The Day of the Lord - Master Husband # 1

 

Bro. Lee Vayle   -    June 19, 1983

	Heavenly Father, we believe absolutely that same Spirit that was in
human flesh is here at this hour, for we know that Scripture's told us
the Lord Himself shall descend from Heaven with a Shout, with the voice
of the Archangel, and the Trump of God. We know that that Spirit
designated as the Spirit of Him should be in the last day amongst us,
revealing unto us those things which we are supposed to know, which will
bring us together, and we appreciate that.

	We cannot turn our backs upon It, Lord, we cannot believe for one
minute that You came, and then You went, and You will come, and You will
go. And then You will come and You will go with us. We don't believe
that, because the same One that taught us that the Lord would descend
with a Shout which was a Message. Also saying which was a messenger to
gather the people together. Same One said that He comes down, that One
to set Himself at the Head of the Church in order to raise the dead.

	So, we believe, Lord, that that is what is transpiring now, and we know
that they with us cannot be made perfect, so, therefore something is
going on at this particular time where all things are coming into
subjection. We believe that, Lord, and we do not know within ourselves
that we have any of the earmarks that we can demonstrate to people, but
by faith, Lord, we have received this Word and stand with It until It
becomes finalized and finalization will mean, Lord, that there will be a
Resurrection, there will be a Catching-away. And then there will be a
continuation of those things which are set forth in that vein.

	And so, Father, we stand here this morning in that assurance. And we
thank You that we do not changed our theme, we do not change the
structure of it. We do not change anything, except to believe that we're
going from glory to glory as by the Spirit of the Living God conforming
to the Word bringing that Word to Life in this hour. 

	So, Lord, here we are, let it be unto us according to Thy Word, to that
end we consecrate ourselves. Help us therefore in everything said and
done. We need Your help in Jesus' Name we pray. Amen. You may be seated.

1.	Now, we've been dealing with the Lord's Day, which is the Day of the
Master, the Day of the Husband, because we find that the Word of the
Lord is a Word that's translated in a general across the board sense as
to mean 'master'. One in authority, husband. We found in the Fourth
Century AD I believe it is, (I don't think it's B, it could be BC) that
the Word began taking on very distinct understanding, (so this is what
ours would be,) of a husband. A legal guardian of a girl, the owner and
the possessor you'd say, and the governor in his own household.

	Now, Moses we know was a servant in a house which God built. But, when
it comes to Jesus you'll find that He's the Master. So, looking at this
word 'master', we found then that it's a general purpose word having to
do with a thought mainly then of the legal husband, the legal possessor
and governor in the house. And we just let it stay there, because we're
going into the 'Day of the Lord', and we'll be taking that particular
facet as time goes on. But, in the meantime we're looking at other
aspects of that 'Day of the Lord', and, so we can lead up to what we're
into on the Judge.

2.	So, we read in Revelation 1:10 to begin with:

		(10) 	I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a
great voice, 					as of a trumpet,

	And verse 12,

		(12) 	And I turned to see the voice that spake with me…

	Now, you'll notice in here that this Book is a Book of voices. And this
voice is a particular voice, because he turned to see who was giving
voice, as Bro. Branham said, "To see if It was a Scriptural Voice."

	And remember, that  you see by hearing. The Bible mentions here,
"Blessed is he that readeth and they that hear the Words." [Rev 1:3] And
so that you…when you read you are literally hearing by way of the
eyes, and when you hear, you are literally seeing by way of the ears. 

	And we know that Samuel heard this voice of God speaking to him. And
whatever the voice told him, you'll notice that Samuel said, the
Scripture's says, "He feared to show Eli the vision." [Sam 3:4] 

	So, here was somebody seeing with his ears. Now, that's not hard,
because you don't see with your eyes, you don't hear with your ears. You
have a auditory nerve and an optic nerve. And the auditory nerve goes
from the ear, and the optic nerve goes from the eye and you see with
your brain. Which, if you blotted you eye out you'd ruin the camera. If
you plugged your ears, you'd not able to hear, but specifically if you
injured a part of your brain, you wouldn't see and you wouldn't hear. If
you missed it.

	So really, what we're looking at here then, is John…is turning in
order to receive in his mind and in his spirit which he is into a
revelation from God. Now, this is perfectly scriptural.

3.	Okay, let's go to Numbers 12:6, and we'll get it. 

		(6) 	(God) said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, 	
				I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and 					
speak (with) him in a dream. (Now, there you are. Seeing and speaking 		
		comes to a prophet.)

		(7) 	My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in (my) house. (Not
Moses'					house, My house.)

		(8) 	With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even (in view, in a shape) 

	Apparently doesn't simply mean it's 'apparent', which it does mean it's
'apparent'. But the word 'apparent' means in a shape, or in a form,
which is apprehendable, so that the one in the particular presence
(particular presence, which is the Presence of God in a form, Pillar of
Fire, whirlwind, you name it, Cloud, Rock, whatever) is speaking audibly
to the person and not in dark speeches, and similitude's.  No, it's
going to be speaking very directly. And he'll behold that figure that
God presents. And then God will be dealing with that person through the
figure that He presents to the prophet.

4.	So, you can see that this here is simply very tersely put forward
what would of necessity transpired, because this is how God does things.
So, John was in the spirit, and we found that literal translation of
that is, or an extended translation, or an enlarged translation could
be, "I came to be in spirit to the Lord's Day." 

	In other words, he comes to a certain particular area that goes beyond
where he is at this moment. And goes beyond to a stretch of time that
isn't actually told us to as to the number of years, and he comes to the
Day of the Lord. Now, there he begins to receive revelation at this
time, wherein the Day of the Lord is a Judge. Now, you'll notice that he
got out of his own spirit. You got to be careful that you don't get your
own spirit in the way, because the spirit is a very   to seal thing. 

5.	First of all to begin with as the child drops from the mother's womb,
the child doesn't have a spirit. There's a spirit waiting there to
receive that body, which in combination with the soul that evidently
that the child has, (because he was in his father's loins, and he had to
get here somehow by natural generation, which he did, a lost sheep, and
they're not all lost sheep's either; there could be reprobate or
anything else) so this child dropping (male or female) receives one of
these spirits that Bro. Branham said, "Is not from God, but allowed of
God." In other words, is not of God, as His Holy Spirit is, but it's a
definitive spirit that He created.

 	Now, Bro. Branham seems to have definitely associated those spirits
(with angels) so that there could well be many people possessed by
fallen angels, and those who have (you know) a proper angel that didn't
fall.

6.	Okay, what I'm driving at is this: because that spirit is on the
outside of the soul, and it is not a genuine human spirit per se, as
though you were born with it, and soul and spirit works through the
flesh, which mostly the spirit works through the flesh, because that's
like an animus [strong dislike] to the flesh. And that spirit in there
is one that was out here, you wouldn't have a great deal of trouble of
contacting what lies out here.

	Now, the Scripture says, "No man knows the things of man say the spirit
of man that's in him." [1 Cor 2:11] So, the spirit of man would be able
to produce a Edison, or a 'Steimetz', (not the piano, that's a
'Steinway') a  Steimetz, or a Telsa, (or almost anything. See? And, or a
Russell, (world famous under the time of Roosevelt) he could tap the
universe, in fact they call him, "the man that tapped the universe." 

	But, here's where preachers like Glen Clark get all messed up, because
they're Unity, and in Christian Science. They never get a true rebirth.
You see, that would allow them to really know the things of God.

7.	Now, Paul said, "No man knows the things of God, say the Spirit of
God." [1 Cor 2:11] But, he said, "Because we're born again, we got the
Spirit of God which is now joined to our soul." Our nature then is a
changed nature, and our knowledge and understanding will not be in the
realm of men who all men have this type of spirit. But, they'll have a
genuine Spirit of God, it'll keep them with the Word.

