One Word Off
Bro. Lee Vayle - January 16, 1983
Heavenly Father, we're very grateful again for Your Presence here with
us, feeding us, sweet and proper spirit of worship, Lord, that's
conducive to You bringing Your Word, and we're very happy for that. We
know that the anointing for one is different from the other, and yet
It's the same God, the same One doing the anointing, so that there is a
praise and a reverence inculcated. And then there is a revelation by
knowledge to us by the Spirit, same Spirit working in all. We're happy
for that feeding our unity one with Thee, and one with each other, Lord.
And what a great day there is just around the corner in the Resurrection
and the entrance into the Glory Land, and into a renovated earth which
we have been promised to become heir of with You.
And we cannot thank You enough, Lord, that this is ours, it is not
something that we are merely looking forward to, but it is something has
broken upon us. For the Kingdom of God is in the midst of us. We're
thankful for the days of the Son of man are here. And this is the
dividing time which we know is necessary, we are fully aware of that.
And we're grateful, Lord, that we can walk in the Light as Thou art in
the Light, that absolute truth as never before. We thank You for It, in
Jesus' Name. Amen. You may be seated.
1. Now, I told you, and I told you correctly that it is very difficult
for me to understand how anybody cannot see the Presence of God in this
hour.
A certain gentleman said, "Now, these people…"
Didn't mention my name, but of course it's Lee Vayle, he's the
instigator, so to speak. I'm not, Bro. Branham is, and he's not, God is.
Bro. Branham didn't ask God to come down here, and God didn't ask Bro.
Branham if could come down here. And God doesn't care two cents whether
I want Him or not. That is from the humanistic view point. (See?) But,
He does care, because I'm one of the Elect, same as you.
2. Okay, let's read Exodus 3: (page 42.) Now, [The Third Exodus
06-30-63]
[75] Now, all the mysteries of justification, sanctification, baptism
with the Holy Ghost is done explained. (I like that. Not just
explained, it's done explained. Where to? Lovely.) Now, picking up
the loose ends of that which is concealed in the Seven Seals; not
the seven churches, (note, those who teach different) the Seven
Seals revealed the Mysteries. (That's Revelation 10:6, right?
Seven?) …then He opened this thing up at the top and found a rock
in there, white, but it never been wrote on, is a mystery. Go to
Tucson, foretell it before it happened. Stand north of Tucson (witnesses
standing here) when a blast come that shook the mountains off the
ground, almost. And at the same time, a circle of light hanging
yonder in the air. When the scientist took the pictures now,
twenty-six miles high, about five times the distance of fog or
anything could be up there; and they can't even find what did it.
[76] It shall be light about the evening time, (He's quoting the verse,
this little song from the Scripture.)
The path to glory you will surely find.
3. If you're elected, that Seed falls upon dry grounds or upon rocks,
it'll never do nothing. Hard, stony hearts that wants to be
indifferent, if It'll fall upon the soft mellow ground of faith,
It'll bring forth a Christian, bearing fruits of the Spirit.
Notice, how that God did that. Now, He's got that same Pillar of
Fire; that's vindicated. Somebody said, "Why don't you go tell them
scientists about it?" Do you think they'd believe it? "Cast not your
pearls before swine." Jesus said not to; I have no leadings to do
it. Yet living right in the city there, where they was calling for
it. I thought I'd go down, and the Holy Spirit said, "Stay away.
It's not to them. Go back and tell the Tabernacle." (uh huh) All
right, and it shall come to pass... "If what they say comes to
pass, then remember, I have spoken," the Lord said. See? Before it
happens, there it happens. Listen to the Bible. It's the Voice of
God calling to you in this day.
[77] Now, I want you to notice, this same Pillar of Fire is leading,
the people again to a promised land, the millennium…
4. Now, I didn't say it, prophet said it. So, I don't care what the
Byskal's say, and the Greene's say and Searle say, and God knows who's
saying. I'm naming names, and I care less, because they're the ones that
have stuck their neck out and denied this. Why they use a prophet, ride
on his coat tails. I like what Bro. Harold Marconda said when Mr. Laurie
from India decided that he would become the son of man on moon landing
day as he called it; and he had more than all these guys put together,
because this is the truth. When he went out to California, so did in
Gerard's back yard a cloud appeared over his head, and lightening came
out of the cloud and thunder snapped around people's feet and scared the
living day lights out of them. And a cloud followed him. These guys
haven't got that. (See?)
Now, let's understand this: I don't care what anybody says, Harold
Marconda said concerning Laurie when he said I rode on Bro. Branham's
coattails, he said I've got more respect for Jannes and Jambres, because
they used their own stick. [laughter] Just love that Harold Marconda,
he's as rotten as I am. "Well look, the gloves are off," the prophet
said.
Now look it, I've been telling you folk to read this, and I don't think
you read it. One or two might have. Now, you got to learn to listen to
me. But, I can't do you no good if you don't listen any more if I don't
listen to a prophet.
5. Now he tells you:
[77] Now, I want you to notice, this same Pillar of Fire is leading, the
people again to a promised land, the millennium, where we found
under the inspiration of this Sixth Seal, that's never been taught
before, how the earth has to be purified for the millennium. The
Pillar Fire is leading them to a millennium.
Now, he's got the Pillar of Fire leading us and purifying the earth.
...notice, the Pillar of Fire that led Israel from the bondage in that
exodus, the Pillar of Fire, under the leadership of God, God was the
Fire, and the Pillar of Fire only anointed the prophet. The Pillar
of Fire was to stand as a heavenly witness that Moses was called
out. You remember Dathan and them, said, "Well, we ought to start
an organization. Moses, takes too much upon yourself Moses. You try
to say you're the only holy one amongst us. (Moses never said
that.) All the congregation of the Lord is holy.
That's what they said he said that. But he didn't say that. Bro.
Branham never claimed any holiness. He said, "There's one Holy One
amongst us, that's the Holy Ghost."
How can you take this upon yourself?" And Moses fell on his face and
started weeping. And God said, "Separate yourself from them. I'll
just open up the earth and swallow them right away." Type. How
could Moses, told them that he was telling them what God had said,
God vindicating it to be the truth...
6. I think his question here was: how could Moses do this, see? Like he
said, "Lord, if I'm not the one You said I was, and You're not behind
me, (he said) that's fine. But, (he said) if I am (he said) then You've
got to make a difference, these men cannot die the common death of men."
That's what I said a while ago. I don't not believe anybody who denies
this Message will ever miss the Great Tribulation. And I'll show you
this morning when I get into my notes a little further on.
Even Miriam, the prophetess herself, and Aaron laughed at Moses for
marrying that Ethiopian girl, making fun of him; and God got angry,
speak against His servant. What did He do? He called them out to the
tabernacle door, and Miriam, yet she was a prophetess, but Moses was
more than a prophet--more than a prophet.
[78] He said, "Don't you fear God? If there's a prophet among you, I,
the Lord will speak to him in visions and make Myself known to him
in dreams," but… "not Moses." Said, "Don't you fear God?" And she
was--she was half dead with leprosy that minute. You know that.
Didn't He say, "John the Baptist... Did you go out to see a prophet?
Yes, more than a prophet." Why? Why was he more than a prophet? He
was the messenger of the covenant, the ark that blended those two
dispensations together.
7. Now, I want you to notice here, that Bro. Branham uses a double, or a
compound on the messenger of the covenant and speaking from Malachi 3.
Because, in one place he puts God as His Own Messenger Covenant, (which
indeed He is, He's His Own Mediator and so on;) then he puts John there,
which is basically true in both cases.
And today, what we have amongst us, this great Holy Spirit is more
than a prophet. It's God manifested among us with His Word to
prove it. Does more than a prophet-- a thousand times more than
prophets do. Elijah, the one of the greatest prophets of the age
only did four things super- natural in his life of maybe eighty
years. Elisha, with a double portion did eight, and we seen
thousands times thousands with our own eyes. Look at the Angel of
the Lord in a Pillar of Fire. Scientific research taken it to the
world, knowing that they're going to be judged by it.
[79] What did that Lamb do? The Angel of the Lord, which was Christ...
You believe it. St. John 6, they was all drinking this water and
having a big time and rejoicing. And He said, "I'm the Bread of
Life that comes down from God out of heaven. I'm that Rock that was
in the wilderness." They said, "Now, we know you're crazy. You're
crazy; you got a devil on you. You're a crazy man with a devil."
You know, people get a spirit on them sometimes they get very
active religious. They said, "You are, you're a devil; you got a
devil on you. You're a Samaritan, and you got a devil on you."
Said, "…here you're not even no more than fifty years old, and
say you seen Abraham." I see him step back a couple of steps, and
said, "I AM THAT I AM. Before Abraham was, I AM." That was a
burning Fire, The Pillar of Fire in the bush.
