Pentecostalis=
m -
100 years
Satan’s=
hall
of shame
CHAPTER 7
<And unto the angel of the church of the
Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witnes=
s,
the beginning of the creation of God;
I know thy works, that thou art neithe=
r cold
nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
So then because thou art lukewarm, and
neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
Because thou sayest, I am rich, and
increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou a=
rt
wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried=
in
the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be
clothed, and 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 chaste=
n: be
zealous therefore, and repent.> Revelation
May the = Lord add a blessing to the reading of His Holy Words.
Latter rain, =
my
people shall never be ashamed
I will preach on “Pentecostalism - One Hundred Years: Satan’s Hall of Shame.” Right there, the Book of Revelation has already confirmed my title. The Lord invited them to buy white raiment that they may be clothed = and that the shame of their nakedness do not appear; and anoint their eyes with= eye salve that they may see but they rejected that call. All who rejected that = call by Malachi 4:5-6 are today in the “Hall of Shame,” “Satan’s Hall of Shame.” It is the intention of Satan to = put every Christian into that Hall of Shame as much as possible. By the grace of God, we would not enter there. It is promised to us that we would not be ashamed.
Over in =
the Book
of Joel (
<Be glad then, ye children of Zion,=
and
rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderat=
ely,
and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the
latter rain in the first month.
And the floors shall be full of wheat,=
and
the fats shall overflow with wine and oil.
And I will restore to you the years th=
at the
locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm,=
my
great army which I sent among you.
And ye shall eat in plenty, and be
satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondro=
usly
with you: and my people shall never be ashamed.
And ye shall know that I am in the mid=
st of
In 1906,= these people got the baptism of the = Holy Spirit by a great Outpouring of the Spirit. But we see that after those gre= at evangelists arose who worked signs and wonders and the gifts were restored.= We have traced the history and they came through one hundred years of tent evangelism, television evangelism and all kinds of gifts were manifested, signs, wonders and miracles. We have a picture here today that many of those evangelists ended up in Satan’s Hall of Shame. Now that alone proves that, that was not the Latter = Rain, because the Bible said, “When He pours out that Latter Rain, we will eat in plenty and My peo= ple shall never be ashamed.” It is the proof that, that was not the true outpouring of the Holy Spirit like the day of Pentecost.
As I sai= d, this is our contribution to Pentecostalism, which started in 1906 and we are right here in 2006. While = the world is celebrating One Hundred Years of Pentecostalism worldwide, we are = giving our contribution. We will also call it “a celebration.” We are celebrating with 1906 Pentecost today One Hundred Years of their achievemen= t. Our celebration is a little different because it is based upon the Word of = God; it is based upon the message of the hour and it is based upon historical fa= cts taken from their own records. They have what you call “Pentecostal history.”
This is = not telling lies on these great men. Many of them lived in their day and I beli= eve that they were used of God. Some were used of the devil because it was the = rain falling upon the just and on the unjust. Some made it into heaven and I am = sure some went down to Hell. Just l= ike that revival that started with the apostles. Many of them made it in and so= me made it to Hell. It was said of Judas that he came from hell and went back = to hell, because he was the son of perdition but he shared in that revival. Yes sir! And for your information, that ministry that the apostles were given (along with Judas and the seventy) could be classified as “restoratio= n of the gifts.” You see, they were given gifts and power without character.
This is = our celebration and contribution. Now Pentecost boasts about the past hundred y= ears of achievement. She is very proud and boastful about all her achievements u= pon the earth but the Bible declares her as being “wretched, miserable, p= oor, blind and naked.” The worst shame that can come upon any human being = is nakedness. That was the death of the cross. Our Lord suffered the shame of = the cross.
The resu=
lt of
1906 with all the revivals is recorded here in Revelation 3:14-22. This is =
the
result of that great Baptism, outpouring of the Spirit and all the gifts th=
at
were manifested. It is recorded here in the Bible and it was recorded even
before they came into existence. By prophecy the Lord spoke about what would
happen to that great movement called ‘The Pentecostal Church’.
Beyond a shadow of a doubt, that was “Pentecostalism” identifie=
d as
“
See how =
merciful
God is that even when they reached into that condition, He sent them a
counselor. I believe that was very merciful because He knew that they did n=
ot
have the right Article to allow them to live above sin, sickness and demon
power. So when they got into that condition, because of their pride and the=
ir
boastings He sent them a counselor.
We could identify this Scripture when Pentecostal peo=
ple
fulfilled this Scripture of Revelation 3:14-22. That did not happen today. =
No.
They got into that condition when the messenger brought the Word of God to
them. Because he, the messenger, was calling them, he was giving them couns=
el
to buy gold tried in the fire, white raiment that they may be clothed and to
anoint their eyes with eye salve. So now, this prophecy is directly connect=
ed
with the ministry of Brother Branham. William Branham fulfilled the Scriptu=
re
of Malachi 4:5-6.
G=
reatest
religious disgrace
Let me make this statement here concerning Pentecostal=
ism on
the basis of Revelation 3:14-22. “Pentecostalism” has become the
greatest religious disgrace to=
the
Bible, to Christ, to Christianity as a whole in one hundred years of
Pentecostalism. That is Bible understanding of Pentecostalism. With all the
credit that was given to them throughout all the other messages—speak=
ing
of the wonderful men that arose and the blessing that God blessed them with,
the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, the Outpouring of the Holy Spirit, great re=
vival,
restoration of the gifts—these people at last became the greatest
religious disgrace to the Bibl=
e, to
Christ, to Christianity and to her own self in one hundred years of their
achievement. Now, don’t you underestimate that statement.
Much could be said about the disgrace of so-called
Pentecostalism, which you know has brought persecution upon true believers.
Lust for popularity, money, and immorality: they fulfilled all. Fanaticism,
impersonation, and don’t talk about begging for money! That’s one of the biggest disgrace and stumbling
blocks to unsaved people. That causes unsaved people who cannot divide right
from wrong, truth from error, just from the unjust to put all of God’s
servants in the end time here in one category. They put them in the categor=
y of
“money beggars,” “adulterers,”
“fornicators,” “liars” and “thieves,” t=
hat
it is so hard to identify yourself in public and claim that you are a preac=
her.
Every true man of God tries to dodge that, even because of the people’=
;s
impression. From the time you say, “Preacher,” their minds go b=
ack
to the televangelists and the stories that they know about these evangelists
falling into immorality.
This is clearly recorded and it blends in with the pr=
ophecy
that was given here concerning Pentecostalism. So I am identifying
Pentecostalism in Revelation 3:14-2=
2,
that they are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked. That puts them i=
nto
Satan’s Hall of Shame. They are a disgrace to the whole world, a disgrace to every true servant of=
God,
a disgrace to every true believer, a disgrace to God, a disgrace to Christ =
and
a disgrace to all the prophets and apostles that ever lived before and trie=
d to
contend for righteousness, holiness, and the truth.
But there is a Church on its way today that will neve=
r be
in Satan’s Hall of Shame. And it is promised in Joel 2:23-26 that there is an army that God is going to restore=
and
she will never be ashamed because we are eating in plenty, and we are prais=
ing
the Name of the Lord and we shall never be ashamed. We will wipe away all the shame of the Bi=
ble,
all the shame from the Name of the Lord, all the shame from the name of
Christianity. Respect will be restored. Adoration and praises will be resto=
red
to the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. We cannot leave this earth until that
shame is removed. How is that going to take place? Beloved, there will be
genuine gifts; there will be genuine Christians. Our words will never fall =
to
the ground. There will be no immorality, no sin. Whatever we say is going to
come to pass. We will have “Thus Saith the Lord,” or we would n=
ot
speak or move. There is a
Quote W.M=
.B.: 171-1In th=
ese last
days the true
…Tho=
se in
the bride do only His will. No one can make them do otherwise. They have 't=
hus
saith the Lord' or they keep still. They know that it has to be God in them
doing the works, fulfilling His own Word. He did not complete all His work
while in His earthly ministry so now He works in and through the bride.
She knows that, for it was not yet=
time
for Him to do certain things that He must now do. But He will now fulfill
through the bride that work which He left for this specific time. (
That
Quote W.M=
.B.: 119 Oh, t=
here
will be a true former and latter rain in the last days upon that little gro=
up
that come with Him on this little donkey, low and humble, no doubt or
denomination, crying, "Hosanna to the King that comes in the Name of t=
he
Lord!" (What Is The Attraction =
On The
Mountain 65-0725e).
