Corruptibility Putting on Incorruptibility # 2

 

Bro. Lee Vayle   -     Date February 13,1983

 

	Shall we pray.  Heavenly Father, we're very grateful that You're here
with us, and how we ought to solemnize our hearts.  To put away all
irreverence, and, anything which smacks of the world, and, especially
anything Lord, which would do despite to Your Word, in any way, shape or
form.  Thou art the keeper of Your Word, Lord.  We're trusting You to
keep that Word, and thereby keep us.  Because, we are committed to You
who is the Word.  And, we're  grateful now that, that commitment is
irrevocable.  Somehow, Lord, by grace and faith, we do not ever intend
to revoke It from our side.  Especially since we know that  this is the
end, and, there is tragedy ahead for those that add or take.  And we,
therefore, Lord, want to be one with It.  And, we know that You alone,
can help us.  So here we stand, Lord, in the Presence of grace and
mercy. And, are very, very happy that it is so.  That it is out of our
hands.  For, You are the faithful keeper of that which pertains to our
salvation.  We give Thee glory as we commend ourselves to You in Jesus
Name.  Amen.  You may be seated.

1.	Now, there's so much to be said, so many points that are necessary to
go into, but, we'll try to get things briefly said as possible.  Though
I don't guarantee anything along that line. To be pointed, hopefully
even more than brevity, so that you understand, the things of this hour.
 Now, of course we have much controversy concerning the Presence of the
Lord.  And, that goes without saying, that's bound to be, and we'll let
that ride. But, Bro. Branham in preaching 'The Token' mentioned that
concerning the fact of the shedding of the blood at the time of Moses
which was what he called 'the chemistry', which simply meant the blood
and it's chemistry was put upon the doorpost, signifying that a life had
been shed for the remission of sins.  And, that they were taking refuge
under the blood.  Actually, you can carry that to the place where I
think people are today. They worry too much about the Blood.  Is It on
the mercy seat?  Is It not on the mercy seat?  Is It there?  Is It not
there?    

 .	The fact is, if you are not born again, what does the Blood do for
you, as per this hour? Now, down the road for the souls under the altar,
foolish virgin, sure.  But, if the life that was in the Blood is not
upon you, you're not born again, and, you're going to miss It anyway. 
And, we're talking about a Bride.  So, he was saying here to the people,
now, Moses said, “ You must come under the blood.”  Signifying, a
life was shed.  And, the word 'Passover' is meaningful, in that, that
was the night that the Lord kept guard.  

2.	All right.   What if the blood was shed, and the Lord wasn't keeping
guard?  They wouldn't of got out of Egypt. They wouldn't have gone into
the Promised Land.  The Red Sea would not have opened.  It was a fact
that He was there, but, they had applied what He gave them to apply. 
Now He is here today.  But, if you are not truly born again, (and this
is the danger of this Message,) people can say, “Oh I believe the
Message.  Rabbi, I believe it's a great thing, the shedding of the
blood, but, have you put it on your doorpost?  Well, I'll tell you what,
now that's just a great thing, and I believe Moses is right. And I can
see where that is right in line with what Abraham did.  But listen, is
it on your doorpost?”  

  	Now, you see, He's here in our midst, but, is He in our hearts?  The
other people say, “He's in our hearts, but, He's not here.” 
Somebody is mixed up.  Somebody is mixed up, because, if  He is in your
heart, and you don't know that He is here, do you follow me?  Now the
question arises. Where do you stand this morning?  Are you really full
of the Holy Ghost, and know it?  Do you really know that He's here?  
The two have to come together.  And, if they don't come together (come
on) it just isn't working out.  

	

	So Bro. Branham said, “The Token can only come at evening tide.”
Well, I can qualify that, all through Scripture, He only came at evening
tide. When did God come down as His own token and surety, to a race that
needed help?  The first time, when Adam and Eve got into sin, it was
evening time.  The shadows had fallen, and, in the cool of the night,
the Lord came down. Said, “Adam, where are you?”  

	

	Adam said, “I'm just not going to appear, I'm naked, I'm hiding.”

3.	So, every Age ends in black out.  And, every age, is when the Token
comes.  So we've got  Ages and we understand that.  But, Bro. Branham
was not referring to that. He's referring to the last black out, when
the 'Token' Himself, God Himself, the Great Baptizer came and stood
amongst us.  He Himself, sealing in those that had  been previously
sealed unto God.  Taking them into the Promised Land.  And, that's why
he preached that sermon.  Because, many people came and they said,
“Oh, we believe in Bro. Branham. Oh sure. We believe in Bro. Branham,
yes, great prophet of God.  Great prophet of God.”  Come on.

	No more believed in him than nothing.  Well, I'll categorize that.
“That's a lamp, so what!  Am I going to eat it?  Chomp chomp, chomp. 
What about that lamp anyway?  Look it, it's not a part of me.  It
doesn't really mean anything. So (fap) it's there.  And it's got a
use.”  

	Now look,  a William Branham prophet, signified the Presence of God.
Period. God!  God Himself, Almighty, Eternal, Invisible, Omnipotent,
Omniscient God.  There He was. [points to the picture of the Pillar of
Fire] They don't believe that. They say, “Well, He's here, He's always
been here, two thousand years he's been here.”  So on and so forth. 
Well that's okay by me, they can believe what they want. But, that's not
true, He is here.

4.	So Bro. Branham said, “ All right.  I want you people to know,
you've seen me, you've seen a ministry.” You know irrevocably, you
know positively, there's no doubt about it.  You know He's here. Now,
what about you?   What about His being here, and you are not filled with
the Holy Ghost? These things have people's minds so clouded, and
confused, that they don't understand  what we are preaching; anymore
than they understood what Bro. Branham was preaching.  All you've got to
do is look at the present history, and you can see that the people that
touted Bro. Branham the most, that actually had dreams and visions and
revelations concerning him, no more stand with him than nothing, in this
hour.

 

	So, Bro. Branham's sermon was tremendous, and it was this:  He is here,
as He has not been here previously, for two thousand years.  The great
potential of Him being in our midst is now fulfilled.  But, what about
you?  Do you see it?  You talk about it, but, are you really one of His,
by the rebirth?  This is what he said was the greatest sermon he
preached.  The sermon was on his heart, for literally, years.  Well,
maybe not years, but, maybe months and months, concerning that. That he
wanted to bring the people.   And, he finally brought it to them.  

5.	All right. Last week, we went into 'Corruptibility Putting on
Incorruptibility,” and we read out of 1 Corinthians 15:51-57.

 	(51)	Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, we shall 		
	all be changed, (now, It tells you, there's going to be a change, in 		
	everybody and everything.) 

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

	(53)	 For this (corruptibility) must put on (incorruptibility),...

	

	Now, actually this corruptibility must put on incorruptibility, and the
literal rendering there, is rotting or wearing away as that which erodes
with a usage. Like I can rub on this lapel here, and rub on it, pretty
soon it is you call threadbare, then pretty soon there aren't any
threads. It's gone.  So your body is in a state of decay until finally
it is resolved in a state to which there is no further reduction. Which
would be back to gases.   

	(53)   	For this (which is corrupting) must put on (that which cannot
be 				corrupted, or cannot corrupt), and this (which is death doomed)
must 			put on (that which death cannot touch.)

 	(54) 	So when this (corruptibility, that which is rotting and
decaying, and 			passing away) shall have put on (that which cannot be
touched), 				and this death doomed) ...(has) put on (that which cannot
be touched 			by death), then (at that point) shall be brought to pass
the saying that 			is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

	Now, there again as Bro. Branham said, "Bringing the Word to pass, is
God's interpretation."  You don't know what this is, and I don't know
what this is. There is no way you can tell.  But, when it happens,
you'll know it.  You'll understand it.  

	(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.

	(57)	 But thanks be to God, which (gives) us the victory through our
Lord 			Jesus Christ.

 6. 	Now, as I said last Sunday.  What is this 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's the living members' answer
to the resurrection of the decayed bodies of the dead.  The dead come
back from ashes, dust, liquids, bone particles and even gases.  As they
are re-created, into the glorious forms that God has predestinated for
them.  As it says over here in 'Marriage and Divorce', page 33, 
paragraph  2; 

	“But, Hallelujah. There will come a time where it won't be  no more
sex.  But, 		God shall call His children from the dust back like they
were in the original. 		Not through any woman, but through the molding
of the clay and the cosmic light, 	and the petroleum.  He'll create
again like  He did Adam the first time.”  

7.	All right. 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, puts on what cannot be
corrupted.  And therefore, stops further and complete corruption, in and
because of death.  In other words, that's what causes corruption is
death.  So death is working in the body now.  A great victory takes
place, as the Bible says.  Never was it seen in the six thousand years
of the gladiatorial contest of death against man.  That a whole group
gain a victory, and temporarily, stall death in its track.  And, this
whole group escape irrevocably.  

	We mentioned that it's like a gladiatorial combat, the...gladiators in
the arena, death is always a spectacle.   It's not a circus, but, it's
always  a spectacle.  It is a terrible thing to view, and to see. 

8.	Now, we're going to go to 1 Corinthians 15: again,  and read verses
51-54 .  A repeat.

	(51)	(And) Behold, I (show) you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but 
					(we're) all (going to) be changed,

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

	(53)	For this (corruptibility) must put on (incorruptibility), and this
						(mortality) immortality.

	(54)	So when this (corruptibility) shall have put on
(incorruptibility), and 					this mortal shall have put on immortality,
then shall be brought to 						pass the saying that is written, Death is
swallowed up in (a) victory.

	That word, can also mean in the Greek (forever).  In other words, you
don't need to ever worry about dying again, (like as in a second death,
as It says in Revelation).

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

	(56) 	The sting of death is sin; (and so on.)

 	Now, it is evident from 1 Corinthians 15:51-54 which we read here,
that this deals with the changing of the physical bodies, of both dead
and living.  Because, this is what Paul is talking about.  

9.	And, this belongs in (what I was already getting into quoting 1
Thessalonians 4:13-18.

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

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

	(15)	For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which
are 					alive and remain unto the (Presence) of the Lord shall not
(take 						precedence over) them which are asleep. (That's the dead
ones.)

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

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

	(18) 	Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

	Now, 1 Thessalonians  4:14.  

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

 

	Now you're looking at the understanding here that, the resurrection of
the dead.  Will God bring forth with Jesus?  

10.	Now, that is literally Romans 8:11. 

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

 	In other words, the same Spirit that raised Jesus, the same Spirit,
(but, not all of It), that dwells in you.	 But, all of that Spirit, that
same God, is going to bring you forth, in an immortal body. That's what
It says.  Those dead, will God bring forth  with Jesus.  It's the very
same words.  

11.	Now, going back again to 1 Thessalonians 4:15.

	(15)	(But) this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which
are 					alive and remain unto the (Presence) of the Lord shall in no
wise (take 					precedence over) them which are asleep.

 	Now that, is very much 1 Corinthians 15:20-23.

	(20)  	But now is Christ risen from the dead, (How? God brought him
forth.)					and become the firstfruits of them that slept. (God brought
him forth, 					before 	He brought any other out of the grave.  So he is
the first one to 					die, and to come forth eternally, to never die
again. Now:)

	(21) 	For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of
					the dead.

