Alpha and Omega in Spirit 

 

 Bro. Lee Vayle   -  October 27, 1982

	

	Let us just pray. Heavenly Father, we're so happy tonight to be here in
Your Presence to be one with You, Lord, ...?... might see it, nobody
sees it, but we know it, and because we're part of the revelation and
have the witness within ourselves and know that God is True, and we're
grateful for it, Lord. You proved Your sincerity, Your truthfulness,
Your continued faithfulness to us, Lord, and there is no doubts left in
our minds; we're sure there's no place else to go, we're comfortable in
Your Presence, Lord, that we have this Light in this Life; and we know
that You alone have the Words of Eternal Life, and You've given them to
us.

	And we are happy about that, Lord, we just rest in it and if there was
such a thing as sanctifying ourselves and dedicating ourselves further,
consecrating further to it, we would certainly appreciate it that You
might help us and show us how it might be done. Because we know, that
we're one with that Word then everything is possible. There's nothing
that we've left out that really is gratifying and special to our souls,
for to this end were we created.

	And we know, that we like all creation are from You and to You and for
You; and that makes us very, very happy, Lord, very appreciative. We're
very glad. Bless us in the service tonight, whatever is said and done in
Jesus' Name. Amen. You may be seated.

	[Local announcements made]    

1.	Now, before we get in the message, you know I do a lot of rambling on
purpose, (now that's to cover up, you know I'm just teasing you,) it's
just to sort of talk about things that we're getting into, and frankly I
do not know what we're getting into. I'll be honest with you. You see,
I'm not a prophet. I don't say I wish I were. In fact, I'm glad I'm not.
It's just that simple.

	On the other hand, it's a little embarrassing that I'm not a prophet.
Because when I teach, I cannot teach with the definitive authority of a
prophet. See, I just can't do it. I know what the prophet said, and I've
got to watch what he said and do what he did which is take it right back
to the Word. So that I just don't have a thematic structure or doctrine,
but I have the doctrine through the Bible, see? And many times I look at
things, or things come to me and as I've told you, you've got to bear
with me, because look, I won't lead you astray, but I'll sort of get you
off on the side of the road a little bit. Now, you won't get off the
road, but you'll get off on the sides of the road. 

2.	Now, I can't help that, because the method that I use is as I
explained is I see something and I've got to start talking about it. And
as I start teaching on it, I'll find that maybe I go a little bit too
much to the right. Maybe my time zone isn't quite right. Maybe my
connections aren't quite right. Well, the next time you see I got to
kind of veer back again. And I'm not drunk driving, and I'm not sleep
driving. I'm driving consciously, but this is bigger than I am. See? So
look, I've got problems and I don't want to give you problems, but I
want to keep warning you that what you've got to do is follow the best
you can, and as time goes on He's never failed me, but let me come right
back in the middle of the road with my straight course.

	Now, this is has to do with what I was saying last Sunday. When He
began talking to me and He said... (these are like deep impressions that
come like a voice.) It's the...as I want to tell you, when John turned
to hear the Voice, see the Voice, in the Greek it is conversational.

	In other words, like Moses talking to God, God talking to Moses. Paul
talking to God, first God talked to Paul, Paul talked to God. William
Branham was in the same category. God talked to William Branham, William
Branham talked to God. Right? That's exactly what it was.

3.	Now, this is not what John had, except in the extreme limited. The
conversational voice as I see it is this: it's the same thing we have
here in this room. Now, this may sort of floor you, but it's alright if
you're floored, there's a carpet on the floor. So nobody is going to get
too bad hurt.

	When I talk to you people on Sunday's and Wednesday's, and we begin
moving into a certain area; it is just like I am talking to you and you
were talking back to me. One reason is the geography, the way the seats
are. The way the buildings are in.

	Number two: is the atmosphere. One of trust and you want to hear what
I'm saying and you believe what I'm saying. And you know, I'm not trying
to fool you, if anything that'll go wrong, you know I wasn't trying to
fool anybody. The spirit is in unity between us.

	Now, the next thing is: it is like you talking back to me and I'm
answering your questions. So we have a good rapport. It's like it was
months ago when we surmounted certain obstacles and unqualifiedly tried
to do the will of God in teaching His Word. And the same thing is now
present with us with the possibility of a far deeper revelation.

4.	All right, now therefore I don't expect at any time for you and me to
have problems in communication so what is being taught you understand.

	Now going back, now to Sunday, when I mentioned to you that there came
to me through the deepest impression, the premise that the doctrine of
the 'incarnation' as to why He came when He did, announcing what He
would do, and what He did do. Literally, because of the emphasis on the
death which boils down to by the shedding of Blood is the remission of
sin. And without the shedding of Blood there is no remission. And that
is the key.  But look: this Bible of which the key is the Blood that
makes possible everything within It. And nothing within It is apart from
that shedding of Blood.

	Now, the question is: what is there in that? Is everything in there
that is opened to us because of the Blood doesn't become axiomatic.
[self evident, obvious] The answer is no! Christ died upon Calvary,
remitting our sins, and there might have been at that time six million
Jews. How many were born again? How many got God? Well, huh, I don't
suppose fifty thousand, not a million. Today there's going on to four
billion people in the world today. The Blood has never lost Its power.
It's not axiomatic, that just because the Blood was shed they're going
to be born again. They're going to be saved. Your sins are remitted. No!
See, that's what we're looking at. That's what He impressed me. And the
impression was...(now hold it,) when He was here on earth, and before He
went back to heaven, there are things that are basic to the Blood, but
the Blood doesn't accomplish it. Now, (are you still with me?) anybody
got a question? No question. That's just true what I'm telling you. you
listen to me, and I'm telling you the truth. Okay.

5.	Now, Bro. Branham said, "The shedding of the blood of bulls and goats
was animal life. The life could not come back upon the believer. But
when Jesus died, the Life could come back upon the believer."

	Well, okay, shed blood, zoom, comes the life. No? Now, you agree that
Jesus shed  His Blood. You agree that the Life was loosed. Now, I want
to ask you a question: did that get the Old Testament Bride out of the
ground? No sir. Did the life come back upon those Old Testament Saints
down there in Sheol, upper Sheol? No way. The Life that Christ shed
never came back until after He was ascended and He took them up.

	Now, you see what I'm driving at. If Alpha is Omega, and Omega is
Alpha, and there are two parts to the First Resurrection, (and there
are,) then we are unworthy of being called students of the Scripture
until we know everything He did as Alpha knowing He will do it as Omega.
Do you follow me?

	It took Him to go into Hades, into the lower Sheol where the lost were,
and could not be loosed. See? And He couldn't do that in the physical.
Hmm, that was in the grave. Right? All right, then He went into upper
Sheol and "He led captivity captive." [Eph 4:8] 

	Now, Bro. Branham preaches a great sermon on that. How that the devil
and the guardians were there. And when He went in, and He ripped the
gates off and stood there in all His might, and they said, "Who are you,
and [we] hope you aren't which we think you are?"

	He said, "I'm the One."

6.	Now, He led them out in the form of spirit. That's Alpha. Then He'll
do it as Omega, that's why He's here. That's why Bro. Branham said,
"God, Jesus Christ, Holy Ghost comes down sets Himself at the Head of
the Church."

	That same One in the Spirit went down there set Himself right at the
Head of that Old Testament Church. And He said, "I'm the One that you
look for." He said, "I'm the Prince of the House of David. I am that
Messiah. I am that Seed of the woman." I am that Conqueror." And He was
not in a physical body.

	He went down there as a human being Who was pre-existent, He had a
theophonic body, (we're getting really lost now and tough) came down
here in the womb of a woman, slipped out of His body at death, took on
that same form, went down there and just reached and ripped the gates
off and said, "I'm here."

	The time of the Shout of His death screamed through the corridors and
woke the sleeping in upper and lower Sheol, and they knew something was
happening. The Shout, this Message has screamed, to wake up a Bride that
the Holy Spirit is here to do something. See?

7.	Now, let's go to Luke 4:

		(18) 	The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me
to 						(proclaim) the gospel to the poor; (that's preaching) he hath
sent me 					to heal the brokenhearted, (that could be preaching
combined with 						the deliverance,) to preach deliverance to the
captives, (the) recovering 					of sight to the blind, to set at liberty
them that are bruised,

	All right, what's 'the bruised'? "He shall bruise your heal and You
will bruise his head." [Gen 3:15] "I am come here to bring the dead out
of the ground." Now the blood didn't do it, He had to come and do it.
You follow me? See? You're too fundamentally yet. I can tell by looking
at some of your eyes. You're still back in the never-never land. Now get
out of it. Get out of it. Get out of it, or you're going to find
yourself not believing in His Presence. Something is going to come up
and you're going to die. I'm going to tell you right now, the blood
didn't do it. It opened the door so He could do it. The blood does not
fill you with the Holy Ghost, or guarantee the Holy Ghost, it opens the
door so that you can receive the Holy Ghost. And if you're under the
Blood, you will receive the Holy Ghost. (Ah, you got a couple of Amen's,
so the rest of you gone a little bit...I know that you don't say 'Amen'
too much, because you know you'd bother me if you did. But, I appreciate
the Amen's.) Let me show it to you. (If I can find it.)

8.	All right. [Hebrews 10:]

		(13) 	From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his
footstool.

		(14) 	For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are 			
		sanctified.

		(15) 	Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us:...

	Now, that's not just the Holy Ghost coming at Pentecost. Paul wasn't
there to see It. And the people that he wrote this Book to weren't at
Pentecost and they didn't see It. He's telling them. "If the Blood is
applied and efficacious you will be baptized with the Holy Ghost." And
that's the witness that you under the Blood. So you see, you can be here
tonight and your mind is fogged concerning the reality of the revealed
Word. And now listen, Bro. Branham categorically said, concerning even
the names and the titles of God, "You've got to say the right thing."

	Now you see, I'm telling you the truth. People get all mixed up,
because Hattie right said, "Bro. Branham, that's exactly the truth." She
said the right thing.

	He said one day to Bro. Fred Barker. Now I understand that Bro. Branham
said this to more than one person, so I will take it as the truth. He
said, "One day you'll say the right thing, you'll be healed."

9.	Now, that kind of talk without being balanced from what Bro. Branham
said concerning the Scripture will make you a bunch of Pentecostal
seekers. That was a dirty blow, but you need it. Not because I hate you,
because I love you. I know what I'm talking about. It's when you give
back to God under the right conditions the true revelation that He gave,
something is going to happen to you. Because, that's the only way that
you become the Word of God, is by receiving the Word of God in your
flesh, and your atoms begin to build around it. And when your atoms
build around the Word of Life, they don't build around the word of a
man, because it's not by sex, or anything you got that allows this Life
to build around you making you immortal. And the Blood doesn't do it.
And the Baptism with the Holy Ghost doesn't do it, though you got to
have both of them. There is a time and a place that God's got to do it.

	Now, a man lives by eating. Jesus said, "He that eats my flesh and
drinks my Blood shall never die." [Jn 6:54] But He qualified It by
saying, "He that liveth and believeth in Me, though he were dead yet
shall live." [Jn 11:25]  And then He said, "Who so ever liveth and
believeth in Me, shall never perish." [Jn 10:28] And that's a
qualification of what you're eating at what time.

10.	Now, every Age ate of a bread that could pass away. This Bread
cannot pass away. "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My Word shall
not pass away." [Mt 24:35] But It also says, "Till every Word be
fulfilled." [Mt 24:34] The fulfilling of this Word at this hour is
humanity passing away. One into immortality, one into death, destruction
and final annihilation.

