Divine Order # 3

 Bro. Lee Vayle   - April 26, 1981

	

	…the revelation of Your Word, feeling Your Spirit, O God, believing
You'll hear our prayer now that You'll help us in the study of Your
Word, which we do not try to prove, but only declare, Lord, it's by
faith we see It. Help us to see It, Lord, what You'd have us to see this
evening hour, thereby bless us and encourage us in Jesus' Name we pray.
Amen. You may be seated.

1.	Now, the Scripture reading this morning was in 1 Corinthians 15: and
we're going to continue as we started, and I hope somehow we can cut It
back a little because I'll be reading quite a bit from the book on the
Seals. And It says here in verse 20, 

		(20) 	But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the
firstfruits 						of them that slept.

	Now, you can tell that there must be an august company of people who
are in the Presence, or at least in the likeness of the Lord Jesus
Christ risen from the dead. Because He is the First-Fruits of them that
have already slept, but have come awake. Then It explains It:

		(21) 	For since by man came death, (in other words, by what man did.  
                   				By what man also did came the Resurrection of the
dead.)

		(22) 	 For as in Adam all die, even so in (identical manner) shall all
be 						made alive (in Christ.)

		(23) 	But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; (now,
you 						discount those that are already raised, because this does not
apply 						to them seeing they're already raised,) afterward they that
are 						Christ's at his (Presence.) 

	The word is not coming, as concerning an event, but It talks about the
event having taken place, and this is concerning that which has come to
stay.

		(24) 	Then cometh the end, (when?) when he shall have delivered up the
					kingdom to God, even the Father; …

2.	Now, of course this doesn't mean the end of everything as though God
is going to block everything out and start over. It's simply the end of
the ages, what God has set to do at this particular time, and hac been
doing it for six thousand years.

		(24)	…even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all 
					authority and power.

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

		(26) 	(And) the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. 

	In other words, there will be nothing at any time that will ever
separate anything, or anybody ever again from God. Because that is
death, spiritual death, separation.

		(27) 	For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all
things 					are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, (or
left out) 						which (is) put all things under him.

		(28)	And when all things shall be (put under) him, (the word 'subdued'
						is a wrong word, it should be 'subject', or 'put under') then
shall the 						Son also himself be subject unto him that (did) put all
things under 						him, that God may be all in all.

3.	Now, you will notice as we said this morning that these verses on the
Presence of the Lord run in continuity, where It says in 1 Thessalonians
4: "That the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a Shout."

	In other words, He will be Present having come down on the earth,
present with those who are living, then the dead will be raised to
mingle with the living who will be changed, then they'll be a Rapture. 
You notice, in every instant the Presence, demands, the Presence with
the living in order to bring about the resurrection of the dead, and the
change of those who are living at that moment. As Paul said, "We shall
not all sleep, but we shall all be changed." [1 Cor 15:51]

4.	Now, what we looked at this morning was that in 1 Thessalonians 4:16,
It says:

		(16) 	For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout,…

	That is a military command. There is no one of course who can say what
that command would be, if there were such a thing as a single command.
But the thought is there, it has to do with the military. And also in 1
Corinthians 15, where It is speaking of putting under. That has to do
with a military term. So, that therefore we're looking at a situation
where a sovereign God is controlling in order to take the people into
the Millennium, and alsoto set up His theocracy. 

	Now, remember when Joshua was about to take Israel into the Promised
Land, One in shining armor stood by and said that He was the Captain of
the host of Israel. And he needed…and Joshua needed that particular
One. Now, of course in our day Joshua and Caleb type the Saints that are
going into the Millennium, and the Holy Spirit is here to see that that
is accomplished.

5.	Now, I brought you to the point where I wanted you to see, and hope
that you do see that God is doing this, not somebody else. This is
something that God has reserved to Himself, as we saw in the Scripture
here, that there was to be a time when Jesus would be present on earth.
Now, we're talking about not the man Jesus, we're talking about the Holy
Spirit. And you understand by now how I've taught you that there is one
God Who has one Name. And if you don't know your subject matter, you're
going to be always confused. And you'll wonder how it is that the
Scripture weaves back and forth, and say, "Hey, sounds like that one
should be Jesus the man." You know, hey, well It sounds like should be
God Who is Spirit.   

	Well, when you understand the Scripture using terminology, such as in
Ephesians, "the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory." You
can understand that Jesus cannot be God, or God has a God. Now, God is
sovereign, and must be worshipped. So therefore, Jesus in Himself is not
sovereign. It is God Who is sovereign, because the word 'God' means a
sovereign Person Who is able to do all things. And we understand that
God is omniscient and omnipotent. He is not omni-present. Who needs to
be omni-present when you know all things and can do all things. You
don't have to be there, you just do it.

6.	So, we see that we're looking at the picture here that Christ the
First-Fruit, then afterward those that are Christ's at this particular
Coming, which is the Coming of the Holy Spirit upon earth. Then comes
the end, and he's talking concerning the fact of what the Holy Spirit is
going to do here. He is going to bring all things subject under the feet
of Jesus causing Him to reign and have power, (the vicarious power)
until the last enemy is destroyed, (which is death) that would be the
separation from God right to the Lake of Fire, even that all goes. And
this will go on until the Son turns the Kingdom back to the Father, and
then the Father shall be All and in all.  So, our thought was, (and I
know that you have it by now) that God is doing this tremendous thing.

	Now, we're going to place this as to the time elements that can be
visible in the earth, as to when this thing is going on, or should be
going on and consequently will be going on, because this is a sign
relative to it.

7. So, I'm going to read a little bit out of page 549 of the 'Seal
Book'. [63-03-24] [Paragraph numbering are taken from The Table]

[179]	Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet
tender, and 					putteth forth leaves, you know that summer is nigh. So
likewise ye, when 					ye see all these things, know that it is near,
even at the doors.

 	Now, you'll see here this happens to be a sign of the things that the
Lord spoke of, which was the very end time of which we're dealing.

[182] 	That last--that question they asked Him: "What should be the sign
of the end 				of the world?" When you see these Jews... When you see
these other things 				taking place, you know what is going to happen. 
Now, when you see these 					Jews...He's talking to Jews... And he asks
the question: What company is He 				talking to? Gentiles? No, Jews. He
said, "You'd be hated of all nations for 					My Name's, sake," and so
on... Now, when He said... You see these Jews 					begin to put forth
their buds over yonder, when that Israel begins to turn 					back,
getting into her country, when she gets there, the Church is ready to 		
		rapture, and there's only three and a half years left unto the end of
the old 					world, and she goes out into chaos, and in comes the
millennium to the new 				earth. Said, "Even at the door."

	So  therefore, when Israel's in the homeland and becomes a nation, you
know that the Rapture will take place. Which absolutely necessitates a
resurrection, which necessitates God Himself to do It, because God
raises the dead, and not Jesus. And the Spirit that is to come into the
Church according to Ephesians, is the Spirit of the revelation of
Almighty God, and only God can reveal God. So therefore, It is that
Spirit that raises the dead.

8.	All right, when Israel is in the homeland you have an evidence of
something is to take place. And you'll notice right here that this
particular issue I'm talking about has to take place and in this
generation, because Israel is in the homeland, and recognized as a
nation after almost two thousand years. 

[185] 	Now, one thousand years on earth is only one day with God. Three
and one 				half years, what would it go to? So many seconds in God's
time. That's the 				reason He said, "It is at the door." "Verily I say
unto you that this generation 				shall not be consumed (done away with,
this people) until all these things 					are..." what? What won't be
done away with? They've tried to kill the Jew off 				the earth all the
time. They'll never be able to do it. 

	That's exactly true. In this generation where Israel is a nation, they
will do their dead level best to destroy all of Israel, and America will
turn on the Jews at the same time. But that generation will not pass
away. In other words, a 144,000 are going to come out of it. 

9.	Now watch: see, he explains it.

		But notice, the very generation of Jews that saw the return back into
Palestine, 				that generation would see these things happen. And in
just the last two years 				she was fully become a nation with her own
money and whatever.  

 [188] 	Now, where are we at, friends? The Seals and everything opening,
now we're 				getting this in between here. There it is. See where we're
setting? I hope you 				get it. I haven't got any education. And I know
what I'm talking about, but maybe 				I can't explain it to make sense
to you. But I hope that God takes the words that's 				mixed up and
divides them out right (See?), and lets you know what it is, because 			
we're at the door. We're here at the time. Now, notice. See, right away
now He 				turns to these Jews, and at the end time He says what's going
to take place. We 				know that even now…that the tribes are
scattered. They have been for about 				twenty-five hundred years. They
were prophesied to be scattered to the four 				winds. We know that.
'Course we won't have to go back and get that because 				I've got
something here real important I want to show you.  

[192] 	Notice, we know even every tribe--that is, tribal chronology or
whatever you 				want to call it, (it's really tribal placing.)
…They're scattered everywhere. But				 the Jews that are gathering
into Jerusalem. They don't even know their tribes. 				They haven't got
any more tribal banners or anything. All they know is they're 				Jews.
They were prophesied to be that way the world over. Now, their books 			
has been destroyed. So, they don't know what tribes they're...from.

		You might ask,  "What tribe..."

		"I don't know." One from Benjamin, one from this, one from
that…Their 					books has been destroyed through the wars, and for
twenty-five hundred 					years... Only thing they know is they're Jews.
That's all. So they know they're 				back in their homeland. Notice,
though they don't know their tribes, but God 				does. I just love that.
You know, He even said that every hair on your head's 				numbered. 

		Notice, He loses nothing. "I'll raise it up again at the last day."
Though they 				have lost their tribal banners…  And they don't know
whether they're from 				whether Benjamin or Reuben, or Issachar, where
they're from. But anyway, 				God calls them here.

10.	 Now:

[197] 	Notice in Revelations 7 we read: twelve thousand of each tribe.
Of the elected 				out of all of it, there's twelve thousand of each
tribe that's elected and are set 				right here in order. Now, were are
they? They're in tribal order. Yet they are 				not now, but they will
be. They are to be in tribal order. What will be in tribal 				order?
Not the regular Jew; no, but the ones that's the elected, the hundred 		
	and forty-four thousand will be set in tribal order. How I would like
to show 				you. We won't go into it, but that's exactly what the Church
has to be: right 				in order.

	Now, he drew his parallel. That's what we're talking about.

[199]	Now, I want you to watch real close and read with me for a minute.
Now, 					here's something that maybe you never noticed in tribal
calling. I told you 					awhile ago to read Revelations 7. Read with me
and watch those tribes. In 					Revelations 7 Dan and Ephraim is missing
and not numbered with them. 					Did you notice that? Joseph and Levi
was substituted in their place…Dan 					and Ephraim is not there. No,
sir. Joseph and Levi were substituted in the 					place of Dan and
Ephraim. Why? The ever remembering God remembers 					every promise of
His Word… God don't forget nothing, though it looks like it.  				

