Les Enfants d’Israël (Les enfants dans le désert)
E-1 Thousands of people have
been attending. And each night, we've had to turn some away. The armory
and building... Anywhere from three to five thousand people away from
the--from the services... And the Lord has been opening the eyes of
blind, and deaf, and the dumb, and the lame. And it's glorious and I
got up there last week...?...
I was one day late after being here at Phoenix, layover. So took me
back down here and said that... If it'd be possible for me to get down
here this week, wasn't going to let me come down. So we just headed out
till that, till I got back again.
E-2 I started Friday or
Saturday morning. I was supposed to be here last night, and I just got
in about a little bit ago. And so, eighteen hours layover. And I didn't
get through till just a few moments ago. And I haven't slept any since
night before last. So I'm pretty tired. And supposed to be so many. And
night before last, I prayed for almost three thousand people, just
alone in one night. So anybody imagine how tired.
But it's always good to get to Phoenix. I tell you; there's something
about this place that I really like. The other day, I had just a few
moments with some of the brothers to run up on the mountain and look
down. Up... Out from the place where I'm staying. And I went up there
and looked down; I thought, "Oh, how heavenly, how..." You people are
blessed with a wonderful city here. And I think it's the most simple
place that I know of, the most heavenly looking place. The trouble of
it is, we just don't appreciate it enough. That's right. This world's a
wonderful place that God has give us, if we can just take care of it.
See? But we don't do that.
E-3 So now, this is our... This
is our fourth Sunday, isn't it? We have four more Sundays. And this was
the Sunday that I gave away, if the Lord willing, to have nothing but
miracles for this Sunday, if the Lord's willing. Just not for the
masses of people, but just to bring up those that are afflicted and
crippled, that they might be healed here visibly before this audience.
That's an awful thing to do. You know that? I--I feel that I do wrong
by saying that. No, it's not right in the first place to do it. But I
just... It's not even... My gift is not miracles. My gift is to pray
for the sick and the afflicted. It's healing, and not miracles. I'm
awfully sorry that I ever did decide to perform a miracle before
anyone; I am.
E-4 And when the Angel of the
Lord spoke to me, last time speaking... By the way, night before last,
I seen Him again in the room for the first time for about six months.
And... But He never spoke to me. He was just standing by the door
looking at me when I turned around. Kinda quickly, I fell on my face.
But when I raised up, He was gone again. So...
But the last time He spoke with me, He told me what I have been... told
you last week. At Vandalia, Illinois, why, He told me I was confining
too much of the work to working miracles. And it would come to pass
that people would not believe me unless there was miracles performed.
And that is true. It's got that way. People don't feel like they're
prayed for...
E-5 Last week, I had a very
strange thing... By the way, many of you come to the rescue up there in
Oregon. I just... We're all the Christians, and we like to hear good
reports, don't we? And I was up there with Reverend Gordon Lindsay. And
all the churches cooperating together, everything, even to the Baptists
and all... And many of the leading doctors of the state came out and
the governor. And the Lord had given me grace before the people. And it
was certainly wonderful and glorious meeting that we was having. And
many many thousands of people...
I believe it's the best of attendance we've had since Canada. Of
course, Canada was the best meeting we've ever had, was up in
the--among the Canadian people. And how that the Lord worked among
them. And we... One meeting had near thirty-five thousand people in--in
the services. They could not even hold them in the fair grounds. We had
to take them over in the big stampede halls and things to take care of
them. And the dear Lord worked with them wonderfully, and mighty
miracles were performed.
E-6 Being that I'm going speak
just for a few moments. I wish to take just a few more moments of time
to make a mention about the--the miracles. A miracle... It's--it's
written in the Bible that...
And I trust that many of you will understand the position that I'm
trying to take this afternoon. You know the reason I done this? And God
knows that I tremble at the very thoughts of this afternoon's service.
That's right. 'Cause I look setting here before me: crippled, blind,
afflicted, and twisted, and drawn. And me to come tell you what
I'm--I'm telling you.
Now, remember, the first place, this Sunday, I gave this a way the...
And I trust that God will not hold it against me. And did you notice,
the platform, even around me. I had them to have ever... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...
through the audience. And my friends, I just hope give me your
attention, your reverence this afternoon. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
E-7 He never did heal people to show His power. He, when Satan tried to get Him to show it to people. You see, it was a temptation of the devil. But he give Him the Scriptures, said, "It's written, He will give His Angels charge concerning thee, lest at any time you dash your foot against a stone, they bear Thee up." See? But Jesus... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Christ did not heal all the people that come to Him. He did not heal all the sick and afflicted. He just healed certain ones, the ones that He was led to heal. And that's the way the meetings been going up in...?... all meetings me record. Now, there was many of them up in the country up there. Been many great outstanding miracles.
E-8 The other night, they
brought in a... The mute school, they brought child from the mute
school. And then, all at once, I never seen so many deaf and dumb
people in--in all the days of my ministry. Everything in the line was
deaf and dumb. And I--I stopped. I was praying for them. And I stopped
and asked why so many mutes.
And then they had one little girl about twelve years old, and the
spirit was cast from her. Very pathetic looking little thing, when the
spirit was cast from her, she begin to speak and hear.
The next night, they brought her back, said she couldn't speak and
hear. Her doctor came with her, so, and a nurse. So they said she'd
heard her speak from the platform, heard that she did speak from the
platform, rather. Well, they got behind her and [Brother
Branham claps his hands.--Ed.] clapped
their hands like that, and no hearing at all, snapped their fingers,
tried to get her to say something, and she wouldn't. They--they talk on
their fingers like that to her. She wouldn't. And then they [Brother
Branham claps again--Ed.] clapped
their hands like that, no hearing at all. And the child spoke and heard
the night before from the platform. So then they tried to get her to
say something. They'd say "Daddy," or "Mama," or something like that.
She'd go... [Brother
Branham illustrates.--Ed.] like
that. And she couldn't say nothing.
E-9 I remembered the child.
Well, then I said, "Well, bring her up here again." And they brought
the little girl up, and then when the spirit was cast out of her, I was
standing just beside of her, and I [Brother
Branham snaps his fingers--Ed.] like that. She turned and
jumped, and looked around like that. I had to... come and let him clap
his hands... do His hands like that. And she turned around; she heard
that. So then, I got her to say, "mama," and she'd say, "ma-ma."
I'd said, say, "da-dy" with my...?... with my tongue how to make it.
She'd say, "da-dy."
Now, she could speak and hear there on the platform. And then I told
them; I said, now, "It's just like conversion. You can be a Christian
tonight and a sinner tomorrow. You can believe and hold on to God, and
believe it with all your heart." Now, and I asked why there's so many
deaf and dumb.
E-10 And they brought a little
girl there about seven years old, that was been--was born deaf and
dumb. And she was speaking and hearing, and there was a big deaf and
dumb institution's right there in Oregon. I was right by it. And that's
what it was; they was bringing all their deaf and dumb in because of
that girl. And this one failed to keep hers, and they brought her back.
