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` Thank you, Brother Green. It’s a privilege. A greeting to
Brother and Sister Green, and all that’s here this morning. And
it is a privilege that I feel I have given to me, to come to this place of
worship, to make a few announcements.
2 I don’t want to take Brother Green’s time here, because I heard
Brother Green several times, speak, and I certainly was influenced,
and as he brought the Word of the Lord to us, and so humble about
it. Yesterday he said, “I don’t get the Word from the Lord as maybe
It would come in revelation, as_as It’s been sent, but,” said, “I like
to_to stress upon what has been said.” He said, “Like when Paul
wrote something in the Bible, I come here to stress upon what he
said.” Said, “I have no message, only just to stress on what’s already
been said from the Lord.” Now that was really remarkable, a_a
young fellow like that, and say, make a remark like that.
Now let’s just have a word of prayer together.
3 Dear God, I hardly know how to start, for I feel You are here
today, and in Your Presence we always feel so little. And I_I
thank You for this privilege. Now, Lord, that Thou has granted
this place to us, we pray that You will meet with us every time
that we meet here. And may Your Great Spirit move over this city!
May we be able to bring this Gospel Message that has been given
to us and presented to our hands in this last days, may It be ful-
filled, and You get every soul out of Tucson and around about,
that You’ve ordained to Life. Grant these things, Father, in the
Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
4 I think I want to read a little verse of Scripture here this
morning, just before I say these words that I wish to say. It’s found
over in Acts, the 7th chapter of the Book of Acts. And while you’re
turning to that, we’ll begin at the 44th verse.
5 Now we’re going to Shreveport this week, this coming week, for
a series of services, and now we’re going to try, if the Lord willing.
Brother Moore, Brother Jack Moore, a very good friend of both
Brother Pearry and I, and we love Brother Jack. The Message, I
think, kind of baffled him a little, especially on some of the things
that we hold dear and believe, that_that It came to us through the
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opening of the Seven Seals, as we believe It, such as, “serpent’s

seed,” and “Eternal security of the believers,” and_and so forth,
some of those Messages. That, maybe to others^We don’t think
This is hard, but, It, you’ve got to open your heart to Truth. We
believe that we’re living in the_the end time. That’s just so real to
us, that we’re just at the end of the road.
6 And to speak in some other man’s church, well, you want to
honor that man’s hospitality, of_of giving you that opportunity to
come into his church. And I, certainly, knowing that they don’t
believe in That, and I would honor them enough that^There is
plenty more that I can speak on there, besides bringing That in;
unless it’s just the Holy Spirit happen to push It a little, you see, then
I would certainly say as He said. And I don’t know no better than
to do that, and I hope I never learn any better than to do that. See?
Let’s just say It the way He says It.
7 Now let us read just a_a verse or two here out of the_the 7th
chapter of the Book of Acts, beginning with the 44th verse.
Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness,
as he has appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should
make it according to the fashion that he had seen.
Which also our father that came after brought in with Jesus
unto the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out
before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;
Who found favour before God, and desired to find a
tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
But Solomon built him a house.
Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with
hands; as saith the prophet,
Heaven is my throne,^earth is my footstool: what house
will you build me: saith the Lord: or what is the place of my
rest?
Has not my hands made all these things?
8 Upon This, the reading of this Scripture, I want to say the few
words that I want to say before Brother Pearry brings the morning
message.
9 I find this one of the great moments of my visit to Tucson. I
come here because that I was led to come here. I come here because
that the Holy Spirit, through a vision, sent me here. I know that
might seem strange, maybe. But He, as far as I know, anything that
I know of God, I was sent by a vision to Tucson. I’ve wondered how
I ever was sent to this desert place. And then here where there is^
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10 Spiritually speaking, over the city, I don’t know of any
place that’s any more spiritual dead, than in the city of Tucson.
There is war between the churches. There is fusses between the
congregations. There is no unity, and everyone grabbing, and
holding, and squeezing, and trying to get this one, and proselyting. It
is a desert, spiritually speaking, also.
11 But then I read in the Bible, that where God called Moses
away from his loved ones and all that was dear to him, and sent
him into the wilderness, to write the Laws of the Bible. That was
the Old Testament, the first four Books, Genesis, Leviticus, and
Deuteronomy, Exodus. He^I never said them just in routine,
but that’s four Books. That really is the Old Testament. Because,
the rest of It was what the prophets said, in the Psalms of David,
and so forth, but the Chronicles of the kings. But this was the
fundamentals of the Old Testament. Was Moses wrote them after
he was called from his homeland, where he had been born and
brought up among his people, and was sent into the desert, to write
this Book of the Old Testament.
