Antichrist Deception Br. Lee Vayle December 30, 1974 Let’s bow our heads in prayer. Kind, Heavenly Father, we thank You tonight that we can say from the bottom of our heart, "Amazing Grace that saved a wretch like me." Therefore, we can say with the apostle Paul, he thought himself the chief of sinners, even though he was completely redeemed by You, and understood the doctrine of justification, sanctification, and the baptism with the Holy Ghost. An imminent glory which was already His, by reason of the virtue of the Christ within Him. Yet, concerning Himself in that same position, as long as he was here in the flesh, that he was a chief sinner. We are too, Lord, because, of ourselves we are nothing, and we never intended of ourselves to be anything, Lord. And hope of ourselves that You never dawn upon us for one moment, that that would be possible to think that we could be anything of ourselves. But, Lord, through You, we trust that sometime we might receive the very fulness, that You said was ours by our union with Jesus Christ. That we would through the very righteousness of God, which is ours, become the very image of Jesus Christ our Lord, even as we have been faithfully taught, that He became us, that we might become Him. And so here we are, Lord, presenting ourselves tonight, we pray, Lord, that we are indeed a sheaf of first-fruits unto You. A part of that First Resurrection, and, Lord, that it might be proven not to our satisfaction, but, Lord, only to Yours, that You might present us to Yourself. And be a witness also in this world, even before the end-time. Before the Bride is caught away, that we might be as such, Lord, as to be before the world, that we are indeed Yours. That there might not be found in us any blame, or any spot, there might not be any wrinkle upon our garments, but perfect, Lord. So, help us tonight, to grow into that attainment, Lord God, that we might be able to be caught away to You at the Marriage Supper. This is what we want, we pray You'll solemnize this end, Lord. Help us now in this message to realize, just what is here in this world tonight. And what the great antichrist deception is all about, Lord, as we study It, may You guide us and help us, to that end. We’ll be careful to give You the praise in Jesus’ Name. Amen. You may be seated. 1. Now tonight, we want to take a study on the ‘Antichrist Deception’, not as though you didn’t understand the subject. But, in order to help you to understand it all the more, because faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God, and hearing, is understanding. Many people, because of Bro. Branham’s statement that, “You don’t have to understand It to believe It, seemed to be inclined to feel, that there is no such a thing, as an understanding.” This is not true. What he is telling you and me, is that we start out without understanding. But because of vindication, we believe It. He was vindicated. And you’ll find that’s how the apostle Paul put it. Even though people didn’t want to receive him, he was vindicated. The Message was vindicated. And so, you start by believing It. Then, on the sheer grounds of the fact that you accept It, or receive It, which is initial believing, then It becomes a revelation, which is true faith. Because faith is a revelation. Now, if it’s a revelation, then you know what you believe. And to know what you believe you understand it. And remember, our understanding is to be opened at the end-time. The Bible says that, “They will be running to and fro, but the wise will understand. They’ll know, …they’ll know their God.” [Dan 12:4] And that’s what we’re believing tonight, that what Bro. Branham taught us, and we receive by faith, wherein receiving an increasing knowledge. Which means the Word is becoming more and more correlated, into one unity. 2. The Word is one bread. It’s not ‘many’ breads. It’s one bread. Now, there may be many slices of it. It’s just like the Manna in the golden vessel. It was the same Manna . But as Bro. Branham said, “The high priest could go behind that veil, once a year. And he could take out a portion of that Manna , which was not corrupted”. That Manna , was the Manna that Moses foresaw. And by the ability, which, was to, loose on earth, what was previously loosed in heaven. Which is a prophetic revelation, he brought the Manna down to earth. Then, you’ll notice, that he ate the same Manna that he brought down, through the predestinating power of God, as did the people. See? He had the same food. Prophet didn’t have one bit different food. And remember, if you look to a prophet to have an intimate knowledge…which Bro. Branham said, “A prophet, was a revealer which is the original meaning of a prophet.” He’s a revealer. Then, if we eat the same that he ate, then we are going to have an intimacy of revelation, compatible with his, though not to the same intense degree, unless God wants it. See? So, we must never fail to stand up in our day coming before God, to know increasingly, the Word of the Lord. There has to be an unfolding as the Scripture says, we go from faith to faith, which is from revelation to revelation. And it’s not simply to make us smart. No, but we’re to know the things of God. And remember, the things of God, is the Word. 3. And at the end-time, all the things of God, as revealed by all the prophets, see? were to be revealed to us. And then, the ear mark is, as beginning with Moses and all the prophets, which is true. Then it goes right to not Moses, but it goes to Samuel. See? And the Word of the Lord, came to Samuel by vision. The Word of the Lord, was already there, through how? Moses. Then, God sent a prophet Samuel, and the Word of the Lord, was a vision. Now, types Bro. Branham to perfection. See? I don’t care how you turn. This Word is perfect. Bro. Branham said, “When perfection is come, and who is perfect, but God. And who is God, but the Word. And by His grace we believe we have the perfectly revealed Word of the hour.” Now, that the prophet ate the Manna , having brought the Manna , through predestination for the people. Then, don’t tell me we’ve got a bunch of people around looking at it manifestly, “Well, I guess that’s fine.” Hogwash! That ain’t fine, I want It. I’m sick and tired of seeing the filthy rich of the devil run this world. I want it! I don’t want the shape it’s in. They can have it, the shape it’s in. I want God to put it back in shape then me come on down on it. Now, you may sit here and not want the Manna. I can’t believe that for one minute, or you wouldn’t be here. I believe I’m going to eat what the prophet ate. Because if I’m eating something the prophet didn’t eat, I’m going to be mighty skeptical. 4. There was a prophet and bunch of folk gathered around at the school of the prophets. They got the old gourds out, and they threw stuff in a pot and they said, “Oh man, what a feast.” Latter rain nonsense. See? One fellow threw this in, one fellow threw that in, and pretty soon, one fellow cried out, because things just weren’t gelling. Oh man, if God, there’s death in the pot. And this old Elisha having a double portion of the spirit of Elijah upon him, threw in the meal. Now, they could sit down and eat it. See? What did he do? Corrected the error. That’s all he had to do…correct the error. What was it? See? Bro. Branham came and corrected the error, by bringing the revealed Word of God, and everything fell into line. He didn’t have to come along and preach the whole Bible over again. Why, Luther done a good job on justification. The only trouble was, they messed it up. I still can’t understand how the Lutherans are as dumb as the Catholics. I’ve got Luther’s books in my library. Let me tell you flat, the Lutheran church is not preaching what Luther preached. I can prove it. Challenge any theologian living, he can’t begin to deny, what I’ve got in my library. See? That’s right, the Roman Catholic church is so messed up now, Lutheran is messed up. Sanctification, they preach us the little old thing about sanctification…eradication. I did have Wesley…I don’t have it anymore…but I’ve got his New Testament translation, and I had Wesley’s books. And I can’t find what Wesley taught, because Wesley didn’t teach it. (See?) 5. You go back to the beginning of Pentecost, they never did teach what people say they taught. No siree, but they got in error. Now, what happens? Bro. Branham come on the scene…he corrects the error. What you’ve got here, you’ve got perfection. See? So, we can thank the Lord for that. I don’t have perfection, but I’ve got what’s brought here, as perfection. And I want to eat on that. See? I’m not interested in anything else. I want what Moses brought. That Manna …See? Now, what is that Manna ? Christ the living Word. See? He said, “I am that Manna come down from heaven. And if any man eat of Me, he’ll live forever. Eat My flesh, and drink My Blood.” [Jn 6:51] And what is it? That same One was revealed. Now then, if anybody wants something else, you can go to your trough and your hog wallow. Be my guest, but don’t ask me to come. I’m not going to bother. No, I’m satisfied of that nonsense. I’ve got all the books that explain it all. Sure, but they sit on my shelf. Well you can go on looking, sometimes they’re there. That’s why I’ve got them. See? But, just stay with this Word, as the prophet brought it. Now, that’s what we’re talking about tonight. Antichrist Deception. See? What did Bro. Branham say about it? What’s in the Word of God? You say, “Bro. Branham never preached the antichrist .” I beg to differ. If he preached the Christ, and revealed Him, then antichrist is automatically revealed. We’ll show you that. It’s even based upon a quote. 6. Now, what is the revelation? The antichrist deception. We go to 2 Th 2:3-12 (3) Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; (4) Who opposeth and (exalts) himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God (sits) in the temple of God, (showing) himself that he is God. (5) Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? (6) And now ye know what (withholds) that he might be revealed in his time. (7) For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now (hinders) will (hinder), until he be taken out of the way. (8) And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: 7. You notice in here, It says, “That he’s be consumed with the spirit of the mouth of God.” Then, will he be consumed with it. Then, there’s only one way to fight him now, and that’s with the spirit from the same mouth, and the spirit and the Word are one. Which is the revealed Word of Almighty God. There’s no way to defeat the antichrist , which was, and is, and is to come, except through the same means that God defeats him, which is by the Spirit of His mouth, which is that Word. He’ll destroy him with the brightness of His coming. (9) Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, (10) And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. (11) And for this cause, God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe (the) lie: (not ‘a’ lie, but, ‘the’ lie) (12) That they all might be (condemned, judged) who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. 8. Now, we have no doubt here, that this is the antichrist . Paul’s description here, is of a man who is the antichrist . And he is the very same one spoken of, in the Book of Revelation, chapter 13, and verse 4 by John. (4) And they worshipped the dragon (because he sits in the temple of God, demanding worship. They worshipped the dragon) (who) gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? This is one and the same person, who is sitting in the temple of God, demanding and receiving worship. 