8. That's right, It was, because when It said that. That was in Exodus.
When He died and rose on the third day, and Saul met Him on the road
down, He was back to that Pillar of Fire. Said, "I come from God and
I go to God." When Peter was in prison, that Pillar of Fire come in
and opened the door and took him on--on the outside. That's right.
Where did that Pillar of Fire lead them?
[80] Now, remember, Moses was not the Pillar of Fire. He was the
anointed leader under that Pillar of Fire, and the Pillar of Fire
only vindicated his message with signs and wonders. And that Pillar
of Fire led them to the land that God promised them, where He,
Himself, would be made flesh among them someday. Is that right?
(What? Pillar of Fire was going to be made flesh,) What did they
do? Murmured and squirmed and every- thing else to show it was
under the blood of an ordinary lamb. But this time (Glory to God.)
the Pillar of Fire that we see among us, the Pillar of Fire will
lead us to the millennium, where He will return to His people in
that great millennial reign after this exodus, where we'll live
eternally with Him. He always has the Word of the Father, always
proves that It's right. We are in an exodus, and in leaving and
turning the tapes off at home, oh, my friends, my brothers, both
present and that will hear the tapes, let me as your brother and
citizen of the Kingdom of God, say, come out in this exodus. For
all that's left behind will bear the mark of the beast. Come out of
Babylon; come out of this confusion; come out of these systems and
serve the living God. …let this great Angel of the Covenant,
Jesus Christ in the form of God, though it not robbery to become
equal with God... Now, He's a Pillar of Fire in the same form that
He was back there bringing that first exodus, bringing the second
exodus, and He is with the third exodus.
9. [Now:]
[81] The first exodus, what did He do? He brought them out of a natural
land to a natural land. The second exodus, He brought them out from
a spiritual condition into a spiritual baptism of the Holy Ghost.
Now He's bringing them from a spiritual baptism of the Holy Ghost,
right back into the eternal land of the millennium and the great
hereafter. Same Pillar of Fire by the same anointed system, the
same God doing the same things; and the same Word declared the
first one, declared the second one. He was the same Word declared
the second one has declared the third one, and here we see it among
us. Come out. …come out of this chaos. Come to the living God.
Come to the Word. "And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us."
And now, He's in our flesh, dwelling among us. Come out and serve
the living God… (And that's exactly true.)
The same spirit, a measure of which baptizes each one of us, the Great
Baptizer Himself is here to lead us to in. You noticed, he said, He let
us out of the spiritual wilderness into a baptism with the Holy Ghost,
and now leading us out of this. Because, the baptism with the Holy Ghost
terminates when the last one is in. He, Himself, Personally taking us
into the land. And if you read the Book of Exodus you'll find the Holy
Spirit was before them, and behind them.
So, I just want you to know, if you haven't taken time to read and get
into it, that I was not giving you something to think about in the sense
of that which is perhaps rational and worthy of your thoughts. But, it
goes far beyond that, it's your life itself.
10. All right, we're going to talk about 'One Word Off,' this morning.
One Word off. And to do so we'll read two or three portions of
Scripture, which we will begin with the Book of Deuteronomy 4:1-5.
(1) Now therefore hearken… (listen. Now, notice the term 'listen'.
We'll hit it again in Revelation.) O Israel, unto the statutes and
unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do, that (you) may
live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of
your fathers (given to) you.
(2) (You) shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither
shall (you) diminish from it, that (you) may keep the commandments
of the LORD your God which I command you.
(3) Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor: for
all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed
from among you. (That's your mixed multitudes.)
(4) But (you) that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every
one of you this day.
(5) Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the
LORD my God commanded me, that (you) should do so in the land
whither (you) go to possess it.
11. All right, Revelation 1: just the first three verses, the over to
22.
(1) The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew
unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; (then) he
sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
(2) Who are record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus
Christ, and of all things that he saw.
(3) Blessed is he that readeth… ('And', does not necessarily be a
conjunction, but it can be a preposition 'even'.) Blessed is he that
readeth, (even) they that hear the words of this prophecy,
In other words, I'm saying that reading this book is literally
listening to the Voice of God. A literal listening.
(3) Blessed is he that readeth… (or, as Bro. Branham said, "If you
can't read, someone will read it to you." That's fine.) …hear(s)
the words of this prophecy, and (will) keep those things which are
written therein: for the time is at hand.
12. What time? Let's find out, Revelation 22: which we'll get to, and
describe the time shortly, this is just the continued reading of 'adding
or taking'. All right, Revelation 22:17-19.
(17) …the Spirit and the bride say, Come…let him that heareth
say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. …whosoever will,
let him take the water of life freely.
(18) For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the
prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God
shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book.
(That's under the vindication ials, under the Sixth Seal, the Great
Tribulation.)
(19) And if any man shall take away the words of the book of this
prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life,
(that's the White Throne Judgment) and out of the holy city, (he'll
never make it. even if his name was there, he'll never make it,)
and from the things which are written in this book.
(20) …(Behold) I come quickly…
Now, the subject title is 'One Word Off '. But, the Scripture reading
is: 'Adding or Taking a Word'. Now, very simply stated, the lesson is
this: do not change the Word of God by even one Word, for all it takes
is one Word off, and It is absolutely no longer the Word of God, but
anti-word. God will not own it. Therefore, He will not back It up. Now,
why? Because, if It is changed, It is not the Word of God.
13. Now, it's very easy to understand what we're looking at by simply
going to Genesis 2:17, and Genesis 3:4.
(17) But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt
not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt
surely die.
In chapter 3:4.
(4) And the serpent said unto the woman, (You) shall 'not' surely
die:
The Word of God said, "Thou shalt die."
The word of Satan said, "Thou shalt 'not' die."
That's two words exactly opposite, or two statements. Two basics,
actually opposites, and exactly opposites by putting in a little three
letter word 'not'.
Now, to try to see and feel the enormity of the damage done by adding
just one word. All we have to do is to compare two words to note the
differences of their attributes and their effects. And those two words
are ''life and death'. And that is what Genesis 2:17 was all about.
"Life and death."
14. All you have to do is think of life. Immediately you recognize a
movement. The ability to cope within an environment. The ability to be
sensate, to communicate. To have a freedom. To be able to walk in a
realm where you can take on and put off. It speaks of…in the highest
form of everything that is wonderful. Because, life in its original was
completely sensate to all things, the highest of the spiritual (which
was God) and the very best of the physical, because always in a
continuity. And you cannot think of life in its true meaning of what
life is in terms of life isolated. And we're talking of pure life in an
isolated form which cannot contain anything which would allow a
deterioration but a constant progression in the realms of the
spiritually sensate. And the realms of the physically sensate, where
there is a perfection and a oneness. Death is not that way. Death speaks
of the entering in of a principal which will finally bring a demise,
which is in constant disunity with that which is spiritual and that
which is physical. So, that man cannot do what he'd like to do, and what
is done to him is what he does not want to have done.
That he is in a straight-jacket, and he does not dictate, but he is
dictated to. That he does not have an actual will, but some other will
is superimposed upon him. And when he would have that which is right and
good, there is no way that he get it. Because, death is entirely
opposite to life. One little word did it.
15. Think about two more words: 'heaven' and 'hell'. Think about two
more words: 'restoration', 'annihilation'. It lies there. Think about
two more words: 'welcome', (come enter), 'unwelcome', (forbidding), "go
and depart I never knew you." [Mt 7:23]
Think about: 'Paradise given'. Think about: 'Paradise lost'. Think
about: 'the Kingdom of Heaven'. Think about: 'the kingdom of hell'. And
you're thinking about one word, 'not', which was put in there by Satan.
And he said, "Surely, you will not die." [Gen 3:4]
And God said, "You will." [Gen 3:3]
"Not," did not gain them anything.
"Not," lost them everything.
Do you realize that you and I will never go through this span where we
were capable of growth, love and marriage, and rearing a family as we
have at this hour. We lost it. Babies weren't meant to come into the
world deformed. They weren't meant to be murder's, liars, cheats. There
isn't one perfect family amongst us. The most perfect family here could
lose a child tomorrow morning, or a father or mother. One word. One word
interpolated, interjected, changed the entire Word of God. And the
course of history, because the original Word was, "be fruitful and
multiply, replenish the earth, and everything will be in subjection to
you." [Gen 1:28] And it was all lost.
16. Now, we could go on, but the lesson never changes. One word off as
Bro. Branham said, "It's Satan's kingdom." Inculcating an entirely
different spirit from the spirit that lies without a change. One word
off is death and destruction. So, we learn: leave the Word exactly as is
given, never add to, or take away.
