<TITLE>28. Par -</TITLE>L-43-3 As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be at the coming of the Son of man, wherein eight souls were saved. Uh-huh. How many come out of Sodom? Uh-huh. See what I mean? I doubt being a handful. See?
"But the Church itself has received the shaking. They've recognized it. They knowed the Word. They seen the Word when It was being materialized, and they caught It. Now, look at that for a minute."
Now, and this first message, when they'd see it, everybody rallied for it; said, "Oh, glory to God. Oh, if I could see... this, that, and the other," and they'd go right away, the same way they come in, See? And now, they think, "Well, I don't know. Where would you join? If I don't come with this, it'll be this way; and I'll be kicked out over here, and I won't have nothing to do here."

L-43-6 And brethren set down and say, "Well, what would I do if I..." See there? They won't stop long enough to recognize It's the Word that God promised being manifested (See?), and they walked away. But don't worry, the shadows are close at hand. See?
When I returned to the field... You remember the other night of the message that He give me back yonder when I was laying the cornerstone, just exactly, said, "Do the work..." Said, "When you come out of this vision, read II Timothy 4." You know it's laying right there in the cornerstone--thirty-three years ago. Said, "Do the work of an evangelist. Make full proof of your ministry, for the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall heap teachers, having itching ears, turn from fable--from Truth unto fables." If that hasn't been just word by word. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]

L-44-1 But remember then, the other night when I never did read the rest of it. The thirty something years that I've preached in this tabernacle, never one time did I ever go any farther than that, and I don't know why. I often wondered, till one day I seen where Jesus picked up the Scroll and begin to read, and read half of the prophecy, and stopped, and said (there in Capernaum), He said, "And this day, this prophecy's fulfilled." Why didn't He read the rest of it? It pertains to His second coming. See?
And there I'd read that not knowing... I picked up that, and there it was right before me at Southern Pines, South Carolina. That morning, standing out there talking to Joseph Boze, leaned up against the side of a car [Brother Branham snaps his fingers--Ed.], I struck it. Paul said, "I... All men has turned against me. There's no man with me. Demas has forsaken me, loving this present world. And I now... (Look.) And the coppersmith done me much harm."

L-44-3 Look what Demas must have thought. "Why, I seen Paul preach the Gospel and heal the sick; and here he sets suffering himself, carrying a doctor along with him, Luke, all the time he goes, taking a doctor with him, a man preaching Divine... Why, I seen him smite a man blind; said, 'The Lord rebuke thee, and you'll be blind for a season'; and let the coppersmith run him out of a meeting. I guess he lost his power to smite men blind. I guess he lost his power of Divine healing. God's turned against him."


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