Restoration

Bro. Lee Vayle - March 21, 1971

	It's good to be here again this morning and I trust the Lord will bless
us together. Bro. Kash requested I pray for sick again this service,
I'll be glad to do so. So, I'll do that at the end of this, end of the
message. 

	Now, usually as I attempt to bring out facets of the message, I want to
bring out a message on 'Restoration' this morning. And you can turn to
the Book of Acts 3: the portion we'll read, and we'll just read for this
minute just beginning at verse 19. 

		(19) 	(We thank you) therefore, and be converted, that your sins may
be 						blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the 	
				presence of the Lord.

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

		(21) 	Whom the heaven must receive (actually retain) until the times
of 						restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth
of all 					his holy prophets since the world began.

		(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 ye 						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.

	Our Father, we ask you now to bless this Word, Lord, which we bring
concerning the restoration at the end time. Knowing, Lord, that there is
truth on it, and we can be partakers of that same truth. And therefore,
Lord, not miss what is ahead of us, and, Father, not be condemned for
turning down the truth. So, Lord, we just believe that You'll help the
study of Your Word,  may It be very clear, O God, may It be food to our
souls, enlightening us, and blessing us and increasing our faith, Lord,
until we come together in perfect faith delivered unto the Saints. We
ask these mercies in Jesus' Name. Amen.

1.	Now, you'll notice in here that Peter spoke concerning the
restoration of all things which would have to take place before Jesus
Christ was able to come back to this world, or to come back according to
John 14. where He said, 

		(1) 	Let not your heart be troubled: (you) believe in God, believe
also 						in me.

		(2) 	In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I
would 						have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

		(3) 	And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and
receive 					you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

	Now, the Bible said here, "That the heavens must retain Him, the
heavens keep Him there until the restoration of all things as spoken by
the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began." Now, of
course the restoration is of what the prophets said. And we know that
the Word of God came by the mouth of the prophets as the Scripture says,
"The Holy Ghost spake by the mouth of David." And also Peter said that,
"The Word of God came as holy men were wind-swept, or moved by the Holy
Ghost," to say what they said.

2.	So therefore, we realize that there has been some type of
dislocation, or some type of perversion has swept into the Word of God,
so that God demands a return to the Word, as It was ministered by the
prophets.

	Now, this little message that Peter gave here concerning restoration
which must come at the end time before the Lord Jesus Christ comes,
before He can leave the heavens, which He can do only to receive us, He
has to come in the form that He was here upon earth, which is a physical
body. He did come back of course two thousand years ago as the Holy
Spirit. But He had to come back, He had as a physical human being in
order to bring the people unto Himself in the Marriage Supper, or the
Wedding Supper of the Lamb. And He will do this only after there has
been a period of restoration.

 3.	Now, the Bible says that the heavens must retain Him. In other words
there is no possibility of Jesus coming until first of all there is a
restoration. And of course we know that that restoration comes by
Elijah. Now, there's no mystery here, because Jesus Himself said that in
Matthew 17, that Elijah must truly first come before this Kingdom comes
upon earth.

 	Now, what I want to do here is to read the Scriptures that are
preliminary to this in order for you to understand why Peter preached
this sermon, which was, "Repent therefore and be converted." And then
God shall send Jesus Christ which was appointed unto you, and of course
you crucified Him. And now He's risen and the heavens must receive Him,
unto the restoration of all things." 

4.	And to understand and to get the picture right as to why this sermon
was preached and what It means, I want to read now from that verse 1.

		(1)	Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour 		
			of prayer, being the ninth hour.

		(2) 	And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom 	
			they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, 
					to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;

		(3) 	Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an 		
			alms.

		(4) 	And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, Look 				
	on us.

		(5) 	And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of 			
		them.

		(6) 	(And) then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I
have					 give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up
and walk.

		(7) 	And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and
immediately 					his feet and ankle bones received strength.

		(8) 	And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into 	
				the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.

		(9) 	And all the people saw him walking and praising God:

		(10) 	And they knew that it was he which sat for alms at the Beautiful
						gate of the temple: and they were filled with wonder and amazement
					at that which had happened unto him.

