<TITLE>22. Par 228-238</TITLE>L-228   Minister, member, good man, moral man, whatever you are, and you know that God taken cigarettes from you. Women, you know He has taken shorts, and--and short hair, and everything, from you. You know He did that. But then if you turn around and do despite, and count that Blood of the covenant, as It was, "an unholy thing," Who has sanctified you and brought you this far!

L-229 Like the spies, if they come right up here to the borderland, and looked over, and said, "Well, I know it's there, but the obstacle is too great. We look like grasshoppers," they perished in the wilderness. Borderline believers!

L-230   Don't just come this far, say, "I believe the Message." You obey the messenger. Come into Christ! You say, "Well, I believe every Word said, Brother Branham." That's good, but that's just--that's just being able to read.

L-231 Take the Message, take It into your heart, that you must have the Token, the very Life that was in Christ be in you. "When I see That, I will pass over you."

L-232   As we see the great end-time signs on earth today, we know that that's right. Now look, I've waited for this, for a long, long time, for this Message to you. See? And you've seen the end-time signs. And I've preached It to you, and showed It to you, by everything that Christ said. Is that right? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] You'll admit that? ["Amen."] We're at the end time. I don't see nothing left.

L-233 You say, "What about the mark of the beast?" Those who reject the Holy Spirit is already marked by the beast. The punishment will come later. See?

L-234   In Israel, when the trumpet sounded in the Jubilee year, every man... You notice Christ, in reading that? He just read half of it, 'cause just half of it was applied to that time. See? "He sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, preach deliverance, and so forth, see," but, He, "and the acceptable year of the Lord." The rest of it, He never--He never read that; He laid the Scroll down, for that's for this day. See? He just read part of it, part was His day.

L-235 Now this is what He is going to do today. This is what He is speaking, through His anointed Spirit, to the church today. Now is the hour. Now is the time. Receive It, people. Receive It!

L-236   What! We see the great end times, the flashing red lights, everywhere. Upon nature, we see nature flashing the light, "The time is at hand." We see it upon the church, flashing the light. She is condemned. "The time is at hand." She is in the world. We see it upon--upon the skies, upon the sea, upon the nations, upon everywhere; in the sun, moon, stars. Signs!

L-237 We see the end-time signs of the Holy Ghost returned back upon the people. As it was in the days of Lot, how the Holy Spirit worked through that human flesh there, that was God manifested in flesh. How God would man Himself in, Himself in His Bride in that day, and show the same sign, Jesus said it'll be the same thing in the last days. We see it. We see the same Pillar of Fire. Even science has took the pictures of It, and so forth. We see the end time signs is at hand. We know it's here.

L-238   And then, seeing this, if you believe me! If you don't believe me; believe the signs, believe the Word, for they speak of what I'm telling you. If I ain't telling you the Truth, they'd never speak back. God will never speak to a lie. God speaks to Truth. And these Words are testifying that I am telling you the Truth. They are the one that testifies of the Message that I'm preaching. Not only the Angel down there on the river that day, that said, "your Message will forerun the second Coming of Christ," the works itself! If you can't believe that Angel told the Truth; believe the works, for the Bible said these things will happen at the end time. They are They that testify. They are the ones that speaks louder than my words or anyone else. It's His Word. They testify of the time.


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