Appearing and Coming # 1 Bro. Lee Vayle - February 4, 1980 Let’s pray. Heavenly Father, we thank You for Your love and mercy which is beyond our comprehension, knowing, Lord, that You have already said that it would be. "For eye hath not seen, nor hear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things You've prepared for them," that You have revealed them by Your Spirit. In such a way that it is infinitesimal, it is merely potential according to what actually lies there. And yet every now and then we see and through Your grace and mercy in our own lives and Your grace and provision in all things. So, we can thank You, Lord, that in it all no matter what it is happening Your faithfulness abides true in what You have promised, You will perform and It shall be seen. And we're very grateful, Lord, that at that day when we see these great promises of God fulfilled. Such promises, Lord, that we have a little inkling of, and just could not really believe for them, and there they will be there. Then we know that it will not be accounted in faithlessness. We don't believe that going to happen, Lord, it's just going to be an element of surprise after surprise of the goodness of God. So, we thank You, Lord, for your mercy and grace this morning. May we be like Jacob who when he sang to You for Your goodness, Your care, Your provision. Thank You above all for truth, which is what really matters today. That we pray, Lord, that we may be part of that truth, and now our ears are able to hear and comprehend what lies therein, which is what lies within Yourself. So, we commend ourselves to You this morning and commit ourselves to You in Jesus' Name. Amen. You may be seated. You think it a little strange you see me walk in a little late I think I would have got here exactly on time but the train set me back one minute, I think I would have made it. But that wasn't what stopped me getting here, I had so many phone calls to make to try to get some things ironed out for some people over there. I don't like being late, but if I am late there's usually pretty good reasons for it. One day I will be late, they'll say, "The late Lee Vayle," and I'll be dead. 1. I read a little article in the 'Reader's Digest', it's so true, this fellow looked up for the place used to go to get his glasses and he couldn't find it. It was under 'vision center'. So, he looked under government, everything was center, (you know) right there he ended up at, 'bowling alleys', 'recreation center'. Well he said, "There's got to come a time when there's going to be quote that'll end all quotes on centers and that's when the mortuary is called 'dead center'. [laughter] There's always somebody hit's the nail right on the head. It's too bad the preachers don't. Like Bro. Branham said, "The Ten Commandments, (he said) that's a whole lot better sermon than a whole better sermon then most preachers ever preached." I was about ready to quit right then, because I was ready to quit a long time before that. As long as I looked you know it's always good to try to get the leading of the Lord. Before I left to go out west I had a date set up for the twenty-ninth, and I knew I should go on the twenty-ninth. And after I phoned and said, "Well, I don't think I can make it, what about an appointment later?" 2. They said, "Well, what it is, you're getting in the morning at seven o'clock and we'll work you any morning at all." So, I said, "That's sounds great." And I went out there and so I preached on Saturday night, and I won't tell you what my feelings were. It's alright, everybody's got a lot of help. But I've been too long in the ministry not to know certain things. And so, it was alright, maybe Sunday morning I started to feel kind of funny, my eyes were going kind of funny, felt kind of dead in the head and I couldn't shake myself and I preached Sunday night. It was alright, I got through with it, because I'm pretty fair at concentrating on a subject. So, I had to get worse, so Wednesday night…I don't know, my wife might have caught it, but I was ready to vomit or pass out in the pulpit. So, I got out of there before I could finish my sermon Thursday, time to go down to Mexico. I lay in the back seat of the car all day, better Friday, all day in the back seat of the car. Saturday about the same thing until about Monday started to feel a little better. 3. I'm trying to get across to you, if the Lord lets you get a little feeling about a thing, don't put it aside, because He'll let you do it, then, you pay for it. See, you always pay for things, maybe not too seriously, but you just don't put it by the leading of the Lord. I should have been there the twenty-ninth that was the time. And I should have left earlier and everything would have been much better. Although I must admit everything worked out wonderfully, because God's good and helped us anyway. But everything could be that much better, 'if ' you just will listen to the Voice of the Lord. That's what really counts, what I was really leading up to with all these other little remarks. Just to get you in good frame of mind. So, next time you feel any leading, make sure that it's of the Lord, it's really a leading of the Lord. Not something you want, and then you just go right ahead and God will bless you. 4. Now, this morning is a beginning of a series which I may not get to, second portion for a long time, because hopefully I'll be gone again by next Sunday. I simply can't put meetings off and put them off, and put them off. It's already the end of February, spring is just coming right around the corner and things like that, which doesn't affect me, it's just a matter of a kind of letting you know how the seasons are going. But we to talk about the 'Appearing' and the 'Coming' of the Lord. And to do so, I'm going to recapitulate by going over material we took three years ago, which I'd be willing to bet a hundred dollars to a hole in a donut you haven't got it. See, you forgot it by now. Things don't sink in. I mean let's face it. 5. And I'm going to read something Bro. Branham said here to start us off, and then we'll get into a couple of more sermons, hopefully, sometime down the road. And Bro. Branham says here in: [End Time Evangelism 62-06-03] and I can't read too much, because I got just a small portion typed, just written out here. It says here: [29] …See, they had a testimony that they seen the Lord, And the others didn't believe it, and He upbraided them because of the hardness of their heart. They didn't believe these people who had seen that He was not dead, "He's alive." [30] Same thing today, when you see His work. Now, we know we have already seen and are witnessing the appearing of the Lord. Now remember, appearing and coming is two different words: to appear and then to come. Now is the appearing; He's already appeared in these last days, right here with us in the last few years. Now, it (that's time, the appearing) is the sign of His coming. He's appearing in His Church in the form of the Holy Spirit, showing that's Him, 'cause people cannot do these things that you see the Holy Spirit doing; so that's the appearing of the Lord. Now, remember, it spoke both places, "appearing" and "coming." Now, this is a most accurate statement. Perhaps not spoke in the most brilliant language, but absolutely plainly and perfectly put. 6. Now, what we're going to do is go to 1 Thessalonians 4: which I took extensively as the 'Parousia' almost three years ago to the date. And we're going to see here what is called 'The Appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ' by every fundamental group, that so-called group that's full of the Holy Ghost. And I say this, not to mean that everybody believes it this way, but it is the majority opinion. Which of course is always wrong. And you know that ever since the days of Noah. Eight people got saved the rest died. And that shows the minority is very, very small. All right 1 Thessalonians 4:13, (13) But I would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that (you) sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. (14) For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also (that) sleep in Jesus will God bring (forth) with him. The word is 'bring is forth' there, and I absolutely relate this to the opening of the Seals where Jesus comes forth from the midst of the Throne. Because they could not possibly come forth until after the opening of the Seals, and Christ coming forth. Now, Christ is revealed at this time in the Throne, in the midst of the Throne, but He has not come forth, but there will be a coming forth. Not just that God brings forth the dead with Him, because Jesus was brought forth, but that is not so. It is also the bringing forth can only come at the time when Jesus is brought forth in the Appearing. (Do you follow me?) Listen carefully to what I'm saying, because you're not going to get it otherwise, just go over the tapes. 7. Now, we go further. (15) For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, … That's 'Thus Saith the Lord') that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent… (now, that word, the Latin word ‘ut prius' which means 'to go before'. Bro. Branham used the word 'hinder' which is also perfectly fine, because it is true that there's nothing in the living that will hinder the dead, and so on. But really it means ‘ut prius' which means 'to go before', or ascend up ahead of those that are in the ground. (15) For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, them which are asleep. (16) For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: (17) Then we which are alive and remain (unto the coming of the Lord, we which are alive and remain) shall be caught up together (to meet) in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Now, the original…let me just say this first: so, I talk about the original. You will notice in here that It says, "The Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a Shout, with a Voice of the archangel the trump of God." Now, then It says, after It says that, "He descends we’ll be caught up to meet Him in the air." Now, the point is what I want to look at is, if He has already descended…if He has already descend, see? Then Who is up there to get caught up to. You follow me? Read it again. We'll take out time, I'm going to cut the sermon anyplace I feel like cutting it, and we're going to go. I want you to try to keep you too long, let me look at this again. 