The Captain Has Come

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The Captain Has Come
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Joshua 513-15 13 And it came to pass, when
Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes
and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over
against him with his SWORD drawn in his hand and
Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou
for us, or for our adversaries? 14 And he said,
Nay but as CAPTAIN of the host of the LORD am I
now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the
earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What
saith my lord unto his servant? 15 And the
captain of the LORD'S host said unto Joshua,
Loose thy shoe from off thy foot for the place
whereon thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so.
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Matt 117-11 7 And as they departed, Jesus began
to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What
went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed
shaken with the wind? 8 But what went ye out for
to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? behold,
they that wear soft clothing are in kings'
houses. 9 But what went ye out for to see? A
prophet? yea, I say unto you, and more than a
prophet. 10 For this is he, of whom it is
written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy
face, which shall prepare thy way before thee. 11
Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born
of women there hath not risen a greater than John
the Baptist notwithstanding he that is least in
the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
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Isaiah 403-5 3 The voice of him that crieth in
the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD,
make straight in the desert a highway for our
God. 4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every
mountain and hill shall be made low and the
crooked shall be made straight, and the rough
places plain 5 And the glory of the LORD shall
be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together
for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
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Heb 412 For the word of God is quick, and
powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword,
piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and
spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a
discerner of the thoughts and intents of the
heart.
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The End Time Evangelism 62-0603 Par 195
Peter had a sword. He pulled that sword was
going to cut the high priest's ears off, and
things like that he did it. But when it come to
real Christian courage, he didn't have it. He
backed up and denied Him. Is that right? He could
cut the high priest's ear off with his sword,
sure, he knowed how to handle it. But when it
come to the squeeze and time to stand on the Word
of God, he didn't have the courage, and even
denied he knowed Jesus. That's where it is today.
We got courage to build buildings and put
millions of dollars in them. We got courage to
put pipe organs, and plush seats, and everything,
and go out and proselyte from place to place, and
make the Methodists come Baptists, and so forth,
back and forth like that. But when it comes to
Christian courage to accept the Word and the
message of God, and stand there on it, we are
few
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PERSEVERANT 62-0719E Par E-55 His Word
is a Sword. Hebrews 412 says that the Word of
God is sharper than a two-edged sword. Now, the
sword of faith must... The sword of the Word must
be handled by the hand of faith. Nothing else can
yield that sword but faith in the Word.Now, some
people can take the Word and cut away ENOUGH to
join the church. That's about far as they get.
Others can cut incut down the promise of the
Holy Ghost, cut out in Divine healing. It depends
on how strong that hand of faith is holding that
sword.Every promise is yours. It's sharp enough
to cut EVERYTHING that there is around you away,
and make you a son and daughter of God, free from
all. But depends on what kind of a hand that's
holding that sword. It must be a hand of faith.
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PERSEVERANCE 62-0520 Par E-42 You can
cut into anything that God promises. It's all out
there. As He told Joshua, "Everywhere the soles
of your foot sets, that's possession." Depends on
how strong that hand of faith is that yields that
Sword of God's Word.
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The Breach 63-0317E Par 69-1 13
Well, I wondered what it meant, "That is the
King's sword." And I thought, "If it would've
said, 'A king's sword,' it might've been that I
would've understood it, but it said, 'The King's
sword.'" So I may not have this right, but I
thought, "There's only one The King that's God.
And His Sword is this, sharper than a two-edged
sword. See? And... "Ye abide in Me and My
Words..."
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The Breach 63-0317E Par 69-1 13 I
thought in dueling...one principle of dueling,
but the best of my understanding, the knife
striking across, and then finally, the swords, if
they LOCK--the enemy and you lock the swords like
this, then it takes the strength of the man
dueling, because (See?) his sword would be
pointed to my heart and mine to his but they're
locked, as our knives striking each other, and
then they strike, and then the swords come
together. And the one that can shove the other
one down, the sword's straight to the heartit
takes the hand of strong faith to hold It there
to bring It to the heart of the enemy.
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PERSEVERANT 63-0802 Par 110 when I
am pressing with faith, with the Word, "Satan,
Jesus Christ commissioned me to do this," and we
LOCK. And raise up with that hand of faith, and
say, "An Angel of God met me yonder, and said
It's so." The first thing you know, throws the
sword right straight in, and he's CONQUERED. "I
come to challenge you! And THUS SAITH THE LORD."
That's the believer, when he has faith to handle
the Word
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PERSEVERANT63-0802 Par 111 Now if you're
just a little denominational WEAKLING, you better
keep away from it you'll go around, talk about
it, and say it can't happen, because you don't
know nothing about it. But that man who has
handled it, and seen it conquer that enemy, HE
KNOWS WHAT IT'LL DO.
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PERSEVERANT 64-0305 Par 67 The Bible
said, "The Word of God is sharper than a
two-edged sword." This sword has got to be held
by a hand of faith. A hand of theology won't do
it. It's got to take a hand of faith, trained in
spiritual things, that knows God64-0619 Par
83 You, scientifically, educationally, you
cannot hold that sword. You can't do it by
education it's too twisted, too complicated you
make it, it'd make it, it'll try to deny Itself
and everything. You cannot do it.
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WHY.CRY.SPEAK 63-0714M Par 294It was He
that morning, that woke me up there in the room,
and stand in the corner, said, "Don't fear to do
anything, or go anywhere, or say anything, for
the never-failing Presence of Jesus Christ is
with you wherever you go." 295 It was He up
yonder in Sabino Canyon, about three months ago,
when I was praying, wondering what was going to
happen. I was standing there, and a sword dropped
in my hand, and said, This is the Kings Sword.
It was He.296 It was He that said to me, As
I was with Moses, so Ill send you.297 It
was He that said to me, thirty years ago, down on
the river yonder, as a little boy. Standing there
as a little preacher, on the river, thirty years
ago, standing there when that Light, the same
Pillar of Fire, come down from the heavens and
stood there, and said, "As I sent John the
Baptist to forerun the first coming of Christ,
your Message shall forerun the Second Coming,"
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Joshua 52 At that time the LORD said unto
Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, and circumcise
again the children of Israel the second time.
Joshua 59 And the LORD said unto Joshua, This
day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from
off you. Wherefore the name of the place is
called Gilgal unto this day.
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Jeremiah 179 The heart is deceitful above all
things, and desperately wicked who can know it?
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ADOPTION Pt.1 60-0515E Par 54 Joshua,
after he crossed over into the land, God gave him
the promise that... Just think, to fight an
entire campaign without losing a man, without
even getting a scratch, without having to have a
nurse, or a first aid or a Band-Aid. God said,
"The land's yours go fight." Think of fighting a
campaign, and there's no Red Cross around at all
there's nobody going to get hurt.
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Joshua 72-5 2 And Joshua sent men from Jericho
to Ai, which is beside Bethaven, on the east side
of Bethel, and spake unto them, saying, Go up and
view the country. And the men went up and viewed
Ai. 3 And they returned to Joshua, and said unto
him, Let not all the people go up but let about
two or three thousand men go up and smite Ai and
make not all the people to labour thither for
they are but few. 4 So there went up thither of
the people about three thousand men and they
fled before the men of Ai. 5 And the men of Ai
smote of them about thirty and six men for they
chased them from before the gate even unto
Shebarim, and smote them in the going down
wherefore the hearts of the people melted, and
became as water.
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Joshua 713 Up, sanctify the people, and say,
Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow for thus
saith the LORD God of Israel, There is an
accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel
thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until
ye take away the accursed thing from among you.
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Joshua 76-9 And Joshua rent his clothes, and
fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of
the LORD until the eventide, he and the elders of
Israel, and put dust upon their heads. 7 And
Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, wherefore hast
thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to
deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to
destroy us? would to God we had been content, and
dwelt on the other side Jordan! 8 O Lord, what
shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs
before their enemies! 9 For the Canaanites and
all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it,
and shall environ us round, and cut off our name
from the earth and what wilt thou do unto thy
great name?
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And God said Get UP Joshua!!Joshua 710 And
the LORD said unto Joshua, Get thee up wherefore
liest thou thus upon thy face?
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BALM.IN.GILEAD 61-0218 Par E-56 Reason
we get many out calls from these services, so
called healing services. You get down there in
the line, watch that discernment, reach down and
find that thing till it finds the CAUSE of it.
"Here's what it is you're doing this you're
doing that." Immoral living and things, people
coming to the platform...You could pour oil on
their heads, and stomp and holler, and have
shivers and chills, and everything else, that
devil will lay right there, as long as HE'S GOT A
RIGHT TO STAY THERE, until you confess that sin
and make it right and let the Holy Ghost come in
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Joshua 713-15 13 Up, sanctify the people, and
say, Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow for
thus saith the LORD God of Israel, There is an
accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel
thou canst not stand before thine enemies, UNTIL
ye take away the accursed thing from among you.
14 In the morning therefore ye shall be brought
according to your tribes and it shall be, that
the tribe which the LORD taketh shall come
according to the families thereof and the family
which the LORD shall take shall come by
households and the household which the LORD
shall take shall come man by man. 15 And it shall
be, that he that is taken with the accursed thing
shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he
hath because he hath transgressed the covenant
of the LORD, and because he hath wrought folly in
Israel.
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Joshua 719-21 19 And Joshua said unto Achan, My
son, give, I pray thee, glory to the LORD God of
Israel, and make confession unto him and tell me
now what thou hast done hide it not from me. 20
And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I
have sinned against the LORD God of Israel, and
thus and thus have I done 21 When I saw among
the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two
hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of
fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and
took them and, behold, they are hid in the earth
in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
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So what is Achans wedge today?What had he
done? He had taken something from a City that
was CURSED!
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HANDWRITING.ON.THE.WALL 58-0309M Par E-40A
Christian woman preacher sent a girl down here
the other day that looked like she was poured
into her clothes. She said, "Oh, Brother Branham,
you're from the old school. Our pastor liberates
women."I said, "Liberate them from what?"
They're liberating them from Christ and common
decency. Oh, very famous, the woman is...
certainly. But anything that does that's A CHILD
OF HELL. "By their fruit you shall know them."
What a day we are living in. Sure, I don't
believe--know it says how--but what kind of
clothes you wear and so forth, but woman, do you
realize what you're doing? You're making yourself
a sex mark to every old scalawag rascal that
comes by. But you want liberation. It shows what
spirit that's in you. You want to get free from
church, free from Christ, free from the Holy
Spirit, so you can live like the rest of them.
That don't exclude the Branham Tabernacle. That
includes the Branham Tabernacle
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Questions Answers 54-0515 Par 149-2it
may be just a little, old wedge buried over
somewhere. But Achan had one too. You know, we
got to get RID of that thing, THEN we'll come
right on and move along in the Kingdom of God
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ADOPTION Pt 1 60-0515E Par 54 And there's
where the church is failing todayDo you know
that even your own behavior can knock somebody
else out of getting healed? Your misbehavior of
unconfessed sins of you believers, can cause this
church to bitterly fail. And at the day of the
judgment you'll be responsible for every bit of
it. Oh, you say, "Now, wait a minute, Brother
Branham." Well, that's the truth
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ADOPTION Pt 160-0515E Par 57 Why did
they die, innocent men? Because ONE MAN stepped
out of the line. You see the reason this needs to
be taught? The church lining up, lining up with
the Word of God, lining up with God and lining up
with each other, walking perfectly upright,
soberly, before all men, fearing God
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ADOPTION Pt.2 60-0518 Par 34 You give
me this spotless church tonight, this group of
people, perfectly, perfectly in the promise of
God with the Holy Ghost, walking in the Spirit,
I'll challenge any disease, or any affliction, or
anything that there is, every Joe Lewis there is
in the country, with all of his infidelity, and
all of the unbelievers that there is, to bring
any sickness or affliction in this door, and
they'll walk out of here perfectly whole. Yes,
sir. God gave the promise only sin of unbelief
can keep it away.
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The Breach 63-0317E Par 69-1 13 I
thought in dueling...one principle of dueling,
but the best of my understanding, the knife
striking across, and then finally, the swords, if
they LOCK--the enemy and you lock the swords like
this, then it takes the strength of the man
dueling, because (See?) his sword would be
pointed to my heart and mine to his but they're
locked, as our knives striking each other, and
then they strike, and then the swords come
together. And the one that can shove the other
one down, the sword's straight to the heartit
takes the hand of strong faith to hold It there
to bring It to the heart of the enemy.
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This Great Warrior David 55-0118 Par E-49
How about the thousands across the country
today? Some of you setting here, I get your
letters where you were blind and bed ridden. When
I was here the last time, you walked in with the
sword of the faith and chopped off the head of
that Goliath you're holding up tonight for a
testimony.What did the rest of the army see?
When they seen it could be done, they said, "We
can do it too, for we are Israelites also." And
your everyone God's children, and got a right to
the blessing. "Pull the sword now let's go forth
and slay these Goliaths out of here." They
strowed their dead bodies plumb to the valleys,
up over the hillsides, to the gates. Sure. You
can do it too. It's yours. It's for you. It's
all it's for every believer.
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