<TITLE>10. Par 11-14</TITLE>L-11 And now, while He was living there with--with them, His ministry got so great, that one day He had to go away from the home. They crowded Him out, too much, too many people around the place. And the people would come to Him by the thousands, and He'd slip off away from them, go off somewhere else (See?), to be alone with the Father, to pray. The cities would call for Him, but He would go up in the mountain alone, see which way the Father would lead. He came to do the work of the Father. That's what we ought to be about, today, our Father's business (That's right.), not so much in the social ranks and--and so forth, but in the Father's business.

L-12 Now, let's take this wonderful Jesus just a minute, and watch His coming. Just before He came, there was a... First, before His coming, there was announcement. The church had all got all back and all messed up, just about like it is today. And one having this, the Pharisees, Sadducees, Publicans, array, oh, all kinds of isms around. And that, even some man come up and claimed he was a great one, who led hundreds out in the wilderness, and they perished. You know the story. And all like that...
But it finally come the time for He to come, He... The remnant was waiting for Him. And one day... Let's watch.
I see an old man and a woman, way passed the age of bearing, the woman was. And she said, they had prayed for God all these years to take away her reproach, and she could bear children, as it was an honor for any Hebrew woman to have a child.

L-13 How they've changed that now. It's almost un--a--dishonor to have a child. Now, isn't that right? You might not say amen, but it's the truth. A woman had rather pay a hundred dollars for a little old smashed-nosed dog, and give it a mother's love out here, than to fool with a baby. Now, you know that's the truth. Walk it down the street with a little sweater on it. And I seen one of the biggest clinics, I ever seen, nearly, out here, is a dog clinic. I don't figure it. I can't see it. All right. Anyhow, that's up between you and God.
Now, look. Then Zacharias was a righteous man, a priest. And he come to the house of God; in his--his office was in there to burn incense while the people were praying. And then, one day while he was burning incense, the time of the promise was drawing nigh. And God sent an Angel down to the altar. Do you believe in Angels? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Yes, sir.

L-14 Someone said, not long ago, said, "Brother Branham, you're mistaken about that Man that talks to you." Said, "That was the Lord."
I said, "It was an Angel." He said, "I am sent from the Presence of God." He wasn't the Lord. He was an Angel.
"Oh," said, "that's all mistaken." Said, "Brother Branham, God in old times, in the Bible, spoke," said, "there was Daniel and all of them. Yeah, they were--had Angels and so forth, like that, but not New Testament doctrine." And this man was a man, said, "We speak where the Bible speaks, and silent where the Bible's silent."
I thought, "How silent He was on many things that the Bible spoke." I said, "Do you mean to tell me that you don't believe that, the Angels of God...?"
The man said, "No, sir. The Holy Spirit leads the Church."
I said, "That's correctly. But they have ministering spirits sent from the Presence of God."
He said, "Not in the New Testament, brother."
I said, "Oh, yes, in the New Testament."
He said, "The Holy Spirit, not Angels, the Holy Spirit..."
I said, "Look, I want to ask you something." I said, "It was the Angel of God Who met Mary."
He said, "Yeah, but that was before Pentecost. After Pentecost," he said, "it was the Holy Spirit from then on."


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