<TITLE>17. Par 59-61</TITLE>L-59 Governmental laws, look at them. Look at our city laws. Buy them off for ten dollars. Yeah, depends on who you know. Just buy it off. Too many of our cities are like that in the nation. I know it to be true. Other powers... Look at educational powers. Look at science. Science has got down till they've broke up atoms and molecules and whatmore (See?), until they got to a place until national relationship is at the head. Now nothing--now---between the nations, there's a disturbance. That's what the Bible said there'd be, "distress between the nations." Every little nation's afraid. Russia'd push that bomb over here right now if they wasn't afraid we'd push one back. That's right. Now they don't know what to do. They're at the end of the road. Science is at the end of the road. Oh, moralization is at the end of the road. Motherhood and womanhood's at the end of the road. The church is at the end of the road. The carnal church is heading right towards a federation of churches. That's exactly right.

L-60 And the spiritual Church is at the end of the road. It's heading toward it's Head, the coming of the Lord Jesus. It's all heading up (That's right.), heading up in the coming of the Lord. The Lord Jesus, the Headship of the Church is coming. What's He going to do? Resurrect all the saints and give them a glorified body. Hallelujah. I'm glad to know that she's heading up.
It's heading up in two great things, coming to the end time: the mark of the beast, and the seal of God.
And the Seal of God--any minister knows--that the Seal of God is the baptism of the Holy Ghost. It's exactly right. Ephesians 4:30 says, "Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby you are sealed until the day of your redemption." Amen. Oh, I know you think I act funny, but maybe I--I feel good. Oh, my, coming towards the end...
Now, remember what is the mark of the beast? The mark of the beast is a carnal Esau to reject that birthright. Didn't Esau weep bitterly, trying to restore that birthright again, but there was no place of repentance? When you reject the Holy Ghost you seal yourself outside of God's mercy. Amen.

L-61 Now, you say, "Now, Brother Branham, you--you--you... If you'd tell us our diseases and so forth, you'd be a prophet, but now you're..." Well, I'm--I'm still the same person. That's right. That's right. I still got what the Scripture said. It's exactly right. Amen. It's still the truth. And it's heading up to the mark of the beast. And people say, "Oh, there'll be a mark." And it's already a marked; just reject the Holy Ghost, and you're marked.
Receive the Holy Ghost and you're marked. Amen. That's right. Receive it once and see what takes place. Receive it once. That's the Mark of God, and you're sealed to your eternal destination. Like a car out on the road, the inspector comes by. Now, some of you didn't get the Holy Ghost last night, that went in there. Check up tonight. The Inspector of the Holy Ghost is here, kindy inspecting you over.
I used to work for the Pennsylvania Railroad. We'd load a car, maybe with cans and so forth. And the inspector come around; he'd shake everything, see if there was any looseness.
That's the way God does His Church: shake it, see what's the matter with it. See if there's any looseness in you, 'fore He pours His Spirit into you. And if the church is a little shaky, He won't pour His Spirit into it. If you still love the world and want to do the things of the world, you'll never get the Holy Ghost upon that. You might get a confusion; you might get a stammering lip; you might get--or you might speak with tongues--but still that don't mean you got the Holy Ghost. When you got the Holy Ghost, you're sealed by God to your eternal destination. That's right.


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