Corruptibility Putting on Incorruptibility # 3

 

Bro. Lee Vayle   -     Date March 20,1983

 

	Shall we pray: Heavenly Father, we're very grateful for Your mercy
extended to us.  Another week to come back on this  commemoration of
Your Resurrection, to worship Your Name, to learn about You and who can
ride it to Life Eternal.  We ask You to help us now, Father, with the
anointing of the Holy Spirit upon all of us, for the teaching and
listening, Lord, and the impartation may be right according to Your Holy
Spirit.  This knowledge that we seek to disseminate amongst the people,
Lord, and praying my God, that it shall not merely take root, but, shall
have tremendous growth, with the Spirit revealing what lies therein,
Lord.  

	We are convinced at this hour, is an hour of destiny.  We cannot change
that, I cannot change our faith, our belief.  There's no way, Lord, that
we could change our minds.  We must believe that this is that hour of
destiny.  And, therefore, Lord, we have to have food convenient for food
in the due season.  Bring therefore, this is that Food, this is that
feeding on the body Word, of the Lord Jesus Christ.  We commend
ourselves to You to that end in Jesus Name we pray.  Amen.  You may be
seated.

1.	I want to read in the book of 1 Corinthians 15:50-53.

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

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

	(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, and 				we shall be changed.

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

	Now, last Sunday, I briefly touched on the thought that the Kingdom of
God, could not come into existence, or manifestation, until the
Resurrection of the dead, and the transfiguration of the living.  And,
that is exactly what we read here; "Now this I say, brethren."

	 Now Paul said, that what he wrote was the commandment of God, or the
direct revelation of God as pertaining to whatever God wanted His people
to know what was pertinent to them.  And, this is very pertinent. So  he
says, I want you to know; "That flesh and blood cannot inherit the
kingdom of God. Corruption cannot inherit incorruption." So therefore,
something must be done about it. There is a great mystery. "We shall not
all sleep."

 2. 	Now you notice that this  dovetails with 1 Thessalonians  4,
wherein he is bringing  to the living, what pertains to them at the time
of the Resurrection.  Now he says; "Flesh and blood cannot inherit the
kingdom. Corruption(cannot) inherit incorruption." Which simply let's
you know that the kingdom of God is incorruptible.  So therefore,
nothing of corruptibility can enter into it.

	As is says in Scripture that; "No evil shall enter into it." [Rev
21:27] "For without are dogs, and whoremongers and sorcerers, and... and
whosoever loveth and believeth a lie," [Rev 22:15] and so on. 

 

 	Now he says; "I'm going to show you a mystery; We'll not  all sleep,
we won't all die, but we are going to be changed." [1 Cor 15:51] And,
the secret is, that corruptibility, will put on incorruptibility.  Now,
you'll notice, that is exactly what the Scripture says in what is
commonly and erroneously or mistakenly called 'The Lord's Prayer'.  

3.	So we go back here to; Matthew  6: 9-13.

	(9)  	After this manner therefore pray ye: ...

	Now, He tells them to pray, many people call this the Lord's prayer,
it's not the Lord's prayer, it's a prayer that the Lord gave for the
disciple's prayer  This is the 'Disciple's Prayer'

	(9) 	Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.

	(10) 	Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

 	I won't need to read any further than that, but you'll notice; the
prayer  'Thy kingdom come,' now that's a petition.  The definition of
the 'kingdom come' is; 'Thy will be done on earth as it is done in
heaven.'   Now, that's what you're looking for.  You're looking for the
Kingdom of God on earth, wherein His will is in earth the same, as it is
in heaven. 

4.	Now, the will of God in heaven, is defined in a certain measure. In
the Book of Daniel 4: 34-35.  This is Nebuchadnezzar come back from his
very vitiating [to impair] experience physically, but, uplifting
spiritually.    

 	

	(34) 	…at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes
unto 				heaven,  mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the
					most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, 			
	whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from 			
generation to generation:

	(35) 	And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and
he 					doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the
					inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto
him, 				What doest thou?

	Now, what he's showing you here is, there is a sovereignty of God,
maintained in the heavens.  And, also a measure in the earth.  But, the
great  sovereignty where God is in perfect sway, is in heaven.  

5.	Now, we're going to see more about this.  As we go to  Isaiah
40:10-18, now he says here:

	(10)  	Behold, (your) GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm shall
				rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before
him.

	(11) 	He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the
lambs (in) 				his (arms), and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently
lead those 				that are with young.

	(12) 	Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted
				out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in 
			a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a 		
		balance?

	(13) 	Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor
hath 				taught him?

	(14) 	With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him
				in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and (showed) to 	
		him the way of understanding?

	(15) 	Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as
the 				small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a
very little 				thing.

	(16) 	And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof
sufficient 				for a burnt offering.

	(17) 	All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to
him less 				than nothing, and vanity.

	(18) 	To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will (you)
compare 				unto him?

	Again, in 21.

	(21)  	Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you
from 				the beginning? have (you) not understood from the foundations
of the 				earth?

	(22)  	It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the
inhabitants 					thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the
heavens as a curtain, 				and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:

	(23)	That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the 
				earth as vanity.

 6.	A vain thing as though they haven't existed.  What was the use of
them even living? That's 	what he's saying there.

	(24)  Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea,
their 			 	stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also
blow upon them, 				and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take
them away as 					stubble.

	(25)  	To whom then will (you) liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the
Holy One.

 

	(26)  	Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these
things, that 				bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all
by names by the 				greatness of his might, for that he is strong in
power; (for) not 					one faileth.

	Now the stars are literally trillions in number.  They can't even be
counted, yet He knows everyone by name.  And we think we've done good,
by putting a few names up there.  Now he says;

	(27)  	Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid
from 			 	the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?

	(28) 	Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting
God, the 				LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not,
neither is 				weary? there is no searching of his understanding.

  	(29)  	He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might
he 					increaseth strength.

7.	Okay.  Isaiah 44:6-8.

	(6)  	Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD
				of  hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; beside me there is no
God.

	(7) 	And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in
order for me, 				since I appointed the ancient people? and the things
that are coming, 				and shall come, let them (show) unto them.

	(8) 	Fear ... not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that
time, and have 			declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God
beside me? yea, 				there is no God; I know not any.

 	Back to Isaiah 43:10-20.

	(10)  	Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have 
			chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he:
				before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after 				
me.

	(11)  	I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.

	(12)  	I have declared, and have saved, and I have (showed), when there
					was no strange god among you: therefore (you're) my witnesses,
saith 				the LORD, that I Am God.

	(13) 	Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can
deliver out of 				my hand: I will work, and who shall (hinder) it?

	(14)  	Thus saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For
your 				sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their
nobles, 				and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships.

	(15)  	I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King.

	(16)  	Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path
in the 				mighty waters;

	(17) 	Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the
power; they 				shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are
extinct, they are 				quenched as tow. (That's flax I think, that has
been burned.)

	(18) 	Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of
old.

	(19)  	Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall
ye not know 			 it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers
in the desert.

	(20) 	The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls:
because				I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert,
... and give drink to 			my people, my chosen.

8.	All right.  We go to Revelation 21:1-8.

	

	(1)  	And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and
the 				first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

	(2) 	And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God
out 			of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

	(3) 	And  I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the
tabernacle of 			 God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they
shall be his 		 		people, and God himself shall be with them, and be
their God.

	(4) 	And  God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; there shall be
no 				more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be
any more 				pain: for the former things are passed away.

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

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

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

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

	

	Now, let us be real quick to understand, that this earth, we're talking
about God who created and was in process of doing something down at the
end of the road there for us. We'd  be quick to understand that this
earth at no time, in the history of mankind, was the Kingdom of God,
even though by reason of creation, and one would suppose it was so.  Now
we read all these verses of creation, to show you, that by reason of
creation, God is the possessor. That He made it, and therefore by reason
of creation, it is His, and no one then, could take it from Him.  But,
you know there's not one statement said, in this wherein He actually
lays claim to the Kingdom.  He made it, but He doesn't lay claim to it. 


9.	Now, let's go to John 18: 23-37. 

	(23) 	Jesus (said), If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil:
but 					if well, why smitest thou me?

	(24) 	Now Annas had sent him bound unto Caiaphas the high priest.

	(25) 	And Simon ... warmed himself. ...They said therefore unto him,
Art 				not thou also one of his disciples? He denied it, and said, I am
not.

	(26) 	One of the servants of the high priest, being his kinsman whose
ear 				Peter cut off, saith, Did not I see thee in the garden with him?

	(27) 	Peter then denied again: and immediately the cock (began to
crow.)

	(28)  	Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and
it 				was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall,
lest 				they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.

	(29) 	Pilate then went out unto them, and said, What accusation bring
(you)				against this man?

	(30) 	They answered and said unto him, If he were not a malefactor, we
would 				not have delivered him up unto thee. (That's a pretty good
dodge, isn't 				it?)

	(31) 	Then said Pilate unto them, Take ye him, and judge him according
to your 			law. The Jews therefore said unto him, It is not lawful for
us to put any 				man to death:

	(32) 	That the saying of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spake,
signifying 				what death he should die.

	(33) 	Then Pilate entered into the judgment hall ..., and called Jesus,
and 				said unto him, Art thou the King of the Jews? (Now, you see the
Jews 				would not have crucified Him, they would have stoned Him. They 
			crucified Him, they had to go to Pilate, to Roman law, because
crucifixion 			was not known amongst the Jews )

	(34) 	Jesus answered him, Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or did
others tell 				it (to thee)? (See, are you king of the Jews? In other
words, do you head 				up a kingdom? And He said, “Did somebody else
tell you this? Or do 				you know this of yourself?) 

	(35) 	Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? (Your) own nation and the chief
priests have 			delivered thee unto me: what (have you) done?

	(36) 	Jesus (said), My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were
of 				this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be
delivered 				to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.

	(37)  	Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus
answered, 				Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and
for this cause 				came I into the world, that I should bear witness
unto the truth. Every 				one that is of the truth heareth my voice.

10.	Okay.  Let's go to; Matthew. 4:8-10.

	(8) 	Again, the devil (takes) him up into an exceeding high mountain,
and 				(shows) him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of
them;

	(9) 	And (said) unto him, All these (kingdoms) will I give (you), if
(You will) 				fall down and worship me.

 	Okay.  You understand what I'm saying there.  He never made one bit of
claim to the kingdom.  

11.	Now, let's read a little more. John 1: 1-3   And, you'll see what
I'm getting at, as we go along.

	(1)  	In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the
				Word was God.

	(2) 	The same was in the beginning with God.

	(3) 	All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing
made that 			was made.

	And, in verse 10;

	(10) 	He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world
knew 			him not.  (Okay. He came unto His own, but His own received Him
not.)

	(12) 	But as many as received him, to them gave he (the authority) to
be...				the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: 

	(13) 	Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor
of the will 			of man, but of God.

	(14) 	And the Word (became) flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld
his 				glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of
grace and 				truth.

	(15)  	John bare witness of him, cried saying, This (is) he, of whom I
spake, 				He that cometh after me is preferred before me: (because) he
was 					before me.

	(16)  	And (all)  of his fulness have all we received, and grace for
grace.

	(17)  	For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by
Jesus 				Christ.

	

	All right. Notice in there, particularly we find out that grace and
truth came by Jesus Christ.  Now, you saw what It says about Him,
relative to the kingdom.  And, relative to those who would be a portion,
or a part of it.   All right.  He came unto His own.  He'd made it, and
He wasn't a part of it.  He had  laid no claims to it.  

12.	So we go to Revelation 5:  Now notice, be reason of creation even,
He laid no claims to it.  All right, beginning at verse 8.

	(8)  	And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and
twenty 				elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them
harps, and 				golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of
saints.

	(9) 	And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the
book, 				and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast
redeemed 				us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue,
and people, 				and nation;

	(10) 	And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall
reign on 				the earth.

 	And, you'll notice there, He categorically says, “We are going to
possess the kingdom on earth.”  We are going to take it over.  

13.	Revelation 11:15-18.

	(15) 	And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in
heaven, 				saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms
of our 				Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and
ever. 	

	

	Now, if those voices were in heaven, how did they get down here on
earth? Won't do us much good unless we hear Him, eh?  Just think, that's
all, just think.  Don't ask questions, just think. 

	(16) 	And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their
seats, fell 				upon their faces, and worshipped God,

	(17) 	Saying, We give thee thanks, O LORD God Almighty, (huh?) which
art, 				... (was), and art to come; because (you've) taken to
(Yourself, Your) 				great power, and ... reigned.

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

		

	(19)  	And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen
in his 				temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings,
and voices, 				and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.

14.	Okay. Let's go to Revelation 19:11.

	(11)  	And I saw heaven opened, behold a white horse; and he that sat 	
			upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he 				
doth judge and make war.

	(12) 	His eyes were as a flame of fire, on his head were many crowns; 	
			and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.

	(13) 	... clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is
called The 				Word of God.

	(14) 	And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white
horses, 				clothed in fine linen, white and clean.

	(15) 	And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should
smite the 			nations: ... rule them with a rod of iron: ... tread (down
the winepresses) 				of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.

	(16) 	And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING
OF 				(the kingdoms, KING of KINGS, KING of  kingdoms, MASTER of 			
all masters )...

	All right. The verse 19.

	(19)  	And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their
armies, gathered 			together to make war against him that sat on the
horse, and against his 				army.

15.	Revelation 20:4-6.    

	(4) 	And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given
unto 			them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the
witness of 				Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not
worshipped the beast, 				neither his image, neither had received his
mark upon their foreheads, or 				in their hands; and they lived and
reigned with Christ a thousand years.

	(5) 	But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years
were 				finished. This is the first resurrection.

	(6) 	Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection:
on such the 				second death hath no power, but (those in the first,
shall) be priests (and 				kings; priests, especially) of God and of
Christ, and shall ( as kings 				reigning) with him a thousand years.

16.	Never forget, the categorical, unchanging dictum, which we read over
here, and I'll read again in;

 	1 Corinthians 15:50.

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

 

	Which is going to be set up on this earth, and in the New Earth and
heavens to come.  So that we understand our thesis thus far.  And, know
it is correct.  

17.	We go back to; Genesis 1: 1

	(1) 	In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. (And every
single 			thing, else.  As it is set forth in;)

	

 	Genesis 2:1-6

	(1) 	Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of
them.

	(2) 	And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and
he 				rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

	(3) 	And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that
in it he 				had rested from all his work which God created and made.

	(4) 	These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when
they were 			created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and
the heavens,

	(5) 	And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every
herb of 				the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it
to rain upon 			the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.

	(6) 	But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole
face of the 			ground.

	Okay. Genesis 1:26-29

	

	(26)  	And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:
and let 				them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the
fowl of the 				air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and
over every 					creeping thing that (creeps) upon the earth.

	(27) 	So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created
he 				him; male and female created he them.

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

	(29) 	And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed,
which is 			upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which
is the fruit of 				a tree yielding seed; (and) it shall be meat (for
you).

18.	All right.  With that, we go back to; Genesis 2:7-9

	(7) 	And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the (earth), and 				
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living 	
		soul.

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

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

	Okay.  Verses 15-20;

	(15)  	And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of
Eden to 			dress it and to keep it.

	(16) 	And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the 
			garden (you may) freely eat:

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

	(18) 	And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be
alone;                         		I will make him an help meet...

	(19) 	And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the
field, 				and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see
what he 				would call them: and (whatever) Adam called every living 			
		creature, that was the name...

	(20) 	And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air,
and to 				every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an
help meet...

	All right.  You will have noticed in this Scripture. The absolute lack
of any statement from God, as to superimposing His will on Adam.  God
simply put everything in order in His creation, and started it off, and
put Adam there in charge of it.  

19.	Now, we go back to;  Genesis 1:26   

	(26)  	...God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:
and let 				them have dominion...

 

	So therefore, we see rather than imposing His will, or government upon
Adam, He gave Adam sovereign rights, and put him on probation. Even as
Bro. Branham said, “A free moral agency.”    God literally, turned
the kingdom over to Adam, so that the first Adam was a true type of the
last Adam, Jesus Christ the Righteous.   As designated in;

20.	Psalm  8:

	(1)  	O LORD, our (God), how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
who hast 				set thy glory above the heavens.

	(2) 	Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained
strength 				because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the
enemy and the 				avenger.

	(3) 	When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and
the 				stars, which thou hast ordained;

	(4) 	What is man, that thou art mindful of him? (or) the son of man,
that thou 				visitest him?

	(5) 	For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and ...
crowned him 			with glory and honour.

	(6) 	Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou
hast 			put all things under his feet:

	(7) 	All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;

	(8) 	The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever
(passes) through 			the paths of the seas.

	(9) 	O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

	All right, follow along:  

21.	Genesis 4: this time we read the verse 1, and the first half of 2.

	(1)  	And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and
said, 			I have gotten a man from the LORD.

	(2) 	And she again bare his brother Abel.

22.	Okay.  Now back to John  John 1:11-13

	(11)  	He came unto his own, and his own received him not.

	(12) 	But as many as received him, to them gave he (the authority) to
(be) 				the sons of God, (designated as such) even to them that believe
on 				his name:

	(13) 	Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor
of the 				will of man, but (born) of God.

