Baptism and the Baptizer

Bro. Lee Vayle – December 3, 1983

 

	Shall we pray. Heavenly Father, we’re glad to know that You revealed
Yourself, proving Yourself that You are here in a way that You were here
at the time of Abraham, of whom the Scripture says he rejoiced to see
this very day in which we are now, the day You’re here again, and
revealing Yourself as You did before Sodom, before the fire and great
problems came upon earth, to the catching away of a Bride. We’re
grateful for that, Lord, we know the express purposes that You have had
in this hour revealed to us and what Your purpose is now being, how
it’s being carried out, we’re very thankful that we know these
things, the deep mysterious things of God. We praise You for this
revelation, Lord, by Your Spirit of wisdom has come into the church, our
very midst, to let us know the hour in which we live, to bring us in and
to bring us these things. And we’re very appreciative, and we know we
would not know it outside of that. We thank You for the means You’ve
used, Lord, the way You conduct these truths to us, and we’re happy,
Lord, that You set it down how it would be, and we’re glad, Lord, to
believe and understand how these things are done. Now, Lord, increase us
in the richness of Thyself tonight, Lord, by living Word becoming even
more life-like, and even more from the negative to the positive than
ever before, and we carefully give you the praise, in Jesus’ Name.
Amen. You may be seated.

	Now I don’t know whether my eyesight’s going or gone or what, these
glasses are worse than ever. Every time I go see a fellow that’s
supposed to be in optometry, whatever he is, seems like they all say
good things, “Why, your eyes are fine fiddle.” Here I’m getting an
awful lot of poor people don’t know how to make glasses, I don’t
know, hardly see. But however that’s all right, I guess. And Bro.
Branham said, “Something’s got to get you out of here.” I never
heard of blindness quite doing that, I heard of other things doing it,
but… I almost thought that was sort of a very circuitous way. [Bro.
Vayle talks about putting a fan on.]

	Now last Wednesday night we took Bro. Roger Smith’s tape and played
it, because I wanted to go over that while it was fresh in the minds of
those of you who heard it, and then of course there were some who had
not heard it. And I was going to take just a short message tonight
myself, but I decided I would go over the message I brought on Friday
night in Memphis, to catch up those who had not heard it, and I realize
that even though you get a tape, sometimes it’s difficult to take time
to hear it. And there’s certain things in there I wish to bring to
your attention, especially toward the end, to show you the difference
between what some people believe and why we believe the way we do
believe. 

1.	So we’ll just take this message, 'From Insanity To Sanity', and I
want to show you that first of all the Scripture definitely mentions
that insanity will be in the world at the end time and will go
unrecognized. In Lk 21:11, It says,

(11)	And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and
pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs there (shall) be from
heaven.

	Now the word ‘fearful sights’ is ‘aberrations’ or
‘hallucinations’, which is definitely a type of insanity. And with
this we’re going to go to 1 Thessalonians and this may surprise you a
little bit here, in the 5th chapter:

(3)	For when they say, Peace and safety; then (comes) sudden destruction
cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not
escape.

	Now the word ‘safety’ here is not just what you think it is, it’s
literally ‘security from disturbance of a mental nature’. And so
they’re going to be saying, “We’re perfectly sane,” and in fact
they’re going to stress sanity, as Bro. Branham literally
vitriolically brought out the fact that church boards demand that the
missionaries and the preachers be sane according to psychiatric
standards. Now how do you take a missionary child of God and bring him
before a psychiatric board? Do you realize that William Branham, with
his great ministry, if brought before a board of psychiatrists, doctors
and lawyers and theologians, would be branded a harmless very nice
goof-off who had a tremendous ministry but it somehow got to him. Where
would the apostle Paul stand? They called Jesus Christ insane. 

2.	So It says here in one place that there is going to be a universal
insanity and in the other place they say, “No way, we are the sanest
we’ve ever been.” Look it, how the people boast in mental health and
make it the great subject. Mental health. Why, you can’t do a thing in
your own home, the kid goes to school and the teacher hears about it,
call in the detectives, call in the sheriff, call in the authority, take
your children away. You mustn’t tell them about Jesus. Tell them about
Santa Claus. Tell them a lie! Don’t tell them the truth! You call that
mental health, telling lies? If that’s mental health, well come on.

	Look, I took teacher training, you might not believe it, but one time
my language was flawless. If you don’t believe it I can prove it to
you. That’s right. I could write a hundred percent, talk a hundred
percent. We had a little old teacher there, Miss Fisher out of Chicago
University, Dr. Fisher. She’s about yea this high and she rose and she
said, “Don’t you ever tell a child a lie. Don’t you ever talk
about a Santa Claus or tell one lie to a child.” We need people like
that today. The world’s insane and doesn’t even know it.

3.	Now Bro. Branham took as his text as you well know the third chapter
of Revelation and he read in there, and the 14th verse:

(14)	And unto the (messenger) of the church (which is in Laodicea)
write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the
beginning of the creation of God;

(15)	I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou
wert cold or hot. 

	Now he said, “I know your works.” Remember the spirit of
discernment comes into the church,    Heb 4:12, and discerned the
thoughts and intents of the heart, and William Branham stood before
crowds of five thousand to hundreds of thousands and said, “I take
every spirit,” that would be in the building or in the peripheral
vision of him, …?... matter where it was, “under my control, in the
Name of Jesus Christ for the glory of God.” And you couldn’t hide if
you tried. And he could read you just like a book. Where’d he get that
authority and power? See, showing that there is a God in heaven Who is
above psychology and above human laws of any description, even the laws
that He laid in. Just think, isn’t it the strangest thing, people
admire all these laws out here, and then they try to think they got
something to do with them. Why don’t they honor the God that set the
laws in motion? 

(15)	I know (your) works, (you’re) neither cold nor hot: I would (you
were) cold or hot.

(16)	So because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold (or) hot, I will
spue (you) out of my mouth.

(17)	Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have
need of nothing; and knowest not (you are) wretched, miserable, poor,
blind, and naked:

4.	Now look, you know that anybody – and this refers to a beggar that
is destitute and has nothing, he’s come from nowhere and he’s going
nowhere and he’s panhandling. He’s one of those bag ladies, so to
speak, you know, they sit on park benches and halls and things,
they’ve got little tiny bag, everything they own is in that little
bag, they call them bag ladies, and they’ve had bag men for years.
They’re the ones that cover themselves up with paper and hide in
cardboard boxes. Now listen, I’ve got nothing against them, I’m
sorry for them. But the church is in that condition is being bag men and
bag women, and saying, “Well don’t you know, I’m one of the
Rockefeller’s. I’m a cousin of Rothschild; I could write a million
dollar cheque any time, I just don’t feel like it.” Well, I could
jump twenty feet high every time I feel like it too, but I don’t feel
like it. Insanity! Insanity! The person is insane to be in this
condition!

	Now Bro. Branham took two things to bring out in his teaching. Number
one: the Jews tell the hour in which we live, and the state of women
tell the state of the church in the hour in which we live. Now the woman
being typed here, because the woman is the church. We understand that
very thoroughly according to the Book of Revelation. Nothing against
women, just happens to type out, anymore than the fact that Jesus is a
man and men type him, makes men like Jesus. You know that’s a lot of
hogwash. You know, male and female can be like Jesus in the final
analysis, but we’re taking types here. 

	And he said the church being a woman is miserable, wretched, blind and
naked and doesn’t know it. Now the point is this: how can you be blind
and not know it, how can you be naked and not know it, how could you be
freezing and cold and not know it, unless something happened to you? Now
it could be the church is catatonic. A catatonic person can stand on one
leg, like this, and – you can’t see my leg of course – and the
hand raised like this and just stay there like a wooden image, not move
for one second. They go into a certain fixture and they’re frozen. The
church is hardly catatonic, but let’s say the brain is. 

5.	There is something solidly wrong here and Bro. Branham went on with
the thought here of the elder women amongst us who have never cut their
hair and never taken their clothes off publicly. He said, “Now my
mother, had she dressed like women today, they’d have said she forgot
to put her clothes on. They would have put her in an insane institution
and if she were judged sane and allowed to go free, and then dressed
that way again, she’d have been thrown in jail.” 

	Now the thing is, if it was wrong for our mothers and grandmothers,
it’s got to be wrong today! How do you change the law of gravity?
Change the law of gravity, then talk about changing God. There’s
something wrong somewhere. And that’s all we can say. The church is in
a terrible, terrible position; it is literally a church that is insane
concerning the things of Almighty God.

	Now we know she started way back in the First Church Age to get there.
So she’s wretched, miserable, blind, naked, and doesn’t know it, and
the Scripture ends up calling the Roman Catholic church, which was the
first organized church, a harlot, and the Protestant churches which came
out of her are called prostitutes. So you got mother and daughter found
in their terrible condition of nakedness. 

6.	Now of course nakedness goes beyond the fact of simply taking the
clothes off; that is a type of what is going on. And nakedness by every
theologian, every scholar, will admit absolutely that nakedness, which
is a type of fornication, because that’s what it is, absolutely has to
do with idolatry. So therefore the Roman Catholics, the Greek Orthodox,
the Protestants, all Christians end up at the end time in a form of
idolatry! And that’s just not worshipping images and praying to the
virgin Mary, let’s not get any such nonsense in our heads, it’s
where the Word of God becomes perverted to the extent, as the apostle
Paul says, “They preach another Jesus, they have another spirit and
they preach another gospel.” In other words they admit to another
Jesus, then which Jesus? Okay, now then they have another spirit. What
spirit? They got another gospel, what gospel? So the whole thing at the
end time is a complete mess where God Almighty has to do something about
the situation or bring on a judgment.

	Now in that particular condition, the Scripture mentions that there’s
gross darkness, which there positively is. The Scripture mentions that
the prophet, the priest, and the people are all alike. All tables are
full of vomit. Drunkenness is combined with all their rotten insane
doings. Now you’ve got insanity added and blindness. However there is
a true spiritual revelation that is to come to pass at the end time,
because It says, “In the evening time it shall be light.” 

7.	Now as the Scripture says in Isaiah, [Isaiah 60]

(1)	Arise, (and) shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD
is risen upon thee.

(2)	For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness
the people: but the LORD shall (shine) upon thee, and his glory shall be
seen upon thee.

	And then notice in Revelation, the same chapter, verses 18-21, in which
we read:

(18)	I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that (you may)
be rich; and white raiment, that (you may) be clothed…

	Now notice, 

(18)	I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, (so you won’t
be wretched and miserable and poor,) and white raiment, that (you
won’t be naked), and the shame of (your) nakedness do [not] appear;
and anoint (your) eyes with eye-salve, (so you won’t be blind).

	So therefore was an antidote, there is a prescription that God offers
for the people at the end time in order that they may be taken from
their insanity to sanity.

(19)	As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and
repent.

(20)	Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: 

	Now you notice in here that this has to be a special visitation and if
not a special visitation, then it has to be a special demonstration of
whoever is visited, providing He has visited in this respect through
Seven Church Ages and I say He hasn’t. There is a special visitation
of God at the end time, the Holy Spirit. And He said, “I stand at the
door and knock.” What door? The door of the church. 

	Now this is not the door of the heart, as many artists, or one great
artist depicts. Remember the picture knocking at the door? And the man
said, “Well,” he said, “I think your picture’s very wonderful,
but don’t you notice you left the doorknob off on the outside.” 

	He said, “No I didn’t.” He said, “The door opens from the
inside.” In other words this is not a forced entry, which is certainly
true.

8.	So it is not, in my estimation, that which we are talking about.
We’re talking about Christ and the church, because the condemnation is
collective, it is not individual. And therefore the rescuing is not
individual but it is collective. In other words God is doing something
for the group, which in former years was done singularly or
individually, although it’s always individual, now it must be at a
time when it’s collective. That’s what we’re saying here. He is
appearing. 

	In other words, as Larkin, and different theologians and men of repute,
that are fine godly men, bring out the fact as did Bro. Branham that
He’s standing at the door of the church trying to get back in. In
other words, somehow He has either been forced out, actually by an act
of people in aggression, or He has been forced out by the fact that He
has not been wanted, and literally pushed aside through the processes of
making room for somebody else! 

