CHICAGO MESSAGES

Chicago Messages – First Message – 18-07-1969 

CHICAGO MESSAGES

FIRST MESSAGE -- 18-07-1969 

Place: Life Tabernacle, Chicago, Illinois, USA 

Date: 18-7-1969 

Praise be to the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. I’m really happy to be in the Life Tabernacle,  Chicago as I feel a great love for this family, because when I came in 1959, I spent most of  my time in Chicago as a different man, walking on the roads. And there was a friend with  me, Johnny Austin, who is here; Johnny, put your hand up. 

When I came in 1959 all the Pentecostal Churches joined together and said, “We must not  allow Bro. Lawrie to get into any church in Chicago”. So every place was blocked and I went  all over the place as an unwanted cargo. At last I was just sitting here in North Sheridan  Road and this brother, Johnny Austin and I walked out on the road, praising God and just  had a fellowship on the road. You know, sometimes, we are so dignified that we don’t learn  lessons from the defeat we have suffered. When Christ was living in this world, the world  could not find Him. 

I’ll read from Jeremiah 18:1-6: “The word which came to Jeremiah from the  LORD, saying, Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause  thee to hear my words. Then I went down to the potter’s house, and, behold, he  wrought a work on the wheels. And the vessel that he made of clay was marred  in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to  the potter to make it. Then the Word of the LORD came to me, saying, O house  of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay  is in the potter’s hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel”. “Behold, as the  clay is in the potter’s hand, so are ye in my hand, O house of Israel”. Thanks be  to God. 

You know, these are days when people read plenty of Bro. Branham’s books, Prophet’s  books and they all talk in a prophetical manner. You know, they do not understand the  vindication, the sacrifice, the persecution and the crucified life necessary. And they take it  lightly. The prophet spoke. Yes, it is easy to hear, but very difficult to do it. And God said, I  want the doers, not the speakers. You know, you can speak a lot, but I’ll tell you when you  walk on the road, they must see Christ in you. The devil must know who you are, not only  God. 

When I was in North India, I was going on the road with a preacher and some brethren who  wanted me for a meeting. There was a demon possessed lady, speaking an unknown  language that we don’t know in South India. She suddenly started shouting in her own  language, something which I didn’t know. And the pastor and other people were shocked.  Do you know what she said? “What have you got to do, Lawrie? We are peacefully settled  here but you have come to disturb us. These people with you, they never could find me out.”  Then these brethren said, “Brother Lawrie, how did this girl know your name? How did this  girl know that God is with you?” So as we went near, we cast out the demon. 

So my friends, these are days when people are sleeping, and I tell you, I’ve come to warn  you that time is running out. You may think that you’re a Bride, but still be sleeping. People  talk, Oh, I’m the Bride. Do you have the sacrifice a Bride should make? When a girl loves a  boy, she is to forsake everything, and go away with him. And people say, “Oh, we are in the  Bride.” But what sacrifice have you made for God today? What has that love done for you? 

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God has done everything for you. What has the Bride done for her God? They say, “Oh,  Brother, man is attempting to go to the moon, (but he cannot make it as the prophet had  said). You know, people don’t realize that this day, we are standing here at an important  era. 

I call this the Bride age. In fact, the Bride age seems to start on the day men put foot on the  moon. Because, I have been noticing all along that when there’s an actual physical thing  going on in this world, it’s a shadow of the coming spiritual thing. God said, in this world,  everything is a shadow. A shadow has something of reality behind. And he said, things which  you see, shall be shaken, things which you don’t see, shall not be shaken. So when you  look at the things of this world, don’t jump about and shout. Jump and shout about the thing  which is high; which cannot be shaken. Man has attained much knowledge (Daniel 12:4).  Never in the history of man, could he go to the moon and fly near the moon. And now he’s  going to bring back some dry clay from the moon, which is not really his boundary. God gave  the earth to man, and then He spoke the moon into space for signs and seasons (Jer. 27:5;  Isa. 45:12,18; Psalms 115:16). When He spoke the sun into space, it came; for the moon  and earth as lights and signs and for seasons but not as the property of man. When this  world came under demon powers after the fall, one day, the Devil said to Jesus Christ, “If  you fall down at my feet, I’ll give the whole thing to you.” 

He is the very Creator; but, you know, our God is a just God. He won’t cheat you. (In the  worldly court there is no justice so He asks us to refrain from going to courts). He’ll fight a  real fight, no blackmailing or backbiting or stabbing on back like human beings. God could  just come down to earth and take the whole earth by force but He’s a just God. Who will  fight in the court of God? 

So, when you fight against another country, if you go across their boundary their army will  cross your boundary. When man is reaching the moon, crossing the boundary of God; God  is going to cross the boundary of the earth, and take some people made out of clay from  this earth and make them immortal. 

And you can do so many things. I’ve been travelling around the world. I have heard many  speakers. My, where do they got these ideas? One will become mad. One man says already  the rapture has taken place, and another man says, no rapture and no resurrection. Another  man says, Oh! I saw this and that. And we are playing like children. Get God’s power and  be on God’s word. That is why God called us children. 

When a prophet comes to a country, it means that country has gone away from God and  His Word (not doers but hearers only) - (Ezekiel 33:31-33; 2:3-10; 3:1-11; Hosea 2:8; 8:12- 14). If you say, the prophet came to your country, be ashamed. Don’t think that you are so  righteous and spiritually advanced than others. You may be rich in earthly goods, but poor  in spiritually advancement. If a prophet comes, you have no right to boast about the prophet.  When prophet comes to America, it means America has left God’s Word. If he comes in the  Indian scene, India has left God’s Word. But why did God raise the prophet in your country?  And sometimes people talk like this, they say, “West is California, East is New York, South  is Florida and North is Canada. Tucson is JERUSALEM and Jeffersonville is Bethlehem;  this is what they think. They forget the whole world. If God were to only think about United  States, I don’t want that God. If God is telling, “Only United States people are my people,”  then I don’t want that God anymore. According to God, the centre of the world is Jerusalem  in the STATE OF ISRAEL (PALESTINE of all). 

Thank God. God is a God who has no colour, class, or creed or nationality (Acts 17:2126;  10:34-35). He loves people whose hearts are right with God. God told me, “I’m taking you  around the world. I go before you. Anyone who receives you, receives Me. Anyone who will 

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not receive you, has already rejected Me. I go before you.” (Isa. 45:2-6; 42:16). When I  landed in New York in June 1959, I never was in United States, but I was like a man just  landing on the moon. Going along the city of New York, I heard singing going on in a church  building, What a glorious singing! So I thought that’s the place for me. As I went in, one  fellow came and put his hand on my neck and said, “Get out, you black fellow”. It was a  Pentecostal group. So I got a blow on the neck and the fellow chased me out and I said, “I  came to hear this beautiful singing.” “The beautiful singing is not for you, black fellow, so get  out.” Do you know Mahatma Gandhi who nearly accepted Jesus Christ had to reject it when  he was pushed out in a “White Church” in Africa, hereby multitude who followed him in India  rejected Jesus Christ. 

So I came out and sat on a bench. You know what I said, “You are a dirty God, a partial God  creating one man black and one man white and one man yellow, and playing the fool with  people and You want me to worship You?” I got so wild, you know, sometimes children will  mildly scold the father when they get angry and cry when they are hungry. So I was very  angry and upset and scolded Him. People think God is somebody far away. Talk to Him, like  a child to a father. You do not read from a book but you talk out of your heart. You know,  they think that because you cannot see Him, it cannot be God, but God is right in your midst. 

When I sat on the bench, scolding God, it was midnight. I had a little money to get some  milk. Shivering from cold, I sat there. Then somebody came and sat next to me. I got so  wild, I turned the opposite side, with my back to him. I didn’t want to look at a white man  anymore. I thought, you know what I’ll do? ‘If any white man comes into India, I’ll teach him  a lesson’. That was the decision I made. I’ll throw stones, if I meet anybody, I’ll chase them  out. Then suddenly this man sitting next to me said, “You seem to be very angry.” “Yes, I’m  very angry,” I said. “I am more than angry.” Then he said, “I was not a white man when I was  in this world.” I said, “JESUS”. Oh, I was chasing Him like a mad man. My Lord, if I had only  known that. I ran behind Him and He was just flying, you know, receding his legs above the  ground. I would like to have caught Him there but I couldn’t. So I said, “Who is this man that  can’t be caught?” Then He turned towards me and said, “When I was in this world, I was not  a white man”, and laughed. This meant something different to me. That’s why I’m telling this.  And He said, “I’m sitting with you, not in that church”. You can sing Hallelujah, shout and do  everything, but God will be just outside the door. 

But if you do want to see God, what does the Bible say, BELIEVE and you will SEE. We  want to SEE AND BELIEVE. When children play together, you know, some girl will say, “I’ll  be the nurse,” “I’ll be the doctor”, “I’ll be the cook”, “I’ll be the lady”, “I’ll be the hero and  heroine.” It wants to be everything (“it” - child). Children play with teddy bears, cooking food  with sand and playing with clay. That is how the people are playing with God, today. 

That is why God said, “Children, turn to the faith of the forefathers.” What is the faith of the  forefathers? Trusting God and taking God at His Word, without any outward evidence.  Today, people want outward evidence. You won’t get any outward evidence, but God is  coming down to move mightily in this earth. People are frightened. Gentiles want to see  something and worship as God, like images in wood and stones, eagles, cows, clouds,  photographs (which is a sign of God giving them up - Romans 1:21-24; Ex. 20:4-6) 

And the women are discredited. I have come here not to discredit the women, I want to  encourage your women. “Oh, women have no ministry.” I’ll tell you, if you can only  understand God, you women are the mighty people of God, I tell you. You are natural Bride,  men are not natural but an artificial Bride. You are naturally married to a husband so you  know how to be a Bride. But the men are always used to boss the wives. So to become a  Bride, they’ll even boss Jesus Christ. Men even boss Jesus Christ, today, “Oh, Lord Jesus  Christ, you do not know, I must teach you.” That’s what many people are teaching Jesus 

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Christ, today. Some say, “Oh, Brother Lawrie, I believe this, I believe that, this word came  to me from Bible” then I would say, “What do you know about God?” 

You know, to know about God is to learn at the feet of God. Twenty five years, as a dull  student I’ve been learning from the College of God and I still have not learned anything  much. Some of you people have learnt about God for only three years or four years, and  talk like 100 years old saints. Do you know the leading of God? Do you know how God talks  to man? Do you know what His next move is? Do you know how God leads His people?  Just thank God that God sent a prophet. Who is that man? That little man in Jeffersonville?  I have gone to Oral Roberts, and met all big preachers all over the U.S. 

When Jesus was living in this world, how many people recognised Him? Yes, when the  prophet came into this world, God spoke to him. God’s Word came to him. And you say that  God is sending a man, but you will not listen to that man. Is God going to accept you? That’s  the man whom Bible calls spirit of Elijah. But he is gone. That ministry has finished, you  must understand. Today, what’s the ministry of Elijah? People talk about Elijah. What is the  ministry of the Seventh Church Angel? And then talk about Bro. Branham. First of all, God  compares the Bride ministry to His Body. What is this body? 

When God created Adam and Eve, He had to take one rib away (Note - Man now normally  has seven true ribs and five false ribs on each side). With that one rib, He brought forth a  church. And that is the seven church ages. And inside that - lungs and everything, that’s  Christ moving, and that’s life. So He was in the midst of the candlesticks, not outside. God  is working like a body. And God brought the Bride through the blood of that bodythrough the  blood, through the life of that body. And today, God has sent, dealt already with the Church  Ages and its Seven Angels. Bro. Branham was the Seventh Angel-Messenger for the  Seventh Age. Do you agree with that? Good. And not only that, he was the Elijah sent to  turn the hearts of the people back to the faith of forefathers. Mind you, not to LEAD, what  does it say? To TURN! Now you know some of the people say, they read Malachi 4th  Chapter and say, they just read certain verses. You should read the whole chapter. He will  turn the hearts of the people back to the faith of the forefathers. And he must stop there.  And that’s when you are to go still further. And what do the people say? “Everything is  finished, brother, the souls are no more saved. Everything is finished, Mercy Seat is over,  no miracles.” You are definitely a foolish virgin. Surely I tell you, you are not the Bride. I  challenge you. Yesterday, I got a letter, thousand Hindus want baptism in India and they  want me to come back immediately to baptize them. (The Hindus want Brother Lawrie, and  sent information calling immediately to baptize thousands including some big Hindu  families). 

You stress “Mercy Seat is over, miracles are over.” Shame! If any man preaches that, be  careful, YOU ARE ON THE BORDER OF JORDAN. You should read the Bible well. There  is still mercy, the Bride has mercy from the Bridegroom and the Bride intercedes like  Abraham. 

Today you have the Spoken Word books, you have the tapes, everything. You know more  than the Indian people. But people say, “Brother, I read the books, I listened to the tapes.”  What about God’s Word? That’s life. The Word has got life. The Spoken Word books bring  you back to the Word, and explain the Word. That’s not ANOTHER BIBLE, don’t think that’s  another Bible. 

People, you know, some people say, they are on the Word. I say, “What Word?” They reply  “Spoken Word”. “I’m on the WORD OF GOD.” That Spoken Word books brought me back  to God’s Word and explained everything so that I’ll be spotless. So the Bride to be spotless  means, you must know what the prophet of God has said, check it with God’s Word because 

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the Word comes from God. But he’s not God; God spoke to him. 

And if you read the whole series of books what do that women do? “Yes, I’m not cutting my  hair.” Good. In India the women do not cut their hair, it’s pretty. If you do not know how to  comb your hair in the long way, let us study from some of the Indians; they know how to  make it long and pretty. I see the Indian girls, some of the far North Indian girls are so  beautiful with their hair. Only thing is, you find it difficult to clean it. 

But now, the ladies stay at home “Ladies can’t preach.” Now, suppose God said, “Don’t eat”,  will you keep quiet, will you give up eating? Women should not eat. We’ll obey God and be  without eating. God knows what you should not do. And what do the women do today? “Oh,  I’m sitting quietly, doing nothing.” I’ll tell you, husbands know what the women are. If not for  the wife, I know how it is: You go to a home where the man is not married, and see that  home. That home will be just like a market place. Shirts will be hanging on one side, and a  shoe will be hanging on another side, and some socks on that side; it’ll be just a dust bin. I  know before I married, my house was like that. But when my wife came, she made it  beautiful. So if you want your house to be beautiful, you would want a wife. 

And what do the men do? “Bad! Women cannot preach!” That just shows that you are a  foolish virgin. It’s true women cannot preach, but what about the otherside of it? I tell you,  Jesus reveals more to women than men. Mary Magdalene, saw Jesus resurrected. Which  man saw that? Peter didn’t see. She had to go and tell Peter. He, a great apostle, came to  know only through the woman. Jesus first revealed Himself to the Samaritan woman as the  Messiah. And Martha and Mary, how Jesus loved them! Many women ministered unto Him  with their substance. And I’ll tell you, in my ministry when I preach to millions and millions of  people, do you know who are the back bone of the ministry? Ladies. I’ll tell you, without the  substantial hidden help of the ladies, I’d be nowhere. Oh, marvellous! Many of them love  God and for the sake of God, they love the ministry; and they will die for the cause. One lady  with the love of God will do much more than hundred men. But they are hidden, you do not  know who is doing that. You go to my country and find that in every village and in every  place, thousands of ladies back me up by constant fasting and prayer day and night. 

Now just before I started to come to U.S., they only know that I was to leave India and you  know what the women and men are doing now? Two men went of a forty day fast drinking  only water. I do not know every man and woman personally, but they’re starting a chain  prayer (non-stop) round the clock prayer, day and night and thousands of people are fasting  and praying. They say, something should happen. We can’t go on like this any more,  because we have got increasing pressure in India. You have a comfortable time. Everything  is nice. Pressure is coming very slowly. But when it comes, it’ll come suddenly on you. 

So God told the prophet, to put a net on the world. Some people are so big fish, they do not  want to get caught in the net. So in the net, when it was pulled out what are being caught?  Stones are there, shells are there, oysters are there, shrimps are there, moss is there; all  kinds of dirty things, and then also real fishes. And everybody says, “I’m in the Bride, I’m in  the Bride, I’m in the Bride.” Even the shells and stones are shouting, “I’m in the Bride, I’m in  the Bride.” But I’ll tell you, people are caught. But this is the place I want you to understand  and make things clear. 

When God told David to collect all the materials for the temple, he collected and went his  way. He didn’t build a temple. Solomon had to come. And suppose somebody said to David,  why don’t you build a temple? He would have done something against God. And the prophet  will do only what God said. But for the prophet, God reveals all things. What do the people  say? Everything is finished, but for the Bride, things are starting now. Don’t be foolish, I see  a spirit of fear everywhere, all are frightened of the prophet as well as the leaders much 

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more than the Lord God Himself and His Word, the Bible. 

Oh, they whisper praise the Lord. Why are you afraid to praise God? In the Bible it never  says not to praise God. David said, “the dead don’t praise God.” Are you dead? Secondly,  what’s the matter? The people look here and there, ‘anyone watching me’. It is 3 1/2 years  since the prophet’s message went forth, since he met with an accident on 18th December  1965, even the Spirit cannot move, they’re stone dead. And some of these people say, “Oh,  we’re in the Word, we’re in the message,” and they are not even SAVED. They do not have  a personal experience with God, and they say, “We are in the message, we are in the Word.”  Without the filling of the Holy Ghost you won’t even smell the Kingdom of God. Don’t think  you’ll go near, you won’t smell it. 

And these days, we are just in the last days where the third pull is coming. And people say,  everything is finished. Do you think everything is finished, Brother? I understand it differently.  If you turn to Malachi, I’ll tell you what happens, you’ll read the fourth chapter. Somebody  read loudly, please. Malachi, fourth chapter. “For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn  as an oven,” (I wish, you all bring the Bibles please). “And all the proud, yea, and all that do  wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of  hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. But unto you that fear my name shall  the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up  as calves of the stall. And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the  soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts. (Now listen)  REMEMBER YE THE LAW OF MOSES MY SERVANT, which I commanded unto him in  Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgements (all pointing towards Jesus Christ).  Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of  the LORD: And he shall TURN,” (listen) “he shall TURN,” (it doesn’t say he shall lead) “TURN  the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I  come and smite the earth with a curse.” 

You know, I’ve been travelling a while and I couldn’t give my opinion all these days. But now,  I’ve planned to travel all over, Venezuela, Trinidad, Jamaica, British Guyana, Canada,  United States, Germany, Australia, Africa, England, Japan and all over the world. And now  I can tell you something that is happening here. People are sleeping and unless you take up  my warning, I’ll boldly say that you’re lost. Don’t think Brother Branham’s name will take you  to Heaven. I love Brother Branham, even though I’m an Indian, Oh, I love that man. He did  not tell me. I know, by revelation who Brother Branham is. You need not tell me, “Oh, Brother  Branham, do you believe in that prophet?” He did not tell me that. He is a man to whom God  sent me. He told me, “Go and see my prophet in Jeffersonville: the voice of God came to  me. So I went and saw him, and I got something. 

But I’ll tell you solemnly my friends, he is no more here. And what are you thinking? God is  dead? The Shepherd has gone, where are the sheep? Sheep are scattered. You meant to  say that the Lord will leave the sheep and go away? Tell me did ever the Lord leave His  people without a vindicated leader? They say now that the Holy Spirit is the leader. Was He  not the leader for 1969 years? Why they are concerned about the leadership of the Holy  Spirit only now? Please show me one place in the Bible that He’s not a good Shepherd. The  good Shepherd would lay His life down for His sheep. You wouldn’t say that He would send  you without any Shepherd. Come on to the Word of God. And what is it now? Listen, Elijah  comes, what is the work of John the Baptist? Now see, he’s just like John the Baptist. John  the Baptist comes from the wilderness. He doesn’t see and believe. What is the fathers’  faith, what is the children’s faith? Children want to see and believe. That is lack of growth.  They’ll believe only when they SEE. Now people say, ‘Brother, can you see something and  tell what is going to happen tomorrow?’ That’s child. Bible says BELIEVE, and you’ll see. 

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That’s a higher form of faith. Believing God and His Word without any outward evidence.  That’s the father’s faith. Children’s faith is to see and then believe. 

So what happens? God gave Brother Branham a ministry - a child ministry. But that doesn’t  mean he is a small man, that he’s a child. But he gave a great man, a child ministry. For  whom? For the sake of the United States people. Don’t think you should be proud about it.  I tell you that you are children. And people get angry, and may say, “Oh, this fellow Lawrie  is trying to show himself a big man, but I’m boldly saying because I’m a servant of God. I  don’t care whether you give me money or not, I have not come for any money. My old days  of fear and bondage are gone. One more message I’m going to give you like this, so if you  get angry, we’ll see on the judgement day. We’ll see when the Bridegroom comes, you can  challenge me. If you find anything wrong with the Word, I challenge you people. But if you  hate me, your blood is on your head. I’m a black man coming from far away; you can fight  with your own countrymen, but I’m coming from far East, nearly twelve thousand miles away.  This was something deeply impressed in my mind and God put it there. And if you think,  “Oh, he’s not in the message,” I don’t care. But the day is coming when you’re judged. 

I’m a man called by God and saved since 1943. Rolled and rolled like a stone, houseless,  suffering I went. God knows. And I don’t know. I even came to the point of telling, ‘This God  I don’t like Him, and His work. He’s treating everybody nicely and treating me very badly’.  And one day I said, “I don’t want this life”. I told my wife, come on, we’ll quit. And then He 

suddenly came down and lifted me. And how much of suffering has come to you, my  brothers? How much of persecution has come to you? You want to say I will stand the  persecution. You know what the people say? “When the pressure comes, I’ll fly away then,  “but before the pressure, I want to be a seasoned man. Only if you are on the Word can you  stand that pressure or else you are just a stubble. 

Don’t wait for the pressure. Start now. It’s for today. If you don’t read the Bible more than  ten chapters a day, minimum, I’m sure you won’t go in the rapture. I will tell you, the Bride  loves the Word. You know when a girl gets a letter from a boy, she is not satisfied reading it  once. She’ll say, my dear, my dear, sacred letter, she’ll read between the lines and twenty  five times, thirty times, and then put it in the trunk, and then after five minutes take it back  again, then read it, put in under the trunk, and when she’s coming in the evening, again read  it. We don’t read even one chapter a day. You’re not a Bride, you’re a false Bride. False  Bride, you know, it appears like Bride, no doubt. But Bride is not like that, she has got a  deep love for God and His letters, love letters. 

So what happens, “children’s faith”. John the Baptist was a man of father’s faith; John the  Baptist had no miracles. But, when he spoke heaven and earth were shaken and something  happened. He had a Spoken Word Ministry; when he spoke people repented. Because the  ancient people, olden days people of faith never believed in outward manifestations as a  proof of belief, that they had manifestations after belief. 

And you know what happened really? In the time of Moses the Lord was speaking to people  in clouds and thunders. So they were afraid. When God spoke, they were afraid, they didn’t  want God to talk in that way. So in Deut.18:16-22, they told Moses, let not God talk to us in  thunder and clouds. Then God comes down, tells Moses to tell them I’m going to raise a  prophet in whose mouth I’ll put my words. He didn’t say I will be in Him. Listen. He didn’t say  I’ll dwell in Him. He said, I’ll put my words in His mouth, and He will speak. Whatever He  says, if they don’t believe, God will require it of them and they will be destroyed. That really  means He’s speaking something great through that man. So what did that man do? He has  been like a man, but it was God speaking, because He was in Him. God hidden in a man. 

But it took years for Him to grow to that standard. He didn’t start the ministry just when He 

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was born. You know the whole word. One day when He was fit for that, power descended  on Him. Jesus emptied Himself and walked like man filled with the Holy Spirit to show the  living way to man. When he went to be baptized by John the Baptist, then what does God  say to John the Baptist? “The man upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending and  remaining on Him, the same is He which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost (John 1:33). He didn’t  show a vision of that man, how He looked like, what colour; He didn’t show that. So John  the Baptist was looking for a dove. That was the sign. So God did not specify a man, who  had come from the wilderness, this kind of jacket, that kind of clothes, that kind of hair. He  only told him, “A man who will come to be baptized by you, and when you baptize that man,  a dove will come on Him; that’s the man.”So he started baptizing everyone, to find what? To  find Jesus Christ in whom God is going to dwell. God Himself. So He picked a man like an  ordinary human being, in whom God dwelt, but it actually was God. 

So what happened, their faith was, they were afraid of God by thunder and cloud. So God  listened to the plans and said, “Yes, no more will I talk to you in clouds and thunders. I’ll  send a man”. So Jesus came like a small child, because they were children. Children are  afraid of thunder. So what happened? When John the Baptist was shouting, the Word of  God, he was introducing like this, “Behold, the Lamb of God”, when he was baptizing the  dove came. “He is better than I. He will baptize you with the Holy Ghost.” So what did Jesus  do? John the Baptist did not take the fathers back to the children’s faith, HE TURNED them. 

Now suppose you go on the highway, when you’re going on a highway, you want to go to  Chicago or some place, or want to go to Ohio. So what do you do? You see the sign, you  drive in that direction. When you see a sign you read the sign, and turn. You don’t go near  the sign, Oh, you don’t waste any time there, because the time is short. Oh, you don’t sing,  ”Oh wonderful sign, what a wonderful sign”. You don’t stop there. You want to go to a definite  destination. You see the sign there and go that way. That was put by the Government of the  United States. It is a sign for you to TURN and then go. 

But what are the people doing today? Instead of making a turn, they are making a big round  about turn, and go on the same broadway of destruction, and circle around the same  broadway. That’s the trouble now, turn, turn, turn, they are going round and round like this  and say, “Oh, we are on the message”, and going on the same way to destruction. There  are some people who make a circuit round it. If you don’t tell the name of Brother Branham  a hundred times, you are not in the message, and they get angry and I can see out of fear  many even omit to mention the name of Jesus Christ. 

So God does not want you to be afraid. Certain place I had to say, Brother Branham, Brother  Branham, Branham many time so I got so sick. And if I mention Jesus Christ and His dealing  personally they get angry. This man is not in the message, because he just tells the name  of Jesus Christ. Oh, I got a headache one day which I could not get rid of one week. Then  the people said, Brother Lawrie, if you tell the name of Jesus, you won’t get money. Actually,  I lost all the money. But I have God in me. If you want to have a lot of popularity, go on as  you go, but you are a tare and a foolish virgin. But if you want to be unpopular, come back  to God’s Word. That same rejected people are the Bride. The time is coming, may the Lord  open your eyes. 

So what happens, John the Baptist said, “Behold the Lamb of God.” A lot of people were  standing there, but only two people followed Jesus Christ. They were the sheep. “My sheep  hear my voice.” And what happened, Jesus said, “What do you want?” When you would  follow Him, hear His voice. So when these people left, John the Baptist’s disciples started  walking behind Him. He asked, “What seek ye?” They replied, “Where dwellest Thou?”  Jesus said, “Come and see.” He didn’t say “I’m so and so”, but “You come and see and hear  what I say.” So to find God follow Jesus, see and hear Him, not to see from a photograph. 

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Come and see me whether I am according to the Word of God. So if you want to see God,  see from God’s Word. Not from Spoken Word books, you see God from the Bible. Many of John’s disciples followed John and thought John was the Lamb of God as his head was cut  off like a lamb. 

So what happens? He took the children, and all of John’s disciples and standing there, and  charging, “Hey, this man came and stole our sheep.” And you know what they went and told  John? “Hey, that man who came after you, that fellow is baptizing all the people; taking our  sheep, what do you say about that?” John the Baptist was a man of God, prophet of God,  vindicated man; he said, “I must decrease, and he must increase.” He didn’t say, “I must  become a big man and that rival fellow must be ruined.” 

That is why the people don’t understand. They’re making a big denominational thing,  possessed of a denominational spirit. Their world is already past, they are in another sphere.  Three and a half years it takes for a message to get into the hearts of the people. Now three  and a half years are over, now the people have digested the message, now the way is open,  the way is prepared. Now the next step is to happen. Christ has to COME AGAIN to take  the Bride (John 14:3). And people are fooling about with God. Are you ready to meet the  Lord, my friend? Do you want the Lord to come your way? Do you want the Lord to come  just like you think? How did Jesus Christ come? He came as a carpenter’s son, you know  what the people said? “Hey, that fellow is a carpenter’s son.” But some people KNEW: Oh,  it’s not just Jesus, it’s somebody inside Him. Somebody inside Him. They knew that man  from the eyes, from the heart. So what did they do? They followed Him. They know how the  Lamb of God would look like from God’s Word (Isa. 53). 

But I’ll tell you, many people remembered John the Baptist. Good. He’s the servant of God.  But he didn’t go beyond his period. And what happened? Even he doubted and said, “Are  you the one to come, or should I look for another?” A prophet is doubting? Why? He finds  all his disciples having no power, foolish virgins. All the power is gone. But Peter, James  and John had power to bring fire from heaven if Jesus permitted; everything happening, the  demons are running out. Why John’s disciples have not even the Holy Ghost? And, mind  you, they missed it. They missed Christ. They missed everything. They missed the  triumphant entry into JERUSALEM, they missed the miracles; they missed all, the dead  being raised, walking on sea, feeding the thousands, they missed His crucifixion, they  missed His burial, they missed His resurrection, they missed His walking with His disciples  for forty days, they missed the Pentecost and missed everything, missed all the  persecutions. They missed being the children of the Bride Chamber. 

But do you know where they came in? Under another dispensation, under Paul. He came to  Ephesus and he saw some of John’s disciples and asked, “Have you received the Holy  Ghost since you believed?” Oh, they proudly said, “We are John’s disciples.” Imagine the  pitiable condition when they said, “We have not so much as heard whether there be any  Holy Ghost” - Acts 19:1-7. Compare the twelve sincere disciples of John the Baptist and the  twelve disciples who were with the Bridegroom Jesus Christ. They’ll miss being in the Bride.  Do you know who are in the Bride? Peter and all are part of the Bride. They asked Him,  “Lord, we have left all and followed you; what are you going to give us?” “You are going to  reign with me.” The Bride reigns with God. John’s disciples are not the Bride, they’re the  foolish virgins. Then they come back later missing the whole glorious thing. And you call  yourself Bride and miss the whole thing? My dear brothers and sisters, if you are in the  Bride, this is the time to catch hold of God. If you miss it, you miss eternity, you miss rapture,  you miss everything. Then what happens, they’re all children playing with toys and  everything, they’re children. Two thousand years - just children, playing with God. 

Then God grows weary of these children. He has to take these children back to the faith of 

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the fathers. So, God raised a man called Bro. Branham with a children ministry. But he was  not Jesus. He was the prophet Elijah. And he preached to the people just like children.  

Discernment-seeing and believing which is the inborn nature of the Gentiles always cherish  and desire. But did you see that cloud, in the heavens and the revelation of seals and did  you notice one thing? After that cloud in the air, God was speaking to Him. But he was not  God. If he was Christ, he wouldn’t speak to him from a cloud. He’ll live with him, he’ll walk  with him, and what do the people say? Everything finished. John said, “Behold the Lamb of  God.” What did Brother Branham say? “Behold the Bridegroom cometh.” He is the man who  introduces the Bride to the Word. If you have not yet come, go to the Word. The man who  wakes the sleeping virgins is not the Bridegroom nor the sleeping ten torch bearers with or  without oil (virgins) the Bride. The Bride is in her chamber while the Bridegroom comes to  take her. Now see, when I heard Brother Branham’s message, I became doubly strong on  God’s Word. I don’t know what you read, when you read the Spoken Word books. Surely he  says check everything by God’s Word. So I came running to the Word with double force,  when he introduced us to the Word of God. And you know, Brother Branham was the prophet  who, when the seventh angel sounded, the mystery of God should be finished. 

