<TITLE>20. Par 143-150</TITLE>L-143 And it's always, friends, the leaders, each time through the change of these dispensations, has got the people all messed up. It hasn't been so much the people. If the Gospel would've stayed in the pulpit where It belonged...
Like I was talking to the Bethany College there, the Lutherans. He said, "Brother Branham, what do you think we have?" And I... he said...
I said, "Well, here's what it is."
He said, "What's the difference between this Pentecost you're talking about and us Lutherans?"
I said, "The Pentecostal church is the advanced Lutheran church. That's exactly right, If you had stayed where you should have been, you'd been Pentecostal too."
And we're all talking about like I heard someone say this morning, that "All churches, all--all the first religion, all Christians really come from Rome." I want somebody prove that to me. I'll admit all the denominations come from Rome. But Christians begin at Jerusalem.

L-148 So if the Catholic hierarchy wants us all to return back to the mother of Christendom, I'll agree with him that; let's go back to Pentecost and all get the Holy Ghost. I'll agree with him to that...?... That, it never come from Rome, It come from Pentecost. The church wasn't inaugurated at Rome; it was inaugurated on the day of Pentecost. Sure, not under their dogmas, but under the baptism of the Holy Spirit. That's what I'm trying to say. If we go back, let's go back to the beginning of it; not back to the denomination; you go to Rome; 'cause they was the first one who had a organization or a denomination, and it's the mother of all of them.
And the Bible said so in the Revelation 17. She's a prostitute herself, and a mother of harlots, her daughters. See? That's what the Bible said. Jesus Christ said that that Roman Catholic church was a prostitute, and all of her Protestant daughters were harlots with her. And He said, "Come out from among them, My people, that you be not partakers of her sin; and I'll receive you, and you'll be sons and daughters to Me." See? So there you are (You see?), "Having forms of godliness, and denying the power thereof," and so forth.

L-150 You precious Methodists, how you used to have the power of God among you. I went and stood... I wore John's robe when I was in London, England, to pray for King George that time. And they took me up there at Wesley's Chapel where he preached to fifteen hundred every morning at five o'clock, before the men went to work. Set there in a seat where he converted this rooster fighter, and I--I set in the seat. And stood there, and go up in his pulpit. And prayed in the room where he went to heaven. I thought, "Oh, if John could know what that Methodist church has done, he'd turn over in his grave." When you used to pray for the sick and have great signs... When John Wesley... standing out there, at that shrine I stood by it, where there's a tree. That day, preaching Divine healing, and the--the high church of England, the Anglican church, went and turned... A bunch of the members come down there and turned loose a fox and a bunch of hounds, and scattered John's congregation. Little old John never weighed over a hundred and ten pound at any time in his life, but he turned and he pointed his fingers, and he said, "You hypocrite. The sun will not set on your head three times till you'll call for me to pray for you." And he died that evening, with cramps in his body, calling for John to come pray for him. And he died. See? Oh, if you Methodists would be Methodists like that, you'd be Pentecost. That's right.


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