	Now that’s what’s happened really, if you want to know the truth.
He said, “I come in My Father’s Name, and you turned Me down.” He
said, “Another will come in his name and you’ll take him.” Paul
saw the same thing coming on, reiterating the words of Jesus Christ. So
evidently He’s been pushed out in some manner, and He stands at the
door and knock, and He said,

	…I will come in to him, and sup with him, and he with me.

9.	Showing once more though He’s coming to a group, it will be the
individuals that comprise the body that make up that entire group that
He’s supping with, they’ll be doing it individually, it will be a
revelation, one by one receive of that most august and wonderful group,
which is called the Bride at the end time. And then He says,

(21)	To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, as
I (am overcome), and (sat) down with my Father in his throne.

	Which simply means at the end time when the seals are ripped off the
Book, He having abdicated, as it were, the mercy seat, to come now to
take the Book out of the Father’s hand, when the Book is taken out of
the Father’s hand, the seals are ripped off, He hands the Book back,
which that One brings the Book down here on earth, redemption, and He
climbs on that throne and becomes the full complement that lies within
Melchisedec, which is Priest King. And He said, “Now get ready for the
Millennium, when you are going to sit with Me in My Father’s throne
and the coming ages to come.”

	So there is a way of escape from insanity, and you will notice what He
says. “As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten.” In other words,
“I will bring them to a halt and I will cause them to be trained.”
And He said, “I want you to have a zeal.” And the zeal of the end
time church is repentance. Now we’ve always thrown repentance on the
sinner! “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the Name of the
Lord Jesus Christ.” 

10.	Now we know repentance does not mean sorrow for sin. And you’re
sorry for your sin. Many people think it does, but it doesn’t. Because
the Bible said, “Godly sorrow worketh repentance.” Godly sorrow is
not repentance. Godly sorrow is the means to get to repentance; it’s a
ladder to get you there. But the ladder is not the housetop. Neither is
Godly sorrow repentance. Repentance is a change of mind! So then
remember, insanity is in the mind! So therefore to become sane, you are
dealing with the mind! And Jesus is saying, “I’m standing at the
door and I want to come in and give you a sane mind! Because you’ve
gone insane!” 

	Ah listen, let me tell you something. It’s very wrong for people to
think that God does not have something to do with intelligence. Because
right here He tells them. Now I know intelligence as God loves
intelligence is not the way perhaps man does, we know that, but
remember, these people were insane, and now He’s going to bring them
back to a sanity.

	Now how is He going to bring the Bride from insanity, or this living
church from insanity to sanity, where they will be truly spiritual
minded, which in plain English, He is saying here, “Your mind has got
to such a place that you need a new mind, and I want you to come to Me,
and I will give you that new mind.” 

11.	Now you know as well as I do, the mind deals with revelation. Many
people have an idea you go by emotions. You go by emotions, you’ll
destroy yourself. I’ve always illustrated emotions. Your emotions are
the most stupid thing in the world. I go down there with
trippity-trippity-trip, unaware there’s a rattlesnake there.
Trippity-trippity-trip. Doesn’t bother me, I don’t see the
rattlesnake. But just as soon as my mind is –  shoom – I’m off
like a shot, scared stiff as a poker! Because my mind has apprehended
the fact of the rattler! So much for your stupid emotions. It doesn’t
mean a plug nickel. 

	Now emotions are fine if they’re properly used. And we’re saying
concerning the finer things of life. But there are people who think at
this end time or any time, God dealt with your feelings. “Oh I feel
great today, everything’s wonderful. I feel rotten, everything is
wrong.” That’s a lot of hogwash. Let me tell you something, how bad
you feel doesn’t have a thing to do with me. I don’t care how sick
you feel as long as I feel great. Now you know what I mean, I’m not
saying, well I don’t feel sorry for you. I’m trying to tell you
something. Your emotions do not control things, in the literal sense of
the word. See all they do will affect you as concerning the things that
are going on, so you can’t see things as they really are.

12.	So, so much for emotions. As I say, they’re fine if they’re in
the right place. But you can see here that that is not so. He is dealing
with the mind in order to set the mind straight! Now if He’s building
a body, which the Bride is supposed to be a body, you can well
understand that that body, I don’t care how wonderful that body is,
that body is under the control of a mind! And though the body may be a
body of a Greek Adonai, or Adonis, as we call him, maybe perfectly
formed and wonderful, you give that body the brains of a chicken, see
what happens. You give that body the brain that’s demented, see what
happens. 

	Now let’s say God has a Bride for the end time, to bring her out of
the ground. And remember, we are not going to be changed until they’re
all out of here. What if we are here with a demented mind? Is that  the
image of God? See, there’s no way. No matter how you look at this
question, you’ve got to realize here in Scripture that the Scripture
is inerrant. It’s absolutely true right down from the center to the
circumference. And this insanity can only be gotten rid of on the basis
of the mind which is turned around and back to a sane mind. 

13.	Well, we asked the question, what is a sane mind? Let’s go to the
Book of 1 Corinthians 2. And these things are not difficult to come
across; they’re very, very simple. Now verse 9:

(9)	But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have
entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for
them that love him.

(10)	But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit
searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

(11)	For what man know(s) the things of man, save the spirit of man
which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the
Spirit of God.

(12)	Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit
which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to
us of God.

(13)	Which things also we speak, not in words which man’s wisdom
teache(s), but which the Holy Ghost teache(s); comparing spiritual
things with spiritual.

	Now notice right there when it comes to the Word of God, the Word of
God stands alone! It doesn’t have a thing to do with philosophies! It
doesn’t have a thing to do with anything that comes from the mind of
man! No way, shape or form! No sir! No way, shape and form. As the
apostle Peter said, “If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of
God, or shut-up!” That’s right. That’s right. Keep your mouth
shut. In other words, Peter said, “As holy men of God spake as they
were moved upon by the Holy Ghost.” The word is ‘wind-swept’. As
Jeremiah said, “Your words were altogether in my mouth.” They were
not a product of the mind. And so we see here they stand alone. 

	Now he said,

(12)	…we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit
which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to
us of God.

14.	Now It tells you man and God can be one in their thinking! The very
thoughts of God can be the very thoughts of man! If man wants them. And
the opportunity lies at the end time, because there never was a promise
at any hour like this hour! You know God likes to deal in extreme
things. You might not think so. Just hold your finger there; I’m going
to take you back to Romans 4, just a minute. Here’s what It says,
Abraham believed God.

(17)	(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,)
before him whom he believed, (that’s before God, whom Abraham
believed,) even God, who quicken(s) the dead, and call(s) those things
which be not as though they were.

	See, you got to appreciate the fact that God Almighty can let this
world go absolutely insane, step right down and give the people pure
sanity, the very mind of God. Now that’s a wonderful promise. Now I
know it seems to go over our heads, but it’s not over my head, because
I know it’s not over your heads. I haven’t preached this long in
vain to people like you, not to know the truth. You just believe It
because it’s so. See, there’s no way you can turn from It, why?
Because this is the hour for It! See? 

15.	Now,

(13)	Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom
teache(s), but which the Holy Ghost teache(s); comparing spiritual
things with spiritual.

	In other words God has His Own vernacular, His Own Words, His Own
understanding, and yet man, who was made in the image of God, can have
that right to have the mind of Almighty God, rather than his own mind.
And he won’t be comparing over here and trying to figure this thing
out, and wonder how this works, he stands there like Abraham! He said,
“God, You said Sarah and I are going to have a baby, I’m a hundred
years old, and she’s ninety years old, and there’s no use even
trying to go through the act, because we can’t do it, we’re going to
have that baby anyway!” 

	And man stands back and says, the psychiatric board said, “Nice old
fellow, but he’s gone bananas. Oh Abraham’s been a good old boy all
his life. Oh listen, he’s been honorable, he’s been noble, you
can’t lay a finger on him, but he’s a fruitcake.” 

 	But one minute before the time came for his change, Abraham was in
worse shape than he ever was, and so was Sarah, but it didn’t bother
him one little bit. He didn’t look at her body anymore, he didn’t
look at his body anymore, he had the mind of God! And the mind of God is
a simple foolish mind in the minds of men! 

 	Singing that song tonight, “We’re not going to die,” why, you
ask Lloyd, say, “Are you?” 

	Why he say, “Sure I could die by tomorrow morning. But the promise of
the hour is somebody’s going to live! And I’m living in that hour
and I’m honoring God by taking His promise and making it mine like
Abraham!” See? 

16.	You say, “What if Abraham had turned that promise down?” He
couldn’t! It was made to him personally! Every one of us personally
part of Jesus Christ has a personal promise tonight, to know the things
of God.

(14)	…the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God;
they are foolishness (to) him: neither can he know them, because they
are spiritually discerned.

	If you’re not full of the Holy Ghost, the Word of God goes plumb over
your head, and men claim to be full of the Holy Ghost and turn the Word
of God down, they’re liars and the truth is not in them. Not because I
say so, common sense will tell you, that’s exactly right. Somebody
come by and say, “I’m the child of Lee and Alison Vayle,” and
don’t know that one has got blue eyes and one got brown eyes.
Somebody’s nuts. Not in my kids, I can tell you that. They know their
mammy and pappy. Let me tell you. So do the Christians. They’re
thoroughbred horses, they’re not jackasses out there, don’t know
their mammy and pappy; they know their pedigree. They know where their
genes came from. They understand these things.

(15)	(Now) he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is
judged of no man.

(16)	For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him?
But we have the mind of Christ.

17. Sanity. Absolute sanity guaranteed for the last hour. Now listen,
how do you get from insanity to sanity? You go back the way they got in
the first place. Why, Paul said, “Why,” he said, “listen, they
call me crazy, they’d called Jesus crazy, they’d called everybody
crazy that makes a departure from the way men are used to doing
things.” 

	Well, my goodness me, you know that as well as I do, you know your
history’s full of it. Men could not believe, like way back in the time
of Galileo. Why they said the earth was flat, and they said the sun goes
around the earth instead of the earth going around the sun. So they
thought they’d chop the old boy’s head off. So he said so he had to
recant. Well he said, “Okay, the earth is not round like it’s
supposed to be, and of course,” he says, “the sun goes around the
earth,” he said, “that’s fine.” And then he just whispered,
“Well,” he said, “that’s what they want me to say, I’ll say
it.” But he didn’t believe it. No he didn’t have what the
martyr’s had. He was too shrewd for being, …?... being a martyr with
no real faith, but the old guy knew he was right.

 	Now you see, we look in here then and Paul himself said, “Look,”
he said, “I’m called crazy for the way that I believe.” 

	They said, “Jesus, you’re mad, you’re a Samaritan, you’ve got a
devil.” 

18. And right down the line people have been criticized and made crazy.
Look when Pentecost came on the scene when I was a kid. Pentecost came
on the scene, 1906, I was born in 1914. Pentecost came to our town,
what? I don’t remember. Early thirties, nah twenties, it was. People
spoke in tongues. All we ever heard was – always the same old story!
They would take a Chinaman in there, so-called. I never did meet the
Chinaman yet that went in the meetings. But it was always they went to
these Pentecostal meetings where they talked in tongues, and I know they
weren’t supposed to do it, the church was out of order, but look, they
were ignorant, they were young, didn’t understand, so that’s all
right, God understands those things, until it’s time to do something
about them. So they speak in tongues up and down the aisles and so what,
as I said, I never was there, I heard it was. And so they take a
Chinaman there, and every time the Chinaman is supposed to come out
saying, “Oh they were saying filthy languages in there.” Oh come on.


	You know people are sick. They always blame the guy that’s supposed
to be a little bit off the beaten track when it comes to worshipping
God, he’s got to be nuts! Then how come they’re a bunch of bastard
liars out there? That’s exactly right! They’re honorable, I suppose,
because they tell filthy lies. They’re honorable, because they stand
for their stupid creeds and dogmas! They’re honorable, I suppose,
because they shoot their faces off and make fine, humble, upright
people, because they got a little bit something funny about them,
worshipping God, to be a bunch of fools. Isn’t there something wrong
with people? There’s something wrong. 