9. Now, you’ll notice in what I read over here, in the Book of 2 Thessalonians that 2nd chapter, that we have the revelation, of this antichrist advent. Or, in other words, how he comes into power. And notice in verse 7, (7) … the mystery of iniquity … The spirit that will one day take the form of man, to be the antichrist , is already working in the church. Where is it working? In the what? The church. Now, is the church a building, or is it people? It’s people. See? Now, notice a little bit further, in verse 10, [end of side one] his coming, (10) … with all deceivableness of unrighteousness, (In other words, it tells you how it comes, and where it is.) that perish; (the spirit is already in the people. Huh? Sure is.) because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. (11) And for this cause God (will) send them strong delusion, (there’s nothing more in the realm of the delusion, than a man that’s possessed of a spirit. He’s under a control. See?) that they should believe (the) lie: (12) That they all might be (condemned) who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. Now, you can see the advent, or the reason for the rise of this man lies in a church. See? 10. Now, let’s go to 1 John 4: and we’re going to find it proven, because you just don’t go to one place in the Bible, you’ve got to go to all of the places. And we’re not going to have time tonight of course. Message isn’t geared for that. But in the mouth of two witnesses, is sufficient. That’s what the Bible says. All right, we’ve got the mouth of Paul, we’ll take the mouth of John in 1 John 4:1-4 (1) Beloved, believe not every spirit, (that which is amongst the people) but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Now, you know that the revealed Word of God, comes by the prophets. Now here, is an unrevealed Word, that comes by the prophets. See? False prophets. (2) Hereby know (you) the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: Now, that according to William Branham, was a present day experience. That even lined up to his own ministry as of this hour. And you’ve got to put it through the whole Seven Church Ages, and every minister that’s been ordained of God, to be a messenger. That’s why he said, “They were God to the people.” 11. Now, (3) And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: (doesn’t say ‘has come’ or ‘had come’ It says ‘is come’. See?) and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is… in the world. Let’s follow this through, how the prophet was right. (4) Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. And he called that church, the world. Preached on that Sunday morning and showed you. See? Oh, how people’s minds don’t want to grasp this. They’ve got some idea about communism, or some idea about the heathen in Africa, or over in Thailand. Let me tell you flat. Israel was hated by Egypt. Yet it was Jannes and Jambres that rose up against Moses, heathen prophets who didn’t believe in God, who denied it all, and said, “Your Jehovah God. Hogwash, and pooey on him.” What do you need a Jehovah God? Don’t tell me that nonsense. The Ephesian people said the same thing, “Great is Diana, the goddess of the Ephesians. Don’t give me this nonsense about a Jehovah Godm pooey on him." I want you to get the picture. It said, "As Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these of reprobate mind and faith." [2 Tim 3:8] 12. Withstand the day everything that is off the Word is antichrist and God judges it. Put it all in one pot, two spirits, not three spirits. See? You can’t get people to understand that. They still go around mumbling in their beard, and in their beer, antichrist is the communist. They’re just a part of it. But they’re not the ones involved. It’s easy the church system, see? We keep showing you this thing. They’re of the world, and they speak, and therefore, they speak of the world. And that takes in everything that is against the Word. An outright denial of God. A substitution for God. Anything whatsoever, that is off of the revealed Word of Almighty God, falls into this pot right here. Now listen, we are of God. He that knoweth God, hears us. In other words. John was standing there as a prophet, as a messenger of the hour, identified with Paul. Because Paul identifies with him in Peter. And they could stand up and say, “You, hear us, you’re hearing God.” Says right here. See? Yes sir. Paul went down to see if his Message was right. He said, “It didn’t add a thing.” Now It says, [1 John 4:] (6) Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error. The very same thing the apostle Paul taught. See? A Spirit in the Church. A Spirit in a group of men. Now, thus we can clearly see that the antichrist is nothing but the chief officer of a corrupt church system, who becomes the embodiment as a title…see?... and as a head, for that Spirit. See? Exactly right. 13. Now, this is made very clear, in the Book of Revelation. Even clearer, in Revelation 13:1-7. Let’s, look at It. I’ve got a point in what I’m leading up to, you’ll catch it in a little while. (1) And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast (come) up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. (blasphemous name) (2) And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. (See? The dragon given power, so that the beast could be worshipped.) (3) And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. (4) And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? (5) And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. (See?) 14. There’s your false prophets, and the false Word, (see the mouths, speaking) coming up into a headship. An actual incarnation. Just like Jesus Christ was the Incarnation of all the Word of those prophets of the Old Testament. "The Word became flesh, and dwelt amongst us. [Jn 1:14] And He said, “I came in My Father’s name, and you received Me not. There’s one going to come in his own name, and you’re going to receive him.” [Jn 5:43] See? Certainly. Now, (6) And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. (See?) Actually, to cast aspersions on what? Against those that have gone before, the Resurrected saints of the Lord Jesus Christ, and so on. (7) (Now, he was able) to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. (8) And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Now, notice in verse 1, (1) And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, … And the sea is people. So, here is a person rising up through a church system, which guarantees a hierarchy, with somebody over it. And they vote him into power. Actually a political demonstration. He is actually voted in, because, he rises up out of that sea which is people. And notice in verse 7, he destroys the saints. See? 15. Now, let’s go to Revelation 17: and see the Babylonian church system. Not the man now, the system. (1) And there came one of the seven angels, had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that (sits) upon many waters: Now, you’ve got a woman sitting upon many waters. You’ve got a man coming up out of many waters. So, the man comes up out of a woman sitting on many waters. What was the woman sitting on many waters? She, is supposed to be the Bride of God, which is the church. In other words, she’s the hierarchy, with absolute power over the people. They're supposed to be the people of God, (2) With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, (spiritual fornication. See?) and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine (or the inspiration) of her fornication. (which is false spirits, which are devils) Come on, read It the way It is. Put the Word of God together, if It’s right in the first place, It's right in the second place. (3) So, he carried me away in the spirit (right spirit this time) into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, (blasphemous names, …Baptist, Presbyterian and so on) having seven heads and ten horns. (4) And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet …, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: 16. And you know as well as I do, that absolutely has to do with religion. Her religion is whoredom. And you can’t be a whore, unless you’re a fallen woman who belongs to another man. Claiming to be the Bride of Jesus Christ, and she’s living as a whore. Spiritual fornication. What’s it all about? The Word, not something else. Those old false prophets starting way back there. (5) And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. (6) And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration. (7) And the angel said unto me, Wherefore, didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that (carries) her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns. Now, we could read on, but, we don’t have time here. Now, you notice in here, she’s identical to the antichrist . Why? Because, in verse 1, she sits upon the waters, she must have come out of them. See? Number two; in verse 6, she kills the saints. See? Then, in verse 3, she’s sitting there upon a beast with seven heads and ten horns. You go back to Revelation 13:1, you’ve got the very same thing. You’ve got a beast with seven heads and ten horns, with the names of blasphemy. The whole thing shows you that the antichrist and the system and the people are all one. Just one great big unit. Yes sir. 17. Now, notice in Rev 18:23, It says here, (23) And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; (See?) and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries …all nations… And the word there is Gentile. In other words, she will be able to captivate through her religion, by the false prophet. And the people building up the system, …everybody, but the Jews. Now, you can see why it is, there’s going to be 144,000 and nobody come in at the end- time. Because there won’t be anybody come in except the 144,000 that are sealed by the Spirit of Almighty God. And they are first-fruit, and they follow the Lamb, where so ever He goes. Nobody left. Because every last Gentile, and we’re all Gentiles outside of the Jews. Except for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, that’s the Bride. She is a nation, she hasn’t got a nationality. Because she’s like Jesus, He was neither Jew nor Gentile, He was the Son of God. (See?) The Church is identified, the true Bride with Him. Now It says, all nations were deceived. Now, we learn it's a Gentile church system, says right here, …not Israel, it’s a Gentile church system. That’s got the power to do it. 18. Now, in Revelation 17:9,18 the two verses, 9 and 18. (9) And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman (sits). Now, where is that? That’s Rome. I heard a little lady preacher, the other day…several days ago now preaching, that this was Jerusalem. Jerusalem doesn’t have seven mountains, or seven hills. I heard another man once say, “It was Moscow.” It doesn’t have it. There’s only one place got it …that’s Rome. Seven mountains. Now, notice verse 18, (18) And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth. Jerusalem never did. And Moscow never did. There’s only one city that brought down nations, and made nations…that’s Rome. Not even Avignon. Not even a third city. Rome alone had that power. Rome alone retains that power. 19. Notice also, in [Revelation] chapter 13: I believe it is verse 18. (18) Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. And there’s only one man in the world, that’s carried 666, and that’s the pope with his title. Even the Catholics themselves, admitted that. See? 20. Now, and in Revelation 18:23 that we read. See? Let’s go back and see It. (23) …(and) by thy sorceries were all nations deceived. We learned how this church system, produced an antichrist , and took over the world. Now, we’ve got this far, and did you hear what I said? In this little part of Scripture, we learned how she does it. How does she take over? It says she does it by her sorcery. Now, sorceries do not mean magical powers by devils through incantations. You’ve got a poor translation here, that’s the whole trouble. If you want to go to the Greek, you’re going to find it says the word 'sorcery' means 'medication, or medicine'. It means a drug that is spell-giving, a spell-giving potion, or tranquilizers, a sense of euphoria. 