<TITLE>36. Par 302-306</TITLE>L-302 And if the servant...
Now, here's where he... Now, watch this mark of the beast now. Now, I--I haven't got time to go back in order, 'cause it's twenty minutes till. But I want to tell you...
Now, there come a time that was called every seventh year. That was six years, on the seventh year... Bible students, ministers, and things setting around here, knows this to be true, was called... The seventh year was called the jubilee year, everything rested. There's no crops planted on the seventh year; the land rested, everything. They just gleaned. See? Everything rested on the seventh year. And on the seventh year there was a--a priest that sounded a trumpet. And if a man had been a slave, I don't care what his debts was; he was free.

L-304 Now, that's a type of the Gospel Trumpet. You might've served the devil all these years, in chains, with drinking, smoking, gambling, and sin, dirty things, no matter what you've done; but when you hear the Gospel Trumpet sound, it's a sign that you can go free. You can go. "Faith cometh by hearing of the Word of God." Now, you've heard the full Gospel, you don't have to stay bound any longer.
Now, if you just set and say, "Oh, I listened to it, but I didn't hear it." See? All right, then it ain't for you. Uh-huh. It's for those who hear it. All right, if you can hear...

L-306 Now, watch what He said here. Now, to prove this... Now watch real close and keep your thinking on now for the next two or three minutes.
And if the servant... (That's the man that was to--to be set free)... shall plainly say, I love my master,...
"Oh, I like to go to dances. I ain't giving up my dances for nobody. I ain't giving up this, that, or the other, for nobody; my wife, my children, the things of this earth that I love... Now, looky here, Brother Branham. I'm going to tell you, do you mean I have to..." You don't have to stop nothing. You just come in; it stops itself. But--but you say, "Well, I wouldn't do that. I don't have to do that. I belong to church and I'm just as good as you or anybody else." All right, brother. That's all right; you hear what's the truth. "Well, now, listen here, ain't Father, Son, Holy Ghost..." Well, if you want to keep it that way, just go right ahead.
You've heard what the Trumpet sounded; you heard the note it give. And the Bible said... (O God, look at that. Wouldn't that make me a text right now for the next hour?) "If the trumpet gives an uncertain sound..." If your denomination says "Father, Son, and Holy Ghost," that don't sound like the Trumpet. "If the trumpet gives an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself for war?"


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