Vindication
Understanding vindication
is perhaps one of the most important things we can do as a Believer in God and
His Word. It seems today, among the Christian world that we are living again in
the days of Judges where every man did what he thought was right in his own
eyes. And why is this the predominant
attitude amongst the nations today?, Because the people have turned down a
Vindicated Prophet of God.
It does not matter whether
they are Catholic, Lutheran, Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, or Pentecostal.
It does not matter whether they claim to be followers of the Prophet of God to
our day. The proof of their belief is in their understanding of Vindication.
So then what is
Vindication. Why is it so important to us?
Brother Branham used the term Vindication to explain: "God has a One man Message and He
deals with One man only". But men do not
like this, for they seem to want to have their own say as to how God is going
to do things. WHO DO YOU SAY THIS IS? 64-1227
128 That
one-man message, they didn't want it. No, they didn't want It. And God never
did deal but with one person at a time. It's always a one-man message. When did
ever He deal with the people, outside of just one person? It's an individual.
It ain't a group.
Vindication is the real issue concerning
our faith. Not so much that it was God who backed up William Branham's Message,
for all Pentecostal people believe that God works out of heaven and does
fantastic things. They will even allow for God to come down to do certain
things, but the understanding that this Vindication comes in the form of God's
Personal Presence with His prophet, and that this Presence was referred to by Brother
Branham himself as the Appearing of Christ has become the central doctrinal
debate within the "Message clergy" because it comes into direct
conflict with their understanding of the Second coming of Christ as they have
always perceived it, and this is due to the fact that they do not understand
Godhead correctly.
A close study of this
principle of vindication will help us to understand better that when it comes to the program of God, we have
absolutely no say as to what will happen. All God requires from you and me is
to get ourselves out of the way and allow God to work through his chosen
channel, which according to Amos 3:7 is always a prophet.
AMOS 3:6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid?
shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done [it]? 7 Surely the
Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the
prophets.
8 The lion hath roared, who will not
fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?
Again we find in the book
of Deuteronomy God's Law concerning how he will deal with His People. And since
He is the same and changes not, then we cannot say that prophets are relegated
to the Old Testament only, for there are references to prophets in the New
Testament as well.
DEUTERONOMY 18:15 ¶
The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of
thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken; 16 According to all that thou desiredst of the
LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again
the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that
I die not. 17 And the LORD said unto me, They have well [spoken that] which
they have spoken. 18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among
their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he
shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. 19
And it
shall come to pass, [that] whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he
shall speak in my name, I will require [it] of him. 20
But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I
have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods,
even that prophet shall die. 21 And if thou say in thine heart, How
shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?
22 When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the
thing follow not, nor come to pass, that [is] the thing which the LORD hath not spoken,
[but] the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of
him.
Now, God set forth an order
that has very strict consequences for those who will not adhere to it. He said,
I will
require it from you. You will pay for your unbelief. Notice the question
came forth from God's own mouth. He said, how will you know what is right and what is not right? And then He tells us, the one that is not
right will not be vindicated. I will not bring his words to pass, because they
are not my words.
And we know God is very
protective of His own Words. ISAIAH 55:10
For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not
thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may
give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: 11 So
shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me
void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper [in the
thing] whereto I sent it.
JOHN 5:19
Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you,
The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what
things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. 20 For the Father
loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew
him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.
JOHN 5:30
I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment
is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which
hath sent me. 31 ¶
If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. 32 There is another that beareth witness of me;
and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.
This let's us know that
there will be a showdown. God speaks of this in Deuteronomy chapter 13.
DEUTERONOMY 13:1 ¶ If there arise among you
a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, 2
And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee,
saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve
them; 3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the
words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the
LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with
all your soul. 4 Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him,
and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and
cleave unto him. 5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of
dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn [you] away from
the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you
out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy
God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst
of thee.
HEBREWS 2:1 ¶
Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we
have heard, lest at any time we should let [them] slip. 2 For if the word spoken by angels was
stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence
of reward; 3 How shall we escape, if
we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the
Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard [him]; 4 God also bearing [them] witness, both with
signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost,
according to his own will?
E-36
SIGN OF HIS COMING 62-0407 A vindication of God's Word
being true, God bears record of His Word by His signs. God's Word is a Seed, and that Seed has to
bring forth of Its kind (Genesis 1:11), every seed of its kind. And Jesus said
that the Word of God was a Seed that a sower sowed. So then, every promise in
the Bible has to produce its kind. Amen. E-37 Now, the signs are a vindication
of the true Word. God in all ages has said that. Now, some of you might
want to take down some of these Scriptures. If you do, put Hebrews 2:4
there. You see that--that God has vindicated, vindicated His messengers.
"God in sundry times and divers manners," Hebrews starts out,
"spoke unto the fathers by the prophets, in this last days through His
Son, Christ Jesus." See? And seeing that, them had the Gospel preached to
them way back long ago, and had signs
and wonders to vindicate that; then how much more should we hold on after God
with divers signs and wonders and gifts of the Holy Ghost? Oh, divers of
signs, the signs that Jesus Christ showed that He was here on earth, Who He
was, and what He was, and the--and the purpose He was here from.
HEBREWS 1:1 ¶ God, who at sundry times and in divers
manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2
Hath in these last days spoken unto us by [his] Son, whom he hath
appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; 3
Who being the brightness of [his] glory, and the express image of his
person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself
purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
41 GUIDE A 62-1014E It was a vindication
there, that there was a living God inside of Him. What He testified, "It's not Me that doeth the works;
it's My Father that dwelleth in Me. Verily I say unto you, the Son can do
nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son
likewise. The Father worketh, and I worketh hitherto." In other words, God
showed Him what to do, and He went and just acted it out; He didn't do anything
until God told Him to do it. Amen. That's the real frank facts of it. If we'd
just move and wait till the Spirit moved us to do it... That's it. And then be
so completely lost in Christ that He don't have to shove you around like He
does me, but the first little nod of His head, you're ready and nothing's going
to stop you, because you know that it's the will of God
23-5 Why Cry Speak 63-0714M Now, Moses' great eye, his eagle eye looked beyond the glamour of
Egypt. The real Christian believer
today, no matter what the church says, what anybody else says, when that Light
strikes it, they see the very vindication of God, that Pillar of Fire hanging
there, and the signs and wonders that promised, the Scripture being laid in it,
it comes to Life. No matter how little it is and how many in the minority;
God's group has always been the minority. See?
