There is a Man Here That Can Turn on the Light  # 4

 

Bro. Lee Vayle   -   August 24, 1983      

	Let us pray, Heavenly Father we're very grateful to be in Your Presence
in this place, dedicated to You. May it take on all the aspects, Lord,
in solemnity of worship, sincerity, sobriety concerning You as it ought
to, Lord, because of temples within it, O God, human hearts dedicated to
You to put You first. Not just to sing about You, but actually to put
You first in all things, knowing that we are at this time laying up
treasure in heaven, or we are not, knowing, Lord, we can if we will.

	Help us, Lord, to study Your Word tonight, to see grace and mercy. To
see Your Presence and to honor It in Jesus' Name we pray. Amen. You may
be seated.

1.	Now, we're going to continue with the reading of the 'There is a Man
Here That Can Turn on the Light'. And as we start where we left off at,
we remember that Bro. Branham put forth principles on Light as a Bible
formula. That's what he was doing. He wanted to teach us on Light in the
Word of God. It's actually how It came, what Its purpose was. And we saw
how Light leads to more and greater Light, until It comes to 'The
Light'.

	That's what we find in his sermons on the great Light that came with
Luther. The greater Light that came with Wesley. The greater Light that
came with Pentecost, and now what a great Light and a great glory at
this hour which brings us to Him. I can't repeat that enough that, as
the Old Testament prophets prophesied in a measure, in a part, they were
revealing Him Who was to come. And as soon as that revelation was
complete to that hour, then of course, that Great One had to come on the
scene. And many people today don't understand that that's the same
principle in the New Testament. You tell people that the Word is given
in parts, they go into just a blank out. See, they can't get rid of
their thinking.

2.	The first thing that you've got to do is to accept it. The Bible
says, "A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from above."
[Jn 3:27] Well, that tells you that there…anything that's from above
you've got to receive it. And then what you do, you check it out with
the Word. And It is very true, the Scripture says, "Now we see in part,
but then we're going to see the whole." [1 Cor 13:12] It was a matter of
seeing darkly and then face to face.

	Well, if that doesn't tell you that the Word in the Church Ages comes
in part to the person, then you must admit that you are categorically
out of your spiritual realm. You just don't qualify. See? What do you
expect Light to lead you to? Well, It leads you to what is extant
[existing, present] for that hour. What is the promise for that hour? 

	Well, the promise for that hour the prophet says, what he should appear
to the Gentiles, and doeth the things in the spirit what He did when He
was here on earth in the flesh to Israel. Then He would have to be here
distinctly in Spirit and do those things. Well, people say, "I never
heard that." Oh, wonderful, who ever heard of John Glenn going to…up
and orbiting around? Who ever heard of these other fellows, like
Armstrong getting on the moon?

	So fine, you never heard of it? I know people never heard of Azerbaijan
either, so there's no such a place I guess. (I don't think I even
pronounced that right.) Well, I could say one a little further, who ever
heard of Joe Rascovy outside of us? So there's no Joe Rascovy.
[laughter] I mean, people are ignorant and they love their ignorance.
You can't tell them anything, because, "Ignorance is bliss, therefore
'tis folly to be wise," [Thomas Gray 1742] until they wake up and it's
too late. See?

3.	Now, for example, Bro. Branham talked about the star that came out of
Jacob. "The sceptre was to rise up out of Israel. That was a prophecy.
Well, the magi knew that the people in that day knew there was such a
prophecy, so when a certain star appeared they began to look at it. And
say, "Well, could this be the one that qualifies with Scripture?" Well,
it was, and so they began to follow the star. And so therefore, the star
led them as a light to the great Light. Not just manifested light, but
to the Manifestor of Light. And they followed that to the very Logos
Himself. 

	So, we're reading over here in (page 34) of "A Man That Can Turn on the
Light'. And I'll try to get this finished tonight. So, it says,

[191]	So was Noah the Light in his day. He was the Light. Noah was that
Light. 					He was the Light to what? To make God's Word. "I will
destroy man upon 					the earth that I've created. Build an ark, and all
desires to come into it will 				be saved." 

	 Now, see that's quite a statement. He was the Light that was there to
destroy. "Well," you say, "I believe in grace." Fine, believe all you
want. I don't care what you believe, it doesn't matter to God what I
believe and you believe. Believe anything you want. Believe the moon is
made out of green cheese. It's your business. You think then it's going
to change God? "Oh, He's a God of grace." Oh, you want to make Him a God
of disgrace and stupid? You know some people don't believe that God has
any intelligence.

4.	Now, this prophet right here, he said, "I will destroy man upon the
earth that I've created." [Gen 6:7] That's the Bible, that's exactly
right. That's exactly what Noah was. 

	"Well," you say, "man alive."	

	What about the end prophet, "I'll send Elijah, and those that don't
listen, 'zap'?

	That's not a nice thing to say. I'll take that back, that's stupid,
unkind. But, what are you going to do with it?  Sure, they say, "I'm
going to change it." Well, try it! You can't add a cubit to your stature
by taking thought. Neither can you say for sure, "I'm going to town
tomorrow." You, you can't even keep the hairs on you head. Well, you can
get a transplant. It's not necessary going to work. They find that that
doesn't really work, you had to have life there in the first place. Ha,
some heads have no life. [laughter] …?... where are we going to stop,
going to wait to see how ridiculous man is.

5.	Now, listen: 

		Build an ark, and all the desires to come into it will be saved." (And
all 					that hears Elijah is going to be okay, and those that don't
aren't.)

	"Oh," you say, "I can't believe that!" Well, don't believe it, who
cares. Oh, how should I try to persuade men against an ignorance that
they've got down from the heavenly father?

	You say, "heavenly father?" Yeah, the devil, he's up in heavenly places
too. 

	There's an old Baptist preacher one day said, "You better be careful
when you pray, 'our Father which art in heaven', because the devil is
the prince of the power of the air. You could be praying to your father.
Not facetious, it's just the truth.

		Noah walked out there and said, "There's one way, and that's an ark."

	"Well," you say, "just a minute, we can kill the lamb." Well, kill the
lamb. No problem, kill it. Kill any number of lambs. Don't make any
difference. You show me where the sacrifice ever changed the Word of
God. When did Jesus Christ the sacrifice ever change the Word of God?
Hogwash! It changed the Word of God, It fulfilled the Word of
God…according to conditions that were laid down. The sacrifice of
Jesus Christ will never rid this world of a judgment. It's only for a
Bride that walks out.  

[192]	They said, "That crazy old fanatic..." 

6.	Now listen:

		He was the Word made manifest. Noah was the Light of the hour: sure
was. 				In his day, his age he sprung forth the Light. 

	In other words, the Lights sprung forth from him. What does It say in
Ephesians 5:8?

		"For ye (that) were sometimes darkness, but now are (you) light in the
Lord: 				walk as children of light:" (In begotten of light, the
Begetter Who is Light, 				here now Light.)

	Then, what would that person be, being a prophet in whom God was, and
in him veiling the Word? Light! Light. You say, "I just…I think…I
think that terminology dear Bro. Vayle should only go to God."

	Then, why do preachers called themselves 'reverend? Because He alone is
reverend and holy? Why do millions of Catholic's call a man 'father'? He
could well be, if they followed the creed to what they mostly gone
through. Let's get very frank about some of these things. Go back to the
place where we used to live in Alberta. They ran Father MacDonald out of
town because he had too many little bastard children hanging around.
What about the Presbyterian's? I can take a town in New York where the
dentist's wife tried to commit suicide, she's pregnant by the
Presbyterian preacher, when he about slept with every woman in the
congregation. Father so and so.

	You know, I'm going to tell you something: if this world doesn't need a
prophet, you tell me what it needs? Because the world doesn't have any
Light. There's isn't any Light in the world. Because, the world doesn't
produce it, it takes God. And if God doesn't have a channel, I like to
know what He has. 

 	And He's Light, and the prophet's are Light, and they only have one
purpose that resolves itself in anything that is worthwhile, and that is
to the children of Light. And those children come forth in the Light,
and go into eternity.

7.	Now:

[193]	Moses was the Light of his hour. (Because God had said,) "I'll
surely visit 					you," God said to Abraham. (Previous to this,) "I'll
come down, I'll take the 				people with a strong hand;  I'll show My
power in Egypt." (That's what 					He said, remember?)

		And when Moses up there met that burning bush up there and found out
the 				I AM was in that bush, Moses went down there, and he was the
Light. Amen. 				No wonder he could take some dust, and blow it up, and
say, "Let there come 				fleas upon the earth." He had the Word of God.
What happened? Dust begin 				to blow, fleas begin to come. Hallelujah.
Why? He was a manifestation of the 				Light of God's Word, "I'll plague
Egypt." He was a prophet. 

	Now notice, it's two-fold. I've been showing you that. The Mount of
Blessing, and the Mount of Cursing. I showed you last Sunday, the spirit
of life and spirit of death. See? "Choose you this day, whom you're
going to serve." [Josh 24:15] He was a prophet.

		What he said come to pass. He was a Light of that day. He was God's
Light. 