	Now, I hope you're getting what I'm trying to tell you here. John is
like everyone of us. But he's born again, and he's got an office. Now,
John says, "I became to be in spirit." [Rev 1:10]  

	Now, he already was in his own spirit (there's no two ways about that)
and he's not out here tapping into something out here that can be
fallacious. Albeit, could be very scientifically true, and a man learn
wonderful secrets which he might be a benefit in civilization to his
brother and sister. But, John was in the Holy Spirit. See?

8.	Now, let's get this; this is why you and I need a prophet to be a
hundred percent in the Word. Because there's no way that you and I can
get where John was, where Moses was, or William Branham was, or any
prophet was. There is just no way!

	Now, that's why when people come along and they say, "Well, you know,
Bro. Vayle, I know Bro. Branham was a great man, but I've had something
happen here." And you know me and my nature, and for me to be nice at a
time like this is way beyond the miraculous. It is divinely heavenly.
[laughter] And I'm ready to just rise up and take that guy apart!
Because, I know he hasn't got anything! Hogwash! Fap! There isn't one of
them. Not one who could come near William Branham. Listen, I know the
gamut, don't talk to me, I've been out there.

	Now, they feel they don't need a prophet. See? They don't need someone
who could become in spirit. See? And listen, when you do get this flat.
Now, let's get this flat. And I mean flat, flat, flat. If you're not
ready to take it, I ain't going to pray for you, you pray for yourself,
because this is tough. A prophet can say nothing of his own will. Can
say nothing of his own will. I might get a prophet so mad he'd like to
say to me outside the Spirit, "Lee Vayle, I'd like to kill you."

	And I'd say, "Fine, because you talked in your spirit."

	But you get that man in the Spirit of God, he is just like Balaam
before Balak. And old Balaam look down and he said, "I can tell (he
said) it's going to be a cinch, it's going to be a walk over, that is a
bunch of riffraff." And the minute his spirit left him, and he was in
the spirit of God, he said, "I cannot say anything of myself, there's no
way can curse them, they're beautiful, they're wonderful." Now, a lot of
people you know, they could be like Balaam. But, in the spirit there is
no way. When you come here you got to understand it's the definitive.

	Now, this is definitive. One person said to Bro. Branham, "John must
have had some hot peppers." Well, that's fine if that's what kind of
person you are. You'll get your hot peppers, but that's down the road.
But, you better repent, because that's literally blaspheming the Word of
God. 

9.	This is a fantastic Book, and what John saw was a hundred percent
right. He knew what he was saying, he knew what he saw, and it takes a
prophet at the end-time to open It and that's Revelation 10:7. See? Now,
John saw this 'Day of the Lord' that we're looking at. Everything here
is a hundred percent. There isn't one thing that's off key. There isn't
one thing interpolated, there's not one thing left out. That's exactly
why He said, "You can't add and you can't take."   [Rev 22:19]  Because
he said, "I didn't get this of myself. I became in my spirit to the
Lord's Day."

	Like Bro. Branham said, "I get alone, and (he said) I take up my
parable." 

	You see, I went to Bro. Branham years ago and I said, "Bro. Branham, (I
said) this business of being a prophet, (I said) there's something to it
a lot of people don't get." I said, "There's something in there that
that man's got that he knows he got, and he able to fill the office."

	He said, "Bro. Vayle, what do you mean?"

	"Well," I said, "I'll tell you, take the case of Balaam, (I said) that
old boy knew exactly what to do. He knew he could swing into it."

	"Oh," he said, "certainly Bro. Vayle, didn't you read where he said he
took up his parable?" It wasn't building altar, it was taking up his
parable. He said what people to outrun…(what is this?) the thing they
call 'the mantra', the 'eeny, meeny, miny, moe' stuff. Mantra, montra,
shmantra, who cares? Bunch of hogwash.

	But, a prophet has a real parable, and Bro. Branham says, "Certainly,
and I take up mine, but I won't tell you the words I say."

10.	Now, look it, he told us (he said) the best he could tell us. He
said, "I get alone by myself and I say something like 'two and two', (he
said) suddenly it begins breaking in." Like two and two are four, two
and two are four, two and two are…faster, faster, faster,
faster…suddenly you break into it.

	Now, I'm going to tell you something: I don't know much about prophecy,
get this flat. Because I'm no prophet. But I do know enough about
visions. And I do know enough about a trance, although I'm not great at
trances, because I haven't been into a trance except with my eyes wide
open looking out, just watching what I was seeing. And I'm going to tell
you this brother/sister, you haven't got any more to do with than then a
hog has to circle the globe in that space shuttle. Nothing. Nothing.

	And I'm going to tell you something: it's so far apart from you, it'll
scare the living daylights out of you, if you've got living daylights in
you. It'll scare you. There's nothing that God ever gives it isn't
serious and very sober. And John was very serious and sober when he left
his own spirit. Now, I'm not saying that he left his spirit and stuck it
over there. I'm just saying he got away from the entire influence of his
spirit and he went plumb into trance's and vision right out there. And
he began looking and hearing.

	When that Voice spoke the whole thing formed before him no doubt. And
It was a conversational Voice, because God said, "I will speak with
him." Notice, John spoke back and forth. Moses spoke back and forth.
Paul spoke back and forth. We know that Paul spoke back and forth,
because he said, "I besought the Lord three times concerning this." And
the Voice came and spoke to me and said, "My grace is sufficient for
you." [2 Cor 12:8-9]

 	So, we know that here we're into a perfectly tremendous portion of
Scripture that a prophet of Revelation 10:7 says, "This is the Day of
the Lord." And John saw Him as Judge. So, we're looking at it.

11.	All right, the 'Day of the Lord', that's what we're looking at to
begin with. And we asked the question last Sunday, "When did the Lord
Jesus ever have his day?"

	Well, we know that he never did have his day according to Isaiah
53:7-8, because It categorically says:

		(7) 	He was oppressed, he was afflicted, he opened not his mouth: he
is 					brought as a lamb to the slaughter, as a sheep before (the)
shearers 						is dumb, so he (opened) not his mouth.

		(8) 	He was taken from prison from judgment: who shall declare his 			
		generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the 
					transgression of my people was he stricken.

	Now, he was cut off, never had his day. He died at age thirty three and
a half as far as we know. Three and a half years of that as a seventieth
week, the last week of the seven years. He was cut off. So, since then
He's been engaged in mediatorial and intercessory ministering. So he's
never had his day. See? No way, so that day is going to come. Now, this
is man's day. 

12.	Now, let's go back to Genesis 3:22.

		(22) 	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 live for ever:

	Now, that's not immortality, eternality. That's from the ages to the
ages. Now, he said, "If this man puts forth his hand now and he had the
ability to do it, (or it would not be said) he would've lived for the
age to the age where God had planned something different.

	Now, man has been living for six thousand years, but not one man. There
has to be a time when God changes His regimen. Now, He had a flesh and
blood man who could sin. A flesh and blood man who when he sinned nature
would rise against him, so there'd be prickles on the roses, and there
would be bared teeth and fangs on animals. There would be poison that
could be released by animals, (snakes and things, bugs also) where the
man could be tortured and tormented. In fact, the Bible said, "Hell
created for the devil and his angels." [Mt 25:41] Man,  some will go too
and they'll be tortured and tormented." That's true, we make no bones
about it. 

 	Now, man has a period of time that has been allotted him. And that
would take in the earthly span before there is a change, and that would
take in the future span which will end in annihilation. You see how it
all adds up? Just one little verse tells you everything. Now, man had
that ability, and he's still got the ability to live on.  

13.	Now, let's go over here to Revelation 10:5-6.      

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

		(6) 	And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created
heaven, 					and the things that therein are, the earth, and the things
that therein are, 					and the sea, and the things  are therein, that
time should be no longer: 

	Now, he tells you that this One at the time of the Day of the Lord,
(because that's what John was looking at way down at the end) when the
Great One would become a Judge, He says, "time runs out." Now, what time
is running out? Time for the Seven Church Ages. Time for a resurrection.
Time for the Bride to be immortalized.

