Behold, A Greater Than Solomon Is Here
62-0721, Behold, A Greater Than Solomon Is Here, National Guard Armory, Salem, OR, 95 min




Our heavenly Father, we have assembled tonight again, one more day closer to that great time when You'll pull time into eternity. We've had the privilege of living today, and seeing (many of us), and hearing, and having our senses feeling the Spirit of God in our heart. We're grateful for it. Tonight just before the meeting, hearts has been warmed and the hands has gone up. Expectation tonight is great, Father. Help us now to receive what we ask for. I ask that You'll magnify your Son, Christ, before the audience tonight. In the Name of Jesus Christ I ask it. Amen. You may be seated.

Now, there's many visitors here. There's some here from other parts of the country. And now, in the morning attend Sunday school. These men here are servants of Christ. They're people who believe in this same ministry that I preach. They're ministers, fellow workers, citizens of the Kingdom of God. They have churches here. They'd be glad to have you tomorrow morning to attend their churches, each one.

And I pray that each one of their churches tomorrow will be so filled with the Holy Spirit till signs, wonders, miracles and things will take place in their church, and there'll be a great glory and honor given to our Lord Jesus Christ. I trust it with all my heart.



Some of the people standing there walked up to her and wanted to know what was the matter. She was crying. She said, "It's my little boy." She said, "Some time ago he just set--started setting, staring." And said, "Nothing that should attract a little boy of his age never attracts him any more. He just stares in space."
That's about the way the church has got. God has shook every spiritual gift that can be shook, that's mentioned in the Bible, before them; and they just stare. Well, I guess it's all right, perhaps. I guess it's so.

He said, "I go to the sea." Said, "I've wrote of it, but I've never seen it." Said, "I long to smell its briny waves. I'd like to see the white caps as they break, hear the sea gulls as they fly."
And the old salt, the sailor, with beard on his face, pulled out his corn cob pipe and spit. He said, "I was borned on it sixty years ago. I've been there ever since. I don't see nothing so thrilling about it."
What is it? He'd saw it so much till it become common to him. That's what's the matter with us Pentecostal people. We've seen so much of the glory of God until It's become common to us. It doesn't stir us no more.

You don't know the fight that these men has fought to bring this meeting here. That's right. But they want it before their people. They're interested in their people growing in the grace of God, and they're trying to get them to know more about God. And when they hear of something of God, examine it and think it's right, they bring it before the people regardless of what the price is to pay. I got honor and respect for such men. That's right.
And we've had laying on hands in meetings. We've had that since, years and years and years and years. John Wesley prayed for the sick. Calvin, Knox, Spurgeon, all down through, they've prayed for the sick and laid hands on the sick. In come the Pentecostal with speaking with tongues, and interpretations, and so forth and on; but never have we ever seen what the Holy Spirit's doing for us right now. See?

And so far as I know, unless Almighty God reveals to me to do different, this will be my last meeting in America in the United States, under discernment. I will always preach and pray for the sick. When I go into other countries I'll use that. Because you never know--never will know what that does to me. It weakens me. One vision will tear me up longer than--more than standing here for three hours preaching. And I do it, relaxing myself to find what will take place, and it's--it just doesn't take, that's all. [John 14:20, 23]

I had some missionaries, "Go down and get one person out of your tribes that you're preaching to. They lined up a group of people. The first come across the platform was a Mohammedan woman, red dot on her forehead, as you know, thoroughbred Mohammedan.
And I said, "What did you come to me for? You're a Mohammedan."
She said, "I am."
I said, "Why did you come to me, as a Christian?"
She said, "Because I think you can help me." Spoke pretty well, English...
And I said, "Did you ever read the New Testament?"
She said, "I have."
And I said, "Then you seen what I've just got through speaking about, that what He was, the same yesterday..."
She said, "Yes, sir."
I said, "Then if the Holy Spirit will reveal to you, then you'll know that your Mohammedan prophet cannot do that. He's dead and buried. But Christ the Son of God has raised again and living forevermore."
She said, "If He can reveal like He did in the New Testament there, as it says, I'll accept Him as my Saviour."
And when... I said... Looked at her again, I said, "You have a cyst on the womb. Your husband's setting right out there--is a tall thin man. But you was with a doctor a few days ago, with a black mustache, heavyset, wearing a gray suit. And he examined you by the female organ, and said on the ovary you have a cyst."
She said, "I accept Jesus Christ as my personal Saviour," and ten thousand Mohammedans come to Christ at that moment. [Hebrews 13:8], [Revelation 1:18]


And so then, while I was speaking, the little boy... I said, "He come from a--from a Christian home, because in his hut, as you go in the door, there's a picture of Christ hanging on his right side of the door as you go in. His mother and father are Zulus, but he is... They're rather thin, tall people." And they stood up, way back, maybe a city block back, and that was right. And I said, "Now, the mother... She showed the father as soon as the baby's eyes was opened, he was born cross-eyed."
I looked back and the little fellow was standing there, his little belly out, no clothes at all. And there he stood there, looking like that at me. And when I looked back his eyes was straight as mine. I said, "Anyone sees his eyes is straight," passed him on through.

And a British doctor was disputing... Come up there and said, "What'd you do to that baby? Did you hypnotize him?"
And I said, "And then the British government give you license to practice medicine, and know no more about hypnotism than that? If hypnotism will straighten a baby's eyes that's crossed, you doctors better practice hypnotism."
Said, "Well, Mr. Branham, I put the baby on the platform down there, and the baby's eyes were crossed. And here he's standing here," under his hand. Says, "His eyes are straight. Something happened between there and here."
And I said, "Yes, he met Christ."

