In the sermon “The Spoken Word …” (Part 2) from March 18, 1962, Brother Branham gave an account of how he had seen the globe and a man dressed in white. As it was common in times past, he had a linen cloth tied around him that hung on his side, which held the wheat he was sowing.

Right afterward, a scoundrel followed Him and sowed weed seeds in between. Both the wheat and the tares grew together. Then a drought came and both were drooping. Then came a sudden rain: The wheat straightened up and a loud “Glory! Glory! Glory!” sounded forth; the tares also straightened up and called out, “Glory! Glory! Glory!” Brother Branham was amazed by this. He could understand that the wheat was jubilant, but he could not comprehend that the tares were praising God as well. And the Lord spoke to him, “Read Heb 6.”

There it states: “For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God: But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.” (vv. 7-8). Here it also refers to people who had an experience with God, who even became partakers of the powers of the world to come and the Holy Spirit, and yet fall away from faith and bring shame on the Son of God. There are believers who have heard the precious Word of God and believed the message, but who then turn away and can never come back again. This Word is also being fulfilled: “… for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.” (Mat 5:45b).

At the time of our Lord, the scribes compared Him and His ministry to Beelzebub. In response, He said, “He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.” (Mat 12:22-37). After that came the verdict: “Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.” (v. 31). Then, all that remains is judgment.

God holds us accountable: “For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.” (v. 37). How many Pentecostal believers have sinned against the ministry of Brother Branham? How many are sinning now?

Brother Branham said, “You can be baptized with the Holy Spirit in the second realm and still not be born-again in the soul.” The seed makes the difference. The rain is ordained to play its part in this important cycle: The grain of wheat dies, and the life which is in the seed can spring up by the warmth of the sun (Jn 12:24). “… that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die …” (1 Cor 15:36). If the Word is not received, then the field of the heart brings forth the thorns and thistles of the curse. Every seed brings forth after its own kind. When He took the curse of disobedience and the fall upon Himself, our Lord wore the crown of thorns (Jn 19) “… and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.” (Phi 2:8).

The good Seed is the Word which is sown into the hearts of the true believers (Mk 4:14; Lk 8:11). They are the sons of the Kingdom of God, of whom Paul said, “But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth…” (2 Ths 2:13). But Satan, the enemy, sows his interpretation as he did in the Garden of Eden, and thus the sons of the wicked one have a religious appearance. This is the seed of discrepancy, about which Brother Branham preached an entire sermon.

The Apostle John wrote: “For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.” (1 Jn 3:11-12). Neither in the Old nor the New Testament genealogy do we find Cain listed as the son of Adam (Gen 5; 1 Chr 1; Lk 3). Likewise, the names of the false seed cannot be written in the Book of Life.

Cain and Abel both believed; both built an altar; both offered sacrifices. But the actions of Cain aligned with his inherited nature. There was jealousy and hatred in him which made him a murderer. As back then in the natural with Eve, both spiritual seeds are manifested in the Church. “In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.” (1 Jn 3:10).

“Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.” (1 Jn 3:15-16).

Whoever does not have a Cain as a brother cannot be an Abel. The contrasting natures of the two seeds become evident: Some persecute, others are persecuted; some hate, others are hated; some slander, others are slandered. Some love in the way of Cain and are friendly perpetrators of character assassination, others give their lives for the brethren in the love of God. This is how it really is. Every seed brings forth after its own kind. This is a law of reproduction in the natural as well as in the spiritual realm.

Abel was the first victim of a murderer. And this only because Satan succeeded in beguiling Eve by adding one single word to what God had said. Compare Gen 2:16: “Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat …” with Gen 3:1: “… hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?”

We have to be aware that any temptation is always about the Word – just as it was in the Garden of Eden and later with our Redeemer. Satan approached with: “It is written …,” but our Redeemer replied, “It is also written.” The correct answer is only ever possible with the correct Scripture that belongs to the subject. Our prayer should be: “And lead us not into temptation …” (Mat 6:13). All those who add something to the Word of God are under the wrong influence and lose their eligibility (Rev 22). With God compromises are not possible; indeed, they are prohibited, and it does not suffice to say, “I believe the message.” Those who spread their unbiblical “special revelations” also claim to believe in this manner. Jesus Christ, our Lord, said, “He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, …” not as people construe it for themselves.

In 2 Ths 2 Paul clearly stated why people fall prey to the adversary and get lost: “… because they received not the love of the truth … That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.” (2 Ths 2:10,12). Speaking to the hypocritical Pharisees, our Lord said, “He that is of God heareth God’s words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.” (Jn 8:47). He reproached them with: “… but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.” (v. 37b) “And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?” (v. 46b). That is how it is now in the circles of the end-time message. Some believe every Word because they are born of the Word seed. The others, who are not begotten of God, add, take away, interpret, and place themselves under the curse (Gal 1:8).

In chapter 8 of the Gospel of John, we also read the all-penetrating Words of our Lord: “If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed …” Connected to this is the promise: “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (vv. 31-32). Amen. The divine truth has set us free from all error.

Brother Branham saw how the wheat and tares were sown and grew on the same field. Our Lord also mentioned this in Mat 13:30, and He further said, “Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.”

The Lord showed me the large, overripe wheat field without tares, without thistles. As true as God lives, only pure wheat shall be harvested worldwide. God allows no intermingling. Only the true wheat shall be harvested and taken up into the heavenly garner at the Return of Christ. The Lord Himself purges His floor. “Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.” (Mat 3:12).

Blessed and holy shall all those be who will have a part in the first resurrection and the Rapture!

