God Speaking and Bring Worshipped 

(Church Dedication)

Bro. Lee Vayle   -  April 4, 1983

	Shall we pray, Heavenly Father, we're glad we're able to sing and
praise You that You're here, and as we do, mind goes back to the
Scripture that all those things which could not be done under the law
were fulfilled in the birth and death and Resurrection of our Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ. And now all things that were left undone that could
not be done, such as bringing all the Bride out of the ground, bringing
them all together. Such as, giving him immortality to the handful that
is left, they won't see death. All those things which could not be done
are now being done and will be done in this hour. And so we see the ends
of the ages have come upon us, and we are not anymore looking forward as
we used to, but we are looking at, presently, which all things are now
in process of coming in subjection to You.

	And we're very grateful for that. You, Yourself have done it, and You
have not left it to anybody else. And therefore, it's not only shall be
done, but it shall be completely consummated. Perfection has come, all
these things have devolved upon us, certainly we are glad to praise You
for it, and You are praise worthy, dear Lord, and we appreciate that as
never before.

	Be with us now in the remainder of this service and the study of the
Word and we'll be careful to give You the praise in Jesus' Name. Amen.
You may be seated.

	Certainly appreciate the goodness of the Lord today, He has certainly
risen from the dead, then He is Lord. I realize that actually it's one
of those things that's in a potential. But, He is Lord and it'll be
manifest in due time. A lot a folk don't like to wait for the
manifesting,  (you know) it's that many people give up. You don't want
to give up, because, "Now is your salvation nearer than when you first
believed." [Rom 13:11b]

	[Local announcements made]  

1.	Last night we've…especially spoke concerning what would have been
more like an Easter Message then this morning, because we're going to
sort of bring a little message relative to the church dedicating the
building, and above all ourselves to the Lord.

	In other words, this is not really the reading, but to just give you an
idea what I got in mind, I'm going to turn to the Book of Acts 2:42.

		(42)	And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and 					
	fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.

		(43) 	And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were 	
			done by the apostles.

		(44) 	And all that believed were together, and had all things common;

		(45) 	And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all ...
						as every man had need.

		(46) 	And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple,
breaking 					bread from house to house, did eat their meat with
gladness and 						singleness of heart,

		(47) 	Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the
Lord 						added to the church daily such as should be saved.

	Now, you noticed that they were in a certain position in that hour
which we'll refer to without using this Scripture again. In other words,
we're going to talk about what we are really here for in having a
building; which is to hear the Word of God and to worship God. Because,
this is what it was about. And then those things which come from the
Word of God, and the worship of God will bring forth the results which
are commensurate with that hour.

2.	So we're going to speak this morning on the topic of: "God Speaking
in Worship," as He Himself revealed it. Now, there's a big difference in
thinking you hear from God and worshipping God according to what you
think. And actually hearing from God and worshipping God according to
what God Himself has said.

	So, we're going to go to Numbers 7:89, and various Scriptures. It says:

		(89) 	And when Moses was gone into the tabernacle of the congregation 
					to speak with him, then he heard the voice of one speaking unto him
					from off the mercy seat that was upon the ark of the testimony, 			
		from between the two cherubim: and he spake unto him.

	All right, 2 Samuel 6:2,

		(2) 	And David arose, and went with all the people that were with him 
					from Baale (to) Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of God,
(God) 					whose name is called by the name of the LORD of hosts that 		
			dwelleth between the cherubim.

	 Second Kings 19:15.

		(15) 	And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God 					
of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubim, thou art the God, 					
even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; (and) thou hast 					
made heaven and earth.

	Revelation 4:6-8.

		(6) 	And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal:
						and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were 	
				four beasts full of eyes before and behind.

		(7) 	And the first beast was like a lion, the second beast like a
calf, and 						the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth
beast was like a 						flying eagle. 

		(8) 	And the four beasts…each of them six wings about him; were full
						of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy,
holy, 						holy, LORD God Almighty, which was, and (which) is, and 				
	(which) is to come.

3.	Now, you'll notice here that according to our Scripture we see that
God resides amongst the cherubim. For these creatures that you see here
in Revelation 4:7 were named as the cherubim as seen by Ezekiel. He
speaks forth from the midst of the cherubim and He is also worshipped
there. Now, we want to let that sink in, because it's a literal fact
that God literally dwells in the midst of the cherubim, and He Speaks
from that position, and He is worshipped in that position.

	So, what we're looking at here is not a figure of speech. You know,
much of Scripture is in symbols. This is not symbology. This is literal.
It's not a figure of speech. The Tabernacle of the Wilderness is a type
of the church today. Now, this Tabernacle of the Wilderness was what was
already made by the people according to the dictates and plans of God,
and Israel on its way to the Promised Land is a type of the present
Church on its way to the Millennium.

	Now, you'll notice that Israel had not gotten into the Promised Land.
And they were gathered around this tabernacle where the Ark of the Lord
was, and in there God sat between those cherubim as they were making
progress to go to the land which the Lord had given them. Now, they were
called 'strangers and pilgrims', (and we're called 'strangers and
pilgrims') in fact the Scripture that says, "The Meek shall inherit the
earth," [Mt 5:5] really means the pilgrims (the wanderers) would no
permanent place here. Now, we're going into the Millennium.

4.	Now, as I say that was a type of us. And you'll notice here that the
figure of the Tabernacle, wherein God dwelt in the form of a Pillar of
Fire on that Mercy Seat, was the type of the antitype which is in
Heaven. For God said to Moses, "See that make all things (when He spoke
of this Tabernacle) according to the pattern which I showed thee in the
mountain." [Ex 25:40]

	Now, what I'm trying to say here is, that you get the understanding
that that Tabernacle that Moses made was literally based  upon what was
literally in Heaven. Now, the same pattern has never changed. It's never
changed. God still dwells in the midst of the cherubim, and He speaks
and He is worshipped right at this very hour in the same position.

	Now, Moses placed God who was veiled in the Pillar of Fire, and he
placed that God between the cherubim. And you'll notice in Revelation 4,
John saw Him in exactly the same position.

5.	 Now, let's go back and look at It again. Revelation 4:1. He said:

		(1) 	After I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and…I
						heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; (and) said,
Come 					up hither, and (I'll show) thee things which must be
hereafter.

		(2) 	…immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set
						in heaven, and one sat on the throne.

		(3) 	And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine
stone: 						and a rainbow (was around) about the throne, in sight like
unto an 						emerald. 

	That's the Pillar of Fire, the 'urim and thummim' sitting right on the
Throne. That's the Spirit of God veiled in that Pillar of Fire.

		(4)	 And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon 	
				the seats I saw four and twenty elders, clothed in white raiment; 		
			they had on their heads crowns of gold.

		(5) 	And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings
(that's 						God speaking) …seven lamps burning…

	That's the fire, the Light of God shining through Seven Church Ages,
through the seven measures of spirits, through the seven measures of the
Word, through the Seven Church Age messengers. Seven of them. 

		(6) 	And before the throne was a sea of glass… (and then he saw
these 						beasts. He saw the cherubim.)

	So, what Moses made in a figure is literal. You're not dealing with
symbology. 

6.	Now, it's a known fact that the cherubim are very peculiar. And
they're peculiar in so far that there is absolutely no record anywhere
in existence to what a cherubim really looks like. It's a pity we don't
have it. I don't think maybe we'll ever have it; that no man will ever
see a real cherubim. People think the flying saucers are cherubim's. I'm
not going to dispute with anybody. All you see is a light. You don't
see…you'd have to be a prophet, like Ezekiel to really see it. But, I
want you to notice that God is real, the Throne is real, the cherubim
are real. And Almighty God's seated between those cherubim. Speaks, and
is worshipped, the pattern has never changed.

	So, we see that God Speaks forth from, and is worshipped from the midst
of the cherubim. Now, to understand the heavenly, or the spiritual,
we'll have to look at our types which was given by Moses. And we ask the
question, "Where are the cherubim?" The answer is: they cover the Mercy
Seat.

7.	Okay, I'm not too good at drawing up here, (and I'm not even going to
pretend to draw) but I'm just going to put here [Bro. Vayle
demonstrates] and this is going to be 'the Mercy Seat', right here.
Okay, the Pillar of Fire is in here like flames turning and turning and
turning. And over here is cherubim number one. And over here is cherubim
number two. And I guess the others are scattered out around there. (I
don't know exactly how that works.)

	Now, as God is in the midst of the cherubim, and He's over a Mercy
Seat. All right, now, where is the Mercy Seat? Well, the answer is: It
covers the Ark of the Covenant. There's an ark down here, which is
really a box. (I'm not good at dimensions, but I suppose if I were a
little better at dimensions I'd have something like this here.) Okay,
now here we got the lid. This is the lid here, this is Mercy Seat, and
this is the box itself, or is an ark. See, all right now, and God is
right up there. Now, that's exactly the way it is. And that by the way
is two and a half cubits by one and a half, be two and a half by one and
a half over here, see.

