The Omega Revelation Bro. Lee Vayle - April 4, 1986 Shall we pray: Heavenly Father we’re again very grateful to be in this place Lord, at this moment dedicated to Your services, we pray my God that it shall be as You want it to be, not our way but Your way done Lord. We believe that thus far it has been Your way Lord, we’ve been thrilled with the song service, with the prayer service, feeling Your Spirit oh God, knowing that You do answer prayer. You are the One Who is still taking care of us, and though we have our own ideas Lord, and they’re not good ideas, it’s Your thoughts and Your understanding that we want. And so help us tonight to that end in our studies and whatsoever we do from this moment on may it also be blessed by You, and may we acknowledge You as never before Lord, with such clarity see You in Your Presence as never before. To understand You and Your ways Lord, and be a part of that. Help us Lord to identify in this late last hour, even as we know we ought to identify, we know that’s in the Word there, we’ve seen a good measure and we appreciate what we have seen Lord, but we’re not just satisfied to see that in other people’s lives. That’s very good, but we want it in our own lives Lord, in the measure that You want us to have It in whatever way Lord, we know then It’s going to be just exactly right. Just as You prepared a body Lord, to live in You’re preparing a Bride here. We’re grateful Lord, that there’s nothing miscued, there’s nothing wrong, there’s nothing out of…nothing out of the way anymore Lord, we’re just learning to grow up a little more, and to ripen in the Presence of the Son. And we appreciate that, so we commend ourselves to each and every one of us in the Name of Jesus Christ our blessed Lord. Amen. You may be seated. 1. Now, I think this light here is going to bother people, I don’t think I really need it; it would be better for all of you. Now, I’m very, very happy to see all of you as Bro. Joe said that kind of get to the place where nobody else comes. I kind of feel that this end-time Message, I don’t know whether we’ve engaged in sort of exclusiveness or something and not try to anybody, I realize there’s nobody here with that spirit. If you have that spirit, well I hope it be out of you in just the next couple of minutes. But you know, we’re not joiner’s and uniter’s, and we don’t look for big crowds. And it’s not that we…well it’s like Bro. Branham said, “Hey look, sure I like a big crowd, for one reason there’s more of an opportunity to preach to people that you couldn’t preach to otherwise, there could be sinners there.” 2. In other words, he was using the law of odds, is what he was using. See? And it’s perfectly good, we love crowds, we love the people. And it’s all just fine, but there is something that we recognize, the Brides’ going to be very, very few. There won’t be a lot. Not given to big crowds. Big crowds you know, follow something which is quite phenomenal, it’s a little bit you know… well it’s radical according to people’s thinking, but it’s very enticing. When Bro. Branham first went on the field, I was fortunate living in British Columbia at that time in 1947, when he came there. Of course there wasn’t a building enough to hold him. It couldn’t be done, they didn’t have a place and I guess how many were turned away I don’t know. And in the hay-day of his ministry there were tremendous, tremendous crowds, and I think he said that he actually begot unto the Lord about three quarter million people that went to the Assemblies of God, and various churches. I just have one question. Where are they today? Still there. See? So, we’ll say three quarter million people, how many did he preach to? Literally millions for all I know; about five hundred thousand in India, thousands and thousands African. You had that all the time. 3. When I was with him in ’58, I preached to fifty five hundred people formed in one sitting, and that just… I just couldn’t do it. I’d say, where are you going to start? Well, somebody said, “Well you kind of look at one person.” I asked Bro. Branham what he did. “Well,” he said, “You just kind of look at one person.” Well I thought, “That’s all right I guess, but there’s just fifty five hundred still there.” So I’m trying to show you that crowds are nice, we don’t go by crowds, we go by the Word of the Living God, which said, “There be few in the last day, and there will be not too many.” They’ll get less I suppose as time goes on; I don’t know whether there’ll be a weeding out. I kind of think myself that things are going to come to the place where this…the monotony…kind of like the Chinese water treatment. A little drip, drip, drip, drip, you know, until you just want to lose your mind, and just say anything, get out of the picture. And what it is this day by day where we are supposed to lie in the Presence of the Son. 4. Now, people even deny that He’s here, so how are you going to lie in the Presence? It’s a very good question, but I don’t get any answers. I suppose there are, I could get an answer, but I might not be too interested in answer. The day by day cares, and all these things are making people say, “Well what’s happening? Is something happening? Is something going on? What is with it anyway? When is It going to be?” But, Bro. Branham said, “Maybe ten years, maybe twenty five, hundred, maybe tomorrow morning.” Well I knew it couldn’t be tomorrow morning. You say, “How do you know?” Well because, I’m getting to the place now where I know that It could be tomorrow morning. See? It couldn’t of been all way back then. But you see, the hum-drum, the monotony that… I’ll never get to preaching tonight, but I will don’t worry. Some of good friend Keller back there… hey, there’s good playing Barbara, I really like that. How about the Buffalo folk? Good, good, good. Look around I’ll see some more. 5. But anyway, you know, getting back to the subject so to speak, this, this monotony in this… slow, slow way of what we want to see a rapid development you know, and get taken away. It’s going to slow down to the place where anxiety perhaps and that inner squeeze comes along with a kind of an outer squeeze. Now we’re going to miss the real squeeze, but don’t worry, there’s pressures here. And there will be a squeeze shutting the doors and things. You just got to believe what the prophet said, because look, he’s right. He’s right. He’s never made a mistake. Some people think he made a mistake. But…well that’s fine if they think so you know. We don’t agree with that, and this is liberty as we take our liberty. But, this business of going on and on you know, is what worries me, because Bro. Branham said, “That is where you have to watch those little things,” a little carelessness here and here and perhaps, it’s so easy to try to find something to take the place of that spiritual exhilaration which is so important amongst Christians. That’s why I notice the prayer and the people’s response. It threw me, because there’s just too little. Now I’m not against emotion, not because I’ve got a bit, I’ve got very little bit, a few drops every now and then. But you know, we’re human beings, and there’s got to be an atmosphere, and atmosphere is an emotions. The emotions are clean and pure and right before God. There’s nothing wrong with it, it better be there or there is nothing there in the first place. See? We’ve gotten away from too much of that. And I’m not for Pentecostal shout you know. I don’t believe for one minute you shouting is going to bring the Presence of God. But if the Presence of God is here, there ought to be shouting. I believe He is here, I’ve never heard Him leaving, If I’d of…he’d of told me. I’m sure he would of told me He’s going to leave. I don’t find any Scripture for it. 6. So, appreciate you all, love you all, and finally come to another place like Bro. Branham, and I’m not trying to be like Bro. Branham. But as you get older you’re going to find that in your life is a lot like his whether you want it or not. And I find…I use to sit back and wonder, he said, “All you folk I love you, I wish I could sit with you and talk with you.” And I’d… “Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know how it is.” I didn’t believe him. I believe him now. There’s a lonesomeness and there’s something missing if you can’t be with the people; I don’t care who you are. There’s no hermits amongst us, because no man lives to himself, and no man dies to himself. Even a little pebble in a pool makes a mighty big circle providing there’s enough water. That’s right. So we love the people, and I realize my place tonight that’s a little bit rough, because Bro. Branham…his problem was way worse than mine. I mean he was so sick at times we have no way of knowing just how that man suffered. But what I’ve gone through the last two years or so, thank God, It’s much, much better. I’m not able to be with people like I’d like to be. I miss that very, very much. So, if I don’t get some of you the way you’d like me to, and I like myself you got to forgive me, and by the grace of God who knows we’ll be in a good enough position to one of these days to get circulating around again. Not that that’s important to circulate, but for me it is. I love the people. Never have ceased to love the folk and special attachment for some I’ve been with for many, many years. 7. Now, I want to also mention…I think Bro. Joe forgot this …?... to mention be sure that you tell who ever you are that are registered here in this motel, tell them you’re with the Bible study group, so you’ll be sure to get that discount you’ll need that. Now also, I think tomorrow night because there’ll be more coming in as far as I know. It wouldn’t be difficult to start at seven o’clock, rather than seven thirty, because we’ll have Communion tomorrow night. And we can start at seven with the other services at two, and anybody coming at seven thirty won’t miss the message. The song service of course would be over by that time, but that’s all right. 8. Now, I want to bring a message tonight, and when I do, I’ll have to be honest with you that going over in my mind what would I bring at this particular time, and usually because there’s maybe a special occasion involved, which was the fourth of July this time, and of course the centennial celebration of the Statue of Liberty, but that didn’t come to my mind that I should do that. And I wondered what I might deal with in…something came to my mind about Ephesians the 1st chapter, because it’s years ago since I was in that, and we took a whole series on it. In fact one gentleman wrote a little letter out, and he said, criticizing me, and he said, “Why this fellow preached twenty eight sermons.” I think he said, “twenty-eight,” maybe said less. I laughed, because I thought I might of preached forty eight. Hey, that guy doesn’t know how bad off I am. You know, it’s really something…it’s good if they don’t catch on to you all the way. 9. So, thinking this subject over, thinking in my mind I recall a little incident I had, oh, I don’t know how many years ago, several years ago, five, six or something like that. I was visiting with some brethren and we began talking about the very thing that I had been looking at for many years now, though preaching it very strong since 1977. But back in about ’66, is when I first began to see Presence of the Lord, which is really the Appearing. It’s what It actually is. This is the time of the Appearing and the Revealing, see? And I began preaching since way back when by strict inspiration I saw in 1 John the 3rd chapter, (2) Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it (hath) not appear(ed unto us) what we shall be: (or it’s never yet come into existence what we’re going to be,) but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And I said, “Hold it, hold it, I’m going to be like He is and He’s glorified?” Now, just a minute, the Bible says, “We got to see Him first to get glorified, but everybody’s going to get glorified before they see him.” Something’s wrong somewhere, and that began making me realize I was misinterpreting everything Bro. Branham said and the Word of God said. Now, it’s very simple you see, if the Spirit talks to you. That was in a public meeting in Fort Wayne in a rented church. Fort Wayne, it couldn’t of been South Bend, it had to be Fort Wayne. Yeah Fort Wayne. 10. We rented a building… and in there in a small audience, as I was preaching this suddenly dawned on me as I read that Scripture, that I had always been taught the same as you were taught, that we’re going to be caught in a Rapture, but before you’re caught in a Rapture, we have to be changed. And then it’s up there we’re going to see Him. But the Bible says, “You’ve got to see Him before you get your change,” So it’s the seeing that brings the change. Am I right or wrong? You better read your Bible, because I’ve researched this. You bet, I got a least thirty two different translations in my house. You can’t get around this one. “You’ve got to see Him before you get your change.” 