M=
oney
begging
Now to prove that these people never did return to
Pentecost, neither did they have what they had on the day of Pentecost; they
ended up in Satan’s Hall of =
Shame.
That alone proves it, because it is a promise in Joel that when that latter
rain comes, “My people shall never be ashamed.” If a people aro=
se
in 1906 that lived such a disgusted life and all are disgusted about their
money begging that was not Pentecost. Those preachers became millionaires a=
nd
billionaires without any shame. They beg without regard. Yes. Saying, ̵=
6;No
coins please.’ That went a little higher.
Our money in
I am ashamed as a preacher! I’m embarrassed as a
preacher! I go to certain places and that’s the last thing I want the=
m to
find out, that I am a preacher. But brethren, sometimes they take notice of=
us
that we had been with Jesus and they point right out. They say,
“You’re a preacher!” Then I have to admit it, “Yes,=
I
am but I am not that kind you see on the television and heard on the radio,
friend. I am a true Bible preacher.” And they turn around and say,
“I could see that.” So there are people out there that are still
hungering and still thirsting for the Words of Life.
Do you know what the great fear of most of those people is? They are afraid to become chur=
ch
members and be identified with the fanaticism that is around the world toda=
y.
They are so afraid that they will become deceived and fanatical.
It is proven by their fruits that 1906 Pentecost bear=
s,
that could have never been original Pentecost. It shows that it never did go
back to the article that Peter, James and John had. It shows that it was an
article called “the Baptism of the Holy Spirit” and “the
outpouring of the Holy Spirit” without Christ-like character. The
disgrace that so-called Pentecost has become around the world proves that w=
hat
we had been preaching about in our first message, that 1906 claim of the
Baptism of the Holy Spirit and the return of Pentecost was “The Greatest Lie of the Twentieth
Century.” It was the biggest lie of the twentieth century that
“Pentecost did return.”
So the man called Lambert was right when he said that=
that
was the biggest lie ever told. He went further than me. He said,
“It’s the biggest lie ever told that Pentecost returned in
1906.” He said, “One of these days, I will preach that
message,” but he never got the chance to preach that message. Several
years ago, I preached that message, ‘The
Greatest Lie Ever Told.’ But then in his teachings, we can see ma=
ny
statements that Brother Renner put together, where he actually preached that
right throughout his whole ministry that 1906 was the
greatest
lie ever told.
This disgrace that Pentecostalism entered into and fo= und themselves in Satan’s Hall of Shame proved our next message, ‘Power Without Character is Satanic’, and that is what she had: Power without character. It was the baptism of the Holy Ghost without a changed nature. It was the baptism of = the Holy Spirit. Don’t ever deny that. It was the baptism of the Holy Spirit. It was an outpouring of the = Holy Spirit but without character, without a changed nature and the prophet alre= ady declared that “Power without character is satanic.”
Quote W.M.B.: 117-1 A man without character can't reign because power apart from
character is Satanic. But power with character is fit to rule. (
These me=
ssages
are proving that statement that “Power apart from character is
satanic,” and Pentecostalism has become satanic. I will prove that as=
we
go along and I will show you how satanic that Pentecostalism has become.
It has p= roven our statement, “Pentecostalism is built upon tongues but not the Rock revelation of Christ.” They live every kind of immoral life that you could imagine: from fornication, adulte= ry, sodomy, incest and all kinds of wickedness. Then friends, as long as they s= peak in tongues, they are sure that they have the baptism of the Holy Spirit and= are bound for the rapture. That is strong delusion.
It has p= roven our statement, “The Spirit of the Lord, the Holy Ghost, falls upon th= e just and on the unjust.” Then we went back and picked out the history of = the lives of these men and it showed the kind of crimes that were committed. Now these crimes have caused a terrible, terrible impression on the rest of the world that you and I have to present this message to. We cannot do it without a return of Pentecost. We cannot do it without sanctified and holy lives. We cannot address the people of this world without the Power that the Lord is going to bring to us and this Power must surpass the gifts of 1906. We will have to move with the Power of the Spoken Word, which they will know is different from what was manifested by Jannes and Jambres, who fought Moses today.
That is =
why the
Lord must bring something greater and more powerful today to bring into
existence missing arms and legs, eyeballs and even teeth in your mouth! Suc=
h a
ministry even attracted science, according to the vision of the prophet.
Quote W.M.B.: 33-2 Said, "I looked down there and there was a whole lot of scientists."…And he said, "Scientists there were pouring th= ings in tubes and mixing them." Said, "You stopped the horse, raised up your hands and begin to scream: 'I'll ride this trail once more.'" Sai= d, "The whole earth shook. Them people shook," said, "looked up= at one another, like that, looked up to you, and just shrugged their shoulders, and went on with their scientific research." (Knoweth It Not 65-08= 15).
Do you know how happy scientists w= ould be if they could make a leg? Not a wooden one, I am talking about, but one = with life in it. They reached as far as attaching back your arm but they donR= 17;t know how to put real eyeballs back in your head, and real teeth back in your mouth and make a leg. They could take one organ and transfer it over into another fellow (heart, kidney and different things like that) but then with= all their scientific research and achievement, they cannot do that. When this ministry goes out with a return of Pentecost and they see little sisters, little fellows just stand up and say, “I give you your leg,” how would science not be attracted? “I give you your eyeball, Mister!” With all these other miracle= s, they have to be attracted: not only science, but the rest of the world.
Brother = Branham said, “Signs and wonders and miracles are the bait to catch the fish.” They come to the preacher for their healings and for different reasons, and they see these signs and wonders and then they are converted. Brother Bob said, “The greatest drawing force in all the world is the = power of God through signs and wonders and miracles.” The greatest drawing force! He said, “That if a few million people would be gathered today= to hear a man singing rock and roll music and a next million would be gathered= to see the pope, what about the gathering when the Power of God does come to t= he church?”
I am say= ing, brethren, if the world came to see the 1906 outpouring with the restoration= of the gifts, we are expecting a mult= itude to come wherever that Outpouring of the Holy Spirit is outpoured. It is goi= ng to be outpoured in one place and at one time and then go over to another pl= ace and other places. Wherever that outpouring comes, people will be gathered by the millions. It is going to come to pass; I believe it.
Apostolic fat=
hers
Now, I want to remind you here that the apostolic fathers of original Pentecost = never did enter the Hall of Shame after they got the Article of Pentecost and aft= er their natures were changed. They never entered the Hall of Shame. There is = not a record in the Bible, no record in history where Peter ever fell in adulte= ry. That is foreign; that is foreign to the Bible; foreign to history. There is= not one place where Paul ever had to repent for sodomy. That sounds strange in = your ear because it is not in the Bible. We never read of it. We never read of Peter, James, John or any of the Apostles ever living such a wretched life! They were never one time found as child molesters. They had a clean record because they had the Power of God that Joel spoke about:
“This is that which was spoken b=
y the
prophet Joel… And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise
the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my
people shall never be ashamed.” (Acts
So they = did not belong to Satan’s Hall of Shame, but there is a listing that I am goi= ng to read to you of people that entered the Hall of Shame within these hundred years of Pentecostalism.
This is = taken, and which title I borrowed from a website: “Hall of Shame for the Self-Proclaimed.” I was glad to see that title. I said, “Yes, certainly, certainly, it is ‘Satan’s Hall of Shame.’” So I am preaching on “Satan’s Hall of Shame.” So, reading out of “Hall of Shame for the Self- Proclaimed.”
I want t= o tell you in advance that in all this collection, William Branham’s name is nowhere. He was not even indicated as a smoker, as a drinker, as an adulter= er, as a fornicator, as a thief, as a liar or as a child molester or a man who = has defrauded people of their money. They dare not put him in the Hall of Shame because he was not self-proclaimed. God proclaimed him as Elijah, the proph= et and he went right back to original Pentecost and had the correct Article. Although they may be against him, they could not put his name here because there is no record in history where this man ever lived a corrupt life. But= I believe they should be honest enough to say that he refused millions of dollars and put in the good about a man called, William Branham.
Neither = did the apostles’ name enter this list. I cannot find here anywhere Peter, James or John recorded here in th= is Hall of Shame.
Below are some of the references, sources and links wh=
ere
you could find some of the histories of some of these people.
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span
style=3D'color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>http://www.c=
hristian-witness.org/archives/cetf2004/truth28.html,
http://www.healingandrevival.com<=
/span>
http://www.a=
g.org/enrichmentjournal/199903/068_tongues.cfm
=
http://www.s=
eekgod,
http://www.dailysentinel.com, http://www.stbi.edu
Du Plessis, David J., The Spirit Bade Me Go,
(Self-published, n.d.)
