<TITLE>10. Par 32-35</TITLE>L-32 And all churches, in a measure, wants to say that they're a part of Pentecost, because there's where it--it began. Where the... And the word "pentecost" is the word "fifty," where the--the outgoing of the firstfruits of the harvest is brought together. It was a feast time of the early harvest, means "fifty," which was after the cleansing of the sanctuary. And in forty days then they had Pentecost. And many of you Bible scholars wouldn't have to tear that down, because you understand it. And as Christians, perhaps, have heard your well-trained pastors preach those things.
Well, after this great thing had happened... It had happened in a way that they didn't understand it. They couldn't understand it. They was all looking for the coming of the Christ. We're aware of that. But the way He come was so different from the way they had figured out, till it just turned them around. They didn't know. God usually does that at every junction station of His--His--His time. He's did that.

L-33 The people will get down, and they'll figure out, "Now, it has to be this a way. It's just got to be this a way." And they'll have it all blueprinted. Don't think we haven't got it today. We've all got it blueprinted just the way Christ is going to come, what everything. And we get charts and... I believe sometimes we know more about the charts than we know about Christ. It's all been figured out, each denomination.
Many times each individual has his own way, and perhaps it'll come different from any of us think. God usually does it that way. Because you can't figure out God. You just believe God and walk on by faith, no way of figuring Him out.

L-34 Look at how easy it would've been... The law when Jesus was born...?... in Bethlehem of Judaea. Why, it looks the--like if it would've anybody that would've received it, would've been Caiaphas, the high priest, and the great clergyman, and so forth. The Angels ought to have come to them, because they were ministers and told them that the Christ was born. But God turns right back around, and the first ones recognized it, was a bunch of star gazers, astronomers who came from the east, coming westward to recognize it, seen a mystic star. Nobody else saw the star; they saw it. Why? Because it was given to them.
Some people say, "I can see spiritual things." They see it. Others say, "I don't see it." But it wasn't given to you to see it maybe.
Well, they even kept time by the observatories that was on the top of the cities. And that star passed over every city as far as we know, coming eastward. And for over two years, the wise man was in journey coming from the east, 'cause when they got there Christ was two years old.

L-35 Now, your tradition of the wise men a finding a baby laying in a manger, you just might as well forget that, 'cause that's just tradition. He wasn't a baby. They was looking for a child two years old, a young child, not an infant. And they killed all the children, right then, from two years old down to catch it. You see? 'Cause they never come to an infant. They come to a young child.
And they were two years in their journey following this star. And do you believe they saw it? Sure they did. The Bible said so. But nobody else saw it.
Many times the Angel of the Lord appears right in, and people scream and look at it. And others say, "I didn't see it."
Say, "Well, Brother Branham, everybody ought to see it." Oh, no.


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