	(22) 	For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made
alive. (Now, 					that tells you everyone in Adam, is going to come
forth in a resurrection, 					unto life.  Now watch:)

	(23) 	... every man in his own order: (Now:) Christ the firstfruits;
(now 						already, a resurrection has taken place. The first half of
the First 						Resurrection.  They have come forth. Now:) afterward
they that are 					Christ's at his (Presence).  (Now they were there at
His Presence.)

 

12.	Now, He went down into hell, (upper and lower Sheol).  And, in lower
Sheol, in a theophany form, a theophonic form, He preached to those that
are lost. Then, in the same Spirit, (not glorified) but in the Spirit,
in that body, He brought them out.  And, God raised those people, gave
them a glorified body from the earth, the same as Jesus went into His
glorified body. (I mean His body, which was of the earth, lying in that
cave.)  Now He was the first One to receive.  As His body came forth
from the cave, so the other bodies came forth from the cave also.   

	(23) 	(Now) every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; 
afterward 					they that are (there) at his ( His Presence).

	Now, they are in an order.  Now the first order was; already they've
come forth in His Presence.  Now, He's Present again today, and there's
going to be another bunch come forth. Then again at the White Throne,
there'll be another bunch come forth. (See?) Of course that's separated,
as it were sheep from goats.  They're going to come forth in their own
order.  Now, that's what we're looking at.  

 4 13.	We're looking at over here in 1 Thessalonians 4: verse, as It
says, They are going to receive their change at His Presence and this
describes the change.  All right, 1 Thessalonians 	            4: 14.

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

 	This is also; 1 Corinthians 15:52. Notice what It says;

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

	Now, you'll notice, that He mentions there, Presence, and a last trump.
So there are various things that are going together, at that particular
time.  So, 1 Thessalonians 4:14, is 1 Thessalonians 15:52,  which verse
should end at  'raised incorruptible'.  Which we ended it. (See?)  We
didn't go on reading any more.  

13.	Now then, 1 Thessalonians 4:15.  

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

 

 	Now, there is no doubt that the last phrase of 1 [Corinthians] 15:52b.
 

	(52) 	 ... and we shall be changed.

	That refers to the living, which is, what you find here:  [1
Thessalonians 4] 

	(15)	... we which are alive and remain unto the (Presence) of the
Lord...

 

	Now remember, the dead are going to be raised at that time.  And we're
alive, remaining at that time.  And that's where It says over here in 1
Corinthians 15:52.

	(52)  	... and we shall be changed. (He's speaking concerning the
living.)

	Now, then we go on to verse 53;

	(53)	For this corruptible (or that which is dying, rotting, decaying.) 
must put 					on (that which cannot die, which cannot corrupt, which
cannot change.)					 and this...

 

	Which is death doomed, it's already got a sentence passed upon it. Has
got to come to a place where there's that which no sentence can be
passed upon it. Can't die.  And, then he says here;  

	(54) 	 (So when this corruptibility shall have) put on
(incorruptibility), and 					this mortal must put on immortality...

	Is brought to that state.  That state is then described in Scripture;

	(54) 	 ...Death is swallowed up in (a) victory.

 

	(55) 	 O death, where is (your) sting? O death, (that word is not
'grave', it's 					'oh death') where is (your)victory?

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

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

14.	All right.  When those two things happened, that is, the dead are
brought out of the ground, the living are changed.  Then it is time for
1 Thessalonians 4:16 the last phrase: 

	(16) 	 ... and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

  

	(17)	Then we which are alive and remain (who are already changed, will 
				be caught up) to meet the Lord in the air:...

 

       	Now you notice, that there is a difference between the two. 
And, there has to be a difference.  Because, the first group goes up
one, two, three, four, five, six, invisible, and not even known to the
world that they're here, only to the Bride.  But, the Bride because
she's visible, and known to the world. She'll be taken a few at a time.
Then she'll be caught up.  So you can see you're dealing with
differences in this particular respect.  Now,  you of course notice,
that we left out verse 16 (all but the last portion) in 1 Thessalonians
4.

	(16)	For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with 
				the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God:...

 

 	Now, we left that out in matching 1 Thessalonians 4: and 1 Corinthians
15:  We already saw from 1 Thessalonians 4:14-15.

	(14)	 ... if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, ... them also
which 					sleep in Jesus (must) God bring (forth.  Bring them out of
the graves, 					same as He brought Jesus out.) 

	(15) 	For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which
are 					alive and remain unto the (Presence) of the Lord shall not (in
any way) 					prevent (hinder, take precedence (which ever way you want
to put it,					over) them which are asleep.

 

	Combined with 1 Corinthians 15:23.

	(23)	But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; ...they
that are 					Christ's at his (Presence).

15.	Now combine the two. The dead would come out in a resurrection of
immortality, that's what's going to happen.  And, we saw the risen dead,
are caught up 1 Thessalonians 4:16 last phrase, and 17  follows;

	(17) 	Then we which are alive and remain ...be caught up together with 
					them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we
ever 					be ... (Shows that the living goes right up on their heels.)  

	Now do you see what I'm saying?  That you don't find risen in verse 16,
what's in 1 Corinthians chapter 15.  (See?)  But, you see in 1
Corinthians 15: how you get your change.  You already see in here, how
the dead get their change.  Then you see in here, how the dead are
caught up.  Then you see in here how the living are caught up.  So that
you know.  You know positively, that it's in the Presence, that the
living get their change, the same as in the Presence, the dead come out
of the ground.  Do you follow how we put it together?  

16.	All right.  So then, we might say there is a mystery, in 1
Thessalonians 4:16, and that's the mystery that Paul speaks of in 1
Corinthians 15:51. 

 

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

 

	And, that mystery is verse 53.

	(53)	...this (corruptibility) must put on (incorruptibility), and this
mortal 					must put on immortality.

	You say, so what is that little mystery?  It's as simple as a-b- c,
because It says in His Presence, He's going to bring forth the dead. 
And, they're going to be caught up.  And It says, while we're going to
be caught up.  How are you going to be  caught up?  You're going to be
changed.  And, the Presence does it.  In other words, what we are
talking about, as it takes God Himself to come on the scene and raise
the dead, it takes God Himself, to be on the scene to change the living.
 Now, 1 Thessalonians 4:16 does not mention 1 Corinthians 15:53, "this
corruptible putting on incorruption, this mortal putting on
immortality," but it is there just the same.  Or the living would never
be caught up.  Now you say, “How is that?” 

17.	Well It tells you right here in 1 Corinthians 15:51.

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

  

	Now notice over in here, [1 Corinthians15:]

	(22) 	... as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all made alive.

	(23)	 ...every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward
they 					that are Christ's (in) his (Presence).

	That's the Coming, when He comes down here to do it.  Then he says
here, [1 Cor 15]

	(51) 	 ... (I'm going to show) you a mystery; We shall not all sleep,
(we're 					going to) be changed,

	Now watch over here; [1 Thessalonians 4]

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

	(15)	 ... (and) we which are alive (at that particular time, we are
going to 					be changed)... (I'm not adding one word, it's already in
the Bible.)

 

	(15)	For this we say unto you ... that ...are (living) and (remaining
at the time 					of His Presence)... (See?)

 

 	What's going to happen at the time of His Presence? [1 Corinthians 15]

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

 

	For: this corrupting flesh, is going to stop corrupting.  This dying
flesh, is going to stop dying.  Why?  Something is going to happen to
it.  Something is going to be put on to stop it.  And at that time,
there is no more rotting, there is no more decaying, there is no more
dying.  And, death is swallowed up.  Death loses its sting.  It no
longer has a victory.  Now, so far, so good.  

18.	Now, let's go back to 1 Corinthians 15:35-42.  Now these are things
you see, people don't understand the Presence of God, don't understand. 
They don't understand it my way.  I don't know how they understand it,
but, they understand something. Or, they think they do. All right. 1
Corinthians 15:]

	(35)	 But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what 
				body do they come?

	(36)	... fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:

 

 	Now that says, "How the dead raised up?"  Now, It doesn't say the
living, said, "dead." Now, It tells you this:  It said, "Now hey, what,
don't you guys understand nature? " 

	(37) 	And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall 
				be, but bare grain,...

 	  Now that tells you what I said the other day, the attributes. A
beautiful flower, here's a beautiful rose. You say, “I see a rose.” 
You don't see rose.  You think you see a rose. You don`t see a rose. No
way.  See, because,  rose is a life.  No man can see life, no way. Tell
you what you do: you get the rose seed, and you get the highest powered
microscope the world's ever seen, or ever will see, you can't see one
sign of rose.  But tell you what you do: you go ahead and put that in
the soil. with the proper fertilizer, water and sunshine, and you will
see manifestation.  But you won't see life.  No man can see life.  So,
this is what we're looking at here.  You sow something, as a grain, now,
you don't sow the body.  You sow what is going to bring a body, in order
to manifest itself.  

19.	Now:

 

	(37) 	...it may (bare grain, maybe) wheat, (oats, rye, barley, you name
it.)

	(38)	But God (gives) it a body (that) pleased him, and to every seed
his 					own body. 

					

 	Now look, he says the seed has a body, he didn't say the body has a
seed.  He said, "Go downtown and buy me fifty cents worth of seed."  Oh
listen, I'd rob every bank in the world if you could do that.  I'd
guarantee you, I'd shoot any man just as though he were a dog.  You say,
“Why do you say that”. Because, you can't do it.  You go down and
buy some bodies.  You can't separate the body from the seed though. Can
you?  Can't separate it from the life.  I'm talking about, you going
down to get the seed.  Never mind the body. 

	 Now you say, “You brought me back a bunch of bodies with seed in
it.”  I just want the seeds.  

	You say, “Well, you've got to be nuts.” 

	Sure, that's why it's nuts to say, “I'll give you five billion
dollars, and rob a bank, and kill every man that gets you the money for
it.”  

	Because you see, there's no way you're going to get that seed.   You
can't do it.  How do you pick it up?  I'll tell you what you do.  Let's
bring in a couple glasses of water and pass them around.  I want each
one of you to pour a little bit of water in your hand.  Then take that
and put it under a microscope.  And it's full of life.  You didn't even
think of it till this minute.  You see there's no chlorine in that water
to kill it.  It's got some good bacteria in it.  It won't hurt you. 
Little things swimming all around there.  And yet, the little things
swimming around there, is not life.  It's an evidence of life.  It's a
manifestation. See what I'm talking about here?

20.	Now, It said God has whatever life left the covering, (see?), or is
in the covering, will come back.  And  God gives the body according to
that life.  What if you go down a sinner?  You'll come back a sinner. 
If you go down born again, you'll come back, with a born again body.
(See?) That's what he's saying here,

 

 	(38)	... God (gives)  a body (that) pleased him, and to every seed his
own 					body.

  

	(39)	All flesh is not the same flesh: ...one...flesh of men, (a)flesh
of beasts, ...

 

	How then can you cross a monkey with a woman, or vice versa.  Fish. How
can you cross them with animals!  You can't do it.  Birds, with beasts. 
You can't do it. (See?) Why?  Because, you're dealing with forms of
life.  The genuine seed.  Now;

				

	(40)	...celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the
celestial 					is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.   

	(41) 	... one glory of the sun, (one) of the moon, (one) of the stars:
(each) 					star (differs)... in glory.

	(42)	So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption;
it is 					raised in incorruption:

 

 	"It is sown corruptible, raised incorruptible."  Now, It tells you
right there, that the resurrection body is no different from the person
standing here, that gets changed.  Now:

	

	(44) 	...sown a natural...raised a spiritual. There is a natural body,
and 					(there's a) spiritual.  