8. This we say: "The Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a Shout." He's going to descend. He is talking about the living and the dead. And the dead will be rising here on the earth. So, he's talking about Jesus descending. Then It says, "We are going to be caught up to meet Him." Now, if He has already descended, how are you going to get caught up to meet him? Now, the fundamentalists get around it very, very nicely. And I know there is some of you here this morning who were fundamental, and perhaps you're still fundamental, because you haven't had a chance to think it out. And on the thought, it's simply this, they say, "Why you see, He comes so fine and stops." (See?) Then we get caught up after He stops. I would like you to prove it. Anybody can talk. And if I were as vulgar this morning as I usually am, I'd make some very pithy statements here. It'd be as Mary said, “Really our recent statement, just to stir you.” Because people cannot be stirred, unless you either make them laugh, or hit them with a four by four as you so stun them. Then you got to start thinking. I'd like you to prove it. Please show me that He stops. 9. Now, let's just go to the Book of Ephesians. Now let us see why the fundamentalist is nothing more than funny-mentalist, (pardon the expression I don't what to get too crude) and no more got the Holy Ghost than nothing (so, you’d know.) Chapter 4 of Ephesians: And I have gone over this many, many times with you, and there is no Trinitarian that doesn't understand it. Because it was a Trinitarian that showed me this. Now watch, verse 8. (8) …When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. Who? That's Jesus. Now watch: (9) Now that he ascended, (on high. Now he that ascended) what is it but that he also descended first into the (lowest) parts of the earth? That's right, Jesus died, right? Then He rose again, right? Now watch the next verse: (10) He that descended is the same also that ascended… So therefore, the One that came down was the One that went up. So therefore, the Son of man came down took upon Himself, human flesh, died, went into hell, rose again, came back. Now, how did He come back? As the Holy Ghost. Now, you got rid of one god right there. God the what? The Son. No? God the Holy Spirit. Right? Simple as ABC, and Trinitarian knows this. Then why are they Trinitarians? Why does Vincent remain a Trinitarian when I had Vincent's volume on this? He said, "He came back as the Holy Ghost." Vincent killed one god, just like that, but he's still got three. Now, we just got to go to the Bible and hit the Bible just the way the Bible hits us. There's no use kidding. We got the same thing right here. 10. Now, I want to ask you a question, is Jesus up there? Well, is he? What is he? Certainly. The body was raised as a memorial. And what is it, Psalms 24:7 and he said, "Who is this? He lifted up his head ye gates everlasting doors, and let the King of glory come in." Who is It? Jesus. Jesus the man resurrected. Is up there in the midst of the Throne pleading for you and me. He is a man. I want to preach on Jesus, my Jesus as a man one day, I’m just creating an atmosphere, because I'm sick and tired of all this crud they preach about Him. And all the junk they preach about Bro. Branham. I want to get it where it belongs, as the Word of Almighty God, because I love Jesus, I'm depending on Jesus. And if He's then I'm finished. And if He's misplaced and I've misplaced Him I'm finished, if you don't tamper with God. Now He's up there in human form, but He's here in the Holy Spirit. Now, there's a big difference about being here in the Holy Spirit as the Father of all creation, and as the Father of individual human beings by rebirth. (We'll hit that later on.) 11. We're going back to 1 Thessalonians again. (16) For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, … Then there's got to be a time concerning the Scripture that says, (13) …I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as (them) which have no hope. (14) For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. Now, and then It says that, "They will not go ahead of us." So, he's talking as I mentioned three years ago, he is telling what is going to happen at the time of a certain coming of Jesus, concerning the living and the dead upon this earth when they mingle right together. And Jesus is going to be there, and they're going to be caught up with Him to be there. (See?) Now, what Jesus is here, and what Jesus is there? See, I just told you. What if you see the Son of man ascend where He was before? "Father glorify me with the glory I had before the beginning of the world." [Jn 17:5] (See?) Put your Scripture together, It all lines up. So therefore, there is an Appearing. And the 'Appearing' is not the 'Coming'. Part of It, precedes It. Okay, we understand this much. 12. But now, we're going to look at the Word and It says, "remain unto the Coming of the Lord." [1 Th 4:15] And the word 'coming' is not 'come', anymore than that grand piano is a horse, or a tractor, or one of your silo's that's full of corn. It's not a bird feeder. A piano, right? This word 'coming' in not coming, period. It is not coming by any stretch of the imagination whatsoever, because it is a word 'Parousia' which means 'Present'. And It is not the event of the arrival, or the exact time the person came, but the person having come, the same Person is here remaining Present for an extended period of time. And perhaps never even leaving. So, It has nothing to do with coming. Lee Vayle is not coming. He has already come. He is present. The word 'present' has nothing to do with the time of my arrival. It is a specific word focusing entirely upon the fact of the person being there. I don't care if he came by dogsled, or by airplane, or by a car, or by a train. Or he dropped through the ceiling, or he materialized. He's here, Present! For the Lord Himself is going to be Present with the sleeping, that are no longer sleeping and with the living that are already there. Now I want to read It right. You know why? They don't dare read It right. Because they're going to say, "Oh no, how did this happen?" Who knows? God knows, ‘theology in extreme’, none of our preachers have ever said it. Well fine, I'll take you to where It's found in the Scripture. I'll take you where some people have the guts to say, "what about this?" (See?) 13. Old Vine says, "This Word is so peculiar, it's a pity anybody ever translated it." If they just say, "Parousia," then go to the Greek and find what It means, and say, "Hey, that's strange, the Lord is going to be Present." (See?) And right away, they're going to say, "But He always was Present." (phfft!) Come on. Always the same old story. Man. never lets his mind go to find what the Word of God really said. I can preach rough, and hard, because we had a vindicated prophet. Do you think I'd preach this if I hadn't been standing on something solid? Come on, I'd we worse than a dead fundamentalist. No more guts than a rubber chicken. Come on, I'm not up here bold and brave, because Lee Vayle knows something. Never kid yourself. I don't preach it because I know anything. I look… I'm not smart, but I ain't stupid. A person, Rotherham says, "This Word cannot be interpreted, but must be left until God Himself does it, then we'll know what it is?" (Yeah) Rotherham. He was full of the Holy Ghost, the rest of them. So was Benson. You got…"how can a man like those fellows be full of the Holy Ghost and be so wrong in their doctrine as we know it today?" Because it wasn't the hour. Look it, if you don't know something you're not going to be held accountable. It's when you face it and walk away is when you're accountable. (See?) You can do a lot of things in this life. A lot of people…some of you right now are doing the wrong things. And you don't understand what you should be doing. God will reveal it to you, or you'll pay a little price. But you don't… they won't meet down the road, it'll be under the Blood. Boys look like you when you swing you turn on the light, but when you refuse to bring it to the Light. (See?) 14. Why do you think women today turn down…the fact that the way our women dress? They don't dare bring it to the Light. Because they're going to be condemned. There is no place they can turn and hide when you bring in Light, but they just turn and walk right away from the Light. Why do you think homes are being split left and right? They've always been split in the Message, in the Word of God of the hour. Don't think the Word is unique here. They split in Luther's day. They split in Wesley's day. They'll always split. You know why? Because three people can't sleep in a bed. Because as soon as a woman's born again there's three in a bed. There's Jesus there too. And I'm not talking of a carnal sense. I'm just telling you in a plain flat sense, there's another Presence there. And if a man get's born again, and the woman isn't born again, that third Person, and that woman will hate that Man if she's not born again. And that man will hate that Man if he's not born again. You don't have to set a plate at your table and say, "The unseen guest is Jesus." And put a chair there, He's there anyway. (See?) People don’t want to bring it to the Light. Start bringing things to Light is a different matter entirely. 