12 Then I find that in the Book of the New Testament, where
Paul, which is the author, or not the author, but the writer of the
New Testament. He also was drove out from among his people,
and, by the Spirit, into Arabia, where he was three and a half
years, to find the inspiration. And Paul is the chief writer of the
New Testament. Now, there is Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John,
but they were scribes that just wrote what Jesus said as they
followed Him along. And, but, you take the Book to Timothy,
and to the Romans, and to the Hebrews, and so forth, Paul
received inspiration to write the New Testament; taking all the Old
Testament as a shadow, and setting it in order. And God honored
it, and made it the New Testament.
13 And now if the Old Testament had to be drove from the^the
writer had to be drove from his people, into the wilderness, to get
inspiration to write the Old Testament. And in the New Testament,
the writer was drove by the Author, into a desert place, to get the
inspiration to write the New Testament. And the Books are sealed
with Seven Seals; it would also require the same, I believe, in these
days, to open those Seven Seals. To leave what you hold dear, to
what you cherish, and a little home that was given me by the people,
and amongst all my people and friends, and a church that was
flourishing, and had nothing lacking; and to_to leave that, pull right
away from it, and move away, out into a desert where you knew
nobody, and everything against you.
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14 But there is something about God, that He drives a man to do
things that’s beyond any thinking of his own, so it can be to the
glory and honor of God. And I feel that, not self honor, but I_I
feel it a privilege that it was to leave everything that was called dear
to me, to get here into this wilderness and suffer like I have never
suffered in my life, here in this wilderness, or this desert. But I
believe, that in doing that and obeying what God commanded to be
done, God has opened to us the mysteries of this last day. And we
are here with this Message.
15 Now, there was many people who followed me, and that’s not
unusual. Usually a person we^The people love one another, and
it, love, will drive you to do things you don’t think you would do.
And many of you left your homes, you left all, just to go, come out
here in the desert.
16 Many has called me, many has asked me, “Shall we come
to Arizona? Would it be a good place for us?” Well, as it was
said about Moses and them, it was no place of fruit, no place of
pomegranate.
17 Here there is not much work to do, and living is high, and the
cost of living is high. It’s really a rough place to live, is Tucson,
Arizona; wages are poor, and_and food is high, and rent. It’s_it’s a
horrible place to live, in that manner. But it’s healthy, it’s dry. And
we sometimes^We mustn’t get our minds fashioned on things of
this earth.
18 We must look to the leading of the Holy Spirit. But one thing
that troubled me in coming here, and telling people, well, “you
should not come” or “you should come,” that I leave up to each
individual, the way God leads that individual to do. I think every
one of us should do that, be led by the Spirit, on what to do.
19 And many of you here are from around Jeffersonville, and of
the congregation there, and you have come out here. Now, the thing
that bothered me, was a place of worship.
20 And I realize, as I read in the Scripture here, of Stephen and
his address just before his death; for they stoned him immediately
afterwards, for his message. As he was speaking, he said, “our
fathers,” talking of the Hebrews in the early days, how that they
tried to find favor before God, to build a place for worship. He
said that, “Solomon built Him a house, or a building.” We are
acquainted with the story.
21 But I like his next words, “Howbeit the most High dwelleth
not in houses that’s made with hands,” and another place over in
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Isaiah. He said, “‘A body has Thou prepared Me; see, sacrifice and
offerings, and buildings, and so forth, but a body has Thou prepared
Me.’” Well, we realize that he was speaking then of the body where
God tabernacled, in Christ.
22 But I believe today, that the inspiration that’s come to_to
Brother Green, to move here, him and Sister Green, giving up
their place back in the east, also, too, back in Texas, to come here
with^to start with nothing; just simply by an inspiration, feeling
that they should do it. I appreciate men that will follow the leading
of Christ, regardless of the cost it costs them.
23 Though the whole world, maybe your very best friends, think
that you’re wrong, but it isn’t wrong to you. As long as you feel
there is something behind it, it’s God moving you; it’s never wrong,
and it’ll always pan out right.
24 See this young couple, a talented young man. I ain’t saying this
because he is sitting here. And this young lady with her babies, with
his family to raise, and he has quit his job and everything, to move
here.
