Pentecostalism – 100 Years
Old Testament Holy Ghost Baptism
CHAPTER 8
<And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense.
And when Zacharias saw him, he was troubled, and fear fell upon him.
But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.
And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth.
For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.> (Luke 1:11-17).
<In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet [given]; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)> (John 7:37-39).
Baptism – immersion in the spirit
This Scripture is saying that the Holy Ghost was not yet given and over in Luke it is saying that John the Baptist was filled with the Holy Ghost from his mother’s womb. So you could see the picture of all the messages here that we are preaching on.
May I entitle this subject: “Pentecostalism – One Hundred Years: Old Testament Holy Ghost Baptism.”
Now the word “baptism” I was not able to find in the concordance and reference of the Old Testament. The word was never used to describe the filling of the Holy Ghost or the anointing of the Holy Ghost.
The word “baptism,” means “to immerse, to dip” as in some water. Now that’s the same word that is used for “baptism in water” or “baptism in the Spirit.”
In order to baptize you in water, it is not sprinkling or pouring because the word means “immersion.” It means “to put you down.”
Matthew 3:16 <And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water…>
Mark 1:9-10 <…Jesus came from
And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him:>
It took a river. If it was sprinkling, he would be on
top of the bank and John would have sprinkled Him in a very formal and
sanctimonious way and he would go. But he allowed Him to come down into the
muddy
So just to clarify this little title here, that is why I choose to speak this morning on ‘Old Testament Holy Ghost baptism. I want to follow through and use that same word, “baptism” because that word “baptism” is represented as “anointing” and “filled with the Holy Ghost”. John the Baptist was filled with the Holy Ghost. In other words, he was “immersed in the Holy Ghost.” He was “dipped into the Spirit of God even from his mother’s womb.”
That is a strange thing, that a man could receive the Holy Ghost in his mother’s womb! Even though you die and you are in the grave and this outpouring does not come while you are alive, it is coming to you in your grave. So your faith is not in vain. If John the Baptist got it in his mother’s womb, you could get it in the womb of the earth. It is coming to you.
The baptism of the Holy Ghost just means that you are dipped into the Spirit of God or immersed into the Spirit of God and there are different degrees of being immersed into the Spirit of God. The highest immersion that any man ever had was our Lord Jesus.
John 3:34 <…God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.>
But you and I receive the Spirit by measure but he did not get it by measure. He had the Fullness of the Godhead resting bodily upon Him.
Colossians 2:9 <For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. >
So we want to just relax and check this little subject out in the Old Testament that there was a baptism of the Holy Ghost in the Old Testament under the title of “filled with the Holy Ghost” and “anointed by the Holy Spirit.” Now those two terminologies were also used in the New Testament but the word “baptism” was added. If you notice in your Bible the Scripture said,
Acts 10:37-38 < …after the baptism which John preached;
How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.>
Acts 2:4 <And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.>
The word “baptism” stands for the filling of the Holy Ghost and the
word “anointing” also stands for the “baptism of the Holy Spirit.” If you are looking for the word “baptism” in the Old Testament, you may not find it.
We are dealing with the subject of “Pentecostalism – One Hundred Years,” and we are examining their claims. Their claims state that they “received what they had on the day of Pentecost, the original article, the baptism of the Holy Spirit,” which we call in “Bride” language, “The Token,” which we call, “the Fullness” or “the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.” 1906 laid claims on that Article and said that they received that Holy Spirit outpouring as on the day of Pentecost. That claim has not changed in one hundred years but in a hundred years they have not manifested and borne the fruits to prove that their claim is right. We have proven that in several messages.
We proved that their claims are false by many infallible proofs on several messages. We bare witness that it was an outpouring of the Spirit; we bare witness that it was the doing of the Lord; we bare witness that it was the restoration of the gifts to the Church. All these things were confirmed by the prophet, Brother Branham. But then we deny that it was the original article of Pentecost, because according to Scripture, it was a total impossibility for the 1906 believers to get that, though they were elected, God’s children, many of them were God’s servants and a genuine article came; it was not the return of Pentecost. This is confirmed on the Church Age Book pages 377-380.
1906 baptism identified in old testament
The approach that I am taking is to clear up any doubts over on the field or any shadow of darkness that may be hanging upon the other messages that were preached. I want to identify the article of 1906 in the Old Testament and prove it to my hearers on the streaming and those that will be listening to the tape a little later and reading the book. I am saying that the proofs that we have given are infallible and only a fool will challenge it and only an unbeliever or make-believer will deny these truths that are going out. You have to be a dead unbeliever. You have to be after a meal ticket, following some heretic. The only way that you will deny the truths that are infallibly proven in the Scripture is you have to be trying to edify your own self, trying to build an organization or you are trying to live from people’s money.
I am saying that the 1906 article is identified in the Old Testament and you will see how perfect that is. In other words, I am saying that in 1906, when that outpouring came, it was the very same article that was upon the people of the Old Testament, under the same conditions.
We identified that article of 1906 with the apostles
in Matthew 10. We are all settled with that. It is a type of the
restoration of the gifts and that article was given to the apostles and the
seventy and a few others without their natures being changed. It was the
same thing that happened in 1906. There was an outpouring of the Holy Spirit
that came upon the people without a changed nature. Accepting the Lord Jesus Christ
does not change your nature, friends, and that was called “the new birth,” even
through the Dark Ages and throughout one hundred years of Pentecostalism.
Brother Branham, himself, the messenger to
It was a type of the restoration of the gifts over in Matthew 10 but it was the gifts of the Spirit and the anointing of the Holy Ghost and I will call it “the baptism of the Holy Spirit without a changed nature.” They had accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior but their natures were not changed. Judas was numbered with them and he accepted Jesus but his nature never was changed. For further proof, the Pope accepts Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and his nature is not changed; and for one hundred years, people in Pentecost have accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, but accepting Jesus Christ as personal Savior does not change your nature. You must be born again by the water and by the Spirit, then, you have the correct Article.
John 3:3-5 <Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee,
Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the
Now, speaking of the Old Testament baptism of the Holy Spirit, I would let you know that it came upon men without changed natures. Right there, your mind could reflect from Genesis, right up to John the Baptist. So I will identify enough examples in the Old Testament of this “1906 outpouring,” the baptism of the Holy Spirit under different terminologies: anointed and Spirit-filled.
Baptism of the holy ghost without a Changed nature
Now the Old Testament baptism of the Holy Spirit was identical
with what took place in 1906 at
This baptism of the Holy Ghost in the Old Testament
was reserved for prophets, for priests, the high priests, for prophesiers, for
kings and for certain chosen saints of God. It was not to the general
congregation. Moses wished one time that all
Joel 2:28-29 <And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.>
So you see, the congregation was longing to get that Spirit that the prophets and the priests had. And in order for you to get it in that time as a priest, you had to come from a certain parentage. Like from Levi came the Levites and then from Aaron came forth the Aaronic priesthood. That was the high priesthood. So there were other men that were anointed to be just minor prophets; and both women and men had to be gifted in order to prophesy. You see how clean that is from Genesis to Revelation? You will be able to understand this in the Old Testament.
Now what did they have? The emphasis is that the Spirit of the Lord filled them, anointed them, which I am calling, “baptized them” to use offices, to manifest gifts. They were used to demonstrate mighty, mighty, mighty gifts. But hear this, friends. That baptism came upon them without a changed nature.
Look over in Hebrews and you are going to see that the law that they followed only brought them to a certain place of sanctification but “they had a conscience of sin,” the Bible said.
Hebrews 10:2 <For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.>
A conscience of sin. In other words, it never changed the old nature. Now you just let your minds run through from Genesis to Revelation and see the manifestations of certain men that received that article. Compare that now with the histories that we went through of the mighty men that arose under Pentecostalism, and see if it does not compare in many respects, I will say! Those are the people that received the baptism of the Holy Ghost in the Old Testament, but not the congregation.
It came upon both the just and the unjust. Just like it came in 1906, it came upon the just and upon the unjust. For a quick reference, there was an unjust man there called Caiaphas. He wanted to hold onto his church and his theology. But then, friends, he prophesied that one man was going to die for the nation. (John 11:50, John 18:14). Now do you see how that works?
