of God. Bless your children today, and let us be prepared a little more tonight with a clearer vision, a clearer understanding of the reaping of this harvest. For without this outpouring of the Holy Spirit, there would be no harvest reaped. Help us to be that tool, that sickle in the hand of the Son of man, that your harvest will be reaped with a mighty hand. Bless your children today, and bless the words that will be spoken. Let it live on unto all that would hear it in the future, that they may catch the vision of the message. Bless your children, father, and bless your word, in Jesus name we pray with thanksgiving. Amen, and Amen. And if we turn in our Bibles, we are going to read from the 16th Chapter of the book of Mark, and I will read from the book of Acts also, just one verse. Certainly the spirit of the Lord is here. I am reading from Mark 16 and the 15th verse. “And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature”. And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover”.(Mark 16:15-18). (Acts 1:8) “But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth”. May the Lord add a blessing to the reading of his Holy Words. We give him the praise tonight for His wonderful Spirit, and His anointed words of promise. Our little message tonight is entitled “The Gospel in Power Reaps the Harvest”. Upon the basis of these scriptures, we are about to prove that subject in the Bible, and in the message of the hour. I make reference to the following scriptures to support our contentions tonight: Acts 1:8, Mark 16:15-18, I Corinthians 1:5, which says that the gospel came unto us not in word only, but in power. John 14: 12, which says the works that I do, shall you also do, and greater works than this shall you do, because I go unto my Father. Romans 15:17-19,. II Corinthians 12: 11-12, the signs of an apostle is to demonstrate the power of God. Also, Hebrews 2:3 and Matthew 28:18. These scriptures, we do not have the time to read tonight, but all pertain to the same subject, and there are many more in the scriptures. Scriptures that we just read there supports a living gospel, a living Lord Jesus Christ, that is still alive and is still upon the earth today. The same yesterday, today, and forever. God is yet alive. He is still all powerful, yes! But this is not the general outlook of the people that follow the message today. Heretical Article No. 56: Pessimistic Attitudes On Harvest Of Souls (All Is Over, All In Brother Branham, He Will Reap The Harvest, Tapes And Books Are Reaping The Harvest, No Power And Demonstration Of The Holy Ghost)
The general outlook of many that follow the message today is that all is over. Others say that all is in Brother Branham. I defy that. We defied that in times past as heresy, and only a heretic would preach such a gospel. The general outlook is that if anything must be done in the realms of the spirit, as far as the power of God and the fulfillment of the promises of God that were made in the Bible, and through the visions of the prophet, is that Brother Branham must be resurrected in the first resurrection and be here for 30 to 35 days, for anything to happen again upon the face of the earth. We defy that as heresy. It is satanic. It is of the evil one, and full of unbelief. The general outlook is that the harvest is already reaped, and it was reaped by Brother Branham when he went around the world seven times and won those people, that the bride is already called, the harvest is over, there is no more power coming to the church, this is not the days of signs and wonders and miracles because we are not all Branhams and we are not supposed to try to be little Branhams. So whatever was called by Brother Branham and the spoken word books and the tapes that is now following the message worldwide is the bride and any day now the rapture can take place and the people around the world sit in a powerless condition, and the saints are dying from cancer, tuberculosis and all manner of diseases, and some of them die from AIDS, and they sit around the world, just waiting for the rapture. It is the most horrible condition that the true church of the living God has ever come to. Unbelief has heaped up to the skies, and this started way back since the days of the prophet, since Brother Branham went home. There was only one man that we came in contact with that fought that thing with all his might, all his power, and even sealed his testimony with his blood, contending for a living church, and his name was Robert Lee Lambert. He fought that for many years until 1973, telling the people that all is not over; all was not in Brother Branham, telling the people that there has got to be another outpouring of the Holy Spirit , the bride must have a ministry and a very dynamic one that will surpass all the other ages before the rapture takes place. Though he has sealed his testimony with his blood, there are men and women today that believe that same gospel, and we are part of those people here that believe that gospel and we contend for a living church. We contend for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. We contend for a living Lord Jesus Christ. We contend for the promises that were made to us in the scriptures and through the message of Brother Branham. Though many years have passed, we still believe that in this dark hour that there is going to be an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, and the bride will have a ministry. The darker the hour gets is the more we believe. Jesus comes in the darkest hour, yes! He allowed Lazarus to die and rot for four days, and at the end, the bible said, then Jesus came and called. Yes! And the condition for the past years since this unbelief showed up itself and we fought that unbelief for better than thirty years. Beloved, in this thirty years unbelief has heaped up to the skies as a stink in God’s nostril. Yes! But there is a people today upon the earth that believes. We firmly believe that there will be an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, and we believe that to happen here in the East. We believe that with all our hearts. This general outlook of the gospel by many people that all is over, all was in Brother Branham, and if anything is to be done, he’s got to come back in a resurrection, is a lie of the devil, it’s Satanic, it’s heresy, and anybody that projects such doctrines is a heretic. I believe that. It is contrary to the Word of God, contrary to the beliefs of Brother Branham, and contrary to the message of the hour, and I am about to prove that to you tonight, that such teachings and such outlook of the gospel and the message is contrary to the Bible and contrary to the message of Brother Branham. The condition of the followers of Malachi 4 is so filled with unbelief that so-called Pentecost stands in a better position than them today, as far as believing the promises of God. And somebody might think that is an irresponsible statement, but that is not so. There are Pentecostals today that are looking for another revival. They know that the power of God has got to come upon the earth before the rapture takes place. And the bulk of the followers of Malachi 4 do not believe that. Their faith is buried in the flesh and in the grave, yes! But all their unbelief cannot stop the promise of God! It will be here just like Brother Branham said; it will be here just like the Bible said! It will be here just like we have preached to you for better than thirty years, the promise of God. We have already proven from the scriptures, Revelation 14: 14-16, Matthew 13:24-30, and the interpretation of that parable, of the wheat and tares from verse thirty-seven, thirteenth chapter of Matthew, that there is to be an end time harvest, according to the scripture. Beyond a shadow of a doubt, those scriptures verify that the harvest is the end of the world, and the wheat and the tares must be reaped. Beyond a shadow of a doubt, Revelation 14:14-16 says that the Son of man thrust in His sickle, and reaped the harvest of the earth, because the harvest of the earth is ripe. That’s a subject that we have not covered in its entirety, that the harvest would be reaped by the Son of man. Maybe as we go along we might pick that up, but I am about to prove to you tonight; not that there is a harvest to be reaped. We already proved that. We have proven by the scripture infallibly that there is a harvest in the end time to reap. We have proven to you by the visions of William Branham, God’s servant and prophet, that he saw a part of that harvest. What he saw in visions is not all of it; that’s a part of that harvest. That harvest is laying in India; 300,000 coming to one meeting. It is laying in Africa, it is laying in Asia, it is laying in Japan. It is laying in Mexico, and a few other places. Together with the visions and the scriptures, we have proven to you infallibly that there is a harvest that is presently laying in the field. That harvest must be reaped before the rapture takes place. You and I are not going in the rapture, and likewise are none of these unbelievers who think that they are going to leave all these other people from Japan and China and India, and the great populations of the earth, and go away in the rapture in their dead condition. God is going to show them that He still has a people upon the face of the earth, and the Bride is yet over in China, yet over in Japan, yet over in India, and yet over in many parts of the earth, because the gospel is to be preached to the uttermost part of the earth, and the uttermost part of the earth has not yet been reached. This is according to the Bible and according to prophecy. (Matthew 24:14). I condemn all that unbelief as Satanic, as heresy, as demonic, and the unbelief of the devil, that he has anointed the people with. None of their unbelief will stop the promises of God. God still loves His people, and there is going to be a people coming out of the nations; and the very vision of Brother Branham, called “Preview to the Bride”, gives us an understanding that there is a bride coming out of all nations, and the people that now claim to be the church of Jesus Christ are not the church of Jesus Christ in these organizations, and the vision showed that they were dancing to rock and roll music, and they were naked. Anything that believes that all is over, all was in Brother Branham, and you got to sit and wait for the resurrection of Brother Branham to do anything upon this earth, is an unbeliever, is not born again, and is void of the Spirit of God! It’s contrary to the Word of God. The nations of the earth in the end time here, were never reaped. The souls in India were never reaped, and not because Brother Branham saw 300,000 attending the meeting, means that is all. The souls in China were never reaped. You want to tell me out of China don’t have some elect there? What is the matter with these unbelievers? 1.2 billion people there, and God is going to carry this unbelieving bunch in the rapture and leave 1.2 billion people in China that don’t even know their left hand from their right hand? Impossible! God is going to leave 1 billion people in India and carry these unbelievers in the rapture and leave everybody? These unbelievers who believe all is over and all is Brother Branham and sitting and waiting for a resurrection from the dead are going to leave the people and go in the rapture? Not only that they are going to leave you, who believe in a living gospel, who believe in an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, who believe in modest dressing, who believe in clean living. That’s their mentality. It is of the devil! You mean God is going to leave all those people in Russia? Brother Branham never did go down into China; he never did go down into Russia and keep any meetings, and he did not go down into South America. You mean to say God is going to leave those two or three hundred million people in South America, without hearing the gospel? Brother Branham was not in the Caribbean, just in Jamaica. You mean God is going to leave our people there? No Sir! Their minds are narrow, filled with unbelief! Their outlook is wrong. Their outlook is that when Brother Branham preached his message unto the world thirty seven years ago, that was all. Only those that heard the gospel then, and only those that hear the tapes now, and receive the Spoken Word books are the bride; that is not the bride! It’s the mixed multitude following the message. Yes! And part of the bride is in the mixed multitude, and, brother, part of the bride is in the nations, yet to be saved. Yes, sir! The greater part of the world here in the end-time has not heard the gospel. And I am going to put in Brother Branham’s words. And I will let him interpret to you the scripture that I just read, in Mark 16. Let us all hear tonight how Brother Branham interpreted Mark 16; not my interpretation, but Brother Branham’s interpretation, inspired by the Holy Ghost, how he interpreted Mark 16. And I challenge every unbeliever, and I challenge all this unbelief in the message on the basis of the Word, and the interpretation of William Branham. I quote: HIS LAST COMMISSION-INTO ALL THE WORLD -IT HAS NEVER GOT THERE YET “Oh, it takes Christ's Eternal Life to bring the Word of Life to vindication, made flesh. Oh, my goodness. Takes the Holy Ghost to operate the Word of God. When Jesus said, "Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature..." Now look, Mark 16, His last commission "all the world--all the world..." It never has got there yet. See? "... all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature. He that believeth (in all the world) and is baptized shall be saved; he that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe. (They'll shake hands with the... No. They'll be good church members? No.) In My Name they shall cast out devils. They shall speak with new tongues. They shall take up serpents, or drink deadly things, it won't harm them. If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." Oh, my. How far? Every creature. How much? All the world till He comes again. These signs shall... "He that believeth on Me, the works that I do, shall he do also. Even greater then this will he do, for I go to My Father." Oh, how we can walk away from that is more than I can say”. 245 (A man that can turn on the light 1963). How the bulk of the followers of Malachi 4 could walk away from this quotation and from the vision that Brother Branham had in carrying the gospel into all the world, is more than Brother Branham could say. If he would hear tonight on his rocking chair, what the believers of this message now try to propagate, my brothers and sisters, I don’t know what he would say. Yes! He said how a person could actually believe different from Mark 16:16 in carrying the gospel into all the world, with the power of God, he don’t have words to say it; neither do we have words to say it. It takes an unbeliever to read Mark 16:16, interpreted by the prophet of God, and teach contrary to that, and believe contrary to that. He’s got to be a blind man, you’ve got to be a dead man, you’ve got to be a man that is not born again, nor have any spirit of God in you! That’s the way that the prophet of God interpreted Mark 16. Did he believe in a living gospel? Did he say that all was over? Did he say that all was in him? No! He said that we have not reached to the end of the world yet, to the uttermost part of the earth. We have not gone there yet.
