<TITLE>12. Par 49-54</TITLE>L-49 Now, this is a wicked and an adulterous generation. We know it. And what was the sign they was going to receive? The sign of the resurrection. Jesus is not dead, but He's raised again. Again, great commercial cities given over to the--to the enemy, over to the devil, and marrying, giving in marriage, and adultery, and perversion, and all kinds of filth that's in the earth today; and unbelieving Christians, form of godliness, heady, high-minded, intellectual age...
The prophet spoke of it. The Holy Ghost said specifically that in the last days there would come an intellectual age. Men would be lovers of their own self, proud, blasphemers, disobedient, incontinent, and despisers of those that are good.

L-50 You say, "Them communists, Brother Branham." No, sir. They're church members having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof. From such... So... Are getting the sign of Jonas...
For Jesus Christ is with His people tonight, performing and doing the same thing that He did before He was crucified. And He raised again, and is living with us. You--you don't understand who that is you're setting with out there. That's a son and daughter of God.
Maybe it's a good thing we don't understand it, the way we do. Oh, why, we are assembled in heavenly places, watching His Urim Thummim of this last day reflecting His Presence as He's ready to come; He's making His appearance in the form of the Holy Spirit to hone out His church to get it ready to be received. Amen. We're so happy to know it.

L-51 So I don't think that Jonah was out of the will of God. And I believe the wicked and adulterous generation seeks after signs. Now. And they... God never refused, but He always gives them a sign.
Now, we find out that we come down to the next character, which was Solomon. Now, all Bible readers know that the days of Solomon was the golden age of Israel. If... They prospered more under Solomon, because there was hardly any war. And they built the temple, and it was a great golden time for Israel.

L-52 And the reason, when Solomon, the son of David, when he took the throne, well, he never prayed that God would--would give him so much, but just wisdom to know how to govern and--and hold the people together. Well, now, God worked with him, and He gave him a gift of discernment. True, certainly did. And he could discern the right from the wrong, and so forth, and the news scattered everywhere, throughout all the world, of this great...

L-53 Do you know, if God in any age, when He sees the people, and He gives them a gift, or a sign... And a gift always produces a sign. That's the reason Jesus was rebuking them, because He was God's gift, and the sign of God's gift was being vindicated. He said, "If you can't believe Me, believe the works, for they speak of Me." You see?
And now, wouldn't it be nice tonight if all America believed God's Gift for this last days, the Holy Ghost? Sure, it's God gift. Now, just think. If they turned that sign down and that gift, what happened? The--the nation went into chaos. If they accepted that gift, then the nation had a golden age. Now, that's the same as it is tonight.

L-54 Think of every American tonight that professes to be a Christian and believe in Jesus Christ would accept and believe the Gift that God has sent us in this last days: the Holy Spirit. Why, you know what? They'd take every police off the force. They could just burn down the jails. We wouldn't need them no more. No, no. There'd be no more law offices and things. We wouldn't need it. Why, the millennium would be on. Sure.
But what are they doing? They are turning down the Gift of God. Not only that, but, like it was in the days of Noah, they're making fun of It, and scoffing at It. And we are setting, sweating it out. That's right.


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