Harper, Michael, As at the Beginning: The Twentieth Cen=
tury
Pentecostal Revival, (Hodder & Stoughton, 1965)
Spittler, R.P., "David Joha=
nnes
du Plessis" in The New
International Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements,
revised edition, ed.
Aimee Semple McPherson, (2006), =
an
award-winning feature film on her life, directed by Richard Ross=
i.
Aimee Semple
McPherson biography
Song about t=
he
McPherson kidnapping scandal, dating from when it was a current =
news
story. Pete Seeger<=
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recorded this on the 1961 album =
Story
Songs.
Morri=
s,
James. The Preachers. ISBN 0900997=
419
Oral
Roberts: An American Life, by David Edwin Harrell, Jr.,
"=
;A Diary
of Signs and Wonders", Maria Woodworth-Etter,
I am goi= ng to read just as they recorded here.
It says,= “Mr. Bakker: Televangelist: adulte= ry, convicted of fraud, has repented and is back in the ministry and on television.” They are in Satan’s Hall of Shame but they are shameless. When they get like that, something is wrong with their heads. Now this name is popular to us who are connected with the Scriptures. He was an adulterer, convicted of fraud and he is back on the pulpit, preaching.
How coul= d people sit under something like that is beyond me. Something is wrong with their appetites. Something is wrong with their desire for eternal life. You see w= hy people like to sit under preachers like that, is that they, themselves could lead such lives. They love a false prophet who tells them to wear high heel shoes, and to come to church with pants and come to church with shorts, as = long as you speak in tongues and pa= y your tithes! That is the order of Pentecostalism: pay your tithes and speak in tongues.
“Mr. P. Crouch: Made a settlement regarding=
a
plagiarism suit against his movie, without admitting to any wrongdoing.R=
21;
̶= 0;Mr. M. Gortner: Child evangeli= st and a healer. He admitted to being a fake, left the ministry for secular entertainment industry.” After this man was a child evangelist, he admitted that he was a fake.
“Mr. Grant, Jr.: Evangelist healer. He had an “unbiblical divorce.
Convicted of tax fraud.” See? Thieves right behind the pulpit. Divorc=
ed
men.
̶=
0;Mr. J.
Hagee:
Pastor, televangelist. Adultery, initiated and completed an unbiblical divo=
rce
and remarriage.”
“Mr.
K. Hagin: Evangelist, healer, prophet, apostle.” (Imagine that!) “Evangelist,
healer, prophet, apostle. Revealed as a plagiarist.” (A plagiarist is=
one
that takes other men’s ideas or writings, like how Pentecost stole the
truths from Brother Branham and tried to impersonate his gifts and pass it =
off
as their
own.)
This man impersonated the prophet: William Branham.
“Mr=
. J.
Jacobs: Founder of an extravaganza a=
nd
frequent host on TBN. Unbiblical divorce from the first wife. Unbiblical
marriage to a second wife, and consequent unbiblical annulment from that
marriage.” Ministers lives are messed up with all kinds of marriage and divorce problems and =
these
men are on the pulpit.
“Mr=
. L.
Jenkins: Televangelist. Convicted for
arson and assault.” This man burned down somebody’s church or
somebody’s house. “Released from prison in 1984, and pardoned by
the state of
“Mr. B. Jones: C<=
span
style=3D'color:black'>ity prophet. Confessed to sexual misconduct
1991.”
“Mr.
Liardon: Pastor, evangelist,
televangelist. The writer of books. Now =
the
whipping that this man should get, I don’t have the time today, but he
will get it shortly. He came against Brother Branham. After telling the peo=
ple
what Brother Branham did in the most truthful way, he came against him and
passed judgment upon him, saying that “Brother Branham went off.̶=
1;
He’s a writer. I got a book and I
recently started examining it. I tell you. This man wet his tongue upon
God’s prophet of the age. “He confessed to a homosexual
relationship with his associate youth pastor. After brief absence, is now b=
ack
in the ministry and the pulpit.” I want to remember the deeds of this=
man:
prating against the prophet of God with malicious words.
“Mr=
. C.
McClendon: Bishop, pastor, evangelis=
t.
Completed an unbiblical divorce after sixteen years of marriage. He said,
‘I have a calling to preach, not to be married.’ Seven days aft=
er
the divorce was final, he married Priscilla Delgado.”
“Aimee: Evangelist, healer, pastor. Unbiblical divorce, fak=
ed
her own kidnapping, and a fornicator.”
“Mr. R. Mossholder: Marriage counselor. Unbiblical divorce, wanted
supporters to "forgive" him for his unbiblical divorce prior to
obtaining the divorce.
“Mr. Parham.=
”
That went back to 1906. They said here that he is a “teacher, charged
with sodomy. Racism:
Another widespread belief relating to Parham=
's
racial attitudes is that he was a Klansman. According to written records,
Parham became a full member of the Klu Klux Klan during 1910, although this=
is
hotly debated by supporters of Parham, who contend the KKK didn't exist at =
this
time.”
“Patty: Singer, recording artist, adultery, unbiblical divo=
rce
and remarriage, has expressed repentance through her church, and
publicly.”
“Mr. E. Paulk: Bishop, pastor, television personality. Adultery,
immorality.” That is what those revivals produced. This is proving to=
you
that was Power without character. This is proving to you that the rain was
falling upon the just and on the unjust. This is proving to you that
Pentecostalism was built upon tongues and not the Rock of Christ.
“Mr. Popoff: Evangelist, healer. He was a f=
ake.
Used a radio device operated by his wife to be given information about the
disease of people he claimed to heal.” Now they tried to impersonate
Brother Branham’s discernment. So he set up a devise and let his wife
talk to the people concerning their disease, and then passed on the informa=
tion
to him, so when they came before him, he will tell them about the disease.
Impersonator!
“Mr. Roberts: President of a University, hea=
ler,
televangelist. Initiated and
completed an unbiblical divorce and remarriage.”
“Mr. Swaggart: Televangelist, adulterer. Caug=
ht
twice. Repented publicly twice.”
“Mr. Allen: Evangelist, healer. Alcoholic.
Arrested for drunk driving. Died of alcohol-related disease.” He live=
d in
the days of Brother Branham, and functioned during that time.
“Mr. R. Tilton: Prophet, pastor. Two unbiblical
divorces.”
For some reason, these people di=
d not
record O. Roberts, and B. Graham, and A. Skinner, and different ones. I did=
not
see a record here of =
Vin
Dayal or Gan, which I will have to make for mys=
elf
because they are in the Hall of Shame, just the same. So these fellows are =
my
input into “Satan’s Hall of Shame,” and let history bear
record of this.
Mr. O. Roberts: Evangelist, healer, built schools of theology and a
hospital. His visions failed. He begged for eight million dollars and said =
that
if he didn’t get it, God would kill him. (Far as I am concerned, he w=
as
going to die! He wasn’t getting one penny from me!) He became a New
Methodist several years ago. It was on a magazine together with B. Graham.<=
span
style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'>
All righ= t! Let me tell you something about this. Brother Branham saw a vision of a preacher making love to a dead woman.
VISION: PASTOR KISSING A WOMAN̵=
7;S
CORPSE
Do you k=
now that
happens in the funeral homes? There are men working in funeral homes that a=
re
responsible for bathing the dead and cleaning them. Brethren, it is around =
the
whole country in
Brother = Branham saw a preacher making love to a dead woman. I read that many years ago and I wondered about that. I said, “Who is this preacher?” Brother Br= anham refrained from calling his name. I will tell you something here now: the Fi= rst Martyr, your pastor, said that from the time Brother Branham said that, something came to him and told him that was O. Roberts. I believe that he lived to see that fulfilled.
It was n=
ot long
after that O. Roberts went back to the
&n= bsp; Mr. B. Graham. He was in the days= of the prophet. He claims to be an evangelist and “the voice of one cryi= ng in the wilderness.” You heard it over the radio. Now, this fellow possesses the highest qualification—after the Pope—in the Catholic’s doctrine and he proclaimed that his teachings will make a Catholic “a better Catholic.” This was on the magazines: he and= O. Roberts. O. Roberts, without any shame, had the Methodist banner with a turned-back collar and they were side by side and the banner said, “N= ew Methodist.”
