<TITLE>12. Par 41-44</TITLE>L-41 Somebody wrote me here not long ago. And said, "Brother Branham," said, "I'll tell you; we all believe you to be a prophet." Said, "As long as the Spirit of the Lord's upon you, and you're discerning people and things like that (that discernment), we know that's a prophet. But," said, "your teaching is horrible. No."
Why, brother, you don't even know what a prophet means. What did the Word of the Lord come to? The prophet. What does the prophet mean? It doesn't altogether mean a--a foreseer, or foreteller, or forthteller. A prophet means this, that that is given to him to a vindicate that he is an interpreter of the Divine Word. Absolutely. Glory. How can you be so dogmatic? It shows you're carnal, when people do that.
They got a little bit of creed or something that they hold on to; that they'll go read this catechism or say something another, but when it comes to the Word of God, brother, they don't know no more about it than a Hottentot knows about a Egyptian knight. Now that's right.

L-42 The Holy Spirit gives record. God sends signs and wonders. That's why you find healing meetings amongst Pentecostal people; they've received the Holy Ghost. There's something in them that tells them that God's real. They look up to it; believe it.
That's the reason Methodists and Baptists are coming out; God's called them. "All the Father has given Me will come to Me." Hallelujah. I feel like traveling on. Yes. "All the Father has given to Me will come to Me." That's right. God knocks; you just answer.

L-43 Now, Elijah said, "I've done all this at Thy command. What you commanded me to do, Lord, I've did it. I heard Your voice; I recognized it was You; and I'm acting. No fire has fell yet, but here's the bullock; here's the water; here's the stones. Here's everything, everybody against me. I stand alone, but I'm acting." Amen.
"Mama said if I went to the meeting again, she'd run me away from home. Papa said he'd come over and jerk me out of the meeting and stomp me, but Lord here I am. I hear; I recognize; I'm acting." That's it. Amen.
"Husband said he'd run me away." "Wife said I couldn't come back home no more." What difference does it make? You hear; you recognize; and you're acting. Amen. I don't care what the neighbors says, what anybody else says. Hear it; recognize it; and act on it. Amen.

L-44 Elijah said, "I done all this at Your command, Lord. Just as You told me, I heard You. I recognized it was You, and I'm acting on it. Now, there it is. Lord, let it be known today, that I've told the truth and this is You." And about that time the fire begin to fall.
You just get things ready. You hear the Word of God and know it's a promise of God.
God promised Elijah he would do that. There's not--there wasn't enough priests in that country to talk him out of it, not enough--not enough kingship in Ahab to ever fool him with it. He knowed God had... He had heard God. He recognized it was God. He was acting exactly what God told him to do. That's the way you've got to come. That's...


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