Now, let's be careful so we don't get into a straight-jacket ourselves.
Now, this adding or taking away that we're talking about, or speaking
about is not prohibiting the use of a double negative. But, that
which… [audio fades] … it entirely out of being God's Word, or away
from being God's Word. It is therefore no longer pure revelation.
17. Let me explain the double negative: Romans 8:9 says, "Now, if any
man hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His." The only reason
this verse does not just as correctly, "If any man has the Spirit of
Christ, he is one of His." It's the same thing. Is for the sake of
emphasis.
Notice also: "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of
Heaven." [Jn 3:3b] It is just as true if a man is born again, he shall
enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Yet, on no consideration should these
verses be changed in any way, even though the central truth is there and
the actual revelation is not changed. Because, if you do, something is
lost in the urgency the emphasis and the dynamism. It just isn't right,
because the impact is somehow gone. It is not nearly as powerful to say
it in a positive way with a single positive, as it is with a double
negative. Like in algebra two negatives make a positive. "Except a man
be born again, he shall in no wise (he cannot) enter the Kingdom of
Heaven."
So, we learn not only does God forbid a change of meaning, but He
forbids anything that would detract from the force of the eloquent and
the incisive meaning. You know what incisors are? You bite with them.
And the Word of God loses Its bite, and becomes insipid.
It's like when I have a congregation who stays up late to watch TV and
they go to sleep on me. Now, you get away with it once or twice, but the
ushers will be bring in ice water for the next time. [laughter] So, we
learn not only does God forbid a change of meaning, but He forbids
anything that would detract from the force of the eloquent, and incisive
meaning. Thus, a word taken or added here, in this extent would void the
Word, as least in part as to Its reality and vitality. It would vitiate
it. (That's a nice word.) Take away its strength. Who is to say then it
is any longer the Word of God? Oh, come on. (See?) That is in truth.
18. Now, let us go even further to view the enormity of violation that
this Word has suffered. We go to Genesis 3:4, again.
(4) And the serpent said… (You) shall not surely die:
And in 3:4, we found that Satan in the form of the serpent deliberately
added one word, a three letter word. But do you know that Satan's
offspring came, deliberately left out a whole revelation. Deliberately
left out a whole revelation. Genesis 4:1-7.
(1) And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain,
and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
(2 ) And she again bare his brother Abel. (Twins) And Abel was a
keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
(3) And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the
fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.
(4) And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of
the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his
offering:
(5) But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain
was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
The Septuagint said that Cain was not wroth at this point, but he was
very sorrowful. Now come on, let your thinking go. Because, you're not
letting it go.
19. I want you people …and you're going to get this way by the grace
of Almighty God to drop one hint, and you swing right into a realm of
thinking. There are a lot of people who cry before God. There are a lot
of people who sorrow. There are a lot of people who seem to have a
rapport. This man had a rapport. When God said, "I won't take it." He
cried. He cried. Like Judas kissed Jesus affectionately, wasn't just a
peck on the cheek. Now, we'll show a little later on what it's all
about. Now, he sorrowed, he cried. He felt terrible.
(6) …the LORD said… Why (are you) wroth? …
Let's put it the other way: "Why are you sorrowing? Why are you
weeping?" Now, a fallen countenance is not so wrathful as chagrined;
which is embarrassed and hurt. When you talk about anger you're livid.
So, the Septuagint is a better translation. (Which is the Greek, you
know.)
(7) If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest
not well, sin lieth at the door. (Sin offering is there, like
Abel.) And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over
him.
In other words, the animal can't do a thing if you want to kill it.
"Now, don't tell me (he said) that you can't take an animal and kill it.
Because, (he said) you can. it's there, all you've got to do it." Well,
that didn't go so good.
All right, now Genesis 4:7.
(7) If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest
not well, sin lieth at the door. …unto thee shall be his desire,
thou shalt rule over him.
20. Now, that's the sin offering of the shedding of blood, which is
Hebrews 9:22.
(22) And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and
without (the) shedding of blood (there) is no remission.
You'll never get rid of your sins without Blood. There's nothing God
will do for you on the ground of permanency without Blood. This one
verse in Hebrews comes from Genesis 3:21.
(21) Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of
skins, and clothed them.
There had to be a death. The life of something shed in order to give
them a cloak, which would be for their sins. Which original sin was
perversion.
21. Now, let us see 1 Corinthians 5:7, (the second part of It.)
(7) …For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
So, we see the shedding of the blood of the lamb that took place in the
Garden of Eden, pretty well, or just outside after God dealt with the
sin question. Now, we see Abel offering the Passover lamb. In other
words, God standing guard Himself. We see it all through the Word. Abel
was in accord with the Word. He offered the Passover sacrifice. But,
Cain bypassed it. He refused it and he went right to the first-fruit
offering. Now notice, Christ our Passover. (Right?)
22. Okay, let's go to 1 Corinthians 15: now. And by again, you should be
way ahead of me, because you know what I'm going to read. Start in verse
20.
(20) (For) now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the
firstfruits of them that slept.
(21) For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection
of the dead.
(22) For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made
alive.
(23) But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits;
afterward they (who) are (first-fruits, just like Him) at his
(Presence).
Now, you'll notice the offering concerning the Resurrection is fruit
out of the ground, which is the Body of Christ coming out of the ground.
Three days and three nights. In hell three days and three nights in that
time he was in the grave. So, now there is a first-fruit. The
first-fruit is significant and types the Resurrection of Him coming out.
The Lamb types the Resurrection of death and going in.
Now, you will notice that Cain deliberately bypassed an offering for
sin. And without the Blood you won't come out of the ground. (See?) In
other words, in plainer English, you would never be in the First
Resurrection. Now, anyone knows that if you offer thanks by first-fruit,
you are claiming that you will be part of the First Resurrection. But,
if you leave out your offering of Blood, you are making the Word of God
a lie. Because, 1 Corinthians 15:20-23 pins It down, that the Blood of
Christ alone, can give resurrection power. Because, It tells you, "As in
Adam all die, even so in Christ all are made alive." [1 Cor 15:22] And
there is no way that anybody could ever have the Life of God come back
on him without the Presence of the Blood.
23. All right, Cain left out the basic revelation of the entire Word.
The basic revelation of the entire Word is redemption by Blood. To leave
out redemption by Blood is to reduce the whole Word to a philosophy,
which people if they want to throw the Blood sacrifice into an allegory
(which is what you'd have to do) just what you might call an
illustration, an allusion (a-l-l, the allusion to, not illusion, but
allusion to,) light in general, then all you have here is a book of
creeds and dogmas. A book of human philosophy.
But, let's read Genesis 4:7 again.
(7) If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest
not well, sin (offering lies right) at (your) door (step)…
Now, door here means: 'an entering into'. "Why," He said, "you've
offered the sacrifice unto the First Resurrection. Why don't you take
the steps that gets you there." The door of entrance is the Lamb
shedding his blood. (See?)
All right, now He said, "You've got it right at your finger tips. It's
right here of a door out, and a door into. You can have it."
24. All right, this time we're going to read what the Septuagint says:
"Thou hast offered right, but if thou hast not rightly divided, hast
Thou not sinned?"
Now notice, he offered the offering of the first-fruit specifically
according to truth. But, it was out of order. The first-fruit is not
first, it is the blood offering. And God says here categorically that
if you get the Word of God right but out of order, you're in sin. That's
where Bro. Branham could preach: 'Trying to do God a Service, Apart from
His Will'. This man could not do it.
Now, Paul bears this translation out. "Thou hast offered right." For he
says in Hebrews 11:4, "Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice
than Cain." As I've said previously many times, if the sacrifice of Abel
was more excellent, there's no way you can understand the offering of
Cain, but excellent. Because you must have excellent, before you get
more excellent. You've got to have good, before you have better. And
you've got to have better before you get best. Because, that's the value
in understanding a word.
And he said here that Cain offered, and what he did in itself was
perfect. (See?) But, it's like that grain of wheat that Bro. Branham
said the FHA got to working on with the kids. So, they went to the
university and they produced the grain of corn. It was identical to
every other grain of corn, analytically and anatomically sound.
And they said, "Which is which?"
"Well," they said, "nothing to it, don't feed to cattle, that's no
good, put it in the ground. Sprinkle it, let it out in the sun." They
found out in a hurry. (See?)
25. Now, if you misplace any of the Word of God, destroying a
continuity, that's taking away. There's nothing you can do about it,
that's a simple statement. Listen to what Paul says in
2 Timothy 2:15.
(15) Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth
not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Now notice, Cain was ashamed. That's right. He was hurt for someone to
tell him you don't have a part in it. And that gave way to anger.It is
very evident that Cain was not able to receive the revelation even when
God spoke it, but Abel was.