[194]	Pharaoh might've had everything he wanted to have, and the rest of
them, 					all the priest had what they wanted, but Moses was the Light.
Why? He was 				showing forth God's Word manifested. God promised, "I'll
bring them out 					under a strong hand, and I'll get Myself glory."
That's what He was doing. 

	Moses, bringing them out with a strong hand, getting glory to God, and
condemning Egypt. Could God have done without a prophet? No way. "Oh,"
you say, "well, it isn't God couldn't have done it, is that God won't do
it, because that's how He does it."  

		That's what He was doing. That's the reason Moses proved that he could
					create, not because he wanted to create, because God told him to.
Go to 					the congregation, say "Tomorrow...The Lord God has just spoke
to me. 					'Take a hand full of dust and throw it up in a sky like this
and call for it. 					(Call for fleas) There's none here, but It'll be
there.'" Amen. 

		I hope you're not asleep. Oh, manifestation! 

8.	Well, he's telling you what God called for back there, God's calling
for something right now, and you're seeing God right before your eyes
unveiled. Right down here in our midst.

[195]	He said, "I'm sent. God did say to our fathers surely He'd visit
us down 					here and take us out. (He'd come down and take us out) I've
come to prove 				you the hour is at hand. (What took them out? Pillar
of Fire. I said that, 					not Bro. Branham.) Get rid of what you've
got. Let's go." (Let your thinking 				go.) 

[196]	Some of them said, "Well, I believe..." Dathan said, I don't think
there's 					any hurry. We shouldn't be all excited about this, look, it
failed four or					 five times." But just the same, it moved on.

[197]	They come out and said, "We stone this Moses and get him away from
us; 					we don't want him in our group here." 

		Moses just moved right on anyway, because he was the Light. He was the
					Light of the hour. What he had, what was it? God manifesting His
promised 				Word through Moses, and Moses was the Light. 

	In other words, there wouldn't have been any without the man. "Well,"
you say, "God would have raised up somebody else." Then, that would have
been Moses.

[198]	Elijah was the Light. "Go out there and sit on that hill; I've
commanded 					the ravens to feed you." Amen! Yes, sir. 

[199]	He came back down with, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, not even dew will 		
		fall from heaven till I call for it." Amen! "Sun might shine, you
might call 					for all the clouds and do anything you want to, but not
even dew will come 				till I call for it." What was he? The Light.
(Why? Because he said what was 				going to happen. He shed light on the
subject.)

	"Oh," you say, "just a minute, I don't like what he shed." That's
exactly right. Light is light to somebody and dark to another somebody.
One side's a blessing, next it's a curse. One side is life, the other
side is death. Sure thing. Like the flood. Life to the good boys, death
to the bad boys. Serpent seed went all down. See, there's nothing left
but an admixture. I think serpent seed was entirely carried out at that
time. I can't say this end is going to be that way. God knows, I don't
know. Might be at the tail end.

9.	All right:

		What was he? The Light. Hallelujah. He was Light, the Light; he was
the 					Word of God made manifest. (See?)

	In other words, what happened? It was the Word that was vindicated, the
Word of the hour, it wasn't some kind of a glare. Okay?

[200]	They thought he was crazy setting up there. He had porters feeding
him, 					and them starving to death. They wanted to live in traditions,
go ahead. Not 				Moses nor Elijah, he was the living Light. Setting up
there by the brook 					Cherith  just having a good time, and had meals
and somebody to take care 				of him and everything. They thought he was
crazy, but he was the Light. 

[201]	They said, "Hey, what become of that old holy-roller we had around
here? 				You know what, somebody was hunting the other day, and said
they seen 					him setting up there by the mountain top. I bet that old
fellow's about dried 				up by this time." (You know, when they said
that he might have got taken 					up (you know) just dropped somewhere.)
Oh, no. He was the Light. He was 				the Light. He was the Light of God
of his day. 

[202]	John, when he came to the earth and went out in the wilderness to
get his 					education from God, not the seminary, he had to introduce
the Messiah... 					So when he come forth Jesus said he was a bright and
shining Light. (That's 				what Jesus said, John was a bright and
shining Light, rejoice …?...) 					Hallelujah. Why? He was the Word
manifested. (He certainly was.)

11.	They said, "Who are you?"

	He said, "I'm Isaiah 40 manifested. I'm Malachi 3." He said, "I'm the
Word in the flesh." Said, "I'm the Word made flesh."

	Now, people say, "Well, just a minute now, I just don't think that
that's right."

	Then what are you? You see, what you do is you cut your throat the
minute you put your finger on it. You're down. You're down the drain,
you're gone, goodbye.

	You say, "Well, I'm a fine fellow."

	Aw, fine fellow, my foot, you stink. You rotten heathen. Stinking
rotten pride of Satan. Listen, Satan fell by reason of pride! Pride!
Pride! And a man that changes the Word of God concerning himself, or
anything God said, stinks with the same pride of rotten hell that Satan
had. Because, there's only one real humility, and that's to say what God
said. Otherwise, you got pride to dare to change the Word of Almighty
God. Another satanic trick. And people say with their creeds and dogmas
they're going to make it. They're going to make it alright, I'm going to
be where they are by the grace of Almighty God. God You've got to
strangle me and kill me. 

12.		He was the Word manifested.

		Isaiah said so. That's it. That's right. He'd send forth a voice in
the wilderness 				crying,  "Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight
His way." Voice of one 				crying in the wilderness, here he come forth.
What was he? A voice of one 				crying in the wilderness. 

		What was he? Manifestation of the Word, Light. 

	Light pointing to Light. Word pointing to Word. Word in flesh pointing
to 'The Word' in flesh. Light pointing to 'The Light'. Manifestation
pointing to 'The Manifestor'. "All things are made by Him, there's
nothing that's made that wasn't made by." [Jn 1:3]   

		Same God that spoke in Genesis spoke this, and here come the life. He
said, 				"Let there be light for the sun, the sun came in existence, so
He said there'd 				be a voice of one crying in the wilderness," here he
come forth.

	Now, how did He come forth? He came forth by virtue of generation after
generation of humanity, but it was just the same as when God said, "Let
there be light." Oh, people want to denigrate this. "Oh, why that's just
a prophecy." Oh, that's just it. Well, that just shows you that you
ain't going to make it. Yeah. Now, if you ain't going to make it, do
something about it. Either get right with God, or go out and have a
ball. Don't…let not a crow sit around pretending it's a dove. Or a
buzzard pretending it to be a peacock.

13.	Tell you what: we can camouflage ourselves ever so carefully, but it
doesn't mean that God won't look down and know us. 

		As He said, "Let there be light for the sun, to come into existence,
He said 					there's a voice (the same thing, a voice) crying in the
wilderness," here he 					come forth. He was the Light of the hour.
(Like the sun was the light of light, 				so this man was a Light.)

[203]	He also said in the last days (Amen.), the Light of the hour,
crying in the 					wilderness of Babylon, 

	Now listen, Bro. Branham identifies himself. (Oh, this is a good little
sermon here I'm reading.) [Bro. Vayle says] (Ha, ha, ha, oh yes my
beloved friend, love it all the way through. I got to get ready for it.)

14.	Now:  

[203]	He also said in the last days (Amen.), the Light of the hour,
crying in the 					wilderness of Babylon, "Come out of her My people,
that you be not partakers 				of her sins. Touch not her unclean thing;
get away from it. Flee from the wrath 				that is to come." 

	So therefore, Bro. Branham is Revelation 18:4, "I heard another voice
from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people." Now listen, that Voice
was in heaven. Right? And when the Voice came down to earth the Voice
was no longer in heaven. Then heaven was silent concerning that Voice.
[Bro. Vayle searches the Scriptures] 

	What about the voice of Revelation 5:2, "I saw a strong angel
proclaiming with a loud voice, who is worthy to open the book and loose
the seals thereof?" Has that been done? Then that voice is silent.
There's other Scripture's here, I'll get them later on. But remember,
there was a time there when the thunders and lightening and voices came
out of the throne. When they're fulfilled, then heaven is silent with
that too. I didn't say anything did I? I just thought a thought. You do
what you want with it.

[204]	John said the same thing: "The axe is laid to the root of the
tree." 

15.	As John the Baptist foreran the First Coming, your Message foreruns
the Second Coming. "Come out of her my people."

		Didn't have an education, didn't talk like even a preacher. He talked
about 				serpents, and sticks, and trees, and axes, and things, like
was used to in the 				wilderness. He wasn't raised up in some of this
great, big, fine stuff they have 				today, and like they had in that
day. He came out with his own language. He 				didn't stand and say,
"Ah-men," and make all these fancy bows. You know, 				bowing, what have
you) He came out of the wilderness, said, "Don't you begin 				to think
that, 'I belong to this, and I belong to that.' God's able of these
stones 				to raise children to Abraham."  (So, he's explaining exactly
what that Scripture 				meant back in the days of John the Baptist,
because it means the same today.) 

