<TITLE>24. Par 71-73</TITLE>L-71 Now, this may hurt, but, brother, when I get there on that great stormy morning, fire falling everywhere, and people screaming and crying, and I hear the old lifeboat blow, I want to be sure my ticket's right, brother. Like the old colored man said, "Lord, I--I--I talked it over with You a long time ago; I don't want no trouble at the river." That's right. I want no trouble at the river, no, sir. You better fix it up now.
Now, after this night it's on your hands. "He that will disbelieve it willfully after he has received the knowledge of the truth," seen the angel of the Lord coming, proving everything at the last day, seeing the everlasting Gospel be preached by Luther, seeing sanctification being preached by John Wesley, and now the Gospel in here warning you against marking; don't turn away, come up close to Christ. You say, "Now, Brother Branham, that's the mark?" Yeah.

L-72 Let me give you a little Scripture here just for a minute. I want you to turn with me to Exodus, or you don't have to, just mark it down. Exodus 21:6. If a slave had been sold out, and there come the year of jubilee. The year of jubilee, the jubilee priest sounded the trumpet. How many knows that? The trumpet was the trumpet, and he sounded it, and when he did, every slave could go free back to his home. If he was out in the field chopping with the hoe, and somebody over here whipping him with a whip, and he hear, "What was that? What was that?" Gospel trumpet sounding the good news. Throw that hoe down and turn right around, and say, "You have no more rule over me. Going home to my wife and kids. I was sold over here in slavery. But you hear that trumpet sounding? That means that I'm a Hebrew. I have a right; I'm a birthrighted man. I have a right. I can go free without anybody's money." Not if you'll do this or you do that. See the whole thing was grace (Amen.), not if you will, but if you'll hear the trumpet, the jubilee year. The Lord preached the acceptable year, the jubilee year. How we could (but I'm watching that clock) go on in that.

L-73 But if you hear the trumpet... See, hearing, faith cometh by what? Hearing. Now, not--not just listen with your ear, but if you hear that means you understand it, you accept it. "I hear you; I believe it." See? It's hearing. Stephen said, "You stiff-necked, uncircumcised in the heart and ears..." See, uncircumcised... They could hear it with the ears but uncircumcised, they couldn't believe it. See? Uncircumcised in the heart and ears, understand it. "Oh, it's all a mystery to me, like Cain. Take it or leave it. I joined church, that's as good as I can do." All right, Cain. You'll mark with the beast and go right on off in your denomination. But you can come to Christ and be sealed by the Holy Ghost. You can take your choice.
Now, watch. You hear the Gospel trump... What is the Gospel trumpet? The good news, the Holy Ghost is here. How do you know it is? Watch It work; see what It does. It's the good news.


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