	(45) 	...it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the
last 				Adam was made a quickening spirit.

	(46) 	Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is
natural; 				and afterward that which is spiritual.

	What's he talking about?   The body.  Now, Adam was sown or made a
spirit being, before he was put in flesh.  He already was, (as the
Scripture said, how did they put it there?) that he was a living soul. 
Then, he'll come back as one.  Come back with a body to match it.  He
never had a body to match it in the first place.  Given a temporary
body.

 

21.	That's right.  Was temporary.    

	(46)	Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is 	
				natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.

	(47) 	The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man Lord (of) 	
				heaven.

 	(48)	As is the earthy... they that are earthy: and as the heavenly,...
						heavenly.  

	(49)	(Now listen) as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall 		
			also bear the image of the heavenly. (What? Body!) 

	Who's got the heavenly body?  The very body that God made for Himself
and glorified.  		

	(50)	Now this I say, brethren, ...flesh and blood cannot inherit the
kingdom 					of God;

	Now, and so on, let's get back to these verses here; verse 40, where It
says:

	(40)	There are also celestial bodies...terrestrial: the glory of the
celestial 					is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.

	(41) 	...one glory of sun, (one) of  moon, and... (so on.)

	(42) 	So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in
corruption; it 						is raised in (glory.)

 	Now with that, we go quickly to verse 54;

	(54)	(For) ... this (corruptibility must) put on (incorruption), this
mortal 				(must) put on immortality, then (it will) be brought to pass
the 					saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in (a) victory.

	Now, you'll notice that it doesn't fit.  Because, It says here, it is
sown in corruption, it is raised  in incorruption.  But, over here It
says, it is already when this corruptibilty shall have put on
incorruptibility. It doesn't say about it being sown.  It doesn't say
anything about it dying.  So therefore, this is not a resurrection. 

22.  So therefore, 1 Thessalonians 4:14. [correction]  Let's go back and
read It, so we know what we're talking about here.

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

	

	That is not by any means 1 Corinthians 15:54.

	(54)	 ... this (corruptibility) shall ... put on (incorruptibility),...

 	Thus the resurrection, is not by itself at least, death swallowed. 
Nor is it, corruptibility (that which is dying) putting on
incorruptibility. 1 Corinthians 15:53-54 is when the dying, stop dying,
and they start living.  It is when the decaying stops decaying.  And,
the reverse processes begin in our bodies,  so we put on a wholeness,
the which can never deteriorate.  So it's different from the beginning. 


	Now, 1 Corinthians 15:54b, death is swallowed up in victory.  Death is
conquered literally, it's over forever.  Now, 1 Corinthians 15:54b,
death is swallowed up in a victory is; 1 Corinthians 15:54a the first
part.  

	(54)	(So when) this corruptible shall ... put on incorruption, and this
						mortal 	shall have put on immortality, ...

 

	He's talking of the living.  The dead are here with us already.   Then
shall be brought to pass the saying that is written,  death is swallowed
up in a victory.  And, It's explained in 55 to 57.

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

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

	(57) 	But thanks be (unto) God, which (gives) us the victory through
our Lord 					Jesus Christ.

	Decay.  Cessation of life, is from the sting of death.  Death's stings
brings the grave.  But, death is no longer victorious, for It says here
something has happened.  Whatever it was, that gave death its power, or
sting, or strength, or authority, even its existence, has been actually,
removed.    Now, what was the power, the authority, or  the creator of
death?  So that, when that is gone, death is gone.  There is no more
death.  Now, we saw last Sunday, there's no mystery to that, none at
all.  We know exactly what did it. 

23.	It is found over here,  in Genesis 3: verse 1.

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

	(2)	...the woman said unto 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  					said, (you) shall not eat of it, (or) touch it, lest ye die.

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

 

	Now, God said, “You shall, surely die.”  

	

	The serpent said, “You shall not, surely die.”  

	(5) 	For God doth know the day ye eat thereof,  your eyes (are) 				
opened, and (you) shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

 	Now, the man and the woman said , “Yes,” to Satan.  They said,
“No” to God.  They disapproved of God.  They listened to the
doctrine of Satan.  Which Paul says, “Is the doctrine of  devils.”
[1 Tim 4:1b] Which doctrine is to change the Word, by adding or
subtracting.  Or, in anyway changing it from its original intent,
actually as we saw in 2 Corinthians 11: now watch the exact words:

 

	(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 remember, this woman was espoused to Adam.  And, she was a chaste
virgin unto him, at that time.   Now watch:  

 

	(3)	But I fear, [end of side one] lest by any means, the serpent
beguiled Eve 					through his subtilty, so your minds should be
corrupted...

	

	And that word, is the same word, that's used, what we have used so far.
It means decay, it means to rot.  In other words, it starts in the mind.
 Receiving that which is corrupted, which in turn, corrupts the entire
man, spiritually, and physically bringing death and absolute decay.  

24.	Now, back in the garden, there are only two of God's children,
that's all.  At one time, they were the entire group.  He brought him to
her and said, “Now, you're one.”  

	[Genesis 2:]

	(24)	(For this cause) shall a man leave his father and his mother, and
(you 					become one.) 

 	So they were the entire group.  And, at that time the entire group had
one mind, which was the mind of God.   But, one of the two, left the
mind of God.  So, no longer was there one head.  True headship of God,
was gone.  The wisdom of God was flaunted, but the power of God  could
not be denied.  Now that is exactly where the world is today.  (See?)
Nobody denies the power of God, when it comes to this religion.  And
remember, the whore is not communism (that's atheism), the whore is the
church.  In her is the blood of all the martyrs.  The communists don't
have the blood of all the martyrs. That's  a lot of hogwash. Communism
is the twentieth century doctrine.  This goes back to the first century.
 It's a church.  A woman.  And in her, is all the blood of all the
martyrs.

	Now, the church does not deny the power of God.  What the church denies
is, the wisdom of God.  See?  Denying the mind of God.  Now that did it.
 

25.	Now, we're going to go to 'Marriage and Divorce' and I want to read
certain passages.  Starting with 'Marriage and Divorce' page 15. 

[15-7]	If Jesus said, "Go back to the beginning," there was only one
pair of anything on earth. 			There was one Adam, one Eve. They were
joined by God alone.(See, now notice what 			separated them, she left
the wisdom of God. Right then there was separation.) One female 		horse,
one male; one female parrot, one male, at the beginning, as He told us
to go 			back, there was only one pair of anything. Is that true? Then
we find out that everything 			in the beginning was running in perfect
order and harmony with God; nothing was out 			of cater. Everything in
heaven's still in order; all the stars, the galaxies, the solar 		
system, everything is perfectly in order. One of them move and interrupt
the whole 			program.

	[16-1]	 Now, listen. Do you see? One interruption spoils the entire
program. Now, when 			human beings was running in continuity with God,
with one man and one woman, this 			woman sinned. And it throwed the
whole earthly program out of continuity with God. 			Therefore, one word
added to this Book or one word taken 	from It throws a Christian 			out
of continuity with God, throws the church out of continuity with God,
throws a 			family out of continuity with God. Every believer can be
thrown out by not accepting 			every Word of God. Then it was the woman
that caused the separation of the lovely 			home. It was not a Cherubim
that bothered the earth. It was not Adam that thrown the 			home out. It
was not anything else that thrown the home out and  thrown he whole 		
thing out of continuity, but a woman: Eve. And it is here, that the
Jesus spoke of (at the 	beginning) that was broken. He said, "At the
beginning God made one male, one 			female, of each kind." And now, when
this woman, not the female horse, not the				 female dog, but the woman,
she broke the entire continuity of God's operation on 			the earth and
thrown everything into death. The woman, not the man, she broke the 		
covenant. She broke the covenant because why? She stepped across the
borders of 			God's Word. 

	[16-3]	Now, if she broke her covenant with her husband, she broke the
covenant with 				God, then because she broke the covenant with God, she
broke it with her husband. 			When you break your promise and your
covenant to God's Word, that's what caused 		so many illegitimate church
members, because a group of men  got together and said, 		"Well, it
didn't mean that," and  throws the whole organization out of continuity 
		with the Word. "Oh, we don't believe that. Dr. Jones said it wasn't
so." But as long 			as God said it's so, He said, "Let every man's word
be a lie and Mine be the Truth." 			There breaks the continuity. 

	26.	It says here then, the continuity is broken. The whole thing is
completely gone.  Now, so, but you let God's  children (now, notice what
happens, see,) they left that one mind, threw the whole thing out of
continuity.  Now, I can read a little further.

      	Now, we see, being that the continuity is broken, then the
lifeline was broken. ... the 			time line was broken. The covenant 
broken, everything shattered. What caused it?                     	A
woman. (Now, I'm not dealing on the woman doing it, so get that out of
your mind. 			I'm dealing on the Word. (See?) Because, a woman would
never had of done it, outside 		of breaking that Word )That's what broke
the covenant.

	[17-5]	... Did you know that Satan was coequal with God one day? Sure
was, all but a 			creator; he was everything, stood at the right hand of
God in the heavens,(a great 		leader) ...leading the cherubim. Now,
notice, the reason that she did this... (then 			he explains certain
things in there.) 

	 	All right.  Now, let's look at God's children, His Bride.  Get one
mind of faith, in a truly revealed Word, brought by God.  And revealed
by God, death will reverse.  I  want to show you here, is where this
whole thing came from. (See?) Now, if you ever get it back to where it
was in the beginning, because that's what his Messages were all about. 
Go back to the beginning, which we are going back to.  Then, the whole
thing reverses, and something else happens.  The incorruptible and
uncorrupted Word, will take hold, and death will be gone forever.  When
absolute faith, from absolute revelation, takes over the Bride; the
corruptible and corrupting is done for.  And, every evidence of
unbelief, which is sin, which is death, is gone. 

	27.	Now, let's go back to 1 Corinthians 15:23.

		(23) 	But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits;
afterward they 					that are Christ's at his (Presence).

		(24) 	Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom
to 					God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and
all 					authority and power.

	(25)	For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.

		(26)	The last enemy (to) be destroyed is death.

 	Now, let's watch over here.  Just before we go back reading.  And in
verse 50 of the same chapter.   

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

		So therefore, there has got to come the time, of His Presence, and
between, this kingdom on earth, this incorrupting.  There has got to be
the time when there is a resurrection and a change.  

		Now watch.    

		(24)	Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom 
				to God, even the Father; (now, that's the Father,)when he shall have
					put down all rule and all authority and power.

		(25)	 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under (the) feet
(of Jesus.)

		(26) 	The last enemy...   

		 Now, some of you folk, you've never heard me read the Bible this way.
 So this could be confusing to you.  That's because, you're confused. 
If you'd been de-confused, you wouldn't be confused.  But, you've read
this wrong so many years, that you don't even know what's going on.  Not
to hurt anybody's feelings, but, that's the trouble. (See?)  Because,
God can't put God under His feet.  And, go back to the Psalms where It
is written.  It's God, putting everything under the feet of Jesus.  So
let's read It that way.  So then, who came down?  God came down. (See?)
To get a Bride ready, for the Marriage Supper, so they can come down
together and take over.  Incorruptible.

	28.	And even, that's not all of it.  Because after one thousand years,
it's going to be White Throne resurrection, and the Bride sits right
there with Him.  Judge of the whole thing. (See?) The last enemy
destroyed is death.  And, swallowing up is not destruction. This is the
Lake of Fire. 

