<TITLE>01. Par 1-11</TITLE>54-0512, The Seven Church Ages, Branham Tabernacle, Jeffersonville, IN, 100 min
L-1 Blessed Lord Jesus... And it's with great anticipations that I look forward to this nights of service, trusting that somehow in some way, that our heavenly Father will smile His blessing to us. And ever so often I get an opportunity to get in to have these services here in the--in the church, with the group, you little group that the members here of the church and the visitors, of course.

L-2 And this was not announced. It was just a regular Wednesday night prayer meeting. And I said, "Maybe tonight we'd find out whether coming back." And I thought we'd taken it over, maybe, and announced it for the next week, why, it would... We can't seat too many people here.
And these type of services, if God willing, is not directed to the... It's directed to the Church, for the benefit of the Church, where we feel that it's so greatly needed at the time everywhere, is to--for the edifying of the Body of Christ. And now, this in teaching... I've had healing services for eight years straight; and then teaching, it's going to be kind of something new.

L-4 And I was thinking this afternoon when I opened the Bible, after being very busy through the day, I thought, "Well, I told the people I'd teach on 'The Seven Church Ages,' maybe, if the Lord willing." I got to reading, and just got that, real happy, when I started reading It. And I thought, "Well, I can take all that in one night, in an hour."
So I didn't know what the Holy Spirit would have us to do. We--we don't try to set anything. It's just, "If it be Thy will, Lord." See? That's the best. And then, if it be the will of the Lord, I'd like to teach tonight on the Church Ages, and tomorrow night on "The Mark Of The Beast, and the next night on "The Seal Of God," and that.

L-6 And then, Saturday, as my brother, janitor, was just telling me, today; he said, "If they had it Saturday night and Sunday morning, usually, when the strangers come in to our midst, why, the church would be very dirty, and so forth."
So they suggested just have Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, and Sunday morning, Sunday night. And I said, "Well, that would be perfectly all right, as far as I was concerned."
So then we'll try, if the Lord willing, have it Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, Sunday morning, and Sunday night. And perhaps Sunday night we may have a baptismal service, as people has already been asking about being baptized. And so now...

L-9 And we'll try, every night to begin just on time at seven-thirty. And I get to the platform by eight o'clock we ought to be evacuated from the tabernacle by nine-thirty, the Lord willing. So that you... I know you work, and we have respects to that.

L-10 And now, these little messages out of the Book of Revelations are directed to the Church. And I wish everyone would bear this in mind, that they're not directed towards anybody's religion, or any other motive; only just to my best of my knowledge, to the reading and explaining of the Word of God. See? It's not pushed through any selfish motive, or it's not directed towards anybody, any individual, or anybody's church, anybody's religion.

L-11 And the reason that I like to teach on this revelation here at the tabernacle, being my own church, why, I just feel like I'm home. And--and I just, you know, kind of give my sheep the kind of diet that I thought they needed, you know. Some far...
People sometime have to put a little salt in when the--the--the alfalfa is a little moldy, you know. It might hurt the sheep if you don't. So once in a while, when maybe the alfalfa gets a little moldy around this church, and--and a little differences come up, so I think a little salt, kind of, is a savour. Don't you think so? It kind of keeps them from getting sick.


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