		Like He told Moses, Israel had been down there four hundred years,
they 					had to go up that time. He told Abraham that his seed would be
sojourning 				in a strange land for four hundred years, then He'd bring
them out with a 					mighty hand. Then He said to Moses, "I have
remembered My promise, and 				I've come down to make good what I said."
God doesn't forget. He doesn't 					forget His curses, neither does He
forget His blessings. But every promise 					that He made, He stays with
it. Here's why they're missing.

11.	Now, he goes on to explain of course why is they got into there
through idolatry. Which is the same reason people are going to be
missing from the Gentiles the last days, because they're into idolatry,
the organized churches of the Roman Catholic and the image of the
Protestants which have been erected under the beast.

	Now, what we saw here than in this passage was the fact that at the
time that Israel is in the homeland, what we're looking at here, God is
beginning to do a work which the people just simply don't understand.
Because they look at themselves and say, "Well, glory to God, Jesus died
on Calvary, He rose again, He's my surety, thank God I'm full of the
Holy Ghost. I'm going to make the Millennium, I'm going to be Bride, I'm
going to do this, I'm going to do that, I'm going to do anything." And
they forget all about the fact that God is going to do something for
Jesus. Did they forget about the fact? 

	It's just as though, "Thank you Jesus, step aside boy." And you can't
have that attitude. You've got to be aware of the plan of God, and we
are a part of the very calling that He had, we're a part of Him and He's
a part of us. But we sort of use Him as our whipping-boy instead of
that, for Whom there is absolute glory and honor by the Father Himself,
which places His Name above every name. God gave Him His Own Name, and
gives Him authority that is as great as God's authority, because God
stands behind Him.

12.	That's why I brought to your attention that Bro. Branham brought out
so correctly from [Revelation] 3:21, in the Seventh Church Age, that
Jesus said, "Him that overcometh, I will grant to sit with Me in My
throne, even as I sat down with my Father in His throne." That when
Jesus took the Book out of the hand of Almighty God, Holy Spirit,
sitting upon that Throne and ripped the Seals off, God came down here
upon earth in Revelation 10:1, and Jesus climbed upon the Throne,
showing that He is Melchisedec the great High-Priest, because while He
was on the Mercy Seat He was not upon a throne, and if you're a king
you're going to be upon a Throne.

	So, now Jesus has started literally to be vindicated by God, as not
only the High-Priest, but the King eternally who's office will never
ever end. So, God has begun to glorify Jesus. Now, look it, He glorified
Him there, He said, "Give me the glory I used to have with You at the
beginning."  And God said, "I've glorified you, and I will glorify You."


	And God has begun now in a new measure to glorify the Son, even as the
Bride is coming to a place of her glorification. As I say, so many
people just want to simply put Jesus to one side. It's just like if you
believe in a trinity. Which one are you going to believe in? Father,
Son, Holy Ghost. Which one are you going to make the full over?  Well,
you've got the first person of the trinity. Then you've got the second
person. Then you've got the third person. That's a lot of hogwash,
there's only one God, and He's Holy Spirit. And He had a Son.

13.	Now, He had a son the first time, Adam. And that son made in God's
image fell flat, and he took the human race with him. But there was
another Son, which would be the Lord from heaven. And He came by the
womb of the virgin Mary through the created sperm and the created Seed,
and that period of gestation brought forth that One that is called the
Son of God and He was a man.

	Then God…He became God on the grounds that God Himself filled Him.
[Bro. Vayle demonstrates] Look it here, this is a glass of water, (it is
a glass) alright and that water was the Holy Spirit, and that's all the
Holy Spirit there was in the Word, which it would be if that was God.
That would be God, whether you wanted to admit it or not. You just can't
bandy words, that's all. Either it is, or ain't.

14.	All right, we're looking at a Scripture here then, our understanding
here as It says, when, at the time of when Israel is in the homeland
there is going to be a Rapture, predicated upon a resurrection, which in
turn is predicated upon the fact that: the Lord God descends from heaven
with a Shout and He raises the dead. The word 'descend' means descend.
It doesn't mean He hangs up there somewhere in space. Now, that's that
ridiculous rapture theory that people have. Come down, means come down.

	I suppose when Jesus said, "Zacchaeus, come down." 

	He said, "I am coming down."

	And Jesus say, "Hey, you're hanging in the middle of the tree."

	"Well, that’s okay, Lord, I'm come down."

	"That's right Zacchaeus, you've come down." 

	Oh, oh brother listen, three year old kid's got more brains than that.
When it comes to theology they suddenly go goofy.

	He descends to raise the dead. He is here to raise the dead. As Bro.
Branham said, "He sets Himself the Head of the Church in order to raise
the dead." So, God sets Himself at the head of the Church and He's down
here in the midst of the  Church, and His full authority is behind 
Jesus on the Throne, and He's bringing all things into captivity, and
under His feet in order to honor Him. (See?) Then you watch where that
honor goes. That honor is so great, then when He takes that Bride up
there to meet the Lord in the air, God Himself, reincarnates Himself in
Jesus and presents the Bride to Himself and they're truly one again. No
way can you get around Scripture. If you want to be foolish, you can.  

15.	I want to read something:

	 "It's been veiled through the ages according to what God said, and It
would be 			opened in the last days, those Seven Seals would be broken
and the full things 			would come into view of the people." (That's what
took place all along.)

	"The hour of the seventh angel's Message, all the mysteries of God
should be 			made known in that Elijah in this last hour. How that
Christ is put out of His 			church, the Son of God, how He's revealed as
the Son of man again; how the 			church is to be put in order and
everything for the last day. No creeds, no 		denominations, just
absolutely Word living in the individual." 

	['The Mysteries of God Revealed'  by Roy Dixon]

	Now, where are you going to get that from an organized church? There's
only one place that you can get it, God's got to do it. And I want to
say right now, God is in competition with the organized church, and He's
going to lose. He simply can't win when you talk about numbers.

	"I'll take one, I'll leave one." He takes this and leaves one. See,
there's not strings no denominations, no bindings, no nothing it's the
heart with God and Him alone. Now, that's what we're looking at the end
time. This thing that God is doing is absolutely dependent upon God. God
has set the die, you can choose Me, or you can leave Me. And He said,
"I'll take one, leave the other one." In other words, it's die casting
time. The die is cast and He takes those who identify with Him in this
particular hour.

16.	All right, I'm going to read on in the Seal Book, page 555, (the
bottom of the page). 

 [229] 	Now, we'll turn now to…the 1st verse…of the 8th chapter.
(Now, the 8th chapter 				and the 1st verse on the Book of Revelation
has to do with the Seventh Seal. All 				right:)  We must remember that
this Seventh Seal is the end of time of all things. 				(Now, that's
what he said, I didn't say it.) That's right. The things written in the 
			Seven Seal Book (sealed up of the plan of redemption from before the
foundation 				of the world), and every bit ends.

	Well certainly, because seven is completion. There's no way. No more
Seals in the Bible, no more time. Listen:   

[233]	It is the end; it is the end of the struggling world. It's the end
of struggling 					nature. It's the end of everything. In there is the
end of the trumpets. 

	All right, the Seventh Seal then is superimposed over Seal number Six,
and runs in continuity with Seal number Four and Seal number Six. While
Seal number Five is concurrent, especially with Four and with Six, and
could also be in Seals Three, Two and One. (I lost you, but it's
alright.) There's no chronology in Seals as to 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. The
chronology is: 1, 2, 3, 4. The Jews under the altar is Seal number Five,
which Bro. Branham identified mostly under the Fourth Seal, wherein
Stalin, Hitler, and the rest of them. But remember, the Jews were killed
in the crusades, so therefore there could also be many Jews under Seal
3,2 and perhaps even 1. (See?)

 	All right, that brings you up to Four and Five. So, Five doesn't have
a chronological order. It's an interpolation there, and explanation as
it runs concurrently with as many Seals as the first Four, we don't
know. Then Seal number Six is what follows number Four. And Seal number
Seven should follow Seal number Six, but it doesn't, it breaks under
Seal number Four. And it explains it all and runs, does not run out
under Seal Six, but goes plumb to eternity where time runs out. Time
does not run out until after the White Throne.  

17.	All right, the end of the Trumpets, it's the end of the vials. And
that's under the Sixth Seal, it's the end of the earth, that's under the
Sixth Seal. It's even the end of time. That runs out, that's way down
there this little this side of the Lake of Fire, it's just about right
for the Lake of Fire.

		Revelation 10:1-7…Time runs out. The angel said, "Time will be no
more," 				when that--in the days of this great thing to happen. (this
great thing to 					happen) Everything runs out in this time,…the end
of this Seventh Seal.

	 	Notice, it's the end of the church age. (Seventh Seal then comes
under the 					Seventh Church Age. He said, ) It's the--the end of the
Seven Seals. (In other 				words, there's no more Seals.) It's the end
of the trumpets. (That's under the 				Sixth Seal) It's the end of the
vials, (that's under the Sixth Seal) it ends even 				the ushering in of
the millennium; (which could not only mean to actually 					usher in,
but actually the completion of the Millennium, because that's what 			
he's talking about,) that's on the Seventh Seal. 

		It's just like firing a rocket into the air, that rocket explodes
here, and it goes				up, then it explodes again. It puts out five stars.
One of those stars explodes 				and blows out five stars from it; and
then one of them stars explodes, blows				 out five stars and it fades
on out. That's what the Seventh Seal; it just ends 				the time for the
world. It ends the time for this. It ends the time for that…				
Everything just ended up on that Seventh Seal.

 	Now, how is He going to do it? How is He going to do what? Well,
there's no secret about how he's going to do all these things he's
talking about. God's going to do it, He said, it's going to be done.
Just like I said in Malachi. He said, "Behold the day cometh that'll
burn like an oven." No problem, it's going to burn like an oven. Try and
stop it. Who's going to do it? God's going to do it. 

[236] 	Now, how is He going to do it? That's what we don't know, isn't
it? We don't 				know.

18.	Now listen, the thought here is not so much how is He going to do
it? But the thing is, how are you going to know? How are you going to
know? Because the Seventh Seal is absolute silence. Nothing was said,
nothing was heard, nothing was written. So, we don't know. 

		It's even the time for all these things, and the ushering in of the
millennium. 

	Now, that ushering in there tells you it's time to start her up. Time
for it. How do you know? Because Israel is in the homeland. Certain
things have taken place.

		Notice, the breaking of this Seal was so great that heaven was hushed
by it 				in silence for the space of a half hour. Now, is it great?
What is it? It was 					hushed: heaven. There wasn't a thing moved for a
half hour.

