Corruptibility Putting on Incorruptibility # 1

 

Bro. Lee Vayle   -  February 6,1983

 

	Heavenly Father we're so very appreciative of the fact that you're here
in our midst, that all doors can be shut and locked, and You can still
enter in which You did and surprised the disciples.  But, here at the
end time You have said,  “I stand at the door, and knock, and if any
man hear my voice, and open that door, I'll come in.”  And, Lord, then
if You of Your own accord, would come in to a room without invitation,
simply to demonstrate and show Yourself, the resurrected One, how much
more then will You come in, if we open that door, and we by grace, have
opened that door?  Lord, we believe we have.  We believe this is the
hour of Your Presence.

	 We have the best we know have made You more than welcome, especially
in the sense of our own undoings and our own ways.  For, what are we in
Your Presence, O God?  Yet You said You would come in. Now, we expect
that as never before, to see a fulfillment.  To know we are in Your
Presence, and absolutely unveiled according to Your Word.  Veiled, yet
unveiled.  And, we accept You, know for a surety, You are in the midst
of the Bride.  And we appreciate that.  We stand, we understand it,
Lord,  by revelation we understand it.  And, we just count it as a fact,
it's something, reality is what it is, Lord.  We're very grateful for
it.  Now, help us in the study of Your Word, which we know You will do.
We just know that You will do, Lord.  There's no "if's", "and's" or
"but's" about it.  We praise You for it, and glorify Your Great Name in
Jesus name, we pray.  Amen.  You may be seated.

Now, certainly nice to be back here, and of course, you get to the place
where there's no place like home.  Even if it's like your mother's
cooking.  Which might just about kill the neighbour's dog.  But, you
like it, because you're used to it.  Well however, that's not the case
here.  I'm very happy to be back with you, because this is really home. 
And, it's got to the place where to go away from here, is to break my
trend of thought, and to be disruptive. So, I just don't know how much
more I'm going to get away, or  even if I'd bother to get away.  A lot
of that is a matter of my own personal, (you know) personal,
personality, if there's uch a thing as that.  As I told them in
Columbus, there's two men in the Bible that are fantastic; Paul the
aged, and John the beloved. Now, here stands Lee Vayle the cruddy.  So,
ho ho ho, you know. [laughter] What are you going to do?  I'm here, and
you're here, and we love each other, and, that accounts for a lot. 
Counts for everything.

	 I want to get into a little study today.  I was going to just more or
less talk without notes.  But something crossed my mind yesterday, and I
began making notes.  And, it was something that I found hadn't crossed
my mind.  So I made my notes anyway.  Now, I may never get back to what
crossed my mind. Or at least, thought it crossed my mind.  But,
eventually I will.  And what came to my mind was about corruptibility
putting on incorruptibility.  And so that's the title of the message;
'Corruptibility Putting on Incorruptibility'. And, before I even read
the exact words from the Scripture, that you're already acquainted with,
because, I know you are.  I would like to just mention to you now that,
what I'm going to read is literally, a sort of a corruption, of what I'm
going to get into.  Which means that... I'm going to use this as a
starting point.  Because, it's valid, and yet I suppose I could go
directly to other Scripture, to get to the core or the heart of what I
have in mind.  But, it's related.  And so I'm starting here, and then
going rapidly into the meat of the subject.  Hope I haven't confused
you.  If I have it's all right, you wouldn't be the first time you're
confused, and it won't be the last time.   

1 Corinthians 15: 51-57.  Now, you knew of course, I'd read from there
because, that's where corruptibility puts on incorruptibility.  But, we
want to ferret out, what it's all about.  

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

	(52) 	In (the atoms), in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump:
(not 				before, that's the last Church Age message)  for the trumpet
shall 				sound, ...

	Now, evidently, Paul is warning the people that they're not going to
believe this at the end time. That there will be an end time Trumpet,
that evidently is Revelation 10:7.  Now, they're not going to accept it.
 They will accept, and desire the change.  Everybody wants money, but
nobody wants to work for it.  (Yep.)  Hallelujah.  Bring on the
socialist government.  Everybody starves.  So, everybody wants
incorruptibility, but, nobody wants a trumpet. (See?)

	Now It says.

 	(52) 	... the trumpet shall sound, (maybe a lot of folk are going to
miss it.) 			and the dead shall be raised incorruptible,(at that time) 
and we 				shall be changed. (So that makes everybody changed.) 

	(53) 	For this corruptibility (which is corrupting now)  must put on 		
	(incorruptibility,) and this mortal must put on immortality.

	(54) 	So when this (corruptibility, that which is corrupting)  shall
have put 			on (incorruptibility), and this mortal shall have put on
immortality, 			then (and not before then)  shall be brought to pass the
saying that is 			written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

	(55) 	O death, where is thy sting? O (death), where is thy victory?

	(56) 	The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. 

	Other words, that's the policeman that says, "I saw you do it." The
witness says, “Yes, I saw him do it.” You're stuck.  

	(57) 	... thanks be (unto) God, (who) giveth us the victory through our
Lord 			Jesus Christ.

3.	At the time of the Trumpet, which evidently people aren't even
interested in, but they do like the result. They like the little old
story we read years ago, you know.  It was a little lesson in morals,
and industry.  A little red hen found a grain of wheat, and she said,
“Who will help me plant this grain of wheat?”  “Not I” said the
pig, “Not I” said the cat, “Not I” said the rat, “Not I”
said anybody else. And she said, “Well, I'll do it myself.”  Now,
she said, “Who will help me water this grain of wheat of wheat?”
“Not I” said the rat, “Not I” said the cat, “Not I” said the
pig, “Not I,” said the rest.  So, she said, “I'll water it
myself.”  So, there came a time when the plant came to maturity, and
she said, “Who will help me harvest this wheat?”  “Not I” said
the rat, “Not I” said the cat, “Not I” said the pig, “Not I”
said the dog.  So she said, “I'll do it myself.”  So, she said,
“Who will help me mill this bunch of wheat?”   “Not I” said the
cat, “Not I” said the rat, “Not I” said the dog, “Not I”
said the pig. ” So she said, “I'll do it myself.”  So, she said,
“Who will help me make this loaf of bread?”  Well, nobody helped
her.  But, when she said, “Who will help me eat this?”  They all ran
to help her eat it.  Now, she said, “Hold it right there buddy, ain't
nobody going to eat that but me.”  And, she did. [laughter]

4	Now, I'm not trying to preach this by Pinocchio, and I'm not trying to
preach this by bedtime stories. But, I am illustrating that, which is
like an Aesop's fable, which has a moral to it.  And, it's here. 
They...evidently don't want, this Trumpet.  Now, if God's going to do
this, who needs a Trumpet?  You see, that's it.  No Word of God, is void
of power.  No Word of God, shall not be fulfilled.  Now, as I said
awhile ago, everybody likes his mother's lousy cooking because, he got
used to it.  [laughter]  I like this lovely Word of God.  I'm used to
it.  I don't have any trouble finding something that's going to come on
the scene, whether I'm acquainted with it or not.  What's that got to do
with me?  I've got a bad habit.  In fact, you might as well admit, I've
got several bad habits.  But, I didn't ask you so, shut up!

	I've got a bad habit, and I'm going to tell you about it.  Ha ha ha ha
ha.  Even my wife gets embarrassed.  I go into people's homes, and right
away I can see things that are out of cater.  Now, you can go into my
home and see things out of cater too, but, don't mention it.  [laughter]
I'm about ready to churn things around in people's houses.  So, (you
know,) well, maybe that's not very nice.  Then I should, (you know,)
attempt to turn things around.  But look, when you get into this Word of
God here, you let God turn things around.  You let Him be there.  Now He
says, at the time of the Trumpet, God is going to make some changes. 
And, that runs right in continuity with the message, that we're going
into.  

 	All right. It says here, "corruptibility is going to put on
incorruptibility." [1 Cor 15:54]  Now, what is he speaking of?  The
body.  And make no mistake about it.  This is a physical change that
takes place, in the bodies of the living. And, it is the living members'
answer to the resurrection of the decayed bodies of the dead.  Now,
Scripture distinctly says that the dead are going to get revived.  Going
to have brand new bodies.  All right, what about the living?  This is
the living's answer to the dead's answer.  Do you follow what I'm
saying?  

5.	All right.  I know you do, but, we'll read It. Romans 8:11.

	(11)	 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell
in you, 			he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken
your mortal 			bodies 	by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. (Now, that is
subsequent to 			verse 10.)

	(10) 	And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; (I
don't care			if you are born again, you're going to die. "It's appointed
unto man, 			once to die.") [Heb 9:27] but the Spirit is life because of
righteousness.

	So, you have the promise, you died because of sin, but you're
righteous, so therefore, you're going to come up.  All right, the dead
have their answer; resurrection.  What is the answer of the living? 
Corruptibility putting on incorruptibility. The dead come back from
ashes, dust, liquids, bone particles and even gases.  As they are
recreated, into the glorious form.  Which they will have.  As Bro.
Branham said, “God will create again, not through sex, but a creative
act. He will take the petroleum, the potash, the calcium, the minerals
and so on. Cosmic light.”  He knows more about these things than I do.
 And, He will recreate. So, the dead will come back, from whatever form
they are in.  Dust, particles, liquids, gases.  

6.	With the living it is not so. They are changed without dying, to the
same glorious forms.  Corruptibility, that which is corrupting, but not
fully and finally corrupted.  See? Through the processes of death.  But,
corrupted through the processes of dying.  Puts on what cannot be
corrupted.  And therefore, stops further, any further or complete
corruption, in and because of death.   Something comes in and says,
“Hold it.” From this moment you don't get one speck older.  From
this moment, there is no further deterioration, but, there is actually a
reversal.  A great victory now takes place.  Never was it seen in the
six thousand years, of the gladiatorial contests of death against man,
that a whole group gain a victory, and temporarily stalled death in its
tracks.  And, this whole group escape irrevocably.  Think of Paul in the
arena. The Bible is full of it.  Paul tells how he was in the arena. 
They threw them to the gladiators is the main sport of the day.

 

	You begin to see death as the gladiator in the arena.  And, this is a
spectacle.  Now, I'm going to tell you something, whether you want to
believe this or not, it might shock you, but, death is a spectacle.  If
you don't think it is, you just remember the last time you saw a person
die.  You just remember the last time you were at a funeral.  The last
time that you saw a loved one buried, or noticed the sorrowful features
of those loved ones remaining of the loved one that was buried.  Death
is a spectacle.  It is a picture of the gladiator in the arena.  Where
there were two contestants warring at each other.  One, a person trying
to live, and the gladiator; death, attempting to kill and he does kill. 
Then notice the effect on the spectators.  Death is a spectator.   

7.	Now, after six thousand years of the gladiatorial combats, the
gladiatorial contests of death, against man, a whole group is going to
gain victory, and temporarily stall death in its tracks.  While the
whole group escapes irrevocably.  It has never happened before, but it
does  now.   So, my subject is: 'corruptibility stopped by
incorruptibility'.  After six thousand years of corruptibility, now
comes the incorruptible.   Now, this is tremendous, because it's never
happened before.  Never.  See, you dealt with resurrections, but, you
have never seen the clock stop.  As those dead were coming out of the
ground in Jerusalem, they were dying in Jerusalem.  As the dead will be
coming out of the ground in this age, they will be dying in the streets.
 As the 144,000 Jews are immortalized, there will be millions that are
being slaughtered.  That's right.

 

	But, there is at this hour, while people are writing books on
'geriatrics', and as Dr. Lamb wrote a book 'Get ready for Immortality'. 
And, people are trying to sell every kind of nostrum and compound under
high heaven, and latter-rain goof offs and goof balls are trying  to
tell you there are vitamins in the Dead Sea that will cause you to live
for thousands of years.  Hogwash!

 God, will do it!   But, who needs God?  Ah, that was a sly nasty remark
against those who dare to raise their voice against what we believe. 
But, they have it coming to them.  So, my subject is: 'corruptibility
stopped by incorruptibility'.  After six thousand years of the
corruptible, now comes the incorruptible.  Now, I mentioned I was going
to sort of start off in a way that wasn't corrupting anything, but, I
have to take this tenor, to bring you to what I want you to see as a
tremendous truth in our hour, concerning this incorruptibility that is
now in our midst.

8.	And, we are at the point, that I am asking you a question to give you
insight.  And, the question is this: what is the root of the fruit of
corruption?  What is the root of corruption? What brought it?  Whatever
it is, there must come another root of the fruit of incorruption, that
overpowers the root of corruption.  That's what we're looking at. 
Because, death is in the human race.  And, it is death that started the
corruption.  For it categorically states, in the specific language of
the Hebrew, “In the day of  the eating thereof dying thou dost) surely
die.” [Gen. 2:17] Neither Adam or Eve, or anybody in that early period
(later on, yes), neither they or others died within a twenty-four hour
period.  But, death was already there, signifying a corruption was
setting in.

