7.27.2014
Broken Cisterns

This is the evening service at the Branham Tabernacle. Brother Branham titles his message, “Broken Cisterns.” If you’ve never seen a cistern, they are usually used for watering livestock or watering gardens. The water falls on the roof of the house or barn, then through the gutters, and eventually into large tank, where it sits stagnant. Everything from dead rats to aquatic bugs can be found in a typical cistern.

The prophet makes a perfect parable of how the world drinks from these cisterns, and scoffs at the Bride of Christ drinking from a cold, clear spring. As far as we are concerned, they can keep the dead bugs and wiggletails. We’ll keep eating angels’ Food and drinking from this fountain of pure artesian Water. It feels good to be a believer!

Here are a few highlights from “Broken Cisterns.”

12 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.

13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

Jeremiah 2:12-13

Some people might be under the impression that--that I think that Jesus is going to come in the morning or tonight. I do. Now, I don't say that He will.


A--a cistern is a--a place, a thing that's dug in the ground, to take the place of a well. Where people doesn't have a well, then they get a--a cistern. In other words, a cistern is a man-made tank or a man-made well in the ground, that man dig out, to catch the water, to--to use it.


Now, a cistern will get empty. The--the--the cistern cannot fill itself. It is--is... It's not reliable. You can't rely upon a cistern.


One of the great sins that the church has done today, just like Israel then, it left Him, the Fountain of living Water, and has hewed themselves out man-made cisterns. And it become a habitation of everything that loves that kind of water. Lizards, frogs, and all kinds of unclean germs, live in it, because it's a man-made tank. And in this tank these things stay, a perfect example of our denominationals today.


And that's the way it is with a lot of these parasites today. You can't live in the fresh water of the Holy Spirit. That's the reason they're so firmly against the Word, and say, "It contradicts Itself. There is nothing to It." Is because they have to have some kind of a stagnated pool to wiggle in.


So there is the genuine evidence of the Holy Ghost! He has never told me anything wrong yet. That, "It is the evidence of the Holy Ghost, is he who can believe the Word."


And He's always giving us a service. You know, we can't even breathe without Him. We can't breathe without God's service. That's how dependent we are on Him. And, yet, it almost breaks us in two if we try to do, have to do something for Him. He asks us to do something, go see somebody, go pray for somebody, go help somebody, it's almost breaks us up, to do it. But we don't want to do anything to Him for service.


If a person goes to a stagnated cistern to get a drink, when there's an artesian well open, you would say, "There is something wrong with that man's mind."


Any other thing, outside of Jesus Christ and His Word of Life, is a broken cistern.


I can be so ever so down, and feel that I can't hardly go no... another round, can't go nowhere else; then I can kneel down and put my finger on a promise, and say, "Lord God, Thou art my strength. Thou art my satisfaction. Thou art my all-in-all." I can begin to feel Something bubbling up from inside of me there. I come out of it.


I'm a stinker, I'm a renegade, every one of us are, but before God we are perfect. Je-... "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father in Heaven is perfect." How can you be? Because a perfect One represents us there. That Fountain is there every day, fresh. Not some stagnated something, but fresh every day, that washes away all my sins. He is that Fountain.


The inexhaustible Fountain of Life is Jesus Christ.


And that's the way it is with a Spirit-filled life. As Jesus said, He was in... See, He give you wells of water springing up unto everlasting Life, an artesian, overflowing gusher that's constantly flowing. Whether the rest of the church is up or down, you're still at that Well.


Always, Lord, let me be in His Presence, for there's no other I know. No creed, no love; no love but Christ, no creed but Christ, no book but the Bible, no anything else, no joy outside of Him.


Do you love one another? Is there anybody in here got anything against somebody else? If there is, go make it right. Will you? Let's not leave here like that. See? If you got an ought against anybody, you go make it right, right now. Right now is your opportunity to go over, say, "Brother, sister, I said something about you, I thought something. I didn't mean to do that. Forgive me." See, that's the way to do it. Let's have the Fountain right among us, all the time.


Oh, isn't He wonderful? No other fountain! We won't contaminate ourselves with other things. We have separated, left the world behind. We don't want no more of Egypt's garlics and broken cisterns. We are in the journey with the Lord Jesus, that smitten Rock, amen, eating Manna from Above, and drinking; eating angels' Food, and drinking from the Rock. Amen!

Brother Branham refers to the seven visions he had in 1933. Here is an excerpt from the Church Age Book, where he wrote what these visions were.

The Lord Jesus spoke to me and said that the coming of the Lord was drawing nigh, but that before He came, seven major events would transpire. I wrote them all down and that morning I gave forth the revelation of the Lord. The first vision was that Mussolini would invade Ethiopia and that nation would "fall at his steps". That vision surely did cause some repercussions, and some were very angry when I said it and would not believe it. But it happened that way. He just walked in there with his modern arms and took over. The natives didn't have a chance. But the vision also said that Mussolini would come to a horrible end with his own people turning on him. That came to pass just exactly as it was said.

The next vision foretold that an Austrian by the name of Adolph Hitler would rise up as dictator over Germany, and that he would draw the world into war. It showed the Siegfried line and how our troops would have a terrible time to overcome it. Then it showed that Hitler would come to a mysterious end.

