<TITLE>15. Par 140-148</TITLE>L-140 "Brother Branham, there's a man setting down here on the corner. Go down and heal him; we'll believe in Divine healing." That's the devil, the same one said, when they put a rag around His face and hit Him on top of the head in the courts and said, "If you be a prophet, tell us who hit you now. We'll believe it." He don't clown for nobody. "If Thou be the son of God, turn these stones into bread. If thou be..." He could have done it, but He don't clown for nobody. "If Thou be the son of God, come down off the cross," the clergy saying that. See? He didn't clown for nobody.
He done just as the Father showed Him, and nothing else. That's what He said, St. John 5:19, "The Son can do nothing in Himself, only what He sees the Father doing." There you are.

L-143 Notice. "We'll go up and stand around the ark, and if it starts raining..."
I imagine Noah said--got in the first layer, climbed up to the next layer, the birds, from the creeping things, up to the next office, from justification, up to sanctification, the birds, then he went from that on into the baptism of the Holy Ghost, where the window was, where the light could come in. "I got up in the heavenly, set down." Said, "All right, family, you that come in here with me, in the morning... It's getting late this afternoon now. Now, God closed the door down there. In the morning there will be darkness all over the earth. In the morning the rains will go to falling and the ark will float away, and God will--will diminish every one of those cruel sinners that's disbelieved the message." All of them waiting...

L-144 The next morning, got up, looked out, pretty and bright. He went in the ark, how many knows what day he went in on? The 17th day of May, when Noah was six hundred years old. The 17th day of May, the Bible said so. And when he went in, the 17th day passed; the sun come up just as hot as it ever was.
I'd imagine them, borderline, saying, "Ah, I told you there wasn't nothing to it. What are you all hanging around up there for? Get away from such a quack."
"Well, I guess that was right."
But, you see, there is a dividing line that's drawn between belief and unbelief. And you either come one side or the other. And there's a time when you receive your last call.
So the second day, what a disappointment that was to Noah and his church, when he told them God's going to destroy the world. But you know how long? He set it out seven days; nothing happened. Testing...

L-148 Then on the eighth day, there was darkness all over the earth; great big drops begin to fall from the skies, the water begin to pour; the fountains was broke up. The streets filled up with water. People knocked at the door, but Noah couldn't even hear them. And she floated above the highest hill, and all without the ark perished.
God testing Noah to see if he'd try to climb out the window, or something. After He had already made the promise, Noah set it out.
That's it. When you've got the promise, and you know it's a promise, stay with it. Abraham had to be tested. Stay with the promise.
Now, they got their last sign. Then their body was changed. And immediately little Isaac appeared on the scene, lovely little Jewish boy. I'd imagine after his eight days he was circumcised, how that young mother, hundred years old... How that Abraham, hundred years old--or her ninety, and him a hundred, how they must've been about, around their twenties, rejoicing. This young little fellow, how sweet he was...


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