26. Let's go to Matthew 16:13, and see how that carries through when
God took upon Himself the form of a man. He did it by bringing a man to
birth, then He indwelt Him. God didn't change into a man, God just took
the form.
(13) When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked
his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?
(14) And they said, Some say (you are) John the Baptist: (that was a
pretty good guess) some, Elias; (that's a better guess; some say
you're) Jeremias, (that's not too bad either. The rest they just
couldn't place him, they said, well he's got to be) one of the
prophets. (Which one, we don't know. That's very good because He
was the prophet.)
But, they're all wrong. Now, they were simply all wrong. He didn't fit.
He was in the Word like these men were in the Word, but it didn't fit.
Because, He wasn't only in the Word, He was the Word.
(15) (I said, Who do you say,) I am?
(16) Simon Peter said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living
God.
(17) And Jesus said, Blessed (are you), Simon (son of Jonah:) flesh
and blood (has) not revealed it (to you who I am, only) my Father
which is in heaven.
(18 ) And I say, (you're) Peter, and upon this rock I will build my
church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
What's He building His church on? As Bro. Branham said, "Revelation."
27. Now, no revelation, true revelation by Eve allowed one word in,
changed the course of the entire history. Brought in death, when life
should have reigned supreme.
Now, Cain comes along and he changes the course of history. Also,
because he refuses the blood. He will not do it. He will identify
himself with the First Resurrection, reinstatement back to the original,
and far beyond the original, but he denies the blood.
Now, he gave an excellent sacrifice. He thoroughly lined up with that
portion of the predestinating Word of God. Do you realize every time you
take the blood up here in symbol up here, and the bread in symbol, that
you are actually viewing your own predestination, and admitting to what
you are? Because, "Except you eat His flesh and drink His blood you have
not life in you". [Jn 6:53] And you're saying eye witness to the death
of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the life that is in me to the Resurrection
that I'm looking forward to, because I drink this. And the knowledge of
one day, and eat this in the knowledge that one day we'll do it anew in
the Millennium.
Here, he [Cain] turned down the predestinating Word of Almighty God,
and brought upon himself and to his likeness reprobation, those ordained
unto condemnation, who would to annihilation. It was death to turn down
a revelation.
28. Here's what 1 John 3:11, says concerning this One.
(11) …this is the message that (you've) heard from the beginning,
that we should love one another.
(12) Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, (he was fathered by the
serpent, which made him the father of the devil, the child
of the devil) and slew his brother. (Now listen:) And wherefore
slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's
righteous.
What was the evil work of Cain? The works that contained death. Taking
from the Word of God, of certain portions and misapplying It. Taking It
out of Its context. And thereby, you will notice Abel was right, but
Cain was wrong.
Now, the evil that Cain did was unbelief in a demonstrated revelation.
Because, God came back receiving the sacrifice of Abel. But, He turned
down the sacrifice of Cain. He would not take it.
Now, the evil works then that Cain did, was taking out of context,
taking away what God had set therein that must be abided by. He would
not do it. That was the evil works. And notice, it was that evil work
that caused Cain to kill his brother. Now you see, that's death. It
started right back, one word.
Now, you go from the precept of death injected, you go now to death
demonstrated. And where death starts with one man, it'll go to the place
where it ends in wars where millions are killed. It went to the place
where three billion at least died in the flood. And already we've got
over four billion people here on earth at this moment. So that over four
billion people can be destroyed, actually because of sin that God must
destroy them.
29. And, you will notice that Cain is not in the genealogy of the sons
of God. His name is removed from the Book of Life. And anyone else who
does this, though their name be there on the Book of Life, the name will
be removed, because they have no part with the Word of God. How can
they? Because, if the Word of God is not fulfilled in your life, how is
It going to be fulfilled over there? Because It's the same Word.
And that's the thing that puzzled me, how can He not be here, when He's
going to be there? And I'm not talking about you being baptized with the
Holy Ghost. Don't get that nonsense in your head. I'm talking about Him
Who is the Baptizer. I'm talking about Him Who said, "When I go back to
the Father, we will send the Holy Spirit upon you, so each one of you
will get a portion." We're talking about that One Who is in the midst of
us now. Not in us, but in the midst of us; who has a portion that makes
us children of God in us. But, stands as a Father amongst His children.
All right, we see then even more clearly, that taking away from the
Word of God is a refusal of a revelation of God. Now, that's what Eve
did, she refused the revelation. She didn't really have one. If she'd
had a revelation she'd have gone with it. Now, Cain didn't have a
revelation, but he turned down what he saw. He said, "No way." (See?)
30. Now, that revelation can be pointed out and proven, but man turns it
aside. Yet notice, how many of these same men will quote Isaiah 8:20?
Now, let's just go back and look at It. (Oh brother, you watch the
Seventh Day Adventist go on this one. The Church of God under Armstrong.
No doubt the Jehovah Witness and the whole bunch of ilk, the same ilk.
It says in verse 20:
(20) To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to
this word, it is because there is no light in them.
But, they're not the only ones. The Pentecostal's say It. The Baptist
say It. The Methodist quote It. Every denomination with its book of
doctrine creeds and tenets will spout It. Quoting the same verse have as
many as a hundred different ideas about It. Each one from the same verse
has either a different meaning, or multiplied different meanings. That
proves that that's not of God, because God is of one mind. Somebody
missed something somewhere.
So, though one may leave untouched, the exactly Word of God, one may
add or take from It by a wrong interpretation, or application and be
exactly where Cain was who deliberately wrested a whole portion of
Scripture and refused It. And where Eve listen to the devil's lie and
added one word that changed It all.
31. The Bible dramatically warns of false teachers. What false teachers?
They're not those that come along and say, "Hey, forget the Bible." They
are those that teach the Bible false. (See?) False apostles. They're not
ones that say, "Hey, forget about this hogwash about Jesus." They'll
come and tell you all about is a bunch of lies about them, they're false
apostles. And you've got the false prophets, they'll with genuine signs
and wonders and say, "Hey, I got a right to tell you what the Bible
means." But, they don't have 'Thus Saith the Lord'. And they don't have
the right. Only William Branham had it, like Moses and Paul.
So, then he's got false pastors. False apostles, false prophets, false
teachers, false evangelists. Oh, they got millions of those. Almost
everybody in a pew becomes a false evangelist. Running around with their
poison, join the sorcerer's club. As Bro. Branham said, "witchcraft."
Oh, wonder the Holy Spirit that man with a genius, pure spiritual genius
that anybody with the Holy Ghost is. You're a pure spiritual genius, why
you get the Word of God, take in your heart, and say, "That's it." Say,
"Bro. Branham did."
There is a whole slate of false ministers, apostles, prophets,
teachers, evangelists, pastors, elders, deacons, pew members. (Stinking
lot, I guess you might say. I don't know how I saw that word 'pew'.
All right, the plot thickens. In other words, it looks discouraging as
the fog comes down on this Word, that It just isn't something anybody
can pick up and read, and say, "I've got it." For man seems surely in
a…an in extricable, he can't be extricated, he can't be taken out.
He's either stuck, or his wheels are spinning. It seems he's in that
predicament. Yet, not actually so, for God has a way for us provided to
believe and to receive. Because, by now you will have come to the
understanding, that it is what you believe, and that would have to be
what God has really said. And God has really put in order, and there has
to be some way to believe it, and to receive it. For God explains it,
and makes a way out for us.
32. Now, let's go back to Deuteronomy 4, because that's where we
started. Let's read 1-5 again.
(1) Now therefore hearken… (therefore listen:)
That's right, this is Old Testament, hearken. Revelation 1:3, listen:
read, and while you read you better be listening that the Holy Spirit
could reveal It to you. Remember, there was an Ethiopian eunuch right
after Pentecost, he was going home from a great feast. Evidently he had
to do…under Candace the queen of Ethiopia, descendent of Queen of
Sheba that came down to Solomon, [1 Kg 10:1] she had a child by him,
and that's where you get these black Jews. Perfectly legitimate as far
as I'm concerned, they can do what they want, we do what we want.
Anyway, he [eunuch] come back from Jerusalem, and now he's riding along
and reading Isaiah 53, and he's singing to himself inwardly talking, he
said, "Who in the world is this talking about? This is very strange."
And he sees Phillip there in the desert, God had caught him away and
told him to go down to the desert, got him away from that big meeting in
Samaria. And the eunuch sees him and he gets him up in the carriage, and
gives this old fellow a ride. Phillips says, "I see you're reading the
Bible."
