God Identifying Himself # 1 

Beaumont, Texas  

 Bro. Lee Vayle   -  June 16, 1985

	...grateful to know that He had it obviously manifested to us and to
the world that when Bro. Branham said, "We'll ask Him to come, we don't
know if He will come." Then he'd say, "He is here." We knew that to be
factual, because we saw the evidence of It. Lord, we know that even
though we don't have a prophet in this hour, the Pillar of Fire stays
on, because the prophet said, "It would take the Pillar of Fire to lead
us into the Millennium." The same prophet said, "When that Holy Spirit
in our midst that set at the head of the Church, the dead are raised and
that same One in our midst would incarnate Itself."

	We thank You, Lord, that we have an understanding of the Word of this
hour through manifestation we could not have had before. We're very
grateful for It, Lord, to know that we're part of that same revealed
Word.  We're looking forward to a speedy entrance into Thy Kingdom,
Lord, in a fullness that You set forth Your Word to declare that the
Kingdom of God is not either meat or drink, nor flesh or blood cannot
inherit It, but we'll be changed immortal, and raptured up into the
skies. We thank You for this promise, Lord, it supersedes all other
promises, and if we have this then we have everything. 

	Now, help us this morning in the Word, Lord, to be brief and yet
absolutely to the point, very clear and definite that we might
understand as we've perhaps not understood before in Jesus' Name we
pray. Amen. You may be seated.

1.	Now, I trust I won't take too long this morning on the fact of 'God
Identifying Himself', it's kind of a...not a recap, but we're taking it
out of the 'God Identified by His Characteristics'.

	Sometimes I go over a Message, and then I go over It again, and I find
sort of what I've been looking for all along and it's just not too easy.

	We're going to start at paragraph 56. [God is Identified by His
Characteristics 03-11-64] 

[19]   	See, it's God placing. (You know, you just got to let your mind
go on that. 					First of all) He sends a man, (number two) takes the
Word of the age. 

	So, now we're looking at something that God is going to do in this Age.
He's got a man, which really is number two, and He's got the Word of
that Age. So, number one really is: there's a Word of the Age that God
must get to the people. And the next thing He's going to do It by, He's
going to do It by the man that He's got predestinated for that hour.

		But now before you can believe that Word of that age, God identifies
Himself 				in His characteristic (See?), by knowledge, by vision. (All
right.)

	 You're talking now about a man for that hour. Talking about God
identifying Himself, by God bringing into view what He is, by how He
does things, so you know It's God.

		He told things that would happen, and it happens.

	All right, now God identifies Himself in His Characteristics, by vision
and knowledge, it's God in this man now telling things that would
happen. 

 		And God said, "When that happens, then you believe he has the
interpretation 				of the Word, because the Word of the Lord comes to
that man." 

2.	Now, remember what you're dealing with now. You're dealing right now
with the identification of the Word of the Age, God Himself becoming
manifest, and He's doing it by the man of His choice. And that man
positively will use a predictive, or a prophetic utterance and God will
bring it to pass. 

		And his credentials, he is being identified by being a seer (now, it
tells you 				right there that God is going to use a seer) in the Old
Testament (which is a 				prophet.)

[20] 	Just as plain as it can be, his characteristics are identified,
made known, 					God's character.

	Now, you say, "How am I going to know God?"

	The truth about God is that He's going to have a prophet. Now, people
don't like this, because they can't understand that at this hour that we
need a prophet. They think we've got enough of the Word, we've got a lot
of Bibles, we've got this, that and the other thing. And so it's not
necessary to have a prophet in order to establish the identity of God,
and the identity of the Word. Now they think that is foolish, but we
don't.

3.		Now, that's how "God dealt in sundry times,"

	 Now, that's the Old Testament, and the New Testament can't change it.
Now, people think that it's changed, because It said, "God speaking in
His Son." Well, just wait till we get down the road a bit. So, now
you've got to let your thinking go this morning, because, look, the
great tragedy is, in going over these Messages, everyone of us came out
of something. And we interpret all the time everything, but Bro. Branham
said, "by what we came out of, and what we believe." Now, you've got to
stop it. And to do this, you've got to concentrate very, very
thoroughly, so there's a continuity in your mind. So you don't get all
messed up and what you think the prophet is saying. That's means: you've
got to go backward, and sometime you've to go forward. But you've got to
be on your toes and very alert, spiritually aroused.

		 Now, that's how "God dealt in sundry times," the Bible says, "in
divers 					manners He spoke to the fathers through the prophets, (or in
the prophets) 					but in this last days through Jesus Christ, His Son,
He speaks." Now...

4.	All right, in paragraph 56, which we read, God using prophets to
identify Himself, let's now take a look at prophets. And to do this
we're going to take Deuteronomy 18. Now, he said here:

		(15) 	The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the 				
	midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him (you) shall 				
	hearken;

		(16) 	According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in
Horeb 					in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the
voice 						of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any
more, 						that I die not.

		(17) 	And the LORD said unto me, They have well spoken (what) they 			
		have spoken.

		(18) 	I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like
unto 						thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak
unto 						them all that I shall command him.

		(19) 	And (it'll) come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto
my 						words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of
him.

		(20) 	But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name,
						which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in
the 					name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.

		(21) 	And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which
						the LORD hath not spoken? (Or how are we going to know what 					
He has spoken?)

		(22) 	When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing
follow 					not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath
not spoken, 					but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou
shalt not be afraid 					of him.

5.	All right, we're going to go to Numbers 12, because we've got to see
Numbers 12. Alright, verse 5.

		(5) 	And the LORD came down in the pillar of the cloud, and stood in 	
				the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam: and they 		
			both came forth.

		(6) 	And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, 
				I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will 			
	speak unto him (in dreams).

		(7) 	(But) my servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine
house.

		(8) 	With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even (in view and a shape.
In 					other words I'll come into visible manifestation, in some kind
of a 						shape, or form.) and not in dark speeches; and the similitude
of the 						LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were (you) not afraid
to speak 					against my servant Moses?

	So, there's prophets and prophets. Now, the one that speaks to face to
face is a very rare individual, the rest merely had vision. See? Or God
will say something to them, maybe in the inner ear, or what, I don't
know.

6.	Now, with that in mind paragraph 57 again:

[20]	Now, that's how "God dealt in sundry times," the Bible says, "in
divers 					manners He spoke to the fathers through the prophets, but in
this last days 				through Jesus Christ, His Son, He speaks." (Now,
there's the stumbling 					block.)

	Now, this paragraph is a stumbling block, because the interpretation
and visualization of what Bro. Branham is saying is this: "The man
Christ Jesus at the right hand of God, the present High Priest in
flesh." That's entirely erroneous. That is not what he is saying. And
yet, you cannot help yourself. You're going to snap it. Just like a
snapping turtle every time. Because if you don't watch yourself.. I can
tell you that. 

	You say, "How do you know?"

	Because I've got trouble. You've got to take a raw heathen and break
him in on this Message. And the best heathen we've got here is Dave and
Joe, and the boys. [laughter] They have all the benefits. The rest that
sit around here, we had training. They came in with no intellectual
conception whatsoever, so to hear the prophet is very easy for them,
unless someone messed them up. Because that's the conceptualization of
what the minute you mention Jesus Christ, Lord Jesus Christ they're
thinking of the body that God used, now at the right hand of the Majesty
on High.

7.	All right, now this is a stumbling block because the interpretation,
and visualization when they hear Bro. Branham say this: "The man Christ
Jesus at the right hand of God, the High Priest in flesh." You must not
forget, the mind of Bro. Branham was not saying that. But, "If Jesus
Christ is risen from the dead and is the same yesterday, today and
forever, He will do in the form of the Holy Spirit which He's come back,
in what He did in the flesh." Now, that's what he's saying. Unless you
can apprehend that, you've got a problem. You won't get off the ground.
But that's what he's talking about, because prophets don't deal with
Jesus in flesh. Now, what is Jesus? Jehovah Savior. All right, what's
another thing? Immanuel, God with us.

	All right, this is the hour in the dispensation of the Son-ship in a
Pillar of Fire. You follow me? This is the dispensation of Son-ship, and
the Holy Spirit takes upon Himself the form of the Pillar of Fire,
quoting Bro. Branham. And explaining it, so he breaks it down to you.

	And He's here speaking now as in Numbers 12 with Moses and with Paul,
and now with Bro. Branham. Christ's ministry proves William Branham to
be Elijah, because that's the only prophet mentioned for this hour. See?
That brings us right back to original Pentecost which is not principally
man receiving the Holy Ghost, but the Holy Ghost is there to give of
Himself. He's got to be there to give of Himself to men who have
believed the evidence of His Resurrection. For redemption is by grace
through faith. We're right back to original Pentecost; when He came as a
Pillar of Fire and divided Himself amongst the people. But you noticed,
He did not give revelation. The revelation already preceded It that He
was risen from the dead. See? But Paul is a different story. We'll get
to it a little later.

8.	Notice: the fullness of the Holy Spirit visited the Church. The next
step was the same Pillar of Fire God in Son-ship. And on the road to
Damascus He smote Paul down, and Paul said, "Who art Thou Lord?"

	He said, "I'm Jesus."

	"Oh, where's your nail prints?"

	Now you see, this explodes the mind, because nobody thinks this way
except a prophet. So therefore, when you're talking now of this
dispensation you must know what you're talking about, what you're
thinking about, and give back to God with the literal interpretation and
understanding, or you've got problems.

	Bro. Branham spoke of that when he said, "Son of man, Son of God, Son
of man, then Son of David." (Four.) And he said, "You've got to give
back to God what He wants to hear. The correct Word."

	Now of course, everybody said, "Well, Sis. Hattie Wright, (Sis. Mosher)
she gave the right word back." Now they say Fred Barker's going to give
the right word back sometime." So, everybody gets their thoughts on
mystical things. Get your thoughts off mystical things, it's out in
plain view. He said, "Little children, it's in plain view." The
shew-bread that you're feeding on, the veil's been rent. The Mighty God
has been revealed. What Mighty God? Elohim, who changes His form and His
mask. So, the next step was the same Pillar of Fire God in Son-ship.
"I'm Jesus whom you persecute." Now, that is Alpha. See? 

9.	Now, in these last days of Hebrews 12. Let's go back again to Hebrews
12. Bro. Branham used It. Now, verse 25.

		(25) 	See that (you) refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped
not 					who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we
escape, 					if we turn away from him that (is) from heaven:

	The speaking on earth has been done with. Now, it's the speaking from
heaven. What came down from heaven? Jesus in the form of the Holy
Spirit. See? 

		(26) 	(But) whose voice then shook the earth: (earthquakes and
things,) 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, signifieth the removing of those
things 					that are shaken, as of things that are made, (anything
that's visible in 					creation will be shook plumb right down. You
better believe it.) that 					those things which cannot be shaken may
remain.

	What's going to remain? The only thing that God breathed upon and
brought back by restoration to what the form He wanted it. This whole
system is going to shake down. But God's system won't shake down. His
order won't shake down, because He's redeemed it.

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

		(29) 	For our God is a consuming fire. (Everything that gets in the
way 						gets burnt up. All right.)

	Now, at the last day, the fullness of the Holy Spirit visits the church
again. Now, Bro. Branham said, I've got a quote on it, he said:
[Desperations 09-01-63]

[10]	Now, the entire Holy Spirit visits the church making God in human
flesh as 				He did before Sodom, 

	Now, what's God in human flesh? Is when the words of a man could not
possibly do what the words in that man uttered. It takes God. So, when
you find God using a prophet and speaks those words and God brings It to
pass, that's God in human flesh. Because God is in the prophet.

	Now, people again don't want to believe that. They think it's
presuming. Well, I'm sorry for their presumption, but clear your minds
of that nonsense. Get rid of it. Takes some kind of a burning brush from
God. Wires, emery wheels or something. wire wheel or emery brush, or
something. Emery wheel, ask the Holy Ghost to burn all the dross out of
your hearts and minds. That's the thing to do. That's what I've got to
do daily.

10.		[God is Identified by His Characteristics 03-11-64]

[20]	Now, Jesus said, in John 10:37, "If I do not the works of My
Father, don't 					believe Me." 

	Nobody else did them. Nobody else did them. A prophet could come the
closest, because he had a portion, a role to play. But these works were
different, because it was a different Word for the hour. The fullness of
God and the full revelation. The role was God Himself in a human being,
but It was God, fullness of God.

		See, they said, "You're a Man, and making Yourself God." He said, "If
I do 				not the works of My Father, then believe Me not."-- "John was a
bright and 				shining light. You like to walk in his light for a
season. Now, John said, 'I 					must go out; He must increase.'" He was
the Light of the world, (that's Jesus 				was,) because He was the
a-vindicated, identified Word made flesh. So He 				was God with us.
(That's Immanuel.)

	Now, He was God with us Immanuel, that's Hebrews 13:8. Now, Bro.
Branham placed that in Genesis, Abraham and Sarah. This is a visitation
of God before the fire fell and the Promised Son in flesh came into
view. See? Now, after the visitation came the ability to receive the
promise in the Son Himself. Before the visitation was impossible.

	Now, there's another thing people get mixed up, the Appearing and the
Coming. The Coming is three-fold. He came once in flesh. He will come
immortal up there. The third time come back to earth. This is the
Appearing. The Coming is mortal flesh. This Coming is Appearing, the
revealing of Himself. The entire Holy Spirit visits the Church, making
God in human flesh as He did before Sodom. See? They said, "You're a
man." But It was God with us.

		The prophets were God with them. (Didn't say, "God of the prophets."
Said, 				"prophets made God with the people." See? You got a separation
there though, 				same time. Identification.)

	You say, "I think maybe God left when the prophet left." 

11.	The prophet said, "He must increase, and I must decrease." So God
couldn't have  gone. See? Who was on the scene when John was there? Who
appeared?  Jesus appeared on the scene. That was the coming, that type.
Who increased? Jesus increased. Did He cease increasing? By no means. By
no means.   

		The prophets were God with them. Jesus said so. He said, "If you call
them 				who the Word of God come to, 'gods,' how can you condemn Me
when I say 				I'm the Son of God?" See?

[21] 	So where the Word (of God) has been spoken by God is vindicated,
then that 				is God making Himself known by His characteristic,
fulfilling His Word. It 				needs no interpretation. It's already
interpreted Itself, proves what It is. 

	Now, this is the plea of course where Bro. Branham's own ministry to
the people, to recognize what's going on. That's why he said, "If you
only knew who I was..." (we know two cases where he said it: once in
Florida and I forget the other tape now,) ...you'd all be healed."  So
therefore, recognition  by appearance is a very tremendous thing. 

	In other words, Abraham saw three men come...he said, "There's God."
How could he pick Him out? See? He had a spiritual eye. He was one with
the Word. Abraham was the Word for that hour. Now, if the Word can't
tell the Word, then John the Baptist was all haywire. He just guessed.
See, the Word comes to the Word. Word comes to the prophet.

12.	All right:

		Just the same as He said, "Let there be light" there was light; you
don't 					have to say, "Well, what did that mean?" It means just...
There it is; that 					proves it. It's already come to pass. (See? All
right,) Now, Jesus said that, 					"If I do not the works of My Father,"
or other words, "if I don't have the 					characteristic (the
identifying characteristic) of My Father, don't believe it. 				They
identify My character, (that tells what It is by observation what It
does.) 				They identify My character Who I am. If you can't believe Me,
then believe 				the identification God has given. If My character
doesn't identify My position, 				then don't believe My claims." See?
(You get it.) How many understands it? 				Raise your hand. See? "If My
character (that is what it's supposed to do and 				does in being, my
character) does not identify Who I claim to be, If you can't 				believe
Me, (what I'm saying) why, just believe the identification (that's the 	
		works, the manifestation...)

	And then you've got to say, "Well, what is it?" 

	"Well, I believe that's God."

	Well, hallelujah, you're close to the kingdom. How much do you believe?

	"Why, I think that's the devil."

	You just lost out. You blasphemed. I don't mean to make light of this
unless I took the two extremes.  See, it's either God or the devil.

	Some people pass by and say, "I don't know."

	They're cunning like the Pharisees. They're like the fox. They try to
spring the trap and not get into it themselves. All right, the
identification of that characteristic, that character.  

13.	Isaiah 61:

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

		(2) 	To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD... 

	What's for today? Well, I think It's over here in Isaiah 35:

		(1) 	The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and
						the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. (It's going to 
					blossom very shortly, the Millennium.)

		(2) 	It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and
singing: 					the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the
excellency of Carmel 					and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the
LORD, and the excellency 					of our God.

		(3) 	Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. (Now,
					that's Hebrews 12, that's for this hour.)

		(4) 	Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not:
behold, your 					God will come with vengeance, even God with a
recompence; he will 					come and save you. (Well, that's this hour.)

	Now, God can't act apart from His Word. He had to legally come and
declare through the judgeship by the prophet, and there's your visible
manifestation that we were exempted from the law. And we were now
completely loosed. 

		(5) 	Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, the ears of the deaf
shall 					be unstopped.  

14.	Do you know that Bro. Branham did perhaps more of that then the
history ever known, deaf and dumb and never missed a trick? You folk
never saw him in the old days. He'd stand right there and if there'd be
a dumb spirit in the boy, and Bro. Branham wouldn't flick his fingers to
see the dumb spirit was out. He said, "In the Name of Jesus Christ I
adjure you, 'come out of that boy'." He said, "It didn't move." He said,
"In the Name of Jesus Christ, Satan, I adjure you come out of that boy."
He said, "It didn't move."  Then he'd go 'snap, snap'. He said, "He'll
come this time." The boy looked around like this. Not a case missed.
Deaf people dumb, and he didn't have to make an experiment, he knew, or
not in that category. We think we're Cadillac's, we're mostly Packard's,
obsolete. They're good for their day, but they're skunked out. 

		(6) 	Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the 		
			dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break (forth), and 				
	streams in the desert.

		(7) 	And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land 
					springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay,
shall 					be grass with reeds and rushes.

		(8) 	And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called 
					The way of holiness; (Now, Bro. Branham preached on that.) 

	He told about the woman with the high heels slippers couldn't make it.
You know, some of you ladies (you know) you're getting up to the place
you've got to watch yourself a little more carefully then you're doing.
You see, I don't harp on here, you go down on the ministry, because I
don't ride herd on anybody. We're past the age of worrying, conforming
to little things like (you know,) the prophet said. Either you believe
the prophet, or you don't believe the prophet. Don't, you can't come
here and say, "Well, I believe Bro. Vayle is teaching what the prophet
said." There's no way you can believe it, because you don't conform with
the Word of God says. What the prophet said, the little things. Little
things that stumbling you. Now the men are just a bad too. Well, I tell
you, this is the hour to clean up and start getting examining our souls.
It's going to be difficult.