In the sermon “The Spoken Word …” (Part 2) from March 18, 1962, Brother Branham gave an account of how he had seen the globe and a man dressed in white. As it was common in times past, he had a linen cloth tied around him that hung on his side, which held the wheat he was sowing.

Right afterward, a scoundrel followed Him and sowed weed seeds in between. Both the wheat and the tares grew together. Then a drought came and both were drooping. Then came a sudden rain: The wheat straightened up and a loud “Glory! Glory! Glory!” sounded forth; the tares also straightened up and called out, “Glory! Glory! Glory!” Brother Branham was amazed by this. He could understand that the wheat was jubilant, but he could not comprehend that the tares were praising God as well. And the Lord spoke to him, “Read Heb 6.”

There it states: “For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God: But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.” (vv. 7-8). Here it also refers to people who had an experience with God, who even became partakers of the powers of the world to come and the Holy Spirit, and yet fall away from faith and bring shame on the Son of God. There are believers who have heard the precious Word of God and believed the message, but who then turn away and can never come back again. This Word is also being fulfilled: “… for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.” (Mat 5:45b).

At the time of our Lord, the scribes compared Him and His ministry to Beelzebub. In response, He said, “He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.” (Mat 12:22-37). After that came the verdict: “Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.” (v. 31). Then, all that remains is judgment.

God holds us accountable: “For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.” (v. 37). How many Pentecostal believers have sinned against the ministry of Brother Branham? How many are sinning now?

Brother Branham said, “You can be baptized with the Holy Spirit in the second realm and still not be born-again in the soul.” The seed makes the difference. The rain is ordained to play its part in this important cycle: The grain of wheat dies, and the life which is in the seed can spring up by the warmth of the sun (Jn 12:24). “… that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die …” (1 Cor 15:36). If the Word is not received, then the field of the heart brings forth the thorns and thistles of the curse. Every seed brings forth after its own kind. When He took the curse of disobedience and the fall upon Himself, our Lord wore the crown of thorns (Jn 19) “… and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.” (Phi 2:8).

The good Seed is the Word which is sown into the hearts of the true believers (Mk 4:14; Lk 8:11). They are the sons of the Kingdom of God, of whom Paul said, “But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth…” (2 Ths 2:13). But Satan, the enemy, sows his interpretation as he did in the Garden of Eden, and thus the sons of the wicked one have a religious appearance. This is the seed of discrepancy, about which Brother Branham preached an entire sermon.

The Apostle John wrote: “For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.” (1 Jn 3:11-12). Neither in the Old nor the New Testament genealogy do we find Cain listed as the son of Adam (Gen 5; 1 Chr 1; Lk 3). Likewise, the names of the false seed cannot be written in the Book of Life.

Cain and Abel both believed; both built an altar; both offered sacrifices. But the actions of Cain aligned with his inherited nature. There was jealousy and hatred in him which made him a murderer. As back then in the natural with Eve, both spiritual seeds are manifested in the Church. “In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.” (1 Jn 3:10).

“Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.” (1 Jn 3:15-16).

Whoever does not have a Cain as a brother cannot be an Abel. The contrasting natures of the two seeds become evident: Some persecute, others are persecuted; some hate, others are hated; some slander, others are slandered. Some love in the way of Cain and are friendly perpetrators of character assassination, others give their lives for the brethren in the love of God. This is how it really is. Every seed brings forth after its own kind. This is a law of reproduction in the natural as well as in the spiritual realm.

Abel was the first victim of a murderer. And this only because Satan succeeded in beguiling Eve by adding one single word to what God had said. Compare Gen 2:16: “Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat …” with Gen 3:1: “… hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?”

We have to be aware that any temptation is always about the Word – just as it was in the Garden of Eden and later with our Redeemer. Satan approached with: “It is written …,” but our Redeemer replied, “It is also written.” The correct answer is only ever possible with the correct Scripture that belongs to the subject. Our prayer should be: “And lead us not into temptation …” (Mat 6:13). All those who add something to the Word of God are under the wrong influence and lose their eligibility (Rev 22). With God compromises are not possible; indeed, they are prohibited, and it does not suffice to say, “I believe the message.” Those who spread their unbiblical “special revelations” also claim to believe in this manner. Jesus Christ, our Lord, said, “He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, …” not as people construe it for themselves.

In 2 Ths 2 Paul clearly stated why people fall prey to the adversary and get lost: “… because they received not the love of the truth … That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.” (2 Ths 2:10,12). Speaking to the hypocritical Pharisees, our Lord said, “He that is of God heareth God’s words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.” (Jn 8:47). He reproached them with: “… but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.” (v. 37b) “And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?” (v. 46b). That is how it is now in the circles of the end-time message. Some believe every Word because they are born of the Word seed. The others, who are not begotten of God, add, take away, interpret, and place themselves under the curse (Gal 1:8).

In chapter 8 of the Gospel of John, we also read the all-penetrating Words of our Lord: “If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed …” Connected to this is the promise: “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (vv. 31-32). Amen. The divine truth has set us free from all error.

Brother Branham saw how the wheat and tares were sown and grew on the same field. Our Lord also mentioned this in Mat 13:30, and He further said, “Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.”

The Lord showed me the large, overripe wheat field without tares, without thistles. As true as God lives, only pure wheat shall be harvested worldwide. God allows no intermingling. Only the true wheat shall be harvested and taken up into the heavenly garner at the Return of Christ. The Lord Himself purges His floor. “Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.” (Mat 3:12).

Blessed and holy shall all those be who will have a part in the first resurrection and the Rapture!