[205]	Don't you think because you're Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian
that you have 				any hold on God. God's able to take bootleggers or
harlots out of the street 				and make saints out of them. Someone's
going to hear it, and someone's 					going to believe it. 

[206]	He said also, "The axe is laid to the root of the trees, and every
tree that 					don't believe is hewed down and cast in the fire." (Where
did he get that 					from? Acts 3, quoting Malachi) So that was his
message. He was the Light 				of the day. (See?)

16.	In other words, in plain English, John and his word was different
from anybody else's word, period! Though a lot of people might have
looking and supposing, and hoping, John alone had It. And says, Alpha is
Omega, the same thing obtains today. William Branham alone had It. They
can say what they want.

[207]	Jesus said, "He was a bright and shining Light, and for a little
while you 					desired to walk in it." 

[208]	What did John say, the prophet? "He's standing among you right
now." 

	Favorite quote: [Anointed Ones 07-25-65]

		Now, I want you to know this is sure. And you that listen to this
tape, you 					might have thought today that I was trying to say that
about myself, seeing 				I was preaching this Message. I have no more to
do with it than nothing, no 				more than just a voice. And my voice,
even against my better judgment... 					I wanted to be a trapper. But
it's the will of my Father that I declare to do, 				and determined to
do. I wasn't the One that appeared down the river; I was 				only
standing there when He appeared. (John wasn't the One that appeared, 			
he was only standing there when He appeared. Typical parallel.)

[208]	…I'm not worthy to loose His shoes.  (Now he said, "He's
standing right 					now among you." I'm not worthy to lose His shoes.
And as soon as He 					comes on the scene, I'm going off." Oh, my. For
He was a Light. 

17.	Now:

		There's no two or three lights, no four or five different
organizations; there 				was one Light. There's not, Baptist, Methodist
Lutheran, Presbyterian. Christ 				is the Light, and the Light is the
Word. And the Word manifested is the Light 				of the hour. 

	In other words, plain English, the portion for the Word this hour is
the Light. You don't go back. You don't go back, because you're coming
closer and closer.

		…the Word manifested is the Light of the hour. 

[209]	"Let there be light, and there was light." Yes, sir. Let there be
light, and 					there is light. He spoke there would be Light in this
day, and there is Light. 				He's coming. I believe it. 

	Now, if that is future, what value is it?  It's got to be during the
life time of Bro. Branham    to qualify as John the Baptist. And he did,
because he said Revelation 10:1 was here, and Revelation 10:7 was here.
So tell me What came down? Well, he told you, Revelation 5:1 is the same
as Revelation 10:1. And Revelation 1:12-18 is the same as Revelation
10:1. So we know Who came down. The bleeding Lamb never came down. It
was the One with the rainbow over His head. That wasn't over the Mercy
Seat, that was over the Throne. 

 		Look at the promises of this age. Oh, my. 

[210]	Every Light that's ever shined... These church ages we see... It's
been pitiful 				sight to see rejecting... Revelations 3, I got wrote
down Revelations 3 here…				referring to what it was.   

[211]	Look to the promise of this hour, what we're living in, a rejected
Light. 					What did they do? They rejected it back there. Why? They
were living in 					a glare. What are they doing today?  

[212]	"Well, are you a Christian?”“I'm a Lutheran.”“I'm a
Baptist.” (See?) 					“I'm Presbyterian." (What is that? If that's
living in the glare, then that's 					vomit. See?)

18.	Now, in other words those churches are eating vomit. That's just
what it is. Now look, as I told you more than enough: I've looked into
the references of Luther and different men, and the churches that say
they follow them, no more follow them than nothing. They live in a
glare. They live in a name and the name is dead, that's all.

		“I'm Presbyterian."

		Don't mean one thing to God. (See?)

	 You go back to vomit you get sick. As Bro. Branham said, "What made
the dog sick in the first place to throw up and he turns and eats it,
it'll make him sick all over again. What you need is fresh Manna." See?
Now:

		I'm Presbyterian."

		That don't mean one thing to God. Just might say I'm a hog, pig, or
anything 				else you want to call yourself. (Just means as much.) No
disregards to you, 				but if you're taking it to the fundamental part,
that's right. 

		I ask the question: A Christian? That's Christ in you. And if Christ
is in you,				 the Word is in you. Then if the Word is in you, when the
Light is shining, how 				you going to walk out of it? (That shows your
eternal security too. The Elect 				cannot be deceived.) The Light, the
evening Light's a-shining; the Bride Tree				 is blooming. 

19.	Now, what do blooms signify? Fruit! First fruit. Resurrection. The
return to the seed. Harvest. He said, "it's in blossom."

[213]	Oh, you remember, they pruned that old Tree. What the cankerworm
left, 					the palmerworm ate it; (and so on down the line.)

	But, what does God say?

		"I will restore, saith the Lord." What is it? "I'll bring forth, all
that the 					Lutheran ate, the Wesleyan's ate, and all them. And I will
restore it, 'cause 				it's all still in the root of the Tree." (Why?
Because the life is in there.) See? 

		It's laying yonder in the ground, just like the sap that went down, as
I said 					about the sister, it's laying there. The trumpet of God
shall sound someday 				and them elected Lutheran, Methodists, Baptists,
that had nothing to do 					with organization...

[214]	Luther never organized nothing. Moody didn't. It was the Ricky's
after them. 				John Smith organized nothing. None of the rest of them
organized. It was 					the Light of the hour. Luther, Wesley, or none of
the rest of them, it was that 				group afterwards that made the
organization. 

[215]	The Holy Ghost never organized nothing in Pentecost. Pentecost is
an experience, 			not a denomination. It never organized nothing. Oh,
no. But the men who claimed 				to be Pentecost organized it. That's the
husk yonder dying. Instead of pressing it 				into the paper to make the
full image of Jesus Christ come forth, no, they pulled 				themselves
out. So they're nothing to do into it. Just let them alone. 

[216]	But we find out this Light, this Tree... Christ rejected again by
the church... Why? 				For the same cause they did at first, the old
false glares of lights of other day. 				And He's the same yesterday,
today, and forever; Hebrews 13:8 says so.    

[217]	Listen, I want to just take you now, and let this be personal. (He
said, "I decided 				to turn off the tape, but I won't.")  I'll just let
it sit there. 

[218]	I want to ask you something. …watch this. See? He is the same
yesterday, 					today, and forever. Watch, His works that He did
manifest itself. Now, listen 				close. When He stood there in John
14:12, He said, "The works that I do, 					shall you do also. Greater
than this shall you do, for I go unto My Father." 				Now, He said it.
Heavens and earth will pass away, but that Word will never 				fail.
Now, if we're at the last end of the age, where is the greater works
going 				to come? We're here. 

[219]	Listen, if the Roman calendar is right... We got thirty-six years
left. Every 					two thousand years the world meets her end. (Now, this
is preached December 				29, in '63) First two thousand years destroyed
by water; second two thousand 				years Christ come. This is 1964 coming
up: thirty-six years. [omit] Now, the 				Egyptian astronomy calendar
says we're seventeen years out; (so that would 				be what? Eighty,
eighty three, bring it right up to eighty three. Eighty three 				would
be seventeen years to go to make it two thousand. Now:) That would 			
leave nineteen years left, 

		Jesus said the work will be cut short for the elected sake (now
notice, he uses 				that twice, once for Israel, and once for us.) Okay?
 

[220]	"The works that I do shall you also." 

20.	So, looking at what he said, in 1964, it be 1980 would be 1981.
That's right, then would be nineteen years to go. Now add nineteen to
64, you get 1983. See, that's where we'd be today. So, how close are we
getting? See, very, very close.

 		Notice. He said one day... 

		Let's see some of the great work He done. Let's just stop for just a
couple 					of things.  

		One time He said, "You feed them something to eat." 

		They said, "We don't have anything." 

		He said, "What have you got? Bring Me what you've got." 

		"We have five barley loaves and two fishes." 

		"Bring them to Me." 

[221]	He took the original five barley loaves and begin to break the
loaves. 					From the original He made bread that fed five thousand. Is
that right? 					Then He said, "Have you got a fish? Hand Me the fish."
It was a fish to 					begin with, and He took off that fish another
fish, and another fish,  fed 					five thousand. Is that right? 

		But in the last day He had nothing; (See, like the first day) He just
spoke 					and said, "Say it'll be there," and it was there without
anything in it. He 					never had a squirrel; there was none there. He
just said, "Let there be," 					(Now, Bro. Branham does not admit that
he said these things himself. He 					said, "He said.") and there it
was. Oh, His Word's infallible. It has be fulfilled. 				See?

21.	So, you noticed that Jesus never did create when He was here on
earth. See? So, you're back to the days of Moses, the order, the days of
Moses/

[222]	I could tell you things that would shake you. See? It's there when
He says 					it's there. 

	Now what was said through His lips that was there? We don't know,
because He didn't tell us. But in meetings we heard It, and didn't know
what happened. See?

[223]	 See, the West here has come back and met the East. It was Moses
even 					 picked up sand and said, "Let there be fleas," and so forth
like that upon the 				 earth. But in this last day He doesn't take
anything (See?), just the Word. 					"Let it be, and it is." See? 