Now suppose a girl loves a boy. First of all he laughs, “How are you? How are you? How  are you?” That’s the first time, then the boy slowly invites her to have a cup of coffee. Then  they exchange gifts for their birthdays. She gives something, he gives something. Then it  goes on like that. This girl doesn’t know what kind of boy he is, and the boy doesn’t know  what kind of girl she is. So, the boy sends a messenger, the girl sends a messenger, to find  out what kind of man, and what kind of girl they are, to find out how much they’re worth. So,  the messenger comes and tells, “Do you know, this boy is a very rich boy! He’s got a lot of  money and he belongs to a rich and decent family, he has everything”. Then when all the  mystery of the boy is revealed, this girl says, I’ll marry him. And when she decides to marry  that boy, all the gifts cease because what’s the use of gifts after that? The gifts are there,  but dormant. Even last week many people were healed. The gifts are there, but you don’t  use it because you’ve been feasting with the Master and because the Master has come to  take direct action. When the Bride decides in her heart to be doubly true to God’s Word, she  gets a revelation of Bridegroom who comes again to receive her to Himself. 

So what happens? When Brother Branham turns us to God’s Word, that Third Pull comes  when God comes down and leads the Bride. And that’s the thing I plead with you not to  miss. Can you imagine God coming down? I’ll explain it to you the day after tomorrow. A  lion roars two times (Lion of the tribe of Judah). First of all it roars to set the net by speaking  to a prophet (silently without roaring noise). But then the lion never roars till she catches the  prey. Only after she catches the prey will she start roaring loudly. Because if she starts  roaring before, the prey will escape. That is why the first roaring was not roaring but  speaking, through the prophet and setting the net. And so very few of the Bride, the foolish  and wise virgins and others are gradually pulled and caught in the net. When very few of the  Bride has been caught in the net, (majority of the Bride is still out-the Big Fishes) the Lamb  comes down roaring like a lion, to catch away the prey. And this roaring means, Bible says,  “It thundered.” The thunders are not revealed yet and the seventh seal too. Is everything  finished? I challenge all who falsely say they have been revealed. Read the Seven Seals  book carefully and find out for yourselves. 

Brother Branham clearly says, “the Third Pull is coming” and he didn’t say I’ll die and rise up  again. People can’t bear to see that another ministry is coming. Another thing is coming!  When Moses was there, he wanted to see and believe. He knows only beating the rock and  getting the water. So you know what God said? “Moses, you are a fellow trained in seeing  and believing. Get on Mount Pisgah and see and believe.” So he got on the mountain, saw 

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the whole thing in Canaan and said, “I see and believe.” But you cannot get into Canaan  with just seeing and believing, but by BELIEVING AND SEEING only. That’s the faith of the  fathers. Don’t think you can know Christ by SEEING AND BELIEVING, if you do not come  first on God’s Word you’ll never be in the Bride. But if you are totally on God’s Word, God  will reveal Himself to you. Because you find Christ in the Word only, not outside. Because  all the description of God is there, how the Lord will appear, what He is like? What does the  Word say? The Lord’s hair is like this, eyes are like this, voice is like this, body is like this,  feet are like this, that’s the description and the Bride will not be deceived but will recognise  the Lord Jesus, the Bridegroom, as He appears according to God’s Word. (Rev. 1:12-15;  10:1-6; Dan. 7:9, Songs of Solomon 5:10). 

So that Bride time is on, as this is Bride age. You may hate me, I know. Many people don’t  like this. I don’t care. But I promised God, I’ll go back to India losing all my friends, rather  than losing God. So if you don’t take it, I don’t care. But the time is coming, when the foolish  virgins will find they want oil. The oil is in the Bible, not in the Spoken Word books. The oil  is in the Word of God. If you are not on the Word of God, I tell you, you don’t go in the  rapture. That book brings you back to God’s Word to get oil for you. So if you don’t read the  Word of God, and make your life exactly like that, you have no oil, and you can never see  God coming down in this generation. 

So what happens in Moses time, notice carefully. Moses brought the people out of Egypt  but he didn’t enter into Canaan. All the people came with him, he stood before Moses, but  they could not enter because they were “Seeing and believing” people. But the children who  were on God’s Word, believed God could open a passage through Jordan river and marched  on by faith and the river simply opened. March on, it’ll simply open, because that’s God  leading you. 

So today, God is meeting the Bride on the Word of God. And thank God for sending that  Elijah, who is that man, Brother Branham? Is he a strong man? No, did he have meetings  like Oral Roberts and Billy Graham? No. Does he have radio? Television? No. But who is  this man, shouting in a corner of Jeffersonville? No man born of a woman was ever raised  like him and no man born of a woman was greater than Brother Branham. But the least ones  in the living Bride who would meet the Lord living in this generation ready to be “Changed”  putting immortality without tasting death is greater than him. That’s the Bride. The Bride puts  on immortality, without going through death. The Bride’s body is different; a heavenly glory  comes as a covering which Adam and Eve lost. 

But you know the Seven Church Messengers came, Seven Church Messengers. Then the  neck comes, the head comes, that’s God. So, God told Jeremiah “Go to the potter’s house”,  he said, “I’ll make you.” So, this world is clay, man is made of clay, but you must understand  that this clay is different from the moon clay. This is a miry clay, watery clay. This has got  life. Everything has got life, man has got life, animals have life, water has life. So God took  the earth, made the clay and made it like a man and breathed the strength in man and it  became life. So for every man some amount of earth has been taken, mind you. 

But how did the earth come? What do you eat? We eat cabbage and salads and such things,  all coming from the earth, only in a different form. Now see there is a mineral kingdom,  animal kingdom, vegetable kingdom, spiritual kingdom. But the mineral kingdom can  become a vegetable kingdom. How? If you plant a tree, that tree sucks minerals from the  earth and brings juice to the fruit. So a vegetable kingdom can become an animal kingdom.  When an animal eats the grass, that grass gets into the body and becomes an animal. So  when you eat hamburger and hotdogs and all these things, these animals live in your body  and thus an animal kingdom can become a human kingdom. One had to die to give life.

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So, a human body can become a spiritual body. How? A God-man (Jesus Christ) had to die  and he planted and gives a harvest of similar manifested sons of God today. That is why  when Jesus Christ died, for the human kingdom, through His life, all the Bride came,  hundreds of grains, just like Jesus Christ (original planted seed). And that’s how we are now  in the spiritual kingdom. That is why except you be born again, you cannot see the kingdom  of God. Except you be born of water and of the spirit, you cannot enter into the kingdom of  God. 

So we are in the kingdom of God. All right we are to be in the Bride, and what’s the price?  What are we going to pay as the price? When God comes to claim the Bride, it is like this. If  somebody wants you to leave Chicago and go to Florida, what do you do? Are you going to  take the whole house and car on your head and go with all the things? You’ll dispose off so  many things, make yourself light. When I came to United States from India, I didn’t bring my  things and book store and books and trunks and mirrors and tables. I didn’t carry on my  head all that. I put all my things in my room, took a suitcase, put two coats and two pants,  landed here. In the same way, if a man wants to go to New Jerusalem, should he carry all  the things he has? Where your treasure is, there your heart will be. Just like Lot’s wife, she  was forced out of Sodom and Gomorrah, but she gets hits, paralysed unable to move further  because her heart was there in Sodom. So your heart won’t allow you to go, but if your heart  is in heaven, you will make ready for that. That’s why Jesus said “Except a man forsakes  everything he has, he cannot be my disciple.” 

You know I come from a place where doubting Thomas the Apostle arrived in India. You  know that? One of the Lord’s disciples was called doubting Thomas. And this doubting  Thomas came to India. You know how he started his work? When a king called Gonderferrys  wanted to build a big palace, somebody told him that in Palestine, there was a very able  carpenter, who was able to build big buildings and his name was Jesus Christ. So this king  sent a messenger to get that man. By that time Jesus died and rose again and went away.  So they referred him to the disciples. So there was only doubting Thomas having no opening  for the ministry. All the others had a ministry. So they said this fellow was with the carpenter,  so he said, “Mr. Thomas, our king wants to put up a big building, will you come? Are you  one of the carpenter’s family?” “Yes, I can put up a big building for you, come on.” 

So he was persuaded and brought into the country of India. So the king gave a lot of money  and gave the building plans and said, “Here is the money, now put up the building.” This  fellow took the money, walked up and down the towns, cities, all over the country, gave all  the money to the poor people and finished. So the king came, “How is the palace getting  on?” And the king’s friends said, “No, sir he has given the money to all the poor people and  no building has come.” Then the king called him and put him in jail, to be killed the next day.  In the middle of the night, the king had a dream, in which he was taken to some place,  beautiful buildings and he saw a very big building, beautiful palace with the name  Gonderferrys palace. He saw the palace and asked the angel, “Is this for me?” “Yes,” replied  the angel and said, “This is what Thomas did for you there.” The king, in the morning, got  up and told the people, listen to this man Thomas and commanded Thomas, “Thomas, you  can do the ministry. Whatever you do, I thank you for building a big palace for me in Heaven.” 

Then Thomas went to a river, where lot of Brahmins and priests were taking bath. He said,  “What God are you believing?” They said, “We believe in many gods.” “Can your gods do  anything wonderful? My God will do wonderful things.” Then they said, “All right. Will you  take a bucket of water from here and throw it in the air; the water must remain in the air, and  there must be a hole to the amount of water in the place from where the water is taken out.  Can you do that?” “Yes, Thomas said, in the name of Jesus, I’ll do it provided, if I do this,  you’ll all accept Jesus Christ.” Then he took the water, this doubting Thomas, took it up, 

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threw it in the air, the water stood there, there was a hole in the river water. The whole group  was baptized in the name of Jesus and the ministry started. And he started churches and  they named them (Mar Thoma Church) St. Thomas Church throughout India, hundreds and  hundreds of churches. And he was killed in Madras City at St. Thomas Mount. And I come  from the doubting Thomas’ Spiritual family, we belong to that doubting Thomas. But I’ll tell  you Brother, he saw the Master, but though we didn’t see the Master, we believed. 

But today, we see the prophet and keep on thinking that all the things are finished. “Yes, the  mercy seat is over.” For whom? For those who have no oil. But for the Bride there is mercy.  God has come down. If God has left mercy seat, then God has come down to this earth, my  friend. But if you don’t recognize Him, you’re gone. Go to your home and think, how many  people missed Christ in that generation? Whom do you think Christ will come to? What do  you think he is going to look like? Do you want Him to come just as you like according to  your theory? But the Bride will know by the description how the Bridegroom looks. Then she  recognized it is Christ. Not through a man or anybody. Not by outward evidence not by  clouds and everything. God comes down by the Word! God comes down by the Word! And  if the Bride cannot recognize this, you are not the Bride, you are a foolish virgin. 

Why are you foolish? Turn to Romans 1:21,22 - “Because that, when they knew God, they  glorified him not as God, but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was  darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.” We think we are wise.  You may hear all the tapes and be without salvation. If you read all the books, will God give  a revelation step by step what you should do? Thank God that God has been training, us.  You know, you must join the School of God for training, not a Bible School. They don’t know  what it is. I’ll tell you, every moment counts, sufficient unto the day of the evil thereof. Let us  be led moment by moment casting all care on God. 

Suppose my wife comes to United States, who will go and book the ticket? Will I sit at home  and say, “Hey, you go and book the ticket, and book a room for me?” Suppose I come to  Chicago, will I sit on a bench and say to my wife, “You go and book a room at the Holiday  Inn?” No, the husband does the work for the Bride. That’s what King David said, “My God  which performeth all things for me.” You don’t work. What do you read? “I am the way, the  truth and the life.” “I am the door.” 

Now suppose he says, “I am the highway,” what’s a highway? This highway before, was ups  and downs and mountains, valleys, ditches and stones. But one day, men suffered, they  dug up and dynamited the stones, and cut down the trees, and made a big highway. And  now we go easily. But think how many people suffered to put that road? And Jesus said, “I  am the way.” That means I came and made a smooth road for you, so that you may just  drive on me. So you don’t worry in this life by your efforts. If you go by YOUR EFFORTS,  you are not a Bride. Just walk through because He has done all the work for you, you are  just driving. Don’t stop, don’t make circles, don’t get into denominations. What is a  denomination? It’s like a gramophone record; New year, Easter, Christmas, New Year,  Easter, going around, same song and same prayer, all over the place. “My God in Heaven,  I beseech thee.” And like the Pentecostal people, what do they do? They prophesy, “Yes, I  am with you.” God in the Word says, He is with the people, then why should they say, “Yea,  I am with you” (prophecy). You have been fooled by many people. “Lo, I am with you always even unto the end of the world”, Why should you tell what is in the Bible? If God wants to  tell you something, He’ll tell you something very personal and turn your heart. Not just copy  some verse from the Bible and tell you. But, when God moves and tells you something from  the Word of God, it is something great. There’s something in the Bible which man cannot  utter without experiencing it personally. 

Why were the thunders not written? Tell me. The whole Bible was written by God. No man 

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can add or no man can take away but something has not been written by God. Why was it  not written? Because God is going to reveal that. Man cannot do that. But when God reveals,  that is God’s Word. That is why today, my friends, you are in danger. 

Now see my body, to clean this body, I have fingers. So these five fingers, are just kept by  God to wash my teeth, to comb my hair, to do everything, to put on my glasses, to put on  my coat, to put on my tie, everything - these five fingers. Suppose you have no fingers, what  would you do? So God gave five ministries for the body. Where is the five fold ministry  today? First of all teacher. Then comes pastor. They are special people, not an ordinary  people. Sometime people say, what can the pastor do? Why is this pastor not preaching?  He may be a duffer. Once I couldn’t even preach to a crowd of five people. When I came on  like that, one day, something happened. Oh, people were startled, I became a big man in  the city. God can make you over-night a big man. But the thing is, if God has called you to  be a teacher, be a teacher. But you cannot be a pastor, you cannot be an evangelist, you  cannot be this or that. If you’re a pastor, you can only be a pastor and a teacher, but you  can never be an evangelist. If you go as an evangelist, your church will go away. So pastors  feed the sheep. It is not an easy thing, because I have been a pastor myself. You know, for  three hundred and sixty-five days or 52 weeks, you have fifty two sermons or more. Then  the next year, you get another fifty two sermons. If the pastor stays for three years, he is  gone. You have given out nearly 156 sermons. Then the people say, “Oh, he is not a good  preacher, man. But an evangelist comes with ten sermons, only in his brain. “Oh! wonderful  man that brother, that man is a fire”. But let him stay here another one year, you’ll kick that  man out. Understand? 

It is difficult for a man to understand the hand of God. If an evangelist stays for about one  month, you yourself will get him out. But as an evangelist, he cannot stay at home and pastor  in his church. But you can do one thing, an evangelist is a tall man, big man. An evangelist  sows the manna of God for our day. They’ll say, he’s a big man, tall man. And he can be a  pastor, he can be a teacher, but he can never be a prophet. He can be three, but he can  never be a prophet. But listen, this evangelist, he’s like dynamite. He goes to a mountain,  puts in dynamite, breaks the stone into pieces. That’s all he can do. Everybody says, “Oh,  he came and a big revival took place.” After that he cannot do anything substantial. 

Osborne came to India, big meeting; not one man received the Holy Ghost. Billy Graham  came, two thousand people wrote that they’re saved, but not one man received the Holy  Ghost. We had a small meeting, only two thousand five hundred people, two thousand  people received the Holy Ghost. Which is big? Come on, it is not the crowd. Today, all over  India, wherever you go, people received the Holy Ghost in our ministry. They say, “In which  meeting did you receive the Holy Ghost?” “Brother Lawrie’s”. They get mad. Did you get  anything from the Osborne meeting? No. That was healing ministry. That was a salvation  ministry. But nobody got the Holy Ghost, and without the Holy Ghost you can’t do anything  much for God. That is why today, many people in this message, have not the Holy Ghost.  They are so afraid. How can you be afraid my friends, of the very thing, “TOKEN” which is  going to take you to heaven? You say, “read the books.” Where did Brother Branham say  not to receive the Holy Ghost? You read the Questions, fifth book, Brother Branham says,  “I want my church members to be filled with the Holy Ghost.” Bro. Branham’s daughter-in law sought for the Holy Ghost, fasting ten days. And today people say, “Brother, those days  are gone”. I tell you, I feel like scolding them, but I want to tell something very personal to  you. Please don’t be misled by these people. Get on your knees and get the Holy Ghost.  Tell your pastor, come on and shout again. If these people don’t believe this, shout again.  I’d rather shout and be wrong than be silent and be dead. John’s disciples were fasting but  Jesus’ disciples were feasting and shouting. Why the present day foolish virgins starve for  praises and joy and are frightened because according to Eccl.5:2 - When God is in His 

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heavenly throne, the earth should be silent (Hab. 2:20). But when He comes down the  heaven is silent - (Hab.3:3); when the Bridegroom is on the earth there should be thundering  praises. 

I don’t want my children to be silent when I go back home. I want my children to shout when  they see me. Once my wife told them, “When Daddy comes, you should not shout”. They  said, “All right, Mummy”. I came from the bus into the home, when the children saw me,  “Mummy, Daddy has come.” They started jumping. Why were they jumping? Because the  father is there. When the Bridegroom comes, you mean the Bride will sleep? Let’s take the  natural way, when the girl-friend sees her boy-friend, how does she feel? She forgets the  whole world. She’s not afraid and say, “Oh, I don’t know what people will think.” If I come  and my girl-friend is afraid to meet me, I think something is funny because she loves  somebody else better. That’s false. That’s why she is afraid. If you’re in love with God, you’ll  do what the Bible says. What does the Bible say? Everything that has got life, praise the  Lord! Everything that is dead be afraid and be silent. No oil, no oil, my friend. When did the  ministry stop? 

When I was going to one camp, the preacher said, “God has left the mercy seat, nobody will  be saved”, and said that he had not seen anyone being saved for the last five years. At that  time one sister came in, “Brother Lawrie, I’m confused, I want the Holy Ghost. I feel I should  get it as it is clear from God’s Word.” She had repented and been baptized in the name of  Jesus Christ. “You have it”, I said. Power filled her, she spoke in tongues. She went and told  the preacher, “Brother, I got the Holy Ghost.” Then the preacher said, “mercy seat is gone.”  So the people asked, “Well, if that girl received the Holy Ghost, what will happen to her?”  The preacher said, “She will come through the tribulation, after the millennium.” Verily, verily,  I say unto you, only this preacher will come through tribulation after millennium if he does  not watch for the Lord and be on God’s Word. But this girl won’t, she has got the Holy Ghost  and she is on God’s Word. 

So what happens? People are confused, and the devil puts forth error to confuse the Bride.  But the Bride will not be confused and she will believe the Word rather than any man. So, if  the Lord moves you, don’t be quiet. Pray, don’t be quiet. When did the praying stop, my  friend? These people don’t pray at all. They say, “Because we’re in the Bride, Oh, when the  pressure comes we will fly.” But you know, I don’t know what to do with these people. You  know, I get so mad, they talk through their hat but they don’t have a drop of oil in their lives.  “Oh, we are the Bride, we’re in the message.” They are in “MESS-AGE”; you are in the  “Mess-age”, not in the message. You are completely messed up. 

So what happens, now the time has come, if you read the books, read it without any  partiality. What did Brother Branham say? Thunders are to come. “I do not know it, I do not  know when,” then he said, “I’m preparing the way. There may be something happening after  me.” But one thing - God revealed the plan from that end to this end. Just like God revealed  to Moses the plan from Egypt upto Canaan, but when he came to Jordan, He said, enough  Moses, I’ll take over now. It’s something like, sending Eliezer to take over the Bride, and  when he came to a certain place, Eliezer had to stop. And Isaac said, “I’ll take my girl. Come  on, I’ll take the girl” and took the Bride to that tent meeting. What is that tent meeting?  Eliezer, brought the Bride upto a distance. Then Isaac looked and then he said, “That’s the  Bride.” He comes there, he takes her to his mother’s “New Jerusalem” tent (Gal.4:26). New  Jerusalem is the mother of all. He’s taking the Bride that’s the tent meeting, to be with the  Bride. The Bridegroom coming and taking the Bride to His Home, that’s a ministry of God  which is to come after Brother Branham. Many tried to lead without God’s call but were dead.  The insignificant man Joshua was ready when commanded and he was the leader of the  new ministry and even nature responded and sun stood still. So the ministry cannot be 

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imitated by false self-styled leaders who have sprouted like mushrooms. Moses knew God  face to face, as a prophet to whom came the sword of the Lord (Deut. 34:10,11). But to  Joshua God came down with the sword - note the sword did not come but God who held the  sword came down and Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshipped Him (Joshua  5:13-15). The Bride clings to God who holds the sword and worships Him but not just  boasting about the sword without God and His Spirit. Do not cling to “Peter’s Sword” which  chopped off the ear making one deaf to the voice of God. Only Jesus can heal the chopped  deaf ear.  

I know many people will get angry. Now you say, Brother Branham has got Christ ministry.  Yes, he came as Elijah, with the ministry for children just like Jesus came with a ministry for  children. But Jesus was Bridegroom and Elijah came to prepare the way. Elijah turned the  children’s heart to the faith of the forefathers, and gave the Bride into the hands of  Bridegroom with the Word of God ministry. John the Baptist, gave the fathers into the hands  of Jesus Christ. And if God doesn’t come, doesn’t catch you and take you, then you’re dead,  you’re not a Bride. And if you don’t realize that now, one day you’re going to realize it, my  friends. The father has to hand over the Bride to the Bridegroom. The foolish virgins know  about this message. And one day, the door was shut. What did Jesus say? “I’m the door,  I’m the door.” So Jesus is standing there, you talk about Jesus. We talk about everything,  yes, the rapture is gone or coming, everything we talk, but we’ve gone to the wrong door.  Why, in Sodom Gomorrah, they struggled but they could not find the door. Here the foolish  virgins know the door, they talk about the door. They talk about Him. But they knock at the  door. But the door is closed. Why? They’re not on the Word. They went to fetch oil on the  Word. They will come to the word in the end, after they see the ministry of the Bride. Then  they get jealous when they come to see the rapture had taken place. I tell you, Bride must  definitely come to the realization that they are missing something. 

So I love you all my friends. You may hate me and call me anything. I don’t care. But because  I love you, if you have that thirst in your heart, I’m saying this and not for your money or  anything. Are you really in the Bride? If you have thirst in your heart, come on, get the oil  now, and find out Christ. Come to these two meetings. That will be eternal for you. Because  I’m not staying here. I wanted to be here six months, I have invitation till December, but the  Lord spoke to me in Canada, “When the man reaches moon, I want you to go to Life  Tabernacle, Chicago and I’m going to reveal myself down there, and you go back home  immediately.” “I must come down before man reaches moon.” So we were driving about  nearly three thousand miles without stop, trying to get here before that day. I thank God. 

So what is this, that is happening today? Have your hearts turned? What did Jesus say, “I’m  coming as a thief!” He’s not coming in a big healing ministry. He’s not coming as a man with  publicity and by radio and all. Now listen, a thief doesn’t come making a big noise when  many are watching. He knows when you sleep, and sees then it’s the right time when  everybody is sleeping. What is the time now? When they sleep say everything’s finished,  miracles finished. Because miracles you can do only when you’re awake. So what do the  foolish virgins say? “Everything’s gone,” and sleep. Then the thief comes right in the  midnight in a dark dress silently and what does he come to steal? Does the thief come to  steal your old pants and shirts and everything of no importance? Or something like a broken  kitchen pot? Or does the thief come to steal your old rubber tube and all your old shoes? He  knows where you keep your jewellery, money everything. He comes right there to take the  best of the cream and run away before day breaks! And the rest will be foolish, and when  the foolish come out and knock that means the cream is lost. When the thief runs away, the  people try to catch him, then he also shouts, “Thief, thief, thief” and continues to run so that  the people will not suspect him to be the thief. Its day now and the night and the pillar of fire  is gone. So now there should be the pillar of cloud and not the pillar of fire.

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That’s why Brother Branham said, “He must increase, I must decrease!” If the ministry  coming doesn’t give us much more and shock the whole world than that which is already  done, then what Brother Branham told is not coming to pass. “I see a tent.” What did he  see? He didn’t say he was in a tent but, “I look down at a tent.” “I could not come down. The  angel looked UP away from Brother Branham and said NOT TO BROTHER BRANHAM but  Christ (Light) above, “I will meet you there.” The angel will meet in a place like a meeting  place for the continuation of His ministry where Christ will be present for the coming Third  Pull. 

Now listen, when Abraham was living outside Sodom and Gomorrah, God came and showed  the discernment to Sarah, not to Abraham. Now listen, he promised that lady a child. But do  you know what Abraham did? He didn’t take his wife, he came out, out to the town, and  talked with Jesus Christ. He had a conversation, he was interceding for Sodom and  Gomorrah. And God said, “If there are ten righteous people I won’t destroy it.” If America  will not be destroyed that means there are more than ten in the Bride or multiples of tens  according to the population. Don’t think there are lot of people. He promised Abraham, “I  won’t destroy the country if there are ten in the place.” But the second thing is He is talking  to Abraham, these are the two ministries in one place. Brother Branham came with  discernment to show the people, to place the net. Now God comes to talk with whom? Talk  with His Bride. And the Bride has still got mercy. God has left the mercy seat for the foolish  virgins. But God has come down to talk with the Bride. 

So suppose I go back to India, you will say, “Brother Lawrie has left the United States.” My  wife will say, “My husband is coming.” You think both are different? Both tell the same thing.  Only thing is, she is on that side, and I’m on this side. If you are in the tent, you’ll say the  Lord has come down. If you are OUTSIDE the tent, you’ll say, “the mercy seat is over,  miracles are over, everything has ceased; I’m finished, God is finished”. You may not agree,  but I’ll tell you, just hold still - don’t get angry, read the Bible. And I’ll show you tomorrow a  few more things. Come and see how God is going to move the place. Don’t think there’ll be  a big latter rain. The ministry is only for the Bride, who chooses Christ; and the greatest thing  in this world is that now God is coming down to take the people, the Bride. 

A man goes to the moon to take the rock. That’s the time God comes down to take the  earthly clay and make it immortal (Gen.11:7). See how quickly He scattered them. This time  God will quickly gather them together (all religions, countries, nations and politicians) into  one. Who are you and I? The Bride. The Bride is just the clay. So this dead clay is returning  to the dust. God touches the clay, and tells the whole world, “You took that rock and come  down, I will take the clay and make it immortal and go up.” If Russia could challenge America,  God can challenge the whole world in better ways. That is what He is going to do. So, on  that day, if man could touch the moon, as never before in the history of the world, God is  going to make this clay (a group of people) into an eternal thing. There is time no longer.  And tomorrow, I’ll deal with another subject like that. 

So God is concerned about you, and God fashions every clay according to His thinking. That  is why I agree with Brother Branham. Everyone has a ministry to play. Every sister’s got a  ministry. Dear Sisters! Don’t think because you should not preach according to God’s Word,  don’t say, “I’m gone.” You are better without preaching (James 3:1). You can pray. God can  speak to you. You could do mighty things on your knees. I have done many things on my  knees. I know just on my knees things happen. What is the greatest thing? Is it just  preaching? The greatest thing is to have God in you. And every day live with God. Hear His  voice, ask God what to do. It is not wrong to tell others what God has done to you, but do  not try to preach using that as a chance. You can meet many people in life, when you go  out, talk to some people, and just tell them about Christ. But today, the people are sitting 

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quietly, not even able to teach about Brother Branham’s books. “Brother, the serpent’s seed,  Oh, the serpent’s seed, only the elect will come.” You can’t go and sit down. If that’s so that  is a sign, you’re not the elected. If you just keep quiet, you have no mercy. The Bride will  have the mercy. 

So the Bride will reach out to the people. Come on, come to the Lord; come to the Lord. And  that mercy will see you come. But if you sit down and say, “there’s no mercy”, you are an  outside tare. The Bride will have mercy. So let God give you that thirst for people. Because  this is the time the Bride will come into power. Don’t think Christ is coming to be born in a  manger and be crucified. He’s coming now, humbly and silently to transform His Bride and  go away VICTORIOUSLY. Jesus ascended sending gifts to His people but now He  descends to take away the gifted people with good fruits. The moment he strikes the earth,  there’ll be judgement. Every clay which he’s taking up, there’s a hole there in the earth.  Every Bride claimed by God, right there, there’s a judgement, small judgement. That’s why  these days thunder storms are striking severely now. These won’t stop here. These are  days, as the Bride is claimed one by one by God, every Bride, will see something happening,  some small judgement, till a great judgement awakes the whole country. When the Bride  has gone up, there’s no mercy for this world. 

So if you are a Bride, take care of yourself. Can you do something? Go to your God. If you  have a real thirst for God, God will put something in your life. So, that’s why King David said,  “Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want”, He will lead you beside the still waters. Not into the  muddy waters of denomination and denominational spirit. What is a denomination? Muddy  waters. All trample and trample, it is dirty water. But he said “I will lead you beside the still  waters.” That is the message of the prophet which is the still waters and green pastures. So  we enjoyed it for three and a half years. And what did this produce? Many headed monsters.  Are these the Bride telling all kinds of things against the Word of God. But if you are the  Bride, challenge them with the Word of God. They can’t stand before you. So, now the time  has come for the Bride to go through the Word and studying everything and have the Word  in the heart. The Bride has the Word which is in the heart. How can you know the Word,  when you don’t read it? What is faith, after all? (Rom. 10:17) 

Suppose my son comes and tells me, “Daddy, I want a cycle.” He will say, “Please give me,  please give me.” Suppose I say “Come tomorrow 9 O’clock, I give you a cycle.” How will he  come? He won’t come and beg. Next day he will come to receive. One day when my son  wanted a cycle, I told him, “You pass the examination, I’ll give you a cycle.” He was happy.  He wrote the examination and got a pass, saw his name in the list of passed students on  the Board. He didn’t come to me, he just went to the cycle shop, ordered the cycle, asked  them to fit everything and keep it ready, telling them he’d come to get the cycle in a few  hours. Then he came to me, “Daddy, the cycle’s ready, come and buy it for me.” I said, “I  don’t have money now.” “You told me yesterday that if I pass the examination, you’d buy a  cycle and give me. Why are you fooling me?” I said, “Did I promise?” “Yes, the cycle’s ready,  don’t bother, everything is ready, come on.” So I had to get the cycle for him. So children,  claim with the word, the promises from the word and get the faith. 

Suppose you believe the Spoken Word books, like that, it is only an explanation of the Word  of God. It is God speaking through the prophet, explaining the whole Bible, without going to  a Bible School. Because God is our Bible School. In olden days, prophets brought the  message of God. And then Bible was written, but after the Revelation, there’s no more Bible.  Except when God comes down and speaks the things, that is God. That is God speaking  when he comes to the earth and speaks something, that’s a different Bible. 

So what happens? Children’s faith. Something happens you come and see me. Now see  we have problems in our life, we are worried. “What will happen to me when the plague 

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comes? What’ll happen to me when sickness comes? Somebody shot?” I’ll tell you, if you  have a thousand dollars in your pocket, can you sleep properly? Can you leave your room  peacefully. You will worry always. One time my father had a money purse with plenty of  money and put it inside his shirt. He slept in the night. Suddenly at 12 O’clock he got up and  said, “My purse, my purse, my purse.” He woke up the whole family. So we were searching  for the purse. He said, “Thief must have come, I don’t have the purse here.” So I said,  “Daddy, just keep quiet. What happened to you?” He said, “I put the purse into my shirt, it is  gone.” So I searched for the purse and it had come to the back side of his shirt. So I said,  “the purse is here, Daddy.” “Oh, I’m sorry, I never thought it was safe.” That man could not  sleep. But if you put that in the bank and get a receipt, you can sleep well, nothing will  happen to you. You are not worried after that, you can go to hell even with that. You know  what prayer I uttered, “Lord, even if I go to hell, You must send me to hell and be with me. I  give my life to you. You do whatever you like. If you send me to hell, you must be responsible  for that and be with me, I won’t be responsible any more.” 

And from that day, anywhere I went, I got something nice, you know. If I did something  wrong, I got a terrible chastening. Even on that day we just thought of going to a Pentecostal  Church on our way, on Sunday; our tyres got flat. Bride won’t be allowed to compromise  with anyone. If you are alone, well and good. You can go right along with God. But let it not  be an excuse for a lazy life. If you are alone go on praying and searching God in the night  time and day time. Then you are something. I’ll not join any denomination. I just go on  travelling up and down, seasons don’t matter, hot season or cold season, I’ll not worry. God  has seasoned His clay. But you are to go on right with God. Are you worried? Then you are  not a Bride. Are you having any problems in your life, don’t worry, he’ll take care of it. 