	All of these things…in other words, he sees man's time run out. See?
Now, it's not the time itself ceases. That goes on for a thousand years
into the White Throne until the New Jerusalem comes on earth, which is
re-created. It doesn't have the water. Like our earth today is
five-sixth water, one sixth land. The days to come is going to be
six-sixth. People worry about feeding four billion people on one sixth
of the land. What can you feed on six-sixth of the land? If you could
feed four billion people, you could go ahead and put another twenty
billion out there. See, everybody worries. Why worry? Because time's run
out. So, we see time has run out here. Man's day is about to close. The
reason is, is that Jesus has been promised today. The great One we're
looking at.

14.	Now, let's go back to Psalms 45:6-7. Now, I want you to listen to
what I'm saying and put it all together.   

		(6) 	Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: (and) the sceptre of thy
						kingdom is a right sceptre.

		(7) 	Thou lovest righteousness, (and hate) wickedness: therefore God,
thy 					God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy
fellows.

	Now, It tells you that God is going to institute a throne for this
certain Person. And He will rule as divinely as Divinity Himself. There
will not be an appreciable difference, because there will be no
difference. Because the Great Spirit God will be in Him.

15.	All right, with that we go to Psalm 110:1.

		(1) 	The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I 		
			make thine enemies thy footstool.

	Then It says:     

		(2) 	The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule
thou 						in the midst of thine enemies.

	Now listen: at the right hand He's got to wait until He says, "the
enemies become the footstool," and at the same time He tells you, "That
rod which is the strength of Zion is going to rule over the enemies."
Which is, He takes over in Revelation 19 with the rod of iron.
Revelation 19:11. "And I saw  one (you know) seated upon a white horse,
the armies of heaven followed Him, and out of this He was crowned with
many crowns, King of kings and Lord of lords, and out of His mouth goes
a two edge sword and so on."

16.	Now, watch also: [Psalms 110:]

		(3) 	Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the
beauties 					of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the
dew of thy 					youth.

	In other words, he never gets old. He died at age thirty three and he
rose looking like (what?) seventeen years old. There he is.

		(4) 	The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest 					
for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

		(5) 	The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day 
					of his wrath.

		(6) 	He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with
the 						dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.

		(7) 	He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift
up the 					head.

	Now, He's telling you right there how He's [Jesus] going to take over
His Kingdom. He's going to have a day when every enemy in under His
feet, and set to one side, He will reign in the Millennium, then you're
going to have a White Throne judgment, destroy everything that should be
destroyed, and everything is going to be wonderful.

	Now, He's going to have His day, he doesn't have His day right now. Man
has his day, and it's fortunate that man has Him who will have his day
as His advocate. Because he has Him as his mediator which is to get Him
in as the intercessor, which is to keep him in. And as long as anybody
needs keeping, which is until the day that he's glorified, you've got
somebody up there representing you. So, don't talk to me about Blood off
the Mercy Seat and haven't got this and haven't got that. No way shape
and form, because we do have Him. See?

	And one day though He will no longer be that One. And then you watch
the wrath really fall, when the 144,000 get sealed in, oh my. There's
nothing left but shock wave after shock wave till the whole thing is
gone. See, it's going to be a tremendous day.

17.	 All right, now: this is man's day, but He is promised His own day.
Now, let us look at that in Luke 4.  Now, I'm running this back again
over, because I trying to teach in such a way that you can become
crystallized in your thinking, not to be crystallized in the idea like
you add one drop of sugar to a solution, and the whole thing
crystallizes then you're shot. You know, you kind of loose your
elasticity. I'm talking about where you stand what is being preached
concerning the hour in which we are in and what is going on. Because,
I'm sorry to say I've had too many phone calls where people…I'm sorry,
they just don't know what I'm saying. Now, I know what I'm saying. And I
hate to be a copy-cat, like Bro. Branham said, "Well," he said, "I know
what I'm saying, maybe you don't get what I'm saying, but I know what
I'm saying, just can't express it right." 

	Well, I can't go that far as Bro. Branham. Because there's lots of
things he knows, that I don't know. And if I did know, I'm sure that I
would have some way to express them in a sense of my knowledge. And then
I'd say, "Well, I know it, and this is the best I can tell you." We have
different ways of doing things. Like you have different ways of doing it
for me.

18.	All right Luke 4: 16.

		(16)	He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his 		
			custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and 					
stood up for to read.

		(17) 	And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias.
						And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was 	
			written,

		(18) 	The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me
to 						preach the gospel to the poor; sent me to heal the
brokenhearted, 						preach deliverance to the captives, recovering of
sight to the blind, 						to set at liberty them that are bruised,

		(19) 	To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

		(20) 	And he closed the book… 

	Now, you'll notice that he had something to do which was vicarious. It
had nothing to do with himself. Never said a thing about himself. There
was nothing to there to say about himself. It was what he was doing, and
would continue to do.

19.	Now, let's go back to Isaiah 61 where's that taken from, and watch
It.

		(1) 	The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD anointed 
				me to preach good tidings unto the meek; sent me to bind up the 				
	brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, the opening of 				
	the prison to them that are bound;

		(2) 	To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, (and he sat down.)

	But he also has to proclaim and make evident the day of the vengeance
of our God to comfort all that mourn. That's what I read in the Psalms.
Why, we don't have several different Bibles just because it's repeated
in different places and several different themes. It's one theme.

	And you notice that Jesus even changed the words from the Book of
Isaiah. Why, because he was a prophet when he did it. And William
Branham could come on the scene and he could take the Word of God that
you and I say, "Hold it, William Branham, you're not quoting It right,"
Absolutely, he's quoting It right! Trouble is we've got too many
chickens brains. Not enough eagle brains. Chicken brains pick on a
manure pile. Follow the cow to see if they can pick out a little grain
of wheat out of  a plop. Eagles get up there and get the fresh food.
They look down and see the whole picture. Now, pardon my language, but I
use that on purpose. If you don't like it, well, just whiff a rose or
something, a little smelly, eh? I don't feel bad about an eagle. I don't
feel me, so don't you feel bad about me. Chickens and eagles are two
different things. In fact, eagles don't particularly care for chickens.
Oh, they like them roasted, or something like that. [laughter] Maybe not
nice, but I never said I was a nice person. I am a nice person when it
comes to this. I won't hold anything back from me if I can get it across
with a four by four, or language which is even nice.

	"Bro. Vayle, why don't you just use nice language." You wouldn't even
get it, if I used nice language. You wouldn't get it, you'd be still
wondering what I'm saying. Now, there's no reason to believe otherwise.

20.	Look here, we showed you just what he said here from Luke, going to
Isaiah. And that great Day is coming, and It said many, many times and
many ways in Scripture and John saw It coming. And he puts into intimate
detail what lies there, because everybody's messed up on Daniel's
Seventieth Week. Everybody but us believe it's seven solid years. It's
not. 

	There are those who claim to believe this Message, like a brother down
there in Clarksville, I think his church is. He followed Bro. Branham.
Every time Bro. Branham went somewhere he was right on his footsteps.
Bro. Branham taught the truth, and he taught his error. He was in error
then, and he's in error right now. Because, he said, "If Bro. Branham
came back he'd admit that I was right, and he was wrong." How could that
be? Ever hear such hogwash? What's he got for vindication? Fap! I can
out vindicate him ten to one with my background. And I've got no
vindication, at all, it's all bad. I was doing what I shouldn't have
done.

	Come on, what about if one of you guys here was a tremendously
beautiful artist? Well, if combine the talents of both Marilyn and Brian
we might get a little…we'd get some awful good artwork. I know that,
because they're very good. And we'd throw in little old Kim Applegate
and for her age she's fantastic. Now, what if we got all these talents
in here and you were able to do beautiful artwork, and somebody signed
you on a home to do some artwork and you walked in the wrong door and
put your lovely artwork on the wrong building? You're messed up aren't
you? Well, that's what I'm trying to show you here. You got to be in the
groove here, you got to be in the position, in the place and all. The
thing has to line up, it doesn't matter what talent and how wonderful a
person has. It doesn't matter how great a ministry or anything else.
It's got to line where God put it to line. So, alright, we get along
here now.

