<TITLE>01. Par 1-10</TITLE>54-0513, The Mark Of The Beast, Branham Tabernacle, Jeffersonville, IN, 108 min
L-1 Now, tomorrow night... We are always featuring one thing: the Lord Jesus Christ; that's all, and whatever His Divine will is for us to do. But if it be His Divine will tomorrow night, on "The Seal Of God," we're going to speak, if the Lord willing.
And tonight, we give out, if He--it be His privilege for us to do it, or our privilege for us to do for Him, rather, tonight, we want to speak on one of the most vital subjects of the hour: "The Mark Of The Beast."
And last night we was in the church ages, "The Seven Church Ages." And the--beginning with the Ephesian Church Age of Ephesus, and ended up at the Laodicean Church Age, the last church age. And may the Lord add His blessings now to the Word as we speak.

L-4 Now, shall we just bow our heads in a moment of prayer, just before we open this Divine Word.
Kind heavenly Father, we are grateful for this privilege that we have tonight to be alive and to be here on earth tonight, and have health and strength, and can sit in the building where the Word of God is being read.
And we pray, O blessed Redeemer, being our Kinsman Redeemer Who has washed us in His Blood, and cleansed us from sin, and now presenting us to the Father, faultless, in Christ Jesus; may You come tonight and take the Word and open It to our hearts. May the Holy Spirit get a hold of the Word as It's being taught, and may It go straight to its goal to every heart, my heart and the audience's heart. As we have need of It, Father, may It be supplied. And may no one take an offense of the Word. And Father, if any time that I should say something that would be contrary to Thy leading, may the Holy Spirit stop my mouth. I desire only to know what is Truth, and then to walk therein.
Bless us together now, forgive us of our sins, as we've gathered into this house of worship. And may our sins be under the Blood, and our spirits put in the right attitude of worship at this time. For we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.

L-8 Now, just thinking, this little piece of paper here, I wrote down several Scriptures to--of referring to to read, to begin with. And now when I get up here, it seems like I don't feel to read any of them. That's usually the way it goes, four or five little texts to start from.
But I want to read or say this first, that in speaking, I never take thought. You know, perhaps, just as... I have no more planned out what to say than you do (See?), not a thing. I just wait for Him. Just as I see it, I just reach and get it and hand it out. And then sometimes it... I may sound a little rough sometime, but it's just the only way I receive it. So that's--that's the only way I can give it.

L-10 Now, in this, let it--me say again tonight: This is not directed towards any individual or anybody's religion (See?), not at all. We don't believe in that. We believe that we are real true Americans, that every man can have the privilege of worshipping God according to the dictates of His own conscience. And we want it to always be that way. But in every church, we have doctrine.
Many times, in organizations, denominations, they have a creed. And they stay on that creed, "This is our creed." No matter what the minister thinks, he's got to preach the creed because he's in the denomination.
And in here, we don't have no creed but Christ, that's the creed; and no law but love; no book but the Bible. And Christ is the Head; and the Bible is our Textbook; the world is my parish. So I like--I like to just preach the way that I feel led to preach, and just the way that I see it.


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