Mr. Bosworth put his hands on him, said, "Sir, you're going to cause a riot. Look out in there now." Said, "You're taking up too much time while Brother's under anointing. We'll have to ask you to leave."
And he said, "Just a minute. Mr. Branham, what happened to that boy? Is Jesus Christ tangible enough to uncross them eyes?"
I said, "You'll have to take my word. He was standing right there. I haven't even touched him. The--the faith of that father and mother out there, and this child... His eyes are straight."
He pushed everybody back, and walked up to the platform, held up his hands and said, "Then I accept Christ as my personal Saviour."
And when I was leaving--about twenty-five or thirty thousand out at the airplane waving good-bye, this little fellow jumped over their lines that was there, and run out there, hugged me around the neck, and begin to speak in tongues. And he said, "I've left. Now, I'm going to be a medical missionary to the natives back in there under the Pentecostal setup." Oh, my.

And someone said, "I believe they meant physical healing."
I said, "I did not mean physical healing. Are you convinced that the Bible that I've just told you what He was, is the God that's doing this?" Every one of them raised their hands up. I said, "If you're sincere, break your idol on the ground." It was like a dust storm, like that. And thirty thousand blanket natives received Christ as their Saviour at one time.

And I looked out there, and they was laying out there and I just stood and raised my hand, and made one little prayer of about five minutes, over every one of them and said, "If you believe that that Spirit that knows the secrets of the heart is the God of the Bible, then accept your healing." And the next day I looked out the window, and seventeen of those big van loads coming down, and those natives that was laying in those things that they were packing them in, and clubs, and wheelchairs, and stretchers and everything else, was walking behind this, singing, "All things are possible, only believe."
Dr. F. F. Bosworth's one of the most honest men I ever seen. He would never... He'd underestimate instead of overestimate. He said, "Brother Branham, when I seen that massive thing take place," said, "I could say with my hand on the Bible that I underestimate twenty-five thousand outstanding miracles took place at one time."


And notice. Let me say something just, not to be sacrilegious, but to be brotherly, and godly, and warningly to you. Them women standing there stark naked, with nothing but a clout on; and as--as quick as they received Christ as their Saviour, they walked away from there with their arms folded. Answer my question, somebody. If just receiving Christ will cause a--a woman that doesn't know right and left hand to realize she's naked, how can we call ourselves Christians, and constantly stripping the clothes off all the time? There's something wrong somewhere.

I'm sorry I'm holding Your people too late. And I pray, Father, knowing that the revival's over, and people weary easy, I--I'm sorry if I have done anything wrong. And I pray that You'll help me tonight and let us see Thy Word once more in Its Light. Then heal the sick and save the lost. We commit it to You in Jesus' Name. Amen.

38th verse of Matthew 12:
And there were certain of the scribes... of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee.
But he answered and said unto them, An evil and an adulterous generation seeks after... signs; and there shall be no sign given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:
For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
And the men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and. behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here. [Matthew 12:38-42]
But he answered and said unto them, An evil and an adulterous generation seeks after... signs; and there shall be no sign given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:
For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
And the men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and. behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here. [Matthew 12:38-42]
I want to take a little text from there: "Behold, A Greater Than Solomon Is Here."

And instead of knowing just exactly the day and the sign that would be in His day... He even rebuked them, said, "You can discern the face of the skies, but the sign of the time you cannot discern. If you would've known Me, you would've known My day." [Matthew 16:3]

They couldn't believe Him being God and yet being a man. He said, "If you can't believe Me as a man, believe the works. Let the works testify, if you can't believe Me. If they say I'm born illegitimate birth, and I have no education, I never appeared in any of your schools, and so forth; and you can't believe Me because I never come up under your doctrine or so forth; why, believe the works that I do. They testify of Me." What a rebuke to a--a people. [John 5:39], [John 10:37-38], [John 14:12]


Now, what it is, she's got real sick because of condensed around there, with the crowd setting around her. There's some man setting here, right here, looking right at me, suffering the same thing. So just... If you want to take her and walk her around, or take her out, and let her get a little air and things, then bring her back, it'll be all right.
Now, while they're doing that, you listen to what we are--are trying to say here. Now, notice. You may have to pack her, 'cause she's fainted. See?

Now, we know this, that in every generation that's been on the earth God has always showed His gifts and signs and wonders of confirmation of His Word: always. And people are... Even in the Old Testament, in the days that Jesus was referring to here, He... Really, honestly, they depended more on the sign than they did on the theology. Because if the theology, no matter how great it seemed to be, and how right it seemed to be, if the Urim-Thummim didn't speak that it was right, it was wrong. See? They depended on the supernatural sign; but the supernatural sign just couldn't come on anything. It had to come according to the Word.
Now, that's the way we have to watch today. We have all kinds of signs, but it's got to be signs from the Word's promise--the promise of the Word to do this. And we know that in this day we can look for things that's not right. Sure we can, because Satan's throwing his whole army out there to do everything he can do to stop it. But he will never do it. The Word of God will prevail. It'll go right on. So he will never stop it. That's one thing sure. [Exodus 28:30]

And He looked at them, I imagine kinda discouraged and said, "A weak and an adulterous generation seek after a sign; and they shall receive no sign but the sign of Jonas (meaning Jonah, the prophet). As he was three days and three nights in the whale's belly, so must the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth." Now, I want you... Now, watch what kind of a generation would seek for this sign: a weak, wicked, unbelieving, adulterous generation. [Matthew 16:3-4], [Jonah 1:17], [Matthew 12:40]

And now, Jesus, 'course, was referring to that generation, but any wicked and unbelieving, adulterous generation... And if this wouldn't meet its qualification, this generation that we're living in today, worldwide, I don't know what did. We're living in the time of one of the most unbelieving, adulterous generations that there ever known. [Matthew 2:15], [Matthew 16:4]

Oh, if we just had till about two o'clock in the morning to dig into that: wickedness, adulterous generation. That would be the kind, and they would get it. What was it? The sign of the resurrection. Now, where are we at?