	Now, I want to ask you a question: just because it didn't move, wasn't
it there? The thing doesn't move it's not there, eh? I'm not moving. I
wasn't there. That's not moving. It's not there. Can't hear it, it's not
there. Now something was there It just wasn't written.

		Now, a half hour might not be long if you're having a good time, (the
law 					of relativity) but in the suspense of between death and life,
it seemed like 					a millennium. It was so great, Jesus never mentioned
it: none of the rest of 				them. 

	Now, he's talking about Matthew 25, the Seventh Seal is omitted,
whatever It is. It runs to:     one, two, three, four, five, six 
cataclysm and pops off. 

		John couldn't even write of it. 

19.	 I want to ask you a question: Where does It say that? Where does It
say it? When He opened the Seventh Seal there was a silence in heaven a
voice said, "Don't write it." It doesn't say that. So, just keep
thinking. It's good for you. No, he was forbidden to write here,
Revelation 10:3. 

		(3) 	…cried with a loud voice, as when a lion (roars) and when he
had 						cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.

		(4) 	And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about
						to write: and I heard a voice… (say, don't write it.) 

	That's what was said. You think he made a mistake? No, I don’t think
so.

		No, he was forbidden to write here. See, there's  He just didn't
write, …just 				silence.

[241] 	And the four and twenty elders that stood before God there
harping with 					their harps, they quit playing their harps. The
Angels…in heaven..quit singing, 				all that. 

	Now, that's over in Revelation 4, and Revelation 5, when John was
caught up in the Spirit, there were tremendous number of people singing.
Cherubim up there and those beats before the Throne, everything
screaming, "Glory to God, Lord God almighty." Jesus ripped the seals
off, and oh my, they had a…you talk about a hullabaloo. They were just
tearing things apart in the heavens and under the earth, and everywhere
screaming the praises of God and say, "Now is the time for reigning,
everything's wonderful, wonderful. And suddenly, bang, everything's shut
up. (See?)

		…No angels singing, no praises, no altar service, no nothing.
…silence, hush, 				deadly silence in heaven for a half hour. All the
host of heaven was silent for				 this half hour, when this Seventh Seal
mystery in the Book of Redemption was 				broken open. Think of it; but
it's broken. 

20.	 Now, later on you'll swear that he said it wasn't broken. But he
doesn't say that. He says, "It's broken." 

		The Lamb breaks it. You know what? They were awed by it, I believe.
They 				didn't know. There it was; they just stopped. Why? What is it? 

[245]	Now, none of us know; but I'm going to tell you my revelation of
it. And now, 				I am not prone to be a fanatic. If I am, I'm ignorant
of it. See? I am not 					given away to such as "leerious" or carry-ons
and imaginary things. I've 					said some things might been kind of
strange to some people, but when God 				comes around behind it and
vindicates it and says it's the Truth, then that's 				God's Word. It
may seem strange that way. 

	Like Jesus said the truth. He said, "Israel (you know) knew the
Scripture concerning Christ's Coming. But they didn't understand It. So,
when He came according to Scripture and not the way that they thought,
well they just crucified Him. That's what the Scripture said. If they'd
have understood the Scripture, they would not have crucified the Lord of
glory.

21.	Now:  

		...now, as certain as I stand in the platform tonight, I had the
revelation that 				revealed... it's in a threefold manner. That, I will
speak to you by God's help 				of a fold of it. And then you... Let's go
over there first. Here's the revelation 				to begin. (Now, his words
sometime are kind of clouded.) I want to tell you 				what it is. What
happens is... (now watch, Seventh Seal) What happens is					 those seven
thunders that he heard thunder and was forbidden to write, that's 			
what the mystery is laying behind those seven consecutive thunders
rolling out.

	Actually, he should have said, put a coma there and said, "That Seventh
Seal." Because he simply repeated himself. The Seven Thunders he was 
forbidden to write, was those Seven Thunders behind the Seventh Seal.
That's exactly what he meant to say. He just left off a little phrase.

[249]	Now, why?  Let us prove it. Why? It is the secret that no one
knows about. 					John was forbidden to write about it, even write a
symbol about it. Why? 					This is why there was no activity in heaven;
it might give away the secret.

	Now, he's telling you here that John could not write anything other
than mention that there was silence. Nothing could be done, no way, the
other Seals had something that pops out and things were seen, and things
were done, and things were inferred, while you looked at them, but this
one? No way, because there's nothing there. 

22.	Okay,   

		Now, notice, when the seven angels come forth to sound their trumpets,
					there was one thunder. When Israel was gathered, there was a
trumpet. 					When time shall be no more, the last trumpet... One
thunder, But here is 					seven straight thunders right in a row: one,
two, three, four, five, six, seven... 

	Now, this is the place that you missed on the Seal where Bro. Branham
said, "You don't understand these things, but it's relaxing time. All
right, now, in other words this is where we showed you the other day,
last week, "As you who are troubled, rest with us when the Lord Jesus
Christ shall be revealed from heaven, and mighty angels in flames of
fire." 

	That tells you there is a time of relaxation when He is revealed in the
apokalupsis when He Himself comes down. All right, and that's what we're
looking at, Revelation 10:1-7.

23.	Now, now what:

		If Satan should get a hold of it, he might do great damage. There's
one thing 				he don't know. Now, he can interpret anything he wants to,
and impersonate 				any kind of a gift... but he can't know this. It's
not even written in the Word. 				It's a total secret. The Angels,
everything shut up. If they made one move it 				might give something
away, so they just shut up, quit harping; everything 					stopped. 

[255]	Seven, God's perfect number... just right down the row. Seven
thunders 					uttered straight together like they're spelling out
something. Notice, at 					that time, John started to write, and He
said, "Don't write it." 

	Now notice, he's right back to Revelation 10:3-4, taking It from
Revelation 8:1. Don't write it. 

		Jesus never spoke  it. John couldn't write it. Angels know nothing
about it. 					What is it? It's the thing that Jesus said even the
Angels of heaven didn't					know nothing about it. See? He didn't know
it Himself, he said only God 					would know,, but He told us when we
begin to see these signs coming up… 

	Now, one of the signs is Israel, but there are more signs  than that.
There were more signs than that. Now, we've been studying those in
Matthew 24. "What shall be the sign of Thy Presence?" Because there'd be
no Thunders without the Presence. Because it took the One to come down
to roar as a lion. 

24.	 All right:

		(Now, you getting somewhere? All right.) Notice, we can see these
signs 					coming up. See? If Satan could get a hold of it… 

	Now, nothing is said except there's signs about it. In other words,
it's time for this great thing. It's time for the Seven Seals.   

[258]	If you want something to happen… Now, you'll have to take my
word for 					this. If I'm planning on doing something, I know better
than to tell anybody 				about it. Not that that person will tell it,
but Satan will hear it. See? He can't 				get it in my heart there, as
long as God's got it closed up with the Holy 					Spirit, so it's
between me and God. See? He doesn't know nothing about it 					until you
speak it, then he hears it.

		And I've tried… I tell people I'll do a certain-certain thing, and
watch the 					devil cut off every wheel he can to get there (See?), to
beat me to it. But if 					I can get the revelation from God and just
don't say nothing about it, then 					it's different. Remember, Satan
will try to impersonate. He will try to 					impersonate everything that
the Church will do. He's tried to do it. We've 					noticed it through
the antichrist; but this is one thing he cannot impersonate. 			
There'll be no mimics to this (See?), 'cause he don't know it.  See, he
doesn't 				understand.

	Now, he tells you, the Seventh Seal is Revelation 10:3-4, and is the
Third Pull according to his vision.  

25.	Now, and he says here, "The devil doesn't know any single about it."
Now, if the devil knows It's coming, but he doesn't know the real truth
about It, or he could pull a counterfeit as he always has on every
single thing that's in the Scripture. Like virgin birth, (you know) and
the actual Presence. Jehovah Witnesses said that He was already here,
but the signs weren't in. Israel wasn't even back in the home land.
...?... boo-booed on that one. You know, it's really kind of silly for
the people to say that the Presence was to be on earth at that time,
that Jesus came back spiritually, and Israel was not even in the
homeland. See, there was no signs even in. So, the devil can guess about
a lot of things, but there's no way that he can actually know how this
would take place, and what would actually come forth out of It, as
pertaining to what Bro. Branham. And we know Scripture positively states
the secret of the Coming of the Lord. Because that is what has been the
secret. No man knows the day or the hour.

26.	All right.  (Now, that there's a secret that lays beneath that.)

[261]	Now...I know the next step there, but I don't know what, how to
interpret that. 				It won't be long. I've got written down here when it
happened, if you can see 				here, "STOP! Go no further than this right
here." 

	Now, of course he wrote that down there, but he keeps talking to us. He
says:

		I'm not prone to be a fanatic. I'm just telling the truth. But you
remember, 					the little issue that I always tried to explain, how that
the soul laid next to 					so-and-so and the inner conscience and all
that kind of stuff, which it only 					made a big bunch of
impersonations start after it. (And it's still going on) 					How you'd
have to take up the hand, and hold the people and have vibration, 			
everything had a vibration in their hand. You remember when He took me
up 				there and said, "This is that third pull, and no one will know
it." 

	Now, that would be strange if something took place and nobody knew it.
Well, see they wouldn't know even when it happened. It would have to be
explained to them. They wouldn't know it was going to happen. But it
would happen, and then they'd know.  

  		Visions never fail. They're perfectly the truth.  

[264]	Now, notice, remember the vision of the constellation? (That's
when the 					Angels came) Charlie,… Here you are. Something going on,
I told you, 					this week that you… It's been all around you, but I
wonder if you noticed 					it. Remember the constellation of the vision
of the Angels when I left here 					to go to Arizona? You remember,
"What Time Is It, Sirs?" You remember 					that? Notice,...

	Now, he's telling you the thing that took place that nobody could get,
that nobody could understand, no way they could know when it was going
to happen, suddenly happening and yet it must be determined what it is.

27.	Now:

		 ...there was only one great burst of thunder, and seven Angels
appeared. 					Is that right? One burst of thunder, seven Angels... And
I saw the Lamb when 				He had opened the First Seal, and I heard as it
was a voice of  thunder, and 				one of the four beasts said, Come and
see. Notice, one thunder, seven messages 				that's been sealed up and
cannot be revealed until the last day, at this age. 				See what I mean?


	Well certainly, he said, seven days, there were actually seven Messages
brought to him by seven Angels.

[268] 	Now, have you noticed the mysterious parts of this week? That's
what it is. 				That's what it's been. It's been, not a human being, a
man; it has been the 					Angels of the Lord. 

	Now, what is the Angels of the Lord? (See?) The Holy Spirit. The Holy
Spirit in a creature form brought to him. I should you that over there
in the Book of Isaiah the other night.