There were two prophets one time: one was a young prophet and one was an old prophet. (I Kings 13) That old prophet lied to this young prophet and caused that young prophet to die. Now the Spirit of the Lord was upon both of them. The young man had seen a vision and the Lord told him, “Don’t enter any house, eat or drink anything; otherwise, you will die.” This old prophet lied; came over and said, “God appeared to me and told me that it is okay, you could come in and eat and drink.” Then, when the man finished eating and drinking, the old prophet started prophesying and he said, “Because you have disobeyed the Word of the Lord, Thus Saith the Lord, you shall be killed by a lion on the way.” And the man went out there; the lion killed the young prophet. Disobedience. But this was a lying prophet. He was an unjust man and the next man was a just man, but the Holy Spirit came upon the just and on the unjust: one was a hypocrite and a liar and the next one was a sincere man willing to obey. There are many, many, many references we could go through. You would be here until the cock crow because it is in the Old Testament. (And out here you can’t hear the cock crowing, so that means you’ll be here the next day!) Their natures were not changed.
John the Baptist was filled with the Holy Ghost from his mother’s womb. But do you know how many years after that the born again experience was preached? Thirty years and more. The new birth doctrine had not come into existence yet. Jesus was the first one that preached the born again experience and He said,
John 3:7 <Ye must be born again.>
But John the Baptist was filled with the Holy Ghost from his mother’s womb. I am proving to you that a man could get the Holy Ghost without a changed nature. And John the Baptist received the Holy Ghost from his mother’s womb. It is the identical article that they received in 1906 without a changed nature.
Now Pentecostals might want to kill you for that, if you tell them that they were not born again—because even Bush, and Clinton, and Billy Graham and all of them claim to be born again. So now you have to speak their language. They are born again. Yes, they are born again. What they are saying is that they “accept Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord, and right then they were born again.”
Now Brother Branham planted them in their own buckets according to the vision; and he spoke their language. However, when a question was asked him he gave the scriptural answer. I am teaching on the subject from the Word.
Quote W.M.B.: 1040-Q-317 317 Will all borned again believers go in the rapture?
“No, just the remnant, just the remnant, not all born again believers. The Bible said, "And the rest of the dead lived 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. (Ques. & Ans. COD 64-0823E)
How is it that a born again believer would not go in the rapture? Beloved, it is an impossible thing if you are born again by the incorruptible seed (I Peter 1:23) to miss the rapture, because he had already said that you are eternal as God is eternal; and as God cannot be lost, so a born again believer cannot be lost.
Quote W.M.B.: 121 Those things are going back; sick, a man sick, a man can get healed
and die again. But a man that's born of the Spirit of God has Eternal Life. (
Quote: E-19 That's the reason it's totally impossible for any persons to ever be saved outside of the new birth, because men are borned again of the Spirit 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 from 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).
Is there discrepancy in the message? No, my brothers and sisters. Brother Branham was speaking of the baptism of the Holy Ghost and the born again experience for the seventh church age, but then when you speak about Bible language that is what we are talking about. You must be born again by the incorruptible seed in order to get the article of Pentecost. That’s it, right there! They are two different things.
Now you know very well that the prophet of God said
Quote W.M.B.: 162 The choice of your conduct, you could... You can't mix it now. You're either for God or against God, and the outward expressions shows exactly what's on the inside. See? The 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 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).
But then brothers and sisters, where do you fit that in the Bible? You have to fit it over here in the Old Testament article. You cannot fit that in the New Testament article because the Bible said:
Ephesians 4:30 <And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.>
Compare the both of them. All right. Because the baptism of the Holy Ghost over here for the Old Testament a man could be lost and go to hell, like Judas. But over here, when you get that article on the day of Pentecost, you are sealed to the day of your redemption. So there is no contradiction in the Bible. This prophet was speaking under two different covenants and you have to understand covenant language. Because the people in the message do not understand covenant language, they mix the two statements together; they mix the two teachings together and they fight and fuss. So one has one set of quotes and says, “Here we have what they had on the day of Pentecost.” Over here, they went right off and said, “No, you don’t have it. The Holy Ghost is not yet even given out! The Holy Spirit is not for you. It is not for today.” No! The Holy Ghost is for now. You are mixing matters! You have to keep them under their respective covenants. (I’m not preaching on the covenants. I’m making things very simple here.)
The Holy Ghost was not yet given
Now, John the Baptist was filled with the Holy Ghost from his mother’s womb. Over here, a man came, called Jesus, the Son of Man revealed and said,
John 7:37-39 <…If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given…>
Come on! I am saying that they were speaking for two different ages. Over here, John the Baptist filled with it from his mother’s womb and over here, a Man is saying, “It is not even given out!” So a man could have jumped up and say, “So you are doubting that John the Baptist had the Holy Ghost from his mother’s womb, Mr. Jesus.” And He would say, “No, I’m not doubting that! He had the Holy Ghost from his mother’s womb, but the Holy Ghost was not yet given out!” That makes it very confusing.
Jesus never used to explain things like that, friends. He just said what He had to say and went on. Then His disciples used to come inside of the house. He would say, “Unto you it is given to understand the mysteries of the Kingdom, but unto them in parables. That is how I speak outside. So I speak in parables outside there, but I speak to you in plain language.” He said, “The Holy Ghost is not yet given out.” You had to go and find out what He was talking about. He was not contradicting the Old Testament; He was speaking about two different ages.
They received the baptism of the Holy Ghost under Luther. They receive it under Wesley. And in 1906, they did receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit but yet we need another outpouring.
EVERYTHING OUTSIDE TOKEN HOLY GHOST WILL PERISH
Quote W.M.B.: 30-2 All outside of the token of the blood perished, everyone. And everyone outside of the Token of the Holy Ghost will perish. (The Token 63-0901M).
Isn’t it clear like a whistle? Yes, but you’ve got to put it in the right perspective.
Let me just briefly quote to you people who had the Holy Ghost baptism.
Zacharias. Luke 1:67: <…Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied…>
Okay, that is before the new birth. That is an Old Testament article. The covenant was not changed yet.
Elisabeth: Luke: 1:41: <…and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:> and she prophesied; and Mary prophesied likewise.
Simeon: In Luke 2:25-35, Simeon was filled with the Holy Ghost, and he prophesied about the Messiah.
Anna: And then another woman who was there prophesied. Her name was Anna. (Luke 2:36-38) She was filled with the Holy Ghost.
John the Baptist: Brethren, these people were filled with the Holy Ghost. John the Baptist surpassed them; he got it from his mother’s womb but all their natures were not changed.
I have proven to you that there was a baptism of the
Holy Ghost in the Old Testament that a man and woman could receive without
being born again. This is that article that came on
Zacharias: Now look at something. Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost but then he doubted God. How come? He doubted the Lord’s angel and His message in so much until the Lord had to strike him dumb! Something was wrong with this nature. Watch how this baptism was working now. John the Baptist was filled with it from his mother’s womb but yet he worked no miracles; he had no signs.
Mary: Look at Mary: she was filled with the Holy Spirit and at fifty years of age (approximately) she had to go up to Pentecost and be numbered with the hundred and twenty to receive the article of Pentecost. I am saying that all those who receive that article in 1906 need to go to Pentecost. I am saying all the followers of Malachi 4, who are now preaching, and now living by the Holy Ghost that they brought over from organization and from 1906, need to go back to Pentecost. They must receive the Token or perish! That is the message of the prophet. Certainly as Mary had to go up to Pentecost and get a new article, you and I must go back to Pentecost. If she was the most blessed woman in the whole world, and she had to go up to Pentecost, where does that put you and I? Then we must of necessity, go back to Pentecost and have that very same article to be able to go in the rapture. That is as plain as daylight.
The Holy Ghost, was not yet given out,” but Mary had it;
longing for, we are the ones that are in line up for it.
