<TITLE>08. Par 76-86</TITLE>L-76 Isaiah 35 said it would be a sign. "The lame would leap like a hart," and so forth, "the blind would see." It was a sign.

L-77 He displayed His sign as Messiah, and so forth. And they, many of them, said, "Yes, I could go for that." Well, now, if that was a sign, there has got to be a voice of that sign. What was the voice behind it? When He begin to teach His doctrine and call them a bunch of snakes in the grass. He wasn't popular from then on, see, when the voice came with the sign. The sign went first.

L-78   Moses went down in Egypt with a sign. And he threw down his rod, turned into a serpent. That was sign. But after a while, the voice come with the sign. Then it was different. See, they don't want that. The--the voice, must be, follow a sign. And at no other time could it ever have come but that time, because it was time for the Scriptures to be fulfilled. Look what He told him, in the burning bush, "I have seen the groans and heard them of My people, and seen their afflictions by the taskmasters of Egypt, and I remember My promise that I made Abraham." Four hundred years had expired, and He told Abraham they would be down there. See, no other time could it be. Moses had to come just at that time.

L-79   God's big clock ticks perfect. It won't be one minute fast or one minute behind. It'll be just exactly on the time. Well, so, you see, everything was running just right, could not come at other times.

L-80 Neither could these things come at other times. This could not have come in the days of Luther. It could not have come in the days of Wesley. The days of the Baptists or Methodists, in their days, it couldn't have come. It has to come now. Israel has to be a nation. The churches has to be like they are now. There had to be a third message, a third church age. There had to be a Laodicea. It could not form until Pentecost come and shot their wad, and went out and organized, and did what they did. Then it has to come, then comes the Lord, when they put Him out of the church. He is the Word.

L-81   They're afraid to challenge that Word anywhere. They keep awful quiet about It, but yet they fuss about it.

L-82 Chicago, here not long ago, when the Lord gave me a vision. I had three hundred ministers down there. I said, "Now I know what you... About serpent's seed, and so forth," I said, "one of you take your Bible and come stand by my side and disprove it." The quietest bunch you ever heard. I said, "Then keep off of my back." See, it's out of their school of thinking.

L-83 Yet, they say, "Brother Branham is a prophet when he is anointed, but when the anointing is off of him, oh, I don't know." What a... If that isn't a mark of a--a--a--a mixed-up theologian! The very...

L-84 The word prophet means "a Divine revelator of the Word." The Word of the Lord come to the prophets. That's how Jesus was identified. And they said after the resurrection, they said, "We know He was a prophet of God, see, no man could do these things 'less God be with him," then wouldn't accept His message. They wouldn't accept John, and he was a prophet. Wouldn't accept Elijah, none of the rest of them, and they had the Divine revelation.

L-85   The word, the English word, prophet, English words can mean anything, it means "a preacher." But when you say prophet, of the old Bible, it meant "a seer." And his credentials was, that, what he told come to pass, and that was a sign that he was a prophet; he also that was the sign that he had the Divine revelation of the written Word. And then God confirming it, behind him, proved it.

L-86 How? Well, it just has to be this way, that's all. There ain't no way of getting around it. God said it would be that way, and there you are. But there it is today, see, that Token has got to be there, that identifies that Word and makes it exactly true. Then how He promised for, how He prepared all of His promised-land people, now, when He was going to have this exodus, which was a type.


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