<TITLE>23. Par -</TITLE>L-140-179 Listen here. You talk about the falling of children. Just a minute, let me show you something here in the Scriptures, what--what the Bible says about these things here. Let's get over here and just listen to this just a minute and see what God said. Now, I'm reading from Ezekiel the 9th chapter, if you want to put it down. Listen close:
And... He cried also in my ears with a loud voice, and saying, Cause them that have charge over the city to draw near,... every man with their destroying  weapon in his hand. (Now, this is God speaking.)
And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which are towards the north, and the every man a slaughtering weapon in his hand; and one man among them was clothed with white linen, and a writer's inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood by the--beside the brazen altar.
And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherubims, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to me--to the man clothed in white linen, with the--had the... inkhorn in his hand--or side;
And so... And the LORD... (Capital L-O-R-D, which is God.)... the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem,... set a mark upon the forehead of the man that sigh and... cry for... the abominations... done in the midst thereof.
And to the others he... (The LORD)... said in my hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: and let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:
(Watch, 6th verse.)
Utterly--Slay utterly old... young... maidens... little children,... women:... (God said so. God said so.)... but come not near any man that has the mark; and he begin at the ancient--at the sanctuary and begin at the ancient men... were before the house.
In other words, God said to these people, "Now, wait; I'm going to mark the people first, those that are really consecrated to God." And He put a mark upon them. He said, "Now, to these men that have the slaughtering weapons, you go through and don't you spare women, children, or nothing, but to utterly slay everything."

L-141-181 In the antediluvian world in the destruction, when millions times millions and billions of people was upon the earth, and God sent a old holiness preacher out by the name of Noah, and preached a hundred and twenty years, and told them to come into the ark, and all that didn't come in that ark would be destroyed... And God Almighty, Who had the controls of the heavens, sent down the rains that utterly destroyed millions of old people, of young people, of little babies, scrambling and perishing in the water.
Almighty God, and He's correctly the God of love. Amen, that's true. He has to. He loves His own. He has to be sovereign to His Word. So not to--for a controversy, but disagree with you. Your God of love...

L-141-183 Here not long ago I was talking... It's perhaps maybe a Jehovah Witness. The man come up and said, "Brother Branham, do you mean to tell me that you believe there is a burning hell?"
I said, "It's not what I say; it's what the Bible says."
He said, "Do you mean to tell me that a loving heavenly Father would burn His children up?" Why, said, "You wouldn't burn your child."
I said, "No, sir."
"Well then, if you as a human has that much love (See how people can twist the thing around?)--if you as a human have that much love, you think that a loving heavenly Father would destroy His children?"
I said, "Never." He don't destroy His children, but whose child are you? God don't destroy His children. He's trying His best to get them in. But it's the devil that's turned loose will destroy his children. So God just permits Satan.


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