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July 25, 1990

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God of This Evil Age # 8 NLV

July 25, 1990

God of This Evil Age #8

‘Making a Choice; Beauty of Holiness’

    July 25, 1990  

	Let us pray: Heavenly Father, we thank You for Your goodness, Your
grace, Your compassion Lord, for having led us thus far with the certain
realization that we can say with Paul, “I know in Whom I have believed
and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed
unto Him against that day.” And Lord, we know that that day of the
great Resurrection is upon us and we also know that there is some people
who have committed themselves and surely will be a part of that group
immortal who shall not die but shall be immortalized here on earth. We
don’t know who it is Lord, You do, but we believe we’re in that hour
by vindication. We believe in Your integrity, O God, not the integrity
of man but Your integrity. Help us tonight in the study in Jesus’
Name, we pray. Amen. You may be seated.

1.	Now we are up to number 8 in The God of this Evil Age, and last
Sunday we barely got through about one paragraph, page 17, paragraph 71.
And in that passage or paragraph Bro. Branham was comparing the church
in Jesus’ day of His flesh, to the present hour of the Son of man or
Jesus in the form of the Spirit in the Pillar of Fire according to
Matthew 12 and Luke 17. He pointed out that Israel led by the Sanhedrin
refused to receive the Son of God and took instead a murderer called
Barabbas, refused the Word of God to rule over them, accepting only
their own traditions and crucified Christ. So today, the same spirit in
the children of disobedience would react exactly the same as did Israel.
They would refuse God Himself, refuse the Word, crucify to themselves
the Son of God, receive a murderer, the anti-Christ, and not even know
it, being as blinded as Israel was. 

2.	For Israel to be so blind spiritually and the church today so blinded
is evidence of a strong spirit of disobedience which is strictly one of
unbelief, especially in the face of evidence. So as it was then it is
now, as Israel believed the lie and was doomed or damned, so the church
today. And we read last Sunday that little article from the Jerusalem
Post, and you could see that Israel put itself right in the place of
Messiah. Everything said about Him, they arrogated to themselves.
Everything that Messiah would do they said they would do. They became
self-glorifiers. They still are and they’ll die for it, except
144,000. So you see we have the Scripture as Bro. Branham taught us
fulfilled, Alpha is Omega. What God did once He can continues to do,
what man did he continues to do, and so what you see from the Garden of
Eden you see it coming now to a fulfillment, and the Bible is simply
chalk full of information concerning the beginning to the end so that
you get the complete history. So, all right. 

3.	We’ll go back now to paragraph 72 and remember Bro. Branham has
just been looking at two thousand years ago complaint, comparing it
today, and he said, “They are children of disobedience of absolute
disbelief.” In other words, it’s not a matter of unbelief; it’s a
matter of disbelief. So something must have come to their attention,
like as I one time said to Bro. Branham, I said, “Bro. Branham,” and
I didn’t know he had said this on a tape, already said it. I said,
“Bro. Branham, isn’t it true or could it be true that those who have
made you the Lord Jesus Christ will have less to contend with at the
White Throne than those who did not make you anything because at least
they saw something.” He said, “That’s exactly right.” So,
you’ll notice the children of disobedience, disbelief, given a strong
delusion to believe the lie and be damned by it. 

4.	Eve off one word was not devil possessed. She was not even spirit
possessed; what had happened, her own spirit became anointed by the
spirit of the devil. And one word off gave her the strong delusion to
believe Satan’s lie. Satan lied and she presumed. Now are you in that
position tonight that you presume that all is well with you? And in this
age the Bible said, “They’re wretched, miserable, naked, and blind,
and don’t know it.” And Bro. Branham illustrated with the woman
running around with shorts in literal nakedness. They think nothing of
it. They’re just like the prostitute engaged in her traffic, and when
the act was done, it was no different, than a woman eating a piece of
bread and wiping her mouth. Now, if you’ve seen any picture shows, any
TV, any video cassettes, and you don’t understand that, you are
insane, a complete tool of the devil, so that you call righteousness,
unrighteousness, and unrighteousness, righteousness. You call evil, good
and blindness, sight. That’s it. …

[72]	Now…when the church world would not accept Jesus, the Word
manifested of that day, now they would not do it, …why? They had It
interpreted another way. 

5.	Now he said, “The Word was manifested, literally brought to pass,
visibly through a physical evidence.” It was to be observed. And they
observed it. And seeing they did not see and hearing they did not hear.
They would not accept the Word manifested of that day. The reason was
they had interpreted another way. As Bro. Branham said, “Jesus came
according to the Word, but not according to their interpretation.” 

[72]	But they ought to have known that He was the Word, because
everything that God said He would do, He did... not according to them. 

	Now watch it carefully. You can go astray here. You can say, “Well,
now, I really don’t know that I have found anything in the Bible that
delineated, declared and explained all those things I see in the
Gospels. I don’t know that it was all written down; one, two, three,
four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.” The prophet is telling you
here that Jesus did exactly what the Word of God said He would do
whether you have your understanding of It or not, vindicated. It was
what God said and how God did it that was the interpretation and they
would get it after the fact. See? He said He would do it and He did it. 

[72]	And He said…, “Search the Scriptures for this hour, and if I do
not meet the qualification that was spoken for Me to do, then don’t
believe Me.” [Jn 5:39]

6.	Now, they denied His vindication to make that remark because they
said, “Show us a sign.” 

	He said, “I’ve already shown you the sign.” 

	They said, “Now hold it. We want to have our own sign regardless of
what you say you’ve shown.” 

	Like the Church of Christ offered a thousand dollars if...anybody could
prove an actual healing. So, Bro. Branham sent emissaries, he wanted his
thousand dollars. This is the Church of Christ; they’re completely
devil worshippers although they don’t know it, denying the Word of the
living God, challenging God. 

	So the man came and say, “Well,” he said, when it finally boiled
down, they said, “Well, here’s what we figured we would do. We would
cut somebody and you would pray and the person get healed.” 

	He said, “You are of your father the devil and his works you do.”
See, it’s not a matter of you and I wanting something. It is a matter
of whether God has declared it is available to you. 

7.	You know, it’s exactly like I was talking to Bro. Jack today and he
mentioned the fact that Bro. Branham had said, “The Pillar of Fire
above the throne, and before they call He answers,” and I mentioned
that that was God anticipating their wishes. I said, “It goes far
beyond that, Jack.” It goes to the fact that God made those people
such that He was the answer to what lay within Him, so therefore,
whatever He said it was no, you didn’t have to ask. He had fully
anticipated by reason of what He produced, so it’s very wonderful to
think that we’ve got that lying ahead of us. Israel could not see
that.

8.	So, notice the church world would not accept Jesus, the Word
manifested in that day, two thousand years ago. Why? Well, they had It
interpreted another way. What have they got interpreted today? Well,
there’s just as many interpretations as there are organizations and
preachers amongst them. They’ve all got their own idea as to what’s
going to be for this hour, and everybody was screaming, “Communism,”
except a few people screaming against Catholicism. Now the question who
is right? A few people coming against Catholicism, but just a minute,
those same people that screamed against Catholicism, missed the
ecumenical move and the Protestants because the old whore had daughters.
Now who are the daughters? The Nicaea council tells me who they are, and
the Roman Catholic Church has said, “That every Protestant baptized in
the Name of the Father, Son and the Holy Ghost, is a Catholic per se.”
They have children that wandered from the mother. So where do you stand
tonight if you’re baptized wrong or some type of sprinkling?

[72]	They said, “We believe Moses.” 

9.	[73]	He said, “If you would have believed Moses, you would have
believed Me, for Moses spoke of Me.”

 	“Oh, not you. Oh, not you. Why Malachi spoke of Elijah—oh, not
William Branham.” 

	“No,” said Jack Moore, “absolutely, John the Baptist was Elijah,
but if he wasn’t my vote would go to Bro. Branham.” 