	Now, that puts you and me out of everything but His hands. That if He
doesn't do it, it isn't going to be done. And if He does do it, you're
not going to stop Him doing it. See? Look it, Sarah couldn't stop Him,
she laughed. See?

		What's said, that's the way it'll be. 

 		I want to testify of some of those things tonight (See?) and what's
happened 				that you can see He's still God. His Words can't... (no
doubt, he's going to 					mean fail.)

"These works that I do, shall you also, and greater than this shall you
do. 	                  I took a fish to make a fish. You don't even have
to have a fish." He's still              God. He's still the same Son,
the Son of God that took a fish off a fish. It's the same Son of God
today. "These works that I do shall you also; even                     
greater than this will you do." 

	Now, greater means, greater, more than this. Now, just a minute, he's
already told you that Jesus had something to start with, and this time
nothing. So therefore the magnitude of the act is greater than the
previous magnitude of the act, and the numbers of acts are greater than
the previous number of acts. Or I don't even know what he's bothering
talking about. See? Well, you know,  what you're talking about, he likes
to keep things dampen down. Because, when you bring things out, bang,
bang, bang like we do today, well you just scared the living day lights
out of people, but what's the difference anyway. They were going to get
scared anyway.   

[224]	A false light... You know, I was just thinking of something. 

22.	And then he tells about the seven million dollar holdup in Britain
which we don't need to worry about. The greatest robbery of all time.
Satan's greatest robbery is getting people living in the glare.  

[226]	Oh, false light... (that's what a glare is) Yet, it's cost the
church the greatest 				robbery it ever had. Cold denominational creeds,
brother, won't ripen a 					vindicated Word, no, a grain. The Bible
said... Jesus said the Word of God 				is a Seed that a sower sows. See?
The cold creeds won't ripen the grain. 					No, no. 

		Cold blizzard days won't ripen the wheat. No, no. It takes the warmth
of 					the sunlight, because it was God's spoken Word to do such a
thing with it. 

		And it'll take the Word spoken of God today to show the saints of God
that 					Jesus Christ lives just the same as He was yesterday He is
today.

23.	Now, he doesn't put it down the road forever, he said what He was
yesterday, He is today. So, He's got to be here doing it. 

		Creeds and denominations won't do it…cold and indifferent, the grain
					will rot right in the ground. It can't come forth under that. 

[227]	That's the reason today, we have what we do. Like our precious
brother 					Billy Graham the great revivalist. I think God is using the
man. But look 					what he does, goes out there amongst them Baptists
and Presbyterian. 					What does he do? A bunch of church goers. 

[228]	You see where the Southern Baptists is crowing down there because
they 					had the most denominations--their denomination out grew the
other 					Protestants. The Catholics took them all nearly last year.
You see it in the 					papers? They sure did. Don't worry; it's going to
take them all, 'cause it 					takes Baptists, and all, right together.  


		The World Council of churches… Why will you want to stay over here? 
				As long as you're rejecting this, what difference does it make?
Aren't you 					using the same denominational tags just the same as you
are at one place, 					one the beast and one the other one the mark, so
there you are. 

24.	He's telling people if you don't believe this, I don't care what
you're into or not into, you're gone.

 [229]	It's where he's been. He's stomped his seal of approval, and
there you take 				it. And there she all led right straight to the White
House,  to Washington 					D.C.,  Council of churches, and there you go.
And clergymen taken them 					right back on, exactly the Bible said
they'd do. 

		My,…

 [230]	Now, just think now where we're at. Look at the promises for the
day--					rejected again. The churches has done in this last day, the
denominations,					 glare. 

[231]	Living in the false glare is the reason that it won't ripen.
That's the reason 					that this Word--you don't see miracles. 

	See, anybody living in the glare the Word just died, is dead to them
really. False anointing is the only thing that comes along and then of
course they fall for it.

[232]	A priest interviewed me not long ago, and he said, "Mr. Branham,
how'd 					you baptize a certain girl?" that come out of this church,
backslid, and 					married a Catholic boy, went to the Catholic
church…going to take her 					in the church. 

[233]	I said, "I baptized her in Christian baptism." 

		"The bishop wants to know." 

		"All right, there it is." 

		"Do you swear to this?" 

[234]	I said, "I don't swear at all…If you can't take my word for it,
well, that's all 				right." Bible said, 'Don't swear by heavens; It's
God's throne; earth is 					His footstool. Let your yes be yes and no,
no.' You have to take my word." 

		Said, "Well, you said Christian baptism, what does it mean, by
immersing?" 

[235]	"That's the only way baptism's was ever performed in a Christian
way. I 					baptized her in the Ohio river, took her under water in the
Name of Jesus 					Christ and her up. Baptized her in the Name of the
Lord Jesus, that's the 					only Christian baptism there is." 

25.		He said, "Yes, sir." He put it down and said, "Strange, you know,
the 					Catholic church used to baptize that way." 

		I said, "When?" (They did.)

		And he said--went ahead, and the discussion went on for a while, and 
said, 				"Well, we are the original Catholics." 

[236]	Knowing there laid right there the books, you know, and the
history on it, 					I said, "That's true. Why don't you do it today?" 

		Well, He said, "We have power to remit sins. Jesus... told His
disciples, 					whosoever sins you remit, they're remitted, whosoever
sins you retain, 					they're retained?" 

		I said, "Yes, sir. He did." 

		He said, "Then don't that give the church the authority? Peter was the
head…" 

[237]	I said, "If the church will remit sins the way Peter did." I said,
"Now, when 				they ask, 'What must we do to be saved?' he said, 'Repent
every one of you 					and be baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus
Christ for the remission of sins' 				You do that, and I'll go along
with you.”

26.	You see, Catholic's are just like everybody else, plumb with the
Word to start with, then plumb off. See?

		“Oh," he said, "you're trying to plead the Bible." 

		I said, "That's the Word." 

		He said, "God's in His church." 

		I said, "God's in His Word. Every other man's word's a lie; His is the
Truth."  

 [238]	So there's no way you can get (See?) but that. They go right in
to darkness, 				and the Protestants by the thousands falling into it.
Here they are right down 				to adopting their creeds and things, going
right along... And the Word 					(wombing) right out proving it, (in
other words, the, the word 'coming out' 				like children out of the
womb, living Word,) proving it, Christ manifesting 				Himself (Heb
13:8) and in that creed glare they move right on out into darkness, 			
(in darkness)  just like they did in Noah's time. Just like they did in
all times, 				they do it again today, right out in darkness. Why? They
reject the Light, 					because the creed has blinded them. 

27.	They can't get rid of their own thinking. Oh, you talk about sad.

[239]	Oh, what a darkened hour we are in. Yeah, they reject Christ's
true eternal 				Light, and that's what does it. 

[240]	Cold denominations can never bring Life… Looky here, if the
Christian…

 		I ask this priest this: "I'll go with you that the Catholic church
was at the 					beginning at Pentecost, not Nicaea, Rome." The church
never did begin at 					Nicaea, it began at Pentecost. At Jerusalem is
where the church began.

[241]	I'll admit that these people, them slaves and things that got the
Holy Ghost, 				and their masters seen their powers and things, what
they were doing, 					raising the dead, speaking in tongues, casting out
devils, foretelling things... 				The prophets among them, and so forth
come out with sheepskins around 					them, eating herbs, come to that
Nicene Council… great men... And they 					come out of there, and come
up there to that Nicene Council standing for					 the Word. 

28.		But that bloody fifteen days they accepted Father, Son, and Holy
Ghost as 					a creed instead of the Bible doctrine in the Name of Jesus
Christ. Through 				that come all the Protestant churches, borned into
the same thing. All these 				other things, false conception of the Holy
Ghost. Take communion drink 					wine, that is the holy eucharist, 
means the Holy Spirit to them. The priest 					gives it to you. 

[242]	Now, the Bible don't say, "When the day of Pentecost had fully
come, here 					come a priest up the road, collar turned around… 'Lick
out your tongue 					and take the holy eucharist.'" No. It didn't say
that, "All you people run up 					here and give me the right-hand of
fellowship, Baptists, Methodists, (didn't 				say that,) I'll put your
name in a book... Bring a letter somewhere." 

[243]	He said they were all in one accord in one place, and suddenly
there came 				a sound from heaven like a rushing, mighty wind…They
were all filled 					with Holy Ghost… staggering like drunk men, Mary
with the rest of them, 					under the impact of the Holy Ghost. 

		…people…laughed and said, "These men are full of new wine," (What 
				was it?) Blinded by a creed.  

[244]	Little two by four preacher that stood up there, named Peter, "You
men 					of Judaea all ye that dwell--you men of Jerusalem dwell in
Judaea, be this					 known you hearken to my words. These are not drunk,
but let me tell you 					the Scripture said what this will be. This is
the Light. This is the Word 					being manifested." Amen. 

 		Same thing happens today, and they do like they did then, walked away
and 				shake their heads. Said, "Let them alone, blind leads the blind,
fall in the 					ditch." 

