Idioms

A Crow to pick with him

  1. I've got something to straighten out with him; we've got to talk things over. (spoken in a friendly way in this case).

    INDICTMENT.THE_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-19 SUNDAY_ 63-0707
    I see this morning my good friend, Dr. Lee Vayle and his wife. I recognized Sister Vayle there first, and I kept looking around to see where Brother Lee was. And I've got a, (what is the old southern expression), "a crow to pick with him."

A fighting chance 7

  1. Not necessarily able to succeed, but at least having the capability to try reasonably; a slight but real chance of succeeding or avoiding something.

    TESTIMONY.ON.THE.SEA. - DALLAS.TX V-19 N-11 64-0307 076
    I saw his doctor, a young Jew, or a middle-aged man, Jewish man. And I said, "What about him, doctor?" Said, "He hasn't even got a fighting chance." Said, "He's under the oxygen tent," said, "he'll die right there." He said, "You remember, he's ninety-one years old."

A lot of miles

  1. a lot of years of age.

    I.HAVE.HEARD.BUT.NOW.I.SEE_ SHREVEPORT.LA V-7 N-3 SATURDAY_65-1127E 31
    And now, these are two services each day. You know, when you got a lot of miles, you can tell it.

A.D./B.C. 3

  1. A.D. is the abbreviation for the Latin anno Domini, "in the year of the Lord". It refers to dates in the Christian era and should precede the date (A.D. 2000). B.C. is the abbreviation for "before Christ" and indicates time in the pre- Christian era. It customarily follows the date (44 B.C.)

    WHAT.SHALL.WE.DO.WITH.JESUS. - PHOENIX.AZ V-22 N-4 64-0126 51 023
    The whole nation had to be brought into judgment. Because it happened about AD 70, when the great Roman general Titus besieged Jerusalem, about AD 70, with his army from Rome, and there they paid the price for rejecting Him.

About face 14

  1. A sudden change of course or a decision opposite to what was decided earlier.

    WAY.OF.A.TRUE.PROPHET. - JEFF.IN V-3 N-14 62-0513M 44-1 129
    There ain't but one thing: come right back where it left off and go again; come back onto the Word. That's right. "Repent" means "to go--turn back, about face"; you're going the wrong way. All right.

  2. A military term for marching when the marcher does an instant 180 degree turn and continues marching in the opposite direction

About right 2

  1. Nearly right.

    BELIEVEST.THOU.THIS? - MINNEAPOLIS .MN SUNDAY_ 50-0716 E-51
    When John was born... We kind of believe that he was about eight years old or nine; he was taken into the wilderness, not to the theological cemeteries, or seminary. It's all about the same thing. That's about right.

Above board 18

  1. honest

    WHAT.HEAREST.THOU.ELIJAH - CHICAGO.IL TUESDAY_ 59-0609 E-46
    You see, sometimes you act like it's the truth when it's still a lie. God don't want us to lie, or tell little white lies, or dodge around the corner. Everything's got to be right out and above board.

Abstract 10

  1. a brief history of the ownership of a piece of real estate.

    BREACH.THE_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0317E 86-4 {117}
    What is this Book of Redemption, this title deed, abstract title deed? You say, "Abstract?" What does an "abstract" mean? It means "it's searched all the way back to its beginning." Like that little drop of ink this morning, when it struck that bleach, it went all the way back. And when sin has been confessed and fallen into the Blood of Jesus Christ, oh, my, it gives an abstract right straight back to the Creator again, and you become a son of God. Abstract title deed is held in the hand of the Almighty.

A-carrion

  1. see Carrion

    GOD.HIDING.HIMSELF.IN.SIMPLICITY_ ALBQ.NM FRIDAY_ 63-0412E E-79
    Don't be a vulture eating the dead carcasses of the old a-carrion of the earth. Feed on the heavenly things, the Word of God."

Acid test, The 4

  1. The ultimate, most severe test that proves the ability, truth, worth etc. of someone.

    BELIEVE.FROM.THE.HEART. - JEFF.IN 57-0623 E-23 023
    God takes His children and tests them with an acid test. Then He places them into the Body of Christ because they are tested.

Acifidity Bag 1

  1. A small cloth bag containing a mixture of chopped roots and sometimes spices. Worn on a string around the neck, supposedly to ward of flu type viruses and colds; having an extremely strong and disagreeable smell.

    HAVING.CONFERENCES_ CHAUTAUQUA.OH WEDNESDAY_ 60-0608
    Said, "I bet you, you don't know what acifidity is?" I said, "Don't you tell me I don't. I packed a wad of it around my neck in school till No one set next to me even.

Acoustics 24

  1. the sound producing qualities of an auditorium or room.

    GOD.IN.SIMPLICITY_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0317 2-6 {12}
    Another brother who's here (I never met the man), he put in the sound system. But noticing even in a flat building like this, there's no rebound to the acoustics; they're in the ceilings here--different ways. No matter where I stand, it's just the same. See? And every room is constructed that the speakers are in them. And you can make it any way you wish to hear."

Act of faith 14

  1. an act or a deed that shows unquestioning belief in someone or something.

    HEAR.YE.HIM. - CHATTANOOGA.TN 58-0301E E-17 01
    Divine healing is an act of faith in the finished work of Calvary. That's just as purely the Gospel as I know how to place it. It's a finished work that Christ died for at Calvary.

Act smart

  1. acting in an offensive, conceited manner

    WHEN.THEIR.EYES.WERE.OPENED_ TULARE.CA V-22 N-10 WEDNESDAY_ 64-0212 92 ...
    She couldn't understand how this Man was getting smart with her. She said, about giving her a drink... She said... Or bringing Him a drink, and trying to act smart.

Alabaster 24

  1. A variety of marble, pure white or delicately tinted and translucent; found in Egypt and used to make jars, vases and urns etc.

    JESUS.KEEPS.ALL.OF.HIS.APPOINTMENTS_ TAMPA.FL SATURDAY_ 64-0418E E-16
    Now, in the 7th chapter of St. Luke and the 36th verse: ... one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to meat. And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment ... .

All at once 7

  1. 1. In unison; together; at the same time. 2. All of a sudden; instantly.

    Luke 23:18
    And they cried out all at once, saying, Away with this man, and release unto us Barabbas.

    EXPECTATION_ BINGHAMTON.NY MONDAY_ 54-1206
    Sons of God are led by the Spirit of God. I can see Simeon setting back there reading the scroll. All at once, the Holy Spirit come, said, "Simeon."

All drawed up 10

  1. physically disabled; not having free movement of one's body.

    QA.ON.THE.HOLY.GHOST_JEFF.IN COD SATURDAY 59-1219
    And the Holy Spirit spoke back and said, "Hattie, ask anything that you will, whatever you got and you want. Find out whether this is real or not. Ask anything (the healing of her little crippled sister setting there all drawed up;

All for it 17

  1. to be entirely in favour of it; hence, over-keen.

    EXPLAINING.HEALING.AND.JAIRUS_ WOOD.RIVER.IL TUESDAY_ 54-0216 E-19
    Anything that God will bless, we're all for it, aren't we?

All of a sudden 14

  1. In a flash, a twinkling of an eye: immediately.

    TESTIMONY.AND.INSIDE.LIFE. - CLEVELAND.OH 50-0823 E-11 011
    Well, while I was walking with him, all of a sudden, Something just came right down over me, and I realized I was in a different part of the city. I knew. I could hear Mister Bowman talking, but I knew I wasn't with him, I was somewhere else.

All over the place 7

  1. Everywhere.

    THY.SEED.SHALL.POSSESS.GATE. - PHOENIX.AZ 62-0121M E-70 070
    You are sealed and marked by the Holy Ghost. You're not in the dance halls tonight and hugged up in some man's arms that's not your husband the next night, and come back to church and dance all over the place. That's not Pentecostal. That's hypocrisy. That's filth.

All sails and no anchor

  1. all talk; all emotion but no stability.

    UNCERTAIN.SOUND_ CHICAGO.IL SATURDAY_ 61-0429E E-29
    It was first brought out about democracy. One of the lords of England said, "It's all sails and no anchor."

All that stuff 10

  1. all those extra things

    MINISTRY.OF.CHRIST_ CONNERSVILLE.IN SUNDAY_ 53-0607A
    All that stuff, put on. There's nothing to it. It's nonsense.

All wet

  1. totally wrong; an expression of disbelief in what a person says.

    POSSESSING THE ENEMY'S GATES. - JEFF.IN V-11 N-6R 59-1108M, Pg. 5 para. 26
    And you're all wet, anyhow. Your religion is no more than anybody else's”

All wind up in 10

  1. to come to a conclusion; to close; to end.

    LAODICEAN.CHURCH.AGE JEFF.IN SUNDAY 60-1211E
    44 But the Lord showed me a vision of the great powerful woman, in '33, 1933, it's on paper. Of how that Roosevelt would cause... He helped cause the world to go to war. How that Mussolini would make his first invasion to Ethiopia, and he would take it, but he'd come to a disgraceful end. And how that then the three isms (Nazism, Fascism, and Communism) would all wind up in Communism.

All wool and a yard wide 17

  1. Utterly good and honest (person).

    SMYRNAEAN.CHURCH.AGE_ JEFF.IN ROJC 185-227 TUESDAY_ 60-1206 100
    And, brother, they were as honest and all wool and a yard wide. They absolutely were genuine; you could trust them anywhere.

Allow 7

  1. 1.to permit; 2. to attribute something to.

    BELIEVEST.THOU.THIS?_ HOUSTON.TX SUNDAY_ 50-0115
    1. It's a shame the way that Christian women dress and allow their young girls to dress out on the streets.

    BELIEVING.GOD_ JEFF.IN V-19 N-7 SUNDAY_ 52-0224
    2. "You know what I allow my success to?" Somebody pass by and if I don't raise my head, why, just forgive me, just allow it to my ignorance.

    SPEAK.TO.THIS.ROCK_ OWENSBORO.KY SUNDAY_ 53-1115
    2. Somebody pass by and if I don't raise my head, why, just forgive me, just allow it to my ignorance.

Allowance your children 10

  1. To give a fixed daily allowance or "ration" of food.

    QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS JEFF.IN COD _ 61-0112
    520-57 "I'll allowance my children at the table if you'll only build a tabernacle."

Ameba or Amoeba

  1. a microscopic, one-celled animal found in stagnant water or as a parasite in other animals; feeds by engulfing bits of food and multiplies by fission.

    A.PARADOX_ PHOENIX.AZ SUNDAY_ 62-0128A
    And then, old greasy tortillas somewhere made out of [ameba] lettuce, and things they'd throwed away, ...

    EARLY.SPIRITUAL.EXPERIENCES_ HAMMOND.IN SUNDAY_ 52-0713A
    African ameba. It's not a bacteria; it's a parasite, like little barnacles that gets into the intestinal tract, and comes from the Indians. And they stick right in there and suck the blood, or the mucus out of the tracts, until they bury themself. There's no medicine can touch them hardly. They haven't got a treatment, hardly...

And he just carried the thing everyway

  1. He had done all he could do. He had said all that he could say.

    ACCEPTING.GOD'S.PROVIDED.WAY_ PHOENIX.AZ TUESDAY_ 63-0115 E-84
    Elijah, after he had condemned bobbed hair and painted faces for all of his life of that Jezebel, the first woman, her and the renowned president of that time, who put a poor example before the people and got them all carried off. And actually, he thought he was the only one preaching that. And he just carried the thing every way. And he'd done so much he was getting tired, and he wanted to go home.

Annex 10

  1. a near-by building used as an addition to the main building.

    HE.CARES.DO.YOU.CARE?_ JEFF.IN V-12 N-4 SUNDAY_ 63-0721
    They brought also social life, their social life in the church, their social activities, bingo, or bunco, or ever what they call it, and these suppers and dances, and so forth, in the house of the Lord. Why,it's a pity. They say, "Well, now, that isn't, that's on the annex." Remember, it was the annex also that Jesus beat the merchants out with their merchandise, and said, "It's written, 'My Father's house is made a house of prayer,' and you have made it a den of thieves." See? It's wrong,

Armistice/Armistice Day 24

  1. November 11th; anniversary of that date in 1918 when the Allies granted an armistice (a mutual agreement to cease war, a truce) to the Central Powers in World War 1.

    DEDICATION_ ELIZABETHTOWN.KY SUNDAY_ 62-1111M E-5
    As I come in the door, I heard Brother Beeler offering prayer, and was thinking of him being a veteran, and this being Armistice Day. And of course, we're all glad that there was an Armistice Day. And there can also be an Armistice Day here in the church, that when people who have been at war with themselves against God can sign the armistice today, have peace with God through Jesus Christ. I believe Romans 5:1 said, "Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

As cool as a cucumber 4

  1. as calm and controlled as one could be at a time of upset, difficulty or danger.

    HOW.THE.ANGEL.CAME.TO.ME - CHICAGO.IL, FOOTPRINT.BOOK 55-0117 83-9 078
    He was just as cool as a cucumber; he knew where he was standing. So then he just sat down there with that Scripture.

As plain as the nose on your/my face 4

  1. so obvious that one can't miss it; not to be overlooked; easy to guess; very evident.

    MARK.OF.THE.BEAST. - LONG.BEACH.CA 61-0217 E-38 038
    So you can't say, "I'm a Methodist, or Baptist, or Pentecostal, or anything else; you've got to be of Christ. And if you're of Christ, you do the works of Christ. That bears record and proves that it is. It's just as clear as the Scripture, I know how to say it. That's just as plain as the nose on this big face, or big nose on this face of mine, rather. That's right.

As true/sure as I'm standing here 4

  1. without a doubt; for certain; the truth. It's used to emphasize that something is certain or true without any doubt.

    LAMB.AND.THE.DOVE. - LA.CA 56-0917 E-14 014
    Just get rid of that wolf spirit or that scavenger spirit and get a lamb nature, and you're ready to forfeit all the things that you once did, all your worldly privileges and so forth. Amen. That's as true as I'm standing here, Christian friends. Humble yourselves. Don't try to know it all. See how much you can forget of what you do know is the best thing. Only know one thing and that's Christ.

At a standstill 4

  1. not moving at all, at a halt.

    BLIND.BARTIMAEUS. - LA.CA 59-0408 E-10 010
    One that he liked so well, was to think that when just down at the bottom of the hill at the ford, there was where that the Jehovah God rolled back the Jordan and held it at a standstill, until the mighty Joshua and the marching army of Israel crossed over. He loved those stories of the power of God.

At ease 4

  1. relaxed; comfortable in one's surroundings or situations.

    EXPECTATIONS.LEADINGS.OF.SPIRIT. - EDMONTON.AB 57-0811E E-24 024
    As far as we know, there with John the Baptist, Simeon at the temple, Anna the blind prophetess, just a little handful that was looking and waiting. But they had all settled down and got pretty good jobs as tax collectors and so forth, and were at ease. And for four thousand years the Church had been looking for the promised Messiah.

At every turn 4

  1. at every opportunity; always and everywhere; whatever one does.

    RESURRECTION.OF.LAZARUS. - CLEVELAND.OH 50-0813A E-52 052
    At every turn, I want to invite you to Jesus, to know that you can live forever. Will you come?

At face value 4,9

  1. just as it says; as it is written; the value printed or written on a note; as things appear to be on the surface.

    EXPECTATIONS. - RICHMOND.VA 61-0308 E-32 032
    Well now, anybody that really takes God's Word at face value is considered a little off at the head. It's so supernatural, the natural world doesn't know nothing about it. It's foolish to the carnal mind. So you'll never understand it.

At first sight 4

  1. when seen/considered for the first time.

    WHY.ARE.WE.NOT.A.DENOMINATION?. - JEFF.IN V-11 N-7 58-0927 40 030
    Isaac had come out from his father's house, and was out in the field when he saw Rebekah coming on the camel. And she loved him at first sight, and jumped off the camel, and ran to meet him. That's right. That's where we meet the Lord. And the very camel that she watered, packed her to her husband. And the very power that the church is worshipping, that the world's calling fanaticism, that the church is worshipping, will be the same power that'll take the church up in the air to meet the Lord in the air: the Holy Spirit.

At hand 4

  1. is about to happen/on the verge of happening; near; close by.

    I PETER 4:7
    But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.

    AS.EAGLE.STIRRETH. - TULSA.OK V-2 N-12 60-0403 31-6 095
    Lord,You know my purpose of being here, and I pray that You'll let them see, if they never again, let them know that the coming of the Lord is at hand.

At heart 4

  1. basically, as one really is by nature.

    WE.HAVE.FOUND.HIM. - NEW.YORK.NY 54-0825 E-7 007
    See, there's nothing in a man could heal you anyhow. I'm just your brother. If there's any way that I could heal someone and would not do it, I'd be a brute at heart, to see little suffering children and people with heart rouble, and cancer, such things that would kill them right away.

At his throat 10

  1. criticizing: to criticize a person

    GOD.IN.SIMPLICITY_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0317M 35-2 {216}
    Now, you see, while it was in the simple way and everybody was against him, everybody was at his throat... All the ministerial association and everything else was at his throat (That's true.), trying to get rid of him, everything else.

At large 4,9

  1. free; not confined; (a prisoner) escaped and still free: be like a wanted criminal in hiding: escaped and looking for a place to hide.

    GOD.PROVIDING.HEALING. - CHICAGO.IL 54-0719E E-36 036
    And let me say another thing, if you are an unbeliever or a skeptic, I would advise you not to stay in the meeting, because let it be known unto you that diseases goes from one to another. Many's been in the meetings know that that's Scripturally, and it does do it, from one to another. So I wouldn't stay where evil spirits will be at large. I do not say that to scare you. I say that because I love you. Even though you may be an unbeliever or skeptic, that don't keep me from loving you.

  2. In general; taken altogether.

    HE.CARES.DO.YOU.CARE?. - JEFF.IN V-12 N-4 63-0721 110 069
    Now, let's take a second look at education and see what it's done. See? Now, we have two churches at large.

  3. Fully, in great detail.

    HE.CARES.DO.YOU.CARE?. - JEFF.IN V-12 N-4 63-0721 51 033
    I could speak at large on this, but I won't. I'm sure you'll understand what I mean.

At odds 4,9

  1. disagreeing; quarreling.

    ENTOMBMENT. - JEFF.IN ER 55-72 57-0420 128 054
    It's up to you, you remember. You are the one. Are you a sinner? Are you a backslider? Are you cold and away from Christ? Do you want to be raised anew with Him now, start life anew? How about you, husband and wife that's been at odds for a long time, fussing in your home? Won't you come and straighten that thing up with God and each other now? Make Easter really an Easter for you; start a new home.

At once 14

  1. Right away; without delay; right now or right then; immediately. (Remark: it is possible that in some cases it could mean "to do something together---in unison").

    NUMBERS 13:30
    And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.

    LIFE.STORY. - LITTLE.ROCK.AR 50-0200 E-57 057
    But just to show you, the way of a transgressor's hard. I never will forget. I was trying to work to get the bill paid off. One day I was out, and I heard a call come say, "If you want to see your wife alive, come at once."

At random 4

  1. haphazardly, without a deliberate choice or intention; as one wills or chooses

    WHEN.THEIR.EYES.WERE.OPENED. - SPINDALE.NC 56-0420 E-16 016
    Now, you Bible scholars, you who have been looking for a superman to come, that does things just at random, he will go out and whatever he wants to do, he does it. That never was in the Bible.

At stake 9

  1. being risked or hazarded, or dependent upon the outcome (of something specified or implied); the subject is on the verge of being lost or forfeited; it is in danger.

    AS.THE.EAGLE.STIRS.HER.NEST. - HARRISONBURG.VA 58-0316A E-57 057
    My mama use to say, "You can't get blood from a turnip." And that's true. I don't say that for a joke. This is no joking place. This is the Word. Souls are at stake. I say that to make it a point, to drive it home to you in a simple way, so you'll understand it.

At the drop of a hat 2

  1. Without advance preparation; immediately.

    INFALLIBLE.WORD.OF.GOD. - CHICAGO.IL 56-0406 E-48 048
    That old fellow that would've shot you at the drop of your hat, yes, sir, would give the last drop of blood he's got for you now.

At the end of one's wit 4

  1. one has exhausted every possibility, don't know what to do next.

    PERFECT.STRENGTH. - JEFF.IN V-8 N-1 61-1119 311 126
    So they come up and said, "This is all we can muster up. We're at the end of our wits. We can't find another piece of bread nowhere; there's nobody.

At the helm 4

  1. in charge/command, as leader.

    YOU.MUST.BE.BORN.AGAIN. - JEFF.IN V-11 N-5 61-1231M 169 115
    If ye abide in Me and My Words abide in You... This grows you up into the stature of Christ, not some young lawyer beating, screaming, crying, tell you this, that, other, make a lot emotions; but somebody who's grown into the stature of Christ, through the years has seasoned out and proved, standing at the helm. "On Christ the solid Rock we stand, all other ground is sinking sand."

At the top of one's voice 7

  1. at the highest degree or pitch; very loudly.

    WE.WOULD.SEE.JESUS. - PHOENIX.AZ 57-0226 E-68 068
    Be real quiet. Watch. Of Course if you feel like giving Him praise, certainly do it. God is an object of worship, and God wants to be worshipped. I don't blame you. I worship Him. I scream Him praises at the top of my voice.

At the/a crossroads 4

  1. at a crisis; a turning point where a decision has to be made.

    UNWELCOMED.CHRIST. - JEFF.IN V-26 N-20 55-0911 71
    And I desire, solely, for you to pray for me. I'm at the crossroads of my life, at this time. I have been coming up to this point for a long time. And I finally arrived, this place, where I must make a great decision right away. So you pray for me. Will you do it?

At/to/in a ripe old age 7

  1. fully prepared; mature : ready; at/to a very old age.

    FAITH. - PRINCE.ALBERT.SK 56-0815 E-25 025
    And He met Abraham and He gave him the covenant. Now, not to, "Abraham, if you will do certain things, I'll do certain things." He said, "I have already (past tense. It's already settled.) I've already made the covenant with Abraham. I'm going to save you, and I'm going to bring you home with your fathers at a ripe old age, nothing you can do about it. I've already done it."

Attributes 10

  1. characteristics

    RISING.OF.THE.SUN_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-12 SUNDAY_ 65-0418M7.
    And on Easter morning then, in this dirt somewhere, laid our bodies at that time, for we are the dust of the earth; and in heaven there was a book of memory, and His attributes were in Him, knowing that because this Son of God raised, It would also raise to Life every son that was foreordained to this great time. He knew it would be, and what a more glorious sunrise that was than it was at the beginning, at time when it first dawn.

Audacity 24

  1. Boldness; daring; exhibiting a fearless spirit.

    QUEEN.OF.SHEBA_ BEAUMONT.TX THURSDAY_ 61-0119E E-44
    I admire that in the queen. Bless her little heart. I'll see her in the resurrection. And she wanted to find out whether it was true or not. Now, she had more audacity than many people around here, and other parts of the country does.

Aunt Jemima

  1. An affectionate name for an older black or coloured Mother

    GOD.HAS.A.PROVIDED.LAMB_ TOPEKA.KS V-20 N-5 SATURDAY_ 64-0620E
    And as I went along down the street, I looked, and there was an old typical Aunt Jemima leaning out over her little fence, and a little, colored house there, a little, whitewashed cabin like, leaning out over the fence. She had a man's shirt tied around her head.

Aunt Jemima pancakes

  1. A popular brand of pancake mix.

    WARNING.THEN.JUDGMENT_ JEFF.IN V-8 N-3 WEDNESDAY_ 63-0724
    Looked like one of these sisters on the Aunt Jemima pancakes:

Ax (or axe) to grind 3

  1. A private or selfish motive behind a request or action, something which is not obvious at first glance.

    GOD.KEEPS.HIS.WORD.2. - PHOENIX.AZ 57-0307 E-9 009
    So Ahab had an axe to grind. And usually, that's the way the world does. They have an axe to grind.

B.C. 10

  1. the abbreviation of British Columbia, a province of southwestern Canada. (See the other "B.C." under "A.D./B.C.")

    FELLOWSHIP.BY.REDEMPTION_ JEFF.IN V-26 N-17 SUNDAY_ 55-0403
    I was having meetings, where I'm to have again in a few days now, at Grande Prairie. And I was at Dawson Creek, British Columbia, and then down to Grande Prairie.

Babe in arms 7

  1. A very young baby not able to walk or crawl.

    PERGAMEAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK.CPT.5
    In Ezekiel 8:14 he was called Tammuz. Amongst classical writers he was called Bacchus. To the Babylonians he was Ninus. What accounts for the fact that he is represented as a babe in arms and yet described as a great and mighty man is that he is known as the "Husband-Son".

Baby grand 14

  1. A smaller version of a full-sized grand piano, approximately 1.53 metres deep. (approximately 5' deep.).

    AT.THY.WORD. - MINNEAPOLIS.MN 50-0714 E-19 019
    And there was a Nazarene girl playing the baby grand piano, setting right down. Nazarene people are a little emotion. Is any Nazarenes in here, let's see your hands. Surely there's some Nazarenes somewhere. That's fine. Well, they got enough religion to shout once in a while, you know.

Baby-sit 16

  1. To stay with a child or with children while the parents are away; to be responsible for a child or children in the absence of the parents.

    SIGN.OF.THE.TIME_ BANGOR.ME TUESDAY_ 58-0520 E-22
    So I can imagine he getting everything ready. He made it like a real modern telegraph. So he got up behind the palace, and he sent out the invitations. And all the young ladies and young mothers, they got somebody to baby-sit for them, because they were invited to this party. And all the soldiers were going to be there, and they were going have a great time, just like modern America.

Baccalaureate

  1. an address or sermon delivered to a graduating class.

    ODDBALL.THE_ PRESCOTT.AZ SUNDAY_ 64-0531
    My daughter graduates tonight, or it's just the (baccalaureate service tonight, and I have to hurry back.

Back alley 16

  1. a place of insignificance; any alley, street, or part of a cheap, disreputable section of a city or town; a slum area; a section of a city or town where vice abounds

    CRUELTY.OF.SIN_ JEFF.IN V-25 N-4 FRIDAY_ 53-0403 116
    "Well, I wish we could do this in our church, and that." Be satisfied. Hallelujah. I'd rather worship in a little, old room somewhere in a back alley, and have God in it, than in a cathedral with God not in it. That's right.

Back and forth 14

  1. Flip flop through something; from one extreme to the other; going from one side back to the other and back again, etc; backwards and forwards.

    ABSOLUTE.THE. - JEFF.IN V-3 N-18 62-1230M 13-4 037
    God's promises are always on condition. You must absolutely... No matter how fundamental you are with the promise, it's under conditions always. How we could stop here and wave through that Scripture back and forth for hours (See?), that the condition is what means something. You can be just as fundamental as you want to, but it's under conditions by the promise, predestination, and so forth.

Back away 14

  1. to shy away from something; to distance yourself from something; to act to avoid or lessen one's involvement in something; draw or turn back; retreat.

    HEAR.RECOGNIZE.ACT.ON.WORD. - JEFF.IN V-13 N-7 60-0221 159 073
    Like men do today, that start out with Jesus; and when they look over and see the Truth, they back away from it. They can't stand it.

Back number 4

  1. a person, company etc. that is no longer regarded as important, that no longer has influence or power; no longer of public interest or of personal interest to someone.

    SHEPHERD.OF.THE.SHEEPFOLD. - CHICAGO.IL 56-0403 E-45 045
    One time in New Albany, Indiana, when our late President Roosevelt was coming down to make a speech, and he came down by the train, and they stopped down at the river, I tell you, every place was filled up. And two or three of us preachers, little, what we call Holy Ghost preachers... I tell you, talking about a back number, we were! They wouldn't even let us get nowhere. So we had to stand way back up somewhere. But I thought, "Yeah, this is the day of man. But wait till the day of the Lord comes." Amen.

Backfire 10

  1. have an unexpected and unwelcome result.

    WHAT.SHALL.I.DO.WITH.JESUS_ JEFF.IN V-6 N-6 SUNDAY_ 63-1124M 209
    If we disbelieve It wilfully after the Truth has been presented to us, there will be no more mercy. No more mercy will be granted. Pastor, listening to this tape, what about it? Member of the church, listening to this tape, what about it? What are you going to do, if we disbelieve it wilfully? Can't wash it off your hands. You can't pass it on to the headquarters; it's going to backfire right back to you.

Backwash

  1. something or someone considered good for nothing or unwelcome.

    LIFE.STORY_ OWENSBORO.KY SUNDAY_ 53-1108A E-69
    That ain't nothing but a bunch of backwash out of other churches, just what other churches had kicked out.

Banister 24

  1. a bar resting on supports, as in a fence; a railing along a stairway.

    DOOR.IN.A.DOOR_ TUCSON.AZ SATURDAY_ 63-0223 E-79
    And we had one little room, and there was a loft. We had to go up a stairs like this, a banister made out of saplings.

    GOD.IN.SIMPLICITY_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0317M {68}
    How I wish that mama could've lived to walked in this sanctuary this morning. Many of the old- timers who placed their money to help build it here, maybe God this morning will let them look over the banister.

Barbecue 2

  1. An outdoor party that features meat with a spicy sauce cooked over an open fire. Also referred to as a "cookout".

    WE.WOULD.SEE.JESUS. - SANTA.MARIA.CA 62-0627 E-2 002
    Someone was telling me in the restaurant today, said, "Why, our hottest time of the year is around December." Said they were barbecuing something out in the backyard for Christmas.

Barking at (under) the wrong tree 10

  1. To be mistaken; be seeking in the wrong direction. (As a dog barking at a tree, supposing there is a racoon there when there is none).

    PARADOX.A_ PHOENIX.AZ SUNDAY_ 62-0128A
    He said, "I believe they're barking up the wrong tree." Now, anybody knows that a dog that you hunt with at night, and he barks the wrong tree, you're always fooled.

Battleford 24

  1. The name of a city in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada.

    INDICTMENT.THE_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-19 SUNDAY_ 63-0707M
    Now, we realize that the Scriptural way of ordaining a minister is laying on of hands. I think that's where our Latter Rain brethren, or the Battleford people, and so forth, got mixed up when they seen that laying on of hands to impart spiritual gifts.

Batty 18

  1. 1. Odd; foolish; careless and untidy dress; 2. appearing to be mentally unstable.

    BE.NOT.AFRAID. - LONG.BEACH.CA 61-0213 E-46 046
    The poison winds is sure blowing. It's got the church to a place, you can't tell Pentecostal people no more from anyone else. They all look just about alike. Go around, our women wearing batty old clothes, and a lot of our brethren go out there and you see them standing on the street telling jokes that, oh, drunken sailors wouldn't tell.

    MARK.OF.THE.BEAST_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 56-0715
    2. So much greater is this news then the old boundaries of slavery, the old marks of sin that caused you to be batty-eyed wretches by smoking cigarettes, alcoholics on the street with trembling; you don't have to go that way.

  2. mentally unstable; crazy

    MICAIAH.THE.PROPHET_ CHICAGO.IL WEDNESDAY_ 61-0426
    When I seen her come on the platform (excuse me, Sister Rosella) she was a batty-eyed, wretched- looking witch..

Bawl out, To 2

  1. to reprimand severely; to yell at someone

    WAY.TO.HAVE.FELLOWSHIP. - CHICAGO.IL 55-1009 E-33 033
    And when you separate from Divine love, then you can't overlook your brother's mistakes no more. You got to bawl him out for it.

Be a big boy/girl now 10

  1. be old enough to know better; be old or mature enough to be able to make one's own decisions.

    GREATER.WITNESS.THAN.JOHN. - MACON.GA 55-0609 E-14 014
    She said then, "You know, when my baby got to be a man," she said, "he's a big boy," she said, "he got out with the wrong company, parson."

Be a natural born something 10

  1. to be born with the ability to do something; someone who is suited by nature for a particular job or activity.

    GOD'S.PROVIDED.WAY.OF.DEALING.WITH.SIN. - PHOENIX.AZ 54-0305 E-5 005
    There's many fine things about the Indian that the white man doesn't have, and especially one thing, my favorite thing, in hunting and fishing. He's a natural born conservationist, the best in the world.

Be a nut,To 13

  1. to act crazy.

    ODDBALL.THE. - PRESCOTT.AZ 64-0531 E-17 017
    Why, to Pharaoh he was a nut--that's all. He was crazy. Said, "Let him do it, go ahead, rave on. He'll declare himself insane." Well now, really to Pharaoh, and his great scientific world, he was an oddball. He was a nut to them. You see? He was.

  2. A person or matter difficult to deal with; a problem.

Be a rat,To 13

  1. to be a bad person; someone who does mean things to other people; someone who reports something that someone else did and therefore breaks their trust; to be an informer. (Also, "to rat on someone").

    BELIEVE.YE.THAT.I.AM.ABLE.TO.DO.THIS. - CLEVELAND.OH 50-0820 E-21 021
    He said, "Brother, what must I do?" He looked at her, and he reached his hand out,and said, "Darling, I've been a rat. "If you forgive me, I'll forgive you. And we'll start life anew right here before God's people." She said, "I forgive you." And they put the little boy between them, and hugged one another, knelt down on the floor and give their hearts to God. And Reverend Richard T. Reed, of Jonesboro, Arkansas, baptized them in Christian faith. The next morning they were added to the church. That's the way the Lord works. Truly.

Be as easy as pie, To 13

  1. to be very easy.

    THINKING.MAN'S.FILTER. - JEFF.IN V-5 N-6 65-0822E 87 87 038
    Notice. But the woman who wants to have short hair,and wear shorts, or wear paint, and anything, she can go right through a Pentecostal filter just as easy as pie: nothing about it.

Be at the mercy of somebody/something 7

  1. to be completely dependent on and defenseless against the power, will, etc of somebody/something.

    FAITH.AFRICA.TRIP.REPORT. - ZION.IL 52-0725 E-21 021
    Well, Brother Baxter said, "now, Brother Branham, if it was in America, I'd have the jurisdiction and I would say, 'No!'" Said, "But we're over here at the mercy of these people. They don't understand."

Be beside oneself 10

  1. Be in a state of extreme agitation.

    UNCONDITIONAL.COVENANT. - PHOENIX.AZ 54-0306 E-96 096
    How do you do? Do you believe me to be His servant, with all your heart? You have an extreme nervous condition. Isn't that right? What it is, it's more like a mental nervousness. You get real gloomy. I see you beside yourself, almost, sometimes. Isn't that right?

  2. not aware of one's surroundings

    WHO.HATH.BELIEVED.OUR.REPORT_ HAMMOND.IN SUNDAY_ 52-0720E
    Excuse me, sometimes I get just a little bit, kinda beside myself, on account of the anointing.

Be down to earth 10

  1. be approachable; be free from pretensions, vanity, egotism; more real, without hypocrisy.

    WE.WOULD.SEE.JESUS. - LONG.BEACH.CA 61-0208 E-6 006
    The early Pentecostal church thirty or forty years back was in better condition for the coming of the Lord than they are right now. They really were right down-to-earth Christians, and they lived it. They believed it.

Be hand in glove with someone 4

  1. be in a partnership with someone; be very close with someone; be in close co-operation or relationship with someone; be working towards the same aim.

    THYATIREAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK.CPT.6 232-3
    Show me one church that ever came out of organization that didn't go right back into it. There isn't one. Not one. The Lutherans came out and then organized right back and today they are hand in glove with this ecumenical move. The Methodists came out and they organized right back. The Pentecostals came out and they organized right back. There is going to be another coming out, and praise God they won't organize back because they know the truth. That group will be the bride of the last day.

Be hotheaded,To 13

  1. to get angry very easily.

    QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS. - JEFF.IN COD 59-1223 486-75 047
    If there's one thing in my life that's helped me to understand that the Holy Spirit came into me down there that day, has been that. I was hotheaded, fiery, Irish on both sides. And I always could never eat hardly at all, my mouth was always mashed where somebody mashed it, jumping up where I shouldn't jump up. I've got some of my teeth broke out now and filled where I spoke where I oughtn't to have spoke (You see?) and said things... Always in trouble.

Be like looking for a needle in a haystack 4

  1. said when looking for something small or difficult to see in a large number of other things.

    INVASION.OF.THE.USA. - JEFF.IN V-26 N-1 54-0509 208 103
    It'd be as hard to find a virgin among some of them as it would be to find a needle in a haystack, where they have blanket dates with the boys, and stretch on these river banks and everywhere else.

Be man enough 7

  1. have enough courage (to do something).

    EARLY.SPIRITUAL.EXPERIENCES. - HAMMOND.IN 52-0713A E-7 007
    I've never been ashamed and God help me, to always be man enough, to stand up and speak my convictions. For if I'm not, I'd be a traitor to Christ.

Be no picnic 7

  1. (informal) be difficult or unpleasant.

    TESTIMONY.RAISING.DEAD.BOY. - W.PALM.BEACH.FL 53-1203 E-14
    Every man in here that's born again of the Spirit of God, knows that you've had to fight for every inch of ground, toe the mark with Satan. Isn't that right? Friends, this is not a picnic. This is a battleground.

Be on the rampage 7

  1. to be loose, doing as you please, out of control, defying authority. For example, to run round the streets causing damage to shops, cars, etc.

    WHAT.HEAREST.THOU.ELIJAH. - CHICAGO.IL 59-0609 E-41 041
    Sin is on the rampage worse than it ever was, and moved right into the locks of the church, and has tore it up.

Be stuck up 10

  1. be conceited: have an excessively favorable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, importance.

    BEHOLD.I.STAND.AT.THE.DOOR. - GREENVILLE.SC 58-0617 E-36 036
    But there's another little door right next to it, and that's called pride. Oh, my. Pride, oh, that's an awful door. So many people are so stuck-up. And what have you got to be stuck- up about? You think you're somebody.

Be the cream of the crop 10

  1. be the best that there could be.

    SHOW.US.THE.FATHER.IT'LL.SATISFY. - CONNERSVILLE.IN 53-0610 E-78 078
    My mother-in-law said that we were too good to be with such people, said they were nothing but a bunch of backwash. And I come to find out what she called backwash is the cream of the crop. And I say that with respect. That's exactly right.

Be the underdog 10

  1. be unpopular; be the least favored; be the least likely person to succeed.

    WHY.CRY.SPEAK. - CLARKSVILLE.IN 59-1004E E-60 060
    I am a servant to the public. A public servant is a minister, to serve the public. To be the underdog, to take this knocks and drives of the public, whatever it is, stand there. And if you haven't got grace enough to smile and take it, then you ought to go back to Calvary and reconfirm your commission.

Be under orders 7

  1. to have been commissioned or instructed to do something.

    DEEP.CALLETH.TO.THE.DEEP. - COLUMBIA.SC 56-0415 E-73 073
    "If you get the people to believe you," not believe me as Him, but believe that I am here under His orders. I never came myself. He brought me here.

Be under the impression that.. 7

  1. feel or imagine that; to believe, usually wrongly, that..

    BROKEN.CISTERNS. - JEFF.IN V-5 N-13 64-0726E 12 006
    Some people might be under the impression that I think that Jesus is going to come in the morning or tonight. I do. Now, I don't say that He will. And again, He may not come for next week. And it might be next year. It might be ten years.

Be up to par 7

  1. of an acceptable standard, quality; as it should be.

    AS.THE.EAGLE.STIRS.HER.NEST. - HARRISONBURG.VA 58-0316A E-3 003
    Now, for a text, this afternoon, I wish to speak on the subject, "As The Eagle Stirs Her Nest And Fluttereth Over Her Young." This is rather an unusual subject, and my voice is not really up to par to try to speak on this subject, but I'm just trusting to God today, for just a little evangelistic service, that God will teach us, maybe, something that we should know about His goodness and His care for His people.

Be/come on one's own 10

  1. be without anyone's influence; be independent; be self-supporting.

    PILLAR.OF.FIRE. - JONESBORO.AR 53-0509 E-36 036
    They said, "We didn't send him there." Mr. Best come on his own. He knowed better, thirty thousand people setting there. See? So he said, "No, they didn't." Mr. Best said he come on his own. All right. That was okay then.

Be/get in trim 7

  1. be fit and healthy; be in good shape. It may also mean; to rid of excess; to remove by cutting.

    LIFE.IS.THE.HEALER. - INDIANAPOLIS.IN 57-0611 E-69 069
    We're so happy tonight, Lord, to have this blessed assurance, to know that our hearts are in trim with You.

    GO.TELL. - JEFF.IN EASTER.MESSAGE.BOOK 60-0417M 44 018
    How he pumped up his little lungs, got his physical body in trim, so that he wouldn't tire as he run.

Be/get out of one's hands 10

  1. not be able to handle a situation; not be in a position to influence or change an outcome.

    MESSAGE.OF.GRACE. - JEFF.IN V-13 N-3 61-0827 183 101
    For the last two or three months since a certain occasion of something happened, the ministry got in such a place till it got a little out of my hands. They'd see that discernment and so forth, how it would speak and tell the people, just exactly like our Lord did when He was here on earth.

Be/get wrapped up in

  1. absorbed, encompassed in.

    GOD.PERFECTING.HIS.CHURCH. - BINGHAMTON.NY 54-1204 E-9 009
    All Christianity is wrapped up in one big love affair. Don't you believe that? See? Love is the most perfect thing there is in the Bible. "God is Love." And they that love, are of God, said John.

Be/sit on the fence 4

  1. (informal) Be undecided about which side one should take; stay neutral and not take sides (e.g. in an argument).

    HE.CARETH.FOR.YOU. - PHOENIX.AZ V-14 N-5 60-0301 1 001
    We pray, Father, that those who are on the fence, as we would call it, they just don't know which way to turn, and it may be, this be their last opportunity, we pray, Father, that they will turn their eyes towards heaven. Grant it, Lord.

Bear 24

  1. a large carniovrous mammal with a large body and short tail

    IT.BECOMETH.US.TO.FULFILL_ JEFF.IN V-15 N-4 SUNDAY_ 61-1001M
    Now, that's the famous bear. There's four in the grizzly family. One is the silver-tip, which is the famous. Next is called, the native name, kadish, which is a black with a round ear; the second. Third is the regular grizzly, which is between black and brown, a huge bear. And the next is the Kodiak, which is only found on Kodiak Island and western Alaska; he's great, mammoth, biggest of all bears, but he's a grizzly. But the silver-tip is black, and the white is on--the silver is on the end of the tip of the hair. He's the famous one, very high- strung, ill-tempered bear.

Bear with me

  1. have patience with me

    SEVEN.CHURCH.AGES_ JEFF.IN V-26 N-2 WEDNESDAY_ 54-0512 228
    Unto the church... Oh, will you bear with me just a few minutes longer?

Bear/keep something/someone in mind 7

  1. not forget about something/someone.

    IDENTIFIED.MASTERPIECE.OF.GOD. - YUMA.AZ 64-1205 E-31 031
    Then the sad story comes of the enemy. Now, notice, this one thing I want you to bear in mind, that God gave this man a protection. He fortified him inside of His Word, because He told them what they could do, what they could not do.

Beat around the bush 2

  1. To be evasive, not come to the point when speaking about something.

    GETTING.IN.THE.SPIRIT. - CHICAGO.IL 61-0428 E-71 071
    Don't beat around the bush about it. Go tell him. See? And then tell him, say, "I'll make it right, brother. You just give me a little time. I'm fixing to straighten up right."

Beat their/his brains out

  1. frantically seeking an answer or solution to a situation.

    AS.EAGLE.STIRRETH_ TULSA.OK V-2 N-12 SUNDAY_ 60-0403 13-4 13-3 I
    One time I saw mankind that God created in His image caged into denominations and things that didn't believe in Divine healing; caged into places where they couldn't be free. Their heaven- born, God-sent spirits in them like that, but caging them up so they can't get out. See men and women walking on the streets immorally dressed, in saloons, caged down where they should be free sons and daughters of God, and beat their brains out nearly against something trying to get free.

Beat up (beaten up). 14

  1. informal to defeat; give a hard beating to; hit hard and much; trash; whip.

    GOD.HAS.A.PROVIDED.WAY. - LVL.KY V-25 N-9 54-0404 56 026
    Satan fights harder. Everything goes wrong, seemingly, because Satan is trying to keep that people in tension and everything else, so that he can keep them away from this great time of strain that we're now entering into, for the great, as we'd say, "Going in for the kill now." He's already been beat up in the corner. He's been exposed and all of his devises is exposed. And men and women has accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior.

Before long 14

  1. in a short time; without much delay; in a little while, soon.

    BLIND.BARTIMAEUS. - CHICAGO.IL 56-0407 E-51 051
    Just think, each one of you now, just for seriously for a moment. That organ music, one of these days, no doubt, before long, will be playing while you're a corpse while your friends are walking around looking into the casket, and you're going out the door. I don't say that to scare you. No, no. I'm just letting you know that that's coming to every person in here, young or old. Now's the time to make your decision. You're invited.

Before you, etc can/could say Jack Robinson 7

  1. (informal) quicker than one can imagine; very quickly or suddenly.

    GOD.CALLED.MAN. - JEFF.IN V-2 N-27 58-1005E 9-2 027
    Oh, in Africa when I was hunting them... A lion can kill ten men before you can say, "Jack Robinson." Oh, powerful great beast, just with a big roar and just men are consumed. And the one who dies under the power of a lion never feels any hurt. It's such a scare to hear that roar as he gives. Those great mammoth feet, just in a second he's tore down a dozen men.

Behind bars 4

  1. in prison; looking through prison bars.

    BLIND.BARTIMAEUS. - CHICAGO.IL 56-0407 E-41 041
    And as this minister, as soon as the newspapers could catch it, it swept the nation over. "A minister peeping behind bars." How the Devil wanted to criticize Jesus Christ through His ministers. How the Devil wanted to make a public show of that; then they blocked Divine healing, which could not be trusted.

Beneficiaries 24

  1. those who receive charitable gifts or privileges

    RISING.OF.THE.SUN_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-12 SUNDAY_ 65-0418M11-3
    We, as beneficiaries, are to prove His Life is in us now, the beneficiaries of this Life.

Beulah Land 10

  1. Hebrew - "married"; A place of peace and rest.

    SPEAK.TO.THIS.ROCK_ CHATAUQUA.OH SUNDAY_ 60-0612E
    Lord God, may we drink from that fountain today that never runs dry. Oh, in this Beulah land of salvation, where we've been called out of Egypt's garlics and stinkpots, into this great wonderful place where it's Beulah land, where the Rock lays, eating Angels' food and drinking from a fountain that never runs dry...

Bid the speed of the day 10

  1. (or, "bid the day", or "bid them "Godspeed") to greet someone in a friendly way and wish them well, as they go on their way.

    WHAT.HEAREST.THOU.ELIJAH_ CHICAGO.IL TUESDAY_ 59-0609E-3
    We're human beings, and we're just traveling through the world; and we like to bid each other the speed of the day: "Good morning to you," or something.

Big time 14

  1. (informal) A very enjoyable time at a party or other pleasurable gathering.

    QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS. - JEFF.IN COD 64-0830M 1138-340 193
    I was just having a big time up there by myself, just the Lord and I, you know.

  2. The top group; the leading class; the best or most important company. Belonging to the top group; of the leading class; important.

    JEHOVAH.JIREH.1. - LOUISVILLE.MS 64-0402 E-29 029
    And Lot, like so many today, saw the opportunity. If he ever got away from that strictness, well, he might make himself a few dollars. He might be a popular man. So he looked down towards Sodom, and it was a well-watered land, and big city, and fine industry of salt, and so forth. They had the exports from there. And then again, it was full of big- time women with all their Jezebel paint, and everything, just a great time.

Big wheel, A 7

  1. an important organization; an important and influential person in an organization, etc.

    GOD.HIDING.HIMSELF.IN.SIMPLICITY. - ALBQ.NM 63-0412E E-100 100
    I don't care how many degrees of doctor you have, how much big church you are, what kind of a big wheel you belong to, how many organizations or whatever it is, has nothing to do with it.

Bingo 10

  1. a gambling game, usually with many players, each using a card of numbers.

    AS.THE.EAGLE.STIRS.HER.NEST_ BEAUMONT.TX SUNDAY_ 61-0122
    "We're going to have a bunco game in the basement." Bingo, that's what it is, bingo. I don't know them kind of names.

Birdeye (birdseye) 6,9

  1. a name brand for baby "diapers" or "nappies".

    UNCONDITIONAL.COVENANT. - PHOENIX.AZ 54-0306 E-37 037
    Now, you know people around the country there thought Abraham had lost his mind because he believed God. Well now, I can imagine him going out and buying up all the Birdeye and get the pins ready and everything.

  2. a type of cotton or linen cloth with a certain pattern

    LEADING.OF.THE.SPIRIT_ CAMPBELLSVILLE.KY SUNDAY_ 55-0807E
    And Abraham believed God. No matter how impossible... If you'll excuse the expression, I suppose went out and bought up a bunch of Birdeye, got the pins ready and everything, going to have the baby, making ready for it.

Birds of a feather flock together 5

  1. people of the same type seem to gather together.

    RESURRECTION.OF.LAZARUS. - ERIE.PA 51-0729A E-79 079
    Listen, brother, by your diet you're known. Buzzards eats anything. Doves know their diet. That's right. They have no fellowship one with the other. Birds of a feather, flock together. Keep away from them places; love God.

Black sheep (of the family), (A/The) 4

  1. a person whose conduct is considered to be a disgrace to the family or the group; a misfit, a person who doesn't fit in with the family or the group.

    MINISTRY.EXPLAINED. - MINNEAPOLIS.MN 50-0711 E-26 026
    Well, they did not want me, and the full gospel people said, "We've been praying for that gift to come to our church." They received me. I've always been a black sheep till that time. And I finally found people where I belonged.

Blackout/blackout spells 24

  1. the partial screening of all lights; to go dark. 2. to faint

    SHALOM_ SIERRA.VISTA.AZ V-13 N-5 SUNDAY_ 64-0112
    And isn't it strange that just before the pope took his journey to Jerusalem, that the moon in the heavens made a total blackout.

    SPIRITUAL.FOOD.IN.DUE.SEASON_ JEFF.IN V-8 N-7 SUNDAY_ 65-0718E 180
    He got a burden on his heart for a little boy, little child. Is that right? You believe God can tell me what's wrong with that child? He can. He has little blackout spells like a form of epilepsy:

Blanket far enough for the neighbour

  1. All the benefits one receives from the Word are sufficient to bless or "cover" others. Salvation will cause the poor and the rich to love one another and fellowship together.

    GREATER.THAN.SOLOMON.IS.HERE_ TUCSON.AZ WEDNESDAY_ 63-0605 E-56
    No. God's got the glass for us to see through, and that's the Holy Spirit. Then it sees the Word of God and believes It, and loves, and fellowships. And the blanket's far enough for the neighbor, and you know what I mean. The world's dying for a little love, and somebody to care for them. That's right. You've seen so much of this cold, stiff, starchy stuff. But I tell you, this old-time case of salvation will make a calico dress and a silk dress put their arms around one another. It'll make a tuxedo and a pair of overalls call one another "brother." It sure will. It'll take the starch right out of you when you really get Christ in your life in the right way. Certainly will.

Bleach 24

  1. a chemical used to remove stains or make something white. (Brand name: "Clorox" in the United States).

    FIRST.SEAL.THE_ JEFF.IN MONDAY_ 63-0318 125-6 {59}
    But as soon as that final name had been splashed in that Clorox or bleach, then His intercessory days were over. "Let him that's filthy be filthy still. Let him that's holy, he's holy still."

Blockbuster 10

  1. a large bomb dropped from an airplane that could demolish a city block(sometimes used to destroy large dam walls).

    TIME.TESTED.MEMORIALS.OF.GOD_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 57-0818 E-30
    Not long ago when I heard, when I was in Italy, I heard of Mussolini, and that great statue of forty something feet high, that he'd built as a memorial to athletics, as he was an athlete. And I wanted to find that memorial. And you know, it had been blown into powder by a big blockbuster.

Blow horns

  1. sound the car horn

    GOD.IN.SIMPLICITY_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0317M9-5 {50}
    It isn't the pastor's place to have to say that; it's the deacons, for they are the police of the church. That is, if young couples come on the outside and blow horns.

  2. boast or brag

    GOD.IN.SIMPLICITY_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0317M 45-4 {293}
    God hides Himself in a simple little wash woman or an ordinary man with his dinner under his arm, kiss his wife and children good-bye, and go out there,and maybe hide Himself in that man to do something that a archbishop would know nothing about. See? You don't hear Him blow no horns and send it out. God just gets glory; that's all. The simple hear it and are glad. See?

  3. to make a sound on a musical instrument, or the horn of a male sheep (ram) prepared for emitting a sound.

    TOKEN.THE_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-19 SUNDAY_ 63-0901M 17-5
    Israel was commanded to stay under that blood until marching orders come. Don't go out from under it. When once under that token, they were sealed in there. Don't leave that. They stayed right there until the midnight struck and the trumpets blow. And when the trumpets blow, the old ram's horns begin to blow

Blow up 10

  1. become violently angry very quickly.

    CHURCH.AND.ITS.CONDITION. - JEFF.IN CH 1-34 56-0805 74 052
    But you let somebody do something to you or me, oh, my, we blow up like a toad frog eating buckshot, puff out like an old goose. "I'll tell you right now; he step on my toes like that again, I'll never go back to that old church again. No, sir. Bless God. Hallelujah. The Nazarenes will receive me, the Pilgrim Holiness, they'll take me. Hallelujah. I don't have to do it no more." All right, the Dove takes Its flight.

Blow your/somebody's brains out 7

  1. (informal) Kill yourself/somebody by shooting in the head.

    GREATEST.GIFT.IN.BIBLE. - EDMONTON.ALBERTA 57-0811A
    What the people call today life, it gets so miserable until they take a pistol and blow their brains out. That couldn't be life, what God was speaking of.

Blue Boar

  1. the name of a restaurant

    CHRIST.IS.THE.MYSTERY_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-7 SUNDAY_ 63-07287-1
    Well, I thought being he had taken that fine spiritual food, maybe to talk a little bit, we'd take some natural food. So we goes over to the Blue Boar, sets down, was talking.

Bluestone

  1. a blue-gray sandstone

    TRIAL.THE_ TOPEKA.KS V-20 N-6 SUNDAY_ 64-0621
    A grain of seed laying on this desk will never grow a harvest. A grain of corn on here, in bluestone, will do nothing.

Board 24

  1. a flat piece of wood whose length is greater than its width.

    EPHESIAN.CHURCH.AGE_ JEFF.IN ROJC 131-183 MONDAY_ 60-1205
    Just like driving a nail in a board, if you just tack it on there, it won't hold. You've got to drive it down and clinch it to make it hold. And that's what I'm trying to do.

  2. an organized official body: as a "Board of Directors".

    TOTAL.DELIVERANCE_ JEFF.IN V-11 N-1 SUNDAY_ 59-0712
    I wonder this morning,of myself, if I could be so yielded to God till God could trust me, could trust Brother Neville,could trust our trustee board, our deacon board, or our members of our church. We all have a place and we got a duty.

  3. a black or white board such as one used to write on to illustrate a lesson.

    RECOGNIZING.YOUR.DAY_ JEFF.IN V-5 N-1 SUNDAY_ 64-0726M
    Then we see before the Seven Seals that hid all the mysteries... Me not knowing what I was drawing on the board for the church ages, I never... God knows. Just by vision I drew it, not knowing that God, a year and six months later was going to vindicate it in the skies by the moon and slip it across the national papers.

  4. on or in a vessel, as in "on board" a train or bus.

    FROM.THAT.TIME_ PHOENIX.AZ WEDNESDAY_ 60-0302
    Here a few years ago, I was on my road to South Africa. And I had to stay over two or three days in New York, because I thought I could get by without having the yellow fever shot, but they just wouldn't let me board the plane.

  5. a "bulletin board" for notices and announcements.

    GABRIEL'S.INSTRUCT.TO.DANIEL_ JEFF.IN DA 1-44 SUNDAY_ 61-0730M 19
    I've got a note here to announce that and to tell the people they might read it on the bulletin board going out.

  6. to furnish or take meals with or without lodging. In the following quote, it means "whatever money she had left after paying for her meals and lodging". Perhaps she was paid one U.S. Dollar per day.

    SIXTH.SEAL.THE_ JEFF.IN SATURDAY_ 63-0323
    She worked everything that she could do to save enough money at her dollar a day or whatever she had with her board to buy her wedding dress: perfect type of the Church. See?

  7. a board or frame having a corrugated surface on which to rub clothes while washing them.

    PREPARATION_ OWENSBORO.KY WEDNESDAY_ 53-1111
    Puts me in mind of a little woman here not long ago. She belonged to a church, and she washed over a board and everything.

  8. Ouija board (see "Ouija")

Bobbed haired women 7

  1. A women or girl's short cut hair.

Boo Boo 19

  1. a mistake or error, sometimes with embarrassing concequences.

    FROM.THAT.TIME_ BLOOMINGTON.IL SATURDAY_ 61-0415B
    Sometimes I've noticed our Pentecostal brethren, when you could really pull in and give somebody else a chance to park by the side of you, just drive in it anyway; because somebody, really makes what we call "a boo-boo" on the road, you fly loose and tear down. Listen. That's not the way to be a Pentecostal Christian.

Bootlegger 3

  1. makers, sellers, or distributors of illegal beverages. (It was originated from the fact that the first bootleggers carried illicit merchandise in the legs of high boots when making deliveries. In this sense the word was common in the middle nineteenth century. Since the most easily made and profitably sold commodity was illicit liquor, bootlegger gradually became applied to distributors of illegal booze.

    DIVINE.HEALING. - JEFF.IN V-26 N-10 54-1219M 270 090
    And we don't care whether it's bootleggers, whether it's prostitutes, whatever it is. Throw the net. You don't know whose in down in there. You don't know. You can't judge. No man can judge. But you can throw the net, and pull them to the altar, say, "Here it is, Lord. I've done my part now."

Booze 3,9

  1. an alcoholic drink; liquor.

    MAKING.THE.VALLEY.FULL.OF.DITCHES. - SHREVEPORT.LA 56-0728E-7 007
    And that's the way with the sinner. Let him go ahead. That's all he knows. Drink all the booze he wants to, and go to all the low down, and the hoe downs, and listen to all that nonsense. That's all he knows.

Born with a silver spoon in his/her mouth

  1. referring to one born into riches.

    DESPERATION_ JEFF.IN V-4 N-1 SUNDAY_ 63-0901E {7}
    It seems like that, you know, like they say, if you was born with a silver spoon (you've heard that), you don't appreciate. But when you have to work for it, you appreciate the valuation of it.

Bosom friend 14

  1. a friend with whom one has a profound relationship; a very close friend; an old buddy with whom one has a confidential relationship; soul brothers.

    GO.TELL.MY.DISCIPLES. - JEFF.IN V-25 N-5 53-0405S 37 017
    Paul Radar, a bosom friend of mine, that wrote my theme song, "Only Believe"; when he was dying yonder, he had just leaned his head over on the shoulder of my manager, Mr. Baxter.

Boston Tea Party,The 16

  1. the destruction in Boston Harbor, United States, (Dec.16,1773) of a number of chests of tea by disguised citizens as a protest against the British proposal to tax the American colonists.

    IDENTIFIED.MASTERPIECE.OF.GOD_ YUMA.AZ SATURDAY_ 64-1205 E-74
    I was at the Boston Tea Party. I helped throw some of that British Tea out in the ocean. I had to be, to be an American. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. I signed the Declaration of Independence with Thomas Jefferson. I rang the Liberty Bell on July the 4th, 1776.

Bottle-washer,A 16

  1. one who makes himself generally useful in menial duties;

    JEHOVAH.JIREH.PART.2_ GRASS.VALLEY.CA JJ 73-106 FRIDAY_ 62-0706
    What a real lady. Today, women is so brazen. Every... Their husband can't even talk. They got to stick right out there, a cigarette in their hand, a pair of shorts on, doing all the talking. How a perverted race of people; she's got to be chief cook and bottle washer, everything else. When she leaves the kitchen, she leaves her place of duty (right) as a mother.

Bottom of a churn (contents of) 10

  1. churn: a container in which cream is beaten to form butter. The buttermilk left in the bottom is often tart or sour. Hence, "something sour".

    RESURRECTION.THE_ W.PALM.BEACH.FL SATURDAY_ 53-1205
    Why are you walking along with a long face, like you eat oats, or the bottom of a churn.

Bowery, The

  1. a street in New York City, or the district around this street, characterized by cheap hotels, saloons etc.

    FROM.THAT.TIME_ JEFF.IN THURSDAY_ 59-1231
    I was down on the bowery here some time ago, in New York, the great center of the drunken people. I think that it would be a good thing for any man to take his son to the bowery and let him see. I think if you were ever in France, take your daughter to Pigalle; let her see how degraded human life can get.

Boyfriend 14

  1. A male friend or companion.

    TO.WHOM.WOULD.WE.GO. - CHATAUQUA.OH 60-0606 E-45 045
    One day, a boyfriend of mine, Wilmer Snyder, a very good buddy, we chummed together. He's selling Prudential Life Insurance, and he came to my house, and he said, "Billy, I'd like to talk to you on some insurance."

  2. A girl's steady date, a woman's favorite man friend; a lover or sweetheart.

    WASHING.JESUS.FEET. - PHOENIX.AZ 57-0310A E-8 008
    The young ladies, they have things in common. They like to meet and talk about their boyfriend, and, you know, They have things in common.

Brail of the boat 10

  1. one of the ropes used to gather in sails before furling.

    BELIEVEST.THOU.THIS?_ LA.CA SUNDAY_ 51-0506A
    He was a man when He was laying there asleep. But when He rose, put His foot on the brail of the boat, said, "Peace, be still." He was more than a man when He stopped the roaring seas and parted the waves.

Brainwash 8

  1. to remove ideas from someone's mind and substitute others (by means of constant mental pressure).

    TURN.ON.THE.LIGHT. - PHOENIX.AZ V-22 N-3 64-0125 149 062
    There's something wrong with our seminaries, and so forth, when they teach men all this here brainwashed theology and stuff of today.

Branch water 17

  1. a Southern United States expression for stream-water, as distinguished from well-water.

    LIFE.STORY.WILLIAM.BRANHAM_ CLEVELAND.OH SUNDAY_ 50-0820A
    Just as sure as I stand on the platform I believe there's a heaven to go to. I believe there's a land of rest where we live at. I don't care if I had to eat soda crackers and drink branch water, I wouldn't compromise on this Gospel. It's the truth of God.

Brand/Brands 24

  1. to mark with a hot iron;to imprint indelibly on the heart, mind or memory.

    WILL.I.FIND.FAITH.WHEN.I.RETURN_ LA.CA TUESDAY_ 51-0508E-50
    The Holy Spirit witnesses, and receives you, and God receives you and puts His seal upon you, and He brands you. I've herded a few cattle. I remember when we used to bring the yearlings in, branding time. We'd go out there and have to throw them down with a rope and hold them, and get a big old hot brand and come out and stick it on it; he'd bawl and snort awhile. But brother, he was all fixed up. We knowed who he belonged to.

Brand-new (bran-new) 14

  1. very new; barely used; a recently purchased or made item; showing no use or wear.

    JEHOVAH JIREH. - SAN.FERNANDO.CA 55-1117 E-41 041
    God don't patch up nothing. He just made a brand new Sarah to show what He's going to do to all you old women some of these times that'll believe on the Lord Jesus. Yes, sir. He made them a young man and woman again. I'll prove it to you.

Bread and butter ticket 24

  1. a person's income; subsistence; maintenance; livelihood.

    FELLOWSHIP_ MINNEAPOLIS.MN SUNDAY_ 56-0212E-8
    The doctor becomes angry with the minister because most of the time it's the bread and butter ticket, and he wants to put the Divine healing away from the people.

Bread line 8

  1. Line of people waiting for charity/ food, because of poverty.

    GOD.OF.THIS.EVIL.AGE. - JEFF.IN V-4 N-9 65-0801M 169 092
    Schools, denominations, culture, better dressed people, better fed people I'd rather be in a bread line and be right with God than to have fried chicken three times a day and have to belong to a prostitute like that.

Break even 7

  1. covering one's costs only; make neither a profit nor a loss.

    SUPER.SIGN. - CHICAGO.IL 61-0430 E-9 009
    That we buy them from them at forty cents less. Forty percent, then we have to pay so much a week for boys to sell them, and so much for carrying them, and so much for freight. You just don't break even on them. That's all. The meeting has to help hold that up.

Break the ice, To 2

  1. To make the first move in trying to get to know someone; or be the first one to speak.

    LIFE.STORY. - OWENSBORO.KY 53-1108A E-54 054
    Well, she just kept on walking, just never said nothing. I thought I'd kinda break the ice, and I said, "Did you read it?" She said, "Uh-huh."

Break the law 15

  1. do something that is illegal.

    AS.THE.EAGLE.STIRS.HER.NEST. - BEAUMONT.TX 61-0122 E-9 009
    Never in my life, as I remember, taking over a limit of anything. And you hunters remember that. It's sinful for a Christian to break the law.

Breakers 7

  1. Waves that break into foam along the shoreline.

    WARNING.THEN.JUDGMENT_ JEFF.IN V-8 N-3 WEDNESDAY_ 63-0724
    The breakers are coming in; the old ship's moving into her place. God, help us to live for that hour.

Bream 24

  1. a fresh-water fish, also called "sunfish" or "blue-gill"

    SPEAK.TO.THIS.MOUNTAIN_ SAN.JOSE.CA MONDAY_ 59-1123E-28
    We pulled into a little cove, and we were fishing with the fly lines for big bream. That's a little larger blue gill.

Briar patches 24

  1. thorny, prickly bushes or shrubs.

    REV.CHAP.5.PT1.BRUISED.SERPENT_ JEFF.IN ROJC 717-746 SUNDAY_ 61-0611 19
    So I was thinking about looking back down along the trail where I've come through life, and seen the different hills, and briar patches, and rocks, and hard places, and smooth runnings, and what I did in those kind of times. It'll all show up one of these days at the hour of my going away.

Brigham Young 19

  1. Was the next famous Mormon name, after Joseph Smith. He had been a farmer and journey-man carpenter-painter-glazier near Smith's home in New York State before being converted in 1831, to become a leading Mormon minister.

    TRUE.SIGN.THAT'S.OVERLOOKED_ JEFF.IN V-6 N-2 SUNDAY_ 61-1112 {132}
    Joseph Smith, Brigham Young and all different cults of the Adventists, and everything else, they see all kinds of things like that, but it's always contrary to the Word.

Broke corn on railroad track

  1. The poor collected the corn or grain that spilled from the passing trains onto the ground beside the train tracks. The corn was not cracked at the gathering time, but was picked up, taken home and crushed for eating.

    GOD.HIDING.HIMSELF.IN.SIMPLICITY_ ALBQ.NM FRIDAY_ 63-0412EE-17
    And I want you to know, brethren, I think you just laid the foundation stones -and broke the fields, you Pentecostal brothers who stood out here with a tambourine in your hand when you didn't have a church to go to, when the people laughed and throwed rotten eggs at you, and you laid in jail all night, broke corn on the railroad tracks, your children went hungry. God bless your gallant soul.

Broken English 6

  1. incorrect English: that spoken by one attempting to speak English, but whose original language is not English.

    GOD.IN.HIS.WORD. - OAKLAND.CA 57-0323 E-5 005
    And then when we got done, a little fellow walked up with a little mustache, nice looking little fellow kind of broken English. And found out he was Finnish.

Broom sage 10

  1. A type of wild grass or shrub having long stiff tough stems. A "broomsage field" - a field of wild course shrubs.

    LIFE.STORY_ LITTLE.ROCK.AR 50-0200
    The first thing comes into my mind at this time, is a little humble home built out in the country by the broom sage fields, and some old apple trees standing around, where my father and mother and their little family lived, a little humble place indeed.

Brush Arbor; Brush Arbor Meetings 10

  1. 1.Brush arbor: a shelter made of upright poles with a simple roof of poles or stakes covered with hay or branches which protected worshipers from the weather. 2.Brush Arbor meetings began in the late 1700s in the United States when there were no formal churches in which to worship.

    QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS.ON.THE.HOLY.GHOST_ JEFF.IN COD SATURDAY_ 59-1219
    Long ago when we was having brush arbor meetings down there, all them Methodists back over there on the hill (Gertie, one of them), slipping around, was peeping through the grape arborto see what I was going to say,

    AN.ABSOLUTE_ PHOENIX.AZ SUNDAY_ 63-0127
    Them old timers had tied to that Absolute, and held on to that Word regardless of what it was. There's no denomination, presbyters, district men, or bishops going to tell them anything about it. They walked in the Spirit, and went out and done miracles and performed things. They had Azusa Street meetings going everywhere, brush arbor meetings.

Buckboard 24

  1. a light, four-wheeled, horse-drawn vehicle having a long, flexible board in place of body and springs.

    LIFE.STORY_ HAMMOND.IN. SUNDAY_ 52-0720AE-18
    Then when we were little bitty lads, I remember when we was all at home, you know, playing around the house, I used to see dad come home. And on Saturday evening, we'd all, or afternoon, he'd get a little old buckboard of affair, jersey wagon; we had a little old mule we hooked to that wagon. And if it was wintertime, we'd put straw in the back of the wagon, little covered over wagon. And we'd get blankets and wrap up.

Bucking off

  1. a horse jumping up and down quickly in an attempt to throw off the items on its back.

    SPIRIT.OF.TRUTH_ PHOENIX.AZ FRIDAY_ 63-0118
    pulling the packs off of him, bucking off.

Buffalo

  1. The North American Bison; a variety of wild oxen 2. Slang: buffalo - to intimidate someone.

Bump into 15

  1. meet someone unexpectedly or by chance.

    UNWELCOMED.CHRIST. - JEFF.IN V-26 N-20 55-0911 158 052
    I can see this courier coming, elbowing his way through the crowd. He's trying to get up there. He bumps into somebody. Maybe it was Nathanael, or was it Philip? I don't know, I wasn't there. But, anyhow, Let's dramatize it, a minute. I see him bump into him, and say, "Sir, I would see your Master. I have an important message for Him from my master. Could I see Him?"

Bunco 24

  1. a game of cards

    WAY.OF.A.TRUE.PROPHET_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-14 SUNDAY_ 62-0513M 24-5
    He would condemn ever immoral act of the churches: these bunco parties, and all these things that they're having, card parties, soup suppers. He'd condemn every one of them; he'd blast them into hell where they come from. Think you'd receive him? No. The church today wouldn't receive him. Pentecost receive him? When he'd walk in there and say, "You bobbed-haired bunch of Jezebels, don't you know what THUS SAITH THE LORD means? Walk out here with a little skinned-up looking dress on, don't you know you're guilty of committing adultery every day with a hundreds of men?" That's what he would say.

Buns 13

  1. a bread-like roll , often used with hamburger; sometimes sweet.

    MIGHTY.CONQUEROR. - JEFF.IN 56-0401 E-27 027
    The next morning Mr. Andrews, that perfect infidel, met me at the corner and shamed me, said, "Preacher, aren't you ashamed of yourself?" I had on an old pair of ragged overalls, coming from the store to get some buns for breakfast, and he was going over.

Burn your/the bridges 7

  1. to make certain that you won't go back to the old or previous situation.

    WITNESSES. - JEFF.IN V-25 N-6 53-0405E 196 067
    That's the way to come to God. Kill everything behind you. Burn all the bridges. Don't lay that bottle up so you'll find it tomorrow. And don't lay this other thing up so you'll find it tomorrow. Get rid of the thing; burn it up. Amen. Be a real witness.

Butt in, To 1

  1. To interfere in other people's business; join in with what other people are doing without asking or being asked.

    WE.WOULD.SEE.JESUS.SIRS. - TIFTON.GA 60-0109 E-53 053
    Women was then wasn't like they are now: have to run out and take their husband's place, and butt in everything he's saying. They stayed back in the tent.

By and by 7

  1. later on; in the near future; after a little time; soon.

    SIRS.WE.WOULD.SEE.JESUS. - DALLAS.TX V-19 N-8 64-0304 123 056
    I've got ten minutes to get out on time, if everyone will respond. Now, whoever has a prayer card, I won't have time to get to all of them tonight. We'll get to them by and by.

By degrees 4

  1. gradually, slowly, little by little.

    AS.THE.EAGLE.STIRRETH.UP.HER.NEST. - CHATAUQUA.OH 59-0815
    That's what He's waiting for you to do. Humble yourself to such a place, no matter how God sends it to you... If you're healed instantly, if you're healed by degrees,if you're put off for... Like Abraham was twenty-five years waiting for the promise.

By leaps and bounds 7

  1. very rapidly.

    AUDIO.LETTER.TO.LEE.VAYLE. - TUCSON.AZ 64-0500 E-97 097
    And her and Sister Norman was going over for the examination the next morning. Had been gone about three weeks, and the doctor said it's just growing by leaps and bounds.

By rights 4,9

  1. Next in line to be King.

    WHY_ PHOENIX.AZ WEDNESDAY_ 60-0309 E-13
    And this man had had a lukewarm father in the Gospel and a infidel or a heathen mother. And he couldn't be very much to begin with. And he become king by rights, ...

  2. Supposedly, the God-given right to rule.

By the skin of one's teeth 2

  1. Just barely.

    SPIRITUAL.ADOPTION. - JEFF.IN 56-0923 E-36 036
    How I want Him to say, "It was well done." Not by the skin of my teeth, but, "It was well done, My good and faithful servant. Enter into the joys of the Lord, for you did well with what you had to do."

Caesar (requires)

  1. the authorities require; the law requires.

    RISING.OF.THE.SUN_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-12 SUNDAY_ 65-0418M6-3
    Now, to find this text, as I was tired, and my arm hurting me from shots that the nurse gave me for... Leave overseas now, as you know, in a few days, and I must have these shots, son and I; and with cholera, yellow fever and everything, I was pretty weary, making me sick; which Caesar requires to have these shots before you go into the other nations. And He said, "Give Caesar that which is Caesar's, but then, give God that which is God's."

Call girls

  1. Prostitutes. Especially those who can be engaged by telephone.

    ONLY.ONE.WAY.PROVIDED.BY.GOD_ CHICAGO.IL V-21 N-2 WEDNESDAY_ 63-0731
    Look over here at this great scandal in England, look through the United States, look at these call girls in the U.N., everything else, oh, it's just terrible.

Call someone collect 4

  1. to telephone someone and the cost of the call is charged to the person you phone.

    WHY. - BLOOMINGTON.IL 61-0413 E-28 028
    There's the clinic right there tonight. In St. Louis just recently in a great medical meeting he made a speech and he told that. Got a sign of it sticking on his door engraved in brass. He said, "If anybody ever doubts, any physician, have him to call me collect."

Calm down 10

  1. become quiet or peaceful; regain composure.

    BE.NOT.AFRAID. - SOUTH.GATE.CA 62-0620 E-72 072
    Why don't you invite Him into the boat tonight and say, "Come, Lord Jesus." Then the thing will calm down, won't be long till we'll be at shore. Let's bow our heads just a moment now.

Canadian tam 24

  1. Tam-O-shanter; a Scottish cap with a tight headband and a full, flat top, sometimes with a pompom or tassel.

    EXPECTATIONS_ CLEVELAND.OH THURSDAY_ 50-0810E-50
    I went down to the corner and stood there, just crossed over, went over to the other side, stood there about ten minutes. The cop kept blowing his whistle, and the traffic--pedestrians had passed by, and so forth. I stood there. And after while, there was a... I seen a woman coming behind all the rest of the traffic. She had on a little checkered dress, and one little Canadian tams like. And she had her pocket book on her arms, and was looking sideways. And the Spirit said, "Go near to her."