MISSION OF THE CHURCH IS TO PREACH GOSPEL, DEMONSTRATE THE POWER “So, you see, where the Christianity in it's theology, how weak it is. God never invented that in the first place. Jesus never did say, "Build churches, seminaries." He said, "Preach the Gospel into all the world," then He'd would return. See? But we've done everything else but do what He told us to do. He can't return till the Gospel's been preached. He said, "You'll hear of signs and wars and rumors of wars, (Not yet) parents against children, children..." (That's not yet.) But said "When this Gospel has been preached to all of the world, then the end will be." He would return. There is the mission of the Church, is to preach the Gospel, demonstrate the power. Oh, we've passed tracts everywhere. But that ain't what it takes. It takes the power and demonstration of the Holy Spirit, truly. Now, watch”. (Looking for Jesus 1954). Brothers and sisters, according to what Brother Branham said, the mission of the church is to carry the gospel in power into all the wold. He never said he has to come back from the grave in a first resurrection, and be upon the earth for thirty to thirty five days, to carry the gospel. He said that’s the mission of the church. Well, that is not far from the scripture. Jesus commissioned the church. He said, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel.” It was the church that he was speaking to. And if God wanted a resurrected man to carry the gospel into all the world; when Jesus rose again from the dead he had one then, but even though He arose again from the dead, He never carried the gospel into all the world. He commissioned the church, because it is not God’s plan for a resurrected man to come up from the grave to carry the gospel into all the world. No sir! It is the mission of the church! That is what the preacher said here; this is what the prophet said here; this is what we believe. The resurrection doctrine is of the Devil, and I don’t care how great a man is, and who he is that believes that, you have a devil upon you, and you are full of unbelief. The mission of carrying the gospel into all the world in the power and demonstration of the spirit is the mission of the church, not the mission of one man.
THE GOSPEL IS THE POWER AND DEMONSTRATION OF THE HOLY GHOST- TWO THIRDS HAS NEVER HEARD IT “Mercy, goodness. What we need is the Gospel. And the Gospel is the power and demonstration of the Holy Ghost. That's what the world... We've went and built churches. Jesus never did say, "Build a church." Show me the Scripture. We went and built schools. He never did say, "Build schools." We built hospitals. He never did say, "Build hospitals." Yet, we done it. That's all right. I ain't got nothing against it. We done it. But He never said do that. We done the things that He said--the very things that He told us not to do, we did it, or the things that He told us to do, we refuse to do it. Let's preach and demonstrate the power of the Gospel. That's the reason two thirds of the world has never heard it”. (A secondhanded robe 1956). Beloved, the commission according to the Word of God, Mark 16, Matthew 28, is to carry the gospel into all the world in the power and demonstration of the spirit, and two-thirds of the world has not yet heard the gospel according to Brother Branham’s message. These unbelievers want to tell us that God is going to leave the two-thirds of the world that never heard the gospel, and carry these unbelieving bastards in the rapture, and leave the people in Japan, leave them in China, leave them in India, leave them in Africa, and carry this dead bunch of people that believe all is over and all was in Brother Branham. You are an idolater! Sitting and waiting for Brother Branham to be resurrected, you are an idolater. Yes sir! And if this tape goes out there, I want you to hear my voice, you are a bunch of unbelievers, a bunch of idolaters, but there is somebody that believes the promise of God, upon the face of the earth. And we are contending for the faith that was once delivered unto the saints, because certain men like you have crept in unawares, with unbelief! You were ordained to that condemnation! And if you cannot repent of your unbelief, you are a seed of the Devil! Just like Cain in Genesis.
NEED POWER & DEMONSTRATION OF THE HOLY GHOST BACK IN THE CHURCH “We can't do it through denominations. We can't do it under psychology. We can't do it under arithmetic, or we can't do it with education. We separate ourselves, divide ourselves. We are not divided. We are one person indeed in Christ Jesus. We are all one in Christ, and our denominations will never do it. As good as they are, they won't do it. Our education’s the greatest hindrance the Gospel ever had, is education. What we need is not education. We need the power and demonstration of the Holy Ghost back in the church to demonstrate the power. Jesus never said, "Go into all the world and--and teach." He never said, "Go into all the world and do..." He said, "Go into all the world and preach the Gospel." And the Gospel is to demonstrate the power of the Holy Ghost, the resurrection. We're still a million miles short than where we should be. Let us move forward. Let's go back where we left Him at the feast of Pentecost”. (Believest Thou This 1960). In 1960, Brother Branham spoke to the followers of Malachi 4, and all present, that we are a million miles away from what the church should be doing. We are a million miles short from the power and demonstration of the Holy Ghost that we are supposed to be manifesting. Brothers, I have to tell you something here, while they had a prophet, while they should have fallen under that inspiration of the Holy Ghost to bring the power to the church and have signs and wonders, they were one million miles away. I want to tell you that they look like they are about a hundred million miles away tonight. If, while you had a prophet raising the dead, healing the sick, casting out devils and preaching a living gospel to you, and showing you how to demonstrate the power of God, you were a million miles away, you certainly got to be a hundred million miles away! Sit down and wait for a man to raise from the dead to manifest Mark 16 and Matthew 28, and manifest the power of God, you got to be an unbeliever and an idolater. One hundred million miles away, I will say tonight, safely! And if you add fifty more million to that, I won’t be angry with you. While he was alive, 1960, they were a million miles away. A bunch of unbelievers! He knew that there was a bunch of unbelievers sitting there. I am telling you that so-called Pentecost has more faith than the followers of this message. They are looking for revival; they are looking for the power of God. Of course it is not coming to them. They had their day, and that revival is over. That day is past. Their revival came by Brother Branham, but the bride has never had a revival yet; Seals, page 253. That revival that Brother Branham came with was toward Pentecost. At a certain time, he said the revival is over, 1962. In 1963 he said, the bride has never had a revival yet, but she is promised one. Do you believe the promise? Yes! I believe the promise. They’re a million miles away, and he said, Let us move forward.” Are we moving forward? We are obedient to the prophet of God. Let us go back to where we left him at the feast of Pentecost. Are we going back? I am preaching another return of Pentecost. I am preaching that we’ve got to go back to the feast of Pentecost. There’s got to be a return of Pentecost, here, before the rapture takes place, and we’re in preparation for it, and anybody that don’t get that outpouring cannot go in the rapture! Oh yes. Well, I did not mean to preach so hard tonight, but something stirs up my soul. Brothers and sisters, we believe in a living gospel. I quote Brother Branham again,
WE FAIL TO DO WHAT JESUS SAID-MARK 16 “What's the matter? We fail to do what Jesus said. He said, "Go in all the world and preach the Gospel." We build churches, denominations, and schools. That's all right, but that's not what He said. He said, "Preach the Gospel." The Gospel is the power and demonstration of the resurrected Jesus. Paul said so, and that makes it. The Lord grant. Now, please, don't move around; set real quiet. How many out there doesn't have a prayer card? You won't be called in the line, but you believe Christ will heal you, raise your hand…All right, you just believe. You just look towards heaven and say, "Lord, I believe it with all my heart." And if we are the the branch, He's the Vine. He energizes the Vine, and it'll speak just like He did, or He isn't the same. (Hear Ye Him 1958). The gospel must be preached in the power and demonstration of the Holy Ghost. Where did Brother Branham get his understanding from in order to say these things? Right from the Bible. He got it from Mark the 16th chapter. He got it from Acts 1. He got it from I Thessalonians 1:5, where the Bible said, “The gospel came not to us in Word only, but in power and demonstration of the Holy Spirit. Alright, he got that from I Corinthians 2:1-5, where the scripture says, Brother Paul said, “When I came to you, I came not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but I came to you in the power and the demonstration of the Holy Ghost, that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.” Is that the Bible? Was Paul joking when he said that? No, he was not joking. That is the gospel pattern. The reason that Brother Branham preached that, and established that, is because that’s the gospel pattern to reap the harvest. My message is, “The Gospel in Power to Reap the Harvest”. Beloved, we have a harvest to reap upon the earth, and all that I am saying is that we must have the gospel in power to reap that harvest. Without having the gospel in power, we cannot reap that harvest, and I already have proven to you that is why the church never touched the 300,000 down in India, they have not brought in the white-robed people yet, they have not brought in the Africans yet, and they have not brought in the harvest that was prophesied by Brother Branham, even because they don’t know how to go and reap that harvest. There is a harvest in the field today, but there is a way to reap that harvest. I am here tonight proving to you how to reap that harvest. You’ve got to reap it in a scriptural way. It’s got to be God’s will. It’s got to be God’s time. We are not even going to touch those things. The harvest has to be ripe according to scripture. There’s got to be a tool to reap that harvest. I may talk about that a little later. Even though the harvest is ripe, although there is a tool, although the time has come, and although it is the will of God, you must be commissioned. You must be commissioned to do it. I will prove to you right here what is the original pattern of God to reap the harvest. Jesus said, “Look upon the fields, for the harvest is ripe.” He said, “Now brethren, you are going to enter into other men’s labors”. While those men labored, the harvest was green, but now under this ministry, the harvest is ripe. Another place, in Matthew 9, he said, “The harvest is ripe, but the laborers are few, pray that the Lord send forth laborers into the vineyard.” There was a harvest. The harvest was supposed to be reaped. Beloved, Jesus, by his great spiritual understanding, was not talking about corn and wheat. He was talking about souls that were ready to accept the gospel. That sounds sweet to me! Jesus, by foreknowledge, understood that there was a great bunch of people that was about ready to give their lives to Christ, to surrender their lives, serve God, and be saved. That was the harvest. Jesus knew that. Now, although he knew that, there was a certain way to reap the harvest. He saw it in St. John 4. He knew that the harvest was laying there. Didn’t Brother Branham see the harvest by vision? Just like Jesus saw the harvest back there, Brother Branham saw it too. In one place he said that the harvest is ripe, laborers are few, pray the lord that he send laborers into the vineyard. I am talking about Brother Branham, just like Jesus saw the harvest, Brother Branham saw the harvest, but there is a certain way to reap the harvest. You cannot go in there and reap the harvest. So they went to the next stage. He went to Calvary; he was resurrected from under the Roman seal. And when he came from under the Roman seal, the last seal that held him, back in that time, then, he told them how to reap it. He said, “Now, brethren, go into all the world, preach the gospel, baptize the people.” And he said, “When you go to reap the harvest there, these signs shall follow you.” Is that Bible? Was that the next step? [Congregation says, “ Amen!”]. Just before he ascended, he told them, “Tarry ye in Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high, then shall ye be my witnesses.” What witnesses? “Before you go into the harvest, get the power!” [Congregation says, “Amen!”]. Look at these stages friend. He saw the harvest like Brother Branham, St. John 4. He could not send them out there yet. He rose again from the dead. When he arose from the dead, then he commissioned them. He said, “Go!” He said, “But, before you go, wait for something.” He said, “Go up to Pentecost and receive the power.” Did Jesus believe in a living gospel? Did he believe in a gospel going in power? Did he tell them to wait until they got that power before they could reap the harvest? There we are children, they were very obedient. They went up to Pentecost, and they were endued with power from on high. Now the harvest was going to be reaped. Let us look in our Bibles for a few minutes. Now, the church was obedient, and they got the power of God, and they were going to reap the harvest. The harvest is not apples or mangoes; the harvest is the souls of men. On the day of Pentecost Peter preached the gospel, and he won three thousand souls. Is that harvest? Was that harvest in the power of the Spirit? Three thousand, yes sir, brought them out of the field. Was Jesus right? When he said the harvest is ripe, was he right? When he seen that vision, was the vision correct? His vision was correct. Okay, a few days passed, and he went down there and healed a man at the Gate Beautiful. One miracle. Was that the demonstration of the power? Was that the demonstration of the gospel? (Congregation says Amen) Then when he did that miracle, five thousand believed because of that one miracle. Was that the harvest coming in? Oh, Glory to God! Was that the harvest? It was the harvest coming in. Okay, a little while passed, God raised up more apostles, more preachers, and they started winning souls, and there was a church, almost in every Roman city. Did Paul go out? Did Barnabas go out? And what happened? They said that these men have turned the world upside down! Was that the reaping of the harvest? When God gets ready to reap His harvest, He will turn the world upside down. It doesn’t matter where that elect is, he could be in the Roman government, the U.S. government, he could be in the dump, it doesn’t matter, he is coming. He is reaping the harvest. Now, you call this reaping of the harvest the original pattern, apostolic pattern, God’s perfect will in reaping the harvest. The book of Acts is a record of God sending out his reapers, to reap the harvest into all the