		(11) 	And as the lame man which was healed held Peter and John, all 		
			the people ran together unto them in the porch that is called 					
Solomon's, greatly wondering.

		(12) 	And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, (You) men 		
			of Israel, why marvel (you) at this? or why look so earnestly on 				
	us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man 					
to walk?

		(13) 	The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our 	
				fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom (you) delivered up, and 
				denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let 
				him go.

		(14) 	But (you) denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a
murderer 					to be granted unto you;

		(15) 	And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the
dead; 					whereof we are witnesses.

		(16)	 And his name through faith in his name hath made this man
strong,					 whom (you) see and know: yea, the faith which is by him
hath 						given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.

		(17) 	And now, brethren, I (know) that through ignorance (you) did it,
						as also did your rulers.

		(18) 	But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of 		
			all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.

 	Now, of course there are other Scriptures that must be fulfilled, that
were not fulfilled. And this is of course what Peter's sermon was based
upon.

5.	Now, the reason that Peter spoke on restoration after this great
healing, is because restoration actually means in the Greek concerning
the restoration of the body, should means the complete restoration of
health. Especially the restoring to its place of a dislocated joint.

	Now, this is what happened, the man had a restoration, and there was a
healing in his body. And his body was returned to health which he never
had in his day. And he actually had restored in his body a dislocated
joint.

	Now, you notice that man was born a cripple. And there he sat helpless
and begging exactly like It says in Revelation 3:17,  "That thou art
miserable, wretched, naked, poor and blind." And the word 'poor' in the
Greek signifies a beggar crouching and begging, because he hasn't got
one thing of his own, he is absolutely poverty stricken, and without
anybody's help he can do nothing  whatsoever. In other words, that he is
in a condition to which he cannot himself rectify, and he must live in
that condition which of course will bring about death and that
separation.

6.	Now then, but through the Holy Spirit ministry of one man, which was
Peter, this his faith is turned to the true revelation of God, and what
God promised for that day. Which of course was healing. And he received
perfect soundness, is what the English translation says, but the Greek
says, he receives the perfect allotment.

	Now then, here again is the very same picture of the Laodicean church.
The word 'perfect allotment' or 'entire allotment' would give us the
understanding of Revelation 10:7.

		(7) 	…in the days of the voice of the seventh (messenger), when he 	
				shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as 				
	(perfected and consummated as God) hath declared (the good news 					of
the Gospel, by) his servants the (prophet).

	The end time messenger brings up the entire allotment of the Word of
God to the Gentile Bride, so there is nothing left over whatsoever.

7.Now, let me put it another way also: The body of this man was brought
back to integrity, and the promise God gave was established and
fulfilled. Now, let's get this very carefully. I said, that the body was
brought back to integrity.

	Now, what is integrity. Well, we think of a thing as an integrated
unit. But we also know that integrity means 'truth' and 'honesty' and
rightness' . But the body then was brought back to integrity. In other
words, the whole body was then lined up. Previously, it was not lined
up. 

	Now, this is what happened in that man, it was brought back to
integrity, and the promise, (now notice) that the bringing back to
integrity was the promise of God established and fulfilled. (See?) Now,
the promise of God was through Christ so you could have healing. Now,
the body did not have its integrity. The joint was out of alignment, the
body was not well. But, when the God gave the promise, and the promise
being for that day, the promise of God was established and fulfilled
(see?) in this mighty miracle.

8.	And so it is we got the very same thing today. Because the Bride is
the body of truth,  Remember, the Bride is the Body of Christ. Remember,
Christ is the Truth. So therefore, as truth and Word being synonymous,
because they are the same, then the body is a completed body of truth.
And you'll notice, it's brought back to integrity. Now you see, that's
why the Bible said Jesus can't come. (See?) He can't come. Why? Because
the Church has not received its entire allotment. And if it has not
received its entire allotment, then the body of truth cannot be
fulfilled, of filled, until the entire allotment comes. (See?) 

	Just like you cannot have a perfect body unless every cell is in that
body.  You can't have a one eye too many, or one eye too little. There
has got to be a perfection in the body. And here at the end time the
Bible teaches us that, "Jesus Christ cannot come." Because it's like
that man sitting at the gate, there is something wrong. But, once the
body has had the promise of God established and fulfilled in them, then
it's right, exactly where God wanted it to be. You'll notice it's all by
grace, because this man wasn't expecting a thing. It's on the
sovereignty  of Almighty . (See?) 

9.	Now, this is what we said before, that Jesus has to have virgin of
the Word. That He's got to get her back to where she was. Because
remember, she started as a virgin, and since Christ is the Body, and we
are the body of Christ, and He is Alpha and Omega, and He came once in
the flesh, and must now come back in the flesh. So it is, that the Bride
starting as a virgin, she has got to go back to being a virgin of that
Word. And there is only one way it can be done, and that's by the
restoration ministry of Elijah which has to do with the Word.

	Now, from what we have before us by illustration of this man, we can
form a definition, which would go like this: that the ministry of
restoration which precedes the heaven yielding up Jesus, (because He
cannot come until the restoration) so that He can return to earth and
establish His Kingdom. It's a Holy Spirit ministry by one man, upon whom
is the Holy Spirit in such a way as to designate him as Elijah the
prophet. And that Holy Spirit ministry is to the body, or the Bride, and
further  that ministry of the Holy Spirit is a revelation ministry of
the Word that corrects the errors, (see?) (error is present) and
establishes the promise of the Age to the Bride. (See?) And that Message
is fulfilled in the Bride bringing her to perfect health or soundness,
which is her entire allotment. (See?)  

10.	Now, the entire allotment has been fulfilled. The Word of God has
completely run out when this Message of revealed truth for the end time
is presented to the Bride. And without it, there could not be a Rapture,
or a Resurrection, because the Bride is in such a condition that she
could not possibly make it. Now remember, in every Age there's the Word
allotted for every Age. But at the end time, there's a special
allotment. 

	So then, just repeating it for you so you'll get it. That the
restoration ministry by this man Elijah is a one in which the Word of
God is corrected and restored in order to correct the problem within the
Bride. See, that's the whole thing. The problem lies in the Body, which
is the Bride.

11.	Now, to break this down, I said, if restoration is necessary, then
something must have gone wrong to require restoration. (See?) Something
is gone wrong. Something happened to that man, and now their restoration
is required. And if this restoration does not take place, then remember
what the Holy Spirit said in the Book of Malachi. [4:] He said, "If
Elijah does not come and restore, then I will come and destroy utterly
all." (See?) He said that, "I will destroy utterly all." That's exactly
what the Hebrew and the Greek said. See:

		(5)	Behold, I will send you Elijah…(and before) the great and
dreadful 					day of the LORD:

		(6)	And he shall (restore) the heart(s) of…the the children to (the)
						fathers, lest I come and smite (utterly) the earth…(lest I come,
						and destroy utterly, or smite utterly the whole earth.)

	So therefore, without the ministry of Elijah there would not be a
Resurrection and a Rapture.

12.	Now then, to me this is the whole picture of the ministry of
restoration. Look at the cripple again: he is crippled from birth. Now,
nothing is missing. See, there's no…there's nothing in a man's body
missing. But, the joint is out of alignment. The ankle bone is out of
alignment. (See?) The error in his body is corrected, and the whole body
receives strength to walk. (See?) Once the correction is made, he has
now come into his full and entire allotment. (See?) Remember, nothing's
missing. You don't add to this Word, or take from It. See, it's all
there. But, there's something missing. And what is It? It's out of
alignment. The Word is not correctly interpreted in this Age, as It was
in the other Ages for their day, and therefore this Bride is a mess.
(See?) There's something wrong, Christ cannot come.

	Now notice, once the correction is made, he has now come into his full
and entire allotment. (See?) Now notice that. The error in his body is
corrected. Now, what does he do? He gets up and walks. And the Bride
cannot rise out of the dust, and rise and walk until the error in the
Bride of this day is corrected. Because remember, though Peter had the
healing demonstrated in the First Century, his message was to the Last
Century.  (See?) 

13.	What happened, happened in the First Age. But this sermon is not to
the First Age people. Belongs to the end time. (See?) So, the
illustration is perfect. Something happened (see?) to the Bride, and we
know it occurred in the First Age. And that was she went into error
concerning the Word, because we got the whole Word of God right here
today, we don't need to add one Word, or to take one Word from It.

	So, when this error is corrected, which the Sixth Seal, the Seventh
Seal correct the error, then the Bride has strength to rise and to walk
which puts her in the Resurrection, and which will put her in the
Rapture. And this you'll notice with the error corrected she has come
into her entire allotment. And that's exactly right. Those Seven
Thunders can no more be added to the Book brother/sister than the man in
the moon. Those Seven Thunders are in the Seven Seals. And Bro. Branham
said that           was those Seven Seals were all about, which were the
mysteries of the Seven Thunders. Which was the prophet bringing forth
the revelation. Because remember, the Sixth, the Seventh Seals were
never read. All they were done, was open. And all John saw was pictures
and heard a little voice, but It was never read. It was only when the
Book was brought down to earth in the hand of the Pillar of Fire, that
the Word of God came forth. And the reading of the Book was the
preaching Message of the Seven Thunders.

14.	Now, that's how I stand on this, and I can't see one Scripture that
contradicts what I am saying, or contradicts what the prophet said. We
have It. As Bro. Branham said when he brought those Messages, he said,
"The Bride had everything to put her in the Rapture, so she had
everything to put her in a Rapture, then she had everything to bring
them out of the grave." And he said, "This Message will bring the dead
out of the grave."

	Now,  you can see from what the prophet taught us, the Seals corrected
the errors and freed the Holy Spirit from being bound by creeds and
dogmas, and brought us into the full revelation of the Seven Thunders
which though they were there, were not operative. (See?) The end time
Message was not operative. And the part that was not operative would
give the Bride the strength to get up to walk, because she couldn't do
it, crouching like a beggar. That end time was the opening of those
Seven Seals, correcting all the errors and bringing you right up to the
full revelation of Jesus Christ.  

	Because remember, there is a revelation of Christ in every Age, and at
the end time He is the complete revelation of the Word. He has to be,
because He was back as Alpha, He's got to be that as Omega. And they
don't understand that this is what it is. Is a complete revelation of
the Word of God by the Pillar of Fire through the prophet, as It was
when He once stood here upon earth. And we've seen a complete
manifestation, an absolute parallel of the First Age and the Last Age.
That is Christ on earth now, (we're talking about Christ, not just the
Church Age) when Christ is a man coming down as God we've got the same
revelation here in our Age. (See?) Now, because He'll be soon coming
back to take up His Bride. 

15.	This brings the…Bride back to being a virgin of the Word. (See?)
Because that's exactly what Paul said he was afraid of.  2 Corinthians
11:

		(2) 	…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 to 	
				Christ.

	Now, you notice that here Paul said, "I've espoused you." And he said,
I've espoused you with a godly jealously. In other words Paul was
invoking the law of jealously. Which is the law of jealously of the Old
Testament. And the law of jealously is that, you can't prove that the
woman has been tampered with by some other man. But the husband is
suspicious, and so he brings her to the priest, and she has to take the
sweeping of the dust, and drink it, and it's some kind of concoction.
And if she has been unfaithful, then her stomach will begin to swell and
rot and she will die. And if she has not been unfaithful, and she has
been faithful, then this will not occur to her.

16.	Now, what is the law of jealously? The law of jealousl is, is then
unfaithfulness to the man that you are supposed to be marrying and be
married to. And so it is with Christ. Paul is invoking the law of
jealousy. He's afraid that this woman that he has espoused to Christ
before he gets her there, she will have already fallen for some other
man, because she can't wait for her husband.

	Now, what is that jealousy? He said here the fear she will fall:

		(3) 	But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve
through 						his subtilty, so your minds (m-i-n-d-s) should be
corrupted from 						the simplicity that is in Christ.

	Everybody talks about a heart-religion. Well, I've got news for you,
hogwash to your heart-religion if it doesn't come by the mind. Because
you can feel anything and think you're right with God, but if you don't
have the Word of God in your mind and Holy Spirit to fall on,  to bring
you a revelation you're a million miles off the base. Otherwise, how
come women run up and want to go preaching? Oh, they feel they got to go
preaching. Oh, they feel they've got to go. And oh, I feel like I've got
to go. They're a bunch of feelers, bunch of catfish. Not worth a
plug-nickel. God should throw you out of His net. Carrion eaters, not
true fish. Crawfish, and crawdad, catfish, and you know what, and that
real trout he's not down there eating with those catfish and the ..?...
and all the old grubby jump and cruddy crud at the bottom. Not that I've
got anything against catfish, you can't make him a Christian. You can't
do it, it's just what God said in His Word. (See?) You got it by bit.

17.	Now, Paul was afraid that this woman would fall. But you see now
abiding by the restoration ministry we come right into Revelation
22:18-19 without any fear.

		(18) 	For I (certify) unto every man that heareth the words of the
prophecy 					of this book,…

	Now notice,   

		(18)	I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy
of 						this book…

	Now, you know right now that Jesus said in John 8: "That to hear the
Word of God, is to understand It." So, therefore there is going to be an
understanding of this Book at the end time. Now, you know that wouldn't
be possible unless the prophet changed it, because this Book is written
in mysteries, it confused everybody, made everybody so mad they even
think…

	One fellow told Bro. Branham, John must have eaten too many hot peppers
that night. This is the most confusing Book under high heaven. Attempt
to figure It outside of the same Spirit that wrote It, is not only
ridiculous, but it brings you the most stupid hodge-podge under high
heaven. They never do it. Now, he said, 

		(18)	…If any man shall add unto these things,…(What things? The 		
			revelation, see?) God (will) add unto him the plagues…  

		(19) 	And if any man shall take away from (that revelation) …God 			
		(will) take away his part… 

	Now notice, he calls it a "prophecy." Now, if it lies in a prophecy,
he's prophesying at the end time, this Book will be open to the people.
Now, He said, "You take from It, you get your name taken off the
record." (See?) Why? It's simple, you never make the Rapture adding to,
or taken away from. That's what restoration is. It's to bring the Bride
back to a virgin of the Word. It's the virgin Word that makes you a
virgin. (See?) That's the picture.

18.	 Now notice, in Revelation 10:3-4

		(3)	 And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth:…

	It doesn't say He was a lion, It said He cried with a loud voice, as a
lion. Just like when the lion was supposed to open the Seal. "Who can
take the Book and open those Seals?" What came forth? A bloody lamb. He
wasn't a lion that came forth. It wasn't time, and it's not time now.
The Lion of Judah can't come down and take over this nation yet, this
world. He cried as a lion. Why? Because it's the same voice in the
church now, it's the Voice of Christ by the Pillar of Fire Himself
having descended through a prophet. (See?)  Now, 

		(3)	…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.

19.	Now, Revelation 22:10

		(10) 	And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of
this 						book: for the time is at hand.

	You never seal It up now. Why? Because It's gone forth. (See?) And it's
all over. There's no more seal. Once those Seven Seals are opened, once
those Thunders came out, there's nothing more. This is it. He's out
looking for this great thing, I'm looking for that great thing. Bro.
Branham said, "Sure, and you'll find yourself in the tribulation,
because those great things belong to the two witnesses."

	We have got our great thing. (See?) If a woman wants to get pregnant,
which is the right of every woman that's married, "What does she want?" 

