Misunderstanding What God is Doing

Bro. Lee Vayle - March 14, 1971

	I'm glad to be back here with you, and I'll try to take a fairly short
service this morning, and then tonight. It's not always easy, sometimes
I am fortunate to being able to able to cut one sermon in two, if I can
find a good place to stop. It's like going down the road trying to find
a good restaurant. Believe me if you travel like I do, the hardest thing
to do it try to find is a good restaurant. Oh brother, a good motel is
not hard to find a place to lie down and forget it. It's like, you know,
church …?... But to find a good place to stop and eat is fantastic.
They just don't make them anymore.

	So, that's like these sermons. I don't plan them to…I don't plan any
sermons. I just start writing my notes. And then I quit, and I get
finished I got a sermon, just as simple as that. And so, I have no plan
to stop in the middle. (See?)  So, I'm kind of having a job stopping
now, unless I get preaching, we'll never get out of here.   

	Well I trust you're all been well, getting better, won't be long now
till the Resurrection. Not too long. And that's what Bro. Branham said,
"Be sure and get in the Resurrection." That's what counts.

1.	Well, a little study this morning now on 'Misunderstanding on What
God is Doing', so let's turn to the Book of Luke 24: (very simple
sermon, if you're used to rising and that's just fine by me. It'll give
us a chance to read the Word and then pray while we're standing. We're
going to start at verse 13. 

		(13) 	And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called 
					Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs.

		(14) 	And they talked together of all these things which had happened.

		(15) 	And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and 				
	reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them.

		(16) 	But their eyes were holden that they should not know him.

		(17) 	And he said unto them, What manner of communications are these 	
				that (you) have one to another, as (you) walk, and are sad?

		(18) 	And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said 				
	unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known 			
	the things which are come to pass there in these days?

		(19) 	And he said unto them, What things? And they said unto him, 				
	Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in 						deed
and word before God and all the people:

		(20) 	And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be
condemned 					to death, and have crucified him.

		(21) 	But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed
Israel: 					and beside all this, to day is the third day since these
things were done.

		(22) 	Yea, and certain women also of our company made us astonished, 	
				which were early at the sepulchre;

		(23)	 And when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they 	
				had also seen a vision of angels, which said that he was alive.

		(24) 	And certain of them which were with us went to the sepulchre,
and 					found it even so as the women had said: but him they saw not.

		(25) 	Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe
all 						that the prophets have spoken:

		(26) 	Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter
into 						his glory?

		(27)	And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto 		
			them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.

	Let's pray at this time:

	Heavenly Father, we ask you now to bless Thy Word, O God, knowing,
Lord, there is no other blessings that we  would look for in Thy Word
other than revelation of It to our hearts today. That we might be built
up in the faith which You Yourself have delivered unto us, O God. May we
be one mind and one heart and one soul as a Bride adorned for her
husband at this moment. We believe, Lord,  the wedding garment is ust
all in place even. But it is just waiting to see seen, O God. And the
faith of Your Bride is waiting to be manifested as to who really is
Bride. May we be in that this morning, Lord, fitly decked, and ready for
that moment of transportation.

	Now, Lord God, we believe that you'll anoint Your Word this morning,
because Your people are hungry for It. We desire, Lord, to be fed of the
Word of Life. So, bless each one we pray, Lord, let every understanding
be opened. May the words be simple, may there be a harmony and union on
It this morning, O God. And we'll be careful to give you the praise in
Jesus' Name, Lord, Amen. You may be seated. 

2.	Now, misunderstanding what God is doing in the Scripture I read this
morning, I believe is a perfect example of my subject. Now, in this
reading, and of course the Scripture previous to the reading, the
history of Christ on earth, we find that a most wonderful and awesome
thing has taken place. And yet it is not apprehended by the people at
all. They simply cannot grasp what has taken place in front of them in
their particular period of history. 

	Now, the story of the death of Christ by crucifixion is the very heart
of man's eternal destiny, because without the shedding of Blood, there
is no remission of sin. Jesus Christ types…became the antitype and the
fulfillment of every one of the law and ordinances laid down by God,
which foreshadowed the great sacrifice which would come into the world
in order to remove the sins of all the earth. 

3.	Now, we know that Israel understood in measure the sacrifice of
animals, and substitutionary offer unto Almighty God through blood. But
remember, God in His Word has stated that you cannot offer the blood of
a man to Him. You cannot offer human sacrifice, nor can you offer your
children, or anyone that goes through the fire, or in any way to serve
God by the offering of Himself. Now, of course they did not know and
understand how God would have accomplished Isaiah 53: which John the
Baptist declared would come into full manifestation. Because he said,
"Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world." [Jn
1:29] 

	Now, you see they would not accept a man being the lamb of God. They
couldn't do it. (See?) But remember, Israel never offered Jesus Christ.
God offered Him. (See?) Now, I know that by wicked hands they crucified
and killed Him, but it was not their idea, they see as a sacrifice. It
was their desire to eliminate Him in order to preserve the nation. But,
by this process God was able to institute His complete glory to the
wrath of man. Because He makes the wrath of man to praise Him, and the
remainder of wrath He does restrain.

4.	So, here this sacrifice that God had ordained, because remember, the
serpent was to bruise the heel, see, God had ordained this. And Israel
did not realize, (as Bro. Branham said) that when they were in the
temple, or singing the very Psalms, "they wounded my hands and my
feet,"[Ps 22:16b] here was the literal fulfillment of that very Psalm
and they saw the Mercy Seat brought into full view. Because the Mercy
Seat that Israel understood was the sacrifice, because they laid their
hands upon the animal and then God would remit their sins for that
particular time. And this was their Mercy Seat.

	But now, the Mercy Seat was brought into full view as the veil was rent
from top to bottom, and the rending of that veil showed exactly Who
Jesus Christ was. Now, of course we have the reigning of the veil the
same way today. But, the Mercy Seat was in full view. And here man…the
pivotal point of his eternal destiny stood right there. In other words,
from death to life, from mortality to immortality is by the Cross.  But,
they did not recognize It. (See?) 

	And here we speak that in the lips of these men as they went over the
story they did not under-stand it,  and actually the death by
crucifixion this great tremendous thing that God did in the Person of
Jesus Christ by offering Himself up for our sins. Because remember, He's
the great Mediator, He's the great Man of God, It was God manifest in
flesh. This was unheeded by most of the people. Now this is true, what
God was actually doing, what God had done was not heeded by the
majority. 

5.	Now, if you want to put this in terms of the whole world, you'd find
that you wouldn't have one percent of the whole world. And if you put it
in terms of Israel itself, I don’t suppose ten percent. (See?) It was
unheeded by most, and misunderstood by all. (A - double- l)

	There wasn't one person who understood what God was doing (see?) in
their day. Now, that's true. (See?) Now, His great sacrifice for their
sins was of no consequence to the majority. Now, notice that. His
sacrifice for sin was of no consequence to the majority. (See?) Now, we
got to learn certain things here, or we never get reconciled to the way
God does things. You go right back to being a dead fundamentalist, where
God's got to save everybody. You couldn't get a sovereign God, you
couldn't understand election. You don't understand a thing unless you
understand these little simple points. (See?) 

6.	Now, His great sacrifice for sin was of no consequence to the
majority, so they were believing in sacrifice for sin, and wanting what
only this could bring them. (See?) Yet they did not heed it,
because…it was of no consequence in their thinking.

	Now, I didn't say it was of no consequence. I said, to them it was of
no consequence in their thinking. It was of every consequence to them.
(Are you getting me this morning?) It was of every consequence to them.
But to their thinking it was of no consequence. (See?) This historical
tremendous pivotal point of history by event, was of no consequence to
them in their thinking. So, of course they lost all its value.  (See?) 

7.	Now, this is something like It says in Lamentation 1:12.

		(12) 	Is it nothing to you, all (you) that pass by? behold, and see if
there 						be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me,
where-						with the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce
anger.

	God's fierce anger against sin fell on Jesus Christ. (See?) But, it was
of no consequence. They deemed it of no importance, (see?) though it
was.

	Now, it was only after that this Scripture was fulfilled through His
death, and then revealed to the disciples that they understood it. It
was only after His death, and His Resurrection of course, that it was
revealed, and then by revelation they got it.

	Now notice, it was not enough to see the very Scripture fulfilled
before their eyes. (See?) The very Word of God was fulfilled before
their eyes, but they missed it. It was not enough, and it is never
enough for the Word of God to be filled, fulfilled, before our eyes. It
has to be explained, and then revealed. (See?) It's got to be. And
Israel did not have the explanation and revelation.

8.	Now, it's not enough to get an explanation. (See?) There's got to be
a revelation. It's not enough to see it, it's not enough to hear it,
you've got to have a spiritual enlightenment. Now, this is something
that so few people understand. And that is God fulfilling His Word
before them, and then explaining It to them, and then people still
missing It. Because there's hardly anybody who doesn't type after
Israel. And they say, "Well, don't tell me that if God did something
great major thing spiritually that I'd miss it. After all I'm a
Christian. I'm saved, I'm born again, I know the things of God. And
don't tell me that God could do something that I'd missed."

	Well now, you see how ridiculous that is? Israel was the only anointed
people of God. Now, many people have an idea that Israel is just a 'oh
wel', we could run them down and say, "Well that dirty bunch of immoral
and unspiritual, and this and that you know…"  Oh, you know, you can
run off with a mouth until you just show you don't even know what you're
talking about.

