Comments #25

12/9/89-12/25/89

Bro. Lee Vayle

 

34min 30sec…I want to read you something here instead of putting it on
tape. I was going to put it on tape but I’ll take my time and then cut
back. You don’t have to shorten your song service. But Brother Branham
mentions here about the things coming together. Israel’s got to
…it’s budded already… for the first time in 20 years it’s got
its flag. And then he says, now watch, he said, "When all other trees
begin to put forth, the Roman Catholic Church has had the greatest sweep
it’s ever had. The Protestant Church has had the greatest revival
it’s had. Billy Graham,  Jack Schuler, Pentecostals - Oral Roberts,
Tommy Hicks..." of course he didn’t mention Tommy Osborne but all
those men are there in his mind. "Notice. The powers has had a revival,
the national powers."

"There’s revival going on now, who’s the greatest power? Communism?
Everybody you hear preachers stand in the pulpit talking, 'Oh let us
fear Communism.' Nonsense. Show me in the scripture where Communism will
rule the world. Romanism will rule the world not Communism. Look at King
Nebuchadnezzar’s vision, the Word of the Lord the head of gold brass
on down to Roman feet which is iron never changed. The stone came down
while it was still iron (and smote it?). Remember that, that’s
scripture. Remember at the end it was mixed with clay, weakness, clay
and iron. The meeting they had with Khrushchev and Eisenhower.
Khrushchev means mud or clay. Eisenhower means iron. And so it’s very
plain there. See, they couldn’t mix. They couldn’t make any
agreement. "Khrushchev took off his shoe and beat the desk. They will
not agree."

"Who’s going to rule? Rome will rule. A confederation of churches with
Catholicism bound together. Now isn’t the pope inviting all the
Protestant churches in? Aren’t they going in? What about you
Pentecostals? Same thing federation of churches there you are. That
seeds got to come to pass. See they got to mingle it. The whole thing
got to be in a mixture. This has got to happen it’s got to mature.
It’s time to mature. The people what do they do?  Organize and kept
building greater buildings bigger organizations greater denominations.
What’s happened? Same thing exactly the Bible said they’d do.
That’s what the God prophet Jesus Christ said would take place. The
Jews would be restored there’d be a great revival amongst them,
nations coming together. There’d be Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian
revival amongst them Pentecostals. Nations striving against nations seed
matures. Israel becomes a nation after twenty-two hundred years."

Another great seed was planted he said in the last days in 2Timothy
chapter 3 there would come a falling away from the Bible faith. That’s
right. Is that a seed? Is that a promise?" Never thought of it that way
did we? That’s just as much the Word of God as any promise that you
and I have about the New Jerusalem. Sure, it’s wonderful how these
things are brought out. Just stop and listen.

 

39min33sec…Brother Branham also said in ‘62…I think it was ‘62
wasn’t it…the earthquakes, he said that was the beginning of
sorrows. Most people do not identify scripture according to the Spirit
of Prophecy which wrote it. They identified according to how they feel
about it and how they think they can place it according to their own
understanding as they read the scripture. And that was the fallacy in
the day of Jesus and they crucified the Son of Man. And they’ll do
that to themselves afresh in this hour. They’ve already done it. You
cannot actually understand prophecy unless a prophet gives it to you. I
don’t care who you are. I learned that when I was 22 years of age;
maybe one of the few people in 5 billion people today who learned it. I
waited for a prophet not even knowing there would be a prophet. But I
knew there’d have to be a prophet someday to somebody or nobody would
get it. 22 years of age by the Grace of God. 

  

42min 27sec…Listen let’s get this flat. The Word of God doesn’t
fail. We’re in a process now of getting out of here. Lift up your
heads and rejoice because your redemption hasn’t only drawn nigh, it
is here, for the Pillar of Fire leads us to the Millennium.

 

55min 05sec… Hey, don’t ever try to get in the way of my ministry
and I mean it. I’ll come out swinging with four by fours and I’m
honestly being sweet about it. You might not think so. You may think
I’m lifted up in pride. That’s not it. I’ve got to account to God.
I’m responsible for what’s said up here. It’ll meet me. So you see
there’s a toughness that’s with me and with you. But my toughness is
not here to hurt you. It’s here to protect you, to help you and to
discharge my responsibility.

 

1hr 6min 20 sec… That’s why they say you got to come to the place
where you don’t fear. You begin to quieten yourself down. This I think
is why yoga, Zen Buddhism, and some of these religions that inculcate an
exercise are very, very popular, because people cannot apprehend the
scripture. Now that puts us on the spot this morning. Because Brother
Branham said, "Take this Message for your healing".

 

1hr 8min …  So if we can just begin to learn somewhere where Brother
Branham said it and it’s in the scripture; the linking up of the
vitality that John spoke of I wish above all else that ye may prosper
and be in health as your soul prospers. There should be without regard
to age because Brother Branham said that’s true; a healing process. I
like that! I’d like to have it. Now how much would I like to have it?
That’s where active faith takes over, not passive. The passive faith
is you’re going to be changed if you die you’ll come out of the
ground. If you’re standing here and you’re Bride you’ll be
changed. You don’t have a thing to do with that. That is in your genes
from the genes of God. But in the mean time, maybe how well we feel has
to do with the active faith. That’s good thinking.

 

1hr 10min… That’s what Brother Branham said, "You got to get worse
to get better". So the Bible says look up when all these bad signs that
people call bad signs. You look up because your redemption draweth nigh.
That’s strange isn’t it? Some things that are tough and really bad
are good signs. You know if the devil didn’t plague you, you’d know
one thing. You sure weren’t a child of God. If you didn’t fall into
temptation you know, that is to say that it came your way and you were
touched by it and in the sense that it was very appealing. You’d know
either you were dead. You sure weren’t a child of God. Remember Jesus
was the Great Child of God.  That’s right. He was the only Begotten
Son the only one of that particular manner.

We are of another manner although sons. Tempted on three ways; his
appetite he was hungry, take a short cut. Do something that is…what is
it like?… like communism? They're getting this modern science to the
place where everything is run by a touch of a button. The next thing is,
who is going to touch the button? So Satan said, "Now come on, take a
short cut. Don’t work. Don’t, you know,  don't pay any attention to
that scripture back there that says man’s got to work and eat by the
sweat of his brow."  Touch a button. So we get tempted. We want to take
it easy when we’re supposed to be rigorous, hard soldiers.

Then he said to jump off the roof; be spectacular. You know, big flash
in the pan. And the third thing he says, "Forget God. Worship me."
That’s a lot of temptations and if you’re not tempted, you don’t
belong in the mold of the Son of Man, you don’t do it. In fact,  He
took our mold to get tempted. So what I’m leading up to is this.
Brother Branham said, "Take this Message for your healing." And you
know, I’m going to stick with it. I’m going to stick with this Word
of which Brother Branham said, "Nothing outside this Message will come
to life". You say, "Well, what about those guys that have all these
great healing campaigns and you see all these healings?" It’s going to
bring death. We’re going to talk about it this morning. I got it all
lined up from this Satan’s Eden. 

 

1hr 20min...44sec…When the disciples came back, they said there are
people who are casting out devils and things in Your Name. And there
were those which withstood Jesus and they said, "Well, maybe we should
call down fire out of heaven. I think we ought to have a corner on
this." And Jesus rebuked them and in one place and he said, You don’t
know of what manner of spirit you’re of. And he also let them know
that healing was something which he was highly gratified to see the
people obtain.

He said, "I saw Satan fall like lightening out of heaven". And Brother
Branham referred that to the unseating of the power of Satan in the
ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ. We saw the same thing here when
Brother Branham entered buildings. Time after time I heard him say it
and didn’t know what he was saying. He said I take every spirit in
this building under my control in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for
the glory of God the Father. And there wasn’t one person could hide if
he tried.

We also saw Satan fall from heaven. Because if he fell back there
Brother Branham made the emphasis how much more in this hour. So we
ought not to just take these prayer request as something  which we’re
gratified to pray about and as a part of our service. But we ought to
really take them to heart and take them home with us and do more sincere
praying. And that’s incumbent upon us because one day we’ll stand
before God and He’ll ask us, "What did you do about it?"

Now you know that I do not have prayer lines like I once had in my
ministry because that’s not what my ministry is. Brother Branham said
everybody doesn’t pray for the sick any more than everybody teaches;
or everybody's a pastor; everybody’s this or that. But let me tell you
something. If we honestly pull together and believe and get rid of our
little dissentions of which...perhaps on Wednesday night I’ll be with
you, I’m sure to be preaching. Either this Wednesday or next Sunday
and not this Sunday; I want to talk about certain things and level with
you and I want you to level with me. And I really mean it. Because let's
face it because there’s nothing hid which shall not be uncovered, not
suggesting anything bad amongst you. But we must keep coming to a more
open specific understanding of the reality which is in this Word and
which is amongst ourselves. What church order is really about as
pertaining to Headship of Almighty God through His Word and you cannot
separate them. 

 

1hr 23min 58sec…In the meantime we’re going to just be working along
with the Word of the Lord as preached by Brother Branham. Which
according to some people; we are heretical. We are a cult. We are a 
very terrible people. But I must admit and you know that it is true what
I’m going to tell you that I take Brother Branham’s sermons just as
the Bible itself. I’ve always said that William Branham preached the
Bible for this day in twentieth century English. And I have done my
share by degrading it and bringing it down to the gutter level of the
people. Now you know what I mean. I use slang and I don’t pull my
punches. Out of the pulpit I will, I’m not interested. People can do
what they want anytime they want to do it, not that I approve. But there
is one thing; I wish to meet the people in the vernacular and the
understanding of this hour because I cannot meet them in yester year
with a Victorian sentiment and that which was done in a closet. It’s
all in the open. Then you address it in the open.

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