--- title: 'The Cleansing of the Sanctuary' date: 2024-10-10 activity: 2 place: city: Cayey state: country: PR duration: 00:00:00 public: false thumb: https://directus.carpa.com/assets/557578f6-d27e-46e2-bf81-48de188b166b.png youtube: translations: - "[es](spa-2024-10-10-2-la_limpieza_del_santuario-CAYPR)" - "[pt](por-2024-10-10-2-a_limpeza_do_santuario-CAYPR)" files: - "[audio](https://directus.carpa.com/assets/513983e3-d88c-478f-8e26-0681246ac6cc)" --- (Second activity) Good afternoon to all those who are gathered on this occasion there in San Lucas, Guatemala, in the congregation pastored by Reverend Tirzo Ramiro Girón Pinzón, where Missionary Miguel Bermudez Marin is located. May God bless you greatly on this occasion, all the ministers, brothers and sisters present there; and all those who are connected through the Amazonas satellite and the Eutelsat 8 satellite, and also through the internet, today, Thursday, October 10 of this year, 2024. May God bless you greatly; and in these days, may God speak directly to our souls, to our hearts, and much Word become incarnate in our lives. For this occasion we read in Psalm 74, where it tells us: **Psalm 74:1** *1 O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?* *2 Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.* \[JBP\] And Zion is the Church. *3 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.* *4 Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.* *5 A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.* *6 But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.* *7 They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.* \[JBP\] There on the left he writes: *\[WSS\] «**Hebrews 3:1-6; 12:18-20**».* *8 They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.* *9 We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.* *10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?* *11 Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.* *12 For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.* *13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.* *14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.* *15 Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.* *16 The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.* *17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.* *18 Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Lord, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.* *19 O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.* *20 Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.* *21 O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.* *22 Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.* *23 Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.* \[JBP\] In verse 7 it says: **Psalm 74:7** *7 They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.* \[JBP\] Now, look at everything here, what the psalmist shows us. \[*Dr. Jose B. Perez*\] And for this occasion, in these short words, we will have as a subject: **“THE CLEANSING OF THE SANCTUARY”**(which is a writing that we are going to see in a moment). It tells us in the book or volume **“The Squeeze,”** on page 48, it tells us here… This is of the message “GOD JUDGES THE HEART,”from December 26, 1976. That time is a time, from ‘74 to ‘77, where the Lord was showing us what He would do in the Dispensation of the Kingdom in its beginning; and there it was beginning…, as the Seventh Seal began in the First Coming of the Lord: with His birth. Now, look, on page 48, of this volume **“The Squeeze,”** it says: **GOD JUDGES THE HEART** *Dr. William Soto Santiago* *Sunday, December 26, 1976* *(Tent Service)* *Cayey, Puerto Rico* Well, I don’t know where to stop this, I have hardly used the notes I had here, I have hardly even used them, but what I’m seeing is that… Well, later on, maybe I won’t have to use any. Well, after we know the Message of the Kingdom, all the details of the Message of the Kingdom, there will be no need to look for around here, over here; because this of proving here and there, and searching: “God has said here through…, here in the Old Testament, in the New, and here in the Messages through Elijah, He has said in this way” (\[JBP\] that is, from the fourth Elijah), that is because you are elect and the Word is being incarnated in you. \[JBP\] See why it’s carried out that way. And that, God gave a sample there at that time; and then a little further on also. And of… even in the messages that he preached throughout his ministry, he also spoke and quoted from brother Branham’s messages and also from the Bible; but it was already more marked at that time, where he was showing what the end would be, and how God would be carrying out that Work of the Rapturing Faith; but it was not spoken clearly so that there were no imitators. Like in one place he says that \[WSS\] “they could imitate the Second Coming of the Lord.” So, imagine how you can imitate the Second Coming of the Lord; because it would be in such a simple way, that if they knew how God was going to be carrying out everything, they would be imitating and trying to make an exact copy. But they are going to fail, no matter how much they try to imitate, they will fail. Rather, they are going to be inclined to criticize, to blaspheme, and to do all the things that you already know how that happened at the First Coming of the Lord. Now, he goes on saying here \[**“GOD JUDGES THE HEART”**\]: \[WSS\] But after He has been incarnated, why would I have to tell you: “Look, it says it here it here.” —“I already knew that, why did you waste time on that? You could have gone ahead and preached, …, instead of preaching two hours, a two-hour message, you could have preached a four-hour message in two hours. Not that we don’t want you to preach for two hours, but that you would have preached to us more in the same time, you would have told us more.” I believe that time is approaching, and as it is getting closer, then we have to be prepared for everything that the Lord has, because what the Lord has at this hour is truly great, it’s inconceivable, and we are surely going to see many things that are promised to be seen. That of Ananias and Sapphira, that will be something that is going to happen; it’s inevitable, because it is told there. Now, someday I will explain to you how that is going to happen. How did that of Ananias and Sapphira happen back then? How did the spoken Word come for it to happen? Who was it? Well, he was a type of Moses and Elijah. See? So, one of the three that went up there, one was in that position, and he could speak the Word and bring judgment; and notice, it was at the beginning, now we are at the end. \[*Dr. Jose B. Perez*\] Now look, in the message **“REVELATION, CHAPTER FIVE #1,”** which is in “THE AGES,” that part is in “THE AGES” also, on page 652, “AGES” unedited, there, paragraph 64. I’m going to read here from the booklet; and you follow me there, those who have the book, you can follow along in the book of “THE AGES unedited.” It says: \[61-0611 “Revelation, Chapter Five #1, p. , paras. 63-X\] *63 Now, we see that one of the great outstanding things I’d like to bring your attention to, was the living Creatures (of the last part of the 4th chapter) that John saw watching that Ark of the Covenant. You remember how they were fixed just like Israel in its march? They had, now, on there, was a face of the living Creature. And we found out that these Creatures were not Angels, neither were they men. They were Cherubims. And we found them in the Old Testament with the ark. We find them in the New Testament. And then we find them over in the Coming of the Lord again, Cherubims guarding the mercy seat.* *64 The mercy seat which no one could approach unless there was an atonement there for that person, only way that the sanctuary…When it was sprinkled of the blood, then it became a mercy seat. But after the blood was taken off, then it became a judgment seat.* *65 And, oh, my, no one could stand the judgments of God. The only thing that we can look for is mercy, not judgment, not righteous-…righteousness. We cannot approach His justice* (\[JBP\] and he writes there): *\[WSS\] «**Moses and Elijah**»**; because, His justice, He’ll have to keep His Word; and keeping His Word, “The day you eat thereof, that day you die.” Who would want justice? I don’t want justice. I call for mercy. My, let the mercy of God…And the mercy seat’s sprinkled!* *66 But there was a time of the cleansing of the sanctuary, when it was a judgment seat as long as the blood was off of the seat.* \[JBP\] And on the right he writes: *\[WSS\] «**Throne of Judgment**».* *67 Now, we’re approaching that time now. We are now approaching, in this age…* \[JBP\] And he writes: *\[WSS\] «**The Age of the Cornerstone**»*, there above. And to the left, at the beginning of the paragraph, a Pyramid. *\[67\] We are now approaching, in this age, a cleansing of the sanctuary and the judgments coming upon the earth. See? As long as Blood is there, God cannot destroy the earth; long as Blood is there, nobody’s a sinner before God.* \[JBP\] And he writes there on the right, going upwards: *\[WSS\] «**No one is a sinner on Earth as long as the Blood is in the Sanctuary**».* Now…, keep that in mind. \[JBP\] Now, look, it says: *\[67\] Everybody’s right, because there’s an Atonement for everybody. But if you fail to accept that Atonement and go into His Presence, then you are a sinner, you’re beyond that mercy. Then you’ve judged yourself. But now while there is mercy… But when the cleansing of the sanctuary comes…* \[JBP\] Now, there he places *\[WSS\] «from ‘74 to ‘77»*.\* But notice that that time was showing what would be in that new age and in that new dispensation; because we were still living in the Dispensation of Grace there. Now, it says: *\[67\] …the Blood goes off the mercy seat and then the wrath of God falls upon the earth.* \[JBP\] And he writes there: *\[WSS\] «**Cleansing of the Throne**».* *\[67\] But when the cleansing of the sanctuary comes, the Blood goes off the mercy seat and then the wrath of God falls upon the earth. Oh, my! God be merciful to us, that we be not in that day found without mercies of God.* \[JBP\] And on the left he writes: *\[WSS\] «**The Earth’s destruction = in the 6th Seal**».* \[*Dr. Jose B. Perez*\] Now, it continues to say here, in the message that we are reading from the volume **“The Squeeze,”** where we stopped, it says \[**“GOD JUDGES THE HEART”**\]: \[WSS\] He brought partial judgment, now it will be global judgment; but it has to move according to what is promised. It is not doing things without rhyme or reason. There is an order, and it is the Word; and one cannot deviate from that for things to be done. There will be things that will fill us with joy, happiness, but there will also be things that will fill us with sadness, but what can you do? Look, when in that time of the Jewish church, back in the beginning, there were many things that filled the people with joy; but when that of Ananias and Sapphira happened, it filled everyone with sadness. Do you think that Ananias and Sapphira were… that couple, that marriage, they were anything? No, they were important people in the midst of the brethren, they were people who were economically in a great position, they were people who worked in the Work, they were very loved people. Look, notice, in the Scripture, it does not speak to us about just anyone; it speaks to us about the people who had an important part in the history of the Word. Just like Dathan and Korah, they were not just anyone, they were great people. Judas was not just anyone, he was a great person. See? And Ananias and Sapphira were also important people at that time. Imagine that when the time came that there was a need for certain things so that the Gospel could spread among the Jews… Did you hear that? Then…, because they did not go out with that Gospel to another place, but that Gospel was to the Jews; so, there was need among them and then those who had properties…, see? Some brother had then, well, he had a little house and lived in his little house, but in addition to that he had another property… He said: “Well, we are in a time when we must do what needs to be done, and there are needs (and they saw the needs). Well, what I need is a place to go to bed \[AUDIO CUT\] when I get sleepy and a bite of food, the rest is for the Work; so, I have such property and such property.” They sold it, says the Bible, and laid it at the feet of the apostles \[Acts 5:1-11\]. But one did what he should not have done. Not that he was doing wrong, of bringing a part, no; it was fine, if he wanted to bring a part, let him bring it; what was wrong was (what?) having said that he had brought everything \[Acts 4:36-37\]. And since God judges the intention of the heart, God did not judge the appearance of: “Oh, he brought so much!” Perhaps he brought more than Barnabas. Barnabas sold a property and brought it: “There is all the money.” A man of the Lord. Then, well, that gave a push to the Work the others did the same; because when one does it, the rest start and see that there is a need and they do it; and then one did it in an incorrect way. That’s why we always say: If you are going to do something, do it the right way, do it with all your heart —is the first thing—, because God looks at the heart and God judges the heart; so God didn’t care about everything he brought. Perhaps it was more, that little part that he brought, perhaps it was more than what the others had brought; but God did not like that because of the intention that was in the heart. See? So, there then the Spirit of God in the messenger for that Age of the Kingdom, for that Hebrew age, the messenger for that age, which was a type of this age in which we live, then what happened? He was anointed to speak what he spoke and to bring the judgment that he brought (\[JBP\] that is, Peter). Now, how many of you, perhaps now, because of history, you say: “Well done, he did it well, it was good that he did it; because there should not be any brother doing those things and *metiendo paquetes* —as we say—, lies. Whoever does something must do it correctly from the heart; if not, don’t do anything.” But what if you had lived in those days? Maybe you would have… If you had not been very steadfast and holding on and seeing the picture of that time, you would have said: “He should not have done that, he should have let him pass that one. Even if he had said that…, how many do not lie; even if he had told his little lie, well, look, he brought more than the others; we who have brought nothing, well, he brought for us.” But God does not go with that, God judges the heart. Now, I don’t know, whether Ananias and Sapphira were lost or not, that’s a matter between God and them. Who knows if they were lost or who knows if they were not lost, they were part of the group. See? \[*Dr. Jose B. Perez*\] In the message “THE NEW TEMPLE,” brother William spoke to us there, in a little part where he says… (I don’t have the page here), where he says: **THE NEW TEMPLE** *Dr. William Soto Santiago* *Sunday, December 25, 1977* *(Tent Service)* *Cayey, Puerto Rico* It is likely that we will meet so many false anointed ones at this time and that we will know that they have already crossed the line… \[JBP\] That is, when he says “false anointed ones”: false… from false ministers to false people giving false testimonies; but they are anointed by the devil; that is, it covers everything. \[WSS\] We probably know so many false anointed ones in this time and we know that they have already crossed the line, but we love them so much that just knowing that they have already crossed the line, gives us such a strong pain in our hearts that we wish we had never known those people. We would have liked better never to have known that those people existed. \[JBP\] And so each one of us has also thought that way. He told me: \[WSS\] “You are going to suffer a lot for people that you have known, and that you know, and who will turn their backs on you.” Now, that suffering at that moment, notice, I didn’t feel it, because that moment had not arrived. But look, each time you get closer, each one - each time one sees, and if there is that suffering, that increases each time; one seeing that for some people there is no longer an opportunity: they have already crossed the line, and already… One would have wished like… what he says there: \[WSS\] “I would have wished that I had never met them and that those people had never existed.” But the Word was already spoken, and he was telling me also. And also here, in this time that we are in, reading here of Ananias and Sapphira, the same thing happened. In other words, the same thing that happened there is being repeated at this end time. \[*Dr. Jose B. Perez*\] Now he goes on saying \[**“The Squeeze”**\] \[**“GOD JUDGES THE HEART”**\]: \[WSS\] Now, see that this filled the people with sadness, but it also filled them with what? Fear, reverential fear. They saw the authority that was there, they saw the leadership of God through a man, they saw the blessings of God but they also saw the judgment of God; and everyone then began to walk more straight, and that is a blessing. \[*Dr. Jose B. Perez*\] In the message **“REVELATION, CHAPTER FIVE #2,”** also on page 36 here of the booklet (and of the book “THE AGES unedited” it’s on page 700), there he says (in that paragraph) it says…, paragraph 173 says: \[61-0618 “Revelation, Chapter Five #2,” p. , para. 171\] *171 Now, there was a time when it was in dispute. From the fortieth day, from the beginning of the first day of the cleansing of the sanctuary…* \[JBP\] He writes above, here in the message, he writes: *\[WSS\] «**The cleansing of the Sanctuary. The dispute for 10 days of silence, type of the ½ hour**».* \[JBP\] Notice, that time there is the type and figure of this time in which we are living where the cleansing of the Sanctuary is being carried out. \[*Dr. Jose B. Perez*\] In the message **“TAKING SIDES WITH JESUS,”** there too he tells us some of this; on page 6, it says: \[62-0601 “Taking Sides With Jesus,” p. , paras. 22-24, 262-X\] *22 I have tried to find now. And I’ve been studying. I told it out before the congregation. I been studying the early Church. And I watched the way that those anointed men prepared the House of the Lord, and the order of the Lord’s worship in the House, and it struck me real, real good. And I preached here some time ago, and upon the subject of Joel 2, “I will restore, saith the Lord, all the years that the palmerworm eaten, and the caterpillar, and cankerworm, and so forth.”* (\[JBP\] And he writes there on the side): *\[WSS\] «**The ten days in the upper room**»**. And I begin to study on that, about what these men did, and the way that they taken care of the Church that God had left them overseer.* *23 Now we’re going to start off with the early Church, and just bring It for about five minutes now, down to what they did, and then I can show you the vision that I have for the future. Now, at the beginning, the Church was inaugurated at Pentecost. And there the Holy Spirit fell upon them, where Jesus had chosen twelve. And one of them had fallen, and they had chose Matthias to take his place. And the Holy Spirit waited until all this was in order, before It come* (\[JBP\] see?)*.* And he writes there: *\[WSS\] «**God’s promises are always under conditions. If it does not agree with the Blueprint, He destroys it**».* \[JBP\] Now, everything was being placed in order in those days, in those ten days. Notice, some left on the first day, others on the second day, others on the third day, and so on, others until the ninth day; they… they said: “No, we can get out of here already,” or they did not agree with what Peter was talking about there. And, you see, why? To… he says here… he says: *\[23\] And the Holy Spirit waited until all this was in order, before It come.* \[JBP\] That is, what? What was it that they were waiting for? The firstfruits of the Spirit. \[*Dr. Jose B. Perez*\] That is, what brother William told us here about that order, that says… where we read on 49 \[**“The Squeeze”**\]\[**“GOD JUDGES THE HEART”**\]: \[WSS\] There is an order, and it is the Word; and one cannot deviate from there for things to be done. \[JBP\] In other words, they were waiting for that order there, putting everything in order. On the back he also writes: *\[WSS\] «**The ten days in the upper room: They prepared the order of worship: He waited for everything to be in order so that He could come**».* \[JBP\] That is, so that the Holy Spirit could come there on the Day of Pentecost. And so that in this end time the fullness of the new body could come, the double portion, everything has to be in order; the cleansing of the Sanctuary must have already finished, so that He can work. Let’s say it more clearly: All the unbelievers have to leave, and everything that is against the Word of God has to leave. \[*Dr. Jose B. Perez*\] Now, he continues saying where we stopped in **“TAKING SIDES WITH JESUS,”** he says: *\[23\] They had to choose one to take the bishopric of—of Judas, that fell by transgression, to fulfill the Scripture.* *24 And I believe that all these things has a time of lingering, waiting, but it’s waiting for a time for the Scripture to be fulfilled, till everything gets right, everything in order, waiting. Many times we get pa-…impatient, like a child. We great…get great anticipations, and many times jump way ahead, and that—that just hinders the work, until the work gets caught up. See? We must just move reverently, have a purpose in heart that God, if He would desire to use us in such-and-such, but wait till He makes the opening, ’cause He has to go ahead of us.* \[*Dr. Jose B. Perez*\] Now see, he goes on saying here, our brother William, on the page… I am on page 52 of this volume **“The Squeeze,”** which is of the message **“GOD JUDGES THE HEART”**; he says: \[WSS\] Which is better: that nothing is done and that some walk crookedly or that even if judgment falls on some so that it is of benefit to others? See? Now you say: “It was good that it happened back then.” Well, and I ask you: “What about today when we are promised that the same thing will happen?” But how will it happen?, will it happen literally or will it happen spiritually? That’s another thing. Will it be with spiritual death or with literal death that it will come? Because it says it’s going to come; and that when that happens, then that's the beginning of something important. Well, when we know and hear those things… \[JBP\] Now, how did it start back then? With the action of Ananias and Sapphira; with that action, see, that it started there. And how has that started at this end time? With the same actions, notice. Now, he continues to say: \[WSS\] Well, when we know and hear those things, we are really filled with awe, but not fear; reverential fear; because we want Him when He looks into our heart (and He looks at our heart), and He tells us through the Message how He is looking at us. \[*Dr. Jose B. Perez*\] It’s like when… In the same message that we are reading about **“TAKING SIDES WITH JESUS,”** on page 55, he tells us here in this portion that we are going to read, about the occasion that he was… (let’s see here where we begin), he was preaching, and a woman passed by the front of the tabernacle. Now, so you can see how (one of the cases that happened to brother Branham)..., and there we saw how God saw the heart of that girl. And anyone could’ve said: *“But that was just a comment; it was not important. More important was what brother Branham was talking about, and all that God was doing there, than to pay attention to one who commented something.”* But notice, if He didn’t let that about Ananias and Sapphira go, which was something that apparently was fine: he had given more (as we read there), he had given more perhaps than many, who had brought only a part, a portion; and he brought much more than that part that he brought - that some brought there; and he gave more, of a big push with that that he brought to the Work. But God doesn’t go with that, see? What God looked at there was the action; and even if they were important and believers, notice - notice. And here…, if that didn’t happen, how much more from there on down! That is, look, page 54 at the bottom; he says: *262 He knew them, but notice, He never rebuked them. He went right with them. Uh-huh. He does the same thing now. He goes right along with them, shows them His mercy…* \[JBP\] Let’s see here, because we can read a little more before, let’s see…: “The same thing…”; or the paragraph before says: *261 The same thing, so, that, that’s it, you see. Just trying to find something, to this young convert, to blight their name, the name of—of the works of God. See? They wanted to blight it. “Every time a child gets sick, one of his children, he takes them to a doctor.” Sure, I would. Then if the doctor can’t… I’ll ask God to help before I go there. Then if the doctor can do nothing about it, then I’ll take him up a little higher. Uh-huh. That’s right. Yes, sir. Oh, just the same today, they’re trying to find a trap somewhere.* \[JBP\] You have to read… you would have to read the previous page; so you can see what he was talking about. *262 He knew them, but notice, He never rebuked them. He went right with them. Uh-huh. He does the same thing now. He goes right along with them, shows them His mercy, that’s right, though they do altogether against Him. Why? Because He loves them. And He went with them.* *But they’re always ready to call on Him in a case of emergency. They want Him then. They want…They’ll make fun of somebody, of shouting. They’ll make fun of somebody preaching Divine healing, say they don’t believe in it. They just haven’t got sick enough yet. I’ve heard a many one.* *263 A woman, dying, just as I run up the steps, when I was preaching right here. And the man standing right there at the door, calling to me. She had walked by. She lived up the street here, and had a cow out there. And she said, “If my cow got that kind of religion that Billy’s got, I would kill the cow.” In less than an hour from then, she was stricken and taken to the hospital, a beautiful young woman.* *And I rushed out there. Her husband was Catholic. And they sent for me.* \[JBP\] This is one of the… - of the messages that he tells it. There are others that he… he says some details that he doesn’t speak here. *\[263\] She is dying. And she went…Her eyes went to swelling out. She said, ‘Call him. Call him. Call him. Call him. Quickly. Quickly.’”* \[JBP\] That is: “Call him, call him, call him, call him, quickly, quickly!” *264 And her brother run up and stood there at the door, and waited and waited, and he kept motioning for me* (\[JBP\] in other words, while brother Branham was speaking, and he was at the door, there in the tabernacle, motioning to brother Branham)*. And the place was packed full of people* (\[JBP\] it was full, in that activity)*. And after while, somebody come around and put a note on—on the desk here. It said—said, “Someone is dying in a hospital.”* *And I believe, Brother Graham Snelling, I said, “Take my place till I go.” And he would just stand up and lead singing. He wasn’t even called, and to—to preach, at that time. He come up to lead singing.* *And I went out and got in my car, and rushed out there. And just as I go up the steps, she drawed her last breath. And, of course, the bowels and kidneys, everything, act. And I run in there, and they done covered her face up, and steam coming up around like that. And that old nurse standing there, she said, “Brother Branham, she screamed her last breath for you.” Trying to make it right, but it was too late then, you see. Yeah. Too…You can sin one time too many, you know.* \[JBP\] Meaning, a time will come when it will reach its peak. That is, they will continue sinning and doing what they are doing, but a time will come when there will be no more opportunity in time; that is, as it happened to this woman. Now look, there it was an hour later, and not even brother Branham had heard that (but look…), because he was preaching. Now look at something: when what happened to brother Branham’s wife happened on that occasion —of which we don’t judge what she did but that all that had a purpose and was showing something too— but you see, God didn’t let it pass. And that had happened in the vision or the…, the finding of that tumor, 16 years had passed; that is, what was going to happen to Meda had not taken place yet. And when he’s showing a person there how it was: \[WMB\] “Look, I’m going to take my wife’s hand now and she’s healthy; she’s well, and so you can see that she won’t get like this, like this”; and when he does it: Eeep!, there he found that she had that tumor. But nothing had happened; and they had done the tests, and everything came out well. She gave birth later, to the girl, and nothing happened either; everything was fine in the tests. But notice, it was 16 years later that it came to her. Now, why did that come to her? Because of what she had done: slamming the door to brother Branham. That is, her action was what was putting a hold for that to appear. After, two years after she did that, it appeared; that is, it hadn’t happened until she did what she did. In other words, the judgment of the person, if it is already for that person to fall, it is not going to fall on him until that person fulfills everything that he/she is going to do. All she did there, look…, she said: “You have to scold him.” He didn’t, he didn’t scold him; she then was upset and she slammed the door. All of that had to happen. Ananias and Sapphira too, notice, to receive judgment they had to act: they acted and judgment came to them. There it was instantly. And to Meda, notice, which was 16 years later: what happened took place, and then, two years later, after that, that tumor came to her. Now here, in this girl, it was at the moment: an hour later. Do you see? It’s not always instantly. And… here he continues to say \[**“TAKING SIDES WITH JESUS”**\]: *\[264\] Trying to make it right, but it was too late then, you see. Yeah. Too…You can sin one time too many, you know.* *265 And she kind of had…deep in her face. She had auburn hair; a real pretty woman. And her—her bobbed hair was all bushed out. Great big brown eyes had pushed out, and just half closed. And the freckles on her face had got in such a way, such strain, till they just stood on out like little bumps all over her face, and her mouth was open. And I walked over there and looked at her.* *And there her husband stood there, and said, “Billy, here is what it was.” Said, “I am Catholic. I want you to say a prayer for her, ’cause she’s gone to purgatory.”* *I said, “What?”* *266 Said, “Say a prayer for her.” Said, “She’s gone to purgatory. She passed by your church about two hours ago, and said, ‘If our cow ever got your kind of religion, she would kill the cow.’” See? Said, “Say a prayer for her.”* \[JBP\] That’s when he told her, because it seems that she… she must have told him what she had talked about, what she had done, and that’s why that came to her; because she must have said: *“Hey, as soon as I said that, this is happening to me; so this is because of what I did.”* Look, she realized what she had done, like Judas, she realized later, but it was too late. *267 I said, “That’s too late. She should have purged her soul here...”* \[JBP\] And brother \[William\] there draws a Star of David. “Here” where? On Earth, that’s very, very important. Because he said in *The Seals* (what we have read) *\[WSS\] «he who receives…»*,*\[WSS\] «**Elijah and Moses: He who receives His Message* (receives what?)*, receives mercy**»**.* He who rejects It, well, he rejects…, judgment! *\[WSS\] «**Elijah and Moses: he who receives His Message receives mercy**»*. Page 369 of *The Seals*, is where brother Braham spoke of \[WMB\] “people who had been in meetings like this and had spurned God’s mercy for the last time.” Now here he writes…, look…, he draws a Star of David. *267 I said, “It’s too late; she should have purged her soul here, not when she got somewhere else.” See, that's right. Oh, yes, but we always want Him in the time of trouble. I've heard people say, “I don’t believe in God. Let him get hurt real bad once; see Who He’ll call first.”* \[*Dr. Jose B. Perez*\] There in **“THE SEVENTY WEEKS OF DANIEL,”** it also tells us something there about…, here it tells us some details. On page 94 from the book… (of the version that you have it’s on 82). “Many times…” “THE SEVENTY WEEKS OF DANIEL,” paragraph 146 of this version, it says: \[*The Seventy Weeks of Daniel* - 61-0730E “The Sixfold Purpose Of Gabriel’s Visit To Daniel,” paras. 146-148\] 146 Many sights have I seen, pretty near thirty-one years behind the desk. I’ve seen sad sights; I’ve seen glorious sights. The saddest sight that I ever seen in my life…As much as I’ve seen starving children in the street; I’ve seen mothers begging for one piece of bread. Saddest sight I ever see, is see a man, a human being, and which should be a son of God, dying without knowing God. 147 I remember a woman standing at the door one night, of this church, laughed at me. And said, “I wouldn’t let my cow have the kind of religion he’s got!” (\[JBP\] He writes): *\[WSS\] «**The woman and the cow**»*. Less than one hour, I was called to the hospital. Beautiful woman, about twenty-two years old, she was screaming… \[JBP\] Just about 22 years old. Now, there’s a place where he showed (let’s say) from when a stage began; but we will look for it later, because I am writing down other things that go with that writing there. Now look: \[147\] Beautiful woman, about twenty-two years old, she was screaming, “Get that preacher here!” She was Catholic, by faith. When I walked up, the old sister said, “You’re too late, Brother Branham. She died about five minutes ago.” I said, “Can I see her?” Said, “She screamed for you, in her last words, ‘Get that preacher, Brother Branham!’” Her husband was there, hollering, “Say a prayer for her! Say a prayer!” \[JBP\] All of this will be repeated: many will be crying out and asking for prayer; and many will be crying out for that ministry, to do something; but it will be too late. \[147\] “Say a prayer for her! Say a prayer!” I said, “It’s too late now.” 148 I pulled the cover down. She had great big brown eyes. Beautiful woman; little freckles across her face; auburn hair; very attractive. She had suffered so hard till the freckles stood out on her face like pimples. Her eyes were bulged plumb out of their sockets, like that. And, course, her bowels and kidneys had acted, which is in the—in the…Everyone does that as they’re dying, mostly. And there she was, laying in that condition, her mouth open. And her lids here, had half covered the brown part of her eye. I’ll never forget it. That song come onto my mind. *Covet not this world’s vain riches (beauty, pomp)...* \[*Dr. Jose B. Perez*\] Now notice, further on here, our brother William, a little further on in this same message; I am on page 53 of the volume \[**“The Squeeze”**\] \[**“GOD JUDGES THE HEART”**\]: \[WSS\] (…) Well, God bless us this morning, God keep us and help us to never stumble over anything. I already warned you… We have seen many blessings, many glorious things; but also when we see the hand of the Lord in judgment don’t be scandalized; don’t be scandalized, but rather have reverential fear; and if you are not in order in those days, straighten up then, so that God will not bring something that will be something that will not please you; because judgment begins at the House of the Lord. It started that way back then… \[*Dr. Jose B. Perez*\] Now look, this takes us to paragraph 1094 of ***Quotations***, of paragraph - of page 122, where it says…, a brief part, we have already read that excerpt, we have read it: \[64-0614M - “The Unveiling of God,” p. 5, paras. 