 	All right, now, what is the Ark? (See?) It is the place where man can
meet with God. Now, this comprises the Ark here. (See?) Mercy Seat is
part of the Ark. That's where man can meet with God.

8.	Okay, let's go back to Exodus 25:10,  and just take a little look at
that.

		(10) 	And (thou) shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a 	
				half the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof,
						and a cubit and a half the height thereof.

	So, we got one and a half, one and a half by two and a half. Okay?

		(11) 	…thou shalt overlay it with pure gold…

	Okay, [Bro. Vayle goes back to the board] now this is…you begin and
you start with wood, and you over lay it with gold. So, there's a gold
covered box there. Now:

		(12) 	…thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, put them in the
four corners, 					two rings (in the midst) of it…

		 Kind of like you make a coffin (you know) the thing to carry it. This
is what it's going to be all about, they're going to make a way to carry
this thing here.

	All right, and he says here in verse 16: 

		(16) 	…thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give
thee.

	Okay, [back to the board] He's going to be talking between here, and
there's going to be in here what God has already given to Moses. All
right:

		(17) 	…thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold; (Okay, [back to
the 						board] this is pure gold and this is just wood covered with
gold. And 					he maketh it two cubits and a half…and so on.)

		(18) 	…thou shalt make two cherubim of gold, beaten work thou make 	
				them, in the two ends of the mercy seat. (That's like Alpha and
Omega, 					(see?) the beginning and the end, it's identical.)

		(19) 	And make one cherub on the one end, the other cherub on the
other 					end:…  

		(20) 	And (they'll) stretch forth their wings (over) the mercy seat…


		(21) 	And (you'll) put the mercy seat above the ark; (that'll make the
lid.) 					and in the ark thou (you'll) put the testimony (I'll) give
(you.)

		(22) 	And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee
from 					above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are 
					upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee
						in commandment unto the children of Israel.

	Now, He laid it down flat, that if you ever hear Him talk, it's going
to be exactly that way. And if you're going to worship Him, it's going
to be exactly that way, or forget it! Now, that's too bad, but we have
to call a spade a spade. (See?)

9.	Now, we read Exodus 10:22. Now, I don't want you to get confused by
thinking ahead when Bro. Branham preached, "God's Only Provided Place of
Worship." Because, right away your mind is going to go and say, "Well,
we're just going to talk about Christ and we're going to get rid of
this." Now, you just hold your peace, because, "He's the same yesterday,
and today, and forever," [Heb 13:8] and there can be no worship of
Christ outside of original of God. Because, Jesus and God are not the
same Persons, neither are they two Persons of the same Godhead.
Remember, Jesus had a beginning; so we got to be very careful we don't
get ourselves all running this way and that way, just keep every thought
centered on what we're talking about. There's our picture, okay; not
very good picture, but what's behind the picture is perfect.

10.	 All right, now, you'll please notice that the cherubim are guarding
God and keeping man  from direct contact with God. Now, let's find out
if that's so. We go to Genesis 3:23.

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

		(24) 	So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden
of 						Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to 
					keep the way of the tree of life. (All right, Christ our Life.)

	All right, that was guarding God and keeping man away. And neither sin
nor the sinner can come into the Presence of the Holy God…now let's
take a look at It over here back again in chapter 4 of Revelation.

		(8) 	And the four beasts had six wings about him; and full of eyes
within: 					(and without) they rest [not] day and night, saying, Holy,
holy, holy, 					LORD God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.  

	Now, guarding. Now, man cannot get to God unless sovereign God will
allow it. And God has made a way for that allowance. It is to approach
Him by His prescribed way. And in no other way is He accessible. For
that's what we're looking at, because that's where He is. 

	Now, you got a Holy God who cannot countenance  sin, you cannot 
countenance a sinner, you cannot get near Him, and yet through
condescension of grace there is a way, but You got to get Him up here.
[points to diagram] You can't get Him any other way if you're going to
get to Him. (See?)

11.	Now, God's made a way, and that way is: "Blessed is the man whom
Thou chooses and causes to approach unto Thee." [Ps 65:4] Now, here is
where many people go wrong, and here is where you got to watch very
carefully how you take Scripture. And they say, "It is written man has
access to God by the Mercy Seat which is sprinkled with Blood." (See?)
Now, they say, "I've got access to God, there's a Mercy Seat sprinkled
with Blood." And I cannot argue with that, and I am not going to argue
with that, but I'm only going to say: "It is also written…" You have
left something out. Just like Eve trying to get to a certain place in a
wrong way without taking the right steps. No matter how much Blood you
place on the Mercy Seat, it won't do one bit of good unless the Mercy
Seat is on top of the Ark.

	Oh, a man said, "I tell you what, we'll this here is just a bit of wood
down here [uses diagram] bless God, and (you know) it's covered so it
looks like gold. Well, it's just got a layer of gold out here, so we'll
just use this lid up here. That's solid gold…and you know
there's…you'll put the Blood on the Mercy Seat."

	What if the Mercy Seat is not on top? (See?) So, you just talk about
Blood on the Mercy Seat, and you forget where the Mercy Seat is,
(phfft!) you're gone. Now, let's face it. Somebody say, "I think Bro.
Vayle you miss the point." I'm sorry, you missed the point. I've got the
point. Because I'm not spiritually stupid. I'm not saying you are. But,
I get quoted almost entirely year round a lot of places. And I'm laying
this on very, very thick, because that's the way I feel about it.

 	No matter how much Blood and how often you place It on the Mercy Seat,
It won't do anyone any good unless the Mercy Seat is over the Ark. The
Mercy Seat must be placed just right in and exact position, or the Blood
won't avail. The solid gold Mercy Seat of God's Own grace is of no avail
without the gold plated Ark. The Ark isn't solid gold. It's acacia wood
and gold. It is God united with man (now we're getting to God's only
place of accepted worship, the only place where He put His Name) acacia
wood, covered with gold signifying the union of God and man, manifesting
God in man, manifesting in man before man can get to God.

11.	Now watch: the corruptible joined to the incorruptible. Now, that's
kind of rough. 

	

	"He took not upon Himself the seed of angels, the form of angels."
Let's get into that.                 

	[Hebrews 2:]

		(14) 	Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood,
						he also himself likewise took part of the same; (didn't say He
took it all, 					took part of it) that through death he might destroy
him that had						 the power of death, (bring to nothing, the power of
death) 							that is, the devil;

		(15) 	And deliver them who through fear of death were all their
lifetime subject to 				bondage. (Padlocked in, as I said last night.)

		(16) 	For verily he took not on him the (stature, or form) of angels;
but he 					took on him the seed of Abraham. (That He might be High
Priest.)

	Now, you see you can't get rid of Blood, you can't get rid of High
Priest, you got to keep them both there. (See?)

	All right, now, He joined the corruptible with the incorruptible. You
say, "But Jesus didn't corrupt." Just a minute, what if the Life hadn't
come back? "Well," you say, "I don't think he would have corrupted."
Well, what's the use of a body lying there that doesn't corrupt in the
fellow inside God? You see, you can ask a lot of foolish questions, you
get a lot of foolish answers. That doesn't help anybody. See, it was the
joining of the two. See, God taking His attributes and reducing them to
a sperm and an egg, wherein multiplicity of the attributes of God shone
forth in a human individual. Now, the corruptible with the
incorruptible; the break-through to God is the break-through by man.

12.	Now, let's look at It. Philippians 2. 

		(5) 	Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

		(6) 	Who, being in the form of God, (that's that Pillar of Fire there)
						thought it not (a thing to be grasp and retained) to be equal with
						God: (In other 	words, keep itself in that position.)

		(7) 	But  [omit] made himself of no reputation, took upon him(self)
the 					form of a servant, was made in the likeness of men:

		(8) 	And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, became 	
				obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

	Now, watch what It says in 1 Corinthians 15:21. [correction]

		(21) 	For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection 	
				of the dead.

		(22) 	For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ ... all (are) ... made
alive.

	You noticed, that the incorruptible and the corruptible got together in
order that the corruptible might be made incorruptible.

	All right, we know that the Ark is Christ, because It is wood and gold
mixed. And gold is incorruptible, wood is corruptible. See, the flesh
could die, and the  spirit couldn't. All right, we got a combination.
All right, now, we got Blood. We got the Blood of Christ. We got the man
Christ. So, we can stop and say, "Now, glory to God, I've got it. All I
need is Jesus. Because, It is written, "He that has the Son has Life."[1
Jn 5:12]  And that's exactly what is written. 

	But, It is also written, "Except you eat His flesh and drink His Blood,
you don't have Life." [Jn 6:53] I'm not trying to be complicated,
because It sounds complicated.

