Blessing and Cursing

The Parallelism of Scripture

March 24, 1991

	Shall we pray: Heavenly Father, we acknowledge Your wonderful Presence
this morning, Lord. We appreciate it so much that You’ve made Yourself
known to us. As the prophet said, You didn’t only go down to Egypt
with Moses, manifesting Yourself in signs and wonders, but there upon
Mount Sinai You showed Yourself. And even today, Lord, he acknowledged
that that supernatural picture showed Your Presence, the glory attendant
upon Your Own personal Presence, and we believe also that that same
Glory, that same Presence, that same Rock, that same Pillar of Fire,
leads us into the Millennium. And we just pray this morning, Lord, as we
study Your Word, You’ll receive glory unto Yourself. 

	And we, Lord, will be also wonderfully glorified by Your Presence to
the extent that You reveal the true Word to us, and the true meaning,
the true understanding. And we’ll give You the glory in Jesus’ Name.
Amen. 

	You may be seated. 

1.	Now this morning I want to bring a message on “Blessing and
Cursing”. And it was my original intention to entitle the message,
“The Parallelism of Scripture,” of which blessing and cursing is one
of the main divisions, or one of the precepts. But, since blessing and
cursing is much more graphic and explicit to the point which we are
considering, we’ll just leave it entitled as is: “Blessing and
Cursing”. 

	Now, since this most definite law has God as its author and executor,
we first will make a study to the end that we will see wherein God
blesses, and wherein He curses. And then, of course, this must of
necessity deal with those conditions that evoke either the blessing or
the curse. So, you see, God authors it. In other words He sets it forth
in His precepts, He establishes it, and He also, then, must be the
executor of it…He executes it. And we will see, then, under what
conditions blessings come and cursing come. 

2.	Now the Scripture that we’re going to look at to get our basis will
be very, very lengthy. We’re going to read an awful lot, but to begin
with, we’re going to look at just a few Scripture in order to set the
tenor of our message and show the veracity of it. Deuteronomy 32:39:

(39)	See now that I, Even I, am he, and there is no other God with me: I
kill,  I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can
deliver out of my hand. 

	And verse 43:

(43)	Rejoice, ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood
of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will
be merciful unto his land, and to his people.

	Again, in Joel 2:11 and 14:

(11)	And the Lord shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is
very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the
Lord is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?

(12)	Therefore also now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to me with all
your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:

(13)	And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord
your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great
kindness, and repenteth he of evil.

(14)	Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing
behind him; even a meal offering and a drink offering unto the Lord God.

	I could comment quite a bit about that, but I’m not going to take
time this morning. 

3.	Then, in Malachi 4:

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

(2)	But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise
with healing in his wings; and you shall go forth, and grow up as calves
of the stall. 

(3)	And you shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under
the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD
of hosts. 

(4)	Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him
in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments. 

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

(6)	And he shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the
hearts of the children back to their fathers, lest I come and smite the
earth with a curse.

	Then, in also you read in Mt 3:12:

(12)	Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor,
and gather his wheat in the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with
unquenchable fire. 

	Then, in Ps 58:10-11:

(10)	The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall
wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. (That’s the same as “He
shall tread over the ashes of the wicked.”) 

(11)	So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the
righteous: verily he is a God that judges the earth.

4.	Now there are many more Scripture than these, but these are random
Scriptures taken from, as I say, many other Scriptures. There are
actually multitudes of them that show that God is a God of righteous
judgment, and He will certainly divide the righteous from the wicked;
and He will then deal with them accordingly, as it is shown here in the
first Psalm that Bro. Branham actually gave great emphasis to this hour:

(1)	Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly,
nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful. 

(2)	But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he
meditate day and night. 

(3)	And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that
bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither;
and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. 

(4)	The ungodly are not so: but they are like the chaff which the wind
driveth away. 

(5)	Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners
in the congregation of the righteous. 

(6)	For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the
ungodly shall perish.

	And, of course, he’ll perish with it. And you’ll notice, that since
you’re talking of judgment here, you’re actually looking at
Revelation 22, where the Tree of Life has its roots over both sides of
the river; and you’re looking way down the road to New Jerusalem. 

5.	Now we’re going to have a very lengthy reading, and I’m not going
to read as fast as I normally do, so we might be here quite a while this
morning. I’m going to read three or four chapters out of the Book of
Deuteronomy. But, before reading, I want to first caution you not to be
alarmed at a long reading in the Book of Deuteronomy for our subject,
because primarily and emphatically, Bro. Branham mentioned Deuteronomy
as concerning our exodus and passing over. In other words it applies
greatly to this hour, not just typing, but giving us specific
information. 

	And you’ll notice he mentioned that, taking it from Mal 4:1-6, which
we read concerning Horeb, when It said, “Remember Horeb,” which I
understand is the same as Mount Sinai, but Bro. Branham mentioning that
Deuteronomy means ‘twice given’. And I know he concurred with men
like Bunyan, who brought out the fact that, when Moses brought the Word
regiven on the Mount Horeb, It was all grace and blessing. 

	So therefore, it is not to be confusing to the Bride that Bro. Branham
mentions it. So therefore, we find that, as Daniel’s seventieth week
was mandatory to the understanding of the Seals, so the Book of
Deuteronomy is of specific importance in this hour previous to, or just
subsequent to, our passing over into the Promised Land. 

6.	Now we are facing 2 Th 1:10, which cannot in any way be separated
from Gal 1:6-9, Rev 22:10-20, which is based upon Acts 3:19-21 and
spoken of by Peter and confirmed by Paul. Now I’m going to read that
to you. The idea there is, then, that what we’re looking at is the
grace and favor of Almighty God at the time of the passing over, wherein
Egypt was literally destroyed as a great kingdom: their firstborn died,
their land was left in confusion, and Israel went over into the promised
land. 

	So, we go to 2 Thessalonians, then, and we read in verse 10:

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

	Now the major thesis here is that the testimony of Paul was believed in
that day. And there’s nothing else you can rest upon, because that’s
what the apostle Paul said. So there’s no use stretching our
imagination and saying, “Well, I believe in Jesus. Hallelujah!”

	“I believe in the Holy Trinity. Hallelujah!”

	“I believe in this…” and “I believe in that…” 

	That’s not going to do you any good, see? It’s like you are
stranded on the desert and say, “Well, it would be great if a herd of
camels came by, or this came by.” 

	Well, nothing is coming by. So, until we come to this place of
understanding, we are building on the sands of destruction. All right.

7. 	Now Paul the apostle distinctly said, “Because my testimony among
you was believed in that day.” Okay, let’s go back to his testimony
and see what we’ve got to come up against. Galatians 1:6-9:

(6)	I marvel that you are so soon removed from him that called you into
the grace of Messiah unto another gospel. 

	Now, right away he said, “I marvel that you do not hold me up in the
esteem, whereby I am placed by God.”

	This man sounds very bold. And I can see where he would go over like a
lead balloon—just like Moses went over—just exactly like Jesus went
over. Lead balloons. Who needs them? Who wants them? 

	“He’s just a man. In fact, I’m greater.”

	Every time somebody says that, he’s saying, “Look at me.”

	How well I know what people are saying. I saw it in Bro. Branham’s
life. I see it in everybody’s life that’s used of God.

8.	(7)	Which is not another (Is not ‘another’—not another
messenger, not another message. There isn’t any other. It’s like
God, “There is none beside me, there is none with me. I am God, and I
am God all alone.” That’s it.)

	That’s so hard for people to get away from Trinitarianism. There’s
one God, period! See? Get your hackles up. Don’t be afraid to stand
with God and His unique oneness. 

(7)	…But there’ll be some that trouble you…

	“You that are troubled, rest with us.” What do you think is
troubling them? The religious people with something other than what Paul
gave them. It’s simple, when you see it. 

(7)	…And would pervert the gospel of Christ. (Of Messiah the
Deliverer, the coming King.)

9.	(8)	But though we, or an angel from heaven (Paul says, “Though
I…”) or an angel from heaven preach any other gospel…

	What about Joseph Smith and the Mormons? A fellow wrote me a letter the
other day. He said, “What about this man, Buck, from Idaho?”

	I never heard of him. The angel, Michael, was supposed to have come to
him—the archangel, Michael. Can you conceive of any preacher in this
Message even giving one moment to that clap-trap, balderdash junk from
Satan? 

10.	You know what? Our kids were so much like their mother; they
outdistanced her for being picky, because she can’t stand anything
around food…this and that. She’s meticulous. I don’t understand
why. Food’s food; your stomach will take care of it. 

	So, one of our kids breathed on the other kid’s cake. 

	“They breathed on my cake! I won’t eat it!” 

	Stupid little jerks! Yet Christians allow preachers and people to come
by and puke right in their food. Bible says so. I don’t understand.
Maybe I do; maybe I don’t.

11.	(9)	…If he preach anything else, let him be accursed. (The curse
of God.)

	Why? Because he dared to change one Word, or insinuate himself into a
position that wasn’t granted him. Let it sink in what I’m saying. If
you think you’re called to something and get in somebody else’s way
that’s carrying the ball, the Bible says you’re accursed. 

	“Well, I don’t know if that applies to me.”

	Before you stands the only man to whom William Branham said,
“You’re the only business agent who ever put me forward.”

	Before the White Throne I’m telling you something, and get this out
of your craws or into your craws: I served him, and never got in his
way. I did my best to help him—not grab the ball and run. 

	The Bible says this fellow here is accursed. 

(9)	As I said before, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than
that which you have received, let him be accursed. 

12.	Now Paul said: at the end time that testimony indubitably given,
vindicated, (It would have to be.) the signs and wonders presenting him
to the people as a spokesman—not signs and wonders that follow the
Word—but signs and wonders that are before the Word! 

	You understand what I’m saying? I want you people here to be rock
bottom, because that day is fast approaching when you’re going to come
against Lee Vayle at the White Throne, and I’ll be coming right
against you. And, don’t think I won’t, kid, because I’m not
fooling. You may be fooling, but I’m not. I’m not standing here as a
hypocrite and saying, “Well, Lee Vayle knows it all. Oh, bless God,
he’s so sincere. Oh, bless God, he’s so sincere. Oh, bless God,
he’s got no doubts.”

	I’m not saying that. I’m just trying to tell you: I’m doing my
dead level best to preach what William Branham preached, taking it
straight from this Word and pointing at you, so that, if I do have to
stand in the judgment, I am not going to have to stand for many lashes.
But I could at least pray God for quite a quick annihilation on the
grounds that I’ve held you to one thing that was vindicated, and not
to myself or any interpretation I’ve got of it, but there is only one
Message, and at the end time we positively see this. 

13.	Now, listen: we’re going to go back to the Book of Revelation
where the Bible must coordinate. There’s only one Holy Ghost; and, if
He gives it to six thousand men, it will be the same Word. There will
never be one jarring incidence of, what you might call, a contradiction.
It can appear to be so, but it isn’t so. 

	Now he says here: at the end time, at the opening of the Seals, because
It says in Rev 22:10: 

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

(11)	He that is unjust, is unjust still (and so on). 

	And then, It says, “Blessed are they that wash their robes.” You
can see they go to the Tree of Life, which is immortality. They go right
past the White Throne to the Holy City. And he says at the very end:
“For I testify to every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of
this Book (the unsealed Book), let him add a Word, he gets the plagues;
take away a Word, his name is off the record.” 

	And what? Cursed! See? Now we understand what we’re looking at. Now
this is based upon Paul’s statement, corroborated by John the
Revelator, who was not a prophet, but he was a scribe and he had
visions. Okay.

14.	Over here in the Book of Acts, the third chapter, you will hear
exactly what Peter says after the day of Pentecost. In verse 19 he says
here:

(19)	…When the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the
Lord;

(20)	(Even) he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was appointed unto
you:

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

	And he tells you right here: there’s got to be a restoration. Well,
certainly, there has to be a restoration, because Paul tells you that,
in the very First Church Age, in the Second Book to the Corinthians,
they’ve already left the Word, and they’ve already gone to men.

	Even Peter did not have the Word for that hour. People get all mixed up
about Peter: Peter did not have the revelation. No way! There’s one
person that had it, that was the apostle Paul. And he said, “I was as
one born out of due season, and that One appeared to me in the Flame of
Fire.” He said, “Who art you, Lord?”

	And He said, “I am Jehovah-Savior.”

	Jehovah of the Old Testament; Jesus of the New. He didn’t say, “I
was the one walking in the streets,” as though talking about a human
body. He was not talking about that. He was talking about the One of
whom the human body said, “The Father in me doeth the works.”
That’s how you had Emanuel, then God made flesh and that One came
back. And that One, Paul said, was the same One that led Israel as a
cloud by day, a fire by night, and a rock that brought forth the water
and the manna and all. 

15.	Now this is identical to what It says in the Book of Hebrews. Now
I’m repeating this, because I can’t repeat it too often. Over here
in Hebrews 12: 

(22)	You are not come to (Mount Sinai. No, what are you come to?) You
are come (over here) to (verse 22) Mount Sion, (This is the end of the
journey.) unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and
to an innumerable company of angels,

(23)	To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are
written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all.

	Now, notice; he mentions it twice: the living God, the Judge. Now Paul
the Apostle said, “He is going to judge the world by my Gospel.” He
also said in one place, “He’s going to judge the world by one Christ
Jesus.” And, as Bro. Branham said, “He is the Word.” That’s why
you can’t separate Rhema and Logos.

(23)	…The Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

(24)	And to Jesus the mediator (And notice in there, he places Jesus
distinctly apart from God the Judge. Why? Because the Lamb is on the
Throne, the Pillar of Fire is above the Throne—not three Gods, but God
and the Son of God.) and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better
things than that of Abel.

(25)	See that you refuse not him that speaketh. (Who is doing the
speaking? See? God. The same One that appeared to Moses has to be the
same One that appeared to Paul, has to be the same One that appears at
the end time.)

16.	Now I know you’re not going to convince the world out there. Who
cares about the world? I saw a vindicated man and heard him. Eight souls
made the ark. Don’t try to make it eight hundred or eight thousand or
eight million. Don’t get your hopes up. When God gave me that peculiar
dream and used the word ‘attrition’, I didn’t know one thing about
it, but I know more than ever: we are dying off, and I rightly expect
that I shall die. 