21. Now, go a little deeper. The meaning of the root word in the Greek, is 'druggist', who is also called a 'poisoner'. Now, what is she doing? She is giving a medication, which gives a sense of euphoria, a sense of wellbeing, an idea of salvation, but she’s a druggist who’s a poisoner. Now, you wonder why it is that us nuts who believe in natural food can’t stand drugs. Because the very meaning of drug is a poison. Never did cure you, it might kill the germ in you. As the prophet said, “When you kill a rat, it doesn’t plug the rathole.” Drugs are poison. They should not even be ministered. If there’s any reason for doing it, the guy doing it ought to know exactly when to minister the antidote. Exactly as Bro. Branham said. See? He was wise to this. Not understanding the Greek, knowing particularly and perfectly, where the illustration laid in you. And it lies here in Revelation 18:23. Drugs by a druggist, which is this church. Giving her drugs. Now notice, here we find the church then with poisonous remedies. She has cast her spell upon all. Her healing power, is to numb the people, so they are fooled into believing that her prescribed medication for their sickness is working. Yeah. Pay for a few masses, join a church. Get to some little group over here. Salvation Army, so on. Listen, what is killing them, is what they believe is healing them. Huh. Try that, you modern drug doctors, …see where you are... drugs, drugs, drugs, drugs, drugs, until they kill you. Check with Barney…his own Dad given a bunch of junk, shouldn’t have been given to him. Doctors are like a bunch of preachers. You can see that. 22. One preacher gives you something that will make you well. The other gives you something to kill you. Listen, the church is actually taking the place of Jesus…who is the drug, the balm of Gilead. See? The remedy for sin and sickness, and death. The people are baptized, into the church, but not into Christ. See? She coerces and kills all by her sword and torture, who cannot be verbally persuaded to join her. For she says, “Salvation lies in the church.” And the people say, “That’s right.” This is why Bro. Branham kept striking, “Stop your shaking hands. Stop your joining a church." It sounds so simple it sounds so trivial, anybody could say, “Well, bless God us Baptist's don’t do that. We know better.” Hogwash! The Baptists are baptizing in the local church, not into Jesus Christ. Your Presbyterians, Methodists, the whole bunch of Pentecostals, and them all. A bunch of church joiners. 23. How can you in one breath say, “Come and join Jesus Chris,” and put the name of any rotten filthy church in there? Have a church roll. I remember years back, I came and saw your Sunday School thing up there, I said, “Take it down and throw it out. “You did it …thank God. I believe you did it, right afterward. Went to one church years ago, and I said, “Get rid of your Sunday School.” They did it, the next guy didn’t do it, …wrecked his whole church. You say, Awe, those things work?” They work, they work to take you to hell. “I'm going to have a Sunday School teach those kids get a bus.” Make them a two-fold child of hell. Certainly. People fool day and night. She’s saying, “It’s going to work.” But, they don’t know what’s wrong. Now listen. And let’s get this straight. Because here’s where my little beef is now. Because people I think misunderstood the prophet so bad, it would be pitiful. See? She could not do this. The church could not do this. Nor then could there be any incarnation of that spirit of error. Except for the people, they like it that way. That’s right. Oh, I know what you’re thinking now. Bro. Branham said, “Well go to church, some church.” Sure it is, that’s right. He said, “Don’t leave your church.” That’s right. But he also said, “Let them kick you out.” Wonder how far the people got with this Word, if they weren't kicked out? They couldn’t have gotten very far. I’ll tell you that flat. Because let’s put it this way. Many people misunderstood how and what the prophet was getting at. But we want to clear that up tonight. 24. And we want to show you something, in the Book of 2 Timothy 4:1-5. I’ve got no bone to pick with anybody. I just got know what the Scripture says, that’s all, and why he said It. (1) I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; (2) Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. (3) For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own (desires, pleasures) shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; (See?) There’s your skunk in the wood pile…your teacher. That’s right. What does Jesus say in the Book of Matthew? He said, “Those false prophets.” Well listen, you’ve got to read Peter to get the Gospel. Not John…Peter. And Peter says, “As…" because he explains over there in the Book of Acts, at the day of Pentecost, what the restoration was. Having that same Peter in 2 Peter 2: said, “As there were false prophets, there are now false teachers among you.” James knew it. He said, “Be not many masters, be not many teachers. For there is a greater condemnation." [Jas 3:1] See? We’ve got an influx right now, you can’t turn anywhere, but every man’s a teacher. I stand here ready to be condemned. I’m either true or false, but I’m stuck, because the prophet said so. But I get amazed; teachers, teachers, teachers. Everybody listen and throws themselves wide open when you could learn. (See?) 25. That’s what wrong back here. The people want to be taught. Better be careful how you want to be taught. And these people here, don’t want the truth. They turn their ears away from the truth. Then you’ve got a fable…what’s that? Like Aesop’s fable, something with a moral to it. Morals won’t save you, only Christ can save you. See? Takes the Holy Spirit, and what spirit we got? See? Now, these people here, they don’t want reality. They turn from the truth. They turn to fables. But watch how all things endure affliction. Do the work of an evangelist. Make full proof of thy ministry. Here in the midst of teachers rising up. He said, “Be an evangelist.” I want to ask the Branham people, “Where are our evangelists?” Teacher, teacher, teacher. You say, “Bro. Vayle, maybe you better lay down what you’re supposed to do.” Don’t catch me doing it honey. Don’t tell me what to do. I’ll stay and teach, true or false, until God kicks the stuffings out of me. Throws me to hell in an alley, whatever he does, I’ll stick to what I’m supposed to do. See? Yes sir. I’m serious about this. No fooling around. Here’s your damage, right here. All revealed out here, shown. Nobody can hide from it. See? Now, they like it that way. See? 26. I’ll prove it to you again. Back to Revelation 13:1 over here in America, that came up without people, out of a dry land. But the people multiplied, we’ve got two hundred and twenty million people here in America now. And we built the image. Came up out of America. The waters, seas, we’ve got denominations. You talk about a whore system over here. Brother/sister listen, I can go to certain places over there in Europe, …what have you got? You’ve got maybe the Lutheran church, and the Catholic church. And the teeniest sprinkling of something. Another group, you’ve got a Reform church, and a Catholic church. Over here you’ve got dozens…literally dozens of churches, and great denominations. We're the waters? We’re the whores. See? England, what have you got? Anglican, Catholic, little sprinkling. Over here, millions of Methodists, millions of Baptists, millions of Pentecostals, millions of everything. Two hundred and twenty million, twenty-one percent Catholic. Seventy-nine percent of the rest of the Protestants so-called, they’re building an image right to him, and taking us right back to Rome. Hundred thousand ecumenical ministers in the world. How many Protestants? Ten thousand speak in tongues, are off the Word, a million miles. See? The people won’t want it that way. 27. Now we’ve got an idea this antichrist sort of sneaks in on us. Oh, what a shame people say, “This fellow takes over.” Hogwash. They make him. Because it’s just like the union. The…writes in many articles…the Reader’s Digest. And he shows what’s going on amongst the trade union men. Bringing in goons to destroy men’s property. Destroying America here. Our rotten politicians. Who made them that way? We did, because we put them into power. Got the same thing right here. Ha, they don’t want to clean up the unions. They don’t want their churches cleaned up. They like it the way that it is. The people do it. I can read my Bible straight. Now notice, It says, “Her sorcery, her remedy for our oil, all nations are deceived.” And at the end-time, her remedy, her gold, instead of the Spirit of Jesus Christ based upon the Blood… they’ll all get together, destroy the whole world. Just take over, Charismatic gets it all. Now listen: This church deceived the people by her remedy. The Word ‘deceived’ means ‘go astray’. All nations are led astray by the church system. Now, what made them go astray? The medication made them go astray. Now, the wrong prescription, led them astray. Now, the point is, what did they stray from? Now, you already know the answer. 28. Let’s go over here to the Book of Hebrews 13:7 (7) Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: … Over there in the Book of John, the Douay version says, “Rule my sheep, rule my sheep, rule my sheep.” The Protestant Bible said, “Feed my sheep, feed my sheep, feed my sheep.” A literal translation said, “Feed my sheep, rule my sheep, feed my sheep.” But that same word in the Greek is ‘lead’. Lead my sheep, lead my sheep, lead my sheep. Remember them that have the leadership over you, who teach to you the Word of God. So, therefore the leadership is not in any person or persons, but is in the Word. See? But they didn’t want the Word of God over them. They didn’t want the revealed Word. They didn’t want it in Paul’s day, they didn’t want it in John’s day. That spirit was in the people, they wanted something else. See? Now remember, a spirit can turn to an actual manifestation. See? And now, if you turn down the Word, (see?) it was a doctrine, then a spirit, then a man. You’ll turn down the Word, you open the door for a spirit that will go to a man. Because see, spirit gives life. Life brings forth manifestation. Sure, it does. Now, the word ‘rule’ means ‘to lead’. And this is the leadership they had with the Word, is the revealed Word. Thus, we see what’s wrong. The people don’t want to be led by the Word. People don’t want It That’s what caused the system to start. So, here is a people and a system, that is actually antichrist, but claiming to be Christ, and claimed that their Word is the Word of God, and that God is in their church. But they’re all wrong. He’s not. See? He is not there whatsoever. He is not with them, though they say He is. They have turned down the Word. 29. Now listen, let’s go to the Scripture. In 1 Pet 2:1 (1) Wherefore, laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speaking. So you say, “Man alive, if I could do that I’d have to be back where I was born. That’s what It says, ‘new born babes’. You’d be a kid again. (2) …desire the sincere milk of the word, that (you) may grow thereby: You may grow what? From line, from Word, Word, Word, line, line to the precept, to the doctrine, to the Seven Thunders, which is the revealed Word of God, came down from heaven in a Pillar of Fire to a prophet. See? Now, (3) If (you) so be (you) have tasted the Lord is gracious. (If you’ve had an experience. Now:) (4) To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious. Now, he tells you right here, he’s talking about Jesus Christ…a living stone, but disallowed. You’re in the same boat, you're disallowed too. (5) (You) also, as lively stones, (you don’t disallow, but you're) built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. 