23 Desperation 63-0901E The
Token, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, is among us. We should reverence that. We
can't humble ourselves enough. Taking off your shoes or getting on your knees
wouldn't expel it, it wouldn't satisfy; it wouldn't suffice us, but a life that
brings forth the fruit of the Spirit...
Now, what is the fruit of the Spirit? See? Love, joy, peace... Remember this morning? Preparation, sent the
messenger with the message. Next thing
He done after He sent the messenger with the message, He sent the Pillar of
Fire for a vindication. Next thing was after that, was consolation. See?
You knew that it was right; you was at peace. We have peace with God through
the Lord Jesus Christ. See?
From the 20th
century Prophet Book we read, " There are always two men or two groups who
demonstrate power, but one has a wrong source of power. The spirit of
Antichrist is here as well as the Spirit of Christ. The spirit of Antichrist in
Satan's prophets is so close to the real and true Spirit of God that only the
VERY ELECT will escape the deception. Matt. 24:22-24 "And except those
days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved; but for the elect's
sake those days shall be shortened. Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here
is Christ, or there; believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs, and
false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it
were possible, they shall deceive the very elect." These true elect ones
take the Word. When these true Elect Ones see the prophet and his acts of
power, and see that he is right with the Word and never deviates, they know
that he is of God and receive him. All that prophet says and does leads them
closer to Him Who is coming soon. They look for no other vindication. This is
the vindication".
Now, we are told in the New
testament that God will once again send forth another prophet and those who do
not hear him will be cut off. God does not play games with us. He says what He means
and He means what He says.
ACTS 3:19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted,
that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from
the presence of the Lord; 20 And he shall
send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: 21 Whom the heaven must receive until the
times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all
his holy prophets since the world began. 22
For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God
raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all
things whatsoever he shall say unto you. 23
And it shall come to pass, [that] every soul, which will not hear that
prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.
Notice the requirement at
the hands of an angry God, destruction. Destroyed from amongst the people. This
is exactly what we see in 2 Thessalonians 1: 8-9. This speaks of those who are
cut off from the presence of the Lord, and they will be left for the burning.
59 TOKEN
THE 64-0208 He sent a prophet to them, Moses, with a
message identifying God's Word. And to identify Moses, He sent a Pillar of Fire
that hung over him. Amen. Then to give him the perfect assurance, He required a
token. Amen. There's a messenger, the message, and the vindication, and the
token, the perfect assurance that they had nothing to worry about. No
matter how many plagues strike, what everybody else says they are sealed away.
From the 20th
century Prophet Book we read "The people were oppressed under Pharaoh. For
Moses to come and declare himself a prophet of God and worthy of attention and
obedience to the Word of God in his mouth, he would of necessity have to gain
their attention through some vindication by God that would defy all dispute.
Twentieth
Century Prophet - Page 33 "This can be easily understood. The Hebrews had
not had a prophet for about 400 years. Such a length of time would see several
generations without the dynamic truth of God in their midst, and a consequent
ignorance of God's way. Moses would need supernatural vindication of his
ministry to catch their attention and capture their hearts. This is the very
same situation when both John and Jesus came. Israel was without a prophet for
another 400 years with the consequent deterioration of truth into human
tradition. How very difficult it would be to turn Israel to truth by a prophet.
Thus when God sent Moses He sent him with two signs. If the people refused the
first sign (the rod made into a serpent) they would hearken to the voice of the
second sign (the hand placed in the bosom, turning leprous and then clean.) Ex.
4:8, "And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither
hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the
second sign." God said that the signs were voices. Each time the sign
appeared in the ministry of Moses it was the voice of God speaking. It would
naturally do two things. It would impel the one to come, and harden the other
more and more. That is what the sign did. That is what the voice of God does.
It draws some and they come closer to the sign as did Moses himself when the
bush glowed, but on the other hand that voice in calling will harden the heart
more and more as it rejects God. It happened thus to Pharaoh. It happened thus
to the Pharisees. But Moses was not discouraged. He kept on. He knew that God
was with him in his calling, for the voice that he was obeying was a Scriptural
Voice. A true prophet like Moses will always be one with the Word. The voice
that cried out of the bush spoke the Word of God as it had been given to that
great prophet, Abraham. It said, "I remember my promise to my
people." So Moses listened and obeyed, and in so doing he brought the
promise of God for the people of that generation.
Now
when God spoke by that sign there was only one avenue left. Israel had to move
out of Egypt--the Exodus had to come. There will be a final vindicating sign
and our day will be over, too--the Rapture must come. As John the Baptist
cried, "Behold the lamb of God," without doubt this messenger to the
last age will cry, "Behold the Bridegroom cometh." As the apostle
Paul declared the mysteries of God that produced such dynamic faith in the
early church, even so now, when that last prophet reveals what Paul did truly
teach, that SAME WORD that brought that early church FAITH which is based
solidly on the Word, will now bring back that faith, and that will be Rapturing
Faith, to meet the Lord in the air and be forever with Him.
Having
set forth both the scripture and the unusual vindication of the
Prophet-Messenger, it is well to correlate both and see in them the marvelous
works of God. Think for a moment on the fact that this man is often
self-vindicated. In other words there have been times when he has given his
testimony and asked others to accept him as a man sent from God. There is not a
prophet who appeared on the scene at any time but had to do likewise. When
Moses appeared before Israel he said, "God spoke to me out of a burning
bush." He then proceeded to prove it by the two signs he had from God. The
immediate reaction was twofold, some believed and others said, "We weren't
there. How do we know that God spoke to you from a cloud of fire?" But
Moses was not discouraged. He kept on. He knew that God was with him in his
calling, for the voice that he was obeying was a Scriptural Voice. A true
prophet like Moses will always be one with the Word. The Voice that cried out
of the bush spoke the Word of God as it had been given to that great prophet,
Abraham. It said, "I remember my promise to my people." So Moses
listened and obeyed, and in so doing he brought the promise of God for the
people of that generation.