11. Now that particular time, I immediately saw that Christ was revealed in His Own Word. And I accepted the revelation as coming forth from the Word, but I had put aside not realizing having to put aside the actual Presence of Him Who has descended. Now, this leads me to go back to what I said visiting with these brethren we began talking. And the questions they began to ask me I suddenly said to myself, “Hey, where have they been, or where have I been?” Because they have not yet known what I have been teaching. And this is after a long acquaintance with some of the brethren; you know I’ve been on the road of course a very long time. And I couldn’t… I was really jarred to believe that after all the preaching that I had done, and I’ve done a lot of it, I’ve preached up to three hours at a crack, and I don’t repeat myself too much either. And I preach like a machine gun, that might have of been the trouble, over their heads, gone. But the question showed me that something was wrong, that either I was not delivering, or they were not receiving, or something was wrong with both of us. 12. So, I’ve tried to since that time to be very careful to constantly repeat, and to bring further illumination to everything that I have said based on what Bro. Branham said, and bring it in a simplistic form so that the people are bound to get it. And I don’t know that they’re going to get it, because I was in a meeting one time, and I forget, it think it might have been at Jack Bell and I mentioned to the people how it was that Bro. Branham and I had gotten to discussing was the Rapture before the Tribulation or after? Well, I was so thoroughly indoctrinated by men like Dr. Bosworth, and Aaron’s and different ones that I was quite convinced that the Rapture would be at the end of the Tribulation. I got a lot of Scripture lined up, I got it all wrong. So, I told the people this story very carefully that…look I was wrong and Bro. Branham was right, that I used to believe a certain thing, I don’t believe it anymore. Jack just got home the lady phoned up, I’m sure it was Jack and she said, “Bro. Bell, I don’t understand how Bro. Vayle can say that the Rapture takes place at the end of the Tribulation.” Now, when you put the negative and the positive and repeat it, I don’t have too much hope for myself or anybody else. You see what I mean? The devil can creep in, or we can creep in, or there’s just something wrong. So, that constitutes a problem. 13. So, the message tonight is, after all this preamble…we’re here till midnight, the building is ours. We gave them a retainer on it, see? The message then is, ‘The Omega Revelation.’ And I want to read from Eph 1:15-23, and this will be sermon forty nine maybe for all I know. I won’t worry about it. Now, (15) Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints, (16) Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; (17) That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation (or even revelation what it really is,) in the knowledge of him: (Now that tell you what’s to come across.) (18) The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that (you) may know what is the hope of his calling, (not ours now, His calling,) and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance (that not ours, now His inheritance, doesn’t say the saints, it says, what’s) in the saints. (And I won’t deal with that.) (19) And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of (the) mighty power. (20) Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, (21) Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: (22) And…put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, (23) Which is his body, the fullness of him that filleth all (things with) all (things. That’s what the literal is.) 14. Now, for want of a better title, I said this message is going to be entitled ‘The Omega Revelation’. And in so doing I want you to know, that I’m not going to treat this subject mainly from the stand point of what the Revelation is, to delineate upon It and show you what the Revelation is, but more so, how It comes. And you notice in ‘The Unveiling of the Mighty God’, I heard Bro. Branham preach it, I read it different times, and as I prepared to bring it to our people word by word, sentence by sentence, I suddenly realized, “Hey this man is not telling us what is unveiled, he’s telling us how what is unveiled.” So you see, I want you to understand that, that I won’t be dealing with the ‘what’ so much as I’ll be dealing with the ‘how’. Now, thus we will be using verse 17 more than verse 18. And verse 17 says in here: (17) That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him… Now, that’s the… what’s to come, and we got to find out how that’s going to come. The ‘what’ down there tells you, (18) The eyes of your understanding being enlightened… (In that portion is what is revealed.) So, we’ll be dealing more with verse 17 than 18. And also since we’ll not be treating this subject, but very sparingly from the view point of what this revelation will do for us, and why it is required in this hour for us, we will not be considering verses, 19 to 23 very much either. And that is where It tells you, “The exceeding greatness of His powers to us-ward,” that raised Christ showing that there’d be a Resurrection and a Transformation and a Rapture, and a coming back in power. So, we won’t be dealing with that so much, we’re dealing with the other part. 15. So, we’ll read 17 again: (17) That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, (even the Father of glory) may give unto you the spirit of wisdom (even) revelation in the knowledge of him: Now Paul brought this request before God on behalf of a Spirit filled Church that was a Virgin Bride unto God, and set in divine order according to Bro. Branham. Now, that’s exactly right, She was a Virgin Church Bride. She was the Virgin Bride of the Lord Jesus Christ. And Bro. Branham said, “Paul did not have to deal with Her, as he dealt with the Corinthian Church, because this Church was set in divine order. And divine order my brother/sister, let us understand this now, is not simply putting tongues, interpretations and prophecy and these gifts in another room. It is the divine order of Almighty God where Jesus Christ has already come down and set the Church in motion with the Shout, which is a subjection, a subduing unto Him. We’re not in a Church order what people think we are. See? Always there’s that criticism coming up. “Well, you people don’t believe in these gifts.” Oh, we certainly do believe in gifts. You bet we do. We believe in an order, but there’s an order far superior, because the gift ministry has moved out. I personally talked to Bro. Branham on the issue. I said, “Bro. Branham, do the gifts that I have…were they laid aside did they fade out, because the Churc, the age of the gift’s over?” He said, “Yes Bro. Vayle, the age of the gifts is over.” You don’t have to believe it, that’s fine with me. You say, “That’s not in part of the sermon.” That’s fine by me. That’s just …?... me first maybe. I don’t have problems with anybody. I know what he said, I was there. See? Those questions were important to me. 16. Now, this Church then, Paul…now listen again, Paul brought this request for this spirit see? On behalf of a Spirit filled church that was a Virgin Bride unto God and set unto divine order according to the prophet William Branham. The request was that this Church as a body would receive a visitation of the Spirit as a gift from God. The Church was to receive a gift from God. You understand what I’m saying? Every word I want you to take to heart, I want you to meditate upon It, I want you to literally, you can say, gloat over It, or do what you want. Take It in and eat It, masticate It, and make It a part of you, so you understand, this prayer was that God would give a gift to the Church. Then would anybody here turn down a gift of God? I want you to think. You’ve been reading It, read It right tonight for the first time. You’re used to gifts. Out of the world the church…and from the Roman hierarchy down, there’s no church that isn’t charismatic in some degree…and it’s accepted in some degree, then it must be a part of their doctrine and their dogma. And they’ve gone to gifts, but how many know about this Gift? Oh there’s lots of gifts and you can be confused about which gift. Some folk don’t know left hand from right hand. You know they say, that the …?... back in the first World War, the German army was so dumb that they couldn’t say, “Left right, left right,” so they put some straw on one foot, and hay on the other and say, “Hay foot straw foot, hay foot straw foot.” Yeah. Couldn’t tell left from right. Gift from a gift, just keep in mind. 17. All right, he prayed, “That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, might give unto thee, the Ephesian Church the spirit of wisdom even the Revelation of Him.” Now, let us be very careful to note that the purpose of this gift of the Spirit is absolutely contradistinctive that this gift of the Spirit that he is praying for is contradistinctive to the Gift of the Spirit as pertaining to the Baptism with the Holy Ghost. You say, “Bro. Vayle, I got the gift of the Holy Ghost,” then turn This down? You haven’t got any gift of the Holy Ghost. “Well,” you say, “Bro. Vayle I beg to be an exception.” You beg all you want, you got caught in your own words right there. Now come on, start thinking, we’re not playing church anymore. I don’t have that many days left, and I don’t want that many days either. There’s a big difference between these two. 18. Let’s just take a look at it. Eph 1:13-14. (13) In whom (you) also trusted… It says, “They trusted.” It didn’t say, “Now Paul was saying here, ‘now you Ephesians I hope you have trusted. Oh, you’ve heard me preach years ago, and you know my successors, and I know they preach this baptism with the Holy Ghost. And I do hope that you will trust, or you do trust, or you did trust.’” He said, “You trusted.” “Oh,” you say, “Paul was stupid.” Great, and throw the Book in the gutter. You see, I’m trying to pin you right down to the point, “Is it, or isn’t it?” Is it, or isn’t it? Was there a Gift spoken up for this day or was it not? Was there something reserved for us, or was it not? See, that’s a simple thing. Now, he said, (13) …(you) trusted, after that (you) heard… the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that (you) believed, (you) were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise. (With that Holy Spirit, right?) 19. Let’s go to Acts 19. Bro. Branham took us there, so I’m going to go to Acts 19. You can’t go wrong following the prophet. I don’t believe you can anyway. All right, (1) And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding a certain disciples (there.) (2) He said…Have (you) received the Holy Ghost since (you) believed? And they said (hey, we haven’t even heard such a thing as Holy Ghost, what are you talking about?) (3) And he said, (tell me, how were you baptized? What were you baptized unto?) And they said, Unto John’s baptism. “Oh,” he said, “I see it all now. I knew you had something.” But, he didn’t have what you’re suppose to have. (4) …John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him (that) should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus. All right, now they had one thing, they believed on one thing and they were believing to another thing. And they had received that one thing which could of taken them to the other thing had somebody brought the Light and Paul brought the Light. So they got that other thing, which is the Baptism of the Holy Ghost, Christ. (5) When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. (6) And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied. Now brother/sister, the church of Ephesus was already full of the Holy Ghost. So, he’s not talking about the Baptism with the Holy Ghost. He is not talking about the baptism, the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost was given at that time specifically for the Baptism with the Holy Ghost, to bring in the lost sheep and put them in the Bride of the Lord Jesus Christ, the body. See? That’s what He’s given for. 20. All right, it was evident to Paul that their divine position in Christ according to Eph 1:3-5, I’ll read it shortly, and their fruits unto God, Eph 1:15 eminently qualified them as candidates to receive That gift of the Spirit unto revelation, but though they were in that blessed position before God, the hope of that Spirit coming was dependent upon the sovereignty of God. Now, let’s find that position was that church in. The 3rd verse, beginning: [Ephesians 1:] (3) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ. (4) According as he hath chosen us… (He’s talking to the Ephesians. Remember he begot them unto God.) …before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him… (5) In love: having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will. Now, that’s their position. And notice exactly the fruit in verse 15, (15) Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus (Christ,) and love unto all the saints. They had faith in God, love toward God, and understanding and the same thing was developed amongst the people. So they had a position, which was absolutely in the sovereignty of Almighty God, and a divine and blessed perfect position. They were the Virgin Bride and they had that fruit in their lives. They had the gift of the Spirit under control. They had everything in proper manifestation. They were God’s fine chosen wheat of the hour. See? Now let’s understand that. 21. Now, they were blessed to such an extent, but before they could get that which Paul said was available, It had to come through the sovereignty of God, and no matter how blessed they were, not matter how wonderful they were, it still depended on the sovereignty of God, not the blessedness of the people. Though the people would be a blessed people, it wasn’t depended on that, because he said here, “I cease not to make mention of you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory may give unto you the Spirit of wisdom, revelation…” and so on. [Eph 