<TITLE>18. Par 199-211</TITLE>L-199   If your church members, your colleagues in church don't notice it, you just keep on praying. He wanted to see, one more time, God's Word made manifest before that blinded, drunken bunch of heathens, unbelievers. If that's the hungering of the church today, to see once more, the old-fashion, God-sent revival, from the pulpit plumb to the janitor, an old-fashion cleaning up, an old-fashion revival with the power of God, a--a Gospel that cleans a man throughly, from the inside out; gun-barrel straight, old-fashion, back-woods, sky-blue, killing, sin-killing religion that takes all the Hollywood out of you, them that's interested.

L-200 There he was, praying. Not a new denomination now, a new creed; but a vindication of the Word. "Lord, You were once upon me, You once give me strength. If I only had that strength! I've got the muscles, but they're weak."

L-201   We've got the members, but they're weak. They love things of the world better than they do the things... You say I'm all... Oh? Look upon the churches and find out. Don't try to deny it. Your actions speaks more than your words does, see. Oh, yeah, got more members, bigger muscles, but where is the strength of the Lord? Your big muscles won't meet the challenge of this hour, the rapturing faith to take the Church out of this thing before judgment strikes the earth.

L-202 And judgment is fixing to strike. I'll say, as my friend Jack Moore said; if God lets America get by with the things it's doing now, He'll be morally obligated to raise up Sodom and Gomorrah and apologize to it, for burning her up. Right! Judgment is next.

L-203   God, take all the world out of me. Give me faith, O Lord, for a Rapture. For, there will be two in the bed, and one will be taken, one left. Two will be in the--in the automobile seat, and one will be taken and the other one be left. It's going to happen in a moment.
You say, "Brother Branham, when will it be?"

L-204 You might criticize this. If it's all right to say it? [Ministers say, "Go ahead and say it, brother."--Ed.] Let me drop a little something here. One day you're going to find out.

L-205 You're going to say there, "Oh, I been taught that there is this, that, and the other, going to happen before the Lord comes. There will be a great tribulation period, and we'll go through it." See? See?

L-206   You know, one time Jesus was asked a question. He said, "Why does the scribes say that Elias must first come?"

L-207 And Jesus said, "I say unto you, He has already come, and you didn't know it."

L-208 One of these days you're going to say, "Well, I thought the Church was going, had to do this, that, and the other. I thought there would be a Rapture. I thought..."

L-209 See, it'll be a secret catching away. If He took one here in Hot Springs, and one somewhere else, and one down there, and one there, will make up literally millions of those that come up out of the ground. And there is at least five hundred people, every day, missed in the world, and we don't even know where they went to. See, the Rapture is going to make up of all those who sleep in the dust of the earth, that's right with God.
They'll say, "Well, I thought a Rapture was to take place."
"It's already passed, and you knew it not. You are left." See?
"Well, everything is going..." Yes, sir.

L-210 It's a secret Coming, the Rapture is, comes to steal away. Like that book I read that time (what was it), Juliet and Romeo. He come at nighttime, when the people were sleeping in worldliness, and the church all in worldliness. And all of a sudden, the cry come, and away they went.

L-211   Listen, you've heard so much in the Christian Business Men, the Full Gospel Men, saying, "Oh, you know, Rev. Holy Father So-and-so! The Presbyterians are beginning to receive the Holy Ghost. The Lutherans are beginning to receive the Holy Ghost."


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