They were filled with the Holy Ghost; yes, we admit that but their natures were not changed. That is why A. A. Allen could do what he did; that is why Kathryn Kuhlman could do what she did; that is why Aimee could do what she did; that is why Parham could do what he did. Yes, friends. And that is why all the great ministers on the list could have done what they done. They manifested their evil nature and it compared to men in the Old Testament.
In 1906, they received the Old Testament baptism. Why did they receive the Old Testament baptism? You may say, “Preacher, Jesus Christ died for us to get the same Holy Ghost that was upon Him.” Yes, but there is a plan to get that Holy Ghost and it is in Isaiah 28. We must have the Word of God.
In 1906 the Word was not restored. The Word had not come to them because the messenger did not arrive yet. The one to restore the Word was a man called William Branham; and because he did not come yet, they had an outpouring before the Word came. Therefore, when that outpouring fell upon them, it came upon an unchanged nature. They did not have the Word; they were Trinitarians. All of them were Trinitarians. The “Oneness” arose in 1913 and that revelation of the Godhead was wrong but the man who brought the correct understanding on the Godhead was William Branham.
Now brethren, do you know that better than ninety-five percent of the people that follow this message believe the “Oneness of the Godhead” according to the Oneness organization? Yes. And if you tell them the true revelation of the Godhead, they would want to accuse you for preaching two gods. When you tell them that God has a Son and the Father came and indwelt the Son, they cannot comprehend that, because they believe the Oneness of the Godhead according to the Oneness doctrine that was preached from 1913. In other words, they want to say that “Jesus, the flesh is God.” They cannot separate the Sonship from the Father.
Almost every epistle opened up with the very greeting, “Peace from God, the Father, and from His Son, Jesus Christ.”
Galatians 1:3 <… peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ…>
Titus 1:4 <…Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.>
II Timothy 1:2 <…Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.>
Showing you that the apostles recognized that God is
one God but He had a beloved Son whom He indwelt. He said on the banks of
They received not the article of Pentecost because the Word was not restored. No, the Seals were not yet opened. But when the Seals were opened, it brought into existence the full Word of God.
Quote W.M.B.: 100 Now, notice, but at the opening of the Seven Seals, Revelations 10, the full Word is to be borned into manifestation again and vindicated by the Spirit of God in the full strength, as It was when It was here on earth, manifested in the same way, doing the same things that It did when It was here on earth. Amen. (Seed Not Heir With Shuck 65-0218)
Baptism of Old Testament & 1906 can leave a person
Although these people in 1906 received an outpouring, received the baptism of the Holy Spirit and manifested all kinds of gifts, they also manifested their evil natures when they went out of the Spirit. I am talking about Old Testament typing with 1906. When they got out of the Spirit, they lost the filling, lost the anointing, lost the baptism. Oh, glory to God! Friends, the article of the Old Testament, called the baptism of the Holy Ghost, (anointing or filling) a man could receive it and lose it. Yes. And the 1906 outpouring, you could get it today and lose it tomorrow. But if ever you get the article of Pentecost, you are sealed to the day of redemption.
Now whenever a king was anointed, they poured oil upon him as a symbol of the Holy Ghost; so they anointed him. Samuel’s work was to anoint King Saul and when he did that, the Spirit came upon him. From the time he was anointed, Saul prophesied all night until they made a proverb that said, “Is Saul also among the prophets?” (I Samuel 10:1-12) That was the anointing of the Lord that the prophets used to get. “Is Saul also amongst the prophets?” Brethren, he was anointed king. The Holy Ghost was upon him.
But then, look at what happened. I am telling you, you could lose this baptism of 1906 and you could behave really ridiculous; you could seek to kill people. You could be possessed with jealousy, hatred. You could pelt a spear to kill your own son. You could chase “a David” with your whole army to kill him. Yes. Hear what my Bible said. “When he sinned, the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul and an evil spirit troubled him.” (I Samuel 15 and 16:14)
Can you lose that baptism of 1906 and can an evil spirit replace that baptism of the Holy Spirit? Well, that is what happened to many of the people that were in Pentecost. When they started to become jealous, hateful, when they started going after money, popularity and women, the Holy Spirit just backed off from them and an evil spirit started troubling them, like it troubled Saul. That is the identical baptism that Saul had.
So now Saul had that baptism and God made him such a warrior that David sang a song at his death concerning him and Jonathan. He said, “Saul and Jonathan were lovely in their days. They were swifter than eagles and stronger than lions”—such great warriors, that Holy Ghost made them. But friends, when that Goliath started screaming out threats, Saul trembled. He was in a backslidden condition and he trembled.
I Samuel 16:13-14 <Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.
But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him.>
Now by that Spirit of the Lord, he was able to kill Goliath, kill a lion, and kill a bear, by that baptism of the Holy Spirit, but his nature was not changed.
Saul sought a man who could play
cunningly on a harp to drive the evil spirit away, and it happened that he
called the same little fellow—not knowing he would be king of
Look at that evil sprit now. Just at the time that that evil spirit came, Saul threw a javelin and David just avoided it. He was accustomed to fighting lions and bears, so that was nothing big. He just avoided it. And he knew what the problem was; he started playing on his harp. Oh yes, he started playing on his harp.
That evil spirit that was upon Saul did not like Holy songs. No, that evil devil could not stand those kinds of songs. He cannot stand the songs of blood we are singing, about “the blood of Jesus” and “how we love Him;” then you find that they go outside and stand. The Spirit of the Lord comes inside of here and we worship the Lord.
Baptism of the Holy Ghost – evil nature manifested
So now, I have proven to you, brethren, that this baptism of the Holy Ghost that they had in the Old Testament could have come upon a man one day and then he could lose it the next day because of his unrighteousness and sins. Now friends, I don’t have time to take all the characters of the Bible, but you follow from Genesis to Revelation and see how that baptism works. I will just browse through a few of them.
Noah: We take the great Noah. My, I tell you, everybody knows the story of Noah’s up to today. But he was a prophet and entitled to the baptism of the Holy Ghost. God gave him the baptism of the Holy Spirit and God even gave him revelation. He gave him revelation but the fellow’s nature was not changed. When things got good and he came out of the flood, Noah planted a vineyard, drank of the wine from the vineyard and got drunk! That was the great Noah.
“Why did you say that, Brother Bruce?” I am saying that you could have the baptism of the Holy Ghost without a changed nature and anytime you get cold in a Laodicean state, that old evil nature will act-up; it will manifest because this Holy Spirit out here is only holding down that evil nature by a certain law and through your sincerity. It is like a bad bull that you put a rope around his neck and a chain in his nose. As long as you try and hold that bull and keep him there, but the day you slack up that rope, that old bull is going to get away. He will butcher you to death if he has the chance. Now that is the evil nature. When I say “evil nature,” that is what I am talking about: there is a bad bull inside of you that the Holy Spirit is subduing. But friends, if you allow the Lord to kill the bull, you will have victory upon victory. That is the evil nature.
That is why some people who even follow the truth and love the Lord, they have not gone deep enough into the Holy Spirit for a changed nature. They mean well. Teenagers mean well; young girls mean well; big people mean well. They are going so well, they sing specials; oh my, they worship the Lord with tears, their hair is flying; it’s a blessing! But then they lack prayer; they lack going forward and pressing into the Spirit; they take it for granted that “maybe I am born again” and they start relaxing. As they relax, that old evil nature gets away; it puts dirty thoughts in their minds; they start looking at television; they start hearing the wrong voice; they start looking at the magazines; they start looking at the young girls on the street and want to be like them. Now it shows that their nature is not changed, but they were lovely children; they were lovely men and lovely women. They were sincere in what they manifested. When they raised their hands, worshiped and sang, they were anointed, brethren; they loved the Lord. They were not hypocrites; they loved the Lord. But what happened is that they got cold in their spirit and they let the enemy change their direction. Before they know it, they start thinking the wrong thoughts and the Holy Spirit leaves them. From the time the Holy Spirit leaves you, you are fighting the battle alone and you cannot fight that battle alone and come out victorious.