	Now, doctors will tell you, when you get a certain age, you lose what
they call 'elastin'. The elasticity of the body.  You begin to lose
other factors. And, try as you might, healthy as you are, you could be
like a Dr. Jackson who ninety some years of age could, put his heels on
one chair, his head on the other chair, and a two hundred pound person
could stand on him. Suddenly one night he goes to bed healthy as a tick
on a blue hound dog, but, he's gone the next morning.   What about
Bragg, Bernard McFadden's son in law? One morning, stiff as a mackerel. 
What about Moses? Virile at one hundred and twenty.  Why if he and Caleb
had Indian wrestled, he'd have thrown Caleb clean out of the park.  And,
Caleb what? Forty some years younger, or so.  But, he's dead.  So they
buried him on Mount Nebo. (See?) What is it? 

9.	The answer is simple. And, it's found over here in 2 Corinthians
2:17.

 	(17) 	For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of
						sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God (so) speak we in
Christ.

	Now, we read It, but let's read the context. Verse 14.

 	

	(14) 	Now thanks be unto God, which always (causes) us to triumph in 		
	Christ, and (makes) manifest the savour of his knowledge by us   				in
every place.

	(15) 	For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are 		
	saved, and in them that perish:

	(16) 	To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the
other 				the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these
things?

		

	Now, listen:

	(17) 	For we  are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of
			sincerity,...as of (Christ), in the sight of God speak we in Christ.

   

      	Now, I admit that the word 'corrupt' is not the same word that
means rotting and decaying (which I read over here in the other
Scripture).  It means to adulterate.  

10.	But let's go to 2 Corinthians 7: 2.   

	(2)  	Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, 		
(that's the same word rotten, we have not made him rotten)  we have 		
defrauded no man.

	2 Corinthians 11: 3.

	(3) 	But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through
his 			subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity
that is 			in Christ. (That's the same word corruption; rottenness.)

	(4) 	For if he that cometh (preaches) another Jesus, whom we have not 	
	preached, ... if (we) receive another spirit, (you've) not received, 		
	another gospel, (you) have not accepted, (you) might well bear 				with
him.

	(5) 	For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

11.	Now, with that also, over here in; 1 Peter 1:23.

	(23) 	Being born again, not of corruptible (sperma), but of
incorruptible 			(sperma), by the word of God, which (lives and abides)
for ever.

	Now, let's you know right there, the secret of the whole thing, the
corruptibility had to come from a source.  And, the source of
corruptibility is death.  And, death's source is unbelief.  And
unbelief, is the corrupting of the Word of God.  

12.	Now, let's go back to 2 Corinthians 11, again, you know what I read.

	(2)	 ... I have espoused you to... chaste virgin... 

	(3) 	But (I've got a) fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled
Eve 			through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the 
			simplicity that is in Christ.

 	And, that simplicity is pretty complex. Because three things enter in.
 A corruption of the Gospel.  A corruption of the person of Christ.  A
corruption of the Holy Spirit.  All of those things are there.  Now with
it, you'll notice Paul said:

	(5)  	For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

	(6) 	But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have 
		been (made thoroughly) manifest among you in all things.

	Now, Paul is attributing everything here to a knowledge.  And, he is
attributing corruption to a knowledge.  

	(7) 	Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that (you) might be 
				exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?

	(8) 	I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.

	(9) 	And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to 	
	no man: for that which was lacking to me the (brothers) which came 		
from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself 				from
being burdensome unto you, and so (I'll) keep myself.

	And, he says this because you see, he started out in the second chapter
by saying, “I never made merchandise of the gospel, which  the only
way I could have made merchandise was by changing what I was preaching,
and then you would have poured money into my lap.”  Keep thinking
honey, you're thinking.  Just let your thoughts go wild for awhile. 
Then you'll know where the dough is.  Then you'll know why the church
has got it.  Yep.  Just join the church, pay money, have your bug-a-boo
suppers, your oyster dinners, pay for your masses, and your candles, and
everything else. 

 	Now.

	(10) 	As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this
boasting 					in the regions of Achaia.

	(11) 	Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.

	(12) 	But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from
them 					which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be
found 					even as we.

13.	Now, if you think they didn't have trouble back there, you wonder
why we've got trouble today.  I don't want anybody ever leaving this
building or this message saying, “Well Bro. Vayle, there's just too
much trouble”  Well, just wait til you go to hell honey, you'll have
more than  trouble.  I know people don't like jokes.  They can't stand
my jokes around the country.  But let me tell you, there's a little
funny thing,(I can't exactly repeat it) but you better get this out of
your head.  Because, a lot of people just might be that way. It said, "
if you're sick don't worry, only two things can happen; you'll get
better, or you'll get worse.  If you get better you have nothing to
worry about.  Now, if you get worse, you have only two things to worry
about; you get worse and die.  And, if you die, there's only two things
to worry about; you go to heaven or hell."  

	Now, he said, “If you don't go to heaven, (he said) you'll go to
hell, but you don't need to worry, you'll be so busy shaking hands with
your old friends. You won't have time to worry.”

 	I've got news for you.  That's not true. You really will worry.  You
really will have trouble.  And, you'll say, “I wish I was back there
in that age where all that fighting went on.” “I wish I was back
there, when somebody stood up for the truth.”  And, stood up there and
dared to defy men.  If you want to be yellow bellied, and run around you
can't take this, well be my guest. Walk out.  Because I have news for
you.  It's going to get hotter.  It's only begun to get hot. And, it's
only begun to get good.  Let me tell  you something, and I'll elaborate
later on and give you an illustration.   

14.	But, two things have happened in the last sixteen months that makes
me wonder if this Word that I am preaching under the anointing of the
power of God, when I say you will never leave this building unchanged,
was a spirit cast out of two men, by the preaching of the Word of God?
Because, those men are radically changed, and I will tell you about
them. The gates of hell were against Paul.  They were against Bro.
Branham.  And they're against you.  Don't think old Lee Vayle is the
only dog going to get it.  They'll cut all your hair off too, pretending
they're looking for fleas.  Now listen:

	(12)  	...what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from
them 				which  desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be
found 			even as we.

	(13) 	For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming
themselves 			into the apostles of Christ.

 	No work of the Holy Ghost, it's their own work.  And, Bro. Branham
said, “A Christian Science would make you and me look sick when it
comes to love.” He said, “The jack ass will out work a horse any
day.”  "Many more are the children of she that is desolate than she
which hath an husband." [Gal. 4:27] 

	Transform themselves unto apostles of Christ.  That means; the highest
order there is in the whole Bible.  Apostles, prophets, teachers,
evangelists, pastors.    

	(13)	... deceitful workers, (transform) themselves into the apostles of
Christ.

	(14) 	And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of
light.

	Satan himself a messenger of a corrupted word. Devil's got his own
religion.  He's got his own five-fold ministry.  He's got his own word. 
He's got his own church.  He's the head of it.  He's going to incarnate
himself over a body, just the same as Jesus is going to do.  He follows,
and dogs the footsteps of Jesus Christ, to imitate Him and mock Him. 
And, don't you think he doesn't.  And, don't you think there won't be an
answer in this hour to the Parousia.  There will be. But, I said it
before, and I'll say it again.  If I'm wrong, "I will not die the death
common to men." [Num 16:29]  I'll likely be here for the great
tribulation. If I am right, there'll be men standing here, and they'll
not die the death common to men.

15.	 Let's get this straight brother/sister, we're not playing around.
(See?) It's people  thought I was playing around, they found out.  I get
letters of apology right now.  It's too late.   I don't play your game
the second time around. (See?) It sounds a little tough, but look, I'm
not trying to hurt you, I'm trying to let you know something. (See?) For
the trumpet shall sound, then God will raise them.  Nobody wants that
trumpet sounding.  Because, it declares war. 

	If you want peace then get yourselves a Santa Claus. "Jingle bell,
jingle bell, jingle all the way. Oh what fun it is to ride in a one
horse open sleigh." [Sung loudly] (Yeah.)  That's what you want. Get
yourselves a Santa Claus, and a sleigh.  Because you ain't fit for the
kingdom of God. I'm not, you're not, nobody is.  Too many Santa Clauses.
 

	No marvel, people marvel.  What are they marveling at?  Marveling that
there's a fight? Satan transformed, as the great apostle of light. 
Coming with the Word of God.  Coming perverted.  Do you know he is the
head of every seminary?  The head of every Bible school.  The head of
every organization, denomination?  The head of every welfare, charitable
religious movement?  I showed you the last time I preached here, where
Cain was, he brought the fruit offering.  Bypassed the Blood.  He headed
the social organization, based on the Bible, works, works, works!  

16.	So Lee Vayle comes along, and he says, “Well, it's not
character.” So now, I'm branded plumb across  the world, they're
taking every tape and say, “Well Lee Vayle says, character doesn't
amount to anything, it doesn't matter.”  I'll meet those guys down the
road. You bet I'll meet them down the road. Because I never said that,
anymore than the prophet.  

 	Bro. Branham said, “That great thing coming is not character.”
Now, if you say he's the prophet of Almighty God, and I parrot what the
prophet said.  Yeah, I understand it, and speak with revelation what 
the prophet said. Then I'm just as real as the prophet, when it comes to
that Word.  Haven't said one thing against what the prophet taught. 
Fact, I added to it. And, I said, “If any age should demand 
character, this age should have it.”  But, it still won't get you
there.  Satan transformed. 'Transformed' means he's no longer the devil.
No, he's out to win souls.  He's out to stop wars, when it's convenient.
 Listen, don't you understand, when the beast comes, no man can start a
war, or stop a war .  Who is doing it?  The devil.  Mr. Satan, Mr.
Beelzebub.  Not, Mr. Jesus the Christ.  Not, Mrs. Jesus the Bride.  No,
let's all go serve the devil.  See why they get stuck?

17.	They can't tell.  They can't tell where corruptibility is, and
incorruptibility.  They don't understand what the root is.  That's
because they don't want to understand.  (See?)  

	2 Corinthians 11:13

	(13)  	For such are false apostles, (Who are they, coming against Paul?
 				How'd they come against Paul? Not on his life, but against the 			
Word.) deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles 		
of Christ.

	Never had a call. They make their own call.  Never had a true rebirth
in the Christian virtue.  They make their own.  

	I remember years ago I saw a woman, I knew her very well,  she was mean
as the devil. In fact, think she was a sister, could well be. [laughter]
 She admitted it.  She said, “Bro. Vayle, I was losing my husband, I
was losing my kids, I came to myself, and I turned right around.” 
And, she thought she was born again.  She was no more born again, than
nothing.  No way.  A legalist  Pentecostal is no more born again than
nothing.  Let's not kid yourselves. I'm going to tell you she
transformed herself.  And, that's why people today don't understand this
Message which I am preaching, on the grounds that Bro. Branham as I
understand it, and the best I can  possibly do.  That, if God doesn't do
it, it's not going to be done.

18.	And, that's what I'm telling you about these men I am talking about.
 Where one man could not love his wife, no way, shape and form.  He
hated her, though he had children by her. She'd been...he pelted her
with groceries. Brutalized her to the place where she went off and had
another man.  Drove her to it.  But, sitting under the Word, something
happened.  And he loves his wife more than he loves his own life, you
tell me.  That man could no more transform himself than nothing.  Same
with another man.  I'm not a prophet, you know it and I know it, and
everybody else knows it.  But, how come on those occasions, I stood
before the people and  said, “You'll not leave this building
unchanged.” There's no way, and they don't.  Is Lee Vayle changing
somebody?  You've got to be nuts. I can't change myself, and I wouldn't
care to change myself.  The prophet said, it wouldn't work anyway.

 	And, I admit it, you can pick on me because I'm a no good louse.
That's fine.  But, I've got news for you.  And, I've already told you. 
If you are not a beggar on a dung heap, if you don't smell like manure,
if you aren't a skunk skinner like William Branham, you will never be a
prince with God. So forget it. You're too nice for Jesus.  Because He
was born over a manure pile.  (Yeah.)  Born over a manure pile.  God.
People are funny.  But Satan comes around, and, he'll do the
transforming.  Well, he's clever.  

19.	Let's go to; 1 Timothy 4:1-2.

 	(1)  	Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, (ho, do you know what Paul is
				saying? He says, “ I've been  swept by the Holy Ghost, I'm
talking, 			I'm the voice of God. And here's what he said;)  that in the
latter 				times some shall depart  from the faith, giving heed to
seducing 				spirits, and doctrines of devils;

	Where did corruption come from? The devil. Corruption is the result of
the doctrine of devils.  People are dying right today because the
devil's doctrine. 

20.	 Listen:

 	(2) 	Speaking lies in hypocrisy;...

  	What does that mean?  They know better! They know the truth has been
manifested. They know what a vindicated prophet said.  Do you mean to
tell me, a prophet would stand here with the Word, and say be different
from the apostle Paul?  Hogwash!  But, it's like Bro. Branham said,
“Now if he were the Lord, he would come down on a beautiful red
carpet, straight from heaven. And, He would come down and say.
“Caiphas, here I Am, I have come to elevate you.” Or is that Alabama
or Georgia? [laughter] Merciful God. Hypocrites.  Knowing better.

