Questions & Answers on Genesis
Questions 5 (COD Page 41)
Will the Jews still have an opportunity to be saved after the Gentile dispensation comes to a close?
172 Oh, my, if that ain’t a dandy! We ain’t got time to go into it real good, but let me tell you this. And you take my word, I’ll show you. By... If you’ll take my word (as I explain it) God, then you go look it up, see, and then you’ll find out. Cause I imagine... I can’t see the clock, but I imagine it’s past... What time is it? What? Half past nine. I got to go to the hospital yet, and got to go to New Albany yet, and we have to get up at twenty-five minutes after three in the morning. So... And I haven’t been to bed under two or three o’clock any night this week.
173 Now notice here, quickly now, to get this. Yes, my dear Christian friend, the day of the Gentile is finished, finishing right now. And God will return to the Jew. And let me say to this little church that I’m praying constantly. And prophecies from different parts of the country, they’re pouring in here concerning this. I believe that the Jew... Now, keep your coats on just a minute, now.
174 The Jew has never been able to conceive this one thing of the Christian church. The Jew has told me, many times, “Brother, you can’t chop God in three parts and give Him to me.” The Jew has one God, and that’s Jehovah.
175 And the Gentile has misconstrued that so much, till he’s taught it in a way, yet, with knowledge. I believe he-he has a-a conception of it, that there is no three gods. There’s one God, three manifestations. Three personalities in one Person. And when you can get the message, I said to Hyman Appleman... Many of you know him. He said, “Brother Branham, if you take that message to Palestine with the signs and wonders,” said, “there’ll be a million Jews receive Jesus Christ as personal Saviour.” See, that’s right. Now, I said...
176 Here’s the Message we have here. Jesus was Jehovah inveiled in flesh, come down inveiled. Now, God (Father, Son, and Holy Ghost) is not like your finger, one, like some people thinks it. The whole thing’s just like... No, God is... I just unfolded it for you a while ago, see, that there’s a trinity in the One.
177 I’m a trinity in one. I’m soul, body, and spirit, in one person. Is that right? Sure. I’m-I’m made up of-of cells, blood, and nerves, and yet one being. See? Everything you look at is in a trinity, and a trinity in one.
178 There was a trinity in the ark. The bottom floor, the creeping things; the second floor for the fowls, flying things; and the third floor for the Noah and his family. Everything!
179 In the tabernacle. There was a congregation, the holy place, the Holiest of holy. See?
180 And there’s been three dispensations. The Fatherhood, the Sonship, and the Holy Spirit dispensation. See what I mean? But those three all... We don’t say, “our Gods.” That’s heathen, and the Jew knows that. But when you can make it to him that this Jesus IS God, Jehovah God, not a second person or a third person, it’s the same Person all the time making Himself manifest. See? And then with signs and wonders to prove that Jesus has rose from the dead.
181 And this Doctor Reedhead...
182 Brother back there, the teacher of church, teacher over, school teacher, here in the church tonight, I seen him, and I shook hands with his wife and baby back there. He was out there to hear him preach the other night. I think they’re here, if they haven’t gone, believe he’s a school teacher in Louisville. Anyhow, they were out there to hear him.
183 It’s remarkable, the man come to my house, him and another (and a Jew), a few months ago. And he said, “Brother Branham, I got so-many degrees in Bob Jones. I’ve... out of Wheaton.” All the education that could be piled into him! Said, “I’ve believed God since I was a little boy.” And said, “Still my life is vacant!” He said, “Has the teachers been wrong?”
184 And here is the conception. If any... If some of you was over at the Open Door the other night, when we were a few preaching together. He said, “When I got my say-so... ” Now, listen, little tabernacle, for your prayers and things that’s helped out, listen to this. He told me that before, here at the house.
185 He come to my house, he said, “Brother Branham,” said, “I’ve been dumbfounded.” He said, “Is there something greater than this what I have believed and accepted, Christ as my personal Saviour? And I believe that I am born again of the Spirit, but I have no witness of anything.”
