The Serpent’s Seed

                                                    

Preached on Sunday evening, the 28th of September 1958 at the Branham Tabernacle in Jeffersonville, Indiana, U.S.A.  All right. Let’s read now in Genesis.

Now, the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD GOD had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, has God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
… the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
But of the fruit of the tree in the midst of the garden, God has said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
For God doth know that in the day that ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. See, how these fellows are today trying to take away from the Bible. “Why, isn’t it just as easy to pour, or sprinkle, this way or that way?” No, sir. God put down a program, and that’s what we’re supposed to follow, this. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to make–to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also to her husband with her; and he did eat.
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew… they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made them aprons.

 I would like to stop here for a minute. Now, there’s got to be a beginning of everything. You had a beginning. Now, here’s where I want to base the whole thing on now that we’ve talked about in these last two meetings in the year. Now, this morning we went back and dramatized in the Bible that when God was making the earth, that when He was forming the gases (and then them gases become calcium and potash, and different things) He was making your body. He was laying the building out like a great master builder, like a contractor laying out his materials to build a housing project. He was making your body, and He had it laying there. He knew just exactly in His mind what was going to be done. This hand… God made that hand before He was making the world. But my spirit, He made before there was a world. Now, but this hand and this body, He made when He made the world; ’cause this body came out of the earth, and going back to the earth. God made that. He laid it all out in His great blueprint and His program. Now, when He went to making the earth, He made the man, and the man didn’t look just right.

 Now, we had that this morning, went through the drama, how the Father came down and looked at His son made in His image, and so forth. Then he made him a wife, a helpmate. Now, remember, that all of the creatures of the earth, Adam had named them. He had made the cattle and the beasts, and everything. And today, we chronologists and different great minds of science have been trying for six thousand years to find out that missing link, why that animal… Man is animal life; we know that. That we’re made… And a woman is just a part of a man, a byproduct. A woman was not in the original creation. God had done quit creating for years and years and years, until He made the woman out of a rib out of his side. Adam had done named all of the creation, everything else. But he wasn’t nothing for himself, so He made Him a helpmate: took a rib from his side, closed up the gash, and made a helpmate to him. And man in his spirit was both man and woman. And a woman is just a part of a man. And when a man takes to himself a wife, and if she’s correctly his wife, a God-given wife, she’ll be just to him as part of him.
That’s the reason you have so many scruples in the marriage. Is because you go out and see some girl with pretty brown eyes, or blue eyes, or something like that, some pretty figure, and you fall for her. First time she has her first baby them teeth comes out, and she gets wrinkled and old, and then you want to kick her out.
And some of you women find some little boy with his hair slicked down, his mammy’s lard can half dumped on it, and curly; it’ll all fall out. I know that by experience. But what happens? What is it? You fall for that. You ought to pray first, ’cause a woman is part of you. And if you’ve embraced a woman to your bosom, and taken her for your wife, and she makes an imprint on you… (We’ll say it like this so you’ll understand) and any other woman against that bosom won’t fit that print. And God will hold you responsible for it. You just remember that.

 You that take somebody else’s wife out and… I heard today of a little girl here in town, a poor little thing, I know her. And some gambler buying her big fine clothes and things, and trying to play up to her like that. A rat would do a thing like that, can’t even be considered a human. You know a dog ain’t that lowdown, and yet you call a mother dog a slut. She’s got more morals than half the women of Jeffersonville has got. And you call an old mother hog a sow, and she’s not–she’s a lot more moral than the women of this United States, many of them. That’s exactly right. Now, I know that’s flat, and I told you I was going to grind it home, and I want you to know it. And that’s true. The old women nowadays don’t even know what moral is. Say, “It don’t hurt my conscience.” Well, you haven’t got any. Notice. Yes, sir. When you know what’s right and wrong. Now, notice. This man, when he was created, God separated his spirit, and He took a piece off the man, his side, and made a woman out of it. And then He took the feminist, dainty spirit of the man and made a woman out of it, and He made the man masculine, burly. And when you see a man that’s little, you know, manicuring (or whatever you call it) his fingernails and, you know, four on one side and five on the other, and–and is slicking his hair down, and holding his mouth open in front, and such stuff as that, one of these pretty boys; you just remember, sis, there’s something wrong with that bird. There’s something wrong. You better keep your eye on him. And when you see a woman with a cigarette in the side of her mouth, with a pair of overalls on, and saying, “I tell you, ‘feller’, what it is.” Brother, you watch that old gal. There’s something wrong with her. A woman’s supposed to be a woman, and she’s supposed to dress like a woman. When God made a man, He made him one thing; and He made a woman something else. And when God dresses a man, He dresses him one way, and a woman something else. And the Bible said it’s a abomination for a woman to put on a garment that pertains to a man.

 And you women, putting on these little old pants and things, and wearing them out here, little old (What is it you call them?) Knickerbockers… Or what is it? What is that, sisters? No, no, it’s not shorts, it’s that–got the long legs in them: pedal pushers and overalls, dungarees. Go and they said, “This is for the ladies.”I said, “No, you’re mistaken. Ladies don’t wear them things: women might, but ladies don’t.” That’s right. The Bible said it’s an abomination for a woman to put on a garment… And for a man to put on a garment that pertains to a woman… And man is becoming more sissified every day, and women is becoming more masculine. What’s the matter? (We’re going to find out in a few minutes by the Bible.) Women ain’t women no more. I don’t mean you Christian women. I’m talking about the general run. They want to act like men, want to cut their hair like men; put their hand upon a bar like that and sing “God Bless America” with a cigarette out of the corner of their mouth. Go down the street, back out like that of riding the highway… We counted… I want to tell you something. And you women drivers… Listen. Billy Paul and I on this last campaign around the nation (six months), I kept a count of how many scruples on the road. And out of three hundred mishaps on the road, guess how many of them was women drivers? There was only lacking nineteen of them were men, and two hundred and eighty, or I believe two hundred eighty-one of them would be women drivers: women drivers.
Now, I’m not saying there ain’t good women drivers. But she’ll turn any way, and you just try to get back at her. Let her be kind of nice looking and stand there, push that hair up when a cop comes up there. “Why,” he’d say, “sure you’re in the wrong.” We ain’t got no law. They proved that the other day in the tax suit I’m just coming through. We ain’t got no laws. If there are…

