<TITLE>02. Par 5-8</TITLE>L-5 And said, "Tonight when I come home, I was reading in the paper an article of you being up here at Santa Rosa." He said, "And I said to my wife, 'Honey, doesn't that sound familiar to you somehow?'" (And them people may be setting present right now for all I know.) Said, "Doesn't that sound..."
Said, "Oh, well," said, "paper's been writing this minister up."
And said--said, "But that sounds familiar."
And after dinner, they went up in the attic and got some old--garret up there--and got this suitcase out, or the old something that they carried their prophecies in--an old yellow piece of paper. And one of them had spoke in tongues, and the other one had prophesied and said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, It shall come to pass; just before the end time that My servant William Branham will come up the west coast praying for the sick." And said spelled "W-i double l-i-a-m B-r-a-n-h-a-m." And there it was, old yellow paper of twenty-five years before that. And I'd have been about seven or eight years old. It'd have been about 1915, somewhere along there (See?), that they--that it happened.

L-6 And the west coast holds many great memories to me, and I'm constantly going on this west coast. Why? Civilization has traveled with the sun. The oldest civilization we have is in the east, and there's where the Holy Spirit first fell, was in the east. And civilization has traveled westward, and has come to the west coast, just a mile or two over here or so I suppose, we're--we're on the sea. We go right back east again. Here's where all the heap of everything has pounded up, here on this west coast, over here. Here's where both good and bad, the worst and the best, comes together, right here at the west coast.
Before I leave the west coast this time... This is probably my last mission trip up and down here. And I--I want to preach on "When the East and West Meets." And I've had the context-like in my heart for a long time.

L-7 I was saying to this person... Said, "Brother Branham, when you come, it was just a little gift. Every once in a while in the line, you'd catch somebody, and take a hold their hand, and stand there a few minutes, and look them in the eye and say, 'You have a certain disease,' and it was always right."
"But you prophesied, and you said there would come a time, that the Angel of the Lord had told you, that commissioned you to go, that you would know the very secret of their heart, and would tell the people the things that they had done, and would do, and so forth. You prophesied that would come to pass."
And said, "Your ministry today is a hundred percent plus higher than it was then, 'cause everything that you prophesied would come to pass, has did it, and your ministry's greater." Said, "You stood last night to some woman down along the line," said, "just reeled off her history, what was going on." And said, "The people seemed to say, 'Real nice.'"
And said, "Just... when you'd take the people by the hand in the first place, and just say one thing, people would rush to the altar as fast as they could." And said, "You made an altar call last night." And said, "Was there people setting there?"

L-8 I said, "Backsliders, sinners, and everything else. See?" And said, "Not one would respond." I said, "You see (See?) God's gifts becomes perfected, but the revival's been over for a long time." See? The revival's gone.
Nineteen fifty-six I prophesied in Chicago that Billy Graham that year would return and cancel his meetings. Tommy Osborn would return, and America would see its last call. And from then the revival would die. I just count back and see. We got that on record. See? And the revival is gone.
See, the light has to... the water has to fall on seed that's got life, or it won't come to life. There's no life there to bring it to life. "All the Father has given Me will come, and no one can come except My Father has called him." See? That--that's right. So today the revival ended.


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