 	(2) 	... (because)...their conscience (is) seared with a hot iron;

 	Oh God. You understand what I'm saying?  It comes in adultery.  In
England, it took the most complex machinery that BBC had, to get the
noise out of the tapes that condemned a woman and a man.  A little
twelve year old boy was brought into the home, and he literally forced
that boy to have intercourse with his wife.  What kind of a conscience
did he have? Seared!  He could stand there and do it, then murder the
poor little kid.  And have fun recording the screams.  How would you
young mothers like to have that perpetrated on you?

21.	You know where it came from?  Doctrines of devils.  People who know
better. Seared.  Conscience seared.  Sit around, think nice thoughts. 
(Yeah.) Think your nice thoughts.  And you'll know why this afternoon
Bro. Branham said,  “I would sooner have the oath of the [Knights] of
Columbus, perpetrated on me.  Which is open your belly and pour in
sulfuric acid. Than to have ten minutes, in the great tribulation.”
Get away with what you want to get away with.  Some of you young people
may think that old  Vayle is a nice guy, he has a lot of laughs, but
every now and then, the old iron hand comes down.  You wonder why it
comes down?  Because I love you just enough to let you know what the
truth of Almighty God is.  I've got to face it, and you've got to face
it.  And, I know reality is here, staring me in the face.  But, I'm a
part of that reality by the grace of God.  I don't care what men say.   

	Fuss at me all you want.  I give them plenty to fuss at me for.  Don't
worry, I'm not going to blame that onto God.  I opened my big fat mouth.
 And, I know the judgement is going to fall, it's falling right now, but
who gives a rip.  Let them sit with me.  You'll hear worse than I ever
said.  Not being proud of it.  But the truth is, the Spirit speaketh
expressly in the latter times.

22.	[1 Timothy 4]

	(1)	... (They'll) depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing
spirits,...

 	Not raping spirits, seducing spirits. Oh, this is something nicer. 
That's what Cain said. Blood and guts, and stink and  rot.  Oh, merciful
God.  What's this talk about Jesus being born over a manure heap? 
What's this talk about Him shedding His Blood?  What is all this stuff? 
See, social gospel.  Now, you've got the same thing right today.  Men
like du Plessis, that took the Pentecostal church, right into the
harlot's lap.  Stood up and he said, “ That man that condemned people,
he's condemned himself, he got killed.”  du Plessis knew better!  But,
he did it.  Do you think the false anointed don't know better?  If you
say they didn't know better, then you have made William Branham a liar. 
A flat, out right liar.  Because, he said, “Iniquity is to know to do
it, and won't do it.” And, I think he said in another place,
“Iniquity, is to know not to do it, and you do it anyway.”  

       	(1) 	...seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils.

	(2) 	Speaking lies in hypocrisy;... (they're masked, sheep on the
outside, 			wolves on the inside.)

	Why does a brother north of here have a man come into his church all
the time that makes Bro. Branham a liar? Now, people want me
sympathetic, "Bro. Vayle, go here, Bro, Vayle, go there." Shut up, I'll
go where I want to go. [end of side one] 

	You say, Bro. Vayle, I know these sweet people." You do? Well then, you
don't know God. I'm not trying to make you mean. You're already too mean
for me now. [laughter] I've led you too far down the wrong road already.
I want you to know something: It said, "Their conscience is seared."

	"Aw, not that sweet dear brother, oh, he'd give you the shirt off his
back. He'll split his wages, he'll do so and so." Yes, and he'll send
you to hell.  

 23.	I'm not running a guy down. Let me tell you flat. I've got more
than you ever have, as far as friends and everything else is concerned. 
I'm not trying to put my hand on anybody.  I'm trying to show you
something. I keep telling people, “This could be the last trip I'm
going to make.”  That's the truth, I don't want to go on the road
anymore.  I'm tired of it.  I'd sooner be here.  I'd sooner not one tape
leave this room.  I'd sooner have the tape for one reason.  As a
reference.  I'm sick and tired of everything out there. Who's going to
believe that these men have seared consciences?  Nobody's going to
believe it.  Not even the Elect, (they're too nice).  You'd have to be a
Bro. Branham, with a spirit of discernment on you, to be a prophet.  

	And they say, “Bro. Branham wIlove you.”  [makes a stabbing,
twisting noise] Got a dagger with serrated edges, rusty serrated,
twisted edges, ready to [repeats noise] under the fifth rib. Professing
love in Christ, and living with other women.  Preaching a polygamy
doctrine.  

24.	Now, get the irony of this one; here's a man that preaches polygamy,
so now, he's got a nice young woman, that he's having sexual relations
with.  Now the people are up in arms. What for?  They sat there and
listened to polygamy as being a covenant.  Why fuss at the preacher, if
he's got a girlfriend, or it's his wife now?  Because he's got a
covenant with God. He should have more than one wife. 	What kind of
jackasses (there it is Bro. Vayle, watch your language)  what kind of
spiritual jackasses, what kind of idiots, what kind of stupidity lies in
them?

 	To listen to that humbug, jackass nonsense.  Filth from the pit of
hell.  And sit there and grin, “Oh it is a covenant, it's a covenant,
it's a covenant.”  And, then the guy gets in the covenant.  Well, if
you've got a covenant with God, you should honor the covenant.  But now
they're upset, if so be has happened, what I hear has happened.  And, do
you know something?  I'm on the preacher's side this time.  Oh shut up!
[laughter]  I'm serious.  You guys laughing in the wrong place, and I'll
be down here with a club and murder you. [laughter]  Listen I'm 
serious.  I'm on the preacher's side.  I don't believe that he's doing
right.  But, if he preached it, and they believed it,  what right have
they got to rise up against it?  They're hypocrites. Not the preacher.
I'll tell you what he is; eyes full of adultery.  That's what he is.  A
hypocrite, a phoney, and a farce.  But, what are they?  When they say,
“Oh yes that's right, yes that's right, yes that's right.”  And then
he gets himself the girl.  I don't understand. Conscience seared.
Hypocrites. You think it's not going on? (Phfft!)  There's worse things
than that though.  

25.	Let's go to 2 Peter 2: Here's what I like, because it hits them
teachers. I'm not a teacher, I just have a gift of teaching. Ha ha ha
ha.  Ah, they got to wake up early in the morning.  Well that's what the
prophet said. He didn't say I was a teacher, he said, “You've got a
gift of teaching.”  Handle the Scripture.  

 	(1) 	But there were false prophets also among the people, even as
there 			shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in
damnable 			heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, (and that
word '				deny' means to say no to, or decline or refuse Him. Teachers
at the 			end time saying "no" to the Lord.) (bringing) swift
destruction.

 	Now, hold it.  End time. Swift destruction. Great tribulation. False
teachers. Saying no. Disapproving. Disapproving as in Hebrews. Can't
stand the Presence.  

 	(2)  	... many shall follow their pernicious ways;...

 	Pernicious ways? Yes, no Blood.  There's no Blood for them, the Blood
doesn't cover that.  Where there is no Word, there is no Blood. 
Something's wrong.  

 	(2)	... by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

	And, He is the truth.  And, His way is to Appear at the end time. To be
here to lead us in.  They'll say, “Oh no, that's not so.”  They'll
mock.  The scoffers.   			

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

  	Talk about Roman Catholicism.  Talk about selling men's souls in the
Catholic church.  I want to tell you something.  These boys in this
Message, could give the Catholics a lesson. 

26.	I told you years ago, that if I had to toss up between mama whore
and the young whores, I'd take the old whore any day.  Because the young
whores have learned all the old whores tricks plus a whole lot of their
own.  Let me tell you right now, flapper grandma, who went out there and
picked up a few men,  can be taught more tricks by a six year old out on
the street than old flapper grandma knew. I almost put the Catholic
church in a steam, alongside of these birds.  

 	[2 Pet. 2:3-9]

 	(3) 	...through covetousness ...with feigned words make merchandise  	
		of you:...

 	Just something for you to handle. For them to handle you. To get an
advantage, to pick your pocketbook.  To run you.  To bust up your
marriages.  To run your homes. To have the wife report to them, instead
of to the husband.  If you've been around the world, you know some of
the guys I'm thinking about.  And, it's feigned words. Lies.  

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

	It tells you right here, this ain't going to go on very long.  And,
God's not going to put up with it very long.  The tribulation can now
prove it to you.   

 	(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) 	And 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;

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

  	(8) 	(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and
hearing, 			vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful
deeds;)

	(9) 	The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations,
and... 			reserve the unjust unto the day of  (punishment.)   

27. 	It tells you right there, that He'll get rid of them, the same as
He got rid of them in the flood, and hold them over to the White Throne,
and throw them into the Lake of Fire.  Now, you might not like that.
Well I'll tell you one way you just may not to like it.  Is to like it,
you just get on God's side. Then you're going to like it.   A lot of
people don't like this kind of hard preaching.  “Oh now Bro, Vayle,
you just preach this kind of thing and that kind of thing., because
that's not nice.”   Well then you don't have a nice God, because it's
in His Word, and the Holy Ghost said, "The Holy Ghost speaketh
expressly."  Or, I'll ask you one question, like I asked you before:
would you sooner burn than them?  Now, if you've got such a great
sympathetic heart, I'll tell you what to do.  There's a lot of
paraplegics out there, you just pray to God that you become a paraplegic
instead of them. Now we're getting right to the nitty gritty.

 	We already had the Great One, who thought enough to become a
paraplegic. That's Jesus Christ the righteous.  He doesn't need any
following act.  He by one act, superseded every act. Until there's no
act can compare with it. So let us not get maudlin, and full of
sentimentality. Bro. Branham went to India; do you think it was easy for
him to pass by all the little kids? Give one kid a nickel, give every
kid a nickel.  Now, I can fool with your little kids (you know) I
shouldn't do this without asking the mother's, the kid's ask for
quarters, but, I encourage them  I think it's fun.  Later on I'll bop
them for you, don't worry.  I'll help you out Mama, don't worry.  But
look it, merciful God, if I would try to give every kid in the world a
quarter, who could help me?  Well, I could knock over a few banks.  That
still won't do it.

28.	There's not enough banks with anything in them to give every kid a
quarter. See, you got to come a time here, when you've got to put things
back on God. You've got to go God's way, or you're plumb out of the ball
park.   Now It says here;

 	(10) 	But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of
uncleanness, 			despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled,
(and they're)			not... speak evil of dignities.

 	Now, what government are they despising, and going against?  God,
Himself denying Him.  And, He is down here at the Head of the Church. To
put the Church in order. To raise the dead. And, they despise Him. 
Look, the days of the Son of man, precede the great tribulation, that's
what they're talking about. I'm not making this up, as though I make
this up to make Scripture fit.  Bro. Branham said, “Every time you
look in the Bible, that's all you'll see is this Message.”  And,
that's all I see is this Message. ...?... What else is there?  The
Trumpet shall sound.  (Yeah)  Dead is going to be changed. (Yeah) Oh
God, you do the changing, but, don't sound the trumpet.  And, God said,
“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?" [Job 38:4]
"With whom did I take counsel in my foreknowledge?" [Isa 40:14]  

	“Well, it just isn't that Lord, but, we think maybe, You could've
been a little smarter.”  Oh yeah.  

 	(10) 	...chiefly them that walk after the flesh... despise government.
				Presumptuous are they, selfwilled,...not afraid to speak evil of 			
dignities.

 	No, you bet they're not.  What dignities?  You think these guys are
dignities?  They're not dignities, they speak evil of dignities, and
dignitaries. Oh, a certain brother wouldn't dare to make Bro. Branham
God to the people. Oh, no, well he was 'as' God.  You see, yes he was
'as ' God.  He was as God.

29.	Let me read you  something over here, that the prophet quoted which
he always neglects.  [John 10:32-35]

 	(32) 	Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from 			
my Father; for which of those works do (you) stone me?

 	(33) 	The Jews (said,) For a good work we stone thee not; but for 			
blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself 				God.

	(34) 	(And) Jesus (said,) Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are
gods?

	(35) 	If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, the 			
scripture cannot be broken;  

 	Then, the prophets are gods.  Oh you say, “Bro. Vayle, that's
blasphemy.”  You're the blasphemer.  You're the liar, because, you
deny the Word of God.  Now, the shoe's on the other foot.  Now, the
guy's got two left feet.  And, he's got a big tongue that's going to
strangle him one of these days.  Because, "by the Word you're justified,
and by the Word you're condemned." [Mt 12:37]  Oh, they're not afraid to
speak evil.  Now, just a minute. Before you can speak evil of a
dignitary, you have got to make up a lie about the man, or twist, or
pervert something.  But, if that man is in literal sin, that's a
different story.   