No wonder that great Lords of England said, “Democracy was all sails, no anchor.” That’s right, stand on a soap box electioneering. The democracy’s rotten, and so’s dictators and all the rest of them. The whole thing is rotten. There ain’t but one thing for God to do: is to destroy the whole thing as He said He would do, and start anew. Now, watch how close you are to the coming. Now, when this woman, He made him a helpmate, and she was to be his helpmate.
And then… Now, here I’ve never had a preacher to agree with this yet. And they try to make it some other way, but yet it don’t make sense to me. They try to say that Adam and Eve eat some apples. Brother, if… I don’t say this for a joke now, but I want to say it for… If eating apples makes women realize they are naked, we’d better pass the apples again. You know that’s right. You know eating an apple, that wasn’t what they did, made them realize they were naked. Certainly, it wasn’t. It had to come through sex. It had to be, ’cause they realized they were naked when they taken this forbidden fruit. Ain’t a woman a fruit tree? Aren’t you the fruit of your mother? That was the fruit that was forbidden to be taken. Now, here’s a great thing. Now, the closest that science has ever got to knowing what the human being was… They dig up old bones; they take fossils, and they take heads; and they take skulls, and arms, and bones and try to make it look like a human being. And they know that the closest thing that they’ve ever come to finding the human. Next to it is the chimpanzee. He’s the closest specie to a human being. But yet, it isn’t nothing with the human being. The highest… The lowest form of life that there is the frog. The highest form is the human being. God started at the bottom and made right up till He brought it plumb to His image. Brought it from the birds and the beasts and on up till He got to the image of God. He made man in that image; that’s the highest form. The lowest form is just a polliwog that turned into a frog and so forth.

 Now, this missing link that they can’t find… Watch the Scripture now. You–you’re going to disagree with this, many of you; but I want–just want you to bear it in mind and don’t be prejudiced against it.
Listen, I know many of you have just been listening to Doctor DeHaan. I certainly… As a man of his caliber, a good Baptist brother… And I certainly appreciate him. He’s got more intelligence and brains, and–and has forgot more than I ever know, because he is a Doctor of–of Divinity, and he’s a Medical Doctor, and he’s a Doctor of Science. He’s a smart man, but he’s saying that those–when the sons of God saw the daughters of men were fair… He takes Josephus’ stand and say that they pressed themselves into human flesh and taken unto them wives; and there were giants in the land of Nod; and they had taken to themselves wives and lived with them, when the sons of God, fallen angels, taken and seen the daughters of men, and the sex desire was such a great thing, and yet them being sinful from falling, they pressed themselves into human flesh. If they’d do that, they’d spoil Divine healing, they’d spoil everything else. If the devil can create, he’s equal with God. The devil cannot create. I want you to show me one place where the devil can create. He cannot create. He only perverts what has been created. He is no creator. He is only a perverter. Well then, what happened? What’s? Here’s my version. Here’s the missing link. Now, they got a chimpanzee, but you can’t breed a chimpanzee with a woman and bring forth a child. You can’t breed a human being with any animal. It won’t mix. You can’t blood transfuse any animal. When I was in Africa… They treat those poor colored people there in such a way. Someone said to me; he said, “They’re nothing but animals.” I said, “I beg your pardon. They’re just as much human as you are, maybe a little more.” Let me tell you; when you got that kind of an attitude, you’re getting back towards an animal. I said, “That man, if he’s as black as the ace of spades, or if he’s as yellow as a pumpkin, or if he’s as blue as indigo, he might save your life by giving you a blood transfusion.” But don’t you never put an animal’s blood in you. Certainly, he’s a human. Just because one skin was black, the other one brown, another one yellow, and the other one white, that has nothing to do with it. The Bible said, “God of one blood made all men.” And that’s exactly right. Places we lived in, changing our colors, had nothing to do with it. God made of one–one man all nations, one blood. All nations the same. The Chinese… The colored man can’t say now… The black man can’t say, “Now, that–that Chinese, he’s–he’s yellow and I ain’t going to have nothing to do with him.” He’s your brother. And you white man can’t say to the yellow man or the black man, either one, “I have nothing to do with you.” He’s your brother. Exactly right.

63 Notice. Now, here’s what taken place. I believe, and can support it by the Bible, that it is the serpent that did it. The serpent is that missing person between the chimpanzee and the man, ’cause, listen, notice this now, that the serpent was not a reptile. He was the most subtil of all the beasts of the field.
Now, I went and got dictionaries today from everywhere to look up this word, what the word of “subtil” meant. It means “to be smart, to be crafty.” And the best interpretation of the–of the Hebrew from “m-a-h-a-h, mahah” means “having a true knowledge of the principles of life.”

64 Now, let’s watch this just a minute. He’s smart, crafty. Yet he’s called the serpent. But remember, he was the smartest thing there was, and the more like the human being than anything else that was on the field: closest to a human being. He was not a reptile. The curse made him a reptile, and he was the… The Bible said he was the most beautiful of all.
And even the curse didn’t take all of his beauty away, yet the glorious colors of the snake is beautiful. And his grace and his shrewdness, even the curse didn’t move it off. But you remember, God told him that his legs would come off and he’d go on his belly. And you can’t find one bone in a snake that looks like a human being, and that’s the reason science is lost. But there he is.

65 God hid it from the eyes of the wise and prudent and promised to reveal it to the sons of God in the last days, when the sons of God would be made manifest. When God’s sons that rejoiced with Him before the foundation of the world, when the great revelation of the Godhead and things would be brought down in the last days, He would manifest these things to the sons of God. You know the Scripture teaches that. And here we are.
That’s the reason that God is opening these things to us. God is bringing His sons into manifestation. He’s going beyond the limitations of any human knowledge, way into the spiritual revelations and bringing it down.
Haven’t we been teaching in this Bible, “Here’s to him that has wisdom.” Not what he learned in some seminary, but what he can learn on his knees before God, and what pleased God to give him: sons of God made manifest.

66 Here’s the serpent. Now, here’s what the serpent was. I’m going to give you my description of him.
We have the… We come down from the frog on to that, the polliwog, and on down, on, and so and so; you finally come to the monkey, to the chimpanzee; and from the chimpanzee there we jump from the chimpanzee to the human. And we wonder why. “Well,” science says, “now wait; we can breed the woman to the monkey and to the… vice versa, a man breeding to the chimpanzee.” It won’t work. Breed to any other animal: won’t work. Blood won’t mix. Take their blood, it’s altogether different blood altogether. There’s some blood between here, and they can’t find the animal. Oh, hallelujah. I’m getting to feel religious right now.

67 Notice. Why? God hid it from them. There ain’t a bone in a snake that looks like a human bone. He put the thing so far away that it couldn’t be discovered by smart men.
I’m going to show you where that smart man comes from, where he–where he’s at anyhow. See? He can’t come through that. It’s got to come by revelation. “Thou art the Christ, the Son… Upon this rock I’ll build My church, and the gates of hell can’t prevail against it”: spiritual revelation.
How did–how did Abel know to offer a lamb instead of Cain offering the fruits of the field? It was spiritually revealed to him. You don’t get it by seminaries. You don’t get it through denominations. You get it from heaven.

