Tonight, we are about to approach a very vital subject in the form of questions and answers again, and that is concerning "Spiritual gifts and their Operations". We must realize that much fanaticism is built around this subject. The bible speaks of lying signs and wonders in the end-time, and today the entire religious world is deceived by lying signs and wonders, especially in the so-called Pentecostal realms. Everybody professes to have a healing and miracle ministry. I want to prove by some of these questions and answers, the root of all this fanaticism that has produced Matthew 24:24 in the end-time, fulfillment of Bible Prophecy.

Question#207:"Is there a difference of gifts of Ephesians 4: 11-15 and 1 Corinthians 12:4-11, and what are the differences?"

Answer:Yes. The gifts of Ephesians 4 and the gifts recorded in 1 Corinthians 12 are different. The gifts in Ephesians 4 of Apostles, prophets, teachers, evangelists and pastors are office gifts which have to do with the Word of God, bringing the truth to the Church of God, protecting the church from false teachings, from heresies and from false prophets. They are responsible for handling the Word of God, whereas the gifts which are normally called divers gifts of 1Corinthians 12, have to do with the manifestations of the Spirit and the operation of the supernatural in the church of God because God is a supernatural God and his works are supernatural. These gifts are operated by the Church of Christ that He inaugurated on the day of Pentecost. These gifts were to accompany the church unto the end of the world and identify the true church of God and the believers of the gospel. "And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover." (Mark 16:17-18). "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father." (St. John 14:12). So the gifts recorded of in 1 Corinthians 12 are manifestations of the supernatural God working supernatural signs, wonders and miracles amongst His people, to prove that He is a living God amongst His people with living signs and living wonders.

The Offices of Ephesians 4 handle the Word of God and in addition, these men who handle the Word of God as Apostles, prophets, teachers, evangelists and pastors are equipped with the gifts of 1 Corinthians 12. Not only Office gifts to take the dead letter of the Word and tell you what the bible says, but for these men to prove what they are preaching is the truth and the true gospel of Jesus Christ, they are equipped with the divers gifts so they work together. "They went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen." (Mark 16:20).

In addition to these gifts given to the offices of Ephesians 4, these gifts are in the church of God and belong to the Church of God.

Question#208:"Some teach that there are only nine gifts of the Spirit-1 Corinthians 12."

It is commonly believed and preached that there are nine gifts of the Spirit, even because in 1 Corinthians 12 nine gifts are recorded, but there is no scripture in the Bible to limit God and His Spirit to nine gifts of the Spirits. Where people make the mistakes is they have counted out nine gifts of the Spirit in 1 Corinthians 12: 4-11, but there are scriptures that bear out that there other gifts of the Spirit.

"Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit... But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will." (1 Corinthians 12:4-11). Nine gifts are recorded in 1 Corinthians 12, but nowhere in this chapter says that God is limited to nine gifts of the Spirit. The 31st verse clarifies this.

"But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way."

There is a Gift in the bible that is greater than those nine gifts recorded in 1 Corinthians 12: 4-11, and that is the gift of Charity. Brother Paul magnified that gift of Charity above the nine gifts, and if we were to add the nine gifts to the one described in the 31st verse, that makes it ten, and yet I will bring scriptures to show you that there are more than ten. 1 Corinthians 13 says that Charity is the greatest gift and that charity is love and God is love. The greatest gift that a man could have is the giver of the gifts himself abiding in him and the Prophet of God said that the people have the gifts but they do not have the giver of the gifts.

Quote: E-66 "But you see Pentecostal people, you're going after gifts instead of the Giver… God vindicates His gifts. God proves His gifts. But what is the gift without the Giver?... That's what the matter today." (Where I Think Pentecost Failed 55-1111).

Brother Paul was straightening that out. He spoke of so many gifts over here but then he was showing you that there is a greater gift that every man must have in order to live in that new world and qualify as a Christian. "Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the GIFT of the Holy Ghost." (Acts 2:38). I am pointing out to you a GIFT of the Holy Ghost, so we are not limited to nine. It is not wrong to say nine divers gifts but we have to put it in the right context. The Prophet of God spoke of nine divers gifts, but he also said that there are many other gifts.

I will take the opportunity here to show you some other gifts in the Bible. "Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith; Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching; Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness." (Romans 12:6-8).

Is exhortation a gift? Is giving a gift? ["Congregation says, "Amen!"] Everybody doesn't have the spirit to give. They will die and leave everything to the Government and not make a Will. Misers until they go into the box. They don't have that love in their hearts to give. Ruling is a gift. Everybody cannot rule. Mercy is a gift, down in the heart. All these gifts are within the church.

Faith for your salvation is a gift. "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God." (Ephesians 2:8). "Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ." (Galatians 2:16). That faith in itself is a gift. Now on this basis, the gifts of God could go into the millions, if we should start counting the gifts of God and put them into this category. What about singing? What about music? Did the Lord create Lucifer with his pipes and his organs in him? Well, those were gifts that were imparted unto Lucifer. There are gifts unto Angels. If you would start counting the gifts of God they could end up in the millions and billions. Why some person could take up a pencil and draw something so accurate and the next fellow cannot do it? It's the blessing and the gift of God. Why one person could jump on an instrument and just keep playing and never did go to school and somebody try from now until they die and they never had an ear for music. An ear for music is a gift, but when you learn it from a book and you have to put your eyes on that book and they have to teach you which key to press and all these things, that is not a gift. That is just school learning or knowledge of some kind

Quote: E-12 "So he picked up a piece of gas pipe back there and blowed the "Star Spangled Banner" through that gas pipe like that... That boy don't need a music lesson. He was born that way. It's just a gift." (At thy Word 53-1204).

Quote: E-14"It's a gift that comes from God… just like a gift to sing, a gift to do anything; it's gifts." (Workings Of The Holy Spirit 56-0816).

We could go on naming many gifts in the scriptures that even the people had in the Old Testament times. Some gifts used to run in the family. For instance, like the high priest. God gave the high priest a certain line. His son was the next high priest - his grandson and on down. Then you come to the Levites, it was a chosen family. Then you had the Aaronic Priesthood. Then you had the Leviticus Priesthood and then certain people were chosen to do certain things in the House of God and in the Tabernacle of witness in the wilderness and the Lord named them out.

Look at David; he had a certain gift to play on a harp that when an evil spirit came upon Saul, he sent for him and he played on that harp and the evil spirit went away. So there are many gifts in the scriptures.

Question#209:"Can you please identify each gift of 1 Corinthians 12 in the scriptures and explain their operation?"

We would try. 1 Corinthians 12: 8-10 is where these gifts are in the New Testament and you have Number 1, the gift of Wisdom, 2nd, the gift of knowledge, then the gift of faith. Then notice in your bible carefully, gifts of healing, not singular gift of healing, but gifts of healing. I wonder if we can still call it nine with that? Gift of Miracles, gift of Prophecy. Another gift is discerning of spirits, divers kinds of tongues, interpretations of Tongues, and I will still put in the last one here, 1 Corinthians 12:31, Charity.

