<TITLE>12. Par 97-103</TITLE>L-97 Now as soon, just as soon as Simon... Let's take just a little back drama of Simon a minute, being an old man. His father was an old man too. And perhaps maybe one day, as I read a little story of him... His father was a fisherman, and he was pulling in. They was needing fish bad. So they, that day they got a great catch. They always prayed before they went to fish. And so he had some debts to pay, and he caught a--a big bunch of fish. And he set down on the side of the boat and put his arm around Simon, and said, "Simon." His name was Jonas, you know. And he said, "Simon, my boy, I've thought that someday I'd see Messiah. That's been the hope of our people since we've come from Egypt, or since we knowed there was a promised Messiah. Four thousand years has passed, son. Many great men, prophets, has died, looking for Him. I thought He would come in my generation. But I'm getting old now, perhaps I won't see Him. But, Simon, I want you to remember, you and Andrew, that He'll probably come in your generation, for I'm old now and I'm ready to go be with my people. I've tried to raise you boys right, tried to raise you on the Word."
"Now, listen. Now, Simon and Andrew, before that Messiah really rises, there will be lots of things go on under the name of Messiah, because that'll be the enemy. But don't you forget, Simon, you and Andrew always stay with the Word. Don't leave the Word. Remember, Messiah will be a prophet like Moses, for that's exactly. No matter, he might be a great ecclesiastical giant, and he might be able to explain the words, he might be able to do anything like that; but the Bible said He will be a prophet like Moses. (Amen.) Now, that's the way you'll know Him."

L-98 And that day when Simon walked up, and Andrew, in His Presence, and Jesus standing there, Who Andrew had told him, "We have found the Messiah."
And I'd imagine Peter thought like this, or Simon, as he was then, "Now, you've probably gone off on the deep end, Andrew. I'll go over with you, and I'll know."
So as he walked up before Jesus, Jesus said, "Your name is Simon, and you are the son of Jonas."
That was enough. That was it. He believed Him and accepted Him, in such a way that he had the keys to the Kingdom afterwards. He didn't take any schooling or anything; he had the keys to the Kingdom. Because by the revelation of God he knew that that was Messiah, because it was the Scriptural Messiah. He was a prophet, and they hadn't had a prophet for four hundred years since Malachi. They'd had false prophets. But a real prophet who told the Truth... And here was a Man standing here Who, as soon as He seen him, not only knew who he was, but knew who his godly old father was that had instructed him. That settled it. "Thou art the Christ, the Son of God." See?
"Your name is Simon. You are the son of Jonas." That was enough to show him. Now, that's what Jesus did yesterday to prove Hisself, that He was Messiah.

L-103 There was one standing there. We'll hurry. There was one standing there by the name of Philip. Why, it enthused him. That's the one we're reading of here. It enthused him so much. Now, Philip might've said, "Say, that's--that settles it. Now, I'm sure."
Around the hill he went, fifteen miles. He had a friend that he'd went to school with, a good man, a man of Scripture, a man of integrity, a man would--that knowed the Scripture and loved God. And I can see him knock on the door [Brother Branham knocks--Ed.] and--and say, "Where is Nathanael?"
His wife said, "He's out into the--the yard out there. He's praying."
He went to find him, and he was under a tree. And when he found him, he said, "Come, see Who we have found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph."


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