<TITLE>09. Par 23-25</TITLE>L-23 You know, there's--there's many times that people don't realize that Christ is near them like that. So they said, "Jesus of Nazareth, Who we hoped to be the Deliverer of Israel, and so forth, and they crucified Him up there. Oh, You ought to have been there. He died a horrible death. You ought to have heard Him. Oh, it was so pitiful to see Who we thought to be the Messiah dying there. And they pierced His heart, put Him in the grave and buried Him. And--and then, we had some women down at the grave, and the gardener or some of them had took Him away. And there they are. See? We--we just don't know what to do any more. Oh, we're so confused." Huh. Just a good thing.
Jesus said, "Are you so slow at heart?" And watch. When Jesus appears He goes straight to the Scripture. He said, "Don't you know that the Scriptures must be fulfilled?" Hallelujah. Brother, I--I feel awful good right now. "Don't you know the Scriptures has got to be fulfilled?"
And when people say today... "Oh, it's a mental telepathy. Oh, it's nothing to it. It's just a bunch of holy-rollers, that..." Don't you know the Scriptures must be fulfilled? God has to appear in this last days to do the things He's doing now. It's to fulfill the Scripture. He said, "And it shall come to pass in the last days, I'll pour out My Spirit."
And remember, He said, "There'd be a former rain and a latter rain. And in the latter rain, both former and latter would come together," a double portion. Hallelujah.
Then if we see what the former rain produced, how much more will the latter rain produce? When God pours out His Spirit, there'll be signs and wonders take place. As I was speaking not long ago, as your beloved pastor published it, "When omnipotence speaks miracles happens." It has to. It has to.

L-24 "Why," He said, "don't you know the Scriptures?"
The Scriptures? Oh, maybe, today they try to place it somewhere else, say, "Oh, well, that was in the days passed." But the Bible doesn't read it that way.
The thing, "The proof of the pudding is the eating thereof," my mama used to say. "The eating of the pudding..."
Now, they say, "The days of miracles is passed."
Some fellow said to me, not long ago, said, "Brother Branham, the days of miracles is passed."
I said, "As far as you know... But we know different."
"Oh, Christ, when He was back there, He was the phenomenal of that day."
But I said, "He is today. The Bible said He's the same yesterday, today, and forever."
Jesus said, "A little while and the world will see Me no more. Yet, you'll see Me for I'll be with you, in you, unto the end of the world." Don't you know the Scriptures has got to be fulfilled?

L-25 If the great ecclesiastics of this day will not accept it, God's able of these stones to rise children unto Abraham. God will take the poor, ignorant, and illiterate. But the Scripture must be fulfilled. It's got to be fulfilled. And He promised He'd shake again, not only the heavens, not only the earth, but the heavens also. And we're living in the day to see it done.
Jesus said, "These works that I do, you'll do also." The Scripture must be fulfilled. He promised in the last days, that--that He'd sent forth prophets, He would send forth His Spirit, He would send forth all these things in the last day. The Scripture's got to be fulfilled.


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