9.	Now, let's just find out what Israel's like in the sight of God.
Romans 9: will tell you what Israel had. 

		(4) 	Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the 				
	glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the 						
service of God, and the promises;

		(5) 	Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ
						came, …

	Now, if you had all that, you sure had something. Israel had everything
at their disposal that God had for anybody, and Israel was the only
anybody of all the anybodies, and everybody is a nobody but Israel. And
they missed It, lock, stock and barrel. And there wasn't one person who
understood It, not one. Ninety percent at least ignored It, they weren't
even aware of It. (See?) 

	God doing this great thing to His super sign, Christ the Super Sign and
missed by everybody. (See?) And people today say the same thing, they
say, "When I want to tell you if God were to do some great thing, well
just look back on the Cross, how great was the Cross?"  It was nothing
but the death of a rascal. An intruder into a spiritual existing former
religion. That's all they thought               I could be. A
malefactor, an illegitimate child. They said something, even anarchist.
That's all It meant to the people, His death by crucifixion was a
sideshow. They gambled for His garments, and there wasn't one person in
the whole crowd who know what it was all about. And they didn’t even
know as they walked down the road to Emmaus, they were staggered by what
had happened. Because they thought that this was a greater delusion 
than it had former. Because when Christ came they were deluded, they
felt they had been deluded by the 'Isra lic' religion, (there is in the
Hebrew) and now this was even worse. Because what they had put to one
side to accept this, and this went down the drain. (See?) So, they were
a very sad lot here.  

10.	Now, we see then God fulfilling His Word before them, and explaining
It to them and they still miss It without a revelation. This is exactly
what Jesus said in Matthew 16:13-18   

		(13) 	When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked 	
				his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?

		(14) 	And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, 		
			(Elijah); and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.

	Now, notice the various ideas they all had? Not one of them was
scriptural. They said, "This is so and so, we base it upon what we think
the Scripture teaches." Now:

		(15) 	He (said)…But whom (do you) say that I am?

		(16) 	And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son 
					of the living God.

		(17) 	And Jesus answered and said…Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: 	
				for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father 		
			which is in heaven.

	Now notice here, that Jesus said to this man Peter, "You did not get
this by yourself, you did not get this by one thing I talked to you
about. You did not get this by looking at Me and understanding the
Scripture, you got it only because God gave you a revelation. It wasn't
because you lived with me, it wasn't because you heard Me, it wasn't
because of what you saw. You got it, because it took the Spirit of God
and He gave it to you." (See?) And this is exactly the way it is. The
Bible said, "This is what the Church is built upon." 

11.	This is the membership of Christ. Not your tongues talking; not your
good feelings; not your emotions. No, you don't get it that way. You can
be stoney cold and be absolutely an Elect child of God, and prove it the
basis of the revelation. (See?) Already you know that if you're going to
put your chances on the line, (now let's watch my language, because I'm
very careful, people don't think I am, but I'm very careful) if you were
going to put your chances on the line, whether you are one of the Elect
or not, let's narrow it down. 

	Seven hundred million so called Christians in the world today, seven
hundred million and not twenty-five thousand say, "Wait a minute, take a
second look at this Message." You have now narrowed your chances of
being one of the Elect, out of twenty-five thousand over seven million. 
..?... let's just take a look and get this down to zero. Alright,
twenty-five thousand over seven million and that's…we got six here, we
got six here, we got twenty-five over seven thousand, make that
seventy-five. You got one out of about three hundred. Something like
that. (See?) 

	Now, that's not bad, but let's consider there are not even twenty-five
thousand. (See?) And where does that put you? That puts you into one
category alone, and it's got to be a revelation. Because the Bible
states that the Kingdom is made up on nothing but those who have a
revelation. And people miss it in total in the day of Jesus Christ, and
where does that put us at the Second Coming of Jesus Christ? (See?)
People miss this truth. Now, Jesus had to keep this constantly before
the people. (See?) He had to keep it constantly before the people (see?)
that it took a revelation.

12.	Now, let's take a look at the Book of Luke 4:16-20  

		(16) 	And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, 				
	as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath 						day,
and stood up for to read.

		(17)	And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. 
					And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it 					
was written,

		(18) 	The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me
to 						preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the
broken-						hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, (the)
recovering of 						sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are
bruised,

		(19) 	To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

		(20) 	And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister,
and 						sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue
were 					fastened on him.

		(21) 	And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture
fulfilled 						in your ears.

		(22) 	And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words
which 					proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this
Joseph's son?

	Now, you will notice that Jesus picked up this Book and He said, "I am
that Word of prophecy spoken here in Isaiah standing before your very
eyes." (See?) He explained Who He was. He said, "I am Isaiah 62: I am
the Word of God in human flesh standing right before you. I am this Word
that the prophet spoke and now you see It. Now, (He said) you've seen Me
do My miracles. You've seen Me raise the dead, you have watched My
ministry, and yet you missed It. Now, I'm explaining it to you and
showing you."  

	And they still missed It, because they said simply, "Are not these
gracious words?"

	There was no enlightenment, there was not revelation, all it was, was
the gracious ministry and gracious words. And how many people today do
you find that saw William Branham, who saw his great ministry and that's
all they heard were gracious words and said, "Well, he was a very fine
man."

13.	 Now remember, Nicodemus came to Jesus by night. And he was a man
also who had known a few things of Almighty God. And as he stood before
Jesus, he said, "We know Rabbi, that you are a man sent from God,
because nobody can do the things that You do, except God be with him."
[Jn 3:2] Now, he was confused, because he saw what only God could do,
because in the words of a man would not do what the Words of this man
would doing. And he saw a man saying it, but he knew the man couldn't do
it. He said, "I'm looking at a man, but I'm seeing only what God can do
by way of manifestation in Your ministry."

	And Jesus said, "Nicodemus, a man must be born again to see the Kingdom
of God." [Jn 3:5] There is absolutely no revelation granted to any man,
unless that revelation comes by God through the Holy Ghost. You just
never get it, it has got to be inspired by the Holy Spirit, and that's
the way that God has laid it out. 

14.	Jesus fulfilled John 1:1-3. The Scripture says: 

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

		(2) 	The same was in the beginning with God.

		(3) 	All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing 		
			made that was made.

	And then It says:

		(14)	And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld 	
			his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of 
					grace and truth.

	And what happened? That's what they beheld. They beheld the glory. They
saw the manifestation, but they did not have the revelation. (See?)
Christ was that Word revealed in human flesh. And after explaining It,
they still did not get it. They fell short, because there was not
revelation.

	Now, notice John the Baptist, he explained the very Word of God that
was being manifested in his day right before their very eyes. Over here
in John 1: (same Book, same chapter) 22:24  

		(22) 	Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an 					
answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?

		(23) 	He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make 		
			straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.

15.	And so you notice here that John the Baptist said, "I am the very
Word of God fulfilled before you." He said, "I am Isaiah 40:3. I am
Malachi 3:"  He said, "I am the Word of God in human flesh right before
your very eyes." Now, many people don't understand that. They find it
hard to realize that God does that. But what is the difference between
God saying, "Let there be light, and there's light?"  And Almighty God
saying…calling upon a messenger of the Lord, like John the Baptist
was. Or saying, "The voice of one crying." Nobody knew what that was.
They didn't understand it. (See?) 

	And they said, "Who are you?"

	And he said, "I am that part of the Word of God in Isaiah wherein the
Holy Spirit wrote to Isaiah, "the voice of one crying, make straight the
way of the Lord. Bring those high places down, bring those low places
up, (he said) make that the way I demand it." Now, he said, "I am that
very person." But you know what, they didn't believe that. There was
not\ revelation, they could not get it.

16.	Notice what Jesus said about John the Baptist in the Book of Matthew
11:10-11. Jesus said:

		(10) 	…this is he, (John the Baptist) of whom it is written, Behold,
I send 					my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way
before 						(me.)

		(11) 	Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there 	
				hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he 	
				that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

	Jesus said the very same thing. He said, "You know who this is?" He
said, "This is the very Word of God fulfilled before your eyes, It is
the Word of God revealed in human flesh."

	Now, how clear this makes to us this morning what the prophet taught
us, when He said God is His Own interpreter. He interprets His Word by
bringing It to pass. He brings it into manifestation, and this is the
way that  God does things. But when He does it, who gets it? (See?) Who
listens? Who sees it? Who understands? God interpreters His Word by
fulfilling It. The fulfillment was manifested before the people, but
even they failed to realize that the Word was being fulfilled. (See?)
There was no revelation to It. The Word of God will blind the eyes of
one, and open the eyes of the other. (See?) 

17.	A little woman was down there at the well, she been unfortunate, had
many husbands, she was living in sin. 

	And Jesus said, "Call your husband."

	She said, "I don' t have one."

	He said, "That's true, you've had five, and the one you got now is not
your husband."

	She said, "I perceive You're a prophet."  (See?)  

	You talk to a fellow today and he'd say, "What kind of a big nose snoop
are you anyway? It's fine behind my back, look up my credit reference."
He said, the last guy telling me how many boyfriends    I had."

	They wouldn't, there was nothing there at all, this woman right away
said, "You got to be a prophet."    

	One would have said, "You've got ESP, you're a fortuneteller, you're  a
spiritist."

