Brother Branham has returned to his home in Tucson, Arizona. The Christian Businessmen sponsored the one-day service at the Ramada Inn. This is the fourth time he has preached this sermon in the past couple weeks, and this message really goes down deep.
He takes his text from Mark, the 16th Chapter.
Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils.
And she went and told them that had been with him, as they mourned and wept.
And they, when they had heard that he was alive, and had been seen of her, believed not.
After that he appeared in another form unto two of them, as they walked, and went into the country.
And they went and told it unto the residue: neither believed they them.
Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.
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.
So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.
And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.
God being infinite, in the beginning, with His infinite wisdom, His knowledge, divided His Gospel in each age. We find out that the churches get It all messed up, and then God sends His prophet on the scene. "And the Word of the Lord comes to the prophet." How they know it is? It's a vindication of the--the Message of that age.
And every hospital, every siren ever rung, every--every death that ever died, every struggle, every man on the battlefield, every poor, little, sick, afflicted baby, and all, was caused by disbelieving just one Word of God's Word. And if it caused all of this, for disbelieving one Word, how you going to get back, disbelieving one Word?
Got to be something that God has to judge the world by, and that's Jesus Christ, the Word. We must believe It all.
The promise is only to believers; not make-believers, skeptics, or impatient people. It's only to believers.
Just like your body, your body is a piece of flesh. But unless the spirit is in there, to quicken that body, it's dead. And so is the Word, dead, unless the Holy Spirit quickens that Word.
And a seed can only grow when it falls into the fertile enough ground to quicken the seed. And if this Seed falls into a ground, and it's fertile with faith, it's got to quicken It. But if there's nothing there...
"And the Word of the Lord comes to the prophets." The Bible said so.
Listen, God takes His man, but never His Spirit. The Spirit that was upon Elijah, come upon Elisha, and on down, and on down. The Spirit was upon Jesus, come upon the Church, and on, and on.
And the Devil takes his man, but never the spirit. The same spirit, religious spirit, exists right down, like was on the Pharisees. It's right here in Tucson, Arizona, just as unbelieving, and just as--and just as creedy and--and traditional as that was. Not only here in Tucson; it's world over.
… there'll come a time that when men and women, the church, will be going right ahead preaching and believing they're getting saved, when the door will be closed just like it was then. If you're not in, you get in now, 'cause God will close the door and there'll be no more mercy.
God never does deal with groups. It's individuals. He cannot change. What God does, the first time, He has to ever remain that same one.
I believe that we're living in the last days, and the message of another day will not fit this day. It cannot. It's got to be the Message for today, not for it was ten years ago. The Message for this hour, the Message for this generation, the Word speaks it. Then if the Word promises, there has to be something vindicate it.
I believe that we're at the hour of the Coming of the Lord. I believe that these earthquakes and things that we're having, this moon that they're... Up here at the observatory and things, they're watching this moon. It's squirting bloody-looking eruption from the inside of it. Jesus said that the moon would be turned into blood, and there'd be earthquakes all over the earth, in them--in them days before His Coming. He claimed that the day would be setting just exactly the way it is.
I want to say something to you this afternoon, that, I don't see one thing to hinder Him from coming right now. That, the world, if I had time I could prove it to you, is setting perfectly, even by names and position, the way it's supposed to be setting when He comes. When is the hour? I know not. No one knows. But He said, "When these comes to pass, look up." Israel is in her homeland. Everything is setting just exactly right, for His Coming.
Jesus come with three titles: Son of man, Son of David, Son of God, all the same Person.
And do you understand that Jesus said, in the last days before the coming of the end time, that He would be revealed again as "Son of man," not "Son of God"? And that fulfills Malachi 4 and all these other promises of Abraham, the last sign that Abraham received. He was waiting for a coming son, and the last sign that he was receive, was God revealed in a human being. And Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Lot in Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man."
Now, all you that believe that, from this hour, that a believer that stood to their feet as a believer, and you a believer, that you've testified and give witness before this court this afternoon that you believe that He's just and He keeps His Word. No matter how long it tarries, it's got to happen. Do you believe it? Raise your hand. [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Do you accept it? ["Amen."] God bless you. I believe it with all my heart.