 		(27)	For he hath put all things under his feet...  

		Who put all things under His feet?  God put all things under the feet
of Jesus.  Oh you say, "Jesus and God are the same person."  I've been
accused of preaching two gods.  The guy that accused me, he had to be
Jesus-only.  

		I want to read you what Bro. Branham said.  (Hebrews Book page 292) 

		Now, Jesus was made like unto Him. Now the reason there's a difference
between 		Jesus and God,  (Well, what about it? Somebody's all scrupled
up in their reasonings,  			it's sure not me.) Jesus had a beginning;
God had no beginning; Melchisedec had 		no beginning; and Jesus had a
beginning. But Jesus was made like unto Him... a 				priest that abides
forever. (Said, made like unto Him.)

	29.	I don't care what you have believed in the past.  You better start
believing right. You can't even read this right unless  you know what's
going on here.  I'm going to tell you.  You people here, sitting here,
each one of you is nothing but your Father and Mother, of a combination.
But, you still need your Father and Mother.  You're from their
attributes.  And, Jesus was the complete complement of the attributes of
Almighty God.  The infinite. And, it's His body, God's body.  That's why
God can literally be a High Priest. How?  When He's incarnated.  Says,
there's a difference.

		Oh, you think these old doctrines don't have ... Well in my messages, 
I got...  But I'm going to preach these things, don't think I won't. 
Because I don't know how many people sitting here, you've got background
(my God),from God knows what.  And, you're reading books on the side? 
I'm going to tell you one thing: don't read books and listen to people
on the side contrary to what I say.  Or you're going to get more and
more confused.  Just do yourself a favour, plug your ears. Don't listen,
don't bother, don't bother. I'm just telling you flat, just don't
bother.  I'm not hurting anybody's feelings.  But look, I know the power
of wrong theology.  Because, I can take an unregenerate Roman Catholic,
and just let him read the books.  And, right now he knows exactly what
Bro. Branham was saying.  But, you take a Protestant that's all 'gommed
up' with his cruddy theology, he no more knows this than nothing.  

	30.	And, every time you're sticky, with your toes sticking out of your
shoes, it's some kind of a sex report, instead of Bro. Branham, “Roll
'em, girlies roll 'em” up on the knees.  How in the Sam Hill you ever
get the toes and the knees all one thing?  So much for cockeyed
doctrine.  

		Well, come on.  I get steamed up, certainly, if you weren't here, I
wouldn't get steamed up.  [laughter]  People don't like my language. 
They think it's horrible.  My language is horrible, but my language gets
across.  I don't teach you to cuss or anything.  I don't use  bad words
up here.  People  just think I do.  You say, “Sam Hill,”  Bro.
Branham said, “Heck”,  supposed to be the same thing.  Preacher said
years ago,  “ Oh Bro. Vayle, 'heck' is bad language.”  But, I'm
going to tell you something:  I cussed to high heaven one time.  When I
used to cuss, I involved God in my cussing.  Personally, I involve God. 
So don't ever tell me, as the man said, “Heck” means 'hell' because
it doesn't.

 		And, don't ever tell me if a guy says, “Gosh” it means, 'God',
because it doesn't.  It all depends on what's in here.  Because, when I
said “God”, and I was mad, I meant 'God'.  And, I hated Him. (Yeah.)
Let's get understanding, I'm not defending myself.  Sure, it's rotten
language.  If you get stumbled with that...(phfft!) goodbye!  You've had
it.  

	31.	The last enemy is death, and He (God) has put all things under the
feet of Jesus.  But, when he said, “He, (God) has put all things under
Jesus.”  It is manifested that He, (God) is left out. Which God did
put all things under Jesus?  Do you think that God is ever under Jesus? 
When He says, “Only when I see Him do, I do. Whatever I hear Him
say.”  Does that make God under Jesus?  That makes Jesus under God. 

		Righteous servant.  Who's that?  God or Jesus?  That's Jesus.  And,
who's going to put under whom?  This is Him coming down here, to get
this Kingdom ready, because, He said, “Thou are a priest forever.” 
A king priest.  "The throne of David, You're going to sit.  And,  I'm
going to see to it.  I'm going to raise up the seed."  God talking to
Himself?  Hogwash.  Jesus only clap trap and balderdash.  Don't give me
that nonsense.  Don't clutter the atmosphere with foolish specious
[plausible] arguments.  Vain theology.   

		Now listen, this is what is going on now.  Now, you know something? 
Everyone of these words, that signifies 'subdue', 'subject', 'put
under', 'footstool', has the same root word, which comes from the same
word  in the Greek, which is, 'shout'.  It has to do with military
command. It's a military order.  

	32.	Who's doing it?  The Great One.  The Great One who stands behind
His Word, to perform it.  Do you think that God just said, “Now watch
it work.”  Not exactly. He saw that it did work.  He stands behind His
Word to perform It.   Now He's left out.  But, when all things should be
subdued unto the son, then shall the son also be subject.  Again, it's
the same Word. In the proper position,  placed, the proper authority. 
That's why God is placing a Bride right now. Because you can't have the
Kingdom without the Bride.   You can't have this earth changed, it's
waiting and groaning for our change.  (See?)  Waiting on a revelation. 
Put all things under Him.  "Be subject unto Him, that put all things
under him, that God might be all and in all." [1 Cor 15:28]  

  		Now, the Son also, shall have His own authoritative position, under
God. "That put all things under the Son.  That God might be all and in
all."  That's at the New Jerusalem.  The Lamb is on the Throne.  The New
Jerusalem,  fifteen hundred mile pyramidal City.  Gold.  Housing a
Bride. Billions bring their glory in, but never a part of It.  They till
the fields and everything else.  Why do you think the world's had a
pyramid, down here in South America and in Egypt and around the world?  
Signifying the New Jerusalem.  Why is the Capstone off?  Because no man
could ever fill it.  You let that Bride be caught up.  New Jerusalem,
the Lamb is going to fill the spot.  On the Throne, the Pillar of Fire
over the Throne.   But, they're one.  And, in that day, Bro. Branham
said, “Before they call, He answers.  The wolf lies down with the
lamb.”  All  of these things are taking place.  Why?  Because, God has
started the process of New Jerusalem, by coming down.

 	33.	Oh, but you're going to get people saying, “He's been here two
thousand years, oh this, oh, why didn't He raise the dead two thousand
years ago? He's supposed to raise the dead.”  Well, you can't tell
them anything.   What's the use?  No use talking to them, there's
nothing to talk about.  See?  Now, let's go see 'Marriage and Divorce' 
Page 26.

	[26-2]	All His works that He designed in the original is in continuity.
All of His original 			works was in continuity: the female dog, the male
dog, female cow, the male cow, 		everything in continuity. All nature is
in continuity. Seed die, go into the ground 			just like death, burial,
resurrection. The sap goes down out of the tree, drops its 			leaf,
comes back the next year with the resurrection a new leaf. See what I
mean? 	Everything, even nature of God is all in a continuity in one. And
here's one designed 		out of the continuity of God. (That's, I guess
talking about Eve) Nature's so designed 		so it can't sin. Think. The
original creation of God could not sin.

 	Oh, don't you see it now in this view here, the perversion of the
church? The original is 			God's Word. There's no sin in God.

 		Now, see what we're talking about.  We're not talking anymore in
terms of one person.  We're talking about one word out, amongst the
whole Bride. 

	34.	Now, [Page] 38, [4]-6   

	[38-4]	That's why He said to Adam before sex was ever induced--or
introduced, "Multiply 		to replenish the earth," when he was yet in the
beginning, when he was yet both male			 and female in himself. There it
shows then  the Bride's got to come from the Word, 		by spiritual
multiplication...replenishing the earth.

 	[38-6]	Now, in the sex act... See, the school's got those two things
mixed up. Therefore, 				you can't do it. You've got to bring it back to
the truth in the beginning. At the 			end there will be one Lord Jesus
and His Bride singular. You get it? There was 			one David on one
throne, one king after God's own heart, five hundred wives. 			Jesus,
setting on His throne (Hallelujah.) in the millennium, with a Wife like
it 			was at the beginning, created out of the earth by the hand of
Almighty God in 			the resurrection, of many members. (But they're all
one, see?) There you are.

 	35.	Now Page 45.  Now watch;

	[45-2]	When you got a direct revelation from God that's your wife ...,
(I'll read the first part of 			the paragraph) This is an awful strong
thing. I didn't know how to 	bring it out. What'll I 			do when I got
men and women setting in my congregation, some that's been married 		
twice or three times? Good men, good women, all mixed up, what done it?
False 				teaching. Exactly, not waiting on the Lord.

   		Not waiting on the Lord, not waiting on the Lord,  What did you
wait on?  Sex impulse. Now let this sink in. Because here's what my
understanding of marriage and divorce or marriage is all about, it's
right what we're going to talk about here.  And I'm not even the
subject, this is immortality. And remember, Adam and Eve at one time
were in a state of immortality in the sense they could have stayed there
on and on and on, and on and on. But not true immortality.  They were
made, and they could corrupt, and they did.  This is where nothing will
corrupt. 

 	[45-2]	... Good men, good women, all mixed up, what done it? False
teaching. Exactly, 			not waiting on the Lord. "What God has joined
together, let no man put asunder...

 		Now, he's talking about waiting on the Lord. So, waiting on the Lord
has something to do with who puts what together. Right?

 	[45-2]	..." Not what man joined together, what God joined together.
When you got a 			direct  revelation from God that's your wife and the
same thing, (she got a 				revelation, that's the husband) that's yours
the rest of your life.

 	36.	What if you didn't get it?  Then you ain't got it.  In other
words, Eve had a haphazard liaison with the serpent.  Sexual.  Sexual
motivation.  So Bro. Branham screamed out against the sex queens all the
time.  He said,  “Watch it, because you're made to be that kind of a
man. And, she's made to be that kind of a woman. That's where you're
going to fall, every single time.”  Now it says , “You've got to
pray to God, to get a revelation, whether that is your wife, and she
gets a revelation, that that is her husband.”  That is what God joins
together and man cannot pull it apart.

	 [45-2]...But what God joins together no man better dare to touch it.
"Whatsoever God joins." 			 He said, "let no man put asunder." Not what
some half-drunk magistrate, or something 			else put together, or some
backslidden preacher with a bunch of creeds in a book...                
        	(now, let's read it again, because your minds are off, what I'm
onto.)

  		Not waiting on the Lord.  False teaching.  God's got to join
together.  When you've got a direct revelation from God on this Word,
that's right. And you have a direct revelation of God. And, it's been
God revealed. You will be one with God, and with this Word. And, there's
no other way it's going to happen.  Now, I cannot give you a revelation.
 I don't care how hard I teach.  I don't care how sincere anybody is. 
There is nobody can give anybody the definitive, pure marriage
relationship of God the Word, except God the Word, by the Holy Spirit. 
Which He is. Now, this is what was wrong in the beginning.  What God had
joined together, and said, “Now this is the union.”  It was based
upon the Word.  That she was the one, and he was the one for each other.
 But what brought a separation? Breaking the Word.  See?  Breaking the
Word.  

	37.	Now, the Word is broken, through a wrong revelation.  And from it,
as Bro. Branham in 'Marriage and Divorce' said, [Page 16]

 	[16-3] ... the lifeline was broken. ... the time line was broken....