You know, there was a man going in a wagon with a horse. A man had a big bag of potato.  So this man said, “Can I get into your cart?” He said, “Okay.” When he got in, he was making  a groaning noise - the bag was still on his head. So the driver said, “What are you making a  noise here for?” “Oh, I thought your horse would find it difficult to carry me, but how will it  carry my potato bag?” Then the driver said, “Hey, put it down in the cart man, it can carry  you and your potato bag.” So like that, we keep our problems on our head and say, “God,  I’m sorry, Lord, I’m worried.” Put it back off your head. When you get in the car, you put your  suitcase in the back. You don’t carry your suitcase on your head and drive a car. So Christ  can carry you, and all your problems. 

And another thing I want to tell you, my friends, you want to be holy; have you succeeded in  that? Some people say, you know, some preachers preach holiness. But if you go and see  their lives, they are dirty people. But they preach about holiness and say, Oh, you must be  holy when the Lord Jesus Christ comes. You cannot have holiness unless God gives it. All  our righteousness are filthy rags. 

In India, before the marriage, the Bridegroom brings the dress for the Bride with him. So the  Bridegroom goes and gets the measurement from the Bride, a sari, blouse etc., puts it on a  tray, and his sister or some closely connected girl brings them with the bridegroom while the  bridegroom is received by the Bride’s party with great pomp. The sister takes the sari and  everything, goes to the girl, “Take off your dress and put on my brother’s dress.” So she puts  on the dress given by the bridegroom. Then she comes out, then the bridegroom takes her  to the marriage ceremony. The bridegroom does not come to the city where the bride stays  and blows the trumpet and calls the bride and the bride would fly and elope with the  bridegroom. The bridegroom comes to the house of the Bride and takes her personally with  him (Rev.3:20) not a spiritual meaning of heart door. When man cannot believe what God  says, he twists and gives a spiritual meaning to suit his unbelief. 

In the same way, before the rapture, the Lord is going to send his dress for us, His glory 

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dress. And then He’ll take us up. You can’t go with this body. He takes off this dirty body  and puts on His body, and that is what we are fighting for here. And that doesn’t come by  just flirting about. We are to pay a price of loneliness. A girl can flirt with ten boys, but one  day she says, “I’ll marry that particular boy”. Then she becomes the enemy of nine boys and  becomes lonely. Today when you choose Christ to follow the Word, then whole world is  against you. That will show that you have got the Bridegroom. Don’t try to compromise. And  then, go on with Him. Be true to Jesus. 

Thank God for the prophet. And believe, all that the prophet says. You can’t change that  because, that is God’s Word coming to the Bride. You can’t alter. Some people say, “Oh, I  can’t go on God’s Word.” “You won’t be accepted by God, my friend”. That’s my experience.  I know the Word of God; before Brother Branham’s messages, I was on God’s Word. I loved  the Word of God, totally. I didn’t want to accept him as the prophet, but when I said, “Lord,  is this you speaking though this man?” When I read these books, it all brought me to the  Word and confirmed it doubly. I said, “My God, you brought me back to God’s Word more  powerfully then ever before.” Then the Lord revealed Himself gloriously. If all the Spoken  Word books do not bring you to double faith on God’s Word and great love for the Lord  Jesus Christ and a burning desire to be ever with Him, my dear sweet friends, YOU ARE  TOTALLY DECEIVED. YOU ARE GIVEN UP BY GOD AS LOST - (Rom.1:21-32) and will  behave worse than a heathen. 

I know how, today, what I am doing. Brother, I’m not fooling about with you, because of  knowing something different. I’m not trying to get you for my personal profit. I’ve experienced  some reality. Don’t miss it. We are right in the time when the Lord is taking the Bride out,  and taking her to the tent. And Brother Branham is not coming to have a tent meeting, don’t  worry. In that subject people are so fanatic and sentimental, and I do not want to hurt their  sentimental feelings. But I tell you, that period (three days of moon landing) is over. You  have to cross that Jordan in three days. Get right across and become overcomers. Christ is  going to lead us. And when Christ leads us, the sun will stand still. When the Bride speaks,  something happens but the Bride’s body has a head. Then the people will realize that the Bride has got something which they don’t have. And those days are coming soon. So,  actually I don’t want to keep you long, and tomorrow and day after tomorrow, come back,  praying. You may be a little flock, but you will be blessed my friends. God bless you.  

MEDITATIONS 

A prophet is like a loudspeaker, magnifying the whisper of God (the spreading of the net  silently to catch the prey - the first roaring) to the world gone astray from God (Jeremiah  1:17). The Bride is comprised of very humble and contrite hearts, broken vessels who will  not “Break their ranks nor thrust one another, they shall walk everyone in his path”, but the  world is full of people who seek power, position, name, money and they creep in by stealth  which the Bride cannot cope up with, as she is soft like “Abel”, building only on revelation  and of a passive type, seeking God’s glory alone. So God uses prophets who are like a  transparent clear glass and sees the whole thing and fixes “lures” according to the nature of  the power seekers and casts out a net through the prophet and all the people full of “self life” which is prominent in their heart and not thoroughly crucified with Christ are mostly  caught. When they come to a prophet with their self-life (idols) to enquire of Him, God  answers them Himself. If you would please meditate on Ezekiel 14:5-11, especially verse 9  God will deliver you from all fear and help you to proceed to “Overcoming Life” as He did  deliver many of us: 

“IF THE PROPHET BE DECEIVED WHEN HE HATH SPOKEN A THING, I THE  LORD HATH DECEIVED THAT PROPHET AND I WILL STRETCH OUT MY 

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HAND UPON HIM, AND WILL DESTROY HIM FROM THE MIDST OF MY  PEOPLE ISRAEL. AND THEY SHALL BEAR THE PUNISHMENT OF THEIR  INIQUITY: THE PUNISHMENT OF THE PROPHET SHALL BE EVEN AS THE  PUNISHMENT OF HIM THAT SEEKETH UNTO HIM; THAT THE HOUSE OF  ISRAEL MAY GO NO MORE ASTRAY FROM ME, NEITHER BE POLLUTED  ANY MORE WITH ALL THEIR TRANSGRESSIONS; BUT THAT THEY MAY BE  MY PEOPLE, AND I MAY BE THEIR GOD, SAITH THE LORD GOD.” 

This clearly shows that the Bride should take only that part which is checked with the Word  of God and be crucified to self without anything of an idol in the heart. Please do not mistake  me. This is not said to discredit a prophet, but to show how surrendered and abandoned of  their own will should the prophets be to speak the mind of God being dead to their thinking!  If you will refer to Psalms 18:25-27 - “With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful; with  an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright; with the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; and  with the FROWARD THOU WILT SHEW THYSELF FROWARD. For thou wilt save the  afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks” (1 Peter 1:11-12; 2 Peter 1:2021). 

A prophet prepares the way, or else chisels the stones to the proper size and removes the  unwanted stones out of the way, and the stones for the temple were prepared and brought.  No noise of tools should be heard when building (1 Kings 6:7). The Apostle takes those  polished stones and fits them into the proper place and cements the surface and constructs  the building. Take for example John the Baptist (Luke 3:4-6). He prepared the way by  breaking the mountains, filling the pits, cutting the trees and removing all the obstacles  completely out of the way, to lay out a concrete road for the Lord Jesus Christ. Mountains  mean proud men and pits mean humble repented people. The duty of the men who prepare  the way is to take all these obstacles and dump them in a far away place ( far away from the  True Way) so that they will not be brought back to the road again to block the free passage  of the constructed road where the Bride walks with a beautiful mien (S.S. 6:10; 8:5; 3:6)  leaning upon her beloved - not Eloping as people seem to think - but the Bridegroom comes  to fetch the Bride and takes her along with him, as He cannot trust this work to any others.  The man who prepares the way, goes his way as his duty is over. 

Who are the people who are mostly caught in the net? (even vipers - Matt. 3:7). All kinds of  people, foolish virgins and wise virgins (small fishes who are caught by “lures” attractive).  Only a very few of the Bride is caught without guile drawn into the net by human affections  and blood relationship, sensation and emotion, but are not satisfied as they could not see  the Bridegroom and be with those who have no oil and say miracles and salvation are over  and serve the Lord God for a reward. The Bride does not serve God for a reward but has  fallen in love with the Lord Jesus Christ and serves Him for the sake of His love. The “Big  Fishes” are the best part of the Bride who are too clever and strong to be caught by anything  outside the Word of God, even if the net is cast by a vindicated prophet. If you turn to Amos  3:1-11, you will find that God speaks through the prophet to cast a net, and the people  caught the “lure” according to their desire and according to the glass through which they  see. If it is a red glass everything appears to them as red and if green everything appears  as green. This speaking to the prophet is God “roaring” silently to catch the people to let the  Bride humbly walk through to catch the Bridegroom as otherwise she will be pushed out by  power seekers and watchmen and keepers of the walls who will smite her and take her veil  away (S.S. 5:7). Once the people are caught, the Lord (the Lion of the Tribe of Judah)  descends and roars (second roaring) with mighty thunderings as the prey has been caught,  but the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the Lion two legs and a piece of an ear as they  are part of the Bride. 

Even during the time of Moses God said in Deut. 13:1-18 especially verse 3: “Thou shalt not 

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hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God  proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all  your soul.” The Bride will hear the Voice of God and come out at this call and join with the  Overcomers (S.S. 6:10) who will victoriously destroy the last enemy called death singing “O  death where is thy sting? O, hell, where is thy victory, laying up no treasure in this earth,  under the direct leadership of the Lord Jesus Christ, with a clear revelation of the  Bridegroom. 

Even in the story of ten virgins, people seem to misunderstand and preach that the five wise  virgins are the Bride, but watch O Bride, these virgins bear torches for a reward, or a salary,  or personal glory, but the difference being five of them have no oil (Holy Spirit) and the other  five have the Holy Spirit, but serve the Lord for reward without trusting Him totally for their  needs, but always hinting at their sacrifices and needs and clamouring sympathy by  magnifying their work for the Lord instead of waiting patiently for the move of God. When I  was in Canada, a man came into my room and said “Brother Lawrie, every preacher comes  to me and calls me a serpent seed because I do not pay my tithes to them, but can I have  any hope.” I asked him to kneel down and he was filled with the Holy Spirit, obeyed the Lord  in water baptism and when I visited him again I found him to be much God’s Word and  sincere than any preacher. The man who shouts “Behold the Bridegroom cometh” is not the  Bridegroom. All of them sleep but the Bride is in her house sleeplessly waiting for the  Bridegroom (S.S. 2:14) to be united, dressed up with all glory by the clothes which the  Bridegroom brought. She cannot come out with her own clothing. People in the West  mistake this marriage ceremony as they consider it according to their own custom where the  boy and girl select their own and can go on together for years with real union before the  marriage takes place with the consent of both parents. Even real believers do this and call  themselves blameless and ready for the rapture. Jesus Christ really meant the Oriental  Custom which makes it clear that the foolish and wise virgins are not the Bride, but because  the wise have the Holy Spirit, they can enter into the door (John 3:5), but not be partakers  of the glorious calling of the Bride putting on immortality without tasting of death. So, watch,  the Bridegroom comes to the Bride personally to take her to His Home which He has  prepared for her.  

When the Bridegroom comes to take the Bride on this Earth, the shout “Behold the  Bridegroom cometh” goes before Him, but after He has taken the Bride with Him, He will  come to reveal Himself to the Jews and fight for them. Then the shout will be “Behold the  Bridegroom and the Bride cometh” (Zech. 14:5). When John’s disciples were quarelling with  Jesus’ disciples, many left and joined with the Apostles of the Lord Jesus Christ as their  number evidently increased in the upper room. The twelve special people, they were the  twelve Imitation Apostles of John the Baptist about when you read in Acts 19:1-7 who were  deceived by God through the Prophet, their leader, John the Baptist who himself was  deceived - a proof of a true prophet who came to prepare the Way only - refused to leave  the stand taken by them (gone beyond recovery as a denominational spirit possessed them).  Even John the Baptist held on to his personal ministry instead of abandoning his group of  people and following Jesus Christ. He came only to PREPARE THE WAY AND NOT TO  BUILD FURTHER. His followers even after his death, because they had to eat their own  words were not humble enough to accept the Bridegroom but along with John were in doubt  (Luke 7:19) till the last minute. Their vision was blurred, they lost their way and could not  find it even after seeking it, till Paul’s period missing everything precious. John the Baptist  realized it too late as according to Isaiah 61:1, he thought Jesus will come and open the  prison and deliver the captives, including himself before His execution, but he did not  understand that Jesus meant his going to hades after his death to preach to the captives  and set them free. He went up with the captives and gave gifts unto men (Psalms 68:18). 

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When he was sure of his death he doubted and sent his disciples to find out, if Jesus were  the one to come or should they wait for another! 

There are many incidents regarding the prophets throughout the Bible (1 Sam 13:8,9; 1  Kings 13; 1 Kings 20:35-43). If the ministry stops with a prophet, it is incomplete. According  to the five-fold ministry, mentioned in Ephesians 4:11-15, after the prophet, the apostle  should come and it is this five-fold ministry which serves to clean - sanctify the body, face  etc. The five fingers the little finger and the ring finger (next to the little finger), the middle  finger, the pointing finger and the thumb represent the teacher, the pastor, the evangelist,  the prophet and the apostle respectively. The teacher can only be a teacher but cannot be  the other four, the pastor can be a pastor and teacher also, but not the other three, and the  evangelist can be the evangelist, pastor and teacher but not the other two and the prophet  cannot be an apostle but can be the other four and an apostle is also an important person  as without him the five-fold ministry will be of no use and incomplete just as the four fingers  of the hand cannot do anything without the shortest but strong of them - the THUMB. You  see the prophet can only cut the stones (chisel them accordingly), dynamited by the  evangelist, shaping them as required of the Word of God and he can never proceed further  to build which work requires only an apostle who alone is called for that work and can set  the stones in the proper place and complete the building (1 Peter 2:4,5). 

God asked the people to remember Moses and his commandments and statutes. Everyone  of them depicted about the future Lamb of God and restoration etc., concerning only the  Lord Jesus Christ. What does it mean? These are last days when the whole Bible and every  mystery should focus on the Lord Jesus Christ Who comes to this earth for the Bride and  comes with the saints of God for the deliverance of the Jews when God’s army will be like  Joel 2:1-16 - verse 16 - “Let the Bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the Bride out of  her closet” (Psalms 19:5). 

What was the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah? Ezekiel 16:49,50. 

“BEHOLD, THIS WAS THE INIQUITY OF THY SISTER SODOM, PRIDE,  FULLNESS OF BREAD AND ABUNDANCE OF IDLENESS WAS IN HER AND  IN HER DAUGHTERS, NEITHER DID SHE STRENGTHEN THE HAND OF THE  POOR AND NEEDY. AND THEY WERE NAUGHTY, AND COMMITTED  ABOMINATION BEFORE ME: THEREFORE I TOOK THEM AWAY AS I SAW  

GOD.” (Also Jude 7; 2 Peter 2:6-9) Also LUST - Full of Sodomites in the land. 

The most important of this is PRIDE which was the cause of the fall of the Angel Lucifer.  This has not only crept into the material world and also into the Spiritual sphere of the United  States which is depicted as Sodom and Gomorrah, by the Prophet himself. The so-called  Spiritual People are so proud and thereby blind that they cannot see anything of God’s hand  outside the four walls of the United States and if God does not do anything through them  and lead the whole world through them they call all the moves of God as “Phoney and  Devilish, but what about the exaggerations and false reports of the Western Magazines?  Even if Christ were to come to America, He has to put on an American label. When Bro.  Branham visited India for a short while, the Lord took me to attend these meetings and I was  a close observer of all these meetings sitting behind him in Bombay, in the Ministers corner.  God used this man mightily and the non-Christians mostly wanting to see something great  to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, fell under the power of God when the discernment gift  operated through Brother Branham and Glory to God no servant of God from West had such  an impact on the Indians within a short time even though the crowd was about three to four  thousand (both inside the church building and outside the Methodist Church at Byculla,  Bombay) daily for less than a week. God vindicated His servant but when the report came 

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in the books published by his followers they stated 5,00,000 people attended the meetings.  A lie in the name of the Prophet? When I pointed this out (not to be little the man of God),  but on honesty’s ground they did not care a bit at all, but persisted in publishing the same  way. If one thing is wrong, how can the others be correct? God wants complete and every  inch total truth, which is called “without guile.” This meeting was held in a church building  belonging to the Methodist Church in Bombay. Anyone visiting Bombay can see the building  and find out whether 5,00,000 people could be seated inside together for all the days. How  can you make the Indian people believe such a lie in our own country? 

About being “caught up”. In Greek this word means “Harpazo” meaning to seize, catch up,  pluck, pull, take by force, derived from “Haireomai” meaning to take for oneself, to prefer, to  choose, akin to “Airo” meaning to lift, to take up or away, to sail away. This clearly means  the Bride has to be caught by the Bridegroom. The Bridegroom appears normal to others  but for the Bride it is rapture. There is no longer time element for her but eternity has started  in reality. 

The wheat and tares grow together and look alike till the time of harvest; but suddenly the  wheat gets the grain while the tares do not get the grain. The grain of wheat which fell into  the ground - Jesus - will bring forth similar grains hundredfold - sons of glory. We are now  in the ripening time and God told that we should wait till the harvest time and not to pull the  tares earlier as we could recognize the Bride putting on her God’s glory while the others will  have no glory at all. 

According to Hebrews 9:27, “It is appointed unto men once to die and after this the  judgement.” Once a man finishes his life-span, his coming again to die is not Biblical. Jesus  Christ came to taste death for us all, but he does not come to die again in this world any  more. First He came hidden showing Himself as a meek and humble man - “God hidden in  a man”, but to fetch the Bride He comes as man hidden in God. First He came to the Jews  and was rejected and only Andrew and Peter followed first with Him to the Gentiles, but now  the Gentiles can see how the rejection of Jesus Christ brought such a judgement for nearly  2000 years to them - His own elect. Now after enjoying the blessings of God in turn, the  Gentiles reject the mercy of God which brings back the Jews to full original position as “Elect  holding the Oracles of God” but judgement on the Gentiles is very SHORT AND QUICK  AND THOROUGH. Jesus said “In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so,  I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for  you, I WILL COME AGAIN, AND RECEIVE YOU UNTO MYSELF; that where I am, there ye  may be also” (John 14:2,3). Coming again means come to the very place where he was  before! 

Jesus said He was coming as a “THIEF”. I remember when I was a small child, on a New  Year Day in Ceylon a thief got into our home and stole everything precious. First the thief  came into the locality where we stayed and was visiting us as a salesman for nice clothes  etc. Then he would give sometimes clothing on credit even. Then he became very friendly  and enquired about the welfare and the children and ladies without any guile related all the  home news and how the New Year was to come and where we keep our best things and  jewellery etc. On the New Year Eve, except my mother and few children, my Dad went to a  nice film show and by this time in the midnight the thief has already crept into the house and  was hiding. When my dad came home he stumbled on the man but he was so unsuspective  that he thought it was a misplaced firewood piece and scolding my mum, went to bed. Before  dawn the doors were opened and all jewellery and best of sarees etc., were stolen and in  the morning there was no trace of anything worthy and the thief also and we spent the New  Year in dismay without a cent in the hand knowing that thief is greater than the watchman.  My mother already had a dream about the theft and they locked the rooms and doors well, 

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but the thief without breaking it, opened it after coming inside. He must flee before the day  time. Because man has imprisoned precious souls in the prison house of denominations,  the Lord had to come as a thief in the night time - pillar of fire time - and take away anything  precious and of eternal value before the day dawns - the time of the pillar of cloud. May we  be one of those precious jewels stolen by this Great God of ours. We talk so much about  eagles - the thunder bird, but it is called thunder bird because it can reach only upto the  place of thunder not anymore higher. 

I saw in the United States such a terrible clamour for power and leadership after Brother  Branham’s death and everyone talks about Joshua and those who help others by finance  flatter the beneficiaries with false dreams as Caleb and Joshua, but why they trouble so  much about this? The Bride cannot be deceived now because this follow-up ministry is from  God direct and CANNOT BE IMITATED and these self-styled leaders will find themselves  fighting against God themselves. These leaders cannot give immortality or rapturing faith,  but Jesus Christ is going to vindicate Himself by giving glorified body to those who stand for  the Son of Man. During this Visitation of God on the Moon Landing days, the Lord spoke to  me that “The Thunders were not revealed so far and the Seventh Seal has not been revealed  as yet, and all those who claim that they have been revealed are false preachers and are  promoters of lies.” I am not writing this to attack anyone, but plead with those nice brethren  who are full of love for God and wonderful people to think for a while and change their views  and not preach any more like that and lead the people astray, but wait for the Mighty Angel’s  loud voice and the revelation of the Seven Thunders utterances, and humbly pray so that  we will escape the coming great tribulation. Enoch was translated because God descended  on him to warn the people before Noah and he could not die because anything which God  touches turns immortal; anything which man possesses becomes Hell and Death, Enoch’s  wife - children missed. Except Noah and his family all perished. When I returned from  Chicago to Troy, Ohio, I spent the night with Bro. L. D. Dale and Bro. Roger Gerard and their  families, having programmes all over States and other countries and was about to go when  the Lord again met me and revealed something great for this generation in that “BETHANY”  and asked me to quit United States immediately and go to India without meeting anyone.  Please do not mistake me for not informing anyone. I am not against anyone of you and do  not want to hurt anyone and am quiet satisfied with my lot in India as I am waiting to “fly  away with Jesus” and all of you indeed treated me very well and sacrificed a lot for me, and  I thank the Lord for all those who took pains to invite me. Thank God He has enabled me to  take a stand for the Truth by giving me a clear understanding. Elijah of old was a man but  God came into him and he was God warning the people then and he could not see death.  These glorified saints are not preserved for thousands of years in glory to die in this cursed  earth again. Come on Bride wake up, seek God as you never sought before, let your shout  be heard and rejoice as this world will not catch us anymore into perdition because of the  glorious life with our Master. I am not writing this for people to call me a Great Man. What  can a Black Man, standing on God’s Word and that too an Indian expect from this world  when has chosen Christ? Enough of what we have got from the people of this world, but  above all God and His presence have been always in this Life and JESUS NEVER FAILS.  We pray for all of you who are marching on to Victory as very soon we will see pressure and  untold sufferings, but we will be seen glorified for the “take off”. 

If Jesus Christ were today, or United States were in Jesus’ time, the Lord would have said: 

“O America, America, the vine of my planting, the choicest of my jewels, which  despises the Word of God and builds temples and rejects them that are sent unto  thee; how I bare you on Eagles wings and brought you unto myself to a land of 

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milk and honey by stirring up the net and brought your Pilgrim Fathers, fluttered  over young, spread abroad my wings, took you and bore you on my wings like  EAGLE but you have the name Eagle but have denied me altogether, waxed fat  and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness;  thou hast forsaken the Lord God who made you and lightly esteemed the rock of  your salvation. How often would I have gathered thy children together as a hen  doth gather her brood under her wings and ye would not! Knowing very well (how  thy Sister Great Britain was lifted as a World Power by the power of God from a  small beginning and fell down to such a low degree because of pride and in her  height of glory sang “Britannia Rules the Waves” which God alone can do) you  did not humble your heart. Behold your country, in the height of civilisation, led  the Nations of the World, is left unto you DESOLATE: and verily I say unto you  ye shall not be able to see me or recognize my visitation except the choicest few  whose eyes I opened because of their humility who shall say “Blessed is He that  cometh in the name of the Lord” to whom I will give the glory which I had before  the foundation of the world and will take them to the place I have prepared for  them.” 

JESUS NEVER FAILS! 

15-9-1969  

-- Bro R. Paulaseer Lawrie

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SECOND MESSAGE -- 19-07-1969 

A PERSONAL MESSAGE TO THE BRIDE OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST “BEHOLD, I COME AS A THIEF. BLESSED IS HE THAT WATCHETH AND KEEPETH  HIS GARMENTS, LEST HE WALK NAKED, AND THEY SEE HIS  

SHAME.” - Rev. 16:15. 

“AS THE DAYS OF NOAH WERE, SO SHALL ALSO THE COMING OF THE  SON OF MAN BE.” - Matt. 24:37. 

AS THE LIGHTNING COMETH OUT OF THE EAST, AND SHINETH EVEN UNTO  THE WEST; SO SHALL ALSO THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN BE”.  - Matt. 24:27. 

“THEREFORE BE YE ALSO READY: FOR IN SUCH AN HOUR AS YE THINK NOT  THE SON OF MAN COMETH.” - Matt. 24:44. 

“Dedicated to the spotless bride having a revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ who meets the  bridegroom on the Word of God, waiting patiently with the firm faith of overcoming death,  hears the voice of shepherd possessing nothing in this world to hinder its translation, putting  on the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ and will escape the tribulation.” 

Place: Life Tabernacle, Chicago, Illinois, USA Date : 19-07-1969 

Let us pray. Loving Saviour I thank and praise thee for this precious hour. Lord, we thank  you because you are a living God and you guide thy people, thy sheep in the proper way.  Lord because thou art a good shepherd we shall not want anything. I pray that you will bless  the people that are here. Lord open our understanding, help us to know the correct way of  thy leading Lord. Lord, we have come to the end-time when man is reaching..... the end of  his destination, of his time and his knowledge. Lord we know that the Bride also will reach  it’s knowledge of God. We thank You for all that You have done for us. We thank You for  Your care. Lord, I thank You for bringing me so many miles to meet these children of thine.  Lord let not one child, one sheep go astray. Lord in these dark days when people speak  many things when people are away from God’s word, we thank you because You brought  us to that True Word. In the name of Jesus Christ we ask thee. Amen. 

Sit down please.  

Isaiah 53:11 -- “He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied.”  

Praise be to the name of the Lord Jesus. 

I thank God for giving me another opportunity to be in your midst, coming far from a country  which does not enjoy much of your privileges, but yet they see God. Sometimes I used to  think that wealth and prosperity hinders them. You know if you have been in countries where  there are restrictions, controls you will not be worried about slight control in this Government,  but there are countries where they treat you so hard that it looks like you have no freedom  at all. In our country we don’t have any radio freedom. You cannot speak over the radio. You  cannot have freedom as you have here. As I told you even to drink liquor, you have to have  a drunkard’s license. You have to go to the Government and say, “I am a drunkard” and then  they give you a license, then you can have some brandy bottles. 

But here everything seems to be free. But the children of God do not seem to be free.  Everything is free in this world, especially in the United States. But God gave free everything.  Light He gives free, the air He gives free, rain He gives free. But when man touches it, it is  all costly; oxygen in cylinders is costly; water in bottles like Coca Cola you have to pay. 

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Everything that man has such as tube lights like this, you have to pay. Water is free, but to  bring the water into your home, you have to pay water tax. But God never charges,  everything is free. Salvation is free. That is why in any evangelistic work when they start  collecting money, it is not of God. That is the sign that God is not there. If God is with you,  you don’t have to go all over the world laying a road. God will build a highway to your house,  so the people will come running to you. Sometimes people say, “Oh I must visit that place  and this place.” In India I have not visited many places but I have seen people from all  countries coming to our home. Swiss people have come, Germans have come, English  people have come, Americans have come. So I used to wonder.....If God is with you, if there  is a little light of God in you, people will see that light in this earth. That is why Jesus said,  “A city that is on a hill cannot he hid.” You try to hide yourself but you cannot. If God is with  you, there is your power. 

You know these are days when there is a spirit of fear even among the children of God.  Many people have come into the message of the Prophet Branham merely by fear thinking  that they should not be called a serpent’s seed. They are not worried about salvation, they  come right in and say, “Oh we believe the message”, because if you don’t say that, you are  supposed to be a serpent’s seed. That is what people seem to think. But my friend, the  person who does not know the leading of God, how can he be a Bride? The Bride will  understand God; my wife will understand me. A young girl going to marry a young boy will  understand the boy. Otherwise why should they marry at all? So if you cannot understand  your God, if you cannot understand God’s leading, then something is wrong with you. In  these days man is trying to reach to the ZENITH of his knowledge. Whatever happens in  this world here is a shadow of the things which are to come in the spiritual life. That is the  thing man does not understand. Anything happening in this world is a shadow, God said. In  the race of going to the moon, you can see America and Russia competing at the same  time. But Russia tried to go a little earlier. What does this signify? You know America at least  pays lip homage to God: but Russia says, “No God”. But you understand when America  sends the rocket to the moon, Russia sends a lifeless robot rocket without any life going  around a little earlier. God also acts in the same way. The Devil is trying to get at the peak  of power and God’s people are brought to the height of their power. But what do the people  preach? They are preaching the message without the head. They are preaching a headless  message today. That is the trouble now. “Oh, the Bride is getting ready.” But how can the  Bride come without a head? You say Bride’s message, Bride’s message; that is true but  without the head what is the use of two hands? What is the use of two sets of five fingers?  The message that is going out now throughout America in the prophet’s name is the  message without the head. 

Now see, the Church Ages are finished. You have got shoulders signifying ribs. There is a  bend in the shoulders. Thus the prophet came to TURN the hearts of the people, but when  the bend comes.....when the bend comes straight, you must have something on it called the  head. That is the thing which should come to the body to give life. When Jesus was living in  this world there were people like people today, but there was a group of people who were  on God’s Word. When you are on God’s Word you know, the moving of by what God has  said there. If you do not read the Bible, you do not know the moving of God. When you tell  people to read the Word of God, they get angry. Of course in our days we had schools  teaching the Bible. I learnt Bible when I was five years old. But now Bible is not taught in  schools. And what is the use of these children just taking Brother Branham’s books and say  I believe the message? They do not know the A-B-C- of the Bible. But for people who have  received the Holy Ghost, that prophet’s message is power and they need not seek the Holy  Ghost because they already have it. That day I heard a man preach, “You don’t have the  Holy Ghost till you believe the Spoken Word books.” Even if you have received the Holy 

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Ghost in Pentecostal groups and baptised in Jesus’ name, you must be re-baptised and get  the Holy Ghost again. I know what the Holy Ghost is. If you have the Holy Spirit, you come  back to God’s Word not make circles around a prophet who is no more. I was saved in 1943,  I received the Holy Ghost in 1953 and that Holy Ghost is leading me wonderfully. 

When I see some sisters and brothers here in this tabernacle, it thrills my heart. You know  when I came to Chicago in 1959, Sister Rub Cox, Johnny Austin and Bro. Bob Mazis and  Bro. Meek families and Richard and Henry Avicola’s families are the ones who helped me.  I went everywhere, no chance to pray, no chance to preach, no chance in all assemblies.  But mind you, God told me “I go before you and if they receive you they receive Me; if they  reject you, I have left them.” I went to every Church in Chicago...went to the Pentecostal  Church, went to big fellowship meetings. They watched me like a tiger. “Brother Lawrie, you  steal the American money.” When you go to a meeting, they put a guard on you,” He will get  friends with some people and take our money.” When I had no place to stay, these friends  helped me. I used to sleep....go to the Greyhound bus-stand and all other places, sleep on  the benches throughout the night. Sometimes no sleep at all. My friend will have few dollars  with him. I have walked through Chicago roads many times but I have forgotten all these  places now. But these roads I have seen; I was walking all over the place. And today who  saw us, we had only one coat or something like that. That friend had a warm coat. He will  come to see me after his work. 

The pentecostal believers have a union it seems and that union had decided not to give  Brother Lawrie a chance to preach. But mind you, they have put out God because according  to what God told me, they put out God. That is why today I thank God I went to every  denomination....Church of God, Assemblies of God, everywhere and when they put me out  I am sure they have put out God. That clearly shows God is not there. If God is there, they  will know whom God sent.  

You know many people try to talk about Brother Branham. They talk against each other. I  am coming from India, what do I know about Brother Branham? .I was in Florida at Bro. Oral  Robert’s and Bro. Osborne meeting, all kinds of meetings, Billy Graham meetings....I met  them all personally and had a talk with them. I talked with every preacher....big preacher,  Pentecostal people, Baptist people Lutherans, Methodists and all the leaders and I tell  you......you may have had that chance to meet these people. I got into every place and then  God said go to Chicago. 