world. That is all that the book of Acts is, a record of God sending forth His laborers into the vineyard, in order to bring in the harvest of the earth. It ended up in the millions. When the harvest was reaped in that time, it shook kingdoms. It changed the course of history. All kinds of fantastic things happened in that age, because when God is going to bring in the souls that are elected to life, it doesn’t matter where they are, they have to come in. “Go and compel them to come in”, is what the scripture says. [Congregation says, “ Amen!”] Are you getting a clear picture of how God is to reap the harvest? I am saying that the power of the gospel reaps the harvest. I am showing you in the Bible that when the first harvest was reaped, it was reaped by the power of the Holy Ghost, by the demonstration of the Spirit of God, by making the Bible live, by making the gospel live. It was not a dead, intellectual letter going out there. No! They weren’t sitting there waiting for a resurrection of a man. “Well, Peter died brethren. Yeah, he died as a martyr, and we got to sit down here now and wait for Peter to resurrect from the dead, because he had the keys to the kingdom.” You would be an unbeliever back then. The gospel went on because the commission was not to one man, it was to the church, and the commission to reap the harvest in Matthew 28, the commission to reap the harvest is Mark 16, and they went out reaping the harvest, but only when they were endued with power from on high, did they go. All right! Is that the original pattern? I am saying that is the original pattern. If that is the original pattern, friend, then it is unchangeable. ,He is the same yesterday, today and forever. Our contention, on the basis of what we just read, my contention, on the basis of the scripture of what we just read, your contention here at Grace Covenant Church, our contention at Bethel, Freeport, our contention in South America, our contention in Saint Vincent, our contention in the other islands over there, is the gospel in power and demonstration of the Holy Ghost is God’s provide way to reap the end-time harvest. If that was the original pattern, we have to go back to the original pattern of Pentecost, and that is our contention. This was the contention of the man called Robert Lee Lambert; this was the contention of Brother Branham! Was it the contention of Branham you said preacher? Let us hear:
MUST HAVE POWER & DEMONSTRATION OF THE SPIRIT TO PROVE THE GOSPEL “And in order to preach the Gospel, before you can make it a Gospel preach, then you've got to have the power and demonstration of the Holy Spirit to prove the Gospel. "The letter killeth, the Word... the letter killeth, the Spirit maketh alive.” So it's not just a ritualistic affair, but it's absolutely a real, living reality of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, living among men. And that's the faith that I'm trying my best to contend for today; that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever and His power is unlimited”. (Earnestly contending for the faith 1953) My God! Did Brother Branham contend for the faith? Was this what he was trying to contend for? My brother he was trying to contend for the faith that the gospel must go into all the world in the power and the demonstration of the Spirit! Was that his contention? Then that is my contention, that is your contention, that was Lambert’s contention, and we are right, and the whole world is wrong, who doesn’t believe it, and the prophet is on our side! We are contending together with the prophet, we have Paul on our side. He said the gospel came not in Word only, but in the power and the demonstration of the Holy Spirit! We have Peter on our side, we have Jesus on our side because He said don’t go until you get the power, yes, so we have Brother Branham on our side, we have the Bible on our side. Oh, Glory to God! That quote was taken from “Earnestly contending for the faith”, and he said that he was contending for the faith of the gospel in power to go into all the world. Are we contending for the same thing? Then I am saying that we are right, and everybody that is not contending for that faith is wrong! Let me see if the prophet of God wanted people to believe the same way that we believe, and the way that he believed.
THE GOSPEL CAME NOT IN WORD ONLY, BUT THROUGH POWER AND DEMONSTRATIONS OF THE HOLY GHOST “Believe the resurrection of Jesus Christ, raised from the dead. And He was the only Man could say that, "All powers in heavens and earth is given unto My hands. All powers of heavens and earth is given unto My hand. Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature." The Gospel came not in word only, but through power and demonstrations of the Holy Ghost. God help you to believe that; God help me to believe that, and we'll see Jesus someday. When the toils of life is over, We shall see Jesus at last; On His beautiful throne, He will welcome me Home, After the day is through. (That's right.)The sands has been washed in the footprints Of that Stranger from Galilee's shore”. (Go Tell 1960). Was Brother Branham trying to persuade people to believe that? Did he believe that without any doubt? Well, then, we believe. We are fully persuaded by Malachi 4: we fully believe the arguments of Malachi 4: we fully believe the contentions of Malachi 4 that the gospel must go out into the world in power and in demonstration of the Spirit because two-thirds of the world never heard it yet, and the people up to 1960 were a million miles away, and up to tonight they are a hundred and fifty million miles away, if not a billion. Yes, sir It keeps going up.
GOSPEL IS MANIFESTING, DEMONSTRATING THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT “God never did ordain us to go out and have schools. He never. He never told us to build hospitals. They're good. He never told us to build libraries. No, sir he never. He said, "Preach the Gospel." And the Gospel is manifesting, demonstrating the power of the Holy Spirit. Paul said, "The Gospel come to us, not through word only, but through the manifestation and demonstrations of the Holy Spirit." Paul said, "I never come to you with great words of wisdom by some doctor of so forth, but I come to you in power and demonstration of the Holy Spirit, that your faith would not be in the wisdom or knowledge of the men of this world, but in the power of the resurrection of Jesus Christ; because He lives, the same yesterday, today, and forever." God help us to believe the same thing, and God vindicate the same thing as He has been doing”.(God of this evil age 1965). The prophet of God is trying to get the people to see the vision that you have already seen many years ago. They never saw it, other wise they would not say all is over: they would never say all is in Brother Branham: they would never sit down like a dead bunch of people waiting for the resurrection. No, sir!
THE GOSPEL CAME NOT IN WORD ONLY, BUT THROUGH POWER AND DEMONSTRATION, MANIFESTATIONS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT “I know that's THUS SAITH THE LORD, that the Gospel... The same Gospel that blinded the Jews is now blinding the Gentiles, because it is the same Gospel, for there's no other Gospel but the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. We have many creeds, but there's one Gospel. What is the Gospel? The Gospel came not in word only, but through power and demonstration, manifestations of the Holy Spirit, God making His Word come to pass. It had to be that, for in Mark 16 He said, "Go into all the world and preach the Gospel. These signs shall follow..." Or otherwise, "Go into all the world, and demonstrate the power of the resurrection." He's not dead, but He's alive. And He's depending on you and I to let Him work through us to will His will. And if anything we ever approach that's not Scripture, you're duty bound to come tell us about it. It must come from the Bible through the Bible. It must cope with the rest of the Scriptures and be right. If it isn't, then we--we're ready to say that it's wrong. And if an angel or--from heaven, or anything else, would come preach anything else that's not in this Bible, don't you listen to it. This is God's Word, and God's Word only. And we know that it is true”. (Queen of Sheba 1961). My beloved, the gospel is in power according to Mark 16, and it’s got to be demonstrated in power, and the Lord is depending on you and I to do his will, to carry out the great commission. The will of God is the great commission in Matthew 28 and Mark 16. And he is depending upon you. Did he change his mind? No, he commanded the church to carry out his commission. If God wanted a man raised from the dead, he had one already. He had Jesus that came from the dead. If he wanted one, he had one there. Jesus should have gone world wide riding on a white horse, yes, sitting in a white airplane, like they have waiting for Brother Branham to do. Unbelief! God had a man already that came from the dead. And the man that came from the dead said, “You, the church, you people of God, go into all the world and preach the gospel. ,I am going up this way; I am going a little higher. I am climbing a little higher, and you go out and preach the gospel; that’s your job.” Since the Lord gave that commission, let some unbeliever show me where he took away that commission. Let some unbeliever show me where the gospel went into the uttermost part of the earth. Show me where every creature heard the gospel. No! Jesus said, “And this gospel of the kingdom must be preached into all the world, then shall the end come.” So don’t tell me it doesn’t have to go again before the end comes. I believe that. How many believe that? [Congregation says, “Amen!”]. I believe that with all my heart. He is depending upon you and me to carry that gospel, but you’ve got to go in power, you just cannot go with an intellectual gospel, you cannot take a tract in your hand and go out there, you cannot take a book and go out there, you cannot take a tape recorder, you cannot take a Spoken Word book, and claim to be evangelizing. No, sir! Upon the basis of what Brother Branham and the Bible say, I say this. “Our contention is that the gospel in power and demonstrations of the Holy Ghost is God’s provided way to reap the end-time harvest.” There is a harvest in the field, but there is only one way that harvest will be reaped, and that is by the power and demonstration of the Holy Spirit. That comes by another outpouring of the Holy Spirit from heaven. It’s the original pattern of Christ; it’s the original pattern of the apostles; it’s the original pattern of the New Testament church. And I have news for you; that was the same pattern of William Branham in carrying the gospel into all the world. The reason Brother Branham chose that way is because it is original. We are not dealing with the substitute here tonight; we are dealing with the original. The original was in the first day, and the original was in the seventh day. Brother Branham came on the seventh day, and the original pattern must be carried out by the bride in this bride age. It’s the original pattern of Christ. The original pattern, brothers and sisters of the apostles, the original pattern of the New Testament church, and the original pattern of Brother Branham. That pattern must not be compromised. It must not be altered, it must not be changed, and it must not be substituted, in carrying out the great commission of reaping the harvest in the end-time. To deny the original pattern of reaping the harvest, and substitute other means, is heresy, and is to speak as a heretic. It is contrary to the word of God, and contrary to the message of God that came to us by William Branham. To deny this original pattern, that you cannot compromise, you cannot altar, you cannot change and you cannot substitute, and try to carry the Gospel any other way into all the world, and also deny the original pattern, is to make yourself a heretic, is to be guilty of heresy and is to be guilty of preaching and teaching contrary to Brother Branham’s message and the Bible.
THE GOSPEL IS DEMONSTRATING THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT “We have just left Africa recently, where I'm to return again in the next few weeks: Africa, India, Palestine, Germany…And at Durban, South Africa, after about three or four people had passed through the prayer line, and they seen the power of the Holy Spirit moving in the people, and seen what God was doing, thirty thousand accepted Jesus as personal Saviour in one altar call: thirty thousand at one time.So I believe if we'll take God's Word as a rule, and go into all the world and preach the Gospel... The Gospel came not in Word only, but through power and demonstration of the Holy Spirit. So the Gospel is demonstrating the power of the Holy Spirit”. (Deep calleth to the deep 1954).
THAT'S HOW THEY GET CONVERTED E-39 “I've went into nations; they'd say, "Now, we don't want missionaries. We know more about it than you do. But the thing we want to see is somebody that's got faith enough to make God's Word manifest." That's what they want to see. And that's how they get converted. That's how they find Christ, is because they believe in that manner. And I trust to God with all my heart, that there'll be many, many here tonight who will find Christ the same to their hearts.” (Deep calleth to the deep 1954). You see what the harvest is waiting for? You see what these souls are waiting for? They said we don’t want to hear missionaries, we are not waiting for a tract and a book. Brother Branham said that is how they get converted, when they see the gospel in the power and demonstration of the Spirit. He said this on the same tape, he said about four people pass through the prayer line in South Africa, and those people, and discernments that was done on four people, caused thirty thousand to repent in one afternoon. “"How many of you want to receive Christ as personal Saviour? I want you to raise your hand." Thirty thousand stood, thirty thousand blanket natives, didn't know which was right and left hand, women standing there with no clothes on, just a clout four inches wide, beads. And someone said, "I believe they meant physical healing." I said, "I did not mean physical healing. Are you convinced that the Bible that I've just told you what He was, is the God that's doing this?" Every one of them raised their hands up. I said, "If you're sincere, break your idol on the ground." It was like a dust storm, like that. And thirty thousand blanket natives received Christ as their Saviour at one time”. That’s the gospel, how many believe that kind of a gospel? I believe that gospel, or I will die. Yes! I would rather be a sinner than to deny this kind of gospel. Yes, sir! I state boldly, upon the basis of these quotations, and upon the scriptures, that to enter the fields of harvest without power and demonstration of the Holy Ghost is to bring shame and reproach on the gospel of Christ and the message of Malachi 4:5. Billy Graham brought shame on himself. They beat some of these modern evangelists in India recently, and they ran out several others in the days of Brother Branham because they want to see a living gospel. They had the Bible before us, don’t forget that. They heard enough missionaries for two thousand years, and they ran each one of them out.