15.	I want to tell you, that that thing in the flesh is stubborn as
old-get-out. You didn't get that stubbornness from God, you got it plumb
from the devil. You got a tool in there that works from hell, not for
the kingdom of God. I tell you, I know what I'm talking about, because
I've been going through months of it, and I still waiver. Because
there's things in life you've got to lick. If you don't lick them, but
you better find out how with the strength of God. Now, there's a thin
line down the middle of that road. See? 

		(8) 	And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called 
					The way of holiness; (Now, there's two ways you can go. But there's
					one way you got to go if you're going to make the kingdom.) the 			
		unclean shall not pass over it; (it'll) be for those: the wayfaring
men, 					though fools, shall not err therein.

	You can be as simple as a (you know) as a befuddled goat, we're
goatish, you can make it. Because the Word of God is very simple the
prophet brought. And if all boils down, the One that started redemption,
God Himself wouldn't leave redemption to anybody but Himself. Came right
down to Eden, and applied the blood of an animal, what then that same
God would do? Would come down and redeem us, looking back on Jesus then
come here and finish it. You tell me I'm off the Word of God, then Bro.
Branham's a liar, because he said it. Alpha is Omega.

16.	Who could God trust redemption to? Who could He trust the Book to?
Where's he's redeemed by Blood, it's right back in the hands of God.
Well, you see, we're right in this end-time brother/sister.

		(9) 	No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up
thereon, 						it shall not be found there; but the redeemed (of the
Lord) shall walk 					there:

		(10) 	And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with
					songs, everlasting joy upon their heads: (you sung about that) they
						shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee
away.

	Now, they were in that period right now brother/sister, because there's
no dumb up there, and there's no special road to travel up there in
Zion. 

	You don't have to worry about anything bothering you. because there's
nothing there to bother you. Because God doesn't bother anything, He
just helps everybody. We're talking about Zion, we're coming to It. When
you talk about Zion, that's New Jerusalem, Bro. Branham said so. Now,
that's just plain fact. See?

17.	All right:

[22] 	John 14:12, "He that believeth," Jesus said, "on Me, the works
that I do shall 				he do also." Now, "He that believeth on Me (a true
believer)... 

	What's a true believer? Were there any true believers here at the time
of Bro. Branham? Sure. But they were unenlightened. Just the same as the
time of Elijah. The same as John the Baptist. But he has an unidentified
mark of being the one true believer amongst all of them, because he was
right on target, the rest weren't. The rest were under Ahab religion
where what really means. What's this, what's that? See? John the Baptist
came. That should have set them straight, but didn't set them straight.
He came to give the ignorant, that's those poor believers that didn't
understand, the revelation.

	That's what It says here in Luke 1:17.  

		(17)	And he shall go before (the Lord God of Israel) in spirit and
power 						of (Elijah), to turn the hearts of the fathers to the
children, (even) 						the disobedient to the wisdom of the just... 

	That means, a person that's disobedient by means of ignorance, and
there's a special sacrifice for the ignorant. See, you got something
right here now. You can look at it and see, "Well, I wonder which way it
goes? You're ignorant, you don't know. You really honestly don't know.
But end up bringing it into view and then you do know. Now, your
decision comes up "where are you going?" Now, a true believer.     

		"He that believeth on Me, shall be identified by My characteristic,
the works." 				Now, that's what He did. (Now notice, that's what He
did.) "If I don't do the 				Father's works, then don't believe Me." And
the Father spoke to the prophets, 				and that was their characteristic,
identification. (They spoke and God did it.) 				So was it with Jesus.
And promised it to him that believeth, "My characteristics 				shall do
in him just as it did in Me... But if I do the works, you can't believe 
			Me, then believe the works, because it's spoken of; it must be." 

18.	All right, now Bro. Branham is not talking about anybody but
prophets and God. He's not talking about you and me, the thematic
structure, here is God in prophets, so that God will in the prophets,
identifying Himself to the people, so they'll believe what the prophet
says. Now, people will want to run and say, "Well, he that believeth on
me do all the works." Oh, hogwash! I want to see somebody take and break
dead loaves and dead fish and produce something. See? You're talking
about a very special individual here. See, Bro. Branham had power over
the inanimate. He didn't divide loaves and fish to my knowledge, but it
could have been done, I don't know. The people want to bend spoons,
everything else by foreign power.

	What did Bro. Branham say in the room with the little girl that had the
bad appendix. He said, "Look, (he said,) you can't get out of here, but
(he said,) you say you've got all faith." He said, "You don't have it,
but you will. Now, (he said,) "I'm going to make that chandelier cord go
to the right, (he said,) "clock wise, then counter clock wise." She
jumped out of bed whole.

19.	Now look, I'm going to tell you, there's ministries and ministries
brother/sister, and this is where Pentecostal's is all confused where
you and I can get confused. Because the spirit of Pentecost is Laodicea,
and it's the predominate spirit. It's not Methodist, Baptist,
Presbyterian, it's Pentecostal. Even the Catholic's have taken it.
They've taken it as a way out. It's not a way out, it's a way down,
because they're way off the Word.