	Well, how…you can’t vote twice. Say, I’m going to go this trip
and make sure my vote’s right. I’m registered, of course, and I’ll
vote Democrat today, I’ll vote Republican when I just sneak my vote in
down the next block. And then if I’m looking for a job with the
Democrats, and they don’t get in, I can tell the Republicans, “Well,
I put my vote for you.” 

	What if William Branham was Elijah? Looks like old…he’s dead now
but that doesn’t bother me any. I’m not speaking evil. He’s the
guy that said it. I didn’t say it. He had great love for Bro. Branham.
But that doesn’t…that that’s wrong when you cannot see
vindication. 

10.	Now he said, “Moses spoke of Me.” 

[73]	…still they didn’t see it. (Now watch!) The very God of Heaven
dying on the cross, and saying the same words the prophet said He would
say, and still they didn’t see it. 

	Well of course not: Messiah wasn’t to die; Messiah was to take over
and make Israel the great nation. In other words, God was coming to pump
them up and make them look good so they could say, “Hallelujah,
ain’t weeeee the people that God has put forth, he, he, he, he.” If
that’s not denomination corruption, I’ve never heard of it.
Where’s the humility? 

	It’s not whose side is God on, but are you on God’s side? That was
the cry back at the time of the Exodus. “Who was on the Lord’s
side?” And we found out who was on the Lord’s side in a showdown
when one man had the authority which was a prophet called Moses over
another man that was truly a prophet because he could look on the other
side, but he tried to play the ends against the middle. I’m talking
about Balaam who was a prophet for Balak. So God let him go ahead and
anoint him. Then…Korah, Dathan, Abiram rose up against Moses, and God
vindicated Moses. All right. Said…

[73]	The very God of Heaven dying on the cross, …saying the very words
of the Psalmist…they still didn’t see it. 

11.	What about today? Bro. Branham giving us 1 Th 4:16. “The Lord
himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an
archangel, trump of God: dead in Christ shall rise first: and we which
are alive and remain caught up to meet the Lord in the air: we’ll ever
be with the Lord.” 

	Now, right away Jesus gave a tricky question. A little tricky question
when he said, “Hey,” he said, “how in spirit was it that David
called him Lord?” 

	Now he said, “Hmm, I don’t know.” It’s the same question today.
If the Lord comes down how do you meet the Lord in the air? Hasn’t
changed one bit. You think God’s changed? Not a jiffy. Not a jot, not
a tittle, nothing at all. How does David in spirit call him Lord if he
is the Son of David? So the Capstone came down, and we will yet meet our
Lord in the air when He becomes incarnate to us and it won’t be
William Branham. Now that’s going around Jeffersonville, for some hot
air. To me it’s idolatry and blasphemy, I don’t care who said it and
sheer stupidity. You can’t see Hoffman’s Head of Christ back there,
but that’s what William Branham saw. If you think we’re nuts here
and I’m a little screwy up here, you ought to meet the people I meet,
get the letter’s I get, and the telephone calls I receive; it’s
interesting, very interesting. 

[73]	The very God of Heaven dying…God doesn’t die. 

12.	You think for a minute if God died the devil wouldn’t take over
permanently? What do you got? Identification: complete identification.
God was in Him because He was to begin what essentially God, never
forget Heb 1:3, who being the express image of God. He was literally the
essentiality and the outraying of Almighty God and He was a Son, and God
came down in Christ and indwelt Him. Mystery, but that’s all right.
It’s what it was. And that One who took upon Himself flesh, the flesh
hanging upon the cross, the Person who made Himself of no reputation,
Jesus who was essentially of the substance of God, who said, “When you
see Me you see the Father.” Hanged upon the cross and died. 

	Now let me tell you this, when they crucified Him essentially they were
crucifying God because Pilate said, “This is your king.” 

	“We haven’t got no king but Caesar.”

	“Why would you crucify your king?”

	“We don’t have any king. We’re going to get rid of Him.”

	So essentially to themselves they were literally crucifying God which
actually they were in a dimension. Right? Certainly, it’s right. Hey
look, they didn’t care two bits if God was in Him. They wanted to kill
Him then. And when God left Him in Gethsemane, they did kill Him. So
essentially they were killing the very God of heaven. They didn’t see
it. They couldn’t. They were blinded. 

13.	Now watch! Bro. Branham says, “Why did they do it?” 

[73]	They were not of His kind. 

	They were not of His kind. That means they were not of His lineage.
“This day have I begotten thee, thou art My Son, I am starting My
lineage.” And when Adam was formed in the flesh, remember, he took
every animal that he could possibly at that time have paraded before
him, and when those animals were paraded it is said distinctly by God
Himself that there was not a helpmeet for Adam, there was not one of his
kind whereby he could propagate himself and have many. So therefore,
these people were not in the lineage and they were not helpmeets because
they were not of His kind. 

14.	Now let’s look at the picture. Eve was of his kind but she
betrayed him and he came right around and saved her by headship.
That’s right. All right. 

[73]	They were not the Word,…

	That’s exactly right, because if He is the Word, and we’re starting
a lineage, horses get horses, and cows get cows and dogs gets dogs, and
pigs get pigs, and apples get apples, and rose get roses, and plums get
plums, but not God. Well, have your own way, beat it. You know what
that’s for? That’s to make you feel that you’ve got a right then
of something else outside of the Word of God, because if you feel you
can sort of deny a little bit, then you can be a little cagey and come
over here and get away with it. How stupid! 

	You are not told to produce anything, you are told to believe. Say,
“Well shouldn’t I produce something?” In whatever area God gives
you grace and power that is all because in the flesh there dwelleth no
good thing, period. For the flesh is constantly consistently at enmity
with the Word. And that’s exactly where Eve got off the track. And
Satan got off the track, and he knows exactly how to get people off the
track.  It’s just—sheesh—the Word—sheesh. Right? I’m grinning
and you’re agreeing but I’m going to tell you what I’m grinning
about. I am more right than you understand. More smiling, I hope. 

15.	Now,  

[73]	They were not of His kind. 

	Didn’t say they weren’t His kind, it says they were not of His
kind. That’s why Paul says in Hebrews 2[:11], “He is not ashamed to
call them brethren because they have one Father.” Now look, I’m a
child of God; you’re a child of God, but fallen. Where do you think
you got those mean looks on your pusses? And I got mine? It wasn’t
from the Adamic race. Mallet and Wilkinson going back into the
antiquities of history mentioned that the sons of light, the true
descendents of Adam were sweet and kind and loving and peaceful,
generous and beautiful, they were lovely people. They were not warlike.
It was the children of darkness under Cain who were that way. 

	Now it’s all one lump and nobody knows what’s going to surface.
See? You look around today, you look around and you look at kids living
in sin and taking drugs and all, and you say, “My God, why? Why?”
You can’t answer it except for one thing, the image was broken and
they’re so far from the image. They’ve got to get their high’s on.
That’s why I’m high on Jesus. If you’re high on Jesus, I’ll bet
ten to one you’d been baptized in the Name of the Father, Son and Holy
Ghost and you don’t know split beans from buttermilk. All that stuff,
“High on Jesus,” is a bunch of hogwash. Let’s find out
before…oh, I hope I get a little further. 

16.	Let’s keep pursuing the beautiful things that Bro. Branham said, 

[73]	They weren’t of His kind.(They weren’t the lineage. They
weren’t the helpmeets.) They were not the Word—not the Word;
and…yet, they were…very religious. But they were not the Word, for
It…would have…recognized Its place in that hour. 

	It doesn’t say they…they were not the Word, because Word recognizes
Word. You turn any animal loose, it will go right to its own kind. So,
all right. Word would go to Word. It just wasn’t that. See? It would
have recognized this place. 

17.	Let’s go over here to the Book of Romans, the 10th chapter, about
these very religious people which Paul talks about in Romans, the 10th
chapter, and we’ll read, oh, about three verses or whatever is in
there to read. 

		(1)	Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is,
that 					they might be saved.

