Elijah Ministry  

Bro. Lee Vayle   -     Feb. 01,1981

	Heavenly Father, again we thank You for the privilege we have, for
meeting in Your house Lord, a place You have provided for us.  A place
my God, where You have invited us to come together to worship You, to
receive knowledge, understanding, correction, in various ways. 
Correction concerning Your understanding, and ways of life, and all
those things, Lord.  We know that here’s a place that can be found, if
we are faithful, we know that You are faithful.  And so, we believe,
Lord, this morning you will help us, to know the things of God which
have been revealed to us in this hour.  And also, our conduct and our
faith concerning them.  Though we invoke Your blessing, Lord, upon lip
and ear this morning, and upon hearts and minds in Jesus name we pray. 
Amen.  You may be seated. 

1.	Now, our previous study of the Elijah ministry, we stated the message
would be in three divisions.   Number one: the necessity for Elijah’s
advent.   Number two: what that ministry is. Number three:  what the
ministry accomplishes.  And our reading of course, was found in Malachi
4:5-6 as the text. 

		(1)	For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all
the 

                        proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be
stubble: and the day

                        that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD
of hosts, that it shall

                        leave them neither root nor branch.

		(2)	But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness
arise

                        with healing in his wings; and (you) shall go
forth, and grow up as calves

                        of the stall.

		(3)	 And (you) shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes
under the

                         soles of your feet in the day that I shall do
this, saith the LORD of hosts.

	That of course, is verse 1, that He is going to do It. 

		(4)	 Remember (you) the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded
unto

			 him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.

 		(5)	Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of
the 

                        great and dreadful day of the LORD:

		(6) 	And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and
the heart

		            of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite
(utterly, that’s an 

                        essential annihilation) the earth with a curse.

2.	Now, the text of course was, the sending of Elijah, before the great
and dreadful day of the Lord,  to turn the hearts of the children back
to the fathers.  Now, in verses 1-3, 

		(1)	For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all
the 

                        proud, yea, all that do wickedly, shall be
stubble: and the day

                        that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD
of hosts, (and) it 						shall leave them neither root nor branch.

		(2)	But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness
arise

                        with healing in his wings; and (you) shall go
forth, and grow up as calves

                        of the stall.

		(3)	 And (you) shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes
under the

                         soles of your feet in the day that I shall do
this, saith the LORD of hosts.

 	Now, you can see here in verses 1-3 that there are two groups of
people under review, as to the end-time disposition of the entire world.
 And Point B, we see that ‘the great and dreadful day of the Lord’
in verse 5, is actually verses 1 and 3.  Verse 5, 

		

 		(5)	Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of
the 

                        great and dreadful day of the LORD:

	And that great and dreadful day is, the earth will burn as an oven, the
wicked shall be burnt up with it.  They shall be like ashes under the
soles of the feet of the righteous.  

3.	Now, this is a repeat or a confirmation of Isaiah 66:15-16

		(15)	For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots
like

                        a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and
his rebuke with flames

                        of fire.

		(16)	 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh:
and

                         the slain of the LORD shall be many.

 4.	Point C, we note that this scenario, of both Malachi and Isaiah, is
not the complete picture, dealing with that time.  A completer picture,
is found over in the Book of Joel 2:30-31

		(30)	And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood,
and fire,

                        and pillars of smoke.

		(31)     The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into
blood, before

                       the great and terrible day of the LORD come.  

	And this is repeated also in the Book of Acts 2:19-20, and confirmed to
us in the end-time.  

		(19)	And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth

                        beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:

		(20)	 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood,

                         before (or, immediately previous to that)
…great and notable day 						of the Lord come:

5.	Point D, that this is the Sixth Seal of the Great Tribulation, cannot
be denied.  Over in  Revelation 6:12-17

		(12)	And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there
was a

                        great earthquake; and the sun became black as
sackcloth of hair, and

                        the moon became as blood;

 	Now, this explains how the moon is turned into blood, and the sun into
darkness.  It tells you it’s going to be by a horrible earthquake. 
And evidently, this will be of such gigantic proportions as to eclipse
anything that a volcano could do.  I don’t understand it, I just
believe it.  Now, It says also here: 

		(13)	 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree
casteth her

                         untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty
wind.

		(14) 	And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together;
and every

                        mountain and island were moved out of their
places.

		(15) 	And the kings of the earth, (now watch) and the great men, and
the rich 					men, and the chief captains, the mighty men, and every
bondman, and every

                        freeman, hid themselves in the dens and in the
rocks of the mountains;

		(16) 	And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us
from the

                        face of him that (sits) on the throne, and from
the wrath of the Lamb:

		(17)	 For the great day of his wrath is come; …

	Now, you’ll know that great day of utter destruction by fire is near,
when you see these things happen.  (See?)  So, therefore, this is more
of a complete picture.  

6.	Now, Point E, or five, the culmination which is the great and
dreadful day of utter burning, is also set forth in, Revelation 19:11-16
and you will see how this lines perfectly with what we saw in Isaiah.  

		(11)	And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that
sat

                        upon him was called Faithful and True, and in
righteousness he doth

                        judge and make war.

	Now, this is what the kings of the earth were fearful of because, they
didn’t want to face Him.  

		(12)	 His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head, were many
crowns;

                         and he had a name written, that no man knew,
but he himself.

		(13) 	And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name
is 

                        called The Word of God.

 	You think perhaps at this time, they are so confused with their
religiosity.  They are so confused with names, that they didn’t even
know what name to call Him anymore.  As well as He Himself, only knowing
what name He had.  

7.	Bro. Branham said, “There’s a change of name coming.”  But you
can see here, that their condition is so deplorable, that they have
found themselves so wrong and there’s no answer anywhere, they would
also wonder.  

		(13) 	And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: (His own
Blood, 

                        by the way) and his name is called The Word of
God.

		(14)	 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white
horses,

                         clothed in fine linen, white and clean.

		(15)	 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, (see, that was back in
Isaiah) 

                         that with it he should smite the nations: and
he … rule them with a rod 

                         of iron: (and, that’s where He breaks them
with a rod of iron) and he 					treadeth the winepress of the fierceness
and wrath of Almighty God.

		(16)	 And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING
OF 

                         KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

	Now, you notice, He leaves neither …or rather, this coincides
perfectly with this over here.  Where Malachi 4:1 where It says, “He
leaves them neither root nor branch.”  In other words, there is no
further lineage, or mankind, left upon the earth at this particular
time.  

8.	Point F, we have established a proven chronology of events.  One:
there is a Great Tribulation, which we know of, is three and a half
years of havoc and chaos, before the utter destruction.  So therefore,
there’s three and a half years of Great Tribulation under the Sixth
Seal.  And number. Two: there is then utter destruction, which will
demand a renovation for the Millennium. 

9.	 Point G, we also see a most remarkable extension of the grace of
God, to some of the people.  For in verse 2, there is the people who
miss both the Tribulation, and the burning.  And they are described in
this verse.  You’ll notice it over here in Malachi 4:2.

		(2)	But unto you that fear my name (now notice those over there,
don’t

                        know the first thing about the name. Here, My
name) shall the Sun of 					righteousness arise with healing in his
wings; …

	Now, rising with healing in His wings, signifies the quick flight of
God doing something for the people.  And that healing will have to be
spiritual, because they do not enter into either the Tribulation, or the
Day of Judgement of the wrath of God.  And It says, because of this,
“…you shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.  And you
shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of
your feet, in the day that I do this...” [Mal 4:2-3] And you will
notice, that though they do escape destruction, and the wrath of that
great day, they will be a part of that great day.  And that’s exactly
what is said in Revelation 19:  He’s coming with His saints.  Do you
follow? All these Scriptures, dovetail perfectly. 

10.	Now, Point H, we are now ready to receive a most marvelous truth in
chapter 4.  It is that there are actually two comings of Jehovah, set
forth in the Word of Malachi 4: and substantiated by Malachi 3: which I
will touch later on.  Wherein, we see that in one coming, Jehovah does
not smite.  But in another coming, He does smite, and that to utter
destruction.  Now, that’s the first thing to get your minds settled
on.  And you’ll begin to understand, because the casual reading does
not give you that emphatic understanding.  

	Now, this lines perfectly with all other Scripture, and substantiates
the doctrine of the Appearing and the Coming, of which Jehovah has a
part in both.  Now, you couldn’t have it any other way, or the
Scripture wouldn’t line up.  There’s no use in trying to probe, and
propagate and promulgate a doctrine of the New Testament of the
Appearing and the Coming, and then find something different in the Old
Testament.  It isn’t going to work.  (See?)  

11.  Point I, we will now proceed to prove these two comings.  First,
notice, and make sure you get this.  In Malachi 4:6b 

		(6b)	…lest I come and smite the earth (utterly) with a curse, has
nothing to do with Malachi 4:1and 3.  

		(1)	For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all 

                        the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, (and
we’ll take you back

                        to Revelation on that later) shall be stubble:
and the day that cometh

                        shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts,
(Thus Saith the Lord,

                        that day is coming, see, and) shall  leave them
neither root nor branch.

		(3)	… for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the
day that I

                        shall do this, …

	Now, that has nothing at all to do with this where He says, “Lest I
come and smite…”  Because 4:6 is optional. It’s optional. It
could, or it couldn’t.  It will, or won't, depending but in this other
there is no way you’re going to miss It.  And of course this coincides
with perfectly with Matthew 23:  when It says, “Fill you up the cup of
iniquity.  Because there’s a day coming, where I’m going to demand
from the blood of righteous Abel, to every last faith, that has been
destroyed.  I’m going to demand it, and you’re going to die for
it.”  And that, is not the White Throne Judgement.  That’s the great
and dreadful day of the Lord.  

12.  So, in number 6, there is a variable.  It is optional.  But when
you deal with verse 1, no way are they the same.  Jehovah comes in His
great and dreadful day, and it cannot be circumvented by Elijah, or even
by Jesus Christ, nor by a perfect people.  If there were such. (See?)  

 	This is not of the category back there in the day of Sodom, where if
there were ten righteous people, God’s wrath would’ve passed over. 
(See?) That was optional.  But the ten righteous weren’t there.  There
were how many?  Not even four.  One was half way righteous, and the two
girls were semi, semi, one quarter righteous, and mama, missed the boat
entirely.  But you know something?  God did not destroy the righteous
with the wicked.  And the Bride was back there safe, simply typified in
Abraham.  

	So, therefore we see there is a day coming, which cannot be
circumvented, though Elijah come.  Though Jesus Christ Himself plea,
though all the saints rose from the dead and had one mass meeting.  And
said, “Oh, God spare the earth.”  In no way, will it be spared. 
(See?)  But the other, has a providential, a proviso, an alternative, a
hope.  Do you follow?  

13.	 All right.  Nothing can be done about that day.  In verses 1 and 3,
and also in 5, it is coming, God is coming, and He is coming in wrath. 
Now, we go back to [Malachi 4:] 2 -3.  

		(2)	But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness
arise 

                        with healing in his wings; and (you) shall go
forth, and grow up…

	Doesn’t say one thing of root and branch being destroyed here. 
Doesn’t say one thing about them burying any problems.  

		(2)	 … (you’ll be) as calves of the stall. (In other words,
you’ll be pampered 					and taken care of, in a place of refuge.) 