15. Now, Rotherham says here, "That we've got to wait until God Himself brings it into view, then we'll know what it is." That's right. That's the way revelation always is, (the apocalypses which I won't talk about this morning, that's another message. It's something that's under a cover. Like the sculptor, he's been sculpting and now he's got this beautiful piece of work; and it's veiled and nobody can see it. But sudden he pulls the strings and here it is. Nobody knew what it was going to be. It was a piece of marble, a piece of rock, a piece granite or something. But he was working behind curtains, and one day he pulled the strings and said, "there it is." That's what this is all about, this word 'coming'. The word 'coming' means 'present'. Where, “The Lord Himself descend from heaven with a Shout." [1 Th 4:16] The shall be Present. That's where we get the understanding of the word 'appearing'. Which I will discuss with you so you'll understand later, (but not this morning) exactly what that is all about. (See?) Because you just simply cannot bandy words and get away with it. And say, "This is the Appearing." If this is the Appearing, tell me about It. (See?) 16. "Well, (they say) I could tell you what the Appearing is what you see Bro. Vayle. What It is, is Jesus comes down part way, you know, he comes screaming out of heaven like a mad man, and before He gets down here he stops, and He raises the dead, and He blows a big trumpet, (womp, womp, womp) and we come up to meet him." Have it your way. But what about this word 'presence'? Because if He's there and I'm here then there's no presence. They say, "Well, Bro. Vayle, that has to do with you see, He's always Present." Hogwash! Then if He's always Present, He's always there, and there's a resurrection going on all the time. (Uh?) Well, come on now. What was He, right or wrong? Come on, let's get our thinking caps on, and see what we're into. If you believe all this hogwash that's been preached all these years. Then don't stand with the vindicated prophet, stand there saying 'Thus saith the Lord'. Every time he said it, it came right to pass. Stand there in every meeting and say, "We'll ask Him to come." And say, "He's here." And then say, "He's Hebrews 4:12-13 go into effect as no other person could ever even begin to effect. How many have read Hebrews 4:12 and 13 and you begin to understand? I don't want to get ahead of myself, it's easy, because I'm not watching my notes. And if I don't watch my notes I can get ahead of myself and preach six hours. (My stomach can't stand it, I had a light breakfast this morning. Your head couldn't stand it either, so let's that straight.) [laughter] I know what I'm talking about. If I could preach these sermons ten, twelve, fourteen, sixteen times in a row, and just begin to understand what I am saying; for hundreds of Scripture begin flashing and dovetailing until there's nothing left out. 17. All right: (12) For the word of God is quick, and powerful, … Now, the Word of God is quick and powerful, what's he talking about? The Word of God! Okay, let's find out what It is pretty soon. (12) …sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, joints and marrow, a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (13) Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his (not It, but His) sight: … (Now, what's the Word of God? Jesus Christ. See?) Now, Bro. Branham stood in that crowd and said, "You couldn't hide if you tried." You know what? Some of you sitting here you don't know what I'm talking about. You don't even begin to know what I'm talking about. "You couldn't hide if you tried." I was sat in the car one day with him and said, (talking about this fellow this Christ of Christ guy) that came and said, "Well, Bro. Branham knocked on the door." And he said, "I come to collect the thousand dollars." "Well, what do you mean a thousand dollars?" "Well, (he said) you offered anybody who could prove a miracle that God healed, they'd get a thousand dollars." And he was telling the story he suddenly said, "Hold it, hold it, hold it." He said, "You just thought at this second that God had said that. It was I who said it." In other words, I thought that God told him to say a certain thing, and God hadn't, he said it on his own. Caught it just like that. You couldn't hide if you tried. 18. You say, "I'm going to go to that room, and I'm going to check it. And the Church of Christ man up here went to Windsor out of Detroit, and Bro. Branham… (you know the story) very tired that night. And the man appeared and Bro. Branham said, "Sir, there's not a thing wrong with you." "Oh, but (he said) there is, (he said) didn't you read the prayer card?" Bro. Branham said, "Sir, your prayer card is only numbered for you to get in the prayer line we have order." He said, "Perhaps everything you had was healed because of your faith." And then the man muttered something, I forget his exact words, and something like, "oh, so that's how somebody does…" "What did you say? Oh, (he said) you're a Church of Christ preacher from Detroit. You had an elder sitting in your study with a wooden table with a green cover on it. And you determined to see if you could defraud God and fool Him. And you put all those diseases, (he said) sir the diseases you've put down are now in your body." I don't think I like reading papers, but I'll start now. I challenge all of you bring me one person who can do it, and I'll eat this Bible. Bring me your Baptist, your Methodist, your fundamentalists, your Pentecostals, your Trinitarian, your One-ness, bring me one person. You say, "William Branham did that?" Hogwash. There's no man living can do that. Only God can do that by using your vessel. That man I was telling you about, now get the trend of my thought, he said, "We'll ask Him to come, don't know if He will." And he says, "He's here, and you couldn't hide if you tried," he said. Five thousand people, half a million people… 19. Now, we're going to go…I'm doing this on purpose so that you will remember the place exactly, Luke 13:1. There were Parousia, now let's read that coming, there was a time coming at the season some people told him of the Dowie influence, whose blood would mingle with their sacrifice. "Haw, we've got a witch doctor here to tell the future," or a prophet. Oh, let's use the witch coming, for either the prophet or the witch doctor, (and I know a little bit about both, being a witch doctor myself and met with the prophet) oh yeah. The Word is 'Present', not 'Coming'. You're already there. And nobody was saying, "Did you notice that band arrive? "They were coming around the mountain on day came, they were driving six white horses when they came. And we kill the old red rooster when they came." You're not getting what I'm really feeling. I'll explain it to you: They never saw them come. They didn't know how they came. They weren't interested how they got there. They were all ears. "What happened, what happened? What's going on, what's going on? What happened, what happened? What's going on." [said it in a whispering voice] You saying, He killed them when they were sacrificing to God? (Yeah, yeah) He escaped. How do you mean? How did he get away? They're present. Do you follow me? They were present. Don't get all mixed up this morning and you say, "Well, Bro. Vayle, how do I know?" I haven't got that far yet. The orientation of this subject demands a complete acceptation of that fact that He is Present. He is Present, He is Present. Whether He is Present now or not, He will be Present. And that Present is necessary and the Holy Spirit, so that you'll see Him there. Whatever dimension it is, so I don't worry about this, that, here, there, because it's all a dimension anyway. 20. All right, we go to John 11:28, and hopefully I will not be as rotten, but hopefully I might be too. For It says in verse 28. (28) And when she had (so said) she went her way, and called Mary her sister saying, … (I have just had a revelation, Jesus is coming.) Actually, the word is 'come' is okay, because it really means His 'Presence'. She said, "Did you know that Jesus is here?" Said, "How did you know?" "I saw Him." "Did you see Him come?" "No, I didn't." She didn't even know anything. The dogs didn't bark, the chicken didn't cackle, the rooster didn't crow, the dove didn't coo. There was nothing to let me know. "I just had a feeling, I opened the door, there He was. Oh, I heard that knock and there He was." Now she said, (28) …The Master is come, … It may have been it that didn't happen that way at all. She was squeezing in one room, her sister was in another room. And somebody came in the door and said, "Hey, it's too bad we've got too late to Jesus, But He's here now He wants to talk to you?" Now the point is, she didn't say, "Well, why was He do many days late? Where was He in the meantime?" That didn't come into the conversation. "Lord if you had of been here he hadn't have died." So, she would have said, "It's just too bad (you know) that you weren't around for we really needed You." Oh, that's a good thought isn't it? That make you think doesn't it? How many times have we said, "Where were you Lord when I needed You?" Ha, ha, ha, where were you looking? All depends is where you're looking kiddo. I've never had any trouble with Jesus. The Master is Present, He's here, He arrived. 