68 Now, watch the serpent, this serpent which was first. Let’s draw a picture of him now. He’s a great big fellow. He’s between the chimpanzee and the man. And the serpent, the devil, Lucifer, knew that that was the only blood that would mix with this human blood. The only person he could deal with… He couldn’t deal with the chimpanzee. That blood wouldn’t mix. He couldn’t deal with different things. He couldn’t deal with the sheep. He couldn’t deal with the horse. He couldn’t deal with any animal. He had to deal with this serpent.
Let’s take him now and see what he looks like: Great big fellow, prehistoric giant. That’s where they find these big bones, and I’ll show you this in the Bible. Now, watch closely then. All right. This great big fellow, let’s say he was–he was ten foot tall, great big shoulders, looked just like a man. And his blood, after coming down, coinciding one animal to another…

69 You can cross animals. They kept getting higher blood, higher form of life, higher form, till it climbs up into the man realm. But the last connection here between here was cut off. How many knows that science can’t find the missing link? All of you know that. Why? Here he is, the serpent.
Here he was a great big fellow. And the devil comes down. Now, he says, “I can inspire.” Now, when you go to looking at women and actions of women, remember you are anointed of the devil, if it’s not your own wife. Notice. Now, the devil come down and got into the serpent, and he found Eve in the garden of Eden naked. And he talked about the fruit in the midst, the “midst” means “middle” and so forth. You understand in a mixed congregation. And he said, “Now, it’s pleasant. It’s good to the eye.”

70 What did he do? He begin making love to Eve. And he lived with her as a husband. And she saw it was pleasant, so she went and told her husband; but she was already pregnant by Satan. And she brought forth her first son whose name was Cain, the son of Satan.
“Now,” you say, “that’s wrong.” All right, we’ll just find out whether it’s wrong or not. “And I will put enmity between thy seed and the serpent’s seed.” What? The serpent’s seed. She had a seed, and he had a seed. “And he shall bruise thy head, and you shall bruise his heel.” A “bruise” there means “to make an atonement.”
Now, there’s your seed of the serpent. Now, notice, here comes these two men out.
Now, this serpent, when he stood there… This great big giant of a fellow stood up there. He was guilty of committing adultery with Adam’s wife. Where’s sin lay today? What makes things the way they are today? (Now, I–I… Surely you can catch what I’m talking about.)

71 And there he was. And when he did, God said, begin to call for Eve and Adam. And he said, “I was naked.”
And He said, “Who told you you was naked?” Then they begin to–in army fashion, passing the buck.
Said, “Well, the woman You gave me done it. She was the one who persuaded me.”
And she said, “The serpent give me an apple.” All right, preacher, get next to yourself. She said, “The serpent beguiled me.” Do you know what “beguile” means? Means “defiled.” The… The devil never gave her an apple. “The serpent has beguiled me.” And then the curse came.

72 He said, “Because you listened to the serpent in the stead of your husband, you took life from the world; and you–now you’ll multiply your sorrows, and your conception shall be to your husband,” and so forth. “And because you listened to your wife instead of me–I took you from the dust the highest specie–back to the dust you go.” “And serpent, because you did that, off goes your legs; upon your belly you’ll go all the days of your life. And you’ll be hated, and dust shall be your meat.” There you are. There’s that missing link.

73 Now, here comes Cain. Let’s watch the natures. Here comes Cain. What is he? He’s a shrewd businessman. He tills the fields: smart, intelligent, religious, very religious. Watch his–watch his attributes now. Just move with me for just a few minutes longer. Here he comes out. He knows he’s mortal. He wants to go to church. He builds him a church, makes him an offering, brings an altar along–builded an altar, puts his flowers on it, put the field–the fruits of the field, offered it to God, and said, “There You are, Lord. I know we eat apples. That’s what caused it.” (Some of his offsets have the same kind of an idea. Shows where it came from.)
Brought his apples in out of the field, laid them on there, said, “This will make an atonement.”
God said, “It wasn’t apples.”
But by spiritual revelation Abel knew it was blood. So he brought a lamb, hacked its throat, and it died; and God said, “That’s right. That’s what done it. It was blood.” (You know what blood I’m talking about.) All right. It was blood that did it. Now, watch.

74 And then when Cain saw his holy-roller brother had been accepted before God, and signs and wonders was being taken place down there, he got jealous of him. He said, “We’ll stop this stuff right now.” Look at his brothers. Look at his children on today. “Now, I’m smarter than he is.” So he got angry. Where did angry come from? Could you say that’s anger? He killed his brother. He was a murderer. Could you call God a murderer?
And Adam was the son of God. The Bible said that Adam was the son of God, that pure beginning back there. Adam was God’s son, and that jealousy and envy and everything could not come out of that pure stream. It had to come through another place. [Gap in the audio] And it come through Satan, who was a murderer to begin with. The Bible said he was: a liar and a murderer to begin with. There it is. And he killed his brother.
And there was a type of the death of Christ. Then out of that, ‘course, He raised up Seth to take his place: death, burial, and resurrection of Christ.

75 And watch, then here comes your giants. Then Cain went to the land of Nod. If his daddy was a great big giant of a fellow, what would Cain be like? His daddy. And he went to the land of Nod and took one of his sisters. Only way he could do, there was no more females could come, only through Eve. They claim they had seventy sons and daughters. If–if there was no females… The Bible don’t record females when they’re born, just man. And when… If there was no more females than Eve, when she died the human race ceased to exist. They had to have daughters. He’d have to marry his own sister.
He went to the land of Nod and got–and got his wife; and when he married her in there, there’s where they found those great big giants, which were fallen sons of God who came through their daddy, the devil through Cain. There’s your missing link.

76 And watch the seed of the serpent. Now, watch. Remember the seed of the serpent is religious. Watch it start moving now for a few minutes. Here goes the seed of the serpent. What happened to them? Now, let me just read something here I just wrote down this afternoon. What come through the line of Abel? Listen to this.
All right. Along came Abel. After Abel come Seth. After Seth come Noah. After Noah come Shem. After Shem come Abraham. After Abraham come Isaac. After Isaac come Jacob. After Jacob come Judah. After Judah come David. After David come Christ to the perfection.

77 Watch back there how the Spirit of God lived in Abel. Look how it lived in Seth. Look how it lived in Judah. Look how it lived in David. Look at the same Spirit calling out through that righteous seed all the way down. No matter what they done, they were predestinated.
Look at Jacob, a dirty… I don’t say this to–sacrilegious. But Jacob a little shyster hanging under his mother’s coattail all the time, running around, a little sissy boy, put things over him, and went and deceived his father to getting the blessing. But it was given to him before the foundation of the world. Sure it did. Went out there and lied to his father-in-law and took some speckled sticks (poplar sticks), and put them in the water to scare these cattle when they were pregnant, to make them bring forth speckled cattle so he could cheat and get them cattle. God blessed him in it. That’s right. Woe unto anybody that says anything about Jacob.

78 You know–you know what the false prophet said, that he was prophesying right: Balaam? He said, “Ever who blesses him will be blessed, and ever who curses him will be cursed.”
“I took thee, Jacob, found him as a–as in a strange land. As the eagle stirs her nest, I stirred him and took him out.” Hallelujah. “Not by power, not by might, but by My Spirit saith the Lord.”
Watch that come down to that perfection. That Spirit worked down to the perfection in Christ, down through every one of the patriarchs, coming right down. No matter what they did, what they said, and what they did, they were absolutely the seed of the righteous.