	"Well, I think  I'll have a teddy-bear, and a Cadillac, and a forty
story house, and maybe a bigger… (phffttt!)  Look she need fruit in
her womb, that's all she needs. So simple it goes on every day, God
restores His Word and men and woman have turned It down, they want this
big thing, and that big thing, the other big thing. Make up your mind
where you stand this morning. What folly people preach. I don't
understand it. You say, "You're getting red in the face." You bet I do.
And I'm invited here, this is my pulpit and I'll preach what I want. You
don't like it, you can go out. (See?) I know where I stand. Bro. Branham
said, "The simplicity is going to fool the whole bunch, lock, stock and
barrel." Absolutely. That Word that brings life. It was that fulfilled
Word of that day, that brought that man and conjoined into alignment,
and the strength came where the whole body wants.

20.	Brother/sister, I want to tell you this: there is no two ways about
it. This end time Message is what gives the Bride her ability to rise
out of that ground, and put us in the Rapture. Because there are people
living here today who got to be changed without process of death. If God
Almighty wereto destroy everyone and let us die, then we wouldn't need
restoration. (See?) But, there's no Word in the Bible, there is
absolutely no Word by itself in the Bible that says, "Any group of
people have a right to walk right into Eternal Life." That's reserved
for the end time, and comes under a special colth. 

	You can't find that in the death and resurrection of Christ. You can't
do it, because Christ Himself had to go down and bring them out, "lead
captivity, captive." [Eph 4:8] So, the same thing happens once more, the
Pillar of Fire coming down by His Word, to bring us to a complete
virginity, even beyond anything that John said, "This Word has never,
ever seen what's going to happen at the end time." That a whole group of
people walk right into Eternal Life. (See?) How is it done? He said
Christ can't come until restoration. What is it, the restoration of the
Word of God. (See?) 

21.	 Now listen, we can see this very clear what we have just said here.
We find then that this ministry of restoration is one of correction,
revelation, and dynamism. As Bro. Branham said, "The dynamics follow the
mechanic."  For once the whole body of truth has been put in order.
(See?) And remember, where was he crippled?  In the feet. (See?) What
age are we in now?  The feet age. Where's  the Pillar of Fire? Feet.
Where? On earth. Where are we? On earth. Where are they? In the earth.
So, what's wrong? The feet.

	Now remember, you've got to work forward. Now, the other way you
reverse backwards when it comes to Christ joining of, when it comes to
the body of truth, we become the neck. (See?) That's different, we're
talking about different things at different times, different periods.

 	Now, the body of truth has been put in order, the end time truth has
been revealed, the Holy Spirit can move the Bride into the Rapture and
into the Kingdom. Now, the dynamism of the Holy Spirit then, (or that
dynamism of the Spirit) is that part of restoration that is called,
establishing the promise and carrying it to its fulfillment. That's the
dynamism, we're had the letter now that corrected it, and you can sit
down and memorize it. You could,  you can even take everything that Bro.
Branham said, and put it down point by point and say this is the
doctrine. That won't do it, the Holy Spirit has got to fall upon it
where It becomes a reality, and you believe nothing but that; and your
faith is so based on it, you know It. Just like Abraham, everything is
getting worse and worse and falling to pieces more and more, until you
wonder when we're going to go through as a group of people . We're going
to go straight up, those that stick with this Word.

22.	Now, this is reasonably clear. So, going back again to this
Scripture of Acts 3: (which we read, we don't need to read again) and
verse 21, 

		(21)	…the heaven(s) must (retain Him) until the times of
(restoration) of 					all things, spoken by the mouths of all the
prophets since the world 					began. (Now, that's what Peter said.
That's what Jesus said.)

	Now, it's very definitely stated here that Jesus is hindered, or
restrained from coming until restoration. Now then, what does he say? He
says, "Restoration of that which was spoken by the mouth of all the holy
prophets since the world began." 

	Now, you know according to Daniel that Daniel did not know what he
said. He couldn't, it was hidden from him, it took a revelation. So
therefore, the restoration is the true revelation of the Word of God to
us that's going to do the work. (See?) Now, the error is being
corrected, I think you can dogmatize that almost, you can simply write
it down and it would be just fine. But we need the revelation.