Candy Striper (s)

  1. Refers to the pink and white striped uniform worn by young girls who do volunteer work in a hospital. Hence, a "candy striper."

    REPROACH.FOR.THE.WORD_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-16 SUNDAY_ 62-1223
    ..my daughter (one of them) Rebekah, back there, she works at the Methodist Hospital in Louisville. It's oh, that amateur form of nurse training; it's "Candy Stripers" they call them, or something like that.

Cannon fodder 10

  1. Soldiers, sailors etc. thought of as being expended or worth sacrificing, (killed or maimed), in war

    UNCHANGEABLE.WORD.OF.GOD_ LAKEPORT.CA SUNDAY_ 60-0724
    The Holy Ghost has been here ever since the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the coming forth of Pentecost. He's appeared through ages all down, getting a remnant of people together. The rest of it is cannon fodder; I'll just tell you that now. It's a fodder that'll mix with smoke out of torment.

Can't hear yourself think 3

  1. there is so much noise around you that you cannot concentrate.

    GOD.IN.SIMPLICITY. - JEFF.IN 63-0317M 5-3 {26} 019
    Therefore, dedicating ourselves, let's remember when we enter that sanctuary, keep still to one another and worship God. If we want to visit each other, there's places we may visit each other like that but never walking around where you can't hear yourself think, and some person come in, and they just don't know what to do.

Can't help it 7

  1. not be able to avoid or resist doing something.

    SHALOM. - SIERRA.VISTA.AZ V-13 N-5 64-0112 264 117
    They can't help it. I forgive them (See?), for not listening and seeing the things that God has done, and still they don't do it.

Cap/top/crown it all 7

  1. in addition to all the things already mentioned; put the finishing touch.

    I WILL.RESTORE. - PHOENIX.AZ 57-0309B E-35 035
    But John, trying to cap it all, said, "Oh, keep Christ, the unity of Christ, the love of God in our hearts. Little children, love one another."

Cape

  1. that part of an animal's hide that covers the shoulder and chest.

    PRESUMING_ S.PINES.NC SUNDAY_ 62-0610M
    Well, the caribou itself weighed around nine hundred. But we had to leave the meat there, and I just took the cape. And the horns alone weighed about a hundred and fifty pounds.

Carbon Knock 24

  1. The noise produced in machinery or in engines when the operating parts are defective; specifically, in an internal-combustion engine, the metallic explosive sounds due to uneven or improperly timed combustion.

    PERFECT.STRENGTH_ JEFF.IN V-8 N-1 SUNDAY_ 61-1119
    The big ecclesiastical machines that we've got, the big church machines has carboned up; it's got a spiritual knock in them. ...I think the crankshaft's bad. Something has gone wrong. They use the wrong kind of gasoline; she's all carboned up. They use seminary experience instead of the Holy Ghost.

Carrion 10

  1. decaying, rotten flesh.

    LIFE_ EVERETT.MA MONDAY_ 58-0512 E-10
    Why can't the dove eat carrion and stuff from the old earth, and the old carcasses, because it's a make-up of the dove.

Cat in Molasses

  1. very slowly.(like a cat walking in a sticky substance).

    PERSEVERANCE_ PHOENIX.AZ SUNDAY_ 63-0113E E-66
    Naaman wanted to accept his healing like that one time. But Elijah told him to get out there in the old muddy Jordan and dip seven times. I can just see him get off his chariot. Oh, a great man, hold his nose. Here he comes out in the water tip-toeing like a cat in molasses.

Cat o' nine tails 3

  1. a nine-thonged whip used to administer punishment to misbehaving sailors. It got its name from the fact that the welts left on a sailor's back after whipping looked a bit like enormous cat scratches.

    WHEN.THEIR.EYES.WERE.OPENED. - SPINDALE.NC 56-0420 E-30 030
    And did you know there's thirty and nine major diseases in the world today. Thirty and nine stripes across His back with a cat-of-nine-tails, leather sockets in it with lumps of lead, beating till His ribs showed through, "all My bones stare at Me," He said in the Psalms...

catch-as-catch-can 10

  1. to hold on in any possible way; seize and hold

    RESURRECTION.OF.LAZARUS_ ERIE.PA SUNDAY_ 51-0729A
    And they run them up into the chute, the bullpen, start them through. And you'd have to catch-as-catch-can when they come out. I seen them come out. When I looked at one of them I realized that wasn't the old plow horse by a long ways.

Catering 10

  1. following;listening to and following what others say and do.

    GOD.IN.SIMPLICITY_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0317M 35-3 {217}
    The trouble is today with so many of us people, we want to get so, you know, so seminary and denominational, educated minded that God can't use us. God can give a man a start to do something and give him a ministry. The first thing you know, he will go to catering to what others say.

Cathedral 24

  1. a large or important church containing the place or "seat" of authority.

    FUNDAMENTAL.FOUNDATION.FOR.FAITH_ CHICAGO.IL THURSDAY_ 55-0113E-27
    Although Moody didn't teach a doctrine of Divine healing. But he said there was so much healing taking place in his meeting, that he thought it would be his church would turn into this cathedral,.. like was in this place in France where they come up there to be healed.

  2. a shrine: a place considered especially sacred because of its history or association with some event considered to be supernatural.
  3. In the following quotes the term "cathedral" refers to "the place of the revelation of the Word".

    REV.CHAP.5.PT1.BRUISED.SERPENT_ JEFF.IN ROJC 717-746 SUNDAY_ 61- 173
    O Rock of Ages, I'm so glad to be just riding in a cathedral, knowing that we're resting upon the Rock.

    REV.CHAP.5.PT1.BRUISED.SERPENT_ JEFF.IN ROJC 717-746 SUNDAY_ 61- 171
    This girl was telling that she was trying to find God. Everywhere she went... She'd go to this church and that church, and whatevermore, but she couldn't find It. And once she found it going down the road; there was a little, old man going down, a little fellow, and he had a whole big cathedral on his back. He was walking down the road. And she said, "Oh, good Man." She said, "My, that's awful nice of You," said, "but You got the whole thing on Your back. "It'll crush You." He said, "No, it won't crush Me," said, "for I am the Rock that it's built on." That's Him.

Caty corner

  1. across the centre of an intersection or any square area, from corner to corner

Chaps

  1. leather trousers or leggings worn over ordinary trousers by cowboys to protect their legs; Chap: a man or boy

    BELIEVEST.THOU.THIS?_ HOUSTON.TX SUNDAY_ 50-0115
    Well, I thought the height of my ambition was to be a cowboy. Just wait till I get to wear those chaps, you know, and boots, and the great big hat, and... Oh, I had great enthusiasm. HEAR.YE.HIM_ PHOENIX.AZ SUNDAY_ 57-0310E That little fellow is one of the smartest little chaps I've ever seen.

Chapter, The 10

  1. A local division of a club or similar organization.

    WISDOM.VERSUS.FAITH_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-17 SUNDAY_ 62-0401
    And then Brother Arganbright, coming in, we're planning on now in the last week of July to be in Anchorage, Alaska, to organize a chapter there for the Christian Business Men, following about a six or eight day revival that I hope to have there at hard, rough Alaska.

Charm 24

  1. a small ornament worn to insure good fortune or to protect from evil.

    UNCERTAIN.SOUND_ JEFF.IN V-26 N-19 SUNDAY_ 55-0731
    They throwed Daniel in the lions' den. No uncertainty, he stood there. He had hidden power, not a rabbit foot in his pocket, not a charm to wear around his neck.

  2. Beauty; to influence the senses; to cause delight.

    CORINTHIANS.BOOK.OF.CORRECTION_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 57-0414 E-56
    And at this coming revival, may we be just so full of Your charm, Lord, until many will come in and be saved.

Charter 24

  1. the original document; a document granting special rights or privileges.

    ACCEPTING.GOD'S.PROVIDED.WAY_ PHOENIX.AZ TUESDAY_ 63-0115 E-91
    And after all these years, when we've got nine hundred and something different organizations of Christianity, and each one condemning the other one, saying "This is right, and they're wrong," and "This is right, and that's wrong," and so forth... And the poor people are so confused they don't know what is right and wrong.What do we need? We need to get back on the course, get back to the charter. What do we need? We need a genuine, true, Scriptural sign of the truth. A vindicated Gospel truth is what the church needs for this end-time way. God promised to give them a sign for this last day.

Chaw up 16

  1. to chew; to wear down by irritation; to utterly demolish or defeat.

    WHY.SOME.PEOPLE.CAN'T.KEEP.VICTORY_ OAKLAND.CA SUNDAY_ 57-0324 E-56
    Your gift of tongues, wonderful; justification by faith, wonderful; sanctification, fine; speaking in tongues, wonderful; interpretation, fine; messages from God, wonderful; prophecy, fine... Brother, if it hasn't got no hub in it, what's it going to amount to? Your spokes will get across one another. They'll cross up, fuss, fight, isolate, and chaw, and tear on up each another. That's what's the matter.

Chester

  1. will be like "Chester", a television personality with a stiff leg.

    IDENTIFIED.WITH.CHRIST_ JEFF.IN V-4 N-4 SUNDAY_ 59-1220E
    I was hearing on the radio coming home, where some great Italian man at Denver was trying to play a Hopalong Cassidy, something with a loaded gun; instead of that he's going to be a Chester the rest of his life; he shot his kneecap off.

Chicken, chicken-hearted 1

  1. Cowardly, easily scared

    HEAR.YE.HIM. - INDIANAPOLIS.IN 56-0611 E-39 039
    Oh, he'd say, "you chicken hearted preacher, thought you was a hunter." He said, "Aw, you're chicken hearted."

Chills and fever 16

  1. a scary sensation or feeling. Originally, this expression was commonly used, in malarial sections, for fever and ague.

    BE.NOT.AFRAID_ RICHMOND.VA SATURDAY_ 61-0311 E-34
    Boy, wouldn't that scare you in the nighttime?" I said, "It'd give you... It'd give me chills and fever." It sure would.

Chinatown 16

  1. the Chinese quarter, in a city. From the celebrated Chinatown of San Francisco.

    FROM.THAT.TIME_ TULSA.OK THURSDAY_ 60-0331 E-8
    There were men laying all under that great trestle, some of them perfectly helpless, laying on the street in an awful,impure condition. Chinatown, just below it, where they buy their dope... And I said to Dr. Berg, I said, "Perhaps these men come from real bad homes and never had a chance."

Chip off the old block 7

  1. a person who is very like one of her/his parents in appearance or character.

    HEAR.YE.HIM. - OAKLAND.CA 57-0322 E-41 041
    "Sir, your child is progressing wonderful. Oh, he's just a chip off the old block. He's just like you. He acts like you. He conducts himself like you."

Chip-yard 16

  1. a wood-cutting yard, a yard in which logs are chopped for fuel.

    HOW.THE.ANGEL.CAME.TO.ME. - CHICAGO.IL FOOTPRINT.BOOK MONDAY. 55-0117 58-1
    And then the next thing I remember, must have been about two years later, I had a little rock. And that would make me about three years old, and my little brother then would just been about not quite two years old. And so we were out in the back of the yard where there was just an old chip yard where they used to bring the wood up and chop the wood.

Chomped up

  1. chewed up; ate up

    REPROACH.FOR.THE.WORD_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-16 SUNDAY_ 62-1223
    Then a great big pretty apple, stripes in it, just a very big healthy looking apple come down and chomped up those other scavenger-looking apples.

Chorus girl 10

  1. a woman (or man) singing and/or dancing in a worldly musical performance.

    SERPENT'S.SEED_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-4 SUNDAY_ 58-0928E
    Do you see where it is? Now, what's happened? Look at a woman who would do that. Look at women who lived back yonder as a chorus girl. What was her daughter? A flapper. What's the flapper's daughter? A rock-and-roll teen-age.

Chronologists 10

  1. those who record an account of events in the order of their occurance.

    SERPENT'S.SEED_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-4 SUNDAY_ 58-0928E
    Now, remember, that all of the creatures of the earth, Adam had named them. He had made the cattle and the beasts, and everything. And today, we chronologists and different great minds of science have been trying for six thousand years to find out that missing link, why that animal... Man is animal life; we know that.

Church house 16

  1. a meeting house, or building used for religious services.

    JESUS.CHRIST.THE.SAME_ BEAUMONT.TX WEDNESDAY_ 61-0118 E-6
    You know I think some of the best meetings we ever have is in churches. Now, I like... Sometimes the meetings, you know, get to a place where we... Crowds are great; we can't get into the little churches, and so forth, or the big churches. But there's something about a church house... I hope you won't think that I've went off on some tantrum since I seen you last. But you know, I believe that a place, a church, is where God stays. Angels dwell among the churches. It's a place that's dedicated to service of God.

City of Brotherly love 16

  1. the city of Philadelphia, U.S.A. from the two Greek roots (philos,love; adelphos, brother) forming its name.

    EAGLE.IN.HER.NEST_ CHICAGO.IL FRIDAY_ 57-0705 E-6
    And now, I hope that the Lord blesses each of you brethren, ministers, businessman, and your business this year. And especially to those who are going to be about the Master's business, as I hear missionaries going out. And I pray that God will be with you. I hope that God will find in His great grace, that next year when the convention's held in the city of brotherly love, that we'll be there with a double portion altogether. The Lord bless you.

Clanish 10

  1. tending to associate closely, to the exclusion of others.

    CHRIST.IS.THE.MYSTERY_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-7 SUNDAY_ 63-0728 12-2
    Now, do you remember that? The enemy will come. And when he does, just cling that much closer together. And the one that the devil is using for an enemy will either get out or come in and be one of you. That's all. Don't never clan among one another or talk, make yourself clannish; we are one.

  2. belonging to a family group; a tribe descending from a common ancestor.

    WATER.OF.SEPARATION_ CHICAGO.IL FRIDAY_ 55-0121 E-7
    One of the noted religions of India, they let a boy from one of the clan take off the other brother's finger with a pocket knife. And the reason they wouldn't let a doctor do it, because the doctor would sterilize the knife and it would kill a germ which might be some of his relations.

Clapboard 24

  1. an overlapping wood board on the roof of a house.

    DOOR.TO.THE.HEART_ HARRISONBURG.VA SUNDAY_ 58-0316EE-58
    And we lived in an old house with clapboard shingles. You know what a clapboard shingle is? And we used to have to put a canvas over us at night when it'd snow to keep the snow out of our face. You could just look at the stars right through them old clapboards.

Clean slate 7

  1. A new start, with no record of past mistakes; an empty record.

    WHAT.HOLY.GHOST.WAS.GIVEN.FOR. - JEFF.IN V-4 N-3 59-1217 32 017
    He'll take His church back to where it left Him at, back to an Eden again, there where it fell. Now, that's where it made its first start of fall; there's where it'll be taken right back with every clean slate of redemption, bringing them straight back to that place again.

Clear as a bell, As 7

  1. Easily and clearly heard or understood; as clear as it could possibly be.

    UNCERTAIN.SOUND. - MIDDLETOWN.OH 61-0315
    I said, "No, I just heard a certain sound and it- -here's where it come from. It rung right out of the pages of this Bible, just as clear as a bell.

Clear your (one's) throat 7

  1. Cough slightly, especially before speaking or to attract somebody's attention.

    MARRIAGE.OF.THE.LAMB. - PHOENIX.AZ 62-0121E E-95 095
    The old custodian was raking down there in the yard, and kept watching the girl. As he raked, something just kept telling him go talk to her. So he laid his rake down, took off his old slouch hat, walked up to where the young lady was, cleared up his throat. She turned around. He said, "Pardon me, Miss."

Clinker 24

  1. pieces from red hot iron broken off by blows of a hammer; the stony fused mass of impurities left from a burning substance such as coal in a furnace.

    QA.ON.GENESIS_ JEFF.IN COD WEDNESDAY_ 53-0729 16-35
    Now, watch this now. Beautiful... Now, He made the sun. Then the first thing you know, a big clinker fell off of it,

Clique 24

  1. a small circle of people.

    UNFAILING.REALITIES.OF.GOD_ JEFF.IN V-16 N-1 SUNDAY_ 60-0626{199}
    God got ahold of him and could talk to him, when he was willing to surrender everything. That's what we lack. You don't want to surrender your ways. You don't want to surrender your societies. You don't want to surrender the little clique that you belong to.

Close-knit 14

  1. inseparable bond of friendship, relationship, partnership, or association with; closely joined together by ties of love, friendship, or common interest; close.

    WHY.LITTLE.BETHLEHEM. - JEFF.IN V-19 N-13 58-1228 80 041
    And it was in Bethlehem where David was born. And his greater Son Jesus also had to be born in Bethlehem, because there's such a close knit between the two, as father and son. Not only was this great Son only the Son, He was the Root and the Offspring of David; He was even before David; He'll be after David; He was for everlasting, from everlasting on.

Clothes line religion

  1. a religion that places emphasis mainly on the manner in which people dress.

    GOD'S.ONLY.PROVIDED.PLACE.OF.WORSHIP_ SHP.LA V-7 N-4 SUNDAY_ 65-1128M
    A man told me not long ago, said, "I don't preach a clothes-line religion."

Clown 10

  1. entertain; to act foolishly

    GOD'S.PROVIDED.WAY_ JONESBORO.AR WEDNESDAY_ 53-0513E-42
    Notice here. They put a rag around His face, and they hit Him on the head. Said, "Now, if You're a prophet, tell us who hit You. We'll believe You then." Jesus never opened His mouth. He didn't clown for people.

Cochise 24

  1. An American Indian Chief of the Apache Tribe

Cocklebur 10

  1. a plant with a prickly seed case. (put a cockleburr under the saddle).

    BELIEVEST.THOU.THIS?_ LA.CA SUNDAY_ 51-0506AE
    You know I told you about riding the horse, you remember the last time? I believe I was here about... I thought I was a cowboy at one time, when I'd put cockleburrs under our old tired horse and get up on him and he would--on the saddle, you know,...

Comb every hair 10

  1. search thoroughly.

    PARADOX_ TAMPA.FL SATURDAY_ 64-0418B
    "We'll comb every hair in here till we find him, and we'll get him."

Combat 10

  1. the battle; to fight; to fight against.

    WISDOM.VERSUS.FAITH_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-17 SUNDAY_ 62-0401 4-2
    And I've heard of sergeants in the army train them boys, and rugged. They'd hate that sergeant; but when it come to combat, they loved him, because, rugged training. That's the way I've tried to train Christians.

Combine 10

  1. a machine for harvesting grain or wheat

    THIRD.EXODUS_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-21 SUNDAY_ 63-0630M5
    God has a time for everything. See? You mustn't go ahead of it. If you cut your wheat before--you put the combine in there before it's ripe, you'll lose the bigger part of your wheat. See? So when the sickle's ready to be thrust in, God will thrust it

Come clean 4

  1. admit the truth; confess one's guilt; be proven innocent; be checked out and found to be acceptable, having no guilt.

    BELIEVING.GOD. - JEFF.IN V-19 N-7 52-0224 53 019
    ..if I can get the people to see that they've got to absolutely come clean with God, then I believe I'd have the authority by Jesus Christ to break the power of any demon there is.

Come in handy 4

  1. may prove to be useful.

    HOW.CAN.I.OVERCOME. - JEFF.IN V-4 N-12 63-0825M 32 019
    I thought, "Well, I believe I'll jot that down, 'cause it might come in handy." Lot of times we do that.

Come of age 4

  1. become adult in law, i.e. reach the age of responsibility (18 or 21 years of age).

    MANIFESTED.SONS.OF.GOD. - JEFF.IN AD.2 60-0518 186 098
    Now, when the father in the Old Testament, understood that his son was come of age, and had been seasoned out unto adoption... They're born a child, they're a son right then. But then they'll never be no more than just a child, just an ordinary son, until they mature and show what they are.

Come to a head 4

  1. reach a crisis (e.g. trouble, a problem, difficulties). Become apparent.

    BLIND.BARTIMAEUS. - BEAUMONT.TX 61-0124 E-49 049
    Those two great factions has been fighting since the world begin. And they're about ready to come to a head right now, where something that Jesus said, "they'd be so close alike they'd deceive the very elected if it was possible." It's true.

Come to light 7

  1. become known, be revealed.

    MAN.THAT.CAN.TURN.ON.LIGHT. - JEFF.IN V-6 N-1 63-1229M 103 053
    So is it in every age. The Word made manifest, come to light is the Light of that age, the Word made manifest just like it was in Genesis 1 when God said, "Let there be light," and there was light, when God said there will be a Son, and there was a Son.

Come to the rescue 10

  1. help someone desperately in need, especially in an emergency situation.

    BELIEVEST.THOU.THIS?. - MINNEAPOLIS.MN 50-0716 E-76 076
    Discouraged, their Pastor had let them down, their loved One. The miracle Worker had let them down, didn't come to the rescue. And there was Mary and Martha left alone--mother and father gone, now just them two girls left alone in the world.

Commons 10

  1. 1.a tract of open public land. 2.the lower House of Parliament in Great Britain or Canada.

    GO.TELL.MY.DISCIPLES_ JEFF.IN V-25 N-5 SUNDAY_ 53-0405S
    This was the commons here then. He come walking across there.

    UNCERTAIN.SOUND_ BLOOMINGTON.IL SATURDAY_ 61-0415E
    The great House of Commons of England, one time said about democracy, it said, "Democracy is all sails and no anchor." (see Idiom "All sails and no anchor".

Conglomeration 10

  1. a mixture of miscellaneous things.

    JEHOVAH.JIREH.PART.2_ GRASS.VALLEY.CA JJ 73-106 FRIDAY_ 62-0706{62}
    Then along come the Pentecostals with the restoration of the gifts. What did it do? Organized. What did God do? Pruned it off. But what did He say? "I will restore, saith the Lord." He'll bring out of that conglomeration a Church that's Blood-washed, Bible-bought, and Word-solid, a Bride.

Context

  1. The portions of a message connected to the passage of scripture.

    HE.SWORE.BY.HIMSELF_ JEFF.IN V-26 N-11 SUNDAY_ 54-1212
    A text, you know, is a wonderful thing, but the context is what makes the text magnified. You see? It's the context of the text.

Coon dog

  1. a dog used to hunt raccoons.(Bro. Branham earned money for schooling, clothing etc. from the sale of the raccoons he hunted).

    ACCEPTING.GOD'S.PROVIDED.WAY_ PHOENIX.AZ TUESDAY_ 63-0115E-13
    And I felt something lick my hand. It was my old coon dog. He put me in school, furnished my clothes, hunting.

Coon grease

  1. the rendered fat from a raccoon, often used as an ointment or salve.

    LAODICEAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.9 352-4
    When I think of this eyesalve opening people's eyes, I can't help but recall when I was a little boy in Kentucky. My brother and I slept in the attic on a straw pallet. The cracks in the house would let the drafts blow through. Sometimes in the winter it would get so cold we would wake up in the morning with such colds in our eyes that our eyes would be shut tight with inflammation. We would cry out to mother, and up she would come with some hot coon grease and rub our eyes until the hardened matter was gone, and then we could see.

Corduroy (trousers). 10

  1. a heavy cotton fabric with a piled velvety surface, ribbed vertically.

    EXPERIENCES.3_ PHOENIX.AZ SUNDAY_ 47-1221
    A little boy was laying there with a blue corduroy overalls on.

Corn cob 16

  1. the spike on which the kernels of maize (corn) grow.

    LIFE.STORY_ OWENSBORO.KY SUNDAY_ 53-1108A E-33
    I stumped my toe, and I had a corn cob tied under it to keep from getting the dirt on it, you know, walking along with a corn cob tied under my toe. Oh, I was a picture.

Corn cracker

  1. a nickname applied to the poor white people of Georgia, North and South Carolina, Florida and other Southern States; from cracked corn being their supposed chief article of diet.

    LIFE.STORY_ HAMMOND.IN. SUNDAY_ 52-0720A
    I, being the only Kentuckian among them, I sure had a hard way to go; I mean I did. They just teased me all the time about being a corn cracker.

Corn crib 16

  1. a sort of lattice-work structure, in which the dried ears of maize (corn) are kept.

    WHY_ CHATAUQUA.OH THURSDAY_ 59-0813 E-28
    So, one day it was a rainy day. Oh, the rain was just a pouring. And the boss said, "Moses, I'm ready to get that Holy Ghost you're talking about." Said, "All right, boss, I'd be glad to go with you." So, he said, "Let's go over to the corn crib. The corn's all out of it now, and it's just been swept out. It's nice and dry and clean." And they walked over there, and Mose said, "But boss, this is not where you get It."

Corn meal 16

  1. ground corn or maize.

    SHOW.US.THE.FATHER.AND.IT.WILL.SATISFY_ YAKIMA.WA SUNDAY_ 60-0731 E-43
    You take a handful out of the sack, that's growed in the field, handful out of the sack, that the machine produced, mix them together, and you'd never tell them apart again. Said, "You'd cut them open, the same amount of calcium, the same amount of moisture, the heart just right, it'd make the same corn meal, and the same corn bread, the same corn flakes, just exactly."

Corn pone 16

  1. A corn meal bread, enriched with milk and eggs.

    AS.THE.EAGLE.STIRS.HER.NEST_ BEAUMONT.TX SUNDAY_ 61-0122 E-66
    When I was a little kid, we lived up in Kentucky, and we had a hard time living. Mama used to take old corn pone (I don't know whether you know what it is, or not), black-eyed peas and turnip greens. And when she'd take that old corn pone... We didn't have any lard. She'd render out meat skins. And then she'd make that (the grease) the shortening for this corn bread out of them meat skins.

Corn stalk 16

  1. the stalk of the maize (corn) plant.

    ARK.THE_ JEFF.IN V-26 N-18 SUNDAY_ 55-0522 120
    So she weaved it with the little--little stalks that they had there, like a little corn stalk, flax stalk. They still have it in Egypt. You can still see them mothers taking their little old babies across the Nile River, push it across, while she's wading, a little basket, the same way, push him in a basket across the Nile River.

Corn-cob-pipe 16

  1. a smoking pipe manufactured from the maize (corn) cob.

    LIFE.OF.DEMONS.AND.VISIONS_ TOLEDO.OH SATURDAY_ 51-0721 E-8
    They told me he was a backslidden Nazarene, once belonged to the Nazarene church and had backslidden. Had his corn cob pipe in his mouth, and he knocked it out on the side of the building, hair hanging down in his face, and tooth out on the side. And looked in, said, "Where is that little Billy Sunday they're talking about in here?" like that.

Corner/to be cornered 10

  1. an awkward position from which escape is difficult.

    AN.ENSIGN_ CONNERSVILLE.IN SATURDAY_ 53-0606
    Almighty God, when Israel was cornered there and the Red Sea before them, the mountains, Pharaoh's army pushing, but You looked down through that Pillar of Fire with angry eyes, said one of the poets, and the Red Sea got scared and moved back, because Israel was on the homeward march to the promised land.

Cornerstone 24

  1. a stone uniting two walls at the corner of a building.

    EVER.PRESENT.WATER_ JEFF.IN V-14 N-6 SUNDAY_ 61-0723M
    The morning that I dedicated the Tabernacle, a vision came, which is written and in the cornerstone there, when the Holy Spirit said to me, "This is not your Tabernacle." See? And I asked where my Tabernacle was, and He set me down under the bright blue skies.

    SPOKEN.WORD.ORIGINAL.SEED_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-2 SUNDAY_ 62-0318 107-1
    That was the cornerstone that held this building, is a keystone. How many knows what a keystone is? When the arch is built, then the keystone holds it together. The cornerstone's what holds up the building, is that right? And the cornerstone in the pyramid was the capstone, was the keystone that held the rest of it together. Now, this keystone was rejected.

Corral 16

  1. A circular enclosure or pen for livestock

    RESURRECTION.OF.LAZARUS_CLEVELAND.OH SUNDAY 50-0813A E-9
    So one day I got to be about eighteen years old; I went out west. I landed in Arizona. And I thought I wanted to be a rider. I went out to their corrals to find out if I could get a job riding in the rodeo. And I climbed up with a pair of Levis on, on the corral fence where they brought the horse out. And they had to come out through the stalls and catching pens.

Cosmic meters

    Cosmic meters 7

    1. pertaining to the universe; particles, dust, light in the universe

      SPIRITUAL.INSPIRATION_ OWENSBORO.KY SATURDAY_ 56-0128
      He Said, "Come here, handful of atoms, and a few cosmic light, a little cosmic meters, some petroleums, and things that this body's made out of.

    Cottonwood 16

    1. the name of several species of poplars, from the cotton-like substance in which the seeds are protected against the cold.

      LIFE.STORY_ OWENSBORO.KY SUNDAY_ 53-1108A E-34
      We had several gallons to pack. They was going to run whiskey that night. And on the road up, I heard It again. I turned around, and about half-way up a big old cottonwood tree, silver poplar it's called, It was, looked like a whirlwind. We call them little cyclones. They're whirlwinds in Kentucky, I think is the best name. It's whirling around in the bush.

    Cow Palace

    1. The name of the Fairgrounds or Stadium where livestock (cattle) are exhibited, or large meetings are conducted, in Los Angeles, California.

      SIGN.OF.HIS.COMING_ CLEVELAND.TN SATURDAY_ 62-0407E-8
      And then, we go from there to the Cow Palace in Southgate, Los Angeles, where we're expecting a big meeting there.

    Coward 10

    1. a person who lacks courage.

      SHOW.US.THE.FATHER_ DAWSON.CREEK.BC SUNDAY_ 61-0521E-80
      There was a hundred and twenty people after His death, burial and resurrection, climbed up into an upper room to wait. They were cowards. They had closed the windows. They were afraid of the Jews. They were afraid to make a testimony. So they hid themselves for ten days in an upper room.

    Cowpoke

    1. a cowboy

      POWER.OF.DECISION_ CHICAGO.IL FRIDAY_ 55-1007
      Here not long ago I was up in the mountains. I used to be a cowpoke, as you know. And I used to ride up in the mountains a lot of times.

      BE.CERTAIN.OF.GOD_ LA.CA SUNDAY_ 59-0412A
      There seemed to be something about him that was a little more than a cowpoke.

    Cracked in the head

    1. mentally deficient.

      WITNESSES_ JEFF.IN V-25 N-6 SUNDAY_ 53-0405E{172}
      There was a fellow, one time, by the name of Elijah. God was with him. He'd seen God in great trials; he'd seen God do things. So he seen sin come upon the nation, so he said, "Now, just a minute." He went up there and prayed, and God give him a witness. He said, "Now, you go down and tell the king that not even dew is going to fall unless you call for it." He goes down and tells the king that. Went up there, and set down. And could you imagine? I can hear some of the people say, "That old man's cracked in his head. See? Why, he says there ain't going to be no rain till he calls for it." But he was God's witness. He knew what he was talking about.

    Cracked-up child

    1. worthless; of no special importance.

      GOD.IN.SIMPLICITY_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0317M 45-4 {293}
      Now, they thought this little cracked-up Child--any illegitimate child is kind of an odd, curious thing anyhow, and there you are. See? But God hiding Himself... Listen. God hiding Himself in what was thought of the world as filth, corruption, illegitimate... Look, God hides Himself in the corruption of a dead seed to bring forth life.

    Cracker 16

    1. a small, hard biscuit.

      LIFE.STORY_ TOLEDO.OH SUNDAY_ 51-0722A E-27
      Did you ever eat it with salted crackers, them old barrel crackers, big ones, did you ever eat that and peppermint candy? Did you ever eat brown sugar with it? I tell you, the second thing I ever stole in my life, and the only thing that I know of, was a handful of brown sugar from my daddy.

    Cradle roll

    1. a written record of children who are born to parents who attend a particular church.

      WARNING.THEN.JUDGMENT_ JEFF.IN V-8 N-3 WEDNESDAY_ 63-0724 {135}
      And one day I come home about four years ago, or five, something like that. And this young girl (which was about eight years old when she was on the cradle roll), she'd been married and had two children.

      CONFERENCES_ BLOOMINGTON.IL MONDAY_ 61-0410 E-54
      It started right, but the thing of it is we adopt grandchildren. God don't have any grandchildren. He ain't got grandsons; He's just got sons. We take our children in and put them of the cradle roll, like Methodists and Baptists and all of them.

    Crank 16

    1. a person with irritable, unpleasant tendencies or actions.

      IS.YOUR.LIFE.WORTHY_ JEFF.IN V-5 N-5 SUNDAY_ 63-0630E 99
      Pharaoh would say, "Who, me? Throw him out." See? "Me?" "If you don't do it, the Lord's-- God's going to smite this nation." "The old crank, turn him out somewhere; let him go; the sun's kinda baked his mind." See? But it brought judgment, because the man was a prophet and had THUS SAITH THE LORD.

    Craps

    1. a game of chance, played with two dice, the winning and losing depending on the numbers thrown.

      WHAT.HOLY.GHOST.WAS.GIVEN.FOR_ JEFF.IN V-4 N-3 THURSDAY_ 59-1217 106
      It's to quit making you smoke, and drink, and want to be a big shot. It'll take that out of you. It'll humble you when you do that. That's what the Holy Ghost is for. It's for a holy life (That's right.): make you quit gossiping; make you quit playing cards, shooting craps, and all these other things that you do around the corner.

    Creek 16

    1. a flow of fresh water much smaller than a river. It's used extensively, and in England is called a "brook", and in the Southern United States, a "branch".

      BELIEVEST.THOU.THIS?_ MINNEAPOLIS.MN SUNDAY_ 50-0716 E-68
      Remember when I was a little boy, I was walking along the creek one time; I seen an old turtle. That was the funniest looking thing I ever seen, an old terrapin.

    Creek-bottom 16

    1. Low land near a creek.

      NEW.MINISTRY_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 59-1115 E-32
      I hunted all the woods through without seeing one squirrel or hearing one. I went down into a creek bottom, and started up to find another little scope of woods.

    2. A dry creek bed

      SHOW.US.THE.FATHER_ TUCSON.AZ THURSDAY_ 63-0606
      "Brother Branham, I know where there is a man that's got about five or six hundred acres, and has got hills and hollows down there, where the waters comes down through the creek." Said, "It'd be wet. We could walk in those creek bottoms, wouldn't scare them."

    Crew cut 6

    1. a popular haircut that's very short and bristle-like.

      CONDEMNATION.BY.REPRESENTATION. - JEFF V-2 N-13 60-1113 7-3 018
      I said, "America will either receive or reject Christ this year." Then I said, "When they elected in Indiana, a twenty-two year old boy to be judge," the Spirit of the Lord came on me and I said, "They'll finally have a president that'll be one of these crew cut, playboy, beatnik-type presidents, a lady's man." Now, them's predictions years ago. See where we're at? It's later than we think.

    Crock haircut

    1. rounded haircut, as though shaped by putting a bowl over the head and cutting the hair along the edge.

      PERFECT.FAITH_ JEFF.IN V-6 N-11 SUNDAY_ 63-0825E {88}
      That night when that little boy in Finland, that day, rather; ... A little boy with a crock haircut, ...

    Crock, scraped with a piece of 10

    1. Pots, bowls or dishes made of clay hardened by heat.

      THE.ANGEL.OF.THE.COVENANT_ PHOENIX.AZ MONDAY_ 54-0301
      And he scraped himself with a piece of crock, as he set on the ash heap.

    Crocodile tears 8

    1. insincere tears for effect only.

      QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS. - JEFF.IN COD 54-0103M 84-157 063
      These things are attributes. Shouting, speaking in tongues, running, shouting, crying, praying, whatever, that's just attributes that follow. The first thing is to accept the Person, Christ Jesus. See? So there's no evidence that we could say. Because a man cries? I've seen man cry and cry, and cry crocodile tears, and he's still just as big a sinner as he could be.

    Crook 16

    1. a thief, a swindler, one whose ways society regards as not straight.

      HEAR.YE.HIM_ CHATTANOOGA.TN SATURDAY_ 58-0301E E-90
      He looked at Him. He said, "How did You know who I was, Rabbi? How'd You know I was an honest man?" He could've been a crook. He could've an unbeliever. He could've been a Greek. They all looked alike about, them long beards and dressed alike. "How did You know me that I was honest and straight and so forth?"

    Crookedness 16

    1. a devious or dishonest nature.

      UNCERTAIN.SOUND_ JEFF.IN V-16 N-3 SUNDAY_ 60-1218 196
      And we have been radio and television-mad, and jokes, and dirt, and filth, and crookedness, and orneriness, and everything, until God's tired of it. When the Gospel, the true Gospel of the Holy Ghost church is back and forth across the nation, showing the certainty of Jesus Christ and His coming, until the time is in here when God writes across our skies, "Weighed in the balance and found wanting." Amen. We're in a terrible condition. Listen at the certain sound, not the uncertain U.N. Yes, sir.

    Cross hairs 10

    1. crossed lines mounted on the front lens of a telescopic gunsight to assist in precise aiming.

      WHY_ BLOOMINGTON.IL THURSDAY_ 61-0413 E-108
      Just then I seen old Burt. We never carry a shell in the barrel; that's a bad policy. So I seen him take this .30-06 and put a hundred and eighty-grain mushroom bullet. Oh, a dead shot... Pulled that kit down, raise it up like that and them cross hairs in that scope right across her heart. I thought, "O God, how can that man do that?

    Cross my heart (and hope to die) 7

    1. an expression used for emphasizing that you are sincere when making a promise, or that what you say is true.

      FROM.THAT.TIME. - JEFF.IN 59-1231 E-21 021
      And he said, "I will never forget. When mother caught me up and said to me, 'Sonny, let me smell your breath.' And I blowed my breath into her face, and she said, 'You've eat coffee to take something off of your breath. What have you been doing? Have you been smoking cigarette?'" And he said, "Something told me to tell her the truth." He said, "But I said, 'No mama. I cross my heart. I haven't been smoking cigarettes.'" He said, "And from that time..." That started it.

    Cross that bridge when you get to it

    1. To deal with a problem when it arises.

      COMFORTER.THE. - JEFF.IN V-15 N-5 61-1001E 126 056
      Moses knew that. "How you going to cross the sea?" Moses said, "I don't know, but He promised that He would be with me." So don't never cross the bridge till you get to it. Stay with God's Word, and God will open up the way, because He is the Way.

    Cross timber 16

    1. A horizontal piece or section of wood placed for support. In the building trade this is called a “header”.

      COMMUNION_ JEFF.IN ER 21-34 THURSDAY_ 57-0418 19
      And, in the taking of the communion, was the difference between life and death. Those who were on the inside under the shed blood took the communion. No one could take the communion outside being under the shed blood. The blood of the lamb was shed first, and then was put on the lintel and the doorpost. The lintel is the cross timber. And on the doorpost... And then the lamb was roasted, and was eaten with bitter herbs.

    Crossed His cast with us

    1. became a partner with; Joined with.

      SHOW.US.THE.FATHER.AND.IT.WILL.SATISFY_ YAKIMA.WA SUNDAY_60-0731 E-57
      And little Jehovah crying in a manger, little Jehovah playing as a boy, little Jehovah toiling as a man, He crossed His cast with us. God become human.

    Crow bait; crow baits; crony crow bait

    1. having very little value; anything having very little worth that will distract from something genuine

      PREPARATION_ OWENSBORO.KY WEDNESDAY_ 53-1111
      That's the way the devil will do it: chop it right away from you, take everything you can get, come right around and rob you of every bit of experience you've got, take everything away from you, telling you there's no such a thing, pointing to some old crow bait laying on the bank.

      SEAL.OF.GOD_ JEFF.IN V-26 N-4 FRIDAY_ 54-0514
      Well, why wouldn't the devil throw out crony, crow bait?

    Crumb, to

    1. to spoil; confuse. WW1 Army slang

      THE.INDICTMENT_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-19 SUNDAY_ 63-0707M
      They're condemned, just waiting the hour of God's wrath to be poured out. He'll crumb them.

    Cuddled 24

    1. to protect and caress within a close embrace.

      RISING.OF.THE.SUN_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-12 SUNDAY_ 65-0418M
      So does God. He's that Great Eagle. In His thoughts He knowed He'd have a church; He knowed He'd have a people. No matter what's cuddled them, no matter what they's hatched out under, He's hunting. He's hunting for His Own.

    Cuffed him up 24

    1. to strike with an open hand: to box or fight.

      I.HAVE.HEARD.BUT.NOW.I.SEE_ SHREVEPORT.LA V-7 N-3 SATURDAY_65-1127E {56}
      But Satan thought he could twist him around a little bit, and cuff him up, and make him do it. But, you see, Job with his perfect revelation of God, and Who God was, and how God loved him, he waited.

    Curry favor (with someone) 4

    1. try to win favor by flattery.

      SMYRAEAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK.CPT.4 131-2
      The governors who tried to curry favor with the public because the people liked the arena, hurled the Christians by the thousands to their death, destroying them by lions and gladiators. What has the devil to do with this? Why blame him? Ah, yes, but it is the devil's hatred behind it all. He is behind it all for he hates God. What God has set His heart on, Satan is bound to try to destroy.

    Curves 15

    1. deviations … in the form of a life that deviates from the perfect will of God or from the Life of Jesus.

      IMAGES.OF.CHRIST. - JEFF.IN 59-0525 E-36 036
      Lord, there's little kinks and curves in my life. I been sitting listening to Brother Parnell, and Brother Neville, and the other fine ministers, and Brother Collins, and many of those brethren who are preaching. I been listening. But, Lord, tonight, I just come to this conclusion: What are they telling me? What are they trying to get over to me? I see that they're trying to get me to be like Jesus.

    Cut and dried

    1. previously decided; arranged ahead of time so no choice is available; lacking suspense; uninteresting.

      ANGEL.OF.THE.LORD. - LA.CA 51-0502 E-27 027
      But awhile ago when I made a personal, just a little personal saying about myself, about ten people got up and walked out. Well, there it is. If people were concerned about your soul, friends, you'd sit down and solve the thing through, and not be so cut and dried in your own ideas.

    Cut corners/a corner 4

    1. do something in the easiest, quickest, cheapest way.

      CHOOSING.OF.A.BRIDE. - LA.CA V-2 N-28 65-0429E 34-4 084
      Ministers, think the same. Do you cut corners here to save somebody's feelings over yonder? Would you do this if it wasn't--if they would put you out of the church ? If you are feeling that way, my dear brother, let me warn you in the Name of Jesus Christ, flee from that right now.

    Cute 10

    1. pretty or attractive, especially in a delicate or dainty way.

      HE.THAT.IS.IN.YOU_ JEFF.IN V-6 N-12 SUNDAY_ 63-1110E{31}
      Now, we have some fine little fellows here. I want you to stay there and sing "Bring Them In," afterwards. All right, you brothers come up here just a minute. My, here's a fresh one: a little pair of brown eyes looking at me with a big cute smile. Little girl? Sharon Rose. That's a great name to name her, after my little girl that's gone on.

    2. amusing

      MARRIAGE.OF.THE.LAMB_ PHOENIX.AZ SUNDAY_ 62-0121E-17
      I said, "Brother Jack, I go to talking; I can't remember just what I was talking about." He said, "Why, don't think that's bad." Said, "I call up on the phone, call somebody, and say, What'd you want?'" Well, that's getting pretty bad...?... Well, my, that might sound jokey, which I don't think it's right to say at the pulpit here. But God's children is just happy children anyhow, you know. So we just like to... I thought that was kind of cute.

    Cutting their throat 10

    1. destroying themselves.

      FELLOWSHIP_ GREEN.LAKE.WI SATURDAY_ 62-0519E-21
      This World Council of Churches, why, they're fighting at their ownselves.They're cutting their throat.

    Cypress 16

    1. A Southern tree, which is much in request for building purposes, and which is entirely distinct from the European variety. It often attains, in America, a very great height, sometimes as much as 120 feet.

      PRESUMING_ PHOENIX.AZ WEDNESDAY_ 62-0117 E-67
      A cypress boat material makes a cypress boat, a poplar material make a poplar boat. See what I mean? And worldly material makes a worldly church. A Holy Ghost material makes a Holy Ghost church.

    Dance on the bubble 10

    1. any act or action that seems plausible and good at first but will prove itself to be flimsy and unstable.

      ISRAEL.IN.EGYPT_ JEFF.IN IC 1-34 WEDNESDAY_ 53-0325
      Now, we got to come to full Doctrine. I like good old shouting meetings, where we just clap our hands, or shout and have a good time, have great powerful services and things, dance on the bubble, as it were. But, wait, then when the showdown time come, you don't know where you're standing.

      I.AM.THE.RESURRECTION.AND.LIFE_ CHICAGO.IL SUNDAY_ 52-0810A
      We people who claim to be there, who claim to have kissed the blessings of the rims of the cup of blessing, how short we come. How we bubble dance on top of the suds, and know not what the bottom is. That's true.

    Darken the door, to 10

    1. Not enter the door.

      GREATER.THAN.SOLOMON_ HOT.SPRINGS.AR V-20 N-11 FRIDAY_ 63-0628E {137}
      No wonder Jesus said, she'll stand with this generation and condemn it. Some of the people live across the street, won't even darken the door where the same thing goes on.

    Darky 16

    1. a Negro; a person of the black race.

      JEHOVAH.JIREH_ INDIANAPOLIS.INDIANA WEDNESDAY_ 57-0612 E-42
      He said, "If Christ has made you free, Mose, then I'll go down and sign the proclamation, and I'll set you free to preach the Gospel." He signed it that morning, and set the old darky free.

    Date 10

    1. 1. a social appointment with a person of the opposite sex. 2. An appointment with someone for a set time.

      LIFE.STORY_ PHOENIX.AZ SUNDAY_ 51-0415A
      1. I had date with her for Wednesday night to go to church.

      LIFE.STORY_ PHOENIX.AZ SUNDAY_ 51-0415A
      That's my date with my Lord. I'm living as true as I know how to keep it. Someday I'll be there by God's grace.

    Daylight Saving Time 19

    1. (abbreviated as DST) Standard time in the U.S. based on the idea of adjusting clocks forward to make better use of summer's daylight hours.

      WE.WOULD.SEE.JESUS_ SASKATOON.SK THURSDAY_ 57-0516E-10
      Now, don't forget it's seven o'clock, daylight saving time, tomorrow afternoon, come for the prayer cards. And at eight o'clock the services will begin.

    Daze 16

    1. often used to represent a state of utter bewilderment.

      DOOR.IN.A.DOOR. - TUCSON.AZ SATURDAY 63-0223 E-12
      He is the Lily of the valley. And in the lily we find opium, and opium settles all matters. It just puts you in a daze, and that's the way the Holy Ghost comes. It puts you in a carefree condition where you don't care who's setting around or nothing about it. You got to let off the steam then; that's it.

    D-day 3

    1. the D in D-day stands for “day”, so D-Day literally means “Day-day”. The term was first used in World War I, as the code designation for the Allied offensive at Saint-Mihiel, France. The most important D-day was June 6, 1944, the day Allied forces began their invasion of Western Europe.

      VICTORY.DAY. - SIERRA.VISTA.AZ 63-0421 E-46 046
      Now, there was a D-day, and then there was a V- day. The D-day is when they went in to fight. The V-day is when a peace was signed, when Germany, and the rest of the allied nations and all, surrendered to the other nations.

    Dead earnest 16

    1. sincere, honest.

      The Message of the Hour
      Course, I'm a poor man. But you know what feeds my children? It's your money. What buys me a suit? Your money. Why would I ever come here? Why would... I'd preach to empty seats if it wasn't you. Then if somebody loves me that well, shouldn't I be dead earnest with that person? I'm going to answer to Christ for it. I should be dead earnest.

    Dead language,A 16

    1. the language of ancient Rome; a language no longer spoken.

      The Message of the hour
      But the original Greek said, "In My Father's Kingdom is many palaces." That sounds better. Why did King James translate it that way? Because he had the Bible order of the Old Testament. See, the king was the "father." And all of his domain was his subjects; that was his "house." That's the way they understood it. That's the reason English language has so many different meanings to it. That's the reason your medicine is wrote in Latin; it doesn't change; it's a dead language.

    Dead letter, A 16

    1. Having no present value or meaning.

      LAW.OR.GRACE_ JEFF.IN V-26 N-7 WEDNESDAY_ 54-1006
      Now, if the law could produce that, what ought the reality of the Blood of Jesus Christ? When a dead letter will do that, what ought the resurrecting strength, and power, and Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ produce?

      LIFE.STORY_ COLUMBUS.OH SUNDAY_ 54-0314
      The Word has to be made alive. It's a dead letter until it's made manifest.

    Dead of night,The 16

    1. the darkest, loneliest part of the night.

      SUPER.SIGN. - JEFF.IN V-15 N-7 SUNDAY_ 59-1227M 142
      Isn't He wonderful? Don't you just feel like worshipping Him, just in the Spirit, just worship Him? [Brother Branham begins humming, "Down From His Glory"--Ed.] When in the dead of night, not one faint hope in sight; God, precious, tender, laid aside His splendor, (Think of what He did.) Stooping to woo, to win and save my soul.

    Deaden 16

    1. to de-sensitize pain through the administration of medicines.

      UNCERTAIN.SOUND. - JEFF.IN V-26 N-19 SUNDAY 55-0731 106
      And they think it's, oh, it's delirious. They shoot a hypo in, the needle to her, and she begins to numb off. She can't speak no more. She's trying. She's a rolling. She's in agony. And the doctor says, "Give her the other one; deaden her," until the death angel sweeps her spirit from her. But that hypo needle might deaden the flesh; it might deaden the mind; but that can't deaden that soul that knows it's seen before God.

    Deaf as a post 16

    1. quite deaf, or so inattentive as to appear so.

      DEMONOLOGY.2.RELIGIOUS_ CONNERSVILLE.IN DE 41-78 TUESDAY_ 53-0609 170
      Now, there's a real one, and there's somebody impersonating. They've had that woman since 1897. She's over a hundred years old now in New York, both deaf as a post.

    Deal 16

    1. An agreement or transaction of any kind.

      PREPARATION_ OWENSBORO.KY WEDNESDAY_ 53-1111
      By the name of Goliath. He stood up there, a great big burley fellow about four times the size of an ordinary man, said, "I'll make a deal with you. I'll tell you what I'll do; let's not fight all these men, kill all these men. You just chose one man out of your group and send him over here, and if I kill him you all serve us."

    Death comes up your sleeve

    1. When death is approaching; when life is leaving your body.

      CHURCH.AND.ITS.CONDITION_ JEFF.IN CH 1-34 SUNDAY_ 56-0805
      What are you going to do? Who's going to stand for you, maybe tonight? Who's going to stand for you when death comes up your sleeve?

    Death's door, To be at 16

    1. to be at the point, or almost the point, of death.

      FAITH.COMETH.BY.HEARING_ CHICAGO.IL SATURDAY_ 54-0320 E-33
      I've never in my life, ever sincerely, asked God for anything, but what I got it (That's right.), maybe not in the way that I asked for it, but I got it. I've seen people rise right up from death's door (the doctor standing there), with death's struggle in their throats and see them people live for a week and then die. See? God letting me know, "I'll hear your prayer..." But you've got to know the will of God towards things.

    Deck 16

    1. In general use, especially in the Western States, for a pack of cards. (This word occurs in Hoyle's famous Book of Games, but is now obsolete in England).

      DEITY.OF.JESUS.CHRIST.THE_ JEFF.IN V-20 N-12 SUNDAY_ 49-1225 83
      People around here saying that they are of Christ, their Church's of Christ they go to, and what happened last night? Opened up their Christmas presents. Let's see about daddy; in there was under the Christmas tree of a many a man last night, set a big box of beer somewhere. No room for Jesus; all for beer. Opened up mama's present, a deck of cards. No room for Christ; the cards.

    2. A variety of poker, also called “twenty-deck” poker, in which twenty cards are used.

      JESUS.AT.THE.DOOR_ NEW.HAVEN.CT THURSDAY_ 58-0529 E-52
      What is it today? It's a modern church member. Dad's down in the, somewhere playing a deck of-- a game of poker. Mama's out somewhere with some of her societies.

    Decoration Day 16

    1. a public holiday, occurring generally towards the end of May, and set apart for the decoration of the graves of those who fell in the late Civil War. Also called Memorial Day.

      JESUS.CHRIST.THE.SAME_ CAMPBELLSVILLE.KY SATURDAY_ 55-0806 E-1
      I don't know whether any of you know the old Methodist Church just above Renox Creek up there, just out of Glasgow, called Whitehill; there's where all my people are buried, practically all of them here, and that died here in this state. And we've had a many a good time out there at the church. Used to be on Decoration Day I used to go there to hold services. And I certainly had a many a great blessing from our Lord.

    Dehorned 10

    1. to remove the horns from an animal.

      SEAL.OF.GOD_ JEFF.IN V-26 N-4 FRIDAY_ 54-0514 {101}
      And you men go into the church, walking down the streets with a cigar in your mouth, like a Texas steer, dehorned, and get... I'm not saying that for a joke. I'm don't believe in joking in the pulpit. I'm saying that's the Truth.

    Delusion 24

    1. a false belief; deception

      FIRST.SEAL.THE_ JEFF.IN MONDAY_ 63-0318 165-3 {327}
      Now, but He said they wanted it, so He would give them a strong delusion.

    Desk 16

    1. In New England, the pulpit in a church, and, figuratively, the clerical profession. Thus, when a father intends his son for the church, he speaks of sending him to the desk.

      JESUS.CHRIST.THE.SAME.YESTERDAY_ CHICAGO.IL SUNDAY_ 52-0810E E-52
      Friends, how many seen the picture there in the book, of that Angel of the Lord? You probably got It in your house. It was copyrighted yonder in Washington, D.C., the only supernatural Being that was ever taken. I'm standing at a sacred desk here; God knows this is true.

    Dicker 16

    1. to exchange, to barter, to bargain. It can also mean “to fool with”.

      DISCERNING.BODY.OF.LORD_ CHATAUQUA.OH V-2 N-25 WEDNESDAY_ 59-0812 14-8
      You can crack it off with jokes and Hollywood, television, or stay home and dicker with that if you want to, but a real born again man or a woman that's got discernment of the Holy Ghost will find his place in church, worshipping, and crying out and doing all that's in his life to try to bring sinners. Certainly.

    Dime a dozen, A 7

    1. cheap and easy to obtain

      HARVEST.TIME_ PHOENIX.AZ V-18 N-6 SATURDAY_ 64-1212
      Now, we know that we find, many times, these little quartets and singings, This is another minister's word; Brother Valdez said, "Sometime they come a dime a dozen."

    Dinner under his arms

    1. carrying his food in a container under his arm.

      GOD.IN.SIMPLICITY_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0317M 45-4 {293}
      God hides Himself in a simple little wash woman or an ordinary man with his dinner under his arm.

    Dirty thing 10

    1. That old dirty pride

      RAISING.JAIRUS.DAUGHTER. - SHREVEPORT.LA 56-0731 E-36 036
      And you know Jairus is setting under this tent tonight? That's right. Oh, if it wasn't for social prestige. That old dirty thing of social prestige. What is social prestige, anyhow? "Oh, it's culture. Our preachers has got culture. How they can present themselves." You know what I think culture is? Culture is this: a man that hasn't got nerve enough to kill a chicken, but can eat a belly full of it when somebody else kills it. And that's what I think, my estimation of culture.

    2. An unfair practice or action.

      SPEAK.TO.THIS.MOUNTAIN. - SAN.JOSE.CA 59-1123 E-66 066
      How did Balaam look down upon Israel and said, "They done every dirty thing that could be done." But he failed to see that they was the church of the living God.

    Divan 10

    1. a low couch or sofa, usually without arm rests or back.

      SHALOM_ SIERRA.VISTA.AZ V-13 N-5 SUNDAY_ 64-0112{138}
      A man got up early and went out and picked up the paper, come back, and set down, put his feet up on the divan, put his glasses on, begin to read the paper.

    Divvy up 3

    1. to divide.

      EPHESIANS.PARALLELS.JOSHUA. - JEFF.IN AD.1 60-0515E 52 030
      The land was provided and divvied up by inspiration. And each one... I could take the Scriptures and show it to you exactly, that he put them in the place where they was supposed to be, positionally, how that the two half tribes was to stay across the river, how that their mothers cried that in their birth, and how that each place was supposed to be.

    Do (something) the hard way 4

    1. by the most difficult or most unpleasant method.

      CONFERENCES. - PHOENIX.AZ 60-0228 E-19 019
      Moses found out that his way didn't work. And as Moses learned the hard way, so have I learned it that way. No doubt, but many of the people here tonight, setting here, or standing here, has learned it the same way. It's a hard way. It's best to surrender your will to God's will and hold a conference with Him.

    Do someone a favor 10

    1. do something for someone out of kindness, rather than out of a sense of justice or for remuneration.

      WORKS.THAT.I.DO.BEAR.WITNESS.OF.ME. - PHOENIX.AZ 51-0413 E-32 032
      Well, you say, "Brother, I've been a deacon for twenty years." I don't care how long you've been a deacon. Deaconship ain't going to take you to heaven. It's the Blood of Jesus Christ that's shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit's going to take you up. That's right. So you must be right with God, with a good mellow sweet feeling towards everybody, ready to do a favor and be a kind brother or sister to the person that you really know is your enemy. The Bible said, "Love your enemy." That's true.

    Do the right thing 4

    1. act in a just or morally correct way.

      ENTICING.SPIRITS. - JEFF.IN DE 79-112 55-0724 126 069
      If you've got the nature of God in you, you'll go to holiness; you'll go to the right thing. You'll stand for the right thing. You'll do the right thing; you'll think the right thing.

    Do the trick 14

    1. to bring success in doing something; have a desired result.

      LOVE. - SASKATOON.SASK 57-0519E E-90 090
      Some people has faith for miracles. Some has little bit of mustard seed faith, but if it's all... You know mustard seed won't mix with any other seed. So a mustard seed will do the trick. Amen.

    Do/try your level best 7

    1. put your best effort towards trying to accomplish a goal; try as hard as you can.

      ONLY.ONE.TRUE.LIVING.CHURCH. - ERIE.PA 51-0727 E-8 008
      At nighttime, when you lay your head on the pillow, to know you've done your level best to do something for somebody, no matter how much scorn there is to bear and how much cross there is.

      CONVINCED.THEN.CONCERNED. - SHREVEPORT.LA 62-1125M E-84 084
      Lord, I'm one of these people. God, I've tried my very level best to be honest. You bear me record. I've told the truth, and You're my witness by proving it. I've told the truth.

    Dodge the issue 10

    1. avoid

      TURNING.NORTHWARD_ PHOENIX.AZ SUNDAY_ 61-0129 E-20
      These twin revivals, one brings forth a man that's supposed to be intellectual; most have been schooled. They're trying to dodge that issue of new birth. The church is trying to dodge it.

    Dog button

    1. a poisonous pill or capsule, used to put an animal to death.

      HAVING.CONFERENCES_ CHATAUQUA.OH WEDNESDAY_ 60-0608E-70
      Years ago, I used to have an old hunting dog; his name was Fritz. And one day when we moved into the city, a policeman came by and threw a dog button in the yard and killed him.

    Dog eat dog 14

    1. (informal ) A way of living in which every person tries to get what he wants for himself no matter how badly or cruelly he must treat others to get it: readiness to do anything to get what you want.

      GOD'S.WRAPPED.GIFT. - JEFF.IN V-14 N-8 60-1225 80 048
      Why, the U.N. don't want Him. They'll take every other idea in the world besides His, but never offer prayer. There's no prayer at them sessions. They just go in there and "dog eat dog," as the old expression is from the street. They don't want Christ. He'd have to change their program; therefore, they don't want Him.

    Dog Tag 10

    1. The informal name of the identification tag worn by military personal.

      THE.POWER.OF.THE.DEVIL_ CHICAGO.IL WEDNESDAY_ 55-1005
      Now, they might have different dog tags they put on you, like Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Pentecostal; but that's just the dog tag. You see?

    Doll (oneself) up 8

    1. to make oneself pretty or handsome; to dress as attractively as possible.

      FELLOWSHIP.THROUGH.RECONCILIATION. - MACON.GA 55-0605
      And when Abel came... I can imagine seeing Cain decorate the altar, fine lilies and making it pretty, all "dolled up" as we call it.

    Doornail, As dead as a 16

    1. absolutely-dead, as if one had been knocked on the head as is a door-nail or knob.

      PALMERWM.CANKRWRM.CATRPLR.LOCUST. - CONNERSVILLE.IN FRIDAY_ 53-0612 E-48
      I stood and looked at it a little bit. And I thought of this Scripture right here. Yes, sir. Those trees puts me in a mind of some of these great big fine spired churches standing up here, but just as dead as a doornail. Even the palmerworm's eat all the bark off of them and everything else.

    Dope 2

    1. term used for illegal drugs; a dumb or stupid person.

      WHO.HATH.BELIEVED.OUR.REPORT. - HAMMOND.IN 52-0720E E-19 019
      O Father, and You've took the alcoholics and the prostitutes; You've taken the dope fiends, You--You've brought them out of every walk of life and made ladies and gentlemen out of them. O God, what more could be?

    Double back 14

    1. To turn back on one's way or course.

      POSSESSING.THE.ENEMY'S.GATES. - JEFF.IN V-11 N-6 59-1108 11 008
      He had testified all over the known earth that he was acquainted with, that he was going to have this son. And then when the son came, he was asked to double back and to destroy the only hope that he had for his testimony to be fulfilled.

    Doughnut 19

    1. a popular delicacy, made of flour, eggs, sugar and milk, rolled into balls and deep-fried in oil.

      SPOKEN.WORD.ORIGINAL.SEED_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-2 SUNDAY_ 62-0318E 100-2
      My. I had a dollar and seventy-five cents, just enough to get me home. I put a nickel of it in some old used doughnuts or rolls (about two or three days old) went down and got me a jug of water at the hydrant, and went out in a cornfield and took my seats out of my old Ford and laid it down; pressed my britches for that night (seersucker pants I had on) and a little old T-shirt.

    Dove-tail 24

    1. perfectly join together; interlocking boards or planks.

      ABSOLUTE.AN_ PHOENIX.AZ SUNDAY_ 63-0127 E-64
      Look how much different His Word is. That Word has been from old. The New and Old Testament coincides with one another like a dovetail piece of board coming together.

      MASTERPIECE.THE_ JEFF.IN V-4 N-7 SUNDAY_ 64-0705 84
      Like many of you men, women my age, we used to have around the country a lot of Chinese laundries. When the Chinese first started in, they come from the west coast, moving eastward, coming over from the eastern country, moving this way. And as they did, they were people who were not acquainted with our language and our ways, but they were fine laundryman. And they couldn't write the ticket so you could get your right laundry back. But the Chinaman, he got himself a bunch of little cards with nothing on it at all. So when you come for your laundry, he would take this card and tear it in a certain way and hand you one piece, and he kept the other piece. And now, it's a little better than what we have now, because when you come back to claim what was your own, those two pieces must dovetail. You couldn't impersonate it if you had to. There's no way of doing it. You could make copies of letters, but you can't impersonate that tear. It's got to fit exactly with the other piece.

    Down in the dumps

    1. Dejected; gloomy; sad or discouraged

      HIDDEN.LIFE.WITH.CHRIST. - MINNEAPOLIS.MN 56-0213 E-20 020
      One day you find them, they're on the housetop just praising God. And the next day you find them, they're all down in the (what we call, you excuse the expression,) down in the dumps, way down, low ebb, don't know where they're standing, don't even know whether they're saved or not.

    Down pat (he got it) 10

    1. Perfectly; suitably; exactly perfect or suitable.

      WARNING.THEN.JUDGMENT_ JEFF.IN V-8 N-3 WEDNESDAY_ 63-0724
      Oh, he's got it down pat; he just stands there and, I mean, he calls them politicians and church members to repentance.

    Down payment 4

    1. partial payment paid when a purchase deal is made or when an order is given, before one is in possession of the goods.

      MOSES.COMMISSION. - HOUSTON.TX 50-0110 E-29
      When you get the baptism of the Holy Spirit, that's the earnest of your salvation. Is that right? In other words, it's a down payment. And if it'll make us feel like this on a down payment, what will it do when we get the full benefit of it? It'll be glorious, won't it?

    Down-town 16

    1. The business portion of a city

      MARY'S.BELIEF_ PHOENIX.AZ FRIDAY_ 60-0311 E-31
      It hasn't been too long ago, I was down town with my wife. And there's a lady said, "Hello, Sister Branham." And I never heard her say a word. I said, "Honey, that lady spoke to you." She said, "I spoke to her." Well, I said, "I'm sure she didn't hear you, 'cause I didn't, and I'm setting closer than she was." "Oh," she said. "I--I smiled at her."

    Drag one's feet 10

    1. walk or move slowly, reluctantly.

      CRUELTY.OF.SIN. - JEFF.IN V-25 N-4 53-0403 151 056
      Notice, beautiful type. Here he comes, dragging the little lamb, pulling him along. I can imagine the little fellow falling, probably knew what was near, dragging his little feet. Perfect type of Christ dragging the cross, God's Lamb coming down through Jerusalem, falling, weak.

    Dragged out 16

    1. unnecessarily long, resulting in the people becoming bored and tired.

      CHURCH.ORDER_ JEFF.IN COD THURSDAY_ 63-1226
      And now, many times that we ruin our services by a dragged out testimony meeting, which I know I'm guilty of doing it. And you get out when we used to have street meeting, and let some old brother stand out there, and he'll stand out... And ask him to offer a word of prayer, and he'll pray for the mayor of the city, and for the governor of the state, and for the President of the Union, and everybody like that, and all the pastors around, you know, each one by number, and Sister Jones that's in the hospital, and things like that; and the people standing, walking by on the street meeting, just keep on walking, See? He just wore them out.

    Draw to a close 11

    1. to finish; terminate; come to an end.

      PHILADELPHIAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK.CPT.8 292-3
      Now this age is the sixth age. In the eyes of God, time is drawing to a close. He will soon be coming back. Soon the cry will go forth as He comes, "And he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still." Revelation 22:11b.

    Drawing card 24

    1. any feature, individual or group that attracts a crowd.

      HEAR.YE.HIM. - OAKLAND.CA 57-0322 E-46 046
      And, brethren, that's what's the matter with the church today. The church ought to be standing on its feet with all the great powers of God flowing out of it. It should be the example and the drawing card of the world.

    Drawn out 10

    1. long, for the purpose of being certain to say all that should be said.

      GOD.IN.SIMPLICITY_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0317M 18-1 {95}
      Now, the services are long; they'll be drawn out because it's a hard service, much teaching, consecration ...

    2. drawn out: same as “dragged out”,

      CHURCH.ORDER_ JEFF.IN COD THURSDAY_ 63-1226 910-170
      You see how quick he got that through? See, about thirty-five minutes (See?), and he had it over. See? Now, that was fine. Now, and Brother Neville, usually his messages are like that. See, that's not long. See? But where you kill your meeting is all that drawn out stuff before you get to it.

    Dress up 14

    1. To put on best or special clothes.

      THIRSTING.FOR.LIFE. - TACOMA.WA 57-0728 E-31 031
      ... Like a lovely young woman, she may be pretty, and she'll dress up real nice, go down the street. And the boys will whistle at her, and she'll twist her shoulders, and giggle, and smoke her cigarettes, and she thinks that's living. But the truth of it is, it's death. The Bible said, "The woman that liveth in pleasure is dead will she is alive." It's life to the flesh, but it's death to the spirit and the soul.

    2. to put on a costume for fun or clothes for a part in a play.

      Message of The Hour
      I've always said Satan wears a tuxedo suit, and a stove pipe hat, and carries a cane on his arm. Watch that slick greaser. That's exactly. Satan's no fool, you know. He knows how to dress up; he makes it a practice. See?

    3. to make (something) look different; make (something) seem better or more important.

      EXPECTATION. - LONG.BEACH.CA 61-0207 E-31 031
      Moses was a great theologian. He was taught in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. Well, certainly, there was nothing Moses didn't know. Now, wonder if back there forty years on the desert, and herding the sheep, what if he'd thought, "I believe I'll go back down to Egypt and dress up my, oh, maybe my mathematics a little bit."

    Driven down 24

    1. concluded; established.

      SEVENTH.SEAL.THE_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0324E 566-1 {313}
      Notice now, to make it sure to you, so it could be driven down.

    Driveway 16

    1. an approach for vehicles to a private house.

      DIVINE.LOVE_ PHOENIX.AZ TUESDAY_ 57-0305 E-39
      That old mother opossum raised up, picked up her nine little babies, stuck that tail right up in the air, walked right down that driveway, just as free as it could be. When she got to the end of the road, she turned around. And Becky had her arms around me, and me and my arms around Becky, crying. And she turned around as if to say, "Thank you, sir."

    Drug out 10

    1. worn out; undesireable

      MARK.OF.THE.BEAST_ LONG.BEACH.CA FRIDAY_ 61-0217
      When I went to Pigalle, Brother Moore and I, when I was in France, we thought we'd see just those old prostitutes of Pigalle, just something drug out.

    Dry cow hide, Pouring peas on a 3

    1. to make a lot of noise that means nothing. (Literally, in this case, dry cow hide is the hide or skin of a cow that has been dried).

      ENTICING.SPIRITS. - JEFF.IN DE 79-112 55-0724 105 053
      People can jump up-and-down and shout all night long, and speak in tongues, like pouring peas on a dry cow hide, walk right out the next morning with enough temper to fight a buzz saw.

    Dry goods 16

    1. clothes, stuffs, laces, etc. that are offered for sale. (see the next entry).

      ACCEPTING.GOD'S.PROVIDED.WAY_ PHOENIX.AZ TUESDAY_ 63-0115 E-105
      And this lady setting right here, about two rows in front of me here, she works at a dry goods store, and is a friend to the family. I don't know her name, but I believe she's a member of Brother Outlaw's church up there. I think that's right.

    Dry Goods Store

    1. an establishment for the sale of clothing, fabric, etc.

      ACCEPTING.GOD'S.PROVIDED.WAY_ PHOENIX.AZ TUESDAY_ 63-0115
      And this lady setting right here, about two rows in front of me here, she works at a dry goods store, and is a friend to the family.

    Dual Highway

    1. Usually four traffic lanes, two running one way and two the other,Sometimes separated by a wide strip of grass. A "freeway". or "divided highway".

      CHRIST.IS.THE.MYSTERY_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-7 SUNDAY_ 63-0728 10-6
      When I had that emergency call to Brother Dauch the other day, I didn't realize that Lima, Ohio, was so far away. Just I thought that was a little skip, hop, and a jump. But my, I left here real early that morning, and never got there until 1 o'clock that afternoon, driving everything that the speed limit would allow and on dual highway.

    Ducktail haircut

    1. hair combed back to resemble a duck's tail.

      HEAR.YE.HIM. - YAKIMA.WA 60-0806 E-44 044
      Yes, they absolutely, the church is practicing rock-and-roll, that new hellish dance they got down there. Some of them guys with this here, ducktail haircut, setting up there, and carrying on the way they do.

    Dungerees 10

    1. men's trousers made of course cotton cloth.

      SERPENT'S.SEED_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-4 SUNDAY_ 58-0928E18-3
      And you women, putting on these little old pants and things, and wearing them out here, little old (What is it you call them?) Knickerbockers... Or what is it? What is that, sisters? No, no, it's not shorts, it's that--got the long legs in them: pedal pushers and overalls, dungarees...

    Duty bound 8

    1. under an obligation.

      MY.REDEEMER.LIVETH. - JEFF.IN V-26 N-15 55-0410S 93 026
      But if you ever get the blessed resurrection in your heart, you want to live the life of a Christian, the whole heart's desire in you is to do that which is right. Oh, I just love it. It's not that you are duty bound to do this. Not you are duty bound, but there's something in you makes you want to do it. You want to do it. You don't do it because it's a duty. You do it because of love.

    Dwell on 8

    1. emphasize; spend time exclusively thinking or speaking about something; recall at length; to ponder; not be able to forget.

      FAITHFUL.ABRAHAM. - LA.CA 59-0415E E-56 056
      Lot got in trouble. And you always get in trouble when you backslide. Wish we had time to dwell on that. But he got in trouble. What happened? The enemy come and packed him off.

    Dyed-in-the-wool 8

    1. staunch; unmovable;close-minded; not willing to believe anything new; fixed on one's attitudes and incapable of change.

      WHY.SOME.PEOPLE.CAN'T.KEEP.VICTORY. - OAKLAND.CA 57-0324E-31 031
      You can't take this brand new, heaven-born, Pentecostal wine and mix it up with them old time creed of some sort, some old set-in-the-way, dyed-in-the-wool. Why, if you do, you go to preaching about the baptism of the Holy Spirit, Divine healing, and signs and wonders, that old skin will try to stretch and it'll blow: "The days of miracles is past. I can't stand it no more. I can't even stand through this sermon."

    Dyspepsia 16

    1. has long lost its special meaning in the US, and is now used to denote all the various forms of weakness of the digestive organs.

      AT.THY.WORD_ W.PALM.BEACH.FL FRIDAY_ 53-1204 E-70
      You have a sister, and she's suffering with some sort of a nervous condition. And she's got dyspepsia or something in her stomach. She's spitting up her food. It's acids in her stomach.

    Easter bonnets/flowers/pink bunnies

    1. Easter bonnets are hats (usually purchased by the ladies especially for Easter Sunday). Easter flowers were usually the early flowers of Spring; "Pink bunnies" - stuffed toys sold in shops at Easter time. The rabbit, being a symbol of fertility.

      RISING.OF.THE.SUN_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-12 SUNDAY_ 65-0418M
      And now, not only is it a memorial day of all these great Easter flowers, and Easterbonnets, and pink rabbits, and so forth, that we've got into, and holy celebrations, which is all right; but this is not the real thing in that way.

    Easter Seal

    1. a stamp, having no "postage" value, printed in commemoration of the Easter celebration and sold, the proceeds of which are used for some worthy cause such as "medical research" (eg. Tuberculosis). The Easter "seal" or "stamp" is then used to "seal" the envelope.

      RISING.OF.THE.SUN_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-12 SUNDAY_ 65-0418M
      Now, on this great breaking of the Easter Seal... Now, today we have a tuberculosis Easter seal. People sends a message one to the other, and to support this great fund or drive for the doctors and medical science to work upon something to retire or to help the tuberculosis, they are seal--what we call an Easter seal, when we send message one to another...

    Eat in the wrong stall (To) 10

    1. Refers to the habits of an animal, particularly a horse accustomed to his own stall, that becomes nervous or cautious and hesitates to eat when moved to an unfamiliar place. To be slow or cautious. Study something first before making a decision.

      PERGAMEAN.CHURCH.AGE JEFF.IN ROJC 229-285 WEDNESDAY 60-1207
      So I certainly thank God for Brother Neville being the pastor of this flock here at the Tabernacle. And seeing that man, Methodist, his background, slow to... Why, just like want to eat in the wrong stall. THOU.SON.OF.DAVID.HAVE.MERCY.ON.ME_ LONG.BEACH.CA WEDNESDAY_ 61-0215 He's like a mule: he won't eat out of the wrong stall.

    Ecumenical 2

    1. universal; world-wide and refers to the Christian church as a whole. It can also be spelled œcumenical.) Its origin is in the Greek oikoumenikos, meaning “of or from the whole world”. Not until Pope John XXIII called the Vatican Council in 1962 for the furtherance of Christian unity did the word “ecumenical” become part of the language of the man in the street. Ecumenical councils have been part of the history of the Church for centuries, but none had been held for almost one hundred years.

      YOU.MUST.BE.BORN.AGAIN. - JEFF.IN V-11 N-5 61-1231M 132 095
      I got a piece of paper I was going to bring with me, where that the ecumenical father of all the Greek Orthodox and Orthodox churches has talked with Pope John the 22nd, and he said, "We may not see it in our generation, but the great brotherhood in the a-merge of both Protestant and Catholic is coming together."

    Elbow one's way 6

    1. shove aside with one's elbow; make one's way by pushing or shoving with the elbow.

      PRIDE. - CAMPBELLSVILLE.KY 55-0807A E-51 051
      The thing it was, was not how she was going to get there, was she going to make an effort to get there? I can see her elbowing her way through the crowd. No matter what's said or who said, she was on her road to meet Jesus. Do you do that? Would you elbow your way through the differences in the world today? Could you elbow your way over the vulgarity, over the picture shows and the dancing and carrying on that you do, calling yourself a Christian, to get to Jesus?

    Elbow room 6

    1. enough room to be free in, move about or function in.

      FAITH.IS.OUR.VICTORY. - JEFF.IN 58-1004 E-24 024
      Faith in what? Not faith in your church, not faith in your creed, not faith in some man, but faith in Jesus Christ Who made the promise. That's the victory. What is it? It is the victory. Say, "My arm's still crippled." But faith is the victory. "I still feel sick." but faith is the victory. Oh, it overcomes the world. When you can climb into God by prayer, until you seen the thing conquered under you. There is nothing that can hurt you then. You've overcome. You got fifty miles of elbow room. You're sailing free then.

    Embalming fluid 10

    1. various chemicals used to preserve a body.

      IT.BECOMETH.US.TO.FULFILL_ JEFF.IN V-15 N-4 SUNDAY_ 61-1001M
      For they were a great age then, greater than we are today, more scientific than we are today. You know, Jesus referred to it, "As it was in the days of Noah..." How they built the sphinxes and the pyramids, and things that we could not touch building today. And they were great scientists. They had colors and things, and embalming fluid in that day, that they could make a mummy.

    End of my wits 24

    1. not knowing what to do; at the end of one's resources.

      GOD.IN.SIMPLICITY_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0317M4-2 {23}
      Now, I don't know what these Seals mean. I am just as much at the end of my wits to them as perhaps some of you are this morning. We have ecclesiastical ideas that has been presented by man, but that will never touch it. And if you'll see, it has to come by inspiration. It must be; God Himself is the only One Who can do it, the Lamb, and tonight is that Book of Redemption.

    End of one's rope 2

    1. a point of desperation; inability to continue a function, to lose all patience.

      ZACCHAEUS. - BANGOR.ME 58-0517 E-18 018
      A man has to come to the end of his rope sometimes before he will recognize... Or maybe God has to lay him on his back, sick, hurt, until he will look up. But God has strange ways of doing things, but His ways are always right.

    Exactly to the letter 10

    1. just as He said; just as it is written. Perfectly.

      FUTURE.HOME_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-5 SUNDAY_ 64-0802 9-4
      And seeing all these mysterious things that we have seen come to pass, then I think, after understanding that, in the hour that we're living in and the position; there's no one that would want to set down real sensibly and examine what has been spoken of, and what is promised to happen, and what has happened, but what could say that those things are fulfilled. See? Exactly what God said He would do, He did it just exactly to the letter. See?

    Explain away 4

    1. make a convincing excuse for; to make anything that God said obsolete through reasoning and explanation.

      HEAR.YE.HIM. - SPOKANE.WA 62-0711 E-36 036
      And they've got intellectual giants in the world today that can almost explain away everything that God said to be true. They can take it from a theological standpoint, intellectual. And if you just take your own mind of thinking, reasoning like Eve did at the beginning, they can explain everything of the Bible away from you.

    Fable 10

    1. a story that is not true.

      IDENTIFICATION_ TULARE.CA V-22 N-14 SUNDAY_ 64-0216{143}
      And that's the same thing today. He, not your organization, not your group; Christ, and Him alone, has the Word of Life. Where do you identify yourself, with some false fable of something man has made up, or the achievement of God?

    Face lift 10

    1. plastic surgery to remove wrinkles or sagging skin from the face. In this case, polish or do something to improve the appearance

      RISING.OF.THE.SUN_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-12 SUNDAY_ 65-0418M17-3
      There was the first Sheaf come up from all the prophets which was the Son of God, the King of all prophets. There has been churches, churches, brides, brides, churches, brides, brides, but there's got to come One. Hallelujah. There has to come a real Bride. There must come One that's not only got the mechanics, but the Dynamics of It, makes that church live, move in the power of His resurrection. Until we come to that place, until we find that place, what good does it do to polish the hubs? What good does it do to give her a face-lift or a simonize job, when there's no Dynamics in it?

    Fair and square

    1. without cheating; honestly.

      IT.IS.I.BE.NOT.AFRAID_ PORT.ALBERNI.BC THURSDAY_ 62-0726
      Somebody's watching your life, correctly. Be honest. Let everybody know. Let your dealings be fair and square, and don't take nothing doesn't belong to you. Don't say nothing but what's the truth. And you can always tell the truth every time, and God will honor the truth.

    Fake 10

    1. anything or anyone not genuine

      INDICTMENT.THE_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-19 SUNDAY_ 63-0707 55-5
      He said, "They calling the holy works of God an unclean spirit doing it." And no forgiveness for it, making shame of His Word, trying to expose It, and call It a fake or fanaticism.

    Fall back into (to) 10

    1. To give way; withdraw; retreat; recede

      EPHESIAN.CHURCH.AGE JEFF.IN MONDAY 60-1205
      47 How these great isms would rise up and all fall back into Communism; Hitlerism, and Mussolini, and Nazism, and so forth, would all fall back into Communism.

    2. return to

      CHURCH.CHOOSING.LAW.FOR.GRACE_ MIDDLETOWN.OH THURSDAY_ 61-0316
      (See that they'll fall back into that same old rut that the Methodists did, the Baptists did, the Presbyterian did), and crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and bring Him to an open shame..."

    Fall for her 10

    1. to become interested in someone in a romantic way.

      SERPENT'S.SEED_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-4 SUNDAY_ 58-0928E 16
      And when a man takes to himself a wife, and if she's correctly his wife, a God given wife, she'll be just to him as part of him.That's the reason you have so many scruples in the marriage. Is because you go out and see some girl with pretty brown eyes, or blue eyes, or something like that, some pretty figure, and you fall for her. First time she has her first baby them teeth comes out, and she gets wrinkled and old, and then you want to kick her out.

    Fall out (with someone) 4

    1. have a disagreement; quarrel; not be on friendly terms with someone.

      GOD'S.PROVIDED.WAY. - CONNERSVILLE.IN 53-0613 E-65 065
      And that same Lamb's provided tonight for every sinner, for every boy or girl, every man or woman. If I hurt your feelings preaching, I didn't aim to. Only thing I want to do is tell you the truth, my friend. Don't fall out with me.

    Falling apart 2

    1. losing the intended structure, form or condition; collapsing morally and in every way.

      FALLING.APART.OF.THE.WORLD. - JEFF.IN V-10 N-6 62- 1216 36 038
      When Christ came on Christmas nineteen hundred years ago, the world was falling apart; everything had come to pollution. The religious world had been polluted. The Roman world, morally, was on its lowest ebb.

    Falls City 16

    1. referring to Louisville, Kentucky, which overlooks the falls of the Ohio River.

      STATURE.OF.A.PERFECT.MAN_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-18 SUNDAY_ 62-1014M 55-2
      I was talking right here in this room the other day to a official of one of the biggest Methodist churches there is in the Falls City, one of the most spiritual Methodist churches there is in the Falls City, show Methodist age which comes in next to our age there--the Pentecostal.

    Familiar spirit(s) 16

    1. demon(s) supposed to be in close connection with man.

      GOD.KEEPS.HIS.WORD_ STURGIS.MI TUESDAY_ 57-0115 E-3
      And he said, "And let me tell you why that I know that the devil can heal." He said, "I live in a city where there's a woman that has a familiar spirit." You know, one of the devil's spirits. And said, "People come to her for healing."

    Fandango / Fandangoed / Fangdangoed 19

    1. something showy but worthless or useless; a trinket. (also sometimes called a "gew gaw"); to be adorned or dressed with such.

      FELLOWSHIP.BY.REDEMPTION_ JEFF.IN V-26 N-17 SUNDAY_ 55-0403
      But I see where the church has went off on a bunch of fandango stuff and has never come back,

      MARRIAGE.OF.THE.LAMB_ PHOENIX.AZ SUNDAY_ 62-0121E
      And when all these fancy first ladies come by with all their new fandangoed things, the king looked at them, and put them in the chamber with the concubines. But when this Esther come into his sight, and he got a glimpse of that sweet, humble, meek spirit, he said, "That's her. Go get the crown and put it on her head."

    Far be it from me (to do something) 7

    1. Often used to introduce a criticism or suggestion to a behavior you disagree with or disapprove of. "I never want to do or be that".

      UNCONDITIONAL.COVENANT. - PHOENIX.AZ 54-0306 E-14 014
      We live like ordinary people, when God in heaven knows I'd be a multi-millionaire if I wanted to be. But far be it from me to ever take the Gospel of Jesus Christ to commercialize it. Never in my life will I ever want to be guilty of such a thing as that.

    Far-fetched

    1. hard to believe; questionable

      376-1 RESUME.OF.THE.AGES - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.10
      This may seem far fetched to some but actually it is very plain for all to see because right now the churches are controlling politics and at the opportune time will manifest exactly how great is that control. This ecumenical move will end up with Rome at the head even though the people did not envision it that way.

    Feather in one's cap 4,10

    1. an accomplishment of which one can be proud; prize or award for an achievement; to do something that might make oneself look important or gain approval from one's superiors.

      TIME.OF.DECISION. - LA.CA 59-0418 E-27 027
      Oh, and that little policeman got arrogant. And Mr. Brown said, "Sir, I'm only telling you the truth." He said, "You did that just to act smart, 'cause you seen me on the corner and knew I was a policeman." You know, one of these little fellows wants a feather in their cap?

    Featherbed around hands

    1. Padded leather gloves worn for boxing

      ONLY.ONE.WAY.PROVIDED.BY.GOD_ CHICAGO.IL V-21 N-2 WEDNESDAY_ 63-0731
      And then they fought bare-fisted, and now we got a featherbed around our hands when we fight.

    Fed up with someone (on something) 6

    1. (informal) to have enough of something or someone; to be tired of/bored by something unpleasant or tedious; exasperated with something or someone.

      TOKEN.THE. - BAKF.CA V-22 N-8 64-0208 9 005
      All that He had did, yet they would not repent. They would not come to God. They ignored all of His signs. They ignored His prophet. They ignored the message. They wanted their own way. So God had been fed up with them. So He said, "I'm going to make a separation now between those who do believe and those who do not believe."

      REPROACH.FOR.THE.WORD. - JEFF.IN V-2 N-16 62- 1223 3-3 008
      Finally, I just got fed up on it. And I was way smaller than this man, was supposed to be like my father. So I walked up to him, and put my finger in his face, and I said, "Don't strike her again."

    2. Brother Branham is also using this expression as to mean “feed on (or upon) , that is, “filled up; to take as food; be nourished by; to get satisfaction, support, etc. from”.

      REDEMPTION. - SAN.FERNANDO.CA 55-1119 E-30 030
      And coming down, he was just having a good time, all vitamin filled up. You know, that's the way a good church is, when it's all fed up with the Word, and when the Holy Ghost really goes to falling. You know, they go jumping around a little.

    Feel blue 10

    1. feel sad, discouraged, or mildly depressed.

      WHAT.HEAREST.THOU.ELIJAH. - CHICAGO.IL 59-0609 E-17 017
      But Elijah was weary, and he was feeling blue. And then Jezebel put this threat that almost throwed him into a nervous breakdown. You see, some people think that God's prophets ought to continually be bombarding away all the time. But God wants them to come aside.

    Fellow traveler

    1. a companion on life's road.

      ISRAEL.AT.THE.RED.SEA.2_ JEFF.IN IC 65-96 FRIDAY_ 53-0327
      And this, my brother and fellow-traveler and fellow-minister, whom You've called from his mother's womb, Father, might be able tonight to open the Scripture by the Holy Ghost.

    Fifth Columnist

    1. any subversive movement within an organizaion or country who give support to the enemy; (said to have been used first by Spanish Nationalist General Mola (1939) referring to the supporters of Francisco Franco in his uprisinhg against the Spanish Republic

      SHOW.US.THE.FATHER.AND.IT'LL.SATISFY_ SPINDALE.NC SUNDAY_ 56-0422
      Shame on them. Biggest fifth column move the world's ever had.

      HEAR.YE.HIM_ EDMONTON.ALBERTA WEDNESDAY_ 57-0807
      You talk about a fifth columnist; that's the fifth columnist. I'm not worried about Russia coming over here and doing any harm to us. They're not going to hurt us; we're hurting ourselves. Our own moral decay is what's taking us down. It isn't the robin that pecks the apple that hurts it; it's the worm at the core that hurts it. It's our own rottenness.

    Fight it out 7

    1. to fully combat or dispute, holding back nothing until either there is a victory or a truce is reached.

      ANGEL.OF.THE.COVENANT. - PHOENIX.AZ 54-0301 E-34 034
      Now, let's break that down just for a moment. Now, the land belonged to him. Now, God didn't say, "I'm going to go in there and empty up the land and then put you in it." He said, "I've give it to you; now you go fight it out with them." There you are.

    Fill in his parts

    1. he begins to add, one by one, the necessary figures or scenes in order to arrive at a finished picture.

      SEVEN.CHURCH.AGES_ JEFF.IN V-26 N-2 WEDNESDAY_ 54-0512
      When God started off, like an artist drawing a picture of something, He begins to fill in His parts.

    Fill somebody's shoes 7

    1. satisfactorily replace someone in a job, function etc; to be able to accomplish the same thing that someone else does.

      TAKING.SIDES.WITH.JESUS. - JEFF.IN COD 62-0601 767-112 061
      ... I see two or three young men, four or five setting on another row back here, and like that. You're young men; I'm getting old. Brother Neville's getting old. We're middle-aged men. If time rolls on, we're going to walk off the scene after while, you've got to fill our shoes. See?

    Fired up 2

    1. To be excited about something

      EXPECTATIONS. - LA.CA 51-0507 E-40 040
      "Do you believe that Book you got in your hand?" Said, "Yes, sir. I believe every bit of it," a little old girl all fired up with the Holy Spirit, you know.

    First hand 18

    1. To find out about something from the original source. (In the following quote, it's perhaps implying: “direct from God”.)

      MARY'S.BELIEF. - LA.CA 59-040 E-28 028
      She was so happy about it, so happy that God had permitted her, to let a first hand miracle be performed on her.

    Fish-fry 16

    1. a sort of picnic, where the fish are caught and cooked on the grounds.

      MAKING.THE.VALLEY.FULL.OF.DITCHES_ SHREVEPORT.LA SATURDAY_ 56-0728 E-37
      "I seen them give the brother a Bible that day when they brought him into the church, and give him the privileges of being their pastor." And I said, "I always said he was such a handsome looking fellow." I said, "But that's not all of it, sister. The thing of it is, what does he preach? What does he feed with? Does he feed with some kind of little revelation program? Does he talk about roses and flowers, or whose going to be the next president, or some baseball game, or some fish fry, or party? Or does he preach the Word of God and stand on It, firmly?" Yes, sir.

    Fit/be like (putting) a glove (on one's hand) 4,14

    1. fit perfectly; a situation feels perfect, like it was really meant to be.

      EXPECTATION. - NEW.YORK.NY 51-0930 E-15 015
      And finally one day God placed me with who loved me, and I'm happy to be one of you. I believe it's the cream of the crop, and no disregards to anyone else. Just somewhere that I just fit like a glove.

      LAW.HAVING.A.SHADOW. - BINGHAMTON.NY 54-1203 E-8 008
      I'd thought, surely, if God wanted me to pray for His children, He'd have somebody who believed it. So I got over with the Pentecostal people, and it was just like putting a glove on your hand. It would just fit right in, because they believed in such, so I was just right at home.

    Fit/fill the bill/menu 6

    1. as expected; be suitable; serve the intended purpose.

      FIRST.SEAL.THE. - JEFF.IN 63-0318 162-4 {309} 138
      They want something, just live anyway they want to and still belong to church and obtain their testimony. See, see? So, he fits the menu just exactly. And you remember, "he" was finally called "she" in the Bible. And she was a prostitute and had daughters. Just fits the bill of the day, what the people want. There it is.

    Fixing to

    1. getting ready to do something.

      LED.BY.THE.SPIRIT.OF.GOD_ SHREVEPORT.LA MONDAY_ 56-0723 E-18W
      Here in California not long ago, I was fixing to make an altar call,

    Flapper 10

    1. in the 1920's, a young woman considered bold in actions or dress.

      QA.ON.GENESIS_ JEFF.IN COD WEDNESDAY_ 53-0729
      Now, I'm sure picking on the women tonight. But look, the world worships women, but women was the Devil's instrument in the beginning. And an unjust one today is the best instrument he's got. She'll send more preachers to hell than all the bootleg joints there is in the world. Let a little flapper with a cigarette in the corner of her mouth, and her hair all cuticured up like that, and great big long eyelashes that blink up-and-down, brother, a little kind of nice-looking physique on her, watch what she'll do. Preacher, you'd better cover yourself up with the Blood of Jesus Christ.

    Flashy 16

    1. showy, but empty.

      DOOR.INSIDE.DOOR_ SOUTH.BEND.IN SUNDAY_ 58-0209E E-48
      The eyes open.. We look at flashy things. Remember, everything that glitters is not gold. I've done a lot of prospecting. And fool's gold, which is iron pyrite, shines a lot brighter than real gold. But the value in it... Be sure that your eyes see the right thing.

    Flask 24

    1. a small bottle for carrying liquor or other liquids.

      FROM.THAT.TIME_ DAWSON.CREEK.BC SATURDAY_ 61-0520 E-30
      And then I thought, "What a little jewel she would be for any man's wife." And I said, "Tell me your story, lady." I said, "There's no one seem to be rushing to it just now. What about it?" She said, "Very well." She said, "I was raised in a strict Christian home." "Yes, ma'am." And she said, "One time, I started (against my parents better judgment) of going with a boy that packed a flask in his pocket. And one night, he persuaded me to take a drink".

    Flat refusal, A 4

    1. an absolute, definite refusal.

      QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS. - JEFF.IN COD 61-1015M 690-228 11
      We remember one time, Father, when Jesus here on earth, the Syrophenician woman come to Him and said, "Lord, be merciful unto my daughter, because she's variously vexed with devil." And we hear what He said, "It's not meet for Me to take the children's bread and give it to the dogs." Oh, God, seemingly what a flat refusal, and not only that, but to call her a dog. But instead of being arrogant about it, very sweetly and humbly she said, "That is true, Lord." Because it was truth.

    Flattop 7

    1. a brush-like haircut, flat on top.

      IDENTIFIED.WITH.CHRIST. - JEFF.IN V-4 N-4 59-1220E 59 032
      We take men. Men, you catch them on the street or in their business. The old man wants to be a teenager. He'll cut his hair off on the flattop and make a ducktail in the back. He wants to be a teenager.

    Flesh on both ends of the line

    1. probably the one who prophesied and the one who interpreted the prophesy were both "in the flesh", not "in the Spirit".

      QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS_ JEFF.IN COD THURSDAY_ 61-0112 570-378
      And if you notice, ninety percent of the time like that, the interpretations, it's always just quoting some Scripture or something like that, which it's probably flesh on both ends of the line. You know what I mean like that. See? All right.

    Flighty, To be 16

    1. to be frivolous; unstable, restless.

      JEHOVAH.JIREH_ KARLSRUHE.GERMANY WEDNESDAY_ 55-0817 E-25
      Thank you. You are very lovely. I like you German people. I like the way you take things. You're not flighty (that's just jump at anything). But if it can be proven, you are looking for a solid foundation. That's what you're looking for now. That's what you're looking for to reunite yourself. I am praying daily that one day Germany will all be together again, no Iron Curtains, mothers and fathers can be together, sons and mothers can be together, the families reunited, all under the leadership of Almighty God. God grant it.

    Float

    1. A low,flat, decorated vehicle for carrying exhibits in a parade.

      RAPTURE.THE_ YUMA.AZ V-5 N-14 SATURDAY_ 65-1204
      And right on down there come a float, and on the front of it was a grave to the unknown soldier;

    Flunk 2

    1. To fail an exam or course.

      PERFECT.STRENGTH. - JEFF.IN V-8 N-1 61-1119 107 046
      I'd rather my boy would get a good, decent "F" on his card, to flunk, than I would to know he got a straight "A" and cheat over it.

    Flunky 10

    1. a manservant who serves or assists someone.

      ONE.OF.THE.MEANEST.MEN.IN.TOWN_ CHICAGO.IL SATURDAY_ 61-0429B E-21
      How did that foot-wash flunky ever pass Him? I wished I could've been there. I'd have been watching for Him. I'd have had a special bowl of water ready for Him. I would've loved to have met Him.

    Fly in the ointment, A 18

    1. a hindrance; a difficulty or something unpleasant which prevents or spoils total satisfaction or enjoyment.

      FORSAKING.ALL. - TEMPE.AZ 62-0123 E-49 049
      And God never did bless Abraham until he totally obeyed Him. Abraham wanted to take his daddy along. And the old man was a fly in the ointment all the time. Finally he died. Then Lot, there was strife and everything. And then, as soon as Abraham fully obeyed God and separated himself, and let Lot go on down there in the good lands, wherever he wanted to go, down in Sodom, then God appeared to Abraham, and said, "Lift up your eyes. I give the whole thing to you."

    Fly loose

    1. acting before thinking or considering the situation.

      INFLUENCE_ SHREVEPORT.LA V-17 N-8 SATURDAY_ 63-1130B
      And many times today it's the same thing. They say, "Well, my denomination believes this, and I don't care." See? Take time to search the Word. God will never judge the world by a denomination; He'll judge it by His Word. And His Word is Christ, and Christ is the Word. They're the same, yesterday, today, and forever, Hebrews 13:8. But instead of trying to take correction, they fly loose.

    Fly off the handle,To 4

    1. to become angry with someone; lose one's temper suddenly.

      ISRAEL.AT.THE.RED.SEA.1. - JEFF.IN IC 35-64 53-0326 114 066
      Then, the reason you curse, smoke, drink, get angry and fly off of the handle, and things like that, is because you are a sinner.

    Fly-by-night 2

    1. untrustworthy; Something that is not operationally sound.

      IT.WASN'T.SO.FROM.THE.BEGINNING. - SHREVEPORT.LA SUNDAY_ 60-1127M E-50
      We pray now for these hands that was raised up. God, this is the hour of sincerity. It's the hour when men looking upon the earth and fear upon them for the things that's coming. They don't want just something that's a fly-by- night. They want something solid. They want something that's real."

    For fun 4

    1. for amusement, not being serious.

      WHAT.HOLY.GHOST.WAS.GIVEN.FOR. - JEFF.IN V-4 N-3 59-1217 118 068
      If the people say, "It's all right if a man plays a little cards for fun and just gambles a nickel or two, it's all right." God says it's not.

    For good 4

    1. for ever, permanently.

      FROM.THAT.TIME. - PHOENIX.AZ 60-0302 E-22 022
      Many of you remember that. The nation told us, "Wars are settled for good." They meant that. From that time, they said, "There'll be no more war." But we had them just the same.

    For the asking 14

    1. by asking; by asking for it; on request.

      GOOD.SHEPHERD.OF.THE.SHEEP. - PHOENIX.AZ 57-0308 E-35 035
      But then can you hear the coo of the great Shepherd across the river, "Come, ye blessed of My Father"? Do you want Him? He's yours for the asking if He knocks at your heart.

    For the birds

    1. undesirable; of small worth

      IS.YOUR.LIFE.WORTHY_ JEFF.IN V-5 N-5 SUNDAY_ 63-0630E{154}
      Now, could you imagine that a man with a life that would say, "To believe in Divine healing, that's something for the birds.

    Ford: 10

    1. A shallow place in a stream, river etc. that can be crossed by walking, riding on horseback or in an automobile. To "ford" is to cross by any of these methods.

      GREAT.SHINING.LIGHT_ JEFF.IN V-24 N-1 SUNDAY_ 57-1222
      And as they wandered on, I can see them leaving the mountains and go to the west slopes. They followed the slopes down to the Tigris River, and there they follow the mighty Tigris on down till they come into Babylon, crossed the ford at Euphrates, on down, and skirted the lands of Palestine.

      EPHESIANS.PARALLELS.JOSHUA JEFF.IN SUNDAY 60-0515E
      Some of them were trying to get across way down at another ford, and Paul said to him, "Unto what were you baptized? Where are you trying to cross at?"

    Four on one side and five on the other

    1. lopsided; a man - but acting like a woman.

      SERPENT'S.SEED_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-4 SUNDAY_ 58-0928E
      Now, notice. This man, when he was created, God separated his spirit, and He took a piece off the man, his side, and made a woman out of it. And then He took the feminish, dainty spirit of the man and made a woman out of it, and He made the man masculine, burly. And when you see a man that's little, you know, manicuring (or whatever you call it) his fingernails and, you know, four on one side and five on the other, and is slicking his hair down, and holding his mouth open in front, and such stuff as that, one of these pretty boys; you just remember, sis, there's something wrong with that bird. There's something wrong. You better keep your eye on him.

    Four-flusher

    1. As in a card game (Poker), to pretend, or bluff.

      WHO.IS.JESUS?_ TOPEKA.KS V-20 N-4 SATURDAY_ 64-0620B
      I don't want to say this word, as we'd call it today, "four-flusher," just something that was putting on.

    Framework 10

    1. structure of the body or the structure of a house; any structure that holds things together.

      ONCE.MORE_ CHICAGO.IL V-21 N-7 SUNDAY_ 63-0804A{25}
      So see him standing there, and we'd say, "So this is Samson?" Let's catch a picture of it, this great, mighty warrior. Let's picture him this afternoon that he had wide shoulders, great framework.

      FUTURE.HOME_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-5 SUNDAY_ 64-0802 26-1
      Now, so the old world framework was not destroyed by the water. The world was only washed off. That got its baptism; it was baptized. So will the framework remain though it be burnt by fire. It don't destroy the earth (See?); it just destroys the sin that's on it.

    Fraud 10

    1. intentional deception or trickery to cause a person to give up property or some lawful right. Or, "this man is a "fraud" - a person who deceives.

      GOD.IN.SIMPLICITY_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0317M 9-1 {46}
      Satan tried to take it away from us one time in a flaw, in a fraud of a lawsuit:

    Freight-car 16

    1. a railway car for carrying merchandise. In England, a goods van.

      LAW.HAVING.A.SHADOW_ CHICAGO.IL THURSDAY_ 56-0621 E-60
      Take an old freight car when they load it, after there's been this put in it and that put in it... Well, the car might--and if it could've been human, then it could do it, would jump up- and-down on the track say, "Oh, look where I am."

    Freight-train 16

    1. a railway train, for the carrying of merchandise. In England, a goods train. Or, like something that is long running; with considerable endurance.

      PARADOX_ TAMPA.FL SATURDAY_ 64-0418B E-12
      And I'm just like a freight train; I'm long- winded. And I remember the first time when I started to preach. And I was a little Baptist preacher. I carried that Bible under my arm, and I thought I was just a real preacher. Somebody'd say, "Are you a preacher?" I'd say, "Sure. Yes, sir, really am."

    Frisco

    1. Short form of San Francisco, California, U.S.A.

      ANGEL.AND.HIS.COMMISSION_ PHOENIX.AZ SUNDAY_ 47-1102
      Soon as these services is over, I'm to go down in California right away, and then from there to Frisco, and then to Vancouver, British Columbia, to begin Tuesday.

    From A to Z 4

    1. completely and thoroughly. From the first letter of the alphabet to the last.

      WISDOM.VERSUS.FAITH. - JEFF.IN V-3 N-17 62-0401 63-5 180
      You can have all the Word; you can know that Word from A to Z, and It will never work for you. Have you seen man take that Word and try to make It work? Say, "Brother, Glory to God..." It just won't work. You can't fool with the Word. No, no! No, no! No matter what you profess, the Word testifies of Itself.

    From door to door 11

    1. From one house, flat, etc to the next.

      GOD'S.PROVIDED.WAY. - BAKF.CA V-22 N-6 64-0206E 37 019
      That's the way men ought to do today, not be herded in by some denominational coop, but come in the way God said come in by the baptism of the Holy Ghost and the new birth. Swarming revival, not church joining, soliciting from door-to-door and passing magazines, but a birth, being borned again, filled with the Holy Ghost, God's way, freeing himself from the world.

    From pillar to post 3,4

    1. in several different directions, gotten out of control and skittering about hither and yon.

      HEAR.YE.HIM. - INDIANAPOLIS.IN 56-0611 E-16 016
      That's the way the church is today; it doesn't know what it believes; it just jumps from pillar to post. And every little thing comes along it jumps after it; and therefore, all the beauty and the perfume of the church has been sprayed away.

    Fur fly, To make the 16

    1. To breed a disturbance; to make a display of temper; to proceed to blows, etc. There will be an angry response.

      JEHOVAH.JIREH_ WATERLOO.IA MONDAY_ 58-0127 E-9
      Said, "I promise." Well, he run down to tell the--the--the reporters. Well, you know how a newspaper could play it up, great big headlines, "The Ecclesiastical Fur Will Fly." So we had to go over the coliseum to get the people. And that proved to me, that one day when persecution sets in, the church of the living God will be one.

    Gadget 2,3

    1. Term used to describe an object, especially a small mechanical device for which the speaker cannot remember the name.

      QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS. - JEFF.IN COD 59-1223 491-97 059
      Now, if it's getting a little warm in here, you can turn that gadget down, down there, if it's getting a little bit to warm for you.

    Gag 2

    1. joke.

      SECONDHANDED.ROBE. - BROOKLYN.NY 56-1206 E-21 021
      And it's terrible to see the way this great nation of ours is sinking and falling, and all the programs and nearly on the radio and everything is some kind of a gag, or dirty joke, or some kind of a smutty odd thing being told.

    Gaggy 10

    1. something unpleasant that causes one to retch, (an involuntary effort to vomit), or choke.

      SPOKEN.WORD.ORIGINAL.SEED_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-1 SUNDAY_ 62-0318M
      Was always a "hair in the biscuit." You know that's right. Excuse that expression, but you know, a gaggy thing,...

      END.TIME.SIGN.SEED_ TIFTON.GA MONDAY_ 62-0319
      If you're particular about your food, you wouldn't eat anything dirty to make this body sick or gaggy, ...

    Galley / Gallery 10

    1. 1. Galley: a ship's kitchen. 2. Gallery: a platform from which spectators may view an event as in an arena or theatre. 3. a long, narrow room specifically used for shooting at targets.

      WORLD.IS.FALLING.APART_ NY.NY V-18 N-10 FRIDAY_ 63-1115
      "No, they all eat out there in the galley together."

      ONCE.MORE_ CHICAGO.IL V-21 N-7 SUNDAY_ 63-0804A
      There must've been about three thousand Philistines a looking down from the top of the galleyof this great arena, when the couple entered the arena that afternoon.

      WHAT.DOES.THOU.HERE_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 59-0301E
      "He wouldn't come in this gallery, would He, a shooting galley here?"

    Game trail 10

    1. A trail, track or path made by the continual passing of wild animals.

      SHOW.US.THE.FATHER_ DAWSON.CREEK.BC SUNDAY_ 61-0521
      Many are sitting here, who know what it means to go down a game trail, up through the forests, see the sunrise and the sunset.

    Game Warden 10

    1. A person, in a supervisory position, a custodian, who keeps charge of wild animals.

      EXPECTATIONS_ NEW.YORK.NY WEDNESDAY_ 50-0405
      First, just before I took off my uniform, I was Indiana State game warden three years ago. And Just before I took off my uniform, the Lord had called me, and has appeared to me, the Angel of the Lord, and I've told you how it happened.

    Garner 10

    1. a place for storing grain

      UNVEILING.OF.GOD_ JEFF.IN V-9 N-1 SUNDAY_ 64-0614M{332}
      Look, they got some sunflower seed out of a garner in Egypt that was put in there in the days of Joseph, four thousand years, nearly, ago. Joseph put them in the garner. They planted them; they lived. Why? They had life.

    Garnish 10

    1. to decorate

      GOD.IN.SIMPLICITY_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0317M 42-4 {271}
      "Yes," Jesus said, "you hypocrites, you sons of the devil," said, "you garnish the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers put them in there."

    Gas 2

    1. Short for “gasoline” or petrol.

      LIFE.STORY. - TOLEDO.OH 51-0722A E-41 041
      So we got enough to buy two gallons of gas. And we could ride a long time on that.

    Gasoline feet

    1. a gas-powered vehicle.

      FAITHFUL.ABRAHAM_ SAN.JOSE.CA FRIDAY_ 59-0424A E-60
      Now, before I was called into this ministry, I was patrolled a line--power line. And I had to walk thirty miles each day through the jungle. And people in this day's got gasoline feet.

    Gastronomics are swelling 10

    1. stomach and intestines are swelling

      SPIRITUAL.INSPIRATION_ OWENSBORO.KY SATURDAY_ 56-0128
      I'm hungry; my gastronomics are swelling out.

    Gene 10

    1. the elements by which hereditary characters are transmitted.

      WORKS.IS.FAITH.EXPRESSED_ SHREVEPORT.LA V-7 N-1 FRIDAY_ 65-1126 {231}
      "He considered not his own body now dead, neither the deadness of Sarah's wombs. It wasn't even brought under consideration. Oh, my, that just shakes me. Body dead, nor the deadness of Sarah's womb, not even brought under consideration. No circumstances will be considered when faith finds its bedding ground. When a germ gene from a man finds the egg in the woman, and both of them fertile, something's going to happen.

    Germatized 24

    1. given the power to grow

      RISING.OF.THE.SUN_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-12 SUNDAY_ 65-0418M
      10-Now, if the seed wasn't on the earth it could not live. It had to be on the earth and also germitized. No matter how long it's kept in darkness, it'll come forth when the S-o-n shines upon it.

    Geronimo 10

    1. American Indian Chief of the Apache Tribe. 1829- 1909

      63-0317E THE.BREACH.
      And many of you might think that Geronimo was a renegade. To me he was a genuine American. He was only fighting for that which was right that God had give him a land, and a nation, and a place to live. I don't blame him.

    Get a hold of oneself 6

    1. get control of oneself: regain composure.

      BE.NOT.AFRAID. - TULARE.CA 61-0224 E-90 090
      What about you setting there at the end, lay hands on you, you believe you'll get well? Come here. In the Name of the Lord Jesus...?... You're trying to get a hold of yourself. Everybody's telling you that anyhow, but nervousness is a terrible thing. You've wanted a place to put your foot so you could start from right there. Is that right? You're on the spot now. Your nervousness is gone.

    Get a raw deal 6

    1. be treated unfairly.

      AT.THY.WORD.LORD. - WOOD.RIVER.IL 54-0221 E-11 011
      Now, if there's anybody in the world that's got a raw deal out of this American terms, it's the Indian. That's right. After all, we are the foreigners. He's the American God-given privilege. That's right. And we just beat him up, and killed off his buffalo and run him back out there and put him on a place where thousands of them starve to death every year. If there ever was a stain on the American flag, it's the way they treat the Indians. That's it. It's not fair to send billions of dollars to Germany, and to England, and to Japan, to build them up so they can blow it back at us again. Charity begins at home. That's right. And our own people starving to death.

    Get along 6

    1. live or work together in a friendly way.

      WORKS.THAT.I.DO.BEAR.WITNESS.OF.ME. - PHOENIX.AZ 51-0413 E-24 024
      Now, that's what caused a disgrace upon the Church, because people just get their fleshly ideas, and get to running away with things. And that causes these different denominations and things. You just got... "Well, I belong this one. And they don't get along good with that group, so I won't either." Break that thing down. You people do it among yourselves. If you're...?... going to do it, grab a hold of your brother's hand and shake his hand. Do it anyhow. We got to get ready for Jesus' coming. That's all. That's right. And love it. And the heads of the church will finally have to come together, or God will get them out.

    Get cold feet 4

    1. stop or withdraw from something (e.g. a plan) because one becomes afraid of the consequences.

      GOD'S.COVENANT.WITH.ABRAHAM. - CHARLOTTE.NC 56-0428E-36 036
      It was a fellow named Jonah. And God sent him down to Nineveh and he kinda got cold feet because the ministerial association had been against him down there. So he went over to Tarshish, so easy over there, a lot of saints.

    Get even (with someone), To 4

    1. To take revenge (on someone); pay someone back for some harm he has done.

      SEVEN.CHURCH.AGES. - JEFF.IN V-26 N-2 54-0512 124 049
      When you get all dried up and shackled up, and everything, you get so cold, and formal, and indifferent, you don't get any spiritual blessing; then your heart gets all filled up and full of indignation and wrath; and everybody, "Oh, I'll get even with him. I'll get even with her. I'll quit the church." Just a bunch of stickers living in a desert.

    Get fresh

    1. to be flirtatious

      PROVING.HIS.WORD_ JEFF.IN V-9 N-6 SUNDAY_ 64-0816{171}
      Notice the little woman at the well. She was looking for a Messiah. She had nothing to do with their big crowds and denominations, and so forth, they had in them days. She was looking for the Word. So a Man, one time, setting over there, an ordinary Man, setting over against the way, said, "Woman, bring Me a drink." She said, "Now, wait a minute; He's probably trying to get fresh with me," she might've thought in heart, 'cause she was marked a woman of ill fame.

    Get hold of, To 1

    1. To get possession of. To find a person in order to speak to him.

      ANGEL.AND.THE.COMMISSION. - CLEVELAND.OH 50-0821 E-58 058
      I said, "Just a moment. Let me pray." Said, "He's been trying for four or five days ago to get a hold of you." Said, "Let me go into my room."

    Get moving 6

    1. start doing something.

      LED.BY.THE.SPIRIT. - ZION.IL 52-0727 E-11 011
      To the minister brothers, preach the Word; be up and going. If there ever was a time that you need to preach, is now. Get moving, swiftly. Don't let nothing stop you. Get out. Get going around the neighborhood. Get going somewhere.

    Get next to yourself 10

    1. to recover in an emotional way. Come to your right senses. Think clearly.

      SEVEN.COMPOUND.NAMES.OF.JEHOVAH_ CHICAGO.IL THURSDAY_ 55-0120 E-54
      So I walked on a little piece farther, and something said, "Now, Billy, get next to yourself. Get next to yourself.

      COURT.TRIAL_ BIRMINGHAM.AL SUNDAY_ 64-0412 E-40
      He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief. No matter how many scoffers said, "You're not. You can't be. It's impossible. Get next to yourself.

    Get one's wires crossed 4

    1. to misunderstand or be confused about something.

      EXPECTANCY. - CHICAGO.IL 53-0903 E-15 015
      That's what's the matter with many people that say, "Well, I got prayed for. I didn't get healed. There's no such thing as Divine healing." You just got your wires crossed up. Look at the others that's getting healed. See, see? There's something wrong with you, not with God. See?

    Get out of the/one's way 6

    1. move: leave: stop interfering or obstructing.

      GOD'S.PROVIDED.WAY. - CONNERSVILLE.IN 53-0613 E-4 004
      You know there's two ways for all things. You're aware of that, aren't you? That's your way and God's way. And you can't have your own way and be in God's way at the same time. You have to get out of your own way to let God have His way. Isn't that true?

    Get someone wrong 4

    1. misunderstand someone's reasons for doing or saying something.

      REVELATION.BOOK.OF.SYMBOLS. - JEFF.IN V-13 N-6 56-0617 25
      And, oh, my, I love to see God heal His children, certainly. Don't get me wrong. But one reason I been noticing, if you notice lately, I been trying everywhere I go, when I get an invitation, is press in to preach just a little bit.

    Get something straight 4

    1. make a matter or situation clear to someone: clear up a misunderstanding.

      WHEN.THEIR.EYES.WERE.OPENED. - TAMPA.FL 64-0416 E-50 050
      Well, I couldn't get that straight in my mind how He did it. I couldn't make the Scripture. One day while we was alone, and the Angel of the Lord was present, He revealed it to me. See?

    Get something/it wrong 4

    1. fail to say or read something correctly; be mistaken about the facts of something: fail to understand the situation

      TEACHING.ON.MOSES_ JEFF.IN V-14 N-4 SUNDAY_ 56-0513 51
      Now, let's take this 35th verse and quote it together now. All right. Now, let's say it together. We're going to take Mark 8:16, now let's say it together; Mark 8:16, beg your pardon, Mark 8:16, 35. No, I got it wrong yet. Mark 8 (Excuse me.), Mark, St. Mark, 8th chapter, 35th verse. Now, let's try it now. St. Mark, 8th chapter, 35th verse.

    Get the hang of something 7

    1. learn or begin to understand how to do, use, etc.

      KEY.TO.THE.DOOR. - JEFF.IN V-12 N-6 62-1007 43 026
      And mathematics, there's a key to mathematic, that you just have to get the hang of it. I've seen men that could take four rows of figures, and put their fingers, each one of their fingers on a row of figures, and just come right down like that for maybe five or six figures deep, and put the answer at the bottom.

    Get the picture, To 17

    1. to understand.

      ISRAEL.IN.EGYPT_ JEFF.IN IC 1-34 WEDNESDAY_ 53-0325{17}
      Now, in order to correctly get the picture of the church of then, and type it with today, you got to go back into the seed, to bring it into exodus, before it can have the exodus.

    Get the/someone's point 4

    1. understand what someone wishes to express; understand someone's purpose in saying something: understand what a story is saying.

      EPHESIAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK.CPT.3 106-3
      Now right here someone is going to ask me this question: Did God tell Eve to watch out for the serpent or the serpent would seduce her? Now listen, God didn't have to say one thing about what would happen. Just get the point of the story.

    Get to/reach/make first base (with something) 4

    1. (informal) get to the first step; reach or complete the first important stage of a plan or project.

      AT.KADESH.BARNEA. - JEFF.IN 56-052 E-31 031
      In Saint John the 3rd chapter, Jesus said, that, "He that believeth not is condemned already." You don't even get to first base; you're condemned to begin with.

    Get/be on the beam 7

    1. to line up: to be just right: to be on the right path: to be good or correct.

      MARK.OF.THE.BEAST. - LONG.BEACH.CA 61-0217 E-56 056
      Some man said the other day, "It's not that way in the original." I defy that. Go get the "Emphatic Diaglott" and see if it don't say the same thing, "Have you received the Holy Ghost since ye believed?" Right here it said, "After you did believe, then you were sealed with the Holy Ghost of promise." Don't take that lukewarm, bride out there, come on in here. Come into the...?... and get it. Get on the beam with Christ, the Holy Spirit. Hear from heaven.

    Get/gain the upper hand 4

    1. win an advantage over something/someone, thus gaining a position of power.

      WITNESSES. - JEFF.IN V-25 N-6 53-0405E 126 044
      And as the devil always does, when he thinks he's got the upper hand, brother, he really pushes it. … See how the devil does? When he thinks he's got the upper hand, he boasts, brags, and carries on.

    Get/have something off one's chest 6

    1. freedom from a burden: say something that one has wanted to say for some time but was reluctant to, and has kept it to himself.

      INFLUENCES. - TULARE.CA V-22 N-13 64-0215 76 035
      Now, the vision at the temple, at the temple, he went down when he found out that... Isaiah seen that Hezekiah, what had happened to him. And then he'd died, and there'd been (I mean Uzziah.)... And he'd been taken away to the leper camp, and his son had to reign in his place. And there Isaiah got kinda fed up. So he went down to the temple one day to kinda get the thing off of his chest.

      AS.I.WAS.WITH.MOSES. - JEFF.IN V-16 N-2 60-0911M 226 088
      How many believes that this is the will of God? Oh, Something just makes me feel I done right. It's off my chest. It's been on there for twelve years, knowing there's been something wrong, Brother Lee. Now, I know it's off of there. I've said it; it's taped, and it's off of my chest now.

    Get/put your foot in your mouth 13

    1. to speak in a manner that brings self-embarrassment; to make oneself look foolish.

      ACCEPTING.GOD'S.PROVIDED.WAY_ PHOENIX.AZ TUESDAY_ 63-0115 E-40
      You know, my mama used to say, "Give the cow enough rope, it'll hang itself." So that's about right. He got his own foot in his own mouth, that time, when he said--he said, "Go up there and look." I said, "Now look, sir. You mean the doctors cut that woman open and found her with cancer?" "That's right."

    Get/take a ringside position 7

    1. (informal) be in a very good position to see something happen.

      SHOW.US.THE.FATHER. - CHICAGO.IL 53-0907A E-40 040
      So you can imagine what this picture looked like: great, big ears and everything. And I said... Now, I put some butter beans right in a sack and tied it on a stick and the winds was blowing. And I thought, "Boy, when he sees that, he will run." So I got me a ringside seat up there in the bushes, and I was watching this little fellow through my glasses, you know.

    Get/with one's tail between one's legs 4

    1. be humbled: to retreat in defeat and humiliation; in a humble, depressed or sad manner (like a dog after it has been disciplined).

      GOD'S.COVENANT.WITH.ABRAHAM. - CHARLOTTE.NC 56-0428 E-33 033
      God said so. That settles it. God said so. Oh, I love that. Brother, that'll make the Devil get his tail between his legs and get away. "God said so."

    Gimmicks 24

    1. a secret device or hidden trick to deceive someone.

      STATURE.OF.A.PERFECT.MAN_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-18 SUNDAY_ 62-1014M{17}
      "What kind of a hoax is he using? What gimmick has he got?"

    Girlfriend

    1. A female friend or companion.

      PRODIGAL. - CLEVELAND.OH 50-0827A E-28 028
      There stood her mother on the outside; she was all scarred up. And the young girl was looking at her from the train, finally said, "Look at that old haggy looking woman." That was the girl's mother. Said, "Isn't she horrible? My, wouldn't you hate to have to set at the table with her to eat?" That was her girlfriend.

    2. a boy’s steady girl: a sweetheart.

      GOD.REVEALING.HIMSELF.TO.HIS.PEOPLE. - CLEVELAND.OH 50-0813E E-15 015
      Then, you know how all boys are; they get a little sweetheart when they get about sixteen, seventeen years old. I, like all little boys, I had a little girlfriend. I thought she was prettiest thing I ever seen, teeth like pearls, you know, eyes like a dove. And we went riding, she and I and another boy and his girlfriend.

    Give (someone/get) a dirty look 7

    1. look at someone/be looked at in an angry, or a disapproving way.

      BE.NOT.AFRAID.IT.IS.I. - SANTA.MARIA.CA 62-0629 E-56 056
      And Nathanael might've jumped up at that time and said, "And that settled it for me. I fell at His feet. There stood my priest, and give me a dirty look. But it didn't make any difference how much look he went, I'd done looked into the Bible and seen that that was Messiah. So I fell at His feet and said, 'Thou art the Son of God. You are the king of Israel.'"

    Give a cow (somebody) enough rope (and it/she'll/he'll hang itself/herself/himself) 7

    1. deliberately give somebody enough freedom for them to make a mistake and get into trouble.

      BE.NOT.AFRAID. - RICHMOND.VA 61-0311 E-21 021
      Now, Brother Booth, if you're here, I don't mean to raise the subject again. But he was tied. And he couldn't have no place to go. So I just let him jump, and he jumped right in his own trap. You know, just like, give a cow enough rope and it'll hang itself. So he got out on the end of the limb and he couldn't get back.

    Give somebody your undivided attention 7

    1. give somebody all of one's attention.

      SPIRITUAL.FOOD.IN.DUE.SEASON. - JEFF.IN V-8 N-7 65-0718E 148 059
      Now, give me your undivided attention; we won't be long. But now, oh, what an hour, what a time. I wish that everybody could love the Lord. I wish that we could all just come to that spot to realize the potential of this minute.

    Give someone a fair chance 10

    1. to let someone have an equal opportunity: to let someone have a turn to do something; to treat someone the same as everyone else; let everyone get a chance.

      AT.THY.WORD. - MINNEAPOLIS.MN 50-0714 E-40 040
      Now, the prayer cards is merely to keep the line lined up. That's all, so everyone won't rush in, and give just a fair chance to everyone. See? We can keep them lined. But now, it isn't necessary to have the card, if you just believe.

    Give someone a piece of one's mind 10

    1. angrily tell someone exactly what one thinks.

      INFALLIBILITY.OF.GOD'S.WORD. - CHICAGO.IL 56-0404 E-4 004
      You know, I was telling the boys awhile ago coming over, I said about how we must be happy all the time. God don't want you to be sad. You know what ill temper does? And that old temper, that's one of the awfullest old things. And it--it's about sixty percent of the cause of all sickness is temper. Yes, sir, them tam--tantrums you fly loose, remember, you just developing a cancer, ulcer, or something like, when you do it. When you get all stewed up about somebody, "I won't go back there any more. Wait till I give them a piece of my mind." All right. Remember, you're the one's going to pay for it. Just keep happy.

    Give someone a ring 4

    1. to telephone someone.

      INFLUENCE. - BEAUMONT.TX 64-0315 E-12 012
      The night won't get too dark, or the rain wouldn't fall too hard but what I'd help you if I could. I used to say I could come to you, but there's too many now. I've been over the world (See?), and it's everywhere. Just give me a ring, or write me a letter; I'll send you a prayer cloth, anything I can do. Everything absolutely free, there's no money in this. See? I kept my meetings like this so I could come where they haven't got any money.

    Give someone the shirt off one's back 10

    1. do whatever is necessary to help someone.

      ELIJAH.AND.MEAL.OFFERING. - PHX.AZ V-9 N-4 60-0310 92 052
      Any believer in God will share to the very limit with another one. Yes. That's one thing about Pentecostal people; they'll give the shirt off of their back for the cause. That's right. It's the truth. That's great thing, one of the great things with them. They're the greatest givers in the world, 'cause they know that this earthly goods amounts to nothing. They lay their treasures up in heaven, 'cause they're going up there some of these days.

    Give the benefit of the doubt 14

    1. To favor someone positively rather than negatively when either is possible. In other words, to believe that someone is innocent rather than guilty when you are not sure due to a lack of sufficient evidence.

      FAITH. - PRINCE.ALBERT.SK 56-0815 E-50 050
      But brother, what did Abraham do? They started fussing, so Abraham said, "Now, Lot, before we have any quarrels between us, you separate yourself from me and I from you. Now, you look any way you want to. You take your choice." That's the way a Christian does, giving them benefit of the doubt. "Take your choice. You go east; I'll go west. You go north; I'll go south. Well, I give you the benefit of the doubt."

    Give the lie to something 7

    1. to uncover a falsehood and expose it.

      THYATIREAN.CHURCH.AGE CHURCH.AGE.BOOK.CPT.6 217-4
      Though the messenger to the Thyatirean Age was Saint Columba, I want to dwell a little on the life of Saint Patrick as an example to us and also to give the lie to Rome's claim that Saint Patrick was any more one of her than was Joan of Arc.

    Give up 10

    1. stop trying: surrender.

      PROPHET.ELISHA. - CHICAGO.IL 54-0723 E-12 012
      Well, if a nation or an army should consult the Lord in a time of trouble, what about when a cancer has got you in a corner? when TB's got you in a corner? When afflictions got you in a corner, don't give up; let's consult the Lord about it and see what He'd have to say. See?

    Give up the ghost 14

    1. to die

      RAPTURE.THE. - YUMA.AZ V-5 N-14 65-1204 171 097
      The Old Testament saints has gone into His Presence, paradise done away. And the Old Testament saints ascended up at His loud voice when He screamed and give up the ghost.

    2. To stop going.

    Give/hand something to someone on a silver platter 14

    1. to give a person a reward that has not been earned.

      TALK.ON.THE.WORD. - CHICAGO.IL 53-0831 E-45 045
      Every man that ever amounted to a hill of beans had to fight for what he got. God don't give it to you on a silver platter. He said, "There's the promised land. She's flowing with milk and honey. But before you get there, you're going to go through all these Hivites and Canaanites and everything.

    Giving (turning) the cold shoulder 2

    1. Ignoring someone.

      SHOW.US.THE.FATHER.IT'LL.SATISFY. - CONNERSVILLE.IN 53-0610 E-89 089
      God, if there be a sinner man or woman here tonight who's never been borned again, may they be ashamed of the way they've treated You, caring more for the things of this world than they do for You, turning a cold shoulder to Christ.

    Glare 24

    1. To be unpleasantly brilliant.

      IT.IS.I_ GRANDE.PRAIRIE.AB WEDNESDAY_ 61-0517 E-67
      Don't go over on the world's ground to get the people in. We've got something they haven't got. Hallelujah. We got Jesus. They got glamor. How can we compare with them with glamour. The Gospel is not a glare; it's a glow. Sure, and you can't glow it. It gets in you and glows itself. Amen. Yes.

    Glassed 10

    1. Viewed an object through binoculars.

      PERSEVERANT_ CHICAGO.IL V-21 N-4 FRIDAY_ 63-0802
      I glassed Brother Fred, about a mile away, and I could see him.

    Go (and) jump in the/a river/lake 7

    1. leave me alone, you are annoying me. A very direct way to tell someone who is annoying you to go away or stop doing something.

      MARRIAGE.OF.THE.LAMB. - PHOENIX.AZ 62-0121E E-70 070
      Esther... This queen, she wouldn't listen to it. She wouldn't come, humiliated him. Said, "If this first lady of the land sets an example like that, all the rest of the women will do it. So then, when a man calls for his wife, she'll say, 'Go jump in the river.'" See? Boy, he really foretold America, didn't he?

    Go broke 14

    1. to have a zero balance, no money: to lose all one's money; especially by taking a chance: to owe more than you can pay.

      INVESTMENTS. - NY.NY V-18 N-11 63-1116B 42 020
      It's not a good business to gamble, take chances. Our brother here was just speaking a few moments ago on, he was going to the places and gambling. That's taking a chance. A good sound-thinking businessman won't do that. He shouldn't do it anyhow. It's a gamble; you could go broke at once with such a thing as that.

    Go crazy 10

    1. to lose one's right frame of mind: be unable to control oneself: to become obsessed with; to overdo something, or go overboard.

      QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS. - JEFF.IN COD 54-0103M 81-138 056
      They say, "Religion takes you... so a man go crazy over religion." Religion's the only thing that can give a man his right mind, that is, the religion of Jesus Christ. I could prove by the Bible that you're not in your right mind till you've found Christ. That's right.

    Go haywire 4

    1. stop functioning properly: become confused or out of control.

      JUST.ONE.MORE.TIME.LORD. - PHOENIX.AZ V-9 N-8 63-0120E 61 034
      We took the wrong example. The women acted like the pastor's wife. He let her go haywire, cut off her hair, wear any kind of sexy clothes, never rebuked. And the other women say, "If Sister So-and-so can do it, I could too." Don't make that your example. See? God told you what to do; stay with that.

    Go it alone 10

    1. work or be alone: do something in isolation.

      RESUME.OF.THE.AGES - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK.CPT.10 376-1
      Now remember, it was Imperial Pagan Rome that fell by the sword. But she was healed of her death stroke when she joined to the nominal Christian church of Rome and incorporated paganism and Christianity, and thereby became the Holy Roman Empire which was to endure until Jesus came and destroyed her. But Rome is not going it alone. Her daughters are right with her and she will take over absolute authority by the World Council of Churches.

    Go to pieces 4

    1. deteriorate (e.g. one's health or state of mind); lose one's self-control.

      WHAT.DOES.THOU.HERE. - JEFF.IN 59-0301E E-24 024
      God has to do something for every man that comes under the juniper tree, or he'll go to pieces.

    Go to the dogs 7

    1. (informal) to decline morally and/or spiritually: to deteriorate. (It's often used of a company, organization, country, etc that becomes less powerful, efficient, etc than before).

      HANDWRITING.ON.THE.WALL. - GREENVILLE.SC 58-0618 E-24 024
      And it isn't communism that's hurting America. It's our own rottenness among us, our immorals that's breaking the backbone of this nation. Motherhood is marred, and the church is gone to the dogs. All the great things that we stood for, the great principles and things, has rotted beneath us.

    Go with/float with/against the tide/current 4

    1. take the easier path, do what the majority is doing.

      HANDWRITING.ON.THE.WALL. - JEFF.IN 56-0902 E-19 019
      And remember, as Daniel went with the Hebrew children down in there, I want you to notice, many of them already worldly minded, many of them didn't care, while they just go with the tide of least resistance. And isn't that just about the picture of our country today? And this may be shocking, but it's about the picture of the church today, let alone the nation: just float with the tide of least resistance. Every way the wind blows, just set your sail, go right on.

    Go/be/ through the mill 7

    1. to go through hard times.

      QA.IMAGE.OF.THE.BEAST. - JEFF.IN 54-0515 149-1d 004
      I've had our brother pastor out, and we've went through the mill together, Brother Neville and I have. And I--and I want to see if... As one of your pastors, it's--it's my duty.

    God forbid! 7

    1. may God prevent it from ever happening. (A phrase expressing the desire that God would forbid the situation that the speaker has just mentioned from ever happening).

      TAKE.THE.ROD.GATHER.PEOPLE. - CLEVELAND.OH 50-0827E E-20 020
      He's been the miraculous working God all down through the ages. And if He has been down through the ages, and then come in here to the closing of all ages, could He belittle Himself in weaken His power and say there's no more to it? God forbid.

    God will help those who help themselves 3

    1. people use it to say that one must put in his own efforts and try, in order to accomplish something). (It was first written by Jean de La Fontaine, a French poet and writer of fables in the seventeenth century. When a political society was formed in 1824 with the purpose of encouraging the middle classes to resist the government, “Aide-toi et le Ciel t'aidera” was adopted as its slogan.)

      ELIJAH.AND.MEAL.OFFERING. - PHX.AZ V-9 N-4 60-0310 30 019
      There's an old proverb, God-dishonoring proverb, that says that "God helps those who help themselves." That's dishonorable to God. God helps those who cannot help themselves. He is the God of those who needs mercy. And He is a merciful God. And that proverb that says that "He helps those who help themselves, " if you can help yourself, you don't need His help. But He helps those who cannot help themselves.

    Goes in the wheel for a Mother

    1. a mother experiences the good and the bad with her children

      QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS_ JEFF.IN COD SUNDAY_ 61-1015M 687-211
      . And she said, "This one thing I want you to know, Billy," She talked about me and Deloris standing there, and about her children and things, and a couple of my brothers drinking. And I said, "Well, they broke your heart." She said, "But, Billy, that all goes in the wheel for a mother." She said, "But I'm saved." And she said, "I'm ready to go."

    Golden age (of something) 7

    1. the period during which something is best, happiest, precious or most prosperous.

      SIGN.OF.THIS.TIME. - NY.NY V-18 N-8 63-1113 145 064
      Now, when God sends a gift to the earth, and the people respect it, it's always a golden age for that people. But when they reject it, it's always chaos for that people, He does that, every age.

    Golden Gloves

    1. An amateur boxing tournament in which each weight division winner received a small golden glove as an award.

      RESULTS.OF.DECISION_ CHICAGO.IL SATURDAY_ 55-1008
      I'd won the Bantam Weight Championship in the Golden Gloves...

      FROM.THAT.TIME_ PHOENIX.AZ WEDNESDAY_ 60-0302
      When I was a young boy, I was fighting in golden gloves, and then from that went into professional fighting, and won fifteen straight professional fights. Came to the Lord, and finished my career of fighting the first night I met the Lord Jesus. That settled it.

    Golden rule 7

    1. the precept that one should behave toward others as he would want them to behave toward him. See Matthew 7:12.

      CONTEST.THE. - JEFF.IN V-10 N-7 62-1231 14 011
      And I think that's a very good thing for Christians to do. That's right. And now if you want to start training, start with John 3:16, the Golden Rule.

    Good riddance! 6

    1. said to show relief when one gets rid of an unpleasant person or something unwanted, or when one completes a tiresome job of work etc.

      THY.SEED.SHALL.POSSESS.GATE. - PHOENIX.AZ 62-0121M E-6 006
      And if I seen somebody going down the river in a little old boat setting there reading, going on, and I go to screaming at him, "Get out of that boat. That boat will not be able to shoot those ripples." Now, it isn't that I've got anything against that man, if even if I have to bawl him out and talk real hard to him. It isn't I've got anything against the man; I love the man, but I know he's going to crash up. That's the reason I holler at him, because he's not... It's because I do love him is the reason I holler. If I didn't care I'd say, "Well, good riddance," and go on (See?), if I didn't care for him.

    Goods 10

    1. fabric for sewing clothing.

      JESUS.KEEPS.ALL.OF.HIS.APPOINTMENTS_ TAMPA.FL SATURDAY_ 64-0418E E-70
      A lady said to me, not long ago, she said (little old tight dress on)... I said, "Why don't you take that off, being a sister?" And she said, "Why, Brother Branham, they don't make any other clothes." I said, "They make sewing machines, and they got goods." See?

    Goose-neck hoe

    1. a garden tool with a curved handle.

      LIFE.STORY.WILLIAM.BRANHAM_ CLEVELAND.OH SUNDAY_ 50-0820A E-26
      In the summertime they had to take a gooseneck hoe and chop out the corn, tobacco, and stuff that they raised in the hills, make a living.

    Got up on the wrong side of the bed 2,4

    1. To be irritable, be bad-tempered or in a bad mood all day.

      BEING.LED.OF.THE.HOLY.SPIRIT. - MINNEAPOLIS.MN 56-0219
      E-53 053 Paul Rader said one time, said, "Brother Billy, I was leaving my wife one morning." Said, "We were sitting at the table. And (I'd got up kind of on the wrong side of the bed, and I'd said something to her I know that hurt her feelings." And said, "I never apologized."

    Graceful 24

    1. delicate; pleasant in movement.

      FIFTH.SEAL.THE_ JEFF.IN FRIDAY_ 63-0322 379-1 {370}
      Although in the grace to be looked at, I think a woman, a nice woman that holds herself right and walks like a lady, she's an example of a jewel on earth. I like anything that's graceful, and I think a woman that holds her place and tries to be a lady is a statue of honor.

    2. full of kindness

      HEAR.YE.HIM_ OAKLAND.CA FRIDAY_ 57-0322 E-95
      Oh, isn't the Lord Jesus graceful and blessed?

    Grass roots 10

    1. basic fundamentals of belief; originating among or carried on by the common people.

      MAKING.A.WAY_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 56-0304
      Now, come to the Word, Father, take the Word, which is the Lifeline, the Grass Roots, Lord, of all civilization.

    Grin and bear it 4

    1. suffer something unpleasant with optimism, patience, because one cannot change it.

      SHOW.US.THE.FATHER. - CHICAGO.IL 53-0907A E-75 075
      Some time ago there was an infidel across the country, years ago; and he was converting people from Christianity to infidelism. And when his mother was dying the only thing that he could say, "Maw, grin and bear it." Oh, what a consolation to give a mother in her death hours.

    Gripe 2

    1. complain

      ABSOLUTE.THE. - JEFF.IN V-3 N-18 62-1230M 31-3 087
      See? The rest of them take their seat and set down. They gripe, some of them, but... I imagine they'd "boo" at him down in their heart and things, but it's a strike anyhow. Why? He's the final word.

    Groped 24

    1. reached out; tried to find the way

      RISING.OF.THE.SUN_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-12 SUNDAY_ 65-0418M 8-2
      And now, the true Easter Seal on this sunrise was broken, and the secret of Life after death was revealed. Before that time we didn't know; the world groped in darkness, groped around man's suspicion.

    Gross 2

    1. Great: thick; much, abundant.

      GOD.PROVIDING.HEALING. - CHICAGO.IL 54-0719E E-60 060
      Why is this world in such darkness? Why is gross darkness upon the people's heart?

    Growing pains 14

    1. Pains caused by changes in children's bodies as they grow.

      DIVINE.HEALING. - JEFF.IN V-26 N-10 54-1219M 172 061
      You know, when you're young, they claim you have growing pains when you're growing. You know what I mean. It means you're getting bigger, a little. You know, you take your arms will hurt. And your legs will hurt when you're growing, kids. Troubles when something new is beginning or growing.

    2. Troubles when something new is beginning or growing.

      DIVINE.HEALING. - JEFF.IN V-26 N-10 54-1219M 172 061
      Sometimes we have growing pains when we get to be men and women when we're born in the Kingdom of God, Christ. But the thing about that, it hurts; the thing about This, It just makes you joyful and happy. It's growing pains. You're going out, getting bigger, getting to be a bigger man now, what you used to be. You can look over things.

    Guinea pig 4

    1. someone or something that is used in an experiment.

      PILLAR.OF.FIRE. - JONESBORO.AR 53-0509 E-6 006
      Daniel the prophet, he seen one vision and said he was troubled at his head for many days. You're in another world. You become a guinea pig. You're a sacrifice for mankind.

    Gum up 14

    1. To cause not to work, or ruin by sealing up; spoil; make something go wrong.

      ONLY.ONE.WAY.PROVIDED.BY.GOD. - CHICAGO.IL V-21 N-2 63-0731
      63 025 See, it seems to be so hard for man just to get out of his own ideas, just he's got to have something to do into it himself. He has always gummed up, if you'd excuse the expression, he has always gummed up God's way for him by injecting his own way into it.

    Gun Barrel straight

    1. Completely honest and unmoveable concerning what is true and right.

      EXPECTATIONS_ RICHMOND.VA WEDNESDAY_ 61-0308 E-66
      I believe in old fashion Pentecostal, sky blue, sin killing religion. Yes, sir. I believe in being gun barrel straight, and preaching it the same way, and living it the way you preach it, and just jump as high as you live.

    Hadicol 12

    1. A vitamin dietary supplement fad, peaking in 1951; a patent medicine containing vitamins, minerals and 12% alcohol, claiming to be a cure- all.

      Let Your Light So Shine Before Men September 3, 1961
      That's like this Hadicol we just had, nothing but a bunch of vitamins wrapped up together, and it didn't last but a little while.

    Hair in the biscuit

    1. something isn't right. It's a problem.

      PATH.OF.LIFE_ S.GATE.CA THURSDAY_ 62-0621B E-52
      Brother David, back there, the Greek brother said, "Brother Branham, I listened to your tape." Said, " This is kind of awful to say this after breakfast. He said, "You mentioned a hair in the biscuit." Said, "I've looked. I can't find what that is." And I said, "That's just Kentucky (You see?), hair in the biscuit." I said, "Don't try to find that in the dictionary 'cause it won't be there."

      JEHOVAH.JIREH.1_ LOUISVILLE.MS THURSDAY_ 64-0402 E-27
      Then Lot became a hair in the biscuit, as the saying.

    Hair off the dog's back 19

    1. from the belief that the bite of a dog could be healed by applying its hair to the wound. Therefore, cure or heal a wrong habit or trait by doing the opposite.

      QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS_ JEFF.IN COD SUNDAY_ 64-0830E
      If you're selfish and you want to hold everything, then start giving away what you got. See? Do whatever--just go the vice versa. That's the way to overcome anything is an antidote. My old, southern mother used to say, "Hair off the dog's back is good for the bite." And that applies this way too.

    Half baked 2

    1. Incomplete in action or belief: not well thought out.

      HEBREWS.CHAPTER.7.PT.1. - JEFF.IN HEB 57-0915E 319-177
      What's the use to accept an old half-way experience, and something another like that, when the great skies of heaven are full of the real thing? Why do you want to be a miserable, professed, half way, half-baked, so-called Christian, when you can be a real borned again child of God with the joybells of heaven ringing in your heart, rejoicing, and praising God, and living a life of victory through Jesus Christ.

    Half-mast the flag 10

    1. the position of a flag lowered about halfway down its pole as a sign of mourning, usually signifying the death of an important or well known person.

      INVESTMENTS_ NY.NY V-18 N-11 SATURDAY_ 63-1116B
      He had a great funeral service, no doubt some well-trained clergymen come and spoke. No matter, I guess, he had the Christian Business Men for pallbearers. And he had the celebrity of the country out, and maybe a government official that they half-mast the flag for him.

    Half-rounds and three-quarter rounds

    1. refers to the length of the horns. The full horn of a sheep makes a full curl or "full round".

      SPIRIT.OF.TRUTH_ PHOENIX.AZ FRIDAY_ 63-0118 E-53
      So we went up on one mountain. You just have to walk straight, like that, to get up it. Oh, no timber, just simply caribou moss is all you see. We seen about thirty or forty head of sheep. There wasn't none big enough to take. It was just little half-rounds, and three-quarter rounds, and I wanted one big enough to come out of there with, so, by going that far back.

    Hand-me-down 14

    1. Something given away after another person has no more use for it; especially used clothing.

      WHAT.IS.THAT.IN.YOUR.HAND. - SAN.FERNANDO.CA 55-1120E-47 047
      Preach the truth. I'd rather wear a hand-me-down suit, and my shoes gone off my feet, and preach the Gospel and tell the truth about It, the way God writes It in here, than to compromise with the devil and take a back seat. Amen. Be honest with people.

    Hands are/were tied 10

    1. have no power in a situation: be unable to act on your feelings; be prevented from doing something: be unable to intervene.

      INFLUENCE.OF.ANOTHER. - JEFF.IN V-4 N-11 621013 48 032
      Oh, how it's too bad when we think of the church. Sometimes if the pastor belongs to a certain organization or a clan, and this organization sends him to a certain church, and sometimes that pastor's hands is tied by that organization. And the little fellow wants to serve the Lord, and he thinks--been taught that's about the only way he can do it, is by serving his organization. And if he got up and preached what the Word said, the church would vote him out; and then he's afraid he wouldn't have a chance then to preach the Gospel.

    Hands in the pie

    1. interferred; thinking to have a better idea.

      SEAL.OF.GOD_ JEFF.IN V-26 N-4 FRIDAY_ 54-0514
      This new bunch come on with nothing but a seminary education, and then the first thing you know, the hands got in the pie and messed it up.

    Hands off 14

    1. (informal) Keep your hands off or do not interfere; leave that alone.---Used as a command.

      QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS. - JEFF.IN COD 64-0823E 1029-Q-300 080 300.
      So I'd just commit it to the Lord. Say, "Now, Lord, when Your time for us to sell it, You'll send a buyer." Then it's committed to the Lord, take your hands off it and go ahead. I believe it'll work.

      HARVEST.TIME. - PHOENIX.AZ V-18 N-6 64-1212 218 081
      Oh, you're very popular as long as you stay away from that Word. But you get in that Word one time, watch who's going to cooperate with you then. See? Watch what comes out then. We're going to get to this in another stage of nature, in a moment. See, watch who wants you then; nobody does. "Oh, hands off of that."

    Hang around here

    1. Stay around.

      THINGS.THAT.ARE.TO.BE_ RIALTO.CA V-4 N-6 SUNDAY_ 65-12056
      My, I felt really honored tonight to come into a church like this. I always feel better in a church than I do in those auditoriums. Now, nothing against the auditoriums. But you know,it may be a superstition, just seems to me like a truth. See, You go into those auditoriums where there's fights, wrestles, burlesque, everything else going on, evil spirits seems to hang around them places.

    Hang in the balance,To 1

    1. to be in position where one's destiny could easily go one way or the other: to be in doubt; to be uncertain.

      GLORIFIED.JESUS. - PHOENIX.AZ 55-0225 E-25 025.
      And a man with his--the destination of his soul hanging in the balance, he ain't going up there to play church; he's going up there to worship.

    Hang in the destination of time

    1. See: Hang in the balance.

    Hang on every word/on someone's words 7

    1. hold on to what someone says with great Faith, belief or attention.

      EVER.PRESENT.WATER. - JEFF.IN V-14 N-6 61-0723M 72 039
      But when you really hang onto every Word, as the Spirit gave you warning this morning (See?), "Hanging onto every Word..." That might be what He has been talking to you about, holding on. It's Eternal Life, every Word of God. It's a joy to go to church, under any circumstance.

    Hangover 2

    1. Feeling of nausea or sickness as a result of drinking too much.

      ENTICING.SPIRITS. - JEFF.IN DE 79-112 55-0724 108 055
      And I said that I don't condemn the drunkard for going out and getting drunk. He's all moody; he don't know. He gets up the morning; he's got the blues, a hangover; goes out and gets him two or three bottles of beer; goes out and gets him some whiskey, and all of that kind of stuff.

    Happy hunting ground, A 7

    1. (humorous) a very good place to find what you want after death; a kind of “heaven”.

      SHOW.US.THE.FATHER. - CLEVELAND.OH 50-0819 E-17 017
      The caveman, the Indians, the American Indian, we found that he worshipped the sun. And he believed there was a happy hunting ground. When one died, they put the corn and so forth, his bow and arrow, and sent him out across the sea somewhere in his canoe, that he would find the happy hunting ground where he would have provisions to carry him over.

    Hard of hearing 4,7

    1. partly deaf: unable to hear well.

      AS.I.WAS.WITH.MOSES. - JEFF.IN V-16 N-2 60-0911M 269 102
      God bless you, Pat. Lord, for his precious children he wants saved. He's getting hard of hearing. The doctor says cataract's coming on his eye. He wants to live for God's glory. Grant it to him, Lord, as I ask for this petition for my brother.

    Have (get) a chip on your shoulder 7

    1. Bear a grudge towards someone because of something that happened in the past: be aggressive or too sensitive because you believe that people treat you unfairly.

      HEAR.YE.HIM. - MIDDLETOWN.OH 58-0328 E-35 035
      And a real born again saint of God doesn't have anything to do with the things of the world, because he hasn't got any gall anymore. He doesn't go around fussing with a chip on his shoulder, wanting to debate and argue about something.

    Have a field day 4

    1. be full of advantage or opportunity: to have great success at something; be extremely pleased by a special occasion: be able to really enjoy oneself and be free.

      DOOR.TO.THE.HEART. - CHATTANOOGA.TN 58-0302 E-51 051
      And they went hunting. And Gabe was a poor shot; he couldn't hit nothing, but he liked to hunt just the same. So one day when he was out hunting--both of them--on the road coming back, when the sun was setting, both of them loaded so full of game they could hardly walk. Oh, it'd been a real field day for them. They had birds, and rabbits, and squirrels, and all that they could pack, just loaded down.

    Have come a long way 7

    1. have progressed and achieved a lot.

      LAODICEAN.CHURCH.AGE. - JEFF.IN ROJC 493-550 60-1211E9 006
      And to see our pastor here, Brother Neville, he was a bashful, backward sort of a boy. And I tell you; he looked like he was never going to take ahold of it when it come to Pentecost. But to see him stand up and interpret tongues and prophesy, I tell you, he's come a long way. Right. Let us pray for our pastor.

    Have something to crow about,To 1

    1. to have something to be proud of or to have something in which one takes pleasure or satisfaction.

      GOD'S.PROVIDED.WAY. - LA.CA 59-0415A E-26 026
      The people say, "The people that's got the Holy Spirit brag too much about it." We can't brag enough about it. It's something to crow about. We're invited to the wedding supper of the Son of God.

    Have/get one's own way 10

    1. to do as one pleases: to do things according to one's own will.

      CHURCH.AND.ITS.CONDITION. - JEFF.IN CH 1-34 56-0805 135 077
      And while every head is bowed, and every heart's bowed. I wonder this morning if there just be someone here who realize that you tried to have your own way, you made these things that you shouldn't done, and you just feel this morning you'd like for the Lord just to shear you off, and say, "Make me a real lamb," would you raise your hand.

    Haven't (got) the (a) nerve (to do something) 4,7

    1. not bold enough.

      LIFE.STORY. - PHOENIX.AZ 51-0415A E-57 057
      I know I had to either marry her, or ask her if she would marry me, or let somebody go. She was too good a girl just to take up her time like that. She'd make somebody a good wife. So I didn't... I wanted to be... I loved her well enough, that I didn't want to ruin her life like that. So I said, "I got to make up my mind now, and I haven't got the nerve to ask her." So I said, "Now, what can I do?"

    Havoc 10

    1. to destroy; tear apart.

      INVESTMENTS_ NY.NY V-18 N-11 SATURDAY_ 63-1116B{189}
      When he heard that bunch of carrying-on, noise, and screaming, and speaking with tongues, and, why, he thought, "That's ridiculous, to the society of Jerusalem. That ought to be stopped." So he got letters from the high priest. He went around making havoc of the church.

    Haymarket 10

    1. the name of a street in London, England.

      IS.YOUR.LIFE.WORTHY_ JEFF.IN V-5 N-5 SUNDAY_ 63-0630E
      Fifty years ago the Holy Ghost fell in England. Just after that come George Jefferies, and F. F. Bosworth, and Charles Price, Smith Wigglesworth, those great warriors of the faith, fifty years ago, and offered England the Holy Ghost revival. But what did t

    He had it coming to him

    1. "as though he deserved it" or "as though he was worthy of it"

      ROMAN.NOBLEMAN_ ZURICH.SWITZERLAND TUESDAY_ 55-0621 E-3
      I want you to notice his attitude. He didn't approach feeling that he had it coming to him; he approached, said he was unworthy. I want you to take that attitude also, that you cannot come with a predominating attitude and get anything from God. You must come reverent, humble, and then God will deal with you. And then you will get what you ask for.

    He knows better than that/you know better/you should know better/know different;

    1. He (she, you, they) know what is right

      KINSMAN.REDEEMER_ JEFF.IN V-6 N-8 SUNDAY_ 60-1002 {5}
      Well, I'm sure glad to see so many of the friends out. Last Sunday when I left, I felt bad all week long. I had a good friend sitting here from way down in the south, Brother West. And I'd went around through the audience late, and I said, "I'm glad to see so-and-so and so-and-so," and I looked right over the top of Brother West and never noticed him till he started to go out. And then I thought all week long Brother West would think I just wilfully looked over him. But he's a Christian, so he knows better than that. He knows that I am a real friend.

    He raised up in Paris

    1. the Devil set up his headquarters there.

      WHY.ARE.WE.NOT.A.DENOMINATION?_ JEFF.IN V-11 N-7 SATURDAY_58-0927 {137}
      You worship these movies stars and all these other different things out here. Remember the sermon I preached (Margie, you remember it.) years ago on the invasion of the United States and overthrow the American Government? And how that I said he raised up in Paris after we saved them over there from that women, wine, and big time, and he lit right down in Hollywood. Now, instead of us sending to Paris to get models, they send here to get models.

      INVASION.OF.THE.USA_ JEFF.IN V-26 N-1 SUNDAY_ 54-0509 158
      Women, wine, debauchery, sin and filth to the gills...Then what did they do? What happened? Here's where we started. The Devil set up his headquarters there. There's where he started, right there, to demoralize the world from Paris, France.

    Head it up

    1. to give it a title; to begin with the subject.

      SERPENT'S.SEED_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-4 SUNDAY_ 58-0928E 1-5
      --today and yesterday--last night, rather, and today we have been speaking on the subject, first to head it up, "Why We Are Not a Denomination," and we have made it rather strong why we're not a denomination, and why we do not believe in denominations, because we find it in the Bible that denominations was never ordained of God.

    Head over heels 1

    1. head first: upside down: in a somersault, completely; deeply; totally.

      COME.LET.US.REASON.TOGETHER. - CHICAGO.IL 55-1004 E-56 056
      I seen a vision, and the Lord showed me that Billy, had disobeyed me, and had jumped through a window, and was going laughing, head over heels, like that, down, on through eternity, turning over and over.

    Heard through the grapevine 10

    1. A secret means of spreading or receiving information. Information that is not received from the original source.

      PARADOX_ TAMPA.FL SATURDAY_ 64-0418B
      I heard through the grapevine just a few minutes ago.

    Heart in one's mouth 23

    1. filled with fear.

      JEHOVAH.JIREH_ TULARE.CA SUNDAY_ 61-0226 E-84
      Pulled the knife out, put his little head back like this of his own son, his hands trembling, his heart in his mouth nearly, raised up his hand, obedience to God to take his own son's life. And when he got ready to bring down his lick, the Holy Ghost caught his hand, said, "Stay your hand, Abraham. I know now that you believe Me."

    Heart is in one's mouth, One's 4

    1. one suddenly feels very nervous or frightened in case something does or does not happen as one expects: feeling very emotional.

      GOD.HATH.A.PROVIDED.WAY. - JEFF.IN 56-0108 E-35 035
      It was in Abraham's darkest hour, when he drew back the knife and laid his own little boy back, and pulled his head back, and his heart in his mouth, as it was. His own son, and he pulled the knife to cut his throat, because God had said so. It was the darkest moment when God, Jehovah, appeared on the scene, said, "Abraham, stay your hand. I have provided already."

    Heart of stone 16

    1. a person devoid of feeling or compassion.

      GREATER.THAN.SOLOMON.IS.HERE_ SANTA.MARIA.CA THURSDAY_62-0628 E-98
      Let us bow our heads. Heavenly Father, I guess long will I remember the story. I remember feeling them hands of Burt, as he grabbed a hold of my trouser leg, pulling on me, and the tears dropping off on that white snow. The expression on his face had changed him. He'd seen something that was real. He wanted to be a Christian. And there on that snow bank that day, a cruel-hearted man with a heart of stone was melted, because that he saw something real..

    Heart to heart talk, A 16

    1. an intimate conversation

      MISSIONARY.TALK_ MIDDLETOWN.OH SUNDAY_ 58-0330A E-9
      Now, we do not know each other but just as brother and sister, and I thought this afternoon, as I was coming over, frankly, I was going to preach on a subject, "The Thirsting At The Waterbrook." But Something just changed my mind, and I thought I'd talk to you about missions, and what I know, just what we call a heart to heart talk with each other about foreign missions. Before we do this, let's just ask God to bless the reading of His Word now.

    Heeler, A 16

    1. a political follower of low character ; one who follows at the heels of his leader.

      GREATEST.NEWS.FLASH.IN.HISTORY_ CHICAGO.IL MONDAY_ 61-0424 E-47
      So now, I want to say this: I do not claim to be a healer. Any man that claims to be healer, he is a heeler. That's right. Not a h-e-a-l, though. See? It's Christ is the Healer

    Hell is paved with good intentions, The road to 5

    1. good intentions do not secure good results; good intentions don't always lead to good actions.

      INVESTMENTS. - CHICAGO.IL V-21 N-5 63-0803B 232 098
      My precious, wayward brother, fallen from Christ, don't wait too long to make this investment. He might've intended someday to do it, but as the old southern saying is, "Hell itself is paved with good intentions." See, the intentions doesn't do it.

    Help (someone) out 10

    1. give assistance to someone: provide help.

      SEAL.OF.THE.ANTICHRIST. - LA.CA 55-0311 E-56 056
      And when a revival comes to town, with one great united effort, everybody go in and help out. That's the way. Then you'll see ministers get together in a fellowship and a love with one another, and such things that you've never seen before will take place.

    Helping hand, A 7

    1. help (usually means when a person is offering or giving help to someone).

      IDENTIFIED.WITH.CHRIST. - JEFF.IN V-4 N-4 59-1220E 1 001
      And so the little family that's from Michigan or somewhere, that run out of gasoline, or something, or money, if you're still here in the town... If you see them after the meeting, pass them by my house. See? I want something in that. That's what we're here for, is to give a helping hand, anybody that we can. So now, the Lord Jesus bless us is our prayer.

    Here we go again 7

    1. try again. Repeat an action.

      JEHOVAH.JIREH_ LONG.BEACH.CA SUNDAY_ 61-0212M
      "What else did you see?" Oh, my, here I go again, jump up, "An elephant."

    Hewing Rock/Line

    1. or, hew or cut to the exact line To be precise, following directions..

      DIVINE.HEALING_ JEFF.IN V-26 N-9 SUNDAY_ 54-1219M
      Oh, how He laid it to the hewing rock, every bit of it, brother. He went right on, nothing changing. Oh, I like His fearless way. Don't you? Never a time that He was ever a bit upset, He knew He walked perfectly in the will of God.

    Hey-day 10

    1. The time of greatest health, vigor, beauty, prosperity; the best period or stage of a person or thing; the time of greatest excellence.

      JUST.ONE.MORE.TIME.LORD_ PHOENIX.AZ _ 63-0120E
      That was coming in his mind, what we'd call his heyday, back when he was in the Spirit of the Lord, when the Lord answered his prayer.

    Hickey 10

    1. Just as Bro. Branham describes it - "a little drop in the chain", "a gap". In the dictionary reference: a coupling or connection

      PERFECTION_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 56-0610
      And it dropped down to a space of time for the trying, and the perfecting, and for the purging of the lost, that God by His sovereign grace might someday lift that little (hickey) or gap back into the perfect circle.

    High brow, A 21

    1. a person aggressively intellectual or supposedly so.

      CONFERENCE_ SHREVEPORT.LA FRIDAY_ 60-1125 E-53
      Now, here's what proves they were Pentecostal. Said, "Silver and gold have I none, but such as I have." Oh, brother, take your silver and gold and give me that. Take all your seminary theology and give me that. Take all your education and all your high brow stuff and give me that.

    High Church 24

    1. The group in the Anglican Church that exalts the authority of the church and emphasizes the value of ritual.

      GREAT.COMING.REVIVAL_ CHICAGO.IL SUNDAY_ 54-0718A E-54
      Then it was given the Gentiles later. Paul was their preacher. Now, then when the Gentiles got a hold of it, they didn't pack it out. They begin to organize their churches. The first organized church in the world was the Catholic church. Next organized church in the world was the Lutheran church. Then come on down, through Wesley and the high Church of England, and, oh, on down through the each age, Alexander Campbell, the Christian church, on down into the last age now that we're in, every one organizing just like the Catholic church did in the beginning.

    High horse, To ride the 16

    1. to be arrogant.

      WITNESSES_ JEFF.IN V-25 N-6 SUNDAY_ 53-0405E {238}
      There was Saul on the road, going down, with orders in his pocket to arrest all that bunch of holy-rollers (That's right.), breathing out threatenings. God knocked him off his highhorse. He made him a witness of what those people had. Oh, my. I wonder if people tonight, ain't riding this same high horse tonight, should be knocked off, and be a witness.

    High Seas, The 10

    1. the ocean waters outside the jurisdiction of any country. (The expression, "like a bunch of sailors on a high sea" refers to someone having a good time with very little restraint.)

      EARLY.SPIRITUAL.EXPERIENCES_ HAMMOND.IN SUNDAY_ 52-0713A
      I had a rock, and I'd walked out behind the house, where there was a little branch that run down behind the cabin; I picked this rock, and I'd throw it down in the mud. And you know how a bunch of loggers would be, just about like a bunch of sailors, I guess, on a high sea. They was always teasing me and going on. And I guess, I was a pretty bad little boy.

    Highways and byways 7

    1. (on/along) all the roads, large and small, of a country, area, etc.

      CONFERENCE. - SHREVEPORT.LA 60-1125 E-9 009
      Father, bless Thy holy Word. We wait, Lord, upon the Holy Spirit to reveal these things to us. Speak to ever heart as we have need, Lord. You are pleading through many gifts and through Thy Word, pleading in the highways and byways, trying to compel these eleventh hour people to make ready Your coming. Grant it, Lord, and help me now and speak. We ask in Jesus' Name. Amen.

    Hill of beans 10

    1. a very small amount; very little; a trifle. (even a small amount).

      BELIEVEST.THOU.THIS?_ LA.CA SUNDAY_ 51-0506A E-53
      Every poet that's ever mounted to anything, any man that ever mounted to a hill of beans, believed in Him, had faith in Him as being Divine.

    Hit all the things

    1. cover the entire subject; get everything that is in the subject.

      FIFTH.SEAL.THE_ JEFF.IN FRIDAY_ 63-0322 337-5 {33}
      Now, let's get our Swords out again now, the Word. And I appreciate Brother Neville's spiritual support as well as his brotherly love, back here behind me, praying for me, and you all out there also. And now, tonight being Friday night, we'll try--just make it as... You can't possibly hit all the things.

    Hit and miss 4

    1. sometimes you win, sometimes you lose: not accurate: inexact, random.

      WHY. - PHOENIX.AZ 60-0309 11h1hE-23 023
      But I want to say tonight that the Balm of God, the Holy Spirit, it isn't a hit and guess, or a hit and miss, It is perfect. It's good for all. It is a Balm of God, Balm of Gilead. It's there for every sick, sin-sick soul.

    Hit home

    1. to drive down a point; to make an impact.

      QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS_ JEFF.IN COD SUNDAY_ 64-0823M {962-191}
      By the way, I got so many letters on my message two or three Sundays ago on "The Future Home of the Bride and Groom." That sure hit home somewhere; there's a lot of them. It did to me too. I've never got over it.

    Hit it off (with sb) 7,14

    1. informal quickly form or have a good relationship with someone; to enjoy one another's company: be happy and comfortable in each other's presence.

      PERGANEAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK.CPT.5 199-4
      Now this Nicolaitane doctrine, this rule that was established in the church did not hit it off too well with a lot of the people for they could read the odd epistle or essay on the Word written by some godly person.

    Hit on 16 cylinders

    1. referring to a cylinder in an internal combustion engine. Using the full capacity of all cylinders.

      RISING.OF.THE.SUN_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-12 SUNDAY_ 65-0418M 18-1
      All these Easter bunnies, and ceremonies, and big churches, and finery will fail and pass away, until that church becomes both Dynamics and Mechanics, and the Spirit of God that moved Him to do the things that He did, if He hit on sixteen cylinders, so will the Bride.

    Hit the bull's eye 10

    1. to aim at the center of a target with a weapon; be completely correct; identify or solve a problem exactly: doing things correctly.

      QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS. - JEFF.IN COD 59-0628E 394-151 088
      So Peter had the same revelation. Now, we got our sights trained in. We're hitting the bull's-eye. Let's see if the disciples used that kind of a shooting. Every time they come together, every time a baptism was mentioned, they had to be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, for He said, "There's not another name given under heaven among men whereby you must be saved."

    Hit the high spots 10

    1. Briefly considering or mentioning only the more important or significant parts of something.

      JEHOVAH.JIREH. - OAKLAND.CA 57-0326 E-68 068
      Sarah become a mother. She brought forth this little boy, Isaac. When he was about twelve years old... (Now, we'll close in a moment; we just had to hit the high spots.) Now, he's about twelve years old, pretty little curly-headed Jewish boy, about like that.

    Hit the nail on the head 12,14

    1. say or do something which is exactly right; provide a true explanation: get something exactly right; to speak or act in the most appropriate way.

      INFLUENCE.OF.ANOTHER. - JEFF.IN V-4 N-11 62-1013 101 067
      Now, where's this bunch going to wind up at? (I think you're right, Ben. You hit the nail on the head that time, son. Yes, that's about right.) Where will this irreverent group wind up at then? Where will this irreverent bunch wind up (That's it.), the ones that hasn't got no respect at all for God?

    Hit the road 7

    1. Start a road journey: drive off: start off

      MARK.OF.THE.BEAST. - JEFF.IN V-26 N-3 54-0513 177 060
      I want you to turn with me to the 17th chapter Revelations to finish up just in a few moments. Now, we're going to hit the road home. Listen close. Read with me. Open up your Bible and get ready to read. This ought to seal it.

    2. Go out of control.

      AFRICA.TRIP.REPORT. - OWENSBORO.KY 53-1109 E-15 015
      Just then I seen a little green car hit the road like this, and turn around like this, and slide backward, hit a tree.

    Hit the sawdust trail

    1. "come to the altar" or "go to the altar". Refers to tent meetings where sawdust was spread on the bare ground inside the tent.

      INFALLIBILITY.OF.GOD'S.WORD_ CHICAGO.IL WEDNESDAY_ 56-0404
      Now, they only had my word for it this a way, but once hitting the water, they knew for themselves. Now, you've only got my word for it this way, but hit the sawdust trail one time to an altar and find an old fashion godly experience in Christ Jesus, and you'll know for yourself that there's something about old time religion. Right.

    Hit/strike home 7

    1. hit the intended target.

      ABSOLUTE.A. - HOUSTON.TX 63-0304 E-55 055
      Let's stand up to our feet then, and tonight form a prayer meeting in here until an absolute takes place. Raise up our hands before God; pray till you strike home, until an absolute falls into your heart.

    2. really understand something.

      QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS. - JEFF.IN COD 64-0823M 962-191 105
      By the way, I got so many letters on my message two or three Sundays ago on the--"The Future Home of the Bride and Groom." That sure hit home somewhere; there's a lot of them. It did to me too. I've never got over it.

    Hitch-post 24

    1. that to which something is, or can be, securely attached.

      SPIRIT.OF.TRUTH_ PHOENIX.AZ FRIDAY_ 63-0118 E-76
      I come home, went out to the funeral home, picked out the clothes, oh, you know how it is. You've had to do the same thing. The kids all crying, one down in one place, and one in another. I said, "Mama was the hitch-post. We'll never be the same no more."

    Hither and thither 7,14

    1. here and there; in many different directions: in one direction and then in another.

      WITNESSES. - JEFF.IN V-25 N-6 53-0405E 210 071
      So, Elijah, walked right on down to the river, with Elisha. And when they got down to Jordan, death, last stage of the journey, old prophet reached over and pulled off his mantle, struck the waters; and the waters divided hither and thither, and the two walked across as on dry land. The preachers stood off and looked at them go across. Amen.

    Hits and haints and totes

    1. expressions used by some peoples in some areas of the Southern United States.

      RAPTURE.THE_ YUMA.AZ V-5 N-14 SATURDAY_ 65-1204
      And they'd come out to hear my broken words, my Kentucky English. And my "hits," and "hain'ts," and "totes," and "carry."

    Hocus-pocus 10

    1. trickery or deception

      BELIEVEST.THOU.THIS?_ MINNEAPOLIS.MN SUNDAY_ 50-0716
      So many people think that Divine healing is just a hocus-pocus affair. That isn't it. It's plain simple and the Gospel of Christ.

    Hod Dod down

    1. humble down; become humble.

      PERSEVERANCE_ PHOENIX.AZ SUNDAY_ 63-0113E E-66
      Naaman wanted to accept his healing like that one time. But Elijah told him to get out there in the old muddy Jordan and dip seven times. I can just see him get off his chariot. Oh, a great man, hold his nose. Here he comes out in the water tip-toeing like a cat in molasses, you know, coming out like this, you know, getting out like that to get down in the water. He said, "Oh, I hate to do this," hod-dod down.

    Hoe-cake 7

    1. a thin cake made of corn-meal, unleavened; originally baked in the ashes on the side of a hoe.

      BE.CERTAIN.OF.GOD_ CLEVELAND.TN WEDNESDAY_ 59-0708E E-32
      She had to light that, then put the meal and oil together; and that was the Word, the Spirit with the fire of the Holy Ghost to bake it into a hoe cake, of life giving substance.

    Hoe-down 16

    1. a rural square dance: a lively, noisy, boisterous party or dance.

      MAKING.THE.VALLEY.FULL.OF.DITCHES SHREVEPORT.LA SATURDAY 56-0728 E-2
      And now, tonight is a bad night, Saturday night. This is the devil's night, you know, the one when the devil gets on the highways and all the booze joints and all the liquor running crowd, all the low down, hoe down, boogie-woogie, and rock-and-roll, and all that rolling and rocking tonight. Hundreds will die.

    Hog 16

    1. a pig. Pigs are always called hogs in America, even when named figuratively. It takes almost exclusively the place of the English “swine”, which is rarely heard in the U.S.

      PRODIGAL_ CLEVELAND.OH SUNDAY_ 50-0827A E-37
      He joined himself with a citizen of the country. And the citizen give him two big slop buckets to go slop the hogs. Think of a place and who's...?... boy out there slopping hogs in the pig pen, away from mother, away from the religion that he once had, to keep away from hogs, now he was rooting at.

    Hog eat Hog

    1. everyone wants to succeed and is willing to harm other people or use dishonest methods in order to do this; not caring about something.

      WAY.OF.A.TRUE.PROPHET_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-14 SUNDAY_ 62-0513M
      It's clubs, bastard born children and everything else, hog eat hog, dog eat dog. What's the matter? It's because they've left the Word.

    Hog-back 10

    1. a ridge with a sharp crest and abruptly sloping sides, often formed by the outcropping edge of tilting rock strata.

      PERSEVERANT_ CHICAGO.IL V-21 N-4 FRIDAY_ 63-0802
      And I went across the mountain, down over a little, what we'd call, a little hogback, like.

    Hold forth/Hold fast To 24

    1. to keep secure; to support; stand true to something.

      INDICTMENT.THE_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-19 SUNDAY_ 63-0707 5-3
      I noticed this morning way back in the back, Brother McKinney from a (I believe it's Kinney or McKinney.)--the Methodist minister, setting back there, just recently been ordained here too (I believe that was right, from the platform.), for to hold forth up in Ohio with Brother Dauch, and Sister Dauch, and the group from up in Ohio.

    Hold the fort 4

    1. (informal) take charge, take care of, or look after something in someone's absence; to wait.

      HEBREWS.CHAPTER.6. - JEFF.IN HEB 57-0908E 238-457
      And I thought, "Oh, he's just going on." I went on and went somewhere, come back, and got in my car. I come up home, and I begin to think about that: "I don't serve the Lord no more." The Lord put it on my heart to go back and ask him again. So I said, "Meda, just hold the fort."

    Hold up 10

    1. to gather one's strength: to keep control of oneself: to keep one's composure: keep patient: wait.

      ABSOLUTE.AN. - SHREVEPORT.LA V-17 N-10 63-1201M 154 076
      Said, "The little lady watched out, two or three times. She just standing there, and perspiration on her face, knew she was very sick. And the brother standing there with his arms around her, you know, saying, 'Just hold up, honey, now just a little longer.' Said, 'The good druggist is going to get us some medicine.'"

    Hold water 10

    1. stand the test: be proven or vindicated.

      BAPTISM.OF.THE.HOLY.SPIRIT_ JEFF.IN V-5 N-2 SUNDAY_ 58-0928M
      The Pentecostal Assemblies of God today would give anything right down in the bottom of those great teachers' heart if they'd never started that dogma of the initial evidence, speaking in tongues. They know that's wrong. It won't hold water. Certainly won't.

    Hole in the wall 16

    1. a building, church, or business that is obscure or insignificant.

      UNPARDONABLE.SIN_ JEFF.IN V-26 N-8 SUNDAY_ 54-1024 34
      No reason at all why this little place here couldn't be a beehive of the power of God, buzzing with the glory of God, flying from everywhere. This little old hole in the wall here, almost, is known throughout the entire world, this little spot you're setting in tonight; because not of William Branham, but because of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and a Gospel that they've contended for.

    Holy Land, The 16

    1. among the Christians and Jews, Israel.

      EPHESIANS.PARALLELS.JOSHUA_ JEFF.IN AD.1 SUNDAY_ 60-0515E {62}
      Now, the Book of Ephesians placed us positionally in Christ, what they were in the holy land. We are placed not in the holy land, but in the Holy Ghost. Now, let us read just a Word, see how perfect the church is.

    Holy Rollers 10

    1. members of minor religious groups that express emotion by making violent movements and sounds during religious worship.

      EXPERIENCES_ ZION.IL SATURDAY_ 52-0726
      Listen. I've traveled the seven seas, and I've never seen a holy-roller yet. I've never seen one. I've seen people scream and shout. I've seen them get disorderly even in their way of doing, going to excess, to the other side. And that steers people away. But I'd rather have a little wild fire than no fire at all.

    Hoodlum 16

    1. a ruffian: troublemaker; criminal or gangster.

      QUEEN.OF.THE.SOUTH_ GREENVILLE.SC FRIDAY_ 58-0620
      And the best defense that we have is America closing up the barroom, clothing their women, getting back to the church, and back to the Bible; it'll break all this here hoodlum, juvenile delinquency, and all that stuff up, and bring God back to the nation in an old fashion revival, if we'd just do it.

    Hook up with someone 14

    1. join or become associated with.

      GREATER.THAN.SOLOMON.IS.HERE. - PHOENIX.AZ 57-0228 E-14 014
      Notice, and now, how petty people can be. These disciples just like other men, two or three days later they found a man casting out devils, and he was getting the job done; he was doing a real job. And the disciples found him, and just like men of our day, they said, "You come and join our denomination. You come hook up with us, 'cause you can't do this unless you go with us." But they were just a little bit too late.

    Hook ups

    1. an arrangement whereby people could join in the meeting by way of a telephone hook-up.

      ANOINTED.ONES.AT.END.TIME_ JEFF.IN V-5 N-3 SUNDAY_ 65-0725M
      And you that's not here and out on the hook-ups.

    Hook, line and sinker

    1. completely; altogether; originally, a fisherman's expression

      THE.STATURE.OF.A.PERFECT.MAN_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-18 SUNDAY_ 62-1014M
      And the Protestants falling for it hook, line, and sinker.

    Hook-nose 10

    1. an aquiline nose; hooked like an eagle's beak; a person having such a nose.

      PRIDE_ CAMPBELLSVILLE.KY SUNDAY_ 55-0807A E-47
      And I can see her as she trembling, takes it in her hand, puts it down in her bosom, in her stocking perhaps, wraps it up on the inside, wraps her clothes around her, and out the street she goes. It's getting late, she goes down the street to some great, fine perfume company. She goes in, and there's an old hook-nose, grouchy fellow standing behind the counter, counting his money. "Well, it wasn't very good today. Didn't even make rent, bad day." All peeved up, yet as orthodox as he could be in his religion.

    Hoop-up music - (should be "whooped-up") See "Whoop"

    1. music played for the purpose of getting the people into a state of great excitement

      SEVEN.CHURCH.AGES_ JEFF.IN V-26 N-2 WEDNESDAY_ 54-0512
      you used to go, they'd play up the hoop-up music, and beat the bands, and beat the drums,

    2. whooped up: to create a noisy disturbance, as in celebrating

    Hop and a Jump

    1. or, "skip, hop and a jump". Just a very short distance.

      CHRIST.IS.THE.MYSTERY_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-7 SUNDAY_ 63-0728 10-6
      When I had that emergency call to Brother Dauch the other day, I didn't realize that Lima, Ohio, was so far away. Just I thought that was a little skip, hop, and a jump.

    Hopalong Cassidy

    1. the name of an actor in a Western movie.

      IDENTIFIED.WITH.CHRIST_ JEFF.IN V-4 N-4 SUNDAY_ 59-1220E
      If all the little boys that want to be Hopalong Cassidy or some of these others, or the little girls, the Annie Oakleys and so forth; if they only wanted to be like Jesus as much as they want to be like that, the Sunday schools would be running over everywhere.

    Horse sense 14

    1. common sense: good judgement;

      POWER.OF.DECISION_ CHICAGO.IL FRIDAY_ 55-1007
      Why don't we even have horse sense?

    Hot potato 14

    1. A question that causes strong argument and is difficult to settle; referring to a situation or person one wants to get rid of as quickly as possible.

      PALMERWORM.LOCUST.CATERPILLAR. - JEFF.IN V-14 N-1 59-0823
      126 071 I might not be able to produce it out in all these branches, because old sap lines out here of denomination and creed cut me off and drop me like a hot potato. That might be true. But I'll stand loyal on the stump, and cry that the hour will come, and God will restore His Church to its former condition.

    Hot rod 14

    1. An automobile changed so that it can have a lot of power, can gain speed quickly and go very fast.

      LETTING.OFF.PRESSURE. - PHOENIX.AZ 63-0113M E-18 018
      And we're living in a day of much pressure. Everywhere everybody's so tense. And down the street with the hot rod, and they can't wait for the stop lights, and you know, and run over you. And they're not going anywhere, not at all, not going anywhere. They're, just as hard as they can race, but just racing towards eternity is all I know.

    Hot under (in) the collar 1

    1. angry

      LAMB.AND.THE.DOVE. - LA.CA 56-0917 E-11 011
      But us, just let someone do something against us, and we get hot in the collar. What happens? The Dove takes its flight. The Holy Spirit leaves.

    Hottentot knows about an Egyptian night 24

    1. Knowing no more than a native of South Africa would know about the stories or folk tales of the ancient Middle East. ("Hottentot" - one of a yellowish-brown South African people. "Egyption Night" or "The Arabian Nights", an ancient composition of folk tales of the India, Persia and Arab world.)

      CHOOSING.OF.A.BRIDE_ LA.CA V-2 N-28 THURSDAY_ 65-0429E
      Maybe know no more about God that a Hottentot knows about an Egyptian night.

    Houdini 24

    1. Harry Houdini, whose real name was Ehrich Weiss, 1874-1926. A magician. Noted for his ability to escape from near impossible situations.

      FAITH.IS.THE.SUBSTANCE_ OAKLAND.CA SATURDAY_ 47-0412 E-99
      The main thing is get a hold of something that's real. How many believes that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever? Then if I told you the spirit of John Dillinger had come on me, I'd be a dangerous person to be around. I'd have guns and be an outlaw. If I told you the spirit of some great artist was on me, you'd expect me to paint the picture like that artist could. If I told you the spirit of Houdini, the escape artist, you'd expect me to do the things that he did.

    Howling wilderness, A 16

    1. an empty wilderness

      MESSIAH.THE_ SHREVEPORT.LA TUESDAY_ 61-0117 E-61
      I like to watch the big eagle. You know that father eagle... You know, God called Himself an Eagle. Did you know that? He called His prophets eagles. Sure He did. He told it that... This eagle, Jacob, He found him in a howling wilderness,

    Hula Dancing 10

    1. a native Hawaiian dance performed by women

      BIRTH.PAINS_ PHOENIX.AZ V-3 N-4 SUNDAY_ 65-0124
      They had on these tattletale gray skirts, like one of these barroom girls, with no back on it up here, holding it up like a gray-looking piece of paper, and like hula dancing: paint, short bobbed hair, smoking cigarettes, and twisting as they walked to rock-and-roll.

    Hum and haw 4

    1. not say directly what one thinks, be hesitant because one is undecided or because something is unpleasant.

      VICTORY.DAY. - SIERRA.VISTA.AZ 63-0421 E-65 065
      When it looks like everything's gone wrong, God's giving you a trial. He's got confidence in you. He don't have to baby you around. You're not a hotbed plant, a hybrid. You're a real Christian. God's giving you a test, see what you'll do about it. Amen. No wonder Peter said, "These fiery trials, why, count it a joy. It's more precious to you than gold." And many times we hum and haw, "Oh, well. If I just..." Well, that--well, that's something God gives you to overcome. He knows you'll do it. He's put his trust in you.

    Hurry right through

    1. go through or finish as quickly as possible.

      CONDEMNATION.BY.REPRESENTATION. - JEFF V-2 N-13 60-1113-1 023
      I want to call your attention this morning to some Scripture found in the Book of Genesis. And now, I'll try to hurry right through on this message, the Lord willing, because we want to pray for the sick and have baptismal service.

    Hustle and bustle 7

    1. busy and excited activity.

      WHY.ARE.PEOPLE.SO.TOSSED.ABOUT. - JEFF V-2 N-14 56-0101 21-3 065
      The Holy Ghost comes in the quiet of the hour. You know, you go out of a morning real early when the dew is on the ground. The dew falls just before daylight, usually sometime in the night, after the hustle and bustle of the world is gone to bed, after everything is asleep.

    Hypnotize 10

    1. to put someone into a sleep-like condition by the power of the mind so that the person responds to commands.

      GOD.COMMISSIONING.MOSES.THE.PROPHET_ JONESBORO.AR FRIDAY_53-0508 E-70
      There in Madison Square Garden, where we were sitting there, they had hired one of these guys to come hypnotize me. Them guys that goes to these army camps and makes them boys bark like a dog. You know how it is. And some bunch of unbelievers, here it is, come and hired that man to come hypnotize me on the platform.

    Hypos can't stop it 10

    1. A hypodermic injection under the skin for medical purposes

      HIDDEN.LIFE.WITH.CHRIST_ MINNEAPOLIS.MN MONDAY_ 56-0213
      I've seen some horrible sights, and many times over the world, to watch and see people dying in all kind of a state. And I've watched them who thought they were real genuine Christians, but when they come time to die... Oh, my, that camera turned, and they see them things coming up, that they had had a form of godliness and denied the power, and got away from God. They hadn't lived that life at all. And they scream and holler. And hypos can't stop it. That's right.

    I went plumb out of my knowing

    1. " I went completely out of my understanding".

      SEVENTH.SEAL.THE_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0324E 565-4 {310}
      And as--I was standing right there, and this explosion left, and I was looking this way, towards the west, and they come and just picked me up in there, and I went plumb out of my knowing.

    If need be 7

    1. If necessary.

      THYATIREAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK.CPT.6 240-2
      And now He says, that he who keeps doing His works faithfully until the end will be given power over nations, and will be a strong, capable, unbending ruler who can cope so powerfully with any situation, that even the most desperate enemy will be broken if need be.

    If you lay down with a dog that's got fleas, you'll get up with fleas too

    1. one will learn to do bad things if he or she associates with bad people.

      WHY.ARE.WE.NOT.A.DENOMINATION?_JEFF.IN V-11 N-7 SATURDAY_ 58-0927 120
      You hang around with somebody that's a thief, you'll be a thief yourself. My old Kentucky mammy used to say, "If you lay down with a dog that's got fleas, you'll get up with fleas too." You take a woman that's no good, and let a girl, and put her with a good decent boy, and the first thing you know he's as ornery as a pup. Turn it right vice versa. You're knowed by your company.

    Ignoramus 24

    1. an uneducated person; someone or something that knows nothing.

      INVESTMENTS_ PHOENIX.AZ SATURDAY_ 63-0126 E-97
      You'd better listen to what I'm telling you. You might not want to do it because I'm an ignoramus. But I'm not as ignorant maybe as you think I am. See? I may be. Maybe God has to take something ignorant.

    In a fix 4

    1. in a difficult position.

      BELIEVING.GOD. - JEFF.IN V-19 N-7 52-0224 182 068
      Oh, brother, God just gets the devil in a fix with that three hundred and sixty-five days a year (See?), "You're a liar; there's the Word; I am healed."

    In a fog 4

    1. confused: uncertain of the facts.

      BELIEVEST.THOU.THIS. - CHICAGO.IL 53-0906A E-47 047
      She said, "Whence cometh the mother of my Lord? For as soon as your salutation come into my ears, my baby leaped in my womb for joy." Hallelujah. Yes, sir. Oh, brother, we're not in a fog. We know where we're at. Sure.

    In a month of Sundays 11

    1. in an indefinitely long period of time.

      PERSEVERANCE. - NY.NY V-18 N-12 63-1116E 34 016
      Sister Brown, you would never guess in a month of Sundays, who this is. And she said, "Bless your heart, I sure wouldn't."

    In a tight spot 2

    1. in a position where an alternative action is difficult or restricted: in trouble or difficulty.

      GOD'S.COVENANT.WITH.ABRAHAM. - SIOUX.FALLS.SD 56-0223 E-47 047
      And you're heir to the same promise that was given to Abraham is given to his Seed. Amen. Say, brother, that gets the Devil in a tight spot, just place the Word down on him.

    In cold blood 4

    1. in a calculated and deliberate way; calmly and without feeling.

      WHAT.SHALL.I.DO.WITH.JESUS. - JEFF.IN V-6 N-6 63-1124M 9 005
      Lord Jesus, we human beings, we have a feeling for one another. And we are sorry, Lord, that our President was shot down the way he was in cold-blood murder. And we're so sorry that our nation has come to this spot: That such people like that are in our nation; that would kill a human being in cold-blooded murder, like they shot that colored brother not long ago, and just shot him right down in cold-blood of race prejudice.

    In demand 4

    1. wanted by many people: popular.

      RAISING.JAIRUS.DAUGHTER. - SHREVEPORT.LA 56-0731 E-16 016
      Now, our Lord Jesus was a very busy Man when He was here on earth. He was in greatly in demand. He never stayed one place but just a little bit at a time, then away He would go somewhere else.

    In no uncertain terms 7

    1. without any doubt or argument: clearly and forcefully.

      RESUME.OF.THE.AGES - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK.CPT.10 368-5
      We learn in no uncertain terms that this false vine is the vine of Satan. Their gathering is of him (Satan). They meet in the Name of God and lie that they are Christ's. They preach, they teach, they baptize, they worship, they partake of various rites given by Christ to the church, yet they are not of God.

    In store 14

    1. Ready to happen: waiting. Often used in the phrase Have/lay/hold/lie in store. To have something set aside with a specific purpose in mind, for example to be holding something aside in order to give it to someone specific.

      WATER.BAPTISM. - JEFF.IN EM 15-40 59-0329M 160 092
      Almighty God, Creator of heavens and earth, and Author of Everlasting Life, and Giver of all good spiritual and physical gifts, give to this woman good health, strength, happiness, and all the spiritual blessings that You have in store for her.

    In the back of one’s/someone’s mind

    1. a secret/hidden intention/idea/worry in a person’s thoughts only, not told to others.

      KEY.TO.THE.DOOR. - JEFF.IN V-12 N-6 62-1007 46 028
      It was, I believe, Thomas Edison, on the light, that they say the man had a knowledge that he could make electricity light. He's the inventor of the light bulb. And he wouldn't even go to bed at night. He would take a sandwich in his hand, and eat his meal, and set there, and figure, and work. Somewhere way back in the back of his mind, something told him he could do it. What is it? It's a key that can open up the way.

    In the bottoms

    1. lowland close to a river which sometimes would be flooded with water, and when dry, very good, fertile soil remained. People would plant their vegetables in that area.

      GOD.IN.SIMPLICITY_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0317M 21-1 {115}
      He lived in Utica; his name was Jim Dorsey. Many of you people might've knowed him. He's given me many a watermelon when I was a little fellow. He used to raise watermelons down on the river in the bottoms there.

    In the groove 18

    1. the right place; a fixed routine in the affairs of life.

      GET.THE.PEOPLE.TO.BELIEVE. - HAMMOND.IN 52-0717 E-31 031
      You'll get in the groove when God calls you. That's right. You'll get in the place where the Holy Spirit's a falling. God's no respecter of persons. That's right. You'll get right in the move with God, and you'll move in the Spirit.

    In the long run 7

    1. eventually: in the end: when you take everything over a period of time into consideration.

      ENSIGN.AN. - PHOENIX.AZ 62-0119 E-28 028
      Every time that science makes something, he destroys himself: gunpowder, and atomic energy, and nuclear weapons, and automobiles, and all these things. Yet temporarily it helps him. But in the long run it destroys himself, because it's something that he has achieved while he's in God's workshop trying to make something, pervert what God has made, and put it into his own ideas, and make it up.

    In the red 13

    1. to be in debt, to owe more money than one has.

      SHOW.US.THE.FATHER.IT'LL.SATISFY. - SPINDALE.NC 56-0422 E-18 018
      I have no income at all, no sponsors of any denominations, nothing at all, no underwriters, nothing, just the free will offerings the people sends and give me. And sometimes I go hundreds of dollars in the red. And then maybe I get a good big love offering somewhere of four, five, six hundred dollars, maybe a thousand, two thousand. I have gotten as much as five thousand in an offering. What I do, I go to my secretary and say, "How much do we need?" Say, "Well, Billy, we're about fifteen hundred in the red. I say, "Well, go pay it off.

    Indocumated 24

    1. indoctrinated

      THEIR.EYES.WERE.OPENED_ BEAUMONT.TX THURSDAY_ 64-0312 E-14
      May I say it today? After two thousand years of teaching, believing, still He's alive, and people cannot perceive it. They cannot understand it. The main thing is, they've been so indocumated with other things, too many cares, and too much other stuff. That's the reason they cannot understand it.

    Indocumated

    1. See: indoctrinated

    Iron something out 4

    1. make something right or as it should be; solve/resolve something.

      GREAT.WARRIOR.JOSHUA. - CHICAGO.IL 55-0119 E-28 028
      He's got a Church tonight, made up all around the world. He's got a lot of things about it that's got to be ironed out. I can't iron them out, and I couldn't iron them out. I don't know how to iron them out; no other man can. But that's God's business to do that.

    It's an ill wind that blows no good 3

    1. no good comes from a bad wind.

      LIFE.STORY. - OWENSBORO.KY 53-1108A E-1 001
      Thank you. Good evening, friends. Very happy to be here this afternoon. And this is one time we have to get together to keep from freezing, isn't it? Well, I've often heard that the ill- wind blows no one some good.

    It's packed 15

    1. It's crowded

      EXPECTATIONS.LEADINGS.OF.SPIRIT. - EDMONTON.AB 57-0811EE-6 006
      And I--I just held a revival in a building that holds thirty people when it's packed out, thirty people. But wherever the Lord sends me, if it's down to a little city in a little place that holds thirty people, or ten people, or five people; I have no great obligations, the reason I can't go.

    It's six of one and half a dozen of the other 7,14

    1. one is the same as the other: (of two people or things) they are equally to blame: there is no difference between them.

      FIFTH.SEAL.THE. - JEFF.IN 63-0322 357-2 {182} 079
      And she went right into the same organizational system of pagan darkness that she come out of, and there she remains today. And honest hearted people thinking that that's the truth, just the same as Catholics are, and the Protestants laugh at the Catholic when they're just six of one and half a dozen of the other, exactly according to the Word: man's wisdom.

    Janus/January 3

    1. Janus was the Romans god for gates and doors. He is depicted on ancient Roman coins as facing in two directions at once. Therefore, the first month of the year was named after him, since he was, in a sense, guarding the portal of the year. Hence, January.

      SARDISEAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK.CPT.7 244-3
      Two things really struck me with force as I looked into this worship of Cybele. One was the fact that she wore a key like Janus which gave her the same authority as Janus, (key to heaven and earth and the mysteries) and the fact that the worshipers whip themselves until blood spurts from their bodies, which thing is done right today by the Catholics who feel they are suffering like the Lord.

    Jim Crow 3

    1. A comedian. (the original Jim Crow was a white blackface comedian named Thomas D. Rice who, in 1835, devised a song and dance whose theme went: « Wheel about, turn about/Do just so/Every time I wheel about/I jump Jim Crow. » The act was a great success).

      PREPARATION. - OWENSBORO.KY 53-1111 E-84 084
      Like a little Jim Crow, danced up there, jumped up on him, pulled his sword out, chopped his head off like that. Said, "How do you like that, boy?" Reached down and got him by the hair of his head. Said, "Come on, boys, let's preach Divine healing." Way they went. Hallelujah.

    2. The expression Jim Crow came to symbolize, for the American Blacks, every form of segregation and discrimination imposed upon them by the predominantly white power structure. For more than a century expressions like « Jim Crow laws » and « Jim Crow schools » were widely heard.

      TESTIMONY_ CHICAGO.IL WEDNESDAY_ 53-0902 E-38
      Now, down there they have a law of segregation: Jim Crow law. And the white and colored cannot come together. And so... I don't think that's right. But as so --that's wrong. I just don't say that for any respects for our colored friends here tonight, but I don't care if there's nobody here. That's wrong.

    Jim Dandy (jim-dandy) 16

    1. An admirable person or thing.

      PERGAMEAN.CHURCH.AGE_ JEFF.IN ROJC 229-285 WEDNESDAY_ 60-1207 133
      "Oh, he'll make a jim-dandy president," there's no doubt about that in my mind;

    2. A fictional hero; the one who will solve all problems.

    John Doe 16

    1. Any man at all: the mythical average man. From the name invented anciently to stand for the fictitious lessee in court proceedings of ejectment and thereafter used wherever a fictitious person is needed.

      ISRAEL.AT.THE.RED.SEA.2_ JEFF.IN IC 65-96 FRIDAY_ 53-0327 232
      Our dismissing song, "Take The Name Of Jesus With You," you know it, don't you? Now, shall we stand just a moment. Now, while we sing the first verse, I want you to turn around, shake hands with your neighbor, say, "My name is John Doe; I'm glad you were here in the Tabernacle tonight. I hope to see you again."

    Johnny Appleseed 24

    1. Nickname of John Chapman 1775-1847. An American pioneer, famous for establishing orchards in the Middle Western United States.

      REV.CHAP.5.PT1.BRUISED.SERPENT_ JEFF.IN ROJC 717-746 SUNDAY_ 61-0611 {9}
      Many of you are well acquainted with Johnny Appleseed of America. Why, there was also a man in Sweden that was considered something like that; he sowed flowers. And they say that's why they have so many pretty flowers in Sweden now, and because that they sowed the flower seeds, everywhere he could find a piece of ground that seeds would grow in. He loved flowers so he just strowed the seeds around. He's gone on but his flowers still live.

    Johnny pin

    1. a type of paper clip.

      ON.THE.WINGS.OF.A.DOVE_ SHP.LA V-7 N-5 SUNDAY_ 65-1128E {28}
      Now, that's a "johnny pin," ladies; that won't work in the hair. A "johnny pin," he said he'd been using it for years, to hold the pages of his Bible down. So he said, "I'll give you a genuine 'johnny pin.'"

    Johns Hopkins 24

    1. Johns Hopkins (1795-1873. A philanthropist after whom the world renowned Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. are named. The name "Johns Hopkins" refers to these institutions.

      DEEP.CALLETH.TO.THE.DEEP_ OWENSBORO.KY WEDNESDAY_ 53-1104
      A man said. "Well, I went to the meeting, but I didn't get prayed for, so I went home." You'd sit at Mayo's Clinic for three months if you got in there. And they never do nothing for you. They'll just tell you what was wrong with you. Johns Hopkins, they want to operate on you. They'll just tell you, advise to go to their doctors.

    Jot down

    1. write down.

      FIFTH.SEAL.THE_ JEFF.IN FRIDAY_ 63-0322 338-1 {36}
      So what I try to do is keep from getting way off of it, I'll jot down a Scripture or a little note here somewhere, and keep from just keeping on that one thing,

    Jukebox 3

    1. Machine usually found in restaurants and saloons which one puts money into and then selects a song and the machine plays the selected song. (The earliest jukeboxes were known as “juke organs” and were coin-operated phonographs which produced sounds like those heard from barrel organs or hurdy-gurdies. Juke, not surprisingly, is Gullah dialect and means “disorderly”, as in “disorderly house”).

      QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS. - JEFF.IN COD 64-0823E 1043-Q-323 113 323.
      I have a lunch counter and serve high school children for the most part. Since coming into the Light, I have taken the pinball machine and (the jukebox they got), j-box out.

    Jump on 16

    1. to assault verbally ; to reprove; to reprimand.

      PARADOX_ JEFF.IN V-15 N-8 SUNDAY_ 61-1210 {41}
      But he met them at the door, and pointed his finger in their face, said, "You ever jump on him again," that was me, said, "I'll expose you before the public, and I really will make a bunch of donkeys out of you," he said. I've never heard of them since. See? No, I don't blame them. I'd stay away also. Yes, because you'll never get a word in edgeways around Brother Booth.

    Jumping-off place

    1. a point to start from or begin something.

      JESUS.CHRIST.THE.SAME_ NEW.YORK.NY TUESDAY_ 54-0824
      Friends, we're here that the Lord willing for next, I believe, it's about eight or ten nights to be here before going over seas. We usually make this our jumping-off place. Brother Baxter and I have did this now... This is the third time, I believe.

    Kangaroo court 10

    1. an unofficial or mock court or trial.

      SIXTH.SEAL.THE_ JEFF.IN SATURDAY_ 63-0323
      They just got through one of those episodes, and Brother Maguire (I think he's here now), they caught him downtown without his western clothes on and they throwed him in the jail, and put him in a Kangaroo Court, and made him pay for it, and then made him go buy a western outfit.

    Keep (your, our) chin up 7

    1. stay cheerful, don't be discouraged in difficult circumstances.

      LAMB.AND.THE.DOVE. - LA.CA 56-0917 E-19 019
      What kind of people should we be, Holy-Ghost filled, though we are pilgrims and strangers. How ought we to conduct our lives and selves, not like the rest of the world, but separate ourselves from the things of the world. Keep our chin up, as it were, because there's one thing we know: We are sons and daughters of the King.

    Keep the crosshairs dead centre

    1. to aim precisely and accurately at something. (see "cross hairs"). Crossed lines mounted on the lens of a telescopic gun sight to assist in precise aiming.

      EPHESIANS.PARALLELS.JOSHUA_ JEFF.IN AD.1 SUNDAY_ 60-0515E{146}
      I come to You, Father. I come asking You to direct the shot that I shall fire. May it be exactly zeroed, the crosshairs right on his...?... May this prayer in the Name of Jesus Christ strike that nervousness and tear it to pieces, bring back this sheep of God's pasture. Amen.

      HEAR.YE.HIM_ PARKERSBURG.WV SATURDAY_ 56-1215 E-55
      Burt slipped a shell in his rifle, raised it up, and put the cross hairs across her heart, and as he was making a noise, the doe looked and she saw him.

    Keep up with the Joneses 4

    1. wanting to have the same things everyone else has; compete with one's neighbours and friends in material standards: want to possess the same material goods as others.

      DOOR.TO.THE.HEART. - SAN.JOSE.CA 59-1128 E-28 028
      Now, people don't want Jesus fooling around with any of their pride. Now, they got their own prestige, and they must be sure they keep up with the Joneses.

    Keep your coats (shirt) on, To 2

    1. Be calm or patient.

      QA.ON.GENESIS_ JEFF.IN COD WEDNESDAY_ 53-0729 41-173
      I believe that the Jew... Now, keep your coats on just a minute now. The Jew has never been able to conceive this one thing of the Christian church. The Jew has told me, many times, "Brother, you can't chop God in three parts and give Him to me." The Jew has one God, and that's Jehovah.

    Keep your nose out of something 7

    1. not interfere in something that does not concern you.

      HARVEST.TIME. - PHOENIX.AZ V-18 N-6 64-1212 260 097
      And now, Pentecost, keep your nose out of that World Council of churches.

    Keyed up

    1. Excited, nervous.

      WORLD.IS.FALLING.APART. - NY.NY V-18 N-10 63-1115 6 003
      It does make you nervous. But you know, it takes nervous people sometimes to get somewhere, you know, and they get keyed up into a spot.

    Keystone 24

    1. The uppermost and last-set stone of an arch that locks, which completes it and locks its members together.

      SPOKEN.WORD.ORIGINAL.SEED_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-2 SUNDAY_ 62-0318E
      How many knows what a keystone is? When the arch is built, then the keystone holds it together.

    2. Figuratively, the fundamental element, as of a science or doctrine.

      RAPTURE.THE_ YUMA.AZ V-5 N-14 SATURDAY_ 65-1204
      Jesus, being the Keystone now, He bear record. See, He was the Keystone between the Old and New Testament, because He had to first die and then rapture. He died, come to life, and walked around here with us, and then was raptured up; because He was the Keystone that tied the two together.

    Kick up a fuss/row (about something) 4

    1. (informal) create or cause trouble, an unpleasant argument etc.

      SEAL.OF.GOD. - LONG.BEACH.CA 61-0216 E-34 034
      And remember, here it is, believer. Abel died on the same rock with his lamb. Every believer has to do the same thing: die on the rock with your lamb. A lamb don't have but one thing, and that's wool. And he has to forfeit all he's got. He don't kick up a fuss about it.

    Kicking them around

    1. criticizing them; finding fault with them.

      EXPECTATION_ LONG.BEACH.CA TUESDAY_ 61-0207 E-42
      You must prefer one another always. That's the life of Christ, to prefer your brother, sister. And if they are wrong, that's all right. You'll never make them any better by kicking them around. Put an arm around and pick him up.

    Kid gloves, Treat/Handle someone with 4

    1. to treat someone with care, gently, so as not to hurt his feelings or give offence.

      ARROW.OF.GOD'S.DELIVERANCE. - SHREVEPORT.LA 56-0801 E-44 044
      Might be a little rough and handled rough, but, brother, we're living in the last hour. We got to quit this here handling the Gospel with kid gloves on. "Make me a little bitty thing to join the church." Jesus said except a man be born again, he can't even see the Kingdom of heaven. And a born again person is God's sainted child.

    Kid stuff 16

    1. Anything childish or immature; that which presents no challenge to or interest for an intelligent adult.

      CORINTHIANS.BOOK.OF.CORRECTION_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 57-0414 E-18
      Every one of them went into the wilderness. Jesus said, "Not all that saith, Lord, Lord, will enter in; but the one that doeth the will of My Father, which is in heaven." It isn't what you say. You could preach the Gospel and still be lost. Certainly. This is not just little kid stuff. This is absolutely... It's deep.

    Killjoy 16

    1. a gloomy person ; one whose actions or remarks deprive others of pleasure; a pessimist.

      ELIJAH.AND.MEAL.OFFERING_ PHX.AZ V-9 N-4 THURSDAY_ 60-0310{40}
      Oh, I'm so glad that God has a way of escape. And when they thought he was crazy, "That old prophet, an old killjoy," always trying to take the joy out of their little happy parties they were having, telling them that it was sin.

    Kindling 19

    1. Broken wood used for lighting fires.

      THOU.SON.OF.DAVID.HAVE.MERCY.ON.ME_ LONG.BEACH.CA WEDNESDAY_ 61-0215 E-18
      Now, but today with all of our modern convenience, and instead of reading the Bible to her children, will turn the television on and let them look at something that's not even fit for them to look at. Now, that's right. That's right. And another thing, we'll give them these little old comic books, and little old story books off of some drugstore mantle that oughtn't to even be sold to make kindling wood out of, or fire out of.

    Kinky manicures 2

    1. to make hair curl by the use of chemical solution.

      MARK.OF.CHRIST. - LA.CA 55-0312 E-56 056
      Here not long ago a little old girl was going to sing in a choir for me. And she said she wouldn't come because she couldn't get one of them kinky manicures for her hair. And she had to sing in a choir. And when I heard that, I said, "You couldn't sing if you wanted to now."

    Kiwanis Club 24

    1. A chain of clubs of businessmen in the United States and Canada,having the slogan, "service".

      UNWELCOMED.CHRIST_ CHICAGO.IL SUNDAY_ 55-1002 E-6
      And like clubs, the Kiwanis, they have things in common. They like to get together and eat together, the Kiwanis club, because they talk about the affairs of the city and taking care of the poor and so forth. They have things in common.

    Knee high to a (mosquito, bumble-bee, toad, splinter, grasshopper, hoptoad, frog, duck) 16

    1. Very small, very short. A phrase often used in speaking of a person whom one has known from infancy.

      WHY.ARE.WE.NOT.A.DENOMINATION?_ JEFF.IN V-11 N-7 SATURDAY_58-0927 {122}
      "Well, I'm a Presbyterian. I'm a Methodist." You're nothing till you're born again. That's right. And when you do that, you know there's something within you tells you those things are wrong, and you'll come out of it just as sure as you're knee high to a duck. You know that's the truth.

    Knickerbocker 18

    1. Knickerbocker pants: Wide short pants gathered below the knee.

      LIFE.STORY.WILLIAM.BRANHAM_ CLEVELAND.OH SUNDAY_ 50-0820A E-84
      A fellow tapped me on the shoulder. And he looked and he had on a pair of those there knickerbocker pants, bloused at the knees, like I used to wear when I was a little boy: golf clothes. He said, "I'm Elder so-and-so from Miami."

    Knobby 16

    1. hilly

      HAVE.FAITH.IN.GOD_ CHICAGO.IL SUNDAY_ 58-0105E-44
      And the man is sick unto death, if God doesn't heal him, because he's got a tumor in his breast. And he doesn't live here. He lives across the seas in Norway. It's a great hilly, knobby country. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD.

    Knock it off 16

    1. literally to remove something by hitting it or striking it. It also means an order, command, or entreaty to stop doing something immediately, especially talking or joking.

      PUTTING.ON.THE.WHOLE.ARMOUR.OF.GOD_S.PINES.NC THURSDAY_ 62-0607 E-91
      If sickness stands in your way, cut it out of the way: God's promise. If sin stands in your way, cut it out of the way. That's right. The whole armor... If the devil shoots a dart at you, knock it off and keep on cutting. That's right. "Onward Christian soldiers marching as to war, with the cross of Jesus going on before." Hallelujah.

    Know better (than to do something) 4

    1. be more sensible, wiser, older or more mature.

      SPEAK.TO.THIS.ROCK. - JONESBORO.AR 53-051 E-17 017
      And As I heard a man on the radio this afternoon denying Divine healing, said, "Bring me a little baby over here, let me put a scratch on its arm. let these Divine healers come and make it well, them I will believe Divine healing." Oh, my. That man needs to be in the psychopathic ward. That's right. Well, I've got a child six years old would know better than that.

    Know different 7

    1. informal. To be wiser: to know better.

      BE.NOT.AFRAID. - RICHMOND.VA 61-0311 E-100 100
      Why Peter thought that was ridiculous. He had never received the Holy Ghost as yet, you know. A man with the Holy Ghost would know different.

    Know something inside out/backwards 4

    1. be very knowledgeable about something.

      WHY. - BEAUMONT.TX 61-0125 E-35 035
      You know, there's something about a believer, if he ever was in contact with Christ, he just can't go for that kind of stuff. Yet, old Jehoshaphat setting up there, he said, "Isn't there just one more?" "One more? Why, here's four hundred of the highest educated, best men there is in the country, and they're prophets. Why would we ask for one more? Each one of them's got a D.L.D., Ph.D., double L.Q.S.T. My, you couldn't ask for more degrees. My, they know the Scripture inside out, backwards and forwards."

    Know the score 4,7

    1. (informal) Know what the true situation is, especially if it's a bad one; to assess the situation or the state of affairs correctly.

      KEY.TO.THE.DOOR. - JEFF.IN V-12 N-6 62-1007 76 043
      When you got the key, there's no fear, there's no doubt, there's no question. You don't have to ask anybody else about it; you know exactly. You've got it in your hands; you know what to do. Amen. You know what the score is; you know the door's going to unlock.

    Knuck right down 24

    1. surrender to it; give in to something.

      WHY.ARE.WE.NOT.A.DENOMINATION?_ JEFF.IN V-11 N-7 SATURDAY_58-0927 {142}
      And now some of their doctrine, their false doctrine, a bunch of false Protestant prophets has come around and teaching that, and you Protestant people are swallowing it. That's exactly right. Denominations, and forms of baptisms, and different orders and things that you're going through, which is absolutely not Scriptural, it's against it in the Scripture, yet you knuck right down to it.

    Kosher 24

    1. Hebrew word for "proper". Clean or fit to eat according to the dietary laws of the Jewish faith. Kosher bread: unleavened; that is, no yeast used in preparation for the Passover supper or communion.

      COMMUNION_JEFF.IN V-10 N-1 SUNDAY_ 62-0204 {134}
      These little parcels that is kosher bread made without lard, seasoning, and so forth, which represents the body of the Lord is not round; it's broke in all pieces. It's because that it means His broken body that was broke for us.

    Kriss Kringle 16

    1. (Ger. Christ-kindel, the Child-Christ). A sadly mutilated form, for the Child Christ, on whom children are wont to rely for their gifts under the Christmas-tree.

      GOD'S.GIFTS.ALWAYS.FIND.PLACE_ JEFF.IN V-6 N-13 SUNDAY_ 63-1222 {13}
      Isn't it awful to see that this great holiday that we're approaching, is approached in the manner that it's approached in? It's such a pitiful thing, such a rashal thing, to think that rabbits and myth called "Kriss Kringle" (Santa Claus) and everything, has taken the real value away from what Christmas is.

    Ku Klux Klan 10

    1. a secret society of white men founded in the Southern States to maintain white supremacy. They are anti-Negro, anti Semitic etc. and identified by their white robes and head coverings.

      QUEEN.OF.SHEBA_ LONG.BEACH.CA SUNDAY_ 61-0219
      Prayed for a boy here a few years ago. Old father and mother come got me to pray for him; he had black diphtheria in the heart. It went so low till the cardiogram showed that it was just gone. And they made me dress up like some kind of a Ku Klux Klan, the doctor did, to take me in there.

    Ladies's man/Lady's man 16

    1. A male of any age who is charming and courtly to, and grooms himself to please, the ladies; one who pursues women politely and with success.

      ABRAHAM'S.COVENANT.CONFIRMED_ MIDDLETOWN.OH SATURDAY_61- 0318 E-50
      Samson was somewhat a ladies' man, you know, and he just couldn't give Him his heart, he had to give that to Delilah, but he gave his strength to God. God used his strength, but He couldn't use his heart.

    Lancing 10

    1. Cutting with knives

      GOD.IN.SIMPLICITY_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0317M 39-3 {245}
      I've seen Indians take snakes and wrap around them in the rain dance out there in Arizona, hold their hands up like that, and run right around; the witch doctor come out lancing himself,

    Landslide [victory] 15

    1. many more than the majority voted for the person; an overwhelming success.

      WORKS.THAT.I.DO.BEAR.WITNESS.OF.ME. - PHOENIX.AZ 51-0413 E-6 006
      Since that lady went down there, Mrs. Nightingale, I told you about the other night, that was so bad in the field. My, we hope to have a great landslide for the Lord.

    Lard can

    1. lard - the fat of hogs, melted down and clarified and kept in a can for cooking purposes.

      SERPENT'S.SEED_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-4 SUNDAY_ 58-0928E
      And some of you women find some little boy with his hair slicked down, his mammy's lard can half dumped on it, and curly;

    Last but not least 14

    1. in the last place but not the least important.

      AT.THY.WORD.LORD. - WOOD.RIVER.IL 54-0221 E-3 003
      Last but not least, it's for this wonderful bunch of ministers here. I tell you, they're really to be praised among you people to have good pastors like that.

    Last resort 7

    1. a thing you decide to do when everything else has failed.

      FELLOWSHIP.BY.REDEMPTION. - JEFF.IN V-26 N-17 55-0403 183 052
      Now, Job had fellowship, and what a marvelous time it was. And so God could not... Satan, rather, could not shake Job away from this fellowship. So his wife come out, the last resort. Satan said "I'll get him through his wife.

    Latter Rain Brethren

    1. Refers to the group of brethren who gathered in Battleford, Saskatchewan, and fellowshipped around the "latter rain" movement.

      WHAT.IS.THAT.IN.THINE.HAND_ MACON.GA SATURDAY_ 55-0611
      I different little bit with my latter rain brethren there, on that of laying hands, administering spiritual gifts.

      BE.NOT.AFRAID_ KLAMATH.FALLS.OR SUNDAY_ 60-0717
      And that's where I different a little with our latter brethren or latter day rain brethren, of trying to lay hands on people and make them prophets and so forth like that. God sets in the Church. See? If man does it, it's just like electing a bishop or electing something else. It seldom works.

    Laugh up one's sleeve 4,7

    1. be secretly amused or pleased about something.

      WE.WOULD.SEE.JESUS. - GRASS.VALLEY.CA JJ 1-36 62-0704 165 065
      Now remember, Sarah, an old woman, it had ceased to be with her as a wife. No woman ninety years old... Maybe twenty or thirty years, maybe, since she'd been a wife to Abraham. They were old. And she laughed in herself; you know, what we call, "laugh up our sleeve." Said, "Me, an old woman like I am; and my lord, Abraham, out there, old too; and me have pleasure like a bride again with Abraham?" And she laughed about it.

    Laughingstock 9

    1. a person or thing made the object of ridicule.

      TURN.ON.THE.LIGHT_ PHOENIX.AZ V-22 N-3 SATURDAY_ 64-0125 50
      Now, the Jews thought that they were worshipping in the true Light. They thought they were worshipping this same God that they were turning down. The very one that they thought that they were worshipping, they were crucifying. They were making fun of the very God, and making Him a laughingstock of the people, the very God that they thought they were worshipping.

    Lax/Laxed around 10

    1. Relaxed; careless; indifferent; not busy or active.

      EPHESIAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.3
      They get lax. That is what "Ephesus" means: relaxed--drifting. You want God after we seen all we seen, yet you want God to push you to do something. See? Moses had just laxed around, said, "God, I'm going to ask You, and see what You say."

    Lay down the law 4,7

    1. firmly give somebody orders: make the rules known; be strict and firm about the rules.

      DIVINE.LOVE.AND.SOVEREIGN.GRACE. - PRINCE.ALBERT.SK 56-0814
      When I leave and go overseas, or somewhere, and be away a long time, I don't have to go say, "Now, Mrs. Branham, I'm going to lay down the law to you. While I am gone, I don't want you flirting with any other husband, and I don't want you doing so-and-so." I don't say that.

    Lay down your (his) life (for someone/something) 7

    1. (formal) die for (your country, a cause etc): be extremely loyal to somebody or something.

      HEAR.YE.HIM. - SAN.JOSE.CA 59-0424E E-48 048
      And no man has greater love than he that will lay down his life for his friends. "Hear ye Him." And He was the only One that could do it. There was not an Angel could do it. There was nothing else could do it. And He did it.

    Lay it on the line 7

    1. speak the truth plainly: tell someone something in an honest, direct and forceful way.

      FAITH.ONCE.DELIVERED.TO.SAINTS. - W.P.BEACH.FL 53-1129A E-86 086
      What we need today is an old preacher like John the Baptist. (Amen.), that'll lay the ax to the root of the tree, and lay it on the line. Line up with God's Word or line out. Amen.

    Lay someone off 4

    1. dismiss someone temporarily because there is no work.

      CHRIST.OUTSIDE.THE.DOOR. - MIDDLETOWN.OH 58-0330E E-45 045
      The boss had to lay off somebody, but he didn't lay off you. That was God's goodness. He's so close to you, so good to you. Don't you recognize it's Him?

    Lay their life on the line

    1. Put their complete and total trust in someone or something.

      RISING.OF.THE.SUN_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-12 SUNDAY_ 65-0418M
      And as I was sitting there wondering what would I speak to this waiting audience this morning (which I am very thankful for), and men and women who would lay their life on the line for what you would say, how should I do it? What should I take for a text?

    Lead someone astray 7

    1. lead someone the wrong direction: influence someone wrongly.

      WHY.IT.HAD.TO.BE.SHEPHERDS. - TUCSON.AZ V-6 N-15 64-1221 185 097
      Don't listen to these hireling shepherds; they'll lead you astray. The Holy Spirit is the Shepherd to feed you sheep food from His Word.

    Lead the way 7

    1. Go in front of someone in order to show them the way.

      MY.ANGEL.SHALL.GO.BEFORE.THEE. - TALLAHASSEE.FL 53-0213 E-20 020
      The trouble of it is, we try to get ahead of the Angel. Let the Angel lead the way, and He will lead us to the fountains of the water of Life and give it to us freely. Do you believe it?

    2. be the first to do or develop something: go first and be an example

      WHAT.HOLY.GHOST.WAS.GIVEN.FOR. - JEFF.IN V-4 N-3 59-1217 132 073
      Let me go here to first sanctify myself and make a way for the people, that my own sins, my own neglecting be under the Blood, my own shortcomings be under the Blood, that I might walk out and say, 'Follow me, people.'" That's right. I hate to see a guy say, "You go do it." I like to see somebody that'll lead the way to do it. Yes, sir.

    Leaven 10

    1. to spread through, causing a gradual change; a substance such as yeast used to produce fermentation, especially in dough.

      GOD.OF.THIS.EVIL.AGE_ JEFF.IN V-4 N-9 SUNDAY_ 65-0801M
      Jesus said, "A little leaven leavens the whole lump." One spot of leaven ruins the lump. One Word of God displaced spoils the whole picture.

    Lent 24

    1. A fast of forty days preceding Easter, (excluding Sundays), observed annually by the Anglican, Roman Catholic and other churches. One may choose to abstain from certain habits, (smoking, drinking etc.) or certain foods as a ritual of depriving themselves

      TAKING.SIDES.WITH.JESUS_ JEFF.IN COD FRIDAY_ 62-0601 {784-197}
      Some people say, "Well, now wait a minute. We keep the Sabbath. We do this. And you know, we keep all this, and we keep that, and every, why, every Good Friday, why, when fast time comes on, forty days before Easter, we always observe Lent. I give up smoking for forty days. I give up drinking for forty days during the time of Lent." Oh, tradition of the fathers, legalists. If you love God, you don't smoke in the first place.

    Leopard cannot change (clean) his spots, A 4

    1. a person cannot change his or her basic character once it has been formed.

      FAITH.OF.ABRAHAM. - SAN.FERNANDO.CA 55-1118 E-21 021
      A leopard could not change his spots. No matter how bad he would lick, he'd only brighten it. And you don't want reformation; you don't want to try to reform, or do a little better, you've got to be changed completely inside, and the nature come from within, and it'll work out.

    Let alone 3

    1. and most certainly not. (follows a negative statement and introduces another negative statement).

      ON.THE.WINGS.OF.A.DOVE. - SHP.LA V-7 N-5 65-1128E 19 007
      Danny Henry don't know. Like myself, he hardly knows good English, let alone French. And if you notice in there, it's like the French language, they put the verb before the adverb. And the interpretation of all three was exactly alike.

    Let off steam 10

    1. to express strong feeling; release pent-up emotion

      GREATER.THAN.SOLOMON.IS.HERE_ GRANDE.PRAIRIE.AB MONDAY_ 61-0515
      I was having a good time, blowing off some of the steam. I was having a wonderful time. "Hallelujah, hallelujah."

    Let one's hair down 4

    1. relax, enjoy oneself, have a carefree time after (or before) being formal and correct in behavior.

      INVESTMENTS.THE. - BEAUMONT.TX 64-0314 E-5 005
      But just before we read the Word, let's just bow our heads for a few moments as we speak to the Author of the Word, as we've been kind of jesting with each other, and kind of letting down our, as we call it, letting down our hair. So let's get on the sacred side now, and the sincerity, and turn our hearts towards heaven as we open the Word.

    Let out 16

    1. To give out; to commence ; to begin ; to make a statement or explanation.

      EXPECTANCY_ CHICAGO.IL THURSDAY_ 53-0903 E-48
      How do you do, sister? Now, look, you were sitting right there on the end of that seat awhile ago. And when I was speaking about Simeon coming into the temple, you let out a great big shout. Is that right?

    Let someone down 10

    1. disappoint someone by not doing what was expected; not keep one's promise to someone.

      MESSAGE.OF.GRACE. - JEFF.IN V-13 N-3 61-0827 102 059
      Someone said to me not long ago, said, "God is an unjust God," said, "because He let Moses down. After he toiled with them Hebrews for forty years in that wilderness out there, He let him down and then wouldn't even let him go in the promised land." I said, "Oh, nonsense."

    Let the cat out of the bag 4

    1. To reveal a secret, often unknowingly or unintentionally. To let the truth be known.

      GOD.KEEPS.HIS.WORD. - STURGIS.MI 57-0115 E-50 050
      "He's the son of Imlah; his name is Micaiah." But said, "I hate him." Oh, sure you do. Said, "He won't join with my group." Well, I don't blame him. Said, "Oh, my," said, "he's radical. And he never says anything good against me." Now, that lets the cat out of the bag right then.

    Let the chips fall where they may (want to) 3

    1. speak the truth and let the results be what they will; let things be settled as they will.

      BELIEVEST.THOU.THIS?. - HOUSTON.TX 50-0115 E-41 041
      God, give us men who'll stand for the truth (Amen.), regardless of who's sitting close or who it is. Let the chips fall where they want to, and lay the Gospel to the hewing line. That's right. Call black black, and white's white. Right's right and wrong's wrong.

    Let up 16

    1. To release ; to let go. Hence, also, a let up, meaning a break, a relief.

      AFRICA.TRIP.REPORT_ OWENSBORO.KY MONDAY_ 53-1109 E-53
      I said, "O Lord, help me. Help me." And He just let me just go ahead and holler. And I just cried and begged and everything else. Didn't do no good. Months passed, just the same, never let up at all. Just kept on.

    Letter, To the 7

    1. With attention to every detail: exactly.

      I.WILL.RESTORE. - OWENSBORO.KY 53-1110 E-39 039
      When Jesus come on earth, who were anymore fundamental than those priests were? Brother, they knew the law to the letter and they knew the Scripture to the letter.

    Levee 24

    1. (French, lever, to rise). An embankment beside a stream to prevent overflow; a steep, natural bank of earth.. (The term has been subsequently extended to all banks used as wharves, like the famous levee of New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A.)

      LIFE.STORY_ LA.CA FOOTPRINTS.BOOK SUNDAY_ 59-0419A
      The dike had broke up there, and, oh, my, just washing the city out. And I would give it all the juice that I could, and finally down across the alleys and through the places. And I got there close to where the old levee was, the water pouring through.

    Lick the whole thing / a hard lick / to lick something

    1. 1. Take over. 2. To strike with the hand 3. To lick with the tongue as with honey or candy.

      WORKS.IS.FAITH.EXPRESSED_ SHREVEPORT.LA V-7 N-1 FRIDAY_ 65-1126 {159}
      1. Moses, take this stick in your hand, and go down there in Egypt, and bring my children out with this switch you got in your hand. Just lick the whole thing with this switch. 2.But if your body's built and can stand the licks," said, "then, when a hard lick hits you," then you come back quick back to your feet again. WISDOM.VERSUS.FAITH_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-17 SUNDAY_ 62-0401 3. I thought, "If that ain't an old fashion Holy Ghost meeting, when we get the bucket open, our hands in, plumb to our elbows, just lick molasses,.."SPEAK.TO.THIS.ROCK_ OWENSBORO.KY SUNDAY_ 53-1115

    Lie in state 7

    1. (of the body of a king, queen, political leader, etc) be placed for people to see before it is buried.

      QUEEN.OF.SHEBA. - WATERLOO.IA 58-0125 E-70 070
      In Durban, South Africa, when something like that taken place, thirty thousand raw heathens came to Christ at one time. I made one prayer. And Brother Bosworth, who's body is laying in state tonight, stood there, a honest man, where they took twenty-five thousand records of healings in one prayer.

    Light-bread 24

    1. Bread made with wheat flour and leavened with yeast.

      TESTIMONY.OF.A.TRUE.WITNESS_ JEFF.IN V-15 N-6 SUNDAY_ 61-1105 {142}
      For all tables are full of filthiness--of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no clean place. No place is clean; the tables. Why, they go in, drunkards and harlots, and take a piece of light bread and cut it up, and make communion, where the clean and the unclean eat together: vomits, the tables are full of vomit.

    Like nobody's business 19

    1. Very much; extraordinarily.

      UNVEILING.OF.GOD_ JEFF.IN V-9 N-1 SUNDAY_ 64-0614M
      But the time has come that they've got a denominational auction, the World Council of Churches. They're selling It like nobody's business. There's a denominational auction coming.

    Like water off a duck's back 2

    1. Having no effect; without changing one's feelings or opinions.

      BEING.LED.OF.THE.HOLY.SPIRIT. - MINNEAPOLIS.MN 56-0219 E-30 030
      And if you're ordained to Eternal Life, to see and believe, you will. If you won't, it's just like pouring water on a duck's back. It'll do no good at all.

    Lip to ear

    1. Directly from the speaker to the hearer.

      DEEP.CALLETH.TO.THE.DEEP COLUMBIA.SC SUNDAY_56-0415
      During the time of the birth of the Lord Jesus, as we're just read of, just now, news didn't get around then like it does now. They didn't have the press, and the radio, and television, as we have today. But the only way they had of news was from lip to ear.

    Little bitty

    1. Small in size.

      PALMERWM.CANKRWRM.CATRPLR.LOCUST_ CONNERSVILLE.IN FRIDAY_ 53-0612 E-71
      Now, if you want to shoot, shoot." And said about that time a gun fired, and the jug bursted in the man's hand. And stepped out of the canyon, was a little bitty cowboy, tears rolling down his cheeks, his two big guns in his hands, said, "Hold still. Just a minute." Said, "You won't do any shooting?" Said, "No, sir."

    Little end of the horn

    1. the least place; the lowest

      MIGHTY.CONQUEROR_ DALLAS.TEXAS TUESDAY_ 58-0610
      And how do you serve God? When you're serving one another. When you're taking the little end of the horn, as it was to say. And man who has ever amounted to very much in the world, has been men who's come down, and become not great men; they made themselves small in order to accomplish a purpose.

      PARADOX.A_ PHOENIX.AZ SUNDAY_ 62-0128A
      (Oh, America, America, how one day you'll come up on the little end of the horn unless they repent. That's right.)

    Little old

    1. Not literally meaning "little" nor "old" in every case, but rather a common expression referring to something or someone of no particular importance; of simple value. Sometimes used to express affection toward something.
    2. Note: “my gun”. Not necessarily “little” nor “old”.

      GO.TELL.MY.DISCIPLES_ JEFF.IN V-25 N-5 SUNDAY_ 53-0405S
      I sat down and took my little old gun apart, was standing there shining it. Meda said to me, my wife; she said, "What are you doing back?" I said, "I don't know. He just told me to go back. Obedience is better than sacrifice, hearkening to the fats of rams.' Just come back." I sat down there and was shining the little old gun.

    3. Note: a “simple” tent. A small axe, not necessarily old.

      BELIEVEST.THOU.THIS_ CHICAGO.IL SUNDAY_ 53-0906A E-22
      And so I had a little old tent setting up, and I was catching some big rainbow trout. And I'd been down the stream, and I had a little old chopping axe here in my hand, a little scout axe, and I come up and my tent was down.

    4. Note: That train. Maybe “old”, but not necessarily “little”. Finnish officer: not necessarily “little”.

      SPEAK.TO.THIS.ROCK_ OWENSBORO.KY SUNDAY_ 53-1115 E-42
      Let me tell you. I passed right by on the iron curtain line here recently, till they pulled the curtains down on that little old train,there's a big old Russian guard standing there with a gun on me like that, while we passed by,and let us not look out of a hundred miles of man-made tunnel. I went up to a little Finnish officer, he said, "Isn't that awful?" He could speak English.

    5. Note: “little” but not necessarily “old”.

      QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS_ JEFF.IN COD SUNDAY_ 64-0830M
      A little, old pine squirrel (anybody ever hunt in the mountains, he's the policeman of the woods), and he jumped upon there (a little old fellow, not big enough to do nothing, but oh, what a noise)

    Live on borrowed time 7

    1. live longer than the doctors expected (of a person who is seriously ill); or, being given extra time.

      GOD'S.PROVIDED.WAY. - LA.CA 59-0415A E-47 047
      A great general speaking the other day, said, "The next war that takes place will only be three minutes long." Three minutes! No wonder science says it's three minutes till midnight. Three minutes is all it'll take to rock the world completely to pieces and blow it up. We're living on borrowed time.

    Live wire 4

    1. a very active, forceful and lively person.

      WHEN.THEIR.EYES.WERE.OPENED. - SPINDLE.NC 56-0420 E-54 054
      When the Holy Spirit comes, each one of you people become like a live wire. See? And the Holy Spirit is a Light. How many knows the Bible says that?

    Live-Oak 16

    1. The evergreen oak. (tree)

      TWO.VINES.THE_ SHREVEPORT.LA SUNDAY_ 56-0311A E-I
      "I live in a country where they have a lot of scrub oak. In the springtime we never have to go out and pick them old leaves off. They stayed there all winter. The only thing to do is let the new life come in, the old leaf drops off. And when a man or a woman is bornof the Spirit of God, the old life drops away and the new life takes it's place.

    2. The name of a town, in California.

      HEAR.YE.HIM_ OAKLAND.CA FRIDAY_ 57-0322 E-88
      You're suffering with a nervous condition and a throat trouble. That is right. And you're a minister of the Gospel. That's right. You're not from this city. You're from a place called Live Oak, California. And you're A. C. Schnelling. That's correct. Go on your road, brother, and be made well in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Amen.

    Living in the shadows

    1. living very close to; to be under the influence or power of something; living in the near darkness.

      FIVE.JUNCTIONS.OF.TIME_ STURGIS.MI SUNDAY_ 56-0122
      And anyone sensible knows that we're living in the shadows of some great destruction.

      GOD.HIDING.HIMSELF.IN.SIMPLICITY_ ALBQ.NM FRIDAY_ 63-0412E
      I'm getting to be an old man. I haven't got many more days left on the earth, if Jesus tarries long, I'll be gone pretty soon. But this'll be taped, and you'll play it over and you'll find out that it was right. You're living in the shadows. There's no hopes left at all.

      PARADOX.A_ PHOENIX.AZ V-19 N-1 SUNDAY_ 65-0117
      I believe we're right in the shadows of the coming of the Son of God.

    Lock, stock, and barrel 7

    1. completely: including everything. (the lock, stock and barrel are the three main parts of a rifle).

      TIME.TESTED.MEMORIALS.OF.GOD. - JEFF.IN 57-0818 E-20 020.
      When you come to Christ, if you can't absolutely sell out lock, stock, and barrel, and come to Christ, don't come at all. But when you really want to be a Christian, stand out, make it real. That's what God wants you to be.

    Lodges 10

    1. A local group of a secret society; organizations where members must join.

      WHY.AGAINST.ORGANIZED.RELIGION_ JEFF.IN V-12 N-1 SUNDAY_ 62-1111E {185}
      They're falsely called church. They are lodges.

    Log rollings 16

    1. A competition amongst lumbermen, when logs were transported to the water, where each man would stand on a log in the water and "roll it" with his feet. The man who remained on his log to the last, won the competition.

      GOD'S.PROVIDED.WAY_ GRANDE.PRAIRIE.AB TUESDAY_ 61-0516M E-5
      When my father used to tell me down in the state of Kentucky, where I was born, they used to go in and saw down the trees and roll them, have log rollings and burn them, you know. And the men would all parch corn, and women would make candy, and have log rollings, ...

    Log-cabin 16

    1. A cabin, made of logs, generally unhewn.

      LIFE.STORY.WILLIAM.BRANHAM_ CLEVELAND.OH SUNDAY_ 50-0820A E-26
      I was born in a little log cabin, way in the mountains of Kentucky, Cumberland County, near a little creek called Renox. There's only one way you get through there, that's you go through the creek. That's the only way to go is by the creek. It's a little isolated place, way down near the Tennessee line on the Cumberland River.

    Logger 16

    1. A lumber-man, a wood-cutter.

      LIFE.STORY.WILLIAM.BRANHAM_ CLEVELAND.OH SUNDAY_ 50-0820A E-26
      My father was a logger. My mother, her father was a school teacher, and the principal of the rural school. Didn't get to go to school very much in Kentucky, you know, the creek could get up; you couldn't go.

    Long face 7

    1. a sad or disappointed look on your face.

      RESURRECTION.THE. - W.PALM.BEACH.FL 53-1205 E-10 010
      Why are you walking along with a long face, like you eat oats, or the bottom of a churn. Why, my, smile. We're happy. We're Christians, and God has ordained us so and has given Christ for us.

    Look over someone's shoulder 10

    1. follow someone closely; watching that person's movements carefully.

      ENTOMBMENT. - JEFF.IN ER 55-72 57-0420 89 041
      Just then I can see Daniel look over his shoulder and say, "That's the Rock that was hewed out of the mountain, just as certain as I am standing here."

    2. Look at something while standing behind someone.

      GOD.PERFECTING.HIS.CHURCH_ BINGHAMTON.NY SATURDAY_ 54-1204 E-63
      Let's See? Pilate looks at it. He turns white. His lips turn white. His knees beat together. Let's look over his shoulder and see what it says.

    3. (Literally) To look behind.

      JEHOVAH.JIREH.PART.3_ GRASS.VALLEY.CA JJ 107-140 SATURDAY_ 62-0707 81
      All right, the only thing I can say is what the Word says. And Jesus strictly said that; "Remember Lot's wife." She merely looked over her shoulder.

    Look someone in the eye 10

    1. face something or someone directly, bravely, and without shame. (If it's a command, it means: “look at me and speak honestly”).

      SUDDEN.SECRET.GOING.AWAY.OF.CHURCH. - JEFF.IN 58-1012 E-20 020
      I said to someone, "Mister, twenty-eight years of my life I've laid on the altar of God to try to do right. And I want someone to look at me in the eye and tell me if I ever beat anyone out of anything, or ever stole anything in my life. By the grace of God I'm clear."

    Loon 16

    1. A diving waterfowl with short feathers and webbed feet, whose call resembles a laugh. Sometimes refers to a foolish person.

      TO.WHOM.WOULD.WE.GO_ CHATAUQUA.OH MONDAY_ 60-0606 E-39
      Oh, you might laugh like a loon; you might just go into hysterics over some movie star cracking a joke or something. But what is it? You're only making a noise; it soon wears off. In a few minutes it's all gone.

    Loose ends 7

    1. the minor details of something which have still not been dealt with or explained.

      SHALOM. - SIERRA.VISTA.AZ V-13 N-5 64-0112 158 067
      When He sent the seven angels to reveal the seven messengers that'd been down through there, and show the loose ends, each Angel coming each day and revealing the loose ends that Luther left, and Wesley left, and Pentecost left, is all represented in there.

    Lose one's temper,To

    1. To get angry: lose control of oneself in anger.

      INNER.MAN. - CHICAGO.IL 53-1212 E-36 036
      "What is sin, Brother Branham? Well, today, I tell you, I lost my temper." Now, wait just a moment. Sin is unbelief. Now, that's what sin is. There's no other sin but unbelief.

    Lose sight of someone/something 7

    1. (of a purpose, aim, etc) Forget about something because you are concentrating on something else.

      I.WAS.NOT.DISOBEDIENT.TO.THE.HEAVENLY.VISION. - ZION.IL 49-0718 E-1
      His Presence already has met us here and were so happy. And we're looking forward to Him tonight, that He will just make us so full of His joy tonight, that we'll lose sight of all of the things that's wrong.

    Lose your shirt 7

    1. lose all or a lot of your money by gambling, making poor investments etc. Lose everything one owns.

      INVESTMENTS. - PHOENIX.AZ 63-0126 E-18 018
      A man'll get ahold of a little money, and then he'll try to invest it in some kind of a get rich overnight, some unidentified business. You'll lose the shirt off your back, and you know that. See? Don't you try that. And a good, sensible, thinking businessman won't do that.

    Loser 2

    1. one that has lost a contest: one who cannot seem to do anything right.

      IT.SHALL.BE.EVEN.AS.IT.WAS.TOLD.ME. - CLEVELAND.OH 50-0818 E-67 067
      Satan, thou ungodly spirit, you that tries to bind people with unbelief, tries to make them doubt, you are a loser. You're defeated.

    Love is blind 7

    1. (saying) When you love someone, you cannot see their faults.

      TAKING.SIDES.WITH.JESUS. - JEFF.IN COD 62-0601 775-150 078
      And you know, love is blind anyhow to them things; love covers up a multitude of sin, you know. Perfect love casts out fear, and sin, all discord; love does.

    Low ebb, At a 7

    1. not as good, strong, successful, etc as usual: very weak.

      GOD.KEEPS.HIS.WORD.2. - PHOENIX.AZ 57-0307 E-8 008
      It was during the time of the reign of Ahab, king of Israel, and Jehoshaphat, king of Judah. And we all know that how the reign of Ahab, as far as materially, it prospered, but spiritually speaking it was at a low ebb.

    Low life 2

    1. a life of deprivation or humility: someone who is not socially desirable

      GO.TELL.MY.DISCIPLES. - JEFF.IN V-25 N-5 53-0405S 58 027
      He never wrote a book in His life, yet the Book was written of Him, has outsold every book in all ages: the Bible. And yet, in there He never went to a college in His life, and yet there's been more colleges erected in His honor than any other thing has been upon the face of the earth, or any other name, or any other man. And He never went very far. He lived a humble, low life. He was made fun of, scoffed, laughed at.

    Lumber 24

    1. Timber sawed into merchantable form, especially boards. Used for construction of buildings.

      YE.MUST.BE.BORN.AGAIN_ GREENVILLE.SC THURSDAY_ 58-0619B E-28
      When a carpenter goes to build a house, how does he do? Lay out all of his lumber first. He's got in his mind just what he's going to build.

    Lump in one's throat 7

    1. a tight feeling in one's throat caused by a strong emotion.

      FAITH.OF.ABRAHAM. - SAN.FERNANDO.CA 55-1118 E-59 059
      Dear God, .. raising their hands from the preaching of the Word, still the most mighty force in the world, and sometimes I just seem like I get a lump up in my throat when I see the young and the old will always be the Word.

    Lynched 18

    1. Punishment (usually by hanging) by a self-appointed commission, without trial by law.

      TOKEN.THE_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-19 SUNDAY_ 63-0901M 15-2
      What if you had committed a crime and you were going to be tried in a federal court, and you knew that if they found you guilty, that you were going to die, you were going to the electric chair, or the gas chamber, or whatever public execution they were going to have for you: maybe hung or something, lynched, whatever the penalty was,..

    Maginot line 3

    1. a line of impregnable forts which would forever insure the French against invasion by Germany. It was named after its inventor, André Maginot, minister of war in France (1922-24, 1929-32). However, the Germans invaded through Belgium, leaving the forts intact.

      GOD'S.PROVIDED.WAY. - GRAND.PRAIRIE.AL 61-0516M E-41 041
      The French, on the Maginot line, thought there'd be no more wars after the first World War, after Canada, and the United States, and so forth, went over and drove the Germans back. They made the Siegfried line. And when they did (I believe it was called the Maginot line) they put the guns out, facing over the Rhine, over into Germany, and said, "If Germany ever marches on us again, we're fortified."

    Make a calico dress/silk dress/tuxedo/overalls

    1. will make no difference between rich or poor, or how a believer is dressed.

      GREATER.THAN.SOLOMON.IS.HERE_ TUCSON.AZ WEDNESDAY_ 63-0605 E-56
      But I tell you, this old-time case of salvation will make a calico dress/ and a silk dress put their arms around one another. It'll make a tuxedo and a pair of overalls call one another "brother."

    Make a go of (doing) something 4

    1. make a success of doing something.

      HE.WAS.TO.PASS.THIS.WAY. - TACOMA.WA 57-0727 E-45 045
      Let them remember Mr. Ball of the fruit jar. Let them remember Mr. Kraft, of the cheese. How that he couldn't make a go of his cheese, and one day a voice spoke to him, said, "Take Me for your Partner." Sure he did. Many of the others, Colgate; when they took Jesus as their Partner, things changed. May it be with them today, Lord.

    Make a mess 4,7

    1. An initial mess necessary to produce something good; to rearrange

      WHY. - PHOENIX.AZ 61-0128 E-49 049
      And the new birth is a mess, too. And it'll make a mess out of you. But you'll certainly get new Life and be a new creature when you receive it. It'll make you do things that you wouldn't think you'd do. Yes, sir.

    2. Do something wrong or very badly: spoil or mismanage something.

      SUPER.SIGN. - S.GATE.CA 62-0624 E-70 070
      Satan has just blinded the eyes of the people. He's got into the churches and made a mess out of them, precious, godly, people.

    Make a name for oneself 4

    1. become known (throughout history) for one's accomplishments.

      PERGANEAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK.CPT.5 182-1
      Nimrod, according to the Genesis eleven account and also according to profane history, set out to accomplish three things. He wanted to build a strong nation, which he did. He wanted to propagate his own religion, which he did. He wanted to make a name for himself, which he also accomplished. His accomplishments were so monumental that the kingdom of Babylon was called the head of gold amongst all world governments.

    Make a point 24

    1. to treat as essential or necessary. I'm saying what is important.

      WHAT.SHALL.I.DO.WITH.JESUS_ JEFF.IN V-6 N-6 SUNDAY_ 63-1124M
      But I'm holding my point or making my point here in saying, that we are standing today in another Pilate's judgment hall.

    Make ends meet,To 6

    1. to live on what one earns, to earn enough money for daily essentials.

      I.WAS.NOT.DISOBEDIENT.TO.THE.HEAVENLY.VISION. - ZION.IL 49-0718 E-12 012
      When I was a minister, a Baptist preacher in my church for twelve years, I never even received one red penny of salary. I never tried to take but one offering in my entire life. That's when I got up against it once and was going... I had... I just couldn't make ends meet. And I told the wife I was going to pass the hat in the church for an offering.

    Make it big 10

    1. be very successful in life, usually implying fame and/or wealth; construct something on a very large or grand scale.

      SUPER.SIGN. - S.GATE.CA 62-0624 E-33 033
      Nebuchadnezzar built a super city. It had hanging gardens, and it was a great place. It was a pattern of heaven. Right before the throne flowed the river Euphrates. And they find out that that's the way the throne of God, the river of Life by the throne of God is. Trying to achieve something, trying to make it big, great, so he could say, "See what I done." Super... It's just in man.

    Make merry 7

    1. celebrate.

      PRODIGAL. - CLEVELAND.OH 50-0827A E-44 044
      Go, kill the fatted calf. Let's make merry; this, my son that was dead and is alive again. He was lost and now he's found. Put a ring on his fingers, shoes on his feet. Put the best robe you got in the house on him.

    Make room for someone 10

    1. to yield to or make special provision for one of authority: to give up space to another.

      HEARING.RECEIVING.AND.ACTING. - CHATAUQUA.OH 60-0607 E-29 029
      God gives a man a message. He hears it. He recognizes it to be God, then he acts on it. Nobody else's business; it's his business. God sent him on God's business. He's on the business of the King. And everything should make room for the King. That's right.

    Make someone feel at home 10

    1. help someone feel at ease or comfortable.

      UNCONDITIONAL.COVENANT. - PHOENIX.AZ 54-0306 E-16 016
      The Lord bless you now, and may He greatly increase your faith. Tomorrow at Sunday school, you visitors here, visit some of these good Full Gospel churches. Take your place there, and just like you was a member. I'm sure they'll make you feel at home, everywhere.

    Make someone's mouth water 7

    1. (of food) make someone feel hungry; make someone very eager to do or have something.

      MEANEST.MAN.I.KNOW. - PHOENIX.AZ 62-0127 E-34 034
      And then they would take and roast a lamb. Oh, a delicacy, roast that lamb. And the poor people would smell it down in town, and their mouth would water to smell that lamb roasting.

    Make the grade 2,3

    1. to succeed in a test, to reach the highest point and reach one's goal.

      CHURCH.AND.ITS.CONDITION. - JEFF.IN CH 1-34 56-0805 37 030
      You couldn't love nothing that wasn't of your own nature. Loving has to unite with love. A husband and wife has to love one another, if they ever make the grade. Family has to love one another, if they ever make the grade.

    Make up your mind 7

    1. decide.

      WHAT.IS.THAT.IN.YOUR.HAND. - SAN.FERNANDO.CA 55-1120 E-80 080
      The Bible said, the prophet said, "It'll be light in the evening time." There was a day that wasn't night or dark. Make up your mind now.

    Making sick calls

    1. visiting the sick.

      ABSOLUTE.THE_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-18 SUNDAY_ 62-1230M 47-3
      I've seen you stand here on the corner and preach till you looked like you were going to drop dead. I saw you all hours of the night, up and down the streets making sick calls. And after He took your own wife and your own baby, you still serve Him? I said, "If He slays me, yet I trust Him." Why? My Anchor holds within the veil; I had a Absolute. I'd tied myself to His Word, and His Word was holding.

    Mama's boy 7

    1. a boy or man who is thought to be weak because he is influenced and controlled by his mother.

      WEDDING.SUPPER. - CHICAGO.IL 56-1006 E-35 035
      But Samson was just a little bitty mama's boy, a little curly headed shrimp, about like that. Now, that's what fooled the people. And he was just a ordinary boy, had seven little curls hanging down his back, looked like a little sissy.

    Mañana 3

    1. Spanish for “tomorrow”, but in English it is given a meaning with a time element greater than a single day. Anyone who tells you he'll do something mañana probably told you the same thing yesterday.

      SUPER.SIGN. - GRASS.VALLEY.CA JJ 141 62-0708 197 084
      And the brother give the cards out, he was so slow. I called him " Mañana," in Mexico it means "tomorrow." He was always so late. He came, got me at nine o'clock. And I got over there.

    Mark (down) my words! 4

    1. Listen to me ! Note what I say ! Remember later what was said.

      BELIEVE.YE.THAT.I.AM.ABLE.TO.DO.THIS. - CLEVELAND.OH 50-0820 E-58 058
      We're bound to have a great time of judgment. The world is ready for it now, and going to receive it. You mark my words. And then if that don't come to pass, you say, "He's a false prophet." We're going to receive judgment. I feel it in the Spirit.

    Martin to its Box (like a..) 24

    1. Any of certain birds of the swallow family. (As sure as a bird will go to its nest.)

      LIFE_ EVERETT.MA MONDAY_ 58-0512 E-50
      "Oh, I'm a Presbyterian, I'm Pentecostal, I'm Catholic, I'm a Baptist." That don't mean one thing to God. You can be any church member and go to hell like a martin to its box.

    Masons 24

    1. a secret society, also known as "Freemasons". Also, stone-cutters.

      SUPER.SIGN_ JEFF.IN V-15 N-7 SUNDAY_ 59-1227M
      And then I'm making that statement, I did it one time on the preaching of the lamb and the dove. You see, they have things in common. They could talk about things. The Masonic lodge, they have things to talk about, brothers of the Masons' lodge; brothers of the Odd Fellows lodge.

      QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS_ JEFF.IN COD SUNDAY_ 61-1015M 680-Q-162
      Brother Branham, is there anything wrong with belonging to a lodge after we have become a Christian, such as the Masons? No, sir. You be a Christian wherever you are. I don't care where you are, you can still be a Christian.

    Max Factor

    1. Brand name of a manufacturer of cosmetics.

      WISDOM.VERSUS.FAITH_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-17 SUNDAY_ 62-0401 29-1
      Look at grandmother with long skirts, braid of hair hanging down her back. She wasn't so attractive to look at. Look at the modern one today: a little skinned down dress, that every form (she can't move without sinning); walking, tipping down the street with all the makeup and cosmetics of Max Factor can put on her nearly; fixing her hair like some little girl; wearing little skirt just up about, above her knees, if she's got on any at all. But you look at her, she's pretty. Satan knows how to do it! He's the author of beauty, that type of beauty, which results in sin.

    Mayo Clinic

    1. A medical clinic established by two American surgeons, Charles and William Mayo, in Rochester, New York, U.S.A.

      PRINCIPLES.OF.DIVINE.HEALING_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 51-0923E-27
      Not long ago I was interviewed. I went up for an examination to Mayo Clinic, the greatest in the world. And they examined me a good examination. And it's a good thing to go by once in a while and be examined.

    Meal (bread and butter) ticket 10

    1. a job depended on as a means of livelihood.

      WHAT.IS.THAT.IN.YOUR.HAND_ SAN.FERNANDO.CA SUNDAY_ 55-1120
      A lot of ministers take good churches and so forth, because it's a meal ticket. A lot more better people pay a lot better at the church.

    Mean 10

    1. low in social status; sinful.

      RESURRECTION.OF.LAZARUS_ ERIE.PA SUNDAY_ 51-0729A
      And Nazareth, the meanest city there was on the earth, worst than Erie (U.S.A.)Yeah. And there she was packing water, but she was a virgin. She lived right. I don't care how mean your city is; you can be a Christian anywhere. Amen. She believed God.

    Mean business,To 4

    1. Be serious or resolute in one's intentions.

      WHERE.I.THINK.PENTECOST.FAILED. - SAN.FERNANDO.CA 55-1111 E-100 100
      And, Father, they've come sanely, moving up, not emotionally, just come soberly, looking straight into my face as if to say, "Brother, I mean business with God. I want a real Christian life. I want my life to count for Christ."

    Meat flopping

    1. the flesh of his arms, loose and moving back and forth.

      GOD.IN.SIMPLICITY_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0317M 35-1 {215}
      But one day when he got old and his head bald and his whiskers hanging down, gray, what few hairs he had hanging over his shoulders, his little old skinny arms, and the meat flopping on them like that, come walking down that road to Samaria, and those eyes looking up toward the skies with a crooked stick in his hand. He wasn't very much to look at, but he had THUS SAITH THE LORD for the day.

    Mechanics and dynamics

    1. the machine together with the power to make it operate. Mechanics : the science of machinery, Dynamics :the explosive power

      SIGN.OF.THIS.TIME_ NY.NY V-18 N-8 WEDNESDAY_ 63-1113
      We said last night, "We have so much of the mechanics and not the dynamics." Now, my body is the mechanics, but my body will not operate without the dynamics, the spirit. See? And the spirit operates my body, brings it in control.

    Meeting-house 16

    1. A place of worship of Methodists, Quakers, etc. in Puritan times.

      LIFE.STORY_ PHOENIX.AZ SUNDAY_ 51-0415A E-78
      Well, now, when I started out to hold the meetings then, I was going to go to hold them. And I went and told my mother. She said, "Well, God bless you, honey." She said, "Years ago down in Kentucky at the old Lone Star meeting house, we used to hear the people shout like that long time ago, and had that kind of a demonstration." Said, "But it faded out."

    Melting/(molding) pot 9

    1. a country, place, etc. in which immigrants of various nationalities and races are assimilated.

      SIR.WE.WOULD.SEE.JESUS. - BINGHAMTON.NY 54-1205 E-3 003
      They just wanted to see Jesus. And I believe that that would be the attitude of every Greek here, not only Greek, but of every other nationality that's represented here tonight, of the nations and tribes of the earth, as America is the molding pot, where we all come together of different nationalities.

    Mesquite 10

    1. A spiny tree or shrub

      Presuming 62-06 10M
      "...getting these horses out of mesquite"

    Mesquite 10

    1. A spiny tree or shrub

      Presuming 62-06 10M
      "...getting these horses out of mesquite."

    Mess around

    1. waste time: not doing anything in particular.

      MEANEST.MAN.I.KNOW_ PHOENIX.AZ SATURDAY_ 62-0127
      Here she makes her way real quick. That's right. When you first get in, go right to Him. Don't mess around.

    Messed up 2

    1. confused on the important issues: went about things the wrong way.

      I.AM.THE.RESURRECTION.AND.LIFE. - CHICAGO.IL 52-0810A E-12 012
      Now, let's take this wonderful Jesus just a minute, and watch His coming, just before He came. First, before His coming, there was announcement. The church had all got all back and all messed up, just about like it is today.

    Messiahic

    1. Should be "Messianic", meaning "like or characteristic of a messiah.

      SIR.WE.WOULD.SEE.JESUS_ BINGHAMTON.NY SUNDAY_ 54-1205
      She said, "We know that Messiah cometh, and when He comes, these signs will be with Him. But being that You're a Prophet, You must be a Prophet to have these Messiahic signs."

    2. The promised and expected deliverer of the Jews.

    Middle ground 10

    1. position in between: intermediate position or solution between two opposites or extremes.

      MARK.OF.THE.BEAST. - JEFF.IN 56-0715 E-57 057
      Now, you either wear today what? No middle ground,either the mark of the beast of the world, apostate church, or the Seal of God.

    Middle-of-the-road 10

    1. intermediate point between two extreme positions: neutral position.

      GOD.HAS.A.PROVIDED.WAY. - LVL.KY V-25 N-9 54-0404 162 075
      Friends, I've always tried to keep a balance of the road. You get way off on formalism, just as formal and ritualistic as they can be, people grab for that lot. Then if you don't watch, you'll get plumb off over on the other side, and be just as fanatic as you can be. But there's a middle of the road, where the true sound, sane Gospel is preached, and God moves in there, vindicating the truth.

    Milk Leg 10

    1. A condition characterized by painful swelling of the legs, caused by inflammation and clotting of the femoral veins; so called because it occurs most often during lactation after childbirth.

      HIS.UNFAILING.WORDS.OF.PROMISE_ PHOENIX.AZ V-15 N-3 MONDAY_ 64-0120
      Paul's wife had just give birth to a baby.....But a couple days afterwards the doctor was doctoring her for milk leg.

    Mimic 10

    1. copy or imitate

      WASHING.JESUS.FEET_ PHOENIX.AZ SUNDAY_ 57-0310A E-7
      The word "Pharisee" means "actor." The very word "Pharisee" means "an actor." And an actor is a mimic or impersonator.

    Mind over matter 6

    1. The influence of the mind on the body: the power to change things by thinking.

      GOD.TESTIFYING.OF.HIS.GIFTS. - HAMMOND.IN 52-0713E E-60 060
      All right, come here. Do you believe if I will ask God... This is not mind over matter; this is the power of Almighty God to make it leave you.

    Mind pull back

    1. go back in memory

      CHRIST.IS.THE.MYSTERY_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-7 SUNDAY_ 63-0728 11-1
      Brother Creech and Sister Creech--young, black- headed and Meda and I; and here we are gray and stooped over. See, there's something about people like that; it grips you. See? You want to stay with them. See? There's something another that always makes your mind pull back.

    Mind your own business 7

    1. (rather offensive), (used when refusing to answer a question). It does not concern you. 2. Not get involved in the life, affairs, business, etc of other people.

      APPROACH.TO.GOD. - CHICAGO.IL 55-0123A E-16 016
      The pig, if he could talk back to the lamb would say, "You mind your own business, old boy. I know what I want. It's none of your business."

    Miss the boat

    1. To fail because of slowness: to delay doing something until it is too late; to lose the chance to do something by doing it wrong.

      REVELATION.CHAP.FOUR.PT.1. - JEFF.IN ROJC 551-584 60-1231 17 009
      That's where I think we miss the boat a lot today (maybe it's just my own idea), that when we have to make a big blow about everything, you know, why, I think it looks like it's more of a show than it is the sacredness.

    Miss the mark 10

    1. miss the true intent or purpose: be incorrect.

      STATURE.OF.A.PERFECT.MAN. - JEFF.IN V-2 N-18 62-1014M 12-3 032
      He never made you to be something else besides a son and daughter of God. If you have missed that, of being son and daughter of God, you've missed the mark. The word "s-i-n" means "to miss the mark, miss the mark."

    Missing link, The 4

    1. a person or thing needed to solve a mystery or problem, to explain a situation etc. For example, in the scientific theory of evolution, the species between man and monkeys.

      JOSEPH.MEETING.HIS.BRETHREN. - JEFF.IN 56-1230 E-39 039
      Now, in the beginning when God spoke, and Satan was standing there and he heard it... And the people are trying to find this missing link. I'll tell you by revelation, if you want to receive it, that missing person between animal and man is the serpent, before he had his legs taken from him.

    Missionary chops

    1. The African lion would eat the missionary also!

      GREATER.THAN.SOLOMON.IS.HERE_ TUCSON.AZ WEDNESDAY_ 63-0605 E-.
      The African lion, .. He prowls till he finds something to eat and he'll kill anything. He'd just as soon have missionary chops as anything, so... But when he eats, he'll go over and lay down.

    Moccasin 24

    1. footwear made of soft leather, (deer or moose hide), frequently ornamented, and worn by the North American Indians. The process of preparing the hide and sewing the moccasins by hand is still carried out by the Eskimo and Native Indians of northern Canada

      BEING.LED.OF.THE.HOLY.SPIRIT_ MINNEAPOLIS.MN SUNDAY_ 56-0219 E-15
      And just then I was taken off into another place. I sat down by the side of a little place, and I saw a little baby shoe, little moccasin. And I had a great big string almost the size of that post there, trying to lace through that little eye of that moccasin, trying to lace up the shoe.

    Mockery 24

    1. ridicule or scorn; imitation of the real or genuine.

      INFLUENCE_ NY.NY V-18 N-9 THURSDAY_ 63-1114
      We've come times that people thinks that this holiness before God is just some kind of a mockery, or some kind of a bunch of people who doesn't know, some kind of a cult or a clan, or something.

    Mocking-bird 24

    1. a bird common in the southern and eastern United States, noted for its rich song and extraordinary power of mimicry.

      LAMB.AND.DOVE_ YAKIMA.WA FRIDAY_ 60-0805 E-4
      And I was always amazed, I don't know where you have them here or not, nightingale or mocking bird. And our country's full of them.

    Molasses 16

    1. A product of the sugar cane, what in England is called treacle or golden syrup.

      MARK.OF.CHRIST_ LA.CA SATURDAY_ 55-0312 E-4
      How many like pancakes and molasses? Oh, I tell you, that's just... I'm not very good at making them, but I sure love them. So I had me a bucket of honey.

    Mongolian/Mongoloid 10

    1. Bro. Branham uses the word "Mongolian" but actually means "Mongoloid". A "Mongolian" is a native of the country of Mongolia in Central Asia."Mongoloid" refers to a person having a certain type of mental deficiency called "Mongolism"..

      HE.CARES.DO.YOU.CARE?_ JEFF.IN V-12 N-4 SUNDAY_ 63-0721{100}
      What done it? Science. Look. It's caused the genes between the man and the woman to weaken, the physical weakness of the human being through the genes, and the increase of spastic children is around thirty percent. Mongolian is on the great climb.

      POWER.OF.DECISION_ CHICAGO.IL FRIDAY_ 55-1007 E-93
      I will assure you by the resurrection of the living Jesus Christ, that God is going to heal a mongolian child. You believe it? Jesus said, "If they lay hands on the sick they shall recover." If you'll notice the difference in the next few hours, that child, will you come to give testimony? Then I bless this baby; Holy Spirit, that Great Angel Who's standing here, Who stood yonder at my side and said, "Lay hands on the sick, they shall recover." I condemn the devil; you've harmed this baby in the womb of its mother. But now he's in the Presence of God, Come out of him, demon.

    Moody Bible Institute 16

    1. An American Bible Institute, situated in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. named after the famous American Evangelist, Dwight Lyman Moody.

      INVESTMENTS_ CHICAGO.IL V-21 N-5 SATURDAY_ 63-0803B {53}
      And as this young fellow here just testified from the Moody Bible Institute down here, a great place, there's no doubt at all.

    Moon and Owl

    1. The design on the chimney of some oil or kerosene lamps.

      BLIND.BARTIMAEUS_ LOUISVILLE.KY FRIDAY_ 54-0402
      Did any of you ever clean a lamp chimney? I used to have to do it at home, 'cause I had the smallest hand. My mother, setting there looking at me; she remembers that. We used to have a big old lamp chimney that had the--a moon and owl on it. You remember them old chimneys? I'd get my hand up in there and clean the chimney out. Did you ever run out of coal oil, lamp oil, kerosene, or what you call it, and have to put some water in the bottom of the thing to make the wick reach the kerosene? Did you ever do that to make it burn?

    Moonshiner 16

    1. a term applied to makers or smugglers of illicit whiskey; taken from they being supposed to carry on their operations under cover of the night, by the monnlight.

      INFLUENCE.OF.ANOTHER_ JEFF.IN V-4 N-11 SATURDAY_ 62-1013 105
      The most irreverent bunch there is is them that goes to church. That's right. An old bootlegger, moonshiner, coming down the street, passing around, and half drunk, you talk to him about the Lord, he'll stand and talk to you.

    Moose 24

    1. a large heavily built mammal of the deer family found in North America.

      QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS_ JEFF.IN COD SUNDAY_ 64-0823M
      You know, in every life there is, the male is the prettiest, but the human race. Take any bird, cow. Take a bunch of cattle. Which is the prettiest, the old crumpled-horn cow or the big bull? Take a deer; which is, the little doe or the buck? Take a bunch of elk; which is the prettiest, the male or female? Moose, whatever you want to do.

    Moose willow 18

    1. a shrub or tree having smooth, long, slender, pliable branches.

      WHY?_ HOT.SPRINGS.AR V-20 N-8 WEDNESDAY_ 63-0626
      And I'd found a place where there was many trout was back under a bush. And there was moose willow there, and every time I tried to whip my fly, why, it'd catch in the willow.

    Mormons 10

    1. a religious group founded in the United States in 1830 by Joseph Smith: among its holy books is the Book of Mormon. Headquarters is Salt Lake City, Utah.

      SMYRNAEAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.4
      You will want to know if I believe in the doctrine of pre-existence. I don't believe in that Mormon doctrine of the pre-existence of souls any more than I believe in reincarnation or the transmigration of souls. Be careful here and see this. It is not the person that comes predestinated eternally from God, IT IS THE WORD, OR SEED.

    Mosey 24

    1. To saunter; loiter; to go or get away suddenly but without haste.

      JESUS.KEEPS.ALL.OF.HIS.APPOINTMENTS_ TAMPA.FL SATURDAY_ 64-0418E E-59
      So she moseys down the street, and as she begins to walk, she says, "Well, I'll just have to wait till that's over. And she made her living in a bad way, so she's walking down the street.

    Mosquito-bar 16

    1. A net, placed round a bed, to protect a sleeper from the attacks of mosquitoes. Also, mosquito-net.

      LIFE.STORY_ PHOENIX.AZ SUNDAY_ 51-0415A E-105
      When she turned her back, I went in anyhow. And I went down there in the room. And there, flies was in her eyes. Just a little old hospital out there. And I took this little old mosquito bar, what it was, shooed the flies away from her. And I looked down at her. Her little fat legs was moving up and down. Looked like she was waving her little hand.

    Mossback 16

    1. a term applied, at the origin, to a subdivision of the Democratic party in Ohio; supposed to comprise all the old “fogies,” as opposed to the “kids” or younger element, and now extended to mean old-time politicians and people out of touch with the progress of the times; an extreme conservative branch. (A vivid allusion to the “moss-back”, which is an alligator turtle, with a growth of moss-like algae on its back).

      ONE.OF.THE.MEANEST.MEN.IN.TOWN_ CHICAGO.IL SATURDAY_ 61-0429B E-41
      Caught the attention of all the people as he turned and straightened himself. "Hmmm!" Self-righteous Pharisee, hypocrite, church member, that's the meanest rascal I know of, is an old moss-back make-believer. He's meaner than all the prostitutes and teen-age racketeers there is in the country. He will drive people farther from God than everything else, every barroom there is on the street.

    Mother Hubbard 16

    1. a loose-fitting cotton smock or dress. (From the name of the heroine of a nursery rhyme).

      WAY.OF.A.TRUE.PROPHET_ PHOENIX.AZ SATURDAY_ 63-0119 E-79
      Now, if you think I could start up a building down here on the street, and sell the ladies today those old fashion, high-topped, laced shoes? They probably got more leather in them than a whole store full has today, one pair has. But if I sold them for fifty cents a pair, I'd starve to death. Why? You don't want them. If I sold those old fashion Mother Hubbard skirts to the women today, you think they'd buy them? Certainly not.

    Mother of the gods 16

    1. Cybele. The Greek goddess of the mysterious in nature and of civilization, often called the “Great Mother”, and represented crowned.

      SARDISEAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.7 243-5
      You will recall that in the Pergamean Age I mentioned that the Babylonish concept of "mother and son" known as Semiramis and Ninus became the Cybele and Deoius of Asia.

      187-3 PERGAMEAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.5
      Well, it was brought out that Cush introduced a three god worship of father, son and spirit. Three gods who were all equal. But he knew about the seed of the woman coming, so there would have to be a woman and her seed come into the picture. This was brought to pass when Nimrod died. His wife, Semiramis deified him, and thus made herself the mother of the son and also the mother of the gods. (Just exactly as the Roman church has deified Mary. They claim she was without sin and was the Mother of God.)

    Mother's boy,A 7

    1. a boy who is loved by his mother.

      THINKING.ON.OUR.WAYS. - CLEVELAND.TN 59-0706 E-10 010
      A few months ago, I was talking to the honorable judge of our city, who is a bosom friend of mine that comes quite regular to the Tabernacle when I'm there, Judge Buttoff of Jeffersonville, Indiana. And I was speaking to him about a mother's boy that was up there for speeding a car.

    Mound 24

    1. A heap or pile of earth over the gravesite or place of burial.

      LIFE.STORY_ HAMMOND.IN. SUNDAY_ 52-0720A E-129
      She said, "Bill, They're coming back." Said, "Don't think I'm beside myself; I'm not," she said, "but I feel Them coming near. They're coming after me." I stepped back, looked at her; I said, "Sweetheart, if you are going, all right. I'll take your body out here on Walnut Ridge grave yard, and I'll make a mound, and I'll put you in there."

    Movie camera 10

    1. a camera that records moving scenes, but not sounds. (a previous version of the present day video camera)

      SUPER.SIGN_ JEFF.IN V-15 N-7 SUNDAY_ 59-1227M
      I received some mighty fine Christmas presents: a movie camera, and many other things,

    Much/not much of a man

    1. I don't call him a real" man.

      HEAR.YE.HIM_ EDMONTON.ALBERTA WEDNESDAY_ 57-0807 E-20
      Any man that'll let his wife put on them dirty clothes, like that little old shorts, and get out before the public, it shows what you're made out of. I don't call him much of a man. That's right. You're supposed to be the head of the house, but she's the neck; she tells you where to turn. It's a woman's world. That's right. And you're giving in to it.

    Mud turtle 16

    1. (Sternothuerus odorata). A species of reptile, common throughout the States. Other names are marsh-tortoise, and mud-terrapin.

      CHRISTIANITY.VERSUS.IDOLATRY_ JEFF.IN V-8 N-2 SUNDAY_61-1217{80}
      Idolatry, idolatry's old. It's old here in the United States. And years ago the Pueblo Indians out in Arizona, they had an idol-worship. And that was, they had a rain god. And the rain god would take a mud turtle, and they made an image of a mud turtle.

    Mud-dauber 24

    1. Refers to the Children of Israel as slaves in Egypt making bricks out of straw and mud.

      BY.FAITH.MOSES_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 58-0720M
      And by faith, Moses believed the Word that God said, and knew himself, as by faith, to be the chosen leader to bring them out. He knew where he was. He took his place in the slime-pits of the mud-dauber and counted the reproach of Christ, greater riches, than to sit on the throne of Egypt.

    Mulatto 24

    1. (Spanish). A person having one white and one Negro parent; loosely, anyone having white and Negro blood.

      CONDEMNATION.BY.REPRESENTATION_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-13 SUNDAY_60-1110 20-3
      I've got hundreds of precious colored friends that's born again Christians. But on this line of segregations and things they're talking about, hybreeding the people. What, tell me what fine cultured, fine Christian colored woman would want her baby to be a mulatto by a white man? No, sir. It's not right. What white woman would want her baby to be a mulatto by a colored man? God made us what we are. Let's stay what God made us; I believe it's right.

    Mummy 10

    1. a dead body preserved (embalmed), as by the ancient Egyptians

      UNCERTAIN.SOUND_ SPOKANE.WA SATURDAY_ 62-0714 E-79
      Noah, his message that day didn't meet with the church's education. You remember they were smarter then than they are now. They could build a pyramid and a sphinx. They couldn't do that now. We haven't got nothing to lift them up there, them boulders. It's correct. They could make a mummy in that day, or embalm a body to make it last for hundreds and hundreds of years to look natural. We've lost that art. They had a coloring that we don't have today. They were much smarter then than we are now.

    Mushroom 16

    1. a large rapidly growing fungus consisting of a stalk and cap-like top; something of sudden growth and therefore of doubtful permanence.

      HIDDEN.LIFE.IN.CHRIST_ SAN.FERNANDO.CA THURSDAY_ 55-1110 E-64
      You may not grow like a mushroom, but I'd rather be an oak anytime than a mushroom. Come easy. Come slow. Get your roots grounded and fastened right, then you can come on.

    Music to one's ears 14

    1. Something one likes to hear.

      IT.IS.I.BE.NOT.AFRAID. - PORT.ALBERNI.BC 62-0726 E-29 029
      And they were crossing the sea. Oh, it was real quiet, and smooth, and the oars dipping into the water, which is music to a boatman's ears, to hear those oars dip into the water.

    Muskeg 10

    1. a kind of bog or marsh formed by the deposit of thick layers of decaying vegetation, moss etc. Extremely soft ground.

      SPIRIT.OF.TRUTH_ PHOENIX.AZ FRIDAY_ 63-0118
      Bud's got a string of young horses and some of them got down in muskeg and things. And I was going along there talking, and Eddie and I... And Bud was on the lead horse, trying to get out. We had twenty-one head. And then, I got a rope on one, got him out. And just soon as he got out, then my own saddle horse got in.

    Musket bullets 10

    1. A kind of bullet used in a smooth-bore, long- barrelled fire arm, called a Musket, used especially by infantry soldiers before the invention of the rifle.

      PERSEVERANCE_ PHOENIX.AZ SUNDAY_ 63-0113E E-21
      Great men, George Washington, "the father of our nation," is called, when he come to Valley Forge... After all night in prayer until he was wet with the snow up above his hips, kneeling in the snow, the next morning he crossed the Delaware full of ice. Why? He was perseverant. He had the answer. Nothing's going to stand in his way. Although three or four musket bullets went through his coat, but it never hurt him.

    Muskrat 16

    1. (Ondatra zibethicus). A water rat, closely allied to the beaver, and smelling strongly of musk. The muskrat is especially hunted for its fur, which is valuable.

      QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS_ JEFF.IN COD SUNDAY_ 64-0823E 1050-257
      And now notice, remember this. See? When I was a little boy, right up here where Eichs lived on the road, I was about fourteen years old; I was trapping for a living. The only thing I had to help get bread in our house was catching skunks, muskrats, opossums.

    Muss

    1. a state of confusion: a noisy squabble

      YOU.MUST.BE.BORN.AGAIN_ JEFF.IN V-11 N-5 SUNDAY_ 61-1231M
      And a man that's born of God, you cannot call him back into that rotten muss of sin anymore. He's dead, and he's born again. He's a new creature. He's got the nature of the Eagle. He's got to get into the skies and soar.

    My mind went blank/(to blank one's mind) 14

    1. I couldn't remember anything: one's mind suddenly (and temporarily) feels empty.

      PRESUMING. - PHOENIX.AZ 62-0117 E-24 024
      When whiskey becomes into the system, it heats the blood in such a way it addles the mind, the brain, and you become blank. Your mind is so addled until--with the heat of this alcohol in the blood stream, so the doctors say, that it just kinda blanks your mind. Why, if there was some disease in your body that would make your mind go blank, you'd search every doctor's office in the city to find something to get rid of it.

    Mystic 10

    1. a mysterious occurrence; or a person who studies magic such as the occult.

      PERFECT.FAITH_ JEFF.IN V-6 N-11 SUNDAY_ 63-0825E 160
      Why can't we look at it...?... Not a mystic, the Devil has put everything in the world before you, try to keep you from believing It.

    Nail down 14

    1. To make certain; make sure; settle.

      FIVE.IDENTIFICATIONS. - JEFF.IN V-9 N-5 60-0911E 74 046
      Then we also find, that in Ephesians the 1st chapter, 22nd verse, you that's putting that down. Just there's plenty of it to put down, but just to nail it down to make it sure that you see it. All right, the 22nd verse of Ephesians the 1st chapter.

    Naked eye, The 7

    1. without the help of a microscope, telescope, etc.

      THIRST. - TUCSON.AZ V-16 N-6 65-0919 69 032
      And I was shooting a target at two hundred yards, and I couldn't see it with a pair of seven-fifty binoculars. And a man my age was standing there, telling me where it was hit with his naked eye.

    Naked truth,The 7

    1. the plain truth, which may be unpleasant: the truth spoken plainly without any embellishment.

      FLASHING.RED.LIGHT. - JEFF.IN V-5 N-4 63-0623E 110 662
      Look at our churches, look at our nation, how the sons of God bow low at the shrine of these things, these women, when they're... To me it is no more than public harlots. That's a awful thing to say, but it's the naked truth.

    Nasty 16

    1. Not nice; always denotes, in the United States, something disgusting in point of smell, taste, or even moral character, and is never heard, as in England-when they will say, for instance, “nasty weather”---merely in the sense of "unpleasant".

      EXPECTATIONS.AND.WHAT.LOVE.IS_ PHOENIX.AZ SUNDAY_ 54-0228A E-88
      The little eagles had never been there before, nothing but just that old nasty nest, like the world is, anyhow.

    Neat 2

    1. (expression of approval) orderly; well kept; tidy.

      SIR.WE.WOULD.SEE.JESUS. - BINGHAMTON.NY 54-1205 E-6 006
      He didn't dress any different. He didn't dress in clergy clothes to make Himself any different. He just had a nice, neat, clean clothes on, dressed like the average man that walked on the street in that day, spoke the same kind of a language.

    Needle in a haystack

    1. something difficult to see amongst a large number of other things.

      INVASION.OF.THE.USA_ JEFF.IN V-26 N-1 SUNDAY_ 54-0509
      It'd be as hard to find a virgin among some of them as it would be to find a needle in a haystack,...

    Nero('s) 24

    1. Roman Emperor

      GOD.IN.SIMPLICITY_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0317M45-6 {296}
      Now, God was hiding Himself in the simplicity of a baby, hiding Himself in the simplicity of a common family, God. And the ecclesiastics and the great men, the mind, the genius, and all of them, the Herods and so forth of that day, and the Neros, and they all overlooked it: God hiding in simplicity

    Never mind 7

    1. forget about it: don't worry about it .(Used to make someone feel better when something bad but not that important has happened).

      PERSEVERANCE. - NY.NY V-18 N-12 63-1116E 269 109
      Brother Espinosa said, "What is it, Brother Branham?" I said, "Never mind, Brother Espinosa. Just keep the crowd entertained, just a moment."

    New lease of life 7

    1. a renewed strength.

      PERGAMEAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.5
      Rome took on a new lease of life when Constantine joined church and state and backed the union by force.

    Next (first) thing (I knew, you know),The 7

    1. (used when someone tells a story and wants to say that something happened suddenly and was surprising) 1. suddenly. 2).Before I (you) realized what was happening.

      LIFE.STORY. - HAMMOND.IN. 52-0720A E-94 094
      And I got to talking, and I said, "Then the rich man down in hell there was no church; then he cried." I said, "There was no children; then he cried. There was no songs; then he cried. There was no God; then he cried." And I got started. People go to screaming; then I cried. Away it went. And the first thing you know everybody on their feet, then he cried, and then he cried. And the next thing I knew, I was out in the yard. Well, I don't know what happened.

    Next (of) kin, The 8

    1. (formal) (often used in official forms/documents) Closest relative.

      REV.CHAP.5.PART.2. - JEFF.IN ROJC 747-793 61-0618 187 091
      And he was going to be taken down there for seventy years. And he was actually the closest kinsman to his cousin who was deceased. His cousin (H-a-n-a-m, double e, l) Hanameel, Hanameel, Hanameel. He was his next kin.

    Next man,The 8

    1. Anyone else: any man.

      PALMERWM.CANKRWRM.CATRPLR.LOCUST. - CONNERSVILLE.IN 53-0612 E-25 025
      But, children of God, you who are in the church, don't let your little churches fall like that. Stay in it and stay spiritual. And look at the next man across the street and recognize him as your brother. Yes, sir. That's right. No matter what church he belongs to.

    Nicaea/Nicaean Council 24

    1. A city located in the country of Turkey, formerly ancient Bithynia, in Asia Minor, where in 325 A.D., the first Council of Nicaea was held for the purpose of defining the questions raised in the Arian controversy. The second council assembled in 787 A.D. for the purpose of reconsidering the subject of Images.

      IT.WASN'T.SO.FROM.THE.BEGINNING_SANTA.MARIA.CA SATURDAY_62-0630B E-12
      And studying through many books of the history of the church, the Hislop's "Two Babylons" (you've probably studied it), and Foxe's "Book of Martyrs," and the Pre-Nicaea Councils, Nicaean Fathers, and so forth.

    No-count Gentile 10

    1. Of little worth or importance

      RESPECTS_ JEFF.IN V-13 N-4 SUNDAY_ 61-1015E
      So on His road, the Roman saw Him coming. I imagine he said, "Oh, my, here comes that holy One. Here comes that holy One. Well, I'm a no- count Gentile.

    Not hold a candle to someone/something 10

    1. It couldn't possibly be better; It can't be compared.

      ONCOMING.STORM. - PHOENIX.AZ V-15 N-2 60-0229 31 012
      "Brother Branham, heaven must look like this." I said, "Oh, it wouldn't; it couldn't hold a candle to heaven.

    Not know enough to come in out of the rain 10

    1. lacking common sense; show no sound, practical judgment.

      LIFE.STORY. - HAMMOND.IN. 52-0720A E-104 104
      I said, "Well, I'd rather ask Dr. Adair if we should move her." She said, "He ain't got sense enough to know how to come in out of the rain." She said, "I wouldn't ask him nothing."

    Not know what you are missing 7

    1. not realize how good, amusing, interesting, etc something is because you have never tried it.

      LIFE. - JEFF.IN 57-0602 E-35 035
      He sat down to talk to her and he said, "You mean that you have never been kissed by a boy?" She said, "Not one time in all of my life." "You mean you've never had a little drink and been in a party?" "Never." Said, "Girl, you don't know what you are missing." Now, him being a psychiatrist, he swung the girl's mind until now she has become so evil and so bad, till she don't even want to hear the Name of Jesus spoken in her presence.

    Not mince your words 7

    1. speak openly or directly: say what you think, even though you may offend someone.

      GREAT.COMMISSION. - EDMONTON.AB 57-0804A E-46 046
      He'd said, "As a man thinketh in his mind." But God doesn't mince any words. He said, "Heart." And He meant, "heart."

    Not the only pebble on the beach 7

    1. not the only person who is important or who should be considered.

      QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS. - JEFF.IN COD 64-0823M 966-Q-256 116 256
      Brother Branham, should we go to the other churches even when they disagree with you? Sure, yep. Jesus did when they disagreed with Him. Go ahead. We notice here, says, "Should we go to another church that disagrees with you?" Sure, I'm not the only pebble on the beach, you know. There's just other godly men everywhere; I hope I'm one of them.

    Nut 18

    1. a person or matter difficult to deal with.

      ODDBALL.THE. - PRESCOTT.AZ 64-0531 E-25 025
      ..then the church got so cold and starchy again, that God raised up another nut called John Wesley. That's right. Well, he was a nut to the Anglican church.

    Odds and ends 7

    1. small articles of no great importance or value, bits and pieces; small projects.

      MARY'S.BELIEF. - PHOENIX.AZ 60-0311 E-11 011
      And then perhaps just behind the house, there was going to be the carpenter's shop, where he would do all of his cabinet work, to make his doors, and the little odds and ends that was brought to him.

    Of no account 7

    1. not considered important.

      SIGN.OF.THIS.TIME. - NY.NY V-18 N-8 63-1113 235 103
      Great Creator of heavens and earth, all that I have stood here tonight and said, will be of no account unless You come and prove that it's right. We've heard so much, and people has heard so much. Now, one word from You, Father, will make it all right. And we're looking for that.

    Of the old school 4,7

    1. old-fashioned thinking/standards/code of behavior, as opposed to modern thinking etc.

      WHAT.IS.THE.HOLY.GHOST. - JEFF.IN V-4 N-2 59-1216 78 043
      Look. Billy Sunday's age just ended. The other day, old Dr. Whitney (He's taught right here on this pulpit.), the last one of the old school, died around ninety, I guess. Billy Sunday was a revivalist to the nominal churches in his day. He pulled no punches; stand up there and holler, "All you Methodists, hit the sawdust trail, preachers and all. All you Baptists, hit the sawdust trail. You Presbyterians..." He pulled no punches. He was the Billy Graham of this day.

    Off at the head

    1. not mentally stable.

      SECOND.SEAL.THE_ JEFF.IN TUESDAY_ 63-0319 188-3 {80}
      When He appeared down there on the river thirty-three years ago this coming June in the form of a Light, you old-timers remember that I told you since a little boy that voice and that Light, and people thought you was kind of a little bit off at the head; of course, I would've probably thought the same thing somebody said it. But now, you don't have to wonder about it now, and the church hasn't wondered since 1933.

    Off one's high horse 14

    1. Not acting proud and scornful: humble and agreeable.

      GREAT.WARRIOR.DAVID. - CHICAGO.IL 55-0118 E-17 017
      And he said, "All right, if you want to go on back with your leprosy, go on." So when he got off his high horse and got down there and humbled himself and dipped in the muddy waters where God told him to dip, he got rid of his leprosy. That's right. You got to come God's way, not your way, His way.

    2. Acting friendly again: not angry and unpleasant anymore: agreeable.

      WITNESSES. - JEFF.IN V-25 N-6 53-0405E 238 082
      There was Saul on the road, going down, with orders in his pocket to arrest all that bunch of holy-rollers (That's right.), breathing out threatenings. God knocked him off his high horse. He made him a witness of what those people had. Oh, my.

    Off the (her) rocker

    1. shook off of a comfortable position.

      PERSEVERANCE_ S.PINES.NC FRIDAY_ 62-0608
      And Jesus caught his eye and He said, "Behold, there is a Israelite indeed in whom is no guile." That took him off the rocker. BIRTH.PAINS_ PHOENIX.AZ V-3 N-4 SUNDAY_ 65- 0124 And the churches, they built so many systems around the Word until he shook her off her rocker when he come. She had birth pains.

    Off the beam

    1. off the right path or road.

      LOOKING.AT.THE.UNSEEN_ LA.CA FRIDAY_ 59-0410 E-12
      Look magazine was telling about an old gander that raised up in the north some time ago, and he got all off the beam. And many of the geese flew back and left him. But he kept calling to them. And he was so far off until he flew all the way to England.

      GUIDE.A_ JEFF.IN V-12 N-7 SUNDAY_ 62-1014E 31
      God in the Old Testament sent prophets. They were guides, because the Word of the Lord came to the prophet. They were guides. They instructed the people as we had last night of Isaiah and Uzziah. They was instructed, and they instructed the people and guided them. And now, God has always sent His guides; He's always never been without a guide. All through the ages God's always had somebody that represented Him on this earth in all ages. Now, sometimes they get off the guide, "off the beam," as we call it.

    Off the phone

    1. not connected any further to those people who were listening to the service by way of a telephone hook-up.

      RISING.OF.THE.SUN_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-12 SUNDAY_ 65-0418M
      (I think we're off the phone, but we are still here.)

    Off the record 10

    1. (information) told in confidence, unofficial: not for publication.

      ABRAHAM'S.COVENANT.CONFIRMED. - MIDDLETOWN.OH 61-0318 E-3 003
      Now, this is off the record. And Brother Sullivan don't know I know this, but I know up to this time he's short on the finances of the meeting.

    Off-color or off-colored 14

    1. not quite true. (A dirty joke is sometimes referred to as “off-colored”).

      SPEAK.TO.THIS.MOUNTAIN. - SAN.JOSE.CA 59-1123 E-14 014
      It has to be with the Word first. God's Word is eternal. 'Cause an angel could come and preach something else, Paul said, that wasn't right. But if it's the Word of God, the Angel of God will verify that Word every time to be the truth, if it's a true Angel from the Lord. If it's something off color, then don't you listen to it.

    Old fogey/fogy 4

    1. (usually disapproving) disrespectful description of an elderly person or a narrow-minded one who is out of touch with modern thinking. "old fogey stuff" is "old fashioned stuff".

      WHAT.HOLY.GHOST.WAS.GIVEN.FOR. - JEFF.IN V-4 N-3 59-1217 118 068
      Now, come up to it, brother, sister. Don't let some of these intellectual colleges around here tell you, "Oh, that's old-fogy stuff." If it's old-fogy stuff, then God's old-fogy. And if God's old-fogy, then I am too. Amen. I want to be like Him.

    Old train in blocks now (The)

    1. In railroading, a length of track governed by signals. The train is ready to go.

      FLASHING.RED.LIGHT JEFF.IN V-5 N-4 SUNDAY_ 63-0623E
      The old train is in her blocks now. The Bible said so; she'd be coming pretty soon. We hear the sound.

    Omnipotent

    1. Almighty. Not limited in authority or power

      EXPERIENCES.3_ PHOENIX.AZ SUNDAY_ 47-1221
      Almighty and omnipotent God, let it be known today that You are God and I be Your servant, that the people might know that Thou art the only living God, and You have anointed me, and sent me forth, and I speak not of my own words, but them words in which You revealed to me.

    Omnipresent 24

    1. being everywhere present at the same time,

      THINGS.THAT.ARE.TO.BE_ RIALTO.CA V-4 N-6 SUNDAY_ 65-1205 {38}
      His great foreknowledge tells Him all these things, by foreknowledge. He's omnipresent because He's omniscient; omniscient because He's omnipresent.

    Omniscient 24

    1. all-knowing, Having infinite knowledge.

      THINGS.THAT.ARE.TO.BE_ RIALTO.CA V-4 N-6 SUNDAY_ 65-1205 {38}
      His great foreknowledge tells Him all these things, by foreknowledge.... being omniscient, knowing all things, then He is omnipresent because He knows all things.

    On (the) edge 8,14

    1. nervous, worried or anxious.

      SIXTH.SEAL.THE. - JEFF.IN 63-0323 395-4 {17}
      And one person said, "Brother Branham, was that a spiritual vision that there's just going to be a type and you're typing it with the seven..." It puts people on edge when you go to thinking these things (See?), and it's enough to. It puts me on the edge.

    On account of someone/something 7

    1. because of someone/something.

      AT.THY.WORD.LORD. - PHOENIX.AZ 48-0305 E-46 046
      Oh, I wish that I could get down in Mexico for awhile. But they won't permit it on account of the riot.

    On all fours 3

    1. with your knees, toes and hands on the floor.

      EXPECTATIONS. - CLEVELAND.OH 50-0810 E-3
      She drank a glass of sweet milk and really felt fine. Said she ran over to tell her neighbor, and her neighbor was just on all fours, thanking God, that she'd just been healed too.

    On every hand 7

    1. on all sides; in every direction.

      DEMONOLOGY.2.RELIGIOUS. - CON.IN DE 41-78 53-0609 212 101
      And today, my dear Christian friend, demons are working on every hand. And God's Spirit's moving right out on the other hand, to counteract it every time. Hallelujah.

    On his toes

    1. to be alert.

      SATAN'S.EDEN_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-20 SUNDAY_ 65-0829 4-1
      There's been greater days of persecution when the children of God was put to death on every hand, but to see the deceitfulness of the enemy, we've never had a day like this we're now living. It's the most cunning, deceitful day. And when I see that, it brings this that the Christian has to be more on his toes today than he ever was in any age.

    On relay

    1. the lights are set to go on or off at a pre-set time.

      SEVEN.CHURCH.AGES_ JEFF.IN V-26 N-2 WEDNESDAY_ 54-0512
      It's just ten minutes till the time, for the lights now is on relay.

    On the carpet 4

    1. be reprimanded, be criticized, usually by someone in authority, because they think you may have done something wrong.

      BEHOLD.A.GREATER.THAN.SOLOMON.IS.HERE. - COLUMBIA.SC 62-0612 E-10 010
      I was in a Lutheran college, Bethany, where I'd been called on the carpet, oh, my, just digging me up. He's the one that called me "a polished-up soothsayer." And then the Lord kinda got after him about it a little bit, you know, and so he called me up to apologize.

    On the dot 2,4

    1. on time, punctual(ly), precisely.

      TIME.OF.DECISION. - CHICAGO.IL 59-0611 E-28 028
      Eliezer started praying, "O Lord God, let something supernatural happen." Oh my. "You sent Your Angel before me. Now let Him do something. I know he's gone before me. And let the young woman that comes and gives me a drink out of the pitcher, and also will water my camels without asking, let that be the one." And he'd no more than said it, until Rebekah come. God's right on the dot.

    On the edge of the/your seat 3

    1. to have your complete attention captivated by something that is very interesting to you; tensely watching or listening.

      WE.WOULD.SEE.JESUS. - NEW.YORK.NY 58-0501 E-61 061
      And you, sitting on the edge of the seat there, and has got prostate trouble so bad...?... It's finished, sir. You have it no more. You can go home and be well. God bless you.

    On the level 14,18

    1. honest and fair: telling the whole truth. In the following quote, the definition might rather include: “to drop down to one's level, state, or condition”.

      WORKINGS.OF.THE.HOLY.SPIRIT. - PRINCE.ALBERT.SK 56-0816 E-9 009
      But here's one thing; I want to be honest; I want to live in the condition just like the people that come to me, so I can feel their suffering, and fellowship with them, and I'm right on the level with them. That's the way I feel. I don't say that just from my mouth; I say that from my heart. And God knows it to be the truth.

    On the loose, Be 14,18

    1. At liberty; at large; unconfined.

      BE.NOT.AFRAID. - CHATAUQUA.OH 60-0609 E-45 045
      Look at the adultery, look at divorces. Divorces... America's divorce cases covers the rest of the world. Certainly they do; it sure does. It's the worst there is in the world, is divorces. Our women are on the loose, running like a bunch of wild pigs. Now, that's exactly right. On the loose... What does the judge do? Grant you your divorce.

    2. (be) enjoying a period of freedom from your normal life or usual rules or restrictions.

    On the mark

    1. exact

      FIFTH.SEAL.THE_ JEFF.IN FRIDAY_ 63-0322 336-2 {23}
      Two or three days after that in school, and went to the doctor, and the doctor was so amazed, he said, "There's not even one trace of leukemia found in the child." See? Now, that's instantaneously on the mark.

    On the other hand 14

    1. looking at the other side: from another point of view. --- Used to introduce an opposite or different fact or idea.

      SMYRAEAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK.CPT.4 134-4
      Well, then there might be those who say eternal life signifies the welfare of the children of God. It is their welfare and enjoyment that is at stake. On the other hand the sinner goes to his punishment, so that we can reduce the second death to a matter of punishment and place.

    On the plane

    1. "on the plane with Jesus" - in agreement with Jesus; of the same mind as Jesus.

      SPIRITUAL.INSPIRATION_ OWENSBORO.KY SATURDAY_ 56-0128
      You'll never be on the plane with Jesus.

    On the run 7

    1. (of an escaped prisoner, criminal, etc) be running away or hiding from the police.

      LETTING.OFF.THE.PRESSURE. - JEFF.IN V-5 N-11 62-0513E 56 025
      Now, in the Old Testament there was a time when a man could build up pressure way back there. And that was when he done something wrong. If he shed innocent blood, well then, he was on the run. Because as soon as that man that he killed--the wrong he did, that man he did the wrong to--some of his people would hunt him till he found him. And there he'd kill him.

    2. (of an enemy, opponent, etc) being defeated or retreating.

      SECONDHANDED.ROBE. - BROOKLYN.NY 56-1206 E-62 062
      And I tell you: we got to fight, and we got the most powerful weapon. The devil makes fun of it and says, "There's no such a thing." But pick up tonight and receive the Holy Ghost and defeat every devil of sin, drunkenness, whatever it is. We've got him on the run to be conquered. Yes, and someday, the great Chief Captain will come, and sin, and sickness, and sorrows will be over.

    3. Be very busy or active.

      IT.SHALL.BE.EVEN.AS.IT.WAS.TOLD.ME. - CLEVELAND.OH 50-0818
      ..because I just come right out of a big meeting there. And went right home and been just constantly on the run, and then right in here again.

    On the sidelines 7

    1. (watching what is happening while) not taking an active part; waiting to take an active part in something.

      ONENESS.OF.UNITY. - WATERLOO.IA V-2 N-7 58-0128 17-6 054
      Why will we stand back like a coward? Why will we stand on the sidelines? Let's follow the Captain. Let's follow Him that went to Calvary. When He went to Calvary, He was wounded for our transgressions; with His stripes we were healed.

    On the spur of the moment 14

    1. on a sudden wish or decision; suddenly; without thought or preparation.

      INVESTMENTS.THE. - BEAUMONT.TX 64-0314 E-8 008
      I think a gambler is just simply living on the spur of the moment, and not looking forward to the future, or he wouldn't be gambling.

    On top of the world 4

    1. in a euphoric mood because of success, good health etc; as happy as one can possibly be.

      WHO.IS.THIS. - SAN.JOSE.CA 59-1122 E-1 001
      I'm still living on the joy and honey of last night, just having a great jubilee in my soul. After going home, and praying awhile, and reading, and then going to bed, I got up this morning just feeling on top of the world like. I love to feel that.

    One foot in the grave 3

    1. the origin of this phrase, meaning “hovering on the brink of death”, is generally attributed to the emperor Julian, who said that he would “learn something even if he had one foot in the grave”.

      LEADING.OF.THE.SPIRIT. - CAMPBELLSVILLE.KY 55-0807E E-11 011
      Now, what do you think people said to that old man, one foot in the grave, as we'd call it today, eighty-something years old, white beard, and going around testifying everywhere, saying, "I'm not going to die until I see the Lord's Christ."? Why? He had a right to believe it. It was revealed to him by the Holy Spirit.

    One's/someone's days are numbered 10

    1. one is close to death or danger; one will soon be no longer needed; one's time on earth is nearly over.

      HAVING.CONFERENCES. - CHATAUQUA.OH 60-0608 E-63 063
      And I said, "What can I do, Lord? I'm fifty years old, and My days are numbered; I haven't got very much longer to stay." I said, "What can I do to do something for You?"

    Only pebble on the beach

    1. standing alone by reason of excellence; superior to all others.

      EVENING.MESSENGER_ MESA.AZ V-8 N-5 WEDNESDAY_ 63-0116
      You think you're the only pebble on the beach; the duck in the puddle, you're the only one. I'll let you know there's other people are holy too." Moses didn't say they wasn't holy. But he had a commission; he had to carry it out.

    Open season 3

    1. is the season of the year when hunting for certain specified game animals or birds is permitted. Loosely, the term is also used to indicate that some group is “fair game” for attack.

      LAMB.AND.DOVE. - YAKIMA.WA 60-0805 E-17 017
      Yes, but when they turned the crow loose, oh, he was just as happy as he could be, flying from one dead carcass to the other and eating his stomach full. That's the way crows do. And a crow is a hypocrite. I'm glad you got open season on him everywhere.

    Opossum 16

    1. A large rodent or rat like animal. A marsupial mammal of nocturnal habits (Didelphys virginiana), with a white and palatable flesh and a coarse but much esteemed pelage. Also abbreviated in possum.Noted for its trick of feigning death when in danger.

      UNCERTAIN.SOUND_ JEFF.IN V-26 N-19 SUNDAY_ 55-0731
      I couldn't get that poor old opossum off my mind. I thought, "God, I ought to go in, and get a gun, and kill that opossum, but I can't do it. What's the matter, Lord?" I walked up-and- down the floor. Daylight come, old opossum laying there. I went back, thought, "O God, there she is, that hot sun, laying right at my step." Started walking back through the floor. The blessed Holy Spirit stopped me, said, "You called her a lady. You took up for her, for being a real mother.

    Optical illusion 10

    1. a distorted or imaginary view of something.

      THIRD.EXODUS_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-21 SUNDAY_ 63-0630M 42-3
      Tens of thousands of people looked at it with their own eyes. We stood here and looked at it; you've looked at it. It isn't. They said it was an optical illusion. What did Mr. Lacy say? "The mechanical eye of this camera won't take psychology."

    Oscar 3

    1. the name of the gold-plated statuette awarded in various categories of professional attainment each year by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The statuettes were first awarded in 1929 but did not receive the nickname Oscar until 1931. 2. an award given in recognition of some accomplishment.

      WHAT.IS.THE.ATTRACTION?. - JEFF.IN V-8 N-8 65-0725E 134 063
      And someone called me, the one that criticized me about that picture of the Angel of the Lord, the one that took it. I had to go to Houston about his son, for he was going in the death row and was going to be killed in a few days. And he met me in there and throwed his arms around me, said, "Think, the very man that I criticized comes to save my only son!" The humane society gave me what they call an oscar, or whatever you want to call it, for saving a life.

    Ostrich, To hide one's head like an 16

    1. a policy of closing one's eyes and imagining that nobody can see one. In allusion to the supposed practice of the ostrich of hiding its head when in danger.

      WARNING.THEN.JUDGMENT_ JEFF.IN V-8 N-3 WEDNESDAY_ 63-0724 {4}
      And some of them remarks that how that the ostrich thinks he had hid hisself. Now, that's true, when he sticks his head in the ground, but the most of him is still looking out. So that's about the way we do sometime. We try to hide our head behind something,...

    Ottoman 10

    1. A low, cushioned footstool. 2. The Ottoman Empire of the Turks, (c. 1300 - 1919), whose capital is Constantinople. (present day "Istanbul, Turkey).

      LOOK.AWAY.TO.JESUS_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-17 SUNDAY_ 63-1229E
      Old ottoman like you know, footstool, whenever we get around there and pray when I go on a meeting; we ask God to help us.

      GREATEST.BATTLE.EVER.FOUGHT_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-11 SUNDAY_ 62-0311
      Show me a Scripture where communism or anything else besides Rome will rule. Did the Medes O Persians succeed Nebuchadnezzar? Sure. Did Greece succeed them? Yeah. Did Rome take them over from there? Did it break up into ten Ottoman powers just like we got now?

    Ouija board 3

    1. The Trade name for a device used by spiritualists, mediums and others trying to foretell the future. It consists of a large board with letters, numbers, symbols and a few simple words on it, plus a planchette with a pointer, resting on casters, which the communicator maneuvers until, by combinations of letters, it spells out answers to questions. The name is a blend of the French oui and the German ja. Since both words mean “yes”, it's apparent that the board will tell you pretty much what you want to hear.

      WHY. - PHOENIX.AZ 60-0309 E-14 014
      What a reproach upon the nation. What a reproach it is upon the nation today, to find out that people, sometime who call themselves Christians, go to ouija boards, and spiritualists meetings, and all kinds of tommyrot like that, and fortunes, and telling fortunes and things like, which is of the devil.

    Ousted 24

    1. turned out; put out of the group

      GOD.IN.SIMPLICITY_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0317M 22-7 {127}
      That's why I not against brethren who are in denominations, but I'm against system of denominations; because it tries to magnify itself and educate its ministers in such a place, until if that they don't have the proper schooling and education, they're ousted;

    Out of cater

    1. out of line

      GREATEST.BATTLE.EVER.FOUGHT_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-11 SUNDAY_ 62-0311 10-4
      And I thought then, if that great heavenly host like that has to keep its place to make everything in order, what about the disorder of the earthly host? How when one gets out of order, how it throws the whole thing out of cater.

    Out of hand 3

    1. out of control.

      QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS. - JEFF.IN COD 61-0112 542-198 076
      No. It should be used on this way, and then told in the service. But for this time, for this present time, let them speak. Now, if it goes to getting out of hand, then it ain't, you have to watch that. Now, sometimes it could be God.

    Out of sorts 14

    1. In an angry or unhappy mood; in a bad temper; grouchy.

      GREAT.WARRIOR.DAVID. - CHICAGO.IL 55-0118 E-19 019
      They went on back down, and the Spirit departed from Saul. He'd backslid and went so far away from God until the Spirit had left him, and a evil spirit took His place, come on Saul. And Saul was all moody and in a bad humor, and kicking things around, all out of sorts like some people gets on Monday morning. He was out of sorts all the time. Did you know that's a evil spirit? That's exactly.

    Out of the question 7

    1. impossible; not wanted and so not worth considering.

      LORD.JUST.ONCE.MORE. - HOT.SPRINGS.AR V-20 N-10 63-0628A 118 044
      In Pentecost, the requirement was not a mental test; it was a test of the Holy Spirit that fell down on the day of Pentecost. That's out of the question to the people today.

    Out on a limb 1

    1. In a dangerous position that can't be changed; with one's beliefs and opinions stated openly.

      DEMONOLOGY.1.PHYSICAL. - CON.IN DE 21-40 53-0608A 35 024
      I believe in holiness and I believe in Calvinist too; but both of them, one ran out on a limb and went this way, and one ran out on a limb and went that way. If it wasn't for the Book of Ephesians to bring it back and put it in the right place where God did, we'd all be all mixed up.

    Over (the top of) one's head 14

    1. Not understandable; beyond one's ability to understand; too hard or strange for one to understand.

      FAITH.IS.THE.SUBSTANCE. - OAKLAND.CA 47-0412 E-71 071
      And today, surely, looks like a person wouldn't have to come down any closer than what you are right now to know what I'm speaking of. All right, but it goes over the majority's head. And, friends, I love you, and I want to see you get well.

    2. To a more important person in charge: to a higher official.

      EXPERIENCES. - ZION.IL 52-0726 E-44 044
      He grabbed his heart; he fell forward. He screamed for Ted. They run down stairs. That was about ten-thirty. And at eleven o'clock, it was on it's road on an airplane to Washington, D.C., to be copyrighted. Returned back, and when it did, it was turned over to the head, George J. Lacy, anybody knows he's head of the FBI, in fingerprint and so forth.

    Over and over 4

    1. repeatedly, continually.

      EXPECTATIONS. - NEW.YORK.NY 50-0405 E-31 031
      But this has been a glorious thing if I never come back. I feel that God has vindicated and proven that I have told the truth to the nation if I never return again. That's right. He's scientifically proven it. And He's proved it over and over that I have told the truth.

    Overalls 10

    1. loose fitting trousers with the front extending up over the chest, and straps over the shoulders.

      EXPERIENCES.3_ PHOENIX.AZ SUNDAY_ 47-1221 E-14
      e set me down next, and I was at a little place where there's just a little gasoline station and a store a yellow front store. And there was an old man walked out with a pair of blue corduroy overalls, or blue overalls with a yellow corduroy cap and a white mustache. He said, "He will show you the way."

    Overshoot the mark 18

    1. to go beyond; overstep; exceed.

      WHAT.DOES.THOU.HERE. - JEFF.IN 59-0301E E-29 029
      You know, Jesus said, "Come aside into the wilderness, and let's rest a little while." Some of these guys that think they don't have to rest, we find out they burn out pretty quick too. If they don't take a rest, they find themselves wrecked up somewhere. I think that's where our brother Billy Graham is tonight, trying to overshoot the mark.

    Pack 16

    1. Simply, to carry or transport. In parts of the Western and the Southern United States, used in sense of transport in packs or packages, as things are carried through the woods or over rough roads. Also, to “pack a box or suitcase, as in “filling it up”.

      THIRSTING.FOR.LIFE_ CHICAGO.IL SATURDAY_ 59-0613 E-10
      Divine healing is not something of a hocus pocus, or some little move, or some little blessing that people pack in their hands, but it is an undoubting faith that you have in the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It's a finished work that was done by Christ at Calvary.

    2. pack or packed can mean "included in the newspapers or any form of media".

      LIFE.STORY_ LITTLE.ROCK.AR 50-0200 E-49
      But some woman here not long ago trusted God out in California for her baby that died, and every newspaper and magazine packed it across the country.

    Pack in 16

    1. To crowd into; to attract a large audience.

      AT.THY.WORD.LORD_ NEW.YORK.NY FRIDAY_ 51-0928 E-18
      And we'd had about two services at Kuopio, or three. My, the place, the people, the Laplanders and all, they'd pack in there.

    Pack it in

    1. To admit defeat. Commonly used when one gives up on something; to relinquish, withdraw, or close one's interest in a business, occupation, friendship, emotional entanglement, problem or plan.

    Pack the bodies

    1. Even the godliest of saints has died and been buried.

      GO.TELL.MY.DISCIPLES_ JEFF.IN V-25 N-5 SUNDAY_ 53-0405S
      Yet we pack the bodies over the grave of the saintliest of us, but inside they are alive. They're living somewhere.

      DEMONOLOGY.1.PHYSICAL_ CONNERSVILLE.IN DE 21-40 MONDAY_ 53-0608A
      And we pack the bodies of each other over the saintless of our graves. "But he shall never die." Note: "saintless" should read "saintliest". See previous quotes.

    Packed away

    1. surprised; carried away in thought.

      GOD.WHO.IS.RICH.IN.MERCY_ PHOENIX.AZ V-19 N-2 TUESDAY_ 65-0119 {1}
      I was sort of packed away, coming in and seeing Brother Moore and all of them here on the platform, the friends that I've knowed for so many years.

    Palo verde

    1. a desert tree growing to approximately 32 feet, with deep roots able to endure long periods of drought, having bright yellow blossoms from March to May. Animals browse and rest in its shade and birds nest in its branches.

      A.PARADOX_ PHOENIX.AZ SUNDAY_ 62-0128AGo out here in the desert and look and see. Look like back under a nice palo verde, or somewhere, there'd be a little spring.
      Go out here in the desert and look and see. Look like back under a nice palo verde, or somewhere, there'd be a little spring.

    Pan out 16

    1. to have a result, especially a good result; result favorably; succeed.

      WHAT.HOUSE.WILL.YOU.BUILD.ME. - TUCSON.AZ V-19 N-6 65-1121 23 013
      Though the whole world, maybe your very best friends, think that you're wrong, but it isn't wrong to you. As long as you feel there's something behind it, it's God moving you; it's never wrong, and it'll always pan out right.

    Panel

    1. the wide, flat portion of the horn of a caribou or moose.

      IT.BECOMETH.US.TO.FULFILL_ JEFF.IN V-15 N-4 SUNDAY_ 61-1001M
      A caribou is a native name; it's a reindeer. And so usually they have paneled horns, like this, one running right in front of their nose, and then a panel comes out in front; and then the horns hook over, with another panel about so wide.

    2. a type of motor vehicle.

      JESUS.CHRIST.THE.SAME.YESTERDAY_ JONESBORO.AR WEDNESDAY_ 53-0506 E-1
      I just all at once, just Something said, Well, go down and see Brother Reed and all the folks down there." Well, we throwed a few books in a little old panel job, and Billy and I come right on down. So and we're very happy to be here.

    3. A group of people, often no more than four, gathered together in a public forum to discuss a certain subject.

      CHOOSING.OF.A.BRIDE_ LA.CA V-2 N-28 THURSDAY_ 65-0429E
      Now, I know tonight there's a panel also [Brother Branham is referring to a question and answer panel regarding the Baptism of the Holy Spirit sponsored by the Full Gospel Business Men which appeared over television in Los Angeles at the time this Message was preached— Ed.],

    Panhandle 10

    1. a strip of land resembling the handle of a pan, as the northern extension of the State of Texas.

      QUEEN.OF.THE.SOUTH_ DALLAS.TX FRIDAY_ 58-0613
      You come from the northwest. You're from the panhandle. You've come from a city called Lubbock, Texas. Return. You have what you asked for. Jesus Christ makes you well.

    Panoramic 24

    1. a complete view in every direction.

      PATRIARCH.ABRAHAM.THE_ BAKF.CA V-22 N-7 FRIDAY_ 64-0207
      You're not from here. You're in a city that's got orange groves all around it. It sets in a valley with a panoramic of mountains behind it.

      VOICE.OF.THE.SIGN_ TULARE.CA V-22 N-12 FRIDAY_ 64-0214 200
      Now here's exactly a Bible picture, a panoramic.

    Pantywaist 10

    1. A child's two-piece garment that buttoned together at the waist.

      PERFECT.FAITH_ JEFF.IN V-6 N-11 SUNDAY_ 63-0825E{88}
      And it shall come to pass, saith the Lord (Oh, my.), there will be a land where's a lot of evergreen growing. Rocks will be lapped together. A little boy with a crock haircut, little pantywaist buttoned up here, and his feet--his stockings pulled up high. He'll have brown eyes; they'd be turned back. He'll be killed in an automobile accident. But you lay your hands upon him, and he'll come back to life.'

    2. A person lacking courage or strength; a sissy

      MARK.OF.THE.BEAST_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 56-0715 E-47
      But your husband's so pantywaist, such a sissified substitute as a Christian, he's a disgrace to mankind, let alone the Kingdom of God that'll let you do such a thing.

    Parabolic

    1. In the form of a parable, or expressed by a parable. Using something as a comparison.

      ISRAEL.AT.KADESH.BARNEA_ JEFF.IN IC 97-128 SATURDAY_ 53-0328
      Notice, the church I'm speaking of, parabolic speaking. What the Old was, the New is in a more magnified way. What the natural was, the spiritual is.

    Parcels

    1. small items

      FUTURE.HOME_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-5 SUNDAY_ 64-0802 1-4
      Laying upon the platform and the pulpit here lays handkerchiefs and parcels.

    Pass the buck

    1. evade responsibility by passing it on to someone else.

      PREPARATION_ OWENSBORO.KY WEDNESDAY_ 53-1111
      So in order to do that, they begin to pass the buck one to the other, in the old street expression. And then what happened? God went out and got some skins and made them aprons.

    Patrolman 16,18

    1. One who travels around in order to guard or inspect. In this case, Bro. Branham is referring to the time he worked for the Public Service company, patrolling or inspecting the electrical power lines.

      MANIFESTATION.OF.THE.SPIRIT_ TOLEDO.OH TUESDAY_ 51-0717 E-28
      I have a little church at Jeffersonville. I wasn't supported by the church; I worked as a game warden in Indiana, and was patrolman on high lines, worked all my life. I never took an offering in my life. And I worked, pastored a church, not because they weren't willing to take care of me, but I was able to work, why not work.

    2. a police officer.

    Pave the way (for someone/something) 7

    1. make the arrival of someone/something easier; prepare for someone/something.

      DOOR.TO.THE.HEART. - CHICAGO.IL 58-0112E E-33 033
      There's men and women setting here, who're gray- headed, that was preaching the Gospel before I was born. Certainly, they're worthy. They were back there. You only paved the way for this. And you've looked forward to it. And it's here, so let's believe it.

    Pay dividends 7

    1. be advantageous, beneficial or useful at a later date. The profit on a financial investment is referred to as a dividend.

      INVESTMENTS.THE. - BEAUMONT.TX 64-0314 E-42 042
      Now, we know in Luke 24:49, after Jesus had chosen His disciples, they were holders of the Eternal Life, policy. So now you know, in a regular insurance policy they always pay dividends. So they had already been accepted and chosen by Jesus. So they went up to Jerusalem, waiting till the day of Pentecost to get their dividends. And it paid off with the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and power to manifest Jesus Christ.

    Pay your (last) respects (to someone) 7

    1. (formal) show respect for someone by attending their funeral.

      GREATEST.BATTLE.EVER.FOUGHT. - JEFF.IN V-3 N-11 62-0311 3-3 009
      We understand that her boy is flying from Germany, out of the armed forces, to come home to pay the last respects he can on earth to his departed mother.

    Peace of mind 7

    1. freedom from worry, anxiety, guilt, etc.

      CONFLICT.BETWEEN.GOD.AND.SATAN. - CLARKSVILLE.IN 62-0531 E-75 075
      What is the fruit of the Spirit? Joy, joy of her heart knowing that He's coming soon. Amen, and amen, amen. Yes. Peace of mind. What? Peace of mind, peace of mind, know what? No matter what comes or what goes, let the ship rock, let the storms come, let the lightning flash, the thunder roar, whatever takes place, don't make a bit of difference.

    Peanuts 2

    1. small or insignificant amount of money; easy; also paid a low income.

      CONVINCED.THEN.CONCERNED. - SHREVEPORT.LA 62-1125M E-42 042
      I could've been two times a multimillionaire. Me borrow forty thousand dollars? That would've been peanuts, as we call it.

    Pearly gates, The 7

    1. (informal) the gates of heaven.

      GOD.PERFECTING.HIS.CHURCH. - BINGHAMTON.NY 54-1204 E-71
      The Angel pressed the gates. The pearly gates swing open, when he pressed the button. Down through the city of Jerusalem came Jesus the Conqueror, with all the Old Testament saints that lived back there, believing that He would come sometime. Hallelujah.

    Pedal pushers 10

    1. knee length trousers for women or girls worn primarily when bicycle riding.

      SERPENT'S.SEED_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-4 SUNDAY_ 58-0928E 18-2
      And you women, putting on these little old pants and things, and wearing them out here, little old (What is it you call them?) Knickerbockers... Or what is it? What is that, sisters? No, no, it's not shorts, it's that--got the long legs in them: pedal pushers and overalls, dungarees...

    Peeved 2

    1. disgusted or irritated

      SMYRNAEAN.CHURCH.AGE. - JEFF.IN ROJC 185-227 60-1206 197 099
      Like blind Fanny Crosby when them worldly people of that day tried to make her write worldly songs, said, "Why, you'll be a rich woman." She said, "I have dedicated my life to Christ and all my talent." She was blind, you know. Said, "I owe my life and all to Christ." She said... And then they kind of got peeved at her because she turned down such an opportunity.

    Persofied

    1. personal

      TOKEN.THE_ DALLAS.TX V-19 N-12 SUNDAY_ 64-0308 {164}
      Let us pray. Heavenly Father, maybe I spoke rashly, but, Lord, how is a nail going to hold unless you clinch it? I pray, Father, that it'll be clinched in the heart of the people, that they will see that it's not no persofied thing.

    Pest-house 10

    1. A hospital for isolating people with epidemic diseases. (Bro. Branham likens our physical bodies to such a place).

      WARNING.THEN.JUDGMENT_ JEFF.IN V-8 N-3 WEDNESDAY_ 63-0724
      Frankly, it should make you most happy to know that you're leaving this old pesthouse.

    Petition 10

    1. a request

      TRYING.TO.DO.GOD.A.SERVICE_ JEFF.IN V-4 N-8 SUNDAY_ 65-0718M {35}
      well then, in them days they had only one meeting place where they could meet God, and that was at the ark under the blood. That's the only meeting place yet: under the Blood. The mercy seat was sprinkled to give mercy to the worshipper or the asker when he come to ask the petition of God.

    Phenomena 10

    1. anything that is extremely unusual; an extraordinary occurance.

      RISING.OF.THE.SUN_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-12 SUNDAY_ 65-0418M 3-4
      I wish, this morning, that I had just--much time to spend upon these phenomenas, that's beyond any shadow of doubt been proven for the past thirty years-or thirty-five years right here at this church, since down on the river when that same Light came down here in Jeffersonville in 1933 and spoke those words: "As John the Baptist was sent to forerun the first coming of Christ, your Message will forerun the second."

    Phony 2

    1. fake; false.

      SEAL.OF.GOD. - JEFF.IN V-26 N-4 54-0514 115 047
      And we find out, that when the Catholic church started back there, they got a phony baptism they come out with, sprinkling instead of baptizing. There's not one Scripture in the Bible for that.

    Pickups

    1. Riders at an equestrian or rodeo event, who are standing by and assigned to "pickup" those who have been thrown from their animal.

      BE.NOT.AFRAID_ KLAMATH.FALLS.OR SUNDAY_ 60-0717
      About three or four bucks and a sunfish or two, and the horse went one way, the rider another. The pickups got the horse, and the ambulance got the rider.

    Picnic 10

    1. A pleasure outing at which a meal is eaten outdoors; any pleasant experience.

      DECEIVED.CHURCH.BY.THE.WORLD_ JEFF.IN CH 67 SUNDAY_ 59-0628M {7}
      Remember, we are not on a picnic, but we're in a battlefield.

    Piece by piece 7

    1. each piece one against another (Scriptural reference: Gen. 15: 9-10)

      JEHOVAH.JIREH.PT.1. - GRASS.VALLEY.CA JJ 37-72 62-0705 158 070
      Now, but notice what he did here. He took these three animals and cut them apart, and laid them, piece by piece.

    Piece of crock 24

    1. earthenware; pottery

      I HAVE.HEARD.BUT.NOW.I.SEE_ SHREVEPORT.LA V-7 N-3 SATURDAY_ 65-1127E {49}
      Now, we notice here that Job, after he went through his trials, all of his afflictions... He had a lovely family; they were taken from him. He had good health; it was taken from him. Everything that he owned in this life was taken. And he set on an ash heap, with a piece of crock, scraping his boils. And even to his own wife spoke against him; she said, "Why not curse God, and die?"

    Piggy-back 14

    1. sitting or being carried on the shoulders.

      LET.YOUR.LIGHT.SO.SHINE.BEFORE.MEN. - JEFF.IN 61-0903 E-30 030
      Oh, I just think they're so cute. My girls is getting to be big now, so I just kindy have to... I used to ride them piggyback. But they could almost give me piggyback now, they're so big, Becky especially, great big girl.

    Pilaster 10

    1. a column or support extending a short distance from a wall.

      CHRISTIANITY.VERSUS.IDOLATRY_ JEFF.IN V-8 N-2 SUNDAY_ 61-1217{25}
      [Brother Neville says there are some available seats--Ed.] .... Those ladies standing back behind the pilaster there,

    Pin this down 24

    1. to get a person to commit himself as to his opinion.

      QA.HEBREWS.PART.1_ JEFF.IN COD WEDNESDAY_ 57-0925 213-24
      You couldn't imagine the time that Ahab tried to pin Elijah down. Could you imagine the time that the Pharisees tried to pin Jesus down?

    2. to secure or fasten firmly.

      SERPENT'S.SEED_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-4 SUNDAY_ 58-0928E 7-1
      Now, I don't want to hurt you, but I got to pin this down so this church will know what... We're not here as a bunch of illiterate crack pots; we know where we are standing in the Word of God.

    Pinch hit 10

    1. substitute for someone; take their place. (in baseball, to bat in place of the regular player).

      GOD.WHO.IS.RICH.IN.MERCY_ PHOENIX.AZ V-19 N-2 TUESDAY_ 65-0119
      Kash Amburgy. So I get it all wrong; that's that German name. I guess that's German. So I may have to kind of pinch-hit, as we call it, excuse the expression, for him.

    Pinched on the bill

    1. Pinched together on the peak or visor of a cap.

      IS.THIS.THE.SIGN.OF.THE.END.SIR_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-11 SUNDAY_ 62-1230E
      Brother Banks with a turned-up hat like this, Brother Fred with his pinched on the bill.

    Pink tea 10

    1. a women's social gathering where tea is served and the refreshments are especially dainty.

      ISRAEL.AT.THE.RED.SEA.2_ JEFF.IN IC 65-96 FRIDAY_ 53-0327 194
      An old man one time, he got all filled up with the Holy Ghost, what a wonderful time he was having. His daughter, he was staying with her. He'd get the Bible and read, then he'd get up and he'd just cry, and walk up-and-down the floor. She was going to have one of these little pink tea parties, you know, so she got the old man, so she said, "I'll fix him up." She said, "Papa, there's the women coming today."

    Pipe dream 18

    1. any wish, plan, or groundless hope as fantastically impossible as an illusion caused by smoking a narcotic drug. A daydream. In this case, a) those who smoke opium. b) “not a pipe dream” meaning “not an illusion”.

      WAY.BACK.THE. - SHREVEPORT.LA 62-1123 E-63 063
      You know, He's the Lily of the Valley. Opium comes from lily. We know that. Oh, how it is. When those pipe dreamers get a hold of opium, they think that's something. Oh, they ought to get inoculation of this one time. One does for all the time. It's not a pipe dream, but it's a reality of heaven that'll anchor back in your soul by the baptism of the Holy Ghost. It puts you to sleep--not asleep, but dead to the things of the world and alive in Christ.

    Pitch in 10

    1. contribute to a common cause; join with others in getting something done.

      GREATER.THAN.SOLOMON.IS.HERE. - GRAND.PRAIRIE.AL 61-0515 E-10 010
      We don't come for money. We come to see what good we can do, try to pitch in with these brothers here to help pull the load along. That's what it's for.

    Plaited 10

    1. braided; woven together

      THIS.DAY.THIS.SCRIPTURE_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-8 FRIDAY_ 65-0219 11-4
      A man went in there and found the house of God just about contaminated as it is today. They were buying, selling, changing money, and He turned over the money tables took ropes and plaited them and beat the moneychangers out of the temple and looked upon them with anger.

    Plantation 24

    1. a farm or estate of many acres in the southern United States, planted in cotton, tobacco, rice or sugarcane, formerly worked by slave labour.

      INFLUENCE_ BEAUMONT.TX SUNDAY_ 64-0315 E-19
      I believe no man's to be a slave. God made man, and man made slaves. And they used to come by and buy them, just like you would buy a used car- -get a bill of sales and so forth. That's a terrible thing. One day there was a buyer come by to a broker, to an old plantation that had many slaves.

    Play a cat-and- mouse game, (play cat and mouse with someone) 4

    1. keep someone in suspense and uncertainty, play with someone's feelings.

      SIRS.WE.WOULD.SEE.JESUS. - JEFF.IN V-3 N-23 61-1224 18-8 051
      What are we going around here pretending to be Christians, and doing this, that, and the other, and joining these creeds, and shaking hands with this kind of Pentecost, or that, or Methodist, or Presbyterian, or Baptist, or Catholic? What's it all about? What are we doing? Playing hide the eraser, cat and mouse? Where we at?

    Play fair 10

    1. abide by the rules; treat others fairly; behave fairly in a situation.

      MIGHTY.CONQUEROR. - DALLAS.TEXAS 58-0610 E-19 019
      Fight with what's in your hands. If it's singing, sing the Gospel. If you can't do nothing but whistle, whistle just as loud as you can for the glory of God. If you can't do no more than pat your hands, pat them. Conquer with whatever you got in your hand. Clap them in such a way, that all the neighbors will love you. Whistle in such a way, that all denominations will know that you belong to Christ. Conquer them; play the game fair. Play it right.

    Play hooky 14

    1. To stay out of school to play or work. To be absent without permission.

      AT.THY.WORD. - CONNERSVILLE.IN 53-0608E E-26 026
      Maybe the little boy had played hooky, all I know, we call it in Indiana hooky, truant, ever-what you want to call it. He went out fishing maybe, and he seen that Man; there's something about Him; he like to hear Him talk.

    Play up a great big thing

    1. to make a big deal out of something or an event.

      END.TIME.SIGN.SEED_ TIFTON.GA MONDAY_ 62-0319 E-73
      Have you noticed the Christian Business Men's Voice? I speak for them internationally. I can't pull no punches for them. This is the Word. Look. What about in the... Looky here at the Presbyterians, Episcopalians: hundreds of them everywhere trying to seek the Holy Ghost. They're playing up a great big thing.

    Played out 14

    1. tired out; worn out; finished; exhausted.

      CALLING.JESUS.ON.THE.SCENE. - CHICAGO.IL V-21 N-8 63-0804E 35 015
      He'd had a great day of healing the sick and teaching, and His physical strength was just about played out. And if any minister knows, just in our little ministries that we've got, how it tires us, what must it have done to Him?

    Plowboy

    1. farmer

      WARNING.THEN.JUDGMENT_ JEFF.IN V-8 N-3 WEDNESDAY_ 63-0724
      Now, we find out that this prophet really struck down on that nation, this Amos. He was just a plowboy.

    Pluck up 14

    1. To have (courage) by your own effort; make yourself have (courage).

      SEVEN.COMPOUND.NAMES.OF.JEHOVAH. - CHICAGO.IL 55-0120 E-53 053
      And I'd sat down on a rock again; I'd say, "Now, you're not lost. You know where you're at. Why, stand still. You know where you're at." But all the hunting and woods ability I had was gone. I'm telling you; I was actually, completely lost. But I was trying to make myself pluck up to it, because I didn't want to get frantic, you know, because I knew my wife and baby would die that night in the woods if I didn't get to them.

    Plumb 16

    1. often used as an adjective, with the meaning of quite, exactly, directly or completely in which case it is an Old English survival.

      GIFTS.CALLINGS.WITHOUT.REPENTANCE_ CARLSBAD.NM 50-0300 E-2
      I trust that after the service, there'll be an old fashion revival just sweep plumb through the country here...?... 'causing every person to be with new fire.

    Plumb out of cater

    1. completely out of line; completely misunderstood; interpreted wrongly.

      THY.SEED.SHALL.POSSESS.GATE_ PHOENIX.AZ SUNDAY_ 62-0121M E-3
      Sometimes in preaching, every minister's misunderstood one way or the other. And many times people take something that you say and just kind of... It leans a little bit to them, so they'll say it that way; and then the next one gets it, it's leaning a little bit more. First thing you know, it's plumb out of cater.

    Plumb over the top of their head and plumb under the rest of them

    1. completely out of the understanding of both.

      GOD.IN.SIMPLICITY_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0317M 40-3 {255}
      They knew that that Messiah was to be a prophet, the kind of a ministry He would have with Him. All the prophets spoke of what He would do. They spoke of it in symbols, and it went plumb over the top of their head and plumb under the rest of them (See, see?), went under one and over the other one.

    Plumb up to our ears

    1. completely; all the way.

      SERPENT'S.SEED_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-4 SUNDAY_ 58-0928E 11-15
      Then if we come through the right seed, when Paul preached the Gospel I was there and you were there. We're going to get into that just in a minute, plumb up to our ears.

    Pocket-book 16

    1. a general term for a purse.

      EXPECTATIONS_ CLEVELAND.OH THURSDAY_ 50-0810 E-50
      I stood there. And after while, I saw a woman coming behind all the rest of the traffic. She had on a little checkered dress, and one little Canadian tams like. And she had her pocket book on her arms, and was looking sideways. And the Spirit said, "Go near to her."

    Point blank 16

    1. direct, without disguise. A gunnery metaphor.

      THINGS.THAT.ARE.TO.BE_ RIALTO.CA V-4 N-6 SUNDAY_ 65-1205 83
      You cannot take one word of God out of the Bible. What caused the first sin? Not by just a big point blank lie, but because Eve misconstrued (the devil did to her) one word.

    Polish hubs

    1. polish the hubcaps of a vehicle; make something look good.

      RISING.OF.THE.SUN_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-12 SUNDAY_ 65-0418M 17-3
      There must come One that's not only got the mechanics, but the Dynamics of It, makes that church live, move in the power of His resurrection. Until we come to that place, until we find that place, what good does it do to polish the hubs?

    Poor as Job's turkey

    1. very poor

      BIRTH.PAINS_ PHOENIX.AZ V-3 N-4 SUNDAY_ 65-0124 21-5
      Why, he's as poor as Job's turkey.

    Pop up 14

    1. To appear suddenly or unexpectedly; show up; come out. In this case, to “hop up and down the road”.

      SEED.NOT.HEIR.WITH.SHUCK. - JEFF.IN V-6 N-4 65-0218 118 057
      A hawk's supposed to sail, not sit on a telephone pole and watch for a dead rabbit, and then get down there and pop up and down the road like a vulture. See?

    Poplar 16

    1. a large tree, bearing tulip-shaped flowers. Also called tulip tree, or whitewood.; trees and bushes of the willow family, widely distributed in the northern hemisphere

      QA.HEBREWS.PART.2_ JEFF.IN COD WEDNESDAY_ 57-1002
      There's something that made us what we are, in the way that we are, or we would've had a head like a bird, or something like that; if there wasn't a Mastermind behind us to make each one of us with a feature, to make an oak tree, a poplar tree, a palm tree, and differentiate between them what they are.

    Posterior protoplasm stimulation

    1. To discipline by slapping on the buttocks; a spanking.

      ONCE.MORE_ CHICAGO.IL V-21 N-7 SUNDAY_ 63-0804A
      Love is corrective. If love doesn't correct, then it's not love. You see your child down on the street, and don't give him a little bit of posterior protoplasm stimulation, you're not a good dad. But a real mother or dad will turn him up and spank him, let him know he's got to get out of the street or perish.

    Pot call the kettle black 14

    1. informal The person who is criticizing someone else is as guilty as the person he accuses; the charge is as true of the person who makes it as of the one he makes it against.

      THY.LOVING.KINDNESS. - CHATTANOOGA.TN 58-0228 E-33 033
      All different... "I'm a Presbyterian." "I'm Assembly." "I'm a Church of God." What's that?" Pot can't call kettle black.

    Pot-bellied 10

    1. a protruding stomach

      IN.HIS.PRESENCE_ JEFF.IN V-11 N-4 SUNDAY_ 62-0909E {86}
      Moody, a little old shoe cobbler, hardly knowed his ABC's. That's right. His grammar was poor. Somebody told him one day, "Your grammar is awful poor, Mr. Moody." He said, "But I'm winning souls with it." So one day the newspapers, the editor went to writing the newspaper. He went over to see how could this man hold crowds of people under any conditions, little old guy, baldheaded, and everything, and had whiskers hanging way down, kind of pot-bellied;...

    Pound the tar out of him

    1. give someone a beating.

      GREATEST.BATTLE.EVER.FOUGHT_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-11 SUNDAY_ 62-0311 35-3
      He said, "There's one thing you have--you have to understand." He said, "I run this town around here." He said, "Oh, you do?" and just kept on washing the windows, you know. He said, "Before you have a revival you have to whip me first." He said, "Oh, I do? Well, I'll just do that next then." He just took off his coat, and walked over there and reached him by the collar, and knocked him down on the floor, and jumped up on top of him, said, "I must fight if I should reign. Increase my courage, Lord." Pound the tar out of him.

    Pout. Pout it out 10

    1. To feel sorry for one's self. To sulk. To withdraw and show gloomy behavior.

      WARNING.THEN.JUDGMENT_ JEFF.IN V-8 N-3 WEDNESDAY_ 63-0724
      When you tell God something like that, He'll leave you sitting alone. He don't owe me nothing. I'm in debt to Him. Well, He just let me pout it out for a few days, you know.

    Prairie schooner 10

    1. A large covered wagon used by pioneers to cross the American prairies.

      LIFE.STORY.WILLIAM.BRANHAM_CLEVELAND.OH 50-0820A
      I saw an old prairie schooner and a wheel was broken laying down sideways; and I was singing that song, or whistling, "The wheel on the wagon is broken...." Of course that was our broken family (You see?) then.

    Preeminence/Preeminent/Preeminences 24

    1. Supreme; distinguished above all others; having the highest title; supremely controlling; highest ruler; Lord. high; lofty; rising above all other things.

      CHRIST.IS.THE.MYSTERY_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-7 SUNDAY_ 63-0728 24-5
      Now, that's when He can express the preeminences. You see? He's got the man or the person so that he knows nothing but Christ. You get what I mean? All right. That's secondly. First, to express Himself completely: God in Christ. Second, to have the preeminences by this in His Church (which is His Body, Bride) to... He could have the preeminence to express Himself through them. All right.

    Press on 4

    1. continue one's efforts.

      LIFE.OF.DEMONS.AND.VISIONS. - TOLEDO.OH 51-0721 E-15 015
      And I went over there, and I knelt down. Did you ever feel like, you know, the briars stuck you, and the floor was too hard? Did you ever have that? That's the time to press on. That's the Devil trying to keep you from it. Move right on. As long as you're doing right, you can't be doing wrong.

    Proof of the pudding is in the eating, The 5

    1. The only way to judge something is to try it.

      TRUE.VINE.AND.THE.FALSE.VINE. - MACON.GA 55-0607 E-12 012
      And the people don't know what to believe. You believe God's Bible; that's the thing that's right. "Let ever man words be a lie; let Mine be the true," God says, no matter what it is. And the proof of the pudding is (as the old slogan is), is the eating thereof. If God says it in His Word, and He produces it, believe it, and go on.

    Pros and cons (of something) 7,15

    1. positive and negative points of an issue; the arguments for and against something; the advantages and disadvantages.

      WORKS.IS.FAITH.EXPRESSED. - SHREVEPORT.LA V-7 N-1 65-1126 93 041
      Now, I'm like Brother Gerholtzer here, we're old men, and we've been in this a long time, and we've seen the pros and cons, and everything. And praying for the sick, around the world, and seeing the disappointments of people, and seeing the "Hallelujahs" from every side. Then, all this we learn by.

    Proselyte 10

    1. to convert from one thought to another or from one religion to another.

      WE.WOULD.SEE.JESUS_ VICTORIA.BC FRIDAY_ 62-0727 E-57
      Now, remember, there were those there that were holy men; they were good men; they were teachers. But Jesus said, "You compass seas to proselyte one person.

    Providence 10

    1. the care and guidance of God.

      RISING.OF.THE.SUN_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-12 SUNDAY_ 65-0418M 8-3
      Then He said when He come forth on that morning, "Because I live, you live also." Not only was He the beneficiary of the resurrection, but all those Seed that was resting in God's great providence was a benefactor of that resurrection to Life, because He said, "Because I live, ye shall live also."

    Pugilist

    1. a person who fights with his fists; prize fighter; boxer

      SEED.SHALL.POSSESS.THE.GATE_ LONG.BEACH.CA SUNDAY_ 61-0212E
      All of you know that I used to be a pugilist. I used to box. I had three state championships.

    Pug-nosed 3

    1. used to describe someone who has a short blunt snub nose (It comes from the name of the pug dog, now a relatively rare animal but not so long ago a favorite. The pug is a small, short-haired dog whose chief characteristic is a blunt snub nose).

      GREATER.WITNESS.THAN.JOHN. - OWENSBORO.KY 53-1107 E-21 021
      I got a brother that's tall and thin, blonde- headed, pug nose, and fair skin; he don't look like me. We don't act alike. You'd never know we was brothers.

    Puke 2

    1. vomit

      TRYING.TO.DO.GOD.A.SERVICE. - SHP.LA V-7 N-2 65-1127B 278 118
      He pulled you out of that Assembly to make you a people, but you organized and went right back into the same puke you come (excuse me) out of, the same stuff you come out of, "As a dog goes to its vomit and a hog to its wallow..." I'm sorry I said that, forgive me; that's not right for the platform here. See? I just said that in the flesh.

    Pull out 4

    1. (a boat, train) leave, move away.

      WHAT.SHALL.WE.DO.WITH.JESUS. - PHOENIX.AZ V-22 N-4 64-0126 46 021
      Now: this may be the last day you'll have time to make choice. You can't do it then; you've already took it; it's too far at that time. You must do it now. Don't wait till the last minute, because the boat will pull out and leave you; the doors will be closed.

    Pull strings (for someone) 4

    1. (informal) show favor through exceptional treatment due to someone's rank or special relationship to those in power; make exceptions or tell anything less than the truth. This expression is commonly used when a person uses the influence of another to get something he wants.

      HEAR.YE.HIM_ CHATTANOOGA.TN SATURDAY_ 58-0301E E-45
      Now, God tells the truth. The Holy Spirit don't pull no strings or punches for anybody. It brings the truth. Now, I read a book. It said George Washington never told a lie. I don't know about that. I couldn't say that. But the Bible don't pull strings for nobody: about Lot living with his daughters, and so forth. And David, a man after God's own heart, but when he took Bathsheba, Uriah's wife, God placed it right in the Word.

    Pull the wool over someone's eyes 4

    1. To delude someone into believing something; to deceive by trickery.

      REVELATION.CHAP.FOUR.PT.1. - JEFF.IN ROJC 551-584 60-123155 027
      And can anything happen to a Christian without its for the best? No, no. So what did God get him out there alone on the island for? Give us this Book of Revelation. See, God just can pull the wool over the Devil's eyes anytime He wants to, can't He? He just simply can. I just love Him.

    Pull through 4

    1. recover from a serious accident or illness.

      CHRIST.OUTSIDE.THE.DOOR. - MIDDLETOWN.OH 58-0330E E-45 045
      I wonder tonight, how many sinners here, quickly, will recognize that God's been so good to you. The other day when you almost had that wreck, that was Him saved you. You remember when baby was so sick, wife was sick, the doctor said, "Well, boy, I don't know whether they'll pull through or not." But they got well, what was that? That was God's goodness.

    Pull up 4

    1. (a vehicle) to approach.

      CONVINCED.THEN.CONCERNED. - PHOENIX.AZ 62-0118 E-44 044
      It does any Christian to see the people wholly given over to sin: drinking, gambling, cursing, swearing, smoking. Every car you pull up behind is a woman with a cigarette in her fingers, with one of these waterhead haircuts that they're using now, and all this common nonsense. And thousands of those profess to be Christians.

    Pull up stakes 9

    1. to change one's place of residence, business, etc. (It comes from moving one's tent).

      MIGHTY.CONQUEROR. - DALLAS.TEXAS 58-0610 E-28 028
      There's the mighty Conqueror. Oh, my, as we hear them then, said, "Come on, children, you were faithful over a few things. Come on; we're going out this morning. You've been in here long enough. We're going higher." Oh, God, let that be the desire of the church. Let's go higher. Pull up our stakes out of Egypt.

    Pull(draw) no/any punches 7

    1. (informal) Didn't draw back from telling the whole truth, no matter what anyone said or thought; not be afraid to tell the truth plainly.

      WHAT.THINK.YE.OF.CHRIST. - CHICAGO.IL 53-1213M E-44 044
      Brother, he was filled with the Holy Ghost. He didn't draw any punches. He laid the axe to the root of the tree. And every tree that didn't bring forth good fruit was hewed down. That's what we need today is some more John the Baptists filled with the Holy Ghost in that manner, that will not pull punches, but will tell the truth regardless of who it hurts.

    Pulling for 10

    1. asking or striving for something;

      QUEEN.OF.THE.SOUTH_ DALLAS.TX FRIDAY_ 58-0613
      I'm not pulling for offerings now, but see, if it's worth anything, it's worth everything. And she said, "If it is the truth, I'm going to support it.

    2. to cheer on or hope for the success of something

      IS.YOUR.LIFE.WORTHY_ JEFF.IN V-5 N-5 SUNDAY_ 63-0630E
      Every fellow pulling for his denomination,

    Pulling the packs off of him

    1. the horse was jumping up and down trying to get the boxes of supplies off of its back.

      SPIRIT.OF.TRUTH_ PHOENIX.AZ FRIDAY_ 63-0118
      Eddie was about half a city block ahead of me trying to get another horse young horse run off the trail, getting over in there, (pulling the packs off of him
      , bucking off.

    Pumpernickel 10

    1. a course, dark bread made of unsifted rye.

      ISRAEL.AT.KADESH.BARNEA_ JEFF.IN IC 97-128 SATURDAY_ 53-0328
      After been filled with the good Angel's food and everything, they said, "Oh, we're tired of it. We'd like to have some garlic and some pumpernickel." They wanted the old flesh pots of Egypt.

    Pumpkin 24

    1. a large trailing vine with large, round yellow fruit.

      CHRIST.IS.THE.MYSTERY_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-7 SUNDAY_ 63-0728 44-3
      If I put a life of a pumpkin into the life of a pear tree, it would bear pumpkins. "By their fruits you shall know them."

    Pup tent

    1. a “one-man” tent

      LETTING.OFF.THE.PRESSURE_ LA.CA FRIDAY_ 62-0622B E-15
      I was up in the northwest fishing, and I had a trout line (many of you fishermen brethren here), and I was packed out on my back with a little pup tent. And I was way back up into the mountains. And I had a little pup tent and some, you know, equipment. And I was catching trout.

    Pushover 2

    1. one who is easily persuaded

      TOKEN.THE. - JEFF.IN. V-2 N-19 63-0901M 43-7
      Your character is God's character. What is it? A little pushover? No, sir. God's a God of judgment. He's a God of correct. It must be on the line. Nothing else will do.

    Put a plug in 10

    1. A recommendation or a boost for someone or something

      ABRAHAM_ LONG.BEACH.CA SATURDAY_ 61-0211
      I might put a plug in here if the preacher wants to preach on it some time, he might run it on through the Bible.

    Put me off

    1. Find an excuse to cancel.

      IS.THIS.THE.SIGN.OF.THE.END.SIR_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-11 SUNDAY_ 62-1230E
      They're going to put me off.

    Put on the dog 3

    1. to make a flashy display;

      TIME.OF.DECISION. - LA.CA 59-0418 E-25 025
      I don't think we should try to put on a lot of make-belief, what we call, it's a worldly expression, "put on the dog." I don't think we should do that. Christians... That's not becoming to a Christian. Our Lord didn't even have a place to lay His head. He had no house to live in.

    Put on the spot

    1. put someone in a somewhat embarrassing position where he is expected to respond.

      JESUS.KEEPS.ALL.OF.HIS.APPOINTMENTS_ TAMPA.FL SATURDAY_ 64-0418E E-34
      He was going to make fun at the banquet, of the Lord Jesus, to prove that He wasn't a prophet, to put Him on the spot somewhere. Then he would be a big fellow among them, become some great man.

    Put one's shoulder to the wheel 10

    1. work hard and seriously; apply great effort in a shared manner.

      GREAT.COMING.REVIVAL. - CHICAGO.IL 54-0718A E-6 006
      And Christ said that the Gospel should go to all the world. So every Christian's got a tremendous job ahead of him. And we must be up and doing, quickly, right about our Father's business, at once. Every person, and every denomination, every person in his own church, to get behind the pastor and the program and to back it up with all that we have to back up with. And that's why I'm putting my shoulder to the wheel, as God will permit me, to try to bring to each one the view, as far as I have knowledge to do, of the soon coming of our Lord Jesus.

    Put pressure on someone (to do something) 7

    1. try to force, lead or persuade.

      LET.US.SEE.GOD. - SAN.JOSE.CA V-14 N-2 59-1129 42 021
      It's a nonprofit foundation, called Branham Tabernacle. And I know that those trustees put pressure on me, "Let us build a great tabernacle; you remain here and let the people come to you." That sounds all right, but that isn't the will of God for me.

    Put someone in his/her place 10

    1. humiliate someone who is prideful; lower someone's self- esteem, especially an arrogant person.

      JEHOVAH.JIREH. - TULARE.CA 61-0226 E-50 050
      The works that I do shall you do also. More than this shall you do. I go to My Father. See? The same Spirit calling Abraham's seed, that through the seed of Abraham come Christ that He would tear Him apart and put the Spirit of God upon His church and take the Sacrifice home with Him. Amen. Brother, that make the Devil get going. That'll put him in his place.

    Put someone off 4

    1. Allow a passenger to get out of a vehicle.

      LIFE.STORY. - TOLEDO.OH 51-0722A E-78 078
      Then when I could cross and get over again, I got to Charlestown; they said at there, "We hadn't heard nothing of my wife." I met an old friend of mine, we went walking down the street together; he said, "We will ask that dispatcher." Dispatcher said, "Why, yes, I put off a sick mother and two children at Columbus, Indiana."

    2. Keep someone waiting for a decision.

      FAITH.COMETH.BY.HEARING. - CHICAGO.IL 54-0320 E-29 029
      But hope says, "God said so, and I'm expecting to get it, someday." You see? "I'm expecting, someday." And as long as Satan can put you off to another day, that's as good as he wants. That's right.

    Put the squeeze on 1

    1. To exert pressure to obtain some concession or goal.

      QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS. - JEFF.IN COD 64-0830M 1086-117 066
      This one drunk raised up and said, "Just a minute. There's one that I know about. " Said, "Who is it?" Said, "It's my wife." See? She'd become salty. He was catching it all the time. He said, "I bet if she was put to a squeeze..."He said, "No, she's still a Christian; I'll prove it to you."

    Put this over with the regular dish

    1. put this with what you would normally hear.

      SERPENT'S.SEED_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-4 SUNDAY_ 58-0928E
      Now, how did it start? (We'll get straight to it just as quick as we can, so I won't keep you all night.) Now, there's got to be a beginning of all things. I want to ask you something. Now, this may be... You just tuck this over in your vest pocket. You don't have to put this over with the regular dish.

    Put two and two together 14

    1. To make decisions based on available proofs; reason from the known facts; conclude; decide.

      QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS. - JEFF.IN COD 61-0112 575-402 152
      And the evening star shines in the evening. The morning star shines in the morning. And they're both the same size stars and the same kind of star. Now, put two and two together and you got it. See? See, there you are. So ... The star isn't Messiah; he's just reflecting the Messiah.

    Put up with someone/something 4

    1. (informal) tolerate/bear someone/something.

      INVASION.OF.THE.USA. - JEFF.IN V-26 N-1 54-0509 102 053
      But, Jehoshaphat, just a little more spiritual to put up with that tommyrot of clowning... That's right. God, give us some more Jehoshaphats, sick and tired of this here Hollywood clowning (That's right.), putting on, pretending to be something that they're not; making out, dramatizing, drawing in.

    Put/set someone on a pedestal 4

    1. To bestow honour.

      FLASHING.RED.LIGHT. - JEFF.IN V-5 N-4 63-0623E 124 070
      "Used to be we put women on a pedestal." Said, "We honored her; we took off our hat in her presence. We walked down the streets... And gentlemen would hear somebody make a remark about a certain woman, they'd slap him down." See? And said, "They honored women."

    Putting the cart before the horse 5

    1. doing things in the wrong order.

      JEHOVAH.JIREH. - OAKLAND.CA 57-0326 E-25 025
      If the church tonight, would stop thinking it's something that you have to do, it's something God has already done. You're just putting the cart before the horse. And it won't run right. Just forget about what you have to do, and realize what God has already done. Then you'll get the cart running right.

    Quarter 10

    1. 1/4 value of an American Dollar. 25 cents.

      HERE.WE.HAVE.NO.CONTINUING.CITY_ LITTLE.ROCK.AR 50-0200
      I think they cost a dollar and a quarter apiece.

    Quick on the trigger

    1. too quick to respond.

      CHRIST.IS.THE.MYSTERY_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-7 SUNDAY_ 63-0728 7-1
      Well, I thought being he had taken that fine spiritual food, maybe to talk a little bit, we'd take some natural food. So we goes over to the Blue Boar, sets down, was talking. And the subject come up, "How do you let people talk about you like that?" Now, Brother Vayle is one of the finest men I ever knew, but he's just a little too quick on the trigger,...

    R. O. T. C.

    1. Reserve Officer Training Corp. Military training that young men and/or women at 16 years of Age have available to participate in during high school that would prepare them to enter the United States military at age 18. This program prepares them for educational purposes or military combat training.

      BOOK.OF.EXODUS.2_ CHICAGO.IL THURSDAY_ 55-1006E E-27
      I guess Egypt was the greatest militant nation in the world, the great commercial center of all the world. And no doubt but what Moses had the ROTC training and everything else. God had to train him like that, because he was going to lead an army.

    Rabbit foot 24

    1. the left hind foot of a rabbit carried as a good luck charm

      UNCERTAIN.SOUND_ JEFF.IN V-26 N-19 SUNDAY_ 55-0731 136
      They threw Daniel in the lions' den. No uncertainty, he stood there. He had hidden power, not a rabbit foot in his pocket, not a charm to wear around his neck. They make me sick with all those crosses, and charms, and everything, Protestant and Catholic both wear, no virtue in them. It's all right to have it; but to worship it the way you do: hang it in your car and think it'll keep you from having a wreck, it won't do it.

    Rabbit in the woodpile

    1. something is not right; refers here to a person out of place. Unruly- (not in subjection to church order)

      CHURCH.ORDER. - JEFF.IN COD 63-1226 889-79 045
      Really, we want everybody in this church that we can get; but if that would only cause trouble somewhere else, there's a thorn or, "a rabbit in the woodpile," as we used to say it. That person isn't right.

    Rabbit knows about snowshoes/Hottentot knows about Egyptian Knight

    1. to have no knowledge of something or someone. To have no understanding."They have no understanding of God"

      SCRIPTURAL.SIGNS.OF.THE.TIME_ BIRMINGHAM.AL FRIDAY_ 64-0410 E-20
      Everybody's got his own private interpretation. Every denomination has these seminaries, hatch out a bunch of incubator preachers. I always felt sorry for an incubator chicken. It had no mammy. No matter how much it chirped, it wasn't mothered. That's the way these machines turn out these clergymen, sometimes knows no more about God than a Hottentot does about Egyptian knight, or a rabbit knows how to put on snowshoes.

    Ragged kid

    1. poorly dressed child wearing worn, shabby clothes.

      GOD.IN.SIMPLICITY_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0317M 13-8 {75}
      And how would I ever knowed, as a little ragged kid, up here two or three blocks from here to the Ingramville School, when I was the laughing stock of the school from being so ragged and skate on an old pond.

    Ragweeds 10

    1. common weeds. (often the cause of allergies)

      RAPTURE.THE_ YUMA.AZ V-5 N-14 SATURDAY_ 65-1204
      Here not long ago when this first astronaut went up, he come back and he'd hadn't seen nothing of God. That even turned ministers around. They thought God lived right up there somewhere a hundred and fifty miles high. Why, my, how... Education and wisdom of this world has turned the church into a bunch of rag weeds

    Rake over the coals 10

    1. To criticize someone sharply

      RESPECTS_ JEFF.IN V-13 N-4 SUNDAY_ 61-1015E
      Baptist minister wrote me a letter a couple days ago from up here. Oh, if he didn't rake me over the coals, ...

    Rally around 10

    1. to come together for a common purpose.

      QUEEN.OF.THE.SOUTH_ SHREVEPORT.LA SUNDAY_ 60-1127E E-48
      Oh, if America tonight would rally around the gift of God, it'd be a golden age; it'd be a millennium for us here. What if we'd rally around the gift of God, That's the Holy Ghost, of course. All America would rally around the gift that God sent to us, the Holy Ghost, it'd be a time that they would break down every wall of partition between Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Pentecostals, and we'd have a golden age.

    2. gather in groups to talk.

      GOD.IN.SIMPLICITY_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0317M 5-1 {26}
      And now, this may seem a little rude, but it's not a place to visit; it's a place of worship. We should never even murmur a word inside of here, outside of worship, to one another unless it's absolutely necessary. See? We should never rally around; we should never run through the building or let our children run through the building.

    Rampage 10

    1. a wild course or path of destruction

      WHAT.HEAREST.THOU.ELIJAH_ CHICAGO.IL TUESDAY_ 59-0609 E-13
      The insane institutions are filling up. The hospitals are filling up. And juvenile crime is on the rampage.

    Rank and file 3,7

    1. the enlisted component of the army, as contrasted with the officers; the ordinary members of a group/organization especially a trade union, political party, business, company etc. (originally a military term, the designation comes from the fact that ordinary soldiers are required to muster in ranks---drawn up side by side---and in files---one behind the other. Obviously, the leaders-officers-are not required to assemble in such group formations).

      IN.HIS.PRESENCE. - JEFF.IN V-11 N-4 62-0909E 49 037
      That watchman had to be a trained man. He had to know what he was doing, for at any distance, as soon as they arose, the enemy, he could detect it. He could tell their march; he could tell their color; he could tell their rank and file. Just as far as the human eyes could see, he could see it. And he was higher than the rest of them, for he was trained to know the enemy.

    Rashal

    1. See "Rashel".

    Rashel 24

    1. unreasonable; "irrational"; forceful; straightforward; emphatic.

      KNOWETH.IT.NOT_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-10 SUNDAY_ 65-0815
      I know that's hard, and I've often wondered in many ways, how will it ever be? Why do I have to talk so rashel to people?

      LOOKING.AT.THE.UNSEEN_ LA.CA FRIDAY_ 59-0410 E-12
      "Look" magazine was telling about an old gander that raised up in the north some time ago, and he got all off the beam. And many of the geese flew back and left him. But he kept calling to them. And he was so far off until he flew all the way to England. Many of them perished in their going. And that's the way... I do not mean this rashel now. But I'm sure that many of our church leaders has got the church off like that.

      INVESTMENTS_ SHREVEPORT.LA SATURDAY_ 62-1124B
      What a rashal thing this young fellow did to turn away this opportunity. And what a rashal thing the denominations are doing today. Instead of accepting, and embracing the Holy Spirit, and forgetting their differences, they separate the brotherhood and try to draw away little groups after their own following.

    Rat (as a hair piece) 10

    1. A small pad used in a woman's hair to make the hair look thicker.

      QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS_ JEFF.IN COD SUNDAY_ 64-0830E
      Not a thing says, sister, that you can't wear a rat, or switch of hair, or something or another in your... That's perfectly all right, but let your hair stay long. And men, you cut yours off. What you got, keep it cut. See? Then that settles that.

    Rat race 2,4

    1. a frantic, competitive struggle to be better than others, e.g. in business, social prestige, professional status.

      GOD.IN.SIMPLICITY. - JEFF.IN 63-0317M 26-5 {153} 086
      We are so smart and intellectual in our churches till we can build a million dollar building, or ten million dollar building, but yet--and trying to build one better than the Methodists, or the Baptists build one better than the Presbyterian, and the Pentecostals got in the rat race.

    Razor-back hog

    1. a wild or semiwild hog of the southern United States, with a slender body, a ridged back, and long legs.

      THE.WORD.BECAME.FLESH.INDIA.TRIP.REPORT_ JEFF.IN V-26 N-5 SUNDAY_ 54-1003M
      And an old (razorback hog), maybe don't get over about that big, and his sides pulled together from starvation, walking around over the people. And an old goat, and him about to reel to pieces, too, walking over the people. And they stink. And, oh, you never seen such a conglomeration as India is in.

    Read between the lines 4

    1. understand or sense more than the actual words say; have insight into a situation.

      UNCONDITIONAL.COVENANT. - PHOENIX.AZ 54-0306 E-58 058
      You know, do you believe the Bible's written so you have to read between the lines, as I've said? You read between the lines. The lines are right, but there's a between the line.

    Read someone's mind (be a mind reader) 10

    1. know what someone is really thinking (be someone who knows what others are thinking.

      EL.SHADDAI. - LA.CA 59-0416 E-59 059
      George J. Lacy examined that picture from Houston that night; he said, "Brother Branham, I have said sometimes that you were--it was psychology, so they told me, that you could read the minds of people, that you were a great mind reader." Said, "I know better than to say that." He said, "I thought it was psychology." But said, "The mechanical eye of this camera won't take psychology." Said, "The Light struck the lens; the Light's there."

    Rebel 24

    1. One who stood for the cause of the Southern United States during the Civil War (1775-1783. The army in the South during that time known as "The Rebel Army". Sometimes, in a political way, refers to anyone who lives in the South.

      WHY.CRY.SPEAK_ CLARKSVILLE.IN SUNDAY_ 59-1004E E-25
      It was the great General Stonewall Jackson, who's been my favorite general since Joshua... Stonewall Jackson was asked one time, "How can you stand with just a handful of men when the opposition is so great?" That's how he got his name of Stonewall. He would not budge. He knew no retreat. What could we accredit a man like that to, a man, when the Yankees come down by the thousands, and he stood there in the minority? But they'd never move him. He stood like a stone wall. All of the rest in the rebel army had retreated back.

    2. to resist authority.

      TOKEN.THE_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-19 SUNDAY_ 63-0901M 7-8
      I wonder today, when God leads us to a--a life of complete surrender and service to Him, I wonder if our spirits then sometimes don't rebel, kinda showing that: wonder if we are lambs. See, see?

    Reckon 16

    1. (Old English). To think or suppose; to calculate; to conjecture; to form a judgment. The Southern equivalent of the Northern “guess” and the New England “calculate”. This word is still provincial in some counties of the North of England, in sense of to think, to believe, etc. is a survival of an old English usage “For I reckon that the sufferings of this time…(Romans 8:18)”.

      HEALING.OF.JAIRUS.DAUGHTER_ PHOENIX.AZ SUNDAY_ 55-0227E E-91
      And then, I went on the hotel, the Rice Hotel. The Catholic boy and a few associates of his went down to develop Mr. Best's pictures. Said, "What do you think about that?" Said, "Reckon that could've been?"

    Record 18

    1. A written or printed report made for the purpose of preserving memory or authentic evidence of facts or events.

      CHILDREN.IN.THE.WILDERNESS_ PHOENIX.AZ SUNDAY_ 47-1123 E-42
      Today, I've got on record, many months ago, of thirty-five thousand cases, doctor's statements of definite healings. Brother, I guess you think I'm excited, but I'm not. I'm not excited. I know where I'm standing.

    Red cent 16

    1. the smallest copper coin, the equivalent of the English “copper farthing”.

      BALM.IN.GILEAD_ LONG.BEACH.CA SATURDAY_ 61-0218 E-15
      And they tell me that they give me a love offering here at the church. Well now, I didn't ask for that, friends. I didn't come here for that. I come for fellowship with you and with your little pastor here. That's what I come for, not an offering. If you never give one red cent, I'd be just the same. I appreciate it just the same.

    Red letter day, A 4

    1. an important or joyful occasion which one looks forward to or remembers with pleasure.

      TESTIMONY. - CHICAGO.IL 53-0902 E-50 050
      Our heavenly Father, oh, when I think about those glorious red letter days, how that You were merciful and kind to the peoples. How they rallied by the thousands and You healed them till they'd take big cattle trucks and pile it full of wheelchairs and stretchers and cots.

    Red tape 4

    1. Official, bureaucratic formalities and procedures which slow down people and processes.

      BLASPHEMOUS.NAMES. - JEFF.IN V-3 N-21 62-1104M 6-2 013
      The contractors tell us they can put enough men on it, till about ten days they can almost have it so we can go under it. See? Right quick. And they're just waiting for the city to sign... You know, and we have to have so much parking space, and so much this; and ooh, my, it's a bunch of red tape to get into to start building anything.

    Redcap 14

    1. a porter at an airport or at a railroad station.

      DIVINE.LOVE. - JEFF.IN 56-0826 E-48 048
      About two years after that I went down, and had been on the train going down. I got off, and went up there to get me a hamburger. They wanted about seventy or eighty cents for it on the train, and I could buy it for about twenty cents in the little stand. I got off the train and started down. There was a redcap said, "Hello, Parson Branham."

    Renegade 24

    1. a prodigal son; disobedient and stubborn

      ABRAHAM.AND.HIS.SEED_ BLOOMINGTON.IL SUNDAY_ 61-0416 E-69
      Paul said, "Lest I preach the Gospel and be a castaway myself..." He doesn't come into inheritance. That boy's always a son, but he's just a renegade son.

    Return to the fold 4

    1. come back to a group or community (especially a religious or a political society, or even a family).

      ONCOMING.STORM. - PHOENIX.AZ V-15 N-2 60-0229 1 001
      May, if there be some tonight here that does not know the Lord Jesus as their personal Saviour, may they find Him tonight, Lord, that One that's gone out into the wilderness to look for the stray sheep that has not returned to the fold.

    Rhubarb 10

    1. plants with large leaves and fleshy, acid leaf stalks used as food. Common usage is for pies or fruit sauce.

      PERSEVERANT_ SOUTH.GATE.CA SATURDAY_ 62-0623
      If that lady's here that paid for my breakfast this morning, sister, I want to thank you. I didn't even know the woman. She come in and went around ahead of me. And she set some rhubarb over there, so she knew I was a country boy, so she give me some rhubarb.

    Riddle 24

    1. a puzzling question

      FELLOWSHIP_ GREEN.LAKE.WI SATURDAY_ 62-0519 E-27
      Now, notice. Job, righteous man, godly man. Everything against him one day. Satan took a notion to make him deny God. And when he did, Job... I love to read Job. Many people say it's a riddle. It isn't. It's the Word of God.

    Ride (jump, get, climb) on the bandwagon 1,3

    1. To support a group or a cause that appears to be gaining in success or popularity, and this for one or two reasons: to join the crowd or to reap personal gain.

      HEAR.YE.HIM. - MIDDLETOWN.OH 58-0328 E-38 038
      And then when the supernatural is being done on some, others go with it just to ride on the bandwagon. They've never been converted.

    Ride herd on 14

    1. To patrol on horseback around a herd of animals to see that none of them wanders away.

      SMYRAEAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK.CPT.4 136-2
      I can't help thinking of the time that I used to ride herd on purebred Herefords out in Colorado. We used to have to bring in those cattle for government inspection if we wanted them to feed on government range.

    2. (informal) To watch closely and control; take care of.

    Ride/Weather the storm 4

    1. Survive a crisis; overcome the dangers; overcome difficulties.

      MAKING.A.WAY. - JEFF.IN 56-0304 E-38 038
      The floods may come and the tides may go, and, oh... But he who's safely in Christ will ride the storm of the atomic the same as Noah did the storm of the flood, safely in the ark.

      IF.GOD.BE.WITH.US. - JEFF.IN V-15 N-1 61-1231E 115 054
      Isn't it a strange thing, a miracle, that in the face of all of it, Brother Way, in the face of all the denominations, in the face of all the critics, the Bible still remains the same? How did It ever weather the storm? God is determined to judge every man by the Bible.

    Riffraff 3

    1. the offscourings of society, the dregs of humanity (originally came to English from the French rif et raf, meaning “one and all”. Later, thanks perhaps to the influence of a Swedish word, raff, meaning “sweepings”, it came to mean as above-mentioned).

      WHY.AGAINST.ORGANIZED.RELIGION. - JEFF.IN V-12 N-1 62-1111E 65 035
      That's what the organization is good for: bring in every riffraff there is and call it Christianity.

    Right along 16

    1. together with; without cessation, continuously.

      FAITH.IS.THE.SUBSTANCE_ OAKLAND.CA SATURDAY_ 47-0412 E-62
      A gift of healing, not a gift of miracles, though many miracles are performed right along with it. But it's a gift of healing; the people get well. They go out, prayed for, they come back. And my, they're healed.

    Right here 16

    1. here, at this spot, at this time.

      FAITH.IS.THE.SUBSTANCE_ OAKLAND.CA SATURDAY_ 47-0412 E-50
      Here, I want to show you something. Come here, Reverend Kidson. Is this Sister Marse? Would you stand up just a moment? I want to show you something, friends. Just stand right here. And you don't mind, that's not making a public show for you, sister, but it's for the glory of God.

    Right now 16

    1. at once, immediately.

      INFLUENCE_ NY.NY V-18 N-9 THURSDAY_ 63-1114 219
      Get rid of your own thinking. Get rid of your own ways, and then let God move. If He's Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today and forever, you believe it? You believe Him right now and see if it is.

    Right smart 16

    1. a great quantity, many.

      IT.IS.I.BE.NOT.AFRAID_ PORT.ALBERNI.BC THURSDAY_ 62-0726 E-81
      Many times a minister will come into the city, and maybe got a right smart of faith, and will do all the talking, and all the praying for the sick, and even to baptize the people. Then what happens? Then when the evangelist's gone, the poor pastor looks like he's set on the back row and with nothing. After all, that's your shepherd. That's the man who brought you this far.

    Ring a bell 4,8

    1. seem familiar; sound right; remind one vaguely of someone/something.

      PERSEVERANT. - SOUTH.GATE.CA 62-0623 E-92 092
      That's got to be right, Ahab said. "Now, we're Jews," Jezebel on the throne with him. See? Said, "Now, look at there, four hundred Jewish prophets saying, 'Go up, THUS SAITH THE LORD.'" But that didn't ring a bell. Jehoshaphat said, "Haven't you got one more?"

    Rip-snorter 16

    1. a tearing, driving fellow.

      LIFE.OF.DEMONS.AND.VISIONS_ TOLEDO.OH SATURDAY_ 51-0721 E-8
      Mr. Wright went back and got him, and set him down. I was up there reading the Bible, behind the pulpit. Brother Wright come up, said, "The hardest boiled fellow there is in the country, just walked in." Said, "Oh, he's a rip-snorter." Said, "His name is William Hall. He runs the florist up here on the hill."

    Roadhouse 18

    1. An inn or restaurant in a suburban or rural locality which caters especially to transient pleasure-seekers.

      LIFE.STORY. - PHOENIX.AZ 51-0415A E-22 022
      My little girl, when she gets to be any age, and she finds a good Christian boy that she wants to marry, I'd rather she marry him and settle down, be a lady, than be out in some of these road houses running around and what they call, "having a good time." That's right. The Bible said, "Let your daughters marry young." Some's already turned aside after Satan.

    Rob Peter to pay Paul 14

    1. to change one duty or need for another; take from one person or thing to pay another.

      MEANEST.MAN.I.KNOW. - PHOENIX.AZ 62-0127 E-35 035
      And that's one thing I like about a Business Men's meeting, not only a businessmen, but where they sit and talk about how they can get a little on this side, and cut off a little from this one, and rob Peter to pay Paul, they say, you know, and such things. I like it where you come and you talk about Jesus, and about God, and about the Holy Ghost, and about the power, and the resurrection, and the coming of the Lord. That's what I like in the Business Men.

    Rock the boat 10

    1. don't make the boat tip over.

      TESTIMONY.ON.THE.SEA_ DALLAS.TX V-19 N-11 SATURDAY_ 64-0307
      And I can imagine, about that time, the boat began to shake. Somebody began to shout, and he said, "Set down. Don't rock the boat. Wait a minute. Sit still."

    Rod down real good

    1. to firmly discipline

      GOD'S.COVENANT.WITH.ABRAHAM_ SIOUX.FALLS.SD THURSDAY_ 56-0223
      when the rod comes down heavy

    Rolling stone 7

    1. (Saying) a person who moves from place to place, job to job, etc and so does not have a lot of money, possessions, and friends but is free from responsibilities.

      QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS. - JEFF.IN COD 64-0830M 1062-8 007
      And I'd advise anybody, never be a rolling stone (See?), unless it's some kind of a ministry that calls you that way, because... I'd just give anything this morning, if I had a place here on earth that I could go and say, "This is home."

    Roman candle 24

    1. “fireworks display”. A tube filled with a composition, when lit, explodes with colored balls of fire into the sky, with several subsequent bursts of the color.

      INTRODUCTION.REVELATION.OF.JESUS.CHRIST.CHURCH.AGE.BOOK.CPT1 INTRODUCTION
      Like the first burst of a Roman candle, the Church Ages come forth with a mighty initial illumination, without which there could be no further light.

    Roof over our/your head 7

    1. (informal) a place to live in; a house.

      SIRS.WE.WOULD.SEE.JESUS. - JEFF.IN V-3 N-23 61-1224 7-5 021
      Bless them altogether, Father, while tonight, as far as we know, being healthy and happy, a good warm fire to set by, a roof over our head and thinking of the thousands around the world with no place to go... Heavenly Father, be merciful to us and grant this request.

    Rotten to the core 7

    1. extremely, totally bad (or evil).

      THIRSTING.FOR.LIFE. - DALLAS.TX 58-0611 E-79 079
      If God doesn't judge America, He will be duty bound to raise up Sodom and Gomorrah and apologize for burning them up. America is just as low down as Sodom ever was. And a just God cannot stand that. This is my nation, yes, but it's rotten to the core.

    Round and round 4

    1. (often go ~) keep coming back over and over again; moving in circles; spinning.

      BE.NOT.AFRAID. - KLAMATH.FALLS.OR 60-0717 E-83 083
      Did you wonder why when we just bring them through the line and pray for them we give a prayer card? How many would like to know why? Would you? To keep them coming back in line again. They'll go right back. I've seen people go--come through the line five times, just keep going round and round and round.

    Round wafer 10

    1. a thin, round cake of unleavened bread used in the Eucharist as in the Roman Catholic Church and various Protestant churches.

      CHRISTIANITY.VERSUS.IDOLATRY_ JEFF.IN V-8 N-2 SUNDAY_ 61-1217 112
      The first thing come up was making the communion. Instead of a broken parcel like the body of Christ, they would make it round like the sun or like the moon. And to this day, it's still round. Sure. It's still a round wafer and not a broken piece of His body. It's round and smooth. Roman priests today lay this round wafer on the altar and call it the literal body of Christ.

    Rout about 10

    1. a disorderly situation

      JEHOVAH.JIREH.PT.1_ GRASS.VALLEY.CA JJ 37-72 THURSDAY_ 62-0705 158
      Remember, the natural seed failed, because it accepted law in the stead of the Word of grace. And so has it in this "rout about," in the Gentiles in the last day.

    Rub shoulders (with somebody) 7

    1. (informal) have fellowship with; get involved with.

      ONCE.MORE. - NY.NY V-18 N-13 63-1117 94 041
      Then they take them out there and get seminary ministers, and they rub shoulders with the world, and so forth. The first thing you know, they got the women acting like the world, and the men.

    Ruffle someone's feathers 7

    1. make someone uncomfortable; annoy someone by doing something that upsets and disturbs them.

      UNCHANGEABLE.GOD. - PHOENIX.AZ 62-0120 E-67 067
      Sometimes a real good teaching, sometimes it just cuts us to pieces, and kind of ruffle our feathers up a little bit, you know, sometimes that helps us a little bit. You know that's true.

    Run in an arch

    1. to form an arch or a curve; raised in the centre and lower on both ends.

      SEVEN.CHURCH.AGES_ JEFF.IN V-26 N-2 WEDNESDAY_ 54-0512
      Now, the candlesticks run in an arch.

    Run it on through the Bible 10

    1. To follow the subject through the Bible; to check something.

      ABRAHAM_ LONG.BEACH.CA SATURDAY_ 61-0211
      I might put a plug in here if the preacher wants to preach on it some time, he might run it on through the Bible.

    Run its course 14

    1. To fulfill a normal development; terminate a normal period. Come to an end.

      PHILADELPHIAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK.CPT.8
      Once the Philadelphian Age has about run its course, the Laodicean Age quickly comes in, bringing both the tares and the wheat to harvest, "First bind the tares to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn." Matthew 13:30.

    Run my traps

    1. to check my animal traps. "Trap" - a device for catching and holding animals.

      ACCEPTING.GOD'S.PROVIDED.WAY_ PHOENIX.AZ TUESDAY_ 63-0115 E-13
      Then a strange thing happened. I used to have a little saddle horse, and I called him Prince. And how I loved that little old horse. I used to ride him every morning before school, run my traps.

    Run true to form 4

    1. act as one is expected to, according to one's usual behavior; happen as expected.

      LAODICEAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK.CPT.9 325-1
      As a prophet, every revelation will be vindicated, for every revelation will come to pass. Wonderful acts of power will be performed at his commands in faith. Then will be brought forth the message that God has given him in the Word to turn the people back to truth and the true power of God. Some will listen, but the majority will run true to form and reject him.

    Run/be low (on something) 7

    1. had become scarce; not have much left.

      ON.THE.WINGS.OF.A.DOVE. - SHP.LA V-7 N-5 65-1128E 92 035
      Now, we notice that after Noah floating up there, no doubt seasick from all that roaring and popping, and the wrath of God mashing and crushing, and screams and so forth. Then it begin to quieten down; nothing happened. Days passed; nothing happened. Perhaps the food supply for the animals and so forth running low, nothing happened. So he thought, "Wonder... I can't see out.

    Run/go wild 11

    1. grow or behave in an uncontrolled way.

      STANDING.IN.THE.GAP. - JEFF.IN V-6 N-7 63-0623M 76 058
      Like Luther preached justification, but he let it run wild because he didn't live long enough. Then they organized the church. Luther never organized it: after Luther.

    2. to go crazy; to go out of one’s mind.

      DOOR.TO.THE.HEART. - HARRISONBURG.VA 58-0316E E-12 012
      But you see, God knew that I didn't have intelligence to take care of a program like that. Oh, my. Television and everything else, I couldn't stand it, if I had to, you know, go out and take up money, and with that much responsibility, I'd go wild. So I just couldn't do it.

    Run-about 9

    1. A person who runs about from one place to another.

      SCRIPTURAL.SIGNS.OF.THE.TIME. - BIRMINGHAM.AL 64-0410 E-29 029
      Jonah, we know him. We know he's a prophet. Many of them refer to him as some kind of a runabout. He wasn't. The footsteps of the righteous are ordered of the Lord. I was reading a book not long ago. He did go to Tarshish, started to it, instead of Nineveh. But that was all in God's plan.

    2. A light, one-seated, open automobile; roadster.

      EXPERIENCES.3. - PHOENIX.AZ 47-1221 E-36 036
      And I stopped the car. And I was up top of a little hill. And there's a church back over to my left. I thought, "Maybe it might be the Angel of the Lord. I'm passing a church." And I got out and went around behind the car. And I had a little old Ford run-about. I put my foot upon the, back there back there by the trunk.

    Rundown 2

    1. to be tired or not in good health.

      BLIND.BARTIMAEUS. - CHICAGO.IL 56-0407 E-2 002
      The Lord Jesus healed me of a terrible rundown condition, underfed when I was a child, and nervous. And even till I was in such a condition that Mayo Brothers said there wasn't a hope for me.

    Rut, In the/a 3

    1. in a fixed, rather boring way of doing things; stuck in a habit or manner of doing something in such a way that it makes it difficult to change.

      BE.NOT.AFRAID. - RICHMOND.VA 61-0311 E-85 085
      What difference does it make anyhow, as long as He's coming? That's the thing. See? But what have we done? Stayed in the same old rut: Receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost, speaking in tongues, receive the Holy Ghost, speaking in tongues, receive the Holy Ghost, same old mountain for forty years, same old routine.

    Sacred Sands

    1. A secret place of retreat where one has experienced a life change in the personal presence of God.

      58-0316A AS.THE.EAGLE.STIRS.HER.NEST. HARRISONBURG.VA SUNDAY_
      « E-71 Friend, no matter what you've done, if you still haven't got that real trust and faith in God, that real something, that's real in your heart, that you know you met God on them sacred sands, where you can go right back there on the backside of the desert, like Moses did, and meet Him there, and put you finger on the place, where it happened, it won't work. And if you think you've been there, and you still care for the world, you haven't been there.

      58-0406S I.KNOW.MY.REDEEMER.LIVETH JEFFERSONVILLE.IN SUNDAY_
      Oh, what a blessed place to be. Every man that's chosen of God and every woman and child comes to that spot on those sacred sands to where God lifts the curtain, and you see Him in His resurrected power. You know that He lives.

    Sacrifice block; Altar 10

    1. a raised platform where sacrifices or offerings are made.

      CRUELTY.OF.SIN_ JEFF.IN V-25 N-4 FRIDAY_ 53-0403
      Remember, Abel went out into his herd and got the lamb, and killed it on the sacrifice block.

      PATRIARCH.ABRAHAM.THE_ BAKF.CA V-22 N-7 FRIDAY_ 64-0207
      ... Was a type of God giving His son, of course, as He packed the wood up the mountain, and so forth, as Christ later packed His own sacrifice block up the hill to where He was crucified.

    Sacrilegious 24

    1. the act of profaning anything sacred or holy.

      GODHEAD.EXPLAINED_ CHICAGO.IL V-2 N-24 TUESDAY_ 61-0425B 22-6
      Why did Abel offer unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain? It was revealed to him that it wasn't peaches, and apples, and oranges, and apples. If apples will make women realize they're naked, we better pass the apples again, brother. Don't you think so? That sounds sacrilegious, but I don't mean to say that; but it wasn't apples.

    Saint Vitus' dance 24

    1. Also called "Chorea". a nervous affection characterized by involuntary muscular twitching.

      IDENTIFIED.MASTERPIECE.OF.GOD_ YUMA.AZ SATURDAY_ 64-1205 E-16
      It was Reverend Robert Daugherty from St. Louis. I doubt whether any of you knew him. You saw the testimony of his little girl in the book. She was healed of St. Vitus dance, and she'd been given up. And that's how I met the first Pentecostal people.