79 And here when righteous Abraham… Glory. Oh, I just feel real good. When righteous Abraham met Melchisedec, Who was God Himself… Who was Melchisedec? The King of Salem, which is King of Jerusalem, King of peace. He had no father. He had no mother. He never had a beginning of days nor ending of life. Ever who He is, is still living. He never was born. He never will die. He never had father or mother. He never had a beginning of days nor ending of life? Tell me Who it was. The eternal God in what we call a–oh, I forget just what you call that now: theophany? Is what it is–just in, like not a myth, but yet it’s something made manifest. Like He come to Abraham in the tent up there, like an Angel, and prophesied and told Sarah. She laughed behind Him, and so forth, the same–the same thing. And here He was. He met Melchisedec, and grand–great-grandfather Abraham, in the seed of the righteous, paid tithes to Melchisedec, and it was allotted to his great-great grandson down here, the seed of the righteous.

80 Now, here comes the seed of the–of the serpent. Now, remember, there’ll be enmity, war between them. The seed of the serpent comes along, and what does it produce? Now, let’s take the first few years. Now, watch what takes place to them. We’ll read it right down ’cause I just checked it up.
The seed of the serpent produced Cain. Cain went to the land of Nod, produced giants, and then they come to the land of Noah. They were smart educated, intelligent people. Is that right? They were builders, inventors, scientists: Not through the seed of the righteous, but through the seed of Satan, the serpent. They were such men as–as scientists, builders, and great men, educators; the Scripture says so. They worked brass; they worked iron; they worked metals. They invented things. They tempered different metals, and built houses, and so forth. The Scripture says so. And they were scoffers at the seed of the woman: Noah, the righteous. Is that right?

81 Let’s follow them a little farther. Then we get them up to the ark. Everything was destroyed: got in such a conglomeration of sin. And they took the rule, and smartest and intelligent, till God looked down, there wasn’t very many left, so He just took Noah and his family in the ark and rained the water down, and destroyed the whole thing: took Enoch up beforehand. Is that right? There was all the seed, almost all the seed. But He has purpose has to be fulfilled.

82 Now, Noah and his sons which come out, Ham, Shem, and Japheth, come out in the righteous line. How did the seed ever get over? The seed come over in the ark, just like it did in the beginning through the woman, their wives. They carried the seed of Satan through the ark, just as Eve packed the seed of Satan to give birth to Cain, through the woman. You put them women in your platforms for preachers, the Bible condemning it. Paul said, “If any man thinks himself to be a prophet or even spiritual, let him acknowledge that what I write is the commandments of the Lord; but if he be ignorant, just let him be ignorant.”

83 That is why I walked out of the Baptist church down here. Brother Fleeman who was here awhile ago; I think he was there that night. Doctor Davis said, “You’ll stand up here and ordain these women for preachers.”
I said, “I will not do it. No indeed.”
He said, “Well, I’ll throw you out.”
I said, “I’ve been throwed out of better.” I said, “This is the Word of God, and It condemns the thing. And I cannot hold up for what God condemns.” No, sir. Ever who does it is showing they’re false teachers, false prophets. The Bible said they would be: deceive the very elect if possible. There you are.

84 Notice this now. And out of there then come Ham, Ham with his wife and them. He had a curse put on him. From Ham come Nimrod, who built Babylon. Out of Babylon come the Catholic church, the beginning of it. Come on down through Ahab, come on down from Ahab into Judas Iscariot, wound it up–the antichrist. And in this last day, here is the spirit of the antichrist and the Spirit of the Christ. The spirit of the antichrist saying, “The days of miracles is past,” the Spirit of Christ saying, “He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever.”
The spirit of antichrist says, “It don’t make any difference if you’re baptized in the Father, Son, Holy Ghost; poured, sprinkled, or whatever it is. It means the same thing.” The Bible said that God’s infallible, and He can’t change. Who you going to serve? It’s up to you.

85 Now, you say, “Can they dwell together? You said that they’re in that ark, Brother Branham. You had in there both Ham and Seth.” That’s right, exactly right; Ham was evil. Seth was religious and righteous. All right, let’s follow Ham.
All right now, there’s Ham and Seth in the same ark, one righteous, and the other unrighteous. There was a crow and a dove in the same ark. There was Judas and Jesus in the same church. There was the antichrist and the Holy Spirit in the same church. And today the same spirits work, having a form of godliness, very religious, but “having a form of godliness and denying the power thereof. From such turn away.”

86 The Holy Spirit claiming Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, which side will you choose?
The antichrist says that this is just a book of creed. “We’ll repeat the Apostles’ Creed.” I challenge any preacher to tell me where the Apostles’ Creed’s found in the Bible. “I believe in God, the Father, almighty, the Creator of heavens and earth, Jesus Christ, His Son. I believe in the holy Roman Catholic church, the communion of the saints.” Where do you find that in the Bible? And yet you repeat it in your big Methodist and Baptist churches. It’s a doctrine of the devil, and false prophets are teaching it.

87 I’m not… I hope I don’t hurt your feelings, but I’m pinning that to this Tabernacle. You here at the Branham Tabernacle, abstain from such stuff. Anything that believes in communion of saints is spiritualism. There’s One Mediator between God and man, and that’s the Man Jesus Christ. I don’t care how many Mary’s there is.
See how that woman’s seed back there did? See how the woman’s seed carried over there?
Look at today in America. America is the seat of the devil. What is it? She’s a woman’s nation. You’ve heard, “This is a woman’s world.” That’s right. It’s a woman’s nation. They set the pattern.

88 I went over here not long ago in Switzerland. The women saying… One little Holy Ghost woman said, “You know, if I go over in America, they say the women’s got freedom.”
I said, “Let me tell you what it leads to.”
I begin to tell her; she said, “Oh, mercy, I don’t want any of that.”
I said, “That’s where it leads to.” You know they don’t do things there like they do here. What is it?

89 Let me show you that America is a woman. On our coin is a woman’s picture. Everything in here is a woman. Tell me, there isn’t enough bootleg joints in the country would have. You can put forty bootleg joints in this city and put three prostitutes, of good looking women that twist theirselves down the street; they’ll send more souls to hell lusting after them than all the bootleg joints you could put in the city. That’s exactly right.
Who is it then? It’s woman. What is she? She’s the god of America.

90 Take some of these old movie actors and get up here, married four or five times, living with three or four different husbands at the same time. And some of these magazines exposing them and tell them, taking their pictures naked out here, and you little girls set that as your example? Why? Because your mammy before you perhaps, your grandmammy before you…
You see where that seed of the serpent works in? Sure it did. And what’s it done? If iniquity is to visit to fourteen generations under the law, what will the iniquity be visited in this day? When the seed of the righteous is about worked out; and God said it’d come a time if He didn’t cut the works short, there’d be none of it left. We’re at the end time.