	Let me tell you flat, I don’t believe one Pentecostal out there was
speaking a dirty, rotten language. Not at that time. Later on, maybe
there was some funny things crept in, always funny things creep in. But
look at the Methodist. Maybe you got a Methodist background. You never
hear how in Charles Wesley’s day, and John Wesley’s day, that they
got so insane they would jump, scale buildings like a cat, run along the
roof of a ridge and jump down thirty feet and bound away unharmed, I
never saw a Pentecostal do that, but Methodist did it! 

19.	Let’s go back to the Welsh revival, Evan Roberts, as soon as he
preached the gospel, how come the insane institutions filled up? Let’s
get down to the nitty gritty. Trace it down through the ages. They’ve
always hated people that dared to step out and worship God away from
traditions. I’m not saying everyone was right, but the example, the
standard is there. They made the prophets fools, and they excoriate
them, they whipped them, they stoned them, they kill and they crucified
them. They did the same with Jesus. They took the head off, they
crucified Peter, they took the head off of Paul! And the testimony every
time is, “They’re crazy, but we’re sane.” I got news for you,
the Bible said the world’s crazy and we’re sane. 

	Now how did Paul, how did Paul go from his insanity to sanity, which
they then called insanity. One day he met the Pillar of Fire down there
in the road. That’s what happened. He got soundly converted, full of
the Holy Ghost, and the same Pillar of Fire in which the Spirit of God
was living, moving and breathing, took him to the desert and there told
him the Word of God, and he said, “I received not this revelation from
man, nor was I given it by man or myself, but through Jesus Christ!”
He said, “God stood there in a Pillar of Fire and revealed the whole
thing to me.” 

20.	Now we understand that. Philippians 3, he says – let’s read it.
I’ll just skip the others, because we’ve got a lot of message to
cover tonight and I want to get out of here with you too. You know? I
get tired like you do. All right, the 3rd [chapter] here:

(1)	Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things
to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.

(2)	Beware of dogs, (that’s male prostitutes,) beware of evil workers,
(that’s Cain! Oh yeah. That’s the guy that goes and says, “Well I
believe the Bible,” and then misdivides It. That’s where you get
those people that they love to worship on Saturday, when there’s such
thing as a Saturdarian. Do what you want with it.) beware of the
concision.

(3)	For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit,
(that’s the legalist, that concision, you know,) rejoice in Jesus
(Christ), have no confidence in the flesh.

(4)	Though I might also have confidence… If any other man think(s)
that he hath whereof he might trust the flesh, I more:

(5)	Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of
Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; touching the law, a Pharisee;

(6)	Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness
which is in the law, blameless.

(7)	But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.

	There you are, so much for his education. So much for his education,
his background. Education’s a fine thing; you just can’t get a
revelation by it. Sure. That’s it.

But what things were gain to me, I counted loss for Christ.

Yea doubtless, I count all things but loss for the excellency of the
knowledge of Jesus (Christ) my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss
of all things, and count(ed) them but dung, (that’s manure,) that I
may win Christ, 

	When it’s all over, what does it amount to? See? When it’s all
over, there’s just nothing there. 

21.	Now that’s how the revelation came the first time. That’s
exactly how it transpired. Now then, if that’s how it came, and we
know the Scripture – well let’s go to It. Let’s go to
Ecclesiastes, and let’s read It, because… now if I could just find
it for you, I’m pretty good at finding It if I have a little luck. If
you’re like me, your mind goes blank. 3:14:

(14)	I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing
can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that
men should fear before him.

(15)	That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already
been; and God requireth that which is past. 

	He said, “I am the same yesterday, today and forever,” so therefore
whatever God does, He does in identical manner every single time. How
was the Word brought the first time to take man from insanity to sanity,
which the world calls insanity? Well He did it by a prophet. He did it
by a revelation. One man. Now if He’s going to do it, He’s got to do
it the same way again. 

	Now why don’t people understand the Bible? You take this simple
principle that I’ve enunciated, the Alpha and Omega principle, and you
take it to a seminary, those men will have to admit the possibility, but
they’re going to deny it. And it’s not possibility, it is a
principle. It’s a principle. Because I read here in Ecclesiastes. You
cannot change either God or the way He acts. What He has done, He is
doing and will always do. He does it one way, as William Branham said so
beautifully. He said, “If it took blood the first time, it will take
blood all the time”! In the Garden of Eden, it took blood. And it’s
going to take blood to get us back there, which is the shed Blood of the
blessed Savior, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 

22.	All right, now the thing is this, can we expect the same in this our
day as occurred with Paul? Can we have again someone in the church? Is
there a possibility that God will raise up somebody to bring us back
from whence we have fallen? In plain English, can there be a
restoration? And the answer is categorically, yes. For the Bible said
Elijah must come and restore all things, but it also says over here in
the Book of Ephesians, and you’ll notice I keep taking you there, lest
you should forget. I want you to know this subject as thoroughly as I
hope that I know it. Now It says here in Eph 1:15-23:

(15)	Wherefore also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and
love unto all the saints, (Now remember they’re full of the Holy
Ghost.)

(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 in the knowledge of
him:

(18)	The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye 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, when he raised him from the dead, and
set him at his own right hand in heavenly places,

(21)	Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and
every name that is named, not only in this world, but in (the world)
which is to come:

(22)	And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head
over all things to the church,

(23)	Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

23.	Now this is the church that Paul went to. And he saw something was a
little amiss. Acts 19. 

(2)	(And he) said, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed?
…We (haven’t) heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.

(3)	…he said… Unto what were ye baptized (then)? …Unto John’s
baptism.

	He said, “That was fine, but it’s not good enough.” You’ve got
to now understand that Jesus Christ died and be baptized unto him and
then you receive the Holy Ghost, and the Scripture says they did! Now,
Paul… now let’s just a minute, let’s go back to Acts 20. You hold
your finger there; I got something to show you. Now Paul here, according
to this Scripture:

(17)	And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the
church. 

	Now all the elders from Ephesus came down, and all the people came
down. And he says here, in that 26th verse:

(26)	Wherefore I take you to (make a) record this day, I am pure from
the blood of all men.

(27)	For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.

	Now, just a minute, he said he declared all the counsel of God, yet the
same man prayed for the spirit of wisdom and revelation to come into the
church! It therefore had not come into the church! And when Paul died it
had not come into the church, because this is supposed to precede the
Resurrection. That’s right. 

24.	Dr. Bloomfield, a fine brother, I don’t know what religion he is,
as far as denomination, could be dead by now, one of the so-called
greatest authorities in eschatology, in prophecy. He said, according to
his understanding of the Seals and the Thunders, he said, “Somebody
must arise on the scene sometime, somewhere and tell us what’s under
the Seals and reveal the Thunders.” And his idea at this time was
this: that it was not written in the Bible, but it has to be written in
the Bible because you can’t add or take from it. 

	Therefore Paul was speaking of a revelation that he knew was down the
road, but that he himself was not privy to, but somebody would be privy
to! How are you going to get it except by a prophet? That’s the thing.
People say, “Well I don’t believe there’s any more prophets.”
Where do you get that nonsense? Tell me one Scripture that says
there’s no more prophets. I’d like to know it. “Oh,” they said,
“that’s in Hebrews.” You don’t read Hebrews right; that tells
you how the Word of God comes. Yup, God was in the prophets in a
measure, in a measure of Word, but Christ was that Word. That was God in
human flesh. The prophets were God to the people. But that didn’t make
him God per se. But this was God per se. Because God came into Him and
He became the fullness of the Godhead bodily.

25.	All right, we can expect it, absolutely. The fallen Bride of 2 Cor
11:2, let’s take a look at 2 Corinthians 11. Paul says, 

(2)	…I am jealous over you with (a) godly jealousy: (you know that’s
a law of jealousy of the husband, who believes his wife is fooling
around with somebody.) for I have espoused you to one husband, that I
may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

(3)	But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through
subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is
in Christ. (You should be become insane in your understanding spiritual
things.)

(4)	For if he that cometh preache(s) another Jesus, whom we have not
preached, if ye receive another spirit, which (we) have not received,
another gospel, which (we) have not accepted, ye might well bear with
him.

	Now he’s telling you right there that there is going to come an
absolute misunderstanding and falsehood concerning three things: the
Spirit, Jesus Christ Himself and the Gospel. You can’t beat that for
entire destruction. All things messed up. All three things going down
the way. In other words, there is a complete misunderstanding in the
mind. The exegesis is absolutely horrible, it is no longer the truth, it
has become a three-fold lie. Absolutely.

	Now that fallen Bride is to become restored. And let’s just take a
look at her. Rev 22:10. 

26.	Now you say, “Bro. Vayle, you’ve said a lot about those over the
time.” You just keep listening. Let this become a part of you.
That’s the trouble with people. You know what today? There are people
eating thousands – and I’ve been one of them, and I just quit it
now. I’ve wasted literally thousands and thousands of dollars on me,
my wife, and my family, and even helping other people, to take large
megadose of vitamins that no more do us any good than throwing a bottle
of perfume into a fifteen mile sewer! Because the body cannot
necessarily assimilate! And if your body can’t assimilate, it just
passes through you. And even the health food stores and the doctors
absolutely tell you that over ninety percent of what you take by way of
minerals and vitamins, though they are wonderful, just – (phbbt) –
through the body. Don’t do one bit of good. The body doesn’t break
them down. So therefore if your digestive system is all completely
corroded and it’s absolutely no good, what are you going to do about
it? Nothing is going to do any good. 

	So what I’m trying to tell you is this, time after time repeating,
hopefully you’ll begin to assimilate what I’m trying to get you to
see and It will become a part of you! It’s not a part of you; it
won’t do you a bit of good. Because you’re going to have to stand
there in a faith which doesn’t look out of the corners of your eye,
but just looks straight ahead and sees Him Who is invisible. While the
outer man is perishing, the inner man is being renewed! See, you’ve
got to understand these things. 

27.	All right, now let’s get this. Rev 22:10.

(10)	And he (said) unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this
book: for the time is at hand.

	Therefore sometime between Rev 10:4, when the Book was sealed, the Book
becomes unsealed! And you don’t dare seal It. Now the question is: was
the Book ever unsealed? The answer is: if we believe William Branham,
vindicated prophet, the Book was unsealed! The unsealed Book came down
here because the Thunders were on earth, not in heaven! So what was to
happen down here was sealed up! Now let’s get it. If there is, as some
people think, one Seal left on the Book, it’s still sealed. It’s
unopened. Visualize a scroll of paper, like a calendar, rolled up in a
tube. Visualize seven strong seals. Now take your knife and rip six of
them apart. Is it unsealed? You say, “Partly.” Then you can’t say
it’s unsealed. Because you still can’t get in. You have got to break
that last seal to get in there! 

28.	Now then, people wonder according to Bro. Branham, the Message,
they’re all mixed up, they just won’t let their minds go and listen
to God’s Word! They try to say all the Seals weren’t opened. Now
what about the Book here? You just can’t rip part of them off. Prophet
said He ripped all of them off. Ripped off the Seals and gave it back to
the Father. 

(10)	And he (says)… Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book:
for the time is at hand.

(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. (And he that’s insane, is insane still and
he that is sane is sane still! That’s what it boils down to.)

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

(13)	I am Alpha and Omega, (there’s your principle,) the beginning and
the end, the first and the last.

(14)	Blessed are they that (wash their robes), that they may have (the)
right to the tree of life, enter through the gates (to) the city.

(15)	For without are dogs, (there’s your dogs again, male prostitutes.
Now if you can’t guess what they are, I’m not about to tell you.
I’ve told you many times.) sorcerers, (that’s the druggists, fellow
that gives you the wrong prescription,) whoremongers, (you know what
they are,) murderers, idolaters, whosoever loveth and maketh a lie. 

29.	That’s the church of this hour, wretched, miserable, naked, blind,
said, “Oh we’re wonderful, everything’s just fine. Why we passed
our psychiatric board. We’ve got our PhD’s and our DD’s.” Sure,
I’ve got no doubt about that. No doubt at all. But they didn’t get
them by the Holy Ghost. They got them by a secular education. See? Now,

(16)	I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in
the churches. I am root and offspring of David, the bright and morning
star.