So I guess there was somewhat twenty or twenty-five cases of deaf and
dumb people healed this last week. Definitely on the platform speaking
and hearing.
But now, all of them, I didn't pick them. Just as they come through, I
could feel the pressure of faith. Now, whether that's my faith reaching
out...
E-11 Now, friends, there's only
way in the world that you can be healed, and that's only faith in God.
Now, no matter how much that God will permit me, by my own faith, to
take the spirit from you, unless you go forth and believe God, and
serve God, and trust God, it'll come right back to you again. Did not
Jesus say, "Go and sin no more, or a worse thing than this will come
upon you?"
Don't never come in a prayer line unless you expecting to serve God the
rest of your days. That's right. Always, don't never live a sinful
life, because you'll be worse, way worse. God has promised that you
will be worse off than you was at the first time. Don't never try to
come... And especially this afternoon, to you who shall come in this
miracle line, don't you dare to come, 'less you promise God, with all
your heart, that--and mean it, that you will serve Him the rest of your
days.
E-12 Now, it's... Jesus told
Satan there, "It's written that you shouldn't tempt the Lord." Or as
some of the writers put it different, make a showing of God's power.
Now, remember, in the Bible, there was many people who passed by Jesus,
that He never even had no compassion on them. If He did, He didn't show
it. It was where He was led to stop. Is that right?
For instance, the man at the pool under the five porches. Being that
the crowds of impotent people laying there, and here came--come Jesus
walking through. And there laid one man who had been laying there many
years. He just raised that man up, and told him to take his bed and go
home, and never even said nothing to the rest of the crowd. Is that
right?
One man, He took him by the hand and led him out of the crowd, plumb
out of the city, prayed for him. Of course, he begin to see men like
trees. Might've stood there a hour or two longer praying for him, for
all I know. But anyhow, when He got through praying, his sight came to
him. See, wherever He was led...
E-13 Look at the man at the gate
Beautiful that Peter healed, and John, passing through the gate. Jesus
went right through that gate month after month while He was at
Jerusalem. Why, didn't He heal that man? He'd been laying there forty
years.
Notice. Or he didn't care for the...?... there to beg on, I guess.
That's what he'd been laying there for many years.
Now, notice. God only heals not to show His power. He only heals those,
not on the merits of your Christianity. He doesn't heal you because
you're a Christian. He doesn't... But when He does heal you, He wants
you to be a Christian from that time on. But He--but He doesn't heal
because you--you'd be made well, "I'll go up there; I'll be healed,
because I'm a Christian." No, God heals on your faith, your faith. If
you're a--if you're a sinner, and know nothing about God, and never
have been a Christian, if you'll promise Him that you will be a
Christian, and will come, and you have faith enough for it to be done,
it will be done, right then. But...?...[Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
E-14 I don't even have a purpose
in mind. And those... And then you go there and that makes you nervous.
Look down on the street and see them mothers walking with little babies
there in their arms. And see the--the cripples laying around there,
expecting to stop and pray, emergency.
I'm a human. I got a heart. And I feel for people. If I let myself go,
I'd be a nervous breakdown before one week was over. I just got to shut
my eyes, and look up, and say, "O God, have mercy," and walk on. See?
And I get to a place where it getting me so nervous.
A few moments ago, my little girl, nineteen months old now. Mother
called, and she wanted to know if I just got the trip through all
right. My little girl just been a talking. She was talking, "My daddy?"
And she said, "I love you. Come home, daddy." like that. And they took
her away from the phone, and she started screaming, wanted to get back
to the phone. That nearly killed me. 'Course it does. And I'd just only
seen her five times since she was born. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
E-15 Why, most fathers with
their little children. That makes me feel... Oh, I just dread seeing
that poor little sickly and afflicted thing. But the only thing I can
do, is to be honest with the people. And that is this: when you come
into the line... That is, after today. When you come through the line,
the prayer line, will you make a covenant with this just to be with
God. If God will perform these miracles here for you today, whatever is
brought to the platform, if God will heal them...
And God knows that... Oh, may the Lord grant that I'm not trying to
make a show of His power. No, I'm not doing that. But that you might be
encouraged...
I've always loved Phoenix, Arizona. I love you yet. The crowds has
never been right, in Phoenix. They never have had the crowds here we
have at other places. Now, why, I don't know. But I've always loved
Phoenix. And I wondered... I want to live here someday. And there's a
great something here that draws me here, just like it's leading me over
here sometime.
E-16 And I set this day aside
for miracles. And may God, Who listens to me now, if He will just grant
this to me today, that ever what is brought here before He and I this
day, if He will let it get well, surely, you'll believe from then on.
You--you'll pass through the prayer line and believe that God has truly
sent this gift of healing. Won't you believe that? You won't have to
have one more miracle performed in the rest of the meetings; you'll
believe if you're prayed for.
And remember, with the Bible here before me, is it true that this power
is given only for healing. I pray for the people; they go away. And if
they believe, they get well. If that feel, that faith, that prayer is
said for that person, and if they believe it, the Angels of God will
watch over that person. They have to get well, maybe not that hour,
maybe not that week, maybe not that month. It may be six weeks before
they're well. But they'll get well. They've got to get well.
E-17 And friends, the lowest
count that I ever had of any of my meetings, counting by prayer cards,
was seventy percent of what was prayed for. The highest percent was at
Winnipeg, Canada. Ninety-eight percent of what was prayed for was
healed. Ninety-eight percent... That hasn't been but about five months
ago, four months ago. And they are healed now.
They're... Some sent their--their testimony in that they are well. And
at the Vancouver meeting, my secretary called me while I was at
Portland--or at the Ashland, and he said, "Brother Branham, I believe
it's going to be one hundred percent from the way the testimonies are
coming in, and the prayer cards that we put out." One hundred percent,
I hope it does.
E-18 Well, if God can heal those
people on their faith in Canada, God loves Americans the same as He
loves Canadians. Is that right? He's no respecter of persons. And He
will heal you, if you'll just believe it. But He cannot heal you
without your faith. You've got to believe that He will heal.
Now, I think now, it's three minutes after two, or three minutes after
three by this time here. Now, we want to get out by five o'clock. And I
want to speak just a little bit upon our lesson, and then we'll start
the prayer line, or the keep faith line.
E-19 Now, will everyone listen
close to this? Closely? Friends, please, and may God, Who listens at
me, remember that I am not bringing this this afternoon to you as a
showing. And if I am wrong, may God have mercy upon me. I don't want to
do anything wrong.
But He told me, by that Angel, that "nothing shall stand before your
prayer if you'll be sincere and get the people to believe you." And I
have not yet seen one thing, regardless of what it was, when enough
time was taken with that person, and stayed with it, but what Almighty
God healed them while they were yet in front of me. You understand,
everybody? And that is the truth.
