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THE
MARK OF THE BEAST & SEAL.OF.GOD_
JEFF.IN V-26 N-4 FRIDAY_ 54-0514 64
Now notice, as... Again... Now, we find what they did there. Then after
while they got a doctrine. They got the persecution and went out. And
then we come to find out, that in this day now, that the Bible predicted
that there would be a time when men would receive a mark, and a mark of
the beast. Every
time there's a little something flies up in the country, everybody said,
"That's the mark of the beast." When the old... I'd just got
ordained in the Baptist church, when I heard about the N.R.A. Well,
everybody said, "That's the mark of the beast." And then
everything starts along, "It's the mark of the beast." And
now the say, "Here comes Russia down, communism; it's the mark of
the beast." But it's a lie. It isn't the mark of the beast. The
Bible tells what the mark of the beast is. The mark of the beast is not
no great anti-religious anti-country raise up like that. Communism is
not Russia; communism is a spirit. QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS_
JEFF.IN COD SUNDAY_ 59-0628E 388-126
The mark of the beast is on today, and the--the Seal of God is the Holy
Spirit. To reject It is the mark of the beast. Ever who sees the Holy
Ghost, that you're supposed to receive It, and don't do it,
automatically you take the mark of the beast; because there's only two
classes to exist: all that didn't have the Seal of God had the mark of
the beast. So to receive the Seal of God is to receive the Holy
Ghost. To reject It is to have the mark of the beast. There's the whole
thing. That's exactly right. IS.YOUR.LIFE.WORTHY_
JEFF.IN V-5 N-5 SUNDAY_ 63-0630E 62
Now, somebody said, "Now, there's going to be a--a mark of the
beast; it's going to come someday." Let me tell you; it's already
come. See? As soon as the Holy Ghost begin to fall, the mark of the
beast begin to take place. See,
you only have two things: One of them is, accept It, takes the Seal
of God; to reject It, takes the mark of the beast. To reject the
Seal of God is to take the mark of the beast. Everybody understand? To
reject the Seal of God is to take the mark of the beast, for the Bible
said all that was not sealed by the Seal of God took the mark of the
beast. When
the trumpet sounded and all wanted to go free could go, them that didn't
was marked. Now, you see, the mark of the beast, if we talk about it in
the future, is when it's going to be made manifest, when you realize
it's what you've already done. See? And so is the Holy Spirit; It's to
be manifested when we see the Lord Jesus coming in glory, and feel that
transforming power, and see the dead rising out of the grave, and know
that in a second longer we'll be changed and have a body like His. It'll
be made manifest. Then to see those who rejected it, will be left
down--out--out. TRUE.EASTER.SEAL_
JEFF.IN V-14 N-3 SUNDAY_ 61-0402 198
And Satan's sons will be sealed in this last days. There's a time now,
that the Bible spoke of, that all that did not have the Seal of God took
the mark of the beast. And we know that the mark of the beast is
disbelief. The first time... "Where'd you say the mark of the beast
begin?" In the garden of Eden. Mark of the beast and the Seal of
God was performed in the garden of Eden. Exactly. It's performed through
Easter, for the death of Abel brought forth Seth. That's right. Notice.
Cain was the son of Satan. He was the son of the beast which beguiled
Eve. You can call it whatever you want to. He was the son of Satan. And
what did he do? God put a mark on him and sent him out from the Presence
of God. Is that right? And he got him a wife, not out of the heritage of
God, but got him a wife from the land of Nod, another land. SEAL.OF.GOD_
LONG.BEACH.CA THURSDAY_ 61-0216 E-58
And when the--when the sleeping virgin went out, which already received
the mark of the beast... You say, "Mark of the beast, that?"
Yes, indeedy. So did Cain receive the mark and went out. What was it?
When the Baptist church, when the Pentecostal church, when the
Presbyterian church, took on the mark of the beast instead of receiving
the Holy Ghost, they went out from God and made them an organization.
What'd they do? Took them a false wife, a false wife of the world,
brought in painted up Jezebels and everything else, with short hair and
wearing shorts and skirts and of a hollywood fashion. And preachers got
out to taking them in with--deacons with two or three wives and... And a
man... SEAL.OF.THE.ANTICHRIST_
LA.CA FRIDAY_ 55-0311 E-16
I was listening to a radio broadcast in my country, here not long ago,
and a man said, "It won't be long until the people's going to get a
great tattooing machine. And they're going to tattoo it across the
forehead of a man, the picture of the beast. And going to mark it in his
hand here, the mark of the beast. And all that receives that mark, will
be doomed forever." Here
not long ago, when the NRA came out in my country, I suppose it was in
this, too. In my country they said... All the religious people began to
say, "That is the mark of the beast. Don't receive it; my, that's
horrible. Ever who joins the NRA, is sure to receive the mark of the
beast." Well, we found out, that wasn't so. TEN.VIRGINS_
JEFF.IN ROJC 425-492 SUNDAY_ 60-1211M 319
Oh, I just love Him. Don't you? Yes, sir. Oh, the... What is the--what
is the Seal of God? Holy Ghost. What is the mark of the beast? Reject
It. That's the two. One is to see, and... Well,
they're... And how many was on earth that didn't get it? All that was
not sealed took the mark of the beast. All that had not the Spirit of
God had the mark of the beast. The Seal of God is the Holy Spirit. The
Bible said so. Every place in the Scripture speaks of it, says it's the
mark of God, the Seal of God. And all that did not have it, was the one
who reject it. And how did they reject it? By refusing to hear it. Is
that right? MARK.OF.THE.BEAST_
LONG.BEACH.CA FRIDAY_ 61-0217 E-41
Now, now you see how it was represented in Ezekiel the 9th chapter at
Jerusalem. Now, we come to Revelation. And now I'd like you that's got
your pencils to write this down. I'd like you to write down Revelations
14:6 to 12. That's the three last angels, three angels, after the seven
last angels there were three special angels come forth, did you notice
that? And now, I want you to notice, them three last angels... The first
angel, (that's Revelation 14:6 to 12), the first angel had sounded the
trumpet of the Gospel, and had the everlasting Gospel to preach to all
the world. The second angel kinda preached a holiness Gospel (See?),
because he said that the church had committed fornication. And the third
angel roared out to escape the mark of the beast. Watch.
