<TITLE>09. Par 33-35</TITLE>L-33 Aaron when he went into the holiest of holies once a year, he had to wear a certain kind of a garment, and he had to be anointed, and he had to take blood with him. Is that right? And on the hem of his garment he had a pomegranate and a bell--a pomegranate and a bell; and as he walked he had to make that play "Holy, holy, holy unto the Lord."
And only way that they knowed that that man was still alive that God hadn't slayed him back there in behind the curtain is because that noise. They could hear the bell a ringing. I tell you; the only way I know there's any life in the church, when a little noise gets started somewhere, you know, just a little "amen" once in a while or a little something you know, make a little noise.
Some of them said, "Well, Brother Branham, it's emotional." Well, I can scientifically prove to you anything without emotion is dead. So if your religion hasn't got any emotion in it, bury the thing (That's right.) 'cause it's no good. It's dead.
So I can see now this Zacharias. Let's get a little drama here. He's down, him and his wife, they'd wanted a child for years and years, prayed, lived upright. Looked like the thing was just going to pass by; he wasn't going to get the baby. But it's just in the darkest of hour when Jesus comes, when God always answers.

L-34 We get in a hurry. "Well, I was prayed for last night. I don't feel any better this morning." You're in too much of a hurry. Accept God's promise and stay right with it. Stay right there.
They had been praying and praying for years. Now, Elisabeth had gotten old. She was past the age of bearing. Looked like all hopes was gone that she was ever going to have a--a child.
Well, Zacharias one day, I can imagine the temple, he had the censer burning like this, and he got back over the place and was standing there waving it back and forth, and back and forth as it went back and forth and the ointments a going as it was making the incense burning. And all at once he happened to look standing on his right hand side, and there stood an Angel.
God has always had Angels, ministering spirits. Do you believe it? Angels doesn't die. What was happening? God was just fixing to do something on the earth. So before He always does something, He sends an announcement.

L-35 Now, when.. There's angels comes. Perhaps the Angel visits me and to--visit you and so forth... There might be minor angels, but when you hear this Angel Gabriel coming, you take heed, something's taking place.
Gabriel announced the first coming of Jesus Christ, and Gabriel will announce the second coming of Jesus Christ. Is that right? Amen. I begin to feel religious already. Look.
When I think about Him coming. There stood Zacharias. He looked, and he was startled and he told him, he said, "Zacharias..." what was going to happen and after the days of this administration here, he was going home, be with his wife, and she was going to conceive and bear a son.
Now, I want you to notice that preacher: just about like some of them today. "Why," he said, "How could this thing be? Well, my wife's too old," something like that.
He said, "I am Gabriel that stands in the Presence of God. And because you've doubted my word, you'll be dumb till the day the baby's born." That's right.


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