<TITLE>13. Par 38-41</TITLE>L-38 Moses, as soon as he got a hold of God and seen it was Scriptural, here he went to Egypt.
As soon as Mary got a hold of... the Angel got a hold of her, rather, and she seen Him, and knowed it was God, because it was Scriptural, she took His word and went around testifying of something that didn't even show one evidence of ever being.
Another thing, she testified of something that never had happened before. Oh, praise be the Lord! She testified of something that had never happened. Never had a virgin conceived. But she had the Angel's word, and the Angel was Scriptural, so she knowed it was promised. And the Angel had the Word of the Lord and promise it. And because she thought herself humble and lowly, yet God had chose her, so she was just happy about it. And she went forth with her message, telling everybody she was going to have a baby before she even had the first sign of a baby. She didn't wait and say, "Now wait, let me feel and see if I feel any better or not." No, no. Oh, God, give us more Marys!

L-39 Beaumont and the rest of the world needs Marys like that, that can take God at His Word and start rejoicing before anything happens. What about you women in wheelchairs, and you brothers and sisters here with heart trouble, and sickness, and every thing, when the presence of the Lord is so close? My, my! You know it's the Word of the Lord. The Lord promised it.
You say, "Brother Branham, if you'll come down and lay hands on me..." That's not it. You're already healed, because "He was wounded for your transgressions, He as bruised for your iniquities, the chastisement of your peace was upon Him, and with His stripes you were healed."
It's already past tense. Just receive it and start rejoicing. "Thank You, Lord. I now see it. Bless God, I'm healed. I don't care what anybody else says or how I feel, I'm healed anyhow." That's it.

L-40 The Angel's message... It's always been that way. That's the way God wants. What did it do? The changed... By taking God at His Word, changed the whole natural course of life for her. It'll do the same thing for you. It certainly will. It'll take you sinners, and wash you as white as snow. It'll take you, critics, and make you one of us. It sure will. It'll take you that's sick and make you well. It'll take you that's on your road to hell and change you around and start you up to heaven. Just take Him at His Word, and believe it, and start rejoicing.
The Messenger of the Lord is here, the Holy Ghost moving around over the people, anointing them. If you're a stranger, and you want to know what's the matter with them people, that's what it is. Joel promised it. On the day of Pentecost Peter said, This is that." I want to add something to that. If this isn't that, I want to keep this till that comes, because I'm having an awful good time with this. And I believe this is that. The same that that was that at that day. Oh, Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever

L-41 Mary didn't wait. She didn't care about critics, she didn't care what anybody said, she had met an Angel. She'd seen His voice... or, seen His presence and she knowed that He'd told her the truth, because it was Scriptural--promised a blessing to her, just go on believe it. And she knowed it was going to happen. Oh, she... There's something another about it, when you hit something like that you can't keep still about it.
The Angel told her that her cousin Elisabeth (Was up in the hilly country of Judaea. ) was old, about seventy years old, and she had conceived and was going to have a son. It was already six months with her as a mother. Course, the little baby, little John, hadn't had no life yet. They kind of worried about it.
So we find out that Elisabeth... Zechariah was her husband, which was a priest. He was at the temple along about six months before this happened. You know, God gets to getting things together amongst the humble people.


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