Spoken Word no. 47
The End-Time Depression
Judgment
Brian Kocourek
In this message we wish to
examine a thought that brother Branham spoke and then take it to the scriptures
to see where he was coming from when he said these words.
From PP. 100
of the Message JEZEBEL RELIGION 61-0319, brother Branham said, When God sends forth a message and tells the
people, and they don't receive it, then He withdraws His servant and sends His
plagues: famine, death, spiritually speaking, physically also. You watch for a depression, brother. You
think you've seen something; you just wait after while. You haven't seen
nothing. You think
you're dying for a good spiritual revival; you wait till after a bit. You just
wait, long and cry to hear the Word of God. The Bible said so. "There'll
be a famine in the last days," said the prophet, "and not for bread
and water alone, but for hearing the true Word of God." But that voice
will be quiet in the wilderness somewhere, hid away. He ordained the ravens, His servants. Bless
them birds, His servants, that kept the voice of--of Elijah alive during the
time of his--his isolation from the church.
Now, there are those
people who think he meant a spiritual depression, which I can understand why
they would think that, but as you will see by scripture and other things
brother Branham tells us that there is coming an economic depression on a scale
that the world has never seen before.
From, Daniel 8:23-25: we read, And in the latter time (in the last days) of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the
fullness (Completion), a king of
fierce countenance (mighty Presence), and
understanding dark sentences (double dealings), shall stand up (shall present himself or come on the scene). 24 And his power (wealth), shall be mighty (vast), but not by his own power (not by his own ability to produce wealth, which
means he gets it from others): and he shall destroy wonderfully (Bring to ruin, pervertion and
corruption), and shall prosper (make great profits) , and practise (bring about a press or squeeze), and shall destroy (bring to ruin) the mighty (the many nations) and the holy people (the set apart nation of God, The Jews). 25 And through
his policy also
he shall cause craft (deceit and fraud) to prosper in his hand;
and he shall magnify [himself] in his heart, and by peace (quietness, ease and prosperity) shall destroy (corrupt, pervert and ruin) many: he shall also stand up (stand forth and present himself) against (on behalf or on account of) the Prince of princes
(Christ); but he shall be
broken without hand (when the final act is played out).
2
Thess 2:3-13: ¶ Let no man deceive you by any means: for
[that day shall not come], except there come a falling away first, and that man
of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 4
Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is
worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself
that he is God. 5 Remember ye not,
that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? 6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he
might be revealed in his time. 7 For the mystery of iniquity doth
already work: only he who now letteth [will let], until he be taken out of the
way. 8 And then shall that Wicked be
revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall
destroy with the brightness of his coming: 9
[Even him], whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and
signs and lying wonders, 10 And with
all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they
received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them
strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but
had pleasure in unrighteousness. 13
¶ But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of
the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through
sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
Daniel
11: 21-23: ¶ And in his estate (office) shall stand
up(rise up) a vile person, to whom they
shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and
obtain the kingdom by flatteries. 22 And with the arms of a flood (or
overwhelming political force) shall they be overflown (swept away) from before
him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant. 23 And after the league [made] with him he
shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a
small people.
Daniel
12:1-10: ¶ And at that time shall Michael (Christ) stand up (Come on the scene and present
Himself), the great prince which standeth for (takes His stand with) the children of thy people: and there shall be
a time of trouble (distress), binding or press upon as to
squeeze), such as never was since there was a nation [even] to that
same time: and at that time thy people (Kinsman) shall be delivered (slip out unknown to safety), every one that shall be found written in the book (genealogical record).
Now, I want you to notice this next verse because it
provides a clue to the time of this great escape.
2 And
many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to
everlasting life, and some to shame [and] everlasting contempt. In
other words, this will be at the time of the Resurrection. 3 And they that be wise (This speaks of the Wise Virgin) shall
shine (send forth light by warning and teaching and this
teaching shall be) as the brightness of the firmament; and they
that turn many to righteousness (right-wise-ness) as the stars (brothers) for ever and ever. 4 But
thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, [even] to the time of the
end (In
which time)
many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. 5 ¶ Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there
stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other
on that side of the bank of the river. 6
And [one] said to the man clothed in linen, which [was] upon the waters of
the river, How long [shall it be to] the end of these wonders? 7 And I heard the man clothed in linen, which
[was] upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left
hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that [it shall be] for
a time, times, and an half (time = one, times = 2, and 1/2
= total of 3-1/2 years); and when he
shall have accomplished (or brought to a finish) to scatter (the shattering or breaking) of the power of the holy people (God's set apart nation, the Jews), all these [things] shall be finished. 8
And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what [shall be] the
end of these [things]? 9 And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words [are] closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
And when is that? When the Seven Seals are opened,
at that time everything will be in place for the fulfillment of this prophecy
10 Many
shall be purified ("by the washing of water by the Word", Eph
5:26-7 , Psalm 119:9) , and made white,
and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall
understand; but the wise shall understand.
Now we see the same scene
played out in the book of Luke.