(17)	…the Spirit and the bride say, Come. …let him that heareth say,
Come. …let him that is athirst come. …whosoever will, let him take
(of) the water of life freely.

(18)	For I testify (to) every man that heareth the words of the prophecy
of this book, (now how are you going to hear Him until those seals are
off? Because the Book’s sealed! The Thunders are muffled! But every
man that hears,) If any man shall add (to) these things, God (will) add
(to) him the plagues written in this book:

(19)	…if any man take away the words of the book of this prophecy, God
shall take (out) his part of the book of life, and out of the holy city,
and the things written in this book. 

	Now that tells you absolutely that there’s got to be as perfect a
revelation at the end time as it was at the first time! How did it come
the first time? One man, a prophet. Pillar of Fire appeared to him, gave
him an understanding. Vindicate him. Paul …?... 

30.	Let’s go back to 1 Corinthians 2, and just look what Paul said
here in that second chapter.

(1)	…when I came to you, (brethren, I) came not with excellency of
speech or of wisdom, declaring (to) you the testimony of God.

	Verse 4:

(4)	…my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s
wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:

	Paul was vindicated. Paul was vindicated. So there’s got to be
somebody at the end time that’s going to stand here to prove it’s
the end time, that’s vindicated, to bring us back to a sanity.

31.	Now let’s look over here in the Book of Philippians 3, again. Now
we read the first nine verses. Now Paul continues in the tenth verse:

(10)	That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the
fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;

(11)	If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.

(12)	Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect:
but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which I am (also)
apprehended of Christ Jesus.

(13)	Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one
thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth
unto those things which are before,

(14)	I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in
Christ Jesus.

	Now remember, when he says, “Forgetting those things which are
behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,”
signifies a position. Therefore what is in front of him, which would be
present to him. Now I hope you caught that. I know you didn’t, so
I’m going to go over it, because you see, when I said it, you
couldn’t relate it to the words. 

32.	So what he says here,

(13)	Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one
thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth
unto those things which are before,

(14)	I press toward the mark…

	There’s something before him that he’s pressing toward. Now the
word ‘before’ signifies a position. Therefore what is in front of
him, which would be present to him. And it’s not present to him!
He’s looking down the road! He wish it were present! He wishes he
could get it! But he says, “That I may know Him, and the power of His
Resurrection,” proves that he doesn’t! He doesn’t! Now he knows
that Jesus died and rose, and he knows if he dies he’s going to rise
also, he knows that, but he doesn’t know this! Of what we’re talking
about. We’re looking for it, which is going to be down here in that
21st verse. Now this is okay here, you can look forward to the time
there’s a Resurrection, that’s right. He’s not going to miss it.
There’s no way he’s going to miss that First Resurrection. 

33.	Now, going down here, verse 20:

(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, 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. (That is to put the thing into an
order.)

	Now, you’ll notice in here that Paul is praying for himself the same
thing he prayed for the Ephesian church! That he may know Him and the
power of that Resurrection! Paul didn’t, and the Ephesian church
didn’t, and the only ones that can know it are the living now, if this
is the hour of the Resurrection! Because we’re going to get changed.
See? How in the world could they know that and then not be resurrected?
Merciful heavens, how could I know of how to play a piano and then sit
down and can’t play a piano, say, “What is this thing here
anyway?” See, how can I be a human being and not require sleep and
food, clothing? It’s ridiculous. 

	Now Paul is saying here, “Look, for the Ephesian church, I am praying
to this end. And I’m praying the same prayer for myself.” But
there’s got to be an hour and a season to it. And that’s where much
of the King James Version is so poor in its interpretation or its
translation. You pick up a book by Wuest, and other more liberal
translators, in other words they try to make it more modern American
language, so the people understand it, and he’s talking of times and
epical seasons all the time. Now there’s a time for the Resurrection.
And the conditions are described. There’s a time for the Rapture. And
those things are described.

34.	All right, we’re going to leave these things that I’ve said and
just go on now. Let them sit there for awhile. And we go back to Eph
1:13,14, which preceded Eph 1:15-23. Now Paul says, 

(13)	In whom also (you hoped), after (you) heard the word of truth, the
gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that (you) believed, (you)
were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

(14)	Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the
purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

	Now he tells the people they already have been born again, they already
have the seal, the token, that they are going to be in the First
Resurrection. He said, “You’re going to make it, there’s no way
you’re going to miss it.” Then he turns around and prays that the
Spirit may come into the church. Now they’ve already got a spirit
inside them. If you’re not born again, got the Spirit of God in you,
you’re not going to make the First Resurrection. Now this has been
sealed unto them. But this hasn’t been, because he’s praying for it.


	Now if you don’t understand that, brother and sister, let us
understand that I might have said, “Now I want one of you to bring me
this brush.” And someone brings the brush. I say, “Will you please
bring me a brush?” And you look at me. “Will you please bring me a
brush?” And you look at me. “Will you please bring me a brush?” 

	And you start thinking, “Well, I knew poor old Lee was going to get
it one day, but I didn’t think it would be like that. Fruitcake –
he’s nuttier than a fruitcake.” 

35.	Now come on, let’s go back to Bible. “Oh,” said Paul,
“you’ve already got the Holy Ghost, but,” he said, “I really
didn’t mean it, ha, ha, ha, ha.” 

	You see why Bro. Branham said, “You Lutherans potentially had the
Holy Ghost. You Methodists potentially had the Holy Ghost. You
Pentecosts potentially had the Holy Ghost.” But now it’s no more
potential because the baptism with the Holy Ghost is the potential!
Justification gives way to sanctification. Sanctification gives way to
the baptism with the Holy Ghost. And the baptism with the Holy Ghost
gives way to the Holy Ghost. 

	Now he’s telling you right here, there’s going to come a time when
the Holy Ghost Himself comes on the scene, with a Spirit, the Spirit of
wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of your heart
are going to be illuminated, and you’re going to know what the hope of
His calling – not your calling but His calling – and what the riches
of the glory of His inheritance in the saints is, and that’s the Name.
You're going to understand the collective name of being Bride. And then
you’re going to know the exceeding greatness of His power to us-ward
who believe according to the working of His mighty power which he
wrought in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead. Now Who raised
Christ? God did. Then Who’s going to be here? God. And what’s God
going to do? Bring up the dead, who are full of the Holy Ghost, and
change us, who are full of the Holy Ghost, and take us up. 

36.	Now listen, let’s understand this, of absolutely the best we can.
This mentioned in Eph 1:15-23 is not Eph 1:13,14. They are not in the
same intent or purpose! For Eph 1:13-14 is the same as Rom 8:11. Let’s
go to Rom 8:11. Now time goes fast, but I’m talking fast, so you
should be fine.

(11)	But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell
in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall quicken your mortal
bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

	In other words he’s telling you, God gives you a little bit of His
Spirit, He seals you in, and then He stands there waiting for the day
when He’s going to raise you. In other words that little bit of spirit
that’s in you, is the same spirit that is the great Spirit of God in
full measure. And if you’ve got Him in you, Him – pardon the
expression – has got to raise you. He has got to raise you.

37.	Okay, let’s go to 1 Cor 12:13. Now It says here,

(13)	…by one Spirit are we baptized into one body, whether Jew or
Gentile, whether bond or free; have been made to drink into one Spirit.

	Very good. Now let’s read 12:1-11.

Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.

Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, as ye
were led.

Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit
of God calleth Jesus accursed: and no man can say that Jesus is the
Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.

Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.

…(different) administrations, …same Lord.

…(different) operations, …same God…

But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit
withal.

For to one is given the Spirit… of wisdom; another the word of
knowledge… same Spirit;

…another faith… (so on, so on.)

38.	Now It tells you categorically that that’s the baptism with the
Holy Ghost that does it. When you’re born again you’ve got that at
your hands. Let’s go to Romans 12. Rom 12:3-8.

(3)	For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is
among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think;
but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the
measure of faith.

(4)	For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not
the same office:

(5)	So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one
of another.

(6)	Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to
us, whether prophecy, (we) prophesy according to the proportion of
faith;

(7)	Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: he that teacheth, on
teaching;

(8)	…he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that give(s), let him do it
with simplicity; he that rule(s), with diligence; he that sheweth mercy,
with cheerfulness.

	He’s telling you here, like Irenaeus, there’s hundreds of gifts in
the Bride of Jesus Christ, in the church of God. But remember you get
them by being baptized with the Holy Ghost! See? 

	Now, let us say what the prophet said, which is here in the Word. He
said the baptism with the Holy Ghost is temporary! So therefore that
every single thing that is in the baptism with the Holy Ghost is
temporary! It’s got to be, because there comes a time when there’s
nobody left to receive It. The last one’s in. It’s temporary. Then
God doesn’t leave you alone, God Himself comes on the scene. Okay,
it’s temporary.

39.	Now that’s when the fullness of the Gentiles comes in according to
Rom 11:25. But let’s go further. Let’s go to 1 Corinthians 13, we go
to 8-12:

(8)	(Love) never fail(s): whether there be prophecies, (they’ll) fail;
…tongues, (they’re going to) cease; …knowledge, it (will) vanish
away.

(9)	For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. 

	Seven Church Ages with seven messengers, and the First Church Age
messenger could not go beyond the Seventh Age, because he lacked what it
took! In other words, if He, God, started this, then He, God, must end
it! Absolutely. Don’t any man think you can end it, you can’t do it.


	Now God left something out. He left something out. Paul said, “I
can’t tell you.” But he said, “I’ll tell you, the Spirit will
come and tell you.” 

	Now Paul lets you know flat how revelation came. That Pillar of Fire
has to come back somehow, somewhere! Well people say, “You’re
crazy.” Well fine. I knew they would. They’re supposed to. And I’m
supposed to stand here crazy to them, but they’re crazy to me. 

	You know my wife thought she was smart one time. She didn’t like a
certain guy, so she smarted off, and didn’t know he was behind her
back. She said, “I don’t like so and so.” 

	He said, “That’s all right, I don’t like you either.” 

	The world thinks I’m crazy; the world’s pretty crazy to me. The
Bible said that’s the way it would be. They can’t understand how you
and I don’t go out and do the things that they do; we can’t
understand how in the world that they can do the things that they do,
because some of us used do it. We say, “That’s ridiculous. That’s
ridiculous.” The very things that people like to do the very most,
would have the greatest pleasure in life, they’re destroying their
bodies, so there’s no way they’ll ever get around to doing the
things they really like to do. You talk about nuts. Crazy. 

40.	Listen:

(9)	…(they) know in part, prophesy in part.

(10)	But when that which is perfect…

	And that word ‘perfect’ means ‘concluded’, ‘finished’, you
can’t add to it, it’s polished off, this is it, then there’s
nothing more to come. Now Paul said there was something more to come.
Then what was to come? A revelation. So therefore what is perfect? That
which is come is what? There’s nothing perfect but God, and God’s
His Word, so therefore the perfect revelation of the hour has got to be
here. See, it’s got to be finished! Now when it’s finished, it means
the Seals are opened! The Thunders have thundered! The righteous are
righteous! The filthy are filthy! It’s over. And it’s going on right
now, if we’re right. If there was a vindicated prophet. If William
Branham was vindicated, if he was that man, come to the Gentile church,
then it’s over.

	So Eph 1:13,14 is not Eph 1:15-20, but I am not saying that they’re
two different spirits! They’re not two different spirits! It’s the
same Spirit that seals in every individual member by giving a portion of
Himself to each individual, that Spirit now seals in the entire Bride,
and His Word changes from bringing in and sealing individual members
into – the Revelation, the Resurrection, and the Rapture. Then
that’s what It says. 

