Let No Man Deceive You. Bro. Lee Vayle – December 1, 1969 Really appreciate being here tonight, in the Presence of the Lord and in the presence of a fine company of people. Sitting here and I just mentally sort of shaking the number of the people and I think to be a gentleman I ought to devote about two minutes apiece, that’s about a hundred and fifty people, that’s three hundred minutes, about five hours speaking, that's just about right. Otherwise, I don’t think I could qualify as a gentleman I might be a scholar and a poor one, but hardly a gentleman if I didn’t give you some time. Bro. Branham mentioned if anybody said, “Amen,” it’s just like 'sic 'em' [term used for dog to attach] to him, you know. And I can understand that. Often times I don’t require ‘Amens’, but I get to looking at people and I know they are expecting they want to hear the Word of the Lord and I'm all prepared for about a quick little knock down hour and an half message, and suddenly I see the people and all the thoughts begin coming into my mind all the goodies of the Word of the Lord, and well, maybe they'll stick around for three hours without wanting to go. But, in honour of my good Bro. Don, I'll try not keep you, less you all come and say, “Now don’t you have that fellow Vayle back again.” And I like Don so much and the people, I guess I will try and keep within limits tonight. 1. Now, I want to bring a message tonight which I believe will have some very wonderful thoughts from the Word for you. And this message I preached it before, I don’t think I have ever preached it here, but if I did, you won’t recognise it, it’s all changed. The most amazing thing how the Lord gives us a little thought here, a little thought there. And the first thing you know it comes out just like the birth of a baby. Maybe actual conception, you put it on a pinhead, less than a pinhead. Yet, by the time the full fledge baby's born, it could be about a five to a nine, even a ten / eleven pound monster. What is it? It’s the birth of a wonderful thing coming into manhood out of a seed. And the Word of God is a Seed. And out of That you can bring a ...?... of a... as it were something into manhood and adulthood from the Word of God. 2. I hope you follow me there because that’s really how it is. Remember, Bro. Branham said, just in the other night sermon, I hope you caught it; that he said, “Out there in the desert things happening so fast,” he said, “the Word is becoming flesh and the flesh is becoming Word.” That’s right. See that’s not, that’s not something way out here that’s mysterious; that’s something going on: the creative Word of God in the Bride. I know many people feel that that creative Word is something you're going to use to create with. Now, I won’t deny that. But that’s not only a possibility I believe that will come to pass, but to me the creative Word in the Bride is where that Word creates from what is here now, that new person. The Bride is to be caught away and then the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. That’s the most important thing in the world. For though you give your body to be burnt and have not Him, you're nothing! Although you can have all knowledge, and you don’t have Him Who is love, you don’t have a thing. And though you can raise the dead and perform every miracle, you got all the anointing in the world, to manifest the power of God, unless you have Him, that Word, you are nothing. That’s the most important thing. 3. Well, I appreciate the offering you gave, the Lord bless you and I trust God will prosper you for it. As He always does me, I always say this without fear of any contradiction there is no blessing on what you have it’s only on what you give. I've found that personally I've been on the road and I remember not long ago I had an ever interesting experience. I came home after being away for several months and I said, “Well, I will go down to the bank now and check it out and prove to myself I got about elven hundred dollars.” I went down to the bank and I had four hundred. Where did the seven hundred dollars go to? Don’t ask me, but it went, there’s no blessing on what you got, but when you give, oh my, the Lord blessed it. That’s just an undiluted fact. An undiluted fact! So, I thank you and I know God will bless you just like He does me. Just no other thought to it, the Lord be good to you. 4. Now, let’s bow our heads in a little word of prayer and go to His Word. Gracious Heavenly Father, how good and how pleasant it is, You allow us to come together here, Lord, in such sweet fellowship. Having had that fellowship abounding in Christ the Word, over in that tabernacle. My God where we hear the Voice of Him, Who actually was Your audible Voice here, bringing to us the Word of the last day. We appreciate that, Lord, many times I think my Lord, that You let a fellow like me have such sweet fellowship with that great man of God, when I had nothing at all to commend me, in fact I had everything about me to discourage anymore, or even as much as a handshake. But, had that great time of fellowship and the opportunity to ask questions and to know something's, O Lord, that that are so good to know. Now, I feel the people here Lord, they feel the same way, they didn’t have the opportunity I had, but, Lord, we know that makes no actual difference as long as they have the Spirit of God to take the same Word and have It revealed and that within them, they maybe transform into that same Image, Lord, that we know that the great servant should be transformed like unto Yours, when we come up in that day. Now, we pray that You will bless the Word here, Lord, help us to be very calm and very much full of faith to receive Word, Lord, to be able to preach it, the people to hear It and understand It. And retain It above all else, O God. For, if we be like some, Lord, who eat food and yet something's wrong with the body so there… the food cannot turn into nourishment, they'll die anyway of malnutrition. Lord, we don’t want to be that way, we want the Holy Spirit in us tonight to take the Word and transform It into Life and that Life be manifested amongst us that we demonstrate that we are Word believes. Grant it tonight, Lord, and this is what we want for this covers the whole thing and, O God, how we shall praise Thee and adore Thee. In Jesus’ Name. Amen. 5: Now, the message is simple, but I believe it will be edifying, it’s a little message called, ‘Let No Man Deceive You.’ I had to bring this message, because I found that Bro. Branham dwelt on this greatly and I have found in the mist of the people that I deal with that there are those you come on the scene who, with ministries and an anointing would take people away from the Word of God. And we're here with one hope, and that is to help the people be established in this Word. And the little text is found in Ephesians chapter 5, and it’s the little verse 6, just a part of it. And It said here: (6) Let no man deceive you with vain words. (Let no man deceive you with vain words.) 6. Now, notice what he said, that the deception would come by vain words. And Paul is saying, “Don’t allow it in your life. Don’t give it any room.” And he warns them don’t let people deceive you with vain words. Now, we want to apply this little sentence today, and the reason I do so is because of a very peculiar usage of a word found there in the Greek. And that word is ‘deceive’, that's what we are building the thought on tonight. And the warning as Paul did, "Let no man deceive you." Now, it’s found only one more place in the New Testament, and that’s over in 1 Timothy 2:14, where It says: (14) And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived... Now, the word deceived, was the woman, not Adam’s deception now, he wasn’t deceived, but the word here It says, ‘deceived’. This is that same word in the Greek. See? (14) ...but the woman being deceived (she) was in the transgression. 7. Now, notice what happened, she was in the transgression, because she was deceived. How? By words. See, now you won’t lose it all, here is where you are going to lose it. Now, I know that doesn’t sound sensible, but I am not here to preach sense, I am here to preach God the Word. See? Now, he said here, the woman was deceived and being deceived and because of that deception, she was put in the transgression! Now, the word ‘deceived’ in the Greek is, ‘to cheat’, cheat, she was cheated. It means to ‘delude’, she was deluded, but the best and basic thought is ‘deceive, especially with false statements’. Deceived with false statements! Things that aren’t true. 8 Now, you'll notice the double emphasis here, in this little text. For It says, "Let no man deceive you with false statements." Because that’s what deceived means. And then Paul adds, "With vain words. Let no man deceive you with false statements, such false statements being vain words." So, you see that the emphasis here, not a redundancy, but an emphasis so that you'll know what vain words are. Now, vain words are ‘empty words’, they're empty. See? They won’t work they're words that cannot come to pass, because they're void of power and authority. See? They won’t come to pass. Their only one Person’s Word will come to pass and that’s God’s Word. See? Now, Paul said, “Don’t let anybody deceive you except by means of false statements which are vain words.” I don’t care how much they sound good. I don’t care how they seem to fit. Yes sir! 9 Now, that’s were a lot of people go wrong, they say, “Well now, I believe that this fits better than that.” Now, just you watch it! See? Because you thinking it fits it might not be the answer, see, because, it could be absolutely wrong. So, don’t be deceived by false statements, statements that people say are of God, and they cannot back it up. They say, “God told me, it’s so and so, and you listen to me." But watch how it won’t come to pass unless God is in it. Now, that is what happened to Eve and the Bible said she was deceived by the serpent, literally, she was deceived by the devil that was in the serpent, just like the devil was in