The first angel, at the reformation, Luther preached the Gospel. Second
angel, Wesley, sanctification. The fornication, he straightened up of
the church. But the third message, the Pentecostal message should be,
the true messenger warning them to escape the mark of the beast, saying,
"Whosoever receives the mark of the beast, the same will drink the
wrath of God poured out without mixture into the cup of indignation, be
poured out upon the people." That's the very message today, the
third angel, the third message, the last message. The Lutheran message
of justification, the Wesleyan message of sanctification, and the
Pentecostal message of the Seal of God: escape the mark of the beast;
come out of them big walls of Babylon; be sealed into the Kingdom of
God. MARK.OF.THE.BEAST_
JEFF.IN V-26 N-3 THURSDAY_ 54-0513 23
And now, in doing this we hear so many people today talk about the mark
of the beast. You've heard it for a long time, "What is it? Who
does it? Where? Who's going to have it? And if they do have it,
what--what's it going to do to them? What? What? Could it harm you? Is
there--is there any harm to it?" Well
now, that's what we--we want to find out from the Word of God. First
thing, "If there is a mark of the beast spoke of in the
Bible?" And the next thing, "What age will it pertain to? And
who will be the people that'll have it? And what would you do? Could you
have it and not know it?" And so forth, that, just those questions
like that... So to the best of my knowledge that--that this would be the
one of the most vital two subjects that I could think of in the Bible:
"The Mark Of The Beast," and "The Seal Of God." AT.KADESH.BARNEA_
JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 56-0527 E-50
And they begin to murmur and complain, and finally they were brought to
Kadesh. And when they come to Kadesh, this judgment seat, judgment...
And then all the whole thing was gathered together. And some glorious
day, and I believe that day is at hand right now, when there will be a
separation between the right and the wrong. And
I believe I could sufficiently prove by the Scripture authority that the
mark of the beast and the Seal of God of the people of God is soon to
take place, and even now taking place. The mark of the beast is the mark
of apostasy. The mark of the beast was those who rejected the right;
they were bored in the ear to be wrong the rest of their days. Those who
receive the Seal of God is the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Ephesians
4:30 said, "Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God whereby you're sealed
until the day of your redemption." It's come to a place where a
person can't stand mediocre anymore. That's right. FIRST.SEAL.THE_
JEFF.IN MONDAY_ 63-0318 169-6
{359} Now, when he gets the money all under control, then he'll break
this covenant with the Jews, as Daniel here said he would do it, in the
midst of the last half of the seventy weeks of Daniel. And then,
brother, what will he do? He will have all of the world trade and the
commerce, a pact with the world, 'cause he'll hold the wealth of the
world completely. And
during that time, them two prophets will rise on the scene and call that
hundred and forty-four thousand. Then what'll take place? Then the mark
of the beast of Revelations 13 will set in, 'cause he holds all the
commerce, trade and everything of the world. And what will take place
then? The mark of the beast will come in that no man can buy or sell
except him that has the mark of the beast. Thank God, the Church will be
enjoying a great three and a half years in glory. Don't have to go
through that. WORLD.AGAIN.FALLING.APART_
SHP.LA V-17 N-4 WEDNESDAY_ 63-1127 157
We so hear so much about this new system going to bring the religious
system, you know, going to bring peace upon the earth, when the Catholic
and all the Protestants unite together. Some of them believe in Divine
healing, some don't believe, and some believe this, and some believe
that. And you have to forfeit your big fuss you been fussing about all
the time, your evangelical belief, to get into the World Council. And
every denomination will have to come in there. So if denomination is
cursed, and to belong into it, what does it do? It throws you right
back. If Rome is the mother of denominations, and she is the beast and
the mark of the beast, then they made an image unto it, council, the
churches all together make an image to the beast, so right straight back
to the mark of the beast again. The system of the world,
denominationalism, has brought up a system to bring the mark of the
beast. SEAL.OF.THE.ANTICHRIST_
LA.CA FRIDAY_ 55-0311 E-16
I was listening to a radio broadcast in my country, here not long ago,
and a man said, "It won't be long until the people's going to get a
great tattooing machine. And they're going to tattoo it across the
forehead of a man, the picture of the beast. And going to mark it in his
hand here, the mark of the beast. And all that receives that mark, will
be doomed forever." Here
not long ago, when the NRA came out in my country, I suppose it was in
this, too. In my country they said... All the religious people began to
say, "That is the mark of the beast. Don't receive it; my, that's
horrible. Ever who joins the NRA, is sure to receive the mark of the
beast." Well, we found out, that wasn't so. So,
there's got to be some basic truth. It's got to come then from, THUS
SAITH THE LORD. It's got to come. Many people has placed it way over
into a day that's yet to come. Some place it in this day. But for
myself, I believe that it begin at the same time the Holy Spirit fell. MARK.OF.THE.BEAST_
JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 56-0715 E-4
Now, today, announced the subject that I was to teach on: "The Mark
Of The Beast," which is a very vital subject. And it would maybe
try and approach it today from a--a standpoint... Why, that subject
would probably take... I could stay on it three or four months every day
and still be in the Scriptures on that great subject. But
I thought today, being that we were going to pray for the sick people
after this morning's Sunday school session... Many of the people gather
in here for healing, and they wait around in motels and hotels, and wait
for this morning, till when they can come in to be prayed for. And we
certainly wouldn't want to take their space of time. So if I start on
the subject, and then continue on in a few days when I get back again,
maybe between the two meetings, then back again after that... I'll try
to continue on, the Lord willing, on the mark of the beast. And you...