	Now you see why He talked to me. And He said there's a misunderstanding
about how He came; what He came for. 

	Everybody is saying, "Well, He came to die upon the Cross."

	He did, but that's not all of it. That's the basis of how He can now do
what He intended to do at all times. See? Now, all over those years of
the prophets, that Word began coming, the people began coming in, in
divers ways and many parts until you come right to the Son. The law was
until John, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. And there He stood
just like that and says, "Change over time." Now, if He had not stood
there with the messenger pointing him out, it would not have been
'change over time'. 

	Now Israel wanted the change over time to nationhood, Messiah and rule
authority. And He said, "If you had listened to that prophet, you'd have
got it." Now they couldn't have listened to the prophet, because the
Bride wasn't in. But had they listened, it would have happened. It's one
of those strange things; like the Word of God said, "I'm going to blot
everybody out, unless I send Elijah." [Mal 4:5] Oh sure, He's going to
send Elijah

	So, everybody that doesn't see Elijah gets blotted out, That's simple.
Beautiful. I don't write the Book, I just preach It. I love the way that
God does things. Why shouldn't I? He's nice to me.

11.	All right. Now, He comes in the flesh to Israel. Israel turns Him
down, the Blood is shed. It was necessary to take a Life not only to
atone for sin, but a Life to get them out. Yep, exactly. That's exactly
right.

	Now, Scripture said that God raised Him. God got that body, that the
Spirit and Soul come back in it. Those dead suddenly appeared upon
earth. And they appeared only be in their theophonic form, but of course
suddenly material began coming around them. And there they were, and
there was a complete division for a Resurrection that had a 'Shout', and
a 'Voice', and a 'Trumpet'. Yep. 

12.	Now, let's go to Psalm 24:6. (Oh, I might let you go home real
early, just talk and let you go home. I don't feel like preaching
anyway. They call this preaching, I don't know, I just call it talking.)
Okay, let's read verse 6.

		(6) 	This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face,
						O Jacob.

	Now, they were seeking His face. "They looked for a City which has
foundation whose builder and maker is God." [Heb 11:10] Ever since
Genesis 3, they looked for the Seed of the woman and they were looking.
And notice, this is the generation of them that seek Him. One generation
is all it was, spread over a period of time; for quite a period of time.
All right? They're the ones. 

		(7) 	Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting
doors; 					and the King of glory shall come in.

		(8) 	Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD 	
			mighty in battle.

		(9) 	Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting
doors; 					and the King of glory shall come in.

		(10) 	Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of
glory.  

	Now, every theologian that Bro. Branham confirms it, that that is the
Resurrection when He took up the mighty ones with Him. He is the great
Leader. Took all the Old Testament Bride up there with Him. Now, just
where they are in glorified members, I don't know and I'm not
interested. Because you see, I'm not nosey. If I just wanted to poke my
nose in everybody's business and everything, I'd be asking these
questions. This doesn't pertain to me, so who cares?

12.	What does pertain to me is this: that the prophet said, "All the
time looking back, all the time looking forward, never knowing what's
going on. But we better know what's going on. And you can tell it from
Alpha, since Omega is here, it's exactly as Bro. Branham said, "He sets
Himself at the Head of the Church." 

	What is His Church? She's a mighty army with banners. "Fair as the moon
and as clear as the  sun, and terrible as an army with banners." [Song
6:10] 

	What does an army have? The captain of the host! So the Captain of the
Host is here with a military command. And what's that military command?

	"I've arrived. I'm the Star of David. I am the Mighty God. I am the
Everlasting Father. I am the Prince of Peace. I am the great I Am. I am
that One the Church is talking about. I'm here. I want to lead you. I
want to be your Head."

	They said, "Phffft! So?"

	You wonder why I preach the Presence and I get very indignant, because
I hear all this other hogwash. Let me tell you something: there's a just
God! [knocks on pulpit] And He will back nothing but His Word. And if
you don't say the right thing, you're finished.

13.	Norm knows a bit about the army I guess more than anybody here,
because he's was in the marines. Well, and Bro. Evans, the
paratrooper's; two fellows right here that really know an army life is
all about. The rest of us just guess at it, in comparison. I think Norm
saw active combat didn't you? You didn't? Well, you were pretty close to
it, close enough to make gun-shy. You're about the same ...?... Well, I
never was in active combat, I was well 4-F's, so that took care of me.
Flat-foot or anything else.

14.	All right, look, you know as well as I do; the commanding officer
gives a command, you had better understand the language, or you had it.
That's what it's all about. The restoration. The revelation. Now, this
is that Mighty One. 

	Now, He came down in that period of His flesh and He had these various
things to do. One of which was, He was to proclaim, He was to be
Prophet, He was to preach. He was to teach. He was to bring forth
doctrine. In that All, He could only do it, because He would fulfill
Scripture. See? Now, Paul categorically said, "This was that Rock, and
this was that Cloud." 

	That Pillar of Fire answered back and said, "I Am Jesus." [Acts 9:5]

	The same Pillar of Fire said, "I'm the Lord God of Abraham. I'm the
Lord God of Isaac. I'm the Lord God of Jacob." [Ex 3:6] "I'm the God of
your fathers, by My Name Jehovah was I not known." 

	And you know I showed you that last night, that was wrong in this
sense: over back there in Genesis He revealed Himself as Jehovah Jireh
when He provided the lamb. When He made the provision. Now listen: He
made a provision as a Lamb. 

	Now watch carefully: But Abraham, (now listen) never looked at the fact
that the boy was a lamb. He looked at him as one received from the dead.
[knocks on pulpit]

	Jehovah Jireh was the theme of Bro. Branham's great Messages. "I Am He
which was dead, and alive for evermore," [Rev 1:18] See? That very One
that provided the Lamb is the very One that set the type, not death,
Resurrection. You follow me? Elohim is here. Jehovah Jireh is here for
the Resurrection. Follow me? It's not a dead Son. It's a live Son. Same
One.

15.	Now, He came therefore under the fact of not a shedder of Blood
only, but of the One that God provided the Son from the dead. Do you
follow me?

	Now listen: He's Omega. Then He's got to do the same today. Now listen:
That boy did not die, it was a figure. So you're going into type, and
the type was not death but resurrection and one received back.

	All right, you've got the same thing right today. This group here, let
me assure you we are going to stand here, and I am going to stand here
by the grace of God and receive back my dead, of which number one is
William Branham. We will receive back every son of God. This Church
will, (this people,) will stand here and receive everyone back out of
the ground. And we'll see William Branham. We'll see Wesley, even going
to see...Noah. Yep. We're going to see Luther. We're going to see
Martin. We're going to see Columba. We're going to see Irenaeus. We're
going to see Paul. We're going to see every single one received back
from the dead. See, because God supplied the substitute, but that's not
all; no, it was as though the boy were dead, and came back from the
dead.

16.	Now, let's go to Scripture on this. Acts 3:19: Now he talks here the
middle part:

		(19)	 ...when times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the 
					Lord.

		(20)	 (Even) he shall send Jesus Christ, which was (appointed. But
hold it: 					that still won't do it, but that's the time when He's
going to come...)

		(21) 	...the heaven must (retain Him) until the (restoration) of all
things, 						which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy
prophets since 					the world began.

		(22) 	For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord
your 					God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him
(you'll) 						hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.

		(23)	(It'll) come to pass, that every soul, (that) will not hear that
prophet, 					shall be destroyed from among the people.

	Now, he tells you right in there, before the time of that one coming
back in flesh he's got to be a prophet. Well, He can't come back in the
flesh and be a prophet. No way, He's Judge and King of kings. No way!
Priest gives way to Judge, Judge gives way to King. Prophet gives way to
Judge, judge gives way to King. Now listen:

		(23)	(It'll) come to pass, that every soul, (and so on.)

		(24) 	Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow
after, 						as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these
days. (Back 					there and now about His Second Coming.)

		(25) 	(You) the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which
God 						made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed
shall 					all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.

	Now listen: "In thee, thy seed which was Isaac, thy son, thy only son
whom he received from the dead." See? Not the shedding of blood. The
shedding of Blood would have taken away the guilt of every single
person, but It couldn't follow through. It opened the door to the follow
through, so that God could now act. See? Couldn't act before. Just sin
would have been dissipated. Sin would have been gone. Now they would
have been souls down there, just forgiven souls. Prison's would have
been empty. Now watch:

		(26) 	Unto you first God, having raised up his Son, sent him to bless
you...					(raised Him up and sent Him to bless you.) 

	Okay, "raised up His Son." It was according to verses 22 and 23, that
prophet. See?

17.	Now, actually 'raised up' means, sent Him on a mission. Where did He
send Him on a mission? "His Right Hand of Majesty on High interceding."
[Heb 1:3]  When did He raise them up to them? As the Holy Ghost. Then He
raised Him up as the Holy Ghost. See? The same thing at this time. The
Holy Spirit is raised up to us again.

	Now, let's look at Pentecost. At Pentecost, there's a Pillar of Fire.
It divided Himself. If there'd  have been eighty billion people, or
twenty trillion, or hundred trillion, or trillions of trillions there,
the Holy Spirit could still have divided Himself, and let trillions and
trillions and untold trillions that could have still come in. 

	Like the sperm of a man. One male ejaculate could bring perhaps every
single child ever to be born into existence. Haven't hurt the man one
bit. Haven't ...?... one bit. But when Paul saw Him that was not
Pentecost. That was the Father of the born-ones. Actually, pregnanted
ones what it really amounts to, because there was a seed in here, there
was a good seed, but there's no life in it. God planted good seeds.
Serpent came along messed things up. But by predestination everybody
that's a child of God's got a seed here. That's the pulp. Like the woman
supplies the egg. And the Holy Spirit comes down in there and Christ
becomes formed. See? All right, now Paul was not there at Pentecost.
Didn't need to be. The dead were not there at Pentecost. Didn't need to
be. Do you follow me? Okay.     

18.	    Now listen, the Baptism with the Holy Ghost is given until the
day of Redemption. Temporary. How are you  going to be in the
Resurrection?

	You say, "Hey, I want to tell you something, I got the Blood, I'm born
again, axiomatically, I'm in a Resurrection." Bible doesn't say that. 

	Bible says, "It's your guarantee the day of Resurrection." But It also
give them a guarantee it's going to get you out of the ground.

	Now, the point is this: what about those who are standing here? Aw,
that's a mystery. Doesn't say one thing about you having the Holy Ghost,
you're going to get change your members right here. Doesn't say one
thing about it. No way. But It tells you and I preach the reflection,
and It tells you that It is by that Word that reflects Christ to you. No
longer reflecting you, but now you see yourself reflected and that is
Christ. You don't see yourself anymore. The definitive work of the Holy
Ghost by the Word of the prophet, the same as in the First Resurrection
is what is going to bring about the change in a Bride here. So that we
receive our dead brought back to life. And God raises up Jesus Christ to
the Gentiles at the end-time.

	He's not raising up a man, because when God raised Him up He did not
send a man to Israel, He sent the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost is given at
this end-time to bring the dead out of the ground. And it is not the
Baptism with the Holy Ghost that does it, It is His Presence here that
does it.

19.	Now, that's why He started talking to me about the fact that when
you talk about Him coming, you do not in every case simply say the Lamb
shed His Blood, and then you go into a state of oblivion, an attempt to
attach a dynamism to the Blood. The dynamism is not in the blood, it is
in the Life. See? The Blood had to be shed so the Life could come. And
when that Life came out it went... it did not go into the grave as the
Holy Ghost, because He'd already gone back on Gethsemane. Bro. Branham
said, "left him in Gethsemane."