While you're letting that soak I want to ask something about Jonah. Jonah was a prophet. Many people condemn Jonah and say, "Well, he was a old backslider. He..." He wasn't backslid. A man of God... "The steps--the footsteps of the righteous is ordered of the Lord." Do you believe that? And I don't care what the man of God does, if he's ordained of God. He might do things that he thinks is crazy to himself; but if you only watch, it works right out exactly right, if he just goes the way he's led. [Matthew 12:40-41], [Matthew 16:4], [Psalms 37:23]

And on the road out into the sea he got in trouble. And the storms come up, and they thought the ship was going to sink. And Jonah told them it was his fault; tie his hands and feet and throw him overboard. And God had prepared a whale to swallow him. [Jonah 1:1-2], [Jonah 1:15-17]

And he said, "Now, you've heard the old legend about the--the whale swallowing Jonah." He said, "If you'll notice, you couldn't put a baseball in his throat." Said, "It isn't no such a thing."
I--I was just too Irish to stand for that. So I said, "I'd just like to say something to you, fellow. There's one thing you missed. That whale might not be able to do it; but if you notice, God prepared this one. This was a special kind. You could've throwed the whole boat down his throat maybe." See? God prepared a fish for Jonah. See? He was a special built--built to order, to swallow the prophet. And he... And it wasn't no such a thing. People... [Jonah 1:17]

An infidel was standing on the corner said, "What's the matter?"
Said, "I got saved down there a while ago. Praise the Lord."
Said, "What you got over your heart?"
Said, "A Bible."
Said, "I guess you believe it."
Said, "Sure I believe it."
Said, "You believe that story in there about Jonah?"
Said, "Sure I believe that story about Jonah."
He said, "You believe that--that Jonah was swallowed by a whale?"
She said, "Oh, yes. If the Bible said..." Said, "If Jonah swallowed the whale, I'd believe it." And said...
"Oh," he said, "how you going to prove it any other way but by faith?"
"Why," she said, "when I get to heaven I'm just going to walk up and talk to Jonah about it."
Said, "Then what if Jonah isn't there?"
Said, "Then you'll have to ask him." Guess that was enough. Yes. So a little child... But yet God is able. [Jonah 1:17]

And I'd like to speak about this now. You know you--you find so many people that rely upon symptoms. "Well, I was prayed for. I got a crippled hand. I was prayed for, but... I--I really believe God, but my hand's no better." It'll never be no better as long as you look at that hand. See, you're looking at the wrong thing. You must look at his promise. [Jonah 1:17]

Doctor wouldn't let me go in. And he said, "No, you have children, and I can't let you go in 'cause that diphtheria's contagious." And said, "You couldn't do him no good."
Now, talking to the man, found out that he was Catholic. And I said, "If the priest was here... If that boy was Catholic, and--and this father had come and got me, and I was a priest..."
He said, That's different." He said, "You see, a priest is not married."
I said, "You'd let him go and take--give him the last rites, wouldn't you?"
He said, "Yes, but the priest is not a married man. You've got children."
I said, "If I take the responsibility on myself? I'll sign a paper. I'll take the responsibility." Finally I talked him out of it, and he dressed me up like a Ku Klux Klan with all kind of stuff on me and sent me in there where this boy was.

And when I said, "Amen," the old father grabbed the mother and begin to hug her, and him--hug each other. They said, "Oh, Mother, isn't it wonderful? Isn't it wonderful? Thank you, Lord Jesus, for healing our boy."
The boy was just as bad as he ever was, and they just wiped the tears from each others' eyes and just praised God. And that little nurse, standing there, she couldn't understand that. And she said. "Sir, it's all right, I guess." Said, "I don't belong to your religion, but--your kind of religion." She said, "But I want to ask you something. How can you act like that, you, and the mother of this child act like that, and that boy laying there dying?"
He said, "Madam, the boy's not dying."
"Why," she said, "he's been in a coma for three days."

Depends on what you're looking at. That boy's married and got two children. See, it just goes to show. See? He laid like that another two or three days, but he come right out and got well. See, it just goes to show what you're looking at. You've got to see what you're looking at. Don't look at your symptoms.

But you know what he said? "They are lying vanities. I won't believe them." What did he say? "Once more will I look to Your holy temple," turned over on his back, and faced, the best he could, towards the temple.
Why? When Solomon dedicated that temple, he prayed that day. When the Pillar of Fire come in and went down behind the holiest of holies, Solomon prayed, and said, "Lord, if Your people be in trouble anywhere, and look towards this holy place, then hear from heaven." And he believed it.
And God did something. I don't know what He done. He might've put a oxygen tank in that whale's belly. I don't know what He done. He kept him alive for three days and nights, and delivered him at his course, where he was supposed to go. [Jonah 2:4-5], [Jonah 1:17], [Matthew 12:40]


And you see them come through Africa. They got all kinds of little funny-looking things of animals, sprinkled with blood. Well, that's what they believe to be God.
And now, we find out that these people down there in Nineveh also worshipped idols, and their sea god was a whale. So all the men, the occupation being by the sea, they were fishermen: the main occupation. And it was a great export there of fish to the world at that time.
So then, the--all the fishermen was out there about noontime one day, fishing, pulling in their nets. And all at once the god come up out of the sea, the whale god. It run up to the shore, and licked out his tongue, and the prophet come walking right off the tongue of the whale, right out on to the ground. No wonder they repented. Amen. [Jonah 2:1-10]

