<TITLE>09. Par 32-36</TITLE>L-32 What is it? It's God's warning to you people, "Prepare to meet God." Get ready.
"Why should I prepare to meet God, Brother Branham?" Brother, you prepare for a wedding; you prepare for anything else. When you see these things coming, you prepare to meet God. Every time you see a gray hair in your head, that means you better prepare to meet God. Every time you pass an undertaker's establishment, that means, prepare to get ready to meet God. Every time a baby's born, remember, prepare to meet God. Every time a funeral procession passes, prepare to meet God. Every time you hear the Gospel as a warning, prepare to meet God.
God has a way of escape; get into Jesus Christ now, where you're safe. Each one of those animals went right in, two by two, into the ark. God always makes a way for those who are really wanting to escape the wrath of God.
Come on down, we can think of many things. I can think of Job, one of the oldest Books in the Bible. I can think of Job standing there, broke out in boils. Sometimes people said, "Well, Job had sinned." Lot of times someone said today, "Well, because this person had this happen and this had this happen, that shows they're sinners."

L-33 That doesn't show they're sinners, not at all. Sometimes God does permit sickness to come. But if you know in your heart like Job did, that you were clean and clear before God... Job had some comforters to come too, and set with their backs turned to him for seven days, accusing him to be a secret sinner. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
"Thou speakest like a foolish woman. The Lord gave, and the Lord taken away, blessed be the Name of the Lord." Brother, he had... He knowed one thing, that God was the alternative; God was all he had to hold onto. So "Blessed be the name of the Lord." Said, "I come into this world naked; I'll go out naked, but blessed be the Name of the Lord."
A man in that condition, a man that's willing to hold on to God's Word, God's under obligation to send him something. God's under obligation to take him to it.

L-34 Tonight you people setting here wanting Divine healing, you believe that there is such a thing as Divine healing? If you believe it with all your heart, God's under obligation to introduce it to you. Amen. Because God's Word teaches it.

L-35 There was a prophet. That's right. And there was a prophet back there; he didn't know just exactly what the will of God was for him. He waited; he didn't know what to do. So the first thing you know, when everything seemed to go wrong, his comforters wouldn't comfort him... And then God was under obligation. Down from the east come a little fellow, Elihu. Elihu stood to him, said...
Now look, we put it in childlike form. Job said, "Now look, I--I see the trees when they die, they live again. The flowers when they die, they live again. But man layeth down; he has to--giveth up the ghost; he wasteth away. His sons come to honor him, but where is he? O that thou would hide me in the grave," and so forth," he spoke.
And Elihu said, "Now, wait, Job..." I like this. Said, "Wait, Job, you're accusing God wrong. Now, that flowers hasn't sinned. God has a provided way for that flower to live again."

L-36 Up in the north country where I come from, we raise... The ladies up there like flowers like you do. And them little flowers will be pretty in the summertime, then the frost will come along, some of them are young, some are old, but when the frost comes along, bites them, that's death. They bow their little heads; first thing you know, the pedals drop off, a little black seed drops out; then they have a funeral procession for them.
The fall rains come across, and they go to crying down, and it buries the little seed in the ground. Cold winter comes along, I guess it's froze, four or five inches up there now. See? Now, the little petals are gone; the bulb's dried up; the little old seed has bursted open; the pulp's run out.


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