Luke 21:25:
And there shall be
signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars;
I have been reading much about the year 2,000 and it
is very interesting that in this year there is to be an event that happens only
once every 38 years. It has something to do with a solar storm, a huge comet
that has a long tail made up of thousands upon thousands of meteorites into the
earths path.)
and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;
the sea and the waves roaring; 26
Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. 27
And then shall they see the Son
of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. 28 And
when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your
heads; for your redemption draweth nigh. 29
¶ And he spake to them a parable;
Behold the fig tree, and all the
trees; 30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know
of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand. 31 So likewise ye, when ye see these things come
to pass, know ye that the
Now, what is this distress of nations and why is it
so perplexing? This is what we must know if we are to understand why everyone on
earth is going to be affected. The word
distress is a Greek word, sunoche which means: a
narrowing, a constraining or a press. To hold together with constraint. To
press on every side, like the forcing a ship into a narrow channel or the
forcing of an animal into a position where it can not move so the farmer can
administer medication. To impel. From this we can see that the whole world is
being pushed or squeezed into a
universal condition from all sides in order to receive the medication called
the New World Order or one world government.
And then we see that the world will be perplexed by this Squeeze. And the word perplexed means that they are
confused and don’t understand what is really happening and thus begin to panic.
(Remember that Brother Branham said that the world must come into a neurotic
condition, and the first stage of this neurosis is anxiety which is to worry
about what might happen.)
Luke
21:26 Men's hearts failing them for
fear, and for looking after those things
which are coming on the earth: for
the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
We find also
in Hebrews 12:25-29
25 See
that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if
they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more [shall not] we
[escape], if we turn away
from him that [speaketh] from heaven: 26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now
he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I
shake not the earth only, but also heaven. 27 And this [word], Yet once
more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things
that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. 28
Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace,
whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: 29 For our God [is] a consuming fire.
87-4 HEBREWS CHAPTER 3 57-0901M And so
I believe that--that Rosella will finally turn into the mission field
somewhere; because America doesn't want the Gospel (You know that.); we just
might as well admit that. This Anglo-Saxon people is finished; that's all.
There's no more Gospel that
18-7 THIS DAY THIS SCRIPTURE 65-0219 We had a great nation; but she is now
rottening and crumbling and shaking and giving away, and trying to tax people
to get money to send over yonder to buy friendship with our enemies. They're
throwing it back in our face. One world war, two world wars, and still moving on to a third one.
Certainly. Politics is rotten, corrupted, rotten to the bottom.
Testimony
63-1128M 20 011 I was trying to
say last night, the world’s coming to a
place it's falling apart, politically, socially, economically.You say,
"Economics? More money." Yes,
but where's it coming from? We're borrowed on taxes that'll be paid forty years
from today. She's broke. She's bankrupt, the nation: not this nation, but all
of them. And there's no way ever getting it back. And it's a trap set exactly to swing this nation into something.
And all of you are wise on that. Well, who's got the wealth of the world? Who
holds it? [Someone says, "
(That is what we need to do ourselves. We need to be
observant of what is happening, to be able to tell what spirit is motivating
the people.)
Now, we know that the
But we know the Jews hold the paper, but the paper
is becoming worthless. But who holds the gold? That is the key, right there and
we know
The problem is that our entire world economy is
based on a paper house that is soon to tumble. Oneness 62-0211 48 031 The whole world's
based on that. The whole economy of this
nation is based upon false conception.
The
Supernatural 56-0129 E-37 037 Brother and sister,
our great
167-4
{341} The First Seal 63-0318 Now,
watch. In the end time, not in the early days when Christ was preaching, but in
the end time, the last part of the week, where we just took the seventy weeks
of Daniel; and Christ has prophesied for the three and a half years, and three
and a half years are yet determined. Is that right? And this prince in that
time is to make a covenant with Daniel's people, which is the Jews. That's when
the Bride's taken out now. She won't see it.
{342} Notice. In the last one-half
of Daniel's week, the people makes a covenant--this prince makes a covenant
with Rome; makes a covenant with them no doubt for the wealth, for Catholic and
Jew holds the wealth of the world. I was
in the
Note:
that was at the rate of $30 per oz. In the 60’s. Today gold is 30 times greater
in value at $906 per oz. Therefore, 100 billion billions would be 1.0 x 1022
power that means it would be worth today about 100 sextillion. And I guess that
only figures that it would be in the SEXtillions seeing that the word
Why,
you... And just think, "The wealth
of the world," the Bible said, "was found in her." (now, if it is the wealth of the world, then where
did it get that wealth from? The rest of the world of course. You ever wonder
how it is that you can pay say, $50 for a share of stock and then one day that
stock is worthless? Where did the money go? Whose got the money that you
invested that is now worthless? Someone has to have it. It just doesn’t
disappear. Then brother Branham says.), Just think of the great places, the billions times... Why
did Communism raise up over here in
{349} And after
the church is taken away,
{350} We can't call it in. And if we could do
it, do you think these whiskey guys and all these tobacco people with billions
times billions of dollars a year and write off all their income tax for old
vulgar pictures and things like that, go out in Arizona there and buy millions
of acres of land--or thousands--and dig them big wells at fifty thousand
dollars and pay it off with income tax? And they'd put you in jail if you don't
pay yours. But they write it off and throw up wells and send bulldozers
in. And what do they do? They put
housing projects in there, and the next turn around with their money they made
(they have got to make an investment) and put houses, projects in there and
sell them for millions of dollars. Do
you think them guys is going to compromise to change the currency?