	And when he died, He Himself went down there as that second man, the
last Adam, the Messiah, the Seed. He stood right there in that
Theophonic body clothed in a Spirit body and He walked right in, and He
ripped those gates off. He took the captives into captivity.

20.	Now, the same One the Bible said lead captivity captive, came back
to Paul as the Holy Spirit and came down and brought that Word which is
going to perfect a Bride; not that the Blood doesn't perfect, the Blood
has already made her perfect as far as the facts that she is blameless,
there is no sin, there is no way you can attribute. But I'm going to
tell you something: if a man's not born again, I don't care you can talk
about the Blood all you want, and what the blood of the lamb is supposed
to do, if that Life does not come back the Blood sits there uneffective
and ineffectual for those who are not born of the Spirit of Almighty
God. [End of side one] Now, those that are born of the Spirit of God in
this end-time. It's at the end-time in the days of the return of the
prophet. The Holy Spirit, God, the Son of God raised up now to the
Gentiles that is here to bring the dead out of the ground and to change
us. So that Alpha becomes Omega, Omega becomes Alpha. You simply cannot
change the things of Almighty God.    

	So as time goes on we'll be looking at some of these things as they
come to our attention. Based on the fact that though the Blood will
never lose Its power, though the Blood and the Cross is a centrality of
the Ages of Almighty God; it was the Blood that remitted sin, but they
would have still been in the graves, and still in upper-sheol if He
hadn't gone down and got them. It was not an automatic process. It was
automatic in only in so far that it was the plan of God. Neither is this
an automatic process, except that it is in the plan of God. It'll come
right to pass as God said. See?

 21.	Now, we've had the prophet, we've had the Shout. The Captain of the
Bride which is that terrible army has descended amongst her. See? That's
first, like HH 		He first came to Israel and did that basic work, the
Shout from the Cross waking them up. Next will come the Voice which is
bringing them out of the ground.   

	Now remember, this Bride has to wake up, because she's sleeping amongst
the dead. She's a sleeping virgin at the end-time the same as the
others. But she's a wise sleeping virgin. See, so the waking up process
is in hand now, and the next thing is the Voice that is going to bring
them out of the graves. Then we receive our dead, because we stand here
like Abraham. We're getting older. We're getting weaker. Bro. Branham
said, "We're smarter, but weaker." I'm dumber, but weaker. I qualify for
the old Amish, the old Dutch saying, "Too soon we're old, too late we're
smart." But here we are. See? Like Abraham.

22.	"You're going to tell me that you are going to live forever?"  

	"Yep."

	"You mean to tell me that you're not going to die?" 

	"Yep."

	"Why man, (listen,) two years ago you didn't have a grey hair in your
head and you had a whole lot more hairs." 

	"So what's that got to do with it?"

	"Well, you're dying you idiot." 

	"But God said, 'I'm going to live'."

	"Aw, come on. You can't believe for one minute in the face of all this.
Why they've been saying this for ages and ages and ages." 

	"Well,"  you say, "That's okay, I've been saying it maybe years ago
myself, but it didn't look like it, but now I realize the more it
doesn't look like it, the more I believe what He said."

	"Well," he said, "Holy mackerel, you've got to be nuts."

	Well, I am nuts, I lost my mind and got His, because you see,
repentance is a change of the mind. The last thing that God demands of a
Church Age's repentance, because they're loused up with their thinking
theology.

	And He said, "You've made void my Word by your traditions." [Mk 7:13]
In other words, the very promises that people are standing on that's in
this Word dies. They'll never get it, because it's a mis-division. It's
Cain. 

	"Well," they say, "just a minute preacher, and prophet Branham, let me
tell you something. Lee Vayle you think you're a teacher, you ain't much
of a teacher. Let me tell you something, the Word of God says, "Blah,
blah, blah. This, this, this. Don't you tell me I'm wrong."

	That's what Cain said to Abel. And Abel says, "You are wrong, so
listen, the Fire fell and took my sacrifice."

	Cain said, "Well the fire will fall and get (you know) you as a
sacrifice." Religious war.

	The first war on earth was a religious war when God Himself, the
Prophet, blew the trumpet of prophecy of revelation. Uh? Remember your
Seal's now. Seal break, Trumpet sounds. Battle is waged. War. There's a
war alright, Abel got killed. God took His Saint home. One Saint, good.

23.	Every time, every time there is a Seal broke, means a signifying, a
mystery revealed. A revelation. There is a war, somebody is going to
die. Always a child of God gets it. See? War starts.

	"Why just a minute," Cain said, "look it here, I can show you this is
in the Bible." 

	Well, I can too. I've got no problem I can show you it's in the Bible.

	Now, they stood there and they argued no doubt. See? And God wasn't
Johnny on the spot, (now listen,) until Abel was in upper-Sheol and Cain
was in lower-Sheol and the Lamb walked in, in the form of the Spirit and
He said, "Cain, serpent seed..." (because he's one lost before the flood
remember? Yep, should have known better,) He said, "You're staying here.
I want to tell you something Cain, you killed and you're wrong, Cain
your revelation made you a killer and put you there."

	And He went over to upper-Sheol and He said, "Abel, I want to talk to
you, (He said,) you're the first one that died for Me, because you took
the lamb which represented Me." Now He said, "You're right, your
revelation was right, and you're the blood of the first martyr and that
blood's been calling for a long time for vengeance and I'm going to get
you out of here." All right.

24.	The world has never wanted to acquiesce to a true divine revelation.
The people today do not want to acquiesce to an identified revelation by
a prophet. They will quote Paul, then when Paul is vindicated they'll
say, "Ha, I don't believe it." And they say they believe Paul. See? Now.


	Bro. Branham has a vision, and he goes into what we might call
upper-Sheol, the fifth dimension, (or the sixth, I forget now,) I'm not
much into dimensions, but I believe everything's in dimension. I believe
in dimensions, but I never know what in dimensions to be exactly. I'll
remember later on likely. But he gets caught up in this vision likely to
the third heaven somewhere, like Paul was caught, and he sees all these
people and they come screaming "my darling brother, my darling brother,
my darling brother." Okay. 

	And he says, "This is lovely, who are you?"

	And the guide says, "Well these are all Branhamites."

	He said, "Man, (he said,) I don't have that many relatives."

	"Oh," he said, "these are the ones that got saved under your ministry."
(I believe it really means in this Church Age under this Word.)

	"Why," he said, "who is this lovely person?"

	"Well, she got saved at ninety years of age and she's nineteen years
old now."

	"Well," he said, "this is all fine, but (he said,) this is nice, but I
want to see Him."

	"Aw," they said, "you can't see Him. And He'll come to you, and He'll
judge you according to the Word."

	Now listen, he said, "But I preached what Paul preached."

	And they screamed, "We're depending on that!"

	Why? To get them out!

	You say, "Why do they want to get out?"

25.	They weren't meant to stay there honey. They're not idiots. The stay
in a hospital was some kind of a complex, because they can't forget the
nice warm dark place of their mother's womb, so they lay there like
little babies all scrunched up under prenatal position thinking how nice
to be in that place. They want to get out! Any baby that's got anything
wants to get out, out of the womb, on the earth. For that's where they
belong. You let a baby stay in there too long, it's gone. You didn't
catch that. I'll catch it for you. [laughter] Yeah.

	He said, "I'll send you Elijah the prophet, that'll get them out, or
they'll all die in that place." Healing, Son of righteousness is
immortality. See? Okay. They want to get out. 

	And when they saw him, oh man, they got happy. They said, "This is the
last one. Nobody else is coming like this one, because he is the
messenger." And they said, "Now remember... Now listen, let's get this
flat, they had been under the Blood. Right? They had been full of the
Holy Ghost. Right! Right! They're up there now. And this angel said,
"hey, hey hold it, you can't see Him, He's going to come to you and He's
going to come to you and judge you according to what you preached."
According to what you preached.

	And he said, "I preached what Paul preached."

	And they said, "We're depending on that!" 

	They lied. Bunch of cotton-picking liars. No? No. No. To the
theologians, they're a bunch of idiots. 

	"Oh," they say, "that stupid Branham. Phffft, ha, ha, ha, hillbilly
Kentucky jerk. Merciful God, just because he had a big ministry he got
all puffed up. Hooo, that stupid idiot." No? No. No. No way.

26.	I want to ask you a question: Who-heard-William-Branham [said
slowly] of that bunch preach the Seals? I don't think any of them. Who
did? We did. Then the Bride gets the dead out of the ground. You say,
"Bro. Vayle, you made that up." No, the prophet said it, and I'm telling
how it's done. Isn't it wonderful? We're going to get people out of the
ground. We're not going to call them out of the ground. It's because we
are here that Bro. Branham preached to us.

	Now listen, he said, "Am I preaching to souls in prison?" Bro. Branham
isn't going to go that lower place and preach to souls in prison. He's
going to preach to those who in the days of Noah, Elohim sent a
Messenger with the Covenant of an Ark, which would get them over. They
turned him down flat. The Ark represents Jesus. And He had to go down
and preach to those souls in prison. 

27.	William Branham did the same thing in this hour, and the Bride today
is preaching today to souls in prison. But they are not going to the
souls that are in prison down there, they are going to the complete
counterpart, because in the days of Noah there was only one pure man
genetically which was Noah. His wife had wrong flesh. The son's had
wrong flesh. The daughter's in law had wrong flesh. The last truly
living human being was Noah! Um? That's right. The next human being was
Jesus. He didn't propagate by flesh, He propagates by Spirit. 

	So now, at the end-time how many people do you think are here that are
genetically perfect? Nobody! But on the other hand just how much have
people gone back to being serpents? Beast. Just get rid of the genetics
where you don't even find human left anymore. Now look, there's no
natural affection anymore, that's got to be perverted. There's nothing
left anymore. 

	So, the preaching to the souls in prison was by the Spirit of Christ in
the prophet, and the Spirit of Christ in the Bride. Going on right now.
And that Life that is in the Bride and that fact of this end-time
Presence of God and Elijah is the entitlement of Bro. Branham to
categorically  say, "The Bride will bring the dead out of the ground."

28.	Now remember, as I told you they said, "We're depending on that!"
And we are the ones that get that Message of Paul, so that we are no
longer under a false gospel, under a false Jesus, under a false spirit
we have been restored to virginity. They said, "We're depending on
that!" 

	Now, you see why Bro. Branham said, "This Word must be treated
seriously and all the time we can have to be spent upon this Word." And
it's only since he talked to me about the Judge that my mind has begun
to just almost go out of itself. Because I don't know just where I'm
going, I don't know just exactly what I'm going to write and notes. Now
tonight I preached absolutely without notes, I have to depend entirely
upon God as thoughts begin to come what He wants me to go into.

	But I want to tell you this, and I'll let you go home early. I want to
tell you this, as I stand here I do not lie to you, unless some other
spirit than God's Spirit is lying to me, I tell you we are nearer the
Resurrection than you've ever believed before. I don't lie to you. I
don't lie to you or anything, because you see, I warned you and told you
when I got that one sign before, that slanting in, that star was
standing still there. I don't care about stars anymore. I don't care
about any sign in the heaven, I don't care two-bits about any signs in
the earth, I care less what's going on out there. It means nothing.
Everything in this Word, and I'm going to tell you not because I'm
holding myself, it's because He holds me to it.