E-20 This once more, I shall
try, making the ending of this at Phoenix. That's right. The place
where I intend to live someday. And God can heal the people this day.
And if He will grant that to me, and let these whatever comes up, deaf,
dumb, crippled, blind, insanity, whatever it is, be delivered right
here before the people's eyes, then the rest of the time, I'll let Him
do the leading, if He will just hear me and answer my prayer.
Will you pray for me, that God will help me? I realize that the work is
in its infancy. It's a great strain. Friends, I can see the fruits of
what I've always, try, i've, always true to Him... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...
And I thank God for what's coming to pass now.
E-21 Great revivals are sweeping
out across the country. The people are one heart and one mind. And
they're just sending one to one another's church, let the people go to
wherever church they wish to go to. Let them have their own preference.
And whatever a person believes, go ahead and believe that, but don't
criticize the other man. That's--that's... Let's stay together and
serve God.
Oh, I trust that God will yet do that. And if He will show me favor
this afternoon and heal these people before you, then you listen to my
word, friends. Don't hold nothing against anybody, or anybody's church.
Let's go together as one like brothers and sister, and then the sinner
on the outside will know that we really love Jesus. That's right. See?
E-22 Jesus said this: "This will
all men know that you are My disciples because you have..." shake one
another's hands? Because you belong to the--this church? "Because you
have love, one for the other." Is that right? The love, one for
another, then you'll know... "All men will know that you're My
disciples." And if we do not have love one for another, then we cannot
be His disciples. And that's what's holding the sinners back. That's
what's holding the coming of... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...
believe the God will permit me this afternoon, for this lovely little
city, to prove His power and authority. If He does, then if you don't
receive Him and listen to my words, I've done all I can do.
That--that's right. And I thought I'd wait till last of the meeting for
this. But I see now, if I do this, I'll have more time to make talks on
us people coming together.
Remember, friends, if you're black, white, yellow, red, American,
Canadian, Russian, Spanish, Mexico, wherever you're from, we're all one
in Christ Jesus, everyone of us. God don't love one any more than He
does the other. He doesn't love me any more than He loves you. He
doesn't love you any more than He loves me. So there we are; we're all
one together in Christ Jesus.
E-23 And let's live like that.
Let's live that everyday before the world, and they'll see. That's the
way you'll lift Jesus up to the world. Let others see Jesus in you.
You're written epistles read of all men.
Will you grant that to me, and will... And if God will grant the rest
of it to me, I believe it'll be the breaking forth, this very day, of
an old fashion revival through Phoenix. Won't... Wouldn't you like to
see every church in a great big revival in Phoenix? Souls being born
into the Kingdom...
E-24 Let's bow our heads just
for a moment. Our heavenly Father, this day, standing here tired before
this group of people, and weary, and my limbs aching, and hurting, and
pushing, and pulling. O Christ, someday, let Thy servant depart in
peace, so we can cross over the river. I trust that You'll give me rest
at the other side.
Father, You know how I feel today, how I would love to even be home for
Thanksgiving, to get to just set down with the wife and family. But O
God, that cry and pull up in Portland to that Oregon states above...
And these dear people here at Phoenix from different nations, different
people coming together to be healed...
E-25 And Father, someday, may we
have Thanksgiving together when You're crowned the King of king and the
Lord of lords. That great Thanksgiving day, when all the saints shall
rally together, God, help us to work for that day while we're here on
earth, and may You give us Divine strength.
And Father, as we open up Your Word now for a few moments, may the Holy
Spirit come down and take the things of God and take them right out
into this lovely bunch of people, and sow the seeds of love and
fellowship in this congregation of people, until every church will be
blessed, and the peoples will start a revival, Lord, among themselves,
and bring in many lost souls in these next three meetings coming up.
Grant it, Father, and we'll give You the praise for it, for we ask it
in His Name. Amen.
E-26 Now, the next three
services, the Lord willing, we're going to have an altar call and have
some people, sinners. So bring in your sinner friends and expect God to
meet with us here, and--and to save, and to heal the people of all
their diseases.
Last Sunday, in the Scripture lesson, I believe was in Numbers 21st
chapter, speaking of a brazen serpent. A... Sunday before that, we had
the smiting of the rock. Last Sunday, we brought up to where that God
had dealt with His people in such a way that He brought them out of
Egypt, and had provided a way for them all the way along.
E-27 And we seen last Sunday,
how that all that church was a type, or a shadow of the Church that we
have today: the calling out, bringing out of darkness into the
marvelous light, led by signs and wonders of God, bringing them from
Egypt, going up into the promised land... And it's a very perfect type
of the Church today being led out of darkness into the Light of Christ,
and how He brought the people, see how they were down there among those
Egyptians. They become like the heathens.
God brought them out and give them laws, and wonders. They walked with
God, and God kept sickness away from them. He gave them food to eat. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
E-28 There's a way for every sinner in here that's sinned. Here it is. There is a fountain filled with Blood, Drawn [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]veins, When sinners plunge beneath the flood, Lose all their guilty stains. Then you're a candidate to follow the Church of God on through this wilderness journey into the promised land. And our promised land is found in John 14. "Let not your hearts be troubled; if you believe in God, believe also in Me. For in My father's house there are many mansions. If it wasn't so, I would've told you. I go and prepare a place for you, and I will come again to receive you unto Myself." Isn't that marvelous, when I think of His love and compassion. "I will come, and I will receive you unto Myself," the love that He had.
E-29 Sometimes I feel like the runaway slave. When Paul found him, he wrote back to his master, and he said, "Don't... Put all that he owes you, put it upon my bill, and I'll pay you when I come." When I think of that, I think of Paul there, that great Christian, how that his heart knew that there was a great charge against him, and Christ by His own Blood wrote his pardon at the cross and took his place. And he knowed how to feel for other people. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we all had that feeling this afternoon? Just take their fault and lay it upon Me, let Me... If we'd bear one another's burdens like that... Now, that's the way God want... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
E-30 On they came to a place
they begin to murmur against God, and--and against Moses. And God had
to have Moses to smite the rock. And we took what he smote it with, the
judgment stick, which we realize that that was the judgment, God's
judgment stick. It was the one brought fleas, and lice, and--and turned
the waters into a... Or frogs come up out of the waters and so forth
down in Egypt, because it was God's judgment upon an unbelieving people.
And notice. The only way that God could lead them people out was by an
atonement. And the only way that God can lead us out today, is by an
atonement. And the atonement's already made at Calvary.
E-31 Notice. They're going down
in there, how perfect it was with the Scriptures. How Joseph, the
younger son, rejected of his brethren: Christ, rejected of His
brethren. He wore a coat of seven colors, Joseph. And the seven colors,
of course, represented seven colors in the rainbow, which was a
covenant.
And God always has His covenant people. And then, this one young Joseph
was killed, supposingly, by his brethren, and his coat was to be
returned to his father.