Then there was a brother John Kluzet in Glendale, California. He told me, “Lawrie, you come  for street preaching.” I said, “Where?” “On the road.” I said, “On the roads of America?” So  I went to a certain place called Glendale. So he said, “Come on, let us preach on the road?  He started shouting and I also started shouting on the road and a Muslim came and told me,  “Hey, you are an Indian?” “Yes.” “You talk Jesus is living?” “Yes.” “Now I take my hand, you  pray to Jesus and get me $100. Then I will believe on Jesus. There were about 100  Americans there. Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha, they laughed...on the road. That was my experience you  know. I was a bit nervous because everybody was laughing, this Muslim was challenging.  He was from Iran and this brother was there. We didn’t know what to do. But suddenly there  was a man eating French fries and standing in a corner. And the crowd was  increasing....people were watching and this man telling, “Come on, where is your God?  

I just thought “Lord don’t let me down,” Jesus never fails. And you know what happened?  This man who was eating the French fries jumped into the crowd, caught the Muslim by the  hand and dropped $100 on his hand and said this is the way God leads that man. And he  cried and knelt down and was converted right on the spot, a Muslim from Iran. And then I  asked this brother. “Why were you interested in me? You were not in the crowd but came  running from outside.” “You know why I came, I was sleeping yesterday and I had a dream. 

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The Lord told me that His servant was coming to preach on the road and He asked me to  take $100 and stand near the wall. So I am standing from 4 O’ clock in the evening turning  to the other side and I couldn’t see anyone. But when I turned this side, I saw the crowd and  I looked at you and it was the same man I saw in the dream. So this $100 dollars I dropped  in his hand. That was something, that was vindication. 

So today people preach, ministers preach, where is the vindication? If anyone has a  vindication, they say it is false even if it stood on God’s Word; Why? They are dead and so  no vindication. I will tell you VINDICATION is not gone, my friends. It has not been dead with  Brother Branham....it is coming with greater weight. Every child of God will have a  vindication. Every Bride will know who she is. I will know who is my Bridegroom and the girl  will know whom she is going to marry. Today the Bride doesn’t seem to know the Bridegroom  at all. Yet say Bride, Bride, Bride. You can talk about the Bride and not know the Bridegroom  at all. And now these are days when we have come to the end-time. Man is just landing on  the moon....almost reached now....and according to the news today, man is now reaching  the moon and Russia also is trying the same thing. And do you say God will keep quiet? 

What is the life that pleases God? How are you going to please God? All right, you believe  the message. Do you think you are the Bride? What is the will of God for you in your life?  There is a will of God for you in your life. If you see a tree, every leaf is attached to the  branch and no leaf is attached to another leaf. If ten leaves stick together, it is a sickness. If  the leaves are sick, they get together and do nothing. They are sick. But every leaf gets life  in it from God. There is a fellowship of the leaves by rubbing at each other when the wind  blows. In the same way, in the Holy Ghost they love each other Hallelujah! That is the  fellowship. But the life comes from God, not from one leaf to another leaf. 

Suppose you go to hunt you don’t aim at the tail or the leg of the animal. Where will you  aim...just right through the heart or the head. That is where the vulnerable point is. In the  same way, the Devil attacks man and woman not on any other place...not in any other way,  but aims at the heart and your trust in God. That is called faith. The love of God in man is  called faith. And the Devil aims at that, trying to make the person depend on something other  than God. That is called spiritual adultery. You have to guard this faith life like a girl guarding  her life for her husband. If a wife depends upon another man, you call it adultery. How can  you say I depend on so and so and still depend on God? If you depend on God, then you  can call yourself a Bride. You don’t want any support, God is supporting you. If I tell all my  experiences, you won’t believe me. 

Many people tell lies, but God’s children couldn’t tell a lie. Once I was standing on the road,  there was a taxi man...I wanted to go about ten miles, so I told him to stop. And the taxi man  said, “Brother Lawrie, you have to wait for about ten minutes or fifteen minutes. I will go and  drop this man and come and pick you up.” Then he wanted me to promise that I will wait for  him. I said, “All right.” So he went away, and another friend of mine came in his car....in a  taxi...also. He said, “Brother Lawrie, why don’t you get in?” I said I promised the taxi man I  would wait for ten minutes. “These taxi men tell lies, why don’t you get into my car I will take  you.” He pressed me so I put my leg in. Right then the two tyres burst, not one.” If one tyre  bursts, he could have put another there and gone...POP! POP! Something like that was  heard. I don’t know how the tyres burst....you may say weak tyres, old tyres, or something.  

They were not old ones but good tyres. So I put my leg in and two tyres burst. My friend got  afraid and said, “Now I know Lawrie, that other can tell lies but you cannot.” Then the taxi  man came and said “Brother Lawrie (he was also a taxi man I know). Can you tell lies? You  told me that you would stand here for ten minutes and why did you put your leg in the other  car there? God won’t allow that.”

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The other day we were coming from Canada on Sunday. We did not know any place to go  for service. So there was singing going on in a church. In Elim Tabernacle or Ukranian  church or something like that. So I told my friends, “Oh we will have a look at that instead of  doing nothing”. He turned the car and the tyre got flat. So he said, “God doesn’t want us to  go and mix with these people. We are the Bride; we can’t go into everything. So we had to  go and remove the tyre and fix another tyre”. We said, “Thank God we didn’t go there. We  want to be true to You.”  

But sometimes man doesn’t keep quiet you know, that nature in man wants to do something.  But that is a cover today. If there are so many people in this ministry today, everybody talks;  everybody talks what they know, but I ask you, is God vindicating them? If God hasn’t  vindicated them, be careful. When the prophet came with the gift of discernment, everybody  had the gift and everything. But when God is going to come, BEFORE HE COMES, the Devil  will block the place. Now after, mind you. The Devil knows how the Lord comes, so he will  also prepare the way...He will come this way; block them. Because the Devil sees the Bible  also, not only the children of God, they will read the Bible, but he knows better Bible than all  the children of God. So when......first of all the Bible says, the Lord will come like a lamb for  slaughter. He was watching, watching, for he doesn’t know who is the lamb. So what does  the Devil do? He puts a block in that direction. So many people blocked the way. Well, Christ  came anyhow. That very blocking means somebody is coming. When there is a block earlier,  something is going to happen. If there is no block there is not any great thing to happen.  The Devil is not worried; but the Devil is not a fool. 

In the same way in whatever God sent, there is life. Whatever man or this Devil does, there  is no life. So we want to please God. And the Devil wanted to stop all those who please God.  So in the Bible we see the lives of many people. Take Saul and King David. If you ask me,  King Saul was a better man than David. King David murdered, committed adultery, took  another man’s wife; but Saul didn’t do all this. If Saul and King David are to be judged by  the Life Tabernacle, by a jury here, what will the jury say? “King David, you are an adulterer,  you are a murderer, you are guilty, hang him”. And what will the jury say? “King Saul, you  are a wonderful man, you only did a small mistake, you are not guilty and so you are  acquitted”. God says, “my thoughts are not your thoughts, your thoughts are not my  thoughts.” If you do something the Lord will do something quite opposite. If you say God is  not going to come, He says I will come. If you say God is going to come, He says I am not  coming - Quite opposite...So be careful. “My thoughts are not your thoughts and my ways  are not your ways”. There is as much difference as the distance between earth and heaven  and you say you understand God. Before you can understand God’s ways........Man will not  understand God. When Jesus came to this earth, how many people understood God? We  must have a long look, we must have a faith look, not a short look. 

What did Lot do? He looked like this. “Hey that is a wonderful green grass. I select it. But  Abram was standing in a place where it was all stones, but he was standing on God’s  promises in the Bible. So he knew he was going to get it. Lot lost it. That is why people of  God will not believe in outward manifestations, but in God’s Word. If God’s Word agrees,  they say “alright, I agree”. If God’s Word doesn’t agree, “get out, I don’t want it”. But what  does the world say? They want to see something big, “Oh what is happening, anything  happening like that.” 

So what happens? A thief went to catch a lamb in a house of a circus company manager.  So in the night he slowly went in to put his hand to catch the lamb. But a bear was inside  and caught his hand. So he was trying to put in his hand but it was not a sheep, it was a  bear. In a circus company that fellow has put that bear near there. So the thief puts his hand  right inside. So like that, many people think God is there and catch that bear instead of 

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sheep. That is why today everybody in this country.....if you know where to stand and what  to do, then you are a blessed people. 

That is why today I have not come to support any one here, any denomination here; I don’t  come here as a great man, but I have a great message. You may say what does this fellow  know? I challenge any people to say what experience they have got to handle God’s Word  with power. God dealt with me for 25 years on the road through thick and thin of life, without  food - starvation. What difficulties have these preachers had, my friends? Let them have no  food for 14 days, we will see what shape they will be left. I challenge you people, if they  have no food for 14 days their ministry will go, their faith will go, their preaching will be  different, everything will be different and you will get a lot of money, the preaching will be  different. But when God has called you into the ministry, whether you get money or not  doesn’t matter, your preaching will be the same on the Word of God. And then you will see  something happen to you. 

So how do you see God?... How do you see God? Through the Word you see God and  believe the Word. You know this is the end-time. Today everybody is taking the Bible and  they say, “God sent a prophet”; but after the prophet came what do the people do? They  know a lot of Bible such as serpent’s seed etc. That day a man came in Canada. Do you  know what he said? I was staying there, a man called Peters came right into the room crying.  I said, “Peters, what is the matter with you?” “Brother I have no hope, I am a serpent’s seed,  because I don’t give them tithes.” I said, “Serpent’s seed? So long as you are sorry for and  repented of your sins and worried about it, you are not a serpent’s seed, come on, kneel  down.” Power went into his life. He got filled with the Holy Ghost and took baptism the next  day. He said, “Brother Lawrie, you are my brother.” I said, “Why?” “You are my brother, I  have got something I never got all these days.” And he got up and took us to his home and  he said, “Brother Lawrie, I would like to come to India with you.” 

I tell you, Brother Branham’s book if you read clearly, in one place he says, Judas’ name  was written in the Book of Life and was scratched also. You say predestination. But why  was his name written there? God knew what was going to happen to you when He  predestinated you. Don’t think you are like a MACHINE, doing only like a MACHINE DOES;  if you are a MACHINE you are not a child of God. I can take a small child pinch her ears,  beat her, scold her and say, “Call me daddy.” That child will call me Daddy, Daddy, Daddy,  out of fear. But when I go home my son will come and say “Daddy” without pinching the  ears. That is my child. If you are a child, you know what it is. So, many people can be forced  into believing something and out of fear they say “God, God, God, God”, that doesn’t make  you a child. God can make you an automaton. He can write on the heavens and say “Jesus  is coming soon.” Why, preaching would not be necessary. You would not need to preach  here at all. He could arrange on the sky around all the stars together, the Lord who made all  the stars, He can put it right on the heavens and say “Jesus Christ is the Light of the World.”  And the whole world will believe it. That would be like a machine. People would believe it  because God wrote it. But when the love of God comes into your heart and you say, “Lord I  praise you”, then you are a child. 

But if the child still is afraid to even praise God, that clearly shows God is not in your midst.  I tell you, Brother Branham never said not to praise God, never said not to shout, never said  like this, but what is happening today? I go slowly; pray, praise the Lord, everyone looks like  this and stares. I say, “Why do you look like that?” “No brother you mustn’t shout.” You know  who doesn’t shout? They that are dead. When John the Baptist was here, his disciples were  shouting, eating and happy, full of the joy of the Lord. And you know what happened? John’s  disciples said, “Master our disciples fast, why don’t Your disciples fast?” When the  Bridegroom is here ye shall eat. He said if Bridegroom is not here, just cry and watch. You 

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know, the greatest time when we are going to pray to God is to praise Him (read all Psalms)  and not to pray, Lord give me a big stomach to eat or big job or bless my home and work....  Just praise God. You know when the dog wags the tail it has a meaning for that ... praising.  He will wag the tail, shake his body, he is so happy, he jumps on you. That is love. It has no  words, no language, it cannot be written. The wagging of the dog’s tail cannot be written on  a book, but when the man who sees that in the dog, he knows the dog loves him. 

I had a dog. One day a man said, “Hello, Lawrie,” putting his hand on my shoulder. The dog  caught his hand; so I said, “Well, he thought you were going to assault me.” For a little rice  that I gave this little creature, it wants to guard me. But what God has done for you ..... He  gives hamburger, hot dogs, everything, multiple dishes, but still we are not satisfied. Man is  not satisfied. But see a cow, morning till evening grass, grass, grass, grass, all through it’s  life. It is satisfied, it has only that one diet throughout the life-time. 

When we think we know something, we think God is foolish. One man was sleeping under  a tree and he saw a big pumpkin close by on the plant. So he looked at the pumpkin and he  looked at the big tree and he said, “You foolish God, giving a big fruit to a plant and a small  fruit for a big tree. You have no brain.” Suddenly he slept there, one fig fruit on the tree  dropped right on his head. Then he said, “You are a wise God, if the pumpkin was on the  top, my head would not be here now.” So sometimes we think God is foolish. God is  wonderful, brother, everything He makes is wonderful. People say gravity, the rocket has  gone from the earth. The lunar gravity, you know what it is? Depending on God...even that  dead thing is depending on God. We don’t have gravity. Where is our gravity? What did God  say? Don’t be naked; what is nakedness? Having no gravitation around you. Not having the  glory of God. If you join a denomination, you are a naked man. If you depend on any MAN,  you are a naked man but if you depend on God you get a gravitational force. When God  said let there be light, the sun started rolling. Whatever God speaks will come to pass. 

One day God spoke to me and I am rolling from that day. He said, “Go, leave your job, sell  everything and go. I left everything, sold everything, went mad. Madness....It is God’s love.  So I asked my wife if she were coming, “Yes” we both went. No home, sold everything, had  some money in the bank and when the money was in the bank I told the Lord, “Give me  some money to eat.” He said, “Take that bank money.” “That is for the children”, I said.  “Unless you take everything, I won’t help you”. I was a bit worried you know, “See this God,  He wanted to take my money meant for my children”. So I took all the money and gave it to  the poor people and when the money went, friends went with the money. Once you become  a pauper and penniless you won’t have one friend in this world. My wife and I lost all friends  with the money and no one would want to talk with me. My wife went home and got a scolding  from her daddy and she came back. I went to my earthly father, “You don’t have a father  anymore.” Thank God I have not an earthly father but a heavenly Father. So my wife and I  came out, we didn’t have any friends in this world and we were persecuted by the Church  of England and Episcopal Churches, but what did we find? As we came we rented a house  for few dollars and went there with my wife and my three children and Who was standing at  the gate? Jesus Christ. He said, “Come on.” And I told my wife I didn’t know that Jesus  Christ appears like this on special occasions in these days. I thought that Jesus would be  appearing like this to everyone. So I said, “Come on, let us see our Lord”. 

So I thought He was in this world like a man...He came into the room, “Come on, I am waiting  for you all here. I am here with you, your wife and your children”. I wish we were there in  those days again. So when this thing happened, God was dwelling with me but there was  not one more person friendly in this world. If you want to change God’s Word, the Bride will  be rejected by God. God will reject her. But the time has come now, you can’t fool with God  because God has come as the judge. He is roaring now. You know I tell you all what we did 

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yesterday because something is coming. Brother Branham’s books, I have read it. Many  people say everything is finished but I will tell you, Seven Thunders have not been finished.  If you say it is finished, I challenge you. I don’t want to be a big man, don’t think that I come  like that...like a big man. I want to be a humble man, I want to go like that, hitchhiking all  over the place and go home. So I have six months programme and then Trinidad one month,  Africa two months, till January or February. But when I was in Canada, on the way the Lord  spoke to me, “I will give you only three days for Chicago and go back”. I said, “Lord I have  got program all the way in the United States”, “No!” 

So I love you all and I would love to stay in all your homes. You have been so nice but you  know He told me like that; and you know what He said. “Don’t be afraid, Thunders are not  over. It will be revealed.” You can say “Lawrie, I challenge you.” I read the book where these  things have been dealt with and Brother Branham clearly says, the seventh seal he knew in  part and the Thunders were not revealed at all. He says, they will be revealed. He said, “It  was an unknown language. I do not know”, and then he said, “Two messengers cannot stay  in the same place at one time; I am going and he must increase and I must decrease”. Christ  will increase, he will decrease. If you want to put up Brother Branham’s ministry and call  everything finished, I tell you it will go down gradually when Christ ministry increases. God’s  direct ministry is going to increase. If you want to build up a certain thing, it is certain that  denominational spirit is going on. Build up Christ’s ministry. Christ is come. Christ is going  to build this ministry. 

If you look to Christ...every Bride who looks on God’s Word will meet Christ. You will read  the Bible, I challenge you. The Lord has left the Mercy Seat to come down. If man can reach  the moon, God has to reach the earth before that. Don’t worry, man can reach moon as  never before in the history of the world. God will reach this earth before that and meet you.  Why am I telling you this because in this life as you go, if you are a Bride you have a positive  revelation of Jesus Christ. If you don’t have that, you have missed this great life. If you don’t  know your Bridegroom, how He moves. What did the Bible say? First, He came as a  slaughtered Lamb. Second, He is not coming as a lamb but as a lion. And it tells the  description of the Lamb. In Revelation 10:1-7 - “When the seventh angel begins to sound,  the mystery of God will be fulfilled.” But one thing has not been fulfilled, that is California  going down has not been fulfilled. But he said it will be fulfilled. Until California has sunk  Brother Branham’s prophecy has not been fulfilled. And he says, when he sounds, that will  be fulfilled. Now you say finished? No, my friends, just be wise. Look to God, Bride of God,  look to God. 

Don’t look to....Don’t be deceived by preachers because I know many people are not  satisfied in this life. You have read most of the prophet’s messages. The prophet’s message  is totally correct, but people have twisted it. But the Bride will understand it. The Bride will  understand it. She will search for it. I am not an authority on that, you people know the  message thoroughly, but every time I see, I say? What does it say? Go back to God’s Word!  GO BACK TO GOD’S WORD! So there are two kinds of people; people who have a long  look and people who have a short look. So what do they do? They go and look like this.  They want something in manifestations, oil in the hand or something, some funny thing. “Oh  there is God.” You want to see and believe. But that is not God, you are a tare. But a seed,  do you know what they will do? You won’t look at any manifestations. Look at God’s Word. 

That is like that man in the Bible. Now Jesus is coming, what did the tares do? “Hey John  the Baptist had a big crowd. He is the Messiah, he is that one to come, Oh, Christ, Christ,  Christ”, they went. But what did the sheep do? They looked at the Word. Even to go forth as  the Lamb for the slaughter, He won’t shout, He won’t break. All the descriptions are there.  He had no beauty, He was a man of sorrows, rejected man. His bones were not broken, 

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they pierced him. But John was not rejected. I look for somebody like that. And there comes  a man just speaking what the Bible says. And the Bride found it out because it was according  to the Bible. God gives the description of everything that is happening. And now if you look  for a Lamb, you will miss it. Don’t look for a Lamb, God’s not going to be fooled now, He  now has come. You can’t fool His ministry. Formerly what was Jesus’ ministry? Two disciples  shook the whole world, who stood here and said it is still going on. You want bigger  programme and all financial drive, radio time, television etc., and bingos and all these things.  God wants two people, He will shake the world. It is God’s ministry. God wants people on  God’s Word. All right. Look for God through God’s Word. See God through the Word of God  as in a glass. 

So what happens today? Everyone tells strange things but the Bride cannot be deceived,  and who is the Bride? The Bride knows the Bridegroom, how He moves and you know, if  you are in love affair once in your life, you know what it is. If you have been in love with a  boy or a girl, they may have restrictions, but somewhere she will smell it when the boy comes  and the girl decided to follow him. You can’t put a lock on that love, love laughs at locksmiths.  In the same way that internal feeling of love with God and the Bride is something and till that  marriage comes it will be veiled in secret. 

So my friends, in these last days, what is faith? Now why did God love this King David and  He liked his son with all his failures. You say, predestination. Why did God love Jacob and  not Esau? Predestination. All right, but I will tell you something, there is some difference in  their lives. If you have that life, surely you are a seed. Now listen, first of all, what is the life  that pleases God? There are three kinds of people, you know but I am putting another. First  of all, a worldly man. He wants the world; so out of his own voluntary wish, chooses world.  God doesn’t want anybody to come to Him by force. So this man looks at the world, “Oh I  must become a big man and become a big king”, so he chooses the world and doesn’t want  God. After choosing the world he plans his life how to become a big man, how to pull wires  and get influence to become a big president. Then one day by his efforts becomes a big  man, he receives the crown and glory for himself; then all the people crown him. That is the  worldly man. He plans his life, he selects his life, and he gets glory for himself. That is the  worldly man. 

A worldly religious man voluntarily chooses God to be benefitted in this world. He plans his  life accordingly and finally Right Reverend so and so, Bishop so and so, Pope so and so,  and people bring crown and glory which he takes for himself. Certainly a religious worldly  man. He says I choose God. He chooses God and becomes a denomination head and he  plans his life, how to come up in life. He pulls wires, goes and catches the people, influences,  and then he becomes a big man and people say here comes a big man and bring a crown  on him. 

The third man voluntarily chooses God and dies to his self and allows the Holy Spirit to plan  his life. At the end people bring glory and crown which he refuses and asks them to place it  on God Who planned his life. 

Are you dead in Christ? Don’t think about the people who are dead and buried in the ground.  You must be dead in Christ. That means you don’t have selfwill. You don’t have anything in  this life, you don’t have ambition. A dead man will not be sick; a dead man has no ambition;  a dead man has no pain; a dead man has no hunger. Why are you gluttonous man? “Oh,I  am very hungry,” what is wrong with you? Sometime you know I forget to eat. When I go to  big campaign....Twenty days campaign from first message, twenty days I don’t eat at all. But  when the meetings are going on I am still fat. But when the meetings are over, I eat good  fruits or fruit salad or something like that. My wife says please eat something but I will say  don’t talk till the meetings are over. But when the meeting is over then the hunger comes, 

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go to a hotel, then eat. Then I say what happened to me all these twenty days? I never went  weak. Meet the Holy Ghost, you never go weak. 

But today people don’t want Holy Ghost. Caleb and Joshua had another spirit; you must  have another spirit to follow the Lord fully, not halfheartedly.....fully follow behind the Lord,  that is another spirit. Not just “Oh I come to church.” You can sing a song.....you know when  you sing a song to the cobra (snake), it will start shaking it’s head like this. So when actually  people sing, they shake their head all over because even the snakes do that. When they  play the flute what does the cobra do? Shakes the head like that. So what do the people  do? “Hey, music, music”..... and what do the people want today in the message...they don’t  want God, they want to play some music. Certain places you know twenty songs, “Have  thine own way, Lord” (Brother Lawrie sings mournfully). You can’t sing the Holy Ghost. You  can’t sing the Holy Ghost; you can’t play the Holy Ghost, the Holy Ghost has to come. Where  is the Holy Ghost today? He is not gone away...He is right in this building. Until He is taken  up in the glorified body, the Holy Ghost will be here. If you say no mercy, there is mercy still  in the Bride. 

So what happened? The man who allowed God to plan his life becomes a big man. Never  bring the crown on him....You know what the man says, “Don’t put the crown on me, put it  on God Who planned my life.” That is the man that pleases God. If people make themselves  like THEY desire, they have no plan of God. So what happened? King David was accepted  and Saul was rejected. Joseph was loved by God but hated by his brethren. Then the wife  of Potiphar, she tried to pull him, he was imprisoned. For twelve years he never pulled wires  to come out. He just said, “Lord you plan my life”. He didn’t make a move, my friend. I think  if you were put in prison for one year, you would have gone to the influential people and  would say, “Come on, get me deliverance”. But this young boy, twelve years in prison  reading the word, “Lord, I want to see, I know you will deliver me. You will deliver the  prisoners”. But when God started planning his life, then he became the second most  powerful man in the kingdom. Thirty years old he was a big man. He never planned it. 

Then the King comes, “Joseph I hear you have the gift of discernment.” If somebody asks  you what do you say? Yes, yes, I have got a gift of discernment, but what did Joseph  say...”God can do that, God will do that for you.” The king gave him all power, later his father  came into Egypt and saw Joseph’s children. “Whose are these children?” We would say “My  children”. What did Joseph say? “These are the children God gave me.” He was putting  everything, even the children on God. Then his brothers came. “When our father died, he  told us not to get angry with the brothers”. What did Joseph say? “Am I in the place of God?  I won’t take a vengeance. I love you all.” Today if a preacher or somebody tells something  against us, we forget.....Hypocritical love. You say you have got love today? “Hallelujah,  Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord”, then afterwards you say, ‘don’t believe, that fellow is not  in the message’. Thank God I am not in the message, I am with Christ. You go to India, next  day they tell you, not in the message, not in the message, then a letter comes, “Brother  Lawrie, we understand you are not in the message.” I said, “what is this? I throw the letter  and said let them be in the message I don’t want it, I want God. So when I come back now  they say, “Brother Lawrie, are you in the message?” I say, “Yes, I am not in the message, I  am in the message of Christ.” 

So today, are you preaching that King David was a bad man....but you know when King Saul  said “You young boy, can you kill Goliath?” “Why not? When I was in my field, lion came,  bear came, I killed them both.” Why? Because you are a strong man?..Because God was  with me. Then Goliath was to be killed. Everybody says, “I will kill him and marry Saul’s  daughter”. So this boy goes and Saul says, “You mean to say you will kill Goliath?” “Yes”.  Then Goliath comes there. David took a stone and Goliath laughed and said, “You fellow 

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you want to kill me?” “Yes, I will kill you and marry Saul’s daughter.”....he didn’t say  that....what did he say? “I will kill you and prove that there is a God in Israel.” He wanted to  prove that God was in Israel. Then God had to kill Goliath, if he wanted to prove that God is  in Israel God will shake that country. But if you want to prove something that is false, some  thing that is not the Word of God, you will be destroyed. 

So today let us try to prove that God is in Israel. How will you prove? We prove God is in  Gentiles because the prophet came, all right. But the prophet’s words should turn you to  God’s Word. But what do the people say...they will not have the long look, they have the  short worldly look (seeing and believing). But what did he do? Behold the Bridegroom  cometh. Where is the Bridegroom today? If the Bride doesn’t know the Bridegroom, you are  not a Bride. You say Bride ministry. Bride is going to have powerful ministry, but before that  the head has to come and the Bride has to recognise that Bridegroom. Then they will march  on to eternity. But today the people in the message are going without a head. Let the head  come on. Then you will see something. You can’t go without the head. You will please God....  don’t think pleasing God is just giving an offering and going to the “Church of God.” Pleasing  God is allowing God to plan your life. That means you are a blind man. Your will is not there.  How can they walk together if they are not agreed? 

If I go this way and he goes that way how can we meet? So if you want to plan your life, God  cannot plan your life. That is why you don’t plan your life, you cease from your working, that  is our rest and Sabbath - Hebrews 4:9-10. That is the difficulty, man wants to work, he wants  to do something. But it is very difficult.....You know how India was stirred? I just sat at home.  I said, Lord you stir me. One year passed, nothing happened. So my friends came and told  me, “Hey, why are you sitting in the home quietly like this?” I said, “That is none of your  business.” Then they said, “How are you managing?” We are just eating our crumbs. “You  said God is going to take you to some meetings.” “Yes.” “Huh!, you must go and find your  chances.” I said, “I don’t want.” The tares will need chances but the Bride doesn’t need a  chance. Two years passed, nothing happened. People started fooling my wife, “How long  are you going to sit at home like this?” After two years I was sitting in my home, a vision  came. A preacher was coming towards me calling for a meeting and the voice of God said,  

“Go with him.” So I told my wife, revival is coming. “Revival is coming after two years?” “Yes.” 

And when I went there he said, “Brother Lawrie, twenty people are in the assemblygroup,  why don’t you preach?” When I started preaching the twenty people were sleeping. I said,  “My, they brought me for the sleeping church.” They wouldn’t sing, they wouldn’t do  anything, they just sleep in the meeting. So what did I do? I was about to go, they brought a  lady sick for fifteen years. The doctor said she was to die in fifteen days of tuberculosis of  both lungs. And the man said pray for this dying girl....touched her and she was healed  instantaneously....jumped out of the bed and came up and said, “Brother, brother wonderful.”  Then the sister was happy she was healed, right there, that night I was preaching for 5000  people that week....next week 10,000. Big man in two, three days time. After waiting for two  years, in one week time I was a big man, while people wait for fifty years and still they cannot  get big meeting. Love God and allow Him to use you, He will make you according to His  plan in one day. 

So if you are a Bride, see God is moving in your life. If you don’t allow God to move in your  life and plan your life, something is wrong with you. You know you may get angry with me  but I want to tell you something, for you need one thing, that is the Holy Ghost...to be filled  with the Holy Ghost. Every dead man get filled with the Holy Ghost. If you don’t have it, go  and say Lord I want IT, BE FILLED. Brother Branham never said not to receive the Holy  Ghost. Today more than 50 percent in this message are not even saved, not even have the  Holy Ghost. You may say, “Is that so?” “Yes!” “Well, how do you get the Holy Ghost?” If you 

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have the Holy Ghost, you will know who you are, not just hypocritical love telling, “Brother,  brother, Praise the Lord, brother.” That is hypocritical love. The Bride will mean it, like a body  members. Suppose I want to take this book....the head tells the leg, march on. Then the  hands keep quiet. Then say “Stop!” Then put the right hand, take the book, keep it like this,  then says march on. So all the body system is at work for the command of the head. That is  the Bride. They won’t try to push. Today everybody pushes. You want to come into the Lord’s  leading, but the pastor doesn’t know in certain places whom God is leading, and everywhere  people are pushing. One man wants to push another man. But the Bride will not push like  that, but the Bride is going to become very powerful. I will deal with that tomorrow. But here,  this is the secret. 

So the Devil wants to attack the heart. That is the dependence on God. When a man  chooses God and depends on God to plan his life, the Devil gets angry and shoots at the  man’s faith on God. A man comes with money, “Brother why don’t you join a church?” That  will kill the fellow, that is the enemy. “Why don’t you depend on us?” He is the enemy, the  Devil sends him....for what? To make you commit spiritual adultery. If a wife depends not on  the husband and she wants to depend on somebody else that is adultery. If you have Jesus  as your husband, you can’t depend on anything else....you are committing spiritual adultery;  if you did, and that is the thing the Devil wants you to do. But you overcome that and surely  you will be taken in the rapture. Let the message of God....not only the message of God, but  your life must be planned by God. If God plans your life, you are something. 

Now listen, turn to Amos 3. He is telling about three things there. You read at home that  Chapter. It is telling about Israelites who have gone out of the way; God wants to punish  them. If you are God’s people....born again people, not going after God’s way, God will  punish you. Listen, can two walk together except they be agreed? If God and man are not  agreed, they cannot walk. So to walk with God, you are to come to God’s Word. God moves  with the Word. So if you turn against the Word of God, you cannot walk with God. Enoch  walked with God and pleased God because he walked with the Word. Now listen, will a lion  roar in the forest when he has no prey? Now listen, some of these people talk about lambs  roaring. I want to tell something there. It is repeatedly told two things, by the side of each  other. Now the Lion is here, in the forest, it is very hungry. Will it roar and make a noise  before it catches anything? Come on! Because if it makes a big noise, every animal will run  away; so it keeps quiet. But when it catches the animal, the roar starts. Lion will not roar till  it catches something. Certainly will a young lion cry out in the den if he has taken nothing.  Now then a big lion, but a small lion it doesn’t want to catch any animal a small cub. So if it  has no food there it will come out and say “Ohhh!” and start crying because there is no food.  So will a young lion cry if there is food? No! If there is nothing, it will come out and cry. But  a lion roars when it catches. 