	And instantly when that speaks whatever It is speaks to me, it's got to
go right back to the Word. And I'll tell you why. When that Angel swept
in the room seven times in a row under Bro. Branham's ministry which was
the embodiment of the Holy Ghost, which was almost literally, not the
theophany was, of the Seven Church Age messengers, but the
representative which was in the form of an Angel, the Holy Spirit, every
time one came, the prophet went absolutely to the Word. Now, I can't do
anything else but go to the Word myself. I wouldn't know anywhere to go.
And there are times like I do tonight, I just got to sit there and I
just think, because that's all I can do. I don't know where to turn.
But, I'm going to tell you one thing: you've got to let your thinking
go.

29.	Now, I could have said to that voice inside of me that said that,
"Now just a minute," I said, "hold it, nobody's going to tell me that
Jesus did anything but die. Because when he died, he came to die and
that's it." But that is not it. He came to open the prison houses and
bring out the captives. Now his death didn't do it. He had to do it.
See? He had to lead them up there. 

	Now, this is where the fundamental world and everybody but us is off
course. And let me assure you this is why the battle thickens. And I get
my phone calls from the funniest places. I don't expect them in other
words. And I find out that this understanding that we have of His
Presence is being called 'false doctrine'. I laugh at those who call it
false doctrine, because they're like a bunch a cucumbers in a radish
patch. I know them, and I know their lives. If I'm black as the kettle,
better not the pot say so. I know where a lot of that nonsense come
from, and the charges that men lay. And we're going to be fought more
and more, and more, because when you talk about He's here, you realize I
preach sermon after sermon at why He is here. And that lets you know
what He is doing, and what is going on with you.

30.	And if we are right, let's get this flat, we are unequivocally Seed!
And there's not one going to miss the Resurrection and the Rapture on
that condition. Because it is not a case of Jesus dying and rising,
[tapping the pulpit] and you claiming the Blood, and claim to be full of
the Holy Ghost, because that is a bunch of nonsense. Because no man can
be full of the Holy Ghost and turn down the Shout. Nobody! Nobody!
Nobody! 

	Because the Shout is the Prophet Commander. And Bro. Branham was an
Indian Chief on a white horse. And an Indian Chief leads and he rules by
his word which is law. And if his word doesn't have any strength the
Indian just disappears and they say, "Well, sorry old chief, you ain't
much of a chief. And he rode off into the sunset and he said, "I'll ride
this trail once more." 

	Remember, I told you last Sunday when God appeared as Elohim, he said,
"I am coming to you now for this is that season, but I will return at
the season of Sarah." When the bringing forth of that boy, there's not a
record of it, don't you worry He was there.

	Now, the Elohim that is here, when the propitious time arises He's
going to go back, ascend up ahead of us. And He will incarnate Himself
in the Body of the Lord Jesus Christ. And when He does, we'll come right
up behind Him. And He will present us to Himself at the great marriage
Supper and the Wedding. And that Great One will ride that trail once
more. You better believe it; and this time in the full regalia of power.


	Today it is a message without power, because the prophet always
fizzles. But that Word is Life working on bodies right now, and we are
going to bring the dead out of the ground by way of this Message, Paul's
Message. And we are going to come back and take the world over.

31.	Exactly as He took those Saints up there with the scream of the
Mighty King, with the Shout in the Camp and they arose with Him and over
the balustrades of heaven, the Bride of this Age will do the very same
thing, because she will be in the Presence of the Great Chief, the
Commander, the Judge, the Lord, Almighty God. Now we're right near that
day.  

	I would think myself that there is the good possibility we have turned
the corner, that the Word has run out. A good possibility the last
Elected one is in, perhaps not child trained. Now I know everybody looks
around and they say, "Well hey..." they've got to have this experience
like ours, that experience." That's where Pentecost went haywire, talk
in tongues. Forget it. Ninety nine percent of the tongue talkers, if not
ninety nine and nine hundred's percent of the tongues talkers because
there's millions and millions, and millions of them will never make the
Rapture. It's impossible, because they cannot believe. Because they over
there said, "We're depending on that!"

	Aw, it's not nice to have your feet cut off, but it is nice when God
turns around and shows ain't nobody half as smart as God. You know, you
just can't fool with God. I know that, I can get upset at times, but
listen, let's forget that. He's talked about the fact of the glory
coming from Sinai. What glory? What, God's always glory. Everything
about God is glory. You can't compare, what are you going to do? I don't
care if God just came down here and He dropped off toads. That's
glorious. Which I don't like it. Who asked you to like it? Could you do
it? No! Well it's glorious. See? People are so messed up it's horrible.

32.	Now, Sinai was glorious and God stood there in the full regalia of
His glory and He said, "Man I'm going to tell you what you're like." 		

	"Now," He said, "you'll have no other god's before Me, let's get that
flat." 

	"Oh, just a minute now, what makes you think that I've got other gods?"


	"Oh, you will." 

	"Why?" 

	"Don't you understand anything that I ever tell you? Back in the Garden
I told you, you're going to leave Me for her. Did it come out right?"

	"Yeah, sure did." 

	"This is going to come out right too. You're a mess. You're going to be
idolater's."

	"Oh...I couldn't be that. I couldn't be that."

	"You can't be? And they've got another Jesus in the first century?
Another spirit, another gospel? And they're not idolater's? You got to
be nuts." See?

	And you know what? The Word exposed them for what was inside of them.
And the law said, "Don't do it." And what was inside rose up and did it.


	Well, "Thou shalt not covet." The law says: "you mustn't covet."

	And that thing inside rose up and did it. The law says: "you mustn't
commit adultery." And even David had a great time doing it. Don't worry,
he was wound up like a top. That get's under, we're not a bunch of kids
here tonight. He was plumb carried away. He had all the wives he needed
and then some. This was the hottest dish under high heaven. All he had
to do is ask God for her  and he would have got her. But no, he had to
kill for her. Entice her, because who is going to turn the king down?
Nothing wrong with David. Just the law said, "You shall not commit
adultery," and rose right up to do it. All I'm showing you here the
Bible said the law is good, the law is holy. But what it does is bring
forth death. Why? Because that's all there is in the is death. See? 

33.	Now, you got Christ in there. The Bible turns around and said, "Now
man smites you on this cheek, you turn the other."[Mt 5:39] Now, you
don't rise up right away now and just do the opposite. You say, "Hey,
that's something should be done." Might not be too nice, but something
in there says, that's the thing to do.

	The law says: "Don't do it." And you do it. Why? Because you haven't
got the thing in here that'll make it work. But when you're born again
you've got the thing that does work. Now see, listen, this law here from
God showed man what he was, and he's dead, dead, dead, he's finished.
He's a mess.

34.	Now, It says here, "Today, where the Spirit of God is, we all with
open face, (that's unveiled faces, creeds and dogmas are cut aside)
beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord." [1 Cor 3:18] Now, It
tells you right there, you're doing the looking in the glass, (now you
call It the Word, go ahead) and you don't see your image anymore.
Because the unveiled Word with the unveiled face sees only Christ.

	"Oh," you say, "I see myself."

	Oh, what do you see yourself? You can't be full of the Holy Ghost. You
can't be under the Blood. You can't be looking at diving revelation.
Because the revelation of John was Jesus the Christ. The revelation of
Paul was Jesus the Christ. The revelation of the entire New Testament
based on the Old was Jesus the Christ. Sinai wasn't. Sinai was the
revelation of man. Pooey, on man. Shee, who needs him? Stinking
liability. Let's get rid of him. Absolutely. This is the step right
here.

	"Therefore seeing we have this ministry," said Paul, "we got it. [2 Cor
4:1] We got the transfiguring, transforming ministry," said Paul, "I've
got it."  

	"Oh," you say, "I just...I don't think I can believe that. I don't
think I can believe that, because you see after all, we are such lovely
folk we believe in the Blood you see. And when you believe you get the
Holy Ghost you see, but you don't. And you see what it is, we look to
Jesus, hallelujah."

	Bunch of liars. Bunch of liars. Now people don't like that, because
that's straight preaching. Maybe you don't like it because you're tired
anyway. Well, that's fine, get born again, you won't be tired, you'll be
like me, stand up here and feel better all the time. Want to stick
around six more hours so I can have a health break? [laughter] This is
what I mean, I can talk to you, you talk back. I'm not preaching up
here, I'm having a conversation with you. Some of you don't want to
talk. Go on, smarten up.

35.	Now listen: [2 Corinthians 4:]

		(1) 	Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received
mercy, 					we faint not;

		(2) 	But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking
in 					craftiness...

	Now, just a minute now, hold your finger there, hold your mind there,
stay with me, because listen, there's something happened here more than
you know. You see, I can't convince a lot of you people yet, that this
is what changes people. You sit here and you think, "I've heard this,
and I  heard this." 

	Look it, I'm going to tell you something: You're going to be sitting
here when we're gone. I'm not going to be here forever, I'm going to
tell you flat. Now you say, "Bro. Vayle, you're bold." You bet your
sweet life I'm bold, because I ain't kidding anymore. You don't have
after forty five years the grace of God turn you around when you spit in
His face and make Him nothing but a stinking rotten liar like the man
that you are and Him in His love and grace turn right around and make
you to know you're in His image with His righteousness and guiltless.
Just spit in His face. That's why people can't understand, you preach
like a man possessed.

36.	Listen to me: he said right here,

		(2) 	...have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in
						craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully...

	Now, he says over here at the end-time that which he preached in his
purity in the way he preached It. God gave these this ministry through
the Holy Ghost which is a Word ministry.

	[Ephesians 4:]  

		(12) 	For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry,
the 						edifying of Christ:

		(13) 	Till we all come in the unity of the faith, (even) the knowledge
of 						the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the
stature 					of the fulness of Christ: (To what end?)

		(14) 	...we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, carried
about 					with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and
cunning 						craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

		(15) 	But (holding) the truth in love...

	Now listen, do you understand what I'm telling you? He said he did
this. This! Now listen: "We have renounced the hidden things of
dishonesty." That's why we've got this ministry. 

	Bro. Branham said, "I'm the only man that can do it. The reason that
everything come to pass I say, because I'm the only man living that can
tell It as It was shown me."

	Paul said the same thing. Now he said, "Listen, I want to tell you
something: I got this ministry." What ministry? That you look at that
Word like a mirror. It is no condemnation, you see Him, your reflection
is Christ.

	You say, "Meet me, I'm a little Jesus?"

	You're a little Jesus. 

	"You're a little Christ?" 

	Yep,  little Christ.

	"Yet I don't have His image?"

	No, you're not dead, you're living.

37.	Now he said, "Look, this ministry of transfiguration through
unveiling people's minds and presenting this from the Word will
transform you, will change the living bring the dead out of the ground."

	Why? "Because I'm not dishonest," said Paul. "I'm not walking in
craftiness." He said, "I don't handle the Word of God deceitfully." But
he said, "I have shown you that this is indeed the Word of God. Now in
this Word lies that transfiguring."

	That's why they said back there, "We're resting on that." 

	Now I'm asking you a question: They're over there where they're smart.
They've made it. Ha, ha, they know that they're born again. They know
that they're supposed to get a resurrected body. They're crying for it.
They're going to come back and rule the earth and they know what it's
all about. And not one of them said, "Hallelujah, I'm born again." Not
one said anything about the Blood. I'm not running the Blood down, I'm
just telling you without It they wouldn't be there. They never said
anything about the Holy Ghost. They said, "We're resting on the fact
Reverend William Branham, prophet of God, that you preached like Paul."

