<TITLE>23. Par 223-233</TITLE>L-223 Now the spirit of unholiness, uncleanliness and lust, has veiled them; education, science, "Why, it's scientific. Wear shorts, it's cooler." The Indians teach you better than that. They wrap up in a blanket, to be air conditioned, see, and put on them. See, education has absolutely come back to a time, the very thing that they think has brought them to culture and civilization, has put them back in ignorance again, worse than they was in the first place.

L-224   Schooling, education, look at schools! Look down there at university, other night, them boys! How many babies is born by them young ladies there, to them young ladies each year at the university! You think! You say, "This is street trash." And them boys, them "twenty-one jewels," they call them, with lipstick on, and--and hair banged, and rolled up on curlers and hanging down. They say that. And dirty-necked, filthy! You say, "Well, that's just street trash." Is it? It's students of the university.

L-225 They got on a big drunk, the other night. And they didn't know what to do, and so, to have kicks. And drinking and adultery, and everything like that, wasn't enough for them. They broke the bottles, and run up to women's door, and knock on the door; they come, punch them in the face. Cut one girl's eye completely out, and a lot of them disfigured for life. You think they'd let that out? No.

L-226 Two of their boys riding up-and-down the street, and two young married women sitting on--on the steps, and they insulted the women. The cops picked them up and put them in jail. The dean come down there. And the whole thing is thriving on that university, that's the only works they got there. Said, "Them is my kids. You turn them loose." They turned them loose.

L-227 There you are; civilization, education, leads to death and chaos, and hell. Don't you listen to that stuff. Notice now.

L-228   Eve just had to take a little peep, to see what the world looked like. You know, a lot of times, "We have to just wear a little bit of this." Or, you know what I mean, just have to take a little bit of a peep, to see. Now in St. John or...

L-229 First John 2:15, God said, "If you love the world or even the love of the world, the love of God is not even in you." The things that's out there are dead. You are circumcised, cut off from it. You don't want the things of the world, you're dead to. They're dead. You don't want anything dead. It's rotten. It smells. How could a living something want something that's filthy like that? See, you are alive in Christ. The Word makes you alive.

L-230   My, when I think of it in this day that we're living, called education! You can't even get in the pulpit unless you got a Doctor's Degree, and so forth.

L-231 It reminds me of a chaplain, one time, coming out of the army. He said--he said, "Brother Branham, it was right after the First World War." Said, the chaplain said, "Sergeant come by and said, 'Chaplain, you want to ride out to the battle front with me, out on the Argonne,'" out there from La Salle, Lorraine, France, you know. And said, "I went out towards the Argonne Forest." And said, "He was taking number of so many tanks had been blowed up."

L-232 And said, "It was on an Easter morning." Said, "I just got through... I walked through with a nurse, and she was giving those wounded boys, an American rose, you know, one an American used to. Them boys grabbed that rose, and just scream and cry, 'cause they knew it come from home." See, it was from home.

L-233 And that's the way I think we do the Word, see, grab It, "O God!" It comes from Home, see.


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