		(3)	 And (you’ll) shall tread down the wicked; for (they’ll) be
(as) ashes

                         under …your feet in the day that I shall do
this, (Thus) saith the LORD …

	Revelation 19 is coming to pass.  I know, some people are kind of
squeamish, they say, “Well, I don’t want to be in that group that
would tread down anybody.  Well, hallelujah, I’ll take your place any
day of the week.”  I’m not interested in your little squeamish ideas
of love.  Keep it.  And remember, verse 3, the day that they tread this
down, is Revelation 19:11-16 which I read.  And also, Revelation 6:12-17
which I also read. Now, notice also, in Revelation 6:12-17 which is the
Sixth Seal, three and a half year Tribulation also ordained, and must
come, and there is no way out, for Elijah cannot stop this.  Thus we see
that Jehovah comes, and He does smite …period…not a question mark. 
And nothing can be done about it.  

 14:  That He comes to the Bride, before the great and dreadful day of
the Lord, is set forth in the New Testament, as we well know, in 1
Thessalonians 4:13 to 5:11.  So,

		(13)	…I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them


                        which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as
others which have no 						hope.

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

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

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

	It tells you how you’re going to be well fed like calves of the
stall, and miss the Great Tribulation.  It says because, God Himself is
going to be Present.  You see?  Therefore, He is coming, and there’s
an alternative.  You can be part of His Presence and part of the Bride,
or you can chuck it.  I’ll show you that really belongs to the Elect,
but I just put that in there because, remember there is a moral bias. 
The man has a choice.  All right.  

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

15.	 Now, if He’s going to descend and do this, He’s got to come to
do It.  But He’s got to come and do the other.  So, there’s two
comings here in Malachi.  (See?) I wouldn’t be surprised, there's
nobody under high heaven, preaching that but the people in this Message.
 I've never seen that in the book,  anywhere.  And I’m pretty clear on
the text, or have been through the theologians, 

		(16)	… with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God:
and the

                       dead in Christ shall rise first: (He’s got to
be there, so they raise.)

		(17)    	Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up
together with them

                       	in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and
so, shall we ever be with the  

			Lord.

	

	And that tells you where you go after He descends.  The Holy Spirit
then takes you to be  where the incarnation takes place.  As Bro.
Branham said, “God does not incarnate Himself, until this time, when
He’s ready to come back with the Bride.”  That’s when God presents
to Himself, the glorious Bride, because God slips into the body, which
is His glorious body.  And you see, we’ve got all the other Brides, in
the same eternal glory.  (See?)  Now, 

		(18)    Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

16.   [1 Thessalonians 5:]  

   

 	(1)       But of the times and the seasons, brethren, (you) have no
need that I 				write unto you.

	(2)       For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so
cometh as a 

                        thief in the night.

	(3) 	For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction
(comes)

                        upon them, as travail upon a woman with child;
and they shall not escape.

	(4)       But (you), brethren, are not in darkness, that that day
should overtake you as

                        a thief.

     Now, He’s not talking about the Rapture.  He’s talking about
the judgement coming. He said, “You’re privy to that which will get
you out of it.” 

	(5)       (You) are all the children of light, and the children of the
day: we are not of

                        the night, nor of darkness.

	(6) 	Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be
sober.

	(7)       For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be
drunken are drunken

                        in the night.

	(8)       But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the
breastplate of faith

                        and love; and for an helmet, the hope of
salvation.

	(9)       For God hath not appointed us to wrath, …

17.  Now, he lets you know, and he’s explaining in chapter 5: what
lies in chapter 4:  that the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven, and
become Present.  And this is the time, that the Bride is equal to escape
the tribulation, and the wrath of God.  Which is that mighty day at the
very end of the tribulation.  (See?)  Now,

	(10)    Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live
together 

                       (unto) him.

     Now we notice especially in verse 4:16-17, which I already showed
you, mentioned the two aspects of Godhead.  The Holy Spirit Himself,
descending in order to raise the dead.  And to do a work in the Bride,
whereby she shall be transformed, in order that same Holy Spirit may
take the Bride up to the very Presence of Jesus, who is there seated on
the throne of His Father’s glory.  So, that the saints may now crown
Him as their King, and Husband.  And God Himself, Holy Spirit, now
enters into that One.  …And then God has incarnated Himself again, so
that they can come back and take over the earth.  

18.  Now, by now you can surely see when, and why Elijah must come.  He
is to be here at the time Jehovah comes for the Bride.  And this
Elijah’s ministry is a must.  An absolute necessity, to keep judgement
from the Bride, and all else, lest it would happen to her, as is seen in
Revelation 20: and in chapter 11.  

      Now, this is what I’m looking at in here: 

	(11)	And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose
face

                        the earth and the heaven fled away; and there
was found no place for 				them.

     In other words: when that Presence of God comes, God demands
something that the ordinary intelligence, and understanding and wisdom
of even the Spirit filled people cannot comprehend, until the hour it is
given to them to comprehend It.  And that is, that God must have Elijah
come.  There’s been so many spooks about it, and so many scarecrows,
that nobody wants to even hear about it.  They get away from that stuff.
 Then get away from God.  Get prepared for the Great Tribulation, and
the wrath to come.  Because evidently this one, must do something, which
will compensate for whatever is wrong. (we’ll talk about that later)
at that particular time, so that she can stand in the Presence of God.  


19.  Now, our text was Malachi 4:5-6, and of course verse 6 is the one
we talk about Elijah.  It tells exactly what he must do.  And we might
not understand what that is.  But he will do it anyway.  Now, a lot of
people get stumbled there. They figure they’ve got to be so perfectly
God, and that’s individually, “If they don’t hear from God, then
nobody’s going to hear from God.”  Well, drop dead.  What makes you
think you can hear from God? I figure, I’ve literally heard a voice
within me speak as a voice of the Holy Spirit, not speaking audibly,
because that could never happen to me, because I am not a prophet, even
though I heard just standing still like a voice crying out there.  That
is not it at all.  

      Only a prophet can hear the literal Voice of God. But He could
take my auditory nerve and play upon it.  Set up those vibrations which
my brain would translate, and I would hear him.  That’s exactly what
He must have done.  And I can stand here and tell you, what He told me,
has come to pass.  Therefore, I believe it is God, working in these
channels.  But so what?  God doesn’t have to talk to me, and tell me
anything.  (See?)  People get scared off right away, when it comes to
Elijah.  And they figure if it’s not written out there, in front of
their faces, so that they know, then all right, there’s nothing to it.
 But the Word of God tells us, Elijah has to come, and he’s going to
do something.  And the beautiful part is, what he does, will be
sufficient.  It will give the extension of grace to a Bride, and only a
Bride, so that she can abide in His Presence.  

20.  All right.  Look again what it says in Malachi 4:5-6

	(5)	Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the


                        great and dreadful day of the LORD:

      Now remember, that great and dreadful day of the Lord, is when the
earth is going to burn like an oven.  And God’s holy saints, with God
incarnated, are coming back with flames of fire, and the wicked, the
proud ones, are going to be nothing but ashes.  Cho!…They’ll go just
like that.  And they'll be under the feet of those that are with King of
kings, and Lord of lords.  Now, Elijah is going to come before that that
great and dreadful day, and the Scripture says,

	(6)	 … he shall turn the heart of the … children (back) to their
fathers …

     It said first of all, here He’s going to turn the hearts of the
fathers to the children.  

21.  Now we instantly note.  Number One: the first phrase or phase.  Now
notice, I use them both. The first phrase is a phase.  Which is a period
of time.  Now, turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, is
already credited to John the Baptist, as the Elijah in the days of the
flesh of the Word.   [John 1:1,3,14]

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

                        the Word was God.

	(3)	All things were made by him;… 

	

	And then It says:

	(14)	… and the Word became flesh, (and He dwelt amongst us) 

     All right, and the world knew him not.  They certainly did not. 
And it took John the Baptist, to tell Who He was.  To point Him out.  

22:  All right.  John the Baptist is the Elijah in the days of the flesh
of the Word of God.  And you’ll notice, over here in Luke1:13-17, the
very Words of Malachi.  

	(13)	But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer
is heard;

                        and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son,
and thou shalt call his name 

                        John.

	(14)	 And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at
his birth.

	(15)	 (And) he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink
neither wine 

                         nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with
the Holy Ghost, even from his 			 mother's womb.

	(16)	 And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord
their God.

	(17)	 And (John) shall go before (the Lord God of Israel) in the spirit
and 				power of (Elijah), to turn the hearts of the fathers to the
children, and 				the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make
ready a people prepared 			for the Lord.

       Now, It tells you right there what going to turn the hearts of
the fathers to the children, is. It sets It forth.  

23.  Now, also you’ll notice in Matthew 11:7-14, and we really don’t
need to read that.  Jesus admits to John the Baptist being the Elijah
for that hour, if they could receive It.  Now you see, they couldn’t
receive It, because they are all geared to believe an Elijah before the
great and dreadful day of the Lord.  They couldn’t see two of them. 
They couldn’t see two Coming's. All they could see was one.  Now he
said, if you can get It, you’re going to see something here.  And when
they explained It, they still didn’t get It.  Do you know why? 
Because they didn’t want to get It.  They didn’t want to get It,
because they had nothing in them to want to get It.  If God said, that
Jesus said, “If those Pharisees, you ain’t got no place in you for
the Word.”  So, that takes care of that.  

      Now,  [Matthew 11:15]

	(15)	He that hath (an ear), let him hear. 

     But, he couldn’t, because, he had no understanding.  

24.  Then, in Matthew 17: when they said,

	(10)	 (We thought) Elias must (truly) first come.

		(11)	(And He said, Elijah must) truly shall first come…(before the
kingdom 					comes on the earth, before the great and dreadful day of
the Lord.)  

	But I want you to know, He’s already come.  There are two phases to
It.  Scofield caught that.  Scofield must have had the Holy Ghost.  Now,
this fact of John being Elijah in AD 1-32, does not obviate the end-time
Elijah, of Matthew 17:10-11 where Jesus said,

	(10)	 … Elias must (truly) first come.

		(11)	… and restore all things.

25.  And the same thing, without the name of the Elijah, is reiterated,
in the Book of Acts 3:19b.

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

   It lets you know a certain revival is going to break forth, like a
fresh breath of air, upon a stale atmosphere.  When the world and the
churches have gone stale, God begins to breathe, and a revival breaks
forth.  

		(20)	(Even) he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was (appointed)
unto 					you:

		(21)	Whom the heaven must (retain) until the (restoration) of all
things, 

                         which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his
holy prophets …

	And It tells you right there, there is going to be a Presence. There is
going to be a revival.  There’s going to be something that God Himself
is going to do.  And then It says, at that time you can expect Elijah to
be on the scene.  Because though God Himself is coming to …coming back
to this earth, for that great day, and a takeover.  Things must be
restored through somebody, and Jesus said, “Restoration comes by
Elijah.”  Now, if restoration comes by Elijah before His kingdom comes
back to earth, which He designated in Matthew 17:  Then whatever brings
restoration here before this same Jesus comes back, is the same person
in Matthew 17: which is Elijah.  

26.	 And let’s face it.  Elijah was there with Jesus, on the Mount of
Transfiguration.  Elijah was there with Jesus on the earth.  And Elijah
must be here in the Presence of God, when God Himself comes.  Because He
comes, and we saw that absolutely in the Appearing of 1 Thessalonians. 
Now, remember no way can Malachi 4:6 be abrogated.  Elijah has to come. 


  	Now we notice that the second phase, and phase, turn the hearts of
the children to the fathers.  But please notice: Now, watch carefully
what I’m going to tell you, and try to pick up my understanding of
this Scripture.  Now, let us please note, whatever the fathers
accomplished to be an effect in the children, the children have to come
back to that position, and effect of the end-time.  Do you follow me? 
If somebody had to come to work out something in the lives of the
people, then to be turned back, is to come to the same position and the
effect that was turned by that person, because it’s the same Spirit.  