 		The righteous line was broken.  Everything was broken. We have had
nothing but corruption. What is going to reform it, not reform it, but
cause it to cease?  Only when it gets back to original.  When there is a
Bride, and a Groom.  Now look it, He's already had the revelation of
whose His are. Because, who the Father gives, are going to come. 

		 But, Bro. Branham said,... (from the Feast of the Trumpets) Anyway,
it says, how it is said in the last days, that the Bride would know her
mate, the revealed Word. But anyway, that's the understanding. It is the
definitive revelation, of this Word, that brings us back to the
incorruptible.  At that time, the Bride, will be immortal.  

38.	Now, let us take a good look at what does it in the final hour.  We
go to Revelation 22:10.               [omit comments]

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

 		Now, that has to do with Revelation 10:4.

 		(4)	... Seal (the book)

 		(7)	But in the days of the voice of the seventh (church) angel, when
he 					(sounds, time 	runs out.)

   	 [Revelation 22:]

 		(11) 	He that is unjust, (he is) unjust still: and he which is
filthy, (is) filthy 					still: he that is righteous, (is) righteous
still: ...

 		Now of course, Bro. Branham says, that's when the Bride, is lifted
off the earth.  That is true. But,   I want to ask you a question. 
Isn't this got to be true, even before she's lifted off the earth? Or,
how is she going to make it? ( See?)  He said, “Everything the Bride
needs to put her in that Rapture, is under the Seven Seals.”  So the
Seventh Seal does It.  The Seven Seals.  

 		(12)	 (Now), behold, I come quickly; my reward is with me,...

 	 	Now remember verse 12 follows verse 11.  So, your die is cast.   

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

 		All right.  What does he say next?  

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

	39.	Where did that happen?  Right back in Genesis.  What was He first
there?  He was the Tree of Life, and He said,  “You're not going to be
immortal.”  Now He's the Omega, and He says, “I am the Tree of
Life.”  And, you will be immortal.  What did it?   The revelation of
Jesus Christ, my brother/sister, did it.  That's what it's all about. 
And, He is the Word.  So, when the man has a true revelation, which he
already has, then the woman getting the true revelation of her husband,
(that's the espousal)  and that's what Paul had, and every age has had
just enough to get them there.  “Don't destroy the oil and the
wine.”  [Rev 6:6]   

 	 	No matter what goes on, just keep a little bit of revelation.   Keep
a little stimulation. Keep a little faith moving.  But, when it comes to
Alpha and Omega, it comes back to the original.  Where the Tree of Life,
immortality, Christ is now available.  The Bride Tree, is now available.
 He is available. He's available now, and it's by revelation.  That the
Bride knows her Mate, the revealed Word.  Now, she's got a revelation of
her husband.  She's joined to God.  

	40.	Now what did I read over here a little while ago? Let's try 26,
'Marriage and Divorce'. 

 	[26-2] Oh, don't you see it now in this view here, the perversion of
the church? The 			original is God's Word. There is no sin in God.

 		All right.  Death where is your sting?  Okay let's go read it. [1
Corinthians 15:] So we know what we're talking about. 

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

		(56)	 The sting of death is sin;...

 .		All right.  The sting of death, death get's its authority and power
through sin.  All right. The original is God's Word.  There is no death
in God's Word. There is death in changing God's Word. (See?)  Now, there
is no sin in God.  And He is the Word.  So therefore, what is being put
on?   The garment. Literally, the Holy Spirit.  Because, that's the
Word, God, is being put on the people.  Not from rebirth, this is a
separate and entire work of God Himself.   The Bride, as a whole, she is
being clothed with God Himself, the Word.  And she's putting on
immortality.  And in there, is no death.  In there is no sin.  Now, the
strength of sin is the law.  And the law says, “ You did it.”  But,
grace said, “You didn't do it.”  You were tricked into it,
therefore, you are free.  

 	41.	Now, let's go back to Revelation. [22:]  We're reading again. We
got pulled away.  Back to the Tree of Life.  

		(15) 	(Outside) are dogs,  sorcerers, whoremongers,  murderers, 						
idolaters,  (who love) and (make) a lie.

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

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

 		(18)	... I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the
prophecy of this 					book, If any man add ... God (will) add ...the
plagues... 						

	(19)	...if any man (take)... (He'll) take (out) his part ...

 		Now remember, that was only said at the time of exodus, with Moses,
when the Word was given.  There's only one time you can ever add, or
take.  That's at the time of an exodus.  And, the Word has got to be
given.  Then it's got to be a prophet like unto Moses.  And, at this
time, it's the last chapter, the last verses, in the Bible.  And It
means there is no more.  It's the last time the Word is given.  It's
given to the Gentiles.  

	42.	Now listen back to 1 Thessalonians 4:16.

		(16) 	For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout,
with 					the voice of the archangel ...trump of God...

	 	Now we know, it is in there, what we are talking about. (See?) It's
in here, that death is swallowed up.  It is in here at the time of the
living, that people stop dying.  It is here that bodily processes
reverse, and are changed, and man becomes immortal.  It is here, that
death loses its sting. In other words, the culmination of  the
atonement.  And, I speak of culmination, in the sense of the vast
propitiatory powers of the Blood. Until it scatters sin, and there be no
evidence.  Until it washes a Bride through the Word, so white, she
hasn't got a spot or wrinkle.   And, there's no place for her to go but
Heaven. (See?)  

	43.	All right.  It's in here that Paul,  is giving the consequences,
but not the processes.  So, we have to go to Ephesians [1:] (I haven't
been there, (you know) I've preached on this for months, and we're not
finished with it yet. Don't worry, I'll get back to it.)  Now, these
people already have got the Holy Ghost, individually.  They form a local
church, under one Word.  Doesn't mean everybody had it.  

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

		Now, faith and love.  Remember the love is going to come into the
church just before the Rapture.  Before the Resurrection.  

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

 		(17)	That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, ... may give unto (the
church)  					(What?) the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the
knowledge of Him.

  	In other words, there is a revelation that is to be forth coming, at
a certain time, by a certain spirit.  It'll be the knowledge of God. It
will do this:

 		(18) 	The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; (that's the
eyes of 					the heart) (from it you) may know what is the hope of his
calling , ... 					the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the
saints.

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

 		(20)	Which He wrought in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead,  

		The same transforming power of the Holy Spirit, will be loosed upon
us, under conditions that are set forth in this Word.  That the Spirit
is there, revealing to a Bride, that she may know her Mate, the revealed
Word.  Then they say, “He's not here.”  I don't buy it.  Then sneer
and say, “Well He's been here for two thousand years.”  Well then,
Paul's a jackass.  “I've got no use for the apostle Paul, so do you
folk got the Holy Ghost.  What's wrong with this?”  I'd like some
answers from these guys that have all the answers.  

	44.	I want to tell you something:  when you try to teach a prophet,
you're very stupid.  And  I don't think you're too smart, if you try to
teach a man that has a gift of teaching either. And I'm not very bright.
 And I don't say that to aggrandize myself.  I want them to show me, and
I'm sincere.  They can't do it.  I want to know why a kid that's 
not...that's hardly par, maybe almost imbecilic, knows what the word
'down' means. But they don't know what the word 'down' means.  It means
he's caught up there somewhere.  

		Remind me of a guy, he was out in the trees, (this is the truth) he
was out there looking around.  He heard this voice.  And he couldn't
figure out the voice, he looked around, looked around, looked around. 
Finally the voice said, “Look up here, look up here, look up here.” 
 There was a poor guy caught in a parachute up in the trees. [laughter] 
Do you think that guy was down?  Well he was down as far as the
atmosphere was concerned.  But down?  He wasn't down.  

 		Well, in the place where It tells you that Jesus comes down through
the clouds.  He tells you He comes down with the clouds.  But, the Holy
Ghost as far as I know, in the Book of  Ephesians 4: It said He came
down.  I want to know.  Where was Bro. Branham, when He came down? 
Where was Paul when He came down?  Where was Moses when He came down? 
They haven't got very good answers, have they?  Now It says; [Ephesians
1:]

 		(20)	Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead,
and 					set him at his own right hand, in  heavenly places.

 	45.	Who took the body up?  God did.  Who got it out of the grave?  God
did.  What Word got him out of the grave?   The revealed Word of the
hour, got him out of the grave.  Do you think if Jesus had been some
imposter, like these guys say, that God would have raised him?  Do you
think God's going to raise a harlot?  What's it telling you?  It's
telling you right here at the end time, there is a revelation.   When
that Spirit comes into the Church.  That's why people aren't putting it
together.  The prophet put it together.  I told you what he said in
Daniel's Seventy Weeks, he said, 

		“ The Spirit of wisdom came into the church. To make known to the
church by the 		revelation of the Holy Spirit,  bringing the church in,
and revealing what day we are 		living in.”   

		That's like a lot of hogwash, it doesn't make sense.  It sure does
make sense, because it tells you, what the Spirit's here for.  To bring
the Church in.  And the Church only comes in by revelation.  They say
they believe a prophet.  Then why don't they believe a prophet.  The
same prophet said, "We beseech you, brethren, by the Presence of our
Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him; by our
assembling. [2 Th 2:1]

 		He's got to be here, to assemble unto Him.  [knocks on pulpit]
Because, we're not there.  He's here.  And how does He gather us? 
Through prophets.  Now if they knew the Word, and the One Who is the
Word, they'd know that.  

	46.	So that takes us back to Acts 3: you know what I'm going to read
there. Beginning at verse 19 the last part. It says:

 		(19) 	... times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the
Lord. 			

		That which is visible. Even He, God will send Jesus  Christ who is
appointed, proclaimed, in advance, made known.

 		(21)	Whom the heavens must retain until the times of (restoration) of
all 					things,...

 	 	Do you think Bro. Branham didn't make Him known to us?  Sure did. 
Do you think He's going to come in the physical flesh, until there's a
restoration?  No way.  Now watch;

 		(21)	...the heavens must (retain)  until (there'd be a restoration)
of all 						things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy
prophets 					since the world began.

 		(22)	For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord
your 					God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him
(you'll) 					hear in all things whatsoever he (will) say...

 		(23)	(Now listen,) And it (will) come to pass, that every soul, which
will 					not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the
people.  

 		Now let's get this down flat.  That never happened back in the days
of Jesus.  Never did.  When's it going  to happen?  When Malachi 4 takes
place.  Utter destruction.  That means utter annihilation. Right there,
shall be destroyed, utterly destroyed.  The same as Malachi, utter
destruction.  And, we're going to trample them down as ashes under our
feet, when the great confrontation comes.    I didn't write the Book. 
I'm not blood thirsty.  Don't worry, I've got no stomach for it right
now, but, I will then.  Right now I just get mad at things, and say some
pretty raunchy things.   But when it comes right down to it, I really
wouldn't want to hurt anybody.  

	 	I like to burn up his works, but not him.  Of course a blow torch
make him jump a little higher, be all right too.  Make me jump a little
higher too it's all right.  Wouldn't hurt any of us...  Get a shot in
the seat with a blow torch, we need it.  Because we're pretty raunchy. 
But, I wouldn't want to go any further than that, just little singe. 
But, I'm going to tell you, the day's coming brother/sister, when that's
all going to change.  You don't have to be blood thirsty.  

	47.	For there was a day when Moses stood and said, “Lord God, take
them all out, take me with them if you take them.”  One day he stood
there, and he said, “Listen,” he said, “If those men die the
common death, than I...  Forget it.”  [End of tape one] …Yeah, he
sure did.  I'm not saying I'm Moses.  ... I'm trying to show you
something here.