Think
of John the Baptist, the greatest prophet, at least up to that time. What was
his witness? John 1:31-34, "And I knew him not: but that he should be made
manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water. And John bare
record, saying, I saw the Spirit from heaven descending like a dove, and it
abode upon him. And I knew him not; but he that sent me to baptize with water,
the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and
remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost, and I saw
and bare record that this is the Son of God." Now here was John with his
witness. He said "God spoke to me and told me what I have just told
you." There again we have an immediate reaction that was two-fold. Some
believed and others said, "We weren't there, so we don't know if there was
a voice or not, Furthermore, what sign can you show us?" Thus it is with
William Branham. He speaks of seeing a light appearing over people. That light
was actually photographed, and you can see it in this book. Yet very few have
actually seen that light. Now whether you accept his testimony or not is up to
you, but remember right now you have accepted that of John and he did not have
the signs following him that most prophets had.
Furthermore,
it is with Rev. Branham as it was with Moses, for the pillar of fire is
absolutely scriptural. And so is the voice, for it has never deviated from the
Word. From him, then, we are bound to hear and learn the promise of God for
this age.
William
Branham also says that an angel appears to him. He even describes him. Your
reaction is up to you. You can believe or disbelieve. But no man has a right to
repudiate another, especially if the claimant is on strict Bible
grounds--angelic appearances are positively Biblical. A self-witness is
absolutely Scriptural. God backs up the revelation. As it was with Paul who
came with the complete revelation to the Gentiles, God bearing him witness both
with divers signs, and miracles and wonders and gifts of the Holy Ghost, so God
has borne witness to William Branham for there has not been one time when the
vision failed. Nor has there been one time when he has said "Thus saith
the Lord," that the word in his mouth ever failed. Though one might be
censured for the following, yet it ought to be said. There are very few
scriptural evidences in the Bible to vindicate the revelation ministry of Paul.
That God actually gave him the complete revelation he lays claim to has but
little phenomenal proof from God. YET NO ONE DOUBTS, AND NO ONE SHOULD DOUBT
THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE MAN HIMSELF AND THE REVELATION. And today, this man,
William Branham has had literally thousands of manifested vindications from
God, and with his life containing all the other factors that make up the prophetic
office, HE OUGHT TO BE RECEIVED FOR WHAT HE IS,--HE MUST BE RECEIVED FOR WHAT
HE IS... "Thus saith the Lord" in his mouth by the Holy Ghost is
absolutely no different from the "Thus saith the Lord" in the mouth
of Paul, for it is the same Holy Ghost.
The
Holy Spirit that spoke in the pillar of fire to Moses is the same Spirit that
fell at Pentecost as a cloud of fire, and is the same light exactly that
appeared to Paul and blinded him and spoke to him, and that Light or Fire is
now with us again and the voice is the SAME VOICE for the SAME SIGNS ARE GIVEN
as before, and the prophetic utterance never fails. It is thus the rankest
unbelief for men to come to this Prophet and hear him reveal without one
mistake ever the various ailments and problems that beset the supplicant who
comes for prayer, and then turn from that sign and say that he is a prophet
only in discerning, but not a prophet in the Word. Oh, faithless one, can you
not see that the sign is to attract your attention that you might believe the
Word? It is the WORD that counts, and the sign is to lead you to it.
But
man runs true to form as ever he did. When Jesus came He attracted them by the
miracles of healing, the water turned to wine, the loaves and fishes
multiplied. But when He began to teach a word that differed from theirs--when
He laid out for them the true doctrines--they turned far from Him. And so it
was, that, when Rev. Branham first appeared on the scene, thousands were healed
with never a miss. Nothing stood before him. Then he came teaching the Word.
God had sent him with a message. But the message differed radically from that
of the organized churches' message. For this he was repudiated. But God remains
true. He that believes His prophets shall prosper.
The following quotations
are taken from William Branham who is a vindicated prophet of God to this last
age. We find that God sends forth His divine Presence to back up the Message
that He gives to his Prophets. Thus Saith the Lord is spoken by that Prophet
and these are not just some sort of opening statement that sounds good.
"Thus saith Lord" means exactly what it says, "The Lord Has Said
THUS!"
E-16 Expectations 50-0405 Gifts and callings are without repentance.
There is spirits that's in the Church. That's true, such as gifts of prophecy,
healing, and so forth. But they're in the entire body. They may fall upon one
person tonight, a prophecy, and It might not never fall on that person again;
It might be somewhere else in the body. And those spirits are supposed to be
judged. "Let one speak and two or three judge," said Paul. Now, those
are the spirits of the gifts that's in the Church. But the only person that has a right to say, THUS SAITH THE LORD, is an
a vindicated prophet. You never seen
anybody judging Isaiah, or Jeremiah, or those people. They were prophets,
foreordained and borned in the world to be prophets. And they foresaw the thing
by a vision, and then said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD," for the Lord had
already said it. So what the Church
needs today, is a good old fashion teaching of the Gospel. That's right. To
know where they... I don't mean just educated teaching; I mean spiritual
teaching. Some people speaks about God, and--and knows nothing of Him. You
don't... See, you must get down and deal with the actual spirit itself, you
see, to know what you're speaking of.
E-61 Expectations 50-0405 Now, Moses could only perform these miracles, but the people had
to believe him. That was the vindication
that he was sent of God. You understand?
It a vindicated his word to be true. If any man says anything and God
testifies not that, then the man is wrong. But
if the man says something, and God testifies behind that, then that man is
right. See? Not only once, but over and over and over; it has to be the...
a--a time. Now, Moses did that and proved to the people.
