7/18/06

PENTECOSTALISM – 100 YEARS

POWER WITHOUT CHRIST-LIKE CHARACTER

CHAPTER 5

<And = unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, t= he faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;

I = know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.

So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither c= old nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.

Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased wi= th goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fi= re, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, a= nd [that] the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zeal= ous therefore, and repent.

Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any m= an hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with = him, and he with me.

To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with = me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.

He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.> (Revelation 3:14-22).

We are on the subject of “Pentecostalism -= One Hundred Years: Power Without Christ-Like Character.” That is what this movement, this Pentecostal system has demonstrated for the past one hundred years. Beginning from 1906, they have manifested power without character.

POWER APART FROM CHARACTER IS SATAN= IC

Quote W.M.B.: 117-1 Unless we suffer with Him we cannot reign = with Him. You have to suffer to reign. The reason for this is that character sim= ply is never made without suffering. Character is a VICTORY, not a gift. A man without character can't reign because power apart from character is Satanic. But power with character is fit to rule. And since He wants us to share even= His throne on the same basis that He overcame and is set down in His Father's throne, then we have to overcome to sit with Him. (Smyrnaean Church Age - Church Age Book Cpt.4).<= /o:p>

We want the power of God, but we want character because that is fit to rule and we shall reign with Him a thousand years in= the millennium and also reign with him forever.

This is very vital. We have been talking a lot f= rom history concerning the 1906 outpouring of the Holy Spirit, which the prophe= t of God called, “baptism of the Holy Spirit”, and he was right. We address that also as baptism of the Holy Spirit. We also address that as the outpouring in 1906. So those are correct terminologies because in one sense= of the word, you could have a baptism tonight and have another one tomorrow and you could have baptism after baptism after baptism, but then there is anoth= er baptism, which is the baptism that came on the day of Pentecost. That is something different. Whenever a man has that baptism then that is God coming down to indwell his soul.

John = 14:20 <At that day ye s= hall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.>

So we have been speaking from the history and fr= om the Word of God. We have painted a picture that Pentecostalism (so-called Pentecost) which started in 1906 was a true outpouring of the Holy Spirit a= nd we believe that and we contend for that. Just as certain as the move of God= and the revival that came by Luther was of God and the move of God by Wesley wa= s of God, so to the move of God in 1906= was of God. But I want= to prove in scripture here tonight, in a scriptural manner, and bring to you a= nd show you that people can have the power of God without having the virtues of Christ, without having Christ-like, godly character. Any time you have power without Christ-like character then you would manifest satanic works as well as you will manifest the works of God. But on the other hand, there is something coming from the inside, which is your evil nature down in there, which is not yet changed.

What God did in 1906, giving the people an outpo= uring of the Holy Spirit, the baptism of the Holy Spirit; I want to identify that= in scriptures for you, where that happened before. So God did not act out of context in t= he least. He does those things to fulfill His perfect plan and perfect will. G= od has a permissive will and he has a perfect will. He employs His permissive = will in order to perfect and to bring to pass His perfect will. I am saying that 1906 and that outpouring that the Lord gave to the people was by His permissive will. It was for many reasons, He allowed that, which we cannot get into tonight, but one of the things was to produce

Matth= ew 24:24 <For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall dec= eive the very elect.>

The first scripture that I will call to your att= ention to show that power apart from character is satanic, is Revelation 3:14-22. = What happened at 1906 in that revival was fulfilled in the message to the Laodicean church. What we just read ther= e is the church that so-called Pentecost produced by what they were given in 1906. Over the years as the church continued, th= is is what happened and this here is one of the final things that the church d= id, and that is to come to that Ladicean condition. The Lord denounced the chur= ch there as blind, wretched, miserable and naked, who claimed that she was rich and had need of nothing. When we look into the Bible, and we read the verses from 14 to 22, we are reading about the production of 1906, after many year= s. And this condition of the church did not start here at the end of one hundr= ed years. It started way before that and God sent a messenger to them to rebuke them. He was sent to the Pentecostal church to tell them that they were wretched, miserable, blind, naked and they don’t know it. He was also sent to counsel them to buy gold tried in the fire. =

So now that church had gone into an apostate condition, and they were beyond redemption, but then there was a voice call= ing individuals out of that system. Some of us came from that system. I always = like to site you as witnesses. Some of you spoke in tongues and prophesied. Some= of the older people were back there in the forties. They testified to me after= the meeting. We have an old galla= nt brother here, Brother Heath. He said, “Brother Bruce, I was there in 1949, and what you are saying is the truth.” He told me certain things about dressing, concerning those women; they were very modest. Then a little while after, Sister Norma Renner said, “Brother Bruce, I was there si= nce 1948.” I guess she was = just a little girl or teenager. Then Brother Renner, he was back there also. He bo= re witness to the things that I am saying of the holy standards that used to be amongst the people, and I believe that many more can testify of the blessin= gs that the Lord gave to the people to live up to a certain standard. Now those are bygone days for Pentecostals.

Right now, so-called Pentecost has no shame, whatsoever. They have shorts and pants. You are talking about women in shor= ts singing in the choirs. You are talking about women in pants hugging up men breast to breast. Women behind the pulpit with high-heeled shoes and mini-skirts, kicking up and preaching what they think is the Word. You have ministers committing adultery and fornication. You have young people living= in fornication and adultery right in the House of God and the pastors cannot s= ay anything about it. Truly the Word did say,

Isaia= h 28:8-9 <For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no pl= ace clean. Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.&g= t;

Matth= ew 18:3-4 <And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and bec= ome as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.>

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1906 baptism identified in scr= ipture

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So now in all what I said, people might still be thinking, “How can that be? If the people’s natures were not changed, how could they have gotten the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, an Outpouring from God in 1906?” Even because it happened in the Scriptu= re before, and in the Bible, which I want to call your attention to. I will re= ad it right out of the Bible to you and this was happening before the day of Pentecost. Long before they went up to the Up= per Room, this was happening.

Who did this? Our Lord Jesus. Who sent this 1906 outpouring? It is the Lord. Why would the Lord do something like that? He h= ad plans for it. (Matthew 24:24).<= o:p>

Matth= ew 10:1-4 <And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave th= em power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.

Now t= he names of the twelve apostles are these; The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother;

Phili= p, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alphaeus, a= nd Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus;

Simon= the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot,= who also betrayed him.>

Luke 10:1, 17-19 <After these thing= s the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come.

̷= 0; And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subj= ect unto us through thy name.

And h= e said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.<= /i>

Behol= d, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the po= wer of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.>

“All right, preacher, why did you read tho= se Scriptures?” Beloved, when those people received power from the Lord = to heal the sick, cast out devils, and heal all manner of diseases; their natures were not changed. In othe= r words, they did not yet have a revelation of the Son of Man nor had they gone up to Pentecost. I am saying, that this ministry that was given to the apostles including Judas the betrayer,0 the seventy and even others that were blesse= d, is the same outpouring that ha= ppened at 1906.

This out here in Matthew 10: 1-4 is power without character. This is power without the virtues; this is power without Christ’s nature.

And if you notice what happened here, is that th= ose men went out with that power but the five-fold ministry was not yet set and they were quarreling amongst themselves of who will be the greatest. Showing you that there was some pride, there was some self, and there was some misunderstanding in their minds.

All right, another thing I want you to notice is= that Judas, the unrighteous, was ri= ght in that bunch, partaking of that Power, that Christ was giving out. If you dou= bted that their natures were not changed, then you have to admit that, because J= udas was one of the twelve, and he was a partaker of this power, and that was gr= eat power; to raise the dead, heal the sick, cast out devils, and to heal all manner of diseases.

This power was given to the Church and they were= yet in their evil natures. I am using this Scripture to identify what happened = at Azusa Street. What happened in 1906 is a repetition of that ministry and of the commission that the Lord gave to the apostles. Over there they had power and their evil natures were not yet changed, we proved that.

So now there was the unrighteous partaking of spiritual gifts. I will tie that down in the Word tonight, I will tie that = down in the quotations tonight, and I will tie that down in the history a little= tighter for you, that wherever this message may go, they cannot refute that. They w= ill have to throw away the Bible, throw away Brother Branham’s message, a= nd they will have to disregard the history.

I am pointing to this Scripture of Matthew10: 1-4, and I’m poin= ting to Luke 10, the entire chapter,= to show that this here is a type = of what happened in 1906, where t= he people received power to do signs and wonders and miracles, without Christ-= like character, and yet that was not the original baptism like the day of Pentec= ost. So the unrighteous here was partaking of spiritual gifts.=

Now those same people that went out in that kind= of ministry, there came a time that they had to quit that ministry, and then g= o up to Pentecost. One hundred and twenty made it up to Pentecost, and the Lord said,

Luke = 24:49 <And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in = the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.>

Acts = 1:8 <But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses…>

Showing you that the power that was given to the Apostles before the day of Pentecost was temporary power. It was a baptism, it wa= s an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, but there was another one to come. They = were supposed to go up to Pentecost and wait for that Outpouring, and within that period of time, three and a half years; they were to be prepared for the real article on the day of Pentec= ost. Now friends, let me say something= here, this power that was given unto them, never anointed the soul.