13.	Like one fell wrote, (and I think he's a very smart man, but I think
in myself he's very stupid also,) he quotes a man by saying that
foolishness of preaching is taking the wisdom God and breaking it down
where man understand It. And on the other hand, then the real…where a
man tries to take his wisdom and shows he knows something, he makes
things complicated and it becomes very foolish before Almighty God.

	But, I'm going to tell you something, there's a lot in Scripture of
Paul's that Peter said concerning Paul is hard to be understood; "and
many men wrest to their own destruction." [2 Pet 3:16] And this is one
of them. This is one of those simple things that are so simple that men
also wrest. Because, they over simplified It. (See?) You can't take one
Word, and you can't add one Word. You stay right with the pattern.

14.	See, now It says, "Except you eat His flesh and drink His Blood."
[Jn 6:23] And that's the same One…let's  just take a look at It. Let's
go back over here in John 3.

		(5) 	…Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born (again)
he 						cannot (see) the kingdom of God. (Well, you say, "That's the 		
			baptism with the Holy Ghost. Fine. All right.) Except a man be born 	
			(again) he cannot enter the kingdom of God.  

	Then He said:

		(16) 	…God so loved the world, he gave his only begotten Son,
whosoever 					believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting
life.

	Now, that's wonderful. Everybody quotes that. Why don't they quote the
rest? If you quote that one verse, then you abnegate [renounce] the fact
of the re-birth. You better quote the re-birth with it. Why? Because is
giving of Blood in order to permit the Holy Ghost to come. Now, man
says, "Well, that's fine, I got the Holy Ghost. I did this, I did that."
What does It say further on?

		(17)	…God sent not his Son…to condemn the world; but that the
world 						through him might be saved.

		(18) 	He that believeth on him is not condemned: (They say,
"Hallelujah, 					I believe that's great.") but he that believeth not is
condemned already, 					because he hath not believed in the name of the
only begotten Son 						of God.

15.	Now, you got to find out what His name is. What if you don't know
His name? I'm not trying to complicate it, I'm just laying it out here,
that's what the Bible says. Find out what It says. Because if they don't
find out, there's something wrong somewhere. I'm not going to simplify a
thing if there's a bit of complication. Because, I'm going to read the
complication.

		(19) 	And this is the condemnation…(in spite of the fact Jesus died,
there's 					still condemnation. What is that condemnation?)…light is
come into 					the world, and men loved darkness…

	What is Light? Revealed Word, the true revelation of God. And men
turned It down. Now, where's your sacrifice? Where's anything? You
better look out, [uses board] you haven't got the top misplaced
somewhere. We better bring that right down where it belongs, because
otherwise it's entirely wrong. (See?) got to bring it right down. Set it
right on here. Right on top. It's got to be joined.

 	All right, "Except you eat His flesh and drink His Blood." Now, in
other words, eating the flesh signifies that the Life is there that
you've already then got. That is eating that flesh, which is that body,
(which is the Word,) signifies that you've got what you're supposed to
have. Now, this is what the Ark is all about. This is what worship is
all about, Spirit and Truth. Spirit and Truth, for that's what it's all
about.

16.	Okay, It is not one without the other. Now, the harlot came to
Jesus. Let's just take a look at her, John 4.

		(16) 	Jesus (said to the woman, (He said,) Go, call (your) husband…

		(17) 	…(she) said, I (don't) have (a) husband. (He) said… (that's
exactly 						right, He said, you're nothing but a cheap prostitute.)  

		(18) 	…(You've) had five (half a dozen already, the one you've got
right) 					now is not (your) husband:… (you just live that way. She
was a 						prostitute.)

	You say, "Bro. Vayle, she was really a nice lady." She was a
prostitute. I don't care if she was elected to find Christ, she was a
prostitute. You know the churches today are prostitutes? And He says to
her as a type to the prostitutes of this hour, "You don't even know what
worship of God is all about." You think it's here, you think it's there.
You do this, you do that."

	He said, "You're entirely wrong, it is Spirit and Truth." And it's not
one without the other, it's got to be both.

17.	Now, let's look at that Ark. [Using the board] Because, that's the
thing here we're concerned with to begin with. It had just one thing in
it, Word. It's all it had. Written Word, it's all it had. Word that God
gave and man wrote. Now, the original writing that God gave with His
finger of Fire, the Ten Commandments was broken by Moses and smashed to
smithereens. And they let it lie to decompose upon the ground. This was
written in scrolls. [points to the board] 

	The covenant of God's Word, number one. Number two, Aaron's rod that
budded. You got, one, two, three things. Number one is the Word. Number
two Aaron's rod that budded. (Numbers 17:10) And the golden pot of Manna
in Exodus 16:33.

	Now, this is confirmed by the Book of Hebrews (that's why I'm not going
to read the other verses, it's sufficient I mention them) in Hebrews
9:4. He said, "The holiest of all:"  

		(4) 	Which had the golden censer, the ark of the covenant overlaid 			
		round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, 				
and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;

	The three things lay there, the censers were on the outside. All right,
you'll notice that the censer was not in there, just those three things.

18.	Now, number one, what was the testament? It is the Word of God given
through the prophet. And that's exactly what was there. What is Manna?
It is the Word, or the sustenance, the life of heavenly food released in
the person, which would give him the energy, which will take him into
the promises and the land of Almighty God; where It says in Deuteronomy,
"Man shall not live by bread alone, but every Word that proceeds out of
the mouth of God." And also, the Bible, (the New Testament) makes it
abundantly clear, that the Manna is a type of the Word that men receive
in order to give them strength to go in, which Manna fell only at a time
of exodus and egress, leaving and going in. 

	It fell that time when Israel came out of Egypt. The same Manna was
given when Christ was pulling Israel out of the Babylon condition of
that hour. The same Manna was given through Paul to bring out the
Gentiles into the body of Christ, and the same Manna is given once more
in this Exodus to get us in. In other words, it is that Word made
relevant; and that Word which is the nourisher of the inspiration of the
human spirit to give him faith for the hour. It was always given at the
time of crisis and at no other time.

19.	Now, all right, what is the rod that budded? That was the time when
the men rose up and they said, "All right, we've got a right to the
Word. We've got a right to the people, we've got a right to be in
authority."

	And God said, "All right, I'll tell you what we'll do Moses: you have
them all lay their rods down there and we'll have everybody, and Aaron
will lay his rod down and we'll see which one    I pick."

	So, next morning they found out that Aaron's rod was covered in almond
buds and flowers. It was the branch that budded. It was signifying in
there…(and that's in Numbers 16:41 to Numbers 17 and 13. See?) Now
what was it doing? It was proving once more the incorruptible within the
corruptible. God had given a Word ministered by corruptible men, an
incorruptible Word that Life in It. 

	Now, people don't like to think of that. They say, "Well, I'll tell you
brother, I got the Holy Ghost and I'm going to hear from God." You're
going to hear plumb from the devil. People stay home and they just hear
tapes, they're going to lock themselves in. The devil's already got
them.

	"Well," you say, "Bro. Vayle and hear this Message?" Absolutely, what
do you think for one minute? Do you think it's any different? "He's the
same yesterday, today and forever." [Heb 13:8] So, it showed exactly
there was a ministry. God definitely had a ministry. The minister of
this Word. (See?) And showed that there was Life in the midst of death.
Dying creatures with the seed of eternality within them. She realized
the Word of God don't come from the mouth of a mule. Or God could
inspire a door-knob. That Word is the Word of Almighty God which is
creative, and is life sustaining.  Now, in the hour "which is perfect is
come" [1 Cor 13:10] is finished, it's over, it's been perfected. We've
seen the whole thing, and it comes by corruptible vessels. People wonder
why Bro. Branham died. He has to, but the Word he had was immortal.

20.	Now, we can see a pattern of worshipping God and hearing from God
laid out here. There is absolutely no way to take advantage of God's
provided way, which is Christ unless we come as He prescribed, this is
Christ, and you get to Him through there. But you get there in the
prescribed way of understanding what it's all about. (See?)

	Now, no man can ascend up to God Who is above the Mercy Seat, except he
come by the broken revealed Word of authority over which God watches. "I
watch over My Word to perform It." [Jer 1:12b]

21. Now, maybe we can maybe read prematurely here the Book of Ephesians.
(I hope you're following me, sometimes it's very clear to me and it's
not too clear to you. Which is the way things often are, but
hopefully…) Now, It says here, verse [4:] 7.

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

	But, first of all, It says, 

		(4) 	(There's) one body, and one Spirit, even as (you're) called in
one 						hope of your calling;

	And then where's Melodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, this kind of church
and that kind of church? "There's only one body, there's only one
Spirit, there's only one hope of calling." 

		(5)	(There's) One Lord, (there's) one faith, (there's) one baptism,

		(6) 	(There's) One God (even) Father of all, who is above all, and 			
		through all, and in all.

	And It doesn't say when He's in us, we got Him all. It says He's still
above us. People get do mixed up it's pitiful. You know, I'm ready to
just quit sometime, but there's got to be some faithful ones somewhere.
There are too, but they're very scarce. 