1:16-17] Now, let us understand here immediately, that this hope, now that’s what he says here, there’s a hope outlined there that they hoped to have it, because they haven’t got it now. We must understand immediate that this hope is not the meeting of the Son of God in the air at the Rapture. That meeting has to do with a glorified body wherein God becomes incarnate to us, see, the Wedding Supper and all of that. This does not have to do with the body per se, it is a spirit, repeat, it is a spirit, and keep it there. Then keep it there. Well how many people that say they believe this Message, and understand even this? Now, Bro. Branham cannot speak contrary to this, and I’ll show he didn’t. He did not. See? 22. Now, so it is not the gift of the Holy Ghost at Pentecost, wherein that Spirit is given for the rebirth and an empowered life. But this is the Spirit designated for a special revelation of God just before the Rapture. You say, “How do you keep saying that?” I read it to you, that right after this revelation there is going to come a Resurrection and a Rapture. So therefore, this Gift of the Spirit is different from the Gift of the Holy Ghost at Pentecost. That’s right, Bro. Branham said, “You had to go back to Pentecost, but you didn’t dare go back to Pentecost.” See? This is why he preached ‘The Token’ the way he preached it. Baptism in contradistinction to the Presence. See? 23. Okay, so it is not the gift of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, wherein that Spirit is given for the rebirth, and empowered life, but this is a Spirit designated for special revelation of God, just before the Rapture, and is for a Bride already full of the Holy Ghost, and waiting to go to the Wedding Supper, because these folk are full of the Holy Ghost. And if they would of got This there’d been a Resurrection, they’d of taken off, and we’d have been…blown out. In other words, God would of taken two feet. Well, well, well, what a body that would be. But listen, that’s the way people think. So, if I’m a little sarcastic, I don’t mean to be sarcastic, I’m ironic, and I do it on purpose, because…you’ve got to take the gloves off these days, nobody understands. If we have a mule world brother/sister, it’s only one way to get the attention, that’s with a four by four; then you give him the carrots. I’m not being facetious; I’ve got trumped by the prophet on that. I could tell you, he said it was. This age is hybrid, they don’t know who their mammy and pappy are. The horse is different, he’s thoroughbred. There’s only one animal thoroughbred. People make mistakes, they think dogs are thoroughbred, they’re not thoroughbred they’re purebreds; thoroughbred only in horses, thoroughbred. Remember that, I’m not an agronomist. Oh, we got a good one back here. Greg you know that’s the truth. 24. Okay, this Spirit without flesh, notice, this Spirit without flesh, because God’s a Spirit and He took on flesh. But this Spirit is without flesh. This Spirit without the flesh, is just as surely a gift from God as was Jesus the Son when He came in flesh. Come on, well come on. I don’t need your amen’s, I’m just wanting to be sure your thinking cap’s on. “Oh, God so loved the world, He gave His only begotten…” “What’s this stuff about He gave …?... to …?... I don’t believe that.” Certainly you don’t, you never took the first gift. You just think you did, or you didn’t get as far as the baptism. Not trying to be tough, obstreperous, I just want to know. I just want to know how somebody can be full of the Holy Ghost and deny the Word of God? Drum up their own ideas, and Bro. Branham it was set forth by a man vindicated of Almighty God. How in the world can a man have his own ideas? Once in a while I get mine and I repent. Listen, it’s hard. It’s hard to have the pure mind of Jesus Christ. I’m not a prophet, I keep explaining that to people. See? 25. Now, look at the perfect symmetry between Isa 9:6-7, and these verses in Eph 1:19-21. All right, (6) For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. (7) Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform (it.) Now, that’s what it tells you about this gift is going to come into a kingdom. Now watch, how this gift here is not superseded by, but also has enabled us to receive a gift, which puts it into the kingdom that we’re looking for. Listen to it: (17) …the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, (he said, “I’m praying,” he said, “That God will give you this gift,) the spirit of revelation and wisdom in the knowledge of him. (18) The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that (you) may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, (19) And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power. (20) Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, (21) Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: (22) And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, 26. Now, you see what I’m talking about? The gift back there can only come into full realization dependent upon the gift of this hour. Now, what will that give me? It’s got to be the power of the One that raised Him, So then, Who is here? Elohim! See? That’s right, and that same One according to 1 Corinthians is putting all things under His feet. That’s God putting everything under the feet of Jesus to bring about this Kingdom. And the first thing that He put in order is the Bride, and that’s true Church order. Because, the word ‘subdue’ is the same word from ‘keleusma’ which the Lord descends with a Shout, which is a command to put the Church in order, and Bro. Branham had the vision of a Bride in order. Sure, it’s exactly brother/sister. How in the world can the words of a prophet be true if this isn’t true? When Bro. Branham himself, “God started and God’s got to finish It.” And he said, “The start of redemption was too important to God to relegate to anybody else.” And It tells you right here, Who’s going to put Jesus in the Kingdom. That’s that body up there, and I do not speak disgracefully, or disregard concerning Him, because we showed in our church over here, how exactly that body is so much part of God it’s a Son. Took you right from the human figure and took you right back. 27. All right, it is very evident this Scripture is why Bro. Branham said, “In these last days,” you know he said this, “In these last days God has given to us the Gift of His Son in the form of the Holy Ghost.” That’s what Bro. Branham said. That’s what Bro. Branham said. That’s what Bro. Branham said. Have you heard it? Have you read it? Do you know it’s true? Well, thank God you know it’s true, there’s a lot of people don’t know it’s true. And they don’t want to know it’s true. Bro. Branham himself said, “Those mysterious words hard to understand God in these last days has given…to us the Gift of His Son in the form of the Holy Ghost.” In plain English brother/sister, God came down to be His Own Gift with a ministry so identical. Absolutely, and then they say, “He’s not here.” I care not what people say. I get letters, I get phone calls, I get testimonies how when people hear this truth it’s like a rebirth. I don’t worry what anybody says, I’m only talking you folk, because I love you. Loved you all these years, and will continue to love you and try to help you. And I hit hard so there’s not one cob-web left, because I know what the devil [will] do when your mind gets done and you get sick. He’ll rob you and delude you of every vestige of Almighty God if he can. And don’t think he’s not strong brother/sister, you give one inch, he’ll take a mile. Paul said, “Give no place to the devil.” But we’re too anxious to give place to placate somebody. You can take your ecumenism brother/sister you’ll find that’s a hybrid, and God said, “I’ll uproot every single plant that’s not enough planted.” God planted pure original seed, you may look like a cocklebur now, but you better believe that there is a little bit in you, you had representation there, you’ve got it now. Yes sir, but you’ve got to put the thing in its order. 28. Now listen, let me say again what the prophet of these last days God has given us the gift of His Son in the form of the Holy Ghost. This is why Bro. Branham could say that Matthew 4, and we also found in chapter 12 of Matthew that the Lord Jesus Christ comes back in the form of the Holy Spirit and does for the Gentiles exactly what He did when He was in the flesh for the Jews. You know what Bro. Branham said? “That’s exactly true,” and he said, “He was obligated to do it.” Why was he obligated? Because in His Word. Certainly. Now you’ve heard enough on that to know the truth of it of Matthew chapter 4, and Matthew chapter 12. It is not God the Logos or Word coming in the flesh to the Bride, but coming in the form of the Spirit. The flesh coming is at the Rapture. And this Spirit coming precedes even the Resurrection according to Eph 1:19. There’s no meeting in the air with this One. Bro. Branham often said, “This Coming as in contradistinction to That Coming.” See? Now he said, “This was the Appearing.” 29. This visitation of the Holy Spirit can be none other than Paul mentions in 1 Th 4:13. Now let’s go and take a look at It, and understand It. Here this…the ‘Rapture’ tape of Bro. Branham is the epitomization of everything he ever said. (13) But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that (you) sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. (14) For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. Now remember, Paul is speaking to the people who will be alive at the time of the Resurrection and they’re worried. This church was worried, and they wanted some answers, and the answers for you and me, because we are alive at this time of the Resurrection. I’m seventy two …?... in a little while I could be here with the time of the Resurrection. I thought at one time I’d like to be, but forget it. I’d sooner be a part of the Resurrection if you people ought to know the truth. Because then you can have both experiences, very delightful. [Bro. Valye chuckles] How can a guy like you bank on it? I’m just banking on Him. I’ve got no problems anymore, He’s got it all. He doesn’t want me, that’s the end of it. If he wants me, that’s the end of it. Sure, when God makes decisions they’re for keeps, not like you and me. Make a bargain and make an extra buck, then we say, “Hey, we’re going to go ahead and make that extra buck, never mind the bargain.” Well, do you think that God is going to add one member to His body that didn’t belong in the first place? Forget it. You don’t worry about an extra buck or an extra sheep. There’s no such thing with God as extra bucks or extra sheep. I’m speaking of money now. 30. All right, [1 Thessalonians 4:] (15) For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming (that’s actually the Presence] of the Lord shall not prevent [that’s take precedent over, go before, hinder or anything like that) them (that) are asleep. (16) For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout… Now Bro. Branham said, “That was the Message.” When did you see somebody come around here with nail prints and give a message? So, how’s He going to do it? Only way He can do it, by the Holy Spirit. Then It says distinctly here, (16) …with the voice of the archangel… Bro. Branham said, “That was the Resurrection.” You show me one place where anybody but God raises the dead. And we’re talking now Elohim. See? We’re talking right back from before the beginnings. See? Now, (16) …with the trump of God: (that’s to call us together) and the dead in Christ shall rise first: (17) Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds… Now I want to ask you, “What is It that comes down here?” What is this? You say, “I believe that’s something different from Ephesians.” Then, you show me a Scripture where there’s continuity. You can’t do it, you become isolated. Now, if you cannot bring this into continuity, then you’ve isolated this. And if you’ve isolated it you’ve shot the whole works, because nothing can appear here that hasn’t appeared before. See, can’t do it. And remember the prayer went out to the Ephesians not to the Thessalonians. They were the ones. Now he’s telling them this is the truth. 31. Now, I mention 1 Jn 3:2, so I’ll go over it with you. (2) Beloved now are we the sons of God, (and it never yet come into existence) what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, (that’s manifest Himself and prove exactly who He is,) we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. Like Him, Who? The One that manifested Himself. In what form? It’s got to be by the Holy Ghost, because you’ve got to see Him, He’s got to be revealed to you before you get up in the air. So therefore, if you’re going to be changed here, which a group of people, have never yet been changed to immortality here on earth, I don’t even know that Enoch was, and I don’t even know that Elijah was. They could have been changed up there. Nobody knows, because there’s not a word on it. But for the first time a group of people are going to be changed. And don’t you see that this is 2 Corinthians the 3rd chapter, and I haven’t got time to go into it. We could be here till six o’clock tomorrow morning, and I kid you not. I got plenty strength right now, it’ll go away later on. I’ve got plenty strength in the pulpit. See? During the day time I don’t burn much mental energy. I don’t burn much energy at all, but I can burn it all up here tonight. See? Understand we’re talking about. There’s got to be an Appearing. Did you hear what I said? There’s got to be an Appearing, “When He shall Appear.” And Bro. Branham said, “This is the Appearing, He has been Appearing for several years now, and He first starting Appearing down there in the river.” 