		Notice, there's witnesses of three setting in here, that a week
ago...I was up 				way back into the mountains, nearly to Mexico, with
two brethren that's setting 				here, picking a cocklebur— sand burrs
off of my trouser leg, and a blast 					went off that almost, looked
like, shook the mountains down...that's right. 					I never told my
brethren, but they noticed a difference. And He said to me, 					(that's
God spoke and said) "Now, be ready. Go east." 

[270]	Here's the interpretation of that vision. See? "Now, to let you
know, Brother 				Sothmann has not got the game that he went after." We
was trying to get it 				for him. And He said, "Now, tonight, for a sign
to you, he isn't going to do it. 				You must consecrate yourself at
this time for the visitation of these Angels." 				And I felt beside
myself, you remember. And I was in the west; (but he never 				told
anybody, he didn't care what was going on. I know that sounds strange 		
	if you don't understand these mystical things, but sure sounds good to
me.) 				And I felt beside myself, you remember. And I was in the west;
and the Angels 				were coming east. And as they came by, I was picked
up with them... (that was 				in a vision, you understand)...(You
remember that?), coming east. 

[272] 	And Brother Fred in here tonight is a witness, and Brother
Norman. As we 				went down, I almost persuaded that man to stay and get
his game. Is that right, 				Brother Sothmann? Yeah, there he stands
right there. I persuaded… but yet, 				God said, "He won't do it." I
never said a thing, just went on. Something setting 				by the side of
the tent the day that… You remember, Brother Sothmann...as soon 				as
some things was being told ...I put you and Brother Norman… Where's 		
		Brother Norman? Back there. Put them under oath that they wouldn't
mention 				what was taking place. Is that right? Did I turn around and
walk away from 				that tent, like that? Is that right? Because this is
what it was, exactly what it 				was, and knowing that I couldn't say it
till it happened to see if the people 					would understand it.

28.	Now, he told the vision, (even told us) not knowing himself exactly
what It would be, and there wasn't one person that understood It.

[275] 	...did you notice that one Angel, I said in there, was a strange
Angel? He 					looked more to me than any of the rest of them. You
remember that? They 					were in a constellation—three on a side and
one on top. (That's a pyramid) 				The one right next to me here,
counting from the left to the right, would've 					been the seventh
Angel. He was brighter, meant more to me than the rest of 				them. You
remember, I said he had his chest out like that, and was flying 				
eastward. You remember like that? And I said, "It picked me up, lifted
me up." 				Do you remember that? 

[276] 	Here it is. The one with the Seventh Seal, the thing that I've
wondered all my 				life. 

29.	Wondered what? All the strange things that happened to him. All the
supernatural. A life that was absolutely phenomenal and one with the
Scripture. He'd wondered about all those things. What was that Voice
that spoke out of the tree? What were those visions from a tiny baby?
What was that Light that hovered over his cradle? What was it that every
single time 'Thus saith the Lord'? No way did It ever fail. How could
one man stand before thousands of people and say,    "I challenge you
bring me your worse case, I guarantee healings." When not even four
billion people in the world can guarantee that tonight. One man could do
it. (See?)

	Tell me how he could do it? All the things he wondered about. Oh, what
was it about? It was for that moment of the Seventh Seal, of the
silence, of what would occur, and what would concur with what occurred. 


  		Here it is. The one with the Seventh Seal, the thing that I've
wondered all my 				life. Amen. Them other Seals meant a lot to me, of
course, but, oh, you don't 				know what this has meant. For one time in
my life… I prayed; I cried out to God.

	Now, you know he was always crying out, what is this all about?  What
is It all about? Where is It going to end? What is it meant for? And the
answer never came back, until it came back under the Seventh Seal. The
Seventh Seal of silence is what It was all about. Thunders? Silence.
Silence, silence. "But in the days of the Seventh Messenger, when He
shall begin to sound, every single thing under the Seventh Seal comes
into manifestation ...?... 

30.	All right:

		...after that Phoenix meeting, any of the people there with me know; I
laid in 				the mountains. One morning I got up and went up in Sabino
Canyon; it's great 				rugged high mountains. I went up in there, and
there was a little foot trail after				 you lead off—go on up into
Lemmon Mountain which is a thirty mile walk, ... 				thirty foot of snow
up there. 

[278] 	So, up in the mountain, real early, before day, going up through
this little foot 				trail, rolling rocks along, I felt led to turn this
way. And I turned and went up 				into some great jagged rocks, oh, my,
hundreds of feet high. And I knelt down 				between those rocks. I laid
down my Bible...this little tablet down, And I said, 				"Lord God, what
does this vision mean?" I said, "Lord, does it mean I'm dying?"

	That's the vision he had of the great explosion when he saw those
Angels coming in a vision back in Jeffersonville at the tail end of '62.

		And I said, "Lord, does it mean my dying?"(You remember I told you I
thought 				it might mean my death, 'cause something exploded till it
just shook me to pieces. 				You remember. How many know—have heard
it? ...sure, all of you.) And I 					thought it could mean my death. And
then in the room, I said, "What was it, 				Lord?  What does it mean?
Does it mean I'm going to die? If it is, all right; I 				won't tell my
family. Just let me go on (See?), my work's finished." And I said… 			
Now, what was it? But He sent a witness back (You remember me telling
you?)				 that it wasn't that, it was a furthering of my work. 

31.	Now, you see, the furthering of the work. The ministry would involve
the Seventh Church Age Messenger.

[283] 	Do you get it? See? And setting up in Sabino Canyon… The
heavenly Father 				knows this, just as true as you see that come to
pass, those Angels came right 				down and vindicated every message to
be the same. 

	Now, not what happened out there in the desert, it's what happened in
the services where the messages changed forth.

		Then you know whether it comes from God or not. It was foretold you by
a 				vision. I couldn't tell you until the service was over, because I
was forbidden 				to.

	Now why? If he'd have tipped his hand in plain English and said what
God had told him, the devil could have seventy angels if necessary to
pull the same deal, because don't think he can't. There could have been
a thousand men rise up, devil possessed or otherwise to do stuff, the
same thing, but he couldn't do it. In other words, there was no way that
this could be counterfeited until it was too late. And soon as Bro.
Branham did the job, ...?... and everybody else had seals and documents,
cards and you name it, what-not and hottentot, and the whole thing was
out there in the blue-blah, but it's too late.

32.	And I'll tell you why it's too late if you don't know why it's too
late. Let me get you back here to Isaiah chapter 28:  let's find out.
Because you see, this has to do with the Word of the Lord, and there's
no way the Word of the Lord is going to come anywhere except by the Holy
Ghost. 

	Now:

		(1) 	Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose 			
		glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat 	
				valleys of them that are overcome with wine!

	Ephraim is mentioned in the Resurrection and the changing of the Bride.
And Ephraim was an idolater.

		(2) 	Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest
					of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters
overflowing, 					shall cast down to the earth with the hand.

		(3) 	The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden
under 					feet:

		(4) 	And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley,
shall 					be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer;
which 					when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his
hand he eateth 					it up. (In other words, it just dies, a little blast
of hot air.)

		(5) 	In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and
for 					a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people, (that's a
little 						remnant.)

		(6) 	And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and
for 					strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.

	Now, that is the last day revelation, the Presence of God, the gates of
hell cannot overcome it. God Himself will be their refuge and take care
of them. And those who sit in judgment of the last Message of the last
day will find themselves destroyed.

		(7) 	But they also have erred through (drink, that is a false
revelation) 						and through strong drink are out of the way;…

33.	Now, the stronger this Message gets, the more there's going to come
against It. The stronger the true revelation, the greater is going to be
the power of the enemy against It. See, because this is the true
revelation. Already Satan has had many revelations foisted upon the
people. One of which is: 'that the Presence is the Rapture'.

	.The Presence is not the Rapture. The Presence is the Presence, the
Rapture is an event. Jesus' Presence is not an event, because you cannot
call God an event. It was eventual that He was here, but He is not an
event. A person is not an event. An event is a happening, and God is not
a happening. 

		(7)  	…the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink,
they 						swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong
drink; 					they err in vision, they stumble in judgment. (See, the
vision don't 						coincide with the Word, because they've got false
dogmas.)

		(8) 	For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is
no place 					clean.

		(9) 	Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to
understand 					doctrine?... 

	Now, this is why I hit doctrine all the time. If you don't understand
doctrine, you'll never understand the prophet's Message, just forget it.

		(9)	…them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
					 (The time of Melchesidec, Hebrews 5.)

34.	Now listen:

		(10) 	For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line
upon 						line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: 

	Now, that tells you how it comes. It comes first of all with precepts,
and precepts and precepts. In other words, doctrine, doctrine, doctrine,
elaboration, elaboration, elaboration, and filling in little points,
filling in little points, filling in little points.

		(11) 	…with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this
						people.

		(12) 	To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the
weary 					to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

	Now, he tells you right now, Bro. Branham under the Seventh Seal is
relaxation. And under the Seventh Seal is revelation of the truth
wherein a person may know that he is definitely a part of that which is
for the end time and he can rest in the Lord. Now:

		(13) 	But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, 			
		precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little,
and 					there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be
broken, 						and snared, and taken.

	That's 2 Thessalonians where they said, "They had not the love of the
truth, but they turned away into sin.

		(14) 	Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule 
					this people which is in Jerusalem.

		(15) 	Because (you) have said, We have made a covenant with death, and
					with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall 	
				pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our 	
				refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:

35.	 And that's the organized church, absolutely said, "Oh, we're not
going to die, we're going to live, we've got Holy Ghost, we speak in
tongues, we're wonderful, we're going to make it." No, you ain't.

		(16) 	Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a 	
				foundation stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure 			
		foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.

	One of the most important things in this life is to learn at this end
time you don't make haste, you don't run around. You just have to lay
back in the Presence of the Lord. Now, there's many other verses I could
read here, but I don't want to go to the whole chapter. And you can see
here where this is at the end time, where the people have turned away
from the Word of the Lord.

36.	Now, I was reading in here, and I want to get back to my reading
here:

[284]	In Sabino Canyon, sitting up there that morning, I had my hands
up, and my… 				the wind had blowed my old black hat down. When I was
standing there with				my hands up, praying. I said, "Lord God, what
does this mean? I can't under-				stand it, Lord. What am I to do? If
it's my going-home time, let me go up here's 				where they'll never
find me. I don't want nobody to be mourning around if I'm 				going. I
just want just the family to think that I just took a walk, and
they—they 				won't find me. Hide me away somewhere. If I'm going to
go away, just let me go. 