Judas. Now, I have put that in there just to try and help you here, because remember Jesus said concerning the disciples, “Have I not chosen one of you twelve, (and in John 6:70) and one of you is a devil.” Now, that’s really a wrong translation, it’s in the Greek, it’s “One of you is diabolos,” which is, “One of you is the devil!” See? 10 Now, He absolutely identified Judas with the devil. He didn’t say, “You have a devil.” He didn’t say, “You're demon possessed.” He said, “You are the devil!” And at the Last Supper, Jesus said, “The one to whom I give the sop, this is the one who betrays Me.” [Jn 13:26] And the Bible says, “The devil entered into Judas.” [Jn 13:27] Now, that’s Scripture. And this is the same thing that happened here, the devil entered into the serpent, because he was an intelligent being, and remember the devil uses intelligent beings and God uses intelligent beings. Many people think that some of the people running around today and they are seem to be mentally lose, and I believe that some of them are, that they are called of God. Brother/sister, I have no Scripture where God ever called a mentally lose person. He never put them over a congregation, He said, “Comfort the feeble minded, don’t be led by them.” See? Now, I don’t mean this to be facetious or humorous under any condition, I'm telling you the truth! See? This is the truth! The serpent was an intelligent being. See? 11 So, the devil entered into him and so…the serpent said to Eve, “Now, you know God has spoken to you and Adam, I recognize that, but He's spoken to me also.” See? “And I want you to know, He never let you in onto something.” See? “He didn’t tell you all about it.” So, Eve listened to him and the Bible said that, "Eve was wholly deceived." [1 Tim 2:14] Why? Because she took the false statements that were not God’s and they were vain, because they were void of power. The devil said, “You shall not die!” [Gen 3:4] But, she died! You got millions today who are screaming out, “Millions now living will never die!” When my Bible says, and I can prove to you by the Book of Isaiah. He said, “I will annul your covenant with death.” [Isaiah 28:] Then you'll die, saying, “You won’t die!” See? 12 So, these statements, where those statements were empty. Satan could not back up what he said. Though he said it in the Name of the Lord. For he said, “God doth know that you won’t die.” [Gen 3:4] But they died. See? The statement was vain and she was deceived by that. Now, the Bible said, she was wholly deceived. Absolutely deceived. Not as though she had something left to her credit, because the word ‘deceived’ in the Hebrew is ‘a whole deception’. She was morally and mentally and spiritually deluded. Now, yet that’s the whole of it. See? Don’t ever stick around believing for one minute that she came out of this thing unscathed, and God was not absolutely right in what He said, because, she was absolutely deceived. And then the Bible said it was after her deception that she transgressed. 13 Now, the word ‘transgression’ in the Greek is, ‘violation’. Now, what’s a violation? Well supposing I violated my Bible. It means that I ripped the pages up and stomped it under my feet. I've violated It. See? Now, if she transgress and violated, what did she do? She violated that Word. You say, “Now, now, now, hold it, the serpent violated It.” The Bible doesn’t say he did, It said, she took it and thereby she violated. “Well, Bro Vayle, I think if somebody teaches me something wrong, I believe God will forgive me.” Now, now you don’t talk to me that way, because I got too much Bible. See, I'll fight you right back. See? It said she transgressed. It didn’t even say the serpent transgressed. It said she took what he said, and right there she was caught in that transgression. 14. Now notice, it also means that the violation first of all you see was taking that Word and letting It be taught to her wrong, taking as it were a creed or dogma, which they are doing in any church. The next thing is, the meaning is, 'to break the commandment’, exactly what she did. And the root basic meaning, I like best of all is, ‘primarily going aside and then over stepping’. Remember, just the other night in the sermon, Bro. Branham on the tape, he said, “And Eve stepped aside.” He said, “That’s in the Bible.” And I got laughing inside, because I knew there wasn’t one of them there in the audience could find where it said that in the Bible. But it said it in the Bible, because the Greek said she stepped aside. You couldn’t prove me wrong on one word if you tried, although I don’t think anybody wants to try. 15. Now notice, it said she primary stepped aside and then she over-stepped. See? She over stepped, where did the over stepping take place? Number two, not number one. Stepping aside comes first, then over-stepping. Now, she went aside to listen, when the only word she had was from Adam and should have listened only to him. See? (God gives a messenger in every age too.) She listened to somebody else. Then she over-stepped the law of her husband and committed adultery. Typing what the church is doing spiritually today. See? They're stepping aside and listening and then the next thing they do, they transgress the law of God, which is spiritual adultery. And when they commit spiritual adultery, it’s got to end in divorcement. (Which we'll talk about some other time, but not tonight, because the Bible specifically states the divorce takes place then the ‘man of sin’ is revealed.) 16 Now, her deception was absolute, now watch carefully now, because I am watching my language, so listen: her deception was absolute when she took part with the serpent and became a part of the whole plan, or the whole plot against God. See? I'll read it again to you: her deception was absolute, (it was she was absolutely fooled,) when she took part with the serpent and thereby she became a part of the whole plot against God. And yet, people think they can fool with the Word of God and deny It, or add to It and not be a part of the sum total of the antichrist program that manifest the ‘man of sin’ and then worship him. You say, “I won’t become a part of that if I just believe in what I believe in. I won’t have to be in that.” You'll be in that crowd. You'll be in that crowd, or you'll die to get out of it. I just ask you the question, what she by taking part with Satan, did she not become a part of that plot against God? Well, how do you think you are going to stand? See? How do you I think I'm going to stand? When I saiy, “You”, I don’t mean you, as people, I mean as a principle. I mean that principle, see? So, we just can’t fool around. See? Her morals were gone, in fact all was gone. 17 Now notice, It said, “Adam was not deceived, and thereby was not in the transgression.” [1 Tim 2:14] For, you see, Adam had a right to his wife. But when she was already pregnant with serpent seed, he should have handed her over to God and not sown his seed also. See? But he did it. Now, Eve brought forth death by her act and life was polluted. See? She brought forth death, her act. How? Adam had a right to his wife. See? She did not do right, but Eve came out of Adam. See? So, all in Adam died! See? Now remember, Bro. Branham categorically said, “Adam could not be deceived. A son of God could not be fooled. How could a man, a son of God enter into sin?” And that is correct. The Bible absolutely states, “That which is born of God cannot sin.” [1 Jn 3:9] And the Baptist teach it and say, “That which is born of God cannot practice sin.” But I am going further because the Greek said, “That which is born of God doth not initiate sin.” It never starts it. How could Adam start it? He couldn’t start it! So therefore, the woman was not in the original creation. But, what came out of Adam? Eve came out of Adam. See? What all came out of Adam? Eve alone came out of Adam. See? “And as in Adam all died.” [1 Cor 15:22] The ‘all’ was in the woman, for that alone came out of Adam. See? 18 Now, let’s just check it, let’s look at 1 Corinthians. Bro. Branham makes these statements and it’s up to me, if I am going to teach according to his word, to bring out Scripture on the subject, just as he did. That with a little more time, God will grant us preaches to be here, than he was allowed to remain. We break It down as he told us to break It down. In 1 Corinthians 11:8, and this has to do with short hair my beloved brother and sister. If you think that your chopped off hair doesn’t designated your adultery, and therefore, your divorcement, you can’t even read your Bible! If you think you can even lay a scissor to your bang. Yeah, people come and say, “Bro. Vayle is it alright if I snip the ends of my hair, because I've ruined them by a permanent wave?" I say, “Sure, go ahead and you will snip the rest off.” Don’t you dear lay a scissor to your head! See, you've paid a price by your frizzled top, now hang on to it. You say, “Do you talk to his wife?” Worse than that. You think it's going to spare the church? Not for one minute. You can’t start a chapter on short hair, that says, “I would have you know the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.” [1 Cor 11:3] And go onto short hair, and then just hold that thing up and just sort of take it lightly. This thing goes right back to Almighty God and original sin! Sure, can’t see the woman typing the church and the day we read Bro. Branham said, “If you want to see where the church is, watch the women.” And the day Billy Paul brought the picture of Barbara Streisand, receiving her, her award, the Academy Award, and here she had her buttocks entirely bare. Just like the rock-and-roll witch Bro. Branham saw in the scene in the last day. 19 Now, what about your short hair? Where did it come from, short hair! Capping the Headship of Almighty God! (Well, I just threw that in, it’s not part of the sermon, but it sounded good.) [1 Corinthians 11:] verse 8. (8) For the man is not of the woman: (absolutely not, see?) but the woman of the man. (9) Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man. A lot of people got the idea God was created for them. You're created for God! Sure. Try and run God, take the gifts of God, the things of God and then operate outside of His Word, just like Eve. See? Can’t work, can’t you see where the whole age is ending in Antichrist, and God divorcing the woman who calls herself His Bride? Shows there a divorcement. He said in Matthew 25, “I use to know you as my wife, but I don’t know you as my wife anymore.” That’s divorcement. See? The Old Testament is full of it don’t think the New is not full of it. How can you have divorce in the Old and not in the New? It's right in there. See" All right. 