186 I said, “Brother, as bad as I hate to say it, the teachers has deceived you, your schooling.”
187 Look, as I-I can say that, I don’t believe in thumbing your way to Heaven: “Do you believe this?” in the churches, “Now, here, let me thumb through here, the-the Bible says this, do you believe that?” The devil believes and trembles! It ain’t what you believe. Your spirit’s got to bear record with His Spirit that you’re sons and daughters of God, by being born again and have received the baptism of the Holy Ghost.
188 He said, “Brother Branham, what do you think about Pentecostals?”
189 And I said, “That’s the reason I’m dealing with them. That’s the reason I’m-I’m fooling with them, they got something that you haven’t got.” I said, “With their fanaticism and everything, they got a truth that you know nothing about.” And I was talking to one of the greatest man in America, right then. Yes, sir. He’s the president of Sudan Missions, is the greatest in all the world, fundamental to the core. He knowed the Scriptures, and the death, burial and resurrection, just preach it like a house on fire. But that ain’t It. The devil can do that, too. The devil’s just as fundamental as he can be.
190 But, brother, Jesus Christ said, “Except a man be born of the Spirit of God he’ll not see the Kingdom of God.”
191 Not just because you say, “Yes, I believe that. Yeah, I-I believe that’s that way. I believe that. Yes.” That don’t do it. It’s got to be a actual experience of the new Birth. It’s got to be something between you and God that you know you’ve passed from death to Life.
192 Said, “Brother Branham, could I receive the Holy Ghost?”
193 I said, “Just laid hands on Hyman Appleman down there, and he received the baptism of the Holy Ghost.”
194 This other Jew commenced to cry, and broke the glass on the little coffee table there, and cried a big puddle on there. Both of them said, “Brother Branham, how do we receive the Holy Ghost?” Scholars! Sharpest, witty! The best there is in the land!
195 And I said, “The apostolic way of receiving the Holy Ghost is lay hands on them.” That’s right.
196 “Laying on of hands.” Ananias come to lay hands on Paul that he might receive his sight and be filled with the Holy Ghost.
197 Philip went down and preached down there, and baptized a whole bunch down there in the Name of Jesus Christ. The Holy Ghost had come on none, ’cause Peter had the keys. And he come down, and he laid hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost. Is that right?
198 Paul, in Acts 19, after he had passed over. Apollos, was Billy Graham type up there, was having a great big revival and a good time. He said, “Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?” to that bunch of Baptists.
199 They said, “We’re John’s followers. We know! Apollos is our preacher, he’s a converted lawyer, smartest man in the country.”
200 He said, “But have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?”
He said, “We know not whether there be any Holy Ghost.”
Said, “Then how was you baptized?”
Said, “We been baptized unto John.”
201 Said, “He baptized unto repentance, saying that you believe on Him to come, on Jesus Christ.” And when they heard This, they were baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ. And Paul laid his hands on them and they received the Holy Ghost, begin speaking in tongues and magnifying God. That’s as plain as I know the Scripture.
202 Now, look, friend! There might be a little difference here in your opinions, ’cause we’re mixed up with everything. But let’s lay it out, not try to put your interpretation. Say what the Bible says, just read It this way.
203 And I said, “The only thing I know, brothers, is to lay hands on them that’s seeking the Holy Ghost.”
204 He said, “Would you lay hands and-and ask God to bless us and give us the Holy Ghost?”
205 I said, “I will.” And we knelt down on the floor, and I prayed and laid hands on them. And about a few weeks after that, both of them received the baptism of the Holy Ghost. And when this Doctor Reedhead received the baptism of the Holy Ghost, come through speaking in other tongues. Yes, sir.
206 And your Sudan Missions said, “We have no place for a man that would speak in tongues.”
207 And he come to me and said, “‘Somebody speaking in tongues’?”
208 “Why, why,” I said, “they have no place for Jesus Christ, for Jesus Christ spoke in unknown tongues; and died, speaking in unknown tongues.”
