Glorified Body

Quotes from the collection of messages preached by Rev. William

Marrion Branham, since 1947.

EXPECTATIONS 50-0405
…I've often thought how I would cherish in my hands, a charger
that held one drop of the Blood of Thy Son. But I realize tonight I
hold greater, in His estimation. Before me is a purchase of His
Blood, that He gave His Blood that these might become His.

E-12 012 And Father, it's my lot tonight to speak to these people.
So may Thy Spirit direct every word. And how we thank Thee for
the grace of God, to know that one time we were aliens cut off
from God without mercy, without hope. Christ died for us in our
stead, bearing our reproach and sins in His own body, and
knowing someday that He shall come. We do not know now what
we shall be like, but we know we'll have a body like His; for we
shall see Him as He is. And Father, that'll be a glorified body, free
from sickness, and sorrow, and heartaches, and death. Oh, our
spirits groan for that deliverance.

LIFE STORY 51-0722A

I believe when we get over there we'll know each other, don't you?
I believe I'll know you just as you--I know you now, only we'll be
immortal, and we'll know each other.

E-29 029 Why? They knew Elijah and Moses. And--and Peter,
James, and John recognized them. And we recognize Jesus after
He returned back to His glorified body. The Bible said, "It does not
yet appear what we shall be," but we'll have a body like His, for we
shall see Him as He is. So we will have one like that. And He was
eating and so forth. Now, I just believe heaven's a real, real place
that we're going. Amen.

And every Word of God is a Seed that'll bring forth... It's condi...
It'll bring forth what it's purposed for. I see many of you down here
raising cotton, apples, peaches, fruits. When that little apple tree is
no bigger than that right there, every apple that'll ever be in that
tree is in it right then. Dozens of bushes of apples is in that little
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tree, right then. Why, you say, "Brother Branham, no." Well,
where'd it come from, if they're not? They're in the tree right then.

EXPECTATIONS 53-0507
E-17 017 Now, the only thing, the little tree, you stick it in the
ground, plant it, and it has to grow. It has to draw the moisture
from the ground, and it has to draw more than what its 'lotted
portion is. You have to give it plenty of water. And when you give it
water, it just drinks, and drinks, and drinks till it can't hardly drink
no more, and it just starts pushing out. And it pushes out limbs,
pushes out leaves, pushes out blossoms, pushes out apples. The
apples were on the inside of it at the beginning. And it just has to
drink.

And every man that's born-again in Christ Jesus... Everything you

have need of, your healing... Satan will afflict you, sure he will. But
everything you have need of in the whole life's journey is in you
right then. And we are planted in Christ Jesus. You see what I
mean?

E-18 018 When you are born again and the baptism of the Holy
Spirit has come into your heart, you have everything that you have
need of for the journey. Now, the only thing you have to do, is start
drinking, drinking, pushing out, drinking and pushing out. I believe
He hears my analysis of Christ Jesus. He's the inexhaustible
Fountain of Life. And every man that's planted in Him can drink,
and drink, and push out, and push out to every redemptive
blessing that God has promised belongs to you and it's your
personal property. And the devil hasn't got any tie to it at all. He
hasn't got any legal rights. His legal rights were spoiled at Calvary.

My, I can see Him when He died there and walked down at
Calvary, down through the stair steps are He passed by those
souls that were in prison, that repented not in the days of Noah,
knocked at the door, "You should've heard the message of the
prophet."

E-19 019 On down He went into hell, knocked at the door, and
Satan opened up. Said, "Oh, so after all You got here, did You?"
Said, "I thought I had You when I slew Abel. I was sure I had you
when I put Daniel in the lions den, the Hebrew children in the fiery
furnace." Christ was in every one of them. "Then," said, "when I
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beheaded John, I thought I had You then. Then I thought I had
You on Calvary, but now, You're here."

I can hear Him say, "Satan, I'm the virgin born Son of God. My
Blood is still dripping from the cross yonder. I've come down to
take over. You made people fear, scared them, and run them
around corners and everything else, but You can't do it no more.
Give Me the keys of death and hell." Took them from his side,
hung them on His side, walked up through the other stair steps,
knocked on the door where I could hear a shouting meeting in
there. And there stood Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, Rebekah,
Isaiah, Jeremiah, all the prophets.

I hear Him knocking at the door and say, "Who is there?" Abraham
opens up the door, why, here's the Seed of Abraham. Here's the
Root and Offspring of David. Here's the Stone that Isaiah saw cut
out of the mountain without hands.

E-20 020 He said, "Now, you believe, and the goats and heifer's
blood could not take away sin; it only covered it up. But My Blood
has divorced sin and put it away forever. We're going home now.
It's coming daylight in Jerusalem, and we've got to be moving
along."

I can hear Abraham say, "Lord, can we make a little whistle stop
as we go through Jerusalem? Well, I'd like to look the old city
over." Amen.

Some of that same noise will come in this grave yard across here,
some of these days, "Can we make a whistle stop?"

I can hear Him say, "I've got to talk over a few things with My
disciples, about forty days." Sure, look around the country. And on
Easter morning, when He come out of the grave, according to
Matthew 27, "The many of the saints that slept in the dust of the
earth, rose out of the grave and come out and appeared unto
many."

E-21 021 I can see Caiaphas say... I can see Abraham and Sarah,
as young people walking down the streets, looking the old city
over, and the priest say, "I seen them people somewhere." And
they disappeared just like Jesus coming through that wall, the
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same kind of a glorified body. Yes. But brother, on that last day,
after the Pentecost, before Pentecost, when He ascended up on
high, as He went up, the Bible said, "He went with them." He went
up and they went with Him.

I can see Him going on above the moon, the stars, Him and the
Old Testament saints, going into the Presence of God. When they
get way out there somewhere, millions of miles beyond where any
scope could ever see, way in there, it comes close to the city. I
can hear the Old Testament saints when they see the city say, "Lift
up, ye everlasting gates, and be ye lifted up. Let the King of glory
come in."

I can hear an angelic choir back over there, holler, said, "Who is
this King of glory?"

"The Lord of hosts, mighty in battle, lift up the gates."

E-22 022 I can see the Angels press the button, the big gates fly
loose, and Jesus that Conqueror Who led captive captive and give
gifts to men, walking down through the streets of Jerusalem, with
the Old Testament saints right down to the throne of God. Said,
"Here they are. They were faithful. Here they are. I've gone down
and redeemed them."

I can hear Him say, "Climb up here and sit on this throne till I make
every enemy Your footstool. I got to send You back again
someday." Hallelujah.

I believe it, brother. He is the Lamb of God to take away the sin of
the world. There He is, the lovely One. The things that He did
here, while He was on earth, He give all the power back to His
Church, and the Church fails to recognize that.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS COD 54-0103M

…If you're filled with the Holy Ghost this morning, and God's
power is moving in every fiber of your body, what good would it do
for you to stand in the judgment? You're already judged, and been
received, and filled, and already--already translated into heavenly
places with Christ Jesus. Not you will be, you are now, right now
translated.
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76-107 043 "Those whom He called, He justified; those whom He
justified, He glorified." And every redeemed person in the world
this morning that's under the Blood of Jesus Christ, filled with the
Holy Ghost, hath Everlasting Life and can't perish, and is already
in heavenly places with Christ Jesus, and shall never come into
condemnation. Already redeemed, isn't that wonderful? See?
Already redeemed, setting in heavenly places now with Christ, and
glo--already glorified, already glorified.

You say, "Brother Bill, does the Scripture say that?"

Jesus said that, or the Scripture says that, or the writers. Paul, he
said, "Those whom He justified, He hath already glorified. Those
whom He foreordained, He predestinated; those whom He
predestinated, He justified; those whom He justified, He has
already glorified." What is it? Oh, my (Excuse me.), already
glorified. Then if we are filled with the Holy Ghost, our fibers and
beings has already been preserved in God, there is a glorified
body already waiting, and you have to go to it as soon as this is
over. Those who He has justified, He's already glorified.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS COD 54-0103M

102-263 106 Just think, the very Lord Jesus that was back there in
the days of the apostles is right here now. And it's just winding up
the end of the Gentiles. A great move is going amongst the
supernatural believers, 'cause we believe that God is here.

Just think, your--your glorified body's right here at the Tabernacle

now, the Presence of the Holy Spirit which is your glorified
condition. You're glorified in Christ right now. "Those who He
justified, He glorified." And your own glorified body is standing
near you right now in Christ Jesus to give to you a strength like a
charge going into a battery. The Holy Spirit's in you. It's to charge
your body to give you new strength, to heal you from the sickness
that you've got, to make you well.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS COD 54-0103E

110-31 015 Then by one Spirit (Notice) we're all baptized into one
body. And as that body was raised up by God, resurrected from
the dead, justified, setting at His right hand in power and majesty
in heaven, so them that are dead in Christ, are in Christ, and free
from judgment, and will come forth in the resurrection.
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Now. But when we die now--when we die now, we go directly into

the Presence of Almighty God in a celestial body. If I would meet
Brother Neville up there, if we'd both die now, in an hour from now
I'd meet him; I'd say, "Greetings, Brother Neville," talk to him. I
couldn't shake his hand; he's in a celestial body. I could talk to
him; he'd look just like he does there. I'd look like I do. But we
could talk to one another, but we couldn't touch one another,
because we haven't got any of the five senses of see, taste, feel,
smell, and hear. See? But we would be immortal, and we could
see one another. We'd live in the blessed realms by the altar of
God. Don't you know John saw the souls under the altar crying,
"How long, Lord, how long," to come back to the earth to be
clothed upon?

111-33 016 Then, when Jesus, which is in us now in the form of

the Holy Ghost, when His celestial body, the Holy Spirit returns
with the glorified body, we'll be glorified with Him and in His
likeness. See what I mean? Then I'll shake his hand and say,
"Here it is, Brother Neville." Then we'll be...

Look. Jesus told His disciples, taking their Communion, He said,

"I'll eat no more of the fruit of the vine until I eat it and drink it with
you anew in My Father's Kingdom." Is that right? See? There it is.
So we... When the dead dies... A justified person, standing in the
Presence of God, goes into His Presence as an immortal being
and lives in the blessed realms of peace until the day that--returns
back.

111-35 017 Now, there was a time that the people didn't go into
the Presence of God when they died: the justified. That was in the
Old Testament. They went into a place called Paradise, and there
the souls of the just waited in Paradise. But Paradise was a place
where God kept the souls in like a dreamland, until the Blood of
Jesus Christ was shed; for the blood of bulls and goats would not
take away sin; it only covered up sin. But Jesus' Blood takes away
sin.

You notice that His--when He died at Calvary... And on His return,

He brought out from the grave those dead saints that had died
under the atonement of blood of bulls, and goats, and heifers. And
they entered into the city (Oh.) and appeared to many. How
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beautiful a picture, oh, if we could paint it just a moment. Look at
Jesus when He died.

111-37 018 Here, as I've often said, I believe, in the church here,
there's a--a roll here like; in here lives mortal beings. And each
one is in this great conglomeration of... of blackness and
darkness. Mortals live in here. Now, they are either influenced
from this a-way or from that way. You cannot be here a spiritual
being, sinner or saint, without having an influence from the
underworld or from the above world. If you're influenced from here,
you're from above. Your celestial body is waiting up here. But if
you're wicked, and hypocritical, and indifferent, your celestial body
is down here, regardless of how much you think it's up there;
because the fruit that you bear before people proves where you're
from. So you are here what you are somewhere else. Your life that
you live here is just reflecting what your inheritance is when you
leave here. Do you understand?

112-38 019 We are right now (oh, when I think of that)--we are
right now glorified in the Presence of God, born again believers,
"For if this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one already
waiting in glory," not somewhere else, right yonder already waiting
now. And these earthly bodies groan to be clothed upon with that
immortality. Is that right? Sickness, and aches, and pains, and
disappointments, and heartaches, and... Oh, I'll be glad when the
old pesthouse is closed up, won't you? Yes, sir. We can go home.
That's right.

Just... We are--groan to be clothed upon, the Spirit groaning. Oh,

when you look and see all the pain around about, all the
conglomeration, stink, and sin, and mortal living, and deceit, and
everything, I think, "Oh, God, how much longer will it be?"

112-40 020 One of these days I'm going to preach my last sermon,
going to lay the Bible down like this, and go home. Oh, what a time
that'll be. And when this earthly tabernacle is finished here, it won't
be one second till I'll be in that one yonder; so will you. Oh, my. No
wonder they said:

This robe of flesh I'll drop and rise,

And seize the everlasting prize;
And shout while passing through the air... (Sure, moving on up.)
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Now, where is that? When do we have it? Now. "Those whom He

justified, He also glorified." And do you realize that our glorified,
immortal body is waiting in the Presence of Jesus Christ right now,
waiting for us to come?

EXPLAINING HEALING AND JAIRUS 54-0216

E-37 037 The devil's just trying to scare you out of something.
He's trying to put something off somewhere else, say, "Some of
these days you'll be this." You are now. Now, we're sons of God.
Now, we're seated together in heavenly places. Now, we have all
powers in heavens and the earth. See? Now, we have it. Not in
the millennium, we won't need it then. We got it now. We're...
Right now we are the sons of God. "It does not appear what we
shall be, but we know we'll be like Him."

What you are here is a reflection of what you are somewhere else.
"Those who He called, He justifies." Is that right? "Those who He
justified, He has glorified." Already in the Presence of the Father,
we have a glorified body. Whew! Wasn't that deep? All right. We'll
find out whether it's right or not. "If this earthly tabernacle be
dissolved, we have one already waiting." Is that right? That's right.
So right now, and what we are there, is a reflection. Here, what we
are here, is a reflection of what we are somewhere else. So if your
deeds are evil, you know where it comes from. You know where
your other body's a waiting.

RESURRECTION OF JAIRUS DAUGHTER 54-0302

E-4 004 I just want to set down under that evergreen tree and just
relax a few thousand years, just to look it all over. Won't that be
wonderful? That may sound mythical, but it may not be just that
way. But anyhow, by God's grace, I want to be there. Yes, I want
to be there.

And I believe that by His grace, unmerited grace, that I have of my

own--that's none of my own, that He gave me, by no merits that I
had to present, I'll be there. "For those that He has called, He has
chosen. And those that He has--that He... Those who He called,
He justified. And those who He justified, He hath glorified
(already). And when this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have
one already waiting." Amen.
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Right in the presence of His beings tonight, in His sight we are
already glorified: "Those who He justified, He hath (past tense)
glorified." And what makes you a Christian, is because--and long
for that perfection, is because the perfection's laying right out
there, that other glorified body. When this one is moved out of, you
move into that one.

Isn't that marvelous? What are we scared about then? We just

believe, and then the Master of all it said, "All things work together
for good to them that love God." Nothing can harm us. Just as
peaceful as little children playing around. Just... We got a
heavenly Father Who watches over us. And whatever He sees
that we have need of, He just presents it to us.

GOD PERFECTING HIS CHURCH 54-1204

E-64 064 Now, when Jesus died, the Bible said He went and
preached to the souls that were in prison that repented not in the
long-suffering in the day of Noah. Is that the Scripture? You know
it is. What was that? Jesus went and preached to the souls that
were in prison. Why? He walked to the doors. I can see Him over
yonder in that demon region, where those demons lay, those un...
I mean those souls that didn't repent. In that dark place there
called the chains of darkness. [Brother Branham knocks on the
pulpit four times--Ed.] Knocked at the door. And He opened up the
door and I looked in there.

There is a great mass of souls, lost and screaming. And beautiful

girls and wrinkled hags and everything else, crying. Oh, my. If they
only had a chance. The heavens has done said He was the Son of
God. The earth said He was the Son of God. The atmosphere said
He was the Son of God. The stars wouldn't shine. The moon
wouldn't shine, and the sun went down. Everything said, "That's
the Son of God."

E-65 065 The Roman said, "That's the Son of God." The earth
belched out it's rocks, said, "It's the Son of God." And now, He is
here to the lost souls and He knocks on the door. [Brother
Branham knocks on the pulpit several times--Ed.]

I can hear Him when His Majesty--when He knocks on the door

and they looked up at Him. He said, "I am the Son of God. I've just
died at Calvary for sinners. Why didn't you believe Enoch and the
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rest of the prophets before the day of the destruction?" He had to
witness to the lost that He was the Son of God.

And them screaming for mercy, He had to shut the door. 'Cause
they had spurned mercy and they had to receive judgment. And
He goes on down a past the demons. I can see Him go down to
hell where the devil... [Brother Branham knocks on the pulpit--Ed.]
Knocked at the door. The devil said, "Who is there?"

Said, "Open up." And I can see the devil open up the door.

"Oh," he said, "You finally arrived, did You? Uh-huh." Said, "I
finally got my hands on You." He said, "I thought I had You when I
killed Abel. I thought I had You when I took the life of the prophets.
I was sure I had You when I beheaded John. But now, I've got
You."

E-66 066 I can hear him as he rattles that scary key there of hell
and death on his side, the keys that he kept people shut up in. For
all those years, he rattled it. Jesus said, "I am the Son of God. I
am the virgin born Son of the Living God. You can't bluff people
any longer. My Blood's still wet at the cross. I paid the full price of
every one of them sinners. And now, they're free. Give Me that key
of death and hell." Remember when He raised up, He had it. Yes,
sir. "Give Me that key. You'll not scare them any more. My people
will not be scared, that believes on Me, any more."

And I can see Him smite the devil in the face, and pull the keys off,
and hang it on His side, and start to glory--start for the heavens.