{352}
Like this fellow down here, Castro did. He done the only smart thing he
ever did do then, when he destroyed the bonds: paid them off and destroyed
them. Notice, but we can't do that. These guys won't let us. The rich merchants
of the earth hold it, and then there's only one thing to do: The Catholic church can pay it off. She's
the only one that's got the money; she can do it, and she will do it. And in doing this to get it, she'll compromise
with the Jews and make a covenant, and when she makes this covenant with the
Jews... Now, remember, I'm taking this from the Scriptures. And now, when she
does this and makes this covenant, we notice in Daniel 8:23 and 25 he will
cause craft to prosper (And craft is manufacturing.), in his hand.
{354}
And he makes this covenant with the
Jews, and in the midst of this three and a half years, he breaks his covenant
as soon as he gets the thing wrapped up and gets the money of the Jews tied up.
And when he does that, oh, my, oh, my, he's called the antichrist until the end
of the church age, for he and his children are against Christ and the Word.
This man's called the antichrist. Now, he's going to hold the money. And that's
where I think he'll come in. Just a minute, while I say this, then I want to go
back to it in a minute. He's called the
antichrist and will be called the antichrist in the sight of God until the end
time. Now, but then he'll be called something else. {359} Now, when he gets the money all under
control, then he'll break this covenant with the Jews, as Daniel here said he
would do it, in the midst of the last half of the seventy weeks of Daniel.
And
then, brother, what will he do? He will
have all of the world trade and the commerce, a pact with the world, 'cause
he'll hold the wealth of the world completely. And during that time, them two prophets will
rise on the scene and call that hundred and forty-four thousand. Then what'll
take place? Then the mark of the beast
of Revelations 13 will set in, 'cause he holds all the commerce, trade and
everything of the world. And what will take place then? The mark of the beast
will come in that no man can buy or sell except him that has the mark of the
beast. Thank God, the Church will be enjoying a great three and a half years in
glory. Don't have to go through that.
E-26 026 You see, if Satan has a kingdom, he's got to
have a false economy. He's got to
have something that he can present to them to make them think they are living.
But it's absolutely on the vice versa side. It's death in the form of life.
6-1 Look Away To Jesus 63-1229E So now, I am going to
say something to you now, that I haven't said all along. And that is, the thing
that we have looked forward to for so long, or at least many years, four or
five years or maybe longer, the third pull has now been vindicated, and I'm
sure you all know what it is. Now,
remember, there'll never be any impersonation of that, 'cause it can't be. It
cannot be. Now, it's in existence, and I am warned of this, that soon, right at
this time now, it's just happened, so it could identify its presence among you.
See? But it will not be used in a great way, until this council begins to
tighten up. And when it does, when that does... The Pentecostals and so forth
can almost impersonate anything could be done, but when that time comes, when the squeeze comes down, then you'll
see what you have seen temporarily, be manifested in the fullness of its power.
See? Now, I must continue in evangelism,
just as I was commissioned first; I must continue on.
Therefore,
you've had the Word, and you know what
to look for, how to stand. I
must continue on in evangelism. And
friends of mine, keep still and just keep moving on, for the hour is
approaching swiftly (See?), that when something is going to be done. Now, you might see some little odd things
happen from me, nothing sinful, I don't mean that, but I mean something odd to
what the regular trend, because what I have reached to now in the ministry, I'm
dropping back here, watching that spot and waiting for the time to use it. But it's going to be used. And everyone
knows that for as certain as the first was identified, so has the second been
identified; and if you'll think real closely, you who are spiritual (as the
Bible said, "Here's to him who has wisdom.") the third is properly identified. See? We know where it is. So the
third pull is here. It is so sacred
that I mustn't not say much about it, as He told me in the beginning. Said,
"This, say nothing of it." You remember that years ago? It speaks for Itself. See?
But
I've tried to explain the others, and I made a mistake. This will be the thing that, to my opinion (I don't say the Lord
tells me this.)--this will be the thing
that will start the rapturing faith for the going away. See, see? Now, I
must lay quiet for just a little while.