21. Then get this one in Acts 10:33. which is the one I love and you'll love It too, because it's telling do everything I've been telling you, this is when Simon Peter goes down to Simon the tanner, (they're both Simon's, one's Peter and one's a tanner) verse 33. (33) Immediately therefore I sent to thee; and thou hast well done that thou art come. (That you're here Present) Now therefore are we all here present before God… And if the Holy Ghost is here in a peculiar certain form, then we are all present with God being Present. (See?) Okay, let's just check further. 1 Corinthians 16:17, just to show you how this works. Every single time there is no difference. (17) I am glad of the coming of Stephanas… Why, he wasn't glad, he was happy. The boy was coming. I'm going to get it right down to human emotions again. As I say, I'm kind on nuts, I admit it. My wife comes up the stairs and she still makes my heart go 'pitty, pitty, pat', what for? I don't know. It's the very fact that she's around. But it was worse even years ago. Maybe I'd be on the road somewhere, and maybe she could have time to come and fly down or something, even though she had family to raise everything else, and boy I was smiling that she was coming… [makes a panting noise] Boy, when she got there and I could put my arms around her. Boy, that sure is different, I can tell you right there. That's the way it was with this fellow here. Do you think just for Paul that he was glad he was coming? Sure he was, but nothing like when the boy got there. That was his son in the faith. I've got sons in the faith, and daughters in the faith and grandkids. That's one reason I would try to live right. A little bit a least, I'm thinking of them. 22. Now, we've got another verse here…2 Corinthians 7:6-7. (6) Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus; (7) …not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, … There again you notice, it was a fact of him being Present. You can know, like they said, "Now, Bro. Vayle we know you're coming, because you haven't got here yet. Then you so beautifully put, it's so nice and sarcastic. So gently sarcastic, because some places I'm overdue, four years, five years, ten years and fourteen. I'm a liar, you can tell that. Of course, I never did set a date, so I'm not that big of a liar. So, I'm still coming. Now look, the thing is, it's not the fact of the approach which could be deferred, (as hope deferred) is a grievous thing. But the fact is, the boy was there. (See?) That's exactly what we're talking about, and this is something that is known. Not guessed at, but is known. And in each time, something occurred which is beneficial in the ministry concerning Christ as those in the ministry. And I'm not talking about a five-fold ministry, I'm talking about every single one of us, because we're all priests and kings unto God. Do you follow me? (Okay, very good) 23. Now, what I'm presenting here of course is the only true revelation from the first century, or the First Age when this got lost as to what exactly the Scripture was teaching concerning the fact of the Appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ. And It is the revealed teaching of a vindicated prophet who cried screaming, "I'm not riding the midnight trail screaming 'He's Coming', He's already come." The same prophet said, "When you see God come from the heavens, (oh, when do you see God come from the heavens? What did you see?) stand before groups of men, stand there and declare Himself just as ever you did, that's the truth with this Bible open." Now, put that together with what he said concerning the angel coming to Daniel you can see exactly what he's saying here, that as it happened in the close of the Jewish history. The last prophet Daniel, (because that's the last one, he made it out, who made it all out, I don't care who followed after him, that's nothing. They just filled in here, filled in there, see?) the same thing happened at the end time. Now, let's face it, there's only one time it can happen, and that's at the Seven Church Age, under the Seventh Church Age messenger, it couldn't happen anywhere else. 24. Now, "When you see God just come from the heavens, stand before groups of men stand there declare Himself, just as ever He did, that's the truth with this Bible open." I want to ask you a question: When did God ever come down from heaven and stand before groups of men and declare Himself in the Person of Jesus Christ? (See?) When did He do it before? In the Person of Melchisedec. When did He do it before? In the Person of a theophany when He stood to Abraham and told him what was going to happen down in Sodom and Gomorrah. (See?) When did He do it? A time when the handwriting went upon the wall of Belshazzar's feast and they said, "Bring in Daniel." The hand stood there, hand appearing. God came down in a hand, the form of a hand. God came down in a whirlwind. God came down in a fire. God came down in a still small voice. God came down in an earthquake. God came down in the back of a man. God came down in a man. And people say, "God can't come down." What are you talking about, and say you believe the Bible? I mean, what are you talking about, say you believe a Bible? You believe a bunch of nincompoops out here that talk about a Bible. There He came down, He came down. What's to stop Him from putting a handwriting on that wall? I say what's to stop Him! I'll tell you, unbelief! Because nobody believes He'll do it. Nobody wants to do, wants to believe It. I doubt it. 25. Bro. Branham didn't know the Greek…listen, and today, He's standing amongst us. That means 'Present'. The day He's Present, (standing amongst us) in the Person of the Holy Ghost manifesting Himself, more and more coming into the Church making Himself known. Now, I want to ask you a question: what way has God used since the death of Jesus Christ to reveal Himself? The Holy Ghost. Is that right? He said He would teach you all things and show you things to come. And the things to come is definitely in the line of a prophet, it is not for the average person to know, it has got to be in the prophetic line. So, let's get that flat. People say, "Well, Bro. Vayle, I've got the Holy Ghost, He'll show me things to come." Sure, He'll show you, then He's going to come and visit you. He'll show you're going to have a stomach ache. He'll show you kid's going to get hurt. But He will not show you the revealed Word of that hour, because that's something special, you don't belong in that class. I don’t belong in that class. I'll teach you when it gets here, that's my job then. I've got a lot of things I prophesied. Come right to pass just like that. Ray knows it, happened down the church in West Palm Beach all the time we had definitive messages from God, but not this. 26. The Son of Man has already come from glory. Notice the terminology 'the Son of Man has already come from glory'. Well, great Caesar's ghost, why would the prophet make a statement like that? "As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it also be in the day of the Son of Man." [Mt 24:37] (Uh?) Because the Bible says. He's already come from glory revealing Himself for the past few years in His Church in mercy showing them His great Presence. Why does it say His great Presence? Why did he say His great miracles? His great ministry? He doesn't, said, "Presence." Why, because He's got the same Holy Ghost talking to Him that talked to the apostle Paul. He will say the same thing, And He'll say Twentieth Century American. They understood Paul back there. That was ...?... Greek, [Hugh] Schonfield one of the rottenest birds, that Jew that wrote… 'The Passover Plot' and all that kind of stuff, brilliant man didn't do the New Testament though. He's a scholar through and through and he'll tell you the Bible is right. One of the best translation ever got my hands on, even got two of them. I like one so well, just may get another one. I like it so well, I bought two of them, in case I lost one, I guess that was it. 27. He said, the language is the language of the Bible, is perfect. Never mind, you can like the guy no matter what he says and does, he does a few things good, that’s the point. Bro. Branham was right. I can't get mad at the guy, because (you know) he said some awful things about Jesus. I never saw him on the Joe Pine show but a friend of mine did. You know Joe Pine has been dead a long time now. But Joe Pine had him, didn't know, Pine was wrong the way he conducted himself. You know, America is a land with a great smear. I'm kind of bad, but my mind is mostly sarcasm not a real smear. Because I'm a hypocrite to do that. But when they tell me Schonfield was on his show., that Pine smeared and just gave him the works, and he just sat there, very nice and very calm and smiled and just answered the questions. I wonder who had more from God? The man who said it was a Passover Plot, or the man that defended it? I don't know. Well, I would tell, that I hoped that Joe Pine had a lot more than this other fellow did. But then who knows, the guy might be saved yet. He did a good job on the New Testament. You never know, he might be one of the Elect to come in later I don't know. I have no understanding. Bro. Branham used Twentieth Century American language. He said, "The Son of Man has already come in glory and revealed Himself for the past few years to His Church in mercy." Isn't that beautiful? Mercy. Showing of His great Presence, doing the same thing He did when he was on earth. He explained the Presence how you know It's there. Revealing Himself, like He did to Abraham before the destruction. When God comes down