<TITLE>01. Par 1-6</TITLE>61-0730M, Gabriel's Instructions To Daniel, Branham Tabernacle, Jeffersonville, IN, 131 min
L-1 Lord bless you...?... Good morning, friends. It's very hot to be in the Tabernacle this morning, but very glorious to be here. So glad that we could--could get in today for this service. And I've--I've given out that I'd have a study now on this Seventy Weeks of Daniel. That ties in the rest of the Message before I can go with the--the Seven Seals, which there's Seven Seals, Seven Plagues, Seven Trumpets, Three Woes, the woman in the sun, casting out of the red devil, the 144,000 sealed away--all happens between this time. And I thought I'd have to get this in first.

L-2 Now, it's hot; we don't aim to stay too long, just as--as we can. And this is the season, usually off-season, that when people don't have church too often, and especially... And all of them got air conditioned rooms and so forth where it's comfortable. We wish we had that, but at this time we don't have it.
Many of our forefathers set out in the hot sun. When I think of apologizing to the people for not having a air conditioned room, my thoughts always drift back to Africa where they laid there in those storms, and them women with their hair hanging down in their face, lay there both day and night and never leave the spot from where they're laying; don't eat, drink, nor nothing, stay right there just to catch a word or two now and then of the Lord.

L-4 I can think of Mexico when it was so hot that, honest, I set in a air conditioned room and tried to fan myself it was so hot. And see them people come there at 9 o'clock in the morning in that big arena, and no seats to set down... Sick people, real sick, dying sick: cancer, tumor, and sick mothers, little dying babies, and everything stand: right there in that boiling hot sun, not a shade nowhere, and just lean against one another from 9 o'clock that morning till 9:00 that night, just to hear thirty minutes through an interpreter and see the works of the Lord. Set there and wait, big old heavy garments on, they wear them winter and summer; that's all they got.

L-5 And then I think of laying out there in those jungles, how they'd bring those sick people in that couldn't even move, and in India, when they'd pile one down, then lay one on top of that one, one on top of that one, like that, with leprosy and diseases, where they'd drag them through and out of the streets, and lay them in that hot, boiling, tropical sun's, and the storms and lightning a flashing and things like that--they'd lay right there in that sun and storm and everything, and never move or complain, just to try to catch a Word of God now and then, something for their soul. Then why should we apologize this morning with a roof over our heads, fans a-going. And we should be ashamed if we complain about it.

L-6 So I remember not long ago in an island, one of the islands out in the South Seas; I was having a service there that night. And oh, it come up a storm. Oh, I never seen such a storm, just one flash of lightning after the other one, lightening up the country, and how the winds a-blowing until the trees was laying right on the ground. I said, "Well, they're... I might as well take off my suit, because there'll be nobody down there."
In a few moments the little car backed up to the door, and someone knocked at the door, and, "Ready to go."
And I said to the boy (He could speak English.); I said, "Anybody down there?"
Said, "You can't even get within city blocks of the place." On a big ball park.
And I said, "Do you mean that the people are--are out there like that," I said, "all this storm?"
He said, "They want to hear about God." See?


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