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

	Now, It's going to tell you:		

		(8) 	Wherefore he saith, When he ascended on high, he led captivity 		
				captive, and gave gifts unto men.

	Now, Who was it that did it? It is the One that was here in the human
form that came back in the Spirit form. (See?)

22.	Now, He baptized men into the body of Christ, then He gave special
ministries. People don't understand that, because they don't want to
understand it. Willfully ignorant, that everybody that's in the body of
Christ has got to have the measure of the Holy Ghost, the re-birth. But,
there's another measure that God gives and it's poured out in gifts.
They're ministries. And then there's other gifts, until there's no one
without those too. But, you'll notice where the real gift lies:     

		(11) 	…apostles; prophets; (teachers; evangelists; and pastors.)  

	Five fold ministry. Some want to make it four. Well, that's their
business. It already showed what's happened. They've got their names out
of the Lamb's Book of Life. You say, "Bro. Vayle, how dare you say
that." Because the Word of God says so! What am I supposed to do? Be
like a guy in Canada? 

	He said, "Well, some of you want me to preach the Presence, some of you
don't. What am I to do?" Shut up and sit down until you hear from God!
Because, evidently he hasn't heard from God. If the Message that Bro.
Branham preached among the Presence of God is from God, you don't go to
anybody and say, "What do I preach?" 

	They tried to pull that over here on me, that's why who I am today.
That's why you're here. Well, you are. We don't go by what man says.
Care less, (fap!) I've been through that. Just a big joke.

23.	Now, It says: [Ephesians 4]

		(12) 	For the perfecting of the saints, the work of the ministry, (to
build 						up) the body of Christ:

		(13) 	Till we all come… (to) the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a
						perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of
Christ:

	All right, now, you're not talking about the body. (No, siree.) You're
talking about spirit. Now there's a way to get there. But, that's really
another question, but I just wanted to show you that. Now:

		(14) 	…we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, carried
						about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, cunning 
					craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

		(15) 	But (holding) the truth in love, (and speaking it) grow up into
him, 						which is the head, even Christ:

		(16) 	From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by 
				that which every joint supplieth…(Now, It tells you right there
what 					we're looking at.) 

	God is moving in a certain area in a certain way that we've got to
come. And He's working through here: [Using the board] Word! 

	Now, notice, everything that comes down from here, comes down it's
grace through the Word. "Well," you say, "Why did Bro. Branham say it?"
Well, it's the stature of perfect man. Now, he drew it like this, he
said, "Here's God…" (my wife has got this in her Bible somewhere. He
said, "This is the Bible." He said, "Here's the people down there." He
said, "Here's the Holy Spirit comes by the Word." 

	"Now," he said, "down here (he said) this woman at the well, she was
all black, now here's Simon the Pharisee, he was all white, except this.
Now (he said) when the Spirit to the Word, (see?) Spirit to Word, He
became Word. Now, came down and touched her, she became all white. But,
when It came here, he turned It down he became all black." Signified
spiritual death.

24.	All right, that's what you've got. (See?) Spirit of God moving by
that Word. Then it's the same way in reverse. What comes down here
[using the board] you've got to go back to get to Him. (You follow?)
Sure, oh come on. Let's face it, here's the guy up here, and he's up
here in the dirigible, that's  tied to a mast here, because it's full of
helium. So, what did they do? They let a ladder down. Well, how did he
get up? Climbed up the ladder.  

	Now, notice Israel in Moses' time desired to bypass all of this and 
enter right into a ceremonial worship of God and they died for it. "Oh,"
they say, "we're going to bypass Moses." Moses was the Word. They never
got the Word any other way. And we're going to bypass him, and we're
going the get theirs. So what did they do? They did what they did when
they first came out. They got into orgies. Oh, they had a good time.
[illustrates on board] Oh, they just danced around and had a great time
dancing around. (Yeah)

	But, I'm going to tell you something: it wasn't long until their
energies (which was a ceremony apart from the Word) not only went into
lust, but went into murder. 

25.	Now, let's watch it: here's Cain, here's old Cain over here, (we'll
make him kind of black) and here's Abel. Cain comes along and he won't
go to God to through the Word. (See?) He can't reach the Mercy Seat. He
can't reach God, because this is what's down here. Now, he has a lovely
revelation. Now, it's in the Word, but it's a wrong revelation.

	So, what does he do? He gives the fruit, which is the resurrection
offering when the blood hasn't been applied.

	Now, this fellow over here, Abel, he had the revelation. Now, this
fellow [Cain] was real happy. He brought a wonderful sacrifice. And the
Bible says, "It was an excellent sacrifice." [Heb 11:4]b] Now, you can't
deny the Bible. Oh, now he was very happy. [Draws on board] Emotion.

	Now, this fellow [Abel] over here, he just went about it by pure
revelation. Now, this fellow [Cain] had nice clean hands, nice clean
vegetables, (oh,  just imagine what that soil brought forth in those
days, oh my,) this fellow [Abel] over here he had a little lamb. He slit
his throat and as he did, the lamb defecated over him. He urinated and
manured on him if you want to proper…rough language. Because they do.
You ever cut a head of a chicken? I was through it…he got me, he got
me (but he died), blood all over me.

	Now, this fellow [Abel] here , he went by pure Word. This fellow [Cain]
had emotion. Now, watch how this happy, happy, happy, happy went into
murder. Don't trust happy, happy people. [laughter] They'll get you.
Now, if you got a joy of the Lord based on this Word, that cuts [taps
hard on something] that you like hearing, and afterward you find it's
bitter; because if it remains happy, happy, happy, happy, it's not the
Word of God, it's got to be bitter.

26.	Oh, let's get this flat: (these aren't in my notes, but that's
alright I can afford to take time and I may cut the rest out.)
[Revelation 10:]

		(7)	 …in the days of the voice of the seventh [Church Age
messenger,] 					when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should
be 						(perfected, concluded), as (God) hath declared the (good news
of 						His Gospel) his servants the prophets.

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

		(9) 	And I went unto the angel, (that's in our hour right now Christ,
the 						Logos descended the full manifestation of God,) Take (the
little book, 					and eat it; (it'll be) bitter in (your) mouth sweet as
honey.

	But, you try to experience it, and you find the life in it is going to
be bitter. it's going to cost you like Abel. (See?) All right, now we
know where we're standing at this point.

27.	All right, now they went to the ceremonial, and their emotions
turned to homicide, even as in the days of Jesus, they rejoiced over the
miracles; the turning of  the water into wine. 

	And He said, "For which good works do you stone me?"

	And they said, "No good works. Multiply the loaves and fishes, bring on
barrels of wine. Hallelujah, empty the grave yards, we love it." But,
when it comes to that Word, "Shut up, sit down! We'll tell you what the
Word is."

	Now, [back to the board] here's man down here,  now, he wants to tell
God, (just can't do it, it's got to come this way, now it's the same
chain) it doesn't originate here. It originates here. (See?)

	All right, now remember these are Israelites, the only known of God who
turned and destroyed the very God that they claimed to worship when He
was made human flesh. Now watch: watch how they rejected the One God
chose (or chooses) to give the Word to. They reject Moses. Then they
rejected His chosen ministers as they did in Numbers 17.

	In other words, those who have the same mind and spirit as does have
the prophet, but not           the gift of a prophet. That's right. See
how they loathed the Manna. They prefer a ceremonial worship. (See?)
Remember my message on 'Love Him or Loath Him', it stills holds good.
Remember, that God wants either loving or loathing because He can deal
with that. But, the    lukewarm he spews out. [Rev 3:16]

28.	Now, the worship of the one true God which Israel acknowledged,
Israel had a national record and a history of rejecting the ordained
source of the Word. Let's go back to Matthew [23:] 

		 (29) 	Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! (that's the
seed 						of Abraham) because (you) build the tombs of the prophets,
and 						garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,

		(30) 	And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not
						have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

		(31) 	Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the
children 					of them which killed the prophets.

	Now, the Catholic church has admitted that had pope John [XXIII] been
pope instead of Leo [X], Luther wouldn't have broke from the church.
Now, just apply that to Scripture, where are the Roman Catholic's. Now,
I don't care what anybody says, that's Bible, and the Protestant's are
no different. Why do the Protestant's keep coming out? Same rotten
spirit. Sure of the Lutheran's could roll the clock back today, Wesley
would not have come out. If the Wesleyan's could roll the clock back
Pentecostal's would not have come out. If they could roll the clock
back, we would not have come out. Proving by Scriptures that they're
murderers, crucifiers of Christ the second time around.

		 (29) 	Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! (you) build
the 						tombs of the prophets, garnish the sepulchres of the
righteous,

		(30) 	And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not
						have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

30.	Why did the Roman Catholic's kill Joan of Arc? Because, she had
visions. And they got mad at the priests that did it and dragged up
their bones and burned them. It's the vain stupidity of man.

