Brother Branham is still in the suburbs of Los Angeles, now at the Orange Show Auditorium in San Bernardino for the Monday evening service.
13 And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs.
14 And they talked together of all these things which had happened.
15 And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them.
16 But their eyes were holden that they should not know him.
17 And he said unto them, What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad?
18 And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days?
19 And he said unto them, What things? And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people:
20 And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him.
21 But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done.
22 Yea, and certain women also of our company made us astonished, which were early at the sepulchre;
23 And when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said that he was alive.
24 And certain of them which were with us went to the sepulchre, and found it even so as the women had said: but him they saw not.
25 Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:
26 Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?
27 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
This is a horrible time, but it’s the most glorious time in the world, to preach the Gospel. If I could’ve stood on the brink of time before it come into existence, and the Father would have looked at me, and said, “What time down through these ages would you want to preach?” I’d want it right now, that’s right, just before His Coming.
The same as He blinded them back there for the purpose of getting His Message through to the elected people, He’s promised to do the same thing today.
We’re not living in a Pentecostal age, we’re living in another age. See, we’re not living in a Methodist age, we’re living in another age. We’re living on up here to the Bride age, the calling out of the Church and getting It together for the Rapture. That’s the age that we’re now living.
And you can be ever so sincere; but, until we know what we’re doing, you’re fighting at the air. Come back into the Word of God and get lined up, and then go; then you know.
That’s right, the Word always comes to His prophet. So we can’t expect It to come to theologians. We can’t expect It to come to denominations. It’s got to come God’s channel route that He foretold us about, and that’s the only way It’ll ever come.
So now you’re made a creature, a son of God, manifested son or daughter of God to meet the challenge of this hour to vindicate the true and living God of this hour, the Message that’s coming forth in this time.
That’s the only thing you have to do, is make one jump to your feet, one jump to God, one promise, “Lord Jesus, I believe You with all my heart. I believe the Message of the hour. I see It confirmed, and I know It’s right.” Jump to your feet, Mama will catch you. Don’t worry, you’re an eagle, she’ll be right there to get you.
Remember, in that spirit you can be baptized with the genuine Spirit of God and still be lost. It’s the soul that lives, that was ordained of God.
Christ is the Bridegroom, the Church is the Bride, and the Bride is a part of the Bridegroom. It’ll have to be a Word Church, not a denominational church. It’ll be the Word Church, the Word that’s made known, and by the vindicated Word of God.
Every one of them eat the same thing, they all danced in the Spirit, they all had everything in common; but when it come to the separated time, the Word done the separating. So is it today! The Word done the separating!
The believer can see the Word made flesh; the others cannot do it.
“Well, Caiaphas knowed the Word too!” But not the Word for that age. He had the word of what the Pharisees had poked into him, but not the vindicated Word of the hour.
And a genuine Christian that’s born of the Holy Ghost and filled with God’s power and Word, he knows who his father is, who his mother is, who his grandfather, grandmother was, he knows all about It. You can teach him something.
Abraham called Him, “Lord,” capital L-o-r-d. Any reader of the Bible knows that that capital L-o-r-d is Elohim. “In the beginning God,” Lord God, Elohim, the all-sufficient One. Abraham called Him, “Lord God, Elohim.”
But there will come on this earth, by God’s promise, a genuine servant of God, identified by God (by His Word being the answer of this day), that’ll set the Bride in order (a real little minority of the church) and take it up. That’s right! He’ll introduce, “Behold, there’s the One I talked about, see, that’ll come.”
But the prophet said, “It shall be Light again about the evening time. The Son will peep out again, it shall be Light.” What? The same Son (S-o-n) that was revealed in flesh at the morning time, back there, will be revealed again in the evening time.
It’s God confirming His Words exactly, exactly. The Rock is smitten, friends, flee to It as quick as you can. Prophecy is vindicating the day that we are living in.
This is not the day of Pentecost. The Pentecostal age is past. Pentecost is gone, this is harvest time. See? And the harvest time, the grain; the water’s done been poured out, the grain’s getting ripe. Come into the grain, my dear brother. Hear me, believe me, if you believe me to be a servant of God, let each one, in our own way, bow our head in humility and offer the prayer that we—that we know that we should offer, "God, take me as I am."