Now, remember (and who's
listening to this tape) you might see such a change in my ministry right
away, dropping back... Not going up, dropping back... We're right at the age now, and it can't go any further. We
have to wait here just a minute until this happens over here to catch up, then the time comes. But it's thoroughly identified. There's
coming a time--in this nation, to where
this nation is going to exercise all the power that the beast had before
(which was pagan
A
lamb represents religion--the Lamb of God. And remember, it spoke like a lamb;
it was a lamb, and then after while it received power and spoke like a dragon,
and exercised all the power the--the dragon--power the dragon had before him;
and the dragon is Rome always. So don't you see, Roman denomination, a marked
Protestant denomination, an image unto the beast, making a power that'll force all Protestants like a union. You'll
have to be into this council of churches, or you won't be able to have
fellowship ... Well, it's practically
that way now. You can't go to a church and preach, 'less you have a fellowship
card or some identification. And now, on persons like ourselves, we're going to
be cut out of all that altogether. That's exactly, because they won't be able
to do it. It's tightening; and then when that time comes, and the press comes to a place to where
you're pressed out, then watch
(what I am fixing to tell you in a few minutes) watch the third pull then. It'll be absolutely to the total lost,
but it will be for the Bride and
the church.
Now,
we're closer than it seems to be. I don't know when, but it's real, real, close. I may be building a platform for somebody
else to step on. I may be taken before
that time. I don't know. And that time may be this coming week that the
Holy Spirit will come with--and bring Christ Jesus. He may come this next week.
He may come yet tonight. I don't know when He will come. He doesn't tell us
that. But I do believe that we are so close, that I would never die with old
age. Yet at fifty-four years old, I'd
never die with old age until He's here.
See? Unless I am shot, killed, or something, or other, some way killed; just
old age wouldn't kill me, until He's come. And I believe that... And I want to
say this; I have never said it before, but according to Scripture, according to what He said thirty years
ago, thirty-three years ago on the river down there (in 1933, rather), what He said, everything has happened
just exactly. I may not do it, but
this message will introduce Jesus Christ to the world. "For as John
the Baptist was sent to forerun the first coming, so is the message to forerun
the second coming." And John said, "Behold the Lamb of God that takes
away the sin of the world." See? So it paralleled it in every way, and I
know it will. The message will go on.
57-1 STATURE OF A PERFECT MAN 62-1014M this
present government now is spending money for what? For tax money that they'll
be collecting forty years from now. She's done. That's "Life Line"
right out of
313-2
For
example, right now unless the local ministerial association approves in many, if
not most cities, one cannot rent a building for religious services. To become
chaplains in the armed services, hospitals, etc., it is now almost mandatory to
be recognized as acceptable to the trinitarian ecumenical groups. As this
pressure increases, and it will, it will be harder to resist, for to resist is to lose privilege. And so
many will be tempted to go along, for they will feel it is better to serve God
publicly in the framework of this organization than not to serve God at all
publicly. But they err. To believe the
devil's lie is to serve Satan, even though you may want to call him
Jehovah. But the elect will not be
deceived. Furthermore, the elect
will not only be kept, but as this move
becomes the "Image erected to
the beast," the saints will be
gone in the rapture. And this little delightful, winsome movement that
started out in fellowship at
QA
ON THE SEALS 63-0324M 504-5 {288}
139 28. Where is the Scripture that shows that Catholicism will
deceive the Jews and get their wealth? Now, just where does it say that the
beast will deceive for the wealth; it doesn't say that. But we're presuming
that that was... (Now, the other night, you remember... you look to the tape real
close.) I never said that's what they would do, I said... See, the Catholics is the richest group in the
world, nobody like them. And what
they don't have, the Jews has the rest. That's where the economics of this country
now... We're right now living on tax money, according to "Lifeline,"
that will--off of taxes, that comes right from
Now, Castro, the only sensible thing that
he ever done, was when he counterfeited the currency and paid off the notes,
the bonds and burnt them and--and changed the currency. That's the only thing
he could do. And there's only one thing left for this
When Jacob returned, last night we find
out, and become
Falling Apart of the World 62-1216 108
084 Now, anything that pulls you
away from That is wrong; that's a false messiah, a false anointing. Oh, he
said, "The brother had such anointing." What kind of anointing?
That's it. Hitler had an anointing too. Khrushchev's got one also. Pope
Pius has one also. What kind of anointing you got? If it's not anointed with this
Word and vindicate every Word to be Truth, leave it alone: wrong. If
it don't produce itself, then it isn't germitized. It'll show its color. Oh,
say, "But That was for another age. We..." Leave that thing alone.
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Yes, sir. So when this
world falls apart, we are born into a Kingdom that cannot fall apart. You
believe the world is falling apart?
Its systems are falling apart. Do you
believe that? Do you believe the economical system's falling apart? The political
system's falling apart. The national, U.N. system is falling apart. The church
is falling apart. The denominations are falling apart. Everything is falling apart. But we
got a Kingdom that cannot be moved; It's a eternal
Christ
is the Mystery 63-0728 60-3
192. You can have
all the ecumenical moves you want to and all the affiliations. And they're
going to bring a persecution on pretty soon and shut up all the churches. You see that. And churches like this who's not in denominations, they'll use them for
storehouses then. And if any man goes and offer a prayer for anybody else
that don't belong to the economical movement will be shot on the spot. It's
already. That Lutheran minister, the head of it, said so. It's right here. You
can read it right here in your magazines.
