<TITLE>12. Par 73-78</TITLE>L-73 I said, "What hurts me, is to know that those poor old widows and orphans, they'll have to pay income tax on it too or die owing the government." I didn't know what I was saying. That was the Father speaking, and I didn't know it.
"Oh," he said, "no, they'll not have to pay income tax on it."
I said, "Why won't they have to pay it?"
Said, "You see, that was a unsolicited gift." Then the Holy Spirit woke me up.
"Oh," I said, "then a unsolicited gift is not taxable."
Said, "That's right."
I said, "Then I don't owe the government anything, for I never took an offering in my life."
Then my attorney raised up, and he said, "Mr. Branham, can you..."
I said, "I can have you two million letters in Washington and prove that." I said, "I never took a offering..."
Said, "But when you go out in these meetings and this money that's taken up by these ministers and pays off this," said, "you have some kind of understanding that you're going to get something."
I said, "Not a thing."
He said, "Then well, don't you solicit through the mail?"
I said, "Not a thing."
Said, "How do you get your money?"

L-74 I said, "What people send me." I'm looking in the face of people right now that sends me tithing continually. I never ask them; they just do it. That's the Holy Spirit. He's able to take care of His own.
And he said, "Well then, Mr. Branham," said, "can you prove that? Can you get me letters for at least eight or ten years back that you received offerings without soliciting?"
I said, "As many as you want."
He said, "I want three out of each year."
I said, "All right, you'll have them."
Said, "Then, will you give to me your post office box key and let me--let your mail accumulate for two or three days, and then go down and open it myself?"
Said, "You can do anything you want to. You can come to my office also."
He said, "What kind of soliciting do you do?"
I said, "Nothing."
"What do you send out in mail?"
"Prayer cloths."
"Do you charge for it?"
I said, "Come, read the letters I sent with them." That was it. Now the government owes me for all I've paid income tax for the past twenty years. "Take no thought what you shall say, for it's not you that speaks; it's the Father that dwells in you that doeth the speaking." See? That's why we believe in staying with the Word. It may be a long time, but it'll work out just right according to the Word.

L-76 Now, that's why we believe that the Bible tells us that before the world was ever formed and before it came into existence, that the Father slayed the Lamb. And then when He slayed the Lamb, He put every one of His oncoming children's name in the Book of Life, and we just live up to that age till it's all finished. You see what I mean? The infinite God knew that, that before the world began He seen the program what it--had to be done, and He just made it.
Now remember, as a great Master Builder, the Father, when He made this world and put calcium, potash, and petroleums, and all of these different elements that goes in to make up our bodies, He knew every bit of it and knew what kind of a form and body that would have before it was ever created. Certainly, He knowed the eternal destination of it. And He know what kind of a spirits would inhabit these.

L-78 And now, before we can finish that subject, we'll have to pick it up tonight in the seed of the serpent and in the seed of the woman, and bring it down and show you why it is. See how that seed of the serpent moved down, how that seed of the woman moved down, how that seed of the serpent begin to predominate, predominate, get greater and greater, greater, greater, greater until now there's nothing left but just a little small remnant of names still left written from the foundation of the world.


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