 	A lot of people think you just put the cap on everything, and let the
pot boil.  Oh, nothing is revealed.  You just preach a little old going
on something.  How come at the end time Bro. Branham stood there in the
Word?  Even He, who is the Word, (the Logos) discerned every heart.  And
do you know why he had to stop doing it?  Because the people rose up
against it.  They wouldn't take it.  What do you think the church lost,
when sin could not be revealed in the presbyters?  And, the fine
preachers that were on the platform, living in adultery no less.  But,
it's thoroughly sanctified, because they talk in tongues.  I'm not
giving you a bedtime story.  I talked with the prophet on these subjects
brother/sister.  

30.	Now It says; [2 Peter 2]

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

	Now, what is he talking about?  False prophets. False teachers shall
come in.  With heresies, refusing the Lord, to bring swift destruction. 
If these men had acknowledged him, the destruction would not be as it
is.  It was the same thing in Jesus' day in flesh.   If they would've
acknowledged Him, the kingdom of God was already nigh, they could've
walked in.  And, the same thing happens today, they turn Him down.  So,
they can't walk in.

 	(13) 	... they ...count it pleasure to riot in the day... (They're)
spots 				and  blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings 
			while they feast with you;

 	While they feast with you? Yes! A man came into the wedding supper,
not having a garment on.  “Bro. Branham, what does it mean?” It
means, they'll sit right amongst you. But, nothing is being done for
them.  They attended his meetings.  Sat right there, screaming,
“Hallelujah.”  And, a bunch of them turned around and made him Jesus
Christ.  Of all the hogwash!  Insanity.  Perversity.  Devils.  

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

	(15)	Which have forsaken the right way, and gone astray, following the 
			way of Balaam the son of Bosor,  who the wages of unrighteousness.   

31.	Now, who's he talking about?  Teachers in the last day.  Bring it
home brother/sister.  Chickens are here, and roosting. You're not
looking down the road when you read this.  You're looking right today,
in the churches.  And, those that say they believe this Message, don't
you leave them out.  Love the wages of ...?...

 	(15) 	...forsaken the right way, gone astray, following the way of
Balaam 			the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

	(16) 	But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with
man's 			voice forbad the madness of the prophet.

 	My golly, I guess I insulted that dumb ass, didn't I? By calling
people that.  [laughter] (Had to apologized to  a louse not long ago.
Got to apologize here now. Well you live and learn, I'm going to try to
be a better person.)

 	(17)  	These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a
tempest; 			to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.

	(18) 	For ... they speak great swelling words of vanity, (and) allure
through 			the lusts of the flesh, much wantonness, those that were
clean escaped 			from them who live in error.

32.	Now, It tells you right there, they promise them  things that
absolutely won't come to pass.  New York promised that New York would
bring down the capstone  love.  It was already down.  If  New York could
bring it down it means that New York was Bride and nobody else was
Bride.  I don't have the revelation.  I have a revelation of a Bride,
and  in my mind's eye, (God is my judge), I see a Bride that's all
around the world.  But, I see  her one, with Him in the midst.  I don't
know how I do it.  I have no understanding of how I do it.  All I know
is, that if I had a lead mountain fifty million miles wide, the
glorious, resurrected form of Jesus, could pass through it quicker than
a thought.

 	Than, what about the Holy Spirit standing here?  He can be in the
midst of the Bride, and my mind does not see a Bride scattered.  My mind
sees a Bride that is unified, and I see Him in the midst.  Don't ask me
how, just believe me.  I'm not giving you great swelling words, and
lying to you.  I don't...listen, I say stand beside me, pray as you've
never prayed before. If I am lying, then God kill me on this spot.  Of
course, He isn't going to do it, because, it's not the hour for it.  But
the hour is coming.  The hour is already here.  But, He's still not
doing it.  He's not going to do something like this.  I'm sincere, but,
I tell you I will meet you down the road.  

  	I will meet you on the other side.  And I'm not lying to you. My mind
has gone crazy. It's gone wild since this thing happened to me.  I can
see a Bride. And, I don't care if there's one in Africa, one in
Timbuktu, one in the North Pole, one at the South Pole, half a dozen
here, although most are here in America.  Somehow I know, in this lies a
mystery.  He's in the midst of her.  (See?)  

33.	Now, great swelling words.  Promising liberty.  They themselves are
the servants of corruption.  Why do they promise liberty?  To trick
them.  To get them in their camp.  What did I ever promise you? 
Nothing!  Given you  enough to scare the living daylights out of you.  I
told you this, and I'll tell you again.  What Word you believe, and I
don't care who you are here, because, I cannot read your hearts and
minds.  Whatever Word you believe, is going to come back on you, and you
will be what you are, according to that Word that you believe.  Now,
what have I promised you?  Nothing.    

 	I have a controversy with the pastors; who try to make Bro. Branham
say, “Follow your leader, your pastor, he's ordained to get you
there.” What about these birds?  Well I can take Bro. Branham's words
and say, “Yes, follow your pastor. You're false, and he's false, he'll
 get you there.” [laughter]  I don't buy that nonsense brother/sister.
 No way.  Listen, everything I say is on tapes.  I don't care what men
say about those tapes.  I know what's on those tapes, and what's in my
heart.  Why  I say it, and how I say it.  It's your revelation, that
will come back on you.  And, if that revelation's correct, we want
immortality.  You'll be immortal.  You better believe it.   

	(19)	...promise (of) liberty...

 	(20) 	For if they have escaped the pollutions of the world  through
the 				knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ,...again
entangled 			therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them
than the 				beginning.

	Ha. Started way back there in Paul's day.  What's it today?  Worse than
ever.  What started back there as a small thing, the little tiny seed of
the octopus, has become a worldwide octopus.  Controlling everything.  

 	(21) 	For it had been better for them not to have known the way of 			
righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the 				holy
commandment delivered unto them. (That's true.)

 	(22)  	But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, (A)
				dog ...to his vomit ...the sow... to (the wallow.)  	

34.	Sure.  Those verses [2 Peter 2:] 14-16.

 	(14) 	... eyes full of adultery, ...beguiling unstable souls:(can't
cease 				from sin.) ... heart(s)...exercised with covetous practices;
cursed 				children.

	 (15)	...forsaken the right way,...gone astray, following the way of 		
	Balaam the son of Bosor, ...loved the wages of unrighteousness;

	Well, that's what it's reduced to, a living. Well, that's what it's
reduced to, a living. Boy, don't think I wouldn't like to have a million
dollars in bonds, and not have anybody ever give me a plug penny, just
live on the interest.  One of the greatest temptations I have in my life
is to give people back tithes that they gave me. Here's your money. 
Just take it and get out of my life.  I'm a rough customer.  And, I'm
glad I'm rough instead of sweet.  Because I'd have to go along with the
person if I just wanted his money. (Fap!) I've got a God who more than
supplies needs.  I've got a God who write down the words, that say, if
you learn to give, you will have enough in your pocket every day of the
month and year in which you live to give to every cause.  I can do it 
by the grace of God.  Because I followed the Bible rules. You follow the
Bible rules.

35.	Listen to me people:  we're not playing around here. I don't talk to
you about money and teach you tithing, and this, but let me tell you
flat.  There's a day coming when you wished you had done it.  Yeah,
because I can.   And, I'm not rich.  But, I'm rich in Him. Oh yes, it
took sacrifice.  I didn't have the 30,000 buck salaries, like some of
you people have.  And you quibble and argue how you're going to get
along.  I'll say one thing.  Shame on you. You had better learn a few
things in your life time, before it's too late. See, I've told you, when
you've been where I've been, you can sort of get up and do a little toe
dance. [laughter] Now, I'm not proud of Lee Vayle.   I could do better
still.

  	 I told you... oh, years ago, I learned no gimmicks, (I tried
gimmicks once), no gimmick. I spell my gimmicks in three letters, G-O-D.
And He is not a gimmick. My Provider, my Sustainer.  You talk to my
wife, she'll talk to you.  I told her, “You listen girl, let's face
it, you've never trusted God, but we'll go down that road one day yet. 
Where it's going to be God or nothing.”  And, it was.  And, you know
what?  It wasn't nothing, it was God.  You don't have to pull deals and
gimmicks.  These guys are gimmickers.  (Eh?)  Cursed children, gone
after the money.

 	(16)	...rebuked for his iniquity:...

 	He knew to do better.  He knew not to do it, but, he did it anyway. 
What did God do? He used an animal. Can man sink so low, that God has
got to take an animal? (Yeah) People can't see the handwriting on the
wall.  But, the environmentalist can.  And, he said, “See, it's all
dying out there,”  And, we'll never get it back.  The last carrier
pigeon died. Passenger pigeon, will never get it back.  The Audubon
Society is running an ad right now, even the grizzly bear is just about
extinct.  They thought the alligator was extinct, but he's coming back. 
How many birds do you see out here that a few when I was a kid the
fields were full of birds. Where are they today?  Well, tell me where
they are at. The environmentalists know more just naturally than these
guys do.  God showing in the brute beast. (Sure) Letting them know
what's happening.  Okay.  

36.	Let's go to Revelation 2:  Remember, I'm reading lots of Scripture
today.  We've got the time, because we have Communion service coming on.
 

	(12)  	... to the (messenger) of the church in Pergamos write; These
things 			saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges;

	 (13) 	I know (your) works, (you dwell), ...where Satan's seat is: and
... 				(hold) fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those
				days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain 				among
you, where Satan dwelleth.

	(14) 	But I have a few things against (you), because thou hast there
them 			that hold the doctrine of Balaam,...

	Now, look it, it started right back there in the Third Church Age, at
the time of Constantine, when Rome became the first organized church. 
Money, and sex.  Fornication of course in this respect, is even worse
than physical sex, because it's the union of idolatry with the Word of
God.  And, the Nicolaitan doctrine to hold in position.  To enforce it. 
To make it a society.  That's where it started.  Now,  18 to 24, the
same chapter.  This is nine hundred years of the Dark Ages.  This is
when the Church fell into the ground.  The corruption became horrible.
And notice;

 	(18) 	...These things saith the Son of God, ... his eyes like unto a 	
		flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass;

37.	Now listen, already here, He's starting to judge.  The same one in
Revelation 1, that John turned to see, feet burning as in a furnace.
Judgement, the white wig. Gird about the paps. 

	(19) 	I know (your)works,...charity,... service,... faith,... (your)
patience, 			... the last to be more than the first.  

	(20) 	Notwithstanding I have a few things against (you), because (you) 
			(suffer) that woman Jezebel, which (calls) herself a prophetess, to 	
		teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, to eat 			
things sacrificed unto idols.

	All right, you know as far as the eating of the idols are concerned,
it's nothing. The kingdom of God is not meat and drink.  He's telling
them right here, what it is, they have  substituted the Word of God. 
For creeds and dogmas and mythology.  

	(21) 	And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; ... she
repented 					not.

	Now listen.  The church, was given the opportunity.  And He said, I've
already judged her.   

	(22) 	(She's going to be cast into a bed.) , and them that commit
adultery 			with her into great tribulation, (A bed of pleasure, that
goes into 				tribulation.)...

	(23) 	(I'll) kill her children with death; (it's already marked out; 		
		spiritual death.  Even the Lake of Fire.)...all the churches shall 			
know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and...give 		
unto every one of you according to your works.

 	Now, He said, the churches will know.  And, that didn't happen until
the Seventh Church Age, under discernment.  Now, you can see in here,
what the Word was speaking of, where it was going to.  

38.	Now, let's go to Jude.  (That's just before the Book of Revelation.)
 I want you to see this corruption.

	(1) 	Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them 	
		that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, 
		and called:

	(2) 	Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.

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

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

	Now, you'll notice, it's the same thing that Peter talked about.  At
the last day, they're going to deny Him.  And, what is it?  It's  exodus
time.  Get your marks lined up with Exodus. (See?)  People read this and
they snort. And listen: let me tell you flat. It's the same words as
Peter, the angels left their first estate.  Sodom and Gomorrah.  It's a
revelation of the end time.  Turning the grace of God, to
lasciviousness.  Denying, how?  Denying the only Lord Jesus.   The only
Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.  They're denying It. They're
denying His Presence.  Now: 

	(5)	I will therefore put you into remembrance, (that you) once knew
this, 			how that the Lord having saved the people out of the land of
Egypt, 			afterwards, destroyed them that (not believed.)  

39.	Now that's Exodus. Now notice: Baal Peor was going in.  When they
got in, they turned to Jezebel doctrine.  Now, you've got a people
coming out with this Message.  The first thing they came out of Babylon,
they were confronted with the Balaam doctrine.  And, the Balaam doctrine
is; 'let's make money.'  False anointed, golden calf.   Now, they came
out, and they turned to Jezebel. Which is every Tom, Dick and Harry
preaching every cotton picking thing the prophet didn't preach.  I've
got a tape just given me the other day, sent to me from Terry [Sproule]
sent it down from Edmonton.  And, I said, “Terry, why did you send me
this tape?”   I said, “Is it because this Bro. So and so, was
reading about this man's experience?”  

	And he said, “ Yes Lee, and I can't follow it.”  

	I said, “I can follow it, and tell you, this guy falls for
everything.”  He was quoting from a man who had an experience. And in
his experience, he was supposed to be dying.  I can get you the tape and
play it. 	