	But, she said, "You got to be a prophet." Then she said, "When Messiah
comes He's going to do that very thing." And you see, she knew that. And
how did she know when the Pharisees didn't know? She had a revelation.
There's something different about her. The Light struck her. She had a
revelation. 

	He said, "I am He." 

	And she right away ran, drop the water pot, and began calling everybody
to see Him.

18.	Jesus went down to Simon's house, (the Pharisee) a woman came in
there she was evidently a woman of ill fame, and when she stood in the
Presence of Jesus, she became convicted, she began crying and sobbing,
and she felt so embarrassed. And she knelt at His feet, washed His feet
with her tears, and she tried to wipe His feet, she got so confused, she
used the very hair of her head.

	And old Simon he began snorting inside of himself. "Now, (he said) if
that guy was really a prophet  He'd know what kind of thing she was."

	He looked up and said, "I know all about her and know all about you
too." Said, "You're worse rascal then she is." 

	Him sitting there sneering, missing the whole thing. And that little
bit of light he had turned to complete darkness. Wherein in both cases
of those women, their great darkness  became complete light, (See?)
Because there was a revelation.

 	Now, many people think, and here is where they go wrong today. They
never learned from the Bible. Now, the Bible says Itself that everything
in here concerning the historical events of mankind, God dealing with
them, (good or bad) are there for example, and you're to learn from it.
But, man today never learns this. And he said, "Well, I'll tell you,
something like that could not happen today." No sir. They say, "After
all we got the Word of God, and we're Christians, we know our Bibles.
And I want to tell you if God were to do a certain thing today,
according to the Word of God, I believe            I would know." (See?)
"It would come to me, I'm sure I would get It." Now, this is not so.    

19.	Let's go to the Scripture now and show that this thing has been
happening all during the Ages, and people are unaware of it. We go to
Revelation 3:1-6  (And we'll use the Book of Revelation, because that's
the prophecy of God for the Church Ages.) 

		(1) 	…unto the (messenger) of the church in Sardis write; These
things 						saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven
stars; 						(now, that's Jesus Christ) I know thy works, that thou hast
a name 						that thou livest, and art dead.

		(2) 	Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are
ready 					to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.

		(3) 	Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold 			
		fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on 		
			thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon		
			 thee.

		(4) 	Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their
						garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are
worthy.

		(5) 	He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment;
and 					I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, I will
confess his 					name before my Father, and before his angels.

	Now, of course you can tell then Who this was in verse 1, It's the Lord
Jesus Christ.  

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

20.	Now, to understand this verse of Scripture we have got to read
chapter 2:20-24, (this of course is the Thyatrian Age.)

		(20) 	Notwithstanding now I have a few things against thee, because 		
			thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which (calls) herself a 						
prophetess to teach and to seduce my servants to commit 						
fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.

		(21) 	And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she 					
	repented not.

		(22) 	Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit
adultery 						with her into great tribulation, except they repent of
their deeds.

		(23) 	And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches
shall 						know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and
I will 						give unto every one of you according to your works.

	Notice that the prediction here at the end time, monstrous end time
church when they'll all be in it. They'll all be in it, right there. All
the churches will know the end time ecumenical move. (See?) All will be
in it, all poured into one. All Seven Church Ages, churches poured into
the last Church Age, they'll all be one. Your brindle horse. Remember,
your white horse rider, turns to red, and it turns to black, and then it
turns to all colors. The Bible calls it 'brindle'. Bro. Branham said,
"It's all poured into one." He didn't know one Word of the Greek. When
you get the white, the black and the red poured into one horse, it's a
brindle. That's exactly what the Greek says, a brindle horse. It doesn't
call it …?... that's the wrong translation, it's brindle. The brindle
horse now at the end time. (See?) Now, 

		(24)	But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as
have 						not this doctrine, and have not known the depths of Satan, as
they 						speak; I will put upon you none other burden (upon you.) 

	Now, there is no student of history but know that this is the dark
ages. And this dark age was brought about by Roman Catholicism, because
they destroyed every enlighten scholar, and tempted to destroy any kind
of light whatsoever. This is the 'Dark Ages'. Everybody knows it, there
is no doubt about it. Now, in history the next stage that followed came
under Luther and is called 'The Reformation'. Now, how come the scholars
of history called the reformation? Because that's what it is. That's
what it is. It's the Age of Reformation. 

21.	Now, let's look at these verses here in [Revelation] 3:2-5,   

		(2) 	Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are
ready 					to die:… (See?) 

	In other words, the dark ages brought about an almost complete collapse
of everything that was worthwhile. There was hardly a thing left in this
world. In other words, it was ready to be in such conditions that God
could have come down and destroyed every single solitary thing, as He
did before Genesis 1:2. When God began moving upon the face of the deep,
which was already chaotic. So, in the beginning, way, way back there
sometime, as Isaiah said, "God did not make anything vain and void."
[Isa 45:18] 

	Now, Satan must have come down to this earth, as most student believe
that he did, and then God had to judge it. And He let the whole earth be
covered by water, till there was nothing there. There wasn't an animal,
there wasn't a single solitary thing there in a living form. Now, there
must have been seed there, because God did not have to re-plant when He
divided the waters, He just said, "Let the earth bring forth." (See?) 
Because it was waw there.  

22.	Now, most students agree that this must have been a place where
Satan came down and took over completely, so God just wiped it out. Now,
that's what this looks like right here. This would have brought about
the end time destruction, (see?) of Laodicea where God says, "I'll
destroy utterly, unless I do something to just take away my wrath.

	Now, this is the dark ages, a most terrible wicked era, and it lasted
the longest. This is a long period. Then It says here, "Strengthen that
which remains that's ready to die." (Now, notice what It says,) "I have
not found thy works perfect before God."  [Rev  3:2]

	Now, because you and I have an understanding of perfection which is
contrary to the Bible teaching,  we think, "well, this fellow here he
didn’t get very far." This Church Age, they just didn't have something
by way of a good spirit, and a good conduct, but that's not what the
Greek says. The Greek word here is not finished. Your works are not
finished.

 	Now notice, strengthen…God said, "Start over, (start over now)
because I’m beginning to pump life back. I'm going start
putting…strength in here, and you won't finish it." (See?) Now, that's
reformation. Under Luther God started by reformation the long trail back
to restoration. And it came under this great man Luther, who sowed the
potential seed of restoration by preaching justification, "the just
shall live by faith." [Rom 1:17b] Justification, sanctification,
baptism, restoration. It went down in fours, it comes back in fours,
(see?) at the very end time. Now, it was the seed sown that would
culminate in Elijah, "turning the hearts of the children, back to the
faith of the fathers. "           [Mal 4:6]

24. Now, let's ask this question: Were the Roman Catholic's aware of who
Luther was? No sir. Had they known who he was they would have kept him
within the church, (sure) and try to use him. See, they didn’t know
who he was. Just like Israel, Israel never knew Who Jesus was. (See?)
And you got the very same thing here, when the Word of God was fulfilled
way back there (you know) in the time of Luther, he could have stood
before the people and say, "I am that Word of God spoken by John the
revelator, of a messenger who would plan the seed of justification, who
would add a little strength to keep this whole thing from dying." 
Because it would have.

	If God had not brought reformation that started restoration, there is
only one thing that He could have done was destroy the whole thing,
because it was already on its way out. (See?) And he could of stood and
said, "I am that one of whom It is written the messenger to the Fifth
Church Age." (See?) "I am that one spoken of here of the few names that
I'm literally pastor to." He was a messenger too. And you know what?
They wouldn't have believed him. They could not have believed, and the
Catholic church wouldn't believe him, and the people round about didn't
believe him. And you know something? I don't believe that even Luther
was aware of who he was, and what he was doing, except I know he must
have had a sense of destiny. Because no man can be a messenger in a
Church Age and not have a great sense of destiny, where God and the
things of God literally spring from that person, and emanate from that
person and revolve around that person. Now, that's an awful statement
brother/sister, but it's the truth. 

25. That's the kind of statement that people hate, because they do. 
"Well, I've got some too, what do you think of me?"  I don't think
nothing of you. I'm sorry you asked the question. That's right. The
Bible says, "You've got to hear the voice of this man, to hear the Voice
of God." Didn't say two men, didn't say three, didn't say four. It says,
"I'm just a messenger." And in every Age he taught unto the messenger.
Then He said, "He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit said."
But the Spirit talked to the messenger, so you get it second handed.

	Anybody thinks he gets his own revelation, forget him right there, he
done shot his wad. It's got to be basic, then God reveals to him as he
hears the Message. Then God makes it line upon line, and Word upon Word.
But you've got to know the truth, and the truth can only come by the
messenger. (See?) Exactly what the Bible teaches, you can't get away
from it. Now, I could take about an hour on that and just trace it
through for you, but we won't do it, because I know you're aware of it. 

26.	Now then, history will fulfill before their very eyes. The Word of
God was manifested and interpreted through the manifestation. God
interpreted His Word by fulfilling It. But notice, you don't get It by
seeing It. You don't get It by explanation. No man can teach you. That's
why John said, "You don't need any man to teach you." [1 Jn 1:27] I
would he would have said it plainly. Well, you know how those men are
when they're so sweet and gentle. John building the fellow up at one
time, and putting the error over here in the corner. To me it seems
sometimes you need a blunt old guy like Paul, just hammer down. He might
as well have said, "There's nobody can teach us, so forget it." It's a
revelation. So, that doesn't mean that you're not supposed to listen.
You're supposed to listen. (See?) 