Our God is Christ. Amen. And He sent down the Holy Ghost. Why can't we believe it what I wonder? Here He was manifested in flesh. There He stood, and He said, "And the people of Nineveh will rise in the last day with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah. And a greater than Jonah is here." Then ask Him for a sign... [Jonah 3:4], [Matthew 12:40], [Luke 11:30-31]

Now, what if tonight... If American people who claim to be a Christian nation, what if all we who claim to be Christians would accept God's gift that He sent to us, the Holy Ghost? Wouldn't it be wonderful? Why, we could quit making missiles. Why, there wouldn't be nothing in the world ever hurt us. They couldn't. We have protection. The Holy Ghost is upon us. Certainly. We wouldn't need nothing else but the Holy Ghost, if the people would just accept the gift the God sent them, and that's the Holy Spirit.
But one church will different from the other, and this one say, "Oh, there's no such thing as the Holy Ghost. That was for the disciples." And it's a gift right now. It's for the church, and now's the last days.

Only one way. But we've got a bomb shelter. It's not made out of steel; but it's made out of feathers. Under His wings we rest. Amen. And it's not down here; it's up there. You get above it, when you sail into the--soar into His bosom. Sure. That's the escape. [Psalms 61:1-4], [Isaiah 32:1-2], [Isaiah 4:6]

Don't watch iron curtains and bamboo curtains; but watch the purple curtain. That's the one that's going to get you. Don't you never worry about that. That... You just mark that down, and say, "Brother Branham said it," and put it in your Bible, and see if it's right.
Communism is nothing but a tool in God's hand, playing right up. Well, it won't amount to nothing. That's exactly right. Don't fear about that. That's something to throw you off of the track of looking. But Bible readers and men who love God stay with what the Bible said. Certainly. Just watch that. [Psalms 61:1-4], [Isaiah 32:1-2], [Isaiah 4:6]

Many other Scriptures we could tie in with it, let's go on to another thing, what Jesus said here. And as in the days of... In the days of Solomon, God sent a gift among His people. And there was one time they accepted it. They accepted Solomon, the gift of discernment. And when the discernment was upon Solomon, everybody was one heart and one accord. Every... Why, every nation feared. They didn't have no war. They--they didn't have any wars because they was afraid of Israel, not so much the nation as it was the God they were serving. They were in one heart and one accord. And they all rallied around that gift. Oh, how they all liked it, and everybody talking good...?... [II Timothy 3:4-5]

Now, we find out that everybody in that day rallied around. And God made this man that had this gift upon him, the king. Why, you know, news scattered everywhere. The people brought in herds of sheep. They brought in cattle, and gold, and everything, and helped them. They was trying to find peace with them, is what they were trying to do, because they knowed that a living God was with a living people. And they knew that.

They had a queen down there, a little pagan, heathen queen. And people come by and would give testimony of what was going on up in Palestine. And "faith cometh by hearing the Word of God." [Romans 10:17]

"Which way did you come?"
"We come from the north."
"Did you pass through Palestine?"
"Yes. Oh, I know what you're going to ask me: about their God."
"Yes, that's right. Did you see it?"
"I saw it. It's the truth. Why, they love that man so well, they made him the king; and their God, they got a supernatural God that's displaying Himself right through that man." [I Kings 10:1-13], [II Chronicles 9:1-12]

Now, look how God does. He turns right back around, and don't... See, they think that the--the life, the spirit, that ought to be, that really belongs in that idol, comes in that idol and speaks back to them. Why, it was said that pagans in the old days could prostrate themselves in such a way, they claim they could hear the gods talk out of them idols.

God never used idols. He always used man. God don't use machinery, mechanical devices. It's... He uses men, individuals. Excuse me. I didn't mean to holler that loud. Notice. I'm not excited though. I know right where I am. That's right. I just feel good. [Exodus 20:18-22]

Notice. This little queen begin to hear of it. Faith cometh by hearing. Her little heart begin to beat fast. She must go up and see it. So after while so many come through testifying, everybody telling how them people were one heart and one accord. There was no differences in them. There wasn't one walking around, say, "Aw, he don't belong to mine. He--he's a Pharisee. I don't think... I'm a Sadducee." Nothing of that. They was one heart and one accord. That's the way you have to be.
Oh, oh, if our churches could only get that way, brethren. If our churches, our differences, could just be... All right, it's all right as long as you believe, and have God, and have your--your churches, and things. But oh, let's be one accord, one man, one Onward Christian soldiers, just one unit of God marching on to victory, receiving everything that comes in the Name of the Lord: that is, the Lord's Word promised to send us. Believe it; act upon it. [Romans 10:17]

There's something or other about when you ever hear about God. Man knows that he come from out of the dark curtain, somewhere beyond here. They know that when he dies, he goes back through that curtain. Where did he come from and where did he go? Man has always longed to see what was behind that curtain. Exactly. So when he sees something rise from behind that curtain, and illustrate something that's been promised from over there, it ought to thrill his heart. [I Kings 10:1-13], [II Chronicles 9:1-12]

She said, "I understand through the caravans and so forth (and some of them has brought me scrolls down from up in Palestine), that they're having a great meeting up there. And there's a man up there that's been anointed by their God; and that God is acting His own Life through that man. Sir, holy one, I would like to go see." [I Kings 10:1-13], [II Chronicles 9:1-12]