38.	And that means, "Ha, ha! Ha, ha!" I'll tell you why ha, ha!
(Sometimes I've got a poor memory and I can't tell you. I can tell you
right here.)  [Malachi 4:]

		(1) 	For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all 
					the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be (as) stubble:
and 						the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of
hosts, 						(leaving) neither root nor branch.

		(2) 	But unto you (not the dead, but unto you that are there at that
time, 						you'd be burnt up too. Yeah, unless) the Sun of
righteousness arise 						with healing in his wings; (you're going to
get it too.)...

		(3) 	(You'll) tread down the wicked; (you'll tread the wicked down) 		
			(they'll) be ashes under the soles of your feet... (Notice what he 		
			said, "We're going to do it.")

	Listen, let's hold this, remember, in the original Hebrew where God
speaks concerning of Satan, the word in the Hebrew of seed is 'plural'!
Not singular. Jesus does not come by Himself and tread them down, He is
merely the advance guard where He takes the antichrist by the neck and
squeeeezes  [said slowly] like a serpent as he gets his squeeze back and
He looks at him, and we go into action and tread down the wicked. Seeds.
Uh? How many turnip seeds were that they bring all the turnips around
this world together? One turnip seed. It took The Seed to bring all the
other seeds. Oh, I feel good. Mighty Conqueror went down and pulled the
gates of hell out just for fun. Oh, He could have kicked them in, it's
just more fun ripping them off. Thrown them clean into lower Sheol just
to see what they'd do about it. You say you boys like gates, here's some
more.  

		(3) 	(They'll) be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that  
                                     			I shall do this, saith the
LORD...  

		(4) 	Remember the law of Moses my servant...in Horeb...

39.	Now listen,  

		(5) 	Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of 	
				the great and dreadful day of the LORD:

		(6) 	And he shall turn the heart(s) (of those children present)...

	Not those in upper Sheol which are no more there, but in paradise. He
won't turn their hearts, it's our hearts that's got to be turned, and
they're depending on the gospel of Paul to turn it, because it's
according to Paul's gospel. Not anything else that is going to come.
Now, he said here, "I wasn't deceitful." Vindicated and proven, this
Message. 

	But he said, "If our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost."
[2 Cor 4:3] 

	And Bro. Branham said, "Now this man in the cellar, they said there's
sun out there shining." 

	He said, "I don't believe there's a sun out there shining." 

	"Well come out and see."

	"Oh," he said, "I wouldn't go out and see, there's nothing out there
anyway. And he said, "Even if there was, I wouldn't believe it."

	He said, "That sounds kind of silly."

40.	Is it silly? Is it silly when Bro. Branham stood there
before...about, I don't know many hundreds of thousand Indians over
there in Bombay, or Calcutta or someplace where it was in India? And the
Jannes stood there, and the priests stood there and they all had their
harangue, [long scolding speech] and they acted so smart they'd all the
answers. And there was a blind man sitting there looked at his sun-god
that he had no more eyes. And the mayor of the city was there, and all
them and Bro. Branham just waited and waited.

	"Now," he said, "I'll tell you what, (he said,) the God that I worship
gave His Son the Lord Jesus Christ, Who died and rose from the dead.
Now, (he said,) I'm going to tell you, (he said,) you guy's talk about
all your gods, (he said,) which one of you in the name of your god will
give this man his eyesight?" 

	Oh man, there wasn't in peep in the house. "Well," he said, "You're
mighty quiet. A while ago you sure talked. Why don't you talk now?" 

	You could see old Elijah right there. "Where's you god? Is he off
sleeping? Is he dead? Is he hunting? Is he mooching? Has he let you
down? He said, well come on, ring the bell a little louder? Maybe the
old boy he's got hard of hearing, wake him up. Well, maybe he's gone
hunting, who know, wake until the bugle blows, the hounds come home and
he'll come with them."  [1 Kings 18:] Old Elijah...          

41.	So Bro. Branham's a good old Elijah boy, you know he could get
going. Don't think he couldn't. His barbs were sharp with the Holy
Ghost, the wisdom God gave him. So he gigged them. 

	"Oh," he said, "You're a mighty silent bunch. Now, (he said) what if I
prayed for this man and that God gives it, that I serve, gives him his
sight in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, will you believe Him?" Oh of
course, the people, yeah they believe? (pfffft!)

	Though one rose from the dead and picked their cherry tree and
preserved their apples for them, they wouldn't believe. Come on, you
can't believe if you're not ordained to it. Don't be ridiculous. Come
on, it's just like when all the penguins are out there, and all the
seals are out there. How come mama penguin knows her baby? And mama seal
knows her baby? Nobody else does. It's exactly right about God's people.
Nobody else knows their God, even when they see Him. Go right on by.
Look at somebody else with breast. They go to the whore, milk off her
breast.

	I thought, Jehovah Jireh the breasted one was El Shaddai. I thought
Jehovah-Jirah was El Shaddai? I thought we're living off of Him. Nobody
seems to think so, but nuts like us.

42.	Now, he said:  [2 Corinthians 4:]

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

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

	The truth of Christ and God, gospel, Spirit, Jesus, shines in at the
last day. A complete revelation of Him and He's here proving His
Presence. That is going to bring the dead out of the ground.

	Why? Because the revelation is Christ. I don't have a revelation
anymore, mine's gone, because it isn't worth having. Christ died in my
stead. I'm risen with Him. Then I don't have a revelation in my image
anymore. I don't have an image anymore, my image is gone.

	Now, this is what is happening today, and the people can't apprehend it
because they're Pentecostal's, they're legalists, they want to do
something. Well, I'll tell you what you do tonight, do me a favor, this
is very simple: (the Resurrection is much more difficult) just walk on
the ceiling like those flies please. [laughter] Now, you can have
toe-jam as one inch thick like butter on the soles of your feet, you
still ain't going to make it. Because they've got little sticky feet.
They're made to walk on ceilings. I may sound silly, well let's face it,
the Word of God says, "You can't add one cubit to your stature by
thinking. You can't even say, "Hey, tomorrow we'll go to town and get
that lumber." You can't, but you do. Because (you know) there's a very
good chance that you will, but there's coming a day when you won't.

	"So, (He said,) don't say you're going to go to town and do so and so
by himself, say, 'If God willing we're going to do it'." See?

43.	Now, people can't understand this. And Bro. Branham said, "The
simplicity goes over their head, because they don't realize that group
over there said, "We're depending on that."

	What do you mean, "depending on that?" They're already there.

	Where are they? I'm glad you asked the question. [2 Corinthians 5:]

		(1) 	For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were 			
		dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with 					
hands, eternal in the heavens. 

	They're in it. [End of side two of tape one] Man, I'm glad that people
pray for me, or I'd be groaning worse than I do. Of course I like to
groan a bit so I get a little sympathy. And they don't work me too hard
either. Then I'd stay up there and I feel good preaching, you sit around
and you say, "That's nice Bro. Vayle, you can preach." And we have a lot
of fun like tonight. Nice communication. Everybody happy, and I see you
smile, and I'm glad you're smiling I trust you're enjoying yourselves.
And this Message, because this Word is doing something to you whether
you know It or not. Because they said, "We're depending on it." Then if
they're depending on it, how much more will you depend on it? Now, if
it's worthwhile for them to depend, what's the matter with you if you
don't depend? Well, you'd have to be complete loco. "Well," you say,
"there's something wrong, your head's full of marbles or lumps. Your
heart is an abyss." See? It's too simple. I like it. Because you see, He
did it. He did it. I'm not doing a thing.

44.	"Oh," you say, "Bro. Vayle, it's got to be character." Is it? This
is an age where there's isn't an character. That's why there should be
all the more in the Saint. But that ain't going to get you anywhere. 

	I ask you a question: in the showdown how far did character get Jesus?
Nowhere. Really it didn't get Him anywhere. Got Him death, because He
was the perfect One, the only perfect One could die, and do anything
about it. So what if you had a perfect character? What's it going to get
you? You haven't got a perfect character anyway. No way to get a perfect
character.

	Let me tell you something: the Bible said, "For all have sinned and
come short of the glory of God." That doesn't say that. It said, "For
all are sinning and constantly falling short of the glory of God." [Rom
3:23] 

45.	All right, I like what Newell said. Newell said, "All right, I'm a
man standing on the wharf of New York, and I intend to jump all the way
to France." 

	And I said, "I can't do it. I got news for you, the man that jumps the
furthest gets the closest and he's the worst predicament, because he's
the furthest from the shore." Right? So the harder you try and put it
anywhere but where he said, you just jump further and further into
trouble.

	Now listen, if you had any wisdom, and you do have, and you have the
sense to put together experience, (and we've just been through some,)
you caught what I said. Right? If you didn't, that' alright, you'll get
it next time. If there's a next time, which I don't know if there is.

46.	All right, we're going to close on that what he says here. [2
Corinthians 4:]

		(6) 	For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness...

	"Let there be light." [Gen 1:3]  Now hold it! Now hold it, Who's the
commander? Why that's the big-shot in the army. Right? He descends with
the what? Shout. 

	He said, "Light, shine into that darkness. And the light shineth in
darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not." 

	What light?  [John 1:]

		(1) 	In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, 					
and the Word was God.

		(2) 	The same was in the beginning with God.

		(3) 	All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing 		
			made that was made.

		(4) 	In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

		(5) 	And the light (shined) in darkness; ...

	What shining? Logos. Yeah. The people get tired of Logos don't they? I
know they do. It's a pity they do.

	Who's got something here? Oh yeah, I got it right here. [Bro. Vayle
demonstrates] Ah ha, crystal ball, ...?... Now, I want to tell you
something. Look into that crystal ball, look intently, don't look away
from it. "Aw, you got cancer."There's healing light in that crystal
ball. And the healing light is life for you, you've got cancer. If you
tear your eyes away you won't live."

	"Oh," you say, "Bro. Vayle, I can't see that."

	"Okay, brazen serpent."

	Got you now. Brazen serpent that's brass symbolical, that's why you've
got the cups of brass. That's not gold, that's brass.

	"Okay, look at the brass serpent, no brass there."

	"Oh, brass there, oh yeah, yeah, yeah..."

	"Notice those flies over there?"

	"Oh, yeah, I think it's not crow."

	Though you gaze and you stay looking.

	"Do you cure a snake bite?"

	"Keep looking. Keep looking. You got it?"

47.	Okay, Ephesians 1.  After the folk are full of the Holy Ghost, he
said:

		(16) 	(I) cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in 	
				my prayers;

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

		(18) 	The eyes of your (heart) being enlightened; that (you) may know 
					what is the hope of his calling...

	Now, right there is this knowledge in the knowledge of the revelation
has a profound effect upon the believer, and that profound effect says
It will bring about a Resurrection. I'm looking at Logos. And I talked
about Logos. I'm all steamed up about Logos.

	You say, "Shut up Vayle, you talk too much Logos." Who dies? 

	Now look it, I'm not kidding brother/sister, I've been through this,
that's why I'm here. And I'm not angry, I'm very happy. But I always
keep saying, "Don't pull it again, because there's death." Not because
of Lee Vayle, no, because of this Word. [taps on the pulpit]

	The Logos is the image of God and we become His image through this Word
that shines into darkness. Now, if you don't understand that, "you
crucify Him to yourself afresh." [Heb 6:6] You won't get off the earth,
there's no way you're going to make it. Not my preaching. I haven't got
anything to do with it. But this is a ministry in an earthen vessel of a
prophet. And he said, "See, we have this ministry, we faint not. [2 Cor
4:1]

	He said, "If there's anything that spurs me on It is this revealed
Word."