	And the ranks being depleted shall not be filled! There’ll be a few
young people go in; and, if you think you’re going in with your
disobedience to your parents, and living the way you’re living, and
wanting to run away from home, and do this and that, I can tell you
right now: I would wonder if your names are on any kind of a book. 

	My tongue isn’t scathing the young people because I hold them up in
disrespect; but the point is: you better smarten up, because you are
going to be judged by God, because judgment is in the land! Certainly it
is. Nobody is going to escape. So, quit fooling yourself.

17.	Now: [Hebrews 12]

(25)	Refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused
him that spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape, if we turn away
from him that speaks from heaven:

(26)	Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying,
Yet once more I shake not the earth only but also heaven.

(27)	And once more, signifies the removing of those things that are
shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be
shaken may remain.

(28)	Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved.

	What’s He doing? He’s bringing that Word back and shaking
everything out of that Word that doesn’t belong there. Remember, when
He went forth sowing the first time, it was pure virgin; and a man came
sneaking behind and planting after him. That’s where the evil came
from. See? Someone came. So, there’s going to be a shaking—a tearing
loose. 

18.	Listen, you take the seals off something; what’s inside is exposed
and can fall apart. All right. You take the seals off the Bible, the
whole thing stands exposed, and you get a picture now of what’s going
to be shaken out of it, because “His fan is in His hand, and He will
thoroughly purge His floor, and will gather His Wheat into the
garner.” [Luke 3:17]

	There’s going to be a shaking, It says. And the shaking has got to
start with the Word, because there’s where it went wrong. Bro. Branham
said it. I agree a hundred percent. I said, “Our God is a consuming
fire.” You can’t beat it. Every single place in Scripture, it says
the same thing. There is positively a cursing and a blessing, and there
absolutely is a ground for it. Now the vindicated prophet said, “Just
think: the same Pillar of Fire that brought the Word to Paul is here
revealing It.” 

19.	So, we’re going to get back and read slowly. This may be a long
session, but that’s all right. Beginning, then, in Deuteronomy 27,
which is twice-given, and they’re going over now. They’re going to
go over.

(1)	And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying,
Keep all the commandments which I command you this day. 

	Now you know, and I know, there was no such thing as Israel keeping all
the commandments. There wasn’t one that did it; and, if there ever had
have been one person that did it, it still would not have done him any
good, because no commandment gives life. 

	You say to the cow, “I command you, cow, to have a calf.” 

	Unless she’s mated with the bull, she ain’t gonna have a calf.

	You say, “Why, we’ll use the artificial method.”

	Still doesn’t matter. She’s got to have the sperm. Don’t try to
beg around the question. You’re not going to get it.

20.	You get light from a stream of light. And there is no such thing as
a command. God Himself didn’t even command: He breathed into Adam the
breath of life. So, there’s no such thing as getting a commandment.
So, to say you obey all the commandments, what does it mean then? It
means you acknowledge every single solitary Word; and don’t you dare
add a word; and don’t you dare take away, because that’s exactly
what Moses says when he started the Book of Deuteronomy—Deuteronomy 1,
Deuteronomy 8, whatever it is. (But you’ll find it.) You’ll not add
to It, and you’ll not take from It; or you’ll get the curses. So
therefore, the secret to get the blessings is stay with the Word of God,
and that must start with the pure acknowledgement, number one, of God
Himself, His messenger, and His Message.

(2)	And it shall be on the day when you pass over Jordan unto the land
which the LORD thy God giveth thee, that thou shalt set thee up great
stones, and plaister them with plaister: (You know, bring them together,
so they don’t fall apart.)

(3)	And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when thou
passed over, that thou mayest go into the land which the LORD thy God
giveth thee, a land that flows with milk and honey; as the LORD God of
thy fathers promised thee. (Now there you are, right there. The keeping
of the Word is to put all those Words in one place, get them there and
pass over.)

(4)	Therefore it shall be when you’ve gone over Jordan, that you may
set up these stones, which I command you this day, in mount Ebal, and
you shall plaister them with plaister. (Now Ebal, of course, is the
place they stood with the cursing and blessing.)

(5)	And there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an altar
of stones: thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon them.

(6)	And thou shalt build the altar of the LORD thy God of whole stones:
and thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD thy God:

(7)	And thou shalt offer peace offerings, and shalt eat there, and
rejoice before the LORD thy God.

(8)	And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law very
plainly. (Notice: it repeats over and over and over… “Write it in
stone,” an engraving tool on stone which would be iron on stone that
could be written on.)

21.	Now, hey, you’re not going to get away with writing on granite or
some kind of flint like that. What would you write on normally?
Sandstone. What am I talking about? The hearts of men were made out of
sand. You can’t write on something that can’t receive a writing.
Why, you’d need a jackhammer. And, when you use jackhammers and things
like that, engraving tools, and you put it on granite, what are you
doing? You’re making tombstones. Have you ever seen people make
tombstones? Come on. They didn’t have instruments like mechanical
instruments. 

	So, this has to be some kind of a stone that’s soft—stone you can
write upon. See? Stone… Hey, you know right away that Cain was not
human. You couldn’t write on his heart if you tried. There’s no
place in some people for the Word of God. It’s not there. Come on, the
Bible says so. I’m not trying to be tough on people. It’s just the
truth. 

22.	Deuteronomy 27:

(8) 	And write it…plainly.

(9) 	And Moses and the priests the Levites spake unto all Israel,
saying, Take heed, and hearken, O Israel; this day thou art become the
people of the LORD thy God. (On one thing, because they had the Word.) 

(10) 	Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and do
his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee today.

	Now I know that sounds like a terrible, terrible thing to put that on
the people, but Paul himself said, “Our fathers couldn’t bear it.”
They weren’t meant to bear it. It was a schoolmaster pointing them to
Christ. All they had to do was believe it. See? And you know as well as
I do, if the blood of bulls and goats could take care of David in his
sin, and Solomon in his, then what about the blood of Christ today for
us? A few washing of pots and pans and they went down the road
skipping…happy, happy, happy! Christ sheds His Blood …people are
supposed to be full of the Holy Ghost…humph, humph, humph, humph,
humph, humph, humph… “My God, let me be.”

	Something wrong somewhere. The light’s not leaking through. You know
why? Because we’ve been taught wrong, taught wrong, taught wrong,
taught wrong, and taught wrong. 

23.	Moses charged the people the same day, saying:

(12)	These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye
are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and
Joseph, and Benjamin:

(13)	And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuban, Gad, and
Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

(14) 	And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all the men of Israel
with a loud voice,

(15) 	Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an
abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and
putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say,
Amen.

(16) 	Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. (In
other words, listen to what they’ve got to say.) And they’ll say,
Amen.

(17) 	Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark. And all the
people shall say, Amen.

(18) 	Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way. And
all the people shall say, Amen.

(19) 	Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger,
fatherless, and widow. 

(20) 	Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife; because he
uncovereth his father's skirt. 

(21)	Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast. 

(22) 	Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his
father, or the daughter of his mother.

(23) 	Cursed be he that lieth with his mother in law. 

(24) 	Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly. 

(25) 	Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. 

(26) 	Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do
them. And all the people shall say, Amen. (Every single time they had to
voice the “Amen,” say, “So be it, so be it, so be it.” Like they
said, “His Blood be upon our heads.”)

24.	Deuteronomy 28:

(1)	It shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the
voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments
which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on
high above all nations of the earth:

(2)	And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if
thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God. 

	Do you notice in here what It says: “If they diligently observe them,
and do that which is in their power to do…” And, remember; the way
of remedy: when people sinned, they had a remedy which God set forth in
an ordinance, looking forward to Christ. That’s all they had to do.
And It says, “The blessings shall come upon thee and overtake thee.”
In other words the very life in the Word of the blessing will literally
force itself through the human instrument to come forth, manifesting
within that person the very life and the Word that’s in that promise.

(3)	Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the
field.

(4)	Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, the fruit of thy ground, the
fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, the flocks of thy sheep.

(5)	Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.

(6)	Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed when thou go
out.

(7)	The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be
smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and
flee before thee seven ways.

(8)	The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses,
and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in
the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

(9) 	The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he
hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD
thy God, and walk in his ways.

(10)	And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the
name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee.

25.	What is the first way that God gives His Word? Vindicated prophet.
It sets him and the Word apart. But people want to rise up and say,
“Oh, I’ve got something, too.”

	Do you see where Bro. Branham was coming from in all of his preaching?
If you don’t understand the man and the Message as one and the same,
(or the messenger and the Message…if you can’t understand that,) you
haven’t come to where you’re supposed to be. You’re still going to
fall around, you’re going to cut each other’s throat. You’re going
to be doing things you shouldn’t do, because you get lifted up. 

	Do you understand what I’m saying? Come on, you’ve got to start
with how God does things. Moses understood His ways. It didn’t say
Moses did all His commandments; Moses didn’t. Nobody ever did. The
only one that ever lived the Word was Jesus. He’s the only one that
could do it, because, you see, Life does not come by a law; Life comes
by God—the Living God in Whom is Life. And it’s the association with
the Life that does it, and it’s not in the protein. We’ll get into
that, too.

26.	Now:

(9)	The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto himself as he
swore unto you…

(10) 	And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the
name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee.

	Now, why? Because he said they’re such a blessed people. They come
against thee one way, and they depart seven ways. They’re decimated. 

(11) 	And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of
thy body, in the fruit of thy cattle, in the fruit of thy ground, in the
land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee. 

(12) 	The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to
give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of
thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not
borrow.

(13) 	And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou
shalt be above only, never from beneath; and if that thou hearken unto
the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to
observe and to do them:

(14) 	And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command
thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods
to serve them.

27.	Every place where a person did, there was a way that God would bless
him, but if he went against anything, there was a sacrifice there.
He’s not laying upon the people something which is intolerable in the
sense that it could not be acquired by them.

(15) 	It shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of
the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes
which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon
thee, and overtake thee:

(16) 	Cursed in the city, and cursed in the field.

(17) 	Cursed in basket and in store.

(18) 	Cursed the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the
increase of thy kine, and the increase of the flocks.

(19) 	Cursed when you come in, and cursed when you go out.

(20) 	And the LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke,
in all that thou settest thine hand for to do, until thou be destroyed,
and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings,
whereby thou hast forsaken me.

28.	Now I want you to keep all these things in mind that He’s talking
to Israel, and I will bring you to a certain place in Scripture that I
want you to remember this. It will clear the whole thing up for you, to
begin to see something here.

 (21) 	The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he
have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.

(22) 	The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever,
and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the
sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee
until thou perish. 

(23) 	And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth
that is under thee shall be iron.

(24) 	The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from
heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

(25) 	The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou
shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and
shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth. 

(26) 	And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto
the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.

(27) 	The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the
emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be
healed. (Certainly these diseases can’t be healed.)

(28) 	The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and
astonishment of heart:

(29) 	And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness,
and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed
and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.

(30) 	Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her:
thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt
plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof. 

(31) 	Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat
thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face,
and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine
enemies, no one can rescue them. 

(32) 	Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given to other people, and
thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long:
and there shall be no might in thine hand.

(33) 	The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which
thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed
alway:

(34) 	So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou
shalt see.

(35) 	The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a
sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top
of thy head.

(36) 	The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over
thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and
there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.

(37) 	And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword,
among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.

(38) 	Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather
but little in; for the locust shall consume it. (Now notice: he says,
“God is leading them.”)

(39) 	Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither
drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.

(40) 	Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou
shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his
fruit.

(41) 	Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy
them; for they shall go into captivity. 

(42) 	All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume. 

(43) 	The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very
high; and thou shalt come down very low.

(44) 	He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be
the head, and thou shalt be the tail.

(45) 	Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue
thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou
hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his
commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:

29.	Now, remember; right at the beginning: in the First Church Age you
saw they turned from the messenger to another person, and they turned
from the Word. I don’t care what you think you are obeying. If
you’re not obeying the Word of God with a true revelation, you are not
worshiping and serving God, because Bro. Branham categorically said,
under vindication, “You can neither worship nor serve God except
through a prophet.” It cannot be done, and that’s especially this
last hour. So, you can see what these people are doing and what’s come
upon them. 

(46) 	And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon
thy seed for ever.

(47) 	Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and
with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things.

30.	Now, where did they get soured? They got soured on the Word.
That’s the whole problem…they got soured on the Word. 

	Say, “Well, they got soured because this happened.” 

	Why did this happen? You got soured on the big blister on your hand.
Why did you put it on the stove, idiot? People get soured, not from what
they think. Eve got from behind the Word; she was already gone. The
First Church Age, the same thing. Why, Bro. Branham… I know he
deliberately called Eve ‘the prostitute’. Boy, that made people mad.
Well, what was she? Sweet little innocent girl? True. Where did she mess
up? Left the Word; changed one Word. From then on the kingdom was
replaced by hell on earth, because that’s all the hell we’re going
to get is right here. 

	Talk about purgatory… This is our purging right here. Catholics are
messed up on their crazy doctrine. That’s their business. I’ve got
no fight with them. They can do what they want. Our fight is right here
in this church: Are we going on with God or not? See?

31.	(48) 	Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall
send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in
want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until
he have destroyed thee.

(49) 	The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end
of the  earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou
shalt not understand; (That’s the Roman Empire, of course.)

(50) 	A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person
of the old, nor show favour to the young: 

(51) 	And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy
land, until thou be destroyed: and thou shall not leave thee either
corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep,
until he have destroyed thee.

(52) 	And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and
fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land:
and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land,
which the LORD thy God hath given thee. (That happened under Titus,
didn’t it?)

(53) 	And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, (That happened
under Titus.) the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD
thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith
thine enemies shall distress thee: 

(54) 	So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his
eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom,
and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:

(55) 	So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his
children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the
siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress
thee in all thy gates. (In other words they turned cannibals.)

(56) 	The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure
to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and
tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and
toward her son, and toward her daughter,

(57) 	And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet,
and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for
want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine
enemy shall distress thee in thy gates. (Now, how desperate can you
get?)

(58) 	If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are
written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful
name, THE LORD THY GOD.

