Questions & Answers on Genesis
Questions 6 (COD Page 47)
Do you believe that the Jews’-Jews’ return to Palestine is a fulfillment of the Bible prophecy? We heard you were going to Palestine, is that true?
220 Yes. Yes, sir. Let me tell you something, one of the greatest... If you want to see what time of year it is, look on the calendar. If you want to see what time of night it is, look at the clock. If you want to see what day you’re living in, look where the Jews are. That’s God’s timepiece.
221 And look! The very night, the very day, that the angel of the Lord met me, 1946, on May the seventh, at Green’s Mill, Indiana, that same day the treaty of peace was signed for the Jews and they were a established nation for the first time for twenty-five hundred years. Hallelujah!
222 And, tonight, the oldest flag in all the world, the six-point star of David, flies over Jerusalem for the first time in twenty-five hundred years, since the carrying away of Babylon. Jesus said, “When you see the fig tree putting forth its buds.” There she is! There He said, “Learn a parable. You say ‘summer’s nigh.’ When you see this, know that the time is at the door.” We’re right at the end of time.
223 Look how the “abomination” of Daniel, and so forth, you know, when Jesus said. “When the great Prince shall come, He’ll prophesy a-a thousand and two hundred and threescore days,” which was three years and six months. And that’s exactly what Jesus preached. He come to the Jews alone, then He’ll be cut off for a-a sacrifice for the people. “And that abomination maketh desolation,” the Mohammedans set up the Moslem of Omar there. “And they would tread down the walls of Jerusalem until” (whew! Until what?) “the Gentile dispensation be fulfilled.” And then He will return to the Jews again, and there’s when the Battle of Armageddon takes... There He called the Gentiles, to take a people out for His Name, His Bride. Notice. Yes, sir. The hundred and forty-four thousand are all redeemed Jews that’s got to stand there yet. All these...
224 Then when the Church is taken up, Moses and Elijah appears, in Revelation 11, and preaches Jesus Christ to them. And the Holy Spirit’s took from the Gentiles, and the Rapture comes for the Church to be taken up. And the Jews that’s left here will be preached for three and a half years, because he said, “There’s seventy of weeks still determined on Thy people, and Messiah shall be cut off in between them.” When He’s taken away, the Gentiles will be given a place, and then they got three more years and a half to be preached to, of Jesus Christ.
225 Sure, the Jews are coming. And I believe, brother, that when we get there to Palestine this time... Oh, pray! They’re reading that Bible.
226 Just one more statement, then I got a little, short question here, and that’s all of them. This one here I think is a prayer.
227 Look at this! Doctor Reedhead said, standing there talking to a smart Mohammedan...
228 Now, put your ears up close. A Mohammedan, I had around twenty thousand of them come to the Lord Jesus when they seen the signs and wonders there in Africa. This... Or, no, not twenty thousand; it was thirty thousand in all. I guess it was ten thousand of them come, ’cause the big majority was-was Mohammedan. And when they stood there, and I said, “Which one of your prophets at the temple can make this man whole?” I said, “Which one of your idols, to you natives, can make this man whole?” I said, “Neither one of them! No prophet at the temple... and no priest, rather.” And I said, “No idol could do it. And neither could I. But God of Heaven has raised up His Son Jesus Christ Who is alive among man today, Who’s made him perfectly whole as you see him standing.” A man with a chain around his neck, had to lead him like a dog. In one minute’s time was standing on his feet, normal and well.
229 And Doctor Reedhead told me the other night when we was sitting there in the car, he said, “Oh, my!” thinking of it. He said this Mohammedan come to him, and said he was talking to this Mohammedan, a very scholarly man. He said, “Well, sir, why don’t you renounce your old dead prophet, Mohammed?”
230 Now, remember, Mohammedans believe in God. Out there in-in Africa, a great “bong,” a “dong,” hangs up like that. And they take a great big rubber hammer and hit it like that, and it rings out over the country. And every Mohammedan stops, and the priest walks out the top of the temple, and says “There is one true and living God, and Mohammed is His prophet.”
231 That’s Ishmael’s children. See, Hagar, they’re sons of Abraham out of Hagar. See? They believe in a true Jehovah God, but they think Jesus... (That was... He’s our Redeemer, sent to the Gentiles from the free woman; Isaac, see, and through Sarah). And now, they was through Hagar, Ishmael, and come the Mohammedans.
232 And at the grave of Mohammed, you should go look, it’s striking, the great tomb there. And for two thousand years there’s been a white horse saddled, standing there. Mohammed
promised that he would rise from the dead someday and jump on to that horse and conquer the world. And every-every moment they just change one horse from another; waiting there with a faithful guard, standing, waiting for Mohammed to rise from the dead. Two thousand years has passed since then.
233 They believe in Jesus, they said He was a prophet. On the walls of old Jerusalem there’s a great big shrine built, that’s for Mohammed to come to. And a little bitty shrine down here, that’s for Jesus. See, they said, “Jesus wasn’t crucified, they was all mixed up that.” Said, “He got on a horse and rode off.” See? Now, they-they believe that.
234 They got a red dot between their eyes. The folks there that’s going to India, you’ll notice it. My, they’ll stand there by the thousands.
235 And then Doctor Reedhead said he was standing there, and he said, “Now, why don’t you forsake that old dead prophet and receive One Who’s rose from the dead, a living Christ?” Now, he was a scholar and he knowed how to place his words.
236 Said the Mohammedan looked at him, (smart, educated man, right here in America, had been educated here) he said, “Sir, kind sir, what can your resurrected Jesus do for me anymore than my dead prophet has done?” Said, “My dead prophet promised me Life after death. That’s what your Jesus did.” Well, he had something. Said, “Now, both of them wrote a book. You believe the one that Jesus wrote, I believe the one Mohammed wrote. They both promise Life.” Said, “What can your Jesus do anymore for me than my-my Mohammed can?” Well, the man, in simple facts, it’s the truth. He said, “But just a moment, kind sir.” He said, “My Mohammed never promised me things like your Jesus did. Your Jesus promised... They said, ‘He rose up,’ and was going to be with you all the time, to the end of the world; and the same signs and wonders that He did, you would do also, plumb to the end of the world. You would heal the sick, and raise the dead, and cleanse the lepers, and cast out devils.” Said, “I studied Christianity, thoroughly.” Said, “Now let me see you teachers produce Jesus Christ, and I’ll believe He rose from the dead. But, outside of that... Mohammed never promised us such things as that, he just promised us Life after death. And that’s the very same thing that you teach, and bypass the other.” The man was right, the Mohammedan was exactly right.
237 Doctor Reedhead said he stood and cried. Said, “Brother Branham, I thought of you.” And he rushed over here, and went in there, and I laid my hands on him, and the baptism of the Holy Ghost come upon him. And now he even sees visions and everything. Now let the Mohammedan meet him! He’s a different man!
238 I say our Jesus rose from the dead, He’s living today. And He does the same things today He did then, all kinds of signs and wonders. And you fundamental people are sitting around trying to explain that away, and missing the very fundamental part of the Bible. That’s exactly right. Jesus Christ, the resurrected Son of God, can speak with other tongues through you, He can prophesy through you, He can show visions through you, He can interpret unknown languages through you. And all of that is part of Him.
239 And to take this part of Him and leave that part off of Him, would be like cutting me half in two and taking my hips and my legs down and say you’ve got me, when this part you won’t receive.
240 You either have to receive me fully... And that’s the reason I’m a full-Gospel preacher that believes that everything God said is the Truth. Amen! Glory! I feel like a holy-roller right now. Yes, sir. I believe It!
