<TITLE>29. Par -</TITLE>1L-037-Q-314 314. Is it too late for jail services and such work for a testimony to try to save souls? Also should one sell all they have now, the Lord is coming so soon?
Well, how--how do you... I hope I haven't said anything that would cause you to believe such as that. Have I? If I have, forgive me. I don't mean... See? Don't just presume those things. Keep right on going, preaching, having jail service, getting everybody, and don't...
Looky here. The Seventh Day Adventists here not long ago, about fifty or sixty years ago, I seen it in the Courier-Journal paper (I got it somewhere in a trunk.), a great big piece of Courier-Journal paper, where they throwed the old wings out, where when they was called Millerites before they become Seventh Day Adventists. And they had a whole big sheet in the Courier paper up here at Franklin, Kentucky, when they all sold their property and got... They set a certain date, proved it by the Scripture; Jesus was coming on that date, and went up there and got their harps and things, and set upon top the hill. The next morning come down, the dew had took all the feathers down, and they come down deflated. See? It's cults and things.

1L-038-202 Don't you believe that. Jesus might not come for a hundred years yet. I don't know when He's coming. No man knows when He's coming. But I'm going to try to keep on preaching and doing everything I can till He does come. If He isn't here today, I'll be looking for Him tomorrow. If He isn't here to--this week, I'll be looking for Him next week. If He isn't here in the next ten years, and I live, I'll be looking for Him the next thirty years. See? I'll still be looking. I don't know when He's coming, but I want to live true to His Word and true to His people, and live like a Christian, and wait for His coming. See?
Keep on preaching jail services, getting everybody saved you can. I don't know when He's coming; nobody does. But I'll say this one thing. This is why I'm trying to tell you, and I hope you don't try to put your own interpretation... Not bawling this person out. God bless you, brother, sister, whoever you are. It looked like it was somebody from out of town, 'cause it was on a--on a postcard, I think, from Denver, Colorado, and... Yeah, Pike's Peak, Colorado. So it might've been somebody sent it in by mail, but that--that's perfectly all right. They might get the tape.
But let's remember, don't you change anything, only your ways from sin to righteousness. Just keep right on at your job, going right on just the same. All that understand that clearly say, "Amen." [Congregation replies "Amen."--Ed.] See? Do that now.

1L-038-Q-315 315. Brother Branham, in Matthew 12:40 it says, "As Jonas was in--three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth." How can it be that day that they say--today that they say He was put in the tomb on Friday evening and rose Sunday morning, making it only two nights and one day?
Now, if you notice, it said, "As it was" (You see?) in the days when Jonah was in the belly three days and three nights... It's within three days and three nights, within that three days and three nights, because you can't make the Scripture lie. The prophet said, "I will not suffer my holy One to see corruption; neither will I leave His soul in hell." And corruption sets in the human body in seventy-two hours, which is three days and three nights. Sometime within that three days and three nights that--He must come forth from the grave.
So being three days and three nights, don't mean it has to be exactly that; it's sometime within that three days and three nights. He had to come forth, because the prophecy cannot be broken, that the... He could not see corruption, and it would've corrupted if He'd stayed exactly that time.


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