<TITLE>03. Par 8-10</TITLE>L-8 Last night I was talking on the subject of "Expectations." Tonight I was going to pray for the sick. Now, in the coming part, next--tomorrow night beginning, we want to start on the evangelistic type of Message, maybe The Coming Of The Lord, The Mark Of The Beast, The Seal Of God, The One Hundred And Forty-Four Thousand, The Four Horse Riders Of Revelations. Well, I believe those messages are what we got to get to the people, to wake them up, shake them, to show them that we... I see the great results in the Seven Church Ages. I would go through that again, if I thought it would help here. How that the... God did bless it.
Now, let me warn the people again and again. Do not expect the last shake of God in the church to be a universal thing. It isn't going to be. It's to the church. It's the great things that'll happen with the people in the little minority. That's the little group that God shakes to get ready to go. Them are gone anyhow. See? Now, that's Scriptural and Bible.

L-9 Not long ago a pastor of a certain great city come to me, and he said, "Well, I'm getting old." Said, "I've been here twenty-some odd years, and we've had some of the most powerful meetings." It was Chicago at Mattsson-Boze.
He said, "I have longed, Brother Branham, and come here and had a prophecy from the Lord if I'd come here, I would see the mighty hand of God shake this place before time to leave."
I said, "Brother Joseph, honestly," I said, "you're a great theologian, and you're a great man, a doctor of divinity. There's no doubt about that. I couldn't touch it." But I said, "But my precious brother, you have some poor spiritual discernment."
That's where the church is missing it today. It's that spiritual discernment to see what God's a doing. And they look way over the top for something here that's going on right here, and it'll be past you before you know it.

L-10 Did not Jesus say about John... The disciples said, "Why does the scribes say that Elias must first come?"
He said, "He's already come and they didn't know him." That's it. They never did know Elijah was a prophet, really, but just the church. They wouldn't have treated him, wouldn't have called him "bald-head," and carried on like that. They didn't know it.
They didn't know that John was really truly the prophet of God. They thought he was some crazy man out there in the wilderness, trying to drown the people in water. But he never did go into the cities and things. He stayed out in the wilderness--odd, peculiar. And they thought he was a fanatic, the way he dressed. But the church, the called church, that was called to see that, they recognized right quick that he was a prophet.
They didn't know Jesus was the Son of God until He was dead, and buried, and rose again. Many of them don't know it yet today. It's true. They never did know, they...


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