91 Hunt the righteous tonight. Go through the city. Oh, you find church members just as loyal to the Baptist, and Presbyterian, and so forth, as they can be. But they have no more to do with God than a rabbit has to put on snowshoes, know nothing about it. All they know… “Are you a Christian?”
“I’m a Catholic.”
“Are you a Christian?”
“I’m a Baptist.”
“Are you a Christian?”
“I’m Presbyterian.”
“Are you a Christian?”
“I’m Pentecostal.” That don’t have nothing to do with it. You’re a Christian because that God, by His grace, saved you, and you know about it, and something has changed your life that you live different, and you’re a new person and creature in Christ Jesus.

92 Certainly, but you see where the seed of the serpent… What was the seed of the serpent? Adultery. You follow it? Adultery with Eve. What happened to that? What brought that forth. What is it tonight?
Look back yonder a few years ago when the first song come out. You older people, when the… They used to censor songs before they’d let them be sung on the radio. And the first one come out was that “Roll them, Girlies, roll them; showing your pretty knees.” And all like that. “Laugh at Pa and Ma, and give ’em all a ha-ha-ha.” That’s the first one they let slip through. Where do you think the guy is tonight that wrote that song? He’s dead. What do you think of Clara Bow, who come out the first and said, “the dangerous curves” and the “striptease” that sent thousands of souls to hell? Where do you think she is tonight? She’s been dead for a long time. Where’s she at, when that body of hers laying yonder, cankered in the dust, and the worms and maggots has eat through it. And her soul lays yonder before a just God.

93 Where is the man that took that woman and made them old dirty looking clothes that they put on, to push them all out in one way and the other and misfit them? Said, “What did they do it for? Why do you wear those kind of things for?” ‘Cause you want men to look at you. No other way to prove it.
And do you know that when you do that, and some old sinner looks at you, you know what has happened? At the judgment bar… You say, “Brother Branham, I’m just as true to my husband as I can be.” You’ll be counted guilty of committing adultery.
Jesus said, “Whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.” When that man has to answer for committing adultery, who’s going to be the one that caused it? The way you dressed yourself and presented yourself. Now, I don’t mean to say you have to dress like some something or other out of an antique box, but you can look more like a lady.

94 And get out here and strip your little shorty shorts and tie a little ribbon around it like that… Your baby, with its eyes like a cigarette tray, with a cigarette in your mouth, walking down the street… You don’t do that for no good purpose. You might be innocent of the fact, but the devil’s using you for a tool, just like he did Eve.
Why is it a woman’s nation? Because it’s leading right up to the domination of Catholicism. What is it today? You never hear them mention Jesus. “Hail Mary, Mary, mother of God.” Saint Cecilia, all kinds of saints, dead saints…

95 Here not long ago down–I was down in Mexico last year. Here come a poor woman dragging, her knees all drug off like that, (the hide), crying, and holding her hands, and the father walking along, packing two little children, them crying, mother suffering so ’cause some woman that they call a saint, died. They had her statue up there on the hill. Some lover killed her. And as soon as she gets killed like that… ‘Course she was a saint; she was Catholic. So then she was going to do repentance, and she had to drag two miles over cobblestones to do repentance.
Brother, if there is one thing that I have to do, Jesus Christ died in vain. Grace I am saved, and that not by myself, but by the will of God, and by the goodness and mercy…

96 Them reporters asked me, said, “Mr. Branham…” (The–the little dead baby had been brought to life and a few things there.) Thirty thousand Catholics… No, I beg your pardon, it’s twenty thousand (Thirty thousand was Africa.)– twenty thousand Catholics received Christ as personal Saviour at one time when that happened, standing in Mexico City. And those priests, they couldn’t send too many; it would start a riot. Had too many on the side, so they said, “Mr. Branham, do you believe that our saints can do the same thing that you do?”
Knowing their doctrine, I said, “Sure, if they’re living.” (See? So you can’t be a Catholic saint until you’re dead, you know.)
So he said, “Oh, you can’t be a saint till you die.”
I said, “Where do you read that at? Paul said, ‘To the saints that are at Ephesus and them that are called of God. To the saints which are at Ephesus (he was reading his letter) and the saints that are other places, at Galatia, and–and the saints in Rome, and so forth.’ the saints, the sanctified ones, what about that?”

97 He said, “Of course now we ain’t supposed to argue the Bible because we’re the church, and what the church says… We don’t care what the Bible says; it’s what the church says.” Said, “What is your opinion then of the Catholic church?”
I said, “I wished you wouldn’t ask me that. ‘Cause you ask me, and I’m going to tell you the truth.”
Said, “Well, I want you to tell me the truth.”
I said, “The highest form of spiritualism I know.”
He said, “How do you get that?”
I said, “Anything that intercedes with the dead is a spiritualist.”
I said, “If that saint talks back, then he’s in hell; because those that’s crossed the path, my–my Bible said that he could not come back.” That’s right. And I said, “If it is–if he was a saint, it’s the devil talking like a saint, and it isn’t a saint after all.”
And he said, “Well now, just a minute.” Said, “You intercede with the dead too.”
I said, “Where?”
He said, “Jesus Christ died.”
I said, “But He rose again. He’s not dead, but He lives to make intercession, by the only Mediator between God and men.”
“I am He that was dead and is alive again, and is alive forevermore. I have the keys of death and hell. Whosoever will, let him come and drink freely from the waters of Life.” My, that’s our God.

98 That’s our God, and the seed of the righteous is about run out. Talk to people about these things; talk to people about going back to the Bible way; talk to the people about miracles; talk to the people about that; their church don’t believe it; so they’re bastard children to God. The Bible said if we cannot bear persecutions, and trials, mockeries, and called holy-rollers and so forth like that, if you can’t stand it, you’re bastard children and not the children of God. The Bible said so.
Call me a holy-roller if you want to; call me anything you want to; as long as my heart’s right with God, and my experience matches God’s Bible, I’m moving right on in the same direction.

99 Yes, sir. That’s what we believe. That’s the church of the living God, which does not come by theology; it does not come by some man-made intellectual conception. It comes by absolutely the revealed truth that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
If I only had just a intellectual conception because the Baptist church or the Methodist church taught me that there’s so and so things… When I hear this Bible, if the Bib–If I’d been baptized in the name of Father, Son and Holy Ghost and read this Bible, and a preacher told me that there was no one in the Bible ever baptized but in the Name of Jesus Christ, and I read it and seen that was the truth, I’d hit the water just as fast as I could. Yes, sir.

