<TITLE>10. Par 33-36</TITLE>L-33 If that was Messiah, or the sign of Messiah yesterday, it'd have to be the sign of Messiah today. Notice, not one time was that did before the Gentile. No. This is the Gentile's day. This is the ending of the Gentile dispensation.
I'm not much of a dispensationalist, but the Bible speaks of it, that the Gentiles have come to their end. And anyone that don't have to pick up the Bible, just get a newspaper, turn on your radio. You can see where we're at the end. There's no hopes for us.
The Church is going home soon, and the world's going to dust again, just exactly what God said would take place. She'll rock her right in there, out of its orbit down there around the sun. She'll burn this time like she went out away from the orbit the other time and was destroyed with water. We're at the end. And we Gentile people's walking around with all of our degrees and everything, and thinking we're somebody, and don't know that our days are numbered.

L-34 And the Messiah, the Son of the living God has appeared to the Gentile church in the last few years thirty or forty years in the great filling up again of the Holy Spirit; and a revival has swept the world around, and declaring Himself in the same measure and power and Spirit that He did when He was here on earth; and continually we shake our heads and walk away from it. What's left but judgment?
Mercy always calls before judgment. We must have mercy give to us first, and if we spurn mercy, there's nothing left but judgment. We bring it on ourselves. That was Messiah yesterday.

L-35 We see one place there is a woman that...?... great bunch of people after He'd crossed the--the sea through the night, stopped the storms. There was a woman who had a blood issue for several years. And she'd slipped down by the ocean side for she said within herself, "If I'll just touch the border of His garment, I'll be made well."
Excuse me, I don't mean to yell at you. This--I just, ever who's controlling it...
They touched the border of His garment. She really believed. And here she come through the crowd, and she touched His garment. And she went back out into the crowd of people, perhaps of this size. And when she went back out into the crowd, Jesus stopped and said, "Who touched Me?"
And Peter, rebuking Him, said, "Lord, well everybody's touching You."
He said, "But I perceive that I've got weak." Or the King James said, "I... Virtue..." Virtue went out of Him, which means strength that made Him weak.
"I perceive that I have gotten weak. Virtue has gone from Me." He looked around. What was it? The woman had touched God. And He looked until He found her standing or sitting back in the audience, and described to her, that her faith had made her well.

L-36 That Jesus still lives tonight, if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, or He's wrong in His words, in His speaking. "The works that I do shall you also."
You say, "Brother Branham, does the New Testament say that?" Absolutely. The New Testament said, "He is a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities." How would you know you've touched Him if He didn't turn?
How does He work? Through the branches. As He did through the main Vine then, He works through the branches, His Church today. He's got many great gifts in the church that He sets in order to take care of this. Certainly. Reveals the secrets to us, and drops down His--His wisdom to us, telling us what to do and how to do it.
God is not a declaration of some sort of a creed, like a Mohammedan or a Buddha religion. God is a living God Who isn't dead, but is alive tonight, just as alive as He was when He walked Galilee. Like He lives in His Church. And if He doesn't act the same, then you've the wrong thing. For the Bible said, "He is the same. And the works that I do shall you also."


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