53-0609A Demonology Religious Realm VGR

Demonology
Religious Realm
Wonder how many knows this little song, as I greet you with
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warmest of Christian fellowship and love of Christ today,
how many knows this little song, “He Careth For Thee”? You
know it? All right, let’s see if we get it. You know it, sister? You
know? Now:
He careth for you,
He careth for you;
Through sunshine or shadow,
He careth for you.
Oh, that’s fine. Let’s try it again now.
He careth for you,
He careth for you;
Through sunshine or shadow,
He careth for you.
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2 Our Heavenly Father, we thank Thee that Thou dost care for
us and has manifested Thy love towards us, insomuch that You
sent Your Own beloved Son, to…the innocent Son of God, to
take the place of guilty sinners. How we thank Thee, that Thou
did care for us and was mindful of us, to do this! And we’re
so appreciative, Lord. We happy to gather here this afternoon,
under the canopies of the skies, and ask Your blessings upon this
service. Grant, Lord, that every man, woman, boy or girl that’s
here, may study deeply now in the Scriptures. We’re facing a
world that’s controlled by Satan. And, Father, we pray, as we
study the power of demons and what they do to people, that
You will give us great faith, and may many great signs and
wonders be wrought. For, we ask it in Christ’s Name and for
God’s glory. Amen.
3 We’re, a study this afternoon, quickly into it, I guess, about
fifteen minutes early. It is still on Demonology.
4 And now I just got a message, a while ago; Brother Beeler,
from my friends. And I start in Africa, the middle of July. So that
settles it, we got it fixed now. And Brother Baxter can’t go at that
time, so I’m going to have to go to Africa by myself. So going over
there with…may the…You have to pray for me now, that the
Lord will help me, ’cause I really going to need it now, over there
amongst…I’m expecting at least two hundred thousand people
in that meeting.
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5 And I’ve got a vision wrote out here. I want you people get
the benefit of it. It happened in December. I was in the room
one morning when the Angel of the Lord came in. I…You see,
when I was over there, I disobeyed God, and I picked up ameba.
Any man know—know what ameba is, a parasite that gets…
nearly kills you. And because I done something God told me not
to do. How many has heard the story of it? I guess some of you
is here. I know the folks from around the tabernacle heard the
story of what happened. God told me to go a place, and to stay
away from this place, and to go back over to another place. And I
let the preachers talk me out of it. Now, preachers are wonderful,
and they’re my brothers, but you mind what God tells you. That’s
right. See? You got one mission.
6 How many remembers one time there was two prophets in
the Bible? And one of them, the Lord told him, said, “You go
to a certain place. And don’t you—don’t you come the…You go
back another way,” and so forth. And—and said, “Don’t you eat
or drink while you’re there.”
7 And another true prophet met him, and said, “The Lord met
me after He met you.” And said, “Come by my house.” And the
prophet listened to what the other one said, and lost his life by it.
See, you do what God tells you to do regardless of what anybody
else says.
8 Now we are…In this vision, He…It woke me up, thirteenth
of Septem-…or of December. And—and as I was setting on the
side of my bed, I was wondering what would be my future. I…
When I come back over here, they was ready to throw me in the
pesthouse, parasites had just about taken me. And they give me
examination when I struck this land. And, by God’s grace, they
just let me go home, because it’s very scattered. And I prayed,
and I went to those ministers, I said, “The Lord said me not to go
that way.”
Said, “Oh, God talk to somebody besides you.”
9 I said, “Korah had that idea one time.” And so, but I went and
got some leaves and laid it over their feet, and I said, “Remember,
in the Name of the Lord, if we take that trip there, it’s going to
be a failure, and we’ll all pay for it.” And we sure did! Oh, my!
We all like to died. So then coming back…
10 You have so much you contend with in those foreign
countries. For instance, a little flea would bite you, it’d cause
you to have tick fever. And that little thing, when it bites you, if
you feel yourself itching, you can’t scratch it. You look, if it’s a
little black fellow, don’t pull it off. It’s got a little head, it bores
its way into the skin, turns around like this and fastens itself. If
you’d pull it, you’d pull the head off in there. It’s got a virus in it,
would paralyze you. So he…Don’t scratch, or don’t pull him off;
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just take some tallow. And he breathes through his back. Drop
tallow on it, and he comes off.
11 Then there’s a little mosquito. He doesn’t make a bit of noise.
He comes right through the air, he just [Brother Branham slaps
his hand—Ed.] touch you, that’s all, you got malaria.
12 And—and then there’s what they call the mamba snake. If he
hits you, you live just about two minutes after he hits you.
13 And there’s a yellow cobra. You live about fifteen minutes
after his bite. And one of them was close enough to my son, as he
could laid his hand on his head. Already up, to strike, before we
got the shot, like that.
14 And there’s the black cobra. Oh, there’s just everything! And
then the wild perils of the animals, of course, lions, tiger, or
leopards, and everything else to contend with, in the jungle. And
then the diseases, there’s just all kinds of diseases in there.
15 And you have all that to face when you go. Besides that, then
here’s the witch doctor to challenge you on every hand, see, and
all their superstitions and things. But, how, what a marvelous
thing to see our Lord just wave it away, from side to side, like
that, then go on.
And that day I remember, standing there, how well, what
taken place, I’ll tell you sometime in another meeting, ’cause I
want to get on my subject this afternoon, of Demonology.
16 But now, and this I was thinking about, sitting there, what
will the end be? And coming back across the sea, I know we
had around a hundred thousand conversions while we was in
there. And old Brother Bosworth come to me. Said, I said, “Well,
Brother Bosworth?”
17 He said, “I’m so proud of you, Brother Branham!” He said,
“You’re just—you’re just in the beginning of life,” and he said.
18 I said, “Well, I guess it’s all over.” I said, “I’m past forty years
old. I guess I fought a good fight and finished the course.”
19 He said, “‘Past forty years old’?” Said, “I was that old before
I got converted.” Said, “I’m still going good.” He was pretty near
going into his eighty. And just…
I thought, “Well, maybe that’s about right.”
20 So he said, “No, you’re just a brand new Branham now. You
just know how to control your meetings better, and everything.”
Said, “Just if you ever strike America in its right way, with the
right setup meeting, where you can stay six or eight weeks in a
place, and get it set up and advertised around,” said, “you’d do
something, but, and for our Lord.” So we went ahead, just on like
that, so it was very—very nice.
21 Then after a while, I saw a vision, when I was in America,
and it come to me, and returned me back to Africa, and it showed
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me that same meeting, sitting there in front of Durban. And the

