All Deceivableness of Unrighteousness Bro. Lee Vayle - May 23, 1971 Rather than take a fresh subject I'm going to continue elaborating on what we started here on Friday, coming out of the mystery, which is the 'Mystery of Iniquity' [0571] You know repetition is a first rule of pedagogy [teaching] and sometimes the thing has to be said many times, various ways before it really takes hold. 1. So, I want to continue from Friday and also this morning and my subject will be 'All Deceivableness of Unrighteousness'. And our thoughts will be the same, but will be dealt with, with different Scripture and a little more correlation in order to bring out the subject more decisively than previously. You know we can never get too much of scriptural information, because faith is a revelation. "And faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God." [Rom 10:17] and hearing is understanding. Over in the Book of Revelation here from which I'm not going to read at this minute, but just take Scripture…here it is here: "For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues …and so on. [Revelation 22:18] 2. Now, the Bible says, "To hear is to understand." [John 8:] Now, this Book has been a sealed Book. John was told to seal It up, so the Thunders could not come forth. But to hear It would be to open It. Now, that's what happened in Revelation 10:7, the Book was opened, therefore It was opened by revelation. Now, It tells you here that this Book can now be heard. The Word can be revealed. And it's when this revelation comes, that we must be very particular not to add to It, or take from It. Now, remember also in one of these back Scripture here, (I just can't put my finger on) …It mentions, "Seal not up the Book." Revelation 10: said, "Seal It." And then a few chapters down It says, "Don't you seal It again." It is a time in there when the Book is open. And when that Book is open, there can be no sealing of It. The whole thing comes into absolute perfect view. And it's at this time that if you add to It, the plagues are added to you. And there is only one time that can happen, and that's at the end time, because the plagues are the Sixth Seal, three and a half years tribulation. The only time it could happen. And God is not going to bring about a private resurrection, it puts them in a tribulation everybody that ever added to that Book. There is only one time. 3. Furthermore, there is only one time the name can be taken off the Book. And that was in Psalms 69: when they crucified Jesus, he said, "Take their names off the Book." Now, you won't find that in the New Testament. That's Old Testament Psalms 69: [28] And in Hebrews 6: [4a] at the last once for all enlightenment, that's the Word of God. Which is all of It, "the people crucified to themselves the Son of God afresh. [Heb 6:6] (See?) Which is, they crucify the Word and they turned It down. So, we thank the Lord that the Book is open. 4. Now, what does that do? Since faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God, then faith comes by a revelation of the Word. So therefore, the greater the revelation, the greater the faith. Now remember, that faith is not basically to move a mountain. That faith is not basically to raise the dead. That faith is not basically to have great healing campaigns. That faith is basically Enoch walked with God and was not, because God took him, and how can two walk together, except they be agreed? And how can you and I be agreed with the Word, unless our revelation is one with the One that gave it? So, therefore we have an open Book for a perfect faith. And that's what He's looking for. "Will the Son of man find faith when He cometh?" [Lk 18:8] Sure, in the Bride and no place else. Why? Because they have the revelation. So, we praise the Lord that the more we know the Word, every facet of It. (See?) 5. Now, if you were hiring a man for a job, what man would you get? You'd get that man that knew that job, as well as he knows his hand. Now, I said this morning at the end time people aren't going to know they're left hand from they're right hand spiritually. In fact, they're so deluded, they believe about themselves exactly what is correct. (We'll talk about this, this afternoon) What a shape man's in, you know that? Everybody's sure, and a hundred percent, except the Bride. And the only place she is sure is when she really knows each step of that Word. Says, "Well, this much I can know, because It lines up with Scripture after Scripture, after Scripture." And no one came take you from It. (See?) Up to this point, there's certain things that we don't know yet. One of the great controversies of course is the tent. Bro. Branham categorically said about that tent. It strives into the Scripture, the same as presentation does, what decision, that sword in his hand. Somewhere that's in the Bible, when I can put my hand on It. I won't care what anybody thinks about that vision, I believe I know it. You might not agree, but this is my stand. It's in there, because Bro. Branham said It was. I understand it. But, he said, "Every vision is in that Word." And that was one of them. 6. The sword vision is, I found it. Because he said, "That sword was a real sword, "fit right in his hand. And he cried in prophecy, he said, "Bring on your holy vesture with the Word of God standing by." And that's absolutely 1 Corinthians 15: which is the investiture of the Word of God, It can put that person right in that place where he must be in that Bride. Everything is in this Word the prophet brought us. And It's going to be revealed and revealed, and revealed till there's absolutely no doubt where we stand, no jot and no tittle. Now, I don't know how you feel, but I am convinced that this Bride will positively stand on a Word in such a way nothing will shake her. She'd be like Abraham, "you're old, your wife's old, so forget it." I don’t forget a thing. He said, "If there's anything I forget, I forget anything but that Word." (See?) And here's where we stand on It. Now, many things haven't come into view yet. They'll be there, they'll be here, because they are here. See, He came with all the mysteries. That's right. So, I'm confident that before many years, before many days there'll be a real revelation of all those things, and some of the things that we stand in doubt of, don't understand, the Word will open, and there It will be. 7. Now, whatever is coming in the Resurrection, something’s coming, I don't know what it is. But you better believe that something is coming there, because you can't read the Book of John and not know that something is there. Remember, that those disciples never recognized Jesus as to His personage, they only knew it was Jesus by what He did. Something, I don't know what it is, it's in this. You say, "Well, why don't you guess?" I'm not in the guessing business, it's in here. Right? Now, either God will show us ahead of time, or He'll reveal it, and it comes to pass, you will say, "That's exactly it, why didn't I see it?" Why it wasn't time to see it. But it's all here, so therefore there isn't any needs to fuss. May…as I said this morning, may God save us from fussing, and I'm a regular fuss-budget, because I'm preaching to myself not to you. Us preachers are the worse of the whole works. We don't mean to be, we're a little bit over zealous that's all, because we're so afraid that someone will get deceived. Now, that we know that the Elect cannot be deceived. But remember this, there could not be judgment if there wasn't some place in there where man's responsible a whole lot more than election seems to let on. You bet. 8. We are responsible, administers, to teach that Word and all, but we shouldn't fuss about it. That's the thing. (See?) Just let it be, try as we can, because people are going to differ, have different ideas. And Bro. Branham said, "That's exactly the way it had to be." He said, "If I didn’t have those men around me, I would know that I didn't have the right ministry." Now, we say, "If I had those men around me, I'm sure I got the wrong one." I'm sorry, I'm very sorry for that kind of thinking. That's out. That's out, you've got to have these things to perfect us, and bring us to the place. As I said this morning, or the other night concerning the fact that one of the hard lessons I learned, is don't try to push people ahead. Look at these preacher makers, oh brother, if, you ever saw a sick thing, it's preacher making. Now, that doesn't go in a small way only, that goes in a big way. Theological seminaries, cemeteries, both. You talk about a mess. These preacher makers, worse thing in the world. (See?) There's no place to put it, if a man's got a gift, God will make room for him by that gift. 9. What the trouble is, too many people are out of their calling. Sure, it's right. I tell you, I've so many doors close me in, no place to go as it were for years, but I held steady, and held steady till God put me in that corner where I was supposed to be. And like Bro. Branham I say I'm got more friends now than I ever had, and more places to go, more invitations, more everything. Why? Because I had to wait, not push forward, but wait. And that's a hard thing learned, is doing God a service apart from His will. It is… you know, you get so busy thinking you should be all the good things in this world for folk. There comes a time brother/sister when that person's got to rely on God Himself. And everything you do will only hinder the Kingdom of God. Look at little old Peter picking up that sword, in the wrong place, wrong sword. [Bro. Vayle chuckles] Wrong sword in the wrong place. Cut the poor guy's ear off. I knew a lot of folk cut the guy's ear off, the hearing off, you know. He wielded the sword wrong. No, can't do that. (See?) But thank God, the Book's open. It is open. Amen. Nobody is going to seal It. Going to get clearer and clearer. And these things that we don't understand yet, that's yet, that's alright, they're going to come into view. There are a lot of things I don't understand yet. Can’t place them. But you know what? They're there. They're there, and they're placeable. 10. And Bro. Branham said, "Don't we can struggle for it." I've often illustrated that years ago. You know, the screen doesn't reach for the light. The camera focuses to the screen. God will not focus to us in the sense that we demand and make Him do it. The screen must stay quiet, let God focus in His Own good time. He's the man that's running the projector. And when we do that, just wait patiently these things will all come out. See, that's true. Even some of the hardest things we go by, if we just rely on the Lord. That's a hard thing for me to do many times, because I'm one of those jittery guys and I often think that maybe I ought to do something about the situation myself. And no one can do anything about a situation, except what God wants you to do that. Often times we just got to wait, wait, wait. Perhaps we're in that period right now, maybe very heartbreaking at times, very disconcerting, but if we fight our battles there's one thing, God can't fight them both. Because when He fights, He's going to get all the glory and the honor. And not that we want to take the honor and glory, no we don't, and we just want to get ahead of God, and so a little nervous. 11. The Lord is sure good to us all, we thank God for it, and things are going to come clearer and clearer. So, let's not ever doubt and never worry, …worry just clouds the mind. Just stay very calm and sweet, and God will work everything out, in a perfect way for us. All these little things that are hidden right now, they'll all come to light, and then we'll know, and then we'll feel so silly to ever fuss about them. I always get a check when I emphasize too hard a certain thing which is in doubt. Now, each one of us is getting more and more crystallized the way we're going. Now, don't mistake me here. There's no doubt in my mind that you and I and all of us, are getting more and more confirmed on the points we believe in. But, I say this, "With certain things we better wash ourselves off." Say, "Now, you follow me." Certainly, what they are, we don’t need to mention because there's only two or three of them. But we've got to wait till that thing comes into view. 12. Now, what about if we're all the time waiting for a deal to come through the ticket, we're all hepped up on it. So, hepped up on it, that suddenly hear a noise and a car comes through, we fill the prize. Now, that's bad business. And I'm afraid for my serpent brothers, I always like to hold back to be careful, because we just don't know something, we don't know. What we do know though, let's major on that, stick with it and get more and more saturated, so that they come in light. Then what we don't know it comes in, in a short little while, just like a snap we'll get that revelation that maybe we've been so slow on these revelations this will just come like that. And we're right, ready to go. Because that Bride has got to be up in that Word a hundred percent. 