	Now, you who aren't reading this Bible with that in mind that this Book
was written for this hour, and William Branham is there, not the apostle
Paul, you'll wake up to the mighty prophet we had in our day and what's
exactly going on.

48.	You say, "Then why was Elijah?"	

	Because Paul's message did not bring death. The hour of separation was
not in Paul's day, it is in our day. And this is that dark hour when
that last light shines in the west. The Son of man ministry proving it.
Which Son of man goes to Judge, and Judge goes to King. And we better be
a part of those who don't come into condemnation. 

	God commanded the light to shine into our hearts, (right?) to give the
light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Now, that already happened. "I preach what Paul preached. We're
depending on that." Every single Church Age had the same cry.

49.	All right, [Ephesians 1:]

		(16) 	Cease not to give thanks (reading again) making mention of you
in 						my prayers;

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

		(18) 	The eyes of your (heart) being enlightened;  

	God hath commanded the Shout, He's descended as a Commander, and He's
commanding the Light to shine. It's a revelation. Sure, yeah. This has
gotten better than being married. Being worth a million bucks. Going on
trips around the world. Having everything at your fingertips, because
God doesn't command, His Light to go to every heart. Nope, this in
end-time. He came down to command. Why the Shepherd always seeks the
sheep. God always comes to the people. When did the people ever come to
God? "Adam, where are you?" I'm over here hiding, I hope. Come on. You
know it's the truth.

	The light shining that you may know... [2 Corinthians 4:]

		(6) 	...to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the
face 						of Jesus Christ. 

	And Christ is the glory of God: [Ephesians 1:]

		(18) 	...that (you) may know what is the hope of his calling, the
riches of 					the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

	And after that, you may know what only Christ knew first, and then the
Old Testament Saints:

		(19) 	...what is the exceeding greatness of (God's) power to us-ward
who 					believe, according to the working of (God's Own) mighty power, 
					(which He wrought in Christ, when God raised Christ from the 					
dead, and took Him up in a Rapture and set Him there.)

	The same thing is going to happen to us, and put us in the banqueting
hall for the Wedding Supper. Why? Sovereign grace. God commanding the
Shout, and remember, according to the Greek it is not said to be the
voice of God. Bro. Branham talked of John the Baptist, he said, "John
the Baptist became, he said, 'Who are you'? He said, "I'm a Voice."

50.	What did Bro. Branham say? I read it dozens of times to you haven't
I? Just dozens, dozens. Never get tired of reading it though, because
this is my favorite portion. 

	It said: [Anointed Ones at the End Time 07-25-65]

[118] 	 You might think  I was trying to say that about myself, seeing
I'm packing 					this Message. I have no more to do with it, no more
than just a voice. And my 				voice, ha, my best judgment I wanted to be
a trapper. (Smell like a skunk.)

	Oh, that's okay, smell like a skunk. People don't smell like dung hill,
you can't be a prince. Because He only takes beggars off the dung hill.
"Oh, I'm one of those better beggars, you see, I stand on the corner of
Wesley and Trinity."

	Ha, ha, ha. I'm one of those better ones, I don't smell like a dung
heap, Pentecostal ...?... "Well, I'm a little better, because you see, I
stand on the corner of Luther."

	Yeah, what else? Well, you can call it Trinity or whatever you want it
to. The 'escapee's from the Catholic church. So he said, "I don't smell
like that either." They all smell like death. And what is dung? Is dead
food, right? Oh brother.

51.	Listen, what was wrong with the foolish virgin? There was nothing
wrong with their word. Just the life was out of it. That's all. That's
what the foolish virgin is. The doctrine sits there without life in it.
They're living in a glare. You got to be in the glow. Light shining and
darkness glows, and It comes by Word. Comes by the prophet's Word. And
they said, "We're depending on that."

	I'm going to tell you what, if they've got enough brains to depend upon
It and believe me, they've got the brains, because they're there. Oh,
that's nice to get there, except I like to eat. I think I'll stay here.
[some chuckling] Because then you see, I can keep eating. But my
appetite has changed. Thank God, no more sinus. No more bad throats.
That's right, we're coming into It.

	Listen, I'm going to tell you brother/sister, it's about time to
rejoice and get the upper look, because I'm telling you something I keep
telling you, this is one reason I don't care if I die, I can because...
it doesn't mean a thing. I'm going to be what I am in a better place and
a better condition, so therefore, the real me is going to come out. And
I'm going to find that the real me is that Seed, Christ identified. I've
already found that out, but the circumstances are not conducive to my
wellbeing. The other circumstances will be. See? Oh yes, we're going
over there.

52.	Now, well I think that's pretty well got it, so I'll just finish
that little bit of Scripture. 

	It says: [2 Corinthians 4:]

		(6) 	...the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of
Jesus 					Christ.

	Now, listen to me, the face of Jesus has been veiled for two thousand
years. Just little cracks of Light got through the odd time, just enough
to get them over there. But there's got to be restoration, so the full
Light that shone in the East will shine in the West; so the Alpha is
Omega, so the Cornerstone is the Capstone.

	Now listen, Jesus Christ Himself physically, bodily, was not the
Cornerstone of the Gentile Church. The revelation was. It's built upon
revelation, the Church is. So the Capstone of the spiritual pyramid
around which we build, which we build, (see?) is now the complete and
full revelation with nothing more to go than what the Word demands which
is a change.

	Now, that Capstone on the spiritual pyramid has just the teeniest
little bit that's flat when we build around it. Now it's peaked before
we build around it. But when we build around it our heads come right
here and make it flat. Maybe that's why people say I've a flat head,
because God doesn't have flat heads and He can use flat heads.

53.	Now then, we're caught up and He can stand as that physical peak.
See? Now, on Sinai the face of a man where lies the soul and character
came forth, On Calvary, at Pentecost. In Paul's time and now in our time
comes the full revelation of that God, Who, of which It is said, "Christ
is the glory of God." He's the wisdom of God. Everything compressed into
that Man, and now what you see He's doing, He's shining forth toward us.
And remember, it is the King's countenance that brings acceptance. When
the King turns His head you can't come. When He turns His face and
extends a scepter you can come on in. The extended scepter is out
tonight, because He is just about to be King. The kingdom is about to be
brought to earth, and we seeing Him, unveiled, we seeing the Logos which
brings the transformation is what we're depending upon and all the
Church Ages are depending upon, "for they without us cannot be made
perfect." [Heb 11:40]

	And God said, "At the end-time it's so rotten, if I don't send Elijah
to do something, now they've already got the Blood, they're already got
the Holy Ghost, they've already died in hope." And he said, "I'll
...?... if I don't do something."  Right? Well, you can say what you
want, but that's absolutely the Word of God, I don't care what anybody
says.

	I'd have to have Bro. Branham come right back here and say, "Lee, for
the maybe the first, and the fiftieth, a thousand times you preach
there, you preach it tonight." I'm going to tell you flat, I am not
preaching error.

	 Because he said, "If I do not send Elijah, I'm just going to rip the
whole thing down." But he said, "Unto you, the Sun of righteousness will
arise with healing in his wings." [Mal 4:2] God is going to do something
special. 

54.	And Pentecost has been screaming, "Something special: we're all
going to have gifts. We're all going to get that. We're all going to be
Elijah coming. We're all this..."  Shut up, you're all nonsense. It's
the All in all that's here. and the churches have missed It. And
Pentecostal leaders missed It, and they're going to go into a great
union. And the great union is going to produce a lot of things. It's
going to produce the most beautiful antichrist the world has ever seen.
He can be so like Jesus Christ, I believe he'll fool everybody but us,
because we'll be gone. And the foolish virgin will stand around here
until it's too late. The dragon must spurt out water to get them.
They'll find out he's the wrong one.

	I'm going to tell you what it's going to be, too late. As Bro. Branham
said, "The harlot will not be disappointed, because she knew she was
going to miss it." But these ones that think that they are going to miss
it, will miss it. There's going to be the disappointed ones. And Jesus
said, "The harlots will go into the kingdom of God ahead of you."

	I'm not talking about the harlot system, I'm taking about little women
out there that sell their bodies for a few dollars. They're going to get
in ahead if there's any getting in at all. Ahead of these bunch of these
religious birds. They're birds alright. Ever seen these black cloak
people, why they look more like buzzards then you ever saw in your life.
Women with their funny black capes going around like penguins.
[laughter] When did you ever get anything as Scripture look like
penguins and crows? It's doves, bless God. Not buzzards. Not even wild
geese. Doves. Absolutely. I don't know why people get so messed up. Why
do they? They just don't have enough sense to make their...

55.	Now, Paul said: [2 Corinthians 4:]

		(7) 	...this treasure in earthen vessels, that the power may be of
God...

	"William Branham, what are you doing?"

	"I'm just a voice standing by, skunk skinner." Didn't have any brains
at all. Even tried to escape his glory. Always having a hassle. 

	Now Paul said, 

		(8) 	...troubled on every side, (but) not distressed; (this is the
Bride,) 						perplexed, not in despair; (Ever get perplexed? Oh, don't
get 						despaired. Perplexing is not bad, just don't get despaired.)

		(9) 	Persecuted, (you're) not forsaken; down, but (you're) not
destroyed;

	Oh, that's the best one of all. Every time I get down, "Oh, I'm
destroyed. Oh, I'm destroyed, oh my, my, my. Next thing get up again,
fap, you weren't destroyed, should have been at the end. [laughter] Just
a complaining caterwauling [bickering] old goat. Ain't that awful?

		(9)	... cast down, not destroyed;

		(10) 	Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus,
that 						the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.

	Now listen: I'm going to tell you what, this generation is plumb dead
already. They go through menopause at twenty seven years of age, or
younger. My heavens, I'll tell...I never knew so many young men could
have prostate trouble. Old guy like me, that's not bad. But my heavens,
young men? And women in menopause? Just kids. Few dying. Not just
physical, spiritual, physical.

56.	Now, that the life unto you being made manifest. Abraham was dying.
Look at him and say, "Hey, what makes you think you're going to have a
baby by Sarah, a couple of old goats? Good heavens, come on, you're
nuts."

	"Well," he said, "He said so."

	"Oh," they said, "You're dying."

	He said, "I got news for you, we're already dead," seminally speaking.
He said, "I can't, she can't, no way. You ain't telling me nothing. I've
got a promise." You got the Word, you got Life.

	Now:

		(11) 	For we which live are alway(s) delivered unto death for Jesus'
sake, 					that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our
mortal flesh.

	Now, It says, "Life made manifest in our mortal flesh." You know that's
true. This mortality will put on immortality. See? He said,  

		(12) 	...death worketh in us, but life in you.		

		(13) 	We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written,
I 						believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and
therefore 					speak;

		(14) 	Knowing that he which raised up Jesus (Christ) shall raise up us
also 					by Jesus, and shall present us with you.

	All right, you believe that?

57.	Okay, let's go find out, and you can find out why I'm talking the
way I talk the many times that I  do talk, and I sure do talk many times
and I talk a lot. So let's get this right down pat.

	Malachi 3:

		(16) 	Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another:...

	You say that you believe the Malachi message? Then talk it. 

	[blank spot on tape, perhaps because a name is mentioned]

	...he writes this last book on 'Mystery of Iniquity', and he talks
about elders and defies Bro. Branham's Word as a prophet. And he talks
about Malachi? What Malachi is he talking about? He'll be the Catholic
saint. He isn't talking about this one. He's not talking this language.
He's a liar. A seducer and a hypocrite. A blasphemer of the Word of God.
I don't care who gets the tape. I'm ready to punch him out anyway just
on the principle he should be punched out. [laughter] Shouldn't get
excited before the time. [more laughter]

	Now listen: what's going on here?