	Now, the reason I’m saying this, is to give you the key, of what
turning the hearts of the fathers to the children were.  If we can
determine what happened under John, at the Presence of the Lord, we can
expect the same thing at the end, when the same Spirit of Elijah, and
the same God, is Present.  (See?)   Remember, God turned to the
Gentiles, and It doesn’t change God one bit.  If we are not
worshipping the same God as the Old Testament, if Jesus of the New is
not Jehovah of the Old, we are wrong.  

27.  Now, we should go back to Luke 1:16-17.  Now you see, I’m taking
you rapidly over a résumé here, and it must be done this way.  All
right.  

		(16)	And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord
their God.

	Now notice, It does not say ‘all of Israel’, shall be turned.  It
says ‘many’ shall be turned.  (See?)  Now, you’ll notice here the
prophet was on earth, already when God Appears.  Because this one, was
to go before Him, and he was born six months ahead of Him.  And he lived
until about until AD 32 when he went off the scene, because Christ must
increase, while John would decrease.  Now notice, verse 16, 

		(16)	And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord
their God.

	Now, who are those many? I’m glad you asked me, because I want to
tell you.  It’s the last first part of verse 17.  

		(17)	 …to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.

 	‘Many’ in Scripture, always would talk about the election. 
‘Many’ always describes the election.  I should have got my
Scripture lined up here with the Book of Romans and showed you.  The
‘many’ are the Elect, to make ready a people prepared.  And you’ll
notice, the people, are made ready who are already prepared.  

28.  Now, that word ‘preparation’ there, can’t be too hard to
understand.  Because we’ve got it over here in the Book of Romans 9:
again.  And It says here,

		(23)	… that he might make known the riches of his glory on the
vessels

                        of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto
glory,

		(15)	… I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy…

	Which is a prepared vessel which are the many. So, when you say here,
“Who is he going to turn to God?” He’s going to turn the Election
to God. You say,  "Didn’t know the Election were turned away."  Well,
you’re not very smart.  You see?  You’re putting too much what you
think lies within the atonement.  If you don’t watch out you’ll be a
hard shell, where everbody is saved, and nobody’s not saved. That's a
…?... rather.  Get to the place where, who worries about grace?  Who
worries about anything?  (See?)  You’ve got to know.  It’s like
according to the Scripture.  Men have eternal life.  The things of God
must be according to Scripture.  So therefore, we see verse 16, is the
same as the last little phrase in verse 17.  

29.	Now, Number Three: turning the hearts is explained.  Because the
word ‘ka’ in the Greek, is not always a conjunction.  It is used
many times, in fact, in my understanding, it’s used more times as a
preposition.  Which throws phrases into apposition.  Which means one
phrase means the same thing as the other. Now, … “to turn the hearts
of the fathers to the children,” even the disobedient to the wisdom of
the just.  Who’s the just Jesus? ( See?)  Or you’ve got a picture
here then.  What is John the Baptist doing?  (See? ) 

	Now notice, the word, ‘heart’ means understanding.  The word
‘father’ is a progenitor.  ‘Children’ means builders of the
house, or they that carry on the name. So therefore, the fathers are
those who God is going to use, in order to set up a household of faith. 
Which the children get carried away from it.  They got to get turned
back to It.  And you’ll notice the children here, which are builders
of the house, in the Greek are the heliopesia(?) which are the placed,
or adopted sons.  That’s the Election.  Now, did I lose any of you?  

	I’m sorry, the thing is, I have to dedicate a message to my good
buddies here, because, after all these years, they can’t really follow
me.  And I’m throwing the whole Book at you this morning…I’ve got
to preach hard and fast.  But, do you understand what I’m saying now?
“Turning the hearts of the fathers to the children.”  Who are the
fathers?  Who are the children?  What is turning the hearts?  Their
understanding was a failure.  Because It says, “Even the
disobedient.”  And that word ‘disobedient’ I found, is not
somebody in direct disobedience, or rebellion to a command, it is a
person who doesn’t understand. There’s no revelation on it.  

30.  So therefore, this one John the Baptist, was there to give a
revelation to the people, what was necessary for that hour.  (See?) Now,
let’s face it, if John had not been there, they would have missed Him.
 I brought you a sermon over a year ago, on ‘We have seen His Star in
the West’ and those three men coming, and following that star.  If it
had not been for that star, they would have missed Him.  You see?  Now
people just don’t want to understand, that God uses me, even with
Election, you’re ordained to be born again.  But it’s come by reason
of preaching.  

	You say, “Well, let’s face it.  If God wants me born again, He
doesn’t need a preacher.”   That’s where you’re wrong.  That’s
where they’re wrong here.  They say, “Hallelujah, if I’m Bride,
I’m going to make it.”  No sir!  If you’re going to make this
Rapture, if you’re going to make standing here, the Tree of Life. 
You’re going to have to have John the Baptist, or the Elijah of this
hour, whether you want it or not.  (See?)  That’s what people are all
messed up, in their thinking.  They don’t want to accede, to what God
has said.  The same, that's where Eve got all messed up.  Satan came by
and said, “Surely, you won’t die.  I’ll tell you how to bring
forth life, and you’ll have a good time doing it, too.”  Ever since
then, we suffered for our good time too.  

31.	Children are born of sexual desire.  If you hold a little baby dying
in your arms, or you’re holding a grown son dying in your
arms…it’s a hell on earth.  Getting off that Word, my brother, my
sister.  It’s what’s done it.  And John had to bring them back. 
Now, the children, the placed ones, the adopted, the Elect, the many,
must come back today to what the fathers passed on to the children. 
Which was, an understanding.  “And upon this I’ll build my
church.” [Mt 16:18] (See?)  Which is the revelation.  Now, it starts
with a revelation.  The revelation says, there’s one among you, I
don’t know Him.  I’ll spot Him when the time comes.  Now, think of
it.  We can make this clear by John’s own explanation, in 3:22-36, so
we go,  

		(22)	After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of
Judaea;

                        and there he tarried with them, and baptized.

		(23)     And John also was baptizing in Aenon near to Salim, because
there was

                        much water there: and they came, and were
baptized.

		(24)     (And) John was not yet cast into prison.

		(25)     Then there arose a question between some of John's disciples
and the 

                        Jews about purifying.

		(26)     And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that
was with

                        thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness,
behold, the same 

                        baptizeth, and all … come to him.

		(27)     John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it
be given

                        him from (above).

32.	And how in the world could John the Baptist impart anything to the
non-elect?  That’s why the church doesn’t know the first thing about
this, and doesn’t want to know the first thing about It.  And only the
Elect will get It.  The Scripture distinctly says the whole
world…Israel, sought for It, but the Election got It.  You can seek
God all you want, but, unless He sought you out, you’re finished. 
Now, 

 

		(28)     (You) yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the
Christ, but…

                        I am sent before him.

	What?  Listen, He was just six months ahead of Jesus in coming to this
earth.  John was here thirty and a half years, as far as I know.  But,
theology, or Scripture is supposed to say about a man becoming thirty
years of age, before he can teach.  John was thirty and one half years
when Jesus was thirty, and …?...  They were there all the time.  But
Jesus did not make Himself known as to His Presence.  But from the
moment He was spotted, He came more and more into the church, until He
took over.  You caught something there, I hope.  Because that’s what
Bro. Branham said about the Holy Ghost coming more and more into the
church.  See, though He came back in 1933, He did not come more and more
into the church.  

33.	Like they’ve got this mixed up hogwash down here in Fairburn,
trying to say some preacher down there’s got the idea, because he said
it’s right, ... that Bro. Branham only got the Holy Ghost at 2 o-clock
in the afternoon July 26, 1965.  Hogwash.  And double hogwash, and a lie
from the pit of hell.  You talk about such crud.  …?... of God that
man’s seen, wouldn’t have happened if he wasn’t full of the Holy
Ghost, and  prophet of God. John the Baptist, was full of the Holy Ghost
from his mother’s womb.  Halo over the boy’s head.  Whew, burn up
with this nonsense.  “Be sweet Bro. Vayle.”  Go ahead, go be sweet
for me.  Listen, 

	

		(29)     He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: (now watch) but the
friend 					of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth
greatly 					because of the bridegroom's voice: …

	John the Baptist stood there and heard the voice of God, in the flesh
of Jesus Christ. The last day, John the Baptist Elijah, will have to
hear the voice of the Bridegroom, or this does not work.  

		(29)	… therefore (my joy) is fulfilled.

	The last day Elijah hearing the voice of God for the Bridegroom, has
the ministry of his life fulfilled, in a spectacular, joyous joy. 
Because he knows jr heard for her, and brings her the Word.  

		(30)     He must increase, but I must decrease. (Now, John is still
talking, not Jesus)

		(31)     He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the
earth is earthly,

                        and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from
heaven is above all.

34.	Now, he’s telling you, “I’ve been listening to a voice.” The
same voice that He said, “When you baptize out there, John, and
you’re baptizing in Jordan, and you see that One coming, and the
Spirit of God descends on Him, that’s the One.”  The same Voice, was
in that One he pointed out.  (See?)  Now, that Voice that was in the
flesh, that John heard before It got in the flesh, you tell me that
William Branham, couldn’t hear that same Voice?  You’d have to be
sick, the proof is right here.  You tell me He speaketh from heaven,
somebody’s not going to hear?  Then who’s going to hear at the
end-time.  The friend of the Bridegroom.  Who was the friend of God,
back there in the early lesson?  Abraham, was a friend of God.  He'll
instruct, I know He'll instruct His kid right?  I know He’ll do It
right.  

	 And God took a little man William Branham, and made him a friend.
It'll be the last time message that opened the Seals, which will put the
Bride into the Rapture, before It’s all over.  

		(31b)    … he that cometh from heaven is above all.

		(32)     And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no
man 						(receives) his testimony.

	Now, that’s true, no man surely could.  But certain ones can the
Elect.  For It says in the next verse.

			 

		(33)     He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that
God is true. 

	See?  “The foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The
Lord (knows them which are) his.” [2 Tim 2:19] Set to His seal, that
God is true. 

		(34)     For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God
giveth

                        not the Spirit by measure unto him.

35.	Now, He’s talking about Jesus, whom He has identified.  Of whom,
He had the revelation.  Of whom He heard the Voice and now that voice is
in Him.  And that Voice that once spoke on earth, now speaks from
heaven.  Right?  I didn’t give you anything that I made up, I’m just
quoting Scripture.  (See?)  Now,

		(35)     The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his
hand.

		(36)      He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he
that believeth

                        not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of
God (abides in) him.

	Now look it, that wrath of God can be placed in two places; the White
Throne, and the Great Day we’re approaching. And who is it that comes
back on the Great Day of wrath of the terrible wrath of God?  That
dreadful, terrible day?  Is Jesus Himself, incarnated God.  Now He tells
you right here, “He that believes, shall I believe on this Scripture. 
I believe on that.”  Do you believe on Him that speaketh?  “Naw, He
doesn’t talk anymore.”   You just kissed eternal life good-bye.  

36.  Thirdly; John gave another record, John 1:25-34

		(25)	… Why (do you baptize) if (you’re) not that Christ, (or
Elijah), …

                        that prophet? (Who that prophet was, don’t ask
me.)	

		(26)	John (said), I baptize with water: but there standeth among you,
(one 					you) do not know;

		(27)     He (that) is, … coming after me is preferred before me,
whose shoe's

                        latchet I am (too unworthy) to unloose.	

		(28)	These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John

                        was baptizing.

		(29)	The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold
the

                         Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the
world.

		(30)	 This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is
preferred

                          before me: for he was before me.

		(31) 	And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to
Israel, 

                        therefore, am I come baptizing with water.

 	Now, how in the world did He before John the Baptist, when John the
Baptist was 6 months older that He was?  Talking about God in the man. 
He was before Him, in the beginning was the Word.  The Word was made
flesh.  