	Now, history moves on. And notice verse 7, of [Revelation] 3:

		(7) 	And to the (messenger) of the church in Philadelphia write; These
						things saith he that is holy,…

	Notice now, the doctrine of holiness is coming on the scene. (See?)
Over here He said,   

		(8) 	I know (your) works:…

	They came out of a works program, which was filthy works, (see?) to
come into justification starting the widespread theme of "the just shall
live by faith." Now, holiness, 

		(7)	…he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that 
(opens), 						and no man (shuts) and (shuts), and no man (opens and so
on.)

	Now, right here we see another great move of God in the Sixth Church
Age. And Wesley could have stood before that same group, and he could
have said, "I am that Word of God spoken to you by John, which is now
revealed in human flesh. And it would have been the exact truth. Why?
Because  God spoke of a man. 	

27.	Now listen, a lot of folk can accept this fact. Say, "Well, you know
God said Israel is going to back to Palestine." Oh hallelujah, they're
back in Palestine. They accept that event. (See?) they'll accept that
event. But you let a man say,  "I am the Word of God revealed in human
flesh." They say, "Now, hold it right there bud." (See?) Why? Because
that's a very strange thing to say. And yet, is it not? What about the
fact that God said, "My shepherd Cyrus," [Isa 44:28] four hundred years
before Cyrus was born. He called him by name.

	Then what was Cyrus? Cyrus was the actual Word of God manifest. Now,
that doesn't make him any big shot, but it sure puts him in the place of
election. Because there couldn't be one single person in the mind of God
who didn't become in His day the revelation of that thought, which is
the Word in that particular era. That's why every child of God is a
Spoken Word, that's a true Spoken Word child of God. Because original
seed is Spoken Word. And that thought has to come into manifestation.

	Now, there's where people quail, they'll take the Word, but they won't
take the reality when the Word becomes flesh. And if the Word doesn't
become flesh, then the flesh can't become Word. (See?) You understand,
that's election. If you weren't Word in the first place to become flesh,
you'll never become Word. Because you got to go back to what you were.
(See?) 

38.	 So Wesley could have stood and said, "I am that Word of God." What
Word of God? Not 'the Word of God', that 'Word of God'. Christ is the
Word of God, this is that Word of God, that messenger. (See?) Because
remember, we were all in Him. But we are not 'He'. We're all a part of
Him. (See?)  

	Now, he [Wesley] said, "I am that part of part of that Word, and here I
stand as a messenger to the Philadelphian Church Age. Now, he never said
it, but he could have said it. And if he had said it, they would have
denied him. Why? Because he also was a part leading to restoration.
(See?) Because you cannot have restoration until you have first of all
justification, and sanctification, and baptism going on into it.

39.	Now, let's look at the story of this truth in the Book of Mark
4:26-29

		(26) 	And (Jesus) said, So is the kingdom of God,…

  	Now look what He said the Kingdom of God is like. Now, what is the
Kingdom of God? The Kingdom of God is actually the Millennial reign of
the Lord Jesus Christ. It's what it is. That's the part we're interested
in. It has other facets, but this is it. Now, here It is:

		(26)	…as if a man should cast seed into the ground;

		(27) 	And (the man) should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed
						should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.

	In other words, it's a natural process, the Kingdom of God we're coming
in the Millennium, is just like the natural process of sowing wheat.
Now:

		(28) 	…the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade,
then the 						ear, after that the full corn in the ear.

	In other words, if you have got decent ground, and you have got seed
it's going to have a harvest. God guaranteed it. And God guaranteed the
sowing of this Word would bring a harvest. And the harvest is human
beings.

40.	Now, notice He said here,  

		(28)	… first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn (of)
the ear.

		(29) 	But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he (puts) in
the 						sickle, because the harvest is come.

	Now, here we see what's going on, we're going right to restoration. The
seed of which that fell in the ground and died,  came up with a sprout
of 'justification', went on to the tassel, 'sanctification', to a
manifestation in the ear, Pentecostal doctrine, a dogma, a restoration
of gifts. And then at the end time there has got to be a fruit. And when
restoration is complete, that means the little berries that formed in
the shell at the top, and God has a harvest. (See?) Now, we're right in
that at this end.

	Now, time keeps moving on. The plant is growing up for the harvest for
the Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ which is His Kingdom. And the Word
of God to the Gentiles is to be interpreted by manifestation for the
very last time. (See?)  Now, you can't stop it, it'll be like that plant
growing there, people won't understand it, but it just keeps coming up.

41.	Now, at the end time it's over here in the Book of Revelation (again
in chapter) 3:14, It says:

		(14) 	And unto the angel (the messenger, which is in) the church of
the 						Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, …

	Amen, who's the Amen? Jesus. What's Amen? Omega. What is Omega? Omega
is Alpha. Right at the end here.

		(14)	…the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation
of 						God;

		(15) 	I know thy works,…(and so on.)

	Now, God cannot change, He repeats everything He does. People don't
believe that, but it's true.   The Bible tells us I think it's…(there
might be I guess it could be Ecclesiastes, I'm not quite sure now) He
says, "Whatsoever God doeth, He doeth it forever. And no man can add to
It, and no man can take from It, because God doeth it." [Eccl 3:14] 
(See?) God repeats, what He did the first time, He'll do the second
time, the third time, the fourth time. Or as Bro. Branham said, "If He
has to change it, He made a mistake the first time." Can't do it. (See?)
It's perfect. You just see that old plant coming up. It's the same
plant, it's in different stages. (See?) And every stage has a different
manifestation, but it's the same life. (See?) And whatever was in that
seed, is the potential at the very end. (See?) But each stage is
different.  

	You can't call the stalk the tassels, the tassel you can't call it
that. Nor can you call the chaff, those little stamen the tassels. And
neither can you call the wheat the chaff, yet it's that same light
coming up and its manifested, (see?) God keeps manifesting it, and
people keep missing it. Because they don't understand it.

 	Now, at this end time God is going to do the same thing He's always
done. He's going to bring           a messenger, and they're going to
miss It. They won't recognize It, they won't understand It. The
Catholic's didn't understand Luther. The Lutherans didn't understand
Wesley. The Wesley's didn't understand Pentecostals, and the
Pentecostal's won't understand restoration. They'll see It, but they
won't believe It. They can't do it..		

42.	So, this is our day and make no mistake about it. Why? See, because
Israel is back in the home land. Now,  what's that got to do with it?
God everything to do with it. Let's go to Romans 11:15,  and we're going
to see It.  

		(15)	 For if the casting away of (Israel) be the reconciling of the
world, 						(the Gentiles) what shall the receiving of (Israel), but
life from the 						dead?

	Now, don't get confused here and let your minds go whack with your own
thinking. Because your own thinking will say, "Well, life from the dead,
that means God is going to take Israel back from the dead."  Israel
didn't die in the first place. Israel was blinded. Blind man is not a
dead man. So, don't get confused. It tells you in verse 25, don’t be
ignorant in your own understanding, your own conceit. Blindness in part
has happened to Israel until the Gentiles, (the fullness of the
Gentiles) be come in, but until the last Gentile is brought into the
Bride. Blindness, not dead. (See?) 

	Now therefore, when God brings the in the Gentiles, (the Seven Church
Ages is over, we're talking now in terms of the Bride, not the rest of
them, they go right on. We're talking now of the Bride, (see?) the very
end time) and It says, "This is the time that God turns to Israel, and
Israel cannot be turned to 'till she's in the homeland." Only grace God
gives to Israel. Look it, you don't believe that. What did God allow
down in Egypt? Just took His hands off and then they had a terrible
time. They never had a prophet down there. God had to take Moses out,
then take him back as a prophet, bring out the people and then talk to
them.  God cannot deal with Israel as a nation, because they're a
nation. Remember, they're the flesh. (See?) Can't deal with them, except
in the homeland.

43.	Now then, he says here God will open Israel's eyes at what time?
When there's life from the dead. Now what's life from the dead?
Resurrection. What's Resurrection? It's the harvesting of the wheat bud.
(See?) So, we'll know at the end time there has got to be a messenger
come to us, because the last Church Age is the Laodicean Church Age, the
Seventh Church Age, and there's no more, it all runs out. Now, you know
it's run out when you see Israel in the homeland, and we're ready for a
resurrection. Why? Because the fullness of Gentiles is over, so there's
got to be a resurrection.

	Now, we're going to have a prophet. We now ask a question when God
interprets His Word for the last time by manifesting It into
fulfillment, will the people recognize It? Will they know the Word of
God is being fulfilled before their eyes? And the answer is, no! They
won't know It. They won't know It. They'll look at It, and they won't
know It. (See?) 

	Now, let us think upon the Word that God said He would do…the verse,
the Scripture. Think upon the Word, and think what God chose would
happen in this day. He said He would send us a messenger. That's
promised. Every Age has one, you can't do without it. (See?) Now, only
history can tell us, or give us an idea when those periods fell. But
remember, there comes a day when history won't work, because there's no
more history. (See?) 

	Remember, in the time of Noah, and the Bible said that the day of Noah
has to repeat. So therefore, God has got to send the man that's a
prophet to get whatever must be got ready to miss the flood, which is
the fire. Can't help it. He's got to send a messenger. (See?) There's no
doubt in our minds.

