<TITLE>24. Par -</TITLE>L-36-2 And Israel said, "Well, let us eat, drink, and be merry." So they got a bunch together and made them some creeds, and organizations, denominations, and things, and fixed it all up; and their women just lived in luxury and sin out there, boy, carried around in cabarets and everything, half-dressed, little silk-look skirts on. If you ever seen some of their--their history of them days, how they looked, oh, almost one-third as bad as they do today. Not quite though, 'cause they couldn't. Yeah, and how they did and carried on like that, and the kings, and the priests, and everybody else... Jesus said, "You devour widows' houses, you hypocrites." He said it. And all these things they were doing... That prophet standing there looking down upon that--that nation like that, no wonder his heart was tore out of him. Yes, sir.

L-36-3 Now, you say, "How did he know what was going to happen? How could he foresee it? How..." It all looked good. Why, they got plenty to eat; they got plenty to wear; they--they got their big churches; they're prospering: money sowed everywhere. Luxury, dances on the street, immorality, and everything else just going on, and everything's going fine, just like America today. The television's full of dirty jokes, half-stripped women, everything else. Everything you see is just muck and sin. You don't have to look at a television; just open your eyes, look anywhere. Girls, boys, men, women, smoking, drinking, them Jezebels calling themselves Christians, the filthy devils, calling themselves Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterian, Catholic, and Pentecostals. No wonder it narrowed his eyes when he looked. That's right.

L-36-4 All looks good. How can you save it, if we're going to do... How--how... "Look here, well, we--we got a million more. We--we got... We... Our buildings are... Oh, our churches are so big, we have to build new churches. Well, we got so much money, we don't know what to do with it. Why, we just build the best places in the--in the nation. The biggest churches there is, we own them; and we still got plenty of money. Don't you think God's blessed us?"
No. You're off of His Word.
"And, Brother Branham, you mean God's going to destroy this?"
Yes, every one of them.
"How do you know?"
Amos, how did you know? Just like a doctor diagnosing a case. When he finds the disease that's on the patient, he knows what to do; he knows what that patient's got. He knows how far it's advanced, and he knows what's going to happen. And that's the way with a prophet, a true prophet. When he sees... I don't care what you're doing... When he sees sin advancing, it's a eating cancer; and it's in such an advance in the Pentecostals and all the rest of them, it can't come back. It's at an advanced stage. They're going to perish.

L-37-2 That's how Amos could diagnose the case. He diagnosed it by the Word of God. That's how a--a true prophet diagnoses the case and says to them women, "Don't you never try to go to judgment with bobbed hair when you know better." Says to you men, the rest of you, and you preachers, denying the Word, and having a form of godliness, and joining organizations to dodge the issue when you know better and you look at the same Word the true prophets would look at. The diagnosis of the case said, "Death, separation."
Just like a doctor, he knows the case. He knows what kind of symptoms it's got. Look at this nation. When you say, "Pentecostal done?" When they'll put--won't even let you come to church, 'cause you preach to the women about their bobbed hair, and the Bible condemns it... Afraid you'll say something about...


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