1906 BAPTISM – NOTHING T= O DO WITH THE SOUL

The prophet knew that those who were receiving th= e 1906 baptism, were yet in their evil natures, as it did not anoint the soul. He = said as follows:

BAPTISM OF THE HOLY GHOST – H= AS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOUR SOUL

Quote W.M.B.: 100 N= otice, we find today that people... There's many people just can't believe it, even Spirit-filled people. I'm going to give you one that'll choke you. The baptism of the Holy Ghost don't m= ean you're going in, not at all, not on that, don't have anything to do with yo= ur soul. That's the baptism. See? He= re's the inside soul in here, that has to come from God. But then on the outside= you have five senses, and five out--inlets to your contact your earthly home. T= he inside, you have a spirit, and in there you have five outlets: your conscie= nce, and love, and so forth, five outlets to that spirit. Remember, in that spirit you can be baptize= d with the genuine Spirit of God and still be lost. It's the soul that lives; that was ordained of God.
Didn'= t Jesus say, "Many will come to Me in that day, and say, 'Lord, haven't I cast= out devils, done great and mighty works, prophesied, the great gifts of God?'&q= uot; He said, "Depart from me, you that work iniquity, I never even knew yo= u. (Modern Events Made Clear By Prophecy 65-1206).=

If that power anointed the soul, then Judas̵= 7; soul was anointed. When your soul is anointed; it will change your soul. So now, I am tying down what I said in the Scriptures, that this is the exact thing that happened in 1906. It was the doing of the Lord.

No= w notice that one man who shared in that ministry amongst the twelve, was a big hypocrite; he had hate in him, malice in him, he had murder in him and he w= as a traitor and he came from Hell and went back to Hell as the son of perdition= .

John = 17:12 <While I was with= them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, = and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.>

It was the unrighteous partaking of spiritual gi= fts.

Now notice that = the seventy, in Luke 10, who also received that power and the same commission, after a certain time, when the deeper things of God came, they said, <= /o:p>

John 6:60 <Many therefore of his disciples, w= hen they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it.>

And the Bible sa= id that they walked no more with him and he was left with twelve apostles. (John 6:66-71) <= /p>
If he was left with twelve apostles, it goes to = show that the seventy had unbelief in them and they left him and walked away because = of the teachings of the Word of God. They were still in their evil nature and = they received a power that could have come upon them to work signs, work wonders, glorify God, rejoice over the miracles and signs; revival could have follow= ed them, and then that Baptism could have left them. That baptism could have come upon them and yet they could go to H= ell. It came upon Judas and he went to Hell.

YOU COULD HAVE THE BAPTISM OF THE H= OLY GHOST AND BE LOST AND GO TO HELL

Quote W.M.B.: 162 T= he cocklebur, many of you think, "I got the baptism of the Holy Ghost; I'm going to heaven." That don't mean one thing that you're going to heave= n. No, sir. You can have the baptism of the Holy Ghost every hour in your life= and still be lost and go to hell. The Bible says so. See? It's exactly right. (Leadership 65-1207).

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My beloved, how could the prophet say something = like that when Ephesians 4:30 says,

<A= nd grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.>

Friends, he very well knew that what they received in 1906 was not a return of Pentec= ost but it was what Judas received. The genuine Holy Ghost fell upon Judas beca= use the rain falleth upon the just and the unjust, and the rain is the Spirit.

So when Brother Branham made that statement in 1= 965, he was correct, and he knew what he was saying. He was referring to the art= icle of 1906, and it was the Baptism of the Holy Ghost, but their natures were n= ot changed, and they did not have the virtues of Christ in them.

BAPTISM OF THE HOLY GHOST – HAS NOTHING TO = DO WITH THE INSIDE

Quote W.M.B.: 144 You say, "I got the bapti= sm of the Holy Ghost." That don't mean that you're saved, not by a long ways. Looky here, you are a triune being. = You are... Inside this little fellow here is a soul; the next is a spirit; and next is a body.

…Didn't Jesus say the rain falls on the ju= st and the unjust? …Don't the Bible say in the last days there shall come fa= lse christs, not false Jesus now, false christs, anointed ones, falsely anointe= d to the Word. …"Oh glory, I got the anointing..." And it's a genuine anointing. Remember, Caia= phas had it too and prophesied. So did Balaam have it and prophesied, but that d= on't have nothing to do with this inside. (The Rapture 65-1204).

&= nbsp;       =         Quot= e: 20-5 = Now, I shunned saying this a few days ag= o, thinking that the church would be spiritual enough to catch it (and maybe I better turn this tape off right now, 'cause I don't want it to get out amon= gst brethren.); but you could speak with tongues, you could shout, you could da= nce, you could cast out devils, do anything you want to, and still not have the = Holy Ghost.

Didn'= t them disciples come back rejoicing and shouting because the devils was subject u= nto them? And ... Right among them was Judas? Did not Jesus say in that day, wh= en He come, that "Many will come to Me and say, 'Lord have not I cast out devils and in Your Name done mighty works,' and I'll say, 'Depart from Me, = you workers of iniquity, I didn't know you.'" Those things are not indicat= ions of the Holy Spirit. By their f= ruit you shall know them. (Blasphemo= us Names 62-1104m).

Therefore if you have power, if you have the bap= tism of the Holy Spirit that they received in 1906, without character; it could make you jump up, it could make you shout, it could make you live a certain amou= nt of Christianity, you could feel that you are in communication with God, it could make you come to Church, but friends, if your nature is not changed, = then you could be lost and go to he= ll. And this is that baptism that he was talking about, which you could get eve= ry hour in your life and go to hell.

So now this 1906 outpouring, kept on outpouring = itself throughout all the years, with other men, and it was baptism after baptism after baptism. Now you could have all of that in you and you could feel this Presence of the Lord here, you could feel the anointing of the Lord, you co= uld really enjoy the singing, you could really enjoy the preaching, you could e= njoy a lot of things in Christianity, but friends, if down inside of you, you ha= ve resentment for your brothers and your sisters, if you have hate down in the= re, if your mouth blows up against the ministry, if you have your own opinion, = and after the message is preached you go and contradict the message, get your family together and tell your neighbor and different ones in the church tha= t, ‘I don’t believe that’. Then you’re an unbeliever.

If you can hear the Word of God preached and tel= l you don’t associate with people that come against the ministry, that come against the Word of God, that speak evil, and then you will put down the Wo= rd of God and you will walk your own way and say, “Well, that’s my buddy, that’s my husband, that’s my wife, that is my child̶= 1;, and you will tolerate the evil speaking against the Word of God, you yourse= lf are an unbeliever. You are backsli= dden in heart.

I believe that people that have Christ-like char= acter in them will keep the commandments of the Lord.

John = 14: 15 <If ye love me, keep my commandments.>

You just don’t be a forgetful hearer and h= ear the Word of God and let it come out the next ear and go out and walk in your way. Every self led person that just leads their own life and want to walk their own way are not sheep but they are goats and they would not hear the voice of God. That is why God gave you a shephe= rd. That is why God give you the Word. That is why He sent a prophet. You cannot have your own opinion a= fter the prophet of God declared his message. When he declares his message, you are wrong and he is right. That is= the way that we believe this message. We are wrong and he is right. Hatred and malice and unforgiveness are a flashing red light that shows that the soul = is not yet transformed and yet you could have the Holy Ghost baptism.

Now this is clear proof in the Bible in Matthew = 10 and Luke 10 of an outpouring of the Holy Spirit under our Lord Jesus unto both the righteous and the unrigh= teous: Judas and the seventy along with the true servants of God. It was a blessing from the Lord. It was used for a certain time. It was under the permissive = will of God. Why would the Lord send the baptism upon people whose natures are n= ot changed? He has a purpose behind it.

DIFFERENCE OF 1906 BAPTISM OF = THE HOLY GHOST AND ACTS 2:4

They received power without Christ-like character= and it was Satanic, even because you will misuse the power of God. Power with character is fit to rule. That is why that art= icle on the day of Pentecost comes to faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, Godliness and brotherly kindness. Now that is the character of Christ. That is the = divine nature of Christ and that is what the true article is coming to.