30. Now, what kind of sacrifice have you got? The offering of His body, which is the Word. And the Word became flesh and dwelt amongst us. There’s only one way to continue offering that body today, and that’s by that Word. There’s only one way to worship God. (6) Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, (what’s Sion? New Jerusalem) elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded. (7) Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: … Believe how? As newborn babes, desiring the sincere milk. See? Desiring the revealed Word of God, that came to the infant church. (7) …(that) stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner. 31. Now, not capstone, head of the corner. And a stone of stumbling. A rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the Word, being disobedient, or not understanding, no Spiritual revelation, whereunto they were appointed. It tells you right there, they stumble at the revealed Word. They disallowed the Word which is your cornerstone, and with no cornerstone there is no foundation, there is no building, there is no capstone. Therefore, you’ve got a false church. And what do they do? They put their own capstone on it. Which is the antichrist spirit, the spirit of the devil, in a man. Now I ask you, how'd they' get there? The people wanting it. People want it. Right back to the First Age. The people want it. Now it can be and you understand how it is that the people in the Roman Catholic church that can read history, and knowing the Catholics murdered sixty-eight million Protestants. Destroyed nations. Their popes lived in whoredom. They lived in incest. Bringing forth children with their own sisters. And were murderers, where three at one time fought each other, hurling implications at each other. And they stand back, and they don’t care two cents, because that’s the way they want it. 32. Now you see why William Branham never got to first base, but, people don’t want it any other way, “We’re rich, increased in goods. We don’t need a thing, and furthermore, we don’t want anything, so shut up and get out of here.” And they moralize, and they destroy the very foundation. And they’re building a house that they say they have a capstone. My brother, my sister, there is no capstone. Because they turned away the Headstone, which is the Word. And they stumbled at It, and went their own way. Now, they’ll have an antichrist . He’ll come in his own name, don’t worry, the pope stands up every day and thunders who he is. See? There you are. Now, they can’t take the Word. So, they embrace a sacrifice, and propagate a creed and dogma. Let me tell you flat my brother, my sister. your filthy church will never turn down the sacrifice. Even Cain didn’t turn down the sacrifice. But he brought the sacrifice of the first-fruit. They both worshipped. They both brought a sacrifice. And so, the churches, will never say that Christ died in vain, as though it were nothing, though some might. And some have already done it. But the doctrine will still be a sacrifice, with a false creed. And a sacrifice, Christ, without the Word avails nothing. I care that much for your experience, which means nothing at all. And neither does God. And the reason I care nothing, because God cares nothing. If God cared something, I would care something. But God cares nothing about a man’s experience outside of that Word. See? 33. Let’s prove it. It’s over here in Heb 4:1-2 (1) Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. (2) For unto us was the gospel preached, (notice…unto us was the gospel preached) as well as unto them: … The gospel was, …listen…looking forward to Christ would bring them into the eternal city, inducer of God. The same as us looking back to Jesus Christ. See? They by faith, taking that sacrifice, my brother/my sister, though it be but the blood of a lamb, or the blood of a heifer, gave them perfect entrée to the work of Jesus Christ, and it led captivity captive. And there came Abraham, and there came Sarah, and there came Joseph. And there came Isaac out of the grave. See? Same thing today brother/sister. We with the Word of God, look back upon His death. Now, they couldn’t look forward to Him only. They had to have a sacrifice. We’ve got to have the same thing, but ours is the Word. Then how are you going to have a sacrifice, without the Word? (See?) 34. The gospel preached among men, it did not profit them, not being mixed with faith, in them that heard It. In other words, they turned down the Word, with the sacrifice, and lost out. That’s why I keep on saying, “Oh, how so many people come along and they say, “Well, who needs Elijah? I’ve got Jesus, Hallelujah.” You foul mouth hypocrite. You got nothing. You watch one day, those words are going to ring back as do my brother/my sister, because I’ve got to stand before God for what I preach. Absolutely, absolutely. He that believeth that as the Scripture has said. Not somebody else said. But the divine revelation of Almighty God. Now, so we have learned what the prophet said, was correct. An antichrist church, is an anti-Word church. An antichrist, is anti-Word. And the church puts Him outside. Because they’re rich, increased in goods, and say, “We’ve got it all.” And they kicked out the very One, who was Life. That’s what It says here. By her sorceries. See? By her medication. By her recipes for health, healing. Listen, the word, ‘salvation’ contains reconciliation, and healing, and restoration, and health. The whole thing is in there. They said, “We’ve got it all. We’re whole, we lack nothing.” And they talked about Jesus, but they turned Him down. See? They turned down the Word. Christ’s outside the church. The people have put Christ outby refusing the Word. That is exactly what Paul warned. 35. Let’s go see in 2 Thessalonians [2:] again. (3) Let no man deceive you by any means: … This literally means, don’t let anyone beguile you, …actually lead you astray by vain words. What are vain words? Vain words that cannot be backed up. Promises that cannot come to pass. Now, listen to me. The Bible says, "By your commandments have made in vain you worship me, having for doctrines the commandments of men". [Mt 15:9] And again, It says, “You have made void the promise of God, by your doctrine.” The very promise of God, of the Second Coming. The very promise of God, of Eternal Life. The very promise of God of the Wedding Supper, of the Rapture, of New Jerusalem, dies when a man has a creed, instead of the living Word of God. That’s why thunder hammered this world. I don’t care what anybody says. This great thing is coming, that great thing is coming. You can have that great thing coming. Stick to that Word, until the Light hits that Word, then something is going to come. Let me warn again, my brother, my sister, there’s a charisma going to sneak in, oh, it’ll sneak in, don’t worry. I’m prepared for the hell that’s going to break loose, …don’t worry. I know something in my heart that you don’t know. You’ll never know. Not that you haven’t got what I’ve got. But let me tell you. I’m know only too well what’s coming on the scene. We’ve gotten by too long, the pressure will soon come. The only pressure we’ve got so far, we’re all too fat from eating too much food, and our belts are too tight, and our clothes are too tight. You don’t know what pressure is yet…wait it’s coming. See? Certainly, got to come, because the prophet said so. 36. Now, let no man deceive you, don’t be led astray by vain words, or the medication of a Roman Catholic church, and the whorish daughters…Baptist, Methodist, Pentecost, Presbyterian, Oneness, Twoness and so on. Now, the church did not listen. And it ends up as prophesied in [2 Th 2:] verse 10, "With all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish." You see? Why? Because they were deceived that the unrighteousness was righteousness. See? Now, in other words my brother, my sister, instead of feasting on the Word, and being filled with the Word, they are filled with the deceit of unrighteousness, death becomes their life. Yeah. Starving out there in the school of the prophets. Foods all gone, it’s drugs, it’s famine. No food. Nothing left. There’s always a few gourds there, throw them into the pot. Glory to God, we're going to live. Somebody screams, “Death in the pot.” Oh, what an astute person was there that day. The prophet came by. I want to tell you, I don’t believe there’s one person in this Message, who didn’t know something was rotten in Denmark, when it came to the church systems. Whether you’re in a system yourself or not, you knew something was rotten in Denmark. Pardon the expression…but you knew it. You knew something was wrong…death in the pot. And you know right now, something is wrong. See? Because they haven’t come in to the full revelation. But it’s there, don’t worry. I’m as sure as I stand here. I’ve got no doubt about that. What it’ll do, take clothing us, and taking us…that’s fine. Other things I don’t know about, I just leave it. You’ll figure them out yourself. If God showed me…that’s great. That’s fine. 37. Now listen, it is not hard to understand what the delusion of unrighteousness is, if we just think for a moment on this wise…what is righteousness? Now, I’m taking this from every point I can, though you already know what I’m talking about. Let’s keep hammering until there’s no room for doubt. You can stand up and say to those … “Shut up, get thee behind me Satan.” One day the devil came to Jesus, and said, “If Thou be the Son of God, cast Thyself down, for it is written His angels shall have charge over Thee. Lest Thou dash Thy foot against the stone.” And He said, “It is also written, thou shall not tempt the Lord thy God.” [Luke 4:] There’s too many people quote against quote what Bro. Branham said. But to reconcile every single quote, and know what the doctrine is, is a far different thing, my brother, my sister. See? Not that I’ve got it. Don’t worry about that, I’m just telling you the truth. 38. Now listen. They take death for life. And they take the deceit of unrighteousness. In other words, it’s so close to the real thing, and they’re fooled. Now, what is this all about? All right, what is righteousness? Oh, it’s just somebody’s justification. Now listen, let’s not go to theology please. Let’s not rack up a whole lot of phony ideas. What in plain unadulterated language is righteousness> Well, let’s go to the old English, it’s right wise-ness, or that which is simply right. That’s all, righteousness, is simply right, being right. Never mind all the theology, phooey on that. Leave that for the PhD's, the DD’s, and the whole rest of them. Now, a righteous thing is a right thing…r-i-g-h-t. Or a correct thing, without flaw, without change according to a set demand. Lives up to the man, pass the test, and declared to be exact…now that’s the right thing. It’s because it’s right. According to what? A pattern. 