45.	Now, what is that messenger? That messenger is Revelation 10:7

		(7) 	…in the days of the voice of the seventh (messenger), when he 	
				shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, (that's
					consummated and perfected) as (God) hath declared to his servants 	
			the prophets.

	Now notice, He said to Luther, "Your works are not perfect." But this
fellow's works are perfect. So, what Luther started, this guy finishes.
(See?) That's right, what came into reformation, closes here. Now
listen, It says, "As God has declared." That word 'declare' is announce
the Good News of the Gospel. So, what's going to finish? The mystery,
Christ in the Gospel. Christ the Word to the Gentile church; runs its
full and absolute course. When? At this day. How? By a people on earth
who are the exact replica of the one that went in the ground. The wheat.
The wheat in many forms is nothing but the original bud. Wouldn't it be
something if I had planted an original wheat seed? 

	I got fooled once. And I sent away and got seeds to flower. (See?) And
you know …?... I planted those seeds and they come up, and I said,
"Now that looks kind of strange, I don't think that's even …?.. And
you know what happened?  When it bore through I really knew. It wasn't a
pretty smell in the whole bunch,  some stupid thing you ever saw.  I
never got the original seed back. Why? Because it couldn't produce. That
plant could not produce it. Now, if it's an original seed, that plant
has got to produce what went down.

46.	Now, in all these Ages, it couldn't do it. (See?) But, at the end
time when the mystery of God, Christ the Word runs Its full course,
(see?) the message in every Age He's got to bring back to us the
original. And we're going to have that.

	Now, this tells us here then it's in the days of the Seven Church Age
messenger. Not his life on earth, but his Message that's there's going
to be a resurrection, because the Word has run Its course. And when It
runs Its course there's only one thing to do, and that's to harvest it,
and put it back in the granary just like It says in the Book of Mark,
immediately. "put us in the sickle." [Mk 4:29]

	Now actually, It doesn't say he actually puts in a sickle. What happens
it there, that immediately when it takes place it's an automatic process
through the message, that it just…everything just carries on…

47.	Now notice also with this In Malachi 4:5-6

		(50 	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…children, (back) to their
fathers, 					lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

	Now notice, that Christ when He guarantees to take the wheat in the
garner, He guarantees to take the chaff in a fire. Right? Alright, so
therefore, if there is going to be a wheat bud, (the wheat berry) put
into the granary, there has got to be then a fire falling. So therefore,
this prophet comes as the wheat in order for the wheat to he garnered,
and then when He's gone the fire can fall. [blank spot on tape] (See?)
There's got to be that one. 

48.	Now, notice also, It says in Matthew 17:11

		(11) 	…Jesus (said) …(Elijah will) come, and restore all things.

	Now, when is He going to come? He is going to come before the
Millennial Kingdom is set up, which is made up of glorified human
beings. There has got to be a resurrection to put a Kingdom on this
earth. So, Elijah has got to come when? He has got to come in the
Seventh Church Age.

	Now remember, there is one messenger to every Age. So therefore, Elijah
of Malachi 4: and of Matthew 17: is identified with Revelation 10:7, the
one and same person. There is no place for any messenger has assistance.
Paul said, "What came the Word of God unto you only, or did It come out
of you?" [1 Cor 14:36]  Did he say, "I give Timothy credit?" He never
even give Peter credit. He said, "When I got my revelation, and I am the
apostle to the Gentiles, and the rest of those men recognize it, (he
said) I am that one with the revelation, and I alone have it." Now, you
don't have two men in any Age. You don't have even a one and a half.
There's one. One person, and nobody else in each Age.

49.	Now, let's go to Acts 3: (we won't take too much on Act 3, because
this is a most fabulous portion of Scripture.)

		(20) 	And (God) shall send Jesus Christ, which (was appointed) unto
you:

	Now, that word would be 'before preached' is not right. If you got a
pencil, mark it out of your Bible, and put "was appointed unto you."
(See?) Because this is predestination according to the Book of Acts 4:,
where It mentions how that God, (their prayer, their great prayer there)
where It says, "The determined counsel of Almighty God." [Acts 4:28]
Now, let's read on though.

		(21) 	Whom the heaven...(whom what? Jesus) must (be retained.)…

	 Not received, it's retained, boxed in, Heads-up, can't come down,
shackled, manacled. See, He can't come. I said He can't come. See,
people read this Bible and they don't even know what they're talking
about. It skims over their heads. You don't skim nothing over your head.
It says: 

		(21)	...(Jesus cannot come) until the times of (restoration) of all
things, 						which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy
prophets since 					the world began.

	In other words, It tells you right here there is no prophet beginning
in the Garden of Eden. (Right?) And remember, who is the first Prophet
and only prophet?  God, is the first and only Prophet. Right? Men aren't
prophets, they are only given that designation identified with God. God
is the Prophet. 

50.	 Now, what is the first thing that any prophet ever said about a
restoration? He told you that this woman would have a Seed, and that
Seed would bruise the serpent's head. And you know that's exactly what's
going to happen. Because that Word is plural. And every Seed was in
Christ, and when He comes back to this earth with His Own Elect, they're
going to take over. (See?) 

	Now, It says, "Every prophet." In other words, the Bible is a
continuous record of restoration.  It's going to come when? At the very
end time. Every prophet looked forward to it. In other words, they have
not one Book in this Bible that we can read and not find something that
refers to this end.

51.	Now, It says here: [Acts 3:]

		(22) 	For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord
your 					God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him
shall 						(you) hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.

		(23) 	And it shall come to pass, that every soul, (that) will not hear
that 						prophet, (will) be destroyed from among the people.

	Now, when Jesus was here on earth, the people were not destroyed for
not listening. They weren't. So therefore, there has got to come a
prophet like unto Moses. And if they don't hear him, they will be
destroyed, and this one has to bring restoration. Because that's what
the Bible said It'll do. What will He do? He'll restore all things
spoken by the mouth of all the holy prophets.

	Now, what was given by the mouths of the prophets? The Word of God was.
It's going to be a restoration. It's going to be a beautiful fulfillment
of God's Word. Now, God said that He would send a prophet, there's no
doubt about it. And His Coming would have exactly the same effect with
the people as is recorded in the Word.

52.	Now, let's go and find out what the Word says about God sending
prophets. Matthew 23:37-39

		(37) 	O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and
stonest 						them which are sent unto thee,(see?)  how often would I
have 						gathered thy children together, even as a hen (gathers) her
chickens 					under her wings, and ye would not!

		(38) 	Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. (See, now:)

		(39) 	For I say unto you, (You) shall not see me henceforth, till
(you) 						shall say, Blessed is he that (comes) in the name of the
Lord.

	In other words, they're going to say, "God send somebody, and I don't
care if it's a red herring, or a blue duck, we'll take it." That's
exactly what they're going to have to face. That's right. God's going to
reduce him right down to little…the smallest part of your eyeball,
just a 144,000. They're going to start screaming. They're going to throw
everything they've ever learned to the wind, except their faith. They're
going to have to, because He said right here. He said, "He won't come
until you say, 'Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord'."
They turned down Jesus, they turned down everyone God ever sent them. 
God said, "How often would I have gathered thy children together?" But
He said, "You would not, I sent you prophet."

53.	Then how does God gather His people? He gathers them by the Word.
Always, He gathers them by the Word. But, at the end time when they turn
It down, (especially the end time messenger of the Seventh Church) the
Gentiles are all over. They can pray anyway they want to pray. God
already sent them a man, they turned him down. But with Israel it's
different. (See?) A 144,000 standing there. Do you think they believe
those two messengers all the way, Elijah and Moses when they come back?
No, they can't. So, they're still standing there. And He said, "You
won't see Me, (He said) until you're ready to."

	Just like Joseph's brethren when they were starving and they said,
"God, we'll do anything, go any place, and we don’t care how it
happens as long as it happens, give us food, don't let us die." And
that's just as I see the Bible, Israel is going to do the same thing.
(See?) They're going to be screaming for God to help in the day of
vengeance. And suddenly that Flame of Fire, the Pillar of Fire, they'll
say, "There's our God, He'll save us, yeah." But you see, they'll be
brought right down to just to 144,000. What a terrible day is coming on
this earth. (See?) 

54.	Now, we can see from this, (from what we studied by Scripture) the
majority of people will be entirely unaware of what is going on. The
majority will be absolutely unaware of what is going on in this Age,
like they were in Luther's Age, like they were in Wesley's, and like
they were in Jesus' time. They'll be unaware. Now, you know that's true,
because if you can be unaware of God manifesting human flesh in one
body, you must be even less aware of what is going on when God's Word
for that day is revealed in one little man that's not God. A man's born
of sex, a sinner. Christ was not born in sin. He was made in the form of
sinful flesh, but He was not sinful flesh. He wasn't like us.

	You want to know the truth of it was, He said, "I came from God, and I
go to God." And He meant what He said, because the Pillar of Fire was no
longer a Pillar of Fire, It was that same Logos that put Himself in
human form. You might not have caught that, you'll get it later on. That
will clear up your whole mystery of God in man. 

 	Now, they did not understand what was going on. They didn't know in
that day, nor will they know in this day that God is interpreting His
Word. They say, "Well,…?... what do you mean interpreting His Word? I
can tell over here It says this here, and It says this here, and It says
over here, so I got it all figured out."  Yeah, that's the biggest laugh
in the high history. 

