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This Bible is printed in commemoration of the 100 year anniversary of the birth of God’s prophet, William Marrion Branham and the 100 year anniversary of the Scofield Study Bible (originally printed in 1909). May your understanding of the words written within this Holy Book agree line for line, word for word, and dot for dot with the Message of the hour.

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THE STATUR E OF A PERFECT MAN 65

ENGLISH THE STATURE OF A PERFECT MAN 62-1014M P7 REV #: 6

SECOND PETER 1:1-8

ACTS 7:44-49, HEBREWS 10:5, MATTHEW 5:48

EPHESIANS 4:11-15, HEBREWS 11:32-40

This is a copy of the drawing that Brother Branham drew onhis chalkboard and to which he refers throughout this Message.

BROTHERLYKINDNESS

GODLINESS

PATIENCE

TEMPERANCE

KNOWLEDGE

VIRTUE

FAITH

THE STATURE OF A PERFECT MAN

CHURCH AGES JESUS MESSENGERS

ELIJAH

WESLEY

LUTHER

COLUMBA

MARTIN

IRENAEUS

PAUL

LAODICEA

PHILADELPHIA

SARDIS

THYATIRA

PERGAMOS

SMYRNA

EPHESUS

LOVE

HOLY SPIRIT

the Stature of a Perfect Man

PAUL

EPHESUS53 - 170

IRENAEUS

SMYRNA170 - 312

MARTIN

PERGAM.312 - 606

COLUMBA

THYATIRA606 - 1520

LUTHER

SARDIS1520 - 1750

WESLEY

PHIL.1750 - 1906

BRANHAM

LAODICEA1906 -

the Seven church ageS

Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and to the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you. That types our Millennium.

Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall you diminish ought of it, Don't add one thing to It, and don't take one thing away from It. Stay, just say what It says! that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

Your eyes have seen what the LORD did…to Baal-peor: for all the men that followed Baal peor, the LORD thy God has destroyed them from among you. Now you're a separated people, out of them denominations. Uh-huh. See?

But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God, ye are alive every one of you this day. Ye never died with your denomination. You're alive now, and in the Presence of God.

Close, don't miss it. 25th verse, now, when they're going into the land, now watch what happened.

And when thou shall beget children, and children's children, and you…have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, that's what happened, and make…graven images, something else, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger: Listen!

I call heavens and earth to witness against you this day, see, that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land, or the place, where you go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but ye shall utterly be destroyed.

This was Moses speaking to Israel, after he had been a vindicated by God, by a Pillar of Fire, and knowed he was proven to be God's servant to lead them out. And before they went into the land, before they entered, Moses said, "Now, the words that I have spoken to you, I call heaven and earth to witness against you. If you add one thing to It, or take one Word from It, you'll not stay in the land where the Lord God gives you."

So say I, in the Name of Jesus Christ! Don't you add one thing. Don't take, put your own ideas in It. You just say what is said on those tapes. You just do exactly what the Lord God has commanded to do. Don't add to It.

65-0718M Trying To Do God A Service Without Being The Will Of God

So Say I, In The name of

JeSuS ChrIST

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THE GODHEAD

Exodus 20:3-5 3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: 5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

Deuteronomy 4:35Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him.

Deuteronomy 6:4Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:

Isaiah 7:14Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. [“Immanuel” means “God with us.”]

Isaiah 9:6For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

Hosea 13:4Yet I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for there is no saviour beside me.

Zechariah 14:9And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.

Matthew 1:18Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. [Was the Holy Ghost Jesus’ Father, or was God His Father?]

Matthew 28:19Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: [What is the Father’s Name? Son’s Name? Holy Ghost’s Name?]

John 1:1 and 1:141 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God… 14 …And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

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John 5:43I am come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.[If He comes in His Father’s Name, then what is His Name?]

John 10:30I and my Father are one.

John 12:45And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me.

John 14:8-98 Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. 9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?

John 20:27-2827 Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.28 And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.

Acts 20:28Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

Ephesians 4:5One Lord, one faith, one baptism,

Colossians 1:12-20 12 Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: 13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: 14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: 15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: 16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: 17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. 19 For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell; 20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.

Colossians 2:8-108 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition

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of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. 9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. 10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:

I Timothy 3:16And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

Hebrews 1:3Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

I John 5:7For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

WATER BAPTISM

Matthew 28:19Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: [What is the Father’s Name? Son’s Name? Holy Ghost’s Name?]

Mark 16:16He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

Acts 2:38-3938 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

Acts 4:12Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

Acts 8:12But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

Acts 19:3-63 And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John’s baptism. 4 Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.

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5 When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 6 And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.

Ephesians 4:5One Lord, one faith, one baptism,

Colossians 3:17And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

HEALING

Psalm 103:2-32 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;

Isaiah 53:5But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

Mark 16:17-1817 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; 18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

Luke 17:6And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.

John 14:12-1412 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.

I Thessalonians 1:5For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.

Hebrews 2:3-43 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him; 4 God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?

Hebrews 13:8Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.

James 5:15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.

I Peter 2:24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

THE SPIRIT OF ELIJAH

II Kings 2:15And when the sons of the prophets which were to view at Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha. And they came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.

Isaiah 40:3-43 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: [John the Baptist]

Malachi 3:1Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me [John the Baptist]: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.

Malachi 4:1-61 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven [hasn’t happened yet]; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.3 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts.4 Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children [John the Baptist], and the heart of the children to their fathers [Modern Elijah], lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

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Matthew 11:10For this is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.[Malachi 3:1, John the Baptist]

Matthew 11:14And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come.[John the Baptist]

Matthew 17:11-1211 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things. [“shall” is future tense, Modern Elijah]12 But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them. [John the Baptist]

Luke 1:17And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord. [John the Baptist]

Revelation 11:6These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy [Spirit of Elijah]: and have power over waters to turn them to blood [Spirit of Moses], and to smite the earth with all plagues [Spirit of Moses], as often as they will.

MODESTY

Deuteronomy 22:5The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.

Isaiah 3:16Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:

Matthew 5:28But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

I Timothy 2:9-129 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; 10 But (which becometh women professing godliness ) with good works. 11 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.

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12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

LONG HAIR

I Corinthians 11:3-153 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God. 4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head. 5 But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven. 6 For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered. 7 For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. 8 For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. 9 Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man. 10 For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels. 11 Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord. 12 For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God. 13 Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered? 14 Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him? 15 But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.

MAKEUP

II Kings 9:30 And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window.

II Kings 9:36 Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This is the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel:

SERPENT SEED

Genesis 3:6-76 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did

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eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.[How would they know this from eating a piece of fruit?]

Genesis 3:13-1513 And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.[The serpent had a seed. Obviously, this is not talking about a snake.]

Genesis 3:20 And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.[Why is Adam not called the father of all living?]

Genesis 4:1-21 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.2 And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.[All life comes from God, whether conceived legitimately or illegitimately. Satan cannot create life.]

Genesis 4:25And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.[What about Cain?]

Luke 3:38Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God. [Where is the first-born Cain in the lineage of Adam?]

I John 3:12Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.[God created Adam in His own image. Where did the wickedness of Cain come from, and where did the righteousness of Abel come from? Their attributes came from their fathers.]

Jude 1:14And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,[Nowhere in the Bible is Cain listed in the lineage of Adam.]

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