[245]	Oh, it takes Christ's Eternal Life to bring the Word of Life to
vindication, 			(so the Word living is a vindicated Word. Show me where
anybody has had a 				vindicated Word but us.) made flesh. Oh, my
goodness. (You see?)

29.	In other words, there's no life in the sperm. You can have a male
sperm count of a billions and they're all dead, what good does it do?
That's what they got. They're bringing forth death and abortion. Takes
Christ, Eternal Life to bring the Word to Life, to vindication made
flesh.

		Takes the Word of--takes the Holy Ghost to operate the Word of God. 		
		(People try to operate It. Pentecostal got right into that.)  

[246]	When Jesus said, "Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel
to every 				creature. Now look, Mark 16, His last commission "all the
world--all the 					world..." It never has got there yet. See? "... all
the world and preach the 					Gospel to every creature. He that
believeth (in all the world) and is baptized 				shall be saved; he that
believeth not shall be damned. These signs shall follow 				them that
believe. In other words, in all the world, they're believers, they'll 		
		all come in. Doesn't say:) 

		"They'll shake hands with..." No.  Good church members?" No.

30.		" In My Name cast out devils. They speak with tongues. Take up
serpents, 					drink deadly things, it won't harm. If they lay their
hands on the sick, they 					shall recover." Oh, my. 

[247]	How far? Every creature. How much? All the world till He comes
again. 					These signs... "He that believeth on Me, the works that I
do, shall he do. 					Even greater then this will he do, because I go to
My Father." 

[248]	Oh, how we can walk away from that is more than I can say. We are
in 					more darkness now than they were. Now, I've just got a couple
more verses 				I want to get to the end as quick as possible. We're in
more darkness than 					they were. 

		I know I wear you out here for about an hour and a half, (a whole lot
longer 				than that I think) but see, this tape's going on there. 

[249]	They're in more darkness than we are. I made the statement that...
Why? The 				church in this glare is so deceiving, it looks like the
truth. Now, didn't Jesus 				say, Matthew 24, in the last days the two
spirits would be so close till it'll 					deceive the very elected if it
was possible. There would be an elected group 				come out to make the
church in the last days. And these organizations which				--what they
call their truth would be so close like the real thing, it would 				
deceive the very elected, even Pentecostals. 

[250]	Now, you know, you ain't going to take a Pentecostal and deceive
him with 				some Methodist or Baptist doctrine. You aren't going to
tell him that. He knows 				better. You're not going to deceive some
Baptist with a Lutheran doctrine.  

		Neither going to receive the Message now in this Word by some
Pentecostal 				doctrine of  Father, Son, Holy Ghost, and all this stuff
like that and back 					there and them creeds that they have in that
organization setup. No, indeedy. 				You'll never deceive them, because
the elected won't be deceived. No. 

[251]	What is it? What is it? Deceiving. These glares, what are they
doing? They're 				leading the church to the council slaughter by their
glare. That will be the 					final slaughter when she and Rome connects
together. When they form that 				image of the beast, that's the final
slaughter. (Why? because he said, "I'll kill 				your children with
death.")

31.	"Well," you say, "He's got to come down and obliterate them." Oh,
come on! (Phftt!) They're already dead. That's just rounding up the
carcasses. Time for the burial. She that liveth, is dead while she
lives."  

[252]	A goat always leads the sheep to the slaughter. You've seen that
in the 					slaughter pens. That goat will run right up there and lead
the sheep, then 					he'll jump out and let the sheep go on. That's what
he does. 

		…the slaughter, the Roman goats. That's right. 

		It's the denominational goats today that's leading the innocent sheep
to the 				slaughter. Put their selves--their names on their books
yonder, they're 					finished. That's the mark of the beast. In the Name
of the Lord I speak. I 					held that for a long time; that's true.
That's exactly. What is the beast? What 				is the beast? It's the Roman
hierarchy, the first organization. What is the 					mark? The same
thing. Exactly. The same thing that that was. The slaughter... 				To
the glare... 

[253]	But in the light of the present darkness we still have seen the
Light of God 					shine through. How thankful we are for that. 

[254]	Listen close. We have seen the Light, His Word that He promised
for this 					day proven and vindicated it's the Truth, the Light of the
hour. 

32.	You see what you're talking about? That's the great Light. William
Branham was a light. There was a greater Light, vindicated Word. Now,
there's a greater Light still, the Vindicator of the Word. See?

 [255]	Here not long ago a minister a man in Florida, he had him a car
(I believe 				it was a Chevrolet), the thing went out on him. He
couldn't get it fixed. He 					went to the garage; the little old
mechanic, (he said, did this, did that, and 					tired every old thing
he could do.) 

		Finally a nice dressed man stepped up; and said, "May I give you some 
				advice?" 

[256]	The mechanic (said, "Sure, you might as well.")

		(The nicely dressed man) said, "Take this, this and this," and try
this." 					(The mechanic tried it, and the thing worked.)  

[257]	The mechanic said, "Who are you?" He said, "well, (he said) I'm
the 					chief engineer 	at General Motors. I'm the one  that designed
it. 

[258]	And today when you're talking about Methodists, Baptists, and
Presbyterian, 				the Chief Mechanic's here…

33.	Now look, he's talking about what wasn't there before. See? I just
don't understand people's thinking. I can understand it. Number one, I'm
a very uncouth [ill-mannered] person. I should go out and buy some
'couth', [sophistication] I don't have enough money. [laughter] Number
one, they can't stand me, but even more, they cannot stand Him to get
the preeminence. They want to be somebody. Their little Pentecostal
women preacher floosies who put on their high heels slippers, cut their
hair, paint their faces like Jezebel, then parade up and down. Spirit of
hell! That's all it is.

	No wonder Samuel said, "I'll hack them to pieces that ripped up the
women and destroyed the children." [1 Sam 15:] 

	"Oh," you say, "that's different from branding souls to hell and
organization."

	Are you kidding?  Are you waking up here in this little church to
understand this is the day of vengeance and you and I do not take
vengeance, but He will? And if we haven't got some kind of guts and
spirit to rise up and to take a stand against their filthy murders,
what's going on, there's something wrong with us.

	A certain preacher one day talked to Bro. Palberg and he said, "I just
don't believe in fighting." 

	And Bro. Palberg said, "Lee," (to me, Lee Vayle) he said, "look, if a
thing ain't worth fighting for, it ain't worth believing." This is the
hour.  

		…the Chief Mechanic's here the Designer of His Word, 

35.	He said, "Just think how wonderful the same Pillar of Fire that
brought the Word to Paul is here revealing It." [knocks hard on the
pulpit] Never came that way to Luther, because Alpha is Omega. The Seven
Church Ages can only have two prophets, and in between is five, which is
all grace, grace, grace, because He let them get by on the Blood. It's a
different picture today.

		…the Man Who created the heavens and earth and designed His Church.	
		 	Does He know more about what it takes for the rapture or does the
Methodist 				or Baptist know more about what it takes? (Now, what does
it take for the 					Rapture?) He's the Designer; 

	So, what's going to fix this up? The Chief Mechanic is here to put the
nuts together. Oh, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo! [laughter] Yes, I hope
there's still some wrench has a lot of torque. I just said that to sound
like I know something about mechanics. (Phfft!) Fap! Never mind my
sarcasm.

		He's the Designer, He knows what it takes. He's well dressed in the
power 					of His resurrection. Hallelujah. (Who raised Jesus? God
raised Jesus!) He's 				walking among us today in the power of His
resurrection. 

	Well, He better be, because the prophet said, He came down and set
Himself at the Head of the Church to raise the dead. You bet He's got
the power to raise the dead and to change us. All things are possible
now that He's here! Sure, He's walking amongst us in the power of His
Resurrection.

		He knows what it takes to put the Church in rapturing order. He
designed 					it and put the parts together here in the Bible. Amen.
Just let the current 					flow through it, now watch it operate. Let
faith in His promised Word of 					today flow through, you'll see how it
operates. Why? He designed the thing. 				He designed His church by the
Word. That's why He put together, not by 					Methodist, or Baptist, or
Presbyterian, or Pentecostal organization, but by 				His Word. "Man
shall live not by bread alone but by every Word that proceeds 				from
the mouth of God."  

 	And He kept them from the Tree of Life, but now we should be all jaws
and mouth to come to the Tree of Life. But they don't want to eat, they
want vomit. Vomit, vomit, vomit, vomit.

36.	See, why I keep going back to Ephesians. In reading, [1:]

		(17) 	…the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may
give 						unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge
of him:

		(18) 	The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that (you) may
						know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the
glory 					of his inheritance in the saints,

		(19) 	And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who 
					believe, according to the working of his mighty power,

		(20) 	Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead…

	Now, that's the spirit in the last day. You tell me He's been here
before in resurrection power you don't know the Word. And Bro. Branham
said that Spirit comes into the Church, and It hasn't been in the Church
before. I don't know what they're thinking of. Yes sir! 

[259]	Get out of them glares. 