And I want you to see another thing, that he was throwed into a ditch,
and was supposingly to be dead. But he was taken up from the ditch, and
was taken into the greatest commercial city of the world, and was made
a right-hand man, that no man could enter into the gates or come into
the courts, without first coming through Joseph: a perfect type of
Christ.
They thought they had killed Him, and throwed Him into the grave. But
God raised Him up. And today He sets at the right-hand of His Majesty,
and no man can come to God except he come through Christ. Is that right?
E-32 Notice in the butcher and
the baker, one was refused and one rejected, like the two thieves at
the cross: a perfect type. And then at the death of Joseph, he left the
sign to the Egyptians, that his bones would be taken out when they went
out. Many of the Egyptians passed them by, or the Israelites, rather,
down in Egypt, and see those bones. They knew someday before those
bones completely deteriorated, that they would move forward and they
would move with them.
Christ, not as I believe in His bones, but He left an empty tomb, that
we who are Christians today...
Someone said, "Brother Branham. The only thing that you got to know
that your a Christian is some Hebrew writing."
I said, "I got more than that to know that I'm a Christian." Sure have.
You have too, if you've been borned again. Notice. But we have an empty
tomb.
E-33 Mohammedan religion is the
greatest there is in the world today. There's more Mohammedans than
anything. But they keep a white horse setting at the grave of Mohammed,
stayed there for two thousand years. A white horse is constantly been
led there for Mohammed to resurrect and ride away.
We go down to Ganges River today, we'd find mothers there that they
sacrifice their little children, throwing them into alligators, and let
the alligators crunch the little dark fellows, and their blood spurt up
over their mouth, sacrificing to the god of the Nile.
Now, somebody says, "Because I'm sincere, that's all that makes any
difference." It takes more than sincerity. They're sincere too.
E-34 Over in India today, and
under the Buddha worship, people like Brother Jateph, Gadyce Moservan,
he said, "Brother Branham, I have seen..." Know... I guess all of you
know Gadyce. He's internationally known everywhere, Methodist church.
He said, "I've seen them stand to where fingernails had grow through
their hands, would say, 'O great Buddha, if--if you'll give unto me
rest for my soul, I'll never take my hand down.'" Leave it like that.
Many of them who hasn't laid down for years, and they stand sleeping up
side of the walls, praying.
The Chinese, they break their feet. They have four hundred and
something kitchen gods alone, and something or another like that,
heathen worship, crying for peace to their soul.
E-35 And you Americans can have it right now and reject it. Why, them heathens will rise in the day of judgment and condemn...[Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] That's right. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... to your idols... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... All are dead and gone.[Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... but rose again; it's an empty tomb. You say, "Oh, well, they could've emptied the tomb." He made it better than that. He said, "I'll pray the Father, and He will send you another Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost. He will abide with you forever." And He's here today in the building right now, ready to fill any heart that's empty out the world; Christ will come in in the form of the Holy Ghost, and you'll be saved, and have peace. That's right.
E-36 Oh, my. No wonder it
thrills our heart, the great church, God leading it out. Then when they
come to the place where they come to Kadesh, in Kadesh then was a
judgment seat, and as we went through that last Sunday.
And then after the Church come through, Martin Luther... There's a
third stage of the journey. Martin Luther was the first stage of the
journey, calling out of darkness. John Wesley was the second stage.
Then there comes a Pentecost. And Pentecost brought the judgment. And
the people went after the gifts instead of the... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] That's right. I believe God
wants me to say that.
Friends, when you miss the love of God in your hearts, you miss
everything, no matter what you've done. Where there's tongues, they
shall cease; where there's prophecy, it shall vanish. But where there
is charity, it lasts forever. I'd rather my wife would love me than be
afraid of me, wouldn't you? Sure, you love God. The love of God in your
heart...
E-37 Now, notice. Then when they
met the judgment, and they all turned back, immediately sickness broke
out into the camp, and fiery serpents came in. And God sent down the
gift of healing for the children of Israel, a brazen serpent. Maybe He
couldn't find a man that He could trust to put it on, so He put it on a
serpent, a piece of brass and a pole.
And the very same thing, only in another form, after you begin the bad
luck, and break up, and get into hundreds of different of churches, and
the organizations, and denominations, and fussing among one another,
sickness. There's more sickness in the land today than it's ever been
known of. That great plague of cancer sweeping the nations, and
Christians are dying by the thousands with it. And then to think at
that very hour that the Angel of God came down and even specified
cancer.
E-38 Going to a hospital after a
bit, a child here that's going to die. They say there's fourteen
doctors give her up with cancer. Oh, may God meet me there. It'll be a
witness to Phoenix.
That Angel standing there which testified nothing like cancer. He said,
"Nothing shall stand before your prayer, not even to cancer."
But do you think all the Hebrews believed that brazen serpent?
Certainly not. And there's thousands of Gentiles and people today, when
you speak to them about the gift of Divine healing, they say it's
fanaticism. How do you expect to ever be healed? It's not for you in
the first place; it's for a believers, those who will believe.
E-39 Now then, after we left
them last Sunday, we're journeying on now into the 22nd chapter. And
I'm not going to have time to read it--of it. But I may read a verse or
two here, and listen close now.
And the children of
Israel set forward, and pitched in the plain of Moab on this side of
Jordan by Jericho.
Notice, they had journeyed on. And as they went on... 'Course Aaron
died during that time. And as they went moving on, Moses, moving on
with the children of Israel, they wanted to go by, compass the land.
The king told them, "No, you can't go through here."
But when he come and fought against them and taken from the people,
then God told him, told Israel, or Israel vowed to God, if He would
deliver the king into his hands, that he'd utterly destroy the land.
And that's a type today. If God will give you the Spirit, the Holy
Spirit, utterly destroy sin out of your life. Move on. Nothing can stop
the Church.
They may call you fanatic; they may call you simply to pack a Bible.
They may say that you're a holy-roller, or whatever they do. Nothing's
going to stand in God's Church; she's moving towards Canaan. If you
don't--if you don't go, God's going to take them that will go. That's
right. He... That Church... There's nothing. It's a irresistible force.
That's right. And God will move everything.
E-40 Here a few years ago, they
said they was going to throw you out; they was going to set you back;
they was going to shut your mouth; but the Church moving on. That's
right. And the Church will move on. There's nothing. It's coming time
where you're getting big enough, you ought to be able to talk and speak.
Now, she moves on. And finally they came down to the land of--of Moab
there, and the king, Balap, he--Balak, rather. He thought that he would
be wiped out, and he said, "Oh, this great company here that's like,
will lick us up like the ox licks the grass up off the field." He sent
over to a preacher, a prophet by the name of Balaam. He said, "Come
down and curse this people, Israel, for me, for I understand that
whoever you curse, is cursed, and whoever you bless, they're blessed."