&= nbsp;       =         Quote W.M.B.: 21-2 Now, you say, "Brother Branham, did sh= ould we speak with tongues?" Absolutely, that's gifts of God. But those gif= ts of God without these virtues in them, makes a stumbleblock to the unbeliever. It's not accepted by God. This has to be first. And when you have faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, and brotherly love, then the Holy Ghost comes down and seals you as a unit, as same as He seals the church ages as a unit.<= /i> (Blasphemous Names 62-1104m).=

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That is what the apostles and the church had. Th= at is what the hundred and twenty had. That is what William Branham had and it ca= me to the character of Christ. When that comes to the character of Christ, that Holy Ghost could never leave you. That baptism could never leave you and there is only one time you have to be bapti= zed with that baptism because there is one Lord, one faith, and one baptism. (Ephesians 4:5). That one baptism = is what they received on the day of Pentecost. After they got that they didn’t have to go and get a next baptism. There is one baptism, the genuine baptism on the day of Pentecost, but there are many fillings.<= /o:p>

They received that power without character in 19= 06. It is a great blessing to have it. It keeps you from lying and stealing and cussing. It could cause you to work signs and wonders and miracles with it.= You could jump over a mountain. You could open the Red S= ea with it. I am telling you the truth. Don’t underestimate that. You can raise the dead with it. You can cleanse the leper but if you don’t ha= ve charity you are lost. Charity is the real article because Brother Paul said tho= ugh I have faith and though I have knowledge to understand all mystery and thou= gh I have faith that I could remove a mountain and have not the true article lik= e it was on the day of Pentecost, which is charity, I am nothing. (1 Corinthians 13: 1-13).

MANIFESTATION IS NOT EVIDENCE OF HO= LY GHOST

Quote W.M.B.: 166-3 Now comes this= very good question I know that you are all anxious to ask. Why isn't the manifestation an evidence of being baptized with the Holy Ghost, because you surely could not manifest the Holy Ghost unless you truly were Spirit-filled? Now I wish I could= say that is right, because I don't like to hurt people or walk on their doctrin= e; but I wouldn't be a true servant of God if I didn't tell you the whole coun= sel of God. That is right, is it not?

Just let us take a little look at Balaam. He was religious, he worshipped God…but he was not a True Seed prophet…= ;he led the people of God into sins of fornication and idolatry…the Spiri= t of God manifested through him in one of the most beautiful portions of absolut= ely accurate prophecy the world has ever seen? But he never had the Holy Ghost.=

…what do you think of Caiaphas, the high priest?... he prophesied the kind of death the Lord should die…no rec= ord of him being a Spirit-filled and Spirit-led man like dear old Simeon or that sweet saint called Anna. Yet he had a genuine manifestation of the Holy Ghost…If you are truly filled with the Spirit of God you will have the evidence of the WORD in your life. (Pergamean Church Age - Church= Age Book Cpt.5).

PENTECOSTALS MANIFEST GIFTS WITHOUT= BEING BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST

Quot= e: E-33 “Oh, you can say, "Now, Brother Branham, I tell you: I know what= I've got it because I can pray for the sick and they can be healed…You're wrong. I heal the sickR= 30;But you can do those things without being first fundamentally baptized i= nto Christ…Through faith you can do great things and yet not be borned ag= ain of the Spirit of God. Be careful there. It's a danger line, Pentecostal people.” (Position Of A Believer In Christ 55-0227a).

GENUINE HOLY SPIRIT UPON A ROTTEN SCAVENGER, WORK= ING MIRACLES



&= nbsp; Quote: 229 “Same now. Notice, the vultures of Jes= us day was also casting out devils: anointed ones… Caiaphas the high priest prophesied... a rotten scaven= ger, a weed and a thistle setting among the wheat; but the Spirit was upon him, = the genuine Holy Spirit of God. The H= oly Spirit of God was upon Him to preach, prophesy, and foretell it to come to pass, and denied and crucified the very vindicated Word of the hour… = Now, take Matthew 24:24: "False christs, anointed ones will rise. And they'= ll be false prophets, prophesying (See?), and will deceive the very elected if= it was possible." You got it now?” (Anointed Ones at End time 65-0725).

Now I hope you are getting that dividing line th= ere.

All right, so now they in 1906, they lacked the virtues. They lacked the nature of Christ and that is why the message calle= d “Stature of a perfect man”= was preached by the prophet, and he detailed God’s plan and program to get the true article of Pentecost. The people under the Pentecostal system = were yet in their evil natures and that traveled right down through twenty-five years, fifty years when Brother Branham celebrated Azusa Jubilee with them, seventy-five years and right up to one hundred years, the people are still = in their evil natures and it is manifested in their lives, the way they act and the way they do things, yet they proved to have the baptism of the Holy Spi= rit of 1906, sure.

BAPTISM TO TRINITARIAN & ONENESS BELIEVERS

Quote W.M.B.: 45 I = was right up here in Indiana, at a certain p= lace called Mishawaka. The first group of Pentecostal people I ever seen is called the Pentecostal Assemblies of Jesus Christ…There's many a genuine, real genuine Holy Ghost born again Christian in their rank. And God gave them the Holy Ghost = by being baptized in Jesus' Name, and He's give the others the baptism of the Holy Ghost being b= aptized in Father, Son and Holy Ghost. So God give them the Holy Ghost who obeys Hi= m, so who--who got, who obeyed Him? There you are. (Demonology 2 Religious 53-0609).

METHODIST, PRESBYTERIANS, LUTHERANS RECEIVED BAPTISM OF THE HOLY GHOST

Quote: 16 I believe each one of you Metho= dists and Presbyterian and Lutherans, that never had experienced the baptism of t= he Holy Spirit, was in some formal church that did not believe in the genuine = new birth, and has now received the baptism of the Holy Ghost, is a perfect exa= mple of a paradox. Because something happened to you that changed your whole bei= ng, and anyone could look at that and know that what a paradox is: a miracle. (A Paradox 63-0801).

Now we are thankful to the Lord because some of = us were in that certain time and we received that baptism. If you came out of organization and you were a sincere person, really seeking God and meant salvation and you spoke in tongues and you prophesied and you lived a life = for Jesus Christ, you had that baptism. Do not despise that. Could the apostles= deny the power that was placed up= on them before the day of Pentecost? No, they would be foolish because Jesus called them and He anointed them and gave them power. They proved that they= had that power because a revival broke. They went out and done signs and wonders and miracles. How can they turn around now and deny that they ever had the power of God? There was only one thing they had to admit to, and that was their natures were not changed, and then they had to admit that that power could not take them in the rapture, but t= hey needed to go to Pentecost.

Now Jesus behaved like they never had any power.= At the end of their ministries He came by, and said, “Tarry in Jerusalem until ye= be endued with power from on high. Then you are going to preach for me.”= (Luke 24:49, Acts 1:8). That is a different thing all entirely. We are not denying in the least that that was the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Peop= le get confused they think that we are preaching that nobody has the Holy Ghos= t. That’s a far cry. We all have the Holy Ghost. Many of us experienced this baptis= m over there in our churches: Pentecost, Church of God, etc. Many p= eople experienced a genuine anointing. They knew they were dealing with God. I wi= ll have you to know though that in it was a mixture of demon power and certain people whose purpose was not right was under the power of demons, also spea= king in tongues, also prophesying, with demons upon them. In it was a mixture of= demon power.

1906 RETURN OF PENTECOST ̵= 1; A TOTAL IMPOSSIBILITY

It was power without character, the fathers of th= at 1906 revival had the wrong foundat= ion and they were built upon theology. They were built upon Bible schools. They were built on racism. They were built on Trinitarianism. They were built on tongues as the initial evidence of the Holy Spirit and my friend, above all, the father of Pentecost was charged for sodomy with young boys. I want you to judge for yourself when you hear the tapes a= nd read this book, whether God is going to send a return of Pentecost on anyth= ing like that. It is a total impossibility. It is a total impossibility for the great outpouring of the Holy Spirit to have returned in 1906, but we have to admit they received something, and I am identifying what they received in 1= 906, in the Bible tonight, and I am identifying over here in Revelation 3: 14-22= the condition that the church fell into because they did not have the character= of Christ. That was the result.

Now let me confirm, by the words of the prophet,= what I am saying. I am boldly declaring to the entire world that what they recei= ved in 1906 was not the true article of Pentecost. It was an outpouring. It was= a baptism of the Holy Spirit and I am proving tonight that that was power wit= hout character and that is why it became Satanic, evident by Revelation 3:14-22. Evident by what we see on the television. Evident by what we se= e on the street. Evident by the fruits that they bear, evident by all these thie= ves on the radio. Evident by all these sodomites behind the pulpit, evident by = all these adulteresses behind the pulpit, and all the nakedness of so-called Pentecost. There isn’t any question about that at all.

Pastor McGahee so wonderfully read that and put = it on the message for me. So I am quoting from the Church Age page 363 and 377, a= nd I am verifying what I said for the past two nights and what I am saying tonig= ht, that 1906 was not a return of Pentecost. Let Brother Branham speak to us.

IT LOOKED LIKE A RETURN OF PENTECOST – BUT IT WASN’T

Quote W.M.B.: 363-3 “A= bout the turn of the century the hunger for God that was generated in the Philadelphian Age brought a cry for the Spirit of God. And when the cry was answered by God sending forth manifestation in tongues, interpretation and prophecy, a group immediately, and most contrary to the Word, drew up a doctrine that tongues was the evidence of being baptized with the Holy Ghost. Tongues were far from evidence. They were manifestation, but not evidence. = The falsity of the doctrine can not only be seen by a lack of Scripture to substantiate it, but those who subscribed to the doctrine immediately organ= ized on the basis of the doctrine, proving that they were not in the truth as th= ey would have people believe. Oh, it looked good. It looked like the return of Pentecost. But it proved it wasn't. It could not be, for it organized.”= ; (<= st1:place w:st=3D"on">Laodicean Church Age - Church Age Book Cpt.9= ).