HAVEN’T ANY BUSINESS ON THE FIELD UNLESS PREACHING GOSPEL IN POWER "I don't want to hurt your feelings, girls," I said, "but you all ought to be home helping your mothers with the dishes. You haven't any business out on the field unless you are filled with the Holy Ghost and preaching the true Gospel in the demonstration of the power of the Holy Ghost. If you are not seeing the results that Jesus said you would see, it's because you are not preaching the true Gospel."(Philadelphian church age - church.age.book CPT.8 (The age of the open door) 1960 For you to carry the gospel and the message into these nations without the demonstration of the Spirit is to bring shame and reproach upon the message of the hour and make yourself lower than the organizations, because that is what they have been doing in all the years. You only make yourself an impersonator of true evangelism and a true apostolic gift. A true apostle is a missionary. And when we speak of missionaries, we are speaking of Peter, James, John, and the apostles that carried the gospel. The reason they got that name called missionaries is because an apostle is “one sent,” and this apostle that is sent, he is sent with a mission. Then they put that title upon them: “missionary.” An apostle according to II Corinthians 12:12: Brother Paul said, “Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds”. So to prove yourself a missionary, you’ve got to go with the power and demonstration of the Holy Ghost, like Brother Paul went, otherwise you are an impersonator. So you only make yourself an impersonator of a true evangelist and apostle.
WHAT IS THE GOSPEL? NOT THE WORD ONLY-COME THROUGH POWER "This Gospel will be preached..." What Gospel? What is the Gospel? Not the Word only. Paul said, "The Gospel come to us, not in word only, but through power and demonstration of the Holy Ghost come the Gospel." Paul said, "I never come with some seminary education, come making big swell words, for your salvation to be based upon swelled words, and enchanting lips, and some doxology or apostles' creed, or something like that. I never come to you like that. But I come to you knowing only one thing, the power of the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the demonstration of the Holy Ghost." Hallelujah! God give us some more Pauls, with great, powerful punches that'll lay It out there with that Gos--without some seminary gloves on. Amen. Seal of God! Amen. (Seal of God 1954) This ought to even stir the devil, or any resurrection believer. It ought to stir my brother, all these people that preach that all is over, and all was in Brother Branham. He knew that was tied up in the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. You say, “Brother Branham said all of that? And these people sit down as a bum on a dump?” Yes, brethren!
YOU’RE GOING ON TO AN OLD FASHION HOLY GHOST REVIVAL OR ELSE E-58 This church has got to make up its mind. Every man comes to a place where there's a crucial hour…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). That is where they are sitting, my brother, as a bum on a dump! Yes, sir! A bum on a dump, waiting on the resurrection of Brother Branham. Yes! A bunch of dead people, waiting on the dead. “Preacher, what kind of action should I take against people like that? I belong to a church like that. I belong to an ‘all is over’ church. I belong to a church that doesn’t believe in the power of God. I belong to a church that believes that Brother Branham must be resurrected from the dead. I belong to a church that is dead; they don’t believe in revival, they are just sitting and waiting for the rapture. What kind of an action I should take?” Let the prophet speak to us.
THEY PREACH THE GOSPEL BUT DENY THE POWER-FROM SUCH TURN AWAY The power of what? The Gospel. They preach the Gospel but deny the power. Paul said, "The Gospel come to us, not in Word only, but through power and demonstration of the Holy Ghost." There you are. "Having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.” I said, "Doctor, that's the reason I turned away." I said, "A few of you fundamentalist get out there with your lips hanging down, set there and sour, and freeze me to death the first night." I said, "As Paul Rader said when he leaned over Hodges' shoulder out yonder in Los Angeles, right in the same temple where Congressman Upshaw was healed, he said, 'If...' I told Ern Baxter, my manger, he had said Paul was crying. And he said, 'Ern, if I would've sold my message to the red hot Pentecost, I wouldn't be in this condition today. But they've grieved me, and worried me, till here I am dying with a cancer."(God commissioning Moses the prophet 1953). PhD’s in the message, intellectual giants of the message, that is why we have turned away, because you deny the power of God. You have a form of godliness, and you deny the power of God, and Brother Branham turned away from everybody that denied the power of God, and we will turn away from everybody that denies the power of God. That is why we are a persecuted bunch up here. He turned away from people that did not believe in the power of God, and he quoted a man that was dying of cancer, that sold his birthright to so-called Pentecost when he had already seen the power of God demonstrated, and he had regrets now because he was dying of cancer. How many say it is sweet? My I tell you the prophet is sweet, he is so wonderful. I tell you boldly that what we preach here is exactly what Brother Branham preached, and what he contended for, and what Brother Lambert contended for, and everybody that doesn’t contend for that are unbelievers of the message of the hour , the Bible, and the very Christ and his commission. There are many quotations to support that, but we have other days to preach, also. So I just brought out a few quotations, and we are completed on those, and we believe exactly what the prophet of God said. I have confirmed to you in the Bible, and in the message of Brother Branham what you were taught here by the man called Robert Lee Lambert for all the years, and that is where he got his message. He did not preach his own message; he got his message from the message of William Branham and the Bible, and that is where we are still preaching from. We are preaching straight from the Bible and from the message of Malachi 4:5-6. May the Lord bless your hearts. THE GOSPEL IN POWER: THEN SHALL THE END COME
Thank you for coming with your mighty spirit in the same atmosphere of the Holy Ghost. We give you the praise, the honor, and the glory. Thank you, Lord, for the joy of the Holy Spirit, for the joy that we feel through your word, for certainly, the entrance of thy word giveth joy, and we are thankful for the joy that came from the Word last night. And even tonight we thank you in advance, because we look, oh, Lord, to your promises, and we, as your children, feel joyful to speak of your promises, and what it will accomplish for your people throughout the world. Bless your children, bless the Word, and have your own precious way tonight, in the name of Jesus Christ we pray with thanksgiving, and the congregation says, “Amen!” Amen means, “So let it be.” Send your power. Oh, Lord, so let it be! “Silver and gold have I none, but such as I have give I thee. In the name of Jesus Christ rise up and walk.” That is what we are expecting. We are expecting to see God move on the scene. Thank Him for His grace and His mercy. We are grateful to the Lord. We have a little message again tonight. If the Lord is willing, He will come and bless us abundantly tonight. I am reading Matthew 24:11. “And many false prophets shall rise and shall deceive many and because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold, but he that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved. 14th verse- And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations and then shall the end come”. Amen means “so let it be.” I believe the promises of God. “For our gospel came not in Word only, but also in power and in the Holy Ghost and in much assurance as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sakes” (1 Thessalonians 1:5), “Having a form of Godliness but denying the power thereof. From such turn away.” (2 Timothy 3:5) And- “How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord and confirmed unto us by them that heard him. God also bearing them witness both with signs and wonders and with divers miracles and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will.” Hebrews 2:3, 4. May the Lord add a blessing to the reading of his holy words. You may be seated. Praise ye the Lord. I love the scriptures. It is so revealing. It is so wonderful. The prophet of God said that any preacher that will preach the Word of God, and cannot take what he is saying and put it back in the scriptures, has no right behind the pulpit. Our words will fail, he said, but His Word will never fail, so we try to put back what we are saying in the scriptures. There is a system today around the world, amongst message followers, that they try to put back what they are saying in the quotes, and that is very important, too. We believe Brother Branham to be God’s Elijah for today, who brought the last and seventh church age message to the world, and we believe that he had the knowledge, and understanding, and the gift to interpret the scriptures, but I believe that we ought to also understand that Brother Branham came to call us back to the Word of God. The Word of God is the absolute. So, there are a lot of battles, quotation battles, and I don’t believe just in quotation battles. I believe in taking what Brother Branham said and putting it back in the scriptures. Then, when we could understand these things in the scriptures, and in the message, in the quotations, then we have a solid foundation, because many times people quote, and they misrepresent the quotations, and they misquote. So, I believe in putting back what the prophet says in the Word, and I also believe in quoting the prophet of God, because we believe him to have been inspired of God to interpret the scriptures. Heretical Article No. 57: The Spoken Word Books Have Gone Into All The World, The Great Commission Is Completed, The Harvest Is Almost Completed By The Spoken Word Books, The Rapture Can Go Any Day Now.