		(2)	For I bear them record…they have a zeal of God, but not
according 				to knowledge. 

	There you are, they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
So what good does it do? Say, “Well, praise God, they got
something.” What if they got it from the devil? Do you remember
something years ago when the people used to go across America on the old
prairie schooner? And there’s a place out west, different places, and
the water was murky and didn’t look so good, and the horses would go
there and drink it. Then there was a pool of water, clear as crystal,
and the horses were too smart, but the people were dumb, they went there
and drank it and they died of arsenic poisoning. Better be careful what
you’re drinking, it might look awful good and kill you. Zeal. They had
a zeal of God but not according to knowledge. See, the knowledge of what
water was good to drink, they didn’t have it. So they died in their
zeal which was their desire to drink, so that you can desire God and go
to hell desiring God. 

18.	I remember years ago an old fellow named Ferguson. I was about
fifteen years old, and he was dying of cancer. Oh… went by to pray for
him, he booted her out right now. Bless God, he went to heaven and
glorifying God, hallelujah, fighting divine healing. 

	I remember a guy fought me down there in Florida. It was so funny. You
know, I got a terrible sense of humor. Lord forbid that anybody have it
as nutty as I have mine, but I got tickled just plumb pink the way he
was, he misunderstood what I said, I did not say what he thought I said,
and boy did he blast me. He let me know, he was a good Christian,
blankety, blank, God this, and God that, blank, blank, blank, blank. I
kept my faith. Yeah, a wonderful Christian? That guy was totally
possessed of an anointing of an evil spirit. He also died of cancer. But
the funny thing was that paper that he wanted to serve so righteously,
God got Bro. Branham there because God told him to come and he got all
the ads in. When he found out he could have had three heart attacks, he
said, “Who ever let that happen?” Of course, God made it happen, but
this great worshipper of God, anointed by the devil, had a zeal, “but
bless God he would kill anybody that tried to talk divine healing
because he knew, bless God, hallelujah, blankety, blank, blank,
blank.” [Bro. Vayle speaks in gruff voice.] That just wasn’t the
thing. 

	You say, “That’s a very unusual case.” What are you talking
about? It’s not the blankety, blank the guy added, that’s only his
own nature. It was he was against the Word like the Church of Christ,
that will say beautiful, smart, wonderful things. The Nazarenes that
called speaking in tongues of the devil: making love to a corpse. 

19.	[Romans 10:]

		(2)	…a zeal…but not according to knowledge.

		(3)	For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about
to 				establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves 
			unto the righteousness of God.

	And this is a subject of knowledge. Huh? It’s a subject of God’s
own science because the word ‘science’ comes from the Latin word
‘scio’ meaning ‘to know’. This is the knowledge of God. 

20.	Oh, my, look at these people, they’re over here in the Book of
Matthew, and there chapter 23, and beginning at verse 13.

		(13)	But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye 				
shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go         			
in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.

	Now listen! They were sure that they were going in because Paul says,
“You know, you say yourself that you’re eyes of the blind, you’re
sight to those who can’t see, and you’re leaders of those who are
going in.” Now Jesus is telling them the opposite to Paul on the very
grounds that they are confronted by Jesus Himself, and they’ve turned
down the light.

		(14)	Woe unto you, scribes…Pharisees, hypocrites! ye devour 				
widow’s houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: therefore 				
ye shall receive the greater damnation.

	What about A. A. Allen? Went up there and took Esther Molner’s(?)
house from her. She was glad to get her house, a widow’s house. Ask
Don Hawkenberry  how he spent the money.

		(15)	Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass 	
		sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, (you) 				
make him a twofold more child of hell than yourselves.

	It says, therefore, that every time a person wins a soul into a certain
church that doesn’t have the true knowledge of God, that person in
spite of the fact that you think he’s a better person, a nicer person,
and everything else, he’s a twofold more child of hell than the man
that brought him in because they turned down light. 

21.	Bro. Branham’s been dead for twenty-five years, the Seals opened
in 1963; where’s the world today? “Lift up your heads and
rejoice!” Oh, people hate me. I know they hate me. They don’t think
I have any love. I don’t have their kind; I’m not about to have it.
I’m impervious to it. I’ve been all through that stuff. One sweet
fellow one time, oh, he was a nice guy but utterly innocuous, well, he
said, “You know, when I fasted and oil came on my hands, (he said) for
the first time I became sweet and mellow.” The word’s ‘rotten’.
But he called it mellow…. Listen! 

		(16)	Woe unto you, blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by 	
		the temple, it is nothing; whosoever shall swear by the gold of the 		
	temple, he is a debtor!

		(17)	Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the
temple 				that (sanctifies) the gold? (Now why does he say the temple
is 					greater? Because that’s where God dwells. Now he said,)

		(18)	…Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but
whosoever 				sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty.

		(19)	Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the
altar that 				sanctifieth the gift? 

	Which is the greater? Well, all right. What was our altar? Christ. So
right down the line.

22.	Also reading Matthew 7 in conjunction with this, now look at the
zeal. They come zealously.

		(21)	(And) not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter
into 				the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father 
				which is in heaven.

	And yet the will of God is to heal the sick, prophesy, cast out devils,
do wonderful works, as Bro. Branham said, “Any church could have all
nine gifts in it.” 

		(22)	Many will say, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in 	
		thy name have cast our devils? And in thy name done many 				
wonderful works?

		(23)	(I’ll) profess, I never knew you: (get out of here)…

	That’s exactly the wicked shall not stand in the day of the judgment
and the righteous will stand right there, they won’t make any claims
to anything. I don’t have to make any claims that I’m wearing
glasses. I am wearing glasses. I don’t have to make any claims this is
a grey suit. It is a grey suit. And my hair is almost black, it’s
really dark brown. I don’t have to make any claims. It is! These
people make claims because they aren’t. We don’t have to make any
claims about this message we preach from Bro. Branham that’s what’s
been vindicated. Phooey! It is! They’re not going to believe;
they’re not going to see it. 	

[74]	Notice how beautiful the Scriptures tie…together in every age.
Notice now.

And when the church world would not have the Word of God to rule over
them, they accepted a murderer, Barabbas. (He was a murderer. They
accepted him.) What did this do? (No, not what came out of this?) It
exalted Satan, the god of this evil age, (now later on down here he
tells you no other age but this age is called the…he’s called the
god of this evil)…god of this age, now this exalted Satan…to the
place that he’s always wanted. 

23.	In other words, they made a choice. They never took the headship
which God delegated to Christ by thoroughly indwelling Him. “The
Father dwelleth in Me.” So what did they do now? They take a murderer.
Now Cain was the murderer, so therefore, they’re going to have a man,
a murderer and he’ll be completely indwelt by Satan. They’ll take
him and he’s the god of the evil age. Now you see Satan was exalted.
Satan got what he wanted. “I will exalt myself above the Most High
God,” that means when it comes to a choice I’ll win: put your money
on my move,” said Satan, “I’m the horse that’s going to win the
race.” So all the jackasses just like him think they know a horse when
they see one.  There’s never been a jackass never won a race against a
horse yet. Yeah, I’m not joking; I’m telling you Bro. Branham said,
“The thoroughbred knows his pedigree, knows his mammy and pappy.”
The jackass doesn’t or the mule, whatever you want to call him, I
guess it’s the mule. He comes from two lines that are just all messed
up. 

[74]	Now it exalted Satan, the god of this evil age, (when they made a
choice. In Hebrews 6, they make another choice.) 