32. How many people get tapes? Let me see you hands. Who all gets tapes here? Well, I’ve got news for you, why don’t you get some of these tapes, not because Lee Vayle preaches. That is if you’ve got a pastor then you stick with your pastor never mind my tapes. But if you haven’t got a pastor, I want to tell you something, I’ve explained this over, and over, and over again and show you all this phraseology of the Appearing and all of these things; and I’ll show you some more tonight. See? So, it’s all lined up here in the Word of God in a continuity and not just a continuity, it’s almost redundant, not redundant, no, but over produced. Bro. Branham said, “This is the Appearing.” Now, “We’re going to be like Him, for we’re going to see Him as He is. Now, since the Resurrection and the Rapture cannot take place outside of a world in a Sodom condition, Lk 17: 22-30, must be fulfilled at this time. 33. So, let’s go to Lk 17:20-30…so I thank you for coming. If you get mad tonight and go away, well thank you for coming anyway. I don’t mean to get anybody upset. All right, (20) And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh (but) not with observation: He tells you right there, It’s going to come you won’t even know It’s there. So that’s got to be a spiritual connotation, or spiritual application. Not connotation. (21) Neither shall they say, Lo, here! Or, lo there! For, behold, the kingdom of God is (amongst you, in the midst of you.) Now, It’s in you as pertaining to the Baptism with the Holy Ghost, but now he’s talking about an actual literal kingdom, and believe me, this is not concerning of just you and I, individual, this is the big thing. Because they always want to know about the Kingdom. (22) And he said (to) the disciples, The days will come., when (you’ll) desire to see one of the days of the Son of man…shall not see it. (23) And they shall say to you, See here; see there go not after nor follow them. (24) For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part (of) heaven, (shines to) the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day. (25) But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation. 34. Now, he tells you what he’s talking about is going to be duplicated down the road somewhere, but in-between the time of the Appearing of the Son of Man, there’s going to be a death, and a Resurrection and a period of time. And that period of time is going to end in verse 26. That’ll tell you the commissions. (26) …as it was in the days of Noe, (it’s going to be) in the days of the Son of man. (27) …eat, drink (marry) wives, give in marriage, until the day Noe entered the ark, the flood came (took) them (all away.) (28) Likewise…as it was in the days of Lot; they (ate), they drank, they bought, they sold, planted, they builded; (29) But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. (30) …thus it shall be in the day when the Son of man is revealed. Now, everybody talks about the days of Sodom and Gomorrah, but nobody talks about the revelation outside of us. Now, you tell me how He’s revealed in this hour? And He’s got to be revealed in this hour before you and me go in a Rapture, because down here It tells you the Rapture takes place after this. Now, how did God ever reveal? By the Holy Ghost, because He is the Holy Ghost. See? You understand what I’m saying? Okay. You notice then Luke 17:30 blends perfectly with Eph 1:17, the revelation of Him, Who? The Son of Man. 35. All right, now, how many spirits of revelation are there and at what time do they come? I want you to point out a Scripture. I don’t know how many times anybody thinks they’re going to come. Like Bro. Branham said, “In that day, you shall know that I’m in the Father, the Father in Me, and I in you.” He said, “At Pentecost, (right? And He said,) in this hour and at the White Throne,” and there’s a fourth place he said, but I forget where it is. Now, what we’re we talking about? We’re talking about the fact of revelation, and that day you’ll know. And what does Scripture say about knowledge? Jesus Christ said, “That they may know Thee, the only true God and Jesus Christ to Whom Thou has sent.” [Jn 17:3] And that revelation is going to come to the Church at the end-time. Do you understand what I’m saying brother/sister? If you understand this, let me tell you something, where Bro. Branham speaks of the Blood applying It at this age when It didn’t apply before you can begin to understand how the Token can be at this hour and not another hour. Like he said, “The Token is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself.” 36. Now, if you’ve got the Token you’re a liar. I’m going to tell you right to your faces you’re liars. There’s nobody can say, “I have got The Token,” you’re a liar, because that means you are the incarnation of Almighty God, because The Token is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. Now you have a token, you have been given a measure of the same Spirit He is, but that does not make you The Token. Sixteen trillion people will never make The Token. Some of you look a little skeptical, I think you better go home and pray. Don’t pray about my spirit, that spirit’s okay. I’m not fussing with anybody; I’m just fussing with the Word that people come back against this true Word of God. He said, “The Token is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself.” And who did he say Jesus Christ was? He said, “It was Elohim.” He said, “He was that original One.” Sure, He laid it all down, and he said, “He’s here in the form of the Holy Spirit in a Pillar of Fire.” He said, “He’s laid aside the flesh,” and He did. Why listen, there’s so many Trinitarians and quadruplairns, octarians amongst us God knows what, how many god’s we’ve got. I just wonder anymore. How many gifts are there? How many this, how many that? But to pin down for this hour seems like people have lost their minds. I wish we could lose our minds, get the mind of Jesus Christ. Remember how I told you, Bro. Bosworth pulled my coat in 1953, and he said, “Bro. Vayle, I prayed for the ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ to return to this earth for forty years, and there It is in that man.” The Son of Man revealed. See? 37. Now, then hear what the prophet said on Questions and Answers when he was asked this question. Said, “Bro. Branham, some people believe that you are the Son of Man?” I thought the Pillar of Fire was the Son of Man. And he said, “I am not He, and the Pillar of Fire is not He,” now talking about the Son of Man, now watch it, Son of Man is in the form of the Holy Ghost. Now what’s that? God moving through a prophet. He said, “The prophet is not the Son of Man, he reveals the Son of Man.” I want to ask you, “What spirit is that?” You say, “I believe that’s the Baptism of the Holy Ghost.” You believe wrong, or you better be doing it. You better be doing it. You know better than that brother/sister, because you know it’s a prophet has got a measure of the Holy Ghost and faith that you and I don’t even approximate in our wildest dreams. And I’m going to tell you something, as little tiny gift like Bro. Branham said I’ve got, you know, when he compared his gift and my gift. …?... gift like mine he said, “Nobody wants yours, nobody wants mine.” 38. I’m going to tell you something, you don’t understand how these gifts work, unless you’ve got one. I’m going to tell you, there’s an ease and a simplicity in them, that is so astounding you don’t even know where It’s coming from. That’s the way the things of God are always, there’s nothing hard about anything with God, because it’s all of grace that does it all. That’s how the Spirit’s given, by grace. Yeah. And grace comes by love. Not love by grace, don’t ever think that. Ah, no, no, you’d be wrong, see, right down the line. But he said, “Who is It, (what he said) it’s neither Pillar of Fire, nor it is I. “ “Oh,” he said, “The prophet’s not the Son of Man, he reveals Him.” Oh, how’s the Son of Man revealed? In the form of the Holy Spirit moving. He’s got to have someone to work through; got to have Someone that moves you. See? And this brings us to exactly how God in the form of the Holy Spirit in the Pillar of Fire imparts an Omega Revelation to the Church. He does it exactly as He always done it, which is by a prophet. 39. Now look, nobody’s going to tell me different. Bro. Branham had a real thing going with himself in disappointment and in tragic rejection over the fact that he was a prophet just a man. He didn’t have a great education; he wasn’t some PhD, some great big high falluting mighty wonderful polished person, hallelujah. You know, some great big man out of the Vatican, or out of the Assemblies of God, or who knows what he was out of. The proverbial Kentucky hillbilly thing and I know and you know from the tapes if you’ll just cast your minds back from the tapes and the times you heard him preach; that he wasn’t resentful, but he was deeply, deeply hurt over the fact that people could not accept a prophet. And he spent forty to sixty percent of every single sermon preaching the fact that he was God’s prophet. And he said, “Do you believe me to be God’s prophet?” That’s who William Branham was, God’s prophet. Not a prophet of God, we got dozens of those, but God’s prophet. Like Moses was God’s prophet, Balaam was not God’s prophet, but he was a prophet. You got lots of prophets, like the apostle Paul. Paul said, “If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, (that’s five-fold) or spiritual, let him acknowledge the things that I write are the commandments of the Lord.” [1Cor 14:37] 40. So, the five-fold ministry prophet doesn’t have one thing over a pastor, or evangelist, or teacher, or apostle or anybody, he’s just one of the boys. Oh, I know there’s things going around now, trying to make poor Joseph…they’re driving him crazy with trying to make him somebody he’s doesn’t even want to be. And that’s a good sign, because when you don’t want to be, that shows there’s something there. “When you want to be, hallelujah, I know hallelujah, I’m not going to look your way.” No, no, no, no, you’ve…come on, I’ve had enough of that looking. I got this terrible sense of humor you know. Years ago people used to prophesy over me and make me some great big thing, and I’d just sit there laughing. And when they cussed the life out of me, I’d sit there laughing too. I’m the most irreverent person you ever saw when it comes to all this talk. I trust you understand what I’m saying brother/sister, look, the world’s full of it, but we’ve had a vindicated prophet. And they treated that vindicated prophet worse than they treated those little boys out there, that just were sugar-coating things. Running little risks and little sort of Bible roulette, and you know discernment roulette. No sir, brother/sister that’s not a God. 41. Now listen, God uses the prophet and the prophet must be vindicated, we know that’s Deuteronomy chapter 18. Now let it be known, there is a Scripture for an end-time prophet of restoration and revelation. Jesus said so in Mt 17:10-11. And I don’t understand why students cannot understand this. Look, when people darken their minds, there’s nothing you can about it. So don’t even try. Now, let’s look at that 10,11 verses. (10) And his disciples asked him. Saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come? (11) And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things. (12) But I say (Elijah is already) come, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them. (13) Then, the disciples (knew it was) John the Baptist. And so many people say, “There it is, John the Baptist, that’s the Elijah, it’s all over, there’s no more.” Jesus answered their question when they said, “Listen, is it true that Elijah’s got to come before the Kingdom which we saw in a vision as put on this earth?” And he said, “Yes, he’s got to come before that time.” 42. Now they use the Scripture and they contradict Scripture with Scripture. Now, if the world is that bad off, what’s it going to take to get them out of it? Nothing! Nothing will get them out of it. I don’t care what you think he said, “Oh, the grace of God.” The grace of God sent the prophet with the gift. God Himself being the Gift gifted a prophet, and he came and proved, and they still don’t believe It. So I love Jack Moore, the man is deceased, fine man of God. Bro. Branham loved him. And his statement was this: he said, “I believe it’s already over in Matthew 17.” But he did say this, he said, “If I believed that there was an Elijah to come, Bro. Branham would get my vote.” Now listen, would get his vote, is not to my liking, I’ve given him my vote. In other words, I do not see any competition between me and Bro. Branham. And I see no competition between Bro. Branham and anybody else. To me he is the one that’s over. Now, he had the Cap-stone ministry of the six thousand years brother/sister of God’s grace. 43. Here’s a man that God… I don’t know if you people were at his funeral or not, but that is the day of the funeral oration, but if you’d of been there and saw what I saw, you’d understand God’s great salute to a prophet. I saw, and many people saw with me, because I brought to their attention to it; out of the left hand side of the sun floated down billows of pure solid gold. And on the right hand side billows of blood, as the yellows went between the sun and a white building, the white building turned golden, and when the blood came down in a cloud, it just poured down like a mist. It came between the sun and the white building, it turned a pink color. And all that night the lights of neon, everything was like a mauve color. God’s great salute; and you can look up at the sun and see the …?... jumping around like this, and you can look, and I looked and looked and looked and my eyes never…and I haven’t had a thing wrong with my eyes, that would burn your eyes out normally. God’s salute to a great prophet. Oh yeah, the blood and the gold brother/sister; the blood and the gold at the same, your salvation at this hour, the Kingdom amongst us, the things of God moving, the Seven Seals, all of those things. God, God, God, God, and what God did proving It and they just turned their backs on It. Oh, I got mad a couple of times. I don’t feel unsanctified either, not one little bit. Yes, Mt [17:]:11 said It. He said, “Elijah shall truly come and restore all things.” I want to ask you a question; did John come and restore all things? You got to be kidding. No, he did what he’s supposed to do. He had a small part. See? There’s too much in there. 44. Okay, what about Acts 3. Let’s look at Acts 3 and see what It says there. Oh my, we’re coming along pretty good. All right, Peter speaking here, and we go to the 19th verse, and we’ve cut it in two, because I believe there should be a period there. (19) …when times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; (Now, that’s not presence in the sense that we understand Presence.) (20) And (even) he shall send Jesus Christ, which (was appointed or proclaimed in advance) unto you: (21) Whom the heaven(s) must (retain, that’s receive and retain) until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began. Now, It tells you right there there’s going to be a restoration of what the prophet said. In other words, to restore what the prophet said is what John the Baptist did, which was to line the Scripture for that hour, concerning the Lord Jesus Christ and the Coming. So therefore, someone must come and line the Scripture. Someone must come and bring a revelation and tell us what it really does mean. Because you cannot figure by the fine mind, it won’t work. So then, who is going to do restoring? The Bible says, “Elijah restores.” So you see, we have the understanding here. It says, “Absolutely, that there’s going to be great revival.” There’s going to be like brother…this Word ‘refreshing’, means a fresh breeze. And Bro. Branham said, “This revival’s been going on for thirty years,” and it hasn’t stopped. And he said, “Listen; there’s no such thing as a true healing revival unless a true message follows it, and it’s got to be a new message.” Not the old dried out thing, not the old dead thing, or God has defeated His purpose; for why should He do something great and miraculous to give us the same old dead thing? 45. So, He lets you know right here, there’s got to be a miracle ministry. Then notice how It says in there, (22) …A prophet shall the Lord your God, raise up raise up to you… (and so on.) (23) …(It’ll) come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed… That word is, “Utterly destroyed,” the same as Malachi. So this is Malachi 4. Now watch in 24, (24) Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel… How did he get in there? He’s not an Isaiah, no, he’s not a Moses. He’s not an Amos. No. No. He’s a priest prophet, and he discerns. Yep, exactly what It says. Samuel shouldn’t be in there. You tell me where Samuel brought the Word of the Lord to the people? Oh, he did not. He could go to God and get an interpretation on the Word already given. And his discernment proved that he could do it. And his character qualified him eminently. You bet, he had proof. He had power. Sure he did. (24) And (they) that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days. See, it tells you, that there’s got to be a problem raised up. Now, you know that’s Mal 4:1-6. (1) …behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch, 46. Now, that tells you right there the ones at that period of time, the foolish virgin’s gone even too now by this time. They’re to be incinerated; they’ll go to the lake of fire period. That’s this age brother/sister, so don’t you go patting yourself on the back concerning this age. And don’t you give credit where credit is not due, because Bro. Branham categorically said, and you know that he said it, that, “The Pentecostal movement is the chaff, and the chaff gets burned.” And you know he also categorically said, that, “The whole thing at the end of this period changes from chaff to a tare and a wheat.” Showing what? Showing the last vestige of God is GONE, because chaff showed that it came up, was part of the natural election, but this goes right back to serpent seed when you talk about tares and wheat. Things really get worse and worse. [Matthew 24:] (23) This generation shall not pass away until all things be fulfilled. What does it mean, ‘this generation’? It means, ‘this kind of people’. What kind of people? The Sodomites. Haw, they’re passing laws all over to stop sodomy. You’re not going to stop it. They’re going to do it anyway. And now they’re going to spend hundreds of millions to try to cure it, so you boys and girls go ahead, have all your fun, go more, more, more, more. You’re at the end of the rope. 47. The government itself, everybody is conspiring to keep on the Sodomites in the land. And God said, “Get rid of them!” No wonder Bro. Branham said, “He’s going to put a fire on this earth to burn up all the germs a thousand mile high,” carry that stuff in the Millennium. Oh come on, let’s get the picture here. He said, “In that hour the Son of Man is revealed.” And He said, “That God may send you a spirit, give you a gift…” Church look for a gift. Why do you think Bro. Branham preached that great sermon, ‘A Greater than Solomon is Here,” and the woman, Sheba, queen of Sheba came to see the gift, but he said, “Look at the gift now.” Look at the gift. And everybody thought, “Well that’s just the great gift the prophet had.” Oh come on, come on, come on. The great Gift was God giving His Son in the form of the Holy Ghost. 48. What was that Pillar of Fire on Bro. Branham’s shoulder? “Oh what was that Cloud that appeared?” Do you thing that’s just something God gave just for fun? There’s your Token brother/sister, if you want to know the truth. There’s the Gift in this hour, you want a real gift? Everybody talks about Jesus. Wonderful…and he against his own will becomes a decoy for Satan. How? Because Satan has always used the Word, and twisted the Word and turned the Word. That’s how they talk about the great gift Jesus, the great…Listen brother, I’m not minimizing Jesus. Don’t think wrong, because look it, for years I said thank God we’ve got Jesus, He’s a man, He’ll understand, and then I began to hearing Bro. Branham, and I said, “Praise God, praise God, look at God here.” I put Jesus to one side. First of all I had God the Holy Ghost put to one side after I put Jesus aside. Now, I’m coming right back to the middle. I say, “Thank God I understand.” I don’t denigrate Him, I love Him and I’m glad. I’m glad, but you see, you cannot honor the Son unless you honor the Father, and you cannot honor the Father unless you honor the Son. You got to have a balance there. Now remember, what we’re talking about Son right now if the form of a body. And Bro. Branham said, that, “That body was so much a part of God, that it was the Son. I explained it all in about the first two sermons, ‘Christ is Revealed in His Own Word.’ 49. Now, we’re talking about this: [Malachi 4:] (2) But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; (that’s immortality) and (you’ll) go forth, and grow up as calves (in) a stall. (3) And…tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts. Then finally, 5 and 6, (5) Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: (6) And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. Now, that 4th verse said, (4) Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments. Now remember, there was two times the law was given. One was in condemnation and one was in mercy. And remember, the Bible’s written all the time in a parallel structure, Mt Ebal, evil, and Mt Gerizim, blessing. There are going to be: blessing, cursing, blessing, cursing, blessing, cursing. Every time you hear to hear ‘blessing’ you’ve got to hear ‘cursing’. But every time you hear cursing, remember there’s a blessing. 50. So therefore, there’s going to be a curse on the earth, the burning up, “But unto you…” unto you, see, there’s got to be. God must come in judgment to the wicked, but He never destroys the righteous with the wicked. Never. Abraham could of said, “Lord God, let me ask you a question.” He could of said, “Hey Lord listen, I would like to ask several questions, but I’ll narrow it down to one. Is there any chance that You’ll ever destroy the righteous with the wicked, even one?” He said, “No chance, Bro. Abraham, no chance, no way.” Abraham wasted a lot of good time. Notice, how gracious God is, beating your gums out to God, but there’s no sense in it. …He wasn’t going to destroy any righteous, He never will. See? Blessing, cursing, blessing, cursing, blessing cursing. So here it is here. In Horeb there’s two things: one, the law was given unto judgment, and one given unto blessing. And when He comes to avenge He’ll condemn one, and build the other like the widow. 51. So, look what you see here, what do you see? [Malachi 4:] (5) Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: What day is that? That part of the “dreadful day of the Lord,” a period of time is the burning. “Before there’s a burning, before there’s a great tribulation, I’m going to send you Elijah and he’s going to turn the hearts of the children back to the fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.” Now, what did John the Baptist do in turning the hearts of the fathers to the children? Well, let’s read Lk 1:17, and understand the Scripture, so we don’t have any problems in our minds. Notice, (17) And he shall go before him (that’s the Lord God of Israel) in the spirit and power of (Elijah) to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, (And what is it? Even) the disobedient… (Now, that’s not willful disobedient, that’s ignorant, teaching the ignorant.) the wisdom of the just; (Who is the just? He’s the just One in a human form, there’s none good but God, you see? So He’s going to turn them to the wisdom,) to make ready a people prepared… How do you make ready what’s prepared while you’re cooking a dinner; so everything is prepared to get ready to eat it? So what… the prepared things you put in a pot on the fire, you eat it. So, what is there here? There’s an elected people a predestinated people, that got to get out of here, and they can’t get out of here no matter how righteous they are, how good they are, how loving, how kind, how sweet, how everything, they can’t do it. There’s got to be a Gift by grace to get them out of here. 52. So, what does he do? He comes down Himself. God makes Himself a Gift again, in Son-ship yet. Yes! It’s not Fatherhood going on; It’s Son-ship in this hour. He never ceased to be Father, how could He be Father and cease to be Father? My goodness me, how can He be Judge and cease to be Judge? He can’t, He’s the same God but the dominate and recessive traits come out. So two thousand years ago He was dominate Son of God, in a recession. Now, for a short while dominate is Son of Man. Now It’s receded again. Do you follow what I’m saying? Kind of throw the book at you, but you got to understand these things, that’s all I can do is help you if I can. Now listen, it shows you right here, what is this, (17) … to make ready a people prepared for the Lord. You say, “Now just a minute,” no, there’s no just a minute at all, because this is the truth. Elijah has a job with Almighty God engaged in It, to see that a people is ready. Now, I want to ask you a question: When was God not ever engaged in getting the people ready? Now this is something different brother/sister. See? 53. All right. Now, as we keep all this in mind we want to read again that verse 17, in Ephesians 1: Okay. (17) That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation (even revelation) in the knowledge of him: The Spirit of Wisdom brings us a full revelation of Jesus Christ. And please let this sink deep within your mine, this revelation in Ephesians 1: is evidently not what Paul was sovereignly given by God at that time, first Church age, that’s right It wasn’t to give to the people; this revelation was future and is not yet set forth to the people. Now, this is not to say, he did not understand It, because he speaks about a time when he was caught up to the third heaven, and heard things that were unlawful, the same as John heard things he was forbidden to write. Also, he tells you plainly he has not known the power of the Resurrection which he wants to know, and he cannot know It, because only this age can know It. I mean loosed amongst the people. See? Paul couldn’t know It. All right. You understand that? That’s 2 Cor 12:1-7 and Phil 3:7-11. Now, it is not revealed to the people, forbidden as was John. By now it is very evident that the Spirit that was to give the revelation had not yet made Itself known at that time, but Paul knew that that Spirit would be available at the end-time preceding the Resurrection. It says so in verses 17-23. Because the revelation comes before the Resurrection and the Rapture, and we come back for on earth here. 54. Okay, in other words, this