50-0713 OBEY THE VOICE OF THE ANGEL 09 Well, when the children of
God begin to cry down in Egypt, God sent
them down a deliver and vindicated this deliverer by signs and wonders.
Don't you think God could do that tonight, just the same? Isn't He the same
Father tonight. And if you're sick and can't get well, the doctor can't help
you, then don't you think your Father is here for you? And can't He send His
gifts? Now, He--He did then, and I believe He's just the same today. He always
makes a way provided.
E-16 Obey the Voice of the Angel
50-0713 Now, Dear heavenly
Father, Your Word lays here on the pulpit, and I know that It is the Divine
Word of Truth, every Word is the Truth. I believe It, and I realize that every
prophet that went forth in the days of old, had a time to try to bring the
people to a recognition of Jehovah. The apostles who've paved the way with
blood, gone on before us. They was disbelieved in cities, and cast out. And Your
own beloved Son, when He was here on earth, and He went to the city, and many
places they did not believe Him. "And many mighty works He could not do
because of their unbelief." Now,
we know that He's here with us tonight.
He's sent His Spirit to vindicate that His Presence is with His Church. And
help us tonight, Father, and Your poor, humble, unworthy servant who's standing
here making these statements. I ask that You'll let the Angel of God, Who has
guided me down through life, has kept me, fed me, brought me this far. I pray
that He will be here, and there will be not one disease or one thing that can
be able to pass by His Presence without being perfectly delivered. May many of
them in the audience, Lord, just now set down and say, "I'm going to study...
Lord, I'm going to think of You, and Your Spirit being here. I want to know
Your nature, that I might know how to love You and serve You."
E-13 Hour
is Come 51-0415E Can we bow our heads.
Our heavenly Father, solemnly, reverent, we bow our hearts to You just now to
thank You for this great meeting that we're now coming near to the end, and ask
of Thee to make this the climax, the great climax that many... Not only many,
but that all the people who are setting present that's sick, or possessed with
foul spirits, that they may be delivered tonight, and that You might receive
glory. Father, I thank Thee for the
ministers, my brethren, that's sitting here with me tonight to lend their faith
in this healing line as I pray for the sick. And I pray that Your Spirit, the
Angel of God, Whose servant I am, may come tonight and vindicate His great Presence to be here and make it an outstanding
time, that the people may never fear no more; but to know that the supernatural
great God of Heaven is here among people, and is now working among His children,
that they may... If they start to do anything wrong, that they will know that
there's an all-seeing eye watching them; and if they would do something right, know
that there's a heavenly Father watching them Who will in return give them a
reward. For we reap as we sow. Now,
Lord, I pray Thee with my whole heart, soul, and mind that You will make this
meeting a great blessing, and may the people understand these few words. And I
pray that You'll circumcise the lips of Your servant and the hearts of Your
people, that I may speak the right thing and they may hear and believe. For we
ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
E-29 Exhoratation
on Healing 51-0501 Now, I can only be
honest. You see? That's what I've always tried to be: honest and--with my
people, with God's people, my friends.
And I--I said, "Well, Sir, I'm born and raised in a poor
family." And I said, "I'm uneducated and I--I--I couldn't
go." He said, "I'll be with
you." And I said, "Oh, I'm...
They wouldn't believe me." He
said, "As the prophet Moses was
given two signs to a-vindicate his ministry (He'd sent him to Israel, you
know, to deliver Israel.)," said, "so would you be given two signs." Said, "One of them will
be, that you'll take people by the hand, knowing nothing of what's wrong with
them, and tell them what's wrong." Said, "Then if you'll be--if
you'll be reverent," and said, "it'll come to pass later that you'll
know the very secret of their heart." And He said, "If you would
question of this.
189 Lord Just Once More 63-0628A The denominations will not take the a-vindication of the Word.
37-1 Indictment The 63-0707 And the Holy Ghost
today is not no third person; It's God Himself manifested in human flesh by the
Blood of Jesus Christ to sanctify a life that He might reflect Himself through.
And they crucify that same Word made manifest. You understand? The crucifixion of Christ today is the
people who will deny the vindicated and manifested Son of God among the people
by His things that He said would take place in this day by His Word. See? Now, the same vindication would have to be
the same if He's the same Son of God, 'cause He said in St. John 14:12 now,
that, "The works that I do shall you do also." Hebrews 13:8:
"He's the same yesterday, today, and forever." "If ye abide in Me...
(John 15) If ye abide in Me and My words abide in you, just ask what you will,
and it'll be given to you." Yes, sir.
325-1 Laodicean Church Age
– Church Age Book Chapter 9 Jesus called John the
Baptist, Elijah. Matthew 17:12, "But I say unto you that Elias is come
already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him what they listed."
The reason that he called John Elijah, was because the same Spirit that was
upon Elijah had come back upon John, even as that Spirit had come back upon
Elisha after the reign of King Ahab. Now once again that Spirit will come back
upon another man just before Jesus comes. He will be a prophet. He will be vindicated as such by God.
Since Jesus, Himself, in the flesh won't be here to vindicate him, (as He did John) it will be done by the Holy Spirit so that this prophet's
ministry will be attended by great and wonderful manifestation. As a prophet, every revelation will be vindicated, for
every revelation will come to pass. Wonderful acts of power will be
performed at his commands in faith. Then will be brought forth the message that
God has given him in the Word to turn the people back to truth and the true
power of God. Some will listen, but the majority will run true to form and
reject him.
E-30 MY COMMISSION 51-0505. That's just an a
vindication (See?) that Jesus Christ is present.
E-57 AT
THY WORD LORD 51-0928 If God can heal one person here with cancer,
He can heal every one of you with cancer. And He has healed every one of you
that's got cancer. The only thing you have to do is just accept it. And I am
just His servant here in a vindication that He, through His grace, might come
down on me, and speak through this channel, and to vindicate His Presence with you. He isn't dead. He isn't in the
grave; neither is He on the cross. But He's with you, even in you, and will be
until the end of the age. See? Now, that is true. "And you shall know the
truth, and the truth shall make you free" (See?), if you know the truth.
Now, that is the truth, if I speak these things.