39. Now, let’s illustrate. So we ask, what is two and two…four. That is correct. See? That’s right. But why is it correct, or right? Because it is correct, by a set standard. It is one with a set pattern of what is unchangingly true. Notice, two and two do not make three. It is not that we cannot call two pieces and two pieces three pieces, if that had been the decree. If it had been decreed, that two pieces and two pieces were three pieces, meaning that one and one and one and one was three instead of four. That would be it. But it’s not decreed that way. It is decreed that one, and one, and one, and one, four. See? 40. Now, that’s right. See? And it cannot be changed. Correctness or rightness of anything depends upon a pre-determined measurement….And she said, “I’m Queen Elizabeth.” She’s nuttier than a fruitcake, she’s mental, she’s sick. And you say, “Look girl, you are not Queen Elizabeth.” And she said, “Don’t you dare tell me that.” Now we can laugh, and it’s a joke. She believes it. That’s her life. She’s happy with it. She’s deluded. You cannot talk to a deluded person. You cannot convince a deluded person. Why? Because they're right in their thinking. The womb has opened up. As insanity lies in the mind, so, the insane Word, lies in the mind, and gets down here in your spirit…and becomes a spirit. See? Simple. The un-rightness. Now, listen. Their un-rightness, becomes rightness in their own eyes. Their light becomes darkness. And when a man’s light becomes darkness, how great is that darkness? See? Oh, my brother, my sister, John the Baptist with his bright and shining light and he rejoiced in his light for a season. The same with Paul. The same with Luther, the same with Wesley, the same with William Branham. Rejoiced in it for a season, When off season, then light became darkness. How many people leave this Word, for the word of a man? 41. Now, what does God do? He just lets them go. Why? Because they’re perverted through the perverted Word. Let’s go to 2 Tim 3:8 (8) Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: … How did they resist the truth? How did they do it? Jannes and Jambres threw down their rods, they did what Moses did. “Why I’ve got a ministry like Bro. Branham,” said one fellow. Others said, “Well, he’s dead. This great minister went down the drain. Look at mine going on.” Listen, I want you to see something right here. There is no ministry in the entire Word of God that did not have a hay-day then eclipse and die, went into the ground. Not one ministry. You look at the days of Moses…decline. You look at the days of Samuel…decline. You look at the days of John…decline. Look at the days of Jesus…decline. The days of Paul…decline. They all declined. And William Branham declined. See? Why? Because that Word’s got to take over. Got to go to the people now, once the vindication set in. Once the Word of God had Its day, in the sense of manifestation. As Bro. Branham said, “We’ve seen the Word of God vindicated in power. But when is it going to get vindicated in revelation?” It’s got to go to the people. See? 42. Now, listen. Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist truth. Men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning faith. There is a human faith, there is a faith of Jesus Christ, and there’s a reprobate faith. Which is the Word of God misapplied through human reasoning and understanding, instead of the mind of Christ. People don’t understand that. Oh, I know they don't, only the prophet taught us, thank God”. See? But it’s true. Now, that this is true. Now, that this is true. See? It’s something we can illustrate from the Word. Now, we can illustrate unrighteousness, as found in 1 John 3:7-12. Now, you all know what that’s about. It’s about the children of God, contrasted to the children of the devil, through the example of Cain and Abel. Both religious. Both took the Word, but, one man mis-divided the Word. And remember, the Bible said, “Show yourself a student approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. [2 Tim 2:15] Then, a workman who does not rightly divide the Word of truth, must be ashamed, and it's wood, hay, stubble and burning. Now, to the lake of fire. Mis-divided Word. Not just saying, “I believe the Word, Hallelujah, I’ve got an experience.” But the divided Word. See? As shown here, and it said the deeds of Cain were evil. 43. His brother’s works were righteous, and his were unrighteous. What were his unrighteous works? Going to God, outside the revelation, and presenting a first-fruit. Beautiful, lovely. The Scripture said, “Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain.” [Heb 11:4] And if he offered Him a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, then Cain’s sacrifice was excellent. Nothing wrong with it. The Word of God said, "Thou has rightly offered, yet you did not rightly divide." And if you did not rightly divide, you’re outside the fold. Now, the last day church says, “We’re rich increased in goods and don’t lack a thing. Look, we’ve got it, we speak with tongues, we’re doing a great work.” And God said, “You’ve not got it.” You haven’t got it. He said, “You’re wretched, you’re miserable, you’re naked.” Who are you going to believe? (See?) Now look, at the end-time, it is going to be so close, righteousness and unrighteousness. That only the elect won’t be deceived. Now, man believes this Message, won’t put his church in order…something’s wrong somewhere. But do you know what he’s going to do? Run around and accuse all of us who put the church in order, as though we’re wrong. Yeah. Bro. Branham said, “Bro. Neville, let’s just wait awhile. Let’s just see about those gifts everybody’s on the floor talking.” Who'll correct it? Who’ll see if they can stand correction? If it can’t stand correction, it’s a bastard child. So, it ran away. They said, “Well, glory to God, they left the Tabernacle.” That’s okay. A bastard child in William Branham’s church, is a bastard child even if Jesus Christ came down here and had a church. Why? Because it’s His Word. 44. You see Christ standing here that vindicated William Branham, and you have a church with gifts on the floor? The same man that teaches that, runs around the world from Europe teaching he had a dream. And in his dream this store full of beautiful things, and beautiful shelves, and beautiful doors, and beautiful goodies, and us preachers in America were pulling things apart, while he’s the great man doing it right. Hogwash! I think a certain great man from Europe, who started the Second Word War, came back with his collar on backwards. I preach tough… I’m not bitter. But I’ve had it up to here. Deceived and being deceived. One Word. Why did the prophet put the church in order? I ask, why did he do it? To see if he had a real gift…put it there. If you got something put it there. They said, “Well Bro Branham, that puts us on the spot.” He said, “Ain’t I on the spot?" How oft I stood before the people and prophesied, it came to the letter.” But I was wrong. Public ministry was not mine. Mine was teaching that Word, put It back there. What’s the minister doing with it even? You're to compliment the Word. Oh, that fools them. Because they want some experience to be their guide, or something else. Can’t the preachers say, “Word, Word, Word, Word?” That’s your job, to bring the saints of God to full perfection. Not you with some ministry thinking you’ve got something. Hogwash. The prophet of God had it as his vindication, it was his ministry everything else spells of a false anointing. Put it where it belongs. Let’s see what we’ve got. Huh? Oh, they don’t want that to die. God tonight, send your hammer, crush whatever I got that's wrong. Bust it wide open. Pulverize it. Make it like dust and blow it away as the wrath of Thy countenance, the Presence of Thy might. Such nonsense people preach, and call it what the prophet said. They had it back there. What is It? It's not the Spirit of Christ, it's antichrist. I’m not bitter, just telling you the truth. I’m fed up with this nonsense. See? People making themselves something. Who made any man anything? Where is the man that’s got something? There’s no man can prove anything. I challenge him here, or anywhere in the world…show me what you’ve got…you haven’t got a thing to stand up. See? Let’s face it. Let’s be honest. See? There’s where humility is, come on down to the Word. 45. See now, listen. So close, only the righteous will not be deceived. Now, almost impossible to know. Let me show you something here. Matthew 24:24 will destroy us all. How are the elect going to be not deceived? Is God’s going to come down and somehow talk to each one of us? Huh. He’s been doing it I suppose, in Pentecost for the last several years. And he’s also told each one of us, something different. Proves you didn’t hear from God at all. Let’s find out if He’s going to do it. Because He’s got to do it. Sure, over here in Malachi 3:7 beginning: (7) Even from the days of your fathers…(who’s He talking to? Children. … (you've) gone away from mine ordinances, … What’s would happen? Elijah is supposed to come and turn the children back. Man, what’s He going to turn then back to? The Word of God. Say, “I haven’t gone from God. I’ve got the joy of the Lord. I’ve got the talking in tongues.” Have you? Have you got the Word of God tonight? That’s what we want to know. Say, “Bro. Vayle, I just don’t hold to anything Bro. Branham said.” Well, I do. When the revelation becomes complete, I’ll be right back to God. Oh, Hallelujah. And when you turn right back to God, you’re going to be ready for a Rapture. How is it going to be done? By the prophet’s Word. See? Certainly, I’ve no axe to grind. Don’t think so, phooey, I’ll quit preaching tomorrow. Never preach another word…I don’t care. But I know where I stand. I’m not going to be pushed away from this Word. When the prophet brought. “Return unto Me, and I’ll return unto you.” 46. And you say, “Where shall we return?” I’ve had an experience, I’ve got something going for me. I’m as good as the next guy. Why? I’m as good as the next guy, I can tell you that. Never have, and never will be. I don’t know too much, but I can read my Bible. As long as I read my Bible, I’m going to be smart. A lot of people think I have a big education. They’re sillier than I am. I don’t have a big education…not to amount to a hill of beans. I went through high school, but I could preach this way if I had gone only to grade eight. Wouldn’t matter, or grade five, or grade six. I spoke with perfect English in grade four, as I spoke in grade twelve, don’t worry. Not brains, not education. I can read. And I can hear. The prophet said, “That Malachi would turn the hearts of the children, back to the fathers.” And It said, from your fathers, you have gone astray, so therefore, this is for me. I’ve got to get turned back. Now, how am I going to get turned back? To the Word. Now, when I’m fully turned to the Word, I’m fully turned to God, and I returned to God. See? Certainly. Remember that little parable he told? A man had a hundred sheep, and ninety-nine were laying in the fold. Yeah, and one was out there in the wilderness. He went and got him, put him upon his shoulder and said, “Rejoice in one sheep is lost, and ninety-nine just sheep.” And everybody said, “Isn’t that sweet. How he wants a hundredfold, those lovely sheep.” Hogwash! There were ninety-nine in the fold, lying there in the self-delusion of their own justification. While the little sheep out there crying, “Our Father, Father.” And He came and brought him in, and He rejoiced that one out of hundred could look to Him for justification, Him bearing this and hallelujah. 