		(32)	And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from
heaven

                        like a dove, and it abode upon him.

		(33) 	And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water,
the same

                        said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the
Spirit descending, and 

                        remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth
with the Holy Ghost.

		(34)     And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.

	Now he said, “Look, this is the One, that is the Son of God, the Holy
Ghost came and nobody else saw, I saw It.  I made with It.  I …?...”
 

37.	Okay, let’s go to now,  Acts 10:38

		(38)	How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with

                        power: who went about doing good, and healing
all that were oppressed 

                        of the devil; for God was with him.

	Now he said…Jesus said concerning John, (and I'll read it to you
later on) concerning the fact that John witnessed to Me.  But, I’ve
got a greater witness.  And right here you can see John witnessed to
what nobody saw, and nobody could understand.  But He pointed it.  Then
Jesus went about being vindicated by God Himself.  

	Then over here in, John 15:24

		(24)	If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, 

                        they had not had sin: but now have they both
seen and hated both me

                        and my Father.

38.  Now, we go back to, John 5:33 plus the one I was telling you about.

		(33)	(You) sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth.
(Because it

                        was the truth.)

		(34)	But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say,
that (you) 

                        might be saved.

		(35)     He was a burning and a shining light: and (you) were willing
for a season… 

                     

	While it tickled your fancy.  While it went along with what you could
guess at.  Went along with what you could presume. That the minute It
struck pay dirt and fire, you said, “Get out of my hair.”  (See?)  

	

		(36)     But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works
which the

                        Father hath given me to finish, the same works
that I do, bear witness

                        of me, that the Father hath sent me.

	What about the works that "once more He speaketh from heaven?" 

	“Oh well Bro. Vayle, that’s a scary thing, and we don’t believe
that happened, you see,  because we’ve got the truth.”  Have you? 

		(37) 	And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness
of me. 

                       (You) have neither heard his voice at any time,
nor seen his shape.

		(38)     And (you) have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath
sent, …

                       (you don’t) believe.

	You wouldn’t believe that John the Baptist pointed out something that
you couldn’t see.  Then, it was proved what was there.  Bro. Branham
said the same thing, “The camera does not take psychology.”  And
they still wouldn’t believe. 

39.  Now listen, let’s just pick this up this fact.  If you have
got…to have the life of God, God Himself in the Resurrection proven to
you., you aren't a part of God, and a part of the Resurrection, to begin
with.  And if there came a time when we were so away in our
understanding, …and I’ll read you from Hosea, later on.  That the
thing was a mockery. That God was forced to change our thinking; our
understanding, and we turned our back on It.  Then say, “I’m a part
of God, and apart of the Resurrection.” It’s a spirit of hell. 
Because Jesus said, “That if we ever get behind that Pillar of
Fire,” you  come out saying, “that Jesus is Beelzebub, or the
prophet was of the devil.”  All right.   

		(39)    Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal
life: and they

                      are they which testify of me.

 	What did the testimony say, concerning the end-time?  “Behold I
come, not to smite, but to deliver.”  How, …are we going to know
that you are there?  “Well” he said, “That’s easy, I laid out my
Bible.”  The Elect always had, and always will know.  Because the
Elect cannot be deceived. 

40.  Four; we go to Acts 3:19-26, and we’re talking about turning the
hearts of the children back to the fathers.  

		(19)	… when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of
the 					Lord. (a revival, a fresh breath.)

	(20)	…(even) he shall send Jesus Christ, (God shall send Jesus the
Christ) 				which … was (appointed) unto you:

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

                        which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his
holy prophets since the 

                        world began.

	(22)     For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the
Lord your God

                        raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto
me; him shall ye hear in all 

                        things whatsoever he shall say unto you. (All
right, listen)

	(22)	… A prophet shall the Lord your God, raise up unto you…
(You’re going to)

                        hear in all things…   

	(23) 	And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear
that prophet,

                        shall be destroyed from among the people.

	(24) 	Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow
after, as many

                        as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these
days.

	(25)     (Listen. You) are the children of the prophets, …

     And that word is, heliopesia'(?) in the Greek, ‘adopted’ In the
Greek it’s adoption.  All right.  Who are the fathers?  The prophets. 
Who are the children?  The seed of the Word of the prophets.  Then what
understanding did the fathers give to the children?  The revelation of
the Word of the prophets.  What must they come back to?  That same
revelation, here It is right here. 

	(22)	…A prophet shall the Lord your God, raise up unto you… 

41. Now, let's watch It: 

	

	(26)	Unto you first, having raised up His Son. 

 

      That’s the Holy Spirit, manifested.  At that time precisely,
what He did in the earth, proving the He is that One in the
Resurrection.  And if He was raised up first, it means there’s got to
be at least a second. If not a third and a fourth.  Now, when does He
raise them up again?  The hour of the end-time.  And It says, that this
time if you don’t listen, it’s utter destruction, because the Word
‘destroy’ here, …look in your margin, utterly destroyed.  Malachi
4:5, Malachi 1:3, Revelation 19: 11:6, Revelation 6:12-17, Isaiah
66:15-16, go on down the line.  Joel 2:30-32.  (See?)  

	(26) 	Unto you first, God (raised Him up) …

     We can see exactly who the fathers are, and who the children are. 
We can see the Alpha and Omega principle.  

42.  Let’s go back to Ecclesiastes 3:14.  I love the Alpha Omega
principle.  I will stand, and live and die on it.  I know people don’t
enjoy it like I do.  That’s because they didn’t discover It.  I did,
and the prophet teaches.  Listen: 

	(14)	I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing
can be

                        put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God
doeth it, that men should 

                        fear before him.

     The never changing God, in the never changing way.  

	(15)	That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already
been; 

                        and God requireth that which is past.

       In other words, He’ll do It again.  That’s what He demands of
It.  Raised Him up and showed Him, and He raised Him again, and showed
them.  "And they crucified to themselves the Son of God afresh." [Heb
6:6]  Because, the flesh of the Holy Ghost, is the Word of Almighty God.
 This generation has found One. Revelation 1:8,   

	(8) 	I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending…

  

43.   All right.  For a moment, let’s go back to the original Elijah. 
The original Elijah by the way, he’s found over here in 1 Kings 18:36
and so on. Okay.

	(36)	And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening
sacrifice,

                        that Elijah the prophet came near, and said,
LORD God of Abraham,

                        Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day
that thou art God in Israel,

                        and that I am thy servant, and that I have done
all these things at thy word.

	(37)	Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou art
the

                        LORD God, and that thou hast turned their heart
back again.

     So, this does not refer to turning the hearts of the fathers to the
children.  This has to do with turning the children’s heart back to
the fathers.  And the idea was, at this particular time, Israel was in
idolatry, in a mixed situation.  It was not in pure idolatry, as though
they were idolators… as many people understand idolatry.  But they
were in it, just the same.  It was sort of a hybridized deal. They had
not the true knowledge of God.  For It says here, "This is the hour that
they will know that You’re God, and the heart’s turned back."  Now
you see, that’s what was in the days of John the Baptist.  This is
God, in human flesh.  The pointing out.  And the hearts were turned
back, were turned.  

44.  Now, we go to Hosea 4:1-15.  

	(1)	Hear the word of the LORD, (you) children of Israel: for the LORD 	
		hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is 
			no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

     Now, you go to a prophet like Hosea, go to Israel, they said,
“Shut up. What are you talking about, we don’t know God?  For I can
take you right down to our temple there, and we’ve got the scrolls,
and we’ve got the law, we’ve got the commandments, we’ve
got…why, we’ve got everything. We’ve got the Talmud.” 

	(2) 	By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing 
				adultery, they break out, and blood (touches) blood.

	(3) 	Therefore … the land (mourns), and every one that dwelleth
therein 				shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the
fowls of 					heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken
away.

     This is the day we’re living in brother/sister.  The breakdown of
the world’s ecological system.  

	(4) 	Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as 
				they that strive with the priest.

45.  You talk about arguing.  The few that argue, know all about it. 
That’s right amongst us.  

	(5) 	Therefore, shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall
fall 					with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother. (the
old whore)

	(6)	My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: (what knowledge?  		
	The knowledge of God. They don’t know Him.) because thou hast 				
rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou (shall no more) 	
		be… priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I 	
			will also forget thy children.

	(7)       As they… increased, so they sinned against me: therefore,
will I change 

		their glory into shame.

     That’s true.  More people, more sin.  More cattle, more mess in
the crib.  

	(8) 	They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on
their 					iniquity.

	(9) 	And there shall be, like people, like priest: (you wonder why the
church is a 			mess?  Examine the ministry.) and I will punish them for
their ways, and 

		reward them their doings.

	(10) 	For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit
whoredom, and

	            shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed
to the LORD.

	(11)     Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.

	(12) 	My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth
unto them:

	            for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and
they have gone a 				whoring from under their God.

46.  In other words, they’ve put themselves in complete bondage, away
from the freedom which is in Christ. 

	(13)     They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn
incense upon the

                        hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because
the shadow thereof is good: 			therefore your (children) shall commit
whoredom, and your spouses shall

	            commit adultery.

     Now, he’s talking about the spiritual thing, more than the
physical. Though it manifests in the physical.   

	(14)	 I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor 	
		your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated 	
		with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore, the people
that 				(do) not understand shall fall.

     Now he said, “God said, I’m just going to let them go ahead and
do it. Until the day of my wrath.”  

	(15) 	Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend;
(nor) come … 

		Unto (Me at) Gilgal, neither go … up to Bethaven, nor swear, The
LORD

                        liveth.	

	(16)	For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will
feed them

                        as a lamb in a large place.

47.  Bishop Blythe explained that.  But He says, that’s not a good
phrase at all.  He said, “A lamb needs a big place to feed.”  And
this shows this poverty, right there.  Shouldn’t need a big place,
should have a little place.  In other words, there’s no food.  God
said, “Don’t go pick there, and pick there, it’s going to be a
mess, you won’t get anything.”  

	(17)	Ephraim is joined to idols: (See?) let him alone. 

	(18)	Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her
rulers

                        with shame do love, Give ye.

     Oh, you talk about America…and her lovers.  God, what a mess
America is in.  Just like Israel.  God said to Israel, “Usually a man
pays a harlot, to have intercourse.” He usually does.  But He said,
“You pay people have it with you.”  America has done the same thing.
 Given away her shirt, for what?  For fear England is going to kick her
in the teeth.  Well, she asked for it? Yeah, ever since…I hate to say
it…ever since Eisenhower, America’s had a plan to let Russia take
over.  Russia is not going to take America over, she’s going to blast
her plumb off the continent.  Doesn’t even want us.  

48.  All right.   Here’s your condition, no knowledge of God.  The
same conditions are today in Revelation 3:14 where we are in the
Laodicean Church Age.  

	(14)	…(thus) saith the Amen, …

	(15)	I know (your) works, (you're) neither cold nor hot: … (I wish
you 					were hot or cold.)

      How you like Israel, they’re not completely in idolatry, but
they’re messed up, they’ve hybridized?  

	(16)	So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I
will 					spue  thee out of my mouth.

	(17)	Because (you say), I am rich, and increased with goods, and have
need

                        of nothing; and knowest not that (you're)
wretched, miserable, poor, 				blind, and naked:

     And when she shows her nakedness, it proves she’s in adultery. 
She’s a whore from top to bottom.  For  that’s what nakedness is all
about.  She doesn’t even know it.  And she cares less.  And who needs
Elijah?  Where’s God?  …?...

	(18)	I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, (you may) be
rich; 				white raiment, (you may) be clothed, the shame of (your)
nakedness 				do not appear…

49.  In other words, she’s caught hands down, in her adulteries.  

	(18)	…anoint (your) eyes with eyesalve, (Doesn’t mean, you’ve got
to go

                        out and get some) that (you may see.)