41.	I don’t know why that’s hard to understand. Say, “I understand
it different.” I’d like to hear your version. Be interesting.
Because I know mine’s right. I know it’s right, because I can read
English. And I could be a little facetious and say, “I know, because
God is English. He’s American and speaks American.” The old German
lady knew positively that God was German, because He wrote the German
Bible. I’m not being facetious. This is in the Greek and taken from
the Greek. This is in the Aramaic and taken from the Aramaic. This is
what God said! You say, “Purportedly.” Well that’s fine by me, you
say what you want; I say God said It. Because God was in the prophets.
And the prophet was only a reflector; he was just a voice that God used.
Because his thoughts were not his own. You know the beautiful thing
about a prophet was he could sit down and write; every Word is from God.
He could stand up and talk, and every Word was from God. He could hear
and he could come back and tell the people word for word where you and I
stumble over some little thing that somebody told us about how to grease
a car and make a cake, this man could come back with thousands of words,
and never miss a trick. Now some interpreter might make a mistake, and
someone, we call a man …?... a man that wrote for somebody else, call
it a secretary, a stenographer, he might make a mistake, but that man
who was a prophet never made a mistake. 

	No, it is a one Spirit. Which brings about the Revelation, the
Resurrection, and the Rapture, which we understand, according to 1
Thessalonians, to be called Shout, Voice and Trumpet. Now let’s find
out. Let’s find out what the Word of God says about God coming down
here to men once more, to the church. It’s interesting to find out if
He said it. Okay, 1 Th 4:13:

(13)	(Brethren) I would not have you ignorant, …concerning them which
are asleep, that ye sorrow not, as others which have no hope.

(14)	…if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also
which sleep in Jesus will God bring (forth) with him. (That’s what
Paul believed. If you die in the baptism with the Holy Ghost, He’s
going to bring you forth, the same as He brought Jesus.)

(15)	For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are
alive and remain unto the (presence) of the Lord shall not (take any
precedence over) them (that) are asleep.

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

42.	Now It tells you right there, there’s going to be a Shout. Then It
tells you there’s going to be a Resurrection, then It tells you that
there is going to be a Rapture. Now I ask you a question. Then what in
the world is that Shout? It’s got to be for the living! Because this
is concerning the living and the dead! He comes down to raise the dead!
So He’s here with the living and the dead! And in here we already see
the key! The Resurrection and the Rapture! That is Voice, till there’s
three things! What will there be? Revelation, that’s what he said,
Resurrection, Rapture. You say, “I see different.” You see wrong.
You see wrong. You’re a dead fundamentalist. I’m sorry, but that’s
what you are. Your mind is so befogged you can’t read the Book
anymore. You say, “How did you get your mind unfogged?” I heard a
prophet. Because I’m a believer. You say, “Strange kind of a
believer.” Oh that’s what it’s all about, very strange kind of
believer. No problem there. I won’t argue that. See?

	Now, not two different spirits, any more than Jesus had two fathers!
“The Holy Ghost should come upon you and that thing born of you shall
be called the Son of God”! Have you heard of a baby having two
fathers? (Fap!) Stupidest thing under God’s high heaven. The Holy
Ghost and God are one and the same Person. Even Adam Clark knew there
was no such thing as eternal sonship. They kept coming to Adam Clark,
and they said, “What about …?... what about St. Augustine, what
about this?” He said, “Sure, but what about the Scripture? What
saith the Scripture? Never mind what Augustine says.” He said,
“Eternal sonship.” He was the great theologian at what age? The
Wesleyans. You ask a Wesleyan, “What about eternal sonship?” They
believe it. How can a son be eternal? Son’s got beginnings. Merciful
heavens. Such nonsense.

43.	Now, I read you some of my favorite Scripture, by a twentieth
century prophet. Now he said, “What about the Pillar of Fire? What
about the Son of man? Is the Son of man the Pillar of Fire?” He said,
“No.” [Questions and Answers #2, 08/23/64E]

[107]	Now, that Pillar of Fire is the Logos that went out of God. The
Logos, which 	is actually the attribute of the Fullness of God.
(Attribute signifies there’s a 	source. Attribute attributes. So
therefore what came out had a Source, what 	was seen had a Source, and
the Source was God. So therefore you see God 	moving in a manifested
form.) When God become into a form to where It 	could be seen… 

	Now this man’s language to everybody is horrible, to me it’s
beautiful. It says, 

[107]	When God become into a form… 

	He’s using the word ‘become’ in the sense of Elohim, because
Elohim means ‘the one who becomes’. So even his poor English is the
best English. See? 

[107]	When God become into a form to where It could be seen, It was the
anointing	 of the great Spirit that went forth, It's condescending,
coming down, God, the 	Father, the Logos that was up over Israel,… He
was holy, could not bear sin. 	There had to be blood offering right in
Eden. Then that Logos become flesh 	and dwelt among us; and where this
Logos dwelt in a human body, which 		was the sacrifice… (Then he stops
to explain.)

[108]	When man was made in the image of God… (that’s when it began.)
And then 	God came down in the image of man to redeem man; that brought
man and 	God together. Heaven and earth hugged and kissed each other;
(that’s a poetic 	statement, other thing people have made,) God and
man embraced each other 	as Fatherhood and sonship when the Logos became
flesh and dwelled among 	us. 

44.	Therefore was not a Father and a Son, He said, “He that hath seen
Me hath seen the Father.” But it was God dwelling in a human form. And
remember Jesus was a man. That body wasn’t God per se. How could a
little egg and a sperm created by God in the chemical womb of a woman
bring forth God? God creating Himself in the form of human flesh, Elohim
becoming. Starting with the creation. See, you understand that. 

[109]	Jesus said, "I came from God, I go to God.” (That’s that
Logos, see, talking.) 	Is that right? After His death, burial,
resurrection, and ascension, when the 	body was taken up to set at the
right hand of God… I don't mean now God's 	got a right hand, God's a
spirit. But at the "right hand" means "power and 	authority…" (Every
theologian says the same thing.) That in that Name 	everything in Heaven
is named after It and subject to It. 

45.	Not that theologians mean anything, but the thing is this, most
theologians many times say the right thing then eat their own words by
stupid conclusions. Why don’t they just go ahead and say it? It’s
just like the Trinitarian Dr. Vincent. Categorically shows what Bro.
Branham does, that Jesus… that God came down here as a man, went back
and came down again as the Holy Ghost! You got rid of one God right
there, there’s only two left! And the blind Trinitarian still goes on
three gods. Now my brother/sister, I almost had one of my fingers cut
off, it was that one there. Doctor did a bad job fixing it up, he
didn’t fix it at all. Now if I cut this finger off, “Oh I got five
fingers, I got five fingers.” You say, “Come on, Vayle, you’re a
fruitcake. You lost one.” Can’t a theologian know if he killed one
of three gods he’s got two left? But one of those is a man! The man
Christ Jesus! Now you killed a second one, theologically speaking. One
God. I don’t know, I don’t understand. I’m not supposed to
understand. Insanity. Insanity. 

[109]	That in the Name of Jesus everything named after It and subject to
It. 	Everything in earth is named after It and subject to It, a Name
above all 	names, Jesus Christ. 

[110]	Now, this Logos that was in Him, which was the Spirit of God, the
Anointing, 	through the sanctifying grace of the Blood, brought many
sons to God, 	which is anointed with this same Logos. 

	Now that’s a statement he makes. Now here he explains it.

[111]	…on the day of Pentecost It came down, that Pillar of Fire,
broke apart like 	that, and tongues of fire set upon each of them, not
their tongues, but tongues 	of fire set upon each of them, a elected,
selected group, identified by this Pillar 	of Fire, showing that God had
separated Himself into men. …get it? God, the 	Logos, separating
Himself into men! God, not in one person, He's in His 	Church universal.
That's the reason Jesus said, "The works I do shall you do 	also, more."
Now, the King James version says, "greater," but the right 	translation
there is "more than this shall you do." God was bottled and confined 	in
one Man, Jesus Christ. But now He's bottled and confined in the whole 
universal Church of the Living God. 

46.	Now that sounds like Bro. Branham’s saying when God divides
Himself amongst men, there’s no more God left. If fifty trillion
people were filled with the Holy Ghost, that would not constitute God.
Any more than if Adam could personally father every single son, and
there’s been how many children on earth, let’s attribute them all to
Adam, though that’s not true. Let’s attribute them. There would be
at least twenty billion people in six thousand years, and he could stand
with twenty billion people, say, “I am the father, and not one of you
in all of you have eliminated me, I stand here and you’re my kids!”
Now funny the brain can take that. Yet people would think that Bro.
Branham was saying that all of God was in the church. No way, shape and
form. Because the heavens and the whole earth cannot contain Him.
Nothing can contain Him. No more than a modicum.

[112]	Right now, God is here speaking in our hearts, He's in Africa, in
Asia, in 	Europe, in England. (How? By His Spirit, filling men’s
hearts.)

[113]	Now, after His death, burial, and ascension, and the coming of the
Holy Ghost, 	(now He’s divided Himself at Pentecost, and after it
what? Death, burial, 	resurrection, ascension, come back again as the
Holy Spirit at Pentecost. Now 	watch, repeats the same words.) Paul on
his road down—which was Saul—to 	Damascus, struck down by a Pillar
of Fire, the Logos. That Jew would've never 	called that Pillar of Fire,
"Lord," unless he knew It was the same Logos his 	people followed
through the wilderness. …that was not the Son of man, that 	was the
Logos. (Certainly it wasn’t the Son of man. Son of man’s a human 
being. The man never came down. What was in the man came down.) 

[114]	Now, we say with reverence, and love, and respect. As Jesus Christ
the same 	yesterday, today, and forever, and also that in the last days,
as it was before 	Lot's time, (now the Bible says it’s in Matthew and
Luke,) or in Lot's time in 	Sodom, so shall it be in the day that the
Son of man reveals Himself again… 	Now, in this last day the Logos
that was upon Jesus—which He has become 	from that back to the Pillar
of Fire again and has descended down on the 	earth…

[115]	And now, this great Pillar of Fire that's absolutely identified by
scientific 	cameras… (There’s the picture right there. George J.
Lacy, former head of the 	FBI, fingerprint department says absolutely
the light struck the camera. First and 	only known picture in the world
of a supernatural being. That’s His reflection.) 	There's the picture
hanging… George J. Lacy, … said, "I called it psychology 	myself,
Reverend Branham, but …the light struck the lens. This light struck
the 	lens. This lens won't take psychology!"  

[116]	Then watch the works of It. It, among us, proves the same Jesus
that once lived 	in Palestine, the same Spirit was upon Him has come up
through a Body until 	It's come back to Headship again… 

47.	Now it must have been in Headship once if It’s in Headship again.
When was It in Headship again? When He appeared before He gave anything
of Himself to anybody. Headship. Then He began giving something of
Himself. Then He came and gave the Word to Paul. Now He’s got to do
the same thing again. Which is what? At the time of people still
receiving the Holy Spirit, He is here now to finish it off when the last
one will receive It! And at the same time bring forth a Revelation,
because that’s what happened in Paul’s day.

[116]	…back to Headship again, which He's coming soon to claim the
Body. The 	Head's coming to the Body. (That’s the physical Head.
He’s back to spiritual 	Headship, Pillar of Fire.) You get it? That
will be the Son of man, the Son of 	God, the Son of David, the I AM, the
Rose of Sharon, the Lily of the Valley, the 	Morning Star. 

	That’s when He incarnates Himself again in Jesus Christ. How do you
crown a spirit? You can’t crown God a Spirit. He’s got to incarnate
Himself in Jesus again. That’s what it’s all about. See?

[117]	I am not He; I am His servant. The Pillar of Fire is not He; It's
in Spirit form 	that was upon the Son of man and come now to anoint sons
of men, to bring 	back a ministry just exactly like it would be, in
order for the Head and the rest 	of the Body to connect together. 

	Well you say, “How in the world is to be a ministry just like it was
when He was on earth?” Well I’m glad you asked the question, because
I’m able to answer it. And if I wasn’t able to answer it, I’d duck
in a hurry, but I don’t have to duck. You see, look, I’m going to
tell you something, you believe what this prophet said; you’re not
going to have any trouble. 

48.	Now listen, in Matthew 12, he healed the man on the Sabbath day.
Then in the 15th verse:

(15)	…great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all; 

	There wasn’t one that He missed. No man living since the time of Bro.
Branham has ever taken a crowd of people, and every single one healed,
that I have any knowledge of. And I’ve read the books. Just about
anything out there that I know of, I’ve had access to. Now,

(16)	And charged them they should not make him known: (Now listen,)

(17)	That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet,
saying,

(18)	Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul
is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he (will) shew
judgment to the Gentiles. (Now listen, that’s what He’s going to do.
Now watch how He does it.)