	When you can confess to a priest, and make the pope the vicar of Jesus
Christ by the vote of the Cardinal's college, and speak in tongues and
call it God, there's something wrong with you. You've fizzled. I'm
sorry, I can't help that. That's the truth. Nothing against the Catholic
people, it's against the Catholic church, the organization.

	It's that church that God was speaking of in chapter 2 and 3 of the
Book of Revelation ...?... Bro. Branham was.   

		Now,  the Father spoke through the prophets and that was their
characteristic, 				identification."My characteristics shall do in him
just as it did in Me... 

20.	All right, now just a minute, if he's talking about prophets and
said,  just as it did in Me, and he's talking about the earthly ministry
of Jesus Christ, God made flesh, he's looking back to that ministry two
thousand years ago. Not something beyond two thousand years, but two
thousand years ago. Got to read every word and get it just right. "If I
do the works of My Father..." Now, Bro. Branham said that, he said:

		But if I do the works, you can't believe Me, believe the works,
because it's 					spoken of; it must be." He said, "Search the
Scriptures, for in Them you think 				you have Eternal Life, and They
are They that tell you Who I am." (Same thing 				going on.) That was
Jesus (See?), God manifested, (Then Jesus is God 					manifested under
any condition, scriptural, wherein dealing in the age. But 				only come
by a prophet. "God in sundry times spake by the prophets,"

	I'll read it again:

		That was Jesus (See?), God manifested showing Himself. "They testify
Who 				I am." That makes Hebrews 1:1 now, "God in sundry times spake by
the 					prophets," 

	Doesn't speak by you and me, speaks by the prophets. "Behold, I send
you prophets, wise men and scribes." [Mt 23:34] The prophet to whom the
Word of God comes, delivers It. The wise men breaks It down like a
teacher. The scribe has no ability except to just say, "Here It is, this
is the Word, read It," or something quote, or something. And he has no
business trying beyond that either. Bro. Branham has a word against
that.

		God spoke by the prophets then, through His Son now. (Through His Son 
				now.)

	Nobody wants to put the 'now' on there, because they've got Jesus up
there and you can't get to Him unless He comes down in a Rapture and we
meet Him up there in the heavens. That's scriptural. You go by prayer,
but this is 'now'. Son-ship and the Pillar of Fire. Who are You Pillar
of Fire? I'm Jesus. He hasn't changed, because the hour is not over. You
see, "I'm Jesus," spoke of the Son-ship.

		The unchangeable God, the same characteristic, "The works that I do,
shall 				you do." God's known by His identified characteristic. That's
how you know.				 (And God is the Holy Spirit, right? Remember, the
Word's got to match the 				works, and the works got to match the Word.)
You say, "Well, I tell you this; 				we see this, we do this, and we
do." And that's not what I'm talking about. 

21.	Notice: now, let's keep that in mind. 

		You say, "Well, I do this; we sing this, we do this, and we do."

	That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the Word, not
this. Logos, I'm talking about Logos made manifest and identifying this
life. What? Logos Life. The Word made flesh, I'm identifying It. It's
the same life. The Life that was down there in an angel, looked like a
man in Abraham's time. The Life that was there in Michael that the devil
fought, because he wanted a better kingdom than Michael. God manifested,
Pillar of Fire.

[23] 	I'm talking about the Word made manifest and identifying this
Life, the 					characteristics of the promised Word for the age. (We
read in Isaiah 35. 					See? And this is Matthew 12, where He appears to
the Gentiles.) The 					Pharisees knew that Bible as good as anybody,
better than any of us 					clergymen know ours today. They had to live
by It. Their great-great-					grandfather were priests. They studied It,
day and night they failed to see 					that identified Word. Today,
Luther said, "When you believe, you've got It." 				Methodist say, "When
you shout, you got It." The Pentecostal said, "When 					you spoke in
tongues, you had It." 

	What's It? Paragraph 66. I'm talking about the Word. Logos made
manifest identifying this Life. Not William Branham's life. God Life.
Zoe, Spirit. See?

		We find all that wrong. (What? Just believing It, shouting It,
tongue-si-ing It, 				everything else.) Some said, "The fruit of the
Spirit's got It." (No!) And it's 				wrong. The only evidence is, is
when the a-vindication, when God Himself 					identifies Himself in the
promised Word of the hour. There it is. 

22.	Now, he tells you flat, and he's not talking about you being born
again, he's talking about that life that's laid out here that's amongst
you in this hour. It's identified Himself, that It is God that's visited
again. The whole...the entire Spirit visits the Church. And visitors
that visit. You come to my house and shack up there and say, "I'm just
going to live here." Oh, that ain't no visit buddy, your visit is going
to be cut short. Can't people understand words? 

	"Well, Bro. Branham didn't mean it?"