Teaching the mark of the beast, you have to have the Seal of God to run
with it, 'cause they run right side by side. TEN.VIRGINS_
JEFF.IN ROJC 425-492 SUNDAY_ 60-1211M 281
Now--now, if you receive the opportunity, how do you get the mark of the
beast? I'd just like to say this just because I thought I'd close in
saying this. How do you get the mark of the beast? Would you like to
know? What is the results? What is the mark of the beast? We
know what the Seal of God is. What is the Seal of God? Why, let's just
turn over to Ephesians 4:30, and then--then you get it; then you read it
yourself there. Or--or either some of you can get
Revelations--Revelations 9:1 to 4. And the other, II Corinthians 1:22.
There's many places. I marked off a few there. But let's get Ephesians
4:30, and then you can see what the seal of God is; and these others, or
anywhere. You just take the word seal in your concordance and run it
everywhere you want to. All right, Ephesians 4:30, listen to this. And
grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed until the day
of your redemption. BROKEN.CISTERNS_
JEFF.IN V-5 N-13 SUNDAY_ 64-0726E 40
That's a whole lot like our churches today. I think that we have left...
One of the great sins that the church has done today, just like Israel
then, it left Him, the Fountain of living Water, and has hewed
themselves out manmade cisterns. And it become a habitation of
everything that loves that kind of water. Lizards, frogs, and all kinds
of unclean germs live in it, because it's a manmade tank; and in this
tank these things stay. A perfect example of our denominationals today. "Now,"
you say, "Brother Branham, why do you strike at those people so
hard?" It ought to be struck at. It's got to be struck at. Flee it,
because it will finally form the mark of the beast. Remember, that is
the Truth. It will be the mark of the beast; denomination will lead
right to it. It's on its road right there now to force by power... Look,
in the old Roman empire that's exactly what led them to that mark of an
apostasy. You found out that no man could buy or sell without the mark
of the beast. He had to have it. UNITED.UNDER.ONE.HEAD_
MIDDLETOWN.OH WEDNESDAY_ 58-0326 E-34
That's the way it is with the true borned again experience of God. Man
says there's no such a thing as the baptism of the Holy Ghost. It shows
he hasn't got It. He trusts his creeds. We trust what God said. Now,
what happens? You can't stand neutral. You've got to be filled with
something to survive. Notice, you might be filled with one thing over
another. You say, "Brother Branham, I'm kind of on the fence."
No, you're not. The Bible plainly says that all that was not sealed with
the Holy Ghost received the mark of the beast. All that didn't have the
seal of God in their forehead, had the mark of the beast. You've got one
of it now. I'd
like to test it just a little bit and see where we're standing. Oh, the
mark of the beast, remember, is a religious mark. Certainly it is. And
you might be filled with religion. You could have all kinds of religion.
That doesn't save you at all. You can just be a religious fanatic, if
you want to be. Touch not, taste not, handle not, smell not. That don't
have one thing to do with the Holy Ghost. HEARING.RECEIVING.AND.ACTING_
CHATAUQUA.OH TUESDAY_ 60-0607 E-60
And the spiritual Church is at the end of the road. It's heading toward
it's Head, the coming of the Lord Jesus. It's all heading up (That's
right.), heading up in the coming of the Lord. The Lord Jesus, the
Headship of the Church is coming. What's He going to do? Resurrect all
the saints and give them a glorified body. Hallelujah. I'm glad to know
that she's heading up. It's
heading up in two great things, coming to the end time: the mark of the
beast, and the seal of God. And
the Seal of God--any minister knows--that the Seal of God is the baptism
of the Holy Ghost. It's exactly right. Ephesians 4:30 says, "Grieve
not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby you are sealed until the day of your
redemption." Amen. Oh, I know you think I act funny, but maybe I--I
feel good. Oh, my, coming towards the end... Now,
remember what is the mark of the beast? The mark of the beast is a
carnal Esau to reject that birthright. Didn't Esau weep bitterly, trying
to restore that birthright again, but there was no place of repentance?