The third vision was in the realm of world politics for it showed me that there would be three great ISMS, Facism, Nazism, Communism, but that the first two would be swallowed up into the third. The voice admonished, "WATCH RUSSIA, WATCH RUSSIA. Keep your eye on the King of the North.

The fourth vision showed the great advances in science that would come after the second world war. It was headed up in the vision of a plastic bubble-topped car that was running down beautiful highways under remote control so that people appeared seated in this car without a steering wheel and they were playing some sort of a game to amuse themselves.

The fifth vision had to do with the moral problem of our age, centering mostly around women. God showed me that women began to be out of their place with the granting of the vote. Then they cut off their hair, which signified that they were no longer under the authority of a man but insisted on either equal rights, or in most cases, more than equal rights. She adopted men's clothing and went into a state of undress, until the last picture I saw was a woman naked except for a little fig leaf type apron. With this vision I saw the terrible perversion and moral plight of the whole world.

Then in the sixth vision there arose up in America a most beautiful, but cruel woman. She held the people in her complete power. I believed that this was the rise of the Roman Catholic Church, though I knew it could possibly be a vision of some woman rising in great power in America due to a popular vote by women.

The last and seventh vision was wherein I heard a most terrible explosion. As I turned to look I saw nothing but debris, craters, and smoke all over the land of America.


DateTitleLang.PDFM4A
64-0726E Broken Cisterns

   

ENG
64-0726E Gebarste Reënbakke

   

AFR
64-0726E የተቀደዱ የውኃ ጉድጓዶች

   

AMH
64-0726E آبَارٌ مُشَقَّقَةٌ

   

ARA
64-0726E Mmura A Apaepae

   

AST
64-0726E Ifishima Ifyatobeka

   

BEM
64-0726E ভগ্ন কূপ

   

BEN
64-0726E Mga Atabay Nga Likian

   

CEB
64-0726E Zitsime Zong’aluka

   

CHA
64-0726E 破裂的池子

   

CHN
64-0726E Rezèvwa Ki Fann

   

CRE
64-0726E Visimi Vyakung’aruka

   

CTK
64-0726E Gebroken Waterbakken

   

DUT
64-0726E Isisterna Soophweeyasa

   

EMK
64-0726E Tsido Siwo Gɔme Ŋɔ

   

EWE
64-0726E Sitɛ́nu Gbigba Lɛ́ɛ

   

FON
64-0726E Des citernes crevassées

   

FRN
64-0726E حوض‌های شکسته

   

FRS
64-0726E Löchrige Zisternen

   

GER
64-0726E टूटे हुए हौद

   

HIN
64-0726E Kolam Yang Bocor

   

IND
64-0726E Cisterne Rotte

   

ITL
64-0726E Mishima Yalajika

   

KDE
64-0726E អាងទឹកដែលបែក

   

KHM
64-0726E Mabulu Ya Masa Ya Kutobuka

   

KNG
64-0726E 터진 웅덩이

   

KOR
64-0726E Amapĩpa Amalēndemùke

   

KYA
64-0726E Mabulu Matobwani

   

LIN
64-0726E Kiauri rezervuarai

   

LIT
64-0726E Masima Atibukile

   

LOZ
64-0726E Biinà Byà Mâyì Byelè Mitanta

   

LUA
64-0726E Ttanka Z’omu Ttaka Eziwomoggose

   

LUG
64-0726E Mashima Akutuvika

   

LVE
64-0726E Famorian-drano Mitriatriatra

   

MAG
64-0726E പൊട്ടക്കിണറുകൾ

   

MAL
64-0726E Kairaba Ising Tangkising

   

MAN
64-0726E AMatanka Amanzi Avuzayo

   

NDE
64-0726E फुटेका कुण्डहरु

   

NEP
64-0726E Sprukne Sisterner

   

NOR
64-0726E Didibana Tša Maitirelo

   

NST
64-0726E ଭଗ୍ନ ଜଳ ଧାର

   

ORI
64-0726E Omifima Da Mbonyoka

   

OSH
64-0726E Zepsute Cysterny

   

POL
64-0726E Cisternas Rotas

   

POR
64-0726E ਟੁੱਟੇ ਹੋਏ ਹੌਦ

   

PUN
64-0726E Cisterne Sparte

   

ROM
64-0726E Разбитые водоёмы

   

RUS
64-0726E Matangi Akatsemuka

   

SHO
64-0726E Cisternas Rotas

   

SPN
64-0726E Mamena A Ngamohileng

   

SST
64-0726E Imitfombo Levutako

   

SSW
64-0726E Mabirika Yavujayo

   

SWA
64-0726E Trasiga cisterner

   

SWD
64-0726E Mga Sirang Balon

   

TAG
64-0726E வெடிப்புள்ள தொட்டிகள்

   

TAM
64-0726E బ్రద్దలైన తొట్లు

   

TEL
64-0726E Mikalo Iiandaukide

   

TNG
64-0726E Swihlovo Leswi Handzukeke

   

TSO
64-0726E Madamu A Re Na Mitwe

   

TSV
64-0726E Madu A A Phunyegileng

   

TSW
64-0726E Розбиті водозбори

   

UKR
64-0726E شکستہ حوض

   

URD
64-0726E Những Hồ Nước Rạn Nứt

   

VIE
64-0726E Amaqula Aqhekekileyo

   

XHO
64-0726E Imithombo Evuzayo

   

ZUL