 	This did not happen when Jesus died.  But, He said, “There is coming
a day, when you blaspheme the Holy Ghost, it's all over.”  That day,
is this day.  When He's come back as prophet, Son of man.   For the days
of the Son of man repeat, the days of the prophet repeat, that's 
absolutely 'Thus Saith  Almighty God'  in His Holy Scripture, and men
still look around and say, “ Well, Oh that's just some cute little
thing He's saying.”  But you tell them, that those days have got to be
back here, and He's back here doing it.   And, they look at you.  And
now, “Hold it, hold it, hold it.  That doesn't line up with my
theology.”   What do you care about your stinking, corrupt, debt
dealing theology?  The prophet already told you.   

	48.	He said, “My ministry is to reveal that He is here.” ['From
That Time' 07-13-62]  And they say, “He's been here for two thousand
years.”   You mean Dr. John Lake [divine healer in the early 1900's]
didn't have a satisfactory ministry in his day?  You mean, Luther didn't
have a ministry in his day?  And Wesley?  And the Pentecostals?  And
now, William Branham is going to strut on through saying, “I'm to let
you know that He is here.” [BV says this very sarcastically]
“Because I wanted to.”  

		You say, “Just a minute, you little hillbilly from Kentucky. There's
not one person,  that hasn't known that He's been here.”  

		“Oh well, you see, I have something very special.”  

		Hey, here's a pen, think of something very special by telling me
you've got a pen in your hand.  Come on.  You feel pretty sick, don't
you?  Bro. Branham  categorically said, “ Just think, how wonderful,
the same Pillar of Fire that brought the Word to Paul, is here revealing
It.”  That hasn't been for two thousand years, that God spoke lip to
ear to a prophet.  

 		I don't know what they're talking about.  They're not talking his
language.  

 		Says here;  [Acts 3:]

 		(23) 	 ...come to pass, that every (one that doesn't) hear ...(is)
destroyed...

 		Now, in verse 22 It says;

 		(22)	...him shall (you) hear ...

 		Then It says;

 		(23)	...(they that don't listen will)  be destroyed...

	  	That means, only those that hear, are left.  So we better not quit
listening.  Better keep it up. Remember, hearing is the key. Okay. 
Hearing is the key, right?  You really believe it?  

49.	All right.  Let's go to;    

 		Matthew 16:13.

 		(13)	(They came to Him and said.) Whom do men say that I the Son of 	
			man am?

 		(14)	And they said, ... John the Baptist: Elias, Jeremias, 	or one of
the 						prophets.

	(15)	(And) He (said), Whom (do you say) that I am?

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

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

 		 And I'll build my church  upon revelation.  And in verse 22 , and
Jesus began to show how He would be killed, and raised again. And Peter
said; 

 		(22)	... (far be it) from thee, Lord: this shall not be...

	(23)	 (And Jesus turned and said to) Peter, (Satan:) Get thee behind
me, ...

 		(Yeah)  How would you like to have that one?  One day God, next day
the devil.  Not next day, within five minutes.  I'll ask you a question.
I won't ask a question.   I'm going to read Luke 17: 

 		(20)	And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of 	
			God should come, ...

	50.	Fellow came to...when Bro. Branham came to West Palm Beach, God
made him come, or he wouldn't have come.  Don't worry, I never even
asked him.  When he said he was going to come, I didn't believe him. 
That's how much faith I had.  I thought he was such a sweet guy, he says
that to everybody.  But, he didn't (I didn't know that at that time.)  I
didn't know he hated Florida.  I can't stand it  either, (not because
William Branham couldn't) I just couldn't stand it. This fellow came and
I phoned him, I said, “Bro. Branham is coming to town, would you like
to co-operate?”  

		“Well”, he said, “Sir,  I've got a meeting that's going to be on
at that time.” He said, “I couldn't co-operate.”  

		I said, “Wonderful, Praise God,” and hung up.  His church members
found out that Bro. Branham was coming, they said, “Cancel, the
meeting boy, or you ain't got a church.”  From that time on, he was
really going to get to see Bro. Branham.  

 		So finally, he phoned, and phoned, and phoned.  The last thing he
said to me was, “Well I'll have you know, I'm not some little preacher
down here by the side of the road.  I'm so and so and so and so. So, I
thought I should convey this to Bro. Branham.  I told Bro. Branham.  He
said, “ Oh Lee,” he said “ We can't go for sure now.” I said
“Why?”  He said, “He's too big for little guys like you and me.”
 

		 So these Pharisee's came, and said, “I want you to know, I'm runner
up for the high priest.”  He said, “I've got degrees in this here
seminary.”  

		And Jesus said, “What are they, hot or cold?” [laughter]  

		“I bet they're lukewarm.”  

		He said, “Did you say, cemetery?” [laughter]  I can just see them
coming.  You know.  If you've got the answers, and you're so and so.
[Luke 17:]

 		(20)	... when (is) the kingdom of God (going to) come? (why) he
...said, 					(It's going to come, and you won't even know it's here.)

 		So I've got news for you.  Don't weary yourself running, trying to
find out about it.   Because, it's under your nose and you can't see it
now.  If it ever comes,  it'll be under your nose, and you won't see it,
even then.  He turned to the disciples and said;

 		(22)	The days will come, when (you're going to) desire to see one of
the 					days of the Son of man, and (you'll) not see it.

		(23)	 And they shall say to you, See here, see there: (don't) follow
them.

	51. 	He said, I'm going to tell you what those days are like.  It's
light.  Going from one part of heaven to the other.   Light shining. 
Divine Light.  As Bro. Branham said, “From the east to the west.”
Notice, that He must suffer  first and be rejected.  But as it was in
the days of Noah, those days come back.  As it was in Sodom and
Gomorrah, those days come back.  Now who was there?  God, was there with
His prophet.  God was present. (See?) Now, we're back to revelation. 
Say, "Who is this Son of man?"  Only one Son of man.  The One who has He
become Son of God. He is Holy Spirit to us, Father, Son, Holy Ghost. 
He's here in the Spirit revealing, that He was the same One that was
here in the flesh.  Revealing that He was that Melchisedec.  Revealing
exactly who He was.  

 		Now, It says here, when those days repeat, they're simply going to go
on eating and drinking, it'll make you know, never mind.  As in the days
of Lot, there was all homosexuality, the angels struck them blind.  They
still tried to find the door, to find the men.  And, they didn't even
know they were blind.  Perverts have been struck blind by this Message. 
And, nobody knew it.  Now, just a minute, somebody's going to know it. 
Who?  The Bride will know her Mate.  The revealed Word.  Now that's
union.  In Him.   

52.	Now, I'll read it again. (See?) ['Marriage and Divorce' Page 26]

 	[26-2]	Oh, don't you see it now in this view here, the perversion of
the church? The original is 			God's Word. There's no sin in God.

 		Every symptom shows that, what was in the mind of God. (See?) Now,
we're looking at the Bride of this hour.  Turn back to the place where
she is able to put on immortality.   

		Now; 1 Corinthians 13: 9.  

 		(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 						shall be done 	away.

	  	Okay. Hold your finger there a minute.   Swing over to Ephesians
1:3-14.  All right. It's from eternity to eternity, concerning the
election who are full of the Holy Ghost,  who receive the kingdom.  Now,
verse 10-11, brings us to the kingdom,13 and 14 guarantee it by the
baptism with the Holy Ghost.  But, 17-23 is the implementation.  Now, I
don't understand why people think God doesn't have to implement things. 
Oh they say, “Well, Bro. Vayle, hallelujah, you see bless God, we were
foreknown and predestinated.  And, we have, the Holy Ghost.  And, that
will take care of everything. Because, just the same, we'll go to the
ground, and we'll come up out of the ground. And, those living, they'll
be changed. And we'll just get taken, on and on.”  

 	  	Now, I say, “Now, just a minute. Just a minute.  You've got
something lined up here, that you're telling me it's just going to run a
natural course.”   Now, I've got news for you: you say they're simply
going to come out of the ground because,  you're full of the Holy Ghost.
 I'm calling you a liar.  I'm telling you that God is going to raise
them.  And, that the Holy Spirit being there, and God raising you, is
not a consequence.  No way.  It's that God Himself, wanted to raise you
and therefore gave you the Holy Ghost, in order to raise you; or you
never would have been raised.  

	53.	Now, Ephesians takes you right from the beginning in  Him.  Before
the speck of stardust, to the incorruptible inheritance, that fadeth not
away.  The purpose of God.  And, It stops right there.  And tells you,
that the baptism with the Holy Ghost guarantees  your redemption.  Then
It tells you, how God is going to bring in the Kingdom.  Now
implementation:

 	[Ephesians 1:]

 		(16)	Cease not to give thanks for you, ...

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

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

 		That's His baptism not yours.  Over here it's yours, in verse 11,
this is His.   Now the word 'inheritance' don't let it bug you.  Only
one place does the word 'inheritance' mean that which is passed on from
the Father to the Son.  And, that's in Hebrews  where he got the name. 
This here, is possession.  The word 'inheritance' means possession. 
Now;

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

		(20) 	Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him ...

	  	Now that's not the baptism with the Holy Ghost.  That comes, to
raise you, because it was meant to raise you, in the plan of God.  And,
you'd never make it without the baptism.  But, the baptism runs out. 
(See?)  Now, here's what we're looking at.  There it is.  I hope you get
what I've been saying.  Sometimes I stop short of maybe carrying on,
along a line of thought you might need to know.  There is that Bride
that has the mind of Christ right here.  Because of the revelation.  

	54.	She is now back to Ephesians 4: 4-6.

 		(4)	 ... one body, one Spirit, even as (you've got) one hope of your
calling;

		(5)	 One Lord, one faith, one baptism,

		(6) 	One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all,...

 		Now, what happened?  He ascended then descended, came forth in
ministries.

 		(12)	 (to perfect)... the saints, ...work of the ministry,...(edify)
the body of 					Christ:

		(13) 	Till we ... come in (a) unity, ... the knowledge of the Son of
God, (of) 					a perfect ... stature of the fulness of Christ:

		(14) 	(Listen)...henceforth ... no more children, (adults) ...

     	The fullness of the adoption comes in the resurrection.  We're
getting ready for it.  How?

 		(14)	 ... no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with
every 					wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, cunning craftiness,
whereby 					they lie in wait to deceive;

		(15)	But (holding) the truth in love,... grow ... into him in all
things, which… 					is Christ:  

	  	Now notice, wind of doctrine. Now, that word 'wind' is the same word
that is used in the entire Bible.  Which I think it is 'pnuma', it's
spirit.  Every spirit of doctrine.  You say, “Bro. Vayle, you think
you can take liberty.”  Oh I think I can, no trouble at all,
especially, if you've got my kind of faith. Listen, I'm just kidding you
right there brother/sister.  I know what I'm talking about, or I
wouldn't be talking.  

 	55.	[2 Thessalonians 2:]

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

	(2) 	That (you) be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by
spirit,					(wind) nor by word, nor by letter ...

 		No spirit gets in amongst you, to give you false doctrine. You say,
“Did that happen back there?” Well I'm glad you asked that question.
  

	56.	Let' s got to chapter 15: of 1 Corinthians, and It says here;

 		(12)	Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say 		
			some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?