When you reject the Holy Ghost you seal yourself outside of God's mercy.
Amen. SEAL.OF.GOD_
JEFF.IN V-26 N-4 FRIDAY_ 54-0514 160
Now, now, we're coming to the Mark of God. I got thirty minutes, the
Lord willing. Now, I want you to turn with me, first, and find out how
essential, this Mark of God... Remember
what the mark of the beast is: not communism. The mark of the beast
comes from Rome, throughout the world: Catholicism with Protestantism
joined into it, organized religion. And they're going to unionize the
churches, till every church will have to bow to that thing, or
interdenominations are kicked on the sideline. That's right. TEN.VIRGINS_
JEFF.IN ROJC 425-492 SUNDAY_ 60-1211M 311
Let it... You don't want to... See, the trumpet sounded, and he can go
free; it's God's grace. It's the year of jubilee, the completion. The
day of sin is over, brother. I tell every one of you serving sin, tape,
or visible audience, you're... Everyone that's serving sin, the day of
sin is over. Jesus died; you don't have to serve sin no more. You don't
have to be bowed down to creeds and denominations. "He who the Son
has made free is free indeed." If you want to go free and be free
in the Son, cut loose from all things and serve Him. Come on. Amen. But
if you don't want to, then your organization, your master, whoever
you're serving, will put a mark on your ear and you won't be able to
hear it anymore. If God ever speaks to your heart to "Come, this is
the time," and you refuse it, then you receive his mark, hardened
from the truth. There's the seal of the Devil, mark of the beast. You
see? What does the mark of the beast do? It'll put you right back to
Romanism, denominationalism, and you'll never come in and be free: serve
that forever. There's the mark of the beast. That's
hard, friends; that's cutting, but that's what the... I'm not
responsible for... just what the Bible says. BROKEN.CISTERNS_
JEFF.IN V-5 N-13 SUNDAY_ 64-0726E 50
Now, it's--it's beautiful to see those things. And now, I have predicted
by revelation from God or a vision in 1933, that seven things would
happen before the end time. And that one of them, that Mussolini, who
was then becoming dictator, he would become dictator; and also he'd make
an invasion, and go down to Ethiopia, and would take Ethiopia. And the
Spirit had said, "He shall fall at his step." I
wonder if there's any of the old-timers still left in the tabernacle
remember me saying that in the Redman's Hall down here when we preached
many, many years ago. Is there one in the building tonight that was left
from down there at the old Redman's Hall when I preached that, when they
had the N.R.A. out, way back in time of Roosevelt's first term? I guess
there's not a one in here. Is there one? Yeah, yeah, one. There's one,
yes, Mrs. Wilson, I remember her. My wife, setting in the back. Two left
out of the--the old generation of those in that day. That when they said
this N.R.A. was the mark of the beast, I said, "Nothing to it. Not
at all. The mark of the beast don't come here; it comes out of Rome, and
it can't be the mark of the beast." ASHAMED.OF.HIM_
JEFF.IN V-3 N-9 SUNDAY_ 65-0711 15
And I want to get with the trustees and the elders here, while I'm here. This
is becoming everywhere. We're living in these last days, to where the
Gospel does not have the--the preeminences as It should have. It don't
have the rights that It should have. It's all sewed up in politics and
things, and just like a union. And that's what it's finally coming to,
because the mark of the beast has to come by union, we know. So
we--we... 'Cause it's a boycott, "no man can buy or sell, save him
that have the mark of the beast." ADOPTION_
JEFF.IN AD.PT.4 SUNDAY_ 60-0522E 116
In the last days, the Bible said... Now, watch. In the last days there's
going to be two classes of people. One of them's going to have the Seal
of God, the other one the mark of the beast. Is that right? How many
knows that? Well, if the Seal of God is the Seal of... If the Seal of
God is the Holy Ghost, then without the Holy Ghost is the mark of the
beast. And the Bible said that the two spirits would be so close
together, it would deceive the very Elected if it was possible. It'll
never do it, because they were elected to Eternal Life. See? Church
going just as an ordinary... ASHAMED.OF.HIM_
JEFF.IN V-3 N-9 SUNDAY_ 65-0711 145
And this leader, Brother Shakarian, the president of the International
Business Men, stood up and said, after the man sat down, said,
"That's not the way we've heard it." Said, "Brother
Branham has told us that this ecumenical move will move them all to the
mark of the beast," and the man setting on the platform. Said,
"It'll move it to the mark of the beast." And said,
"We're inclined to believe what he says is the Truth." And he
said, "How many of you would like to hear Brother Branham come and
give you the true side of it? Raise." And there was five thousand
something people, they screamed and cried, just to come for one day
(See?), one day. SEAL.OF.GOD_
LONG.BEACH.CA THURSDAY_ 61-0216 E-16
Now. Now, Jesus said that in the last days, according to Saint Matthew
the 24th chapter and the 24th verse, that these two spirits, this--the
ones that was sealed with God, and the ones that would be marked by the
beast, the antichrist, would be so close together till it was deceive
the very elected if it was possible. See? Now, they're going to be so
much alike. Now, some people says, "Well, communism is the mark of
the beast." You're wrong. Communism is not the mark of the beast,
yet it is, but it isn't heading up. The--the mark of the beast is of--is
a religious nature, very religious, so cunning and sly, until it'll
deceive the very elected if it was possible, just so close till it would
deceive the elected if it was possible. Of course, they... Billy