Divine
Healing 54-1219M 210 073 Acts
3:19-21 And he shall send Jesus...
which was before preached unto you: Whom
the heavens must receive, until the time of
restoration of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his
holy prophets since the world begin. 21st verse of the 3rd chapter, "All
the restorations of all things," when there'll be a new heavens, a new
earth, a new government, a new economy (oh, my), a new king, a new life, a new
beginning with no ending (oh, my), a new age, a new time, a new people.
Christ
is the Mystery 63-0728 79-2 259 Now, listen close. Fallen angels, what kind
of angels? Luther, Wesley, Catholic, Pentecostal who kept not their first
estate like the angels did and has fell into organizations like Lucifer's main
hold at
Q
& A 54-0103E 145-199 100 I think of
Invasion
of the
Hear
Ye Him 58-0328 E-18 018 They've never had a juvenile delinquency
among the Mennonite people. They've never had any rock-and-roll teen-age stuff
among the Mennonite people. And if they can produce a crop like that without
our modern education, God be with them is my prayer. I'd rather have my boy in
something like that and not even know his ABC's. I'd rather he'd know Christ,
and be borned again, and not know the difference between split beans and coffee.
Right. We need the old fashion Gospel preached again in the power and the
demonstrations of the Holy Ghost. When
our nation gets to a place that it robs us of our constitution, it shows that
communist has rottened it to the core. Exactly right.
Q&
A 59-0628E 387-124 073 And
now, that church was taken up, and the remnant of the woman's seed who keep the
commandments of God and have faith in Jesus Christ (See?), not the bride, the
remnant of the woman's seed... Then the
dragon spurted water out of his mouth to make war with the remnant of the seed.
That's when the Protestant church under the Federation of Churches, which is
the image to the beast, which is now being formed... And there'll be a boycott
upon all churches like this. Like we're in a great tax gathering right here
now, a dispute, trying to say that we're not a church, and we got
Constitutional rights to say that we are a church. As long as the Constitution
stands there, no amendment to that, then we absolutely have the rights, just as
much right as anybody. Our forefathers stood for that. But what have we done?
We've broke every Constitutional law that they can break, and soon the
Federation of Churches, which all the churches and denominations are invited
into, and the Devil's got in and making worldliness and everything in local
church members and so forth like that, and great congregations, and class, and
society, when the little old church is still down yonder being born again in a
mess like any birth is, still paying the price, still getting down and dying
out, acting the same way they did when they first got born at the day of
Pentecost, same kind of a church down there... They'll be closed and shut out
under the Federation of Churches. It'll be a boycott like a union or something.
You'll either come in or you'll go out.
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The mark of the beast is on today,
and the Seal of God is the Holy Spirit.
To reject It is the mark of the beast.
Ever who sees the Holy Ghost, that you're supposed to receive It, and
don't do it, automatically you take the mark of the beast; because there's
only two classes to exist: all that didn't have the Seal of God had the mark of
the beast. So to receive the Seal of God is to receive the Holy Ghost. To
reject It is to have the mark of the beast. There's the whole thing. That's
exactly right.
The
Comforter 61-1001E 73 032 We are all American; I think so, in the
church tonight. We're all American citizens. We're thankful to be American. But
yet, what happened to our American
heritage. What was it? We begin to
compromise. And as soon as we compromised, we lost the sacredness of our heritage, because we compromised. We
run Presidents four times; that breaks down the the constitution. And we do
things today. And we even... To this little parking meter we have on the
street, that's unconstitutional. There's no such a thing in the constitution.
It's against the constitution, yet we do it. And we do all kinds of things
that's against the principles that this nation was founded upon. We do
everything contrary, so we lose our heritage. Because why? We compromise upon
the principles that it was based upon.
Trumpet
Gives an Uncertain Sound 63-0114
E-21 021 We use to could put a lot of confidence in our
democracy, and which I do think it's the best form of government. But still,
our democracy is shaky, because we are... This nation, our people, we have a
constitution and this constitution is--is our ultimate. But yet in that, our
constitution is shaky because it's already been broken many times. The late Mr.
Roosevelt made havoc out of it. So, see, you see it can be broken. It's not much confidence you can put into
it. Politics, oh, my, how shaky... People
just argue, and argue, and argue about politics. And neighbors will fall
out about it, and people that were once good friends... Some president will
raise up, or somebody run for the sheriff, or something, and the other fellow
on the other side of the political fence, and they'll fuss with one another until they fall out about it.
Politics... And I don't... I hope I don't hurt anybody's feelings, but I think the whole thing's rotten. Yes,
sir. So why would you fuss and fall out about something that ain't no good
anyhow? That's right. It's just awful bad.
Why?
