Appearing and Coming # 2

 Needs final proofing

Bro. Lee Vayle   - March 9, 1980

     Heavenly Father, again we thank You for the Presence by Jesus by
the Holy Spirit. He's here not only here in the individuals, making us
one body, but actually here in our midst as the Person Himself. Here is
Lord to reveal Himself to those the deep secret things of God which lie
within Himself. He gave the hour in which we live to make us realize,
Lord, that this hour is the same as the hour when He was here in Person
physically. When Paul said, “If the prince of this world had known Who
He was, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.” But we see
the same thing at the end time, Lord, if they'd have known Your Personal
Presence what It was all about, they would not have crucified to
themselves the Son of God afresh, but they have already done it. And we
know, Lord, therefore there's one course left, and that is judgment,
when soon all things shall be wrapped up and over it.

	And, Lord, we know that although it is a strange thing in our
intemperance of impatience at this hour that You feel very much put upon
the time is extended later, then what we think it should be. We know
that it is not so. The things are already running their course exactly
on Your schedule, and it will soon be over in spite of the fact that it
seems so long and then looking back these days have been sent that
seemed so tedious, so long and so fruitless it will be less than a
breath, less than a heartbeat. Now, Lord, help us to understand Your
ways today. Your truth, and we carefully give You the praise in Jesus'
Name. Amen. You may be seated.

1.	Now, we're going to continue with the 'Appearing' of the Lord Jesus
Christ in this hour. And the last time I preached I tried to show you
that the Parousia, which most people call the 'Rapture' is not so at
all. The 'Parousia' is not being with Jesus in the Rapture and at the
Wedding Supper. But has to do with the Personal Presence of Jesus for an
indefinite period prior to the Rapture. That's what the Scripture
teaches, the indefinite period prior to the Rapture, but it is not the
Rapture itself. So, the Parousia, which is the Personal Presence of
Christ precedes the Rapture, and the Rapture then of course will take
place at a later time. And this Parousia concerns the living who are
about to be changed and the dead who must come up out of the earth.  

2.	Now, this would be in Matthew 24: beginning at verse 3. And this is a
very crucial Scripture that those who are mistakenly, but wound up in
fundamental understanding of the Rapture, do not even consider. For It
says:

		(3) 	…as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came (to)
him 						privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and
what shall 					be the sign of thy (personal presence,) …

	It isn't, "What is the sign of Your coming? Can you tell us something
that's going to happen to let us know that You'll be coming?"

	It doesn't say that. It says, "What will the sign that You are here?" 

	Now, you can't read into Scripture what doesn't belong there, so if
you're fundamental this morning you haven't progressed to the place
where you understand this Message. You're going to have to get cobwebs
out of your mind. As Bro. Branham said, "Let you own thinking go." Which
is been biased anyway by wrong teaching.

	"What will be the sign that You are there?"

	All right, what's the sign that I'm here? You can see me, no sign
required. "Ah, (you say) I notice they have been my …?... " Wonderful,
you didn't carp. You didn't carp, because that's exactly right. You
don't even have to see the individual.

	"What is the sign that You are Personally Present?"  Now, that's what
It says.

3.	Now, 'sign' - s-i-g-n.  I'm going to read you a couple thoughts on
Wuest. He's very liberal, very literal, very extent at translating.

		(3)	What shall be the attesting miracle that will indicate your
parousia? (marks)

	It doesn't get all involved, he says, "What will be the attesting
miracle that indicates Your Presence?"   

	Well, you can see what do you need a miracle for? Now, He's supposed to
be there, but what about?   It's something like: "the spirit breaths
where he willeth, and thou can hearest the sound of His voice, but
knowest not when He comes, whether He goeth." [Jn 3:8] Vine, says
concerning the sign, a token portending future events. Example Matthew
24:3.

	Where the sign of the Son of man signifies subjectively that the Son of
man is Himself the sign. The Son of man is actually a sign. Now, I
didn't write this, I'm not a Greek student. to, I like the Greek
student. I don't care, a Trinitarian or anything else, they always
attest what Bro. Branham taught. There isn't one place that you can find
him off on the Word of God.

4.	All right, where the sign of the Son of man signifies subjectively,
that the Son of man is Himself the Sign of what He is about to do. 
Bullinger, "A sign by which anything is designated, distinguished or
known."

	In other words, something has got to be there in order to identify
something. Or the some- thing that is there would go unnoticed, would
go, passed by, or could be horribly mistaken, unless it is identified. 

	Reading again: "A sign by which anything is designated, distinguished
or known. 			Hence used of the miracles of Christ has been the sign by
which He might be known 		as the Christ of God." 

	A sign authenticating His mission. A sign which reference to what it
demonstrates. 

	As Jesus said, "If I had not done the works that no other man did, they
had not sin. But now they have both seen and hated both Me and My
Father."  [Jn 15:24] The sign identified the Father. The Father was
there, but nobody could see Him. But the sign identified by the works.
He said, "If I had not done the works." [Jn 15:24] 

 	Now, how then can you make Parousia the actual Rapture?  So, I want to
know. Because it's a fundamentalists impressionist mistake, the
Pentecostal's, they all make it. They say the Parousia is actually the
Appearing is the Rapture. They put it in there, but it isn't so. Because
there, in the Rapture you're face to face physically. And if you need a
sign to recognize Jesus, you ain't even in the Rapture. I could say,
"How stupid can you get?"  And I mean that spiritually.

	What in the world, you couldn't. So, how could you make the Parousia
the actual Rapture and physical confrontation of Jesus with all the
Bride present, both living…that which are present as living in those
resurrected are now living.

5.	Now, I want to go to 1 Corinthians 1:7-8 to see more what the
fundamentalist version is as set forth by Dr. Scofield, because he is a
very fine student. Nothing wrong with his teaching in the sense of
having an axe to grind. I just can't believe what he says in a lot of
his footnotes. And he says:

		(7) 	So that (you) come behind in no gift; waiting for the (parousia)
of 						(the) Lord…(the personal Presence)

		(8) 	Who shall also confirm you unto the end, (uh?) 

	Now watch: "confirm you to the end." What's our end? When you make the
Resurrection, you've made It. And He's got to be there before the
Resurrection. Right?  Well, you don't have to say 'right' if you don't
want to say right, it's okay by me. You're wrong, because I'm right.
This is right. [Taps the Bible] The Presence confirms you.

	I guess I mentioned in different sermons here, and I got the sermons on
'Simplicity'. Why were you brought in as the reading of the will? They
don't bring in every Tom, Dick and Harry off the streets to hear the
will, they bring in those that are in the will. He shall confirm you, a
conformation, (see?) at that Parousia.

		(8) 	…that (you) may be blameless in the day of (the) Lord Jesus
Christ.

 	Now, watch the very word 'blameless' in here. Because you can take
these words and begin linking them with other Scripture as we've done
before very simply.

6.	Now, here is what Dr. Scofield says and I have no fuss with him.
These three words are used in connection with the return of the Lord. 
Parousia, personal Presence also used by Paul at the coming of
Stephanas, 1 Corinthians 15:17 is true, also of Titus, 2 Corinthians
7:6-7 of his own coming to Philippi. And also. Philippians 1:26. The
word means simply, 'personal presence', and is used of the return of the
Lord as that event, (the personal Presence) relates to the blessings of
the saints and to the destruction of the man of sin.  Uses 1 Corinthians
15:23 ~ 1 Thessalonians 4:           14-17, and 2 Thessalonians 2:8.

	Now, you'll note that he uses six epistles and eight verses. There are
actually twenty-four verses in the New Testament where the word
'Parousia' is found, (and I'll give them to you quickly and don't look
them up) Matthew 24:3, verse 27 also, 37 also, verse 39 also. 1
Corinthians 15:23 ~ 1 Corinthians 15:17 ~ 2 Corinthians 7:6-7 also, 2
Corinthians 10:10 ~ Philippians 1:26 ~ Philippians 2:12 ~ 1
Thessalonians 2:19 ~ 3:13 ~ 4:15 ~ 5:23 ~ 2 Thessalonians 2:1 ~ 8-9
(those three verses there) James 5:7-8 ~ 2 Peter 1:16, ~ 3-4, and verse
12, also 1 John 2:28.

	And you'll see mentioned in there, there's one, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight, nine, nine actually divisions of Scripture with
twenty-four distinct verses.

7.	Now, we're going to go back and we look at Dr. Scofield's notes
again. And He said, "The word 'parousia' means simply 'personal
presence' and is used of the return of the Lord as that event relates to
the blessings of the saints and he goes into 1 Corinthians 15:23 ~ 1
Thessalonians 4:14, 17 and the destruction of the man of sin.

	Now notice, he uses the word 'personal presence', and you know he's
talking about the bodily Presence, because it's at the bodily Presence
that the antichrist is destroyed in a face to face confrontation.  Then
he's suggesting to us and telling us flat that the other part of the
Parousia the verses indicated here, will demand the very body of the
Lord Jesus Christ to be Present. Then what are you going to do with
Matthew 24:3?  (See?) 

8.	Now, this is an over simplification, because you cannot join 1
Corinthians 15:23. Let's look at It, because we'll take you to these
verses. 

		(23) 	…every man in his own order: Christ the first fruits;
afterward they 					that are Christ's at his coming.

	That is a physical resurrection, an absolute physical resurrection.
Because "Christ is the 'first-fruit', afterward they that are Christ at
His Parousia."  Now, that means, right there that Christ Himself is
risen from the dead in a physical body. And at His Coming, (the personal
Presence) there are going to be other physical bodies just like unto
Him. That's what It is telling you there.

9.	Okay, in 1 Thessalonians 4:14

		(14)  	For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them
also 						which sleep in Jesus will God bring (forth) with him.

	Doesn't bring with Him, It said, It's going to bring forth with Him.
And in verse 17,

		(17) 	Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together 	
				with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: so shall we
ever 					be with the Lord.

	Now, I said, this is an over simplification, because you cannot
possibly join 1 Corinthians 15:23, and 1 Thessalonians 4:14, and 1
Thessalonians 4:17, "Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught
up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air,"
because in                 1 Corinthians 15:23, Christ is Present to
bring about the Resurrection, and is therefore with the first-fruit.
Then in 1 Thessalonians 4:14, It is not God bringing the bodies with
Jesus back to the earth.  Don't look at It:

		(14) 	For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them
also 						which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

	If I'm going to believe in what Scofield teaches and the fundamentalist
teaches, then I must believe that Jesus Christ is going to bring back to
earth with Him the bodies of the sleeping people to mingle with us down
here. 

10.	Let's just find out if that's true or not. (See?) All right, let's
find out now. Because It says:

		(16) 	For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout,
with 						the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and
the dead 					in Christ shall rise first:

	Now you, or anybody that believes as Scofield believes and as the
fundamentalist is so mixed up as to be pitiful.  Because It says…It
says, "Jesus is the first-fruit, there's going to be many more like Him.
This tells you here that God will bring them forth, (see?) those which
sleep in Jesus. And then It says over here that, "the dead in Christ
shall rise first." He's talking about the dead bodies. Christ is not
going to bring back a bunch of bodies with Him. The bodies have got to
be brought out of the ground, and He's the One that is going to bring
him out of the ground. So, how in the world is He going to be in a
physical Personal Presence? He can't be here in a physical personal
Presence. Impossible.

11.	Now, let's look a little further again and read again now, [1
Thessalonians 4:] verse 13.

		(13) 	But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning
them 					which are asleep, that (you) sorrow not, even as others which
have 						no hope.

	Now, he's talking about those friends and loved ones that went right
down to the ground and they're sleeping there in their body form. Now,
they're not sleeping there spiritually, because they are very much
alive. It's the body that sleeping.

		(14)	For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them
also 						which… (are sleeping, God is bound to bring forth the same
way as 					He brought Jesus forth.) 

	Now, how did He bring Him forth? Out of the ground. He raised Him plumb
from the dead, that was a dead body.  Now:

		(15) 	For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which 
					are alive and remain unto the (Parousia) of the Lord (the very 				
	Presence) shall not (go before) them which are asleep. (Those that 				
	are down there in the ground.)

		(16) 	For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout,
(the 						Lord Himself) …the trump of God: and the dead in Christ
shall… 						(be brought out of the grave when He comes down.)  

	Then It says:

		(17)) 	…we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together
with 						them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: …

	So, how could it be the Personal Presence indicating the body, when the
word 'parousia' is used? It cannot, because the personal body is not
down here, that personal body is where we go somewhere in a dimension to
meet Him.