Graham said not long ago; I was hearing him a few Sundays ago on my
radio coming down here. And he was preaching; he said, "You hear so
much about cigarettes and Viceroy," or ever what it was, and "ta--tips
at this end and fire at this end, and everything like that." Said,
"A man would smoke them at all was a fool." And I think he's
about right. Said that even they got so much publicity on things like
that until the devil had deceived the elected. Now, I--I don't believe
Brother Graham meant it just like that, because the elected will not be
deceived. No, sir, they will not be deceived. They were foreordained of
God, and they will not be deceived. So
but Jesus said it would be very close together. So close alike. Now,
remember, that it'd be so close that the very elected could be deceived
if it would be possible. UNITY.ONE.GOD.ONE.CHURCH_
JEFF.IN V-16 N-8 SUNDAY_ 58-1221E 76
I've heard ministers get up with charts and try to explain what the mark
of the beast was by some kind of a chart. It doesn't take a chart. The
Scripture says, "All that didn't receive the Seal of God had the
mark of the beast." There's only two classes on the earth. One's
got the Mark of God, the other one's got the mark of the Devil. And all
that didn't receive the Mark of God had the mark of the Devil. That's
what the Scripture said. So
you're forced to make a decision. And let me grind it into you, not to
be rude or--or mean, but to tell you the truth and warn you. Man's got
to do something about it. It's your... It's forced onto you. You must
make a decision. MARK.OF.THE.BEAST_
LONG.BEACH.CA FRIDAY_ 61-0217 E-14
Now, the Mark of The Beast, the Seal of God. Now, how many was here last
night? Let's see, was been in the class. Oh, about everybody, I suppose.
All right. Now, therefore to get a little background where we're going
tonight with it... Now, I had to take both of the subjects and put them
together, because they run parallel one to the other. And we find out...
I announced what I thought they were at the beginning, and now using the
Scripture to prove that I think that this is right. I
think that the Seal of God is the Holy Spirit. The Bible supports that.
The mark of the beast is to reject the Holy Spirit. There's only two
classes of people. And on the side of salvation and rejecting begin in
Genesis like everything else begin. TOKEN.THE_
BAKF.CA V-22 N-8 SATURDAY_ 64-0208 51
Who is that sinful man that will change that, and say "The days of
miracles is past"? Who will do that, and say that God's Word was
wrong, when He said, "Whosoever calls upon the Name of the Lord...
For the promise is unto you and to your children and to them that's far
off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." He'll stamp the
Token upon them. That
makes the difference between the believer and the unbeliever. There were
those sealed by the Kingdom of God, and those marked by the mark of the
beast. And the ones that was marked by the mark of the beast could not
take the seal of God. The same thing's coming in today, and we see it
right before our own eyes. JUBILEE.YEAR_
JEFF.IN V-26 N-6 SUNDAY_ 54-1003E 82
There's only going to be two classes of people in the last day. Both of
them is going to wear a mark. The mark of God is the baptism of the Holy
Spirit, without a shadow of doubt. I preached that not long ago right
here. By the Holy Spirit's help, and the Word of God, proved it, that
the seal of God is the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Ephesians 4:30 says,
"Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby you're sealed until the
day of your redemption." Without the Holy Spirit you are not
sealed. But the Holy Spirit is God's Seal. And
then, that, all that was not sealed by the Holy Spirit, was took on the
mark of the beast. And the mark of the beast is a mark of apostasy,
which is rejecting the Holy Spirit. See what I mean? SEAL.OF.THE.ANTICHRIST_
LA.CA FRIDAY_ 55-0311 E-15
Now, we find out that over in the Book... Many peoples has set up
different things and said... I had a man to come to me not long ago; he
said, "Brother Branham, I want to show you something." Said,
"What do you think the mark of the beast is?" And
I said, "I don't know." And
he said, "Well, let me show you something." The poor boy was
course in a elusion. And he pulled out of his pocket, a great long piece
of paper that had the Statue of Liberty, on it. He said, "There's
the mark of the beast, the Statue of Liberty." Well,
we've heard all kind of things and rumors, but what does the Word of God
say it is? That's the next thing. That's what we want to know: What is
this apostate seal, and how will it be placed on people? REVELATION
16:2 2
And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there
fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the
beast, and [upon] them which worshipped his image. SEAL.OF.GOD_
JEFF.IN V-26 N-4 FRIDAY_ 54-0514 26
And now on these messages, like "The Mark of the Beast," and
today when there is such a confusion... Did you understand it last
night. If you did, say, "Amen." [Congregation says,
"Amen." --Ed.] Now, we're going to speak tonight on the Mark
of God, or "The Seal of God." Now, we realize... Now,
I just not trying to preach out of two Bibles; one is plenty. But I got
one of them here for a purpose of little footnotes, and so forth, of
reference, if someone should ask a question. And now, tomorrow night, if
the Lord willing... After preaching the first night on "The Seven
Church Ages," seeing where we were--we're at, positionally, in the
day that we're living... Last
night, on the greatest criminal there is in the world, The Mark of the
Beast, and tonight, on the greatest blessing there is in the world, The
Seal of God... SEAL.OF.GOD_
JEFF.IN V-26 N-4 FRIDAY_ 54-0514 123
Notice, all those things proving that there is the mark of the beast.
