That Day On Calvary

September 25, 1960

What was it like when sin first struck the earth in the beginning? Brother Branham described it as a sheet of blackness falling from the heavens. It was an anesthetic that actually paralyzed the earth. Every creature was thrown into bondage. Death, sickness, troubles, and sorrows repressed man on all sides, and all nature fell with it. We were set here hopeless, and every creature and person born on earth was subject to this doom. That’s why a Redeemer had to come from some other place where there was no sin. No man was worthy.

When man realized that he was separated from his God, he became a wanderer. He wept and toiled and wandered through the mountains and deserts trying to find a way back into the Presence of God. But there was no way back. He didn’t know which way to turn, so he just kept going. Something on the inside of him told him that he came from a place that was perfect.

That same longing for perfection still dwells in people today. Brother Branham said, "There is not a person here in this visible audience this morning, or in the audience of the magnetic tape, where it'll go around the world; there's no one here or anywhere, but what seeks for that perfection." There's always something that seems to get in the way of obtaining this sought after life, but you'll learn on this tape that because you seek for that in your heart, "it shows that there is a perfection somewhere. Somewhere there's something."

Humans throughout the ages did everything they knew how to do, and still couldn’t find this place of restitute and satisfaction. But one day God put back into the hands of man a way back to what he was longing and searching for. That day on Calvary!

Finally one day, that's that day at Calvary, there was One came down from glory, One by the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God Who came from glory, and Calvary was formed. That was the day that the price was paid, and sin question was settled forever, and it opened up the way unto this thing that we're hungering and thirsting for. It brought a place of satisfaction.

Easter time is always a hopeful and helpful reminder of the promise and assurance that Christ gave us that day on Calvary. Unlike those from the days of old, we don't have to toil and wander around anymore in search of something that's not reachable. We have a way back into the Presence of God, and it's all because of Christ on Calvary. May this Easter bring a refreshing to our souls as we look back to what Christ did for us and look forward to that great day when we shall meet our Lord and Saviour in the eastern skies.