<TITLE>37. Par -</TITLE>L-976-Q-269 269. Also about these families that have sold out and moved to Sierra Vista, Arizona, where they have interpreted from one of your tapes titled (just a minute) "Little Bethlehem," "Little Bethlehem," the rapture will take place in Arizona. Did you advise them to go there?
I certainly did not. When they wrote a letter about that, somebody up here in Connecticut or something, I answered the letter back and said, "You're making the worst move you ever made in your life. Don't you do a thing like that." See, you can't... Well, you just remember, you people... Now, you all know that I'm not telling them people to do that; I'm telling them not to do it. But you see, that's got to follow the meeting. Why does people call me Messiah? Why does people... They got carry... Well, one fellow out there showed me the other day, he had a little thing and he was go--carrying on, wanted all the people to be baptized in my name. That'd make me a antichrist. But I'm not for those things, and all you people know that. But you see, this has got... That only identifies the Message true.
Did not they come and try to tell John, the--that forerun the first coming of Christ, "Aren't you the Messiah?"
He said, "I am not. I'm not even worthy to loose His shoes. I'm not even worthy to look at Him." See? But he said, "He that cometh after me..."

L-976-Q-270 270. Now, Brother Branham, are we missing out on something? These people claim to believe every word that you say to be true. (But they don't. They don't believe it. Their own actions prove that they don't.) Please let me know your straight answer: yes or no (You've got it. All right.) about these things, and if it is true, we want to make ready to go join with the rest of them there--the rest of them. I--I thank you very much for your answers to these questions, as I will be waiting to hear them this Sunday, if the Lord should tarry.
Oh, my. Well, brother, sister, I--I hope it's understood (See?) that I did not, do not... Now, if people... Oh, sure, if you want to come out to Arizona to live... And now, I'll be out in Arizona maybe this first semester. I'll have to come back here. I'll have... I--I want to stay there; kids are healthier and everything. I--I want to stay there a little while, and I've got a purpose. Remember now, on the tape, THUS SAITH THE LORD, I have a purpose in doing what I'm doing; you know I have; but I can't tell you that.
Why am I telling you not to sell your homes, you're going to come up missing, and you're going to be on the short end of the rope. Don't do that. I won't stay in Arizona but a little bit. Why? I can't do it now.

L-977-250 If I let those people stay out there and go on charity, what's going to happen? Then that's just exactly what the denominations and all of them is looking for. "Aha, I told you what was behind him, another school of prophets or something." See? There you are; that's just what they're looking for. After all, them people, I'm responsible for them; though they have not done what I told them to do, and they've done exactly... You say, "Let them go; they--they did what you told them not to do." That isn't in my heart. I still want to go for them. They're my kids. I might give them a little spanking when I get them back, but I--but I--I'm sure going after them. And how am I going to do out there?
They said, "We come to follow the Word." I haven't even got a church to send them to there. The kind of churches they'll go to there is the same kind you leave at other places, maybe worse. See? And they won't go to church anyhow, and I have no church to preach to them. Then I'm morally obligated to take my children out of Arizona, where...


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