		(31) 	Wherefore be witnesses unto yourselves, that (you) are the
children 					of them which killed the prophets.

	In other words, you got the same blood in you, because you admit that
they're your fathers. And pope John admitted that Leo was his father.
And Leo with Tetzel sold indulgences. He had a very convenient  system.
It's like eternal-security, and the Catholic hate eternal-security, so
called. They abominate predestination, they can't stand it. (See?) And
yet Tetzel went around selling indulgences. It meant if they put enough
money in the pot, you could sin tomorrow and your sins were already
forgiven by the pope. Now, the Protestant doctrine of eternal-security
is just as rotten. You can do what you want, it doesn't matter. Well, it
does matter!

	Bro. Branham said, "You got no more conscience than a snake's got hips.
It shows that you never were born again." 

 	There you are, Protestant, Catholics the same thing. There's no
difference between the two. None at all. People get fussed, because I
hit out at things. Let me tell you flat: I have no faith in any
organization. I got faith in what I believe today, and no faith in
anyplace else. You do what you want. I'll do what I want and let's see
where we go, because there's a showdown coming. (Yep)

31.	Now, He said: 

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

	In other words, there's going to be more born, and more born, and more
born, until there's no one more to be born. There'll be no more
predestinated, or foreordained to damnation, they'll no more
predestinated to election. It'll all be over at the same time. "Fill it
up."

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

		(34) 	…behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes:
and…					kill and crucify (them); scourge (them) in your synagogues,
persecute 					from city to city:

	And He said, 

		(35)	(I'm telling you) upon you (is going to) come all the righteous
blood 					shed upon the earth, from righteous Abel unto the blood of
Zacharias 					son of Barachias, (that you) slew…(That happened in
70AD. And 						It's going to happen again.)

	This time, this generation will answer for the blood of everybody, from
Able, right to the last person. That's right. He said, "I would have
gathered you." But He said, "You've turned me down flat."

	Now listen, they rejected the ordained source of the Word, which was
the prophet and the ministry that God had in store by them. They deposed
the priesthood for the rabbinical order. And they're talking about
Christ's return and the ashes of the 'red heifer' for now, they're
supposed to be found soon over there in Palestine. They're going to
restore the 'rabbinical' order. Not the 'Levitical', 'Rabbinical'. Show
me where's there's rabbi's in the Bible? They're Levities. They went
into Babylon, they had a temple. They had a Levitical order. They had
the Torah. They came out with  Talmud, and the synagogue, and the
rabbinical order, three fold child's of hell, and never changes. Except
there was a little election coming on down, there wouldn't be any Israel
left. But, there's 144,000 that takes it to the very jot and tittle;
144,000, period. And not one more.

32.	"The ever remembering God," as Bro. Branham said, "remember what Dan
and Ephraim did." And they're no longer in the tribes. He blotted their
names out from under the sun. Because of their idolatry. It was said
concerning Ephraim, "Leave him alone, his heart is joined to idols."
[Hosea 4:17] (See?)

	Then they rejected the priesthood, and they had a self appointed, or
elected organization. When did God last speak to Israel and name him a
high priest? They rejected the Word for their traditions. They posed the
authority of men that God had placed over them acclaiming allegiance to
the prophets but they did not believe. Oh sure, they mouth their claims,
but it didn't do them any good. They worshipped God in the lust of their
hearts, and protested they were the salt of the earth. But He said, "In
vain do you worship Me." [Mt 15:9] Now, what about the Blood and the
Mercy Seat? Now, what about worship? Now, what about hearing from God?
(See?) No way, they couldn't do it.

33.	And then God Who was veiled in a Cloud came down and veiled Himself
in the flesh of a man, they nailed him to Calvary, and they saw the
Mercy Seat in full view. They saw the Mercy Seat, (right here) [uses the
board] solid gold, grace of God, they saw the humanity of man that God
has assumed. And they turned down the solid gold. They said, "Oh, he's
just a man." And isn't it strange, the church has always said it,
they've always hated the man that God chose, and that God raised up.

 	When is the church going to smarten up? Aw, they're never going to
smarten up, they're going to take the antichrist. That's how smart they
are, (yes sir) and the New Testament church has done exactly the same in
the first century they were already repudiating Paul. And those through
divine inspiration were preaching the Word of God. And when they're
passed on, those passed on. That is, those eight passed on to be with
the Lord. God sent six more Church Age messengers, one after the other.
And in there, each time He said, "The Spirit speaketh expressly." [1 Tim
4:1a] And then It said, "He that hath an ear, let him hear what the
Spirit says." [Rev 2:29]

34.	In other words, one man in Seven Church Ages was the mouth piece of
Almighty God. the true vicar of Christ. Let Rome prove it's got a true
vicar of Christ. You know something, isn't it strange you can't find one
pope who can levitate himself? One pope who evidently walked on water,
or rather on fire. One pope who had miraculous cures, but you can find
the Catholic church for the dead saints who did it! [laughter] They
elected the wrong one. [more laughter] I've got the books on it. The
popes were political connivers. That's all they were. 

 	Now, I got no faith in Saint Theresa and Fatima and all those ones
that's supposed to have the visions of our dear lady of the heavens, and
the goddess and the queen and that kind of stuff. But, I'll not dispute
the miracles, I won't even dispute the fact that they claim under
absolute doctors opening up the bodies that a woman's heart was
completely seared by a spear of fire that penetrated her breast. I won't
dispute even the fact they claim the open casket and the person's skin
and body was as though the day they died. I won't dispute any of those
things, but how come one pope isn't in on it?  Vicar of Christ. Shows
something is wrong somewhere. We had a prophet in the last days who made
no such claims. But, how come every 'Thus Saith the Lord' came to pass?
Something's wrong somewhere. It's not with God.

35.	All right, after their own hearts the people worshipped God with
their traditions. They set aside the authority that was given to them.
Now, let's take a look at that authority. The authority lies in Hebrews
13:7,9.

		(7) 	Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken 					
unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end 					
of their (behavior). 

	And again:

		(17) 	Obey them that have the rule over you, submit yourselves: for
they 					watch for your souls, (that) they that must give account, they
may 						do it with joy, and not with grief:…

	Now, let's find out about that. The Catholic church is no different
from the Protestant church. No different from men that are amongst us.
They want to rule, rule, rule. Let's find out what the ruling is.

36.	Let's go to Acts 20:26.  Let's find out what Paul says here. He said
here:

		(26) 	(Therefore) I take you to record this day, that I am pure from
the 						blood of all men.

		(27) 	For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of
God.

	Now, he said over here, "Obey them who spoke to you the Word of God."
[Heb 13:7. What was God doing? God was bringing Himself down to the
people to have access to Him through a Word. Never has there be any way
but that. And the response of man to God must come by the Word, or why
did He bother to give It?  There shouldn't have been one thing said
after Jesus died upon Calvary, or was going to die. Why did He bother to
say, "and this is the condemnation." [Jn 3:19] There's still
condemnation. He said, "I died to remove it." But, it's still there.

	What is that condemnation? Well, if Jesus died to remove it, then there
shouldn't be any strings to it. But there are, because it was the same
One, the same Word that became flesh. See, the whole principle and power
of God was manifested that the Life might break through. But, that
didn't destroy the Word, that manifested the Word. And gave the Word an
authority and the power which released in us would bring us to God. See,
[using board] the ladder that came down from heaven upon angels
descending, ascending. Christ said, "I came from God and I go to God."
[Jn 16:28] 

	Now, we came from God infinitesimally so, back as seed, as sheep gone
astray. How do you get back? You get back the same way you came down.
(See?) You came down incarnated. You get back the same way. It took all
that word 'incarnated', to get you back there by the shedding of Blood,
and you becoming a part of that Word here in the physical. (We read It
over here in Ephesians. We read It in Acts 20, so we've done our
reading.)

37.	All right, we see how God works, God speaking, God being worshipped.
If God doesn't speak, there's no worship. Paul said, "There's many
voices in the air." [1 Cor 14:10] What do you do with it? You got to
find out 'The Voice'. They had an altar to the unknown god. He said,
"I'm going to declare Him to You." He said, "You know everything else
but the real One. I'm going to tell you about Him now." [Acts 17:23]  

	What did Paul do? He gave them the revelation that God gave him. Now,
that's pretty tame. That's pretty tame. People look for everything else
but that. They don't want that Word. They think that Word is dead. But,
I'm going to tell you something: that Word is not dead. (See?)
Incorruptibility granted to corruptibility. In words, coming to through
chosen vessels that in themselves are (you know) are corruptible.

	Now, in the last days we have a repeat of a prophet messenger who
brings the Word by a Pillar of Fire. And with It there is almost a
complete rejection of the man and his message. This is the gain-sayings
of Korah. And in this very hour there are those amongst us. Sure, they
don't have no use for authority, they become their own authority. They
become authoritarian. 