20. All right, notice: [1 Corinthians 11:] (10) For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the (messengers) angels. (11) Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord. (12) For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God. Now, if Eve was in Adam and the male from thereon it's got to come by the woman, then everything that was in Adam died! Why? Because, of that woman. And I want to tell you, the minute the church steps out of line with the Word of God, everything that was in Jesus Christ dies! Because, you void the every Word of God, that God gave for you. Try and make the promise of God come true, try and make the Rapture, try this and that. You'll never make it on the grounds of the transgression. Best thing to ...?... statement outside the Word of Almighty God. Follow me? All right! 21. Adam died by taking her back in the sex act, to procreate children, under the sentence of death. See! Now, there’s your picture of the original deception, the original deception, now deception is right in the world today. And this text today is absolutely as genuine a text and a warning as it was in the days of the apostle Paul. Now, let’s into further Scripture, to take what I have taught you now, concerning the text, and bring it up to date, to show you where we are right today, because we are in a repeat position. As Bro. Branham said, “Scripture repeats.” I have often called it ‘a near and far fulfilment’. He's got a double application, and there’s a double one here. 22. Let’s go to 2 Corinthians 11, because we're talking about the woman in deception. And here the church is the woman, with deception. Paul said, listen, (1) Would to God (you) could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me. (2) For I am jealous over you (church) with (a) godly jealousy... He said, “You think I am weighing something down here with a sort of a jealous streak on him?” He said, “Yes, I am jealous just like God, for God is a jealous God!” Now, I want to tell you, you think for one minute a husband shouldn’t be jealous if he types God, he better be jealous. Love me, yes, but be jealous. Woman, flopping her eyes and flirting around with some other man. Where do you get that nonsense? See? God never flirted anybody; neither should a husband flirt with any woman and a woman better keep herself. 23. Now listen, (2) ...I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: (Just like over His Word.) for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. The presentation has got to be chaste. Now remember, Eve was not presented to Adam as the wife in a chaste condition. See? She was as it were, vowed to him and espoused to him. but as far has the connubial [marriage] act was concerned, they had not at all come together in physical union. 24. Now notice, notice he said, take it right back to Eden. So, I am right on my premise. (3) But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds.... Minds, m-i-n-d-s. What part of you? Your minds. See? It doesn’t say, smoking cigarettes, although that’s got to come to the mind first. It doesn’t say, robbing banks, although that’s got to come by the spirit of covetous, and laziness, in those days, too lazy to work for it. But, It says, it comes by the mind. (3) ...so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. (The what? Word.) (4) For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if (you) receive another spirit, which (you) have not received, or another gospel, which (you) have not accepted, (you) might well bear with him. (5) For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles. (6) But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things. Notice it, I have been thoroughly made manifest among you in all things, A-L-L things. (7) Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that (you) might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely? (8) I (have) robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service. (9) And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself. (10) As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia. (11) Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth. (12) But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we. (13) For such are false apostles, (See? False missionaries) deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. (14) And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. (15) Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works. (16) I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little. (17) That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, (but) in this confidence of boasting. (18) Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. (19) For (you) suffer fools gladly, seeing (you) yourselves are wise. (20) For (you) suffer, if a man... People saying that you can’t be sarcastic, what do you think this is if that’s not sarcasm? (Unadulterated, in a nice way.) (20) For (you) suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face. (21) I speak as concerning reproach...Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also. 25. Now, there are some tremendous things in here, going back to that first verse, as I mentioned, the Bride of Christ must be a chaste virgin of the Word. Her chastity lies in the Word. See? People think it lies in actions. That’s not where it lies, it lies in the Word. See? Because Satan had to approach Eve by his perverted word first. See? The false statement, she was deceived. See? Mentally, the approach was mental. You see? That’s were Bro. Branham brings out all the thought about education. Not that education is not right in the place where it belongs; but it doesn’t belong in a spiritual realm! See? [Tape repeats some of the above again] Education is not necessary spiritual! And if you ever put it in the place of the Spirit, you're absolutely lost! See? That’s where your, PHD’s and LLD’s are no good. Now, the PHD is fine out here, say, in the field of science, in the field of literature, it's fine out there, but it has no place behind the pulpit. If a man got a PHD, let it be upon his knees, let it be a God given PHD, or a God given DD, where he knows that Word by revelation of the Holy Ghost, then he won’t even talk about it. It will be up to the people to know that he’s got it. Without saying a word. See? 26. Now, Paul feared less the revealed Word, as revealed by Jesus Christ Himself, in Paul, and to Paul. Which he delivered to the church, would be corrupted by the church opening its mind, to receive the adulterated word! See? Now listen, everything in this world that came forth, (except animals, of course, and they come by seed also, sperm,) God brought forth by seed. See? The seed was lying there. Now, as Bro. Branham preached in ‘Transformation’ in Phoenix and in, also Prescott. He said, “That every seed has within itself the power of transformation.” But how can you be transformed into the Image of God, unless you are unadulterated God Seed? At every created thing came from the Word of God! So, God Almighty is going to recreate you from the gases where in this present body, which we are in, into His Own glorious Image. It depends tonight upon you being a virgin of the Word! So Bro. Branham say, did he tell us and advise us, that you could take a sperm from a cat and a dog, and bring forth a cat/dog? No! He said, “That you will never have a cat with a dog’s head. You'll never have a man with a dog’s head.” Neither would you have a portion of Christ by adulating the Word! See? Today they have taken and radiated the sperm of man and the ovum of woman and they have brought forth monsters. We saw a picture in our paper, concerning what the bomb did in Hiroshima, and over there in Japan. Terrible cases and I tell you, you bring, you try and bring forth a people of God with an adulterated Word with the light of man’s knowledge beamed upon that Word you'll bring forth a monstrosity! You'll never bring forth Christ! See? Why? Because the Seed Itself has to have the power of transformation! They said to Paul the apostle, "How does the body come forth?" What bodies have... He said, “It lies within the seed, you don’t plant the plant, you plant the seed. And the seed brings forth that body.” 27. Then, how in the world can you be a part of Jesus Christ in that Bride to be Him, as it were, if you are not that unadulterated Word! See? And then people wonder of all this talk about, getting us back to the Word is? A fellow came by not long ago and he said, “You Americans,” he said, “Bro. Branham brought you back to the Word." I never was away from the Word! Every single sermon I preached had four or five times absolutely more Scripture than he'll preached in a dozen sermons, but I was not correct in the Word! I had as it were, a coat with an arm at the back. I had a pair of pants with a third leg. It took the prophet of God to bring us into the proper understanding of the Word! We never had the Word for our day, there’s a big difference. You could quote this Bible cover to cover; you could preach a masterpiece of a sermon. You could bring out everything and anything which is logical, sound and beautiful and be one hundred miles away from truth. Just like those Hebrews were then they turned down Jesus Christ, because He was virgin born and came the way the Word of God said. 28. As Bro. Branham said, “They were looking for Him to come, yes they were, and He came according to the Scripture, but not according to how they interpreted the Scripture, the way He came!” See? How in the world could there be Christ be produced on this world tonight, how could His coming be manifested in the Bride, if there is not a virgin Seed? Mary was a virgin woman, and she said, “Be it unto me according to thy Word.” [Lk 1:38] And the Word came forth. They came forth according to the Word for that day. See? People don’t understand what Bro. Branham said, “There’s a Word for every hour and every season." If that isn’t true, there’s a Word for every season, how come then the Bible took sixteen hundred years to be made, why wasn’t it made all at one time? Proving absolutely, unequivocally; that there is a message for every day. If the Bible said, “In God’s Own seasons there’s statistic times He brought forth the Word of a message.” That’s a paraphrase over there in Titus, but it’s absolutely the unadulterated Word of God! Look in your margin you will see it there if you got a Scofield Bible. 