<TITLE>24. Par 287-300</TITLE>L-287 I said, "Joseph, son, welcome." Yes, sir! Why? Why? What is it? It wasn't written in the Bible that would happen, but the same God of the Bible that revealed it to Abraham, we didn't consider the deadness of her womb, the impossibility to being that way. You don't stagger at the promise of God through unbelief, but you give praise to God, know that it's got to happen! I don't care what doctor says, everything else will come in all kind of a way, but don't you believe it, it's a lie of the Devil. Yes, sir, true. Faith goes about, together with works, to create the promise. (Let's hurry.)

L-288   Just exactly as it said, "Rahab the harlot," James said, "was justified by works." But why? Her faith!

L-289 She said, "I hear that God is with you." She didn't want to see how Joshua wore his hair, or how he wore his clothes. She said, "I understand that God's with you." That's all was necessary, she made ready.

L-290 Just as true vision today, (I'm closing just in a moment) true visions from God today, it's a promised Word for the day. Say, "These visions, Brother Branham, where do you get that?" People stumble at that. Did not Acts 2:17, said, "It shall come to pass in the last days that your young man shall see visions, your old man shall dream dreams"? Isn't that right? That's what the Bible said.

L-291   All right, now if that's so, also look at Malachi, the 4th chapter, and find out if this isn't promised today. How can you have faith in It? The Bible said so!

L-292 Now you take Luke 17:30 and read it. Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man. Just like it was at Sodom. Now, look at the position of the world today: Sodomites. Look at that Billy Graham and Oral Roberts, them two witnesses, down there witnessing to the denominational churches. One to the Methodist, Baptist, and Presbyterian; the other to the Pentecostals. This one, that one, and the other one.

L-293   But remember, Abraham wasn't in Sodom, he was already called out. And there was One stayed and talked to him! And the One stayed and talked to him, showed him a sign. With His back turned, He said Sarah was going to have the baby that he had waited on. Amen. With His back turned. And he called It, "God, Elohim."

L-294 Now, that brings to pass today, because we have faith. And I know this is of God, is because this and other Scriptures point to this hour. Revelation 10, said that "in the hour of the seventh angel's Message, when he begins to sound forth his Message," not in a healing service, but the Message that follows the healing service.

L-295   Jesus went forth and preached; he said, "He healed the sick, and everything. O that young Rabbi, that prophet, He's a great fellow. We want Him in our church."

L-296 But one day He stood up, said, "I and My Father are One." Oh, my. They didn't want Him no more then. Yeah. Oh!

L-297 "Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink His blood!" He didn't explain It. Said, "Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink His blood, you have no Life in you."

L-298 Why, I imagine, them doctors and nurses said, "This fellow's a vampire, trying to get us to drink his blood." See, they didn't understand It. He knowed it.

L-299 But them disciples, they might not have been able to explained it, but they set there and believed It anyhow, amen, for It was revealed to them. Yes, sir. They knowed It, the Scriptures had declared It.

L-300   It could be asked then to me, this that you might say, "Why do you have faith to believe in these visions, when--when there's so many false impersonations goes forth?"


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