To try to divide these gifts of the spirit, in a scriptural manner we must go back to the bible to see where they were used, and then you will be going right. We must be able to identity them and the best way to ever preach anything and tie in down in the scripture is to take the Word of God, go back and see where it happened in the Bible, then you know that you are going right. Not the dictionary, not the Bible School friends, not your own imagination, not what somebody told you or what you imagine. No, we were taught by the Prophet of God that there is a 'Keystone of the Bible' and that is to go back to the beginning, to see how it was done.

Quote: 66-3 "The Keystone of the Bible. It is the revelation that God never changes, and that His ways are as unchangeable as He is… What He did at the FIRST He will have to keep on doing until it is done for the LAST time. There will never be a change… What God did in the first church age is what He wants to do in all other ages." (Church Ages Book).

Every gift that is given to you is a supernatural ability. That is the difference with natural gifts and supernatural gifts. We are speaking of supernatural gifts and its a supernatural ability. The gift of wisdom is the sense and understanding to handle natural and spiritual affairs of life, to handle people, how to deal with them, to judge between good and evil, and between brothers and sisters. This was displayed and properly established in the life of Solomon. He was the wisest King on earth. "And God said to Solomon, Because this was in thine heart, and thou hast not asked riches… but hast asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself, that thou mayest judge my people, over whom I have made thee king: Wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee."(2 Chronicles 1:11-12). Now see how this wisdom was displayed.

"And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king. And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other. Then spake the woman whose the living child [was] unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it. Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof. And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do judgment." (1 Kings 3:24-27).

So wisdom judged between two women. That wisdom is placed in the church of God in the New Testament. That was Old Testament Wisdom.

We could see the wisdom of God, who was wisdom himself, Jesus Christ, a prophet of God; he is called wisdom over in the book of Proverbs. They came to him with hard questions. At that time the Lord put the right thoughts and the right answers into the mind and that person doesn't have to go back and search in a book or something. They come under inspiration and "the right answer is from the Lord", the scripture says.

"Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk. And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master… Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not? But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites? Shew me the tribute money. And they brought unto him a penny. And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? They say unto him, Caesar's. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's. When they had heard these words, they marvelled and left him, and went their way." (Matthew 22: 15-22). Wisdom caused Him not to commit himself to say whether to pay tax or not. If he had said to pay tax, the poor people will cry in shame because the taxes were too heavy.

There were many other instances where that wisdom was displayed. Like the time they wanted to stone the adulterous woman. The law said all adulterers and fornicators shall be stoned, but wisdom was so great that it even surpassed the law. He said, "Let him that is without sin cast the first stone." He could not tell them that they were wrong because Moses said that in the Word of God, but Wisdom. "He that winneth souls is wise." He won that soul.

Another instance, we take Brother Paul. These men were gifted with wisdom and you could look at his wisdom standing before the Sanhedrin. "And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day…But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question. And when he had so said, there arose a dissension between the Pharisees and the Sadducees: and the multitude was divided. For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both. And there arose a great cry: and the scribes that were of the Pharisees' part arose, and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man: but if a spirit or an angel hath spoken to him, let us not fight against God." (Acts 23:1,6-9). He divided the whole thing and they start fighting and Brother Paul was okay. The wisdom of God. The Bible said, "For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist." (Luke 21:15).

Now the Wisdom of the Lord was wrapped up in parables. That wisdom lived on for two thousand years and it took another man with wisdom today to come and unravel them. Malachi 4:5-6 was wisdom himself. God gave the wisdom to unravel them. God gave him the wisdom, the knowledge and the understanding. And over in the Book of Acts 6:9-10 there was a disputation between Stephen and the Libertines, Cyrenians and Alexandrians. And the Bible said, "And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake"; and when they could not do that they had to kill the man. That gift of wisdom is so great that there was not a question that came up that he could not answer right away. God gave him the wisdom. They tried to catch him on this point and he shut them up, he closed up this avenue here, he defeated them on this side. You talking about learned men he was dealing with. A man cannot think, fabricate and get those answers so quickly in his mind. Because of that wisdom that the Lord endued him with, he just answered their questions, one by one, and nobody could have resisted him.

"And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing." (1 Corinthians 13:2). The gift of knowledge is that the Lord gives you a spiritual ability to understand the scriptures: "Knowledge to understand all mysteries." You have knowledge to catch on to things quickly and to understand the scriptures. You are able to tie the scriptures from Genesis to Revelation, and a next man will keep on asking those questions: "What about this, what about that, I can't understand this and I can't understand that", but then because of that knowledge a man is able to tie the scripture from Genesis to Revelation.

God sent a prophet with knowledge. He gave him that knowledge to understand the Word of God. In order for a next man to understand that and to tie that word of God down in an effective way to shut the mouth of the critics, he must also have the gift of knowledge. Everybody doesn't have that. It must be given to you. Then that person doesn't go and cram a set of books and then people want to know how that man does that. "He doesn't cram a set of books, he never came from a bible school, he never went to university and he could answer those questions in the bible and place it here and place it there. Now, that is a gift of knowledge.

Can we point out a man like that in the scripture who had a gift of knowledge and who knew the scriptures? We could point out many. Jesus. "And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD; and shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD.' (Isaiah 11:1-3).

Brother Paul had so much knowledge, that the scripture said, "Brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction." (2 Peter: 15-16).

The bible said in Acts 18:24-28: "And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus… And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly. And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him: who, when he was come, helped them much which had believed through grace: For he mightily convinced the Jews and that publickly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ." He had a knowledge of the word of God, but yet he lacked a certain knowledge about the coming of Christ, and Aquila and Priscilla his wife passed by and called him aside and expounded the word to him more clearly. Aquila preached and his wife confirmed it by her testimony.

"And though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, (Love, capstone, Jesus, Holy Ghost) I am nothing." (1 Corinthians 13:2). "If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you." (Matthew 17:20). Faith to remove mountains. So now faith is a gift. Tell the mountain to move then somebody. You don't have that gift of faith. If you have that gift of faith you will be able to manifest it, and you don't need much faith, just as a grain of a mustard seed, which is the smallest of all seeds. Moses had that gift of faith. He didn't tell the mountain to move into the sea, but he told the sea to roll back and many other signs and wonders. It took faith in Moses' heart to do that.

In the New Testament, Jesus had that gift of faith. He just walked right out upon the waters. "And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water. And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus. But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me. And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?" (Matthew 14:28-31). So now faith will cause you to walk on the waters. Faith will cause you to roll back the sea, it will cause you to open the Jordan. So now, right through the scripture is the gift of faith. In the New Testament that gift of faith is greater than in the Old Testament.

Brother Branham had a gift of faith. By that gift of faith the Lord told him to speak these squirrels into existence, and he just spoke them, and he related that to Mark 11:23, "whosoever shall say unto this mountain…" Now that's the kind of faith that the church is coming to; a gift of faith that is more superior than all the other faith in the Old Testament.