29. Alright listen: The Bride absolutely has to be of that unadulterated Word. Now, you say that you believe the prophet? Alright right, when did he have that vision about the virgins coming forth? He saw first of all what? A view, a preview and a view or a preview and view, (I forget which way he put it, view and a preview.) What was it? He saw the first age Bride coming, is that right? Then he saw all the mess caught in between, specially the American woman of the last day. Then he saw the last day Bride and she was like the first day Bride! She came back to be a virgin. 30. Now, my brother my sister, if the Bible starts the Bride as a virgin, she's got to end as a virgin, because He is the same yesterday, today and forever. And He is Jesus Christ, Alpha and Omega as the woman is of the man, and from the man and for the man! You think for one minute He’s going to be added too with an old haggis bag going around here, rock-and-roll witch? He’s already soaked it up, He said, “This church age makes Me vomit.” How would you like to have your bridegroom say, “You make me vomit?” I heard a woman down in my town where I was born in Canada, and he used to drink beer all the night and he had the lousiest breath in America. I think, “My goodness me, that he'd make even limburger cheese smell sweet.” [laughter] And her husband came home, he’s name was Fordell, and she smelled his breath and she said, “Oh, Fordell, ough, ough.” [more laughter] She vomited all over the place. And you got a picture of a so-called bride today that makes Jesus Christ vomit! And you think He take that kind of a bride to the Wedding Supper and vomit on His table? Why? Because the Word! See, there it is all etched out perfectly. Now, this is exactly… this is what happened, this is what happened, what Paul was afraid of, happened! Now, he knew it was going to happen of course, he knew. 31. Over here in the Book of Acts 20, he tells them right to their faces. He said here now, and he called the elders from Ephesus, down to my leaders, and he spoke to them. He took them apart and he said in verse 27, (27) For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God. (What’s that? All the Word of God.) Now listen, I am going to tell you something right now: if you don’t understand God giving a Word in is day, Paul’s a liar! Because according to 2 Corinthians 12, he could not and was forbidden to tell some of the things he saw. So, if he said, "I told you all the Word," he’s a bear face liar. Unless, there’s a Word for the day. So, when he said, “I told you all,” he’s no liar. He told you all, he told all they could have for that day. See? They're simple as A-B-C. 32. Now: (28) Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which (God) hath purchased with his own blood. (That's right.) (29) For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Now, what's he call them? "Grievous wolves." He’s got to say this because Jesus said it. He said, "They're wolves in sheep's clothing," that’s what these are. (30) Also of your own selves... How do you think he felt like when he stood up there and warned the people, calling a select group of people aside and he said, “Yes, amongst you brethren that I know and love, you are going to rise up and be a wolf in a sheep clothing, because that’s what you are.” Bro. Branham did the same thing, before he departed this scene. And he said, “You won’t always be this sweetly kind and loving and have this fellowship, because (he said,) Satan will enter, get someone arise amongst you and if he can’t do it, he'll send somebody in, fill somebody full of poison.” You say, “Well, Bro Vayle, it sure happened.” Well, brother/sister, it sure happened and it happened here too. We got a repeat. See? 33. Now, he said here, now listen: (30) Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things... Speaking what? Perverted things. They’re going to do just what Satan did to Eve. They’re going to take that Word and change It. They’re going to take from It or, add to It or, they’re going to twist It. Or as Bro. Branham said, “The Word of God doesn’t need any interpreting, but they are gonna interpret It.” They're going to say, “Well my dear sister, it doesn’t really matter if you cut your hair, well that’s just a little tiddlywink thing.” Yet, the Bible said, “If you don’t take care of a little tiddlywink things, you are not the lease in the Kingdom of God, you'll miss It.” All the time talking about great big spiritual gifts and he said, “You don’t even know your A-B-C’s.” Now, we got people right today in this Message talking about great big dynamic ministries and they haven’t learnt their A-B-C’s! I’m not sarcastic, I’m just telling you something, “He that has an ear, let him hear.” [Rev 2:7] Because the prophet said it, not Lee Vayle. Now, I didn’t say it, he said it, he told them. 34. Now he said, "You're going to say perverted things." Now, he warn… now listen, you know something, if this is the seed, it’s got to come to harvest. Do you know that Carson Blake in 1960, and he’s head now, of your great Council of Churches. He is bringing the major denominations together and they will be governed by presbyters and bishops and deacons. They never mention once the 'five-fold' ministry. They all come out of the elders and the deacons come out of the elders, and this is what Paul said would happen. And yet I got brethren around America who try to say, “There’s no five-fold ministry anymore since Bro. Branham’s gone, and the preachers better quit preaching.” I got news for you, you fit in with the group Paul said would rise up to destroy. And I am not going to cut your ears off, but I am going tell you plumb and plain, you're Laodicean with the spirit of anarchy on you. ...?... I don’t have to worry about getting a listening crowd, because if I had my way, I'd say with Bro. Branham, “A man of God that’s called to preach, doesn’t want to preach, he sooner be doing something else.” Not that I don’t love you, I sooner do this any day and work, because I love the people of God and want to fulfil my obligation to God. Try and take joy in being beautiful, but according to my own senses, if you want a rough job you need to be a preacher. And I don’t care how you look at it. See? And yet, it’s the most rewarding and fulfilling thing in the world. As you stand in the Light of God that you might have helped somebody on that road. See? But Paul warned that this would happen and it happened! And the devil’s World Council of Churches is going to put the antichrist on the throne and they are going to make him God! Have already said, “That there’s going to be three echelons, three brackets, presbyters, and the deacon, see, and the bishop.” With the bishop's an elder's, see, and the presbyter is really the same thing. They even take the Word of God and pervert It in two ways right there. See, right down the line. Now, it took place, it happened that way. 35. Now, let’s go back here, over here to, to the Scripture in, I think it's 2 Corinthians 12, I want now...and the first few verses. Now, in here Paul states that he was caught up in heaven, (I believe Paul was not talking about John, I believe this is Paul, himself.) He was caught up to Paradise and he heard things he wasn’t able to utter, because it was unlawful to him. And I believe he had, the same thing happened to him that happened John, in Revelation 10. John could not utter what the seven thunders uttered. See? But listen, according to Revelation 10:7, what Paul saw, if he saw what John heard, has got to be uttered. See? It’s got to be revealed. Now, this all part of the message, so I have not lost my train of thought, just go onto Hebrews 6 now. I told you, Paul was a first enlightenment. He said, “I have not shunned to declare all of the council of God unto you.” [Acts 20:27] Everything that age could receive from God, they got it. But remember, see, in Revelation 10:7, “In the days of the voice of the seventh messenger when he shall begin to sound,” ‘A’ double ‘L’, all! Everything that Paul saw, everything that John saw, everything that Daniel saw, everything that every prophet ever say, is going to come to light, as It pertains to the Bride at the end-time. See? He said, “Shall be revealed.” This is the Gospel. Go over Revelation 10:7, he said it was going to be given to a prophet. 