38.	Let's go to 2 Timothy 4:1-5. 

	(Now, "I speak out against these things, I got every right to do it,
because I'm supposed to warn and exhort faithfully, that I might be free
from the blood of all men.") [Acts 20:26] 

	 	(1) 	I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, 	
				who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his 				
	kingdom;

	Now, It tells you right there already that two things are going on. One
for the Appearing, and one for the Kingdom. Not even His Kingdom, but
that Appearing. Now, It says here, "If you're going to have anybody
ready for the kingdom, preach the Word." That's the thing, nothing else
will do it.

		(2) 	…be instant in season, out of season;  (in other words, at all
times 						you stay with It) reprove, (How? According to the Word.)
rebuke, 						(How? According to the Word.) exhort (How?) with all 					
	longsuffering (even the) doctrine.

	Now:

		(3) 	…the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine;
but 					after their own lusts heap to themselves teachers, having
itching ears; 					(The teachers don't have itching ears, they got itchy
mouths, people 					got itchy ears.)

		(4) 	And (they'll) turn away their ears from the truth, and (they'll)
turned 					unto fables.

	What's fable? It's a lesson with a moral. We don't have lessons with
morals, we have Eternal Life. (See?) But watch, he says:

		(5) 	…(and) endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make
full 						proof of thy ministry. 

39.	Too many have taken to themselves the authority God never gave them,
and they're going to end up just like Jude 3-4, (that's the tiny chapter
just before the Book of Revelation) It says:

		(3) 	Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the
common 					salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and
exhort you 						that (you) should earnestly contend for the faith which
was once 						delivered unto the saints.

		(4) 	For there are certain men crept in unawares, (they're so smooth,
you 					don't even know how they got in there) who before were of old 	
				ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of 			
		our God into lasciviousness, (even) denying…(saying, no.)

	That's what it is, they preach a Gospel and say no to God. They won't
come that way. [points on the board] They've got to deny it.
Brother/sister, don't you see, they've always denied that which came
down here. They've always denied.

40.	Look, here we got here, [illustrates on board] red, okay black.
Okay, here's Living Word, the God proves. Now, here's these old boys
down here, all mixed up. They've always denied what's in here. They
didn't deny the sacrifice, they said, "Whoopee for the sacrifice,
hallelujah, bless God; the Blood of the Lamb; the blood of a goat; the
blood of a heifer; the blood of a dove. Wonderful, we like that, I'll
take that."

	What about the Word? "Ha, who needs It."

	How do you deny God? You can't even see Him. You can't smell Him. You
can't taste Him. You can't hear Him. How do you deny, if He ever
manifest? How can you manifest which is unseeable? "Well," you say, "you
can put a form around it." That's exactly right, you could.

	All right, what's that form going to do for you? Nothing! Nothing! What
did Jesus' death really for you? Nothing, it cleared a way for you to
get something. What did for you? This Word coming down. [points to the
board] Putting you in a position that you can take that Word and be the
Living Word of Almighty God. (See?)

41.	All right, denying the Lord. They denied Him my brother/sister in
the beginning. Cain did in the separation. They denied Him, turned Him
down in the flood. They denied Him in the Exodus out of Egypt. They
denied Him at Calvary. They're denying Him now, they're saying no. To
what? The Word! See, that's what it's all about. They deny Him. They got
no place for Him.

	Now notice, the authority was never given to any, but those that were
truly appointed. Now, a five-fold ministry God set in order. And I'm not
pleading for a five-fold ministry like I'm part of a reign. I'm to worry
about myself, I'm worried about how people act, and react. Somebody's
got to raise a voice, and I intend to raise my voice on the subject. A
little at a time, perhaps.

	But, you see, God has delegated that authority only through the prophet
and those that are ordained. That authority never comes, through elected
deacons, or the elected elders, or the appointed deacons, or the
appointed elders. There's no way it can come through. They have to study
under those in authority. That's why this church is here today, because
elected men decided they would deliberately stand in my way. I'm not
going to pull my punches for anybody,  I just tell you the truth and you
know it.

	Now, Bro. Branham categorically said that he was the presiding elder.
And the presiding elder of any churches is next to the Holy Spirit. I'm
not next to God as though I'm somebody, but, let's get this flat: if I
am a presiding elder here, then I am responsible to preach this Word and
I'll preach It. And when I do, I've cleared my skirts one hundred
percent.

	You say, "Bro. Vayle, only when you ride herd on us." I ride herd on
nobody. (That's right.) God never gave me that authority. The only
authority anybody has and any church has, is to preach this Word, and
that's what this building is all about. If this church is all about and
that is: the life that we're dealing with. It's not dedicating a
building, it's dedicating a people to the Word that will go forth in
this building. We got to understand where the Word comes from. We got to
understand what it's all about. (See?)

42.	All are subject to the revealed Word. Moses that preached the
revealed Word. It was in his day the Manna, it's the same Israel to take
them in which presaged [forerun] immortality. For their clothes never
wore out. The never got sick. His vision at a hundred and twenty was
perfect as a child. Their bodies never smelled like sweat. In other
words, they presaged immortality.

	Now, Moses ate the same Manna, (that's right) the same Word the prophet
gives must be given by a five-fold ministry to the Church. And that Word
cannot be hindered. The minute the Word is hindered It's finished. I'd
walk out of any church. I'd walk out of this, you can have it lock,
stock and barrel. I'd go to a bank and borrow money and have it
bulldozed down for you if you wanted it, if I had to borrow money.
Because, the building doesn't mean one thing. There is a building, and
that's the building not made with hands. A building made by God which is
a beautiful, glorified membership of human beings baptized into the Holy
Spirit and the body of the Lord Jesus Christ who feed on that Word. And
indicate they are born again by the fact that they don't turn down the
Manna. There's a Manna, is an Exodus food. They ought to have known
that.

	When the blood of the lamb was shed over there in Egypt, (actually it
was a certain place in Egypt, it was in Goshen where there was light)
they had one command, "Eat, eat, eat." They said, "What you couldn't
eat, burn it." “Well,” they said, “I'll take it down to the to the
neighbor's.” "Oh," they said, "If you neighbor is close enough invite
him in the first hand, don't take it down later." Wouldn't do any good
later on. Eat, eat for the journey. And in the journey they ate angel's
food. (See?)

43.	Now, we've had this Message, there's nobody could share this Message
with anybody else. Oh, you can talk all you want, but there's no way you
can feed It to anybody. That's why you waste your time when you talk to
a man the second time, it's really foolish. So, I'm going to tell you:
if the Word of God isn't powerful enough that It need several times to
tell It, forget it.  

	But, you've got the Manna at the end-time to take you in. How does It
come? Came by a prophet. Broken down by those ordained to do it. It's
all too clearly seen, that one must worship God by His prescribed way,
and that way only. One receives the revelation, the Word, through the
channel God has prescribed.

	As Bro. Branham said, "There is no worship of God, except through the
messengers." Now,    I could have just said that, and never mind
preaching, couldn't I? You could have been eating by now. [congregation
chuckles] But, I wouldn't have been happy. [more laughter] Because, I
tell you what, a building is not made by one spike. No building is made
by one pillar. The Scripture says, "I will make you pillars in the house
of God." [Rev 3:12a] Pillars is plural.

	So, I'm nailing it down and showing you what the prophet said. "There
is no worship of God, except through the messenger," except somebody
hear from God. Now, people believe that you don't hear from God anymore.
How come It says we're going to hear one more time from heaven, then it
gets all shook down? "Oh," they say, "that's got to be Israel." I beg
your pardon, the shaking down starts before then. They better read their
Bibles.

 	Isn't it funny how people get all mixed up? Well it's their job I
guess. I can find no room for a change. God is full of mercy and
compassion as long as the Mercy Seat is over the Ark. And men rise to
see His countenance by ascending through the Ark.

44.	Now, I'm going to close it by reading. Now, this is going to take a
bit of time. You've had enough preaching, we're going to dedicate the
church. Hopefully, we're going to dedicate ourselves. All right. let's
read it: All right, It says in 2 Corinthians 3.

		(7) 	But if the ministration of death, written and (engraved) in
stones, 						was glorious… (everything that God does is glorious. It
brought 						death.)

	Now, It said, how much greater will be the ministry of the Spirit. What
will It do? It'll being righteousness which exceeds in glory and bring
Life. Now, he said, "I'm going to talk very plainly." Now, he said, "The
veil's upon the mind of those people over there in Israel." And the veil
is upon a lot of people's mind in this day. Because, this is the hour to
repent, to change the mind.

45.	Now, It says in verse 16,

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

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

	Now, that's not the baptism with the Holy Ghost. Because, the baptism
with the Holy Ghost didn't bring the Word. No, it didn't! Paul was full
of the Holy Ghost in Acts 9, but he went down in the desert in Arabia
for three and a half years and a Pillar of Fire talked to him. That's
not the baptism with the Holy Ghost my brother, that's the Great
Baptizer Himself doing the talking.

