<TITLE>07. Par -</TITLE>L-159-67 "Except a man..." Here's what Jesus said, "Except a man be borned of Spirit and of water he will in no wise enter the Kingdom." Whether he's Catholic, Methodist, Baptist, or whatever, you'll have to be baptized in water for the remission of your sins and receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost, or you're lost. That's Jesus' own Word. So now, if you're Methodist and have received the baptism of the Holy Spirit and been baptized in water, Jesus said you'll enter heaven. If you're Catholic and have done the same thing, you'll enter heaven.
But if you're just holding on to that creed of the Catholic church, or the Methodist, or the Baptist church, you're still lost. And that's the reason we got the condition in the world we got today, 'cause people are just exactly... They say, "That's against my faith."
"Do you believe in Divine healing?"
"That's against my faith." That's against your church; your church's creed has got that made up (See?); you have to do what the church says. And then you holler at the Catholic; that's the same thing they do. And that's the beast and the image of the beast. And the Bible says, "Whosoever took it could not enter the Kingdom of heaven, but would be cast out where dogs, and sorcerers, and so forth, and would be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy Angels in the Lamb forever and forever.
Come out of it, friend. Get right with God. Yes, sir.

L-160-Q-27 And now, let me get this one though again while we... Now, someone asked me today; two or three times I've been asked it:
27. Brother Branham, speaking on the mark of the beast, don't you believe they'll tattoo a number in your head, or tattoo something on your hand?
No, sir. Don't never look for that. It'll be a boycott, certainly. No man could buy or sell 'less he belongs to the confederation of churches. That's true. That'll come like a union, unionizing the thing, bringing it down, unionized religion. Mark my word; it ain't far off. And you'll see it, she's just around the corner.
The reason you don't know these things; you're here at home all the time. Follow me over these countries where Catholicism has the upper hand one time, and see what takes place. Brother, they tell them all what to do and what not to.

L-160-74 And here the Bible speaks that the United States (We picked it up in prophecy.) come up like a lamb, freedom of religion, and directly they united those things together, and he spake like a dragon and exercised the same power the dragon had before him. That's the U.S.A. That's right.
A minister said to me not long ago, a friend of mine, said, "Brother Branham, God will never let the United States fall, because of the basis of its forefathers, founded on religion."
I said, "He let the Jews, sure, carried away, and they had a lot better standing than we had." That's right. God ain't no respect of some generation that's passed; you either walk the line or you're out of the Kingdom; that's all. Truly. That's pretty rough, but that's good for you. That's right. It's the Scripture. And we got... we...


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