55.	Let me see if I can show you how smart we all are without a
revelation. It says right here in the Book of Isaiah 11:6

		(6) 	The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, the leopard…with the
kid; 					the calf and the young lion…the fatling…a little child
lead them.

		(7) 	…the cow and the bear feed (together) their young ones lie down
						together: the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

		(8) 	…the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, the
weaned  						child put his hand on the cockatrice' den.

		(9) 	They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the 
					earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters 			
		cover the sea.

		(10) 	And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall
stand for						 an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek:
and his rest 						shall be glorious.

	Now, It tells you right there that the Gentiles can't even have
salvation till Jesus Christ comes back to earth with New Jerusalem. Now,
how do you like them apples? Why, you know that's impossible. You can't
go by Scripture and say, "Well, It says this here, and It says this
here, and It says that there and put It together."  You can't do it, it
takes a revelation, because the chronology of the Bible it's so out of
line that you can't figure chronology. In one breath, Jesus, or the
prophets could say one thing two thousand years ahead, and in the same
breath drop back one thousand years of history. You can't do it. It
takes a revelation.

56.	Now, you as I said, "If you could not see God all wrapped up in one
body, virgin born, God creating Himself in human flesh demonstrating
that it is God; if you couldn't see it in one person, you'll never see
it in six thousand messengers that are born of women, unless you get a
revelation. You can't do it. I don't care what anybody says, you can't
do it.

	Now, I know that hurts people, but I can't help what hurts. Trouble is,
they got a God of their imagination that they try to serve with creeds
and dogmas, so that's why they end up in the lake of fire. You can't
serve the God of your imagination, you got to serve the true and living
God. (See?)     It won't work.

	Now, I say the majority of people will be entirely unaware of what God
is doing, especially through misunderstanding by their creeds and
dogmas. They won't know what's going on, they'll misunderstand it.
They'll not know that He is interpreting the Word for His day. They
won't know           It. (See?) 

57.	Now, I can prove it to you. Look, John 1:18 

		(18) 	No man hath seen God at any time,…

	Yet, He said, "He that has seen Me, has seen the Father." [Jn 14:9] It
had to be a revelation, they couldn't see it. Yet, it didn't require a
revelation. All you had to do is believe it. Because He was God.

		(18)	…the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he
						hath declared him. 

	That word is 'exegesis', He has fully exegeted, or explained it. Then
if He was that explanation manifested there in flesh, then everything
that God does in this Age is God manifest right there, an explanation.
(See?) God explaining His Word, God manifesting His Word, God showing
His Word. (See?) Interpreting His Word.  Just as Jesus exegeted, or
interpreted the Father by What? In human flesh, so in this day if God
sends a messenger, and God does something by the messenger, then God is
manifested interpreting, revealing and explaining His Word right there.
(Right!) But you can't get the revelation unless the Holy Spirit teaches
it.

58.	Now then, the prophet will have to explain it to them. (See?) The
prophet will have to explain it to them, what God manifest and what He
is interpreting. Now, and even though it's few, (now watch carefully,
the prophet would have to explain the Word to them, explain what's going
on,) for even though it's few who know that something is going on, will
not really know what it is. And especially they will not know what
purpose God has in mind what He's doing. 

	Dear Daddy Bosworth, tremendous servant of God, pulled my coattail in
1953 in Miami, in West Palm Beach, Florida, we had Bro. Branham there.
And he said, "Bro. Vayle,  I prayed for forty years for the ministry of
Christ to return to this earth, and there It is in that man." But poor
Bro. Bosworth did not know that William Branham, (though that messenger,
that though he was Elijah) was to restore the truth that you had to
believe, and I’m sure he died a Trinitarian, or mixed up somewhere.
Now, that doesn't condemn him, he wasn't for  this Age. He didn't belong
in this Age, but without the revelation. (See?) You can still miss Him.
He did not really know what was going on, nor does Bro. Bosworth's son,
Bob, know what's going on really. Otherwise how come, Bro. Bosworth
didn't explain to his own flesh and blood?  You know, our children know
who Bro. Branham is. You know, we explained it. But Daddy Bosworth
couldn't do it, because Daddy Bosworth didn't have it, it wasn't the
time. (See?) 

 59.  A great prince with God. Bro. Branham called him, "the dean of
preachers."  And recognized in him such greatness that he sent that
telegram at Bro. Bosworth's death, the same thing that Elisha concerning
Elijah, "My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen
of Israel." [2 Kg 2:12] And there it was. Bro. Branham looked at him as
that great man of God in Israel having passed on. Maybe the last man
that  God could trust and use in this Age, was the prophet, was great
messenger Elijah standing right there. In other words, there wasn't one
man left, now that Daddy Bosworth's gone, except Bro. Branham standing
here. (See?) 

 	Now, and when the prophet explains It, (see?) remember the people
won't know what's going on. They'll suspect something, they'll feel
something, they'll be watching It, but they won't know what purpose that
God has in mind. (See?) Then when the prophet explains it, very few will
believe It. Now, who's going to believe what he said? Why is there
trouble on this point? Because when you explain something concerning
yourself, and testify to yourself, nobody wants to take it.

60.	Now, notice over here in John 1:19-23 

		(19) 	…Who (are you? They said to John.) 

		(20)	 …I am not Christ.

		(21)	…(Are you Elijah?) No.

		(22)	…(Are you) that prophet?…No. (See?) 

		(23)	…Who (are you?)

		(24)	…I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight 
					the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.

	They said, "Forget it, the guy's not even of God."

	What chance do you think anybody has of letting the world know through
divine manifestation that he's Elijah for this day? They say, "Ha, ha,
another one of those queer nuts. Well, it's too bad, he was such a nice
fellow too. Oh, he was so sweet, but you know how it is, every time they
think they're Elijah, they die, ah yes." 

	Well, isn't that strange. I wonder if the woman that said that, just
supposing that she was right, (which I know she wasn't) but I can bet
you one million bucks, (which I haven't got to a hole in a donut,) she
wouldn't know the real one if he did come. You know why? Because she
like all the rest, she can't take a witness, and you cut the witness to
yourself, Jesus did.

61.	Over here in John 8:13-14. Listen, here's how they put Jesus on the
spot.                                   

		(13) 	The Pharisees therefore said…Thou bearest record of thyself;
thy 						record is not true.

	Why? Because He said it? That's the whole reason. They said, "Your
record is not true, we can prove yours is." (See?) 

		(14) 	Jesus…said…Though I bear record of myself, my record is
true: 						for I know whence I came, and whither I go; but (you) cannot
tell 						whence I (came), whither I go.

	He said, "The trouble is you don't have a revelation." Now He said, "I
know all about Myself,              I know what I'm doing and why I am
doing it. But, (He said) you don't know, that's your whole trouble.
(See?) 

	Now, Jesus had to explain what even the most ignorant had to conceive
of being a god. (See?) Because how can a man's word do what man can't
do, and yet this man's Word was doing it. Man's word can't raise the
dead. Man's word can't calm the sea. Man's hands can't multiply loaves
and fishes. Man's word can't tell another man to draw water out and turn
it into wine. Man can't do it. Why? Because there's a law laid down. You
get one fellow  can break that law, or change that law, He's God! The
very fact that Jesus could speak to that water, He was God. Moses
created fleas, turned water into blood. That wasn't Moses. Moses could
no more turn water into blood, than I can turn this microphone into a
747 or anything else. It's impossible, can't be done. Takes God to do
it. (See?) God was veiled in flesh. Like Moses, God was veiled in Moses,
because God was the Word. When that Word came, "let there be fleas,"
that was God doing it.

62.	Now, all men have to testify of themselves. (See?) That's strange,
but they got to testify. Why? Because there's none of us here today can
prove we've got anything from God. We can talk about it, and say, "Well,
I want to tell you what Bro. Vayle, I'm a born again believer,
hallelujah. I was saved forty years ago, full of the Holy Ghost."

	I say, "Shut up and sit down." Not interested. You haven't got a thing
to prove. Because you testify? Hogwash. I can tell you that I've got a
million dollars in my pocket. What does that mean? Nothing! There's not
one of us here that we can prove that we're born again. All we can do is
testify to it. Not one of us! Yet we got to testify. (See?) We're
commanded to. Why? Because you do it by faith, something between you and
God. But here's a prophet stands on the scene, and he said, "Let there
be flies." Go ahead, I'm ready to believe now. I'm ready to believe now.


63.	Here's a prophet say, 'Thus Saith the Lord', it comes to pass, I'm
ready to believe now. And why don't the rest of them believe? Because
they want their own witness, but not the witness that God sent. That's
what Jesus said concerning John the Baptist. He said, "I sent you
witness."

	"Oh, (he said) my you rejoice Lord, hallelujah, glory to God, John's
got something." But as soon as he begins cutting your throat with that
Word. You say, "forget it. kill him, get rid of that bum."  He said,
"You'll never please anybody." You can't.

	He said, John the Baptist came, he wasn't eating or drinking."   

	You say, "Oh my, that fellow's kind of nuts."

	He said, "My disciples they come eating, drinking, you say, 'Oh, you
bunch of drunkards, hoodlums'." 

