<TITLE>06. Par 47-54</TITLE>L-47 Now, we have took in this age right here where we're at tonight on the Philadelphian, P-h-i-l, the Philadelphian church age. In that age there, evangelize and has missionaried all the complete world with literature.
Jesus said, "When this Gospel is preached (this Gospel is preached) to all the world for a witness unto Me, then the end shall be." Well then, if that was what He was talking about, spreading out literature, sending out missionaries with reading, writing, arithmetic, and passing out tracts, and making people shake hands and believe that there is a God; if that's all it was, then He's far past His coming. See? So it shows that the Gospel... Paul said, "The Gospel didn't come in word only, but through power and manifestations of the Holy Ghost."
Then when Jesus said, "Go into all the world and preach the Gospel," He said, "Go into all the world and demonstrate." Oh, I like that. Demonstrate the power of the Gospel, taking the Word, that what It says, and show the people what It says, and then make It manifest to them. Oh, that's the way. That proves It.

L-50 Oh, when great Morse Reedhead, standing there in my room that day, president of Sudan Missions, the biggest in the world; when he said, "Brother Branham, you being a Baptist, you ought to know what's truth."
I said, "The Bible's the Truth."
And he said, "Well..." He said, "What's these Pentecostals got?"
I said, "The Holy Ghost." See?
And so he said, "Oh, I seen them tear up the furniture and kick over the stuff."
I said, "Yep. The only thing it is, is you guys hold yourself back and isolate yourself away from them. They got plenty of steam; they make the wheel roll and do something, but they blow it all out the whistle." You see? I said, "If they'd just put her down here, they'd have signs, wonders, and miracles, and everything. But they don't know what to do with it; it's got to go somewhere, so they just--just scream it out, blow it out."
Hm, I'd rather be blowing it out than holding it, and not have any steam to blow out, wouldn't you? Like the old fellow used to say, "I'd rather be afraid of a little wild... I'd rather have a little wild fire than have no fire at all."

L-53 The trouble of it today, we try to paint a fire, say, "You know, way back in the days of Pentecost, they did this." Now, what good does it do to show a freezing man (that's freezing to death) a painted fire? It ain't going to help him a bit. No. You've got... He's got to have the fire hisself. And if there's a power of God that makes the Pentecostals work for the Lord, and do the works and signs that they did; if you'll not just paint the picture, but bring the picture in reality to them, they'll get the same experience, the same salvation, seal their own testimony the way they did. See? But you got to get it to them. You got not to place it back in some other generation, but bring it up here.

L-54 Now, we find out that this age of brotherly love was a great missionary age. Jesus said, "Into all the world, and to every creature, and these signs shall follow."
Now, as we've come down through the history and through the Bible, I want to ask you: hasn't each night... We read in the Bible here what Jesus told John would happen, and right here we took history and proved that it did happen just exactly. That's the reason I had such a time searching out these--these men to see where that God servant was that carried this message right on through, but he was there. He was there, just as the Bible said: kept the message just like from the beginning, never fooled with it.
And then we seen it was almost stamped out, and He called that same age, a dead age, dark, so forth. And then come out just a little light, then a little more strength, and then went into the Pentecostal (real experience) again right at the end time; and then the Bride caught away, and away It went; and the tribulation set back in again (all right), the great tribulation which is coming up before all the world.


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