first meeting faded away into history, going towards the West.
The second meeting rose up and, when it did, it was still larger
than the first meeting was. And He…I heard a scream, and an
Angel was coming out of Heaven; He had a great light.
22 And the Angel of the Lord which stands by us here, was
stand-…always stands by my right, over on this side. And It
was standing there, and It was—It was milling around. And I
seen this Man standing under Him. He’s—He’s not…Now, that’s
not vision when you see Him. It’s just as real as you’re looking
at me. Why, you can hear Him walk and talk to you. And when
He…Anything, it’s just as real. And it’s not a vision; the Man
is just standing there just the same as you are. And His voice is
just the same as mine would be or yours would be. But a vision,
something that breaks before you and you see it, like that. But
this Man just walks up and stands there.
23 So He told me that…what was going to take place. And He
said that the…This Angel came down, and He told me to turn
and look this a way. And it looked towards India, now. I don’t say
it’s in India, but it’s near. But they were Indian people.
24 Cause, the Africans are big, burly, heavy fat-like people.
Some of them are nearly seven-foot tall, and weigh, oh, two
hundred and eighty, three hundred pounds, burly. The Zulus,
now, the Shangaan and Basuto, and, oh, there’s many different
tribes. There’s fifteen different tribes sitting there that day, I was
speaking to.
25 I’d say one word, like, “Jesus Christ, the Son of God.” I’d go
get a drink of water before it went through all the interpreters.
One would say…And all noises!
I used to think, when I heard Pentecostal people speaking in
tongues, that maybe one speaking in one kind of sound and one
speaking another, how in the world could that be? But I believe
the Bible is right, and know It is, when It said, “There’s not a
sound without significance.” That’s right.
Some of them would say, one of them go, “Blrr blrr blrr blrr,”
that meant “Jesus Christ, the Son of God.” Other one go, “Cluk
cluk cluk cluk,” that was “Jesus Christ, the Son of God,” in his
language. So no matter what kind of sound it is, it’s a meaning
somewhere. That’s right. No matter what kind of a noise it is, it
means something to someone somewhere. And when He was…
They’d give that out.
26 And I noticed that over to my left, when that Angel came
down and I seen a swarm-like there, and they were man with…
looked like they had a—a sheet around them, like this, and had
wrapped up and tied, like around a small baby, the napkin. And
it was. And I could just see as far as I could see, it was nothing but
people. And then this Angel turned on a great oscillating light,
and begin to sway back and forth, like that. And I never seen so
many people in my life!
27 And then this other Angel came real close to me, and He said,
“There’s three hundred thousand of them in that meeting.” And
I’ve got it written down here. And you write it in some kind of a
piece of paper, like I told about the little boy being resurrected in
Finland. You write that on a flyleaf of your Bible or somewhere,
that in this meeting (There’s going to be a meeting. And you’ll
hear it through some outlet.) of three hundred thousand people
attend that meeting. Now, see if that isn’t right. That’ll be three
times the size the other one was. See? Three hundred thousand
people to attend the meeting. And I’m just so happy to get to get
there, I don’t know what to do, for I like to win souls to our Lord.
28 And there, at one time, seeing—seeing thirty thousand raw
heathens come to Jesus Christ in one altar call, thirty thousand
raw heathen.
29 Now let’s go to our subject right quick. Yesterday we studied
the technique of demons. I’ve been thinking today, as God
dealing. You don’t know what a liberty it is to get out. Now, I’m
not a teacher. I’m a long ways from being a—a Bible expositor.
And I am…My education is limited to a seventh grade. So
that’s…And, that, I come out of school about twenty-five
years ago, so that’s a long time off. And I don’t have very
much of an education, but all that I know is what I receive
through inspiration. And if that inspiration doesn’t compare
with the Bible, then it’s wrong. See? It’s got to be the Bible. No
matter what inspiration it is, it’s got to come…Here is God’s
foundation. No other foundation is laid but This. And what This
is, if what I would say would be contrary to This, you let my
words be a lie, because This is the Truth. See? See? And if an
angel would tell you something that would be different from
This, Paul said, “Let him be unto you a curse,” even an angel
of Light. Now, there’s many great things. I only…the only…I
chose two days, ’cause to get this subject to the people, that was
yesterday and today, of the afternoon meetings.
30 Now, the reason I did this, is to give myself a little try to see if
God would help me. There’s something on my heart. And this is,
that, after this great Message, and after God Himself confirming
what that I have said to be the Truth, in His Word; by His Word,
first, and then through signs and wonders. Now, I think, with
the Gospel Truth to the Church, I’m under obligation, to God, to
bring this to the Church. That’s right. They’re so broke up, in so
many different organizations and sectarian parts of it, till that’s
wrong. We’re all God’s children when we’re born again, That, see.
And the truth of the thing is that God wants us to know that, that
we’re His children.
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31 Now, remember, the temple of Solomon was cut out, all over
the world. And here come one rock twisted this way, and one rock
twisted that way, and one cut up this way, and one cut that way,
but, when it come together, there wasn’t a buzz of a saw, nor a
sound of a hammer, everything went right to its place. God was
the Instructor of that.
32 God’s got a church called the Assemblies, and one the church
of God, and one the this, and the one the that. And, but when they
all come together, they’ll be one big group of brotherly love, and
God will put, assemble that Church together and take Her on up
into the sky.
33 Every famous picture, before it’s ever hung in a hall of art,
it has to be hung, go through the hall of critics, first. The man
who painted…?…, or, pardon me, I can’t call his name, painted
the Last Supper, anyhow, it cost him his lifetime. He painted
that picture. It was about twenty years, or ten years, I believe,
between painting Christ and Judas. And did you realize, in that
famous picture, that the same man posed for Christ, ten years
later posed for Judas? That’s right. He did. Ten years of sin, from
a great opera singer, to take the place of Christ, come to the place
of Judas. You don’t have to take ten years. It take ten minutes,
will do the same thing to you. It’ll change your character, in sin.
But, anyhow, that picture went through all the critics.
34 And that’s what I think about God’s Church, the group that’s
called. Well, I don’t mean this through any slam. I’ve sailed the
seven seas, and I’m on my third trip around the world, and the
people say, “Holy-roller! Holy-roller!” And I’ve searched the
world, and I’ve never found a holy-roller yet. That’s a name the
devil has tacked onto the people. That’s all. There’s no such a
thing as a holy-roller. And I have statistics of every six hundred
and sixty-eight different churches that there is, and organized in
the world, there’s not one of them called Holy Rollers. And that’s
from the government. There’s not one Holy Roller church I know
of. So, was just something the devil called. But, now, in all of this,
all these things, God has painted a picture. And one time these
little old churches used to be out here, some of you…
35 I watch these gray-headed men. My boy, yesterday; I was in
the room, studying, and a minister came by and said, “Like to
shake hands with your dad.” Course, my boy has been raised up
with Brother Baxter and them, who just, “No,” that’s it, quickly.
I don’t like that. See? No matter if I…Course, I can’t be servant
of man and God, too. But I think I like to shake hands with my
brethren. I like to do that. There’s something about it, I like to
shake the hands of a—of a minister. Not only a minister, but any
child of God, I like to do it. I didn’t know about it until my wife
had told me a little later. Well, if he could have told that minister,
“Just a minute, he’s back there in prayer, and—and I’ll see what
he’d say.” Well, that, that would have been better. So I give him a
little correction on that, not to do that. See?
36 And so it’s true, you can’t just be right out, as the brother
said a while ago. If you do, then at nighttime I—I’m worn, you
see. The people go to talking, and everyone has maybe a sickness,
and when they go to speaking about it, quickly, there is the Angel
of the Lord right there to tell about it.
37 There’s someone sitting, looking right at me now, knows that
to be true, from just a few minutes ago, or about an hour and
a half ago. A lady sitting here, who didn’t know what it was,
that the Angel of the Lord spoke to her the other night and
told her something, and she couldn’t understand it. But today
it happened, so she knows now what it means when He was
speaking to her. And how, standing there talking to her, the
Angel of the Lord went right straight back out and told her what
her trouble was, and what was all about, and—and what she was
thinking about, and one of her loved ones, and how God had
spoke and said He had confirmed it, and what was going to take
place. So that’s just exactly the way it’ll be. See? God had said so.
38 Well now, what about a few times that ever…And then, and
each vision just weakens you that much more, see. And the first
thing you know, when you get to church at night, you’re just so
completely wore out till you just don’t know hardly what to do.
And you pray for me now, see, because it’s out of one meeting
to another, to another. This was the only meeting, it would be
different, if I was going home now and wasn’t going to do nothing
for a couple months, go out and get my fishing line and go fishing.
But I got to go from one meeting right to another, from one right
to another, you see. That’s what makes it.
39 And you all pray, you people back here in the audience. They
told me last night that I—that I was speaking to a certain person,
and the person did not respond to the call. Now, that’s pretty
dangerous, you see. When they said it…Well, sometimes these
lights don’t shine, there’s a dark spot in between there.
40 And I watch the Angel of the Lord when He’s standing here,
I can feel it. Then I’ll feel It move from me, and I’ll watch, It’ll
leave me and It’ll go over somewhere and stand there a little
bit, and I can see It. And It’ll flash on and there’ll be a vision
come. Then I’ll see the vision. I’ll watch what kind of a looking
person it is around there. I find the person, then I speak. That’s
what takes place. That’s what happens. You don’t have to tell
everybody that, but that’s—that’s what takes place, you see. It’s
all in the spiritual realm.
41 Then if that person don’t respond, it’d be like reading the
Bible here and saying, “Nothing to It,” walk away from It. See?
So that makes it pretty bad. So be on alert, be listening, be
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watching. When He speaks, answer. See, just be ready to answer

at any time.
42 And so my wife, and Brother Beeler and many of them, this
morning, was telling me about it, that it was calling a man about
his brother, somewhere, that had something wrong with him, and
so forth. And the man did not respond to the call, so that can’t
be helped. That’s between God and the man. The vision left me.
Then I couldn’t find it no more, because he didn’t answer. So, be
watching, be on alert.
43 Now taking this subject of Demonology and speaking about
demons. Now, people, when you say “demon,” right quick they
begin to think, “Oh, some fanaticism or something!” But demons
is just as real as Angels. They’re just as real.
44 And the devil is just as real a devil, as Jesus Christ is the Son
of God. He’s a devil! Heaven is just as real. And if there is no such
a thing as hell, there’s no such a thing as Heaven. And if there
isn’t an Eternal blessed…Eternal punishment, rather, there’s
no Eternal blessed. If there’s no day, there’s no night. See? But
as sure as there’s day, there’s night. As—as sure as there’s a—sure
as there’s a Christian, there’s bound to be a hypocrite. As sure as
there’s somebody that’s genuine from God, there’s somebody to
impersonate that. See? It’s just exactly pro and con, black and
white, right on down through life on everything, true and false
everywhere. And there is a false gospel, there’s a true Gospel.
There’s a true Baptism, there’s a false baptism. There’s a make-
belief, and there’s a real. There’s a true American dollar, there’s
a false American dollar. There’s a genuine Christian, there’s a
genuine hypocrite, see, that’s just impersonating. So you find
that, so it all goes together. Now, we can’t separate it. God lets
the rain fall.
45 May He let me speak here just a little bit. How many
preachers is here? Raise up your hands. All around, preachers,
let’s see your hands. Well, God bless you, brethren. Now, now,
you don’t take this for doctrine now, but, just before we approach
this vital subject, I’ll tell you what. How many Pentecostal people
is here? Raise up your hands, all around everywhere. Well, you’re
all Pentecostals. All right. I want to tell you what I had when I
first come into your realms, ranks.
I was right up here in Indiana, at a certain place called
Mishawaka. The first group of Pentecostal people I ever seen,
they was called the—the Pentecostal Assemblies of Jesus Christ,
I believe, or something like that, wonderful bunch of people. Now
they’ve organized together and call them United Pentecost. They
break up from the rest of them, because of an issue of water
baptism. That don’t make them any hypocrite. There’s many a
genuine, real genuine Holy Ghost, born-again Christian in their
ranks. And God gave them the Holy Ghost by being baptized in
“Jesus’ Name,” and He give the others the baptism of the Holy
Ghost, being baptized in “Father, Son, Holy Ghost.” So, “God
give them the Holy Ghost, who obeys Him,” so who—who got,
who obeyed Him? There you are.
46 If you just forget, and them that wants to be one way, let them
be, and you go ahead and be brothers. That’s all. Don’t…What
done it, was breaking them up, breaking away. See? What? Was
breaking, tearing up, breaking up brotherhood, setting out and
separating yourselves. No, sir, we’re not separated, we’re one.
That’s right.
47 But when I was standing there, I was watching those people.
Now, me, just come out of a regular little old Southern Baptist
church, why, I’d see those people, I went in there and they were
clapping their hands, hollering, “One of them, one of them, glad
I say I’m one of them!”
48 I thought, “My! Whew!” First thing you know, here
come somebody down through there, dancing as hard as they
could dance. “Tuh-tuh-tuh-tuh-tuh,” I thought, “what church
manners! I never heard such things as that.” I kept watching
them, around. Wondered, “Well, what in the world is the matter
with those people?”
49 Now, you’ve heard me tell my life story, where I hit that
meeting there. But this is one thing I’ve never told, never told it
before, in public. So they…Now, if you want to rub it off of your
recorder, why, you can do so. All right. Now, in this I watched,
and now I thought, “Well, them people is the happiest people I
ever seen in my life.” They wasn’t ashamed of their religion. We
Baptists get just a little bit ashamed, once in a while, you know.
See? And when they go to pray, you know, get behind the fan,
you know. And—and, but we…But them people wasn’t, brother,
they—they had religion all inside, outside, and all over them.
50 Well, I remember that night when I got on the platform. Said,
“All preachers on the platform.” It was a convention. They had
to have it up here in the North, on account of—on account of
colored problem, the Jim Crow law of the South. So they was all
met there from everywhere. So, I was sitting up there. And he
said…Well, now there’s…I heard all preachers through that
day and that night. They said some old preacher, he was an old
colored man come out, just a little bit of rim of hair around his
head, like that, big old long frock-tailed preacher coat on, you
know, velvet collar, and it hot weather. Poor old fellow come out
there like this. He said, “My dear children,” he said, “I want to
tell you,” got to testifying. I was about the youngest one sitting
on the platform. So then he said, “I tell you!” He took his text
from over in Job, “Where was you when I laid the foundations of
the world? Declare unto Me where they’re fastened.”
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51 All these other preachers had been preaching about Christ,

along the regular run. I listened to them, enjoy them. But not that
old boy! He went back yonder about ten thousand years before
the world ever started. He went up into the Heavens and come
plumb down across the skies, what was taking place. What they
was preaching on, going on, in day time; he was preaching on
what was taking place in Heaven. He brought Christ back on the
horizontal rainbow, back yonder somewhere in Eternity. Why,
he hadn’t been preaching about five minutes till that old fellow,
Something got a hold of him. He jumped up in the air and clicked
his heels together, and hollered, “Whoopee!” He had about as
much room as I got up here. He said, “You ain’t got enough room
for me to preach,” and away he went.
52 Well, I thought, “If that’ll do that to a man about eighty years
old, what would it do to me? That’s what I want. That’s what
I want.”
53 But what got me was this. Now, we’re talking on demons now.
What got me, I watched two men. One set at one side, and one
the other. And when the Spirit would fall, them men would raise
up and speak in tongues and shout, and turn white around the
mouth. And I thought, “Oh, my, if I could only have that!” See?
“How wonderful! Oh, that’s…I just love that!” Well, I went out
in the cornfield. And I told you my life story. You read it in the
book. I slept all night. And I come back the next morning, so I
thought I’d just test out. I have a way of doing things that nobody
knows but God and I. So, that, I take up a parable and go to meet
a man’s spirit. You see it right here on the platform. See? And so
then I got to talking to one of those men. I see them, they set
close together, and they’d just hold hands and dance and shout. I
thought, “Oh, my, that sounds real to me!”
54 And I took a hold of one of his hands. I said, “How do you
do, sir?”
55 He said, “How do you do.” Very nice man, gentleman-type
fellow. He said…
I said, “Are you a minister?”
He said, “No, sir. I’m just a lay member.”
56 And I got to carrying a little conversation with him so I could
catch his spirit. See? He didn’t know that. Nobody knowed. I
never said nothing about it. Years afterwards, before I mentioned
it. So they…But when I come to find out, it rang true, just as
perfect, a Christian man! That man was absolutely a saint of
God. I thought, “Brother, that’s fine.”
57 But the strange part, when I got a hold of the other man, it
was contrary. He was even living with a woman that wasn’t his
wife. That’s right. And I seen it pull up to him, a vision. I thought,
“Oh, my, it can’t be so.” And the man…I thought, “Now, now,
this spirit among them people is wrong. That’s all there is to it.”
58 So that night when the…went to the meeting, and the