36. Now listen; turn to Hebrews 6:4. (4) For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened... Now that, the Bible does not say, “Once enlightened,” It said, “Once for all enlighten.” Now, Paul did not preach a once for all enlightenment, because Seven Thunders were sealed up. See? So, the Bible says there's got to be a once for all enlightenment. Now, what’s a once for all enlightenment? It’s just like when momma said to little Johnny, she said, “You slam that door once more, just once more, that will be the end of you.” And that’s right. There comes one final revelation from God which is once for all, which is Revelation 10:7, when the prophet brings the once for all enlightenment! See? Now that’s got to come. Now, how’s it going to come? See? Because you can’t only go back to Paul, you've got to have this man bring forth what Paul could not bring forth till God shut his month. You cannot only go back to John, but you've got to go back to what John saw from God and could not utter. See? ...?... once for all. It'll never happen again, it hasn’t happened before. And it’s the last time that God ever brings enlightenment. And He’s done it in seven ages. And the seventh age there is no more enlightenment to the church, it goes into total eclipse. Absolutely. Because the Bible says, they'll fall away after this, and you'll never renew them again. And you know what he said? 37. Let’s just look at this, I could preach almost the whole service, I’m giving away all my goodies, but I will throw it in because, you might not get back to hear another sermon. It says, listen, “To renew them again unto repentance.” [Heb 6:6] And the word ‘repentance’ is change of mind. And Bro. Branham said, “You turn down this Word, and the devil will put your ear against the doorpost and you never hear It again, you are finished.” Now, the Bible tells us what Bro. Branham said, ...?... does it? You think that man didn’t preach the Bible? He preached It Word for Word the way It is in the absolute original. See? Put the ear, put it up, you will never hear It again, you will never change your mind. You will either get your mind renewed, brother/sister on the Word of God and go back to being a virgin or you’re finished. Go back to what Paul said, “I’m afraid,” he said, “less your minds be beguiled.” [2 Cor 11:3] He said, “Less somebody come in and change your minds form this truth.” And then Bro. Branham came on the scene and brought that glorious truth and men received it for a while and then, pretty soon, they got running after Seven Thunders with this guy a ‘thunder’ and that guy a ‘thunder’, and this fellow with a ‘Joshua’ and the Bible said Joshua, in Hebrews 3, couldn’t give them rest. 38. Now, what do you want to follow a Joshua for are you sick? I thought these guys knew their stuff? For as your pastor said, “Like, Old MacDonald’s farm, here a Joshua, there a Joshua, everywhere a Joshua, Joshua.” [laughter] But oh my Lord, he didn’t have no such kind of a farm. Not my Jesus. Here a ‘prophet,’ there that same ‘prophet’, there that same ‘prophet’, and not another! You better believe it. See? It says here, It says, “You'll never get a changed mind again.” You tell me under Luther’s day, they didn’t change their mind? They changed their mind. You tell me under Wesley’s day they didn’t change their mind? They changed their minds. You tell me Pentecostal’s day they didn’t change their minds? They changed their minds. And you tell me that you don’t need to change your mind now? What you going to change your mind on? The Word of the Living God. 39. Now, It says that “Once and for all enlightenment,” that once and for all last time will come and you'll put your ear to the wall and get the awl if you don’t listen this time! And that’s exactly what Eve did, she was deceived. She had her mind changed on the Word of God and there are people right today, getting their minds changed, that Word. That’s where Bro. Branham said, “If you don’t understand It, don’t you dare change It, just you believe It. Don’t you add a word, don’t you take away.” That’s why, by the grace of God, when I preach my sermons, I'll take his text, I'll take his subject and I'll say the same thing! But, I will take a dozen more Scriptures, if God helps me, so I can nail it down and pin it down! You say, “Bro. Vayle, what for?” To give me courage to go on and believe God, I don’t care about you if you want to leave it alone, go ahead. I just thank you for coming here to get the opportunity to secure myself in God. 40. You say, “Vayle, you are a mean dirty preacher.” Well glory to God! You think it’s a mean dirty preacher that want to get the glory, and make sure he makes it. I want to be there and I want you to be there too. That’s why I talk this way and nail her down. I'm not saying one thing the prophet of God didn’t say. I’m telling you not only what he said, but I am taking Scripture after Scripture the way he told us to do it. Showing you what it says here, absolutely. Showing you Hebrews 6 could never take place, except in the Seventh Church Age. That’s why nobody ever understood what this was all about, until God gave the prophet the revelation by the vision. And he taught us that Word. See? Now, how was this going to be done, this once for all revelation? How was the Word, the virgin, the Bride going to be brought back to a virgin, that Word? To get this once for all revelation; the last revelation? Well, He’s going to do it according to Acts 3 and Malachi 4. 41. Let’s go to Acts 3, alright, It says here in verse 19. (19) Repent (change your mind) therefore... Every place in the Bible repentance is a change of mind. I know people think repentance is to have a feeling over bad thing. “Oh, I feel a terrible guilt.” Now listen, that maybe what we ...?... that maybe what we preach, but that’s not the Bible. The Bible says repentance is a change of mind. Change your mind, he said here. I want to tell you one thing: if the people of, if the people of this world could open their minds to hear the Word of God, they'd be born-again! They won’t open their minds. They liken the day when old Stephen got there, preached the Word of God. And they said they closed their eyes, they closed their ears and they gnashed on him with their teeth, and they said, “We won’t hear a thing, we won’t listen we closed our minds.” And the Bible said if Israel had only opened its mind, according to the 2 Corinthians 3, if they had only opened their minds the veil would not be upon their hearts. What do you want, a lust veil upon your heart and the ignorance of the darkness of hell or, do you want the Light of God? Open your minds to hear the Word of God. People say they believe this Message, their minds are closed doors. They misinform the world and everything else, but what Bro. Branham taught us is ridiculous. They say, “He was Jesus Christ.” Hogwash! He wasn’t Jesus Christ. 42. What do you believe in? In Hinduism, are you a bunch of reincarnationists? God have pity on such mockery! But they closed their minds. They say, “No preachers.” They closed their minds. Don’t come together to hear tapes, close your mind. What are you scare of? Are you a bunch of Pentecostals Oneness’s, or have you been liberated? Denomination organized, have you got a filter? You deny the very Filter tonight when you close your minds, shows you haven’t got a thing. Not you folk, I hope some well deserving soul gets that tape, that’s all. (19) (Change your mind) therefore, (said Peter,) and be converted...(turn again!) Elijah comes to do what? To turn again, [Malachi 4:] (4) ...the hearts of the children to their fathers... How? By enlightening the mind. Bro. Branham said, “The mind was the womb.” Yes sir! I tell you, people need... I hope you have a lot of fun hearing tapes, I mean real spiritual joy in the Lord. I sit up in my little old office up stairs there, and I get so happy looking in the Bible seeing all those words of Bro. Branham brought out so pretty. I see those Trinitarians and those theologians with their DD’s and PHD’s and you name it, what they got and they just cut their throats and bleed. They give all the nuggets out there and I could say what Bro. Branham said, it all looks so beautiful. I say, “My Lord.” Here they just… All that studying, all those years, they did all the work all those years for me. [laughter] Missed it themselves. Hey, change your mind, turn again. How? (19) ...that your sins may be blotted out... 43. You say, “Glory to God, I trust in Calvary.” Are you, glory to God; trust in Calvary? What about the fact that they were circumcised down there in Egypt? Glory to God, I've been circumcised; I can prove I have got the best circumcision job in the country. Don’t put the blood on the door and watch what happens to you. "Glory to God, I got a covenant..." Disobey this… take this Word out and see what happens to you. Though you say, “That’s to the Jews." Give it all to the Jews. See? (19) ...that your sins may be blotted out... Didn’t he come back from Arizona having said, “I got to go back, and blotted out their sins?” Why? Because, they were married to the wrong one. And their fornications and adulteries were shown. He said, “Your dead to your own husband, you're married to Him now; your sins are blotted out!” Oh, glory to God, my God can’t they see that? I’m going to tell you those who did not turn again did not get their sins blotted. He said, “Listen to you on tapes; listen to you on that telephone hook-up, I’m talking to my people who follow me and believe my Message.” 44. Why? Because their minds were changed. We're not Trinitarians anymore. We're not tongue talking, tongue evidence babblers anymore. We're not gift prostitute-ters anymore; we're not falling a-wayer's anymore; we're not adulterer's anymore; we've opened our minds, the gloried of the Gospel came in, we took a turn around, went back to the faith of the fathers, had our sins blotted out! When did all this take place? When the times of refreshing, which Bro. Branham absolutely, categorically stated was over there in Isaiah 28, belonged to our day. Came from what? The Presence! The Presence of Christ, the descended Word; by the prophet’s spirit. Came amongst the people and there by the prophet of Almighty God, by the Pillar of Fire, announced the forgiveness of sins! We don’t even know we been forgiven. Said, "Oh my, I hope I make it?" Oh brother/sister, I know that the dynamics have not fallen on the mechanics. But I'm getting so anxious with so much mechanics. I feel I got enough mechanics, bless God, to start one car and ready to go on a third or fourth. May God pour on the dynamics. I feel we got so much from God now by revelation which has come by the mind, exposed to the Holy Ghost, that when that Spirit falls, there won’t be a doubt we'll make it. We'll be gone, brother/sister, because we couldn’t even stop ourselves. We'll be like somebody running downhill, gravity's got a hold of you. Only this time you are running up hill, and something else got a hold of you. 45. Now, It says when this happens: [Acts 19:] (20) ...he shall send Jesus (the) Christ, which before was preached unto you: (21) Whom the heaven must receive.. What’s he talking about? The corporal Jesus Christ that consorts with the Bride, the One with the nail prints in His hands. Because look, as you want for the coming King with the nail prints, you won’t see that! You are going to see Christ manifest in the Bride, then by the grace of God, caught up in that dimension, you be with Him. There’s were the world missed it. They missed Revelation 10: 1-6, not knowing, that though that's a part of Ephesians 4:16. They still miss it. See? Alright. (21) Whom the heaven must receive until (the restoration) of all things, (What restoration?) ...of all things, which God (spoke) by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began. The Word of God restored to the Bride, making her a virgin. She’s got to have that in her, or she never be one of that Bride. 