PENTECOSTALISM UNDER THE MESSAGE:
CHAPTER EIGHT
<And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at
once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.
But the men
that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for
they are stronger than we.
And they
brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children
of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land
that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it
are men of a great stature.
And there
we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in
our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.> (Numbers
<And
the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
How long
shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard
the murmurings of the children of
Say unto
them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so
will I do to you:
Your
carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you,
according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have
murmured against me,
Doubtless
ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell
therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
But your
little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they
shall know the land which ye have despised.
But as for
you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.
And your
children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms,
until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.> (Numbers
May the Lord
add a blessing to the reading of His Holy Words. Amen. “Pentecostalism Under
The Message:
There is a
scripture like unto that in the 12th chapter of the book of Numbers,
which says, “And Israel journeyed not until Miriam was cleansed from her
leprosy.” (Numbers
There is a
reason why
FOLLOWERS OF MALACHI 4: 5-6 ABIDE AT KADESH
You
will find out shortly why
And a little
bit of that could be seen over in the 20th chapter of the book of
Revelation. The Bible says that the heaven departed as a scroll when the throne
of judgement was set. It is going to be a frightful time, when all humanity
stands up before the Almighty once and for all. The Bible said,
“And I saw the dead, small and great, stand
before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is
the book of Life. And all those who were not found written in the Book of Life
were cast into the lake of fire, burning with fire and brimstone.”
That is a
horrible thing. We do not want to stand there. You do not have to stand there,
only if you will yield your hearts today and be obedient.
Isaiah
1:19-20 < If ye be
willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: But if ye refuse and
rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword…>
But we are
not of that class. We are here, trying to be obedient children, making all our
wrongs right. Where we have failed, we want to do better tomorrow. That is our
intention. That is our aim. That is our ambition.
God sent a
great deliverer to
And there was
an exodus, a calling out, and in that exodus there were about two million
people, journeying from
That is the purpose of the message of God’s prophet
that He sent today, Malachi 4: 5-6. God sent us a great prophet, and he was
like unto Moses. This has nothing to do with church joining and the
organizations that you see around. That has nothing to do with that. In the
midst of all the wickedness of religion and moneymaking schemes, God sent forth
a true prophet, and this true prophet came and brought us the true Word of God
and the true interpretation of the Bible. He came and called a people out of
spiritual slavery, of religion and sin. And he preached the message right in
the churches, for thirty years, and a bunch of people came out of those
churches, and that was called the third
exodus. So now, the third exodus came by the man called William Branham,
through might and power. He was gifted like Moses. Signs and wonders that were
done by this man, books cannot contain them. But that is not the great thing.
The signs are not the great thing. The great miracles are not the great thing.
The great thing in that message is that, I will take you to a land that is
flowing with milk and honey. We have a bunch of people today that follow the
message of William Branham. People think that we worship this man called
William Branham. That is not so. We honour him to be a prophet, but we worship
Almighty God, and we believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, the Saviour
of our souls.
And as the time went on under Moses’ ministry; it was just about three
days to the Promised Land, and another estimation is about five days to the
Promised Land, from
THE JOSHUA GENERATION LOOKS FOR
OUTPOURING
There was a generation that was
born on the way. They entered the Promised Land. And we are typical of that
generation, who never sat under the ministry of William Branham. We were born
on the way. And the right name for us is the Joshua generation. So, we are that real Joshua generation. The
Moses generation, their carcasses fell in the wilderness and they perished.
Because of what? Unbelief in the Promised Land! But there arose another
generation, and they were called the Joshua generation, and they crossed over
into the Promised Land and inherited it.
We had been
coming through the different messages, to show how the devil brought all kinds
of obstacles on the journey. As certainly as
The Lord is
going to burn the earth, according to Malachi 4: 1. “Behold, the day cometh,
that shall burn as an oven; yea, and all the proud and all that do wickedly,
shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of
hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. But unto you that fear
my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings.”
“Behold, I send you Elijah the prophet before the great and the dreadful day of
the Lord.”
We believe
that promise, and we believe that such scriptures were fulfilled today. God did
send a prophet by the name of Elijah, in the person of William Branham. And he
came with an identical ministry, like Moses. Wrapped up in the message of
William Branham is a great promise
to the endtime church. And if you miss that promise in the message, you have
not heard the message as yet. Yes. And we are highlighting that promise. Many people heard, “Come out of
Any man that
says that he believes this message, believes in Moses’ message, and is not
highlighting the promise that was given to us by the prophet of today, do not understand the message. The heartthrob
of Almighty God is to bring the end-time church to another outpouring of the
Spirit, and without that outpouring of the Spirit there will be no rapture. No
outpouring, no rapture. Every one of you must prepare now to enter into that
outpouring of the Holy Spirit or you will be earth-bound. We are looking for a
translation. And as mad as the world thinks that we sound, we are a people who
believe that there comes a certain time on earth when we will literally
disappear! I am talking about disappearing from the face of the earth, and
breaking the law of gravity and climbing into the seventh heaven. I believe
that with all my heart, and it happened in the Bible before. Yes.
There was a
man whose name was Enoch, and the Bible said, “He walked with God, and he was
not; for the Lord took him.” (Genesis 5:24). He went away in a rapture.