blessings was falling, I would pray to God, and the Holy Spirit,
the Angel of the Lord give witness that it was the Holy Ghost.
And the same Spirit was falling on this man was falling on that
man. And when the Spirit would fall, both of them would get
up, and they’d both shout and scream and praise the Lord, and
speak in tongues and dance. I said, “I—I—I just can’t get it, Lord.
The…I can’t see it in the Bible, where that could be right.”
Now I said, “Maybe I am deceived.” See? I said…Now, here, I—I
can’t…I’m—I’m strictly fundamental in the Bible. It’s got to be
This. See? I said, “Lord, You know my condition, and I—I’ve got
to see it in Your Word. And I—I can’t understand. When the Holy
Spirit is falling on this man, the Holy Spirit is fall on that man,
and one of them is a saint and the other one is a hypocrite. And I
know it is.” I know it. Without…I could have took the man out
and proved it to him, or called him out right there and told him
about it.
59 Like I could that man sitting right here last night, was
nothing but a—an impostor, if there ever was one sitting there.
And I ought to have called it out, but he would have raised up
and started fussing. So I just let it go, on account of the meeting,
but I knowed him. Yes, sir.
There’s one, two of them, sitting right back there, the other
night, belongs to a certain church right here in the city. Real
critics! I seen them. But, if you would, he just starts a trouble.
I’ve done it many times. I just let them alone, see. It’s all right.
God knows, He’s the Judge. Let them call me one time, and then
you’ll see something take place, you see, let him.
Like the demon, I never called the demon out. He just come
to me and challenged me. Then is when God went to work, see,
that’s right, and you seen what taken place. All right. But I just
let it go. Made the meeting hard, for that spirit was moving right
in on me all the time, see. And so I just kept on.
60 But now, these men, I couldn’t understand it. And it was two
years later, or three, when I was up at Green’s Mill, Indiana, here,
at the scout reservation. I was back in an old cave where I go
to pray. And back there, I said, “Lord, I can’t understand what
become of that group of people. The finest people I ever met in my
life, and I—I can’t understand how that that could be the wrong
spirit. When it’s the…if then…You know the integrity of my
heart. You know how I love You and how I’ve served You. And the
same Spirit that’s here, with me, was on them people. And here It
was on that guy, there, just the same.” So I couldn’t understand.
61 And the Lord come down in His mercy and showed me. Here’s
where it was. It has to be Scriptural, first. He said, “Take up your
Bible.” And I picked up my Bible. I guess I held that Bible for
ten minutes without anybody…any more Word coming. I waited
just a few moments. I heard Him say again, “Turn to Hebrews

6 and start reading.” And I did. And when it come down there,
where It said, “The rain cometh oft upon the earth to water it and
prepare it, dress it for which it’s…but the thorns and thistles,
which is nigh unto rejection, whose end is to be burned.” And I
caught it right there.
I thought, “There it is. Thanks be to God! There it is.” See?
62 Now, Jesus said, “A sower went forth sowing seeds,” didn’t
He? Now, you’re all Christians here. Everyone held up their
hands, anyhow, Pentecostal, born-again Christians. All right.
They…And He said, “A sower went forth, sowing seeds.
And while he slept…” His rest, death, between. See? “And
while he slept, an enemy come and sowed tares in that field.”
What is tares? Weeds, briers and things. Now, “And when the
husbandman (the preacher) saw these tares growing, said, ‘Let
me go pull them up.’ He said, ‘No, no. You’ll pull up the wheat
also. Let them both grow together.’”
63 There’s a wheat field out here. There’s creepers, nettle balls,
stink weed, everything else in it. Is that right? But, now, in there
there’s wheat. Now, the rain comes oft upon the earth, to water it.
Now, what’s the rain for? Not to water the nettle ball. Now watch
and pay attention. Not to water the creeper. The rain is sent for
the wheat, but the nettle ball and the weed is just as thirsty as the
wheat is. And the same rain that falls on the wheat falls on the
weed. And the little old weed will stand right straight up like
that, and happy and rejoicing, just as much as the little wheat
will stand up and stand hisself up.
64 “But by their fruits ye shall know them.” There you are. See?
Now, the same Holy Spirit can bless a hypocrite. That knocked
some of you Arminians out, but that’s the Truth. That’s the Truth.
Been taught holiness, which I believe in holiness, too. But the
same Spirit, the rain falls on the just and the unjust, but by their
fruits you shall know them.
65 If I look out here and go to get wheat, I get wheat, but the
weeds is all bound up. And they live on the same rain that fell
for the wheat. And the rain was not sent for the weeds, it was sent
for the Wheat. But the rain being in the field, the wheat being…
weeds being in the wheat field, got just as much benefit out of
the rain as the rest of them did. And the same rain that made the
wheat live, made the weed live.
66 All things in the natural types the spiritual, as we’re
teaching. There it is, demonology, demons impersonating
Christianity, yet, with the blessing. That’s not skim milk,
brethren, if you can take it. See? See? Now, it’s—it’s Truth.
67 So, I’m not saved today because I can shout. I’m saved not
because I feel like I’m saved. I’m saved because I met God’s
conditions of this Bible. Jesus said, “He that heareth My Words
and believeth on Him that sent Me, has everlasting Life, and shall
not come into condemnation, but is passed from death to Life.”
I believe that. That’s right. And on them conditions I am saved,
because God said so.
68 If he told me you’re saved because somebody said, “A rushing
mighty wind hit me in the face,” that’s wonderful, but I want to
know where that rushing mighty wind come from before it hit me
in the face, see. Now, what kind of a life are you going to live after
that rushing mighty wind has hit you? See? See, it’s by your fruit
you’re known. So, demons can work right amongst Christians.
You believe that? Look at Paul, Paul said…
69 Now here is where the Latter-Day Rain…If there’s any
of you here, forgive me if I’m saying anything against you. I
wouldn’t say no more against you than I would the Assemblies,
or any, the Baptists, or anybody else. It’s Truth is what’s Truth.
Where you got off, was this: you’re making prophets out of them
men and things that’s not prophets. Prophets are not “laid on the
hands” and sent out. Prophets are born. See? In the Bible, there’s
a gift of prophecy. There’s where your mistake was, between the
gift of prophecy and a prophet. The gift…
70 “God, in sundry times and divers manners spoke to the
fathers through the prophets, in this last days through His Son,
Christ Jesus.” And the Body of Christ has nine spiritual gifts
operating in it. And it might be on this woman tonight, prophecy,
may never be the rest of her life. It may be on this woman the
next night. May be on this man the next time. May be on that
one back there, the next time. That doesn’t make her a prophet,
doesn’t make no one a prophet. It’s a gift of prophecy in you.
71 And before that man or that prophecy can be given to the
church, it has to be judged before two or three spiritual judges.
Is that right? According, now, Paul said, “You all may prophesy,
one by one.” If something be revealed to this one, let that one
hold his peace. Well, that would make the whole bunch prophets
then, according to the teaching of today. No, Pentecostal church,
we’ve got things all scrupled up. And that’s the reason God can’t
come in, till we get the thing straightened out and on the Bible.
That’s right. You got to get the right path. How you going to
build a house without looking at the blueprint? See? You got to
start right.
72 Now, in there, a prophet, you never seen anybody stand
before Isaiah, Moses. One did stand, Korah, one day, and tried
to dispute with him, and God said, “Separate yourself, I’m going
to open up the earth and…” A prophet is born. “Gifts and
callings…-out repentance.” That’s the foreordination of God,
from the baby up. Everything was perfectly right along, exactly
what he said was the truth and vindicated and brought out. It’s
the Word of God, comes to the prophet. But a gift of prophecy is