E-41 Now, I want you to notice
it. Here it is. The people knew that there was a power in that prophet,
till if he cursed anything, it was cursed, and if he blessed anything,
it was blessed. You Bible readers who read the Bible, is that true
according to Scripture? Now, if we just had time to read it like we
should, but such as... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
I cannot, God puts in my mouth. Is that right? Now, I cannot say, no
prophet, no man, no healer, nobody. You ask too much of a prophet.
Certainly you do.
There was many people come to Elisha to get cured of their leprosy. The
Bible said there was many lepers in the days of Elisha, but only one of
them was cured, and that was Naaman. Is that true? Certainly. How many
more do you think came? There's probably hundreds of lepers came,
'cause there's many of them in the days of--of Elisha. But only one of
them... But God recorded that in the Bible. Go look.
E-42 Today, I've got on record,
many months ago, of thirty-five thousand cases, doctor's statements of
definite healings. Brother, I--I guess you think I'm excited, but I'm
not. I'm not excited. I know where I'm standing. But look.
Jesus said, "These things that I've done, greater will you do, for I'll
go unto My Father." Somebody had to fulfill that Word. That's right.
God's able of these stones to rise children to Abraham.
E-43 And notice. Now, at the
great healings now, and this is the last days. If I didn't realize
these things, I'd be afraid about saying that miracle line. I can only
perform as God says perform. I can only speak when God says speak. I
can only heal when God says heal. I can only tell you the vibrations is
gone when God stops the vibrations. Now, I can't stop them. I'm no
healer; He's the Healer. But when I see them stopped, they're not
stopped my me; they're stopped by God. And if I tell you that, if you
doubt it, then you're going to be sick again. If you believe it, you're
going to get well. That's right. Nothing can keep it from getting well.
Now, I cannot make a deaf man hear. I cannot make a dumb speak. I
cannot make these plugs that's in the people's ears go out. That's God
does that. And if He will do it on the platform, go away rejoicing and
serve Him, 'less a greater thing...
E-44 Balaam said, "I cannot do
it unless God would send me." Well then he prayed to God.
But that night, the Spirit came and talked to him. And He said, "Don't
you go." That looked like it ought to be enough, don't it?
Now, I'm preaching almost conviction to myself, right here this
afternoon. He's already told me, "You're confirming--confining too much
of that gift of healing on miracles." And I want this to be the climax.
And notice. Then he thought. "I can only speak as God speaks." No
prophet can say anything 'less God puts it in his mouth, if he's a
prophet. If he's a false prophet, if he's a hireling, why, he--he can
say anything. But if you say anything, and God has to bring it to pass.
If God said it, it'll be that way.
E-45 Notice. Then when he said
that, said he could only speak what God put in his mouth. And God told
him to send them back. And he... Notice. Then Balaam, like a lot of
hireling prophets now, for usury, for money, he come back again and
asked him the second time. And he went to God again.
Now look. There is a perfect will of God, and there's a permissive will
of God. And God permitted His prophet to go on, yet he wasn't His
perfect will. It was His permissive will.
And I feel this afternoon is the same thing on these--working
these--this--for this miracle line. It is God's, maybe, permissive
will, but it's not His perfect will. You are supposed to take my word,
and if--if...
E-46 Look, friends, it's hard to
say that. It's hard for people to see that. But I don't... There ought
to be somebody... God grant someday, that I can have somebody, He will
send me somebody who'll do this talking for me, and I won't have to do
that. 'Cause it looks like you're throwing something to yourself. God
in heaven knows that I wouldn't stand here that much hypocrite before
His people. That's right. But it is the truth. I shall be judged for it
at the day of judgment. He did say it.
And notice. Now, it might not be His perfect will, but I believe in His
permissive will, for I've asked Him that for the sake of the Phoenix
here, today; that you might see that I have told you that what is true.
And the Angel of God, Who met me that night in the room, I pray that He
will stand here to withstand anything that's brought up here this
afternoon. Now, now, as I say, I'm not supposed to do that, because I'm
just saying, "Bring somebody up."
E-47 Now, if you'd let me walk
out through the crowd, I've already picked out at least four people
setting right back out here in front of me right now, that could be
healed right here by a miracle, right now, 'cause I feel them. One of
them's an aged man, gray headed. The other one's a young lady, another
one a little girl. They're setting right before me now; that can be
healed by a miracle, right here.
But if I should go out there and pick you out, then you'd want to find
fault with me. You see? This gift I don't believe was given for holding
mass meetings like this. I don't believe it was. I believe that I
should be led of Almighty God to go wherever He'd lead me to place to
place, like that. And then pray for the people and so forth, as He
would lead me.
I don't know. But whatever, I'm trying to get these things settled
down, where I can find His perfect Divine will, His channel to walk in,
and stay there, regardless of what anyone says about it. That's right.
E-48 Now, He told Balaam to go
on down there. Of course, we know on the road, the Angel of the Lord
met him. And he could--he was so blind, so money crazy till he couldn't
find--even see the--the Angel standing before him. And then the--the
mule that he was riding on, turned aside out into the field. The mule
(Oh, my.), the mule had more spiritual discernment than the man did
when he got his mind off of God.
Someone was speaking the other night, and I was telling my... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...
"Putting a stumbling block in the people's way."
I said, "What is true as true." I...
"Christians ought... Christians would seen that, it would been
different, seen these thing."
I said, "Yes, but sometimes that Christians are so blind they can't see
that." It was in the days of the coming of Jesus. Those astrologers
went right on up there and worshipped Him, the three wise men. And the
priest was in the temple debating whether this was right or that was
right. That's the truth. And a little witch...
E-49 Remember, I say it's the
work of the devil. All spiritualists and astronomy is the works of the
devil. And I realize I'm heading right now down in Mexico where black
magic and everything else is there, but I know Who I have believed. I
know God will take care of me. He will bring the thing to a showdown,
like He did in Oregon the other night. That's right. It's true. But to
get the people to set still long enough to see it, is the thing.
Now. Then, these things that he spoke, and... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] He didn't see the Angel,
and... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...
turned aside. Then the Angel went and stand at another place. Watch
Him, went to three places, representing three stage of the journey, the
three stage of the journey then, the three stage of the journey in the
children of Israel, three stages of Balaam's journey.
E-50 We're in our third and last
day. And remember, the Pentecostal age is a rejected age. I hate to say
that, for I've never found faith in any church like the Pentecostal
church. But it's rejected, because it's the Laodicean last church age,
lukewarm. It'll be spewed from the mouth of Christ. But God in there
will draw out His people, out of that Pentecostal age.
You say, "Well, I'm looking for a great age." I know, many of you
people... There's a teaching, the schools of the prophets. And they'd
say it's all the great church age is coming. Don't believe it. The next
thing to come is Christ for His Church. That's right. To... So
remember, the last church age is the Laodicean church age, a lukewarm
that's spewed from God's mouth. It's true. And you know that.