E-67 067 I can see Him; He said, "Wait a minute. There's another
group. Over here had been Job, Abraham, Isaac, Sarah. Why,
heaven wouldn't be heaven without Sarah and Abraham in it,
hardly. There they were over here in paradise; they couldn't go in
the Presence of the Father. They lived under the burnt sacrifice, all
they knew how to do. They were justified. But it couldn't divorce
sin. It couldn't take sin.

So, Abraham and they back in there in paradise, having a good

song that morning perhaps. Along about two o'clock in the
morning, time on earth. I can see Him walk up there to the gates of
paradise. [Brother Branham knocks on the pulpit five times--Ed.] I
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can hear Abraham say, "Wonder who that is?" He opened up the
door. Abraham said, "Well, there He is. The One that I saw in a
vision."

I can hear Daniel rise up, said, "I know Him. He's the Rock that I
seen hewed out of the mountain without hands."

I can hear Ezekiel say, "Yes, that's Him. He's the One I seen
coming in the clouds with dust under His feet. Hallelujah. Oh, there
He stands."

He said, "Children, you died under good faith."

Job said, "That's the One that I call my Redeemer." You haven't
got room for me to preach now. "That's the One that I call my
Redeemer. For I know the deliverance is nigh now." That's Him.
He had to witness to everything. He witnessed to the earth, to the
hell, to the lost souls, to--back up here to paradise. He said, "You
were faithful. Now, come on. We're going up this morning. It's
almost daylight. They got My body sealed in up yonder. I've got a
different body."

E-68 068 When a saint dies, I'm not able to tell you what kind of a
body He receives. But it's not a glorified body. It's not a spirit, but
it's some kind of a body that lasts until the resurrection. And when
He said, "I haven't received this glorification yet, but I'm going up,
and we're going to come out in a few minutes."

I can hear Sarah say, "Come on, Abraham." All of them get
together, and the saints rallying around Him. First thing you know,
it's along about daylight. I can hear Abraham say, "Master? Are
You going to wait around a little while? Can we make a little
whistle-stop before we go up to glory? I'd like to look the old home
place over again."

"Well, sure." He said, "Sure. I'm going to be with My disciples forty

days and nights. Come on." And away they went.

E-69 069 The morning star gave it's light. The Angel of God come
rolled away the stone. And the Bible said that the saints that slept
in the dust of the earth, rose (Matthew 27) and come out of the
graves and appeared to many.
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I can see Caiaphas saying, "You know what? They tell me that
holy-roller raised from the dead this morning? I wonder what I--
what I--what's going to happen to these people now? All these
kind of stories."

I can see Abraham and Isaac walk... Abraham and Sarah, their
arms around one another, walking down the street. And Sarah--
Abraham say, "Sarah? Don't the old place look natural over there?
And remember when we were setting up there?"

"Yes, I remember."

Caiaphas said, "Who is that couple there? Seemed like I seen

them somewhere."

Abraham said, "Sarah, Sarah. We're being recognized." They had

a body like Jesus' body. They could disappear like He did through
the walls. Just disappeared out of their sight.

And Caiaphas said, "You know? Something's going wrong around

here. I don't know what's happening." Oh, my.

E-70 070 Those were...?... After forty days and nights visit the
earth, they heard Him saying, "Someday we're returning back."
Hallelujah. Then when Jesus was taken up... Glory to God. I can
see Him when He rises on the Easter--on that morning to go up
after His--after ascension. And the saints went with Him. The Bible
said, "He led captive captive, give gifts unto men." Is that right?

I can see Him as He go up on a past the morning stars, on a past

the moon, on a past the sun, on into the Archangels, beyond them,
on into the heavens of heaven.

First thing you know, they come in sight of the great ivory palace. I
can hear the Old Testament saints say, "Lift up ye everlasting
gates and be ye lifted up. And let the King of glory come in."
Hallelujah. David's prophecy had to be fulfilled. There He comes
triumph, walking. Glory to God. Whew. I feel like a holy-roller sure
enough.
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E-71 071 Notice. Here He come walking, God's Word is eternally
true. He's coming again. Going walking down through there,
triumph. And I hear the Old Testament saints rallying around Him.
"This is the Redeemer." Say, "Lift up ye everlasting gates and be
ye lifted up and let the King of glory come in."

I can hear the Angels back over in--in the ki... in the glorious place
of God, say, "Who is this King of Glory?" That's what the Bible
said. And the Old Testament saints said, "The Lord of hosts,
mighty in battle." Here He comes, the King with His delegates, the
Conqueror. Although He is a mighty Conqueror since He rent the
veil in two.

The Angel pressed the gates. The pearly gates swing open, when
he pressed the button. Down through the city of Jerusalem come
Jesus the Conqueror, with all the Old Testament saints that lived
back there, believing that He would come sometime. Hallelujah.

E-72 072 I can see Him marching, as Angelic bands beating and
play, and the angels sing Hosanna. Here come the Old Testament
saints and Jesus walking through the streets, right up in front of
the Father. He said, "Father, these are those that died in good
faith."

"Well, done My Son. Climb up here on My throne, and set down in

My right hand till I make every enemy Your footstool. For one of
these days I'm going down to Binghamton, New York." Hallelujah.
"I'm going to send You back again to get everyone that dies in
faith." Amen. There He is, the great mighty Conqueror, setting at
the right-hand of the majesty of God tonight, in His Presence,
making intercession on anybody here that will dare to take Him by
faith. And God will send the Holy Ghost down to seal you into the
Kingdom of God.

GLORIFIED JESUS 55-0225

E-53 053 Remember, there's some more people that had a
revelation: Job, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, all those in paradise
couldn't go into the presence of His majesty, because the blood of
bulls and goats wouldn't take away sin; it only covered it. But now
they can go. The real sacrifice, the very predominating Son of the
living God, the Son of the morning, had come and died, and the
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Blood of God, Himself, had paid the price. Hallelujah! Oh, I feel
religious.

Notice. I can see Him knock at the door. Abraham and Sarah was
setting back in there, Job and all of them, saying, "You know, I
believe something took place up on earth awhile ago." I can hear
Him knock at the door, and they open up the door; Abraham said,
"Sarah, looky here. Here He is. Here's the Lamb that's been slain
from the foundation of the world."

I can hear Daniel look out and say, "Wait a minute. That's the
Stone I seen cut out of the mountain without hands."

I can hear Ezekiel saying, "I saw Him like clouds under His feet,
when He was coming."

I can hear Job said, "I know My Redeemer liveth and there He
stands." Hallelujah.

E-54 054 The patriarchs and prophets a answering to Him... I can

hear Him say, "Get ready, children. You've died under a good
faith. You come God's provided way. And I've made a way now.
You're going back to receive your immortal bodies. Just a few
minutes it's going be daylight, and we've got to appear on earth.

I hear Abraham say, "Master, can we make a little whistle stop? I'd
like to look around the old city and see how it looks."

Daniel say, "I'd like to go out where I saw the visions."

He said, "Sure. I'm going to be there for several days, talking to

My disciples and instructing them and--concerning the things of
the Kingdom of God. I've got to anoint them, and the Holy Spirit's a
coming... Tell them to preach the Gospel and heal the sick to all
the world."

Daylight came. The Angels rolled the stone away. A great

mysterious something happened. I can see Caiaphas walking
down the street and say, "You know the story they're telling about
that man, raised from the dead? I hear them say He come right
into a--a building last night and talked to the disciples and so forth.
I see Sarah and Abraham, sweethearts, never to be old no more,
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arm in arm, walking down the street. And I hear Abraham say,
"Sarah, darling, look at that old place, you remember that?"

"Yeah, I remember it. Why, I remember when I met Melchizedek,

right out there, the King of Salem, paid Him a tithe of all the
spoils."

Caiaphas said, "Who is that young couple? Looks like I've seen
them."

"Watch out, Sarah, we're being noticed." Disappeared like Christ

did, coming through the walls: glorified body.

After forty days He pulled His disciples out there and blessed them
and said, "Go into all the world and preach this Gospel; I'm coming
back again. I'll be with you always unto the end of the world."

E-55 055 He started up, taking the Old Testament saints with Him.
And as He went up, up, beyond the moon, on beyond the stars, on
beyond the sun, the Old Testament saints followed Him. The Bible
said, "He led captive, captive, give gifts unto men." I can see Him
going beyond Angels and Archangels plumb on into the spheres
and...?... coming into the sight of the New Jerusalem.

I can hear the Old Testament saints, acquainted with David's

prophecy said, "Lift up ye everlasting gates, and be ye lifted up, let
the King of Glory come in."

I can here the Angels behind, said, "Who is this King of Glory?"

And the Old Testament said, "The Lord of Host, mighty in battle."

The angel pressed the button; the gates lifted up; Jesus and the
Old Testament saints walked right down through the city of
Jerusalem. The Conqueror, all the saints a following Him, walked
up to the throne and present them, say, "Here they are, Father."
He said, "Climb up on My Throne and set here at My right hand, till
I make every enemy Your footstool." Hallelujah.