He said, "Yeah, I'm reading that Bible." He said, "I tell you, (he
said) you know (he said) it's very interesting here, (he said) something
just bugs me. Something keeps bringing me back to this portion of
Scripture here of Isaiah." And he said, "I tell you something is trying
to tell me something, but, there's no way I can get it." He said, "Will
you tell me, does this man talk about somebody else, or he's talking
about himself? What is this anyway?"
And Phillip full of the Holy Ghost,( that was the difference,) "Why,"
he said, "it just happens that I can tell you all about it." And he got
the revelation. (See?)
33. All right:
(1) Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the
judgments, which I teach you…
Now look, he just didn't throw this Book at them and say, "Here it is,
hop to it." There came a day one day when Israel was supposed to rest on
the Sabbath, not supposed to do any work. And yet they knew if an ox
fell in the ditch, you pull the ox out. If someone was suffering you try
to help him. You didn't say, "Poor old cow, by the night you'll be dead,
but I can't do a thing, because there's a God up there I got to obey,
and He's a little tight about these things."
What about God and the opossum on Bro. Branham's porch that came for
healing? What about John Wesley's horse? Now, God I say healed the horse
for two reasons, He felt sorry for the horse, maybe He felt sorry for
John Wesley, so that John wouldn't have to walk. What about the horse in
Africa that fell down bleeding on the street. Johannesburg, or
someplace, where Dr. Lake was? And the black people laughed, and they
said, "Well, Lake if your God is so big, what about that horse?"
And Lake said, "I'll show you a thing or two about my God." Went out
and prayed for the horse, the horse jumped up whinnying and ran off,
friskier than ever.
33. All right, Moses, this fellow was picking up sticks on the Sabbath.
Now, he wanted to cook a dinner. Well, all right, you're hungry on
Sunday. Some people get nauseated if they don't eat. I don't get that
bad. I imagine I could after a while, but, I don't need food as much as
a lot of people do. This fellow he might have been pretty legitimate.
Now, they catch him picking up sticks. And they say, "Hey, this doesn't
ring a bell, there's something a little bit funny here." They said, "We
better take this fellow in and check this thing out." And they said,
"Moses, we brought you this guy."
He said, "What for?"
"Well," he said, "he was picking up sticks."
"Well, what about it?"
"Well, there's something about not supposed to do any servile work on
the Sabbath."
Moses said, "That's right." He said, "What you do (he said) we haven't
got time for him today, put him in detention and we'll get that a little
later on."
So, they put him in detention (which is separate him which is the thing
to do) then they went to the Lord and said, "Lord, what about this
fellow? Now, this could be legitimate, because he needed these sticks to
cook his dinner."
The Word of the Lord came back, "You stone him with stones, because he
could have done that yesterday."
Now, you see what I'm talking about? The teaching of the Word of God is
not this Bible per se, It is the revelation of this Bible. As God
reveals exactly the content of His Word, and for what reason, and for
what course?
[Deuteronomy 4:]
(1) …teach…for to do them, that (you) may live, and go in and
possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you.
(2) (You) shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither
shall (you) diminish ought… that (you) may keep the commandments
of the LORD your God which I command you.
(3) Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor: all
the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD thy God destroyed them
from among you.
(4) But (you) that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every
one of you this day.
(5) Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the
LORD my God commanded me,…
Now, He never taught them anything of Himself, but by revelation.
That's exactly what Paul said. William Branham said, "Remember, just
think how wonderful, the same Pillar of Fire that brought the Word to
Paul, is here revealing the same Word." Now, we just got to believe
these things and take them brother/sister, because life is at stake
today, and death is amongst us. This is a million times more serious and
sober than people realize. People thought they had a side show and
entertainer in Bro. Branham. Believe me, there was no side show, no
entertainment. There was vindication and revelation. The most High God
in the midst of His people.
34. Now:
(5) Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the
LORD my God commanded me, that (you) should do so in the land
whither (you) go to possess it.
Now notice: 1 and 5. [Deuteronomy 4:] Now listen.
(1) Now therefore hearken…unto the statutes and judgments, which I
teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess
the land…(go in and possess the land.)
Now, verse 5.
(5) Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the
LORD commanded me, that (you) should do so in the land whither
(you) go to possess it.
Now, you will notice the admonishment of verse 2.
(2) (You) shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither
shall (you) diminish ... from it, that (you) may keep…(have
with you the entire revealed Word of God at this hour; because the
command of Moses was the command of God.)
So, we see the admonishment of verse 2, was given at the time of
entering into the Promised Land, the mini Millennium. At no other time
was this admonishment given. (See?) When the fog closed down a peculiar
hour in which it was neither day nor light of the entering in; when man
must know for sure, or go into tribulation. Remember Baal-peor, they
died. Spiritual death struck in the wilderness, the foolish virgins
died. Remember them. These were going in, and they had a purely revealed
self contained absolute Word that would get them in as long as they
didn't add to It, or take away from It, or attempt to change or juggle
things around.
35. Now, we go to Revelation 22:10, and we read:
(10) And he (said to) me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of
this book: for the time is at hand.
What time is at hand? That's the question. What about this, don't seal
the Book? It was sealed in Revelation 10:4. It was shown to be sealed in
Revelation chapter 5. But, here it's unsealed, so every mystery
according to Revelation 10:6 and 7 is before us in full view. Now,
that's the Word of God.
Man says, "Well, I just wonder." Well, keep your wondering. Be my
guest. Deny the Presence of God. Deny the revelation of God. Deny it! I
told you before, I can't hold your hands and get you there. Hold your
own hands. Lee Vayle hasn't got one thing for you. Coming to this church
hasn't got one thing for you. I can't help you. The great Helper's here.
(See?)
36. Now, the Book is unsealed. The fog's lifted. The inexorable
predicament has been overcome. There's got to be a place where I do not
add one word, or take one word; that my revelation becomes one with
God's. Yes, sounds strange, one with God's.
"Oh sure, how can you say that, you're a human being born in sin." Yes!
But, He takes the beggars off the manure heap that smell like dung. You
want to know just how raw that can be, wait till the horses go to green
grass and stand behind them. You know what you smell like. If you don't
smell like that, you'll never be a prince with God.
The minute that you recognize what you are, and what He is, and what He
said He would do for you by taking your place, you'll understand that
God justifies the ungodly. He declares righteous. Not just one person
now, but the whole Bride. He said, "You didn't even do it." (See?) Book
opened.
Yes, men fuss and they fight, and we're fussing and fighting now. You
can tell before I preached this sermon I'm engaged with men who say,
"He's not here!" And I showed you He is here! Oh, what are you doing
here? There's nobody belongs here that doesn't believe a prophet.
Now, you say, "Well, Bro. Vayle I never heard until this hour." That's
fine. You sit around and listen. You'll keep coming. If something
witness this is the truth, fine. If it doesn't, come anyway if you like,
we'll give you a sandwich or anything you want. Help you out, anything
we do. That's all you're going to get. Because, I'm going to tell you
something flat: if God's here, there had to be a prophet. And if a
prophet was here vindicated, God was here; and He's still is here.
37. Now, we're not going to fool with that anymore, because we
understand that perfectly. We also understand we have to have the
perfect Word of the hour, because the prophet cannot say anything of his
own mind. "Oh, Bro. Branham said, so and so." Oh, shut up! When he was
in that pulpit preaching, previously anointed to get into that pulpit,
there was no way, (if there's a God in heaven who doesn't lie) there was
no way that Word would ever come, except by a pure revelation whether
you and I understand it or not. The thing was, we believed he gave the
truth. And if the Holy Spirit's in us in a modicum that gave that truth,
there would be that response in here, Amening every single Word.
That's what happened to Eve back there. She messed up, because she
wasn't in the original creation. Original creation. Original Word.
Original seed. Never boo-booed. Never gets fooled. The Book is unsealed.
The time is at hand!
What time? "The just are just. Filthy, filthy," it's over. [Rev 22:11]
Nobody else is going to get born again. Those that are born again are
perfectly holy. They're justified. You can't lay a finger on them. Why?
Because God won't judge them to condemnation. He judged them virtuous.
Beggars on the dung heap. Jesus was born on a dung heap. I'm going to
associate with Jesus, He's my kind of a man. I always was one for the
dung heap. I never saw a kid you keep out of the mud yet, if he had
anything in him. But, some little namby-pamby jerk that tried to act
like a girl or something.
38. [Revelation 22:]
(12) …behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give
every man according as his work shall be.
(13) I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning…the first and last.
(14) Blessed are they that (wash their robes), that they may have
right to the tree of life, and enter… into the city.
No Tree of Life, no City. No revelation. No washing their robes. What's
that got to do it? The washing of water by the Word. A Bride pure and
spotless, because she hasn't added one word, or taken one word, that
leaves her legitimate. In her is fulfilled everyone of the processes of
God in redemption. (Yeah!)