32.	Now you see right away you have to come to the place through
vindication: “I am dealing with God, period.” This is what’s
happened to Israel. They couldn’t take it. They took the Korahs, the
Dathans, the Abirams. Miriam rose up and said, “Well, bless God, I
diapered this kid, and I put him in the Nile. I’m the one that did so
and so; if you’ve got anything, you ought to praise me.” 

	Oh, she worshiped in the Holy Ghost. She took her little old timbrel
out, her tambourine, you know, like the Salvation Army and the
Pentecost, “Bang-bang,” “whoop-whoop,” you know. She had a great
time telling who she was. 

	Just like Bro. Branham said, “Those disciples, back there, said,
‘We ate with him; we slept with him; we fished with him.’”

	Paul had the revelation. See? Recognized God in a man. But people
can’t do it. That’s why they couldn’t take Bro. Branham. All
right.

33.	Let’s start on Deuteronomy 29, because these have gone into
idolatry, and there’s no way that they’re not going to get out of
their problems, no matter what they do. They can seek treaties with
people; it won’t do them any good.

(1) 	These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses
to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the
covenant which he made with them in Horeb.

(2)	And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen
all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto
Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;

(3) 	The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and
those great miracles:

(4) 	Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to
see, and ears to hear, unto this day.

	Sets it all out there. He said, “Even if I do tell you, unless I do
something about it, you’re not going to understand it.” What did
Bro. Branham tell you? 

(5) 	I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not
waxen old upon you, your shoes are not waxen old upon your foot.

(6) 	You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong
drink: that you might know that I am the LORD your God.

(7) 	And when you came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and
Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote
them:

(8) 	And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the
Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.

(9) 	Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that you
may prosper in all that you do.(Notice: Moses was the one that directed
them to the absolute irrefutable proof of vindication. The vindication,
see? The name of the Lord thy God.)

34.	Now, verse 10:

(10) 	You stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your
captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the
men of Israel,

(11) 	Your little ones, your wives, your strangers in thy camp, from the
hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:

(12) 	That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and
into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day: 

(13) 	That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and
that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he
hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

(14) 	Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;

(15) 	But with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD
our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day (In other
words, it’s passed to generation to generation.):

(16) 	(For we know how that we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how
we came through the nations which ye passed by;

(17) 	And you have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and
stone, silver and gold, which were among them:) (Same as us. We’ve
seen all their organizations.)

(18) 	Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe,
whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve
the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that
beareth gall and wormwood (Now, remember, you’re going to go back to
Esau on that, but just leave it.).

(19) 	And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that
he blesses himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I
walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst: 

(20) 	The LORD will not spare him, but the anger of the LORD and his
jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are
written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his
name from under heaven.

	Now, see who’s going to get the curses? It’s the guy that turns it
down. And the man said, “I’m going to  substitute something for
it.”

	It started in the day of Paul—substitution. First, they put Paul to
one side: “I marvel you’ve turned away from me. I’m the one that
had the vindication from Jerusalem to Illyricum.” He understood signs
that followed the Word and signs that went before the Word. He taught
them. But, if it wasn’t in them to receive the revelation. They
couldn’t get it. 

35.	Now: 

(21)	And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of
Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in
this book of the law: (Now he’s telling you there’s a mixed
multitude there.)

(22) 	So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up
after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say,
when he sees the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD
hath laid upon it: 

(23) 	And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and
burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth
therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim,
which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

(24) 	Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto
this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?

(25) 	Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the
LORD God of their fathers, that he made with them when he brought them
forth out of the land of Egypt.

	What was the covenant? To know a vindicated prophet, to know God
through him, to receive a Word; and, then, God takes it from there. But,
how in the world are you going to have a foundation laid in the church
without the Word? Everybody talks about God and the prophets and their
great men in their church, but nobody talks about the Word as though
they have a truly revealed Word. 

	You know Bro. Branham said we have eight hundred denominations. I
don’t know where he got his figures. I believe they were right. Today
there’s roughly twenty-two hundred and something. Literally three
times what he said back in 1964. Look at the conditions. What does this
mean? See? Men shall say, “Because they forsook the covenant.”

36.	Verse 26:

(26) 	For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods
whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them: 

(27) 	And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land.

	Now what gods? Prophets—false prophets. They’re ‘gods’ to the
people. False prophets come in and give you signs and wonders and say,
“Well here…” They take you off the Word. The only sign and wonder
Joe Smith gave was the men to have a lot of women. You’ve got the same
bunch of nuts in this Message, too. That’s all. Trade God and the Word
for sex. Go ahead. Eve was stupid to do the same thing. 

(27) 	And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring
upon it all the curses that are written in this book:

(28) 	And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath,
and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this
day.

(29) 	The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things
which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we
may do all the words of this law.

37.	Now It tells you right there: if you have a true revelation from
Almighty God, something happens to you where you will do that particular
will without question. 

	Now you may look and say, “I can’t produce all of this. I can’t
do this; I can’t do that.”

	That’s perfectly true. Within us there is nothing that anybody can
ever measure up to Jesus Christ. Otherwise, who needs a mediator and an
intercessor? But it’s to accept the Word of the Lord irrevocably. As
Bro. Branham said, “Live or die, sink or swim, this is it.” And you
go from there. But the people in this Message don’t want to turn the
corner. They want to think they can sit upon a fence.

38.	Chapter 30:

(1) 	And it shall come to pass, when all those things are come upon
thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou
shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God
hath driven thee,

(2) 	And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice
according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children,
with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;

(3) 	That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have
compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the
nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.

	Now, what’s the secret? Get back to the original. It’s right here
with Moses. So, we are given under Deuteronomy, twice given the Word.
Now the point is: what we’re looking at here: under this man Moses, he
said, “You will have to go back.”

	How are they going to go back? The same way they came in: God in His
prophet. “The Lord your God will raise up a prophet like unto me.”
Jesus, they crucified him. And He said, “You’re never going to see
my Face till you say, ‘Blessed is he that comes in the name of the
Lord.’” And they’ve got to wait now for Elijah and Moses—the two
prophets. There’s nothing they can do about it, because how do you get
back to the original? The same way you came. You’ve got to be born
again. Can a man enter his mother’s womb? No. You’ve got to get back
to the God, Who brought you forth, and the Holy Spirit binds you back.
You’ve got to go back to the original. See? People don’t want it. 

39.	(4)	If any of thine be driven out to the outmost parts of heaven,
from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he
fetch thee:

(5) 	And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy
fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good,
and multiply thee above thy fathers.

(6) 	And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of
thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all
thy soul, that thou mayest live. 

	What’s he saying here? This is your twice blessing—your twice
giving. All these things are going to happen, but there’s a remnant.
There’s a life that comes up. And, as the life that comes up at the
end time will receive that which they could not have received, and
didn’t receive, at the beginning and in the middle… Look what they
could have had under Jesus: “If you had received it, this was Elijah,
which was for to come.”

	They wouldn’t take it. No way would they take him; so, they got rid
of John the Baptist. He just got killed by the Romans—by the church
system. The church could have stopped it, no doubt—the Hebrews. They
wouldn’t do it. Then, they crucified Jesus. 

40.	Notice:

(7)	And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies,
and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee. (You’re looking at
the great tribulation.)

(8)	And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his
commandments which I command thee this day.

(9) 	And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of
thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle,
and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice
over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:

(10) 	If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep
his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the
law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and
with all thy soul.

	Now there you are. That’s what Elijah does to the Gentiles. He turns
the hearts of the children back to the fathers, right from the
beginning.

41.	(11) 	For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not
hidden from thee, (Watch:) neither is it far off.

(12) 	It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up to
heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?

(13) 	Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall
go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and
do it?

(14) 	But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy
heart, that thou mayest do it.

(15) 	See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and
evil;

(16)	In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk
in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his
judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God
shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

	Now, remember; Eve doubted one Word, and that did it. And the same
thing is now before the people as they go in, and they blow it; because,
when they could have produced Christ by staying with the Word, just
staying with the Word, the liberty—“There is one God. This is it. I
may be a sinner—I am a sinner—I will take the sacrifice, I will take
the means of cleansing, I will do what He said, but this is God.” They
rose plumb against it, and they blew it. See?

42.	That’s why there’s repentance at the end time. The mind must
disgorge itself of everything that was there, even as the man takes a
catharsis. That’s exactly what Paul said. When the light of God hit
him, and the Word of God hit him, his mind went through a process of
catharsis, and the whole thing blew out. He called it but ‘dung’. 

	How many people are willing to say today, “I ain’t nothing but a
‘dung head’ in the light of this Message”? Ah, hardly anybody. 

	“Hey listen, brother, I got this…” 

	People still phone about the Church Age book. They still think
there’s something wrong with it. Like one meathead came to me one
time, and he knew I was wrong. He read part of it; he said, “You’re
certainly not right in predestination.” Another guy said the same
thing. 

43.	I phoned Bro. Branham. I told him about it for 45 minutes on my
money. Money was scarce in those days, real scarce.

	I said, “Bro. Branham, you heard what I read.”

	He said, “Yeah, I agree.”

	I said, “No, let’s forget what you think you heard. I’m going to
explain it word by word, and you’ll know what I said.”

	When I got through explaining it word by word, he said, “That’s
exactly right, and here’s some more Scripture.” 

	Yet those meatheads had all the answers. You’ve got them right today.


	You say, “You’re not very nice, Brother Vayle.”

	I never said I was. Paul didn’t call them ‘meatheads’ either. So,
I’m nicer than Paul. I want to lay it down at this minute. See? 

44.	Now, in verse 17:

(17)	If thy heart turn away, so thou will not hear, thou shalt be drawn
away, and worship other gods.

	There it is: if you get off that original precept, other gods will
sneak in and take you. Now he’s talking about Israel. They’re going
to really go through it and pay the price of turning away. But,
remember; all Israel is saved. They’ll take a beating. 

45.	Let’s watch what’s cursed as time goes on. Now, verse 19:

(19) 	I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I
have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore
choose life, that you may live and thy seed may live:

(20) 	That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey
his voice.

	Now, notice: “I’ve set you, and this is a record that is before
you, that you can take what’s set before you,” and that is the basis
of your love of God. 

	“So, I love God… Hallelujah!”

	And turn down his word? You’re a liar. 

	Say, “Well, I show great love.”

	And not have the Word of God? You’re kidding yourself. That’s what
they call ‘love with dissimulation’—the hypocrites’ love. Hey!
not that love isn’t nice. Everything is nice; even seduction is nice.
Let’s face it, I’m not against that. That’s fine. But, if that’s
all you’ve got, it’s not enough! Or, if you’ve got oceans and tons
of it, and you haven’t got this, it’s not going to do you any good.

	Cain offered an excellent sacrifice, but his mind was a cesspool. And
the fact is: God had talked to that man. So, don’t you just get ideas.

(20)	That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, you may obey his voice, you
may cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days:
that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy
fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them… (See? They
turned down that Word. It’s the same thing that happened in Genesis,
over there in Eden.)

	Chapter 31:

(1) 	And Moses went and spoke these words unto all Israel.

(2) 	And he said unto them, I am an hundred and twenty years old…(And
so on.)

	And now I’m not going to read all the rest of this, because it’ll
take a long, long time to read all the rest, but you can do it. 

46.	And in chapter 32 here’s his song: 

(1)	Give ear, (Here’s his song.) give ear, O heavens… (He speaks a
song.) 

(2)	My doctrine shall drop as the rain. (That’s the Word of God is
rain.) My speech shall distill as the dew, as a small rain upon the
tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass. (In other words the Word
of God, absolutely, is like water; and It does the work It needs to do,
no matter how It needs to be done—like dew, like rain, whatever.)

(3) 	Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness
unto our God.

(4) 	He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment:
a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.

(5) 	They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his
children: they are a perverse and crooked generation. 

(6) 	Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he
thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established
thee?

(7) 	Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations:
ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell
thee. 

(8) 	When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when
he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according
to the number of the children of Israel.

(9) 	For the LORD'S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his
inheritance. 

(10) 	He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling
wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the
apple of his eye. 

(11) 	As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young,
spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:

(12) 	So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with
him.

(13) 	He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might
eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the
rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;

(14) 	Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of
the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and
thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.

(15) 	But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art
grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which
made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

(16) 	They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations
provoked they him to anger.

(17) 	They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew
not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not. 

(18) 	Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten
God that formed thee. (See? They went into idolatry. When they left that
Word, they went into idolatry.)

(19) 	And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the
provoking of his sons, and of his daughters. 

(20) 	And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their
end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom
is no faith. (Now, would they be the Children of God? No way.)

(21) 	They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they
have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to
jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger
with a foolish nation.

(22) 	For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the
lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on
fire the foundations of the mountains. (That’s at the very end time;
even the earth is going to burn.)

(23) 	I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon
them.

(24) 	They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat,
and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon
them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. 

(25) 	The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young
man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs. 

(26) 	I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the
remembrance of them to cease from among men:

(27) 	Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their
adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should
say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this. 

(28) 	For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any
understanding in them.

(29) 	O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would
consider their latter end!

(30) 	How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to
flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?

(31) 	For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves
being judges.

(32) 	For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of
Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:

	Right on down you can see here that what God is doing: He’s doing the
same thing that you found in the church ages: He’ll go to the Book of
Revelation and you go to the first age, the second age, the third age,
the forth age, five, and six and seven, and you’ll see that God is
bringing a two-fold message. It’s to those that claim they are the
church and to those that actually are the church. They really are. You
can see in here the Seven Church Ages of Israel and the Seven Church
Ages in our particular day.

47.	Now, having read these chapters and commented a certain amount, let
us begin to establish the truth of blessing and cursing—which you will
have noticed by now has to do with the promised land, which Israel is
about to enter into—the blessing and the cursing. There was much that
fell upon the people. That is true. But, let’s go back and begin to
trace it, as I think we can do, in Gen 2:8-9:

(8) 	And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he
put the man whom he had formed.

(9) 	And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is
pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the
midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

	Now, with that we read Gen 3:22-24:

(22) 	And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to
know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also
of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

(23) 	Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to
till the ground from whence he was taken.

(24) 	So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden
of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep
the way of the tree of life.

	Now, do you notice that Adam came out of the ground, which was not part
of Eden? The ground that Adam was taken out of was not a part of Eden.
But he was allowed to go into Eden but he was a part of that ground. 

