<TITLE>13. Par 127-135</TITLE>L-127   And then when Wesley got them all settled down to the Pilgrim Holiness and Free Methodist, and so forth, on sanctification, and along came the Pentecostal message, why, it was hard for a Methodist to believe that. Uh-huh, sure, it was. See, it's a...

L-128 Yet one speaks of the other one, Scripturally speaking. Enoch told of the coming destructions, by his rapture, God taking him home; he was a witness. Abraham told them of Moses. And Moses told of the Messiah. See, they keep telling, one to the other. Messiah told of this time, telling what this would be!
You say, "Ah, Brother Branham!"

L-129   Oh, yes, He did! Let's just... I got many Scriptures wrote down here, and I'll just refer to two or three of them. Let's take Matthew 24. Now let's take Matthew, the 24th chapter, and read what He told there would take place, how "Nations would rise against nation." But, remember, then He gets down there and He says, "As it was in the days of Noah, and as it was in the days of Lot, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." He foretold it, He predicted these things would happen!

L-130 He said, "Now, when all this was happening, the time's not yet," so forth. But said, "Learn a parable of the fig tree, when its young and puts forth branches, and all the other trees, then you know that summer is nigh. Likewise, when you see this come to pass, know the time is nigh, even at the door." Now, when you see what? The fig tree budding, and all the other trees begin to bud, it was a sign. And Israel has always been the fig tree.

L-131   Joel even prophesied of it, "What the palmerworm left, the caterpillar eaten and taken the thing down. But God promised, 'I will restore, saith the Lord.'" And He will do it. But before He can restore that back in its spiritual state, the Gentile church has to be taken out. He won't have two of them at the same time. Now, you can't make the Scriptures twist themselves like that. See? He never had two witnesses the same time, major witnesses, and He never had--He never... He don't have two Churches at the same time.

L-132   Notice, if the Gentile church has to be taken away first, for the Jews, then the end of the Seventy weeks of Daniel takes place. The three and a half years Messiah prophesied, and then He was cut off, the Prince, in the middle of the seventieth week. And, then, there's three and a half weeks left yet. And we find out two prophets of Revelation (He never changes His coat again), of Revelation 11, comes down and prophesies to the Jews. Now, the Church will be taken away at that time.

L-133 And we see Israel, the first time for several hundreds of years, almost over two thousand years, is now become a nation; her own army, her own money. Israel is in the homeland; her own nation, own flag, belonging to the United Nations. She is a nation! Why, it's one of the greatest signs that we could think of, right now, Israel in her homeland. And Jesus said, "This generation that sees Israel go back to her homeland shall not pass until all has been fulfilled." See, He spoke of this day.

L-134   Let me just give another. In Second Timothy 3, He spoke of the church at the end time, said, "They would be heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God." Take the church world, over, "lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God," stay home and watch a television program before attending prayer meeting on Wednesday night.
You say, "That's Baptist."

L-135 That's Pentecostals! Sure! Yes, sir. Oh! "Heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure"; put the Word right under their nose, they won't look at It. Uh-huh. "Lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God"; tell the women they shouldn't bob their hair, they bob it anyhow. Uh-huh. "Lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, and despisers of those that are right. Having..."
You say, "That's atheists." No!


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