63-0626 84 037 I
wonder tonight, if Christ would come on the scene, or over the nation today, in
drawing this nation to judgment, if that same question wouldn't been asked. Why
is it, is it? Why is it we're doing these things? Why are we fussing in the
government, whether we should read the Bible in public, and, why, if we're
reading all this nonsense? Did not our forefathers set this constitution in
order? Did not this nation be born upon the principles of the Bible? Aren't we
here for freedom of religion, to act in God the way we feel fit to act, the way
that we are convinced is truth? But, you see, we have done something like they
did then. We're just letting everything, politics swallow us up, in the stead
of respecting our faith in our God, and men who has stood for truth. And we are
letting our politics run over that, and voting in such stuff that's polluting
this nation, and why, we are coming to a judgment. God will rise on the scene
someday with a mighty prophet, speak in this generation, and--and tell people,
and they'll see that it's God speaking, but they won't repent. It'll be just
like it was then. He said, "Is there no God in
Now,
we wonder that tonight. Why? Is there no Bible? Is there no God? Is there no
difference? If God is going to bring the people to judgment, He has got to have
something to judge them by. There's got to be some standard. If He's going to
judge them by the Catholic church; then if they judge them by the Roman church,
the Greek church is lost, the other Catholic churches are lost. If He judged it
by the Greek, the Roman's lost. If He judged it by the Lutheran, the Methodist
is lost. If He judged it by the Methodist, the Lutheran's lost. He can't judge
it by a church; there's too many different organizations of it. But God will
judge the world, He said, by Jesus Christ. And Jesus Christ is the Word, and
the Word is God. And He'll judge them by this Bible, for this is the Word. That
is God's Standard. We must measure up to what the Bible says. And we wonder why
we got so much confusion, so many organizations, so much differences,
separating brotherhood, and--and everything. It's because there is no Balm in
Third
Exodus 63-0630M 23-1 068 And Mr.
Kennedy, nationalized that "guard" and sent those men right back into
the face of their own fathers, standing there under the constitution; that
broke the constitution again. Said, "We'll not fight, no, sir," and
said, "I hope the nation can find out that we're not living anymore under
a democracy, but under military dictatorship."
Recognizing
Your Day and it’s Message 64-0726M
94 044 And if the churches today would only
recognize, if the churches would only recognize the Word of God that's made
this promise for this hour to the people, they wouldn't perish. If
And the church has turned from God to that, to
the seminary, and experience, and so forth, instead of the Word. Don't even
recognize Him in their meetings, in their schools, or nothing anymore.
What
Hearest Thou? 59-0609 E-16 016 And we wonder sometimes when we preached,
and prayed, and fasted, and cried, and then seen the results of a revival. Then
to see the wicked cities just turn their back and make fun of it. Newspapers
blast it as fanaticism. Don't think it's strange, because it's happened all
through the ages. Go away and say some great vulgar name about them, or call
them some kind of a name that they should not be called. Just something to make
light of the works of God. So the reason I say this, that men and women who
believe God, and has seen the working of God; and we wonder why Chicago don't
have a revival; that's the answer.
Q
& A 59-0628E 387-124 073 And now, that church was taken up, and the
remnant of the woman's seed who keep the commandments of God and have faith in
Jesus Christ (See?), not the bride, the remnant of the woman's seed... Then the
dragon spurted water out of his mouth to make war with the remnant of the seed.
That's when the Protestant church under the Federation of Churches, which is
the image to the beast, which is now being formed... And there'll be a boycott
upon all churches like this. Like we're in a great tax gathering right here
now, a dispute, trying to say that we're not a church, and we got
Constitutional rights to say that we are a church. As long as the Constitution
stands there, no amendment to that, then we absolutely have the rights, just as
much right as anybody. Our forefathers stood for that. But what have we done?
We've broke every Constitutional law that they can break, and soon the
Federation of Churches, which all the churches and denominations are invited
into, and the Devil's got in and making worldliness and everything in local
church members and so forth like that, and great congregations, and class, and
society, when the little old church is still down yonder being borned again in
a mess like any birth is, still paying the price, still getting down and dying
out, acting the same way they did when they first got born at the day of
Pentecost, same kind of a church down there... They'll be closed and shut out
under the Federation of Churches. It'll be a boycott like a union or something.
You'll either come in or you'll go out.
074 The mark of the beast is on today, and
the--the Seal of God is the Holy Spirit. To reject It is the mark of the beast.
Ever who sees the Holy Ghost, that you're supposed to receive It, and don't do
it, automatically you take the mark of the beast; because there's only two
classes to exist: all that didn't have the Seal of God had the mark of the
beast. So to receive the Seal of God is to receive the Holy Ghost. To reject It
is to have the mark of the beast. There's the whole thing. That's exactly
right.
ROMANS
7: 1 ¶ Know ye not, brethren, (for I
speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as
long as he liveth? 2 For the woman which
hath an husband is bound by the law to [her] husband so long as he liveth; but
if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of [her] husband. :3 So then if, while
[her] husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an
adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she
is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.:4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become
dead to the law by the body of Christ; that
ye should be married to another, [even]
to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto
God.
Paul is telling us the law that governs the marriage
contract is the same law which governs God and His People. Paul said,
(2) For the woman which hath an husband
is bound by the law to [her] husband so long as he liveth. 3 So then if, while [her] husband liveth, she
be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress:
Therefore, if she be called an adulterous, there is
also a law that deals with the punishment of an adulterous woman. And since
To begin this study, we must examine this covenant
between God and this nation. This covenant that I am talking about is not the
Constitution of the
:4 Wherefore, my
brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another,
[even] to him who is raised from the
dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. And so our forefathers
expressed their desire for this Nation to be divorced from the King of England
and his form of government and to come under the ruler-ship and governance and
authority of God’s law.