    Salamander

    1. Bro. Branham uses the word "salamander" to describe a wood burning stove. Refers to anything that can stand great heat.

      SPIRIT.OF.TRUTH_ PHOENIX.AZ FRIDAY_ 63-0118 E-48
      And they were camping in an old barracks, where the Americans, when they was building the highway, had it there. They had a big old salamander as a stove.

      REACTION.TO.AN.ACTION_ CHATAUQUA.OH MONDAY_ 59-0810
      Walk with me down through the streets of Calcutta. Watch them come through there with the big baskets, and pick up the dead by the hundreds, put them up on top of their head (Don't even know who they are.), walk over to the salamander and dump them in.

    Salt of the earth

    1. a phrase taken from Matthew 5:13; an expression used when referring to someone who is admired for their honesty and reliability.

      FUTURE.HOME_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-5 SUNDAY_ 64-0802
      I love you. I don't know how to express it. I think you're the salt of the earth, and I hear your behavior out amongst the world, and that gives me more confidence in you.

    Salt, An old 16

    1. an experienced seaman.

      CHRIST.OUTSIDE.THE.DOOR_ MIDDLETOWN.OH SUNDAY_ 58-0330E E-37
      One time there was a man who was going for a rest down to the sea. And he said to his people, "I want to go down to the sea to take a rest. I've never been there." And on his road down he met an old salt, coming from the sea. And this old salt, sailor, said to him, "Sir, where are you going?" He said, "I'd go down to the sea. I have never seen it.

    Same bucket

    1. just like everyone else; you're all together.

      RAPTURE.THE_ YUMA.AZ V-5 N-14 SATURDAY_ 65-1204 139
      And you Oneness, God given you a message like that, and instead of you going ahead and just keeping humble and go ahead, you had to turn loose and organize your group. And where are you all at? The same bucket.

    's-Anonymous

    1. The "Alcoholics Anonymous" organization dedicated to assisting individuals in overcoming addiction to alcohol.

      HE.CARETH.FOR.YOU_ PHOENIX.AZ V-14 N-5 TUESDAY_ 60-0301
      But Jesus cares. He moved me around, and said, "The woman sitting yonder, her name is Rosella Griffin. She's an alcoholic. She's been give up by the 's-Anonymous, and they can't do nothing for her.

      HE.CARETH.FOR.YOU_ PHOENIX.AZ V-14 N-5 TUESDAY_ 60-0301
      think of little Rosella Griffin in Chicago (her book's coming out now), that came into the meeting so vile till the great Alcoholics Anonymous had turned her down.

    Santa Claus 3

    1. a fictitious figure of folklore, a fat, jolly old man in a red suit who supposedly lives at the north pole, makes toys for children and distributes them at Christmastime.

      GREAT.SHINING.LIGHT_ JEFF.IN V-24 N-1 SUNDAY_ 57-1222
      So as we, this time of the season, as we focus our thinking towards Christmas, it's too bad that we have to lot it to a myth called Santa Claus, in the stead of the real Christmas that it's supposed to be. Many little children in the land today know nothing more than Christmas means "a sleigh full of toys, and some mystic reindeers pouncing on the house," to only learn later of this myth; to even hurt their faith, when it comes to know the true Christmas story, that it had nothing to do with reindeers, or a man smoking a pipe, with fur around his coat.

    Sauce of the goose - gander

    1. What pertains to one also pertains to the other. What is good for one person is also good for another.

      WHY_ BLOOMINGTON.IL THURSDAY_ 61-0413 E-73
      Oh, yes, they got real men in there. And they got some renegades too. And don't holler at them, because we got some others, renegades, that calls themselves "reverend." That's exactly right. So sauce for the goose is for the gander.

    Save for a rainy day, To 2

    1. To save for a time of need, especially a time when one may really need money.

      PRIDE. - CAMPBELLSVILLE.KY 55-0807A E-59 059
      Jesus' reputation isn't hurt by sinners, it's made in the presence of sinners. There washing His feet, she raises up, takes the alabaster box, everything she had now was there, her hair hanging down, she snapped the top of it off, broke it, poured all. Not save some for the rainy day; she poured all of it on His feet. For everything she had, her glory, herself, her tears of repentance, and all the money, and all of the alabaster was in the box of spikenard. She poured it upon His feet.

    Sawing old fiddle

    1. playing the violin or "fiddle" as it is referred to when played to accompany some forms of dancing.

      INVASION.OF.THE.USA_ JEFF.IN V-26 N-1 SUNDAY_ 54-0509
      Stand up there with an old banjo, beating that old banjo, and sawing an old fiddle like that.

    Say a mouthful,To 1

    1. To say something of great importance or meaning; to say more by a few words than the words themselves usually mean (used in the past tense)..

      PERSEVERANCE. - PHOENIX.AZ 63-0113E E-63 063
      I'm going to say a great big mouthful. Get ready. Every time genuine faith will admit the Word's right. And any time that something says that the days of miracles is past, or something against the Bible, it's not genuine faith. The faith will always admit truth.

    Scandal skirt 24

    1. a woman's skirt with a split that caused the undergarment to be seen; tending to cause shock, disgrace or offence to the moral feelings of others.

      WHY_ CHATAUQUA.OH THURSDAY_ 59-0813 E-5
      A young woman come to me some years ago. It's when ladies begin to wear those, what they call scandal skirts in our country. It's kinda split up on the side. And she was a Christian girl of a certain denominational church. And she said, "Brother Branham," said, "do you think it's wrong for we Christians to wear these kind of skirts?" And I said, "What kind is that?" And she said, "It's a scandal skirt." I said, "The first place, I don't see what a Christian want to wear anything that scandals." But I said, "If it... Why are you asking me? There's a question in your mind. And as long as there is a question in your mind, don't do it." That's the best way to stay away from wrong.

    Scare crow 24

    1. anything set up in a field to scare birds away from crops or gardens.

      SIGN.OF.HIS.COMING_ CLEVELAND.TN SATURDAY_ 62-0407 E-34
      When the blackbirds returned, thinking they'd get a good fill of strawberries, there was some of them sitting way up in a tree, just chirping and going on; here set some down on the telegraph wires; they were chirping, some sitting on the fence post, chirping. What was the mutter? All that commotion, and what they was chirping about... There was plenty of strawberries. It wasn't because there was no strawberries, there was a big crop. But they was afraid of the scarecrow; that's all.

    Scare the daylights out of 14

    1. (informal) to frighten very much.

      BE.NOT.AFRAID.IT.IS.I. - SANTA.MARIA.CA 62-0629 E-11 011
      So one day I was planting some butter beans, and so... I had these butter beans planted. I could not get them planted. That little old groundhog would come right down the row, eat them all up, and go back in his hole, and set back there, I guess, and pick his teeth, and look at me. So I thought, "I'm just going to scare the daylights out of that guy."

    Scare the liver out of

    1. (same meaning as “to scare the daylights out of”. to frighten very much

    Scat

    1. go away quickly

      INVISIBLE.UNION.OF.THE.BRIDE_ SHP.LA V-2 N-15 THURSDAY_ 65-1125 19-4
      I noticed; I hunt big game. And an old bear in the fall of the year, when she has been bred to the male bear, she's got cubs then that is born; they're pretty good-sized cubs, maybe weigh a hundred pounds or better. She'll make them scat and hibernate to themselves, because she's going to bring forth some more cubs.

    Scavenger 24

    1. an animal or bird that feeds on dead, decaying flesh, as the buzzard.

      WHY.IT.HAD.TO.BE.SHEPHERDS_ TUCSON.AZ V-6 N-15 MONDAY_ 64-1221 117
      You know, the biggest hypocrite in the world is an old crow. In the Bible, there were two let out of the ark. The old crow went out and he never did return, because he's a vulture, a scavenger. He set on the bodies of the dead carcasses and filled his belly with the dead carcass.

    Scavenger-looking

    1. poor-looking; diseased-looking; scabby-looking

      REPROACH.FOR.THE.WORD_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-16 SUNDAY_ 62-1223
      Then a great big pretty apple, stripes in it, just a very big healthy looking apple come down and chomped up those other scavenger-looking apples.

    Scorches the shorts

    1. condemns the wearing of shorts

      LAW.HAVING.A.SHADOW_ CHICAGO.IL THURSDAY_ 56-0621 E-51
      ...... Her love is for Christ and not to be a "scandaler." That's right. That scorches the shorts, don't it?

    Scraping board 10

    1. Used after a hog was killed, scalded, and placed in position. A scraping tool was then used to remove the hair.

      WITNESSES_ JEFF.IN V-25 N-6 SUNDAY_ 53-0405E
      161 If ever a man or woman is a witness of what they're talking about, don't you worry, they'll have to spend time, 'cause hog-killing time will be on, brother, the scraping boards will be out.

    Scrimmal

    1. mixed up condition

      INFLUENCE_ PHOENIX.AZ SATURDAY_ 63-0112 E-19
      That's the kind of men we need, the kind of mothers we need, a woman, a mother of this day that will take the right stand, and do what's right regardless of what the other women does, do what's right. It's such a pity to see our nation in such a scrimmal as it is today.

    Scruple/Scrupled 24

    1. doubt or uncertainty regarding a question of moral right or duty; Mixed up.

      PAINTED FACE.JEZEBEL_ CHICAGO.IL FRIDAY_ 56-1005 E-7
      Oh, how the great scruple come on, and then this Dean wrote me a letter and said, "I want a interview with you."

      LED.BY.THE.SPIRIT_ LA.CA TUESDAY_ 59-0407 E-60
      The lady is suffering... She's tremendously nervous, right at the near of a breakdown. That's true, isn't it. Now, she doesn't look it in her face. A nervous person's usually skinny. You might say. "Brother Branham, you guessed that." All right. Just to take every scruple from you now, let's talk to her again. Be real reverent.

      STATURE.OF.A.PERFECT.MAN_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-18 SUNDAY_ 62-1014M
      That's the reason I believe the Word. See? I can't put my faith on nothing else. If I was going to put it on the church, which church would I put it on, Catholic, Lutheran, Methodist, Baptist, Pentecostals? What would I put it on? I don't know. They're all scruple up and everything else, twist lines and everything else. But when I put my faith in His Word, it's anchored. Nobody interpret it; here it is: THUS SAITH THE LORD.

    Scum of the earth,The 7

    1. a group of people thought to be worthless, evil or completely without good qualities.

      IT.WASN'T.SO.FROM.THE.BEGINNING. - BLOOMINGTON.IL 61-0411 E-1 001
      If Pentecostal people could only realize that they're not the scum of the earth, they are sons and daughters of God, heirs of all things through Christ. But as long as Satan can keep you afraid to claim your inheritage, then he's got you. See?

    Seal of approval, A 7

    1. the formal support or approval of a person or organization.

      JUNCTION.OF.TIME. - JEFF.IN 56-0115 E-49 049
      Except a man be born of water and Spirit, he won't enter the Kingdom. In the Kingdom you got God's seal of approval: the Holy Spirit in your heart.

    Search one's heart 14

    1. (Formal) To study your reasons and acts; try to discover if you have been fair and honest; to check your intentions; to check yourself spiritually and see if there is anything out of balance in your spiritual life.

      THINKING.ON.OUR.WAYS. - CLEVELAND.TN 59-0706 E-42 042
      And out through this visible audience, there's just many many hands up. "Restore to me the joy of my salvation." Now, let's search our hearts and see if there be anything wrong. And as we pray... As I pray, you here, and in the radio-land also, you search your heart and ask God to forgive you.

    Second thought 4

    1. further thoughts on a matter which lead to a changed decision or opinion; to doubt or have misgivings.

      MARY'S.BELIEF. - PHOENIX.AZ 60-0311 E-22 022
      Now, she had to believe something that had never happened. But look at her little childish heart... I'm going to think her to be just a young woman about eighteen, twenty years old. She never taken the second thought. As soon as she saw and knew that was the Angel of the Lord, that knew these things, and told her exactly according to the Scripture she had been thinking on, and told her her name, she knew that Messenger come from God.

    Section gang

    1. a crew of men who do the maintenance work on a railroad section.

      PARADOX_ TAMPA.FL SATURDAY_ 64-0418B
      I worked in a section gang.

    See eye to eye (with someone) (about/on/over something) 7

    1. have totally the same opinion or attitude as someone else (about a particular issue, problem, etc).

      I.WILL.RESTORE. - PHOENIX.AZ 57-0309B E-16 016
      Why, a man that I know that I could see eye to eye with, as close in Scriptures as anybody in the world is Brother Moore, setting here. But oh, do we get times when we're a million miles apart. But did that ever touch us? No, sir.

    See fit (to do something) 8

    1. consider it correct, advisable or think it necessary to do something.

      POSSESSING.ALL.THINGS. - JEFF.IN V-10 N-4 62-0506 117 063
      Here am I, Lord, do with me as You see fit. That's the cry of this church, Lord, "Do with us as You see fit." I can only speak for my ownself, Lord, but I believe in their hearts they believe the same thing. Do with us as You see fit. We believe. We want to be heirs, and we know we are heirs as long as we stay in Christ Jesus.

    See to it (that) 7

    1. make certain (that).

      ENTOMBMENT. - JEFF.IN ER 55-72 57-0420 60 027
      God gave Palestine to Israel, but they had to fight for every inch of ground they got. The promise is yours, but you have to fight for every inch you claim; the Devil will see to that: certainly he will.

    Seersucker 24

    1. a thin linen or linen and silk fabric, usually striped in colours, with crinkled surface.

      SPOKEN.WORD.ORIGINAL.SEED_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-2 SUNDAY_ 62-0318E 100-2
      My. I had a dollar and seventy-five cents, just enough to get me home. I put a nickel of it in some old doughnuts or rolls (about two or three days old) went down and got me a jug of water at the hydrant, and went out in a cornfield and took my seats out of my old Ford and laid it down; pressed my britches for that night (seersucker pants I had on) and a little old T- shirt.

    Seine them out

    1. To pull the fish in with a seine net. A seine is a large fishing net with floats along the top and weights along the bottom.

      IT.WASN'T.SO.FROM.THE.BEGINNING_ SANTA.MARIA.CA SATURDAY_ 62-0630B E-
      And I'm here, my Christian friends, to help you. I'm here to do all that I can to help seine with you brethren.

    Self-starched

    1. one who makes himself or herself religious or good by his or her own efforts.

      PARDONED_ TUCSON.AZ MONDAY_ 63-1028 E-32
      I remember David, the great psalmist of the Bible. When he had done something that--this great thing, he was given Saul's daughter. And she was kind of a self-starched, self-styled, so-called believer.

    Semaphore 10

    1. Any apparatus for signalling such as lights, signs, mechanical arms on railroads.

      HAVE.NOT.I.SENT.THEE_ PHOENIX.AZ WEDNESDAY_ 62-0124 E-29
      In order to be just, He must keep His laws. And law without penalty is not law. See? If there's a semaphore out here in the street, and that says "stop," that's a law for you to stop.

    Set in your ways/set-in-the-way, Be 7

    1. be unable or unwilling to change your mind and your ways (behavior, habits or ideas), usually because you are old.

      COME.FOLLOW.ME. - TUCSON.AZ 63-0601 E-21 021
      Eighty-six percent that come to Christ, come before they're twenty-one. After you pass that age you become more molded or set in your ways. Oh, it's possible, sure. They come seventy, eighty, years old. But it's very rare.

    Set the pace,To 4

    1. to fix the speed, rate or standard which all others try to follow; take a lead in a competitive situation.

      WHY.LITTLE.BETHLEHEM. - PHOENIX.AZ V-9 N-9 63-1214 159 099
      What if Jacqueline Kennedy... She did set the pace of women with all these water-head haircuts and things that they have, all these sexy dresses, and like motherhood dresses and things. Every woman in the country wants to wear them, you Pentecostals too.

    Set the scene (for something) 4

    1. prepare others to expect something;make things ready for others

      WHAT.SHALL.WE.DO.WITH.JESUS. - PHOENIX.AZ V-22 N-4 64-0126 49 022
      Just as it was in the days of Lot, we see the very same thing. Jehovah has set the scene and told us, "As it was in the days of Lot..." You see the messengers out yonder into Babylon, trying to get Lot out; and you see the Message to the elect, Abraham, that was already out.

    Set/make a bee-line (for something) 8

    1. hurry towards something taking the quickest and most direct way, as of a bee to its hive.

      AUDIO.LETTER.TO.LEE.VAYLE. - TUCSON.AZ 64-0500 E-107 107
      So I said, "Now, at the first drop of rain that falls, or the first snow, take for the tent as hard as you can. Don't shoot. Just set a bee- line, because you'll probably have a hard time getting there.

    Settle a score (with someone),To 4

    1. Take one's revenge (on someone) for harm etc. done to one in the past.

      IT.IS.I.BE.NOT.AFRAID. - TULSA.OK 60-0329 E-18 018
      The little boat as it dashed on across the lake. It must've been about that time that Satan must've raised up and said, "Oh, I've caught them alone without Him. Now's my time to settle the score with them, for they had been casting out my demons and so forth. So I'll settle the score." That's when Satan can settle the score when he finds that you've gone off without Jesus.

    Settle down,To 6

    1. to remain in one place, to have a home and a job, to lead a routine life.

      LIFE.STORY. - PHOENIX.AZ 51-0415A E-22 022
      My little girl, when she gets to be any age, and she finds a good Christian boy that she wants to marry, I'd rather she marry him and settle down, be a lady, than be out in some of these road houses running around and what they call, "having a good time." That's right. The Bible said, "Let your daughters marry young."

    2. to sink gradually or come to rest.

      SECOND.COMING. - PHOENIX.AZ 55-0220A
      All the sin of all ages is settling down into this generations of people that are living now. All the weaknesses from our fathers of inbred traditions is fell, and sicknesses, and diseases breaking out like has never been known in all the world.

    Seven hills of Rome 3

    1. the walled city of ancient Rome these seven hills: Palatine, Capitoline, Quirinal, Aventine, Caelian, Esquiline and Viminal. As hills, they never amounted to much, the tallest (Quirinal) being only 226 feet above sea level.

      PERGAMEAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK.CPT.5 200-5
      A woman robed in scarlet is sitting on the seven hills of Rome. She is a harlot and has borne daughters.

    Shadow or Type

    1. something that symbolizes or represents something to come.

      TALK.ON.THE.WORD_ CHICAGO.IL MONDAY_ 53-0831
      Now, all those types of old ... they were just shadows of things that was to come.

      HEAR.YE.HIM_ PHOENIX.AZ SUNDAY_ 57-0310E
      In the Old Testament there's patterns and types and shadows; all the Old Testament was kind of a shadow of the New Testament. And all that was in both Testaments is a shadow of this day.

    Shanty 24

    1. a hastily built shack or cabin; a ramshackle or rickety dwelling.

      IDENTIFICATION_ TULARE.CA V-22 N-14 SUNDAY_ 64-0216 154
      Why, you used to stand out here and pay three dollars a week for a little old shanty on the corner. Not that I'm trying to identify that, but if it takes that to preach the full Word, take that.

    Shaved them off

    1. exposed them for what they really were. Removed the covering.

      GOD.IN.SIMPLICITY_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0317M 47-4 {304}
      But because he came like that, in such a simple way, yet in interpreting the Scriptures, the high places were made low. They didn't want to accept it, but they were. Boy, he shaved them off. He shook the hide right off them.

    Sheep country

    1. mountains where wild mountain sheep are found.

      SPIRIT.OF.TRUTH_ PHOENIX.AZ FRIDAY_ 63-0118 E-50
      So I went up to the Alaskan highway, and Brother Fred stopped off at a friend's to go moose hunting. It's too far back there for moose, so we're up in sheep country, where we were going.

    Shift for himself 24

    1. take care of himself; do the best one can.

      GOD'S.PROVIDED.WAY_ W.PALM.BEACH.FL TUESDAY_ 53-1201 E-16
      You just run back through George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln, and whatever you want to, great Americans and on down through the history of great men, you'll find out they were men who trusted God. And that's God's way for it. Well, God was taking care of man over here, but when he went to shift for himself, he found out it was a hard job.

    Shindig / shindigging 10

    1. a dance or noisy party; taking part in a dance or noisy party.

      CORINTHIANS.BOOK.OF.CORRECTION_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 57-0414 E-31
      And Jimmy Osborn and those has got no business with the Word of God. And neither any man that takes the Name of God in vain and shindigs and dances with old rock-and-roll and vulgar stuff like that to come to any pulpit and to try to take the Word of God. That's what's the matter with many of these churches today. You get some of these little old boogie-woogies out of these places out here. A little old girl that's out shindigging and doing all these here rock-and- rolls one night, and she comes to the altar, and the next night you got her up singing a special. Some of you guys take them little old guitar players out of the places out yonder on the night club, and put him in the pulpit preaching in two weeks. Brother, I tell you, he'd never do it here.

    Shivers me

    1. (sends shivers up my back) makes me tremble or shake

      GOD.IN.SIMPLICITY_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0317M 43-2 {273}
      Oh, my. That hit their polish too hard. See? Their educational ethics could not swallow that. Their interpretation of the Scriptures knew nothing about that, but yet it was the THUS SAITH THE LORD. Oh, my. Shivers me to think it.

    Shooting scrape

    1. An incident involving a gun or guns, proving to be a disagreeable or embarrasing situation usually caused by one's own conduct.

      DARKEST.HOUR.JESUS.COMES_ SAN.FERNANDO.CA MONDAY_ 55-1114
      "But the pastor got in some trouble here long ago and started a big shooting scrape."

    Short end of the rope/stick 10

    1. lacking; not having sufficient funds etc.to carry on

      QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS_ JEFF.IN COD SUNDAY_ 64-0823M
      Why am I telling you not to sell your homes, you're going to come up missing, and you're going to be on the short end of the rope. Don't do that. I won't stay in Arizona but a little bit. Why? I can't do it now. If I let those people stay out there and go on charity, what's going to happen?

    Shot in the arm, A 4

    1. Something that has the short-term effect of stimulating and reviving a situation; something that does a person good.

      REJECTED.KING. - CHATAUQUA.OH 60-0610E-2 002
      Sometimes we all need that, kinda get braced up, you know, a "shot in the arm," we call it.

    Shot in the dark, A 4

    1. a risky attempt/action, a random guess/idea which one hopes will be correct.

      WILLIAM.BRANHAM.SPEAKS. - LAUSANNE.SWITZERLAND 55-0826 E-23 023
      God has never let science have one thing for nervousness. They got shock treatments. But that's a shot in the dark: sometimes makes them worse. But Jesus can't fail.

    Shot your last wad

    1. spent everything; used up all resources; there's nothing left.

      SUPER.SIGN_ S.GATE.CA SUNDAY_ 62-0624 E-15
      And the next morning we were catching bluegills to put on fishing lines, and Mr. Lyle, Bank's brother, caught one, swallowed the hook way down. He didn't flip it fast enough, and jerk it out of the water. And just pulled the entrails, and gills out of its throat. Throwed it out on the water, said, "Little fellow, you shot your last wad."

    Shotgun house

    1. a little straight house, with two or three rooms in it; a little long room.

      APPROACH.TO.GOD_ CHICAGO.IL SUNDAY_ 55-0123A E-80
      And I said, "Mr. Emil," I said, "Where you live at?" He said, "I live in above Utica, up in the country." I said, "I haven't heard from you for years." I said, "Don't you live in a little long, like a shotgun house, like that?" He said, "Yes."

    Shotties 10

    1. undesirable; worthless; having no food value.

      WHO.IS.THIS_ CLARKSVILLE.IN SUNDAY_ 59-1004M
      You like them old hymns? Oh, You can have all your little chopped up shotties that you want, give me them old heart felt Blood songs that does something down in here, wrote by the Holy Spirit, penned out by God. They're real.

    Shout, etc something from the housetops/rooftops 7

    1. informal tell something to everyone.

      PATMOS.VISION - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK.CPT.2 60-1
      Those who heard and wouldn't listen will be judged by what they heard. Those that rested in it saying they believed it, but didn't live it, will be judged. Every secret will come out in the open and be shouted from the housetops. Oh, we will really understand history then. There won't be a mystery left from all the ages.

    Show off 14

    1. try to get the attention of others by displaying one's abilities or accomplishments in a prominent way. (An indication of a lack of humility).

      EXPECTATIONS. - LA.CA 51-0507 E-6 006
      Now, this is not to be humble, or it's not to show off, but from the bottom of my heart, I wished I had a place where I could work while in these meetings (That's right.) so I wouldn't have to even take up an offering or something. That's the truth. I just dread the thoughts of taking up an offering. Don't know why, but I've often seen that three things that hinder a minister. One main three things, one of them is money, and the other is women. The other one's popularity.

    Show one's (true) colors,To 4

    1. to reveal one's true character, intentions or plans etc.

      QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS_ JEFF.IN COD SUNDAY_ 54-0103M 78
      Remember, just a little handful, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and Daniel, of the true worshippers that went down into captivity, when God called them to really show their colors, what they were...

    Show one's face 4,7

    1. to make others aware of your existence by showing up at their place; to be in or go to a place.

      IT.IS.I. - GRANDE.PRAIRIE.AB 61-0517 E-37 037
      But He stopped. And we thought maybe He just wanted to show His face in Samaria. So He sat at the well, and He sent us in to get some food.

    Show someone the door 7

    1. (informal, negative use) tell someone to leave because of disagreeable behavior.

      INNER.MAN. - CHICAGO.IL 53-1212 E-49 049
      Now, and today in our churches... Just start it in the church and find out what happens. They show you the door.

    Shuck 24

    1. a shell that covers a seed; a husk that covers an ear of corn or maize.

      IDENTIFIED.MASTERPIECE.OF.GOD_ YUMA.AZ SATURDAY_ 64-1205 E-90
      We know that this wheat's come through the same process. Every nature works the same. Now, Lord, when we see the shuck now pulling away from the grain, going worldly, O God, grant that those grains will... The shuck has to pull away so the grain can get in presence of the sun.

    2. to remove the unwanted outer layer.

      . WORLD.IS.FALLING.APART_ NY.NY V-18 N-10 FRIDAY_ 63-1115 213
      The Messiah would come, He'd just shuck the feathers off of you. Talk about some preacher skinning down women and men, He would really skin them down.

    3. the outer leaves of corn used to fill pillow casings.

      LAMB.AND.DOVE_ YAKIMA.WA FRIDAY_ 60-0805 E-97
      That Light, that you see on that picture was hanging over my cradle when I was born. Born on a little straw tick with a shuck pillow.

    Sick and tired 4

    1. (informal) unable to bear or tolerate something/someone any longer; thoroughly bored or annoyed with. Also: “Fed up”.

      MANIFESTATION.OF.THY.RESURRECTION. - LA.CA 54-0809E E-19 019
      We've had theology. They've taught it through the countries until they're just sick and tired of the tracts they're passing. But they want to see the Word made manifest, then they'll believe it.

    Sicklefritz

    1. See: snicklefritz

    Siegfried 18

    1. an elaborate series of fortifications built by Germany in 1938-39, and extending from the Swiss border along the French, Belgian and Dutch frontiers.

      GOD'S.PROVIDED.WAY_ GRANDE.PRAIRIE.AB TUESDAY_ 61-0516M E-42
      Now, we find out then immediately after the Siegfried line--or the Maginot line, the Germans then built them another line. I believe it was called Siegfried, one of them; it might be vice versa. But they said, "We'll fortify ourselves in here and put all of our material down below."

    Silent/quiet as a (church) mouse (As) 4

    1. reserved and shy by nature; making no noise.

      SHOW.US.THE.FATHER. - CHICAGO.IL 53-0907A E-57 057
      And you go and say, "I believe in the baptism of the Holy Ghost" and shout and dance in the church, and when you come to meet some critic out there on the street, you're as silent as a church mouse. That's right. Oh, brother, don't hold your peace.

    Singings

    1. A public performance of musicians and singers, mainly presenting gospel or religious music.

      HARVEST.TIME PHOENIX.AZ V-18 N-6 SATURDAY_ 64-1212
      Don't compare with things of the world. Don't compare with churches. Compare with the Bible. That's what we're doing today. That's what's the matter with us Pentecostal churches. That's what's the matter with our quartets and singings, and so forth, as we have, we're trying to act like Hollywood. Hollywood glitters; the Gospel glows.

    Single Tree 24

    1. ( also swingle tree) a horizontal cross bar to the ends of which the traces of a harnessed horse are attached.

      SECOND.SEAL.THE_ JEFF.IN TUESDAY_ 63-0319 219-1 {308}
      (Nero)... You remember what he done: burnt the city and laid it on to the Christians, and put his mother on a single tree of a horse and run her through the streets, and fiddled (played his violin) while Rome burned. Six of one and half a dozen of the other: It's all the same thing.

    Single/Indian file 7

    1. in a line, one person after another. (Refers to the American Indian method of walking in a group: each person walking in the footsteps of the person in front).

      SHOW.US.THE.FATHER.IT'LL.SATISFY. - SPINDALE.NC 56-0422E-97 097
      And God Who's my solemn Judge, this Bible in here, them hornets whirled around me. I just stood there, they made one single file like that, and went right straight back into the nest, and that was all of it. I seen it happen many times.

    Sissified 10

    1. a weakling; a "pantywaist" - one with no strength or courage.

      GOD'S.PROVIDED.WAY_ W.PALM.BEACH.FL TUESDAY_ 53-1201 E-53
      Brother, that's the truth. I may not be able to say it the way I ought to say it, but I say it the way it's in my heart. It may be barefooted, but it's time that man handled the Gospel, not sissified it with a pair of rubber gloves on. Tell them the truth. That's right. They might hate you here, but they'll love you at the judgment bar. That's right. We're not sissying around. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is not sissified; it's the greatest thing that a man ever did.

      MARK.OF.THE.BEAST_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 56-0715 E-47
      Just like this... But your husband's so pantywaist, such a sissified substitute as a Christian, he's a disgrace to mankind, let alone the Kingdom of God that'll let you do such a thing.

    2. a boy or man whose behaviour seems more feminine than masculine.

      FAITHFUL.ABRAHAM_ RICHMOND.VA SUNDAY_ 61-0312 E-55
      And when you see a woman, the way some of our modern women, hair cuts like men, smoke like men, cuss like men... You see a woman that wants to be masculine, there's a perversion there somewhere. And when you see a man sissified with a--look like a duck setting on the back of his head, and so forth like that, and wants to wear women's clothes all the time, there's something perverted there somewhere. God made men to be men, and women to be women. (“DUCK” – see “ducktail haircut”)

    Sit tight 4

    1. stay in one place and do nothing; wait patiently and see what happens. It may also mean: ”cold and formal: not willing to be moved by the Spirit ”.

      LORD.JUST.ONCE.MORE. - HOT.SPRINGS.AR V-20 N-10 63-0628A 183 065
      They sit tight, and clap their hands, and wonder what it's going to come out to be. You're going to find out someday, you're going to come out the little end of the horn (See?) that time.

    Skate 24

    1. a metal runner attached to a boot and used to travel on ice. To skate: to move over the ice in a gliding motion.

      IDENTIFIED.WITH.CHRIST_ JEFF.IN V-4 N-4 SUNDAY_ 59-1220E 4
      I'll never forget, right where this pulpit stands now, about twenty something years ago, I knelt in an old pond and the horse weeds over my head, and the Lord said, "Build your church here." On a little lot, that we went to the Ingram's and got it for a hundred and sixty dollars if we'd fill it up. This was a ice pond where we all skated.

    2. fool around.

      SPOKEN.WORD.ORIGINAL.SEED_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-2 SUNDAY_ 62-0318E 95-3
      Moab did the same thing. He come down there, and he taught the children of Israel; said, "Now, looky here, friends..." Now, that's the same thing they done in Pentecost. (Now, look), "Now looky here, aren't we all the same? Don't we believe the same God? We're all the same." The children of Moab was Lot's daughter. See that whole bunch skate down there,

    Skeleton key

    1. a key that can unlock almost any door.

      GOD'S.ONLY.PROVIDED.PLACE.OF.WORSHIP_ SHP.LA V-7 N-4 SUNDAY_ 65-1128M 50
      And you just watch; you follow God's direction; there's only one key to each door. That's right. And no other key, no matter how much it looks like it, God has no skeleton key (See?): just got one key. And now, you've got to have that key, or the door won't unlock. No matter how sincere you are, you still can't unlock that door.

    Skid row 14

    1. the area of a city frequented by the homeless. jobless, drunkards and those given to addictions of various kinds.

      THIRSTING.FOR.LIFE. - TACOMA.WA 57-0728 E-34 034
      I've had the privilege of being in king's palaces, from that to the lowest haunt on skid row. And I've never seen a contented sinner in my life. That's right. There is no happiness or contentment outside of Jesus Christ.

    Skim milk 10

    1. milk from which cream has been removed, therefore, "having very little strength or richness.

      WISDOM.VERSUS.FAITH_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-17 SUNDAY_ 62-0401 27-3
      In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. See? The Word was in God; It was God. It was His thoughts that was with Him always. God's thoughts is as eternal as God is. Amen! That ain't skim milk

    Skin alive 9,11,12

    1. to do anything it takes to get what he wants.

      SIXTH.SEAL.THE. - JEFF.IN 63-0323 426-6 {246} 088
      Now, watch. Now, he was ousted from his people. Now, it's a type of the Jew now. He's a money snatcher. I don't care how he gets it; he will get it. He will skin you alive to get it. You know that. He's a little shyster; that's all.

    Skinned up eyes

    1. the result of a fight as in a boxing ring; a pugilist, a person who fights with his fists, most always ends up with "skinned up eyes" or "black eyes".

      HEBREWS.CHAPTER.3_ JEFF.IN HEB SUNDAY_ 57-0901M
      It might look like a pugilist with his ears broke down, eyes skinned up ...

    Slick weather

    1. weather that has made the road slippery because of rain or ice.

      CHRIST.IS.THE.MYSTERY_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-7 SUNDAY_ 63-0728 10-5
      How across the country through slick weather... When I look at some brother here from Georgia, and Alabama, and different places, and Tennessee, and around, where they ride their car down the road where the ice sliding, and back and forth like that, to come here for one service...

    Slothful 24

    1. sluggish; slow moving

      DESPERATION_ JEFF.IN V-4 N-1 SUNDAY_ 63-0901E 65
      You must come, and when you're desperate, then God's going to listen to you. But if you're just slothful, you don't care whether He does or not, well then, that's different. You say you do, but it takes desperation to do it.

    Small potatoes 24

    1. Any unimportant, insignificant person or thing. ("few in a hill" - few in a group).

      WHY_ PHOENIX.AZ SATURDAY_ 61-012 E-24
      And they met him, and said, "Now, don't you disagree with any of those theologians, because you're just small potatoes, and few in a hill. So you just be careful now, because you could get yourself in trouble.

    Smart aleck 2

    1. person who acts insolently.

      SHOW.US.THE.FATHER.IT'LL.SATISFY. - CONNERSVILLE.IN 53-0610 E-85 085
      So when she come back, she brought a little girl home with her. And her mother was standing out on the ramp to meet her. And when the cars stopped, and this young little smart-aleck was with her, looked over there and she said, "Oh, look at that horrible old wretch." And the little Mary was ashamed to admit that was her mother. She said, "Yes, she looks awful, doesn't she?" And she turned her back and walked away.

    Smarting off 10

    1. acting offensively

      IS.YOUR.LIFE.WORTHY_ JEFF.IN V-5 N-5 SUNDAY_ 63-0630E 121
      A woman said to me, Grants Pass, Oregon, some time ago, Catholic girl come out there to condemn and write up... She was a newspaper reporter, pack of cigarettes in her hand. And she said, "I want to talk to you." I said, "What is it you want to say?" She said, "I want to ask you some questions about this religion of yours." And I said, "What is it you want to ask?" And she said, "By what authority do you do this?" I said, "In the Name of Jesus Christ by a Divine call." And she went ahead smarting off.

    Smoke-stack 16

    1. A chimney ; a funnel of a steamer.

      SIGN.OF.THE.TIME_ BANGOR.ME TUESDAY_ 58-0520 E-29
      If God wanted you to smoke, He'd made a smoke stack on top of you or something another, give you a flue. You weren't made for such. It's a weed of the devil. Then notice. And a lot of you preachers use it. Shame on you.

    Smooth over,To 14

    1. to make something seem better, true or more pleasant; try to excuse.

      QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS. - JEFF.IN COD 59-1223 490-94 058
      And they put a lie detector on you, and you try to confess to the best of your knowledge, the best that you can make it, just so nice and smoothed over, that you didn't do such-and- such a thing--a criminal. That lie detector will turn right back and say you're lying.

    Snake doctor 16

    1. A common term, in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and the South-West, for the dragon-fly.

      TIME.TESTED.FAITH_ NEW.YORK.NY FRIDAY_ 58-0530 E-25
      So he took his little slingshot and got five rocks. Put one in, and Goliath made fun of him. I want you to watch. He had five rocks. And you boys know what an old slingshot is, a piece of leather .. Why, we used to be able to knock a snake doctor off the fence with it, just as easy as it could be.

    Snake in the grass 1

    1. A person who cannot be trusted; one who betrays.

      THREE.WITNESSES. - ERIE.PA 51-0728 E-3 003
      And then he ran to the platform; he said, "You hypocrite," said, "you snake in the grass." He said, "I'll show how much man of God you are," said, "I'll break every bone in your body."

    Snap out of,To 6

    1. to experience a sudden negative to positive change in emotion or attitude.

      ARROW.OF.GOD'S.DELIVERANCE. - SHREVEPORT.LA 56-0801 E-22 022
      It breaks my heart to see you letting the world reach into you the way you're doing. So don't do that no more. Snap out of it. Pray out of it, and let God come back and take over. Submit yourselves to God and get the old fashion blessing back again.

    Snicker the nose up

    1. An indication of pride. Refers to sticking one's nose in the air as a sign of being “better than someone else”.

      QA.HEBREWS.PART.3_ JEFF.IN COD SUNDAY_ 57-1006 333-776
      The American women snicker up their nose and say, "There's nothing to that." And, "You show me." Certainly, you've got to do it, because the Bible predicted you'd do it. You have to do it.

    Snicklefritz

    1. a young child, usually bold and sometimes inclined to mischief.

      WHAT.IS.THAT.IN.YOUR.HAND_ SAN.FERNANDO.CA SUNDAY_ 55-1120 E-58
      Why, his brother looked around, said, "Now, I know you'd come up here, you little snicklefritz, to get into something.

      LOVE_ SHREVEPORT.LA THURSDAY_ 56-0726 E-21
      Here sometime ago, a little story was told me of a mother. And a young girl had been away to college. And on the road back, she brought a young girl home with her. And the girl was one of those little modern snicklefritz, we call it, you know, just kind of a little feisty.

    Snowed under 2

    1. overloaded.

      HANDWRITING.ON.THE.WALL. - GREENVILLE.SC 58-0618 E-29 029
      There's always three classes of people: the true, the elected, the virgin; and the sinner, the unbeliever. That's a believer, an unbeliever, and a make believer. Every city has them, and every church has them: real believers, and unbelievers, and then make believers. And we're just snowed under with them.

    Snubbed

    1. 1.sniffled when quietly crying, or trying to refrain from crying. 2. to treat with scorn or disdain;

      GO.TELL.MY.DISCIPLES_ JEFF.IN V-25 N-5 SUNDAY_ 53-0405S
      And while going by, the little fellow snubbed, two or three times, as he cried, bringing a little pot of flowers. We knelt down there, took off our hats; and laid them on the grave, the side of the grave. And I raised up my hand, and put my arms around him.

      SIRS.WE.WOULD.SEE.JESUS_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-23 SUNDAY_ 61-1224
      And the people laughed at him, snubbed him, said, "A funny looking soldier, what a fanatic."

    So far, so good 14

    1. Until now things have gone well.

      IT.WASN'T.SO.FROM.THE.BEGINNING. - BLOOMINGTON.IL 61-0411 E-92 092
      You say, "I belong to a church." Brother, that's no more than belonging to a lodge. You could belong to a lodge the same way and live a good clean life. I'm not against the church joining now. That's all right. So far, so good. But that's not what I'm speaking of tonight. My message is, "Back to the beginning."

    So help me 14

    1. (informal) I promise; I swear: may I be punished if I lie. Originally, “so help me God…” if I don't tell the truth.

      CHOOSING.OF.A.BRIDE. - LA.CA V-2 N-28 65-0429E 29-2 071
      Now, I take any of you to answer this: Have I ever told you anything in the Name of the Lord but what it was right? It's always been right. So help me; God knows that is true. There is no one nowhere in the world, of the thousands of things that's been told, that He has ever missed one word of it.

    Soap box 9

    1. any box used as a platform by a person making an informal speech to a street audience.

      LOOKING.TO.THE.UNSEEN. - CLEVELAND.OH 50-0816 E-19 019
      And I said, "Well, maybe the Lord wants me to preach right here on the street corner." And I went in and give a man a dime for an old soap box that I could stand on. I went out; I didn't know what to do but just go to Milltown. That was all I knew.

    2. Characteristic of speakers who speak informally to a street audience or of their speeches.

      SEAL.OF.GOD. - JEFF.IN V-26 N-4 54-0514 209 083
      And Peter, that little holy-roller, soap box preacher, slipped him out a soap box, and jumps up on it; said, "You men of Judaea, and you that dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and hearken to my voice.

    3. a box or carton for soap; a crate that holds soap.

      REDEMPTION.IN.COMPLETENESS. - LVL.KY V-25 N-8 54-0330
      One day, dad went back and sat on a culvert, said, "I want to see you swim." The little pond was about that deep. I was standing on a soap box. I stripped off my belongings, and got on my nose like this, and sprang up-and-down on the soap box and hit, the mud flew both ways, and I begin to splash the mud.

    Solid-colored 16

    1. All of the same color. Common among cattle-breeders and dry-goods dealers.

      FOURTH.SEAL.THE_ JEFF.IN THURSDAY_ 63-0321 307-4 {197}
      Notice, the antichrist was on a pale horse, mixed color. A horse is a beast that represents a power. His power is all mixed up. Why? It's politics; it's national powers; it's religious powers; it's demon powers; it's all kinds of powers mixed together, a mixed pale horse was. He's got all kinds of powers. But when Jesus comes, it's on a one solid colored horse--the Word. Amen.

    Something up his sleeve 10

    1. hidden or secret, but ready at hand. (As in a game of cards - a "trump" card.

      IT.IS.I.BE.NOT.AFRAID_ PORT.ALBERNI.BC THURSDAY_ 62-0726 E-64
      You can remember, when one of them kind of guys invites Jesus, he's got a trump up his sleeve somewhere. He's got a card there somewhere.

    Sound scriber

    1. phonograph recording machine used to record sounds on a round blank disc or record.

      ENSIGN.AN_ PHOENIX.AZ FRIDAY_ 62-0119
      They had a little sound-scriber and they made record......and I put that record on and play it,

    Sowing wild oats 10

    1. to be promiscuous or unrestrained in youth before settling down.

      FORMER.AND.LATTER.RAIN_ PHOENIX.AZ THURSDAY_ 60-0303
      When the preachers warn of the coming of God and the coming of the Son of God, don't turn your alarm off, don't try to drown it, don't go back into the world, say, "I got a few wild oats to sow." You thirty-five year olders and you teen- agers, don't try that.

    Spare of the moment 10

    1. (spur of the moment). At once; hastily and abruptly without forethought or preparation.

      WORKS.IS.FAITH.EXPRESSED_ SHREVEPORT.LA V-7 N-1 FRIDAY_ 65-1126 185
      want to tell you something else. Work on that pulsation, that spare of the moment like Joshua did, like Mary Magdalene, all those. Just that moment when something is revealed to you, grab it. Hold to it, that spare of the moment.

    Speakers 24

    1. loud speakers in a sound system.

      GOD.IN.SIMPLICITY_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0317M 2-6 {12}
      Another brother who's here (I never met the man), he put in the sound system. But noticing even in a flat building like this, I can just... There's no rebound to the acoustics; they're in the ceilings here--different ways. No matter where I stand, it's just the same. See? And every room is constructed that the speakers are in them.

    Spearhead 9

    1. to be the leading person, part, or group in (an endeavor, a military attack, etc.)

      SECOND.MIRACLE. - ERIE.PA 51-0729E E-14 014
      And I want to get alone, what I want to do is get to myself, and pray. Because I believe this now is, God by His grace, has let me spearhead a revival that's swept the world in the beginning.

    Speed up 14

    1. to go faster than before; also, to make go faster.

      IT.IS.I.BE.NOT.AFRAID. - PORT.ALBERNI.BC 62-0726 E-29 029
      And they said, "We must speed up." And so they'd pull pretty hard until the sun went down, all the way down. Then it got cool out on the Galilean lake.

    Spit it back (To) 10

    1. To reject; as in "to throw it back". To throw into one's face.

      LAW_ CHICAGO.IL SATURDAY_ 55-0115
      And as He starts up Calvary there, I can hear something going "What is it"? The second Adam, the Redeemer, the Blood of a righteous One, bleeding for the sinner to cover up our sins. And we spit it back to Him. We wag our heads and said, "I'll have my own way about religion. I've got my own religion, I don't have to have that stuff."

    Spitting snow

    1. starting to snow.

      LIFE.STORY_ LITTLE.ROCK.AR 50-0200 E-13
      But I remember daddy would take us down on Saturday night and pay the grocery bill, and get those little old sack of candy. And we had a little old jersey wagon. You all call them out here, buckboards I believe, or whatever. And they put some straw in the back. And it'd be cold, and we'd wrap up in blankets, and go down. And it'd be spitting snow. And they'd pay the grocery bill.

      GUIDE.A_ JEFF.IN V-12 N-7 SUNDAY_ 62-1014E
      I kept moving on. "Oh, I'm not lost. I'll be all right. I'll find my way out." Things begin to look funny, winds close. Snow begin to flying, the little hominy snow, we call it, spitting down.

    Split hairs 4

    1. talk or argue about irrelevant or unimportant differences or details.

      REJECTED.KING. - CHATAUQUA.OH 60-0610 E-28 028
      And it doesn't matter how He's coming, the thing of it is, are you ready to go with Him when He comes? That's the main thing. Doesn't matter how He comes, what form He comes in, let's just be ready to go. But they'll split hairs on little bitty things and form another organization.

    Split up 14

    1. to separate or divide into two or many smaller parts.

      JESUS.KEEPS.ALL.OF.HIS.APPOINTMENTS. - TAMPA.FL 64-0418EE-7 007
      Then, what did Pentecost do? One made him an organization. One said, "He's coming on a white horse", another one, "on a white cloud." And away they went in organizations and split up, breaking up the brotherhood among the people.

    Spread like wildfire 4

    1. (said of news, a rumor etc.) spread very quickly and to all parts.

      PHILADELPHIAN.CHURCH.AGE CHURCH.AGE.BOOK.CPT.8 299-2
      The deeds of the Nicolaitanes had become the doctrine of the Nicolaitanes. That age was the OPEN DOOR for the false vine. Once it was backed up by the power of the state it became actually a world system even though it bore the name, Christian. Thus it spread like wildfire.

    Spree 3

    1. a lively outing, especially one accompanied by considerable drinking and associated revelry.

      BLUSHING.PROPHET. - JEFF.IN 56-1125E E-10 010
      Today sixty percent of so called Christians take a social drink at least once a year. Then they get on a big spree around Christmas when they have their celebration. Because they have adopted education to take the place of salvation. It'll never do it. What we need is a revival.

    Sprints in his back

    1. actually "splints". Any device used to hold a broken bone in place or to keep a part of the body in a fixed position.

      FAITH.COMETH.BY.HEARING_ CHICAGO.IL SATURDAY_ 54-0320 E-43
      And when a vision appeared over him and saying he was bound in that wheelchair for those years with his back broken, and up and down in this place here, had sprints in his back, until he couldn't even move; and the man was made perfect whole. Congressman Upshaw said, "If that can happen to him, it can happen to me."

    Spur 10

    1. 1. any device used on the heel of a boot worn by a horseman to urge the animal forward; 2.to urge or encourage by words; 3. a short side track connected to the main line of a railroad

      PALMERWM.CANKRWRM.CATRPLR.LOCUST_ CONNERSVILLE.IN FRIDAY_ 53-0612
      1. So, Jack tried to spur his horse on.

      BELIEVING.GOD_ JEFF.IN V-19 N-7 SUNDAY_ 52-0224
      2. And I thought, maybe, in teaching this, would spur your faith up (See?), get it to a level to where that God can move into you and bless you.

      MARK.OF.THE.BEAST_ LONG.BEACH.CA FRIDAY_ 61-0217
      3. I used to work on the railroad with my daddy for a while. We helped put a spur in.

    Spur of the moment 10

    1. hastily and abruptly; without forethought or preparation.

      SECOND.COMING_ PHOENIX.AZ SUNDAY_ 55-0220A
      And we just have to do it on the spur of moment.

    Sputnik 3

    1. common Russian word for space vehicle. (In Russian, the word “sputnik” means “one who travels the same path”, the equivalent of “fellow traveler”)

      SPEAK.TO.THIS.MOUNTAIN. - BROOKLYN.NY 57-1215 E-35 035
      What did science say the other night, this nationwide broadcast on that? We're five years behind Russia. They got a sputnik, and they can put a man in it, dozens of them, send them up there in sky, and move right over this United States and say, "Surrender, or go to powder in a few minutes."

    Stalk; stalked 10

    1. to pursue or follow

      IT.WASN'T.SO.FROM.THE.BEGINNING_ BLOOMINGTON.IL TUESDAY_ 61-0411
      And down through there stalked a young fellow, walking down ...

      304-3 PHILADELPHIAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.8
      ...his father was being stalked by a lion,

    2. the stem of a plant;

      GOD.KEEPS.HIS.WORD_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 57-0120E
      ...the same life that was in the little stalk of corn to begin with, is the same life that is in the grain.

    Stalked like a garden - "Stocked" 10

    1. "Stalked" should be "stocked". To sow with plants or seeds as in a garden.

      END.TIME.THE_ PHOENIX.AZ SUNDAY_ 54-0307A
      And it's been stalked like a garden. Should read: "And it's been sown like a garden".

    Stamp out 14

    1. to destroy completely and make disappear.

      ABRAHAM'S.SEED. - SAN.JOSE.CA 59-0423 E-20 020
      So how you going to stamp out the baptism of the Holy Ghost? How you going to stamp out the gifts? How you going to stamp out the Church? You can't do it. God spoke it, and it's going to be. That settles it. Certainly. It'll materialize somewhere.

    Stand (on) one's ground,To 1

    1. To defend a belief or statement; to refuse to weaken when opposed.

      THOU.KNOWEST.ALL.THINGS. - HAMMOND.IN 52-0716 E-37 037
      You people that's born again, the people call you holy-roller, or fanatic, or something another like, because you're born again, and you let the devil kick you around like a football. Stand on your ground.

    Stand (stood) pat (on something) 19

    1. To retain one's position; refuse to shift; carry on as one is.

      BELIEVEST.THOU.THIS?_ LA.CA SUNDAY_ 51-0506A
      You got faith in God, stand pat, God will do it.

      BE.CERTAIN.OF.GOD_ JEFF.IN V-5 N-12 SUNDAY_ 59-0125
      If He said the prayer of faith shall save the sick... If you're sick, I've prayed the prayer for faith for you. You've prayed it in your own heart and believe it, accept it, stand pat on it, it'll have to be that way.

    Stand at the post of duty 10

    1. A position of responsibility

      EXPERIENCES.3_ PHOENIX.AZ SUNDAY_ 47-1221 E-4
      We need people, who have no churches here, who's struggling. My advice would be for you to stand at your post of duty just as loyal as you can to the cause of Christ, and back up your minister and everything that's going on, for the cause of Christ. Stand by your guns: refuse to change your decision. Maintain your position or conviction..

    Stand by your guns

    1. be firm in your conviction; don't move.

      POSSESSING.GATE.OF.THE.ENEMY_ DENHAM.SP.LA SUNDAY_ 64-0322
      But God did it because He promised it. Then stand by your guns, your word, your sword. Believe the Word of God. God said so and that settles it.

    Stand on one's own two feet 14

    1. achieve something without assistance from others. (An indication of independence)

      IS.YOUR.LIFE.WORTHY. - JEFF.IN V-5 N-5 63-0630 E 84 046
      I've got two young girls sitting here. I don't know what the outcome of them kids will be; I just pray for them. Kids today, you can't tell. I don't know. They're not immune from that. They've got to stand on their own two feet before Jesus Christ and give an answer. They can't go in on what I believe, on what their mother believes.

    Stand up to something 4

    1. To endure; resist something.

      UNCHANGEABLE.GOD. - PHOENIX.AZ 62-0120 E-92 092
      But brother, if you do speak with tongues, and then you continue to live the life that you once lived, then there's something wrong with your experience. See? If you have got that... Just only thing you're leaning upon is speaking with tongues, don't you try that. You'll go over the falls, and that boat will never stand up to it.

    2. Bear examination when questioned.

      COMMUNION. - JEFF.IN V-10 N-1 62-0204
      And He was so good to us that the churches would be packed out before sundown, that you couldn't get in the yards around the place. And them organizations and so forth, and the Lord poured out His Spirit and blessed them. And I never held any punches, just keep punching right away at the Gospel. And sometimes, of course, it's pretty rough, but it's the only way I know it. It's rough in here. So it's going to be rougher at that judgment bar where we have to stand up to it.

    Stand/be/get in the/one's way 10

    1. prevent one from doing something or going somewhere; be in one's path; placed so as to block the way.

      CONFERENCE. - SHREVEPORT.LA 60-1125 E-32 032
      And then if you notice, Moses on his road down to Egypt, a one man invasion. But he did it because he'd had a conference with God; and God had commissioned him and showed him His glory; and not even a nation could stand in his way. When God meets a man in a conference, and fills him with the Holy Ghost, and sets his soul on fire, there's nothing going to stand in his way. He's going down to take over.

    Starchy 24

    1. formal; precise

      JESUS.CHRIST.SAME_ GRANDE.PRAIRIE.AB TUESDAY_ 61-0516A E-38
      And Nathanael was a staunch orthodox, you know, Very starchy, I suppose. He said, "Now (something like this), wait a minute. Could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth?"

    Stars and stripes 24

    1. The flag of the United States of America, a field of thirteen horizontal stripes, alternate red, white and blue union, with as many stars as States, adopted by act of Congress on the 14th June 1777.

      WHY.ARE.WE.NOT.A.DENOMINATION?_ JEFF.IN V-11 N-7 SATURDAY_ 58-0927 135
      A woman. Where's she found out in Revelation here, you see her? She's number thirteen, also, everything she started. Thirteen stars, thirteen stripes, thirteen colonies, thirteen, everything was thirteen to begin with. She appears in the 13th chapter of Revelation, a woman, thirteen.

    Stars Spangled Banner 16

    1. a name first applied to the American flag by Francis S. Key, in the beautiful song which has now become the US National Anthem. As a matter of fact, however, the melody itself was an old convivial song, familiar in England and America before Key was born.

      AT.THY.WORD_ W.PALM.BEACH.FL FRIDAY_ 53-1204 E-12
      So he picked up a piece of gas pipe back there that Mr. Rusher had been cut off, and blowed the "Star Spangled Banner" through that gas pipe like that.

    Start/set/get the ball rolling 4,7

    1. set something in motion, begin/continue an activity, conversation, discussion etc.

      IDENTIFIED.CHRIST.OF.ALL.AGES. - LOUISVILLE.MS 64-0401 E-10 010
      It was one word that started this whole ball rolling when Eve disbelieved one phase of God's Word.

    Statue of Liberty 3

    1. the colossal statue of a lady holding a torch aloft at the entrance of New York harbor. (A gift to the American people from the French in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. It was originally called “Liberty Enlightening the World”).

      GOD.KEEPS.HIS.WORD. - JEFF.IN 57-0120E E-69 069
      One day up there in the Statue of Liberty, up in the great arm, the little birds were laying dead all around. I said, "What happened?" The man said, There was a storm last night. And in the storm these little birds flew in the light. Instead of using the light to go to safety, they tried to beat the light out with their little wings, and they beat their brains out."

    Stave legging

    1. one leg of a pair of men's pants, laced up the side.

      LIFE.STORY_ LITTLE.ROCK.AR 50-0200
      And so it was a little old stave legging about like that, laced up on the side. So I took that legging, you know, and I wore it around home. Put it on. My, how good that looked, you know, one legging. Thought, "My, that felt good." I wanted to wear it to school, but I didn't know just how I was going to get to wear that legging to school. So I put it in inside my coat.

    Stem the tide

    1. to stop. hold back or dam up.

      QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS_ JEFF.IN COD SUNDAY_ 64-0823M 984-277
      And brother, I know that's what's going to happen to that denomination. She won't stem the tide. See? You're going right straight to the World Council of Churches; ...

    Step in the right direction/one step of right 4

    1. an improvement; something done that brings one nearer to one's final goal/aim.

      SARDISEAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK.CPT.7 254-1
      In spite of Luther's constant teaching against outside interference in local church matters he was not able to clear men's minds of the "Bishop, Archbishop" concept of church government. Thus the church took one step in the right direction but still remained shackled, so in short order she was again imprisoned in the same dungeon whence she had attempted to escape.

      CONDEMNATION.BY.REPRESENTATION. - JEFF V-2 N-13 60-1113 33-2 091
      How are we going to stand up to it, friends? Now you could be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ and your heart just as smutty as it could be. That don't save you, but it's one step of right. You're saved by your faith through Jesus Christ.

    Step out 16

    1. To die ; a Western idiom which is graphically descriptive, death being, indeed, but a stepping, as it were, from one room to another.

      LEADERSHIP.FOLLOW.ME_ PRESCOTT.AZ V-17 N-2 SUNDAY_ 65-1031A 87
      See, he took the wrong choice in life. See? When he come to the end of the road to step out of life, he had been led by religion. He'd been led by education. He'd been led by the influence of his success. But, you see, he had nothing to hold his hand; those things end there.

    Step/tread on one's toes 14

    1. to do something that embarrasses or offends someone else.

      INFLUENCE. - PHOENIX.AZ 63-0112 E-16 016
      And you know, There's two ways to do anything: that's right and wrong. I had my little son Joseph on my lap the other day, and I said to him... He's eight years old, and some little boy stepped on his toes. And he and the little boy had a fight. So I said, "Joseph, don't do that."

    Stepping stone 4

    1. (A) a job/position/success which helps towards something better/higher in someone's profession, social status or educational level: something that one learns that will help him advance.

      EXPERIENCES.1. - PHOENIX.AZ 47-1207 E-6 006
      But now, today the great test is over, and I'm going to let it be to me a stepping stone in the stead of a stumbling block and so to teach me the ways of the Lord better, and that I might live closer to Him. And as I live closer to Him, I can help these people more and to be led by His Spirit.

    Stereoscope

    1. an instrument that gives a three dimensional effect to photographs viewed through it. NOTE: This word used by Bro. Branham should actually be "Stethoscope"-a hearing instrument used to examine heart, lungs by listening to the sounds they make.

      CHRIST.OUTSIDE.THE.DOOR_ MIDDLETOWN.OH SUNDAY_ 58-0330E
      It's your son. He's just a lad, a boy of about twelve years old. And he's got heart trouble, for I see a doctor holding a stereoscope over the top of his heart. And they're holding a council, and the doctors wants to operate on that heart.

    Stethoscope 24

    1. a hearing instrument used in examining the heart, lungs etc. by listening to the sounds they make. NOTE: Bro. Branham uses the word "Stereoscope" instead of the word "Stethoscope"

      CHRIST.OUTSIDE.THE.DOOR_ MIDDLETOWN.OH SUNDAY_ 58-0330E E-63
      He's just a lad, a boy of about twelve years old. And he's got heart trouble, for I see a doctor holding a stereoscope over the top of his heart.

      HEAR.YE.HIM_ PARKERSBURG.WV SATURDAY_ 56-1215 E-33
      They could put the stereoscope on her skull; they could hear that radium still going whrr, whrr in the skull. It has no end.

      CHRIST.IS.THE.MYSTERY_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-7 SUNDAY_ 63-0728 3-3
      And I said, "Now, the only stereoscope that I have is the Bible (See?) for the soul." And I said, "I'm going to give you the test." I said, "St. John 5:24 said, 'He that heareth My words...'" I said, "That isn't just setting and listening to it; that's receiving it (See?), receiving it.

    Stetson 24

    1. a hat made by the John B. Stetson hat company; especially one made of felt with high crown and wide brim.

      HAS.LORD.SPOKEN.ONLY.TO.MOSES_ W.PALM.BEACH.FL MONDAY_ 53-1130 E-38
      Now, he was dressed with a blue suit and a red tie on (which if any of you know him, that was his very way he liked to dress.), but this time he had on a brown suit, light brown with a white stripe in it. And he had on one of these hats like I wear. Frankly, he's the one sends them to me. So he had one of those hats on, southern hat, little Stetson, and he was going along, tipping his hat with his very southern hospitality you know, tipping his hat very gentleman like going down the street like that, walking down over the people.

    Stick one's neck out 1,2

    1. Take a risk on something, to act boldly despite the risk

      INFLUENCE. - BEAUMONT.TX 64-0315 E-3 003
      So I think that's wonderful, somebody with a vision like that. I believe it was said over in Hebrews the 11th chapter, "of whom the world is not worthy," and to stick their neck out in a time when the ministry's so unpopular amongst too many of the people that should believe it.

    Stick with it 10,11

    1. to carry out an oath or promise; do not give up; stay with your task. (An indication of perseverance)

      QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS. - JEFF.IN COD 64-0823E 1037-197 100
      Don't you make your vow to anybody unless you mean to stick with it. Remember, there's the Bible for it.

    Stick with you

    1. satisfy for a very long time.

      SEVEN.CHURCH.AGES_ JEFF.IN V-26 N-2 WEDNESDAY_ 54-0512
      But you might have something on the side, some ice cream and cake, once in a while, but it kind of balance up the diet. But the good old fashion stuff will stick with you pretty good

    Stock (or livestock) 10

    1. All the animals kept or used on a farm

      ISRAEL.AND.THE.CHURCH.2_ JEFF.IN IC 35-64 THURSDAY_ 53-0326
      Itjust bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble all the time: best water I ever drank. I thought, "Well, what makes you so happy, because stock drinks from you?"

    Stocking cap

    1. a knitted cap worn to keep the head warm.

      PARADOX_ BAKERSFIELD.CA V-22 N-5 THURSDAY_ 64-0206B 31
      He said, "Billy," said, "I'll have to give you a little shampoo," said, "you got so much dandruff on your coat." And I said, "All right, Jimmy." And he talking about coon hunting, and he reached back (I was his pastor; he taught Sunday School; he was a fine man.) to get what he thought was this Lucky Tiger Shampoo, to throw on my head, and it was carbolic acid. And I wore a stocking cap in my pulpit for weeks. Today, that still bothers me.

    Stocking top

    1. part of a stocking in which to keep money, like a small bag.

      JESUS.KEEPS.ALL.OF.HIS.APPOINTMENTS_ TAMPA.FL SATURDAY_ 64-0418E E-62
      You know what I believe I'll do? I know. Down the street she goes, just as quick as she can, down through the alley, up this old creaky steps and opens the door, goes in there and gets a stocking-top, you know, and pulls it out, counts how much money she's got.

    Stomped the residue

    1. "stamped the residue". stamped or trampled on; destroyed (See Daniel 7:19)

      FIFTH.SEAL.THE_ JEFF.IN FRIDAY_ 63-0322 346-3 {88}
      Then he saw another one rise up--a great lion with teeth and--and stomped the residue;

    Stone of Scone

    1. the stone upon which the Scottish kings were crowned at Scone, Scotland, before the year 1296. (It was stolen in 1950 and restored in 1951).

      ANGEL.OF.THE.COVENANT_ PHOENIX.AZ MONDAY_ 54-0301
      And the famous Stone of Scone looked to me like a piece of Bedford stone to me, it's just a little thing sitting under an old antique chair.

    Stone's throw, (Within a) 23

    1. within a moderate distance. Properly, that to which the average man could cast a stone.

      ELISHA.THE.PROPHET_ CHICAGO.IL TUESDAY_ 56-1002E E-32
      But not long ago in the Vatican, I went over to see the Vatican. I was having a meeting there for two nights right in Rome. And the next day in the stone's throw of the Vatican, they taken me over to see something strange. It was a great church, and down beneath they had like a vineyard, or I would say, a planting place.

    Stood flatfooted 24

    1. stood firmly; uncompromising

      I.HAVE.HEARD.BUT.NOW.I.SEE_ SHREVEPORT.LA V-7 N-3 SATURDAY_ 65-1127E
      But Job stood flatfooted, for he knew he had heard God's Voice.

    Stoop so low (as to do something) 7

    1. lower your (moral) standards (and do something bad, criminal or degrading).

      MARRIAGE.AND.DIVORCE. - JEFF.IN V-3 N-13 65-0221M 18-6 040
      Notice, there's nothing designed to stoop so low or be filthy but a woman. A dog can't do it; a hog can't do it; a bird can't do it; no animal is immoral, nor it can be, for it is not designed so it can be.

    Stove/Stoved up

    1. Stiff in joints and muscles; having arthritis.

      PARADOX_ TAMPA.FL SATURDAY_ 64-0418B
      Daddy would be away out at the back of the farm with his horses, you know, and I'd take out the old plow horse, you know, old, and stoved-up, and stiff and tired.

      RESTORATION.OF.BRIDE.TREE_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-15 SUNDAY_ 62-0422
      It would be more of a miracle than if there's a lady setting here in a wheelchair, and had arthritis, and all stoved up.

    Straight answer, A 4

    1. a frank, open and unambiguous answer.

      QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS. - JEFF.IN COD 64-0823M 976-Q-270 141 270
      These people claim to believe every word that you say to be true. (But they don't. They don't believe it. Their own actions prove that they don't.) Please let me know your straight answer: yes or no (You've got it. All right.) about these things, and if it is true, we want to make ready to go join with the rest of them there--the rest of them.

    Straight from the shoulder 4

    1. (usually tell someone something/be/tell/talk ~) directly and honestly, without hiding anything.

      EARNESTLY.CONTENDING.FOR.THE.FAITH. - CHICAGO.IL 55-0123E E-10 010
      My that was right straight from the shoulder, wasn't it? Said, "You by wicked hands have crucified the Prince of Life, but God's raised Him up again." Amen. I like that.

    Straw tick 24

    1. a mattress or pillow filled with straw; the "tick" is the cloth covering and can be filled with feathers, cotton or any material to make a mattress, pillow or bed covering.

      LIFE.STORY.WILLIAM.BRANHAM_ CLEVELAND.OH SUNDAY_ 50-0820A E-34
      And we had a table and didn't have very much furniture in the house. I can remember two old beds, the old great, big high post beds and old walnut, I believe they were. We had straw mattresses. Did you ever sleep on a straw tick?

    Stray the world

    1. go around the world.

      GOD.IN.SIMPLICITY_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0317M 51-1 {328}
      When that Angel, that you see in that picture over there, come down on the river down there that day, thirty years ago this coming June or thirty-three years ago, rather, this coming June, and said, "As John the Baptist was sent forth," (before five thousand people or more) "the hour has come when your message will stray the world."

    Street car 16

    1. a tramway.

      TOKEN.THE_ SHREVEPORT.LA V-17 N-6 THURSDAY_ 63-1128E 153
      And everything that Jesus purchased and promised you in the Bible is yours. It's your property because it's paid for. Amen. Life is mine; He paid for It. Life is yours; He paid for It. Healing's mine; He paid for it. Healing's yours; He paid for it. Freedom is mine; He paid for it. Heaven is mine; He paid for it. He's paid the price. Everything He purchased belongs to the man that holds the Token. Amen. "Pass My Token upon the street car, on that day of the judgment, and I'll pass over you." Amen.

    Strike/hit/reach rock-bottom 18

    1. the very bottom; the lowest possible level; the basis or foundation of any issue.

      GETTING.IN.THE.SPIRIT. - CHICAGO.IL 61-0428 E-78 078
      Say, "The Pentecostals is nothing but just bunch of make belief." You get right down and dig down till you strike the rock bottom. Let a Pentecostal experience happen to you and watch what happens, brother. There's nobody can lay a finger on your life.

    Strings to pull

    1. pulling strings means to use power to influence. In this quote, "he'll not use power to influence".

      TRUE.SIGN.THAT'S.OVERLOOKED_ JEFF.IN V-6 N-2 SUNDAY_ 61-1112
      He will stand alone against denominations, bold and fearless with THUS SAITH THE LORD. He'll compromise with no denomination; he'll have nothing to do with any. He'll pull no strings for nothing. He'll be straight out on the Word,

    2. “pulling strings” means to use power to influence.

      I.HAVE.HEARD.BUT.NOW.I.SEE_ SHREVEPORT.LA V-7 N-3 SATURDAY_ 65-1127E 89
      And so people came from the east and west. He said he'd go over to the markets, the young princes from the east would bow before him just to hear one word of consolation from him, great and mighty wisdom, because they knew the man was honest. He didn't want to boast up himself; he had no axes to grind, no strings to pull; he was just a honest prophet before God.

    Strowed 24

    1. (strewn or strewed) scattered; spread abroad; covered.

      WISDOM.VERSUS.FAITH_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-17 SUNDAY_ 62-0401
      Look at it today, them big pretty deserts and mountains strowed with stink, sin, whiskey bottles, beer cans! Every place is full of taverns and tommyrot. Reno, Nevada, in that great desert yonder is nothing but a prostitution.

      GOD'S.PROVIDED.WAY_ W.PALM.BEACH.FL TUESDAY_ 53-1201
      And the Blood was offered and only through the shedding of the Blood is their remission of sin. I like the old fashion Blood strowed religion; that's me

    Stuffed shirt 4

    1. a pompous, conceited person;a snob.

      HE.CARETH.FOR.YOU. - PHOENIX.AZ V-14 N-5 60-0301 105 050
      See, that's what makes Him great to me. He isn't a stuffed shirt. He was God's grace to the people. He was God's love expressed in human flesh. No matter how little or insignificant, He cared; immoral, drunks, alcoholics, whatever it was.

    Sucker around 24

    1. try to get something such as money from people.

      SPOKEN.WORD.ORIGINAL.SEED_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-2 SUNDAY_ 62-0318E 77-1
      If I had to go out so I had to "sucker around" with the people and the devil and tell them, "Yes, I have to have so much for a telecast, and I have to have so much of this; you got to pay for it," I'd have to pull strings like that too. But I've never told you nothing in the Name of the Lord but what would come to pass. I've never told you nothing but the Word.

    Sugar Footing

    1. To attempt to impress with "honeyed words." To flatter for the purpose of appearing to agree with someone in order to be accepted or receive a gift.

      THE.HANDWRITING.ON.THE.WALL_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 58-0309M
      E-53 But remember, said, "You know this," but right at the same time Daniel was giving his prophesy and telling that king... (Could you imagine him sugar-footing it around to get a gold chain? Could you imagine a man of God compromising with the devil to be popular? Never.)

    Sugar maple 16

    1. (Acer saccharinum). The variety of maple tree from the sap of which is obtained the maple sugar of commerce. Also sugar-tree, and even, in parts of the West, simply sugar.

      LIFE.STORY_ LA.CA FOOTPRINTS.BOOK SUNDAY_ 59-0419A 17-6
      When I was a little boy I used to go to a great maple tree. In my country we have a lot of hardwood. And then we had this maple tree, the sugar maple, and what we call the "hard maple" and "soft maple." This great gigantic tree, it was the most beautiful tree.

    Sugar tits 10

    1. A pacifier given to a baby.

      RISING.OF.THE.SUN_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-12 SUNDAY_ 65-0418M
      Oh, church of the living God, we can't stand around here on little "sugar-tits". Excuse that expression. I was thinking about a mother that makes those little sacks (we used to) for the baby. Some of you old mammies remember. Little old baby gets to squalling, you take some coffee grounds and some sugar, wrap it up in a sack and let him suck on it, just to pacify him.

    Sugar-coat something 9

    1. to be insincere and deceiving about something; to make something look or sound more pleasant or attractive, as flattery, etc.

      SOULS.IN.PRISON.NOW. - JEFF.IN. V-2 N-22 63-1110M 34-1 111
      I see where in the Ecumenical Council they said that it would come to pass that they'd pray a little bit more to Jesus if it'd help the Protestants to come in. Oh, that sugar-coated-- inchangeable, they said. It's still the same old devil.

    Suit yourself 11

    1. you decide the way you want it; make your choice.

      EXPECTATION.THE. - BURLINGTON.VT 58-0508 E-56 056
      Do you believe? Just have faith now; don't doubt; have faith. Young couple, stop that or go out of the building. Suit yourself. The God of heaven will curse you.

    Sun up 16

    1. A form especially current in the South for sunrise or early morning.

      DIVINE.LOVE.AND.SOVEREIGN.GRACE_ PRINCE.ALBERT.SK TUESDAY_ 56-0814 E-7
      So I was one time in the Laplands, where it didn't get dark at all, and it looks like I'm almost there again, way up in Finland, and up in Norway in the Laplands. And in there I could... The land of the midnight sun, I never knew when to go to bed. Why, it was sun up all the time.

    Super-duper 16

    1. colossal; exceedingly large and remarkable, especially for its size or scope.

      SUPER.SIGN_ CHICAGO.IL SUNDAY_ 61-0430 E-15
      So today we've come to a place till it's everything that we speak of that has got any sale value, is super. We go to the supermarket. The little corner store's run out of business. The supermarket got to be super-duper, something big.

    Swallow-tail(s) 16

    1. a dress coat. After the fancied resemblance to the tail of a swallow (a type of bird).

      ZACCHAEUS.THE.BUSINESSMAN_ TUCSON.AZ MONDAY_ 63-0121 E-19
      And He looked to be about eighty-five years old, and he had on one of those old long, what we used to call down in the south, preacher coats (you know, the kind of swallow-tail, you know, the strips up and down it), a little rim of white hair around his head, and he had to lead the old fellow out, he was so old.

    Sweat out, To 1

    1. to persevere; to wait anxiously; worry while waiting.

      TAKING.SIDES.WITH.JESUS. - JEFF.IN COD 62-0601 765-100 055
      You say, "Well, that ought to be easy for you, Brother Branham. Anything you do, God just tells you." No, He doesn't. I sweat it out just like you do and a whole lot harder. Sure. I have to sweat it much harder than you do, and there's going to be more required of me.

    Sworn to the bench

    1. see "The Bench" and "Went to the Bench"

    Sycamore 24

    1. an ornamental shade tree

      I.HAVE.HEARD.BUT.NOW.I.SEE_ SHREVEPORT.LA V-7 N-3 SATURDAY_ 65-1127E
      I said, "Brother Wright, you're an old man, hunted squirrels all your life. Brother Shelby, you're an expert squirrel hunter. Brother Wood, so are you. I've hunted them since a kid. Did you ever see a squirrel in a sycamore and locust thicket?" "No, sir."

    Tacky button

    1. a thumb tack. (See Bro. Branham's definition).

      CHOOSING.OF.A.BRIDE_ LA.CA V-2 N-28 THURSDAY_ 65-0429E
      How many knows what a tacky button is?. You take a piece of cardboard, put a thumbtack in it, a little sprig, and then push it in the... (wall). That's a tacky button.