13. Now, let's turn to 2 Thessalonians again on this Book that's become unsealed. And one of the great unsealing, the great mystery, is the mystery of iniquity, like we said already. The devil being worshipped is God to the church system. Okay, 2 Thessalonians [2:] 8-10 (8) …then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: (9) Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, (10) And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. Now, there's no language as the language of the Bible. There is no language as pictorial. Actually, the Word is devastating in Its power of description. Notice those words in the text, 'All deceivableness of unrighteousness'. All deceivableness of unrighteousness. Just hearing them does something to you. It makes you feel the awful depth of treachery of a rebellious church that ends up in worshipping the devil, and blames it all onto God. It's a fantastic phrase. 'All deceivableness of unrighteousness'. Something in here, the end time, that makes people absolutely sure they're worshipping God. Literally claiming…here's the Millennium, here's the King on the throne. And what it is, they're worshipping the devil, actually believing it's God. All deceivableness of unrighteousness. 14. How can the church be this terrible thing? Where does it all begin? What is the history behind it? Now, notice first of all it speaks of deception, then it speaks of unrighteousness. It puts them both together. So, that this becomes the trap that leads to the actual worship of Satan by the church. Now, let's get this straight: this is the church, it is not communism. It is not a civic or a federal, or any international government, by force or by politics. It is the church in a complete takeover, and she herself is worshipping the devil through a church system. As Bro. Branham said, "Just like when the devil got into those Jews in the days of Jesus." Did you hear what I said? That's what he said. "Just like when the devil got in those Jews." Now listen, you know that was the only church system God even looked on. There wasn't any other church system. There's nothing else, this is the whole thing. God had no respect down in Corinth, or down in Ephesus, or over there in Ireland, or anyplace in the world. There was just no place, but Israel. And here that system was so set up that they actually thought they were worshipping God. And they killed the very God, (that is manifest in flesh, because that was God manifest in flesh) put the death the very Jehovah in flesh that they said they worshipped. (See?) And He said, "You are of your father the devil, and the works of your father you do." [Jn 8:44] He was a liar and a murderer from the beginning. And He said, "You are fulfilling that right now." Here they were claiming to worship God and were actually the pawns of the devil, and their worship didn't mean a thing. "In vain do you worship Me." [Mk 7:7] Because it was directed towards a world system. 15. Now, it's the church. Now notice what verse 3 said. [2 Thessalonians 2:] (3) Let no man deceive you…for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, … And also in verse 10. It's says, (10) …that they might be saved. Now, if the church that has to fall away, and the church is the only institution whereby you can come into a thing and be saved. (Now, I'm using that in the best sense of the word.) I'm using the church here now as the true body of Christ. Because remember, the Bible says, "The church is the body of Christ, [1 Cor 12:27] and the church is filled by Christ." So, I'm using is it in the true sense of the word. If you are born again there's only one place you can end up, and that is in the church. (See?) Where your salvation is. Now, let's take a look at that in, 1 Corinthians 12:13 (13) For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body… What body? The Body of the Lord Jesus Christ. What body? The church. By one Spirit are we baptized into It. Now, compare that with, Rom. 8:9 (the last half of It) (9) …Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. 16. So therefore, if you have the Spirit of Christ, you are of Him, and you are in the Church. And if you're not in that Church you're not born again. And if you are born again, you are in that Church. Now, you see this is that thing that God put here on the earth, that’s going to fall. (See?) Until He's got to call a Bride out of it. Ephesians 1:22-23, It says: (22) And hath put all things under his feet, (Jesus' feet) and gave (Jesus) to be the head over all things to the church, (23) (The Church will give) his body, the fulness of him that filleth all (and) in all. (See?) This is what God meant as the one soul saving institution in the world, which would be the true Church of Jesus Christ. (See?) And this fall… Now, where's your safety now? (See?) There's isn't any. 17. Notice also it's the Church, we go to 1 Timothy. See, many people don't think it’s the church. They say it's communism. That's not true. (1) Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, … What faith? The Word! There's no faith apart from the Word. You look up that word 'faith' and believe in the Bible. To believe means 'to put credit in a spoken word apart from any physical evidence'. Right. Look how fortunate we are today, that God sent a man vindicated. What pity God sent upon this sin cursed world. He could have just sent His Word, and said, "I'll judge you by It, because you're not believing. And you know what He did? He sent a vindicated prophet, so we'd know exactly the revelation of that Word. What mercy God gave to us. 18. Now, they'll depart from the faith, and do what? (1) …giving heed to seducing spirits... (What did John called those spirits? "The spirit of error", he said. That meant: wrong Word, the) doctrine of devils. What does God call a perverted word? What does God call a thing that is apart from a true revelation? The doctrine of devils in whom you're worshipping if you've got a devilish doctrine. The answer is evident, the devil. Can anybody deny that and say, "I worship God, though I've got a devilish doctrine?" What insanity. But this Age is insane, "naked and don't even know it." Now, (2) Speaking lies in hypocrisy; … A wolf in sheep's clothing. Hypocrite, speaking lies. What's a hypocrite? He's a fellow that wears a mask. He's pretending he's something he's not. So, what does he do? He pretends to get Christian. He pretends he's got something real. What else has he got? He hasn't got the Word. He's got a doctrine of devils, but he acts as though he were a Christian. You hear what I said? No wonder my spirit gets hard, and I keep bugging the people. What's the day in which you live? 19. Paul said, "Some mealy mouth sweet talking guy." I'm going to say it again, and I'll say it a million times, more if I have to: Eve was not raped. No, she wasn't raped, she was seduced. She wanted to do what she did. She liked the idea. She was sweet talked, flattered, lied to her. Until she was only too happy to come running. "My lover, my sweetheart," and her husband out there. Talked to the devil. What doctrine did the devil feed her that day? The Word of God perverted. See, where we stand? Don't say we worship God when we're outside of this Word. There's no mystery anymore that we'll sing at the end time. It's crystal clear. Now, (3) Forbidding to marry, …to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. (See?) You won't be deceived, if you believe and know the truth. Remember, believing depends on knowledge. In fact, as I told you before, that word 'kai' in the Greek should be translated 'even', many more times the man. So therefore: (3) …received with thanksgiving of them which believe (even) know(ing) the truth. Really don't know the truth, to be missed a thousand times of what it's all about. (See?) We must not be deceived. 20. All right, remember also Luke 18:8 (8) I tell you that he will avenge them speedily…. Somebody once said that this word 'avenge' means 'restore'. I looked it up in the Greek. It doesn't say that, but I like the idea anyway. I'll restore them speedily. Amen. (8) … Nevertheless, when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? Not when He comes to put His feet on the Mount of Olives, He sure won't. We meet Him in the air, that's the only place you'll find. Why? Because of the end time polluted word. (See?) God will not accept a man's faith unless it's built upon a revelation, and faith is a revelation. (See?) Now, that's true. As Bro. Branham taught in the Church Ages, (and it's put in the Church Age book) he said, "If you ever get a revelation of by His stripes you're healed, you don't need to worry, it's all over." When you get a revelation, you've got the Holy Ghost to follow, I remember, that's how our mind changed. When I received that revelation, it was all over. I didn't care what they did. Roll me over in a barrel in Niagara Falls. Put me through the fiery furnace. That didn't matter. It was over! I knew it, that was it. It's a revelation. Now, also with that we turn to, 2 Timothy 3:1-9 (1) …know also (this), that in the last days… (d-a-y-s) 21. Now, what days are those? "In the last days (said Peter) I'm going to pour out My Spirit upon a-double l [all] flesh, so that your sons, your daughters prophesy. Your old men dream, dreams. And your young men have visions." Not that old men don’t have them. "And upon My men's servants, and upon My women servants I'll pour out My Spirit." [Acts 2:17-18] Those last perilous days, when the anointing of God is upon everybody, and everything. You say, "How can that be?" If God anointed a jackass, to talk in tongues, then He'll anoint a natural brute beast at the end time to talk in tongues and get visions and dreams and everything else. (1) … perilous times (are going to) come. What are those perilous times? (2) …men shall be lovers of their own selves, … Right off the bat It tells you. Now listen: (2) …men shall be lovers of their own selves, … 22. Hold your finger there for one second. Turn back to Acts 20: Paul speaking, (30) Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. What does It say they loved? There own selves, not the Word. "Oh, I love the prophet …" [blank spot on tape] …the prophet said. Make the people to see the prophet. Why not, the prophet and the Message is the same thing. There is no such thing as a messenger without a message. And there is no such thing message without a messenger. It's the same thing. And the word 'morah' in the Hebrew for former rain, is; teacher, or teaching. And if Paul could say, "My Gospel and Moses' Law", we can say, "Branham's Message." Nothing wrong with it. Something's wrong with the fellow that doesn't believe it. [2 Timothy 3:] (2) … (loving themselves,) covetous, … 23. What's a covetous person? He wants something you got. What did these men do? They draw disciples to themselves. There's only one way you can disciple anybody, and that's by the Word of God if you want them in Christ. If you want them for yourself, then leave off the Word. Now listen: (2) …boasters, … Ha, who do they boast? You don't think I haven't got a revelation too. Or they tell you, "If you listen to anybody, you listen to me, because I've got the real revelation." Oh boy, you can see why I'm getting a little bit hard and I shouldn't be. I hear so many preachers running around the country, they’ve got a faith, they’ve got it, got it all. There's not one of them vindicated. I can't tell you that I know something and you listen to me, that 's a foolish thing in the world. Directing men's lives, and butting into it. (2) …blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, (3) Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, (4) Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; (Who is God? He's the Word.) (5) Having a form of godliness, … So, these are not atheistic, communistic, traitors to the homeland. These are traitors in the church, traitors to Jesus Christ. Posing as spiritual, godly people, they've only got a form of it. (5) …denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 24. And that's right, they do deny the power of the Word, that transformed the believer right now. But putting on the inner-vestiture. Say, "I got it." They haven't got it." They're naked, they're unclothed. And God said, "They must be clothed." (See?) Made firm from the power of God, from such turn away. (6) For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women… Who are the women? The churches. Not talking just now about women that are silly, there's plenty of them with a bunch of silly men too. Men are the silly things that are led by silly women. These are churches. (6) … (are) led away with divers lusts, (pleasure, diverse pleasure, lots of pleasures). 25. Now, I'll prove it to you: (7) Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. (See?) (8) Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, … That's what Paul said they'd be, the mind would be corrupted. How? Through subtlety, through deceit, woo you away. Win you away from that Word of God, which alone is able to bring you unto salvation. They're to put you in redemption. Remember, we're all waiting for redemption of the body. And there's only one way to get redemption back to restoration by the revealed Word of Almighty God. No other way. There isn't any other way. 'Christ the Mystery of Christ Revealed'. [63-07-28] Read those three ways that Bro. Branham said in them. Now listen, (8) …as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, … Who was Moses? The man with the Word. Who are these men? Men of power, but away from the Word. (8) … so be these resist the truth: (what resist truth? These men at the end time.) men of corrupt minds, … Corrupt how? By the mind, receiving a word, other than the prophet's Word. Now, It says here: (8) … reprobate concerning faith. That's where we're teaching. This is why you need that Word. You are reprobate concerning faith, if your faith is not based upon a true revelation. 26. There's a strange thing going around the country. Some preachers preaching, the woman makes it by the man. She doesn't need to pray anymore. Hear the tape, read a Bible, she's got a husband in the Message, that makes it. Just supposing that's wrong. Now, she may believe it. She may be sweet and sincere, she may be the best wife in the world. But just supposing that is not what the Word of God really says, then her faith is reprobate. Do you think God will take a reprobate faith? No more than take a reprobate man. (See?) This is in the church, not a bunch of Communists, not a bunch of Reds. Okay: (9) But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all… (as was Jannes and Jambres.) In other words, the true Bride will still make her exodus, and they'll be there with their snakes. They'll still be there. Their signs and wonders, and their power, but the Bride will be gone. Why? Because she does not have reprobate faith. Now, there are only two kinds of faith, elect faith, and reprobate faith. She'll have elect faith. "Enoch walked with God and was not." [Genesis 5:24] 27. Now, let's go a little further. Let's go to 1 John 2:18-19 (18) Little children, it is the last time: (there again, same period of time) as (you) have heard that antichrist shall come,… (He said, "Get ready he will come. Listen here little children,") even now are there many antichrists; (many right now waiting for the day of the great big one. Lots of little ones now, one day the big one will get here) whereby we know that it is the last time. (19) They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they (know that) would…have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest they were not all of us. The very same thing he says 1 John 3: here. They would not stick with that Word. Why? The wanted their own camp, their own glory, they're own ideas, their own following. (See?) Not the Bible brother/sister. 28. Now listen, these are antichrist, because they didn't stay with the Word. To stay with the Word is what we want. 2 Corinthians 11:2-3 (2) For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. (3) But I fear, … (that I won't be able to make the grade, said Paul,) Because before Eleazar gets Rebekah to Isaac, some wolf in sheep's clothing may come galloping across the desert and make sheep’s eyes at her with wolf representation. And she flutters those eye lids, and the first thing she's gone. Now, that's exactly right. (3) …I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted... What's going to be corrupted? The mind. Not her morals, her mind. Her thinking. Her under-standing. And thereby revelation. Because remember, you cannot receive anything from God by revelation until first of all you take the thing that God’s handing you. If you take, there must be a prophet Elijah, then you're on a good way to understanding about him. But you'll never understand about him, until first of all you take it. Then when it comes to this Message, you've to take this Message and then you'll understand it. You've got to receive the thing first. You can't build a wall up. (See?) Now, here is where we stand. The mind receives the wrong word, and therefore she would be corrected. Now also, (that's the church, see?) 29. Let's go to Matthew 13: Taken a while to prove it's the church, but this is necessary to do it. So many people are mixed up on this, a lot of folk know it is the church, but they don’t know the proof. We want the proof. Okay, (24) Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: (25) …while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. (26) (And) when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. Now, you know the parable, verse 31 (31) Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: (32) Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, (it's) the greatest among herbs, and (becomes) a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches… Now, that's Babylon, with every foul bird in the branches. Now, this is the kingdom of God. And remember, the church makes the kingdom. This is the church, all God's got to work with. A dirty mess, wrong plants in it. Foul birds in the branch. Then He says: (33) Another parable spake…The kingdom of heaven is like unto… a woman (who) took, and hid in three measures of meal, of leaven until) the whole was leavened. Now, you know as well as I do, that's the Trinitarian doctrine and dogma of the Roman Catholic church, and one day the church is going to be nothing but the absolute Trinitarian doctrine. There will be nobody outside that'll believe them. They'll believe the whole thing. Why? Because the mark of the beast is in the forehead and the hand, and that mark in the forehand means that you will believe exactly what that church says, and you'll do what that church tells you to do. The whole church. The Bride will be gone. (See?) The Bride will be gone. She'll be one great big Trinitarian mess of leaven. In other words, the whole church will be an absolute creed and doctrine. That's right. It's the church brother/sister. 30. Okay, Revelation 18:1-5 (1) And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. (2) …he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and become the habitation of devils, the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. (3) (And) all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. (4) And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, (come out of the church, rotten mess the church is in) …be not partakers of her sins, that (you) receive not her plagues. Now, remember God judges every generation at the last generation. Right. He saves up His wrath, then He pours it out at the end time. That's right. So, at the end time, "come out of her," because she's the hold of every foul bird. And when you come out of her, there's nothing left but tares, and leaven and foul birds. The whole thing is a mess, nothing left. Get away from it. (5) For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. (6) Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double. In other words, at the end time God is going to pour out all the wrath of all the Ages. Now remember, He poured out a cup of wrath upon Israel. Remember that, in their great tribulation, when Titus came and they were scattered? But, this time the whole world gets it. It'll be Jew and Gentile. Bro. Branham said in that Sixth Seal the earth is purged, the church is purged and Israel is purged, it's going to be a complete clean up job. 31. Now, this is the church. Now, we can see so many Scriptures pointing to the fact that this is the church we cannot but agree. It is the church system of Christianity. Not the Muslim. No, not the Hindu, not the Taoist, not the philosopher, it's the Christian church that will lead to a universal worship of Satan, who has deceived them into thinking that he is God, and that they're actually worshipping God. Now listen, You say, "What about the atheistic countries?" As Bro. Branham said, "There aren't many atheists." Russia is run by a little group of people. And I talked to Dr. …?... last summer over in Switzerland. He said that many Christian businessmen who are scientists have gone to Russia. And in Russia the astrophysicists have got a revival of rigid religion amongst them, because they say, "There has got to be a God." Now, right away everybody rejoices. And…oh, that's what Jeane Dixon [psychic] said, "Oh my, they're going to turn to God." Sure, they are. Sure, they are, to walk right to the trap of the devil. Oh, I know that sounds pessimistic, but if I've become a pessimist believing in the Word of God, then bring on the sour grapes, so I'm going to stick with the Word of God. There is no place in the Bible where It says there is going to be a worldwide revival. It says, "There is going to be a worldwide turning to the devil that they think is God." 32. Now, brother/sister if I've got to lose my mind to sacrifice that I'm going to believe the devil is God, well, please liquidate me now, get me out of the picture now. I know that's foreign to people’s thinking, but remember, that's what God said in going to happen! And remember, He's the One they said it concerning Adam, "(For this cause the woman) shall (the) man leave father and mother, ..." [Gen 2:24] And the Father and Mother of Adam was God. And he left God for the woman, and so, does it through the people, (See?) leave God for the church. Because they do this in the church system. Because God said, "I'm on the outside, I stand at the door and knock. And if any man hear My Voice, come out of her." [Revelation 3:20] And they will not do it. Why? Because they're married to the church. They're happy having their fornication and their adultery. Now, we are ready to look at the first Word; this is the church. All deceivableness of unrighteousness within the church. Boy, some place to have it. I think that was the Mafia maybe, or the underground, Ku Klux Klan to what they say about it, I've never been in one. Or …?... somewhere, but it's not at the church. 33. Okay, 2 Thessalonians 2: again. Now, "all deceivableness." all of it, (See?) Now, what does deceivableness mean? It simply means 'deceit', or 'deception'. Some kind of deceit. In the Greek, it means 'delusion', because a deceived person is a deluded person. Now, you know that sounds kind of sounds funny, doesn't it? You see what happens, we all hate those hard words. You say, "Oh, that brother and sister is deceived." No, they're deluded. "Why, my Bro. Vayle, I wouldn't say that quite so hard, because I think that's very unfair. I would just say deceived." Well, my beautiful honey child, the word deceived in the Bible is 'deluded '. They're deluded. You say, "That makes him some kind of a nut." I don't care what it makes him. Either you and me. "Let God be true and everyman a liar." [Romans 3:4a] You see how quickly you can get fooled by the devil? "Oh, I wouldn't put it that way, that's that’s what the devil did to Eve. Oh, you guys like…" Oh, I wouldn't put it that way honey. [laughter] 34. All right. delusion means, 'to believe something that is contrary to reality', and thereby be deceived. It's to believe something contrary to reality. A man that is believing has left reality. He can't stand reality, that's why he gets deluded. So, delusion means 'to believe'. Believe, delusion means to believe. it's in the mind. It's not out there, it's in here, in the mind. What out there is right, it's what's in here is not right about what's out there. (See?) Now, Paul brought the Word. It was out there. (See?) What was in their mind was wrong about what was out there, which is Paul's word. Now, had they put the Word in their mind, (though it was in the mind whether it been real was out there, that was real. (See?) Deceived. 35. Now, delusion is a bad thing. But there are degrees and consequences of delusion. In some cases, you just get by with a bad experience. I might say it this way: supposing many years of growing, a lot of boys and girls were smokers. He had a twenty-dollar bill. And the guy said, "Hey, let me see that bill." And he said, "What for?" "I don't think it looks right." "You don't?" "No, I know real money when I see it, and it want to tell you that's counterfeit." Well, the guy convinces [him] it's counterfeit. And he grins, and he says, "Hey (he says) you always said you wanted to light a cigar with a twenty-dollar bill. Go on ahead." So, you light the twenty-dollar bill, light the cigar and he laughs and he says, "Ha, ha, this joke is on you, I took you, that was a real twenty-dollar bill, I wouldn't know a fake if I saw it." Now, you see you're deluded. For that's not too bad, it only cost you twenty bucks to find out. But what about if you're deluded today, such as when you went out there to pick mushrooms, and you thought they were good, but they were poisonous and somebody died. See, delusion can be very, very, very, very serious. One time it will cost you something, (see?) another time it'll cost you everything. Now, at the end time delusion means death, and there is no recovery. This end time deception of the church, will end up with people taking the mark of the beast and worshipping him, and then there'll be eternally lost. The church will perish just like the Egyptians perished when God called Israel out of Egypt. 