	Now:

[285] 	And I had my hands out, and all at once something hit my hand. I
don't know. 				I can't say. Did I go to sleep? I don't know. Did I go
into a trance? I don't know. 				Was it a vision? I can't tell you. Only
thing I can say... Just the same thing like 				them Angels was. And it
struck my hand, and I looked, and it was a sword, and 				it had pearl
handles, real pretty; and had a guard over it with gold, and the 			
blade looked like chrome, like silver, only it was real shiny. And it
was so feather-				edge sharp... I thought, "Isn't that the prettiest
thing?" just fit my hand. I thought, 				"That's awful pretty."  I said,
"Hey, I'm always afraid of them things." A sword; 				and I thought,
"What will I do with that?" And just then a voice shook down 				through
there that rocked the rocks, said, "It's the Sword of the King." And
then 				I come out of it. "The Sword of the King." Now, if it said, "a
Sword of a King…" 				but it said, "The Sword of the King," and
there's only one "the King," and that's 				God. And He has one Sword;
that's His Word, that I live by...so help me, God;

37.	Now listen, "Bring on His holy vesture with the Holy Word laying
there." Direct prophecy, he's taking from 1 Corinthians, "This mortal
must put on immortality." And that is a vesture which doesn't simply
mean a quote, it's an inner vesture signifying the investiture of the
person putting on the vesture.

	Now, that's exactly what God did at the last Age. The opening of the
Seventh Seal was God Himself, Revelation 10:1, with a prophet Revelation
10:7, bringing the Word of the mystery at the last hour. In such a way
that Satan could never duplicate It, because once the Word was put out
in printing, there's nothing the devil can do to change It. It's right
here as to exactly to what It was. And herein lies the truth of the
Seventh Seal and what happened.

38.	Now, we keep reading:

[289] 	Oh, what a day we're living in, what a great thing. See the
mystery and 					secret? The third… Standing there, when this left me,
something just came 					to me and said, "Don't fear." Now, I didn't
hear no voice, like on the inside 				of me spoke. I  just tell you the
truth, just exactly what happened. Something 				hit and said, "Don't
fear. This is that third pull." The Third pull, you remember 				it?
"You've had so many impersonations on this, what you tried to explain." 

	Now, he said, (the Person) now He said...now here's what the Voice
said, "You've had so many impersonations on this, what you tried to
explain." Now, in this case here, there is not an explanation, there is
simply an exposition. There was no way he could say, like He told us
these other things. "Oh, this is what happened, that is what happened."
See how it works. There was no way. This came suddenly for seven solid
times until the revelation was completed and we understood and had
received the knowledge that we were now already in the Second Coming;
and at this time we're in the transition period of time to eternity. And
what was going on now was correctly the truth and could never be turned
back.

39.	Now:

		He said, "Don't even try this." Do you remember it? How many remembers
				that vision? Why, it's all over the tape and everywhere. That's been
about six 				years ago—seven years ago: been seven years. Said,
"Don't try to explain 					that." Said, "This is the third pull, I'll
meet you in there." Is that right? ..."					Don't try…" 

	How can you try to explain a phenomena? This is something that took
place once in an eternity. That's why when these people have these
cameras that make picture of those things we have on the wall here,
there's no way That could happen. No way. Anybody that tries to do
anything other than to see what he said here is just kidding himself.
When New York said we were in darkness for nine solid years and that
preacher up there had the light, I disagreed with him. I didn't walk in
darkness for nine years. Maybe there's a lot of folk walking in
darkness, no way. I haven't be walking in darkness. Not since the
revelation of the Light came.

	See, you understand there are certain things that can be explained,
there's certain things that cannot be explained. And there is no way
that this was going to be told by Almighty God until the very moment of
Its doing. And when the doing is done and It's public, there is no way
you can change It. A thousand impersonators can come on your trail. It's
just like the time of Jannes and Jambres, Moses threw down the rod,
turned into a serpent. All right, the others threw down their rods,
turned into serpents. But what was the original? Moses. Then you
noticed, his rod gobbled up their rods. Then they caused blood to come,
so they caused blood to come. But in each case the superior power of God
was always in the pre-eminent, because It was the original.

40.	Now, you can have a thousand, you can have a thousand people try to
pull the very thing that was given here in our generation, which God
kept secret. In other words, hidden within the confines of the Bible
until it was His hour to pull it out and show exactly what He meant when
He said certain things. Even the apostle Paul could not utter the things
that he saw. John could not utter the things that he saw. And at the end
time when it was done, it was too late. The Original stood before us.
That's exactly what we're looking at, what we're talking about tonight.
What I'm trying to show you, God has done It, not man. From the moment
of the Parousia, God took over, and there's no turning It back. Now this
is what I've been trying to give you in this message to not just
encourage you, but to see the seriousness of the hour in which we live.
Now, He said, "Don't try to explain It, this is the third pull."  

41.	 Now, I'm not going to read anymore. But I think by now you're
beginning to understand that the people talking in Bro. Branham's
Message concerning the fact that nothing was said about the Seventh
Seal, it was the Coming of the Lord. But listen, what Coming of the
Lord? What portion? Is it the fact that He's coming back with His
Saints? No, that's not what it's all about.  It's the fact that God
Himself was going to come down as Holy Spirit. Now, the Rutherford's
[Jehovah Witness' second leader] understand that. They caught that much.
And other people have caught that much also. 

	All right, whoever caught the understanding though of the seven
messengers, Holy Spirit form, who would reveal that to him which was
necessary to be revealed under the Seventh Seal, which was the Seven
Thunders. Because he tells you categorically, Revelation 10:1-7 is the
Seventh Seal, which it is. And that Seal has been broken to us.

42.	Now, who was able to put 2 Thessalonians 1: together, Revelation
10:1 and 7 together, and also 1 Corinthians and the various portions of
Scripture concerning what he said, and Revelation 8:1. Who was able to
put them together? There is no way It could be put together in order to
stand unless It was vindicated that God was in It. Because anybody can
talk. Rutherford bunch said that He came back in 1914. Hogwash!  Israel
wasn't in the homeland. Where did they get their authority? Just because
one 'Judge' said so? [Judge Rutherford] 

	Now you got [Herbert] Armstrong spouting off about the great kingdom.
What does he know? Where's his vindication? He's got no vindication.
He's so mixed up he's a cult. You show me one place where God endorses
the Seventh Day as the Sabbath? It says, "Every one of the Ten
Commandments we are to live and honor up to." But there's no place there
and Paul said, "One day is not esteemed above another, and the day that
we worship is only a commemoration under the Resurrection." 

	Now, there isn't one Seventh Day Adventist, or one Armstrong can stand
up to the late Dr. Gamble a former Methodist, and he showed that the
Passover was exactly like Christmas on a certain day, and it is on every
month. And so therefore the Sabbath changed so there was no such thing
as a legitimate regular Sabbath, it had to be according to feast days.
This old doctor boxed the ears off everyone, and there wasn't one of
them was able to stand up. (I've got his little pamphlet still at home,
exactly how the Sabbath was. I know you miss the point, don't worry,
I'll give you a pamphlet, you can go over it.)

43.	Because look, Christmas can fall on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Right? All right, that's the way the
Passover is. It's a certain day of a certain month. So therefore, every
single Sabbath was counted from that as their Sabbath. So, how are you
going to have a regular…every seven? It's going to change. That's why
you had every fifty year jubilee and addition. And every so many years
you had so many days granted you. Because they understood there was
three hundred and sixty five and a quarter days about in a year. They
understood these things. Dr. Gamble, his book, on the true calendar of
Israel.

	Now, anybody can talk. I could come here and I could say, "Hey, this
certain thing in the Bible means this. This is what It's all about."
Now, It says right here there's going to be a Presence of God. Now,
Rotherham, I read what Rotherham said. Rotherham said, "Hey, (he said)
look, that Presence absolutely is the future." Now, he said, "There's no
way we can understand It. We got to wait until God does it." And that
was a man full of the Holy Ghost.

44.	Now, somebody could have come along like Rutherford and said, "Hey,
there's going to be a Presence, let's tell the folk, bless God, He's
here and we'll build him a big house and we're the people that know all
about it." (See?) Like Jehovah Witness right now, they say the 144.000
is all sealed up and nobody, the 144,000 are Gentiles. Hogwash, they're
Jews. Where did you belong to the tribe of Reuben and Gad, Issachar, and
the rest of them? You see, anybody can say anything.

	Now, there was a Coming and there was a Silence, and there was a
Thunder, forbidden to write. Now, that great mystery is in, what about
that Coming?  And Bro. Branham reveals It through the ministry that God
gave him and shows us it has to do with that Presence.

45.	Now, let's go to Matthew 24:3b

		(3) 	…and what shall be the sign of thy (Presence),… 

	What would be the sign that You're here? Give us the signs and the
facts that You should be here, that show that You're going to be here.
Give us the signs of the facts that You are here. Well, He tells them.
And He gives more signs of the facts that He is here than anything else.
One sign that He is Coming, Israel's a nation, (that is) back in the
homeland, budding out, not fully a nation yet. …?... going to be
pretty close now. The ecumenical move, the binding of the tares. You can
see the people coming together. The image being erected to the beast.
You can see that coming. So, you know that you're in a good
area…actually then there can be a Presence. 

	Well, what is it? (See?) How will It be identified? And He said: (when
He does come, what is is he here?)

		(4) 	And Jesus answered and said…Take heed that no man deceive 					
you.

	So therefore, one of the major evidences of the Presence of God, is
that when that Presence is established, counterfeit, counterfeit,
counterfeit, counterfeit. But at the establishing of the Presence, no
way counterfeit. That’s why this man William Branham could not say one
thing that God had told him, until it was time. When it was over, he
told them what he was forbidden to tell.

		(5) 	For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall 		
			deceive many. (Counterfeit)

		(6) 	(You'll) hear of wars and rumours of wars: be not troubled: these
						things must come to pass, the end is not yet.

		(7) 	…nation shall rise against nation, kingdom against kingdom
famines, 					pestilences, earthquakes, in divers places.

		(8) 	All these are the beginning of sorrows.

		(9) 	…deliver you up to be afflicted, and kill you: be hated of all
nations 					for my name's sake.

		(10) 	And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another,
hate 					one another. (Hate is a very strong thing these days.)

		(11) 	…many false prophets rise, deceive many.

		(12)  	…iniquity abound, love of many shall wax cold. (That's the
Laodicean, 					luke-warm spirit)

		(13) 	But he that endures unto the end, the same shall be saved.

		(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.

	A specific Gospel of the Kingdom, He's here.

46.	All right, let's find out, Revelation 10:8, after Revelation 7, the
messenger of the hour:

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

	Out of which came what? The mysteries, the Seven Thunders. The Book of
Redemption, End Time Message.   

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

		(10) 	And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it
up; 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.

47.	 [Matthew 24:]

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

	People, nations, tongues, kings. What is that? That's the Word. Goes to
the whole world. Because this thing wasn't done in a corner. I tell you
before, and I tell you again. If the time should go on, the ministry of
Reverend William Branham, prophet of God, would be the only book, six
thousand years, that is loaded far beyond the miracles of Jesus Christ.
No book would touch it, it would take volumes. But history will not be
written.

