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BEFORE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST.MESSAGE OF HOLINESS IN RELATION TO CHRIST’S COMING
“In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea,
And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight
Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan, And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to [our] father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.” (Matthew 3:1-10).
“Follow peace with all [men], and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.” (Hebrews 12:14).
We are the generation, that have witnessed the fulfillment of Malachi 4:5-6, where it is written “For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, 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…”, and verses 5 and 6 said “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD.” And we firmly believe that that scripture of Malachi 4 was fulfilled in the man called William Branham, God’s servant and prophet that was thoroughly avindicated by signs, wonders and miracles, as no other prophet was vindicated in human history, outside of our Lord Jesus Christ. John the Baptist was the first forerunner of the Lord’s Coming, and we believe that William Branham, God’s servant and prophet, is the second forerunner. This was clearly stated by an audible Voice from heaven at the banks of the Ohio River in United States.
The ministry of Elijah the prophet that was sent to us, William Branham, was typed out in the ministry of John the Baptist. Malachi 4 represents the prophet of this end-time and he was to come before the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. John the Baptist is represented in Malachi 3 and he was sent before the First Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Both the message of Brother Branham and the message of John the Baptist were two fold.
I want you to think on that. “And what are these two folds preacher?” The two folds of the message of both Brother Branham and John the Baptist were, number one: to preach a holiness message to the people, and the second fold of that message of each one of these prophets was: to introduce the Messiah. Oh this is so wonderful. The message of John the Baptist, which is a type of the message of William Branham, was two-fold. The first fold of the message is a holiness message and the second part of the message was the introduction of the Messiah. I believe that both prophets fulfilled their commission to the letter. The message that I am embarking upon on these subjects is the holiness message, not so much the introduction of the Messiah; I am embarking upon this holiness message to show you the purpose of this holiness message, the necessity of it, the importance of this holiness message. And I will stir up your pure minds right now, the purpose and the necessity of that holiness message are all summed up in Hebrews 12:14 “And without holiness no man no man shall see the Lord”. It is also spoken of in Matthew 5: “Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God.” Before you can see God manifested in human flesh revealed as the Son of Man, your heart must become pure. Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God.
You cannot see God on this earth outside of Him veiled in human form, for no man hath seen God and live. The message of holiness sent to us today had the same purpose that John the Baptist’s message had. It is written in Luke 1:17 by the prophesy of Zechariah his father, “and he shall go forth in the spirit and the power of Elias to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children”, and it went on to say, “…to turn them to the wisdom of the just, and to make ready a people for the Lord”. The purpose of the holiness message that was sent today was to prepare the people for the Coming of the Lord. If you miss the holiness message, and fail to apply the holiness message in your life, you will miss the Lord. That is how important it is. This message today was necessary, this holiness message, as the first part of the message of Elijah the prophet was necessary, even because in the Laodicean age, the church put Christ outside of the door, and they were blind, wretched, miserable, naked, and they did not even know it. That is why this message of holiness was necessary in the days of John the Baptist; the church had gone away from holiness standards. They went away from the laws of Moses. They went away from Jehovah God; and whenever the church comes to that condition of rejecting God, getting away from holiness standards, it’s about time that God send a prophet, and God send a messenger. God hid him away in the wilderness because his Holiness Message was so important, because if people missed that holiness message they would miss the Lord. So God chose this John the Baptist from the age of nine. He went away into the wilderness. Then at the right time the Word of the Lord came unto John the Baptist. He did not fool with women, he did not drink alcohol, and he did not smoke cigarettes.
It was the same calling of William Branham at the age of seven, not nine but seven; and at the age of seven God called William Branham and warned him about smoking, drinking and immoral women, because his message of holiness was so important that God had to send a holy man, called William Branham, to bring a holiness message. He had to send a correct example of holiness, a correct example of righteousness, and a correct example of purifying himself from the things of the world. It is directly like John the Baptist. And our prophet never smoked a cigarette in his life. He never lived in adultery or in other sexual immoralities, and he never smoked one cigarette. There was an Angel protecting him. His mission was so very important.