And then, there was another man, walking one day, and he got old and tired. And
then a chariot came down from heaven, a U.F.O. came down and swooped down upon
the earth, yes sir, and another prophet was there and he cried out and said,
“Behold, the horsemen of
And then,
there came another man called the Lord Jesus. And He was an ordinary carpenter,
but then after that He challenged them. He said, “Destroy this temple and I
will raise it up in three days.” (John 2:19). And then, they killed the
Messiah, our Lord Jesus. They put Him in a tomb, and on the eighth day an angel
came down and rolled the stone away. And up from the grave He arose, with a
mighty triumph over His foes. He arose a victor from the dark domain, forever
with His saints to reign. And that man came out of there, my brother, an
immortal man and walked with His disciples, for forty days and forty nights.
And at the end of that, there were five hundred witnesses, and suddenly His
feet started lifting off the ground, yes sir, and He started to ascend in
slow-motion. And while He was lifting upward, He kept on talking to them. And
He went right up into the cloud, until a cloud of angels came and received Him
out of their sight. And there stood two angels who said,
Acts
I want to
tell you that that cloud appeared upon the earth in 1963, just as promised. But
the cloud was veiling somebody. After a certain time that our Lord went up into
the air, there was a cloud that came, and received Him and enveloped the Lord.
If a fellow arrived late, he would have looked at the cloud and say, “O, that
is a good rain cloud.” It was not a rain cloud. There was a man in the cloud.
And a cloud appeared today, in 1963, at the opening of the seals, O, friends,
but I want to tell you, there was a man in the cloud. His name is the Son of
Man. He is not an earthly human being. He is the Son of Man. There was a man in
the cloud. And the Son of Man promised
to return in a cloud, and it did happen today, and we are followers of that
cloud and that pillar of fire.
EQUAL WITH WILLIAM BRANHAM
Now, you look
into the ministry of the prophet, and you will notice how Pentecostal men
treated Brother Branham, how they spoke to that man, with disrespect, how they stole
his tent, how they lied on him, how they broke up his meetings. It was the same
spirit from back down in
The most
rebellious generation that we ever read about in the Bible is that bunch of
people that came out of
There is
hardly a man that you could find that does not know everything. It is a fearful
thing to tell a man the truth. He knows it already; and he might rebuke you. It
is a fearful thing to witness like we used to witness, because everybody knows
it already. On account of that we hardly interfere with people. You are afraid
to hand them a tract, hand them a book and talk to them about their soul,
because it is a "know-it-all" generation. The spirit that prevails is
that they "have need of nothing." That is the generation that we are
living in.
That is why
you need power, friends. That is why
we need an outpouring. That is why we need the gifts coming back to the church,
to redeem the elect of God out of this mixed-multitude and out of the world.
The Lord is going to go to the poor. He is going to the vagrant. He is going to
go to the people who are not considered in this world. Yes. And the Bible said,
“And the poor gladly heard the gospel.” (Mark
“How hardly
would a rich man enter into the
False
anointed ones arose under Moses, while a prophet was there. Understand what I
am saying about false-anointed ones. These men were anointed of God, they were
anointed on their bodies, they held offices; they were in contact with God. It
is the same thing that happened under so-called Pentecost. That is what I am
talking about, Pentecostalism. Now, after so-called Pentecost rejected this
prophet, and spoiled his name around the world and hate us that follow the
message, the anointing of the Lord that was with them, came over to the people
that follow the message. Now, the big
mistake of the followers of Malachi 4 is that they settled down for that
anointing, and they want to think that, that anointing could take them in the
rapture. Our contention is that it cannot take them in the rapture, because the
foolish virgin had the same anointing
and she went through the tribulation.
NO BIRTH, NO OUTPOURING – NO OUTPOURING, NO
RAPTURE
All
our messages preached that went out in fifteen books already is very simple,
followers of Malachi 4, all Christians, any individual that has to go in the
rapture must have an outpouring of the Spirit. And for you to depend upon the
outpouring of 1906 is to go through the tribulation. Our contention is very
simple and we believe it. We are ready to lay our heads right down on a block
for it. I am positive of what I am telling you. No outpouring, no rapture! No
revelation of the Son of Man, no birth! No new birth, no outpouring! No
outpouring, no rapture! That is the plan of God. I am not guessing to tell you
what I am saying, my brothers and sisters. The Holy Ghost bears witness and
your hearts bear witness, by the Holy Ghost. I have not one shadow of a doubt
concerning that doctrine. My beloved, you are going to get an outpouring or you
are not going in the rapture. And you have got to break up the fallow ground.
You have got to cleanse that soul and make it ready for the next outpouring of
the Spirit. That is my contention.
We proved
throughout our messages that the false anointed ones are right now under the
message, and we are contending with those false anointed ones, even as Moses
contended with them. This message, as promised brought us to the type of Kadesh
Barnea.
