<TITLE>07. Par 43-48</TITLE>L-43 However, in... Now, as Balaam... Then we found out last night, over... Now, here first, before we leave here, they consolidated this church and married, got some pagan ideas, pagan idols that was in the church. The god of Jupiter, the god of the sun, the god of Mars, the god of Venus, and all those idols of gods, and he took all them out of the pagan churches; and put up Paul, Peter, virgin Mary, all those, and said, "Here is your Vicar because Jesus told Peter, 'I give you the keys,' and he is an apostolic successor." That's still Catholic doctrine till this day. And they put up idols. And what did they do? Brought idol worship into Christianity, so-called Christianity; not real Christianity, because the little Pentecostals...

L-44 Now, remember, I don't... I didn't say, Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterian they're in all. But the real, genuine article of God was Pentecost; was, is, and will always be. That's where the church begin, right here with Pentecostal power.
Now, you say, "Is that right, Brother Branham?" I'll ask you to take the histories, and look down through the stream of time to here, and find out if every one of those real true children of God didn't hold onto that Pentecostal blessing, spoke in tongues, interpret tongues, had signs and wonders, baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ. Everything that the apostles did, they did too, right down through there. That's the reason in there, reading the history, I took Paul, and Irenaeus, and--and--and down to Saint Martin, Columba; every one of those men, plumb down into this age here, had signs and wonders.

L-46 All right. He said the--the mike was having a little... Is that better? All right. No, they shake their head; they can't hear it at all now, Bill. All right. Can you... Is it... Now, can you hear me now? Now, how's that? Is that better? Is that... Everybody says, "All right, Bone." That's one mark against you. All right, okay.

L-47 Now, in this age here then when he made up this great big thing, and put up this man here as a universal bishop over all the churches, give them plenty of money and so forth, and promised them, and did unite the church and state together, and let the church control the state. Made him a great man... So there is exactly... What Constantine did is the very same thing that we found over in this other church, that what God said; that in the days of Elijah, that they suffered that woman Jezebel to subdue His children; that taken place in the dark age. And look here where Pentecost is now. My, my, just blacked it out. And for almost one thousand years, it... From about 500 to 1500, right, that's 606 to 530--520, is exact numbers, but right on one thousand years. They'll... bloody persecutions... Read the history.

L-48 Now, a Catholic will tell you that the Christian church, they was the Christian church. They are the denominational Christian church. But the true Pentecostals was pressed out, killed, and murdered, and put to death by the popes and bishops and so forth, bloody as it could be.
Now, someday that's going to cost me my life (See?) to say that. But that's one thing sure; I know which way I'm headed, and that I am... See? Just keeps dripping with blood. But it's getting the hour now, which you see according to what's going on in the nation it isn't going to be long. Don't you never back up on that. That's the truth. Stay right with it. Mingle your blood like them in that day.


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