 	Blood birth. Or birth by blood, makes blood creatures.  And, blood
creatures cannot inherit the kingdom of God.  We go to  Acts 20.  That
is possess, use the word 'inherit' as possess.  Passing from father to
son. Very seldom used in Scripture, but it really means to possess.  

23.	All right. Acts 20:28.

	(28)  	Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock (of
God) 					Over..which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed
the 					church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

	1 Peter1:18-20

	(18)  	Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible
things, 			as silver and gold, from your vain (behavior) received by
tradition 				from your fathers;

	(19) 	But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without
blemish and 				without spot:

	(20) 	Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world,
but was 				(made) manifest (thoroughly shown, to who He was) in these
last 					(days.)

	Now, there was absolutely no way, that Isaiah 9: 6-7 could come to pass
in the form of Matthew 21:4-5.   

24.	Let's go to Isaiah 9: 6-7. Now every Scripture here, is running in
continuity, whether you're catching it or not – I hope you're catching
it.  All right.  Chapter 9:6-7.

	(6) 	For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the
government 				shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called
Wonderful, 				Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The
Prince of 				Peace.

	(7) 	(And of the) increase of his government and peace there shall be
no end, 			 	 upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order
it, and to 				establish it with judgment and with justice from
henceforth even for ever. 			The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform
(it).

	Now, you see here, an everlasting kingdom.  That is to come into
position of a 'born of woman' child.  

25.	All right.  Let's go to Matthew 21: 4-5

	(4) 	All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by
the 				prophet saying,

	(5) 	Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee,
meek, 				and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.  

	Now, I said that there is no way that Isaiah 9:6-7 “Unto us a child
is born, a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder,
there'll be no end.” could come to pass under the conditions of
Matthew 21:3-4.  This same one, virgin born, blood child, grown up into
a man, roughly thirty-three and a half years of age, riding upon the
foal of an ass, and they said, “That is the king.”  It couldn't come
any other way, except to Isaiah 53: now notice, we read about the blood.
 You have been redeemed from corruptible to incorruptible, through
incorruptible blood.  In other words, you get your start of;

 

 26.	Isaiah 53:1

 

	(1)  	Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD 
			revealed?

 	(2)  	For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root
out of a dry 			ground:...no beauty that we should desire him.

	(3) 	(A man rejected, despised); a man of sorrows, and acquainted with 
			grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and
				we esteemed him not.

	(4)  	Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we
did esteem 			him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

	(5) 	But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our 
			iniquities:...(and so on, right on down the line)

 

	You can see here, the death by crucifixion, and, the atonement.  

27.	Now, let's go back to; Acts 2: 33-36  Peter is preaching;

	(22) 	Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, (the one
seated 				upon the foal of an ass. The one born of the virgin, Mary. A
blood 					creature.) a man approved of 	God among you by miracles and 	
			wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye 		
	yourselves also know:

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

	(24) 	Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death:
because 				it was not possible that he should be (held by) it.

	(25) 	For David (speaks) concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always
before 				my face, for he is (always) on my right hand, that I should
not be 					moved:

	(26) 	Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover
also 				my flesh shall rest in hope:

	(27) 	Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou
suffer thine 				Holy One to see corruption. (Didn't say, He wouldn't
see death, said He 				wouldn't corrupt. And, He wouldn't be left in a
place of death.) 

	(28) 	Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me
full 				of joy with thy countenance.

	(29) 	Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch
David, 				that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is (right
here today 				with us.) (Didn't say that he was.  Grave was there.) 

	(30) 	Therefore being a prophet, and knowing(notice,) that God had
sworn 				(by) an oath ... that of the fruit of his loins, according to
(His Word), 				he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;

	(31) 	He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that
his soul 				was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.

	(32) 	This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.

	(33) 	Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having
received 				of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed
forth this, 				which ye now see and hear.

	(34) 	For(was not) David (that is)... ascended into the heavens: but
(David 				himself said,) The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my
right hand,

		

	(35) 	Until I make thy foes thy footstool.

	(36) 	Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God
hath made 				the same Jesus, whom (you) have crucified, (who died) 
both Lord and 				Christ.

	

28.	And, raised up in the immortal frame.  All right.  Let's go to Luke
24:25-31

	(25)  	Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe
all that the 				prophets have spoken:

	(26) 	Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into
his glory?

	(27) 	And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto
them in 			all the scriptures the things concerning himself.

 

	(28) 	And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and he
made as 				though he would have gone further.

	(29) 	But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward
evening, 			and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them.

	(30) 	And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread,
and 				blessed it, and brake, and gave to them.

	(31) 	And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished
out of 				their sight.

 

	[Luke 24:] 36 to 45;

	(36)  	And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of
them, and 				saith unto them, Peace be unto you.

	(37) 	But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they
had seen 				a spirit.

	(38) 	And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts
arise 				in your hearts?

	(39) 	Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and
see; 				for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have. (He
doesn't say 				one thing about blood.)

	(40) 	And when he had thus spoken, he (showed) them his hands and his
feet.

	(41) 	And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said
unto 				them, Have (you) here any meat?

	(42) 	And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish,...  (A glorified man
eating 				fish. There might be room for some of you fishermen in the
kingdom, 				after all.)  

		

	(43) 	And (they gave Him a piece of  broiled fish, and,  honey comb and
He 				took  and ate, before them.)

		

	(44) 	And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto
you, 				(when) I was yet with you, that all things must be
fulfilled,...written 				in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and
in the psalms, concerning 				me.

	(45) 	Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand
the 				scriptures,

 29.	Now, let us go on and watch carefully, the Book of Acts 1: 1-6

	(1) 	The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus
began 				both to do and teach,

	(2) 	Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the
Holy 				Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles (that) he had 		
		chosen:

	(3) 	To whom also he (showed) himself alive after his passion by many 	
		infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the 
			things 	pertaining to the kingdom...

	(4) 	And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they 
			should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the 			
	Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me.

	(5) 	For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with
the 				Holy Ghost not many days hence.

	(6) 	When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying,
				Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?

 

	Now, notice the question. Will You restore the kingdom to Israel?  But
see the answer that He gave for the interim.  7-8;

	(7)  	... It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the
Father 				hath put in his own power.

	(8) 	But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon
you: 				and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all
Judaea, 				and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

 

	Okay. Now, the answer He gave them, was; John 3: 3-8

	(3)  	Jesus ... said ...(Truly) I say unto thee, Except a man be born
again, 				he cannot see the kingdom of God. (Then they said, “ When's
the 					kingdom going to be restored to Israel?” Didn't even answer
them. 				No answer. The answer He gave is this; Holy Spirit, rebirth,
for 					another kingdom) 

	(5)	... Except a man be (born again)..., he cannot (see) the kingdom of
God.

	(4) 	Nicodemus (said, “How can that happen?”)

	(5) 	... Jesus said, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit,
he cannot 				enter into the 	kingdom of God. (Now He's explaining what
the birth 				is.)

	(6) 	(That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.) that which is born
of the flesh 				is flesh;

	(7) 	Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.

	(8) 	(The Spirit breatheth where He willeth)  and (you hear) the sound 
(of 				His voice) ... but (you cannot tell where it come from or where
it goes)				 so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

 

30.	That's the same as over here in; Ephesians 1:13-14.

	(13) 	In whom ye also (that ye) (hoped),(What One?  The One that died
on 				Calvary, and rose again.) after that ye heard the word of truth,
the 					gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed,
ye 					were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

	(14) 	Which is the earnest of our inheritance (what we're going to
possess) 				until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the
praise of 				his glory.

 	Now, do you see what He said here? “What about the kingdom of
Israel?”  Well, he said, “That has everything to do with God, and
nothing to do with you.”   Now, I say what I have my answer for you is
this.  The kingdom of God, that's what you're looking at.   

31.	All right.  Now, you can even understand this even better from Acts
1: 1-3 (I hopefully think we can, anyway) from the last part;

 	(3) 	To whom also he (showed) himself alive after his passion by many 
			infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the
				things 	pertaining to the kingdom of God:

	

	Now, that's what He was into. And, like a bunch of bumblers, they came
right around and said, “What about Israel?”  Say, “What about
it?” I say, “I've got nothing for you. I don't have an answer.
That's left for down the road, when God will do something about it. 
When He wants to.” In the mean time, here's your answer.  All right. 
Next we go to Matthew 24:  Because we're looking at the kingdom, which
cannot be inherited  or possessed by flesh and blood.  No way. 
Corruptible won't do it.  

32.	All right.  Matthew 24:14

	(14) 	And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world
for 				a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.  

 

	So therefore, there's a gospel of the kingdom which goes to all
nations.  Jesus already told them about the Gentiles.  It's going to go
to all nations, then shall the end come.  All right.  Notice, 'and this
gospel of the kingdom, shall be preached in all the world for a
witness.'  

	Now, hold your finger there.  Go back to; Acts 1: 6-8

	(6) 	... (Will you restore again the kingdom to Israel?)

	(7) 	And he said (I don't have a thing to say about that.)

	(8) 	But (you) shall be witnesses (to) me...unto the uttermost part of
the 				earth.

	So, what's He talking about? The kingdom.  His kingdom.  The kingdom of
God, to come.  Now, He says, “This gospel shall be preached, then
comes the end.”  What end?  The end as in;

	Matthew 24: 3.

	(3)  	... sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him 			
	privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? (that is, 				
the casting down of stones) and what shall be the sign of thy 				
Presence, and (what will be) the end of the world (systems)?

33.	Now, the kingdom of our God, has become the world and the kingdom of
our God. So they say, “What?”  Now, that's what we're looking at. 
When will this end be, of these world systems?  What is the sign of Your
Presence? When are these rocks going to be cast down? When is Your
Presence going to be made known? When is there going to be the kingdom,
the end of the ages?  The consummation of the ages.  All right.  Because
that's what we're looking at.  Now, the world kingdoms then are over at
this particular time.  Now listen, carefully to get this. What I'm
striving to show you chronologically, is back here in Acts 1:  again. 
Well let's look at It.

 	Now, we're taking our time, going back and forth, in Scripture,
because that's the only way to ever understand the Bible, is to get all
the Scripture, nearly as possible as we can concerning it.  All right.
Right after the question of verse 6, ... When will you restore, or will
you restore at this time the kingdom to Israel?  

34.	And, the answer is; Acts 1: 8

	(8)  	...(you) shall receive ... the Holy Ghost (which empowers you)...
 					you... (to) ... be (a) witness... (to all the world)

 	And, when that runs out, that's when the kingdom is going to become
effective.  Now, notice immediately what happened in verse 9.

	(9) 	And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was
taken 				up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.

	Now, you notice, "When will the kingdom come to Israel?"  He said,
“Forget it.”  It has nothing to do with you, that's something
that's, remember when Jesus took the book, he sealed it.  He closed it. 
So this is the hour of amazing grace.  All right.  When that is opened
to Israel, that's God's business.  It's the indeterminal time, nobody
knows the exact shutting off.  But watch, when He spoke concerning the
end, where His kingdom comes on earth.  It says, "He was taken up, and a
cloud received him out of... sight."  He was hidden by a cloud.  Now
watch.   Jesus does not answer them, for it is reserved to be known at
another season or time. Not that season. ( See?)  

35.	However, in; Acts 1:10-11.

	(10)  	And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up,
behold, 				two men stood by them in white apparel;

	(11) 	Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into 	
			heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, 				
shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.

  	All right.  Now, I'm not trying to insult anybody here, but, if I was
a wagering man, I'd bet everyone of you, that not one of you read this
Scripture right. You looked at it, and you heard it dozens of times, but
you didn't read it.  Because each one of you thought it said an angel,
but it didn't say, 'an angel, It said, 'a man'.  You might automatically
go to the thought it's an angel, not to a man.  But, it doesn't say
'angel' It says 'man'.

	(10)	... two men stood by them in white apparel;

36.	Okay. Let's check it out.  Let's go back to Matthew 16:28.

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

	After six days, He takes Peter, James and John, takes them up to a high
mountain apart.  He's transfigured.  And, who stands with him?  Two
angels?  No, two men.  Two men stand there.  Moses and Elijah.  

37.	Okay, let's go to Revelation 11: 1-19.

 	(1) 	And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: the angel (said,)	
			Rise, and measure the temple of God, the altar, and them that 				
worship therein.

	 (2) 	But the court which is without the temple leave out, measure it
not; 				for it is given unto the Gentiles: the holy city shall they
tread under 				foot forty and two months. 

	Okay, the time of the Gentiles, the fulness runs out. Their time goes
on, because even when Israel is back in the homeland, three and a half
years, the Gentiles control. 

 	(3) 	And I will give power unto my two witnesses, (now, it doesn't say
'angels' 			it says witnesses.) and (they'll) prophesy a thousand two
hundred and 				threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.

	(4) 	These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing
before 				the God of the earth.

	(5) 	And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth,
and 				devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must
in this 				manner be killed.

	(6) 	(They got) power to shut (the) heaven, it rain not in the days of
their 				prophecy: power over waters to turn to blood, smite the earth
(and) 				plagues, as often as they will. (All right.)

	(7) 	...when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that 	
			ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, 				
and shall overcome them, and kill them.

	(8) 	... their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city,
which 					spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord
(Jesus)				was crucified.  (And so on.)  

	All right, then It says when they are killed in verse 11,   

		

	(11)	... after three days...the spirit of life from God entered into
them, 					(and there' a resurrection takes place) they (stand on) their
feet; 					and great fear fell upon them... 

	(12) 	...a voice...(said to them,)  Come up hither. (Now, they)
ascended 					up (by) a cloud;  (And there's a great earthquake, and so
on.)  

38.	Now, do you see what we're driving at here?   We're showing you the
exact picture, and we better go to Revelation 1:4-7, first of all.

	(4)  	John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, 
				and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; 	
		and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;

 	(5) 	And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first
					begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth.
Unto 				him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own
blood,

	 (6) 	And hath made us kings (made us a kingdom is what It says. A					
kingdom of priests) unto God and his Father; to him be glory and 			
dominion for ever... Amen.

	(7) 	(And) Behold, he (comes) with clouds; and every eye shall see him,
				and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall
				wail because of him. ...

	(8) 	I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the (end), and so on.)

	All right, notice verse 7 especially, “Behold, he comes with
clouds;”  

39.	Now, back to Acts 1:6-7.  And he say here they say:

	(6) 	...(will You) at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?

	(7) 	... he said ... It is not for you to know the (space of) time or
the 					(specific occasion)...      

40.	Okay.  Let's go back to; Daniel 12:]

	(1) 	And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which
(stands)				for the children of thy people: there shall be a time of
trouble, such 				as never was since there was a nation even to that
same time: and 	at that 				time thy people shall be delivered, every
one that shall be found written 				in the book.

	(2) 	And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall
(arise), some to 			everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting
contempt.

	(3) 	And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the
firmament; and 				they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for
ever and ever.

 	(4) 	But ... Daniel, (now) shut up the words, and seal the book, even
to the 				time of the end: many shall run to and fro,...

  	Now what time of the end?  Many sleep in the dust shall rise, for the
resurrection period.  Until it's time for the resurrection, the Bible
stays sealed. No seal opens, no nothing. No knowledge comes forth.  No
revelations.  The Book is literally sealed.  (See?) You can't know the
hour,  until God wants to reveal that hour, (in other words, that exact
time.)  People have guessed at it for years.  Every doctrine, has been
sullied, by someone jumping ahead.  But, there's got to come a time,
when the knowledge increases to the point where the dominion of man is
going to be over.  

	(5) 	(And he said) I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two,
the 				one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that
side...

	(6) 	And one said to the man clothed in linen... (said,) How long to
the 				end of these wonders?

	(7) 	And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters 		
		of the river, held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, 		
		and sware by him that liveth for ever  (Now that's got to be
Revelation 				also 10: See?) that it shall be for a time,times, and an
half; and when 				he (shall) have accomplished to scatter the power of
the holy people, 				(till) all these things shall be finished.

41.	Now, you notice in here, the Book is sealed up to Israel, until the
three and a half year period.  And, that's the same period of time for a
resurrection.  (See?) So, Israel has only three and a half years to go,
and that's the Great Tribulation.  And, there'll be 144,000 taken out of
it and sealed. (See?) Now, what I read here, is tried to show you, that
the question that was asked, has it's answer in this hour.  And, the
answer is simply this; the eleven apostles, never did get the true
revelation of Israel and the kingdom.  They botched it.  They had an
idea they were going to get a kingdom again.  Show me where Israel gets
a kingdom.  For three and a half years they are under bondage to the
antichrist and the world's systems.  They're under bondage right now.  

 	Now, let's find out the truth about the kingdom, and I'll all add up.
Now, the apostles never did get the revelation.  It took Paul.  

42.	So let's take a look at, Ephesians 2:11-22. Okay:

	(11)  	Wherefore remember, that (you) being in time past Gentiles (who
are)  				in the flesh,... called Uncircumcision by that which is called
Circumcision 			in the flesh made by hands;

	(12)  	That (you were) at that time  without Christ, being aliens from
the 				commonwealth of Israel, strangers from the covenants of promise,
				having no hope, without God in the world:

	(13) 	But now in Christ Jesus (you) who sometimes were far off are made
nigh 				by the blood of Christ.

	(14) 	For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down
the 				middle wall of partition...

	(15) 	Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of
commandments 			contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain
one new man, 				so making peace;		

	(16)  	And that he might reconcile both (that's Jew and Gentile) unto
God 				in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:

	(17) 	And (come) and preached peace to you which were afar off, and
them 				that were nigh.

	(18) 	For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the
Father.

	(19) 	Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but
fellow-				citizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

	(20) 	And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets,
Jesus 				Christ himself being the chief corner stone;

	(21) 	In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an
holy 				temple in the Lord:

	(22)	In whom ye also are builded (through a) habitation of God through 
			the Spirit.

	Now notice where he puts it.  Right back. (See?) When will the kingdom
come? He said that's what God has put in His own time, in His own
season, for His own purposes. But, he said, “What you're looking at
now, is a Spiritual kingdom.” (See?) The one that is determined
through what has transpired in the death of Jesus Christ, the
resurrection, and the baptism of the Holy Ghost to the Gentiles.  

43.	Now watch. [Ephesians 3:1]

	(1) 	For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you
Gentiles,

	(2) 	If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is
given 				me to you-ward: (he's talking to the Gentiles.)

	(3) 	How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery;  (I
wrote 				afore in few words,

	(4) 	Whereby, when (you) read, (you) may understand my knowledge in the
				mystery of Christ.)

		  

	(5) 	Which in other (generations) was not made known unto the sons of
men, 				as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by
the Spirit;

	(6)  	That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body,
and 				partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:

	(7)  	Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace
of God 				given unto me by the effectual working of his power.

	(8) 	Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace
given, that 				I (might) preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable
riches of Christ;

	(9) 	And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery,
which from 			(before times, eternal) hath been hid in God, who created
all things by 				Jesus Christ:

	(10) 	To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in
heavenly 				places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of
God,

	(11) 	According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ
Jesus our 				Lord:

	(12) 	In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith
of 				him.

	(13) 	Wherefore I desire that (you) faint not at my tribulations for
you, which 				is your glory.

	(14) 	For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ,

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

44.	See? All right.  What you see here is, the revelation that Paul is
bringing.  There is not a separate kingdom, given to Israel.  It is the
kingdom of God that is going to come upon earth. So here, we are with
the full picture.  Israel as a kingdom, is not the Kingdom of God.  Now,
a lot of people want to make it that way.  Fundamentalists, and everyone
else want to make it that way.  It won't work that way.  Today, it is
the Kingdom of God, and not the kingdom of Israel, that is coming into
view.  But, everybody wants to talk about Israel.  Go on out and get
your literature, get your papers, get your movies, get everything you
want.

	 And the Fundamentalist is always talking about – Israel restored,
Israel restored, Israel restored, Israel restored.  And, you'd almost
think the Gentile Bride wasn't worth peanuts.  Or a bowl of soup at a
Salvation Army handout.  Yet all the time they're talking.  Now we're
laying the picture here, of what we clearly see. (See?)  Israel as a
kingdom, is not the Kingdom of God.  Now we showed you that, to begin
with the Kingdom of God is incorruptible.  And, corruptibility has no
part in It.  All we've ever seen is what God created, what God did, and
turn it over to man.  There never was a true kingdom.  

45.	The true Kingdom is incorruptible.  And, nothing corruptible can
come into It.  Not that, a corruptible thing could corrupt it.  God is
incorruptible.  You see?  But, you got to the place now, where it's
absolutely; "Behold, I make all things new." [Rev 21:5]

	We're coming to a divine order.  So, Israel is not the Kingdom of God. 
Today it is the Kingdom of God, not the kingdom of Israel that is coming
into view.  Because, Israel is in trouble.  And, will remain in trouble.
 She even gives trouble to the two witnesses.  Only 144,000  are sealed
in.  (Okay.)  Israel like Adam, was given a free moral opportunity with
God over them, and they blew it.  You see?  You understand what I'm
saying.  God gave them the ability, (if they so desired,) to stand with
Him.  But, God was never in complete control. (See?) It never was His
kingdom per se.  They blew it.  Whatever they had.

  	 The next kingdom is not any other kind of kingdom, but God's
sovereignly.  Now, you're getting to another aspect. (See?) There's a
sovereign element in this Kingdom, that never was before.  

46.	Now keep listening, and follow me, so we'll go back to Genesis 3:
21-24.  Because we want to see just where we are.  So you just keep
boring along with me in the Scripture.

	(21 	Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of
skins, 				and clothed them.

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

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

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

	Okay.  We read what happened there.  Now, verse 22  He said, “Behold,
the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he
put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, also, and live
forever.”  So what he did,  Adam took authority apart from God, he
acted as God, in the sense, that he deferred to his own headship.  He
just didn't defer to God anymore.  And he took over his own headship, as
Satan did before him.  And, as Satan was cast down, signifying the start
of a period of time, that would one day end in his destruction. (Now
listen.) So Adam was cast out of the garden, so he would not live or
endure for the life of the ages; which was six thousand years. Now
notice what he said, “Lest he put forth his hand and live forever.” 
Which is the life of the ages. And, the ages are six thousand years.  

47.	So, God said, “I am going to put him out.” And, Adam died within
the day.  One day out of six.  Now, if he'd have stayed in Eden, he'd
have lived for six thousand years.  Don't ask me how he'd have done it. 
Because He said, “Lest he now, take what is here, and live out those
ages,  and, I will not have that done.”  

	Now, here's what I'm saying.  "Even if Adam had been allowed to live
six thousand years in innocence, (although he was no longer innocent at
that time) a change was necessitated, at the end of that time, because
that was the foreknown and predestinated will of God to populate an
earth of His sons, born 'not' of blood."

	 Now see?  It was predetermined. He wanted a kingdom, and the
incorruptible, there could not be those born of blood.  Now, flesh and
blood cannot possess the kingdom of God.  You cannot be a citizen where
God is, because it won't work.  Now, I want to go over that again.  
Even if Adam had been allowed to live six thousand years in innocence, a
change was necessitated, because Adam had flesh and he had blood.  And,
had there been, six thousand years of flesh and blood, (even apart from
sex) it would not have been the kingdom of God.  So, there would have
had to have been a change.

48.	God would have had to change them.  Flesh and  blood cannot possess
the kingdom of God.  You cannot be a citizen where God is, because it
won't work.  So now here is what we could more or less call the 'bomb'
if we want to call it a 'bomb'.  Walking into immortality from flesh,
bone, and blood, into flesh and bone, (and no blood,) predicates
resurrection as a principle.  There has got to be a resurrection, to get
all the elect into the kingdom. Because, the body corrupted.  It's
corruptible.  It's gone down, it's going down.  That leaves it out. How
are you going to be in the Kingdom?  You cannot be in there unless you
come to a state of incorruptibility.  Which would be an absolute new
creation.  

	That's what Bro. Branham said, “God will create again. Not through
sex, but taking the petroleum, the potash, the calcium the minerals, out
of the ground.  He will recreate, and bring forth a different body.”  


	If man had not sinned, and every son had come forth as Adam for six
thousand years, there then would have been millions of suddenly
glorified people, apart from death.  Now, that's right. What I'm trying
to show you is, the Blood of Christ, and His Holy Spirit baptism, now
takes the living of this hour, not into death, and into resurrection,
but, into Eden immortal and eternal.  Now, see what I'm saying?  He
said, “Lest he stretch forth his hand, and, eat of the tree of
life.”  Becoming immortal.  “I am going to put him out of there,
and, take it away from him.”  And, he is going to go this route.  But
remember, the previous route was still immortality.  Now,  I know I'm
losing you, see you've got to understand what I'm saying.  

 49.	Because, you are not making relevant, what I am teaching you.  And
I'll tell you why you aren't. You keep forgetting what I told you. I
told you some time ago, in this pulpit. I said,  "Something peculiar has
happened."  I said, “I can't tell you what it is, because, I'm not a
prophet.”  And, if you've listened carefully, you see this is the
third sermon I am preaching, on immortality and resurrection.  There's
got to come a time when we swing from the Shout to the Voice. But,
you're too lethargic.  Maybe I should have said this to wake you up
before I started the sermon, or put you out here in the cold, where
you'll stay awake.  But, you see, that's your problem. (See?) You should
have been a step ahead of me by now, anticipating what I am preaching.  

	How  long am I going to preach to you?  I don't what to be rough on
you, but I warned you a long time ago, that you'll die under Lee Vayle. 
And, I'm serious, you people aren't serious, but I'm serious.  I warned
you.  You can die under my ministry.  It's the easiest ministry in the
whole world to die under, because, you think I'm going to sit here and
feed you.  And, drop it in with an eye dropper.  You must be on your
toes, and understand what I'm saying.  And, it's for this purpose, that
we're moving rapidly into the Resurrection, or William Branham lied. 
The whole thing is a hallucination. And, there's nothing to nothing. 
Except to go back to the jungles and hope we can swing by our tails and
by our toes.  Do you understand what I said?  

50.	Back there, it wasn't the Kingdom of God.  But, there is a Kingdom
of God.  And, sons will be in it.  But, it won't be by mortality.  Flesh
and blood, and He made flesh and blood to begin with.  And, had there
not even been any sin in this earth, and any death, and we had six
thousand years of Adam and Eve, go  (phew) creating, and God making the
bodies.  There still would have to come that time, when it wouldn't have
been enough.  Might there'd been six billion people on this earth, I
doubt it, might there be six million Bride,  I don't know.  But, there
would've come the day, at the end of the six thousand years, not people
coming out of the graves.  But, God coming right down and changing every
single one, to an immortal status.  So that's what we're getting at
here.  Now, this may not seem clear to you, and it may not seem vital to
you.  But, I've got to preach it, because, some of the missing links of
the hour of which we are coming into, and why it is the way it is.  

	Because, God foreknew it. (See?) And, in the foreknowledge of God, to
bring out His attributes.  The one would have been creativity and
re-creativity.  But, being a Savior, so the attributes would come, He
had to let the human race come by means of a primary creation, and
formation, and a secondary formation; which was the woman.  Women
usually get stirred up about this, and there's nothing to get stirred up
about.  Any more than the man can think he's somebody, because, he's
made first. (Fap!) What would he be without God?  It's all in the plan
of God.  Now, what I'm trying to show you is, the Blood of Christ, and
the Holy Spirit baptism now takes the living of this hour, into...not
into death, and resurrection, because you see they have got flesh and
blood. (See?) But, into Eden, and immortal, eternal.  Now, the ends of
the world of God's plan, has fallen upon us, in this last hour.  And,
what a hope we possess, which never disappoints. 

51.	Now, let's keep going on.  We go to; Matthew 24:14.    

	(14) 	And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world
					for a witness unto all nations; ...

 	Now, it's a witness to what? Everything that the Holy Spirit does at
the last time, even to His final, His actual Appearing amongst us is to
the end of a kingdom which is not flesh and blood. And, where do these
Fundamentalist guys get the idea Israel is going to have a thousand
years, and we're going to have a thousand years of procreation. Then,
it's not the Kingdom of God.  Not come yet.  Only in part.  We're going
to have to wait for the New Jerusalem, the new creation.  

	Now he said, “The kingdom is here.”  "The kingdoms of this world
are become the kingdoms of our God." [Rev 11:15]

 	And, absolutely it showed in the  Book of Matthew; glorification. So
I've got no time for this other stuff they teach. Matthew 25: is the
White Throne Judgement.  It has nothing to do with the judgement of this
earth. 

52.	Now, all right, Matthew 24:14.

	(14) 	And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world
for 				a witness unto all nations; ...

	Then shall come the end of what?  The kingdoms of this world.  Flesh
and blood's over.  Flesh and bone, with the life of the Spirit.  Being a
Spirit of God, not an animation that God allows us.  

	Now, we take verse 14,  we take It to verse 3, because verse 3 speaks
of verse 14 and places It.

	(3) 	... when shall these things be? ...

	What things? When the stones are cast down.  That's over and done with.
Starting a mini tribulation. Israel scattering. The next thing;

	(3)	...what shall be the sign of (your Presence), ...

 	Notice, it's just a sign.  Tell us about it. See?  Now, what will be
the end of the world systems?  Okay.  We read verse 2, explained verse
3, (...yes we did, because He said, not one stone cast down upon
another. They came and talked to Him.)  Now, the end of these ages is,
the end of mortality.  When comes immortality?  You say, “Well that's
not what they asked.”  I don't care what they asked.  You can't have
one without the other. (See?) Why, which came first, the chicken or the
egg?  You can never have eggs without a chicken.  I don't care what
anybody says.  And, if the life is in the seed, and the seed is an egg,
then the hen was there before the egg ever was.  Spiritually too, but
stupid jackasses ask questions like that.  

53.	Okay. You can't have one without the other.  If there is going to be
a Kingdom of God, it's got to be the immortal Kingdom.  There's no other
way.  ...So, let's look at it this way.  If you think you're looking for
something, what do you think God is looking for?  God's been waiting six
thousand years, that's where the Bible speaks of His patience. God's
long suffering in the days of Noah.  Made sure all those eight were in. 
God's long suffering.  And, in the days of Israel, made sure they're all
in.  God's long suffering. God's long suffering now, six thousand years
waiting for His Kingdom.  So, you see, grace is a whole lot more
magnificent than the people think it is. Because, God, if He wanted to,
could start all over again, you see, but He can't.  Because God's
thoughts are perfect.

 	Okay.  Bringing in immortality. When will You be here, to raise the
dead, and bring in Your own Kingdom?  Now, [Matthew 24] verse 14.

	(14) 	And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world
for 				a witness ... and then shall the end come.

 54.	Goes to;  Revelation 10:1-11.

	(1) 	And I saw another mighty (messenger) come down from heaven,
clothed 				with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face
was as it 				were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire: (Well,
what's that? Revelation 				1:12, plus)

	(2) 	And he had in his hand a little book open: (What's that?
Revelation 5: 				the open Book given back to Him that sat upon the
throne. Who came 				down?  The One sitting on the throne.  What was He?
 Elohim, veiled 				in  the Pillar of Fire. All right,) and he set his
right foot upon the sea, 				and his left foot on the earth,

	(3) 	...cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: (...What's the
last 				sign of the zodiac? Leo the lion, Virgo the virgin, number one,
Leo the 				lion number twelve. All right,)  at the last sign crying,)
seven thunders 				uttered their voices.  (Now, that's on earth.)

	(4) 	I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto
me, 				Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write
them 				not.

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

	(6) 	(Now notice, He's swearing) by him that liveth for ever and
ever,...

	And notice, that time runs out.  What time runs out?  There's only one
time runs out. The time of the six thousand years, the kingdoms. Ready
for the Presence. See? Okay. We keep reading.   

	 (7) 	But in the days of the voice of the seventh (messenger) when
(he'll) 				begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished,...

	 This Gospel of the Kingdom. It's over. Then comes the end. This tells
you about the end. The next thing is what?  His kingdom.  Immortality.
(See?)  

	(7) 	... the mystery of God should be finished, as (God) hath declared
(the 				good news of the Gospel) to his servants the prophets. (This
last one 				is a prophet.  And, this is the time it runs out. (See?)  

	Now:

	(8) 	And (I heard a voice, (and a voice which I heard ) from heaven
(spoke) 				unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which
is open in 				the hand of the angel which (stands) upon the sea and
upon the earth.

	Now, what's he do? He goes and takes the Book.  Now this is a picture
of the future, and this one's got to take a Book. 

	(9) 	And I went unto the angel, and said, Give me the little book. And 
				he said, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter,
but 				(it'll) be in thy mouth sweet as honey.

	(10) 	And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it
up; and it 				was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had
eaten it, my belly 				was bitter.

	(11) 	And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many
peoples, 				and nations, and tongues, and kings.

55.	All right. Revelation 10:11

	(11) 	And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many
peoples, 				and nations, and tongues, and kings.

 	Now remember, there's got to be a wind up time. Okay.  

 	Then, this Scripture here that I read, relative to Revelation 10:1-7
is Hebrews 6.

	(1)  	Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let
us go on 				unto perfection; (conclusion, when it's all over) not
laying again the 				foundation of repentance from dead works, and of
faith toward God,

	(2)  	Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, of
resurrection 				of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

	(3) 	And this will we do, if God permit.

	Now listen, when that's all over, where are you? It's all over.  

	(4)  	For it is impossible for those who were once (for all)
enlightened, 					tasted of the heavenly gift, ...partakers of the Holy
Ghost,

	(5) 	…tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to 			
	come,

	(6)	(Having fallen) away, to renew them again (to) repentance; seeing
they 				crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an
open 				shame.

 	(7) 	For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon
it,...

  	Now It doesn't say ' a whole lot of times' it says 'often'.  Seven
Church Ages is often. The last time it's over.  It's either going to
bring forth the herbs, which is going to bring the dead out of the
ground, or it ain't going to do nothing.   

56.	All right.  He said, “You've got to go before kings.” This
Gospel of the Kingdom, goes out, (see?) until the time of the  Gentiles
are over, (there's no more to bring in,) you have a Gentile
resurrection.  You have a Kingdom of God, coming on earth.  You have
144,000 in Israel that's got to come in, to be eunuchs to take care of
the Bride in the Kingdom.  They're only first fruit by grace. And, the
first fruit by grace, that they are a part of the First Resurrection,
they are not part of a Bride. They'll be in that Kingdom, but that's
where your glory comes in.  One glory of the moon, one of the stars,
different glory in the resurrection.  Different glories in there.They
are all coming in.

	Now, this is the end time, and at the time when the dead come out of
the graves, there's got to be a burning.  Now, the sower went forth to
sow, that's the Son of man.  And, He sowed good seed, and, the enemy
came along and sowed a bad seed.  William Branham's vision of the end
time was Hebrews 6: when the Son of man sowed again, once more this
Word,  that was originally given, goes before the people, and runs its
course.  And, when It does, It brings forth a harvest.  Before, It
brought forth being a former rain, It only brought forth that which
would go to a harvest.  But, this is the harvest rain.  This is the
harvest sowing.  Where the reaper catches up with the sower.  Do you
think we're not going to catch up with Bro. Branham?  You've got to be
loose in the head somewhere. Those nuts that Bro. Branham said kept you
together, you haven't got enough nuts here. [laughter] Certainly we're
going to catch up.

57.	He's gone on before to come out of the ground, and we're standing
here, right behind. Do you see?  To fulfill  with Him, the original
promise.  Immortality, of an incorruptible.  See, it was sown, in
corruption.  It's raised incorruptible.  Now, there's a second sowing,
(I'm talking the Word now) that was sown, that corrupted. That will not,
(see the first time sown, corrupted.  I believe he said, that you've
already got impregnated in your mind, saying “You're off the Word.  
You're of  Christ, you're off of everything.”) The second time, the
sowing comes, It will not corrupt.  Then if It won't corrupt, It's going
to bring forth an incorruptible.  We're not going to die.  We're going
to stand right here changed. And, the cells begin forming, right around
the Life that is in the soul, which is the Holy Spirit.  

	Now, Revelation 10:11 is that Word of Hebrews 6:1, that I read.  And,
Revelation 10:1 is that Presence that is indicated and vindicated by a
sign.  Do you follow?  

58.	All right.  And, that Presence, right over here, is; 1 Corinthians
15:20.

	(20)  	But now is Christ risen from the dead, (and risen amongst us.
Amongst				 the Gentiles. See? He's) the firstfruits of (those) that
(sleep).

	(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.

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

 	What is the sign of your Presence?  He said, “I'll tell you what's
the sign of My Presence.”  But, He said, “That's not it.”  He
said, “It isn't the sign of My Presence, it's what comes with My
Presence.” Which is immortality.  Without which, there wouldn't be a
Kingdom.  See? You understand, there is no way, you can get there, apart
from immortality.  The first batch, the Old Testament Bride made it,
they're immortal.  The second batch, which is the New Testament, will
make it.  They'll be immortal.  Because, immortality is the plan of God.
The last great thing to strike this Word brother/sister, is immortality
in a people walking.

	" Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it hath never yet come into
existence..." [1Jn 3:2] There is no record, there is no nothing, of
anybody that ever got changed as a group.  Now, these people got saved
in an ark. (Fine) When Christ came out of the ground, He brought a bunch
with Him. But, they went down.

	Now he said Adam standing there.  What if he becomes immortal?  Well
really, it's not immortal.  It's live the life of the ages six thousand
years. (See?) Because that's when  the consummation was, six thousand
years.  God never did get His seven.  Now, the seventh day that God
gets, will be "Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is
done in heaven." [Mt 6:10]   It never was, but, it's going to be at this
hour.   Every longing that you had hoped for.  Now listen, you have
sublimated, I have sublimated,  because we're a bunch of cotton picking,
stupid legalists.  There's not one of us here believes the Word of God. 
We just think we do.  

59.	If we believed It, I tell you, we'd be on fire with the
understanding, that for the first time, we are going to be real.  And,
it's just around the corner.  Now I've whipped you the odd time, and
I've jumped on you.  But, you're still messing around.  I hate to tell
you, but, I've watched you messing around. (See,) I don't care what you
do.   You do what you want.   I'm just going to preach, and keep
preaching. I'll ride herd on nobody.  But, I can tell by attitudes and 
other things.  As Bro. Branham had a healing ministry.  He said, “I've
got a  gift.”  Now, I'm not trying to hit anybody over the head with
any little gift that I've got.  Just forget it. But, I'm going to tell
you something, brother/sister.  Maybe heathen could hear what I'm
preaching, put them right on fire.  Like one discernment Bro Branham had
in Africa, put thirty thousand people on fire.

	There is something wrong with us.  We're too complacent.  Because, we
don't even begin to realize, we're going to get out of here.  And, you
don't need to worry about aspirations and hopes,  you're going to get
them.  You don't need to worry about what you missed, and what you
didn't miss.   And, what you are, and what you aren't.   Because, when
you get to that image, (and we're in that hour right now) that great
thing is going to happen.  Which has never happened in all history.  A
group of people are going to stand here, and walk into It, with our eyes
open.  You don't have to worry about a grave out there, or anything
else. Someone's got to be standing here.  Because, Adam stood there. 
And, God said, “Lest he live out that six thousand years, and then
I've got to change him down there.”  Do you see what I'm trying to
tell you.  It was predestinated.  The plan of God for you and me,
through this interim.  Always was,  a blameless, holy, perfect, child of
God, in His image, one with Him.

 	And, we hate this image down here.  We carry so bad, we don't even
take time for His image, that's going to come.  He's warned me, and I've
 warned you many times.  And I'm the one that's more to blame than you, 
in this instance, I  pay Him less heed, then you pay me.  And He said,
“I don't want you thinking anything anymore, about the church out
there.  Your mind on anything, but what's for the Bride.”   And this,
is for that Bride.  He is present.  

60.	Now listen, let me read the rest of it.  [1 Corinthians 15]

 	(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.

	How do you get there, except we're in immortality?  How did He have a
Kingdom?  But what is incorruptible?  Yours and my best dreams and
wishes, have always corrupted.  And no matter how good we've had it,
we've always reached you want a little bit better.  Because, it wasn't
good enough.  How would you like to wake up sometime, where everything
is better than you could ever realize?  For about at least one trillion,
trillion, trillion, trillion years.   And you know, you start to think,
hey, where have I been all this time?  Because you've got a bottomless
cup.  A bottomless well.  A bottomless pit, as it were. Into which, the
amazing grace and knowledge of God  still flows.

 	So, here we are, all of us, little fallen sons.  After six thousand
years, it's up! History proves it.  Calendar proves it. Everything
proves it, six thousand's up.  Adam went down.  Did he?  Not really. 
Everyone of  us that's here, that's in the Bride, is here because of
Adam.  Every little Adam.  Okay, kind of marred, battle scarred, messed
up. So what?  Not too bad maybe.  All of us, after six thousand years,
stand here ready to walk into Eden.  To walk into, (to literally walk
into) that which would have been, had he not sinned, (but, he did.) 
And, God predestinated him, to be that man. (See?) All right.  We are
those men.  So as  the prophet said,  and he screamed in the Seventh
Seal, “Bring on Your holy vesture, with the holy Word of God, laying
there.”

	In other words, bring on immortality. Because, here lies the Word. 
It's run Its course.  Until this time, every Word stood up, and was
counted.  Every Word, in every age, like a soldier went to battle.  To
conquer, but, all the shields are laid down.   All the armor is laid
down, as it were.  Even the Word of God is at rest.  It's run its
course.  After six thousand years, there is only one thing left my
brother/sister, immortality.  Now, do you see why I'm preaching the way
I'm preaching?  Because, that's all that's left. "Bro. Vayle,  “I
believe this, I believe that, I believe the squeeze. I believe this.” 
 You believe anything you want.  One day, I hope we have Bro. Ungren
here, and he can tell you how Bro. Branham told him.  He said,
“Morris, you'll be here when the squeeze come down, but, I'll be
gone.” Squeeze? Sure.  Don't even think about it.  Says, that's what
we're looking at.  Immortality.  

61.	Now immortality, always was the view, that God had in mind for His
children. That's what He always had.  You know, we sort of think, it's a
little like icing on a cake.  Oh, something that God threw in.  You
know, because, well, maybe we had sort of come to the place where we
could have deserved it, hallelujah.  Bunch of rotten, crack pot
legalists.  

	You know, Bro. Branham went to Africa, some black people needed
healing.  So those good white brothers and I, (I'm not against being a
certain extraction, though I really am.) Those Boers' over there, very
boorish people I guess, when they saw the man who came for healing the
black man, and Bro Branham said, “What are you here for?”  Somebody
said, “He's here for healing.” And, the preacher said, “Why,” he
said, “He doesn't need a healing, he needs a bullet between his
eyes.”  Well, what about us?   Sure, that's what we look at ourselves,
all the time.   