	So, this Gospel goes out, and It's a Gospel of the Kingdom. What Gospel
of the Kingdom? The Kingdom cometh not with observation." They'll say,
"See here, see there." Don't believe it. It's already in the midst of
you. (See?) When He's here, don't believe it's over here, believe it
over there. It was already done in public. 

	The ministry that Bro. Branham had vindicated him as the authority of
God. And it wasn't done in a corner, which means it was done publically.
It was a public demonstration. So therefore you had it.

48. Okay, 'End Time Message'. We also be aware that this is borne out by
Revelation 22:8-20.

		(8) 	And I John saw (and heard) these things…(and so on.)  

		(9) 	…(these I) do it not:… (don't worship me, I'm just a
prophet.) 

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

	"Seal not the saying of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at
hand." And It tells you what time is at hand. That's the idea, what's it
all about? 

	Okay, now, when that prophecy the Book is unsealed that was sealed in
Revelation 10:3-4, (the sealing in 4) at this point It becomes unsealed
as every mystery must be delineated, or set forth by the prophet of
Revelation 10:7. And at that time judgment sets in.

		(11) 	(…righteous are righteous, filthy is filthy, wicked are
wicked,) holy 					are holy…  

		(12)	(Then He said,) …behold, I come quickly;…

	That's looking at the time when He takes away the Bride and comes back
upon this earth.  

		(13) 	I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end,…  

	  Now, He said, (this is to the living:)   

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

49.	Remember Bro. Branham said, "The sword of the King, bring on His
Holy Vesture with the Holy Word of God standing by. The investurement of
a people of Almighty God through a bridal regalia, which is an inner
work, which can only be done by the work of the Word of Almighty God.
Because that's exactly what I told you. I mentioned over here this
morning I believe, in the Book of Ephesians 5: and It tells about the
Bride. 

		(26) 	That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water
by 						the word; 

		(27) 	That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not
having spot, 					or wrinkle,…

	It doesn't say one thing about the Blood. The Blood's been applied. The
Holy Ghost has filled her. But she's not ready. She's not prepared,
she's not fit. (See?) She cannot serve her Husband. She cannot bring Him
back to this earth, there's no way. Now, what happened through the
washing of water by the Word of God. The Word of God comes the last day
by the prophet.

	Now, on reading: [Revelation 22:]

		(14)	… they have (a) right to the tree of life, enter the gates (of)
the city. 

		(15) 	For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers,
murderers, 					idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

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

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

		(18) 	For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the
prophecy 					of this book,…(and so on.)  

		(19) 	And if any man shall take away…(life taken out too.)  

50.	 Now, notice Revelation 10:10 to 22:10, don't seal the Book, keep It
unsealed. Revelation 10:7, the days of the voice of the Seventh
Messenger every mystery should be finished, nothing that's not closed
up. And in Revelation 22:12. What is at hand, "I'm coming quickly,"
going to take them through. At the same time expression, "Behold even at
the door."

	Now, also with that you'll notice 22:9,

		(9) 	…See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy prophet
						the brethren, of them (that) keep the sayings…(but) worship God.

	And you notice in here, sovereignty goes back to God which we're
talking about.

51.	 Now, I want you to be sure you know where Bro. Branham placed
Revelation 10:1.                             'Sirs, Is This The Time', 
(page 45) 

		"This Angel that comes down from heaven clothed in that Pillar of
Light, 					cloud, with a rainbow over His head." It was Christ with one
foot on land, 					and one on sea, as for the time should be no longer."
[Rev 10:5-6] 

	So, here we are at the end. Right at the very end every sign is in.
When this momentous thing came no one would know exactly how it was
going to be done. The keys were locked up in the Bible, but no one could
understand It. And at the end time it took seven Mighty Messengers,
angelic structured figures, embodiment of the Holy Spirit Who came and
gave the Word of the hour. And the last one that came signifies that
this was the hour. That Seventh Church, the Seven Messengers signified
that this was the end.

52.	 So, here we are at the end. It is God Who is Holy Spirit as Bro.
Branham said has come down and set Himself at the Head of the Church in
order to raise the dead; the end so that we can all come back to God for
restoration. It is God Who does all three in descending. That's in the
Book of 1 Thessalonians, the Shout, the Voice, the Trumpet. As also we
found out it was a revelation. The Shout was a revelation. And the next
thing after revelation, was raising the dead. And next thing after that
was the Rapture.

	So therefore, the Shout is the revelation, and the Voice is the raising
of the dead, and the Trumpet is the summoning to the Wedding Supper. It
is God Who has called both Jesus and the Bride to enter into the rest. 

53.	And the Alpha and the Omega of Ephesians 1:15, the Word that was
brought forth as a prayer in Ephesians 1:15 is now a reality. "For the
God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, (has come into the
Church,) as the spirit of wisdom, revelation in the knowledge of Him in
order that the eyes of the heart may be enlightened, (that of the true
Church) that they may know what is the hope of His calling, and what the
riches of the glory of His inheritance in the Saints." [Eph 1:17-18]

	In other words, that's experientially true that they will enter into
It. Because you see, you are going exceedingly from glory to glory until
the Resurrection takes place, and the Bride is caught away in a Rapture.

54.  Now, 2 Corinthians absolutely gives the proof of that in chapter 3
at the very tail end. It tells you Israel had the veil upon her mind and
blinded her. And when people are blinded with the creeds and dogmas
there can be no expressed revelation. There can be no advancement, for
Jesus' sake you made void the Word of God by your commandments, there is
no prophecy of Scripture.  There is absolutely no promise, but what is
voided when men misread It, or misplace It, or miscalculate, in some way
they take away from the reality. 

	And notice It says concerning Israel, concerning the mind. [2
Corinthians 3:]16.

		(16) 	Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be
taken 						away.

		(17) 	Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord
is, 						there is liberty.

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

	It tells you there, there is a progressive attainment to be, and
especially at the last day, because that's the day the Bride is going to
enter into her complete change.

55.	Now, let me repeat, or reaffirm that even as God did not send a
messenger, but Himself came to redeem Adam from sin in the Garden. He
Himself has come back and took a human form to exercise His strength and
power through, which was a prophet in order to lead us into total and
entire redemption.

	God can and does use men, but at this time He has taken Headship
Himself over the Bride, only using a man in order to show His will, so
that God is doing for her and in her His promises which will soon be
worked out entirely. Which of course is going to put us in the
Millennium. Now, make no mistake about it, Headship is Christ Who is
God, Who is identified as the Logos of this hour.

56.	Now, we go back a little bit here to the Book of James 5: and we
begin to see what has transpired, and is transpired. (I'm going kind of
fast now, but most of you folk are used to me anyway.)

		(7) 	Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord.
(For) 						Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the
earth, 						and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early
and latter rain.

	Now, It tells you right here that the Coming of the Lord absolutely
depends upon a resurrection, and the Resurrection depends upon a former
and latter-rain. Now, the latter-rain  has already fallen, and the
former-rain has already been given, which is a teaching-rain, which is
the Word of Almighty God which has been given us at this particular
time.

57.	We go back to the Book of Joel 2: where this Scripture is taken
from, together within a more enlightening, or you might say a larger
context than It says here. 

		(21) 	Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do
great 						things.

	Now, there's only one thing that the land needs and that's renovations.
He's talking therefore concerning what Romans 8 said, when the creature,
when man himself has been redeemed, when he has been changed and
everything else falls into line.

		(22) 	Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the
wilderness 					do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree
and the vine yield 					their (fruit.)  

	Then he says:

		(23) 	Be glad…children of Zion, (the Bride) rejoice in the LORD your
						God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and (he'll)
						…come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter
(is) 						in the first…

 	Now they threw the month in there, but that shouldn't be there. In
other words, it's going to be a repeat of the first. There's got to be a
repeat. 

		(24) 	(The earth then could) be full of wheat, the vats shall overflow
						with wine and oil.

		(25)	(I'll) restore the years the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, 	
				caterpillar, palmerworm, the army I sent among you.

		(26)	(You should) eat (and pray,) and be satisfied, and praise the
name 						of the LORD your God, that dwealt wondrously with you: my 			
		people shall never be ashamed.

		(27)	And (you) shall know, that I am in the midst of Israel, and I am
the 					LORD your God, and none else: and my people never be ashamed.

58.	Now, the promise over in James is taken from here. And It says
categorically that God is going to be in the midst of Israel, that He is
going to restore. It's is going to bring about a resurrection, It is
going to bring about a Millennium.

	You say. "How do you know it's going to bring about a resurrection?"
Because this is what It's talking about the former and latter rain
again, It said It's going to bring about a resurrection. 

	Now he said, "I’m going to give you what I gave you once before."

	Now, what did they have once before? They had the Word. What did they
fall from? They fell from the Word. How did they lose their virginity?
Falling from the Word. Now, I know it sounds too simplistic. People
says, "Well, you see Bro. Vayle, the whole thing lies in the fact that
when you're born again, bless God, you're born again and that's all
there is to it." Hogwash, that's not all there is to it. (See?) That's a
vacuous statement of a stupid individual. Because he positively said,
"The former and latter-rain has got to come, before there's going to be
a resurrection." And he said, "There's got to be a Shout before there's
a resurrection." There's got to be revelation before there's a…put it
together…there's got to be a Message that foreruns the Second Coming
of Jesus Christ. And that's the mystery of the whole thing. That’s
under your Seventh Seal, that's the mystery of this hour. God takes
over. And God says, "I'm going to do it My way."

	Now, you tell me one way that God ever did anything a part from His
Word. It's started with the Word, "God said, God said, God said, God
said." And God speaks in the last day, and "God said." And now people
get mixed up.

59.	Then It says at the latter time:  

		(28) 	(It'll) come to pass…(I'll) pour my spirit upon all flesh;
your sons 						and daughters shall prophesy, old men dream dreams,
young men 						shall see visions:

		(29) 	And also upon the servants…

	It tells you all flesh positively can be receiving an anointing upon
them.

		(30) 	And (I'll show) wonders in the heavens and earth, blood, and
fire, 						and pillars of smoke. (That's the Great Tribulation)

		(31) 	…before the great and terrible day of the LORD...

	So, It tells you right here there's going to be a visitation of God.
The former and latter-rain. Preparatory for a resurrection. Preparatory
for the Millennium. And then It says right here: "at that time God will
pour out His flesh upon everybody and anybody." That's where you get
your false prophets, and that's where you get your truth, and that's
where you get your false anointed, that's where you get your real one.
And then It says, "After that…?" After what? 

	Well Malachi [4:] tells you the Bride doesn't …?... Because He said,
"At that time when that great and dreadful day of the Lord takes place,
the Sun of Righteousness shall arise with healing in His wings, and you
shall go forth as calves of the stall. And you'll trod the wicked under
your feet, there'll be ashes under the soles of your feet."

