<TITLE>08. Par -</TITLE>L-753-41 Though you know Jesus is coming, thought He was coming tomorrow, yet you'd want to do something today for those people who are fellow citizens of the Kingdom of God to come together, you'd want fellowship with them. That's right. So if it's this way...
Now, I believe with all my heart that the Lord has helped me and has used me to spearhead a great revival, one of the greatest that's ever struck the world since the early days, across the world. We know that. That's right. It was all gone at that time, and--and He met me down there on the river and told me that the Message that I had would forerun the second coming of Christ. And I suppose there's nobody here tonight that was down there that day. That's been about thirty-two years ago when that Light appeared, and standing there, me looking right at It, and hundreds of people standing looking at It, It come right down and that Voice spoke.
Years later, strange that the camera takes the same picture, looks the same thing, just exactly what I told you there on the river. Now, I may be mistaken in a lot of things, brethren, but I don't want to be a hypocrite. I want to be honest and straight with you.

L-753-44 And then, another thing, if I'd have went away, what--we'd have never built a church here like that. It's hard to tell what we'd had (See?) if I'd just went on, but the God of heaven put it upon my heart to build this church here. And then when He called me out into evangelism... We've had pastor after pastor and so forth, but now we got a precious brother here who's of the faith, believes the Message. We've got other brothers out here that believes the Message, having things...
Am I getting too loud, Brother Beeler? [Brother Branham has a conversation with Brother Beeler--Ed.] All right. Is that too...
Had a--we got--we got the material...

L-753-46 And now, you say, "Well, Brother Branham, if they won't hear these signs and wonders of the great God of heaven, how are we going to do it?" Well now, what if St. Paul would've had that same idea? See? What... But he didn't. Those bishops stayed just as loyal to the message, and they--and Paul ever so often, after making his round... You've read the Bible, how he'd visit back with these churches, talk with the pastors and with the bishops and so forth, and took relief from the people and--and had a--oh, just a great time of fellowship, like a revival or big time of jubilee; and the Holy Spirit would fall upon them and messages would come.

L-754-47 Look when he went down there to Philip, even his daughters prophesied and said, "There's chains and prison waiting for the--for our brother when he gets up there." He no more than got out in the yard and here come Agabus the prophet, walking down, looked across the street, and never seen Paul before, the general overseer of this whole group of churches throughout Asia. And he walked over there and pulled the string off of his side he had his garment tied with, bound his hands and said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD chains and prisons waits for the one that wore this up there." See, prophesying.
Paul said, "I know it; I know it, but don't break my heart now, let me finish my course." He was tired; he was finished, and he was going on and leaving his bishoprick with Timothy.


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