Brother =
Branham
connected these men with the World Council of Churches and proclaimed them =
to
be “Jannes and Jambres,” who would influence the Pentecostal wo=
rld
with the rest of the Protestants to go back to
BILLY GRAHAM – ORAL ROBERTS
Quote W.M.B.: 44-3 Now, there has been three different kinds of seeds planted: A
denominational: Billy Graham; =
he was
a head planter. Oral Roberts f=
or the
Pentecostal... Pentecostal seed's been planted. (I'm talking about organiza=
tion
now.) And then the Word's been planted. Now, you'll have to understand, fol=
ks.
I ain't saying this no more 'less God tells me. I want you to get this good=
and
clear. Three seeds has been planted. (Spoken Word Original Seed 62-0318=
m)
Quote: 54-5 Jesus said that they would be so close that they would deceive=
the
very elected, if it was possible; but it ain't possible. That Seed's going =
to
fall there, because of it's predestinated to fall there. The seeds has went
forth. The denominations is sowed; the Word's been sowed. See? And Jannes and Jambres, they--them
people... The Bible said these devils would rise up in the last days and wo=
uld
deceive the people by these miracles and signs that they could perform. How=
you
going to know the difference? The Word. (Spoken Word Original Seed
62-0318m)
Quote: E-67 Jesus said, "As it was in the days of
A man ca=
me to
This is =
an
eyewitness account of Brother Chandler, who now belongs to
The gift= s of Brother Branham caused many impersonators from so-called Pentecost who trie= d to impersonate that gift that God gave him. Now, this is the fanaticism that actually accompanies Pentecostalism. Under no condition could that have been the original Article.
So now h= ere is just a little thing that probably some of you may want to know concerning o= ther preachers, although they did not claim to be Pentecostals.
“Mr. G. Armstro= ng: televangelist, radio teacher, pastor, evangelist, radio teacher. Multiple adulterer. Admitted that by 1972, he had illicit relations with two hundred women. The number was much greater by the date of his death in 2003. Claimed his ‘calling’ to the ministry from the womb exempted him from Bibli= cal accountability.”
His call= ing from the womb exempted him for giving account of breaking the Word!
“Mr. H. Armstrong.: apostle, prophet, pastor, televangelist, radio teacher. Incestuous relationsh= ip with daughter, alcoholic, false prophet, plagiarist. Never admitted publicl= y to misconduct.”
You are = talking about false prophets around the world in sheep clothing. You hear their voi= ces over the radio, brethren, I tell you, they could talk like Lucifer himself.
And last=
but not
least, the Catholic Church: cl=
aims
to be the “true” chur=
ch.
Allowed hundreds of priests to se=
rve
while they sexually abused children and did not report the incidents to the
police.
Now but = this gives you a brief outlook into Pentecostalism and beyond, and it shows us t= hat we are on the right track. It goes to show that the messages that you have heard, ‘The Greatest Lie of t= he Twentieth Century,’ ‘Power Without Character,’ ‘Bui= lt Upon Tongues But Not the Rock,’ ‘The Spirit Upon the Just and t= he Unjust,’ are right, crowned off temporarily today by, ‘Satan’s Hall of Shame.= 217; All these people are in Satan’s Hall of Shame.
How professed
Christians come to such shame
Now I will try to better your understanding again and reconfirm to you how such things could happen for one hundred years to people who claim to be Christi= ans, preaching the Bible with tears in their eyes. No one could have cried like = Mr. J. Swaggart: kneeling down in front of the congregation. Brethren, they pray like an archangel and if you would look just from your mental understanding, you will never think that those men could be living such nasty lives but it happens. I base my understanding upon Matthew 10, like I preached to you, “The Spirit of the Lord falling = upon the Just and the Unjust.”
So this = is a picture that we could put back in the Bible. We had a man who was sharing in the restoration of the gifts i= n the days of Jesus. A man who was anointed by the Spirit. The Holy Ghost was outpoured upon them and the Spirit fell upon the just and the unjust. I bel= ieve Peter, James, John and all those other men were just. In other words, they meant to serv= e God in Spirit and Truth and they were predestinated from the foundation of the world. But then, my Friends, when our Lord came during that time, He called= both the just and the unjust and poured out this blessing upon them. Again I re-emphasize that the seventy, together with the twelve, received the Power= of God without the virtues, witho= ut Christ-like character. These people’s natures were not changed and th= eir natures and character not being changed—“Power apart from chara= cter is satanic.” In other words, it could fail and Satan could use the individual because they have no ke= eping power inside. They have to fight harder to keep themselves by that anointing. Judas came from hell and= he went back to hell.
John
All righ= t! This is a clear picture here of the seventy and a clear picture of Judas who received that Power, operated the gifts, maybe cried like a baby, like you saw “Judas” here for m= any years weeping and crying. He was the number one suspect of committing that horrible crime of bloodshed. Who could have ever discerned that man would be guilty of such a thing? But the anointing was falling upon him. Some probab= ly do not understand how the pastor stood right behind the pulpit and said tha= t he was “a spiritual man.” Definitely, he was a spiritual man! Wha= t do you think the devil uses, a dull axe somewhere? In order to bring deception, the d= evil uses a spiritual man.
Was Juda= s a spiritual man? Sure, he= was a spiritual man. He was so spir= itual that the other apostles dared not ask Jesus if the betrayer was Judas. They would rather blame themselves first than blame Judas Iscariot because the m= an had some spirituality about him.
I am say= ing that Mr. Roberts, Mr. Graham and Mr. Parham were spiritual; they were anointed. = Mr. Seymour, Mr. Swaggart and all those fellows that we read about were spiritu= al. Friends, all “spiritual” people are not ordained to Life. All “spirituals” are n= ot going to heaven. God could us= e a man to do signs, wonders and miracles and then if he doesn’t have his nature changed, these things could befall him. The only way that nature wil= l be changed is that you have to be deadly honest with God, deadly honest after eternal life, deadly honest to serve the Lord; you have to be hungering and thirsting after righteousness and then you will be filled. I tell you, we better be honest with God.
Could have 19=
06
baptism, fulfill Hebrews 6 And perish
Now
after that great revival that Jesus blessed them with, (He blessed them wit=
h an
outpouring, blessed them with the baptism and blessed them with gifts) it w=
as
possible that Judas and the seventy entered Satan’s Hall of Shame.
Quote W.M.B.: 162 … 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 goi= ng to heaven. 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)
And this= was proven in Judas right here and many thousands that were not recorded in the Bible. Although he returned the silver, it did not help him because he had crossed the line. “A man with the baptism of the Holy Spirit like they received in 1906 blasphemed, Brother Bruce?” Yes, Jesus confirmed tha= t he came from hell and went back to hell as the son of perdition.”
Preacher= s, don’t boast yourself outside there that you accepted the prophet, accepted the message and you have no need of another outpouring of the Holy Spirit. What you have is able to cause you to sell the message for a farthi= ng, for a mini-dress, for money, women or popularity and find your soul in hell! I don’t doubt tha= t you have the baptism of the Holy Spirit. I don’t doubt you have that outpouring. I don’t doubt that you could work some signs and wonders = but friends, the prophet of God said that you could have that every hour of your life and be lost and go to hell, so don’t boast yourself. I am saying, and we are saying and Brother Branham is saying that the Token is required or you will perish! With all that you have, the Token = is required or you will perish.
Judas - as th=
ose
with 1906 baptism, in Satan’s
Hall of shame
Now, look at Satan’s Hall of Shame here: Judas, a man that did all what Mr. Roberts, Mr. Allen, Mr. Swaggart and others did, throughout one hundred yea= rs (and even more than that), sold the Word for thirty pieces of silver. He blasphemed his way and even ret= urned the silver, trying to repent just like Esau but found no place of repentanc= e. He went out and disgraced himself = by hanging himself and his bowels gushed out.= The money that he made for selling out the Word of God bought a potter’s field, which is called “The Field of Blood.”
I am cit= ing this man here who shared in the first revival before the Outpouring came on the = day of Pentecost. He represents many of the people that came down through the hundred years and were attached to Pentecostalism. I am not saying all of them because the just and = the unjust were involved. So now the unjust coming down the road shared in the = same Power, signs, wonders and Outpouring but there were those present that came from hell and were used of the devil to stumble millions of people from receiving salvation and they are going to account for that before the White Throne Judgment and their souls are in hell today. Think of it.
Now, let= me speak against the apostles just a little bit to show and prove my point her= e on Satan’s Hall of Shame. Now while the apostles had an outpouring, whic= h I am calling “the baptism,” and they worked signs and wonders, th= ere came a time when the great temptation came, they fled naked. Satan had them in his Hall of Sham= e temporarily. Is that right? In th= at Hall, while Peter was warming himself with the enemy’s fire, the man = cursed, swore and denied t= he Lord. He was in Satan’s= Hall of Shame temporarily. But I will tell you this: when the outpouring came up= on those same apostles, brethren, they came out of that hall and they never re-entered Satan’s Hall of Shame because they had the victory.