E-51 "Oh," you say, "Brother
Branham, you're just go on alone." Well, how about a whole council?
That's the way the Catholic church started, by the council of men. God
don't move in councils of men; He deals with individuals.
Look at all that bunch of prophets up there telling Ahab to go on up in
peace. And said, "Isn't there one more?" Jehoshaphat said. "Yeah,
little old Micaiah." But Micaiah knew where he was standing. He knew
his God.
And I know many will reject this that I'm saying now. But remember, I
believe with all my heart, I know God. And I believe the age here, that
we're holding so much with this church and that church. And God's not
pleased with it. We've got to come out of that. We've got to get
together, our hearts together. That's right.
E-52 And notice now. And as he
come down there, and this mule seen standing... First place, he seen
Him there at the gate, next place in a strait, and the next place, seen
Him standing in a real narrow way. And finally the mule spoke out with
human voice.
Look. A dumb mule, a dumb brute. If God, an Angel of God could speak
through a dumb brute, couldn't He speak through a man? The people are
too blind to see Him. He said, "These... God's able of these stones to
rise children unto Ahab--Abraham."
Oh, my. Then Balaam went down to put a curse upon the children of
Israel. We have to hurry. Oh, my. I just love this somehow. Where He
gets just plenty of elbow room.
E-53 Look. He'll journeyed on
after the mule even spoke to him. And the Angel of the Lord was
standing in the way. Now, God is not pleased with the way people are
doing, the people in this lukewarm condition. Either be hot or cold;
get in or get out. God hasten the day when Christians will be what they
profess to be, and sinners the same thing. Oh, if I wasn't for Christ,
I'd be against Him. I'd be standing here talking against Him.
I'd...?... I ain't got no use for Him. There's nothing to Him. I'd be
against Him if I wasn't for Him.
But friends, I truly believe He's the Son of God, like the Bible says
He is. I believe He ascended on high, like the Bible said He did. I
believe He's coming again, like the Bible says so. And I have believe
that He gave gifts back to men. Therefore, today I'm planning it,
because I believe it. If you see me living anything else, you let me
know, because I'm backslid. If I do anything different and live the
life of that, I'd be afraid to walk before those demons and powers.
E-54 I know it's hard, cuts me
down. And I hate to say anything to people. But, friends, I have to
stand at the judgment someday to answer before you people. That's
right. And your blood will be upon my hands. You serve God with
reverence in your heart, pure, holy love for Him. Walk everyday in that
mood of love all the time. Do good to others, and do good charitable
deeds, and love God, and worship Him, and that's the way you're
supposed to live. And treat your neighbor as yourself. That's right.
Now. Notice this now. Then when he got down there, Balaam... Or, when
he got down there, he thought surely... Here's another mistake. I'll
get this part in just before I close. You'll give me your undivided
attention right here till we meet the climax. Oh, my, I feel that He's
here. I do. I thank Him.
E-55 Look. When he went down
there, Balaam went out with this idea. Now, I been bawling you out.
You--you holiness people, full Gospel people, Nazarenes, Pentecostals,
and Church of God, and Assemblies of God, and oh, all the rest of you,
and to you Methodists, and to you Baptist, and all you that love God,
notice this.
But look, when Balaam... Now, to bring it back to the Church; it's
moving on. When Balaam went down there, he looked upon that people.
Israel had done everything that was on the calendar, nearly, in the way
of sin. They had backslid on God. They'd been up, they'd... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...
church... the little church standard, they broke up men's homes, and
run this a way and that way, and done everything that was doing. That's
right. But don't judge all of them by that one. See? We've all had it.
That's true. But they say, "Oh, that--that--that Holy Ghost church, all
them shouters and go on. Look, I've knowed one of their pastors that
done this."
Yes, and brother, if there hadn't been a little money behind it,
there'd been a whole lot more said about these others too. But when
they got a lot of money to smother it down, these fellows have to take
the rub. That's all. But remember, we have good and bad in both.
E-56 And Balaam looked upon that
people, and he thought, "Looky here..." Now, listen. He thought,
surely, that a holy moral God would have to curse a people like that,
that done such things as that. But when looking upon them, he looked;
he said, "Now, looky. They've done this; they've done that. Surely,
there's not a holy God in heaven could look upon that, and--and
absolutely have any blessing with that Church. 'Cause, look at them.
They have done this, and they've done that." He looked at it from the
eye standpoint, from the moral standpoint, trying to judge a people by
a moral God, holy God. But he failed to see the smitten rock before
them, and the brazen serpent, that atonement that forgave their sins.
And so is it today, when a people laugh and say, "Them Divine healers,
them holy-rollers, they done this and that." I'll admit it. But they
fail to see the Blood of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, moving on before
the Church. That's right. It atones. There's a sin atonement made for
the Church. And people, you who know God, move on. God is for you. No
matter how much they try to put a curse on it, it can't be done. The
Blood of Christ separates that. God did not look upon any people as
their own moral standards. The only thing He looks at, is the Blood of
His own Son, Jesus Christ. And any persons that's under that Blood is
safely protected. Amen.
E-57 Oh, my. Under the Blood...
I don't care how much you holler, or scream, stay there until morning
breaks. That's right. They were under the blood, the blood of the lamb,
the smitten rock, the brazen serpent. Look, they were under the blood
of the lamb, as we took last week, the brood--blood was placed upon the
door, the lintel of the door. They went out under the blood. And they
got out there, and got hungry; God fed them manna out of heaven. They
got thirsty; He gave them water from the rock. They got sick; He gave
them power for healing.
And Balaam failed to see that. He thought because they were so radical
in this way and that way, that--that God did not have any honor for
them. He didn't have honor for them, but He did for His atonement.
Amen. God, today, no matter what the Church has done, the Atonement,
the Blood of Jesus Christ still atones for the sins. Amen.
E-58 My, my. We'll be ready to
shout in here directly, sure enough, won't we? When I think of it, the
Blood... Under the Blood, it all looks sons and daughters to Him, as
long as they're confessed under the Blood. So if you've done wrong, get
under the Blood today and confess your sins. For if we fall from grace,
we have an Advocate to the Father through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Oh, if it wasn't for that Advocate, we'd all be gone, wouldn't we? But
in there we're brought under the rich, royal Blood of the Son of God.
And before God, we are pure and holy. Hallelujah.
E-59 I guess it's not against
the law to say it in Phoenix. Hallelujah. I mean "Praise our God." And
I think He's worthy of every praise and hallelujah we could ring from
these mortal lips. The Bible said, "You are a royal priesthood, a
peculiar people, offering spiritual sacrifices to God, the fruits of
your lips giving praise unto Him." Oh, my. The fruits of your lips,
pouring up praise daily before the people.