So now there is an anointing upon you, the baptism of the Holy Spirit, it comes upon you to help you to live that life and lead you to a changed nature but some people don’t want to pay that price. They depend upon what they came with from Pentecost and from their churches. They did come with an anointing, that Holy Spirit led them to the Word; they recognized the Word, recognized the ministry but then they want to settle down and make money. They want to think of two wives, now. They get too happy. They don’t have time to pray; they want to work overtime; they want to have two businesses going, and then they come out of the Spirit. A little while after, they lose interest in the Word. Later, they come to find out that they did not have a changed nature, but they only realize that when they fall. Sometimes they become discouraged and go into the world, and say, “If I sat here twenty years and I was not born again then maybe I cannot be born again. Or maybe the preacher is at fault. Or maybe the Word that I follow is not the truth.” You see how the devil carries people away?
Each one of us is anointed with the Holy Spirit. But friends, you better watch it. You could become dependent upon the anointing that you had in your church or what you were grown up with in the house of God and take it for granted and stop pressing the battle. You don’t want that! You want to go all the way until you know that all the world is taken away from you, that your heart is circumcised from the things of the world. You must hate this world, hate the music of the world, hate the dressing of this world, hate the television of the world, hate the sports of this world, then something took place inside of your soul. Yes, you are fed up of this world; you want to get out of here.
So Noah had the baptism of the Holy Spirit but he got drunk and was uncovered in his tent.
Abraham: Then we look at
Abraham. Abraham had the baptism of the Holy Spirit; he was the father of
But I am just trying to show you that though Abraham was a great man, yet, look at the evil nature playing out there. That happened a second time. Did you know that Isaac picked up the same trend? (Genesis 26:7). And you know Isaac had the Holy Ghost upon him, being a prophet?
Jacob: Now look at Jacob, having the baptism of the Holy Ghost, he deceived his prophet father in collaboration with his mother. My, she had the Holy Ghost too! She put on goatskin upon Jacob. And poor Isaac could not see; his eyes were dim, and he said, “Truly the voice is not the voice of Esau.” Yes. He said, “Come near me son, let me feel you.” When he felt him (Esau was a hairy man and he used to smell like a goat.) Oh yes. So he said, “Let me feel you. Come son, let me smell you.” He said, “The voice is surely the voice of Jacob,” but then the prophet’s smelling deceived him. Brethren, you should not smell too much and feel too much. The devil comes in feelings; he comes in smelling; he comes in tasting; he comes in memory. So now the great prophet of God, great, great, great man of God with the baptism of the Holy Spirit came there and smelled the man. When he smelled Jacob’s goat hair, he said, “Certainly this is Esau. This is exactly how Esau smells, like a goat,” and he gave him the blessing. Then afterward, you know what happened? Esau came by. He cried like a baby, but he forgot that he had sold his birthright, that last time over there for a bowl of soup.
Hebrews 12:16- 17 <Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. >
People are selling their birthrights, right today, for a meal ticket. That is what so-called Pentecost has done with all those great preachers. They sold out for money, popularity and women. When they did, the Holy Spirit departed from them, just like it departed from Saul. When you get an evil spirit, you are going to persecute the righteous.
Now another glorious thing is that after the Spirit left Saul and an evil spirit came upon him then God in his mercy turned around and saved the man. Yes, saved him. Samuel said, “By tomorrow, you and your son shall be here with me.” Can you imagine that a man could lose the Holy Ghost and go find a witch that he himself outlawed by passing a law to kill all witches in the country? He lost the Holy Ghost. People go to the obeah (witchdoctor) man; they have to go to the Catholic priest for some kind of a power, some kind of a sign. This man went to a witch and brought up Samuel. Samuel rebuked him. He said, “Why hast thou disquieted me, seeing that you have become the enemy of God?” and he prophesied. He was still a prophet. Wherever he was, he was still a prophet. He said, “Ye shall fall in battle and you shall be with me here tomorrow.” So now, that’s the kind of a Holy Spirit baptism that operated in the Old Testament.
Moses: Let
us take Moses a little bit. Moses was the meekest man upon the face of the
earth. Brethren, let me lay emphasis here. By the baptism of the Holy Ghost and
without a changed nature, by the same article that they received in 1906, Moses
opened the Red Sea and caused
If some Pentecostal tells you that they opened the
Moses was in the same category, having the baptism of the Holy Ghost without a changed nature, and fiend, he was the meekest man and a righteous man, but you know what happened? One day that evil nature got away. It got away, at the rock of Meribah from the meekest, meekest man. He held down that bad bull for all those years, but then some aggravation came to him from the people and he forgot what he was doing and said, “Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?” (Numbers 20:10), and forgot the Word of the Lord.
You see, he did not have the stature of a perfect man like Jesus Christ to hold him anchored, so the old bull got away; and he smote the rock twice and broke all the types in the Bible. The Lord said, “You shall not enter the Promised Land, Moses! You never sanctified me at that rock.” Christ was not crucified twice. He was crucified once. And Christ was that rock in the wilderness. The lovely Moses; he had the baptism of the Holy Ghost without a changed nature. That is what the people operated with from 1906 right up the line, that same baptism, very same article.
1906 – Why Old Testament baptism of the Holy Ghost
“Why did they at 1906 have to operate with that article?” Because the Word was lost, and that is all that they were qualified for. They were sincere. They were honest. They were desperate. They were seeking God and that is what they were qualified for; so God gave them what they were qualified for. That was the anointing; that was the filling; that was the baptism of the Holy Ghost that was operating in that age. There was a certain anointing operating in Luther’s age, in Wesley’s age, and there is a certain anointing that was operating from 1906. But there is a certain anointing and a certain baptism for the Bride age. That is what we are heading for and that is what Brother Branham says you must receive, or you are going to perish.
This message is clean like a whistle, that if some unbeliever missed all five messages, here I am taking the 1906 article and identifying it in Scripture and I am putting it back in the Old Testament and I will take it even beyond. They manifested their evil natures in the Old Testament.
Ahab,
anointed as a king. The man had the baptism of the Holy Ghost upon him in order
to be king. This man behaved like a Pentecostal minister! The man went out
there, found a Jezebel (idol worshipper), brought in idolatry to
Imagine that a man with the baptism of the Holy Ghost and the anointing could hate Elijah the prophet. Is your mind thinking? These people had the baptism from 1906 but when God sent Elijah the prophet, William Branham, they hated him! And they still hate him up to today! They are a bunch of Ahabs and a bunch of Jezebels that we have. And don’t talk about Jezebel hating Elijah! Man, she hated Elijah more than anybody. When she got her prophets killed, she swore that she was going to take off Elijah’s head.
But look, friends, this man with all that Holy Ghost ran for his life. Yes, ran for his life, running through the wilderness! Somebody met him, he said, “Why are you running, what happened to you?” He said, “Jezebel is running after me. A woman is chasing me!” He had just killed four hundred prophets with the sword and brought down fire from heaven, but by the threat of a woman, that man ran! He even lost his vision and went up on the mountain. He said, “Lord, Jezebel killed all the prophets and I only am left there.” The Lord said, “Calm down, calm down. I have seven thousand reserved that have not bowed their feet unto Baal.” So one minute you could be anointed to bring fire from heaven, and then fear takes hold of your heart and you are running from the threat of a woman!
That is how many of these Holy Ghost filled men are. They go, work signs and wonders on the platform and they raise the dead and everything but their wives are ruling them: baptism of the Holy Ghost without a changed nature. So the wife says, like Brother Branham said, “John, you are not going out today!” “Yes, ma’am!” Yes, that settles the issue. That fits preachers also, friend. All of these great powers of God, great men of God have their wives ruling them; there are all kinds of things in their lives. That is Mr. Ahab, the king with the baptism of the Holy Ghost, spirit-filled, anointed of God. His nature was not changed. Yes, he brought in idolatry.
David: Let us take the lovely David, a man after God’s own heart. If God had not had mercy upon him, He would have slain him. It was a time when all kings must go to battle but he intended to take it light, cool it. (II Samuel 11). He was cooling it and the old nature arose and he peeped over the banister. I don’t know what he was looking for, he had five hundred wives! Instead of peeping at his wives, the man went peeping at a next man’s wife bathing in the bathroom, and the old evil nature arose. He allowed the rope to get slack on that “bad bull” over there; it came up upon him and he was captivated by his evil nature! He lost his shame.