So, this Holiness Message that came today, like it came by John the Baptist, the purpose of this was to prepare a people. Without that Holiness Message you would miss the Messiah. Look at the Scriptures, brethren, that we just read in Matthew 3, and look at the nature of that first message that John the Baptist preached. He preached repentance: for the Kingdom of God is at hand. He came baptizing in correct water baptism; just what the Bible said, “to make a people prepared for the Lord.” Now what was it? He was preparing these people, and if the Messiah had come before that preparation of the heart, the mind, the spirit, everybody would miss the Messiah. But the Lord in His great wisdom and in His great plan, sent forth His prophet, and the first part of the Message of that prophet was a Holiness Message, because it is written, “without holiness no man shall see the Lord”. If people were hoping to see the Messiah in that day, they had to come up to standard. They had to come up to the standard of the Holiness Message.
So, this Holiness Message was a great foundation and one of the greatest foundations to actually get a Revelation of the Messiah. So, Brother Branham came into the world today and his first message was a Holiness Message like John the Baptist, and that was a solid foundation. This solid foundation of a Holiness Message started with repentance. “Repent ye, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.” He baptized them for the remission of their sins. He rebuked the priests and the clergymen, and he demanded that they bring forth fruits worthy of repentance. In other words, he wanted to see holiness established in their lives. Just not say, “I am baptized in Christian baptism or I repent.” He wanted to see that this Holiness Message that he was preaching was lived out in the lives of the priests that were going to repent. He said therefore, “bring forth fruits therefore worthy of repentance.” Was it a holiness message? Then the soldiers came to him and asked him, “What shall we do?” He said, “Be contented with your wages.” Holiness message. He said, “if you have two cloaks give another to a next man.” Holiness, righteousness. What was John the Baptist doing in those six months of his ministry? What was he doing? He was preparing the people to meet the Lord. He was making a people ready to meet the Messiah. By what? A Holiness Message. A holiness message, preparing the hearts of the people.
It is the same thing today, that when this man of God, William Branham, when God sent him upon the face of the earth today, he came with a Holiness Message. He was baptizing correctly, he was bringing the people out of organizations. He was preparing their hearts for something, and that was to introduce the Messiah to them a little later.
Now these holiness standards are of absolute necessity. Why is it of such importance? Why is it an absolute necessity, these holiness standards? Why is it? Because this Holiness Message, establishing holiness standards, is God’s plan and program to prepare the hearts of His people that they might recognize the Messiah, by Divine Revelation, when He comes. You cannot live in sin, live contrary to the Holiness Message that was sent to us. You cannot preach contrary to the Holiness Message, and establish that in the church and establish that in your lives and hope to have a Revelation of the Messiah. This is God’s standard, this is God’s plan, and this is God’s program. This is God’s program to prepare the hearts of mankind, and His plan involves the Spirit of Elijah to come with that Holiness Message. It happened before His First Coming and it happened again today. I am confident that Brother Branham did introduce the Messiah to the Church of the Living God before his departure from this world, and we sincerely believe that that happened at the Opening of the Seals. And I boldly make this statement that it is a total impossibility, to see by Revelation, Jesus Christ in His Second Coming without having the holiness standards established in your lives. The Holiness Message was the program, it was the standard, and it was the plan of Almighty God for the people to recognize the Messiah by Divine Revelation when He came the first time, and the reason that God sent a prophet today called William Branham, that started to bring a Holiness Message throughout the land of America and later, throughout the World, is that they might see and understand the Coming of the Lord.
Now we want to get that straight brethren. There are two folds of Brother Branham’s Message, Elijah. It was a Holiness Message, and that Holiness message was preparing the hearts of the people to identify the Coming of the Messiah. You cannot bypass that Holiness Message and claim to have a Revelation of the Messiah and the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, because that Holiness Message is first, then the introduction of the Messiah, and the Holiness Message had a purpose, and that was to prepare the hearts of the people to recognize the Messiah when He came back there, and it has the same purpose today. Yes, the Holiness Message of Brother Branham was that the people’s hearts would be prepared to see the Messiah when He came today, and He did come at the Opening of the Seals.