	(19) 	As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore,
and (change

                        your mind.  This is the mind age.)

	(20) 	Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice,
and

                        open the door, I will come in to him, and will
sup with him, and he with 				me. (Kicked outside the church.)  

	(21)	(But) to him that overcometh I grant to sit with me in my throne, 
			… as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.

     He said, “I’m going to have a throne one day. I don’t have
it.  I’m sitting in My Father’s throne right now.”  Bro. Branham
said, “He ripped the seals off, climbed onto His Father’s throne.”

     	(22)	He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto
the churches.

50.  All right.  The same condition exists, Revelation 18:1-8, you will
see the same thing as in Hosea.  

	(1)	… another angel come down … great power; and the earth was
lightened 

                        with his glory.

	(2)       And … Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, become the
habitation 	of  				devils, the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of
every unclean and 				hateful bird.

     I told you, when they turned this Message down, they would go to
spiritism.  And It said so,           I didn’t know until this minute,
that was in the Bible.  Just like old Judas, the habitation of devil's
you’ve got the same thing in the church.  

	(3)      …all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her
fornication, …

                      

     In other words, her fornications bring wrath. The mighty great day
of Almighty God at the end-time, is due to fornication, which is
spiritual.  Gone into adultery, gone into idolatry.  

           (3)        …committed with) the kings of the earth, and the
merchants of the earth

                       waxed rich through the abundance of her
delicacies.

  	That’s true.  Everywhere those good missionaries went, those
merchant bums came right behind them, and sold the whole thing down the
drain.  Commercialized it, until there’s nothing out there anymore,
but a hell on earth.  Every Garden of Eden has been desolated. 
Everything that’s sold, should come under the bombardment of wrath, or
the rottenness of sin, rather.   

	(4)      And I heard another voice (saying) from heaven, Come out of
her, my

                       people, …

     The Voice from heaven.  Now John the Baptist said he that’s from
above, is above All. And that One from above All was standing there. 
And there’s a Voice from Heaven today, that’s uttering Itself upon
earth.  There’s no doubt about it.  Utters Itself here on earth, and
It says, 

	

	(4)       … Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of
her sins,  

                       that (you) receive not of her plagues.

51. Now notice, the plagues come before the day of wrath.  How then
could a Bride be in a Great Tribulation?  

	(5)      	For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath
remembered her

                      	iniquities.

	(6)      	Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her
double 

                       	according to her works: in the cup which she
hath filled fill to her double.

		

	(7)      	How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously,
so much 				torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I
sit a queen, 				and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

     In other words, she sits there, and she doesn’t give a rip about
the One that’s supposed to be her husband.  She said, “I’ve taken
over.”   That’s what the women have done today.  I’ve got another
statistic  what’s happened to women.  Now I’m not against you women,
get this flat.  But let’s get this typed right down flat.  Bro.
Branham said, I know I used to laugh at him, as I told you.  And he
said, “The poor man sitting at home, with tears coming out of his
eyes, because he’s there with the kiddies, his wife was run off.”
I'd say, Ha ha to myself,  “Bro. Branham, you’re pretty old
fashioned, you’d better get wise.” He was prophesying. It’s come
to pass that more women leave home and their kids, than men do.  

52.  And now the women, the women themselves, have made a poll around
America, and other so-called civilized nations, and they have come up
with this most disgusting fact. And now, I’m going to use very bad
language, but it’s very common language…women are far bitchier than
men.  Far more perverse, far tougher then the men.  And the women that
found out, were aghast, because they said, “We thought women. we,  had
a tender nature.”  I’m not fussing at women, I’m just telling you
what’s going on.  Types the church.  That’s why the church can kill
everyone of us, then jump up and down and saying, “Hallelujah” doing
it.   I’m just quoting the book. Just quoting the book.  You talk
about a mess. 

 

	(8)     Therefore, … her plagues…

     Queen’s sitting there, where’s the king? (Phftt!) Who needs
him?  She does, but she thinks she doesn’t.  Because you know
there’s going to be a man sitting there, they’re going to  call
‘The Prince of Peace’.  That they figure is going to bring peace to
this earth, when we crown Him and make Him King.  I’m not a widow, but
she, don’t worry, she will be one in a hurry.  She already is, and
doesn’t know it.  She’s not a widow, let’s face it.  She’s a
divorce harlot, is what she is.  Second Thessalonians is the divorce.  

	(8)     Therefore, shall her plagues come in one day, death, and
mourning, 					and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire:
(three and a 					half years, Tribulation, and the day of the Lord,
burning her up.)

 53.  All right.  Verse 8, burning with fire, corresponds with Malachi
4:5 the great day of the Lord, chapter [Revelation] 18:4, corresponds
with Matthew 25:6, "And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the
bridegroom come out to meet him."  Come on out.  Of what?  Out of her my
people.  Come out of Babylon.  Come out of the church system.  Come out
of the whole mess.  Now, who do you think is saying that?  The ministry
of Elijah.  This fulfills John 3: …which I read…28-29.  

	(28)	(You) yourselves bear me witness, I said, I am not the Christ, but
					(but) I am sent before him.

	(29)     He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of
the bridegroom,

                        which standeth …heareth him, rejoiceth greatly
because of the bridegroom's  

                        voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.

54.  All right.  Get back to Matthew 25, just a second, I want to see
something there.  "Come out, behold Him.  They arose. Trim your lamps. 
Went down the road. They came to the marriage supper.  The wise got in."
 Then the others came and said, “Lord, Lord, open to us.” He
answered and said, “I don’t know you.  I used to know you as my
wife, but don’t know you anymore.”  When did He say that?  That’s
not the White Throne, it’s right here.  Who’s talking now?  "Come
out to meet Him." The voice of the friend of the Bridegroom.  “I used
to know you as My wife, don’t know you anymore.” Whose voice is
that?  The Bridegroom.  

      You say, “Well, that’s for the wicked.”  Yeah,  what for the
righteousness?  “Come ye the blessed, inherit the kingdom prepared.”
 He’s still prophet.  But he’s got to have someone help him. 
Because He does not incarnate, in flesh here.  As the prophet said,
“Only two …?..., someone should appear on this earth, with nail
prints.”  What did It?  That’s an imposter, Pentecostal bait, it’s
nothing to do with you.  On top of that, the true knowledge of God,
which we read of, missing.  We find that in Malachi, as well as Hosea,
don’t worry.  The true knowledge of God, which is one God.  And
correct baptism in His Name, has been missing.  We can see that It is an
age of spiritual blindness.  The Laodicean energy, as we read in
Revelation 3.

     Christ is outside the church.  But ready to be revealed to the
Bride, by Elijah.  And confirmed, by God Himself, or Alpha’s not
Omega. 

55.  Luke 17:20-37, now this sounds like I’m doing a lot of repeating,
but you’re getting a lot of added material.  The repeat is necessary. 


	(20)	And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, (now watch something

                        tremendous here) when the kingdom of God should
come, he answered

                        them and said, The kingdom of God (come, but not
so you can see it.)

     It comes, and there is no outward show, or evidence. 

 

	(21)	(Many) shall …say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the
kingdom 

                        of God is (in the midst of) you.

56. Now, Matthew 24: “What shall be the sign of Thy Presence?”  And
Jesus said, “Take heed, that no man deceive you, many shall come in My
name saying I am Christ,  and deceive many.”  (See?) 

      Now, over here [24:]26  “Wherefore if they shall say unto you,
Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret
chambers; believe it not.”  Then the evidence was, as the light
travels from the east to the west, a burning and a shining.  And
remember, John was a burning and a shining, pointing out that great
Light.  So, the burning and the shining, will come again at the end.  To
point out that same great Light.  

57:  Now, the rest we’ll leave, going back to Luke. 

	(21)	… behold, the kingdom (is in the midst of) you. (The midst.)  

       Now notice, the same words are said concerning Him, Who is
Present, as said concerning the kingdom.  Now don’t tell me there’s
such a thing as a king without a kingdom.  Now remember, “He came unto
His own, and His own received Him not”.  [Jn 1:11] The same One, comes
again unto His own, and He owns it all.  The King and the kingdom is
right here amongst us.  It’s right here today.  The fullness of the
Holy Spirit in the midst of the Bride.  

      For It says, “In the days of the fourth kingdom, the saints
shall possess it.” [Dan 7:22] Now, I’ve got news for you.  We own it
right now.  We own it right now.  Ever since He came, we own it right
now.  You don’t want it though.  Because there’s a clause, we
can’t take it over, though we own it, until it’s purified.  Because
we have no part with the wicked.  This kingdom is going to be such that
Satan himself can wander around, bellowing like a lost baby.  Because he
can’t get to anyone.  Bound by a chain of circumstance.   

	(22)     And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when (you
will) 				desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and shall not
see it.

	(23)      And they shall say…See here; or, see there: go not after
them, …

      Now, that was not in the days of Jesus, and the disciples, it’s
in our day.

            (25)      But first must he suffer many things, and be
rejected…(It tells you it 				wasn't in His day, He's got to suffer
and be rejected. And then It says:)

	(26)      …as it was in the days of Noe, (it's going to be again) in
the days of 				the Son of man.

58.   Now, He said, "You're going to wander, but you’re not going to
get them, because it’s going to repeat way down at the end of the
road."  Alpha is Omega. ( See?)  Therefore, Bro. Branham could say that
Jesus had more success in the ministry He gave …?....  And we saw God
manifested in human flesh…not that William Branham was God, no sir. 
We saw God manifest.  That’s a different story.  That’s like Punch
and Judy.  A man stands there behind them and wiggle them.  How do you
think Bro. Branham was?  He, said he was just there.  Said, “It’s
not me that says these things, I’m just a voice.”  

	(27)      … they were given in marriage, (and so on.  Then it’ll
remain.) 

                     

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

        It tells you, when that kingdom starts to come on earth.  Now
remember, Bro. Branham said He’s coming more and more into the church.
 And he said, “When you see a hand as a shadow, and that hand goes to
the wall like this, more and more, the hand and the shadow become
one.”  It’s more and more.  Now, the kingdom started, the return of
restoration is started.  Under the Seventh Seal the whole thing starts. 
 We’re in it now.  Both King and kingdom’s here.  But it hasn’t
gone far enough yet.  (See?)  

59.  Now, 

	(30) 	   Even thus (It’s going to) be.  (Now, right on down.) 

	(32)        Remember Lot's wife.

	(34)        … two … in (a) bed; …

	(35)        Two … grinding …

            (36)        Two (working) … one … taken, (one) left.

            (37)        … Where, …?  (Where) … the eagles (are)
gathered ...

     In other words, at a certain time, under certain conditions, they
will take place, just exactly as we see in Malachi.  As we see in all
the Scripture that dovetails with this end-time ministry.  We begin to
see the tremendous ministry of the Elijah of this hour.  It is what God
has ordained, or His Presence would bring nothing but death.  Now, could
it be that the failure to recognize the Bridegroom by the Bride, would
have been enough to have brought death?  For, she must recognize Him as
headship.  And be a virgin of the Word, or the marriage cannot take
place.  Second Corinthians 11: no way.  Paul said, I’m worried over
you that your test of virginity, you’re going to fail.  You’ve been
fooling with somebody.  

       So therefore, she must be turned back to the revelation of God,
and God’s ordained understanding, by a prophet.  In order to qualify,
in the last hour.  Because that’s the way it took place.  

60.  Now, I could say many, many things, which would positively take a
long, long, time, to say.  Concerning more of this ministry.  But I want
to hit the third point, which really, which is; what…let’s try to
see what this ministry, whose very epitome is to reveal Jehovah, what it
will do for the Bride, to be sure she is in the Rapture.  Now, this is
what we’re looking at.  (See?) 