is Paul’s prophecy of a future revelation just before the Resurrection and the Rapture. Therefore, this is a prophecy in the Book that people should look for. But, we’re just like it was in the days of the Eunuch. And here’s old Phillip going down the road and the Eunuch reading Isaiah 50, and he says, “What is this he’s talking about? Isn’t this talking about himself or some other man? What’s going on here?” And Phillip said, “Hey, do you know what you’re reading?” He said, “How can I except some man tell me.” Oh brother, you won’t get that today. Give us some more Ethiopian eunuchs. More eunuchs you bet, [if you] don’t have your own seed [you] better get God’s seed. Paul wanted a whole bunch castrated. That’s exactly true. Castration of the mind is good for some people. Bro. Branham hit in the physical, Christ revealed in those words; which is fine too. I hope you’re catching what I’m trying to show you. It is to make it clear as possible, that there is to be an end-time or time-ending. An end-time or time-ending Message by God to finish off this last age even as it took a first age Message by God to start it all. 55. We will read what Paul says about himself at that time when he was the Messenger of the first Church Age. And the first Church Age brought the Alpha Message. And that of course is in Gal 1:11-19, and chapter 2:6-10. Where he tells you how he got the revelation, then went up to check with the apostles and they couldn’t tell him one thing different. His was a perfect revelation without ever known Jesus in the flesh and he got it straight by the Holy Ghost and the Pillar of Fire face to face. See? Now, the point I’m making is in the reading of these Scriptures, is that the time of the Gentile church, or at that time when the Gentile church first came into existence by God and the prophet were personally face to face. That’s how God brought the Gentile church into being; true being, (See?) was through himself and a prophet face to face now. There was a relationship. Now, and you will notice that the Holy Ghost had already been given. Yes sir. Yep, before the Gentile church really got going, under Paul he’s the apostle, the Holy Ghost had been given and the two doors to both churches, Jew and Gentile had been opened. Do you follow what I’m saying? Let’s get the picture brother/sister. Paul was the apostle to the Gentiles though Peter open the doors, from that time on it was stifled. The Holy Ghost had been given. Now you listen, you can’t deny that that’s the truth. It’s exactly what had happened. 56. Now, God, yet and yet God made a Personal Visitation in a Pillar of Fire to Paul, and gave him the revelation apart from all the others though it was the same revelation. What do you do about that now? “Oh,” you say, “Well you see, you see God.” Don’t tell me you see God in the Bible, because I can …?... that’s your attitude. You don’t see. And don’t tell me you see, because you don’t see. I believe everybody here does see, but I lay it on just to keep your mind sharp. So you don’t let your minds lag one little bit. The Church was open, both doors, Jew and Gentiles. The Holy Ghost had fallen, and yet God comes on the scene in a Pillar of Fire, and talks to Paul face to face and gives him the same revelation. Only the completed revelation, because he said, “Israel one time understood predestination of the Gentiles,” but he said, “Not as they know It now in this hour. And Paul brought the clear revelation of the Word of Almighty God that you already had. And the Holy Ghost was already given and the church in existence. And the people right today, “You see, we don’t need any prophet coming on the scene. Who needs God to do more? Hallelujah, we wouldn’t be in that class to say, ‘Oh Lord, give me more’, because Lord, You’ve already done that.” But he said, “Hold it, I promised I’d give more. Oh, no, no, Lord. No, no, no.” 57. Every organization has done the same thing and said the same thing and they’re all tares today brother/sister. You want to go down with them? Go ahead. I challenge you; let’s see where it’s going to go. Let’s see where the lines are going to fall in the very near future. You say, “You talk pretty sure.” You bet I talk sure. I got a sure prophet. I never built one thing to myself yet. Hah! That’s a laugh…that would be a laugh right there. Therefore, Paul was sovereignly disallowed by God from receiving a revelation from either the Jews or the Gentiles. So was John the Baptist, so was William Branham, and that’s what I’m getting at. The church is going, we’ve had the Lutherans, and Wesley’s, we’ve had Pentecost. We’ve had the fine seminaries, we’ve had these great men of God, there’s no problem there, that’s fine. So then who…what have you done great? Then who needs this? God said you need It. God gave His Gift, and He gave a prophet with a gift. And we need him. You can’t turn him down, because it’s sovereign. Now, Paul prayed for it then why should we reject it? Imagine Paul the apostle praying for this great thing that he couldn’t have. Paul was not going to get a second time from God, face to face brother/sister; no way shape and form. But this prophet William Branham was two thousand years later. As Bro. Branham said, to me on a private tape. I can’t quote anymore exactly word for word. “But you see Lee, we haven’t had a prophet like Moses spoke face to face with God like the apostle Paul for two thousand years till now.” Telling you that William Branham spoke face to face with God. You say, “That’s presumption.” Well fine and dandy, I’ve got no problem. 58. Let me just read to you what It says in the Book of Acts. Let’s just find out a little saying here…I think this could shake just about everyone of us up. Acts 13:41, they’re talking about the things of God, the Resurrection of Jesus Christ and these great things that were done. He said in verse 41, (41) Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you. It tells you right there; tells all these people that scoff and say, “Hey, that’s just a man just a man.” Oh, well fine, what are you going to work with? What has God ever worked with? In whose image are we? Ha! Tells you where the seed came from. Oh, come on brother/sister this is not difficult, not difficult at all. 59. All right listen, Acts 9:1-6, that’s Paul on the road to Damascus. Gal 1:15-17 where he tells you that they could add nothing to them, that he had the revelation; can be none other than the Alpha to the Omega of Rev 10:1-17. The mighty Angel comes down. Who’s got the rainbow? The One that was on the Throne. Who was on the Throne? God in a Pillar of Fire. What is God? Spirit. Who came down? God did. Who swears by God? God swears by God. God came down in the form of the Pillar of Fire. He came down in ’33, but notice the recessive traits. [Said in a very loud voice] Notice how God was dominate, then swung right back into it again. It came dominate, then more dominate until He allowed His picture to be taken; then came the Clouds running around. Came with seven mighty angels that formed a halo so to speak. Formed that beard, the Judge. Seven angels came in the form of the Holy Ghost each day and brought the Word of God to William Branham; those seven spirits before the Throne, those seven lamps. Seven, people say, “The Seven Seals are not open? Bro. Branham said, “The seven Seals is Rev 10:1. And if he didn’t fulfill Rev 10:1, they were a bunch of fools. And he’s a crook, because he deliberately crooked us. But he sure made me believe. Rev 10:1 had taken place. When that Pillar of Fire wrote on the wall that day in his front room, he said, “Lee did you see it?” And I said, “No, but I see the one that does see it. That’s okay by me.” I put my faith in William Branham, then he’ll answer to God, and you believe I’m teaching his word tonight the same word. You put your faith in what I say, I’ll answer to God. You say, “We’ll all end up fools.” Oh, not too badly fooled. At least we’ve got something that fooled us. Something pretty good, they got nothing, wood, hay, stubble, forget it. I can’t waste my time on that nonsense. 60. Now then, let us examine the original Church Age’s thesis, which constituted Paul’s message, that’s over here in [1] Corinthians the [2nd] chapter. I’m trying to show you something here. This is the Alpha message, this is what is was in the beginning, and he says here in 1-8. (1) …I, brethren…came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. Now, he said, “I came with the testimony of God, but not in wisdom and excellency of speech. (2) For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. Now listen, that’s Christ and him crucified. And He had the power to demonstrate that was the message, and we won’t read any further. What was the power to be released in this hour that’s going to bring on a Resurrection? It would have to be the same; the demonstration of power, but now in the signs of the Resurrection. This was merely the signs that his death had accomplished what God wanted accomplished. But now we’re looking for the Resurrection, the same as He had. We’ve already had the death and crucifixion he had, we’re living the life by the Life that He gave us, but now we’re to get transformed. So, how’s He going to do it? Just the way we see it here. 60. Now, in 1 Cor 15:1-9, he speaks of the Resurrection, and the gospel is to believe that Christ died and rose again the third day. In 1 Cor 11:23-26, pardon me, especially 26, he mentions that Christ’s crucifixion cannot be forgotten, nor his preaching ceased until it is all over at the very last and the last Bride is gone, and of course the foolish virgin may keep on talking about the blood, and talking about the death, but it’s too late it’s all over. See? You’re going to have to keep preaching it. But what is it at this hour? What’s the message is there? End-time evangelism that Bro. Branham preached and Bro. Boze was going to go to Africa and Bro. Boze sat there and he didn’t catch what Bro. Branham was saying, “Look Boze, if you’re going to Africa, you go with one truth, which is the word of the end-time evangelism: ‘A prophet of God is on the scene, and God is with the prophet vindicating the prophet and vindicating himself, get ready for the Rapture.’” But you know what? He didn’t see It, which is alright, because that’s his business. 61. Now, at this end-time wherein the preaching of the Cross is now tapering off, now let’s understand that Bro. Branham said, “Justification gives way to sanctification, sanctification gives the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and the baptism gives way to the Holy Ghost Himself.” A token, gives way to ‘The Token’. The baptism gives way to The Baptizer’, (See?) the same One. Oh listen, I know this is tricky thinking for some people, but I want to ask you a question, why did God have to come down and look over Sodom? If God is omnipotent and He’s omniscient He didn’t have to come down, and He didn’t have to go down anywhere and inquire. So, why did God bother to come on down when He didn’t need to come down? It’s the same thing God did not need to send John the Baptist, but He did. And He said, “You people that don’t think I need to send him, you mind your own business or you are going to die.” Everybody wants to second guess God and tell God what to do. A bunch of Sanhedrin, …?... Sanhedrin got so puffed up they said, “When God gets in trouble He calls on us.” No wonder God has had trouble ever since. [laughter] Oh brother, what’s the matter with people? See? 62. Now, it is Eph 1:17. And Eph 1:17 is added to Eph 1:13-14, that these people that have the Holy Ghost in a measure in a modicum, or microcosm. Listen, how big is a male sperm? Fifteen thousand across the diameter of one hair. That’s what they tell me, I don’t know. Maybe it’s only five thousand, but I read fifteen thousand, who cares. You can’t even see with a microscope hardly. How big is a female egg? Not much bigger, but bigger. All right, how much of that does it take to make a baby? Just those two! How much of God does it take to make you born again? Pbbt! See, that’s the picture. Does that little baptism make it the Baptizer? No! It’s the Life of the Baptizer, and It’s the same Life. See? So, that’s what we’re looking at here, this picture. So, now at the end-time after Eph 1:13-14, comes 1:17. You don’t pray now for the baptism, you’ve already got it. What do you pray for? You pray for that Gift. And remember the Gift is twofold. Oh yeah, God Himself and a Prophet of God, and God’s prophet. Then He vindicates It. Okay, we understand that All right, the baptism runs out. Notice how perfectly this lines with Peter after the lame man was healed on the day of Pentecost, Acts 3:12-23, we read that, so we’ll let it go. We don’t have time for that. 63. All right, we’re winding down. Thus it can be seen, now watch, thus it can be seen that the Cornerstone, as Bro. Branham said, “Has become the Headstone.” Remember, Zerubbabel crying, “Grace, grace, to bring forth the headstone.” [Zech 4:7] Now listen carefully, and be very careful to understand this statement. If the Cornerstone was not physical at the inception of the Church, now was it? He was gone. Physical Cornerstone was in Heaven. When the Church was born on Pentecost, yup, you know that, because the rebirth is by the baptism with the Holy Ghost. So, Christ is the Cornerstone, back there it is Spirit. Then what will the Headstone be? The Headstone is the same as the Cornerstone, but in different position. And notice the Headstone is a little pyramid all by itself. So everything that came from that Pyramid is in this Pyramid down here. That’s what He wants down here, not everything the church doesn’t create and anything else. Never was given that, that was an end-time gift by a prophet, when God began to create again; just to prove that He was “The beginning of the creation of God.” [Rev 3:14] 64. All right, now, if a Cornerstone was not physical at the inception of the Church, the Capstone cannot be physical either at the ending of the Church. That is why Bro. Branham categorically said, “The Headstone is here.” The same prophet also said, “Jesus Christ, Holy Spirit comes down, sets Himself at the head of the Church and raises the dead.” So therefore, the Capstone has to be here in some form before the dead are raised. And you saw Him revealed. Bro. Branham said, “The prophet revealed Him.” Revealed in His Own Word, revealed by His Own Word, His Own Word revealing Himself; nobody can change it brother/sister, it’s just as right. Now, this is true, so the Church ages go out as they came in, the Pillar of Fire and a prophet. Okay, surely we can see then, that Malachi 4, is true, there’s no doubt about it, that this end-time Message to the predestinated purpose of God, because the Message is to the predestinated purpose, which is to have a Bride taken out of here at this hour. And God is Present to get us out of here, because Bro. Branham said, “The Pillar of Fire is going to get us out of here to the Millennium.” And he said, “When that Spirit that’s in the midst of you becomes incarnate to us we’ll crown Him Kings of kings and Lord of lords.” 