HIDDEN LIFE IN CHRIST 55-1110

…I'm living. "I've crossed the riven veil, where the glories never
fail. We're living in the Presence of the King. Hallelujah. I'm on the
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altar, sanctified. Oh, glory to His Name. I've crossed the riven veil,
where the glories never fail, for we're living in the Presence of the
King."

E-57 057 Some glorious day... This little old body of mine, it's
melting away. You little gray-headed mothers and daddies out
there, a few years ago you walked with her to the altar, a little
sweetheart, a beautiful girl. But nature... You can see how it's
going away. But one of these glorious days Jesus shall come from
in the Presence of God, and everything that we was in our best,
we'll return again and be with Him forever. Hallelujah.

What is these bodies made out of? A little cosmic light, a few
atoms, and of petroleum, and so forth, put together, that God
brought out of dust of the earth, and painted a picture. And we're
only living in the negative now. And some glorious day death will
develop the picture, and we'll return again in a new glorified body,
to never be old, never be sick, never have a heartache.

It behooves you, brother, to enter in at the court veil, shut the

world off around you, and consecrate yourself to Christ, and live a
consecrated life. Don't you believe that? Certainly, it is.

Oh, that's the life to live. How many in here say, "Brother
Branham, by the grace of God I'd like to live that kind of life."?
Raise you hand, "I'd like to live that kind of life." God bless you. I
believe we need that, don't you?

FAITH 56-0427
…Then what did God do? At Calvary He took Christ Jesus, His
Son, and put Him on the cross, and He tore Him in two. He rent
the soul from the body, and He took the body up into heaven and
sent back the Holy Ghost to the Church. That on that day the
same Spirit that was upon Christ Jesus has to be in His Church to
dovetail one with the other on that day, and God swore by Himself
that He'd raise that Church up, a glorious church. How can it fail?
That's God's everlasting eternal Covenant He swore by Himself.
He will keep His promise. Amen. Oh, I hope you see it.

E-46 046 How can you fail? I can fail. No more it isn't whether I
fail; it's whether He failed. And He didn't fail, and God confirmed it
by raising Him up from the dead. And today the same Holy Ghost
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that was upon Christ Jesus is in the Church writing the same
covenant that He did back yonder, and doing the same thing that
He did back there. And the Church believes on Him, and the
unbeliever disbelieves Him, and call Him Beelzebub, and devils,
and so forth, like they did back there. There's the difference
between the covenant people and the people that hasn't the
covenant.

Christ died, and He come a man. He took our sins upon Himself,
and went there, and was nailed to the cross, and His soul was rent
from Him and cast into hell, and God raised Him up on the third
day for our justification and sent the Holy Ghost back to us, and
the glorified body of His Son setting on His Throne in heaven...
Watch what a type it is there.

FAITH 56-0427
E-47 047 In Egypt when the poor Jews were all beat... Joseph
being a--a type of Christ born to be a seer. He saw visions. He
was hated of his brothers, loved of his father. He couldn't help
because he saw visions. He was a spiritual boy. God made him
that way, and the father loved him; but his brothers hated him, a
type of the Church today. The carnal thinking Christian hates the
spiritual things, hates the phenomenal, hates the spiritual of born
again, hates the--the great move of God, hate it without a cause.
That's right. Don't unchristianize them, but they hate... Always the
natural hates the supernatural. Amen.

Now, watch, and he was sold for thirty pieces of silver--almost

thirty pieces like Jo--Christ was, and was threw into a ditch
supposing to be dead, taken up and set at the right hand of the
greatest city and the commercial city in the world. And when he
went forth, every man bowed the knee to Joseph. And no man
could come to Pharaoh except by Joseph, and no man can come
by--to God except by Christ, and ever knee shall bow and ever
tongue confess to Him. And when he was in his prison there, the
butcher and the butler... One was lost and one was saved just
exactly like there on the cross: one lost, and one saved.

E-48 048 And then he left his body for a memorial. He said, "Don't
bury me." I'm supposed to put my hands on that old lead casket he
laid in, supposing to been in a museum in England here not long
ago, but in this bod--and these bones laid there. He said, "Don't
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take my bones out until you go out of here." For he believed that
God would visit the people like He said. He was Abraham's seed
so he took God at His promise.

And every man, Jew, with his back beaten from the cat-of-nine-
tails and the switches and the rods of Egypt, would pass by and
look at that body of Joseph and say, "Someday we're going
home." That's right.

And today we can look at our Joseph, an empty tomb when we

bury our loved ones and say, "Someday we're going home." And
when we get there, we were born for this earth. We'll never be
Angels. God never made us Angels. He made us men and
women. We'll always be that. We'll have a celestial body there.

E-49 049 It doesn't appear yet what kind of a body we will have
when we're there, but we--we'll be able to eat and drink and sleep
like I do here, but it'll be a--a--a body, but not the resurrected
glorified body. And the souls under the altar were crying, "Lord,
how long?"

And every time they were under the altar and looked up there,
there was an actual glorified, resurrected Lord Jesus setting there
representing that some day he will move off of His Throne there,
coming to the earth and everyone that's dead in Christ will come
with Him and receive a body like His own glorious body. We'll see
Him as He is. Oh, Bible ties together one big, beautiful picture.

FAITH 56-0427
E-86 086 Nobody will never know the life that takes out of a
person. Now, I can't tell you. Right now they're something about a
man. I see him laying out somewhere and them doing something
to him. It's the only thing I can remember right now. It's another
world.

Now, I want you to be real reverent. Watch this a way. Believe.

Don't believe me. Believe Him. Believe Him. Ask Him. Say, "Lord,
if that's true... You people out there that won't be called in the
prayer line, say, "Lord, I'm not asking, 'if it's true.' I believe it's
truth, and if You'll just speak to me, it'll make me a great believer."
Just do that one time.
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Now, the lady here. I guess we're strangers to each other, lady. I
never saw you in my life, but God knows you; I don't. There's a
man up here beside of the woman. I don't know. Just a moment.
Now, lady, I don't know you. I've never seen you, but one of these
days you and I are going to stand in the Presence of Jesus Christ
when He's in His glorified body and give an account. I want you to
believe, and you'll know whether the--whether these things are
true or not. You be the judge. See? You be the judge.

AT KADESH BARNEA 56-0527

E-18 018 Now, the Old Testament being a beautiful type, we type
there and see all those things happen to the people that we might
look for examples. Now, God being sovereign... And as I have, just
was teaching today in a home where I was invited out for dinner.
They wanted to know if they would know their loved ones, when
they met them in Glory. "Why," I said, "certainly we will know
them." See. We--we are in a--we're--have three different bodies
we dwell in: One is a human; the other is the celestial; and the
other is the glorified. And then if we know one another in the
human body, the mortal body, how much more will we know each
other in a glorified body?

It's like if the law could produce a good thing, how much greater
thing can grace produce, because it's greater than the law. And if
the moon can produce a certain part of light, how much more will
the sun outshine it when it comes. And we'll certainly know each
other.

ARROW OF GOD'S DELIVERANCE 56-0801

…Now, the only thing is different then, He hasn't got a corporal
body. His body is setting on the throne of God. That's not Jesus'
throne He's setting on tonight. The Bible said, "He's setting on His
Father's throne." Is that right? "He that overcomes shall set with
Me on My throne as I've overcome and set on My Father's throne."
Now, His throne is on the earth. He's to be here with people.

E-53 053 Now, see, you'll never be an Angel; you know that. You'll
never be an Angel. You'll never get old; you'll never be wrinkled;
you'll never be sick; you'll never have a worry. And you'll never be
an Angel. You--you'll be a human being, only immortal. You'll have
a glorified body like His body. You'll both eat, and drink, and live,
and love, and--and associate forever and forever. Not spooks
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flying around in the air, never, the Bible don't teach no... God
made Angels. Yes. But He made--never made you an Angel. He
made you to be a human. And Jesus came down... God came
down, was made flesh, and made a--made a Man to dwell here
with His--His people on the earth. And someday He's coming back
in that corporal, glorified body.

HEBREWS CHAPTER 3 57-0901M

100-82 032 Peter had an experience one night while he was
praying. That same Light come into the building, opened up the
doors before him, went out into the streets. And Peter thought he
was dreaming; he was so anointed. He didn't know what taken
place. He said, "Have I just waked up? But I'm out here on the
street."

And he went down to John Mark's house. And the little girl opened
the door, some little lady there, been in a prayer meeting;
"somebody was knocking at the door." Opened up the door, "Oh,"
she said, "here's Peter right now. You're praying for him to get out
of prison; the Lord has delivered him."

"Oh," they said, "go on."

"O Lord, deliver him."

"Why," she said, "he's standing at the door knocking."

Peter just kept pounding; "Let me in."

"Oh," she said, "it's Peter." In them days they still have it, a little
draw bar, a little lid here you raise back and look out. See? 'Fore
you let your guest in, you have to know who's knocking at your
door; 'cause they had robbers, if you opened the door, they'd kill
you.