	Now, It tells you: 

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

	Now, what is that image? That's Christ. We're in a physical image,
we're going to go to a spiritual. "We bore the image of the earthy,
we're going to bear the heavenly." [1 Cor 15:49] (See?) Which is when
'Incorruptible' came down and permanently made incorruptible that       
    which could have corrupted. But, He said, "You will not suffer the
Holy One to see corruption."                  [Ps 16:10] Could have, but
it wouldn't. God stopped it. God is going to stop ours within the third
day. (Yep!) Two days gone by.

46.	Now:  [2 Corinthians 4]

		(1) 	Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received
mercy, 					we faint not;

		(2) 	But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking
in 					craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by 			
		manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's 					
conscience in the sight of God.

	William Branham has the same experience, the Word, that this was the
Word of God was absolutely exonerated by what God does to exonerate His
Word. And to prove It is the Word.

	All right, [using the board] you got God here. (Right?) Now, what has
God done? He brings you down here by the Holy Spirit. (This Word here.)
This is the hour of immortality. (See?) Now, this One has revealed
Himself on the sea. How are you going to see Him, you are not a prophet?
How are you going to behold Him? There's only one way, you got to behold
in the glass of the Word what is revealed. And at this hour Christ, Holy
Spirit, God, Elohim is revealed. Revealed Word.

47.	Now, we we're going to get back to the image. What was the image of
God? Christ is the image of God. "We bore the image of the earthy, we're
going to be able to bore the image of the heavenly." How is it going to
be done? It's got to be done one way, which is by the Word. And It
cannot be anything but the pure Word of God. It cannot be given at the
end hour with any type of deceit.

	Now, look it, I'm going to tell you flat: you don't have to believe in
graphology. But, I'm going to tell you something: the greatest companies
in the world hire men who can read handwriting. There's a guy I used to
know his name in Florida, (I don't know it anymore, but we can find out
who it is. A good buddy Vic has got it, it's a friend of his.) hired by
the biggest companies in the world to read handwriting, because it
exposes your character. My sister Barbara used to do it. She's pretty
good, she's a graphoanalyst. I gave her Bro. Branham's handwriting not
knowing that she didn't know his handwriting. I thought, "well, she
knows Bro. Branham's handwriting." When she read the handwriting she
said, "This is the most peculiar man I believe that ever lived." She
said, "There's nobody, there can't be anybody like his handwriting.
There is absolutely no deceit in this man." And she said, "He's funny.
He can get by himself in a way that nobody else can." Trance and
visions. Paul the same way.

	You say, "Bro. Vayle, would you go by that?" Well, would you like to
stick your finger in a two hundred and twenty volt line? Go ahead, sure
I would. You're going to get your toupee blown off, or what hair you got
left. [laughter] Because, there's a current there if it's two hundred
and twenty. Get burnt.

	Certainly, I believe in graphoanalyst, it's been a hundred percent
proven correct by those who know how to do it. Certainly, they've been
proven scientific. That's right, you go and find out for yourselves. Do
you think business men invest in a man that's going to sell them down
the river?

48.	All right, now Paul didn't have his handwriting analyzed. Didn't
have to have it. God proved who that man was. God proved who the prophet
William Branham was. And he could say, "I am freed [pure] from the blood
all men." [Acts 20:26]  Why? Because he was a prophet. Who brought the
faithful Word of God, who gathered them to God. "How often would I have
gathered you by the prophets, come right up here." How did the prophet's
come? With the Word.

	All right, (see?) he said, "I would have gathered you, but you turned
me down." [Mt 23:37] Now, William Branham came thoroughly exonerated,
thoroughly manifested, thoroughly vindicated, proven by the very
ministry, that this One Who was here in the flesh is here in the Spirit
doing the same thing, which would bring the Spirit on the scene. The
baptism with the Holy Ghost giving way to the Giver. Isn't that's what
happened at Pentecost? What would be the use like a man Paul coming
without the Holy Ghost having been given, tell me? No good at all! It's
sheep that gets the Word. (Yeah) "Sheep hear the Voice." [Jn 10:27]

	So, Paul had his Pentecost, then the Word came. It's a different story
entirely. You being baptized into Jesus Christ is wonderful, the union,
but what's the next step? You're supposed to be able to learn from Him.
Now, how do you learn, on your own? Oh, no, no, Paul said, "Any man
being spiritual, prophet, let him acknowledge the things that I write
are the commandments of God." [1 Cor 14:37] (See?) Now, he says right
here, that we will be literally brought into immortality. How? Through
that Word. Spirit and enliven Word at the very end time. That's what
we're looking at.

49.	Okay, that's enough, you should have gotten my subject by now. 

	God, between the cherubim's, see. You might reduce it down to just a
simple fine analysis. Here is God, alone. Can't get to Him. [illustrates
on board] How are you going to get to Him? You got to hear from Him,
because He's got to make a choice, "blessed is the man whom God
chooses." [Ps 65:4a] Got to let that down. How do you get up to Him? By
the same way What came down. 

	All right, in Him was the Word, Logos. "The Logos was with God the
Word, the Logos was God." [Jn 1:1]  Came on down. How do you get back
up? You got to get up here to the Ark. The Ark is made out of gold, and
it's made out of acacia wood. Here's pure solid mercy. Here's God.

	How are you going to get to Him? Well, if the ladder isn't let down,
you won't get to Him anyway. Oh, what if somehow got up there, snuck in,
you got cherubim's. Holy, holy, holy, you can't get near Him. God
condescending by Blood, comes down.

	Now, He said, "Look, I've laid it all out. There's just one thing, and
that's the thing people don't want, they don't want that Word." That's
right, let's face it. 

	It's just like today, man wants marriage…I mean man and woman both
want goes with marriage, they don't want marriage; until you got a place
of utter destruction, you got a place of what's known as herpes. I'm
glad it's here. Now, they're trying to white wash it. Well, it's only
really happens two or three times a year. So therefore, you're
relatively safe. Disease, the disease cannot be conquered, so God is
going to bring His flame of fire down here and burn it. Of course, it
means people are going to burn with it.

50.	You say, "Bro. Vayle, that's horrible." Well, you talk to God about
it. Maybe you'd sooner burn than they? I'm not trying to be hard, I'm
just trying to show you something. Look brother/sister, this place is
not being dedicated as a place of frivolity. That's why I agree with the
prophet:

	 From now on there's going to be silence in the building here, because
it'll be dedicated.

	Kids cannot run around. I'm one of the worst offenders, because I'm
ready to talk to anybody on the Word of God. It'll be the same thing
with tapes. Same thing with everything.

	The prophet laid down certain laws of order that are tenable, that can
be followed, like:  And the whole thing is for the sake of God. See?  We
have our understanding. So, that is why this building is here. That is
why we're gathered under a roof.  He said, “You don't come here for
fellowship, you come to be corrected.”  Scripture Itself says, "there
is no way to worship God, except in Spirit and in Truth." [Jn 4:24] 

	One man talks all about spirit, and throws the truth down. He doesn't
have it. Another man simply talks about truth. He's got no spirit,
that's just dead. It takes the both of them. "You must be born again."
[Jn 3:7] And if you're born again, that Word will come. If you're not
born again, there be not use the Word coming. If you are born again, the
Word must come.

51.	So, the church is dedicated to the Word of God, to know the hour in
which we live. And the substance of the Word of the hour. The Manna of
the Word of the hour. Bless God, I don't care what anybody says, we're
eating the food which brings immortality. Sure, I could be dead tomorrow
morning, but I don't look for it. You say, "What if you're dead?" No
problem, I'll be back shortly. I wouldn't  have said that recently, but
I'd be allowed to say anything else. Because, time simply cannot go on,
Israel's back in the homeland.

	"Well," they say, "Bro. Vayle, don't you know that the very thing that
you talk so much about the Presence of God, that was declared by a
fellow named 'Russell' back in 1876." I don't care if it was declared by
the devil back in the year minus one million. What's that got to do with
it? What's that got to do with it? I thought that I had a good answer
one day to Bro. Branham. We were talking about pre-tribulation rapture. 

	So, I said, "Bro. Branham, don't you know a woman fell in a trance in
an early Irvingite meeting. Fell flat on her back in a meeting and
Irvingite meeting and there she spoke in tongues, interpreted and she
talked about a pre-tribulation rapture." And I thought I was going to
bug him. Oh yeah, I like to bug people, I don't care who they are. I
shouldn't do it, but I wouldn't do it anymore of course. Got too much
respect. But, I wanted to get back and say, "Just a minute now, you know
where that came from?" 

	And he looked at me, and he didn't give a rip. [laughter] He said,
"So?" 