12.	Now, let's just look at these verses again. [1 Thessalonians 4:] 

		(13) 	…concerning them which are asleep… (brethren) … 

		(14) 	For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them
also 						sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

	And in verse 16,

		(16) 	…the dead in Christ shall rise… 

	Showing you that those who are asleep are actually dead corpses and
they are going to be brought out of the ground at the Presence of the
Lord with the living. And It doesn't say it's His physical body. What
people are doing is taking for granted it's the physical body. That's
why I keep hammering over there in Matthew, "what is the sign of Your
Presence?" How do we know that You are actually there, there must be
some way that we'll be able to tell.

13.	Now, let's look some more at this Resurrection for a minute to show
you that Jesus does it. We go to John 5:25, because that's what the
thought is what it's about on this particular portion.

		(25) 	Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is,
when 					the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that
hear 						shall live.

	Then It says in 28-29,

		(28) 	Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all
that are in 					the graves shall hear his voice,

		(29) 	And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the
resurrection 					of life; and they that have done evil, unto the
resurrection of damnation.

	Now, the question is, who raises the dead?  Jesus does. He is raising
the dead. Now, that proves then what we saw over here in the Book of 1
Thessalonians.

14.	 All right, let's go back to the Book of Daniel 12:1-4.

		(1) 	And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which 	
				standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time 	
				of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to 					
that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, 					
every one that shall be found written in the book.

		(2) 	And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake,
						some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting 					
contempt.

		(3) 	And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the
firmament; 					and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars
for ever and 						ever.

		Now, the only thought I'm trying to bring out here is the fact that
many that sleep in the dust are going to awaken. So, the dead bodies are
going to come out of the ground just as the Scripture says. 

15.	Also in John 11:43-44, Jesus at the graveside of Lazarus.

		(43) 	And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, 						
Lazarus, (came) forth.

		(44) 	And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with 					
graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. (And) 					
Jesus (said) unto (him) Loose him, and let him go.

	Now, Philippians 3:20-21

		(20) 	For our (citizenship) is in heaven; from whence also we look for
						the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

		(21) 	Who shall change our vile body, …

	Now, that's 1 Corinthians 15: 51, "I shew you a mystery; (We'll) not
all sleep, (we'll) all be changed." 

	So, you notice the One who brings them out of the ground is the same
One who does the changing of the living. 

		(21)	(To) change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his
						glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even 		
			to subdue all things unto himself.

	This is one thing that He is able to do. He is able to subdue the body
which naturally dies, and subdue it to Himself making it like His Own
glorious Body. The same One who can subdue gases and the ashes to those
who went down in the grave and bring them back exactly like Him. In
other words, He has power over all life and over all death.

16.	Now, I mentioned in 1 Corinthians 15, (that that is what he was
referring to there in Philippians) verse 50.

		(50) 	Now this I say, brethren, flesh and blood cannot inherit the
kingdom 					of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

		(51) 	Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, (we'll)
all be 						changed,

		(52) 	In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for
the 						trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised
incorruptible, and 					we shall be changed.

	Now notice, that they had this verse is exactly the same as in
Thessalonians, and you'll notice Who is doing it, it is being done by
Jesus, because no other one has the authority. For he says, that
authority was vested in Him by God.

17.	Now then, back again to 1 Thessalonians 4:15.

		(15) 	For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which 
					are alive and remain unto the (Parousia, the personal Presence, 			
		the Presence) of the Lord shall not prevent (hinder, or go before) 			
		them which are asleep.

	Let this verse demand the actual Presence of the Lord, but not
necessarily the bodily Presence. Which would be the glorified Body of
the Lord Jesus Christ Himself.  But now then what would we do with verse
17?

		(17) 	Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together 	
				with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: so, shall we 	
				 ever be with the Lord.

	Now, since Jesus is already Present, (you see) since He's already
Present, what would the fundamentalists do with the verse that says you
get caught up in the air to be with Him when already in the preceding
verses, He is already with them? Now you see, that's what we're looking
at. If He's already here, then what's the catching up to do, and see Him
there?  Now you can begin to see exactly that this personal Presence,
(the Parousia) has an element about It that is mysterious, but It is not
necessarily a secret.

18.	Now, we go back to Matthew 24: again, because we want to use Matthew
a great deal. Verse 3, and It says: 

		(3) 	…what shall be the sign of thy… (Presence, your personal
Presence?)

	Now, remember what Vine said: 'A token portending, or showing forth
future event'. That's what a sign can be. Especially of Matthew 24:3,
where the sign of the Son of man signifies subjectively, (that's
evidently something to do with the Greek in there in the way it's
phrased) that the Son of man is Himself the sign of what He is about to
do. In other words, He Himself has got to be there in order for certain
events to take place. Now, that's exactly what we showed you in
Thessalonians. If He isn't there, the dead cannot be raised. If He isn't
there, the living cannot be changed. If He isn't there, nobody gets
caught up to meet Him in the air. (See?) Now, that's what this is about.

19.	Now, they said here, "What is the sign of Your Presence?" Okay,
could this be what we see over here in the Book of John 21:1-14. 

		(1) 	After these things Jesus shewed himself again to the disciples 		
			at the sea of Tiberias; and on this wise shewed he himself.

		(2) 	There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, 					
and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and 						two
other of (the) disciples.

		(3) 	(And) Simon Peter (says) I go a fishing. They (said, we'll go
fishing 					with You.) They went forth, and entered into a ship
immediately; 						and that night they caught nothing.

		(4) 	…when the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the shore: but 	
				the disciples knew not that it was Jesus.

	Now, you see He was there in His Resurrected Body, but they didn't
recognize Him.

		(5) 	…Jesus (said, do you have) any meat? (And) they (said,) No.

		(6) 	…he said…Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and
(you'll) 						find. They cast therefore, and now they were not able to
draw it for 					the multitude of fishes.

		(7) 	(And) therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved (said to) Peter,
It 						is the Lord…

	Now, there you will notice that the actual physical Presence, though It
was there is not what was indicated and recognized by the apostles.
Though they had lived with Him for roughly three and a half years. But
what they recognized, they recognized Him by what He did.

 	Now, remember Mary never recognized Him in the garden, and on the road
to Emmaus they never recognized Him. All they could do was recognize Him
by what He did. In other words, there was a sign, something was given in
order for the people to know that He was there. Now, you could turn
around and say, "All right then Bro. Vayle, He could well be there in
the physical form, but you can't see Him. Now, let's just find out.
(See?) 

20.	Now, back to Matthew 24 again, verse 3.

		(3) 	…and what shall be the sign of thy (Presence?) …

	Which of course would signify the coming of the very end. Now, watch
verses 4 and 5. 

		(4) 	And Jesus said…Take heed that no man deceive you.

		(5) 	For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall 		
			deceive many.

	Now, there's the key and part of the sign. (See?) Now, 23-25.

		(23) 	Then if any man shall say… Lo, here is Christ, or there;
believe 						it not.

		(24) 	For there shall arise false Christs, (even lying) prophets, and
shall 						shew great signs and wonders; insomuch…were possible, they
shall 					deceive the very elect.

		(25) 	Behold, I have told you before.

	Now, where did He tell them before?  Now, where did He tell them
before? He said, "I'm telling you ahead of time." But you can take that
translation if you want, but I like Matthew 7:15.

		(15) 	Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing,
but 					inwardly…ravening wolves.

21.	Now, It tells you right here there's going to be false prophets so
closely identified to the real Christian, that he passes for everything
the sheep is, but inside he's a ravening wolf.	

		(16)	(You'll) know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of
thorns,						 or figs of thistles?

		(17) 	Even so every good tree (brings) forth good fruit; (and) a
corrupt 						tree (brings) forth evil fruit.

		(18) 	A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt
tree 						bring forth good fruit.

	Now listen, let's just look at this…. Now, this sounds terribly
confusing. It's not if you're listening to what He's saying, He's
talking about false prophets. (See?) Who are so completely genuine as to
the exterior manifestations of a Christian, that they'll confuse just
about everybody.

	Now watch what It says: 

		(16)	(You'll) know them by their fruit….  

	Now, He's talking about animals and suddenly swings to fruit. Now,
that's okay, He's just letting you know what is the real nature of that
fellow that looks just like a Christian that's a false prophet. He's a
wolf. His nature is a wolf, he is not a sheep. You're going to know them
by fruit.

		(16)	…Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

		(17) 	…every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt 				
		tree (brings) forth evil fruit.

	What was the one tree in the Garden that was rot? The tree of the
knowledge of good and evil. And what is a false prophet? He's a fellow
that's got just enough truth, and enough authority, and enough power to
get you following him and destroy you. Because It says here:

		(19) 	Every tree that bringeth forth not good fruit is hewn (is cast
down 						in) the fire. (And that's exactly right.)

22.	Anybody that doesn't eat of the Tree of Life and cannot get to that
Tree of Life has got to go to one place which is the lake of fire.
That's even after the White Throne judgment, because those that are
judged on merit are allowed to come in with the Blood standing there,
the Holy Ghost has given Eternal Life. Now, you know that as well as I
do. Now again He says: (again) 

		(20) 	…by (your) fruits (you) know them. (Now.)

		(21) 	Not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into
the 						kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father
which 						is in heaven.

		(22) 	(And) many will say…Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? 
					and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many 			
		wonderful works?

		(23) 	And (I'll) profess, I never (ever) knew you: depart from me,
(you) 						that work iniquity.

	And yet you can't lay a finger on these guys. But they're off the Word,
because that was the original Tree of Life, a tree of error the
knowledge of good and evil was the Word of God perverted by one word.
(See?) 

23.	Now, let's go on back:

		(26) 	Wherefore if they say, Behold, he is in the desert; go not
forth: 						behold, he is in the secret chambers; (do not) believe it.

		(27) 	For as lightning cometh out of the east, and (shines) even unto 
					the west; so shall also the (Parousia, the Presence) of the Son of 
					man be. (Now, there again you're getting a further indication.)

	All right, we're getting the signs lined up. "What is the sign that
You're there? What is going to be going on? Because we won't even know
You're there by being able to look at You, and if we could, we couldn't
even recognize You. So, what is this personal Presence that's supposed
to come before the end of the world?"  

	And you know that that absolutely not referring to the great White
Throne, that’s way down the ages, that's referring to the three and a
half year tribulation, and then the final blotting out with flames of
fire, the atomic bomb and all, and then God brings the things back on
recreated, not a recreated, but, a renovated earth like after the flood.
(See?)

 	"Now, what about it?" He says. Now, He said here, "If they say He's in
the desert, go not forth in the secret chamber, do not believe it." [Mt
24:26] Verse 24.

		(24) 	…(these) false Christs…shall (show such) signs and wonders; 
					(that only the very elect will not be) deceived…

	Now, It doesn't say the elect, It says the very Elect. That's a very
special group at the end time.

24.   So, let's just take, let's read again then and we'll connect up
here. They'll say, "Lo, here is Christ, don't believe it, watch
carefully they don't get you off balance here whatsoever."  

	And [Matthew 24:] 4-5 again:

		(4) 	And Jesus…said…Take heed that no man deceive you.

		(5)	 …many come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive 	
				many. (See?)

	All right, now with that, (we have read the other verses) and now again
we will read 26-27.

		(26) 	(Therefore) if they shall say unto you, Behold...in the secret 	
				chambers; (don't) believe it, (don't go forth.) 

		(27) 	…as lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto
the 						west; so, shall also the (Parousia) of the Son of man be.

 25. Now, so listen, (I'm just…what I'm trying to get your attention)
the fundamentalist's say that the Parousia, which they call the
'Rapture', the literal Coming of the Lord when He Appears to the saints,
is secret. How can It be secret in the face of these verses? I want to
know.  That's what I mean, they try to get across your attention.
There's somebody's all messed up in his thinking. You cannot attribute
to the Word that Presence what is not there, because It is not secret.
The actual Coming of the Lord cannot be secret.

	First of all, you've got…when He is Present you've got a bunch of
false prophets, you've got tremendous signs and wonders, put it with
fantastic character, fantastic ministries, only the Very Elect will not
be fooled, because they've got an insight in the Word that nobody else's
got, because that's the Tree of Life as against the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil, cut down the tree. And a false prophet is a
man who goes off the Word, has all kinds of signs and wonders. He
doesn't come saying, "Hey, hey there's no God." He doesn't come saying,
"Hey, there's no such thing as a resurrection." He doesn't come along
saying, "There's no such thing as a Rapture, no such thing as this, that
and the other thing."  He comes right along and he's just so close. But
the Bible says, "If Satan is transformed into an angel of light, how
much more his ministers?"                    [2 Cor 11:14-14]           


26.	In other words, there is at the end time a complete religion that is
so close to Christians, because it is Christians, but anti-Christian
that only the very Elected are not going to be deceived. How in the
world can It be a secret Parousia? It cannot be secret. However, there
is no way you can figure it out in the sense that you can bring It
about, or you can have anything to do with It. It's got to be there. 

	Then as Rotherham said, "This Word is so confusing that God must bring
It to pass, and when He has brought It to pass, that's the time we'll
know what It's about."  Rotherham is exactly right. (See?) Remember,
what Vine said. Vine said here, "Where the sign of the Son of man,
signifies subjectively, (that's the very Greek itself shows) that the
Son of Man is Himself the sign of what He is about to do."

	In other words, the rest of the 'Coming' event absolutely, and what of
the rest of the Coming event, Resurrection, Rapture, Great Tribulation,
Coming back. (See?)  No, it's not secret. In fact, It's very, very
visible. So, when they say here, "He is in the desert in some little
place out here, don't believe it, or in a secret room don't believe it?"
Why? Because it's got to be done in such a manner that the people can
take it.  Now, I'll show you that a little later on as we get into some
more verse of Scripture.

27.	Now, we go back to Matthew 24:4 again.

		(4) 	And Jesus answered and said… Take heed that no man deceive you.

	See, and connect this with verse 27.

		(27) 	For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and (shines) even
unto 						the west; so shall also the (Parousia, the personal Presence)
of the 						Son of man be.

	Now, go back to verse 5.

		(5) 	…many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall 			
		deceive many.

	See, that light follows verse 27, "lightning cometh out of the east…"

	Now, verse 26,

		(26) 	Wherefore (they’ll) say… Behold, he is in the desert; go not
						forth: behold, in the secret chambers; (do not) believe it…

		(28) 	For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be
gathered…					

	Now listen, this verse 28 is a real stinger for this reason, Bro.
Branham never ever used this verse right, though other students agreed
with him, this verse is really…the verse he used is in Luke. Let me
read It exactly what the Greek says: "For wherever the corpse might be
in that place the carrion birds will be gathered together." 

	Now look, you see people are reading this Scripture all wrong. That’s
the whole trouble, we've read this all wrong all these years, because we
didn't have a prophet to help us. That's the only reason I can read It
right to you this morning with even any sense of right understanding,
because I have an understanding by a vindicated man.

28.	Now, let's look at It. He's telling you the sign of the Parousia, of
the Presence. And you know what the sign is? False anointing, exactly
what the prophet said. He says here, "When the Son of man is Present,
(He said) it is going to be exactly as a corpse surrounded by buzzards."
Now, these verses by Jesus right here are no different from what Paul
says in 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12. Now, look it, I know you're going to
have a job following me, because this is pretty tough material. But I
hope…if time goes on it'll all come together in your mind.

		(1) 	Now we beseech you, brethren, by the (Presence) of our Lord Jesus
					Christ, (that's the Parousia) and (even) by our gathering together 
					unto him,

	The Bride has to be gathered unto Christ personally right here. He's
not talking about the dead, he's done talked about them [the dead], he's
talking about them [the living]. And of course, they died, he's talking
about us.

		(2) 	That (you) soon not shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by
spirit, 					nor by word, nor by letter from us, as that day of Christ
is at hand.

		(3)	Let no man deceive…any means: (Now, the day of Christ there is 	
				that great day of judgment, not the Parousia.) Let no man deceive 		
			by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a 					
falling away first, (now watch) a falling away first, and (the) man 				
	of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

		(4) 	Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God,
or 						that is worshipped; so that he as God (sits) in the temple of
God, 						shewing himself that he is God.

	All right, all but the elect are going to get sucked in.

		(5) 	Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these 
					things?

		(6) 	And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his
					time.

		(7) 	For the mystery of iniquity (does) already work: only he who now 
					(hinders) will let, 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:

		(9) 	Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all 			
		power and signs and lying wonders,

29.  Oh, isn't that exactly what Jesus said over in Matthew 24: ? It
doesn't say the wonders and the signs are lies, they're genuine. And
this fellow will be so close to Jesus I got an idea that he can pawn
himself right off as an incarnation, or reincarnation.   

		(10) 	(Now) with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that
perish; 					because… (now listen) because they received not the love
of the truth, 					that they might be saved.

	The Presence of the Son of man surrounded by false prophets is a sign,
Paul says the same thing. The truth. "I am the way the truth and the
life." [Jn 14:6] (See?) "I'm the light of the world, he that follows me
shall not walk in darkness." [Jn 8:12] And notice, at the end time He's
called the God of Truth. Not Amen, but the God of Truth. (See?) Although
Amen in the Scripture see there. I'm talking about the Book of
Revelation. He's the God of the Amen, from Isaiah. But He's also God of
Truth. (See?) A reality. Now, the effect:   

		(11) 	…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 damned who believed not the truth, but
had 						pleasure in unrighteousness.

	Now listen, you got your thinking caps on this morning? Have you been
listening to what I've been saying this morning?  Matthew 7: "Beware of
false prophets, they come to you in sheep clothing, but inwardly they
are ravening wolves, by their fruits you will know them." What tree was
it that destroys, that cut down the human race? The tree of the Word of
God perverted. Man bringing life in a way apart from God, from which God
signifies. (See?) 

30.	Now, these people are so identical to the real, but only the elect
can tell the difference. What is the difference? Says right here: "They
received not the love of the truth."  And It would have saved him. "I am
the way the truth and the life." 

	"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word
was God,"             [Jn 1:1] "and the Word became flesh." [Jn 1:14]
But the Word cannot become flesh and come down here. Or, He’d have
nail-prints. But you still got the Word. (See?) (You'll be here a while,
so take it easy make your seat nice and comfortable.)  But now, you
begin to see that this is nothing more or less then what Jesus said in
Matthew 24: and in Matthew 7: It's the same thing. It's the one Spirit
showing the same thing. (See?)  

	Now, and remember 2 Thessalonians 2:1 is the Parousia.  

		(1) 	Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ, 					and by our gathering together unto him, (See?) 

		(2) 	(Don't be) shaken (don't be worried…)   

	The It says:

		(3) 	(The day of the Lord can) not come… (until the Parousia,
there's 					got to be a Personal Presence of Christ with His Own)

	Then It says: that's when you begin watching for what is coming,
because there's going to be a Parousia of the antichrist and a
revelation. And It tells you right here what saves the Bride is the
revelation of the Truth, and the rest turns It thumbs down and are
caught by the antichrist.

31.  Now listen, that couldn't come in the First Age, it could not come
in the Second Age, or the Third Age, or the Fourth Age, or the Fifth
Age, or the Sixth Age, but the end of the Seventh Age, no other time. 

	So therefore, you can say what you want. (See?) But when you talk about
the Parousia, (the Presence) you can't bypass the revealed Word of
Almighty God, because that's the one thing that's saving It. And It
doesn't say one thing about the Blood of Jesus Christ, or the baptism
with the Holy Ghost. It's what I've tried to tell you, I'm trying to
tell you there is a sign at the end time. And the sign at the end time
is a false prophet off the Word, signs and wonders legitimate which will
lead you right to an antichrist, the overthrow of the whole world.
Christ coming back, but the personal Presence of Jesus signifies what? 
Truth. So therefore, the Truth has got to be somewhere.

32.	All right. So, we say here, as we saw here the Parousia of 2
Thessalonians 2:1, and that Parousia is identical, (now watch) the
Parousia that's talked about here in 2 Thessalonians 2: coming right
before the antichrist for he comes on the scene, people turning down the
truth.             I told you before, wrong tree, act like Christians,
aren't, is the very same one over here in              1 Thessalonians
4:13-17.

		(13) 	(Now) I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning	
 				them which are asleep, (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 						which sleep in Jesus will God bring (forth) with him.

		(15) 	For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which 
					are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord (that's the
Parousia) 					shall not (go before) them (that) are asleep.

		(16) 	For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, …

	See, He's going to come right down to the earth. He's going to have a
Shout, He's going to have a Voice, He's going to have a Trumpet. And It
says right there, that we're gathered unto Him at that particular time.
And then He'll bring the dead out of the ground. And then they will all
go up in series, Age one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. And the
Seventh Church Age will be caught away a little hand full. That's your
secret. So, called secret, Parousia. secret Rapture. They'll go a little
few at a time, no one will even know. And they're all gone.

	See, It's the same Parousia, no different to Matthew. "What will be the
sign of Your Presence?"  And the first thing He hit was false anointed.
Now, how are you going to know a false if you haven't got a change? How
are you going to know if Jesus hasn't identified Himself?  So, He does
identify Himself, but He's not here physically, you can’t see Him. But
you can tell that He is here. Because the disciples said, "How will we
know that You are here?" I hope you're beginning to get the Scripture
together.

33.	Now listen: 2 Thessalonians 2:1, (Parousia) is identical to 1
Thessalonians 4:13-17, is identical to Matthew 24:  Now, what's the key?
Reality, reality, reality. Deception, deception, deception. How are you
going to know the difference?  Now, that's the clue. Now, that's what
the Parousia is all about. You'll understand why, that when Bro. Branham
began instructing me personally on 'The Anointed Ones at the End Time',
then preached that sermon. 

     That sermon meant life and death to me. It meant life from death.
Because nothing made any sense until he explained the Presence and the
sign of that Presence. And nobody is going to catch It, because nobody
wants the truth. Without the truth, you die. And without the truth, you
can have every single other thing that God has in His entire catalogue
from character to manifestation and you're still gone. (You follow me?)
Now, you see why when you see this Message that's all you ever will see.
Reality, reality, reality, Presence. Deception, deception, deception. 

34.	Okay, let's do some reading we go to the Book of Jude 3, 

		(3) 	Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the
common 					salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and
exhort you that 					(you) should earnestly contend for the faith which
was once (for all) 					delivered unto the saints. (That was at the time
of Paul.)

		(4) 	…certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained
						to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God 		
			into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord 				
	Jesus Christ.

	How are you going to deny it? There's only one reason to deny it, and
that's to deny what he said.

		(5) 	I will put you in remembrance, though (you) once knew this, how 	
				that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt,
(now 					watch) afterward destroyed them that believed not. (Now we're
getting 					right down to Exodus, an exodus is in our time, like a
Bride coming 					out of a church.)

		(6) 	And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their
own 						habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under
darkness 						unto the judgment of the great day.

		(7) 	Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like 			
		manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange
					flesh, (that's homosexuality, bestiality) are set forth for an
example, 					suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

		(8) 	Likewise, these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise
dominion, and 					speak evil of dignities.

		(9) 	Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he
disputed 					about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a
railing accusation,					but said, The Lord rebuke thee.

		(10) 	But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but
what 					they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they
corrupt 						themselves.

		(11) 	Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran
greedily 					 after the error of Balaam for reward, perished in the
gainsaying of Core.

35.	 Now, just a minute, one fellow is a prophet up here, and the other
fellow is an elder who prophesied. They're pretty bunch of rotten of
guys, but they're not entirely as bankrupt as people think they are.

		(12) 	(They) are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with
you…

	 Three kinds of believers in every church, make believer, unbeliever
and true believer. You want to look around and see if there might be
true believers here this morning? Pick out the unbelievers, go ahead,
have fun. Bro. Branham said, "Every church." You say, "Bro. Vayle would
you pick them out?" Ain't got the faintest clue. Ain't got the least
clue. Every time I think somebody's really great, they're not so great.
Just like me. Every time I think they're not so great, they turn out
pretty good.  I wouldn't have a clue. Don't let it bug you. You just
believe you're one of them, that's all, keep going on.

		(12)	…feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without
water, 						carried about of winds; trees whose fruit (withered),
without fruit, 						twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

		(13) 	Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering 
					stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

		(14) 	And Enoch also (the reason I'm reading just now, is because
Enoch)					the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these (things), saying,
Behold, 					the Lord (comes) with ten thousands of his saints, (now, of
course 						that's after the great tribulation.)

		(15) 	To execute judgment…

36. What I read It for, is to show you how that sin in coming to a head
and what people are missing by looking at the bestiality in the world,
they're missing the razor edge that Bro. Branham preached about in 'The
False Anointed'.  So, how can you call that Manna anything but a real
thing? Well, give them the Word test. Just find out where the truth is,
and put It down to the Word. Because, brother/sister there's a showdown
between Christ and antichrist. And the showdown is between truth and a
lie! Because 'the lie' that said, "You shall not surely die." (See?)

	Right today, they're screaming, "Oh, millions now living will never
die."

	" Oh, there's hundreds of millions of Christians."

	"Oh, bless God, California is not going to go down."

	"And, oh bless God, that Rapture."