So he opened the door. She said, "It's Peter."

They said, "Oh. Oh my, he's dead. That's his angel standing
there." See? Done got in his glorified body, you know, that
theophany.
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100-89 033 You remember how we took it, the big diamond, and
how it reflected the light, how it went back through there? "The...
this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one already waiting."
And they thought Peter done died, and this old body had dropped
and they'd bury it in a few days; he'd entered into his angel or his
glori--not glorified body, but in his theophany, the body that's
already prepared. It couldn't shake your hands. It has no hands to
shake like that, but it's in an image of a man.

Come down and was knocking at the door. She said, "No. It's
Peter; he's standing there." He opened the door and walked in,
and there he was. Now, Peter had been delivered by this Light.

HEBREWS CHAPTER 4 57-0901E

144-146 053 In the beginning was the same. He was that great
Spirit Fountain where all the trueness, all the love, all the peace,
everything that was pure was in this Fountain. It begin to form a
body, a theophany, the kind of body that we go to, not a glorified
body, but an angelic body like: has shape, form.

Every time I see a tree, I think, "That tree is a negative; there's a

positive somewhere." That tree was made off of something, an
Intelligence made it. And all this earth does is reflect the heavenly.
The Bible said so. And if there's a tree here that has to perish,
there's one in glory that won't perish.

If I see a man... I see a lovely little young couple, man and his
wife, walking down the street, sweethearts together. What does it
reflect? Blessed be the Name of the Lord. There's one in heaven
that'll never perish. If this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have
one already waiting, the theophany.

HEBREWS CHAPTER 5 AND 6 57-0908M

169-27 013 Notice Paul, being a great master teacher, well
trained, on his road down to Damascus one day to arrest the
people that were in this new way... Now, he was sincere. God
does not judge you by your sincerity. I never seen any more
sincere people than the heathens. Many of them even kill their
own children and thing for--for sacrifice to a--an idol. It's not the
sincerity. A man could take carbolic acid, sincerely thinking he was
taking something else. Sincerity doesn't save you. "There is a way
that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is the ways of
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death." Paul was sincere when he gave witness in his own
authority to stone Stephen. Later on in years, I like the apology of
Paul; he said, "I'm not worthy to be called the disciple or to be
called an apostle, because I persecuted the Church even unto
death." With sincerity...

169-28 014 And on his road down he struck an experience. The

Holy Spirit come out in a big Pillar of Fire, and It blinded him. Now,
we've went through that. That Pillar of Fire was Christ. And He's
the same Pillar of Fire that led the children through the wilderness.
Christ was God, and God was Christ. God was made flesh and
dwelt in the body of the Lord Jesus. God was in Christ reconciling
the world to Himself, showing what He was.

In the Bible back here in the former verses, we been reading that
He made Hisself lower than the Angels, taken on the form, not of
Angels, but taken on a form of flesh." Angels had not fallen; they
need no redemption. Flesh had fell, human beings, and they
needed redemption. So in the old laws, a man to be a--a
redeemer, first he had to be kinfolks: the great Book of Ruth we
went through here sometime ago. And how that God, being Spirit,
was made kinfolks with us by becoming one of us. In order to
redeem us and give us Eternal Life He had to become us, that we
through grace might become as He.

170-30 015 And we find the Pillar of Fire led the children of Israel.
And when It was made flesh here on earth, we hear Him talking
one day, and He claimed that He was the Pillar of Fire. They said,
"You say that you're greater than our father Abraham?"

He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM." Who was the I AM? The
Pillar of Fire in the burning bush, a perpetual memorial through
every generation; not only that generation, but this generation, the
same Pillar of Fire. And we're thankful this morning, that we even
have the picture of It, that He has not changed. He's the immortal,
eternal, blessed One. He does the same things now that He did
then, and how happy it makes us feel.

170-32 016 But before Paul would accept this experience,

knowing that the Angel of the Lord was the Pillar of Fire, which
was Christ, the... Well, He was the Angel of the Covenant, which
was Christ. Moses thought better that--chose rather to suffer the
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afflictions with the people of Christ, and to be led by Christ, than all
the treasures of Egypt. He followed Christ, which was in the form
of the Pillar of Fire.

Then Christ said, "I came from God (when He was here on earth);
I go back to God." After His death, burial, resurrection, glorified
body setting at the right hand of the Majesty to make
intercessions, Paul saw Him as the Pillar of Fire again, a Light that
put his eyes out almost, smote him blind.

Peter saw Him come into the jail as a Light, and opened the doors
before him as he went out. We find out that He was the Alpha and
Omega, the First and the Last.

And here He is with us today, doing the very same things that He
did then, making Himself visible back to us, showing it to the
scientific world.

HEBREWS CHAPTER 6 AND 7 57-0915M

263-590 044 "In the veil..." The veil is the flesh. The veil is what
keeps us from seeing God face to face in this church. The veil is
what keeps us from seeing the Angels at their positions this
morning, standing by the seats. The veil is what keeps us from
seeing Him. We're hid behind the veil, and that veil is the flesh. We
are sons and daughters of God; we're in the Presence of God.
"The Angels of God are encamped about those who fear Him."
We're in the Presence of God all the time: "I'll never leave thee;
neither will I ever forsake thee. I'll be with thee always, even unto
the end."

But the veil is the flesh; that's what's keeps us out of His
Presence. But through the soul, the Spirit, by our faith we know
that He's watching us. He's standing by us. He's here now.

263-591 045 Down at Dothan one morning, an old prophet was

surrounded by an army and the--his servant went out and said, "O
father, the whole country's surrounded by the aliens."

And Elijah raised up, and said, "Why, son, there's more with us
than there is with them."

Well, he batted his eyes and looked around; he could see nothing.
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He said, "God, I would that You'd open his eyes, take away the
veil." And when the veil dropped from over his eye, around that old
prophet was chariots of fire; the mountains was on fire with Angels
and chariots. There you are.

Oh, then Gehazi could say, "I--I understand now." See, the veil
dropped. There's where the hindrance.

264-596 046 Here it is. Hold tight; the veil is what keeps us from
living the way we should. Veil is what keeps us from doing the
things that we really want to do. And God became veiled in flesh.
And the veil was tore in two, and God became God again. And He
rose up the veil that He hid Himself in; that's the resurrection of the
Lord Jesus, proving to us that in this veil that we're now hid in... By
faith we believe It and accept It. And when this veil is tore in two,
I'll go in His Presence with this assurance, knowing that I know
Him in the power of His resurrection. At the coming of the Lord
Jesus, this veil will be raised up again in a perfected way, so I'll
walk and talk with Him as my Saviour and my God, when He takes
the throne of David. And we'll live forever in this veil after it's been
perfected, but this veil has sin in it. It was... No matter how... Don't
never think of that glorified body in this earth. It's got to die the
same as your soul has to die to be born again. In the perfection...

HEAR HIS VOICE 58-1005M

E-11 Then I was thinking just last night after I had gone home, and
laying down for a few minutes, I was thinking of when the soul has
gone out of a man what is it? It's his inner being that has moved
out. He's not dead; he's--he's still alive. See, he--he lives forever.
And our loved ones who have passed on beyond this veil is in a--a
body that we don't know what it is. It isn't revealed.

E-12 There's three stages of everything. There's a stage of the

mortal body, the immortal body, and then the glorified body. See?
Just like, other things, like Father, Son, and Holy Spirit goes in one
channel, and the three makes the one. Justification, sanctification,
baptism of the Holy Ghost in a channel makes the one. And--and
soul, body, and spirit makes the one. And it travels in three's, and
three's are one.
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And take a--a three cornered piece of glass and lay it in the sun,
it'll reflect the colors. Yet seven colors will come down to one. And
you take red, and look through red at red, how many knows what
color it'll be? White. Uh-huh. Isn't that strange that red through red
looks white?

Red is the sign of redemption. And when you... God looks at our
red sins through the red blood of His precious Son; they're white.
See? So... But He has to look through the Blood. If it doesn't, they
are sinful. So we have to be under the Blood.

E-13 And when the soul leaves the body, it takes its journey into a
place of rest in a body that's in the form and shape of this body,
but it isn't this type of a body.

You'll meet your loved ones; you couldn't shake their hands. You
could talk to them; you could look at them. They look just like they
do here. 'Cause when Peter, and John, and James saw Moses
and Elijah, they recognized them on Mount Transfiguration.

But it's a body. But then when that body, a kind of a celestial body,
when it returns back to the earth, it picks up the--the substance
that it once lived in and then it becomes a glorified body. And that
body is the one that we'll see the Lord Jesus in His resurrected
body.