65. Now remember, let’s go back here to Matthew 16, and I’m going to close up pretty quick now, and get you out of here, because I want you back tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow night; Communion service, the whole thing. Just look at here, I think it’s the last verse of 16: (28) Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom. [Matthew 17:] …after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart. Now, that word ‘brings up’ means, He took them in His arms and went up in the air with Him. 66. All right, Who’s here? The same One in the form of the Spirit. Who’s getting the Church ready? The same One in the form of the Spirit. Who’s going to raise the dead? The same One in the form of the Spirit. Who’s going to take us up? The same One in the form of the Spirit. Who’s going to get incarnate, incarnated to us? The same One that takes us up. Jesus does all three in descending. And Bro. Branham categorically preached in his Messages, concerning our Lord Jesus Christ, Whom we love and adore and understand as our Mediator, our Intercessor, and our High Priest and they called Him the Body; that he referred to Jesus all the time as the One in the Pillar of Fire. That you talk to anybody today, and they say, “Who is Jesus Christ?” And they say, “Oh, He’s the One sitting on the Mercy Seat up there.” I’ve got news for you. He is not! And He is not on the Mercy Seat, He’s on the Throne. Because Bro. Branham said, “He took the Book out of the hand of the Lamb and ripped the Seals and gave It back, and climbed on the Throne.” Why? Because the One on the Throne came down here. See? You see the picture brother/sister? It’s not hard to understand. So now, in this last day, That One is here. 67. Now, one, an Omega Message of the open Seals, this is… not Alpha now, this was the Omega. An Omega Message of the open Seals and revealed Thunders and proven to be the Word of God. That is what we have today. The One who closed the Book, remember Jesus opened that Book and He closed It. And He closed It on the premise and understanding, absolutely, that it was the hour and the day, not of judgment, but of the giving of grace. True, and what did He do at this hour? The Lamb opened the Book [end of side two of tape one] of Revelation. Revelation 22: Now, It says here in the 10th verse, Now: (10) And he (said) unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand. Now listen, you say, “Okay, Bro. Vayle that happens to be the Book of Revelation.” Ha, ha, ha, ha, just a minute, let me tell you something, there’s a prophecy by Paul that said, “There’d be a spirit returned to this age to give revelation.” Now, that was sealed up, because Paul couldn’t do it. He prayed that God may do it, but God didn’t. And in Hebrews 6, he said, “Let us go on to perfection if God allows.” And God didn’t allow. So it’s all in the sovereignty of God. Now through sovereignty we see it come to pass the Seals are off. Paul’s prayer and prophecy that we would receive that Spirit, has been given to us, God Himself has come down, and the Book has been opened. And He said, “Don’t you dare seal that Book again, so therefore, the Seven Seals are off also. The whole Book is unsealed. And what do you see unsealed? Christ was the Seals, opening up of Christ, Him revealing Himself, hasn’t left one thing that we have to have an error in the Word of God, It’s all pure and clean the Perfect has come. 68. He said, “Don’t seal the prophecies of this Book, for the time is at hand.” And at that time, what happens? (11) He that’s unjust (will) be unjust still…(There’s no more cleansing.) He (that is) filthy (is) filthy still. (There’s no more sanctification.) (But) he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still. (12) (For) behold, I come quickly; (I’ve already Appeared. This coming, and I’m going to come very quickly now,) to give every man according as his work shall be. (13) I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. You tell me on this, when he was Alpha? He had to be, you got to find it in your Word, or you’re not tracing your Word right. There’s something wrong with your studies. There’s something wrong with you. You haven’t been taught right, or you’re not being taught right. You won’t be taught right. You don’t want to be taught right. Something’s wrong somewhere, and I know you’re not taught wrong. I know pastor’s here and they’re teaching exactly right down the line. I trust men just the same as I trust myself. Sure, I know they’re teaching the truth. The Seals are off, and I’m going to tell you something, it’s in this hour that the righteous are righteous still, and the filthy are filthy, because this type of generation, the Sodomite generation will not pass away, God will destroy them. Come on, watch your Scripture. The same One that said about Sodom and did it before that Son could come in flesh, is the same One that was here that said, “It’s going to burn. I condemn this generation.” Certainly, we see the prophet there. I’m Alpha and Omega. So there was an Alpha, there’s Omega. And thank God we know it’s all over, because that same One, that great Gift of God is here again; God in a Pillar of Fire working through the flesh of a prophet, and the prophet turning around saying, “It’s the Bride that’s doing it.” You say, “Oh no, Bro. Branham, it’s you that’s doing it.” Oh, no my dear children, if the hand does it, the body does it. You say, “I’ve got a knife in my hand and I go ahead and I wheel my knife and I cut somebody’s jugular vein, they start bleeding to death.” 69. And I say, “I didn’t do it, my hand did it.” Now…I’ll just say this, now if you doctors, you should… now nobody should kill me, because I killed this man. But what you do you see, if you really want to go the full limit, you could put me under anesthetic and cut my hand off, because I didn’t do it. They say, “Who you kidding? There’s somebody in there we’re talking about that moved that hand, we’re going to get rid of him.” And Bro. Branham said, “Definitely, (he said,) now the Bride did it.” And who moved Bro. Branham? The same Life in the Great Measure that’s in you and me in a tiny measure, but It’s in the whole Church, God putting His attributes, and he said, “The Bride did it.” And boy, he sure threw a curve when he mentioned…and the preachers tripping and running around in the false anointed thinking they were a part of It. Now you know they’re being maligned. Oh, they turned on Bro. Branham and they maligned him, but now they’re being…they said that, W.B. Grant and Popell and all those men are using electronical devices. I like to see them pull that on Paul Cain. Paul Cain used no more electronic devices than that piano getting up here walking and doing a four-step. He had a genuine gift, but the boy himself has a problem. 70. All right, The One who closed the Book in the flesh, which was Jesus, has opened It, by the Spirit through the physical spokesman, which was a prophet. The Thunders have been revealed. Rev 10:1-7 has already transpired and if we listen we’re going to close words our sermon with Bro. Branham’s own words, which he said in ‘Daniel’s Seventieth Week’. And I want to read them to you, because this is what gave me my whole understanding many, many years ago as I read it. And Bro. Branham says, “This is of That Spirit in the Book of Ephesians, the spirit of wisdom comes into the Church. To make known to the Church by the revelation of the Holy Spirit.” Now, that sounds like almost like garble. It isn’t. It’s the perfect Word of God coming forth. Listen to the end: “The spirit of wisdom comes into the Church to make known to the Church by the revelation of the Holy Spirit.” He’s telling you it’s not a man. He said, “It’s God doing It.” The revelation has to be of God. See? Bringing the Church in, that’s exactly right. Bring the Church into what? Into Christ. “Behold I stand at the door and knock,” [Rev 3:20] you kicked me out. Now if you want fellowship with me come on in. See? Then He said, “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you..,” [Mt 11:28-29] and so on. 71. Okay, bringing the Church in, and revealing what day we’re living in, just the same as Gabriel came to Daniel. The Holy Spirit comes to the Church in the last days to reveal these great deep secret things. What’s he talking about? God and a prophet. Did Daniel do the revealing? Hogwash! Daniel couldn’t reveal anymore than I could. No way. No man’s got the power to tell the king the dream he forgot. You’ve got to have outside help. Or the outside help on the inside, giving you inside help from the outside, because you’re sure not going to get it on your own. So listen to the Words, how perfect can the words be. The Spirit of wisdom comes into the Church, to make known, (that’s revelation) to the Church, by the revelation of the Holy Spirit, bringing the Church in and revealing what day we’re living in. Sodom world, revealing the Son of man, just the same as Gabriel came to Daniel; the Holy Spirit comes to the Church in the last days, to reveal these great deep secret things. Sure, that’s the picture that we have today. 72. So therefore, brother/sister we have an Omega Message; the message went forth to lift the apostle Paul. Now at the end-time…that was a start message, and remember, the Message continued and in seven ages there were seven complete messages for seven functions. So at the end-time seven designates perfection, which means conclusion and polishing off and you can’t add to It, or take from It, or It’s no longer finished or perfect. So therefore, in the seventh age we have the polishing and perfection which means what? What was left out is put in, and what was put in shouldn’t be there is kicked out, and now there’s nothing more to come. I know brothers that don’t understand that, there’s certain preachers going around talking about the Greek, and he said, “Bro. Branham made a mistake.” He said, “That which is perfect hasn’t come.” Because Bro. Branham prophesied in 1964 I think it was, after he said this in 1962 or something like that. 73. Now that man doesn’t know, that Paul the apostle said, “We prophesy in part.” Seven Church ages to get seven parts of the Message, and at the end-time perfection, there’s no more. So what does God do? He brings it to the truth. People don’t want to believe what Bro. Branham said, “The Word of God comes in part.” The Bible said so, “In sundry times and under different manners and different men.” [Heb 1:1] The Bible was given in parts. There’s a part for every age. There’s a Message for every age and there’s a Message for this age; and it’s all over. There’s an Omega revelation and it’s not the Alpha revelation, but it’s based on the Alpha revelation. It’s the Alpha revelation run out, Christ crucified. See? And now there’s coming a time when the 144,000 and Jesus gets ready to descend. I think that’s the way Bro. Branham put in ‘Souls are now in Prison’ or, no, I forget which. That’s a time that the…sanctuaries filled with smoke and it’s all over. Oh, let’s understand this the truth, I don’t care how much blood there is, and I don’t care where that blood is, you turn down Light it’s over. “But this is the condemnation, Light has come into the world.” [Jn 3:19] You say, “Well I don’t believe Light’s come into the world, we already had it.” Come on, the Bible said, “Light’s going to come.” Now then, the Bible said, “If we walk in the Light as He’s in the Light…” [1Jn 1:7] What’s the Light that Christ is in today? What is that Light? Come on, what is that Light? The Word of this hour. Then if you walk in this Message as he is walking in the Message, and brought the Message, then you have fellowship with each other, and the Blood is cleansing you. And without That the Blood does not cleanse you. Then where are we? In Heavenly places in Christ Jesus. 