in the church.
73 Now you said, “Well, the prophets are the Old Testament.”
Oh, no! The New Testament had prophets.
74 Agabus was a—was a New Testament prophet. Look at the
Spirit of prophecy falling down there and telling Paul about it.
Then here come Agabus down from Jerusalem, and found Paul,
and tied his girdle around him, and turned over and said, “THUS
SAITH THE LORD, the man that wore this will be bound in
chains when he gets to Jerusalem.” Agabus, who stood up and
told, foretold what would take place, he was a prophet, not a
man with the gift of prophecy.
75 And the gift of healing and all those gifts, my Pentecostal
friend, you got it mixed up. The gifts are in the church, subject to
any persons in the church, anybody that’s baptized into the Body.
“By one Spirit we’re all baptized in.” And the Bible said…
“Well, I got the gift of healing.”
76 Well, the Bible said, “Confess your fault one to another, and
pray one for the other.” Every person pray one for the other. We’re
not a divided group; we’re a collective, gathered group. See?
Now, and there is how demons sometimes working.
77 Now watch what Paul said, “If one speaks with tongues and
the other one interpret, and whatever he said, let it be judged
first before church can receive it.”
78 Now, it won’t be a quoting of Scripture, or something other
like that. God don’t repeat Himself. But it’ll be a warning to the
church. Then if good judges says, “Let’s receive that.” All right,
it was of the Lord. The second one says, “Let’s receive it.” “The
mouth of two or three witnesses, let every word be established.”
Then the church receive it and go make ready for it. If that doesn’t
come to pass, what that said, then you got an evil spirit among
you. That’s right. And if it does come to pass, then thank God,
the Spirit of God is among you. See? Now, that’s where you have
to watch and be careful. So, don’t try to press. I couldn’t make
myself have brown eyes when I got blue, see, I have to be satisfied
with blue eyes. Now, there’s where demons work in the realm of
spiritual people.
79 Now we’ve got a deep something coming here, and I hope
it’s not too deep. Now over in First Samuel 28, I want to read
some Scripture here right at this time. I want you to listen closely.
And I want to bring “demons,” show you how they work right in
the church, and how Satan has a counterfeit for every real there
is. Now you can see, according to the Bible, that demons come
among Christians and they impersonate.
80 And many times we have declared people to be Christians
when they said, “I believe in Jesus Christ.” Why, the devils
believe the same thing, and tremble. That’s no sign you’re saved.
One of these nights I want to get on election, and then you’ll see
what salvation means. See? It’s nothing you had to do with it, in
the first place, or the last place, or nothing you can do about it.
God saves a man, unconditionally. Boy, that sunk deep, didn’t it?
Now, just might as well get that out of your system, while we’re
at it. All right.
81 Abraham was the beginning of our faith. Is that right? Oh,
Abraham had the promise. And God called Abraham because he
was a great man, I guess? No, sir. He come down out of Babylon,
in the—in the land of Chaldea, in the city of Ur, and God called
him and made His covenant with him, unconditionally. “I’m
going to save you. And not only you, Abraham, but your Seed,”
unconditionally.
82 God made a covenant with man, and man breaks his
covenant every time; man never did keep his covenant with God
(The law was never kept; they couldn’t keep the law; Christ
was come and broke the law, Himself.) ’cause grace had already
provided a saviour, Moses, provided a way of escape, and then
the, escape rather, and then the people, after that, they still
wanted something to do. Man is always trying to do something to
save himself, when you can’t do it. It’s his nature. As soon as he
found out he was naked, in the garden of Eden, he made some
fig leaf aprons. Is that right? But he found out they wouldn’t
work. Nothing a man can do can save yourself. God saves you,
unconditionally, all down through the age. And then when you’re
saved, you’re saved.
83 Look at Abraham. There that fellow was, went over, and God
give him the land of Palestine and told him not to leave there.
Any Jew that leaves Palestine was backslid. God told him to stay
there. If God tells you to do something another, and you don’t
do it, then you’re backslid. Is that right? All right, a drought
come on, to try Abraham’s faith. And instead of Abraham staying
there, no, he couldn’t stay there, he run off, and took Sarah and
went about three hundred miles (wish I had time to get on that)
down to another land.
84 And when he got down there, and then he got this great
king down there, Abimelech. He was a young fellow and he was
looking for a sweetheart, so he found Abraham’s wife, Sarah, and
fell in love with her. And Abraham said, “Now, you tell him that
you are my sister and I’m your brother.”
85 So that pleased Abimelech, so he said, “All right, we’ll just
take her over to the castle.” And I guess the women fixed her up,
and he was going to marry her the next day.
86 And Abimelech was a good man, a righteous man. And that
night, while he was a sleeping, the Lord appeared to him and
said, “You’re as good as a dead man.” He said, “The man’s…The
woman that you got out there to marry, is another man’s wife.”
Now watch. “Another man’s wife.”
87 Why, he said, “Lord, You know the integrity of my heart,” a
righteous, holy man. “You know the integrity of my heart. That
man told me that was his ‘sister.’ And didn’t she tell me, herself,
that that was ‘my brother’?”
88 He said, God said, “I knowed the integrity of your heart, and
that’s the reason I kept you from sinning against Me. But that’s
My prophet!” Hallelujah!
89 What was he? Backslid, and a little, lying shyster. Is that
right? Oh, no, there ain’t no little white lies. They’re either black
lies or they’re not lies at all. The man is sitting out there telling a
pine-blank lie, saying that was his “sister” when it was his wife,
beating around the bush, and backslid.
90 And here was a righteous man standing before God, and said,
“Lord, You know my heart.”
91 “But I’ll not hear your prayer, Abimelech, but take him…
take her back and let him pray for you. He’s My prophet; I’ll hear
him.” Yeah, a backslider, liar, but, “That’s My prophet.” That
Truth? That’s the Bible.
92 Now, don’t go plumb too far over here on the Calvinistic side,
“Once in grace, always in grace,” ’cause you’ll get in disgrace.
See? Now, just a moment, we’ll get time this week to bring that
up and show you how level it is. But don’t think just because
you’ve done something wrong that you’re gone forever. You’re a
child of God, you’re born of the Spirit of God, you’re sons and
daughters of God, and the fruits will bear record of itself. There
you are.
93 Now, here we are, sitting in the land. Now, I want to read
here, the 6th verse.
And when Saul enquired of the LORD, the LORD
answered him not, neither by dream, nor by the Urim,
nor by a prophet.
And then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a
woman with a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and
enquire of her.
I could lay something to the rod right here, for just…“Seek
me a woman with a familiar spirit.”
…And his servant said unto him, Behold, there is a
woman that has a familiar spirit in En-dor.
And Saul disguised himself, and put on raiment, other
raiment, and he went, two…and two men with him,
and they came to the woman by night: and they said,
I pray thee,…-vine unto me by thy familiar spirit, and
bring me…up, whom I shall name unto thee.
And the woman said unto him, Behold, thou knowest

that Saul has done, does know, has cut off all those that
have familiar spirits, and…wizards, out of the land:
therefore…layest thou a snare for my life, and cause
me to die?
And Saul answered, sware to her by the LORD, saying,
As the LORD liveth, there shall be no punishment happen
unto thee…
Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up…thee?
And he said, Bring me up Samuel.
And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a
loud voice: and the woman spake to Saul, saying, Why
hast thou deceived me? for thou art Saul.
And the king said unto her, Be not afraid: for what
sawest thou? And the woman said I…unto Saul, I saw
gods ascending out of the earth.
And he said unto her, What form was he of? And she
said, An old man cometh up; and he is covered with a
mantle. And Sam-…(That’s that prophet’s mantle, of
course. See?)…perceived that it was Samuel, and he
stood with…and his face to the ground, and bowed
himself.
And Samuel said unto Saul, Why hast thou disquieted
me, and bring me up? And Saul answered, and said, I
am sore distressed; because of the Philistines make war
against me, and God has departed from me, and answers
me not, neither by prophet, neither by dream: therefore
I…called unto thee, that thou would make known unto
me what I should do.
And then said Samuel, Wherefore…does thou ask…
me, seeing that the LORD has departed from thee, and—
and is become thine enemy?
And the LORD has done unto him, as he spake to me:
for the LORD has rent his kingdom out of thy hand, and
has given it unto even…David:
94 Now, many of you, familiar with this. Now we want to go
right in, and God help us now, for a few moments, to get into this.
Now watch. There was a man, Saul, who was once considered
a prophet, for he prophesied with the prophets. Is that right,
teachers? Now, here the man was backslidden. Is that right? But
remember where Samuel said he would be, with him, at the next
day. Prematurely gone, see. All right, if you won’t mind God, God
will take you off the earth.
95 Look in the Corinthian letter there, how Paul set those people
in order. He said, “First, I thank God for you, that there’s no
such things among you, and so forth, and how that—that you
come short of no spiritual gift.” Telling them what they was,

positionally, in Christ. Then he begin to let the hammer down
on them, tell them about their women preachers, and how they
were doing, and how they were eating at the Lord’s table.
And even one man living with his stepmother, and he said
to this man in Christ, “Turn him over to the devil, for the
destructions of the flesh, that the soul might be saved.” See,
that’s it, turn him over. The Bible said, “For this cause many
are sick and weakly among you, and many are asleep,” gone on
prematurely because of sin. God taken you out of the way; a good
sign you was a Christian, if you was taken.
96 So, now notice in here, Saul was considered one of the
prophets, or among the prophets, because he prophesied. And
now he had backslid, because he disobeyed God, and his
kingdom was rent out of his hands and placed into the hand of
David, who God had anointed by Samuel, with the cruse of oil.
97 Notice, then, there was three ways that they had of finding
out things from God; the first was—was the prophet, the second
was a dream, and the third was a Urim of Thummim. And they
neither would answer. Now, you know what a prophet is, you
know what a spiritual dream is, and you know what the Urim of
Thummim was. You know, the other day I asked a—a man what
about the Urim, and that man couldn’t tell me what it was, the
Urim of Thummim. Course, it was God answering by these. See?
98 And the devil makes a counterfeit of every one of those; the
wizard, the false prophet, and the crystal glazer. See?
Now, the Urim of Thummim hung on Aaron’s breast, here,
and the Urim of Thummim covered over that stones. And they
hung it in the temple. And when they wasn’t sure, they’d go
before God, in answer, and a light would flash on that Urim of
Thummim, which, whether it was God’s will, or not. Now, when
the Urim of Thummim wouldn’t answer…Now, that was the
direct answer from God.
Now, the Urim of Thummim of today; the fortuneteller took
a crystal ball, to pattern That; a false thing. God is in a trinity;
God’s powers is in a trinity. And the devil is in a trinity, and
his powers is in trinity. And I can prove it by the Bible. And
that Urim and Thummim, the…was only the crystal ball that
the devil uses today. And the false prophet back here today, the
one that we have now, was, or, the witch, or the fortuneteller
out yonder, took the place of the prophet, on the devil’s side. See
what I mean?
99 Now, then, the Urim of Thummim today is this Bible. If
somebody has give a prophecy or a dream, and it don’t compare
or echo with God’s Bible, it’s false. Don’t believe it.
100 A man come to me not long ago, from India, where I’m just
fixing to go, a fine little preacher. He said, “Brother Branham, I
come over here.” Said, “A woman had the Holy Ghost, and,” said,
“she was just a sweetest, nicest woman.” He said, “And she had
been married four times, and was living with her fourth husband.
And I said, ‘Well, how could that be, Lord?’” And said, “I went
to Him and said, ‘Oh, glory to God!’ Said, ‘Hallelujah! Praise
the Lord!’” Just one of that type, you know. “Said, ‘Hallelujah!
Praise the Lord!’” Said, “The Lord told me, ‘Here, I’m going to
give you a dream.’” And said, “I dreamed that my wife, I seen her
living in adultery. And she come back to me and said, ‘Oh, will
you forgive me, Victor? Will you forgive me? I didn’t…’ ‘Why,’ I
said, ‘sure, I’ll forgive you and take you back.’” He said, “Now,
that’s what I did.” Said, “See, I forgive.”
101 I said, “Victor, your dream was mighty lovely, but the devil
give it to you.”
He said, “Why?”
102 I said, “Don’t compare with God’s Word. She’s living in
adultery. Absolutely. She can’t live with four men. Right. She
leaves that and goes back to her first, she’s worse off than she
was beginning. She has to live single, the rest of her life.” I said,
“You know that don’t compare with God’s Word. So her…Your
dream was false.” I said, “It won’t compare with This.”
103 And when a prophet had give a prophecy, and they spoke, and
wanted to see if that prophecy was true, they put it before the
Urim of Thummim. And if the Voice of God throwed the lights
on the Urim of Thummim, then it was absolute, the Truth. And if
a man gives an interpretation, gives a dream, gives something of
the Bible, and, or something another, and it don’t compare with
God’s Bible, it’s false. There’s the Urim of Thummim today. God’s
Word speaks, and that’s direct the Voice of God, like the Urim of
Thummim was before the Bible was written. Amen! Hallelujah!
I feel kind of religious right now. Don’t take me a fanatic, if you
do. I know, I know where I’m at. I’m not excited. That’s right.
104 Here is the Truth, God’s Word! I don’t care what kind of a
dream you had, or what kind of a prophecy you given, if it isn’t
in God’s Word, it’s wrong, if it don’t compare with that Word.
That’s what the trouble today. One has a dream, one has a vision,
one has a tongue, one has a revelation; it’s got the whole thing so
messed up and everything, you got denominations and broke up
everything. You ought to bring it back to a final foundation, and
that’s God’s Word. That’s true.
105 Churches are built upon one, said, “Oh, Jesus coming on a
white horse. I know. I seen Him in a vision.” They make a church
of that type. “Oh, hallelujah! He’s coming on a cloud.” They make
it in that kind. Break them up, and separate, and call one another
“buzzard roost,” and “louse hangout,” and everything like that.
Why, brother, it goes to show, in the first place, your heart is not
right with God when you do that. That’s right. We are brothers.
We must stick by one another. We need one another.
106 Now look. Saul had backslid, and he goes up. He, God, had
turned His face from him. And he went up and he inquired with
the prophets. The prophets went and tried to prophesy, and God
cut off, wouldn’t give a vision. Prophet come out, said, “I can’t.
No. He never told me nothing about you.”
107 Well, then he said, “Lord, give me a dream.” Night after night,
no dream come.
108 Then he goes into the Urim of Thummim, and he said, “O
God! I’ve tried the prophets, I’ve tried dreams, now You help me.
Will You do it?” Just cut it off, no Lights flashed at all.
109 Then he resorted to a witch, low, degraded. And he went to
her, and crawled in there and disguised himself. And this witch
goes out and calls up the spirit of Samuel.
110 Now, I know what you’re thinking. Many said, “That wasn’t
Samuel.” But the Bible said it was Samuel, and it was Samuel.
Strange how you catch that, isn’t it? But that was Samuel. The
Bible said it was.
111 And that witch could call him up, and she called up Samuel.
And Samuel was somewhere else, but was conscious of what was
going on, and was still standing with his prophet’s mantle on
him. So, brother, when you die, you’re not dead, you’re living
somewhere, somewhere else.
112 Let me stop just a minute, to get this demonology down just a
little bit. She was a demon, but she was in close contact with the
spirit world. Now, today, there is many spiritualists that know
really more about the spiritual world than people who profess
themselves to be Christians, yet she’s a demon. In the Bible times
it was the same thing.
113 When Jesus was here on earth, there was them professors
and scholars and teachers, some of the best there was, out of
the better seminaries than we could produce today. And holy,
renown man, they had to be. If a Levite was found, he had
to be found blameless, righteous in every way. And yet that
man knowed no more about God than a rabbit knowed about
snowshoes. When Jesus come, he failed to recognize Him, and he
called Jesus a “devil.” He said, “He’s Beelzebub, the prince of the
devil.” Is that right?
114 And here come the lowest type of a demon, that had a
man bound out yonder in the tombs, and everything, and they
called out. The devil himself said, “We know Who You are.
You’re the Son of God, the Holy One.” Is that right? Witches and
wizards, devils, recognized Him the Son of God; while educated,
theological seminary preachers recognized Him to be Beelzebub.
Which was right, the devil or the preacher? The devil was. And,
brother, it hasn’t changed too much today. They don’t recognize