46. Now: (22) (And) Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall (you) hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. (23) And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.   That did not happen when Jesus came here the first time, as the Son of man. No sir! But you of turned Him down. There isn’t one single solitary person who will enter that Millennium, enter that Rapture, (which we will talk about the Millennium, rather) except that 144,000 that sealed in Israel but, no Gentile makes it. Why? Because Bro. Branham categorically stated, after that Rapture, we walk upon the ashes of the wicked, and everybody else that makes it in the Second Resurrection and the Tribulation; go up by sealing their life with their own blood. It’s laid out in front of you. 47. Bro. Branham, ...?... I might surprise you, but in 1952, when God sent William Branham to Florida, because mine own mouth had prophesied by the Spirit of God: "Behold, I send My prophet out of the north, and he shall teach the people the things they ought to know." ‘My Prophet’! And Bro. Branham said, “The Pillar of Fire was over the whole building. The Amber Glow was here! If you only believe that I am THAT prophet, not because I said so, but the Word of God said so, you'd all be healed.” They said, “He’s a prophet but, not that one.” They don’t believe Elijah’s coming, they don’t know he’s coming, they don’t give a hoot! And yet, they got enough brains to go out there and know they can't until they get a stick… a piece of bubble-gum without they putting the penny in first. And yet, the Bible said, "Elijah must first come." [Mt 17:11] “Oh well, that’s different. With the bubble-gum, that’s a great scientific thing, but this silly thing about Elijah …?...” And those birds got PHD’s and DD’s. They can’t be Dr. ...?... they must be dirty ...?... [laughter] Of all the stupidly, they can get bubble-gum out of a bubble-gum machine, but they don’t know Elijah's got to come first to restore. DD, PHD, what for? As Dr. Buchman said, “They get colder by degrees.” All right. 48. It says over here in Malachi 4, which we've all read so many times, concerning that last day, when the earth going to burn like stubble, that’s the end-time. (5) Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: (6) And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, (that happened, so therefore let, to be performed and he shall turn) the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. See, what’s He going to do? He is going to turn their hearts; He is going to do it, how now? By Revelation 10:1-6. When that might Messenger, Christ Himself, the Word, comes down, revealing Himself according to Luke17:30. And what’s He doing it? I won’t read all that I’m going to read you, in the Book of Revelation. Let’s go to chapter 5:4-5. (4) And I wept much, because no man... [blank spot on tape] (5) And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals... And watch those Seven Seals, open… What they going to do? They were going to look at the Book and read it! In Heaven here where the Book was opened it was not read. No sir. It was not read. All John saw was pictures come out of the Book. Now, what happened? Over here in Revelation 10:7, before 10:7 It tells us here; (2) And he had in his hand a little book ... What little Book? The Book that was open, but not read. Now, what happens? Seven Thunders utter their voices! What’s going on? The Book is being read. What Book? The little Book in His hand. See? 49. Now, let’s go back to Isaiah 29:9-14, and see about this little Book, because it’s in there. (9) Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. (10) For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep (In the Last Day the virgins are all sleeping every single one is asleep. Now listen,) and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered. (11) And the vision of all is become unto you the words of a book that is sealed, (and) men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed: (12) And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned. (13) Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, (Thou saith, thou saith, thou saith, see?) and with their lips do honour me, (talking and gabbing, see?) but (their heart) removed (from me) their heart (of faith which Elijah's got to turn back,) and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men: (Not the Word of God. See?) No sir, it is just like Judas. Old Judas the Bible said went to betray Jesus with a kiss. He went over and kissed Him. And in the Greek the Bible distinctly said, “He affectionately kissed Him.” He said, “Now, hold it, hold it. ” What does that mean? That he loved Him. You say, “Just the other day Bro. Branham said that ‘Judas hated Christ.’ That’s right Judas loved Jesus and hated Christ the Word. And today they love Jesus. "Glory to God, hallelujah! Oh, I speak with tongues, and my sister and my wife was healed.” I’m Praising God; they were. What about that Word? What about Malachi 4:5-6? What about William Branham? “Oh, he’s in false doctrine, that hypocrite.” You said you loved the Word, you love Jesus. You got a sentimental, soulish concept, deluded just like Eve, because you hated Christ. See? Teaching for precepts, teaching for commandments, the precepts of men. (14) Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of (the ...?...) That’s Walkers vision, and as far as I am concerned, science looking around. “I will ride this trail once more.” “What does it mean, Bro. Vayle?” You've got your idea I got mine; I will leave it tonight, you heard me give mine. But I tell you, whether it’s this way or, that way, I know one thing, when Christ that Word becomes fully manifest in the Bride, and those dead come out of that ground, it’s going to shake science for one minute. And they going to say, “Well, I think that’s ESP. Well, I take that's, well you know, ...?... whole lot of things that we can’t explain, but we... conquered space, it won’t be long before we got it figured out too.” They'll duck back to science God will wipe them all out, just like the Bible said. 50. Now listen, this… what book was sealed? The Book that was sealed, are two Books, Revelation and Daniel. Seal up said the Angel of God, after the hand was raised. Christ there standing and Daniel, like their Revelation, Daniel 12, and Revelation 10, as far as I can see it. And there having stood there and sworn, He said, “Seal it up.” And back in Revelation 10, He said, “Seal it up!” But I want to tell you, there comes a day Revelation 7, two thousand years after Revelation 10:6. There is a break of two thousand years and there the prophet of God stands to unseal that whole Book and the Book is where the seals are read to the people; which is opening the full mystery of the Word of God from Genesis to serpent seed right down to the prophet in the former rain. And that Word of God becomes revealed the Bible distinctly tells us that Word is restored and it’s from that moment on you can except anytime for God to consummate His Word and catch the Bride away to the Marriage Supper. Why? Because the Bible can’t tell a lie, see? Now, truth has been restored. Truth has been restored, the prophet did it and nobody but the prophet; right, nobody but the prophet. 51. Now, I know that there’s little problems here, because people… Bro. Branham said over here, “That ‘So and So’ and over here he said, ‘So and So’ something different.” So, let's put it isn't that the way the Bible reads? Old Satan came to Jesus one day and he said, “It is written...” And He said, “Hold it boy, it is also written...” People come to me and say, “Bro. Branham said...” I say, “He also said...” You better know your, “He said,” and your, “Also said.” You say, “You know them?” I’m trying, just like you are. Now, I'll tell you one thing, I believe the Holy Ghost is here today to help us so that somehow in your heart you know just which way. And even when Bro. Branham talked of that ‘Tent Vision’, he categorically said, “It slid into the Word.” Therefore, that ‘Tent Vision’ is in the Word. I believe with my colleague, Joe Coleman, that the ‘Tent Vision’ is a symbol of the Seventh Seal. Without a doubt in my mind and it’s a symbol of the Seventh Seal, because the Seventh Seal should have at least a symbol, and it had nothing but a period of time which was almost one half hour. And in the space of a thousand years being one day that is all is identical to twenty one years, or I think it’s twenty and forty eight part of a year and the space was not ‘a half hour,’ it was ‘almost a half hour’! The vision given in 1955, he spoke in 1956. Add twenty-one, you get 1977, three seven’s. Reduce it to Daniel’s Seventieth Week, which is to be one… one year per day and it's almost an half hour, which is almost one week, which it took one seven days to open the Seven Seals. Everything he said is in this Word, slides in. The prophet opened the Book, he took the Book and he read it. I say tonight that I speak now from my heart you can do with this what you want, because I am not a prophet to prove what I am saying. But I believe by making a thorough comparison of the Word of God, the Seven Thunders have absolutely been uttered, according to what Bro. Branham said in Questions and Answers one hundred and twenty nine ...?... Then the Book has been read. And if the Book's been read, it’s been unsealed. And if it’s unsealed it’s amongst the people now. Waiting for the Dynamics of God to fall upon it and you are back to virgin seed, you'll be in that Rapture, because every seed has within itself its power of transformation. 