 40.	If I believed that crap, I'd go ahead and believe Lura Johnson
Grubb, because she was a woman  supposed to have died, came back walking
on her toes, with souls getting saved, saying shes' got some kind of
hoodie, doodie, hoochie, koochie thing.  I think she divorced her
husband, last I heard.  I don't know.  Merciful God, let Lee Vayle have
a vision or something.  Then you're going to follow him?  Am I talking
to a bunch of spiritual idiots here today?  I'm going to crack your
heads open to see if there's something in there besides hogwash and
sawdust.  If you've got God inside of you, what are you going to follow?
 Are you going to follow anything but a vindicated Message?  Because
some idiot comes along here and preaches “I know I had an experience,
Bless God.”  

	And the prophet said, “Bro. Vayle, we don't go by experience.” Have
I taught you this long, to bring you to nothing.  I want to not just
retire from getting off the road. II feel like just looking out the
window.   

41.	Don't worry, I won't say, “Well, you deserve a living, you owe me
a tithe or something.”  And I won't even run off like a certain
preacher, just have vacations on the people, saying, “I don't feel so
good.  So you support me.”  I won't take a cotton picking nickel out
of you.  When I leave, I'm gone.  I believe I can make that boast stick.
 By the grace of God.   Well I want to lay it on the line.  Doctrines of
devils.  Corruption.   Doctrines of devils. Not, doctrines of God. 
Doctrines of devils.  No wonder Bro. Branham cried, “Methodist,
Baptist, witchcraft.”  Guy didn't like me mentioning  his name, saying
he was a jackass.  But, the first thing he called, told to a friend of
mine when he met him, “Lee Vayle is a burned out Baptist.” 
[laughter]         I thought that was good for a laugh. Well at least,
bless God, I had some kind of fire.

	(5) 	I will ...put you in remembrance, though (you) once knew this, how
			that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, 			
afterward destroyed them that believed not.

	What do you think, those that fell for Balaam are going to go in?  Do
you think those following Jezebel are going to go in?  There's no way. 
This, is separating time. Coming out of Babylon ain't nothing, if
Babylon didn't come out of you.  What makes Babylon?  The people. 
What's in them?   

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

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

42.	Strange flesh. Do you know what that is?  Homosexuality.  Men with
men, is strange. You bet they're strange.  

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

	There it is again. Now these are dignities, these guys themselves. Now
with respect to God's ministers, that's fine.  But, I'm going to tell
you one thing.  In spite of the prophet's message, there is no way  I
can respect certain things that are going on. No way. I don't believe
that for one minute, Bro. Branham said, “Hey, anybody stands up and
preach, you've got to stand with him.”  How about if God stood against
him?  Now, it's all right to stand with the Word of God, and do the best
you can under any circumstances.  I recognize that's what Bro. Branham
was saying.  You can't stand with evil, otherwise why do you lash out at
the Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians and everybody else?  (See?)
Lashing out against the thing, doesn't mean you're not  standing with
that which is proper to stand with.  

	(8) 	Filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, speak evil of 
			dignities.   

	(9) 	Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he
disputed 			about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a
railing accusation 			against said, The Lord rebuke thee. (Of course,
that's the best bet right 			there, leave him with God.) 

	(10) 	But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but
what 			they know naturally, (is) brute beasts, in those things they
corrupt 				themselves. (In other words, he's telling you right here. No
revelation. )

 	(11)  	Woe unto them! (now listen, they've) gone in the way of Cain,..

43. 	The way of Cain, is the complete taking out of the Scripture, what
they don't want. And, taking that, that what do want. The error of
Balaam the greedy, the gainsaying of Core, is to  elevate a gift above
the Word.  And, take an authority that doesn't belong to you.

 	(12) 	(They're) spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with
you, 			feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, 
			carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, 	
		twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

	Now listen.  These same guys are wolves in sheep clothing.  So, where's
their fruit?  They don't  have any, because they are destitute to the
Word. Then how can you talk character?  If you don't know where it's
coming from.  How can you talk character when there's an angel of Satan,
that's transformed himself, into a wonderful person?  And, I believe,
the pope that's going to come out of America, that's the antichrist is
going to be the most loveable, remarkable, most wonderful man the
world's ever seen. Transforming himself into a literal christ. What if
he has tremendous gifts like Judas, raise the dead?  I don't say he
will, but, I believe he will.   You tell me one reason why he wouldn't. 


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

44.	Now listen, this is Exodus time.  Before they really make it. See, I
came out bless God.  I'm sure going to make it. You'd better make it
with the Word. This is what I'm trying to get across to the people. 
And, they don't want it.  	

 	(14) 	And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, 			
saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,

	(15) 	To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are
ungodly 			among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly
				committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners 			
(has) spoken against him. (Now, what if the Parousia is right?)

 	(16)  	(They're) murmurers, (repiners) complainers, (they want to go
back 			to the old religion, the old way) walking after their own lusts;
(their 			own fornications - spiritual) and their mouth speaketh great
swelling 			words, having men's persons 	in admiration because of
advantage.

 	Well I say I'm a great man, I've got a lot of money. If you've got as
much money as I have, you'll get by, until one sickness will come by and
hit you, and you'll get wiped out.  About all it's good for.  To be out
of debt, doesn't mean you've got too much. It just means you're not in
debt at this minute.  So therefore, if some good cause comes up, I can
give fifty cents to every good cause any time at all.  Can't give fifty
cents to every good cause, because, there's not that many good causes
anyway.  I say, “I gave at the office.” [laughter] But, once I pay
my tithe, and help people, I don't care who raps at my door.  I don't
care who wants what.  Bro. Branham said, “You give, but you better
know to whom you are giving, he said,  for you're responsible.”  

45.	Let's get the Word of God, in these things.

 	(16)	 (Now) murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and
			(great swelling words they speak) having men's persons in admiration 
		because of advantage.

 	Oh yeah, they run here and there and look good.  Here's a big dog, you
run to him and get this big dog on your side. Run to the that big dog. 
I'm afraid of even little dogs, I don't much go for big dogs.

	(17) 	But, beloved, remember  the words which were spoken before of 			
the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;

	(18) 	How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, 
			who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.

 	Now, Terry brought that out, he showed you absolutely what mockers
were.  And, how it would be, that the children of the bondwoman, would
absolutely have to come against the children of the wife.  

 	(19) 	... they separate themselves, sensual, (natural, solely because)
not 				(having) the Spirit.

	(20) 	But (you), beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy
faith, 			praying in the Holy Ghost,

 	(21) 	Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our
				Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

	(22) 	And of some have compassion, making a difference:

 	(23)	And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating
even 			the garment spotted by the flesh.

46.  	A guy preached on that one time, about 1975, I guess it was.  And,
he brought it out well, he was such a merciful, wonderful guy, that he
was letting them know, that he was here to let you know that  you were
to follow him.  And, he'd take you to Bro. Branham's promised land.  I
wouldn't trust him, bless God, to get me out of the concrete sidewalk. 
Because, I know all about him.  By the time I got there, if I know him,
he'd have me spiritually picked. Now, I'm not lying, I'm telling you the
truth.  As, brother/sister, I'm telling you something here: this is not
a book of fables. This is not some little mish mash written up and
saying now, “Let me describe this object to you, this thing here. 
Well, it's a certain thing, and I don't know if  it's a bird or an
animal, but, it does have claws. Or does it? Now, I think it has
feathers, or are those hairs that look like feathers?”

 	Now, this is a strange thing.  But, there's a little lesson in it for
you.  Because you see, it'll tickle you.  And you won't know if it's a
hair or a feather doing the tickling. Isn't that brilliant?  You know
what? I'm going to tell you something.  Let's get this flat.  There
isn't one person in this room including myself, who doesn't read the
Bible that way, there's something wrong with us.  And, that's the
warning the prophet gave. You better read it, the way it is written. 
Because, that's the way it's meant. And, it doesn't need interpretation.
 It's it. Now, he said, "If you pull this out of place, you're going to
mess it up."  This belongs to our hour.  Because it mentions, Sodom and
Gomorrah.  The last day, and the flood, not the first day, it is this
day.  Now, who is he talking to?  Elect! Who's around us?  Well which of
you people, attend the First Baptist Church, in Dayton?  That has two
thousand members.  None of you?  Well, well, well. 

47.	...?... road must have how many would you say Don?  One thousand or
so?  Or maybe some good independent church somewhere, that was truly,
independent.   Like the hog on ice. They were so independent they 
couldn't get along with anybody, not even God.  So they plumb moved out
and had their own system.  We have a lot of those.  Do you know what I'm
getting across to you in my sarcastic way?   You better believe my
brother/sister, that everybody that talks about William Branham, does
not believe William Branham.  Everybody talk about end time Message,
don't believe end time Message.  Says right here.  I'm not pointing my
finger at anybody, I just telling you, here's what the Word of God says.
 Now, we could go on and on.  It's Revelation18:  the harlot and her
daughters, ready for the burning.  

 	Now, what is it?  It's the doctrines of  devils.  That's what it is. 
Now watch, so you'll understand.   2 Thessalonians 2: 7-12.

 	(7)	For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who 			
(hindereth him will be) taken out of the way.

	(8) 	And then shall (the) Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall 			
consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the  			
brightness of his (Presence.)

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

 	(10) 	And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that
perish; 			(Why? Because, they would not receive) the love of the truth,
that 			they might be saved.

48.	There's no salvation in Almighty God outside of revealed Word.  I
don't care what anybody says. You're not going to get it.  Why do you
think the foolish virgin miss it?  Because when they're trying to get
the oil, which will bring the revelation, the wise virgins have gone in.
 They missed seeing Him.  And, you've got to see Him to get in. The
foolish virgin can't even read the Scripture right.  Now;

 	(11)	..for this cause God (will)send them strong delusion, that they
should 			believe the lie.

 	What lie?  You shall not die.  See?  

 	(12)  	That they all might be condemned who believed not the truth,
but had  			pleasure in unrighteousness.

 	What is the truth of this hour?  Repent! Change your mind!  You say,
“Merciful God, I  repented, I'm born again.”  Ah ha.  If you're born
again, you'll really change your mind.  You'll get a real change of
mind.  

 	(12)	... They had pleasure in unrighteousness.

 49.	Now, let's keep reading.  To get reading and to understand this, we
go right back to Genesis 2: 16-17.

 	(16)  	And the LORD God (said,) Of (the) tree of the garden thou
mayest 			freely eat: (of every tree.)

 	(17) 	But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt
not eat:                		 for in the day (of eating) thereof (dying
thou dost surely die.)

 	All right.  Now watch. Chapter 3:

	(1)  	... the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field
(that) the 			 LORD God had made. And (the beast) said unto the woman,
Yea 				hath God said, (You) shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

	(2) 	And the woman said (to) the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of
the trees 			of the garden:

	(3) 	But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden,
God had 			said, (You) shall not eat of it, neither shall (you) touch
it, lest (you) die.

	(4) 	And the serpent said... (You) shall not surely die.

	Well, that's what he said.  

	(5)  	(And) God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your
eyes 			shall be opened, and (you'll know) good and evil.

	(6) 	And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food...pleasant 
		to the eyes, a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took the 			
fruit and did eat, gave (to) her husband with her... and he (ate.)

 	(7) 	And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they
were 			naked; and sewed fig leaves together...

	(8) 	...they heard the voice of the LORD God in the garden, and (they)
hid 			themselves from the presence of the LORD (among) the trees.

 	Now, if you want to get away from the Presence of Almighty God, let me
tell you how to do it.  Just hide yourself from Him, amongst the trees. 
You know trees represent forms of life.  And, God hated the big tree out
there that men built altars under.  If you don't want the Presence of
God, just get yourself another religion.  Get yourself another Word. 
Just leave Bro. Branham's Message alone.  You'll get rid of the
Presence.  You catch what I'm saying?  It's already been done.  They
were afraid.  They were naked.  He said, “Who told you, you were
naked? Have you eaten of the tree, I commanded you should not eat?”  
The man said, “The woman gave it to me.”  The woman said, “Well,
the serpent gave it to me.”  So, the fight was on.  

50.	Let's go to Genesis 5: 5.

	(5) 	And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty
years: 			and he 	died.

	All right.  He died.  From the day of his initial sin, death and decay
set in.  He started to corrupt, to rot and to die.  What did it? The
doctrine of the devil.  Now, what is the doctrine of the devil​? 
Atheism?  Ha, don't be ridiculous.  The doctrine of the devil is
changing just even one Word.  The doctrine of the devil, is the
corrupted Word.  What did it?  A false revelation.  As Bro. Branham
said,  “One Word off, is Satan's kingdom.” Death, destruction,
corruption, decay, abnegation, denial, frustration, complexes.
Everything that contributes to  misery and is miserable.  Everything
that is denigrating. Just, one Word, and It's corrupted.  As one person
said, the Bible said, the little fly in the apothecary's ointment,
spoils it.  He said, "Notice, it doesn't say, the dead horse in a
slough, just a little gnat."  One little Word.  One little beam in the
eye.   One little tiny flick of dust, distorts the vision. One Word off.
 One change.  What did it?  A false revelation.  