	They talk about the choo-choo-train. The big choo-choo-train is going
to go down the track, and the engineer be taken away. Now, there's no
choo-choo-train.  Doesn't God make fools as they think they can smart
off?  Oh, they wrote their tract, but they wrote the wrong tract. The
next thing they'll be telling you, they're telling now about their
pilots, the planes. Well, the pilots they'll figure it out, the
pilot’s got perfect control.

 	Look, don't romanticize God's Word brother/sister, just look at It and
believe It. Don't fantasize, romanticize, just take it the way it was.
If God wants romanticize, and fantasize He'd have done it for her. Why
can't we just see the truth?  We're looking at the ripening of sin, the
rottenness of sin, but at the same time you got your Korah's operating
definitive, positive gifts of Almighty God. But they themselves went
against Moses. We'll read about him a little later on.

37.	Let's go to 2 Peter 2:1, let's see what Peter says about the end
time. 

		(1) 	But there were false prophets among the people, even as there
shall 					be false teachers among you, … 

	Now, why…there you are, at the end time there's going to be two major
things to watch out for. The false prophet and the false teacher.

		(1)	…privily bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that 
					bought them, bring upon themselves swift destruction.

	Isn't that what Paul said over there, even denying the Lord Jesus
Christ?  All right, if He is here and they say He's not, are they
denying Him? You bet your sweet life, or I don’t know what I'm talking
about. 

		(2) 	And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason (now
listen) 					by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

	That’s always been in history.  Paul said, "They make me a heretic
because I worship God in a certain way," [Acts 24:14] which is
prescribed by the Word.

		(3) 	…through covetousness shall they with feigned words make 					
merchandise of you: … 

	How would you like to be a piece of merchandise to somebody? I'm going
to tell you something, the black man sure huffs and puffs about the fact
he was made merchandise of. But the white man is so stupid he's…made
merchandise of the devil, and he's proud it it. I'd sooner be a black
man saved, then a stupid white man unsaved, I'll tell you that. Very
strange, isn't it? Makes merchandise. 

38.	Why am I a Baptist a fellow said this morning on the radio. Well, I
don't know why he's a Baptist, could care less. Why, I'm Independent.
What's that? I can do ten time worse than a Baptist organized, being
Independent. Why are you a Christian?  But you forget to light your
candles the morning. See, the whole thing has gone crazy. 

		(3)	…whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their 				
	damnation slumbereth not.

		(4) 	For if God spared not the angels that sinned, (notice of the
repeat 						of what we read) but cast them down to hell, and delivered
them 						into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

		(5) 	And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, 	
				a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of
					the ungodly;

		(6) 	…turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned 
				them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those (who) 			
	should live ungodly;

		(7) 	…delivered just Lot, … (go down to verse 12)  

		(12) 	But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and
destroyed, 						speak evil of the things that they understand not; and
utterly perish 						in their own corruption;

		(13) 	And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that
count 					it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and
blemishes, 						sporting themselves with their own deceivings while
they feast with 					you;

		(14) 	Having eyes full of adultery, cannot cease from sin; beguiling
unstable 					souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous
practices; cursed 						children:

		(15) 	Which have forsaken the right way, and gone astray, (that's what
Paul 					said, that's what Jesus said, taking) the way of Balaam the
son of Bosor, 					who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

	That's what Paul said, that's what Jude said.

		(16) 	But was rebuked for his iniquity: … (you see.)

39.	Let's go to 2 Timothy 3:1-9, now I'm just lining this up for me to
show you brother/sister, exactly what we're into. 

		(1) 	(At) this know, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

		(2) 	For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, 
					proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 			
		(and this is the end time, this is not the age of martyrs, this is the
						end time.)  

		(3) 	Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers,
incontinent, 					(what he later shows out on incest) fierce, despisers
of those that are 					good,

		(4) 	Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers
						of God;

		(5) 	Having a form of godliness, denying the power thereof: from such	
			 	turn away.

		(6) 	For (such) are (these that are) creep into houses, captive silly
women 					laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,

		(7) 	Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the
truth 					(now). (Listen:)

		(8) 	Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also
resist 					the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the
faith.

		(9) 	But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be
manifest unto 					all men, (even) as their's also was.

	All right, no different. Scripture lines up, Scripture upon Scripture,
no matter where you turn there is a key, there is a sign. "What is the
sign of Your Presence?" Reality, deception. Grossest deception, finest
deception. You never saw an age with the two extremes of this age. You
couldn't have. Oh, I know that there's a temple in India, I've never
seen the pictures, but I guess I could buy a book if I knew where to get
the book, or find it in the library, there's supposed to be every sexual
act done in this temple unto love and all, but you can go down to anyone
of your stores right here that sell the pornographic magazines, and you
can pick up one magazine that will beat the spots off any temple in
India, or any place else as far as I'm concerned. They say the temples
in Pompeii are the same. England's got quite a few post cards and things
made up of their minds, I noticed when I was there, three or four years
ago. We don’t have them over here yet, unless buy them at some shop in
New York I suppose, you can get them.

40.   But what I'm trying to show you that even as Bible could not have
its spread until the press came on the scene. Neither could the
rottenness of the world and the immorality reach its peak without the
presses. And so now, we have got the fruit of both. We have got where
incest is common and will not be dealt with pretty soon by the courts,
because so what? It's my daughter, I can do what I want. It's my son, I
can do what I want. (See?) You can get away with anything today. Why?
Because, of the press.  You've got grossest immorality on the one hand,
on the other hand there never was a time when you had such fineness of
religion. 

	Right now, the 700 Club what I understand (as they sent me a little
letter telling what they are going to do) I suppose hinting for money. I
don't know, but now they've got in Israel every room in the hotels and
motels in Israel will now have the Gospel in it, preaching the Lord
Jesus Christ, Pentecostal style no doubt. Which is alright, I'm not
going to fight it. See, what I want to show you that you could not have
this into the age of Pentecost where the gifts are. So, you've got the
finest group of people perhaps the world's ever seen, the furthest from
the truth. Because they believe the lie. Right by …?... see?

41.  Now, watch as we go back to Matthew 24:27. I'm belaboring this
point on purpose, because this is where we are in the word, there's
nothing more you can do about it. Now, just stay with the Word says.   

		(27) 	For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and (shines to) the
west; 					(even) so shall also the (personal Presence) of the Son of
man be.

	Now, this word 'lightning' is actually a bright shining even as a lamp.
It doesn't necessarily mean lightning, it's a bright shining as a lamp
shines.

	Okay, if that's the case, maybe could compare of Matthew 24:27, to Luke
11:33-36.

		(33) 	No man, when he hath lighted a candle, (puts) it in a secret
place, 						neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they
which come 						in may see the light.

		(34) 	The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is
single, 						thy whole body also is full of light; when (your) eye is
evil, (the 						whole) body is full of darkness.

	Now, I didn't write that, He did. Paul said the same thing. They
believed the lie, no way out.

		(35) 	Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not
darkness.

	Now, what if you're charismatic? (See?) This guy in Michigan keeps
trying. He doesn't bug me, but he bugs me in this respect, he said I
hurt his feelings because when he asked me, "Bro. Vayle how would you
feel if people received the Holy Ghost speaking in tongues?" I said,
"I'd feel suspicious." 

42.	Then, who gets offended? If the Holy Spirit baptism comes today
without any evidence or sensation, then why do you want it? Let me tell
you something flat buddy: when I went up there to get this hernia
operated on down at Shawnee Hospital, I said, "Look, (I said) I'm pretty
nervous type of guy, I don't know, I know I've got to walk to that
table. You’d better give me a pretty good shot.” So, they gave me a
pretty big pill and a pretty good shot. And I went on that table, and
I'll tell you I couldn't even feel cut, cut, or sew, sew. The less I
could feel, I could just kind of tap, tap, tap, as they fixed me up. And
let me tell you, if I'd have felt that knife, I'd have hollered bloody
murder.   

	The evidence of Shawnee Hospital is, you don't feel a thing and you
don't. Now, that's the baptism with the Holy Ghost. I'd have been very
suspicious about that hospital if they hadn't done what they said, but
they did what they said. That's why it's the world's greatest. And
that's one thing right here brother/sister, this is the world's greatest
in this hour to stay exactly what is taught in this Word. (See?) 

 	Now, I was reading along here: "If the eye is dark, He said, the whole
body is full of darkness."

		(36) 	If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no part
dark, the 					whole shall be full of light, as when the (light shineth)
of a candle 						(that) doth give light.

	Now, you can see how this follows perfectly with Jesus and Paul. Truth
and error. (See?) And He said, "If that is dark in you, how great is
that darkness? Indication of the end time.

43.	Now, we want to go further so we go to Matthew 24 again, and this
time we advance to verses 37-39.

		(37)	But as the days of Noe… so shall also the coming of the Son of
man be.                            			(No sir, the Presence of the Son
of man.)

	What you got there? Two extremes. You know, Noah was the only perfect
man in his generation? And that word 'perfect' meant 'genetically pure'.
That's what it is, the Bible, genetically pure. Now, I'm not going to
say you couldn't be married to some off color and not make it, because
the genes are everywhere. That's why we have election. But you can see
why the prophet made certain statements. He'd have to make you to be
cohesive and run in line with the Scripture that some of those things
are not right. And I'm talking in terms of mixing of the white and black
race. Bro. Branham was not happy about that, God set the bounds and all,
and today of course in my own understanding, if something like that has
happened, it's no reflection on the children, it's something that God
did not want done.

44.	Now: 

		(38) 	For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating
and 						drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that
Noe 						entered into the ark,

		(39) 	And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so
shall 					also the (Parousia, the Presence) of the Son of man be.

	And then It says:

		(40) 	(Two) shall be in the field; one…taken, … 

	Now, It says in here, then notice, (I don't want to really read beyond,
past that) how about to where they're being taken. But you'll notice
brother/sister, that the Presence is not the taking. He is already
Present, then comes the taking away. Why? Because he takes them away by
the Holy Spirit.  Now, I want to read that to you here, 37-39. So, we
just read on then.  

		(41) 	Two women shall be grinding at the mill; one…taken, and (one)
left.

		(42) 	Watch therefore: for (you don't) know what hour (the) Lord doth
come.

		(43) 	But know this, the goodman of the house had known in what watch 
				the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have 				
	suffered his house to be broken up.

		(44) 	Therefore, be ready: for in such an hour as (you) think not the
Son 						of man cometh.

45.	Now you see, in one place He's already there, the other place He's
not there. You see, when they try to tell you that the Parousia is where
Jesus comes down part way and stays there, that's a lie. He's got to
come on down. [raps on the pulpit] (See?) All the way down to raise the
dead. And then He takes us up.

	Then you say, "What happened?" Well, it's very, very simple, It's the
Holy Spirit. And when the Holy Spirit, which is God, period, not the
sons of God, but God, period.  Why He's in that body, we'll see Him face
to face, God incarnate the nail prints, the whole thing. Different story
entirely. See, that's coming. Notice 'Coming' and 'Appearing', two
different things entirely. But the Appearing of the Parousia is not what
the fundamental's teaching, he’s entirely wrong of his doctrine.

46.  Now, let's compare this with Luke 17:35-37, and we're going to get
the very same picture.  

		(35) 	Two women shall be grinding (shall be grinding) together; one…
					taken, and (one) left.

		(36) 	Two men in the field; one…taken, (one) left.

		(37) 	And they answered and said…Where, Lord? And he said, (Where 		
			ever) the body (soma) is, (not corpse, there) will the eagles be 				
	gathered…  

	You got one gathering, because the true Word of God, the clean eagles.
You got the others gathering to that which is dirty by the buzzards, the
unclean eagles. I'm not going to name anybody buzzard, but I just
know…tell you one thing, I admit as Bro. Branham said, "The dove and
the crow can sit right down together and eat. The crow can eat dove
food, but the dove can't eat crow food. I'm not going to talk anymore on
that, because I don't who eats crow food and dove food at the same time.
And I don't know who gets sick if they tried to eat the crow food being
a dove. I'm not going to try to distinguish.

	I got to let it be, but It says right here, "eagles are gathered with
the soma." The unadulterated food. There was death in the tree. This
Tree does not have death. That's why there'll be a people changed and
won't even die. They'll go down the road in eternity. (See?)

47. Let's go back to Matthew 24: but this time we're going to hit
Matthew 25:

		(1) 	Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins,
which 					took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.

	All right, now, this is going to further embellish our theme here, so
we read a little further, because it's at the end time.

		(2) 	…five wise…five foolish.

		(3) 	They that were foolish took their lamps, took no oil…

		(4) 	…the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.

		(5) 	While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.

		(6) 	And at midnight…a cry (was) made, Behold, the bridegroom (and 	
				cross out the word 'cometh'; it is not in any Greek whatsoever. And 
				It doesn't say,) go ye out… (It says, come out.) 

