Questions & Answers
Questions 270 (COD Page 976)
Now, Brother Branham, are we missing out on something? These people claim to believe every word that you say to be true. (But they don’t! They don’t believe it. Their own actions prove that they don’t.) Please let me know your straight answer: yes or no (You’ve got it! All right.) about these things, and if it is true, we want to make ready to go join with the rest of them there–the rest of them. I thank you very much for your answers to these questions, as I will be waiting to hear them this Sunday, if the Lord should tarry.
248 Oh, my! Well, Brother, Sister, I–I hope it’s understood (see?) that I did not, do not...Now, if people...Oh, sure, if you want to come out to Arizona to live...And now, I’ll be out in Arizona maybe this first semester. I’ll have to come back here. I’ll have...I–I want to stay there; kids are healthier and everything. I–I want to stay there a little while, and I’ve got a purpose. Remember now, on the tape, THUS SAITH THE LORD, I have a purpose in doing what I’m doing; you know I have; but I can’t tell you that.
249 Why am I telling you not to sell your homes? You’re goingmto come up missing, and you’re going to be on the short end ofmthe rope. Don’t do that. I won’t stay in Arizona but a little bit. Why? I can’t do it now.
250 If I let those people stay out there and go on charity, what’s going to happen? Then, that’s just exactly what the denominations and all of them is looking for. “Aha, I told you what was behind him, another school of prophets or something!” See? There you are, that’s just what they’re looking for! After all, them people, I’m responsible for them; though they have not done what I told them to do, and they’ve done exactly...You say, “Let them go; they–they did what you told them not to do!” That isn’t in my heart. I still want to go for them. They’re my kids. I might give them a little spanking when I get them back, but I–but I–I’m sure going after them. And how am I going to do out there?
251 They said, “We come to follow the Word.” I haven’t even got a church to send them to there. The kind of churches they’ll go to there is the same kind you leave at other places, maybe worse. See? And they won’t go to church anyhow, and I have no church to preach to them. Then I’m morally obligated to take my children out of Arizona, where...
252 I ask you something. I’ve preached better than thirty messages in this church last year. And for five years, outside, since I been in Arizona, I’ve preached more in this church in one year than I did in five years any other time (certainly!), here in the church. This is my home base; this is my headquarters; here’s where we’re set up at. Now, hold that in mind no matter what takes place. Now, if you’re wise, you’ll catch something. No matter what takes place, this is our headquarters, right here! And keep that in mind and refer back to this tape someday, that you heard me prophesying. All right, remember that!
253 If you want–if you must leave and come to the church, don’t go out there to find it, ’cause I’m not even there. I have no place to go; I have no place to preach from. They won’t let me preach in their churches. I have not even a place, and I promised the man when I come there...They all got scared I was going to come there and build a big building–drain out the churches. But that’s not my purpose of life. See? I–I get the people saved. It’s up to them. Like the Samaritan come down and took the man to the inn, then let them take care of them from there on. I’m not here to break up churches, I’m here to get converts to Christ! See? And it makes me misunderstood among the people (see?) when–when they’re interpreting their own way and not–and–saying what I’m saying. See?
254 Don’t you remember the vision? How many remembers Junior Jackson’s dream? And all them follow it just exactly. What was it? Stay here till I go yonder! See? And got the interpretation and come back.
255 Now, I’ve got something else in my heart that I’ve been warned of the Lord to do, some move to make pertaining to this tabernacle, and this church; that I must go there or somewhere for a short time. It’s for a purpose, a great purpose, a purpose that you know nothing about. But remember, I’m just not “ratting” around, ’cause I act like I am. I’m working in the will of the Lord, as far as I know how to work in it. See? That’s the reason if you believe what I say, then do what I say do (see?), then listen to me and believe me as your brother. If you believe me to be a prophet, don’t misinterpret my words!
256 If there’s anything, so help me, if there’s anything that you should know that God would tell me, God knows I would tell you just exactly! And don’t add to it or take away from it; just do it just the way I say it (see?), ’cause I’m telling you from my heart the best that I know. See? You just believe that. Just–just take just–just what I say about it, and just leave it go like that. All right.
257 So now, I’ve got to bring them kids back here for something to eat. They’re down there in the desert starving.
258 A minister came to me the other day, said, “Brother Branham, they’re getting the awfulest cult down there you ever seen.” Said, “Each one of them, every morning, they go out; and they said they ain’t going to work, it’s too close to the rapture.” They’re not going to work. Well, that just shows you don’t even understand. See? Right. (This tape’s going down there!) So, yes, sir! You ought, take a lesson from the ant, the Bible says, you know. If they don’t work, they don’t eat. So that’s–that’s exactly right. Here’s–here, just picked up another one of these.