(19)	He shall not strive… 

	When He was here in the flesh in Israel, He strove! He took them up one
side and down the other, He beat them with ropes and He threw them out
of the temple, kicked their tables over! If that’s not striving,
brother/sister, then I can take an axe and carve that organ to pieces
and say, “I was just picking my teeth because I ate dinner.”
Somebody’s wrong and I’m not, because I’m reading the Bible. 

(19)	…nor cry; (on the great day of the feast, He cried, “If any man
thirst, let him come unto Me and drink!” Also) his voice (is not
heard) in the streets. 

49.	That’s where He preached was in the streets! Then He’s telling
you, when He comes to the Gentiles, it’s got to be in the form of the
Holy Spirit, where He cannot be identified as a man! And He won’t be.
I’ll tell you why.

(20)	A bruised reed shall he not break… 

	What’s a bruised reed? A bruised reed, a reed is that which the
shepherd leans upon. The shepherd’s of Israel use them, it’s a reed
like you get out of the swamps. And you can lean on it. And when it gets
old and brittle, it will break in your hand and can pierce it, it can be
dangerous. So you see when it gets old and they see signs, they break it
and throw it away so nobody gets hurt. Now He did break Israel’s
system that they leaned on! He took away the sacrifice, they haven’t
had one since, and they can’t have it! Their system is shot. The next
thing It says, 

(20)	…(the) smoking flax he (shall) not quench,…

	What is the flax? It is the wick in the oil! And when the oil runs out,
what do you do? You put it out! But when the oil runs out now in the
Gentiles, He takes us up! Brother/sister, there’s a difference. Do you
follow what I’m saying? Get this tape and go over it, I’m fooling
you not.

(21)	And in his name shall the Gentiles trust. 

	To Israel He was a person in flesh, to us He’s a Name! We’ve never
seen Him, it’s in the Spirit. That’s why you’ve got holy fathers
and popes and everything else, because they want to be He. They want to
take His place. They don’t want to stand back and admit that He’s
here. Not as the baptism with the Holy Ghost, sure He is! The Baptizer.
But that One is here, Himself. Oh sure. I trust you understand now. I
was reading in this book.

[117]	I am not He; 

	I don’t need to read anymore. I want you to understand what he said,
a prophet of God said. If we have any faith in prophets, there are
prophets. The manifestation of the hour, camera caught it. We know these
things are in the earth, going on, that He came down to do this. He came
down at the time when this age is running out. So now we’re back to
Eph 1:14, it runs out. And at the time of running out, but not
completely having run out, there is a repeat of Acts 9; the Pillar of
Fire comes to a man as it came to Paul. Not to divide Himself into the
people any longer, but in order to bring a revelation. So we see in this
hour in which we live that we’re right back to Hebrews 1:

(1)	God, (in many parts and many ways) spake in time past unto the
fathers (in) the prophets, 

	He’s never changed His method of doing things and He never will. 

50.	Let’s find out if that’s the truth. 1 Corinthians 14. Here’s
the original one that brought the Word to the Gentiles, the prophet
apostle of the hour. And he says in verse 36:

What? came the word of God out from you? or came it (to) you only?

If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him
acknowledge the things that I write are the commandments of the Lord.

	This man stood there and said, “Listen, I brought you the Word, you
never got it by yourself.” He laid the precept down. The congregation
does not get it; it takes somebody ordained of God to bring it to the
whole flock of God! How does he say to them, messenger of the First
Church Age, which is the apostle Paul? He said… let me read it for
you. I never did memorize that to my knowledge, so I’m not going to
try to tell you what I didn’t memorize. Second chapter, and in the
first verse: [Rev 2]

(1)	Unto the angel (the messenger) of the church (which is in) Ephesus;
These things saith he that holdeth the stars in his right hand, walketh
in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks; (We know Who that is. And
then He says in verse 7, finishing His little sermon,)

(7)	He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit (said to) the
churches; 

	He’s telling you right there, “I speaking to Paul, Paul speaking to
you. And what he says is God to you.” 

	Let’s find out. Let’s go to Ephesians 4, I think it is. I want to
show you these things in here, brother/sister, because look, you can’t
get them too solid in your heart and mind. You say, “How do you know
Bro. Vayle?” Look, I talk to people. They confront me, they challenge
me. I get phone calls, I get letters. Why do you think I sort of let my
hair down and tore up a few things down in Memphis? Look, there comes a
time when you’re not anxious to deal with these things again. There
comes a time, when brother/sister, the contractor that’s pouring
foundations knows he’s going to lose his shirt and everybody else’s
shirt if he doesn’t get a house built on them. You don’t keep laying
principles down, laying principles down to a bunch of people that refuse
to look. They don’t want your foundation anyway; you’re wasting your
time. 

51.	But let’s go to Ephesians again, the 4th chapter, and let’s find
out. Paul is talking about the Holy Spirit coming through in ministries,
that Bro. Branham called the river, called waters. And then he said a
five-fold ministry was rivers, which are channels for water, and every
single person that believes the Word and says something to witness to
Christ becomes also a river of life! Now he says here,

But ye have not so learned (of) Christ; (In verse 20.)

If so be that (you’ve) heard him, and have been taught by him, as the
truth is in Jesus:

	When did they ever have an encounter with Christ? When did they? When
they met Paul. Because he was the Holy Ghost to them and It brought the
Word. Yet people say, “Well we don’t need a prophet, we’ve got our
teachers, we’ve got this, we’ve got the other thing.” God said
they do. He said, “I would rip the whole thing to pieces, I’d call
it all off unless I sent Elijah the prophet.” In other words there’d
be a partial resurrection at the very best. You and I would never get
out of here. Because only the dead could make it, the living couldn’t.
And yet people try to say otherwise.

	All right, prophets. Now how therefore we ought to understand in this
hour how that God is veiled in human flesh! Which He is in a prophet.
And in a minor form in individuals. The Son of man revealed in human
flesh, God in the prophets, the prophets being God, God coming down from
heaven and standing before groups of men and declaring Himself. How did
God ever declare Himself except by a prophet? 'THUS SAITH THE LORD' said
Isaiah, Ezekiel and Jeremiah, Hosea, Amos and the whole bunch of them,
and when it comes to this hour, people draw back and they say,
“Ain’t nothing to it.” Then why do you believe your Bible at all?
Why bother believing anything? If I was stuck with such an insipid idea,
I’d have to say I was sort of insane, at least toward the things of
Almighty God. 

52.	Now with this thing burning in our hearts and minds, which I hope it
certainly is, we can see that Eph 1:17-18, which we read, and Eph
4:19-20, which I just read to you here, it’s actually 20 and 21, Rev
2:1 and 7, which I showed you, how He speaks to the messenger and the
messenger speaks to us. Now then, let’s go to Revelation 10 and see It
come to pass somewhere, and I believe it’s our day. John said,

(1)	…I saw another mighty (messenger) come down from heaven, clothed
with a cloud: (Who went away with a cloud? He did. Who’s coming with a
cloud? He is.) and a rainbow was upon his head… 

	Who’s that One? That’s the One seated on the throne in Rev 4:1.
God, Holy Spirit, Pillar of Fire surrounding Him. Now He’s taken on
Himself the guise of a man. He’s appearing like a man. 

…rainbow… as it were the sun, feet as pillars of fire:

…had in his hand a little book open: set his right foot upon the sea,
his left foot on earth, 

…cried with a loud voice, when a lion roareth: when he had cried,
seven thunders uttered their voices. (Now that’s on earth, that’s
not in heaven. That’s when that One comes down here. What are those
Seven Thunders? The Seven Seals, let’s face it.)

…when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to
write: and heard a voice from heaven saying (notice on earth, a voice
from heaven saying), Seal up those things which the seven thunders
uttered, and write them not.

And the (messenger) which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth
lifted up his hand to heaven,

And sware by him that live(s) for ever and ever… 

	Now who can swear by God but God? God swore by Himself to Abraham. The
God of Abraham is here, before the Sodom and Gomorrah scene, in a Pillar
of Fire, as He appeared in a man, read the thoughts of a woman, judged
the Bride virtuous, then went down to destroy, the same One stands here
as a Judge! On earth. Clothed in a Pillar of Fire. Now let’s keep
reading. 

(6)	(He swore by Himself) …that… time (should be) no longer:

But in the days of the voice of the seventh (messenger), (that’s your
last church age messenger,) when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of
God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the
prophets.

	What was it? There’s another prophet here. So the Seventh Church Age
messenger is a prophet. At the time that this One comes down on earth
here, when Elohim comes back as a Pillar of Fire, the last one is going
to be a prophet. Now what does the Bible say before destruction?
“Behold I send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great
and dreadful day of the Lord, that’s going to destroy”! Now look,
that can’t be… [End of second side of tape one.] …like to use a
lot of surfacing back and forth in order that you never have any
opportunity to misunderstand me, so that you become surer and surer, so
that your whole thoughts are centered in the Word of God that runs in
continuity. 

53.	All right, the baptism with the Holy Ghost, which is Eph 1:13,14,
not Eph 1:17. Now we’re going to look at that for just a minute and
see what the baptism with the Holy Ghost does for you. Now Bro. Branham
categorically said, “The great thing coming is not that which will
bring you nearer to God.” 

	And everybody says, “I want to get nearer to God. I’d just love to
get nearer to God, my if I could only get nearer to God.” 

	Now I’m going to tell you something. That statement is just a little
bit ridiculous. And I’m going to show you why. It says in 1 Cor 6:17:

But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

	How can you get closer than being one spirit? They say, “My I’d
like to close to my feet.” What do you want to do? Smell your toes? Oh
yeah, I’m going to be very silly, because I can be silly and very
cynical, and very satirical and I mean to be. How near are you to your
hands? It’s a part of you! If you’re a part of the body of Jesus
Christ, how near can you get? 

	Then all right, you’re as close as you’ll ever get by being
baptized with the Holy Ghost because you’re joined to Him! The Bible
said you’re one spirit. As I’ve often said, and that means you’re
one spiritual being. That is your soul and your spirit together are now
joined irrevocably, so that your spirit and soul will not go in two
different directions. You’re going to go to His paradise where He
clothes you with a theophonic form, which a body, made without hands,
reserved in heaven for you. A spoken created thing that God has waiting
for you.

	Now listen, the question is coming up. If God joined you and me to Him,
and we were unclean to begin with, did we make Him dirty or did He make
us clean? [Congregation says, “Made us clean.”] There you are. How
clean? As clean as God. 

54.	Now there’s your answer on righteousness. And people say, “Well
Bro. Vayle, I hope that I’ll get nearer.” I want to tell you the
great thing that’s coming on earth, the Holy Spirit Himself is not He
which makes you nearer, He’s already got you nearer. When Bro. Branham
used to have altar calls, and this is not something I’m going to say
to the praise of Lee Vayle, but just get this flat, I want to show you,
I believe my head’s screwed on right spiritually speaking. Not too
smart in other ways, but let’s get this. I’d see my brethren run up
every altar call, every altar. I’d say, “Now, hold it, hold it, hold
it. I don’t know what they’re going up for.” Because if you’ve
got the Holy Ghost, you don’t go up to get the Holy Ghost. That’s
making God a liar. I never once answered an altar call like that. Why?
Because this is in… kept me all my life is the baptism with the Holy
Ghost. That’s right. 

	Now you’re either joined to God or you’re not! Now if you’re
joined to God, you’ve been born again by the baptism with the Holy
Ghost and you’re one with God! I don’t care what you think, faith
calls everything contrary! Even to what you do and especially what you
do! How could you dare rise against God; they call it humility, hogwash,
it’s the arrogance and pride of hell, and the deceitfulness of the
devil! And the smirk upon your so-called devoted face – hypocrite!
Hypocrites. Say, “Well Lord, I could be… I’m just… oh I’m
terrible.” Then go to hell because you are terrible. You just
blasphemed the Holy Spirit. You say, “You’re getting tough.” Why
shouldn’t I be? I played the fool for forty-five years. A Pentecostal
nitwit. Yeah, a nitwit, had to go by feelings. What does feeling got to
do with it? How many times have you felt something was wrong only to
find it was perfectly all right? Oh brother. So much for your feelings
and that rattlesnake standing there. 