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H= OW COULD THIS BE THE REAL THING - IT WAS NOT

Quote: 377-2 “This age started just after the turn of the twentieth century. As it was to be the a= ge in which the true church would return to being the bride she was at Penteco= st, we know that there must of necessity be a return of dynamic power. The believers sensed this in their spirits and began crying to God for a new outpouring such as was in the first century. What seemed to be the answer c= ame as many began to speak in tongues and manifest gifts of the Spirit. It was = then believed that this was indeed the long awaited RESTORATION. It was not, for the latter rain can come only after the former rain which is the spring= or TEACHING rain. The latter rain, then, is the HARVEST rain. How could this be the real thing when the Teaching Rain had not come? The Prophet-Messenger= who was to be sent to TEACH the people and turn the hearts of the children = back to the Pentecostal fathers had not yet come. (R= esume Of The Ages - Church Age Book Cpt.10).

If somebody did not understand, the prophet of G= od said that the 1906 experience was not the return of Pentecost it was not the real thing. A blind man could see = that. A deaf man could hear that. It was not the real thing and the reason that he gave is that the messenger had not brought the Word yet. This is showing you that the Word must come first before the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Tha= t is Bible now. Jesus the Word came first and then they went up to Pentecost.

Ephes= ians 1:13 <In whom ye also t= rusted, after that ye heard the word of t= ruth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise.>

Quote W.M.B.: 377-2 <= /span>Thus what was thought to be the restoration and the final quickening unto the rapture had not come. In it was a mixture of the unrighteous partaking of Spiritual blessing and manifesting in the Holy Ghost as we have kept pointi= ng out to you. In it also was devil power as men were under the control of devils,= yet no one seemed to realize it. Then, to prove that it was not the REAL, these people (even before a second generation had appeared) organized, and wrote their unscriptural doctrines and built their own fences as every other group ahead of them did. (Resume Of The Ages - Church Age Book Cpt.10).

Now this here verifies what I am saying.

Quote W.M.B.: 380-2 Now before we close, I want to bring this thought. All along we have been talking about the Seed of Wheat being burie= d, then sending up two shoots, then the tassel, then the true ear. This might = make some wonder if we said that the Lutherans didn't have the Holy Spirit just because they taught basically justification. It might make some wonder about the Methodists, etc. No sir, we are not saying that. We are not talking abo= ut the individuals or the people, but the AGE. Luther had the Spirit of God, b= ut his age was not the age of full restoration by another outpouring like in t= he beginning. It was the same with Wesley, Booth, Knox, Whitefield, Brainard, Jonathan Edwards, Meuller, etc. Surely they were full of the Holy Ghost. (Resume Of The Ages - Church Age Book Cpt.10).

For a man to fight the words of the prophet, and still think that he has the article of Pentec= ost because he received something that made him feel good, he has to be an unbeliever in the message. I have just proven to you from the Bible, I took= it back to the message of the prophet, where he said in his own words that 1906 was not the true article. Yes sir! And he told us what the article was. He = said it was an outpouring of the Spirit, he said it was the unrighteous partakin= g of spiritual gifts. He said in it was demon power. He called them devils.

All right, how do we reconcile that? Now friends= , many times when there is an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, the devil sends his army down there to see what is go= ing on because it is going to attack his kingdom.=

EVERY TIME GOD MOVES, SATAN IS THER= E TO MOVE ALSO

Quote W.M.B.: 70-2 Have you ever studied the history of reviva= ls? Now a revival signifies a move of God in power. And every time God moves, S= atan is there to move also. It never fails. In the days of the great Welsh reviv= al (and most people don't know this), the insane asylums filled up quickly, and there was a great display of devil power to take away the attention from Go= d. It is written that in Wesley's day the people would do most peculiar things that were definitely of Satan to try to mock the goodness and power of God.= In Luther's day it is said that the miracle of his ministry did not lie in the fact that he successfully protested the Roman Catholic Church, but the mira= cle lay in the fact he could, and did, stay sound and sane amidst the fanatics = who were often filled with, and guided by, wrong spirits. And if you have been aware of this last day ministry, you will have noted the same invasion of f= alse and wicked spirits. It has to be that way. Now I hope and trust you are spiritual minded enough to get that, and capitalize on it. (Ephesian Church Age - Church= Age Book Cpt.3).<= /p>

Then what happens, he has his demons and they wi= ll start impersonating the Holy Ghost. So when one fellow receives the Holy Gh= ost and starts speaking with tongues, then the devils power comes upon the next fellow whose motive is not right, who has pride in him, who has lust in him, who has ambition in him and he doesn’t want to pay the price of sanctification, but he wants the power. Just like Judas. And what happens is that he will get power, but it is devil power. Then that devil power will s= tart speaking in tongues. And they already think that anybody that speaks with tongues has the Baptism of the Holy Ghost like Peter James and John. So tha= t is what entered the Azusa Str= eet Mission after just a few da= ys. It was demon power, and like Brother Branham said, they never even realized it. How are you going to realize what is the devil from what is not the devil if you believe that everybody that speaks in tongues has the Holy Ghost? You cannot know that, and besides that, you don’t know that because you d= id not have the Word in 1906. Yes, but let the devil come in here now. It̵= 7;s a different thing. If you start speaking in tongues and prophesying, I would let you prophesy, I will let you speak in tongues, but beloved, I will exam= ine you life! And if you life does not match the Word of God, I would ask you to sit down. So we believe in speaking in tongues, we believe in prophesying a= nd we believe in divine healing, but then you have to be living a sanctified life. You’ve got to com= e up to that place.

Now here is the Bible, here is the quotation of = the prophet and here is the history. How are we going to deny it there on the field? I have tied down my two messages in the Word of God, by quotations of Brother Branham and I am nailing a nail down tonight in this third message = of One Hundred Years of Pentecostalism and I declare to the world that I believe that they received an outpouring of the Holy Sp= irit, I declare to the world that that was a baptism of the Holy Spirit, yes, but= I also believe that it was a baptism of the Holy Spirit without Christ-like character. I don’t believe that those people had Christ-like characte= r in them; because their lives proved it afterwards.

To further prove this subject tonight I want to examine the men that came out of that revival and the women that came out of that revival. We are going to go back into some history and deal with those individuals that I called out last night, and we want to study the ministri= es just briefly. I want you to judge if that is the character of Christ or if = it is power without character. I assure you from the beginning right down to the end; it was power apart from character. =

I am still asking those who would deny that 1906= was not the true article of Pentecost and you claim to have the true article of Pentecost; when did you receiv= e it? I am asking, when did it come? Did it come with Brother Bosworth? Did it come with Oral Roberts? Did it come with A.A. Allen? Did it come with the women preachers? Did it come with J= ack Coe? Did it come with Tommy Hicks? Did that outpouring like on the day of Pentecost come with William Branham? I am here to tell you, “NO!!” And if it did not come w= ith him, we are still looking for it. And he himself was looking for it. And he said in dozens of quotes to look for it, it is coming, the latter rain is coming, the Power of God is coming, and there is going to be another outpou= ring of the Holy Spirit. So that a= lone verifies that it did not come in the days of Brother Branham, but there is something that came in the days of Brother Branham and it is called the Former Rain, sowing the seeds.

FORMER RAIN HAS GONE FORTH – WAITING FOR THE LATTER RAIN

    Quote W.M.B.: 45-6 Now, the seed must be planted, and then it = must have water in order to grow. Now, you say, "Well, Brother Branham (I'm going to express your thoughts on there.), we've had the water." So be= it. That's correct.

̷= 0;All right, but now wait, what did we have in that planting time? The former rain. "Oh," you = say, "Brother Branham, nonsense." Now, wait just a minute. You take the word "former" in Joel 2 and look at it and see if the Hebrew word--…"moureh" means: "teaching." Amen. The teac= hing rain has went forth.

…Billy Graham has struck the = world. The Pentecostals struck the world, and the Word has struck the world. Now, what's the matter now? She's now waiting for the latter rain. That's when she produces her fruits. Oh, I hope you get it. (Spoken Word Original S= eed 62-0318m).

You must be able as young men and as preachers to prove what you say in the Bible. I don’t believe in going around and just saying, “Brother Branham said, Brother Branham said.” Now all the people can say, “Broth= er Branham said”, but they cannot put back what Brother Branham said in = the Bible. That has become a stumbling block around the world; because here you= are witnessing to a man that doesn’t believe in Brother Branham, and you = say, “Brother Branham said, Brother Branham said”, like a parrot. Bu= t I believe in taking what Brother Branham said and put it back into the Bible. Then quote the Prophet of God. Just not only quote the Prophet of God.