10-3 IS THIS SIGN OF THE END SIR 62-1230E When the Light, which you see on the picture
tonight, that's been proven to be a Supernatural Being by scientific
research... To me it was the same Light that struck down St. Paul. Is the same
Light that led the children of Israel by night. Did you notice here, this Angel,
He was clothed in a cloud. See, He was a cloud by day. Now, that same Light... As to people not
understanding, first thought that it was wrong, that I was just saying that.
But the Holy Spirit happened to have the scientific instruments, and the people
there, for a vindication, and took the
picture of It several times. I said, "I see a person shadowed to
death," black shadow over them.
32-4 IS
THIS SIGN OF THE END SIR 62-1230E The sounding of the trumpet means Gospel trumpet. And the sounding
of a trumpet in the Bible means, get ready for Scriptural war. Are you getting
it down? Scriptural war... Paul said... If you want to put this down, I Corinthians 14:8, Paul said, "If the
trumpet gives an uncertain sound, how will a man know what to prepare
for?" And if it doesn't have a Scriptural sound, a vindicated, a vindication of the Word of God made manifest, how will
we know were at the end time?
290-3 {81} FOURTH
SEAL THE 63-0321 And the new wine, when it brings revelation,
then it's--it's revealed, and that's the way it was at Pentecost. They knowed
that--that there was supposed to be a Spirit poured out upon them, and they
waited till this happened. And when the vindication of the revelation took
place, then stimulation was on them. 292-1 In Genesis 1:1,
it said, 'In the beginning God created heavens and earth' period. See? That's
all. Now, the world without form and void." And I said, "I believe
every seed was laying right there from some other civilization or something, and
as soon as the water lifted off and the light struck it, up come the trees and
everything." The same thing with
the human being; it's a type. When all the--the--the mist is moved away, and
the revealed Truth to that real seed laying there still germitized, and the
Light of the Gospel can strike it by true a-vindication of the Word, it'll
live; it's got Life in it...?... Outside of that it can't live. It hasn't got
no Life in it.
34-3 INDICTMENT THE 63-0707 Why'd they crucify Him? Why? Why? Because
they didn't recognize Who He was. And it's the same thing today. The preachers
and people of this days, and our modern teachers has so indocumated the people
to believe that this is witchcraft, or the devil, or a mental telepathy, or
some hoax, or some kind of a trick, until the people don't recognize that
it's the vindication of God's Word for this day. It's the last day sign.
91 WARNING THEN JUDGMENT 63-0724 Well, you
can't do nothing with the church; it's so formal and gone, there's nothing left.
They've done sold out their birthrights for a mess of pottage, and--and they're
just waiting judgment. The Holy Spirit has crossed this nation, showing His
signs and wonders, and they continually spurn His grace. He a-vindicates
Himself and proves by His great a-vindication, that He's the Word of God
manifested in this day. And they still turn It down. See? There's nothing
left now. You just can't always do that to God. See?
69-3 CHRIST
IS THE MYSTERY 63-0728
By the living Presence of the
living Christ by the living Word... Oh, living Christ, living Presence, living
Word... Watch. By His Own personal--personal a-vindication proves His
Church, not members. He never done it in the days of Moses. He never done it in
the days of anybody else at the end of the world when it come to the place
where it was the destruction. In the days of Lot it wasn't membership. It
was personal a-vindication, God in flesh (See?), personal a-vindication.
70-2 CHRIST
IS THE MYSTERY 63-0728 His
Presence in the individual with a personal a-vindication of Himself expressing
Himself--the living Word that's promised for the day, expressing Itself through
you, a vindication of the great revelation of God... Look, only in an individual, never in a group: an
individual, not in a group, His identification is with an individual.
You get that? Not with the Methodists, not with the Baptists, not the
Presbyterian, not the Lutheran, not the Pentecostal, but as an individual.
77-5 CHRIST IS THE MYSTERY 63-0728 Listen. Which means this: His Word (which He
is) has been--began to be risen. The Word that down through the age of Luther,
Wesley (See?) has begin to raise up to its power. There it begin to move. Then
it moved a little more. Now, it's coming
up to identification. See? Watch. Now, to the Life in the Body is a
vindication of the rapture is at hand. When you see the Headship and the Body
becoming one and the Fullness of the measure of His manifestation, shows
that the Body is about ready to be received to the Headship.
99 CALLING JESUS ON THE SCENE 63-0804E Any great messenger like that is foretold us
in the Bible. Always we can find a place of it in the Scriptures. That's the
reason the Holy Spirit today is foretold us in the Bible, and we know that It's
here. And we know it by Scripture a-vindication of what It is. We seen how
it acted in the first, we seen how It acted in Christ, we see how It acts
today. See, we know whether It's the Holy Spirit or not, because It manifests
and vindicates the Word of God, makes It live.
80 HOW CAN I OVERCOME 63-0825M Many of you has left too. Many of you left
these things to take your stand, after you searched it through the Scripture
and find it's right. You seen the vindication of Almighty God, but not what
some--what somebody said was the vindication, what the Bible said would be, and
here it is doing it. You saw it was the Truth. So you set out to leave
Sodom, leave the denominations, leave the things that bind you to a creed, and to
follow Christ by the Holy Spirit vindicating Himself by the written Word of
God. In other words, you took the Bible instead of the creed. You've set out to
follow.
E-54
GO WAKE JESUS 63-1103 He had proven to them Who He was.
He proved Who He was. How? By the Words that He preached, and by the works
that followed the Word (See?), vindication. God had vindicated Him, for He said
unto them, if... He said, "If I do not the works of God, then don't
believe Me. If what God said I would do, if I don't do them, then condemn
Me.
47 WHAT
SHALL I DO WITH JESUS 63-1124M When the Word has been spoken
for this certain generation, there's going to be somebody rise on the scene that'll
fulfill that Word, because God has spoke It. It's a vindication of the
Spoken Word. And Jesus met every qualification and was the Word vindicated as
Messiah. Exactly. There's also Words spoken in the Bible for the last day.
Those Words have to come to Life.