There's where it's at. So when you're running around here saying,
"Well, I sure when the mark of the beast comes..." be careful
that you haven't already got it. And those who have so, will be punished
in fire and brimstone, poured out of the cup of God's indignation, to be
tormented day and night, forever and forever. It's a serious thing. Now,
how is your escape? There
is going to be a time, which is coming right now. Notice, and in that
organization moving out... Let me give you a little hint here. In that
organization moving down like that, it's coming a time to where you'll
have to belong into that organization or you can't buy or sell; or have
that mark of apostasy, church mark. You have to belong to some
organization or you can't buy or sell. ONENESS.OF.UNITY_
WATERLOO.IA V-2 N-7 TUESDAY_ 58-0128 19-4
Good, all right, now with your heads bowed let's pray for God to fill
you with the Holy Ghost right where you are. "Brother Branham, you
want to come down and lay your hands on me for the Holy Ghost?" I
don't have to. While
Peter spake these words at the house of Cornelius, the Holy Ghost fell
on them that heard the Word. Faith cometh by hearing, not laying on of
hands, but by hearing. Hearing what? The Word of God. And
I've tried in my humble way to show you the towers that's being built,
the Babylon towers that's got to fall. And I'm pointing you to a tower,
and there's only one road up it. That's through the Holy Spirit. You
can't set neutral. The Bible said in this day that every man that wasn't
sealed with the Holy Ghost would have the mark of the beast. What is the
mark of the beast? Unbelief. Don't you know what your... SEAL.OF.GOD_
LONG.BEACH.CA THURSDAY_ 61-0216 E-12
Now, on this great subject of the mark of the beast and the seal of God.
We've heard so much about it. It's been... I've seen charts that'd reach
across this platform here about mark of the beast and the seal of God.
But to me, it's so simple, it's just such a--a simple thing to look in
the Word and see it, till I don't think... Well, I've got about three or
four pages of different Scriptures I want to--wrote out here, that I
want to refer to for you tonight. While I was thinking on it this
afternoon, I put down Scriptures here, and different pages, so I could
find out and you could write it down if you want to. Now,
it's a great subject, and I think that it is a--and one of a--an
essential subject that should be taught on. Now, we've had Gospel
sermons; we've had Divine healing. And now, this ought to be the--on
based like, the second coming of Christ, on His second coming. MARK.OF.THE.BEAST_
JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 56-0715 E-8
Now, this great subject that we are approaching has certainly caused
some great controversy and some pro and con on the--on the subject. And
I for myself believe that it's such a great, vital part of the
Scripture, that all the Scripture should be taught: all of it. We should
not leave any of it out. God has spoke through the Scriptures about the
mark of the beast and how that it was to appear in the last days. And as
a minister of the Gospel, believing that we're living in the last days.
I believe that it's a timely message that should be approached
reverently in this day. Now,
there has been many thoughts projected to the peoples concerning this
vital, God sent message, warning to the church. It's been many things
has been thought and given to the people what this mark of the beast
was. And of coarse, like all other Scripture, it causes cults to rise,
and... But surely, if there is such a thing fixing to befall the people
of the earth, there should be some Gospel sensible answer to the
question. TEN.VIRGINS_
JEFF.IN ROJC 425-492 SUNDAY_ 60-1211M 296
Turn with me now to Exodus, will you? 21st chapter. The exhortations of
His Spirit... Now we're going to speak now of how to receive... I showed
you, and telling you the results; there it is. Now,
how do you receive the mark of the beast? And I'll show you what your
doom is there. Now, the mark of the beast, Exodus the 21st chapter.
Taking it out of the Old Testament so that you can see. Over here also
in the New Testament I have plenty Scriptures laying here that we all
know. Now, let's read. Now,
these are the judgments which thou shall set before them. If
thou buy a Hebrew servant,... (Now, remember, now, it's a Hebrew; that's
a believer. See?)... a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in
the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. If
he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he was married,
then his wife shall go out with him. If
his master give him a wife,... she have born him sons or daughters; the
wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out...
himself. STANDING.IN.THE.GAP_
JEFF.IN V-6 N-7 SUNDAY_ 63-0623M 87
You remember on the tape, "Sirs, What Time Is It?" I quoted
over it, "Remember, something's fixing to take place major."