	But, do you know?  God never had a bullet between the eyes for Adam, He
had immortality.  And, when Adam got himself all messed up, (which God
knew he would do.  Because, God's sovereign,) He already had it
arranged.  And all the arrangements were made.  Now, if you could
visualize this One, who was there in His pre-existent form, in the form
of God in the Pillar of Fire.  Coming down in human body, to sacrifice,
and become sin, and dying, death.  One of which was  physical, the other
was spiritual.  Because, He became sin for us, to forgive our sins. 
What anticipation did He have? "Who for the joy that was set before him
endured the cross, despising the shame." [Heb 12:2] 				

62.	If you and I had the real pictures, that we had all these years. 
Instead of this Fundamental hogwash.  This legalistic clap trap and
balderdash. Because, let me tell you something: only the Word of God 
can inspire a genuine faith.  And, It alone, can bring anything to pass.
If we'd had, which wasn't a lot to have; if we'd of had this, where
would we be today?  But listen, now that we do have It, what are we
doing with It?  This always was, the predestinated plan of God.  This
moment, this moment, He had that plan, in form, and it's fifty percent
consummated, with those resurrected saints, (which He's put away
somewhere, I suppose they're around the Throne up there.  That's the
only place I think they would be.) I'm going to tell you something:
they're very happy there.  But, they're never going to be as happy as
the hour they come back here and take over.  When you and I take over at
the same time.

	Immortality, no, it's not farfetched.  Immortality, is not beyond us.
Immortality is not some wild dream, it's not some 'guess so,' not some
'hope so'.  Immortality was the original, and is the original dynamic,
unfolding, and ready to be consummated, plan of Almighty God.  And,
that's why there's the atmosphere at this time, and you cannot get away
from it brother/sister. As much as I would like to pass on,  for various
reasons.  Because I don't like meeting myself around the corner, every
time I walk around a corner.  That's the main reason.  Ah, I don't have
one bit of hope, in my soul to die.  I don't, to be honest with you.  I
know it sounds strange.  People think I'm crazy.  Well, I am crazy, I
admit that. I've got no problem there.  But, I'm going to tell you one
thing:  I'm as crazy as a  fox.  Wise as serpent, and twice as harmful. 
But, I make no apology.  For Him, I apologize for myself.  I'm going to
tell you what brother/sister: there is no way that anybody in this hour,
can have unbelief in Him who is Present to raise the dead, and discount
that Scripture that says, "He that liveth, and believeth in me shall
never perish." [Jn 11:26] Yeah.  

63.	Abraham stood there, "He looked for a city which hath foundations."
[Heb 11:10] He hasn't seen it ever yet, brother/sister. Well, he might
be around where it's going on, I can't say for sure.  He's part of New
Jerusalem, so you and I.  I just can't believe it.  Somehow I believe,
that God's got that big City up there, all ready.  I think the curtains
are still drawn, I don't think Abraham's any more to do in it.  Maybe
there is, I just doubt it very much.  But, my thesis is this: that
Abraham looked for a City,  but he didn't stop looking.  He struggled,
he had problems, with himself, with his wife, with everybody else, but
he kept looking, because he knew that City was there.  

	I'm going to tell you something: if I died tomorrow morning, I can
assure you, in my heart, I know the Word of this hour, I shall not die,
but live.  And, I'm not crazy.  I have not gone out of my mind.  I am
very, very rational..Very, very sane.  And, I'm a very conservative
person in most things, except I'm quick on the trigger.

	So, I'll tell you one thing brother/sister: there is nothing 'quick on
the trigger' about this.  That somebody's got to stand here and not die.
 Because, you see, that was God's plan.  Thousands and millions have
died.  But, like Adam, we stand there, and say, “Can I walk to the
tree of life?”  If he'd a done it, he'd have had six thousand years 
of messy living, but he'd have lived for six thousand solid years to get
his change.  But, you and I brother/sister, are getting our change,
when?  Tomorrow morning?  Who knows. Maybe tonight?  I doubt it,
because, the squeeze  hasn't come down.  But, there's not one of us
here, that is void of that hope, I don't care what  our age is, because,
it doesn't matter what your age is, one little bit.  That the Lord
Himself, has already descended with a Shout, the Voice of the archangel,
the Trump of God.  And, the dead in Christ are about to rise, and we
which are a part of that Shout, will be a part of that Voice, in that
very hour.  Let's rise. 

	Gracious, Heavenly Father, we're very happy with the fact that, You, O
Lord God, inspired, our hearts and our minds.  You show us, Lord, what
is truth, and we, O God,  we know there is no way there'll be no way, as
far as we can ever pinpoint it down, that anybody in this hour will ever
be able to manifest anything concerning this truth in revelation, of the
reality of Your Presence to raise the dead, and change us.  But, we
know, Lord God, it has been manifested, as a sign of Thy Presence, which
indicates the Resurrection.  The sign, Lord, that everything is at hand,
which indicated the Kingdom which has not come, except there be a
Resurrection.  Because, we know that flesh and blood cannot inherit it,
corruptibility cannot do it.  It must put on the complete garments of
incorruptibility, become like Yourself, O God, in that particular area. 


	"I am the Lord, I change not."  And, Lord, we are coming to the same
thing.  And, we praise You for It. That is most marvelous, Lord, to
realize, that this is in this hour, that we are a part of It.  Now,
Lord, forgive us we I pray for our lethargy, for our ways of life, that,
wherein we so many times ceased from pushing into the Kingdom. In the
sense of, going to Your Word, with the understanding of, the life that
is in there, and the feeding thereof on the end time Message.  The meat
in due season, Lord, wherein the life is released. Forgive us, we pray,
Lord, and help us from this time on to walk, in a depth of consecration,
and also one of love, Lord.  And, Lord, I need a whole lot more in my
own life, so that I might not jar the people by being harsh, but might,
literally stimulate them through kindness and love, and those things
which, sometimes which we know, Lord,  are more profitable in the long
run than any other way.

	So we pray, Lord, that You will balance us out.   And, this life which
is in Christ Jesus our Lord.  And, each one of us begin to go on
progressively in this particular understanding.  We are grateful for It,
at least I am, Lord.  And, if I do not speak for the people,  I hope
that I am speaking for them, we know they have to speak for themselves. 
So grateful, Lord, to know, be inflamed and in passion, to a degree that
has not been previous, by this knowledge showing us that we indeed have
arrived in this hour. What a tremendous thing, where Adam was turned
aside because it just could not be.  We are told to come back in
because, it is.  Lord, it is fantastic, to know that this at the end of
the ages, have come upon us.  The very plan and principles of  Almighty
God, yea God Himself has devolved upon us.  

	Pillar of Fire, to lead us into the Millennium. What could anybody ask
for?   Lord, if...You had not glorified us, and we do not even know what
we're talking about.  But, we in turn, Lord, have very  poorly glorified
You. But, Lord, if there is any way, if any measure of glorification, 
in the fact that we can give You back, Lord, what we believe You have
given us,   insofar as we speak  concerning Your revelation.  Speak
often one to another.  And, pray, Lord, with the understanding, and live
with the understanding, that we are a part of that. Then, Lord,         
        I just feel maybe that there'd be some consolation in Your heart
toward us, in this hour, in this degree.  

	So, Father, we do want to give back to You the Word.  And, just tell
You how glad we are, that You are here.  The Blessed Holy Spirit, right
here in our midst.  That  One, to lead us in.  That One to change us. 
That One who has already shouted in our midst.  That brought us into the
divine order.   Which divine order, we're all coming into.  And, it is
so good to know that  we are a part of It, Lord.  

	We cannot thank You enough, Heavenly Father, we cannot do it.  O God,
help us, Lord, help us, help us, help us.  What measure of grace we
need, we know, Lord, it's available to us.  Open our eyes, Lord, to
these measures of grace.  And, these things, O God, that are not so in
our reach, they're actually birthed within us. That come right up to
that full stature, Lord, we want It.  We're so grateful, Lord, we feel
Your Presence, we feel, Lord, a good Presence here.  And, we're so glad
to have the Spirit You have put amongst us.  May it, soon give way,
Lord, to the very Presence even of those, Lord, that soon put on their
glorified bodies.  The sweet, sweet Spirit amongst us, Lord.  Right in
the church where the gifts as it were, were put on a shelf.  In which
we're very happy to concede to, and healings amongst us, as predicating
and  showing forth, the absolute and immediate potential of a
Resurrection right amongst us.  Lord, these are so good things that  we
ponder.  And, we just want to praise You forever. And, thank You in the
Name of Jesus Christ we pray.  Amen.  

	

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