From
And let me
say this in a way that you could understand, brethren, that is the present stage of the followers of Malachi
4:5&6. They have reached to Kadesh Barnea. They have reached to the
judgement seat of God, where they will go over with us and take the Promised
Land or deny the promise of God. The promise of God has gone out in different
forms, around the world, to show them that there is another outpouring of the
Spirit. That is the present stage. You tell the world that there is a little
preacher here that is saying that, that is the present stage of the ministry of
the prophet, our Moses and the present stage of the people that follow this
Moses and the message is that they have come to the place of Kadesh Barnea and
they are abiding many days. They are not going over into the Promised Land, but
they are going around in circles.
Do you know
that they circled so much until they reached back to the
Now, let me
tell you something, friends. The people under this message are no less. They
keep circling and they are powerless. Tell the world that I said so! They are powerless! They have a
profession without a possession! Yes. They have denied the holiness message of
the prophet. They have lost the joy of the Spirit. They are living in the
shadows of the last revival, and they are trying to be warmed by a painted fire
just like so-called Pentecostalism. They could boast about the miracles and
signs that William Branham did, but ask them if they have the power of God.
They claim a five-fold ministry and do not know who they are.
Now, a few
years ago a man came by and said that he had been a preacher in this message
for so many years. I sat in my hammock and I said, “I want to ask you one
question. Be honest and answer me.” I said, “What is your position in the Body
of Christ, since you are a preacher. Are you an apostle, prophet, teacher,
evangelist or pastor? Now speak the truth. Can you tell me what is your
position in the Body of Christ?” He said, “Brother, I must be honest to you. I
do not know.” I thought that was an honest answer.
The followers
of Malachi 4:5-6 assume offices of apostles, prophets, teachers, evangelists
and pastors but they do not know who they are. And I will tell you flat out
here, all the ministers under the sound of my voice do not know their position
in the Body. And for a man to stand up and claim that he is an apostle, he is a
prophet, he is a pastor, he is a teacher or he is an evangelist, he is guessing at it, yet. But I am saying,
the five-fold ministry is not yet placed, and there is a reason why it is not
yet placed. We need another outpouring of the Holy Spirit. And when that
outpouring of the Spirit comes, the five-fold ministry will be set in order.
Gifts will return to the church, mighty signs and wonders, another book of Acts
will be written. That is what we are heading for. We are not going to settle
for this dead condition. We are marching to the Promised Land! We are more than
able to take the land! The giants are bread for us! We are well able to go up
and take the land.
The followers
of this message are in the biggest mess that the world has ever known. They
went back to the sports fields, they went back into immorality. They are
fussing and fighting, and they are more badly divided than so-called Pentecost, even because of unbelief. They
are denying the promise of God. Yes. The promise of this message is another
outpouring of the Spirit. The promise of this message is a rapture. The promise
of this message is mighty signs and wonders to accompany the church before the
rapture takes place, and they are denying it.
They have
reached to Kadesh Barnea. But there are two
generations that are standing at Kadesh. One is a Moses generation and they
are supposed to die for their unbelief. And there is a Joshua generation that
will believe the promise of God for the hour. The spirit of Joshua will fall upon
that new generation, and they will fall under the inspiration of Joshua. Joshua
was a man who confessed faith in the Promised Land and he said, “We are more
than able to take it. Let us go up. At once let us go up and take the land
because the giants are bread for us, and we fear no opposition.”
Nothing could
stop us from marching to the Promised Land. We are going to get it, we are
going to have another outpouring; we are going to have another revival. I
believe it with all my heart. No Korah is going to stop us! No Abiram is going
to stop us! No Dathan is going to stop us! No Gan is going to stop us! No
Anything that
tries to stop this march to the Promised Land is antichrist. Yes. Any man that
rises up and denies the outpouring of the Holy Spirit is trying to stop this
march to the Promised Land, and he is an infidel, he is a heretic. I do not
care what he claims. I do not care how long he followed the prophet. Any man
that denies another outpouring of the Holy Spirit coming to the Bride is a
heretic. Any man that comes and tries to better the message of William Branham
is a heretic. Any man that says that he is trying to correct the message, and
show the errors in the message, and modifies
the message, he is a heretic. We are marching to the Promised Land.
TO DENY THE OUTPOURING IS BLASPHEMY OF
THE HOLY GHOST
Kadesh
is the place that
What the Lord
did was that He called a few men and said, “Go and search out the land. Let us
know if it is a good land.” Out of the whole congregation, certain people were
eyewitnesses of this good land. So, they went over there, and they spied out
the land and they said, “The land is a real good land. It has milk. It has
honey.” That is symbolic, to show you the goodness of the land. They picked a
little bunch of grapes, that two men had to carry. That is some grapes! They
came over and they told Moses, “That land is just like what you said, but we
are not able to take it.” "Unbelief." (Hebrews chapters 3 &
4). “They entered not in
because of their unbelief.” That happened at Kadesh Barnea, the judgement seat
of God. And right there, friend, that angered God. He said, in other words, “I
had enough of that. I heard your murmuring, from the
Now, type
that to the hour in which we are living. For any man to deny the outpouring of
the Holy Spirit and fight against it, it is the blasphemy of the Holy Ghost. It
is to fulfill Hebrews 6. It is to fulfill Hebrews 10. It is the blasphemy of
the Holy Ghost, and your carcass will fall in this world, and you will die and
not go in the rapture. That is how we believe this message.