36. Remember, It said in Revelation 18:5, "Come out of her My people, and be not partakers of sin, less you take her plagues." What was the last plague? Death! Death, absolute death, because God is going to destroy them that destroy the earth. "And we're going to walk upon the ashes of the wicked." [Mal 4:3a] So therefore, at the end time if we are deceived there is no hope. Hebrews 6:4 The end time Message. (4) For it is impossible… (as the Greek commentaries say, this word does not suggest it's hard.) This word does not say it's almost impossible. It doesn't say this is critical. It said, "It is absolutely impossible." Nothing you can do. Nothing God can do. Nothing you can do, nothing God will do. No, (4) …for those who were once (for all) enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift…(partook) of the Holy Ghost, (5) …tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, Now, if they shall fall away, having fallen away, it's absolutely impossible to renew them again to repentance when the jubilee sound, and they say, "I love my master, I want to be slave. And that fellow takes you to a door post and shoves that awl through your ear. There is nothing that will get your freedom again, you've heard for the last time and turned It down, it's finished. All over! Never to be in that Bride. Never to be in that Millennium. Never to make the First Resurrection. It is impossible. (See?) It is too late to learn, too late to come to the knowledge of the truth. It's over! 37. Now, it will be too late then to learn the truth. It is death. The last plague in Egypt was physical death, so now it's spiritual death. The church and all systems goes to their death, and the sacrifice that they believed in, even the sacrifice that Christ will avail nothing. Now remember, there was a sacrifice in Egypt. Right? An absolute tremendous signs and wonders were performed in Egypt, and out of Egypt. And neither the sacrifice, nor the signs and the wonders took them in, because they did not believe the Word of God too. That's right. Hebrews 4: Now this is to help your faith. If you believe that Word, you can start feeling real good. Not smug, but real good. "Lift up your heads, …(you) gates; (and don't be too slow lifting them up, let the Word, of the Lord) of glory (enter) in." [Ps 24:9] 38. Now, the original deception brought death just like this last day deception brings death. It's over here in Genesis 3:13, back to the beginning that's where we always got to go. (13) And the LORD God said (to) the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. (She partook.) Now then, the word 'beguile' means 'deceived'. Eve was deceived. That's right, Eve was deceived. Now, let's digress here, we come this far let's stop a minute and let's remember this: that Eve is a picture of the church, because she was the first bride given to the first man. Now remember, Jesus is the last Adam the second man. The first had a bride, the second has a Bride. So, let's look at this first bride. Now, trace your, history. 39. Genesis 1:26-27 (26) …God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, fowl of the air…cattle, over all the earth…creeping thing… (27) So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. Here we find a spiritual creation with the male and female as one. She has no identity of her own, she is given a way in Adam as an unrevealed attribute. Remember, she does not have a name. And what's this business, of people: "I'm Methodist, I'm Baptist, I'm Pentecostal?" Hogwash! You take your husband's name Christ, there's no other name. She did not have a name, except His name. God did not even look at her, He looked at Adam. She was the unrevealed attribute it was in him. 40. Notice next, Genesis 2:7 (7) And LORD God formed man of the dust of the (earth), and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Notice, the dual spiritual creature is now put into one body of flesh. One body, not two. Now, verse 16 proves they're one. (6) …the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: She was still in him, in one body of the flesh. This dual, spiritual, creation was not placed in one body of flesh. But remember, God still had to breathe into that man bring the breath of life, in spite of the fact that Adam was in Him. Just like Bro. Branham said, "The woman bears a child, there is a spirit body waiting to take over." Now remember also, the Bible says in here that man became a living soul. That in the Hebrew is plural. All were in Adam, everything in Adam. Eve was in Adam, all progeny of God to come on this earth were in them. 41. Now, let's keep going, (just one) then in Genesis 2:21-23 (21) …the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, he slept: and he took one of his ribs, closed up the flesh instead thereof; (22) And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her (to) the man. Now listen, (23) And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of (the) Man. (Taken out of him.) 42. God now separated them into two bodies with two separate personalities, but with all the feminine attributes placed in Eve for the special purpose of bringing forth the same original life that was in both of them. Now, let's look at Ephesians 5: for the mysteries beginning at 23. (23) For the husband is the head of the (woman), even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the savior of the body. (24) Therefore, as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. (25) Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; (26) That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the (blood), (27) That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; (and) it should be holy and without blemish. (28) So, ought men to love their wives their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. (29) For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but (nourishes) and (cherishes) it, even as the Lord the church: (30) For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. (3)1 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and (they too) shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. (32) (But) this is a great mystery: (that)I speak concerning Christ and the church. Now, notice quickly over here, Ephesians 1:3-4 (3) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, (shall) blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: (4) According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: (5) Having predestinated us…. 43. Now, you'll notice where the bride was. She was pre-existent in Christ the same as Eve was pre-existent in Adam. (See?) Now, in Him she was pre-existent and foreknown in Christ. And those pre-existent and foreknown seeds were in Him, and notice where they went when they were separated from Him. They went into their own separate bodies just like Eve went into her separate body. But remember, she was still a part of Adam. (See?) Definitely was. She was what was in Adam, but she was put into a separate body. That's what our destiny is in Christ a pre-destiny was to come down here as the manifested Word of God. Because the thoughts of God become Word when they are expressed, and we were in the mind of God, and the thoughts of God and became expressed in flesh. As Bro. Branham said, "I had a son in me, but he never became expressed until to that prober order, which God gave unto me, and then I could have fellowship." 44. Now, this brings us even with Eve. This brings us right up where Eve was, as she was in Adam, one creation with him pre-existent, then put into one body. Then of course, she was separated the second body, and this is where her fall came. She was deceived by the serpent. Right. And she could not be deceived as long as she was in the one body of that flesh. She could not be deceived while she was on one body of the spirit. But, when she was outside of it, she was deceived. Now, brother/sister get her back into that one body. She can't be deceived. You get that Bride back in one body, she can't be deceived. But you get her away from that body, she is deceived. She can be, that's where Eve went, and that's where the church is today. (See?) It got away from the body of Truth. And as soon as it gets back to that body of Truth, it lies in the state of deception. 45. Now, notice about Eve: she believed something that is contrary to the truth, so therefore she is deluded. Now, this woman is deluded is not possessed by a devil, she is not mentally broken down. She is not insane, she is not some retarded creature, or some sub-creature that needs some further evolution, she is a perfect wonderful specimen of mankind. A fine and beautiful person reasonable and unassuming. But, she is deceived in spite of that, I see that's where the people are. "How can I be deceived? I'm a child of God, I'm a Christian, I know what I'm doing." Oh yeah, what about the end time? "Wretched, miserable, naked, poor, blind, don't know it." [Rev 3:17] If Eve could get deceived, what about us? I speak now as people, not as a Bride. (See?) Now, she is deceived in spite of the fact of what she is. Now listen, this means that her believing is wrong. (Right?) Now, I've take you a long time to get there, but I do it on purpose. I want to cover all the territory I can, so there is no little bit sticking out, missing. Her believing is wrong, and this is the starting place of the whole problem of death. (Right) The starting point of the whole problem of death is wrong believing. That's right. Now, that's pretty simple, but it's true. Bro. Branham said, "There is only one sin, and that is unbelief." Unbelief is a matter of choice. And by that, I mean there is something really you can believe, and there is something wrong that you do, you can believe also. And when you believe the wrong thing, you disbelieve the right thing. And when you believe the right thing, you disbelieve the wrong thing. (See?) It's that simple 46. Now, her believing is wrong. Now, never mind what she did. Oh, this is what bugs people. "What did she do? What did she do?" I don't care what she did. Now, we know what she did. But I don't care what she did, see, at this point. At this point, what she did hasn't got a thing to do with it. What she did is the consequences of her believing. As Bro. Branham said, "If you believe a thing, you wouldn't act like that, would you?" (See?) What she did is the consequence of her believing, or her dealing deceived, believing that which is contrary to reality. (See?) Now remember, Jesus said, "…I am the Way, the Truth and the Life: ..." [John 14:6] In the Greek that word is 'Reality'. I am the Way, the Reality, and the Life, and it's at this Age that we achieve reality. Now, if her believing had been right, she never would have gone wrong. She never would have sinned. (See?) Now notice it, if her believing was right, she would have never would have sinned. Now, that boggles the mind down right there. (See?) Sure, it does. Always boggles the mind. The human mind does not want to receive an absolute fundamental truth of the Word of God. Your faith is your righteousness. And if Abraham has the glory… sure he does, but before God. Not by works. Or …?... Abraham believed God and it was counted for him for righteousness. 47. Now, as long as Eve believed God correctly, she was absolutely righteous. Nothing wrong with her. Now, what she did was an attribute, or a manifestation, or an outcome of her mental attitude towards the truth, which is the Word of God. Now, that's what Bro. Branham told us himself. Now, the serpent said she would not die if she partakes of the forbidden fruit. She believed the word of the serpent, she disbelieved God's Word, that is deception. Now listen, she thought she was hearing God's Word explained. She wasn't, she took of the beast, she died. So, if we say something other than the Word of God, our faith is vain. Now listen and try to get this: (not that we're not, we try a little harder) in all history there never was, nor could there be another lie greater than this one, because it caused the fall of the entire race of the born ones of God. That's right. 48. All the predestinated sons of God died, because of this lie. That’s right. The lie caused it. That's right, nothing else. (See?) Now, we know that's in Romans 5: Those living seeds which were in Him, Christ, every son was destined by this deception before that Son came on the scene. We were born dead. As Bro. Branham said, "We come into this world, speaking lies." Everyone was doomed by this deception. There is no lie, or deception like it. (Do you follow me?) There isn't anything like this. Now there again, we boggle down. "Well now, you see Bro. Vayle, I know a lot of great deceptions, and I'm just trying to think of those terrible things out there to deceive the poor public, and now you come along and say, 'Eve just one word?' Now that doesn't make sense." No, it doesn't, but it makes Eternal Life if you believe it. You're grubbing for dollars and cents, join the crowd. (See?) It doesn't make sense to feel. The human mind boggles at this. "Don't tell me." I'm not telling anybody. If I believe this to be the sacred Word of Almighty God, I've got to believe what It says, and I know by this, that is 'the lie' that death doomed every single born one of Almighty God. And not only that, but brought death and corruption to the whole human race. What did it? This one lie, this one deception. 49. Now, there is no lie, or deception like it. This is the lie. All other lies spawn out of it. All sin spawns out of it. Now, in the actual Greek of 2 Thessalonians, the true Greek revelation, translation says, "They believed 'the lie'. There is only one 'the lie', and that is the lie that the devil perpetrated upon Eve, where he changed one Word of the Bible. Argued, one premise. Argued, one thing that God said. And remember, this lie is to repeat at the end time. It will deceive every single person, unless God does something to prevent it. As It says here in 2 Thessalonians 2:11 (11) And for this cause God shall send them (a) strong delusion, … What cause? Because they believe the lie, they received not the truth. They wouldn't take it. Mat. 24:24, (24) (All but the very Elect, shall be deceived.) 