When you see that devil captivate you, you will lose your shame. You will go out and wear pants and walk in front of the church. You will walk with a woman there. You will commit adultery and you will lose your shame! My God, if you think about the picture! He called one of his servants, a bunch of his soldiers and said, “Get that woman for me! Let me lay with her!” “Have you lost all your shame? My God! You’re a king! God loves you. You killed a giant, Goliath! You killed a giant, and here is a woman conquering you!”
That goes to show the power of that evil nature. “Bring the woman.” “But lord, that’s Uriah’s wife!” “You need to obey the king when he speaks, otherwise you will lose your head!” Lust was speaking, overcoming a man.
This man had a reputation of killing giants. This man had a reputation of escaping from Saul. This man had a reputation of making songs, killing a bear, killing a lion barehanded. Look at this evil nature rising and he was not alert, and because he was not alert, that old lustful evil nature came and captivated David in such a measure that he committed murder to hide his sin. That is the baptism of the Holy Spirit without a changed nature.
And he went out there; lost all his shame. All the guards around his throne, all the guards around the palace see this woman coming in, “The king hath need of her.” They went in there to a bedroom, all the wives peeping there, five hundred wives, “I wonder what he is up to?” They could not talk. He would take their heads off too! Lust overtook the man. He went into a bedroom. He said, “You keep guard; you keep guard here. You keep guard and you keep guard here”, without any shame whatsoever. He pregnated the woman and sends her back home. Now the woman calls him on the telephone, (I mean, if they had any there!) She said, “I am pregnant, what do we do here? The penalty for this sin is to be stoned to death!”
My brother, one sin leads unto the next. The devil jumped on David now, outside of the Spirit, outside of the baptism of the Holy Ghost; the Spirit departed from him. He did not lose his salvation but the Spirit departed, the Spirit of grace left him, and Satan had him in his hands. He said, “My God, what am I going to do here? Everybody’s going to know that I committed adultery! You know what to do, I think she had better abort this child! She better ‘throw it away.’ No, no, no, I want that child! I think the easiest thing to do…” (The devil gave him an interpretation.) “…if the man dies, you are not a priest. You could marry the woman.” So he started to figure out now. Satan causes you to sin and then shows you a way to get out. Don’t follow that pattern, brethren. The way is repentance.
Don’t commit fornication, get pregnant and then go and
kill the baby. Repent for it. Don’t commit adultery on your husband, cover it
and then live with that for years. Repent for the thing! But my point is still
that baptism that they received in 1906 is the same article,
exactly the same article. You know what David did? David wrote a letter. He had
a man in the palm of his hand, his nephew called Joab, and he wrote, “Listen to
me, send down this fellow for me, Uriah; send him down here.” (He wants to
cover this sin now, so he took the man from the battle.) David said, “Go home
and have a nice time, man. Spend a few days.” You know what kind of a sick
thing that is? Big people. He wanted this man to go with his wife so the public
would not know whose child that is, but Uriah was such a righteous man that he
slept outside the palace somewhere there. He said, “I cannot bear to know that
When he would not comply, the king wrote a letter and put it in his hands. It was his death warrant. “Take this man, Uriah and put him in the heat of the battle.” Look at the scheme that the devil gives a man. He said, “Don’t let your hand be upon him. Don’t let any Israelite kill this man. Put him in the heat of the battle that the sword of Ammon is going to kill him. So then I will be free (like Pilot) and I could wash my hands and say, ‘None of the Israelites killed him; I never killed him. It’s the enemy that killed him.’” Scheme of the devil and that is going through the heart of a man that has the baptism of the Holy Spirit with an evil nature! You are talking about people could backslide and come down to shame and disgrace and find themselves in the Hall of Shame! What causes them to do that? Because they had the Old Testament article. That is why 1906 ministers found themselves in the Hall of Shame, even like Judas.
He took the woman, married her and thought that his sins were covered.
Proverbs 28:13: <He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.>
If you speak evil of a man of God, confess it. If you persecute that man of God, you think evil; it is going to hinder you all the days of your life. It will take you away from the new birth. It will take you away from the Token that is coming and at that time, the Lord will remind you of that sin that you committed ten years ago or five years ago.
You commit fornication; you commit adultery; you lie to the minister; you make the minister a liar; you make the witnesses a liar but you know you committed fornication; the sentence of judgment and condemnation is upon you and though you sit in the house of God for ten more years, that thing is going to come up at the outpouring of the Holy Spirit and the Lord will remind you of it. I don’t think we have anybody like that in here but brethren, this is a field tape too.
That minister commits sin, preaches the Gospel, preaches
Brother Branham’s message and pretends to be the great Power of God. He’s “the
great Power of God! “I am an elite in this message; I know the message. I feel
the Power of the Holy Ghost. I opened the
That is why so many adulterers are coming out from
under the message. That is why we have so many adulterers following Pentecost.
Yes, it’s
Nathan came across there (II Samuel 12) and said, “King David, I have a little story to tell you. There was a man that had one little sheep in this country of yours and another man had about five hundred. There came a wayfaring man and you know what happened? This man with the five hundred sheep went over there and he took the poor man’s sheep, and he slew him.”
Oh my, I tell you, David got angry! He said, “I’m
still king in
You talk about repentance. You are talking about a man that loved the Lord, my brothers and sisters. He said, “Thou shall not surely die. You shall not surely die. God has forgiven you.” That was death, brethren, death by stoning and God spared the king, David. I believe that is why the Lord said afterward, “David is a man after my own heart,” because that man repented as no man repented in the Old Testament. He said, “I wet my pillow.” Read Psalm 51 and it tells you about how that man repented and repented and repented and repented for years. God loves a man that will repent.
You know what causes people not to repent? Pride down in the heart. But we need to repent when we do the wrong things. Any time you retaliate against correction and the Word of God, beloved, the little anointing that you have upon you is going to leave you and you will start falling in sin. Any time you start going around and speaking evil of your pastor, speaking evil of your brethren or evil of the minister’s family, the anointing that is trying to bring you to a changed nature is going to leave you. The next thing, you will start doing wrong things and gossiping. You will start going around and living in sin; you will take chances on the Word. You will go to parties. Oh yes, that is what is going to happen to you because the Spirit left you. You might find yourself at the witch of Endor to find out how to prosper in business—that’s the Holy Sprit leaving a man. That’s the great David.
Jesus imparted Old Testament baptism to ministers
They
manifested great gifts, great signs and great wonders but, friends, their
natures were not changed. Now you take that and apply it to 1906; apply it to
Luther; (you cannot go wrong) apply it to Wesley; apply it to Mr. Parham; apply
it to the man called
So that baptism of the Holy Spirit could be upon a man today and when they start committing sin, it moves away; but I will tell you something, friends, gifts and callings are without repentance. You could continue to manifest gifts but under the wrong spirit and because it is a gift of God, they could manifest by the Power of God just like Caiaphas. Now this is what has deceived so-called Pentecost. We see that all these people had the Holy Spirit. You search your Bible; you could preach from Genesis to Revelation and you could see that baptism of the Holy Ghost in the Old Testament.
Something happened here now when Jesus arrived. I am
saying that Jesus had the true article of the baptism of the Holy Spirit, but
in Matthew 10, He imparted the same article of the Old Testament unto Judas,
the eleven apostles and the seventy. Now what was He doing? He called common
men: fishermen, tax collectors; and now he is bringing that article that they
had in the Old Testament to the congregation. He was bringing it to common
people, whereas it was reserved for priests, prophesiers, kings and prophets.
Now He is bringing it out to the common fisherman. But brethren, though He
brought it to them, that was not the article of Pentecost because Pentecost had
not yet come, therefore the Holy Ghost was not yet given out. So what was He
doing there then in Matthew 10. Wasn’t that the Holy Ghost that He was giving
out? And then on the other hand, He said, “The Holy Ghost is not yet given
out.” You have to understand what He was speaking about. The article of
Pentecost was not yet given out but the Old Testament article was
being given out. That is why Zechariah could have it;
In this case of Matthew 10, the Bible said,
Matthew10:1 <And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.>
It did not call it “the baptism of the Holy Ghost” but said that “He
anointed twelve and He again anointed seventy”, and you will read the following verses and it is going to tell you all about the miracles He told them to do. Raise the dead. Heal the sick. Cleanse the leper and heal all manner of diseases.