So, tonight I will bring another little message to you, on reaping the end-time harvest, but under this title here, using this scripture from Matthew 24:14- “The gospel in power, then shall the end come.” What I am saying is that this world must see the gospel in power before the end comes. That is according to the scriptures. That is according to the message of the great Elijah. Religious people sit around, through the organizations, through the world, especially when they now come to the church, the Scriptures, and they are baptized, and having a lack of knowledge, they think that the world could end tomorrow. A great fire could come forth and destroy the world, but then, here we have an outstanding scripture, and this scripture is prophecy, and it says, “And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached unto all nations as a witness, then shall the end come.” So, I am reading in my scriptures, that the gospel must be preached as a witness unto all nations before the end comes. Now, this is taken from Matthew 24, and all Bible readers know that Matthew 24, and Luke 21, and various other scriptures of the New Testament speak of prophecy, especially Matthew 24; it was our Lord prophesying. He prophesied about the destruction of Jerusalem. He spoke of the destruction of the temple there, and then He started to answer a question concerning the signs of the end-time. So, He came right down and told us the signs of the end-time. “Beware of false prophets, for many false prophets shall come and shall deceive many.” Another sign of the end-time is that Christian people who are supposed love one another, their love is going to wax cold, and because of persecution they will hate one another. And the times will be so trying in the end-time, He says, that he that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved. In other places, He said that you shall see signs in the sun and in the moon, distress of nations, men’s heart failing them for fear. Those scriptures are all tied in with the prophecy of the end-time, and we all believe the prophecies of the end-time. There is no question whether these things will be fulfilled in the end-time. What is not fulfilled will be fulfilled. I could say that one Scripture is fulfilled to the letter, and that is our Lord said, “False christs and false prophets shall arise and shall deceive many”. And we have seen that, in a great way throughout the world, and those false christs and false prophets have crept under the message also. There is no problem in believing that. There is no problem in believing that we are going to see the signs in the sun and the moon and we have already seen the distress of nations. We have seen the fig tree put forth its bud, Israel crying at the Wailing Wall. We believe all of those things. And I believe there are many preachers, even in organizations and around the message, who preach about these signs, and they apply that to the coming of the Lord, the rapture. But then, my brothers and sisters, this prophecy that I read here tonight from Matthew 24:14, I believe is also true. I believe that it has merits in the scriptures, but we don’t hear that emphasized very much. But I am going to emphasize that tonight, because the prophet emphasized it. Yes. So, it is a prophecy in the scriptures that must be fulfilled. And what is this prophecy saying? It is saying, “And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached among all nations, as a witness to them, then shall the end come.” Very simple. It’s a prophecy that must be fulfilled in the end-time, before the end comes. Little children who are afraid of the fires coming down upon the earth to burn you up, let me tell you something here this evening. You will not see any fire come down to burn this world until you see the gospel go out in power to all nations. Now, I want you to get me correctly here. People misunderstand this, when you say that the gospel is going out into all the world, into all nations. They think that you are saying that God is going to have a great revival of salvation, and He is going to save these nations, and He is going to save billions of people around the world. That is not what the scripture is saying. I believe that people will be saved. I believe that the bride is yet out there amongst the nations, but then, on the other hand, the Bible is saying that the gospel of the kingdom shall be preached unto them as a witness to all nations! Now here, we have something to look into. If this gospel, and this prophecy, is to be fulfilled in the end-time here, it must be fulfilled according to the commission that Jesus Christ gave to His disciples and to His church. It cannot be fulfilled in any other way. It must be fulfilled according to the scripture. It must be fulfilled according to the Great Commission of Mark 16 and Matthew 28. It must be fulfilled that way. All right, we are to have the gospel preached, as a witness. If you are to preach the gospel as a witness in the end-time, then you need witnesses for Christ. We need witnesses to carry the gospel, as a witness, to all the nations. And Jesus said, “Tarry ye in Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high, and then shall ye be my witnesses.” Therefore to fulfill this prophesy, our Lord needs laborers to go into the vineyard. He does not want lecturers; He does not want tracts and books; He does not want internet programs, radio programs, and television programs. If this gospel is so important that the nations must hear it in the end-time before the end comes, it must go according to the Great Commission that Jesus gave, and the Great Commission that Jesus gave is, “Tarry ye in Jerusalem until ye be endued with power from high, then shall ye be my witnesses”. All that I am saying here tonight, is that this prophecy cannot be fulfilled until the gospel goes into all the world in the power of the Holy Spirit; the demonstration of the power of God, because the gospel came not in Word only, but it came in the Word and the power of the Holy Ghost, according to Thessalonians 1:5, and according to I Corinthians 2:1-5. Brother Paul said that, “when I came to you, I came not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but I came unto you in the power and the demonstration of the Holy Ghost, that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.” That’s apostolic pattern of how the gospel was taken into the world, and it is supposed to go to the utmost part of the world. And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached unto all nations, and then shall the end come. No end is coming until you see men and women rise up in the power of the Holy Spirit, and there is a revival burning on every hill, and a five fold ministry set in order, and the nine divers gifts in operation in every local church. It would not be long, but this is according to Bible prophecy. The Great Commission must be carried out according to the commandments of the Lord. This prophesy must be fulfilled just the way that they fulfilled the scriptures and the Great Commission in the early church. Now, this is “A,B,C.” Anything outside of that, and contrary to that, is wrong. Anything contrary to that is not the scriptures. Anything that is contrary to that is heresy. Anything that is contrary to that is a substitute. This gospel of the kingdom must be preached unto all nations before the end comes. Now organizations, denominations, Bible schools, and intellectual men say that they have about covered the entire globe, and they have already fulfilled the prophecy of our Lord, where He said you have to preach unto all nations, and they have done it through the radio, and through the television, and through the internet, and through evangelists, and through missionaries, and they have carried it around the world, and say that any day Jesus is coming for them. That is contrary to the scriptures. This prophesy has one way of fulfillment, and that is that you have to go back to the original commission. This ties in here the original commission, and I have wonderful news for you: when this scripture is fulfilled, the commission that the Lord gave to the Church is completed. There was a time when the commission was given to the Church, and then, throughout two thousand years, and when we have come to the end, this gospel of the kingdom must be preached unto all nations, then shall the end come, then that will be the end of the commission. The commission started back there, and then there is a time when the commission will be closed. The Lord will not continue to beg the Gentiles throughout another thousand years. No! He already begged them for about two thousand years. There was a time that God’s commission was given, and there is a time for it to be closed. Then God’s servants will report to him,” Mission is accomplished”. In the endtime there will be a report, “The mission is accomplished.” So do you see how wonderful that is? The Great Commission was given back there in the early church, and now for the Lord to close that commission in the end time, he says, “This gospel must be preached into all the world.” Now the big question is “how is this gospel going to be preached into all the world.” It cannot go by another way, by a substitute. It cannot go by books; it cannot go by tracts; it cannot go by television. It cannot go by radio; it cannot go through Bible schools; it cannot go through intellectualism. It has to go the way that it went first, because Pentecost is the standard! We have to go back to Pentecost. Pentecost is the standard. Now, I will to tell you how Brother Branham interpreted that scripture. This is me talking here, and I am saying what the Bible is saying. Let us see if Brother Branham shared those views. How many would like that? [Congregation says, “Amen!”] Now, last time I showed you how he interpreted Mark 16. He said that Mark 16 is the Great Commission, and he said that the gospel is not preached until it is backed up by signs and wonders and miracles, and the gospel must go in the power and the demonstration of the Spirit. There are many more quotations that I could read. Let us see if Brother Branham will say what I am saying. I am saying a very simple thing tonight, that the gospel of the kingdom must be preached before the end comes, and it cannot be preached until you have the power and the demonstration of the Holy Ghost to carry it into all the world. Let us see if the prophet of God will back up that. So I will read some things here to you. Quote:
POWER MUST BE DEMONSTRATED, THEN SHALL THE END COME But it isn't crowds that I'm thinking about. The Gospel must be preached in this city, and that city, and to all the world for a witness, then the Lord shall come. Not theology must be preached, but the power and demonstration of the Holy Ghost must be demonstrated in all the world for a witness. Then the time shall come. (Has the Lord Spoken only to Moses 1953). Is the prophet saying what I am saying? [Congregation says, “Amen!”]. Now this is Matthew 24:14 that the prophet of God is quoting here. He said the power and demonstration must accompany the gospel into all the world as a witness. Are we seeing that anywhere? It is going to come. People say that was the ministry of Brother Branham, and you are looking for something that is passed already. I defy that statement. It is not true. Brother Branham said that two thirds of the world have not yet heard the gospel. I would confirm to you that Brother Branham shared in a part of this prophecy where the gospel is supposed to be preached into all the world in the power and demonstration of the Holy Spirit. Brother Branham shared in a part of that, and went to many nations and preached the gospel as a witness, but this scripture was not fulfilled in its entirety. It never hit all nations. Brother Branham never went to all nations. He never came down to the Caribbean, except in Jamaica. He never went to South America. I don’t know about Central America. He never went to China. He never made it to Japan. He went to India, out of the will of God, and not much was accomplished. So, don’t tell me that he went into all the world. Don’t tell me that Brother Branham fulfilled Matthew 24:14. No sir, because he never went into all nations, and he himself was looking for that. He himself was looking for the fulfillment of that, and he tells us right here, that cannot happen, and Jesus cannot even come for the rapture, until that is fulfilled. I believe the prophet. Let me get another.
THE SIGN OF THE END-GOSPEL PREACHED TO EVERY NATION IN POWER Now, Jesus was asked, "When shall the time come when there won't be one stone left upon another? And what is the sign of the coming of the end of the world? When is it going to be?" And He begin to tell them. "This Gospel will be preached to every nation and kingdom for a witness unto Me." You know what? Now, He never said. He said, "This Gospel." Now, He didn't say, "Go teach the Word"; but, "preach the Gospel." There's a lot of difference, certainly. The Gospel is the power and demonstration of the Word (See?), the power and demonstrations of the Word. You remember when that Angel come down on the river (which you have the picture of it, and you know about), when it said here about--in 1933, when I was baptizing my first group, that the message would sweep the world? And every nation they've got a revival going. They've had it everywhere. See? Sure. Pulling the elected out. That's right. "This Gospel shall be preached."(The Sign of his Coming 1962) Brother Branham fit himself right in that scripture of Matthew 24:14, yes, and he said that started in 1933, when the angel came down. Brothers and sisters, the thing that Brother Branham started, the bride must finish, because the commission was not to one man, it was to the church of the living God. I believe in a living gospel. I believe in a gospel that will do signs and wonders and miracles and prove the message one of these days. The prophet of God said, “One of these days, the Lord will take me out of this desert, and the message will live.” Yes, he has gone out of the desert like Moses went out of the desert, and the next thing on the agenda is that the message will live.
THIS GOSPEL IS PREACHED TO EVERY AND NATION, THEN JESUS WILL RETURN Yes, sir. We still need every step ladder, every stepping stone. We need everything. Just exactly... The building is still in making and when it's completed, this Gospel is preached to every kindred, tongue, and nation, then Jesus will return. That's right. Now, we've had plenty of passing out tracts and theology around the world. But the Gospel is not the Bible altogether. The Bible... Paul said, "The Gospel came to us not in Word only, but through power and demonstrations of the Holy Ghost." Then when Jesus said, "Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature," then He meant go into all the world and demonstrate the power of God to every creature. (Earnestly Contending for the Faith 1953) I believe exactly what the prophet of God said, that when Jesus said, “carry the gospel into all the world,” He just did not mean to go and pass out tracts, literatures or tapes. It means to go and demonstrate the gospel. Now, people have changed the Great Commission. The Great Commission must be carried out with power, signs and wonders, confirming the Word of God, confirming the gospel into every nation. They have changed that. They have changed that in such a way, and to change God’s plan and to change God’s will in carrying out the gospel as it is supposed to be carried out, is heresy. To deny the power of God, and to teach that it is only by literature, only by tracts, by radio programs, by internet programs, by TV programs, makes you a heretic, because the Bible calls anybody that will deny the power of God (in the third chapter of Timothy there), a reprobate! And the Bible says to turn away from anybody that does that. I read that quote here to you last night, where the prophet of God quoted that scripture to the organizations and said, “I turn away from you because you deny the power of God” There we are. So, organizations, radio programs, TV programs and intellectual speeches are not the gospel. No. The real gospel must be preached into all the world before the end comes. And we certainly believe with Brother Branham that it must go in Word and power. It’s got to go in the Word and the power of the Holy Spirit. Now many people say that the message that came by Brother Branham today is the gospel and it is the word (and that is true), and that it is now going into all the world, and soon it will cover the whole earth, and then the rapture will take place. I defy that. I defy that as deception; I defy that as a lie. I defy that as being contrary to the will and the program of God. It is not so; it is contrary to the prophet’s teachings, and they tried to convince the prophet one time that the gospel in these days must be carried only in the Word, and he fought against it. I am fighting against the same thing; we are fighting against the same thing; Lambert fought against the same thing; Brother Branham fought against the same thing, and we will continue to fight.
SURELY YOU CAN DO THE LESSER THINGS: HEAL THE SICK, CAST OUT DEVILS This fellow said, "Well now, look here." He said, "The greater things... Jesus couldn't preach the Gospel all the way around the world." And said, "We've done the greater things by preaching the Gospel around the world." I said, "What is the Gospel?" He said, "Oh, the ah--the ah--the Word." I said, "Not altogether, my brother." I said, "That's not Scripture." "Oh," he says, "Well, Reverend Branham..." I said, "Oh, no.” Paul said, "The Gospel come to us not in Word only, but through power and demonstration of the Holy Ghost." Yes, sir. When He said, "Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature," He also said, "Demonstrate the power of the Holy Ghost in all the world." Yes, sir. It never come to us through Word only. The Word's got to be quickened and made alive in the demonstration of the power of the Holy Ghost. I said, "Then if you call that the greater things, surely you can do the lesser things then. Go heal the sick. Pray for the sick. Cast out devils. Do those kinds of work." Jesus said, "The things that I do, shall you also.”(Led by the Spirit 1952) Here is a man that he met that was perverting the word of God and trying to prove to Brother Branham that as long as the scripture goes by missionaries and by intellectual means, that is the gospel that is covering the world. Brother Branham said, “No sir, that is not it, that is not the gospel preached; you have got to demonstrate it.” And he brought up a very good point: he said, “Brother Branham, the word is greater than miracles and signs”, and he said that “when Jesus said, ‘Greater works than this shall ye do’, He meant to carry the gospel, the pure word into all the world and that will be the greater works.” Brother Branham said, “If carrying the scriptures and literature into all the world is the greater works, then surely you can do the lesser.” He said the lesser is to cast out devils, and to speak in tongues, oh yes, and to do the mighty signs and wonders. That prophet had a plaster for every sore. Yes, and there is a lot of sore-foot men that he met, full of infirmities. Yes, sir!