47. Let’s get back to the Word my brother, my sister. Christ that Word, bearing us on His shoulder. Bearing us back to God. They say, “Where shall we return?” One man had the nerve to stand up near Jeffersonville, and say, “If William Branham were here today, he’d have to admit that he was wrong, and I was right.” I don’t have an axe to grind, just telling you these things. Where’s your spirit tonight? Where do you stand tonight? In antichrist or in Christ? Oh, the world is looking for antichrist , it’s going to take over these great big mobs and say, “Isn’t it terrible that such a beast should come?” Then…whump. Look, if you’ve been eating cake, all this Christmas season, and puddings and pies, (uh?) and lovely stuffing, and gravy. You don’t look at the scale, and you see ten pounds, and you say, “Oh, horrors, somebody came last night, and filled my shoes with lead.” You know who filled your shoes with lead, your stomach with fat. You did. You ate it. I lost eight beautiful pounds and maybe put on ten of ugly pounds. Who did it? My wife, did. Because you can’t trust women. She got a great big needle and she got some lead sulphate, …that’s a good enough thought…and she just pumped me full of it at night, and so my miserable mean wife, made me fat and ugly. She just …?... Isn’t that a beautiful story? The antichrist says, “…?...” He came up out of the people…they didn’t want the Word. They and he are one. They rejoice in it. They’re happy. See? No use, but Bro. Branham said, “I’m not against the people, it’s the organization.” Well, that’s very sweet. 48. Now, let’s look at something here. He said, “You’ve always got to do something, to make something happen.” So, he tossed the rock in the air, 'Thus Saith the Lord', started the whirlwind. Starts a suction, causes an earthquake. Is that right? All right. Here stands a Nicolaitan bunch of bishops. And they stand and they say, “We want the people to take over.” Yup. Now, there’s nobody to take over. See? Nobody. But inside there’s a group who doesn’t want the Word. So now, we’ve got something here, and something here. See? Something to start something. See? It’s got to be that way, or never would start. If God had not made Eve the way she was, which was a step down from the original, there would’ve been no problem. But He said to Adam, “For this woman, you are going to leave me.” And you will do it, because she will supply sexual intercourse, and she will get you all ready, and that will take care of it. That’s what the Word of God said she did. Now God said there’s a Nicolaitan spirit over here. And then Paul come along, and he said, “With John, the people turned down the Word.” Now, I’ve got a set-up. It was a Word doctrine, then the Spirit hits It. Once they want It, over here the Spirit hits It, energizes him, and they say, “Phooey to you John.” 49. You say, “Listen to you.” And that’s God. Hogwash. We listen to Billy over here…or his mother in law. His father in law, or somebody, or Josephine, or Amy, Catherine. See? They’re ready for you. Now, what happened? They get together. But listen. If they’d have stayed with the Word, Nicolaitanism never would have taken a hold. Now do you see what he’s saying? See? Come out of her my people. I don’t condemn you. I want to tell you something though. If they don’t come out, they are condemned. Because you and I don’t condemn anybody. They are already condemned. See? Let’s get the picture straight. Now, God sends the prophet. And he restores the true revelation. But today, they’re repenting, but are they getting something? Now, what’s repentance? A change of mind. What if you change your mind wrong? Change your mind. Change to what? Vindicated preaching. They’re being baptized. How? They’re being baptized wrong, Father, Son and Holy Ghost. They’re producing fruit. But not from the Word. They’re producing gifts, but not in accord with the Word. So, they’re still lost. 50. Now, let’s look at some examples in the Bible see where we're at tonight. I’m on my last six or eight pages, they take the longest to preach, I’m sorry. I get really wound up. All right. Eph 1:15-21 (15) Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus (Christ), and love unto all the saints, (Notice love and faith go together.) (16) Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; Now, listen. Here’s what Paul wants for the people. Laodicea doesn’t want it, but Paul does. (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: Now, listen. Pentecost started with the Word revealed in power. I’ll prove it to you. Simple as a-b-c. They said at Pentecost, “Peter, what does this mean, are they drunk?” He said, “This is that spoken by the prophet Joel. This is the Word of God you see in manifestation.” And the Word of God was revealed in power, but not in revelation. It took Paul to bring It. 51. Now, they knew the Word of God in power. But they didn't know It in revelation. It took Paul to bring it. No they knew the Word in power, not in revelation. And He may give you know not the spirit of power, which is dunamis. But the spirit of wisdom, and revelation in the knowledge of Him. That’s the experiential knowledge of Jesus Christ coming into your being and mine. (18) The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; … (See?) Where do your eyes function? In your mind. Your eyes are cameras. Your eyes are holes in your heads. Sensitive units. But you don’t see with your eyes, you see with your brain. You don’t hear with your ears, you hear with your brain. You can bypass your ears entirely, and hear. See? Your eyes the same way. Man can be taken right today and blindfolded. And by even his own human spirit, can reach out and describe colors and know things in a room that you couldn’t know ordinarily, and it’s not a devil either. The human spirit. So, don’t get fooled here. Talking about the mind in here. Now listen. The eyes of your understanding, God using your mind, which is a part of your spirit, (18) …that (you) may know (experiencially) what is the hope of his calling, … the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, (19) And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, … 52. Now listen. This follows the revelation. That’s why gifts are an adjunct. That’s why they’re on the shelf as it were. We have come to the day of the knowledge, the Son of man has been revealed through the Word of God to us. As Bro. Branham said, “She must know her husband, and she’s got to know it through the revealed Word.” Now, It says your eyes may see this, and then we come through the Resurrection power, which is what? The second part of the Rapture, the Shout, the Voice, then comes the Resurrection. Then comes the Rapture. See? (20) Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, And we also must be set with Him at the Wedding Supper. See? That’s what Paul wants for us. That’s what God wants for us. That’s what we’re going to have. And be over the world with Him, reigning and ruling with Jesus Christ in that honeymoon, the age of adoption. Now, that’s the right thing. 53. Let’s go to the wrong thing. 2 Timothy 3:4-9 (4) Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; What pleasure? In their own doctrines and creeds and dogmas. Unrighteousness. See? (5) Having a form of godliness, (Oh, they’re not out there boozing, drinking, shooting up the town. No, no, no, no, no, this is not the Mafia. Spiritual Mafia.)… denying the power … What power? What power? That power of revelation, which is in the Bride, through the knowledge and understanding of Him. That will put us in the Resurrection, and the Rapture. Denying what, then? The turning away of the revealed Word of God. You say, “Bro. Vayle would revelation do this?” 54. Listen. I swear by the Word that I read you…not that I’m swearing…but I swear I read the Word. And I did, or I tell you I read the Word, and you know I read the Word. And you know what I read. God’s oath to you. That you may know, which is a revelation. Which will put you in…. There’s a Shout. That’s when the latter rain falls on the former rain. And that’s how there’s a Rapture. Then the dead then come out of the ground. See? Look at it. Now, they deny the power. (5) … from such turn away. Who needs this Message? Who needs Elijah? I’ve got Jesus, Hallelujah. Denying the power of revelation of the Word of God. Now, let’s get a little serious tonight, about us people. I believe in the adoption, I believe in manifestation, but I'm not carried away. Not for one minute. Because I don’t care what God’s going to do in that period, that’s up to Him. But I do care about this because, this is mine. Whatever God wants me to do. Now, I want you to do it. When that time comes, you will be doing by divine instruction, exactly what to do. And everybody is so happy about it. But let me tell you something my brother, my sister, I’m happier right now over the fact I’m laying the foundation for It, by believing what He said. Because without this, anything else can be phooey and false. 55. The power of revelation. (See?) Who needs Elijah? I’ve got Jesus, Hallelujah. I’ve proof, I speak in tongues. Do miracles. Yeah, …?... does too, he's got a blue light. The light of God is amber, my brother, my sister. The blue light is of the devil. That blue light Bro. Branham talked to. And he said the name of the holy church, and the voice came back, “I am Jesus Christ. In the name of the Baptist Church, I’m Jesus Christ, in the name of one God, I’m Jesus Christ.” What do you want? He said, “In the name of Jesus Christ”, and the blue light went out. You want to put the blue light out, and bring the amber light? Huh? Hey, brother/ sister, the testimony to Jesus Christ is the spirit of prophecy. Everybody wants to prophesy here and there. The real spirit of prophecy is being with this Word tonight my brother, my sister. Huh? Well is it, or isn’t it? See, where are we? Now, he said here, “Hey, they got some …?... but they deny the power of revelation.” From such turn away. Leave them. See? All kinds of miracles and things. I’m not against miracles, I’m all for them, bless God. I wish I had more of them. I could use several miracles myself. Yeah. Should testify to them too. Glad to hear Bro. Rosenke, tell about his wife, how she got healed of cancer. Make your hair stand on end, your heart pump blood fast. You just feel so good in the presence of God. See? Certainly. All for it. But this is greater. (6) For of this sort are they which did creep into houses, and (did) lead captive silly women laden with sins, (and) led away with divers lusts, … 56. And they’re leading all Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian…the silly women to the Charismatic movement that’s going to lead us back to God. Phooey. Get stoned to it. To the rebellious, He gave gifts. The rebellious are those that turned down the Word. Like Korah, Dathan and Abiram, and the rest of them. And do you know what they’re lined up with? They’re lined up with the heathen. See? Jannes and Jambres. As Bro. Branham said, “Baptist, Methodist witchdoctors.” You say, “A prophet of God said that?” Yup, sure did, I liked it too. Oh, it illuminated things to me. Hallelujah. Witchdoctors. I didn’t say ‘which’, w-h-i-c-h, w-i-t-c-h. And you say, “Which witchdoctor?” Right? I just told you. Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian Pentecostal, Oneness, Twoness, the whole bunch of them. I might as well level out and be done with it. I thought that question was coming. Wasn’t me coming, it was just coming. Listen, laden with sins. Divers lusts, their pleasures. They've all got dozens of doctrines. Sure. (7) Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. What you and I’ve got, that Paul prayed for. You ever hear of a man praying such a funny prayer today? Why? What do you mean? I’ve got to have this, I’ve got to have that. I’ve got God, Hallelujah. They sure. Now, there you are. Listen. (8) Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: (That’s what he said in 2 Thessalonians) men of corrupt minds, …(The wrong remedy, the wrong prescription. The womb to an antichrist spirit) … reprobate concerning the faith. 