	These are two of the most glaring inconsistencies in the King James
version. I am not devoted to the King James version. I never have been,
never will be. I think it's the best there is, but it's certainly not
letter perfect. And right here It simply says, "Behold the Bridegroom,
come out and get acquainted." Come out and see Him. Come out and meet
Him.

	Now listen, He's got to be there to be met. (See?) So, this is the
people coming out. And it's got to be Bride, because it's Bridegroom. 

	And It says, "Behold Him." 

	"How do we know It's you? How do we know You're there? We know it's
going to be some kind of a sign." True, and the sign then must point to
who is there, then who is there must be seen. Okay, we could think of
that. (Eh?) 

48.	Okay, let's see now, let's go back to Matthew 24: again verse 3.

		(3)	…what shall be the sign of thy (Presence)…,  

	Verse 24,

		(24) 	…there shall arise false Christs, (even lying) prophets, shew
great						signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, (it is
not, 						thank God) they (would) deceive the very elect. (But they
can't.)

 	Verse 27,

		(27) 	…as lightning (comes) out of the east, and shineth even unto
the west; 					so shall also the (Presence) of the Son of man be.

	[Verse] 37,

		(37)	 But as (it was in) the days of Noe, so shall also the (Presence)
of the 					Son of man be.

	Verse 39,

		(39) 	And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so 		
			shall (be) the (time of the (Presence) of the Son of man. (See?)

49.  Now, and the cry comes at that time, "Behold the Bridegroom." Oh,
that's sensible. That's sensible. Because once they seen the sign of the
fishes, saw the sign in the room at Emmaus, they said, "Well, that's the
One." He was identified. Now, it's at this time all this is going on
that's false nobody is paying attention. Only those that have the truth,
but He is here. And He can be identified, because It says, "Come out and
meet Him," so they got to behold Him. 

 	And in verse 13 of Matthew 25:

		(13) 	Watch therefore, for (you) know neither the day nor the hour
(when) 					the Son of man cometh.

	Now, this also precedes the very fact of the Son of man coming. We're
talking now of the literal coming in the flesh. So therefore, this is
not necessarily Christ coming in the flesh.

 Now, I want to cover something in 24:27.

		(27) 	For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and (shines out of)
the west; 					so shall also the (Presence) of the Son of man be. (We're
looking at 					that Light.)

50.	Now, let's go back to Luke 2:1-20.

		(1) 	…it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree
from 						Caesar Augustus the world should be taxed.

		(2) 	(And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor…)

		(3) 	(They) all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.

		(4) 	And Joseph also went up (to) Galilee, (to) Nazareth, (and so on.)
 

		(5) 	To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, great with child.

	And then verse 7, 

		(7) 	…she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in
swaddling 					clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no
room for them 					in the inn.

	Now listen, we're going to hit verse 8.

		(8) 	…here were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, 
					keeping watch over their flock by night.

		(9) 	And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of
the 					Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.

		(10) 	And the angel said, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good
tidings 						of great joy, which shall be to all people.

		(11) 	(And) unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, 
					which is Christ the Lord.

		(12) 	And this shall be a sign unto you; …

51.	Now, they could have walked in and said, "Well, who is this kid?"

	"Oh, some poor peasant had him. Couldn't afford a hotel, couldn't
afford a motel, 		couldn't afford a bed even. Poor little kid, poor
little imp, poor little kid. You know, 		who knows, he might even…just
some couple living together, who knows?"

	He said, "There's going to be a sign." The sign? Now notice the simple
sign: 

		(7) 	…wrapped in swaddling clothes in a manger… 

	So, they went in. Well, the first place was go to barn, a cave in the
hillside. And maybe the first cave and nobody there. Might have been
four or five caves, here's some people in them. Well, let's find out.
There's one where a woman has a baby. Is the baby is in swaddling
clothes, is he in a manger?  "Well, that's got to be the One."  (See?)
sign.  He's pointing to identify.  

		(13) 	And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the
heavenly 						host praising God, and saying,

		(14) 	Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will
toward 						men.

		(15) 	And it came to pass, as the angels were gone…the shepherds
said, 						Let us go (to) Bethlehem, see this thing which is come to
pass, which 					the Lord hath made known unto us.

		(16) 	And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the
babe 					lying in a manger.

		(17) 	And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying 			
		which was told them concerning this child.

		(18) 	And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were
told 					them by the shepherds.

		(19) 	But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.

		(20) 	And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all
the 					things that they had heard and seen, as it was told them.

	Now, you notice right here, that these people became messengers to the
sign, to the One who was pointed out to them. Now, you notice here, that
in this case Jesus was His Own sign, a baby. But a special baby, because
he had the swaddling clothes and he was in a manger. Now, I wonder when
we talk of a sign, which we do talk of signs that are going to point to
Him. I wonder why people could not take what Bro. Branham mentioned when
he kept talking about the sign of the Messiah? 

52.	 Let's go to John 4:16-26, the woman at the well. I don’t have to
read It to you.

	He said, "Go and tell your husband."

	She said, "I don't have one,"

	He said, "You're right, you had five, the one you got now is a live-in
boyfriend, he's not your husband."

	She said, "Man, (she said) you got to be a devil." 

	She said, "I perceive You are a Prophet."

	And of course, she wanted to argue a little bit to find out what was
really right.

	And He said, "No, (He said) it's not that way at all."

	And the woman said, (in verse 25) "We know when Messiah comes, which is
called Christ, He'll tell us all things."

	And Jesus said, "I that speak unto thee, Am He."

	Now, how did she identify Him? She identified Him on the grounds of Him
reading her heart, of actually knowing her life. And she didn't say,
"Well, a fortune teller can do that." (See?)

	Why? Because there's something in there that responded. The very Elect
cannot be deceived, because there's something in there that responds.
Jesus said to the Pharisees, "There's no place in you for the Word." 
See, this is why there is a problem at the end time, there is no place
in there for that Word.

53.	Now, with that we're going to go again to 2 Thessalonians 1:1-12.
Now, I'm not going to read It, because you know the content of 2
Thessalonians 1:1-12, and also 2 Thessalonians 2:1.

		(1) 	Now we beseech you, brethren, by the (Presence) of our Lord…			
		and by our gathering together ….

	Now, he said, "Don't be troubled and don't be shaken…in other words,
it's going to be a very precarious time, it's going to be a very rough
time at that time, because the spirit of antichrist is there. The Spirit
of Christ is there, it's all going for a showdown, it's all coming for a
showdown." (See?) Now, what is the showdown? We told you what the
showdown was, where they are going to, one will receive the truth and
the other won't receive the truth. 

	Now, I want to just look at this 2 Thessalonians 1:3,

		(3) 	We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, because your 
				faith groweth exceedingly, and the (love) of every one of you all 		
			toward each other (abound;)

		(4) 	So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your
						patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that
(you) 					endure:

		(5) 	Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that
(you) 					may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which (you)
suffer:

		(6) 	Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation
to 					them that trouble you;

		(7) 	And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus
shall 					be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,

		(8) 	In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and 	
				obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:

		(9) 	Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the
presence 					of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;

		(10) 	When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be
admired in 					all them that believe (because our testimony among you
was believed) 					in that day.

		(11) 	Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count 
					you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his
						goodness, and the work of faith with power:

		(12) 	That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you,
and 					(you) in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord
Jesus						 Christ.

      [2 Thessalonians 2:]

		(1) 	Now we beseech you, brethren, by the (Presence) of our Lord Jesus
					Christ, (of) our gathering together unto him,

		(2) 	That (you) soon not (be) shaken… (and so on.)  

54.	 Now, chapter 1 is actually verse 1 of chapter 2. And it's not Jesus
Coming with His saints as it sounds like in chapter 1, but It's Jesus
Coming to His saints, for It says in verse 10, "When He shall come to be
glorified in all His saints."  (See?) He's not coming back with His
saints. He's coming to His saints. 

	Now, they can say, "Well, that's you see, that's when He is dropping
down out of Heaven. But that isn't so, because the Holy Spirit is here
to raise the dead, to change us, to take us up. So, you see when we look
at this Scripture here, this is the Parousia.

	Now, also in 1 Thessalonians 3:12-13,

		(12) 	And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward 
					another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:

		(13) 	To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness
before 					God, even our Father, at the (Presence) of our Lord Jesus
Christ with 					all his saints.

	Well, he's saying the same thing over here. Parousia, not coming back
with His saints, but the Presence with the saints. That's the same again
as 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17, It's the same Word. 

55.	And therefore, is not Revelation 19: when He comes back seated upon
a white horse with the sword coming out of His mouth. Thus, 2
Thessalonians chapter 1, is the Parousia, and not the coming back to the
earth with His saints, what about verses 7-9, so let's read them.

		(7) 	And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus
shall 					be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,

		(8) 	In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, that 
					obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:

		(9) 	…be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of
the 					Lord, and (the power of his glory;) 

		(10) 	When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be
admired 						in all them that believe (because our testimony among you
was believed) 					in that day.

	All right, now sounds …say. Well, that's going to prove right there,
that that is not the Parousia whatsoever, that is Jesus Christ Himself
coming back at the time of Armageddon taking vengeance, and the Bride is
coming back with Him.  Is that so?

56.	Let's just look at the Greek: "To you that are troubled rest with
us, when the Lord Jesus shall reveal from heaven with his mighty angels,
in flames of fire taking vengeance." [1Th 1:7-8]

 	All right, immediately we see that a period of rest is to come at the
time that Jesus shall be revealed from Heaven. Does it sound like rest
when He comes back with fire destroying people? I thought they were
going to say, "Mountains fall on us."  Hide us from the wrath of God?

	You know what that word 'rest' is? (Now, hold on to your hats) It's
'relaxation'. The very thing Bro. Branham said under the Seventh Seal.
It's on your books. You see, when Mr. Sothmann made the tapes he did it
very poorly. You can send him the tapes if you want, that he should be
excoriated for it, because he no more believed that he was talking about
a prophet or literally God's messenger of this hour was given you, for
he had two tape recorders sitting there to get everything the prophet
said. 

57.	I'm going to hit real hard here: who did Bro. Branham have around
him as the tape boys for years? Leo and Gene, homosexuals.  Complete
perverts. Who shaved little kids heads off, and beat some unmercifully,
to be crippled.  Did you catch why I'm saying this? Truth, deception, a
real prophet, junk so to speak.

	He said, "If I didn't have this around me, I knew that I had the wrong
ministry." Come on, I’m telling you, the whole thing come together, if
you've got the guts to take it. You that follow Scripture, (I'm not
through preaching) I want to show you something here: It says,
"relaxation." Bro. Branham said, "Under the Seventh Seal comes
relaxation." 

	This is not the rest that Job speaks of, in Job 3: when he said, "Would
God I was born premature and untimely, birth, death." Then he said, "I
can be like everybody else and rest." He is not talking about that kind
of  a rest. He is not even talking of men's ceasing to be afflicted, but
a special rest, a relaxation is coming, when Jesus and His ministering
angels are revealed. That's what he said. 

58. Now, I've got a lot of Scripture, see, because once you see this
Message the whole Bible comes together. According to me It does.
According to anybody else, who cares. I got my own life to live, you've
got yours. You do what you want with it.

	Now watch, Hebrews 3:7, (I'm going to read a lot of Scripture)

		(7) 	Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if (you) will hear his
						voice,

		(8 )	Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, (you know
something? 					This goes right to Hebrews 6 where they turned down the
Word) in 					the day of temptation in the wilderness:

		(9) 	When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty 	
			years.

		(10) 	Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, said, They do
alway 						err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.

		(11) 	So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)

		(12) 	Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart
of unbelief, 					in departing from the living God.

		(13) 	But exhort one another daily, while it is called Today; lest any
of 						you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

		(14) 	For we are made partakers (no sir, we're made fellow companions)
						of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast
unto 						the end;

		(15) 	While it is said, Today if (you'll)  hear his voice, harden not
your 						hearts, as in the provocation.

		(16) 	For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that
						came out of Egypt by Moses.

		(17) 	But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them
that 					had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

		(18) 	And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest,
but 						to them that believed not?

		(19) 	(But) we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

59. [Hebrews 4:] 

		(1) 	Let us therefore fear, lest, (there be) a promise being left us
of 						entering into his rest, any of you should (believe that you)
come 						short of it.

		(2) 	For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but
the 						word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith
in 						them that heard it.

		(3) 	For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I
have 					sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although
the 						works were finished from the foundation of the world.

		(4) 	For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise,
And 					God did rest the seventh day from all his works.

		(5) 	And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.

