<TITLE>17. Par 174-182</TITLE>L-174 But brother, I'll tell you, it was like a rushing mighty wind, come from heaven, filled all the house where they were setting. Hallelujah. Brother, the building wasn't big enough to hold them. Out into the streets they went, singing, jumping, dancing.
And wait a minute, sister, the virgin Mary was in there too. Yes, she was, acting like she was drunk. Could you imagine the virgin Mary? Could you imagine saying that in a Catholic church? Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, or somewhere? The virgin Mary was under the influence of the Holy Ghost, staggering like somebody drunk. And if God made the mother of Jesus Christ go up there to receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost 'fore she could go to heaven, you'll never get there anything shorter than that. Might as well get the starch out of your collars and come on. That's right.

L-176 Like old Naaman, when Naaman went down to get his... Elijah told him to go down and duck seven times, or dip seven times. Oh, my, how that hurt his prestige. "Uh," said, "isn't the water up there just as good?"
"Isn't my church just as good?"
"No, God said down here."
"Well, now, Brother Branham, if we go over and we believe this and believe that, we'll have a nice church and treat everybody nice, and I'll pay a little money in one." No, sir. Except a man be born again, he will in no wise enter the Kingdom.
So I can see him walking out there, by pulling his feet out of mud like a tomcat in molasses, you know, walking out there. "Oh, I guess I'll have to do it," ducked down. It'll hurt his prestige. Come back up, still had his leprosy. The prophet said seven times. But after he had done seven times, his skin come to him clean again.

L-179 Brother, I'm telling you, some people say, "I don't believe that I have to get up to the altar, and boohoo and cry around, snot around like the rest of them do." Stay back there then.
"I'll take the way with the Lord's despised few. I've started through with Jesus. Lord, take me through."
This old Gospel has helped me, brother, when I was standing there before witch doctors. It's helped me when maniacs run to the platform, said, "I'll slay him this night." It stood by me in the hours of temptation, when the airplanes has ducked down, when the pilot's white in their face. That old Gospel stood by me when the doctor said, "He's got three minutes to live." It stood by me then. It's good now. Hallelujah. I still love It. Can't get enough of It. That's right.

L-182 Well, what does that represent to us? All right, when they all got drunk on this new Manna... "Huh?" Yeah, come from out of heaven. Now, Moses never said, "Bake a few extra loaves tonight." Didn't have nothing to bake with. They were aliens; they was--they was pilgrims and strangers, and so they didn't have nothing to bake with. And God rained it out of heaven. Is that right? And as God rained it out of heaven, He rained the Holy Ghost out of heaven.
Well, you say, "Now, what did Moses say back there?"
He said, "Aaron, I want you fellows to go out there." Now, put on your jackets now. All right. "I want you fellows to go out there, and get us several big omer-fulls of this. And I want you to take it in and keep it, put it back." It was kept in the holiest of holies. It didn't deteriorate. It was kept in the holy place.
Said, "What's this for?"
"That all down through your generations, every priest that's ordained to be a priest that comes into the holy place, that you might go in there with these omers and pick up some of the original manna, and come out and lay it on his tongue, and let him have a taste, because he's worthy, he's a priest and now come behind the veil, 'Now, he will have a taste of the original manna that fell in the beginning.'" That's what he said. Is that right? And that's what went down through the age...


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