25 I realize that years ago I was called in the ministry. I’ve never
made a successful pastor, because I got a roaming, rambling spirit. I
can’t be satisfied anywhere. Just wherever the Spirit moves, I’ve just
got to move with It, because I have a Message. Jesus said, “I must
preach in this other town also.”
26 But there are those who are shepherds that watch the flock.
I’m so grateful that Brother Pearry followed the leading of the
Holy Spirit, and today we have a tabernacle. It’s a small one.
That’s just good enough to start with, to see what the Holy
Spirit^Not knowing, let’s just move step by step. Now, I
believe, if God has spoke to Brother and Sister Green, to come
here, and has opened up a place where our children; instead of
on Sunday morning riding their bicycles, and on the streets and
running around, they have a place to come to worship, instead of
us sitting around and listening to something that we’ve heard on
radio, which is all right.
27 But we, as this group of people, we have a Message for this
day. We, we believe that God has given us a Message. And Brother
Green, is, I don’t want to call him my associate, because we are^
Well, it is, also, my associate, we are together in this Message.
Brother Green preaches the same thing and Message that I believe
in. He has left his home, he has left his people, he has left his church.
He was, I believe, he was a district superintendent or something, of
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one of the organizations, and give the whole thing up when he heard
This. He left everything that was dear to him, also, to come to the
desert, just to support what God is giving to us now.
28 I say I believe it’s not only should be in our hearts, it should
be our duty to back him up, everything that we can, to attend
the services, to come here to worship, and to make this a place
where God can reveal to us the things that He has for us to reveal.
And as his word said, “The Message doesn’t come to me through
the giving of the inspiration, as it does to maybe to some of us,
but,” he said, “I am here to back up what God has given.” What a
statement! And I believe, if we will all cooperate together, we’ll put
our hearts to it.
29 I know that each one of you, if you feel like I do, I am so hungry
to see the Spirit of God moving, I just can’t hardly stand it. Some
experiences I’ve just had up in the mountain, just to feel that once
again, that Something that when I was first saved was so glorious
to my heart! And we can come into a place, we can sit and we see
it among us, that we are drying. As we sit here in the desert, I get
among my brethren, they talk with me and I talk with them; always,
in a little way of watching, feeling out there with the Spirit, as it
was, to see just the condition of that brother, to see what’s wrong.
I begin to feel us all reclining, getting away from the Spirit. It’s
become too natural a thing to us. We must worship in the Spirit,
where the Spirit of God^Not only our Message should be the
flame of the hour, it should be the flame in our hearts. See? It’s got
to be in our hearts, or we can’t_we can’t rightly present It to the
people. The Spirit has to pack the Message, Itself. And I’m trusting
and believing in every one of you, to be a real Christian.
30 Now they need Sunday school teachers. They’re going to need a
staff. And I want to say this so that you will thoroughly understand.
This is my church.
31 I been here three years. And I’ve had one door open to me,
that was Brother Mack asked me to come preach. God bless him.
I haven’t been invited by any other people; not nothing against
them, they’re alright. Brother Brock, a good friend of mine, Brother
Gilmore, many of these Pentecostal brethren here, are very, very
deep good friends of mine. I love them; nothing against them. I
understand their position. They can’t invite me in there, and then
remain in their organization. See, they can’t do it. Because, if they
do, they’re kicked out. So you see their position. I had the same
thing to face. But, my, may it always be, “Seek ye first the Kingdom
of God,” the will of God.
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32 And now that, Brother Green, God has sent him in here and
opened us up a church of like precious Faith that we believe in, we
ought to be very grateful to God, and attend every service, take
every place that we can. And if we’re asked to call on, to pray, to
seek, to do, let’s be soldiers right at the^just anxious to do it. See?
33 Keep the Message honorable, and live the right kind of life. Don’t
let no smut come upon It. We’re living too late now. We’re_we’re too
late in the hour. Let’s live It clean. Well, my life, your life, all of our
lives needs to be picked up, before God.
34 Our young people just ride around, from place to place, from
show to show, and drifting further and further away from God.
Right. Now, that’s the truth. I see it in my children, and I see
myself getting to a place where not^You, you’ve got to assemble
ourselves together, to worship God; the Bible said so, “When we
see this day approaching, that much more come together.” If there
is only two people here, you be one of them. Now that’s^And if
we come together and worship together, then we just, something
another about it, Jesus said, “Where two or three are gathered in My
Name, there I am in their midst.”