Luke 10:1 <After these things 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.>
Matthew 10:1, former rain – acts 2, latter rain
Brethren, I
am saying that baptism of the Holy Ghost opened the
Now I will tell you something here. This was a deeper
anointing that the Church had in that time—miracles and signs and everything.
Why was it a deeper anointing but the same power of the Old Testament? Brethren, when Jesus imparted to them that power in Matthew 10 that was the former rain. How do you mean former rain? Because it was a planting time, called the Moureh rain. It was the planting time. He sent them forth to preach the Word of God, precept upon precept, line upon line, here a little and there a little. Now when the former rain went out doing signs and wonders and miracles in that way, it was a sign that the Latter Rain was about to come. So Matthew 10 was the baptism of the Old Testament, but with a greater anointing under the ministry of the Son of Man. Now that was the former rain. Understand, young men? Former rain, taken from the Hebrew word, Moureh rain. It means that there was a shower of rain that came down in spring for you to plant the seed. But then there was a harvest time and in the harvest time, heavier showers come, which is the Latter Rain. So that was your former rain going out and then the day of Pentecost was your Latter Rain. Your Latter Rain is the true article of Pentecost.
I am coming back to Pentecostalism. From 1906, brethren, understand that there was revival, after revivals, after revivals, after revivals. So they kept coming up with those revivals and they came right up. Great men arose; we heard of them. Women arose. “Men of God, and women of God.” Yes. Friends, what happened to their souls? I would not venture to say. I leave that in the hands of God. But when a woman see that she should not preach the Gospel and are conscious of that she is in danger. You see the mess that they brought on the Name of the Lord.
I Timothy 2:12 <But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.>
I Corinthians 14:34-35 <Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.>
Now hear this, after all those revivals burnt out, it kept coming up. In 1946, an angel appeared to a man called William Branham and there broke a revival of divine healing at that time. Brother Branham spearheaded that revival that broke in 1946. All Pentecostals bear witness to that and say that Brother Branham was the father of that revival. So when they saw that Brother Branham came with that revival, they called it “the second wave of Pentecost,” because the first wave was 1906, and things died off. After it died out there, when they saw this great revival broke, they realized that Brother Branham was the father of that revival but they did not know what was happening. They thought it was just a little continuation of another revival from 1906, not knowing that he was the messenger to the Laodicean Church Age. It was either going to make them better or make them worse.
So they treated him as another evangelist because he operated as an evangelist. They failed to recognize the prophet. When they rejected the prophet it was the most fatal mistake of so-called Pentecost, to reject their messenger. It was the most fatal mistake that Pentecost has ever made, and that was to reject the man called William Branham and to treat him the way that they treated him.
That revival broke in order for them to recognize their messenger and to be prepared for the Word that the Lord was sending them; to prepare them for the opening of the Seals; and above all, to prepare them for the article that they longed after, called, the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Brother Branham came with one mission, and that was to prepare the Church to receive another outpouring of the Holy Spirit, just like Moses came with one mission to lead the people to the Promised Land. Oh yes, brethren, that is what happened!
Now put on your “thinking caps” and hear this now. In 1946, when that revival broke, that was the former rain. That was the power of the former rain. That brought in Oral Roberts, Billy Graham, T. L. Osborn, Tommy Hicks etc. One thousand of them were gathered in a convention, one time, to recognize that Brother Branham was the father of that revival. One thousand preachers. Now he came with the former rain. (I could add more there but I don’t want to make it
puzzling for those outside.)
He came with the former rain. That anointing that fell upon Oral Roberts and all those other evangelists was the power of the former rain. Brother Branham preached that on ‘Spoken Word Original Seed’. Every minister should master that subject to understand more of these things. Brother Branham declared it there. He said that was the moureh rain, former rain, sowing seeds.
THREE SEEDS PLANTED BY FORMER RAIN
Quote W.M.B.: 44-3 All right. Now, there has been three different kinds of seeds planted: A denominational: Billy Graham; he was a head planter. Oral Roberts for the Pentecostal... Pentecostal seed's been planted. (I'm talking about organization now.) And then the Word's been planted…Three seeds has been planted. That's the reason the planting's just about over (See?), all over. Seeds must be planted before the rain falls (That right?) or otherwise the Spirit…Seeds must be planted and then the rain falls to water the seed. (Spoken Word Original Seed 62-0318M).
Quote: 45-3 I believe that it is near the harvest time. The seeds have been planted. Denominational…And the Pentecostal seeds has been planted into the Pentecostal organization, by great men like Oral Roberts, Tommy Hicks, and Tommy Osborn, great men of God. See? And I believe that the Word of God has been planted unadulterated away from any of those organizations. (Spoken Word Original Seed 62-0318M).
WE HAD THE FORMER RAIN IN THE PLANTING TIME
Quote: 45-6 Now, the seed must be planted, and then it must have water in order to grow. Now, you say, "Well, Brother Branham …what did we have in that planting time? The former rain…You take the word "former" in Joel 2 and look at it and see if the Hebrew word… "moureh" means: "teaching." Amen. The teaching rain has went forth. (Spoken Word Original Seed 62-0318M).
WE ARE IN A LATTER RAIN - NONSENSE
Quote: 45-1 Now, we're hearing so much, and so many organizations and everything else talk about we're in the latter rain. Nonsense. No such a thing. (Spoken Word Original Seed 62-0318M).
WE ARE READY FOR THE HARVEST RAIN
Quote: 64-3 Someone asked me to repeat that Hebrew word again. In Joel the 2nd chapter (Joel 2:28) where he's speaking of the coming of the former and latter rain, the word "former" is the Hebrew word M-o-u-r-e-h, moureh, which means "teaching." In other words, it'll be a teaching rain and a harvest rain. Now, we've had the teaching rain, and we're ready now for the harvest rain. (Spoken Word Original Seed V-3 N-2 62-0318E).
THE RAIN’S GOING TO FALL PRETTY SOON
Quote: 109-3 The rain's going to fall pretty soon; I mean the real rain… I hope I live to see it… It will be the living Word as it was at the beginning, the spoken Word of God, have His power. (The Spoken Word Is The Original Seed 62-0318E).
WAITING FOR LATTER RAIN
Quote: 61-3 Now, we pray, Father, that these seeds that's sown will be laying waiting for the latter rain to fall. Waiting... They that wait upon the Lord, they shall renew their strength. God, may we not run ahead of the Word; stay with the Word. Grant it, Lord. (Spoken Word Original Seed 62-0318m).
LATTER RAIN IS AT HAND
Quote: 50-1 See? The latter rain's just at hand. (The Spoken Word Is The Original Seed 62-0318m).
LATTER RAIN FIXING TO FALL –
Quote: 48-1 The latter rain is fixing to fall. You've hold that seed in there long enough now, on believing, and you're looking for a coming son, and he's coming." Amen. That's the real church today, that elected Seed. (The Spoken Word Is The Original Seed 62-0318m).
FORMER & LATTER RAIN OUTPOURING OF SPIRIT TO PRODUCE MORE SIGNS & WONDERS
Quote: E-23 And remember, He said, "There'd be a former rain and a latter rain. And in the latter rain, both former and latter would come together," a double portion. Hallelujah. Then if we see what the former rain produced, how much more will the latter rain produce? When God pours out His Spirit, there'll be signs and wonders take place. As I was speaking not long ago, as your beloved pastor published it, "When omnipotence speaks miracles happens." It has to. (Jesus Arose 56-0405).
HOLY SPIRIT – LATTER RAIN
Quote: E-115 But He said, "In the evening time it shall be Light." What is that? Gospel Light. What does that do? Holy Spirit. What does it do? Ripen the crop. In the last days the Holy Spirit will pour out in time, in the last days, to bring in the latter rain, the real rain. (Sign Of His Coming 62-0407).