24.	Let’s go to Hebrews 6, in case you don’t know what it is. I know
you know what it is; let’s read it.

		(4)	For it is impossible…for those who were once (for all)
enlightened, 				(now that’s got to be Rev 10:7) (tasting) the
heavenly gift, (partaking) 				of the Holy Ghost,

		(5)	…(tasting) the good word of God, (even) the powers of the world 
			to come,

	Did you hear what I said? Powers of the world to come are going on
right now. In other words, I said awhile ago, what God said to Moses,
and Moses told the people, God said to Moses, “Tell the people this,
what they are getting now is to prepare them when they’re going in.
When they get across…Jordan, they go into the Promised Land, they set
up their kingdom, a place of sanctification like the Millennium to you
and me, this message is preparing us, we are already tasting and had
tasted the powers of the world to come. The word of immortality has come
forth and It’s in somebody who’s going to make the rapture standing
here, not missing one wink of the eye, one heartbeat, one breath,
you’re going to walk in.” Now it tells you. The dunamis or the
exusia, it doesn’t matter, it can be both the dunamis, the power and
the authority. 

25.	If having fallen away, at this point there is no room for
repentance. Why? Because they get killed for it, “leaving neither root
nor branch.” How are you going to repent when you’re dead?  “Oh,
I’m so hemmed in.” 

	I know a fellow right now he wishes to God he hadn’t of shot his
mouth off. He’s the fellow that wrote a book about Bro. Branham, he
included me also with his lies. He said, “Bro. Branham was drunk when
he died.” Said, “He had women and everything else.” This man had
several hundred himself. Ask Ned Iverson what he did to him. Had old
Ned, he said, “Ned, I need some money.” 

	So Ned said, “Okay, I’ll go ahead and I’ll mortgage my
furniture.” 

	So once Bob Tom got the money that was the end of it for Ned; yeah,
he’s dead. You think he doesn’t know better now? 

	You listen, you people think I’m awful tough and dirty up here,
you’re going to thank God before it’s over I could spill everything
out here in the carpet whether you like it or not. If you’re too nice
for me, that’s fine, but you can’t be, or you wouldn’t have been
here tonight. 

26.	Now it tells you right here, there’s no room left. Why? Because a
choice is made! Two thieves hanging on the cross. Two thieves crucified.
And the whole church wretched, miserable, blind, naked, doesn’t know
it. And one hears the knocking at the door, and comes out. Nobody else
comes out. And those that’s been crucified to themselves the Son of
God afresh, they make their choice. Tonight you have made a choice. Or
have you? I don’t know, I can’t read your heart. You can sit here
and you can bluff me. You can’t bluff God. [Hebrews 6]

		(6)	…and put him to an open shame. (And it talks about the harvest.)


		(7)	For the earth drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and 		
		bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth 		
	blessing from God:

		(8)	But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh 
				unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.

	Choice, made it then, they make it now. Just like in Noah’s day.
“That stupid ark! Who wants to go in that dumb place? Look at those
goats going in. Yeah! Pigs stink to high heaven. Yeah, man. Talk about a
mess. Hey, phony boy.” The animals went in but the others didn’t.
The brute beasts couldn’t. All right. 

27.	Now notice! 

[74]	…For, Satan is not spoken of as a god of any other age but this
age. He wasn’t spoken of as the god of the age of Noah. (That’s
true.) He wasn’t spoken of…as the god of the age of Moses, the god
of the age of Elijah. But, this evil age, … Oh, don’t miss it! He is
the god of this evil age, worshiped by millions and billions of people,
and they don’t know it.

	That’s exactly true. Who made up the Book of Mormon? Who wrote the
Koran? Who put down all the sayings of…Confucius, as well as, Chairman
Mao? How now dead Mao; he knows better, absolutely, he knows better. You
can’t not know better! Bro. Branham said, “They go to eerie, eerie
never land.”  He said, “It’s the worst thing in the world. Don’t
go there. Something between, God knows what, the hovering darkness.”
Yeah. Oh, they know better. The choice has been made. 

28.	Now listen to me! This sounds pretty terrible but do you know that
if you follow a denominational teacher or anybody that goes against this
if that’s true; you’ve made your choice. There’s only two heads.
One is God and one is the devil. And you can’t sit between. That’s
why we get all the flack and the criticism here because we say we’re
not sitting on a fence, and that’s true, we have been kicked off the
fence. Branham came by, William Branham went pheew, he kicked the fence
like a bucking bronco and we got thrown off. And there are those that
think they’re sitting on the fence; that they’re going to turn a
corner. My Bible tells me in Hebrews 6, you have cast a die, and you
have indicated who you are; wheat or tare by your stand on vindication. 

29.	I’m going to tell you something, the Pentecostals also tasted the
Word because nobody can come under the power of William Branham’s
voice and not have tasted the power of that Word. You can’t help it,
not any more than you can go through water or through rain and not be
affected. They say to the Word, “No!  We turn It down.” There’s no
more repentance. There’s nothing left for them. They are worshipping
the devil, billions, and they don’t know it. This encompasses every
religion because that’s exactly what it says, everything that is
called God. …

[75]	But let’s let the Scripture uncover him this morning, and let’s
see, then you’ll know. Let the Scripture, (Now watch, he’s going to
challenge you how the Scripture is going to do it,) as in the meetings
of discernment, when the Holy Spirit gets amongst…gets among His
Word—(the people and also others, in the life of the Word)—and He
calls out this man and says, “You have no business living with this
other woman. What…did you do that for, ten years ago, when you ran off
with this man’s wife?” What’s the Holy Spirit  doing? He’s
uncovering Satan, He’s exposing Satan, that’s got the man bound, or
the woman living with some other woman’s husband, or the sins that
they’ve done, and the things…they have done. What does He do?
Expose…What does it do? It exposes him.

30.	Now that’s the sign of the prophet. See? In other words, he’s
speaking here of vindication. You don’t need to fear what this man
says. Go to your denomination if this man hasn’t got THUS SAITH THE
LORD. See? This is a strong statement of fact but what some call…what
some had called a, you know, Bro. Branham’s great message, like in
Chicago. They said, “He’s wrong.” But he stood there and he
preached the Oneness of the Godhead in the sense of God and His Son.
Jesus isn’t God; He’s the Son of God, though He is God substance and
everything else just like you had our…you and I had our beginning in
Him; there’s a little bit of God in us or we’re not part. That’s
exactly true. Horses are horses, dogs are dogs, cows are cows. I know
people don’t like that because you see that’s too simple. That
brings it right down to the nitty-gritty. “Well, you see, a horse is a
horse, and a dog is a dog, but God is great, He makes a pig into a
sheep, hallelujah.” Nuts! [End of side one of tape]

31.	What’s in this talk about God loving the sinner and hating the
sin? If God loved the sinner and hates his sin then why didn’t He let
the blood of Jesus Christ just atone and take them all to heaven? I’d
like to know; I’d like some answers. 

	“Oh,” they say, “they didn’t make a choice.” 

	Ha, ha, the Bible doesn’t say that. “You didn’t choose Me, I
chose you.” Sounds like a tough gospel but it’s a good one. It
narrows it down. Yes, it narrows it down. 

	Let’s let the Scripture expose him like the Chicago meeting, when he
was telling them about baptism in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and
he said, “If one person had of come forward,” and he let…he told
me, “I didn’t know you were that smart.” He said, “You’re
smarter than I thought you were.” Because the Pillar of Fire hung
there and William Branham would not have said, “Let this man be
carried out feet first like Peter did,” he’d of just said, just like
Peter said, “Why did you lie to the Holy Ghost?” The guy dropped
dead. 