 	

       Okay.  We will begin with a Scripture, and I don’t want to take
too long here either.  Which will make me very happy, to finish earlier
than I anticipated.  We go first of all to 1 John 3:2 which I have
quoted you, time and time again.  

	(2)	Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it (has never) yet …
(come

                        into existence.)  

     In other words, this thing we’re looking for, has never yet come,
but it’s going to come.  What we shall be.  The mystery that Paul
spoke of in 1 Corinthians 3:15. But we know, when He shall be Present,
we shall be like Him, who is Present.  Because we’re going to see Him
as He is.  I want to tell you something.  John the Baptist stood back
and saw God, in the form of Jesus as He was, when nobody else could. 
And those that believed the witness of John, became the Bride of Jesus
Christ.  They were identified.  They were the many that were turned to
God.  Because they had turned from God.  We could go into Malachi for
that…but I’m just not taking the time this morning.  Took a little
bit last week. 

61.  All right.  We will now explain, the authoritative passage of John.
 Who, set forth the premise, the mechanics, the wherewithal, of that
particular change.  Now He said, “You’re going to be changed to be
like Him, because you’re going to see Him as He is.”   Evidently,
there’s those who don’t see Him as He is.  We go to 2 Corinthians
2:14.

	(14)	Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in
Christ,

                        and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge
by us in every place.

     He said, “Thank God I’ve got the ability given by God, to
actually project the knowledge of God, to the people I talk to.  

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

                        in them that perish:

     Now he said, whether you’re going to listen and live, or whether
you’re going to die or not.  Or, whether we are, he said, “I have
been ordained, by my knowledge, to be a sweet savour of Christ.  To
present Him the altogether lovely One, sweeter than honey.”   

	(16) 	To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the
other the 

                         savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient
for these things?

	(17)	 For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of
sincerity,

                         but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in
Christ.

      This man said here, “I have got an authenticated identified
ministry.  So, when I speak, I am the very savour of Almighty God, to
you.  By my words, which is this.  What God has decided for you, I am to
presenting, and It’s a mighty sweet wonderful thing.  Here we are
begin to commend ourselves.  

62.  [2 Corinthians 3:1-18]

	(1)	(Am I now puffed up?) Do (I have something to say about this?) or
need 				we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters
of 					commendation from you?

     Now he says, "Did I give this, or did someone or somebody give unto
me?" He said:

	(2) 	(You) are (our) epistles written in (our) hearts, known and read
of all men:

	(3) 	Forasmuch as ye are manifestly (set forth, that’s the …?...
that these) 

                        be the epistle of Christ ministered by us,
(I’m merely the one writing

                        the letter, the letter Writer, is God Himself))
written not with ink, but with

                        the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of
stone, but in fleshy tables 

                        of the heart.

     In other words, there is a change through the gospel that Paul
preached.  It is a spiritual change.  Men and women born again.  Showing
forth the worthy praise of Jesus Christ by a life that is a sweet savour
of Jesus.  As Bro. Branham brought out the virtues.  

	(4) 	And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:

	(5)       Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything …
of 					ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;

       He said, "I know that that’s where I’ve got to be, because
I’m mixed up with God."  

	(6)       Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament;
not 					of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but
the spirit 					(gives) life.

        That’s a good one right there.  I’d like to see how a man
without life could give life.  A man without the Holy Ghost in this hour
do something for anybody.  Because we’re here at the end-time.  I’m
just going to preach on something again; the Alpha and Omega.  How the
first church could have had a Rapture in the First Church Age, but
couldn’t, because the Bride wasn’t ready, by means of numbers.  Now,
you go back when I preached on Romans 5: last summer, something should
make a little dingle-ling in your minds right now.   Go back and get the
tape.  I'm going to take a whole bunch of sermons on it.  I might not
preach it here, I’m going to preach it somewhere.  

63.  All right.  He said, "I don’t know."  That’s what’s striking
on all these years on the road, I preached all these sermons on the
road, it’s about time to start over again.  Okay.  

	(7)	But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones,
was 				glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly
behold the 				face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which
glory was to be 				done away:

     Now, there’s two schools of thought here, Bro. Branham brought
out one.  And that is, they couldn’t stand the to see the glory, which
was of the law, which perished.  Which is true.  Let’s keep reading.  


	(8)	 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
(much 				more)

	(9)	 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth
the 				 ministration of righteousness, exceed in glory.

     There’s something greater.  Now, Paul’s not talking of Paul, in
relation to Moses.  He’s talking in relation to Moses, about us.  To
whom he has ministered the Word.  Those under the law.  We’re not like
that.  

	(11) 	For if that which is (to be) done away was glorious, much more
that 				which remaineth is glorious. (In other words, brilliant than
ever)

	(12)	 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of
speech:

     Now, he says, “Let’s get this flat across the board.” 

	(13)	And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the
children of 

                        Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of
that which is abolished:

64.  Now, here’s what other people say about this, and I like it.  And
that is the veil was over the face of Moses, because they didn’t want
to know when the glory faded.  And it wasn’t there anymore.  How many
of us want to see Bro. Branham back, too?  Veil was thrown over.  We
didn’t know what was going to happen.  Let’s find out about that
glory that Bro. Branham brought, the same that Paul brought.  Now he
said,

	(14)     But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the
same vail

                        untaken away in the reading of the old
testament; which vail is done away

                        in Christ.

     There had to come a halt.  The law which was glorious, must be
fulfilled.  Type must give way to anti-type.  But now you’re not
anywhere in type.  There’s no type.  Living in a reality, which cannot
be abolished, which is greater than anything the world’s ever seen. 
Now listen, 

	(16)     Nevertheless when it (that’s the mind, the heart) shall turn
to the Lord,

                        the vail shall be taken away. (Now listen)

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

                        liberty.

     No more bondage.  No more corruption of creeds, and dogmas.  We now
have a spiritual resurrection.

	(18)     But we all, (First Church Age, couldn’t have this, as the
start of it) 

                        with open face beholding, as in a glass the
glory of the Lord, are changed 

                        into (that) same image (of Christ) from glory to
glory, … as by the Spirit

                        of the Lord.

65.  Now, It tells you right here.  Seeing that Word which is His flesh,
seeing Him there, which is that revelation, with absolutely take and
conform you to His Own image. Because we’re coming to It.  And which
started way back there, when Christ was raised to the Jew, and shown. 
Now, that He's been raised at this time, and speaking from the last
times from heaven.  Remember, John said, “He that’s from heaven, is
above all: [Jn 3:31] there He stood,” and He that speaketh from
heaven, there He stood!  It wasn't the speaking from heaven, It was the
One Who was from heaven. Now, we are the sons of God, and never yet
happened, nor could it happen until the Seventh Church Age.  

     See, because it wasn’t time for that glory. The First Age had its
glory, but it had to be cut off.  The Second Age had its glory, but it
was cut off.  Third, Four, Five, Six, but in the Seventh, the glory is
not cut off.  Because the glorious One is here.  And when It says right
here, that the mind in no longer covered.  And when it can see Him, the
true and the living God.  That’s the way Jesus had to treat Martha. 
Pharisee graveside.  

	Why He said, “Do you believe I am, the Resurrection and the life?” 

	 When she said, “I believe my brother will rise again, the last
day.”  

66.   He said, “Martha, you’re looking at the Resurrection.  Can you
see It?” “I am the Resurrection and the Life, …that wasn’t a
mask that was speaking… he that believeth in me, though he were dead,
yet shall he live. And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never
(perish)” [Jn 11:23-26] That’s at the end-time, when they walk to
the Tree of Life.  

      Do you believe That?  Do you believe you saw the Resurrection? 
Even with the Resurrection, do you believe you saw Him who is God?  It
tells you here how you’re going to see Him. It tells you here how
you’re going to be changed.  And no wonder Bro. Branham said…as the
angel said to him, “As John the Baptist foreran the first coming, so,
your Message will forerun the second.”   Because there couldn’t be a
second coming, unless His Message, foreran It.  And that, was the
Appearing, of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  

67.  All right.  We go now to 1 Samuel 3: we begin to understand exactly
what I’ve been telling you, all along, how this is done. Now It says
here, that Samuel heard God speak, and he ran to Eli and said, “Eli,
you called me?”  

      Eli said, “No, I haven’t been calling you, it must have been
the Lord.  Say, speak Lord, your servant hears.” 

     Though It says over here, that God begin to speak to Samuel. And He
told him all these things.  And It says in [1 Samuel 3:14-15.

	(14)	And therefore, I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the
iniquity 					of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor
offering for ever.  

     In other words, there is going to come a day, when the offering of
sacrifice, doesn’t do it.  That same day is at hand.  (See?)  All
right, now listen:  

	(15)	And Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the
house 

                        of the LORD. (And listen,) …Samuel feared to
show Eli the vision. 

       Now, what did he see?  He heard.  It’s called a vision. 
Therefore, when the prophet had a vision, came back and told us, he saw
the same vision.  And the prophet came back under the Holy Ghost, and
revealed Jesus Christ the Word.  We saw Him.  I’ll prove it to you.   

	(21)	And the LORD appeared again… 

     He already appeared up here.  The vision of what God was going to
do, was God, because God does what He says.  And He is the Word.  Now
listen,

	

	(21)	And the LORD appeared again in Shiloh: for the LORD revealed 				
himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the LORD.

     And when the Word of God…well, let me just give it to you.  

68.  John 1:18 It tells you all these things in the Bible.  

	(18)	No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which 			
	is in the bosom of the Father, he hath (exegeded Him) declared 				
him. 

       Fully lead him forth by words. You understand.  No man has seen
God. William Branham didn't see God, he saw a Pillar of Fire, where God
was veiled in It.  The closest anybody came, was Moses, when God put him
in a rock.  And a rock…you know…can keep away radiation.  Put His
hand up there.  Moses saw the back of a man.  God incarnation.  No man
can see God and live.  It is a non-approachable, white light.  Now, how
are you going to see Him?  Only through the Holy Spirit revealing Him by
Word.  Now, you know that’s the truth.  Come on.                 

69.  First  Corinthians 2:  Paul telling these secrets to us.  He said,

	(13)	Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom 

                         teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth;
…

     What’s he talking about?   Why, he said, 

	(11)	(No) man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which

                        is in him? even so the things of God (knows) no
man, but the Spirit 				of God.

     In other words, God alone, knows Himself, and God alone, can reveal
Himself.  And how does He do it?  God does it by word of the Holy Ghost.
 And holy men of God spake, as they’re moved by the Holy Ghost.  

70.  All right.  Let’s go back and see some more, Hebrews 12:25-29

           	(25)	See that (you) refuse not him that speaketh. For if
they escaped not who

                        refused him that (spoke) on earth, …

       Why they went into the  mini great tribulation?  Titus came in 70
AD and killed them.  Blood ran like water in the streets.  You could be
turned into cannonballs, and sawed in places like that, terrible.  Now,
He also spake on the Mount of course, of Sinai.   

	(25)	…if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: (Notice,   
                 			speaketh from heaven.)

	(26)     Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised,
saying, 

                        Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but
also heaven.

	(27)	 And this word, Yet once more, (signifies) the removing of those
things

		 that are shaken, as of things that are made, …

     Now, what are things made of?  By the Word.  Therefore, every part
of that Word that is no longer in existence, that has been fulfilled,
goes out, and everything with It.  Show me where man gets a second
chance after the Fire of God.  He doesn’t.  He goes to the White
Throne where he meets his sin, and he gets the judgement.  And if he’s
of the children of Adam, but not in the Election, he will be given
eternal life.  No second chance.  