60.	 So, then what happens aftera He pours out His Spirit? There's going
to be in the Resurrection a Rapture, there's going to be a 'Catching
away' and then the Great Tribulation takes place. And then the great and
dreadful day of the Lord. Simple as a-b-c. But the whole question was,
"How is He going to do this great thing at the end time?" What is that
Seventh Seal? What is that Seventh Thunders? Well, we've been talking
about it. It's God come down and doing something.

	When He came down nobody knew It. Nobody knew the hour. Nobody knew how
He starts to come more and more into His Church. But it was under the
Seals that He came into the Church, fully, when He put one foot on land,
and one foot on sea. The prophet stood there to tell us, "Seven mighty
Angels came down." And people say, "Hogwash." Go ahead, be my guest. I
got no fight with you. I'm not trying to convince you, this is what I
believe.

	You say, "Well, Bro. Branham convinced you." Not really. Not really.
No. not really. I began looking at It. And when I looked at It, I went
to the Bible. It rang a bell.

61.	 First John 3:1-3

		(1) 	Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us,
that 					we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world
knoweth us 					not, because it knew him not.

		(2) 	Beloved, now are we the sons of God, (that's fine, that's fine.
Let's go 					what?) it (has) not yet (come into existence) what we
shall be: (now 					listen: I don't care if you are sons of God)  but we
know that, when 						he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we
shall see him as he is.

	Now, you're down here. He's got to be down here for you to see Him.
Then you're going to get your change. Be caught up there. How come
everybody says, "You're going to get changed here and be caught up there
and see Him?" You got the cart before the horse. I told you they didn't
know up from down. See, as long as you meet Him half way, you haven't
got Him down. 

	Now, how do you see Him? Just keep going back to 1 Samuel. Oh you say,
"I can't believe that." Well fine, I do. 1 Samuel 3:  Samuel heard the
Voice of God. God told him all about Eli. And then It says in verse 15,
"Samuel feared to show Eli the vision."  

	What vision? He didn't see anything. You bet your life he did, by the
eyes of the heart he heard, and it went down here and rang a bell, and
he knew the truth.

62.	Now listen what It says here in [1 Samuel 3:] 21. "And the Lord
appeared again in Shiloh…" You know, what's this appear? Okay, let me
show you something. [Bro. Vayle demonstrates] If I can do it. Let's see
now…this, you can't see this, can you? Now watch it appear. All right,
the Lord appeared. How?  "For the Lord revealed Himself to Samuel in
Shiloh by the Word of the Lord." 

	You know revelation of God's Word is a million times bigger than
anything else? When the Holy Spirit prophesies and reveals that thing,
and shows you that truth. That's bigger than any miracle under high
heaven, because that is a true vision. 

	So therefore, at the end time you see Him. What we're reading over here
in 1 John 3:2.   

		(2) 	Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and (has never) yet (come 		
			into existence) what we shall be: (now that this thing is going to
hit 					us) but we know (what's going to hit us. We know) when he shall
						appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

	How are you going to see Him? He's Spirit form by the Word. The Word
tells us, so we see Him. Unveiled Him. Reveals Him to us. Okay, now
remember, I'm trying to show where we are in the chronology of
Scripture. 

63.	 Again we go back to 1 John 3, and we read verse 3.

		(3) 	And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even 
					as he is pure.

	Every man that has what hope? That he's going to see Him. (Pure) Every
man that has what hope? That he's going to see Him. He's going to be at
that particular time. See, the New Testament was written for this hour.
Wasn't written for the last hour. It was written for this hour. Because
this is where it is. All right, we're going to be like Him.  

		(3) 	… every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even 
					as he is pure.

	Now, hope is far beyond faith. Because, "faith is the substance of
things hoped for," [Heb 11:1]  because when you get to hope it's earnest
expectation. We've got beyond faith. Faith is a revelation. And in our
case our revelation is a proven one based on God's Own vindication of a
prophet according to Deuteronomy 18. Says, "When that prophet comes with
'Thus saith the Lord' and the thing come to pass, you hear him." There's
a vindication. Therefore we have hope. Hope is expectation.

64.	Let's take a look what Jesus, over here in Hebrews 10:12-13.

		(12) 	But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for
ever, 						sat down on the right hand of God;

		(13) 	From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his
footstool.

	We're expecting, He's expecting. But you know what that word 'expect'
means? It means from an outside source. So, Jesus has been sitting on
the Mercy Seat waiting for God to do for Him what must be done. God
climbs off the Throne. He [Jesus] climbs on the Throne. God says, "I'm
going to bring everything under Your feet. I'm going to give you a
Bride, give You the Millennium. I'm going to give you the White Throne.
I'm going to give You everything, everything, everything, piled on top.
And when every single thing is manifested to the grace of God and
humanity, you can turn it back to God."

	And that doesn't mean that Jesus gets left out again. It's better than
ever. Because everything is an unfolding revelation. (See?) It's
unfolding. How can a man walk nine years in darkness when It's
unfolding? Haw, [makes a noise] don't turn me loose kid. Turned loose
enough already.

65.	Surely, we can see where we are at in full assurance of faith.
Something like Israel. Let's go back to Ezekiel 37:14.  

		(14) 	And shall put my spirit in you, and (you) shall live, and I
shall 						place you in your own land: then shall (you) know that I the
LORD 					have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.

	Now, that's what we're talking about. How do you know that God's here?
What God said happened. What God said came to pass. (See?)

66.	Now, why should I say this? Because over here in 1 Corinthians 15,
says the Presence of the Lord. God Himself is there. Not somebody else.
God Himself is there. That Seventh Church Age messenger is nothing
without God. A lot of people try to make him too much. You just take God
away, where's the Seventh Church Age messenger? Fap! Nowhere. Nowhere at
all. (See?) 

	Now, It says here, the time when He strikes the earth:

		(24) 	Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom
					to God, even the Father…(and) all rule and all authority (is put
down… 					See?)

	I should have read 23, first:

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

		(24) 	Then (will come) the end… (everything is come in order.) 

	Notice, in the future perfect tense was written. "Shall have." What
we're looking at here is when this thing starts there is no way you can
stop it.

	Now, It's says here in verse 25,

		(25) 	…he (shall) reign, till all enemies (are) put under his feet.

	It's an adjective, that means 'hateful' and 'hostile'. As an noun, it
means 'enemy' or adversary'.

67.	Now, one of the enemies God has is the devil. That's got to be
absolutely put under His feet. The devil is not put under His feet,
except in a measure. Christ is the…the efficacy of Christ and the
power of God is greater. But the day is yet to come when that power
won't even be there whatsoever.

	For instance, Israel became an enemy of God. Why? Because they were
blinded, they couldn't understand the things of God. At the end time the
world is going to be full of people that is that way. 

 	 Second Thessalonians 2: we read It before. They will become the
enemies of God. The enemies of God are on every hand. Now, He said.
"Until I make thine enemies thy footstool," is what He's talking about
here. That's the original sentiment.

	Now, the word 'footstool' simple means 'under the foot'. So, you can
see that we're getting some words that mean positively mean the same.
What such words it 'under his feet', that's a footstool. 'Subject', that
means 'under his feet'. Same thing. It actually has to do with an order.

68.	I'm going to go over here to Hebrews 1: and we're going to look at
the footstool. (I'm thinking it's too fast I know. Got to slow down.)

		(13) 	But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right
hand, 					until I make thine enemies thy footstool?

	Chapter 10:13,  I read that one:

		(13) 	From henceforth expecting (that's an outside source is going to
do it) 					till his enemies be made his footstool.

	And then we read in 1 Corinthians 15:25

		(25) 	…he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
(That 						is footstool.)

		(27)	…put all things under his feet…(that is footstool, they're
all the same.)

	Now, that's footstool. 

69.	The word 'reign', literally means to 'reign or rule', comes from the
word 'basileuo' [Strong 936] which means sovereign. Which means the
foundation of all power where God has all authority. Now, so therefore
that comes with His Presence. When Headship, (which is now) is in the
presence of the Bride, all the power of God, all that lies there right
in the presence of the Bride. Reigning, and He is reigning today.

	Now, don't miss this, Revelation 10:1-2. (I'll just go over this again
to help you catch It, what you missed.)  

		(1)	And  I saw another mighty (messenger) come down from heaven, 					
clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head,… 

	Now, who has the rainbow? God. That's the One of Revelation 4, He came
down. He's the One sitting on the Throne. All right, notice, 2,3,7.

		(3) 	And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: when he had 
					cried, seven thunders uttered their voices: (Okay:)

		(2) 	…he (also) had in his hand a little book…his right foot upon
the sea, 					his left foot on the earth,

		(7) 	… in the days of the voice of the seventh (messenger), when he
shall 					begin to sound, the mystery of God (is going to) be
finished…

70.	 All right, now we're looking at the fact here,  that all of these
things begin to take place, the literal reign. The literal putting under
of the enemies. The literal extinction of death itself has started with
the very Presence of God in this hour. And the Presence of God demands
the messenger.

	Now, there's the thing that you've got to keep in your mind. This is
where so many people say, "Oh,  who needs Elijah, what is all that
stuff? Elijah is supposed to come and restore. He's supposed to do this,
he's supposed to do that." Who said so? When the Scripture says in
Matthew 17, "Elijah is supposed to come and restore all things." Who is
to say what the all things are? Does it mean Elijah is going to rebuild
the temple? Is he going to rebuild the Holy Land? What's he going to do?
Who's to say, unless God tells. 

71.	Now, It already tells you in Acts 3, the One Who restores is going
to restore all the things spoken by the mouth of all the holy prophets.
Which means to set in order every single thing the Word has brought
forth. Now, so there's got to be an end time messenger.

	Now, the Presence with a messenger is the beginning of the end. Now,
who would have thought of that? No man of himself would have thought of
that. You go ahead and read Scripture, say, "But in the days of the
Voice, the seventh messenger, He begins to sound." Who's to place It? 

	As It says also in the Book of 1 Corinthians, at the last Trump. But
over there under the Seventh Trump there's another trump. Are there two
last trumps? Sure. One to the Gentiles, one to Israel. But if you want
to be real picky you can come up and say literally, "Well, the last
trump is the last trump, so therefore the last trumpet sounds under,
under the Sixth Seal, the last trump is where the vials and all are
poured out, so therefore the Saints go through the tribulation." And you
can kill the whole thing. Now, where's your messengers, where's your
Presence, where's anything? Where's your chronology? Now, who can tell
us these things? There's only One could tell us and that would be God
Himself, because God wrote the Book. Paul didn't write the Book, God
wrote the Book.

	Because he said, "The things I teach you are not something that I
learned by myself, they're strictly by revelation."