100 If somebody told me that–that Jesus Christ was a great Healer, and my church told me, the days of miracles was past, and I had a need of healing, I’d run just as fast as I could to that altar to get healed. I sure would.
If I was a preacher and had a–a woman preacher in my pulpit, and I read in that Bible and seen that a woman wasn’t supposed to preach, I’d take her out of there if it took the hide off my back.
Remember setting right back where Sister Wright’s at one night that a woman was going to throw me out the door for doing something like that. Yes, sir. I said, “You’re not coming in my church with your old…” When they used to wear or cut their dresses way down like this, and with that funny looking stuff and about half of their body exposed, I said, “If they ever come in my church, I’ll sure put them out.” And some little old snicklefritz down here (She died not–after that, and she called on me, dying. She was a Catholic girl.) walked up there and set down with that like that. I looked back and spied her setting up here (They was singing.), took off my coat, walked back there, put it up around her shoulders. I said, “Madam, if you’re going to listen to me preach, would you please wear this coat while you’re in the church of God.”

101 She stomped out of there, spread them little lips up as she went out of the building; she said, “If he’s got religion, I wouldn’t let my cow have that kind of religion.”
I said, “Don’t worry, she won’t have it.”
When we had the tent, they called for me when she was dying. She had a heart attack, and she was dying. Her husband come. He said, “Come quickly,” (And I was right in the meeting), a big tall boy, standing at the door waiting for me. I run his–got in my car and run up there. As I went up, I met that old nurse out there that lives down in Howard Park yet. She said, “Reverend, there is no need of coming.” (That’s been about twenty years ago, maybe a little better.) Said, “She’s dead.” Said, “She’s been dead about three minutes.” Said, “She screamed as hard as she could for you.” Said, “I got a message for you.”
I said, “What?”
Said, “Tell that preacher that I said that about, please forgive me.”

102 I went down there to look at her: beautiful woman. And she had suffered so hard she had little freckles across her nose. A pretty woman. And the freckles looked like stood out. And her eyes had pushed completely out of the sockets and was halfway turned back. ‘Course her bowels and kidneys had moved, and the steam coming up all over the bed like that. And her husband looked at me and said, “Brother Branham, say a prayer, ’cause she wanted to see you.”
I said, “A prayer for her now would do no good. The way the tree leans, that’s the way it falls. Be not deceived; God is not mocked: whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he reap.”

103 Do you see where it is? Now, what’s happened? Look at a woman who would do that. Look at women who lived back yonder as a chorus girl. What was her daughter? A flapper. What’s the flapper’s daughter? A rock-and-roll teen-age. What’s her daughter going to be? Hum. What is it?
See the seed of the righteous? Look at you Baptists. Go back a little while ago. Go back to John Smith, your founder, you Baptists, when he prayed for the iniquity of the people until he cried and prayed for the people until his eyes swoll shut, and his wife would have to feed him at the table, his breakfast.

104 And you Methodists, around here with jewels in your nose and over your ears, and look like side saddles for the devil, and going out, wearing shorts and things like that… When old John Smith, one of the elders of the Methodist church, before he died at eighty-five years old preached a short sermon (four year–four hours). They had to pack him and set him in the pulpit. And here was his last words: He said, “I am so shocked at the action of the Methodist church.” Said, “Even the daughters of the Methodist church are wearing gold rings upon their fingers.” What would he say now, with shorts on, singing in the choir? You did run well. What did happen? You’re acting like your mammy. That’s exactly it.
That’s the reason we don’t want none of these denominations hanging around this, on tacked on here. “We’re Methodists.” “We’re Baptists.” We’re just of Christ. Leave it that way, be free.

105 Now, see the seed of the serpent? What would a woman like that pay now? What would that do? What did… They kept coming on down? That pushed the Baptists back, pushed the Methodists back, pushed the Presbyterian back. What’d they do? They all went right back like their mammy, the old prostitute. There they all are doing the same prostitution. “Well, it doesn’t make any difference. They’ve been immersed; they’ve been sprinkled. They–they’ve come made confession. They took their six months’ probation. They didn’t drink too much during that time, and so forth. They made good members. They pay good on…”
Oh, my. That has nothing to do with the fruits of the Spirit. The fruits of the Spirit is faith, believing Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever; love for the brethren, joy, peace, long-suffering, goodness, gentleness, patience, meekness, temperance. That’s the things, the fruits of the Spirit.

106 “And we take a man… Well, he–he lives a good life in the neighborhood.” So did Esau. Esau never harmed nobody, and Esau was of the devil. But Jacob, out of the same womb, was of God: the seed of the devil, the seed of the woman. The seed of God come through…
Now, see, it’s all got down to this, “Well, what is it left in the world today?” I’m going to say this real harshly; drive this down. Then we’ll start the revival after this in the next meeting. It’s got to a shape… And please, I don’t say this sacrilegious. I don’t say it to be mean. It’s got to the place to a big religious bunch of illegitimate bastard children. There’s my final remark.

107 That’s exactly what it’s come to. You know that to be the truth. It’s come to a place until it is church-join, church-member, having a form of godliness, denying the power thereof, till it’s come to a bunch of religious bastard children. That’s exactly what is it.
What’s next left? There’s a rocket hanging yonder, several of them, cobalt bombs and everything else; they’re just waiting for that power to arrive. And there’ll be a destruction by fire like there was by water.

108 And friends, whatever you do, if you are a Christian, and you’ve got God in your heart, and you know that you’ve passed from death unto Life, you ought to be the happiest person in all the world. When the Holy Spirit in you…
When the Bible says, “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever,” the denominations say, “But we believe the miracles are passed.”
The Holy Spirit says, “Amen. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. So be it.”

109 As the Bible say, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, you shall receive the Holy Ghost. For the promise is to you and your children, to the Gentiles… all afar off, as many as the Lord our God… As many as the Lord our God shall call.” Not “as many as the Methodists call, the Baptists call,” but “as many as the Lord our God shall call” shall receive this Holy Ghost and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ. That’s what the Bible says.
When that strikes you, you say, “Amen.”
The church said, “Oh ,it don’t make any difference.”
But this Holy Spirit in you say “Amen” to His Word. “Man shall not live by bread alone, but the Word that proceedeth from the mouth of God.” There you are.