What a High Priest we have; what a priesthood that we're in: the
priesthood of the circumcision, not of flesh, but of the heart (Amen.),
the heart circumcised by the Holy Ghost. That's right. Then you can
offer praise and adorations to God, the spiritual sacrifice, your lips
pouring out praise unto Him.
E-60 The other night when the
people were standing there, where a little blind baby laying in the
mother's arms, his little eyes were blind, but after being prayed for,
holding the little baby in my own arms like that, and looking at it. I
was looking out, and I said, "Mother, it sees the light." She looked at
it, and she put her hands before it. It'd bat its little eyes. And I
took my hand, it followed my hand around like that. Why, the people
just rose; those rafters rang with the praises. Somebody stood there,
said "They make a lot of noise."
I said, "If they'd hold their peace, I believe the rafters would praise
God." Something's got to take place. Amen. Oh, my. No wonder the poet
could sing:
Amazing
grace! how sweet the sound,
That
saved a wretch like me!
I once
was lost, but now I'm found,
I was
blind, but now I see.
Oh, it
was grace that taught my heart to fear,
His
grace my fears relieved;
How
precious did that grace appear
The
hour I first believed! (Oh,
my.)
After
we've been there ten thousand years,
That's...
Since then we have no less time to sing His praise,
Than
the hour when we first begun.
E-61 How wonderful. No wonder
Eddie Perronett could screamed out in his dying hours and throw his
hands across the cross and scream:
All
hail the power of Jesus' name!
Let
angels prostrate fall;
Bring
forth the royal diadem,
And
crown Him Lord of all.
My! Old blind Fanny Crosby had never seen in her life; she screamed,
Pass
me not, O gentle Saviour,
Hear
my humble cry;
While
on others Thou art calling,
Do not
pass me by.
What can You offer me, Lord? What can You offer blind Fanny Crosby, who
was blind all of her life. She has found the stream of all...[Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] You see what I mean?
More
than life to me. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
Face to face, to look upon Him, take... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] eternal... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
E-62 The Author of... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Help me this afternoon,
Father. And may this not be to bring Thy power down to make a show of
it. But O God, may everything that fell on the pulpit this afternoon be
healed by Thy Divine power, that the people of Israel, spiritually
speaking, might rejoice in the power of their salvation. And may them
who are unbelievers be brought to shame. Grant it, dear God, and
they'll humbly bow at the foot of the cross on next Sunday, and this
week sometime, and say, "Lord, I've been wrong. I persecuted the people
who believed in Divine healing. I've said they were holy-rollers; I've
called them everything. But I failed to see the Blood and power of
Christ going before them."
O Christ, encourage Your people. "O Jacob, how godly is thy tents set."
Oh, no matter what side they look from, it's godly. There's joy;
there's freedom of sin; there's power of healing; there's everything in
the tent. O God, may blind Balaam see it this afternoon and glorify the
God of heaven. For we ask it in His Name, and for His glory. Amen.
E-63 Just one moment. I'm going
to ask another of them in here to come forth now. Everyone just remain
in your seat. We're going to have a--one of the brothers to step out
here at the pulpit.
Now remember, dear friends, God's power is not to be made a show. Do
you hear it? And if Jehovah God, my Saviour, Jesus Christ will hear my
prayer this afternoon, and will heal these people that's brought here
in the way of miracles... Then, if you don't receive Christ then, then
Phoenix, I've done all I can do. I've done all I can do.
I've tried to tell it to you; I've tried to preach to you; I've tried
to show it to you by the Word; and then if God will manifest Hisself in
the power, that's the only thing I know to do. Then, I trust, if God
will do that, when we make an old fashion altar call here, that the
sinners will weep their way through, and Christians will go back, shake
one another's hands, and there'll be a revival sweep through here.
E-64 I hear there's two or three
revivals started now. The Brother James Outlaw, I believe, is starting
a revival. And some more of the brethren here in the city. I trust
there'll be a revival start in every church, everywhere, and people
will come to Christ.
Oh, my. Do you believe we're in a stage of the journey now? Do you do
it? Raise your hands. Now, I want to ask you this one more thing.
(Brother Hooper, if you'd get ready to come out in the platform just a
moment.) Now, I wonder this: if any in here today, if you don't believe
this with all your heart now, friends, if you do not believe it...
E-65 Here last week we had some
things to happen in our meeting, in all that lovely meeting. But there
were two ushers standing right beside of when a epileptic spell was
cast out, and down went the two ushers, one on one side and one of them
plunged forward, another one run back like this. A few hours later,
they tried to get the woman in, couldn't do it, fine woman, business
woman there of the city, had a--a stro--a store where they sold women's
clothing and things, a very fine woman. And about two days later, they
had her out there in front of the hotel there, frothing like a mad dog.
See? They could not... It was the powers of hell was liberated, and the
demons will go from one to another.
Now, let me quote--quote that again just...?... yonder. Listen.
Remember, this is casting out Satan. With my Bible over my heart,
friends, it's casting out powers that's bound those people. And when
that power is cast out, that demon will go somewhere if he can get
somewhere. Do you remember when Jesus cast out Legion, demons, they
said, "Suffer us to go over here in this herd of swine." Is that right?
And He--He give them permission to go. And they went over there, and
those hogs, thousands of them, run down to the river and drowned in the
river. Is that right?
E-66 And now, remember, dear
friends, with all my heart, take this as a warning. If you have one
skeptic thought, please do not stay in the building now. 'Cause
there'll probably be insanities, blind, deaf, everything brought here
now. And you must be perfectly quiet. And if you feel that you can't
keep your head down, then don't stay in here.
Now, we'll try to give vent about every fifteen minutes, if the Lord
should perform some miracle of course. Now, I don't say that there'll
be but one. There may not be but one. I may not even get to that one. I
can't say. Let me make myself perfectly clear. Back and forth, check
and double check on it so you'll know.
E-67 Remember, I have said this is a gift of healing. Everybody bear me record. If you do, say, "Amen." [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] The Angel has never told me to perform one miracle. Everybody hear that, say "Amen." He told me if I would pray for the people, that they'd get well, if I could get them to believe me. You've heard--remember that, say "Amen." But through faith, faith in Him Who is invisible here this afternoon, I have been permitted by Almighty God to open the eyes of the total blind, to unstop the ears of those who were born deaf and dumb, that they'd speak and hear. The cripples that were hideously drawn physic--unfold right before the people's eyes and walk away by the power of Him Who is invisible.
E-68 But remember, it is none of
my own power. It is His power. I have no way at all to perform any
miracles. I am just a man like you, your husband, your brother. I'm a
man. But He is God. And this Angel is Divine that's sent from the
throne of God. See what I mean? It's by... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Angel, and God's Word... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...
miracles in here. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Is that right?
Now, how many will believe with me? Let's see your... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?...
I've got you...?... Thank you.
Now, slowly, let's give them a little chance to rest. Everyone stand
reverently now while we sing, "Only Believe," now. Everyone. Well,
that's the song that the Angel of God likes. Now, everyone, let's get
quiet, and be just as lovely. Do you love Jesus, say "Amen."