72.	All right notice: if what we have seen is true, then this has to fit
1 Corinthians 15:23-24, Revelation 5:10:, 20: 6, and 22:5. Now if what
we said is true, there's got to be lining up with Scripture. Up to date
I think we've lined up Scripture, so there's no great problem here. 

	[1 Corinthians 15:] 23-24

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

		(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.

	Okay, let's go back to Revelation 5:10.

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

	When would that happen? When the Seals are opened. When were they
opened? In the Presence of the Parousia. What happened? The Lamb took
the Seals off, climbed upon the Throne, the Father came down. Okay,
let's go to [Revelation] 20:6. 

		(6) 	Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection:
on such 					the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests
of God and 					of Christ, (notice, priests of God and of Christ) and
reign a thousand 					years.

73.	Now, what's the First Resurrection? In His Presence. Okay, let's go
to [Revelation] 22:5]  

		(5) 	And there shall be no night there;… no candle, neither light of
the 						sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and shall reign for
ever 						and ever.

	When does that start? Back under the reign. Now, I started this morning
and showed you that Jesus, that One… the High Priest now on the
Throne, that He is the One in the Millennium, He is the One at the White
Throne, and He is the One on the Throne in the New Jerusalem at the top
of Mount Zion, and the Pillar of Fire over Him. That's when He hands It
all back to God, and God becomes All and in all.

	Now listen, if this is the start of the end where God becomes All and
in all, and everything is brought under subjection, then God must be
working in the Bride now to bring her under perfect not subjection in
the sense that you were going to subject somebody, because that's not
the way the Lord does it. He said, "My sheep hear My Voice, and they
follow Me. And I give unto them Eternal Life, and they shall never
perish. Nor any man pluck them out of My Father's hand."

	The Psalmist said,  [Psalms 23]

		(1) 	The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.

		(2) 	(He leadeth me beside the still waters. He maketh me to lie down 
					in the green pastures:) 

	All the way through the Scripture you see a perfection of God dealing
with His people on the level of a life. This is where the life is. And
so many people mistake it, they say, "Oh, I want to see that life." And
they think in terms of a character. They think in terms of a fruit. They
think in terms of a power.

74.	Listen, that Life is here, and that Life is bringing a union of the
Bride member with the God Who is the Head of it, in a union with Him
where there is not just an empathy, but there is a literal life flowing
and moving until we're moved from glory to glory as by the Presence of
God, as by the Spirit of God that Word becoming manifest. But I can't
see the manifestation out here that some people preach. I'm preaching a
manifestation which is based upon a revelation which makes you closer to
God and draw it closer to you. Although the prophet said, "It is not how
to get close to God." I'm not talking about that kind of closeness. I'm
talking of revelation.

	The prophet distinctly said, "We have seen the Word of God demonstrated
in power, but never in its revelation. And that's what's wrong! We've
had too much demonstration of power, and not enough of the revelation.
Now, that's what the Seventh Seal is all about in my understanding.

75.	God came down and that midst stood a prophet. And God did by him and
through him which would render that man only a voice, because the words
of a man would never do what the Word to that man did. So, They were not
his words. This vindicated him as the One Who is able to speak, and the
One that people should fear. And people never did fear Him, but many
people died, because they didn't fear Him. Because they tempted and
proved God, and tested God and they died, because they were rebellious.

	The same man was given the power of life and death. But it was not his
job to declare death. It was God's job, because the Word was already
declaring death, at the same time was declaring life. And therefore any
man could take an authority outside of that which was natural in God was
entirely wrong. So, he never took the authority of death, when he test
Cain He let it go by. And from that time on we saw the natural progress
which came place in 1958. From that time on came serpent seed. 

76.	And remember, the prophet in the former-rain sows the seed of the
entire Bible, from the serpent, that the eye of the prophet, the prophet
in the former-rain. In other words the whole Bible is set forth at that
time of the man's ministry. Every ministry is fulfilled. But the great
mystery of all ages is: how does the Seventh Seal operate? How do we get
our change? How do these things attain? It attained because God came
down in the Presence of that prophet. That prophet being thoroughly and
wonderfully vindicated. Absolutely made to review before the Word as the
one who was the mouth-piece of Almighty God. Then God began revealing a
secret. And it was because of these secrets, because of the Word
revealed that the Bride is able to come back to the image of Almighty
God.

	You say, "Well, how is that?" I know that many people falter over the
very fact that I keep saying these things. But brother/sister, let me
tell you flat, it was Adam and Eve who fell from the Word. The first
fall. We got to get back.

77.	So, where are we? We're right here in the Parousia, the Appearing
being perfected. For without us, those in the grave cannot be made
perfect. And we have no way to be made perfect unless God Himself does
the perfecting. He came down once before at the time of Abraham. He did,
He came down other times, there's no doubt about it. But at the time of
Abraham He came down It was so preposterous to believe the promise, and
He said, "At this hour, this is the age that you're going to have a
son." 	

	"Why, (she said) maybe thirty years ago it might have been okay. But
(she said) we're not even capable of doing the act, even as an act of
pleasure." And she laughed up her sleeve. 

	You know, she looked at God and she looked at herself and she laughed.
There's a lot of people right today look at what God has done, because
He's veiled in that Word and they laugh, and they say, "Aw, there's
nothing to It." But you know what? There is something to It. There's
plenty to It, because this is the way the Lord…

	I hope that you caught what I'm trying to say. I know tonight wasn't
nearly as clear as this morning on the grounds I had a lot to read.
Didn't want to keep you too long. But remember this one thing: God is
doing something brother/sister. And He started it over here in
Corinthians, and it starts with the Parousia. It starts with the fact
that He is here. And that is exactly what the Seventh Seal is all about.


78. That is what That Coming is all about. Because without this Coming,
God must come and destroy utterly. Because He said in Malachi, "the day
cometh that shall burn like an oven. and all the wicked and all the
proud shall be burnt, and I shall neither leave them root not branch."
He said that. He said, "Behold, I send you Elijah before the great and
dreadful day of the Lord." He said. "The wicked are going to be ashes
under the soles of the feet of the righteous." He said, "I'm going to do
that." Nobody is going to stop it. Nobody is going to stop it, nobody
can stop it. But what about the fact that at the end time something must
be done. Who's going to do it? You see, there's the whole picture. 

	Nobody wants to believe for one minute that something needs to be done.
Nobody wants to believe that the Book of Revelation said, "You're
wretched, your miserable, you're poor, you're blind, you're naked." You
tell me that kind of a bride is going to go in a Rapture? You tell me
that's the kind of bride God's going to marry? 

79.	I'm going to tell you something: I'm not a puritan, I wish I were. I
wish I was a most moral and finest person that ever lived. I'm not. But
I tell you, I could never crawl into bed with a woman that had somebody
else. You can have her. Not me. And I'll tell you, God's way ahead of
me, He wants a virgin to, and His is a virgin of that Word. And It said,
"The wise went in, they were ready." There was something wrong with the
others, they couldn't go in. They weren't ready.

	Now, I want to ask you a question: who was ready in the days of Jesus?
Who made them ready? John the Baptist, he was called 'Elijah'. And the
second half of that phrase must be fulfilled, "the hearts must be turned
back to the fathers." 

	The same thing that that one messenger did in that Bride, or to that
people, which was to get them ready, the same thing has to happen today.
And God's done it. Man doesn't want to recognize that. And there is
where the Seventh Seal will remain forever closed. I said, "The Seventh
Seal will remain a seal of silence and forever closed to everybody, but
those that believe what the Word of God has said, 'Behold, I will send
you Elijah, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the
Lord'."

80.	 The Lord your God shall descend with a Shout, with the Voice of the
archangel, the trump of God. The Lord your God will come by His Spirit
and give you the revelation to you, to quicken you, to make you
understand your relationship to Him. Who and what He is, and what He has
in you, and what you have in Him. And at that time, He will raise the
dead and take you in a Rapture. That's exactly what the Bible said. You
try to bypass It by saying, "Oh Bro. Vayle, I'm born again, I'm fine."
Go ahead and see what happens.

	The Lord bless you, let's rise. Remember, I'm not your enemy. I'm not
your enemy. And I can't help you, because I've got no way to help you.
But I know this one thing: there's a God in Heaven Who made a remedy, so
He can get a Bride out of here.

	Heavenly Father, we thank You for Your love and Your Life, Your
goodness. Your righteousness, Lord, not our morals, not our anything,
because of ourselves we have nothing and we know that. But we know this
one thing, as You came down the Garden of Eden, one man was lost and
undone. You started redemption, we know, Lord, there's only thing can
happen, You've got to finish it, and if we could believe that You're
going to come down to finish it, why can we not believe that You've come
just a little further; and come on right down and finish the work
amongst which I believe You'll do?

	Lord, enlighten our minds, take the veil off the minds of God. In fact,
Lord, there's actually a vice upon some people's heads as it were, maybe
yet on our own. Squeezing as it were, whatever spiritual intellect we
had until it would just make people forget everything they ever knew and
wonder what's it all about. Is there anything to anything anyway? 

	But, Father, when You see a manifestation through a demonstration, and
I realize, Lord, that many here have not seen what I have seen and been
acquainted with personally what I have been acquainted with. But, Lord,
neither did men in the days of Paul see the Pillar of Fire, but they
believed. And there is a revelation, and there is someone, Lord, who can
take a revelation. And we thank You for that tonight that there will be
those who believe when they see that which is surely indicated in the
Bible. And surely vindicated as it comes forth marked from the Bible,
that these things had been true.

	Just like in the old days, Lord, when the Word went around and said,
"There was a man, there was a man in Jerusalem, a man in Israel, what a
man He was. But you know, they crucified Him. But people saw Him later
on and people believed by the word of testimony."

	And, Father, we believe at this end time and know that there certainly
was a visitation from You, and that visitation has not ceased, but that
Presence is here with every ear-mark of Scripture. And there will be,
and there is a going on of God bringing in about a Divine Order at this
time, that is going to take a Bride off the earth and set her in the
Millennium and right into the eternality of Mount Zion.

	By faith tonight, Lord we believe we're a part of that. Not that we've
made ourselves, or not that we have in ourselves anything whatsoever,
Lord, we're at that place where You know, we know, Lord, that You are
the One Who is doing it. And if we are going to get anywhere, it is only
because You had done it. If anything happens which is good, it is only
because You will do it.

	So, tonight, Father, as never before we would give You the pre-eminence
and worship God. And we will do it in Him and through the Name of the
Lord Jesus Christ, the One Who died and rose again. And we associate
ourselves, Lord, with you only through the revealed Word and no other
way.

	And now, Lord, be with us as we go, and may we meet again, we don't
know it, it's up to You. And may there be health and strength granted, O
God, but above all, may there be spiritual insight which gives us that
growth to grow up unto Him Who alone is worthy. And unto the King
eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be all power and honor
and glory through Jesus Christ our Savior. Amen.    

 

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