<TITLE>07. Par 21-23</TITLE>L-21 Then, here the ministers fired letters into my office, till the secretary packed them up by boxes full. "There you are, Brother Branham, that shows just exactly... We knowed you was a spiritualist."
So I set down and wrote a--a form letter. Now, listen closely. And here's what I told them. I said, "Brethren, if that's all you know about God, you ought to come out from behind the pulpit." That's exactly right. "If that's all you know about God, you don't need to be behind the pulpit; because Satan could just do anything to you and you'd never know nothing about it. Why, it's a disgrace.

L-22 Now, let me just show you a simple thing, friend. You get the two magazines; read them yourself, both--both articles. Now, the first thing, that if I--if the two spirits, Jesus said, in the last days... 'Course them demon spirits is arising; sure they are. They've always been here. They will be until Jesus comes. And they live right in people and people don't know it. They give them unclean habits and--and sicknesses, and diseases, and all kinds... Everything's caused by a spirit.
Deafness is a spirit. Did you know that? The doctor says the nerves went dead. But what made it go dead? What made it go dead? The Bible said, "When the deaf spirit come out of the man, he could hear." Is that right? So it's a spirit.
A cancer's a spirit. A tumor's a spirit. All those things are... Epilepsy's a spirit. Jesus rebuked the devil; the boy with epilepsy, and he fell on the ground and had the hardest fit he ever had. But when he got over that one, he was finished with it. See? Lot of them said, "Well, he didn't get healed. Look at him; he's got the worst spell he ever had." But that was all of them. See?

L-23 Notice. Now, the woman... If I gave any of you men here tonight a dollar bill, and would say, "Is this... I give you this envelope." And I'd say, "Is that a dollar bill?"
Why, you'd say, "Certainly not." The devil's too smart for that.
But Jesus said, "The two spirits be so close together, deceive the elect if possible." Then if I give you a dollar bill, it'd have to look a whole lot like a real genuine dollar, or you'd recognize it right now. Is that right? That's how the devil comes around, friends. It ain't a Communist. Communistic spirit, it's an antichrist but that ain't the antichrist Jesus spoke of. That's anything that...
The antichrist spirit is so religious. Cain, as I've been telling you about, was just as religious as Abel was. And those things come right down and they're brothers. Esau and Jacob... Everything has been...
The Christ--and--Judas and Jesus... Some people only see three crosses on Golgotha. They was four. There was Jesus, and one thief and another thief. "Cursed is he that hangeth on a tree." And Judas hung hisself on a sycamore tree. Is that right? He was on just as much cross as Jesus was: on a tree.
Now, there was the Son of God came from heaven, returning back to heaven, taking with Him the repented sinner. There was the son of perdition from hell, come from hell, returning back to hell, taking back the unrepented sinner. "If thou be?" that question mark on God's Word; "If thou be the son of God..."
But this other one never tried to figure it out. He said, "Lord, remember me when Thou comest in." See?


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