	Get out of Pentecost, you little boys that like to fight this Message.
You're too busy trying to be somebody. I never saw a cow trying to be a
cow yet. I never saw a horse trying to be a horse. I never saw a dog
trying to be a dog. Because, a horse is a horse, and a cow is a cow, and
a pig is a pig, and a dog is a dog, and a Christian is a Christian.

		In the midst of darkness, this dark time that we're living in now. In
the midst 				of  the darkness who's going to bring the little Bride
out. (He tested, "Come 				out of her my people.") Who knows about it?
The Chief Designer. Oh, yeah. 				From all this confusion and the glare!


	"I wasn't the One down there when that Appeared, I was only one
standing there. I was just a voice." [Anointed Ones 07-25-65] 

	And here a little Pentecostal preacher say, "Well, I'm a very wonderful
person." I wish I could say that honestly. 

37.	I told you a year ago, Paul the aged, John the beloved, Lee Vayle
the cruddy, what more do you want? At least I'm proud enough to put my
name with these great boys. So I got a little too much pride too. But at
least, bless God, I'll stand around and at least pick my toes, not
pretend I'm some great fellow like they are.

	I'm going to tell you something brother/sister: when you're in the
presence of a great person that's really spiritual something happens to
you. You can't be the same again, there's nobody living. I've stood in
the presence of the greatest men I believe, some of the greatest the
world has ever seen, and possibly in our age. Well, I just leave
it…one of the greatest. And I'm going to tell you something, it's not
what people think. They're a whole lot different. 

		Here's the Methodists are glaring one way, the Baptists another,
(they're 					shedding their light, see?) (Methodist) and another
Pentecostals we're all  					glares... They run, put their names over
here in this glare. Yeah, come to 					find out something there, come
over here… (come over here, in other words, 				run around and find
out something. This church, that church.) 

[260]	Like I said to that priest, "If you all are the original church
and you went					 after the doctrine of these men that sat at Nicaea,
why is it you haven't 					got the power that they had back there in the
beginning? Why don't you 					do the things that they did, which Jesus
said..." 

38.		He said, "Oh we're more people now; we live in a different age." 

[261]	I said, "The Word doesn't change… signs shall follow them that
believe in 					all  ages. Heaven and earth is going to pass away, the
Word will never 					pass away." That's it. 

		Oh, he said, "You're talking Bible." 

[262]	I said,  "Sure, Yes, the Word which is Christ." That's right. So
there you 					are. See? (He believes the church is the Word, and all
this kind of junk.)

[263]	And in this glare, the Methodists showing theirs, the Baptist
showing theirs, 				Presbyterian showing theirs, one growing bigger and
bigger…

	What's he trying to tell you? He's trying to tell you he's showing the
only true Light there is. Because, what is there? Catholic, Protestant.
Now, he's neither one. See? How much glare do we have left over? How can
you interpret Light in a glare? You can't interpret Light with a glare,
because Light is interpretation and glare is phony. You got to dump your
own thinking. You got to start with the Rapture, because that's what he
said we're waiting for. And if the Rapture is not revealed to you, you
have not understood this Message, you're finished as far as I'm
concerned. You better get to know It. Yeah.

39.	"Oh," they say, "well, the trouble is, (you know) that old Lee
Vayle, he's the guy that got to preaching that thing hard. So therefore,
we ain't going to believe, because we don't like Lee Vayle." But, I
never said…I don't like them either. [laughter]

	If I did, you think you think I'd want to get changed? Don't be stupid.
See? We live in different ages then. Methodist showing theirs.  

		Each one growing bigger and bigger all the time. 

		The poor little Bride, where's She at? She went over here at the
Pentecostal 				oneness awhile, and She put Her name on there, and She'd
say, "Well, come 				to find out look what they do." They come over
here, "You got to belong to 				this. If you don't belong to our church,
you're not even in the Bride. You're               			 not even
nothing." Go over here at the Assemblies, and look what they got. 			
There you are again. Go down to the Baptists, look what they got.

[264]	What's going to happen to the poor little thing? See? But She's
coming 					forth; don't you worry. She's going to be there. 

[265]	A fellow was saying here about a couple years ago; went down in
New Mexico. 				I held a meeting down there in  Carlsbad Caverns. You've
hear that down 					there's an elevator takes the people down…

	And then he told about the little girl started to scream and the light
went out.

		 She was scared to death it was so dark. Poor little thing was
grabbing 					everywhere and trying to scream and holler for her papa,
mama…just 					couldn't stand; it was so dark…never seen such
darkness. 

[266]	And that's about the way it is now. That's right. It's so dark you
don't know 				where to go. You go to the Methodist, go to the Baptist,
go to the Presbyterian, 				it's all the same thing.  Eating that old
dead, rotten manna, the wiggletails in 				it (See?), same thing,
creeds, "join this, join that." Old creed, everything, you 				didn't
see that in Christ. 

40.	No, he stood there and he said, "Hey, look it, I don't preach what
you guys preach. Johnson,  I don't preach what you guys preach."

	Johnson said, "It's got to come on down."

	William Branham said, "It's got to come on down."

	And they just stand there and say, "Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah." 

	No more believe the prophet than nothing. See?

		"Come join this, come join that." Oh, you see self-righteous people
and 					things. Many are fine people in there, in them denominations.
I'm 						saying the system, not the people. But you see, that's what
they're eating. 					Tell them about it. 

		Here is fresh Food!

[267]	 …little girl standing there, screaming to the top of her voice,
going into 					hysterics, like the little Bride is. You know what, her
little brother cried out, 				said, "Little sister, don't fear ('cause
he's standing right by the engineer see?) 				(Chief engineer, General
Motors) " Said, "There's a man here who can turn 				on the light." 

		Don't fear, little Sister, there's a Man here Who can turn on the
Light. He 					can make this Word live. (Now listen) We don't know how
He's coming; we 				don't know when He's coming; (Now, he said, "We
don't know how He's 					coming, we don't how, I suppose, know, when
He's coming.) I don't know 					nothing about that, but He's here.
[laughter] 

41.	Now, I read that right. 

		Don't fear, little sister, there's a Man here, (he's talking to the
Bride) now, 					don't fear little Bride, there's a Man here Who can
turn on the Light. He can 				make the Word live. We don't know when
He's coming. (Remember, coming 				and appearing is two different
things.) We don't know how, when He's coming, 				I don't know nothing
about that, but He's here, and He can turn on the Lights.				How we
going to get out of it? I don't know, but He's here…

	Now, he said the same thing about the Rapture. There's a secret in
there, but look it, you don't need to worry about a secret, because it's
His secret not ours. Our secret is: we know about It and we're a part of
It, because it's a revelation to us. Now:

		He's the One (yes sir) and He's the one that can turn on the Lights.
Yes, sir. 				He is the One; He is the Light. He just makes Himself
known; that's how 					He turns on the Light. 

		(Now just a minute, if He's been here all these years, then you don't
know 					Him as well as we do.) Exactly right. 

		It takes Christ to flash away on His Lights, and then all the darkness
scatters. 				He separates; (fan is in His hands) He's pulling His
little Bride out: "I'll 					take a people out of the Gentiles for My
Namesake that'll have My Name." 					(See? The riches of His inheritance
in the Saints. What His Father gave Him 				was His Name. We've got It.)
What is His Name? All right. Not Methodist, 				not Baptist,
Presbyterian (and so on.) 

42.	All right, let's go back to page 40, [paragraph] 203.

[203]	He  said in the last days (Amen.), the Light of the hour, crying
in the 					wilderness of Babylon, "Come out of her My people, that you
be not 					partakers of her sins. Touch not her unclean thing; get away
from it. 					Flee from the wrath that is to come." 

	How do you get to be Bride? "Come out!" And what you come out of,
doesn't come out of you, [makes a swish sound] you're still back honey.

[268]	He is the Light, the Truth, the Light. And there's no darkness in
Him. He 					scatters the darkness when He comes in, because He is the
Word. And the 					Word is the Light. That's right. Because He spoke and
said, "Let there be 					light," that was the Word that became light.
(And yet, Who made it? He did.) 				When He speaks this, it's the Light
of that age each time. 

		Now, He's here in--in, not in a glare, but (People are living in
glare.), but 					He is the vindicated Word. He is absolutely the Light
in the time of darkness. 				Yes, sir. All these false glares and things
will fade away. Yes, sir. He is here.

		Then you see, He's not going to fade away. "Oh," they say, "He came
Bro. Vayle but He went." Can't prove it to me. The dead haven't been
raised. "Oh, He'll come down and sit at the top of the church in order
to raise the dead again."

	Well, that's fine. You show me where It says, "He'll come down, go up,
and come down, and go up, and come down." You show me. Doesn't say that.
And Bro. Branham said, "He does all three in descending," and that's one
descent.

		He's the Light in the time of darkness. Yes, sir… He is here. Don't
fear. Turn 				on the Lights, His promised Word, It lives; It makes... 

		"He that believeth in Me, the works that I do... he'll do also." Then
it is the 				Word. "As the Father sent Me, so send I you." The Father
that sent Him, come 				in Him. The Jesus that sends you, comes in you.
The works that He did then, 				He does the same thing, because why? The
Word is made flesh in human flesh, 				manifesting Itself as a Light of
the day. There we are. There it is… showing the 				way to Life and
the Light.