I could see that little queen rear herself back. She'd say, "Sir, but I want to go. I want to be convinced." I like that kind of a courage. "I want to be convinced. I've got their scrolls here. I want to go to see if that Spirit that's in that man, is just exactly what these scrolls say that that God is. So then, if it is, it's that God speaking through the man."
"Now, looky here. Here's great god Dagon, here's great god so-and-so, Jupiter, the sun god, and all these others we have around here."
She'd say, "Yes, my great-great-grandmother served them; my grandmother served them, and all; my mother served them. And what have they done? They're dumb idols. I've never heard them speak a word or do a thing." [I Kings 10:1-13], [II Chronicles 9:1-12]

What good does it do to feed your canary bird all kinds of good vitamins to make good strong wings and big heavy bones, and put him in a cage so he can't fly? Same thing as send a man away, and take all kind of schooling, and everything, and learn what one God was, and what all He did, and what all He did there; but then turn around and tell him, "the days of miracles is past, no such a-thing." That's not even intelligent to me.

"Well, let me tell you something, my daughter. If you go up there... You're our queen. You can't go amongst a bunch of people like that. Silly."
I might as well say it. It's burning me up anyhow. I was... My daughter-in-law and wife was downtown this morning, and they were buying some stuff in a store. And a lady said, "There's a lady across the street here from me, her husband has a business over here. She was up to that meeting over there the other night. And she had some kind of a something on her leg, and it was a... That man in the pulpit was telling that woman about that. And you know it left, and it thrilled her to death."
My daughter-in-law said, "That's my father-in-law." Said, "That's my father-in-law." Said, "Have you been up?"
Said, "Oh, no. I couldn't go up."
Said, "Well, why can't you go up?"
She said, "My husband is a deacon in one of the big churches here in the city. I couldn't go around a bunch of people like that."
My daughter-in-law said, "But you're welcome to come anyhow." [I Kings 10:1-13], [II Chronicles 9:1-12]

Why would our denominations separate us? Why would some minister with some degree of college, would try to--to a keep a woman, that really needs healing in her body, that come from a place to get healed by a God that he claims he knows? That's what I wonder.

"Well, if you go, we're going to excommunicate you."
"Well, you just might as well give me my papers now, because I'm going." See, when Christ begins to move in a heart, it's gone. That's all.
So remember she had a lot to confront her. She had a lot. Now, she lost her membership. And another thing, she said... I thought it was very good. She said, "If that thing is the truth, it's worth supporting." So she gathered up a lot of money, frankincense, gold, silver, and myrrh, and put it on the camels.
But here was her thought, I believe. "If it's the truth, I'll support it. If it isn't, I can bring my treasures right back." She could teach Pentecostal people something: supporting radio ministries out here that would make fun and laugh at the very religion that you are representing. That's right. And your own church suffering for the tithe that you would--ought to be giving them (yes, sir); just because they got some kind of a big name or something like that...
Haven't you never learned spiritual things yet? We should. That's right. We should learn to discern the spirit to see where it comes from. Now, that's not skim milk, now, if you can dissolve it. [I Kings 10:1-13], [II Chronicles 9:1-12]

Now, remember. She had a long ways to go, and she couldn't travel... She had to cross the Sahara Desert, not in a air-conditioned Cadillac, but on the back of a camel. You know how long it takes that caravan to come from where she was to Palestine? It taken them three months: ninety days, on the back of a camel. No wonder Jesus said she'll rise in the judgment day and condemn this generation. Some people won't walk across the street to see the same thing. Right.
And another thing, remember, the sons of Ishmael was robbers in the desert. And she just had a little band of soldiers, eunuchs. How easy they could've fell in on her, and killed them little eunuchs, and taken her treasures, and gone on.
But you know, if you're determined to seek God, God will make a way for you, and there's no fear at all about nothing. You just have one achievement, one thought, one motive, one objective, and that's get to God. And if God spoke to you, you'll go. I don't care what takes place. God will make a way for you to do it, if you're really anchored and know what you're speaking of. And she did. [Luke 11:31], [I Kings 10:1-13], [II Chronicles 9:1-12]

And when she come, she didn't come like a lot of us do here. We'll go to the meeting once. The neighbors... "I got a good neighbor lives down here. They invited us, and so we'll go over. I'll set five minutes, and if he says one thing that's contrary to what I believe, I'll get right up and walk out." That shows ignorance. That don't even show good sense. Anybody that's raised good wouldn't do a thing like that.
If I went in a Buddha temple, if I went in the temple, I'd be gentleman enough to set there till at least that meeting was over. That's right.

Let one of their daughters come in of a morning with her hair all twisted up, and manicure over her face, all night long with some little Ricky with a flattop haircut. I'll tell you, she'll--she'll know the next time she goes out; get a barrel slat, or a limb off of a hickory there, and just skin her down.
And I tell you, you all talking about juvenile delinquency; there's so many papers talking about it. I think it's parent delinquency, instead...?... the old golden rule hanging with all them ten commandments hanging on it... Take a young'n out there, and shuck him down a little bit, you wouldn't have so much, saying, "Poor little Ricky. You're nice. You didn't mean to do bad, Martha." She--she needs a good beating, is what she needs.
The Bible said, "Spare the rod, you spoil your child," and that's exactly right. You'll never find nothing any better. [Proverbs 13:24]

I'll tell you, pop took me out behind the house, and I danced a little jig. But I knowed not to do it the next time, when he got through with me.
There'd be a whole lot better life, if we had some more daddies to do that today. He never struck me one lick but what I honor him tonight for it. When I looked in the casket, and seen his gray hair on the side of his head, I stood there and tears dropped upon his face. I said, "Daddy, I helped put them there. God help me." That's right. I respected my daddy. He was a daddy that would make me do right. Yes, sir. We need more like that today.