Now you fight up with that. Go question Brother Branham. My mission is “Message of Holiness in relation to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.” For any human being to change the Holiness Message of Brother Branham, pervert it, modify, ignore, bypass, compromise, disbelieve, fail to practice and teach men so, is to miss the Coming of Christ. For any man to change this Message of Holiness according to the revealed purpose that I just disclosed to you, is for that preacher, that man, that woman, whoever they are, to miss the Coming of the Lord. He is revealed as Son of Man. It is a total impossibility for any man to bypass the Holiness Message and yet claim to have a Revelation of Christ, yet claim to be preaching the Seven Thunders, because the Coming of Christ is under the Seven Thunders. It’s a total impossibility. Any man that is preaching the Thunders would magnify the Holiness Message, because in order for that preacher to preach the people into a Revelation of the Coming Messiah, he must have their hearts prepared by the Holiness Message. Therefore, he would highlight the Holiness Message in order for the people to receive a Revelation of the Messiah. A true Servant of God today would not change the Holiness Message, he would not pervert the Holiness Message, he would not modify it, he would not ignore, he would not bypass, he would not compromise, he would not disbelieve, he would not fail to practice, and teach men so. Any man that is doing that has missed the Coming of the Lord, and his claims of having a Revelation of the Son of Man is false. His claim of Seven Thunders is a lie. Both must go together. The Holiness Message is first and the Coming of the Lord is next, and the Seven Thunders holds the Coming of the Lord.
The Holiness Message was sent to the elected Bride in the end time to prepare her heart for the Revelation of the Seven Thunders. Any man that claims seven thunders, which holds the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, and does not practice holiness and establish holiness in his congregation, is a false prophet. He is a liar and anointed by the spirit of antichrist. This Holiness Message was sent by the Ministry of Elijah, to prepare the people of God to see by Divine Revelation, the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, and I make this statement boldly, that “it is unchangeable.” The Holiness Message of William Branham is unchangeable. I don’t care who you are, how much Revelation you claim, how friendly you were with the prophet, what son, what daughter, what brother, what sister that you were to the prophet of God, you have no authority to change the holiness message, on the basis of Galatians1: 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 try to change the holiness message of William Branham, my brother, let him be accursed. It is unchangeable.
Oh beloved, I hope that you are getting this. This is a simple message. I am saying that the holiness message is first, then you could see the Messiah. You cannot bypass that holiness message, pervert it, modify it, change or corrupt it and claim to have a revelation of the Messiah at the same time. You are deceived of the devil and anointed by the spirit of antichrist! The example of what I just established is in history at the First Coming of Jesus. God sent a John the Baptist to bring back the Church to holiness standards, some took heed to him and the majority did not take heed to his holiness message. Those that refused to take heed to the holiness message of John the Baptist, missed the Messiah. They were too great in their organizations. They were too great a Pharisee and Scribe. They were too learned in that time to hear a wild man from the forest. They rejected his holiness message and they failed to see the Messiah.
When they missed the Messiah, they persecuted Him as Beelzebub, prince of the devils. If they had heeded his Holiness Message, they would recognize Him to be the Messiah, but they said, “Thou art Beelzebub, prince of the devils”, even because they rejected the Holiness Message. That was the warning that John the Baptist gave them at the Jordan, when he saw the Scribes and the Pharisees came to him. He said, “Who warned you to flee from the wrath of God to come, bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance. And don’t begin to say that you belong to Abraham.” Yes. They did not heed that warning, and because they did not heed the Message of John the Baptist to them at the banks of Jordan, when the Messiah did come and John the Baptist did introduce the Messiah, those that were ready recognized the Messiah and they followed Him. Yes. They knew that He was veiled in human flesh, revealed as the Son of Man. They recognized Him by Divine Revelation. Many other eyes had seen Him. Thousands of eyes saw Him, but looking at Him with your natural eyes does not give you understanding. You’ve got to understand the Second Coming of the Lord by Divine Revelation. Yes. That is why thousands stood there but only a handful followed Him, because you’ve got to understand the Second Coming of Christ by Divine Revelation.