So power apart from character is satanic, and th= at makes up the sum of the Revival of 1906 with all the other revivals that ca= me right down the line.

MESSAGE FOLLOWERS HAVE BAPTISM= FROM 1906

Now the followers of the Message who came from organization were sincere and honest to God and they partook of that baptis= m of the Holy Spirit. “Do the people that follow Brother Branham’s Message have the baptism of the Holy Ghost, Brother Bruce?” Yes, they have it. But it cannot take them in the rapture. They came from their organizations and brought what they received from their organizations, and = some of it is devil power; and some of it is the true anointing of God, the true baptism of the Holy Spirit. And neither of them could go into the rapture. Those with demon power pervert the message; they cannot go in the rapture w= ith that. And those with the true baptism which they received from that genuine anoin= ting cannot go in the rapture with that. It is a total impossibility! That is why I’m preaching that there must = be another outpouring of the Holy Spirit, otherwise none of you will go anywhe= re, including myself, including this church, those of you listening in India, y= ou are included, Africa, the Philippines, wherever this DVD will go, you canno= t go in the Rapture unless you receive the outpouring of the Holy Spirit that is= coming today. You will have the Token or you will perish. That was the declaration after the Seals. <= /span>

RECEIVE TOKEN OR PERISH

        &= nbsp;       Quote W.M.B.: E-29 Now, the token is not the Blood; it is the Life that was in the Blood, the Holy Sp= irit... I don't care how religious you are, unless you've received the Holy Ghost, you'll perish. It's the only w= ay. There's not another Scripture to do anything, only that alone. "Grieve= not the Holy Spirit of God whereby you are sealed until the day of your redemption," Eph.4:30. (Jehovah Jireh 64-0403).

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TOKEN BY ONE SPIRIT BAPTISM

        &= nbsp;       Quot= e: 35-3 = Notice, they were not just yet come together to talk about the message. They come together to apply the blood, to ap= ply the token. That's what you must do. Pastor Neville, and to this congregat= ion, trustees, deacons, to you brethren, it's time that we laid aside all the foolishness of the world, time we laid aside everything else. We've seen en= ough now, that we're positive, sure, and the Token must be applied. Without it, you're going to perish; you must perish. That is the only thing. Oh, don't = come together, say, "I believe it." Get beneath it. Get into it. How t= o do it? By one Spirit we're baptized into the Body of Jesus Christ. Everybody believe with all your heart. See? He was not responsible for any out from beneath it. (The Token 63-0901M).

PEOPLE BEING MADE READY FOR FULLNES= S OF PENTECOST

&n= bsp;            = ;   Quote W.M.B.: 379 1-2 The people of God are being made ready b= y the Word of Truth from the messenger to this age. In

her will be the fulness of Penteco= st for the Spirit will bring the people right back to where they were at the beginning. That is "Thus saith the Lord." It is "Thus saith = the Lord" for that is what Joel 2:23-26 says, “He will cause to come down for you, the rain, the former rain and the latter rain… I will restore. (Resume of the Ages - = Church Age Book Chapt.10).

RESTORATION BACK TO PENTECOST<= /o:p>

&n= bsp;            = ;   Quot= e: 379-2= Now it says God is going to “restore”. The Lutheran Age did not restore the church; it started a reformation. The Wesleyan Age did not restore. The Pentecostal Age did not restore. But God has to restore for He cannot deny = His Word. This is not the resurrection of the Church; it is the “Restoration”. God will take the Church right back to Pentecost of the beginning. (Resume of the Ages - Church Age Book Chpt. 10).=

SPIRIT TO BE POURED OUT WITHOUT MEA= SURE – GROUP

&n= bsp;            = ;   Quot= e: E-81 = We're nearing something. You'll hear a sound of abundance of rain. For one of the= se days the curtains will be drawed back from the heavens, and God will pour out His Spirit without measure upon that group of people that's fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas. And w= hat a meeting we'll have. Yes, sir. (Maniac of Gadara 54-0720A).

LOOKING FOR ANOTHER SURGE OF THE SP= IRIT IN CHURCH – RAPTURING FAITH

&n= bsp;            = ;   Quot= e: 23 An= d I'm looking for a time of a break fort= h of the Spirit of God in these last days that we're now living in, for anoth= er surge of the Holy Spirit into the Church for a rapturing faith, just before= it comes. (The Token 63-1128E).

BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT INTO THE= BRIDE FOR RAPTURING GRACE

&= nbsp;       =         Quot= e: 15-1 = That's the reason I do believe that when that Bride is called out and elected and = set in the Book of Life, there'll come a sound from heaven that'll take such a = baptism of the Holy Spirit into t= hat Bride that'll take Her from the earth in a rapturing grace. God promised it. (Three Kinds Of Believers 63-1124e).

Why message BELIEVERS HAVE fal= len from their original standard of holiness

We want to know what is happening around the mess= age; why have the people dropped their standard of holiness? Why? After many years, and we are so close to this Rapture, the people brought back the televisions into their homes, and are going to the movies, and how is it the young women and even the older women wear tight clothing, dress immoral, why are the preachers falling in adulte= ry, why are the lay members living in fornication, and why have they all become like organizations with their own heresies and theology? Why are there so m= any divisions, and where is this five-= fold ministry that they boast about? They talk about the five-fold ministry meeting whenever ministers are gathered together. I walk into those places friend, and I only find a two-fold. Most of them are pastors and some say t= hey are evangelists. Where are the apostles, where are the prophets and where a= re the teachers that are lining up the Word of God? Now do you see how dumb th= is thing is and they say that this is the five-fold ministry. No, it is a three-fold. And if you find a prophet there, he is a false prophet! He cann= ot prove that he’s a true prophet. If you find an apostle there, he only took that name as an apostle; and he doesn’t know what an apostle is.

So the women have gone back into immoral dresses= and preachers are committing adultery. You ask, “What is the reason for this, Brother Bruce?&#= 8221; The reason is that they are relying on that baptism of 1906. Exactly what happened to so-called Pentecost, their churches, their ministers and their lay members is happening around t= he message for the past years. They cannot deny that, because friend, that Pow= er of the Holy Spirit that was given in 1906 is fast fading away. I could say a lot more here. That covenant is closing. A new day is dawning where the Token is required or you will peris= h. That is the truth of it.

Yes. That is the truth of it. So now because they manifest these things and they are going away from the Word of God, it is a clear indication that they are depending upon that baptism. So they will tell you outright, “I received the baptism of the Holy Spirit.” I don’t deny that.&nb= sp; Yes, you got the baptism, but what you got cannot carry you in the rapture. You say, “A man cannot preach unless he has the baptism of t= he Holy Spirit.” Yes, so be it. But that cannot carry the preacher in the rapture. This is a different t= hing here, friend. And the apostles and disciples had to give that up, and tarry= in Jerusalem until th= ey got the article of Pentecost by a changed nature. You must have a changed natur= e. That is the most important thing. And I believe we have that kind of a people ri= ght here under this ministry. =

If your nature is changed it is a to= tal impossibility for you to miss = this Outpouring of the Holy Spirit. If you’re a believer and you’re = not a skeptic of this Word, your nature is changed. It shows there is faith dow= n in there. Yes. You believe that Word. You love that Word. You support that Wor= d. You love your brothers and sisters. You respect the ministry. You respect Christ. You have reverence in His house. Yes. You are not a gossiper. You a= re not a talebearer. You don’t listen to unbelief from father, mother, brother or sister. From the time unbelief starts spewing out of a person’s mouth you have enough discernment to shut them up and walk away.

Friends, the worst thing that anybody could do is to listen to unbelief from whoever is speaking that. You don’t know the power of that unbelief. What it is that brings that unbeli= ef is a demon from Hell. And Eve thought that she could have listened to the unbe= lief from the serpent and argue with him and get away. And he was quoting the Wo= rd. Yes. He said, “God said you shall die, but I am saying ye shall not surely die.” That was unbelief in God’s Word. She should not ha= ve stood there. She should not have listened to the words of the serpent. She should not leave Adam, her pastor. She needed a pastor. If she had her past= or there, the pastor would have pointed out the devil and say, ‘That&= #8217;s the devil!’ But she left the house and went down the road and she= met another preacher. Oh yes.

Anybody that is spewing unbelief aga= inst that message and that promise, they are trying to take you through the tribulation. And that could be an unbelieving serpent right down inside of them. That could be a serpent seed that you are sleeping with right in your bed. That could be a seed of the serpent that you are walking down the road with and you put your hand around and say, ‘This is my best friend.’ People have husbands, they have wives, they have children th= at speak evil of that Word of God and they would not resist them. Boy, I tell you, I can’t stay with a man for more than a few minutes who will be spewing unbelief out of his mouth. No! How could you take that as a Christian? It goes to show that something is wrong with your salvation. Something is wrong wit= h your soul! Yes. When you could get into a conversation, and join in and speak ev= il of the pastor, join in and judge the Word that is preached here, something = is wrong.