THE GOSPEL IS POWER AND DEMONSTRATIONS OF THE HOLY GHOST How can we do it through reading, writing, and arithmetic? Jesus said, "Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel," not teach reading, writing and arithmetic. "Preach the Gospel." What is the Gospel? The Gospel is power and demonstrations of the Holy Ghost. Follow the next words, "And these signs shall follow them that believe." (It wasn’t so from the Beginning 1960) That’s the Word of God. So it’s not an intellectual gospel; it’s not reading; it’s not writing; it is not some kind of tracts that you’re going to share out. You are supposed to preach the gospel, and back it up with signs, wonders and miracles. Now, how are you going to do that until you are endued with the power of God? Yes, you must be endued with the power of God. Alright, listen to this.
HE SAID, "PREACH THE GOSPEL, AND THESE SIGNS SHALL FOLLOW THEM THAT BELIEVE I said to that little boy and girl; I said, "You ought to be back home washing your mammy's dishes, taking care of the babies." It's exactly right. Go down there and, go down to the compound, and say a few words to them natives, when they have a dance, and pass out some tracts. What does a poor, ignorant native know about a tract when he don't even know which is right and left hand? We've miserably failed God. Why? Is because Jesus said, "Go into all the world and preach the Gospel." He never did say, "Go in all the world and build churches." He never did say, "Go, build schools." He never did say, "Go, build seminaries." He said, "Preach the Gospel, and these signs shall follow them that believe." We've failed.(Door to the Heart 1958) Brothers and sisters, I could understand here that the prophet of God is saying that although a man is ignorant and unlearned, and don’t know their ABC’s, they could understand still, the power of God. They may not understand a Spoken Word Book; they may not understand a tract; they may not understand the Bible, but they will understand the power of God! And that is what they are waiting to see. Oh yes. So, the Word of God is not altogether tracts. No sir. Brother Branham said that one third of the world never heard. I quote another one here.
THE GOSPEL HASN'T BEEN PREACHED TO A THIRD OF IT YET They said... The signs of Mark 16 is said today that that was just for the disciples. Why, Jesus said, "Preach the Gospel unto all the world, and these signs shall follow them," on to all the world. Everywhere, this same sign, same Gospel will be preached. We've had tracts passed out all over the world. But the Gospel hasn't been preached to a third of it yet. The Gospel is not just the Word only, but it's the Word made manifest, the power and demonstrations of the Holy Spirit, bringing the Word to pass. (Looking for Jesus 1954) They have not even covered one third of the world. Not even one third. So that goes right back with that quotation where he said, two thirds of the world have not heard the gospel yet. Oh, they heard a lot of intellectual programs. I’m sure they see those evangelists on the television, they hear the radio, but the gospel is not preached. No, it is not preached. So, there we are. The gospel is not altogether the Word of God. The gospel is not altogether sending Bibles into the world. It is not altogether sending out tracts. It is not altogether sending out Spoken Word books then. Alright, I am going to get into something here now, and I have several quotations to read, and as we go along you will see something. Now, brothers and sisters, God sent a great prophet into the world, Malachi 4. He took the original pattern of carrying the gospel; God gave it to him. That was the apostolic pattern. Now that apostolic pattern was the power and demonstration of the Holy Spirit. How he was carrying the gospel into all the world is the way that he taught the church to carry the gospel into all the world. He fought organizational people; he fought intellectual giants, who said that the gospel had to be carried through literature because the days of miracles are past, Mark 16 is not applicable for today, and Saint John 14:12 was only for the apostles. Brother Branham had to fight against that unbelief for all the years that he was on the field. Read the message and you will see the great battles that Brother Branham had. The conception of the religious people is that, “the gospel must now be carried through literature, intellectual men; it must come from the Bible school, and men must be trained up from the Bible schools to speak like politicians. God has provided the television, so you have to use the media of the television; he has provided the radio, so we have to use the radio.” This is the concept of carrying the gospel. This is contrary to the word of God. It is contrary to the Great Commission, and because it is contrary to the commission of Matthew 28 and Mark 16, when God sent Elijah the prophet (Malachi 4, Revelation 10:7), He sent him with power and demonstration of the Holy Ghost, because that was the original, and because that was the Bible pattern of carrying the gospel. He was an uneducated man, but yet he was carrying the gospel in power. This is that same man, William Branham, that fought the organizations, fought the denominations, fought the intellectual gospel; he is the same one that is speaking here, and said the gospel is not even preached until it has demonstrated the power of God. I believe Malachi 4. I don’t care how dark the hour becomes, my brother, God’s original pattern remains the same, and God’s program remains the same, it does not change.
There is a great problem amongst the followers of Malachi 4, and I am to address it right here on this message. Since God sent Malachi 4, the message came by, and Brother Branham went home to be with the Lord. When I finish saying this, anybody throughout the world that is angry, I am ready to take up that challenge. Since the days of Brother Branham leaving the scene, nobody that is carrying this message today carries it in the power and demonstration of the Holy Ghost. Nobody! There is no revival burning anywhere; there is no church with the five fold ministry; there is no church with the nine divers gifts in it, and nobody is carrying this gospel in the power and demonstration of the Holy Ghost. I want somebody to produce it. I want somebody to prove it. I believe God could raise the dead. He could heal the sick. I believe that there might be some cancer somewhere being healed. I believe that somebody got better. I believe that some dead could be raised. I believe that something happened across the sea, but that is not gospel pattern. That is not what I am talking about. I am talking about a gospel like what Brother Branham preached that shook Africa, that shook India. I am talking about the gospel like Brother Peter preached, that his shadow healed the people. I am talking about what Paul preached; I am talking about what Jesus preached. That is the power and the demonstration of the Holy Ghost. That is what we are contending for! That is why Lambert sealed his testimony with his blood! Yes, sir. That is what your pastor preached for all those years! Now, I challenge the world on this. When you come to Trinidad, they say that it is happening in South America. When you go down to South America, they say that a great revival is in Africa. When you go down to Africa, they say that there is a great revival down in India; people are manifesting the third pull with great signs and wonders. You reach down there and you find one or two healings, and I want to tell you something here. There are evangelists that hate this message, and they are having some results, too. People, by faith, come to their meetings, and they have that faith in God, and they are being healed. I am not talking about that. I am talking about the power and the demonstration of the Holy Ghost. I am talking about the dead being raised, crippled legs being made straight. I am talking about hundreds of thousands of patients being healed. This is what I am talking about. Now, when people hear you preach like that, they say you do not believe in signs and wonders. Yes, I do. This might anger a lot of people when they hear this, but the people that follow this message are a dead people, and they are living upon the experience of Brother Branham, and they could talk about the signs and the wonders and the power and the demonstration under Brother Branham, but they cannot produce it. And I will tell you right here why they cannot produce it. They need to go back to Pentecost. That’s the simple answer. I take up that challenge for right around the world. The people that follow this message could hardly dress right. They do not have the joys of the Spirit. Their faces are in the television. They are in the sports field. They wear tight clothing. Many of them fell by adultery. And you cannot demonstrate the power of God if you do not obey the holiness message of Brother Branham. Without holiness, no man shall see the Lord. You’ve got to come God’s way. You’ve got to be sanctified. You’ve got to be holy. You’ve got to clean yourself up. All that you find is a bunch of arguments with quotations. Now, these same people that are dead, but they live a name. The scripture says, “Thou livest a name, but thou art dead.” Oh, they love Brother Branham. They love this message. Sure, they all believe that they are going in the rapture. I want somebody to carry me to some assembly in the United States over here and show me where the gifts of the spirit are operating. They talk and they boast about a five-fold ministry. I want them to show me, my brother, the five fold ministry in any assembly. Show me an apostle, according to II Corinthians 12:11-12. If you claim to be an apostle, you must have the sign of the apostle with you, and Brother Paul said that he had the signs of an apostle with him. Show me him. (But that’s not my subject tonight.) I am asking, “Where are the prophets?” Then, if you cannot show me a genuine prophet that is discerning the thoughts of the heart, and prophesying for the Bride, and it is coming to pass to the letter…I am not talking about “Jesus is coming soon”, and “Brother Branham was a prophet,” I am talking about genuine prophecies. Show me the prophet of the assembly. We don’t have any here for sure. You have none. And if you are striving to live for God and live holiness, and you don’t have any here, my brothers and sisters, there is none around this area. There are none in New York, and there are none from here to California. From here to Florida, there are none. And this proves what I am saying. Yes sir, let them produce the goods. Now, if you cannot show me a genuine prophet in the midst of these assemblies, then the five-fold ministry went down to four. You have a four-fold ministry, and you might claim that you are an apostle, but friend, when I give you the apostolic test in the Bible that Brother Paul said verifies that a man is an apostle; that brings it down to a three-fold. So now, the people around the message for the past years, upon years, have been talking about a five-fold, but are operating with a two-fold and a three-fold. And many of them that claim to be pastors; they don’t even know their positions, and yet they are still in Africa, evangelizing. A pastor don’t evangelize. They are confused, and the simple answer to that is this: that the sons of God are not yet placed. We need the “placing of the sons.” The church must be set in order, and the sons of God must be set in place, but they are too ashamed to admit that. Now come, I am talking about sense. I want you to carry me to some assembly in the USA, and take me around the coast of the United States, and find me an assembly where they are demonstrating the power of the Holy Ghost. You cannot show me that, and I cannot show you that in Trinidad either, and they cannot show me that in Africa. They cannot show me that in India. They cannot show me that in Germany. I challenge the world. I challenge the message followers upon that fact. You’re a bunch of dead people, and then deny the power of God on top of that. Now, if you’re dead and you know you’re dead, it’s okay. But when you are dead and you deny the power of God to raise you up, then you are twice dead, plucked up by the roots. Come on, let us face the facts. This bunch of people that follow Brother Branham’s message are dying with cancer, dying with tuberculosis, dying with AIDS, dying, my brother, with other venereal diseases. We are a helpless people! We could hardly help one another. You pray, and pray, and pray for six months, two years, three years, and the cancer patient still dies. Something is wrong somewhere, and I know what is wrong. We need another outpouring of the Holy Spirit. We need the Bride’s revival. That’s the truth of the matter. You aren’t going to find that truth everywhere, friend. You are going to see people trying to pump up a healing revival. Yes, pump up a prophesy. Yeah. All those gimmicks we used to have in so-called Pentecost. We are contending for something genuine, oh yes. Now that’s the truth I’m telling you. Don’t feel that I’m insulting the people in this message. They are all our brothers and sisters, but I have to tell you about the condition. Yes sir. There isn’t any revival burning anywhere. You cannot go in any assembly and find one of the nine divers gifts operating in the perfect will of God, not one; the people are dying from sicknesses, but “we are going to go in the rapture very soon.” Impossible! You are going in the rapture just now in this dead condition? The prophet of God said you don’t even have faith for divine healing, let alone the rapture! He said, “Let us talk about the power of God, let us talk about Mark 16, let us talk about St. John 14:12, let us talk about the power and demonstration of the spirit, then you are going to talk about rapture. “ This gospel shall be preached in power before the end comes. That’s the only way you will have it. You think anybody could pick up my challenge? I have been giving that for the past thirty-five years, and there isn’t a message follower that was able to pick that up. I told them about their dead condition, and I told them why, too. And I did not leave them hanging on a string; I told them how that is going to be solved. Oh yes! And we have the answer. Brother, let me tell you something: this whole thing comes down to the place of a dead organization. Like a dead organization! Intellectual speeches, yes, sir! T.V. programs, video programs, radio programs, intellectual talks; that is what the whole bunch of them have come down to. Sick! You can’t even find the spirit of God moving among them. And do you know why they brought in all that fast music in the assembly? To hold the people. Do you know why they brought in the sports? To hold the people. Do you know why they have all these hiking on the mountains, and fornication too? To hold the young people. When the prophet of God condemned sports in the highest. He said, “If my kids would be involved in sports, I will run them out from the country!” That’s what the prophet of God said. So now, because of this dead condition, they brought back the worldly music inside of the church; they brought back immoral dressing; they brought back sports to hold the people, because they did not catch the vision that the prophet of God laid out about the power and the demonstration of the Holy Ghost, a bunch of dead people. You cannot find the presence of God among them; it is like brass! Some of those assemblies are like going into the Catholic Church! No spirit, no joy, no presence, no singing from the heart. That is what this message has come down to, and now, on top of that, they claim to be evangelizing. They claim to be fulfilling the Great Commission by carrying the books, and the tapes, and going out there without power to carry the message, and they call that the Great Commission. I say that is wrong. In your dead condition now, you claim that you are carrying the gospel and you are fulfilling the Great Commission.