48.	Now, from these two passages we’ll begin to note: number one, Eden
is a small portion or wedge of the whole earth, and it is the place of
righteousness. It is the place of the righteous kingdom of God, and it
is not only withheld from them because of their sin, but it is actually
removed to some other place, because the Bible says that He removed
Eden. 

	And, if you go to Luke 16, you will find there that which is not a
parable exactly, but It mentions Abraham, It mentions Lazarus and the
poor man and the rich man—the rich young ruler that died and went to
Hades. He lifted up his eyes; he sees Lazarus, the beggar, of which the
dogs licked his wounds; and he sees him in Abraham’s bosom; and he
said, “I’d like to come over there.”

	And he said, “There’s no way you can get over, because the gulf is
fixed.” 

	So, there’s no way we can see that a mortal being, no matter what, if
he does not come to a certain position, he will never get back to Eden,
where he would like to be. 

49.	Now they were taken away from Eden. Now, let’s go to Gen 12:1-8,
and in here, in Gen 12:1-8, we have a promised land which comes to
light; and, evidently, this land cannot be lost and positively cannot be
cursed, because somehow, some way, the curse is removed, and they come
to a position where they themselves cannot do anything which would bring
a curse upon them. So, let’s read It. This is the original promise
now: 

(1)	Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and
from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will
shew thee:

	Now, in other words, as Adam was taken out of one land and put in the
promised land, Eden, now what’s going to happen here? You’re going
to leave this bad chunk of land and go right to Eden. You’re going to
start getting back to Eden.

(2) 	And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and
make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

(3) 	And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth
thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. (Now there
you are; That’s Jew and Gentile.)

(4) 	So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went
with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out
of Haran.

(5) 	And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all
their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had
gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and
into the land of Canaan they came.

(6) 	And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto
the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land. 

(7)	And he LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give
this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared
unto him.

(8) 	And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel,
(That’s a house of God.) and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the
west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD,
and called upon the name of the LORD.

(9) 	And Abram journeyed still, going toward the south.

50.	Now you’ll notice that this land is given to them. Now I want you
to notice that all of this is based upon Gen 11:1-9:

(1) 	And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 

(2) 	And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they
found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. 

(3) 	And they said one to another, Go, let us make brick, and burn them
throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. 

(4) 	And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top
may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered
abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

(5) 	And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the
children of men builded.

(6) 	And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one
language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained
from them, which they have imagined to do.

(7) 	Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they
may not understand one another's speech.

(8) 	So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all
the earth: and they left off to build the city.

(9) 	Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did
there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the
LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

51.	Now this is the preface of Gen 11:1-9 of what they attempted to do,
which in turn, precedes this chapter 11. So, let’s go back to Genesis
again, 2:8-9:

(8) 	And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden; and there he put the man
whom he had formed.

(9) 	And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is
pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the
midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

	And also, of course, He tells them there, “You are in perfect
control, absolute control. Everything is great.” 

52.	Now 3:22, and It says:

(22)	…And now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree
of life, and live for ever.

(24)	(He put a cherubim there with a flaming sword; and he denied Eden
from them, until Eden was removed from the very earth.)

	Now then, what took place there is followed by Genesis 11 where people
try to get back the government of God upon earth. They’re going to
have their own kingdom. They’re going to do it their own way, because
they know they started on the earth, and there was a government of God
on the earth, and they were a part of it. And they figure now they’re
going to get it back. 

	So, they start way back there in Babel, which is the start of the
Nimrod religion, where the son is the husband of the mother. Your
Trinity doctrine goes all the way back there. But then, you’ll see
Genesis 12 where God steps in, and He said, “I’m going to give you a
land upon earth, and this is that promised land, which you missed, which
you want, which people have striven for, and have not gotten.” And
you’ll notice that’s ‘number four’ and ‘number four’ is, of
course, ‘deliverance’. So, until God sets up His Kingdom upon earth,
in conjunction with man, back where it was, there is no deliverance. As
Bro. Branham said, “Will there be peace upon this earth? Nay. Not
until the Prince of Peace comes.” But you do have it guaranteed. All
right.

53.	Now, let’s get an account of man full of the Holy Ghost, and
let’s find out what he says about this promise of God. And this man is
Stephen, and over here under the anointing of the Holy Ghost, we go to
Acts 7:2-8:

(2) 	And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory
appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he
dwelt in Charran,

(3) 	And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy
kindred, and come into the land which I will show thee. (A picture of
Eden.)

(4) 	Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in
Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into
this land, wherein you now dwell.

(5) 	And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set
his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a
possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.

(6) 	And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a
strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat
them evil four hundred years.

(7) 	And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge, said
God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place.

(8) 	And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat
Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and
Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs. (And so on.)

	But even then, they had a Word which could drive them out, but the
promise was, “This is yours and your children’s.” Period! 

54.	So, now you’re looking at something that’s going to happen by
grace. And that’s exactly what we’re looking at, because we look at
Galatians 3. Now, notice what It says:

(13) 	Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a
curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a
tree:

(14) 	That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through
Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through
faith.

	And he’s telling you: there is a way set that you can get into the
promised land, and at that time there will be no curse. In other words
there will be a people who in no way can void the Word of God, for the
Word of God will never be voided. All right.

55.	The promised land is unconditional in its provision and possession
according to Gen 12:1-3. You will inherit it with your children, which
is exactly what It says in Ephesians 1. And, notice; in the 11th verse:

(11)	In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated
according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel
of his own will.

	And then, you’ll want to read the rest of the first eleven verses:
it’s a matter of predestination based upon foreknowledge. 

	And then, in Ephesians 3:15:

(15)	Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named.

	So, there is a way, which is by the shed blood of Jesus Christ and the
baptism with the Holy Ghost, given to the foreknown Elect unto
predestination, and they will be in that land and they will never be
cursed, and the land will never be cursed. 

	So therefore, you know that man has now been removed beyond the place
of temptation, or of any degradation which could follow, because of
anything that he could do. In other words he is now to the place of the
perfect image of Jesus Christ. However, unconditional grace to the
elected inhabitants was not without a means and itself was a condition.
Now, what was the means and the condition to the Elect? It was through
Jesus Christ the Lord, which I just read in the Book of Galatians. It
had to come through him.

56.	Now, let’s also go to Rom 4:1-8:

(1) 	What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to
the flesh, hath found?

(2) 	For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory;
but not before God.

(3) 	For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was
counted unto him for righteousness.

(4) 	Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of
debt.

	But you’ll notice that Abraham had to die, and Abraham right today
does not possess that land. He is waiting for it. Abraham is in a
resurrected, glorified body somewhere—in a dimension. That’s not our
business. He’s waiting for this land to take it over. You see? Now he
couldn’t take it over, because the land was cursed because of the
people of the land. 

57.	Let’s keep reading here:

(5) 	But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth
the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

(6) 	Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom
God imputeth righteousness apart from works,

(7) 	Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose
sins are covered.

(8) 	Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.

	Now It tells you: in spite of all those cursings back there in the
Bible, there was a way for those who, not necessarily despised the Word
of God, but they contradicted It by their lies. Yet, like David, a man
after God’s Own heart, no matter how despicable he may seem in the
eyes of people, he was a prophet of God and believed a hundred percent
in the God that he talked about. Now he couldn’t do the hundred
percent, but you see where his redemption lay: “Blessed is the man who
believes.” No man lived the Word, but man can believe the Word, and
there is a sacrifice to that particular end. 

58.	Now, notice Rom 4:13-18:

(13) 	For the promise that Abraham should be the heir of the world, was
not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the
righteousness of faith. (He’s looking to it.)

(14) 	For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and
the promise made of none effect (Now It tells you right there: even if
they could have obeyed that Word to the very limit, they still
couldn’t have got the results, because it won’t bring them back in a
resurrection.):

(15) 	Because the law worketh wrath: for where there is no law is, there
is no transgression.

(16) 	Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end
the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of
the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the
father of us all.

	Now, when did the law come in? Four hundred years after the promise to
Abraham, because Israel went into captivity four hundred years under
grace. They came out under law. So, they still could not keep the land,
and they were looking for the grace of God, which was signified there:
Christ coming to fulfill what Moses said, “He will raise up a prophet
like unto me, and he will be your Messiah.”

	But the point is: they didn’t understand he had to be bruised by the
serpent’s heel—not spiritually dead, he had to be physically
destroyed, that is, his body died—but it couldn’t deteriorate,
because it hadn’t sinned. He was just an offering for sin. 

59.	Now:

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

(18) 	Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father
of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed
be.

(19) 	And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now
dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness
of Sara's womb:

(20) 	He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was
strong in faith, giving glory to God;

(21) 	And being fully persuaded that (And so on…) what God said he
would perform, he was able to perform it.

60.	Now, notice in Genesis over here, in Gen 18:23:

(23) 	And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the
righteous with the wicked?

	Then, get over here in Acts 2, Peter, speaking at Pentecost, and get to
verse 23:

(23) 	Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge
of God, you have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain.

	Now in here we see the picture where, absolutely, God says, “My curse
is not upon the righteous. I cannot harm the righteous.”

	And at no time did God Almighty ever put a finger upon a man that lived
within the contents of that Word, the best he could, and believing. And
Abraham escaped, not because Abraham was a perfect person, (He
wasn’t.) but because he was God’s Elect and anointed. 

61.	Now, notice over here Peter says:

(23)	…You people by wicked hands have taken and crucified the Lord
Jesus Christ.

	So, you see where the wickedness lay, and that’s why God had to come
down upon Israel. Now, don’t forget we are talking about a principle:
blessing and cursing; and God is responsible, and we look at Him on both
sides of the picture. So, you cannot get away from it. There are those
that go in and live, and there are those that are barred from entering,
and they die. 

62.	Now, over in Matthew 25, you can see this again: verse 34. And he
says:

(34) 	Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye
blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the
foundation of the world.

	And in verse 41:

(41) 	Then shall he say unto those on the left hand, Depart from me, ye
cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.

	And then, in verse 46:

(46) 	And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the
righteous into life eternal.

63.	Now Rev 21:5-8:

(5) 	And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things
new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.

(6) 	And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the
beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the
fountain of the water of life freely.

(7) 	He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God,
and he shall be my son. 

(8) 	But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and
murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all
liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and
brimstone: which is the second death.

	Now, notice; these people here have not been washed in the Blood,
because there isn’t one of us not fearful or unbelieving or abominable
or a murderer or something else. It’s not that you’re looking at a
people that are perfectly righteous within themselves; you’re looking
at those that turned down that which God gave them in order to take them
through. 

	The Book of Revelation, Rev 22:14-15:

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

(15) 	For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and
murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

64.	Back over here in the Book of Matthew. We’re in Mt 22:8-14:

(8) 	Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which
were bidden were not worthy.

(9) 	Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find,
bid to the marriage.

(10) 	So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered
together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding
was furnished with guests.

(11) 	And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man
which had not on a wedding garment:

(12) 	And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not
having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.

(13) 	Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and
take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping
and gnashing of teeth.

(14) 	For many are called, but few are chosen.

	Here you can see positively what we are looking at: that God positively
justifies His Own who stay with the Word and He cannot justify those who
do not stay with that Word.

65.	Now, remember; we read back here in Deuteronomy 30, and I won’t
read too much, just 19 and 20, so we won’t get too much taken up with
time here. He said:

(19) 	I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I
have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore
choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

(20) 	That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey
his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and
the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the
LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give
thee.

	Now, why I’m reading this is because the Bible distinctly said that
God absolutely stands behind His Word to perform It, and He has exalted
His Word above His Own Name; so therefore, those people that call upon
the name of the Lord, without exalting the Word and putting It where God
put It, are in a very dangerous position. 

66.	Now this call that I read here in Deuteronomy 30 went forth at the
time of exodus and entrance and is explained by divine revelation in the
Book of Hebrews, Heb 3:7. Now, notice; we’re bringing it right where
Bro. Branham took it. He said this Deuteronomy, twice-given, we have the
reference for this hour, a type of our very day. Okay.

	In the seventh verse, after speaking of the fact of the days of Moses
bringing to Jesus, who is the Son of God, he says in verse 7:

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

(8) 	Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of the
temptation in the wilderness:

(9) 	When your fathers (tested me) tempted me (Tried him, see? Put their
own things first, and said, “Hey, do this and do that, and we’ll
believe you.”), proved me, and saw my works forty years.

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

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

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

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

(14) 	For we are made companions of Christ, if we hold the beginning of
our confidence stedfast to the end;

(15) 	While it is said, To day if you will hear his voice, harden not
your hearts, as in the provocation.

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

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

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

(19) 	So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. (Now,
watch:)

	Chapter 4:

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

67.	Now the people did not believe actually that they were going to go
into God’s Kingdom as He ordained for them to have, because, had they
believed it, they would have accepted His Word concerning it. And the
signs and the wonders and miracles were there to prove that they were
going in. 

	So, he said, “Now, listen: Let’s go in and spy the land out.”

	And they went in there. Twelve people went in for the twelve tribes of
Israel, and they saw the people and the multitudes. They said, “Well,
we’re grasshoppers in their sight. We can’t go in and take it.”

	And Caleb and Joshua, the two men only, bringing back grapes that they
had to put on great, big poles between the shoulders of men…bringing
the fruit—said, “Here’s the fruit of the land. Bless God! We can
go in and take it. They’re bread to us. Come on! Come on! Come on!”

	And the people cried, and they bellyached, and they wouldn’t believe.

68.	If you don’t believe that, you can’t believe the Word! You
can’t. You’re stuck. You may get killed for It one day, but tell me
a better way to die. See? They never learned God’s ways. What was His
way back there? It was the same way when Jesus came. Paul is preaching
an exodus, and he said, “Hear His Voice.” 

	I ask you a question: Who, in the name of common sense, was doing the
talking? Paul was. Then, whose voice was God’s Voice? Paul’s voice.
See? That’s the same today: “The Lord descends with a shout.”

	It is not said to be the voice of the one that descends. He descends
with a command, and I’ve read time after time: “This have I
commanded you.” Deuteronomy: “I’ve commanded you…commanded
you…commanded you.”

	In other words, what’s a command? It’s a precept; it’s a law; it
the Word of God; definitely proven to be the Word of God from the mouth
of God. And Moses was ‘God to the people’. 

69.	Some little pipsqueak in Canada said, “Well, that’s God! He
quivers about it, because He wants to be some big shot.”

	Everybody falls silent when the little boy walks in the room. He walks
in; I walk out. I won’t waste my time with that kind of stuff?

	Say, “Bro. Vayle, you’re arrogant.”

	Call it what you want. You have yours; I’ll have mine. You’ve got a
better stomach than I’ve got, evidently. You’d like somebody to
wretch in your food? I prefer to be like my own kids, like their mother:
They can’t even stand for somebody to breathe on it. What’s
breathing on you this morning and your food? 

70.	Hebrews 4:

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

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

(3) 	For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I
have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the
works were finished from the foundation of the world. (Just like the
work was finished, it’s finished again in Christ. And Paul preaches
It.)

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

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

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

	Hey, anybody can turn the Word of God down. It’s going to find root
where It belongs, and someone’s going to go in. That’s why Bro.
Branham said, “If we’re not Bride, there’s a Bride out there
somewhere.” 

71.	He quoted the Bible. Here it is where he quotes it: 

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

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

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

	When is that going to come? When Messiah comes. And they turned Him
down. Then, Paul becomes God to the people: a prophet raised up just
exactly like Moses, face-to-face with the Pillar of Fire. 

	They turned down God in the Son—not just a prophet—the Son of God,
the very manifestation of the essentiality of God Himself in human form.
The Bible says so. 

	Paul comes on the scene, identical to Moses. Again, they turn it down.
William Branham comes on the scene. They turn it down. The Bride goes
in, of course, because some don’t turn it down. Jesus got his
apostles. Paul got his numbers out, too. Now they’re waiting for Moses
and Elijah to come. 

	But, you see, they will come, because the land was promised to Abraham
and the Seed. And you can’t find God’s curse on the righteous. No,
sirree. And you’re dealing with a family of God, not a bunch of
people. You don’t find any of God’s children cursed; you don’t
find one going to miss the Promised Land. You don’t find it at all.
They’re either in New Jerusalem or just outside of it. They’re not
going to miss it. See? All right. 

72.	Now:

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

	In other words he’s telling them to come to the place of perfect
justification of faith, where it’s all put upon Jesus. And, remember;
it’s put upon him beautifully by the fact that Paul himself was
vindicated. All right.

	Now, let’s go to Acts 13 just for a second again. Acts 13:48 says:

(48) 	And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified
the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained unto eternal life
believed.

	Now, let’s go to Jn 6:44, and It says:

(44) 	No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw
him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

	Now with that, Heb 12:22-29; we’ve read It. You are come to Mount
Zion; come right up to the very end. 

(25) 	Refuse not him that speaketh. (Now, watch:) For if they escaped
not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape,
if we turn away from him that is from heaven. (Not ‘speaketh’, but
‘is’ from heaven.)

(26) 	Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised,
saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.

(27) 	And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those
things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things
which cannot be shaken may remain. 

(28) 	Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us
have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly
fear: 

(29) 	For our God is a consuming fire.

73.	Now, notice that Paul took them in Hebrews, right from the prophets
right to the New Jerusalem. And at the time of the New Jerusalem, there
is another Voice speaking. Now he said, “Take heed lest you turn down
the Voice,” which means you turn down God, and have no understanding
what God is doing, and God can only be worshiped and served through a
prophet. God can only be known through a prophet, because man, of his
own free will, turned down God face-to-face, and now they turn around
and say, “Hey, I’m going to talk to God face-to-face. Don’t talk
to me about a man.”

	Well, hey, look. Forget it. They’re gone. Those that turned down
Noah—gone. Those that turned down Christ—gone. 

	Anytime God brings a prophet, He has got to bring judgment; and the
judgment is on two sides of the coin: blessing and cursing…cursing on
those that believe not. In other words they work out the Word of God
themselves by rejecting It, whereas those that believe, work out the
Word of God by believing It. Exactly true. There’s no way you can get
around it.

74.	Now, so here is what we are driving at and what we’re looking at.
We are looking at 1 Peter—not as though you don’t know. Notice: 1
Pet 4:17-19:

(17) 	For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God:
and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not
the gospel of God?

(18) 	For if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly
and the sinner appear?

(19) 	Wherefore let all them that suffer according to the will of God
commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a
faithful Creator.

	Now he’s telling you here: “In this world you will have
tribulation; in this world you will be tried.”

That is not cursing; that’s a formation of character. 

75.	Now Paul said, “Judgment begins at the house of God.” What does
the house of God receive? It’s got to receive Christ the Word, because
you cannot separate the two and change them. It always starts with that
Word that comes from God, vindicated. 

	So, judgment starts there, and the righteous cannot be destroyed. No,
sir. They cannot be cursed; they cannot be taken from the presence of
Almighty God. There is no way it can be done. Now this is none other
than Rev 3:14-22:

(14) 	The messenger to 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, you’re neither hot or cold: I would you were
cold or hot. (Right at the house of God—starts right there. Now:)

(16) 	So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I
will spue thee out of my mouth.

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

(18)	I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire…

76.  Hey! What’s He doing? Do you think He’s talking to a bunch of
guys that are in this condition, and they’re not going to listen?
There’s a bunch in there that can listen. 

	Judgment begins at the house of God, and this is the house of God. And,
remember; in the house of God is a field, because you can mix your
metaphors when you’re talking about this: you can go from a tree to an
animal to a bush to a house to God knows what—to a star, anything.
Doesn’t matter how you do it. You mix them all up. But they all point
to the same thing. So, you’ve got a church made up of two vines:
you’ve got the Tree of Life, the stream of Life with Lamb Life. 

77.	Now, watch; He says here:

(18)	Buy of me this… your shame doesn’t appear. Anoint your eyes
with eye salve…you may see. (Now, watch:)

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

	The change of the mind, a new instruction, because remember: your
worship of God and your love of God come out of the Word, which is
unadulterated. 

	Serpent-seed Judas had a love for Jesus; and don’t tell me he
didn’t. He affectionately kissed him; he liked him. He did miracles;
he raised the dead. But he was serpent seed. He had to be, otherwise how
could Satan take him over perfectly? How can the end-time antichrist not
be serpent seed? Come on. There’s no way he can’t be. He’s got to
be that lineage. 

78.	Now:

(20) 	Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice,
and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he
with me.

	At this time you go to Matthew 25, and you find five wise, and you find
five foolish virgin, and the call is, “Come out and see him—behold
him.”

	They all will come running out. But those that don’t “behold Him”
miss Him, because they haven’t got the Word, the vessel, of which the
oil is, in order to give revelation, they’ve got a wrong Word. 

	Now, let’s say the messenger comes on the scene. How do we know
we’re going to behold Him? Because he gives the sign of the prophet;
and therefore, we see Him by the Word, even as Samuel positively had a
vision, when all he did was hear. That’s why the Bible said, “Be
careful ‘how’ you hear,” not ‘what’ you hear. 

	You had better hear with the understanding: ‘this is a vindicated
man, vindicated Message’. Then, you’re hearing right. If you don’t
really accept that, you just say, “Well, I’m looking down the road,
you know, and these men have got something, too; so, I can listen to
them.”

	Shew! Look, don’t waste your time on that stuff. It’s over. Don’t
waste your time. Don’t argue. Walk off. 

79.	(20) 	Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my
voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and sup with him…

	Now, listen; Eve opened a door—to the wrong guy. “My sheep hear my
Voice.” They open the door. 

	John, when he heard a Voice, turned to see the Voice. What’s that
mean? To see what’s going on, as to ascertain the character: is it
God? or is it the Devil? Very tricky boy. He knew where to go. He wrote
First John, five chapters. He knew all about antichrist. He knew what
aligned with the Word. That’s why he said, “Anybody that doesn’t
hear me is not of God.” 

	Anybody won’t hear Peter is not of God. Anybody that won’t hear
Paul… Now those boys got along real good. It’s the people around
them tried to make something, and said, “Well, Paul, you know you’re
greater than Peter,” “Peter, you’re greater than Paul. You opened
the door”… This that and the other thing. 

	So, the church of Rome… They’ve got a guy that wasn’t… Why,
they’re not on the solid foundation but on a platform. The platform
swayed this way and that way; the church wobbled—no
foundation—everything from the pit. Catholic Church right today rues
the fact that they let all the heathen doctrines in. They tell you flat:
they went to South America, took the heathen doctrine; went to Haiti,
took the heathen doctrine; went to Africa, took the heathen doctrine.
Now the Catholic Church doesn’t have a doctrine. They’re liars. They
try to tell you they’ve got a doctrine. They’ve got no doctrine. All
they’ve got is corruption: heathen gods—mythology. They’ve got
nothing to back up. The pope will hear voices. Sure. God will let him
hear voices, too.

80.	Now:

(21) 	To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne,
as I have overcome…

	This is the end time, and he’s talking to the church. And you will
notice in here they are set up perfectly for cursing or blessing,
because He said, “Hey, you can sit on my throne.”

	What about those that don’t? Well, there’s one in between: the
foolish virgin. What about the rest? They go to the Lake of Fire. See? 

	Now, over here in Hebrews 12, look what It says, beginning in verse 11:

(11) 	Now no correction for the present seems joyous, but grievous:
nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness
unto them which are exercised thereby.

(12) 	Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;

(13) 	And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be
turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed. 

(14) 	Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man
shall see the Lord:

(15) 	Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any
root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be
defiled; 

(16) 	Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for
one morsel of meat sold his birthright.

(17) 	For you know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the
blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though
he sought it carefully with tears.

	Now, what’s he telling you here? This is what leads up to the end
time: God coming on the scene, correcting His people. And in the
correction… It’s a tough correction, because it starts in the mind
where you literally disgorge everything you once had concerning what you
believed. 

81.	I’ve said many a time: that’s why people could never understand
the Church Age book. I wrote it for Bro. Branham, not just with his
approval, but he read it over, corrected it. I sent it back to him after
the last correction; it came right back for the printing press. 

	They thought it was wrong. Why? Because they could not repent, which
means they couldn’t change their minds. How many people have put their
ear, then, to the door and been laced in there by Satan. I don’t know.
That’s their business. I’m not calling them serpent seed, this and
that. I’m just telling you what happened. 

82.	Now this man, Esau, here, could not take the correction; so, he sold
out. Now you will notice all through Israel there were those that never
sold out—never sold out. When the chips were down and the hard times
came, they suffered because of those that did sell out. And, when it
came to the Church, the Bride Church, starting at Ephesus, there were
those who never sold out, but they always suffered because of those that
did sell out. Sure. It’s always been the mixture there. But you’ll
notice that God never does put a curse upon His Own people. He will not
do it. 

	Now, as I said here: this illustration concerning Esau, and the
correction which people turned down, precedes the Rapture and the Great
Tribulation. It actually does. 

83.	Over here in Rom 2:1-6… And, remember; this is based upon Paul
preaching how sin came into the world, how it was at the time of the
flood, and how it was at the time of Jesus the Christ. Now he says in
here in chapter 2:

(1) 	Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that
judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for
thou that judgest doest the same things.

(2) 	But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth
against them which commit such things.

(3) 	And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such
things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?

(4) 	Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and
longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God that leads thee to
repentance?

(5) 	But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto
thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous
judgment of God;

(6) 	Who will render to every man according to his deeds. 

	Now, listen: where did this all come from? It came from back here in
1:18:

(18) 	For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all
ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold back the truth in
unrighteousness;

	So, what I’m trying to show you here is there has to be some reason
for God to curse and come on the scene and judge, and judge adversely on
the one condition—judge against, and on the other condition—judge
for it, because you can see you have the mixed multitude. There has
never been a change under any way, shape, or form. All right.

84.	You are well aware, then, (At least I hope you are.) where I’m
coming from. It is this: judgment can only come at a time of
confrontation with a warning, wherein the believer, make-believer, and
unbeliever are faced with the revealed Word of God. 

	Now I can take this back to Eden, Gen 1:26-29: the wrath of God
revealed, and judgment comes. It has to come always at a juncture at a
special time. It cannot come any other way. It’s what Bro. Branham
categorically said about Seven Church Ages. He said, “The end dies in
apostasy—there’s just a few people left—He sends a messenger on
the scene; they turn down the messenger; they turn down the Word; God
folds His messenger away, takes him away in death, puts him up here
under the altar, puts him in a paradise; and then, God sends a judgment.
Bang! Bang! Bang!” 

	Then, he said, “A new messenger comes on the scene with a new Word of
God.”

	Every single time it’s a juncture; it’s a crisis period. You cannot
get it otherwise. Then, at the very end, the great juncture periods, as
with Moses, as with Jesus—not with Paul—Jesus. Paul started later on
down the road. It’s at the end of Paul’s age that a messenger comes
on, identical to the apostle Paul. It is then, the judgment falls. 

	Now, if William Branham is in the same category as Paul, judgment has
got to come; because, if he was the prophet, he’s been folded away.
Right? Now this generation must be judged, this age, but the Bride will
not be judged. All right.

85.	We’re going back to Genesis—Gen 1-26-29, and It says:

(26) 	God said, Let us make man in our image, (And they got dominion
over all those things He said.)

(27) 	So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created
he him; male and female created he them. (That’s in a spiritual form.)

(28) 	And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and
multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over
the fish of the sea, over the fowl of the air, over every living thing
that moveth upon the earth. 

(29) 	And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb… (And so on,
right down the line. All right.)

86.	Notice in 2:16-17: “The Lord put man in the Garden,” now he’s
in a human form—physical form, “and you can eat of every tree,
except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and the day you eat,
you’re going to die.” Now, those children disobeyed. Look at the
result. 

	Genesis 3:14:

(14) 	And the LORD God said, Because thou hast done this, thou art
cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy
belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

	He said that to the serpent, a beast that came out of the soil: “You
are cursed.” Genesis 3:17-19:

(17) 	He said to Adam, Because you hearkened unto the voice of thy wife,
ate of the tree, which I commanded thee, saying, You shall not eat of
it: cursed is the ground for your sake; in sorrow you’ll eat of it all
the days of thy life;

(18) 	Thorns also and thistles it will bring forth to thee; and you
shall eat the herb of the field; 

(19) 	In the sweat of your face you’re going to eat bread, (You’re
going to work for it.) till you return to the ground; for out of it
you’re taken: dust you are, unto dust you will return.