57. A bunch of reprobate manifesting faith. But they’re reprobate concerning the true faith, which will take them out of judgement. But they shall proceed no further. Why? Because judgment is going to strike. That’s why. Do you think it’s just going to fold, and like the Arab, quietly fold their tents and sneak away. Brother/sister, I don’t deal in poetry, I deal in the Word of God. (9) (And they said) they shall proceed no further: … Why? Because they get swallowed in the antichrist . He with the brightness of His Coming, destroys them which stood before the Word of God. [2 Th 2:8] Amen. As their folly was manifest, Jannes and Jambres destroyed, the avenging angel coming. So, their folly. Korah, Dathan, Abiram, swallowed up in judgement. Oh, there’s a blessed day that’s coming, coming soon. It may be morning, evening, night or noon, the wedding of the Bride. See? And our Heavenly Bridegroom coming, certainly. As Noah’s flood brought Noah life, the world death. So, does the Coming of Jesus Christ, bring us life, but the world death. But, we have no part in it. Just the life. 58. Now, Satan would love to unsettle the Bride. He is even now trying to get her to leave the Word for creeds and dogmas, based on the prophet’s own Message. Yeah. Yup. Oh, I wrote this. I wrote this little message, by inspiration in Toronto, in September or October, I guess it was. And I wrote here, as I read to you, he [Satan] is even now trying to get her to leave the Word for creeds and dogmas based on the prophet’s own Message. But only this week coming down to visit you people, did I hear Bro. Branham on a tape, explaining that his vision of a sower that went forth to sow in the black garment, was the Seventh Seal Messenger sowing first. And you can only get error my brother, my sister, when the truth is first come. There could have been no Jannes or Jambres accountable, without Moses. Neither could there be a false prophet without William Branham first coming. Neither could there be a false Word, without the first Word. 59. And what it is based upon? Perverting the Word of God, not something else. And so, these men arise amongst us, they take the word of the prophet, and pervert it. How, my brother, my sister, I told when I start writing, I simply write. I challenge you to prove me off the prophet’s Message one word, I’ve got it right down here. And I’ll keep on preaching the truth, by divine inspiration. Yes, my brother, my sister, they’ll take the prophet’s Message, …they’ll take quote upon quote, to lead you off the very thing the prophet taught. Sure. Let me tell you something. The Bride is not fooled. Little Billy Smith hasn’t been in this Message too long, just a little while. But being a Nazarene from background, and Christian Missionary Alliance, and a little bit like that. He could just catch the idea of something dying you know. But you leading on in your sin, the old Methodist perversion of entire sanctification, or eradication. But it doesn’t work. Men taking quote upon quote. Don’t be so naïve, they’ll not go back to the Methodists, they’ll not go to the Baptists, they’ll not go to Pentecost. They’ll go to this doctrine. As the prophet taught they'll to rise up and twist it to their own ends. Such nonsense. See? We’re not trying to be self-righteous, that’s hogwash, phooey on that stuff. Let’s just stay with the Word. For the unlearned, wrest what Bro Branham said, and instead of going to the Word of God, they use quote upon quote out of context. Which no more lines up with the Bible than nothing. Yeah. eree 60. Beloved we must beware, lest we end up a part of the foundation of organization, with our creeds and our dogmas. Leaving the true revelation of His Word, which the Bible …not a man’s sermons, but the Bible is self-contained. Now, get it. Bro. Branham didn’t preach sermons that you and I listen to. He preached the Word of God in sermon form. Then go to your Bible. Then go to your Bible. See? Do you follow what I said? He preached the Bible in sermon form. You don’t go to his sermons and quote, quote, quote back and forth. You go from his sermon to the Word. See? Because he said, “Once you see this Message right, that’s all you will ever see in this Word.” Then go to that Word. He said, “The tent vision slid into the Word where it came from, and if you want the tent, go to the Word.” Talk about the white horse rider, the Word. Let any vision come to pass, any way it wants. I want the Word. Now, stay with the right, which is righteousness, which is the original pattern which has been vindicated, which is irrevocable as God Himself, because the Word is God. It is a proven Message, that Bro. Branham gave us, the Word of the hour revealed. Study that Message, then as he did, go to the Word, and that’s all you will see in the Bible. 61. Now, listen. I’m reading my notes. If you get wrong ideas in the prophet’s teaching, you won’t find it in the Bible. Or how could he say, “It’s death to add one word, or take one word?” This man is repeating the apostle Paul. “If I, or an angel of God change one Word, let him and me be accursed.” [Gal 1:8] And if there’s not one Word added or changed, then, it’s this Word. Now, take your cue from Bro. Branham. He said, “When that Messenger swept in the room that day, and revealed what the wine and the oil was, (he went to his concordance, he said) here it is, and here it is, and here it is. The Students like to hear that. And over here, yes, look at it…look at it, look at it.” He didn’t say, “Well, bless God, one seal, two seals, three seals, four. Here we come to five, bless God. Amen. Now, what we’ll do with this. Take the Fourth seal, One against Two, Two against Three, and Four against Five.” Like some auctioneer. Keep playing some kind of jazzed up Pentecostal hogwash. All dance around, glory to God. Everybody feel good, you feel good, that’s it. Each time he went to the Word. So, what are you and I doing then? Well, let’s see, this tape says this. That tape says that. Over here, it says this, that must be right. Therefore, let’s see if it lines up or forget it. Hogwash. Take you back to the Word, is back to the Word. He didn’t have the Word, as though he had the Word. It was already here, and had, he corrected the errors. 62. Don’t you remember when they tried to lay a trap and say, “Bro. Branham, with your gift you could rewrite the Bible.” Rewrite the Bible! You’ve got to be sick. Whoever rewrote a pattern? Measure the length of a ray of the sun, or some special light, or an x-ray. And somebody said, “Well, I’ll just tell you, I’ll change the length of that x-ray.” Oh, you will, will you? You fathead. You think you’re God? Huh? “I’ll rewrite the Bible, Hallelujah.” Yeah. Talk like that to a man like William Branham. Somebody’s sick. Somebody’s wrong. Somebody’s got the wrong spirit. Let me tell you flat. Try to catch him. Lay a trap. Huh. They tried to lay their traps. But do you know what? You build a trap. Yeah. You build a trap, you know who’s going to get caught? He that’s digging a ditch for his neighbor, then he’s going to fall in. Yeah. Study to see, then, go to your Bible. It just won’t be there. See? If you’ve got something wrong. Now, but this prophet’s Message, and the Bible is one. So, that is how we know we are in the truth and not caught away in the deceit. Now we can see that it would be impossible to have Elijah come and receive the Son of man…the whole Word, without revealing at the same time the antichrist . Because he’s anti-Word. 63. Now, if I’ve got the Word, Pentecost said, “Tongues is the evidence,” and the prophet says, “No. It’s right here in John 14: and in 1 Corinthians 2: it’s knowing the Word of the hour, in your day.” Well beautiful. I took care of that. See? Now, then what is that doctrine? Antichrist . Now, you go to them and say, “Look, here’s the Bible, here’s the vindicated truth.” And they say, “Oh, no, never, never. Now, Bro. Vayle, you cannot take away my experience. I spoke in tongues, and Hallelujah, this is everything.” Oh, they love what they’ve got. Now, where are they going to go? To where they got their creed and their dogma. Now, Bro. Branham categorically laid out for us in a tape…I forget where it is, because, my memory is too rotten, and I don’t make notes on those things…but he told us, that he revealed the antichrist . How’d he do it? By revealing Christ, the Word, and I’ve got my righteousness. I’ve gotten my pattern. I’ve gotten my standard. I’ve got the irrevocable. I’ve got the unchanging. I’ve got God. I say, “Do you line up with God the Word?” Judge this world by Jesus Christ, the world. And He said, “I indict this generation. They turned to Pentecost, to Baptist, to Methodist.” 64. Now, where’s your antichrist ? Where is he? Anti-Word, coming against the revealed truth. Now, here is your antichrist perversion. It’s the perversion of the Word of Almighty God. Now, for when Christ the Word was revealed, we were back to the original, and perfect pattern. And with the original pattern, you can see where the church strayed, what she strayed from, and how and what the antichrist is. Experience, atonement, but you’ve got to come our way. See? “Oh,” said some, “I’m liberal, you don’t got to believe what we believe.” Nah, then, “I say, do you believe Elijah first, got to come?” And someone says, “Yeah, I sure believe that too.” And I say then, “Look, what does it mean for Him to come?” And latter rain says, “Oh, that’s a bunch of us, that’s all of us.” Another bunch say, “Oh, that’s the gifts of the Holy Spirit.” But they are all here and that didn’t do it. But go back to Deuteronomy 4: you can’t add, or take away one Word. Don’t listen to a guy like that. Deuteronomy 18: when a man comes in the Name of the Lord, and the things said, comes to pass, you hear him. Now then, if I’m to hear that man, he can’t add, or he can’t take. That’s the man I’m looking for. Because he brings me back, takes Revelation 22:18 and 19 I’m ready for the Rapture. Now, do you talk about Christian grace. So do I. You talk about Christian privilege. So do I. But let’s go back to what the Word said. Elijah comes and restores, and when he does, he reveals Christ. And there stands the antichrist. See? Simple as a-b-c. The perfect pattern…listen, the perfect pattern then became the judge. Right? 65. All right. Let’s find out. Here, “I was in the spirit on the Lord’s Day,” said John. John prophesying the things would come to pass. To the Seven Church Ages, to you and me. Now, "I was in the Spirit and I heard behind me a great voice." [Rev 1:10] And I looked, and in the Bride, was a judge. Now, what’s a judge for? A judge is to judge. And what’s he going to judge between? He’s going to judge as he is supposed to judge. As the world is going to be judged. By one, Christ Jesus. But who is He? He’s the Word. The judging Word at the last time brother/sister, stood up as that Lamb, without spot and blemish. And took upon His royal robes and stands there. 66. Now listen. Let’s go to James. Might as well nail it down with a sledge hammer and spike. All right, here you are. “Be patient,” James 5:7 (7) Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, (that’s Resurrection) and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. The teaching rain. And the living life to make the Word live in you. (8) (But) also (patience); stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh. (9) Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest (you) be condemned: … In other words, quit your fussing and your fighting, saying, “I’ve got it, he doesn’t, so on. Why? Because, the Judge is standing there. What Judge? The Word. Go to the Word. “Oh well, I go to this vision. I go to that vision. I go to this.” I don’t go to those things. I go to the Word. Now, what about the people today that say they follow this Message? Fussing here, and fussing there. What did the prophet say to the preachers coming together to confess what God’s doing? Tell the great things God’s doing amongst you. Bring up your problems, if you’ve got them. See? Pray for each other. But somebody stands back, and will say, “No sir. Because I believe in a certain vision,” or something else. Now, where do you stand? You say, “Bro. Vayle, you talk as though we’re the whole Bride.” Listen, you better act as though you were the whole Bride. 