	He said, (he actually told me,) “…the Pillar of Fire hanged there
and the first man that would have dared to come forward would have been
carried out feet first.” That’s why he told them, “You’re
smarter than I thought you were.” Ooh, that must have been cutting.
…

32.	Now he’s going to illustrate.

[76]	The doctors take instruments and try to find what’s wrong.
Perhaps, they can’t do it. (Can’t be told. … But then—now he’s
talking about his own ministry)—the Holy Spirit comes out…reveals
what he is, and exposes him. (In other words, He reveals what the devil
has put on that person and what part he has in it and exposes the
devil.) See? That’s what the Word of God is. (Now he’s
illustrating.) It is a Light that shines in darkness,…(what is there
and covered can be brought to light. And—listen!—the light shines in
darkness.) And when you make a noise in the room, it sounds mysterious;
(because it’s dark,) a bunch of something is working there,—(what is
it?)—… you don’t know... You turn on the light. Quickly, you see
crickets, and roaches, (oh, they start to scatter,) they’re…the
children of the darkness. And when the light flashes, they scatter away.
(Now those represent people:) “They went out from us because they
weren’t of us,” 

	If they’d of been of us when the Light shone, they’d of stayed, and
they’d of said, “Man, we’ve been waiting for this. Where you guys
been? We’ve been holed up in this little dump of an apartment, no
windows, no nothing, and here we are going around in the dark. We’re
so happy the light came.” But listen, you turn the light on in that
dark hole; everything begins to scatter that loves the darkness. Oh
sure, you mean many people would believe a prophet? 

33.	If William Branham was a true prophet which we know he was, do you
think he’d get the crowds? Everybody said, “Well, if he’s a true
prophet, bless God, my church would have taken, my church would have, my
church…” Say, “Hey listen, buster, read your Bible.” Your head
may be full of sawdust and your heart full of corruption, but mine
isn’t. Say, “I wasn’t born to be that way.” Can a horse help
being a horse? Can a dog help being a dog? Can a son of God help
believing if he’s part Word? Well, come on. “Oh, that’s different,
Bro. Vayle, because God’s a great God and He makes dogs
into…sheep.” Hey, God’s not in the market business. You got this
thing mixed up with the butcher at the corner. Not with the God that I
know anything about. 

34.	“Oh,” they said, 

[76]	“They went out from us because they weren’t of us,” the Bible
said that. See? They cannot live in the Light of the world, for…God of
Heaven has sent His Light in this last day, (Jesus said, “I am the
Light of the world,”)  that He might lighten the path for His
children, that they might not walk in darkness and stumble, but they
might walk in the Light of the shining of Jesus Christ, the same
yesterday, and today, and forever. 

	In other words, these people will not accept, a-c-c-e-p-t, the verdict
of Deuteronomy, chapter 18; they repudiate it and they find every excuse
for it. They will not take it. No sir, so they’ll find themselves in
John, chapter 24 in their delusions. 

35.	Now, let’s go over here, one of my favorite passages, of course,
is over here in 2 Corinthians, the 4th chapter, and it’s speaking, of
course, beginning in the 3rd chapter concerning the…orthodox or the
traditional veil upon Israel and now upon the church. And it says,
“The veil at one time is going to be taken away.” Now when is it
going to be taken away? When something happens to their hearts via a
revelation in the mind. Now that means the mind if it has anything at
all; it’s got it wrong. So now it’s got to be made right. Now how is
it going to be done?  

	[2 Corinthians 3:]

		(17)	Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is,
					there is liberty. (So it’s going to be a spiritual awakening.)

		(18)	But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of
the 				Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even
as 				by the Spirit of the Lord.

	In other words, when you get the traditional veil off your face, the
message becomes clear and simple and that’s what you embrace. Now, at
that point you go from glory to glory to His image. Now, at the rebirth
you’re in His image spiritually. Now you got to wait for the
Resurrection, but some of us are not going to require a Resurrection.
So, we behold Him. 

36.	Now keep your finger there and go all the way back to 1 John, the
3rd chapter.

		(1)	Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, 				
that we should be called the sons of God: (not pigs, not…dogs, 				
sheep) therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew…not 			
(Him). (It can’t recognize us; couldn’t recognize Him.)

		(2)	Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it (never yet did come 		
	into existence, never did) yet appear what…we shall be: but we 				
know that, when he shall appear, we (will) be like him; for we 				
(will) see him as he is.

	Now it tells you right there at this particular time we’re going to
have a Resurrection body like unto His own glorious body. All right.

37.	Go then back to 2 Corinthians [3:].

		(18)	…we are changed into the same image from glory to glory, as by 
			the Spirit of the Lord.

	Now there’s only one image that He’s got that you can get into,
that’s the physical. You can never have His status. So if you think
for one minute you can ever acquire anything else, you’re entirely
erroneous. You’re wrong. You can share in His glory because He’s
going to allow you. In other words, when He’s there, we’ll be there.
All these things are contingent. But we’re talking now from image to
image. We’re going to be just like Him. [2 Corinthians 4:]

		(1)	Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received 				
mercy, we faint not; (Now Paul says, “I’ve got it.”)

		(2)	But (having) renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not 				
walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; 				
but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every 				
man’s conscience in the sight of God.

		(3)	But (now) if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:

		(4)	In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them 				
which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, 				
who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

		(5)	For we preach not ourselves but…Jesus (Christ) the Lord; 				
…ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.

		(6)	For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath 		
	shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory 	
		of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

	Now it tells you starting in the day of Paul, it goes from glory to
glory until it’s a final glory. Is that right? You ready for it? 

38.	Let’s go back to 1 Thessalonians and we’re going to talk about
it. 1 Thessalonians, chapter 4, and he said here, “There’s a
question you brought about, about the time of the dead and the time of
the living.” …

		(13)	…I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them
				which are asleep, (you) sorrow not, as others (that) have no hope. 	
		(because some did not believe that they were coming back.)

		(14) 	For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them
also 				which sleep in Jesus will God bring (forth) with him. (That’s
bring 				forth with Jesus and bring them forth with Himself right
here.)

		(15)	For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which 	
			are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not (take 				
preeminence over) them which are asleep.

		(16)	For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with
				the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the 				
dead in Christ shall rise first:

		(17)	Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up with them 	
		in the air…

39.	Now let’s go back to 1 Corinthians, chapter 15, and here he’s
talking about the dead. He said, “The dead are going to come forth.”
…

		(50)	…flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither
doth 				corruption inherit incorruption.

		(51)	(Beloved) behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all (go to  
 				the grave, we shall not all die), but we shall all be changed,

	Now the living are going to be changed in this final glory, the final
glory that takes place at the appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ; is
that correct? Okay, if that’s correct, then it is correct. 

40.	Let’s go to 2 Thessalonians, chapter 1:

		(7)	And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus 				
shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty (messengers),

		(8)	In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and 		
	that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: (Now that’s 				
going to happen there according to Malachi 4.) now these 					wicked…)

		(9)	(Now these wicked)…shall be punished with everlasting 				
destruction (leaving neither root nor branch) from the presence       		
	of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;

		(10)	When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, …

	So it tells you right there at the time He comes to be glorified in His
saints He’s going to wipe out everybody else. And from glory to glory,
positively the last glory is we are going to be in His image, glorified
like Him because the Bible says that, and that has to do with the flesh
in the last…New Testament saints. Now watch!

		(10)	When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be
admired 				in all them that believe (because our testimony among you
was 					believed) in that day.

41.	It starts with Paul and it ends with Paul and it better be right
with Paul or you’re not going to make it. So William Branham stood
with the…beyond the curtain of time and it wasn’t even a vision,
bodily transported there somehow, like Paul didn’t know out of the
flesh or in the flesh, he didn’t know, couldn’t tell. He stood right
there and he said, “Well, I’ve preached what Paul preached,” he
[they] said, “we’re resting on that.” 

	That’s why people try to tell you you’re supposed to go back to
Pentecost, they’re liars. Paul wasn’t at Pentecost. Yes sir. And
I’m going to tell you something, when Peter…when Paul came on the
scene and Paul had the revelation, Peter stood…no, there with egg on
his face. 

	Paul said, “Hold it, Peter. Hold it!” That bunch of judaizers crept
in there, couldn’t understand the things of the Holy Ghost, they even
took Barnabas aside and he got so head up over the circumcision that he
wanted Timothy to get circumcised. And Paul said, “Out! Out!” And
you know what? And yet the Holy Ghost had called him aside; pretty
serious. How much do you believe this message? It’s up to you. 

42.	It said right here,

		(10)	…believed) in that day. (That’s this day we’re talking
about.)