87.	Now, notice; Gen 1:11-12:

(11) 	And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding
seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in
itself, upon the earth: and it was so. 

(12) 	And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after
his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after
his kind: and God saw that it was good. (And it was very, very good, and
that was so.) 

	Then, we go over here to 20 and 21:

(20) 	And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly… (And they
brought forth.)

	And verse 21:

(21)	And God created the great whales…(And so on.) 

(22)	And then God blessed them…(And so on.) …multiplying…

	And then, in 24, He blessed the earth:

(24)	He let the earth bring forth the living creature, and they brought
forth cattle and creeping things and all those things there upon the
earth. 

88.	Now in Gen 2:7:

(7) 	And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground (He’s dirt,
too.), and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became
a living soul. (So, man is water and dirt, just like everything else.) 

 	Now 22 and 23:

(22)	And the Lord God (2:22, He said,) they took a rib from the man, he
made a woman and he said now this is bone of my bone flesh of my flesh.
(And so, she’s part of the ground, too, because they’re exactly one
and the same.) 

	Now, in 3:19 He said:

(19)	 In the sweat of thy face you’re going to eat your bread
because… Until you return to the ground, for out of it you where
taken. (You’re dirt;  you’re dust.) for dust you are, and dust you
shall return. 

	Now notice: the curse was on the earth—not on the children of God,
who were in Adam. The curse was on the earth. It was not on Adam; was
not on Eve. The Bible distinctly said, “As in Adam all die, even so in
Christ all are made alive,” and that is not a curse. 

89.	Now here is the fact over here in Galatians 3. We read It for you:
Gal 13-18:

(13) 	Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a
curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a
tree.

	Notice: the tree was cursed—anything out of the earth. The body of
Christ received a curse made out of ground, just like yours and
mine—but different—because of the genes in it: they’re pure.

(14) 	That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through
Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through
faith.

(15) 	Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a
man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, and no man
can  add to it. (In other words, once a covenant is bound, there’s
nothing you can do about it.)

(16) 	Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not,
And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is
Christ.

(17) 	And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of
God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after,
cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.

(18) 	For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise:
but God gave it to Abraham by promise.

	What’s he saying here? He’s telling you, “Look, the whole thing
goes back to the covenant promise—right back to the Garden of Eden, to
the Seed.” And there was only one seed of Abraham, (He’s typing it
now.) and that’s going to come forth in Christ. That’s where the
promise is, and it is no place else. And it’s only in him that the
curse is removed, because he took upon himself dirt. He took upon
himself flesh, and no different from Adam, “you came from the dust, to
dust you go back.” Everything that Jesus Christ had in his body
positively came from the earth. But he did not have anything mixed;
because the egg was pure human creation of God, and the sperm was pure
creation of God. 

99.	Now, let’s go back to Genesis 4, and we go to 8-12:

(8) 	And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when
they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and
slew him.

(9) 	And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he
said, I do not know: Am I my brother's keeper?

(10) 	And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood
cries out to me from the ground. 

(11) 	Now art thou cursed from the earth from the earth. (Just like the
serpent.)

		

	Now, as in Adam all died—not cursed. But this man’s cursed.
Everyone who dies in Adam comes alive in Christ. If this man is not
serpent seed, and he’s a child of Adam, Cain does not belong in the
record of antifaith. It can’t be that way. 

(11)	(Notice, he’s cursed from the earth.)… which has opened her
mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from off thy hand. 

100. Now, notice:

(12) 	When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto
thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.

(13) 	And he said, My punishment is greater than I can bear.

	Now, notice: with this verse 12 we go back to Gen 3:17-19, and notice
It says, “Adam, the ground for your sake, is cursed.” And it is. And
It says what it’s like: It’s going to make you sweat to till that
ground and bring forth your sustenance. And, as you sweat and you toil
to bring forth your sustenance, I’ve got news for you: thorns and
thistles are going to jump up and do everything they can to displace the
very thing that you’re depending upon for food—because you can’t
eat thorns and thistles. He said, “You’re going to really have to
sweat. The earth will not be kind to you.” 

101. Now, notice in here, then, again, Gen 4:10-11:

(10)	…Your brother’s blood cries… (Because it got down in the
earth where it shouldn’t be.) 

(11)	Now art thou cursed from the earth. (You’re cursed.)

(12)	And when you till the ground it shall not henceforth yield unto
thee her strength. 

	Now over in Genesis 3, the earth was going to yield its strength under
adverse conditions; but, under Genesis 4, you’re going to find that
this serpent race, this people who are cursed, the earth now has a curse
upon them, which means: the earth is going to fight them, and will not
yield to them her secrets and that which lies within her, the goodness
that should be constantly with us.

	Now, with that I want to read over here in Rev 6:12-17:

(12)     And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there
was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair,
and the moon became as blood; (What’s the earth doing? Rising up
against the people.)

(13)     And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree
casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. 

(14)	And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and
every mountain and island were moved out of their places. 

(15)	And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men,
and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every
free man, hid themselves… (That’s the best they could do. The earth
has turned on them.) 

102.  God said, “For what you have done…” And Abel’s righteous
blood types Christ, and in this age they crucify the Son of God
themselves afresh, put it to an open shame, the earth turns on them as
it did when Jesus died: the sun became blackened, the earth began to
tremble, and the veil was rent from top to bottom. At the end time
you’ll see the cataclasms under the Sixth Seal. 

	Revelation 8, and I could read many more. Revelation 8:7-13:

(7)	The first angel sounded, hail and fire mingled with blood, cast upon
the earth: third part of trees burnt up, grass was burnt up. 

(8)	Second angel sounded, great mountain burning with fire thrown into
the sea: and the sea became blood; 

(9)	And the creatures dying in the sea, and the third part of the ships
were destroyed. 

(10)	And the star fell from heaven , as a lamp, it fell in the rivers;  

(11)	(And it turned the waters to wormwood and to gall.) (And in number
12:) 

(12)	The third part of the sun was smitten, the third part of the moon,
and the third part of the stars; the third part of the earth darkened,
(It didn’t shine anymore.) 

(13)      Angels flying through the heavens, Woe, woe, woe, (Smoke
coming up from a bottomless pit…pestilence, people dying, gnawing
their tongues in pain, wanting to die, crying to die, trying to
die—can’t die, cursing God. Cainites! Just like Cain. Okay.)

	Revelation 9:1:

(1)	A star fell to the earth, a bottomless pit opened… (All those
things we mentioned in there.)

	Plus Revelation 19, Christ coming back upon the earth; plus Rev 11:18:

(18)	And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of
the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give
reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that
fear thy name, small and great; and should destroy them which destroy
the earth. 

	I want to tell you something: God’s people are not the ones who
destroy the earth and whom the earth turns on. God’s people weren’t
that scientific bunch that had Satan’s Eden all figured out by
smartness and science. No way, shape and form.

103. Now you’ve got the people all trying to save the earth: they’re
running around: Greenpeace, and Green this, that and the other thing.
Too late! Trying to pass laws; it’s too late. 

	Why, if you’d try to pass laws today to try to redeem this earth,
half the people would starve right now. The earth cannot cleanse itself
any further—it is finished. The earth cannot heal. What happened to
Saddam? He turned all those wells loose. [Desert Storm; 1993] Now,
what’s going to happen? Sulfuric acid is in the air; people are going
to die from the sulfur. The Gulf is being filled with the crude oil that
falls to the bottom and forms an asphalt pavement—no fish can live. 

	He’s one of the guys in the Bible… He’s one of those Muslims,
those Islamic believers, who simply call it ‘God’, the true One and
true God, call Him ‘Allah’, the name of their own god… They took
the first five books of the Bible and said the Jews are all messed up.
“We’re the children of God.”

	You’ve got preachers right today… You read this last Faith
Magazine. You’ll see it in there, where they’re all talking about
Babylon. So, Babylon’s going to be rebuilt. Don’t they know Bro.
Branham said, “Babylon, this mysterious Babylon, which is Rome”?

	Well, they’d care if Saddam said, “I’m Nebuchadnezzar, and I’m
going to build Babylon.” Hogwash! 

104. You better listen to the Zionists; they’re going to build
Jerusalem and the temple by 1992. So, who will go over and take it over?
Popey, ol’ boy. I’ve been criticized for calling him ‘Popey. I’m
supposed to be nice, you know. Beware, you know…  

	Oh, you stupid jerks. Get out of my hair. Don’t bother to phone me.
I’ll cut you down like I cut the last guy down; and I was nice the
last time—real nice. At least Bill and Mary [Graham] thought I was
nice, Lloyd [Lusk] thought I was nice. I was kind of sorry I cut him
down, because he didn’t mean any harm. But I get fed up with these
harmless, innocuous guys… They come in and set your house on fire… 

	“Well, I didn’t mean it. I didn’t mean it.”

	Hey! My house burned down! Well, you didn’t mean it? Well, that’s
great; I haven’t got a house now. Don’t be stupid jerks,
brother/sister. You’re fleeing for your life, kid. You’re not to be
out there mean and take people and skewer them. I’m not saying that.
But you better have guts to stand up and be counted, or you don’t
belong to Paul.

	You say, “Why, he’s a servant of God.”

	The Holy Spirit is separating… He’s following Barnabas. Barnabas
listened to the wrong crowd. And Paul said, “Out.”

	He didn’t say, “You’re serpent seed.” He just said, “Get out;
can’t use you.”

	How could he? The guy went around preaching circumcision, when Christ
was circumcised for us—not the putting off of a little bit of your
flesh, but the circumcising your heart and your mind. You don’t
circumcise your heart, unless you circumcise your mind. Ha! Come on,
come on, come on, come on. I could illustrate that, but there’s not
much point. All right, listen:

105. How could this man, Cain, be a son of Adam? 1 John 3:12 says,
“He’s the son of the wicked one.”	

	But the New Testament is not just our only source. We go back here in
Deuteronomy 32, which we read a great deal of It. He said:

(2)	My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the
dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the
grass:

(3)	Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness
unto our God.

(4)	He is the Rock, his work is perfect: all his ways are judgment: a
God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.

(5)	They have corrupted themselves… (Why did they corrupt themselves?
Moses said, “Give ear, O heaven, and I’ll speak”… “God, I’m
going to talk. Angels, bear me witness. Now, hear, O earth.”)

	That man was challenging the whole world that he was the voice of God.
And standing there, knowing that he was going to say exactly what God
had to say, he said, “Put it out, if I’m one Word off.”

106. Hey, listen! You’ve got to have something to be able to do that,
or boy, are you a con artist. You better have something. And Moses had
it. He said: “My doctrine shall drop as the rain; my speech shall
distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and the
showers upon the grass.” 

	“Listen, you people: if you want to grow, (And there’s a promise
about that.) you had better get what I’ve got to say. If you want to
be nourished, if you want to live, if you want to come into this
place…” (Remember, Peter called the people ‘grass’.) 

	He said, “If you want something, you better get what I’ve got to
say. Now I’m going to publish the name of the Lord;” and he said,
“You better ascribe greatness unto Our God. He is the Rock; His work
is perfect; His ways are judgment.” 

	His Word is a judging Word, right off the bat. I don’t care if
anybody was there to get it or not. As soon as His Word goes out, and
there’s nobody there, then somebody rises up. That’s what always
happens. God had to send His Word before there was a man upon earth; His
Word was already there. As soon as He put the Word there, serpent seed
came along and did so and so, and God’s people did so and so. Right
there, the Word is a judging Word.

107.	Deuteronomy 32:

(4)	He is a Rock… (And so on.)

(5)	They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his
children: (That shouldn’t be in there at all. The spot they had is not
of Almighty God. God didn’t put blemishes on His kids.) they are a
perverse and crooked generation.

(6)	Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he
thy father that hath bought thee? 

	Now, right there he’s talking to everybody, the same as Paul did,
because Paul said, “In Him we live and move and have our being,” and
we are His offspring. Are you going to tell me that every single person
on this earth is a child of Adam? No way! Because Cain was a child of
the serpent. You’re looking at the fact, since the time of Abraham,
election has set in perfectly. And Abraham, brother/sister, is only a
type of election, because, as soon as Noah was the last true human being
without a wife, a true human being, there were no more true human
beings. Huh-uh. All a mixture—every one.

(7)	Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations:
ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell
thee.

	What’s he talking about? He’s telling Israel: “Listen, go back to
the beginnings.” He’s telling the future: you look back to this
time. In other words he’s saying, “Look, there is a people,
absolutely, that are of God, and they will receive the blessings of
Almighty God, and it has to do every single time with a promised land.
Now, watch it: He gave the Word in Eden. They turned it down; they lost
the kingdom of God established on earth. Even though physically, they
were not in that to begin with, they were placed there, showing you, as
a human being, will come to this place. It’s got to do with the earth,
every single time. See?

108. Now here’s the exact answer to the flood, Genesis 6. Notice what
happened in the flood:

(1)	And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the
earth, and daughters were born unto them,

(2)	That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair;
and they took them wives of all they chose.

	Now God, Who ordained marriage, could not say, “I’m sick and tired
of you birds. You’ve corrupted yourselves.” 

	If these women were of the same genealogy that the men were, if they
were generically and genetically the same, God could not do one thing
about their multiplying, because He said, “Multiply.” But Eve
didn’t multiply right, and these don’t multiply right.

(3)	And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for
that he also is flesh: (And, what does the flesh go to? Sex.) he’s
going to be cut down to a hundred and twenty years.

(4)	There were giants in the earth in those days; (Why? Because:) the
sons of God came in unto the daughters of men.

109. It was nothing but a big sex brawl. That’s where they came to the
place there were absolutely no more true human beings left, but these
were big men; they were smart men; and they could do just about anything
they wanted. And that’s how they got started messing with the earth,
because, you see, they would turn down the bloodlines. And, when they
turned down the bloodlines, the earth had to turn on them. 

	I don’t care what any scientist produces; it’s going to backfire.
Talk about genomes—billions, I guess. They’re trying to index:
A-B-C-D-E-F-G, and so on, and place them all in each other. 

	Now you’ve got an article somebody put on the board out there. I read
it. But I read an article you didn’t read. I read one from a Christian
magazine, a Christian. And what they’ve come across this in their
studies is this: that, if you follow genomes, (The way it looks.) you
follow them, there will be a people who do not have a free will; they
can’t make decisions. And they want everybody in the world to make a
decision for Christ. Can’t do it. “As many as are ordained unto
eternal life, believe.”