Now, the first morning, I can hear the trumpets sounding, the bells a ringing. And the little queen dressed herself, went in, and maybe she had to take a seat way back in the back. And everything went along fine, all the singing, and all the choir sang. Then Pastor Solomon walked out into the pulpit. And she noticed, how marvelous... Her little heart begin to burn. Well, that day, maybe at the book stand, she must've bought some books on it. She went back out that night, and she read, and she read. The next day, she... day after day... [I Kings 10:1-13], [II Chronicles 9:1-12]

Look what she said. (We're closing.) Look what she said. She said, "All that I heard was right, and more than I heard." See, the miracle had been performed on her then. See, she was from plumb down in Sheba, and he was a Jew up here. And so, he knowed nothing about her. But when she stood in his presence, he revealed all the secrets of her heart, told her the things that she wanted to know. Everything was in her heart, God made Solomon know about it. [I Kings 10:1-13], [II Chronicles 9:1-12], [Luke 11:31], [Matthew 12:42]

And she turned around, and she said, "Blessed is the men that's with you, that stands here and can see that great gift of God working every day. How blessed are these eyes that sets and sees it."
Jesus said, "She'll raise up in the judgment and condemn this generation. For she came from the utmost parts of the world to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and a greater than Solomon is here."
And, Christian friends, look: A greater than Solomon is here. The Holy Spirit Himself is here. Christ in the form of the Holy Ghost is here with us, proving that the same--even what Solomon had, only many times greater is here today; with twenty-five hundred years of history of the same Spirit working in the church. A greater than Solomon is here.
Her heart was touched. She hadn't seen nothing before. It wasn't common to her. She knew it was right.
Let me say something here, just a moment. When people, real genuine people can see something real, it changes their opinion. That's right. And really, a lot of the world today is hungering to see what we're turning down. That's right. They want to see something real. [I Kings 10:8], [Luke 11:31], [Matthew 12:42]

And I had a good hunting partner up there, and he was a dandy hunter, real good shot; and a man that you didn't have to worry about getting him lost in the woods. He knowed how to get out of there. And I used to love to hunt with him. But he was so cruel-hearted. He--he had eyes like a lizard. You know how them funny looking eyes, like women try to paint theirs today? You know, lizard-eyed like. And so she...
He was a very fine man, but he was cruel. He used to kill fawns just to make me feel bad. He just... He knowed I...

He'd shoot these little fawns, and maybe not even pick them up, just to make me feel bad. Just cruel-hearted... And I tried to talk to him about God. And I'd mention God, he'd just stand there and laugh with his head back. So... But way down in him I thought there was something might be good in a man. You don't... Don't never turn a man down altogether. Just try your best, keep on. Let God do the turning down. [Genesis 18:1-8]

And there come a nice little snow that night, about six or eight inches, good tracking weather. And we were--took off for hunting. And we'd always carry a thermos bottle full of hot chocolate, where if we got turned around somewhere in the woods, or killed a deer, and had to walk back, or got in a snowstorm, that chocolate would help keep you alive. It's better than coffee or anything, because it's got a--a fuel to it, and a nourishment to chocolate. So I had a... We each one had a quart in our shirt and a sandwich.
And we'd walked all morning, hadn't even seen one track, and we were... Long about eleven-thirty or twelve o'clock, we come to a little opening about the size of this building here. And he--he was ahead of me, walking, and we'd usually go way up into the--above the timber lines, then we'd... He'd split, and we'd go one way and another, and walk down through. And if we got a deer, we'd hang it up. And we'd know when we come back to the base camp... We'd be back there that night, or if we wasn't, we didn't worry about one another. We'd know how to take care in the woods, and we'd be back the next day.

He had made a little whistle that sounded just like a little baby deer crying for its mammy. You know how--you know how a fawn goes, that little funny noise. Well, he'd fixed him a whistle, sounded just exactly like that. And I said to him 'fore we left that morning; I said, "Burt, you wouldn't use that?"
He said, "Aw, you're like all the rest of the preachers. You'd never make a hunter. You're too chicken-hearted." Said, "Don't--don't--don't... You're--you preachers are too chicken-hearted to be hunters." And usually I had to get his game anyhow.

He said, "Oh, get next to yourself, Billy. Get next to yourself." There was a snowdrift there, and he blowed this little whistle.
And I thought, well, we hadn't seen a track, wouldn't hurt nothing. But to my surprise, about as far as across this building, a great big, beautiful, whitetail doe stood up. Now, that's the mother deer: doe. Her big ears standing out like that, her big beautiful eyes looking. What was the matter? No matter how good she was hid, a baby, her baby cried. It was in distress. She jumped up. She begin looking around. Now, we wasn't standing over thirty yards from her.
He looked up to me with them lizard eyes, and I thought, "Oh, my." And he blowed it again. And that deer walked right out into that opening. Now, anyone that hunts deer knows that's absolutely unusual. They won't do that, especially when they've been shot at, and that time of day too: about eleven o'clock, twelve. She walked right out in the opening.
And I looked at her, and I begin to think. "That mother, he's deceiving her. He's blowing that whistle like a little baby crying, her baby. And she's not a hypocrite. She's not just acting; she's not putting on something. But she's borned a mother. It's instinct in her. She's a mother, and that's a baby crying. She was a genuine born mother. It was in her."