		(6) 	Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and
they 					to whom it was first preached entered not in because of
unbelief:

		(7) 	Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, Today, after
so 						long a time; as it is said, Today if (you'll) hear his voice,
harden not 					your hearts.

		(8) 	For if Jesus (Joshua, not Jesus) had given them rest, then would
he 						not afterward have spoken of another day.

		(9) 	There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

		(10) 	For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from
his own 					works, as God did from his.

	Okay, let's watch now: 

		(11) 	Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man
fall after 					the same example of unbelief.

		(12)	For the word of God is quick and powerful, and sharper than any 	
				two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul an 		
			spirit, and the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thought 
					and intents of the heart.

		(13)	Neither is there any creature this is not manifest in his (not
it's, but 						his) sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the
eyes of him 					with whom we have to do.

60.	When did that take place? In this Age. This is the Age of rest. An
Age when Christ is revealed from Heaven there is a rest that the Bride
enters into. It's all through the Scripture. "He that is filthy, is
filthy still. He who is righteous is righteous still." [Rev 22:11] Her
garments are washed, she goes to the Tree of Life. There's no more any
doubting. We don't care if a person is believer, make-believer, or
unbeliever, makes no difference. As Bro. Branham said, "If we're not
Bride, there's a Bride out there somewhere, by the grace of God I won't
stand in her way." But right here, this is the time.

		(14) 	Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed
into the 						heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our
(confession.)

		(15) 	For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the 
					feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as
we are, 					yet without sin.

		(16) 	Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we
may 						obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

61.	 [Hebrews 5:]

		(1) 	For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men 		
			in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and
sacrifices 					for sins: (let's watch now)

		(2) 	Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out
					of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.

		(3) 	…by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for
himself, 						to offer for sins.

		(4) 	And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called
of 					God, as was Aaron.

		(5) 	So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest;
but he 					that said unto him, Thou art my Son, today have I begotten
thee. 

		(6) 	As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever
after the 					order of Melchisedec.

		(7) 	Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and 
					supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able
to 					save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;

		(8) 	Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things
which 					he suffered;

		(9) 	And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation
						unto all them that (that called him) obey him; (saluted, not
called of 					God, but saluted, screamed out Melchisedec.)

		(10)	…an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.

	Now watch:

		(11) 	Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered,
seeing					(you're) dull of hearing.

	When did He save them? He never did. When are they going to be said?

		(12) 	For when for the time (you) ought to be teachers, (you) have
need 						one (to) teach you again which be the first principles of the
oracles 						of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not
of strong 					meat. (Nicolaitaine, Pentecostal church age, Laodicean.
That's we are, 					right today.)

		(13)	For every one that (uses) milk is (unskilled) in the word of
righteousness: 					for he is a babe.

		(14) 	But strong meat (belongs) to them that are of full age, even
those who 					by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern
both good and 					evil.

	Paul said he couldn't even talk about Melchisedec. Who did? William
Branham. All right, there's a rest, there's a relaxation at this hour,
because we were called in to the reading of the will, to the opening of
the Seals, the Book of Redemption…open before us by faith to see that
we are part of It. 

62.	Now, notice [2 Thessalonians 1:] in verse 8 what he said about the
angel. 

		(8) 	In flaming fire taking vengeance… (no, doesn't really say that,
but 						people think It does. Let's read It again.) 

		(7) 	And to you who are troubled rest with us, (there's a time of
relaxation 					coming) when the Lord shall be revealed from heaven with
his mighty 					angels, 

	Now watch: the mighty angels:

		(8)	In (flames of) fire…

	The angels are in flames of fire. What does that remind you of? It
reminds you of Exodus 13:21-22 of the Pillar of Fire. Reminds you of
Exodus 3:2 where God was in the Burning Bush. It reminds you of Judges
1:1-23, when the parents of Samson saw the angel in a Flame of Fire and
said, "My name is not 'secret, but 'wonderful'," which is Christ, the
Angel of God.

63.	Now, let's go to Revelation 5:6.

		(6) 	And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four
						beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had
been 						slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven
Spirits 					of God sent forth into all the earth.

	All right, "seven Spirits of God sent forth in all the earth, seven
eyes."

64.	Okay, let's go back Zechariah 3: Bro. Branham preached this under
different circumstance as I did. When I heard him say certain things, I
knew I It came from here, and I thought he preached this later on.
Zecharaiah 3:8

		(8)	Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellow that sit 
					before thee: for they are men wondered at: for, behold, I will
bring 						forth my servant the BRANCH.

		(9) 	For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one
stone 					shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving
thereof,  						the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of
that land in 						(that) day.

		(10) 	In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, ye shall call every man
his 						neighbour under the vine and under the fig tree.

	Now, he's telling you about the day when the Millennium is going to
come. Now, he has to about those seven eyes engraved.

65.	[Zechariah 4:]

		(1) 	And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as 		
			a man that is wakened out of his sleep.

		(2) 	(He) said… What seest thou? And I said, I looked, (and I said,)
						behold a candlestick all of gold, (and) a bowl upon the top of it,
						and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, 	
				which are upon the top thereof:

		(3) 	And two olive trees by it, the right side of the bowl, the other
(side) 					the left side (of the bowl.)

		(4) 	(And he) answered and spake (and) the angel (said…) What are 		
			these, my lord?

		(5) 	Then the angel that talked with me…said… Knowest thou not
what 					these be? And I said, No, my lord.

		(6) 	(And) he (said)…This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, 	
				saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD
					of hosts. 

		(7) 	Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt 				
	become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof 					
with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace…

	Now look it, we see seven eyes here, we've got seven eyes identified as
seven spirits. We got this identified for the end time, and we got this
identified at the end time by saying, "Not by might, nor of power, but
by My Spirit saith the Lord of host." 

	Now, what then are these seven angels in flames of fire? Theophany's.
(See?) Theophany’s. And they come down, and they will be the spirit of
Age one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. (See?) They'll be
creatures. What you see here then is that these we can say are the
theophany’s  of God, the Holy Spirit in a creature form, and now
assumes the forms of Angels or Messengers, because angels are
messengers.  What came and opened the Seals, brought the Seals? One
Angel per day that Bro. Branham identified as Holy Spirit. (See?) 

68.	 Now, taking vengeance is not what it sounds like, but it means that
when this takes place, that which proceeds out of justice must take
place, it is not revenge, or vindictiveness.  When this takes place,
when He is revealed with the Mighty Messengers, the Theophanies, the
Spirit that stood before the Throne for each one of those messengers, it
wasn't Paul that came down, no, is what the manifestation was came down,
Paul, Irenaneus, Martin, Columba, but not them persons, It's what stood
there for them. The Holy Spirit bringing it… 

66.	 Now let me show you something here: I want to cut my time down, so
I won't read… well,          I guess I'll have to go to Revelation  1:
and start at verse 12. 

		(12) 	And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being
turned, 					I saw seven golden candlesticks;

		(13) 	And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son
of 						man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about
the paps 					with a golden girdle.

		(14) 	His head and his hairs…like wool, white as snow; eyes (like)
flame 					of fire;

		(15) 	…feet like fine brass, they burned in a furnace; his voice as
the sound 					of many waters.

		(16) 	…in his right hand seven stars: out of his mouth went a sharp
two edged 					sword:  countenance (like) the sun…  

		(17) 	(And) …I fell at his feet as dead… (and so on.) 

	And verse 20.

		(20) 	The mystery of the…stars…and the seven golden candlesticks.
The 					seven stars are the (messengers) …and the candlesticks…are
the seven 					churches.

	Now watch, in [Revelation 1:] verse 13a,

		(13) 	…in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son 
					man…  

	Verse 16a

		(16) 	…in his right hand (were) seven stars: … (all right, seven
Church Age 					messengers.)

	Now, as long this One, which is the Judge is in the midst of the seven
golden candlesticks, how could it be possible that He could move without
the seven stars? He can't do it, because you got a spirit for every Age,
which constitutes a spirit for all Ages, which makes up the entire Word
of the life of all the Ages.

67.	Now, and the Seventh Church Age messenger, and the Seventh Age
Messages, (there's Seven Church Age messages) and every single one of
them you will notice has a judgment message in it. (See?) And the
judgment message in it, is not God in anger judging, it is what has
happened and now is required. 

	So, when He is revealed from Heaven, (see?) it is a revelation. And
remember, the Thunders were on earth. What took place in Heaven was
brought down to earth. How was it brought down? It says, a time is
coming when He is revealed, and with Him these seven mighty messengers.
And at that time justice must precede…perceive not revenge, or
vindictiveness of any description.

	Now, we see Revelation 1:10-11.

		(10) 	I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a
great 						voice, a trumpet,

		(11) 	Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: What (you
see) 					write in a book, and (right in) the seven churches which are
in Asia; 					Ephesus, and (so on. Written to the seven churches, seven
complete 					messages, seven complete Ages.) 

 	Now, [Revelation] chapter 3:14

		(14) 	…unto the (messenger) of the church of the Laodiceans write;
These 					things saith the Amen, … (the finishing One.)

   	Now, in Ephesus He was Alpha. In Laodicea, He is Omega.

68.  Now, let's go to Revelation 22:10-15, and He said:

		(10) 	…Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the
time 						is at hand. (The Book becomes unsealed.)

		(11) 	He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: he (that's) filthy,
(is) filthy 						still: he that is righteous, (is) righteous still: he
that is holy, (is) holy 					still. 

	Relaxation, see at that time. The Church comes to a perfection. Got to.
(That's 1 Corinthians 13, I haven't got time to go into It.)  Now:

		(12) 	…behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give
every 					man according as his work shall be.

		(13) 	I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and
the 					last. 

	Now, this is the last, so this belongs to Laodicea. This belongs to 2
Thessalonians 1:8. No place else to go. Now watch verse 14, here is your
relaxation.

		(14) 	Blessed are they (who have washed their robes) …(and) have
right 						to the tree of life, and may enter the gates (to) the city.

		(15) 	(Because) without are dogs, and sorcerers, whoremongers, and 			
		murderers, idolaters, … 

	In other words, as I read, I read It to you. I read It in Jude, I read
It in Timothy, I read It in Peter, and every place… and I’m not
seeing, the very same things here. But at the same time there was a
Bride that was undefiled and could not be deceived. There it is right
here. Now, she's had her time of relaxation, because it's all over.
That's why I can say to you this morning, I'm not looking back. Nothing
to look back to. I'm not looking forward, nothing to look forward, I'm
looking right now.  See, why I can't go back, I've nothing to go back
to. I just came out of it, you wouldn't want me to go back to what, like
what I came out of? Where would I go? I don't know where I would go.
Where would you know where to go? This is not a time of nervous tension
concerning what has been done. You and I can be nervous, because there's
things out here. Paul doesn't say that we're not going to get it. Like
Bro. Branham, the devil's not going to get a lick in. He's not talking
about that! 

	Relaxation time is a place of faith coming to full fruition unto the
knowledge of God knowing the hour in which we stand. Knowing the things
which we know in Jesus Christ. (See?) All right, so, verse 8 is seen
when those Angels of flame come. The word of condemnation becomes
effective as a matter of course. How are you going to stop it? Things
are moving, moving. Bro. Branham, 'Countdown', 'Birth Pains'. See, where
it comes from.

69.	All right, [2 Thessalonians 1:] 10-12 

		(10) 	When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, be admired in
all 						them that believe (that's it's coming to them you see)
(because our 						testimony among you was believed) in that day.

		(11) 	Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count 
					you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his
						goodness, and the work of faith with power:

		(12) 	That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, 
					and (you) in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord 		
			Jesus Christ.  

	Remember, when I preached that series here on the Holy Spirit, Christ
in you, and you in Christ the Vertical to the horizontal the emersion in
Him and He is us. Bro. Branham said the same thing. He said, "That Bride
is going to have the Word, she'll know what to do with it?" But the Word
is becoming flesh, the flesh is becoming Word, and the Word is becoming
Word.  Paul speaks of this end time brother/sister.

	Now, that's verse 9 here.

		(9) 	Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the
presence 					of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;

	Now, that word 'punish' is not punish. It means 'meting out-substance'.
The meting out of justice when this takes place. (See?) The Word of God
goes into effect when everything that He said must come to pass relative
to the end time. Not just the Bride, he's speaking now of those that are
out there in the world and are lost.

70.	 Now, the word 'eternal ruin' is 'destruction' with no hope of
recovering. All right, let's find out about that one. Hebrews 6:  

		(1) 	Therefore leaving the doctrine of Christ, go on (to) perfection;
not 						laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and
of 						faith toward God,

		(2)	…the doctrine of baptisms, laying on of hands, and of
resurrection 						of the (godly), eternal judgment.

		(3) 	And this will we do, if God permit.