	Now they can stand there with the power of decision, all right, but
they’ll make that decision that way, while the righteous go right to
the Star of Bethlehem. All right. There’s what happened: they mingled
the seed; they got all messed up. All right.

110. What do you think happens at the end time? You don’t have to
worry about it. 2 Peter 2:

(1)	But there were false prophets among the people, even as there shall
also be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable
heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon
themselves swift destruction. 

	That means saying “No” to the Lord. How are you going to say
“No” to the Lord, unless the Lord said something? See? They won’t
connect this with Hebrews 12; they won’t connect this with Elijah;
they will not connect this with Malachi. They’ll sit here and tell
you, “Hey, listen, we’ve got the perfect Word of God, period.
That’s all we’ve ever known.”

	Well, I’ll say, “What about the Seven Seals?”

	“Well, who cares about them? We’ve got enough.”

	What about your Seven Thunders? Even Broomfield was smart enough to
know it was going to take someone to open that Book? Nice old guy;
he’s dead now. 

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

	Now It says, “Many are going to follow.” What is ‘pernicious
anemia’? It’s a fast, galloping form of where your blood turns to
water. It’s not just ‘anemia’; it’s pernicious. So, now at the
end time, there’s going to be an acceleration: people turning
absolutely from the Word of God.

111.	(3)	And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make
merchandise of you… (See?) 

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

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

(6)	Turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them
with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should
live ungodly; (Homosexuals)

(7)	And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the
wicked…

	Right in the churches the people are arguing: “Can we ordain
homosexuals?” “Are they of God?” “Is it true sexuality?” And
right in the church! Why don’t the jackasses get out of the church?
Because they’re jackasses. They’d sooner sit there and [Bro. V.
makes ‘jackass’ sounds...] “Honk!…this table…honk!…this
table…honk!…this table… honk! Go down here…honk.” Eating the
vomit.

	Oh, sure. I get tired of reading the rags: “We hate it; we hate it;
we hate it.”

	You evidently don’t hate it, or you’d get out! But that’s the
revelation that’s come up among them. It doesn’t say, “Stay there
and try to convert them.” He said, “Lot! Get out! because the
fire’s going to fall!

	Now the stupid Jews ordain women for rabbis. Crazy.

112. Now:

(9)	The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to
reserve the unjust for the day of judgment to be punished: (What does He
do? How does He reserve them? Gets them out.)

(10)	But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of
uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled,
they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities. (And so on, right down
the line. And, notice; in verse 12:)

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

	Seed of Adam? Forget it. The seed has to expire sometime, and this is
that generation.

(14)	…Eyes full of adultery… (I won’t have to read the rest. You
know exactly the truth of it.)

113. Now, all this is based upon Gen 3:14-15:

(14)	And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done
this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the
field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the
days of thy life:

(15)	And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy
seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his
heel.

	Now, what does it tell you back here in 2 Peter? “Reserved unto
judgment.” Animals are not reserved unto judgment, my brother/sister,
because they don’t have a soul; that is, an inner soul, a gene
that’s accountable. 

	These here do not have the inner soul, the gene that’s accountable as
God, as though they’re sons of God, but they do have souls, and they
are reserved unto judgment. An animal isn’t. What’s God going to do
judging animals? Don’t be silly.

	It tells you what these are: they sport themselves before you; (They
don’t give a rip.) they promise liberty; they themselves are servants
of corruption. “From whom a man is overcome, the same is bought into
bondage.” [2 Peter 2:19]

114. Haven’t the homosexuals tried to tell you, it’s liberty?
Haven’t the women, running around, taking their clothes off, and
acting like harlots—which they are—then, they try to tell you,
it’s liberty? And every time they take the step, they get deeper and
deeper and deeper into captivity, until I’m sorry for the poor,
married women that are heterosexual, child-bearing, are now producing
more AIDS than the free-living whore out there or the homosexual jerk on
the street. So, it’s over.

	“Oh, this is not a plague; we can figure this out. Oh, we’ll give
them oxygen; we’ll give them this…”

	Well, that’s all right by me. You can try it. It ain’t going to
work. These are just guys that promise you something that they can’t
deliver. See? “It’s better for them not to have known the way of
righteousness, than after knowing it, have turned from the holy
commandment delivered unto them.” [2 Peter 2:21]

	You say, “Well, when did they get it?”

	Under that man! [Pointing to Bro. Branham’s picture] starting roughly
in 1958 to 1965, seven solid years, and previous, although those were
the big years. Christ came down to take over His Church, or God did.
They didn’t want to give it to Him.

115. Israel did what Genesis 6 did: they mingled the seed until you come
absolutely to John 8, where Jesus himself said, “You are the children
of the devil, and the works of your father, you do.” 

(44)	You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you
will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the
truth, because there is no truth in him. (Who was the first murderer?
Cain.) When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own: for he is a liar, and
the father of it. 

	Who was the first liar? Cain. 

	You say, “The serpent was.”

	No. He said, “Didn’t God say it?” God did say it. Then, he said,
“You won’t really die.” That was a lie all right, but not like
this. He’s talking about the murderer and liar, and that’s Cain.

(46)	Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why not
believe me? 

(47)	He that is of God hears God's words: you are therefore not of God
because you can’t hear them. 

	It told you right there where it is. And today it is… Now it’s way
back there when Israel began to marry women they shouldn’t have
married. They allowed the people to take to themselves what they should
not have taken. They mingled the seed. The same thing was done in 2
Corinthians, when they begin to mingle the error with the truth and end
up in Rev 3:14-23, where we come to the purge, which I read it to you:
the church, the Jew, and the world all become purged.

116. Now I’m going to try to wind down, if I can. Here we are back to
2 Th 1:7-10, because this is what we’re looking at: the cursing and
the blessing, which is in there, though people get their eyes on the
cursing, and they simply won’t go to understand the blessing. They
don’t even know what it is, because their eye is on this big thing
down the road, and they don’t even know it’s gone on already. 2 Th
1:7-10:

(7)	And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall
be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, (Now, all right. When
are you in the world going to get your rest? And, when is the trouble?
The trouble is now, today.)

(7)	You that are troubled, you can rest today, at the time when the Lord
Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty messengers,

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

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

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

	All right. This is no doubt exactly Mt 3:12:

(12)	Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor,
and gather his wheat into the garner…

	It’s no doubt also over in Matthew 24, the division of the people;
when the Word of God comes, they separate. It’s also the time of Luke
17, when it’s the time of Noah and the time of Sodom and Gomorrah,
when the Bride is separated from the world. There’s a separation.
That’s exactly what we are talking about. It comes in that very same
period. It has everything to do with it, because you cannot bring all
these things up and not interrelate them, but you must put them, as the
prophet put them, in order, to understand it.

117. Now then, understand this: In Eden, there was God with a blessing
and a curse, not as though He Himself stood as a tyrant; but it is as It
said in Deuteronomy, which I have read to you. See? Now, let’s go
back, then, to Deuteronomy 1. We look at verse 8, and It says here:

(8)	Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land
which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to
give unto them and to their seed after them. (21)

(21)	Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and
possess it, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear
not, neither be you discouraged.

	Over here again in Dt 4:8:

(8)	And what nation is there so great, that has statutes and the
judgments so righteous as this law which I have set before you this day.
(What day? The day that they are going to go in and take the land.)

	And in Dt 30:15:

(15)	See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and
evil. (“This day have I set before thee.” The day of when? The day
of going in to get the land where it’s going to be.)

	And also 19:

(19)	I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, (To make a
record.) that I have set before you life and death, blessing and
cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

(20)	That thou may love the Lord they God and thou mayest obey his
voice, and cleave unto him for he is thy life and the length of thy
days, that thou mayest dwell in the land which the Lord swore unto thy
father, Abraham… (And so on.)

118. In other words he’s laying it out here: that you cannot get into
this land, you cannot escape the curse, you cannot love God, you cannot
obey God, you cannot have your life, you cannot be with your seed,
unless you take this Word, because It is set before the people in this
hour. You cannot separate It. See? The Jews are trying to do that right
now. 

	They’re saying, “Look, we need the land; never mind the Word.”

	Let us say, “Hold it! Without the Word, forget the land.”

	And the people that said that are right, not the other ones. See? The
Zionist—he wants the land, and he figures, “If I get the land,
that’s going to do it.”

	Now, in a little measure that’s true, because they’ve got to be
back in the land. But, when you get back in the land, ask yourself the
question, “What got us out of the land?” Idolatry. What was
idolatry? It’s turning from the Word, turning from what the revealed
Word said as constituting idolatry. And you get it all there in
Deuteronomy. And then, you get it through the judges, like Samuel; and
then, you get it time after time through the prophets—every single
time, and each time, like under Elijah, to turn from idolatry. See?

119. Now the disobedient children were not cursed. I didn’t say
children of disobedience. I said the disobedient children were not
cursed, but the children of disobedience were. They were called the
Balaamites—children of Baal. They paid a price of suffering to refine
their character and bring forth their godlikeness and fruit, as It says
in Hebrews 12.

	The earth and the beasts, and consequently all from the earth were
cursed—in other words, their bodies. You can’t tell me that sickness
is not accursed, and you can’t tell me death is not accursed, but what
is the curse to? It’s a curse to that earth. And, remember; Jesus’
Blood, falling upon the earth, actually laid the way for a resurrection
of these bodies which came from the earth. It actually laid the grounds
for the justification of the earth, for the earth itself to come back to
a restoration. See?

	All that can be redeemed will be redeemed; but the rest of the life
will be punished and annihilated. Now, over here, look at it, Malachi 4:
Bro. Branham brings it to our attention:

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

	That is annihilation. See? Root from the bottom up. All right. 

120. Blessing and cursing are side by side. The righteous are never
cursed and never perish. Now they can die, but they’re not going to
perish. See? In other words they’re saved in God’s divine order. The
tell-tale difference between righteous and wicked, and who will be
blessed or cursed, lies in the receiving or rejection of the Word of
correction, when the corrected Word has already been changed by
deception. 

	Now the Bible tells us the Word has been changed. Yet, you get people
say, “Bless God, I can read It. I’ve got the Holy Ghost. Hey,
don’t tell me about a prophet coming.”

	How much Holy Ghost has he got, when the Bible says a prophet is
coming? How much Holy Ghost has a man got, when he knows there’s 2200
different organizations or denominations right now, and they’re all
fighting about the Bible—the majority of them. Even the goof-offs that
simply take this as, you know, some kind of little esoterical message.
They’ll tell you Jesus, like the Bethlehem of years ago…a guy with
…?… spirit, said, “Bethlehem is the inner belly in
here”…Christ is something in your mind.

	They go to the Bible regularly. Mary Baker Eddy, Christian Science,
Unity, all of these things: they’ll go to the Bible. Let’s say that
there’s even just sixteen hundred that talk about Christianity. You
get them to sit down and say, “Here, what is the truth? Now, one of
you prove it.”

121. William Branham did it in India. They just sat there. Ooom…. 

	What Methodist wrote home to his bishop? What Muslim priest, Shiite,
Jain, the rest, ever contacted the Alytah, [Ayatollah] Khomeini. The old
Alitoh? What do they call him? You know, the old boy over there, the big
shot. You got this Rafsanjani, now, taking his place. 

	Why don’t they contact them and say, “Hey! You know what this guy,
Branham, did? Do you understand the challenge? We sat there like a bunch
of dumb bunnies. At least investigate this bird, so we can find out how
the jerk did it.”

	What did they do?

	“Uh…”

	If the militia hadn’t stepped in, they would have ripped Bro. Branham
to pieces. Why? Because they thought it was the man. Touch him, touch
him, touch him… Now William Branham’s some kind of a god, just like
they did Paul. See? This one’s Jupiter. This one’s Mercury; old
quick silver: just the same old heathenism.

	They cannot get it. The Word has been changed by deception. It must be
changed back. 

122. There is no Word of either Adam or Eve rejecting correction. They
got fooled; they disbelieved. Adam did a stupid thing; worse than she
did. But there was no place where they refused correction. Actually,
they couldn’t, because God said, “This is what’s going to
happen;” and it did. 

	And today, at the end of time, the Bride does not deny correction. She
does not turn it aside, because the Word has come and her womb, the
mind, is closed. Eve was deceived; Adam knowingly sinned. God gave the
correction. And again note: there is no Word that either rejected. 

	But, watch the next scene: there’s Cain and Abel. Abel receives
correction; Cain refuses to believe and stands by his deception that he
is a child of God. 

	“And it wasn’t sex, because, after all, the animals did it, too,
and you know they don’t intermingle.” So, he said, “That’s just
a fluke. I’m a child of Adam.” He didn’t turn to the Word of God:
he defied God. 

	Abel dies and waits for the resurrection, where there follows the
blessing; and his record is in the Book of Hebrews. But you try to find
the record of Cain there and see what you come up with. 

123. Now, let’s go back again to 2 Thessalonians: blessing and cursing
at this hour. We’re going to apply it to understanding how we ought to
understand It, remembering this: at the end time Hebrews 6 proves
there’s a vindicated prophet comes on the scene. The world, like
Israel, tastes the power of the Word of God and the world to come and
saw the Word of God in action, but they turned It down, “crucified to
themselves the Son of God afresh.” 

	So, reading again, 2 Th 1:7:

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

	Now we’ve read It all the way through previously. Let’s jump to
verse 10:

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

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

	That’s the way It reads. The other is an interpolation. And the
interpolation always messes people up, because they don’t realize
it’s an interpolation. They think this is blanket coverage to every
single person. It isn’t. It’s to you that are troubled by the
troublemakers. Who are the troublemakers? The deceivers? Serpent seed,
religion—falsely so-called. You that have trouble by those that devise
things, like at the end time. It’s all through Timothy; it’s all
through Peter. Bro. Branham read It time after time after time—little
excerpts. 

124. “You that are troubled”—troubled in your mind, because
you’ve got wrong doctrine—everything else there. You are coming to a
place of relaxation at the time when the Lord Jesus is revealed from
heaven and His mighty messengers, and that is the time when He comes.
And you’ll know He comes, because it can’t be something that’s
done and you not know it. That’s the time He comes to be glorified in
His saints. And you will know that you are a believer on the grounds
that the testimony of Paul is believed in that day. And, remember: 1Th
4-16 is hidden, because nobody knows what is the ‘shout, the voice and
the trumpet’. That’s under the Seals. That’s the only place
you’re going to get it, is under the Seventh Seal. 

