If you have never heard this sermon, then you are in for a very special experience. If you have heard this sermon before, then you already know how powerful the Holy Spirit comes down upon the audience after the prophet calls them to repentance.
Towards the end of the service, as Brother Branham solemnly warns the people to repent, you will hear him prophesy about the sinking of Los Angeles. He says the following about that prophecy a couple months later.
Have high expectations for this service. You WON’T be disappointed.
I always want to be honest with you. I just not going to presume, take any ideas, or some, what I believe, or something like that. When I tell you, it’s going to be.
But, you know, love is corrective.
And they’re translated. And all out through the jungles of Africa, and to India, and around the world, goes these tapes.
There’ll be one time, that, if you turned God down many time, there’ll be one time you’ll turn Him down the last time. There is a line between mercy and judgment.
And you men here, of your denominational churches, just believe this, that the hour is right on you, when you’re going to make a choice. You’re either going to go into the World Council, or you’re not going to be a denomination anymore. You’re going to have to do that, and that choice is coming soon.
You know, there is a time when you can be warned, then, if you step across that line of warning, then you’re already marked on the other side, branded.
My advice to you, when God speaks to your heart, you act right then.
And we find, that, if a man prayed and a woman prayed over the matter; not just look at a pretty set of eyes, or big strong shoulders, or such as that, or some other worldly affection; but would look first to God, and say, “God, is this Your plan?”
Remember, churches carry a spirit.
A woman reflects what’s in the man when he chooses her for wife. It shows what’s down in him. No matter what he says outside, watch what he married.
When God gave a man a wife, He gave him the best thing He could give him, outside of salvation.
God might permit you to preach. I don’t say He didn’t. But it’s not according to His original Word and plan. “For she is to be under obedience, as also saith the law.” It’s true. Therefore, she’s not supposed to do it.
Sin is beautiful. Certainly, it is. It’s attractive.
But if she can hold herself right, what a greater reward she has than man. She’s put on a testing ground.
The true Church of Christ, the Bride, is so sold out to Him and His promised Word, till the very mind that’s in Christ is in you. What a difference!
While, the true Bride attracts the attention of God, by keeping His Word.
Character, there never was a character like Jesus Christ.
Now, this is THUS SAITH THE LORD. If You believe me to be His servant, you believe me now.
“Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war.” And when they all passed by the preview stand where we were standing, just all at once, every eye went that way. And then they turned back, and on they went, marching.
“Don’t do that! Don’t get out of that step!”
Thou city, who claims to be the city of the Angels, who has exalted yourself into heaven, and sent all the dirty, filthy things of fashions and things, till even the foreign countries come here to pick up our filth and send it away, to your fine churches and steeples, and so forth, the way you do. Remember, one day you’ll be laying in the bottom of the sea, your great honeycomb under you right now. The wrath of God is belching right beneath you. How much longer He will hold this sandbar hanging out over that? When, that ocean out yonder, a mile deep, will slide in there, plumb back to the Salton Sea. It’ll be worse than the last day of Pompeii. Repent, Los Angeles. Repent, the rest of you, and turn to God. The hour of His wrath is upon the earth. Flee while there’s time to flee, and come into Christ.
I hesitated to speak that Message and say those things. I run sideways and everything else, to keep from doing it. But It’s been said, and It’ll stand at the Day of the Judgment, as a witness that I’ve told the Truth. That’s THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD!