<TITLE>21. Par 85-89</TITLE>L-85 Some time ago I was watching, when I was in Africa, by the corral where a little sheep had wandered out from the corral. And the little fellow got all nervous. All at once I thought, "What's the matter with him? What's the matter with him?" I happened to notice there was a lion coming up. He couldn't see the lion. Neither could he smell the lion. But there was just something telling him that danger. He got nervous; he was bleating; he was going on. He didn't know which way to go.
That's what's the matter, what's building up pressure. You're afraid of atomic bombs. The whole world, they're scared that something's going to happen. They know something's going to happen. Why, sure, it's going to happen. But what difference does it make? Amen. It's a quick trip to glory. Well, we're already dead. We're dead. We're risen with Him in heavenly places. It's our desire to go meet Him.

L-86 A minister called me in not long ago and said, "Brother Branham, you scare the people, telling them about Jesus coming maybe at any time like that." Said, "You get the people so nervous."
I said, "So nervous?"
"Why," said, "sure, nobody wants to think about the end of the world."
I said, "That's the greatest thing I can think of. Then they're not ready."

L-87 He said that... "All those that love His appearing, He will appear the second time," those who love His appearing. But if you're so earth bound and still living down here, that that don't hold a million times more than this does for you, then you're still down here. And if you're up here, you've passed from that to up here. Amen. Just let off the pressure, friends; it's all right. Oh, yes. That's right. Just let off the pressure. If--if you just come to Christ, this Great Rock, beat off all the unbelief, and it'll--you can start to rejoicing then, because the pressure's going to be gone pretty soon. That's right.

L-88 Like the old slaves, back when the Emancipation Proclamation, when it was signed that morning. I was reading here some years ago about where--when they signed the--the Proclamation. Them slaves was so glad, on a certain day they was going to be free. And the time they was going to be free was when the--the sun come up. You know what they did? The women and children and the little ones and the cripples, they was all down this a-way, they were strung all up and down the hillside, because as soon as the sun begin to come up they were free on that morning at sunup. I just forget the date of it now. Wished I could remember it, but I don't just at this time. I thought I did, but I didn't write it down, so I don't remember the date.

L-89 But anyhow, that morning, as soon as they could, they were going to be free as soon as the sun come up. Well, the most strongest one of them, like the strongest Christians today, they climb plumb up to the top of the hill, and they watched as day begin to break. And when, the first thing you know, the first little peep of the sun, the one on top of the hill screamed out, "The sun's up. We're free." And he hollered down to the next one. The next one hollered to the next one, the next one to the next one--till it got all the way to the bottom. They could let off the pressure. "We're free." Why? The sun's up. Amen.
That was s-u-n. But today let me scream, "The Son's up, the S-o-n. The evening lights is shining. The Holy Ghost is here. The Son of God reigns in the hearts of the people." Let off the pressure. He's here. The Son is up. Now, I'm so glad of that, seeing the same things take place it did when He was here. Here it is working again in His people in this last day. So we can just let off the pressure.


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