Quote: E-62 "Quote: E-62 "I believe that the church of the living God is moving into a sphere now that's going to shake the whole world… "Ask anything that you will, and it shall be given unto you, anything you desire."…Oh, it's going to come to pass pretty soon… that anointing will strike the whole church of the living God, and she'll rise to her feet like a mighty marching army. The sick will be healed by a word; the blind will see; the deaf will hear; the dead will be raised up; and the power of God will shake the world with the church of the living God." (Speak To This Mountain 59-1123).now that's going to shake the whole world… "Ask anything that you will, and it shall be given unto you, anything you desire."…Oh, it's going to come to pass pretty soon… that anointing will strike the whole church of the living God, and she'll rise to her feet like a mighty marching army. The sick will be healed by a word; the blind will see; the deaf will hear; the dead will be raised up; and the power of God will shake the world with the church of the living God." (Speak To This Mountain 59-1123).

Quote: E-40 "And if you'll notice in the Bible, healing is in plural, gifts, g-i-f-t-s, gifts of healings." (Angel and the commission 50-0821).

Now, it says gifts of healing and the prophet of God specified that 's'. Now, Jesus had that ministry of healing, Paul had that ministry of healing, and the angel of the Lord came down to Brother Branham and said, "I am sent from the Presence of God, of Almighty God, to tell you that your peculiar birth and life has been to indicate that you're to take this gift of Divine healing to the people's of the world."(At thy Word Lord 48-0305).

The only way that I could relate these gifts of healing is that I noticed that Brother Branham had a gift of healing phase one, and he had a sign in his hand, and that was one type of healing ministry. Then it went a little higher to discernment and that was another type of healing ministry by another gift. And then it went up a little higher to the speak the Word and that was another healing ministry and another kind of gift. So, 'gifts of healing.'

Gifts of miracles. All these things belong to the New Testament church and we must see them before the rapture takes place.

Anything beyond human ability is a miracle. Moses performed ten miracles in the land of Egypt and by another miracle opened the red sea. Jesus raised Lazarus who was four days dead, rotten and stinking and he walked upon the waters. The shadow of the Apostle fell upon the sick and they were healed. (Acts 5:15). He did not even lay hands upon them; by just his shadow they were healed. And in the case of Brother Branham, he did not even have to put his shadow, he just spoke the word and they were healed. So Brother Branham was an example of wisdom, he was a example today of knowledge, he was an example of the gift of faith, gifts of healing and the gift of miracles.

There was an accident; a car turned over and pinned a man and was squeezing him to death. Brother Branham prayed and the car just flipped over back on its four wheels and the man came out. I believe in miracles.

Prophesy means to foretell. This gift belongs in the church of God, and can go from one to the next. We have many examples in the Old Testament where people prophesied and several in the New Testament, so nobody should be in doubt concerning this gift and how it operates. Mary was pregnant with the Lord Jesus and she went down there to meet Elisabeth, and Elisabeth she prophesied about what she had in her womb, never told about that. (Luke 1: 39- 45).

Zacharias prophesied at the birth of John. (Luke 1: 67-79). Simeon walked over there and he prophesied about the baby, and Anna, a prophetess and a blind woman who could not see now, walked right over and prophesied likewise. (Luke 2:25-38). Prophecy is foretelling things that your human knowledge really cannot figure out

Another example of prophecy could be found in Acts 13:2-3: "As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid [their] hands on them, they sent them away." That belongs in the church of God.

Quote: 880-39 "Now, we all know that the Lord is coming; we're aware of that. And if Brother Neville got up each night and said, "Behold, the Lord is coming. Behold, the Lord is coming," that would be all right. See?... prophecy, or a prophet speaking; that's something that's not written in the Word… Like, for instance, "Tell Brother Wheeler, THUS SAITH THE LORD, 'Tomorrow, in his sand pit, not to go to it, because there'll be a truck turn over,'" or something like that, and it's got to be done. (Church Order 63-1226).

Prophecy is not coming up here and saying, "Yea, the Lord is coming soon." No! It is foretelling something. "And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar." (Acts 11:28).

Here is another example of prophecy: "But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God. And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things." (Acts 5:3-5). Now Brother Branham prophesied Brothers and Sisters, and he stated clearly that that is coming back to the church of God one day. If you have that lying spirit in you get rid of that now. You are going to die in the House of God. Judgment begins at the House of God.

Quote: E-15 "Then these other nine different spiritual gifts should be operating in the church to keep the church clean. Like the Ananias and Sapphiras and so forth, the Spirit of God rise up and call somebody out and tell them they're living wrong, and rebuke that sin openly, and that's what the Holy Spirit is in the church for, to keep the church clean and ready for the coming of the Lord." (What It Takes To Overcome All Unbelief 60-0729).

Quote: 60 "You know, the hour will soon arise when right among us the Holy Spirit will speak out like It did in Ananias and Sapphira." (Communion 65-1212).

Discerning of spirits is to have a supernatural knowledge to understand if that is the right spirit or the wrong spirit. Notice when the people came before Brother Branham, he said, "I am talking to you to contact your spirit." He had a greater gift than the discerning of spirits. That was a different gift operating but it was operating in that measure also.

That man who the Lord bless to discern spirits, he don't always speak that. He talk's to you and laughs but there is something down in there that he discerns that, that spirit is not a Christian spirit, that spirit is not right; that man's motives and objectives is not right. Yes, discerning of spirits, to judge whether it's a spirit of a demon, or the Spirit of the Lord.

The bible gives you certain measures by which to discern that spirit.

"Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost." (1 Corinthians 12:3). If a man is not blessed with that gift, he goes around as a carnal judge, an imitator, imposter, and trying to call out different spirits. Those who play prophets, go to certain churches, start looking around and say, "There are evil spirits in here". Like I said before, right now there are several evil spirits here.

Where do you find that in the scripture that a man discerns a man's spirit, Brother Bruce? Phillip the evangelist preached and, oh my, he was so happy, he converted the sorcerer. Peter went down there and talked to him a little bit and after he finished speak, he said, "For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity." (Acts 8:23). Discernment of spirits.

Brother Paul was trying to convert a proconsul and a man named Barjesus came around and tried to turn the proconsul away from the gospel. "Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him, And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, [thou] child of the devil, [thou] enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord? And now, behold, the hand of the Lord [is] upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand." (Acts 13: 8-11). That is returning to the house of the Lord.

Brother Branham had discernment of spirits in a measure that many of the apostles never had. You talk about visions and dreams. He was in a Pentecostal meeting one time and they were prophesying and interpreting and everything was going real good. He came around there and shook one of the men's hand, and his spirit did not bear witness with him. He said, "I will talk with him a little bit to find out. The Lord gave me a little gift to find out." He spoke with him and a vision broke before Brother Branham, and the man was an adulterer.

"Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal." (1 Corinthians 13:1). Divers kinds of tongues are actually tongues of men and tongues of angels. In other words, several tongues. Today you might speak in German, tomorrow you might speak in Japanese and another day you might speak in an angelic tongue. On the day of Pentecost, they spoke languages and the people who heard said, "How hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?" (Acts 2:8). That also happened in the ministry of Brother Branham in Mexico he was speaking to a Spanish speaking person and then in speaking she said, "I thought he couldn't speak Spanish." And the interpreter said, "You spoke English, did you not, Brother Branham?" I said, "I did." He said, "Well, she said you spoke Spanish."… The Holy Spirit speaking English was interpreting it to her in Spanish." (E-5 Be certain of God 59-0412A).

They had tongues of men and Angels. Boy I tell you, I want that. You speak, and different people from different languages could hear you; you don't need an interpreter. That would be wonderful.

Now don't you forget that the seven thunders was in an unknown language, and the one that was holding that was Revelation 10:1; tongues of men and angels. Brother Branham said, "There's one thing that I cannot interpret, because it's in an unknown language…" "I looked for the interpretation that flew across there, and I couldn't make it out." (Seals Book pages 563,567).

A person could have both, tongues, and interpretation and those who have tongues must try to pray that they are given the gift of interpretation the bible says (1 Corinthians 14:13). So, a message goes out in tongues, let's say in Japanese, and then that stops, and when that stops then the Spirit falls and speaks in English and interprets what the Japanese language or the Chinese just said. So it's an interpretation now. Tongues and interpretation equal prophesy.

Quote: 11 "But if they speak in tongues and then interpret it, it becomes prophecy. (Broken cisterns 65-0123).

Tongues speaking is just not a big pack of nonsense; the reason tongues are being spoken it is bringing a message to the church, and bringing a message to the church it is of no value to the church until you have an interpreter. One brother could have both tongue and interpretation, and the next fellow on this side could have tongues only. He speaks in tongues, waits on the Spirit a little bit, and then this fellow rises up from this corner here, interprets that tongue and brings a message. Now that equals prophesy.

Quote: 619-122 "I do not believe that the interpreter is interpreting the language of the person. I believe that the Spirit is present and the interpreter is prophesying. I believe he is a prophesier instead of an interpreter if he does not hear the voice in his own lang... "How hear we every man in our own language wherein we were born?" See, you've got to hear in the same; you've got to hear it in English... And if you're speaking in an unknown tongue, and interpreting, you're hearing in the language that you were born in, because that's the only way you can interpret what they're saying; because the Holy Spirit has interpreted it to you, and you're just speaking for the Holy Spirit." (God being misunderstood 61-0723E).

An example of where tongues were interpreted in the scriptures was in the days of Belshazzar. There came a writing of tongues over his throne and nobody could interpret. No doubt, an angel came with his finger and wrote there, "MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN." The king buckled and he brought in all the obeah men, astrologers, the Chaldeans and the soothsayers. None of them could interpret that. Then somebody came and said, "O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be changed: There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him… let Daniel be called, and he will shew the interpretation." And they brought in Daniel. And the king said, "Art thou that Daniel that was in the days of my father Nebuchadnezzar?" He said, "I am." "Can thou make known the meaning of this writing on the wall? "Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another; yet I will read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the interpretation." The Lord had already told him the secret, yes, and he told him the secret he said, "king, Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain and the kingdom was taken by the Medes and Persian, Iran and Iraq in that time. (Daniel 5).

Jesus spoke in tongues on the cross. "And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Some of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, This [man] calleth for Elias." (Matthew 27:46-47). Those devils there could not understand what he was saying. The scribe got that interpretation later, no doubt, and he said what it meant. Jesus died speaking in tongues. Then on the day of Pentecost they spoke in tongues. So tongues are for a sign.

Question#210:"Can a man besides Jesus and Brother Branham operate all of the nine divers gifts of the Spirit?"

Answer:: Now I want to say that the scripture does not specify whether a man can have all divers gifts. But I believe that it is possible for a man to have all divers gifts, or even a woman to have all these nine divers gifts. And in 1Corinthians 12:11 says, But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will. Now the one that determines who is going to get either one gift or two or three or nine, is the Spirit. It's the Holy Ghost that determines who is going to get the gifts and how many. Dividing severally unto every man severally as he will. Even women can get those gifts of the Spirit, so it's not just men that can get these gifts.

Quote: 49 024 "But women are gifted with prophecy, and gifted with tongues and interpretations, and everything but being preachers. They're not to be preachers. They're forbidden to preach in the churches (That's right.), take the place, or be a teacher, or anything in the church. But as far as gifts, the woman has all those, can occupy one or any of those nine spiritual gifts according to I Corinthians 12, and is under no bondage that her message should not come forth in its place. You see, each message waits for its time." (Patmos Vision 60-1204E). Women cannot have any of the five office gifts.

"Some teach that if you have the gift of tongues or another gift, you have the Holy Ghost; Is this true?"

Answer: No, it's a lie, because a man could have all the gifts that we just went through and not have charity, which is love, which is God, which is the thing they received on the day of Pentecost, the Outpouring, which is the fullness of God. Therefore tongues is not the evidence of the Holy Ghost; it is the least of all gifts, and it is not the initial evidence of the Holy Spirit. A man could manifest all the gifts of the Spirit and yet not have the Seal of God, the baptisms of the Holy Spirit.

Quote: E-33 "I know I heard him speak in tongues; I know he's got it, I seen him heal the sick. He saw a vision; he had a revelation. Oh, preach, you never heard a man preach like that." None of those things are the sign you got it. Paul said, "Though I speak with tongues like men and angels. Though I have the gift of prophesy, I understand all the knowledge and wisdom of the Bible, and everything, I am nothing." Jesus said, "Many will come to Me in that day under this same theology in faith." And say, "Well now, haven't I cast out devils in Your Name? And in Your Name have I preached, prophesied? I've done many mighty works." He will say, "Depart from Me, you workers of iniquity, I don't even know you." (Mark of Christ 55-0312).

The prophet of God is stating here and bringing St Matthew 7 to prove that you could manifest all the gifts of the spirits, as outlined to you here, and don't have the true article of Pentecost. So you could preach, prophesy, heal the sick and do all these things and do not have it

Quote: E-33 "Oh, you can say, "Now, Brother Branham, I tell you: I know what I've got it because I can pray for the sick and they can be healed. Brother Branham, God just revealed the Word to me like this, and that, and the other. I have a knowledge of the Word. You're wrong. I heal the sick. I speak with tongues. I do these things. I cast out devils." Jesus said, "Many will come to Me in that day with that same story: 'Lord, haven't I cast out devils in Your Name. Have I not prophesied in Your Name? In Your Name, have I done many mighty works?' And then I will confess to them, 'Depart from Me, you workers of iniquity. I don't even know you.'" That kind of changes the picture, doesn't it, brother?...Don't never look at a man by what he can do in the sign of works. That's where he's nothing. He might heal the sick. He might have gifts of prophecy. He might understand all the knowledge…Prophesying is good; speaking in tongues is right. Interpretations is right. Shouting is right. But you can do those things without being first fundamentally baptized into Christ...That's not fruits of the Spirit; that's the gifts of the Spirit….Through faith you can do great things and yet not be borned again of the Spirit of God. Be careful there. It's a danger line, Pentecostal people." (Position Of A Believer In Christ 55-0227a).