	See, what…look it, I want to take the picture today brother/sister. I
don't care who you are, or what you think, you'll never get this Message
to the world. You've got to preach It, you've got to teach It, and
they'll take It too late during the tribulation. But, you'll never get
them to see. And don't feel bad, and don't condemn. This is our biggest
problem, is to get away with that condemning. Because what's so clear to
you and me they can't see! There's no way they can see It. They're
blinded. You see, Jesus was God, He did It, He explained It, they still
killed Him. And they say, "Oh weren't those gracious words, He's so
sweet. (See?) Don't be puzzled, and look puzzled, this is just the way
it is, you can't get it to change. 

64.	You know you say, "I wish this was a beautiful silk suit." It ain't
silk, it's woven polyester. It's never…it's never going to be silk.
You say, "Couldn't God do it?"  He isn't allowed to do it. It isn't God
couldn't do it, He isn't going to do it though. Why? He wanted want it
this way. God's sovereign. See, they're blinded. What blinded them?
Creeds and dogmas, they've got a veil over their faces. (See?) They
can't see past it. Right now, I can explain this, and this makes a lot
of sense to you, because you can follow me. And if I didn't interject
something about William Branham, I could preach this same sermon any
place in America. "Amen, (they say,) hallelujah Bro. Vayle." Then come
right down to William Branham . "What did he say?" [said sarcastically]
"Oh, I couldn't take any." 

	Then you do it. You give me that witness I want, prove it that you've
got something from God. You can't do it. You say, "I'll talk in 
tongues."  Devil can talk in tongues. "I'm a walking Bible, I can quote
It." Anybody can quote the Bible. The devil do the best job of all.
Sure. (See?) 

	I say, "There's nobody got a witness when it comes right down." To
prove it, you can't do it, but you know in your heart, God does
something for it.

65.	Now, let's go further here. Now at the end time, (see?) we're in a
bad way, because God said He'd send a prophet , so there's got to be
some kind of evidence and all to the end time, God warned us there'd be
two kinds of prophets. (Right?) Now, there's only two kinds of prophets.
A true Word prophet, and a false word prophet, because the prophet
brings the Word. (Right?) 

	Matthew 24:24

		(24) 	…there shall arise false Christs, (even lying) prophets, shew
great 						signs and wonders; insomuch…if it were possible, they
shall deceive 					the very elect.

	Now, It says at the end time, the very Elect will be deceived, except
for one reason, they have the Word. Now then what group has the Word? 

66.	Now, let's find out who God said to believe, we go back to
Deuteronomy 18:20, let's read It.

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

	In other words, any philosophy, any devil power, anything at all. What
you come back with any word, no sir, forget it, unless it's from the
Word of the Lord.  Now listen, 21 

		(21) 	…if thou (shall) say in thine heart, How shall we know the
word 						which the LORD hath not spoken?

	There you are. (See?) Like I said awhile ago, anybody can testify. You
say. "I'm born again." Prove it! Yeah, we can't prove it. (See?) " But
we witnessed." But at the end time there's got to be a man. (See?) Now
then, what is his proof?  (See?) Jesus had a proof. He witnessed about
John. Now, Jesus was here when John was here. But Jesus in the flesh
cannot be here if He came before this fellow Elijah, he'd just destroy
us all. Can't do it. Now, what is the proof:

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

	It tells you right here brother/sister, that at the end time there's
going to be a prophet. And he's going to reveal the whole Word of God.
He's going to correct the errors, and bring in the full revelation. And
that's right, it's his Message that brings about the literal immortality
of the Bride, by restoration) brings the dead out of the ground and puts
them both in a Rapture.

67.	Now, he's got a Word to bring. How are you going to know which is
the prophet that's got the Word? Because they're all doing signs and
wonders?  Someone's got to have a super-sign. And the super-sign is
'Thus Saith the Lord'. Now, you show me one person outside of William
Branham that has 'Thus Saith the Lord'? He hasn't got It. Now, this is
the test that God said. I don't care what any church says, I don't care
what any man says. The test that God sent, was 'Thus Saith the Lord'. So
therefore, God has to send a man with 'Thus Saith the Lord' in the end
time, so the Elect will know the difference. And that's what they stand
on, that's all.

	Now, this man will come with 'Thus Saith the Lord', and is what God
said. And he will never fail in the vindication that God gave him. Now,
many people think, "Oh, that's wonderful, Bro. Branham's 'Thus Saith the
Lord's' never failed. But that's not what you're driving at. (See?) Bro.
Branham was not vindicated simply as a man with a ministry. The
vindication of 'Thus Saith the Lord' was to prove that he was the one
with the correct Word, to prove his doctrine. Anybody can have a
miracle, but only one has 'Thus Saith the Lord'. That's one and only
one, and it's over the Word, and he has the right to bring the Word.
(See?) He's the one with the doctrine.

 	Notice it in Matthew 7: "Many will come in that day and say, "Lord,
Lord, have we not prophesied? Have we not cast out devils, have we not
raised the dead. Have we not done so and so?" 

	He'll say, I never knew you, you workers of iniquity."  You say, "Why?"
Because they took the very manifestation and power of God to lead people
astray. (See?) It won't work. Now, he will restore right back to the
truth. (See?) 

68.	Acts 3:[2] again: "The heavens must receive Him, retain Him, keep
Him there." What? Until all has been restored. What restored? "Spoken by
the mouth of all the holy prophets since the world began."  So, Bro.
Branham by the revelation God gave him in, 'The Spoken Word is the
Original Seed', [62-03-18 ] he said this: and God made him write it
down. And he said;

	"And beginning at the serpent he will sow the seed of the entire Bible,
beginning at the serpent to the prophet in the former rain." Not latter
rain, they made a mistake in the Church Age Book on that. Because
everybody knows about latter rain, but not about former. So, I never
caught the error until too late. And suddenly when I read the book
coming off the press, I said, "Hold it, that's not what Bro. Branham
said." I just knew in my mind he couldn't have said it. Went right to
the original. (See?) Because we…what happened was, is the book was
typed up and set in print, through a book through a Pentecostal book
Outreached. (See?) Had it in a basket, if they'd have put the right word
in there. (See?) It wasn't, they didn't mean to change it, it's just
everybody knows about latter rain, but whoever heard about former rain?
(See?) 

69.	So, they had the prophet sowing the seed in the latter rain. It's
not, he's sowed, the prophet in the former rain is the teacher. (See?)
Holy Ghost, the Spirit of God falls on them, the latter rain. That's the
Spirit of God. So anyway,  cleared up yet. 

	Now, as I say in the Book of Acts, this One must plant the seed of the
entire Bible, which is a revelation. (See?) He corrects the errors,
(that's that say the German translation, It says in Matthew 17, "He
shall correct the errors.")  But he brings in, as Bro. Branham said,
"the Sixth Seal corrected all the errors." (See?)  But the Sixth Seal
also brought the Seven Trumpets which were the mysteries. The Seven
Thunders which were the mysteries. So, the full revelation of the Word
of God came into view for this day as It did in Jesus' day, John the
Baptist's day, and of course they crucified Him. (See?)  

70.	Now, I want to bring the message up to date in closing. The
messenger has gone, (right?) he said he would not be taken until his
work was finished. He said the opening of the Seals gave the Bride all
she needed for the Rapture. He brought the former rain, (It was a
teaching rain) and the Holy Spirit fell upon It, because he said in
Sabino Canyon it was an actual sword in his hand, and a Voice said, "The
Sword of the King." And in the same place, (I think in 1965, I'm sure it
was, in the very same place in 1965) the white dove appeared showing
that the former and latter rain had fallen. Now, we know that this is
true. 

	Now, let's go back to Mark 4: again to see It, we love reading again:

		(26) 	…the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed (in) the 			
		ground;

		(27) 	And should sleep, and rise night and day, the seed should spring
						and grow, he knoweth not how.

		(28) 	For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade,
then the 						ear, after that the full corn in the ear.

	That's wrong. It doesn't say that in the Greek. It says: "The earth
bringeth forth itself first the blade, then a covering for the grain,
then the grain in the covering. All three are separate and everything
gets burned but the grain." 

	Everything left over from Luther's day is burnt up. Everything left
over from Wesley's day is burnt up. Everything left over from Pentecost
is burnt up. Why? Because the life moved to the grain. The life of all
the Ages is moved up there, burned lock, stock and barrel. There is only
one people that are saved at the end time, and those are they that
standing here in human flesh, become glorified without the process of
death. And they go right into it, everybody else brother/sister, except
the 144,000 is gone. And the only reason the 144.000 are saved, is
because Elijah appears five times. Elijah, Elisha, John the Baptist,
William Branham, and Elijah. So, if it weren't for Elijah there would be
nothing left upon this earth.

71.	Now, see the grain lying in the sun. Now watch: the full life of all
the other Ages is coming right into this grain. Now, what is that life?
Christ! The full life. Now, who is Christ? The Word. There will be no
more perversion, but the Word will be handled within the framework of
the Word which is strictly revelation. Everybody tries to handle that
Word, how? Through creeds, through dogmas, through their own
understanding. They won't submit themselves to the vindicated prophet.
(See?) That's what's wrong, they won't do it. So, what happened?  They
used the Word outside the frame-work of the Word. Certainly. Everything
you've got today was made by the Word of God. But every-thing's
perverted.

	So, what you've got, you've got a perverted Word, which is a perverted
people. Will they come into the Kingdom? Impossible.  Add one word, you
get the plagues, take away a word, you get the name out of the Book of
Life. Can't do it. (See?) 