		(16) 	Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another...				
	and a book of remembrance was written...(It doesn't that they 					
don't fear people, they fear God.)

	Like Bro. Branham said, "Shame to him." He said, "You're ashamed of
this Message?" I'm not ashamed of this Message, I think It's fantastic.
Now, I make excuses for some of the junk that goes around It, but this
Message here, this is fantastic.

	Now, they that are in this Message,  

		(16) 	...they...spake often one to another, and a book of remembrance
was 					written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that
thought 					upon his name.

58.	Now, you speak what you think. And the prophet said, "You got to say
the right thing concerning the Name concerning God." Son of man. Son of
David. Son of God. But it was this order. Son of man. Son of God. Son of
David. 

	Now you've got another order: Prophet, Judge, King. If you don't say
the right thing, where are you going? Nowhere! 

	They say, "This is like kind of a game."

	It's not a game. It's instructions, the Commander is here. See? Now He
ain't no paratrooper. Paratroop jump down. This is a 'Para-upper'. Takes
you up. Let's get that flat. 

		(16) 	... and (they) that thought upon his name.

		(17) 	And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day
when 						I make up my jewels; and (I'll) spare them, as a man spareth
his own 					son... (And He tells you when He's going to spare them.
They are 						going to miss the day of wrath.)

		(18) 	Then shall (you) return,...(The returning is in the Message and
our 						speaking It.) 

	Now come on, then you'll know what's right. Now, let's find out how we
know again. So look, this Scripture here absolutely comes together, like
my heaven, I could never believe it, except He's in here.

59.	All right: [2 Corinthians 4:]  

		(13) 	...having the same spirit of faith, (the same spirit of Elijah)
according 					as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I
spoken; we also 						believe, and therefore speak;

		(14) 	Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us
						also by Jesus, and shall present us with you. (That's this hour.)

	What are they talking? They're talking the Malachi Message. They're
talking the Pauline Message. They're into the Word of this hour. Now
what's the Pauline Message? 

60.	Let's just find out. Just simple as ABC when you begin to follow
this thing through brother/ sister, it all adds up. Look, I told you, I
just keep constantly amazed at how the Scripture unfolds.

		(11) 	But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached
of 						me is not after man.

		(12) 	...neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by
the 						revelation of Jesus Christ.

	Who's doing It now? He that's here. 

	Has He gone? No way! 

	What has He left? The legacy of the Word. 

	Where is He? He's in the Word. 

	What's shining in our hearts? The Life. 

	How? By the Word. 

	What is that? That's the Logos.

	What's It going to do? It's going to bring them out by change. It's
going to bring the dead out of the ground. 

	I've got an obligation. See, that's why I burnt to a crisp when I heard
it: "Tired of hearing about the Logos." So, you're tired. Be tired, get
out of my sight. Get out of my way. Don't stand in my way. See? 

61.	See, why I said this Bro. Evans? Nothing against you ever ...?...
Nothing against any man here, I just say to every man present don't get
in my way. Because you'll find I'm not in your way. I'll be gone. Then
you do what you want. You preach the sermons. But no man will get in my
way again. Because after a business meeting you're going to find out one
thing: this building as long as I am here will be a church anybody can
come to that believes this Message. But it might be pretty risky after
I'm gone, if I go.

	Now, I'm not here to hurt anybody's feeling, or anything else, but
that's the agreement I'm here on. There's nobody but nobody ever going
to be voted in between me and this Word. Nobody. I am preaching this
Word the way I want It. When anybody else doesn't want It, that's your
business. But that's going to be part if I have anything to do with it.
And I have plenty to do with it of the constitution of this church. That
nobody from now on will come that I will work with, they if anybody
comes will work with me. Because I cannot take a chance, because I've
got to stand before God as responsible to make Him preeminent. Now, I
can't do it by character, because He said it won't work.

	How can I make Him preeminent? He's got to make Himself preeminent. Did
He do it? He sure did. What's He left? Himself veiled in Word.
Presenting Him here, letting you know at all times it's out of your
hands and mine, but it's still in earthen vessels. And your vessel is
just as good as mine any day.

62.	But look, I don't care if I was the most gifted preacher, the
teacher, that God ever left on this earth. I could be, but I'm very
seriously in doubt about that. I could be maybe the last one percent or
something. But I'm going to tell you one thing: it doesn't matter about
that at all. It matters, this Word brought by a prophet, and it's Paul's
gospel that's going to get them out, so they can come here and get their
bodies. Yes, my brother, my sister. Yes, it depends on you. It depends
on me. And somebody say, "I'm tired."

	What? If you're tired, go home go to bed. Get someone to tuck you in,
sleep the sleep of death, because at midnight comes the death angel. For
the last plague is spiritual death. And in Him alone is Life. And the
Word said, "He that I speak are Spirit and they are Life." 

	And the prophet said, "Thus It has been Spoken, and thus It shall be
and God commanded." God commanded the heavens. God commanded the Word.
God commanded William Branham. God commanded Elijah. God commanded John.
God commands this one. God is in supreme control. And He commanded the
Light to shine in to darkened hearts, and there weren't any hearts any
darker than ours. There weren't anybody stupider than us. Oh, He picked
it all for a good bunch of people to test His Word out on. [laughter]
Oh, you better believe it. You better believe it. Earthen vessels. Yeah.
See, nobody looks around and says, "Look at me."

	Please don't. I've got enough guts to get up here to fill forty wash
tubs, just to stand up here as long as I do, and as often as I do, and I
don't feel like doing it. But you see, something's in here. It's not
like it used to be. No, no. So much for my notes. (I always prefer to
save them for Sunday anyway.)

	Do you love Him tonight. See what we're talking about? You can't get
away from It. It's not going to change, because this is the Bible
opened. And if the Bible is opened, what are you going to see? Nothing
but what He said. You couldn't see anything else, right? Too simple, eh?
Yep. I'm glad it's simple, Yeah... [makes a deep sighing sound] I
couldn't sigh like this before. From now on it doesn't matter what
happens honestly. It doesn't matter.

63	You know, [makes reference to the time] ...riding in an airplane if
you've never been in one, which I guess everybody here has been in one,
you get a little scared the first time, because, hey, you know, we're
getting you know, like you don't belong up there. Especially when you're
a little bit chicken like me. Let's have an eagle raised with chickens
and it sort of rubbed off. [Bro. Vayle in a laughing tone says] I wasn't
so sure of being airborne. But you know what? Afterward when you get up
there and you find it is okay though. You sort of lean back, [said
sighing] you're afraid to lean back. But when you get up there a few
times there ain't nothing to leaning back. You enjoy it. 

	Now this is what I'm talking about. Why don't you just cast yourself
upon It as the revealed Word of a vindicated prophet that is going to
get you there. You're not going to do anything about it. You're not
going to do about it, it's what He's doing about it. The Centurion
understood authority. He said to Jesus, "Look," he said, "man, you don't
have to come down to my place." He said, "I understand authority giving
commands. You see, I tell that man to do it, and he goes and does it. I
tell this fellow, come and  (you know) polish my shoes and he does it.
And I say to this fellow you polish my armor and he does it. And I say
to this fellow, hey I'm hungry go get me a basket of grapes and he does
it." He said, "Ain't nothing to it." He said, "You just command it and
it shall be done."

	And Jesus said, "Hey," He said, "I don't think the Israelites got that
kind of faith, it took a Gentile."

64.	Gentiles, that's you and me. Yeah. So we know what command is all
about. So He commanded the Light to shine into our hearts. Where is that
Light? In the heart. He commanded It. And you think the Light's not
going to go into our hearts? Now, when It goes into the hearts, that's
the Light of illumination, see, of the revelation that becomes a part of
you, and you're a part of It. And you can't be shaken from It.

	Listen, I want to tell you what, I understand for the first time the
full assurance of faith in my own tiddily winkle-way. Now of course, the
devil is going to try to knock it out of me, but he's a liar anyways, so
drop dead. I'll settle with him later on. He'll get trillion of more
years if he ain't careful, because he deserves it. And he ain't going to
fool with me on the things of God. 

	Look, you know something. Now, you don't know it like you're going to
bring it to pass, because you got a certain faith. Like, "I know
tomorrow morning I'm going to be healed." I've known that, sure, for
I've been healed. Absolutely healed of an organic condition. 

	No, this is different. This is that grinning kind. That happy holding
to your breath kind, 'I'm getting out of here'.  Move over, because I'm
getting changed. I'm part of that deal. No, see, Bro. Branham he's...why
look, that prophet ...?... he said, "We're depending on that." Well, I'm
depending on that.

	"Are you going to get out of here?"

	"Oh, I'm going to get out of here." That would be the prophet himself
was going to get back here because of that."

	"Hey, Bro. Branham, come on, let's get moving. I believe the same
thing, what's all this waiting about?"

	I'll tell you why, because Bro. Branham said, "When ten people really
believe this thing and get their minds together, there's going to be a
Rapture."

65.	One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven,
twelve, thirteen, my there's about eighteen people here. There's enough
for two Rapture's, what's going on here? [laughter]     I kid you not. I
bring this lightly to you to get you to the place where I want to get
you, to understand this exactly what it's all about. This is the Hand
that reached down and turned me around. I can't help myself, He did it.

	Now you say, "Bro. Vayle, you're nuts." Although it's my turn to go
nuts, it's in my genes, I can't help it. I can't do anything without
what He did. But I want to tell you something: I saw the prophet get it.
But I would tell you again, I'm the only living man, I'll bet you, I'll
bet you million dollars to a hole in a donut. You don't have a hole in a
donut, and I don't have a million dollars. [laughter] But, I'm betting
you anyway. There is no person living saw in the prophet's face what I
saw and he told me, no way. I want to tell you, "It's real." It's real.
(Go home, but not yet.)

66.	I'm going to read It again. [2 Corinthians 3:]

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

	People look back in the Sixth Church Age and they say, "Oh, the glory
of Philadelphia. Oh, the ....?... Oh, the this."

	Aw shut up! There is no glory in Philadelphia that can touch this. No
glory. 

		(18)	...as by the Spirit of the Lord.

	[2 Corinthians 4:]

		(1) 	Therefore seeing we have this ministry... we faint not;

		(2) 	But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, (your creeds,
						your dogmas) not walking in craftiness,... 

	Trying to prove a point, when it's already been proven by the prophet.
Shut up! Stinking bunch of rotten theologians running around putting
their tripe upon the people. Trying to win them back to hell. (Amen,
that's exactly right Bill.) Don't tell me the love of God and the things
of God and the heart of a man when this has been proven. [taps the
pulpit] and they sneak behind and tell lies and say, "Well the prophet
told me."

67.	And the prophet said, "Who's that guy that goes woff, woff, woff? He
just thinks he's called." I don't lie to you. I got witnesses, I'll
bring them in. I don't care if it costs ten thousand bucks, I'll borrow
it from Bro. Evans. [laughter] I know why he laughed, because he ain't
got it either, it doesn't mean we can't get it, we'll both go down and
sign for it. [laughter again] No doubt people think we're rich.

		(2) 	...renounced the hidden things of dishonesty... (why should I try
to 						be dishonest with you.) 