E-69 Now I've got to get myself
perfectly quiet. And now, while we sing. Now, everybody slowly now
going,
Only
believe, only believe,
All
things are possible, only believe;
Only
believe, only believe,
All
things are possible, only believe.
Let's just bow our heads and hum that one real softly. [Brother
Branham begins humming.--Ed.] Oh,
thank God. While you're humming that, I want to...?...
E-70 Now, let's just real
reverently look to our Lord Jesus. O God, how humble I feel standing
here. I brought this, Father, to this part of the service, telling the
people that these things would take place. O God, I preached it...?...
today, on a hireling, prophet Balaam. And I know that You said, dear
Jesus, to the devil, "Thou shall not tempt the Lord thy God."
Satan said, "Yes, but it's written in the Scriptures..." Yes, Father.
And Satan would like to tempt today.
Dear God, all things is in Your hands. And I pray to You from my heart
today, here by this microphone, as usually, into the room by myself.
But, Father, Thou knowest my heart. And I believe that Your ministry
that has been so neglected, Your people has been cast down inside
the...?... The hour is come that You're going to take Your Church.
E-71 Help me, dear Father. Will
You honor the words of Thy servant today, those so poorly and unworthy
to be honored? I've told that that Angel that met me in the room that
night, said, "Nothing shall stand before your prayer." Dear God, if
that's not Your Divine will, please stop it.
But Father, Thou knowest all things. Not these people might hear me,
but that Thou would hear me. I want to see a revival in this city. O
God, there's something pushing my heart ever since I knowed I was going
to Phoenix. Help, dear God. And may it start an old fashion revival.
Someday, may Thy servant live here in this lovely little city.
Now, bless us together. Anoint me, Lord. Please, let Your Angel... And
Thou knowest, Father, that I give all praise and glory to Thee. Thou
knowest that I've told all the newspapers and magazines that I'm no
healer. Thou art the Healer. Willing to be humble, Father, for I'm
nothing but dust, to give You the praise. Just let... Permit me,
Father, to help these poor, sick, suffering, blind, crippled people.
Will You, Father? And then next week, we'll just, Father, do according
to what You say. Permit this today. And do not hold it against Thy
servant or against the people. I pray Thee, Father, to give Divine
power now, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. May be seated now,
reverently.
E-72 Now, I would ushers, some
of the little babies are fretful and things. This must be perfectly
quiet, friends. Please, mothers, don't let your little children stir
around. And if the little babies are crying, haven't you got a place
here, ushers, to seat... How many ushers in the building, let's see
your hands? Ushers, are you at the post of duty? All right. Watch, and
help the mothers. And don't permit no one running on the floor, 'cause
this is a very, very sacred time.
Watch healing services...?... diseases for vibrations? All right. Well,
okay. Now, you've got somebody sending those vibrations. I want each
one to see my hand. Now, just this one more time...?... See what--how
white it is? How many understands, and seen the vibrations over my
hand, let's see your hands? You mean that's all the people that's been
in meetings? Almost a new crowd in here. It's hard to believe, isn't it?
E-73 Friends, it comes by
vibrations, you can see it over my hand. My hand turns real bloody red,
and white pimples jump up on it according to the disease. People don't
tell me what diseases they've got. That Spirit goes down and tells them
what kind of a disease they got. I was examined by doctors up there
last week. Each one of the doctors, they bring cases out of the
hospitals...[Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
Yes, ma'am. You got tumor turned into a cancer. That right? You got a
little more than that too. Is that right? Did I tell you what was
right? Cancer? Came into your female...?... And you're worried...?...
And then, you've been having female problems. And you've got a... You
had one kind of operation, and still got a infectionary and your
stomach trouble that's...?...
Now, look here. Ask those in the line down here. Have you got cancer? [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Are you suffering...?...
That's what that germ is...?... And I see...?... I will...?... to
discern...?...
Now, to you who are standing by, I want you to look at my hand, if I
can get out here so you can see back here. See? Now, you audience put
your head up. Let me walk over here. I want you to look here at my
hand...?... Now, I want you to look at this hand here. See how white my
hand is? Can you see it? Look how...?... Now, watch here when I take
and put my own hand on there. Now, watch this; I take my hand off of
there...?... hand on there, can you. Watch here. I'll put my own on.
See? See how white it is? Now, just the woman put on her hand. There it
is. Dark and reddish. Now, my hand feels like it's on fire. See
it...?...
[Brother
Branham continues to pray and talk to the people for another 75
seconds. The words are very hard to understand--Ed.]
E-74 Now, I want all the audience to bow your heads everywhere, and I'm going...?... I want to...?... patient, I want you to watch my hands. Now, you watch my hands. Rest of you bow your head, 'cause she's the one that's got the cancer, 'cause if it comes off...?... Remember, you may find yourself...?... dying with cancer...?...
E-75 Now...?... Now, here's what it is. The lady's cancer died. The germ run out of it, the life went out of it. Now, here's what takes place. Now, many of you here, are--are takers or...?... How many in here have...?... mercy...?... does he have a prayer card? You people with prayer cards, now look, now remember this. Somewhere in seventy-two hours, you're going to get real sick, and will do a lot of vomiting. Now, remember this (See?), because the cancer being dead (See?), why the life goes out of it. And then after the life goes out...?... You're going to get sick...?... You may pass it, friends. If you do put it in a bottle...?...
E-76 O Eternal God, hear this
prayer of Your servant, may they be...?... stand here tonight and All
of the ministering...?...
Thou, demon, called cancer, I come to meet you in the Name of Jesus
Christ, the Son of God. I adjure thee to leave her. Come out of the
woman, thou spirit of cancer, in the Name of Jesus Christ...?...
If that be Your will then for me to... not to take those...?... But let
them come by, and the ones that has faith, that...?... of the deaf and
dumb, and let...?... then I know, Father, that Your...?... And now, if
there be those, let it be known by...?... without something. Then,
Father, I'll know that You're present. But I'll know that it's Your
will that I pass the people through the line without having any
healed...?... deaf, and dumb, or blind, and standing in the line, and
putting Your power to a show, Father...?... O Father, forgive Your
servant, and people...?... Answer the prayer of Your servant now...?...
E-77 Thou deaf spirit, I come
before thee in the Name of Jesus Christ. Come out of the man. I adjure
thee to leave.
[Brother
Branham snaps his fingers and claps--Ed.] Hear me?...?... Say, "Amen." [Man
answers, "Amen."--Ed.] Praise
Lord. [Praise
the Lord.]...?... Say, "Amen." Say, "Father, I believe
You."...?... Say "Amen." ["Amen."] Say, "I love God." ["I
love God."] Say,
"Lord, I will serve you."...?...
Now, what's your name?...?... Where you live? Here in Phoenix...?...