HOW CAN WE DO IT THROUGH READING, WRITING, AND ARITHMETIC E-31 They waited at the beginning until the power had come from on high, a rushing, mighty wind that changed the whole course of their life, and set them afire with Something that evangelized the world. How can we do it through reading, writing, and arithmetic? Jesus said, "Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel," not teach reading, writing and arithmetic. "Preach the Gospel." What is the Gospel? The Gospel is power and demonstrations of the Holy Ghost. Follow the next words, "And these signs shall follow them that believe." (It.Wasn't.So.From.The.Beginning 60-1127m). The very thing that Brother Branham fought against is the very thing that they have adopted. When Brother Branham came, they tried to tell him the gospel should not go in power; it should only go in the word. Brother Branham fought that from beginning to end. Now the followers of Malachi 4 turned right around and borrowed this substitute system from the organization, in carrying the gospel into all the world. Must I stand still for that? Must you stand still for that? Must I come here and lie to you, and tell you that is the gospel going out into all the world, and just now the end is going to come, and just now we are going in the rapture? I would be a deceiver! That is not the gospel going out, but you are going to see the real gospel go in power. There is going to be another outpouring of the Holy Spirit, and that is the answer to all these things here right now upon the face of the earth, and I believe that outpouring is to take place in the East, just where we looked for it for all the years. I am not intending to teach that neither. That is our personal beliefs, and we have enough proof in the scriptures, and we have enough prophecy to believe that. I believe that outpouring will take place in eastern United States. There will break a mighty revival right in the eastern United States, and from there it will cross right down to California and give the last witness in California before California sinks. The Lord is not going to sink California just like that friend. One generation has passed. Since the prophet of God fought with those people, children are born. Little children came to the age of accountability that never heard the gospel, who never knew Brother Branham, who never rejected the message, yes sir. They’ve got to hear the gospel. There is going to be an outpouring of the Holy Spirit right there in the East, and it is going to cross the United States right down to the west, before California sinks. And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached unto all nations as a witness. I am not saying that God is going to save everybody in California. Don’t get me wrong. I am saying that it is going to go through the United States as a witness. They are going to have the last witness, because they rejected William Branham. They will receive the last witness before the Lord brings destruction upon America. They’ve got to have a last witness. This is not going to be for great salvation in America. They had their day. Now, if you can put the third pull in there, you will see something. The third pull is to the total lost, and it is also to the church. So, the third pull is going out there in power to witness to the total lost. Everything that heard William Branham, everything that saw the discernment, everything that heard the message, everything that came near that prophet of God, and saw the power and the demonstration of the Holy Ghost, and despised and rejected it, is damned in America! They are lost! They are doomed! Including all the evangelists that sat under his ministry, all those dogs that collected the money, all those great evangelists that thought they were equal with Brother Branham, and refused to baptize in Jesus Christ’s name, and refused to accept the message of the hour; they are lost! Every one of them; and they are going to get their last witness. And there is another generation that arose after the rejection of Brother Branham. They must hear the gospel too, and they’ve got to decide, but the proud spirit on this nation, the loose living, and all the wickedness that has overcome this nation; only a few people will be saved. It’s not going to be too long in the United States. The man of God said it might go through here for two weeks, because in six months it must cover the earth. Then under these conditions here, they want to tell me, friend, that they are carrying the gospel into all the world, and deny the power of God? You could never make me believe that. The gospel must be carried in the power and the demonstration of the Holy Ghost. And right now I am going to tell you the problem with the followers of Malachi 4. The problem with the followers of Malachi 4 is that they have adopted the organizational substitute in carrying the message into all the world, and they refuse to obey Brother Branham, to wait on the Lord, to carry the message in power and demonstration. The vision of this entire message from the time that Brother Branham preached that; everybody ought to have fallen on their faces, wept and cried, sanctified themselves, fallen into desperation, until the Lord comes with an outpouring of the Holy Spirit and set his church in order, to carry the gospel into all the world! That is the vision, and that vision has not changed. Anybody that follows this message and has not caught that vision yet, where the most important thing to them is another outpouring of the Holy Spirit to come into their lives, to come into the church, has missed the message of Malachi 4. The most important vision of Moses was to reach the promise land. Everybody that missed that vision perished in the wilderness. Brother Branham said his highlight message was the token. Why was it the token? In the token is tied up an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Why? He said it’s the highlight of his ministry, and it is the message that was to follow the seals? (Desperation 1963). Then why don’t the people make the token message the highlight of their very life, the highlight of their preaching, the highlight of the church? Why don’t they preach like me? Why don’t they preach like you? Why don’t they preach like Lambert, and tell the people we’ve got to have an outpouring, you’ve got to sanctify yourselves, you’ve got to correct your dressing, you’ve got to leave your television, you’ve got to come out of the sports field, you’ve got to sanctify your life, in order to receive it? Why? They have missed the message. They have missed the mark. Oh yes. That’s the truth, too. Without holiness, no man shall see the Lord. Anything that takes the substitute of tracts, books, tapes, or whatever they want to take, and then denies the power of God, is a heretic, because it is contrary to the message of Brother Branham and contrary to the Bible. How many say “Amen?” [Congregation says, “Amen!”]. Beloved, if somebody is even using a tract and a book and a tape, we have nothing against that. But when you will take that and say that is all of it, and then deny the power of God coming to the church, the Bible says you are a reprobate. We use the tracts. We use the books. We use the tapes, but we are preaching a power coming to the church. And that is not on the side now. That is our heart-throb. That is the goal of every message. We are trying to get the people in tune to receive that outpouring. Yes, sir. There are many who start preaching an outpouring, and they don’t know what they’re talking about. Don’t they know that outpouring came in one place in the whole world on the day of Pentecost? I am asking them where is that place? The outpouring that came on the day of Pentecost never came in Samaria at the same time, and came down in Japan at the same time, and came down in Egypt at the same time. It came in a certain place, and it came to a certain people, and it came to a people that knew what they were talking about. They had a revelation of that outpouring! Before the outpouring comes, you have got to have a revelation of it. They met a man called Jesus, and he said, “Tarry ye in Jerusalem until ye be endued with power from on high, then shall ye be my witnesses.” They had a revelation, and that revelation that they received came from under the Roman seal. That’s the last seal that held the Lord in his coming, when the Roman seal was broken. Then the coming of the Lord from under the Roman seal was first in secret. It was not a public ministry. And hear what the Bible said, “…And he taught them those things concerning the kingdom of God.” And one of the items was where to go for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. So it’s not everybody that is saying, “Outpouring, outpouring, and outpouring,” has a revelation of it. That has become a song now. And do you know that is in prophecy? There were two seeds planted. One by a man dressed in white, another dressed in black, and there came a drought. Come on, I say there is a drought in the message. There was a drought in the vision; the wheat raised up his head and said, “give me a rain” and the weed also said, “give me a rain, give me a rain, give me a rain.” That’s Bible prophecy being fulfilled! That is the prophecy of William Branham being fulfilled. Everybody is crying for a rain now, and they don’t know where the rain is coming, and they don’t know what they’re talking about. There was a man talking about that since 1967, right up in the East, and he lost his life for it too. That is our personal belief. You want to tell me that the followers of Malachi 4 are going away in this dead condition? Absolutely not! They can’t convince me of that. God will take them up from the sports field? Take up the adulterer from behind the pulpit? Take up the sister in her mini dress and her high heel shoes, contrary to this message? Impossible! He would not do it! No! So, what they have done is, they have adopted in the message a substitute way of carrying the gospel, which Brother Branham fought with all his life. He demonstrated the proper way, the original way, the apostolic way to carry the gospel unto all of them, and he tried to bring them into that spirit. From the time he turned his back, what did they do? As he turned his back, they adopted the intellectual way, my brother, and there is a doctrine right now which is a dead heresy! And that heresy says that the Spoken Word books and the tapes are going into all the world, and soon it will cover the whole world before the rapture takes place, and then that will be the gospel preached unto all nations. It’s a lie! Yes! They said that since Brother Branham died, all that we have now is the voice; in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished. Brother Branham is dead, but now we have the voice on tapes. It’s a heresy. Now, they have adopted a substitute way, the very thing that Brother Branham condemned, the very thing he fought, the very thing that fought him, the followers of this message have gone back, and they took up that substitute, and adopted that substitute in carrying the message into all the world by tapes and by books. Don’t get me wrong. The books should go; the tapes should go; everything concerning the word of God should go. But when you would make that the absolute, and say that you are carrying out the Great Commission, and that’s the way that the gospel should go, you are a heretic! You are preaching heresy! You are coming against the Great Commission of Jesus Christ. Yes, sir! You are defying the message of the prophet, with all these quotations that I just read. That is not so. It is not going that way. That is the very thing Brother Branham fought the organization for. Don’t you see what I am reading here? Alright now, I want to prove to you friend, that if what they are saying is correct, that the message is being carried into all the world by the Spoken Word books and by the tape recorders, then the vision that Brother Branham saw about those Indians in India--they are lost. And the Muslims are lost. I am going to quote that from Brother Branham’s words.
MOHAMMEDAN SAID, LET ME SEE YOU PRODUCE THAT, THEN WE’LL BELIEVE Then this Mohammedan said to him, he said, "Mohammed only promised us life after death." Said, "Your Jesus promised, the things that He did, you'd do also. So let me see you teachers produce that." Said, "Then we'll believe your Jesus rose from the dead."He said, "Brother Branham, I kinda scraped the dirt with my foot like that, and changed the subject, and walked away." Defeated, certainly... It's all you could do. It's exactly. They can just put just as much history and theology as the next one can. But he said, "Now, Jesus promised…He said, "You're referring to Mark 16, where it said, 'These... '" Said, "We don't believe from the 9th verse on, that it's inspired.” Said, "What kind of a Bible you got then? Half of it is inspired, the other half isn't. Which is right and which is wrong?" He said, "Then what about when Jesus Christ said, 'The things that I do, shall you also.' You think that part is inspired, John 14:7?" Said, "How about Luke 20--or Luke 11th chapter and 24th verse? 'Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, believe you receive it, and you shall have it.'" Said, "What's the matter with you all? If Jesus rose from the dead, He promised to be the same yesterday, today, and forever," Said, "Then why don't we see it that way?" Said, "Let me see you teachers produce that, and we Mohammedans are ready to receive Jesus as Christ." (Looking for Jesus 1954). Beloved, these Muslims are wanting to see a living Lord Jesus Christ come and demonstrate the gospel. They don’t want Spoken Word books. They are not looking for tape recorders. They are looking for somebody to make the Bible live. Let me show you what Brother Branham said concerning the Indians in India. IT TAKES A MIRACLE TO CONVERT A HEATHEN- THE REAL POWER OF GOD We're trying to build up enough to get back in there where we had a hundred thousand conversions in six weeks, thirty thousand in one day. Think of it. Heathens, raw heathens, and Mohammedans, thirty thousand in one day. That's wonderful, isn't it? Now, you can't blame me from wanting to go back. The first time they see the power of God go out there to a heathen, that don't even know nothing about it, can't even speak his language, and maybe many interpreters standing here. They see what he is a Basothu, Shangai, or whatever it is, and they started speaking, and telling him all about his life, and where he come from, what he did and things like that. They just scream and fall on their face: God. Paul knew years ago, it takes a miracle to convert a heathen. Jesus Christ always knowed it. Recently when we was talking to a missionary from India, where God has told me to go to, where I will have a crowd of three hundred thousand people in one meeting... Notice, in that same man, he said, "There's only one thing Brother Branham, that'll ever stir the people of India from those Mohammedans, and idolaters and so forth, it'll take the real power of God. Where demons when they rise up, the power of God there is to let them down. Be sure you know what you're talking of. (Do You Now Believe 1952) Brother Branham is verifying right here that if there is a harvest to reap in India, you must have the power of God to reap that harvest. And Brother Branham agreed with this man. Alright! Hear this.
