<TITLE>10. Par 48-52</TITLE>L-48 Remember, when Israel got to doing that, God raised up an Isaiah. When that time was lived out, and they started again, He raised up a Jeremiah, on down through. And God doesn't change His way of doing things; He's the eternal God. He can't change. His first idea of doing it has to ever remain the same.
What we need today is a Message anointed with the Messiahship of Christ. But would they receive it? They pray for it, but would they receive it? No, sir, they wouldn't receive it. They crucify it like they did the first place. The human heart is deceiving.
Morality, national strife... Where was the world any more ready to fall apart in morals than it is today? And who set the--who set the pace? We Americans.
When I was at--at San Angelo in Rome, here not long ago, by the San Angelo catacomb, there was a sign up there to the American women to "Please put on clothes to honor the dead, before entering the catacomb." A religious nation, supposed to be a God-fearing nation, we're living on past experiences of other people, our forefathers which were Christians.

L-50 National strife... There's never been a time in the world that this world was any more in a national tear up and falling apart than it is right now. Why, you see editorials, and newscasts, and--and commentators, and--and predictors, and so forth, saying of the bombs and what they could do: just any little nation destroy the whole world. And there's no peace among them. You can't bring peace that way. Peace and fellowship cannot come by--by politics; it come by Christ. They don't want to receive It.
How I could speak some things here: The corruptness in our own politics, why, politics is so rotten. You was hearing "Monitor" the other night, I suppose, or think this broadcast, hour or two out of Louisville here, where they connect across the nation. And they was giving... They do once in a while on different subjects, and they gave it on Mr. Nixon's turning away from politics when he lost his race, political race in Los Angeles, or through California, and would he ever come back? And when the broadcast, after two or three hours, I'd listened at it coming from down to Brother Charlie's house here, and listened at it coming up, Brother Wood and I, on the radio. And come to find out that Nixon, on all eastern country here, as far as the broadcast reached, from Mississippi to Pennsylvania, that he had beat Mr. Kennedy, and the people calling and expressing, almost four to one votes. Then a man stood and said, "If you hadn't have had crooked machines he'd be President." There you are. Politics, cheating, rotten on both sides. I don't blame him; I'd throw up my hands too, and let the nasty stuff corrupt. It's going with the world anyhow. But hold your hands towards Christ and say, "Here I come, Lord."

L-52 National strife... And now, where you ought to think that they ought to be trying to hold together, they're so separated. That's the way it was in the coming time two thousand years ago when the world was falling apart. It's falling apart today under the same conditions.
And then the church corruption, oh, my, the religious corruption... Oh, it's ridiculous to see the world after two thousand years of the Bible and the Holy Spirit being here on earth, and today it's falling apart as bad as it was two thousand years ago. Religious corruption, politics entered religion, and religion entered politics. Such a horrible thing to see the condition... I know it's... You say, "Brother Branham, you oughtn't to be painting us a picture like this here at Christmas time." You ought to know the truth, what you ought to know. Now, how can...


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