<TITLE>22. Par -</TITLE>L-32-3 He'd bawl from the White House plumb down to the poor farm. He sure would. He'd blast them with the Word of God. He certainly would. That's the way of a true prophet.
"Look at us, the churches. Oh, we are the great holy Roman Catholic church." Spoke in the Bible to be a whore.
"We are the patriarchs of the fathers, the Protestant churches all united together and called, it--it's called the World Council of churches." Prostitutes of the whore, the Bible said. That's exactly what It said. Uh-huh. And yet we think...
And now, all the churches are going together. Mr. Collins, a friend of mine (brother in California--or Arizona there), you're...  Elmer, I said, "Well, I guess you're going to some fine little Methodist church."
Said, "I got out of it when they joined that council of churches up there."
I said, "God bless you. You're nearing the Kingdom, brother."
Yes, sir. Dogma, depending upon the association with men and with their man-made doctrine, and leaving the Word of the God. What we need is a prophet today to blast that Word in there. That's exactly. Yeah.

L-33-4 They'd--they'd take safety among themselves. "Oh, we join... We, Pentecostals? Sure, we joined the World Council of Churches, because in there we have fellowship. We'll win them over." Like a woman going to a barroom to get drunk with her husband to win him to God. More like the husband going with the wife these days, to the barroom to get drunk to win her to God. Nonsense. Stay off the devil's ground. When anything denies that Word, I'm against it. And that makes me against every organization, 'cause it's against the Word. It ought to make every believer feel that way.
"Well," they say, "but remember, we've got..."
I say... I got a big piece in the paper, someone sent me from Arizona, of how this patriarch So-and-so the other day said, "Pope John the 22nd (or whatever they call him) has--is a fine man. He's the only man that ever talked on uniting the churches, the Catholics and Protestants together." Said, "It might not come in our days, but the next fifteen or twenty years it'll be here."
I thought, "Boy, you being a patriarch, you're prophesying and don't know it."

L-33-7 "It's later than we think," the guy that wrote it to me wrote it on top the page. It's later than we think. He'd been listening to tapes too. Yes, sir. He said, "It's later than we think." Said, "Brother Branham, didn't you say this years ago?"
I said, "Sure." Yes, sir. It's coming to pass, because it's the Word of the Lord; it has to. Sure.
Yeah, they say, "Well, this holy patriarch, don't you think he ought to know something more than that?"
No, sir. If he denies God's Word, and look in It like that, he can't. I don't care how many popes, prophets, and whatever that you got among you. If you're off the Word, they're off of the Word. That's right.

L-34-1 How could God ever bless such a thing as long as they deny the very Word of God? How can He bless anything besides His Word? Something that's contrary to His Word, how can He deny It? How can you bless a cancer that's eating you up? How could you bless a--a electric wire that you're holding, you say, "Oh, hold me and burn me up"? That'd be insane. How can God bless anything that's against His Word? So get back to the Word. You bunch of preachers, like hound dogs, what's the matter with you? You go out here and sell your birthrights for a mess of pottage to ride around in some Cadillac, or something, or some big, high mansion somewhere, and a big million dollar church, and all those things like that, and sell out your birthrights, and are ashamed and afraid to preach the Word of God to your congregations. Say, ain't you ashamed of yourself? And call yourself a servant, a prophet of God, selling your birthrights for a mess of the world? What will you hatch out? The same as Esau did. Oh, what a disgrace.


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