57 MAN THAT CAN TURN ON LIGHT 63-1229M Now, remember, then light comes by the
spoken Word of God. And light is the vindication, or the subject that He has
spoke is light. When the light flies, shows that... God said, "Let there
be light." There was no light, and He said, "Let there be
light." and there was light. That's a proof; the light is a vindication
of His spoken Word: same thing today, a vindication of His spoken Word.
245 MAN THAT CAN TURN ON LIGHT 63-1229M Oh, it takes Christ's Eternal Life to bring
the Word of Life to--to vindication, made flesh. Oh, my goodness.
210
SHALOM 64-0112 And when the real Word of God falls upon the vindicated, upon the Seed,
and they see that vindication of the Word, they recognize It. They're
looking at the Word; they know the junction; they know the time; they know the
change; they know the beat that's supposed to be in that hour. Hallelujah. They
know the beat; they know the time; they know how it's supposed to go. See? Only
the Elected knows it.
80 WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH JESUS 64-0126 You may say
to me, "Brother Branham, you've got the wrong interpretation of It."
Well, that's to your opinion. God
don't need any interpreter. God's His Own Interpreter. That's what the trouble
of it is today; we got too many manmade interpreters. God can interpret
Himself. His Own vindication of His Word is the interpretation.
83 WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH JESUS 64-0126 The
manifestation of God's revealed power, promised, is the vindication.
22 JESUS
CAME AND CALLED 64-0213 You say,
"Then Brother Branham, what is the evidence? What is the evidence?" The
vindication of the Word in the hour.
They had the Bible. He was exactly what Jehovah said would happen. It
don't need any interpretation. It interpreted there. There was your priest;
there was all they had, and everything else just so routined and everything.
But, yet, they failed to see the Word. And He made that Word live out for
that age. That's the evidence of that age.
94 VOICE OF THE SIGN 64-0214 Also, it must
be a Scriptural sign, must be a Scriptural vindication of the Word that's promised
for that day. How perfect is God's order at each time.
41 GOD IDENTIFIED BY CHARACTERISTICS 64-0311 Now,
if a man is sincere in it, God will make some way to show that man that it's
Truth. He's obligated, if you're sincere. If you see It and walk away from It,
then you're to be judged. But if you're sincere and see Truth... Now, Joseph
was just "minded." He said, "It's so unusual." That's the way today, that people, good
men, fine men, good character men, fine ministers, many of them, priests and so
forth, are good men, but the supernatural vindication of the promise of this
day is so unusual, it throws them off of their balance. It does that because
it's displaying the characteristic of God.
E-43
WHEN THEIR EYES WERE OPENED 64-0312
She knew the Scripture. That's the reason she knew Him. These disciples, after
His resurrection, didn't know the Scripture. And that's the reason they didn't
know Him. And that's the way the Pharisees didn't know it. He said,
"Search the Scriptures. You think you have Eternal Life now. They're the
one that tell you Who I am." Oh, the vindication of His Being...
E-65 CALLING JESUS ON THE SCENE 64-0319 The woman was
praying, wasn't even thinking, didn't even hear me say nothing. Now, you ask
her if she knows me. That's who she is, and that's what her trouble. What did
she touch? That's the vindication of Jesus Christ. The Word discerns the
thoughts that's in the heart.
E-10
TRIAL A 64-0427 We find out that
the churches get it all messed up, and then God sends His prophet on the scene.
And the Word of the Lord comes to the prophet. How they know it is? It's a
vindication of the--the message of that age.
E-14
AUDIO LETTER TO LEE VAYLE 64-0500
Same as they did in Moses' time. See, it had been four hundred, yeah, four
hundred years again since Moses. You see? From--from Abraham--or from the last
prophet, Israel had been four hundred years in bondage. And four hundred years
had blinded their eyes to a man being a prophet, it had to be a supernatural
vindication of the Word to show that he was the prophet. Likewise, when Jesus came, He was
absolutely had to be a vindicated prophet, for it had been four hundred years
again since a prophet. You get what I mean there? Four hundred years, and the
people didn't want to believe Him. You see? And in the Gentile age, we haven't
had a prophet since Paul. And it's so hard for them to see it. I just thought I'd pass this comment, and
you give it way--ever way you want to place it in there, I... It might be just
a little material for you. You understand, Brother Lee, what I'm trying to
mean? We're enjoying this so much as
we read it, and we think it's wonderful.
Thank you very
much, Brother Lee.
65 GOING BEYOND THE CAMP 64-0719E Now, we find
out that in this wilderness... We notice when they tooken--taken their stand
and come out of Egypt into God's camp, come out of the camp of the priest and
all them saying, "Settle yourself; we're slaves for the rest of the
time."... When Moses the prophet came down and vindicated the Word of God
was at hand, that God Who made the promise was there to deliver the people,
they moved from the camp that they were in into the camp of God's promised Word
of the hour. They believed that prophet, because the sign of vindication was
proving that it was exactly the Word of God. And the things he did proved that
it was right, and the Pillar of Fire followed him along, proved that it was the
Word of God.
100 GOING BEYOND THE CAMP 64-0719E Now, we find Him again in this day as the
Bible said He would: put out the camp. For He ever remains the same, the Word,
same yesterday, today, and forever.
They--they don't want Him. They rejected Him again with their council.
They would prefer today like they did then when He was on trial... And today
when the Word is on trial, what's happened? They have rejected again like they
did then and accepted a Barabbas, a murderer, instead of Christ. The council
would do the same thing. And today because they have rejected the Word and the
perfect vindication of the hour, they have sold out and preferred a Barabbas,
the World Council of Churches, a murderer of the Word.
85 BROKEN CISTERNS 64-0726E But He always helped them. The murmuring at
the Red Sea. Then when they murmured... Yet in all that He had promised, made
them a promise. He should've turned them back right there, the way we'd look at
it, but He'd promised to take them over there. What did He do? Them children of
Israel, He furnished them the Pillar of Fire and everything for a vindication,
their prophet.