72.	Now, the Bride will have the Word and know what to do with It. For
she and the Word will be one, and the Holy Spirit will give life, the
same life to both of them and reproduce it right here on earth. In other
words, there will be people walking Bible's. Just what Jesus said. He
said, "I will put My law in your mind and in your heart." If the Word of
God gets here, [points to the head] and here, [points to the heart] that
I am that Word. (See?) So, He's doing it.

	Now, the prophet has already explained what will happen, he told us
what to do. That's to just live at peace with all men, and believe the
Word. So, we take his explanation and we live with it until it becomes
visible to the world, and that will be a revelation to us.

73.	Now, as he said, he lived only for the Word and put It first. What
did he mean by that? The revelation of God's Word of which he spoke.
That is what we are to have today, is to put this Word first. There is
nothing else but the Word. Brother/sister, we have returned to
restoration, which is the Word of God revealed. Then don't go back to
gifts and things. Sure, …we pray, we believe the Lord, but we're not
interested in those things out of which the life has now passed to the
others. We're coming into where we become the Word ourselves, the
complete manifestation.

	You say "Well then, do you believe that there shouldn't be any such
things as gifts among you?" Put the church in order and see what
happens, but don't operate outside of that realm. Don't you do it. No
matter what you think looks good and all, stick with church order.
According to 'The Unveiling of (the Mighty) God'  [64-06-14] Bro.
Branham put church order, it's part of the Seven Seals. (See?)  

	Those Seven Seals weren't just seven sermons…up there in
Jeffersonville, in one week, not for one minute. 'Marriage and Divorce'
[65-02-21] was actually the end of the series of the opening of the
Seals. Him coming back, (which He did) having been sent to Arizona to
get that one portion remaining. That's why he went out there to get the
Seven Seals, he never got it all, he had to go back for the 'Marriage
and Divorce', and then anything preached offer in that time on, was just
application. (See?) Look for yourself, you'll find that to be true.

74.	Now, he lived only for the Word which was the revelation. That is
our heart's cry too. This is not the letter of the Word, this is the
Word of life. Christ the Word has appeared to the Bride, and is now
appearing in the Bride. In other words, the full potential is here right
now. It doesn't matter what anybody says, it's still right here. Now,
waiting for the manifestation. (See?) Remember, Christ was born in the
fullness of time. We're in the time slot now. Not full yet. (See?) We're
waiting. 

	Now, the manifestation has not yet come, but it will come, because the
Word has gone forth. He plants It, He leaves It, day and night waiting
for It. Suddenly through the stages It comes up perfect. Paul said,
"Behold, I show you a mystery, we shall not all sleep, but we shall all
be changed." [1 Cor 15:52]  One of these days there's going to be a
group of people on this earth, and they have to be here. And they are
going to be able to say to those who are standing with them: "I am the
Word of God." That's right, in human flesh, "I and those of us are here
today, we are those which will put on immortality." They might even say,
"I have put it on."

75.	They'll say, "Well, well, well, now itsn't that a joke." Now
didn’t the Seventh Day Adventist say that? Now, we're just some of
those goofies up in Canada called 'Sons of Light', (when Mrs. Olson, or
whatever her name was) they were kind of goofy too. And weren't there
some of those that followed Reverend Branham, said he was going to come
a certain day and they sold some of their land too. And they say, "Now,
you're telling us, I suppose you're the ones that are going to make it,
yeah, ha, ha, ha, ha…ha, ha, ha."  

	And the funny thing is, they're the ones that do make it. They're the
ones that do, and say, "Yes, we are those, who have put it on." That's
right. They'll know, they’ve got …?....  (See?) And they will,
they'll walk right into Eternal Life.

	You say, "Bro. Vayle, do they have to tell them?  They might not. They
might not, but if they did, they'd have to say it. Just like John the
Baptist, "Yes, I am Isaiah 40: I'm Malachi 3." Just like Bro. Branham,
"Yes, I'm Revelation 3:14, Revelation 10:7, and Malachi 4:5-6, (that
remaining part of it) yeah, I'm that one." 

	Prove it! Sure. There's going to be a day brother/sister when men and
woman want to come into that Bridal Supper. Just like that man without a
wedding garment, and they'll say, "You can't, you have to go to
tribulation." Now, this is something that occurs in an area where they
can go into it. So, they've got to be living right here. (See?) 

76.	Now, brother/sister, whatever God does, when He brings His Word into
full manifestation in order to interpret It to the people, they don't
know what's going on, they don't recognize at all. Those few people
knows that something is occurring, they know something's happening, but
they don't know the purpose God had in mind. They don't know. Then it's
explained to them, and a glimmer of light appears, they say, "Hey, that
sounds…hey, that looks great." 

	Then someone will run with it way over here, and someone run way over
there. In fact you get quite a big crowd running way over there. And
another big crowd way over there, and there'll be a little group go
right down the middle by revelation. And God reveals to them the truth,
and they're the ones at this end time, who fully robed, that's been
fully washed in the waters of the Word (see?) Fully washed, fully robed,
with that same Word, they enter right into Eternal Life, never missing
one heart beat, or one breath. They walk in. 

	Now, this is where we stand today. I repeat, the Resurrection is right
around the corner. I know nothing to hold It up, except the wheat lying
in the sun. And I see nothing can hold it up, because brother/sister the
Kingdom of God is likend to a man that planted wheat, and he just left
it in the ground. He kept going about his business day by day, whether
he rose at night or in the morning, the wheat was growing. And he
didn’t try to figure it out, he just knew that he planted wheat. And
we have planted vindicated grade A weight, Christ wheat, the Word of
God. That's right. And it's just growing, and nobody can figure it, but
you're not supposed to. Just let it grow, keep growing and keep growing.


	And as the wheat does not hybridize itself, neither can we. The mind
has been shut, it's fully pregnated by the Word of God. It cannot commit
adultery. You know when you believe this Message you're stuck with It,
where are you going to go? Even if you were wrong, you're still stuck
with It. …?... There's no place you can go. (See?) See, people don't
realize this, it's not meant to be, this is not dirty joke, but the fact
is, no woman is just a little pregnant. She's either pregnant, or she's
not, and neither are we. But many people in this Message believe they're
just a little pregnant. You're just a little bit.  

	How can you be!! Can't be hybrid and make it brother/sister. You're not
just a little wheat, you are wheat. And this Word is here, you have
become pregnant by the Word of God. And when you are, the womb is
closed. You get it? The womb is closed! A virgin of the Bible is a woman
who can prove she's a virgin by the fact her parents can produce the
menstrual cloth which proves that she has nobody's seed but her
husband's. And you are a virgin if your womb has been closed, you're
already pregnant. These are things we got to know. There's where we
stand brother/sister.

	No, they don't understand what's going on. They're misunderstanding
right now Bro. Branham what God did. Look at your men today right today
in the field. [omit] Look at these men around, they say, "Oh, I was glad
I was at that great meeting in Spokane, when that demoniac fell at the
feet of Bro. Branham, I heard a voice say, "Yes sir, that's the way it's
done in the Bible, you can do the same thing." And they did it.

	"Oh yes, (they said) yes sir, Bro. Branham came to lead us back to that
great restoration of wonderful power and gifts, hallelujah." It's right
in the Roman Catholic church. Right up there in Notre Dame. On a campus
two young men hit by a car, one man dead, one man crushed. Go and laid
hands on the dead man and raised him up. Rebuked the spirit in the boy
cursing God, because he's hurt. Healed like that. [snaps fingers] Then
go back in the chapel and say, "Hail Mary, full of grace and truth," and
count your rosary. Kiss the pope's toe, confess to the priest. See where
it is?

	Look brother/sister, it's got to be some place that this thing is
taking us. There's got to be some place it's taking us. Work its destiny
is all there is to it. You don't find God start a thing and leave it in
midstream. It's all over brother/sister. The destiny is the Word right
…?... You see this morning? They'll never understand, don't worry
about it. They can't get it, they can't get it. It's only the grace of
God we can get it, as far as we've gone. 

	So, let's tale courage this morning. Take courage, stick with the
…?... brother/sister. That' right, It'll take you to the Word, it'll
take you to the flesh of the Word. Amen. The Lord bless you, let's rise
and be dismissed.  

	Gracious Heavenly Father, it's been so good to be here to be with Your
people, Lord, to see the truth, O God, simple as It is, yet It's what we
need to realize and encourage our faith, Lord. Now, Father, keep us ever
steady and mindful of the things whick we have heard, and the things
which we have seen, and realize, Lord, that we are part of It. Not an
onlooker, but we are a part of It. Help your people, O God, to see that
they are in the mainstream, that they're in the flood of it. Not just
standing on the water, gazing,  but they're in the flood.

	God, grant that everyone of us this morning put our full faith in It as
never before, as Your prophet told it, that there's only two in a town
that's going to make the Rapture, we've got to believe we're one of
them. And if there's only one that's going to make it, and we got to
believe we're that one. Lord, let us stand there, not  elbowing, not
fighting, not condemning, not trying to put anybody out, or putting
anybody in, but just standing believing we're one of them.

	Lord, we know that's going to take us right in the Promised Land, as It
took Joshua and Caleb. When others could fail, and we don't want them
to, we'd want them, Lord, to be perfect as we want ourselves, but, Lord,
may we never forget, we've got to stand on our feet and we believe and
say, "We're one of them."

	Now, unto the King Eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be
all power and honor and glory though Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.  God
bless you.

	   

	 

 

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