209 They couldn’t accept Paul’s teaching, Paul spoke with tongues more than all of them.
210 One said to me yesterday, said, “I’d rather speak five words with understanding.”
211 But Paul’s teaching said, “Covet prophecy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.” And they are forbidden to speak with tongues!
211 Speaking in tongues is a Divine gift of God which belongs in the church just the same today as it was back there in the beginning. That’s exactly the Truth. Yes, indeed! That’s the Bible teaching. It’s a Divine gift, and you deny that just the same as you-you deny the new Birth, you deny everything that Jesus taught when you try to cut that out.
213 Now, you can go wild on that, many of them have. But I’m saying, “That has its place.” It’s just like a pair of shoes; when you buy a pair of shoes, the tongues are in them. And that’s right. When you’re into the Body of Christ, God has the whole table set full, here. He has love, He has joy.
214 If I went to your table and set down there, and you said, “Preacher, come eat with me,” I believe you love me. And you had beans and potatoes and carrots and fried chicken and pumpkin pie and ice cream, everything sitting there. Why, I believe I’d be just as welcome to the potatoes as I was to the beans. The only thing, I believe I’d be just as welcome to the chicken as I was to the pie. It’s all on the table. And the only thing I have to do is say, “Would you please pass me some pie?” And I believe with a good free heart, your love to me, you’d say, “Certainly, my brother, have a nice big piece of it.” Is that right? If I’d say, “Would you pass me potatoes?” “Why, certainly, my brother, here it is.”
215 And every redemptive blessing that Jesus Christ died for and purchased in His atonement at Calvary, it’s sitting on the table and every believer is sitting before it. Hallelujah! If I need healing, I say, “Father, pass me some healing,” and I pour it out on my plate and eat a big... Now, if you want to starve to death, go ahead. Yes, sir. And prophecy, speaking in tongues...
216 And-and then the man wrote in there, he didn’t know that I spoke... had spoke with tongues myself. And he’s writing this book, you’ll find it’ll scatter the nations. And besides that, this man has got twenty-five outstanding ministers of Moody Bible Institute seeking the gift of speaking in tongues. The fundamental people’s turned upside down. The Christian Life, this-this month, look at Christian Life magazine this month, on page nineteen, and look at that great doctor of divinity, said, “Shall we accept this? Have we lost something?”
217 I hear the abundance of rain coming! You have people twist it around the corner, but it’s come to a place that God’s giving the Gentile world a shake with the baptism of the Holy Ghost, pouring It out with all of Its fulness and powers and signs and wonders. The reason I hold... the Pentecost has been pushed out on the corner and went wild on different things like that, the time wasn’t ripe yet. That’s the reason they’ve had all this fanaticism. But that’s God’s Divine promise and God’s Divine Word, and It has to come to pass for God’s done said so. And I believe just before the ending of the Gentile dispensation that God will pour out on fundamentalists.
218 You can read it in Reader’s Digest this month, this August issue of it. Go look at it, how that Methodist preacher down there in the pulpit there, praying for that man laying there dying on a hospital bed, and the witness of the Holy Ghost come and the man was healed instantly. Hallelujah! Sure. God’s got Divine healing sitting on the table here! He’s got prophecy sitting on the table here! He’s got speaking in tongues on the table here! He’s got nine spiritual gifts in the Body, and you’re welcome to every one of them! Hallelujah! Yes, sir, here we are.
Will... At the close of the Gentile, will the Jews be returned?
219 Yes, sir. Many Scriptures, sister, brother, ever who it is. Joel for one, “What the palmerworm left, the caterpillar eat,” and so forth, that tree. And Jesus said Hisself how they would be turned away and everything. Oh, the whole Scripture, Daniel and everywhere, speaks of it. Yes, Jesus said, “When you see the fig tree putting forth its buds, know the time is nigh.” I believe this other one deals something with it:
