Rapture Mystery                                                   
                   

       Bro. Lee Vayle   -  June 9, 1969

		Now, perhaps during the morning I don't want to take services away
from the brethren, because I think it would be fine if we have various
speakers in order hear more of these passages of the Message that God
has given. You know each one of us has something to contribute, and I
believe that contribution is necessary, very definitely so. I didn't
want to take too many services, but perhaps and working some morning
services because so many questions have been asked me concerning the
Resurrection. I might be able to bring a couple of messages relative to
that, of the mystery particularly of the Rapture. Because those who are
here on earth at the end time will not see death. And yet, "It is
appointed unto man once to die, and after that the judgment." [Heb 9:27]

	How will men actually escape death, because some will. And this in
contrary actually in a sense to the Word of God, because resurrection
means 'you've got to die'. There cannot be a resurrection without death.
It's a literal coming back. And we may be able to discuss that, because
especially in the Seventh Seal Bro. Branham screams out in pure prophecy
exactly what is said in the Greek that you will miss unless you know
what the word means that He by the Holy Ghost knew and screamed out in
prophecy the very thing that is taking place now.

	And I've actually got it in writing here, I even forget where I took it
from. I've got my notes scribbled, and Bro. Branham had said exactly
what is said in the Bible. And yet you would have to search It and find
It. You'd never guess It, never see It by reading It. It would take a
prophet to unveil It. Because even if you searched It in the original,
you still would not really understand. But things I think are important
to us, but, and I don't want to bring a message a little shorter,
because these are about two hours a piece in order to cram the material
in. I thought it might be wise to bring a message which is upon the
Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.

	So, we bow our heads in a word of prayer, and we'll go to the Word of
God.

	Gracious Heavenly Father, we thank You for allowing us the privilege of
coming together. We say this, and yet we say it very superficially,
because, although we are thankful and agree, we know there will come a
time when a meeting like this will be a memory. And then we which we be
oh so thankful to be able to come together, to be a lot like David who
had access to that water, at that well he loved so well. And then there
came a time when the enemy stood between him and that well of water, and
suddenly he wanted that water more than he wanted anything in this
world.

	And Lord, we feel this is the same thing here. Although we do
appreciate we're going to be honest and that, we don't appreciate half
enough, though we love a little, we don't love enough. Lord, we just
admit, Lord, You've pegged us exactly right, when You look down here and
wrote the history of Laodicean Church Age we plead guilty. Absolutely, O
God, we say that Thou art true, Lord, and we plead guilty. Looking for
grace. It's all we can claim, O God, crouching like a beggar. Destitute,
begging, relying a hundred percent upon You. Help us, Lord, to learn to
be truly grateful, truly understanding. 

	Now, Father, we pray according to Your Word that You have the Holy
Spirit, now open this Bible to us, Your Own Word, giving us the words to
say with the proper understanding, so the people also might hear and
understand. And together, O God, we progress in this Light until we're
caught away to be with You. In the Name of Jesus Christ we pray. Amen.

1.	Now, we'll go to our Bibles and begin in 1 Thessalonians 4:14.

		(14) 	For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them
also 						which sleep in Jesus will God bring (forth. The actual word
is not 						to bring with him, to bring forth with him.)

	Now, you notice It says here, that if we believe Jesus died and rose
again, if we believe in a resurrection, then you cannot stop there. You
can't do it. You've got to see the rest of it. See? Those that that
sleep are going to be brought forth with Him. Just like He was brought
forth by the power of God, and came back in a glorified body. That's got
to happen. You don't separate them. They are one and the same.

		(15)	 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, (that means
'Thus 					saith the Lord',) that we which are alive and remain unto the
coming 					of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.

		(16) 	For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout,
with the 					voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the
dead in 						Christ shall rise first:

		(17) 	Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together
with 					them (what them? Those who come out of the grave with them) in
the 					clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be
with the 					Lord.

2.	Now, we turn to 2 Thessalonians  1:7-10, and find another aspect of
His Coming. Paul speaking said:	 

		(7) 	And to you who are troubled rest with us... 

	These are persecuted burdened people and they seem to be tossed and
torn and they don't have the rest that their great apostle had. Because
remember, Paul lived in such assurance that is almost unbelievable. If
you study his life and read those triumphant Messages he brings forth
out of the problems of life, you are amazed. 

	In fact if you want to have a real treat buy yourself, a little book by
Way, (W-a-y) a professor at Oxford University, and he translates the
Pauline epistles. And every now and then a little heading says 'A hymn'.
A hymn of triumph. And that's exactly how the Bible is written. It's
written...It's not written like we read some old book of (what you call)
prose (and go-along, jig-ga-ti, jig-ga-ti, jog hitting the bumpers to,)
why Paul the apostle liked those holy inspired men of God, going over
those rough old fields, and the bloody siege of life. Come to a place, a
moment as it were, the trial, and suddenly the Spirit of God descends to
him a trial rose up in the face of disaster, and the trial in the Holy
Ghost. Read that little book. Only cost you about $1.85, or so. If you
haven't got it, I'll help you buy one. Fantastic! See? Fantastic.

 	"Rest with us," he said, "Rest with us." See? Rest. Get in that rest.
Rest in faith. See?

3.	Now, he says,

		(7)	...when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his
mighty 					angels,

		(8) 	In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and 	
				that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:

		(9) 	Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction... (and they
say 					'annihilation' is not in the Bible.) 

	What some people say to prove a point. The only point they prove their
ignorance. This word in the Greek means 'total destruction'. And it
doesn't mean continue destroying, it says, it puts an end to it. And
they say there's an eternal hell. 

	Why do you think preachers believe in eternal hell? So they can scare
the people out of hell into heaven.  

	[Tape blanks and begins again]

	... you couldn't come no matter how scared you were, because He said,
"You can't come, unless the Father draws you." He said, "With cords of
love have I drawn you. I loved you before you knew who you were." Who
are you going to believe, a bunch of preachers or God?

	You say, "Bro. Vayle, you're tough on preachers."

	You bet, those birds led me astray, and they sure got Bro. Branham in
trouble. It takes a bunch of preachers to mess things up. Yeah, that's
it. I'll tell you, I'm with my colleagues every bit of the way. Or I'll
tell you it's got to be God's way, because that's the only way I'm
fussing about. 

		(9) 	(They) shall be punished with everlasting destruction; (Not
destroying 					now. It's a finish work.) from the presence of the Lord,
and from the 					glory of his power;

		(10) 	When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be
admired in 					all them that believe. because our testimony among you
was believed... 		

	Notice where Paul puts it? He said, "If it hadn't been for this
testimony, you wouldn't of got there." And then people don't want a
prophet, apostles, or pastors, teacher, or something else. Huh? My, my,
my. All right, I'm not going to rough on you, just going to exhort you a
little bit. 

4.	Let's go to Revelation 10: still talking about the Second Coming, he
reads about it. Revelation 10: This chapter is known as an
interpolation, It's set in there. Could have set anywhere. This chapter
could have set anywhere, but God set It here. See? Because, It doesn't
belong between 9 and 11 chronologically you know how It's put in here.
See?

		(1) 	And I saw another mighty (messenger) come down from heaven, 					
clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face 				
was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:

		(2) 	And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right
foot 						upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,

		(3) 	And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he 
					had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.

		(4) 	And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about
						to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up 
					those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.

		(5) 	And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth 	
				lifted up his hand to heaven,

		(6) 	And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created
heaven, 					and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the
things that 						therein are, and the sea, and the things which are
therein, that there 						should be time no longer:

		(7)	But in the days of the voice of the seventh (messenger), when he 	
				shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he 	
				hath declared (by, not to, but by) his servants the prophets. 

5.	Now, for many years our fundamentalists have set forth the Second
Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is interpreted as His literal
return from Heaven to earth take place in two phases. I think they
should have said, 'two facets', but we'll call it 'two phases' to please
them.

	He first shall come for His Church which is the Bride in a secret
Rapture. According to their teaching she is taken from the grave in a
Resurrection. Then the living are changed like unto those who are
resurrected and together, they're all caught up to meet the Lord in the
air. Where they say, they will remain with Him at the Wedding Supper of
the Lamb for seven complete years.

	This is how they explain 1 Thessalonians  1:13-16. Then at the end of
that time, the second facet will come into view. "For Christ and His
Bride will return to earth openly. The enemies of God will be destroyed
and the Kingdom of our God could be set up upon the earth." This they
say is in 2 Thessalonians 1:7-10.

	So thus, to quickly break down this doctrine which is in the
fundamental churches we find that the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus
Christ in His corporal body has two facets. Number one: He is coming for
His own. Number two: He is coming with His own.

	Now however, you have noticed that I read in Revelation 10:1-6, and
there is a mighty Messenger who's description can only be that of the
Lord Jesus Christ Himself. And you will notice that He is neither coming
for His own, nor is He coming with His own, and yet He has descended to
the earth, for His feet are on land and sea.

	Now, right away, right away see, in the fundamental camp the argument
will come, "This cannot be the Lord Jesus Christ. It's got to be
somebody else, because there are only two facets. He comes for His own,
and He comes with His own." So they say, "It's got to be somebody else."

6.	Now, also they could say, "If this mighty Messenger had anything to
do with the Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, then it is but a figure. It
is not an actual return to the earth."

	Now, you see, this is where people go wrong in their theology. They
take their tradition and then they try to prove their tradition by the
Bible. And when the Bible says something else they've got to explain It
away. See? They've got to, because no man has ever included this in the
Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. Show me a book! Show me a book
where this verse is set forth as the literal Second Coming of the Lord
Jesus Christ. See? So they've got to explain It away.

7.	Now, to fully reveal the folly of their tradition, see, that He came
once, and He'll come once again. And when He comes the second time, He
is Coming for His own and stopping in mid-air, then coming back with His
own. They say, "That is how He comes."So let me reveal to you the folly
of their tradition which their own scholars will reveal to them, but not
having the Spirit of God they cannot bring it to the people. See.?

	Now, let's turn to Ephesians 4. This is one of my favorite passages I
never get tired of expounding. Now in Ephesians 4:8.

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

	Now watch 9 and 10.

		(9) 	Now (he that) ascended, (now notice, he's talking about the One
that 					ascended, and he's going to qualify, or examine the One that
ascended 					upon what ground He did it, and Who He is. Now watch it:)
what is 					it (see?) but that he also descended first into the lower
parts of the 						earth?

	Now, notice the subject: he's talking about Him that ascended. Now Who
is He that ascended? "He that let captivity captive," which is the Lord
Jesus Christ and Who is He, and how did He do it? He came down here and
took upon Himself the robe of flesh, died upon Calvary, went to a tomb,
went into Hades, the Spirit went back to God.

8.	Now look it: the Scripture said, "I will not leave my soul in hell,
neither will thou suffer thy Holy One to see corruption. [Ps 16:10] They
laid his body in the tomb, the body did not corrupt, the soul went down
into hell, and He said, "Into thy hands, O God, I commend my Spirit."
[Lk 23:46] The tripartite One called Jesus Christ split and went three
different directions. 

	The Spirit went back to God.

	The Soul went to Hades.

	The body went into the ground.

	Now, that's Bible. I don't care what you believe, but I believe that's
Bible. You can't challenge it. See? Then that Spirit came down, picked
up the soul, spoke to the souls in prison, tore the gates of hell off,
led them up through the ground, robed them in their bodies and came
forth and ascended.

9.	Now, let's take a look at this... in Philippians 2.

		(9) 	Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name 
				which is above every name:

		(10) 	That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in
heaven, 					(so, it's got to be above the highest heaven.)...   

	Now, this is complete absolute exaltation. This is the highest height
man can ascend to, and notice, He ascended. See? But He's the One that
descended first to the lower parts of the earth and brought them up. Now
do you follow me?

	Now look in verse 10. He that descended, is also is the same 'also'
that ascended up far above all heaven that He may fill all things in
all.

	Now, the casual reader, see, the casual reader thinks that verse 10, is
a repeat of verse 9, which would be a total tautalogical (to repeat the
same thing in different words) expression. I had to spring that fifty
dollar word on you, because some of you think I'm pedantic, or educated
erudite and all the rest, and I'm not. So if you don't know what the
fifty dollar word is, it's a twenty five dollar English word, (dollar
word,) it means 'redundancy'. If you don't know what that means, it
means 'repetition'. I may sound a little sarcastic, and I'm forgiven
because I am. [laughter]  Because you see, some people are very foolish,
and a rap of the knuckles. It's better I should rap them lightly, then
we get them broiled.

10.	Yet, this is not repetition. This is not saying the same thing in
verse 9, it's saying something entirely different. For It says, "He that
came down and took upon Himself the robe of flesh, and then descended to
bring about a Resurrection, and was exalted by God above the very
heaven, (It says,) that same One came down again."  Right. Read it,
don't be skeptical.

	This is not a fine brilliant mind telling you this. Because my fine
brilliant mind didn't find It, but the fine brilliant mind of Dr.
Vincent, and Dr. Vine and all the Greek students know, that this is the
return of the Lord Jesus Christ as the Holy Ghost. He came back as the
Holy Ghost. See? He descended. You follow me? He descended. This One
that God exalted came back. He came down.

11.	Let's find out if this is true. In John 14:16-28,

		(16) 	And I will pray the Father, and he (the Father,) shall give you
(the 						disciples you people) another Comforter, that he (that
Comforter,) 						may abide with you for ever;   

	Now, that's a statement of facts. Now again, He qualifies His statement
of facts.

		(17) 	Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because
						(if the world) seeth him not,...(what's seen here?) 

	He's talking as Isaiah spoke. "You can't see, because your eyes are
blinded." It is spiritual revelation as Paul said, "The eyes of your
understanding being enlightened, you may know." [Eph 1:18] See? They
don't know Him.  

		(17)	...neither knoweth him: but (you) know him; (Who did they know? 	
				They know Jesus Christ. See?) for he dwelleth with you, (Who was 			
	dwelling with them? Jesus was dwelling with them.) and shall be in 				
you. (Jesus shall be in them. See?)

		(18) 	I (He said,) will not leave you comfortless: I (Jesus Christ)
will 						come to you. (See?)

	All right, now going down here in verse 23.

		(23) 	(And) Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he
will 						keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we (we) will 
					come unto him, and make our abode with him.

	How? In Him. He said, "The Comforter will come. I am coming, the Father
is coming. The three in one is coming. All three are coming, alright? 
See? And He came back, He descended as the Holy Ghost. Yet I see these
theological students have these unmitigated gall to stand up and tell
us, "There's only one return of the Lord Jesus Christ, and that's Him
coming in a corporal body." He has already come back! Came back two
thousand years ago as the Holy Ghost

12.	Now, right here is where you see people go wrong again. There are
some people who caught on to this. And they understood He did come back
as the Holy Ghost. And they said, "Hallelujah, that's takes care of it.
You don't need to look for Him to come back in the flesh now, because
there's no such thing. You got the Holy Ghost, that does it. Well, from
now on you go to Him."

	Then, what are you going to do with 1 Thessalonians  4:13-16? Because
It says, He's got to come back and pick you up in midair. See how they
foul up? You can make, you think you can make the Bible say anything in
this world, but the Bible only says one thing, which is the truth. See?
Then they get the idea, I say if there's...if there's no Second Coming,
so what if you go to Him when you die? See? Always mess up.

13.	Now, let's see if I'm Scripturally correct in my understanding of
this Word of God. Is there not sufficient proof in the whole Bible that
show us that the fundamentals' are wrong concerning this question of the
return of the Lord Jesus Christ and what it is all about? Certainly
there are. What are you going to do with the Appearing of God in the
Garden of Eden? He had to come down to do it. It said He did. What are
you going to do when God Appeared to Abraham and Sarah? He came down and
Appeared as a man. What would you do about the fact He came down and
Appeared to Samson's parents? Because the Scripture does not say, "My
name is 'Secret'." That's the wrong translation. It says, "My Name is
Wonderful." And His Name is Wonderful. Tells you Who He is. See?

	What about that one that came down and stood in the fiery furnace, with
the three Hebrew children? What about that Flame of Fire that enveloped
the bush, and the bush did not burn? What about that Cloud that kept
them cool by day, and the Pillar of Fire the kept them cool [warm] by
night? What about that Pillar of Fire that came down at Pentecost where
a hundred and twenty names in faith were baptized with the Holy Ghost,
and a little bit went into each one? What are you going to do with that
Pillar of Fire that came down and blinded Paul? 

	He said, "Who are Thou Lord?" 

	He said, I'm Jesus." 

	Now, where's all your talk going concerning the Second Coming of Jesus
Christ in this facet or that facet? He went away once, will come back
once, He went once, He's already come back as the Holy Ghost. And they
said an old little cliché as it were, in this dead tradition and try to
destroy the facts of the Word of God. It's the Second Coming of the Lord
Jesus Christ so called, His corporal body has three facets. The end-time
has three facets and not just two see?

14.	Now notice, all these occurred on earth. 

	When He came to the Garden. 

	He came to Abraham.

	Came to Samson.

	Came to the Hebrew children.

	Came down as that Pillar of Fire.

	Came down to Paul.

	These were not visions. This is not like Ezekiel saying by the river
Chebar, "And I saw visions of God." Now, he didn't have visions from
God, but that was true, he had visions from God of God. A big
difference. See? These were seen visibly. God descended. God's the Lord
Jesus Christ. He absolutely descended. Will all these occurring on earth
as He Appeared.

	Thus, it is not strange to find the Scripture sets forth concerning
this Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. When He's going to receive
us to Himself, and then come back with His Bride, that there are not two
facets; but there are three facets. And this is absolutely wonderfully
Scriptural, because God does everything in threes. Yes, He does.

15.	Now, let's turn again to Revelation 10, and let us see if my thesis
is absolutely correct; although I have the prophet's word for it. Let's
just lay aside the prophet's word. Remember, when Bro. Branham, the
Pillar of Fire Appeared and opened the Seals, he had to go to His Word
to check that it was positively the right Spirit. Alright, if he had to
do it, what about you and me? So we go to the Word. We read It again.

		(1) 	And I saw another mighty (messenger) come down from heaven, ...

	Now the word 'a-ga-lof '(?) of course is in the Greek, but it's the
same also in the Hebrew...I mean is this, 'a messenger is a messenger.
He's an angel. He can be a physical earthly angel, or he can be a
physical heavenly angel. The reason I say heavenly, is because is spirit
to me a physical thing in the sense that it is real as a subject. See?
There's something real about it. So I just use the term loosely that you
understand. Now:  

		(1) 	...I saw another mighty (messenger) come down from heaven...

	Now, the Lord Jesus Christ Himself is a Messenger. If we go to Mal 3,
he said here:  

		(1)	 Behold, I will send my messenger, before (my face and he shall 		
			prepare the way before me): and the LORD, whom (you) seek, shall 				
suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant...

	Who is the Messenger of the Covenant? The Lord Jesus Christ. Notice, He
is His Own Covenant Messenger. God His Own Messenger. See? Not trusting
someone else with a message, He Himself, see, bringing the Message.

16.	Now, He came down from heaven. He's clothed with a Cloud. "This same
Jesus was caught up in a Cloud, shall so come in like manner as you've
seen Him go." [Acts 1:11] "Behold He cometh with clouds," [Rev 1:7] This
description absolutely without contradiction is concerning Jesus the
Christ, because He comes with clouds.

	Now notice: "And a rainbow was upon His Head." [Rev 10:1] Now, let's
look at this. Examine Scripture for one moment. Where's the rainbow? The
rainbow is around the Throne.

	All right, what Throne? The Throne of God. But He said, "I am sitting
on My Father's Throne." See? So, where's the rainbow? It's over the Head
of Him and Him along with this that sits on the Throne. Right? That's
the Lord Jesus Christ. Nobody else has the rainbow.

	Now notice again: The rainbow is a rainbow of Covenant. But you know,
we're like a bunch of little kids. We go out in the meadow we see the
sun shining after the rain storm, and the beautiful rainbow comes out.
We rhapsodize [speak with extravagant enthusiasm] the rainbow. We get
all happy, take our skipping ropes and talk about the 'pot of gold', and
this and that, beautiful. "Oh what a lovely color, oh what a sweet
thing." You better watch what you've talking about. That rainbow is not
a sweet lovely color, it is a Convent of God predicting wrath and
disaster. Because He said, "When I come the second time, I won't come
with water, I will with Fire!" Destroy the earth and the men upon the
earth it'll destroy them. See?

	So therefore, this One is coming with a rainbow, it is the Covenant of
God, Almighty Judgment, as He's coming back to this earth to destroy
them that destroy the world. See? Don't you get all beautifully thought
inside here, now happy inside that's it's a some sweet little extra
covenant. No sir. This is God's absolute Covenant that when He comes
He'll not destroy by water, but He will destroy by fire. Am I right? Go
back to Genesis and find out. It says so, see?

17.	Now notice: "His face as it were the sun." Correct. That's what Rev
1:10 says. "His face as it were the sun." This is what struck Paul, that
beautiful face, lighting up like the sun, only many times brighter. It
doesn't say it was the sun, it says 'like it'. The sun is the most
luminous body as far as we're concerned. There may be greater suns, I'm
not concerned about that, because they have no effect on us in the sense
that I'm talking about. God has said, "This face is like the sun,"
because that's all we know. But it's greater, don't worry. The sun will
cease its shining one day when His really starts to shine and look upon
us in glory.

	Now, It says, "His feet were as pillars of fire." [Rev 10:1] And notice
where they are. They are upon the earth. And It says, "He had in his
hand a little book open?" [Rev 10:2] Where is this from? This is that
little book that Who took out of the hand of Him that sits upon the
Throne. This is that Bleeding Lamb, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, who
took the Book and opened It.

	Notice, It is open. See? And he said, "Little book open, and he set His
right foot upon the sea and His left foot upon the earth." [Rev 10:2] 

18.	Now, let's just stop and see a moment here. "His foot is upon the
sea, and His foot is upon the earth." But, you will notice here that the
description although His feet are on the earth it still mentions, "the
face like the sun covered with a cloud and the rainbow over the
shoulder." 

	Now, where are clouds, where is the sun, and where is the rainbow? It
is all in the upper. See? Now, where is our headship? Where is governing
sovereign authority? It is vested in the Throne of God. It's just the
feet that are on earth. So what is this?

	Bro. Branham tells you categorically in 'Doing God a Service,' the
...?... in Shreveport  that the hiring  of mystery, and this actual
portrayal here is God manifesting in the heavens and the earth. See? He
hasn't come down in the corporal body to do it, but He's manifesting on
earth.

	Now, let me show you what I feel is the best explanation I can give it.
John 3:12-13.

		(12) 	If I have told you earthly things, and (you) believe not, how
shall 						(you) believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?

	Notice now:

		(13)	And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down 				
	from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.

	Now, what's He talking about? He's talking about the Bread of God, the
Word. Which is a man does not eat, he has no life in him. See? Notice He
says here:

	(13)	And no man hath ascended to heaven, but he that came down 					
from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.

19.	Now, here is Nicodemus coming, and he sees this man there and he's
puzzled. He says, "Why that's the man. Well, (he said,) He's only doing
what God can do." I like that. Some people are so blind and they think
they have intelligent education, intellectual powers and all, and yet
they'll deny God. They can't explain even a leaf on a tree, but here
with this man, fine man Nicodemus and he's puzzled and he saw a man
there. But he couldn't really identify God in the way he ought to... (if
I knew that God was there,) anyway, so he said, "Look it, man (he said,)
you got to be something come from God," he said. "You got to have
something going for you." Because he said, "You're a man and you're
doing  only what God can do." See? And he called Him teacher, rabbi.

	In other words, he thought maybe Jesus has learned some little secret.
Oh boy. There's always somebody figure there's a gimmick somewhere.
Prophet of God discerns today, "Oh, he's got a little telephone rigged
up." Sure he has, straight to heaven. It's not so little. [laughter] Oh
they figure things out.

	They said, "Now, that's got to be God doing it. But there's a man
there." So Jesus said, (He just turned around and said,) listen, you got
it right, but you're still wrong. Because, (he said,) you can't
apprehend what I'm talking about, you're limited." So He threw this sort
of curve at them as it were: "Even the Son of Man which is in Heaven."
[Jn 3:13]

20.	Now, I want to show you what I see there. Here stood the Lord's God
of glory veiled in human flesh. But notice, never once did this One
veiled in flesh ever exhibit Himself as Creator, or Sovereign Ruler. Not
one: 

	He said, "Only what I hear My Father say, and what I see My Father do,
that I say and that I do." See? But remember, He was God. He also did
never create one thing upon earth. He did mighty miracles, but He never
created. Turned water into wine. Raised the dead. Broke loaves and
fishes. But He did not create.

	Now, you may say, That was created."

	I beg to differ with you. He started with something here. Creation is
starting with nothing. Now, what is it? He was God limiting Himself by
changing His mask and becoming man amongst men to Redeem them, and yet
being God, He was reigning from the Glory Seat, Sovereign God over the
whole world and masked.   

21.	Now, He does the same thing in reverse. Yes sir. He doesn't come
down in corporal body, but He is manifesting Himself exactly as He did
when He was back there. And even going further, because He proved that
He is Elohim, not just Jehovah, but Elohim the great Creator to the life
of the prophet which we'll discuss later on. See what I mean? It's just
the reverse.

	This is the reverse of John 3:13. Where they saw the man, and here He
was as God in that man, and yet the Sovereign God veiling Himself, but
still God, ruling from that Throne by His power. Now, it's just
reversed. He hasn't come down corporally, but He's doing that same
thing.

 	Now, we go a little further. And It says here,  "He cried with a loud
voice, as when a lion roareth." [Rev 10: 3] Now, who's got the voice of
a lion? It's the Lion of the tribe of Judah.

22.	All right, secondly: 

	Notice here again, It says: "When he cried, seven thunders uttered
their voices." [Rev 3: 4] See? Seven thunders, which is completion.
Which is of God. And Who thundered? God thundered.

	In John 12:  He said, "Glorify Me, with the former glory I had." And a
Voice said, "I have both glorified you, and glorify Me again, and so
on." [Jn 12:28] 

	And the people said, "Well it thundered." See?

	The Bible speaks always of the Voice God, and the Voice of Thunder.
Now, and he says here, "When the Seven Thunders uttered their voices, I
was about to write: and I heard a voice saying, so and so and so." [Rev
10:4]

	Now, notice It says here, "And this one who's feet were upon the land
and sea," what did He do? " He lifted up His hand toward heaven and
swore by Him that liveth forever and ever." [Rev 10:5-6] Now, listen to
me, only God can swear by God. I don't care what anybody else says. You
say, "I'm going to back to the Book of Daniel." I'll prove an angel, an
archangel, you'll find that One was Christ Himself. Sure.

23. Let's go back here to the Hebrews 6:13.  

		(13) 	(And) when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear 	
			by no greater, he (swore) by himself,

	Now, the Bible says, "You can't swear by God. You can't swear by
heaven. You can't swear by earth. You can't swear, period." 

	How could anybody but God swear by God? The Eternal Elohim has come
down to earth veiled and masked. Proving He is God, "The same yesterday,
today and forever." [Heb 13:8] But it's in the feet which we'll talk
about. See? This is God, the very Lord of glory.

	Now, He swears by Himself, and when He swears...let's read a little
further.

		(14) 	Saying, Surely I will bless thee, and multiplying I will
multiply 						thee. (What's He talking to? Abraham. See?)

	Now notice, the multiplication of God's oath comes right to the end of
the Seventh Church Ages. And when the time of multiplication is over,
it's finished. That Convent's finished. Grown up. Run out. The last
elected member of the body of Jesus Christ is in. Surely that's what It
said. You understand that.

	Now, and notice It says here:

		(15) 	And after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

	I know some of you folk doubt what I'm telling you tonight. I'm going
to prove to you that your doubts are wrong though.

24.	In James 5, distinctly says here:

		(7) 	Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. 				
	(Because), the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the 					
earth,...

	Here It is: Abraham here as Jesus there, he's typing this. Waiting for
it. Waiting for that multiplication table to run out. See? Now, what's
he doing over here? He lifts up His hands, and He swears what? That the
time has run out of the multiplication of the seed of Abraham. The last
one's in. Hands  no longer. Now He swears by Himself.  

25.	Let's see if this is Scriptural. In Revelation 3:14, It says:

		(14) 	...unto the (messenger) of the church (which is in) Laodicea
write 						(these things;) These things saith the Amen,... (the
Winder-upper.  						It's all over.) 

	It's Amen. Amen to what? The opening, He swore by Himself. "Abraham,
I'm going to multiply you as the stars of the heaven." [Gen 22:17] Now
Abraham doesn't have indiscriminate seed. There's only so many.

	Why do you say that? Because, "In Adam they all die, even so in Christ
they'll all be made alive." [1 Cor 15:22] A certain number and that's
all. Election, see? That's right, you can't get away from it. 

	Now He says here: "I'm the God of the Amen." [Rev 3:14] Then Who is It?
He tells you: It is the revelation of this One introducing Himself to a
Church Age for the last time. "I'm Jehovah God. I'm not only as it were
in My projection, I'm Elohim, the Covenant God." Amen. That's what He
is, 'The Covenant God', coming down swearing by Himself to His Elected. 

	Assuring Abraham, "Abraham you're soon going to have them gathered in."
Hallelujah. Going to sit down with father Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Glory to God the Wedding Supper is at hand. It's wind up time. 

	"I'm Swearing by Myself. Just like I swore back there, I'm swearing
again. (Glory to God,) I started with an oath, I'll end with an oath.
I've said it, I'm going to perform it. Stand behind My Word to watch It.
Lest any man doubt it, it'll never happen." Amen. Do you see it? If this
isn't the Lord Jesus Christ, I don't know what the Bible is all about.
Here He is, come down for His Own. The Alpha and Omega.

26.	Now, if this is the Lord Jesus Christ, and It sure is, and He is
manifesting in the heaven and in the earth. And since He has neither
come for His Own, nor has He come with His Own, exactly what He is
doing. What is He doing? That's the whole key, what is He doing?

	According to the Word of God He is crying out with the Voice of Thunder
the Seventh Seal Mystery of revelation and Himself announcing the end of
a designated period of time. See? But notice: Where is His Head? It is
in Heaven where the Throne is. Then how can He speak? Did you notice
where His feet were? You say, "They are on earth." Do you notice what
His feet are? They're Pillars of Fire. So what's come down to earth? The
Pillar of Fire. That's what come down.

	How did God descend to bring the Word and the deliverance of God to
Israel? Which types our exodus. In the 3rd chapter I believe, the Book
of Exodus, you'll find exactly what the prophet gave us the key to, for
It says in verse 8, "I have descended."

	You say, "Bro. Vayle, you read It wrong, it's the come on down."

	So, what's the come on down except to descend? Look at Hebrews, It's
the same thing. "I have descended to deliver them out of the hand of the
Egyptians," which is Babylon today. See?

	Notice verse 10, [Exodus 3:]

		(10) 	Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou
						(Moses may) bring forth my people the children of Israel out of 		
			Egypt.

	God came down by the Pillar of Fire and the Word, and endued a prophet
to deliver God's people to put him in the land that He would have to get
them into, though this man got them out. Just what the Scripture said.

27.	Now, how did He do it? By the Pillar of Fire. How did God speak to
John the Baptist? By a Pillar of Fire. How did God speak to Paul? By the
same Pillar of Fire. See? How has He promised to do it today then? By
the same Pillar of Fire, by the same method that He's always done it
which is Revelation 10:7. 

	Let's read that little portion now. For It says:

		(7) 	But in the days of the voice (see?) of the seventh (messenger),
when 					he shall begin to sound, (which means to blow upon a trumpet.
It's 						a gospel trumpet, see?) 

	Here's where the mystery lies, if you don't understand by the Holy
Ghost, someone authenticated to bring the interpretation, you can get
all fouled up and actually put the Saints in the Tribulation by logical
Scriptural interpretation.  

	For Paul says at the last trump: For the trumpet shall sound the dead
in Christ shall be raised, and everybody thinks that's the Seventh Trump
of the Seventh Trumpet the angels in heaven, when it's not. It's the
Seventh Trumpet of the man here on earth on a Gospel Trumpet.

	And the funniest thing in the world concerning my own thinking years
ago is this: There are two last Trumpets. There could even be more, if I
investigated. There's a 'Last Gospel Trumpet', and there's a 'Seventh
Angel Trumpet' that comes in heaven. But this Trumpet is on earth. See?

28.	Let's show you this. Revelation 9:13. 

		(13) 	And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four 	
				horns (See?) of the golden altar which is before God,

		(14) 	Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four 
					angels... (and so on.)

	And in Revelation 11:15, It says, "The seventh angel sounded." See?
These are two different angels. They're in heaven. This one is here on
earth. See?  And he's sounding on his trumpet.

	Now, this is the Seventh Church Age messenger, because there are only
seven messengers given to man upon earth, here in Revelation 2, and 3.
The first angel, the second, the third, the fourth, the fifth, the sixth
and seventh. And who are they? They're men. As I said on Saturday night
if you want to know what the actual truth says about those stars, they
are not seven luminary bodies, or luminous bodies. Although that's true.
The actual word in the Greek is where we get the word  star from which
is a movie star, football star, baseball star, which means 'the
preeminent one amongst many like him'. And that where people go wrong,
preachers do. You may be sitting here as a preacher "I guess I don't
need Bro. Branham." 

	That's right, you don't need him. Sure, you don't need him. He wasn't
meant for you. Might as well rub it in. I've been known as a hard
hitter. And I am a hard hitter. It's okay by me. You can run him down
and think you know it all. But you don't know your Bible. 

	The preeminent One and many like him mean: I've got a bunch of men
lined up here, and there's one man of every age and he pulls his coat
around him and he comes up there and smiles and he looks like the rest
of us and says, "Who's that little fellow that came in?" 

	That's God's ordained messenger that you've got to hear for this age. 

	You say, "Hogwash. I've got the Holy Ghost, I don't need a man to teach
me."

29.	Listen, if you think John the apostle meant that, what do you think
Diotrephes would have done when John said it. He would have said,
"Alright, big mouth, shut up and sit down you're a man and you're
teaching." I wouldn't. Diotrephes, he loved preeminence. The man that
gave John all that heart ache. [3 John] When John said that, "you don't
need a man to teach you, now you've got the Holy Ghost." 

	He said, "Well, if you're a man sit down." 

	John didn't mean that. Read the chapter. He's telling you about the
truth. You don't need a man to point out the truth, if you've got the
Holy Ghost you'll gravitate toward it. And if it's not true, you've got
a filter that'll wash it out. Read your context. See?

	Here's a man, he looks like any other man, our Church Age messenger.
Now when he was young he was handsome. He's still the top of the cream
when he got older as far as I'm concerned. I kind of like judge
Sullivan's life, he's about the homeliest man that ever lived. His   
wife come in one [blank spot] ...the judge's wife was about the
prettiest thing you ever saw  ...?... all was well as far as I'm
concern. But you put him here and he would be the most humble of all of
us. He would be the most unassuming. When Pentecostal preachers and so
called divine healers would be up there like a bunch of whirling dervish
doing this and that. 

	Little old Bro. Branham humbly come tippy toe in and tippy toe out.
They said, "Bro. Branham I don't believe you're a teacher." 

	I heard a man say, "I believe you are. You ought to stick to healing
and still leave the teaching to us."

		"Why brother, that could be certainly right. I'll be glad to let you
teach this. 				Just go and take over. Go ahead and take over."

	Well, they saw a little humble fellow. He looked like everybody else,
let even less than anybody else and God said, "That's the preeminent
one. That's my star." Glory to God.

	But you say, "Well, I've got something too."

	So did Korah, Dathan and Abiram, and they went to hell with it too.
[blank spot on tape]

30.	...not to lead you into sin, but lead you somewhere you got to
realize there's one message for this age: that Jesus Christ in the
Laodicea Age is 'repent'. Repent is the one message he's got. And one
thing I've got for you is a club, because,  "As many as I love I
chasten, be zealous therefore and repent. [Rev 3:19] And you can't
repent unless you're dead wrong.

	You want to go a little further and I'm not speaking on Laodicean
Church Age, but when Jesus Christ said, "Come to me and buy," the word
in the Greek means 'to redeem'. He said, "You redeem what you threw down
and I picked up. Something has happened to the day of grace
brother/sister so watch it. It says, "Nobody got through to Him." It
says, "They've all turned." But you better get through to him. And He
sent a prophet to do it.

31.	Listen, the Seventh Church Age, the gospel of grace to the Gentiles
closes out, because there's no more ages. It has to, because at the end
of the Seventh Age, it's completion and that does it. And this is the
messenger to the Seventh Church Age and he's the man. He positively not
an angel from heaven, because I showed you that.

	What the angels do in heaven is momentary blast, and it starts up there
and it comes down here.

	Number one: Starts there, comes here. Two there: He's been here. And
three: there and down here. And  four: up there, and down here. And
five: up there and down here. Six and seven: 

	But this man wasn't up there, He was down here. And it's not a
momentary thing, and he's not causing cataclysm that havoc, but he's
preaching. "In the days of the Voice, the Voice of the Seventh
messenger, when he shall blow on gospel trumpet, the mystery of God,
(Christ the Mystery of God,) should be revealed." [Rev 10:7] See?

32.	Now, notice in here: "The mystery should be finished." What's
finished? It's concluded and brought to perfection. It's brought to
perfection. It wasn't proven in age number one. It wasn't proven in two.
It wasn't proven in three. It wasn't in four. But the Bible says,
"There's coming a time when they without us cannot be made perfect."
[Heb 11:40]

	So therefore, we've got to be perfected and they'll come up. That's
when it's finished. You say, "God's not working." I defy, He's working
right now in His Bride to get Her finished and perfect. And it's got to
come in the days of this man's voice, and it's got to be this man's
voice, or God is not perfected here. [raps hard on the pulpit] This is
not redundant... this is not mere repetition. When God puts a Word in
here, He doesn't put it in for fun. He said, "It's in the days of the
Voice." He said, "It's the Voice that's going to do it. For the Lord
shall descend Him with a Shout, with a Voice of an Archangel." Chief
Messenger. The Star, the preeminent One. ... human being, and He's down
here. And He's in this period where this Mighty One descends as the
Pillar of Fire. See?

33.	Now notice: He is a man, an ordinary human being. But with Him is
the Pillar of Fire, which is what? The Anointing! See? Which is what?
Which is Christ. That's right! The Anointing is Christ. The Anointing is
the Pillar of Fire. The Anointing is the Logos. Logos, Pillar of Fire,
anointing Christ. My we've got half a dozen here haven't we?  Anointing,
Pillar of Fire, Logos. That's four, glory to God, I believe I can name
ten more too. Still one person. See?

	Now, He is here having descended by the Pillar of Fire, which is the
Logos, which is the Anointing which is Christ. Notice therefore: this
Anointing is the Prophet, as Bro. Jack said last night. Our messages
overlap don't worry. This is the Prophet. He, Christ is the Prophet.
See? Not the man William Branham. What is William Branham? He's a man.
He is termed a prophet in order to designate and to place him in a
special ministry. But he himself is not The Prophet. Because man of
himself is not a prophet. God is His Own Prophet. It's the Spirit of
Christ in those prophets that prophesied, for the Bible said, "The Holy
Ghost spoke by the mouth of David." [Acts 1:16] And David was a man, but
the Holy Ghost was God. God was His Own Prophet.

34.	Let me show you something here: 2 Corinthians 3:]

		(18) 	But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass...

	Now, it's not beholding, it's 'reflecting'. The word in the Greek is
not behold, it's reflect. I'm not twisting things brother/sister. I know
the King James Version is the best version there is. But the prophet
himself said that, "The prophet was the reflector." Right?  The prophet
is the reflector, and we in turn are little reflectors. See?

	Now, what's the reflecting? The Word of God which is Christ, which is
the Anointing, which is the Logos; which is God Himself, which is the
Great Prophet. See? Now, this Prophet is God Himself. 

	Listen to me, what the prophet said. "It is God Himself amongst the
people. He is revealing Himself, making Himself known."

	See? what is He doing? He is Appearing, now this is my words, backing
up by Scripture. Now I don't have to back a prophet up. I want to break
it down, because he told us to preach, to break it down. Is that right
Jack? A lot of you don't believe these things. You say, 'We're paying
each other." I want to know what we're getting for it. [laughter] 

35.	All right, [1Samuel 3:]

		(1) 	And the child Samuel ministered unto the LORD before Eli...

	And William Branham started as a little kid. See? Born a prophet. Oh,
Pentecostal people say, "Ain't  no such thing." You don't believe in
elected, it's a dirty word. Then tell God He's dirty will you.

	Predestination. It's a pre-fixed destiny. Call God a fool. Sure. Tell
God He can't be God if He does it. Why? Do you like animals in heaven?
Do you think animal's got saving grace? Remember, the serpent was an
animal and he mated with Eve and had coitus. And if you don't believe
that, why does the Talmud say, the Talmud, the Talmud, which was the
main book of instruction book of the day of Jesus Christ, says in the
book of Yebamoth chapter, page 23b, "And the serpent had coitus with eve
and bore Cain."  

	"As in Adam they died, in Christ are made alive," [1 Cor 15:22] but
Cain was not in Adam. Then you don't believe in election and call God
some kind of a thief, because you're reprobate? Shame on you! But this
is one subject I know. This is one subject I know. Because you see, God
set it on my heart before Bro. Branham preached it. The woman in the
Garden did not mind being naked. 

	And God had spoken to me and said, "You notice in the Book where there
was a beast in the Garden at the first and a beast at the end?" He comes
right back brother/sister. He's not a man, he's a beast.

36.	So Bro. Branham preached on the woman naked in the beginning and
naked at the end. One clothed with the glory of God and one with shame.
And I said, "Bro. Branham, now that you've preached that sermon may I be
so bold as to say something to you?" I said, "God just gave me that
little thought, a beast at the beginning and a beast at the end." And I
said, "If you preach that sermon on the 'woman of the first, and the
woman at the end'; now the same thing with the beast, would you preach
that?"

	He said, "Why don't you do it?"

	"Oh," I said, "I can`t" I said, "In the first place I don't have
spiritual insight. I can't take it from Genesis to Revelation. That
takes a prophet like you." And I said, "Secondly, you're the master of a
six hour sermon. That's a six hour one."

	So that September ...?... here in Tucson...?... said, "You know I got a
friend call Lee Vayle, he  suggested I have a certain message about the
serpent, he said in the beginning, a beast in the first, and a beast at
the end. 

	He said, "So I'm going to preach that sermon, it's called 'The trail of
the serpent'." He never preached it. I couldn't preach it, never will.
But I know one thing, that God laid in my heart. Serpent seed's right.
Serpent seed's right, brother/sister, a hundred percent. It's in the
history. 

	It's exactly what Jesus said to Ezra. "You're not the children of
Abraham." [Jn 8:39]

	And they said, "We be not born of fornication." [Jn 8:41] And
fornication is premarital sex. Eve was pregnant by the serpent before
Adam got to her.

37.	All right, this child Samuel, he was a prophet to begin with, right?
Born that way. Just like Jeremiah. Before he was formed in the belly
anyway, where was he before he was formed in the belly? [Jer 1:5] In the
mind of God. Spoken Word is the Original Seed. 

	[1 Samuel 3:]

		(1) 	... And the word of the LORD was precious in those days; there 		
			was no open vision. (Vision, vision, vision. See? Right.)

	Verse 7,

		(7)	 Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, neither was the word 					
of the LORD yet revealed unto him.	

	Verse 15, 

		(15)	 And Samuel lay (down) until the morning, and opened the doors 		
			of the house of the LORD. And Samuel feared to show Eli the 					
vision.

	He called the revealed Word of God which was not by the eyesight, but
by the inner eye, he called it 'a vision'.

	You say, "I wanted to have a vision of God Bro. Vayle for so long."

	Then let the Holy Ghost open your eyes to the Word and you'll see Him.
I thought I'd get you screaming just like the Pentecostals. In the old
days you'd have tore up the floor by just strumming on a guitar. And I
have brought you one of the most glorious secrets of all the ages, and I
didn't get a scream. It's all right. I just hope you're sound enough to
get it.

	I said, "You wanted a vision of Christ for years and you haven't got
it." The Bible tells you how to get a vision. Let God reveal His Word to
you, and you've got a vision of God. God, just send us a vision.

	Now verse 21,

		(21) 	And the LORD appeared again...

	 Now, please watch my hand. My hand is behind the sheet, It appears. It
goes back. It appears. See? The Lord appeared again. He must have
appeared before. To stand in Shiloh. How? For the Lord appeared by
revealing Himself,

		(21)	...to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the LORD.

38.	Now, listen to me: The word 'appear in Hebrew is 'ra'ah', which
means 'to feast'. To feast. Feed it. Feed it. Feed it. 

	"I don't see nothing."

	That's right, you're blind. Not being offensive now. I'm not this to
you people here, I'm just saying in my mind what Christ said to Israel.
"See it." Couldn't see a thing. Couldn't see a thing. There stood God.
There stood the Word. There stood the fulfilled Word of God Jesus
Christ. He couldn't see a thing. He said, "Just like the Bible, just
like I told you."

	"Your eyes are blind." You can't see a thing.

	Like the man said to Bro. Branham, "Smite me blind."

	He said, "You're already blind." 

	He said, "I wouldn't believe it if I saw it."

	He said, "That's right, it wasn't meant for you."

	'Ra'ah, means 'to appear' or 'to be seen'.

39.	Now listen: the Word revealed is a sort of a dirty word. I mean it's
kind of a bad word. See? It means it is 'go'rah',(?) which means 'to
denude', as to strip a body naked and nothing is hidden. That's right.
What's he talking about? Have you ever stopped to think as a child you
always were mystified by the human body? The body of people, even in
children is intriguing and mysterious, because the difference of the
sexes. Take off all the clothes and there's no mystery left. That's
exactly how it stands.

	Now listen: here was a man, "Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is
given and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and so on." [Isa
9:6] A virgin conceive  and be a child. And there He stood, and John
said, "Behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world." [Jn
1:9] And they put Him upon a cross. Ripped His clothes off, and there
was the Word of God absolutely revealed. And the veil of the temple was
rent, and they saw the mercy seat right over that ark. And they saw Him,
there was God absolutely made bare and naked, and that's what this Word
says. God revealed, laid bare, naked, no mystery, nothing hidden. That's
God revealed in a ...?... How? By the word that came to the prophet.
Hallelujah, because that's exactly right.

40.	Listen to me: God is revealed. You hear what I said? God is
revealed. Why? You see now why Bro. Branham said, "God's the Word." God
is the Word. Oh, that's hard for us to get. Well, it's in the Bible,
flip-patty flip, four hundred and eight pages noted. Once ...?... God,
therefore it's about ten hundred and twenty pages in this book. Don't
you see brother/sister, what we're talking about? This is God brought
into plain view, and when something is in plain view that's substance,
that's the Word. See? God revealed.

	Now, listen carefully, God is revealed? He is seen. See? He is seen. As
it says in the Bible, "There was once a time it was death to go into the
Holy of Holies." And now it is death not to go into the Holy of Holies.
There was a time when the Bride, when the light of God would blind you,
but today there's a time that you don't look, is that right? You'll
remain blinded and you'll die. See? I said, "God is revealed. God is
seen." [Missing several words, speaks VERY fast]

41.	Now listen carefully: As He was veiled in flesh, as He was once
veiled in a cloud, or in a Pillar of Fire, (see?) or in a smoke, veiled
in badger skins as it were. Now He must be veiled again in order to
bring into manifestation that which cannot be seen, unless something is
done whereby the human senses can perceive Him. (I hope I said that
exactly right, because it's a long sentence.)

	Now listen: let me say that again, simple as I can, and maybe a little
quicker sentences. 

	Something is invisible. That's God. He's Spirit, you can't see Him. But
if He does something about Himself... look, but it this way: there's
little...I don't even know technical terms. I don't know if Jack can
help me here. I don't if anybody can. I'm too stupid to know all about
it. Bro. Shellen(?)... back there, because he knows electronics. But
look it, a little bits of electricity kind of going through wires, see?
When you tune a car up, right? A little things, I don't know what they
are even, going through those wires.

	But look it, they're invisible. But you attach certain wires to a
certain screen and it goes, zip, zip, zip, zip, right across there. 
See? The invisible is brought into plain view by clothing it with
something that you can apprehend. See? Alright, good. We got that down. 


42.	Now listen then: The unseeable Spirit, God is clothed in Spoken
Word, and thereby revealed. Amen. The unseeable God clothed in Spoken
Word. See it? Now you can see It. Why? Because the womb in the mind, and
the Holy Ghost taking that very Word brings God into absolute view. So
you see Him as He is. See?

	You say, "Bro. Vayle, I'll still make it without a prophet." 

	No you won't in just one minute. Not going to destroy my thought here,
but hold, just turn with me to 1 John 3:2.

		(2) 	Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it (has) not yet (been
made 					manifest, (I'm not reading It wrong. Not reading It wrong is
right,) 						and it has not yet been made manifest) what we shall be:
but we know 					that, when he shall appear, (or He shall be made
manifest, what It says) 					we shall be like him; for we shall see him
as he is.

	Now listen brother sister and follow me closely, because I want to show
you the dead fundamentalism, and we ourselves are guilty. We can read
this Scripture one billion times and miss It unless you wake up. How?
The Bible said, "A ...?... shall deceiveth, and arise from amongst the
dead, and Christ will be the Light." Get out of your dead denomination
and your dead thinking, and your dead hypocrisy, and your old ...?...
and bow yourself to the Word of God and ...?...

	You say, "I've had great healings."

	I don't care two-bits for your miracles. Has anybody ever prophesied
here like Balaam? No, you and all the other haven't done it. Did you
live with Jesus Christ like Judas did, and get the same power as Peter
and the rest of them had? Did you ever have the Lord turn to you and
say, "Be real happy because your name is written in heaven? No. That
Judas was a devil. And Balaam died fighting Israel, so that much for
miracles. I don't run him down now, about the prophecy, I put it in the
right place. Because you see brother/sister, I say that much for
miracles if you don't take the right attitude and go poof! See?

43.	Now listen, the Scripture distinctly says this: that before you can
get caught up to meet the Lord in the air you have got to be changed.
For It says, "The dead will come out of the ground and we're going to be
changed, and the dead will be caught up. And it's then and only then
that you see Him." But John says, "You can't be changed until you see
Him."  Come on now. Come on, there it is. I didn't write the Book, I'm
just reading It, just the way It's written. Not the way we thought It's
written, but the way It's written.

	It says, "We're going to be like Him." See? It has never come into
manifestation yet, this thing is coming. But It says, "You've got to see
Him as He is." [1 Jn 3:2] That's right. Then when you see Him as He is,
that will bring about your change. Then you can be caught up. But you
can't be caught up till you see Him as He is, but according to
fundamentalism, you're only going to see him when you do get caught up.
So where does that leave the world? Now, where millions now living never
die. See?

	You say, "Vayle, you're mean."

	I'm not mean. I'm just bringing out the Bible. I'd be mean if I didn't
bring out the Bible. Was Noah mean, because only seven people got saved
besides him? Was Noah some mean old person building an ark and then took
in seven, because they alone would come and the rest died, you say, "You
mean, mean man?" If this Person eliminates all but five hundred, or
seven hundred, whatever it is the prophet said. Is the prophet a mean,
mean, mean man? Let's be honest tonight. Just what the Bible teaches. It
says, "You've got to see Him as He is."

44.	But listen to me, and listen carefully: The very apostle, did pray
to see Him as He was? No sir! Christ said, "Listen, my dearly beloved,
'Who do men say that I am?"

	"Oh," they said, "you're Jeremiah, you're this or that."

	"But," he said, "no, no, not that. Peter, who do you say?"

	And he said, "Thou art the Christ..."

	He said, "Flesh and blood didn't do that. You didn't do it Peter, and
this flesh and blood."

	Jesus puts flesh and blood. As the prophet said, "Peter lived with me.
My life without him, the flesh that you handled, I fished with you, I
ate with you, I talked with you. You saw the miracles." But that didn't
do it, it took a revelation.

	Listen brother/sister, without the revelation they didn't see Him as He
was. When did they really see Him as He was?  Let's find out, go to the
Book of Luke if you want to get it. Luke 24:25. He says here:

		(25) 	... O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets
have 						spoken:

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

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

	Brother/sister, you and I will never see God as He is, except by the
revelation of the Holy Ghost by the Word. Because that's exactly how
Samuel saw it. 

45.	I'm going to give you an illustration now. This is on tape, and I'm
glad it's on tape, because invariably because I'm such a rough customer
my words are questioned.

	Now listen, to the best of my knowledge I have loved and served Bro.
Branham. I can prove it to you, if you love going through all the
rigmarole. I did my best to be a friend to him and help in this
ministry. God knows my heart, and that can be proven. I believe you
people believe that. But supposing I came to you tonight and I said,
"Folk, I want you to know something, I don't want to miss the Rapture.
So I've got to confess my sins. You're looking at a hypocrite. I never
loved Bro. Branham, and I've never loved the Message. I just saw a good
thing and I want to get on the bandwagon and make some money. (That's a
laugh. But the thing is, let's put it that way.) As I loved the people
of God.

	You say, "That guy Vayle, that's the first time I'm seen him as he
really is." [laughter]

	Why? Because by my spirit, true words revealing my heart you know me.
That's what I'm talking about tonight. Glory to God. Christ is foreknew
by the Word God revealed. You'll see Him as He is. You could not see Him
as He is. If He descends tonight and walked in our midst, you would not
see Him as He is. You could not see Him as He is, it takes the Word of
God to live again. 

46.	I'll prove it to you by the Word of God. Over here in John 1:18. If
I get carried away, that's alright, I got something to get carried away
about.

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

	Why? Because it wouldn't do you any good. Wouldn't do you a bit of
good. It'll kill you. You'd never make it on seeing Him.

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

	That word in the Greek is 'exegesis', which means 'to bring into full
view' by the explanation of the Word. Now the Bible says, "You'll never
rise in that Rapture unless you see Him as He is." It's going to take a
prophet to bring Him into full view.

	Oh listen, bless God, let's just talk about that for a second. Over
here in Acts 3: Peter speaking on the very thing,

		(19) 	Repent therefore (Israel) and be converted, that your sins may
be blotted 					out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the
presence of (God.)

	What's refreshing? The cool breeze blowing from the face of God, which
Bro. Branham said in Seals, number 2, page 44. And over here in 'Christ
they Mystery of God', page 39. […?...] Isaiah 28:8-13 is that
refreshing.  "When our tables are full of vomit." You're reading, pardon
the expression, 'unadulterated puke'. Every table, all tables.

	You say, "Bro. Vayle, my table's clean."

	Oh, you hypocrite. The Word of God says every table is full of vomit.
They're all unclean. I'm watching you faces honey which is closer, I
could really watch this one going across. Because there's too much
boasting amongst the preachers. "I've got it. I've had this, I've had
that."

47.	Listen brother/sister, It says, "All tables." In other words, the
Word of God is so perverted that there's no preachers doing anything.
But what is vomit? It's the pre-partly digested food regurgitated. And
what is food? It's the Word of God. And so the preacher, he's chomped on
the food, the Word, and he's brought up the food that will do the job.
[laughter] "Oh, what a good feed we had this morning." You ain't going
to make it that way brother/sister. 

	And then he caused you to ….?..... "Whom am I going to teach the
truth to? Who's going to get this?"

	It says, "You've got to see the baby is off the breast." That's of this
ministry. That's what Paul said. I'm not telling you a lie. That's what
the prophet said. He said, "If you're relying on gifts, your tongues and
interpretations, and making ministry, if this evidence you are the
Laodicean Bride of the Age when the move in on for the Bride." You got
to challenge you. Why didn't you challenge Bro. Branham when he was
alive? Why didn't you go over and talk to him? I did. Never was afraid
to challenge him, because I wasn't challenging, I was just to find out a
few things. Sure. That's with every blessing. "Line upon line, here a
little, there a little." [Isa 28:10]

	You say, "Well Bro. Branham never came on to declare himself."

	He wasn't supposed to. When they said to Jesus, "Declare yourself. Go
on and declare." He side stepped. 

	"You know, that the sheep hear My Voice."

	No problem, the call will bring them in, because He's got them
foreordained. Uh? I'm going to try to be sweet, I'm a rough customer.
I'll tell you, this Word is rougher brother/sister.

48.	Let's read It. Acts 3: He said,  

		(20) 	...he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto
you:

		(21)	 Whom the heaven must receive (and the heavens must receive, 				
	and He cannot come down in His corporal body until the restoration) 			
	of all things. (What things?) which God hath spoken by the mouth 					
of all his holy prophets since the world began. (That's the Word 					
restored.)

	You say, "Bro. Vayle, we've got It here, It's got to be restored in the
human heart." That's God meant what He said. Because they said, "God
meant this, and God meant often."

	You know that Jesus Christ came to positionally place Israel, and they
turned it down. Our ...?... came and positionally placed Israel and they
turned it down and they're doing it today. Because he said, "When the
Bride knows Her place she'll be gone."

	I can prove what I'm talking about. Just give me another sermon. [Bro.
Vayle chuckles] You may not want one.

49.	All right listen:  

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

		(23) 	And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear
that 						prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people. (See?
Everyone 					that doesn't hear shall be destroyed.)

	I want to ask you a question: Did this take place? You say, "Yes."  I
say, "No." You've got a little error there honey. You've got a little
error. That did not take place in the days of Jesus Christ. Because they
were scattered. Israel was scattered abroad. 

	This refers to the end-time, that prophet. And if you don't think Bro.
Branham said he was that prophet, I challenge you, in 1953 when I was in
West Palm Beach, ... when I stood before the people,... I stood there
and I said, "Behold I send my prophet out of the north, and he shall
teach the people, he's got to know." And I said, "If that's Lee Vayle
it'll never come to pass, because I don't even know a prophet. It that's
God there's a prophet coming."

	I said to the folks, "I tell you, I heard of this man called Nicholson,
he's Swede and he goes to Finland and speaks Finish and never had to
learn it. He's been to France and spoke French and never had to learn
it. And he's coming to America. Maybe I'll go to New York and get him.
North is north, it could be across the street. 

50.	Man came to my town, Paris Readhead, [1919-1992] We talked about God
for two hours or better. 

	He said finally, "You know Bro. Branham?"

	And I said, "No, just only heard him." ...?... I said, "He's
tremendous. Oh, he's a mighty man of God"

	He said, "Would you like to know him?"

	Oh, would a cat like a dish of cream? Would you like to walk into a
vault or bank and say, "Help yourself."  Oh, would I, bring on the
basket. [chuckling}

	So I said, "How?"

	He said, "One of my best friends is Wallace Cobbles, and you've heard
Bro. Branham say that Wallace Cobbles was a bosom friend of his." He
said," You go to the church of  'The Open Door' in Louisville, Second
Street, and you say, 'Paris Readhead sent you', he'll take you to Bro.
Branham."

	Oh, I didn't know any better than to go. How could I miss? When you got
a sure thing, grab it. We cranked up the car, without knowing Bro. Bill
could have been around the world somewhere. Didn't phone, or nothing.
Jumped in the car, hit Louisville, goes to this brother's place and
said, "I'd like to meet Bro. Branham."

	He said, "Sure, I'll take you over."

	So he took me over. That's the best take-over I ever saw. [laughter]
Here he is outside the door with his old prop hat on grey suit, little
sweet man of God, greeted him, Bro. Branham grab him and hugged him, and
he said, "I brought over Bro. Vayle from West Palm Beach, Rev. Vayle.
He's like to meet and talk to you."

	He said, "Sure Bro. Vayle, come by tomorrow."

	Just like that. So I came by. That's the best thing that ever came by
in my life. You want to come by something good you get the prophet.
After he said, "The friend of the prophet is a great thing." And I'll
tell you, it sure worked out good for this guy. He saved my soul, not my
soul... 

51.	Now, the next thing I know he said, "Well I didn't phone you about
that, I phoned you because Bro. Branham wants to know when you want him
to come."

	I said, "What did you say?"

	He said, "Bro. Branham wants to know when you want him to come." He
said, "You're holding him up. Forty five hundred invitations and he
waiting on you."

	I said, "He's waiting on me? You mean he meant it when he said, 'he's
coming'?" 

	He said, Yeah, and you're holding him up."

	I said, "Man, you just give me your phone and I'll phone you back,
because I'll get a building."

	I said, "Behold I send My prophet." Not anybody, "but My prophet, out
of the north and he shall teach the people the things they ought to
know."

	Which is what? The Word of God for their day.

	All right, Bro. Branham came. Now listen to me: One night on that
platform in the healing service under discernment, he said, "The Pillar
of Fire is here, the golden glow is over the whole congregation and if
you would only believe that I am that prophet, not because I said so,
because the Word of God says so you'll all be healed. Here He is here."

	Every soul that hears not that prophet shall be cut off. Now, you've
seen the serpent seed.

	You say, "Why do you say that Vayle?"

	Because the same God that said that, that spoke through me and spoke
through him, that same God spoke by the Holy Ghost saying, "This prophet
of the end-time would plant the seed of the entire Bible, from serpent
seed to prophet of the former rain." That serpent seed is where
perversion  entered the human race. And where the prophet brings on the
last day perversion which fools the world, giving up worldwide revivals
to take them to the antichrist and to hell.

52.	He preach 'Serpent Seed' September 28. 1958. How do you know? My
birthday. Send me a card. He preached 'Anointed Ones at the End Time'
July 26, 1965 ...?... [bangs on pulpit] it was finished. The entire seed
planted. 

	My Bible says here, "By the infallible God, by the Holy Ghost that I
tried to serve with all my heart, and you claim you do too maybe
together enter them golden pearly gates together.

	It says here, "This prophet shall take and restore ALL." [Acts 3:21]
That's a prophet.

	Listen to me brother/sister, I challenge you, who was the first
prophet? God was in that Garden prophesying the woman's seed. Who was
that last prophet? God was that last prophet. It's what It says.

	Now listen: "Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel..." [Acts 3:24]  Now
why does he go back to Samuel? Because Samuel is the prophet that
received the vision of God, and God appeared by the Word. And it's done
in our day too, and you see God.

	And you know what the world said? They said, "Jesus, huh? " How he got
three. Let me find out about that would you please?

53.	Paul said here in 2 Corinthians 11:

		(2)  	For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have
espoused 					you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste
virgin...

	That means you're not coming to Him with another man's seed. "Being
born again not of corruptible seed, but by the Word of God." [1 Pet
1:23] See?

	Listen: chaste virgin not like Eve, but like Mary. "For I have espoused
you to one husband, that I may present you to Christ a chaste virgin."

		(3) 	But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve (how?)
                  				through his subtilty, so your minds...(here's the
womb up here.)

	You won't listen to Bro. Branham,  "You stiff neck and hard of hearts.
You resist the Holy Ghost,"  said the great man Stephen. [Acts 7:51].
They stopped their ears, gnashed their teeth and they said, "Serpent
seed, we're not serpent seed. There ain't no one God. Three."  

		(3)	... through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted...
(your 						minds be corrupted.) 

	The Bible said that, "Corruptibility, the mind can be corrupted." Your
mind must put on that which cannot be corrupted which is the Word of
God. You can't prove that you know the Word of God, you've got no
vindication. When does anybody here ever come with 'Thus saith the Lord'
in the Name of the Lord? 

54.	You say, "Brother Vayle, I've had a little miracle." My God, you
want to compare your notes with mine? I've got nothing. Brother/sister
listen, this is serious, we're not fooling tonight.

	It said, "Your mind be corrupted from the simplicity which in Christ,
for he that cometh is another Jesus." You see, there's got to be two of
them. There's another one. There's only one, but they've got another one
lined up. "Which we have not preached." [2 Cor 11:4] Paul only preached
one God Jehovah come down in flesh. That was Jesus. Or another spirit.
It's only Jesus yeah, but they've got two, they got a spirit of him, and
they've got a spirit of the Holy Spirit.

	And so the great doctor McCroffin(?) and men like ...?... say, "When
Jesus breathed on them in the Book of John, they got the Holy Ghost. So
the church started before Pentecost."

	I said, "The church did not start before Pentecost. There's only one
Spirit, not two spirits." 

	Paul said that, "They will be preaching two spirits, or another
gospel." Which we...that you might...you could accept. There's no gospel
my brother/sister, but the revealed Word of God that came to the
prophet. And that gets corrupted and you got to get back to it. See?

55.	Now, this is that end-time. Man, that's that end-time prophet coming
which he does. See? He is that one, who because of the Pillar of Fire is
able to reflect God absolutely, because God is revealed. That un-seeable
Spirit is clothed in Spoken Word and thereby revealed.

	Now listen: He, that's God proved that It is He Himself by manifesting
Himself exactly the same as when the Word was made flesh and dwelled
among us. He does the same things according to Heb 13:8, proving that He
is Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever.

	You say, "How does He do it?"

	I'm glad you asked the question. In Luke 17: Listen to me, It says here
concerning the end-time. Let's go to verse 20 and look at something
here.  

		(20) 	And when he was demanded of the Pharisees,... (notice He was 			
		demanded.) 

	Notice that lovely spirit, demanded. Boy, you demand God. Not implored.
But in the presence of God this Mighty One veiled in flesh, they thought
he was just an ordinary man, and bless God, anyone of us can chalk up to
an ordinary man. "Because He's just a man. I-I-I'm a man too. Of course
I'm a little better." Aw, God have pity, I'm sick in my stomach. Any man
stand alongside of a prophet of God William Branham, and dare even say
one word against him. Dare to have the audacity to stand up and
contradict him. Dare to. My God have pity. I don't understand something
like that. I don't understand that anymore than I understand
brother/sister, a man being a Roman Catholic in the face of history and
millions of them are educated. You see where I've put it. I'm not God,
I'm just saying Lee Vayle now, but I'm trying to put it in such a way to
stir you. To get you either angry, or get you to see something, if
you're in a position that where you don't understand this thing. And you
say, "Well Bro. Vayle, I've got some too." So did Balaam. So did Judas.
They had some too. Do you understand what I'm driving at? I hope you do.
See? 

56.		(20) 	And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom 	
				of God should come,...

	The very thing they wanted themselves, but will not come they way they
wanted and where they wanted, when they wanted, or anything about it.
They miss it entirely and I'll never come that way they think it'll
come. Because everybody thinks Matthew 25, is where the Lord descends
and saves the Jews and then all the nations that were nice to the Jews
are going to be brought in the Millennium and procreate children while
Israel waves a bat over their heads, and beats them down and says,
"Everybody loveth." Well, I got news for you. How can anybody be doing
any good thing for the Jews when the Bible says, the whole world comes
up against them. And God turns around and destroys everybody that
doesn't believe God or the gospel. Doesn't obey God, and doesn't believe
the gospel. Ain't nobody left but the 144,000. Now where does that leave
you? They never were placed that way in a kingdom.

	You say, "Bro. Vayle, I've been the Book of Ezekiel is the Millennium."

	How can there be a sacrifice of bulls and goats, when Christ died and
finished it? Wake up people before it's too late!

	You say, "Did you check with Bro. Branham on that?"

	I sure did check with Bro. Branham on that one. You hear his tapes on
it, you'll find out.

	They said, 

		(20)	...when the kingdom of God (coming? And he) said he kingdom of 		
			God cometh not with observation: 

	It's plain unadulterated street language. It's coming but you won't
ever see it. It'll be there but you won't know it. You're blind. Now He
said this at the end-time. This is the end-time we're talking about. The
kingdom of God coming to earth. David. Like Mount Transfiguration,
glorified Me. He said, "It's coming, it'll be there, you won't even see
it. You'll miss it."

	Then He said, "Thank you Lord you reveal little children, little humble
things to take it."

	Then He turned to His disciples, they weren't haughty proud with a big
old question mark. Now He said, "...?... the days will come." This is
the end-time now brother/sister, it didn't happen back in those days.
This is for the end-time. 

57.	[Luke 17:]

		(22)	...The days will come, when (you) shall desire to see one of the
days 					of the Son of man, and (you'll) not see it.

	Now, they never did desire to see one of those days, because a soon as
Christ is crucified, they threw up the towel and they said, "It's all
over, too bad, we missed it, something's wrong somewhere."

	And then when He said, "Mary, you tell them I'll see them in Galilee." 

	They didn't even bother going. Just by accident they said, "Let's go
fishing, it's a nice day to fish." Then they saw Jesus. They weren't
looking for Him for one of His days. They never did. This is the
end-time when the look for the day. "I want this." See?

		(23) 	And they shall say to you, (...?...) See here; see there: go not
after 						them, nor follow them.

		(24) 	For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under
heaven, 					shineth unto 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.

	See, this has got to come first, then the other. Now listen in verse
26.

		(26) 	And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the
days of the 					Son of man. (See?)

	The days repeat. But not the person per se, as natural beings. All the
experience of Noah's day which refers to God taking the people into an
ark, preserving them for the Millennium, (which He does, bring them
back) so the very experiences of the Christ will return earth.

58.	Daddy Bosworth, (now listen carefully,) Daddy Bosworth said, "Bro.
Vayle, I have prayed for forty years for the ministry of Jesus Christ to
return to this earth, and there It is in that man."

	Now, listen to me brother/sister, (listen carefully,) no man living can
pray for anything that's not in the Word of God. Because there's ain't
no such thing. The Bible said, "I have exalted My Word above My Name."
Every prayer ends in the Name of Jesus. Right? So therefore, what's
above the Name is your prayer. So if God is going to do anything about
your prayer, it's got to be according to the Word. You got to give God
back in faith His Word, and if the ministry of Christ was not to return
to this earth, then Daddy Bosworth couldn't not get his prayer answered.

	But here's the very verse that Daddy Bosworth didn't know was in the
Bible, but moved by the Holy Ghost, he screamed for forty years for the
very ministry of Christ to return, and the ministry did, but not the
corporal Christ. 

59.	[Luke 2:]

		(25) 	And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was
Simeon; 					and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the
consolation of 					Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him.

		(26) 	And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should
not 					see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ.

	I believe men whose got the Holy Ghost and get things from God
brother/sister according to the Word. And nobody else knows It's there,
but they know It, and they don't even the chapter and verse. See?

	Now, the ministry of Christ returned to this earth. And if that
ministry returns to that earth, then there must be the identical
parallel which there is.

60.	Let's go back again to Luke a little bit here... It says in Luke 2,

		(34) 	And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, Behold, 
				this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel;
and 						for a sign which shall be spoken against;

		(35)	...that the thoughts of many hearts (shall) be revealed.

	The revelation ministry of Christ revealing men's hearts like William
Branham did was the sign of the Messiah spoken against, and you know
it's the truth. And you sit there and say there's no separate thing. And
you sit there and tell me you can defy the prophet? My God have pity on
you. You say you got the Holy Ghost? I should have an altar call just
right now. But I'll continue my message. If I'm not here to excoriate
any person or persons, but I'm here my brother, my sister, to prick our
conscience and our heart to let us know we're a million behind in our
own thinking tonight. We have not accepted this Word, this engrafted
Word of Almighty God as we ought to, and esteem It as Bro. Branham said
to lay aside everything, and have nothing but this Word, the revelation
of God.  

	To busy with our lousy stinking motor cars. I know why. And every car
get always pops out. I think I'm going to junk the lousy ...?... stick
a... take an airplane or...get away from everything but God. I am sick
and tired of everything, but I want to know this Word.

	You say, "Bro. Vayle, I want to know God."

	How are you going to know Him without this Word? How are you going to
see Him as He is?

	You say, "Bro. Vayle, what about the dead?"

	They've already seen Him as He is, because they come down here to get
their bodies with Him. Brother/sister, I want to tell you I'm just a
pretty rotten student. But I can get my Greek books out, because I'm no
smart student. But I've got a few books. I pay a good price for them.
The only reason I can afford it, because I got a good brother who has a
quota and gets them wholesale. If you want some, I'll get them for you
too. Generous man. ...?... generosity. You want a thick concordance?
We'll knock forty percent off. I get those books out around thirty or
forty translations I got, I lay them out there and to my utter amazement
I see what all the great scholars said but they couldn't place it. And
William Branham comes around in one sentence and even the vernacular of
a little Kentucky boy and it's just like this. [snaps fingers] 

61.	You know something about the Greek? When you go to Greece and if
you're are a little boy or girl you know tonight that the Greek is not
punctuated. No sir. Has capitals, and no punctuations. And the teacher
stands up there and you learn to read as the baton rises and falls, and
you voice must rise and fall to punctuate. Like the important part of
the word has a big punctuation mark. Like the horse, you want the
attention. Not a cow now. Not what he's doing. But the horse, focus on
the horse. And that's where the voice shouts, "The horse, shall come out
of the west."

	But you say, "West, don't ...?..." Come of the west. That's how it's
done. And here Dave Mamalis  this little Greek friend of mine, born in
Greece and knows the Greek so perfectly, he sitting in Bro. Branham's
meeting, and here's Bro. Branham picks up the King James Version and his
voice rises and falls with the Greek. And old Dave sits there, he comes
back and he's flabbergasted. He comes back the next night and Bro.
Branham's voice rises and falls with the Greek, just the way it's
written in the Bible. And he sits there...."what's an uneducated guy
doing?  What's he doing?" He's killing me. He's shuddering sitting there
in the seat. He knows the man's got to have God, because how could he do
it. He couldn't do it without the Holy Ghost.

62.	So one day he [Dave] got to see Bro. Branham, he got to know him.
Bro. Branham loved him. He said, "Dave, I've got a meeting coming up,
you come and see me."

	So Dave said, Oh Bro. Branham, I can't get there till five, I'm
working."

	He said, "Oh, come five."

	So poor old Dave, gets his old hat you know, driving down the road all
night and here comes the morning sun coming up, he's trying to keep
adjusting his eye balls you know, so he can see down the road, trying to
clear his head, the gas tank run out by now, he coming into town a voice
said, "Don't stop now." 

	But he said, "My gas tank is..."

	He [the voice] said, "Don't stop now."

	And he goes on and he says, "I might not see another city."

	He said, "Don't stop now." 

	The tank is way down past the mark where there is no gas left you see,
and he [the voice] said, "Pull in here."

	And he pulls into the... drives up the ...?... and suddenly a man opens
the door, and Bro. Branham says, "Good morning Dave, I've been waiting
for you." 

	What if you've done that? 

63.	Brother/sister, I'm just trying to break down a barrier. I'm like
Paul tonight beseeching like Paul's son Timothy. Trying to be a son to
Bro. Branham, because the children is the children of the prophet my
brother, my sister. That's what the children are. They're children of
the prophet. [Acts 3:25] Children of the Word.

	I'm trying to show you, get rid of your thoughts tonight. Humble
yourself and get down. You say, "Did you do it Bro. Vayle?"  Sure I did.
My brain and my mind was crippled with the prostituted thought, the
perverted word, the creeds and dogmas, anything but a chaste virgin of
the Word.

	You think I didn't think twice about serpent seed? I believe I'm the
first man Bro. Branham ever talked to on that subject. Went out fishing.
I don't eat fish. He stuck his little old pole in there, you know, he
took a little old stick like a fork of a branch, you know, put it there
in the soft mud puts the line in runs back and forth watching, and I ran
back and forth listening.  

	We're talking. "What do you think about serpent seed?"

	I said, "I don't know, what about it?" 

	He said, "You don't believe Eve ate an apple?"

	I said, "Certainly she did."

	"Oh," he said, "No, (he said,) God talked to me on that, it was the
serpent had intercourse with her and brought forth Cain."

	"Oh," I said, "I don't think that."

	See, I had a book by Dr. James Wyatt. He said, "The devil did it." Very
close, but wrong. That's right. James Wyatt is wrong. I got the book. I
gave Bro. Branham a copy. It's in his house in Jeff. right now. I
believe it's still on the little old table sitting there where he left
it. See?

	I said, "I don't see necessity to that. I can't follow that." The point
to me is: it was disobedience. "By one man's disobedience." [Rom 5:19] I
said, "That's good enough for me." It wouldn't matter what it was as far
as I was concerned. See?

64.	But one day brother/sister suddenly something whirled in. Just like
years ago when I thought Bro. Branham was... Bro. Ned said it was just a
little bit legal over women's hair and the dress. I ...?... in 1958… 
So one time we went to a church in New England up in Boston exactly
where it was, and we knew this fellow was not really right according to
what he ought to be see.

	So Bro. Branham said, "I'll fix those guys they're legalist, but (he
said,) I'll preach a sermon that'll make them think twice." So he really
went against paint and powder, and short hair, and slacks and shorts,
this and that. And I tell you what I was sitting there ...?... because I
didn't think it was making any effect. And the next day a preacher
picked us up with two buddies of his and took us to dinner. 

	And Bro. Branham sitting in the back seat with me and that preacher, he
slapped Bro. Branham,  he said, "Bless God Bro. Branham, see I want to
tell you I spoke...?... why our men don't even shave on Sunday." 

	And I just... "Uh?" I held myself in, I could have laughed my head off,
and I just wanted to get Bro. Branham so I could rib him. After laughing
and laughing we got the most howls later on, I said, "That'll teach you
to preach your legalistic sermon."  Boy, he put the caps on your climax
and I lost it, haw, haw, about this, it was such a good joke see?

65.	Then one day he told me what he said, "Mr. Vayle, stick around (he
said,) you'll let your hair grow." 

	Then one day it began sweeping down, and I said, "Hold it, hold it,
hold it. When did this man spoke serious and so great?"  When could this
man say anyone thing frivolous could tell me one thing, "It was just a
little thing, it didn't matter."

	And I told my buddy, Bro. Dale, my other good friend Ray ...?... he's
not here, and defending what I said to those men, "Gentlemen, you know
Bro. Branham like I do, and when Bro. Branham said, 'Short hair is not
the Word of God', we know this man is serious. We know he wouldn't pull
trivial things, it is a must.

	 I went home and talked to my wife and she said, "I'll let my hair
grow." And the women today let their hair grow. Brother/sister. See?
This is a redo, the truth the Word of God. See?

76. Now, going back here, It says, "The Son of man revealed." The sign
spoken again. See? The very sign. This man's word. The full declaration.
Just exactly as Christ. He has the same sign, the same ministry, the
same miracles. People come to Bro. Branham and say, "Bro. Branham,
you've got the power. You've got the authority, why don't you use it."

	He said, "I've got the authority, but don't have the command." 

	That's what Jesus said. "Cannot not now call presently call twelve
legions of angels." [Mt 26:53] But He didn't do it. Why? Didn't have the
command. See. The days of the Lord Jesus Christ came back to earth. And
the Bible says at this end time you are going to want to see those days
again, but you'll not see them. You the world had a chance. 

	Brother/sister, listen to me: the very sign of this prophet was a sign
of light. For Jesus                   succinctly talking about the likes
of walking in the Light He had. Said in the Book of John          
concerning these signs, He said, "Believe the sign." He said, "Believe
the works." He said, "You don't believe the Word." But He said, "Listen
to me, look at these signs. No man has ever done it." In fact when that
boy born, born blind came before the Pharisees, He said, "Listen you
Pharisees, never in the history of the world was a man born blind made
to see." [Jn 9:32] And that's God's truth, there never was till that
time. A man born blind made to see.

	And they said, "Who do you think you are to teach us you dumb little
jerk."

	The very Light of that sign, it was Life to them. They wouldn't walk in
that Light. I'm trying to get this  tonight. You say, "Bro. Vayle, I've
got some vindication too." Then if you're looking for vindication for
authority to speak go to the greatest vindication William Branham. Then
talk what he said.

	Jesus said to those men, "Look at you, you don't take the Light of My
Word, then just take a little Light. Look what I've done, it's never
been done before, and It's in the Word what would be done." Open the
eyes of the blind. What blind? Even those born blind. Put in new bones.
Creation. So to speak. Create a bone in him. See? Then He said, "Do you
believe that, you can go on to the Word."

77.	You say, "Bro. Vayle, ...?... you talked about your ministry a while
ago." I do have a little ministry, yeah. There was little enough where I
could take ten couples, and I challenged you don't believe me I'll pay
the fare to Canada, but you reimburse me and you pay the way back. I'm
not kidding you now. I have ...?... twelve hundred ...?... gift of the
Holy Ghost. I've taken as many as ten couples with ten people who need
help.

	And I said, "You pray for each one and I'll help you how to discern."
Man, I studied the Word in these Scriptures how to get into this thing.
Studied every T. Everything I could get my hands on. Everything I'd
hear. Pray, and watch it, pray, and everything else. I could take those
ten couples and they... "Bro. Vayle, I don't understand it."

	And I'd look down I'd say, "Oh, cold, chill, fever."

	"That's right Bro. Vayle." Pray ...?...

	Man needed help. He said, I-I look it, I see something happening years
ago, I can't place it."

	"Oh," I said, "you fell off the hay rack." 

	"That's right, my back was hurting."

	As fast as I could talk, I could discern people physically and
spiritually. I could take sixty in ninety minutes, as fast as I could
talk. It began to fade when I went to the Word. And I said, "Bro.
Branham why did it fade?"

	He said, "Because Lee, the day of the gift age is over."

78.	It's on tape brother/sister. "Once we knew in part. Once we thought
in part. Once we had a part, but when That, not Him, but That which is
perfect has come." [1 Cor 13:10] The Bible says, "In the days of the
voice of the Seventh Messenger, when He shall begin to sound the mystery
of God should be brought to consummation, [Rev 10:7] and perfection, as
God has declared the good news of the gospel by His prophet." The gospel
Word to be perfected, when perfection has come to the Word restoration,
what God started, and God will finish. It says the gifts are gone.

	Why did you....

	Why didn't you put your churches in order? Don't you want to be a Word
Bride? When the Word and His Bride becomes one, in order to approach
into Him. In order to be united with Him. Then shall the mighty works be
found in Her which are found in Christ.

	What is it? "Then," as Bro. Branham said, "She has the Word and knows
what to do with It, making It Thus saith the Lord."  [this portion not
clear] No gifts. It's the Word. We've proudly made whole. Now do you
see? What gift is that? No gift at all. It's the Word. God veiled once
more in men called the Bride.

	You say, "Will that empty hospitals." No sir. "Will that turn towns
upside down?" No sir. That's for the Bride total off the world ...?... 
See? These days repeat. The days of Noah repeat, but not know the days
of Christ repeat, but not the Lord Jesus Christ in flesh any more than
Noah. But those days repeat. That makes verse 38, "And thus shall it be
in the day when the Son of man should be." What is that? Son of man is a
prophet. That prophet. 

79.	All right. Listen, so we don't go on all night. The days of the Son
of man repeat by ministry, the ministry of power.

	Now notice: in 1 Thessalonians  4:16, It says: "For the Lord (Jesus
Christ) himself (God Himself will stop in the air with the Old Testament
Saints, until the New Testament Bride is caught up." And then He'll come
down to earth in 2 Thessalonians  2:7-10. But remember, in Revelation
10:1-6, He is a Messenger. Right? And His Message is Himself. He is the
Message, and He is revealing Himself. The Message and the Messenger are
one. The Lord amongst His people is revealing Himself.  

80.	Now notice, quoting from Bro. Branham:

	"After Elijah brought the Word of the Lord to the widow." After not
before. "After Elijah brought the Word of the Lord to the widow she did
go to the barrel and the cruse and get meal and oil every time. Meal
represents Christ. That bread sustained her. It followed Elijah's word
to her, but Elijah's word was God's Word to her. How could a man say
that cruse and oil and the meal will never fail. Only God could do that.
That's a miracle. Why if we could work miracles we're gods. You can't
work a miracle, only God can work a miracle.

	Now listen, Elijah's word was God's Word to her. Today the Bread of
Life follows this Message. It is the Bread of Life that will sustain us,
Christ. We are feeding on the Word. It is the children's Bread. It is
Life. It is "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever. [Heb
13:8] He never appeared to the Gentiles when He was on earth. Then He
was preached to them and He came by a visitation of the Spirit upon Him.
Now He is revealing Himself amongst them.

81.	The question might arise, why is He doing this? What is the
necessity? 

	We are told in Malachi 4:5-6, 

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

	What condition is the world in to demand a curse and to bring Him on
the scene? Laodicea, men blind, wretched, miserable, naked, but say, 
"We're well fed, we've got it all." You know that word in the Greek
which means rich means full.

	The Bible says, "Woe unto you when you say you're full, but you'll be
empty." [Lk 6:25] And you say you don't need a prophet? You're not
Laodicean?

	 Oh brother/sister, listen, if you're not in the Laodicean church like
every man, every man knows what a child is in the last age and none
excepted? And how come He says, "Behold I stand at the door and knock,
and if any man hears My Voice, and open the door, I will come in and sup
with him, and he with Me." [Rev 3:20] What are you going to feed on? The
Word of God. Eat His Body, drink His Blood. It's the end-time.

82.	Now, the Book of Revelation tells the condition of the church, as
the Book of Isaiah does at the end-time. Everything full of vomit.
Playing with little gifts. Playing with the gift, not knowing that it's
the gift the brings about the deception. See? Because men of ill repute.

	The Bible distinctly says in the Book of Matthew here, (this is
Laodicea again, come on let's go there) Matthew 24:24.

		(24) 	For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and
shall shew 					great signs and wonders;... (we've been accused of being
false prophet.) 

	And there's not one of my brethren I know of manifesting gifts and
doing miracles, yet the voice calling us is doing miracles.  Why they
qualify for false prophet more than ever would. Oh, come on, wake up you
people. Am I giving you a wrong word? I'm reading the same Bible you're
reading. It's the same King James Version. Read It again to you:

		(24) 	For there shall arise false Christs,...

	Now, the Holy Ghost can't be false, because the Holy Ghost is Christ.
So it's a man posing as that one. He's false. And it's described here,
because the word in the Greek for 'and' is 'kay'(?) which should be
interpreted 'even'.

		(24) 	...there shall arise false Christs, (even lying) prophets...

	What's a lying prophet? A man that comes without the Word of God. But
he's got a genuine sign and wonder.

		(24)	...and shall (show) great signs and wonders...

	You say, "Bro. Vayle, they're lying signs and wonders."

	You're wrong. It doesn't say that. And the Bible says, "You put a word
in there you get the plague." [Rev 22:18] They're genuine signs and
wonders by the Holy Ghost,  

		(24)	...insomuch, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very
elect.

	Now, what's the elect? From two Greek words, 'ek' and 'logos', means
'called out by the word'. How did you come out? By miracles and signs?
Or did you go to the Word? What Word? Or what Word? 

	"Well listen, according to the little book the thing that Bro. Vayle
gave me yesterday there's four hundred and thirty some different
denominations in America, which literally means hundreds and hundreds of
different churches based upon different context. And they all say it's
the Word of God."

83.	Now, where do you stand tonight brother/sister? You're just one of
them. So we stand tonight on the prophet's word. To the best of our
heart I want to know what he said. I want a revelation when he said it,
and I want to be in that Word my day. I don't want to ...?... It. I want
every thought of mine brought right into captivity. Just 'boom', put a
lock and key on It. My mind begin to want It.

	"Well, Bro. Branham said this, but I don't see it."

	I say, "Shut up, you filthy corrupt mind."

	"Oh Bro. Vayle, my mind's not corrupt."

	"Hold it bud, the Word of God says it is." [bangs on the pulpit]

	Paul the apostle said, "What did the Word of God come out of you? Come
unto you only, or did it come out of you?" [1 Cor 14:36] He said, "I
challenge you, did you bring the Word of God or did I bring It?" And he
said, "If any man says he's spiritual or claims to be a prophet and
wouldn't admit to what I say I got the commandments of God." 

	The Bible says at the end-time to think that he that adds one word to
this Book, and takes away one word God will put him in the Tribulation
and take his name out of the Book." [Rev 22:19] There's only one time
God can do that, that's in the Seventh Age, so therefore, God is duty
bound to restore this Word to the understanding in the hearts of the
people absolutely letter perfect for the day, or he is criminal to put a
man in the tribulation and take his name off the Book. That which is
perfect is come is the perfect Word of God revealed.

84.	You can sew this up one million ways brother/sister, just get into
the Word. Oh, I wish I had time to preach. You know, you've been
generous enough now in your effort. We'll go home in a minute. That you
make no mistake it, God has visited His people. The first facet, the
revealed Message is over. The Lord has descended with a Shout. God has
descended by the prophet's spirit and revealed Himself amongst us and is
making us ready for Marriage Supper of the Lamb. God of the Word has
made us ready according to Revelation 19:7-9. All right, It says:

		(7) 	Let us be glad and rejoice,...

	"Why Bro. Vayle, the curtains are ringing down. Roving clouds of
murdering mobs. When we're ostracized by the public, they'll eliminate
us." Do you know something folks? Africa had one of the greatest moves
of God in the world? They had fifty three Coptic churches in no time.
And when the Mohammedan's came in there they never even raised the sword
to kill anybody. You've heard the story of the unspeakable church, how
they destroyed the Armenians. You heard stories about how they had men
so dastardly and so terrible, but brother/sister, they did not do that
in Africa. They simply took away their rights to live as it were as
human being amongst human beings and they destroyed Christianity and
they'll do the same thing again with their stubborn rottenness. The
curtains are rolling down. Roving bands are killing. Everything is going
up as it were in a ...?... Men and woman's minds are deserting them.

	The very thing that Bro. Branham said women and men look out and
they'll see locusts as big as trees, and they'll see great and
tremendous things that they wouldn't believe existed. And you say, "Bro.
Vayle, where is that in Scripture?"

	Oh, I'm glad you asked me, because I think I can find it. It says here
in Luke 21:11.

		(11) 	And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines,
and 						pestilences; and fearful signs...

	And the fearful signs in the Greek is not confined to the sight, but
things terror used by Hypocrites, by fearful objects imagined by the
sick. William Branham didn't know that was in the Greek, but God told
him. Now am I an my ...?... because I find these things out? Am I a
false prophet because I dig in the Word of God to bring you truth? Are
you helped tonight when I show you by the Word of God that Bro. Branham
had every right to tell you those locusts were not what people thought
they were, but were hallucinations?  Well did I help you when I said
that?  Now it's time to get off my back. Huh? I should let God defend
me, but sometimes I'm just fool enough to defend myself.  

85.	Now, in this day It says, "Rejoice and be glad." [Rev 19:7] I'm
going to not defend myself and let my hair down. I'm not happy at times.
I get kind of scared, get a little confused, look around. 

	You say, "You disbelieve this Word?"

	No, I don't disbelieve. I believe. The questioners do come on. Get a
little nervous, little jittery at times. But It says, "Don't do it."
Don't do it. 

	Do, "just rejoice and be glad, and give him honour."

	In other words don't get your eyes on what conditions are, lift up your
eyes and live. Start praising Him.

		(7)	...for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made
herself 					ready.

		(8) 	And to her was granted that (she'd) be arrayed in fine linen,
clean and 					white: (Now, she couldn't had it before, because it's now
given.) for the 					fine linen is the righteousness of the saints.

		(9) 	And he saith unto me, Blessed are they (that) are called (to) the
						marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the 	
				true sayings of God. (See?)

	Now listen: according to Christ when He was on earth, (He was taken up
when He said this,) when He was on earth He said, "There's going to be
people who will come to that Supper and they'll be cast out." So it's
going to have to be here on earth. There's something going on here in
this dimension brother/sister, it's got to be spiritual. We've not
checking it. I don't pretend I am. There's something Bro. Branham said
he'd talk about and never did. God must have stopped him. Just like he
told us, he couldn't tell us what was coming or we would get scared.
See? Yet, the Bride makes Herself ready. 

86.	Now listen, It is this Word ministry that gets the Bride ready. And
when She is ready, (and when She is ready,) the dead can come out of the
ground in their glorified bodies, and the living can be changed in their
bodies and be just like them. And together they'll be caught up to meet
the Lord in the air with the corporal body. Then they will sit down at
the Wedding Supper for three and a half years.

	You say, "Bro. Vayle, where do you get those three and a half years?"

	Where do you get your seven? Because there is no seven in the Book of
Revelation. Find it out. It's three and a half years. The Bible says,
after the 62 weeks, and the 7 weeks, It says after that He'll [Jesus]
will be cut off. So therefore it's in the 70th week that Christ is cut
off. For the brother, the prophet was right. It's three and a half
years.

	Glory to God, I waited years to get that one. Till one day, he did what
he always does, he said, "Go back to the Book where It is, go look,
look, look, look, and It said, 'after.'" 

	So, 62 went by, and 7 went by, so all there's left is 1. [to make 70] 

	You say, "We should have seen that."

87.	No, it's not given to us to see it. The prophet did. But you believe
the prophet and God will show you. You see I was so steep in the things
being through to tribulation, I couldn't see it. I'm going to let you
know in my belief. I wasn't excoriating you tonight, I just preach [this
way] to sort of jar you. I'm not here as though Bro. Vayle pleased
everything, "bless God, he's got it made," because he's trouble times
too.

	And after Bro. Branham preached the Seals, I was so steeped in the fact
that I what I believed the Saints went through the tribulation, because
I got mixed up on trumpets and all, and even Daddy Bosworth's teaching
was wrong. See? And I followed some of his. And so I couldn't get it
through my head. And I want to Bro. Branham, and we talked and talked,
and the more he talked, the more confused I got. And the more confused I
got, the more anxious I got to get ...?... the more disappointed in me
and sorrowful.  He looked kind of sad. And I was, no doubt kind of mean
you know. 

	And I felt terrible, I said, "Bro. Branham, I'm not arguing, I just
don't understand, but could you help me a little further?"

	He said, "What is it?"

	I said, "I don't want to be insulting...but could  you do just one
thing?  I said, "Just to help me, is it "Thus saith the Lord there's no
tribulation for the Bride, She goes up before?"

	He said, "Lee, that is 'Thus saith the Lord." 

	I said, "Thank you Bro. Branham, I'll find it now in the Word."

	And here I was all covered over with this corruption, my mind corrupted
and I was a corrupt person, and I was no chaste person of the Word. And
I go to the Bible and I said, "Lord, I know now that the score is, now
show me." And from then on, just bang, bang, bang, Word after Word;
today I'll challenge any man living. 

	You say, "Well now you just turned around,"

	Oh, bless God, that's conversion then. That's repent. I done repented. 

88.	I just want to show you one thing tonight brother/sister. The
theologian's are wrong. The fundamentalist's are wrong. There are not
two faiths coming, there are three. And he must descend by the Pillar of
Fire, and revel Himself by the Word, so we can see Him as He is, that we
can put on that garment and be changed, so they'll come out of the grave
and bring about the Resurrection, or else all He can do is come a curse.

	And brother/sister listen, the Rapture ain't no curse. For there's no
Rapture, and there's no Resurrection. There's just a general
Resurrection and Judgment. You want to happen? No. Then, O God, bring
forth Elijah. Too late, I don't have to pray. He already came for us. He
revealed God. God revealed Himself, but He had to use the skin. He had
to take that unseen Spirit and veil Him in Spoken Word. Then the Spoken
Word came into this mind to one corrupted. Let the Holy Ghost bring it
down to you. As Bro. Lloyd said this morning, "Don't strive, and don't
fuss about it. Just believe it that this is it, because if God isn't big
enough to do it, you'll never do it yourself."

89.	I'm depending tonight brother/sister on one thing, and that is the
Blood has gone to the Word. Let the Lamb leave the Mercy Seat. What was
there before He got on? Let the Lamb leave the Mercy Seat. Let the Blood
go to the Word. Let me and you as the Bride member become one with that
Word. "For there are three in heaven, the Father, the Son, and the
Word." [1 Jn 5:7] Let there be three here to the one. Not agree but are
one, the Word. See? And the Spirit and the Person. Let them now come
forth that manifested Word, where God manifested Himself in the last
time on earth in that Bride, and he which hindereth, will hinders of the
last minute taken off the earth, then let you come in.

	You say, "Bro. Vayle, why do people always talk about God being
revealed in Bro. Branham? Why do they always  ...?... with God?"

	Brother/sister, listen to me: there was a man called Judas. John 6:70,
Jesus said, "One of you is a devil." That's wrong. He didn't say that at
all. He did not. I challenge the King James Version, they've got it
wrong. He said, "One of you is 'the' devil." One of you is diablos. 

	Now listen: was Judas the devil? He certainly was not. Judas was not
the devil. He had a devil in him. But you know when he took that sop
that Jesus gave him, that other devil went out, and the devil went into
him. 

90.	William Branham was not God. No siree. But when William Branham
thoughts all went out and the Word of God descended in that man by the
Holy Ghost, you were no longer dealing with a man, you were dealing with
God. William Branham is gone. That same Word is gone back to where It
came from. It was sown here in a literal Word that came to our minds,
and now that Spirit will bring all things to our remembrance. And the
Holy Ghost for the first time has been loosed in two thousand years for
its creeds and the dogmas that bound it in the Feast of the Trumpets.

	The Word of God which we have seen in power is now being seen in
Revelation. And as we saw God in a man, so before this Bride goes the
world will see God in a Bride. It'll be the manifested Word. I want to
be a part of that. I don't know, he told us to believe It and say we
were. And he said, "If you love Me, obey My commandments."

	People in the world are going around with the false doctrine and
dogmas, and they're so happy they're on top of the world. And they act
like they have the great revelation that we've got. And they don't have
it. It's time to do what the prophet said, to stand up and believe him. 

91.	When those Seals were opened we saw our names in that Book of Life
which was the Word, the God Word of God. We saw ourselves as a part of
that Word. You say, "Bro. Vayle, how is that?" Because there's a man
called John the Baptist.

	And they said, "Who are you?"

	And he said, "I'm that Word of Isaiah 40, and Malachi 3, and a bit of
4:5. I'm that Word come to life, clothed in flesh." 

	Who are we? We're that same Word the prophet uttered, clothed in flesh.


	Just as God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. God said,
"Let there be a messenger," there  was a messenger. As God said, "Let
there be Rev 10:7, there was Rev 10:7. As God said, "Let there be a
Bride who shall not see death, but all be changed. Let there be, and
there will be."

	Now, let's stand up in faith believing the prophet and obeying him. I'm
part of that! You say, "Why Bro. Vayle?" Because you're a child of
Abraham, your body is dead. And God said to Abraham, "See, I have made
you a father of nations. And I will multiply you." He said, "From now
on, don't you dare call yourself Abram again, because you're Abraham."
See?

	From now on, don't you ever call yourself church. Call yourself Bride.
Amen. Don't you ever say off of what the prophet said, you say what he
said. That's why he said, "You might not understand, and therefore,
don't try to figure it, just say what I said." You follow me?

	Well, I've said enough. Maybe said too much. Let's bow our heads in
prayer.

	Gracious eternal God, as we stand here bowed in Your Presence, I want
to first of all ask Your forgiveness, Lord, if I've said anything, Lord,
I shouldn't have said, I'm not too worried about that, I do get a little
worried, Lord, and sometimes more than a little worried that I said in
such a way ought not to have said it. But, O God, tonight, except You
build a house they labor in vain that build except You, Lord God, would
absolutely watch the city they watched, but in vain. And, Lord God, as
there's many vessels of different kinds they could be vessels of honor,
and yet so many times.

	I'm praying tonight, and hoping against hope O God, that people will
understand the rough manner, and understand that I'm human, praying for
me, Lord, I won't be quite as human as I am. Getting more and more into
divine ...?... even as I pray for them.

	Thank You Lord for good fellowship in spirit. And above all a good
understanding of the Word, because if anything is going to bring us back
to a deep revelation, and a deep positioning, it's going to be that
creative Word which we've had tonight, Lord, not by me saying it, but
taking what the prophet said.

	So, our Father, we pray for everyone here tonight in divine Presence.
Our heads are bowed, our eyes are closed... [Bro. Vayle makes an altar
call, then concludes with the following prayer]

	Gracious Heavenly Father, You saw these hands raised, I'm so glad,
Lord, that even one would raise the hand, let alone the few that did.
I'm happy, Lord, tonight. God bless my brother and sisters, Lord, I know
the struggles they've had. I know, Lord, we can look at a thing and say,
"That can't be right. The Bible says different." But, Lord, in the days
the Pharisees came they said, "The Bible said different." But He did
come according to the Word, but not according to their interpretation of
that Word. 

	Lord, tonight we know it's the same thing. God I just pray that You'll
make every bit of me as humble as you've made me humbled concerning this
Word. And then everybody else even more humble, Lord, because no doubt
they're all sweeter and better than I am. I've preached, Lord, to better
people than I am myself, but, God, sometime even a grizzled old
whirly-bug could help somebody, and I pray that they've been helped.

	God bless each one not only to be sweet but be sweeter still. That they
love and be more loving, the very epitome as it were of the Lord Jesus
Christ. Not anymore beholding and looking to see what's there, but know,
reflecting the glory of God by the Word.

	Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God be
all power and honor and glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

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