It’s the last sermon for the series of meetings in Bakersfield. Towards the end of the service, Brother Branham makes the statement:
You know, I don't believe I ever went through a prayer line in my life, that I ever witnessed any more faith than I did in that line. Really the finest prayer line I believe I ever had in the United States, in my life, to see a line going through like that.
We pray that, today, our faith will exceed the faith of that congregation, 50 years ago, and every person who hears this tape will receive what they have need of. It may seem like a big request: tens of thousands of people around the world receiving what they ask for. But with God, All Things Are Possible!
We have recently found a missing portion of this sermon. We were able to get the new text into The Table app, but unfortunately the downloadable audio does not yet reflect the new portion. If you are using The Table app, the audio begins just before paragraph 2. We hope to have the updated audio posted very soon. Here are a few quotes from “Countdown.”
If everything serves God's purpose, it's got a resurrection. But it can only rise if it serves God's purpose. If a flower lives and is not germitized, it will not rise again. If you plant corn, and it is not germitized, it will not rise again. Anything that doesn't serve God's purpose, has no resurrection. But you can't keep anything in the ground that serves God's purpose. It comes forth again to testify of a resurrection. We know that all these things are right. They are testimonies to us, to encourage us. Each day, everywhere you look, you see God.
All the natural achievements has happened in the earth, has been forerunners of spiritual achievements that God has done by His church.
All the natural things are a type of the spiritual things.
Sanctify means "separate for the glory of God."
He is able to achieve, to Himself, a Bride. He is going to, in the last days, be able to get a Bride, that with a ministry that's so exactly, the... like a man and his wife becomes one. And when Jehovah gets His people like Him, then He lives in His people. They are one.
The astronaut age, we are living in the astronaut age. Just as sure as God has testified by the natural happenings there, so is He testifying now that, if we've achieved an astronaut, God has achieved what He promised to achieve in the last days, according to Malachi 4. Only thing He has to do is get somebody in His hands, that can cut loose from the airplanes and automobiles, and whatmore. Not look back to what it was, but more power to lift him higher, lift him into the Presence of God, lift him up there where all things are possible. Now we see it's happening. There is no doubt to it.
He is on the earth, in the power of the Holy Ghost, to make His Word live and do for His church just exactly what He promised It would do, filling His astronauts, getting them all fueled up and ready.
Just like your faith saves you from sin, your faith saves you physically, see, from sickness. Now you must believe it.
The church, the moon represents the church, reflecting the light of the sun, in its absence. God does the signs in the heavens before He declares it on earth.
Don't, don't miss it, friend. Remember, listen at my Voice. It'll haunt you all your life, if you haven't got in. Out yonder, when you're suffering for your punishment, and where weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth, that Voice will scream back and forth, you hear It all the time in that weary, spooky place of hell. Don't fail. Now is your opportunity.
I've really enjoyed this meeting, immensely. I consider it one of the red-light meetings I've had in the United States.