	  	What spirit got in that church?  An anti-revelation, resurrection
spirit.  Could there be an anti- Presence spirit in this church?  I just
offer the question, just off the top of my head.   Just suddenly felt I
should.  Every wind of doctrine? Where did death enter?  A spirit came
in the Garden, in an animal.  Into a beast. The spirit is the devil. 
And he transformed himself  into an angel of light and corrupted the
Word. And she took the corrupted  Word, and from the minute she was out
from behind the Word, she was a gone goose.   Why are women messed up
today?  I'm not fussing at women.  I feel terribly sorry for them.  Like
Bro. Branham did.   He admitted he had a bit of a complex towards them,
because of what he'd seen.   But, he wasn't preaching from complexes,
anymore than I am.

    	 Where did women get off the track?   They got out from behind the
Word.  That's all.  When they  were keepers of the home, except in
emergencies when they had to work.  Which is fine.  There's no big
problem there.  There are many times they don't have to work, and they
do anyway.  But there are times when they have to help the husband. 
Like someone suggested in Proverbs 30, the woman gets up early and does
all this work.  Man, I'd just think a guy that had a wife like that,
he'd just stay home, and write the check.  I don't think that was 
referring to a single woman, doing something like that.  It might have
been the Bride of Christ he was talking about.  About what a great woman
she is.  But, anyway. Woman got from behind the Word.  (See?)  

57.	She was to be keeper in the home, and, things like that.  You know,
dress like a woman is supposed to.  Not, cut her hair.  And this is
where she's finally gone to the place where, ...I feel sorry for her,
because, there's only one thing that can happen now.  With homosexuality
come into the world, a lot of it has to do with women.  There's no two
ways about it.  The roles they've assumed.  Then again, I don't blame
them, because a lot of it has to do with the man.  If someone said,
“Where was Adam when she was out talking to the serpent?”  Well
that's not a fair question, you know.  The thing is, man has a lot to
blame for women.  But, where is the woman today you see?

 	Completely messed up until now the men have rectal cancers which
cannot be cured.  And, women are spreading herpes, and, the only thing
left is burning.  You know, I feel sorry for them.  But, how do you
destroy diseases, except by fire. You know.  It's a pitiful situation. 
As I say, I feel very sorry for the  woman who types the church in this
particular respect, because she was deceived by a doctrine.  She was
deceived by a spirit's doctrine.  See?  And, she was fooled.  

58.	And, It's says; [Ephesians 4:]

 	(14)	 ... by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they
lie in 					wait to deceive;

 	Now listen, there can't be a deception or a lie, on first there's the
truth.  Because a lie is the truth distorted.  (See?)  So what you've
got here, is, the devil came.  A spirit came,  and spirit's come to the
church, and they preach their doctrines.  But, at the end time,  this
Spirit rises up in the Church.  God Himself, comes.  Now, He's got to
come brother/sister, it was He that started redemption in the Garden of
Eden, it is He that has got to finish it.   Now look:  before 
redemption was necessary, God gave the Word.  Now, It was broken,  God
comes right on the scene.  Takes over.  What's He going to do at the
end?  Come over, take over.  Come right on the scene.  

	So, okay, at the end time, here is what Paul is saying to the Ephesian
church, in the first chapter.  This spirit comes into the Church,
through the prophet, through the ministry, brings the Church right to
the place  of maturity.  And, maturity is when the Church understands
Melchisedec, and priesthood.   Understands marriage and divorce. 
Understands serpent seed.  Understands all these mysteries, that are
there.   Understands His great Presence.  And, the things that Bro.
Branham taught us.  Now, they hold the truth in love, (See?) and they
grow right up unto Him; (not into Him, some say, “into Him.” that's
not true, it's unto Him.)  

59. 	Now, let's watch the picture here, brother/sister.  We've been
growing up in a pyramid for two thousand years, but very shortly, with
this spirit of revelation in the Church, and what's happening to a
Bride, the dead are going to start coming out.  Now then, the pyramid
will be here at one time.  Every person, that was Seed, since Pentecost,
that's in Bride,  will be standing right here on earth, and we're
standing with her, we're all changed.  And, it'll be a perfect pyramid. 
Then the pyramid will reverse, going up.  One, two, three, four, five,
six, seven.  (See?)  But, the Spirit having gone ahead, and then up
there it reverses. Who cares about reversing, or anything else?  I'm
telling you how it works.  Because, one goes up first, then two, three,
four, five six, seven.   And then seven, the whole Church, meets with
Him at the Wedding Supper.  Forming this pyramid.  Of course remember,
when one goes up, the others coming up, automatically form a series.  

	Don't put too much upon, a formation of one, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, in a series.  Just realize, the whole Bride, is going to be
there.  She will be there.  And, she will be there, only because every
single member is one with the Head.  Now, that's what we're coming to,
right in this hour.  

 	So here we are today, piling Word on Word.  Word on revealed Word. 
Until the whole inner man is one complete truly revealed Word.  And,
death reverses itself.  Now watch it, we are not through.  I want to
make a point here, so we must not miss it.  Too many still claim, or
can't see, that the Presence is responsible for this.  They can't
understand  how Luther, Wesley and the others, only had a potential of
the Holy Spirit.  And, the corn, (immortality, as Bro. Branham put it)
was available, but had not yet come to them.  

61.	Now, let's go back here to Romans 8:  Now It says here;

	(9)	But (you) are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that
the Spirit 					of God dwell in you.. Now if any man have not the Spirit
of Christ, 					he is none of his. (Now  watch:)

 	(10) 	And if Christ be in you, (and you are His your) body is (still)
dead 					because of sin; (only your Spirit has) life because of
righteousness.     

 	 What about these people that aren't going to die?  Now you see,
there's your question.  That is why I keep throwing out; give me the
answers that I want.  And, I want the same answers the prophet gave us,
from this Word.  How can you bypass His Presence?  And say, “Well He's
always been here.”  Not so. Being here, as He was here through
omniscience, and omnipotence is not the same as what I'm talking about.
I'm talking about Him in His Bride, standing as the Father amongst His
children.  As Bro. Branham said, “When that Holy Spirit that is
amongst us, becomes incarnated to us, we crown Him King of kings, and
Lord of lords.”   Bro. Branham  talks of that Spirit that's amongst
us, leading the world.  Now, that's not the baptism with the Holy Ghost.
 Although that is true.

 	But remember, the 144,000 get the baptism, while they're still on
earth.  The 144,000 get a revelation, a direct visitation from Him,
while the Bride is left in the inner sanctum, she's at the Wedding
Supper.  So the picture is here, the body is dead because of sin. 
You're born again.  The Spirit is life because of righteousness.  That
means, if you're dead, you're going to come back.  You're going to be
fine.  But, over here It tells you in the Scripture, how we get our
change.  

62.	Now, in  2 Corinthians It tells you, 2 Corinthians 3:18.

 	(18)	But we all, with (unveiled) face beholding as in a glass the
glory 						of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to
glory, ... 					as by the Spirit of the Lord.

  	Now, that's been going on since the Bride began her reversal under
Luther.  God in the Spirit, by a measure of the Word, coming in the
Church in clouds of glory. Now, don't think that that takes from the
fact that we meet Him in the clouds of glory.  Because, that's all right
too.  But, this glory that came under Luther.  Out shone everything
there was, from the first century, the First Church Age. Coming back.
Now the second, out shone under Wesley, Luther, under Pentecost the
cloud of glory was greater.  But under this, you're looking face to
face.

 	Now, those coming up who beheld any glory, will be changed to this
image.  But, it's those who are standing here at the end time, do not
die.  And, are changed into that image, for flesh and blood cannot
inherit the Kingdom of God, neither corruption; incorruption.  So
therefore, we get our change. And Paul said this ministry lies in the
gospels.  

	Now, Bro. Branham went behind the curtain of time, and he said, “I
want to see Him.”  

	They said, “You can't see Him.”  

	“Well, I'll tell you what,” he said, “It would sure be nice to
see Him.  Why don't I?”  

	"Well," he said, “ You can't go to Him, He's going to come to you. 
And, when He does come to you , He's going to judge you by the Word that
you've preached.”  

	“Why” he said, “ I preached nothing but what Paul preached.”  

	And, they said, “We're resting on That.”

63.	Now, Paul said right here, “My gospel.”  He said here, “ This
gospel that I preach.”  How's he put it?  He said, "We preach not
ourselves, (not mine he said)  but Jesus Christ." [ 2 Cor. 4:5] And yet
he said, it was his gospel in the sense, that he brought it.  

	Now watch; [ 2 Corinthians 4:]

 	(2)	(Having) renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in
					craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by
manifestation 				of the truth commending ourselves to every man's
conscience in the 					sight of God.

	Now, he tells you here, the same thing repeats at the end time.  You
know you've been over and over this with me.  But I'm going to tell you.
 You're going to find me, that I'm not going to lay this down anymore
than Bro. Branham lay down the fact that he was Elijah.  Which was to
come.  Not even the very day he died.  Because, he knew no matter how
many times he said it, there'd be those who would not believe it, or
could not believe it.  Neither will I stop preaching this, that I
understand and see by the Word of God right here, that we positively,
are going to the place of immortality.  Because, of the Presence of the
Lord Jesus Christ.  That we see the corruptibility came, that rottenness
which came by changing one Word.  Which changing one Word is unbelief. 
Which is sin.  And, the strength of sin is the law.  And, the law nails
it down, 'you did do it, or you didn't do it'. You cannot prove you
didn't do it.    But now at the end time, there comes a message of
grace, that said, “Little Bride, you didn't even do it.”   That is
true justification.  You didn't even do it.  Where's the records?   

64.	Now this is the relaxation that we're walking in.  This is the thing
that Bro. Branham had on October 23,1964,  when the storm was stopped in
Colorado.  And, he hints it on tape, and you knew he hints it on tape. 
But you never knew what he was hinting, until I told you, because he
told me.  He said, “ From that moment, I have no sense of guilt.” 
That doesn't mean for one minute that Bro. Branham felt holy, or he felt
wonderful, or he felt, 'hey, I've made it', or I'm somebody.

 	It's the same thing that I have got and you have got.  If you
understand, and God has dealt with you, the way He's dealt with me. 
And, that is, you know if you were to compare yourself, you'd see
yourself rottener than ever.  But, there is a revelation, and the
revelation is: “I didn't do it.”  And, that doesn't mean like you
can go, do anything you want and say, “Well, I didn't do it.”  We're
not talking of that two soul hogwash, that they try to bring on the
people.  I'm not  against two souls, or four souls, or six souls.  I'm
only against the junk that goes with it.   And, there aren't two souls
anyway.  They misunderstood what the prophet was saying.  If they'd have
searched the whole thing, they'd have found it.  But, oh they've got to
jump the gun. (See?)

65.	Now look, nobody is saying for one minute, that in the Light of Him,
that you look at yourself and say, “Hey, I'm somebody.”  It isn't
that, but you realize for the first time, you see Him.  And, you see
Him, as the ultimate of redemption.   Which is the complete sin bearer. 
It's all over.  It's all over.  And, at this point in the Seals, he that
is holy is holy, he that is just is just, he that is filthy is filthy. 
And, the die is cast.  So when those dead come out of the ground. there
is going to be a Bride that is, so thoroughly prevailed upon by that
Word.  That all it's going to take is for the dead to come out, before
the button is literally pressed, to release what is already there.  