E-14 "It does not yet appear what we shall be," said Paul, "but we
know we shall have a body like His own glorious body. For we
shall see Him as He is." And all these old wrinkled hands and
broken down tissues will all fade away into the splendor of youth.
You old men and women, remember you... This is... That--that's a
mark of the fall, your old age. But in the resurrection there'll not be
one mark of anything of sin. But why did God make you like He
did? He brought you to a certain age. When you were about
twenty-two, twenty-three years old, you were your best. You were
eating food, and getting stronger, and healthy, and what a
powerful looking person you were. Then after that you become
wrinkling away. See, death set in. But in the resurrection all old
age will be wiped away.
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AS THE EAGLES TIRRETH UP HER NEST 59-0815
E-71 All right. Now, we can pray for people. God can call. Now,
the Bible said that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. Is
that right? If He's the same, He has to be the same at principle,
the same in power. The only thing is His body is setting at the
right-hand of God. We all believe that.

He's setting at the right hand of God on God's throne. That's not
His throne. He's coming back to reign on His throne; it's the throne
of David; He's to take His throne. He's setting on God's throne,
waiting till the last enemy is made His footstool. He will return
someday, bringing the precious souls with Him to take on
immortality, to live in a glorified body, live through a millennium,
and then forever with Him.

POSSESSING THE ENEMY'S GATES 59-1108

…the Royal Seed conquered for them. The Royal King when He
came, born of a virgin, He conquered every enemy, even to death.
So death itself cannot scare the seed of Abraham. We have the
promise that we'll inherit the earth, and shall return again in a more
glorious way, in a glorified body, after the last enemy is placed
under foot of the only and last child of God that shall come into the
Kingdom.

MANIFESTED SONS OF GOD 60-0518

65 Now, the other night, or the other morning, at seven o'clock,
when the Holy Spirit, by His goodness and His grace, taken me
from this body, I believe (I believe. Yes or no, I don't say.), and
entered into that land and saw those people, and they were all
young. And I seen the prettiest people I ever seen in my life. And
He said to me, "Some of them were ninety years old. They're your
converts. No wonder they're screaming, 'My brother, my brother'"
Now, that is a celestial body, that when we die we don't become a
myth; we become a body. If we'd every one die, if the atomic bomb
would blow us up at this minute, in five minutes from now we'd be
shaking one another's hands and hugging their neck, and
screaming, and carrying on, and glorifying God. Yes, sir. And
Brother and Sister Spencer setting here, I guess one of the oldest
couples in here, will be eighteen, twenty years old. Brother Neville
will be just a young boy, and I'd be a young kid. And we'd just all
be... That's exactly this truth. "If this earthly tabernacle of
habitation be dissolved, we have one already waiting."
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67 When a little baby drops from its mother, as in natural birth, its
little body is a-twisting and legs a-jumping, and so forth. Excuse
the expression, you young women. But when it does, it's got life
muscles a-jerking. But when it comes to the earth, the first thing, it
catches its breath, and there is a spiritual body of nature to come
into that baby right then. Let it alone, it'll take its little head and root
against its mother's breast and begin to nurse. If it didn't do that,
the milk would not even come down.

Did you ever notice a calf when it's born, it's... soon as it can get
strength enough to get on its legs? Who tells it? Walks right
around to its mother, starts rooting around and starts nursing. Oh,
yeah.

69 For when this earthly body is brought here, there is a spiritual

body ready for it. And as soon as this... Oh, hallelujah. "If this
earthly tabernacle of our habitation be dissolved, there is one
waiting yonder." Just as soon as we step out of this one, we step
into that one: one that doesn't want a cold drink of water, doesn't
have no need of a drink of water; one that don't eat, they're not of
the dust of the earth. But they're just as real, and can feel, and
shake hands, and just love, and everything is perfect. And that
body is waiting yonder. It's part of it. There's three of them.

70 You begin your Eternal Life right here at the altar. Here's where
you start eternity. Oh. You start Eternal Life right here. Then you
are born again, a son of God. And then when you die, you begin...
When your death strikes you in this body and the heart quits
beating, and the mortal wheels begin to stand still, that little
shadow that was a shadow of the shadow, in one second it
becomes a shadow of the shadow, then the next it becomes the
shadow, then the next it becomes a little trinkle, then the next it
becomes a creek, then the next it becomes a river, and the next it
becomes the ocean; and after while you're standing in the
presence of your loved ones standing yonder, clothed in the
garments of a celestial body, that you know one another, love one
another. You've turned back to a young man and young woman
again. Exactly right. It waits there until the coming of the Lord
Jesus. And someday that glorified body of His...
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Now, remember, that is a celestial body, not a glorified, a celestial
body. And someday that celestial body will leave heaven with
Jesus.

71 "For I say this unto you," Fir... II Thessalonians, the 5th

chapter, or I Thessalonians 5th chapter, one or the other, "I say to
you; I would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning those
that are asleep, that you sorrow not, even as others which have no
hope. For if we believe Christ died and rose again the third day,
even so those that sleep in Christ will God bring with Him. For we
say this unto you by the commandments of the Lord, that we
which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not
prevent or hinder (the best word) hinder those which are asleep.
For the trumpet of the Lord shall sound, and the dead in Christ
shall rise first." These celestial bodies come down and put on
earthly glorified bodies. "And we which are alive and remain shall
be changed in a moment in a twinkling of an eye, and shall be
caught up together with them to meet the Lord in the air."

72 "I will not drink of the fruit of the vine nor eat no more until I eat
it anew with you in My Father's Kingdom," the wedding supper.
For the three-and-a-half years the antichrist finishes up his reign,
the whole world is destroyed. The Jews are called out, Joseph
makes himself known to the Gentiles--or to the Jews. Remember,
when Joseph made himself known to the brethren, there wasn't
one Gentile present. When he sent...

You know the story. Joseph, the perfect type of Christ, in every
manner. And when Joseph sent for his brethren, and they came
down, and he looked and seen little Benjamin, and he seen them
there, and then he... They said, "Why, this fellow. We--we oughtn't
to have killed our brother, Joseph." The Jews seeing that they'd
made a mistake now when Christ, when He's making Himself
known to them... And Joseph was so full, he had to weep, nearly;
so he dismissed his wife and his children, and all the guards and
everything else, and sent them to the palace. Exactly right. And
then in the presence of the Jews alone, he said, "I'm Joseph, your
brother. I am your brother."

And then they fell and begin to tremble, said, "Now, we know we'll
get it, because that we killed our brother. We've said we killed our
brother; now he's this great king."
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He said, "God did it for a purpose, to save life." That's exactly the
reason God did it: to save us Gentiles. But the Gentiles were in the
palace. Hallelujah. Being rejected of His brethren, Joseph, He took
on a Bride; and the Bride was a Gentile, not a Jew. All right.

74 Now, where you getting to know? After we put on this glorious

body, and the great age that is to come when this glorified body,
this celestial body has been made a glorified body... You get what
I mean now? Then I can walk over and say, "Brother Neville." Let
me just give you a little illustration. I say, "Brother Humes, let's go
up to Papa this morning." He's God. We know Him now; He's a
Saviour; He's a Healer.

ADOPTION PT.4 60-0522E

180 And what is it when you're way out there in redemption with a
brand new body, you've turned back to a young man altogether
again, or a young woman; you're never going to die no more. And
you look down on earth and think, "I could enjoy some grapes and
some good cold water, but, you know, I don't need it here." But
someday Jesus is coming, and this angelic body, this theophany
that I'm living in, will not come through the womb of a woman
anymore; it'll not come through sexual desire anymore; but
because that He was born without sexual desire, I'll be resurrected
without it. And He will speak someday, and the dead in Christ shall
rise, and that body that I once lived in will resurrect into a glorified
body; and I'll walk; and I'll talk; and I'll live; and I'll enjoy
(Hallelujah) I'll...?... to the...?... ages that is to come, through Jesus
Christ our Lord. There you are, brother; that's the Gospel.

HEARING RECEIVING AND ACTING 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.

JEHOVAH JIREH 3 60-0803

E-39 See, everything in the Bible is in a trinity. You know that. I
said, the other day, "You're a trinity: soul, body, and spirit." You
live in a trinity: kitchen, and living room, and the bedroom. You
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might have eight or ten different rooms, but bedrooms and spare
this, but you only live in three rooms. God, Father, Son, and Holy
Ghost in a trinity.

And we find out that the coming of Christ is in a trinity. He came

first to redeem His bride, comes next to receive His Bride, comes
next with His Bride, as King and Queen, to reign through the
millennium. You know that. Everything is in a trinity. And we're in a
trinity, we have a mortal body, a glorified body, or, I mean, a
celestial body, and then a glorified body. Three stages brings us
back to our perfection again like in Eden.

ABRAHAM'S COVENANT CONFIRMED 61-0318

E-30 Notice, He placed him, give him the sign, what He was. And
you remember, it was God Almighty. It wasn't the Man. That was
just human flesh there, disappeared just in a little bit, but it was
God, making Hisself known to the elected, called out, separated
church. Remember, not an organizated town, not a city, but a
group that was wandering in the desert, taking the way with the
Lord's despised few. Like always, God's had to call His children
into the wilderness and away from these things.
Called him, showed that sign to him and moved on. And Abraham
believed and immediately he was changed. When that Angel left
the scene, Abraham had a changed body, and made ready, and
the son come that had been promised.