	Then why did he preach? Do you realize what ...?... saying here? God
can take an ignorant man and put His Words in that man's mouth. So don't
try to put It down to education. Hogwash! I'm got plenty of education, I
talk horrible. That I've got the ability to speak almost perfectly. My
minds not good enough to do it anymore, but one time I could in a very
extendable vocabulary. Just a little...not too bad, it's pretty lousy
what it used to be.

	The only evidence is that you know He's here if He does the works, and
this is the Appearing, because He's in a form of a Pillar of Fire. At
the advent, He's in a human body again glorified immortal. Now, that's
the understanding I've got. I'm going to keep it. I'm teaching you, and
you do what you want with it. See?

23.	God identifying Himself by the prophets, not by the believers.
That's Latter Rain. "We've all got a part, we're all Elijah." Hogwash,
you're all Elijah. Fap! More like old Samson out there messing around.

    		Who had any more fruits of the Spirit those kind old priests,
(now, hitting 					the other groups see?) circumcised  children, blessed
them, everything else? 

[24] 	And here this guy Jesus (That's good language, don't you feel bad
about it, 					you see?) was, come around, kicked over their sacrifice
blocks, looked upon 				them with anger, beat them out, run them out, no
identification nothing. The 				Scripture is His identification. 

	That's Elijah, Matthew 12. The Elijah of this hour is the Lord Jesus
Christ Himself. God, not man, but it'll come through a prophet. What's
the identification? The hour in which we live. It all lines up. If
you're looking for more Sodom and Gomorrah, you've got more guts than I
got. I want to get out of here before it gets worse. 

		He had no fellowship card; He belonged to no organization. But God
spoke 				of Him; that was His identification. 

	Now, God just didn't speak of Him, that would be no identification, God
brought it to pass. Because when God says a thing, It's got to come into
view. "Let there be light." There it was. A virgin shall conceive and
bare a child. Absolutely, there's a Son. His Name is Immanuel, God came
right into Him. That doesn't need interpretation. Glad someone's got
a... well certainly somebody always comes behind to explain it, because
we're just too dense and too dumb spiritually speaking, that's right.

24.	Okay, now notice, now we find out the characteristics, that is: the
performed and thereby identifying characteristic you see. (Now just a
minute, I've got to go back over this:)

    		That's the genuine identification of God in any hour, is His
identification. (In 				other words, you identify God, it's got to be
what God's identification's are, not 				what you say they are, what you
think. That's what it is, the Scriptures that's 				promised made
identified by the characteristic of the promise which is God, 				and
God is the Word. And the characteristic of that promise being
identified, 				(by whom? You!)

	It's identified and you understand the identification. And you say,
"That's God." Now before you didn't know. I keep telling you, when Bro.
Branham was in Canada, my wife (you know) came to say, "What do you
think of this man, there's a man named Branham and he tells what
diseases people have?"

	"Well," I said, "so what?" I said, "I've seen a spiritist do it." I
didn't say it was a spiritist doing it. I didn't know what's going on.
When I saw the man I said, "That's God." That settled it. 

	When I had my chance to make or break back into heathenism under the
teaching of the Rapture, when I said, "Well, I've heard you say many
peculiar things brother in your day, but my Lord, this is taking it too
far when you say, 'the Shout is the Message'."

	I suddenly said to myself, "but when was he ever wrong?" I said, "The
Shout's the Message." That took care of it.

25.	You see, you've got that time to identify, so therefore he says
here:

	And the characteristic of that promise being identified, that makes the
believer. 

	If you cannot see God in this hour visibly through the prophetic
demonstration of the characteristics of God and the Word being
manifested, and the Word being preached, three pulls, you're not a
believer. Now, you believe something, you're not a believer. You're not
a true believer, something's wrong somewhere. See? 

	Now, if you're a heathen at that time, but you're Seed. You'll say,
"This is It, amen, I've been looking for This all my life, couldn't find
It." No wonder you couldn't find It, It wasn't for you at that time. And
you receive It, and you get baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus
Christ, the Holy Ghost is bound to come in. See, people want to put the
Holy Ghost way down there somewhere. "Repent, and be baptized everyone
of you, you shall receive." [Acts 2:38] And they did, and they do. Now,
you got it reversed. Shout, Voice, Trumpet. 

	Back there in Acts 2:38 you did two things. Today you do one thing.
Back there God did one thing. Today God does two things. You just
believe the Message, He'll raise the dead and take you up. You had to
believe two things before. Get into it, believe and get baptized. Now,
it's baptism right there is a stumbling block. The Name of the Father,
Son and Holy Ghost is Jesus Lord. Actually it boils right down to one
thing, Jesus, Jehovah Savior, Lord Jesus Christ, lays the whole thing
out in front of you. You see, God does everything in three's. So, He's
Lord Jesus Christ. You get baptized in His Name. When you think He
isn't, you'll find out. He's Lord Jesus Christ, you bet He is. "God hath
made this same one that you've crucified, He raised up and made Him both
Lord and Christ." [Acts 2:36] And you get God in that One, you got Lord
Jesus Christ the Almighty God. How are you going to get... look, come
on...you got to see where the Word's being placed.