Now secondly, can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth when no snare is laid for him?  Suppose you don’t lay a net in the ground, you won’t get any birds in that net. But if you put  a net, you will surely catch something; you put a net to catch something. But if you don’t put  the net, you won’t catch anything. Now again, come here. Shall a trumpet be blown in the  city and the people not be afraid? When the trumpet of God blows, people should be afraid.  But shall there be evil done in the city and the Lord has not done it? There is something to  learn there. There must be something wrong somewhere; where there is a big flood  destroying the people or some earthquake, what happened? Devil doesn’t want to destroy  his people. Again surely the Lord will do nothing but He revealeth His secrets unto His  servants the prophets. God will reveal His secrets not to everyone these days. People  without the calling they make a living, many people have become very rich out of this  ministry. Many poor people have become kings by just telling, “I belong to God.” In India  also every place, poor people, they took this as an opportunity, instead of working very hard, 

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they became very rich people by telling false things, even in India. You see the lives of many  people, they are nothing but now they have plenty of money. What for? By compromising. If  you compromise and commit adultery, you can get plenty of money. If I had compromised,  I would have been a chief man in the Assemblies of God or Church of God or Indian  Missionary for some Oral Roberts team or something like that. But when I said “No” I became  small, but I had God. We are a small people having a great God. 

So when He said...God will reveal His secrets to the prophets. The lion roared, who will not  fear it? The Lord God has spoken. Who cannot but prophecy? Now listen this is what I want  to tell you, before catching anything, will the lion roar? Now listen very carefully, this will  change your life. Will the lion roar before catching anything? He can only speak. That is what  God said, “I will roar, now my prophets will prophecy”. So God doesn’t roar directly to man,  human beings, before catching the Bride. Speaking through the cloud He talks to the Bride  and the Bride speaks - SPEAKS. If God roars nobody will be caught, mind you. I will tell you  my friend, when God starts roaring He is not coming to save you but He is coming to desroy  the people. The lion comes to eat the people, eat the prey. And you say the King of Glory,  the Lord, Oh, Lion is coming...not to save you but to eat you. So first of all the lion roared  through the prophet to catch, put the net on. So God put the net on the world, throughout  the world. That is why that angel came down and lit the world in Glory. Now when you put a  net somebody will be caught. I have gone to Catholics, every religion, and I tell you God is  not there at all. So what is the use of catching a stone. God wants to catch the animal; the  living thing. So all the people who have been looking to God’s Word, all the Bride who have  been believing all the Word with or without manifestations, they were still not satisfied. The  Bride will never be satisfied. They will be satisfied with hot oil and blood in their hand. 

So God spoke to Brother Branham to bring the Bride into the Word. But he said, “Tongues  are not the sign.” Now this made the Pentecostal people angry. Why? They wanted outward  manifestations, ...they are the tares, they want something outside. But God, to catch in a  net, He puts something to catch the Bride, not a devil. He doesn’t want Serpent’s seed; if  He wants to catch a fish He will put in the hook which the fish will like. I won’t put a big frog  to catch a small fish. So I will study the fish first and say what kind of hook, what kind of food  I should put. So the Lord is not interested in serpent. He was interested in what? The Bride.  So what did He do? He put something on the Word and the Bride caught it. But the Bride  was very much angry, very much upset because nobody shouted....because shouting  should be there. So what did the Bride do? It was burning. But come on, Jesus is coming  for you. But some of the Pentecostal people and the Bride in seclusion, and other people  who believe only on shouting and God’s Word, they got angry. “What is this, is this against  God?” So they completely cut away, they are out. So this net didn’t catch them. But it caught  some of the Bride. In that Bride, there were fishes, there were stones, there were moss,  there were shells, every kind of nonsense. So the net was good; for God spoke through the  prophet His words and put the lure. Now listen, three and a half years are gone and  something should have been caught. When a message goes out, it takes three and a half  years. From Brother Branham’s death till now is three and a half years past. Now the prey  is caught. Now the lion is roaring! He doesn’t go through a prophet, now He comes directly  to eat the thing, eat the prey. And who shall save from the mouth of the lion? The Good  Shepherd. And the Bible says, when he took out, he took out two legs and one ear. He says  I am the Good Shepherd. 

Amos 3:12 - “Thus saith the Lord; as the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two  legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria  in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch.” 

Out of all these, God takes two legs and one ear and that is the Bride. A Children and 

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patches and these legs and ears and everything and makes the thing and breathes into that  again the life. So two legs may be here, one leg may be uhmm...one hand may be in  Caribbean Islands, one eye may be in China, all over. He will press the Bride out, and then  fixes it up and makes the Bride and you say Christ is not going to come? That Lion is going  to roar in this world. You say everything is finished? You are mistaken my friend...because  I never preach like this. I never wanted to do it, but I know this preaching will make me lose  my friends. Already I lost some friends and it will make me lose my money. I would rather  eat bread than water but I want to be true to God and we have come to that day. When the  Lion has roared...I am looking for that...and the Bride will see Bridegroom individually. And  you know... walk with the Bridegroom. God bless you all. 

So in these last days we have come to the time we are looking for something but do you  look according to God’s Word? People have been looking for the prophet John the Baptist,  the voice of one crying in the wilderness, so they saw a man coming from the wilderness  and shouting....they look at the Bible, that is the man, come on. They followed him; so  through the Word they followed the prophet. I follow Brother Branham not because he is an  American but through the Word. Who is that man? Whom do you think that man is? A small  little man shouting. He could have earned a lot of money. Now Americans will boast about  Americans, but will an Indian talk about an American? I was a nationalist. These hands have  beaten white missionaries. I couldn’t see a white man...I would slap him. I was in the Indian  Congress Party at that time...and such a man to call on a white man and say, “That is Elijah”.  My! My! That took all my pride. I said, take this white man as Elijah. I looked at the Word,  “Hey here it is there in Malachi.” Now after that you want me to do foolish things, No! You  want me to go and worship the cloud and the stone and other things, No! You can  understand God; Brother Branham was not God coming down, he stood in the cloud and spoke the revelation of Jesus. The prophet... God spoke from heaven, roaring. That is the  roaring that came to him and he spoke to the prophet and the prophet spoke, put a net. And  they called everything finished. What about now, if it is caught God has to come down. He  is roaring the prey and finally judgement is striking now. The Lord told me that very shortly  you won’t get a good time, my friends. Even now I see what has been brought.  

And if you turn to Revelation 10:7 - “In the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he  shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished as he hath declared to his  servants the prophets”. Now we all know that signified Brother Branham. Now when that  angel begins to sound the mystery of God will be over. 

Now listen, a girl and a boy want to marry each other but they do not know who she is and  who he is but they love each other. They send gifts, wonderful. She gives something, he  gives something; she treasures it, puts the ring here looks at it very often. “Oh, my boy friend  gave, and she is very much interested in that ring. I remember one day in Ceylon, I saw a  girl rubbing a ring. I said, “Girl, what are you doing here?” “Oh that my boy friend gave me”.  All right, the gifts are going on, but some people use the gift to love the bridegroom. Some  people use the gifts to enjoy worldly pleasures, to make big money. The tares use the gifts  to earn and do business. But the Bride saw love in the gift. I saw love in the gift. I could have  earned a lot of money. But many people made money out of it because they look for money  sometimes in this world. But I look for something big, I look for the bridegroom who is my  sweet jewel. So I didn’t know what it is. 

And a boy comes to a girl, “Hey girl, do you know that boy whom you love is a very rich  man? He is a rich man’s son. He has a lot of properties, money, that man you are going to  marry. Don’t leave him”. And when this is clearly told by one of her own friends, what does  she do? “Oh I will marry you.” When she decides to marry, that day what ceases? Outward  show of love ceases. May be given but that is not necessary, she has got the man. And from 

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that day all your friends will go away. Suppose she is in love with ten boys, when she says,  “I will marry that boy”, nine will get angry and go away. Listen, this girl now, after decision  she becomes lonely. She can’t flirt about. If she starts flirting about he will slap her on the  head, “Come on girl, what is that flirting?” Till then he does not but now the punishment is  there. So, many people don’t want to marry because they can’t fool about. But not all, not  all. You can see them you know. When you marry you get partner to consult and support; a  big responsibility. 

You know I used to walk very fast because I am used to travelling miles and miles walking.  My wife will walk slowly like this. She says, “Stop! Don’t walk like that.” I said “won’t you stay  home?” “No, I will come with you.” “But you can’t walk, you go slow but I want to go fast”.  Then I said like this, I say, “Oh, this is like a big stone on my neck.” Then she says, “Well I  want water”, then say, “I’m hungry.”......I am going to preach. Then I got so wild one day I  say, “You had better sit in this home till I come.” I went for twenty miles walk, preach, and  came in the midnight and woke her up and went home. God gives us situations like the  clutch and brakes in the car. When you release the brake, car moves. So He gives us  situations and fulfills His plan. If I didn’t marry, I would have gone like a rocket somewhere and knocked my head and gone. But God immediately gave me a clutch and brake, my wife.  So every time it was like that. When you want to do something, there is a brake. 

So those days I used to beat her...I said, “God, why you gave her.” She said, “God gave me  to be a brake for you.” You can’t run like in those days. When you come back home, “Where  are you going tonight?...Why are you so late?” “Just keep quiet!” “No, I have got every right  to ask you, I have got power over your body”. One day I open the Bible, I was scolding  her....She took the Bible and said, “The wife has the authority over your body.” Then I said,  “Okay.” Then she will say, “Why this shirt? You put on this other shirt.” “All right.” Then say,  “Why are you so dirty like this?” “All right.” I will be so angry, but still because God said I will  keep quiet. One day my wife and I were fighting. Fight came to certain extent...I started the  fight. She brought the Bible and said, “Come on.” When she takes the Bible, “All right.” “By  pride cometh contention” in Proverbs 13:10. “Who started the fight.” I said, “I.” “Then you  are proud.” “Okay.” So if you fight along with Word, you can have better peace. 

One of my sons came who was doing some mischief. I called my son, “Sonny, in olden days  if a son makes mistake they would have taken him to the elder and stone him to death - (Deut. 21:18-21). Are you ready? But God is love, now He doesn’t do that.” He said, “Is it in  the Bible?” “Yes.” “I won’t do that anymore at all father, I will be a good boy, because God’s  love has made me not have the punishment.” Bible will bring you life. Seek the Bible. Seek  in our God’s Word. Seek in God’s Word, then you will see God in everything. I have seen  God everywhere my friends. Two or three agree on anything God will grant you. Now come  on. 

The angel, mystery will be finished, but something is happening here. Read from the first  verse. 

Rev. 10:1 - “I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and  a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of  fire; And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and  his left foot on the earth. And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth; (now listen  LION ROARETH) and when he had cried seven thunders uttered their voices.” 

You know when God speaks, what happens; right at that moment the thunders will speak.  That is all the Bride knows, somebody is coming down which is God. God is going to meet  you. God is going to touch you. You ask God secretly in your home, He will reveal it to you.  And the Bride cannot live without revelation. Bride is come to God’s Word. It is caught in the 

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net, now you must know who your bridegroom is. The mystery is over. You have to decide,  and catch hold of the hand. And the Bridegroom is come, and how does the Bride know the  Bridegroom? Come on. Bridegroom knows he comes with the cloud and thunders. When  He speaks, there is thunder....roaring. When He speaks there is THUNDER. THUNDER IS  GOD’S ECHO. So you can understand when God speaks that the thunder echoes. Not only  that, the angel comes with a cloud, with a rainbow, and he puts his right foot in the sea, left  foot on the earth and cried with a loud voice. Then the thunders are heard. This is, you know,  when this is finished then the Bridegroom takes you, and from this earth on. 

Now when Jesus came in this world people didn’t know it, but the Bride knew it. When Christ  comes to the Bride, the Bride will know. He will not come to the heaven and say, “Come on  people, I want to meet in the air”. That is not a Bridegroom. If a boy is to marry a girl, he  does not go to the city of the Bride and blow a trumpet and the bride will not come running  to elope with him; he comes to the house of the bride to take her. That is what Jesus said.  He said, “I go to prepare a place for you and after that is finished, I will come again and take  you unto myself”. Take you unto myself; you don’t run there. If you decide to marry Him, He  will decide to take you. Come again means, come to this very earth where He walked like a  man, where the Bride is. You know the way of God....This is the period when the Bride has  a walk with God and not with anybody else. Look to God. He has no other opposition, all  blocks have been removed because the Devil blocks before God comes. When the prophet  comes immediately there are impersonators. They call themselves prophets; how many  prophets are there in California? I saw six prophets. Everybody says “There’s the prophet”.  He’s the prophet. My, everybody has a crowd. One man has about five thousand people.  Now the prophet has got people all over the world. Dr.Lenley, and you say you have the  only prophet; prophets are plenty, but Brother Branham was vindicated prophet. And the  Spirit of God showed me from Florida to come here and take Brother Henry Avacola...they  took me to the prophet. So how did the Spirit of God know that was Henry Avacola? I was  given his address...I came there, brother had a pain on the neck....Remember that? They  were going to see the prophet, I asked for a place, he got a pain in the neck and God healed  him. I got a place in their car and we went there. They said Brother Branham was very  difficult to get to see. I was in a corner, he came out and said, “Lawrie, come here.” Then I  went in, they said, Leo Merciar said”, “Only five minutes Brother Branham.” He said I want  to talk with him for one hour. That is the prophet; he knew my heart, other people didn’t know  my heart, they want to block it. So the people blocked it but God won’t block it. Don’t think  God is going to leave you Bride. Bride will be caught up. How? He will pick up. 

So when Brother Branham went in he locked both doors. “Nothing will satisfy you except  God. Don’t join any denomination.” The prophet said that, Yes, and now you people don’t  join any denomination, but you have a denomination spirit. Get out of there, that is death!  The denominational death people know, and preachers they are dead preachers trying to  preach a denominational spirit. Oh, but my friend, the Bride is coming out. The sheep will  hear God’s voice. THE SHEEP WILL HEAR GOD’S WORD. The lion has started roaring.  God will take the Bride, God will take the Bride because He caught the Bride and He will  take you to eternity. And He turns to start a new era. If man could reach the moon... that  place, that is the time when man reaches God. Moon doesn’t shine on one side, the back  side, no man ever saw it. But you know there was a back side of God. Moses went to see  the back side of God. He said, you can see my back side, never before seen by man... seen  by Moses. Remember Moses. What happened to Moses? He led the people with the mighty  pillar of fire and cloud, day and night. That is the sign of the prophet. But when he had  brought the people to Jordan....I read the book that day. “We have come to the border of  Jordan.” You are standing on the border and saying everything is finished. Yes, finished for  the dead people because they are all dead. They are killing only God’s power but all the 

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people are dead. The Bride is going to be the young people following the message not the  old people, they are dead. And you want to have dead meat. God is not stopping at Jordan.  You know what happened. He said, Moses....He led them like a flock by the hand of Moses  and Aaron, all right. But when they came to Jordan, He said: “Moses and Aaron goodbye,  you go, I will take them, I will take them”. Nobody will take you, we won’t take you; be dead  like Moses and He will take you. Because God said, “Moses and Aaron, you are my  children”. He said, “You led them with great difficulty so far, I spoke through you and you led  the flock and now Moses and Aaron good-bye, thank you very much, I will take them Myself  into Canaan”. 

And what did the Bride say? Not everything finished, miracles are finished; everything  started after that. Jordan river is parting after that....For whom has the miracles ceased? For  the people who died in the wilderness. People who died in the wilderness have lost the  miracles. But the next day, after three days, the miracles start, and how was the miracle?  No visions. MARCHING! SUN STAND STILL! How can man stop the sun which obeys God  only? Miracles cannot be done by man. You say Joshua! NO, IT IS GOD! God is going to  do something for the BRIDE! Don’t think it is the latter rain or anything, it is the Bride. The  Bride is going to get a ministry that will shake the world; How? No sword or no bullet can  pierce the skin. If you are afraid of Russia and the Government....the Government will never  touch the Bride. Nobody can kill that Bride brother, it is eternal life. 

Life is not with the dead, get you into this life, Jesus will take you home, not Brother Lawrie.  I have come to tell you something that God put into my heart. I don’t want to preach all over  America like this, but this message which preached to you is going all around the world, I  tell you and I will be put out for this. God told me if I don’t tell it like this I will take your life  away. So I am afraid. I said, “Lord I am running away now, I didn’t want to...for two days I  was battling with God. “Lord, I will lose all my friends and those poor Indian people will  suffer”. I am not come here for money, and not for me. I love God, but millions of Indian  people are there. But I know when I preach like this which God showed me, “Tell and go,  whether the people like it or not.” I lose my friends. But otherwise I lose my life. He told me,  “If you don’t tell this, I will destroy you.” So I said, “Lord, I won’t remain any more in Chicago,  I have got meetings in December”. And I told my brother, “Brother, send me away; this God...  is a terrible God, you can’t escape this God”. 

So I thank God, Brother Larry Smith, you may not agree with me, but I know if it is some  other denomination pastor, he would say, “Brother Lawrie, where is your credentials? What  Church? What is your doctrine?” Thank God that man opened the door, God bless you. He  could have shut the door for me now but God was in him. So you won’t be sorry for this, my  friends because I see something. I never did anything like this. I was compromising with the  people and many people help me; thank God for the American people, you are good people.  Most of your people, you sacrifice, send money; I thank God for all that. I never got any help  in any other country like you people. You really sacrifice. But the Lord asked me, “Do you  want that money and friends or eternal life?”. 

So I wrote to my wife today, I am running back, I escape, fleeing for my life. Because people  don’t like it but I tell you something, if you read Brother Branham’s message, it clearly tells  that Thunders were not revealed. And he said, “I am going my way, somebody is coming;  we both cannot be here at the same time. If I go away, he comes, if I am here he won’t  come”. But God revealed the whole plan to Brother Branham, that is why these are not new  plans. Because the plan revealed to Brother Branham and he was supposed to go to the  end but the Lord’s plan was that He was not satisfied with anybody but Himself. Because  who will allow his Bride to be taken by somebody else. If I am a boy and I have a girl-friend,  I won’t tell another boy to bring that girl-friend to my house, that fellow will run away with the 

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girl. He will spoil the girl. When you say that girl is fixed, “I am coming, you are mine”. And  you don’t want to go with God? 

And I can tell so many things but one thing I will tell you...do you please God. He said, “Are  you pleasing God. Are you a child of God?” So what is a child of God, a child of God.... my  son doesn’t work for me for salary. He does a lot of work for me, but he doesn’t let daddy  give him monthly 200 dollars. He serves me and when he wants, he will take in a lump. That  is the way of a son. My wife doesn’t help me for salary. One day I was driving the car, my  wife was telling me, I was her driver. Yes, why not? You are my driver, God is our driver, He  drives us through all the thing. 

Now listen my friends, you all came in cars, everybody has got a car. Does the car plan its  life? Does it murmur why you put it out? Is it sorry because you put it in the mud? Is it sorry  because you put it in sunlight? Is it sorry because it is raining? Does it complain to you if the  muffler or something goes wrong? Does it come and tell you, “Please, the muffler is gone”.  It doesn’t tell you....if you meditate on this car you will go in the rapture. If you will just be  like an automobile, you will surely go in the rapture....if anything is wrong who is worried?  The owner. Muffler goes down, he comes in. Sometimes he puts it in the car shed, and in  the car shed he doesn’t touch it at all, full of dust but if he wants to go to California or some  other place he comes and takes the car, cleans it everything...puts the oil, water everything,  cleans the mud, everything. If there is a muffler breaking, he takes it and puts a new muffler.  Then he puts the key, everything is inside. You have all the message to fly but you don’t  have the key. Even the gasoline you have. You have got oil, no doubt, but without that key,  switch ..... But when he switches, you don’t go in your way, he takes you through mud  everything. But it goes on. That is what God is going to do. He is not going to say, “Oh,  Bride, come do my wheel and steer it out, I am waiting for you come on.” He is coming down  in the world to take you. You will get a revelation of Jesus Christ and you will walk with Him,  that will give you rapturing faith. That period when you should catch the Bridegroom is NOW.  This Bible is for YOU. Everything is true and everything is going to happen. So my friends,  believe Jesus is coming. Everybody is talking, even the Devil is talking, “Jesus is coming”.  Even the Pope is talking. But the Bride doesn’t say He is coming because He said, “I am  coming as a thief.” What is a thief? He doesn’t come with fire-crackers, he doesn’t come  with a great platform and crowd when people are awake...or with songs. Many people think  there is singing when the Lord comes. No! He comes like a thief. The lightning does not  shine in the East but in the West, but it starts from the East. Jerusalem is the centre and  capital of the whole world, the City of our God. North, West, South and East should be  reckoned from Jerusalem (2 Chron. 6:6; Zech. 12:2-3; Zech. 8:3). 

The thief comes when everybody is sleeping, when everybody is over-confident, when  everybody thinks everybody is going on in all right. Now when everybody thinks they are in  the Bride, God comes like a thief. What does a thief come for? To steal the dirt and pins and  bottles and all these things? Does he come to steal your ties and collar....He comes to steal  your jewellery. The best cream of the society, he is coming to steal. But when he comes, he  doesn’t make a noise; if he makes a noise the people will kill him. So he slowly comes,  slowly comes...When He comes who knows it? The treasure knows that He is going to take,  the Bride knows He is coming to steal them. 

That is why the Bride is getting ready. How does the Bride get ready? Is getting all ready.  Oh time is getting late where is the thief? He looks in the night, all dark. Nothing can be  seen, and he comes in a dark night. He doesn’t put on a white dress you know. Sometimes  people think the thief will come lighting wherever he goes. He doesn’t come with glamour  and glitter. He doesn’t come with anything. He doesn’t say, “Put on light” and say, “Where  is the road” like this; then they would find him out. He slowly slips in...slowly slips in...takes 

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him, come on, come on, come on, the Bride will let him in,“Come on, let us run!” And you  say, “Oh, he is coming that way? If anybody is come in a public way he is not a thief, mind  you that. If God says I am coming as a thief, he will come as a thief. But if you are looking  for somebody not like a thief, or some big outward manifestation, the Bride cannot catch it. 

You know I feel like an egg....chicken and the egg. How does the chicken come out? There  is a white skin full of oxygen. But the chicken is taking the oxygen and living. When fully  grown the oxygen finishes, then the chicken cannot live anymore. It moves like this and  breaks the shell with it’s beak and comes out. We are like that, running out of oxygen. And  the time is coming when we have no last oxygen, we will break through and we will be fully  grown. We will break through to the other world. I feel like that chicken, just getting out of  oxygen, scratching the bill up and down like that. 

So we say Bride. Bride has got a great thing, brothers. I agree with Brother Smith and say  five-fold ministry. I told you yesterday, evangelist, pastor, teacher, prophet and apostle. Now  these five fingers, what does it do for the body? It cleans your teeth, it puts on the spectacles,  combs your hair, puts the coat like this and does everything, washes your clothes, takes  your bath, rubs your body, all these fingers do that. If you have no fingers you won’t be  clean. If the church is not a five-fold ministry, they are unclean, dirty things. So, evangelist  is a big man; I told you, pastor is a small fellow, teacher is a small fellow, pastor still small,  everybody says, “Oh, he doesn’t preach well”. You preach about 300 sermons and see. It is  easy for an evangelist but not for a pastor...to please the people. Everybody will blame the  pastor. But I tell you, to bear like that is a pastor’s work. That is what God said to Peter;  “Feed my sheep.” I have fed sheep and got sick of the sheep. I got hundreds of assemblies.  My! Even after coming to America I had trouble. All the sheep, My! I don’t know. 

You know God said, “Come I will take you to the land of milk and honey. But it never took  him to milk and honey but to bitterness and no water. So I thought God called me; I thought  wonderful. But I started serving these people and pastoring them...I got sicker and sicker,  these very ungrateful people. I got sick of pastoral work. You can’t please the sheep, you  know. You go to one man’s house, you say, “Pastor came.” The other man said “Pastor went  to that house.” Then that man says “Pastor didn’t come to my house, he didn’t shake my  hand, he didn’t look at me, he talked with that lady, he didn’t talk to me. Oh, he gave that  person something.” Oh I couldn’t please everybody, finally I told my wife I got sick. You could  tell some experiences. You would simply laugh. I could not please one sister, she gets angry  because I went to another house. “She is my enemy, you can’t go to that house.” So what  do you do? If you are friendly to this person, they will get angry and get away. So that is the  job. 

Then the evangelist comes, he is a tall fellow dynamiting everything, comes to the city,  attends the meeting, puts a bomb, everything bursts, all the stones are scattered. You are  saved. Then the poor unpopular prophet comes what does he do? He doesn’t dynamite, he  takes the stone, takes the sword of the Lord and cuts it. Anything extra he cuts it off, anything  like that. Makes a shape out of that. God blesses the prophets to make the mile stones full  of shape. And these stones cannot be shaped near the temple because they are already  made and then brought. So these stones are shaped and put on the ground and then the prophet goes away. What do the people say? Everything is finished. Every stone but not  building. To King David, God said finish with that. Take all the metals and go away, your son  will build it. And his son built the temple. King David did not say ‘Oh Lord, I cannot do this I  brought the metal, I must build it. He didn’t fight for it. 

So Brother Branham cut all the stones and put there, and here comes God, takes the stone  and puts it in the proper place with that, with the polish and builds it one after that. And  makes a beautiful building of the Bride. So, the prophet has come, is the ministry over? 

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Come on. Do you think the ministry is over? What about this ministry? Come on. If you say  this is over without the fingers you can’t do anything. This is important, without God you  have no head. The people are telling, “Oh, we are in the Bride ministry without a head”. I  want a ministry with the Head! JESUS IS MY HEAD. Do you want HIM as your head? Then  don’t look at anything big, love Him and follow Him. The time has come you can’t look behind  you, go before. We know when the Bridegroom cometh. That cry has gone already. Now  the Bride must get in. Go with God and live forever, for eternity. Catch hold of the apostle of  the Bride and whole Body of Christ now to place you into the building. God bless you, let us  pray. 

Loving Saviour, I thank you for this precious hour. Lord I pray that you will take the Bride out  of all bondage, out of all veils, out of all darkness, take them out, Lord. Hold them and bring  them out, make them a beautiful palace, Lord. Lord, we know that you are the apostle of  faith, you are the beginner and ender of faith. Lord, you are a bigger apostle than we had.  Come Lord, take the Bride and march on to victory. Lord, we know that you are coming to  take this world, we know you are going to judge this world without mercy. We know that you  left the mercy seat but come down to take the Bride. There is no mercy for the foolish virgins,  but there is mercy for the Bride. Bless the people Lord, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.  

JESUS NEVER FAILS! 

- Bro R Paulaseer Lawrie

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THIRD MESSAGE -- 20-07-1969 (A.M.) 

THREE MEMORABLE DAYS OF GOD’S VISITATION IN THE CITY OF  CHICAGO ON THE THREE GREAT MOON LANDING DAYS THIRD MESSAGE 

Place: Life Tabernacle, Chicago, Illinois, USA 

Date : 2071969 (a m) 

Let us pray. Loving God, we thank you for this morning. We thank you because you have  called us for a great purpose. We thank you because you are living today, we thank you  because we can feel you and we fear you and grow with you and walk with you. Lord Father,  this morning open our understanding. Speak to us directly Lord. Lord we like to hear from  you. The Bride wants to hear from you Lord. Open our understanding to know thy secrets of  thy word. Lord we thank you for bringing us back to God’s Word through the prophet whom  you raised up, Lord. Lord help us to meet thee, Lord help us to understand thee, Lord. Help  us to know thy leadings and go with thee, all for thee. In the name of Jesus Christ we ask,  Amen. 

Sit down please. Praise be to the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. You know sometimes when  there is something new which is revealed to us from the Word it thrills us and as you know  it gives us extra strength. But the Bible, I have read for 25 years many times. My wife read  15 times before marriage, over and over. And everyday something new appears, but when  we read an ordinary book, once you finish the book that is all. There is no revelation. That  clearly shows man has to grow. If you can learn the whole thing in one day, like an ordinary  book which you can read and finish it off there is no growth necessary there for a man. 

That is why God wants the Bride to grow and tells the people in so many wonderful ways  just like the mother teaching the children. Suppose a child is born, the father wants to teach  the child, but the father doesn’t have patience. When a son comes and asks the lazy father  doesn’t hesitate to say, “Get out boy and don’t worry me”. But what does the mother say?  “Come on let me teach.” And to teach the children, suppose the mother says, “Say k-i-n-g,  king and the child says g-i-n-g, ging. You must therefore have a lot of patience to teach the  children. 

So God has been teaching man all along from creation. He has been teaching man to find  God. Just like a teacher or mother teaching the children, with pictures. You may say, “How  did God teach man?” First of all, before anything was written, until Moses things were not  written because God revealed the whole history to Moses in the vision on the mountain. And  He said write this in the Book. So Moses wrote this in the Book. 

But before then how did man go along with God? Was God absent? No. God was teaching  them like children. They didn’t know to write or read, they knew only to kill or fight, or do  something like that. If you go to the jungle, they will not know how to read. I know a certain  jungle in India; if you go to work among the hill tribes and you laugh at them they will kill you.  So they tell you earlier don’t laugh. Because they think that you are fooling them and they  will come and kill you. So we have to be very quiet; we don’t laugh even if something funny  happens, we just keep very serious with a 6 O’clock face. You know what a 6 O’clock face  is? Christians must have 2.45 face, but many times you know we have a long 6 O’clock face. 

So this God of ours, taught the people. How did He teach about Jesus Christ? He just wrote  in the heavens. The Zodiac signs, the 12 Zodiac signs were the redemption story. Then the  Devil perverted that into astrology. But if you will notice our Zodiac sign starts with virgin,  virgo. But the Devil’s zodiac starts from Ram, goat. That proves which is Devil and which is 

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God. If you see any astrologer, he’ll chart his zodiac sign from goat. But God’s people always  start from virgin, virgo. That is why the oriental kings or the wise men of the East saw His  star in heaven, and they said we saw His star; that real God has a star. And that comes from  the Virgo sign, virgin sign, with a branch in the hand, and that star is one in the constellation  of stars called Branch. 

That’s why Jesus is called the Branch and He comes in the sign of the virgin. So from the  Virgin, if you take all the twelve zodiac signs, it ends in Leo, the Lion. So we have come to  the place where the Lion is roaring. And when the Lion roars, it is the end of the redemption  story. So you see the astrologers in some newspapers, reading your horoscope, they’ll tell,  “This week for you.” They’ll say something is going to happen to you, what is your lucky star. 

In all the zodiac signs, you’ll find that there’s a man having a balance or scale. That’s  judgement. There’s a fish, and a man is pouring the water, but the fish opens the mouth and  drinks all the water which signifies the Holy Spirit. So you see all along there, the good God  of ours drew pictures for children to learn it easily. And all along in the 12 zodiac signs, there  is also a goat. And then you can see what a goat is, rejected people on the left side of God  on judgement. Then there’s a serpent there. And you can see all the things, pictures. You’ll  find the whole redemption story there. 

And man was following God, and he knew what God was, what He looked like, from that  sign. And then he called everything a name, Virgin, Lion, Goat, Fish, like that. And there is  a zodiac sign called twins; two witnesses, you know. It was proof it was from God. So he  had everything in the picture. And I’m sure God must have spoken to them and explained to  them like a mother. And all these people would not have understood. Because I have seen  in teaching my own children, you say c-a-t, cat, they’ll say t-a-c, tac. It’ll be backward. 

And the teacher sometimes comes, “Mr. Lawrie, your sons are mischievous.” I say, “why?”  “They beat the children.” And I call them, “Children, why do you beat them? Can’t you learn?”  “Daddy, we can’t keep quiet, when others come and fight with us; we have to punch thier  noses. But the teacher says, “Your sons are fighting.” But actually what happens, they forget  and punch because I am a boxer. So the children want to be boxers. They are exactly what  you are. 

You know, children imitate the father. My son went to the college, and someone told him,  your daddy was a terrible fellow; fights and boxes and beats everyone, and he won’t have  mercy. He’ll beat anybody, he knows all the arts of fighting, was a foremost foot-baller,  athlete. So he told my boy, “You’ll never make a fighter like your daddy.” He said, “Yes but,  I have that courage in me.” So he took a cycle and was in a cycle race, and most of the  college boys took part, and he was one of the boys who finished this long ardurous race and  got the prize. Then one day, a boy came with a bleeding nose. “Your son beat me here.” My  son said, “Daddy, you were just like that. So what do you want us to do? We can’t control  that.” 