the power of God.
115 No matter how much teaching you got, you can drum that
into you. God is not in big words. God is in an honest heart. You
might stand here, speak big words, like I don’t know what, that
doesn’t bring you closer to God. You can stand and practice how
to repeat your sermon and say these things, that don’t get you
closer to God. You can learn dictionary till you sleep with one,
and it still wouldn’t get you closer to God. A humble, submitted
heart, in the simplicity, is what brings you to God. And that’s
true. Amen! A humble heart, God loves. Now, no matter if you
don’t know your ABC’s, that don’t make any difference. Just a
humble heart! God dwells in a humble heart; not in education,
it’s not in schools, not in theology, seminaries, not in all these
other different places; not in big words, or not in classical places.
God dwells in human heart. And the lower you can break yourself
down, the more simple, you can become greater in the sight
of God.
116 Let me give you something. I see your fields are full of wheat
out here. A full head of wheat always bows. A little old sprig
sticks up there, and flopping around like it knows everything,
it ain’t got it in the head. That’s the way with a lot of these guys
that think they got a whole lot in their head, and nothing in their
heart, though. A holy head will bow to the Power, recognize Jesus
Christ as the Son of God, and believe His works.
117 “And He’s the same, yesterday.” Oh, they recognize Him,
sure, in a historical standpoint. But it’s not a history thing.
People stand up and say, “Oh, I believe Pentecost, when they
had the great outpouring and things like that,” and paint a fire.
A freezing man can’t be warmed by a painted fire. Painted fire
don’t warm. That’s what they was. What is it today, if He’s the
same yesterday, today and forever? That’s painted fire. Some
fellow freezing to death, say, “Look at that big fire they had.”
Why, that don’t get you warm.
118 What they did at Pentecost, what they had in the early
Testament, we got today! And as soon as God can get the thing
ironed out, and the Church set together, the Rapture will come.
But we can’t even get faith for Divine healing, let alone the
Rapture, because we’re all twisted up, one this way and one that
way. “Doctor So-and-so said It was this. Well, my preacher said
He was This.”
119 A while ago, a woman said, “He’s just a faker.” Said, “My
priest told me so.” I wish her priest would come down here once,
we’d see who was the faker. Yeah. We’ll see who’s the faker.
Come try it.
120 Here not long ago, in Harlingen, Texas, we was having a
service there. And they had big signs, all out over the cars that
night when I went over there, said that the FBI was there to
expose me as a faker. So a little girl had been healed up in Texas
there somewhere. She was way up, and, I—I guess, at around a
thousand miles, way up around Panhandle. And this was way
down in Harlingen, down on the border. Brother Baxter come,
said, “Brother Branham,” said, “you never seen such a mess
down there, about four or five thousand people.” And said, “And
then, all around, the FBI is going to catch you on the platform
tonight, and expose you.”
I said, “Well, I’m sure glad of that.”
121 Said, “You know that little girl that was healed the other
night?”
122 I was coming home from…going into my room. I heard
something crying, and looked around. I thought maybe someone
had been attacked. It was a girl. And I looked back. I said…And
I went back, I said, “What’s the matter, Madam?” And it was two
little girls standing there, about seventeen, eighteen years old,
apiece, their arms around one another, crying.
123 Said, “Brother Branham!” I knowed then they knowed me.
Said, “We, I brought her all the way down here.” Said, “She has
to go to the insane institution.” And the little girl was in my
meeting up at Lubbock, Texas. And said, “I knowed if I’d ever
get her down here and you’d have prayer for her, I believe God
would heal her.”
124 Well, I thought, “What faith!” And I said, “Well, now, sister,
can you get her…” And just then I said, “You come down here
in a yellow roadster, didn’t you?”
Said, “Yes!”
And I said, “Your mother is an invalid.”
She said, “That’s right.”
I said, “You belong to the Methodist church.”
She said, “That’s exactly the truth.”
125 And I said, “On the road down, you almost turned over. You
and this girl was laughing when you come around where it was
half concrete and half asphalt, and you was turning a bend.”
She said, “Brother Branham, that’s the truth!”
I said, “And, THUS SAITH THE LORD, the girl is healed.”
126 The next day she was burning the town up, telling everybody,
going around about it. Course, they didn’t know her there,
whether she was ever in that condition or not. And then that
day I…Brother Baxter said, “Brother Branham,” said, “them
girls are down there packing their suitcase.” And this is one thing
that he didn’t know that I knowed. Our finances had went plumb
down. I never let him talk about it. But one of them girls had put
nine hundred dollars in that—in that offering the night before
that, and put that finance on the top. Now, he didn’t, he don’t
know it to this day, but I knowed it. See? That I…God told me
it would be all right.
127 And Brother Baxter said, “Brother Branham,” said, “you
better let me make a little pull.” Said, “They’ve had some of these
here Divine healers down here that’s just pulled this people.”
128 I said, “Nothing. No, sir. You won’t do it. Brother Baxter,
whenever you make pulls for money like that, that’s the time you
and I just shake one another’s hands as brothers, I’ll go alone.”
See? I said, “You don’t do that.” I said, “God owns the cattle on a
thousand hills, and everything belongs to Him. I belong to Him.
He’ll take care of me.”
He said, “All right.”
129 And that very night he said, “Brother Branham, look here.
Somebody…Look here! Here’s an envelope in here, no name on
it, has got nine one hundred dollar bills in it. Just exactly what
we need to catch up.”
I said, “Brother Baxter.”
He said, “Forgive me.”
130 So then I knowed it was that girl. So then—then the next
day, Brother Baxter said, “Brother Branham, they’re down there
packing up their clothes, crying.”
I said, “What’s the matter?”
Said, “You better go down and see them.”
131 I went down to the room where they was at. I said, “What
room they’re in?” I went down there and knocked on the door. I
heard them crying. I knocked on the door, and the girl come to
the door, she said, “Oh, Brother Branham, I’m so sorry.” She said,
“I’ve caused you all this trouble.”
I said, “Trouble? What’s the matter, sister?”
She said, “Oh, I’ve got the FBI after you.”
And I said, “Oh, is that right?”
132 Said, “Yeah.” Said, “I guess I testified too much around town
today, and everything.”
I said, “No.”
133 And she said, “Brother Branham, the FBI is over there, is over
there, going to expose you tonight.”
134 I said, “Well, if I—if I’m doing anything wrong, I need to be
exposed.” See? I said, “Sure. If preaching the Gospel needs to be
exposed, well, let’s do it.” See? I said, “I—I—I live by this Bible,
and what this Bible don’t say…This is my defense, right here.”
See? And I said, and he…
She said, “Well,” said, “I’m just sorry that I did what I did.”
I said, “You never done nothing, sister.”