(15) (And) without are dogs, (that's male prostitutes, don't sell
that short) sorcerers, (that's druggists, priest and preachers and
false cults that give you the wrong interpretation) whoremongers,
(those that just come in with their fornicating ways, the)
murderers, (that's a Cain, yeah,) idolaters, and whosoever loveth
and maketh a lie.
That's the whole bunch of them. That's the devil's crowd right here.
They're all left out.
39. All right, listen, let's go on: verses 18 and 19 are given at this
time.
(18) For I testify (to) every man that (hears) the words of the
prophecy of this book, If any (one person, any) man add… God
(will give) him the plagues (Great Tribulation, couldn't happen at
any other time.)
And the Bride's gone at this time. How can she get the plagues when she
doesn't add a word, or take a word? And this bunch here that take away
the Word. They'll come up at the White Throne and their names found out,
they haven't got a chance. Why? Do you know what they take away? They
take away redemption by Blood every single time. And they take away the
baptism with the Holy Ghost. They go one course or the other. They deny
the Blood, or they deny the Spirit. And you know what the evidence of
denying the Spirit is and not having It? Is, denying the revelation of
the hour. They turn It down. They'll never get in. (See?)
This is giving us the time of the going in of the Millennium. Now,
Alpha is Omega. We learned that. The first Exodus types the last Exodus,
because there aren't any more. This is it! Jews and Gentiles alike, go
into the Millennium. They got their own processes and their own
chronological orders of going in, but it's all one and the same. By the
Blood and by the Holy Ghost, because 144,000 are sealed in. And the
souls under the altar do not come up in the First Resurrection, they
come up in the Second, and come in. They're not Bride. The millions and
billions, if they are outside the Eternal City bring their glory in,
but, they're not part of it, they serve the Bride as she serves the
Groom.
40. Now, Alpha is Omega. The Alpha is the Exodus from Egypt, and
entrance into the Promised Land. The Omega is Revelation 18:4, "Come out
of her my people." And Revelation 22:14, "Blessed are they that wash
their robes." And from this point they're definite on their way to New
Jerusalem. It doesn't even talk about the Millennium. You know why?
Because Abraham looked for a City which hath foundation, who's Builder
and Maker is God, and that is not the Millennium, that is the New
Jerusalem which is post Millennium.
All right, listen, the Alpha, Exodus an entrance had five principles:
1) God came on the scene.
2) A prophet with the revealed Word.
3) Both God and the prophet identified.
4) The Word vindicated as to the hour of the Exodus and entering in.
5) The people in a state of revelation and truth.
There is no other requisite, or pre-requisite that is it.
41. Now, let's go back to Deuteronomy 4:1. I'm not telling you that you
have to be born again, I'm telling you what's laid here for you.
(1) Now hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments,
I teach you, for to do them, (you) may live, and go in and
possess the land which the LORD (your) God (gives) you.
Verse 5.
(5) …I taught you statutes and judgments, (see the grace of God in
five verses) even as the LORD my God commanded me, (you go into)
the land whither (you) go to possess it.
(6) Keep therefore and do them; (and) this is your wisdom and your
understanding in the sight of the nations…
This is what you and I have in the eyes of the world, the Word of God.
And everybody wants everybody else to be a jumping jack. To out-Branham,
Branham. To out-God, God. To out-miracle, miracles. That's why Bro.
Branham said, "She'll have the Word and know what to do with It." It'll
just be simple. It'll be living Word, because we become living Word.
Where do we get big ministries here? Where do we get pre-requisites of
this, that and the other thing?
The pre-requisite is 'this knowledge', which is undiluted, and in no
way changed that God is in His Word. And the only way God can be in His
Church, is for the Church to have the Word.
42. Now,
(6) …your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the
nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this
great nation is a wise and understanding people.
(7) For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto
them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him
for?
Now, what were they calling upon for? Get us in there and take care of
It. Restore It. What are we calling on Him for that He's here? Get us in
there.
"Oh Lord, make me a better person." Why? To make you ten times a better
person. You want to stay here with It?
"Oh Lord, great big gifts."
"How many do you want?" But, you can fry with them.
Well, didn't He say, "Depart from me, you that work iniquity?"
"Well, I like more closer?"
"Well, how close do you want me to get? I'm here aren't I?"
I'm not trying to make a fool out of you, I'm just trying to show you
some points here.
Then when you have God here to do a job, everything is included,
Because, exodus means, and entrance means it's over. You've left the
phase, you're in transition. What is a transition? A transition is the
Word revealed to bring you back to virginity. To bring you back where
God wants you.
(8) And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and
judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you
(to)day?
Who's got the Word, the righteous Word of God outside of us? And what
do you want the rest for? It's not that you can't have Him in its right
places. We're not turning down character. Don't think for one minute
that I turn down character. I bemoan the fact I don't have half enough.
But, I rejoice in the fact that His character is going to supersede
mine. Thank God.
You know, it's just like going into a restaurant years ago and didn't
have any money. I was always glad when the guy that had the money
reached for the check. [laughter] Oh, praise God for God that reaches
for the check. He paid the price. "All to Him I owe, sin left a crimson
stain, He washed it white as snow," brother/sister. That's not laughing,
that's rejoicing. Let me tell you.
43. Yes, light brings life. Well, doesn't it? The seed is already there.
Let the earth bring forth the green grass, the trees, or this, or that.
It was already there. All it needed was the sun, because the water was
there. It wasn't salt water by the way. It came later. It was all just
nice good water. Was taking up the water that made it so saline I guess
down here with the taking up. Started the think working until after the
flood. There were salt condition, had bacterial condition, a lot of
other things perhaps they didn't have before. (See?)
Light, that's today we have Revelation 10:1-7.
(1) …(the) mighty (messenger) come down … clothed with a…
rainbow…face as were the sun, feet (like) pillars of fire:
(2) (…one on land and one on sea.)
(3) cried with a loud voice, a lion (roars): …thunders
(uttering…)
And a prophet there at the same time revealing the mysteries of God.
That my brother/sister, is identical to 1 Thessalonians 4:
(16) For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout,
with the voice of the archangel, trump of God: and the dead in
Christ shall rise first:
The same One here, is Revelation 10:1, and the Voice, the Shout, which
is not said to be the Voice of the One descending, and It is not. [raps
hard on pulpit] Is a prophet of Revelation 10:7. And Bro. Branham
absolutely showed us that It was. He said, "You might have thought I was
trying to make myself something preaching this Message, I was not more
than a Voice of one standing by."
44. Listen, it is 2 Thessalonians 2.
(1) Now we beseech you, brethren, by the (presence) of our Lord
Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
(2) That (you) be not soon shaken in mind, or troubled, neither by
spirit, nor by word, nor letter as from us, as the day of Christ is
at hand. (No, there'll be a revelation about it.)
(3) Let no man deceive you by any means:…
That day won't come, except certain things transpire. Then notice,
verse 11.
(11) And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that
(they'll all) believe (the) lie:
That means, you shall not die, but live. They won't live, they'll die.
(12) That they all might be (condemned that) believed not the truth,
Now listen, that pre-supposes a judgment. Because, you got to judge
between people who believes the lie; who doesn't believe the lie? What
is a standard? The Judge. The Prophet, moving into judge. Now, Korah,
Dathan, Abiram didn't believe Moses. They got a bunch against him. They
were the first denomination. "Why," they said, "the whole congregation's
holy." Hogwash. That bunch of stupid liars. Nothing but stupid liars.
They're not worth the time of day, and their names even in their mouths,
except as an example, we ought to wash their mouths with soap and may be
spit or something.
45. Merciful God, you talk about ornery spiritual corruption. What made
them think they were somebody? What made them think the whole body was
something? They hadn't been weeded out entirely yet. They had to get
those guys out of there. Two hundred and fifty princes died and all
their families. You know why? Because, they set themselves up against
the one who did bring the revealed Word. And when they did, they set
themselves up against God. Because, it wasn't Moses, it was God they
disapproved of.
People disapproved of Bro. Branham. So they thought they did. Say,
"He's Jesus Only." They're liars, they disapproved of God. Bible says
they did. Let's stay with the Bible brother/ sister, this is Exodus.
This is Exodus and Deuteronomy. It's Exodus and Hebrews 3. It's Exodus
and Revelation 22. It's Exodus and 1 Thessalonians. It's Exodus and 2
Thessalonians. Read It with understanding. Alpha is Omega. We're not
blind anymore.
I'll tell you one thing: if not one of us make it we at least got a
whole lot further in over ninety nine percent. And you say, "Bro. Vayle,
but that's not much comfort." Hold it kid, you ain't there yet, God
ain't through with you yet. Because once you start moving, God moving
you, He's not going to stop.