But when he came to the realization of God, he changed the other way. So what did he do?  He set out, took the Bible and started preaching. I said, “why are you doing what I do?” And  then he went to a meeting and said, “Please leave Daddy, don’t come.” So I slowly took my  car and went in the night and saw 5,000 people sit before him. Preaching, two hours.  

Small fellow, twenty two. And he started praying for the sick. The people are healed. People  are filled. And he said all those that want to be baptised, come tomorrow. So I slowly slipped  off. Next day, many people came for baptism. 

So I called my son and said, “Boy, you can take charge of my work in India; carry on.” So  now, day before yesterday he wrote, 1,000 people want baptism, they want you to return  soon to India to baptise them, all Hindus. So you can understand about the mercy seat, 

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they’re still getting people saved. 

So don’t think God has left everything and finished. You know, in the Song of Solomon, there  is something important. If you are patient enough, and study the Bible....It was revealed to  me from Canada to go to Chicago and I’ll tell you. So if you have the Bible, just read it. 

First of all, God always taught the people what to do. So what did the people do? They  wanted to see and believe. Now listen, this is the trouble all over, even today. The foolish  virgins want to see something BIG. But God wants to show something big in the Word. That’s  the trouble with man. Now he looks at the moon trip - Wonderful. What has he accomplished  that God has not accomplished? He is going there to see what God has made. But man  didn’t make the moon. But with all this moon landing, it never occurs to man what a big God  we have, Who created the moon? We think about the wonderful moon landing, but never for  a moment think what a great God we have, Who hung that ball in the heavens, the space. 

If we have that realization, then we know who we are. Man never realizes that he is standing  on something which keeps on rotating, but any moment it may fall down. But it is gripped by  the Word of God. When I left my job, I thought God would let me down. But remember, six  and a half million people going from Egypt to Canaan. All of them had food, all of them had  water, to all of them everything came right to their home. 

But how did God manage? Some people say if all the people leave their jobs and go, do you  think God will manage? Yes, much more than that. Some say yes, I’ll believe on God, but  the trouble is, they have not that heart to follow Him fully. And I tell you, for the last 25 years,  not one day has God let us down. Until now he has protected us. 

Today, many people say, it is impossible. But one day I was in a Christian Community. So  one brother said, “Brother, I’m in difficulty, I got into some debts, I want some money.” Now  listen, I am a full-time worker, I have no money in my hand, but he tells me that he has no  money. He is a business man. So I told him, “You want the money, yes I can pray.” 

“Pray for money?” 

“Yes, you want the money, my God can give that to you.” 

He said, “These Christians will never give you any money.” 

“Don’t worry brother, the money will come from the roof.” I prayed and within about five  minutes a Hindu walked into the room. 

“I saw Brother go into this house, is he here?” 

Yes.” 

“Brother, I want to give you money.” 

That was exactly the amount which this fellow needed. I took it and said, “Brother, here.” “He said, “Brother Lawrie, your God is a wonderful God.” 

That businessman asking a pauper for money, and God helping this pauper to give that  businessman money. That’s the God we have. Has God done such things to you in your  life? 

It is wonderful. Every man has a testimony. Don’t live on another man’s testimony. The  trouble is, “Oh, God visited that man.” WHAT ABOUT YOU? So, many people say, “Oh, God  was wonderful to Peter, John and Jacob. What about YOU? When I was in England, I had  no money to send to my wife. My wife used to depend on me, I used to depend on my wife.  So when I’m in trouble, I send a telegram to my wife, she has the money. If I want money,  she sends it. When she is in trouble, she’ll send the telegram, and I’ll send the money.

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But one day, God took me to England and money could not be sent here out of India. And I  could not send money into India, because I had no money. Three months my wife was telling,  “Oh, I don’t know how I am going to live.” Three children were there. So one day the children  wanted fish. They said, “Mummy, we are near the seashore. Everyone eats fish, but you  don’t give us fish?” She got so worried and said, “Your daddy went away somewhere and  he never wrote us a letter even. I don’t know where he is, not a cent for three months. You  better go and ask your Daddy’s God. So go and pray.” So these boys took it seriously, and  went to the room, “Lord, we want fish, Lord, we want fish, Lord.” They prayed, and went out  of the house. When they came to the door, a big fish fell right in front of them out side the  front door. They took the fish and said, “Mummy, God has given fish.” A big fish, not a small  one, not a little fish. So my wife said, “Hey, God hears your prayer also.” Why not? They had  a nice fish meal. Then she wrote to me and said, “My, my, God is hearing the prayer of these  children.” 

Then later on, after three months we heard that this fish was bought by a big police inspector,  as his wife went to wash the fish, an eagle took it and dropped it at our house. You say  eagle, you talk about eagle, I enjoy the eagle. You can have pictures of the eagle, my friends  .... you know some of the people are like Catholics now. They want pictures everywhere.  We can have the prophet’s pictures no doubt, but they have become so fanatical on pictures.  There’s a lot of eagle business going on now. In every shop you find eagle pictures because  they are saleable in America. 

But in India, they worship the eagle. Now suppose an Indian comes to your house, he will  say, ‘Oh, we worship the eagle, they are also worshipping the eagle’. You come to India,  they see the eagle in flight, they’ll worship it as their God. So, you can have pictures of eagle,  but does the eagle do anything for you as it has done for my children? Try the eagle, he’ll  do something for you. He was God’s messenger to send fish for my children, obeying the  command of God to answer children’s prayer. 

So first of all, God used pictures and everything and what did man do? He wanted to build  a big tower. And what did he do in the tower? He wanted to put up a big tower, reaching to  heaven. But can man reach heaven by building a tower? If you read that particular book, he  did do something on the tower. If you read that book clearly, what did they do? They put the  whole zodiac signs in a picture form and put it on top of the tower, “the top with heavens” so  that they could think about and worship the zodiac signs instead of worshipping God through  that. So they put up a big tower to reach these planet. Now today what is that sign? It is the  emblem of the people who are flying to the moon today. Eagle now is on the top of the moon.  So now don’t think you are having pictures of the eagle just in your home. It is going on the  top of the moon. That is the emblem now. 

So what happens? These people have the emblem of the zodiac signs on the tower and  God said, my people whom I taught by pictures, they are worshipping the pictures instead  of me. So he came down. When something like that happens, God comes down. You say  God coming down is incredible? You want someone to say He can’t do that? But I tell you,  if you turn to the Song of Solomon, it is said about the foolish virgins. Song of Solomon 5:2  onwards. 

“I sleep, but my heart waketh.” 

What does it mean? I am sleeping, but I am thinking about God. Everything is all over for  the foolish virgins. And what does it say? 

“And the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my  dove, my undefiled;” 

She’s undefiled, dove, everything.

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“My head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.” What does the foolish  virgin say? 

“I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them? 

What has she done now? She said, when you put on the coat, what does it mean? Going  out for the service of the Lord. She says, mercy seat is over, everything is finished. I have  taken off my coat. How can I put it on when I have taken it off? How can I go and preach the  message of going to the people when I have preached already that the revival is over, mercy  seat is over, how will I eat my own words? You eat your own words, or you won’t be a Bride.  Some people have preached through their hat, now they have to eat their own words. So  they want to stick to their words and talk like that. 

If you are not a foolish virgin, you are to eat your own words and say I’m sorry, I’m mistaken,  I’m coming out to God. But what do they say? I have taken off my coat, no more saving of  souls. GOD IS NOT DEAD! GOD IS LIVING! So God is livng even though He has come  down from the mercy seat, he has come down to see the Bride. So there’s mercy in the  Bride. If you are a Bride there will be mercy through you. There is power through you. There’ll  be revival through you. And if you are not a Bride, you are dead, because you have taken  off your coat and washed your feet. Why do you wash the feet? After doing all the ministry,  washing the feet, talking to you and saying, “I have finished brother, I am waiting. I am going  to go with the Lord Jesus when He comes.” You are not going in the rapture, you are going  through the tribulation. 

And the beloved comes and knocks at the door. Today He knocks at your door. What does  He say? My beloved, open. What did he say in Laodicean Church Age? I’ll knock at the  door, if any man opens the door, I will show him a vision or a dream? What did He say, “I  will sup with him and eat with him”. GOD IS COMING TO EAT WITH YOU AND SUP WITH  YOU. And if you open your heart, you’re going to see something different. Get rid of your  crude ideas, everything, He is saying I am knocking at the door, if you open the door, I’ll  come into your house, and sup with you and you with me. We are going to be eating, dinner,  lunch, that’s wonderful. You are going to have a fellowship, that close fellowship with God,  just like Adam and Eve had. Jesus talking to them. Like Abraham and God had before  destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. How can a Bride live without God talking? How can  the Bride live without God’s message? You say everything is over? You are up to the  boundary of Jordan. 

I’m not come to tell you that I am a big man, that I’m your leader. We have one leader, Jesus  Christ. Do not look to a man. Jesus Christ will come to your home, come to your heart and  come to your life. You’ll see Him moving in your life. If I could see Jesus Christ in my life,  talking to me, walking with me, why can’t you do so? Is this God partial? Bride is a part of  the Body of Christ. Move along with Him. Take dictation from Him, the head. The whole body  moves. 

But did you notice one thing? If there is scratching to be removed from the body, I cannot  manage without my fingers. Without that I cannot do anything. The face cannot clean itself.  If you want to clean God’s face, He has to count on the body. Without the body, God cannot  do anything, my friends. And you must be a body of Christ or just be a worldly person? Just  look at Christ and enter in and walk with Him. 

And what does this lady say? “I have put off my coat, and how shall I put it on? I have  washed my feet, how shall I defile them?” Then what does God do? 

“My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him”. Now sleeping virgins, what does God do? He knocked and knocked and knocked, this girl 

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won’t get up. So at last what did He try to do? He put His finger into the hole and tried to  enter. And the beloved sees what? What does she see? She doesn’t see the Bridegroom,  she sees the FINGER OF THE BRIDEGROOM. When she sees the finger, then the heart  is stirred. There’s somebody there. Then she opens the door. What has happened now? “I  rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh and my fingers with sweet  smelling myrrh.” They’re all sleeping, nice scent, everything. What’s that nice singing,  everything nice. Everything’s smooth. Nice picture, nice group, nice tapes, everything.  Message is going on. 

But you mean to say in India these people are going to hell without these tapes? I believe  there are genuine God’s people in our country also. They don’t have tape recorders. I do  have a tape recorder, but most of you have all the tapes. There, nobody has a tape recorder.  But they’re on GOD’S WORD. You tell something, they catch it. But American people don’t  catch it. They say, what does the tape say? Better say, what does the Bible say? Go to the  tapes through the Bible. Don’t go to the Bible through the tapes; then you’re all wrong. That  is why people who know the Word of God, easily know Brother Branham is the prophet of  God, but they don’t worship him. They know there’s one to be worshipped, that’s the Lord  Jesus Christ. 

And if you are a true seed of God, you’ll know that the Lord put his finger through the hole,  to wake you up, because you would not open the door. The church people didn’t open the  door. So what did He do for the Bride? He put the finger into the keyhole and said, “Come  on, I’m out here, I’m getting wet. You don’t open your heart to me”. Then the foolish Bride  and good Bride all got up. Opened the door, and what happened? “I rose up to open to my  beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon  the handles of the lock. I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and  was gone; my soul failed when he spake.” Now she is telling, when he spoke, my soul failed.  She’s a foolish one, he’s gone. “I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he  gave me no answer”. Why? The door was shut. “The watchmen that went about the city  found me, they smote me”. 

Now listen, here the foolish virgin, she goes about now, she is searching but God is gone.  So now she says, “Oh, my lamps are running out, I’ll go and see Him”. And what do the  watchmen do? They took the stick and smote her, you stay here, sit down, revival is over,  everything is over, shut up. Mercy Seat is gone, sit in your seat, come to the church, all is  over. So what do the watchmen do? Preacher do? Take the stick and smite right on your  head and say sit down, God’s all gone. They smote on your head. “Then, I sought him, but  I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer. The watchmen that went about  the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my  veil from me.” What do the watchmen do? They smote this foolish Bride; took away her veil,  and now she is naked. Everybody can see the nakedness. “Oh, where is God?” Not only the  watchmen smote them, but the keepers of the wall....keepers of the denominations...keepers  of the denominational spirit. They all were smiting, slandering, that’s what is happening  today....the board and the committee. 

Tomorrow they are going to do the same thing for me, Brother Lawrie, that thief. But I know,  the time is up. They’ll smite you. Be ready to receive smiting. They’ll wound you, they’ll  slander your reputation, they’ll attack you. Be ready to stand up. And what does the foolish  virgin do? “I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell Him  that I am sick of love.” Then she gives the description of the Bridegroom through the  FINGER. You know, she gives the description of Bridegroom, not by looking at face, but  through the finger, through the keyhole. So she says, “my beloved is white and ruddy. Oh,  He is wonderful, His lips are red.” So she had a revelation of the Bridegroom, only through 

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the finger. But she never had a full revelation of Christ. So she tells, “Oh my beloved is  wonderful. Oh I looked at his hand; white as snow”. But the Bride will have a revelation of  the head and everything, not just the finger. 

Do you know why the foolish virgin can’t see; is blind? Because the veil is taken off. She  tries to see now, and what does she see, she saw only the finger, finger of God. And she  made a denomination out of that, and said, all right, so she tried to go, she goes out. He is  gone. After going, she gets a revelation of the finger. Then what happens, now what does  God look like? Now suppose, Christ, when He came, the prophecy told that He will be going  as a lamb for the slaughter. What does the Bible say........ about the burnt sacrifice? If you  want to atone for your sin, you must bring an ox, and then give a burnt offering. So all is  typed in the Old Testament. That is why God said, Remember Moses. Why? Moses gave  commandments like pictures for the Bride to come to full revelation. 

So I cannot understand why these people who are in this message omit those two verses,  Remember Moses. They don’t want to take it. So do you know why? If the Bride sees that  Book, she will find out the Lord. If the Bride doesn’t see that, she will stop at Jordan. That is  why they omitted Moses. They omitted also turning the hearts. Elijah comes to turn the  hearts, that is all. His work is over. Not to take you from here to eternity. You know why?  Jesus came to die once. He is not coming down to die again. You know something. If God  died today, again ..... if Bro. Branham represented the last stage of ministry, he could not  have died. Because this is God taking charge. Because here no man can interfere. God has  come there. It is His look-out, He will do the work, quick work. That is why He said the Lord  will do a quick work. It is not a work going through Books or television and radio. It is by the  SPOKEN WORD. THE Bride WILL HAVE THE SPOKEN WORD MINISTRY. WHEN SHE  TALKS, SOMETHING HAPPENS. And the foolish virgins will have a book ministry. Bride  loves Spoken Word ministry. Why? Because she has seen the Master. And then who gets  jealous? The book Bride. Oh! We are on the Books. But WE are on the WORD OF GOD.  The books should bring you to the WORD OF GOD. BUT TODAY, THE BOOKS TAKE THE  PEOPLE AWAY FROM THE WORD OF GOD. That is not the Bride. 

You may get angry with me, but when I go away I am happy because I am giving you  something which is truth which is in the Bible, and I challenge anybody. This is not against  the Word of God. That is why people say, “Oh!, he is not in the message, be careful”. You  are not in the message? Then what is the message, be careful”. You are not in the message?  Then what is the message? To be on the Bible. 

Sometimes people think like this. I love Bro. Branham, I have seen him, I know what he is.  People do not tell me, believe like this. One day a man said, if you don’t believe like this, get  out. I said believe like what? Believe like we say. That is terrible joke now. Thank God. The  Bride is still on the Word and watching. So the Bible said, “He will come like a lamb for the  slaughter. 

So you must go to Moses’ book, see what the lamb sacrifice is. What an ox sacrifice is?  Now let us come to that. What is a sacrifice? First of all, God wanted to talk with man. So  He told Moses, make a tabernacle. And then, that tabernacle is the picture of the Gospel,  everything. There was only one door. I AM THE DOOR. What is the meaning? I am the way,  into the house. He said, I am the way. What did He mean by I am the door. If you have a  door, if you want to come to this building, I open the door and walk in. But suppose I climb  on the roof and everything, and come in that way; I am a robber. Why? If you try to lead a  holy life, you are a robber. But if you come into holiness, just into God, you get Holiness.  That is the door. You don’t struggle to get holiness..... people who are struggling for holiness,  you are robbers. You can’t get holiness without Christ. I tried and tried and tried, every time,  I failed. You try and succeed ? Don’t be liars, no man is ever good. Sometimes people ..... 

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Oh! They look like saints, but they are hypocrites, you know. Go into their homes and see.  They say I am trusting God. Go into their homes and see. Always the private rooms. 

I have travelled to many Pentecost churches. In fact I thank God He took me to every  denomination. And what did I find? They preach one thing, something against what they do  inside. But we preach what we are. That is why people can see what is in the Bride, because  you must be guileless as doves inside, but outward you look like serpents. You don’t look  like fools, or they will just come and sit on your head. The wolves come in sheep’s skin. So  we look like sheep in wolf’s skin. That is scriptural, Bible’s messages and all. So the wolves  come only that way, not in any other way. Then you say, that preacher says, this preacher  says.... compare the Word of God. 

When I told a brother, if Bro. Branham told anything, I won’t take it just because of the  Prophet; I will come back to the Word of God, and then I will take it, only if it is true to the  Word of God. Then you know what they say? You must take all what he says. No, I will take  only what he says on the Word. Then they get angry. And what happens here? Within these  two, some trouble comes. There are places where Bro. Branham said, “Thus saith the Lord,”  and it came true. But there are places he himself said, “I may be wrong, I don’t know. I may  be wrong”. And now you say infallible. THE WORD IS INFALLIBLE! INFALLIBLE WORD!  Not infallible man, like a Pope. The Pope is infallible for them. But we have an infallible God,  Jesus Christ. 

So what happens here? Now, they brought an ox for sacrifice, this ox was caught from the  jungle or somewhere, and it is without blemish. And what happens? No blemished man  could be a servant of God. That is what the Bible says. If he is a hunchback, he cannot serve  God. If you are a short-limbed man, you cannot serve God. This all typifies people who are  short-limbed, not long enough to give offering to God. That is a short limbed man. What, a  blind man cannot serve God.... Why? If a man has no vision of God, he cannot serve God  without a calling of God. So those who cannot serve God in the Old Testament way exactly  applies to the New Testament also, in the spiritual way. So they take an ox and tie it on the  altar. When we were among the people in those days before our conversion, when we get  angry we were like tigers. “Hummm! If anybody tells anything, I will slap them, be careful”.  But what did the priest do? He cuts the head off the ox, and the head falls down. Now when  the head is cut off, it has no life. Now this present day ministry is going on without a head.  That is like the dead ox. You must have a head. Without the head, the body cannot do  anything. But this time the head is God. 

So what happens? The ox is dead. An ox can be white, black, brown, or spotted, but it is  caught and cut there. And that is not ready for sacrifice yet. First the priest takes off the skin.  We must be skinned Christians. When you take the skins away, black, brown or white, all is  one colour, you don’t have colours. Sometimes you know, you meet people for whom we  have natural aversion. Some people are not clean. You can’t go near a man who doesn’t  clean his teeth, and just talks to you. It will stink. So that is the difference. But one thing, you  may be a black fellow, white fellow, anybody but if you have not taken the skin off, you are  not fit for the altar. And the skin is taken off. Now the skin is already off. Now the priest takes  the knife and cuts the stomach. Your stomachs will be cut off. What happens? All the  intestines are taken out. And there the worms live; in the intestines. Jealousy, pride,  everything is inside. Today, two preachers cannot get on the stage. One wants to be big,  the other man says no that is not correct. And in the Bride, do you know what the Bride will  look like? Turn to Joel second Chapter, before the Armageddon, when He comes to fight,  the Bride will look like this. 

“A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning  spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, 

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neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations”. The Bride will be  like this. Nobody else will be like that. There will be nobody before us or after us that will be  like this. Secondly, “a fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth”. What  has happened? Fire devoureth before, behind a flame burneth. The land is as the garden of  Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape  them. (Nothing shall escape them). The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses;  and as horsemen, so shall they run. (How shall they run? As horsemen.) Like the noise of  chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap. (How shall they leap? They leap .... Bride  is to do that.) Like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people  set in battle array. Before their face the people shall be much pained: (When they see them,  people will become afraid. All faces will gather blackness). They shall run like mighty men;  they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and  they shall not break their ranks”. Come on, they shall march every one on his own way as  God leads, but they will not break their ranks. Now they are breaking their ranks. So this is  not the Bride also. “Neither shall one thrust another ......... They shall run up on the wall, they  shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief”. 

We are to learn to be a thief. Come on. Where did the Bride learn to become a thief? From  the Bridegroom. When the Bridegroom comes as a thief, so naturally the Bride knows how  to be as a thief. So what does the Bride do? You can climb over on the walls, through the  window, any place, and not only that, it doesn’t thrust a man, “Hey you, get away”. Now  today there is fighting on the platforms. A man will come with the message of God. Another  man may say, “Brother, are you in the message?” “Don’t come in”. 

I have been left out of many churches, even in this message. They say Bro. Lawrie, we are  loving you, but no church for you. That is why I think God told me to come here, because  this church is a different church. Now I was wondering about Bro. Larry Smith. Will he come  and tell me, “Bro. Lawrie, I want to know what you are going to preach”. So I must be careful.  He never asked me one word like that. So he must be glad God spoke to me, “Go to Life  tabernacle to give this last message”. I thought, “I will go Lord, but I don’t know..... Bro. Larry  Smith, he has invited me....... I will go and see”. Perhaps after the first message, he may  say: Bro. Lawrie, stop it”. So you must be happy about it because if you really think this is  God, God has chosen your church for these little messages on the three moon landing days.  Now listen, this is the way the Bride will be. So first of all, the skin is taken; secondly, the  stomach is taken, all pride, all the dirty things are inside, not outside. Pride, jealousy,  anger.... what is pride? “Oh!, I am a big man”. Everybody wants to be a big man, but my  friends, since Bro. Branham came, many people, many heads have come. Everybody wants  to be a big man, but actually the message comes only through God’s people, God’s chosen  people. And those chosen people have the message, and they will be vindicated. So bring  all the people, let them be vindicated, then accept it. If they are not vindicated, don’t take it,  no matter how nice he preaches. Because he won’t have the truth. 

I have found out, you know in India. One day we were preaching, there was a big cloud.  Eighty thousand people waiting. And it was going to rain. I went to a mountain, crying for  two or three hours, Lord see that it doesn’t rain. A voice came. “You are a Bride. You don’t  cry, you speak”. Speak? Then something opened up to me. All nature is yours, you just  command it. So I go away, go on the mountain. “You clouds, you don’t come to my meeting  place. Get away from that. You can rain anywhere, but not on the compound”. And you know  what happened. There was a big ring around in the center, and the people came to the  meeting, and it never rained on the compound, but it rained right outside. Oh! We have a  God like that. Nature obeys you! 

You think, it happens only in your country? Sometimes we are like children. They think the 

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whole world is only America. East is New York, West is California, South is Florida, North is  Minnesota, or something like that. Oh! That is the whole world. Other places are not world.  But if that is such a God here, I don’t want that God. I have a God who knows what is black  and what is white and all our problems. India is poor, but rich in faith. What does the Bible  say? Oh! The rich may have plenty of worldly goods, but these poor have faith. I challenge  you, today the Indian people may not have food, they may cry for their food, but they have  faith in a big God. You ask one person, he may be dying without food, but he will say, “My  God is here”. 

One day a boy was preaching, cried, “Jesus Christ came to save the sinners”. One old lady  got up, “Boy, stop that!” “Why?” “Don’t twist the Word of God and change the Bible; Bible  says Christ Jesus came to save sinners, not Jesus Christ Christ came to save sinners.” So  that is the way we fight. Then the boy says, ‘My, my, you people are terrible, you won’t even  allow one word to get out on the other side’. Christ Jesus came. Then he opened the Bible  and said ‘Yes, Christ Jesus came to save sinners’. So that is the way we fight. But here,  how do the people fight, they fight with clouds and eagles and stones. We don’t care, we  have got plenty of stones, we have got seven stone mountains in India, we have seven stone  mountains with an Indian god there. We have plenty of eagles there, golden eagles, yellow  eagles, red eagles; we have plenty of rocks there, we have many visitations there. What  about the Hindus? You go to the Hindus. You will talk about devil visitations. You can’t  convince a Hindu by visitations. Even non-Christians worship reality as mythology, but they  worship mythology as reality. 

One day a man said, “Oh! I am having God”. And the man challenged, come on, walk in the  fire. So all right, they put a fire about one foot thick. And the man walked right into the fire,  up and down. And the other man said, “I have got a living God”, and he walked in and got  burnt and had to stay at the hospital, the man who had a living God. And the Hindu said,  “You can’t challenge us in this”. Walking through hot coal fire, one foot thick, walking up and  down, this fellow got burnt and the Hindu took the fire and put it on his body, nothing  happened. You say, you want to show something in India? The Indian people will hear you,  but they want to see something, power. When you speak something, something that will  happen. 

And today, we must understand, God blesses the whole world. He pours the rain on  everyone; sunlight on everyone. And the life ....... Eternal life on everyone according to His  choice. If He gives you something that is worldly, my brothers, you are missing something  spiritual. If they have something material missing in the world, they are getting something  spiritual. So you are to run to God today. Sacrifice your life. If you are in the Bride, search  God more than ever before. 

But watch when the Prophet came, He made the people starve. Starve for what? Starve for  shouting, starve for praises. So people who are looking for jumping and dancing, they didn’t  see anything nice there because they don’t jump, they don’t shout. So that was a trick of the  fisherman .... to catch the fish. Don’t be discouraged, your time is coming when you are  going to shout. When the Bridegroom comes, you are going to shout. When the Bridegroom  comes, you are going to shout. Not this early are you going to shout, but there is going to  be THUNDER. And people say, “Oh!, this is the way, it is good”. Right before the rapture,  we will probably have another three and a half years .... four years, before the rapture.  Between that, tribulation should start. The pressure is going to come. 

When man reaches moon, that is the start of a new era. And that is going to happen right  today. And you are beginning another dispensation. Where? It is after the thing is gone. A  seven years period, half of it is gone. When we assimilate the message of the prophet ...  How long are you going to keep on eating? It should be digested now. You have eaten it, 

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digested it, and now no action? But the Bride has got to get sharp. Out of it, the Bride will go  on to the rapture, putting on new strength. 

So there you will find a change comes and the Bride will be more powerful with ministry gifts,  and power, while the dead virgins, foolish virgins will lose everything, will lose the oil. And  they will keep on crying, “Why no oil?” Foolish virgins ... is now outside. It is all like a shadow.  Bro. Branham ministry, Oral Roberts, Billy Graham, it is a shadow now. Why? They have  gone right into the World Church denominations. But you know if two angels are with God,  they are not going right into the denominations, they are bringing out somebody. So one  day, when the time is running out, some foolish virgins are going to come out. When the  preacher who realizes, they are too late, and coming to run out like Lot, they will be foolish  virgins because they won’t be taken up. They will be like Lot. So that is what happens to the  denomination, no one will come out of denomination, even Oral Roberts or Billy Graham.  But in this message some people are coming out. 

That is the thing which is hidden from the foolish virgins, but that is going to open for the  Bride. God took Abraham outside, but it was finished with Sarah. ‘You will have a child’, the  discernment is gone. But now, God took Abraham and he is interceding in the destruction.  God is going to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah. Now the Bride is interceding. “Oh! Lord, have  mercy”. Then He said, “If ten people are there, I won’t destroy it”. So God’s condition is, ‘if  you have ten people here, I won’t destroy’. That means God has left the mercy seat and  come for judgement. So judgement will fall on the other people, but life will be like in the  land of Goshen; the Bride will be protected from now on. It will be a different life. You will  see, if God touches you, you will find you are a transformed person, taking God with your  hand and going on. 

Why do you fall today? Because you are trying to catch God. Suppose a child tries to catch  me, and I run from the child, it will fall. But if I catch the child, it won’t fall. Ask God to catch  you, you won’t fall. Even if you fall, He will drag you. But if you try to catch God, you will fall  20 times, 100 times, you will keep on falling. That is not a testimony. But now, ‘Lord catch  me, I have been catching you all these days, now you catch me tonight’. 

So, stomach is taken, worms are taken. Now that is not enough. Blood is taken out of the  side. And now take it all and cut it into pieces. Now listen, if my arm is cut into a hundred  pieces, it won’t have any stiffness. So our self life has to be cut into so many pieces. ‘I, I, I’,  that is the trouble today. The Bride has no self. ‘I accept the Lord. I am already for you; you  do whatever you like’. The Bride doesn’t want a hundred days leading, it wants one day  leading. “Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof”. If a man comes and tells you, “Oh, I have  a programme, programme”, there is something wrong. I tell you, everyday, that day will work  out of that day, not the next day. That is the Bride. Because it looks by faith. Because she  sees the Bridegroom. You know, I will be led by somebody, but other people who have  programmes, they will be led by themselves. So if you are a Bride, you look to that day.  ‘Lord! Today I want to serve thee... tomorrow I don’t know. Tomorrow you lead me in the  way you like’. Then how can you say I am going day after tomorrow to so and so place? He  can change you. But if you have made a programme for day after tomorrow, you cannot  cancel it, that means you are artificial. 

Now see, the marvellous hand of God will plan your life, and lift you up to that place. Then  when they cut you to pieces, that is not enough because after you have worms. So you need  the fire. Without the Holy Ghost, you will be stinking. Some people say, “How do you get the  Holy Ghost?” GO SEEK GOD! He will see that you are filled, and you will know it. Some  people say: “Oh! How will I know it?” Now suppose I eat food? You say, “Bro. Lawrie, do  you know that you have eaten anything?” Yes, we will eat a big cowboy steak and milk and  you came and ask me: “How is your stomach, how do you feel the eating?” I say, “Yes”. I 

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won’t say I have eaten, but I don’t feel anything. That is what people, foolish virgins say.  “Brother, I am on the Word, but I don’t feel anything”. You have not eaten. Better go and  have something and see that you are filled. The Bride will feel the Holy Ghost impact on the  life. The foolish virgins will feel the impact of the books and the tapes. 

So now it is put on the altar, and the fire.... What is the fire like? It is not the fire burning from  here. That fire came from God and that fire is consuming the altar, and that is the altar fire.  So this fire is not human fire. It has to come from God. And the sacrifice is cut into pieces.  All the bones are broken, and they start burning it. When they start burning it, all the things  disappear; only ashes left. But the bones won’t go easily. The nerves won’t get burnt easily.  Then all the things become ash and go down into the altar, you don’t see that anymore.  People should not see us. They must see God in us. “Oh! That man is in God”. Not simply  say, “Oh! That man is a mighty preacher”. They are seeing you. But that is not it, if they see  God, it will change their life. If a man sees God, it changes his life. When the Bride sees the  Bridegroom, it changes her life. 

When you see God, something happens to you, you can’t be the same. When Moses saw  God, his face was brightened. If you see God, and your face is like a 6 ‘O clock face, you  are not seeing God. SEE GOD. You go and pray and see in the mirror what your face look  like. And get angry with somebody and look in the mirror. How do you feel? You won’t be  angry again. One day I was so angry and my wife put a mirror and just brought it before my  face. I looked into the mirror. I said: “Awful”. But when you see Christ, that is something else.  They can say, “Oh! There is a glow in the face”. 