52.	I'm going to tell you something brother/sister to tell you what you
do: A friend of mine…this fellow, this is wonderful, I
just…sometimes I think about a certain thing and it happens. And I'm
not going to tell you everything I think about, because I'm not going to
betray all my good little secrets. But, this one little secret I'm going
to tell you: I got to thinking the other about (a few weeks ago) about
the krugerrand, [South African coin currency] I don't think that I saw
it in the newspaper, but I just somehow wanted a krugerrand. Don't ask
me why, I got a piece of silver at home, I bought it for about two
dollars an ounce, and I should have sold it at fifty bucks an ounce
(whatever it was) it just sat there I didn't even think about it. It's
like a curiosity. You say, "Maybe that's all the silver you're going to
have is what you got." No, I got some laid up in heaven by the grace of
God. I sure hope so.

	But anyway, I think about a krugerrand. Why, I thought about a
krugerrand I can't tell you, but I suddenly desired to have a
krugerrand. So, in a few days the mail comes and there's a plain
envelope and it was very heavy. And I said, "Hey, it's got to be a
coin." I opened it, it's a krugerrand. (See?)

53	Now listen, I'm not smart, I don't know future, I don't this and I
don't know that, I don't know the other thing. A lot of things I don't
know. But, I do know that as far as the Word of God is concerned in this
hour in which we live here, that those things which the Lord reveals to
us comes inspirationally. Come in a certain peculiar way, and under my
inspiration I believe absolutely in this hour that if my friends wrote
me two weeks later, (now I'm comparing this to Revelation see,) said,
"Bro. Vayle that krugerrand was not freshly minted, we were digging one
day in the pig pen, and under two feet of solid pig manure, (and you
know what it smells like when the farmers put it on the crop and you go
by and get a whiff of it) and they said, 'haw, haw, haw, we washed it
off and sent it to you ' (and I said,) haw, haw, haw, and it's mine." I
wouldn't care if  it's buried in fifty feet of pig manure. [laughter]

	Now, I don't care what woman in a trance of God, or not of God spoke of
about a pre-tribulation rapture, it's still the Word of God. It wasn't
brother/sister, that she had a revelation, it was already there in the
Book. So, that's what I want to tell you today. We don't fuss, we just
know the Word of God has been revealed in this hour. That's what it is
all about here for dedication. I'm going to let you go, let's rise at
this time. We're going to pray.

	Heavenly Father, you know our hearts, we are a people dedicated to Your
Word, not as though we had received It of ourselves, that this Word came
unto us as though we as a group of people are banded together, because
we have brought our minds together. It is not that way at all, but we
are here, Lord, in faith through the understanding of the precedence
which has been set in the Bible; that there is a way that the Word comes
and that way is by a prophet fully manifested and revealed. And that is
the only way that there is access to You, and true worship that what
You've done, Lord, has been also according to Your Word in what is done
with what You have done, must also be according to Your Word.

	Lord, help us to understand that why we talk the way we did this
morning to begin to see that it is all boiled down to one thing, the
Logos concept of the great wisdom of Almighty God. Where God Himself
personified in that respect of wisdom, is able to communicate and bring
us to Himself when we have acceptable worship. And, Lord, we're glad
that the place here is debt free, but that's not what does it. We're
glad that it's just sufficient in size for us, but, we know that's not
it. We're glad, Lord, for the ability You gave us financially and
physically to set the building up and do the things that were done,
which not underdone, and hopefully not overdone. Hopefully just right
and continue that way, that's not it. But, it's one purpose the passion
for the Word revealed in order that we might constantly hear and feed,
and approach unto You and be received by You. Knowing that it's the
exodus hour, and the exodus hour a special manna comes on the scene
which is physical, not in a context, (or esoterical meaning) but a
physical one where men and women will be changed in their very atoms,
walk right in into immortality.

	Lord, we know that's what it's all about. And we cannot believe for one
minute that denying You is any answer, except to play right into the
hands of the enemy, the antichrist and end up in a lake of fire. But,
Lord, to know Thy way, to behold Thy face in righteousness, to see
Thyself revealed until we ourselves are revealed in the same image,
that, "as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall bare the image
of the heavenly, for flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God,"
nor, do we want it to.

	Lord, we're glad that Your Words said that. Because, already that
little spark of divinity within us has cried out against any flesh and
blood inheriting anything. We want to be in the likeness of the
heavenly, made in His Own image. And, Lord, we know that that's right at
hand, and we know how it is at hand. We have absolutely no sense of
fear, because Omega is based strictly upon the Alpha, which is strictly
outlined in Your Word, "that a wayfaring man though a fool could not err
therein," he could not mistake.

	Lord God, may our faith be raised today as it's never been raised.
Grant it, Lord, today. Grant it, rapturing faith. Faith for immortality.
We believe we've got it, Lord, already. It's been proven and shown that
faith-free healing is majoring on a minor, but, Lord, we know we're
majoring on a major, because we're looking for the entire release of the
captive. Not only padlocked unto You, Lord, for the future, but now
padlocked into what is no longer a future, it's present. "It's what a
man sees, that he yet hope for," knowing that we're already a part of
it.   

	Lord, I pray that there won't be one person that doesn't feel the pull
of Your Presence, the glory of this hour, the truth of the Resurrection
being amongst us in the form of the Holy Spirit, Who set Himself now at
the Head of the Church in order to raise the dead, and will raise the
dead amongst us, preceded only by that sweet Spirit coming in. Which,
Lord, we really believe is well on Its way. That It might be amongst us.

	So Father, we dedicate this building to the Word which we have heard
and hopefully we'll hear continuously, O God, in sobriety and sincerity
and in dedication as never before. To respect the rooms that will be
literally filled with the voice, and the voice enunciating words which
are filled with life, though they be given on the breath of a mortal
being in that carnal corrupted already waiting for incorruption.

	We dedicate it all, Lord, everything that lies here. Everything that
has been done now, so that everything no matter what usage it has been
dedicated to, know that it has been because of that which You've given
us, and we have given back to You to glorify Your Great Name. So, there
will not be that amongst us which is in the mundane, or in the
spiritual, physical, whatsoever that shall not but be touched by the
solemnity of the hour through the Spirit infused Word of this moment.

	We give it to You, Lord. Give it back to You, we take our hands off of
it, now put it completely in Your hands. And from this moment on, Lord,
may there not be one voice amongst us, except the voice which is one of
gratitude that we could give and we could do. Yours now, no longer
considered ours. But what we might do, give us wisdom, Lord, how we
might lay down whatsoever should be laid down amongst us as constitution
and bylaws, or this or that, Lord.

	For, we well know that there are those things which go with it, but we
will do the least we possibly can in that area, even as we have already
been advised. Guide us, Lord, therefore. May we with open hearts and
open minds with the receptive attitudes and with that great filter of
the inspired Word of God in our minds find our hearts set by knowledge
to know, and to do what he ought to do from this moment on.

	May the grace and glory of our Lord Jesus Christ be amongst us. May
love be amongst us. And we pray, Lord, now…may this church be called
to a complete repentance, which is now a complete change of mind. Not
only concerning the doctrine, though that is the number one thing. But,
also concerning a behavior and a relationship, so that from this moment
on bygones can be bygones and a future built upon that which is utterly
commendable. Which is, Lord, as Paul said, "If you live in the Spirit,
see that you walk in." Walking in the Light, those things, Lord. This is
what we do today.

	As once the blood was sprinkled upon all Israel, we know the Bride has
been sprinkled with Blood, we would claim therefore also locally the
sprinkling of the Blood to absolve us from everything which has been
wrong in the past, O God, and help us therefore to be right.

	We do not claim perfection this side of the grave, Lord, but we do
claim  a revelation, Your Word, which can be a perfect revelation. And
give us strength for the responsibility that lies therein. That all in
these things we may be dedicated to one body, to one faith, to one
Spirit, to one Lord, to one baptism, one of everything. And have one
little building here, Lord, not excluding anybody on the outside, no,
but have the little building here where we come together, and may within
its confines there be that oneness of the Spirit and a unity.

	Lord, we are not praying beyond ourselves, O God, we are praying what
the prophet said to do. To walk in love and to pray and to consider. And
therefore, when those things arise, that person, or persons will come
in, or will go. But, we ourselves therefore will not have been in any
way involved in that which is indiscreet, or outside the Word. For love
shall cover a multitude of sins.  

	So Father, we commend ourselves in this building to it, for we know
that the great thing is what lives within it. We are living in a sense
within it, and You within us. And this is how we commend it. Preeminence
is Yours. Lord God, how we have longed for Your preeminence. We have
longed for it, Lord, and we do long. We cannot be satisfied until we
wake Your likeness for the complete and total preeminence, but until
that time we long for more and more. May You receive it from us as it is
incumbent upon us to do so. And it will be incumbent upon You, Lord, we
know to give us that grace which would do it. But, Lord, also we must
have our eyes opened to it, and we do, and we praise Thee.

	Now, unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be
all power and honor and glory complete sovereignty amongst us in the
Name of Him Who died and rose again. Even now with His great ministerial
office the Great Melchisedec, great High Priest, righteous One, even in
Jesus' Name we pray. Amen.

 

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