110 I want you to show me one Scripture where it ever said a apple started the thing to going now. I want you to show me that they eat apples. I showed you that where Cain thought the same thing, and where his seed still thinks the same thing. But the spiritual revelation of God proves by the Bible that it was sexual intercourse between man and woman, illegally. There’s where your giants come from. That’s where your sin come from. That’s where your corruption come from. That’s where it’s come down.
Now, notice, and all… Just–just look. The–the serpent was twice as smart. His seed has always been twice as smart. And I’d like to climb up on this pulpit, and grab this microphone in my hand, stick my feet over the pulpit and say this: “And today where is your great intellectuals?” Your pastor that’s gone down and got a lot of intellectual knowledge, and he stands up. He’s the pastor of the biggest churches there is in the country, and so forth like that… Where does the seed of the serpent staying at? In the smart intelligent places like that: smart, shrewd scholars, there’s where he is at. That’s where he lays. “Not by power, not by might, but by My Spirit, saith the Lord.” See? There’s where you…

111 And you take the little brother standing down on the corner, crying his eyes out, and maybe standing down there beating an old guitar saying, “Brothers, come, find the Lord.”
Pastor walk by, “Humph, I wouldn’t have my congregation… Why, I wouldn’t associate… wouldn’t let–wouldn’t let Liddie and Johnny and them see me around such a place as that.”
Go on, seed of the devil. You’re headed for your eternal destination anyhow. That’s right. I could have said another word there, and said bastard children. And that’s just about where it’s at. For you see, you… “No man can come to Me except My Father draws him. And all that comes to Me, I’ll raise in the last day. There’s nothing going to be lost. I got it. I’ll keep it.” No man can do it except this. All lays in Him. You all can’t say I done one thing. It’s the grace of God that done it all. So nothing I done. I never had a thing to do; you never neither. You never merited one thing. God did every bit of it. You never turned your finger for one part of it.
You can say, “Well, I come out of a good family. I did this.” That don’t have one thing to do with it. God is the One Who did it. God’s mercy.

112 I’m sorry now, it ain’t quite eleven o’clock, but I’m going to close anyway. See? How many understands that the Bible speaks of these things to be the truth, you Branham Tabernacle people especially? Now, that’s just about one-sixteenth of what we teach and believe. But remember, to you bystanders I might say this, you people that doesn’t come here as a member: the way we believe this, that this is the Bible, and the Bible is God’s Truth.
And we believe that in the Old Testament now, they had a way of knowing what was the truth and what wasn’t the truth. Now, we all know that they had the written Law. How many knows that? The law, the–the commandments was in the ark and so forth. All right. And the law on the commandments… It said, “Thou shalt not commit adultery. Ever who commits adultery is stoned.” See? That was the –the commandment and the law on the commandment. Now, the ark was setting like this. The commandments was down in there, and the laws of the commandments was in the pockets on the side of the ark. If man come down here, and committed adultery, they reached down here and got what the law said. “Stone him.” They took him right out and stoned him. That’s what the law was on the commandment.

113 Now, they had two more ways of knowing. (There’s always three is a confirmation.) They had another way of knowing, and that was either by a prophet or a dreamer. How many knows that? “If there be one among you who’s spiritual or a prophet, I the Lord will make Myself known to him in dreams and speak to him in visions.” That’s right. Now, he prophesied.
Now, if a man come around and said, “Oh, hallelujah, I got it. I’m prophesying now in the Name of the Lord. I’ve got the revelation,” they didn’t let that go like that, like you people do. They examined that by the–God first.

114 Now, on Aaron’s breastplate they had what they called the Urim Thummim. How many ever heard that word? What was it? Was twelve stones, six on each side of the twelve patriarchs: Jasper, Judah, and so forth, on down to twelve stones. And then they took this prophet or a dreamer, and they hung this breastplate up, and they stood him there. And they said, “Now, prophesy and tell your prophecy.”
“The Lord spoke to me and said a certain-certain thing.” No matter how real it seemed. It might sound like it’s just perfectly the truth. But if them lights didn’t come together and make a rainbow color across there–the Urim Thummim, them lights conglomerating together, the supernatural working, confirming… See, God’s always confirmed His Word. See? And that supernatural light didn’t flicker on there, then I don’t care how real it seemed, it was wrong.

115 If a dreamer said, “I dreamed a dream, and this dream said that Israel should move and go to a certain place ’cause the Syrians are going to come in on this side and besiege it,” they would take that dreamer down there, he told his dream. If them lights didn’t flicker across there, he was wrong no matter how… If the Syrians was already setting in battle yonder, he was wrong. No, sir, they absolutely–it had to be proved by the Urim Thummim.
Now, everybody knows that the old priesthood was gone a–done away with, and the Urim Thummim went with it. We know that, don’t we? And the new priesthood was come in. And what do we have a Urim Thummim today? Yes, sir. God’s Word. Yes, sir, this is it. If any man has any kind of a revelation, or speaks anything, or any doctrine that’s not according and co–and coping with this Bible throughout the entire Scripture, he’s wrong.
I don’t care what denomination he is. How good he is, how smart he is, how educated he is, he’s wrong.

116 And when any man tells you these things that we’ve taught here in the church now, and tells you that if you’re sprinkled, it’s all right, he’s told you a lie. That won’t flash on the Urim Thummim. When he tells you that pouring’s all right, he’s told you a lie. If he tells you to be baptized in the name of the Father, Son, Holy Ghost is all right, he’s told you a lie. If he tells you the days of miracles is past, he’s told you a lie. If he tells you it’s all right for women to preach, he’s told you a lie. If he tells you it’s all right for you to go ahead and stick to your denominations, he’s told you a lie. It won’t flash on the Urim Thummim. And dozens of things that come out in that old mother harlot and come down there… And there’s why we stay away from the denominations.

117 We love our brethren and sisters out in those denominations, but you don’t go and say, “I’m a Methodist and make you a Christian to me.” You’re a Christian because you are borned of the Spirit of God. You don’t have to be Methodist or Baptist. You don’t have to be either one. You just have to be born of the Spirit of God. Do you believe it?
Upon these basis, if anybody’s here and wants to cooperate and come into the fellowship of this worship and wants to be–wants to be immersed, baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, here’s the pool. They’re going to baptize just in a minute. If there’s any man in here, anybody that wants to come in any other way… We’re here… That’s right.

118 Now, we’re–we don’t have any membership; you just come here to this church. We believe that Christ is in the Methodist church, the Baptist church, the Presbyterian church. He’s got members in every one of them. And what’s lacking today… Is false prophecy, bringing those things out, the teaching of those churches, which is absolutely contrary to the Bible.
Now, if somebody made that that plain to me, I’d certainly get myself… I believe there is enough Spirit of God in me to search that Bible out and come and make it right. If I just walked up and shook hands with the preacher, and put my name on the book, and still had hatred and malice in my heart, and still had envy and strife, and still disbelieved Jesus Christ to be the great Healer and so forth like that, I’d go get straightened up with God right quick. I sure believe I would. I–I’d be that honest about it. I’d go get right with God. If I just hung on because I was a Baptist or a Methodist, I’d go down and get Christianity in my heart. I’d do it. Yes, sir.

119 Now, remember, the coming revival which will begin, the Lord willing, this coming Wednesday night, that’s upon these basis. Listen, friends. There is a true and living God. That’s right. Jesus Christ is the Son of God. The Holy Spirit is in the church today. Now, if I just had somebody to tell me that, I’d have a right to doubt it. But listen, one day yonder as a little boy I was standing under a tree. I seen Him. I heard Him. He told me, said, “Keep away from them foul women. Keep away from the cigarettes; keep away from cursing, drinking, and all these things. I got a work for you to do when you get older.” I know He’s a real, living God that copes with His Word.