71.  Just go back and hear everything Bro. Branham had to say.  I said
it all, 'The Ones That Are In Between'.  I didn’t know that I said to
that group, that I knew Bo. Branham…I think it was a tape from ’61
[Questions and Answers 61-1015] or something…those very things, right
down the line.  That’s the first thing that shook everybody when they
read the Church Age Book, said, “Lee Vayle made a mistake.” 

       All the people that followed Bro. Branham, all those years, sat
there all those years.  Yeah Gene,  all those years followed him all
those years…and thought that they knew what Bro. Branham said. They
had a tizzy and handed me the green paint.  When they saw what was
written in that Church Age Book, and they couldn’t believe it.  But
that’s exactly what the prophet taught.  (See?)  If you’re ordained
to It, you’re ordained.  If you’re not ordained, you won’t get It.
 You’ll just sit around and argue.  They sat on their hands so nice,
they can't get It off their hands and mess everybody up.  

	(27)	 And this word, … once more, (signifies) the removing of those
things

		 that are shaken, as of things that are made, (made by the Word. That
part 				fulfilled, all gone.) that those things which cannot be shaken
may remain. 				(God’s ordained is eternal, the Elect cannot be
shaken.) 

	(28) 	Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us 		
		have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence 				
and godly fear:

	(29)	 For our God is a consuming fire.

      

     When is He a consuming fire?  Only on that day.  There’s no
consuming fire now.  We consume the Bride. When God speaks once more
from heaven, the One from heaven is what It really is,  He's down here,
using the prophet. 

72.   Let' me read it to you.  [ HYPERLINK "https://wordofthehour.net/"
\l "library/bookid=msg650725m/paragraph=193" Anointed Ones at End Time  
65-07-25]

[193]	Now, I want you to know this is sure.  And you that listen to this
tape, you might 			have thought that I was trying to say this or that
about myself, being that I was 		packing this Message.” (…?... what
he preached.) I have no more to do with this 		Message than nothing, no
more than just a Voice.  And my voice, even against 			my better
judgement”“I didn’t want to be the voice, he said, I wanted to be
a 		trapper. But it’s the will of My Father…"  so I’m stuck.   

   	Election, you can’t get around it.  You’re not going to
circumvent His will.  If He wants you, He’s going to get you. 

	I declare to do, and I’m determined to do.  I wasn’t the One that
appeared 

        	 down on the river, I was only standing there, when He
Appeared. 

      Then when did He Appear?  When did He come?  Two o’clock, July
25, 1965?  Hogwash!  My what junk comes out of Ohio.  I’m getting out
of here.  You can stay if you want, I’ve got out of Canada. That's so
cracked up there, I might as well get out of here now too.  Whither
shall I go?  Well I don’t know, might as well, play ring around a
rosie, first one down. 

   	I wasn’t the One, I was only standing there, when He Appeared.
I’m not the 			one who performs these things, or foretells these thing
that happen as perfect 			as they are. I’m only the one here, when He
does it. I’m only a voice that He 			used to say it.  It wasn’t what
I knew.  It’s just what I surrendered myself to, 		that He spoke to. 

73.  What do you think of  John the Baptist, was he any different?  No
way.  No more Elijah, it isn’t me.  It isn’t the Seventh Messenger,
oh no, it was a manifestation of the Son of man.  That’s beautiful,
it’s not a man, it’s God.  The Messenger was not the Son of man, he
was a Messenger from the Son of man.  The Son of man is Christ.  

 

[46]	He’s the One you’re feeding on. You’re not feeding on a man. 
Man,  his word 		will fail.  But, you’re feeding on the unfailing
Body. 

      He tells you that it’s the body of the Lord Jesus Christ today,
the Word.  “Eat My flesh and drink My Blood,” [Jn 6:53] “He that
believeth on the Son, hath life.  He that believeth not, is condemned
already.” [Jn 3:18] 

74.  All right.  Hebrews 1: talking about that voice.  

	(1)	God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past 	
		unto the fathers (in) the prophets,

	(2)       Hath in these last days spoken unto us (in) his (by) Son,
whom he 					hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the
worlds;

     Now listen.

	(3)	Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his
				person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he 	
		had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the 				
Majesty on high:

     Do you know something?  It says that Jesus is the express image of
God, and we will be in His image.  Then what image are we in?  (See?)  

75.  Romans 12:1

	(1)	I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God…present 
				your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is
your                   		reasonable (sacrifice.)  

	(2)       And be not conformed to this world: but be (you) transformed

                       (metamorphosis, caterpillar, butterfly) by the
renewing of your mind, …

     How do you get that change?  It’s the mind age.  How is it done? 
By a renewal. What’s the renewal?  By the Holy Spirit.    

76.  Philippians 3:20-21

	(20)	For our (citizenship) is in heaven; from whence also we look for
the

                        Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

	(21) 	Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like
unto

                         (the body of His glory), according to the
working whereby he is able 				even to (bring into order)  all things
unto himself.

       Things are out of order.  But they’re coming into order.  Why? 
Because the Bride’s getting in order.  All creation is waiting for the
Bride to get in order.  Better get in order, there’s going to be a
Resurrection and a Rapture.  She’s getting in order.  Don’t worry. 1
Corinthians 15:50-57 tells you, how we’ve put on immortality.  It is
by the same Message, that is the last Trump, which is the Message, of
the Seventh Church Age Messenger.  

77.  Revelation 22:8-19 tells you the same thing.  Why, It says,

	(8)	… I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which
shewed me

                        these things.

	(9) 	…he (said, don't) do (them, just the) prophet like the brethren
…, 

		(then verse 10)

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

     A prophet opens the Book at the end-time, and It cannot be sealed. 
And at that time, the Seals are broken,

	(11)	 He that is unjust, (is) unjust still: he (that's) filthy, is
filthy still: he 					that is righteous, (is) righteous still:…  

     That let’s you know the Great Tribulation is right at hand.  And
the Bride escapes it.  And the day of wrath is at hand.  

	(12) 	… behold, I come quickly; …

	(13)	 I am Alpha and Omega, …

	(14)	 Blessed are they that (wash their robes not doing) his
commandments, 

                         (that’s a complete mistranslation.  Wash
their robes,) that they may have 

                         right to the tree of life, …  

78.   In other words, immortality, the guard is down, God is here
Himself to bring a Bride right to the Tree of Life.  And she’ll be
standing there all smiles and all glory, all so happy, all so perfect
and changed in her very members.  Oh listen, sin does not have dominion
any longer, no sir.  You talk about glory, the law couldn’t do it. 
But the continuing revelation, and the manifestation of God manifesting
His Word, bringing It to pass.  And they that see that Word manifested,
not only say, “That’s It.”  They didn’t have a problem.  Don’t
let anybody shake you.  You haven’t begun to get shaken yet, don’t
worry.  You think you’ve had a little shaken now, you just missed it a
million miles.  No sweep’s come down.  I’m getting my self
fortified, I don’t know about you.  

     I'm not going to tell you certain things, because how I do it.
Forget it, you do it your way, I’m just too mean.    Nah, I’m
kidding.  Going to close and use a little verse in Scripture here.  I
did read real fast this morning.  Talk real hard, place loaded with
goodies…hopefully.  If I’m wrong, it’s your baddie.   But I
don’t believe it.  I’m not afraid to stand in the judgement, what I
preached to you today.   

79.   Zachariah  4:1-3

	(1)	And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a
man

                        that is wakened out of his sleep.

	(2)	 And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and
behold

                         a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the
top of it, and his seven lamps                       		 thereon, and
seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof:

     That’s what John saw in Revelation.  

	(3) 	And two olive trees (stand) by it, one upon the right side …,
(one on) the

                        the left side …

     That’s Old and New Testament. That’s Bride, sure thing, the two
witnesses, go ahead call it what you want.  Bro. Branham called it all
three.  

	(4)	So I answered and spake to the angel (said to me,) Lord What are
these 				(things)?

	(5) 	(My Lord) the angel that talked with me and said, (Don’t you
know 				what they are?) And I said, No, (I don’t.)

	(6)	(And) he (said,)  This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, 			
	…(that word means ‘called out of Babylon’ See?) … Not by might,
				nor by power, 	but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.

	(7)	 Who art thou, O great mountain?...

80.  Now, a mountain is a place of authority.  And remember, the whore
is on a mountain, she’s on many waters.  The water signifies people,
the mountain signifies power.  She’s on seven mountains.  Seven Church
Ages, she’s put them through the ropes, she’s a stinking mess.  She
was way back there in the First Church Age even.  Under the deeds of the
Nicolaitans.  But you can’t crown a spirit.  The spirit was there. 
(See?)  Seven Ages, seven mighty powers, there she stands right to the
end.  Now, 

	(7)	 … before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: (Well, you can 		
		throw that at John the Baptist if you want.  He also brought the				
mountains down.) and he shall bring forth the headstone … with 				
shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.

     Now, you notice, this cannot be in the days of Zerubbabel, who was
there at the time of Nehemiah.  No way, because it goes right to the
very end where the Headstone comes forth.  And remember, Jesus was not
recognized as the Headstone, when He was here on earth.  He can only be
the headstone at the end-time when He becomes head of the Bride, both
Old and the New Testament.  King of kings, and Lord of lords, crowned by
the saints.  No way. This is to come so therefore, this is indicative of
the end-time when the Headstone is brought forth.  And the Headstone is
brought forth, when both the Old and New Testament churches, or Bride,
come to a fruition, a fulness. 

81.  Because the time of the Gentiles must be fulfilled.  The same as
the times of Israel.   Now, there’s only 144,000 to go for Israel. 
And they do not qualify in Bride in any place, they qualify as the
temple eunuchs, or the virgins which take care of the virgin Queen, of
the Groom.  But they are part of the first Resurrection, and part for
one thousand years.   But they do not qualify, under this.  Now notice,
‘grace, grace’ is shouted.  That’s what we’re talking about. 
(See?)  When the high places are made low.  When all powers must stand
still, and recognize that the prophet William Branham, in manifesting
God, has something that nobody else, or all together,   ever had.  

     There was a man to stand there and challenge to bring your worse
case, I’ll guarantee healing.  The man that could stand there and
said, “I challenge you. If God told me to raise Abraham Lincoln from
the dead tomorrow morning. Challenge the armies of the earth to come
shoot me down, I’ll raise him.”  You talk about a man talking.  Now,
he’s got to be a complete idiot, or he’s got to have a complete
something from God.  He had it from God, let’s face it.  

82.  Now listen. 

	(8)	Moreover, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

	(9)	The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his

                         hands shall also finish it; …

      Now, that could do with an earthly temple.  But that can’t bring
forth the Headstone.  (See?)  Because the temple, is a temple that man
made, did not bring forth Jesus, He condemned the temple.  He came forth
of the virgin Mary, into the human race, and He was neither Jew nor
Gentile.  He was the Son of God, and God was in Him.  Now listen, 

	(10)	 For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall
rejoice,

                         and shall see the plummet in the hand of
Zerubbabel with those seven;

                         (who) are the eyes of the LORD, which run to
and fro through the whole 

                         earth.

     What are those eyes of the Lord?  Seven Spirits of God.  When did
they come?  They came when William Branham was out there in the desert. 
And he came back with a plummet, which was the bob of measurement the
Word of God.  And that gave the Bride everything she needed to put her
in a Rapture.  For he revealed Christ.  Who turned out to be those Seven
Seals.  Revelation 10:1-7 became the Seventh Seal in Person.  In
continuity.  