1005-56 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 64-0823E I Corinthians 13
says this: "When that which is perfect is come, that which is in part
shall be done away with." So all these little things of jumping
up-and-down like a kid, trying to talk in tongues, and all these other things,
when that which is perfect... And we do have today, by God's help, the
perfect interpretation of the Word with Divine vindication. Then that which
is in part is done away with. "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I
understood as a child; but when I become a man, I put away childish
things." Amen. I go to preaching and then don't get to these things.
34 WHY IT HAD TO BE SHEPHERDS 64-1221 Trained to believe His Word, and then when
His Word was vindicated before their very eyes, they denied the Word that was
made vindication. When God proved what He would do, and said what He would do,
and proved what He would do, then they turned around and called this Man an
evil spirit, which cursed them all. Think of what taken place. Think of what
caused them; their training caused them not to recognize the very Word made
flesh for their day. The very training that they had in their schools, with the
very best of teachers... And you say,
"Well, we wouldn't do that today." Their teachers were far supreme to
ours today--superior, rather, to our teachers, and they failed. They didn't
have nine hundred and ninety-six different organizations as we have today. They
had about three. And in the three, follow down to three, and none of the three
recognized It. Just goes to show that what man does is foolishness to God. See?
40 WHY IT HAD TO BE SHEPHERDS 64-1221 Now, when God
says He'll do a thing, He did it. Regardless of what anybody else thinks about
it, what anybody says, when God speaks of something, He's duty bound to
interpret that Word Himself. And His vindication of the Word is His own interpretation.
Notice, vindicating His Messiah's message. He promised what the Messiah would
do when He come. And when He came...
53 SEED OF DISCREPANCY 65-0118 Along come
Moses the great prophet to bring the children of Israel up out of the
wilderness. What happened? Moses the great prophet of God, bringing them the
absolutely Truth, vindicated Truth... He had met God. God proved that he had
met Him. How those people back there, those priests, and they had their
religions, their rituals, and rights and everything, but Moses stood as a
vindication of the interpretation of the Word. Don't forget that. Moses was
God's interpretation of His promise. He said He would do it; He was God's
interpretation.
198 GOD
WHO IS RICH IN MERCY 65-0119 So we pray, heavenly Father, tonight, that as
these sick people, crippled, blind, lame, cancer-ridden, whatever it might be,
that passes through this line, may they realize that the very God that knows
the secret of the heart will heal them, if they will just only accept it, only
look and understand. The man that
looked upon the brass serpent just as a priest's piece of brass, he never would
be healed, because he didn't have understanding of what it was. And today,
Lord, the same. If they look upon a gift, to think of it might be able to help
them, they don't have understanding. It's only vindication of the Presence of
God that's here to heal. Grant it, Father. May it be done, in Jesus' Name.
Amen.
89 LEAN NOT UNTO THY OWN UNDERSTANDING 65-0120 Why were
these Pharisees blind? What made them so blind? Because they would not
accept revelation or vindication of the Word. And that's the reason today that
the churches are blind, is because they won't accept revelation that's being
vindicated. If the Word says so, and it's revealed, and then it's proven,
still they won't accept It.
96 LEAN NOT UNTO THY OWN UNDERSTANDING
65-0120 They would not accept it,
because they would not accept vindication. Jesus come with a--a Gospel,
just exactly the way He said He would come. Even many times...
178 BROKEN CISTERNS 65-0123
Let me say: that same God that was in the days gone by, that we speak so much
of, He's present here now; not by some theological understanding, but by a
personal knowledge of His vindication that He'd pour out in this last days the
Holy Spirit upon His church. He is not an "I was." He is still the
"I AM," present tense, always.
3-2 RISING
OF THE SUN 65-0418M
Well, if you'll turn the picture like this and look (and you can probably see
it from the audience), it's Christ. See His eyes looking here just as perfect
as it could be, wearing the white wig of supreme Deity and Judge of all heavens
and earth? Can you see His eyes, nose, His mouth? Just turn the picture from
this (the way they had it), this a-way, the way it's supposed to be. And you...
Can you see it? He is supreme Judge; there's none other but Him. And that is a
perfect identification again, a vindication that this Message is the truth. It
is true. And making Him, not a third person, but the only Person with the
white... See, you see the dark, His
face, His beard, and His eyes? And notice, He's looking; from Him comes this
Light shining on the right-hand side to which He's looking to. And on the cross
that's where He looked, to the right, where He pardoned the sinner. In the
light of His resurrection we still go forth in His Name.
102 DOES
GOD CHANGE HIS MIND 65-0418E
Now, Lot's group here, or Moab was Lot's daughter's child, illegitimate to
start with. Now, notice, as the natural church, Moab, represents the natural
denomination, Israel represents the spiritual church. Israel, the--the church
true, was the bride of that day, called out of Egypt and vindicated to be the
truth. Notice when they--them two come
together. Both of them offered the same sacrifice, both built saw--seven
altars; both offered up clean sacrifice--ox. And they even offered up rams,
testifying that there was a coming Messiah. Fundamentally, they were both
exactly the same: Israel down here in the valley, Moab up on the hill; and Moab
with seven altars, Israel with seven altars; Moab with seven ox, Israel with
seven ox; Moab with seven rams, speaking of the coming Messiah, Israel with
seven rams. What was the difference in them? Fundamentally, both right. But you
see, Moab did not have the vindication of God with them. They were only a
nation, a group of celebrities, but Israel had a prophet with them. They had a
smitten rock with them. They had a Pillar of Fire. They had a brass serpent for
healing. They had the blessings of God moving right along with them. And they
was the called out children of God.
180 I
HAVE HEARD BUT NOW I SEE 65-1127E Like if you was pouring--taking a match and striking it, if the match
hasn't got the sulfur right on the head of the match, it cannot strike. And you
can rake and rake and rake, but if some chemical has killed the sulfur on
there, it will not strike, there'll be no light. But if that chemical, the
sulfur to strike against the metal will--it's still on there when it strikes,
it'll light. And when the true,
genuine vindication of the Scriptures of this last-day Message, and you see the
Presence of Jesus Christ, that you had heard what He done in His life, and
hearing the Scriptures say He's the same yesterday, today and forever; and just
before the Sodom condition is fired-over with the wrath of God, see Jesus
return amongst His people, formed in human flesh, and do the same thing He
done, my. It ought to spark our souls to glory. It ought to do something to us.