43.	Now, of course people say, "Well you see, there it is Bro. Vayle,
it's the baptism, because he talks about us." Then how about the baptism
with Luther? What made Luther who he was? Why does he talk about Luther?
Why does he talk about Wesley? Why does he talk about John? Why does he
talk about Noah? Why about Moses? Talk about Israel, talk about us? This
prophet said categorically the revelation does not come to the body, it
comes to a prophet. And no two prophet's at one time, unless one be a
minor.

	See, don't get fooled by this switching back and forth and say you can
do it. Let somebody stand up and give me 'Thus Saith the Lord'. Let
somebody give me a vision, tell it exactly right. So you don't get
fooled because he goes back and forth. That's a curve he's throwing. 

	I discerned, and he said, "Stop doing it." Was he too proud he didn't
want me discern, I might show him up? Huh? You think that's William
Branham? Was he trying to help me? Maybe he didn't like the fact I'm
supposed to be a pretty good preacher, which I'm pretty lousy. Don't
give me that junk. 

	It's right here. He tells you who he is. He said, "If you only knew who
I am," he said, "everyone of you would be healed."  Boy, did we miss
that one! Tell me somebody stand up    and say that: "If anybody really
knows who I am you'll get healed."

	Well, I'm going to tell you something, that could be very true. Healed
from what? Oh listen, come on, don't get ever get fooled.

44.	All right, the Bride is the body of Christ. Is she Christ? Forget
it!  

		The Word is made flesh…human flesh, manifesting Itself as a Light of
the 					day. There we are. There it is… just showing the way to Life
and the Light.					(Come on, if the church could do that, you wouldn't
need a prophet, she's 					already has the Light.) Wise men who are not
blinded by creeds and 					denomination will walk in that Light. (What
Light? It's got to be a singular 				Light, see?) Oh, my! 

[269]	There is a Man here that can turn on the Lights all right. What
does He do? 				By vindicating His Word for this day. 

	Who's he talking about? He's here. William Branham can't vindicate his
word. The best William Branham could do is say, "By the grace of God I
will pay the ten dollars tomorrow that I owe you, or I'll come by and
see you." By the grace of God I'll walk across the street, but William
Branham cannot say, "I will walk across the street." Because there's one
step between us and death. One heart beat. How do you know tonight we
won't pitch forward, or I pitch forward off this chair and die? I don't
know. I don't think I will, but I don't know. By the grace of God it'd
be nice if I did. Be out of here.  

[269]	There is a Man here that can turn on the Lights all right. What
does He do? 				By vindicating His Word for this day. Jesus the Son of
God, Who promised 				the Word for this day, is right here with us.
(How? Because of His Spirit.)

45.	Is He here in flesh? No way!

		Don't get scared; don't pay any attention to what they're doing. If
you do, 					you'll walk in darkness. 

		Be wise. "They that be wise," Daniel said, "in these last days will do
exploits 				for their God." See? They'll walk in the Light as He's in
the Light. 

[270]	Don't worry; it may be dark, look, they're going to force us every
one... You 				see the proclamation going out, little churches come up,
close them up.            				You've 	got to come in, or they're going
to close you up. (That's the organization, 				they're going to close
you up.) 

[272]	Now, we're going to close. You have to be one of them or you're
not. You're 				either in that or you can't do nothing, can't even buy
or sell. That's right. 					You're daresn't to pray for the sick. If
you're caught ministering to any sick 				or any person with any
spiritual thing, you're subject to a federal law to be 				executed.
That's exactly right. (Where did that come from? Luther's! Went 				back
to the first little Light that shone, see? All right.) …exactly right.
You 				know that. That's right; it's in the papers. So you cannot do
it. You have to 					belong to the cult. 

		Brother, let me tell you something; you better get Christ here in your
heart 				right now, 'cause there is a time coming where you're really
going to need 					it. You're not then. (In other words, it'll be too
late then,) Remember, when 					that seal's put on, she's there for
good. So don't you do it; don't you believe 				that stuff. You get
right into Christ right now. Yes, sir. 

[273]	Vindicates the Word and shows that It is the Light of the hour.
That's how 					we know He is the Light, because He is the Light
manifesting Itself in flesh. 

46.	What flesh? Through William Branham's flesh. It wasn't William
Branham doing it. He was just a voice. 

		He was God's Word made flesh. (And of course William Branham was the 	
		flesh of God for that particular period of the Word. See?)  See? God's
Word 				was showing Itself vindicating Itself. When the Messiah cometh,
what will					He do? 

[274]	The woman said at the well, "When the Messiah comes He'll do these
things. 				You must be a Prophet, which is the Word, foretelling us
these things." 

	See, what things? What Sarah saw in the tent, what she saw there she
said, "This is It, the sign of the Messiah." The Messiah sign. Well, was
He there when it was given? Certainly was! He was there at the tent, he
was there at the well. Who's here now? I want to know. I want to know
these people's answers, they're so smug and they're so smart! See? Oh,
they think, they think  I'm rotten preaching this way. I'm a dirty…oh,
I'm the worst guy in the world that I should raise my voice, but they
can go everywhere. Well, I can go everywhere too. But I got one thing, I
don't go anywhere, but my voice goes everywhere. Does that burns them
up? Sure, it burn them up! Oh you bet, they're burnt up. Let them be
burnt up. You bet your sweet life.

 		The woman said… "When the Messiah comes He'll tell us, (she said.) 


[275]	He said, "I am He." See? That was enough. The Light shined on the
promised 				Word. There's is Light. 

[276]	Right into the city she went, "Come and see a Man Who told me the
things I did. 				Isn't this the very Messiah?" (Oh, what's here? He's
here in Spirit, you see?)

47.	If this was just for every age like they're trying to tell us now,
the baptism, why didn't Luther have it? Now, the Lutheran's they have a
name that they live, but are dead. We have a Name! [raps on the pulpit]
that doesn't kill us It takes us in, we're Mrs. Jesus. Put that back on
Luther, little Pentecostal dog vomit. Pig wallow. You say, "You hit
pretty hard Bro. Vayle." Yeah, I do, yeah. I make no apology. I got
nothing to apologize for.

[277]	Remember, in every age in time of darkness God has always had His
Word 				to divide the Light from the dark. 

		Had it in the days of Luther when the Catholic church had everything.
He 					sent Luther as a shining Light. And Luther divided truth from
darkness. 

		Lutherans got twisted up, made a John Wesley… divided Light from
darkness. 

		Pentecost came along…Methodist gummed up, Baptists, Presbyterian, He
					sent Pentecostal message to separate Light from darkness. 

		Pentecost went right back into darkness again to organization, took
their 					creeds and things. 

		Now, the hour has come for this Word to be vindicated. 

48.	Now remember, they did not have a vindicated Word. The only
vindication was, that this did something to people, but It wasn't
vindicated. And you look back there's lots of error. And you can tell
the errors were, because none of the people today really preach Luther
or Wesley. I've read the books. Now, the hour's come to be vindicated. 

		He sends the Light, the Word made manifest, like He did in the
beginning, 					sends the Word, it proves Itself. There is Light.  He
always separates. (The 				fan is in His hand, see?) The same is now as
eternal Light in the beginning. 				(Say the Word.)

[278]	Look, children... I'm five minutes past due… (he says.)  

		There is a Man present! Don't get scared no matter what they say. 

	You think they won't come and put pressure on you? "Well," says the
wife, "I'll just walk off and leave him."  So, let her leave. The
husband says, "Well, I'll just leave you. I'll divorce you." Go ahead. 

	"Kick you out of our churches!" So, fine! I've been kicked out of
better bar rooms, so to speak. Oh, I've been kicked out, yeah. A couple
of times I was smart and got up before they could get to me. Oh, it's
nice to jump the fence before you feel the boot. [laughter] Ha, ha, ha,
oh yes, oh yes indeedy. Yes:

49.		There is a Man present! Don't get scared no matter what they say.
I've seen it 				come to the spot to where I didn't know where to move
next. But He's always 				present. The never failing Presence, He's
always there. He can turn on the 				Light. (What Light? You're in a
different area today.) He's just waiting, seeing 				what you're going
to do. He can flip the switch any time He wants to. Yes, sir. 

[279]	There's a Man here that can turn on the Lights. And "those who set
in the 					regions of darkness the shadow of death," (the regions of
shadow of death, 				that's what he quoted from Matthew 4, the
Gentiles.) 

	And He said He must appear to the Gentiles and do what He did when He
was in the flesh. And He's talking about That Spirit that came down. 
Now:  

		…some of them under the cancer, some of them under the death of
denomination, 				some of them under creed's death, some of them under
tradition death, and all 				them kinds of death, and they have seen a
great Light. The Man that flashed 				the Lights then is the same One
Who in the beginning said, "Let there be light." 				That same God
yesterday, today, and forever, He's present today right here 				now.
Don't get scared; He can turn on…   

50.	Why does he keep on saying, "Don't get scared, don't get scared,
don't get scared?" What's to be scared of back there, it's different
now? Because it is different. I'm going to tell you something" I saw
William Branham in the Presence of the Pillar of Fire. And I never saw
anybody so scared in my life that had to stand there. Now, let's just
get that flat. It's not waving his hands, say, "Hi little feller." See?
Okay.

