<TITLE>21. Par 264-276</TITLE>L-264 Oh, brother, do you see what I mean? That same Jesus that went up, come back again on the Day of Pentecost, in the form of the Holy Ghost and Fire. It should be upon the people, doing the same thing He did, 'cause He said It would do it. Where we at? See what I mean? Moses, the Fire was in Moses. It left the bush, come on Moses.

L-265 We try to put the Fire in the furnace. That's about all we got. What we need is Holy Spirit Fire, that same Pillar of Fire that led Israel. Sure.

L-266 Oh, you say, "Now, Brother Branham, I'd be careful about that."

L-267   Now, wait a minute. When Paul, the great theologian that had plenty of experience, but on the road to Damascus, and he was stricken down. He looked up and there was that Pillar of Fire. He knowed that was God. He had seen It vindicated in the Bible, It was God. And he called Him, "Lord." Said, "Lord, Who are You? What can I do?"
He said, "I am Jesus."

L-268 That settled it. Paul had an Absolute. He knowed that the God of the Old Testament was Jesus Christ of the New. There he was anchored, and nothing should move him. Sure. He had the vindication. Why? The same Pillar of Fire that led His people out of Egypt into Israel, into Palestine, that same Pillar of Fire was standing there claiming to be Jesus Christ. Then he knowed where he was at. Then he was ready. Soon as he got healed and filled with the Holy Ghost, he was ready to go. See?

L-269   But, he had an Absolute. It stayed with him, before Agrippa and all the great men of them days, and women. He stood there pleading for the Word. Why? He knowed that the Word was God.

L-270 Who wrote the book of Hebrews? Paul, sure. He was inspired to do it. But why? That Pillar of Fire that met him was in him. That's the reason he could write.

L-271 That's the reason Moses wrote the first four books of the Bible, because, that Pillar of Fire. How would he ever know how creation started? How would he ever knowed about the others? Because, that same Pillar of Fire that was in him, that was on the bush, come off the bush and was on him. And it was vindicated and proved that It was. Korah and them want to start an organization against It, but it didn't work. It failed. Moses had that Absolute.

L-272   Paul had the same Absolute, the same Pillar of Fire, the same Holy Spirit, the same God, not the "I was," or "I will be," The "I AM," uh-huh, present tense, always.

L-273 Joshua had an Absolute. That's when he met the Chief Captain, the host of Israel's Chief Captain. And He told him to "march around the walls." They was all fortified in. Oh, man, you talk about, hard to get in? Hard to have a revival in there, because no one would let him in. They was all closed up, on him. But he met the Chief Captain. He told him what to do. "Just put on full armor of God, and keep marching." Amen. "The walls will fall down." And when the people shouted, and the trumpets sounded, that was his absolute. He went right in for his campaign then, right in to--to Jericho. Sure. He had an Absolute, the Word of, from the Chief Captain.

L-274   John, when he was a young man, and he knowed he had to train. He was going to--he was going to have to introduce the Messiah. He was the one. He never knowed Who He was. He was somewhere. And John knowed that he couldn't just take a seminary experience. He had to have an Absolute. He had to have something to be absolutely the truth.

L-275 Now, brethren, I want to ask you something. Ministers, not to be different, not to be mean, but to be honest, don't you think this is a day, in all this chaos that we're living in, we got to be--we got to be sure about this thing? There's too many differences.

L-276   And John knew he had to be absolutely sure, so he never went to his father's school. There nothing said he went back to learn to be a priest. But he went to the wilderness, and was in the wilderness until his calling forth.


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