<TITLE>13. Par 49-52</TITLE>L-49 Then He comes to the queen. The queen... We call her the queen of Sheba. "The queen of the south," He said here. Said, "She'll rise in the last days and condemn this generation. She'll rise in the last day." That's with the generation of the last days; "She'll rise with them and will condemn it, because she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon. And yet, I say unto you that a greater than Solomon is here."
Now, let's take the little queen in the days of Solomon, and listen close. Now, all Bible scholars know that the days of Solomon was the golden age of the--of the Israelites. That was the times they had no wars to amount to anything; they built the temple. And all the nations after David had feared Israel and had brought him great things, and riches, and power, and a powerful army; no one bothered them.

L-50 And then they had... God gave them a gift. God gives gifts in all generations, a gift of His Presence. Now listen, then we find out that Solomon, after he received this gift of discernment, it was put into the action. And people from everywhere believed him. Now, what if they'd have turned that gift down? Why, they'd have-- they'd have been a lost country. But they believed it; every one believed it. No matter what Solomon done, they still stayed with it. They believed that he was a servant sent from God.
Oh, what if the Christian church tonight... What if the Christian church today could believe the Gift that God sent them--the Holy Ghost. What if they would receive it? What if all denominations would rally around the Holy Spirit, as Israel rallied around Solomon with that gift? The Holy Spirit is a Gift to the church, and the church turns it away and shuts it off with our doctrines, and our theologies, and things, our man made creeds. We shut Christ right out, don't let the Holy Spirit come in, no miracles, no shouting, no speaking with tongues, no praises of God.

L-51 Well, if the Holy Spirit done that in the book of Acts, It'll do the same thing today, because the book of Acts is not the acts of the apostles; it's the acts of the Holy Spirit in the apostles. And It's the same Holy Spirit in the Church today. It would act the same way and give the same results. Why accept a substitute when the skies are full of the real Pentecostal power? We don't have to have a substitute; we can have the real. I know it's the truth, my brother and my sister; it's true. Now, the act of the Holy Spirit...
Notice in this--this queen now--Solomon, rather, first. We find out that in the days of his ministry, all the people rallied around and around Solomon. And everybody talked... There was nobody talking against him; everybody was for him.

L-52 Now, what if the whole Christian church today would rally around the Holy Ghost? Nobody say, "It's fanaticism." Nobody say it--that it isn't so. Every American would say, "Oh, my, in our nation we have received the Holy Ghost." What if our most beloved president Eisenhower, and all the--the--the candidates and so forth for this election, and all the people were just in one accord, and they'd be going around saying, "Oh, we are so blessed; we are so blessed. The Holy Spirit has visited us, and He's in our midst." He is.
Look, when I stepped off the ship down there, the airship in--in India, they said, "We don't want to know your theology. We don't want to hear you say you're a missionary. We understand that God has give you a gift to make the Bible live again. We want that!"
That's it! [Brother Branham thumps pulpit--Ed.] Oh, brother! If the whole ransomed Church of God would rise in the power of the Holy Ghost, nations would fear this nation. They got atomic bombs now, and they're going to blow it to bits one of these days; and you know that. "The heavens will be on fire," said Peter, "and the earth will burn with the--the fervent heat and so forth." We know it's coming. But what if we... if...


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