83.  So, brother/sister let me just say this:  I’m going to close off.
 Was there a Elijah ministry?  Most certainly was.  What was It supposed
to do?  Reveal Christ.  Why reveal Christ?  Because without the
revelation, there won’t be one person changed.  There won’t be one
person come out of the grave.  There won’t be any grace.  What is It? 
Old Malachi said, “Remember the law of Moses.” Deuteronomy, given
twice…the Word given twice.  As Bunyan said, “The first time it was
law, law, death, death.”  But the second time, it was grace, grace,
and life, life.  Today we are in the hour of life from the dead.  And we
know we are, because it has been vindicated, and proven at this very
hour.  

      Now, I know people aren’t going to believe this.  I didn’t
preach this morning to convince anybody.  I preached, in order to teach,
and to help you see things which you haven’t seen previously.  Or to
simplify, and confirm a faith that you already have.  Lest the devil
should come and try to pluck it from you.  Because he’s going to do
his dead level best, …I’m going to tell you brother/sister. 
You’ve come to this place where you know this one thing:  If this
isn’t It, forget It.  Because you ain’t going no place.  You
weren’t smart enough to get out of it, somebody had to get you out. 
You were stupid enough to get into it, then you better be smart enough
to have gotten out of it, by somebody helping you.  And by the grace of
God, believing you are now into, what you’re supposed to be into. 
Because this is the end.  

84.  I look very soon to see America produce the antichrist.  I don’t
know how long it’s gong to take. But I’m of the opinion, and I’m
not setting dates.  But I’m of the opinion, that within the next year
and a half, it will be all over, except for the Rapture.  I don’t
know.  That is my opinion.  I’ve got nothing from God. When I get
things from God, I tell you.  This is not from God.  This is simply my
own thinking, that this could be the one year and a half, to go. 
Because I believe everything is propitious to a wind-up.  In the light
of Wall St. in 1929, overnight, the world was wiped out.  Anything can
happen by tomorrow morning, to put us in the hands of that One, who will
be called the ‘Prince of Peace’.  To attempt to bring on a world
system, where the beast heads it up.  

     It isn’t hard. (See?)  Understand, that they have a great big
computer, … and this could be just a bunch of hogwash, I don’t know,
because you never know what’s in the papers’ is true or not… But
they tell me there’s a huge war machine they use, and its
computations.  And they had a mock warfare recently, and they put in
information, and they couldn’t get it out.  It couldn’t handle the
new information.  It took twelve solid hours to find how to get it out. 
And by that time, the country would have been gone.  They had no way to
bring ammunition, because it expended the ammunition in Europe, and sent
it to Viet Nam and other places.  They didn’t have the tanks, they
didn’t have the men, …I think that Gene understands this.  I won’t
look him in the eye.  So, he won’t feel he’s giving some military
secrets or something…he can keep them.  I wouldn’t even look at him.

85.  But, I kinda feel, that the fella that wrote that up, knew what he
was talking about. (See?)  There’s no place to go, except the whole
world needs somebody, to rise up and attempt to no longer solve the
local problem, but a universal problem.  And that’s where the
antichrist comes in.  America can’t solve her problems.  I’m very
happy with Mr. Reagan.  Very happy.  Even if he doesn’t do anything,
I’m still happy.  Because he suits my kind of thinking.  Little
square, little conservative.  Ah…shhh…that’s good, I hope. I
don’t know what He’s going to do.  But I know if we get restless, it
ain’t going to last.  (See?)  So, here we are, …look…there’s
this about us…the Bride is not going to see the …?...  The Bride is
seeing Him in whose Presence, she is to lie and ripen. 

     Now, how can anybody lie in that Presence, without the recognition
of that Presence?  How can anybody be in a Rapture, wherein this Word,
is not unveiling Itself, more and more to the perfect day?  For this is
why that ministry is there.This is the tragic part of this kind of
preaching, I could preach this for the next four or five hours.  You
know, just bringing out all these things that are in Scripture here. 
And I wouldn’t dare to do it without my notes, because in my mind
it’d begin playing tricks on me.  There’s no way I can help you,
unless God illuminates my mind, like He does sometimes.  Then, away we
go.  It’s just no problem at all.  

86.  Listen. Ephesians 4:  

	(4)       There is one body, one Spirit, even as (you're) are called in
one hope of

                        your calling;

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

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

	           

     Now, you realize that was said in the First Church Age.  

	(7)	But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of

                        the gift of Christ.

	(8)       Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led
captivity

                        captive, and gave gifts unto men.

	(9) 	(Now (he) that ascended, what is it but that he also descended
first into

                        the lower parts of the earth?

	(10) 	(And) He that descended is the same also that ascended up far
above 				all heavens that he might fill all things.)

     Now, It tells you.  The One that came here died, and rose again,
came back as the Holy Ghost.  Now, you notice Paul said, “This One who
is God, took on the form of Jesus, died, rose, came back.  That same
Spirit, that was in Jesus.  "Above all, through all, and in all."  Now,
that’s a pretty strong statement.  Like we would say today, "God above
you, God with you, God in you."  Okay.  But everyone is given a gift. 
Now, here’s what I’m looking at.  I've never looked at this before,
until just this last night in my mind.  I began looking at it.  And in
my mind began to say, if  “Alpha is Omega., then the same One that
came down to divide Himself amongst the people, like the sperm of a
male; that same One was there in total, until this Word was given.”  

87.  When that Word was given, He would not have to be in the midst of
the Church, past the First Church Age.  Now, look what He did when He
was here.  He gave some apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors,
teachers.  A Five-fold ministry.  Now, He set them in the Church.  Paul,
the apostle, explaining It said, 

	(11)	And (God has set some in the church), apostles; …prophets; 				
teachers;

     Now then notice, he leaves the five-fold, and he goes toward gifts.
 But over here where he does not talk about gifts set in the church,
because gifts can’t do this.  

	(12) 	… (perfect) the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the 

                        edifying of the body of Christ: (to build up) 

	(13) 	Till we all come in the unity of the faith, … of the knowledge
of the

	            Son of God, … a perfect man, unto the measure of the
stature of …

	            Christ:

	(14)	(And) henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, …

     Children?  Children back to the fathers, are no longer children,
they're adults.  See?  

           (14)	… (no longer) tossed to and fro by every wind of
doctrine, sleight

                        of men, cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in
wait to deceive;

	(15) 	But (holding) the truth in love, … grow up into him in all
things,

                        which is the head, even Christ:

	(16)	From whom the whole body fitly joined together …

88.   And I submit to you, that when He set the church in order the
first time He was here.  And when He sets the church in order the last
time He was here, and He is here.  And there will be no more moving.
There will be no more little babies.  Because Melchisedec has appeared,
at the time of the full age.  (See?) And beholding Him, seeing Him,
…you know how you see Him…you say, “I’ve never had a vision of
Jesus.”  I have.  I don't know about you, but I'm going to tell you,
I’m not standing here boasting.  I had a bad year, this year, where my
mental capacity could have almost been taken from me entirely.  But
never, has He been so clear in my vision at any time in my life.  

     Because, I know Him as one God.  And the glory, and the
inheritance…I’ll preach on It sometime, hopefully, …as I have
never known.  I don’t know about you, look, I cannot speak for you. 
And I’m not separating.  I’m trying to encourage you.  I’m showing
you, what I am seeing.  And if you see It, you are seeing Him.  And you
will be changed. Not because of Lee Vayle. No, I have a gift, time will
tell.  Someday I’ll be very glad to get rid of it.  I’m not being
bitter, or sarcastic, I’m just being truthful.  The prophet said that
would happen, so I believe it.  Few understand if you want.  I am not a
pastor, let’s get this straight.  

89.  If I went back to teaching you pastoral subjects, it could warm
your heart, and I could warm my heart, and feel very good about it.  But
it will never do what seeing Him in this Word, will do.  Because for
five Ages in between One and Two, we have had the distorted vision that
brought forth fine wonderful people.  It brought forth character, it
brought forth power, but Bro. Branham said, “That’s not what this is
doing.   He’s not doing It, and won’t do it.”  He said, “For
many years now, we’ve seen the Word of God demonstrated in power.  But
we’ve not seen It demonstrated, manifested, in Its revelation.” 

     That is coming now, from the inside, to the out.  Where one day, to
a people who feel least worthy, will one day walk to the Tree of Life,
and enter in.  The Elijah ministry, we’ve talked about It.  I’ve
tried to place It.  And tried to show you, hopefully.  We’ve
accomplished what we set out to do.  And so let us rise and be
dismissed.

  

     Heavenly Father we thank You again for mercy and grace, which has
been given unto us, Lord.  And we realize that this is exactly right
what Zechariah said, what the angel said to him.  That One scattered in
Babylon, that One who had His own vision to prove it.  That His mother,
though it wasn’t His mother, was the organized church.  And His
father, though it wasn’t His father, was the denomination. 
Denominations, beating down the woman.  But there was a Bride to come
out of her.  In days of grace, Lord, which we have, are now not at hand,
but are here in the hands, to bring forth a Bride.  Who, by continuously
seeing Him in that Word, shall be changed into His glory, which is the
image and the glory of the Father.  

     Now Lord, I’m willing to believe that, in its mechanical sense,
and in its spiritual sense.  For  I have accepted, and do accept, and
will continue to accept, that this is exactly right.  That this is that
true understanding, the true thing that is in that Word.  That was to
happen, and is now happening, and shall continue to happen, until it has
all happened.  And I stand with It, Lord, and say with the prophet once
more: “If we’re not Bride, there’s a Bride out there somewhere.
And by the grace of God, we won’t stand in her way.”   But we will
stand back and rejoice and say, “Great is our God.”  But Lord, in
the meantime, we have thoughts of grace toward us, that we can count
ourselves, with those that have gone ahead.  And part of the prophet’s
children, because we are. Are all these Branham’s?”  Yup.  In a
limited sense of the word, because there was that seed to bring them
forth by divine impartation. 

      So, Heavenly Father, we thank You for what we know today of Your
grace and goodness.  What we thrill to.  What we experience.  What we
love, and continue to hope for.  Until one day Lord, earnest
expectation, shall turn into living reality.  And then, what a man
seeth, he will no longer hope for.  Now, unto the King eternal,
immortal, the only wise God, be all power and honor, and glory for
evermore, in Jesus Name.  Amen.

     Let’s sing that song, ‘O how I love Jesus’ because, that is
what it’s all about.  As Bro. Branham said, “It’s been Jesus, all
the time.”  

      Who’s going to start it?  I’m the one to unveil Christ. 
You’re not going to get It any other way.  That’s not what I said. 
I said, “I have to teach the way I teach, and if I were simply to go
back to shepherd a people, which is not my work.  I’d be placing as it
were, a ministry that God’s given me, under the Ages; Two, Three,
Four, Five, and Six, when the ministry He has given me is according to
the Book of Revelation, the Spirit of prophecy, which is the testimony
to Jesus Christ.”  Which foreruns the going to the Tree of Life.  

     Now, I’ve told you that before, what the prophet told me.  And if
I were to speak on the things which pertain, then therefore, exclusively
to the production of character, it wouldn’t answer the bill.  If I
were to speak on those things pertaining to that which would bring forth
a manifestation of gifts, it won’t answer the question.  It lies in
the understanding, and every pastor, and everybody, has the same
opportunity.  We’re under a different Age entirely.  It’s to take
what the prophet said, and I having a gift of being able to take what he
said to the Word, and laying it out here, verse by verse.  Then
therefore, what I’m trying to tell you is this: that this is the way I
preach, and must preach.  And you perhaps, will not realize the benefit
that you feel that you might get by someone especially… if, and I have
done it and can do it.  To so present the Word of God to make you feel
in another realm, and dimension, that is fine, but it will never do what
the prophet’s Message did, which is to reveal Christ.  I hope you
understand what I’m saying, because my Lord, these days you could be
so misunderstood.  And it is so easy, because we don’t even understand
ourselves.  I guess that’s it.  

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