	What if God doesn't permit? In other words, there's a time when it's
all over, and you got to go someplace else. (See?) You got to go on to
perfection a finishing, a drawing of the last little thread in, the last
little polishing so the Bride can go.

	Now listen:

		(3) 	…this (we'll) do, if God permit. (But God wouldn't permit it.) 

		(4) 	For it is impossible for those who were once (for all)
enlightened, 						and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made
partakers of 						the Holy Ghost,

		(5) 	And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world
					to come,

		(6)	If they shall fall away, to (never be) renew them again unto
repentance; 					seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God
afresh, and put him 					to an open shame.

	Just what It says here. And there's no turning back, it's all over.
What is it he’s talking about? The age of deception, reality, reality,
reality. Deception, deception, deception. God Himself bringing
deception. How does He do it? By bringing the truth. And they say,
"forget it." And then the…the great crowd, when the prophet of God was
vindicated, then everybody rose up with a bigger program, with a bigger
ministry, with a bigger everything. And they said, "Don't tell me that's
not God."

	 And, "Millions now living shall never die." When a bare handful are
going to be in that Rapture standing there. Somebody's messed up
brother/sister. (See?) It's all over, the Presence of the Lord. It says
here: "And from the Presence of the Lord, and from the glory of His
power."            [2 Th 1:9] Okay?

71.	Let's go to Acts 3: and see the Presence of the Lord. I know I'm
really dishing out too much, but it's alright, I just preach my notes
and that's all there is to it. Now It says here:

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

	Oh, mighty tremendous revivals, thirty, forty, how many years has it
been going on? Since 1946. Thirty-four solid years of tremendous
ministry, before that even. Never died out. But you know something? He's
standing there to do it, but we'll be gone. (Yep) It's all sealed up. 
I'm trying to show you there, there are two things going on, true vine,
false vine. Reality, deception. The real anointing of God on the wrong
group. You've got the whole thing here. Then when you've got this, you
got the Bride coming and growing up right into…right into Christ,
where He can be taken away, and over here you've got the other thing
going on the same time.

	Righteousness being fulfilled. Sin being fulfilled. I'm trying to show
you the whole picture, and you can only see it in the Light of Christ
Himself here as soon as it’s done. The Parousia is not what people
think It is, It's what the prophet taught It is. And prove His Presence
by the great miracle ministry. And then It says in Acts 13, as soon as
the great miracle ministry took place, what did they do? They turned
down the revelation, the Word of God revealed by Elijah the prophet.
Then what was left? Nothing but the false anointing. 

72.	And what happened after the false anointing of Acts 2: "Your sons
and your daughters, my sons and your daughters?"  [Acts 2:17] And It
said, "The moon turned to blood, and the sun to darkness," [Acts 2:20]
great tribulation sets in.  (See?) In other words, brother/sister once
that Judge Appears, He has got to judge the world by One Christ Jesus
the Word. It's not God hopping up and down in anger. No, God's Word's
got to be fulfilled, It's got to come right down here, down the line.
Meting out justice, meting out justice.

	How can God not meet out justice? Now, the only time He comes in anger
is when the cup is completely filled at the end time at Armageddon,
that's the one time, wrath comes, He just blocks the whole thing out.
But this is not that time. It's pointing toward it. Now, "and from the
glory of His power." [1 Th 1:9]  

	Look it, go over to Ephesians 1:15,

		(15) 	…after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto
all 						the saints,

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

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

	We're talking about His Presence. The Spirit comes into the Church. Not
bodily, Christ's bodily comes in, the Parousia is the Spirit of God
Himself. The Logos.

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

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

		(20) 	Which he wrought in Christ, …

	And when the Resurrection is over, they missed It, that's what he's
talking about here in Thessalonians. How are you going to be in the
Rapture if you miss the Resurrection? You've missed His Presence, you
miss His power, you've missed Him. Missed the Parousia. Got sucked in by
lies. (See?) People are still being sucked in by lies. (I ain't going to
mention no names, that's their business not mine.) They missed it all,
too late, no recovering.

73.	Now, let's go to [2 Thessalonians 1:] verse 10. 

		(10) 	When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, … (no, when
so ever 					He shall have come.)

	It tells you that at the time there's a sort of future perfect tense
here. All this will take place. Look, if the Word is becoming flesh,
there's only one place It can become flesh that's in a Bride. It's
already been flesh in Jesus. (See?) The Word in every Age is always
become flesh, that is true. But we're talking about this end time, the
'when-so-ever' that takes place, all the rest falls into line, and you
couldn't stop it if you tried! People are getting weary right now! 

	I predict if Jesus does not come back in the sense that we meet Him in
the air in the physical, there'll be people fall away from this Message.
They're going to have to, because they're going insane in there right
now. When you can make William Branham the Logos, and people assume, and
take leadership, and I see carnality. The last ever seen in the church
in two thousand years is going on amongst us now. The whole world is all
but insane.

	You listen, you wonder why I explode up here and use X-rated language
and everything else, I'll tell you why, because I'm fed up past here.
But I ain't going to stop it. Nothing I can do, nothing you going to
stop anything. It's not going to change anything. You can pray and fast
all you want, and the most you'll get is an empty stomach and a
headache. You take any means, you'll never stop the hand moving. 
Because when He shall have been renewed with those mighty Angels,
justice begin getting meted out and a true Bride goes into a state of
relaxation. Not comatose, I'm not talking about that. Not that she's not
going to have pressure, but she says, "This is It." (See?)

	She's walking a different way.  Nobody understand her. And let's face
it, she doesn't need to worry. And you know today, women today worry
about their husband being snatched, or the boyfriend being snatched. Let
me tell you flat, the Jesus that I know is my husband, (I think in the
female tense now) no woman would want to snatch him or grab him. I'm
perfectly safe. And the Husband, the Bride has to do is being revealed.
The church does not want Him, there is no danger. They wouldn't want to
try to make love to Him, or let Him make love to her. That's what Bro.
Branham said, they turned down. For Christ cannot make love to His, (to
the church) she turned Him down flat. (See?) "When so ever He shall
come."

74.	Now listen, this has all happened, it is already accomplished by His
Presence. 

		(10)	… (now, are not 10 and B) …to be admired in all them, because
						our testimony (was believed) among you…

		(11) 	Wherefore we pray always for you, that God would count you
worthy…					and fulfil (his) good pleasure…

		(12)  	(In) the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you,
and 					(you) in him, according to the grace…

	Isn't that just what we read over there, (or could have read) in
Ephesians 1: ? (See?)  

 		(13) 	In whom (you've) trusted, after (you) heard the word of truth,
the 						gospel of your salvation: … (and now full of the Holy
Ghost.) 

		(14) 	Which is the earnest of our inheritance…  

		(15) 	Wherefore I also, I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus
(Christ), and 					love unto all the saints,

		(16) 	Cease not to…making mention of you in my prayers;

	This, here in Ephesians is the same thing he said in Thessalonians. But
where one he identified as the Parousia, he identifies what the Parousia
is, which is the Holy Spirit, the Logos Himself comes in amongst the
Bride. She does not come into Him, He does not come into the Bride
brother/sister, we are all…the Spirit of God is already in the Bride
as the life of the father is in the children.  But He is amongst us as a
Father can stand amongst His family.

75.	 Now, 2 Thessalonians 2:1 is the Parousia. We saw that. And verse 2,
begins to deal with the day of the Lord which follows the Parousia. And
that actual great day when the Kingdom is to be taken over by the Lord
Jesus Christ Himself. 

	Now, he said, [2 Thessalonians 2:]

		(3)	Let no man deceive you by any means: that day shall not come,
(first) 					come falling away first, that man of sin be revealed, the
son of perdition;

	You don't have to worry about it, all these things have got to be
fulfilled. But remember, that the Presence of the Lord comes before that
time. So therefore, the Presence or the Parousia is before the Coming
when He has the showdown with the antichrist. It is not as people have
taught. We are going to go and confront Him in the air and see Him.

76.	Now, what is that Presence, and what is He doing? Okay, we go to
Colossians 3: (you won't have to come back this afternoon I can see
that, I won't be back anyway. If you want to come back it's fine by me.
I'm going to be missing.) Watch Colossians 3:4.		

		(4) 	When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, (future tense) then 	
				shall (you) also appear with him in glory.

	That's the same thing that he said in Thessalonians. No difference.
He's not saying one thing here, one thing someplace else, Parousia, is
Parousia. This is not Parousia though. This is 'phaneroo'. Now, what
does the word 'phaneroo' mean? It does not mean 'appear', it means
'manifest', because it means, 'to more than appear'.  Because a person
may appear in a false guise without a disclosure of what he truly is, a
wolf in sheep clothing. To be revealed, to be manifested in ones’ true
character. Beware of false prophets, they go around exactly like they're
sheep; they're a bunch of wolves. 

77.	Okay, let's go to John 3:21. Let's just take a look at this, I used
this verse before.

		(21) 	But he that doeth truth (comes) to the light, that his deeds may
be 						… manifest, that they are wrought (of) God.

	Proof, identified. Let's read the verses 16-21.

		(16) 	…God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son,
that 						whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have
everlasting 					life.

		(17) 	For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; 		
			but the world through him might be saved.

		(18) 	He that believeth on him is not condemned: he that believeth not
						is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name 			
		of the only begotten Son of God.

	Now, that sounds real good, now let's get the explanation.

		(19) 	And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world,
and 					men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were
evil.

	What if you all about a wrong Jesus as Paul says in 2 Corinthians 11:
another Jesus than what he preached? Are you willing to bring what the
revelation of the Word says, to the Light and find out? I want to find
out why the Trinitarian cannot come to the Word of God and find there's
only one God. I cannot understand the Trinitarian's. He'll tell you
every stupid thing under high-heaven, and end up saying, "Well, it's a
great mystery."  You know what the Trinitarian says?

	It's always the same old story, like a jug of water, "Put out three
glasses and you pour it, and you see it's all gone." They say, "There
you are He's one God, because you see the one God is in three glasses." 
Well, that's three. Where do you get the third, when the Bible says,
"Jesus is a man?"  Now, you only got two. 

78. Ephesians chapter 4 says, "He came back as the Holy Ghost." Now we
got one. Bring It to the Light. (See?) You can talk about Jesus all you
want, when the Word test comes. Did you hear what I said a while ago
here?  Listen: 

		(18) 	He that believeth on him is not condemned: he that believeth not
						is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name 			
		of the only begotten Son of God.  

		(19) 	And this is the condemnation… (this is where condemnation
comes 					about the… unbelieving bit.) …men loved darkness rather
than light, 				            because their deeds were evil.

		(20) 	For every one that doeth evil (hates) the light, neither cometh
to the 					light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

		(21) 	But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, (now it’s true,
truth comes 					to the light) that his deeds may be made manifest, that
they are (the) 					wrought (of) God.

	All right, that's that word 'manifest', right there. It said that Jesus
at the end time in the time that the saints are glorified, He is going
to be perfectly revealed as to His true identity. Isn't that what Vine
said about himself, He being His sign? (See?) 

79.	 Okay, 1 Corinthians 4:5. Hope I'm not losing you now, because it's
alright, just trying to get some thoughts on this.  But then you can
always get a tape, if you're not too bored you can hear it again.

		(5) 	Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who
						both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will
make 					manifest the counsels of the hearts: and every man have praise
of God.

	Right there, you're going to fine it exactly what you did, but more
particularly why you did it. What was behind it? (See?)  

80.	Now, place this with 2 Thessalonians 1: (see,) when He's going to be
revealed. He Appears. That's what He is, He's Appearing. In other words,
He will be thoroughly exposed…let's look at some more Scripture, just
let you know what Scripture is involved here. and what these words
really mean; when you talk about these words, that these fundamentalists
use, they just bandy around ever so easily. I was in the same boat years
ago. 

		(4) 	…when the chief Shepherd shall appear… (really manifest who 	
				the Chief Shepherd really is.)

	Then why do people even believe some pope or not?  Bro. Branham could
stand back there and say the very fact He's here. They say, "Now, who's
the great one, some pope?" No. There's a time coming when Jesus has to
absolutely reveal exactly Who He is. Now, you say, "Well, that's going
to happen over the other side, and I'm going to prove to you It
doesn't."  No siree. No.

81.	Let's go to 1 John 2:28. This is that same Word now, manifest, or
appear.

		(28) 	And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall
appear, …

	When you really see Who He is, you may have confidence. In other words,
you can be part of the revelation. All right, now come on, let's get the
real tough one, the real goodie, goodie, goodie gumdrop.  1 John 3:2

		(2) 	Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it (never) yet appear 		
			what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall… (be manifested 	
			at the time of the definitive, revelation, of exactly God in His true
						character, the unsealing.) 