		(11)	Wherefore…we (also) pray always for you, that our God would 			
	count you worthy of this calling, (What’s that calling? The same 				
thing he’s talking about.) (and) fulfill all the good pleasure of his 
			goodness, and the work of faith with power: (That’s at the end 				
time.)

		(12)	That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, 	
		and (you) in him, according to the grace of our God…

	That’s what he said at Pentecost. You’ll know that I’m in you and
you in me, and…how did he put it? “You’ll know that I’m in you
and you in Me,” anyway you know what it is, “and the Father.” Bro.
Branham said, “that took place at Pentecost. It’s taking place right
now at the White Throne.” 

43.	So here you see the perfect picture of the light that is shining and
now remember; the conditions of that hour are still Zechariah, chapter
14 and verse 7, so we go there. Now listen!

		(7)	But it shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord, not 				
day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it 				
shall be light.

	In other words, there is an indeterminate time that is called the day
which is the day of the Lord. Nobody knows how long it’s going to be,
but at that particular hour there is going to be light. It’s going to
be a dreary, dismal day. It’s going to be, in other words in plain
English, it’s going to be this that light will shine but it won’t
shine according to you. It won’t shine according to how you like it.
It won’t shine according to how you want it. You’re going to have to
sit back and say, “Bless God, that man was vindicated. God has
integrity. God backed up that man’s word.” 

44.	Listen! Before it’s over, hear this and hear this tonight you
people, there’s going to be so much said about Bro. Branham, so many
errors he made, and I could say them tonight and cripple you, and I hang
on myself onto one thing. God cannot answer back to a hypocrite or a
heathen or an idolater. God answered back because He has integrity. And
I don’t care if Bro. Branham made a number of mistakes in dates or the
number of people, or anything else. I know only one thing when that man
said THUS SAITH THE LORD God answered back. And I know nobody could hide
when the Spirit of God came upon him and I say if I don’t know who
that God is, I say one thing, “William Branham I believe in your God,
the way you preached this Bible and nothing else.” 

	Now stand with that tonight or drop dead because you’re going to drop
dead. I’ve said my say. You think I don’t fight and I don’t
battle. Listen, nitwits and I say it kindly not to be mean, don’t be
stupid. You bet there’s a battle. You think you’re so smart you got
all the answers. Don’t kid yourselves. Don’t fool around. You fool
around with a lot of things but don’t you fool with this Word, that
man was vindicated. Nobody in two thousand years had what he had.
Ain’t nobody going to get it according to the Word of God or that man
was a charlatan because once you get the real from that time on
there’s nothing but a counterfeit.  	

45.	[77]	Notice, Satan is not called the god of any other age but this
age. It was his ambition to be like God, from the very beginning.
(Notice what he said in Isaiah.) How art thou fallen from heaven, O
Lucifer, son of the morning! 

	Ha, bright guy! Oh yeah, came on like Roman candles. Hey, hey, when he
cut a swath, he cut a swath. You talk about the high priest with
pomegranates and bells, going tinkle, tinkle, “Holy unto the Lord,
Holy unto the Lord.” Why this man had a jazz band, made of wind and
cymbals, maybe a few strings. Brother, he played the hurdy-gurdy in a
tune you couldn’t believe. But they believed it. 

[77]	…how art thou cast down to the ground, which did weaken the
nations! (You know this is referring to what’s coming? This prophecy
written four thousand…what is it? Twenty-four hundred years ago or
so.) For thou hast  said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I
will exalt my throne above the stars of God (that’s the sons of
God…): and I will sit…upon the mount of the congregation, in the
sides of the north:

	In other words, he said positively, “I am going to be a bringer of
light. I’m going to make myself like the Most High, the bringer of
light. I’m going to speak out in all the dark places. I’m going to
make it very clear to these people. I’m going to get worshipped. In
fact, I am going to have more people worshipping me than God does.”
And he’s proved it by taking two-thirds of the angels with him.

46.	Paragraph 78. 

[78]	It was Satan’s ambition to be worshipped like God. He
took…two-thirds of the stars of Heaven, ascended himself above those
stars, and preached to them, and deceived two-thirds of them.
(Absolutely, two-thirds of the angels.) You see it? All right. Notice,
that’s his ambition. And now he is ready with his carefully selected,
educated bride by his own knowledge, (see?), all painted up in his
deceit of big buildings, and big denominations, and paints of knowledge,
and theology, and smart,…intellectual, and educated, to deceive the
whole world—(that’s what the Bible says)—and become a god.
(that’s what he’s done!) all heading up into the person of the
antichrist, which is already crowned the vicar of God by his
worldly…worldly-loving, (or world loving,) scientific bride, all
dressed up in the pomp of intellectual, religious education. 

47.	Now what did he do with Eve in the beginning? He appealed to her to
get with it. “Hey, girl, I want to tell you something. You can’t
believe the Word the way you heard It. Let me tell you the truth. I want
to educate you. Come on, girl, reason!” That’s what she did. Now
that’s what we’ve got today whether you want to admit it or not.
What…the beast, Satan through the serpent, a beast, what he did, how
he appealed to Eve is exactly what you’ve got today; the breakdown of
morals, and the acceleration of knowledge. 

	Now what good’s your knowledge if God’s put a curse on the carnal
knowledge? Because that’s where it started: “The command of God was
replenish the earth, subdue, take over, rule over.” Satan says,
“I’ll show you how it’s done.” 

48.	Now the homosexual filth…if I remember I’m going to bring
something out of the Dayton paper and read it to you. It will rip your
hearts to shreds. Homosexual filth, and let’s understand this, the
heterosexual child bearing women are now getting AIDS faster than the
homosexuals. This is statistical. This is the truth. Homosexual filth,
sex, running the world and they stand up and
proclaim—listen!—without knowing this is the original sin, and now
they’re taking every single thing that they can use in human science
to try to cure AIDS. And you got even smart men like Bradford and
Culvert and the rest, and even Meyers down there in Florida, and
German’s and everybody trying to tell you it can be cured. Oh yeah, we
cured some. 

49.	How do they know they have? You think it doesn’t mutate? You wait.
Those same doctors are encouraging filth. The highest minds in medicine
are being called upon by the homosexuals until the government has voted
more money for filth than to cure heart disease which kills many more at
this time than the homosexuals and the AIDS are killing, and lung
trouble, other diseases; yet more money’s voted for it. You know why?
Because they control the government and they’re very obstreperous. And
there’s two kinds of…AIDS, there’s the neurological and there’s
the lymphatic and everybody has gone to the lymphatic, not knowing the
neurological. So there’s millions of people dying with infirm minds
that are AIDS patients. And there’s millions dying with tuberculosis,
of pneumonia which are AIDS patients. And millions dying with cancer and
they’re AIDS patients. 

50.	And right now in Canada the nurses in the labs who analyze the blood
and deal with it, there is no way that they can know who’s blood
they’re using. So the government says you’re sunk. Now I’m
supposed to stand back and feel sorry. Say, “Oh, poor America. Poor
Bush. Poor Sullivan. Poor government. Poor AIDS.” 

	Well, you want to, go ahead, Bro. Branham said, “I don’t pray for
America.”  So I’m supposed to pray for it? You pray for it. You
better pray for yourselves. One day a bunch of people at Jesus’
crucifixion wanted to pray for Him, He said, “Pray for yourselves.”
“Well,” you say, “Bro. Vayle, that doesn’t repeat.” You
don’t know what you’re talking about; it does repeat. Yes sir. 

51.	He appealed to Eve to make her own way, all dressed up, religious.

[78]	She is made religious like him, (that’s the devil,) and by his
own interpretation of the Word of God as he did Eve, and as his son
Cain...

	That’s what the Bible calls Cain, a son of Satan, but you can’t get
the Pentecostals to tell you that. You know why? Because Satan never
tells on himself: Phttt! “I stole the bank. I stole. I robbed the
bank. I robbed the bank.” You think a bank robber does that? “I shot
him. I shot him.” Do you think a killer does that? Not unless he’s
entirely insane. Come on. These people are duped. They’re duped. 
Wretched, miserable, blind and don’t know it. 

