New heaven. New Earth.

William Branham.

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Birth Pains.

Now, I want to--to speak this afternoon upon a subject that I announced: "Birth Pains." Now, that sounds very bad, but it's in the Bible. I believe that Jesus here was speaking of, as He said, "You will have sorrow, but your sorrow shall be turned to joy," speaking to His disciples here, knowing that the birth of the--of Christianity was coming into existence. And now, the old has to die in order that the new is born. To have... Anything that gives birth has to have pains of distress, and they certainly was going to go through the pain of distress and anguish to get from the law unto grace. Normal natural birth types the spiritual birth. All things of the natural is types of the spiritual. And we find out if we look out here on the--on the ground and see a tree in the earth growing, it's struggling for life. That goes to show that there is a tree somewhere that doesn't die, because it's a--it's crying out for something. We find people, no matter how old, how sick, what condition, they're crying out to live because it shows there is a life somewhere where we live--live forever. Notice, how perfect.

Now, in I John 5:7 (I believe it is, if I'm not mistaken), it said, "There are three that bear record in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost; these three are One. There are three that bear record in earth; that's the water, Blood, and Spirit, and they agree in one." Now, notice, the first three are one; the second three are earthly which agree in one. Cannot have the Father without the Son; you cannot have the Son without having the Holy Ghost. But you can have the water without the Blood and the Blood without the Spirit. I think through our ages has proved this to be true. Water, Blood, Spirit: justification, sanctification, the baptism of the Holy Spirit. That types or makes the--or the antetype which takes away from the natural birth. Look when a--a woman or anything in travail for birth, the first thing comes to pass: the breaking of the water (a normal birth); second thing is the blood; and then comes the life: water, blood, spirit. And that constitutes the normal, natural birth.

And so is it in the spiritual realm. It's water: justification by faith, believing on God, receiving Him as your personal Saviour, and being baptized; second is sanctification of the Spirit, that God cleanses the spirit from all elements of the world and the desire of the world; and then the Holy Spirit comes in and gives new birth and fills up that sanctified vessel. For instance like this: now, that... I told you what you don't believe lay aside and then take the pie. Notice. Now, a glass is laying out in the chicken yard. You don't just pick that up and put it on your table and fill it up with water or milk. No. By picking it up is justification. Cleansing it is sanctification, 'cause the Greek word "sanctify' is a compound word which means "cleansed and set aside for service (not in service; for service)." Then when you fill it, it is put in service.

Excuse this now (not to hurt); there's where you Pilgrim Holiness, Nazarenes failed to walk on up into Pentecost. You was cleansed by sanctification, but when you were ready to put in service by the gifts of speaking in tongues and other things, you turned it down, dropped back out in the pen again. See? Now, that's -- that's what happens; it always does that. Now, not to criticize you now but just--I want to get this off my heart. And that's been burning me ever since I been here, so I might as well just -- if Carl's grace and Demos' and them and your all's, I -- I'll try my best to deliver my soul from it (See?); then it's up to you. Normal typing the spiritual. Now, we find out then that it's fully born... When the baby... Usually now when the water breaks, you don't have to do very much about it. And when the blood comes, you don't have to do much about it. But in order to get life in the baby, you've got to give him a spanking and make him yell out. And that's a... Now, without education, as my brethren here are so well trained to it (theirs), but I have to take nature to type it. And there you are. That's what happened; it taken a real spanking to get this to them.

Now, you take a little -- some kind of a shock. Maybe you wouldn't have to spank him, but just shock him a little. The very idea of him being born sometimes will do it. Grab him; shake him. If he don't start breathing, spank him a little, and then he yells out in unknown tongues to himself, I guess. But see he... Anyhow he's--he's making a noise. And I think if a baby is born just by--by stillbirth with no sound, no emotion; that's a dead baby. That's what's the matter with the church today, the system; we got too many stillborn children. That's right. They need a Gospel spanking (You see?), and so--to wake them up, to bring them to themselves so--so that God can breathe the Breath of Life into them. And now we find that that's so true. It's crude theology, but it's the Truth anyhow.

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We are told by God's prophets that we are to have a new earth -- a new heavens and a new earth. If you want Scripture for that, it's Revelations 21. I could quote it for you. I have it here. John said: I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and... first earth was passed away... It was gone. Now, if we're to have a new earth, the old earth and the new earth cannot exist at the same time--or the new world and the old world cannot exist at the same time. There can't be two world orders together at the same time. Now, in order to get the new earth, the old one has to die. Now, if the old one has to die, then it's giving birth pains for a new one now.

And then if a doctor went to examine a patient that was in labor, now the--one of the things that doctor would do--which I'm talking in the presence of two or three, I know of, good medical doctors here, Christian doctors. And I--I--I would ask you this. One of the first things that doctor does after he's been watching the patient is to time the pains--birth pains. He times the pains, how close they are together and how much more terrific each one gets. One is more harder to have than the other one; next one, still harder: get closer together. That's the way he diagnoses the case: by the birth pains. Well, if the world has to give away to the birth of a new world, let's just examine some of the birth pains we're having on the earth. And then we'll see about what day and just about how far she is along in her labor.

The First World War showed great pain--birth pains. It showed one of the first birth pains of her going into labor, because of that time for her we had brought forth the bombs, and we had machine guns and poison gas. And you remember--maybe many of you cannot. I was just a little boy of about eight years old, but I remember them speaking of this mustard and chlorine gas and so forth, how it just look like it'd just get started and they said it would burn up the whole earth. It'd kill everybody. Well, it might be a breaking of that, just winds blowing across the earth, and how everybody was scared to death of that great weapon of poison gas. The earth went through--had its first birth pain. And we find out now we've had a second war, World War. And her pains was much greater, more terrific all the time, the birth pains of the earth. She almost had to give away during the time of the atomic bomb because it would destroy a whole city. It was much greater than the pains of the First World War of destruction to the earth.

Now, she knows that her time of deliverance is at hand. That's the reason she's so nervous, flusterated as she is -- is because that there is a hydrogen bomb and missiles of the air that could destroy the whole world. One nation'd scare the other, no matter how little it is. They've got those missiles that they claim will -- just one of them, they can direct them by the stars and drop them anywhere in the world they want to. Russia, as I heard on the news the other day, she claims that she can destroy this nation and--and keep the atoms or the things from breaking up her nation. We don't know what to do about it. Everyone's making these claims, and it's so. People has... Science has broke into God's great laboratory until they're going to destroy themselves. God lets -- always lets wisdom destroy himself. God doesn't destroy anything. Man destroys himself by wisdom as he did at the beginning, taking Satan's wisdom and -- instead of God's Word.

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So she knows she can't stand it. The people know she can't stand it, and the world knows that they're going to--it's going to happen, for God said it was. The whole heavens and earth is going to be on fire. It's going to be a renovation of the whole thing so a new world can be born. God has prophesied it. She's rotten in all of her systems and she's got to do that to rot away. That's why she--I said she's so nervous and red in the face and flusterated, and earthquakes everywhere and up and down the coast and tidal waves in Alaska and shaking up and down the coast with earthquakes and things and people writing, "Shall we leave it? Shall we leave it?" See, they don't know what to do. There's no safety zone but One; that's Christ, the Son of the living God. And there's only one thing that is the safety zone, and that's Him; all outside of there will perish just as certain as God said so.

Now, let's look at the Doctor's Book (if she is in this kind of condition) and see if this is supposed to happen when the new earth is to be born: Matthew 24 in the Doctor's Book (which is the Bible), and let's see what's prophesied, what her symptoms would be. Now, if a doctor knows the symptoms of birth of a child... And just about time the child's to come, he gets everything ready because he knows that that is the--the time the child's to be born because all symptoms show. The--the water's broke, the blood, and now the--it's time the child's dropped; it's--it's time for the child to be born. And so he gets everything ready for it. Now, Jesus told us just exactly what would take place just at this time. He told us in Matthew 24 that the church (true church) and the other church would be (church natural, church spiritual) would be so close together (impersonators) until it would deceive the very elected if it was possible. How that it was in the days of Noah; how they was eating, drinking, marrying, giving in marriage, and all this immorality of the world that we see today; the Bible, the Book (the Doctor's Book) said it would happen. So when we see this happening we know that the birth is at hand. Got to be. Yes, sir.

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This church is going through a birth pain. Won't you make your choice now in His Presence? I've showed you exactly the Word, what He said He would do. Combing through this building, ask anyone that's ever been struck, or talked or--to, or whatever it was, and see if I ever seen them, knowed them, or anything about them. You think a man could do that? That's totally impossible for that to happen. But what is it? The Son of man. "The Word of God is sharper than a two-edged sword, discerning of the spirit, the secrets of the heart." Just exactly like It was when It was made flesh here on earth in the Son of God, now it's being revealed by the Son of God as He's come to call a Bride out of that system. "Come out of it. Be separated." saith God. Touch not their unclean things, and God will receive you. Are you ready to surrender your whole life to God? If you are, stand up to your feet and say, "I will by God's grace accept it right now for everything that's in me."

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Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.

A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.

John 16:20-21