She said, “Well, aren’t you afraid to go over there?”
And I said, “No.”
She said, “Well, the FBI is there.”
135 I said, “Well, I had them come in my meeting before and they
got saved.” I said, “Mr. Al Farrar…”
136 Captain Al Farrar, many of you know of his conversion up
there in Tacoma, Washington, was saved, right down a shooting
gallery. Come in the meeting, he said, “I followed this man for
two years. And I heard about the finances, and I’ve watched it,
and went through everywhere.” And said, “It’s the Truth, you’re
not listening to a fanatic tonight, you’re listening to the Truth.”
Said, “One of the men on the police force, that I had a doctor
look at his child and sent him through the prayer line,” and said,
“the child was told just exactly what was wrong with it, and
what had happened to it. And said, ‘In eight days it’ll be back
to school,’” a polio case. And said, “On the eighth day the baby
went back to school.” Said, “I’ve followed him for two years,”
before ten thousand people. There it’s all…There’s a picture of
it, the Seattle meeting, in—in your book. He said, “I want you all
to know that you’re not listening to some religious quack. You’re
listening to the Truth.” Captain Al Farrar. And the next day I led
him to God, and he received the baptism of the Holy Ghost, in a
shooting gallery, down in big place out there.
I said, “Maybe this guy will do the same.”
So she said, “Are you afraid to go over there?”
137 I said, “Afraid? Why, certainly not. Certainly not. Why should
I be afraid when God sent me to do it? He is the One that fights
the battle, not me.” So I said, “Now, I want all of you to stay
away.” And so…
138 We went over to the meeting that night, the place was
packed out. And the custodian there come out, said, “Reverend
Branham, I hired ten Mexican children.” Said, “Look at here,
‘Reverend Branham to be exposed tonight by FBI, a fanatic
religionist,’” or something another like that. And said, “It’s on
every one of them cars. Pull out…” Said, “I hired ten little
Mexican children, going to pull them all off and put them over
here.” Said, “Oh, I feel like if I’d get a hold of that guy!”
139 I said, “Don’t worry, sir. God will get a hold of him.” See? I
said, “Just let him alone.”
140 So he come on over. And that night when we come in, I’ll
never forget it, walked into the room. I…Brother Baxter sang
Only Believe. He said, “Now, Brother Branham says tonight for
us to leave the building.” Said, “I’m going back in the back end
and sit down.” He said, “They are fixing to expose him tonight
here on the platform.” He said, “I’ve seen him in many hard
battles, and seen God take his place.” Said, “I—I’m just going
back to sit down.”
141 I walked up. I said, “I was just reading a little article here
that where I was to be exposed tonight at the platform here.” I
said, “I want the FBI agents now to come forward and expose me
up here on the platform.” I said, “I’m standing here in defense of
the Gospel; I want you to come and expose me.” I waited. I said,
“Maybe they’re not here yet.” I knowed where I was at. He had
already showed me in my room up yonder, what was going to
happen, ’fore I left, you see. And I said, I said, “Maybe I’ll wait
just a little bit. May we sing a hymn?” And somebody come up
and sang a solo.
142 I said, “Mr. FBI agent, are you inside or out? I’m waiting
to be exposed. Would you come forward?” Nobody come. I kept
wondering where it was at. The Lord told me that what it was.
It was two backslidden preachers, and I—I was watching. I seen
a black shadow hanging in the corner. I knew where it was at.
I looked over there, and it moved right up and went up into the
gallery like this. A man with a blue suit on, one with a gray.
143 I said, “Friends, there is no FBI. What the FBI has got to do
with preaching the Bible?” I said, “Certainly not. They wasn’t
two FBI agents to expose me. But, here is the exposure, there they
sit right up there, them two preachers right there.” And they got
down. I said, “Don’t get down like that.” And two of them big
Texans was going to go up there and grab a hold of them. I said,
“No, brethren, this is not a flesh and blood affair, just sit still.
God will take care of that.”
144 I said, “Now, brethren, look, while you’re up there, look this
a-way.” I said, “If…You said that I was Simon the sorcerer,
under witchcraft, I was bewitching the people.” I said, “If I am
Simon the sorcerer, then you are the man of God. Now you come
down on this platform. And if I be Simon the sorcerer, let God
strike me dead. And if I be God’s prophet, you come down and let
God strike you dead. Now we’ll see who is the right and wrong.
Now you come on down. We’ll sing a hymn.” Out of that building
they went, and we never seen them since. See? I said, “Come on.
If I’m Simon the sorcerer, let God strike me dead. And if I’m
God’s prophet, then God will strike you dead when you come to
this platform. If I am truth before God, God will let you die on
this platform.” They knowed better. That’s right. They knowed
better. They had heard from other places. That’s right. So don’t
never think but what God is still God. He answers.
145 Now, this witch of En-dor, she called up the spirit of Samuel.
And Saul talked to Samuel. Now, you might wonder how that
could be done. It cannot be done today. No, sir. Because, the blood
of bulls and goats was only a waiting for the time of fulfillment.
When a man died in them days…Preachers, back me up if you
think It’s right. When a man died, he died under the atonement of
an animal, and his soul went into Paradise. And there he stayed
until that, to the—to the Day of Redemption. And his soul was
in there.
146 Let me draw you a little picture here. How many read my
article, or the article they wrote about me in Reader’s Digest here,
about in October, November’s issue? All right. Did you notice
how that was? Did you notice, about two or three weeks before
that, this great famous medium here that’s been tried since way
long time ago, her, Miss Piper. Did anybody ever read that, Miss
Piper’s article in the Reader’s Digest? Isn’t it strange how them
two spirits…
147 How much time have I got? Not but just a little. I’m twenty
after, just I’ll have to hurry. I know you got…Look, excuse me
for a minute.
148 You know, there’s—there’s false. There’s a true and a false of
everything. If I give you a dollar, and I say, “Is this a good dollar?”
And you’d look at it, it’d have to look pretty much like a real
dollar or you wouldn’t believe it. Is that right? So it’ll have to be
really a good imitation.
149 And if Jesus said the two spirits in the last days would be
so close till it would deceive the very Elect if possible, religious
people. Now remember. Now, there ain’t nothing out there in
them old co-…fo-…cold, formal. Outside they have just a form
of godliness, you see. But these two spirits, the real spirits, would
be so close till it’d deceive the very Elect, how they was working
side by side in the last days. Did Jesus say that? He did.
150Now watch, friends, I’m going to draw you a little picture.
I want you to look at here just a minute. And give me your
undivided attention, ’cause I’m going to give you a parable, and
then you’ll see it.
151 Now, in the Reader’s Digest, it wrote up there, I was standing
out there, we had twenty-seven hundred people waiting to get
prayed for, standing out there. You read the article. And a man
come down from Canada, and he had a little boy that had been to
Mayos’ and Johns Hopkins, a serious brain disease that drawed
his little hands in like this, and drawed its legs up under it.
And they said, “There’s not even an operation or nothing can
be done.”
152 So he took it back to Canada. He said, “I’m not whipped yet.”
You get November’s issue of the Reader’s Digest, and it’s called
the—the—The Miracle of Donny Morton. And—and then said that
the, in there, that the—that the man said, “I’m not whipped yet,
because I know a faith healer named William Branham, that
caused two of my friends who was deaf and dumb to speak
and hear.”
153 And they called to try to find where I was at, in—in America
yet. And I was over in Costa Mesa, California. And it’s a article,
when you read it, get ready to cry. It’ll just break your heart. How
he went through snowdrifts, and everything else, with that baby!
He said, “Be careful, Donny.” Said, “Now, we’re not defeated.”
And the little boy couldn’t even smile, hardly, he was so afflicted.
Said, “We’re not defeated, we’re going to ask God. We’ll go to
God’s prophet and ask him.”
154 So then they come through the snow. And they finally got
down there, and the mother was coming with them, and they
didn’t have money enough to go by airplane, so they sent the
mother back. And the boy and daddy had to come on a bus,
and how they rode all the way from Winnipeg, Canada, to Costa
Mesa, California. And they got in there, broke, and the father
tells about had to change the little diapers on it, little boy about
seven or eight years old, just perfectly helpless. And how he
would…couldn’t get a chance to eat nor nothing, and said his
little boy could just hear him talk. And he could tell the way his
eyes looked, that he was—he was trying to smile, you know. And
know that he…He would tell him different sights he was seeing,
over in America.
155 And when they got in there, to California, they said to the
traveler’s aid, what he come to see. He said, “Come to see a Divine
what?” And a big question mark.
156 Course, you can imagine what America said about it, you
see. See, that’s us, see, “We so smart! We know everything, you
know, and there’s no need telling us anything. We got it all wrote
down.” See?
157 So then, so, “A Divine what? Come all the way from
Winnipeg, Canada?” Why, they thought that was horrible.
158 Anyhow, the newspaper patched a—a car and sent him over
there. And he said, when they got to the line, where it was at,
said twenty-seven hundred people was waiting to be prayed for.
But said, when they seen that deformed, little-looking boy, and
that poor daddy with his cap on, his ragged coat, said everybody
just stepped aside and give him his place. When he hit the
platform…
159 It’s against the rules to swap a prayer card. Somebody must
come to the meeting and get your own card. If you’re ever
caught in the line, swapping prayer cards on somebody else, the
prayer card is dishonored. See? Because you must come hear the
instructions and know how to receive it. It’s up to you. You can’t
get it for someone else. You have to come get it yourself, so you
hear. Some big person said, “If…Well, I don’t believe much in
this thing. But, maybe if He’ll heal me, I…” You see? And then
that causes a fuss at the platform, so they just cull that thing out
before it gets there.
160 So when the boy started, or father started on the platform,

ahead of the people, Billy asked him for his prayer card. He didn’t
have any. Said, “Then I’m sorry, sir.” Said, “You’ll have to wait.”
161 He said, “All right.” Said, “I’ll wait.” Said, “I’ll just take my
turn like the others, then.” Said, “I didn’t know I had to do this.”
162 And so I was talking to someone, I happened to hear it. I seen
that father go away, and I said, “What was the matter?”
He said, “He didn’t have a prayer card.”
And Something said to me, “Bring him back.”
163 So I said, “Bring him here.” And the father come up, and
the tears running down his face, needing shaving. And he—he
walked up, and here’s the Reader’s Digest said. See? I asked no
questions, but looked right straight in the face of the baby, told
the baby where it was from, it had been to Mayos’ Clinic, and
all about what was the matter with it, how sick it had been, and
everything.
164 And so the father started crying, and started to leave. And
said he started off the platform, and he turned around, he said,
“That’s right, sir.” He said, “But will my baby ever live?”
165 I said, “That I can’t say.” I said, “Just a moment.” I
seen a vision appear. I said, “You won’t want to believe this,
because Mayos’ and Hopkins both said that operation couldn’t
be performed on that brain, but I tell you what you do. You,
tomorrow, you just go ahead with this baby. Within the next
three days you’re going to meet a black-headed woman on the
street, and that woman’s going to ask you what’s the matter
with that baby. And then she’s going to tell you of some little
country doctor out here that can perform that operation, and you
won’t want to believe it, because that Mayos’ turned it down and
said, ‘Is impossible to be done.’ But that’s the only chance your
baby has, through the power of God, the mercy of God and that
operation. Now, if you believe me to be His prophet, go do as I
tell you.” Like putting the figs on Hezekiah, and so forth.
He said, he turned around and said, “Thank you.”
Walked off.
166 Two days or more had passed, and he was down on the street
one day, and a lady walked up, said, “What’s the matter with
your baby?”
167 Said, “It’s got a—a brain disease.” And he was going on
talking like that. And, well, they—they thought it was awful bad,
you know.
168 So he said just in a few minutes something taken place. She
said, “Sir, I know someone who can do that operation.”
169 He said, “Lady, look, Mayo Brothers give it up and said it
can’t be done.” Said, “A man up here was praying for it, named
Brother Branham.” Said, “He’s made a prayer for the baby.” He