	Have you ever played ‘Blind Man’s Bluff’? You put a blindfold on,
so you can’t see anybody.  Let’s play the game tonight so you
understand what I’m talking about. Let’s make ourselves thoroughly
blind and we’ll put putty here, soft bread that was the best. Yeah,
you know why they used soft bread dough? Because it’s like putty, just
you know, put it over here. Let’s feel around and see…”I’m not
blind. I can see. I can see. I can see.” The prophet said, “I can
see you’re crazy.”  That’s this age. 

52.	[79]	Now you said, “Satan’s son?” (Cain, Satan’s son, show)
Show me a place in the Bible that ever called Cain…Adam’s son. The
Bible said he was “the son of the evil one,” serpent seed. No, the
cover has been taken off…, brother. The pyramid has been opened, as
the revelation showed.

	What is all that about the [revelation]…of the pyramid? It simply
means the Bride, the church of God; the true church is a pyramid as per
Cornerstone to Headstone. The pyramidal city is being made, so
therefore, at the last hour of revelation the person on top which has
the Headstone ministry, the capstone, looks down in and tells you all
about it. But being face to face with the head, then tells you about the
head and your further destination. So, there was a dream or vision,
whatever, about a pyramid mountain and Bro. Branham takes the crowbar,
rips the top off, it’s pure white, there’s nothing written therein,
he said, “Look at this till I go back and come out.” In other words,
there was nothing written about this portion which was there. So, all
right. 

53.	He’s talking about it now, the Seven Seals are open, the Thunders
have thundered. Now many people don’t believe that the Seals have all
been opened because Bro. Branham in only one place mentioned six. Then
he talked about the Seventh Seal not being revealed because that had to
do with the physical coming, but he also said, “The Seventh Seal was
Rev 10:1-7.” So make up your mind, William Branham. Were you
vindicated by God to make fools out of us? Were you doing double talk?
What were you saying? It’s as simple as a-b-c. 

	The only part of the Seventh Seal that hasn’t been revealed is the
literal physical and you don’t need it. You’re going to be part of
It. It’s all open but that particular part has not yet come but the
Thunders have thundered. How can a book be opened when Seven Seals are
sealing it and the last Seal hasn’t been removed? It’s shut. Did
Bro. Branham say, he took the Lamb from behind the throne, took the one,
took the book out of the hands of Him on the throne and ripped off six
Seals? He didn’t say that. He ripped off the Seals, but he couldn’t
tells us everything under the Seventh because that’s yet to come. Our
portion is Rev 10:1-7 which was God dealing with His prophet on earth
for you and me. That’s what the score is. There’s nothing wrong with
the prophet and His Word and God. It’s the people just will not
listen. You see, they won’t listen because they can’t listen. They
got an idea. 

54.	I told you, time after time, there’s no way you’ll get this
message until you denude your own mind of your own thinking. Listen to
me! If this thin piece of paper here was known in your mind as a slate,
when I said, “Paper,” you thought, “Slate.” You’re stuck.
Right? Then you’ve got to learn Bro. Branham’s language which means
you’ve got to know the doctrine. If you don’t know the doctrine, you
haven’t got a prayer. Now listen! …

[80]	…Notice what he will do, according to his thought. (In other
words, Satan’s thinking is going to come out; it’s going to be
done.) He thought God… (And Cain the same way, it’s Cain, I guess,
he’s talking about.) He thought God dwelt in worldly beauty. (See? Now
Satan whatever he did was done…) in Heaven. (Now he brings the sin
back to) the garden of Eden; (the sin began)     in Heaven, when
Lucifer, the son of the morning, exalted himself in beauty, and wanted a
more beautiful kingdom than that of Michael, (that’s Jesus in that
former form.) And he thought…God dwelt in beauty. (All right.)

55.	Let’s go to…Psalms and read some Scripture. Ps 27:4

		(4)	One thing have I desired of the Lord, that…I (will) seek after;
that 				I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life,
(and) 				behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in his temple.

	Now he said down here, “I can’t see the beauty of God. I got to be
up there to see it.” In other words, you cannot of your own specify,
believe, and endorse a beauty of God. You can’t do it because He
doesn’t have the beauty you and I would talk about, or Satan would
talk about. It’s got to be something that comes by revelation as being
in the temple which means a part of the temple so the Holy Ghost can
teach you what true beauty is. 

56.	Let’s go to [Psalms] 29: and 2.

		(2)	Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name; worship the Lord 	
		in the beauty of holiness.

	Do you think people call this beautiful holiness what I’m preaching
tonight? Why we’re a bunch of idiots! How ridiculous! 

57.	Now let’s go to Isaiah 53, and begin to see truth: Isaiah 53 and
in verse 2.

		(2)	For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, as a root out 	
			of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we 				
shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. 

	So in one place there is no beauty, in the other place there’s beauty
to perfection. In other words, there is no such thing as you and I of
ourselves knowing God and His intrinsic beauty, His intrinsic glory, to
have a true assessment unless God begins to give us a little at a time.
And the only way you can do it is by seeing the magnificence of His
Word, minutely, jot and tittle, where there’s no failure and it comes
altogether that you can see His glory because that’s what the word
‘glory’ means ‘an assessment’. 

58.	Now let’s compare what I read with Ezekiel over here, 28:12…

		(12)	(Now) Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, 	
		and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God; Thou sealest up the 				
sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

	There you are. Yup, he said right here, “There is nothing you will
see in this world as far as the human senses are concerned but will
absolutely reflect and show you the beauty, not of God, but of Satan.”
 He’s got it all taken care of. And you know how he does it? By being
an imitation high priest. 

		(13)	Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; (where you fooled 				
Adam and Eve, especially Eve) every precious stone was (your) 				
covering, the sardius, topaz, diamond, beryl,…

	You know what he did? He stepped in between Adam…or Eve, which is the
church, her husband, and her head which is God. He stepped in between
and he said, “Listen, I’ll mediate for you. I will tell you about
it. Let me clue you in. “Ah,” he said, “notice that tree, that’s
a marvelous tree.” One word she listened to, some hope that she could
have exactly what she wanted, yet being off that Word. That’s what
happened. And suddenly she saw what wasn’t there. The tree that killed
was now good to eat. How stupid can you get? 

59.	Friend of mine had a dream. He saw this certain person reaching into
the most horrible smelling mess; it was worse than pig manure at its
worst. And this man was eating it with relish and delight and offering
people. I see that boy’s dream coming to pass for the first time I
caught that man off the Word. Watch long enough, they’ll get away from
the Word, leading others right into it. But it looked beautiful; it will
smell great, it will be wonderful. 

	The man who wrote the Book of Proverbs used the illustration of a young
man going to a harlot for his satisfaction, and that’s a type of life
as you look at it. That’s where he got it, that’s what he wanted.
The Bible said, “Don’t do it because there’s utter destruction
there. You think it’s great; it will get to you. It will destroy
you.” It started in Eden. It’s going to finish the world off. It
can’t help it. The beauty…

60.	To compare God’s beauty and Satan’s is to compare their wisdom,
that’s found in the Book of James, the 3rd chapter and 15 to 18, and
it says,

		(15)	This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, 	
					devilish.

		(16)	For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every
evil 						work.

	Now listen! That was in the Garden of Eden. She was envious; she was
confused. It was sensual. It was an evil work.

		(17)	But the wisdom (which)from above is pure, peaceable, gentle, 				
easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, (and that’s the 	
		tree, you know, right word) without partiality, without hypocrisy.

		(18)	(Even) the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace (for) them
that 					make peace.

	It tells you the wisdom of God is not at all like the wisdom of man,
neither is his beauty. See, that’s where Israel failed. They said,
“Hey, we’ve got it all figured out. We want it this way and we’ll
believe.” And the devil comes right around and said, “That’s the
way you want it? Good! You’ll get it.” That’s right. That’s
exactly what happened. See? 