21.	Now, look it here, the Day of the Lord is coming. It's upon us as
per the hour in which we live, which is judgment has struck and is
beginning to…will strike even more. Now, as I say, this fellow here
that followed Bro. Branham he got a ministry, what have you, anything
else; I had a ministry what anybody else has, but it took the prophet to
know what he taught us concerning this what he saw down the road, and
his own place in it. And he identified himself as Revelation 10:7 in the
presence of Revelation 10:1. And he identified Revelation 10:1 as
Revelation 5:1, which was the one seated on the Throne, and Revelation
1:12 is when he turned around to see the voice. And he said, "That one
that was in the flesh is here in Spirit," and he proved it by the
ministry. So therefore, once the ministry vindicated God to the prophet,
it vindicated the prophet to the people, and it brought the people right
to God in order to find out what God had, and God had a revelation, He
had a Message. Now, that's where we're at.

22.	Okay, let's go to Acts 3: 12, so we can begin to see more of this.
We're talking about the Day of the Lord. Now, here's where the miracle
was done through the ministry of the Holy Spirit that was in Peter,
James and John and who else, as they went down to the Gate Beautiful.
Peter and John and this man was healed. And when Peter saw the people
were wondering and trying to make something out of it, that they
shouldn't have made out of it, he pointed them to what was supposed to
be made out of it. That's what Bro. Branham did and they turned him down
flat. Like Israel did here.

	Now, you see God did a great thing. Then the men were responsible to
tell what it was all about. William Branham could stand before the
people and say, "I challenge you, bring me your worse cases, and [I'll]
guarantee healing." And the person was healed. 

	So, what does that indicate? "Tell us prophet, tell us man, what does
that sign indicate?" What is the voice of the sign?  Now when the
prophet told what the voice of the sign was, they said, "Drop dead,
because we've got as much as you, in fact we think we got more; because
you're an ornery uneducated hill-billy." Shee, I should have half the
brains he had, and the smarts that go with it. Never mind even what the
Holy Ghost gave him.  Huh. You know, I guess it's just the way a
person's appetite is. 

	I went into this place…oh, ten years ago now, ten years, yeah, it's
thirteen years ago now in Sweden. Souna. It's very famous when you go
there for a vacation. It's a lovely resort country, but they got a
cafeteria that every bus stops at, because it's so good. I'd image some
people went in there and they looked at it and they said, "Well, fap."
They were used to hominy-grits which I've got nothing against, I just
don't want any, at least right now. And I don't know what else you're
used to (you know) maybe some sowbelly that's been sort of done with
beans and all, that's alright if you like them, I don't particular like
it. But they had this great big dish what I thought just had to be cold
chilled crab meat, and I said two dollars of American money and I've
been on a diet, I am going to bust my diet wide open and bust me wide
open. And you talk about going back and I kept filling my plate until
(you know) my stomach said, "Whoa." My tongue didn't, and my mouth
didn't, my throat didn't, everything else put the brakes on.

23.	Now, what I'm trying to tell you is this: you see, what I saw was
good for me, I loved it. It whetted my appetite. Did a lot of things for
me. Somebody else come along, meant nothing. Well, that's the way the
prophet was. We had the table spread. We have the perfect revelation of
the hour. And there are people that haven't got any time for it, because
their appetite doesn't run in God's gourmet restaurant. They couldn't
stand the Manna.

	I'm going to tell you something, I wouldn't care if Manna tasted like
coal-oil with a dash of turpentine. If I could get my hands on a barrel
full of it, oh bless God, I can just feel everything rolling away now.
Aw, not just my burdens, I can feel the aches and the pains dissolving.
I can see the twenty-twenty vision both forward and hind sight coming. I
can see my clothes not wearing out, though I wouldn't feel bad about
that, although some of my suits I just hated to see go down the drain,
because I knew I'd never get another just like it, and some shoes I'll
never get them again. So, my goodness me, just think, if I could get a
hold of a barrel of Manna that tasted like coal-oil with a dash of
turpentine and half a pound of cayenne pepper thrown in just to make my
ears ring, I'd still stick my head in, and I'd slop that up so fast.

24.	I'm going to tell you something brother/sister, what I'm trying to
tell you here is: this Word that we have for the Day of the Lord to get
us out of here. And the prophet ministry is what vindicated this was the
Word. Now, John looked down there and saw it, (see?) and he saw God on
this earth. And he saw a prophet on this earth, and these men say,
"Well, you know, we've had such a great time over here in the chicken
yard." 

	Now, never did say I like picking droppings, wheat and stuff out of
manure, I didn't tell you that. I said kerosene and a dash of turpentine
and a pound of red pepper. [laughter] But, I never said one thing about
the manure heap. I just want to make sure that's on tape, you see,
somebody might think well, old Vayle goes for everything. Well, Vayle
doesn't go for everything.

	Because you see, Israel said, "We loath this Manna." And I don't know
one person who actually really enjoyed it as the Scripture says,
"There's many things you don't enjoy now, but down the road, "Oh, the
peaceable fruit of the spirit." [Heb 12:11]

	 I wouldn't trade…listen, God is my Judge, I'm a carper and a
complainer about many things, but I'm not a repiner. I don't ever intend
to go back to nothing. And what I've gone through has done me good. Done
me a lot of good. May tear me down physically, well praise God, get out
of here quicker. I just hope I don't drag out in little pieces.

25.	All right, anyway we're looking at this over here in the Book of
Acts. And we saw this wonderful demonstration, and the people said, What
is going on anyway?" They couldn't figure it. And this man was supposed
to tell them and he told them. As I say, what voice spoke to a great man
in the world today in Pentecost, when that man that was full of devils
fell at Bro. Branham's feet. Bro. Branham said, "Because, you Satan,
because you challenged a servant of the Most High God, I command you to
fall at my feet." And they claimed that the guy wove like a serpent, and
he... just  like this and fell right across Bro. Branham's feet. And
they had to get two big cops to pull him off Bro. Branham's feet.

	Now, that's when the fellow said, a voice he said, "That's Bible days,
that's what you're supposed to do, you can do it."

	Where did Peter say, "Hey, bless God, let me tell you folk, I got a
hold of a 220 live wire here and I just full of the fire of God, let me
tell you, I'll lay hands on you and you get gifts, you go around the
world healing the sick, hallelujah, that's the way God does it, bless
God.  Now, pass the plate." Fifty dollars, fifty dollars there.
[laughter] Oh, what about it? Don't tell me, look, I was in Pentecost.

 	Now, let me tell you another thing, you get a Free Methodist and he
had this, he'd rottener than Pentecostal. And you get a Southern Baptist
get this, he'd be rottener than a Free Methodist. Because, people are
people. They don't change, unless God changes them.

26.	Peter said, "I'm going to tell you about it. He said, "First of all,
get this, it's nothing that I have got intrinsically that did anything
of this. I don't have one ounce of it. I don't have any wholeness." He
said, “I don't have any power.”  Peter said, "I've got no power, I
got no holiness. But, (he said) what made this man walk?" [Acts 3] The
God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, of Jacob. The God of our fathers has
glorified his Son Jesus," (Now He's glorified him,) whom you delivered
up and denied him in the presence of Pilate."

	Now listen, the One that he glorified had a former glory that He got
back. Did you hear what I said? You weren't listening. So I'll play it
again. Now, we get this in the Book of John which I'm not going to fool
with it, go into it right now, because I'll save it till later.

	But, this One that he glorified in a human state, was the One who was
restored to the former glory which He had in His pre-existence. Now,
like Father, like Son. If you didn't catch it, well, just think about
it.