And you = might do certain things that bring shame upon you. True believers might do certain things today that bring shame upon them but friends, you don’t have to stay there because we have a Promise. Right now, your natures could be chan= ged. God has a Promise and He said that if you go after that Promise you will ne= ver ever be ashamed.
100 YEARS OF
PENTECOSTALISM – GREATEST STUMBLINGBLOCK
Those with the 1906 outpouring and baptism of the Holy Spirit ended up in Satan’s Hall of Shame. Pentecostalism became the greatest stumbling b= lock and the greatest disgrace upon the earth today. They are stumbling millions= of people and I will venture to say, billions. People don’t want to hear anything about “a church”; people don’t want to hear anyt= hing about “a preacher”; and people don’t want to hear anything about “a Bible” after this display of Pentecostalism. What I am saying and read to you is not even one percent of the wickedness that came out of so-called Pentecostalism. The amount of wickedness that Pentecostalism is responsible for, only eternity = will unfold.
Let us p= ut in another pebble here. I have proven that the 1906 experience could not have = been a return of Pentecost. No, no, no! It was a Baptism of the Holy Spirit with= out a changed nature. I have proven to you that even the genuine apostles that = had not gone up to Pentecost, Satan made them ashamed so that when the temptati= on came, they fled naked, denied, cursed and swore! They were never strengthen= ed until they went back to Pentecost. Now we are heading there. We must go bac= k to Pentecost, receive this outpouring of the Holy Spirit and the Latter Rain i= f we would not be ashamed.
That is = why shame comes out of the congregation. Young women who were born and grown up= in the House of God, because they would not seek God and hold to the vision of= the coming Promise, will just get so weak that they just go out into the world = and let any man use them and kick them out, whether they have AIDS or not! Now that is a horrible thing. That= goes to show that you had not been doing your home lesson and you were not living under the anointing of the Lord. Young men have done the same thing and it = goes to show that they were not under the anointing of the Lord. You got to have= a revelation and that revelation is your victory.
BAPTISM (POWE=
R)
WITH AND WITHOUT VIRTUES (CHRIST-LIKE CHARACTER)
So there is a baptism of the Holy Spirit without Christ-like character and without the virtues. Hear what the prophet of God said on “Blasphemous Names.&#= 8221;
Quote W.M.B.: 21-2 Now, you say, "Brother Branham, should we speak with tongues?" Absolutely, that= 's gifts of God. But those gifts of God without these virtues in them, makes a stumbleblock to the unbeliever. It's not accepted by God. (Blasphemous Names 62-1104m).
Now Brot= her Branham was fully conscious of what was going on and knew that you could sp= eak in tongues and do all the signs and wonders but if you are not built up rig= ht from a changed nature, coming up with faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness and brotherly kindness, that those gifts becomes a stumblingblock to people, even because you do it with an unchanged nature; = you do it with an evil nature inside of you and you could use those gifts to ma= ke money. That is what they use that for. They use that for popularity and to seduce women. So, “Power apar= t from character is satanic,” just like the prophet of God said.
Quote W.M.B.: 117-1 A man without character can't reign because power apart from
character is Satanic. But power with character is fit to rule. (
Power without
character
When they do those miracles and signs, people have confidence in them, then they build a big organization.
Could you imagine that man there went with two hundred women and by the time of his death in 2003, that must have multiplied. Where is his soul today? “Televangelist,” they said. Now that gives you a picture of “power without character.”
When you= talk about these politicians in different parts of the world that receive power = to rule a country, they do not have the character of Christ and that is why th= ey butcher their own people, like the man called Idi Amin. Because he was overthrown, he and his soldiers cut off the people’s legs and hands, = took poles and stuck them from behind, put them up on those poles and left the people to die for miles along the road when he was making his escape from t= he country. That is a display of = power without character.
It only = happened that that is “political power” but this here is “religious power,” but the man is evil in his nature in any case. So instead of cutting off the people’s legs, they cut out their souls and send them to hell. Which is worst? You deceive the people, tell them that they could wear high heeled shoes, they could come to church with pants as women. “Adultery and fornication are nothing. You just have to repent and come back, as long as you pay your tithes and speak= in tongues.” You are a deceiving hypocrite! You are a liar. You are stil= l in your evil nature and your soul is unjust! You deceived those poor people. <= /p>
But ther= e was a man who was not like that and his name was William Branham. He was of a different spirit, even like Joshua and Caleb and his mind was on a Promise = to come.
Oh my, I= hope that you are learning. I see you are meditating. As long as your minds are = here and I could see you concentrating on the Word and receiving it, I don’= ;t care about the “Amen’s.” No. I just want to get that fellowship in the Spirit and this morning I have that fellowship in the Spi= rit. Everybody is just meditating, learning and taking these things into their souls, and you marvel at the perfection of God’s Word.
So, thes= e are the things that we just read about in the histories and what we read about during the week that could happen. Why? It is because they had the outpouri= ng; they had a revival; they had the baptism but without character. The only re= ason that Brother Branham could have said that you could have this article every hour of your life and go to hell is that he knew very well that their nature was not changed. Brother Branham said:
=
;
Quote W.M.B.: 1040-Q-317 317. Will all borned again believers go in the rapture?<= o:p>
No, just the remnant, just the remnant=
, not
all born again believers. The Bible said, "And the rest of the dead li=
ved
not for a thousand years," and then they was raised up and separated, =
the
sheep from the goats. Not all borned again will go in the... according to the Scripture. (Questions and Ans=
wers
64-0823E).
Brother =
Branham
came right back there and said, =
220;If
a man is born again he is eternal as God is eternal, and as God cannot be l=
ost
so that man cannot be lost.”
Quote W.M.B.: E-19 That's the reason it's totally impossible for any persons to e= ver be saved outside of the new birth, because men are borned again of the Spir= it of God and become a part of God. Their existence is eternal as God is eternal. "They can never perish," Jesus said. "No one can pluck them fro= m My hand. They are of the Father Divine, and there's no one can take them or separate them, for they are a part of God." (Life 57-0602).
Quote: E-20 Eternal Life is the Life of God. And when the man is borned ag=
ain,
he becomes a part of God and is absolutely imperishable. "He that hear=
eth
My words and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath Eternal, Everlasting Life,=
and
shall never come into condemnation, but is passed from death unto Life.&quo=
t;
We become a part of God, because we're borned of Him, and the Spirit of God that dwells in us is immortal. It has = no beginning and it'll have no end. (Faith Once Delivered To The Saints 57-0610).
Quote: 6 That's why the borned again Christian has never an end, because he has Eternal Life. And Eternal Life is a part of God's Own Life, for God is eternal. And the same word, Greek word "Zoe" that says "God's Life," when Jesus speaks and said, "I give unto them Eternal Life," that same word is used again. Therefore, a man being borned aga= in, his spirit has been changed, and he becomes a part of God; insomuch that he= is a son of God. And he's just as eternal as God is eternal, because he's a pa= rt of God, by his birth, spiritual birth. (Handwriting On The Wall 58-0108= ).
= ;That’s the purity of the real birth by the incorruptible seed; that is a different article.
I Peter
&n= bsp; Beloved, if you have that new birth in your bosom, rest assured that you will come to perfection. You don’t have to manufacture wool. The sheep bears wool. Have faith in God. Ye= s. When we speak of perfection, it looks impossible but friends, get that new birth down on the inside. “Brother Bruce, How do I know that I am born again?” Faith is the born again experience.
&n=
bsp; Quote W.M.B.: 18-2 Notice: you must be borned again. And when you're born again, =
you
can't be born again without ha=
ving faith. That's right. So, you see =
on my
chart here, I got the very foundation. Faith is the foundation of all of it=
.
(Stature Of A Perfect Man 62-1014m)=
Judas spirit
– loved money
You cannot doubt that message; you have no questions about it; you have no questions about the prophet; you have no questions about that man that is preaching the truth to you and you have no questions on these articles that= are brought out to you. You just believe them!
They bec= omes such a part of you that they are just the abcs; they are just the common th= ings because you believe. But when you are a skeptic of the Word and you could hear that Word, one year, two years, five years, = six years, seven years, ten years and you still have to watch and see if the preacher is a false prophet or if he is after your money or after your daug= hter or after this or after that, you are a dead hypocrite and you may be a Juda= s. That is hard language, but it is the truth.