50. Now listen, It doesn't say the Elect, It says the Very Elect. Something that no other race, a generation in the Seven Church Ages could come up against. Something very special at the end time. Now, as the first deception brought the fall, so the last lie seals all the fallen ones into the harvest of death. That's right. As that first lie brought death, so this last lie seals you in to death. That right, seals them in. Why? They won't escape, you turn this Word down, you're finished. 51. Notice also, this worship of Satan wherein people think they're reaching God comes to us in a certain way, [2 Thessalonians 2:] verses 9-10 (9) …whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, (10) And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; … See, how he did it. It's the same pattern he pulled off in Eden. Why? Because it's the lie after the working of Satan. Now how did Satan work the first deal? Now remember brother/sister, the fellow said this, he said, "If get bitten the first time by the crook, it's his fault. But if I get bit the same way by the same crook the second time it's my fault. Right? All right, we've got a warning here, this deception of the end time is going to pattern exactly after the first lie by Satan. Now, how does he do it? He took a smart and beautiful, sensuous, pleasure-loving, creature to turning from truth to human reasoning. (Right) Smart, beautiful, pleasure-loving creature, the rottenest act in all history. The most deceitful and unrighteous act in all the world, took place in Eden and will repeat. Once more the church is going to be deceived by a smart cookie. That's right. Smart, beautiful, clever, animalistic person. Woman which represents the church was deceived by brilliant wisdom. Right, deceived by wisdom, and made to believe that life, Eternal Life, can come apart from the seed of Eternal Life, which is the Word! (Right) She was made to believe that life could come apart from the seed of Eternal Life which is that Word. She was made to believe it, and brother, she produced it. Yes, she did. 52. Remember brother/sister, there is one Book of Life, It has two branches, Lamb Life, and Life. And remember, Life is counterfeited from Lamb Life, so the first Life was Lamb Life, and she should have stuck with Lamb Life which is Word. Didn't do it. I'll explain, just give me time. She had to cast away the Word first before she could sin, only then, could she sin. (Right) Isn't that exactly what Paul said would happen again? In the verses I read to you in 2 Corinthians, and Acts 20:? Certainly. Remember, he said, "I'm free from the blood of all men, because I've not shunned to declare to you the whole Word of God." [Acts 20:26-27] So it is my brother, my sister if we that we have that whole Word of God, we have that revelation, how in the world could we have sin? Now…listen now, Eve thought she could have God and unbelief at the same time, and she died for it. That's right, she actually thought she could have God and her unbelief at the same time. She died for it. They're trying to do the same thing right today, and Satan is telling the same lie. "We're all one." (See?) Sure, same lie. Now, they will do it again, for 'Thus it is written, and Thus it will be', because God and unbelief in the revealed Word cannot go together. They died then, they'll die now. (Right) That's exactly why they'll die. Because God and unbelief cannot go together. Unbelief and Eternal Life cannot go together, because of, "He that believeth My Word shall not perish." [John 5:24] Not the work! Bro. Branham categorically said that. Not the work, the Word. My God did say to believe the work. But you know why He said It? He said, "No man had done the works that I did." And He said, "This is why they're going to perish." He said, "If any man had done the work it would be different, (but He said) no man did what I did." They listened to the Word, they turned It down. 53. Now listen, It's over here in John 15:22, I didn't quote It quite right, I'll quote It now, read the Scripture. (22) If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin… Now, notice this one: (better still:) (22) If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not (sinned), but now they have no cloak for their sin. What was it that took away the cloak of Eve? What was it that took away that covering she had? God's Word was spoken to her, and she wouldn't believe It. Jesus Christ came and brought His Word in His day, and they wouldn't take It. So now they have no cloak. William Branham came, and who was it that made this church naked? William Branham by the Word of God stripped this church and showed she is naked. 54. All right, listen to John 9:41, (go back to It) (41) Jesus said…If (you) were blind, (you) should have no sin: but now (you) say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth. Thought they had a sacrifice, I thought they had a lamb. Don't talk about a lamb, and don't talk about an intercessor. Don't talk about a mediator. You're wasting your time. Because God and unbelief, and His vindicated Word, don't go together. Sure. That's right, talk all you want about. Claim all you want, talk in all the tongues you want. Scream all you want, rejoice all you want. Have a ball! Win a thousand souls just like you. Sure. But unbelief and God won't go together. There's no sacrifice remaineth. There's no sacrifice remains. There's nothing left in man that turns that Word down. I know it's hard to realize, we're dealing in a hard time. Remember, it's all deceivableness! Remember at the end time, there's got to be those that understand every trick of the enemy. Of which the first one is deceit, because everything in there comes out of it. 55. Now, notice also, (we won't read It) Revelation 22:18-19. Add a word, take away brings condemnation. Now, that's deceit, 'deceivableness'. The next word is 'unrighteousness'. Now, we have to watch when we contemplate this Word 'unrighteousness'. Because it seems so strong. Now, you know what it means to you and me knowledge? It means, killing, lying, gouging, assaulting. They are hard, knock-down by a rough sin of the gutter, of the street. You know what I mean? Sure, but listen: That kind of unrighteousness is not deceiving. That doesn't deceive anybody. A guy kill a man, what's that? You're not deceived. That wouldn’t fool you. A guy rob a bank, that doesn't fool you. A guy goes out there mugging, assaulting, robbing, gouging, kicking, maiming. There's nothing there, that's nothing, that doesn't deceive you. People run from that kind of unrighteousness. You see? But, what we're talking about they run into it. They do, they run into it. You show me anybody that’s decent, and has one half of an ounce of brains, watch run to with some loud crowd of beat up old ladies, and grab their purses and maims people and live like the devil. Everybody's shuns that. 56. Look at these folks that marching against the war, we have no business in that world. We understand that. But, how come they don't understand how Mr. Rogers, and Mr. Nixon, and all the rest of these fellows that call themselves 'statesmen'. Rogers went where? Egypt, then to Israel, and then to Rome. What's that pope Paul VI got to do with us? He doesn't have one soldier over there in Israel. He doesn't have battalion over there, that hypocrite and crook, and then runs to that arch enemy of Jesus Christ. That's what people don't understand right there. They don't even try to figure it out. If they had half an ounce of brains they'd wonder. Why are we sending men over there to the pope for? Who's he anyway? Forget him. But no, they send men over there and they lick his boots. You know why? Because it's as Bro. Branham said, "One word from the pope, and the Catholic's fight, or don't fight." They vote, or don't vote. But nobody seems to know what's even going on. That's the kind of unrighteousness we're talking about, that which deceives people. (See?) This is not the rage of a bellowing charging bull, we're talking about. It's the trap that lures the church to her death. (See?) Making her feel that God is going to fulfill His Word to her while she the path of utter perversion. It won't work. God is going to her the Millennium. God is going to give her the Rapture. It's exactly what happened to Eve, the same thing. Deceived, buying righteousness. 57. Now, notice what Eve did, she acted to bring life, which was according to the promise of God. Now watch it, she acted to bring life, which to bring life is according to the promise of God, but which action she did was not according the revelation of the Word. (Right) God said, "Go, be fruitful and multiply." That's right. He told them to do it. But they did it wrong. Now, notice the penalty, the penalty of doing what was wrong, although they believed they were acting on the commandment. You see? Now that's hard to understand, right there. God give the commandment. Well, let's all do it. No sir! God gives the commandment, "get it done." No sir! No sir, there's a time to do it. There's a place to do it. God gave the commandment. Now, look at the penalty that she got into by doing an action which should have been a blessing. As Bro. Branham said, "To obey God is life." Then how come obedience to God in this case brought death? Just like Cain and Abel. (See?) 58. Now, Genesis 3:14-19 (14) …the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed… Who was cursed next? Cain, serpent seed. Verse 15. (15) …I will put enmity between thee and the woman, between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, thou shalt bruise his heel. (16) Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. Now, her desire was not to her husband originally. Her desire was to the serpent. (17) And (he said) unto Adam…Because thou hast hearkened (to) the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, (that) I commanded thee, (not to eat) saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; (18) Thorns also and thistles (also) shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; (19) In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. Now, see what we're saying here. Obey in a wrong manner, because of unbelief, brought death. (See?) She wanted to fulfill the Word of God. There was a command to do it, but in spite of that, because of a wrong action she brought death. 59. Now, let's prove it. Genesis 1:26-28 (26) (The Lord) God said, Let us make man in our image… (and He did, and so on.) (27) (He made them) male and female… (28) (He blesses) them, …Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that (moves) upon the (face of the) earth. Now watch, this commandment to bring forth life was given to them while they were yet one spirit creation. (See?) The command was given while neither one was in the body of flesh, they were both spiritual creations. Male and female in one spirit creation. Thus, when placed in the flesh the command was not to multiply by the flesh, but by the spirit; because that's when the command was given and how it was to be done. They were to bring forth through the Spirit of God out of the ground. (See?) Exactly what they were supposed to do. Because that's when command was given in the spirit form. And it was to be a thing upon a spiritual premise. Even though they had within them the very power to bring forth children sexually, they were not to do it. They were to act together spiritually, by Christ and the Church. Not sexually, even though they had the physical means to do it. That's exactly what the church has been doing now through the Ages, and is doing right today. They are bringing forth children unto themselves, not by Christ the Word, but they're giving birth to corruptible children to the corrupted Word which Peter warns us we should not be doing. 60. For Peter said, "Being born again not of corruptible seed, but by the Word of God incorruptible, which lives and abides forever, " [1 Pet 1:23] The church is bringing forth children unto herself, through her creeds and her dogmas, and she's bringing forth the same bastard child type that Eve brought forth. That's exactly where the church is. And remember brother/sister, that bastard was cursed. That's exactly why Peter said at the end time, "We, be sure you cast out devils. Sure, you healed the sick. Sure, you raised it, depart for me you cursed, you that work iniquity." Remember, God can only curse that which has been brought about in a wrong way. Now, religious or spiritual experience outside the Word of God will condemn the church today at the last time. 61. Now, I'll prove it again, remember Hebrews 6: Let's go back again I don't want anybody fuzzy on this, because if you're fuzzy then, I want it to be your fault not mine." (4) …it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, (and what's enlightenment?) …(taste) the heavenly gift,… (partake) of the Holy Ghost, (5) …(taste) the good word of God, the powers of the world to come, (6) (Having falling) away, (they will never be renewed to) repentance again…. (See?) Why? Because they're outside the Word of God when they leave It. And I don't care what they perform. And today brother/sister the church is absolutely full of what we're talking about. Now remember, the first church began the fall. Then it fell, and fell, and fell, till the Fourth Church Age, the dark ages, there was hardly anything left. Right? Now, what happened in the Fifth Age? Luther arose on the scene. (Right?) Repudiated by the Catholic church. Now then, after Luther went, the church went into organization and it begin to persecute the Methodist church that rose up under Wesley. Then what happened? Then the Wesleyan's, (after Wesley went) organized and they became a great people. 