from heaven, stands before men, declaring Himself as ever He did. 28. The next…now listen, the next time He reveals Himself It will be in judgment on the world, and nations that forgot God. There He is in human flesh, there He is in no flesh, we'll show how It's the Word before it's over. The Headship is here. Amen, the Christ the risen Lord, is here in the same power of His Resurrection that He ever was manifesting Himself. "Now, we know that Christ is here, maybe you don't see Him with your eyes, but through vision I tell you He's here." Because he could see the Pillar of Fire. It was actually caught by the camera. And when the Seals are broken and the mystery is reveled down comes the Angel with the Messenger Christ setting His foot on land and sea, with the rainbow over His head. That's Revelation 10:1 now remember. Now remember, the Seventh angel is on earth at His Coming, that's Revelation 10:7 is the last day's messenger. The Seventh Seal brings Him back to earth. It's under the Seventh Seal that brings Him back to earth. Now, he's talking in both places, that means the Spirit and the physical. Because the Seventh Seal was silent, no one knew that was the minute and or hour that Christ would come as He would reveal It to us. 29. And so therefore, the Seals revealed everything about Him Who was already here, and we didn't even know He was here until we were told. Did Mary know that He was there till Martha said? No. Did she know what somebody said? No. Nobody knew. And nobody can know until somebody tells, because you can't see the Spirit of God. After almost two thousand years God has visited again. That brings the entire fullness of the Godhead bodily among you. In other words, "the same yesterday, today and forever," [Heb 13:8] no change. The Elijah of this day is the Lord Jesus Christ. He is to Come according to Luke 17:30 as the Son of man. He's the Son of man that's to reveal Himself amongst His people. Not a man, God, but it will come through a prophet just as Gabriel came to Daniel. In other words, we are not left to know this ourselves, it will take somebody to do it, and to point it out. And I've done that many times and showed you how that works in Scripture we’ll do it again before we're through here. The Headstone coming into the body. That's the Redeemer coming to take His Own. He is here with us, Present. That Life is Present here tonight. That's right. The Holy Spirit is here. It is Christ in Spirit form, His Spirit, the Anointing is here. How It said that He shall Appear in the last day is to bring the people back to the Word so the Bride will know her Husband, her Mate the revealed Word. 30. Now, I know everybody thinks you're going to get married when you're going to get there. That's the Supper, that's not the marriage. The marriage is here the invisible union. Why do you think He's here? For His Bride. When this Holy Spirit that we have…now listen… when this Holy Spirit that we have becomes incarnate to us, not incarnated into individuals, but incarnated to us. The One that's in our midst now in the form of the Holy Ghost, becomes incarnate to us in the Person of Jesus Christ we'll crown Him Kings of kings. So, He does come down to earth in a Spirit form, but He stays there in His body. That is the body stays there. And when the dead are to come forth then He leaves the midst of the Throne it's over, because there's nobody else coming in. Now, that's when He and the personal human immortal figure is up there. Then, we rise to meet Him. Does all three things in descending. The Shout, the Voice, the Trumpet. Now, Bro. Branham categorically said He would tend to be taken out of the way with the Holy Spirit. The question now comes: how can a prophet make a statement like that when everybody knows a 144,000 Jews are going to be sealed with the Holy Ghost and you cannot take Holy Ghost out of the world, per se, or it'll fall apart. He’s talking about the Person that came down here goes, because He takes His Bride with Him. (See?) Certainly, there's a big difference. You've got to understand where Scripture lies. Don't be weary, Jesus is here. He is here today manifesting Himself doing the same thing He did then just the same doing the very same thing. In other words, what He did then, He's doing now. And is amongst us today. He showed Himself here with us, and proved and vindicated His Word. 31. Now, let's just begin to see what He's saying here, which is our proof that He's here. How do you know He's here if you can't see Him? What about the fact that He said, "The wind blows where it listeth." That's the wrong translation. Although It's good in the sense of the word. "The wind bloweth so you can hear the sound where it cometh." You can't hear that but, that's not the Scripture. "The Spirit breathes where that were He willeth. And you cannot tell whence he cometh and whether he goeth, so is everyone born of the Spirit." [Jn 3:8] It is a mystery. Now, the only way you can solve any mystery of God is to find out how God Himself has given us the clue to the mystery, and that means you've got to go to the Word. So, Bro. Branham is telling us right here vindicating His Word. "In the evening time, it shall be light." [Zech 14:7] That's when comes Christ the Holy Spirit, Jesus comes down and sets Himself at the Head of the Church. Now then, how can He… could He say, "Then comes Christ the Holy Spirit, call Him Jesus?" Because that's the Name of the Holy Ghost, you're going to call His Name Jesus. Then will He will resurrect the Church being His Own body. That's right, the Holy Spirit is here, is Christ in Spirit form, His Spirit anointing us. (See?) That's the true King, the former, and the early and the latter rain. 32. Now, going on we're going to take some verse of Scripture that is always been used to express the sudden Coming of the Lord, and has nothing to do with that Coming that they talk about. But has to do with His Presence here. So, we're going to go now to Matthew 24: (and you should all recall this even though you heard It three years ago, or my goodness me, we have to go over our notes, don't we?) Matthew 24: 3. (3) And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, (and) the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? (number two) and what shall be the sign of thy (presence… not coming, the word is not coming, it's parousia.) How are we going to know when You're here? Now, they knew something that the theologians don't know today. And they knew It, because they weren't a bunch of dumb bunnies. And I want to tell you why they weren't a bunch of dumb bunnies. Because John the Baptist came on the scene and they said, "Hey, you must be the Christ?" He said, "Hold it, hold it, hold it, I am not the Christ. But there stands one among you who is." "Well, who is He?" "I don't know, but God told me how I would know. He said, "You go baptizing, and you just keep baptizing, and baptizing. And one day there's going to be somebody come and when He comes out of the water you are going to see the Holy Spirit descending like a dove and remaining on Him." That's always come like a Pillar of Fire. So, the fiery dove came down, beautiful dove of fire came just came down and he said, "That's the One." The disciples knew that. They knew it would take somebody to point out what was already there, because they couldn't see It. 33. Remember the time of Ghehazi? Was it Ghehazi when Elisha when the Syrians were all around them, and so God let the Syrians catch up to poor old Elisha, and prayed Ghehazi open his eyes, he said "Oh master, there's two hundred thousand Syrians out there, oh master what will be do? He finally caught it, and Ghehazi said, "Oh God, what have I picked up a turnip or Christian? Has this kid been with me so long and he still can't figure anything out?" He said, Lord, just have pity one more time and open his eyes so he can see there's more with us then…" And pretty soon the kid's eyes opened and the mountains were full of the chariots and horsemen and fire ball surrounded them, made you think. So, runs true to form. I'm sure glad he didn’t write the Bible. Well, I enjoy preaching It. Man, I'm sure glad I didn't write It, I'd be on the spot. I don't even have to back It up either. God backs His Own Word up. "Tell us the sign of Your Presence." Who then knew that He was going to be there, and nobody would know it and this wouldn't know it. Now listen, do you think this might have happened after John 21:4. (4) (And) when the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the shore: … (and they saw Him. They didn’t know) it was Jesus. (5) (And) Jesus (said, you got) any meat? (And) they (said,) No. (They still didn't know that It was Jesus.) (6) …he said, Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and (you'll) find…. You know something? How come they didn't say, "What kind of a nut is that anyway? We've been fishing all night long." And as Dr. Price said, "How wide is a boat? Four feet?" There's no fish four feet here, and there's fish four feet here? Ha, said, "Well we won't do that, we'll just move the boat." Or join another church, or run over here. You know, there's a lot of little things come up to mind if you… (you know) (16) …and (you'll) find. They cast therefore, and they (couldn't) draw it (in) for (multitudes) … (17) (And Peter said, That's God.) Now, they looked right at Him, didn't recognized Him. They only knew Him by what He did. So therefore, they knew Him by the sign. And now the apostles they're not all fussing. They said, "Hey, we're on to this, how you work things out, how you do things." You know something? Hold it, again my memory is lousy, I might have to call on Ray if I can't find it, his memory is as bad as mine. Then we're stuck and I've got to ask somebody that's really smart. 