[80]	…he thought that God dwelt in beauty.

61.	[81]	And notice Cain. He didn’t want any blood sacrifice. He came
down and offered the fruit, or…the fields of beauty upon his altar.
Very religious, did he do everything, …just exactly like Abel did it;
offered a sacrifice, (Bible says so,)  fell down before God in worship,
obedient in every way, but without the revelation of the Word. (That’s
exactly what it says in the Septuagint.) And the Word was, from the
beginning, God’s plan. But God revealed, by revelation,  (In other
words, what was done there was already in God, already there, and this
one was waiting for false anointing and he got it.) But God revealed, by
revelation, the very thing that He vindicated and punctuated that that
was right. 

	So, in other words, God way back there vindicated the truth and He did
by the very fact that Adam and Eve died. Do you know God’s vindicated
by the wages of sin? Well, He said they’d come. Sure! 

[81]	Not religion, not an altar, not belonging to church, not making a
sacrifice, not being sincere; (that’s good though,) but by the
revelation of the Word of God. God revealing to him…that...his mother
did not take an apple that a snake give her, but she had a sexual affair
with the person of Satan, in the form of the beast;—(like Jesus hung
on the cross, that was God hanging on the cross)—not a reptile, but
the…smartest, subtlest of all the field, the image of man, the only
thing…the seed would mix in. (Looked like just a man.) Now science is
trying to find him.  …they’ll never…find him, because every bone
in his body is changed. …the Bible declares it to be so. 

62.	Now listen! Let me show you something, if the serpent already had in
his body the ability to be absolutely transformed in his body to be
beyond recognition as to who he was, how about his race today? “Oh,
that lovely person couldn’t be serpent seed. Oh, come on, he
wouldn’t have in that…oh, my lovely preacher. You can tell that
about…” How do you know I’m not serpent seed, fooling you? You
could be a gullible bunch of stoolies down there, idiots; lovely people
and everything else. 

 	What, when you sat in other churches, what was it like? “Oh, Bro.
Vayle, our pastor, yes, bless God, you could…the sun rose and set, oh
yeah, you can tell the time of day by him, oh yes.” He had everything
in him already waiting to fool you, everything to be changed just like
that spirit. He had a bow without arrows sitting on a horse, very nice,
deeds. He kept changing and changing and changing. He had it within him;
the serpent had it within him. So does every child of God to be utterly
transformed and fool everybody that he is a child of God because he
ain’t going to admit it. 

	If Jesus fooled them by being Jesus, and He was the Son of God, ain’t
nothing you and I are ever going to do to make anybody think we are. Yet
we have within us, like the serpent did, so God could take that change
and nobody could recognize. 

63.	I want to ask you a question. Did the disciples recognize Jesus in
His change? And the answer is yes? Hogwash! It was no. You say, “Well,
Mary [recognized].” No, you’re a liar. Mary didn’t recognize; it
was the voice, like John turned to see the voice. They don’t
understand; it lies within you. It was in 2 Corinthians, 11th chapter,
that Paul understood this and he said, “They’re transformed into
angels of light,” filthy scum, beast, serpent seed. 

64.	Isaiah, then we’re quitting, time’s run out. That’s fine.
54:13.

		(13)	And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall
be 				the peace of thy children. 

	Now listen! “You that are troubled, rest with us.” Get peace. When?
When He shall come down and you’ll be separated by the gospel of Paul;
Matthew 24, and taken away in a Rapture, Luke 17 because you believed in
that day. Take your scholars, angels of light, take your Greek, angel of
light, take your history, archeologist, take it all, angels of light,
and they present it and Satan is doing it and he’ll tell you
everything from what you ought to know and how you ought to know it. But
he had THUS SAITH THE LORD. 

	Now get this again my brother, my sister, I might be telling you many
times, you’re in a position to be shaken like you never were shaken
before. If you think you can figure it; be my guest. I’d even dare you
to come up here and stand beside me with the Bible. You can’t do that.
You’re not that smart, none of you sitting here, two or three put
together are not that smart, don’t think you are. I’m not boasting.
Come on, do it. I’ll give you that chance. Come on. Pick any sermon
you want of Bro. Branham’s, go ahead. You don’t have the gift. I
have a gift. But don’t get fooled by gifts. THUS SAITH THE LORD. 

65.	Satan is so smart he can take anybody except a true child of God.
All but the very elect will be deceived, and you’re going to have to
stand on a vindication where the prophet said he got his perfect faith,
where Paul said he got his perfect faith. It wasn’t what he believed
when it came down to the final analysis; it was who he believed and that
One who he believed; the faith of the Lord Jesus Christ. He said,
“I’ll stand with it. I’ll stand with the covenant God made before
there was a speck of stardust. I’ll stand by vindication and that only
God showed me, nobody else and you can’t change it.” That’s where
you stand right now. Let’s rise and be dismissed.

	Heavenly Father, thank You again for Your love, mercy and grace Lord,
as we go. We just pray that Your hand be upon us, to guide and lead us.
And may we come together again in Your Presence, may the sick amongst us
be healed Lord. We know they are being healed. We know something’s
going on Father. Surely, oh God, there could not be this great anointed
message among us this Word proven, and Your faithful servants wherever
they are going word by word Lord, the faithful Bride coming together,
getting Your truth, O God, there could not be anything less than the
full Spirit of God, for we know He Himself, the prophet has said, “All
of It now in the church, the full Spirit of God for this hour, capstone,
spiritual, the Word waiting for the great day when we’re changed, the
dead having come out of the ground, and we going up.”

	Lord, if we boasted tonight in ourselves, I pray that You’ve heard
whatever we’ve said wrong, correct it Lord, because we don’t intend
to boast in ourselves on any point of who we are and what we are but we
put all the glory back upon You and Your Word Lord, because no matter
what gift I might have or fifteen hundred people have gifts, that’s
not what counts. There’s a vindicated prophet Lord, and except for
true genuine gift there couldn’t be the same words broken down and
spoken to the people, which I trust tonight Father, it has been done.
Not making anything of myself or this people or anything else Lord, but
putting it back on You,        O God, because that’s where it belongs
and that’s the truth of it Lord. 

	But I will not back away Lord, from what the prophet said, nor back
away from any man,     O God, because I know it is true that Your Word
has been vindicated and I’m standing Lord, with vindication, Your
people are Father, no matter what happens, no matter what comes upon the
scene, I believe Lord, if that day comes when there is a dire
circumstance amongst us that You will help us O God, and I know You will
Lord. I know You will because Father, Your own Word said, “There is no
more repentance,” and this is a godly repentance that cannot be
repented of. A sealing Lord, and there can be nothing but going forward.


	Cleanse our hearts all tonight Lord, take away all things that
shouldn’t be there, making us realize as never before we have not been
given a spirit of fear, neither is Your Spirit here one of fear, it
isn’t, but of courage, love and a sound mind, the things of our Lord
and our God. Again we pray Lord, for Your blessing upon the sick if
there be such, preservation Lord, going home, going back, whatever it
is, until our days are expired Lord, or the lamp of God goes out, the
Bride is taken off the earth, just a little glimmer as a 144,000 come in
and then Lord, it’s all over. 

	And though we say, hasten that day and we can say it Father, because
You told us to, and that is that day, we know Lord, there is in our
hearts a sorrow as Paul said for those of his own flesh and those around
about him, we’re not devoid, oh God, of human sentiments although
people might think we are. We dearly love to see everybody come in but
we know everybody’s not going to Lord. Help us, therefore, to be
content, oh God, in this last hour as You said way back yonder, “Be
therefore wise as serpents, and as harmless as doves,” match the devil
with his own wits by yielding to the Spirit of God, for that wisdom that
comes from above, gentle, kind and so on. So thank You for Your
Presence, Your goodness, in the Name of Jesus Christ, we pray. Amen. 

 

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