	Good night, if I was trying to win a crowd I told my wife years ago,
look, I know how I... pardon me, I used to know how it was to be suave.
[laughter] No, I'm not lying to you. Even pretty girls used to like me,
because I was so suave, [charming] and I never knew when they hurt my
feelings. I wouldn't have let them know. I was so nice to people, so
sweet to people they got mad to me. So, phooey on you, who needs to be
nice, I can be as rotten as they are. I've been a success at my new
calling. [more chuckling] 

68.	You know, look, it was I was going to be...oh I could be suave and
join some church and have a big congregation, I believe I could. I'd go
back preaching a positive gospel, and without a doubt I believe I've got
some of the greatest sermons in print or out of print on faith. I've
read all the books. I've read the Bible. I had revelation. I've seen
people get out of wheel-chairs when I preached it. I've seen lives
changed, people get new cars, new this, new that. Deaf and dumb, you
name it. It's been there. Close my eyes, and had a vision. See, hey
there's...say, I can't figure this. But I said, "Somebody should get out
of the wheel-chair." I didn't know that they left the wheel-chair in the
car and the guy sat there, so he got up and walked. Oh, I can be very
suave, wasn't even suave then. Suede, maybe I was suede. [laughter]

		(2)	...handling the Word deceitfully...

	Why deceitfully? What are you going to get out of it? I get up here and
tell you a lie. Tell you some trumped up thing. What's it going to get
for us? Going to get me a hotter place in hell that's all, a longer
place for judgment. What's the use? Oh, let's face it, the point is you
got no use for me, and I got no use for you per se. It's in Christ
there's use. There's a value somewhere. I'm not trying to trade in your
souls, let the Catholic church do that. 

	Paul didn't do it, but he said:

		(2) 	...nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation
						of the truth commending ourselves...

	Now, I can't do that, the prophet already did it. God doesn't prove and
reprove everything, reprove and reprove. God does it, that's it. And He
said, "You blind leaders of the blind, couldn't you see this? Well, (He
said,) you can tell the sky red at night, good day tomorrow morning. Sky
red in the morning watch out, don't go out on old Galilee it might store
up a storm. You'll be in trouble." He said, "You can tell that." He
said, "You fools you can discern the sky out there, why can't you tell
what's going on here. It's in the Word, I'm telling, I'm living it, it's
before you."

69.	Now, I can't do that. William Branham did. Through what? God! As
Bro. Branham said, "He had more success in his ministry, in my body,
then He had in His Own."

	"Greater works than these shall you do because I go to my Father. He
that believeth." [Jn 14:12] And William Branham was that believer. 

	But we got on the other side, they said, "Hey, He's going to come and
judge you on what you taught."

	"Well," he said, "Oh? What I taught? I just taught what Paul taught."

	They said, "We're standing on that, depending on that."  So, there you
are.

	So therefore brother/sister, I don't have to do one thing, and you
don't have to do one thing other than either you hear the tapes, or I
preach what the prophet said in my own way, you get it maybe a little
better in one sense of the Word, because I'm going to take more time
where he couldn't take time. He said, "You people break It down and feed
the people." Now the simplicity lies there. 

70.	Now, don't try to figure things out, just believe It. Now, you all
sit here today, tonight, every one of you had medicine from a doctor.
You're getting kind of smart right now, because after all you know
medicine has side effects. So you're being taught by [Ralf] Nader and
everybody else, watch those side effects, watch those side effects. And
the theologian comes along and he said, "There's aren't any effects."

	Ho, ho, ho, he's a liar. There are effects. Yeah. Paul said, "They
effect you zealously for their own good." [Gal 4:17] I want to effect
you tonight to get you changed. Because why? Because I believe I'm
changed. Now, I can't prove anything, the prophet done proved It. "We're
depending on that." William Branham is depending on It, or he ain't
coming back either. And Paul is depending on It, or he ain't going to
get back. And Irenaeus is depending on It, or he ain't going to get
back.

	Now, you say, "Now just a minute." 

	No, I'm going to just a minute you, you're sitting in a dream world.
You don't believe me, He said, "I'm going to send Elijah." [Mal 4:5]
(Phfftt!) Wipe the whole thing out.

	"Now you see, these are just words."

71.	But they aren't words:  Reality. Now you understand what I'm saying?
No place for fooling anymore. I'm not half as serious as I'm going to
be, because He's going to help me. But ever since this last time, I've
been on pins and needles. Can't sleep hardly. Take a pill, maybe go to
sleep, because there's something in the air. And I'm not one to lie to
you and tell you something false. And I'm not one to scare you either,
because I don't know. But what is, is going to be good. No Alice in
Wonderland stuff. Nope. This is the mirror and Alice doesn't look into
it. We look into it. Not little Alice in Wonderland, or 'Malice in
Thunder-land', as Bob said about the 'thunder-land boys'. No, we're
looking in this, and this looking tonight, look at each other. We say,
"Well, there is Jesus."

	And He said, "There's Jesus."   We become a mutual admiration society
so to speak. Christ looking for Christ. He finds us, we find Him. So you
follow me what I'm saying? Simple, believe it tonight, it is going on.
Now listen, it is easier to believe than to disbelieve. Because
disbelieving will put you in the Great Tribulation. Believing will put
you in the Rapture. Believing will put you in perfection and bring the
dead out of the ground. They are waiting on us.

	Are they saying, "How long, O Lord, how long?" Oh, we've been doing
one's crying, "How long O Lord, how long till we shout the glad song." 

	I've got news for you, if you think we have a stomach ache, I think
they're getting one over us. How long are these people going to stay
here and not believe? How long has it been debated that the prophet's
got be here and they still haven't believed? Oh, let's believe tonight.
Let's rise.

	Heavenly Father, we thank You for mercy and grace in Jesus Christ our
Lord. We know, Lord, the devil would do his best to rob us, to make us
light foolish, anything else. Make us too serious, too sober as though
we had to do something ourselves. We know the Word of God endures
forever, and though It would come from the brass door knob, or the mouth
of a mule. We know, and It doesn't, we know [that] It comes from
servants, earthen vessels, maybe not too much, but You placed them here
and there, whatsoever. But You have declared by Your Word and there was
Paul in that day who had to renounce everything he had. A great, great
man, just get right down to the manure heap. Get right down there
amongst the rest of them. He said, "I count it all but dung, and I've
been sitting on it all my life and here I'm just a mess, everything I've
produced is nothing but a mess. The life is out of it, it stinks to high
heaven and I stink with it."

	But he said, "Here You picked me up and this Light I'm giving forth in
the gospel, command,  will shine in the darkness and bring a
transformation."

	And Lord, if there was ever a time when the Light shone in the darkness
with this age where people were so miserably blind, they were wretched,
naked and miserable and didn't even know it. They thought they were
luxuriously clad and full of the Holy Ghost and rich and had everything
at their finger tips and it was all gone. Just like You said, "And knew
not till the flood came and took it all away." Exactly this hour. It's
all been indicted. It's all been proclaimed as that which must stand in
a court and been found guilty. We know that, Lord.

	But we know tonight, Lord God in heaven, we know absolutely positively,
"There is a fountain filled with Blood flowing from Emmanuel's veins.
And sinners plunge beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains."

	And then, Lord, those full of the Holy Ghost sealed until the day of
Redemption, and they're crying even now, "How long O Lord, till we come
back with priests and kings." We can hardly wait, because the Seals were
ripped off the Book and the last messenger's come in, that last one the
Gentile Church Age. "How long, how long?" Yes, how long until the people
begin to believe? And they begin to say, "Yes, this is right, there's is
no use not believing, because this is what's right." We don't get
anywhere without believing. How are we going to get somewhere?

	Lord, You command that that Light. Command the Light again, Lord, we
don't ask this is though You hadn't commanded It. But could we ask You,
Lord, this... may we hear the Voice of Your command and stand still,
until Lord, our thoughts become Your thoughts entirely which in part
they have become already, and they will be perfectly as we just indulge
in the Message of the prophet.

	Indulge yourselves, Lord, eating this Body Word of the Lord Jesus
Christ. Giving fuel, energy, the rich calories and the transforming
dynamism to our very atoms. For, Lord, we know it's going to happen.

	Heavenly Father, bring them out of the grave quickly. We're dragging
our feet I believe, I don't know, but Lord, we want them to come out. We
want to be in position so they can come out. And Lord, we repent our
lack of sobriety. Although we do thank You, we know we're getting more
serious. And it will take, Lord, quite possibly coming together more
often than just be more indulgent toward Thee, more gracious, more
loving, more kind toward You, that we gather ourselves around that Word,
and talk often one to another.

	Lord, I pray that husband may talk to wife, and wife to husband, and
children to parents, and parents to children; and friends to friends and
neighbors to neighbors. Phone calls and phone calls, Lord. Just talk
that Word while that Book is being complied. And You spare us as a man
saves his own son that serves him. And we know the difference between
righteousness and wickedness. We know those who have served God. We
know, Lord, we're a long way down the line there. We believe that with
all our hearts, and we're thankful for it. We're very grateful, Lord.

	Now, be with us as we go, Heavenly Father. Grant my Lord and my God
rest mercy and peace upon each one. May the joy of the Lord fill each
vessel here. May we get rid of all our cares and misunderstanding and
ideas and forget those things which are passed. Looking forward now
because we have no time for arguments and folly, and foolishness and
church fights, and this thing, and that thing, the other thing.

	We do have time to stand up, O God, and declare truth, that we sure do
have. We have time, Lord, to come against that which is evil, expose
that which is dangerous, Lord, but we have time above all, if only we
want to use it or come together, speak often one to another, until the
homes, Lord, are redolent  with the sweetness of the Word of Almighty
God. Not with some little speculation, some little thought here and
there, but that which is truly pertinent.

	Reveal Thyself more and more, O God, You've been so wonderful in grace
and mercy. Tonight Lord, you know my heart, that if this nothing more
ever came, I would just have to say thank You, Lord. It was so good, You
were  so good, to just take us this far anyway, that we can see Your
grace and Your wonder. And it makes us to know then...yet we be very
jealous and... it would be a letdown, Lord, to think that somebody else
was going to get what we had a part of. I certainly hope that, and
believe that's not the way it is, because You said, "He that has begun a
good work will perform it." And You're way down the line here now
performing it.

	We certainly see the truth, Lord, that if You didn't send Elijah the
prophet it would be all over. We certainly see these things in Your
Word, O God, and it's just wonderful that You've come down with a Shout,
a command military bringing that Bride right together, right in step
with Your Word which is Yourself, the great Commander leading on, O God,
how precious it is. And we just don't have enough in us anywhere, Lord,
in ourselves to even begin to respond to It, and to bring forth that,
Lord, which is really neat, but somehow You're going to have to do that
too.

	And so we just consecrate ourselves to God. Heavenly Father, that You
do it through the Blood of the Covenant, through the Life coming back on
us. And for You coming down interposing Yourself to see that it will be
done. Lord, if that isn't grace, I never heard what grace is, and I
never expect to know it. If that doesn't wrap it up and do it, if that's
not perfection then...look I'm missed everything anyway, but I know that
is perfection. I know that's what it is, and we praise Your wonderful
holy Name. Thank you Lord, for sending a prophet, but thank You above
all for Yourself. Thank You for contacting and knocking at the door of
our heart. Thank You for talking with us and supping with us. Thank You
Lord, for the privilege.

	Lord, like Bro. Branham said, I know he said it true, "If He should
cast me into hell with the spirit I got now, I'd just go there
loving..." I don't know if we're that far down the road, perhaps only a
prophet could say that, but we can say tonight we're very grateful,
Lord, very, very grateful, very grateful. We are grateful, and we thank
You.

	Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be
all power in honor and glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 

	'The Lord bless you'. 

 

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