26.	Now:  

		... now we find out, the characteristics identify Him. As He said, "If
it doesn't 				do it, then don't believe Me." Now, Jesus spoke that it
would identify Him. 					Now remember that in these days, (and he's
right back to) Hebrews 1: again: 				"God in sundry times and divers
manners, spoke to the fathers through the 				prophets. In this last day
has spoke to us through His Son, Jesus Christ." See? 

[25] 	Identification of God Himself manifested in the same manner as He
did in 					foretime, using His same characteristic. Amen. Notice
Hebrews 13:8 says 					He's the same yesterday (sundry times), today,
and forever the same. The 					same manner, His same way, His same
characteristic, everything is the same. 				God, the unchangeable God
can no more get away from that characteristic 				than He get away from
His commandments. (He's talking about the Son, 					Jesus Christ. God in
the form of the Pillar of Fire, not human flesh.) That's 				what He is,
He is the Word. He's the Word for the hour. He's the Word when 				He
created the world; that was the Word. When He created man, that was 				
the Word, His attributes. When He created Christ, that was God Immanuel.

	 Absolutely. When He comes down here in a Pillar of Fire, that's still
God Immanuel, God with us. See? Appearing. Oh, everybody understands
'Appearing', sure they do. "That's when you get caught in a Rapture."
Hogwash! That's down here. See, the Appearing is going on. Bro. Branham
said, "They can't differentiate." And they don't want to differentiate.
I'm using my battle-club of words to get your minds flattened out to
where you can get some new wrinkles in them. We all got the wrong
wrinkles. And you don't necessarily get rid of the...according to habits
you don't get rid of the old wrinkles as much as you put new wrinkles in
there. I'd just as soon get rid of...shuck to this stuff I've got
supposed to be the Word of God. See. So, let's find out brother/sister,
it's no time to fool around with this. 

	So, I tell you, the devil will use every trick in the book to try to
get you off an understanding about what Bro. Branham taught. I bent over
backwards, he almost robbed my mind to what I believe. You stick with
your faith. If something else comes along you think is better, then go
ahead and take it, be my guest. The next time around I'll pay your bus
fare...whether you go or not. We've got plenty of money here to get you
out of the country. Do what you want. See, it's pretty hard to stick
around me. You can if you want, that'd be alright, but wouldn't do you
much good. Because, see, this nails her down. This is what the prophet
was saying as far as I'm concerned, analyzing these words looking at it.


	You say, "You shouldn't analyze words?" Who said I shouldn't analyze
words? Don't worry about it. We're going to quit right now.	

	Look at the tree men at Abraham's tent door. That shows the picture
right there that Bro. Branham took us right back... (and that's forty
five minutes, that's enough for this day. Okay let's bow our heads in
prayer.

	Heavenly Father, we thank You in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Who
loved mercy and goodness to us, Lord. We don't want to be abrupt and
harsh to anybody, think we know anything, Lord, that is not the point of
this message this morning. What is, O God, to actually bring out a
point, to belabor a point if necessary that This was the One Who came
down. This was the One the Word descended by the prophet's spirit, and
It was the One Who did not descend by the prophet's spirit the Logos
Himself as far as we know He came down. "The Lord Himself shall descend 
from heaven with a Shout." That's right, the Lord Himself, descending.

	And Bro. Branham categorically, Your servant  said, "Jesus does all
three in descending." So therefore, It is the Lord Jesus. And we know
the Lord Jesus cannot do that in the flesh. It is absolutely the same
One as Bro. Branham said, met Paul on the Damascus Road. He said, "Just
think, how wonderful the same Pillar of Fire that gave the Word to Paul,
is here now revealing It." It would be the same One then that gave the
Word to John, bringing It right out in our evidence. 

	And John's vision was proved, because here we saw the Clouds form the
Judge. What more do we want, Lord? There's no way we can go one way or
the other. We are convinced, absolutely sure that this is the Word of
Almighty God, Lord, forgive us for saying this, but Whoever is out there
that William Branham was in contact with and spoke of, and put Him right
back to this Bible, we believe that You are That One. We believe that
You are the True God, living God, and You have manifested Yourself. And
where would we go, because if we have found the climax, the apex, that
we have found the Absolute, then why would we look for anything else,
except we look to find more wonderful embellishments and fruits, and
wonderment in that One Who is the pinnacle.

	So, Father God, we thank You for this now and put our whole trust in
You. We hope we do, we're trying to do it, Lord, put our whole trust in
You, in Jesus' Name we pray. Amen.

	'The Lord bless you'.   

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