	And then somebody says, “The great thing that’s coming is that
great fruit, oh that wonderful great fruit.” 

55.	Well let’s go ahead and look at Gal 5:22,23.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering,
gentleness, goodness, faith,

Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. 

	You already got it! Then when the great One comes it is not fruit! Well
says somebody, “Well it makes me have great gifts and great…” I
read that, you already got it. Put in order. Oh somebody said, “Well,
I’ll tell you what it’s going to be, it’s going to be
character.” Oh that’s wonderful. Character’s a great thing, but
let’s take a look at it. Gal 3:1-3.

(1)	O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey
the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth,
crucified among you?

(2)	This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works
of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

(3)	Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made
perfect by the flesh?

	It tells you, you want character, it tells you! There’s your
character. Well you already got it! Well you say, “Hey, I’ll tell
you what. I know the great thing is obedience.” Well that’s
wonderful, I’m glad you think so, Peter didn’t. The great thing
coming is not obedience. Let’s find out. 1 Pet 1:22.

(22)	Seeing ye have (already) purified your souls in obeying the truth
through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren… 

	You’re already obedient. And Bro. Branham categorically said, “If
God ever sends His power back into the church, it won’t be by man’s
obedience, it will be by grace.”

56.	Now listen, if you’ve already got these things by the baptism with
the Holy Ghost, you don’t need the baptism with the Holy Ghost again
or any spirit that has anything to do with it, per se, as though that
were his ultimate. You’ve got the Ultimate. See? So what is this One
doing? He’s coming down here with the Shout, the Voice, and the
Trumpet. He’s coming down here with a Revelation and a Resurrection
and a Rapture! Then what is the Shout? It’s got to be some kind of a
Message! Delivered by a prophet. Because that’s all He can do. 

	Show me where God comes down and stands in the midst of the people, and
all the people in that one room suddenly see the Pillar of Fire or this
or that. After the days of Moses, God categorically stated, “According
to the people’s wishes, they’ll never more see Me or hear My Voice,
I’ll only deal by a prophet,” that’s why Jesus was primary a
prophet! Even though John said, “Behold the Lamb of God that takes
away the sin of the world,” that was a prophet standing there. The
hour of being the Lamb had not yet come. Elohim Who becomes, various
masks, various roles, but one God. It’s just about run out as the
Baptizer with the Holy Ghost, but He’ll never cease to be the Baptizer
with the Holy Ghost though He’s here now as the great Revelator.
Because God can never cease being what He was, because God does not
change. See there you are.

57.	All right, the very Presence of Christ in the form of the entire
Spirit is not working in any of us, nor comes to us outside the prophet,
in Revelation 10, when that mighty One came down, there had to be a
prophet waiting. Look it, let’s face it, the Word came to Moses, and
God said, “If the promise going to be fulfilled, I’ve got to come
down to Egypt.” So He said, “Moses come here.” And when Moses came
there, God formed Himself in a Pillar of Fire, came down to the bush,
and the bush did not burn. Then if God is on the scene, a prophet is on
the scene; if a prophet is on the scene, God is on the scene! That’s
axiomatic. 

	Well you tell people that, they say, “I don’t think so.” Be my
guest. Shows who’s mind you got. Not trying to be hard, though I’ve
got a mind of God nobody else has, I’m merely quoting a prophet. And
I’m standing here for all of you. I don’t suppose there’s any one
person here who doesn’t understand these things and believe them, no
way. 

58.	It is none other than 1 Th 4:13. Let’s take a look at it, my
brother, my sister. This is not difficult to understand. Once you open
your mind and begin to see these things. No problem.

(13)	…I would not have you ignorant, brethren, (those that are alive,)
concerning them which are asleep, (that are dead. You people that alive
do not) sorrow, as (those who) have no hope. (Because you’ve lost some
loved ones.)

(14)	For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them
which sleep in Jesus will God bring (out of the graves, the same as He
brought out Jesus the Christ).

(15)	For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, (that’s 'THUS
SAITH THE LORD'. Where did Paul get 'THUS SAITH THE LORD'? By
revelation. Pillar of Fire hung there.) that we which are alive and
remain unto the (presence) of the Lord shall not (take any precedence
over) them (that) are asleep. (Now watch how he puts the Presence of the
Lord!)

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

(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: and so shall we be with
the Lord.

	Now It tells you first of all He’s going to come down, the Lord’s
going to come down. Then It says we’re going to go to meet the Lord in
the air. You say, “Just a minute now, how can that be?” Very simple.
“The LORD said unto my Lord, “Sit thou on My right hand.”” You
know, whether you believe it or not, we’ve got a couple of Lords, one
is a man. Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The other is the Lord God
from heaven, and the Lord God from heaven comes down, because it’s the
hour to pay back to the Son what the Son bought! Which He bought a wife!
And God’s got to raise the dead wife and change the living wife and
bring it right up to where He is. Anybody can understand that. Except
those that don’t want to understand. 

	Bro. Branham said a man gets in the basement, said, “There’s no sun
out there.” And the man said, “Oh come on out, that sun’s
lovely.” He said, “I wouldn’t believe it if I saw it. There’s no
sun out there, shut the door.” So he shut the door. 

59.	They believe in three gods and don’t understand that. Now that’s
a travesty against, and a mockery against your own thinking. If you
can’t figure that out, with three gods. Or a couple of them. I can
figure it with one. Because one isn’t. But when the Spirit that’s in
our midst incarnates Himself in that one which He will, King of kings
and Lord of lords. Absolutely. Everlasting Father, Son, Holy Ghost, the
whole thing. We’ll crown Him. You can’t crown a Spirit. Unless God
incarnates Himself how are you going to crown Him? With spiritual
crowns? If we had any, we might. But nobody’s got spirit crowns. You
know these are real. 

	You say, “I think that’s going to be unreal.” You’re wrong! The
gold is going to be transparent gold that we walk on, a City fifteen
hundred miles wide at the base, fifteen hundred miles high! Gold! Yeah,
to walk on. Yeah. Not to steal and try to build a church on. We won’t
say, “Silver and gold, have we none.” We’ll say, “Silver and
gold have we lots and who gives a rip?” We just love it, because
that’s God’s plan. You know what I mean, you don’t care, because
you say, “Hallelujah, that’s just part of the scheme.” In other
words, we become so natural to it. 

	You know, what is that? …?... I guess so, these the guys that have
all the money and they act like they got it and you know it doesn’t
mean a strain that they spend money. We strain it and we think it’s
great if we even get to paying ten thousand dollars for a car, you know,
like we’ve broken the bank, or you know Nevada, Las Vegas, or
somewhere, you know how it is. But these rich guys, they spend millions,
you know, million dollars here and two million dollars there, and
you’d think money was air. Well up there that’s the way it’s going
to be. Walk on streets… in other words it’s going to be a part of
us. We’ll act the part too. That’s wonderful to know those things,
you know, we’re not going to be foreign to those things.

60.	All right. This then is none other than 1 Th 4:13, but without being
full of the Holy Spirit – see? – we could never come to the Rapture,
because we must be changed. It is only those who are truly born again,
baptized with the Holy Ghost that are going to make the Resurrection and
the Rapture. It is only those that will meet together on earth here that
are full of the Holy Spirit and they’ll know the things of God.

	Now this understanding alone in my thinking will begin to explain 2
Peter 1 – oh we’ll get you out of here sometime before three in the
morning. Won’t be that bad, but I’m sorry, I just figured I’m
going to just do the whole thing, because that’s when I… I didn’t
do it… see I didn’t finish down there in Tennessee, I just didn’t
take time. In 2 Peter 1, he’s talking in there:

(2)	Grace and peace be multiplied… through the knowledge of God, and
of Jesus (Christ) our Lord.

(3)	According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that
pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath
called us (unto) glory and virtue:

(4)	Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises:
that (we) might be partakers of the divine nature, (now this tells you
how you’re going to get to the Rapture.) having escaped the corruption
that is in the world through lust.

(5)	And beside (all) this, giving diligence, add to your faith virtue;
(you start with faith. Virtue,) …virtue knowledge;

(6)	…knowledge temperance; …temperance patience; …patience
godliness;

(7)	…godliness brotherly kindness; (that’s the seven steps of the
pyramid, the Seven Church Ages. The last is love, which is God.)

61.	Now It tells you that all of these things are born into you by the
baptism with the Holy Ghost. 

(8)	(And) if (they are there), and abound, (which they will if you’re
born again,) (you’ll be) neither barren (or) unfruitful in the
knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 

	Now love is the last one, which is God, and It tells you at that time
if you’re one of the born again, you will not be barren or unfruitful
in that knowledge! The revelation will come to you! There’s no doubt
about it.

(9)	But he that lacketh these things is blind… 

	Wretched, miserable, blind and naked, they think they’re full of the
Holy Ghost and they’re not! They’ve shaken hands, they’ve joined a
church, they’ve taken a wafer, they’ve drunk the wine, they’ve
gone through a formula, forget it! They danced in the spirit, they
talked in tongues, forget it! See, it won’t work. It’s got to be a
genuine baptism. And when it is, you’ll see this. And It says,

(9)	…he that lacketh… is blind, and cannot see afar off, (he can’t
see that he’s going right to the New Jerusalem! He’ll talk about it,
he’s not going to get there. He’s) forgotten (he’s been) purged
from his old sins. 

	And purging means like a purge, he’s gone through a purgatory! Which
a purgatory’s on earth, it’s all over! He that appears a second time
is without sin unto salvation! You’re not dealing with the sin
question anymore, it’s over! You’ve been declared the virtuous Bride
of Jesus Christ! Okay.

(10)	Wherefore… brethren, give diligence to make your calling and
election sure: 

	How do you make sure? Do you know that you’re standing here knowing
the hour in which you live? That’s what he’s talking about. Listen,
he’s not talking about a horse, “Now this horse has brown legs and
he’s got a white spot on his eye,” and then suddenly he’s talking
about, “and the wheels go round and round, and it goes choo-choo-choo,
and there’s smoke going up the chimney.” He hasn’t switched from a
horse to an iron horse! Look it, deal with subjects when you deal with
your Bible! Know what you’re talking about! Don’t go, “Huh? Huh?
Five hundred verses, huh, five hundred thoughts.” Hogwash. No listen,
we’re stupid, but God’s not. Don’t think God can’t talk. Don’t
think God can’t express Himself and a prophet some kind of idiot. 

(10)	…if ye do these things, (you’ll) never (fail):

(11)	For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the
everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

	Now he’s telling you, in this process you go into the Kingdom, this
is the ushering in! This is the entrance! Do you follow me? 

62.	Now listen, I’ve talked hard and I’ve pushed hard tonight. I
hope I haven’t got you too dizzy with what I’ve been trying to get
to you. But you understand the stature of a perfect man now we’re
getting to? Seven Church Ages had seven virtues, seven steps. But each
person goes through the same thing. Now we’re in the last one as
according to the last ages. And the last one is of brotherly kindness,
and at the same time God comes down. And God seals us in. And he’s
telling us what is happening here. 

	Now if the baptism with the Holy Ghost and this what lies within it is
already in you, you’ll not be barren concerning that knowledge! In
other words, when the spirit of wisdom and revelation comes into the
church, in order to bring you into the Millennium, you’ll know it!
I’m going to prove it, you just hang onto your hats, you think maybe,
“Well I’ve got trust, Bro. Vayle, and I think he’s saying
right.” I’m going to show you I am saying right. Or I’m going to
leave this church tonight, and you never have me back, you’d be a fool
to. Now I’ve stuck my neck out, okay? Okay, you stick your ears out.
Okay.

(12)	Wherefore I will not be…

	Now, the Kingdom of Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, he’s talking about
that man. I’ll prove it to you too. 