And now it's made the whole nation testify to it. Every newspaper on the
Associated Press, and one of our leading magazines, and everything else
testifying about it, it ain't all over yet. But what a privileged
people, a--a privileged people that's Christian, to know that in this
dark hour when there's no hopes according to science there's an atomic
bomb waiting for us. And no hopes in our organizations ever getting
together; they're consolidating with the mark of the beast... And when
all of our hopes that way is gone in our economy, of our Christian
fellowship amongst the organizations... It's heading up into
Catholicism, which will be a mark of the beast in the confederation of
church. But
it's those who love God and are looking for a reality that... The very
God Who made the promise in the Bible, spreads it before our face and
makes the church, and the people, and science, and magazines, and
everything recognize that He's still God and can fill the promise. What
a time. AZUSA.JUBILEE_
LA.CA SUNDAY_ 56-0916 E-7
Then this person that was--did not want to go free could--had to be
sealed, a beautiful type today of the sealing of God or the marking of
the beast, which has been so much disputed, what it was. "Now,
faith cometh by hearing, hearing of the Word of God." And when we
hear that we are free and refuse to act upon our freedom, then we will
be sealed. To my opinion, to be sealed away from God is to receive the
mark of the beast. For to hear is to receive. And when we hear that we
are free, then we can accept it and be free. Now,
when the hearer heard the jubilee sound, and if he didn't want to be
free, then he had to be sealed. And it is today, that when men and women
hear this marvelous Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and of the baptism
of the Holy Ghost, you're at a place where you have to make a choice.
You can never hear it and be the same. If you accept it, you receive
Christ. If you refuse it, you're sealed away from Christ. And it makes a
difference of your attitude towards the hearing of the Word. HEAR.RECOGNIZE.ACT.ON.WORD_
JEFF.IN V-13 N-7 SUNDAY_ 60-0221 144
People come up and say, "I got the Holy Ghost too." Look the
way they live; it don't last from one revival to another, from one
meeting to another. It's made manifest; they haven't got it. If a man's
borned of the Spirit of God, or a woman, they have the fruit of the
Spirit; they walk godly; they live that life. See? They keep away from
the things of the world. God moves in them and makes Hisself manifest,
and proves that He's God working in there. The other is impersonating.
See? Impersonations,
that's what's been all the way down, impersonating. Look at Ishmael, and
Isaac; and all down (See?) impersonating. Look at the prophet Moses, and
look at the prophet Balaam. See? See how they come down? Look at Judas,
and look at Jesus. And
Jesus predicts that this Holy Spirit in the last days, would be the Seal
of God. Now, what would be the mark of the beast? Would be to reject the
Seal of God. For all that didn't have the Seal of God had the mark of
the beast. And if it's two spiritual marks, one of them will be a true
mark of God, the other one will be apostasy. Can you see it? PHILADELPHIAN.CHURCH.AGE_
JEFF.IN ROJC 373-423 SATURDAY_ 60-1210 254
... make them... the synagogue of Satan,... (All right.)... And they
shall know... come to your feet, and... know that I... loved you. Because
thou hast kept the words of my patience, I also will keep thee in the
hour of temptation,... Watch
now, to show this is not the Methodist age I'm talking about, yet it's
the lapover. Look. Are you ready to listen? Everybody? Listen close now. Because
thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee... (that
little remnant)... from the hour of temptation, when... The
church is going to come to a place where you're going to have to get in
this organization or--or be... You're going to--you're going to have it,
brother. That's all. You're either going to be organized or take the
mark of the beast, or take... You're either going to organize it, or go
in the denomination (which is actually coming the mark of the beast),
'cause it's a boycott. See? ...
come upon... that shall come upon the whole world, to try them that
dwell upon the earth. Behold,
I come quickly: hold fast to that which thou has, that no man take away
Thy crown. REVELATION
19:20 20
And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought
miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the
mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were
cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. MARK.OF.THE.BEAST_
JEFF.IN V-26 N-3 THURSDAY_ 54-0513 44
Can't receive the mark of the beast and then worship Christ or be with
Him. "But whosoever shall worship the beast or the image of the
beast, will be tormented in the Presence of God and in the presence of
the holy angels." That's what the Lord says about it. MARK.OF.THE.BEAST_
JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 56-0715 E-11
Now, I thought this morning that it would be a good time to go back and
get the mark of the beast in its amateur or and in its primitive, where
it begin. And it's true that there is to be a certain person, a man,
that it is to wind up in in the last days. But it's foreshadowed back in
the beginning and also foreshadowed down into your life, and
foreshadowed through every church age, and then comes to a positive
place in a man in the last days. Now,
to go into this, which I say would take weeks of Bible teaching, but
being today we just have a short, limited time, we will take it in it's
amateur. Or not... I don't mean that. I mean in it's primitive, the
origin of it, and bring it what is the beginning of the mark of the
beast. How do you receive it? I'm
sure there's none of us ever wants it. Because those that are wearing it
will certainly never stand in the Presence of God. And it's to be in the
last day when it's to be manifested. And we certainly ought to know some
reason or what is it. Now,
last night in the basement while studying and going through the
Scriptures, searching as I have weeks after weeks on this subject... WORLD.AGAIN.FALLING.APART_
SHP.LA V-17 N-4 WEDNESDAY_ 63-1127 161
That denominational system is the mark of the beast. You've knowed it.