said, “Wait a minute! Black-headed, wearing a gray coat suit.”
Said, “That’s her.” Said, “Where is that doctor?” And he told him.
Took him up there and the doctor performed the operation, the
baby got well.
170Now, that come through the Reader’s Digest, you see. And
Mayo Brothers called me in on an interview for that. Said, “Rev.
Branham, what did you do to the baby?”
171I said, “Nothing. I never touched it. I only told what God told
me to tell it. The man obeyed it.”
172 Now, the funny thing about it, about two weeks after that,
or two weeks before that, or three, in the Reader’s Digest, maybe
a month ahead, Miss Piper’s article come through. Now, she’s a
genuine witch, or a medium. Now, there’s a real one, and there’s
somebody impersonating. They’ve had that woman since 1897.
She’s over a hundred years old now, in New York, both…deaf
as a post. The Reader’s Digest, get…I think it come along about
two months or a month before mine; and you can find it, in the
early fall. Mr. Baxter had it here the other day. If I’d have thought
of it, I’d have had him…or know I was going to say this, I’d—I’d
a had it with it. I can get it for you. And it give about twelve or
fourteen pages. She was just an ordinary housewife. And she fell
into a trance one day, while in suffering, and she begin to speak
to the dead. And they’ve had that woman all over the world,
everywhere. They took her to England. Changed her clothes even,
many times, and see if there was slipups and things, and got over
there and disguised someone with a mask on a face, a Greek, and
played out like he was an Englishman. And she told him all about
it. And he—he—he wanted to call one of his dead partners.
173 Now, the only thing she…All over the world, and here’s the
Reader’s Digest said there, here a few nights ago, or a few months
ago, one of them things was exposed. A man was supposed to
kiss the ghostly hand of his mother, and the next day it was
proved in police court that he only kissed a piece of cheesecloth.
A lots of people impersonating a medium! They’re only these
little old readers sitting out on the side of the street, which
are not mediums in the beginning. They’re nothing but bogus
impersonators. But there is a real medium.
174And we religious people, we’ve got a lot of impersonators on
both sides. Now hold still for a few minutes.
175Now notice, that Miss Piper is a real medium. And the
magazine said, “Here is one thing that can be assured, that, when
a man dies, he isn’t dead. He’s living somewhere, because that
woman calls their spirit back and talks to the people.”
176 “Now, what does she do, Brother Branham? Do you believe
it?” Yes, sir. The Bible says so, that’s the reason I believe it. And
she is of the devil. Spiritualism is the devil’s trick. Now notice,

now watch them two.
177 And then you ought to have seen the letters fly in to me, then,
when my article followed hers. Isn’t it strange that, just before
the end of time, God spoke these things? And the Reader’s Digest
is published in every language under heaven. See? Notice, isn’t
it strange they followed one another?
178 Now here come letters in, said, “Brother Branham, that
proves you’re nothing but a medium.” Said, “That proves it. Look
at here, you told that woman where she going to find…Look at
this woman?”
179 I said, “Wait a minute.” I got an official letter out, (pardon
me), to send to the people. I said, “How little you preachers
know.” I said, “Instead of baptizing your body, you need your
brains baptized.” That’s right. “You don’t stop to think of things.
You don’t try to consider it.”
180 That’s the same way they did in the other days. They seen
Jesus. They knowed He could…He knowed the secrets of their
heart. He knowed what they was doing like that. And they
said, “He’s the chief of the devils. He’s the Beelzebub, the best
fortuneteller in the world.” They didn’t stop to try to figure it
out, to see that was the Son of God. They wasn’t spiritual enough
to know it. That’s it, they read over the thing. Sure, Jesus was
supposed to come in Jerusalem, riding on a mule, and so forth,
but they looking at the second Coming.
181 And the same thing today! They’re looking over the top of
the real thing. Hallelujah! That’s right. I know that God is here,
this afternoon, and I know I’m taking a lot of your time, but you
got to see this, friend. If I never see you again, you got to know
what demons are, you got to know what Truth and error is. And
it’s so close, you got to separate the thing.
182 Now remember, it ain’t going to be out there, something way
over on this side like the Pharisees, or something way back on
that side. It’s right up here in the door, right near it. Watch it.
Now if I took…
183 Let’s take them two cases. If I took and give you the dollar,
now, if I give you a bogus dollar. We’ll use a parable so you can
see it. The first thing that you would do, if you’re a smart man,
if you pick up a dollar and looked at it, the first thing, you’ll
feel it and see what it’s made out of. Is that right? You’ll look at
what it’s made out of. You’ll look at its worthiness. A real dollar
is not made out of paper, it’s part paper and silk, you see. And
the first thing, you’ll have to look at the value of it. That’s the
first indication.
184 And now let’s take her over on this side; and take the Lord
over on this side, that’s dealing with us.
185 Now look, the first thing you have to notice, everything…
Watch your article. In the fifty-some odd years of her fortune-
telling, and calling up the spirits of the dead, she hasn’t one time
mentioned God, Christ, Divine healing, deliverance, Judgment,
or nothing. There’s nothing but frolic and folly in it.
186 But over on this side, it’s constantly God, Judgment, Coming
of Jesus, Divine healing, power of God, deliverance. Look at the
value of it. You don’t see fortunetellers and witches out preaching
the Gospel. What’s the matter with people? My! Notice!
187 And the real thing to do, if you want to find out whether it’s a
real dollar or not, if it looks so much like it, take the numbers off
of it and send it back to the mint. And if there’s numbers there
that correspond with that, there’s a silver dollar waiting for it. Is
that right?
188Well, then, brother, take what she did and take it back to
Bible, you’ll find it’s the witch of En-dors.
189 And you take what’s here, you’ll find it back, it’s on the Book
here in the Mint, “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and
forever.” Certainly, His same work! He didn’t go and folly and
nonsense with people. It was for some good, to help somebody,
to lead them to God. Amen! I’m not “amening” myself, but amen
means “so be it.” And I’m…I believe It. I know It’s the Truth.
190Now notice, here you are. Now, quickly now, ’cause I don’t
want to keep you no longer.
191 Here, let’s give a little picture here, a little mental picture.
Here is a stream right through here, right down through this way,
coming down through life. Now watch. It’s a channel. Give me
your undivided attention now, so you won’t miss this. Right down
like this. Now, in this little channel here dwells mortal beings,
you and I. Now, in there, let’s look what it is. It’s a mass of folly
and everything else, but once in a while you’ll see a light. You
see blackness and streets, that’s gaiety and carrying-on, devils
getting the people. Oh, they dress fine, my, and highly cultured
as they can be, polished scholars, but still the devil. But there’s
born-again sitting in there.
192 Now, these people in this channel is influenced from two
different sides. Now, on this side going this a-way, there’s a
trinity. And on this side going this a-way, there’s a trinity.
193 Now, when, now the first place, on this side, is souls of the
unjust, when a man dies he goes into a place waiting judgment.
Jesus went and preached to them souls that were in prison there.
The next is demons. The next, is the devil in hell. Going up, the
first, now, them in there is ghosts, spirits of dead men that never
repented. They’re waiting for the Judgment. The only thing they
know is folly and what they did.
194 Now, up here, these Christians are influenced from Above.