34. Psalms 103:7 (7) He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel. They never ever caught on, on how God did things. Never ever caught on. Never learned His ways. Oh listen, God didn't pick up a lot of flukes when he picked up these apostles. He pickup the real sharpies. They we're even full of the Holy Ghost, they came by and said, [Bro. Vayle knocks several times] "Hey, how are we going to know when you’re there?" He must have told them something. I fact He did, they caught on to Acts 17 right off the bat, you and I took two thousand years. They caught It just like that. You say, "Hey, how are we going to know?" How did you know, you’re here? 35. So, let's go back to Matthew 24:, here we are, we keep reading: (4) And Jesus said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. Now right off the bat. Deception. Right off the bat he equates His Presence with deception. "Oh my, how are we going to know then, Lord? How are we going to know? You really made it tough us it now." "Take heed that no man…" No man. You catching what I'm saying, "man." Man will try anything. So therefore, there's got to be a certain way that only God is going to make known certain things. So, that's what I'm standing on this morning. I maintain certain things that only William Branham could do, nobody else could do, and I'll live or die in it. And I expect to have no trouble. (5) …many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. Now, many people I know come right along and they try to brand that as a false little cult and religion of the day. Which in a sense is (you know) a little bit true, but it's not all true, because we'll show you why. (5) … many shall come in my name, … (now notice:) (6) And (you'll) hear of wars and rumours of wars: (don't) be troubled: these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. (7) … nation shall rise against nation, kingdom against kingdom: famines, pestilences, earthquakes, in divers places. (8) …these are the beginning of sorrows. 36. Now, He's telling you the earmark of when He's going to be there, but you won't see Him, but He's there. (9) (Now many will) be afflicted, and (so on)… (10) …many be…betrayed… (11) …many false prophets, deceive many… (12) (Love of) iniquity abound, the love of many shall wax cold. (That's Laodicea) (13) But (they) that endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. (14) (The) gospel of the kingdom shall be preached…(as) a witness… and then the end (shall) come. Now, He's said a lot of things in there, then He's getting very, very close now. (15) When (you) see the abomination of desolation, spoken by Daniel… (16) Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains: (they'll not come down, and so on.) Some of this took place already, and some has yet to take place, because the Great Tribulation in verse 21 has not yet taken place. The little tribulation took place. (22) …except those days should be shortened, (no flesh saved) for the elect's sake (they should) be shortened. Now watch: We are not dealing with what hinges on you and me. (4) (Now, He) said, Take heed that no man deceive you. (5) … many shall come… 37. Now, the very Elect… now the very Elect can be only one type of Elect. Those that do not die. The only ones that can be. (23) Then if any man shall say… Lo, here is Christ, believe it not. (24) For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and (show) great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. (25) Behold, I have told you before. Now, before is over here in Matthew 7: (15) Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. He tells you at the end time…Now watch what I said here, verse 15. Now, let me go back to Matthew 24 again, and let me read that verse I just read to you. And It said: (4) …Take heed that no man deceive you. (Deception by men.) (15) Beware of false prophets, … They will look absolutely on the outside to be Christians, inside they are devils. How are we going to know? We're going to know them by fruit. (Now, oh man, oh man) I love the way Jesus talks but He would never pass out of grade six. He makes people…animals, and then suddenly He talks about fruit. How do you get fruit off of animals? No, He's not doing that, He's going way back to the Garden. He always took people back to the Garden. 38. [Matthew 7:] (16) (You) know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? (17) Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. What is the evil fruit, the knowledge of good and evil. Knowledge of evil is a mixture. It's a mixture. (19) Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, cast into the fire. (20) (Therefore) by their fruits (you) know them. Now watch: (21) Not everyone that saith…Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. (22) Many will (come) in that day, (and say) Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? …cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? (23) And then will I profess, I never knew you: (you did nothing but) iniquity. Now, that's what He's talking about where deception lies, right in that field. And only the very Elect will be able to tell what is a real sheep, and what is simply a wolf in sheep clothing. 39. Now, the question comes up, let's go back to Matthew 24, and look at the question again, because we don't want to get fouled up here, it's too late in the day to get fouled up. And Matthew 24: It says here reading again: (23) …if any man shall say, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. (24) For there shall arise false Christs, (even lying) prophets,… (That's exactly what the Greek says) now listen: "Lo here, lo there, false prophets." It isn't the prophet that says, "I'm Jesus Christ." No, that's not those things to be worried about. You say you're Jesus Christ they say, “Put him in a nut house”. What is a false prophet? He's off the Word! But boy, can he prophesy. But there's just one stumbling stone. If he ever says, 'Thus saith the Lord' it can't possible come to pass, unless God is behind it. And that's the only issue what the very Elect see, nobody else can see it. They still got around saying, "Well, this fellow said 'Thus saith the Lord', that fellow said, 'Thus saith the Lord'." Anybody ever says "Thus saith the Lord' and It comes to pass, you better hear him. And then if he says contrary to William Branham, said you better take William Branham to find out who is false. I wouldn't worry about God anymore, I'd just say, "Well look, there's something out there, forget it." See look, we're down to the wire brother/sister, even if this Word true all the way, or we might as well forget it. We're here this morning either because we're here this morning just for fun to be a little nicer people. Which is very good. Because little nicer people, little sweeter, then there's something out there that really matters. There's something out there that's moral, though I wouldn't call it moral if you’d pulled a deal like this. You're just stuck. You better say to yourself, let me try to get in touch somewhere so it won't be half as stuck as bad, (you know) if I'm going to be stuck. You follow what I'm talking about? I mean…listen, where's the deadline? We're at the end of time according to this Bible here. Now, It says, (26) (Therefore) if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: in the secret chambers; believe it not. 40. Well look… in Luke 2:30. Listen: (30) For mine eyes have seen thy salvation, (31) Which thou hast (ordained) before the face of all people; Witnessed before the eyes of all men. So, when somebody says, "Go here, the secret things, go there that's a little fence over there." Forget it! It's going to be done wide open, and in public, and the world's going to see it. And It's going to be turning down flat, and they're going to forget it, and the Elect goes on. And you say that happened to William Branham? Listen kid, I am witness to what I saw in 1947, one year after the great Angel of God came, and said, "Take a… gift of healing to the whole world." And told him what it was all about. And I saw it, and let me tell you, it wasn't done in a corner. The newspaper played it up. There was no way you could ever stop the African revival, everybody knew about it. There's no way you could ever deny what happened. But the denominations said, "Well, he's Jesus Only, he goes to those stinking Pentecostals." Well, I'm going to tell you, Pentecostal folk may stink, but I do too, unless I take a bath. I could say, I think they're a pretty good bunch. I still think like Bro. Branham that's where I'd go, if I had no place else to go. I just wouldn't imbibe in their doctrine and things. But let me tell you brother/sister I love it. Now listen, here he said, "In the secret chamber." That's where three people go together and come out and tell you just what. In other words, Nicholaitism is at the highest heights at this period right here. And they're going to decide everything for you. Oh, you talk about the constitution and freedom of religion. Why don't the people down in our Congress and Senate having the guts to rip it out, spit on it. Bunch of rotten stinking hypocrites. That's all we've got a bunch of stinking hypocrites. There's no freedom in our nation today, except in a very minor sense. 