Kadesh
Barnea. The Lord got angry. That is the place that He wanted to kill them in a
moment. And God will kill a man in a moment for denying His promise of the
hour. The promise of the hour is God’s heartthrob. For a man to rise up and
say, “There is no token coming. There is no outpouring coming. Bruce is fooling
the people, and there is no capstone coming.” You are going to find out who is
fooling who. Some heretic is fooling you
somewhere. Some Abiram fooled you somewhere. Some Korah fooled you somewhere.
Some Dathan fooled you somewhere. Some Miriam fooled you somewhere. There has
got to be an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, and we are more than able to take
the land! Yes.
You say,
“Well, thank God I am not in that bunch.” O, I thank God too, friend, but you
could reach to your Kadesh as an individual right here today, the judgement
seat of God. When you sit under the Word of God, and you have in mind to go
out, and taste of the world, and live like a dog and say when you have the time
you will come back, you have reached your Kadesh Barnea. God could judge you
any day. When you want to go and wallow in sin there, and you want to go out
and have two and three men outside there, and then come back and sit in the
House of God, you are a dead hypocrite and you have reached your Kadesh, and
God could curse you any day. You could fulfill Hebrews 6, Hebrews 10 as an
individual sitting right there, because you heard the promise of God and you
are not marching to the Promised Land. So, there is a Kadesh for every one of us and we had better
pass the test at Kadesh, as the Joshua generation.
Not all failed at Kadesh. No, my brother. The Moses group
failed at Kadesh but the Joshua generation arose, and they followed Joshua and
followed Caleb. And they had the same spirit upon them. They were anointed
differently. Yes. Joshua was anointed differently.
And when
Moses was going, God called him and said, “Get set, climb up on this mountain,
you are going to die.” Yes. He said, “But Lord, I love this people so much. Set
a man over them.” He said, “All right! Well spoken. Call Joshua, for he has the
Spirit of God in him.” God knew what He had placed in that man. He called the
man because he had the Spirit in him. And then, the Lord brought Joshua and
anointed him. Of course Joshua types the Holy Spirit, Revelation 10: 1. The
next ministry to follow Brother Branham is none other than Christ. The other
ministry that was to follow John the Baptist was Christ. Yes sir. Not these
quacks like Gan! Not these quacks like Junior Jackson! Not these quacks like
Dr. Frank! Not these quacks like
INDIVIDUALS AT KADESH – identify Joshua generation
I
hope that none has reached their Kadesh here today. If you are an adulterer,
sitting under the Word of God, you have reached your Kadesh. If you are a
fornicator; the ministers may not know here today but God knows. He sees your
wickedness as a young woman, as a young man, an old man and an old woman. Yes.
“The eyes of the Lord runneth to and fro upon the face of the earth and nothing
is hid.” (II Chronicles 16:9). Yes. And when you leave here after
friending with a young man and go to another place to find an ungodly man, you
are a prostitute. Unless you get that prostitute
spirit out of you, you have reached
your Kadesh and God could curse you any day. Yes. Kadesh Barnea is the place of
curses and you are talking about everlasting curses.
You never
heard God speak to another generation like that. He said, “As I live, your
carcasses shall fall in the wilderness here. You are going to die and not see
the Promised Land. Yes. I have spoken it.” Yes. Though Moses pleaded; he said,
“Lord, the nations will say that the Lord was not able to bring the people into
the Land, which He swore unto them, therefore He hath slain them in the
wilderness. Pardon the iniquity of this people.” (Numbers 14: 13-19) But the Lord was so wrathful, He said, “Moses,
let me kill them in a moment. I will start another generation. I will kill
everybody here.” Do you know what caused God to get angry? Denying His promise.
Brethren, understand what I am saying. The Lord forgave them for their
murmuring. He forgave them for their complaining. He forgave them for their
fornication, their lust. He forgave them for everything on the journey, but
when they came up to Kadesh Barnea, and they heard the preaching of the token,
they heard the preaching of the land, men went over and saw the land, yes, they
came over with the evidence and they said, “We are witnesses and the land is
good, but we cannot take it.” God never forgave them for that.
But there
were two men that stood out of them. Joshua and Caleb, who had a revelation of
the land. Yes. And they said, “The land is a good land. There are big grapes
over there. There are big giants too, but we have a big God.” They had faith.
“Do not waste time. Get your swords together. Let us go up at once and take the
land. It has no delay in this. Let us go up at once and take the land.” Men
that are seated here today, under the sound of my voice, they want it right
away. We want the token right away. We want this outpouring right away. Yes. We
want to see this promise.
Now, what do
we have here today? The Bible said, “And the other ten brought up a false
report.” Hear this, how nice that is. I preached a message many years ago:
‘False Reports.’ Now, out of the twelve that went to see the land, ten of
them brought a false report. Do you know what was the false report? “We cannot
take the land.” Do you know what was the true report? “We could take the land.”
Do you know what is the false report today? “No token is coming. No outpouring
is coming. No revival is coming.” Yes. “All things remain as they are since the
fathers fell asleep.” (II Peter 3:4). It is a spirit of the devil. And do
you know what happened to all those who brought that false report? They died!