Similar quotations can be found in: "Laodicean Age, Pergamean Age of the Church Age Book," E-49 'Get the Giver, and the gift will take care of itself.' (Doors of the Door 57-1212), E-72 'Remember, you can have all the gifts and not have the Giver. Get Christ first.' (As the eagle stirreth her nest 58-0316).

You can have all these gifts without the giver. I trust that you can comprehend that "Preacher, can you show us that in the scripture, of people, manifesting these gifts, but did not have the giver inside of them?' Positively! I could show you people in the bible that were not born again nor had the article of Pentecost, that prophesied, spoke in tongues, performed miracles, sings, wonders, raise the dead, the demons were subject unto them and did not have the born again experience yet, nor the article of Pentecost. Elizabeth was not born again and she prophesied. Mary was not born again. She had to go up to Pentecost but she prophesied before that. Zacharias was not born again but he prophesied.

We had twelve apostles and in the 10th chapter of the book of Mathew they were anointed to heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out devils, manifest great signs and wonders, and they were not born again yet, neither did they have the giver in them. The Lord called seventy others and he anointed them, gifted them and sent them out to perform sings and wonders, and they returned rejoicing, and said, "The devils are subject unto us through thy name." But then it proved that they were not born again, because one day Jesus start preaching to them the son of man revelation, and the Bible said that they walked with him no more. (St. John 6:53 -66). They were not born again; they never had the article of Pentecost and were in their evil nature. So you could be in your evil nature and be anointed of the Spirit to manifest any of the nine divers gifts, and even preach the gospel and be an apostle too.

Now that's a big thing you just said their preacher, that you could be an apostle, genuine apostle, and not be borned again, you did not go up to Pentecost, work sings and wonders, and you have an evil nature, tell me who was Judas, and tell me if his gift was bogus. Who called Judas? Was his office a correct God given gift? [Congregation says, "Amen!"] On the day of Pentecost they said "let his office or bishoprick be taken and given to another", so the man was false but the office gift was right, "every good gift and every Perfect gift cometh down from above, from the father of light in whom there is no variableness of shadow of turning" James chapter 1 verse 17. So the gift was in the man but the man was a dead seed of the serpent, and his nature was not changed, he was not born again, never went up to Pentecost, but manifested all those gifts of the Spirit, but then inside of him was a bad seed.

So this is a heresy, for anybody to teach, that as long as you speak in tongues and manifest the gifts of the Spirit, you have the Holy Ghost, the Seal of God; the article of Pentecost, because I am showing you here, that the apostles manifested the gifts and went out with great signs, wonders and miracles and even a revival surfaced, and the seventy went out also, and they were not yet born again. These same people had to go up to Pentecost, and Mary who prophesied was also in the upper room. So people could manifest all these gifts and their natures are not changed, so the greatest is not the gifts but to have the giver. But then later on, Jesus said "JOHN 14:18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also. At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. (St. John 14: 18-20)." That's the time that the giver came down into the believer. From that time and, the day of Pentecost, it was a different operation of gifts.

Millions of people are deceived today, because as long as a man could manifest some supernatural of some kind, lying signs, wonders and miracles, they accept him to be a man of God. Do you know that the whole of the so-called Pentecostal world, with millions of people are based upon this heresy, that as long as somebody gets healed or something like that that's a man of God and they will give them all their money. It's a terrible heresy. Now they are using this same measuring rod, that as long as a man could do certain things in the message, then he is of God. It is a lie of the devil! We came out of those kinds of heresies and impersonations and we don't want to be fooled by them again.

"We are taught that the gifts were restored in 1906, so-called Pentecost, and people who look for gifts to come are deceived."

Answer:: No friends; if you are not looking for the gifts to come to the church you are deceived. I will let the prophet talk to you. The gifts were restored in 1906 they said? Hear what Brother Branham is saying in 1948:

Quote: E-2 "I know the next thing to happen is the restoration of the gifts to the Church. And it's the hardest thing I've had to do in this pioneering work, is to do this, as to see the people that... God cannot give back the gifts to the Church as long as His Church is divided. We've got to get the Church together first 'fore the gifts can come. But if all of the full Gospel people would come one heart and one accord, there would be a revival that would shake the whole world. And every spiritual gift would be in the Church within a hour's time after it took place. Signs and wonders that was done by the apostles would be a minor thing to what would be if we could just get the Church together. It's got to happen. It will happen. It may be after I've passed off the scene. But I want to put my word in this that you might know, that my voice is this...O Christian people, bind yourselves together with one heart and one accord. For God cannot no more send the gifts to the Church while the Church is separated, than He can send the Holy Ghost unless we're in one accord. That's right. For it comes by the Holy Ghost. Believe it." (Angel Of God 48-0304).

If the gifts were restored in 1906, how could Brother Branham say, this here? Brother Branham looked for the restoration of the gifts, and at the same time when he said in 1948, he continued to call 1906 "the restoration of the gifts." You say, "Do you believe that preacher?" With all my heart. I believe that too. Brother Branham did say that, but let us see what they received then. Let Brother Branham tell us, what kind of restoration of gifts that was.

Quote: 377-2 "This age started just after the turn of the twentieth century. As it was to be the age in which the true church would return to being the bride she was at Pentecost, we know that there must of necessity be a return of dynamic power. The believers sensed this in their spirits and began crying to God for a new outpouring such as was in the first century. What seemed to be the answer came as many began to speak in tongues and manifest gifts of the Spirit. It was then believed that this was indeed the long awaited RESTORATION. It was not…How could this be the real thing when the Teaching Rain had not come? The Prophet-Messenger who was to be sent to TEACH the people and turn the hearts of the children back to the Pentecostal fathers had not yet come. Thus what was thought to be the restoration and the final quickening unto the rapture had not come. In it was a mixture of the unrighteous partaking of Spiritual blessing and manifesting in the Holy Ghost as we have kept pointing out to you. In it also was devil power as men were under the control of devils, yet no one seemed to realize it. Then, to prove that it was not the REAL, these people (even before a second generation had appeared) organized, and wrote their unscriptural doctrines and built their own fences as every other group ahead of them did." (Church Ages Book).

That is sufficient to blow this heresy to pieces. The gifts were restored at 1906, but from what Brother Branham said: "it was not the real."

If that was not the real thing back there, then what was happening then? He said "it was the unrighteous partaking of spiritual gifts". "How do you understand that preacher?" People who were not born again and their natures not changed, started to receive gifts. That's the simple thing of it. I just proved to you that people who were not born again like the apostles and the seventy, were partaking of gifts, so what happened in 1906 was a repeat of what the apostles received before the day of Pentecost. It was a restoration of gifts, but the gifts were given to unrighteous men who were not born again nor filled with the Holy Ghost. They needed to go up to Pentecost! Those were the ones who received those gifts. So now, 1906 is a parallel of when Jesus came and called the apostles and other preachers and gave them gifts without the new birth and without going up to Pentecost, and in there was the unrighteous Judas, partaking of spiritual gifts and seventy unbelieving preachers partaking of spiritual gifts, who could not take the revelation of the son of man. 1906 is parallel of such events.