 	Now, a lot of people are looking for some momentary thing to come. 
And, are basing it all on the fact, that the Lord descends in a Shout. 
Whoooo.  A great shout like a scream coming from heaven.  And, a  great
sudden thing happens.  Let me tell you, brother/sister: my detractors
can say all they want, and  they can be as numerous as they want.  But,
they cannot deny from the prophet's own teaching, that the  Rapture is a
progression.  And, it started way back when that One came down on the
Ohio River.  And, He came down as He came to Moses, to identify Himself
through a prophet.  And, the prophet to the people.  But, He only came
down and knocked at the door of the church. [BV knocks on the pulpit] 
When the Seals came, and the Seals  put Bro. Branham out a hundred
percent out of the church. And, put Christ a hundred percent out of the
church.  And, from that time on, He was knocking at the door, saying,
“Open the door, and you'll sup with Me, and I with you.”

66.	And He said, “Listen, as I have now got on My Father's Throne,” 
He was on the Mercy Seat, before.  And, now with the full complex of a
priesthood after the order of Melchisedec, the Great One, that ...soon
in the incarnation, which is to take place shortly.  When we go up to
Him as a Bride.  Then He will be that Great Judge, completely
manifested.  Right now, He's that only in Spirit.  Forming into the
Judge.  Forming into the Judge, but the minute He incarnates Himself,
He's  absolute Judge.  You just watch, the judgements fall on the earth,
they've already started as a prelude.  Then, you watch, we've crowned
Him King of kings, that means He has all the authority,  to act as the
King Judge, come right back here to earth, doesn't even have a trial
with the antichrist.  He's already judged.  Oh you bet he is,
brother/sister. He's been exposed.  He just comes down and kills him. 
Just reduces him to ashes.  And, the wicked with him.  And, the Bride
comes down and takes over.  

67.	Now listen, this is in progress.  (See?) Bro. Branham said,
“Always talking of the glory that's past.   Always talking about the
glory that's to come.”  Well listen, I'm going to tell you something: 
 If I've learned one thing,  I've learned the prophet, maybe little
different from the way a lot of people do, because the simple things
mean more to me than the complex things.  So, I can make a simple thing
pretty complex if I want to.  And, I guess I do at times.  I could make
this more simple, I suppose, if I worked on it.  

	But, I've tried to tell you everything I can.  Weaving, It back and
forth and back and forth.  To let you know, something is going on.  And,
I've seen it in the lives of men, I've seen it in their faces.  And, I
don't look at people's faces to learn something.  Because, that's
exterior.  It's got to be on the interior. But remember, the eyes do
have a lot to do with the soul.  And, there is something going on.  And,
I'll tell you what's going on.  Whether you believe it or not, it's
immortality.  For Jesus stands here, and he says. “ He that liveth and
believeth on me, shall never perish.”  Do you believe this?  You bet I
believe it.  I believe it so strong to my detriment, that I could will
to die tomorrow morning.  And, I really wish I could.  But, I think I'm
going be one of those guys that gets out of here alive. I don't know
that I will.  But you see, I don't  have a promise to die.  

 68.	Now, those that don't believe that He's here, have got a promise to
die.  That's fine by me.  Now that may sound facetious, or very hard,
but if you don't get what I'm saying, you weren't listening.  Because,
the baptism with the Holy Ghost, my brother, my sister, that puts you in
the resurrection, on the grounds that you've got to be dead.  But the
living, receive a revelation.  And, that's where the eyes of your heart,
get an understanding.  And that understanding, is knowing your Mate, the
revealed Word.  And that's putting on God.  That's that inner garment. 
That vestment. Bringing your investiture.  And, it's going on now.  Why?
 Because, the Lord Himself, shall descend from heaven with a Shout. 
It's not His own voice.  And, a Shout is a military command.  

 	And, the military command, is carrying over at His Presence, wherein
the dead are raised and bringing all things under His feet.  And, it's
being carried over, plumb into the Millennium, and past it.  Now, how do
you think that Jesus is going to have all things under His feet?  (Huh?
) As judge, (now a judge doesn't force anything,) he just said,
“Listen, this is what the country said, this is what the law said.”
Now, somebody's got to enforce it.   That's the king enforces it, that's
the government.  Because, God has no use for democracy, He has no use
for oligarchy.  He also has no use for even what you might call 'worldly
dictators' although that comes the closest.  As Plato said, “The best
government is benevolent dictatorship.”  

 69.	God has use for one thing only.  Theocracy.  A theocratic
government.  So therefore, when He is reincarnated.  I want to ask you a
question:  Why are all things under His feet if He stands here? Because,
God put it there.   As he said, “Listen, I'm not doing these things. 
It's God doing these things. I'm not saying these things.  It's God
doing these things.”  

	Yet, they  said, “Show us the Father.”  

	He said, “ Haven't you understood, that you have seen Him, by looking
at me?” Who do you think is in me?”  Now you've got the same thing
coming...look, I just feel like screaming right now.  Why?  Don't ask
me.  I haven't said a thing to make me feel good.  But suddenly,
something in me is moving, moving, moving inside of me.  

 	And, I know, I'm not lying to you.  You know I don't lie to you. 
There'd be nothing to lie about.  But, that going so quickly, to just
the Judge behind the doors.  Who says, “Little Bride, there's not a
case against you.”  To where He puts on His physical attributes in
flesh.  And, then He says, “It's too late.”  The judgements are
falling.  Because, He's been crowned King, and the Judge stands there. 
King stands there.  God stands there.  The Counsellor, the Everlasting
Father, the Prince of Peace.  How's He going to get peace?  Bring  My
enemies, that I might destroy them.  Say, “That's a bloodthirsty
God.”  I'm not a bloodthirsty preacher.  Show me where I go to your
homes and boss you to do one thing about your kitchens or anything else
in your house.  Your pictures.  You men want nude pictures on your
walls, that's your business.  I wouldn't like it, but, if your wives can
tolerate it, I'm not going to say too much, at one time.  [laughter]

 70.	I'm just using a bad example, to let you know one thing, I don't go
to your homes and tell you anything.  You got to know on your own. 
You've got to learn to talk to God, and know the things what you should
do, and what you shouldn't do.  It's no use in asking me, because, I
haven't got an answer for you.  But I'm going to tell you.  There's
something in here, that answers to this Word.  And, my one concern is,
to tell you what answers I believe in here, calling to a deep.  To try
to help you all I can. Only one way I can try to help you and that's by
your faith.  Look, if I wanted healing for your body, I'd want it for my
body more.  I just start working on it.  But, I'm not going to major on
a minor any longer.  I'm majoring only on one thing, that is; what's
under those seals to give me perfect Rapturing faith.    Gives you
perfect Rapturing faith.

 	We're preaching His Presence.  Preaching Him that came down, with one
foot upon land and one foot upon the sea.  The great Covenant Messenger
Himself, with the Great Prophet of this hour, remember in the Exodus,
Moses had to die.  And, under the Seventh Seal, Bro. Branham said, “If
I am laying a foundation for that Great One” he said, “Remember,
I'll be gone, when He's here.  For I must decrease, and He must
increase.”  And I'm asking you,  Who's increasing?  Let the torrential
words, from torrential mouths, from deluded spirits, inundate the world.
 We have heard one Spirit, from one mouth. Preach one Word. That's
enough for me.  Certainly, William Branham was the forerunner.   And,
there's immortality on the scene today  brother/sister, because, He's
about to reincarnate Himself.

 71.	I'm glad that we know Him as well as we do.  Oh, there's a better
day coming.  Don't be discouraged, get your hopes up.  Some of you sit
here a little discouraged.  Look, don't be discouraged.  Anybody would
be discouraged, I should be discouraged more than anybody.   Because I'm
getting all the flack of all my past thrown upon me.  I asked for it. 
And, I'm getting it.  But do you know, I've got news for everybody.  I
will be standing here, and just before the dead are coming out of the
ground.  I will be that sweet person that I've always wanted to be. 
Then, what will they say? "Oh Vayle, he's too mean, he's too  vulgar,
he's too rotten."  Well I've never denied that, ask my wife. She'll
agree with it, to a point.

 	 I still admit to the two loves, God and my wife.  Well though, maybe
I've been so good to her recently, she ought to love me, or something
like that.  But, I haven't been good to God. I haven't been good for
God. Certainly.....what will....people say then?  It doesn't matter. 
It's what He had said.   Stand with what He said.  Hold to God's
unchanging hand, brother/sister.  Don't be deceived by these voices in
the church.  Don't be deceived by these spirits that come in, because,
there's where corruption lay. Incorruption, is only in one place.  That
is  God, who is His Word.  And, that which is Perfect  has come.  We
are, the perfect revelation for this hour.  We saw in part only, today
it is completion.  And, what is completion?  The grain coming up out of
the ground, because He is here.  What more do you want?  What more do
you ask?  There's nothing more, except to go on. Amen.  We've taken your
time, let's rise and be dismissed. 

 	Heavenly Father, we come to You now, hopefully, Lord, that the people
have not been over burdened.  Over extended, over weary.  By the time we
put in here, to show that which is incorruptible, is already on the
scene.  And that which is immortal, is already on the scene.  And there
is only one incorruptible One.  Who stood here, and that was our blessed
Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.  Even His body could not corrupt.  And,
here we are now, by the Holy Spirit, putting on that incorruptible Word,
which He was.  And, we being, a part of Him, from the head on down,
absolutely one Word with Him.  Turn back.  Amen.  Turn back.  All the
way back to the place of the children to the fathers, wherein time has
run out, and we know Lord, that that means there is going to be a fire
of purging upon the earth.  

 	But, the righteous unto whom the Son of Righteousness arises, will go
to immortality, treading down the wicked.  Lord, we relish not the
thoughts of  treading down any wicked, but, we relish the thoughts,
Lord, of  rising with healing in the wings upon us.  And, that
immortality, and then, Lord, because, we will  have a different frame,
and everything different.  We will be, absolutely doing exactly right
with You. Shall not the Judge of the earth do right?  Amen and amen. 
Lord, there is a lot of things, that we're just not in the spirit to. 
Because, we know it's not the hour.   But, help us to be right, to the
Spirit, which is the hour.  Not looking back, and not looking forward.
But, seeing Him who is invisible.   Brought into full view now,  who
alone as immortality, and gazing upon Him, become immortal.  Hallelujah.

 	Father, again we pray for people here.  There may be sick amongst us. 
Bless them O God.  We just pray that You'll touch them, because we know
that Your healing virtue, has never left.  If You...surely Lord, You
know,  as the Scriptures so clearly tells us, that when You visit the
Jews, they'll see the nail prints, and we don't have any record when
that body is going to lose nail prints.  And, we know that is a part of
the blood sacrifice, and under there, were the Words, “By His stripes
we have been healed.”  And, the stripes will be there with the wounds.
 We do believe, and, Lord, so therefore, we know that in that Tree of
Life, the healing for the nations.  So, there is healing for us now. 
So, we pray ,Lord, that You'll encourage the people.  To just begin to
believe even more than ever.   In the solemn fact of  the healing which
lies for us.  As the prophet told us, “In Him is no disease, in Him is
no sickness.”

 	 I rise and take my faith in Him, and take my confession with Him. 
Applying the token.  And, Lord, we do.  We apply ...it in every way now.
 We apply it on the grounds, Lord, we are full of the Holy Ghost.  And,
He Himself, who gave the Holy Spirit, Great Father of all, is right here
in our midst.  We praise You for it.  

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

 

 

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