Read your Bibles. They died by the judgements of God. And the Bible said,
“Joshua lived and Caleb lived still, (Numbers
You are
hearing a man with a true report. You are hearing preachers with the true
report. And not only am I going to live, but you will live. We are going over
to take the land. Yes. I do not care about your faults or your mistakes, my
beloved. I want to find out what is your purpose, what is your motive, what is
your ambition, what is your reverence for the Word of God, what is your
reverence for the message, what is your reverence for the promise of God; and
you are going over to take the land! Yes sir. Going over to take the land. Sink
or float, my brothers and sisters, lame or halt we are going over. Yes.
You failed?
Get up and try again. Yes. Repent for your sins. Are you a fornicator? Stop
committing fornication. Are you an adulterer? Get rid of that spirit. Yes. God
is not going to destroy you for your faults. He is going to destroy you,
because you do not believe you could take the land. I am saying, you could more
than get the outpouring. Yes. That is the sin, my brother, to believe that you
cannot get it. I believe I could get it. I believe you could get it. I believe
you could overcome all your faults, and all your failures. It does not matter
who you are today, as long as you want to go on with God, you could go on with God. If you are a sinner in here, God could
forgive you for all your sins, cleanse you from all your iniquities, and remove
all the vices of your heart. All the desires of sins could come out of your
heart as you sit there and hear the Word of God under the anointing of the
Spirit. Yes. You have to yield while His Spirit is here. That is where the dry
rods will blossom, and bring forth fruits overnight. And the reason that there
are so much backslidings under the message today, and they have to keep the
people by sports and having sports teams, even because the Spirit of the Lord
is drifting away from the followers of the message.
Do you
realize where Aaron’s rod budded? It could not bud outside of where the
Shekinah glory was. No! The Lord knew where that miracle could take place. He
said, “Bring it into the holiest place.” Friends, and the “Holiest place” came
to meet us. I am telling you. The "
Yes. And what happen
to the people, is that when they come to the House of God, they do not yield.
You have got to yield to the Spirit. You have got to forget your worries. You
have got to forget the girlfriend, forget the boyfriend. You have got to forget
the nasty life that you are living, and you have got to bow before His
Presence, and cry out to the Lord. Lord, deliver me! Lord, deliver me! I am a
sinner, save me! I am a backslider Lord, help me!” And I am telling you, you
are going to bud overnight. Yes. You are going to blossom, you are going to
bud, and you are going to bear almonds overnight. And when you do that, you
could live in the Shekinah Glory of God. The rod of Aaron that went in never came
out. No sir! It remained in the Shekinah Glory of the Lord, as a symbol to all
And we were some dry
sticks. You are talking about dry staves, sinners, rum drinkers, gamblers,
smokers, thieves. Do not talk about "cuss." That was our second
language. Yes. Thank God, you children, who were dedicated here, who came in
one piece here. We came here in four or five different pieces. Thank God, that
you were born here, and we dedicated you here, and you have Christian parents
that brought you into this place. We were a miserable people. We were
Egyptians. We were slaves to sin, slaves to our desires, and the taskmasters
were beating us everyday. Frustration!
Yes. We were sick and
suffering outside there, like the song went out this morning by that little
sister. My God! She brought back her testimony to my memory. Yes. It brought
tears to my eyes. In her testimony, she said, how undone she was, and how
frustrated in life that she was, but then the Lord found her. And she is
anointing His feet with an alabaster box of ointment. I could enter into that
feeling. We could enter into that feeling. Yes. How could you forget what God
has done for you?
After you finish drink
alcohol, you cussed, you smoked, you were frustrated, you were ready to commit
suicide, and God brought you, my brother, and He gave you peace, He gave you
joy and He gave you happiness, you want to return to a bar-stool? You hypocrite
you! You want to go back and run women? You want to go back on the sports
field? Boy, I tell you! Let me die a million deaths. As Brother Barrow always
says, “Let me die a million deaths, before I go back to the things that God
brought me from.” But people are wicked to themselves. They know what they
suffered out there, brethren. They came and they enjoyed the peace of the Lord,
and do you know they have the guts to want to go back there, and try it out
again? You have reached your Kadesh Barnea.
Yes! But friends you
could stand at Kadesh Barnea, and others could stand at Kadesh Barnea, but we
could prove that we are the Joshua Generation. How do you identify the Joshua Generation in this modern world? Friends, we
are going to follow Joshua, the Holy Ghost, and we will confess the faith of
Joshua that we are more than able to take the land. We are not afraid of the
giant Gan. We are not afraid of the giant
How do you identify a heretic? They will think that they have everything and they
are ready to go in the Rapture. They would not highlight the Outpouring. They
would not highlight the Token. They would not highlight the Capstone. Yes. All
that they would highlight is themselves and their heresies. And Gan is one of
the biggest heretics that the world has ever seen. That man perverted almost
every doctrine of Brother Branham. Even allowing women to remarry. Yes. His
excuse is that if the woman was married to an unsaved man before she became a
Christian, when she becomes a Christian and she is divorced, she can be
re-married. You lying hypocrite you. Romans 7 said, “As long as her husband liveth, if she be married to another, she
is an adulteress.”