27.	Now, he said, "You denied the Holy One and the just, desired a
murderer to be granted unto you." [Acts 3:14] When they turned down the
end-time prophet, they turned down the Presence of God. What were they
desiring? 

	Now, don't tell me they're not desiring something. Because these people
here desired God. And they changed for a murderer. The Bible…Bro.
Branham correctly said from the Word of God, "You don't take the Seal of
the Spirit, you'll take the seal of the antichrist." You don't take the
mark of God, you take mark of the antichrist. You got your choice.

	Now, he said, "You killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from
the dead; whereof we are witnesses. And his name through faith, his name
has made this man strong, whom you see and know. [Acts 3:15-16] Then he
goes on down here, and he said: "Now brethren, I know that through
ignorance you did it, as did your rulers also. But those things, which
God before had showed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ
should suffer, he has fulfilled." [Acts 3:17-18]

 	You say, "Now, just a minute, what if at this end-time people
ignorantly turned down God?   I got news for you, it's over! It's run
out! Genesis 3:22 has run out. See? It's gone! There's no Hebrews 6 is
in order. There is no more repentance. So the last group are stuck. You
say, "I don't think that's nice." Well, it doesn't really matter what
you and I think. 

28.	Let's just find out something over here. Matthew 23:32.

		(32) 	Fill up then the measure of your fathers.

		(33) 	(You) serpents, (you) generation of vipers, how can (you) escape
						the damnation of hell?

		(34) 	Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and 	
				scribes: and some (you'll) kill and crucify; some (you'll) scourge 	
				in synagogues, and persecute city to city:

	That's what God said He'll do, and He did it. Now listen:

		(35) 	That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the
earth, 					from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias
son of 					Barachias, whom (you) slew between the altar and the temple.

		(36) 	Verily I say, All this come upon this generation. (And it did in
70 AD)

	Now listen, Jesus said that at age thirty three and a half. Thirty
three and a half years later it [Jerusalem] was gone. 1963 the Seals
were opened. Thirty three and a half years brings it to 1986. Knock off,
or added on a year or two, because I don't know dates. Now I'm just
guessing, just making a little remarks. Take the three and a half, we're
right at the door brother/sister, the Day of the Lord.

29.	Now, he says here, "I know they're ignorant, but those thing, which
God before had showed by the mouth of  all his prophets, that Christ
should suffer, is fulfilled. [Acts 3:17-18] But, this time He's not
going to suffer. This time He gets His day, the hour of reckoning is
here. "Repent therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted
out, when times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.
And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before proclaimed unto you". (In
other words, the one that you look for, that died, he's going to come
back.) "But he can't do it, for the heavens will keep him there until
times of restoration of all things which God hath spoken by the mouth of
all his holy prophets since the world began." [Acts 3:19-20]

	Now, it tells you he can't come down and set his foot upon earth, not
until the enemies are made the footstool. See? And when He does come,
He's got a Bride coming with Him. She's going to reign and rule.

 	"For Moses truly said to the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your
God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him (you'll) hear
in all things whatever he'll say to you. [Acts 3:22] 

30.	Now, It doesn't say he's already said it all, because at that point
he hadn't said it all. Paul hadn't even brought the Word to the
Gentiles. And John followed Paul and wrote the Book of Revelation. And
Paul said in Hebrews 12, He's going to talk again, and he explained how
He talked in the prophets, go He's got to come a way of a prophet again.
And when He does, It says, "Our God a consuming fire," [Heb 12:29] sets
up His Kingdom. That's the time that everybody that doesn't listen is
destroyed.

	How are you going to have a Millennium then full of people standing
here living outside of a glorified group? I'd like to know. Why, the
days of Gentiles are over. The 144,000 isn't in, what's left? Nothing!
Come on, anybody can add two and two and make four for land's sake.
We're not deaf, dumb and stupid any longer. Yet people still puzzle, is
it going to be this? It's in the Scripture the prophet told you, here it
is laid out in front of you. The Gentiles are finished. The Jews are
finished. What's left? He's left with the Bride. Man alive, I just can't
see… Look, maybe I'm stupid, just forgive me, but that's alright, I'm
just going to stay stupid, I can't help it. My brains just can't go any
other way then what I see here.

31.	"It'll come to soul every pass, that won't hear that prophet, shall
be destroyed among the people." [Acts 3:23] 

	What prophet? That one that you killed, and now He's raised up. Who
said He's not a Prophet? See, that's where they missed out. They said,
"Well, he's a prophet, but then he's no longer prophet, so they missed
the Book of Luke entirely; the days when the Son of man appears when
he's prophet again.

	Now, how is he going to be prophet? He can't come down in the flesh and
be Prophet, because when He comes down He'll be taking over. What's the
prophet's hour when you take over? What's a prophet like, when somebody
knocks at the door, and you say, "Who is it?" And you stick your head in
and 'boing' with a four by four. What's to prophesy? That's how He's
coming in destruction. What's to prophesy? I don't understand people.
Always too late. Always too late. "Oh, oh, He'll do this." Oh no He
won't, He's done it.

32.	All right, Day of the Lord.

	"Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after…"
[Acts 3:24] Now notice, he mentions Samuel. Elijah is going to restore.
He talks about Moses. Talks about Samuel. Talks about Jesus as
deliverance.  "Now, you're the children of the prophets, and of the
covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in
thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed." [Acts 3:25]
Now, that was a prophecy, that's fulfilled. That's not to come, that's
finished. The Jews think it's going to come, they're wrong. The only
future fulfillment is in the form of the glorified. It's a continuing
promise. "Unto you first God, having raised up his Son sent him to bless
you…" [Acts 3:26]

	Now, he's talking about the one that died was raised up and came to
them. How? In the Form of the Holy Spirit. And Bro. Branham said, "God's
got to raise Him again to the Gentiles," and He's done it. Who did the
Pillar of Fire come to? Paul, Jew. 

	Knowing God raised him up again, what's He going to do? Going to send
Him to the Gentiles, because there's got to be a people. There's got to
be resurrection. There's got to be a Rapture.  People just let their
minds go blank, they don't want to pay any attention. But, here It is,
the same One that was here in the form of the flesh, is here in the
Pillar of Fire, came down when a prophet was on earth.

33.	Now, He's sent to bless the Gentiles the same as Israel as He wanted
to turn Israel as a nation and they wouldn't come. Now, He's down here
turning the last of the Gentiles away for iniquity. Right, raised up to
this hour. Okay, so there we see He's having His Day.

	Now, John said here than in plain English (using my English of course,
not drawing conclusion, but just talking about it) John saw man's day
ending and the Day of the Lord coming into view. So then, the Book of
Revelation is a Book of prophecy exactly as It's claimed to be by John.
It's a Book of revelation, it's a juncture, because it shows one ending
and another coming into view; and Bro. Branham said, "It takes a prophet
to turn a corner." He said, "It's a juncture period." 

	So therefore, there was a prophet on the scene before there could be
this literal Day of the Son of man come into view, and come into being.
It is a prophetic declaration of the time that elapses as man's day ends
in judgment, and God's day comes in the Millennium as we see It in
Revelation 19:21-26 which we won't go into, because we read It many
times. (You should know It by now; I'm sure you do.)

34.	All right, let's go to Malachi and see what we're looking at.
Because here we have the keys. Okay, in Malachi 3:2.

		(2) 	But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when
					he (appears?) for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers'
soap:

	Now, what's he doing? He's giving somebody a scrub down. See,
somebody's getting a bath, Kind that will take the hide right off you
almost. Till absolutely purge you as you never knew you could purged,
and the purging is by fire. That's not the Lake of Fire! It's only one
kind of fire, that's Holy Ghost Fire brother/sister, let's face it. All
right, and the "washing of waters by the Word." [Eph 5:26] 

	Now:

		(3)	 And (purge) purify the sons of Levi, purge them as gold and
silver, 					that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in
righteousness.