IF THE CHURCH CAN’T PRODUCE IT, THE INDIANS ARE FINISHED Look, if the church (I say this with respect) if the church can't produce no more than reading, writing, and arithmetic, and the psychic side of the Gospel, the Indians are finished. The Indians, like the natives of Africa, has got to see the power of God in demonstration. Been sending missionaries over yonder for fifty years, in Africa. And when the supposed-to-be Christians come, they was packing little mud idol under their arm. Why, the missionary told them... Why, about healing, they got healing out of the idol, not through the idol, through God; God winked at their ignorance. But when it come to a place where they was to be healed, the missionary said, 'Oh, those things, their days are past. We got that in the seminary. See, that's already passed. There ain't no such thing as that." Well, he carried his idol for healing. (Israel in the Homeland 1953) My point is that there is a harvest amongst the Muslims. In India, there is a harvest among the Hindus. Brother Branham said that if they don’t see the power and the demonstration both in India and Africa, he said then there is no hope for them. Now what are they going to do with that? There is no hope for these Indians and these Africans and the rest of the world unless they see the power of God demonstrated, but hear this.
LITTLE MINOR THINGS TO WHAT GOD’S FIXING TO DO Something about it. Hallelujah. What is it? There's a deep in here calling to a Deep. Brother, I believe when the deep's in here calling, there's a Deep out there to respond to it. As long as there's a hunger in a human heart now to move out and to do something for God, that shows that there's something pushing down, coming down to us. We're near the thing, brother. Listen tonight. I believe this, in the Name of the Lord, that the things that we have done are little minor things to what God's fixing to do right now. You're going to hear of great things. (Israel in the homeland 1953). I believe it! And do you know when he said that? He said that after coming back from Africa, where he had a hundred thousand converts. Now the thirty thousand was only in one afternoon, but there were others, and he said that there was one hundred thousand converts from that meeting, and when he came back he said, “Now I am fixing, and I am trying to get myself ready to go back to Africa.” He said that they are not going to receive it without the power of God. He said, “And there is going to be greater things, you are going to be hearing about greater things in Africa.” Can we settle for this kind of nonsense that they are trying to give us? [Congregation says, “No!”]. Impossible! Hear this. You say, “Brother Bruce, I believe still that this is evangelism as long as you carry the truth, the truth of the word.” Not even if you carry the whole Bible is it evangelism, and that is truth from Genesis to Revelation. Carrying the Spoken Word books is not evangelism. Hear this, Brother Branham speaking to those girls and boys he met in Africa:
HAVEN’T ANY BUSINESS ON THE FIELD UNLESS PREACHING GOSPEL IN POWER "I don't want to hurt your feelings, girls," I said, "but you all ought to be home helping your mothers with the dishes. You haven't any business out on the field unless you are filled with the Holy Ghost and preaching the true Gospel in the demonstration of the power of the Holy Ghost. If you are not seeing the results that Jesus said you would see, it's because you are not preaching the true Gospel."(Philadelphian Church Age - Church.Age.Book Cpt.8 (The age of the open door) 1960). Let them fight with that. That is Malachi 4 who has spoken. He said that if you are not preaching the gospel in the power and demonstration of the Holy Ghost, then you have no business on the field. I want somebody to show me a true evangelist carrying this message on the field. Show me a true missionary. Show me a true apostle. Show me a true church that is carrying this gospel, this message, by the power and the demonstration of the Holy Ghost. Let somebody show us that. You cannot do that. There are many more quotations, but I will take just a couple more to prove that all is not over, and all is not lost. Their “thunders” have failed because that was the next program (substitute) that they had. They said that the “thunders” broke a revival. All that the “thunders” has produced is corruption. It never produced the gospel in power to fulfill Matthew 24:14, and if it never fulfilled the prophesy of Matthew 24:14 to carry the gospel into all the world, then it is exposed as false. It is a false claim. So now there were two main things that they said were fulfilling Matthew 24:14, and that was the Spoken Word books and the “thunders.” It produced nothing. From 1973, 1974 up to 2002, it has not produced a power church. It has not produced the gospel in the power and demonstration of the Spirit. It never carried the gospel into all the world, preached it in the power and the demonstration of the Holy Spirit. You say, “Well, this is a different age, and I think the Lord ought to excuse the people.” Oh, he will? Hear what Brother Branham said.
ANY CHURCH THAT DOES NOT HAVE THE MANIFESTATIONS IS GOING TO HAVE TO ACCOUNT TO GOD As Jesus went away He told His disciples to tarry until Pentecost at which time the very same Spirit that was upon Him would come back and fall upon them and fill them. Then that 'called out' body (the church) would be in His stead upon the earth, taking His place. And because that same Spirit that was in Him would be in them, they would do the very same works. And any people that is truly the Body of Jesus Christ (the true church) will manifest the same works as did Jesus and the Pentecostal church because the same Spirit will be in them. Any other church that does not have the Spirit and the manifestations is going to have to account to God. (Church Age pg.250) Beloved, if you do not produce the works of Jesus Christ and the power and demonstration of the Holy Ghost in your life, you would have to account to God, because it is His promise for the end-time. It is His promise for the Church of the living God, and you must produce that or you will give an account to God. When you claim to go back to Pentecost and be the body of Jesus Christ, and you cannot produce the works of Jesus Christ that they produced in the early church, you are going to account to God. I want somebody to show me a group that went back to Pentecost. And when they make that claim, and they cannot produce the works of Jesus Christ and the greater works, they are going to account to God. They cannot even dress right. They cannot even leave the sports field yet. They cannot even take their heads out of the televisions yet. Hear this:
WHY THE POWER OF GOD FADED IN THOSE DARK AGES “If the church, way back there in that third age had only held on to the revelation of the living Word in their midst, the power of God would not have faded as it did in those Dark Ages. And right today, when the church returns to the Word in faith, we can say without doubt that the glory of God and the wonderful acts of God will be in her midst again.” (Church Age pg. 170) Do you believe that? The prophet of God is telling you why the power of God left the church. They hybrid the word. Is that right? And he said that when we return to the word of God, then we will see the mighty power of God in the church again. Alright, this is promised for us now. This is what all the followers of Malachi 4 should obey. God gave William Branham a word that everyone of them should obey, and they should follow this course. And if they had done that we would already have the power and the demonstration of the Spirit, and the world would be aflame and the rapture would be set in order to go. This is the command of the spirit to Brother Branham and to the church, and they disobeyed, and that is why the harvest is not reaped yet. That is why they are a “bum on a dump.” That is what the prophet of God said. He said, “You will go on to an old Saint Paul, sky blue, sin-killing revival, or you will be like a bum sitting on a dump all the days of your life, Branham Tabernacle. In one place he said, “You will be pecking on a rotten apple all the days of your life.” Oh, yes! In these last days the true Bride Church (Christ's seed) will come to the Headstone, and she will be the super church, a super race, as she nears Him. They in the bride will be so much like Him that they will even be in His very image. This is in order to be united with Him. They will be one. They will be the very manifestation of the Word of the living God. (Church Age pg. 171). Does that sound like Pentecost to you? Super Church, Super Race? [Congregation says, “Amen!”]. And it is going to come by the Headstone. That’s your answer right there. They do not have what they claim to have, and they need to go back to Pentecost. Alright, I am saying by the message of Brother Branham, and the infallible word of God, that when that message came to the earth, everybody should have obeyed that prophet of God, taken that message, sanctified themselves, cleansed their lives, fallen into desperation, and begged God to outpour his Spirit and bring the Headstone upon them. The outpouring is the Headstone.
HE WILL FULFILL THROUGH THE BRIDE THAT WORK HE LEFT FOR THIS TIME Those in the bride do only His will. No one can make them do otherwise. They have 'thus saith the Lord' or they keep still. They know that it has to be God in them doing the works, fulfilling His own Word. He did not complete all His work while in His earthly ministry so now He works in and through the bride. She knows that, for it was not yet time for Him to do certain things that He must now do. But He will now fulfill through the bride that work which He left for this specific time. (Church Age pg. 172). This disarms every resurrection believer. The prophet of God said, “What is left to be fulfilled must be fulfilled by the Bride,” (not to sit down and wait for Brother Branham). No, it must be fulfilled by the Bride. And she will have ‘thus saith the Lord,’ or she will keep still.” In other words, she is not going to run around the whole world. She is not going and try to evangelize until the works of God are manifested in her. Right here in the Church Age Book, that is the plan of God for the Bride. That is the plan of God for you. That is the plan of God for the church. That is the instruction of the prophet. That is the instruction of Almighty God for the Bride. She will have “Thus saith the Lord,” or she will keep still. She has got to know that God is working in her and manifesting the power in her, otherwise nobody could make her do otherwise. That is the vision of this message. Anything contrary to that is the Devil. Anything that tells you, friend, that the world is being evangelized right now by the Spoken Word books and these false thunders, and just now the rapture is going to take place; it is deceptive, and it is of the Devil! The simple vision of this entire message is to sanctify yourself. Stop getting busy around with your job. Stop getting busy with nonsense. Don’t let everybody have you running from Africa, to India, to China with a Spoken Word book in your hand, and a tape recorder in the next hand to Canada, and to the islands of South America and the Caribbean, and waste time. By the time that you are wasting, that is the time your soul is not being prepared for that outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Nobody will make that Bride do otherwise. She has to have “Thus saith the Lord,” or she will keep still. What does the prophet mean? She has got to know that God is working through her, otherwise she is not going anywhere. That is the mission, my brothers and sisters; I just read to you the plan of God for the end-time Bride. (Church Age Book pg. 170). I just read to you the mission of the end-time Bride and God’s will for the end-time Bride. I just read to you Brother Branham’s will for the end-time church. Let somebody tear that up. This power and demonstration of the Holy Spirit is going to come by the headstone, and the headstone is the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. The headstone is a return of Pentecost. This is not a time to nonsense around, children. This is not a time for anybody to lead you astray and cause you to be wasting time, thinking you are doing God a service. This is a time to fall at the altar. This is a time to purge our souls. “Go set a seal upon all those that sigh and that cry for the abomination that is done on the city.” Yes, that is Ezekiel 9. This is that hour. This is that time, friend, that if you know that there is something in your life that is contrary to the word of God, you need to start purging that out. This is not a time to see how much money you can make, how much education you could put in your head, which fellow you could please down here, and the next man you could please down here, and please mother, and please father, and please friends. This gospel is simple. This headstone is going to come to the church, and you have to make your soul ready by the holiness message of the prophet of God, and by laying in that word night and day until you understand by revelation the Son of Man. After William Branham was the revealing of the Son of man. Yes sir, and you must understand the revelation of the Son of man in order for you to be planted upon a rock where the gates of hell cannot prevail over you, and that came by the opening of the Seals. When the Seals were opened friends, it loosed two mighty revelations on the earth, and one of them was a revelation of the man of sin--the first four Seals. And the next mighty revelation that was loosed was the revelation of the Son of man. Upon these two revelations hangs all the mysteries of the Bible, and hangs all the mysteries of the entire message of Brother Branham. Without a revelation of the Son of man you cannot get this outpouring. Only when Peter confessed that, the revelation of the Son of Man, Jesus said, “Upon this rock shall I build my church.” Now the church was not built yet. He said, “Upon this rock shall I build my church.” Do you know when the church was built? On the day of Pentecost the church was built upon the rock revelation of the Son of man, and if you don’t understand that, you should be weeping, and crying. You should be begging God in every service, in your prayer. While you study the word say, “Lord, give me an understanding. Give me a revelation of the Son of man. Without this revelation of the Son of man I cannot get that outpouring of the Holy Spirit.” That is the plan of God for you children, and we have not followed cunningly devised fables when we made known unto you the coming of the Lord, but we have followed a sure word of prophesy. There will be an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. You are hearing the revelation of the Son of man. This is strange to the followers of Malachi 4. They |