41. Your biggest guy to talk the most like Goldwater. He's the guy that had that thing and acted up in Alaska, hundreds of thousands of acres to put nuts like you and me. And Congress denied it until they found oil. And they said, "You can't put them nuts were the oil is." So, it came out in the open. Why is his daughter usually go to a Kibbutz? I'm just telling you. Politics is finished, and so is the church. This thing is done eyewitness before the people. I was there. I saw what happened. Whew, now listen. [Matthew 24:] (27) For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so, shall also the (Presence) of the Son of man be. It tells you right there, "As the Light was in the east, It will be in the west." And that's how you will know that He is there, because He does the same things here that He did there. Where the Scripture distinctly said: "If I had not done the works no other man did, they had not sinned, but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father." [Jn 15:24] The Presence, the same Presence of the four Gospels and the Book of Acts must appear in the west, and you'll know that He is here. Not the church now, not the church. Not the church, not the church! Hang the church, somebody. Jesus didn't have a company man, He was one. When Bro. Branham used the term, there's only been one major prophet, Daniel, he wasn't really right at that time. Because I think Daniel and Jeremiah were alive at the same time. But what he was trying to tell everybody, "Look, you get your eyes on one man at a time, it is never a couple." One person at a time. Now, then notice, (28) …(wherever) the carcase is, … he eagles (are) gathered ... Where the Word is, where the fresh meat, where…what God is feeding…then It says: (29) Immediately (immediately comes) the tribulation… (Now, ladies if you go out and order lunch for thirty, forty people, fifty people, tell them to bring it here in two hours we'll eat, and then keep talking. (See?) I don't know where to quit.) Let me see now, "The lightning cometh…the eagles are gathered, …?... tribulation." Now listen, come on, my thoughts are okay they're in line, it's okay, listen: 42. Chapter 2 of the Book of Acts: (17) … it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons…your daughters prophesy, your young men shall see visions, your old men shall dream dreams: (18) And on my (men) servants and on my (women servants I'll) pour …my Spirit; … (everybody can get in the act.) (19) And I will (show) wonders in heaven above, signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: (the great tribulation, He says the same thing here.) He says over here in Matthew, (now listen brother/sister, beware He said of that false prophet, said beware of the dividing line where men can fool you, the age of great deception.) 43. Now, hold your finger there and quickly go to 2 Thessalonians 2: and notice: (11) And for this cause God shall send… (God, God, God, God, not the devil shall send) them strong delusion, (they'll) believe a lie: Only the very Elect cannot be deceived. All of this going on, everybody's happy. The Roman Catholic's, the neo-Pentecostal's all getting the Holy Ghost. That dear old pope Paul VI, oh my, he took the opportunity, they were fighting over the gifts, (you know) now the gifts are back in the Roman Catholic church and this great father so and so up here in Notre Dame, he said, "Now you people are wondering how the Holy Spirit feels in the church of Rome. Why He feels just at home. And Geraldine Ford, I guess that’s here name or something like that. She’s a Ford anyway. (she sure ain't no Cadillac) [laughter] She gets up here as a theologian and she lets the people know right flat brother/sister, “Don’t you trifle with my theology”. Then Pentecostal people in here these people speaking in tongues and prophesying and gifts and wonders and miracles even greater than the Pentecostal church got, and kissing the pope's toe…crazy man, "Well, it's got to be real, because that's the evidence of the Holy Ghost." God sent them delusions. God, I said God, not the devil, God sent delusion. You know why, because they turned down the truth. Now, you say, "How can God do it?" Brother/sister it's already done if you turn down the truth. How does God send strong delusion? By sending the truth. So, when they turn it down what have you got? Don't blame God. I’m going to tell you brother/sister you don't pluck thistles and plums off of God. You just pluck plums, and apples, pears and peaches, "twelve manner of fruit with healing for the nations." [Rev 22:2] (See, oh yeah) Prolong days. 44. Look it over here [Matthew 24:] 37-39. (37) But as the days of Noe…so shall also the coming of the Son of man… Days, the length of time, the Presence. How long is He going to be Present before He raises the dead? Ten years? Twenty years? Forty years? Yes, a hundred if He wants to be Present that long. That the people are all confused about 1977, the different things Bro. Branham said, "If they can't understand this [raps on the Bible] it's a prolong period of time." And then they'll know when Noah got in the ark, He slammed the door, seven days he just sat there. Seven days of darkness, except for a little light inside. Seven days except God brought a little breeze in like stifling and wondering when is it going to happen. You feel like suffocating? Well, you haven't even caught up to Noah, what are you talking about. I said I would too. Victory. Listen brother/sister, see there it is, it's all laid out there for a long period of time. It's all coming. And it's all in order. 45. Now, so therefore we can stop at this point. I preached longer than I intended to, so attend your faith, you don't have to give me your hog to pay your own wages, and nobody has to go away too mad, for too short a sermon, or mad for a too long a sermon. But I want to let you know brother/sister that the Appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ is not the Rapture. It's what we're talking about, He is Present and Appearing down here. And then I want to take and show you next time, which I don't know when it's going to be. I want to take and show you next time is exactly how that Appearing takes place. It has been and we're getting to the finishing line even more. Because this is what the Word of God teaches, and It is based upon the reality of the Word being revealed to us and coming to pass in our hour. And God being gracious to send a prophet to stand back with the Word of God in lip, and prove that It is God. See, so we got no worries. And, I just wanted to let you… remember, I leave with this thought I just quoted just a minute ago. It was a long time before that ark floated. And if they shut those doors except for the grace of God they were stifling inside. It was hot, it was miserable. 46. And as Abraham stood there as a witness to the Resurrection, which means your change and mine, he was in worse shape one minute before his change, then he was in his whole life brother/sister. We in His Presence can be here a long time until we ripen, until we recognize His Presence. But we're not recognizing His Presence. We are not recognizing the Appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ. And one of these days as Bro. Branham said it, "…?... one of these days it's going to be over." And then they're going to say, "Hey, what in the world happened, look what's going on here? Should not of that happened? Should not of that happened? It's all ready happened and you didn't know it. Let me say this brother/sister, He is here. Not because I brought it in my heart, or you brought Him, that is a lie. That's been going on for two thousand years that He is here in the Person of the Holy Ghost setting Himself as the Head of the Church. And until He can be the Head, and that's why you women have an awful job with your husbands, I'm going to tell you flat, because you type the Church, and the church [snaps fingers] doesn't care that for the Headship of Jesus Christ. 47. I want to ask you this morning, and I want to know if you're in the same boat as I am. Are you not driven crazy day and night with yourselves? I spit out words I should never spit out, because hate myself. I am battling everybody and everything, and I know I shouldn't be doing it for one reason, I know that I'm telling the truth, because He is here and what am I doing about it? What am I thinking about It? What is happening? And I say, "Oh God." And I want to ask you this morning where do you stand? I'm trying to contend. I'm not going to give an altar call. You do what you want, God have mercy on all of us. I do what I want. I am no longer responsible for you brother/sister and you for me. It's an individual walk at this hour. You do what you want, I'm going to do what I want. 48. I told you years ago, dirty old men are nothing but dirty young men that got old. Really old women ain't nothing but really young women that got old. If it be an old hag, ain't nothing but used to be a young hag that got to be an old hag that's all. I lay it right on the line. Look, don't kid me this morning brother/sister, I ain't kidding you. This is one place…I can kid up here and fool. I do it on purpose. I don't want to let true spirit get out. Like Francois Friday said, "Why do you present that façade when you're not that guy inside? I'm that guy inside that’s talking this morning. Where do you stand this morning, on this basis? Where do I stand this morning in the faith? (See?) Is there any Elect out here somewhere? Is a seed a little…couple old women with a wash tub? And like I think about, and I got to get me a wash tub and apron and scrub board maybe? Get that certain thing. I don't…look it, I love Billy Paul, but I don't care if he had to do nineteen, or nineteen hundred tapes. Don't give me that stuff. Don't give me anything about being a prophet's wife, or mother, or husband or anything else. Or anything else my mother knew I was going to be born. What stood by her bed and told her? Why’d the prophecy, "I saw you come with a flame of fire over your head and the spirit of prophecy?" 