Romans
7: 2-3 <For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be
dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
So then if, while her
husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an
adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she
is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.>
He
preached a doctrine that seven men are to reveal the seven thunders, and
besides that the seven men are the seven
thunders. I guess one of the thunders died recently; and he got that
doctrine from Brother Jackson. Yes. Junior
You cannot follow
heretics like Korah, Abiram and Dathan, and go to the Promised Land. The earth
is getting ready to open up and swallow all these heretics. Yes sir! So now, at
Kadesh Barnea was unbelief. At Kadesh Barnea were murmurings. At Kadesh Barnea
was lust. At Kadesh Barnea was disrespect to God’s servant. They said, “Let us
stone Moses. Let us stone Joshua.” Yes. And the glorious thing is that at
Kadesh Barnea there was another generation that was born on the way, and they were
going to take the Promised Land. Anything
that tries to stop our march to another Outpouring of the Holy Spirit and the
Rapture is of the Devil. I am saying to the whole world and to the whole
message world, anybody that denies another Outpouring of the Holy Spirit coming
to the church, has an antichrist Spirit.
Let me divide this line. There are thousands of ministers, thousands of good
men and believers who do not have the knowledge that there is another
Outpouring of the Spirit. I am not saying that about them. I am talking about
men that are aware of another Outpouring of the Spirit, and will deny that. You
are antichrist. But God’s children will hear about the Promise of God, and they
are hearing presently around the world, and they are waking up, and they are
not ashamed to confess that. They said, “We never knew that, but now we know,
and we are contending for that promise even though it costs us our lives. We
are going forward and we believe it.” You act like the Joshua Generation when
you talk like that. When you contend like that, you are talking like the Joshua
Generation.
Now, a good scripture
that you could use over here is Numbers
20, to prove that anything that tries to stop the church from going back to
Pentecost, going back to another Outpouring, which types the land, (that was a
natural land, this is a spiritual land) Do you know who tried to stop the march
of Israel to the Promised Land, and what happened to them? The nation of
Brethren, look how
humble Moses was. He sent a message. He said, “King of Edom, your brother
And when a man rises up, and he puts a
stumbling block in the way of a believer from entering the Promised Land, it is
better that a millstone was hung around his neck. When a false prophet will
rise up, and he will pervert the Word of God, make a heresy to explain away the
promise of God, add to this message, take away from the message and pervert the
message in any form, he is trying to stop you from entering into the Promised
Land.
So now,
Galatians
1:8-9 <But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto
you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we
said before, so say I now again, If any man
preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be
accursed.>
And
any man that rises up and tries to change, modify or pervert the message of
William Branham is a cursed man. Just as certain as Edom tried to prevent the
journey of Israel; every heretic today that perverts the Word of God, that
preaches another doctrine, that tries to correct William Branham, that denies
the truths of William Branham, that adds to the message and claim that they are
getting more revelation, is cursed the very same way.
Friends, if God cursed
a whole nation, and He cursed His own people, because at Kadesh Barnea, (hear
the blasphemy that they spoke), they said, “Let us make a captain and return
into
Now, these snakes in
the grass today that pervert the Word of God, they got smarter than Korah,
Abiram and Dathan. And hear the "wisdom" that they use. They come and
they claim that they believe the message of the hour, and they believe it one
hundred percent, they claim. “But we are here to explain the message to you.
There are certain things that the prophet did not put in the right perspective.
So, we are here to show you and to bring you back to the Word.” Now, that is
the trick of all these heretics. They are not denying the prophet. They are not
denying the message. All that they are saying is that, “We are trying to show
you what in Brother Branham’s message links with the Word, and what is not the Word. We are only going
to take what is in the Bible.” And they will take what they want from the
message and link it to the Bible with their own interpretation. Now that is a
snake from
That is what the serpent
had done. He came there trying to explain the message after God delivered a
pure message. Now, let me ask these heretics one thing. If you are to take the
message of William Branham and show what is the Word, does it means that the
Word came to you and not William Branham? My Bible, in Amos 3:7 said, “The Word
of the Lord comes to the prophet.” And what the prophet brought to us is the
Word of God, and he said, “I preach exactly what Paul preached.” And the whole
of heaven rang out and said, “We are resting on that!” Are you resting on that
today? [Congregation says, “Amen!”] We
are resting on that. I say, away with all these heretics. They have no
anointing to change the message of the hour. They have no wisdom. They have no
revelation. They have no calling in their life to add to this message or take
away from this message. Yes. Any man that does that, his part shall be taken
out of the Book of Life. Oh yes!
Now there is a story.
Just to tie down this point. I Kings the 13th chapter. I told my
grandson, Bob Lee to read it. He is waiting on this message. It is the saddest
story that I ever heard. I think I will read it a little, for you to get the
feeling of that story. Now this will express to you how no man could come after
a prophet and change the message of that prophet. Yes. It is punishable by
death. All right. Hear this story brethren:
I
Kings 13: 1-5. <And, behold, there came a man of God out of
That is a king now.
<And he cried against the altar in the word of the
LORD.>
That is the man of
God, the prophet of God.