22-24\] *1094 – “22 Now, my subject this morning, I trust that God will reveal this. And each time, if you who take the tapes and listen, and I hope and trust that—that you have had a spiritual understanding of what that God has been trying to get over to the Church without saying it right out. See? It’s a thing, sometime, we have to say things in such a way that it might thin down, it might bring some to go out, some to leave, and some to—to—to ponder over. But that’s done purposely. It must be done that way.* *23 Then it might be that some would say, ‘You mean God would purposely do a thing like that?’ He certainly did. He does yet.* *24 He said one day, when He had thousands around Him, He said, ‘Except you eat of the Flesh of the Son of God, or Son of man, and drink His Blood, you have no Life in you.’”* \[JBP\] And there he continues speaking. \[*Dr. Jose B. Perez*\] Now notice, he says there that \[**“The Squeeze”**\] \[**“GOD JUDGES THE HEART”**\]: \[WSS\] … so that God will not bring something that will be something that will not please you… \[JBP\] Meaning, that it scandalizes you; and then you do something, say something or do something that you will receive or would receive the divine judgment. \[WSS\] … and if you are not in order in those days, straighten up then, so that God will not bring something that will be something that will not please you; because the judgment begins at the House of the Lord. It started that way back then in the apostles’ day. It started there. “And if the righteous with difficulty be saved, where shall the unfaithful and the sinner appear?” \[1 Peter 4:18\] Where then shall the gentiles, the gentile world, this dispensation, this gentile generation of Amorites appear? Yes, because this is the gentile generation that is typified by the Amorites, it is typified by the Sodomites and by those of Gomorrah. So, where will they appear? They will appear (where?) in the destruction. \[*Dr. Jose B. Perez*\] Look at quote 4-A - page 4-A, paragraph 33 it says \[***Quotations***\]: \[56-0128 - “Inspiration,” p. 23, para. 60\] *33 – “\[60\] Said: ‘Let’s see you break the bread then and feed the five thousand, and let me see you turn the water into wine.’”* \[JBP\] Because that’s what they’re watching: *“But he doesn’t do this, doesn’t do that.”* Look: *33 – “\[60\] ‘I said, ‘We are in our infancy. We are moving up. And quick as we get you bunch…’”* \[JBP\] In other words, we first have to remove them all, those unbelievers. Now, notice, that is what was happening there in those ten days: the cleansing of the Sanctuary, that is what is taking place now, in this half hour of silence. *33 – “\[60\] ‘And quick as we get you bunch of formal fanatics out of the way, we’ll be doing that.’ (...) ‘If we can get you bunch of unbelievers out of the way long enough to get God moving through the crowd, you’ll see such things take place. We’re just moving up. Look at the miracles that Jesus started the same way, moved right on up finally to the resurrection of the dead.’”* \[JBP\] And he writes: *\[WSS\] «**Resurrection and The Tent**»*. Because that is what we are heading towards. This goes progressively until we arrive at that moment, but we are in the cleansing of the Sanctuary. Above he writes: *\[WSS\] «**The miracles in progressive form**»*. \[*Dr. Jose B. Perez*\] And he continues to say \[**“The Squeeze”**\] \[**“GOD JUDGES THE HEART”**\]: \[WSS\] So, judgment awaits them, but blessings await you, if you position yourself right to receive what God has. If you are not positioned right, then you already know that judgment starts with us. So, if it starts with us, what will it be like when it comes forth for them, for the gentiles, for the sinful world? So, we could say a lot about this; and very difficult to say, since they are things that you and I know… You read them there and you read that God said through brother Branham that those cases would come up, the case of Ananias and Sapphira, and he is anxious for it to come; but knowing that Ananias and Sapphira were part of the group, then you realize then that there will be sadness. See? But it will be the beginning. The beginning of what? Of a new phase. I don’t know if you have noticed how it has been going from one phase to another. \[JBP\] Notice, what God is carrying out at this time in this half hour of silence, is: **“THE CLEANSING OF THE SANCTUARY.”** That has been our subject for this occasion, today: Thursday, October 10th of this year 2024. It has been a great blessing and privilege for me to be able to send these words of greeting to all of you gathered there in Guatemala. May God bless you and keep you all. “**THE CLEANSING OF THE SANCTUARY.”**