My God! Brothers and sisters, if that is not true, God never called me. If that is not true, God never spoke to me and I don't know what I have spoken about for the past thirty six years. But that is the gospel truth concerning this fanaticism of so-called Pentecost, which has hanged over into the message and under the message today. I know what I am talking about is the truth. It's confirmed by the bible and confirmed by the words of Brother Branham.

In 1906 was a restoration of the gifts, but that restoration of the gifts was without the giver. The giver had not come down into the people. They had the gifts of God without being born again because they did not return to Pentecost. They did not have the article of Pentecost, but the gifts came among the people, but we are going to return to Pentecost as promised. From 1906 to the time we are living in. Such gifts went around the world and has produced Matthew 24:24: "False christs and false prophets,

Quote: 229"Same now. Notice, the vultures of Jesus day was also casting out devils: anointed ones, on the old carcase… Caiaphas the high priest prophesied... Notice the position of the weed in the field. It's watered by the same anointing. Why did the Bible say he prophesied? Because he was high priest that year, a rotten scavenger, a weed and a thistle setting among the wheat; but the Spirit was upon him, the genuine Holy Spirit of God. The Holy Spirit of God was upon Him to preach, prophesy, and foretell it to come to pass, and denied and crucified the very vindicated Word of the hour… Now, they were casting out devils. They were prophesying. Is that right? But did not recognize Him being the Word of the hour. Why? Because He wasn't associated with them. Now, take Matthew 24:24: "False christs, anointed ones will rise. And they'll be false prophets, prophesying (See?), and will deceive the very elected if it was possible." You got it now?" (Anointed ones at the endtime 65-0725).

Brethren, this is solid teaching. Nobody could refute what I am saying, and I humbly send out this challenge to the entire world, to all the big names in the message, to come and disprove what I am saying. You can fight from afar but you cannot disprove what I am saying. You still have the article of 1906 and try to preach the message with the articles of 1906 and it cannot work. That's the problem in the message my brother, they brought over the articles of 1906 and try to handle the message that came by a prophet today. That is why there is confusion in the message, as bad as so-called Pentecost Babylonian confusion.

"Preachers teach that the gifts were set in order in the Branham tabernacle by Brother Branham. Is this so? And that the Branham tabernacle is most spiritual."

Answer:African brother, way over in the East, somebody lied to you and told you that the Branham tabernacle is the most spiritual. Brother Branham seen a vision where John the Baptist was baptizing, and then they turned it into a hoglot, and the hogs eat up their own after-birth. That was the Branham tabernacle where John the Baptist was baptizing; right in the Ohio River.

Quote: "I got down there to the river and I understood it was a place where John the Baptist had been baptizing the people, and they had turned it into a hog lot. And I was very critical of it, just saying that this should not be done…And at that time, the Angel of the Lord spake to me, and said, "But this is not your Tabernacle." (Present stage of my ministry 62-0908).

Quote: "My friends, I don't want to hurt feelings, but I'm responsible for a Message, and that Message is "Come out of this mess." And if I asked you to come out, where am I going to take you to? Would I take you to the Branham Tabernacle? It's as much fault as any of the rest of them." (God's chosen place of worship 65-0220).

Quote: "And tonight the Branham Tabernacle's got to make up its mind. We're either going to go on or go back. That's right. You're going back to garlic, and leek, and stuff of Egypt, or you're going on with Angel's food to the Promised Land, where God made a promise. You're going on to an old fashion Holy Ghost revival, or you'll be wishy-washy, packing around, and pecking like a robin on a apple until the day you die. You've got to make your decision; you can't go on". (At Kadesh Barnea 56-0527).

Quote: "Looking to my left, I saw a small heap of smooth-baked bread. There were white fowls standing near it, but they would not eat much of it. Then the Lord said to me… "That is your Tabernacle, and they won't eat the Bread of Life anymore. I am sending you this way." Then I journeyed on westward.." (I was not disobedient to the Heavenly vision).

That was fulfilled at the opening of the seals. The most unspiritual church in the world today is the William Branham Tabernacle! Don't let them fool you. They believe in a resurrection doctrine and a deity doctrine; sitting and waiting for Brother Branham to resurrect. Who that offends let it offend! I am willing to take up anybody's challenge, from the prophet's children to all the big names in America and around the world. Come and challenge what I am saying! You are the most unspiritual people in the Branham tabernacle and Brother Branham said, "You're going on to an old fashion Holy Ghost revival, or you'll be wishy-washy, packing around, and pecking like a robin on a apple until the day you die." Yes, and they have denied the revival, and that is where the Branham's tabernacle is tonight picking on a rotten apple, sitting and waiting for the resurrection of Brother Branham.

Liars want to tell me that Brother Branham set the gifts in order. It's a lie! First of all, if somebody is saying that Brother Branham set nine divers gifts in order, the first thing I will ask them is: "On what tape, what message, and what historical facts can they supply us with where the nine gifts were in operation in the Branham's tabernacle? I know about tongues and I heard some prophecies on the tapes, but none of them could prove to you where anybody in the Branham's tabernacle had a gift of miracle, a gift of healing beside Brother Branham and all that went with it. Every tape of Brother Branham will verify what I am saying. They cannot show you that.

Quote: 1110-220 "Now, we do not have too many of the gifts operating here, but we have some of them. We have the gift of tongues, and the gift of prophecy (two or three of them). I think our Brother Higginbotham here, ever where he's at, he's got a gift of speaking in tongues. And we got our Brother Junior Jackson with us, and he speaks with tongues. And then we got two or three of them interprets. Brother Neville here also, our pastor, speaks with tongues and sometimes prophesies…So we have some of the gifts operating among us." (Questions and answers 64-0830m).

I will tell you what happened; Brother Branham seen certain gifts start coming into the tabernacle; they started to speak with tongues, interrupting Brother Branham's preaching. They started to prophesy, some of them openly in the congregation. He went to Brother Neville and corrected him.

Quote: 49 "I had a word of the Lord to take to Brother Neville, about prophesying over everyone comes by this altar here. God told him, really called him down about it. See? Don't do that; you'll shove him out in the flesh and then you'll have a false prophet." (Paradox 61-1210).

Brother Branham bore patience under that for many years. After a while he said, "We going to try to set these gifts in order, I noticed they are coming into the church." Brother Branham was a wise man; he knew very well that there was something wrong with those gifts. This is what he did.