<And said, O altar, altar, thus saith the
LORD; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name;
and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense
upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee.>
The man of God came
down to
<And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This is the sign which the LORD hath spoken; Behold, the altar
shall be rent, and the ashes that are upon it
shall be poured out. And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying
of the man of God, which had cried against the altar in Bethel, that he put
forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he
put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to
him.>
“Touch not my
anointed, and do my prophets no harm.” Get the picture of this story. A little
man of God came down to that place, to cry against the sins of the people, and
he made a prophecy that the altar will be rent and such and such will be done.
But then the thing here is that this king Jeroboam was hearing that, and he got
angry at the prophecy. You do not get angry at the Word of God. You do not get angry at rebukes. You must not get
angry when the message is unfavourable to you. And Jeroboam got so carried away
that he said, “Lay hold upon him there.” And as he said that, his hand remained
out like that and he could not pull it back. Anytime he tried to pull it back,
he could not. He was going around in circles trying to pull in his hand. The
king. Are you a king? Do you have any right to say, “He should not say that,
and should not do that, and he should not run the church like that, and he should
not do this?” Are you a king? God has no respect for you even though you are a
king.
I Kings 13: 5-6 <The altar also was rent, and the
ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had
given by the word of the LORD.
And the king answered and said unto the man of God,
Intreat now the face of the LORD thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be
restored me again. And the man of God besought the LORD, and the king's hand
was restored him again, and became as it was before.>
Oh my!
Do you see the wonderful and merciful God He is, and do you see what repentance could do, children? [Congregation says, “Amen!”] I do not
care if your hand withers today, or your ears are withering or your heart is
withering with lust. If you will repent, God could restore you. Is that
marvelous? This story always fascinates me. This was happening in a matter of
seconds, or minutes. In one moment the judgment of God struck the man, it dried
up his hand, and immediately the man thought to repent. He said, “Intreat now
the face of the Lord thy God, even for me, thou man of God, that my hand be
restored.” And the man of God, no doubt, knelt down and said, “Lord forgive
that man and help him.” And his hand got back as good as ever.
Do you see what
repentance could do? I do not care what your condition is today. Repentance
could straighten you out. If it could have straightened out the king’s arm, it
could straighten out your heart. Yes. It could heal your body. Yes. You could
be cured of any disease, if you will believe in your heart.
Look at this. Oh my! This is fascinating. This
man deserved that. He was supposed to go through life with one hand
outstretched like that. Yes. And then he just thought: “I know that God is a
merciful God. Let me beg the man of God and see what could happen. Yes. I know
that I am a sinner. I know that I am a backslider. Let me go and beg the man of
God for a chance, to come back to the House of God.” He could restore you. With
that attitude, He could restore you. Yes. Oh hear, hear. Oh my, brothers, and
sisters.
I Kings
13: 7-10. <And the king said unto the man of God, Come home with me.
>
The king was inviting
the man of God to come home with him. Hear this stand of this man of God.
<And refresh thyself, and I will give thee a
reward. And the man of God said unto the king.
If
thou wilt give me half thine house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I
eat bread nor drink water in this place: For so was it charged me by the word
of the LORD, saying, Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same
way that thou camest. So he went another way, and returned not by the way that
he came to
Oh my,
brothers and sisters. The king’s meat never enticed the man, because the man
was faithful to his commission. He said, “Even though, king, you will give me
half of your house, God told me not to eat bread in this place, neither should
I drink water, and to use another road to go home, other than I came by.” That
is the way that a man ought to keep the Word of God. Let no friend entice you.
Let not money entice you. Let not women entice you. Let not your affections
carry you away brethren. You ought to keep the Word of God. But the greatest
deception, friend, was not the king. The greatest deception out there for this
man was not the king. Somebody had to come in the name of God. And the deception is laying today where people
are coming in the name of the message and saying, “I believe the message just
like you. I am a preacher. I am called of God.” And hear this story:
I Kings
And
went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak:>
Is not
that something? Can you get into the picture? He left the king’s table, where
he could have dined, to keep the Word of God, and he got tired on his journey,
and he sat under an oak. He could not eat anything. He was supposed to fast. He
could not eat anything in
I Kings
For
it was said to me by the word of the LORD, Thou shalt eat no bread nor drink
water there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou camest.>
Hear
this, eighteenth verse. Is everybody ready? [Congregation
says, “Amen!”]
<He said unto him, I am
a prophet also as thou art; and an angel spake
unto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house,
that he may eat bread and drink water. But he
lied unto him. >
Oh can you get into
the feelings of this story? This lie is
going to kill this man of God. And this man had some influence. Hear the
deception, “I am a prophet like unto thee, and an angel met me on the way, and
he said it is okay for you to come and eat bread.” There is no excuse for you
to break the Word of God. That is why Brother Paul said, “Though we or an angel
come from heaven, and preach any other gospel, than which we have preached, let
him be accursed.”
I do not care how many
Gans will rise up, how many Junior Jackson’s will rise up, how many Santiago’s
will rise up, how many Dr. Frank’s will rise up, and claim to be what prophet
they are, they cannot change the Word of God that William Branham brought. That
is the way that I stand with the message. When you read these things in the
Bible and you see these false prophets, how they deceived people, and caused
them the lost of their lives, I am more determined to go forward. I will
contend with any man upon the earth. I will deny any man. I will not only deny
the king. I will deny even a “prophet” or an “apostle,” or a “Son of Man,” as
they claim to be and even God manifested in human flesh. I am defiant. Oh God!