What comes from this pulpit is one h= undred percent Word. I say that without= any embarrassment or fear. I prea= ch one hundred percent Word. The min= isters here preach one hundred percent Word. Those that follow this Word of God pr= each one hundred percent Word. You= say, ‘But nobody is perfect.’ That’s a different subject.&n= bsp; I am not talking about us being perfect. I’m talking about preaching = one hundred percent Word. That is= why nobody is able to defeat us. = That is why we can stand here and say, “We challenge the world.”&nb= sp; That is why we can send those tapes and that is why we can send those books and throw it out in the public and say, “Challenge that!” Do you know what= that is? The opening of the Seals brought one hundred percent Word. And we are in direct line-up with the seals, and the Christ who came from the seals.

So friends, all those people that ha= ve that baptism from 1906, regardless of where they received it: in organizati= on, under anyone of those men, or under the plain message, that cannot qualify = them for the rapture. Now that is = the anointing that dominates the age from 1906, and it is still here up to today. You cannot presently r= eceive more than what God has allotted for the age. For you to get more than what God allotted for this age, He has to give another Outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

EXAMINATION OF THE CHARACTERS, LIVES AND MINISTRIES OF

1906 PENTECOSTAL PIONEERS

I am going to turn my attention now to examine some more ministers, who were used of God. But in-between there I want you to examine these men’s character. And I want you to judge in yourself if the original Pentecostal blessing, with all the signs and wonders that they did, if it c= ame with those men. It did not co= me in 1906. I am going to examine t= hese men. I would not give you the= whole history. I am just taking out the important things.

William Sowders: We start w= ith one of the Pentecostal fathers.

“He was a policeman and he was= a fisherman and he received the Holy Ghost in 1913. He formed an organization called the Gospel of the Kingdom.”

Unquote. Does that resemble Pentecost? It does not.

“Although without a formal doc= trinal statement, most of Sowders’ churches’ beliefs include two persons in the Godhead, no literal Hell, a Bride of Christ consisting of 144,000, restoration of the fivefold ministry.”

Unquote. It was restored down there, he clai= med. “Every church outside of the body of Christ was a part of Babylon; Satan was= not a fallen angel, women cannot hold an office of the ministry…” Unquote. He was correct there.

“… moderation in dress a= nd behavior. He was able to start three hundred churches with 75,000 believers in the fellowship. His ministry affected churches in = U.S., Hait= i, Europe and Africa. William Sowders always stressed the need for Jesus to be the head of the church and not himself, w= hich is why the work he started has continued and grown since his death.”<= o:p>

Unquote. Now, I am saying that does not rese= mble Pentecost in the least. And Pentecost goes right back to the original.

Maria Woodworth-Etter aro= se, who died in 1924. “She = was a famous evangelist in the founding years of the Assemblies of God. She was born again in 1857. When disease took five of her chil= dren, she had a vision which led her to dedicate her life to the ministry.”=

Unquote.&nb= sp; A woman getting a visio= n under this Pentecostal system to dedicate her life to the ministry.

“After spending over forty yea= rs of her life preaching thousands of sermons across America, Woodworth-Etter built her tabernacle in Indiana, and dedicated it in 1918. Now the tabernacle is called Lakeview Church. It drew many future leaders of the revival, including Aimee. She died at eighty.”

Unquote. So she produced another woman preac= her. =

George Jeffreys was another man. Much was not said about him.

Aimee.&n= bsp; She died in 1944. Now woe be unto these people if they came in conta= ct with the message and turned down the message of the hour. Woe be unto them = if they came in conflict with the prophet of God, Brother Branham.

“This woman was raised in a Christian home. As a teenager, however, she became an avowed Atheist and began her public spea= king career at the age of thirteen in this context, writing letters to the newspapers defending evolution, debating local clergy, etc.

She was married and shortly thereaft= er she and her husband embarked on an evangelical tour, first to Europe and then t= o China where they arrived in June 1910. Shortly after they disembarked in Hong Kong, however, they both contracted malaria. R= obert Semple died of the disease. Aimee= recovered, gave birth to a daughter,= and she returned to the = United States.”

Unquote. This woman is going to build what y= ou call the Foursquare Gospel Church.

“After the birth of her son, McPherson suffered from postpartum depression and several serious health issues. After what she described as a near-death experience in 1913, she embarked upon a preaching career in Canada<= /st1:country-region> and the U.S. By June 1915 she had left home and was on the road preaching full time. She= had a gospel car, and it was a touring car.&nb= sp; She had all kinds of slogans marked up on the car, and she was preac= hing in public through a bullhorn.<= span style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'> And while the car moved, she used = to type out her sermons until she reached to the next assignment. She started = her own newspaper and she called the newspaper The Bridal Call.

Although her husband initially made efforts to join her on her religious travel, he soon became frustrated with= the situation and by 1918, had filed for separation. His petition for divorce citing abandonment was granted in 1921.”

Unquote. A woman preacher not cooking her husband’s food and not staying home and b= eing a wife to her husband and a house cleaner broke up her marriage. So he divo= rced her.

“At that time, women at the pu= lpit ministry were rare- those who wore make-up and jewelry in the pulpit, non-existent. Her uniqueness in this respect, her flamboyance, and her unashamed use of low-key sex appeal to attract converts, endeared her to a crowd= of followers in Los Angeles. She would invariably appear before parishioners in a white gown, carrying a bouquet of flowers.” =

Unqu= ote. So you could see the show business from = Hollywood was adopted right there into Pentecostalism. So she had signs, she had wond= ers, she had miracles; and would not cook her husband’s food. She would not stay home; her feet abide not in her house (Proverbs 7:11).

“She kept a museum of crutches, wheelchairs, and so forth as demonstrations of h= er success. She was also strongly influenced by the Salvation Army.”

Unquote. So you see the root of the Salvation Army there; she propagated the Salvati= on Army.

“She was the first woman in history to preach a radio sermon and with the opening of the Foursquare Gospel in 1= 924, she also became the first woman to be granted a broadcast license.”

Unquote. This woman was all man. The first to be on the radio preaching, first to recei= ve a broadcast license. She put on all kinds of jewels and made her appearance. First woman to come behind the pulpit with jewels and all these kinds of things. All right.

“She made the most of the show-business atmosphere of Los Angeles to incorporate entertainment into her religious meetings, using stage props, contemporary music, and morality plays (which she called illustrations), with elaborate costumes and scenery, to their best advantage to draw listeners. She even w= rote and produced a couple of operas, and at one meeting made a dramatic entrance riding a motorcycle down the i= sles of the temple.”

Unquote. Now you are talking about a masculine spirit on a woman preac= her. You are talking about Hollywoo= d being introduced into Pentecostalism. And that is what we have today with a= ll the Benny Hinns that we have on the television. The whole thing has become a Hollywood show to attract people as converts and this woman had no shame wh= atsoever and she had the Baptism of the Holy Ghost. And I guess probably she got it every hour of her life. But friends, this woman took a motorcycle to make a show, and rode it straight = down the isles. Show business!

“She was also very skillful at fundraising. Collections were taken at every meeting, usually with the admonishment of ‘no coins please.’ When the 1.5 million Angelus Temple opened its d= oors, construction was already entirely paid for through private donations.” =

Unquote. Do you know what was 1.5 million in= that time? Boy I tell you, that more looks like a billion to me today. “She was not universally loved.”

Unquote. Because women were now getting on t= he pulpit, and there were men who were men at that time and hated the acting o= f a woman like that. Yes. They could not receive that. Even the Ku Klux Klan was against her.

“She also received several dea= th threats in 1925, and a plot to kidnap her was foiled in September of that y= ear, thus setting the stage for the episode for which she is best known.”<= span style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'>

Unquote. Now this preacher woman, who got th= e Holy Ghost friends, she’s now going to fake her own kidnapping and cause t= he death of two of her members who went searching for her. You want to tell me= that is Christ-like character? How many say that is power without character? [Congregation says, “Amen!”= ;] That is power without character manifested in this woman right here. =

“On May 18, 1926, she went to a beach with= a secretary to swim. Soon after her arrival she disappeared. It was generally assumed at that time that she had drowned.”

Unquote. So they went out searching for her = and the papers published that. An= d the believers were around there day and night at the ocean.

“Futile search for the body re= sulted in one parishioner drowning and another diver dying from exposure.” Unquote. I guess to the cold.

“After thirty-two days, she st= umbled out of the desert in Mexico, just across the border from Do= uglas, Arizona. She claimed that s= he had been kidnapped, drugged, tortured, and held for ransom in a shack in Mexico, then had escaped and walked through the desert for about thirteen hours to freedom. Several problems were found with McPherson’s story. Her shoes showed no evidence of her thirteen-hour walk; indeed, they had grass stains on them after a supp= osed walk through the desert.”

Unquote. Does the desert have grass? The shack could not be found and then= this woman showed up fully dressed while she disappeared wearing a bathing suit = and was wearing a watch given to her by her mother, which she had not taken on = her swimming trip. Yes.

“Several witnesses then came f= orward stating that they had seen she and Ormiston…” a man, “…at various hotels over the thirty-two day period.”