35 Now, as I’ve said before, Brother Green told me, and he said
it. My wife come, told me what he said when I was away. That,
and he said this morning, “The pulpit was open at any time.” Now
usually^That’s, open for me to speak.
36 Now, usually, I had to drive all the way to Jeffersonville,
Indiana, to give a Message that God gave me, to bring it to the
people; go all the way to Jeffersonville, Indiana, and each one of you
stringing across the country, and hooking up the wires and things,
to get the Message, because that’s what we’re living on. See, that’s
what we’re here for. Well, we don’t have to do that no more.
37 God gives me a Message, I can walk right here to the pulpit
and preach it, and feel free to do it. Yeah. And I believe, by that,
that God Almighty will bless you if you will just stand by this
church now, this group of people. Not only that, but let’s go out
and see if we can’t get others to come in. See, let’s speak to others
everywhere, speak to them about our church and what it means.
What our church^We’re here. We want you to come, bring in
strangers, and I’m sure it will be good for all of us. See? We have a
building, which we are thankful for. We’re thankful for this place,
to gather together.
38 But, “Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with
hands, see, ‘For Heaven is My throne, and earth is My footstool; and
where is the place of My rest? But a body has Thou prepared Me.’”
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39 And we are a Body of Christ. So as we move from one
building to another building, I believe, in bringing our Messages,
and we’ll come down and have healing services. And anything the
Lord reveals to us to do, we’ll have it right here in the church,
until it swells out so big you’ll have to take it somewhere else, and
somewhere else, until Jesus comes. God bless you.
40 [Brother Pearry Green comments, and then asks for Brother
Branham to ordain him. Blank spot on tape_Ed.]
Let’s bow our heads.
41 Dear God, as we stand here on this platform, which represents,
right over the altar here, we realize that we are a_a dying race
of people, as far as this earth is concerned. We look out upon the
streets and see sin wrote everywhere, and that the Glory of the Lord
is swiftly departing. And we know, when the Glory of the Lord goes
up, so will the Church go with It. God, we want to be there.
42 Just a few days ago, standing here on the street corner, just
across the street, watching that parade go down the street; and
seeing those old First War tanks leading the way, then come the
big heavy Sherman tank, behind that followed on and on and on,
then the gold-star mothers; the little broke-up family, with a crying
wife, and a little ragged boy lost his daddy, an old mother had lost a
son. I thought, “How sad,” to stand on the street corner and watch
something like that pass. Then noticing, just as they passed this
building, the music changed to Onward, Christian Soldiers. Playing
their marches, behind; but when they passed this spot!
43 Dear God, I’m thinking of another great time coming, and that
will be the resurrection, when the old-timers will come forth first,
saints, the patriarchs. “For we which are alive and remain shall not
prevent or hinder those which are asleep; for the trumpet of God
shall sound, and the dead in Christ shall rise first.” Then when we
see that great^just the people going, marching up through the
skies; and we’ll be standing, waiting for our change, knowing that
we’ll fall in line, also. God, make us faithful soldiers.
44 Only those who have really associated and been in the war
would know what that really meant, to see those tanks rolling by.
And, God, we think that those who have been in the battle of life
will know what it means, when we’re waiting our turn to fall in
position and place, in the resurrection, to go up.
45 And this, my young brother, standing here, well trained, ready,
dressed, waiting for an old man to lay hands upon him, one who is
an old veteran from up there in the front line, knowing that he must
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join the battle, too. Dear God, with these unworthy hands I lay
upon my brother, in representation of Yours. Bless Brother Green,
dear God, who I bless in Jesus’ Name. May he carry this Message,
Lord, into this city and wherever You’ll call him. May he be loyal,
filled with the Spirit, living a life above reproach. God, let him have
the hearts of the people, that he might teach them and lead them and
direct them in the path that we all desire to walk. Grant it, Lord.
46 Bless his faithful wife, his little children. Bless our efforts here
together, as Christian brothers here on earth, that we may carry this
Gospel to the ends of the world. Send Your Spirit upon him, God.
We pray in Jesus Christ’s Name, as we give him to You. Amen.
God bless you, Brother Pearry. Carry the Word of God! `
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This Message by Brother William Marrion Branham was delivered on Sunday morning,
November 21, 1965, at the Tucson Tabernacle in Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A. This sermon, number
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