&n= bsp; Check the scriptures on Judas’ life. Though he worked signs and wonders and miracles, he was a man that hated Jesus, was jealous over Jesus and was try= ing to find fault with Him. When that alabaster box of ointment came into the picture and His feet were being anointed, he started to grumble that the ointment could have been sold and the money given to the poor. He got so “righteous.” (John 12:4-6) The Bible said, “Not that he c= ared for the poor, but he was a thief.” That is why many of these Pentecos= tal preachers are thieves; they defraud people; they beg for money and solicit money illegally from the people. Some of them went to jail for it, even bec= ause they had Judas’ spirit and yet they had gifts of the Spirit; they had= the baptism; they had that Outpouring and they were in a revival. It is the same Judas spirit. Judas shared in the first revival but there was a second revi= val coming and he did not make his way up to Pentecost.
Quote W.M.B.: 115-55 Judas Iscariot was justified when he believed on the Lord Je=
sus
Christ and accepted Him as his personal Saviour: Judas Iscariot. Judas Iscariot was sanctified in =
John
Quote: 311-2 Judas hanged himself and his spirit went back to Satan, but a=
fter
Pentecost that same spirit that was in Judas came back to the false vine th=
at
grows right along with the true vine. But notice, Judas' spirit never got to Pentecost. It never =
went
up to receive the Holy Spirit. It could not. But what did that Judas spirit go for? It went for =
the
bag of gold. How it loved money. It
still loves money. If it goes about in the Name of Jesus doing mighty things
and holding great meetings, it still makes more of money and buildings, and
education and everything with a material concept. Just watch that spirit th=
at
is upon them and don't be fooled. (
&n= bsp; If you have a thieving spirit, a spirit that defrauds people, collects their m= oney as a debt collector, then spends it and has them crying for their money, get that fraudulent spirit out of you! It does not matter who you are. It will stop= you from receiving the Token. If y= ou borrow from your brother and refuse to repay him, and “dance him around” for that money for years, you have a fraudulent spirit. Judas= had that fraudulent spirit. Having that fraudulent spirit, the Bible said that = he stole that which was in the bag. Could you imagine something like that? (I cannot get this over!) Here you see a man raise the dead that was stinking = and rotten for four days. He gave you a little place in the church. He entrusted you with the money bag and this man would take out money from the bag and p= ut in his pocket. What a devil! He had to come from hell and he went back to h= ell!
&n= bsp; How could you betray the confidence of Almighty God in you, the very Messiah th= at the world looked for, for four thousand years? You were given that privileg= e to sit and eat with the Messiah, sleep with the Messiah and preach with the Messiah. You have to be a nasty hypocrite; you had to have fallen lower than any man upon the earth. It has got to be an Esau; it has got to be CainR= 17;s seed.
&n= bsp; People do not appreciate the labors o= f a man preaching the Word, trying to redeem them, trying to bring them to Chri= st, trying to offer eternal life to them because of the hypocrisy that is in th= eir hearts. Such people are not fit to live upon the face of the earth, and then will rise up and speak evil of that servant of God, run down his name, stic= k a dagger in his back, blame him for all kinds of things that he never done. Woe be unto that person today. Th= at man blamed our Lord then; he was jealous over Him. “This ointment could h= ave been sold and the money given to the poor.” But what it was, is that = he wanted more money in the bag so he could steal a bigger amount. He had his hidden agenda.
Think of= that man for a moment. Think of that hypocrite. Do you know that there are hypocrites that are worse than th= at today and they were found under Brother Branham’s ministry? They stole Brother Branham’s tent and sold it. Brother Branham had a great big c= rowd waiting on him to preach the Gospel and to manifest gifts of the Spirit. Af= ter having this big crowd, preachers held Brother Branham in a room and another= one went up to the pulpit and said, “I am sorry that the meetings must be cancelled, but something happened that Brother Branham could not show up he= re today,” and dismissed all those people!
Quote W.M.B.: E-7 So then they discussed it a little while. And then the first t=
hing
you know I started to go out into the audience, and they had me outside bef=
ore
I could get into the audience... And I heard them announce that I wasn't=
there.
And I had a brother that'd been sick or something another.
… And I was setting in the room waiting to be called... Then they said that I wasn't there. And then I said, "Oh, that's misrepresenting some= thing." You see? I said, "Someone ought to say that that's different." (Exploits Of Faith 53-1213e)
This is = what so-called Pentecostalism produced. These are the kinds of people that were around Brother Branham. They are worse than Judas Iscariot.
&n= bsp; I compliment Judas Iscariot because the man was convicted in such a way that = he brought back the silver, threw it there and said, “I have betrayed the innocent blood; forgive me.” Beloved, but when a man crosses that borderline of repentance, there is no mercy, just like Esau, trying to find repentance with tears and found it not. A man could say what he wants to say but not for how long he wants to. There comes a time that after blaspheming= and opening up your mouths and siding with the Judases, siding with offenders, siding with people that hate the ministry and hearing the wrong things, you will speak the last word, and then the Lord says, “That is enough. I = cut you off.” There is no more repentance for you. If you hear His Voice, harden not your heart, for the Spirit of God shall not always strive with m= an. (Hebrews 3:15, Genesis 6:3)
When you= start getting on that side of the Gospel, it brings fear. I respect God, brethren, and I know you do. You respect the Word, otherwise you would not be here for all the decades. Young little fellows that came in many years ago are now grandfathers. God blessed us. We do not have that kind of spirit and it is strange when we see those things. It sounds strange that the hearts of men = will be in that condition. How that Judas could sit there, see all those miracles and signs and wonders (and even did some of them) and turned right around a= nd contemplate selling out the Messiah (“Let him go and die.”–Die! I am talking about) for thirty pieces of silver.
&n=
bsp; I
still have to compliment him; the man had some kind of conscience that
remained. After he done what he done, he came and brought back the money and
said, “I have betrayed the innocent blood.” and went out and hu=
ng
himself. (He could not live with that guilty conscience.) His belly burst a=
nd
his bowels gushed in Satan’s Hall of Shame. (Acts
&n= bsp; That is what I was preaching to that man about yesterday for one and a half hour= s. I said, “What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and suffer = the loss of his soul? No matter what it takes, give up everything in this life = and gain eternal life!” That is the picture that each one of us should ha= ve here, otherwise you could not follow on with this. That is what keeps us go= ing, brethren. The most important thing in this life is eternal life. Believe Brother Bruce. Your money will pass away; your house will pass away; lands will pass away; your pride will pass away; your education will pass away; whatever you achieve upon this earth will pa= ss away; and if you have too much money in the bank, the Pope is going to take= it; the mark of the beast will come down and they will take it away from you. I= say to put your whole interest in the Word of God and eternal life. Choose the = way of God’s despised few. Oh my! Deceit is a horrible thing. Betrayal is a horrible thing.
Revival after
revival, from 1906 onwards
&n= bsp; Now let me put a little something in = here. The 1906 revival was not the only revival. We have had several revivals com= ing up. When one man went off the scene, God raised up another one after a few years. As he raised up these men with a revival, it was the same situation,= it was the same kind of Outpouring that came in 1906. That revival came for bo= th the just and the unjust. After a while, the revivalist then passed off the scene and the people built an organization from it. Then when they organize= d, they died. Then a little while after God raised another revivalist. Raising= up these men, from there, other men would go out with healing, signs and wonde= rs, and then after a while, the people would build another organization.
So now t= hat happened from 1906 and it came right up unto a man called Brother F. F. Bosworth. Now that was a gentleman. That man was responsible for the Assemb= lies of God and a lot of his ministry was to overseas mission. Then when that man heard Brother Branham, he surrendered and spent the rest of his life with William Branham and supported him in every way. Brother Branham really loved that man. He was preaching the Gospel long before Brother Branham started.<= span style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'> When Brother Bosworth was dying, B= rother Branham related that he was on his death bed calling names of brethren whom= he had led to the Lord saying, “Happy to meet you, Brother So-and-so. Ha= ppy to meet you, Brother So-and-so.” He was crossing over from this life and that happened may= be for an hour or more. He just greeted the brethren who were in that dimensio= n, then he passed on with the Lord. Brother Branham had all good things to say about Brother Bosworth, though Brother Bosworth was wrong in some doctrines. But Brother Branham knew that he had the Baptism; he knew that Bosworth was= a gentleman and he loved the Lord. He never contended with Bosworth on doctri= ne because that is how far Brother Bosworth could have served Christ. He was a sincere man.