	Now, come on, what offering in righteousness are they going to offer, a
lamb? Are they going to bring blood again? There's no more shedding of
blood, it's all over. There's no more lambs to be offered, it's all
over. It's gone! Antitype has washed out conclusively once and for all
every type. 

35.	Now, how are they going to offer unto God in righteousness? I don't
care what they offer, it's not what they offered, it's how they offered!
See, that's the scene. Go back to Genesis, Scripture says that  Abel
that brought an offering of the sheep. And Cain also brought an offering
of the earth. A first-fruit offering. And God had respect to Abel's
offering, but not to Cain's. Now why? Because, He said, "Thou hast
rightly offered, but thou has not rightly divided."

	Paul said, "Study to show thyself  approved unto God,  (See, rightly
dividing the Word of truth.) a workman need not be ashamed of rightly
dividing the Word of truth." [2 Tim 2:15] Now, the workman which was a
Cain was ashamed before God. Killed his brother.

36.	Now look, let's go to the Book of Revelation 3:17,  and let's
understand this.

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

		(18) 	I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou
mayest 						be rich; and white raiment, that (you maybe) be clothed,
and that the 					shame of thy nakedness do not appear; (be
manifested)…

	Now, at the same time over here in 1 John 2:28.

		(28) 	And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall
appear, 						(that's the Appearing there, the phaneroo, the absolutely
made visible, 					come into full view) we may have confidence, and not
be ashamed 						before him at his (parousia, at his Presence, the Son
of man 							revealed.)

	Now, you see then, what was it? The offering in righteousness. We'll go
back there to Malachi what was it? The offering in righteousness. We'll
go back there to Malachi 3:3, "An offering in righteousness."

	Isn't then the precisely of what they are doing, but the fact that it
is Scriptural in understanding and application. In other words as Bro.
Branham said, "Abel had the revelation and Cain didn't." That's just
what we're looking at. See? 

37.	All right, we go to verse [Malachi 3:] 18.

		(18) 	Then shall (you) return, and discern between the (righteousness)
						and the (wickedness), between him that (serves) God and him that 	
				(serves) him not.

	Now, who's served God? Abel did. Who didn't serve God? Cain didn't
serve God. All right listen, who's deed was unrighteous? Cain's was
unrighteous.

38.	Now, you go to 1 John 3: you get the picture there.

		(11) 	(And) this is the message that (you) heard from the beginning, 	
				that we should love one another.

		(12) 	Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. 	
				Wherefore slew he him? Because his own (deeds) were evil, (or 					
unrighteous) and his brother's (were) righteous. (See?)

	Now, It tells you that they'll be turned, and when they are turned, and
only then, will there be an offering to God? In other words, worship to
God will only be acceptable under certain conditions. Now, let's get
this flat brother/sister, do you and I think we're worshipping God here?
Aw, come on, this is just a type to what we're going to get into. Wait
when we're gathered around the Throne. Wait where we're in that other
land. I'm not saying this worship isn't real, don't get me wrong there,
(I'm just telling you flat) in this form we are liable to errors. And
that's what happened ever since the Garden of Eden. The missed
application of the Word due to a wrong revelation. It was a wrong
revelation that got this world off track, it's a right revelation that's
going to put the world back on track. See?

	See, man could have just gone down the road for six thousand years, and
then got glorified. Got into sin. Now man's in sin six thousand years,
God's going to get him out, and the heart is going to be turned back.

39.	Now watch, He says here:   [Malachi 3:]

		(18) 	(They) then shall (you) return, and discern between the
(righteousness) 					and the (wickedness), between him that (serves) God
and him that 						(serves) him not.

	Now, over here It says, they'll offer unto God a righteous sacrifice,
or offering. Now, we're going to do the same thing.

	Now, our sacrifice is from our mouths. Bible calls it 'calves of our
lips', the fruit of the lips.  How can you offer back to God that which
is off the Word? God won't take it. 

	Now:  [Malachi 4:]

		(1) 	For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; all the 
					proud, all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: (tells you right
there) 						(in) the day that (I do this leaving) neither root nor
branch.

	Now, He said in that day of the turning of the hearts back, is the same
day that God comes forth as destroyer. Now, you do what you want about
it. But that's what It says, and that's where people get plumb off a
track. They want to put Elijah way back to the Jews or someplace else he
doesn't belong there. Okay, now God says, "that this people are His
jewels, He's going to spare them." [Mal 3:17]

40.	Now, let's go to Luke 17:24. (And I'll skip some of these things
here, because we've gone in them before.)

		(24) 	For as lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under
heaven, 						(shines on) the other part; so shall also the Son of man
be in his day.

	[Verse] 30.

 		(30) 	Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is
revealed.

	Now watch what happens:

		(31) 	In that day…

	Not a twenty four hour period, in that time, which is also called a
season. And according to the Book of Isaiah it's a period of time. Now
in that period of time: "when the Son of man is revealed."

	Now:

		(31)	He (that) shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house,
let 						him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the
field, let 						him not return back.

		(32) 	Remember Lot's wife.

	Now remember, when you're dealing with this, you're dealing with
Exodus. And when you deal with Lot's wife, you're dealing with the
murmuring of Israel. And Israel said, "It would better to be in Egypt,
at least there's good food there. "I can't stand this Manna, I'm so used
to the onions and the garlic and the fried liver, and all the good
things we used to have down there when the River Nile overflowed it was
just beautiful, eat all those good things there, they were so pungent
and so wonderful. Oh, this Manna is too dull."

	Oh, it's too dull you people who believe this Message, "We want to go
back and run around and jump and scream and talk in tongues and lay
hands on the sick…(that's fine) prophesying, do everything." Go ahead,
do it, be my guest, but don't do it around here. You want to do it we'll
have a little room back there and you just see what happens. I'll even
go with you. I'm not chicken, I'm eagle. I won't worry about it, I'll
just go in there with you. You see, because I know, I've been in the
realm of gifts. Something comes it comes, doesn't come, doesn't come.
I'm going to force nothing. No. You say, "A guy like you?" Sure, guy
just like me, Don't sell me short, I'm as nervous as a cat on a hot
brick because of what I go through, but I can just suddenly die just
like this and stand right still. Don't think I can't, because I can.
Sure. Yep. Don't sell the things of God short brother/sister. It's
dangerous.

41.	Listen, she turned back. Yeah. Now:

		(33) 	Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and
whosoever 						shall lose his life shall preserve it. (That word is
'psuche' [soo-kay] that's 					the soul)

	He that becomes a legalist and tries to work some kind of a program to
make it, ain't going to make it. You're shot before you're finished.

	"Oh, I sing that song Bro. Vayle, we are climbing Jacob's ladder,
ladder." Well, go ahead and try to climb it, because unless God lets
down then you ain't going to climb it. Oh, these legalist they've got it
all down pat. Yep! "Oh, we got to pray so many hours and do this and do
that, even we've got a book at the back where you can write your
testimony in."

	I should tell you some of funny things I know, but you might laugh
yourself to death, and I want you alive for awhile. Oh, brother/sister,
don't know what Bro. Branham came on the scene for. They haven't the
least foggiest idea. Don't know what this Word is all about, haven't got
the foggiest idea. Just because I let them know flat it's not character,
it's not prayer, not this and not that. They say, "Well, Vayle doesn't
believe in that." 

	So, I'd make a test and say, "Raise your hands, how many of you guys
pray with your wives twice a day?" Nobody in the room raises their
hands. I could go to all the preachers round about the country that say
they believe this Message, then say I don't believe in  prayer?
Somebody's nuts and it sure ain't me. Got a bunch of liars out there. 

	Bro. Branham called them that. He said, "If you believe this Word (he
said) you'd act it." And the first thing a man does he tells lies.
Second thing he does, he gets in immoral sex. A man that lies, that's
absolute fabricated prevarications that he indulges in, (that's his
nature) and a man that's out there sexual, you know that they've got no
more Holy Ghost than nothing. There's no way. Because there comes a day
that you're born again, you'd stop that stuff. You'd just get out of it.
Bible tells you flat, yep, tells you…

42.	Listen, I don’t want to belabor that subject I've gone into time
after time. The first thing the Bible says without her, outside the New
Jerusalem at the time the Seals are read, and the Seals are brought to
our attention [Revelation] 22, It just gives you an idea what It says is
not going to make it. Tells you plumb flat there. It  said:

		(14) 	Blessed are they…(that wash their robes, see, that's fuller's
soap, 						sure, they get the Word, they get the inside
treatment.)…enter the 						gates…

		(15)	For without (her) are dogs…(male prostitutes, homosexuals.)

	And people say, "Well, it really doesn't matter." Ha, doesn't matter?
You're gone. You say. "Well, what can I do?" Well, I've dealt with
homosexuals, a friend down south was a nice guy, but dealt with a woman
years ago, got delivered, Paul said, "Such were some of you." [1 Cor
6:11] That's you've got right here, look it here. 

43.	[Luke 17:]

		(33)	(He that seeks) to save his live shall lose it:…

	But, I'm not a moralist for the sake or morals, but I'll stay in the
Word.	

		(34)	(Now) I tell you, (at) that night there shall be two men in one
bed; 						(now, somebody put men in there, that's generically speaking,
I 						wouldn't believe that for one minute, two men see the bed of 			
		males. 	Two in the bed speaking) one taken, (one) left.

		(35) 	Two…grinding together; (it said) women…(why women? Because 	
			the women are supposed to grind. What makes you think a man can't 			
	grind?) Two grinding, one taken, (one) left.		

		(36) 	Two in the field; one taken, (one) left.

		(37) 	And they answered and said, Where, Lord? And he said… (where 	
				the carcass is…and Bro. Branham identified that as the 'Rapture', 
					the Message, for the Rapture, in the Rapture.)

44.	 Now, It tells you here categorically that the Lord has a specific
Day, a specific period of time. Let's go to John 6:39. 

		(39) 	This is the Father's will which hath sent me, that which he hath
						given me I should lose nothing, should raise it up again at the
last 						day. (Now, notice he said, last day.)

	All right, just a minute now, there's no more days left after Rapture
for the Gentiles, except destruction, all there's left is three and a
half years.

	So, he tells you, at that time the Day of the Lord (which John saw was
the last) there's going to be a resurrection.

45.	Okay, let's go to Revelation 11:18.

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

	Now, look what he's all got bundled in there, that's not a twenty four
hour period, that's a time. That's a time element in there.

46.	Let's go back to John 6:40.

		(40) 	This is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth
the 						Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I
will 						raise him up at the last day.

	Okay: 

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

 		(54) 	Whoso eateth my flesh, and (drinks) my blood, hath eternal
life; and 					I will raise him up at the last day.

	Now, just a minute, that tells you Resurrection. That's not Rapture. He
doesn't set foot on this earth without the Bride! So, what's he telling
you? He's telling what It says in the Book of Corinthians. What Bro.
Branham said in Thessalonians. He comes down, sets Himself at the Head
of the Church. It's the same Spirit that was in Christ is talking now,
and is going to raise the dead.

	As Bro. Branham said, "The voice that screamed out to Lazarus, 'Come
forth'."  The same Voice screamed upon Calvary and woke the sleeping
Bride. Old Testament. That same Voice brought them out. Alright, there
you got it.

47.	Let's go to John 8:56. Now, that's the Day of the Lord we're talking
about brother/sister, last day. Last day, last period of time.

		(56) 	Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it…

	What day was that? Before Sodom and Gomorrah. Before it was destroyed
he saw that day.

48.	Okay, John 12: 47-48, is repeating.

		(47) 	If any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for 
					I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. (But He's not
						Savior now. He's coming into full Judge.)

	At the time that He is Prophet there's still a proclamation, the same
Savior proclaiming the day of wrath, the Day of the Lord, you still got
time to run, but pretty soon you won't have time to run. Because, when
that prophecy is expired then the Voice raises the dead. In the meantime
you got a Shout. See, okay.

		(48) 	He that rejecteth me, receiveth not my words, hath one that
judgeth 					him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him
in the 						last day.

	Now listen, there's double condemnation because He's here repeating
Himself. Raised up to Israel, raised up to the Gentile, and says the
same thing, "He that doesn't hear will be destroyed."

49.	Now, he tells you in Hebrews 12:25, what that's all about. 

		(25) 	See that (you) refuse not him that speaketh… (Doesn't say,
"did 						speak," but speaks now.) For if they escaped not who refused
him 						that (spoke) on earth, much more shall we not escape, if we
turn 						away from him that (is) from heaven: (Not speaketh, but is 		
				from heaven.)

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

	What's going to do it? The 'Voice'! What starts the Resurrection,
Voice, earthquake. See? Everything that is shaken down, it's over! What
happens next? We receive a kingdom. How? Through a God that's a
Consuming Fire. Pillar of Fire is here. Bro. Branham said, "Pillar of
Fire leads to the Millennium." What's standing here to raise the dead?
The One, the Pillar of Fire. What One is that? The same one in human
flesh. Almighty God in human flesh, because God incarnated Himself, made
Himself a body and went into it.

50.	Okay, that's the same as Revelation now, not the same as, but he
said the same thing in Revelation 22:19, don't add or take a Word.

50.	Let's go back to Acts 7:20.

		(20)	In (that) time Moses was born, was exceeding fair, and nourished 
					up in his father's house three months;

	All right, at that time. Now what time is that? The word in season. It
doesn't say, "at that time on day." It's a season. That hour, signifying
that things were coming to pass.

51.	Now let's go to Revelation 11:18 again which I just read. You get
the same thing over again.

		(18) 	The nations were angry, thy wrath is come, and the time of the 	
				dead… (the season for it.)

	It's here, it's what John saw looking down there. The whole thing
coming not to an impasse, but to a pass.

52.	Notice what it says in Revelation 22:10,

		(10) 	Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time
is at 						hand. (The season, see, It tells you.) 

	The season for what? The season when the countdown comes, it goes plumb
pass the Millennium to the Lake of Fire, to New Jerusalem. That's what
John saw. Now, we're in that very hour. People don't understand that, I
don't know, I can't figure it. Now, you can't stop there. See? Just say,
"Look at that Great Day is coming a wrath." You got to remember, we've
already taken up with here in Luke 17:28-29. It tells you right there,
that that's based on Genesis 18, the visitation of Elohim to this earth.
See? That's Malachi, when the wrath of God falls, when He's here to
bring about the day of destruction, He's here to give us Eternal Life
and immortality.

53.	Now, that takes us to  2 Thessalonians 1:7. 

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

	Then in chapter 2:1, Paul says:

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

	Now that Bro. Branham said, and that's categorically 1 Thessalonians
4:16.

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

	And God descending in the form of the Holy Spirit which he is in order
to bring about what we're looking at. The Lord descending here with
those seven mighty messengers. That's right. Bro. Branham saw it, bore
witness to it, opened the Seals, brought us into the Message. See?

 	Now, if you want to do yourself some reading (which I'm not going to
do for you, maybe some other time) I want you to read the 'Breach' page
106 and go to about 108, 109 somewhere in there.

54.	Now, we're looking then at the Day of the Lord wherein we see
judgment and we see a final measure of grace which is poured out to get
a people ready to put her in a Rapture to raise the dead and take us
away, and we see with it the combination of destruction. Alright, that
is then prophet, judge, and prophet, or prophet and judge, and mercy and
judgment.

	Now, we've already mentioned this morning and we mentioned in time
pass, so I can clear this up in a hurry for you. Elohim coming down at
the time of Sodom where there's a repeat brought mercy and It brought
judgment. You cannot bypass it. 

55.	Malachi 4, which we will look at, because that's Bro. Branham's
great chapter.

		(1) 	For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven;… (now
It 						tells you frankly all the proud, all the wicked are going to be
stubble.)