RETURN OF PENTECOST – LATTER RAIN
Quote: 100 …when He's coming in the last days in the latter rains of God, when both former and latter rain will be poured out, He's coming just exactly the way it was prophesied of Him: "It shall be Light in the evening time." What was to happen? Immanuel, the same Son, the same Light, the same God that come to dwell in flesh with His people at the day of Pentecost, will come in the like manner in the last days, for it shall be evening Light. What is it? There shall be a sign, an everlasting sign: God with us, God in us, God through us, man and God becomes one. (Super Sign 59-1227M).
I am here to tell you that the Latter Rain is another outpouring of the Holy Spirit like the day of Pentecost, because the former rain came by Jesus first, a bunch of ministers were called, Judas was included, and then the Latter Rain came on the day of Pentecost. Over here, a former rain came with the man called William Branham. A bunch of ministers were called. Judas was in the midst there, the false anointed one. The prophet said, “The next thing on the agenda was the Latter Rain.”
How could we ever go wrong? We are not falsely led. No, sir! We are not falsely led. We are on the right track. So in Pentecostalism, this former rain is called “the second wave.” It is called the second wave because they recognized it. They called “the first wave,” the 1906 outpouring; and in 1946, they said this is “the second wave.”
PENTECOSTAL OUTPOURING NEVER CAME WITH REVIVALISTS NOR W. M. BRANHAM
Now, brethren, this is the great mystery in it. Even though that was the former rain, the Lord continued to use His people with the same Old Testament baptism just like He used them in Matthew 10 because Judas had to be made manifest. He could not give Judas the article of Pentecost and then take it away. No, so he allowed them to function. Oral Roberts functioned in the same Old Testament baptism. Billy Graham, T. L. Osborn, Tommy Hicks, A. A. Allen, Jack Coe and all those great evangelists.
Now, can you identify these people in the Old Testament by the history that we read? Do you see their mistakes? A. A. Allen was arrested for drunk driving and died as an alcoholic. Oral Roberts became a money schemer—he said he had to raise eight million dollars or God will kill him! We even see Jack Coe, being a convert of Brother Branham, had a lot of mistakes.
Now some went in with the Lord, and some were actually Judases.
Judas’ spirit went after money, popularity and women. It showed them up by their fruits. By their fruits ye shall know them. So some went in with the Lord and some went to Hell. That’s the truth of it. Under Jesus’ former rain revival, some went to Hell and some went in with the Lord. Some went to the Upper Room. When the crowds did break down, only one hundred and twenty went to the Upper Room. Where are the multitudes today that follow Brother Branham? Why are they not pressing to an outpouring of the Holy Spirit? So it is called “the second wave.”
What they received under Brother Branham, the messenger, and under the messenger Jesus was the same article of the Old Testament; they received the same article of 1906, because Brother Branham did not come with the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, though he had the article of Pentecost like Jesus. Under the ministry of Brother Branham there came no outpouring of the Holy Spirit like the Day of Pentecost. That is why he constantly called the people back to Pentecost because he knew that it did not come under his ministry. That compares with the ministry of John the Baptist, who said,
Matthew 3:11 <I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire.>
That was Christ, Himself, Revelation 10:1. The words of the Lord have to work together.
So I am asking the followers of Malachi 4 who claim the article of Pentecost, “Where did you get it?” And when did you get it? You have to prove that to me. It never did come in 1906. It never came with A. A. Allen, Jack Coe, or with Aimee, or Kathryn Kuhlman; it never did come with all those revivalists; and I am proving to you that the outpouring never did come under Brother Branham. But you claim to be “packed up, sealed up, ready to go in the rapture,” and you claim the article of Pentecost. Where did you get it? And when did you get it? And why did the prophet preach that you must receive the Token or perish? Because he very well knew that the article that you were receiving under his message was the same article of the Old Testament, same article of Matthew 10, same article of 1906. The followers of this message are in the worst deceptable condition where the baptism of the Holy Ghost is concerned. They are sitting and waiting to go in the rapture with the article of 1906.
Brother Branham identified that article. Brother Branham allowed them to work in that article. Brother Branham imparted that article to the people. Brother Branham told them that they had it but then he came and preached the final message, showing that you must receive the article of Pentecost or be lost. In E.O.D.H. Book 14, the first chapter is dedicated to show that Brother Branham was calling the people back to Pentecost.
In 1962, the revival was over. When that revival was over, God withdrew His spirit because of the people’s sin. Those that were sincere continued to receive that Spirit, and he knew that. So now Brother Branham started cracking down on the article of Pentecost 1906 to show that was not the genuine baptism of the Holy Spirit. That is what caused him to make this statement even in 1965.
Quote W.M.B: 162 …The 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 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 V-7 N-7 65-1207)
He was cracking down on that article, knowing that article was phasing out after the former rain revival. The article lasted up to the time of the revival fires. It was burning out. So he started cracking down. Notice what he would say now in his message entitled, ‘Stature of a Perfect Man’:
LOVE OF GOD, HOLY GHOST BAPTISM SEAL VIRTUES LIVING TABERNACLE
Quote. W.M.B.: 48 Then Peter here says first (seven things) faith, virtue (See, coming up), knowledge, temperance,
patience, godliness, brotherly love, and brotherly kindness and then the love of God, the Holy Ghost. Christ in the Person of the Holy Ghost comes upon you in the true baptism of the Holy Ghost, and you got all these virtues sealed in you, then God lives in a tabernacle called the building, the living Tabernacle of the living God's dwelling place. (Stature of a Perfect Man 62-1014M).
VIRTUES, HOLY GHOST COME UPON YOU -
Quote: 48-2 When a man possesses these kind of things, then the Holy Ghost comes upon him. No matter, you might speak with tongues; you might impersonate any gift that God's got. You might do that, but until these virtues here go into you, you're still off the real true foundation of faith. But when these virtues grow in, as you added that to that, then you are a living monument. You are a living, moving idol. (Stature of a Perfect Man 62-1014M).
He preached “Adoption,” “Predestinated Mystery of His Will,” “Manifested Sons of God.” He said you must have these things manifested in your life to go in the rapture.
Quote W.M.B.: 51 God's waiting on me and you. The church is waiting on me and you: adoption time, when God can pour into us His Fullness, His power, His Resurrection, that when the church and Christ become so close together till Christ becomes visible among us, and raises the dead, and we go into the rapture. Now, we're going to show after while that just those who are filled with the Holy Ghost goes in that rapture, "For the rest of the dead live not for the space of a thousand years." That's right. Just Holy Spirit filled people was all that went in the rapture. (What The Holy Ghost Was Given For 59-1217).
PENTECOSTALISM REJECTED CALL TO TOKEN – MESSAGE FOLLOWERS INVITED
Now the prophet of God knew that article, that Old Testament baptism, was now phasing out and he was calling the people to a new Outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
I’ll tell you the sad mistake: so-called Pentecost rejected the call of the Spirit. Jesus on that great day—the last day of the feast—called the people to the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
John 7:37-39 <In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)>
Pentecost was deceived, thinking that she had that
Article of Pentecost originally. She rejected the prophet, rejected the
Message, which was the most fatal mistake that Pentecost ever made (to turn
down their messenger that brought the Word to make a way to take them back to
Pentecost) because they were deceived by that article called, the Baptism of
the Holy Ghost. They were thinking that they were all right. “We are working
signs; we are working miracles; we are doing all these other things here now,
and nobody can tell us what to do. We work signs; we work wonders; we opened
the
Now Pentecost (so-called) rejected the prophet and they rejected the Word, then the revival ceased. That was the last revival under that era. It ceased. So from 1962, if you noticed, there were less miracles, less signs, less wonders. We believe in miracles; we believe in signs; we do not believe that the days of miracles are past. But what I am saying is—the revival is over. You have signs and you have wonders in a small measure. But friends, we have to have more. So now from 1962 come right down to 2006, the church went dry.
I want to let all the followers of Malachi 4 know this today. After that revival was over, you should have heeded the call of the messenger to come back to another outpouring of the Holy Spirit, but instead of heeding that call to come back to the Token, what you did was settle down with the anointing of that age. You settled down with the baptism of that age. Yes, you have the baptism; yes, you are raising the dead; yes, you’re healing the sick; and the majority of you are dead in your condition and the anointing that you had is leaving you now. It is proven by your fruits.