And, "How could he do that?" I thought. "A cruel-hearted a man as that would take that mother there, trying to find her baby, out there looking for her baby; and would blow her loyal heart right out of her." I thought, "What a cruel fellow that must be. Surely he won't do it."
And when the--the bolt went down on the model 70, went down like that, the deer heard it, and she turned. And she saw the hunter. But did she move? No, sir. Why? She was a mother. Death or no death, her baby was in trouble. She was trying to find that baby. She was looking everywhere. The baby was calling. She couldn't help that. She was a mother.

And I waited, and the gun never fired. I waited a little longer; the gun never fired. And I turned around to look. And here's the way the gun barrel was going, just shaking. And he looked up, and the tears running down his cheeks, his lips a quivering. He took the gun and throwed it down on the snow bank, and grabbed me around the trouser leg, and said, "Billy, I've had enough. Lead me to that Jesus you're talking about."
He's a deacon in a Baptist church now. Right there on that snowdrift, I led him to Christ. Why?
He saw something real. He saw something that wasn't put on. He saw there was something genuine. He knowed there was something behind it. She was a mother. She was a born mother.

How many in here... Be honest. Just a minute, will you? Be honest. How many of you would like to be the kind of--as much a Christian, as that deer was a mother? Raise up your hand, say, "It's me, Brother Branham. I--I want to be that kind of Christian." God bless you.

But God is able of these stones to speak out. That cruel-hearted man saw something real. He'd seen so much make-belief and put on. To being a hunter hisself, God had to deal with him in that way, to see that there was something that was real. And if he's living yet today, he's a lovely Christian, borned again. How we thank you for that, Father.
I seen some three or four or five hundred hands, maybe close to maybe more than that, go up a few moments ago, that they--they wanted to be a real Christian, Lord. I've had to scold this week, God; cry over it, wondering just what my brethren are thinking, wondering what You're thinking. I've tried to be honest, Lord. The people set and wondered. May it all be over now, Lord. May it just all be broke up and settled. May we come to the God that we know that's real. We each one can have that experience of being a real born Christian, just as much as that deer was a mother. Grant it, Lord. Hear us, I pray.

Oh, God... Each one of you that feels that Christ is near you, just raise up your hand, say, "I--I just believe He's real near me tonight. I just feel His Presence." God bless you. Just keep praying. That's right. "God, I long to see it." Just have faith. Believe. "Make me a Christian, Lord, just like, just as much Christian as that--as that deer was a mother."

I talked this week of a Jesus that's a living. I ain't told you from a creed; I've told you by a Bible, by His Word. I give His promise, that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. You believe that? Now, if He... If you could see something real, you'd want it, wouldn't you? Don't... You don't want nothing bogus; you want something real.
May God show you tonight right here, that I've told you the truth. He's Messiah, living. Don't doubt now. You believe. Look this way and say in your heart to Christ, "You're that High Priest. I believe it. Remember. Let me plainly make it I'm not the High Priest. I'm just your brother. He's the High Priest. My touch will mean nothing; His touch will do it. Your touch is what He's waiting on, your touch, your faith touch. And if He did that in His day, He will do it again today. Don't you believe it? [Hebrews 13:8], [Hebrews 4:15]

The lady setting next to you there, has a female disorder also. If she'll believe with all her heart... You believe it, sister? Raise up your hand. Is that something real? That's Jesus Christ the Son of God.
That woman that could touch back there by the feeling of her infirmities, that woman touched too. Just don't doubt. Have faith.
Lady setting right down here, she has cancer. She's praying for cancer. Also she's got a grandchild she's praying for. The grandchild is retarded. You believe that God will heal? I'm a stranger to you. If that's right, wave your hands like this.
Now, why didn't you have that kind of faith last night, you all? Just believe. Don't doubt. Put your hand on that lady right next to you. Will you do me a favor? She suffers with a throat trouble. Just have faith.

Man setting right over here, he's suffering with complications, got stomach trouble, liver trouble. (God, don't let him miss it.) Mr. Brines, believe. You got it. It's too sweet now. Don't--don't do nothing to interrupt it. Let it be going. I don't know the man; I've never seen him. God in heaven knows that, and here's my Bible over my heart. He can strike me dead this minute.
What's he touch? Who did he touch? Ever who that was over there, if we don't know one another and we're strangers, raise up your hand. Ever who the person was, any of the people's been called, if we're strangers to one another, raise up your hand. We don't know one another. Raise up your hands, ever who was them people has been, that was just called just now. Why, sure. See?

That alcoholic that you're praying for, you believe. You tried with all your heart, but it didn't work so good. But don't you worry. He knows about it. Now, if that's true, wave your hand like this. Nobody knows that but you and God and me. How'd I know what you was praying about? You must believe. You must have faith. Don't doubt.
That colored lady setting there by you from Portland. Yes. You believe with all your heart? Mrs. Beck, you can--you can go home and be well too. Jesus Christ healed you. Amen.

I surely got some conception of Him of twenty--thirty-one years of service, around the world seven times. Surely there's all kinds of... God wouldn't permit that. I'm telling you the truth, friends. This is truth. And it's honestly true.
Now, I know it's right now... I--I'm way past. I was going to... I told you to call them prayer cards. But it's almost ten o'clock. I--I don't know where the time goes. I'm sorry to keep you like this. I promised I wouldn't do it. I'm trying to get this away from...?...

I wonder something. I was going to ask you a question. Each one of you that knows that you're not as--as much Christian as that mother was--as that deer was a mother, while you see something right in your face here...
I seen something happen right there again, that woman setting right there.
Here's the man with that prostate trouble, getting up at night. God bless you, brother, it's over. Now, it's just whirling everywhere, just going everywhere. When I... When that unbeliever saw something real, he was ready to repent right there.