Quote
W.M.B.: 223 Brother Bosworth, I=
'll meet
you in a better land where you'll not be old anymore, but young." R=
30;
two hours before he died… He'd been laying, sleeping. He raised up; he
looked, and he jumped up from his bed. He said, "Mother, well, I haven=
't
seen you for years. Dad, Brother Jim, why," said, "let's see, you=
was
one of my converts to the Lord at
&n= bsp; So, this is vital here, that the revival fires went on from 1906 periodically. It was not many yea= rs, until 1933, when the Lord started to use the prophet. Now if you notice that even after 1933, in 1936, when Brother Branham met the “Oneness” people, the revival was still going on from 1906 Pentecost. He ran along wi= th that and preached to the people, and called the people to that same 1906 anointing, Baptism and everything like that. He was practicing divine heali= ng and doing the work of an evangelist.
Father of sec=
ond
wave & last revival – w. m. branHam
Now something different happened in 19= 46. An angel visited the earth and a new revival broke with a deeper anointing, greater signs, greater wonders and that is at= the end of the Second World War. Everything was working together to fulfill Scriptures. Friends, I had just been born, so I did not know anything about= it but, thank God that I could look back now and see why that Prophet had such= a great revival and I could be a part of this thing today (and we are all thankful, Brethren.) An angel came down from heaven and broke a revival. I = am here to tell you today that revival was the last revival for that = era. From 1906, that was going to be the last revival but it came with a deeper anointing.
&n=
bsp; That
is where Oral Roberts arose, and Bosworth shared in that, T.L. Osborne and
several others. They were in that era. When Brother Branham came out with t=
hat
revival, he recognized all those men as servants of God, (I read it here)
“Filled with the Holy Ghost, having the baptism of the Holy Ghost.=
221;
While Brother Branham recognized that they had the baptism of the Holy Spir=
it,
they were preaching Trinitarian
doctrine; they were allowing women to preach; and they were building
&n=
bsp; So
when this revival broke in 1946, I am saying to the whole world that Brother
Branham had the genuine articl=
e of
Pentecost but the rest of the preachers did not have that because there was=
not
an outpouring of the Holy Spirit as in Acts 2, in all the outpourings from =
1906
right up to 1946. There was not a return of Pentecost, not even under Broth=
er
Branham. The outpouring of the Holy Spirit never returned under Brother
Branham’s ministry. What he had was a great gift of divine healing th=
at
brought the world to
1000 EVANGELISTS HONOURED W.M. BRANHAM’S
“<=
b>W
“The person universally ackno=
wledged
as the revival’s ‘fath=
er’
and ‘pacesetter’ was William Branham. The sudden appearance of =
his
miraculous healing campaigns in 1946 set off a spiritual explosion in the
Pentecostal movement which was to move to
Healing and T=
ENT
REVIVAL
Brother Branham was called “the father” of that revival. He spearheaded that revival and even the Pentecostal history now documented him as the fat= her of that revival, and that was the time that a lot of tent meetings started.= So now, tents started going out and Brother Branham, himself had a small tent during that time and all those other evangelists followed him and started building tents. That was your great tent revival. This was a tent revival. = So now, Brother Branham started the great tent revival. This is going to run f= or about fifteen years, from 1946 right down to 1962.
&n= bsp; Now what is going to happen now? Jack Coe, who was one of Brother Branham’= ;s converts, with all what he done and the different ideas of believing that t= he doctors are “the Mark of the Beast,” Brother Branham never contended with them. He knew their status and he went along with them. He w= as projecting divine healing. It was a revival of healing that went around the world and these are the men who jumped on the bandwagon, together with the just and the unjust and came under Brother Branham’s ministry. So that was the age. This was the last revival to take place, which was under Brother Branham’s ministry. So that went on for fifteen years and Brother Branham spearheaded that. Some evangelists like F. F. Bosworth and a few others joined Brother Branham.
&n= bsp;
=
Quote W.M.B.: 753-41 Now, I believe with all my heart that the Lord has helped m=
e and
has used me to spearhead a great revival, one of the greatest that's ever
struck the world since the early days, across the world. We know that. That=
's
right. (Taking Sides With Jesus 62-0601).
1906 baptism
continued under the message and w.m.b.’s revival
&n=
bsp; This
is going to be important outsi=
de
there. Africa,
&n= bsp; Quote W.M.B.: 20-5 See, that stinking dead man was the only thing he'll point his fingers to of his success of forty years of training: a stinking Egyptian laying there rotten and dead. That's about the way it is tonight. The only thing we can point to Luther...?... died to crossed over so...?... is a stinking bunch of church members that knows no more about God than a Hotten= tot would know about a Egyptian night. That's right. That would tell them about= the Word of God. They say, "I don't believe that. I don't care what you sa= y; I don't believe it." That's an awful thing to have to point back to. For= all the strains and struggles and everything we got. (Paul A Prisoner Of Christ 63-0717).
&= nbsp;
Quote: E-8 See, we had a revival, lasted for years. History shows that a m= an, an evangelist, usually his best part is his first three years, and after th= at he lives on the reputation of what he preached in them three years. And the= n, a revival doesn't last very long. But this has been going for some fifteen ye= ars, 'cause it's the last revival, I believe, and we're right at the end time. I believe the next will be pulling the church, the elect, from the groups and taking them together, and away It'll go. And so, we're looking for that to happen. (Perseverant 62-0= 719e).
&n=
bsp; Quote: 78 And history only shows a revival only lasts not over three years=
at
the most. And we had one in this last day now, for about fifteen years that
revival fires struck across the world. (Calling Jesus On The Scene
63-0804e).
So that = was the last revival in the Pentecostal era. From 1906 right up to 1962, that put an end to that revival. Now from the time that happened, the tents disappeared= and do you know what happened? All those preachers went to television. So that = is where your televangelists came= in.
Quote W.M.B.: 43-3 Why then has the revival fires let up? You don't hear very much more of Billy Graham, like gre=
at
evangelists. Oral Roberts is not burning the country like he used to. My
meetings is not even heard of. There's just three. What's the matter?
…Now, Billy Graham... The world =
was
a-burning here not long ago with Billy Graham. You very seldom here of it n=
ow.
He's still going, but what's the matter? Oral Roberts, why, just burning the
earth up: dying down. Tommy Osborn, all of them are good godly men. What's
a-happened? Believing that God called me for a ministry, what's happened to
mine?
…You say, "Brother Branham,= yours is deadest of all of them." That's true. That is right. Billy Graham's more heard of than I am, and Billy's more heard of than Oral. Oral's more h= eard of in one day than I am in six months. Tommy Osborn, Tommy Hicks, any of th= ose godly men, they're more heard of. So as far as that turns, mine's farther a= way than all of them. (Spoken Word Original Seed 62-0318m).
Quote: E-64 You don't hear very much of Billy Graham no more, do you? What about Oral? What about the rest of them? You know the great revival fire's = not burning. (End Time Sign Seed 62-0319).
&n= bsp;
=
Quote: 253-2 {182} Now, that's what's the reason today that the revivals t=
hat
we're supposed to have... We have denominational revivals; we haven't had a
real stirring. No, no, no, no. No, sir. Don't think we got revivals. We
haven't. Oh, they've got millions and millions and millions of church membe=
rs,
but not a revival nowhere. No, no.
The Bride hasn't had a revival yet. Se= e? There's been no revival there, no manifestation of God to stir the Bride ye= t. See? We're looking for it. It will take those seven unknown thunders back t= here to wake her up again. He will send it. He promised it. Now, now, watch. Now, she was--she was dead. (The Third Seal 63-0320).
&n=
bsp; =
; Quote: 1158-Q-386 386.
Brother Branham, what seems to be wrong in the day when we are living, of b=
eing
a believer and following the Message and messenger of today, when you cannot
seem to pray like you would like to?
That's a good question. I believe brot= her, sister, ever who asked it, it's a cause of the conditions of time. The revi= val is over. The revival has lasted some fifteen years, never did last before o= ver about three years. I believe it's received its last revival. And I believe that's why you can't pray and feel in the Spirit like you used to. It's bec= ause the revival fires has gone out. (Questions And Answers 64-0830e).
