31/10/2023
Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. (2 Timothy 4:2-4)
Today they don't want to hear a message like that. The people don't want to hear that. They want to be tickled in their ears. Exactly what the Holy Spirit told me the day I laid that cornerstone there, said to, "Preach the Word; be instant in season, out of season, for the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall heap for themselves together teachers, having itching ears, and shall be turned from the truth to fables." Said, "When the vision leaves you read II Timothy 4." Said, "Don't forget II Timothy 4." And when the vision left me, standing right there on 7th Street, a nineteen year old boy standing there, the voice of God spoke out in the room, and He said, "II Timothy 4." That's exactly what it's turned to be.
The time will come when they'll not endure sound doctrine. The Pentecostals want something that can pat them on the back and let them live the way they want to, and they can play the piano at forty beats per second, and jump up-and-down and dance about it, and women do the way they want to and men the same way. The Presbyterian, Methodist, Lutheran, and Baptist, there's a many a sincere person in all those organizations. That's exactly right. But that system has got them so bound down, till they think as long as they belong to that church and their name's upon those books that they're heaven bound. Your name on a book here on earth won't mean that to God. Your name's got to be written in the Lamb's Book of Life by the Blood of Jesus Christ that your sins are forgiven. That's right.
But they want that kind. That's the kind of pastors they want in. They don't want nothing else. And when God in this last days has shook every Divine gift there's recommended in the Bible, every gift that Jesus Christ promised, every gift, and every sign, and every end time sign, everything that was promised in this Bible, as far as I can see myself, has already been shook before the nation, and she plunges on towards hell as hard as she can go. Tell them, they run on anyhow.
( Flashing Red Light of the Sign of His Coming
June 23, 1963 )
~ Rev. William Marrion Branham
Year Bible Reading Plan | Daily Reading: 2 Samuel 15, Psalm 139, Hosea 9, 2 Timothy 4