		Don't get scared; He can turn on the Light.

		When the persecution comes, don't get scared; (He said, "it's
coming.") 					there's a Light said He'd catch His people away. She'll
not go through the 					tribulation. She'll never do it; He said She
wouldn't. She'll be caught away. 				"How they going to do it, Brother,,
looks awful dark?" No matter how dark 				it gets, if you can't see your
hand before you, just remember, there's a Man 				here that can turn on
the Light… (William Branham couldn't say that about 				himself. He's
now, listen he's talking and he said,) a man that can turn on the 			
Light can rapture the church. 

	And the Rapture can only happen when the last one's in. Child trained,
the dead come up and we're changed. 

		You say, "Well I'll…" Yes sir.

[280]	Yeah, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego was right up to the fiery
furnace,				 but there's a Man there Who could turn on the air. (They
were air conditioned) 				Yes, sir. Rushing, mighty wind that came on
Pentecost, He turned it on again,  				fanned all the breeze away from
that  fire. There was a Man there; He's called				 the Fourth Man. 

[281]	There's One here today; He's the only One! Hallelujah. He's got
the Light 					switch in His hand. And those who set in the regions of
the shadow of the 					death, great Lights sprung up. Don't reject It;
receive It in the Name of the 				Lord, while we bow our heads just a
moment.

		We'll walk in the Light!

		Beautiful Light!

		Come where the dew drops of mercy are bright.

51.	There It is. See? Presence. Same One that brought It is here
interpreting. Tell me when that happened in the rest of the ages? Didn't
happen. Oh yeah. Tell me why he said he had a ministry? That was to
declare that He's here, to reveal fully. And people fight It. 

	They don't realize that Jesus came on the scene and they said, "Who are
you?"

	He said, "I'm Messiah."

	The same One that spoke through William Branham said, "I am the Lord
Jesus Christ, I'm using this man's voice. You're not listening to him."
When did He do that before? That's a prophet. See? Yeah. Want to fight
His Presence, why? Yet people don't even want to consider it. What if
He's here and they turn Him down? The Bible said, "If you turn that One
down, the next One you won't turn down." See?

	What came to Paul? Pillar of Fire. What did He say? He said, "I'm Jesus
whom you persecute." What William Branham say the Pillar of Fire comes?
He said, "That's Jesus." What's He going to do? Came to bring Light.
Why?  Because it's darkness.

	What kind of mess is the church in? Poor, wretched, miserable, blind
and thinks that she is, rich, increased in goods and doesn't lack a
thing.

	Yeah, how would you like to have a credit card that you thought was
worth a million dollars and you went down town bought a million dollars
worth of stuff, and the next day they came and carted it all away? And
they say, "Hey, this doesn't belong to you." You know what happened?
You'd feel worse having missed it, having had it. Now, if you never had
it, you wouldn't feel so bad when it goes.

	What if you find out what was in your grasp tonight, what William
Branham stood for; stood in His Presence and was there to declare the
Presence, turning It down? You had it. Now, it's taken from you.

52.	Listen, didn't he tell the people that he was here as a prophet?
God's His Own Prophet. What happens after prophet? Judge. What happens
after Judge? King! What's he talking about? The Kingdom. So the Kingdom
constitutes an authority of power. And it constitutes a word of
authority, and it constitutes a member or somebody, or some bodies that
can interpret. And those decree, and the state takes over again. That's
what God's doing. See, it's so tragically simple, and it's so nice to be
fooled. See?

	I think the people that don't believe this Message should write Ann
Landers. [an advice columnist]  Yep, don't you think so? That's right. I
think they should. Let's rise.

	Heavenly Father, we're grateful again that we've had a time of being
with You to go into the Message of the prophet in these last closing
words we read tonight. These fifteen pages or so what we read, maybe
more, bringing out the depths of the reality that You Jesus are here.
The identical Spirit did the same things here on earth in a human body.
Pillar of Fire, same One that brought the Word to Paul, revealed the
Word. Same One that came down Appearing we believe bringing that Message
using a prophet, is now here after the revelation is completed to bring
the dead out of the earth, to change us, and to take us up.

	For, Lord, we do not know anything that anybody has ever said in
translating Your Word, and we do not know that Your prophet ever said
that You came down, descended to bring a Message which he categorically
said was his Message. Maybe I don't understand English, but I believe,
Lord, that I do. I believe that You simply used a man to bring Your
Message, that It was not Your Voice literally, it was the voice of
somebody else, but It was Your Word. And You brought that Word. And You
are here to raise the dead, hallelujah.

	And You are here to take us all up having changed us, and we feel real
good about it. And we're happy, Lord, that we know these things, because
You said, if we know them happy are we, and happy are we if we do
certain things. And we do the certain things, Lord, which is we believe
Your Word to begin with. And believe It as You set It forth by Your
prophet hopefully we understand and we're grateful.

	Now, Lord, we would like one thing above perhaps a lot of things. And
we would like to be so solemnized to Your Word from Your Presence, that
we walk with a hushed and sober manner. We walk in a total realization
as far as we can go this side of the Resurrection, but to give Thee
honor and glory, Your reverence, and that which pertains to it, so that
there is nothing we would not do, or adhere to, stand for, live for, die
for. For, Father, we do want to be completely one with You and Your
Word. We want to walk, Lord, in that Spirit, that aura.

	We know that there is a spirit in the Lord's day that's full of pride.
The devil taking right over where he did in the beginning, taking the
church over, "I'm rich, increased in goods, and don't lack a thing. I am
not a widow, I am not in mourning, I'm the wife of God." And we know
that she is a filthy, filthy thing.

	But, Lord, we believe that we've come out, and in the coming out we
want to be just like that little Bride that You let Your prophet see,
demure, sweet, beautifully dressed exactly right in harmony with the
beat of the hour, the Word revealed getting into step, a complete
duplication of the Age number one. A complete Word Bride before she lost
her virginity by way of the seduced mind. And we coming back, Lord, by
the way of the circumcised mind, right back into step. And just like a
little demure Bride which she is, little Bride coming out under the
influence and the glory. All these things of the over-shadowing of our
Blessed Redeemer, so that we're ministering what You ministered to us,
giving It back to You, walking in the Light as You are here, the Light
giving Light. Same Light that the One in flesh walked in when He was
here as Your temple.

	Now, Lord, we mean this tonight. We believe that It's going to come. We
don't have any fear, Lord, that It won't come. But, we're a little under
pressure, because we're wishing It would come quicker. We are, we're not
discouraged with You, Lord, because we know, no matter what happens
there's a Bride out there somewhere with You.  You'll do right, and the
Bride will get right. But, Lord, as we by grace count our self a part of
This, we would love another measure of the sobriety, sincerity, the
solemnity, the beauty of the Oneness, the pervading quality of that
Spirit of Christ, that is coming and, as we said, Lord, just…we're
impatient for It. Can't say It's not coming quick enough, because, we'd
be wrong trying to force Your hand. But, we are a little impatient.
We're just…well perhaps under this expectation we just feel too bad,
that it's not we're not the better for You. Forgive us, we were counting
on the Blood, and we're counting on the Spirit. We're counting on
everything, Lord, to move us up and in. Right into the Resurrection. 

	So, we praise You tonight. Heal the sick amongst us, give us victory,
Lord, help us to stay in the Light, walk in the Light, and let us be
lights. A city set upon a hill cannot be hid. Now, Lord, prepare us for
the week-end that we might have Your Presence, a mighty in imbuing in
glory, God, and may we all be a real spirit, Lord, toward the meeting
coming up un Columbus. Because as previously at one time, Lord, I had to
stand apart, it was my meeting, but I believe, Lord, tonight it's our
meeting. It's the people's here and mine together, we're a part, so that
our faith goes in one direction which is toward the end with Thee.

	We appreciate these things, Lord. Now, remove everything from our
hearts that shouldn't be there. Number one: the very sin that Satan fell
by reason of pride. And we know that there's no way talking ourselves
out of it, or talking You out of it. That's the spirit of this hour,
which increase in goods, don't lack a thing, because a knowledge is
missing. A knowledge of the true wisdom of God, it's true humility we
know that. And we want to get shuck of all these things. I hope it
doesn't necessarily take too much fire to burn it off, or burn it out. I
believe, Lord, happy is the person that takes the hint. That takes the
Light, and any little substance You give us, any little token walks
right into it. Hopefully, that's the way it is.

	So, we commend ourselves to You, God, of all grace and mercy, and we
are sure happy to do it, Lord, we are so happy to commend ourselves to
You, O God, where the safe keeping of our souls unto Eternal Life. Now,
unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be all
power and honor and glory through Jesus Christ our blessed Lord. Amen. 

	'The Lord bless you'.

 

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