<TITLE>36. Par 399-410</TITLE>L-399   That's what God, Christ, is doing to the Church. See? He is letting Her know the secrets, just the secrets. Not these flirters; I mean His Wife. See? All right. Now look. No. By having the revelation of His secret made known to them, by His grace! How the grace of God! People, I know it... I hope you don't think this sounds personal, to a--a bunch of people, or this, that; but the secret that God is sharing with the whole Church, if they would just receive it. See? It doesn't mean just me or just you. It means the Church, that He--He is trying to get into it.

L-400 And you say, "Well, why don't they receive it?" They can't receive it. He said, again, He said these things. "And how could they?" Because Isaiah said they can't see it. See? And He's always said...

L-401   The prophet Paul said, "In the last days the people would be heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, and despisers of those that are good; heady, highminded, see; having a form of godliness, but denying the Power thereof; from such turn away. For this is the kind that goes from house to house, and leads silly women, led away with divers lusts," with shorts, and bobbed hair, and everything else. "Led away with divers lust, and saying, 'It's all right. Oh, they're crazy out there. Don't pay no... '" See? "Never able to come to the knowledge of the Truth. And these men resisted It, as Jambres and Jannes withstood Moses," able to produce a church, and produce a group of people. Yes, sir.

L-402 "But their folly will be made manifest," when Jesus takes His Bride and sets Her up here, and said, "This is Her," and away He goes with Her. That's right. And their folly will be made known.

L-403   Look at having the revelation of this secret made known to them by His grace! Look! When this great revelation, revealed mystery, is made known to you, then you denounce all the things of the world.

L-404 Now I'm going to come back once again. I just might as well say it. I'm pointing to it. The tape's sake, and those that are going across. This tape goes across the world. See?

L-405 You women that claim you've got the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and not the audacity to let your hear grow out; when the Bible condemns it and said a woman's... a man has got a right to put away his wife in divorce if she bobs her hair. Honored before God, to do so. The Bible said, if she cuts her hair, she dishonors her head. And it's a common; just, you know, what any old common thing is, for a woman to even pray with bobbed hair. See?

L-406 Wearing shorts, and these slacks, and things! The Bible said, "Any woman that will," (oh, you say...) "that put on a garment that pertains to a man, it's an abomination to God," filthy, dirty, like an old stinking bathroom somewhere. See? Oh, my! The filth in God's nostrils! And then you try to pray or offer up prayers in such a thing as that? God refuses it, turns it away. That's right.

L-407   "Well," you say, "now wait a minute, Brother Branham, you are talking about the Old Testament."

L-408 He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. It's the full revelation of God. God ever says anything, He can never change it. He always magnifies it, not change it. The law was magnified, not changed. Magnified!

L-409 "'Whosoever commits adultery shall be guilty of death,' but whosoever," now magnified, "looketh upon a woman to lust after her!" He never changed the commandment. He magnified it.

L-410 "'Remember the sabbath day; keep it holy,'" one day in the week; now He magnified it, the "rest" comes from keeping the Spirit of God. "Precept upon precept, and line upon line; here a little, and there a little. Hold fast that what's good. For with stammering lips and other tongues will I speak to this people. And that is the rest. That's the refreshing from the Presence of the Lord."


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