Look at this story.
I Kings
A prophet lying. Prophets
get backslidden too.
<So he went back with him.>
He signed his death
warrant.
<And did eat bread in his house, and drank water. >
Brethren, when God
tell you something, follow that. Do not let a woman lead you out of the way. Do
not let a man lead you out of the way. Do not let a false prophet lead you out
of the way. You do not let a heretic lead
you out of the way. Follow what God said. Take his original message.
<And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that
the word of the LORD came unto the prophet that brought him back: He was a genuine prophet, but backslidden. And he cried unto the man of God that came
from Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the
mouth of the LORD, and hast not kept the commandment which the LORD thy God
commanded thee, But camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the
place, of the which the LORD did say to thee, Eat
no bread, and drink no water; thy carcase shall not come unto the sepulchre of
thy fathers.>
Brethren, it is the
false prophets and deceivers around the world that are misleading the children
of God, in the name of God. Yes. And we see how Korah, Abiram, and Dathan, and
everybody deceived the people of
I Kings
And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew
him: and his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion
also stood by the carcase. And, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast
in the way, and the lion standing by the carcase: and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt.
And when the prophet that brought him back from the way
heard thereof, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient unto the word of
the LORD: therefore the LORD hath delivered him unto the lion, which hath torn
him, and slain him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake unto him.
And he spake to his sons,
saying, Saddle me the ass. And they saddled him.
And he went and found his carcase cast in the way, and the ass and the lion
standing by the carcase: the lion had not eaten the carcase, nor torn the ass.
And the prophet took up the carcase of the man of God,
and laid it upon the ass, and brought it back: and the old prophet came to the
city, to mourn and to bury him. And he laid his carcase in his own grave; and
they mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother!
And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spake to his sons,
saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones: For the
saying which he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel, and
against all the houses of the high places which are
in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.
After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way,
but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places:
whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became one
of the priests of the high places. And this thing became sin unto the house of
Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the face of the earth.>
Is not that a sad
story? [Congregation says, “Amen!”] What
is it, brethren? When God tells you something, nobody is able to change it. God
sent us a pure message by William Branham. Not a heretic, not a false prophet,
(I do not care how gifted they are,) how anointed they are, has any authority
to change one word of that message. That is the essence of what I am trying to
get to you today. “Though we or an angel come from heaven, let him be
accursed.”
Galatians 1:8-9. < But
though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that
which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say
I now again, If any man preach any other gospel
unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.>
But
the seals were not opened. No. And this poor man, though he was a prophet, he
did not understand the deception of the Devil. And because this man said that
he was a prophet, he took it for granted, that, “Yes, if you are a prophet, and
an angel met you, and you are an older man than I am. You have more experience
than I do in the field of prophecy, and you said that an angel met you, and
told you that I could come back and eat, I am really hungry. I am thankful for
this grace. I am thankful for this blessing. I am so hungry. I am tired under
this oak; and upon your word, I trust
you with all my heart. I trust you with all my soul, as an older man than
me, as an older prophet, and a man who had been in the way long before me.
“Yes. I will go.” And he took the word of that lying prophet, that backslidden prophet, and went out, and
ate at the man’s table.
Just to show you,
brethren, how that anointing works. A man could be a liar, he could be a
sinner, but then God honours the gift, just like in so called Pentecost. God
honours the gift. So, though this man was a lying dog, nothing was wrong with
the gift. Just like nothing was wrong with Judas’ gift, but the problem was
with Judas, the gift was so good that God took the gift, and put it in Paul.
“Let his bishopric be taken from him, and be given to another.” So, nothing was
wrong with the gift.
Now, how that
operates, here was a backslidden prophet, yes, anointed even by the Devil, but
then when the time came, just like Balaam prophesied, here, the Spirit of the Lord came upon the gift.
Not upon the man, but upon the gift. So they sat eating there, and all of a
sudden the Spirit of the Lord came down upon the gift, and he said, “Thus saith
the Lord, because you disobeyed the Lord to come back here and eat, your
carcass shall not come to the sepulchre of your fathers, but you shall surely
die. And that prophesy was true. And he went out there, and a lion met him on
the way, and killed him.
So friends, what does
that add up too? You could be a liar and still feel the anointing of God, and
you could still have the joy of the Spirit, but that is not going to last too
long. You could be an adulterer or a fornicator, and if you have a gift of
prophecy inside of you, or a gift to sing, you could still sing. God is
honouring His gift, not the man, the gift. Just like Caiaphas. Yes. So, that is
how that operates. And friends, there are heretics outside there who are great
orators, great men that can speak, but they are lying prophets, and people are
following them by the millions around the world today, because they could work
some signs and work some wonders. But where the whole thing is determined, is
if you could keep that Word of God. That is where you recognize a false prophet
from a true prophet, and that is, they could keep the Word of God. How many
enjoyed that today. [Congregation says,
“Amen!”]
Brother Chandler, sing
us a song. Thank you for your patience. Amen.