So it is burnt to ashes; it is gone, you don’t see the animal anymore. The ashes are down,  and this ash is taken out of the camp, and put on the dump and everybody tramples on it,  every Dick, Tom, and Harry. That is the sacrifice. But God smelt the flames, a sweet savour.  And what do the priests do with the blood? He sprinkles on the toe, ear, everything, and  does the sacrifice so that party’s sin will be finished. That is sacrifice! In the same way, when  the Lamb of God came for sacrifice, He didn’t come as a King. So the Bride was looking for  a lamb which is exactly like the ox cut here. So Jesus never spoke anything, they cut Him  to pieces, they attacked Him, and what do the priests do? When the altar, when the sacrifice  is on the altar, he takes a fork and pricks it and turns it over. That is why some people come  and prick us. The devil won’t leave us free. One fellow will come and say, “Hey, you seem  to boast too much”. Then we get angry like that. But then you will say, if you are dead,  “Praise the Lord”. You don’t have any sense of feeling. But we seem to have a lot of sense  of feeling. If somebody pricks us, then the true color comes. We say “Praise the Lord,  wonderful, Amen”. But when somebody touches you in the easily provokable side, “Brother  I will pulverize him, pound him”. They go behind and say, “What does he think of me? You  know, I will teach him a good lesson, I will break his teeth”. Even though you don’t tell it, in  the heart all these things are coming. “I will break his teeth. I will pulverize him”. 

But a Bride is dead, all the pricks do not hurt her. “Praise the Lord. You can prick some  more, brother, I am dead”. You can prick the Bride, and the Bride will be just laughing about  it. Are you a Bride? Jesus Christ was pricked and hurt every way; spat on His face but He  kept quiet. And they took the ash, He was dead already, in the spirit. But they took His body  and put Him out of the Camp. So everybody could trample. Everyone tramples and we are  to be trampled. The foolish virgins trample. The unconverted, trample the ash. He was  outside the camp and that was the perfect type of the sacrifice. That is why today if we go  to a Hindu, you can convert him through a sacrifice. So in the same way, even today, you  are to find out what type of God we have. 

So God came down into this world, first to die as a sacrifice when the Bride was a small  baby. Now suppose a small girl .... one day she is going to become a big girl. But this girl 

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will catch hold of anyone and say: “Hello, hello, hello”. But when she becomes big will she  go with everyone? I have small children as friends. They are very nice, but when they  become big they are like this in India. You say, “Hello girlie, how are you?” “I am all right”.  But they will never come and catch your hand and come with you. That was in small age but  when they are changed with maturity, they are different. 

So in the same way, when Jesus came as a sacrifice, He came to bring birth to people, to  the Bride. So the prophet of the Word turns the heart of the people to Jesus Christ. And  Jesus took this small baby. That is why Jesus had so much trouble. Peter wanted to cut the  ear of that man; in all those things they were children. So when these children were walking  through camp, they came to Jesus Christ, on a long journey. What happened? They become  fathers. But they all had to die in Jordan. That is what these fathers now stay in the borders  of Jordan, “Everything is finished with Bro. Branham”. But all the fathers had to die. Now the  children are coming. These children are grown up already to big ones. So there is only a  little more. Now just three and a half years for the Bride to grow. So now God will not allow  this girl to go along with anything else. 

That is why God did not trust this last day ministry to anybody except for Him to come direct  and take the Bride. Because she has attained maturity. And she has decided to marry Christ,  through the Prophet’s message. Now if you really are sincere, go to your room, pray and  meditate. You will have the revelation of Jesus Christ. And then you will say: “My Lord is my  shepherd, I shall not want”. No one can shake you, no denominational spirit can bind you.  You will be going on with God and then you will see .... you will do great things. Because  you will be hearing from God direct and so many things. God will move in your life. 

So we are in that last day....so this is the part of the sacrifice, to turn you to Christ. So when  you see the whole Bible, you find in many places the Lord is doing a great work for the people and how can the Lord do it if you do not trust the Lord? The girl will trust the boy. So  now if you come to Revelation ... turn there. Seven angels came, Seven Church messengers  came. But there is a messenger called archangel, if you see the whole Bible; the archangel  comes after the seventh church messenger. And this archangel is the head. So every time  you find from the beginning to the end, there will be another person, in between that we call  archangel. Michael was an archangel like that. 

So here comes another angel, a mighty angel, which has the significance of someone  almighty. Now if you want to know who this is, you are to turn to Revelation 1:13 - “And in  the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of Man, clothed with a garment  down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle. His head and his hairs were  white like wool”. What was the hair like? White as wool. Then: “His eyes were as a flame of  fire;” What did the eyes look like? Because his face was like the sun. If you take a telescope  and see the sun, you will see the flames jump up. You go and see the sunlight through a  telescope, then you will know the sun which you see is not white in colour but red flames  going out from the sun. So His eyes were like flames of fire because His face was like the  sun. So the flames are going out from his eyes. Thirdly: “and his feet like unto fine brass, as  if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters”. 

And this is something great. His feet were brass because feet is judgement. Brass is a type  of judgement .... eyes .... flames of fire. So this angel here, the Revelation tenth Chapter  angel: “I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud; his hair  was like wool”. Do you see what the cloud is like? Wool. “And his face was as it were the  sun, and his feet as pillars of fire”. Who is this? Hummm? So he descends. “And he had in  his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the  earth.”

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Now listen, this is the type of the last ministry. So he is not putting the feet only in one land.  One in the sea and one in the earth. That has got a world wide significance. It is the ministry  of the body of Christ. So when I walk I put the right leg on the place, I go. But here he says,  I put the right leg behind and put the left leg on the earth. And the right leg was among the  people. Sea typifies “Sea of people” countless number like China, India; and “Earth” signifies  the most civilized and developed countries in the west. Jer. 51:42; Daniel 7:3. 

So definitely putting the left leg means, that it is not his own place. Right leg is the place  where he LANDED. And the left leg is the place where he was just putting another step on.  And the sea always means people. The beast is rising from the people. And also who rises?  So what then happens is he cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth. Now hear, what  did it say? A lion roars.... for what? When he has caught the prey. So now the lion is not  speaking through a prophet, the lion has come down to roar. Because it has caught the  Bride already which has free access to move. He is so happy. “Oh! I am happy because I  have caught something”. Lion of the tribe of Judah coming for judgement, and to take the  Bride. 

So we are now right in the day of judgement. So every time the Bride is claimed for God,  that clay will make a hole there, that will mean judgement there. If you see Christ today and  are claimed by Him, immediately you have judgement in the home. We are made out of clay.  So God has come down to take His clay and then make it immortal. Russia and America are  going to the moon to take a rock, without any water, and wanted to break the rock into pieces  and scatter it throughout the world to find out how it was made. So you understand, man  wants to disperse the rock. God wants to make the rock into one body. So God wants to  bring it together; Man wants to disperse the rock. 

But in the time of Babel, man built a big tower, they were of one mind, one body; but God  came down to scatter them into all the world. Now see, God scattered in the beginning, now  God is going to UNITE. Man wanted to go to the tower.... God scattered. He didn’t reach the  tower, they were scattered. But now man reaches the moon, takes the clay and man has  got UNITED. This is the uniting time. So don’t think lightly, man cannot do all these things.....  when people are one mind, they can do something. So when he reaches the moon, man will  unite. That former day, man did not reach the heavens, so they did not unite. 

So the World Council of Churches, everything should unite. Man should reach the moon.  Okay. Man should reach the moon if the world should unite. So this is the time of uniting,  man destroys the rocks, scatters the rock. God makes the rock to clay, makes that clay  immortal. So if God tells man, “You take the moon clay and investigate it, I will take this earth  clay and make it immortal”. That is what God is going to do. So we are in the last days, and  just in this very particular moment when man performs the impossible and lands on the  moon which was never in the annuals of History, this age becomes very significant for the  Bride. 

Don’t think that I am a big man come to tell you something. This is the day when the Bride  should look upto Christ, not to any man ...... Look to Christ. Because Christ has come down  just like man reaching the moon. So you can understand in this message when you are  going to see a man going to land on the moon, GOD IS LANDING ON THE BRIDE. And the  Bride is going to build the five fold ministry. Bro. Larry Smith, that will shake the whole world.  You will have prophecies again, you will have evangelists again, everything. But these  evangelists are not racketeers getting money. They don’t try to make big money. But they  will speak..... they will have GOD! When they speak something HAPPENS!!! People are  afraid, fire comes out, everything comes out...... The army of God and body of Christ. Joel  2:1-6.

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Do you see the Bride is a big thing? ‘The Bride will not do a big thing brother, we are weak’.  But God can make the weak thing to do mighty things. And if you say everything is finished,  be careful, you are missing it. And the first miracle happened in this period; in the three and  a half years period when God came down. When man is going to the moon, He doesn’t  attack the man or the rocket. He attacks the earth in judgement: Los Angeles will sink down!  This is the age when it is going. Don’t think it is long, it may be tomorrow, it may be day after  tomorrow, but she is going down. Why? That angel, same angel takes the stone like a  millstone and puts it in the water and says: “Thus Babylon will be destroyed”. First of all He  destroys by water to show an example to the people in tribulation, because it is the sign for  the tribulation people saying, “Babylon will be destroyed, Babylon will be destroyed, so  tribulation saints don’t be afraid; stand out boldly and do not take the mark of the beast”. So  Los Angeles will be destroyed because that death angel takes the millstone and takes it up  and drops it right down into the sea. And that is in the Bible. Sing a Chorus please.  (Congregation sings song while Bro. Lawrie finds scripture). Rev. 18:21,23. 

“And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying,  thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more  at all. And the voice of harpers and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard  no more at all in thee; ..... and the voice of the Bridegroom and of the Bride shall be heard  no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries  were all nations deceived”. 

Now this is just a symbol that just like Los Angeles will sink down in the sea, Babylon the  great, harlot of all religions will be destroyed by fire. So by fire, destruction comes, not by  water. God promised I will not destroy the whole world by water, so He takes a portion of  the earth and destroys by water but He is not going to destroy the whole world except by  fire. When the foolish virgins see that........ when the tribulation saints see that, then they  say: “Oh! We won’t bow down to the image, that is a sign that God will judge her also”. But  for the Bride, when the angel... when God descends to take the people in His hand, on that  day onward, Los Angeles is DOOMED. So you see if you have friends, ask them to get out  of the place soon. It won’t stand very long. Los Angeles should be at the mercy of the Bride!  If it does not sink at the swearing of the angel! 

So my friends, now I can tell you about so many things, but what I want to say is, I am going  away, but I am not going to preach in every church, but your church is open to me. So  according to the Word of God, that mighty angel period is now. It descends and the signs,  the Bride will find out. Clouds, eyes, flames of fire, ‘and when He speaks, thunder will come.  And that is the angel, THAT IS GOD! So in this period, here now no man can have any glory.  No man can do anything. It is God’s work, God will keep on moving in His own plan and He  will do a quick work because God does it. May God come..... may we be filled with His  power..... Don’t listen Bride, to anybody, listen to Jesus Christ. 

“The angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,  and sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that  therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea and the things which  are therein, that there should be TIME NO LONGER: Rev.10:5-6. Jesus said not to sware  at all according to Matt. 5:34-36, but here the angel, a messenger swears breaking God’s  word. Only God could do that. Just like Jesus (man) proves He is Lord by breaking Sabbath  for good work. But He was not just a man. 

- Bro R Paulaseer Lawrie

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FOURTH MESSAGE -- 20-7-1969 ( P.M.) 

Place: Life Tabernacle, Chicago, Illinois, USA 

Date : 20-7-1969 ( P. M.) 

Let us pray. This is an important hour. Man has reached his destination, as never before in  the history of man. We have talked about the planets and other things, and have so many  funny, foolish stories, like the moon was made of cheese. But man has reached that place  where it was thought incredible for man to be. He has not only landed, he is just going to  step the first foot on the moon. So let us consider where has the Bride reached today?  Surrender your life to God. If man in his knowledge could do that, we with the power of God  can do much better. Having listened to that life which God wants you to lead, let us pray and  rededicate our lives and look to God. 

Loving Saviour, we thank you for this evening. When man is at the height of his scientific  knowledge, and in this day he has attained in his life, that which they have been seeking for  centuries, thousands of years. Now Lord, we believe that you have been trying to get at  man, to reach man, to make him immortal. People have been dying, Lord, every man and  woman, born of woman, have died in this world. They have gone away unto dust from where  they came. But now, Lord, You have come to the place; when You are taking that dust to  immortal life. Just like that immortal God came down to become mortal with men, You have  taken mortal men to be immortal with thee. Lord, help us to understand; let the Bride hear  thy voice, Lord, let us understand that troublous times are coming again. That a persecution  which never a man has seen in this world is coming. At the same time, we know that you  are coming for the Bride, and taking your Bride away. Father, let the power of God strike us  today. Help us to be serious with thee. Help us not to be playful; laughing about; fooling  about; but know the greatness of God. Bless each one of us. Before this meeting is over,  make us something immortal, Lord in the name of Jesus Christ. 

Sit down, please.  

Revelation 10:5,6 - “And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the  earth lifted up his hand to heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever and ever,  who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things  that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should  be time no longer”. 

Praise be to the name of Jesus Christ. Everything has a time. Everything in this world, hinges  on that word called SATISFACTION. Why is man troubling himself in this life? Works each  day morning to evening. All because of the stomach, mostly. Suppose God never created in  man a stomach? There won’t be any business in the world. Now see, what man has done  for his stomach throughout this world. Big buildings, tooth paste business, Pop corn,  Christmas shopping. Then there are dairy farms, ships, aeroplanes, all over the world. If  only God did not create stomach for man, there won’t be any business in this world. Just  imagine! The whole thing hinges on that. Why do you work? To get money. What is the  money for? To fill your stomach etc. 

But does it SATISFY us? We came into this world, as young people, babies; but notice the  hand of God. Before we were born, we are inside the mother, He prepared a nice velvet case inside, but when the baby comes, that baby did not ever worry, what is going to happen.  But God created hands to receive her. When she cannot move her hand or legs, and cannot  walk about, God prepared four hands, father and mother, to lift that child; till the child is able  to walk. But if you go into the desert, or farm, the sheep, when a birth comes, immediately  the lamb walks. Man is not like that. Man is never satisfied. If he will only think, throughout 

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this world of what God has done for man, he won’t be ungrateful. 

That is why God said, “the ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but my  people do not know me”. What is the reason? Why this complaint of God against him?  Because man does not realize what a great God he has, and that He has prepared  everything for him. If there is no oxygen then he will die, but there is oxygen, water, sunlight,  everything. All is measured; it mustn’t be too much. Too much cold will kill him, too much  heat will kill him. Also two-thirds of the earth’s surface is water, but if that should come and  fill the whole earth, there won’t be any earth any more. We have seen whole countries going  down under the water, big countries. In India, there is a Sind Valley culture 3000 years ago.  That country just went down. 

All the countries have been big. Civilization started in China. China had its day. India had its  day. India had times to boast about. And other countries had their day, Egypt had its day.  Greece had its day, Rome had its day, Europe had its day, England had its day. Now the  sun is coming to the United States and is about to set and to go down. These are the last  days. Civilization has come so far, it has become uncivilization. You know, Adam and Eve  were naked; now nudity has come to this day. Civilization has gone so far, that man has  come to nakedness. 

If India has a food shortage, America has a clothing shortage. You say food shortage. I say  cloth shortage? Everybody is naked all over the place, and they don’t have cloth. So I asked  a man, ‘Brother, you have got cloth shortage?’ ‘No, we have got cloth’. ‘Then why are these  people going around naked like this?’ In India, they don’t have cloth shortage, because  everyone has long dresses. So we have plenty of cloth, America and other countries have  no cloth. So dresses are coming up and up and up. 

So there is time no longer, to fool about. What the angel said is, there shall be time no longer.  No longer for everybody. Not just for one person. But if you will notice for the Bride, it is time  no longer, there is no time factor for the Bride. If Jesus comes into you, that Holy Ghost  comes into you, you have got no time. You know, it is eternity - if you can only think that.  You know I have been thinking always, when they said time no longer, I thought in another  way that afterwards there is no time. But for the Bride, after this there is no time factor. There  is no time factor for the Bride, it is eternity. There are two kinds of people, foolish virgins and  virgins. But for the foolish virgins, time is over, everything is finished. They will say, God has  come from the mercy seat, everything is gone for them. For the Bride, God is living today  among us. For us, there is mercy. For us, everything is here. 

So this word, satisfaction, is that the whole thing hinges on. The whole world is hanging on  that. What is satisfaction? Now a man eats, goes to a hotel, nice beef steak, eats and eats.  The food comes up to the throat, here. Then they say, all right. He is satisfied. You know,  some people say if he has a little space left, he will eat another beef steak. I remember the  time before conversion, I used to go and eat and eat and eat, like a buffalo. There won’t be  any end for eating; eat in the home, eat in the hotel, eat in the friends’ house, come back  and eat again, growing fatter and fatter and fatter. But never satisfied, because the stomach,  you know, it will cry; start crying. When that is empty, it starts crying. So some people, they  are subject to and are slaves to the stomach. Some people rule the stomach. If you are a  slave to the stomach, it will go on eating and asking. But if I can rule the stomach, it will eat  only when I say. That is something, brother. Otherwise, you know all around the world, there  are some people who can’t live without eating. They are born for eating. But God’s people  are not born for eating. They don’t live for eating, but they eat to live. 

So this factor of time-no-longer means, we have come to a great day. Just now, man has  reached his destination. You know, people say, the prophet said they won’t make it. But this 

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morning I said, “They will land”. It just came into my mouth. So I was a bit worried. Suppose  something happens and the two men did not land, I am gone. It just came - you know.  Sometimes you can know something. But the thing is, as in the early days, when man built  the tower of Babel, God scattered the people. He came down. He did not destroy the tower,  he came down and confounded the people, and they all were scattered throughout the world.  In the same way, when the spiritual people who want to build a big tower, God came down  and scattered them into denominations - Advent missions, Jehovah Witness, Pentecost,  Brethren Mission, Lutheran Mission, this mission, that mission, hundreds and thousands.  They all did not understand each other. 

Now suppose you go to Germany, you don’t understand their language. So when I went to  Germany I took my wife and I went, and they say, “Auf wieder sehan”, that is all the German  I know. Then everybody would shake their head, how are you, like that. You can’t talk, you  feel a stranger. So the denominations, they say we believe in Jesus Christ; you go and talk  to them and if you don’t say you belong to a denomination, you will be gone. I belong to  Pentecost. Then that is the end. I belong to the Catholic religion, that is the end. I belong to  Advent Mission, that is the end of your life to them. So many people say, don’t talk to me  about denomination. But, we must belong to somebody because you are not your own. You  are bought with a price. If somebody buys you, how can you call yourself your own? If you  belong to a denomination or to the devil, the devil has a right on you. But if you belong to  God, nobody has any right except God. On that day, you surrender your life. You are God’s. 

Some people take God like a taxi. We pay money for a taxi. When our destination comes,  you go away, and pay the money there; you are not worried about cleaning the car. But if  somebody gives you a gift of a car, you will take it and clean it. If somebody says, ‘Will you  lend me your car?’ ‘No, Brother. I don’t lend my car’. And a little dirt comes, you rub it, you  clean your car. If you go to Jesus Christ like a taxi cab, on Sunday service, and just sit back,  God doesn’t care for you. But if you give your body and soul, and spirit to God as a gift, then  he’ll say, “He that toucheth you, touches the apple of my eye”. 

Remember in India, the ministry in India is not easy. You will go preach about Jesus Christ,  they’ll come to kill you. In cerain places, your life is in danger. I remember once, I was  preaching in a church and the meetings were going on. That was the first meeting - healing  meeting - I started in Madras State. One big man came; he stood there and said: ‘I am  lucifer’. I said, ‘Lucifer is here?’ He took his hand like this and said, ‘I will beat you on the  cheek and powder you and break your teeth and all the teeth’, he said. So my wife was  sitting there, my relatives, pastor and Assemblies of God Missionary. So I am a boxer and  all, you know. So, suppose the fellow says: ‘let’s go with a blow’, what shall I do? So I am  preaching with arms waving, “Praise God, God is wonderful”. So if he comes to beat me, I  am gesturing with my arms high, so I will be ready to ward off his blow, so that I can prevent  it. And this fellow is saying, “See, I am going to beat you”. So I said, “Praise God, God is  wonderful”, arms high, like that. But the people did not realize that I am doing that to defend  myself. Then a voice came, “Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world”. Is  that true? I didn’t know it was true, I wanted to believe it. But the voice came. Then I said,  “If you are with me unto the end of the world, you must be here”. Then I took my hands down  and spoke naturally. A light came and struck that man; he fell down. And somebody was  beating him which I cannot see. And he is looking at some invisible man and saying, “I won’t  trouble your servant, I won’t trouble your servant, don’t beat me!” But I couldn’t see anyone  beating him there. But he was not looking at me, he was looking at my right side. I thought,  why is he looking at my right side, because I am here? I looked to my right; Christ was  standing there. “I am with you”. And you say, the Bride won’t see Christ. 

It is an experience. From that day, I was never afraid in my life. People will say: I will kill you. 

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I will say, “You better come ahead”. Next day, something happens to them. I remember at a  big meeting of about 80,000, people one man comes with a big gang. He said, “I will take  the Bible from you and tear it up”. I said, “Here it is, tear it”. Before he could take the Bible,  he cried out like this “Ahhh”. They carried him to the hospital. We have got a big God, my  friends. But to have a big God, you have to make a big sacrifice. You go to a shop and try  to buy something cheap for one dollar; you get one dollar stuff. But if you want to get a nice  thing, you have to pay heavy. So this is not, anything which is lightly got is of little value.  Anything for which you pay a high price is valuable. Because Jesus paid a high price for  that, you have to pay a high price for that. And what do the people say, they want to go to  Jesus Christ easily, have a comfortable time. If they don’t get food for even one day, they  will leave their religion. For the sake of money, they will sell their religion and go to another  religion. 

But this we speak of is not a religion; this is our Bridegroom. He is attached to you in a  different way like a wife and husband. He cares for you. He does everything for you, you  don’t bother. He is the man who is doing all the things for you. Just sit and shut your mouth.  You know what is the greatest thing for a man to do? To keep quiet and shut his mouth. If  you see a child, it will never keep quiet. He will keep on doing that, doing this, acting like  this, acting like that. So we are like children, we can’t keep quiet. But if we just keep quiet,  we will be a mighty people. God wants us to keep quiet, doing nothing..... for the Lord to  move through you. When YOU move, He doesn’t move. That is why He said, He is our arm,  He is our will. He is our will and arm. What is an arm? When somebody comes and strikes  you, you strike back. You use YOUR arm. But when you keep quiet, God uses His arm, and  that arm is terrible. You will see, He will get a lesson. Did not God say “Keep quiet?” Other  fellows will jump over their heads and you just sit quietly. In India many people tried to hit  me, but every time God punishes. 

I remember one lady in a big hospital, she got so wild for preaching of true Word that one  time she came up, “Brother Lawrie, I am a wife of a big officer. You know who I am? I am  your enemy. I will see that something happens to you”. She went home, she got cancer. And  she died crying...... both breasts. They operated, she never got out of the bed after that. So  you can’t fight with God. You can’t fight with God’s power. You can fool about with  denominations but not with the Bride. 

So time no longer applies to everyone. For judgement, there is no more time. People say  judgement won’t fall. It is going to fall because there is not much time left. Because according  to Bro. Branham, the Chapter is closed by 1977 by the calender. He said, “I predict”. So if  tribulation comes in three and a half years, we are between 19731/2 and 19691/2. In this  period, the Bride has to fit in. What are you going to do? That is why the foolish virgins say  everything is finished......... God has no mercy. God is not dead; GOD HAS GOT MERCY!  Don’t doubt God. Otherwise God won’t save hundreds of souls on that day. 

I was in Ohio. A man came smoking and when he came smoking, everybody was seated;  we preached there in the basement of a home. This man was sitting there, he was looking  at me and staring. He was shivering. I didn’t know why. After the meeting, he came to me  and said, “Bro. Lawrie, how is it that you disappeared on the platform”. I said, “I was there”.  “No, you were not there”. I said, “Are you talking nonsense?” “You were not on the platform.  You were preaching. Then two lights came out of your eyes and struck me, like flames of  fire. And after that I didn’t know what to do. You were not on the platform and somebody  else was there and there was that big bright light.” 

I thought he was joking, you know. So he came to Bro. Leagh Vayle’s house in the morning  and said, “Brother, what is that? I am shivering from that moment”. Then Brother Vayle said:  “Repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus”. “O.K. I will do anything for God, because 

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God has touched me, I saw something different”. He was baptized in water and with the  Holy Spirit and healed right there of a disease. And what is that? God still has mercy. Just  about two weeks or three weeks ago. And that man went home; he had a pack of cigarettes.  He said, “I am going to give to some friend”. Then something told him, “Why do you want to  spoil your friend?” Then he went and put it in the dust bin. Then he had an ash tray in the  home. The dog came and took the ash tray and chewed it. The dog went and chewed the  cigarettes ash tray. Never before did it do that. And you say mercy seat is over? 

But these days there are many preachers come to God’s Word and read from end to  beginning and beginning to end and over again. Some people read books like this; they read  gospels, they read Esther, they read Ruth, but when it comes to Leviticus, Exodus, “Oh! It  is bitter”. They come to Chronicles .... so many names. So and so begat so and so, so and  so begat so and so, is very bad, you don’t want that. So we choose; pick and choose. But  when you go to eat something, you have got all your food. You have got pickles, you have  got pepper, you have got salt, all kinds of things. We eat all kinds of things. But in the Bible,  you got pepper, you got salt, green pepper, red pepper, everything. Bitter, sweet, ice-cream,  coca-cola, coffee, tea, everything is there. So, you eat the whole thing. You don’t spit out  the bitter because everything has got power in your life. 

The first thing when I got the Holy Ghost, I was praying to God, “Lord, show me the way”.  Preachers said, “Come on, Lawrie, preach”. I said, “No, I want God to speak to me”. People  go on without God speaking to them. They do not know what they are doing. So when I was  praying, suddenly I heard a voice, “Read my Word for power.” That is when God first spoke  to me. When He said read my Word for power, I got into my room three months. I never  went out ... every day fifty chapters...... morning till evening ....... night 12 O’ clock. My wife  brought some food in the afternoon, I never saw anybody........ locked the room. After three  months, I came out. I was going on the road. People simply fell down on the ground when  they saw me. Devils screamed. I said, “Why?” ....... three months Bible reading. And people  say, “Oh! Brother, that is all over”. They have got Spoken Word Books. You are surely going  to be dropped out. Bro. Branham’s books are an explanation of the Word of God. But if he  told anything wrong, check with the Bible. You are duty bound to check. Tha is what he said.  “Check with the Bible and see whether I am wrong”. Then if he is wrong, don’t take it. We  are not bound to take anything wrong which is not in the Word of God. May be a slip of the  tongue. Don’t take it. It may be some prediction. Thus Saith the Lord, never went wrong but  something is his own views. I have my views, it has gone wrong. 

So what you are to understand is, man is man. But man as God sometimes becomes man  also. In the home, he becomes a man. In the pulpit, he will become God’s power. When I  preach I am different, when I go home I am different. So you must understand how God  speaks. When you read the Bible, you are Holy Ghost witnesses; that is from God. We have  got many denominations in this world; everybody says we are on the Word of God. But how  do you know if they are correct? By the Holy Ghost. The anointing of your God will tell you  if they are wrong. 

I know people who preach one God. Muslims preach Allah; One God theory ....... in South  India, all over the place. But they do not know the same Jesus Christ who died for man is  that Jehovah. That is the secret. They think He is the Son of God...... a small man. God  came down as a man. BUT HE WAS GOD! But the day you realise that, you get the power  of the Holy Ghost, where that name of Jesus is. He died for you; His blood washes your sins  away. Otherwise you will be a sinner. 

In 1943, when I opened my heart to Jesus Christ, I was a Communist. I had beaten  missionaries. I went all over the place, running. I went to Hindu temples, I went to Muslim  mosques. I went to Christian churches, all over wearing saffron robe, doing all kinds of funny 

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things; and reading Quoran, reading all the Indian religions. I wanted an Indian God. I never  knew that Jesus Christ was from Asia. You know, I said this is a white man’s God, I don’t  want that God. One day I thought He was actually a white man’s God. But now I know He is  not a white man’s God ....... not an Asiatic God ...... HE IS GOD. Without Him there is no  salvation...... not even salvation ..... in any other name. You may think it funny, I thought like  that. But when Jesus came into my life, it was something different and today I am happy. 

So every man must be satisfied ........ devil must be satisfied ..... everybody must be satisfied.  They must be satisfied. So man, for the stomach, he works hard day and night and he must  be satisfied. Suppose you take a student. He studies in the college, works day and night.  Studies in the mid-night. He burns the mid-night oil, then the examination comes. He goes  down .... trembling. He writes the examination...... finishes. Then he gives the papers, then  he waits for the results. When the results come ........ so and so passed the examination, he  is satisfied. Suppose he failed? He feels the pain of all the suffering. If he passes, he doesn’t  feel it. 

Now they are going to the moon. Everybody had speculations, “Will they reach the moon?  Will they reach the moon?” These are days when man should reach the moon because the  Bible tells, even though as the eagle they build a nest in the stars, I will pull it down. Man  will not only go to the moon, he will build a nest in the stars ....... in this age. In Bro.  Branham’s age, he could not make it up. So you said, ‘He won’t make it up’. Now don’t be  mistaken, Bro. Branham said, they won’t make it up in his age. But in this age, he will make  it up. For Moses also said, they won’t make it up. But God’s people marched on. Because  he has already landed. Now that means we are in a new era. Man thinks in a different way.  Man thinks there is no God. Man thinks they will go to all the planets so they will live in other  planets and preserve their seed when earth is destroyed (which man believes in this atomic  age) he will yet live and be preserved; a sort of immortality in man’s view. 

And what does the Bride do? She always thinks in a different way, she has crossed the  barrier. What does she think? “There is no more death any more. There is eternity”. Because  for man, there is eternity in the space........ he thinks. But for the Bride, there is eternity in  heaven. So you must pattern everything in this world; it is a shadow. Always there is a  pattern. What do you see in the world? You know, God will work also according to the time  of what is happening in this world. If man reaches the moon today, God also would have  reached the earth today. I do not know how. You may say how. I do not know; it is the time  for the Bride. For others it will be too late. 

Somewhere in this world God will have touched people. They will be coming to a new  realization. There is no time element for the Bride because there is no time factor for them.  Because they have got something real. Then they feel something, not just jumping and  shouting; they feel something different. “Oh!, it is eternity”. And that is why the Bride cannot  be killed easily; it cannot be killed because it is God. And who is their leader? Jesus Christ.  Look to Jesus. He is our Leader today. And people seem to think everybody is a leader  though not vindicated. How many are vindicated today? Now everybody just because they  were with Bro. Branham, they start telling, “we are, we are, we are”. But I will tell you, if God  were to raise anybody, He would never raise him in America again. He raised the last man  for you. If you don’t obey him, how are you going to obey if another man comes. Even if God  Himself comes, you won’t obey. 

So He finishes His work. God put the net and caught the people. As I told you, He is roaring  now. So listen, he passes his examination like that and he is happy and satisfied.  

Now when a man does a business, he puts in a lot of money. Works day and night very  carefully counting money, goes to the bank, everything, works day and night. Then at the 

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end of the year, he takes an account, profit or loss. Suppose he has gained a lot, he will look  like this, “Hey wonderful!”. He will talk in a wonderful way. But suppose he lost $5000, 6 O’  clock face. You know there are two languages ...... Chinese you know, they read like this,  they read like this, they have to read like this, backward; right to left. We read like this - left  to right. This is yes, that is no. So our language is yes, yes. Their language is no, no, no.  Even language is like that. One language, you are to read like this (up and down), another  language you have to read like this (left to right). 

So what happened? This business man, when he saw that he gained, he is a different man.  He is satisfied. But suppose he lost, he is dissatisfied; he might even commit suicide, “Oh!  Business is gone, business is gone”. Why? No gain. If there is no gain, there is no  satisfaction. So it is in everything. You play foot-ball. Now you play day and night, foot-ball  practice, you have foot-ball; you kick the ball and take exercise and all kinds of exercise.  After sometime, you want to get into a team and win the team. That is what you want. 