51.	Now, with real meaning. With real meaning, understanding. Nailing it
down.  The best I can in today's message we  go to Matthew 16:13-18, 
and read;    

	(13) 	When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he (said
to) 			his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?

	(14) 	And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some,
(Elijah); 			and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.

	(15) 	He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?

	(16) 	And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son
of 			the living God.

	(17) 	And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon 			
Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my 		
Father which is in heaven.

	(18) 	And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock
I will 			build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail
against it.

	Now, Peter gave the revelation in the Holy Ghost, and the revelation of
the Holy Ghost came back upon him.  And said, “You're part of my
kingdom.” Now, confirming it. Okay. That is very good, we see it. 
Certainly wonderful.  It all seems perfect with the disciples getting a
revelation.  

52.	But now, let us read in the same chapter verses 21-23.

	(21)  	From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how
that 			he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders
and 			chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again...	


	(22) 	Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far
from 			thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee.

	(23) 	But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan:
(yeah) 			thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not (of) the
things of 			God, but (that which be) of men. (See?)

	Now, notice it.  Notice it, and keep noticing it, as we read; Matthew
16:17.

	(17)	...flesh and blood hath not revealed ... but my Father which is in
heaven.

	Verse 23;

	(23) 	(Satan hath revealed it.)

 	Okay.  Here's the Scripture. What has man got to say about it?  Man
has got nothing to say about it. The minute man has something to say
about it, you know right there, he has been inspired of the devil.  And,
it is not man, it is the devil saying it.  Satan's kingdom.  Satan's
authority.  Satan's everything, is interpreting that Word, and
corrupting It. 

 53.	Now, thank God for the end time.  And, we are dealing with the end
time.  Thank God for the end time.  When It says;  [Matthew 24]

	(3) 	... what shall be the sign of thy (appearing)... (Your Presence.) 


	(4) 	And (He) said, Take heed that no man deceive you.

	Because many are going to come and say, “Look, I have the revelation.
I'm the one anointed to tell you.” And He said;

	(23)	... Lo, here, (there) is Christ; believe it not.

	(24) 	For there shall arise false Christs, (even lying) prophets, and
(they'll 			even) 	shew great signs and wonders; (in as much) that, if
it were 				possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

	But, they can't do it.  Now, it tells you right here, everything is
going to rise up to make a deception.  Then you tell me why a certain
man out  west, would have a false anointed man in his pulpit?  And, he's
got to know he's false anointed, because, I told him, because Bro.
Branham told me.  I don't care what the man produces.  I don't care how
he witnesses to Bro. Branham.  I don't care how he witnesses to God.  I
don't care what he says about the Word.             I am not interested,
he's false anointed.  Satan's kingdom.  What fellowship is light with
darkness.  Oh, the man says, “Well look, a lot of people in our church
want healing.”  You mean you want to send them to hell to get healed,
so they'll burn forever?

54.	I want to ask a little question here.  Does anybody have a box of
matches?   Well let's light this lamp, and let the bulb get good and
hot. Who'll let me burn your finger? Well you say, “Now, Bro. Vayle,
hold it. I don't want to do that.”  

	Well you got a little belly ache or something right now, and you go to
a false anointed, and maybe go to hell.  And burn, burn, burn, burn. 
What are you talking about?  Peter said, "Whosoever tries to save his
life shall lose it." [Mt 16:25]  We've got a friend up there in Buffalo,
 Bernice Merrick dying of cancer, and they say, “Why don't you go
here, and why don't you go there?” Oh she said, “I'll never go
there, I'll die first.”  And, she died.  

 	False anointed. Not the girl, the people they wanted to take her to. 
Now, that's a pretty hard decision.  That's pretty rough. (Sure.)  But,
I want to tell you something:  this life is pretty fleeting, in the long
term.  But, there is help for us here.  

55.	Now, thank God for 2 Thessalonians. When the antichrist is deceiving
everybody, and, his spirit is here.  Before he gets here, in his
incarnation, what does It say?  2 Thessalonians 2: 13-14,17,  to the
Bride;

	(13)  	But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, (while the
				rest are damned, while they are living in pleasure, while they're 		
	deluded, while they're on their way to love the antichrist.) we are 			
bound to give thanks ... to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, 	
	because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through 		
sanctification of the Spirit (even) belief of the truth:

       	(14) 	Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of
the glory 			of our Lord Jesus Christ.

	It tells you right there, there is only one gospel, there is only one
thing that is going to give you the uncorrupted body.  Paul spoke It.
That's your Trumpet.  Now if you say, “I don't think I want it.” 
Then, go without it.  See? Bro. Branham said, “The simplicity, goes
over their heads.” Oh, they're looking for this big thing, and that
big thing. That big thing, and this big thing, and that big thing. And,
Bro. Branham categorically said, “This ministry must be so perfect,
it'd be the perfect ministry that Jesus Christ had when He was upon
earth. The perfect parallel, the very perfect identified thing, in order
for that Capstone to come down upon it.” And, what was that Capstone? 
Under the Seventh Seals. 

56.	Sure, but people said, “ Oh, never mind that, never mind that.
Shoo, shoo, out of my way. Oh great wonderful miracle ministry.  Oh
great ministry. Oh, great parallel of Jesus. Oh, great wonderful. Oh,
great, wonderful.  Come on, let's see the works. Let's see the works.”
 Hold it. Hold it. Hold it.

 	You don't get it that way.  That only shows you what is coming. 
Immortality.  What do you want, healing or immortality?  Well they said,
“The way we feel, we're going to get both.”  Liars, liars, deceived
already by the doctrines of devils. 

 	"For many (will) come in my name." [Mt 24:5] False anointed with
genuine signs and wonders and will deceive everybody but the Elect.  Who
are those Elect?  'Called out' by a Word, Logos?  There's two elections
in there; one is 'eclogos' called by the Word, and the other is
'ecclesia'.  If the Word is going to do it. 

 57.	[2 Thessalonians 2]

	(15)  	Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which
ye have 			been taught, whether by word, epistle.

	(16) 	Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father,
which 			hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and
good 				hope through grace,

	(17)  	Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and
work.

 	Now, let me ask you a question:  what comes first, God and the good
works, or the gospel?  It's the gospel. You can never be established in
anything until you're established first in this Word.  Eve never got
established. She was dis-established. (See?) Okay.  

	All right.  We know positively from where corruption of the body came.
Corrupted Word, unbelief, sin, death.  How terrible is the penalty of
corrupting the Word?  Revelation 22:18-19 tells you.  And, here we are
at the end time again, because, it's tribulation time.

	(18)  .	.. I testify unto every man that (hears) the words of the
prophecy of 			this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God
shall add unto 			him the plagues that are written (therein. What
prophecy is that?)  	

	Beginning at verse 10.

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

	When the Seals are opened. You can once more corrupt the Word of God,
by adding or taking. If you add, you get the tribulation.  If you take,
you go to the Lake of Fire.  And, both actually.  Now there It is. I
didn't write the Book, I'm telling you what It says.  You read It for
yourself.  

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

  	If you are taken away from the Book of the Holy City, what will you
be counted with?	"Dogs, male prostitutes, and sorcerers, and
whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and who loves (makes) a
lie." [Rev 22:15]

58.	Romans 1:18.  Here's a preface what happened before the flood, that
brought destruction.

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

 There it is.  2 Thessalonians There's your Cain's, there's your
Korah's, there's your Dathan's, your Abiram's, your Balaam's, your
Jezebel's. 

	[Romans 1:]

	(19)  	Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for 
		God (showed) it unto them. (Thoroughly, manifested to them and 			
proven.)

	(20) 	For the invisible things ... from the creation of the world
clearly seen, 			being understood by the things that are made, even his
eternal power 			and Godhead; they are without excuse:

	(21) 	Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God,
... 			became vain in their (reasonings), their foolish heart was
darkened.

	That's wicked idolatry, It says.  

	(22)	Professing themselves to be wise, ( that's soffice, they became 		
	insipid. “I'll puke  you out of my mouth,” said God.) [Rev 3:16b] 

	(23)	...changed the glory, the uncorruptible God, made like corruptible
				(men), birds, and fourfooted beasts, and things. 

59.	In other words, they just simply put God  in nature. They say,
“Well, there's something out there.”  Who knows?  Evolution.  

	(24) 	(Therefore) God also gave them up to uncleanness through the
lusts 			of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between 			
themselves:   

	(25) 	...changed the truth of God into a lie, worshipped and served 			
the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever....

	Became social gospel-ites.  That's all it was, be nice, love this, love
that.  

	(26)  	For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections:  even 			
their women did change the natural use into that which is against 			
nature:

 	Women have become lesbians. Poor women, I feel sorry for them, they've
got themselves  messed up, where there's no return.  There's absolutely
no return. There's no return for this earth anymore.  Because, all of
these diseases have come through homosexuality.  The rottenest diseases
right now, are social diseases, which come by homosexuality.   There's a
cancer in males, which cannot be cured.  And, now there's herpes, which
cannot be cured, and  there's only one way to cure it, and that's burn
it.  They're going to die with the burning.  I didn't write the Book, I
preach It.  

 60.	That's what's done it.  Women had one burden years ago; that men
weren't gentle.  They just wanted an act, and got it over with, and
forgot to be lovely to the women.  Now, women initiate it, where are
they?  They're in worse shape than ever.  Why didn't they keep the
original premise?  "Men, be nice to us, men be nice to us, men be nice
to us."  (See?)  God loves the church. Men love their wives.  Nice to
their wives.  Women were fools not to bear the burden. Until they could
change that around, they refused to do it.  Now they've got a system.
and, woman types the church.  The church would not listen.  She's
refused the love of Almighty God.  She's refused His Presence, as Bro.
Branham said, “ She's refused to bear Spiritual children to Him.” 
She's going to die, because she's a harlot.

	(27)  .	.. men with men working that which is unseemly, ...

	(28) 	... even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge,
God 				gave them over to a reprobate mind,  to do those things which
are 				not convenient;

	 They did not approve of God.  That's what It says, right there.

	(28) 	... they did not like to retain God in their knowledge,

	They did not approve of God. That's the exodus. Man never does approve
of God.  He will not approve of Him.  God comes right down and says,
"Here I Am." 

	They say, "Get out of my way boy." Look at these guys that want Bro.
Branham to come back.  Here he stands knocking at the door. 

	“Who's this knocking?”  

	“I'm Jesus.” 

	“Out of the way boy, where's Bro. Branham?” 

	 Now, I love Bro. Branham, but God has got to raise Bro. Branham. 
Listen, if I could oil up David Rockefeller, and I wanted money; and, I
could oil him up, and get money out of him, do you think I'd waste my
time on a whole bunch of you guys?  You're just a bunch of no good bums,
you ain't worth a penny.  Even Bro. Evans has got his farm mortgaged.
Who needs him? Right?  [laughter]  Who needs any of you?  If I wanted
money.  And, I could butter up David Rockefeller.  

61.	Well, here's the point.  I love Bro. Branham, he's done his duty. 
He's the prophet of God, he was that Elijah fore to come.  But, don't
you know that Moses, had to go off the scene.  So did William Branham
have to go off the scene.  Under the Seventh Seal, he categorically
says, “ He must increase, and I've got to decrease.”  It's happened.
Now look, if God has got to raise William Branham, (and oh how I wish I
were a William Branham, not prophet, just for the nice guy that he was.
Just the Christian he was. Well, even just fifty percent what he was. I
wish I were.) but, if God has got to raise him and Paul, I'm going to
tell you something, I'm going to butter up Jesus.  And, you know what I
mean.  I am going to look to Him.  Now, they don't approve of Him. They
do not approve of Him.  Listen, I am giving you the Bible.  I've quoted
you out of Peter. They did not approve of Him.  I'm quoting you out of
Romans.  They did not approve of Him.  I quoted out of Jude, Hebrews.  I
showed you, that's exactly the path.  

	Now, where do you stand today, people of God?  You that say you believe
this Message?  Now, you believe I'm a teacher.  Do you believe I handle
the Scripture?  I do handle Scripture.  I could be a false teacher.  I
could handle it wrong.  I'm going to tell you one thing,  ain't no way
I'm handling this part of it wrong.  Because, I'm cutting my throat, if
I'm wrong.  And, I'm condemning myself by my own words, and I'm against
this. [BV taps the pulpit] Because, this is against God.  I'm for Him
being Present.  Now if, He's not Present, don't ask me.  

62.	Let's go to Revelation 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 (male prostitutes), and sorcerers (that's
druggists, 				they give you  the wrong prescription), whoremongers,
murderers, 			idolaters, whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.  

  	That takes care of the whole gamut.  That's the terrible penalty of
corrupting the Word. Destruction.  Dismissal from the  Presence of God. 
Eventual burning in the Lake of Fire. But, listen: corruptibility must
put on incorruptibility.  And, mortality, immortality.  I don't care
what the conditions are!  God said, “I'm going to reverse it.” Now,
that's where we are today. 