Declaration of
Now, this tells us that we the people of this
AMENDMENT
I Congress
shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
or abridging the freedom of speech,
or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to
assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
AMENDMENT
II A well
regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a
Let’s first begin now to look into God’s Word to see
what God thinks of adultery. When He
gave the 10 commandments in Exodus 20, the sixth commandment He gave to man was
“Thou
shalt not commit adultery.” Now, I do not think it is a strange thing
that this is the sixth commandment when the number 6 is the number of man for
man was created on the sixth day of Creation.
And man is now ending the first six thousand years of his existence here
on earth, in which we know that a thousand years to man is but a day to God.
Therefore, he that was created on the sixth day also had six days to live out
his time here and it is then fitting that the destruction of man will come at
the end of the sixth day.
In
Leviticus
20:10 God said, “And the man that committeth adultery with
[another] man's wife, [even he] that committeth adultery with his neighbour's
wife, the adulterer and the adulteress
shall surely be put to death.
Therefore we see by the Word of God, that death is
the punishment for adultery.
PROVERBS
6:32
[But] Whoso committeth adultery
with a woman lacketh understanding:
he [that] doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
Therefore, there must first be a spiritual death take place first
where a person loses any understanding they might have had.
PROVERBS
30:20
Such [is] the way of an adulterous
woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.
EZEKIEL
16:32 [But
as] a wife that committeth adultery, [which] taketh strangers instead of her
husband!
REVELATION
2:22 Behold,
I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they
repent of their deeds.
Therefore we see tribulation and death are her
punishment.
II
PETER 2:14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin;
beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices;
cursed children:
Therefore the curse is upon them.
MARK
8:38 Whosoever
therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful
generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the
glory of his Father with the holy angels.
JAMES
4:4 Ye
adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is
enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy
of God.
E-62
CONFIRMATION AND EVIDENCE 62-0621E Now, let me tell you, friend. That God of
Moses Who could take them in the ark, could take them away from them walls. And
if God by instinct in a bird, could call it from danger, how much more ought it to call human beings, who are inspired by the
Holy Ghost? What an evil thing. What an adulterous generation. What an evil
place that we're living in. What a sinful, ungodly nation that we have: God
forsaken, God-hating, sign
seekers, bandwagon riders, impersonators, carnal comparisons. Led up with a
bunch of nothing, coming to the end of the road. I speak that in the Name of
the Lord. Once more I'll call. It's up to you to answer. All right.
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PRESENCE OF GOD UNRECOGNIZED 64-0618 Like in the days of Jesus, same thing. Watch
Him standing here now. He said, "As it was in the days of Jonas, in Jonah;
for as Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and nights, so must the
Son of man." He said, "A
wicked and an adulterous generation will seek after a sign." Now, you know
what I think He was doing? He was prophesying, "A wicked and adulterous
generation..." I wonder if any man in his right mind could
deny that we are not living in a weak and an adulterous generation, when
homosexuals, perversion. And the divorce rates in
E-31
BELIEVEST THOU THIS 53-0906A.
God always makes a preparation for things. Don't you believe that? I want you
to listen close. I believe today with all my heart... Now, this is just Brother
Branham speaking. You see? I believe
that the things that you see are taking place now, is a preparation. God is
preparing something just before a climax. God always warns the world, and
then if they won't--will not receive warning, then there's only one thing left;
that's judgment. Noah warned the world,
and they would not receive it. And all through the age, God's always warned. He
sends mercy, and if they spurn mercy, there's nothing else left but judgment.
But the merciful Father will send mercy first.
E-33
PREPARATION 53-1111 Now, God in His preparation. Back when God
was going to destroy the world. Before He destroyed the world, He sent forth a
preparation for the saving of the people that desired to be saved. He always
does it. He shows mercy before judgment.
And if men spurn mercy, there's only one thing left and that is
judgment. And God don't judge you; you judge yourself. That's true.
As
long as you're under this spray of blood that's around the world, you have a--a
right for mercy. God's... The Blood of Christ keeps God from killing you, or
He'd kill you just as soon as you sinned. But that's still holding God from
you, from your death. But when...
You're a free moral agent now. But when you die and your spirit goes beyond
that, then your already judged. You don't have to wait for judgment; you're
judged already. God done said, "The day you eat thereof, the day you
die." And that settles it
Notice, He said, God
doesn't judge you, you judge yourself. And how do we do that? By reaping what
we sow. And what does that have to do with an End-Time depression Judgment? It
has all to do with it.
If we examine the Book of
2 Laws, Deuter-onomy we shall see the law of blessing and cursing. In this book, especially chapter 28 we see
that if we pay attention to and obey the Word of God, His Law, we shall be
blessed so much that the blessings will come upon us and overtake us. This is
like in a race where you are not aware that the one coming up behind you has a
greater speed than you have and by the time you are aware that he has come upon
you, he is already surpassing you and has taken over the lead in your race.