Quote: "The Branham Tabernacle shall be like this. Let those who speak with tongues, and those who interpret tongues, and those have prophecy that's to be given to the church…before the meeting starts; let them gather in an appointed room… it isn't to be done in the main congregation…When these people meet together, let them who have wisdom first come. Because (You see?), if one speaks in tongues and gives an interpretation according to Scripture, that cannot be received unless it be witnessed by two or three more witnesses... And sometimes in these minor ministries, just like in any other ministry, you get spirits that's wrong (See?); they'll fly in there. And we don't want that. No. We want these ministries ready to be exposed if they're to be exposed, because anything of God don't worry about exposing it; it'll stand the test if it's of God… Now, then if someone writes a message that's been given in tongues or given in prophecy, and laid upon the platform, it must be read by the pastor before the service starts, of "THUS SAITH THE LORD" from these people who spoke and interpreted it. And if that comes to pass exactly the way the interpretation said, we raise our hands and give thanks to God for His Spirit among us. If it doesn't come to pass, then don't do it any more till that evil spirit's out of you. God don't lie; He's always Truth. Then, you see, you're old enough now to act like men, not children: "Goo, goo, goo," you got to have some meaning to something." (Church Order 63-1226).

When that happened the people got offended at the prophet and said:

Quote: 1023-126 "One guy…he said, "Well, you put us too much on the spot." I said, "Ain't I on the spot up there to strangers I never seen in my life? But I got faith and confidence in my God Who sent me to do this, and never one time has it been wrong or never will be as long as it's God." That's right." (Questions and Answers 64-0823E).

The prophet of God said that spirits fly in with these gifts and as a minister you must stand there even though you have to expose ministers, you have to expose them. He said that anything that is genuine would not be afraid of exposition. On the basis of that quote from Church Order, let me send a message to the entire world. If you have genuine goods you will not be afraid of my exposition books and I am doing exactly what the prophet of God says, he says expose the ministers, he says to expose the wrong spirit.

People are afraid to read my exposition books and hide them from the sheep because you know that you are wrong, are preaching wrong and you have the wrong spirit. A man who has the genuine thing is not afraid of any exposition; that is what the prophet said.

I don't know how long that continued in that room but I believe that everybody disappeared from that room, because everybody was on the spot. Then what happened is that there were some of them who could not stand the test, they got offended at the prophet, offended at the word of God.

Quote: 535-150 "When you ministers are correcting someone about a gift… Scripturally correcting them, and they get offended, remember, it wasn't the Spirit of God; 'cause the Spirit of God cannot be offended by His Word." (Questions and answers 61-0112).

What happened after that, there was a man called Junior Jackson who is still responsible for the papers call The Contender which I received of recent times after twenty-five years. He claims to be an apostle. This was the same Junior Jackson who had all the dreams about the pyramid and the white horse rider. He did not believe the doctrine of Brother Branham concerning the operation of gifts and sending it into that room and he allowed his people to freely speak in the congregation with their Babylonian confusion, many of those people who had the gifts in the Branham tabernacle went down there at Junior Jackson where they could operate their gifts in a so called Pentecostal style, they still do it up to today yes, and that man denied the teachings of Brother Branham on the Church Order and many other doctrines.

JUNIOR JACKSON DISAGREE WITH THAT

Quote: 1022-124 "somebody made fun of somebody leaving the Tabernacle and went down to Brother Junior Jackson's for a church. Said, "They went down amongst the 'dead birds.'" Aren't you ashamed to make a remark like that?...Well, the reason of it, because when I set the church here in a certain order, when I come back, to see if I could get the manifestation of the gifts, half of them pulled away from it. Because when you would start to speak, or preach, or something...It was getting in such a place that you could hardly preach 'less there was somebody spoke in tongues, somebody interpreting, somebody give the interpretation; and half of it never even come to pass. … but I let them go ahead awhile. I said, "Watch it." Now, I told the brethren "Let it alone. After while we'll find out whether it's of God or not. If it cannot stand chastisement, then it's a bastard child." Exactly what the Bible said. And when the chastisement come, what happened?... Now, Brother Junior Jackson had a right to disagree with that. He wants his church... The people all want to speak with tongues and things in the audience. That's Brother Junior's troubles; that's up to him." (Questions And Answers 64-0823e).

So that is a lie what they are talking about Brother Branham set the gifts in order. Those gifts were wayward gifts; they came from so called Pentecost. Certain people believed the message with the same kind of seed in them, not born again, did not have the baptism of the Holy Ghost and brought it in the tabernacle and those gifts could not be set in order. How are you going to set Judas in order? How are you going to set the seventy preachers in order that did not believe the revelation of the son of man? You cannot do it! Only the Holy Ghost could do it. The gifts were set in order by an out pouring of the Holy Spirit. That is where it will set in order by another outpouring of the Holy Spirit like on the day of Pentecost.

1906 was the unrighteous partaking of spiritual gifts without being born again and without having the genuine article of the baptism of the Holy Ghost. When the message went out by Brother Branham, those same people saw the signs, wonders and miracles and they got on the band-wagon, came under the message and in the Branham tabernacle, and that is what we have following the message today by the hundreds of thousands.

"Missionaries told us that gifts like the day of Pentecost are operating in the message churches overseas. Have you any knowledge of this brother?"

Answer:: I have no knowledge of this, my brothers in Africa and India. They are a bunch of liars! And I send out a challenge to all these lying missionaries to prove their claims. It is nowhere around the world like the earlier Apostolic Church. We are looking for it and we are promised a restoration, and the prophet of God said that the next thing to happen to the church is the restoration of the gifts. If you know what is sitting under this message friend, it is the unrighteous who did partake of spiritual gifts in 1906, their children and grandchildren with the same conception of going in the rapture, same conception of born again, and the same conception of receiving the baptism of the Holy Ghost, is now under the message, trying to handle the message and manifest gifts of the spirits, and they are depending upon that 1906 experience to carry them in the rapture. The experience of 1906 cannot carry anybody in the rapture. It's a total impossibility! The gifts that they received in 1906 are not genuine gifts. They were never set in order by Brother Branham. The only man that could have really set them in order was William Branham, but the people never gave their co-operation to receive the genuine out pouring and have the giver operating the gifts. It is nowhere here in the West and I assure you it is not in the East, according to the revelation on the doctrine we preach and the revelation we have of Brother Branham's message; its nowhere in the world operating like the Apostolic Church. In all what I said there I still believe people get healed, I still believe people could speak in tongues and bring forth a prophecy, but friends, it does not match with what I just explained to you on divers gifts.

Can you take with what you are seeing in this church or any other church in this country and match it with the gifts I just explained from the Bible? [Congregation says, "No!"] No, a man got to be a dead hypocrite and a dead make-believer to say that the nine divers gifts are operating in the church in the West. Show me one church, show me one man. You cannot do it and we know why too. It takes the outpouring of the Holy Spirit to set the gifts in order and the gifts to the church come with the outpouring! This is the reason friend why it is not operating in the West, the East, North or South. They brought over a seed of discrepancy, they were not born again, they did not have the seed for that birth in 1906, they had an anointing mixed with demon power, their minds were upon money (The whole of so-called Pentecost is based on a get-rich conception) and those same preachers came to the message and tried handling the message today, and they have that same Judas spirit.