You never heard me say it before; that's the reason I've racked it so
hard. Because now I think the time's just about finished, so might as
well let it come forth and tell the Truth about it. There she is. That's
the marking of the beast, exactly. Rome was the beast, and she was
denomination, the first organization. And
we come out of her, we Pentecostal people, to not be partakers of it;
and turned right like a dog to its vomit, and a hog to its wallow, right
back in. No wonder our Pentecostal system is done, and so is the
Methodists, Baptists, World Council of Churches, and all. They're being
swallowed up in the Council of Churches, making a mark or--or an image
unto the beast to give it its power. "And it had a head wounded
unto death, and then live," pagan Rome to papal Rome. Oh, my, how
blind has Protestants been. And here you are, right now setting right in
the midst of it. And there's nothing you can do now. The system's done
formed. They'll take it and don't know they've took it. They'll just be
in there; that's all. They can't get out of it. It's already done. DOES.GOD.CHANGE.HIS.MIND_
JEFF.IN V-5 N-9 SUNDAY_ 65-0418E 73
And Moab here... Now, in this... And you people out in the--on the
telephones, I want to first say that I--I do not wish to be critical,
and I hope I'm not; but the Message that's been given to me, I must be
faithful to that Message or I'll be a hypocrite. See? I--I can't say no
more than what I am sent to say. And I--I am thinking that the great
enemy of the Christian society today is the organized churches. I do
believe with all my heart that it'll finally form into the mark of the
beast (which I can--think I can prove that by the Bible with God's help.
I have already done it.)--that it will form into the mark of the beast
in the federation of the churches. Because God never did at any time
ever recognize a ordained church--organized church, never. He never did
do it, and every time that man made an organization, the Spirit of God
left it and never did return again. Ask any historian, or you may be a
reader yourself. Never. When they organized, God laid it on the shelf;
and that's where it went; it stayed from then on. They growed in
members, but never awakening of the Spirit: never, no more. MARY'S.BELIEF_
LA.CA THURSDAY_ 59-0409 E-49
Saint Francis of Assisi, the walking preacher with a Bible under his
arm, who... The birds was hollering. And he said, "Be still, my
little sisters, while I preach the Gospel." Then after he was dead,
you made him a Catholic. How about Joan of Arc? Any you school children
would've knowed of her, how that lady saw visions, performed miracles.
And what did the Catholic church do? Burn her at the stake as a witch,
as a Beelzebub. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] For she was anointed with the
Spirit of God, and she performed miracles. And the church world didn't
recognize her until she was gone. Be
careful that we don't do the same thing. The Holy Spirit's here now in
Its Fullness, in Its power. Be careful, if you don't wait till... All
that didn't receive the Seal of God got the mark of the beast. You know
what the mark of the beast was--was to reject the Seal of God. In the
Old Testament when the trumpet sounded, the Priest sounded the trumpet,
if a slave did not want to go free, he had to be sealed, bored in his
ear with an awl. Then he was a slave the rest of his days. "Faith
cometh by hearing." If you don't hear it and receive it, then
you're marked on the other side. Then you can't come in. Let's
start tonight in a revival and open our hearts to the Holy Spirit while
the hour is here. JEHOVAH.JIREH.2_
YAKIMA.WA TUESDAY_ 60-0802 E-86
People different. People say, "Keep a day, or do a certain thing,
or a certain thing's the seal of God." That is not Scriptural. Ephesians
4:30 says, "Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby you are
sealed until the day of your redemption." How many knows that?
God's Words says the Seal of God is the Holy Ghost. Now,
and then what is the mark of the beast? Is to reject the Holy Ghost, a
mark of apostasy. Remember, in the old days when the trumpet, the
jubilee year come, and the trumpet sounded, and every slave had a right
to go free? But if he didn't choose to go free, he was taken to the
temple, and they took a awl and bored a hole in his ear, and he was
marked out for the rest of his days. And what is it? On the ear, when
God calls you to receive the Holy Ghost, and you refuse It, then God
marks your ear to where you'll never want to try it anymore. See? Then
that's the mark of apostasy. And in the Bible it said, that these last
days that there'd be two classes of people: One with the Mark of God,
the Seal of God, the other one was the mark of the beast. Is that right?
Now, you're wearing one of those marks tonight. If it's a question, lay
it up on the platform, I'll get to that subject to you. LEAN.NOT.UNTO.THY.OWN.UNDERSTANDING_
PHOENIX.AZ V-19 N-3 WEDNESDAY_ 65-0120 80
When we was up there in Finland, that little boy was raised from the
dead, there stood them Russian soldiers at attention, and they said,
"We will receive a God that can raise up the dead." We
have made denominations, and schools, and--and buildings, and failed to
do what Jesus told us to do, was preach the Gospel. We've tried to
educate the world. He never said, "Educate the world; he that's
educated shall be saved." You've got to be borned again, filled
with the Spirit. That's the reason we have so miserably failed
everywhere. See, we got the wealth, we got the thing. Now, what will happen? And when this church, World Council of churches goes together, can't you see who is going to do the leading? Can't you Methodists and Presbyterians understand that, the rest of you, even to Pentecostals? You say you're not going in. You'll either go in or you'll bust up the denomination. You'll do one or the other. It's right before you. You've got to do it. It's a forcing, the mark of the beast. That's what it is, exactly. Denominationalism absolutely (I can prove it by the Bible) is the mark of the beast. "She was a whore; she had prostitute daughters." And we know that that is the Truth. Organized religion, it's contrary to the Word, and it's antichrist in its principles. Not everything in there is antichrist; but in its principles, its system is antichrist, because it's against the Word of God. Every organized system is that way. |