Unquote. Woman preacher, filled with the Holy Ghost. Received the baptism. Faked her own kidnapping. That goes to show th= at you could get that baptism of 1906, just like Judas, and then betray the Lo= rd. This is playing out right here in this woman’s life.

So now, the government charged her and they received doc= uments from hotels in her own handwriting. But she stuck to her story that: “= ;She was approached by a young couple at the beach who had asked her to come over and pray for their sick child, and she was then shoved into a car and drugg= ed with chloroform. However, when she was not forthcoming with answers regardi= ng her relationship with Ormiston (who was recently estranged from his wife) Judge Samuel Blake charged her a= nd her mother with obstruction of justice on November 3rd.”

Unquote. Evangelist, friend. Baptism of the = Holy Ghost, 1906. Outpouring just = like Peter. This woman is acting just like Mary Magdalene. No brother. This is something else.

“Theories and innuendo abounde= d: she had run off with a lover; she had an abortion; she was recovering from plas= tic surgery; she had staged the whole thing as a publicity stunt. No satisfacto= ry answer, though, was ever reached, and soon after the Examiner erroneously reported that district attorney Asa Keyes had dropped all charg= es. Keyes decided to do exactly that on January 10, 1927, citing lack of evidence.”

Unquote.&nb= sp; Her own signature, and that of the man that she was moving around wi= th was in the hotel books, yes, and they got it. Now this is a display of the Holy = Ghost. And that shows you and I here, that this is power apart from char= acter. The woman had crutches and wheelchairs as evidence of God using her. Yes. B= ut inside of her, all these things came out because her nature was not changed= .

“Soon after that, she became = involved in a power struggle for the church with her mother and daughter, and she suffered a nervous breakdown in 1930. She married again, this time to an actor and a musician, David Hutton.”

Unquote. It goes to show what kind of a spir= it was in this woman. She had an actress spirit; everything about her was just act= ing. And that is what the church was built upon: acting. So now when she married= to this actor:

“She was away in Europe. She was incensed to discover Hutton was billing himself as “AimeeR= 17;s man” in his cabaret singing act.”

Unquote. He made her a laughing stock, telli= ng the whole world in his song that he is a preacher’s husband. But he did n= ot put it in those words. He made a scandal off of it. I’m saying that Pentecost ma= de the Bible and the name of the Lord, a laughing stock. Now after she preached th= at nobody should marry if they have a living spouse, she went out and married against her own doctrine and teaching.

“According to The Preacher= s by James Morris, she was buried with a live telephone in her casket to ensu= re her survival in the event of bodily resurrection.”

Unquote. I never heard of that one. I think = that that is better than the followers of Brother Branham who believe in the resurrection doctrine. They should have put down a telephone there too. So = they said, just in case this “holy woman” happens to resurrect in the coffin, instead of digging up all that dirt, she just has to make a call to= the deacons to come and get her out of there. So they put a live telephone down in there.

“Her son took the church over = and continued a worldwide ministry with two million members, over ninety percen= t of whom are outside the United States in different countries.”

Unquote. This woman carried this Hollywood show business with all her false doctrines, gave out what she had, and has = two million following. Brethren, = we need the outpouring of the Holy Spirit to deliver such people. Those people will never be delivered until that outpouring of the Holy Spirit comes and = God walks out there and exposes those leaders.=

David du Plessis. This fellow here claimed to receive= the baptism of the Holy Spirit and he only died in 1987. You heard a lot of him here from Brother Lambert. Brother Lambert called him a devil incarnated in human flesh. This man was called, “Mr. Pentecost”. The reason he was called “Mr. Pentecost” is that he was used to bring this speaking in tongues and bring this Holy Ghost that they received in 1906, r= ight into the charismatic movement, right into the ecumenical movement, and into= the Catholic Church. So he was called Mr. Pentecost. So now, all his labors were spent to help build the World Council of Churches and join the World Counci= l of Churches together with the Catholic Church by the experience of 1906.

“He was a member of staff and Pentecostal observer at the World Council of Churches in 1954 and 1961, respectively, and was invited to serve as Pentecostal representative at the Second Vatican Council.”

Unquote. Now that is what this outpouring is ringing out. That is what the Holy Ghost that he received done for the church of God: help form the World Council of Churches and taking the church back to Rome. Can this art= icle take the people in the rapture? [Co= ngregation says, “No!”] It cannot take the people in the rapture!

Brothers and sisters, this article h= ere, was given by God under His permissive will and Judas shared in it, the unrighteous shared in it, the seventy shared in it, but they have their old evil nature. After Judas manifested what he manifested, he was still a murd= erer in his heart, he was still a man hating and he was still full with jealousy. Now that is exactly the same article that they got in 1906, and it traveled right up here. There are Pentecostals today that will kill you because you believe in the message of Brother Branham. They are full of hate and wicked= ness down on the inside.         &= nbsp;

Kathryn Kuhlman. She was the example of Benny Hinn. She only died in 1976, and it says:

“She was a great American evangelist. She was born again at the age of 14 in the Methodist Church. A man left his wife to form a professional alliance with Kuhlman, and after= his divorce was final, married her in October 1938. This resulted in the deterioration of Kuhlman’s ministry, and they left their area. Then in 1948, he divorced her and then she went on with her ministry. In 1972, she = was granted an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree by Oral Roberts University. In 1973, Benny Hinn attended one of her ‘healing crusades’, which was a catalyst for his life as a charismatic preacher.”
Unquote. So the point here is that Mr. Benny= Hinn, who is now alive and the most popular televangelist on the field today, was influenced by this woman who used to always wear a white gown. And t= hat is why Benny Hinn wears only white to preach and that is where he got this thi= ng about pushing down the people and slaying the people, because that was her = kind of ministry, claming that that is the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. Now in-between here, I am sure that those people heard of the message of Brother Branham. She only died in 1982. Woe be unto those people. Maybe they were t= he very enemies of Brother Branham, making it hard for him to preach the Gospe= l. They must have come to see the power of God.

William Branham. They have = him documented in the Wikipedia Encyclopedia, and this = is the most truthful report that I ha= ve ever read about in any book concerning Brother Branham. They gave a countdo= wn of his ministry. <= /span>

“William Marrion Branham (April 6, 1909, Kentucky - Decembe= r 24, 1965) was an influential Bible minister sometimes credited with founding the Latter Rain Movement within American Pentecostal churches, elements of which are present in most modern Pentecostal and Charismatic churches (although William Branham denied any specific connection with the movement). Many consider him a false prophet who taught heretical doctrines, although many today acknowledge him as a true prophet. Branham is considered by many to h= ave initiated the faith healing movement that began in 1947. Other subgroups in= the Pentecostal and Charismatic movements were partially influenced by Branham, including the Latter Rain Movement, Manifested Sons of God, and Kingdom Now theology. His ministry had effects felt around the world, and it fostered a number of other ministers who became internationally known. The whole intent of= his ministry was to turn Christian hearts back to the scriptures and their experiences to match that of the Apostles. His theme was ‘Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever’.”

Unquote. Even Pentecostal people testify to = that fact. They heard all his prophecies that he made and they said that “= he made prophecies that Los Angel= es will sink”, and such like. They said that “he denounced the trinity, and although people disagreed with him, he was able to prove it in= the Bible.”

Unquote. All right, hear this, what the Pentecostals have to say about Brother Branham in the Full Gospel Fellowship International:

“Branham’s legacy and in= fluence - Branham’s popularity continued through the last years of his life.<= span style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'> In its February 1961 issue, the Fu= ll Gospel Men’s Voice (now the Full Gospel Businessmen’s Fellowship International) glowed: ‘In Bible Days, there were men of God who were Prophets and Seers. But in al= l the Sacred Records, none of these had a greater ministry than that of William Branham, a Prophet and Seer of God… Branham has been used by God, in = the Name of Jesus, to raise the dead!’ Branham’s teachings and notoriety had a profound influence on the Pentecostal and Charismatic movements.”   =

“Though Branham has been dead since 1965, there a= re thousands around the world who regard him as a prophet, and the fulfillment= of Malachi 4:5. Branham taught that the Seven Church Ages of Revelation repres= ent Seven Church Ages. Each of these Church Ages has a messenger. He taught that the succession of messengers was the Apostle Paul, Iraeneus, Saint Martin, Columba, Martin Luther, and John Wesley. Branham did n= ot mention who the last messenger was. It may be difficult to measure Branham’s influence on other evangelists in his time period. But he certainly led the way in the pioneering tent revival, which would lead to t= he era of tele-evangelism. Branham is often mentioned as the leader of the fir= st revivalist preacher of the second wave of Pentecost that swept the country after World War II. The first wave being Parham, Seymour, and others. Among those who began around the same time of Branham, and part of the second wav= e of Pentecostalism, late 1940’s to the mid-1950’s, were Jack Coe, B= illy Graham, Oral Roberts, and A. A. Allen. It is interesting to note that Branh= am was one of the first faith preachers, evangelists who not only preached a latter rain, a latter day visitation of God’s Spirit, but also emphas= ized faith for the healing, as did Coe, Roberts, and Allen.”