52. I see a grubby old caterpillar, first of all he came out of an old egg, then he grew an old thing and began chopping and guzzling, mean little rascal as it were seen, and pretty soon he puts on a hide outside, but now after lying dormant for a while here where nature playing its part, here comes that old caterpillar, but there’s a metamorphosis, he transforms, because in the seed of that ugly little old thing, like a David, who lusted and committed adultery, and killed! Old Balak stand there said, “Balaam, come on down Balaam... there’s got to be something wrong with this bunch that God’s protecting and God's blessing, killing those lovely Egyptians before and taking them through the Red Sea. Come on around and seek up behind them, and look at their dirty parts. Find out about their little weaknesses are.” Old Balaam goes seeking up there go behind them and the power of God falls, said, “Hallelujah, I can’t say but wonderful, glory to God, it’s all of God!” That old caterpillar there, there’s the seed of transformation, bless God. That’s why Bro. Branham said, “Character is not what you think it is.” The out-word character by the grace of God is not the character of the last day; it’s the character of a woman who stands still to hear the Word of God until she washed in water by the Word! And fifty percent ...?.... Amen! I feel real religious right now! You are a real good bunch of people, I think I'll preach another hour and a half. 53. Well listen, the Word is revealed, It’s been restored, because God said He'd do it. Not only was the Word restored my brother my sister, as far as the Pauline doctrine was concerned, so that we know all those things whereby the reformers missed it, but we have the full revelation of Almighty God. Christ the mystery of God Revealed. Christ Revealed in His Own Word. Mighty God Unveiled. Serpent Seed. Bride Tree Restored. Spoken Word Original Seed, on down the line. Mighty absolute powerful Word of God given to the people; demonstrated as true. Here It is restored! Absolutely brought to the people filled, and yet tonight we stand in the same place, ‘be not deceived.’ Because he said, “Once I am off the field, there’s going to be a bumper crop of anointed ones at the end time come.” Oh my! 54. Now, let’s just take a look at these end time fellows, if you want to bear a little while? In 2 Corinthians 11, won’t take too long, it’s alright, I won’t be back for a while, at least, I got a feeling we might not be here Easter time, when the next meeting comes. I don’t know anything about those nineteen tapes Billy played, I don’t understand them… God never gave me any revelation on them at all that here is nineteen played and there’s nineteen not played. But today I suddenly discovered that the letter ‘S’ is the nineteen letter of the alphabet and those six doves formed the letter ‘S’ and one more tape to it. And we played the ‘Wings of a Snow White Dove’, it just felt like well, this come be the end, I am not saying it is, I don’t know, but it could be later than we think. You say, “You believe the Rapture then ...?... I believe the squeeze, brother/sister. When they close your doors, when the I.R.S. comes in, and everything goes blewy, see, sure. Tough job, who knows? See, its later than we think! 55. Now listen, Paul the apostle said here, verse 5, [2 Corinthians 11:] (5) For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles. There he was, humbling himself, he didn’t say he wasn’t the chief of the apostles, he was the chiefest apostle, but he puts himself down low, just like Bro. Branham did. (6) But though I be rude in speech, (Bro. Branham very rude in speech, but absolutely correct, ) yet not in knowledge... But, he said, "Maybe I say he told me, ‘A-men’ instead of ‘Aw-men’." He said, "Maybe I say, ‘empire’ instead of ‘umpire’." Kind of rude speech. But how about his knowledge? You better try and prove him wrong, see where you go. And he said, (6) ...(we've) been throughly made manifest (to you.) You mean to tell me that God would send a man that you have to depend upon and not be thoroughly manifest? Where the blind eyes that didn’t see who he was? You know what it was? It was old Simon standing there, he said, “Now, if this guy was a prophet, he'd know that little lady was a prostitute. Oh, he's such a fine man and she’s such a dirty dog! Oh, I am so great and so glorious and gorgeous!” And they crucified the very God they said they worshiped. They turned down the very one Person that could get them ready, to turn the hearts and renew the mind for the last time, to bring them to the last revival, to bring them to God! Hallelujah, because one day the Bride, she's got to bring forth that Christ. See? 56. Now listen, he was manifested, (7) Have I committed an offence in abasing myself (you) might be exalted... He sure did, so to speak. He made them all feel like big shots. Yep. My, they felt great, he came and he built up their churches, he brought the Oneness big churches, he brought the Threeness great big churches. He started this revival, so the Osborn’s and the Robert's and all the rest can go around the world, pedalling their dogmas and their creeds and their crud. Just put the two names there together spell’s crud! You know what that is? That the stuff that floats on garbage …?... Surely, I 'm not ashamed to say it, not afraid to say it either. Then listen, go on down the line, he said, “I will be …?... because I don’t love you?” And I stood up and said, “I have to take your ...?... denouncement. Is it because I didn’t love you?” And they made him a woman hater! They made him a mean censorious man. [highly critical] I heard a friend of mine say, and he said, “All the ranking and ...?... he said. Another man said, “That hypocrite that condemned people.” Boy, you talk about judgement day come in a hurry, brother/sister. It’s later than they think. It’s later than they think, and it’s more serious than they think. How could they see a man like that and not know there was something, see? 57. Now listen, verse 13. [2 Corinthians 11:] (13) For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. (14) And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. What is he doing? He’s taking the Word of God that he can use and he uses It to fool the people! And glory to God, he said, “I want to tell you people that I don’t heal the sick, it's God heals the sick, anybody knows about God heals the sick. Now, all these folks out here healing the sick...” So, therefore he said, “Now, you just telling me…” Said, “They are being healed, aren’t they? Well, that’s God isn’t it? Well, that's got to be God." Took the Word of God and diluted It and perverted It, and the power of God falling on them healing the sick and raising the dead. And he said, “That’s got to be God.” Sure that’s God, but the people aren’t God! That’s his ministers of angels of light! Teaching the Word of God and perverted It to the people and the people buying It! Yet, not one ever came in the Name of the Lord, with ‘Thus Saith the Lord’ except William Branham. 58. Now listen, he said, and their ministers are doing the same thing… (15) ...whose end shall be according to their works. You say, “Well now, just a minute, works, they sweet lovely people, and they do such nice things, and they say such nice things. And they are not like that mean old William Branham; that little short smart-aleck, stand up there with his old baldhead. And tell us pretty, pretty women with our high-heels and our lovely little sex appeal.” They were wrong, and then yeah, “Tell us men, we ain’t men and we put our woman down. What kind of a guy is he anyway? Jesus Christ liberated woman and now he wants us to run them down.” Prostitute floozies, and a bunch of cowardly men that shouldn’t be called ‘men’, God knows what they are, I don’t know. They may have muscles brawn ...?... I want to tell you what I saw one day, I went… Listen, I want to tell you about muscle and brawn too. I went to see a picture show, I went on purpose, because it was a... not a picture show, it was a travel log, what it was. And low and behold I didn’t know this was part of the film, but it sure grabbed my eye. And here were woman in Las Vegas, watching these great big cream puff like muscle men, parading up and down and ogling them. ...?... I thought men ogle woman, but here the stupid gals are ogling those men. Yet he just can’t believe what’s going on, and most of those men homosexuals. That’s right! God have pity on this age. And if the church endorsing it saying, “Well, it’s alright.” See? 59. Now listen, let’s go on with Paul, he said what these folks are like. See, too many folks even this day, are looking for a man to come in here with a machine-gun, see, or a blonde on one arm and a brunette on the other; in polygamy or, something, no, they come in with that Word just so pretty but, it’s perverted. Now listen; (16) (And) I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little. Now listen, let’s get the picture here, the nice-ie, nice, and everything else. (17) (This) which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting. (18) Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. (19) For (you) suffer fools gladly, seeing yourselves are (so) wise. Now, watch him pull the trick: (20) For (you) suffer, if a man bring you into bondage... 