67. Let’s get that flat. Not up here in some city, or some other city down here. You forget about Houston. You forget about Austin, New Orleans, and every place else. You better act as though you’re the Bride. Notice, there’s nobody else but you, as far as responsibility is concerned. Think we can have some idea here and there. He said, “Grudge not.” Don’t you start your complaining, this and that. There’s a Judge standing at the door. What is that judge? He is that Judge, that Word. It has been revealed, standing amongst us. And there’s your Judge, right there. Hardening onto that Word, the prophet sets the example. He said, “That I do nothing but live for.” Let me tell you something about that Word that came from the prophet. Let me tell you therefore, it’s going to be the same thing with us. I was up in New York, in ’64 November. Bro. Branham had come back from his experience out in Colorado, where he came across the things of God, the revelation. And I knew something happened to him. But I was wise, I knew his ways. I didn’t say, “Bro. Branham, I look at you and I know something happened, tell me.” Wouldn’t that be nice now. You don’t do that. You wait, he’s going to talk, not you. He told me an experience. How when He stopped it, the great storm there. Eternal life has got to me. You can’t talk about love, and not produce it. When it’s not the Word of God. Now, do you see where we are and why we have this Word? How can you bastardize It, hybridize It, and bring forth the glory of God? It’s impossible. 68. Listen, Jesus Christ had not yet died, and been glorified. When He said, “Father, glorify Me, with the glory I had with You, before the foundation of the world.” And a Voice came from heaven, a thunder, and said, “I have glorified it, I will glorify it.” Let me tell you, I believe there’s going to be a Bride standing here when those Thunders break loose, and He’s going to glorify you with that same glory, and going to catch us in a Rapture. Let me tell you flat. That Word’s going to do it, and that Word is going to bring down your and my theophany, to join us together and catch us away to God, for a complete glorification. See? Not one Word’s going to fail to come to pass. But every Word is going to come to pass, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Word test clearly defines the unrighteousness in the church. But the church loves its unrighteousness, and called it righteousness. It’s truly deceived. And you can’t convince a deluded person. So, Christ is outside the church, calling for a complete separation from all that is not perfect to the pattern. See? Now, may we never leave this pattern. Why? Because to leave it, is to leave Jesus Christ. Then, every promise becomes vain. Every hope that a man has, falls to ashes, if one Word is changed. Instead of all the squabbling I see going on, how much better that people draw within their own souls, and tabernacle themselves with God. In their own secret chamber. Until deep calling unto deep. The depth of God comes to a man’s soul, because that’s what’s going to take him in a Rapture…which is this Word of God. Nothing else, my brother, my sister, nothing else. Nothing else. “That he shall turn the hearts of the children back to the Father. Lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.” [Mal 4:6] 69. And listen, my brother, my sister. If this is true, then this Word has removed the curse. [Bro. Vayle and congregation sings:] Brother/sister, cover It all over, now with blood now, but by the and by the Blood of Jesus, Blood of God which is Jesus Christ, which is that Word putting on immortality. It is by that Word, I am hiding in Thee. I am not hiding behind experience, not hiding behind a creed, not behind a dogma, but in that Word. "Rock of Ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself in Thee." Why? It was Jesus made flesh. Brother/sister, I am enthused tonight, I have great gain in my soul. Stimulated by the revelation of God’s Word, that this is It, that I am standing here until one day flesh becomes Word, and Word becomes flesh. And Word becomes Word. In other words, living reality. Hallelujah. [Bro. Vayle and congregation sings some more:] I think this is the hour my brother, my sister, to let bygones be bygones. Let feelings go their way. You’re all going to walk that lonesome road. Don’t you misunderstand for one minute. Our prophet said, “They do raise these churches, as far as they know.” You and I will be left alone. I won’t have any pastor brothers to go to, as far as I believe what's coming to the future could well come. You might not have so many to be with. Roll it back as Bro. Branham said, “It’s all sweet now.” But it’s going to change and we’ll look back to have those days. Jesus said the same things. He said, "You'll recall one of those days the Son of man, but you won’t see Him.” Our fellowship is sweet tonight, let's call, bygones be bygones. Let’s wipe the records clean. Let’s get all sin out of our way. Never mind what anybody does. We’re going on with Jesus Christ. This is now between you and me, but the Judge is in the midst and we’re going to stand on our own two feet. 70. For every man must give account, not somebody else. That’s how we get the truth brother/ sister. Yes sir. Remember, Paul the apostle said “We’re not unaware of Satan, and the way he does things.” And the way He does things is an unforgiving spirit. What does it matter what anybody does? Really, they haven’t done it against us. They’ve done it against Christ. See? Then Paul said, the very thing William Branham said, he said, “Go on loving that person.” How’s he going to do it? He said, “Because you're knowing me, and knowing you're loving them through Me.” Then Paul the apostle said the same thing. If I am to forgive any man in Christ Jesus, I forgave him. Paul said the same thing, I can forgive that man I could loved that man, because it’s Christ in me doing it. Oh, I loved that prophet with all of my heart. I loved the way he said, "It's Word, Word, Word, nothing but Word, it's Reality." And I'll love with Reality, I taught with Reality, but the one day by the grace of God, I’ll join hands with Reality. Talk …?... Bro. Branham talked about Jesus Christ. But I know he was my instructor to Him. Though I have ten thousand teachers, ten thousand experiences. He was my instructor in Jesus Christ, the Word. [Bro. Vayle and congregation sings:] Shall we rise at this time: Our Heavenly Father, going on our way shortly, Lord, knowing that tomorrow will herald the end of the year. That now, we are closer to the end of the world. We are closer than when we first believed unto our final step of salvation. The purchase price was paid for us. And You paid it by giving us a measure of the Holy Ghost. And we sold ourselves Lord, for that same spirit, in captivity, in You and for You. That You might have all that glory You have in our lives. But, Lord, until this point, it’s been a precarious position as it were. Because we were not turned by that Word. And even now, Lord, we’re in the process of turning. O Lord, may the bells of heaven peel out in joy. May the trumpet blast, …jubilee, free, captive never more, to be caught up in this turmoil and the problems of sin. For, Lord, we’re soon to be caught away to You. Oh Lord, we believe that. And help us, Lord, to be so enamored. To be so, one with It, Lord, that this is all we will want. And esteem It far above our daily bread. Deliver us, O God, from the thralldom of this age. Which is in the world…eat, drink, and be merry, which is the world says. And also, we’re rich, increased in goods and have need of nothing. Lord, turn us completely we pray. That we may see ourselves in Your Word, our God. And see ourselves fully identified, and then rise up as Bro. Branham often said concerning that colored man that came to America as a slave. He knew that he was the son of a king. O Lord, we know that You reach beyond all color, and all barriers. And You’ve come right down to the heart of every man, which has to be seed, to be in Your kingdom. And, Lord, Your seed cries out tonight. We have heard the Eagle Shout. The cry beyond our eyes. The Lord above that, it was our privilege to be one of those, and some us of here tonight, can say the same thing. That we crawled out of the chicken yard, and we came to where that eagle-prophet was. And there we sat to be hovered, by Him, and to be nourished by the Word. And, Lord, it was goodly. But, now, Lord, there is something else. And that is we…as the prophet said, “That widow,” typing the Bride. Who would give meat in due season, to that one. And that prophet came, and said, “Give me a drink.” Make a little cake, and he said, “She was the same nature.” He went to one of the same nature. Even as the Dove was leading a lamb, because of the same nature. And here we are, Lord, and we remember and recall so vividly, that how we were in his presence, and how we stood as it were the Word in the Presence of God. And received him as the Galatians did Paul, even as though he were Jesus Christ. Though indeed, he in the flesh he was not, but he brought the Word. And, Lord, tonight we pray that same Spirit, and that same nature, and that same life, O God, which we saw abundant, which was, as it were the Manna that Moses ate, and gave to the people. May we , O God, be not as Israel who became weary of the Manna . But, Lord, the stimulation of the Manna of our hour, let it, O God, so inspire us until there is nothing left but the Word. And we as men beside ourselves, heretics in the eyes of all others, stand with that Word, and to become that Word. Oh God in heaven, hear our prayer. Answer us, Lord, according to Thy Word. We want no other answer . Continually revealing It, we pray, Lord God. Until the Daystar arise, and mortality puts on immortality. Corruptibility puts on incorruptibility. And we’re changed, to meet You in the air. Bless every person we pray, O God. And I pray now, Lord, as the prophet often said, “All scoured out, may we be scoured out.” God in Heaven with one mighty sweep of Thy Word, break down every barrier, within the womb of our minds. Sweep out every seed, every evil. Until the garner is swept clean. And the seed Word of God, is in there, feeding and nourishing us, until what else could we come forth except as it were the bread of God. A Bride, the body of Jesus Christ. Lord, these aspirations are too high for us. Except that you gave us the invitation. And, Lord, You gave us the invitation. As the fluttering of the wings of a mother bird coming upon a nest, rousing those little ones to squawk and to squeal, Lord, and to scream for that food. Tonight, we’re just the same way, little birds in a nest, as it were. Growing our feathers, but screaming for the eagle food. Feed us, Lord. Feed us, Lord, on this Bread of Life, come down from Heaven, until the substance of God, becomes our substance. We believe it’s possible, Lord. We believe it, O God, according to Your Word. So, we’re asking of these mercies in Jesus. And we believe therefore, we have a right for them. And by faith we expect. Lord, increase our expectations. May love consume us all, in the Name of Jesus Christ, we pray. For His glory. Amen. The Lord bless you. May God be gracious to you. And may the grace be manifest. Let’s leave, sing that little song ‘Take the Name of Jesus’ with you'. Antichrist Deception (0374) Page PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 1