	Now you, at that time, will know that you have positively received the
original positive Message without adulteration. That’s when you enter
into your rest, and you can relax; because that’s what it’s all
about. 

125. Now, if you think you’ve got to produce the Word, you’re wrong.
There is a portion of the Word that you must produce; that is true. You
mustn’t lie, you mustn’t steal, you mustn’t gamble, you mustn’t
do this, you mustn’t do that. That is true. There is a conduct; there
is a morality goes with it. That is absolutely true. But every single
thing you can produce apart from this Word will get you nowhere. You
have to have faith to put you in that Rapture. 

	The Rapture is based one hundred percent upon faith. And there is where
faith starts, as it started with Abraham, whom God confronted time after
time, and also by vision. And, when it came to Moses, God said,
“Prophets receive dreams and visions, but it is not so with my
servant, Moses, with whom I speak apparently, even absolutely visibly,
face-to-face, lip-to-lip, ear-to-ear.”

	He did the same with Paul. He did the same with William Branham. These
are the things that we are looking at today

126. So, when you read this, you must understand that Paul is not
talking to you when he talks in verse 8 concerning flames of fire in
judgment and punishment, because the righteous do not burn. It is the
chaff that is burned—only after the wheat is gathered in the garner.
Now that’s what he’s saying here: the wheat is going be gathered.
“To you who are troubled, rest with this; relax.” Relaxation comes
at the time of 1Th 4-16. At that time is when you will be glorified, and
He will be glorified in you. And that’s exactly this hour that Bro.
Branham says, “We have come to the place where Jesus said, ‘In that
day you will know I am in the Father, you in me, and I in you.’” And
he said, “That is this hour.”

	So, here we stand absolutely in a revealed faith based upon a pure
vindication.

127. Now then, He says, “Look, because when I come, it is always
blessing and always cursing. It is never one or the other.” No way,
shape and form. You can’t find blessing stand alone; you cannot find
cursing stand alone. And I can tell you why: because It says right in
Genesis: here is all of it, you can have it, it’s yours, use it. Ha!
Ha! Watch that one tree, or you’re gone.”

	Right? Same God stood there, said the same thing. 

	Then, you cannot cut them asunder. 

128. So, all this long talk is for one big long reason. And I hope you
got it. Never, ever more will this church ever look at the parallelism
of Scripture, of blessing and cursing, and say, “Oh! Oh! That could be
for me;” because, if you are a child of Adam, spiritually, being in
Christ first, humanly in Adam—because there’s a divine or spiritual,
as well as a natural physical election… For you to be in the physical,
and of God, you would have been in the beginning; because, if you had no
representation then, you’ve got none in heaven now. If you weren’t
in that stream of life, there’s no way you’ll get into it. 

	But, if you were in it, then you follow the same as Jesus, because Bro.
Branham said, “We categorically come the same as he, and he as us,
except he had a theophanic form we don’t have.” He’s saying, “I
came out of God; I go back.”

	And, when you go back, you go back to the pure form of the physical
that God gave you in the first place, except it’s glorified. You are
not of those that are cursed. The Bible teaches this very, very
thoroughly. 

129. So, here we see even in Malachi 4, the same law—blessing and
cursing: “Behold, I’m going to come, destroy the wicked, destroy the
proud, leaving neither root nor branch; but unto you that fear my
Name…” That’s the very words that Moses said. Remember Horeb,
remember Deuteronomy, the Name. 

	“…That fear my Name, love my Name.” How are you going to do it?
You can’t do it outside. “Shall arise with healing in his wings. and
you shall go forth and grow up.” These guys get annihilated. You start
to grow up.

	Why? How do you do it? Because in the Millennium, it’s a further
place of sanctification. You never knew what that was; you missed it.
How are you going to catch up to it? How are you going to know to say,
“Tree, move here,” and this and that? 

	How would you… Listen, if it was handed carte blanche to you right
now, and God suddenly opened the door between the Millennium and here,
and said, “Okay, kid, go on in. See how you make out.” you’d draw
back scared—petrified. If you didn’t, you’re screwier than I think
you are. 

	How would you dare? You’re not ready for it. You’re not fit for it.
See? There’s got to be some adaptation made. It’s further
sanctification. 

130. Now, look what he says here:

(3)	And you’ll tread down the wicked; they’ll be ashes under the
soles of your feet… (Other Scripture says, “You’re going to walk
in their blood,” dry blood.)

(4)	Remember you the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him
in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.

(5) 	Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the
great and dreadful day of the LORD (Now, listen: this is what is 2 Th
1:7-19.)

(6)	And he shall turn the hearts of the children back to the fathers,
lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.	

	In other words He says right here, “Look, I’m going to do it
anyway, but I am not going to come and do it at that time so the earth
burns. I am going to send Elijah, and at the time of the burning and the
time of Him coming, I’m going to get a Bride out of here, and she
won’t be destroyed with the wicked.” 

131. Now you’re going to go through the Book of Isaiah from now on.
You can go through book after book, and in there you’re going to see
blessings; you’re going to see cursings. You’re going to read the
Scripture, and it’s going to sound as though, “Hey! I could miss all
of this.” Is there a way you can miss it, when God made a promise?
That, when He could swear by none greater, He swore by Himself, as He
lifted His Hand to His Own heaven, His Own government, to stand by His
Own Word and say, “Abraham, it is THUS SAITH THE LORD.”

	And He came down, and He said, “This time you’re going to have,
absolutely, a son by Sarah.”

	And Sarah says, “Ho! Ho! Ho! I’ve heard that one before.”

	She didn’t do it out loud. She did it in her heart. 

	And God says, “Why did you laugh, Sarah?”

	She said, “Well, I didn’t laugh.”

	He said, “But you did laugh.”

	And Bro. Branham said, “Except for Abraham standing there, He could
have destroyed her.”

	But, you see, she was a part of Abraham. He couldn’t destroy Eve. She
was a part of Adam. How is  He going to destroy Bride, if we’re part
of Him? How can God come into judgment, if Bro. Branham said, “You
never even did it, little Bride.” He said, “There’s going to come
a day when the whole thing is thrown back on Satan.” 

132. Now that’s what you’re looking at this world here today, this
very world that’s cursed. Do you think, brothers and sisters, the
world is going to yield to these people today something that’s going
to do something for it? Forget it. I say to these goof balls; I don’t
know. I guess they’re goof balls, latter rain kinda stuff. 

	“Why,” they said, “we’re going to get vitamins out of the Dead
Sea and live forever.”

	And I said, “Oh, brother, in the face of this Scripture…?”

	What Bible are they reading? What Bible are they reading? They’re not
reading the Bible I read to you. 

133. The serpent seed race now has the earth conspiring against them.
They’re not going to stop all those wells. [Oil wells burning in
Kuwait at the end of the Gulf War.] If they do, it’s going to be a
tremendous destruction and cost just to save one. They haven’t stopped
one yet to my knowledge. They don’t know how to do it. 

	The earthquakes that take place… These big dams they built…
They’re going to build the biggest dam in the world now in India. I
thought they had the biggest dam already; maybe it’s in Egypt, the
Aswan. What’s going to happen when they get it built? Earthquake is
going to come and knock it out. India has an earthquake band clean at
the top. It would take out all of India, millions of square miles, in
one fell swoop. 

	For a while they could get bacteria, good bacteria. You know, there’s
aerobic and anaerobic. The aerobic are not bad, but the anaerobic are
very, very bad. You can kill them with oxygen. I don’t think I’ve
got too much use for any bacteria, but there’s good and bad; like your
stomach’s got good little things in it and bad little things in it.
All right. 

134. They take things out of the earth to counteract what man has
brought on himself by very foolish things. You know what happens? The
earth finally loses its power to purify itself. Where are you going to
turn? 

	What about that guy who was bashing gays? He swears to high heaven
he’s touched no woman but his wife…never touched a man. He went
around bashing gays. Do you think one day he’d put his little old
snotty fist under a guy’s tooth? He’s got AIDS. 

	They’re trying to tell you: you can kiss and not get AIDS. The real
truth is: you can sneeze and give them to somebody.

	The earth can’t purify itself any longer, brother/sister. It started
with Cain—Abel’s innocent blood. Right? Typing Jesus Christ, the
Lamb. “They crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh…trample
under foot the blood of the Covenant.” Once more it’s back to blood.

	The earth’s finished. You can’t look for hope any more. There’s
no way. See? But the righteous will not be afflicted. They can be sick;
they can have problems. There are no two ways about it. God will chase
them, if they misbehave; but He’s always had His Seed. When Elijah
said, “Lord, I’m the only guy here,” He said, “Listen, there are
seven thousand who haven’t bowed the knee.” [Romans 11:4]

135. How many are out there? I don’t know. How many foolish virgin?
It’s not mine to know. All I know is this: blessing and cursing come
right down the line. There’s a little line drawn here—on one side is
the righteous; on the other side is the unrighteous. And, let me tell
you: God is not going to put a curse upon His righteous. They are not
going to be destroyed, for God has come to bless. 

	And that’s the secret of the message this morning; to know once and
for all… You cannot find, as far as I’m concerned, there is no place
I can be proven wrong by the Scripture. Now you might get your wires
crossed, being legalists. That’s your business. It’s your business.
But you can’t stay with the Word, as taught by Bro. Branham, and find
any place where he said that the righteous would perish with the wicked,
and God would visit upon them those things that are mentioned in the
Bible. They will not get it, because He said, “One thousand will fall
at thy left hand and ten thousand at thine right hand. It shall not come
nigh thee; only with thine eye thou shall see it.” [Psalms 91:7-8]

136. There’s a promise this morning, brother/sister, that God is here,
and He has… Listen, remember the Word. He said, “Let’s see if He
repents and leaves a blessing.” What does He say in Malachi? He said,
“I’m coming to destroy, but look,” He said, “I’m going to send
Elijah, the prophet.”

	That’s what ‘repentance’ means. It means that God has got a plan
to take you through. In other words He said, “I’m not sticking with
this cursing business to get them all.” He said, “I’ve got a door
of escape for my people.”	So, that’s where you see this repentance
thing come in. 

	People say, “Well, God’s going to change His mind.”

	God’s not going to change His mind about nothing. It just means God
begins to rack His mind and set His mind in order. You and I can pick it
up and say, “There it is, bless God. I see what’s in this hour
today.”

	And I tell you, that’s why He said, “Look up, because your
redemption draws near.” [Luke 21:28]

	Blessing or cursing, brother. Take which way you want. I say He’s
come to bless us, and I say at the same time, there’s got to be
somebody cursed. By the grace of God, I trust it’s not us. Not that I
want anybody cursed, but I cannot take from God what God’s Word has
said. 

	Let’s rise and be dismissed. Next Saturday; seven o’clock. Sorry to
keep you so long, but I wanted to finish the subject.

	Heavenly Father, as we go today to our homes we pray, Lord, that the
main thoughts shall never leave them. We just try to take every single
Scripture we can, from Genesis right to Revelation, to show the truth
that absolutely there is that truth: the righteous God You stand here as
a righteous Judge; and there is commendation, there is condemnation;
there is blessing, there is cursing.

	And we know, Lord God in Heaven, we see the Word brought to us by the
prophet cleans the whole thing up, clarifies the whole thing for us;
though, Lord, at this time we know our minds have been so blotted with
the false doctrine of the world, the false premises, the doubts and the
fears, the lack of legitimacy in the revealed Word, the lack of the
cohesive, solid direction without missing a point until this hour. Then,
the prophet came, Lord, opening the Seals and bringing forth under the
Thunders, and bringing us into ‘this which is absolutely Perfect has
come’.

	Lord God, we admit it; we stand in it. We also admit, Lord, that this
humanity part had better get out of the way more and more and more, and
our minds had better get more and more out of the way to see the truth,
because there will not be this true rest to enter into, until we accept
this absolute truth: that this is the hour of the testimony and the
witness of the apostle Paul, and we have come to the place of rest,
because You have come upon us with your mighty angels—not to bring
destruction on us, but to bring revelation, truth and mercy; as It says
in Ephesians, Lord, “When that Spirit comes to set the Church in
order.”

	Help your people to see that, Lord, and be lifted up; not carried away
any longer by the false teaching of the insecurity brought upon people
by the false doctrines of Pentecost and Methodism which end up in the
chaff, but, Lord, unto the eagle’s scream to bring a people right back
to God, so that He can bear them up on His Wings and finally take a
people away in the Rapture.

	Lord, may we get our eyes on that today, settle on as never before,
and, as Bro. Branham told us, “If you’re just one in that whole town
that believes, or maybe even one of many,” he said, “you believe
that you are that one.”

	And here we are this morning, Lord, quite a number, maybe eighty people
here for all I know, and every one has the same privilege of believing,
locking in, Lord, to the truth this morning and standing right there
knowing, even as dear old Spurgeon said many, many years ago, “It’s
up to us to believe God for the impossible, and leave the results up to
Him.”

	Lord, we open our hearts somehow by grace, if You’ll just pour it in
this morning. That’s what we’re asking for: a little more something
from You, Lord, that wave of revelation, understanding, as we open our
hearts, Lord, to claim the victory and the promise and excluding every
thought. May it be, O God, from this moment.

	Help us to raise the barrier by the Holy Ghost against us. Put down
that flood of the enemy of unbelief, disbelief, wrong belief—all of
those things—casting it all out as an unclean thing, and stand not as
a man who has been cleansed, waiting for something to come in—and
something wrong could come in—but stand there in faith, waiting for
the true revelation to take over every part of our being, which we know,
Lord, is certainly believing this Message unto a healing into
immortality, ‘healing in the wings’.

	Lord, may there not be one sick person amongst us, we pray. Heal the
sick amongst us. Help us all, O God, that we may be better Christians,
more favorably inclined, Lord, to manifest Your Presence and Your power,
known, Lord, for our godly ways and our manners, and the things, Lord,
which are from You and right and correct. And we’ll give You the glory
and the honor, because we ask it in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

	“Take the Name of Jesus With You.”

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