61. Now watch, too late the Lutherans, took Luther’s message, (that's the people did) by the time the Lutheran message was in full swing, (Luther was dead) their children were simply nominal Christians, believing in a creed and dogma. The next thing happened to the Wesleyans. Now, at the end time under the restoration of gifts, (this is the great fooler), people know that you cannot really speak a genuine tongue except by the Holy Ghost. I know the devil can talk in tongues too, but we're talking about good people now, who want to stay clear of the devil. Godly people. Now then, we also know that the gifts of the Holy Ghost are resident in the Holy Spirit. (See?) So therefore, as you easily be a Lutheran, dead as a door nail. You can be Methodist, dead as a door nail. You can be a Baptist, dead as a door nail. When it comes to Pentecost, they say, "Now, we've got you right there." Because you see, you've got to have the Holy Ghost for sure if you're going to have any of those gifts of the Spirit. That's where they're wrong, because the Bible says, "at the end time I'll pour the Spirit upon anybody and everybody, and they can all be doing it see." 62. You see, they say, "Well now we cannot be fooled." But there is your strong delusion, God sending delusion that they believe the lie, because they turned down the truth. Many a woman acting out of the power of the Holy Ghost bringing forth the same thing. So, the church dealing in Pentecost is bringing forth under a corrupt Word, children that are born by a freedom of dogma, who have power and signs and wonders genuine by the Holy Ghost, but they themselves are in total unbelief. As Bro. Branham said, "We have seen the Word of God manifested in power, but It has not been manifested in revelation." Now, brother/sister if you see the Word of God in power, It would do you no more good, than seeing the tree out there. No, no more good. Be no more good than looking at God's creation, won't do you any good. (See?) Why? Because it doesn't tell you a thing. You have got to have the Word of God revealed, in order to be a part of the Kingdom. 63. Now then, this morning I mentioned concerning what Cain and Abel did, which was the unrighteous act. Cain sacrificed the first fruit offering, out of place. Bro. Branham said, "You can't wrest the Scripture, you can't misinterpret, you can't misplace It." That's true, that's what the Bible teaches. "If you do not rightly divide, (the Bible says) it's iniquity." Now, so it is when this man Cain wrested the Scripture, he gave the first fruit offering in the wrong place. Both of those offerings were absolutely correct. But only one reached God, because it was by revelation by the right dividing of the Word. (See?) Now, that's the same thing that Eve did. (See?) The very same thing, she divided the Word of God wrong. She attempted to bring forth the commandment of God in a wrong way. Now remember, that the devil was a theologian, (that's right, he was the first theologian) and he tried to feed Eve that Word, and she listened to him. And she was wrong there, and if it was wrong then, it's got to be wrong now. (See?) 64. Now, notice also about Cain and Abel; they were both serving and worshipping God, and one was worshipping God according to his own understanding, to his own liking, and he did what he thought was pleasing to God, and he defied God, because he said, "I'm doing what I know to be right as far as I am concerned." Now, what does the Bible say about that? The Bible said, "At the end time they take pleasure in unrighteousness." They take pleasure in it. Cain in his mis-divided word took his pleasure in it. And so, in this very day in which we live, people are still taking pleasure in worshipping God. Now, if you don't believe it, you just start telling testimonies. You go ahead. Go to your fundamentalist, and he'll tell you he knows that he was born again. That's right. He'll tell you he knows when he accepted the Lord Jesus Christ and how God delivered him from sin and made him a new creature. He'll tell you how he was baptized in water in the name of Father, Son and Holy Ghost. And he'll go to his death defending his Roman Catholic dogma. That's right, he'll die for it. 65. When the Roman Catholic had published a recent article and they laughed at the Protestants. They said, "You Protestants make us laugh. You claim to be protesting, (he said) what are you protesting?" He said, "You know that you all baptize in a Roman Catholic dogma, which is 'Father, Son, and Holy Ghost', because the early church baptized only in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ." Where's your protesting? Paul himself said, "You protest and die daily." Why he said to the Corinthian church, he said, "You turn the other cheek." He said, "If a man smite you, you turn the other cheek. If a man abuse you, you let him abuse you. If a man takes what you got, you say, 'go ahead and take some more'." Then he said, "When it comes to that Word, (he said) you back right away." He said, "You act like Christians, you try to look like Christians. You talk with tongues, but (he said) on the showdown of the Word, (he said) you stand against me, because I tried to put the church in order." Now, where do they stand? They stand outside the ark of safety. Even as Jesus said, "In vain do you worship Me, having for teaching the commandments of men." [Mt 15:11] What were they doing in that day? They misinterpreted the Word of God. As Bro. Branham said, "Jesus came according to the Word, but not according to their interpretation of the Word." (See?) Yet, He didn't condemn their doing. He never condemned what they were doing. He condemned their believing. Because once a man turns down the Word of the hour, there's nothing left but death. 66. Now, let's go back to 2 Thessalonians 2:10-11 again. Now notice, (10) And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. (11) And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, … (and so on.) Now, let's ask ourselves the question, where does it place all deceivableness of unrighteousness? It places it in them that perish. Now notice, It does not say in him, the antichrist. It says, "in them that perish." Not the antichrist. (See?) Death in the church (that's right) unrighteousness brings death, unbelief. Death in the church, and it brings forth the prince of death, and they crown him thinking he's life. (That's right) Death in the church, unbelief, and it brings forth the prince of death, Satan, and crowns him thinking it is life. 67. Now, where does death come from? The knowledge of good and evil. Now, what's the knowledge of good and evil? First of all, there's no such thing as evil, you know that as well as I do. God never made evil. Nothing in itself is wrong. Nothing. There's nothing today that's wrong in itself. I don't care what it is. The vulture that kills other birds and all there's nothing wrong with that thing whatsoever, not the way God made it. It's the perversion. The knowledge of good and evil. There is no knowledge of itself that is evil, it's what you do with it. That's the whole thing. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil is nothing but the Word of God perverted. It's the Truth and the good thing of God that is used wrong. And therefore, death is in the church at the end time. And that death is the perversion that started way back with that lie. (See?) Now, the people have death in them. Now look, death cannot bring forth life, only life can bring forth life. So, what does the church bring forth? The church brings forth the prince of life, and crowns death as though he were life. And they say he is the prince of life, when he is the prince of death. 68. Now then, my brother my sister, how deceived is that church? It's one hundred percent deceived. How? As Bro. Branham said, "Through all diabolical cunning." The greatest lie the devil ever puts in any man, which was at the end time. Just like with Eve, to make righteousness and unrighteousness, life and death so close, the two spirits so close, unless somebody came by with a revelation, every single one of us would die in the trap. Wouldn't be one person left. Nobody. Not, because I say so, but because God said so. He said, "If I don't send Elijah the prophet to restore, I'll come and destroy utterly the whole earth." [Mal 4:5] That means, there wouldn't be a Resurrection. Right. There wouldn't be a Rapture, there wouldn't be a Millennium. There wouldn't be a Kingdom of God. There wouldn't be anything. (See?) Because there's got to be a harvest. 69. Now, you ask yourself this question: where did the antichrist come from? He comes from death, he comes out of them, the church, the Christians, so called. He is one of them, the church. Now listen, just like Judas came out of the Jews, but acted like he was one with Christ, so does the antichrist. Now listen: where did Judas get his authority? Not from Christ, not in the church. No sir. He went right to the Sanhedrin and the head of the manifested wicked religion of their day. (Follow me?) The church produces the antichrist and he comes up out of them, because they leave the vindicated truth. And where's their authority? Where's their authority? They're their own authority. They never had God's authority anymore. 70. Remember, the Bible says, "Obey those who have the rule over you," [Hebrews 13:17a] who teach you the Word of God." Where's the preacher’s authority? It's in the Word, he's got no authority, he's got no power. He's like that priest like Bro. Branham said, "He's got a little old policeman about two by four, stands up there, about four feet, five inches tall, great big glove on, blows the whistle, and a five-ton truck comes groaning to a halt, (not because the guy is big enough to stop him but) that hand signifies authority and uniform." (See?) Now, where do the people get their authority from the end time? You know where it is? On a creed and a dogma, a perversion of the Word of Almighty God. And that's exactly where the Roman Catholic church and the organization stand today. They don't stand there my brother, my sister, because they've got billions of dollars. The Roman Catholic church hundred and sixty-eight billion dollars in gold Bro. Branham said, does not stand on anything other than the fact that they have perverted the Word of God and suck men in by it. What about you're… church's Protestantism? You think they earned that money that they've got? You think they have done it? No! What have they got it by? They have build up by a creed and a dogma, their own kingdom on earth, Satan's paradise. They had for two thousand years in the church ages. Satan's had a kingdom going for six thousand years. What's it built on? They've built on a perverted word. There is not one single thing that's built is a foundation to it, then that, we'll go to it. 71. I'll prove it to you. Listen, but Jesus Christ church is built upon the foundation of the apostles and the prophets, and that is the Word of God, Right? He said, "I have built My Church upon this foundation, the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." [Mt 16:18] What is it? The revealed Word of God. And what is the foundation of the phony church? It's the perverted Word of Almighty God. There's your authority. Remember, when Bro. Branham went to the Catholic church, a priest said, "By what authority do you?" He said, "I do it by the authority of the Word of God." And the priest said, "God is in the church." Bro. Branham said, "I disagree with you. God is in the Word." He said, "We're not here to argue." Bro. Branham said, "I don't believe in arguing. I believe I can give a reason though, because the Bible said, 'Come let us reason together'." He said, "Was that girl baptized, what baptism?" Bro. Branham said, "Christian baptism." He said, "What do you mean? He said, "I mean in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ." The priest said, "We used to baptize that way, but we got away from it." He said, "We baptize in Father, Son and Holy Ghost." Bro. Branham said, "If you used to baptize that way, why don’t you still do it? Why? "Because the authority is the church." 