Those that fail to heed the Holiness Message of William Branham, as John the Baptist’s message, would not have a Revelation of the Second Coming of Christ. All those Pharisees did not heed the Message of John the Baptist, and when the Messiah did come, they called Him Beelzebub. They will do the same today; they will persecute the people with the Word of God. They will persecute the Ministry of the Son of Man. They will persecute the Ministry of the Christ, which is the Revealed Word of God, which is the Son of Man. And as that bunch of people back there missed it, they are going to miss it again. Yes.
What did they do with the Messiah when they missed Him, when they rejected the Holiness Message, when they persecuted Him and when they called Him “Beelzebub”? What did they do? They crucified Him. Why? Their own Messiah that they looked for, for four thousand years since the Garden of Eden. How did they manage to crucify Him? Because they rejected the Holiness Message of John the Baptist. God in His mercy sent forth the Elijah Spirit to prepare a people for the Lord, and they did not heed that warning. They knew too much. By the time John the Baptist came there, they knew too much, so they crucified the Messiah.
Likewise, William Branham was sent to a rebellious house. He was sent to a rebellious nation. The nation was America. Intellectual giants. Big brains. Smart. I want you to see the job that William Branham had and how tough that job was. William Branham was sent to a rebellious house. He was sent to a rebellious nation, United States, and he was sent to a rebellious generation. A generation like unto the days of Noah, combined with a generation of Sodom and Gomorrah. Can you see the work of this man called William Branham? Can you see the labors of this man that was anointed by the Spirit of Elijah? He was not only sent to one nation like John the Baptist. He was sent to a nation most rebellious. He was sent to a generation as world prophet. He was sent to a generation of unholy people, a generation of godless people, a generation of perverted people, immoral, perverted, sick. Sexually immoral. A wicked and
adulterous generation. Can you evaluate the job that this man had as one man
against the whole world?
Now, there was one time God called a prophet to send him to a small nation. He said, “Ezekiel, I am sending you to a rebellious house, and the only way that I could send you to a rebellious house is to make your forehead harder than flint, and as adamant is harder than flint so I have made thy forehead, to send you to a rebellious house called Israel.” If God had to specially anoint Ezekiel and give him a forehead harder than flint, which means, God invested courage, stamina, boldness and bravery into the life of Ezekiel, He blessed him with heroism; so did He to William Branham to face this rebellious generation. Brother Branham was a hero of heroes. His forehead was harder than flint and harder than adamant to face this rebellious generation, to face a rebellious church, to face rebellious people. Just two or three rebellious people in a congregation is a hard thing for a minister, much more for a human being to stand up and face billions of people around the world, face the whole religious world, and face all the intellectual giants behind the pulpits. God had to specially prepare Elijah the prophet. I thank God for Elijah the prophet. God anointed William Branham with courage, with stamina, with boldness. He anointed him with heroism. He anointed him with bravery. He anointed him by the Spirit of Elijah. He alone against the whole world. He was a hero of heroes. I love that prophet. Oh, beloved let us try to evaluate the courage of that man. It was a supernatural courage. It was a supernatural bravery. It was a supernatural Spirit upon that man to face all the kings and all the monarchs and all the nations and to face all the sex perverts in Sodom and Gomorrah. To come against all the sexual vices of Sodom and Gomorrah. To face a nation like America and face that Hollywood spirit. God had to be with William Branham. This further proves that he was truly the Elijah that was sent with a Holiness Message to prepare a people for the Lord.