74. That’s why Bro. Branham said, “There should be no more cliquing and no more clanning.” What do you mean cliquing and clanning? All believe the same thing. He went to Tucson one time he said, “I understand, (he said,) I think out here there’s seventeen different revelations on my Message.” Maybe more than that I forget a tremendous number. But I’m not trying to make you think what I’m thinking; I’m just presenting what I understand from what the prophet taught. And I’m trying to help you to this degree, that you come to such a place…that you begin to actually living this. See? God’s got to dynamize His Own Word and the Word must come mechanical, but It’s got to be perfect mechanics. That’s why he said, “There’s no such thing as you take a bad sheep.” Why he said, “You bunch of people back in Israel in the days of Malachi,” he said, “You give me something torn, something rent.” He said, “Would you accept something like that being God?” He said, “No. I’ll only accept which is perfect.” And Bro. Branham taught us, he said distinctly, “Be ye perfect.” Now, he said, “If God made a commandment then God’s got to make a way for it.” Before Bro. Branham said that the old saying was this, “God’s commandments are God’s enablements.” Which is true. Now God’s made a way. 75. So here we are brother/sister if you know, nobody needs to point fingers anymore, or wonder about this and wonder about that. “We know in whom we have believed and are persuaded He’s able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.” [2Tim 1:12] We’re not of that crowd that have turned down the evidence of Almighty God. We’re not trying to be exclusive, the point is, God has an exclusive group. I can’t help what God does. I just want to be in line what God does. I don’t care if Rockefeller throws around millions of dollars, I just want to be here and grab some when he throws them. God’s got gems of grace and glorious grace, I want to be a part of that. How are we going to be a part? It’s laid out here. I see I could preach this sermon over again fifteen different ways perhaps; take dozens of more Scriptures, but it comes down to this one thing, there is an Omega Message, whether anybody wants to believe it or not, because Christ is Alpha and Omega. And you’ve got to go back to that beginning and see what He did there, He’s going to do it again, but He’s not going to do that same thing again. They’re people that are going to do it, they’re going to “Crucify themselves the Son of God afresh.” [Heb 6:6] 76. In this age of the hour of the office of the Son of God, the Son of Man Appears, and they say, “That’s the devil,” true to form like Israel. See what’s happening brother/sister all over the world? Look, you’ve got a hope tonight. Don’t throw away that hope. You’ve got a squeeze going on, nerves, pressure to give up. Myself, I’ll just be honest with you. Do you think…Bro. Branham had it hard. “Look,” he said, “I can’t take it, I’m going to go north and just go up there and use my gun and bang, bang, bang a few mountain sheep, bang, bang, bang a few deer. I’ll eat better anyway, and get Meda up there somehow, she’s not much like I am, she likes a nice soft bed.” I’m with Meda, I like a nice soft bed. My idea of roughing it is going in my good car, an airplane, a good Holiday Inn somewhere, screens on the windows, and look out on the lake, a good restaurant to eat. Oh yeah, I like it hard roughing it…[laughter] Oh yeah, well Meda was that way too, and I know you folk are too, so we’re all with Sis. Branham, [more laughter] never mind Bro. Branham; he’s tough, I’m not tough, I’m a cream-puff. But you know better be a cream-puff and squeeze and not squeeze at all, if you want to know the truth. 77. In other words, it’s a good thing we’re living. He liked…he couldn’t stand the rough. …?... I’m going to go up there, and God said, “You go up there and you might just be a derelict bum.” See? Sure, I tell you what, the devil wants to make us quit, I’d like to quit myself. I get there…just messing around the house there, and helping Alisen, because she needs a lot of help these days, and I feel good you know. Pull a few weeds out of the garden, getting my fingers dirty, looks like I’m working. And you know, then I think, well you know, I should really study the Word for the few. Then I get to think, well I should go someplace and live someplace too you know, this down here, this wet climate bugs me, and Terry’s so nice, and Judy’s so nice, they’re like a couple of kids you know to us, and kind of grandkids, because they’re really that young, they’re really kind of, you know grandkids and so we got more great granddaughters coming and…that things. They got to be great, you know and Bro. Guenther up there and think well I’d sure like the climate, but you know and I love the people, but what would I do without the people here? Now I say, “What am I going to do?” Well, shucks, here I’m stuck. So I guess I’d better feel my skin crawling on me and feeling rough and…because I love the people I guess I’ll stay down here and suffer. Well, that’s alright, but it sure ain’t fun. See? But I’m letting you know that what’s happening today, this thing grinds you down and you get in an atmosphere away from it. See? The devil can do many things to trick us…and I want to tell you one thing, “God is working for us, let us understand that.” Day by… a little more each day I think hey, God doesn’t bop me on the head. He doesn’t slap me around and say, “I wonder if that kid can take it.” Look it, that would be the rottenest psychology that a human being could pull off on anybody. You don’t pull deals and tricks and practical jokes and numb-skull things on people. We blame God and think these things are God’s in such a way that we’re nutting the fruit-cake. We’re literally blaspheme God almost, His integrity, His love and His honor, and His loyalty to it. God loves us, He sent us a prophet, He’s done everything to help us and He wants to help us. And we got to admit today brother/sister; the suffering on this earth was brought upon us by our forefathers and by ourselves. 78. So, all these things we’ve got to watch, we watch carefully, that we don’t dishonor God and you know, say wrong things about it. But He’s given us Word now, that’s where I’m driving at, giving us this Word. And Bro. Branham warned us, he said, “Look (he said,) don’t let anything pull you away,” the cares of life and all these things there, the Word. Sickness can do it, a lot of these things. See? I’ll be honest with you, it’s on a tape and I’ll put it before you people, because I haven’t seen a crowd this big, because I wanted to talk to too many people. Not that I really wanted to talk, but I enjoy being with you and I love it with all my heart. But you see, when I want up to Tucson so sick out there, just literally out of my mind, because of what this infection can do to you. …?... releases seventy nine poisons in your blood stream. Throws all kinds of allergies, you don’t know whether you’re coming and going, you’re just completely debilitated. And out there I got in this attitude; well look, I’m tired of fighting with people, even though they have said things they shouldn’t have said, and been critical where they had no right to be critical. And so I began backing away and say, “Well, maybe I’ll just soften this and pulling away.” And do you know it’s taken me over a year to get back to that place where it became definitive. 79. Let me tell you something brother/sister, this is not a joking matter, Bro. Branham said, “My ministry is to declare that He is here.” [FROM.THAT.TIME SPOKANE.WA 62-0713] And he said, “The Gates of hell are against It.” And I’m going to tell you the biggest gates of hell in this world is right here, in the top of your head. So don’t give place to that old enemy in one way shape…don’t do it. You stay with this truth, there’s an Omega Message, but how did It come? What’s It going to do for me? It’s going to get me out of here. It doesn’t promise you that you are going to get healed, it was the healing revival my brother, my sister, that proved to you there was a new fresh message coming, it was the real healing revival. The Word is what we’re after today, and by the grace of God, that Word is in us, and that Word is going to come forth in glorified bodies. So, that’s what this is all about, the Lord bless you. Shall we rise at this time and be dismissed. Gracious kind Heavenly Father, we’re taking a long time tonight Lord, but we realize that sometimes it does take longer Lord, sometimes we could just go on and on with the people. Point after point coming to the mind that’s anointed a little bit with the Holy Spirit to bring these things to our members to our attention; not to ostracize, not to criticize, not to put out, because Lord we can’t put anybody in so how can we put anybody out. It’s not us, but Lord, we can help build fences higher and better, so that the sheep will not have a chance to be marauded by the enemy that comes from without. Lord, we know that many people cannot understand what we say and there’s no criticism toward them, because if they can’t, they can’t. It’s just something Lord, that’s given unto people Father, we know that. But we know Lord God in heaven somebody’s got to understand. There’s got to be a Bride here You would not of said, but You said, but You would not have done what You did. So Lord, tonight we’re confident that we’re part of that Bride here. We know that within ourselves there’s nothing. Oh Lord in ourselves we’d like to be more for You. We’d like many, many things oh God. We’d like a lot of change, there’s lot of differences all these things. But Lord, there is one thing we will not, we do not want to have changed, and therefore then we should desire nothing else but that one thing; and that is Lord, is to know Thee aright. Whom to know aright is Life Eternal. God I know You according to Scripture and that Scripture revealed and interpreted, and revealed in this hour by a prophet the way You said it would be done. Father, help us tonight to get everything out of our minds and realize as Paul said, “When you do come to this time of the revelation, when the Shout does come, it doesn’t make you any different from the rest of the Bride.” You don’t take one bit of preeminence, not one bit, it’s just the way that God does things and you’re let in on It, you become a part of It. Father, I know that’s the truth tonight. His Word said so we’ve laid it all out clear. The prophet came and just brought it right down jot and tittle right down to the last iota, and so Father, how grateful, how thankful we are. Bless each one in Divine Presence, because we know You’re here. Help us to lie in the Presence of Yourself and ripen oh God, get all the veils torn away, the veils of creeds and dogmas, and misunderstandings, their own interpretations, until we just know solidly what the prophet said. Anoint us oh God, with that fresh and renewed mind, until one day we hear the sermons, and read those sermons that we do it, and just begins to ring bells, just gel, gel, gel, gel and gel, until it’s just like people saying, “Come in off the street, it’s time for dinner.” Or it’s time to roll the bed sheets back, it’s time for bed. Because Bro. Branham did say it’d be just as natural as eating and drinking, living and breathing. Father, I know that’s the way the Word should be, and I don’t want to wait for the Millennium, although if I have to wait till then that’s fine too. But I do believe he said that was this side of the veil. So Father, help us tonight that everyone can have this hope and this understanding, this love oh God, this depth. Melt us and unite us as never before. Please send that sweet Spirit in a greater abundance amongst us Lord, until the gifts as they were, are put in the shelf which we believe they are as it were, put in the shelf and healings being benched, coming amongst us again Lord, that not one of us hinder Lord, but each one of us take his and her place oh God, come right up into Christ. Help us now Lord, with that Spirit of love, help us oh God, because we got the full ingredients, we have everything, even the Life to bring it forth. Lord, as You had that ingredients there to bring forth Adam every single one, and You breathed and to become a living man. Living soul Lord, let this Bride be the same way. Let each individual be the same way, because that’s what we want. Help us now Lord, to be real witnesses to be a credit unto Him, not in ourselves Lord, but because we love Him we want to be a credit. How we thank You, therefore Lord, for Your love tonight, Your grace, Your fellowship in these people. God tonight, if I ever want the people blessed, I want them blessed in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Not one Lord amongst us, but blessed of You. Not one but feels Your Presence Lord, not one but grows up as never before. Not one but more stabilized Lord, but every single one with that knowledge abounding tonight. Help us oh God, we pray help. Let every prayer be answered Lord, that’s rooted in our heart of faith and of love, that wants to honor You Lord, that’s based upon that Word. I pray …?... we know Lord that’s not gilding the lily that’s not trying to put it to one side, but because everyone of us Lord, has those virtues in us, they’ve been birthed in us as the prophet said. They’re all there Lord, we know that they’re just wanting someone to acknowledge Father… And so help us tonight to be in that category as dear sheep, the flock of Your pasture, the children of Your hand oh God, So, dismiss us tonight, now each one of us Lord, keep using the centre of Your will. And unto Thee we shall ascribe the honor and the glory, because we ask it in Jesus’ Name. Amen. ‘Take the Name of Jesus with you’. The Omega Revelation - Page PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 33