<TITLE>16. Par 162-177</TITLE>L-162 I hand-load shells. I shoot a.220 Swift, and I put it five thousand feet per second at the muzzle. And then you put just a half a grain more powder in it, and you shoot against the wall there, you see nothing. It won't make a spot. All you hear is a noise. What happens? When that bullet leaves the barrel so fast with that copper and lead, till it turns back to its natural acids, before it was, a hundred million years ago, perhaps. But if the world would stand all that long, it might come back again to a bullet, again. You see, it, nothing is annihilated. It returns back. Oh, what a wonderful thing!

L-163   I'm holding you too long. All right. I'll close, just a moment. See?

L-164 Now, God said, "I'll raise it up again at the last days." How wonderful!

L-165 They should have known this. They should have known He would make the winds and the waves obey Him, after His disciples found themselves at the end of their strength.

L-166 O God, let us do the same thing, tonight, find our human efforts at the end.

L-167 When they found themselves, it must have dawned on them that the Creator was with them; after their--their doctor failed, after all their psychological acceptations of Christ has failed, after doctors failed, and everything.

L-168   Just remember the Creator is with us. See? He's here, the One Who promised these things. Hebrews 13:8.
Then come the thought, "Let's go, wake Jesus."

L-169 That's the next move. That's the thing for us. Let's go, call Him on the scene. He promised to be with us. Didn't He? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] "Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the world." "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever." Go, wake Jesus, for He's with us, as He was then.

L-170 They had seen the Scriptural Word of God identified, that that was the Messiah. They knew it. See? So have we. We've seen the same thing, that come on the Day of Pentecost, come right upon us; same prescription, same thing happen. We seen Jesus stand right among us, working through people, and do heal the sick, and raise the dead, and open blinded eyes, and do the same works that He did then, just the same as He promised. So there shouldn't be any worry about it. See? Now, we shouldn't think about it.

L-171   A woman once said to me. When preaching, I happened to think on this. There was a lady said to me, she said, "Brother Branham." I've told this, many times, but it might bear telling again. She said, "There's just one thing I find wrong with your preaching."

L-172 I said, "Oh, my, thank you, see, 'just one thing'" I said, "I--I'm sure thankful to you."

L-173 She belonged to a church that didn't believe that Jesus was God. She didn't believe that He was supernatural. They didn't. She didn't believe that--that He was what He was, the Messiah. She said, "He was a Prophet. He was a good Man, but He couldn't be no Son of God. Cause, God couldn't have a Son. God is a Spirit." See? She failed to understand that God overshadowed Mary, that brought forth the virgin birth. See? And she said to me, "You make Him Divine, Mr. Branham."
I said, "He is Divine."

L-174 She said, "Why," said, "why, He couldn't be Divine." Said, "You said you believe the Bible."
I said, "I do."

L-175   She said, "If I'll prove to you, by your own Bible, that He cannot be Divine, that He was just merely a Man, a good Man." And they, well, if there's one of them in here, I don't want to hurt your feelings. Cause, Christ died... It was Christian Science, you see. And said, "Now, your healings and things," said, "I--I believe in that, every bit, but," she said, "you make Jesus to be Divine."

L-176 "Why," I said, "He's either Divine or the biggest deceiver the world ever had." See? I said, "He was either God or He was nothing." See?

L-177 And she said, "Oh, my, Mr. Branham!" Said, "He couldn't be Divine."
I said, "Well, give me your Scripture."


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