72. What did Bro. Branham say in that sermon, The Absolute' [62-12-30] He said, "Everybody's got to have an ultimate." and he stood before his own church. He said, "I am that ultimate to you, and my Ultimate is the Word of God." He said, "You're depending on me for the answer, and God is depending on you to give you the right answer." There is an Ultimate, and the Ultimate is the foundation, because the building will never survive without a foundation. Now, what brings forth this antichrist? The foundation, their ultimate is the perverted word of Almighty God through satanic misconception of that Word. But, our Church is built upon the authority Word of Almighty God. (See?) True authority. They said, to Peter, [Jesus] "By what authority do you do these things?" And He said, "I'll tell you that if you tell me what authority John the Baptist baptized?" They said, "Well, if we say he's a prophet, then we got to give an answer to that, He'll say, he's not, He'll get mad." They said, "We don't know." He said, "I won't tell you either." [Mk 11:28-33] 73. And you know, right today the same thing, it's the same mystery. Christ has not told that foolish church the Truth as we know It. Oh, they had a chance to get It, but they turned It down. Now, where is their foundation? Sinking sand, and an authority of a perverted word. Now, the Bible said, "Every plant that God hasn't planted is going to be dug up, thrown out." [Mk 15;13] Everything that doesn't have a foundation, He said, "I'm going to shake it down." Why? Because it doesn’t have a proper foundation. (See?) The church produces the antichrist. Now, the people themselves produce the beast, because they refuse the Word of God, which God revealed by vindication. And then they go to worship what they call God anyway. And that is exactly what is prophesied in the Book of Ezekiel chapter 27:3-4 and 28:2-9. (See?) It is the beast's theology. Beast theology settling in the hearts of natural brute beast. Just like even Cain, they said, "We are going to do it our own way." They take the provided Word and the provided power, and they pervert them to their own end. Oh, don't they? 74. What does the pope say? Jesus gave the keys of Peter. "Peter was the first pope." And He said, "Whatever you bind on earth, is bound in heaven, I am Peter's successor, so therefore you listen to me." That's right. And you know what? They built the church for two thousand years on. And the Protestants have built their church in the same way. Why? Because the whore has daughters. And I want to tell you one thing, if you want to learn a lot of new tricks, you go to the harlot's daughters, don't go to the harlot. The Protestant's built the image, and the pope is going to take it over. Absolutely, see, they go their way. Carnal is mixed with spiritual. (Right?) Proving they are devoid of the Holy Ghost, 1 Corinthians 2: Now listen, carnal is mixed with spiritual proving they are devoid of the Holy Spirit. (10) But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. (11) For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. (12) Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. (Now:) (13) Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom (teaches), but which the Holy Ghost (teaches); comparing spiritual things with spiritual. (14) But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. (What are the spiritual things of God? The Word of God.) 75. Now, all right listen let's prove it today. All right, I'm a Pentecostal, I talk with tongues. I got the Holy Ghost, speaking in tongues. Now then, I run across a little Catholic nun, she's a theologian. And I find out (bless God) one of these seminaries she has talked in tongues, had a rich experience in Christ. And I say to her, "Now sister, (first mistake right there, yep) I understand that you're born again, full of the Holy Ghost." She says, "Yes sir Bro. Vayle, (that's her mistake right there, ain't brother/sister, may in the flesh, see?) yes sir, I'll tell you what, I received the Holy Ghost speaking in tongues, hallelujah." I say, "That's great. Hey, that's great, you received the Holy Ghost and spoke in tongues." Aw, right away my eyes up, and I'm ready for a great surprise and something thrilling. And I say, "Well, well, well that's wonderful, so you don't go and confess to the priest anymore." "Oh, but I do confess my sins to the priest." I say, "Well, you confess your sins to the priest and you got the Holy Ghost?" (Oh yes, it made it richer, it made it realer.) "Now, when I confess, (hallelujah) it's grace, I really feel great. Oh yes, I'm ready for battle now." I say, "Now, the Word of God tells me that you don't call any man father, and you don't get forgiveness of sins except by Jesus Christ, the Intercessor, and now you… (yeah, but ah… I got the Holy Ghost speak in tongues, and she got the Holy Ghost, speaking in tongues. So, she's got the Holy Ghost and I've got the Holy Ghost, And I say, "Well, I’ll accept it. " Now, "Of course though, you don't believe the pope is infallible do you?", "Why yes, I do, I want to tell you the dogma, the richness of our credo is greater than ever to my heart, oh, I love the word in the church. " (Hmm) 76. I thought we already had the Word, here the Word spoke to me. "No man can add to It, or take from It, or change anything." Let's see now, that doesn't sound like…ha…let's see now, if she's got the Holy Ghost and spoke in tongues, and I've got the Holy Ghost and spoke in tongues, now if I got the Holy Ghost and spoke in tongues, then she must have the real Holy Ghost speaking in tongues.” "Do you…ah…Do you think you and I maybe could sit down and have communion?" "Oh, what do you mean? Would you like to come to the altar while my priest sticks a wafer on your tongue, and drinks the wine himself." "Oh, that's not what I quite had in mind, sister. Oh, I thought was that maybe we could sit down and take some of that bread and break it, and you have a cup of wine, I'll have a little sip of wine and…" "Ah ha, just a minute now how would you do that?" "Wouldn't you have the priest consecrate it to have the real body of Christ?" "Well now, I-I just don't know that, that is the real body of Christ, I always think it to be some symbolic (pretty nervous right now) we're beginning to wonder about this thing. She said, Well, Bro. Vayle, there's only way to think about it. "I've got the Holy Ghost and talk in tongues." "I know I've got the Holy Ghost, glory to God." And said, "She got the Holy Ghost and talks in tongues. I know she's got the Holy Ghost here, so, what's the difference?" 77. Carnal and spiritual don't mix! Everybody hasn't got the Holy Ghost. And I don't speak this irreverently. And my study, doesn't mean I'm going to change anything for one minute. But I want you to get this brother/ sister, and get it straight. If anybody here and anywhere else tries to compare a physical and a thing with that Word of God, you've lost your marbles, right now, you're insane with that last day church. You stick with the Word of God, period! And if any man deviates from this revealed Word, it absolutely shows he or she has not got the Holy Ghost. You might have an anointing, but to be baptized into the body Jesus Christ, Bro. Branham said, "Give them that Word test, and they cannot stay with that Word, word, by word." There's many a man that say he believes the Word of God, …but he doesn't. 78. Now, see that It says at the end time. Matthew 24:24-25 you read It. Matthew 7: your read It. But did you read Psalms 68:18? You didn't, let's read It. You can look at that yourself, this I'm going to read. Listen: (18) Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; … That's right. What were those gifts for men? This was the five-fold ministry who bring the Word of God, who teach It in order to bring the Bride to perfection. For listen, the rest of her: (18) …for the rebellious also, … That word 'rebellion' in the Hebrew is the same word in the Greek that means; 'apostasy'. Oh, the apostate also. he has received gifts: (18) …that the LORD God might dwell among them. What was those gifts? According to Numbers 16: it was gifts of prophecy and manifestation that were…maybe in miracles and signs and wonders. Now, the Bible distinctly says that there will be ministries at the end time outside the true Bride of Christ, in the rebellion, in the apostate. Yeah, apostate people with manifestation in signs and wonders. 79. Now, let's go somewhere turning now to 1 Corinthians 12: You see, you can just go on and on, and on, and find material on the subject. There's no ending to it, thousands of verses in the Bible. Now listen, (27) Now (you) are the body of Christ, and members in particular. (28) And God hath set … in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings… governments, diversities of tongues. Now listen: It tells you right here, It began numbering the five-fold ministry. One, two, three. And It stops at four. Doesn't mention…and doesn't mention five. Then without numbering, they don't number these. It says, miracles, healings, and so on. They are ministries of power, but they are not in the five-fold ministry. (Right?) They're simply gifts. And only in the five-fold ministry is the Church brought to perfection. Not gifts. What have you got today? You've got men with gifts running all over the world filling the pulpits and they're not a part of the five-fold ministry even. And they don't perfect the Church. They don't add to the Church. The Bible said “The rebellious have gifts.” [Psalms 68:18] 80. Now, what about a lot of folk just suddenly have a lot of gifts. "Glory to God, they're the one who really believe this Message." (Yeah, yeah?) Give them the Word test. I said, "Give them the Word test." Give them the Word test, because right now you've got more people believing, then some great big super-duper thing, and they shouldn't be doing it. Because Bro. Branham said, "Those super-duper things are going to come at the time of the two witnesses." Now, the Bride will have 'Thus Saith the Lord', being one with that Word. But remember, the rebellious are the ones that have gifts. And God warned them, that you don't go with those gifts apart from the ministry. It was the gifts that fooled Israel before they went into the Promise Land having made the exodus. Who says those gifts will not appear again to all, but the very Elected? Done it already. Stay with that Word. Now, I'm not saying that we won't have healings, we will. But what does the prophet teach us in Church Order? He said, "When you have a problem, call the church together and let them pray." (See?) Now, he never ever said that a gift ministry would be a public demonstration. Even God rebuked him for letting his vindicated ministry that led to the Word become too public. (Right?) Come on, you know it's the truth. He said, "You made it become a public spectacle." Even the prophet went too far. 81. Where do those gifts belong? Right back in that room. What's the five-fold ministry? To perfect you and remember there is no perfection outside of that Word. Because the perfected are those who have the revelation of God. And you know what the revelation of God is? Faith. You know what faith is? Righteousness, it lines up, not miracles. Now, I'm not against miracles, I'm for them. But I'm going to do them the way the prophet said. And if I cannot have something which is in line with the Word of God brother/sister, I don't want it. Otherwise, I'm just like Eve. The devil said, "Eve didn't He tell you [Adam] to go ahead and populate the earth?" He said, "He sure did." "Did He tell you how to do it?" "No!" "Well, I'll be glad to teach you." But they did. 82. All right, the Bible said, "Heal the sick, raise the dead, you've got gifts among you. What did He say?" "Put them in order." Now, what if it's out of order? You're right back where Eve was, deceived. Now listen, "Many will come in that day and say, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Thy Name?" [Mt 7:22] You know what He said? I'm going to say like I said to Cain, "Cain, you offered well, excellent sacrifice, I won't take it." "But Lord, I did those mighty works." "I know, it's wonderful, I appreciate you took your time. But, depart from me you that work iniquity." [Mt 7:23] (See?) One with that Word, there is the deception, and we are in the hour of it. Now, the whole thing, becomes completely perverted. Without one Word correctly understood except by the Bride. There will not be any service, or worship that is accepted by God, except in the Bride. You believe that? Right, you're right. You say, "Oh, Bro. Vayle, don't you think preaching like that that you sort of put yourself apart, enough people apart of making you look pretty raw?" Well, thank you for thinking that. I thought the same thing about Bro. Branham for awhile. I thought I loved Bro. Branham. But he is getting a little bit whoo…hoo…hoo! Because it sounded like he's the only one, and he was. At least I like a thing when it gets that clear. And you know the truth? This is a fact period, brother/sister, God cannot accept the worship of anybody but the Bride. Face it, why did we turn him down? 83. He's going to come and say, "Lord, Lord, open to us.” He'll say, "I used to know you as my wife, but I don't know you as my wife anymore." Divorced. You think you'd take a divorced wife unto you, when you've got your own pretty little new wife with you? He'd say, "Look honey, you've had your day. Behind the door, say, double lock it, call the cops so that person doesn't get in." "Oh, but honey, I didn't mean to leave you, I love you." He said, "Look, that's over, good bye." You don't think that God's going to fool around with this other, do you? No, He won't accept the worship. He said, "That day is coming, the spirit says." Now, we are at the end time. It is almost too late even now, but I don't say it's too late, say it's almost too late. We need to test every word we say, and every thought we think, and everything that we do by that Word. Which was revealed with vindication, and stick with it, until every member no matter where he is, begins to walk along with God, as did Enoch. That's right. We shall not surely die, but be changed for the Rapture. This is a three stage of millions, while millions more cry out to the earth, peace is coming on earth, and the reign of God is starting for we are all brothers. That's exactly the same, even amongst Pentecost. Pentecostal people, they have stopped looking for the Lord Jesus Christ. They say, "We're going to walk into the Millennium and rebuild this whole earth, peace on earth to men." I thought that was a Catholic dogma. People claim to be full of the Holy Ghost, Pentecostals are teaching the same thing. 