See, there comes a time (illustrate) there comes a time when the law
of gravity will simply take over. So God's Word. When you are a part of
that Shout, you'll be a part of the Voice, and a part of the Trumpet.
Because, the Shout comes to the living who are associated with the dead
that are going to come out, from amongst the other dead.
As a nation came out of a nation, a Church comes out of a church, and
the dead come from amongst the dead. (yep) Everything is a 'come out',
and a 'coming into'.
46. Now listen, let's keep reading: [2 Thessalonians 2:]
(12) That they all might be (condemned) who believed not the truth,
but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
What unrighteousness? Evil deeds of Cain. Refusing a revelation in the
face of that which was vindicated, and that which was of the hour. When
the Catholic's turned down Luther, they were gone. When Lutherans turned
down Wesley, they were gone. When Wesley turned down Pentecost, they
were gone. When Pentecost turned down William Branham, they were gone.
"Come out of her my people." That is why you have Bride in every Age.
That is why you have foolish virgins in every Age. One Word. Now listen:
(13) But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren
beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen
you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of
the truth:
He chose you to believe. Why? The Elect cannot be deceived.
(14) Where unto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the
glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
You will be in His image, because of this Word that has been revealed
and renewed through the same Pillar of Fire that gave It to Paul, and
now gave It to William Branham. ...kings and priests from a long time,
but don’t worry, I'm going to get back one of these days on the Father
of glory, don't worry it'll begin to percolate a little bit again.
Paul preaching to those and telling them that are filled with the Holy
Ghost he said, "Now, there's just one thing left, that's going into the
Promise Land." Now, he said, "I've seen you love, I've seen your fruit.
I've seen all of these things (he said) that wonderful, but, that's not
going to do it."
47. Oh my, people say, "When this love moves amongst us, and when
everybody gets kissy, kissy, lovely, lovely, (you know) oh munchy,
munchy, crunchy, crunchy, (you know) eating each other up, oh
hallelujah, yeah, (you know) glow red said we're going to go."
I've got news for you, these people had the real thing, the real love,
their Church was in order and they hadn't gone yet. And Paul said,
"Listen, you're not going to go, until the spirit of wisdom, until the
God of our Lord Jesus Christ the Father of glory gives you the spirit of
wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him. To the end the eyes of
your heart being enlightened, you will come into the knowledge which
will transform you which is the hope of His calling, the riches of His
glory of His inheritance of the saints." [Eph 1:17-18] "And you will
know at that hour, the same resurrection power that raised Jesus is
going to bring them out of the grave. He's going to change you and put
you in a Rapture."
Now, what's going to do it? Revelation. Revelation by Him Who is here
releases a power of Him Who is here to bring them out of the graves, to
change you to take us up. And then they say, "He's not here." Well, He
is, and I'm going with Him. Hallelujah!
“The gloves are off” as the prophet said.
"Oh," you say, "Bro. Vayle you mustn't shout that."
You mean to tell me I'm to be silent and let the truth go down the
drain while the crowd who gives the devil's lie? Oh, come on, you don't
know Lee Vayle, and you don't know the God Lee Vayle knows. You don't
know William Branham that Lee Vayle knows. Somebody doesn't know
somebody. Now I just said it, that's the way it is. But thank God,
that's not the way it is.
Now, look it, I'm not trying to make you a fighter, forget it. I'm not
trying to make you (you know) toughies or anything, I'm the lease tough
guy in the world actually. If a fight comes I'd sooner run, because (you
know) what does it say, "He who starts a fight and runs away, well,
lives to fight another day." [laughter] Yes sir, you know, don't get me
messed up with your thinking.
48. All right listen: from Ephesians 1:15-23, God and people are all one
by the Word, therefore any adding will bring the plague. Now, we're not
going to add, so we don't bring the plague. Look, didn't he bring it on
herself. Didn't Cain bring it on himself? Wasn't it told that he would
be a fugitive from the land, and the land would only destroy him? That's
not our promise brother/sister, we're not fugitives from the land, we're
going into the 'Land', and it will not destroy, it's going to take it
over. We're not going to be here for any great tribulation; and then
here for a burning. Come on! Too simple isn't?
Well, (you know) when you look at yourselves you say, "Brother it
better be simple." Then when it comes simple, you say, "It better be
complex, because I'm sort of in between." Like the bat I told you about,
(you know) the birds and the animals had a war. When the birds were
winning he'd flutter his wings and say, "I'm a bird." When the animals
start winning, he'd close his wings and say, "I'm an animal." So, you
can't be fish or fowl.
The Bible says, "All flesh is different." There is one flesh of fish,
there's one of fowl, and there's one of us. You ain't…you know it, you
better stick to your flesh. There's one flesh of God. Word.
49. All right, listen: therefore anyone adding will bring the plagues. A
Bride will not add. Why? Because It says, "We were not ordained to
condemnation, we were ordained to Life. We were ordained, we wouldn't be
deceived. We were ordained, we would not take. We were ordained, we
would not add. No!
It could only happen before the catching away of the Bride and the
entering in after coming out. That's the only time it could happen in
this hour. The Elect cannot be deceived, so they will not add, or take
away. Which means, that not one Word of this end-time will be touched.
We take it all just as given and intended, and we'll make it into a
Millennium. For all the Bride needs for the Rapture was revealed in the
Seals.
In other words, Bro. Branham said, "She had everything she needed to
put her in a Rapture." And all she got was a revelation. Then the
revelation is sufficient to produce everything that was in there.
Like Peter said, "What will we do?" Why, he gave the Word of God,
"Repent, be baptized everyone of you, and you shall receive the gift of
the Holy Ghost." [Acts 2:38] Either that's true, or it's not true.
Now, the Bride believes, and is sanctified and justified, but there
are those who refuse the Light. They go into spiritual darkness and
death and the great tribulation; and then the White Throne and the Lake
of Fire.
50. Now listen in closing, the revelation has been given. There is not
another one to come. The first part of going away is in full effect,
that's the Shout, the Message. As soon as this revelation is confirmed
in the Bride, she is then one with the revealed Word. And Jesus is then
Living in Bride form. That's what He is, Living in Bride form, our form,
right in us, Holy Ghost filled in us, over us, surround, all of one
Word. Many members, one Word, one body, many verses, one Word, can't
touch. Then the dead rise, and then the living are changed internally,
externally, and all are caught away to the Marriage Supper. So, we must
never fear. We will not add or take. No way! Why?
I'm going to tell you something brother/sister: I don't care what
anybody does, there's no way that anybody really can add or take. It's
only unto themselves they do it. And when you and I have received, and
that's all there is to it, receive that revelation. And the last
predestinated Word or seed is in, there will be a Bride who is exactly
one with each other, because she's exactly one with the Word, because
she's actually one with God. And there'd be no adding, and there'd be no
taking.
We have a rest, that evening time in the murky darkness there is a day
which is neither light nor dark. There has to be a Light shine for the
predestinated where they will never veer from that Word. They're going
to believe It, It's going to take him in. It's already started, and It's
going to do it, and the prophet of God, vindicated, stood there and he
said, "Let me tell you something," he said, "if we are not Bride, (get
this) for sure there's a Bride out there somewhere. And by the grace of
God I will not stand in her way."
51. There's one thing I know with the prophet, I believe I am part of
that Bride. I don't believe that God has brought me this far. I do not
believe for one minute He's given me authority in this Word to preach It
and to teach It, and to show from Scripture through a gift of teaching,
and a spirit of prophecy, a testimony that Jesus Christ, that I am going
to miss It. I don't believe for one minute I'm going to miss It. But,
I'm going to tell you one thing: if I do, there's somebody not.
Because, Bro. Branham stood there as that vindicated prophet, and you
know there cannot be a prophet outside the Bride. You know there is no
way that you'd ever have a man of that caliber. In fact, they are even
beyond the Bride in a status, for Paul said, "I have espoused you. I
have already married you to the Man Himself." [2 Cor 11:2] What kind of
a man would say that? He better know what he's saying. He better be that
kind of a man.
William Branham stood right here and he came and screamed those
definitive words of the Master Judge, and He declared us: "absolutely
without sin. justified, never having done it, Bride of the a spotless
virtuous Son of Almighty God." One in the Word.
52. Brother/sister, let me tell you something: he also declared us "Mrs.
Jesus." I'm lining myself up with that, because I believe in spite of
what other teachers teach; that the Rapture is progressive. That it's
all a complete revelation. And it's that revelation that begins changing
you, until you can no more stay here than nothing. Because, the strings
are off. The body's glorified. Merciful heaven, don't you know a
glorified man could go through a six foot tree out there, and if you
bumped him accidently you wouldn't even know he had touched it. His
vibrations are so powerful as Einstein said, "If two things going at an
incredible rate of speed, going so fast like two rocks at a certain
speed could pass right through each other." Crown of two rocks could in
a way, the molecules had to be really agitated. But, how would you stop
a spirit going through a tree?