	 Abraham stood there in the gate, about one hundred years old, long
flowing beard, and    I guess by now, his arms were skinny and the skin
hanging down here. And he looked in good shape for his age, but, you
look it, that ain't too good shape. People say, “Bro. Vayle, you're
good shape for your age.” I say, “Hold it bud, that still ain't what
I want.” [laughter] You got to be kidding.  So Abe might've looked
pretty good there.  

	And, what he said, “Look, I'm going to father a child, by this woman
here, she's about ninety years old, she's going to mother a child.” 

	They said, “Oh boy.”

	He said, “I don't care what anybody says,  God's going to reverse
it.”  (See?) 

 63.	All right, we've already read in 2 Thessalonians  2:13-14,  how it
is, that's through the Word of Almighty God.  It's amplified in 2
Corinthians 2:14-17, which is what we read.  Which, you don't handle the
Word of God deceitfully. The Word stands there, there's either life or
death.  Now, you know positively, that if that Word is life or death, it
depends on one thing.  Does a person change it?  Because, if it's not
changed, it'll bring life. If it's changed, it's death. No way, however
you look at it, it corrupts. It cannot stand the change.  

	Now, we're talking in terms of corruptibility putting on
incorruptibility. We found out what brought corruption, and mortality. 
We found it was the corrupted Word, it was the changed Word.  Taking
from It, adding to It. It became the doctrine of Satan. It became death.
 I don't care how you camouflage it, it is still death.   You can smell
the prettiest flower in the world, if there's a bug there waiting to
bite you, you're going to get bit. And so, the sting of death, lay right
in that Word, that looks so beautiful. Now, in 2 Corinthians which we
have read many times, when we took the omega reflection; and, in the
chapter 3:6-18 it talks how the Word that was given, to man revealing
man, brought death.  

	 Why?  Because all it did, it couldn't bring life because, it simply
revealed man.  It simply told what man was. (See?) Now, you've got  this
which is the unveiling of Christ which with an unveiled face, will bring
immortality because it says 'transfiguration'.  But notice, the faces'
got veiled. And, when you're veiled, you can't see the Word right.  Now,
in our time therefore, we see what's happened.  The people were veiled. 


64.	Now, therefore Paul said; [2 Corinthians 4]

	(1) 	... seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we 		
	faint not;

	(2) 	But (now watch, having) renounced the hidden things of dishonesty,
			not walking in craftiness, (not) handling the word of God
deceitfully; 			but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves
to every 				man's conscience in the sight of God.

	(3) 	But if our gospel (is) hid, it is hid to them that are lost:

	(4)  	In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them 			
which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, 			
who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

	(5) 	For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; ...
ourselves 			your servants for Jesus' sake.

	(6) 	For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath 		
	shined in our hearts, (and) give the light of the knowledge of the
glory 			of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

 	Now, let's understand this, that he is talking and telling you here,
that this Gospel which he preached, has within it the power of the last
Trump.  Wherein there will be the perfect Word, which God can back. 
And, the perfect Word given, which God can back, is going to cause
...corruption to cease, and mortality to cease temporarily.  (See?)  

65.	Now, let's go further.  We're going to read Galatians 1:6.

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

	(7) 	Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and
would 			pervert the gospel of Christ.

	(8) 	But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel
unto 			you than that which we have preached ..., let him be accursed.

	Then what about the person that hears it?  He's cursed too.  All right.
 

	(10) .	.. do I now persuade men, or God? or do I ... please men? for if
I yet 			pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

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

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

	Then he tells them it was proved when he had a real revelation. All
right.  That's wonderful, but, the thing is this, it got corrupted.

	  2 Corinthians 11:

	(2) 	... I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused
				you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to 			
Christ.

 	 Now listen, Jesus is glorified, this will take a glorified Bride. Now
watch, this Word, if It had been in the Bride, in the pure revelation,
what would've happened?  I'll tell you what would've happened.  You
wouldn't had to wait 'til the end time, 'til all the Bride was in.  One
at a time, they would have been glorified, just snuck off the earth. 
So, watch what It says.  

	(3)  	... I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve
through his 			subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the
simplicity that 			is in Christ.

 	Already, already. The group was stopped from being immortalized.
Because, corruption had set in.  No way could it happen. It was all
over.  No one, not even Paul could evade death.  You say, “Well, Bro.
Vayle, why could he not evade death?” I'm glad you asked the question.
 

66.	Let's turn to 1 Cor. 5: 6-8 and  It will tell you exactly what it's
all about.  

	(6)  	(For) your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven
				(leavens) the whole lump?

	(7) 	Purge out therefore the old leaven, (you) may be a new lump, as
(you) 			are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for
us:

 	Seven Church Ages, was to have a perfect unleavened Word, which in
itself  It is. But, as soon as man handles It,  as soon as It's
preached, Satan's got his own crowd right there, and that Word has been
changed. And so, therefore, there cannot be at anytime, a Bride, or a
group changed and go in a Rapture, until she has come back to the
original. What's the answer to this corruption?  There is only one
answer.  And, that is a return to the original Word, from the original
Revealer, and that will bring perfection. As It says over in 1
Corinthians 13: 

	Now watch. It tells you: 

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

	(10) 	But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in
part 				(will) be done away.

	(11) 	When I was a child, I (spoke) as a child, I understood as a
child,  				... I put away childish things.

	(12) 	For now we see through a glass, darkly; ...then face to face: ...
I 				know in part; but then (I will be known) even as also I am known.

	Now, that's the same as  2 Corinthians.  It tells you there
categorically, that God has promised, that there will be a Bride, with a
genuine absolute revelation of the Word of Almighty God.  It brings us
right to that Scripture I read a  minute ago.  And I'll read it to you
again.  [2 Cor 3:18]

	(18)  	But we all, with (unveiled faces) (No more creeds and dogmas,
the 			Holy Ghost loosed to interpret the Word. Are looking) in a glass,
			(and behold) the glory of the Lord, and we are changed into the 			
same image (that Jesus was changed, or came, through the Holy 			
Spirit.  We will become one with Him.)

67.	Now, that takes place in  Ephesians 1: the baptized believers.  

	(17)  	...the spirit of wisdom and revelation (comes into the church.)

	(18) 	The eyes of your understanding (are) enlightened; (we) know...the
			hope of his calling, the riches of the glory of his inheritance...

 	In other words, the complete revelation. An absolute understanding.
Then comes the Resurrection. Then comes the Rapture. It is there before
us. As the prophet said, “When you receive the Word of God, you become
the Word of God in your flesh.”  That is John 17:21. “That we and
the Father and  the Son are one.”  

 	How are we one?  We are one through the four measures, which I talked
to you about. We're in the time of the Exodus.  One of the times of the
going away.  There is a Word for it. God comes on the scene.  Vindicates
Himself to the prophet.  Vindicates the prophet to the people.  Brings
the Word of God to the people. The promise of the hour, and the prophet,
and God, and the people are all one under covenant. (See?) They are then
back to where they will be.  

 	Now, let's watch, and you'll see what I'm talking about.  Now you say,
“Well Bro. Vayle, how come God did not work it out, where that He
could have a Bride in every age, that little group that just go away,
because they are few anyway? Just go in and go away.”  That's not how
God wanted.  There had to be a Resurrection.

	But, there still has to be a time, when there is a group of people that
get away without dying.  Because corruptibility,  which was the
corrupted Word, that brought the death through unbelief; has got to come
to the place where  a group, now remember, Adam and Eve had been in that
group.  Their seeds were in there.  The seed of this hour were there.
...

68.	Now, let's look at Revelation 22:10.  Listen carefully;

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

 	Every mystery, the Word of God will now become  crystal clear. By the
Revealer Himself.  Every mystery will be known. Of which one is; we're
not going to die.  Now watch what It says; 

	(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:( there's your dogs, your
sorcerers) 			and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: (that's
your idolaters, 				your whoremongers, your liars)  and he that is
righteous, (is) 				righteous still: and he that is holy, (is) holy
still. (And there is your 			Bride, that goes in a Rapture) 

	 Now, it comes to the point, when will incorruptibility overcome
corruptibility? When a Bride is standing here with the Word of God
revealed to her.  And, she is no longer tricked by the devil or anybody
else.  And, she becomes one mind.  And that mind, is the revealed mind
of Almighty God to her, as Bro. Branham thoroughly explained it.  And he
said, “If ten people in a Bride, are here at one time, and understand
(I'm paraphrasing now) and believe the same thing,  (he said) there's
going to be a Rapture.”  How will corruptibility put on
incorruptibility?  Just what we are to saying. A Bride will be standing
here that won't die.  But, live on and be immortal.  And, it will be the
entire Bride.  

69.	As Paul said over there in 1 Thessalonians  4:  he said;

	(17)  	...we which are alive and remain... (it is going to be an
absolute 				group that is standing there.) 

	1 Corinthians 15:51.

	(51) 	...We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

	1 Corinthians 1: 7.

	(7) 	... waiting (the Bride is waiting) for the (time of His revealing,
in 				His unveiling.)  

	And it's that time that that Bride is going to be perfect in Him,
there'll be no condemnation.    It's the same as it is in Romans 11: 
when old Elijah stood there and he said, “Lord I am the only one
evidently that is standing absolutely here, one with You.” And God
said, “Hold it, I've got seven thousand out there, that are one with
me, they haven't bowed the knee to Baal.”  (See?)  What you've got
here brother/sister, is the understanding, that says in 1 John 3:2,

	(2)  	...now are we the sons of God...(it's never yet come into being) 
			what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we 			
shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

70.	In other words, the revealed Word, God revealed in His own Word, and
those revelations, and the covenant hour, and the promise. When they
become one through revelation, that's the time that death, is stopped in
its tracks. That's the time you won't get older anymore. Now, see what
I'm trying to get across?  And here's where everybody wants to fight me.
They all want to say, “Well, Bro. Vayle doesn't believe in
character.”  Well, I'm going to tell you one thing, if your character
will produce this, you tell me why you aren't gone?  [long blank spot on
tape] 

	That's a lie right there. I don't resent the fact being called 'a
burned out Baptist' because, I don't know what that means. [laughter]
That's just a good joke as far as I'm concerned.  And, I do resent a
man, writing a book against the predestination doctrine as Bro. Branham
taught it.  

	So I can tell you right now, if I gave them one billion dollars, he's
going to stand before me and tell me their character is going to get
them anywhere.  Because, their character at this point, in my books,
which hasn't got them anywhere.  Because I think I'm just as good as
they are, and I ain't no good.  How near are they to God?  I'd like them
to prove that one.  I want them to prove how much fruit they got. 
Because, what is fruit?  A man's works brings fruit? There's no man
living, will touch what the Church Age book did.  And I wrote it.  I
don't even consider it.  I'm not interested.  You say, “Why aren't
you?”  Because, I'm not.  I'm interested in  nothing.       I don't
live in the back.  I live right now.  I'm interested in getting this
sermon finished.  I'm interested in going on with Communion.  I'm
interested in living.  Not some hogwash somebody perpetrates, and
spreads around the country.  Because, they think they can blab off.

71.	No, they want to stand in dignity and in men's presence.  What if
I'd have taken what Bro. Branham threw into my lap.  The moment he died,
then  I walked to the front of the people.  What kind of a big church
would I have had?  I'll tell you.  I'd have had a big church.  And, I'd
have to buy so many shovels; because where there is no ox and the crib
is clean. [laughter] Your little lift, you better hire your bulldozer. 
I'm not interested.  I'm just telling you, I'm not mocking people.  I'm
not interested.  

	No, brother/sister, we had better get our lines lined up. Doctrines of
devils. (Yeah) You say, “You're unkind.”  I'm not unkind.  I just
preach the Bible. One Word off, is the doctrine of the devil.  If I'm
off this Word, I've got the doctrine of the devil, I'll tell you that
flat.  If you're off, you've got a doctrine of the devil.  And I'll tell
you this,  and, anybody that has it, will not, will not, categorically
will not, (or I don't know my Bible) put on incorruptibility.

	Now look:  Homeopathic treatment is peculiar. They believe if, you get
bit by a snake, they give you some more of the thing and you get cured. 
I don't believe that I can ever be in the Bride by multiplying error. I
believe I've got to get back to being a pure Word Bride, or I'm not
going to make it.  Because, Bro. Branham said, “ God did not start a
baby, by putting a human cell with a dog cell, a cow cell, a pig cell
and a cat cell, it's all human.  Neither does God, build anything in a
Bride but cell upon cell which is a Word cell.”  Now the Bride got off
a trail, every single time.  And, death entered, through a corrupted
Word.  That's exactly what it is. Because, you see the Word of God is
life, and anything  that is touched, that Word and changed it, it is no
longer life, it is death.     