84. Now, it is all but over. The truth has been vindicated, and the people want the lie. They take pleasure in it. You say, "Brother, put your church in order." You know what they tell you? I can't see the thing of the Spirit to way you've got it. One man told me that in Ohio. He said, "Bro. Vayle, I simply can't believe what you teach." I said, "The prophet taught it." "Well, (he said) I don't think he meant it way." I said, "Why not?" "Well, (he said) you just can't have the fear (he said) without these other things." I said, "Are you trying to tell me that Bro. Branham’s church was dead?" I said, "I never felt more anointing, or more anything in my life when that man preached." …?... "Well, (he said) I just maybe you've got a point there." But he never took the point, right back in the same disorder of Pentecost. 85. Now look, remember this and get it clear, we are not against these things the Scripture said. We do not make mock of them. But remember, it has got to be according to the Word. This is where we stand, and people don't understand it. Too late, will understand that there was a little Bride that had that Word. When the world begins to realize, those people that are sincere. The foolish virgin, begin to realize they missed it. Where do you think we're going to turn? Where are they going to turn? Where are they going to turn? There is only one place they can turn and say, "What was it that we missed, what was it that was wrong, where does it go wrong?" You know what the answer is going to be? Wasn't there a little fellow called William Branham that claimed to be he was a prophet? And didn't he tell us just the way it would be? They'd say, "Where did you get that literature? Where do you get the tapes? (See?) Too late, they'll believe the Word. That is, too late to make the Rapture, it's been finished. Brother/sister, not too late for them to miss the mark of the beast. I believe many are going to miss It. They'll die for it. What if you and I were that group? I'd say this: "If you and I were to make it somehow, we still have with us today that revealed Word. But, there's not one of us that we’d have to pay a price in the days to come. Would have to miss out, we can forfeit our lives. Maybe it would be hard. 86. So, brother/sister, I believe this Word as the prophet brought, is the last page of life in the midst of death. And no matter when someone believes this, whether be now or later, it will still be his passport, even though he believes it's too late for the Bride, it'll still be his passport to come in at the White Throne Judgment. May we never forget that, and because of that get this Word out. God never told us to light a candle and put it under a bushel. He never told where to take these lights and hide it somewhere. But He commands to this day it's still, "Go into all the world and preach the Gospel." [Mk 16:15] Too late I learned that Bro. Branham preached a sermon not of disgust, but something like Christ when He wondered if people's hardness of hearts. He wondered why men had not risen up to take this Message for the world. When hundreds of others who are rising up to take away the perverted word thinking they are doing God a service and have pleasure in it. Putting their hope and their joy in that which will bring death. Where are the men today who will rise up and take up the Word of God to the world? We don't have today just the privilege of being smug, (although I don't like using that word, intend it to be smug) it's not ours to have a privilege to say, "We've got this Word, and we're right but, you’re wrong, but that could be absolutely true. What a tragic thing it would be for us to be right, then keep somebody else in silence. That's right brother/sister. 87. If there's a five-fold ministry, and I believe there is, where are our evangelists? About everybody I talk to, used to be an evangelist, have gone to teaching. I don't believe that God changes a white…a red horse to a black horse, or vise versa. Now, I speak of ministries. When did God change an evangelist to being a teacher. He said a prophet is always a prophet. And I believe a teacher is always a teacher, and an evangelist always an evangelist. But it seems for a fleeting moment all we've had is Bro. Branham as the evangelist, prophet and the whole thing. Where are our evangelists? Where are they today willing to go, and winning the souls for Jesus Christ? I'm not an evangelist, never was one. Don't count me in on it, I don't have the ministry. I can't be, and I won't do it. But for years and years, and years, and years I always taught as a first in the Alpha and Omega of my ministry. But brother/sister I marvel, I marvel and because I have to, and there are teachers, at least we’ve got those. Then there's got to be evangelists, there's got to be a prophet, there's got to be apostles. Where are they? You say, "If there is going to be a prophet," you better bank on it, Jesus Christ tarries little Joseph is a prophet. But remember, he is not a Word prophet as his dad was, he is simply a five-fold ministry prophet. 88. As Paul said, "If any man's a prophet, let him listen to what I say is the truth." [1 Cor 4:37] And Bro. Branham said, "If my son Joseph preaches, he shall preach this very Message." A prophet preaches. Where are those evangelists? Where are the people to take this truth out? Let the seed fall upon the sidewalk. Let the vultures take it. That's alright, it's got to happen to some of it. Let the rock…refuse to let the grain come out. It's got to happen to stop it. Let the weeds choke out something, it's got to happen to some. But, brother sister there's good ground up there I believe for …?.... Where are those men that are doing it? I'm not giving missionary altar call don't worry. I won't do it. You got to be sent of God brother/sister. You got to know, you got to go. And there's something everybody can do. You can be a Grace Collins. You say, "Who is Grace Collins? Grace Collins to me hands out more tapes than, anybody in this ministry. Wore out tape machine, after tape machine that she sent them out of Florida. She didn't preach it. Nothing wrong with her making tapes and send them. And play pray over them, writing a note, "I hope you hear this and love it." They need more tapes write back. That's a good ministry, woman and man. Get this Word out…get out, is that right? Let's get on fire and get this Word out brother/ sister. That's what the prophet said. Young men, young women, old, or young. You and I got a calling today, and that's to fill the place that God put us. And if we're worthy members of this body, there is one thing we've got …?... And that's that Word. Amen. God bless you. Shall we rise and be dismissed. Gracious Eternal Father, we ask You, Lord, that not one Word of this Word we preached in these few days go to the ground. Not one Word, O God, but every Word be full of Life with the Spirit of God, to keep us ever mindful of the days in which we live. Perilous days, perilous days, Lord, of which we live. All deceivableness of unrighteousness, Lord, taking once more perpetrating upon the people all diabolical cunning. Now flagrant manifestation that the world seems to think that's embodied in communism, but right in the church the insidious spirit of perversion. Not got black and white, but like that white horse rider so deceitful, running amongst the people. God protect us we pray today. Lord, fill every life we pray with the Holy Ghost. Let every home, Lord, apply the Token. Let everybody, O God, become a servant of the way in this last hour to send forth eagerly, though it might be some Gospel call to somebody. Some witness, O Lord, because we believe at this end time if any Word ought to go out. Even though it be like poor Noah in his day. Thank God, they lived righteous, that the Word went out. Lord, like Paul who was guiltless of the blood of all men, because he had not shunned to declare the full Word of God. I pray that this people who have the end time revelation, may be set on fire with a burning zeal to show forth Christ amongst the nations. I pray, Lord, for my own life that I won't be shirking at any time at all, nor consider any cost, any infirmity of body, or ability to disdain everything that smacks of the carnal of this world, and to go forth in the strength that Jesus can give. And the dedication to the complete authority of Christ. Lord, as that prophet, let him hung on a little bit, when he asked a question of the Lord, don't let me go down, I may need to go down in the cult of this thing. Lord, we who loved him, and loved that Word help us to keep him …?... though dead. Because we’re bringing forth the true Word, of the true prophet’s teaching. Lord, if we fail today, forgive us of our sin. Cleanse us of our iniquity. Fill us anew us with Your Spirit, O God. Help us to go forth in the Name of Jesus Christ our Savior. We’re praying right now. I never, ever want to see men that go forth and preach this Word. I don’t know your heart, and you don’t know mine. There may be someone who is says, “Bro. Vayle, I really believe I’ve been called to preach that Word, to get out and serve God, but I have a fear…” Listen brother/sister, I’ve gone down that road not knowing where I was going, and nothing to get there, and I've got there. And I’ve been laid everything on that altar more than one time, sacrifice it all. If you haven’t preached this Word, I want to tell you, it's a blessed thing God’s in It. And if you've been scared, let me say this one thing, put away your fear now. If you’ve been called of God, don't you be afraid to sacrifice your job or anything else you’ve got. Because remember, brother/sister, if you think paying a price is just to serve God, you’ll pay a bigger price not serve Him. I’ll tell you that by experience. I quit preaching for a while. It just about cost me my life. Dying of TB of the pituitary gland. Nerve racking hoping for death even by suicide. Don’t fool yourself brother/sister, if you’ve got a call on your life, don’t you turn that calling down. You get ready to serve God with all your heart. I won’t ask you to raise your hand…that’s not my business to see what’s in your heart. You examine your heart now, and know this brother/sister. His yoke is easy, His burden is light. Oh, I know it’s kind of hard at times. No testing, for the time for the time seem joyous, even a little hard. But remember, God has made a way that you can bear it. Seeing He'll make you escape that trial, you know how? By bearing it. The yoke is easy, the burden is light. Take off that yoke, take off that burden. You wish you'd put it back on. I like what Bro. Branham said when I was a child of a drunkard. They walked on the other side of the street. I had to up and try to make people talk to me. Now I have to run from them. He said, “My name was hated, now it's loved." Oh joy unspeakable and full of glory. There is a wait, always fine the thing hard. And we could discuss it, I know it's not with God, it's with ourselves. Now, brother/sister, there’s something in Jesus Christ, that makes it worthwhile. Amen. You ask in your heart, I can’t do it. I’m not a emotional, I’m being very honest and sincere now. A while ago, we’d be jumping up and down, and hollering, and talking in tongues and screaming, we don't do that anymore. We just go very steady and listen to that Word. You’ve got a call, you keep that call brother/sister. Say, what about a sister? She can be a good mother that's her call, a good wife that's her call. There’s a brother, that God might have called to go preaching, and sister, you go with him. Not to preach, but you go with him, because you're part of him. You’ve got a ministry all right. You’ve got a ministry to be kind and loving to him. When he comes home, you’ve got to sort of take away the burnt ashes off of his life, what he’s been burning out there in the world, because you're with him. It took two men to hold up the hands of Moses, Aaron and Hur. But I believe women can hold up hands of men too. [Bro. Vayle starts singing ‘My Jesus I love Thee' and 'Rock of Ages.'] [Bro. Vayle continues with prayer, audio too poor to continue the last three minutes] All Deceivableness of Unrighteousness (0671) Page PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 1