(12)	Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance
of these things, though you know them, and be established in the present
truth. (What truth? The truth he presented to them! Now let’s keep
moving.)

(13)	Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir
you up by putting you in remembrance;

(14)	Knowing that shortly I must put off this tabernacle, even as our
Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me. (Now that’s what he’s talking
about.)

(15)	Moreover I will endeavour that (you) may be able after my (going
away,) decease to have these things always in remembrance.

(16)	For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made
known unto you the power and (the presence) of our Lord Jesus Christ,
but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

(17)	For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there
came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved
Son, in whom I am well pleased.

(18)	And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with
him in the holy mount. 

63.	Now that’s what Peter saw! He saw the literal advent of the
Kingdom! “For there’d be standing some amongst you who shall not die
until you see the Son of man coming in His Kingdom!” I’ll go back
and read that, just in case I didn’t get it perfectly right. We’re
going to go to Matthew 16, after the great revelation. And in verse
2[8], he says:

(28)	Verily I say… There be some standing here, which shall not taste
of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.

	Now that’s what he’s talking about. He’s talking about the fact
of us getting there! Do you understand? Okay. 

	Now he explains what happened to him when he saw a preview. Now, [2
Peter 1]

We have a more sure word of prophecy; 

	That’s not so, we have the Word of prophecy made more sure! Then
what? What he saw! There’s a Word concerning it! A real prediction, a
real prophecy, of which he only saw something thrown in, in his day, to
indicate way down the road it was really going to happen according
really to the Word. This was a picture. Because He didn’t come in His
Kingdom at that time. So therefore He’s going to come.

(19)	…whereunto (you) do well that (you) take heed, (now listen,) as a
	light 	that shineth in a dark place, 

64.	It’s going to be dark. People are going to say, “Where’s the
promise of His coming? Where’s the promise of His Presence?”
They’re going to be in bad, sad shape. They’re going to be insane.
Wretched, naked and blind. They’re going to be perverted. They’re
going to be off the Word. Now listen, a light that shines. Now what is
that light shining? The light goes from the east to the west. He comes
to us in a revelation. 

(19)	…until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
(See?)

(20)	Knowing this, that no prophecy of scripture is of any private
interpretation.

(21)	For prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men
of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

	Now he’s telling you something here. When this prophecy comes to
pass, it will not be somebody simply interpreting; some man on his own,
it will be a God sent prophet! And there’s a God sent prophet
revealing the Word, then God is there revealing the Word. 

	So he tells you when that hour comes, “I want you to know
something.” He said, “You make your calling and election sure, on
the grounds when that man comes you’ll recognize it! And you’ll know
that the prophet’s here and God is here to take you on in.” And at
that time, brotherly kindness is pretty sticky. 

	So it’s not character. It’s not gifts. It’s not virtues. It’s
not this, it’s not obedience, it’s not a hundred and one things.
It’s God with the prophet. The sure Word, that God’s Word don’t
fail. And people are trying to make His Word come to pass. Let’s get
this flat! If you’re a legalist here tonight, you just stay legalist
and try to pull yourself up by your bootstraps. 

65.	Let me go over here, I always have a trouble, you know, a little
mental block every now and then, the only thing I can do is to see if I
can find it here in the Scripture. Yeah, It says here, [Romans 3]

(23)	For all have sinned, and (are falling) short of the glory of God; 

	And I keep repeating what Dr. Newell said. That’s an exact example of
a man standing on the wharf of New York trying to jump over to the wharf
on the other side of the Atlantic, maybe in France, Calais or some 
seaport. And he said, “The trouble is this, the man that jumps the
furthest is in greatest danger of losing his life.” And that’s what
the legalist is. 

	Peter’s trying to tell us something is going to happen to make you
know you are in the election, that you recognize the hour in which you
live. And when God reveals His Own Word by manifesting It, you know this
is that time. And he said there, “You’ve made your calling and
election sure, and the Daystar will arise in your heart.”
Illumination! The eyes of your heart will begin to perceive the
revelation is there, and you stand there, and the next thing is the
Resurrection, the dead coming out of the ground, and you getting out of
here with them. That’s what’s it’s all about. You bet it is.
That’s what 1 Corinthians 13:9 is all about. But when do people
receive it? 

	I want to tell you something brother/sister. People say, “Oh God’s
a living God, He’s not dead.” Ha, well the people who say that are
mostly dead. Because their voice has a hollow ring. You talk about a
prophet coming on the scene, Elijah, they sneer, and they say, “Well
Dowie thought he was, and this man thought he was, and oh my.” 

66.	Well just a minute, let’s go back and deny the virgin birth of
Jesus Christ. Why did they turn him down? They knew all about virgin
births. Oh they knew all about a virgin birth, it was when a monk
desired a lovely woman, so he said, “Now you must worship God.” And
they had a trapdoor so the lovely young virgins came, and the monks
would come like apparitions, have intercourse, and they’d have babies,
and say, “I’m a virgin woman, and I have a son of God.” They had a
bastard. Then let’s deny the virgin birth of Jesus Christ, because of
that hogwash and clap, trap, and balderdash and filth and mug,
corruption and God knows what. Let’s take everything and throw it down
a drain, because there always has been a precedence! Anybody knows that.
I don’t care if a million Dowies stood up. I don’t care if a million
said, “I’m Elijah.” There has got to be a real Elijah somewhere,
somehow, or God’s …?... throw it in the garbage, if His Word’s
wrong, He’s wrong in one place, He’s wrong every place, who needs a
God like that? 

	Why listen, brother/sister, if we were made in some kind of an image,
you know as well as I do that that image longs for somebody who’s got
a Word that is good. And I’m going to tell you, let’s face it, our
word is no good. That’s why we long all the more for somebody who’s
Word is good. But the tragic thing is as soon as somebody’s Word that
is good, which is God, comes on the scene, we suddenly have our own good
word and now aren’t we wonderful. 

	It’s like a husband and wife. Get them to a marriage counselor, and
usually they’re both a couple of liars. Suddenly she’s the virtuous
doll that never poured hot water on him. Or refused to make his
breakfast. And suddenly he’s the virtuous husband who never said an
unkind word, but he was immaculate in all that he did, and they’re
both a couple of rotten, stinking liars. Then if she’s honest enough
to say, “Look I boobooed,” he’ll say, “Well I didn’t, because
I’m so wonderful.” And if he said, “I apologize, I’ve been a
skunk,” she said, “But I’ve been a living doll, a real pussy
cat.” 

67.	That’s man, sure it’s man. Get them single, together, whichever
way, they’re liars. Everyone if he’s got an ounce of something longs
for honesty, longs for truth, longs for something that stands up, and
the tragic thing is when God does it, they can’t recognize it. But
Peter said, “Make your calling and election sure, there is coming a
time when what I saw is going to literally come to pass, and when it
does, remember this, the Word of God is not by private interpretation,
God Himself will bring It to pass and do it, and testify to It. And at
that time when you see it, that Daystar, that Light begins to rise.
Begins to rise, the eyes of your heart illumined, and you begin to know
what is the hope of His calling, the riches of His inheritance in the
saints, and you see the dead come out of the ground, and shortly you are
changed, and you’re away in a Rapture.” 

	Now brother/sister, that’s what it’s all about. I hope you
understand why He is here. He’s been here literally, filling people
with the Holy Ghost for two thousand solid years. But He has not been
here for two thousand years as God individual, the great Prophet, with
the Son of man ministry to be given to the Gentiles. And to show Himself
to the Gentiles as He did to Israel. He hasn’t done it! It wasn’t
done two thousand years ago to the Gentiles, it only started, but this
is to the Gentiles now. And I believe He’s here tonight, and we
recognize Him here tonight. And we believe that everything He said is
absolutely true. And we believe it’s just before the fading away, the
great Sodom fire and all those things, we understand. And we know that
Billy Graham, a wonderful man of God, Oral Roberts, fine man of God,
these men, are blinding the whole world by preaching the Cross when they
should be preaching the fact that the Cross brings you to this! 

	But my brother/sister, we’re always on a journey and never getting
there! You know what you’re like? The person, we’re like people ever
learning and never coming to the knowledge of the truth. There has got
to be a time when things end; this is that hour. It has been proven, the
Daystar has arisen. Light and virtue shines in our hearts and we lay it
all on Him and say, “We know our calling and election sure, because we
know the hour of the ushering in to the Millennium,” we stand here and
say, “Jesus paid it all, all to Him I owe; sin left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow, and now He’s come to take us.” Well what
do you want? Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved and saves a
wretch like me. I once was lost, yup, but now I’m found; was blind,
but now I see. Sure, ‘tis grace that made my heart to fear, but grace
my fears relieved. 

68.	That’s the way it’s always done, brother/sister, knowing
you’re in His Presence, He brings that peace and joy and
understanding, virtuous child of God. No fear of guilt; no guilt, no
fear. What does it? Only God can do it. Why? Because the Daystar has
risen within our hearts, light has broken upon the scenery; sure, the
world’s insane out there, they don’t understand a true sanity. And
the false church doesn’t understand. Trying to bring things to pass in
their own power. What do they do with schools and things that is there,
little institutions that they use, one or two hours a week, spending
literally billions of dollars, and people out there starving, and never
heard a bit of the gospel. And then they wonder why we stand back and
say, “Well it’s all over anyway.” 

	Well they say, “Just a minute, you have no missionary, you have no
witness, you have no this and no that.” 

	What about them? What if they took their combined billions? Huh? They
just make a two-fold more child of hell, this is the last hour. You
can’t do what God is not doing. The atonement is limited. The number
is limited. It’s all the doings of God is restoring His Own order;
there is an order that Jesus died for. I want to preach on that
sometime. The word ‘cosmos’ isn’t a bad word, it means
‘order’. And God so loved His Own order, He died for it. He’s
going to bring us back to it. And people don’t want a divine order.
They want this order and that order. That’s disorder, my
brother/sister, I want order.               [blank spot on tape after
changing tape ]

	…that You came, sent upon this earth as the only begotten Son of God,
to die for the sins of the world, that life blood flowing out and the
very life coming back upon us, that we all sons of God identified by the
rebirth. And now standing here at the last day, knowing what that has
done for us, knowing what You’re doing now for us, opens our hearts
and minds to realize this great thing and thank You for It, Lord, and we
know that day by day we’re coming more from the negative, that little
bit You gave us, into the real positive, which means that what came down
here as a seed is blossoming forth into the full fruit, and we’re
thankful for It, Lord, at this hour. We pray that not one of us, Lord,
shall ever, ever think in terms of the negative again, shall ever think
in terms, Lord, of anything but is positive and know that this has been
manifested and proven, that this is it, the ushering in, what more do we
want? 

	Lord, if any man or any woman tonight wants some own private sign from
heaven, let that heart repent, O God, and understand that’s where the
Pharisees were, the signs are in, it’s all over. But the last little
bit, perhaps the last one being child-trained, perhaps the last few to
still come in. I don’t know, but, Lord, I know… what can I say,
Lord, to this except God be praised, let God be true and every man a
liar. Let God have His way, let Him be glorified. We just count
ourselves exceptionally fortunate, Lord, that we could even stand by and
see a little bit of light, to know this hour is here, to know these
things, to realize the richness of the grace of mercy, this revelation
that hung there for two thousand years, to be fully exposed, and now we
know we’re here, last prophet come down to Gentiles, last one taken
in, gathered the people, and now, Lord, we know that You’re our
Leader. You here, Lord, are going to take us in, You’re the Captain of
the host, You’re the One that’s putting us into divine order. We
thank You for it and praise You for it. Our hearts, Lord, are aglow with
the wonderment of what You’ve done. 

	May there not cease to be one here but praises You eternally with the
joy unspeakable and full of glory, until we speak, Lord, and stand there
before Your Presence to cast hopefully any crown we may receive by grace
and throw at Your feet, to honor and praise Your great Name, and be part
of that great heavenly anthem, reverberating there, pulsating as the
very doors of the temple in the vibrations of the wonderment and
righteousness of God, Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, which was and
is and which shall be. Lord we praise Thy great Name, and we believe
it’s already started on earth. Unto Thee we give the praise and the
honor, in Jesus’  Name. Amen. 

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