<TITLE>02. Par 5-8</TITLE>L-5 Well, you say, "That's songwriters. How about prophets?" Jonah, when he went down on his road, and God give him inspiration and give him an oxygen supply to keep him alive three days and nights in the belly of a whale... And when he come out at Nineveh, after being kept alive for three days and nights, he preached with such force. He give his prophecy to a city the size of St. Louis, Missouri: repented. They even put sackcloth on their animals.
And then after the inspiration left him, he set under a tree and prayed, a little gourd to be cut down, and prayed God to take his life. That right? See, he went up into inspiration. You don't understand, friend. And when he come down...

L-6 Someone made a mention. One time when I went out the building, I collapsed 'fore I got off the platform. You say, "Well, that's nonsense. The man ought to walk out..." Oh, if he only knew. If you only knew. You say, "Oh, Brother Branham, if God give me visions..." You don't know what you're asking about, friend. You don't understand.
Daniel the prophet, he seen one vision and said he was troubled at his head for many days. You're in another world. You become a guinea pig. You're a sacrifice for mankind. It's kinda hard when they won't believe the Message, but it's been through the age. We've always had unbelievers. We have to com--combat that always.

L-7 Look at Elijah the prophet. Elijah was one of the major prophets. That man went up and stood on the mountain and commanded that fire come from heaven and burn up the sacrifice, and it did it. He called rain down out of the heaven, where it hadn't rained for three years and six months. Is that right?
And then when the inspiration left him, he wandered in the wilderness for forty days, don't know where he was at. And God found him pulled back in a cave somewhere. Is that right? And run from a woman who threatened his life, after he killed four hundred priests hisself that day with a sword, chopped their heads off, Elijah the prophet. Is that right?
He stood there before all the nations and dared them to defy God, and made fun of all them priests and prophets while... of Balaam when they was prophesying, cutting themselves and so forth. He said, "Call a little louder. Maybe he's pursuing."
And when the inspiration was on him, he--he just defied everything that was ungodly. And then when the inspiration left him, run from the threat of one woman, and run out into the wilderness; and God fed him, and woke him up and fed him again. And the man was unconscious, as far as I know, wandering around the wilderness for forty days and nights, and God found him back in a cave. Is that right?
So you see, you don't understand, friend. Men pray for things that they don't know what they're praying for. Besides gifts and callings are without repentance.

L-8 But I believe that we're living in the days just before the coming of the Lord. Now, if it's fanaticism to believe that, then I am a fanatic. But I... Friends, I know this, that I believe that God is fixing to do a real hurrying work.


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