    Take a (one's) chance, To 6

    1. To try something without knowing the results, to do something and hope for success.

      EARNESTLY.CONTENDING. - KARLSRUHE.GERMANY 55-0815 E-6 006
      I would rather go to heaven and stand in the Presence of God, to be judged an infidel, than to go to heaven and be judged a hypocrite. I would rather take my chance, as against Him, than to be a pretender.

    Take care of oneself 10

    1. be able to make decisions without approval or assistance from others.

      DOOR.INSIDE.DOOR. - SOUTH.BEND.IN 58-0209E E-35 035
      "Now, Lord, You can save me, but don't go to fooling with my business. Now, I'll take care of myself." Now, I know that sounds very rude, but that's the truth. It certainly is. People don't want Christ fooling with their business.

    Take heart 4

    1. become confident again; find courage and faith in oneself after a disappointment, failure etc.

      REV.CHAP.4.PT.2.24.ELDERS. - JEFF.IN ROJC 585-643 61-0101 25 010
      And we pray, Father, that as the poet said, "The forlorn, and a shipwrecked brother, seeing our steadiness (on keel), seeing it, shall take heart again, or take courage again and try again," know that the all-sufficient God, if we stumble or fall, His great hand is there to help us; His grace is sufficient.

    Take it easy 1

    1. To act or go slowly, carefully, and gently.

      EVERLASTING.LIFE. - JEFF.IN V-26 N-12 54-1231 82 018
      Now, if a man is sorry for his sins... I just want to take it easy, so it'll soak real deep. If a man is sorry for his sins and repents, being sorry for his sins, and accepts Jesus Christ as his Saviour from his sins, and is baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, God's under obligation at that very minute to give the man the baptism of the Holy Ghost.

    Take it upon/on yourself to do something 7

    1. decide to do something without asking anyone for permission; to think that you can do it by yourself.

      WHAT.IS.THAT.IN.YOUR.HAND. - SAN.FERNANDO.CA 55-1120 E-33 033
      Moses failed down in Egypt, when he was born to be a deliverer, to bring the children of Israel out of Egypt. Why? Because he did it in himself. He took it upon himself to do it. And anytime you take things upon yourself and leave God out, then you're going to be a failure like Moses was.

    Take its toll (on someone/something) 4,7

    1. cause a high number of unfortunate things, for example deaths, injuries, accidents, bankruptcies; cause a lot of harm or damage.

      JEZEBEL.RELIGION. - MIDDLETOWN.OH V-6 N-14 61-0319 102 064
      Then one day after sin had took its toll, and God has brought His people to their knees... Jezebel took everything; she wiped it all up; and she'll do it again.

    Take one's time 10

    1. do something slowly, slow down.

      POSITION.IN.CHRIST. - JEFF.IN AD.3 60-0522M 16 011
      And let's remember, while we're obeying the Spirit, one great lesson that we want to learn is never be hastily (See?), take your time, have faith. If we have asked God anything, remember, God answers prayer. He does it in His time, the way it's best, makes it work just right for us.

    Take sides with (someone, something) 4

    1. defend or support one person against another.

      ENTICING.SPIRITS. - JEFF.IN DE 79-112 55-0724 131 072
      Little old things that makes you talk, or start some kind of little fussing in the church, make you take sides with something or other like that. Oh, that's ungodly. That's discord among brethren. And don't do that.

    Take someone at his word 4

    1. act on the belief that someone will do what he says.

      BELIEVEST.THOU.THIS?. - MINNEAPOLIS.MN 50-0716 E-41 041
      Brother, sister, give us some more Marys here in Minneapolis, who'll take God at His Word, not wait till you feel something, or something happens, take His Word and start rejoicing about it. Hallelujah! God said He's the Healer; I believe it. He said He created me. I believe it.

    Take someone under one's wings 4

    1. protect, help, care for or guide someone.

      WHERE.IS.HE.KING.OF.JEWS. - JEFF.IN V-16 N-7 58-1221M 244 108
      Take these, Thy children, Lord, under Thy wings, hover them as a hen does its brood. Lead them into deeper Life, and to happier life, and to more fuller life, give them the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

    Take someone's name in vain 7

    1. Talk about someone in a rude or disrespectful way, especially in their absence; use the Name of God disrespectfully, especially by swearing.

      SEVEN.CHURCH.AGES. - JEFF.IN V-26 N-2 54-0512 69 029
      You can get forgiveness for crucifying Jesus. You can get forgiveness for taking His Name in vain. "But who speaks against the Holy Ghost will never be forgiven him in this world or the world to come."

    Take someone's word for it 4

    1. believe that what someone is saying is true, even if you don't see it yourself or when there is no proof that what he says is true.

      MOSES.COMMISSION. - HOUSTON.TX 50-0110 E-8 008
      And if you, maybe be a sinner and do not understand how to take God at His Word, then God sent me here. I want you to take my word for it, and see if it doesn't come to past, that God will bless you.

    Take something for granted 7

    1. believe that something is/will be true, will happen, etc without checking to make sure; take or accept something without being thankful for it.

      BELIEVEST.THOU.THIS. - TULSA.OK 60-0402 E-27 027
      And we can't take it for granted, just because we're Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Pentecost, and our backgrounds and our forefathers were great believers, we just take it, well, for granted, Jesus is with us. We can't do that. We've got to be in contact with Him every day and every minute. Oh, I love that.

    Take something personally 7

    1. feel personally offended by someone's general remark..

      HIS.WONDERS.TO.PERFORM. - CHICAGO.IL 58-0112A E-29 029
      Oh, friend, I hope the little lady doesn't take this too personally, but it's my daughter-in- law, who's sitting present now. This has been the greatest week of her life.

    Take the floor 4

    1. Stand up and speak to an audience.

      BE.NOT.AFRAID. - TULARE.CA 61-0224 E-21 021
      Philip, he must have took the floor about that time. Now, these are Christ's own disciples that were just having a testimony meeting, not the outside world, those who lived with Him, and sleep with Him, and dwell with Him, and knows what He is, heard Him talk and speak.

    Take the limit

    1. when in hunting or fishing, the maximum number of animals or fish that can be taken by an individual, as allowed by law. * in this case, it appears that Bro. Branham is referring to the group of men he hunted with, saying that the last man of the group had been converted.

      REV.CHAP.5.PT1.BRUISED.SERPENT_ JEFF.IN ROJC 717-746 SUNDAY_ 61-0611 7
      Now, since I come back, I hear that many has been baptized into the faith, and we're so happy for that. I see my good friend, Brother Elmer Gabehart back there. I understand that he was just baptized into the faith, and I'm certainly grateful for that. That makes all of our old hunting crew down in Kentucky just about ready; just take the limit now alone, doesn't it?

    Take the starch out of one 16

    1. To take the style the stiffness out of one ; to humble.

      BALM.IN.GILEAD_ SAN.JOSE.CA TUESDAY_ 59-1124 E-29
      That's what's the matter with the Pentecostal church today. It's got too stylish; it's too much like the world. What we need is to get a lot of that took out of us. We need another Pentecostal inoculation of the Holy Ghost to take the starch out of the Pentecostal church.

    Take the wind out of someone's sails 4,7,8

    1. Prevent him from saying something either by saying it first or giving information which would make his remark pointless, inappropriate. Put a sudden and surprising end to someone's over- confidence. Leave a person speechless.

      WE.WOULD.SEE.JESUS. - SANTA.MARIA.CA 62-0627 E-51 051
      Nathanael might've been in the prayer line, I don't know; he might've been standing out in the audience. But when he first saw Jesus, and Jesus looked upon him, He said, "Behold an Israelite, in whom there is no guile." That took the wind out of his sails, as to speak.

    Take/hold of one's bootstraps and jump over the moon 3,7

    1. (informal. is another form of the expression “pull yourself up by your (own) bootstraps”) improve or regain your previous position by your own efforts, without any help. In this case, it is impossible to save ourselves.

      CONDEMNATION.BY.REPRESENTATION. - JEFF V-2 N-13 60-1113 29-1 079
      Now, to you that says it's wrong for you to be represented by Adam as a sinner, what about through representation we have salvation also? You can no more save yourself, than you could take your bootstraps and jump over the moon with it.

    Takes/take the/a Count 10

    1. In boxing,ten seconds counted to give a boxer who has been knocked down time to rise before he loses the match.

      ONLY.ONE.WAY.PROVIDED.BY.GOD_ CHICAGO.IL V-21 N-2 WEDNESDAY_ 63-0731
      ...he can't get out of it until he takes the count.

      WISDOM.VERSUS.FAITH_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-17 SUNDAY_ 62-0401
      If you get hit, then you'll just fall over; and you'll lay there and take a count.

    Talked a blue streak 24

    1. speed as swift as lightening; rapid and incessant language.

      TAKING.SIDES.WITH.JESUS_ JEFF.IN COD FRIDAY_ 62-0601
      And the other night I was dreaming that I went to have discernment where a great host of my friends had gathered, thousands of them in a meeting. There's a fellow came got me and... And Billy usually comes and gets me, because he doesn't talk to me. And this man just talked a blue streak, and before I got over there, all the anointing was gone from me for it.

    Tape hearing 10

    1. A "hearing" - to be informed of something; to discuss and learn about something.

      WHAT.IS.THE.ATTRACTION?_ JEFF.IN V-8 N-8 SUNDAY_ 65-0725E
      They haven't announced it yet, but there's a tape hearing. Every so often the trustees, I have nothing to do with it at all. I don't even... never at none of the meetings. .. They turn in their bids; the trustees decide who is the next man to make tapes, and they send him a letter. That's all I know about it.

    Tattlers and twisters 18

    1. Those who tell lies about others or gossip; those who come into the church to spread their own personal doctrine, “twisting” the scriptures.

      POSSESSING.THE.ENEMIES.GATES. - JEFFERSONVILLE, IN. 59-1108M 08-34
      “Though they be tattlers come into the church, though they be twisters, and though they be all kinds of false prophets and everything come into the church amongst the people, and in the neighborhood and everything; but for me and for my house, we'll serve the Lord. …

    Tattletale gray 3

    1. a dull gray colour

      BIRTH.PAINS_ PHOENIX.AZ V-3 N-4 SUNDAY_ 65-0124 32-2
      They had on these tattletale gray skirts, like one of these barroom girls, with no back on it up here, holding it up like a gray-looking piece of paper, and like hula dancing: paint, short bobbed hair, smoking cigarettes, and twisting as they walked to rock-and-roll.

    2. more gray than white.

    Telepathy 24

    1. the communication of one mind with another.

      GOD.REVEALING.HIMSELF.TO.HIS.PEOPLE_ CLEVELAND.OH SUNDAY_ 50-0813E E-43
      Howdy do, mother. Now, you look this way. Without taking a hold of the people, I want to see if God will show me what is wrong with you. Now, you look this way. And now, this is not mental telepathy, or is it psychology.

    Temper copper 24

    1. to bring to a proper consistency (as by heating and cooling).

      GOD.IN.SIMPLICITY_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0317M 32-4 193
      But Cain's children were the smart, intellectual group. They even claim could temper copper and make metals and builders, and they were smart men;

    Tenderfoot 16

    1. One who is a beginner, usually in the ranching or mining businesses, and not yet accustomed to hardships.

      SHOW.US.THE.FATHER_ SALEM.OR SUNDAY_ 62-0722 E-39
      I was up there walking around, looking. And I tied my horse way down that morning, went plumb up around the timberline, making a big circle, coming down to what we call Lost Canyon, and down through that way. No tenderfoot gets in there, why, it's too far for him.

    Tene tene tekal

    1. Actually "Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin" Daniel 5:25

      DIVINE.HEALING_ JEFF.IN V-26 N-9 SUNDAY_ 54-1219M
      Tene, Tene, Tekel, Upharsin, wrote on every nation, every wall, everywhere. Every democracy, every kingdom, everywhere else, is falling. "Thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting,"

    Tenement 16

    1. A lodging, or flat, in a house, let out in rooms or flats to families.

      VISIONS.OF.WILLIAM.BRANHAM_ JEFF.IN FRIDAY_ 60-0930 E-8
      There was a double tenement, and I was afraid I'd turned off both sides. One side, the people had moved out, and the other side, the people were there. So I went over to the side that was occupied, and I knocked at the door.

    Ten-gallon hat 15

    1. a high-crowned, broad-brimmed cowboy's hat.

      LIFE.STORY. - HAMMOND.IN. 52-0720A E-95 095
      First thing you know, up come a great big fellow from Texas, a big ten gallon hat on, and cowboy boots, walked up, said, "Say, are you evangelist?" I said, "Yes, sir."

    That really takes the cake 24

    1. that takes the prize! That is the best!

      QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS_ JEFF.IN COD SUNDAY_ 64-0823E
      And I was sitting there talking to that fellow. He said something there, and we all got to laughing; I hit him on the leg; I said, "Boy, thatreally takes the cake, doesn't it?"

    The bench 4

    1. The judge; the area in which the judge sits. The Court.

      GOD.KEEPS.HIS.WORD.1. - PHOENIX.AZ 57-0306 E-5 005
      He said, "One time when I was practicing law," said, "I went down and I heard a few cases tried." And said, "When I heard the cases, I watched the emotions the attorneys went through." And said, "When I tried my first case, after I was sworn to the bench," he said, "I took off my coat.

    2. “wrapped on the bench”- knocks on a sturdy desk or table. 3. “sworn to the bench” - taken the oath in the ceremony where one becomes an attorney or lawyer.

    The man in the street 4

    1. the average person.

      PERSEVERANT. - DALLAS.TX V-19 N-9 64-0305 158 065
      Now, try to stop her? If anyone was ever in the east, you know that the man in the street would never hear a prostitute. She had no voice at all. But try to stop her, like a house on fire in a windy day, you couldn't do it.

    The man of the hour 4

    1. a person who is in demand/very popular because of a success or something he is admired for. 2. a person who arrives on the scene in time to take care of any situation.

      UNWELCOMED.CHRIST. - JEFF.IN V-26 N-20 55-0911 197 067
      Not long ago, was a healing campaign come to a certain city. "The man of the hour," pictures on their papers, out on the walls and all over everything, and not Jesus' Name mentioned once. I said, "Where does Jesus come in on this? 'Here's the man of the hour. The man with a heart for the people. The God's man for this, and God's man for that."' I said, "Where is Jesus at? I thought He was the Man of the hour. I thought He was God's Man. Where is He at?"

    The order of the day 4

    1. the usual/popular practice; the generally accepted way of doing things in the present time. The priority.

      SHALOM. - PHOENIX.AZ V-22 N-1 64-0119 58 031
      It's coming a time when the Light and darkness will have to be separated, one from the other. Church and its order will take the order of the day; and Christ and His Light Word promise will go in the rapture. That's the only thing that's left for them to do.

    There you are 4,7

    1. (used when something happens which shows that you were right). Pointing out something that proves your point.

      EXPERIENCES.3. - PHOENIX.AZ 47-1221 E-142 142
      Her mother was healed of asthma in February. Was that here in Phoenix? Right here in Phoenix, healed of asthma. There you are. See, friends?

    Thinking Cap (Put on your ~) 3

    1. Give careful and thoughtful consideration to this. This expression comes from the practice of judges in olden times of putting on a cap before sentencing a criminal.

      FAITH.ONCE.DELIVERED.TO.SAINTS. - W.P.BEACH.FL 53-1129A E-117 117
      Christians, I'm not trying to hurt you. I'm trying to stimulate your faith. Don't pay any attention to what anybody tells you if it's contrary to THUS SAITH THE LORD. Look. God always from Genesis... He put the seed down there. Look here today. Look at the people go to church. Now, put on your thinking cap. I'm closing. Put on a thinking cap.

    Thirty 0 Six 24

    1. The internal diameter of the barrel of a gun, expressed in millimeters for rifles. Indicates the size of a rifle.

      PRESENCE.OF.GOD.UNRECOGNIZED_ TOPEKA.KS V-20 N-2 THURSDAY_ 64-618
      So she stood up and looked around. I could see her just as plain. He looked back at me, and he blowed again. And instead of running, she walked right out into that open. Now, that's unusual. They won't do that. Any hunter knows that. And they won't do that. But she walked right out there. Why? She was a mother; that was a baby. It was (See?); it's just born into her to be a mother, and that baby. And Burt looked down, pulled that bolt back, let it down on that .30- 06. And he was a dead shot...

    Thirty-three thousand, sixty-six went...

    1. Bro. Branham's area of patrol

      QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS_ JEFF.IN COD THURSDAY_ 61-0112 527-105
      And then one day coming down a railroad track, I was walking down the railroad track this side of Scottsburg, coming down the railroad track, patrolling. The winds blowing hard, oh, my, and ice all over the track, and I crossed over so I could walk down my thirty-three thousand; sixty-six went up the other way, kind of went parallel to the track.

    This, that and the other or This and that 7

    1. informal a number of different things.

      JEZEBEL.RELIGION. - MIDDLETOWN.OH V-6 N-14 61-0319 48 030
      Women begin cutting off their hair, wearing immoral clothes, cutting them off each year. And men begin doing this, that, and the other, and playing cards and making bunco games in the church, and just as worldly as they was, pleasure mad, drunken stupors.

    Thorn in the flesh 4

    1. something/someone that is a source of discomfort, annoyance; distaste/trouble for someone.

      HEBREWS.CHAPTER.6.AND.7.. - JEFF.IN HEB 57-0915M 256-543 026
      And Sarah thought that maybe she could have or Hagar, rather, her maid to give birth to a baby through Abraham, and she would take it. And that became Ishmael, which was a thorn in the flesh from then until now: still a thorn in the flesh. For out of there come the Arabs and they've always been that way.

    Through and through 4,7,8

    1. from the beginning to the end; completely, in every respect, thoroughly, typical of someone or something.

      ISRAEL.IN.EGYPT. - JEFF.IN IC 1-34 53-0325 33 023
      Teachers, Bible students, and they failed to recognize the Lord Jesus Christ. And there they was standing there, polished scholars, holy men, righteous, knowing the Word, just every letter of It, and where It was and how It was written, knowed It by heart through and through, every scroll and everything, had to be born in a certain lineage of men, or a priesthood, to come, or--or a tribe, to come out to be a priest.

    Through the grapevine 2

    1. information passed from one person to another.

      PARADOX. - TAMPA.FL 64-0418BE-12 012
      I think I'm watching the clock there. At ten o'clock we're supposed to be out, I understood. I heard through the grapevine just a few minutes ago.

    Throw a party (for someone) 4

    1. organize a party or celebration.

      HANDWRITING.ON.THE.WALL. - JEFF.IN 58-0309M E-20 020
      Now, in this city they had a king that was one of these modern frolic boys. Oh, something like some of our radio comedians, a modern Arthur Godfrey, or Elvis Presley, or someone like that. Oh, he was a great big-time boy. And he liked his big time. So he was going to throw a little rock-and-roll party for all of his people.

    Throw/go off on a tantrum 7

    1. suddenly become very or uncontrollably angry; get into a violent, willful outburst of annoyance, rage, etc. sometimes we go our own way

      SPIRITUAL.ADOPTION. - JEFF.IN 56-0923 E-31 031
      This morning as I was looking at my dear little companion, and I seen my little son when he throwed his little tantrum at the table with his little dish with his eggs and things that mother had worked so faithfully to fix for his breakfast. And she was trying to teach him to eat with his spoon.

      PROPHET.ELISHA. - CHICAGO.IL 54-0723 E-10 010
      Sometimes we go off on a tantrum somewhere and not think about God, not pray over it, ask the Lord whether we should do it or not, and we find out that our supply of blessings is cut off.

    Throwed the old wings out

    1. In most cases Bro. Branham is describing the mother eagle as she spreads her wings. In the following quote - he is referring to the religious group making a bold boast and prediction, then being proved wrong.

      QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS_ JEFF.IN COD SUNDAY_ 64-0823E 1037-Q-314
      Looky here. The Seventh Day Adventists here not long ago, about fifty or sixty years ago, I seen it in the Courier-Journal paper (I got it somewhere in a trunk.), a great big piece of Courier-Journal paper, where they throwed the old wings out, where when they was called Millerites before they become Seventh Day Adventists. And they had a whole big sheet in the Courier paper up here at Franklin, Kentucky, when they all sold their property and got... They set a certain date, proved it by the Scripture; Jesus was coming on that date, and went up there and got their harps and things, and set upon top the hill. The next morning come down, the dew had took all the feathers down, and they come down deflated. See? It's cults and things.

    Thumbs down (to turn)

    1. To disapprove; reject; say no.

      UNWELCOMED.CHRIST. - JEFF.IN V-26 N-20 55-0911 12 004
      And so then, the government sat right down and said, thumbs down, I can't come in. Dr. Guggenbuhl, a friend which... National attorney sent word down there, and went down there and said, "No, sir. He cannot come in. We will not receive him."

    Tide him over 10

    1. to help along temporarily, as through a period of difficulty.

      WHEN.THEIR.EYES.WERE.OPENED_ TAMPA.FL THURSDAY_ 64-0416
      When your father's crops failed, and you didn't have any money, you didn't have anything to eat, who was it wrote him the check, and gave him the money to tide him over?

    Tie into 16

    1. to argue; to attack; to approach or do something with fury, speed, or enthusiasm.

      I.WILL.RESTORE_ OWENSBORO.KY TUESDAY_ 53-1110 E-24
      If that ain't a picture of it today, I don't know why. Them fundamentalists don't tie into one; he knows what he's talking about in the Word. I was raised a Baptist. Don't tie into him in the Word; He knows what he's talking about.

    Tie-post 24

    1. an upright piece of timber to which something is securely tied or attached. A secure, unmovable object to which something can be tied.

      LETTING.OFF.PRESSURE_ PHOENIX.AZ SUNDAY_ 63-0113M E-14
      Our heavenly Father, we are indeed a privileged people this morning in the face of this changing world. And we have ahold of the hand of the unchangeable God. Times may change, but He's eternal. And His Word is in our heart. It's an Ultimate of our thoughts. They always drift back to that Word. No matter where we stray, it comes back to the Word. It's the tie post in our heart.

      WHY.CRY.SPEAK_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-26 SUNDAY_ 63-0714M
      We used to all meet at mama's house and she was the old tie-post that held us together, kinda. But God taken the tie-post to heaven, and I hope that we'll all meet there someday.

    Till who wouldn't have it 1

    1. Continuing on and on; seemingly, without end.

    Timber 16

    1. a Western word for forest.

      SHOW.US.THE.FATHER_ LOS.ANGELES.CA WEDNESDAY_ 54-0811 E-13
      I was admiring him. And I noticed he just give one big jump, got just a little above the timber like that, flopped his wings about twice; he never flopped no more.

    Timberline 24

    1. The upper limit of tree growth on mountains and in Arctic regions; the line above which no trees grow.

      SPIRIT.OF.TRUTH_ PHOENIX.AZ FRIDAY_ 63-0118 E-52
      We took off three days later. We made camp plumb up above timberline. And God help me, if they stay that way till the millennium, let me live there during the millennium. I just love to bathe in that nature there.

    Time-piece 24

    1. a clock or a watch

      QA.ON.GENESIS_ JEFF.IN COD WEDNESDAY_ 53-0729 47-Q-6 6
      If you want to see what time of year it is, look on the calendar. If you want to see what time of night it is, look at the clock. If you want to see what day you're living in, look where the Jews are. That's God's timepiece.

    To and fro 4

    1. from one place to another; one way and then the other, up and down.

      FAITH.IS.THE.SUBSTANCE. - OAKLAND.CA 47-0412 E-15 015
      This day that we're living in, it's such a day of unsettled peace and unsettled rest everywhere. People are running to-and-fro seeking whatever they may seek. Most anybody can get a following. No matter what they teach or think, somebody will listen to them.

    To the core 4,7

    1. in every way; completely; very much; profoundly.

      LIFE.STORY. - HAMMOND.IN. 52-0720A E-22 022
      And oh, for meals we would have mulligan stew; we were Irish to the core, you know.

    To think that… 7

    1. to consider that; how surprising, exciting, sad, etc it is to think that…

      JEZEBEL.RELIGION. - MIDDLETOWN.OH V-6 N-14 61-0319 75 046
      How the great loving heart of God must have cried out, weeping, as He seen His missionary people. Made them an example to all the nations coming everywhere, because God had blessed them, seeing them in unity, spiritually, serving God. And then to think that He longed to see them come back to their first love and do what was right, but continually they went away, and away, and away, till finally Jezebel come in.

    Toe the line/mark 18

    1. abide by the rules; conform to discipline or a standard.

      WILLIAM.BRANHAM.SPEAKS. - LAUSANNE.SWITZERLAND 55-0826 E-15 015
      Have faith in God. Don't disbelieve. In America we have a saying, "Toe the line."

      WATER.OF.SEPARATION. - CHICAGO.IL 55-0121 E-15 015
      Death itself has no reign over a Christian. Christ died in our stead. Amen. What a marvelous... What a faith that ought to build up in the people, something that'll toe the mark. You'll never get nothing by being a little jellyfish Christian.

    Tom, Dick and Harry 14

    1. People in general; anyone; everyone. Usually preceded by every and used to show scorn or disrespect.

      HE.SWORE.BY.HIMSELF_ JEFF.IN V-26 N-11 SUNDAY_ 54-1212 178
      What is the seed of Abraham now? Who is the one that's got this sure hold? Who is the one that's built on this foundation? Not just every Tom, Dick, and Harry. Not all that saith to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter in, but the one that doeth the will of My Father which is in heaven."

    Took the hide off

    1. to overcome, punish or defeat someone severally

      COURT.TRIAL_ BIRMINGHAM.AL SUNDAY_ 64-0412 E-55
      Now, the Douglas studio with the big cameras setting there, they said... The minister said, "Take some glossies of that old man. I'm going to skin him, and pull his hide off of him, and tack his skin on my study door for a memorial to Divine healing." Could you imagine a Christian saying that about another one?

    Toot/blow one's own horn 10

    1. be boastful about oneself; be prideful; make others aware of one's own accomplishments; say positive things about oneself; congratulate oneself publicly on one's achievements.

      ABRAHAM. - MACON.GA 55-0608 E-15
      "Brother Bosworth, You're eighty years old nearly, and that man's just about thirty-five years old." He said, "That doesn't have anything to do with the Word of God." He said, "Will you let me do it?" And I said, "No, Brother Bosworth. No. Don't fuss with him. Just let him blow or toot his own horn, and go on."

    Top of the beam to the top of the horns

    1. from the ridge where the horn protrudes from the hair, to the tip of the horn.

      SPIRIT.OF.TRUTH_ PHOENIX.AZ FRIDAY_ 63-0118 E-38
      And then I saw them take the horns, and a little hand reached and got the horn, put the tape on it, and it measured forty-two inches from the top of the beam to the top of the horn, forty- two inches high.

    Tortillas

    1. flat, unleavened corn cakes baked on an iron plate or flat stone, used throughout Mexico as the equivilant of bread.

      A.PARADOX_ PHOENIX.AZ SUNDAY_ 62-0128A
      And then, old greasy tortillas somewhere made out of ameba lettuce, and things they'd throwed away,... with "ameba" or "amoeba" lettuce. - rotten or contaminated.

    Tough guy 7

    1. a strong, independent-minded person who seems to be afraid of nothing.

      LOOKING.TO.THE.UNSEEN. - CLEVELAND.OH 50-0816 E-23 023
      Mr. Wright had told me, said, "There's a tough guy." Said, "He used to belong to Nazarene church, but he's backslid and cursed every preacher that comes in the country."

    Train in the blocks (The old) 10

    1. In railroading, a length of track governed by signals

      FLASHING.RED.LIGHT JEFF.IN V-5 N-4 SUNDAY_ 63-0623E
      The train, The old train is in her blocks now. The Bible said so; she'd be coming pretty soon. We hear the sound.

    Train on/in 9

    1. to aim ( a gun, binoculars, etc.) at something;

      GODHEAD.EXPLAINED. - CHICAGO.IL V-2 N-24 61-0425B 10-2 027
      "That's just exactly as good as the devil wants. That is just what he wants. As long as your guns are trained on one another, he doesn't have to fight a lick." And so then finally it came to a showdown, and that showdown was at Seattle, Washington, about 1946.

    Trump card 14

    1. something kept back to be used to win success if nothing else works. To use someone for personal advantage.

      UNWELCOMED.CHRIST. - CHICAGO.IL 55-1002 E-16 016
      Could you imagine what Peter would say to him? About like I would've said or you, "Oh, Jesus, that Pharisee, he's just making a trump card out of You. Why, he doesn't need You. He's got all the wealth of this world that he needs, and he doesn't have any need for You.

    Trump up his sleeve 24

    1. in various card games, a card saved until last for a special purpose, often to impose unfairly. A devious or underlying motive.

      IT.IS.I.BE.NOT.AFRAID_ PORT.ALBERNI.BC THURSDAY_ 62-0726 E-64
      You can remember, when one of them kind of guys invites Jesus, he's got a trump up his sleeve somewhere. He's got a card there somewhere. He had no business, he had no dealings with Jesus. It was a drawing card or something.

    Trumpet in ear

    1. a hearing aid shaped like the end of a trumpet or funnel.

      EXPERIENCES.3_ PHOENIX.AZ SUNDAY_ 47-1221 E-93
      I see you're wearing a trumpet in your ear. Do you believe that God sent me do this, to give your healing without this trumpet?

    Tuck this over in your vest pocket

    1. Just think about it. This is just something you might want to think about.

      SERPENT'S.SEED_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-4 SUNDAY_ 58-0928E
      Now, how did it start? (We'll get straight to it just as quick as we can, so I won't keep you all night.) Now, there's got to be a beginning of all things. I want to ask you something. Now, this may be... You just tuck this over in your vest pocket. You don't have to put this over with the regular dish.

    Tug-of-war 14

    1. A game in which two teams pull on opposite ends of a rope, trying to pull the other team over a line marked on the ground.

      CONTEST.THE. - JEFF.IN V-10 N-7 62-1231 9 008
      The Indian used to put a fire, and they would put so many men on this end of the rope, and so many on this end, and the tug-of-war, the contest of strength, would pull the losing party across the fire.

    2. A contest in which two sides try to defeat each other.

      CONTEST.THE. - JEFF.IN V-10 N-7 62-1231013
      And Satan never disagreed with her. He said, "Certainly, that's right." But he said, "You see, you need some new light." Something a little different from what God said. "And if you do do this, you'd be just a little smarter. Your eyes will be open." But she said, "Well, God said we would die." He said, "Oh, surely..." See, there you come, just that much, "Surely you won't die." But God said you would, and that settles it. And that--that broke that great tug-of-war then and pulled the whole human race into death, because Eve listened to a reasoning against God's Word.

    Tule 16

    1. (too-lay (Mex. Tollin)). A reed-like grass or bulrush (Scirpus lacustris), covering immense areas in the South-Western States, especially Texas and California.

      GOD.IN.SIMPLICITY_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0317M 31-6 {185}
      And they said that Moses never crossed actually the Red Sea, that it was a bunch of reeds down there, a sea of reeds; and he brought the children of Israel through this sea of reeds. Up at the end of the sea, there's a big bunch of reeds up there, and Moses crossed the sea, but it was the sea of reeds that he crossed, you know, grass, called like tules and things that he crossed through there.

    Turn a deaf ear (to someone/something) 7

    1. refuse to listen (to someone/something); ignore

      HEAR.YE.HIM. - MIDDLETOWN.OH 58-0328 E-41 041
      God said, "This is My beloved Son; hear ye Him." Methodist, your church is all right, but hear ye Him. Pentecost, your church is all right, hear ye Him. You're shouting, wonderful, but hear ye Him. There's speaking in tongues, wonderful, but hear ye Him. Your denomination? Wonderful, but hear ye Him. You can have all those things and still turn a deaf ear to Him; Hear ye Him.

    Turn gray 4

    1. become gray-haired.

      BELIEVE.YE.THAT.I.CAN.DO.THIS?. - LA.CA 51-0509 E-27 027
      And I looked and he had a board. They didn't have stretchers and things like we have. But he had a board, and there was an old man laying on there. And he had a cross-piece this way and one this. And he had his hands and his legs laying across. And he was shaking with palsy. He was old, turning gray.

    Turn in his/her grave 7

    1. (used for expressing disapproval of something) a person who is dead would be shocked by or angry about something if she/he were still alive.

      ABRAHAM.AND.HIS.SEED. - BLOOMINGTON.IL 61-0416 E-39 039
      Said, "Too long has the Methodist church forgot the beautiful art of rock-and-roll." If John Wesley knew that, he'd turn in his grave. Too much have you went to the things of the world.

    Turn over a new leaf 4

    1. Completely change one's behavior or views for the better; improve oneself and start again.

      GOD'S.PROVIDED.APPROACH.TO.FELLOWSHIP. - TULSA.OK 60-0630 E-43 043
      Now, if you just go and start--turn over a new leaf, that won't work. You've got to come God's way: Come under the Blood, then get into the Shekinah Glory in the Presence of God then you can worship the Lord God. Sure.

    Turnip 24

    1. a root vegetable.

      PRESENCE.OF.GOD.UNRECOGNIZED_ TOPEKA.KS V-20 N-2 THURSDAY_ 64-0618 60
      It wasn't in them to believe. "You," as my old southern mother used to say, "you can't get blood out of a turnip, because there's none there."

    Turnpike 3

    1. a toll road (in olden days, the turnpike, often shortened to Pike, was a pole which was set on a vertical post, so as to bar movement along a road. When the fee was paid, the pike was turned and the traveler passed through and along his way).

      PERSEVERANT. - TOPEKA.KS V-20 N-3 64-0619 180 073
      Look here, let me ask you something. Out on the street here on this busy highway that comes in from the super highway, right out on the main turnpike, I see the speed limit is eighty miles an hour.

    Twist 10

    1. A dance movement of the 1960's where the body quickly turns one way and then the other

      TRUMPET.GIVES.AN.UNCERTAIN.SOUND_ PHOENIX.AZ MONDAY_ 63-0114
      ..these people today doing this here new dance they got, they call the twist, or something. And I said, "I just don't know what in the world people want to break their legs and act like that for."

      WAY.OF.A.TRUE.PROPHET_ PHOENIX.AZ SATURDAY_ 63-0119
      But, they'll stand in these churches, and let their members in the basement, do the twist, and rock-and-roll.

    Two bits

    1. a quarter of a dollar (25 cents). "shave and a hair cut, two bits", a service offered by a barbershop for 25 cents.

      JUST.ONCE.MORE.LORD. - SHREVEPORT.LA V-17 N-11 63-1201E 67 036
      I seen them lay a pencil down, and that witch doctor stood there and made that pencil stand up, and run up-and-down on a place up there, and come back and played, like, "shave and a hair cut, two bits," and drawed out a unknown tongue and wrote it out, and one of them stood there interpreting it. Oh, my.

    Types and shadows 24

    1. something that represents or symbolizes something to come.

      CHURCH.CHOOSING.LAW.FOR.GRACE_ MIDDLETOWN.OH THURSDAY_ 61-0316 E-59
      You cannot break the types and shadows of God. That's what Israel done in the natural. That's what they've done in the spiritual. We realize that those things happened to Israel. Now, they've happened to the church today just as they did then.

    Ugly duckling 7

    1. an unattractive or uninteresting child who develops into a very attractive or interesting adult. One who does not fit in with others. Taken from the children's story of "The Ugly Duckling".

      WHAT.HOLY.GHOST.WAS.GIVEN.FOR. - JEFF.IN V-4 N-3 59-1217 143 078
      The Holy Ghost, when It comes upon you, and you become filled with the Holy Ghost, you ignore the things of the world. You ignore the things that would beset you; you ignore it. Then you become an odd acting creature, the ugly duckling to them, the little eagle that was hatched under the hen's nest, that I preached: "And When the Eagle Stirs Its Nest."

    Under someone's thumb, Be 3

    1. informal (be) completely controlled or influenced by another person.

      PRESENT.STAGE.OF.MY.MINISTRY. - JEFF.IN V-11 N-2 62-0908 92 055
      They think that a man that would have a ministry like that, he ought to have the world right under his thumb. He should, but they won't come under his thumb. See? And a man like that wouldn't put a ministry, a world under his thumb; he'd put it under His Master's thumb; 'cause he's not here representing himself; he's representing his Master.

    Under the sun 4

    1. (used with a superlative for emphasis) anywhere in the world.

      WE.WOULD.SEE.JESUS. - PHOENIX.AZ 57-0226 E-48 048
      And Christianity is the only religion out of the hundreds that there is under the sun this day, only one that can produce the evidence that Jesus Christ has raised from the dead.

    Under the weather 4

    1. unwell; ill; sick.

      REJECTED.KING. - JEFF.IN V-2 N-23 60-0515M 1-1 001
      This last week I've kinda been just a little under the weather, not exactly say under the weather; it was a test I had to take, a physical test; and that's what you heard that I was in the hospital.

    Undercoat 10

    1. 1. a layer of paint applied to a surface before the final coat of paint is applied. 2. a garment worn under a top garment.

      GREAT.COMING.REVIVAL_ CHICAGO.IL SUNDAY_ 54-0718A
      And America is having it's revival now. You can't hardly understand it, maybe. Maybe it's hard to see, but it's kind of an undercoat, just like when Jesus was here.

    Union 16

    1. The confederacy of States known as the United States of America.

      LAW.HAVING.A.SHADOW_ BINGHAMTON.NY FRIDAY_ 54-1203 E-3
      And I've always been a little partial of New York. I like New York. It's one of my favorite states in the union.

    Upper crust, The 4

    1. the aristocracy, the highest social classes; high social standing.

      UNWELCOMED.CHRIST. - JEFF.IN V-26 N-20 55-0911 063
      A man in a great social standing, how could he get on his knees, and cry and beg out to God? Go down the street, testifying? It would ruin, it would spoil, his social standing. Who cares about social standing? I want my standing in glory. Amen. Name on the Book of Life, that's what I want. Don't care nothing about your old social standing. Take your upper crust; going to be burnt into a crust, anyhow, so go on.

    2. “burnt into a crust” - destroyed.

    Ups and downs 4

    1. good and bad moments, happiness and sadness etc.

      AT.THY.WORD.LORD. - NEW.YORK.NY 51-0928 E-5 005
      Now, that's what's the matter with the Pentecostal church tonight (See?), too much differences. As soon as you get saved, you start this way, and a little trial comes along, and you fall off, and you go this way, and this way, and ups-and-downs, and fusses and fights, and carries on until... How could God trust you with those things?

    Upset the applecart, To 18

    1. To ruin one's plans. To offend someone by not aggreeing with their ideas.

      BUT.FROM.THE.BEGINNNING.IT.WAS.NOT.SO. - JEFF.IN 58 1002 E-36 036
      You'll get your letter from that church and take it over to another. And then you'll be in there for a few days, or maybe weeks, or months, or even years. Somebody will upset that little applecart of yours, and away you'll go with your letter somewhere else. And from there to somewhere... You're never settled.

    Valley Forge 24

    1. a village in south-eastern Pennsylvania, U.S.A. where Washington and His troops encamped in the winter of 1777-1778.

      JEZEBEL.RELIGION_ MIDDLETOWN.OH V-6 N-14 SUNDAY_ 61-0319 41
      And America, upon the basis of our forefathers who came here for religious freedom... We had godly men in them days as leaders: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, men of renowned character, men of God. America was America in those days. George Washington, here at Valley Forge, before he crossed the Delaware, praying all night, until he was wet plumb to his waist, kneeling in snow.

    Vampire 10

    1. a corpse that rises from the dead and sucks blood from humans. This is "folklore", or a traditional belief originating in the Slavic countries of Europe.

      RAPTURE.THE_ YUMA.AZ V-5 N-14 SATURDAY_ 65-1204 107
      Jesus when He started out, He started healing the sick and afflicted. "And oh, that great Rabbi, He's a prophet." And everybody wanted Him in his church, but when He set down one day and said, "I and My Father are One," that was different. That was different. That was different. "And except you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink His Blood, you have no life in you." "Why, he's a vampire."

    Varmints 10

    1. a person who is vile, worthless or objectionable.

      LIFE.STORY_ HAMMOND.IN. SUNDAY_ 52-0720A E-50
      ..but if there ever was a woman hater, I was one of them. My, I saw how they come when my daddy ran that bootleg place. And I'd see women come there, young women, with somebody else's husband. And the way they would carry on, I said, "If that's the way it is, I wouldn't have one of the varmints if they would law me to one of them."

    Vast gap

    1. a very large space.

      GOD.IN.SIMPLICITY_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0317M 18-3 {98}
      And I want to read first from the Book of Isaiah the 53rd chapter. Now, while you're turning to it I'd like to make a announcement or two, that tonight, I want to speak on this Book, bridging it between the last church age to the Seal opening. Now, there's a vast gap in there.

    Verge of something, On/to the 7

    1. at or close to the point of time when something begins; just about to be.

      BROKEN.CISTERNS. - PHOENIX.AZ V-19 N-4 65-0123 163 066
      And God's provided a way for every man and woman this morning, who's hungering and thirsts. Perhaps there's people sitting here, have never been saved. There's people sitting here who's on the verge of being saved.

    Vibrate/Vibrations 24

    1. to shake; to tremble; to quiver

      ABSOLUTE.AN_ SHREVEPORT.LA V-17 N-10 SUNDAY_ 63-1201M 14
      And then there's some that there's something back there that they can't catch, and you've got to get that person to find out what that is. See, there's something that's hindering them, something laying in the way. And one little shadow will vibrate it away.

    Villain of the play/piece, The 7

    1. (often humorous) a person or thing that is responsible for a certain problem, difficulty, etc. It also refers to the principal evil character in a book, play, etc.

      THREE.KINDS.OF.BELIEVERS. - JEFF.IN N-3 N-6 63-1124E 9-4 022
      You can see the evil one acting. You can see the villain of the play, how he's come on the scene with his cunningness to deceive. But you can also see the raptured church making herself ready. It's a great scene.

    Vital 24

    1. very important

      MARRIAGE.AND.DIVORCE_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-13 SUNDAY_ 65-0221M 1-2
      Good morning, visible audience and also invisible audience across the nation and where we're hooked up this morning. This gives me a great privilege to come here and to speak this morning on this a vital subject.

    Voodoo 16

    1. a kind of black witchcraft, in Africa, North America, Haiti and San Domingo, said to be accompanied, in some places, by barbarous rites, and even by human sacrifices.

      JEZEBEL.RELIGION_ MIDDLETOWN.OH V-6 N-14 SUNDAY_ 61-0319 23
      Right up here, a few years ago, I was in a religious meeting up here in the state, a big city. And that night a religious group, a orthodox church with teen-agers, had a convention. I've been in Africa under voodoo and everything; I never heard anything like that.

    Walk on air 10

    1. be in a state of euphoria; feel extremely happy, usually after receiving some particular good news.

      AS.THE.EAGLE.STIRRETH.UP.HER.NEST. - CHATAUQUA.OH 59-0815 E-32 032
      You remember when you were first coming to the living God. I remember the night when I received Christ as my personal Savior. It was so soft; I thought I was walking on air. I was converted in an old coal shed.

    Wall street 16

    1. The financial centre of the United States. The name of Wall Street, in New York city, which dates back to 1653, is derived from the wall or the fence erected at that time by the Dutch to protect themselves against the inroads of the Indians.

      FIRST.SEAL.THE_ JEFF.IN MONDAY_ 63-0318 168-4 {349}
      If we're living off of taxes, due bills for forty years from now, where are we at? There's only one thing can happen. That's to call in the currency and pay off the bonds; and we can't do it. Wall Street owns them, and Wall Street's controlled by the Jews; the rest of it's in the Vatican, and the Jews has got the rest of it in Wall Street with the commerce of the world.

    Wallflower 24

    1. a man or woman at a party who remains sitting or standing by the wall for want of a partner. One who is out of place. A misfit.

      GOD.TESTIFYING.OF.HIS.GIFTS_ HAMMOND.IN SUNDAY_ 52-0713E E-6
      As a young man, I didn't drink, I didn't go to shows, and so forth. I was really a wallflower. Girls thought I was... They all liked to smoke, and dance, and carry on, so well. And what was I to them?

      WORST.SINNER.IN.THE.CITY_ MINNEAPOLIS.MN SATURDAY_ 56-0218E E-45
      There He was, dirty feet. I can see the disciples. They couldn't come in. They wasn't invited. He was the only One invited. And He got by the flunkies. And He walked over in a corner and set down, a "wallflower," we'd call it today.

      JESUS.KEEPS.ALL.OF.HIS.APPOINTMENTS_ TAMPA.FL SATURDAY_ 64-0418E E-51
      There He sets, dirty feet, wallflower at the party, wallflower in a religious meeting. Invited, we ask Him to come for a revival. When He comes, we treat Him the same way they did there. He come and identify Himself, but nobody wants nothing to do with Him.

    Warm up to someone 10

    1. become more intimate and attached to someone; get closer to someone.

      WHY. - SHREVEPORT.LA 60-1126 E-45 045
      I believe if we just warm up to God, there's things here for us. We were made out of the earth, you know. If we just warm up to Him, and pray to Him, and quit our wickedness and things, all these things would be found.

    Warps around her

    1. marks on her from being disciplined with the belt.

      QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS_ JEFF.IN COD SUNDAY_ 64-0823M 946-119
      So then, a few days after that her mother got after her for something, and she sassed her. Now, that's not Rebekah at all. Took off and slammed the door, almost, and knocked the things off the wall, went to school. Now, I ought to have, seemingly, just taken my belt off, and followed her out there in the yard, and brought her back with warps around her. See? But I thought, "Wait a minute; I got to think eighteen year old thoughts."

    Wash woman 10

    1. a woman whose work is washing clothes, especially for hire.

      VICTORY.DAY_ SIERRA.VISTA.AZ SUNDAY_ 63-0421 E-53
      Look at Dwight Moody's conversion and many of those. You see? Little old wash woman with a message on her heart to do something for God, and she'd rented an old livery stable and got a minister to come down and preach. And nobody but a little old boy with his hair hanging down his neck, and his daddy's suspenders on, went down there and knelt down at the altar that night: Dwight Moody that sent half a million souls to Jesus Christ. See? That woman had something to do. It was for a purpose. She was made a wash woman for a purpose. Don't despise where God's got you, but serve your purpose.

    Watch Night

    1. Usually December 31st. A "watch night service" is one where people gather to "watch' for the first minute of a New Year, expressing thankfulness for past blessings and anticipating God's leadership for the new year.

      GOD'S.WRAPPED.GIFT_ JEFF.IN V-14 N-8 SUNDAY_ 60-1225
      It's always good to come to the house of the Lord, but much better seems like in these Christmas, and New Years, and the holy days. ... Now, I was hearing the "Watch Party" the other night, I believe, for next Saturday night.

      ABSOLUTE.THE_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-18 SUNDAY_ 62-1230M
      Monday night is the watch service. And then, that gives you Tuesday, New Year's day, if you're out of town, can go back home.

    Water has passed, etc under the bridge (since then), A lot of 11

    1. it's a long time ago; a lot of things have happened (since then) and the situation is different now.

      JESUS.CHRIST.THE.SAME.YESTERDAY. - JONESBORO.AR 53-0506 E-3 003
      And then, back there when that colored girl caught the lapels of my coat, and wouldn't let me go, back there, I never forget that as long as I live. There's been much water has went under the bridge since we met last. Been seven years ago, exactly, this year, when I started out praying for the sick.

    Waterhead 10,24

    1. refers to an arrangement of a women's hair so that it makes her head look bigger than normal.

      CONVINCED.THEN.CONCERNED_ TEMPE.AZ THURSDAY_ 62-0118
      Every car you pull up behind is a woman with a cigarette in her fingers, with one of these waterhead haircuts that they're using now, and all this common nonsense.

    2. a medical condition of infancy, characterized by an abnormal amount of fluid in the brain, causing enlargement of the head and wasting away of the brain.

      JESUS.CHRIST.THE.SAME_ TUCSON.AZ SUNDAY_ 61-0205E
      I pray that You'll manifest Yourself tonight, Lord. These people love You, and they're sick. This man sitting here, holding this little waterhead baby; this poor old dad sitting over there coughing; this mother sitting in a wheelchair; one yonder with a cane, (white) in the hand, O God, they cry, "Pass me not, O gentle Saviour",..

    Wave sheaf

    1. Leviticus 23: 10-11 a bundle of the first ripened wheat of the harvest.

      RISING.OF.THE.SUN_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-12 SUNDAY_ 65-0418M 14-1
      If there would be any holy ritual, it should come forth on the sabbath day, which was the seventh day of the week, which is Saturday. But did you notice in this memorial, to wave it on the first day of the week. The sheaf, which was the first of your seed that you planted, when it comes up and ripens, you cut down this sheaf and take it to the priest, and let him take it and wave it before the Lord for your acception, that you are accepted.

    We got some a stinger

    1. this comment might sting or hurt a little.

      CHRIST.IS.THE.MYSTERY_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-7 SUNDAY_ 63-0728
      We got some a stinger there. I hope everybody on the tape gets that too.

    Wear and tear 7,15

    1. damage or loss of quality because of normal use.

      THY.HOUSE. - TIFTON.GA 61-0808 E-1 001
      And none of the people that come are rich people. They're just common people. And I know that takes a whole lot of your--saving your pennies to do that. because I know how much gasoline it takes to come and go. And besides that, the wear and tear on a car for the trip-- round trip is about, oh, I guess it's about sixteen, seventeen hundred miles for one sermon. And come that each week. Think of that.

    Weather vane 24

    1. a flag or flat piece of metal set up high to show which direction the wind is blowing

      GOD.HIDING.HIMSELF.IN.SIMPLICITY_ ALBQ.NM FRIDAY_ 63-0412E E-58
      God makes you act funny, even to look like a weather vane standing on top of a building. But as long as it's God doing it, why, all right.

    Weather/ride (out) the storm 7

    1. manage to survive a difficult period or situation.

      CONDEMNATION.BY.REPRESENTATION. - JEFF V-2 N-13 60-1113 23-2 063
      Don't try to judge God by our own feeling. We got to judge God by His Word, what He said. Don't go off on what some tantrum, "This is a great church. It's weathered a lot of storms, and this is that." Come back to what God said.

      MAKING.A.WAY. - JEFF.IN 56-0304 E-38 038
      The floods may come and the tides may go, but he who's safely in Christ will ride the storm of the atomic the same as Noah did the storm of the flood, safely in the ark.

    Webster 24

    1. an American lexicographer who compiled an international dictionary.

      PERSEVERANCE_ PHOENIX.AZ SUNDAY_ 63-0113E E-18
      The word "perseverant" means to be, I think, according to Webster, "persistent--to be perseverant, persistent in making a goal."

    Weigh every word 24

    1. to consider carefully before speaking.

      AT.THY.WORD.LORD_ NEW.YORK.NY FRIDAY_ 51-0928
      Divine gifts are very sacred. And remember, a person could send their soul to hell with one. If you'll notice on the platform on my cases, my patients, I'm very careful of what I say. I weigh every word. I find the condition of that soul before I say anything.

      GOD.IN.SIMPLICITY_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0317M 17-5 {94}
      You know what man calls great sometimes is not great, but what God calls great, man calls foolish; and what God calls foolish, man calls great. So let's bear that in mind. Weigh every word.

      PERFECTION_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 56-0610 E-75
      Remember, the preaching of this Word will stand in the judgment. And I'll have to stand behind it, stand there. I'll have to be a witness to that. I can't take it back. I've said it. Got to stay with that. It's going to meet me in judgment, just as God said His Word and can't take it back. See? Now, I weigh every word first in my heart and see if I want to say it myself. If it seems wrong, I don't say it.

    Welcome mat 15

    1. A mat for wiping your shoes on, often with the word “welcome” on it, that is placed in front of a door.

      ELISHA.THE.PROPHET. - CHICAGO.IL 56-1002E E-50 050
      I can see her walking out through that little rose garden, down the little path, over to the little corner, open up the door. The welcome mat she steps over, where this man of God had stepped over, and laid the little fellow down, got Elijah's pillow, where that holy man of God had laid, and stuck it back under his little head, and put a little blanket up over his face.

    2. a warm welcome: a friendly greeting.

      GOD'S.SERVANT.JOB. - PHOENIX.AZ 55-0223 E-68 068
      And He laid out the welcome mat to me to come home. "Whosoever will, let him come and drink from the fountains of the waters of Life freely. He that comes I will in no wise cast out."

    Went to the bench 24

    1. also, "sworn to the bench"; the act or ceremony of being received into the position of a judge; "the bench" - the Judge's seat in court; a single judge may be called "the bench" or a group of judges may be called "the bench".

      GOD.KEEPS.HIS.WORD.1_ PHOENIX.AZ WEDNESDAY_ 57-0306 E-5
      He said, "One time when I was practicing law," said, "I went down and I heard a few cases tried." And said, "When I heard the cases, I watched the emotions the attorneys went through." And said, "When I tried my first case, after I was sworn to the bench," he said, "I took off my coat. And it was a lady I was defending."

      RISING.OF.THE.SUN_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-12 SUNDAY_ 65-0418M 3-1
      When we started to open the Seven Seals--or the church ages, rather, just prior to the opening of the Seven Seals, Christ was standing with hair like wool, white; and I described that to you that the old English judges and judges of long ago, when they went to the bench to be sworn in, their supreme authority was given them; they wore a white wig.

    Wet Nurse / Mother

    1. a women hired to suckle another's child

      TEACHING.ON.MOSES_ JEFF.IN V-14 N-4 SUNDAY_ 56-0513
      She said, "Go, get her, and tell her that I'll give her three hundred dollars a week to take care of this baby, and I'll give her a whole suite of rooms over in the palace. And if you know where there's a Hebrew woman, that's a wet nurse, that can nurse this baby. This is my baby."

    When it rains, it pours ( It never rains but it pours)

    1. Sometimes good or bad things happen to us in abundance.

      INVISIBLE.UNION.OF.THE.BRIDE. - SHP.LA V-2 N-15 65-1125 9-4 028
      Sometimes everything will run fine for you for years. Then all at once, you'll hit a spell where we say it many times in the south here, "When it rains, it pours," and everything goes wrong. You're going through a nighttime.

    When the chips are down 7

    1. When the situation is at its worst.

      IDENTIFICATION. - PHOENIX.AZ 63-0123 E-33 033
      And how could He, in Pilate's courtyard, when the (Excuse the expression when the chips were down, as we would call it...

    Where my rifle was shot in

    1. where the rifle was tested by firing to see if it was true on the target.

      I.HAVE.HEARD.BUT.NOW.I.SEE_ SHREVEPORT.LA V-7 N-3 SATURDAY_ 65-1127E 135
      I picked out a ridiculous place, an old dry limb hanging out there, about fifty yards, where my rifle was shot in.

    Where there's smoke, there's fire 5

    1. When there is evidence of a problem, there probably is a problem.

      ALL.THINGS. - SHREVEPORT.LA 62-1124E E-16 016
      And did you see that popular vote across the country? Quickly they slammed his name everywhere, and the people said, seventy percent of the Americans said, "Oh, where there's smoke, there's fire." Now, that precious brother will have to linger under that all of his days, when he's as innocent as anybody here.

    Whipsnapper 3

    1. an impertinent young person. Also, whippersnapper (Originally, a whip Snapper was a cheeky chap who has nothing better to do than stand around snapping whips).

      MICAIAH.THE.PROPHET. - CHICAGO.IL 61-0426 E-43 043
      Took away with some fantastic idea of some young whipsnapper over there in college that knew more about it than God did Himself, and you start a doctrine on something like that. Come back to the Word!

    Whirl, Be in a 7,9

    1. mind filled with many things at one time; so preoccupied.

      GOD.OF.THIS.EVIL.AGE. - JEFF.IN V-4 N-9 65-0801M 6 004
      It's so busy, you know. My mind is in such a whirl all the time. You can imagine what it is of people, not only from right here at this church, but from around the world. See? And it sort of keeps me in a whirl all the time.

    2. To move rapidly in a circular manner as in an orbit; circle swiftly.

      EARLY.SPIRITUAL.EXPERIENCES. - HAMMOND.IN 52-0713A E-41 041
      He said, "I will go out and pray for your soul," one saying to the other. The one went back to the yard, knelt down, and got under a beech tree, and begin to pray, "God, have mercy on his friend's soul." And when he did, he said, "Down before him came the Angel of the Lord in a whirl."

    Whistle-stop 7

    1. a short visit to different places, (for example the ones made by a politician during an election campaign, during the time when such trips were made by train).

      MIGHTY.CONQUEROR. - DALLAS.TEXAS 58-0610 E-29 029
      Abraham said, "Father, can we just make a whistle-stop, as we go through? I'd like to look the old place over." "Sure, I'm going to talking with My disciples for forty days. Look around awhile."

    White as a sheet (ghost), As 4

    1. very pale because of fear, shock, illness etc. Usually with be/go/turn/look.

      PRESUMING. - S.PINES.NC 62-0610M E-24 024
      And I watched that vision for a few minutes, and when it left I seen it was for Bud's brother. I only had one spur. I spurred my little horse, and turned him around. I run up to Eddie real quick. I had a horse run out into some brush there. I said, "Eddie, Eddie, brother." He said, "What's the matter, Brother Branham? You look white as a sheet." I said, "I've got THUS SAITH THE LORD."

    White Christmas

    1. When the ground is covered with snow during the Christmas season.

      DIVINE.HEALING_ JEFF.IN V-26 N-9 SUNDAY_ 54-1219M
      Now, looks like everybody's singing songs about a white Christmas and praying for the same. We may have it, looks like.

    White lie, (A little) 4

    1. a lie which seems to do no harm and is more polite than the truth, usually told to spare someone's feelings or for convenience.

      JEHOVAH.JIREH. - PHOENIX.AZ 55-0222 E-56 056
      There Abraham sat out there, backslid, and telling a little, white lie. But the little white ones are big black ones. Look... Said, "Oh, yes. That's my sister," and so forth, and backslid, sitting out there, scared of his own skin.

    Whited walls 24

    1. literally walls that have been painted with a lime mixture to make them white. The expression "whited walls" refers to something or someone that has been given the appearance to conceal faults, defects or falsehoods.

      MARK.OF.THE.BEAST_ JEFF.IN V-26 N-3 THURSDAY_ 54-0513
      They called Saint Patrick a Catholic, he never was a Catholic. Said Joan of Arc was a saint; the priests burnt her as a witch. No wonder Jesus said, "You white the sepulchers of the prophets, and you put them in there, you whited walls." That's right.

    Who wouldn't have it

    1. To the utmost; with zeal; heartily; to the greatest extent.

      DOES.GOD.CHANGE.HIS.MIND_ JEFF.IN V-5 N-9 SUNDAY_ 65-0418E
      The denominations has prospered to who wouldn't have it.

      BLASPHEMOUS.NAMES_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-21 SUNDAY_ 62-1104M
      And I was just preaching to "who wouldn't have it."

      ISRAEL.AT.THE.RED.SEA.2_ JEFF.IN IC 65-96 FRIDAY_ 53-0327
      And they just began to gather and eat for who wouldn't have it. Tastes like honey in the rock.

    Whoopee 10

    1. Wild merrymaking, excitement, exultation. Often in "making whoopee."

      QA.HEBREWS.PART.1_ JEFF.IN COD WEDNESDAY_ 57-0925 248-236
      An unbeliever will go through the world; he'll have miseries, woes, what he calls having a big time, "Whoopee," having a big time: women, wine, and big time.

    2. an expression of great excitement.

      LIFE.STORY_ HAMMOND.IN. SUNDAY_ 52-0720A
      And about that time he got all happy. And when he did, he went, "Whoopee," Just jumped up in the air, kicked his heels together, said, "Glory to God," said, "Hallelujah, there's not enough room here for me to preach." And off the platform he walked like that, like a kid.

    Whoop-up; (whooped-up) 10

    1. to create a noisy disturbance, as in celebration.

      HEBREWS.CHAPTER.6_ JEFF.IN HEB SUNDAY_ 57-0908E
      Oh, to this modern rhythms, whoop it up on a piano ...

      SUPER.SIGN_ JEFF.IN V-15 N-7 SUNDAY_ 59-1227M
      And the bands begin to whoop up the jazz music, which was the great fad of that day, as we have rock-and-roll today.

    Wiggle, To 16

    1. to move any part of the body rapidly from side to side ; to wriggle.

      GOD.IN.HIS.WORD_ OAKLAND.CA SATURDAY_ 57-0323 E-40
      Footprints meant victory, and it's the same thing tonight. If you're paralyzed and can't wiggle a finger, say, "God, I want to wiggle a finger." That's right. "You promised me I could do it, and I'll lay there and wiggle till I do wiggle it." That's right. God made the promise.

    Wildcats

    1. the name of a popular Rock Band in the southern United States in the 1950's and 1960's

      REDEMPTION.IN.COMPLETENESS_ LVL.KY V-25 N-8 TUESDAY_ 54-0330
      Clayton McMichen and his Wildcats is going to be at the bar tonight. If I hadn't joined that old church, I could go down. You might as well go on. Where your treasures is, there your heart is also.

      MARRIAGE.OF.THE.LAMB_ PHOENIX.AZ SUNDAY_ 62-0121E E-53
      And I'd seen a little old girl down below the hill there where I'd been working. And she come out of there. And I was standing at the door, knocked at the door, and she come to the door. And she was some of these here wildcat players, you know. Like this bunch they had to have arrested down here in Phoenix last night, I believe it was, doing this new perversion of rock and roll, or twisters, or ever what it was. And they had to get the cops to come get them.

      BALM.IN.GILEAD_ LONG.BEACH.CA SATURDAY_ 61-0218 E-45
      And she started across the floor and she had that old radio on, and this here Clayton Matt Mitchell, or ever what, some kind of one of these here Georgia tom cats, wild cats, or something like that... She had some kind of a .. just sawing this old fiddle, you know, going, playing that little song about five foot two and covered over with furs and all that kind of nonsense. (NOTE: “five foot two and covered over with furs” – the words from a popular song at the time).

    Wimpy 16

    1. The name of a fast food establishment selling hamburgers; taken from "Wimpy", a character in the comic strip "Popeye the sailor".

      KNOWETH.IT.NOT_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-10 SUNDAY_ 65-0815 5-4
      Any of you know where the old Wimpy, the hamburger stand used to be, he's got a tent setting in there, trying to bring in the sheaves and find if there's any lost ones out in that way that's been ordained to Life, that he might win through his ministry to Christ.

    Windle

    1. Also called"wind-lass". 1. An apparatus operated by hand or machine, for hauling or lifting, consisting of a drum or cylinder upon which is wound the rope, cable or chain which is attached to the object to be lifted. To "windle" is to lift or haul something.

      AS.EAGLE.STIRRETH_ TULSA.OK V-2 N-12 SUNDAY_ 60-0403
      Now, notice, when He went out to the well that day and sat down, and the disciples went in town to buy some vittles. While they were gone, a lovely looking woman come walking out with a pot on her head. And she let the windle down to get some water, and she heard somebody say, "Bring Me a drink."

    2. To "windle" or more correctly to "dwindle". To lose strength; become smaller; to waste away; to shrink

      TO.WHOM.SHALL.WE.GO_ JEFF.IN SATURDAY_ 60-0604
      ...whatever you want to be; see if you don't windle and twindle and die! That's right. It won't take but a few suns to do it. So the only eternal achievement there is is Jesus Christ.

    Winds, To be scattered to the four 16

    1. to be absolutely irrecoverable; Israel - scattered to every corner of the world.

      HANDWRITING.ON.THE.WALL_ GREENVILLE.SC WEDNESDAY_ 58-0618 E-13
      And there come a junction of time that God had to judge in the days of the coming of the Lord Jesus, the church had cooled off again, and sin had set in the church. Then there came a Angel and appeared to Zacharias. A prophet came on the scene. Then the supernatural was done, then judgment to Israel, when she was scattered to the four winds of the world.

    Wiped out 15

    1. destroyed.

      JEHOVAH.JIREH. - SIOUX.FALLS.SD 56-0224 E-48 048
      So They went on to Sodom. And Sodom was wiped out.

    Wishy-washy

    1. diluted; lacking in consistence or vigor.

      BELIEVEST.THOU.THIS?. - MINNEAPOLIS.MN 50-0716 E-49 049
      What's the matter with Christians? Wishy-washy, half jellyfish. Get a backbone in you and stand up for God and what's right. And today, stand for what the Bible says, and believe it with all your heart.

    With open arms 4

    1. willingly, with enthusiasm. Usually welcome/receive/accept something

      ARROW.OF.GOD'S.DELIVERANCE. - SHREVEPORT.LA 56-0801 E-76 076
      Come to this place, where as God's prophet, I speak in Christ's Name that He's here with open arms, ready to give every person, every thing and Arrow of complete deliverance.

    With your nose in the air 7

    1. (used for showing disappoval) looking and feeling very superior to other people; disdaining others.

      BELIEVEST.THOU.THIS. - CHICAGO.IL 53-0906A E-43 043
      Put a hundred dollar suit on eighty-four cents, walk around with your nose up in the air, like it'd rain it'd would drown you, thinking you're somebody. You're not worth but eighty-four cents if you weigh a hundred and fifty pounds.

    Withering 10

    1. weakening; wrinkling.

      SERPENT'S.SEED_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-4 SUNDAY_ 58-0928E
      Here as we look at our hands a withering, our hair's turning gray, and shoulders stooping; we're aware that we are mortals and headed towards the dust from which our heads are bowed now, and where we come from.

    Wolf in sheep's clothing,A 4

    1. something or someone evil diguised as something or someone good.

      THIRSTING.FOR.LIFE. - CHICAGO.IL 59-0613 E-28
      Some people thinks that their young gaiety, and running out, and dances and things, cutting-up, carrying-on, immoral, next morning with a headache, heartache, broke up homes. That's not life. That's death disguised. That's the wolf in the sheep's clothes. That cannot be life. That's death.

    Won't give an inch 10

    1. to refuse to compromise: to not back down: to keep original position.

      STRAIT.IS.THE.GATE. - JEFF.IN CH 35-66 59-0301M 204 101
      See? How Christ is pushing after that message this morning to get right down into the hearts of the people and create something there; not an excitement, not an emotion (It comes with it.), but to create an undying faith there that won't say, give an inch to the enemy.

    Word for word 4

    1. exactly, literally, using all the words.

      REVELATION.CHAPTER.ONE. - JEFF.IN ROJC 9-67 60-1204M 40 018
      Many years ago when the Angel of the Lord had met me down here at the river the first time, and appeared in that Light, and the Words that He spoke there; eleven years later, when I walked into a meeting, this little woman rose and spoke in tongues and interpreted. It was word for word the same thing that Angel said.

    Worked up 2

    1. nervous or anxious.

      BELIEVEST.THOU.THIS?. - HOUSTON.TX 50-0115 E-21 021
      I believe that those things are ordained. I think where it is today, we, more or less, get worked up in a little excitement, or a little enthusiasm, and sometimes brings more reproach than it does good.

    World without end 14

    1. Endlessly; forever; eternity.

      SMYRNAEAN.CHURCH.AGE. - JEFF.IN ROJC 185-227 60-1206 183 093
      Take these souls into Thy custody, Father; they're the fruits of the message tonight, and of the message from the Holy Spirit that was spoken among us. And we ask, Father, God, that You'll be with them all the days of their life. And may, in the world without end may we meet them in there, saved by the Blood and grace of Christ.

    Worm-weeded in/wormed 10

    1. to move in, or proceed in a winding, creeping or devious manner

      GOD.IDENTIFIED.BY.CHARACTERISTICS_ BEAUMONT.TX V-13 N-1 WEDNESDAY_ 64-0311
      Communism has (wormed) the country, and preachers are gone after communism instead of Christ.

      GREATER.THAN.SOLOMON_ DALLAS.TX V-19 N-10 FRIDAY_ 64-0306
      It's so worm-weeded in until even communists has anticommunist setups, to find out who they are.

    Wrangling (a-wrangling) 10

    1. Herd or round up horses or cattle

      Meanest Man I Know 62-0127
      We were wrangling the horses, Bro. Eddie Byskal and I...

    2. To argue, dispute or quarrel noisely

      55-0224 WATER.FROM.THE.ROCK_ PHOENIX.AZ THURSDAY_
      Yet in all of our wrangling, and fanaticisms, and things, that we get into, ...

    Wrapped up 24

    1. completely covered in: folded up; enclosed.

      GOD'S.WRAPPED.GIFT_ JEFF.IN V-14 N-8 SUNDAY_ 60-1225 85
      So they got the church so wrapped up in these denominations till they can take a trustee board or a deacon board and turn a good pastor any way they want to. But they can't turn God, that's one thing sure, God's going to remain God.

      GOD'S.WRAPPED.GIFT_ JEFF.IN V-14 N-8 SUNDAY_ 60-1225 155
      God's Gift Package, wrapped up in the form today of Holy Ghost.

    2. wrapped up: involved with; in love with

      INVASION.OF.THE.USA_ JEFF.IN V-26 N-1 SUNDAY_ 54-0509 47
      Now, but Ahab, he just fell for her because she was pretty, I suppose, and marry. It couldn't be nothing else about her, because as wicked as she was. And she come over there. And then, of course, being wrapped up with her like that, and loved her, why, he caused all Israel to sin and to go against God, and to tear down the altars of God,built the altars of Baalam. And they had Baal worship all through Israel at the time.

    Writing on the wall,The 4

    1. Without mistake; in plain view.

      HANDWRITING.ON.THE.WALL. - JEFF.IN 58-0309M E-62 062
      And today the Holy Spirit can put the writing on the wall, and show Himself present, and men sit there and look around, women. Oh, it's coldness.

    2. An event or indication which points to impending dangers, misfortune or difficulty; a warning of bad things to come.

      FAITH.ONCE.DELIVERED.TO.THE.SAINTS. - INDNPLS.IN 57-0610 E-30 030
      And as I see that if I'm ever going to do something for God, I got to do it now. For I see the signs and the writing on the wall. I see the church going into its Laodicean condition. I see little isms, and fashions, and them sensations scattering the church and separating it, making it worse than ever. Then I know it's time. I can't help it. Something in me makes me scream out, "Back to the Word." That's right.

    Xmas 3

    1. a sort of commercial shorthand for “Christmas”; taking “Christ” out of “Christmas”.

      DIVINE.HEALING. - JEFF.IN V-26 N-10 54-1219M 9 004
      And the fact of all the error and everything there is about it, there's something about it that the world tries to make it an Xmas, you know. And but God's still got a Christmas in it somewhere, hasn't He? He sure has. He's got something about it, just the very names, and the thoughts of the birth of the Lord Jesus. Oh, the world's put Santa Claus in His place, sure, but not to the Christian. It's still a Christmas.

    Yankee 18

    1. A nickname applied to any citizen of the United States. However, during the Civil War, the term “Yankee” referred to an inhabitant of one of the northern States.

      HEAR.YE.HIM. - INDIANAPOLIS.IN 56-0611 E-38 038
      In closing you might say this. Some time ago, as you know I like to hunt; I just love to hunt, not so much to kill the animal, but to be in the wilderness. And I used to hunt up in the north woods, way up in northern New Hampshire, and up in Maine. And I used to hunt with a fellow up there, little old Yankee; he was a nice boy. I liked him real well. His name was Burt Call.

    Year-around (round) 14

    1. all year; from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.

      GOD'S.COVENANT.WITH.ABRAHAM. - SIOUX.FALLS.SD 56-0223 E-55 055
      We lived so poor mama use to take meat skins and boil them in a pan, or put them in the oven, old bacon skins we'd get from the store, ten cents for a sack-full about that high. And that's how we got the lard. And they'd put that in the corn bread when we made our corn pone. And we'd have that and black-eyed peas, and sorghum molasses. That's about all we had the year around.

      WE.WOULD.SEE.JESUS. - SANTA.MARIA.CA 62-0627 E-1 001
      We came through Phoenix the other day when it was around about a hundred and eleven. When we got up here, why, I was about ready to hunt my overcoat up. Is this the climate year round, about like this? Somebody said it was this way practically all the time. (Note: speaking of the temperature, a hundred and eleven degrees Fahrenheit)

    You bet

    1. “yes”, “of course !”

      FROM.THAT.TIME. - KLAMATH.FALLS.OR 60-0716 E-1 001
      Said, "I can come in. Oh, I just had to run down and see you." And I said, "You bet you can come in."

    You can't beat/top that 11

    1. No one can do better than that.

      TOKEN.THE. - JEFF.IN. V-2 N-19 63-0901M 22-1 075
      A Bible student, you say, "I was a good person, Brother Branham. I don't care what anybody says, you can't beat that man. I never saw him do anything wrong in my life."

    You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours 7

    1. (saying) if you do me a favor, I'll do one for you in return.

      ADOPTION.OR.PLACING. - JEFF.IN AD.PT.4 60-0522E 104 053
      A lot of people say, "Now, you scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours. Yeah, you do something for me, and I'll do something for you."

    Your name is not fit for the dogs to bark with

    1. your “name” or reputation is not worthy of being noticed. (A reference to hunting with dogs that will “bark” when an animal or something of importance is discovered).

      EL.SHADDAI_ LA.CA THURSDAY_ 59-0416 E-42
      If you've been the wickedest woman in this country, your name is not fit for the dogs to bark with, let me tell you something. If you take a hold of God's promise, and lay a hold of that and live, and God will pour His strength into you, till you'll be so sainted, till everybody will know you're a Christian.

    Yum-yum 14

    1. Used usually by or to children, to express great delight, especially in the taste of food.

      TEACHING.ON.MOSES. - JEFF.IN V-14 N-4 56-0513 282 108
      Now, mother, get me something to eat; I'm starving. You know, I'm just about starved." Like you are when you come home from school, you know; oh, just got to have something. So she went and got her a sandwich. Said, "Now, tell me. "And she going, "Yum, yum, yum," eating, you know, like.

    Zero hour 3

    1. the moment when an attack was to begin. (Originally, this term was used in World War I. In these years of the Age of Space the “countdown” or rather “the end of a countdown” has pretty much usurped the role formerly played by zero hour.

      COUNTDOWN. - JEFF.IN V-11 N-3 62-0909M 103 066
      You know, when John Glenn sat there that morning, they were listening to the countdown. "Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, zero." See? And now he's got to a spot to where it says, "It's three minutes till something's going to take off." They don't know what it is. "Three minutes until we have the zero hour."

    Zero in on,To 6

    1. to concentrate on, to put a lot of effort into.

      TO.WHOM.WOULD.WE.GO. - CHATAUQUA.OH 60-0606 E-63 063
      Like David with his slingshot, he had to head that rock right first. See, you got to take aim; you got to zero in. And if you want to zero in, put it on Christ Jesus. For He's the Way, the Truth, the Light, the Foundation. All of it is for you.

    Zodiac 3

    1. comes from the Greek word zodiakos, meaning “a circle of animals”. The ancients believed that the heavens formed a circular belt with twelve parts, each symbolized by a figure such as Taurus, the bull, and Aries, the ram.

      MANIFESTED.SONS.OF.GOD. - JEFF.IN AD.2 60-0518 45 026
      As I've often made this remark and said God made three Bibles. The first one, He put It in the sky, the zodiac. Did you ever see the zodiac? What is the first figure in the zodiac? The virgin. What's the last figure in the zodiac? Leo the lion. He come the first time through the virgin; He comes the second time as the Lion of the tribe of Judah. See?

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