E-31One of these days, the old fashion gospel that you hear, will
be silenced one of these days. And the church will receive a body,
glorified. You'll have to have that kind of body to go up and meet
Him in the air. We can't go in this kind of a body. So those who are
looking, those who are listening, those who are taking heed, is the
ones that'll be changed in a moment in a twinkling of an eye and
be caught up together to meet the Lord in the air--the expected
Son of God, that we've looked for since we've... can recognize that
we were Christians.

Remember, we proved that last night, how he went down to Gerar,

how that Sarah, an old woman a hundred years old... Usually, I get
a letter or two off of that, saying, "Well, they just lived longer life."
But I want you to notice the 18th chapter and 17th Chapter also.
The Bible said they were well stricken in years: stooped, bent
down, old. And when they got down there, Abimelech, that king
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looking for a sweetheart with all of those Philistine beautiful
women, and yet fell in love with this real old, old, old, great, great
grandmother, and would have took her for a wife, but God
protected her.

UNCERTAIN SOUND 61-0429E

E-12 Now, just recently I was interested in reading the paper,
watching this here missile race. And I think that Brother duPlessis
gave us a good lesson on that this morning, about the world trying
to put a man in space and see who can do it first. We've had a
man in space for two thousand years: Jesus Christ. That is right.
But Russia thought they could toot a horn the other day when they
got a man, get up in some kind of a little gadget and go around the
world in a hour or two. Why, my, Jesus can come from glory
quicker than a thought can get there to Him. That's just how
much... This is how fast this is.

E-13 You know, Einstein proved that if two forces are coming fast
enough, they could pass right through each other and never, never
bother each other. If two cars were coming down the road, and
they were both going at the terrific speed, faster than sound, just
billions of miles per second, they'd probably pass right through
each other without hurting one another at all.

He proved that. By forces striking together... Well then... You see,

we are such earthbound people till about all we think about and
can think about is always time and space and... But when we
leave this world, we go into where there is no time.

E-14 We can think of fifty miles an hour, hundred miles an hour,

two thousand miles an hour, or ten thousand miles an hour; that
don't even start when we think of eternity. How fast... Jesus, after
He had been glorified, and received His glorified body, raised up
from the dead, and had ascended on high to the Father, come
back in a few seconds later and with such terrific speed, till He
come right in before His disciples through a wall and never even
moved the wall; and yet with a body that could stand there and eat
fish and bread. That's speed, coming through.

And He can come all the way from glory to your heart, as quick as
you can think about Him. Quick as you can confess wrong, He can
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run the Devil out and bring Hisself in, just as fast as you can have
enough faith to believe it. How speed...

REV CHAP 5 PT.1 BRUISED SERPENT 61-0611

101 Now, let me just quote another Scripture to you. "All that He
foreknew, He has called; all that He called, He justified; all that He
has justified, He hath glorified." All the way from the beginning,
God, in His great infinite mind, foresaw His church and
predestinated it unto the adoption of children through Jesus Christ,
to give them Eternal Life at the end of the age. What a beautiful
thing. Brother Neville, that just makes me feel lots better. So just...
Adoption by the Blood of Jesus Christ...

102 Now, notice as we go on. Now, we know it's a finish... We are

predestinated with the Lamb. The Holy Spirit is our Seal. The
"Earnest" means "more is yet to come." We only have the Earnest
of It now. The Earnest is just the down payment (Oh, how
beautiful.), just the down payment that holds it, and secures it, and
anchors it so no one else can touch it. It's the Earnest of our
adoption. Amen. The Holy Spirit is now the Earnest of God in our
hearts (seal), the adoption of sons waiting us at the end of the
road: sons and daughters of God.

103 Let's turn to another Scripture, right quick, I got written down
on this other page here. Romans 8:22, I think it's beautiful. Now, in
studying yesterday, I kinda wrote out a few Scriptures here that I'd
like to refer to.
...we know that--we know that the whole creation groaneth and
travaileth in pain together until now.

And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of
the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for
the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

Oh, do you see it? "All creation is groaning," said Paul. Everything
is groaning. Look at the trees how they struggle. Look at the
flowers how they struggle for life, just for the frost to tear them
down. Look at the trees how they struggle to hold their branches
out to sing glories unto God. See? Everything, all nature, all
animals, all birds, how he flies from the enemy quickly and gets
away, everything groaning. "And we ourselves," said Paul, "we
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groan too with them, for we're waiting for the redemption of our
body."

105 But now, now, they've been all those years until now, now we
have the Earnest of our inheritance. Oh, my, my. What do we
have? We have the evidence that God lives. We have the
evidence that God is with us. We have the evidence that God has
not forsaken us, that we are His and He is ours, because we, in
our bodies we now tabernacle the Holy Spirit of God that cries out,
"Abba, Father." And there's nothing can ever take that away. We
are anchored in Christ.

Now, the trees does not have it; nature does not have it; but yet
we are still groaning with them because as yet we haven't received
the fulness of our adoption. But we have the Earnest of it, that we
were picked up from the things of the world and now become sons
and daughters of God. What kind of people should we be? Oh,
my, when we think of that... Think of it.

Now, we have the Earnest; our spirit's groaning for the full
adoption, but now we have the Earnest of it. As we receive the
Holy Spirit, It is the Earnest of our complete adoption or complete
salvation. Oh, how beautiful. I just love that. All right.

108 We are waiting for the fulness of adoption. This will take place
when? At the first resurrection. That's when our bodies will be
changed from these vile creatures that we are and we'll have a
body like His own glorious body, for we shall see Him as He is,
and we will be like Him. When He appears, we appear in His
likeness. We'll have a body like His, a glorious glorified body, and
all the trials and struggles of life will fade off into a little mist and
blow away to never be no more.

And these earthly tabernacles which we now groan in, we are

waiting for that earnest--that earnest for the salvation fully in its
fulness to come. But now in these tabernacles of clay we have
Something that tells us that we have raised up so far. Amen. What
is the Earnest? It's the little down payment that holds it, Brother
Dauch. It's the Earnest.

Now, once when we loved the things of the world, once when we
sinned and went about doing things of the world, and cared not for
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God, we were alienated from Him, without God, without Christ, in
the world, now God sent His Holy Spirit and through that we are
lifted up from those things. Now, we have the Earnest, that we
know that we've passed from death unto Life. Amen.

Here, as I was trying to show this like here. Here's where the
ordinary sinner runs, down here on the bottom. Now, the Christian
goes up a little higher than this; he rises above all that stuff. That's
the Earnest of his salvation.

A TRUE SIGN THAT'S OVERLOOKED 61-1112

281 It's Your people, Your Message, Your Word, Your servants,
and the devil has no hold on us. He cannot even destroy us when
this tabernacle is destroyed; for if this earthly tabernacle be
destroyed, we have one already waiting. He can't do us no harm,
for everything that's our enemy is Your enemy, for we are Yours.
We're bought with a price of the precious Blood of Jesus.
Therefore, you devils that have bound these people in sickness, I
charge thee in the Name of Jesus Christ to come out of every one
of them. As a servant of God, claiming this Word to be the Truth,
you leave them. You have no rights. Everything that you ever
claimed to have was canceled at Calvary, and you can't hold them
longer.

282 Now God, give every man and woman, boy or girl in here faith
to believe that. The Word has been spoken. "If you say to this
mountain, 'Be moved,' and don't doubt in your heart (The prayer of
faith saves the sick.), you have what you ask for." We know that.
We have that confidence in God. If we have any faith at all, if
God's living in us, we believe that. And I know that it's so, Lord. So
grant it today for sickness and salvation. Or I must've said, or
should've said salvation first and then sickness. Grant it, Lord,
'cause the soul is more valuable than the body.

But those who sometimes... Their soul is saved, and this old body
still belongs to Satan, and he knows that he'll take it at the end
time. He'll crush it and send it back till the bugs of the earth will
crawl into it and eat it up; but he'll never touch that soul; for it's the
precious treasure of God. And through that life, like out of the leaf,
it returns back to God Who give it, will come forth in the next
season with a new body that Satan can never touch. Neither can
old age or anything else ever touch it. It'll be a glorified body.
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We're looking for that, Lord. Bless Thy people now. They're Yours,
and I commit them in Your hands. I ask this in Jesus' Name.

ONENESS 62-0211
21 On the day of Pentecost we find the Holy Spirit, the Pillar of
Fire, separating Itself and setting upon each member of that
church: God putting Hisself together. Then with that group of
people together, what does it do? Brings back the unified Body of
the Lord Jesus. Coming together...

And today in this great separation that we're living in,

denominational differences and things, what a pity, what a
disgrace.