Quote: 718-152 And the revival is over, and
EvangelistS l=
ost
their power at the end of That revival
&n= bsp; Now even the gifts that were given to the people, that power to operate the gif= ts was taken away from them. Proof of that is that you never heard anymore abo= ut those evangelists and their great meetings. Oral Roberts went and built a h= ospital, a Bible school and they traded upon testimonies from way back down there. T= . L. Osborne went down. All these great men started to surface and bring out what they had down inside of them: their evil natures. Now anybody that know= s this message or read this message knows that what I am saying is the truth. That started soon after that revival was finished in 1962. In 1965, the Prophet = was going to go home. That revival came with Brother Branham and it died with Brother Branham. That is why you do not hear about signs and wonders and miracles in the volume that you used to hear about in the early age because= the revivalist went home and the people sinned and rejected the Word of God.
&n= bsp;
Quote W.M.B.:, 156-2 In every age we=
have
exactly the same pattern. That is why the light comes through some God-given
messenger in a certain area, and then from that messenger there spreads the
light through the ministry of others who have been faithfully taught. But of
course all those who go out don't always learn how necessary it is to speak
ONLY what the messenger has spoken…They add here, or take away there,=
and
soon the message is no longer pure, and the revival dies down. (
The message of
w.m.b. made manifest the just and the unjust
From 1906 it came right up. Brother Branham joined into the healing revival even from 1933. Now but he was the Prophet of the age, (Malachi 1: 5-6) and the Laodicean messenger. He was to rebuke the church and he brought the Word to them. When he brought the Word to so-called Pentecost, it showed up the just and the unjust. All this time from 1906, it was alright; they ran along but then the Word came and it divided the just from the unjust.
&n= bsp;
Seals revealed
False anointed ones – TWO spirits&nb=
sp;
identified
That
is why at the end of his life, he preached ‘Anointed
Ones at the End Time.’ That message was tying down and vindicatin=
g by
the Word of God the false anointed ones. The Prophet of God gave us somethi=
ng
to understand who the false anointed ones are. He said that the false anoin=
ted
ones preached Trinitarianism after they heard the Word of God. They allowed
women to preach; they built Bible schools; they built organizations and all
those other things, and they do not follow the commandments of the Lord. So=
now
here the Bride received something to understand and to discern who false
anointed ones are and who are God’s children. That is where it is.
&n= bsp; The seals were opened for that purpose= : to reveal the anti-Christ and to reveal Christ. That was the spot. The seals were opened to show all these unjust partaking of spiritual gifts. That is after the revival was over in 1962. The Word now came and revealed two spirits working in the framew= ork of the Christian Church. One was anti-Christ and the other one was Christ. The only way that you are going back to Pentecost and going in the rapture is to get a revelation of the seals.= The only way to escape the anti-Christ today and not be deceived is to get a revelation of the two spirits that are working in the framework of the Christian Church.
&n= bsp;
The prophet s=
tarted
calling the people back to Pentecost: seals made the way
Notice
from about 1960 to 1965, Brother Branham’s preaching changed and he k=
ept
on calling the people back to Pentecost. “The greatest messages that =
you
could read and hear,” Brother Bob told me, “is from
1960.” That is when the
Prophet of God realized that the Lord had finished with that kind of anoint=
ing
back there. Now Brother Branham’s messages changed and he started
preaching ‘Stature of a Perfe=
ct
Man,’ ‘Adoption,’ ‘Manifested Sons of God,’
‘Predestinated Mystery of his Will,’ ‘Christ is the Myste=
ry
of God Revealed,’ ‘The Unveiling of God,’ ‘The Migh=
ty
God Unveiled,’ ‘Spoken Word is the Original Seed,’ and
all those messages. He said, “I
will speak plainly this morning” and he crowned off that whole th=
ing.
From there on, it was a call back =
to
Pentecost because that baptism=
of 1906 that was given to them had served
its time.
&n= bsp; Yes, and if this is not too much for the outside world, the covenant had changed. By the opening of the seals, the covenant= had changed. Now that the covenant was changed, you were going to receive the T= oken or perish. So now Brother Branham came back and preached ‘The Token.’
Quote W.M.B. 9-5 And we've come up through justification and so forth, but this=
is
the time that the Token has to be applied. I told you last Sunday, I had
something I wanted to talk to you about; this is it. The time that when you
just can't play with it. It's got to be done. If it's ever going to be done,
it's got to be done now; because we can see that the wrath is about ready to
pass through the land, and everything from under that Token will perish. (The Token 63-0901).
Quote: 35-3 Notice, they were not just yet come together to talk about the
message. They come together to apply the blood, to apply the token. That's =
what
you must do.
Pastor Neville, and to this congregati=
on,
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…He was=
not
responsible for any out from beneath it. (The Token 63-0901m).
Quote: 101 No matter how much societies, and how many good Red Cross thin=
gs
they had, which is all good, how much of this, and how many charity
organizations, everything perished that wasn't under that token. Now, think=
of
it. Everything perished. I don't care how big a church they had, how big a
denomination they belonged to, if it was the king's palace; everything
perished. And so did everything perish in
&n=
bsp; Quote: 28 Now, this morning…I hope there was some good tapes on it, =
so
it can be carried out to be known that I believe of all the message that I =
ever
brought, that absolutely was ordained of God, outside of the--course the re=
gular
commission, like the Seven Seals and things--that was directly the Word of =
God.
I'm talking about a message to preach; I believe that one was it (See?), the
one that's needed to follow those Seven Seals. (Desperation 63-0901e).
But God explained that in another way, a little while after. He said “This is that message that was to follow the Seals and it is the highlight of all my ministry and all my preaching.” The Token ties right into the seals. = What was it, Brethren? The Seals were opened in order to make a way for the return of Pentecost. The reason that Angel c= ame down with a rainbow over His h= ead, signified that the covenant has ch= anged, where God was going to give the people the genuine article; and that baptism back there, which was given in 1906, could not ca= rry them in the rapture.
&n= bsp; We are right in line; the Lord blessed us for many years. Sent the right man o= ur way, who explained these things to us; and by God’s grace, sent him my way, for which I am thankful to God. It took me many years to understand, in clarity, the things that I have spoken to you in these five messages (and y= et there is more to come.) But I thank God for His grace, that we could have a clearer picture today and better understanding. I know what I am talking ab= out. I have not a single doubt in my heart. This vision is clear before me, my brethren. If that is not so, I am= a liar before you here, but I have spoken the truth to you. I have no doubt. =
&n= bsp; God has revealed this revelation to me, just like he revealed it to Brother Bra= nham, just like he revealed it to the First Martyr and other servants of God. I am positive about the things that I am proclaiming and I know that you are positive. I know that you have no doubts on this because this is the very s= ame thing that you have heard for all the years. God is good to us. He is very = good to us and we have to thank God. We have to praise Him. We have to love Him more. The token is ours, my brothers and sisters. We are under the right Covenant. We are a covenant people, going back to Pentecost a= nd I believe that we will be a blessing to the world. The Lord will hasten the d= ay. Come my brethren, have your heart prepared for whatever is to come. The Lord bless you greatly for suffering with me for all through the week, two hours preaching almost every night. You have been a very cooperative audience.
&n=
bsp; May
the Lord bless you and grant each one of you that great Outpouring when it
comes. Big and small, here at G.C.C., over in
Comments by l=
ocal
Pastor Kenneth McGahee
&n= bsp; Those were precious Words of Life. I want to really thank the Lord for what was s= aid here today and in the messages that just passed: “The Just and the Unjust,” and all the other messag= es. I really believe in my heart that the church has arrived to a higher platfo= rm, into a place that we never came before and now, what we have been taught has now crossed over the seas. God is preparing His people overseas, even now, = for that great Outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Aren’t you happy today? [Congregation says, “Amen!”= ;]
I want t=
o say to
&n= bsp; I want to read a little Scripture. It goes right along with what Brother Bruce had been saying this morning and on all messages in the past. It is found o= ver in Matthew 7:16.
&n=
bsp; Matthew 7:16-27 <Ye shall know them by their fruits.
Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
=
; Even so every good tree bringeth fo=
rth
good fruit; but a corrupt tree
bringeth forth evil fruit.
=
; A
good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring f=
orth
good fruit.
=
; Every
tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fir=
e.
=
; Wherefore
by their fruits ye shall know them.
=
; Not
every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of
heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
=
; Many
will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name?=
and
in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
=
; And
then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
=
; Therefore
whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him u=
nto
a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
=
; And
the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon =
that
house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
=
; And
every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be
likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
=
; And
the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon =
that
house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.>
&n=
bsp; May
the Lord add a blessing to the reading of His Word. I felt that goes right
along with all that we had been hearing right throughout the week and I just
felt to read that to you. But how many, with a hearty “Amen” tr=
uly
love what you heard these past nights with all your heart? [Congregation says, “Amen!”]
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Hall of
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sp; =
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