See what I mean? They are in the most deplorable condition right now around the world. They are relying upon the anointing that they came with, from so-called Pentecost and what they received from under the message. So that was an anointing given to them to keep them from cussing, lying, and thieving.
Quote W.M.B.: 189 What is it? You've got to get with the Word, get yourself killed out. I'm persuaded that many of us, friends, have received the Holy Ghost, but we just receive enough Holy Ghost in us to make us to a place where we don't want to lie, we don't want to steal, we don't want to do anything. But God wants to fill every fiber of His church; He wants to fill your thinking; He wants to fill your mind. He wants to fill every bit of you, just make you completely, totally dead to yourself or to your thinking, just so surrendered in God till His Word's just living right through you. (Oneness 62-0211).
So Brother Branham continued to come and expose that baptism, expose that anointing by saying certain things in the message that confused the people; confused all the followers of Malachi 4.
Quote W.M.B.: 144 You say, "I got the baptism of the Holy Ghost." That don't mean that you're saved, not by a long ways…Didn't Jesus say the rain falls on the just and the unjust?…Don't the Bible say in the last days there shall come false christs, not false Jesus now, false christs, anointed ones, falsely anointed to the Word. (The Rapture 65-1204).
So I am saying that there is a token that you could receive that you are not even saved yet. But the Token that Brother Branham called you back to is Original Pentecost. So people want to fuss and say, “Look, Brother Branham said we have the Token. We are under the blood. We have the Token.” So be it. He’s talking about the same baptism of 1906. And you could come under that baptism of the Holy Spirit from 1906 and go to Hell even if you could get it every hour of your life. But if ever you get the original article, friends, that’s it! That’s it, unto the day of redemption and rapture.
MESSENGER REJECTED – REVIVAL OVER - CURSED
Now when that revival was finished in 1962, there was only one more revival left; and that is the Bride’s revival.
Quote: 253-2 {182} Now, that's what's the reason today that the revivals that 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 members, but not a revival nowhere. No, no. The Bride hasn't had a revival yet. See? There's been no revival there, no manifestation of God to stir the Bride yet. See? We're looking for it. It will take those seven unknown thunders back there to wake her up again. He will send it. He promised it. Now, now, watch. Now, she was dead. (The Third Seal 63-0320).
So this revival, the last revival is for the Bride and
it is connected with the Seven Thunders. Yes sir. It is connected with the
Seven Thunders. So men like Coleman, Vin Dayal,
Quote W.M.B.: 155 I notice in out chapters and so forth of the Business Men, "There's coming right away, hallelujah, a great revival." Don't be deceived, "He has already come, and they did to Him what was list." But they think there's a revival. Is it happening? No! It's done, dead; it's over. (Trying To Do God A Service Without It Being God's Will 65-1127b).
Because Pentecost rejected their messenger, they were
cursed. I said cursed for rejecting Elijah the prophet, and now they are
headed to the World Council of Churches and back to
Is it a little thing? It is no little thing, my friend. Because they rejected an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, rejected their messenger of the age, rejected their Moses calling them to the Promised Land (and they think that the desert was the Promised Land) God cursed them in the wilderness and will cause their carcasses to fall in the wilderness out here. Forty and more years have passed and they are going around in circles there. Now they are headed to the World Council of Churches and the Mark of the Beast for rejecting their messenger.
But they all were blessed by the baptism. All were blessed by the great anointing. They all witnessed the signs and the wonders in the wilderness and they ate manna that fell from Heaven. But Jesus said, “They are every one dead.” Every one is dead, because they rejected their messenger.
The Pentecostal group is more rebellious than
I want all the followers of Malachi 4 to hear me loud and clear. The same article from 1906 that caused the so-called Pentecostals to reject the Word and reject their prophet is the same anointing that is now upon the followers of Malachi 4, from the pulpit to the janitor. They are trusting that article to take them in the rapture. I am saying it cannot take you in the rapture. It cannot take you in the rapture. It is a total impossibility for that Old Testament baptism to take anybody in the rapture. It is a total impossibility for 1906 anointing to carry anybody in the rapture. That is why it was necessary that the prophet of God preach ‘The Token,’ and say “The Token is required or you will perish.”
So I am asking the followers of Malachi 4 from the pulpit to the pew, where is your boasting? Talking about a five-fold ministry? The five-fold ministry is in disarray. There is no unity among you. That is why there are so many thousands of different assemblies. What are you doing? You are boasting in the same anointing and the same baptism that the Pentecostals boast about and you are rejecting this outpouring of the Holy Spirit that is preached to you. This vision of Brother Branham went on and is alive today amongst a people. If you reject it, you will end up the same way that so-called Pentecost ended up. You must receive the Token or perish.
I think this is clear as a whistle, brethren. So the followers of Malachi 4 today are resting upon the same anointing, the same baptism; they’re manifesting the same gifts in a smaller measure; and they think that that is their salvation and they are going to go in the rapture with that Old Testament baptism. It is a total impossibility. Total, total impossibility.
So that is why you find that they have broken the holiness message standards, because they are bearing the same fruits like Pentecost; they are substituting programs for the Word of God. Right in this country, men that we are supposed to look up to have sports, entertainment, and call the people together. They send a sheet of paper around, “Which sport are you interested in? You have to book in now.” You want to tell me that that is the article of Pentecost? You want to tell me that Peter, James and John had a sports facility? No sir! They had the Holy Ghost. They had the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Yes, my friends.
So that is what happened to this message. They brought in the anointing from 1906 and they want to preach the message with it; they want to live a life with that, and they want to go in the rapture with that. It is a total impossibility. The prophet of God already declared that. That you will receive the Token or you will perish.
We are going to get into some impersonators later. I am going to strike a man called Neal Frisby. Maybe you never heard of him. He claimed to be an eighth messenger. I am going to strike the man called Benny Hinn, who is the most popular televangelist and he claims to be giving the Article of Pentecost to the people by beating them with his jacket and by pushing them down on the ground: men, women, and children! So we are going to get into some of these things to prove what so-called Pentecost has produced—a bunch of impersonators. I want to bring in the ministers that impersonated Brother Branham. While Brother Branham was operating from the article of Pentecost, they were operating with the baptism from the Old Testament. And they were trying to do miracles (like Brother Branham, who had the original Power of God) by an Old Testament baptism, and it could not work.
COMMENTS OF PASTOR Kenneth MCGAHEE
Precious words of Life. I’m so appreciative of the Word of Life this morning. You know, Brother Bruce, in the preaching of all these messages, to me it has been most tremendous and it has brought the church here and abroad to a place that we have never arrived to before. To hear Brother Bruce preaching these messages on “Pentecostalism—One Hundred Years”, a fool should not err therein. I really want to thank the Lord for His Presence that has been in our midst and the Word of Life that has gone forth with such clarity. It reminds me of the things that Brother Bob preached, hearing Brother Bruce preach. I thought: ‘Oh, that’s what Brother Bob meant and was saying!” And it rejoiced my heart! [Congregation says, “Amen!”]
I’m not ashamed to call Brother Bruce my shepherd. When we reach in that Kingdom over there and I holler across to his home and you hear a little voice holler, “Shepherd!” that will be me!
The love that God put in my heart for Brother Bruce, his family and the people of God, here at Grace Covenant. How many has appreciated all of these messages that have been preached? [Congregation says, “Amen!”] We give the Lord a praise offering and His dues. [Congregation and pastor praise the Lord.]
I really want to thank the Lord for His wonderful Presence that He has sent to us to make these meetings most memorable and to give His servant, Brother Bruce such utterance and unction and inspiration to preach these things. The challenge is placed before other people and other churches and other ministers around the world that they “need the Token or they will perish.”
I was thinking of all that has transpired and what the
Lord has done for us in these meetings, when it was not even in the heart
of Brother Bruce to come this way. But the Lord saw to it that He sent him
here. For this, I am most grateful. Amen!