23 Joined in heavenly wedlock to the eternal God, part of Him,

part of God... In flesh I become Branham because of my father,
Branham. You become part of your father and mother, but in spirit
we become... When union with God is part of God... That's the
reason that the spirit cannot die. "He that believeth on Me has
Everlasting Life. And in the image that he is here on earth, and in
his likeness, I'll raise him up in the last days." Not a spirit being, for
we'll have a body like God's glorious Body, the glorified Body of
the Lord Jesus, raised up in that Image.

24 Jesus said, going to the grave of Lazarus, "I am the

Resurrection and Life. He that believeth in Me, though he be dead,
yet shall he live. And whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall
never die." "Believeth in Me, not on Me, but in Me." Being in Him,
believing. "If ye abide in Me and My Words in you." In Him,
believing... Oh, my. I hope the Holy Spirit gets that right down to
you.

Now, you're the little flock; that's why through the week, praying
and asking God, I chose this text to show you where we stand.
Believing in Him, you cannot believe in Him until you come in Him,
or, He comes in you, then you're believing in Him, then you have
Eternal Life. You're believing on Him until you receive Eternal Life,
then Eternal Life is God's Life in you, then you're believing in Him.
"Ye in Me, I in you, that they might be one, Father, even as You
and I are one." God in Christ, Christ in the church... See? "Just as
We are One, so they be One." Then how can you be one? "If ye
abide in Me, My Word's in you..." See, abide... "My Word's in you,
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then ask what you will." For it isn't you no more, it's the Word that's
in you, and the Word is God.

WHO IS THIS MELCHISEDEC 65-0221E

76 Now, this body is subject to the Spirit. Have not yet entered into
the Word form, but we are still in the flesh form, but subject to the
Word. Death in the flesh will take us there.

77 Just the same thing, think of a little baby. You can take a
woman, no matter how evil she is, when she is pregnant and fixing
to be mother. Watch, before that baby is born, I don't care how
cruel the woman is, she gets real kind. There is something about
her sound... seems godly, to see a little mother fixing to become
mother, by the baby. Why is it? That little body, now, it's not alive
yet, see, the only thing it is just flesh and muscles. That little
jumping, that's just muscles jerking. But when it comes forth from
the womb, God breathes the breath of life into it, and then he
screams out. See, just as--as sure as there is a natural body being
formed, there is a spiritual body to receive it as soon as it gets
here.

78 Then, when a man is born again, from Heaven, he becomes a

spirit babe in Christ.

And, then, when this robe of flesh is dropped, there is a natural

body, theophany, a body not made with hands, neither born of a
woman, that we go to.

Then that body returns back and picks up the glorified body.

That's the reason Jesus went to hell when He died, and preached
to the souls that were in prison; turned back into that theophany.
Oh, marvelous! Thank God!

79 Second Corinthians 5:1, "If this earthly body be dissolved, this

earthly tabernacle, we have another one." See, we have by-
passed that, to come straight from God, the attribute; to be flesh,
to be tempted and tested by sin, like Adam did. But when testing
of His Word is over, then we are taken up to this body that was
prepared for us before the foundation of the world. It is the Word
there that we skipped, to come right around, down here to be
tempted and tested. If we'd have come through that, there'd have
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been no temptation; we'd a-knowed all things. That's the reason
Jesus knowed all things, 'cause He was Word before He was
flesh. Then we become the Word.

80 Here we are formed to the Word image, to be a partaker of the

Word, feed on the Word, by being predestinated since the
beginning; you see that little spark of Life that you had in you from
the beginning, when you started your journey. Many of you can
remember it. You joined this church and joined that church, you'd
try this and that; nothing satisfied. That's right. But one day you
just recognized It. Right.

POWER OF TRANSFORMATION 65-1031M

320 Some of these days, our bodies may be stretched out in a
casket. We may come... You may come and look upon me laying
in a casket. I may come and look upon you, might have to say the
last words over you, or something like that. But you will never keep
us in the grave. They may lay rocks over you. They may bury you
in the sea. They may do whatever they want to, but the
transforming Power of God...

321 In II Thessalonians, said, "I would not have you ignorant,

brethren, concerning those that are asleep. For we say this to you,
too, by the Commandments of the Lord, that the trumpet of God
shall sound, and the dead in Christ shall rise first; we which are
alive and remain," as the song said this morning, "shall be caught
up together with them, to meet the Lord in the air."

322 The transforming Power of God, that's taken us from the

chaos of science and education, and the things of the world, and
the understanding of this modern day, has transformed us now
into sons and daughters of God. And even death itself can never
hold us in the grave. "We'll be changed, in a moment, in a
twinkling of an eye."

"Oh, you mean to say?"

323 I mean to say that that's the Truth! Jesus, that Word stood on
the earth, which was the Word, the One that was raised up, and
raised Lazarus. He said, "I am the Resurrection and Life; he that
believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. And
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whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die." There is no
way to stop the living Word of God! It's got to rise again.

324 And from out of this chaos of this modern scientific Eden that
we're living in, of culture and--and science and education, all this
modern stuff, we'll rise! "This robe of flesh we'll drop, and rise and
seize the everlasting prize," someday. We'll go through the air,
and this will all be over. For the Word of God that's brought us
from the modern thinking of our mind, transforming our mind into
the renewing of our hearts towards God, and our spirits; that same
Spirit that spoke that, has transformed us this far, and It also will
take us into His Presence, into His Glory, with a glorified body.

325 "They shall build houses, they shall inhabit them. They shall
plant vineyards." In all of our scientific search; we plant a garden,
our sons come along and take the fruit from it, and his sons comes
and takes it from him. And they plant, and another one eats; and
they build, and another inhabit. "But long will be the days of My
servants, they will be there and their offsprings with them. They
will build, and another will not inhabit. They'll plant, and not
another eat thereof." What? The very God, the very prophet that
the Word of God said "a virgin shall conceive," promised us this!

326 How do we get it? We are potentially there right now, see,
because God said so. It has to be. When He raised Lazarus there,
said, "Don't think this is strange, for the hour is coming when all
that's in the grave will hear the Voice of the Son of man, and shall
come forth; some to shame, and some to Life."

327 What is it? Transforming, transforming by the Word of God,

making us sons and daughters of God, and will also give us Life in
the world to come. Oh, my! What more could I say? Listen not to
other things.

GOD'S ONLY PROVIDED PLACE OF WORSHIP 65-1128M

18 Now, tonight we're going to have an old-fashioned prayer line.
We're going to just pray for the sick the way we use to, Brother
Jack and Brother Brown.

19 I remember seeing Brother Brown try to give out those prayer

cards, and how him being a minister himself... And in those days,
in a organization that we... they put pressure on him, you know,
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"I--I'm your brother," and those things, you know. "You got to get
me up there." Oh, he sure had a hard time, but stayed just as true
as true could be. Brother Brown is one fine man. And so we love
him.

20 And as I see all of us, the three of us getting... creeping up

towards the aged, the end. It'll be a very sad thing if we didn't have
placed within us that great thing, what we know is Truth. We're just
fixing to turn back one of these days, back to our young manhood
again, to never... our bodies transformed, made into His likeness
to stand. "For when this earthly tabernacle of our habitation be
dissolved, there's one already waiting."

21 And the thankful part of it, dear friend, that the dear Lord
Jesus... You who trust me to tell you the Truth; the dear Lord
Jesus, one morning about eight o'clock, let me see that Land.
Now, it wasn't--it wasn't a vision; but I don't want to say that. Ever
what it was, it was just as real as I'm speaking to you here. Now, I
seen the faces of those people, and I couldn't recognize them,
they had turned back young again. And they was just real as... I'd
hold their hands and things. Just as real...

22 And it helped me, because I used to have an idea: when a

person died, just their soul went off. But then when He quoted that
to me, that "If this earthly tabernacle of our habitation be... we
already have one." See? And we got to have everything in threes,
to make a perfection. See? And there's one body here, then that
body there which is the--the celestial body, and then the glorified
body in the resurrection. See, that makes it complete. See? So it's
a... It's not a myth, it's not an idea, it's not a spirit. It is a man and a
woman like you are, just exactly.

THE RAPTURE 65-1204

158 And there, when I was watching, one day, when I started
preach these Seven Church Ages. And I called Jack Moore, a
great theologian. I said, "Jack, Who is this Person standing there?
'There is One like the Son of man standing there, hair as white as
wool.'" I said, "He was a young Man, how could He have hair as
white as wool?"

159 He said, "Brother Branham, that was His glorified body." That
didn't ring the bell.
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But when I went in the room and started praying, He let me know
what it was. See?

160 I've always preached that He was Deity, not just a man. He
was God manifested in the flesh: God, the attribute of God, of
love; the great attributes that come down, displayed here on earth,
of God. Jesus was God's love, which built a body that Jehovah
Himself lived in. He was the fulness of the Godhead bodily. What
God was, He manifested through that body. That body had to die,
so He could wash the Bride with His--with His--with His Blood.