Brother Branham is again at the Branham Tabernacle for a single service today. He takes his text from Revelation 3, and reads from the seventh church age. He then titles his sermon "And Knoweth It Not." We are excited to hear this weeks Jubilee sermon with you today. Here are a few highlights.
14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
So, see how God just worked that, even in the voice of that little boy, Joe?
When a pastor is satisfied, and the people is satisfied, it makes a real good church, and then God is satisfied.
Help us this morning to take corrections from the Spirit and the Word, that we might prepare ourselves as we move away from the doors this morning, determined in our heart to live a better life than we have in the past.
As far as I know, I don’t see anything to hinder, at this time, the Coming of the Lord Jesus, outside of the readiness of His Church.
And I know that, after my going away from this earth, them tapes and them books will be living on, and many of you young children will find, in the days to come, that this is exactly the Truth, because I speak it in the Name of the Lord.
Let me prophesy something to you, just before it comes to pass. The whole world is grouping in insanity, and will get worse and worse and worse, until they’ll be a bunch of maniacs. And it’s almost that way now.
I know it’s not popular to say it. And if a man is not ordained to say it, you better not say it; ’cause you’re impersonating, and then you’ll get in trouble, sure enough.
The hour is close at hand when you’re going to see something happen, when something is going to take place. And all this background here has only been laying a foundation for a short, quick Message that will shake the whole nations.
Higher you rise in God, the more sinful the whole thing looks.
Now, to the last man, which is the soul, there is only one sense that controls that, and that is free-moral agency’s free will to choose or to reject.
O God, help this to sink in! To me, the whole thing is wrong. God’s Word is the ultimate. Whatever that Word says, then that’s right.
He never came to_to save the devil’s children. They never will know It. And they are so shrewd in the ways of their intellectual learning, that you can’t compare with them at all. You can’t outtalk them. But, by faith you see It.
Those apostles and them of that day, who was ordained to Life; He knowed it. Said, “All the Father has given Me will come. Only thing you have to do is just make My Voice known; they know it, for My sheep know My Voice.”
There’ll be such things as ants raise up on the earth, that will be as high as fourteen trees; there will be a-a-a bird will fly across the earth, with wings four or five miles across; and people see them, they’ll scream and holler, and cry for mercy. But it’ll be the Plagues. Wait till I preach on those Plagues opening up.
There was a inside Man that held in that hour. Nothing else could have done it; every reason, everything could be showed, everything could prove that It was wrong, and I was in the wrong. But the Word of God, that was predestinated before the foundation of the world, held on the inside.
But until that real, genuine Holy Spirit in there will cope with every Word!
You started back there as a seed, and worked down to where you are now. And, then, you were all in Christ. And then when Christ died, He died to redeem all of you. And you are a part of this Word.
“Then you went on down; that big horse turned around, way as far west as you could.” Said, “You stood and raised your hands up like that.” Then he started crying. Said, “Brother Branham, to see that horse standing there; all that war bonnet and everything like that, and,” said, “that breastplate and everything shine.” Said, “You held your hands up a little while.” And said, “You looked down again, picked up the reins, said, ‘I’ll ride this trail just once more!’” Said, “The whole earth shook back and forth, like that.”
See, the world don’t know what that is, you know. You know it’s on. We know what it is. See? We know it’s investigating, judgment Angels, you see.
Just watch! Stay close to Christ. Let me warn you now, as a minister of the Gospel, of this. Don’t take any foolishness. Don’t imagine anything. Stay right there until this inside of the inside is anchored to the Word, that you’re right in Christ, ’cause that’s the only thing that’s going to Cause, we’re in the most deceiving age that we ever lived in. “It would deceive the very Elected if it was possible,” because they have anointing, they can do anything like the rest of them.
Clean your lives up. Pay your debts. “Owe no man,” Jesus said. Now, now, I mean, like your house rent and stuff, you got to do it. Get all your things off your hands. Get everything right. Make ready. Get ready. Remember, in the Name of the Lord, something is fixing to happen.
God, let me stand with the principles of one Man, as a minister, the Word of Jesus Christ. “For heavens and earth will pass away, but It’ll never fail. On this Rock I’ll build My Church; the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”