Heavenly Father, I lay my hands upon these handkerchiefs. Bless them...?... in the Name of Jesus Christ, Your Son. God, watch over these. And heavenly Father, there's many sick out in the audience. There's many praying for their loved ones. I can feel it, see it. They see there's something going on, Lord. I'm getting weak, weaker all the time.
I pray, God, help me. Now, help me to pray a prayer of faith for them, God. They set here and suffered it out through heat; many of them come through difficult. Don't--don't let them miss it tonight, God. You--You--You're here to do it. Let--let them see it real.

Little David didn't have a magnum rifle. He only had a slingshot, but he trusted in You. He went forward. He got that little sheep that that lion took. He slew the lion, and brought the sheep back to shady green pastures, and laid him down by the still waters; because it was his father's sheep.
And dear heavenly Father, tonight diseases like heart trouble, cancer, tuberculosis, cripples, them devils of lions is come in and got some of Your sheep, is dragging them out. They've drug through every doctor's office and clinic. He's dragging them out. I'm going after them tonight, Lord.
I ain't got nothing but this little slingshot of prayer. But You promised, "The prayer of faith will save the sick." They're Your sheep, and I'm coming after them.
Satan, you're going to have to turn them loose. I'm bringing them back tonight, through a prayer of faith. Turn them loose, and let them alone. I claim them for the Lord God. In the Name of His Son Jesus Christ, may your grip of unbelief break across this building and every one of them be healed. Grant it, Father, in Jesus' precious Name. [James 5:15]

Now, how many in here that don't know God, and wants to become a Christian, raise up your hand. Just say, "I want to raise my hand, Brother Branham. I want to become a Christian." How many church members here, that really knows that you're not living the way you ought to live; there's things that you just can't understand; you're--you're all mixed up, you don't know what to do, and you would really like to be a real Christian? Raise your hands, say, "Pray for me, Brother Branham." God bless you.
I wonder, while we sing a song, if our organist will give us a chord, "I love Him, I love Him, Because He first loved me." [James 5:15]

Will you come while we sing? Come. Just rise right up and come. God bless you, that... Whoever you are, come right on now. That's it. Consecration, that's what we want.
I love Him (Do you really love Him? Is your soul anything to you now?) love Him
Because... (I want to try to shake hands with you...?...)
Because... (I want to try to shake hands with you...?...)
[Brother Branham shakes hands with those who have come up around the altar walking away from the microphone, his words not understandable--Ed.]... altar together...

What if a wreck, and the blood starts running out, you feel your heart moving; you're under a car, pinned down... Oh, you wish you would've come. It's too late then. Come now. Don't you take a chance at no time, friends. Come.

I love (Everybody sing. Let's raise our hands), I love Him
Because He first loved me
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary's tree.
Because He first loved me
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary's tree.
Someday You want Him to say, "It's well done, My good and faithful servant. He that will confess his sin..."
"But if I regard iniquity in my heart, then God will not hear my prayer," said David. What is iniquity? Iniquity is something that you know that you're doing that you ought not to do and still won't repent of it. If I regard iniquity in my heart, knowing that I should do it, and don't do it, then God promised, the Bible promises that God will not hear your prayer, if you know you should do it and won't do it. That right, brethren? That right, brother ministers? It's true, if you regard iniquity... [Matthew 25:21-23]

Consecrate your life while we sing one more time. Then we're going to pray. Come now.
I love Him,(...?... love's Him.) I love Him
Because He first loved me
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary's...
Because He first loved me
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary's...
[Brother Branham begins humming "I love Him."--Ed.]
Let's bow our heads now, humming. Going to get among the people down here now. Everybody praying. Now, you come here. Now, the only thing that you can do is confess from your heart, confess your wrong and believe.

Oh, God, our Father, we are approaching Thy throne of grace. Standing around this altar tonight stands some--large group of people. Many of them are members of churches. Some of them maybe have never made a confession yet. Some of them has made it and failed. But, God, I know You have confidence in a man, that while he's trying, he fails, and then enough soldier to rise up on his feet and try again.
God, I pray that You'll answer every one of their requests. They're standing here now, their heads bowed, their hearts bowed. They're believing You. You're their God. They're confessing their wrong, and they--they're wanting to be right, Lord. They want all unbelief to be taken away from them. Let their little besetting sin that does so easy upset them, let it be taken from them tonight and never to return again.

Now, You promised that they'd be forgiven, and I know they are, Lord. And I turn them to You now, as Your servant, in a word of prayer, believing, feeling in my heart the great Holy Spirit is well pleased with what they've done.

Give them Eternal Life, Lord, and raise them up at the last days. Grant it, Lord. May tomorrow each of these church members go to their church with a shining face and a testimony to the glory of God, that they found a new Anchor tonight and they are now dedicated Christians to Your service. In Jesus' Name I commit them to You with my prayer.
And O Lord, if I've found grace in Your sight, take each one of them. I give them to You with all my heart, in Jesus' Name.

Now, I want you to turn right around to the audience. Just turn right around, all you at the altar. Turn right around to the audience, right around this way. Now, raise up your hands again towards the audience and say to this, "Pray for me." Say it with me, "Pray for me." All that... The people standing here, repeat after me, "Pray for me, [Those at the altar repeat after Brother Branham--Ed.] that I'll always be true to God. I know, brother and sister, that I will serve God, and I desire your prayers."

Now, all of us with our hands up to God...
I love Him, I love Him...
[Brother Branham speaks to the pastor--Ed.] All right, pastor. Remember tomorrow's services (Sorry to be late), you tell them that I'll get every one of them, if I have to stay till midnight tomorrow night.