Take a mother. She has a baby ...... such weight ..... baby in the stomach .... for nine months.  Just imagine. She carries that baby all that while for nine months happily. But in all the pain  ...... married people know what the pain for a mother has. And this fellow is jumping inside.....  like carrying a big stone. Then after nine months, when the baby comes, she looks at the  baby; wonderful child, Spotless. Will she think about her pain? No. But suppose the child  dies or is deformed, she feels the pain in her for ten months ... suffering. She is not satisfied.  But when the child is perfect and born and no trouble, then she is so happy. She never thinks  about the pain. So satisfaction takes the pain away. Satisfaction takes all your worries away  because when you are satisfied you are not worried about your trouble. That is the secret of  life. The secret of life is satisfaction. 

Are you satisfied today? If you are satisfied, O.K. If you are not satisfied, come to satisfaction  through God. So not only here, but in everything, in all the different walks of life, they want  that one word, satisfaction. Without satisfaction, man and human beings would never live in  this world. 

You do your work in the office; every morning you go to the office and work another man’s  job. He gives you to type, he gives you to do some work. Come home in the afternoon, eat  something, then go again to your job; come home in the evening, fully tired. I know what  office work is. They will take the life out of you. When you come back home ... whew! Thirty  days you will work for twenty eight days. Every day, you go to work and at the end of the  month, you slowly go here and there to smell when is the salary coming. And then somebody  says, “Today is pay day”. You are getting the spirit now, Pay-day spirit. You know there are  many kinds of spirit. There is a pay day spirit. That is different. 

Then our names are called when our salary time comes. Here Brother, here sister, your  salary. When that comes, say ..... “Oh!”, you feel big. You forget the thirty days of pain. Thirty  days of hard work, you forget it. This money, this salary you say, this is my hard-earned  income. I earned it very hard. And with this money, you go home. You are a big man in the  home. “Hey, come on man! We go marketing”. That day is special .... marketing .... buy  everything, and you will give your children all nice dress, everything, and come back home.  Then again the pain starts, second day, third day, fourth day, twenty eight days, like going  around and around and around ..... same routine. We don’t like our job, but we will do it. I  was in the office; go in the mornings, can’t do any home-work, going back to work, come  back, do something in the routine. Just like denominations, Christmas, Easter, New Year,  Christimas, Easter, New Year for all eternity. Christ was not born on Christmas day. That  was the Baal day ..... and they say Christmas day. And you know what the devil does? He  even doesn’t want the name Jesus Christ to put on the Christmas. X, X-mas. Happy X-mas  to you, without Christ. He has cut the Christ also there, calls it X-mas. I said, where they get 

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this X-mas? And we say Happy X-mas; what is the meaning of that? Man without Christ.  And the devil is very careful, he will root out everything with that name. That is why he said,  Father, a Son, and a Holy Ghost, Father, Son and Holy Ghost. 

When Bro. Austin and I were travelling from Chicago, when that Brother got into the car and  opened the Bible and said: What is the name of your God? I said: Father, Son and Holy  Ghost. He laughed. I am the son of my father, I am the father of my son, I am the husband  to my wife. Suppose Bro. Larry Smith comes to the platform and says: Now here is father,  son and husband. How would you feel? He will say here is Bro. Lawrie. So the devil has  fooled everybody. Pentecost people, everybody placed out of the church because they don’t  have a name. Thank God, He brought us to His name, the revelation of that name. Is that  all? Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed? Has God filled you with the Holy  Ghost? That is an important factor because that is the token. Without that, you will never  make it up. If you do not have oil, go to your room, pray night and day, “Lord, fill me”. Get  two or three together, seek God, ask Him: “Lord, what is the secret?” He will speak to you  directly my friends. He will talk to you many times. Our God is not dead. Only thing is He  wants us to BELIEVE AND SEE. And we want to SEE AND BELIEVE. 

Suppose somebody gives me ten dollars and says: “Bro. Lawrie, do you believe?” I will  believe. You give a child and say: Child, do you believe you have ten dollars? She will say,  yes it is here. But suppose I say, I believe there is ten dollars in the name of Jesus, that ten  dollars come right in the hand. That is real! You can stop trains, buses, everything. They  cannot go leaving you. I know many times, I will be late for the bus and I say: “Lord, don’t  allow that bus to go”. That bus never goes - many times, not just one time. One day, I said:  “Lord, stop the bus”. I never asked for a seat. So when I went to the bus, the conductor said:  “No seat”. Then I said: “I want a seat, Lord”. Then one man got off the bus and I got the seat.  I believe. Believe God for everything. Not only for your tummy, but everything,  EVERYTHING. 

You know, it is so wonderful that I travelled all over the world with 50 cents in my hand. Do  you believe that? When I came in Scotland, I was just like landing ..... like man landed on  the moon on Scotland ..... without knowing anyone. No money to eat. I had no friends. I  stood there. Then the Conference was there, I went there. They said: Will you pay so many  pounds for your stay here? I said, “Pounds? Yes, my God can pay”. Then one man jumped,  “I will pay for him”. I went to the hotel and stayed there for the meetings. Last day I had no  money. One man comes in the night. “Bro. Lawrie?” “Yes!” “I had a dream just now, God  told me, a man is thereby the name of Lawrie to give two pounds”. So I told him, “God told  you to give only two pounds? Not more?” “Yes. I would have given more, but He told me  only to give you two pounds”. I said, “God, you are a terrible God, you don’t give me a lot of  money”. So I went to the station ..... tickets to London was only two pounds ..... but no money  for food. Then I said, “God, you are not worried about my stomach, but you are worried  about my going to London. What shall I do for my stomach?” 

So I was sitting there. One man comes and says, “Hey Indian”. “Yes”. “What about eating  something with us?” “Yes”. Oh! I had enough. Then I came to London. I said, “Lord, will you  lead me from London or just land me in London without anything?” I got down from the train.  Somebody shouted: “Hello, Lawrie”. I said, “What is this?” He said: “Bro. Lawrie, when we  were in India, you helped us, we had no home So you came and took me to your home. Do  you remember William”. “Yes”. “I am William”. “How did you know I was coming?”  “Something just told me to come to the station, then I looked on the train and there you were.  Come to my home”. But I had no overcoat, no shoes ..... proper shoes ...... all torn. But there  was an overcoat hanging and new shoes, hanging for one year - new overcoat and new  shoes. Then he said: Bro. Lawrie, you try this. Perfectly my size. One year it waited for Bro. 

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Lawrie. You say God doesn’t care for you? Behold the fowls of the air, they neither sow nor  reap but God is careful about them; what about human beings? See the lilies of the field.  You say God won’t care for you. I tell you, if all of you leave your jobs and go on the road  even, God will care for you. I believe God will hear. He has done that for twenty five years.  He is not going to let me down like that. Every time ...... every time, not missing one day. 

You know, a pastor and myself were travelling. It was 12 O’ clock in the night and we were  on the road. In India, we don’t get transportation very easily. So the Brother said: “How are  you going? You have to walk twenty miles”. I said, “You don’t have a bridegroom”. “So what  bridegroom? You are a man?” “I have got a bridegroom”. “You have got a bridegroom?!”  “Don’t you know, Jesus Christ? Oh! But I believe too”. “But will you believe really that He will  send some taxi for us?” “In this night?” He said, “No”. “Alright, I will ask my bridegroom”. He  said, “No car will come at this late hour”. I prayed, “Lord, give me a car to go these twenty  miles”. This man said: “Huh, do you mean to say your God will listen to such prayers?”  Finally we see the car coming, I said, “Here is the car”. “No, that is not for you”. The car  passed me, then this fellow is laughing, “What about your bridegroom now?” It went and  stopped half a mile and turned again and came. The driver said “Lawrie”. “Yes”. “I saw your  stomach, it was big all right, I know it must be you”. I got into the car and I said, “My  bridegroom has sent a car. Why do you think you are coming? You don’t have a bridegroom.  I will recommend you to my bridegroom and get you into the car”. So if you are a Bride, He  will do anything for you. 

Then one day I was going by the plane, there was a taxi strike all over. So you could not go  to the town. So some of my friends there said: “How are we going to the city?” I said, “My  bridegroom will send a car”. “You have a bridegroom?” “Yes, wonderful bridegroom, He  never fails”. Then they said, “All right, we will see”. ........ taxi strike everywhere. So they all  came to the aerodrome ...... we came to the lobby and one man stands there and said,  “Praise the Lord”. I said who is this military man saluting me saying ‘Praise the Lord’. “Yes,  Bro. Lawrie. I was saved in your meeting about five years ago in such ..... a new Cadillac  not an old one. “I just took my manager to his place, where do you want to go? I will take  you. So I got a car, when no one got a car. So this fellow said, “Brother, will you recommend  me to your bridegroom”. He had no bridegroom, we have a bridegroom. 

So we went on like that and every place God protects your life. Not just like a parrot going  to the service and going home. Does God do something in your personal life? Every one is  important in the sight of God, my brother. And are you surprised to see that all the people  are going mad ..... just with one purpose; never caring about their purpose with God. Go to  your room. Pray: “Lord, why did you raise me? I surrender my whole life to fulfill that plan”.  Then you will find God moving in your life in a different way. Everyone is important, you  cannot put anybody out. 

But if you pray, He will reveal the plan of God for you. I cannot reveal that plan for you. What  do the Americans want today? “Bro. Lawrie, close your eyes and tell us in a vision what will  happen tomorrow”. I said, BELIEVE AND YOU WILL SEE. They want to see and believe  ...... they are babies in the message, seeing and believing. That is just like when God took  the Israelites out of Egypt through Moses ...... by seeing and believing for forty years. Still  the Israelite babies could not have faith to cross the boundary and they said: “Everything is  over”. But they do not know that this is the Bride ministry coming up; God is taking charge”. 

And you seem to have so many monsters today, guiding people in the wrong direction. I ask  you my friend, are you satisfied? So now listen, suppose I want to do something, I have to  have a plan. But when I see the result I am satisfied. A pastor starts his church ..... he works  for it. And he sees the people and in the result, he is happy. That kind of satisfaction should  come to everyone. If you work for God, you must see the results. What is the use of it, if you 

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are seeing no results? If you plant a seed, you must see the fruit. What did John the Baptist  say? The axe is laid at the root of every tree and that which doesn’t give good fruit will be  cut down and put into the fire. Will you bring up a tree which is false? 

I remember I had a nice mango tree ..... mangoes are famous in India and I put on manure  and watered it for many years. One day there were three beautiful yellow fruits .... fine smell.  So I told my daddy, “My mango tree has given three fruits, so we will eat tonight”. So he was  very happy, we took the fruit, brought it on the table, prayed, thank God. The good smell  was coming out. So we cut the mango and put it in the mouth; it was bitter like anything. So  my daddy said, “Hey, three years, you are struggling for the fruit”. My face was black. I said:  I will teach the tree a lesson. I went to a wood-cutter, paid him money ..... it must be out by  morning. He cut it right out and put it right out of the place. Why? It didn’t give good fruit. 

So will you say God will keep you if you give bad fruit? The axe is laid at the root of every  bad tree. If God wants good fruit in your life .... fruit doesn’t come by trying it on a tree. It has  to come out from the heart. That is why you reckon yourself dead unto Christ. You must be  crucified, buried and resurrected with Jesus Christ. That is the palce where Bride should  stay. That is what Paul said: “I am crucified with the Lord Jesus, I don’t live anymore. But  nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. And the faith I have is Christ’s faith”.  Your faith cannot do anything, so you must die. How do you die? Self life is everywhere .......  everybody wants to be big. Did anybody try to make Jesus big? No. I want in my life to make  Jesus big. Then if you make Jesus big, He will make you a big man. 

So one day .... for one year, I was taking training. Early morning, at 3 O’ clock, I woke up  and opened the door, put on a sweater, ran 13 miles, 14 miles and 15 miles like that. And  then I became very lean. So after fifteen days, my daddy saw me and said: “Hey, you must  be having some diseases because you are growing lean. Come to a doctor”. Then I told my  daddy: “You will be satisfied one day daddy”. He said, “What satisfaction? Come to a doctor”.  I said: “no”. I eat well every morning, training, nice training, for one year. One day they put  in the papers, athletic sports for Ceylon. I also entered. I am the only Indian entering in the  Ceylon athletic events. Every year there is a six-footer who takes all the prizes, so when I entered into the meet, he came to me like this, “Hey, you are an Indian?” “Yes”. “You also  run?” “Yes”. “You?” So my daddy comes to me and says: “Hey, see that fellow’s height? Six  footer; can you run with him?” “Daddy, you will see, you will be satisfied”. He went out, he is  telling every one: “That is a fool, my son is going to run with big mountain, that fellow is six  footer. He wants to run with that fellow”. So everybody was worried, because every year he  takes the cup. So we started running. I followed him, one round, two round, everybody else  going behind. That fellow is front and me going behind. So when he came to the third round,  he looked behind, I jumped on, passed him and I am going and I am going about half a mile  ahead. So the people are shouting and I see my daddy jumping. “HEY!!!” So when I finished  the race, I showed him about a half a mile difference. 

Because I trained for one year, just went on like that ... like a machine. So when I went there,  my! Who is waiting there to receive me .... my daddy. “Now I know why you are lean. I am  satisfied”. So he is telling everyone: “My son came first, my son came first”. And the whole  Ceylon advertising .... put in the papers ..... the next day my name came in the papers. I was  satisfied. Suppose I came last. I would have run slowly without my father’s knowledge and  never attempted running anymore. But after that, I got confidence. So that one year’s  training, suffering went when I got the victory. 

So this spiritual life is like a race. You have troubles, you have problems, you have got so  many kinds of confusion. You go here and there. If you go for money, you will be caught.  But my friend, if you have a truth for God in your heart, if you place your faith in God, “God  show me the correct way”, God will reveal that way to you. You don’t get God by any of your 

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own ideas. Your thoughts are much below than God’s thoughts. God says my thoughts are  not your thoughts; My ways are not your ways: our ways are so opposite. So how can you  know? God is quite the opposite of what you think. If you say God will be in the air, God will  come down. If you think God will come down, He will be in the air. He is quite opposite to  what you think. If you think this, He will think the opposite. 

So how can you know God’s way? Think opposite of what man thinks. Then you will be  correct. If you think just opposite of what man thinks, then you will see that God is reaching  that place. If you seek God in a big temple, God will be in a small home. If you want to meet  God anywhere, you can meet him on the road. Don’t think God is confined to something like  big towers. Every church builds a big tower. It signifies the old Babel tower; they want to  have a name. But mind you, they are monuments of a dead church; dead men’s bones.  These churches with buildings and everything, they are monuments of a dead church. 

But we have a living church even if there is no sign in the front. That has got life. Life  tabernacle; nobody can find it because there is no sign there. You know some people say, “Life tabernacle, where is it? We don’t find any name on a sign board”. That is why I say,  this place looks like a box. You know a rectangular box, like this. So friends, in this way, you  have to pay a price for satisfaction and this way you get satisfied. I know a man who was a  very rich man. He bought 1000 acres of land, up in jungle land. He had to pay a heavy  amount. So he sold his house, sold his property, took all his wife’s jewels and moved to a  rented house. And the wife asked him, “What do you do with all this money?” He said, “You  will be satisfied one day. Then he went there, cut all the trees, dug wells, and then what did  he do? He planted nice fruit trees. Then he came back, he wanted some more money. He  asked his wife to give him the balance money, she was very angry. But she was happy when  the land started to bloom and he was satisfied of the wonderful fruit produced. 

When you have a lot of money, your wife will say: “Darling”. When you have no money, she  will say, “Get out”. Sometimes, if you are very well off, everything is good but you will see  when you don’t have money ..... you know what happens? When I had some money, Oh!  Home was happy, but when you really starve, wife will look at you: “Can’t you go and work  somewhere and get some money?” And she won’t keep quiet. She will set the children up  and the children will come: “Daddy, why don’t you go to work?” “I would work, but God told  me not to”. “God won’t make us hungry like this?” You know, they have got so many ways,  but when you have plenty of money, “Oh! Darling, my darling”. 

But the thing is many women are disturbed today, because they have no ministry. Don’t  think preaching is the only ministry. I tell you, women have a greater ministry in this world,  but they don’t realize it. What did Mary Magdalene do? What did Martha do? Jesus stayed  in their home. Jesus never went to other homes. Mary and Martha were serving Jesus. What  do you want more than that? ..... to serve God. Not dictating to Christ. Preaching, they think  is a great ministry. I would rather have Jesus than preaching. You can preach nonsense.  The greatest lies are told from the platform ...... and when people hear the thing, “Oh!  Wonderful” 

But to prove all that I said, go to India and see, it will be true. Because God is moving and  we are to taste God. Suppose you talk to man ..... a blind man about white colour; how will  he know it? One day there was a blind man. Somebody told him, ‘a man died drinking milk’.  So this fellow doesn’t know what milk was because he never tasted milk. So this fellow said,  “What is milk?” He said, “It is white”. The blind man said, “What is white?” Then this man  wanted to explain, “It is like a stork”, by showing his hand, “White is like a stork bird”. So the  blind man said, “My! If he swallowed that big thing like a stork, he will surely die”. So how  can you talk about Christ to a blind man? How can you talk to a spiritually blind man about  God? First of all let us ask God, “Lord, open my blindness”. That is the greatest prayer. We 

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are all blind, brother; at least partially blind ..... cataract eyes .... half-blind ..... quarter-blind  .... three-fourths blind. Ask God, “Lord, open my eyes to behold the wondrous things of the  Lord”. Don’t think the Bible is not for you; it is a treasure coming out. 

So the tree which does not give good fruit will be cut off. So when Christ came into this  world, how did He come? People think that Jesus Christ was an ordinary man, but I tell you  that is where men have gone wrong. He has changed my life, He lives in my heart. Oh! Yes  if you don’t have that personal touch, I cannot explain to you, I can’t talk about God .....  Wonderful God. I can’t talk about honey to a man who has no tongue. But taste and see that  the Lord is good. Have you tasted Jesus Christ? Then you say, ‘Oh! God is good’. You can  talk about God, many people talk about God without knowing God. You can go to a  theological college and just talk about God. Taste and see that the Lord is good. 

So Jesus Christ came to this world, bought this jungle, land, earth, this desert, this cursed  land, by His own blood. And He planted, He took all things and planted you and me. Every  man in this world is planted by God, all over the place. The people are planted by God  because all of God’s people, all creation come from God only. So when He planted, He  watered you, He plowed the land; He did everything good for you, like a farmer. He is waiting  for the fruit. Now it is the season. 2000 years He has been waiting for this fruit .... quite a  long time. Every time you need something, He is sending a prophet; sending the evangelist;  sending the five-fold ministry; sending Apostles; all the things going on during the seven  church ages. And the seventh angel messenger, Bro. Branham came. But you know what,  at the Laodicean church He was knocking at the door, but the foolish virgin doesn’t open the  door. She is sleeping and cleaning the dresses; took off the coat, and took off the shoes,  and she is sleeping. But you know what? The Lord put a hand into the key hole, as I told  you .... who is that hand? That is the Prophet. As I told you, this is a prophetic ministry,  cutting and pointing. So He put a finger into the key hole, so the foolish virgin saw it. “Oh!  My master’s put in His hand, through the prophet, what do you know”. God’s finger has come  to man and she started describing God by the fingers. Suppose He has put black gloves,  what will she say? “My bridegroom is black”. Suppose He has put yellow gloves, what will  she say? “My bridegroom is yellow”. But she didn’t see the face of God, only the finger. So  God said, He put His finger and withdrew. Now we are to run but the Bride will have found  out and gone with Him. But the foolish virgin could not go with the Bridegroom after that. But  the real Bride found out the face and the body of the Bridegroom. The Bride will know the  face and body of the Bridegroom, not the finger only. The foolish virgin will know only the  finger. You understand? So through the key hole, we, Bride know the whole structure of  God’s perfect mystery has been revealed, now through the prophet of God. 

So my friends it is one thing to tell about the Prophet and another thing to act on what he  says. If we act on what he said, you will come back to God’s word. And then do we just sit  there? You are to go a long way, you turn and then you go to your destination. And how far  is the time for your destination for the Bride? If you miss it, you will go through tribulation. If  you don’t make it, here you will have to get your heads cut off, my friends. It won’t be nice.  God is going to give a life without cutting off the head. That is what we are waiting for. But  when you come to the tribulation, no mercy. Because Bro. Branham says in the Book that  after tribulation, nobody will be saved. So the people who are saved will have a difficult time.  Either bow to the image or take martyrdom. You want to go through that? Do you think all  your wealth and property and everything is worth going through the martyrdom? Search your  life, get ready. Ask God, “Reveal to me, and come to me Lord: Lord, you lead me”. You can  sing, “Lead me on”. But you had better really see that He leads you by catching your hand. 

What did King David say.....? I am a blind man. Then Isaiah said, “You lead me like a blind  man”. “Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me”. For a blind man only, can the rod comfort 

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him. The Word of God is the rod for a blind man. If you want to SEE and believe, you are  not a blind man. You want to BELIEVE and see, then you are a blind man. Then God will  lead you; God leads only the blind people. That is why your plan is for a particular day, not  for tomorrow...... Lord, lead me for today, that is enough. Tomorrow we will see. And then  you will see, every day He has a plan for you in your life. You meet people and after some  time, you will be surprised. 

When I went around the world, and went back home and I looked back on all that happened.  My! I was coming from Springfield to Chicago ..... hungry ...no money. Got only a ticket to  come to Chicago. Got on the bus .... my stomach was simply burning. My food was usually  potato chips and water .... or french fries. It is a famous food for me, or popcorn and drink  water. You won’t feel anything, your stomach will feel full. So then I was sitting on the bus, I  didn’t know anyone. I forgot the rules and sat on the wrong place. The conductor said, “This  is not for coloured people, go to another place”. I sat there alone, suddenly a Negro lady  came and sat down. She looked at me, “Praise the Lord!” I said, “Praise the Lord” “Humm?  You know the Lord?” “Yes”. “Are you saved?” “Yes”. “Do you speak in tongues?” “Yes”. “My  brother. Today is thanks-giving day, I brought a tin of food, would you like to eat it?” And  when she opened the tin, there was turkey and everything. The best food she had. So my!  I couldn’t eat it all. I ate and ate and ate till I came to Chicago. When God gives, He gives  turkey. 

So we are in the last days, God planted you and me. And He gave everything, fertilizer,  water. Now He is waiting for the fruit. What is He going to see in you? Are you going to give  good fruit or bad fruit? What is prayer? It is a fruit. If you allow yourself to be buried with  God, you will see life coming out from you. You must be grafted to Jesus Christ, otherwise  you are a bad olive tree. How are you going to graft it? If you want to graft two trees, you cut  one branch and put it there, a dove tail joint. So we have a dove tail joint. Death, crucifixion,  burial, resurrection. That is the dove tail joint. You are crucified with Christ, you are dead  with Christ, you are buried with Christ. If you remain there, you will see the resurrection  power by identifying yourself with the death of Christ; then you will see He will produce His  power in your life. 

That is why today many people do not know how to get the power; they artificially try to get  power. This power doesn’t come by artificial means, but by keeping and resting in Christ;  reckoning yourself dead with Christ. Then you will see, you will produce power in your life.  When you go on the road in India, in the centre of the road the police, constable, waits like  this. He will give you a ticket if you don’t stop. So under the blood of Christ, we have power  to stop any devil. No devil can cross the boundary. The blood has not lost it’s power, my  friend. 

So we come to the last days and now man is getting out of the capsule onto the moon. So  what is God going to do now? What is the devil going to do? The devil must have gone right  into the Pope now, and God must have come right onto the earth now. Because when this  other is progressing, God is progressing in His own way and the Devil is progressing in his  own way .... so everything progresses accordingly. Now one is a shadow and one is a reality;  and you find right here everything equally progresses because the tares will have their  convention. But one day, you will see everything is lost except the Bride. That is why the  Bride is Eternal; all others are passing away. 

So now we have come to the age when the world is on the atomic bombs. At any moment,  it can crack and if Russia could send a rocket to the moon controlled from the earth and go  around and take the dirt and come back, mind you, it can send millions of men made like  armies and send it to any country, attack and then take them back. Now no man is needed  to fight. It can send an army of men, steel men to fight against any country. So we are in an 

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age when man’s brain has developed to such an extent. And God’s children, the Bride’s  spiritual life is also developed to such a great extent. And what is the Bride going to do? It  is going to be like God ...... God’s wife is what Bride of Christ means. Now before marriage  my wife was a stranger. But the day I marry and say I wed thee, then she becomes Mrs.  Lawrie. She loses her name, she loses her identity, she loses her father’s love, mother’s  love, everything. And I call her, “Come on”. Some people say, “How can you leave your  habit? ...... How can I leave this bad habit? Why not? 

I remember a sister said to the mother, “Mummy, I can never leave you. I love you so much”.  Then the mother said, “When you marry a man, you will go away”. “No mummy, no man can  take me away like that”. One day she was married and the husband said, “I am going to  Delhi, you can come after a month”. “No, no, no, no, how are you going to eat? He has to  be alone”. “He was alone, all these days; why are you worried now?” “Anyhow he must eat  something, you know...?” So she went to Delhi next day and wrote a letter to the mother  every week. Then came a letter once in two weeks, then once in a month, then once in a  year, then that is all. How did she lose the love of the mother in a home, ...... a new love has  come. If you love the Lord Jesus as your Bridegroom, all these worldly things and habits will  pass away. Nobody can catch it. It is something like this, we can catch the world and say,  “Oh! I can’t leave it; The devil has caught me”. The devil has not caught you, you have  caught the devil. 

So we come to the last day and we are to leave tomorrow and you have been wonderful.  And again ....... read the Word. Let us all meditate on God’s Word every day and read from  the beginning to end and no one can deceive you. Because if you don’t know God’s word,  you don’t have bullets. Because Jesus attacked the devil by the Word, ‘it is written, it is  written, it is written’. How does the Bride attack, ‘it is written, it is written, it is written’. She  doesn’t say, ‘it is written in the Spoken Word books’. Spoken Word books bring you to God’s  Word. He brought me to God’s Word. If it doesn’t bring you to God’s Word, you are not a  seed. God’s Word will be doubly confirmed by the Prophet of God. And today I am doubly  strong on God’s Word because when I read that thing, it is wonderful. God raised that  wonderful man, we are proud of it. You may be thinking I am not, but actually throughout  India I preached that message. 

From 1959 ..... you know how I met him .... and after I met him .... he never gave me any  money, I never joined any denomination. I went to all the people there, they were ashamed  to see a black man. But when Bro. Branham met me, he embraced me and said, “My  precious brother”. I never had that embrace anywhere and in front of all - Oral Roberts and  all these people in Tulsa Auditorium .... they would shake hands and run away. They were  all sitting on the platform, I was in a corner and he called me. I went there; in front of all, he  embraced me and said, “My precious brother, Oh! God bless you”. And all the people were  blinking; they all said, “Who is this black man?” .... a white man embracing a black man? But  that was God in him. How can you bring another man to the light without love? And now  thank God for that man. What can you do? We are to thank God for that sign. And now we  don’t stand by the sign board, we turn and go, go forward. Our destination is farther along. 

But you know, the trouble is when you run a race .... I have been an athlete and I know ...  the first round will be slow, second round will be faster, third round will be like lightning,  fourth attempt will be like fire coming from the leg up to the whole body. If you run, you will  see. Oh! When you force every step it will be like burning fire from the spine down. And the  last 25 yards, My! My! My! My; every step like this, like fire. And when you finish it, you feel  like the whole body is burning. If you run, you will see, I know it. And usually people run  three-fourths of the distance, but in the last lap, they fall down. They get a cramp or they get  a sprain. And people have run these 2000 years, but this final stage is like a dash. They all 

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say: “Brother, everything is over”. People who say miracles are over have fallen down long  ago, they are finished; they are finished but God is not finished. But if you are alive, you will  say: “My God liveth, my redeemer liveth. He will stand on this earth in the last days. My  redeemer liveth”. Job, what did he say? He went to that length and they said he had a vision,  “My redeemer liveth. I will see Him, in the last days, when this flesh is rotten, with my own  eyes, I will see Him”. In the last days, have you got the vision, my friend? Go today, seek  Him like you never sought before. Seek Him much more than gold and silver, seek Him  much more than anything. And then again if you read that again, I will remind you “Time is  no longer!” He swore by Him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven and the  things that are therein, and the earth and the things that are therein, and the sea and the  things that therein are, that there should be time no longer. The Bride has no time anymore.  The Bride has gone on into eternity. When the Holy Ghost has come and struck you, you  are an Eternal being. 

So now when you realize that, when you touch God in this second sphere, it is the Spoken  Word. This Third pull will make you realize that time is no longer for us, we have come into  a sphere when there is no time after the third pull, because we don’t SEE and believe, we  BELIEVE and see.  

This book before it was written was in the mind of God. So when the Bride touches God,  she knows the mind of God. She knows the mind of God. Now we know only the Bible, but  we do not know who wrote it. But when the Bride reaches God, we don’t come through the  Bible to God, we come to the Bible THROUGH God. Some people have a dead vision, but  when you see Christ, then we see the Bible through Christ. Oh! That is a lively Book! Do you  see the Bible through Christ, or through the Bible do you see Christ? The Bride sees the  Bible through Christ. The foolish virgins see the Bible too. They are finished with the Bible,  but the people are not grown, they believe the Bible and see Christ. But once you have seen  Him, He takes a different shape. You see that everything in the Bible was in the mind of God  before it was written 

So my friends, in these last days let us believe one thing; time is no longer because man  has reached into space, man has landed on the moon and the Bible says, even though you  build a nest like eagles in the stars, I will pull you down; in Obadiah. If you want, I will read  it. It clearly says, man will build a nest in the stars, not only reach the moon. In that case  God would have said, when man builds a nest in the moon, I will pull you down. But I will tell  you, first when man tried to reach heaven, what did God do? He scattered them. When man  wanted to make a name, He scattered them. Now when man wants to make a name, He  brings man together. When God wants to take the church, the devil builds, all the people are  coming together. So now it is not scattering, it is union of all the tares. The final day is union.  So what happens? The tares are getting united. The world is getting united, world  government, world politics, everything is getting united, and the Bride is getting united. Two  here, two there, from all over the world. And when they come together, it is something like  God making a magic there bringing one man here, one man there, everybody ... one nose,  two eyes, two ears, mouth everything, all together and breathes the spirit into him again,  then he becomes the power. 

And that power will be used; no pride there, nobody fighting for a position because this finger  doesn’t fight for a position, it all works in unison. And this body when it starts with unison  that is only possible through the Holy Ghost and not through this artificial hypocritical love.  Have you been showing love, my friend, and being hypocritical about it? That is not the  Bride. The Bride can be put together only by the head and nothing else, not by any man. So  when Christ puts the Bride together, then you will find who is in the Bride because no man  can come into that body without the true choice of God. Because you won’t have pride, you 

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won’t push yourselves together. 

So if you turn to Obadiah and read that Chapter, you will find that man will build his nest in  the stars. And God will also have a Bride and the Bride will make herself ready. So now I  will read that again and you go home thinking, trusting God that there is no longer time  because when man reached moon, there is no more time for the Bride; because the time  factor is ended for her; for everybody time factor is ended. For the judgement, the time factor  is ended and judgement starts. For a wicked man, he will go in wickedness more. For a  foolish virgin, the time factor is over for her. For the Bride, time is no longer; that means,  time is now finished; time turns into eternity. 

Let us pray. Close your eyes and rededicate your life. I will again read that verse, “And the  angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, and  sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven and the things that therein  are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are  therein, that there should be time no longer”. Lord! We thank you for this precious hour.  Lord, make the Bride ready, Lord make her understand that there is no time any longer, that  she has no time factor that you are come to take the Bride, Lord that you are in our midst,  that you are going to do mighty things just as man landing on the moon, you have landed  on the earth to take the people for your name. Make the people happy Lord, make the people  powerful Lord. Let the world see that Bride in these days and make her ready so that when  the time comes, she will come up with you in a mighty way, so the world will be reproved  and Your judgement will fall. Lord bless the people, open their eyes in these last days. Thank  you Lord, that you have given an opportunity to give the message here; bless the pastor,  bless everyone, bless their home, bless every member who comes here, bless all who have  taken part Lord. Let them realize that they could not sleep any more that they have to find  their Christ, find their Bridegroom, find their position on the body and make them walk. In  the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. 

- Bro R Paulaseer Lawrie

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