And we are spirit body. Glorified, immortal body. One glorified man
could control the whole world and own it. One glorified man if it were
possible that he could get out of control create his own world. Satan
isn't a glorified man. He's not in the image.
All things were created by the One that we're going to fall down and
worship. We're going to crown King of kings. And we're just exactly in
His image. One glorified man. But, because he is in the image, he will
upset nothing. He will neither add, nor will he take. But God, will come
forth in His beauty.
53. I'm going to tell you something, you might not know it: you are
world changers. You are a part of the Master Plan of God, using you to
change worlds. Otherwise, why are they being changed. He's starting with
us in order to have the rest. As Bro. Branham said, "When God had that
great fish in mind with a fin, He said, 'I'm going to make water for
that fish to swim in'." It wasn't the water that counted, it was the
fish.
Everybody talks about the Promised Land, hallelujah. "Ain't it nice, if
we would just somehow get there?" Oh no, I'm glad it was made for me,
because I'm going there. That's mine. I can stand here in the fourth
kingdom, Rome ruling it exclusively, and already in Canada, the bishop's
conference of Roman Catholics have decided that the church will step in
and save the nations, because the people are hungry. They'll give them
the money. Oh, I love Canada, 'yuck'! Thank God I left there. I knew
that…listen, too much Catholic brother/sister. America's gone that way
too. The world's going that way. We got the IRS all set up.
Jesus came at a time of great taxation. He came the time when the
publican were ruining the people, and the IRS are doing the same thing.
(Yeah) "Even so Lord Jesus come quickly." [Rev 22:20] Let's rise.
Heavenly Father, it's just been so good to have been here. Just
wonderful beyond compare, Lord, marvelous, marvelous, marvelous are Thy
doings in our eyes, Lord. We can almost write another book of Psalms as
we've seen Thy doings, Lord. What You did in Jeffersonville, Indiana.
What You did over in Louisville, and Evansville. What You did over there
in St. Louis. What You did over there in Los Angeles, the great
prophecy. What You did in Africa, truck loads of crutches. What You did
when those thousands as those Hindus wiped the dust off their foreheads,
just like a dust storm in the air. What You did great and mighty, Your
works, Lord God. Great and mighty are You, Lord, and You lead us out of
the churches, Lord. You've lead us out of the harlot. You've led us,
Lord away, leading us into the Promised Land.
Great and mighty are Your works. Great and mighty is our God, as an
illustration to us as what He is doing and what He's going to do, Lord.
How can we doubt, there's no way, Lord. There's no way, Lord. We've
heard Your Voice, "Come and dine." We've heard Your Voice, Lord, eat and
prepare for the journey. We've identified ourselves, Lord, because we
believe You've identified us.
We would not dare come of our own without a garment, Lord. We at least
stand, Lord, before You believing that the garments, the inner garments,
the great garments, garments of identification. The great garments,
Lord, that absolutely show forth the investiture of the Bride. Those
garments, Lord, so the Bride glorious within and without. And there's
only one reason, Lord, because You are within and You are without, the
whole thing of God, Lord.
We do not say that, Lord, to be flattering. You know, Lord, in our
hearts we start with little step of faith, and we've been increasing and
growing, Lord, and something in our minds said, "Well, there's nothing
else but this anyway. There isn't in our books, Lord. If there is, I
wouldn't know where to turn. I wouldn't know where to go. All I can say,
is Lord God of Abraham. Lord God of Jesus. Lord God of Paul. Lord God of
William Branham. Lord God of Elijah. Great God, that One. You're getting
ready, You've gotten ready to get us out of here, and You're going to do
it.
And, Lord, this is a wonderful Word we have. And I know that the
churches around may look at us and they may not agree, but they do know
there's a great Word that we have, because a prophet brought It
vindicated. That Great Word has made us different. That Great Word got
us ready for the Promised Land. That Great Word, and that Great Word has
made us Word, and now we can go into the Promised Land. And Satan is
bound by circumstances, he couldn't get to one of us.
There won't be a leaf out of place anymore. There won't be death
anymore. There won't be dislocation anymore. There won't be disharmony
anymore. Disunity. Going to be wonderful, Lord.
Oh, God Lord, I tell You what, I just don't even know how I can think
of it. It's sure what Your Word said, "Eye hath not seen, ear heard." It
isn't even in our hearts. We just…all we can say is, Lord, there's a
deep calling for the Land beyond the River. And what is there, O God,
will take Its rightful place, and we are rightful place with It. And
that's going to be it, Lord. That's about all we can say, because we
don't know beyond that.
But, our eyes have seen, our hands have handled of a Word of Life. And
whatever that means we've got It. We're a part of It, Lord. We're
content to let it go with that. We're content, Lord, to just let it go
with that, and just walk on in. Enjoy the surprises, enjoy the elements.
If we can enjoy little bits of this Word here as it opens up to place
It. And, Lord, what will be the placing of that Living Word? And we're a
part of It.
Father, we're content to let It be. If you need to show us something,
Lord, please show us. If You need to gear us down, or gear us up,
whatever You need to do, Lord. You're God, Your Own Word says, "The
hearts of kings are in (Your) hands, the same as there is of water, and
(You) turn them whichever way (You) will."
You said, "Blessed is the man that (You) choose and cause to approach
unto (Your) Throne." Lord, we make You sovereign today. We make You
sovereign today in a humility and a sincerity we've never had before.
Lord, we know that something is happening. We can't make it happen
faster, because there's patience and things to be entered into to
possess by patience. And in patience we keep our souls, and in patience
we possess the Kingdom. We know these things, Lord.
So, when You have to bring us down, we trust You, because we know the
same One will lift up. We know the same One has given us everything to
make ourselves ready, and we shall see the glory of God.
Lord, I pray for everyone in divine Presence. Those that couldn't be
with us here, Lord, we're sorry they're sick and what have you. We know
that these things happen. Bless them, O God, keep them, rule, direct
their lives. The sick at home we pray You'll heal them. You're so good
to our great granddaughter, Lord, and we believe that's not an isolated
case, You're good to all. Even all Your creatures, Lord, we pray for
people today that they might we well merciful God, Your healing hand
come upon them.
And in this building here too, Lord, heal bodies. But above all heal
minds, heal souls, heal spirit, Lord. May people begin to realize…that
it doesn't matter what they look like, what they've been through, or
what they might even go through. That if there was yet seed that You
planted in them. If they were born to this end, then they are worth
something to You. And if they're worth something to You, then it doesn't
matter if they're worth anything to anybody else, because that's not
what counts. It's You that counts, Lord. And You'll make them one of
Your jewels. You'll do that, Lord.
But, You said, "Who are you man to judge another man's servant? to his
own master stands or falls, and God is able to make him stand." [Rom
14:4] And You said, Your Own David said, "Though the righteous fall
seven times, the Lord lifts him up." [Prov 24:16]
So, Lord, we rest on that for Your people. We rest on that, Lord, for
consolation that you didn't leave us, You came, using Your prophet,
using Your Word. We often think of that song; "Through shady green
pastures so rich and so sweet, God leads His dear children along."
That's true, that's true, but also, "Some through the waters, and some
through the flood. Some through the fire, but all through the Blood."
O yes, Lord, some through great depressions, great tortures, great
problems, but there's never a doubt that You lead us along, You lead us
through, You lead us into. You make us to lie down. You're the One,
Lord. And one day, we're going to gather around that Throne. Very
shortly, we're going to gather around You. And what a day that's going
to be, the great field excursions that lie ahead. O, the great
investigations, the great experiences. The heart constantly in tune to
overflowing. There won't be one little fear. There won't be one little
catch in the breath, one little trip in the walk, one little stumble.
There won't be one jaundiced look. There won't be any of those things.
Now, it's going to be just wonderful. Lord, You gave us the Word to see
that we got It.
Father, I can't believe anything but restoration in this hour. Can't
believe anything, Lord, but You have done what You said You'd do. And
now, we're about to gather the complete fruit of it. We cannot praise
Thee enough. There's no way. Magnify Your great Name.
Now, unto the King eternal, immortal, the only wise God, Him that's
invisible now, but will soon take upon Him the form of the visibility of
that Blessed One Who's body He indwelt, making Him the fullness, that
Logos, that One. We look upon Him, truly immortalized and we with Him,
what a day. Unto Him there be all honor, and glory, and power,
everything, everything in tribute. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
"The Lord bless you."
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