61. Now, he told about the apostles and the preachers and so on that are false. Now, he’s talking to the congregation. He said, “You suffer if a man bring you in bondage, why you got a real spirit of suffering on you.” You say, “Glory to God, if he hits me on this side, I'll turn this side. Hallelujah.” And if he said something evil, I'll say, “Thank you brother, God bless you, I think I must of dissevered it.” Oh, the people are so sweet, they got such a nice spirit, this is the pew now, not, not, not these birds I just laid low a minute ago. You know, my alter ego, like the bad guys, I want to be on the good side, I am talking about the pew now, you may quibble in on this. I run my side down I’m going to give you your side now you’re the pew. He said, “You in the pew, if a man bring you in bondage, you say, ‘well that’s alright, that’s alright'." He said, “If a man devour you, you take it.” "Well, he robbed me, yes, I believe that brother so and so, he came along and I know it’s wrong now, and he took everything I got, he bilked me, but you know I forgive him." But, that’s a nice spirit too, and you are so sweet about it, see. (20) ...if a man exalt himself... (come in and say, “I want to tell you, bless God, I got a great ministry tonight.”) You say, “Yes, I believe that’s right,” and you follow him right along. See? But you turn down the Word. 62. Here’s two groups of people, the preacher so sweet, they got the signs, the wonders the miracles, they got it all, and they come in, but the Word they haven’t got. Bro. Branham said, “Give them that Word test, they'll never go Word by Word, and line by line.” And here’s the pew, they're sweet, preacher bills them. Said, “Where were you last Sunday?” Said, that Oneness guy. “I was down at that Trinitarian church.” “You were?” “ Didn’t I tell you never go down there? Did you save your tithes by the way?” [laughter] You think I am not telling you the truth? Why sure it's true. I have been around, I have been around ...?... You don’t learn something in thirty-five years, forget it blow your brains out. We're intelligent creatures. I know what they do, but the people, “I am sorry sir, I am sorry.” You got a great spirit and you are going to hell. It’s right, he said it's right. The preacher can be sweet and nice and polite and gracious and everything you think he ought to be, and you can be the same way and miss it, because Paul said so right here. [Taps the Bible] He said, “Oh, my”, he said, “You let them take you. Though they slap you, you turn the other cheek. And if they take your goods, you say, ‘glory to God that’s fine'.” And so you should, but Bro. Branham said, “It’s not character. It’s not character, though you got to have that.” You got to be in the Word, or you won’t be transformed. 63. Now, he said, “Don’t be fooled!” You see how we can be fooled tonight? You see Matthew 24:24? The very Elect alone are not deceived. Now, It doesn’t even say ‘elect’, said, ‘very Elect’, very Elect. You come down to the fine line now, where there’s going to be little Bride that’s transformed right here on earth, to be caught up. She doesn’t die, but she gets the change that only death is supposed to give you. She gets it without death. The very Elect! And only they my brother, my sister, are not fooled. Now listen, what's the ‘Elect’? The word is ‘eck’ and ‘logos’. Those who come out by the Word. The veriest or the latest who come out by the Word. What Word? The unadulterated, absolutely fully revealed Almighty God, once and for all Word, she comes out by. And she’s the only one that’s not fooled, because she knows the secret of the Bible now. She knows the secret of the Word, she secret of the Ages, she goes back before the foundation of the ...?.... And she comes up where she’s once more back in, and the apostle Paul said, “Don’t be fooled!” Because, she could be. 64. Now listen, “It shall be Light about the evening time.” [Zech 4:17] And it’s when gross darkness covers the earth at this same time the Bible command is given, “Arise and shine for the light is come and the glory of God is risen upon thee.” [Isa 60:1] It’s a dark, dark time that the Word of God comes back to this earth. It’s an age of creeds and dogmas, where every table is full of vomit and there is not one, no, not one who can read the Book. Except the Author of that Book, Who comes down, that as the Spirit of God, by the spirit of the prophet, and the seven messengers that God sent, which are angelic, and the Pillar of Fire. In other words, God sees to throw His whole resource into this, and every qualified manifestation to prove this is ‘Thus Saith the Lord’. And this is it. See? Only the Bride receives the Light; if the darkness tries to stop It, but it cannot stop It. 65. Now is Leo the Lion, but most people do not know that the last sign of Leo coming is not merely Leo the Lion, see? It is Leo crushing a serpent; the sign of the Zodiac, in the end-time. This sign has been perverted by the Roman Catholic church. For they show a woman, not with her foot upon the snake, as though the woman was crushing the snake, which the woman doesn’t, it takes Christ to crush it, the serpent, but the woman is riding the serpent. Now, what is a serpent? He’s a beast! So, the full effect of world power is now of the devil by the woman church. And they show it, they prove it right in their religion and dogmas. But He's still Leo the Lion. And his paw is crushing the serpent, which to me is a picture of the descended Christ the Word, crushing the strangulation hold of the boa-constrictor demonic religions of creeds and dogmas upon the Bride and exposing fully what is antichrist. And brother/sister that’s where we are right today, until Leo comes, in flaming fire taking destruction, "and the righteous walk out upon his ashes; upon the ashes of the wicked." [Mal 4:3] But the Bible said tonight… and I took your time, I didn’t mean too, but these things happen. 66. Be not deceived, see, by vain words. Don’t be fooled, sure there’s God in those healings, sure there’s God those miracles, nobody said that the devil could heal the sick, he doesn’t, he can’t. I know that he can speak in tongues, but when it’s the Holy Ghost speaking in tongues, don’t call it the devil. It's best not to question the gifts, just say that God, that’s fine let it be. But brother/ sister the test is, the Word test. Don’t be deceived, don’t be deceived, somebody’s got to come; somebody’s got to come, according to Malachi 4:5-6. According to Revelation 10:7; according to Luke 17:26, the very ministry of Jesus Christ has got to come back upon this earth. And if you believe your prophet, (he his your prophet,) he’s that pastor, if you believe what he said, in the twenty-four elders, he said, “And Nazareth,” and dropped his voice said meaning, "Jeffersonville,” not Bethlehem. He wasn’t Jesus Christ, but it was in Nazareth where the ministry of God came forth, proving what He was. 67. So, in this town Jeffersonville, this became Nazareth, where the very ministry of "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today and forever," [Heb 13:8] came into absolutely unequivocal identified, vindicated manifested revelation, before the world. To know that Christ was once more amongst His people revealing Himself, as the Word, until one day that Seed will transform her into the revelation and manifestation of Jesus Christ before the world, and she'll be gone! Be not deceived by vain words! That’s the trap. I said, “That’s the trap!” You get it? That’s the trap! So simple, ...?... do a big thing and prove the point, He closed the Book. Said, “Satan, get behind Me.” [Mt 16:23] What did he say the showdown was? Mount Zion! What’s Mount Zion? It’s the Rapture! What’s your test tonight? Be not deceived by vain words! Did God stand behind this man’s word every time he said, “Thus Saith the Lord? ” He did, didn’t He? Do you know the Bible said that God will not stand behind anybody’s ‘Thus Saith the Lord’, unless it is God’s man with ‘Thus Saith the Lord’? 68. So what did he bring you? He brought you the Word! Is that right? Stay with the Word then. Brother/sister, the next moments, half hour there is, there will be the Table of the Lord, tonight. There'll be foot-washing, what will that mean to us tonight? Will it be identifying ourselves with the Word tonight? What was it that bleed and died for us? It was the Word. What came back upon the Bride? The Life of that Word! What is revelled amongst us ...?...? That same Word. What is He tonight? He’s that Word. I believe it's time, as Bro. Branham said, “Put everything to one side.” It’s the Word. Give them the Word test. And we stand tonight in the Word test is God, not as though we need one ounce of vindication, my brother, my sister, not that you and I need to raise any dead or perform any great miracles that may not be given to most of us to do that. We're going to stand with the Word. God bless you let’s just bow our heads in a word of prayer. Gracious and Eternal Father, we praise and thank You tonight for the love of the Lord Jesus Christ, shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost. For the Word of the Lord which has been given to us. O God, tonight, I know that we can say so many things that people can’t grasp them all, but Lord, I'm not worried about that, for I know that You said that You bring all things to our remembrance, whatever we needed to know. And Lord, tonight I'm counting on You to take what was said, O God, that I believed to be the best that I could, from the man that You sent to give it. Lord, I am standing on it I'm not going by feelings, if I went by feelings, Lord, I would run from the whole thing. I would just about have to, Lord, but, O God, I am standing in faith tonight. On a vindicated Word of God, because It was, standing in faith. Lord, let Your people be nailed down tonight into the foundation by that very Word, O God. Until that Capstone of Love, the Dynamics falls upon the mechanics and unto You shall we give You honor and the glory, because we ask it and praise it and love it, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Let No Man Deceive You - Page PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 1