<TITLE>12. Par 46-50</TITLE>L-46 And the Holy Spirit that you've worshipped under for so long, it's--it's the same Holy Spirit. It's just like a corn growing. The first is this little stalk. The next is a tassel. The next is the grain, the original that went into the ground. And what is it? Is it any different from the stalk? The life was in the stalk made the tassel and the grain. But it's a further matured stalk of corn. And that's what you Methodist, you Lutheran, what is this? It's the same Holy Spirit that brought Luther out in his day, that brought Wesley out in his day. It's a further matured church than what it was then. For it's back to the original again.

L-47 Listen, to you people, we got a lot of fungus on the ear. You know what fungus is, don't you? We got a lot of fungus on the ear, a lot of nonsense and carrying on, a lot of fussing and fighting between denominations; but still it's the ear of corn, and God will trim it out some of these days and take it to the garner.
It's the same Jesus, yesterday, today, and forever, the same, same in power, same in manifestations, the same in every way that He was then, He is now or the Scripture's wrong. Blessed be His Name. Mercy now, judgment next: we're at the end time.

L-48 Now, you say, "Brother Branham, you mean to say a message like that, and a people here of about a thousand people setting in the church tonight maybe less, under that? Certainly. The people don't know their day. They've never knowed it.
Let me ask you Protestants. Did they know Elisha? He was--he's just a man like we are. They didn't know him till he was gone. Did they know John? Even the disciples didn't know him. They said, "Why do they say Elisha must first come?"
Jesus said, "He's already come and you didn't know him." Is that right? Jesus, did they know Him? Not till He was dead, buried, crucified, rose again. They never knew Who It was.

L-49 Now, to you Catholic people, how about St. Patrick, you call a saint? He protested the Catholic church. And you didn't know he was a saint till he was dead for a hundred years.
How about St. Francis of Assisi? What was he? A walking preacher with a Bible under his arm who said to the little starlings that day, "Be still, little sisters, while I preach." He protested the Catholic church, and you hated him. But after he was dead, then you made him a saint.

L-50 How about Joan of Arc, you children in school. She was a spiritual woman. She saw visions and talked to angels. And what did you do to her, you Catholic people? You burned her to a stake as a witch. You did. And you said, "She has a evil spirit, a Beelzebub."
Oh, no wonder Steven's... could shine like an angel, said, "You hypocrites, you do always resist the Holy Ghost; as your fathers did, so do you." If you'd have knowed your day... If it would've knowed the day, this place and city would've been packed to see Jesus Christ. But they don't know the day.
What did you do? After a hundred or so years, when you found out Joan of Arc was a saint, you done great penance, didn't you? Dug up the dead body of those priest and throwed them in the river. It's still against your church. And you expect this message to be any greater, any less? It'll go across the nations, Jesus Christ in His church, with His people, manifest Himself in people, and you'll set on the sideline, and let it pass by, and don't know it. He's raised from the dead. The Holy Ghost is here in power and demonstration. The same Christ that walked on the Sea of Galilee, Who returned in the form of the Holy Ghost, manifesting Christ, the Light.


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