	Now listen, what is stubble? It's the same as 'chaff ', when the wheat
is gathered in the garner, the chaff and the stubble is burned. So, you
know right now that this fire cannot come until the Bride is out of the
way. Now, how then can the Gentiles and the fundamentalists say that
Elijah goes to the Jews unless they want everybody to burn? Now, It
tells you that he's going to burn.

 	Now remember, that is the Book of Matthew 3:11, now John says:

		(11) 	I  baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh
after 						me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear:
he shall 					baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and fire:

		(12) 	Whose fan is in his hand, (now once the Holy Ghost is done with,
						watch:) whose fan in his hand, throughly purge his floor, gather 	
				(the) wheat (in) the garner; (and) burn up the chaff with 						
unquenchable 	fire. 

	There It tells you, harvest is over. The world cannot even burn until
the 144,000 are in. Now watch, judgment striking the earth. 

	[Malachi 4:]

		(2) 	But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness
arise 					with (immortality) and (you will) go forth, as calves of the
stall.

		(3) 	And (you) shall tread down the wicked; (how?) (there'll) be ashes
						under the soles of your feet… (the minute we hit the earth,
they'll 						be already turned into ashes evidently.)

	Now:

		(5) 	Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet… 

		(6) 	And he shall turn the heart of the…of the children (back) to
(the) 						fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.) All
right, the					 	turning of the hearts delay the curse until it's
finalized in this last 						hour.)

56.	All right, now listen, Abraham said at the hour that Elohim came
upon earth here, said, "Shall not the judge of all the earth do right?"
[Gen 18:25] Now, He was the Prophet, He was Judge. Now, He was Prophet
turned Judge, then He went down to Sodom as Judge turned King and
destroyed, because a judge does not execute his own decree, it takes the
force of the law and the land. And remember, Elohim is 'dumanis'. He is
power Himself. So, it is now. 

	So listen: the Sixth Seal has already broken, it broke in March of
1965, two years after March of 1963, two years later. We've had eighteen
years since the Sixth Seal broke, and twenty years since the revelation
of the Seals. Or, we have had Revelation 10:1 for eighteen solid years,
a little bit more. Since 1965 there's been silence, (yep) silence was
almost half an hour. (Which is roughly twenty years, ten months which
God does everything as sevens and threes, twenty one year's roughly,
give or take, see. You don’t have to set twenty one exactly.)

	So, we've had twenty years since the Seventh Seal opened, which is
Revelation 10:1-7. Twenty one year's takes us to 1984 as from '63, 1986
as from '65, who knows? It's just later than you think. See, what I'm
trying to get you to understand brother/sister, you're not looking down
the corridor of time anymore looking for the Day of the Lord, you're in
It. You're into It. There's nothing that you can do about it, because He
said He is the Son of man, and that's why He's Judge. 

57.	Now, we could take Scripture this morning, got a concordance, how to
use a concordance, because my mind fails me, I can't tell you where
everything is the Bible is. But, the Word of God specifically states
that God executes His Own commandments. He is the Executor. He stands
behind His Word to perform It. Now, there is no way that this world is
going to escape judgment. And there is no way the Bride is going to be
in judgment, because God has set the decree, and put His Seal to It.
There will not be one Bride that's going to be destroyed, there'll not
be one hair of the head fall. God's going to take care of her. At the
same time let's understand this is in that hour of the Day of the
Husband. The Day of the great Judge that Bro. Branham saw through the
eyes of the prophet John with the Holy Spirit telling him what it was.

	Now, we're right here at this end-time brother/sister, and there's
nothing that anybody is going to change it. The decree has been set.
When Bro. Branham preached that sermon on the Rapture, never forget, he
said three times, "Thus it has been spoken, and thus it will be done."
So, we're at the very end time.

	You say, "Well, it could go on a few years."

	Sure it could, make no mistake about it. I stand with the prophet on
that why he told us during the Seals, why he said, "It could be ten
years, twenty five, or a hundred, and yet maybe tomorrow morning." Now,
I figure that couldn't happen tomorrow morning. But one of these
morning's, (yep) one of these mornings around nine o'clock, there's a
Bride is going to get out of America.

58.	In the meantime, I'm not worried whether it's nine o'clock, or any
other o'clock. There's just one concern I've got, and that's what
[Peter] said, "Make you calling an election sure." [2 Pet 1:10] I don't
know any other way I can do it, except believe His Word. I don't know
any other way I can do it. Because, I never asked to get in this world,
I don't ask to get taken out of this world really, I can't take myself
in or out. There's no way I can put myself in the plan of God. But, if
I'm in that plan of God, what befalls me, which is under grace and mercy
that judgment the seat is still open, which at this hour is actually
also a judgment seat. See? Because a Judge of all the earth declaring,
and the Judge of all the earth through the prophet said, "1965 of March
the earthquake on the West Coast opened the Sixth Seal." [Earthquake was
in 1964] Now, the Sixth Seal contained three and a half years of great
tribulation. The Saints better be getting out of here pretty soon,
brother/sister. See?

	You say, "Does that mean the Forth Seal is completely gone?" No! No,
see, some Seal's overlap. And the Seventh Seal is revelatory, that's His
Coming. Seven Seal, Revelation 10:1-7.       I don't care what anybody
tells you, they're going to quote you and say, "Well, Bro. Branham said,
"It wasn't opened." They misunderstand what he's saying.

	They're going to tell you this, they're going to tell you that, you go
back to what he said when it came to the definitive, the Seventh Seal is
Revelation 10:1-7. And William Branham stood here when that One came
down with those mighty Messengers. Bringing judgment, the Judge.

	Tell me what else should He bring? An avenging for a Bride. Tell me
what else should she get, but the inheritance with her Husband, because
it's His Day that's on the scene. See? I want to encourage you
brother/sister, don't you ever let yourself slacken in this Word. Now,
don't get ideas and run with it, because that's the thing that some
people do. And they just love to come and have me prorogate it. Just
stop and …?... a bit, maybe I've got an ounce of pride too. Old Lee
Vayle may have something in here it's a little bit of pride. I got my
soap-box, you get yours. You follow what I mean? Oh yeah. But, don't
sell anything short, that Day is here, and whether you and I or anybody
else has a revelation, the prophet has already had one.

59.	And he said, "If we're not Bride, there's a Bride out there
somewhere, and by the grace of God I won't stand in her way." See? Stay
with this Word right down the line, because you haven't got much time
left. I know time seems to drag on your hands. Look, come on, I
understand that, but it's accelerated, who would have believe that we're
past the middle of June. Which June is the sixth month of 1983. Tell me
where has it gone? We will have been here in August a year. Tell me
where it's gone? Now, you look back, and maybe there was a bit of a
drag, but I want to tell you what: the closer you get down the road, the
faster that time's going. That's that exponential curve in there, and
it's accelerated.

	So, there it is brother/sister, you're nearer than when you first
believed, you're a whole lot closer. And whether anybody wants to
believe it or not, that One is here, and He proved that He was the Judge
by discerning the thoughts and intents of men's hearts. He proved who He
was, showed it right down the line.

	Now, if you're hooked up to Him this morning, in other words, you've
got your union with Him through the baptism with the Holy Ghost, which
is a faith proposition which you know doesn't come by sensation, and
doesn't come by this, come by that. It's absolutely something that you
keep moving up into all the time, because like a little child born, now
you're born again, you've been moving up, moving up the church has been
moving up, and we're moving right up in this hour.

	Let's face it, I don't know how It'll break upon us, I don't know,
because look, I'm human like you are. And even the prophet didn't tell
us everything, because what could he tell us, other than just a certain
amount, because we wouldn't be able to receive it anyway.

	But, how do you begin to explain, and how will it be when that glory
begins to break instantaneously of the people getting ready to go away?
How will you feel when there's nobody else to come in? How will you feel
when the last one is being child trained and you're being trained with
that last one?

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