<TITLE>16. Par 143-152</TITLE>L-143 Oh, you know, sometime when you take an absolute, an absolute will lead you to a paradox. That's right. Yes. A paradox is something that's real, but can't be explained. It's a paradox.

L-144 When Joshua standing there, and seen he had need! God had commissioned him to go over there and take that land, whip out all them people, and--and put Israel in the land. And one day, the armies got routed, and out in the country. And the--and the first thing you know, he knowed he had them whipped, as long as he got them busted up. So, when he did, the sun was going down. And Joshua was tied to an Absolute, the Word of God, the Creator. He was tied to a job he had to do. Amen.

L-145   Sometime it ain't pleasant to have to do it; you have to hurt feelings, cut and chop. But it's an absolute.

L-146 He had need. He said, "Sun, you stand still, yonder! Moon, you hang right there!" And, for twenty-four hours, she stood still. Oh, talk about a paradox! But he was tied to an absolute, with a commission. Yes, indeed, God had commissioned him.
John was sure he would see the Dove when It come upon Him.

L-147 When I seen that Pillar of Fire, like Paul on the road down to Damascus, I knowed that was God's Absolute, there was coming a revival was going to sweep the lands. I knowed It would forerun the second Coming of Jesus Christ, and I believe it yet today. It's my Absolute, though it was a paradox. Sure, it was a paradox, for a Pillar of Fire to hang up there in the sky. And papers and everything taking the picture of It.

L-148   It was a paradox, the other day, on March the 15th, or May the 15th, I believe... no, March the 15th, this last year. When, three or four months beforehand, Sirs, What Time Is It?, said we'd go out there, "And seven Angels would meet, and come back and the--the Book of the Seven Seals would be opened." And standing right there with Brother Sothmann, that just said "amen" there, standing there by him, why, I told them, "There would be a noise that would shake the country." And I said, "It'll be there. It's THUS SAITH THE LORD." It's on tapes, tapes, tapes, from Phoenix all the way around. "It's THUS SAITH THE LORD."

L-149   One day, standing there, picking the cockleburs off, or a little bullheaders off of my legs, like it was; there that seven Angels broke through from the sky and shook the place, till, rocks, weighing fifty or sixty pounds, rolled down the hillside. There stood seven Angels standing there, commissioned me go back and to bring these Messages, and said, "One by one" they would "meet and tell what happened." And it did exactly that way. And when they ascended up on High, like that, went thirty miles high in the air; and, on the same day, they took the picture of It, science did, and went around the world. It's a paradox, but it was an Absolute. It tied me tighter into Jesus Christ, winding my life into Him. I know it seemed strange. It's always.

L-150 It was a paradox for Paul, to meet Jesus on the road to Damascus. It's a paradox when God changes a black, sinner's heart and washes it white in His Own Blood. It's a paradox. Certainly. Do you believe in paradox? And that paradox, if its according to the Word of God, it can be your absolute. Paul's conversion was a paradox, and become his absolute.

L-151   Remember here, sometime ago, I was sitting with an old druggist, and we were talking in a little place. He said, "Brother Branham, I want to ask you something." And he was a Baptist, himself. He said, "Do you believe in a paradox?"
I said, "Sure. Certainly do."

L-152 Said, "I wouldn't tell this to nobody else but you," said, "but I--I know you believe this."


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