120 When I got a little older, how He met me, how He talked to me. How I seen Him yonder at the burning bush and that fire moving around yonder. How I seen Him speak and tell just exactly what would take place and every time hits perfect, just as it can be perfect like that. The same One that says those perfected things like that, is the same One Who inspires me to teach this Bible just the way I teach It. That’s right. So it comes from God.
To me it’s God Almighty, and He’s the same yesterday, today. and forever. Jesus said, “I come from the Father and I go to the Father.” When He was come… When He was God in the wilderness, He was a burning light. How many knows that? He was a burning light, Pillar of Fire. And He come here on earth, and He said, “I come from the Father and I go… I come from God and I go back to God.”

121 When He died, buried, rose again; and Paul, on his road to Damascus met Him again, what was He? Still a Pillar of Fire. Yes, sir. What did He do when He was here on earth? What did He do when He met Paul? How did He send him? He sent him to a prophet that told him how to be baptized, told him what to do, laid his hands on him and healed him. He told him he saw a vision.
That same Jesus is here today, doing the same things and still the same Pillar of Fire, teaching the same thing and confirming it by His Word and by signs and wonders. I’m so glad to be a Christian; I don’t know what to do. I’m glad that you are a Christian.

122 You Tabernacle here, I told you we’re going to change the name of this. It’s not right for it to be “Branham Tabernacle.” That’s just a man. See? We’re going to change the name of it, make it some other name. We’ll get on that after while. I just want it to be a–a church of the living God. I don’t want it “Methodist,” “Baptist,” “Presbyterian,” “Pentecostal,” I… All those people I love with all my heart. I don’t know which one’s which. I can’t tell you.

123 I just have to preach the Word. I cast the net and pull it in. There’s frogs, and there’s water spiders, there’s snakes, and there’s some fish too. That’s up to God to decide that. I just pull the net, just preach the Word and pull it in and say, “Here they are, Lord, all around the altar. You know Your Own. You’ve known them since the foundation. I don’t know which is which. You do, so it’s up to You, Lord. That’s the best I can do. I’ll go over here and seine somewhere else now and get another group in. That’s all I can do.” All right.
Oh I feel like traveling on,
I feel like traveling on.
My heavenly home is bright and fair;
And I feel like traveling on.

124 Now, remember, anybody wants the appointments, just call Mr. Mercier here: Butler 2-1519. We’ll be glad to see you. If your loved ones come in and have to hurry out during the time of the revival, now I’m going from tonight to go to myself and be gone for two days now to myself.
I just get in there and go to studying like this: “Lord, You’re near me. I know You’re here. Your Word said You’d draw nigh unto them that draw nigh unto You.” I keep praying and watching till I see that Pillar of Fire begin to move. I know it’s ready then. Then I walk in to the platform for the healing service to pray, to do what I can to help the sick and afflicted.

125 We appreciate all your kindness now, and when you come, come believing. And we’re expecting to have a great meeting. I want to say that Brother Jefferies… Is he here tonight? We want to appreciate Brother Jefferies and his work. I guess he’s gone back to the islands and so forth. Glad to see Brother and Sister Wright and many of you people here. I seen attorney Robinson here awhile ago, come in awhile ago. I wanted to compliment him on his–on his message he had the other day. Nobody ever did say who it was. I was ashamed. He had a real good message on prophesies, something like I’d been preaching tonight. And I…So… Then there was another minister here this morning, or last night, Brother Smith from the Methodist church-or from the Church of God over here. I don’t know whether he’s here tonight or not. If you ever stand up in this pulpit and look back that way, it’s kind of hard to tell. It’s flat. You see? You can’t tell it. If you’re here, Brother Smith, we appreciate you.

126 And isn’t this setting right here this little brother from Georgia, back–back here setting by Brother Collins? Glad to see you up here again tonight, brother. And the rest of you, all of you. Each one knows who you are.
I believe this is the sister and brother here who went and prayed for the girl that time, right here, a doctor setting over here on the side. The Lord bless you, doctor.

127 Now, please don’t feel offended at me, you ministers and brethren, because the way I strictly drive this in just as hard as I can. This is our Tabernacle. It’s what we stand for, and we want to lay it right on that Word and shake them with it. Then, if you ever get out of line, we’re going to come back and say, “You knowed better. Here it is on the tape. There you are. Here it is on tape.”
We got a whole lot more ought to go on there, you know. And so… But you got that much. You stay right with that, and we’ll get the rest of it after while. Like the man was eating watermelon, said, “That was really good, but there’s some more of it.” So we got a lot more of it yet coming.

128 The Lord bless you real good now while we… Going to have a baptismal services now. Is that right, Brother Neville? Is there someone here to be baptized just now? We don’t care who you are, we’re–we’re ready to baptize. Raise up your hands, the ones that was to be baptized. Someone, I believe there’s a… Here’s a lady here. And was anyone else? Now, we got clothes here for both men and women.

129 Now, we’re not saying leave the Baptist church, leave the Methodist church. We don’t say… You go right back to your church. But if you haven’t been baptized according to the Scripture in the Name of the Lord Jesus, not in the Name of Jesus only, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ (That’s the Scriptures.), you’re baptized wrong.
I don’t want no trouble when I come to the river. I want everything as clear as I know how when I’m holding that ticket (See?), ‘ cause I want to get aboard at that time. I’d advise you to do the same. Go back to your church. It’s up between you and God. That’s all I can tell you. But no one in the Scripture was ever baptized in any other way but the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. And those who were baptized was commanded by St. Paul who said, “If an angel preached anything else let him be accursed,” commanded to them to come and be rebaptized again in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. That’s right, and he did it. And what he did, he commissioned us to do. That’s what we will do God willing.

130 We believe in feet washing. We believe in Communion. We believe in the second coming of Christ, the visible corporal body of the Lord, not spirit, but the corporal body of the Lord Jesus coming again in glory. We believe in the physical resurrection of the dead to receive a body, not old and wrinkled as we go into the grave, but a new one in the very bliss of youth to live forever. We believe in the immortality of the soul, absolutely. We believe there’s only one form of Eternal Life and that’s the Life that you get from Christ Jesus. That’s exactly right. Therefore, we do not believe in eternal punishment. We believe in a hell fire, brimstone burning, but we don’t believe it burns forever. If it does, you got Eternal Life.
There’s only one Eternal Life; that comes from God. That’s right. You’ll be burnt maybe for a million years, ten million years, I don’t know; but you can’t have Eternal Life. You can’t burn forever… You can burn forever, but not eternal. There’s a difference between “eternal” and “forever.” “Forever” is forever and forever (conjunction) means “a space of time.” But eternal… You do not have eternal punishment. You have Eternal Life, ’cause there’s only one form of Eternal Life, and he that has Eternal Life lives and is blessed of God forever. But the soul that sinneth, that soul shall what? Die. Then it hasn’t Eternal Life. Certainly it has. It has its punishment, but not Eternal Life. So you see there’s many things yet to be taught; we’ll get later on. The Lord bless you.