William Branham preached against unholiness as none other in human history. He preached against unholiness more than any preacher in the pages of the Bible. There is no record of any preacher, or any prophet, or any priest that have come against the vileness and the wickedness and the sinfulness and the perversions of mankind like the man called William Branham. Why? He lived in that age where sin had heaped up to the skies, from Genesis in the Garden of Eden to the climax and the termination of world’s history in our age. Sin has heaped up to the skies. Things that other generations never dreamt about, never imagined, far as wickedness goes and sinfulness goes, are all heaped up in this generation. No wonder why God has to burn it. The proudest generation that ever lived upon the face of the earth is this generation. “...and all the proud, yea, 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; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet.” Let us maintain this holiness standard.
He rebuked, chastened and condemned the wrong acting of men and women from the pulpit to the bedchamber. He truly had the Spirit of Elijah,
and that Elijah Spirit feared no man, that he walked right up to the King in the presence of Herodias and said, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.” He lost his head for it, but he is in Glory tonight. That’s the nature of the Spirit of Elijah. They fear not king, he feared not monarchs, he feared not great intellectuals. No. Called sin, sin; black, black; white, white. Don’t you think that Spirit is supposed to fall upon the believers of this message? Don’t you think, my brother, that since the days of William Branham, from 1965, that sin has grown? And don’t you think that there are sins upon the face of the earth that were never even heard of by William Branham nor condemned by William Branham? How much the End-time Bride should be anointed. No wonder why the End-time Bride must come under the Lion’s anointing and roar. He rebuked, he chastened and he condemned the wrong acting of men and women from the pulpit to the bedchamber. That is what you’ll be hearing on the rest of these messages: his teachings, his condemnations, his rebukes, his chastisement of the vices of Sodom. The dressing of Sodom, the sports of Sodom, the wickedness of Sodom. You’ll be hearing it by his own words, by his own teaching, confirmed by the Scriptures. He restored the Holiness Message. He preached and established the holiness message in his lifetime. He established standards, even as the Apostle Paul, even as the Apostle Peter and the rest of the Apostles. He built upon the same foundation. And we are built upon the foundation of the Apostles, Jesus Christ the Chief Cornerstone. What a man! No wonder why men worshipped him, which was unscriptural; and we don’t worship William Branham, we worship God.
Why would the Prophet of God be so fearless to present a Holiness message? Why would he be so urgent in contending with women, contending with Hollywood, contending with America? Why would he be so urgent? Brother Branham knew what I am teaching you here tonight, and that is: Without holiness no man would recognize the Second Coming of Christ by Divine revelation. He knew his mission, he knew his purpose. John the Baptist knew his mission, he knew his purpose. Yes. He came to prepare a people to recognize the Coming of Jesus Christ, and Brother Branham likewise knew his mission. That is why he put his life in his hands to establish that message. Is it a small thing to tear down the Holiness message that Brother Branham established? That is to spit in the face of Elijah the Prophet, and to spit upon all his labors. This generation will account for it.
Brother Branham knew, without a shadow of doubt, that without holiness no man will have a revelation of the Son of man. He knew very well that they could not have a revelation of the Coming of Christ. He knew very well they could not have the Gifts of the Spirit; they could not have another outpouring until that Holiness message was established in the church and the people’s lives. Why did John the Baptist say, “Repent, for the Kingdom of God is at hand?” The Kingdom of God is the outpouring of the Holy Ghost. In other words, he was saying, clean up your lives, make your lives ready, be established in the Holiness message, otherwise you would not get the out-pouring, you will not see the Coming of Christ. There is no human being that could by-pass the message of Holiness, every iota of it! Every jot and every title of the Bible! Every holiness standard that was set by William Branham! There isn’t any human being could by-pass that. It doesn’t matter how close you were to the Prophet. You could be his wife, you could be his son, you could be his daughter, you could be who you are, you must obey the holiness message, otherwise you are lost. He knew that without holiness no man could see the Lord. He knew that they could not have gifts. The great intellectuals came to him. They said, “Brother Branham, why don’t you leave those women alone?” He said, “Instead of crying down on the women’s dress and all these other things, why don’t you teach them to have Gifts of the Spirit?” Elijah said that if they do not know their ABC, how could they learn Algebra? So the ABC was the Holiness message, which you must be established in first, before you have the outpouring of the Holy Spirit and before the gifts are manifested.
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