This is parable. Up here is another Ghost, the Holy Ghost, the
Ghost of a Man, Christ Jesus. The Holy Ghost, the Holy Ghost
influences His Church in this realm of mortal.
195 The devil, by these spirits, influence man. Now, look, the next
is Angels. The next is God. Now, every mortal here is influenced
by one of these worlds. You see what I mean?
196 Now what that woman done, she broke into that realm.
And she is speaking to those demon-possessed men who were,
beginning, the spirits of those fallen angels that repented not
back yonder in the beginning, and allowed their beings to be
possessed of them. And they’re waiting for Judgment.
197 And these over here are influenced and born again by the
Spirit of God. And the devil has his prophets, and God has His.
See what I mean? It’s influence, and there we go. Stop to separate
it. Jesus, when He was here on earth…
198 Now, today, he cannot break into that realm and get a
righteous man out of that realm. He couldn’t do it, ’cause
righteous men are not in there where they used to be, in Paradise.
No, sir. Paradise was done away with, when the Blood of Jesus
took it away. Looky here. My!
199 If I could think of how that Jesus, when He died, He went
and preached to the souls that were in prison. He died, a sinner,
knowing no sin, yet our sin was on Him. And God, for His sins,
sent Him to hell. The Bible said, “He went and preached to
the souls.”
200 Some people say, “Brother Branham, I can’t understand it.”
Said, “Jesus rose on the third day. He died Friday afternoon and
rose up on Sunday morning, why, He was only dead one day.”
201 He said, “Within them time,” for He had one Scripture in the
Bible, that He could stand on. For, David, a man that backslid
later, but he was saved, but a prophet under the inspiration of
God, said, “I’ll not leave His soul in hell, neither will I suffer
My Holy One to see corruption.” And he knowed, three days
and nights, that that body would set in corruption. And God
had done said to the prophet, “He’ll not see corruption.”…?…
[Blank spot on tape—Ed.]
Hallelujah! He took God’s Word. He defeated Satan, every
time, on It. He defeated death, on the Word of God. Hallelujah!
He defeated death. And when they killed Him, and He died, a
sinner, my sins and your sins upon Him, He went down, I can see
Him knock at that door there.
And them lost souls come out and said, “Well, Who are You?”
202 He said, “Why didn’t you listen to Enoch? Why didn’t
you listen to those other prophets that preached?” They was
condemned. “I’m the Son of God that once lived. I have…My
Blood has been shed. I come to tell you, I’m fulfilled, what the
prophets said I’d do.” Right on down a-past the demons, right
into hell, taking the keys of death and hell away from the devil,
hung them on His side, started back up. Hallelujah!
203 Getting early in the morning. Hallelujah! Let’s draw a little
picture here. Early in the morning, there’s another group laying
over here in Paradise. They’re not there now.
204 Now, you big Catholic friends that believe the intercession of
saints. If you’re talking to a saint in your church, that man is a
sinner, he’s in hell, or—or waiting yonder for his judgment. And
if he was a saint, he’s in the glory of God and can’t come back.
That’s right. I can prove that. The blood of bulls wouldn’t take
away sin, but the Blood of Jesus divorced sins.
205 I can see Jesus go up to there where, Paradise, there’s old
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and them in there, Samuel and all the
rest of them in there. I can hear Him knock at the door. [Brother
Branham knocks on the pulpit—Ed.] Amen! Oh, I love this. I’m
getting right…feel kind of religious now. I can see Him look over
there. I can hear him say, “Who is out there? Who is It there?” He
said, “I, this is Abraham talking. Who is It?”
206 “I’m the Seed of Abraham.” Amen. I can see Abraham
come to the door, open up the door. He said, “I’m the Seed of
Abraham.”
Daniel said, “Look at there! There’s the Stone that I saw
hewed out of the mountain.”
207 I can hear Ezekiel say, “There He is! I’ve seen Him, like dust
under His feet, the clouds a-moving, when the rams…clapped
their hands, the leaves, and they all shouted.” Oh, I can see the
different ones there in Paradise, waiting for Him.
208 I can hear Him say, “Come on! It’s breaking daylight over in
Jerusalem. We got to go out of here. We’re going up, because you
trusted in the blood of the bulls and goats, waiting for the time
of My Blood. But My Blood has been shed up there on Calvary. I
am the incarnate Son of God. All sin debts is paid. We’re on our
road out!” Hallelujah! Glory to God!
209 I can see Abraham grab Sarah by the arm, and here they
come, right out! In Matthew 27, when he came out, I can hear
them make a little stop around in Jerusalem there. And the first
thing you know, I can see Caiaphas and them standing on the
street, saying, “They tell me that guy rose. Say, who is that guy
going there; that young fellow, that young girl?”
210 Not old no more; that was Abraham and Sarah. And they
vanished. They looked, “Somebody is watching us.” They could
vanish just like He went through the wall, the same kind of
a body. Hallelujah! Right. Here is all the prophets and them,
walking around, looking around the city.
211 And Jesus led right on up in, or up over the stars, moon,
clouds, and led captive captive, give gifts unto men. Jesus sets
today at the right hand of the Father, climbed up there, set down,
till all His foes be made His footstool.
212 And today, my dear Christian friend, demons are working
on every hand. And God’s Spirit is moving right out, on the
other hand, to counteract it every time. Hallelujah! There you
are. Newspapers and digests and everything else is declaring it.
They’re watching it. They can’t see what it is. What is it? It’s
the foreshadow of the great showdown that’s coming pretty soon,
between God and devil. Get on God’s side and be right in your
heart. Amen.
213 Here not long ago I was up in Toledo, Ohio, having a meeting.
I’m going to close.
214 You see what I mean about demons? They are working. They
are very religious, just as religious! Oh, they go to church every
Sunday, repeat the Apostles’ Creed, and sing the Doxology. Oh,
my, just as religious as they can be!
“Brother Branham, you mean that’s the Truth?”
215 That’s the kind of a spirit that hung Jesus Christ to the cross.
And Jesus said, “You’re of your father, the devil.”
216 Now some of them said, “Oh, Russia’s the antichrist.” Never!
Russia is not the antichrist. The antichrist is going to be so
religious it’ll fool the very Elect if possible.
Remember, God takes His man, but never His Spirit. The
devil takes his man, but never his spirit. Now, there they are. Suit
yourself. I’m only responsible for Truth.
217 Demons, working! Yesterday, I had them in a physical realm.
Today, I’m showing you in the spiritual realm, where they are in
the religious realm. Where they are out yonder, called cancer, and
they call this, that, and the other, but I’ve proved to you, by the
Bible, they’re devils. Now, over here, today, here they are again
in the religious realm, very religious, very pious.
218 If you’ll begin, brother, and think. Cain, the very beginning of
it, was a very religious man. Esau was a very religious man. Judas
was a very religious man. It’s religion. It ain’t the outside world.
It’s right in the ranks. Watch that, demonology! Maybe a little
later on, sometime, I can get to it a little more. We’re getting late.
219 Condemn no one. Love everybody. If you can’t love from your
heart, then Christ is not with you.
220 At Toledo, Ohio, I went into a little restaurant. I been eating
at a place, a little Dunkard place, lovely little place. They were so
nice. That afternoon they had closed up, to go to Sunday school.
And when they did, I had to go across the street, to a worldly little
old place, and I walked in there. And I know it’s illegal to gamble
in Ohio. And here stood a state police with his arm around a girl,
his hand hanging here on her bosom, playing a slot machine. The
law of our states and nation, all gone. Pitiful!
221 I trust on Christ the solid Rock, I stand, all other grounds is
sinking sand. Nothing else left. That’s right.
222 I looked back there, and there was a beautiful young lady,
probably in her teens, nineteen, eighteen, nineteen years old. And
what they were doing, them boys back there around the table, it
was horrible. I set down there. And now to my surprise, sitting
right here where a lady come over, said, “Will you have a chair?”
I said, “Thank you. I wanted breakfast.”
223 And sitting in a chair, here set an elderly lady, as old as my
mother, fifty-five, fifty-eight years old. She had on a little pair
of those little ungodly clothes they wear.
224 They claim it’s cool. Science says, “You’re crazy.” Certainly,
it’s not. You just want to show your naked self. It’s a shame,
a disgrace. A lady won’t put them on. A woman will, but a
lady won’t.
225 And then, so then they…there she was, sitting there. Her
poor flesh was flabby. She had that kind of an orchid-looking
manicure, ever what you call it, on her lips. And a little bitty
haircut like a man, that fuzzed all up; what the Bible said, which
was a disgrace. And a woman, that a man…
226 The Bible claims, if a woman cuts her hair, a man’s got a right
to put her away in divorcement, because she’s not honest with
him. We have to get down and preach the Bible here some of these
days. Said, “If she bobs her hair, she dishonors her husband.” If
she’s dishonorable, she ought to be put away. You can’t marry
another one, but you can put her away. Whew! Boy, that, that’s
going hard, I can feel it. But that’s the Truth.
227 Oh, used to be, we had it in the Holy Ghost realms, but we let
down the bars. Old brother used to say, “We let down the bars,
we let down the bars, we compromised with sin. We let down
the bars, the sheep got out, but how did the goats get in?” You
let down the bars. That’s what was the matter. You let down
the bars, the world and the church mixed together. Just like
the Moabs and the so forth, and Balaam, and how he married
among them, that’s just exactly the same thing today. And the
church is all polluted, and the Pentecostal age is the Laodicean
age, which gets lukewarm, and spurted out of God’s mouth. And
out of the whole group, God calls His remnant, takes Her Home,
that’s exactly right, exactly, through the resurrection.
228 And there she was, sitting there, lip manicure all over her
face, and it was all over like that. And she had this here black
stuff over her eyes, and she was sweating, it was running down.
And the poor old thing might have had great-grandchildren. And
she was sitting there with two old men, and one of them with a
big old scarf around his neck, and it in June, sitting there. And
he got up, and was kind of drinking, and she was drinking, too.
And she was looking around.
229 I thought, “O God! God, why don’t You just wipe the thing
off of the map? Why don’t You? Does my little Sharon…My little
baby, my little Sarah and my little Rebekah have to be raised up
in that generation, to come to face such stuff as that?” I thought,
“Look out here in these parks and things, and what goes on.” I
thought, “O God! Oh, I’m glad You took Sharon if it was Your
will. Does my little Rebekah and little—little Sarah have to be
raised up under such stuff as that?” Which, and them people call
them…sing in the choir and everything. And I thought, “Isn’t
that a shame?” I thought, “God, how can Your Holy righteousness
stand it? Look like that Your righteous indignation would fly out
there and—and blow this place up.”
230 And I heard the Angel of the Lord, said, “Come aside.” I
walked over there. And when He got through with me, I felt like
a different person. “What are you condemning her for?”
I said, “Look at that, the way she is.” And here’s what He…
231 I saw a vision. I saw a world like this, round, another world.
But this world here, it had a rainbow around it, and that was the
Blood of Christ that protects God’s wrath. He couldn’t look upon
that, He—He’d destroy the thing right now, because He said, “The
day you eat thereof, that day you die.” So He’d do it.
232 Then I thought like this. I seen myself. Although I didn’t do
that, but I was a sinner, anyhow. And then the Blood of Jesus
Christ acts to us like a bumper. See? That, when I sin, my sins
hit Him and jarred His precious head, and I could see the tears
and Blood running down. “Forgive him, Father, he don’t know
what he’s doing.” And I’d do something else and hit It. “Forgive
him, Father.”
233 If it ever passed Him, I’d have been destroyed. And if I’d
never accept His grace, and the day my soul sails beyond that, I’m
already judged. I’ve rejected. There’s nothing left but judgment.
Judged, I’ve already been judged. God said, “The day you eat
thereof, that day you die.” You’re judged right. This is judgment
seat this afternoon, your attitude towards Christ.
234 And then I thought, “Yes, that’s right.” And I seen one day
I crawled up to Him. I seen my old book laying there, a sinner,
there laid everything on it. I seen my sins is what was doing it,
and I said, “Lord, will You forgive me?”
235 Took His hand in His side, got some Blood out, wrote it across
the top, and said, “Pardoned.” Throwed it back in the sea of
forgetness, to remember it no more. It was gone forever! He said,
“I forgive you, but you’re condemning her.”
That changed my idea. I said, “Lord, have mercy.”
236 After I come out of it, I walked over and set down. I said,
“How do you do, ma’am?”
She said, “Oh, hello.”
237 And I said, “If you’ll pardon me,” I said, “I’m Rev. Branham,
a minister.”
She said, “Oh, excuse me. Excuse me, Rev. Branham.”
238 I said, “Lady,” I just told her the story, I said, “I was standing
there, and I was condemning you, and thinking, ‘What a horrible
thing!’ Maybe you’ve got children.”
She said, “I have.”
239 I said, “What caused the way to go wrong?” She begin to
unfold a story to me that would rend the heart of anything. I said,
“I—I was asking God why didn’t He just rake such off the earth.
Here, you here with these two drunken men, and you’re drunk,
yourself.” And I said, “Someday…That Blood is holding God’s
wrath off from you. You’re going to die one of these days. And,
then, you’re—you’re a free moral agent now, you can reject or
receive.” I said, “But someday your soul is going beyond there,
where there’s no mercy left. And if you die in your sins, you’re
already judged, and you’re going to hell.”
240 You know what? That woman slipped out of that seat there
in that restaurant. We had a prayer meeting like you never heard
in your life, and she come to Christ. What was it? Don’t condemn
them; tell them the Gospel. They’re demon possessed; they’re
mortals in this realm. They’re influenced from over here. Our
influence comes from above. Let’s see what we can do with our
talents, to win others to Christ.
241 Our Heavenly Father, thanking Thee for Thy goodness and
mercy. I’m sorry, Lord; maybe, the people, I kept them here so
long. But being the closing of these afternoon meetings like this,
I wanted to tell them, “demons,” and I chopped too much of it in
one place, in one sermon, but maybe they can pick it out, here and
there, and understand what I meant. You know the intentions of
my heart, of bringing it.
242 May people go from here this afternoon, and men and women
watch every move they make, but live happy and free. May they
know that God has saved them. And may they look to Him,
forget about all the isms and things that’s around them, and
live peacefully and soberly, and in the fear of God. And then,
God, when You want to use them for anything, You can speak
directly to them and send them wherever You want them to go
or whatever You want them to do. May people be humble and
find Christ in their heart. Forgive us, Lord, of our shortcomings,
every one of us.
243 And we know that—that Satan’s gone about like a roaring
lion, everywhere, devouring what he will, wearing religious
cloaks. O God, these poor little children, look at them,

everywhere. They’re open and exposed to the people. And I pray
Thee, God, to be merciful to them, and save all the lost, heal
the sick. And, God, we realize that these old devils of sickness
coming upon Your children, that You have an atonement laying
yonder, to take care of that. And all the devils that would cause
them to sin, You’ve got an atonement laying yonder, will take
care of it. And I pray that You’ll grant it in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
I wonder if there… 
DEMONOLOGY — R ELIGIOUS R EALM
53-0609A DEMONOLOGY SERIES
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me that same meeting, sitting there in front of Durban. And the

watching. When He speaks, answer. See, just be ready to answer

51 All these other preachers had been preaching about Christ,

58 So that night when the…went to the meeting, and the

just a few moments. I heard Him say again, “Turn to Hebrews

the Word of God, comes to the prophet. But a gift of prophecy is

And the woman said unto him, Behold, thou knowest

come short of no spiritual gift.” Telling them what they was,

brother, it hasn’t changed too much today. They don’t recognize

I said, “You never done nothing, sister.”

160 So when the boy started, or father started on the platform,

Brother Branham.” Said, “He’s made a prayer for the baby.” He

she is of the devil. Spiritualism is the devil’s trick. Now notice,

194 Now, up here, these Christians are influenced from Above.

cloaks. O God, these poor little children, look at them,

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