You'll be like Him, and if you don't see Him, you'll never get the
change. 

 82.  Revelation 3:18,

		(18) 	I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that (you
may) 						be rich; (in) white raiment, (you may) be clothed, the shame
of thy 						nakedness do not appear; … 

	You know something? There's coming a day when this Bride won't have any
thought or concept to what she is in herself. It'll just be God's
concept. Could have said it right here, the shame of your nakedness.
See, the world will never ever get a true concept of what It really is
the world church can't do it. She never will. She won't see her
nakedness, "we're rich, increased in goods, we don't lack a thing." [Rev
3:17] You get the charismatic movement, there's millions and millions of
dollars, their great vast churches. They're in the Catholic church,
they're running a worldwide revival, everybody is speaking in tongues,
they're having a great time. But there'll be millions upon millions, the
antichrist can come on the scene anytime, a great religious fantastic
movement.  You think that she is going to get a real picture of this?
No, it's impossible, but the Bride does. She gets a real revelation of
Him. She doesn't worry anymore about the fact of what she was. See,
she's under relaxation. 

83.	Now, there's another word that they used, that's the word
'epiphanea', the 'shining forth', like Matthew shining forth, see? Okay,
let's go to 2 Timothy 1:10, just want to run some words on it. I'll try
to get into the 'coming' another time, I preached which I don't know
when, I got other meetings I could go into, so I just want to get around
to that.  

		(10) 	But is now made manifest by the appearing of our (Lord) Jesus 		
			Christ, who hath abolished death, and brought life and immortality 		
			to light through the gospel:

	Now, you see some say, "Well, that's actually when Jesus Christ is here
in the flesh." It doesn't say that, It says, "The Appearing is since
that time." Because it was by the death that He abolished life and
immortality and brought on life.

      Now, what did Peter say at Pentecost? He said, "This One was
raised up first to you, and Christ was manifested."  Said, "The One that
you crucified and killed, here He is doing the same thing when He was
here upon earth." [Acts 2:] (See?) Imagined area, shining forth.  

84.	Okay, let's go 1 Timothy 6:14,

		(14) 	That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukable, until
					the appearing (the shining forth) of our Lord Jesus Christ:

	Now, with that we can get 2 Timothy 4: (and I want to get another on
later on)

		(1)	 I charge thee … before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who 				
shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;

	Same thing, verse 8,

		(8) 	Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness,
which 						the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day:
and not to 						me only, but…also that love his appearing. (The
shining forth, same 					thing.)

85.	Now, with that I want to go to Galatians 1:11-12,

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

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

	There it is, what is that time, that time is a shining forth is once
more replaced with the Light of the Word, the Light of Truth. In this
hour He's not only Appearing, but He's being revealed, Luke 17:30, "Even
so be when the Son of man is revealed, a period of time as in the days
of Noah."   

	And we read over here in 1 Corinthians 1:7-8, Paul said:

		(7) 	…(they) come (from behind); waiting for the (Parousia) of (the)
					            Lord…  

		(8) 	Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that (you) may be
blameless 					in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

	See, there's your relaxation, there's your rest. There's a Bride coming
to a place, she'll go right to the Tree of Life and live forever.

86.	 [Now,] 2 Thessalonians 2:3,

		(3) 	Let no man deceive you by any means: (they) come a falling away 	
				first, that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

	All right, he's going to have his revelation too. But watch down here
in verse 13,

		(13) 	But we are bound to give thanks (always) to God for you,
brethren 						beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning
chosen 						you to salvation through sanctification…and belief of the
truth:

	We will not be in that mess they're in, because we have the Word of
Almighty God to help us.

	[Now,] 2Thessalonians 1:7. (I'm just hitting these rapidly)

		(7) 	…you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall 	
				be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,

	Revelation 10:1, Ephesians 1:17, all the way down the line you can see
that He is being revealed, because He is Appearing. He is Appearing,
which is the 'apocalypses' . That's what happened in Luke 17:30 is being
revealed. In 1 Corinthians 1:7-8, He's being revealed, the curtain is
being drawn back on Him, right down the line, Christ has been revealed.

87.	Now, and how has He been revealed? In Ephesians 1:17,

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

	It is done by the Spirit of Almighty God. Acts 3, the revelation comes
by…at the end time through a prophet who is vindicated, for the word
'Presence', the Presence of the Lord in Acts 3: that which is visible to
the eye. That which is invisible to the eye.  And Jesus said, "If I had
not done the works that no other man did, they'd have not sinned, but
now they've both seen and hated both me and my Father." [Jn 15:24]

	The Presence of God was seen there by the mighty works, the Presence of
God are seen at the end time by the same mighty works. (See?) I see
again. It says in John 1:18.

		(18) 	…the only begotten…, is in the bosom of the Father, he hath 
					declared him. (or exegeted Him)

88.	 And over in Luke 2:30-32. Now:

		(30) 	For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,

		(31) 	Which thou hast prepared (or ordained) before the face of all 		
			people;

	In other words, this was not something to behold in the desert, in a
secret place. It's not God, never does something in a little corner. And
says, "Come on over here, you got to be one of us to get it."  

	I am not the product of William Branham taking me aside and showing me
something. I stood there, time after time upon thousands of people and
saw what God did. And saw the evidence of vindication.  And when he went
to Africa he literally shook the world, but the denominations turned him
down flat. When he refused to ordain a woman preacher the Baptist kicked
him out. The Baptists’ ought to have know better. (See?) It's not done
in a corner.

89.	 The miracles and might of Jesus what He did said the world's
library could not hold his books. William Branham in one meeting, I
myself being there, saw more than what the history books contained.  And
I've got to have the history books just before I could begin writing for
him. I got the history books. In one meeting, there's more than what the
history books contained through the ages. 

	As he himself could say, "Jesus Christ had more success in His
ministry, in my life, than He had in His Own." 

	Now something done in a corner. He said before the face of all people.
This is what it's all about. It's not something done in a corner, some
little thing that…some little group that you've got to come and join
us. You got to be here.  That's why I keep telling you, nobody has to
listen to me. I preach hard, I preach as though I believe it, because I
do believe it. But you don't have to believe it. No, no, no.  No
problem. In fact, if I got twenty people believe in me, I'd know I was
wrong. [laughter] It's that simple. Don't worry, they don't believe in
me. 

		(32) 	A light to lighten the Gentiles, …

	Christ always was a Light to the Gentiles. He Himself never ever came
to them physically, nor will He. It's always a Light.

90.	All right, His Presence has got to be here before one solitary dead
is raised. He's got to be here to Appear amongst the Bride. He's got to
be here to reveal Himself to the Bride. He's got to be here to give the
Light to the Bride. And He does It.  And that's what it's all about, and
there's only one thing left after that, that is the Resurrection, then
the Rapture.  And the one thing I really referring after this whole
series is over, because the Parousia goes right through to the end. To
the catching away, to the Marriage Supper, right through the end.

	The only thing left then is coming back, the 'Coming Back', and they've
got It all messed up on the Parousia. "Oh, (they say) you see, the
Parousia and the phaneroo, all that, that is the Rapture."

	I have news for you my brother/sister. And the news I read in 1 John
3:2, that if you don't see Him as He is, if He has not been revealed to
you, or revealed Himself exactly according to the Word and vindicated
and proven; what was the sign, that you know He revealed Himself to you?
Tell me?  "Oh, Bro. Vayle, I got this, I got that."  You have what you
want, I got the Bible.

91.	How will we know the sign? How are we going to know the sign?  Take
it right down the line, that a vindicated man stood on the scene with
the Word of God, and God spoke and answered back, and you’ve had It.
And the rest of them turned It down flat, and took ministries and went
around saying, "We've got it."     

	"Many will come in that day and say, Lord, Lord, have we not known so
and so.?" [Mt 7:22]

	"I never knew you."  Why? Because you're a wolf in sheep clothing. "But
now, hold it, how can I be a wolf in sheep clothing when I had every
manifestation of a sheep." 

	Because you see, you had the wrong truth. You got that tree that
brought death, the perverted word.  Oh, brother/sister it is close, full
of …?... I've given you I don't know how many Scriptures, and I didn't
read an awful lot, but I could have had. Because you can criss-cross
this Bible back and forth, and back and forth and It'll dovetail every
time with only one message, a Message that a prophet brought. Not
somebody that's got himself steeped in a theology. "For the Word of the
Lord comes to the prophet." [Amos 3:7] I got to go to the Bible and
study. I got to try to understand. But when you're a prophet it doesn't
work that way. The Word comes to the prophet. It's the Word of God,
it'll lie right in there, because you can't add nor take from It.

92.  Brother, let's get this flat, there's a certain portion of
Scripture that refers for is relegated to every Age. And in this Age the
greatest of all is the Parousia, the Presence, the Logos Himself coming
down. The Pillar of Fire over Bro. Branham’s head, "Logos." The same
One that brought the Word to Paul, was the same One that revealed the
Word at the end time. "When that which is perfect is come, then in part
is done away." [1 Cor. 13:10] In other words, all the parts, it doesn't
matter anymore. We've come to the end of the trail where you are, we are
with God. 

	All right, that's the Appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ. I didn't go
into It as…the last part as effective as I might have, I did it on
purpose. I'll repeat it another time, and we'll go into the literal
Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is nothing to It, simple as ABC.
Because once the Bride is gone, there's three and a half years
tribulation, three and a half years Marriage Supper. And a Bride comes
down at the end of the battle of Armageddon, and the Flaming Fire of God
cleanses the earth. The antichrist is thrown into hell, the earth is
renovated as in the days of Noah, and the people come on down in a
Millennium of a thousand years with David sitting upon the Throne and
the whole Bride in that era with the 144,000 surrounding Him. 

	It's almost like anticlimax it's so simple. But isn't strange how the
world cannot believe, what a prophet taught, and yet it's the only place
that the whole Word would line up was lined up. I've taken this Bible
and criss crossed it as a fundamentalist. I've taken every theory I've
just gone crazy. And every time I've had it I’d find that a Word over
here plumb took me out of orbit and out of my skull. But the minute you
see what the prophet taught, every Word lines up, it's clear. That's the
way it's got to be. The Lord bless you, shall we rise.

	Heavenly Father, we thank You again for Your goodness and mercy to us,
for the patience of the people Lord, how they love the Word, and I do
such a terrible job, Father, with It, so many, many times. But I know,
Lord, there is in It just the same a cross current it seems that they
cannot fail to catch, Lord, with any perception whatsoever, if they have
any perception. I believe the do. They'll catch that cross current in
there where it goes all the way through, that it is got to be that one
thing even as declared by the prophet. Because it is that one thing,
that Scripture lining up point by point.

	Lord, we know that there is so many words, there's only so many verses.
That is very wonderful, we can see that each time we look at It, It just
becomes clearer and clearer, because things open up more and more,
because the understanding is there. Therefore, It lies now within the
realm of what man would call logical and clear. But it isn't, it's a
revelation, and that revelation is good for us.

	Father God, I pray that there won't be one person here today that’s
been hurt in any way, shape, or form, or rather help build up. And I
pray, Lord, also because Your Word is taught here, it is Your Word that
heals. And, Lord, if Your Word can heal our mind of the abuses of the
doctrine which we have known, know now to be wrong, Lord, I have to
repent so much over all the doctrine I've had. Then, Lord, then how much
we know too, that that which can heal the mind, can heal the body.

	And so, we're praying, Lord, that those here this morning will have a
touch from God. Lord, I believe for it, for myself. Believe for every
person here, there isn't one missing out on the hand of a God, blessing
and helping that being gracious and kind and good for You certainly are.
And we praise You for it, Lord. Oh, what a day we're living in. What an
hour we're living in. It's a tremendous, tremendous hour, Lord, and the
greatest thing of all is that here the Logos is in the midst of the
Church revealing Himself, showing the perfections of Himself. 

	O Lord, it is not finished yet, because we haven't even come to the
Resurrection. What an hour that's going to be, in the Resurrection. What
an hour that's going to be, when the Bride starts to go up. What an hour
that's going to be, at the entering in for the great hall of the Supper.
Lord, surely, it's marvelous to know that we have entered in to that
relaxation Paul speaks of. You're in the flow of It now. You're in the
swim of It. There's water from Ezekiel's temple to carry you over. And
we thank You for It this morning, Lord.

	So. bless ever home here, Lord God, and every need I pray might be
taken care of, and whatever Your will is in our lives, Lord, may we hear
from heaven, and do Your complete will, by the leading of God.  In
Jesus’ name we pray.  Amen.  

	Let’s just sing a little song, ‘Take the name of Jesus.’   

 

  

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