Unquote. That is the most truthful report that I have ever read concerning Brother Branha= m. Every one of them tries to put him down. May the Lord bless those Pentecostal people for that. And this is another account of Brother Branham.

“The person universally acknowledged as the revival’s father and pacesetter was William Branham.” The sudden appearance of his miraculous healing campaigns in 1946 set of a spiritual explosion in the Pentecostal movement which was to move to main street USA = by the 1950’s and give birth to the broader charismatic movement in the 1960’s, which currently affects almost every denomination in the coun= try. Branham filled the largest stadiums and meeting halls in the world. As the pacesetter of the healing revival, Branham was the primary source of inspiration in the development of other healing ministries. He inspired hundreds of ministers to enter the healing ministry, and a multitude of evangelists paid tribute to him for the impact he had upon their work. As e= arly as 1950, over one thousand healing evangelists gathered at the Voice of Healing, the name of Branham’s magazine convention to acknowledge the profound influence of Branham on the healing movement.”

Unquote. This latter portion was taken from the Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements, 1988. Now brethren, their own mouths testify of this great thing that the Lord has done. =

Jack= Coe. = Brother Branham spoke of him. He was a man so full of the Holy Ghost, when he came = to heal you, he used to cuff you anywhere the sickness was. If in your belly, he’d hit you a punch. Hit you on the back, on the head. He was a wild kind of preacher. Brother Branham loved him. So he came from an alcohol and= dope background, and he said:

“God told him that He’s giving him h= is last chance. Then the Lord healed him from malaria. Then he started to prea= ch. And in starting to preach, he had a lot of opposition. His ministry only la= sted 12 years.”

Unquote. Now the Bible did not say, “Thou shalt cuff, and they shall be healed.= 221; No. “Thou shalt lay thy hands upon them and they shall recover.” One fellow who came from a certain background, said, “Brother Bruce, I want to tell you that anybody that I lay my toe upon, they are healed. What= do you think about it?” I said, “I never read that in the Scriptur= es, but they that lay their hands upon the sick, they shall recover.” So = he stopped laying his toe upon people for their healing, and started using his hand. So you have all these kinds of wild things in so-called Pentecost, an= d in religions. =

One time Coe was so ambitious that he went down = to Oral Roberts’s tent and measured it right around. And he went and bui= lt a tent bigger than Oral Roberts’s own. Then he could tell everybody, “I have the biggest tent, bigger than Oral Roberts’.” Now, you see, power apart from character is Satanic. So it went on and Coe died in his thirties. A young man. I believe the Lord saved these people.

“At his death, his magazine circulation was 350,000.”

Unquote. He was joined with the Voice of Healing, which was considered as Brother Branham’s magazine. The editors there were Jack Moore and Gordon Lind= say. So they started that magazine. He had the largest church in 1954 in Dallas, Texas. He was associated with the Assemblies of God. He got a lot of persecutions. Again, brother, power apart from character is Satanic.

“Coe taught and preached fervently on divi= ne healing, and it would be during a revival service he was holding in Miami in 1956 that Coe’s beliefs would be brought into the nation’s arena. Coe was charged on February 6, 1956. = He was charged for practicing medicine without a license.”=

Unquote. Imagine that! Because he pulled the crutches off of a young boy, and let the boy wa= lk. And then the boy fell down and was damaged. So the only charge they could have given to Coe was to practice medicine without a license. So the magistrate dismissed the case. So he had one or two funny beliefs. And he had an untim= ely death. He did not believe in medicine, he did not believe in going to the doctors.
“Coe’s revival messages centered upon healing, and he was adamant about not taking medicine and visiting doctors.= He preached and talked that consulting a doctor was connected with the mark of= the beast.”

Unquote. You are talking about Pentecostal fana= ticism. Now these men could not have what they had on the day of Pentecost and inje= ct those errors in the Word. They could not do what they done; that is why I am reading this to show that power apart from character is satanic. But there = was a man on the scene brethren, who had the real goods, who never went off into fanaticism. His name was William Branham.

A. A= . Allen. He had one of the most dynamic ministries, in = divine healing that went across the world, and across the nations. But then one day they caught him and charged him for being drunk and driving. They call it a D.U.I. And then after having that great ministry and a place that he built called miracle valley, his death certificate says that he died from “…a probable heart attack, with a secondary cause of death due to “acute alcoholism and fatty infiltration of the liver: alcohol blood level 0.36. Contributing to the cause of death was the “ingestion of alcohol.” Unquote. Now these men = were in the days of William Branham.

Oral= Roberts. He went on with divine healing and at a certai= n time he did not know what happened. Then he went down there and built a hospital. And he built a building which was the second highest in Tulsa, Oklahoma<= /st1:place>. And then he went on until that man came right down and said, “God said that if I don’t get eight million dollars from the people that he wou= ld kill me.” Yes, right here on the Pentecostal history. And brethren, he collected nine million after that because they do not want ‘beloved O= ral Roberts’ to die. Money Satan.

Now after he built all of these things in Oklahoma, it did= not last but about eight years. He had to sell some buildings for cell towers. = He built a hospital and said that God told him to put seven hundred and seventy seven beds. Friends, after he built that, the government said that you cann= ot have that much. You can only have a certain amount: a few hundred. Up to th= is time the hospital is shutdown and that vision has never come to pass. =

I am saying that Oral Roberts never had what the= y had on the day of Pentecost. Jack Coe never had it. All the men I just read abo= ut, except William Branham, never had it. We are still looking for it. One thing that I may mention about A. A. Allen here, which is very vital, and that is= , he was the first man that identified poverty with a spirit. He is the man that brought that teaching out on the spirit of poverty, that if a man is poor he has a spirit and he is the first man that started preaching on the blessing= plan of the Lord and prosperity, upon which Pentecostals are now trading by the millions, telling the people that if they give they will prosper and if they are poor they have a spirit. I wonder what he will say about Jesus.

Jesus said foxes have their holes and birds of t= he air have their nests, but the son of man has not where to lay his head. I wonder what he will say about Lazarus that went into Abraham’s bosom after he died. Do you see how contrary that is to the scripture? <= /p>
Now I have proven to you and to all my hearers tonight, that power apart from character is satanic. And what they received= in 1906, all their leaders, right down the line through this hundred years of Pentecostalism, prove that their natures were not changed. It shows that th= ey had power without character, and Judas had the same, the seventy had the sa= me, and the apostles had the same, but the apostles had to sacrifice that power= and that baptism and their outpouring in order to go up and get the true outpou= ring of the Holy Spirit.

We came from that background and many of us came= from those kinds of churches. But when we heard the token preached, and we heard William Branham declare that you will have the token or perish, we forfeited what we had back there. We forfeited our heresies, our dogmas, our creeds, = our experiences, our visions, and our dreams. We forsook all of that and here we are contending for the token: another outpouring of the Holy Spirit. And we= are encouraging the world and all the brethren in the message around the world = to do the same. We recognize that= you have the baptism, we recognize that outpouring, but we are saying that you cannot go in the rapture under those conditions. You must have the Token or perish.

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PASTOR KENNY MCGAHEE’S COMMENTS

Amen and amen.&n= bsp; How many enjoyed that? [Congregation says “Amen!”= ] To me it’s just getting plai= ner and getting sweeter. I believ= e that you ought to support Brother Bruce one hundred percent. This is Life. This is eternal Life; this is the message of the Lord to us.

I have been in the Message a long time, but I ha= ve never heard a man come and preach like Brother Bruce has these last three services on this subject, this topic, and bring it out so plain and so clear that a fool should not err therein. It’s irrefutable.= You cannot deny what that servant = is preaching from this sacred desk. All of his effort is to try to get the people to understand that what they have out there (what we used to have) won’t work at this time. We must have that Token and we mus= t have Power for service.

All of the Baptisms, all that we had, thank God = for it. Beloved, even God winked at our ignorance but now He’s requiring = for you and I to come up to that mark. As long as you think that you have somet= hing that’s genuine, that you think will work, then you have no need to lo= ok for anything else, but the servant of the Lord is standing up here all of t= hese different days preaching to us, preaching to our brothers across the world,= to try to show them in all earnestness and all laboring, and even preaching to= you with rebukes, to show that what the people presently have is not enough. That’s the effort. I thank God.

Brother Bruce, I love that message tonight and I= agree with that one hundred percent. This church agrees with that one hundred per= cent. [Congregation says, “Amen!= 221;] We are contending for that great Promise to be poured out on us. Thank you very much for that message.
Try to come in here prayed up. Many came in early tonight to help support the service. We’re going out of here refreshe= d, revived, and we thank God for His Word. Beloved, like I said, in my whole life, listening to Brother Branham, Brother Lambert and all the servants of God all of these years, I never heard what I heard in these last few services lined up like that. If = it wouldn’t offend any here or overseas, I believe it is of the Holy Ghost. Amen!<= /span>

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