DEUTERONOMY 28:1
¶ And
it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of
the LORD thy God, to observe [and] to do all his commandments which I
command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all
nations of the earth: 2 And all these blessings shall come on
thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD
thy God.
But what if you don't
hearken to the Voice of the Lord your God, then what? Then the opposite will
take place as we see in verse , and this is the curse.
DEUTERONOMY
28:15
¶ But
it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD
thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I
command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and
overtake thee:
Now, if you will observe
closely to what God is telling them in the book of Deuteronomy, He is saying
that what is a blessing becomes a curse depending on your response to God's
Word, and the blessings and cursing come in two major arena's of life. These
deal with economic blessings and cursings, or else health blessings or plagues
as cursings.
DEUTERONOMY
28:3 Blessed [shalt] thou [be] in the city, and blessed [shalt]
thou [be] in the field.
DEUTERONOMY
28:16 Cursed [shalt] thou [be] in
the city, and cursed [shalt] thou [be] in the field.
DEUTERONOMY
28:4 Blessed [shall be] the
fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of
thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
DEUTERONOMY
28:18 Cursed [shall be] the fruit of thy
body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine,
and the flocks of thy sheep.
DEUTERONOMY
28:5 Blessed [shall be] thy basket and thy store.
DEUTERONOMY
28:17
Cursed [shall be] thy basket and thy store.
DEUTERONOMY
28:6 Blessed [shalt] thou [be] when thou
comest in, and blessed [shalt] thou [be] when thou goest out.
DEUTERONOMY
28:19 Cursed [shalt] thou [be] when thou comest in, and cursed
[shalt] thou [be] when thou goest out.
DEUTERONOMY
28:7The LORD shall cause thine enemies
that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out
against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.
DEUTERONOMY
28:8 The LORD shall command the
blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest
thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD
thy God giveth thee. 9 The LORD shall establish thee an
holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the
commandments of the LORD thy God, and walk in his ways. 10
And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name
of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee. 11
And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy
body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy
ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give
thee. 12 The LORD shall open unto thee his good
treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and
to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many
nations, and thou shalt not borrow.
13 And the LORD shall make thee
the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and
thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of
the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do [them]:
Now, compare the
blessings of health and good economics to the cursing which deal with poor
health and poor economy. It is one thing for God to bless you with good health.
He can say your health will be good. But when he curses you with poor health He
gets very specific and names the different plagues and diseases that will come
upon those under the curse.
DEUTERONOMY
28:20
The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke,
in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be
destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness
of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.
21 The LORD shall make the
pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off
the land, whither thou goest to possess it. 22 The LORD shall smite thee with a
consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with
an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting,
and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.
23 And thy heaven that [is]
over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee [shall
be] iron. 24 The LORD shall make the
rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down
upon thee, until thou be destroyed. 25
The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies:
thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt
be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth. 26 And thy carcase shall be meat unto
all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray
[them] away. 27 The LORD will smite
thee with the botch of
A pretty gruesome tale to
be sure, but this is the word of the Lord, and we are living in the days of
it's fulfillment as we shall see more and more so as the days grow closer to
the end.
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RESPECTS 61-1015E Let's take Noah
for a moment. Now, Noah had a revelation from God, yet it was contrary to
anything that science would prove to be true. But yet he had spoke to God, and
God had spake to him. And he went about preparing an ark, where the scoffers
and mockers (as the Bible said that they would be in the last days like they
was in them days), that those scoffers scoffed at Noah. Why, they thought that
he was out of his head because he was building an ark. So but God brought
judgment upon them scoffers because they would not listen to the messenger of
God and come into that ark under his preaching, then God sent His Divine
judgments on the earth. First He made a preparation for all who
would receive it, to escape it, and then if they did not escape it, there's
only one thing left. If they won't take God's preparation of escape, then
there's only one thing left, that's Divine judgment.
E-17
WHY 62-0622E When God makes a way of escape for the
people, and the people refuse that escape, then God asks the question,
"Why?" I think He has a right to. If God does all that He can for the
people, and the people refuse to receive His help, then He has a right to ask
why they didn't do it. I believe it'll be that way at the judgment. When God
has made every preparation that could be made for the church and for the people
and then they refuse it, God's going to ask us why we didn't receive it. I
believe that.
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LOOKING UNTO JESUS 64- We
find out here, there was another man looked by the name of Noah. He looked and
saw the just judgment of God upon a wicked Word-denying generation, was being
poured out. In his vision, as Noah was a prophet, God had give him a vision of
how to build the ark, and instructed him how to make the construction, how it must
be built. In this, how could Noah, unless this vision being the Word of God,
when he seen this wrath and making a way of preparation... Always, before coming judgment,
there is a preparation made. It always is the Word of God.
87-4 HEBREWS CHAPTER 3 HEB 57-