49. I'll tell you, I'm true to this Word, but I sure ain't true inside what my mouth often says. I tell you, I got no answer for you. But I tell you, I got one hope, and that is, one day God will answer back and say, "Yes little lamb, I'm here for all the time that you've said it with your mouth, but couldn't do it with your mind, your heart as you should of. But you say it, because you know it was there. You stood up for Me, I'm going to stand up for you one day." And then when He does it, He offers and gives back to us what the Divine revelation gave us, because we've got the same revelation. As Peter said, "Thou art the Christ." We've got no different revelation, when he said that, we say, "He's here!" But it took Christ to speak back and say, "I say unto you, you are a part of this, that revelation. Now, I've said some rough things, some discouraging things, I'm saying the comforting thing now, stay with it, there's no place else to go. If this isn't it brother/sister, so what? What are you going to do about it? Where will you go, back? Oh, for Pete's sake. Go back? (Yuck) Get a letter from the Baptist headquarters every day, I heard more from them, in one week, than I heard from God in seventy years. Forget it! Go back to Pentecost? Try to wear myself up working up something? At my age, work it up something? Not even …?... and bow and arrow shot not going to do me any good at my age. Didn't do Stalin any good. Work up something? 50. Where are you going to go? Tell me where are you going to go? Who's got twenty-twenty vision this morning? Twenty-twenty hindsight. (Ooooo) You know where you're going. But we saw something vindicated. [tapping the Bible] I don't understand it all. Bro. Branham said, "When you're in His Presence you don't get angry you don't cuss, you don't tell lies, you don't act up." He's here just the same. Whether I put…you know what? It takes a recognition. People are organizing friends of Bro. Branham's, to come back. Look, I'm going to tell you something, I'd organize a friend even around the world for people to say, "God, help me recognize the Presence, or Your Presence today." Not the Presence we talk about of Acts 2:4, Matthew 28:20. But I'm talking now about 1 Thessalonians 4:16 and Ephesians 1:16-23. That's what I'm talking about. I'm talking about Colossians 3:4, 1 Peter 5:4 right down the line. I'm not talking about those other things brother/ sister, I might not have the Scripture quite right, I think I got it right. But I'm talking about the fact the Lord Himself is already descended from heaven. Coming more and more into His Church, making Himself more and more known, Bro. Branham stood in that pulpit and I tell you I stand with him, not…now look, not like Bro. Branham just get that flat. But I stand with the spirit of William Branham, the sentiments of William Branham, the heart of William Branham when he said as a man and wanted to be a man of God, "If we're not Bride, there's a Bride out there somewhere, and by the grace of God I won't stand in her way." Lord bless you, let's rise, I want to get this off of me. Merciful God, heavenly Father, we know, Lord, that we would never be able to touch a subject like this concerning Your Appearing, Your actual Coming, the actual revelation these things. Except, Lord, if You've been caused of something else that has been done on my part, Lord, it would be presumption, it's even presumption, Lord, to even get here and talk about such a sacred subject. Except You allowed me and my craft and carnal and iniquitous ways that somehow be able see to do things and try to get the people to see Him somehow, Lord. I know only You can make it really, real. But in the meantime, Father, if I can contribute and add to the mechanical, I do not feel too bad, nor either can the feel too bad, because they know, unless God Himself raises the dead they're going to lie there. And they're just as dead and dead can be, this world is and dead come from the ground, but there is a God that said I'll raise him at the right time. And, Lord, You're here to raise, and if You're here to raise and then at the right time, I believe You're going to change the people that need changing. I believe at the right time, Lord, they're going to have this great resurrection, which I know they will have those that are going to belong in it. And so, Lord, I'm trusting this morning that You who have brought as Yourself by Your Holy Spirit, and giving us a man to walk amongst us who would be the sounding board, for that's what he was. That Seventh Church Age messenger to hear what he said, and then break it down and bring it here, Lord. I have hope this morning that because of this very thing transpiring, it has not been, Lord, in vain, but we shall yet hear You say, and I say unto You that You are a part of that Presence, that revelation. And then, Lord, what a great time it's going to be. The fountains of the deep be broken up, not just looking anymore for the hidden things to be manifested the Spirit, Lord, have already been manifested. But, Lord, we're looking for that greater manifestation. That is, that Spirit of Christ in us, all those things, Lord, that reside in us by virtue of the fact what we're born with, with that seed. By virtue of the fact, Lord, of what the Holy Spirit is come to bring it to light. I'm looking forward to that hour, Lord, if I should be upon earth living, and it's alright if I'm not, But I believe, Lord, there'll be a Bride who is going to be that very essence of the Word, for the Word is becoming flesh, the flesh becoming the Word. And the Word Itself coming forth It's manifested Word. That Bride that the prophet spoke of, that Bride could only speak of, Lord, because of in Your Word, I believe, Lord, there's people right in this building that are going to be a part of that. Absolutely, I pray for all of them, Lord, that You are part of it. I pray this either for myself and my loves one, Lord, to be a part. And God, and I have faith, Lord, in my measure of faith, looking forward to that day if we should tarry, Lord. But I believe there, Lord, You have people standing right here who positively will be changed, and they'll have the answering call back, "Yes, you are what I said." And that's absolutely going to be fantastic. Lord, there's nothing that we can compare to You. Your Word, Lord, Your fulfillment, there isn't anything, Lord, anywhere near shape, or form, that would even begin to touch anything that we have just heard from Your prophet. And tried to lay out this morning the goodness and mercy of God. Lord, how great is our God, how great is His Word? Just nothing will ever touch it, every treasure Lord, I that You'll give us sweet spirit of love and grace amongst all Your people. Compassion, Lord, the spirit of achievement, the spirit of humility. Lord God, in honor preferring each other, in just being humble, sweet Christians sincere. Lord, also we pray for the sick amongst us, they might continue to heal, knowing that all things are with You. There's so many things, Lord, are said here, propitious for our healing until, my Lord, it would seem that there isn't one of us can be sick under any consideration whatsoever, except everything is so gracious and so good. And we thank You, Lord, for what You're doing. We thank You, Lord, for how You've helped certain brethren that have been needing help. Sister's as well, it's been marvelous. Now, Lord, I just pray again as we go for every home here, that it may be the kind of a home that's in the Word. A home, Lord, that where the husband is the head, because Christ is His Head, just the same as the Bride, Lord. And with You, and knowing that all things are at ease. That for many things, Lord, it said here propitious for our healing until, my Lord, it would seem that there isn't one of us can be sick under any consideration whatsoever. Except, everything that's so gracious and so good, and we thank the Lord for what…for what You're doing. We thank the Lord for how You helped certain brethren that have been needing help. Sister's as well, it's been marvelous. And now, Lord, I just pray again as we go, for every home here, that it may be the kind of a home that's in the Word. A home, Lord, as it were, the husband is the head, because Christ is his Head, just the same as the Bride, Lord, with You and the Bride. A real definitive outworking of the Spirit of God, Lord, where people should recognize that we know, Lord, as was prophesied, recognizing instead, but they weren't recognized, God, help us this morning to recognize. Lord, this morning may we recognize starting right in our lives with the baptism with the Holy Ghost. Recognizing in our homes where the homes lies. Recognizing in the church where it lies, right up to the very Head where we see Christ and beyond to Almighty God. Lord, I pray, that's what we want, Lord, that great theocratic kingdom, not just established on earth, but established in the church, in the home and in each life. And that's not asking too much, Lord. Maybe it's asking a little bit too much to have all of it here on this side of Jordan. But I don't think it is, Lord. I don't think it is. I know it's not too much for the others side, but I believe there's a whole lot here. So, we commend ourselves to you, O God, we give Thee praise and give Thee glory. We give thanks again, humble us all down, Lord, at the foot of the old rugged Cross. Jesus, Lord. do this open heart and open ears, open mouth where necessary, pertinent so that You get some glory. We'll be careful, Lord, to praise You in Jesus' Name. Amen. Appearing and Coming # 1 (0180) Page PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 22