Why? It's dropping on that.
242 I
HAVE HEARD BUT NOW I SEE 65-1127E Oh. Oh. What... Wonderful. And the Blood of the Lamb has
washed away every doubt. We believe His Word, emphatically. We believe that the
Word was made flesh. And we believe the Word is made flesh by the vindication
of His Presence now to confirm His Word. Do you believe it? God bless you.
233 GOD'S ONLY PROVIDED PLACE OF WORSHIP 65-1128M
My action, and the vindication of God's Word in my life shows whether I'm a
child of God or not.
107 RAPTURE
THE 65-1204 And everybody
wanted Him in his church, but when He set down one day and said, "I and My
Father are One," that was different. That was different. That was
different. "And except you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink His
Blood, you have no life in you." "Why, he's a vampire." See,
see? That was different. He didn't explain it. They'd already seen the
manifestation, the a-vindication of the Word of God for His age made real and
proved to them that He was that Messenger of that age. And He didn't have to
explain nothing. Those disciples
might not have been able to explain it, but they believed it whether they could
explain it or not. They set right still and believed it. How could they tell if
they was going to eat His flesh and drink His Blood? Why, it was impossible for
them to do it, but they believed it, because they were ordained. Jesus said He
chose them before the foundation of the world. See? They believed it. Whether
they could explain it or not, they still believed it.
62 MODERN EVENTS MADE CLEAR BY PROPHECY
65-1206 But as it's been in every age,
people let men put their own interpretation to It by theology, and will not
believe God's Divine vindication of It. That's God's interpretation; not
what I say, what somebody else says. But what God has promised and what God
does, proves that it's God doing His own interpreting of His Word.
E-73
INFALLIBILITY OF GOD'S
WORD 56-0404 If He will do the same thing, will each one
of you all... Be careful. Will you raise your hands and say, "I will
accept it and every promise that He made right now if He will do it." Will
you raise your hand? God bless you. I believe you meant that.
Dad, you're in a
wheelchair; I know you're crippled. Here's a woman setting here crippled.
There's others here that's crippled. I have no way... I have no way; I don't
know you; I don't know nothing about you. But let the Lord Jesus show me a
vision right here now. If He will, then you know I've told you the truth and
the Bible that I preach is the truth. This is the truth. God's obligated to vindicate
His truth. What has He done? He's poured out His Spirit in the last days. He
said, "I'll send these things to a vindicate the truth."
E-16
JEHOVAH JIREH 58-0127
And I said, "But as far as the visions, that's a gift; that's not in
question." I said, "If I speak the Truth, God's obligated to
vindicate the Truth." And no more than I'd said that, here come that
Pillar of Fire, whirling from the air, before thirty thousand people, come down
like that.
E-103
CONVINCED THEN CONCERNED 62-0118
One night, or one of the breakfasts somewhere... I want to tell you something
happened just a few weeks ago. Since losing my mother, and praying, going into the
woods, and putting on just insulated underwear to get into the cave in the
wintertime, as it zero weather out there and out there for days after day, and
night after night, living before God, till He came down and spoke to me. Yes,
sir. And sure that I was positive it must be. I got to be sure of what I'm
talking about, because I've got souls that believe in me. And I got souls that
believe that I'm telling them the truth, that God sent me, and God's obligated
to stand behind His Word and back that up. And He'll do it. Yes, sir. If He
sends you, He'll vindicate that He sent you. Just exactly. Amen. I believe
that, don't you? Amen.
E-106
ACCEPTING GOD'S PROVIDED
WAY 63-0115 How many of
you that's sick, and knows that I do not know you, raise up your hands, that
knows that I know nothing about you, raise up your hand. All right. You just
have faith now and believe. Now, if I
have told you the truth, God is obligated to vindicate that word to be the
truth. Is that right? It's right. Now, that will be the provided way then,
according to what I've said tonight. That's God's provided way to tell you this
is the truth, because anybody knows that it's totally impossible. It'd be a
miracle that science cannot explain. You can't explain a miracle. It's beyond
explaining.
238 EVENING MESSENGER 63-0116 Like it was in the days of Noah, there won't be too many of them
saved, because Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Noah." Do you
know that? "As it was in the days of Lot (Count them.), so shall it be.
Heavens and earth will pass away, but My Word will not." See what I mean?
Oh, brother, we better take inventory; it might be really later than we think.
Might be we'd wake up someday and see that we've missed something. Be careful.
Watch, pray, search, seek; don't let It pass over you. And remember, when God's
Word is preached, God's obligated to that Word and will vindicate It.
177 HARVEST TIME 64-1212 Watch now as we hurry up through. "When the Spirit
of Truth is come, He will teach you all things, whatever I taught you,"
oh, my, "bearing all remembrance to you, what I've said to you, bringing
to you, all remembrance. And He will show you things to come. He will
vindicate every Word, confirming the Word with signs following."
Everything that He promised, that God promised in the Bible, if you'll turn
loose from every creed and everything else, and hold onto the Word, God is
obligated to take care of His Word. And so when they did this, the Word
vindicates Itself.
31-5 THIS
DAY THIS SCRIPTURE 65-0219
Now, to preach it... As I said awhile ago, if you preach anything and it's
the Gospel Truth, then God's obligated to vindicate that. Is that true?
Now, if that be so, let the God that wrote the Word, let the God that made the
prophecy, let the God Who is God of the Word come forth and prove that He's
still God.
101 EVENTS
MADE CLEAR BY PROPHECY 65-0801E
How he knowed where he was
standing. He knowed exactly. He'd heard from God, and it was exactly with the
Word, so he didn't care what people said. He preached It and prophesied It
anyhow. And watch, when a man stands for what is Truth, then God's obligated
to vindicate that man the truth.