<TITLE>31. Par 319-333</TITLE>L-319 "Oh, I made a decision. I--I--I ain't going to hell; I'm going to Heaven, see," wading right on in sin. If they'd have only...

L-320   And then the Gospel being preached in the Power, and signs and wonders, with the Pillar of Fire over it, and everything going on just exactly, and predicted and set out. If they'd a... They said, "A bunch of holy rollers. It's mental telepathy. Some kind of a witch spirit. A devil, that's all It is. Don't you believe It. It's not in our organization. We don't have nothing to do with That." If they'd have only knew the sign! If they'd have only knowed!

L-321 Jesus said, said, "If you'd have only knowed your day, Jerusalem. If you could have only recognized! But," said, "now you're left to your own." See? "If you'd have only know. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how oft I would have hovered you, as a hen would her brood, from the judgments that's just to come! But you didn't know your day." "You that stoned the prophets, and killed the righteous, if you'd have only known your day! If you'd have only knowed, and had been up on your Scripture, and knowed that My coming was a sign of your end. Now you're blind. Now you've been rebuked. Your time is over." And it was. That's right. "If you'd have only knowed the time!"

L-322   Look, when Jesus made that declaration, the world went right on. See? The world went right on, normally. Why? For they knew not their hour.

L-323 The world went right on, when Noah went into the ark. The world moved right on. The scoffers, in that day, they still had sex parties. They still eat, drink, married, done the things they do today. Just exactly, normally. "Ha-ha! That old holy-roller closed the door. Now, did you ever hear of such a thing? Ha-ha! You know what he says? We're all going to be 'drowned.' Nonsense! Where is the water at?"

L-324 Scoffers, in the days of Noah. "So shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." All right. Noah knew the sign. Same thing in the days of Lot. Same things in the days of Jesus. So is it today. They scoff their last time...?...

L-325 Same at Sodom, they never knew. When that Messenger was standing there, Message from God, they only laughed at them and tried to pervert them to their own acts. Is that right? "Come in and join us. Be one of us." Is that right? "Come in and join us, be one of us. You'll be one of the boys. Come on, join us." See? They never knew their sign.

L-326   They didn't know that when that Message was going on, that the very... They couldn't see it, that the fire and wrath of judgment, as God, a fire blazes of brimstone was kindling in the skies. They couldn't see it. The messengers could. Uh-huh. Lot knew it, too. He knew it was there. Certainly.

L-327 Same as it is today, just the same thing. Wrath is kindling, atomic bombs are hanging, everything is at the end. It's the same now.

L-328 Look, people, listen. Did you know... You say, "Brother Branham, oh, what about all of it?" You know, people can go right on preaching the Gospel like they always did, what they call the Gospel, it could be over. They did in the days of Noah. They did in the days of Lot. They did in the days of Jesus. That right?

L-329 Even the Jews, after Jesus told them that the wrath... "You're done. You're finished. There is no more. You're finished."

L-330 "Oh," he said, "that holy-roller. What school did He come from? Where did He come, that?"

L-331 Remember, He was ready then for His Third Pull. Uh-huh. That's right. He said, "How oft would I have hovered you!"

L-332   Lot made his last call... or, I mean, the Angel did, the messenger, ever who He was. God represented for this day, God represented in human flesh, made the last sign, performed the last duty. It was all over then.

L-333 Noah preached his last sermon; the door closed behind him. That was all. They laughed at it, and made fun of it.


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