72.	So therefore, God brings us back to the hour in which we live. 
Where He will have..., (now listen) God will have a perfect Word, faith
Bride. He [correction] will have a perfect Word faith Bride, who says as
Mary, “Be it unto me, according to Thy Word.”  Corruptibility, will
be covered over by the incorruptible Word. And, therefore all corruption
shall cease in the flesh of the Bride, and she will be victor over death
and hell and the grave. Now, I'm going to close with this Scripture, to
get you out of here, because we took a long time.  (But, I meant to
because, we're going to have to wait for Communion, anyway.)  

	I go to Revelation 1:12.      

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

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

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

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

	(16) 	And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth
went 			a sharp two-edged sword: and his countenance was as the sun
shineth 			in his strength.

	(17) 	And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead...he laid his
right 				hand upon me, (and said) unto me, Fear not; I am the first and
last:

	(18) 	I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for 		
	evermore, ... and have the keys of hell and of death.

	Now, what is He doing at the end of the ages?  He is standing here in
the hour of decision.  And, in the hour of decision, He has a key that
will open the graves, and let them out.  He has a key that shuts the
door of death. Temporarily for the Bride, so that no one else will
perish.  Now, what has happened at the end time?  It has happened at the
end time.  That the Bride has finally come back to being one with the
Word.  That's just where she's got to be. It was the corrupted Word that
destroyed her, and she took it and died. That was the sorcerer part, the
...?... medicine.

73.	 But now, He, Himself is here revealing Himself in His Own Word. He,
Himself is here putting life in that Word, because, He is the Life of
that Word.  And, at this time, we have as Bro. Branham categorically
said, when the question was asked; “What does that mean when that
which is perfect is come?”  

	He said, “ Who is perfect but God, and what is God, but the Word.”
And by grace we believe, that we have the perfect revelation, of the
Word for this hour. 

	Now brother/sister, that's what It says here in the Bible.
Corruptibility is going to be stopped in its tracks.   Death is going to
be stopped in its tracks.  At the time the Seventh Church Age Messenger
blows his trumpet.  

	  That is going to be every mystery of God open, the Seals completely
opened.  The veil's completely taken off of men's face. The Word
thoroughly exposed.  And, the Bride says, “Be it unto me, according to
Thy Word.” And, fully identified with that Word, at the exact moment
that, that Word is to take effective in every single Bride standing here
as a group.  Death is suddenly going to 'choo'... stop.  Every process
of corruption within her is going to stop.  And, that Word is  going to
then, take those cells, and change those cells completely, so she walks
into immortality.    

74.	Now, that's the simplicity that the people don't understand.  They
will tell you this, they'll say, “Look, Bro. Vayle, I agree that God
is going to do it. I agree that there's going to be a  Trumpet blown.  I
agree positively, that there will be a Rapture of people who are going
to be changed.” And, I say, “Give them one question: do you believe
positively, that Elijah must come and restore that Word?”  Because,
that is the crux of the whole thing.  

	And, they say, “In no way. Because, who needs It?”  Now you tell
me, in the light of what I brought out.  And, I took you absolutely from
Genesis to Revelation, and showed you. How are you going to get back to
living forever, unless you get back to where you were before that Word
was touched by the enemy?  

	Now, for the first time, the Tree of Life is exposed.  How are you
going to get to It?  The Tree of Life, my brother/sister, is not the
important thing we're looking at today.  Though it is. The important
thing is; I am looking at you, and you are looking at me, looking at
each other in the light of; are we going to be immortalized?  The
question then comes down to this basic: what must we do, or what must
happen to us?  How are we going to make it?  How's it going to be done? 
The dead have the guarantee.  And yet, they cannot come up without us. 
We have got to walk over.  Then you've got to go back where a man got
off a trail.  He got off a trail by one Word, that was corrupted. It was
no longer the Word.  

75.	All right. There's a Word today of immortality.  And, every Word
from the Book of Genesis right to the last chapter of the Book of
Revelation, brings you right up, and up, and up, and you stop right
here.  And, the Tree of Life of immortality, stands there. Now, how are
you going to get there?  How are you going to get there?  Say, “God's
going to do it.”  On what condition?  "It's appointed unto man once to
die, but after that the judgment. [Heb.9:27] "The Spirit is life because
of righteousness, the body is dead because of sin." [Rom. 8:10]	

	How are you going to get it?  Now, He said, “I put a flaming sword
there.” Nobody can touch that Tree, because they cannot go there, they
cannot touch the Tree  in that condition.  

	Now, let's watch it.  You have got to somehow, get to that Tree now, in
order to get to the condition of immortality. Because, that's what it's
all about.  Now, what was holding you? Say, “Well, if I ate of that
Tree, the condition I'm in, then I'd live in that state forever.”  Oh
wonderful, that's exactly what God wanted in the Garden of Eden.  Just
live on and live on and live on.  What happened?

 	 The Word got corrupted.  They took a corrupted Word.  Then how are
you going to get to the Tree?  I have to have an uncorrupted Word, and I
have to be in a position where that Word, is not corrupted in me.  Now,
Mary stood there, and she said, “Be it unto me according to Thy
Word.”  Abraham stood there, in the Presence of God, and it was the
hour of  the son to come.   Now, in the hour of the approaching son. 
What was it?  The church in Sarah, had to get back to a faith which was
uncorrupted. 

76.	Come on, you say, “Bro. Vayle how do you know that?”  I'll tell
you how I know it.  By faith, Enoch was translated, and was not. 
Rapturing faith.  Where did he get it?  There's only one place
brother/sister.  And, that's an uncorrupted Word, in a Bride.  That
turns her back, uncorrupted Word, (it's manifested, expressed,) so that
she can go and live forever.  

	And, that's exactly where we stand today.  And, the people are not
getting it, they will not get it.  They won't take it.  Now right today,
it's a very strange thing to talk about the Word restored.  They'll talk
about this, they'll talk about that, they'll talk about God raising the
dead.  But, they can't put the two together.  And, they can't put the
two together, the revelation is gone.  There is no way in my
understanding, that this thing can happen except  the way the prophet
laid it out, the way we see It.  Okay. Lord Bless You.  Let's rise.  

	Heavenly Father, we're glad today that we ourselves are not, as though
we would place ourselves amongst those who must do something.  Which
would be basic and pertinent, to that principle wherein the Word says,
“ Incorruptibility must be put on over corruptibility.”  And, this
mortality must now dress itself in immortality.  And, Lord, we realize
exactly where corruption came from, what it is all about, and where it
is leading.  And, we know, Lord, at this hour You have brought us to a
place of uncorrupted Word.  We believe that, or You wouldn't have a
prophet in this hour, where it could be said, absolutely of such a
prophet, that if we add to the Word, or take away, we have condemned
ourselves.   

	Now, Lord, with the Seals open, the same prophet said, “Everything in
those Seals, was there to put a Bride in a Rapture.” And, it would be
Rapturing faith, because Enoch walked with God, and was not.  Because,
God took him. That was the faith of Enoch.  And Lord, we know there is a
Rapturing faith, and we believe it is today, based on a pure revelation,
of a pure Word, which we become the Word of God, in our flesh.  As we
receive It, which we have.  Knowing therefore, Lord, we are putting on
immortality at this very hour, and, nothing will stop us from going in. 


	Now, Heavenly Father, we want to say, "We're very grateful for what
you've done amongst us."That the life of the people, the joy of the
Word, the understanding, the illumination, all of these things, Lord,
which can contribute to the dynamism of faith. Contributing, Lord, to
the reality of that dynamism, which signifies, a Word of God coming to
life within us.  Showing forth also, the power of that Word, which we
have seen demonstrated. Though we cannot understand it, just simply,
don't understand it.  Just know that it happens.  All the more
convinced, Lord, that this is something which, in its turn will be more
and more in the Bride.  And, signifies that sweet Spirit coming into the
Bride.  All these things, Lord, showing that we are fast approaching the
hour, we are right here, at the end of this all, when we are going to be
caught away.  And, we're thankful for it.  

	Now, Lord, we do have within us always, this cry of a closer walk. 
And, of a closer identity, and a closer communication.  All of these
things, Lord, we do not hesitate, to say we believe, that we should
have.  And, in a greater measure than ever, though we know, it won't do
what You in Your sovereign dictates, have said will be done, and, how it
will be done.  And then, You performing the final act, of putting us all
together in a Resurrection and a Rapture.  But, Lord, we would love to
be part where Paul said, “If you live in the Spirit, walk in It.” 
And, Lord, we do so want to walk more and more into that Spirit of God.
Not just in the understanding of the Word, as It is so clearly said, not
just be hearer's, to be performers. And, we want to be, Lord, we want
everything changed about us. In a Spiritual progression.  We want to
have strong backbones.  We want to have strong and steady hands.  Swords
that draw blood. We want all these things, Lord.  But, neither do we
want to be uncouth, unkind or anyway, outside of the will of Almighty
God.  We want to be right. 

	 Help us, Lord. Forgive us of our sins.  Keep us in a state of constant
repentance, and change our mind.  Keep us there, Lord, in the center of
Your hand.  In the eye of Your heart, Lord.  In the way of God.  So that
our lives, will be exemplary.  We long for that, they never will be what
we want, nor what You want on this side, of the curtain of time.  But,
Father, there is a progression we believe.  We hunger and thirst after a
closer walk, a deeper life with You, Lord.  Where all of these things go
by the board, which we know are not right within us. To have pure
longings, and passions, greater understanding.  To have a sweeter
fellowship.  To have all these things, that are so vital. 

	We're asking for them, Lord, and we know there is no way You cannot
hear our prayer. Because, your own servant said, “If we know that You
hear us, we know and ask according to Your will, we know You've got to
listen, and do something about it."  So, Father, we're here today,
absolutely one heart and  mind.  John did not lie to us.  And, he did
not say something  that You did not give him to say. That this is true,
You hear us, Lord, and we get the petition we desire.  And certainly,
it's a wonderful thing to rest on, to know we can progress, in grace,
unto the very glory of God.    

	Now, Father, help each one here, with any need that is extant amongst
us. Lord, we've all got needs.  We have needs within our bodies, within
our minds, within our  homes, within our financial fields.  All these
things, O God.  Assuredly, Lord, we all are needy people.  But, there is
in Your Word, which sometimes, will give us some testing's.  There is
that promise in there, You will answer our prayers.  So, You'll answer
our needs and supply our needs by Your riches and glory.  You surely
will, Lord.  I don't know how I can praise You enough.  And, I'm so glad
You put it into my heart, Lord, how to trust You, and what to do. 
Because I do not claim anything of myself.  There is no way that I do.  

	 I just thank You, Lord, and I praise You, that You made it possible in
some small way, not as we know it, that I am no philanthropist  And, no
foundation with vast sums of money. But, Lord, You've made it in the
last few years able so that I'm able to live, and able to help, and able
to do.  And, I love to do it. I'm so glad that I can do it, Lord.  And,
if a day ever comes that I can't do it, I know that's going to be all
right too.  Because You've always, told us, “Well, if you can't do it,
you can't do it.”  And, I appreciate that. I just appreciate You so
much, Lord, for everything.  Can't express it enough.    

	I still hunger and thirst for more.  More of the Light of God, the Life
of God, the Truth of God, more of His way, more of a dedication, than
ever before. Because, this is what we really want to settle ourselves
down to.  Now, Lord, to just come right down, gear ourselves down, to a
position where, we are in a line of communication, open wire, open
communication, Lord.  Your heart to our hearts.  Your lip (as it were)
to our ears.  These inner revelations, the Word of God, coming to life. 
O Father, it's just so precious, it's just so precious.  

	Now, may we have fellowship together, Lord, as it is granted unto us. 
Coming together for the service, later.  Taking the emblems, Lord. 
Washing feet.  And, just going on with You.  It's just wonderful.  We
cannot praise You enough.  We feel sorry for those who couldn't be here.
We pray for them Lord.  Bless them for whatever reason they couldn't be
here.  Just help them, O God.  Make it up to them somehow.  And, make it
up to us too, because, we miss them very, very much.  It's not that if
they're not here, You're not here. It's just that You are here, and we
wish they were here too. And, we appreciate that.  So  we commend
everyone that's sick amongst us, Lord, may they be well enough to get to
work tomorrow.  Get up and be strong.  They're good servants of Yours,
Lord.  They love You, and they would be here. But, sick is sick.  And,
maybe, Lord, we just ought to be 'more on the ball' like You just when
You raised up Peter's mother in law.

	Maybe we just need to get a little further down the line now to just
pray prayers of faith.  And we're open to that too, Lord.  We're open
for it too.  We really are. And, if there's just somebody here, Lord,
that's got that little kind of moving in their hearts.  Could be someone
here with that measure of faith, in praying for sick.  Some person
because, we know that every single one has something from You.  And, we
just pray, Lord, there's someone here, that that person will be aroused
to just use that faith, that's there to operate what has been given to
help the people of God.  Anyway, Lord, that anybody can be used. We just
pray that You'll help Your people to begin to see, look this is life.
This is the body of Christ.  This is rich and real, and there are many
things here we can come into, and knowledge, and enjoy.  

…

, unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be all 
power, honour and glory through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.

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