They are of impersonators and impersonating the gifts of God. Their gifts do not compare with the New Testament Apostolic standards. Impossible! They missed the vision of what Brother Branham tried to produce which is a restoration of the gifts, which I just read from "Angel of God". Brother Branham said, "It is the hardest thing to do in this pioneering work." Don't you know that Brother Branham was a pioneer who was sent of Almighty God to bring the church back to these gifts of apostolic time?

It was hard for Brother Branham because that conception of 1906 was in their minds and they could not see that they could not have the genuine article of Pentecost as long they spoke in tongues and worked signs and wonders. The hardest thing for a Pentecostal to understand is that he isn't born again yet and unless he comes to the message and the revelation of son of man, he can't get born again. These same men brought over their birth and their so-called gifts under the message and now try to operate under the message.

"Preachers from different countries say that gifts are few in this age, but we are like the early Apostolic Church, one gift here and another gift there; and one gift in one country and another gift in another country, because gifts are few, that is why we don't see them like the early Apostolic Church."

You lying preachers! Then if you have one gift in one country and the other gift in another country, and another gift in a next country, when you take nine countries you ought to have nine of them. Why when you are gathered in your international convention we don't see the nine divers gifts operating in the convention? You are found a liar. The most we can hear is some bogus prophecy and some tongues rattling out without any meaning with no interpretation and no direct message to the church. If you have the gifts scattered from one church to the next, because there are few and one or two here and there, why when you ministers gather in your international ministers' conference, why don't we see the nine gifts operating? But you are a bunch of dead preachers who don't know if you are going or coming. All the nine gifts should be operating in every local assembly.

Quote: E-62 "all nine spiritual gifts should be operating in every local body. Yeah, and there ought to be judges there and so forth and the church in order and working right." (Jehovah Jireh 56-0429).

Quote: E-14"I Corinthians 12, there is nine spiritual gifts in the church. That's in every local body, or should be in every local body, the gifts of healing, the gift of wisdom, the gifts of knowledge, all these other gifts is in the church. Nine different spiritual gifts is in every local body." (What it takes to overcome all unbelief 60-0729).

(Similar quotations can be found on: "We would see Jesus 62-0627 & Jesus Christ the same 62-0718".)

The prophet of God says you need some good solid teaching on the operation of gifts of the spirit. Yes, I am giving you it on these messages and if you don't think that they are solid teaching and what Brother Branham himself would have taught you, if he had that opportunity, come and challenge what I am saying; tear it up if you can.

"My pastor says we should not look for the gifts, but only the rapture."

Answer:I will let Brother Branham answer this.

Quote: E-15 "And O God, grant today, that when we can all come together, and see all those nine spiritual gifts moving through the Church, operating the whole Church Body. Then we'll have the rapture. Then it will be culled out, and we'll have the rapture. If we can't have faith for Divine healing, how we going to have faith for rapturing faith?" (I perceive you are a prophet 53-0614).

Who is right and who is wrong now? Your pastor is a liar and Brother Branham is speaking the truth. You must see those nine divers gifts set in order in the house of God before the rapture. It's a sign that the rapture is about to take place. You believe Bro Bruce here today friend, you aren't leaving here and you aren't going nowhere until you see nine divers gifts set in the house of God operating perfectly just like in the Apostolic Church and that will be a sign that the rapture is about to take place in a matter of weeks; and those divers gifts aren't going to be set in order until the outpouring of the Holy Ghost comes. It is tied up in the outpouring. You hold on to what I am telling you with all your heart and all your soul.

One man e-mailed me from somewhere in Europe. He said, "You came against a mighty man of God; an anointed servant of God called Coleman". He said, "Brother, my advice to you is to repent while you have breath in your lungs." So deluded. I wrote back another letter and said, "Who are you, where are you from? You have now arrived on a lame donkey, after so many years that I have sent forth a challenge to prove what I am saying is wrong." I said, "I demand of you to show me one single quotation and one single scripture, where I have to go and speak to a heretic before I expose him?" That was his argument. He said, "Did you meet the brother and speak to the brother?" I said, "Nowhere in the Bible told me that I have to meet a heretic and talk to him before I expose him." I said, "Did Brother Branham talk to the pope before he wrote the church age and preached the seals? Did Brother Paul call Peter one side and talk to him in a corner, or did he speak to him in front of everybody? Did Jesus call Peter one side and speak to him before he said, 'Get thee behind me Satan?" I said, "I demand one Scripture from you or one quotation in this message where I must go and talk to the heretic before I expose him?" Letter after letter, I am writing him and he is writing me back. Every time he wrote back I said, "Give me that scripture. I challenge you! You misquoted a scripture and you need to repent."

He tried to tell me that Matthew 18 is the scripture: "If thy brother offends thee." I said, "That has to do with a personal grievance between brothers and has nothing to do with a heretic. Are you telling me that Brother Branham had to go meet the pope? "Did he go meet Oral Roberts, Billy Graham or T.L. Osborne, or did he go and meet Elvis Presley before he called him a rat and a modern Judas?" Boy that man shut up. I said, "The next thing I want to tell you is that these things are going on my book." He bawled and wrote a "Brotherly kindness letter and said, "You see brother, you don't understand that all what I was trying to do is to get you to repent for speaking against "God's anointed servant." I said, "You big hypocrite! Because you hear that I am going to put your letters on my book you are trying to pacify things around here. Repent or perish! You are too ashamed because you misused the scripture for personal grievances and want to come and fight me with that because of my Exposition Books." He said, "But you called me a parrot and a donkey." I said, "You are more than a Polly parrot. You are not quoting the scripture. All you are saying is, "Repent, Repent! You are a parrot. You are a donkey because you are not braying the Word."

And let this challenge go out here once gain: If any man could refute what I am saying there, in China, Japan, India, Africa and in the United States with all your big brains; a bunch of unbelievers and the most unspiritual nation upon the face of the earth, with the most unspiritual preachers; I challenge all you Americans who think you know something, with a spirit that is trying to rule the world and tell the whole world what to do; You aren't going to tell this little preacher what to preach and what to preach.

Why don't you bring these gifts in your international convention? Show me them in your convention. Bring a gift from China, one from Africa, one from India, bring one from Trinidad and another place, pile it up together in your international convention and let us see the nine divers gifts in operation. You liar you! The gifts are not yet set in order. These gifts are coming here by the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Yes!

There is a revelation today that is unifying the elected of God. God only wants a handful. When he unifies that elected, Brother Branham said that it will bring the nine divers gifts within one hour's time in the church of God. (Angel of God 1948). Do you want to tell me that the prophet of God came and preached so long and has left so long and the gifts are not in the church? Something is wrong. And they want to make all kinds of flimsy excuses about the gifts of God. Some kind of nonsense around the world on these gifts in the message and have the people's lives tied up. Brethren you had better thank God for the truth you are sitting under. Let us pray for the brethren who are suffering under these kinds of heresies. Lift your right hand to him and let us talk to the Lord. [Congregation lifts their right hand and prays.]

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