23.	Now, if we look in the Word now and find from Scripture what the
prophets tell us what hinders Jesus from coming, we can know exactly
what is being restored. Now, the reason I say this, is because many
people say, "Well, I understand this business of the things that are
going to be restored is what the prophet said." So, they go searching in
Scripture and the devil says, "Now oh yes, the Bible said the world has
got to have such and such happen to it. Oh, I see, what's going to
happen we're the Elijah group, and we're going to restore the world."

	They search the Scripture to fine where the certain things, (you know)
like let's say we're going to restore the car. Well, you got to go and
get the part. Where do you get the part? Well, you get the part by going
to the mechanics auto accessories, or you get someone to cast them for
you. Now, people got that idea of restoration. (See?) That's not what
the Bible teaches. It's the Word Itself restored to the understanding
which is by revelation.

24.	Now, we're going to prove it to you (see?) by Scripture. Now, as I
said here a minute ago, and        I want you to catch this, the Bible
says this: "That Jesus is hindered from coming until there is a
restoration." Now, he said it's a restoration of that Word. But, in case
someone doubts it, let's go to the Bible and find out this morning where
anybody speaks of Jesus being hindered from coming. Then, let's study
that Scripture and find out what why He is hindered from coming. Then,
if it is what we have said already we know we're on good Bible grounds.
That's fair enough.

	Okay, right away we go to 2 Thessalonians 2, because everybody knows
that one. We don't have to look around to try to find us a good verse of
Scripture, we already got one. 2 Thessalonians 2:1,  beginning:

		(1) 	Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus 			
		Christ, and by our (complete) gathering together unto him,

	Now, this is a complete gathering, and we're going to agree it's
complete. Now, there is no such thing as a complete gathering until the
end time Message, because according to Matthew 23, God gathers His
people by the prophets, and by the scribes and by the wise men. In other
words, He gathers them by His ministry which is ordained, which is a
Word ministry. Bro. Branham says in the 'Seals' on page 106, paragraph 5
that this is the end time Message.  

25.	Now, he said:

		(2) 	That (you) be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither 		
			by spirit… nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is 	
				at hand.

	Now, he said, "Listen, that complete gathering cannot come. (See?)
Which when it's all over in a Rapture ."  (See?)  

		(3) 	Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come,
					except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be
revealed, 					the son of perdition;

	Now, right now here It tells you, that, that day of Christ with His
Bride cannot come because something in hindering Him. Now, It says,
there's a falling away hindering Him, and a man of sin to be revealed,
the son of perdition.

		(4) 	Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God,
or 						that is worshipped; so that he as God (sits) in the temple of
God, 						shewing himself that he is God.

		(5)	 Remember (you) not, that, when I was with you, I told you these 	
				things?     

		(6) 	And now (you) know what withholdeth that he might be revealed 			
		in his time.

		(7) 	For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he (that) now
						(hindereth)  will…be taken out of the way.

		(8)	 …then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall
consume 					with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the
brightness of 					his coming:

		(9) 	Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all
power 					and signs and lying wonders,

		(10) 	And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that
perish; 					because they received not the love of the truth, that they
might be 						saved.

		(11) 	And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that
they 						should believe (the) lie:

		(12) 	That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but
had						 pleasure in unrighteousness.

26.	Now, you notice right here that Jesus is hindered from coming,
because of verse 3, [correction] there's got to be a falling away first,
then the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition. And notice in
verse 10 now, It says here: "because they receive not the love of the
truth."

	In other words, there is a great apostasy. Now, what is the apostasy
that is to come, that brings them out the unveiling of the man of sin.
(See?) The falling away. What is it that brings it about? It tells you
right here, "because they receive not the love of the truth." They
wouldn't receive It. They would  not receive the truth. They did not
love It, they turned It down.

	Now then, let us look at verse 7. We need to know this verse, because
It says:

		(7) 	For the mystery of iniquity doth already work:…

	Now, It says that whatever is going to bring about the great apostasy,
which is the rejection of the love of the truth, is already at work. So,
this is the lie to anybody that's…"Well, bless God, I'll happily read
the Bible. I always had have the truth. I always had stuck up for it." 
He's a liar and a hypocrite, or ignorant and stupid. He doesn't know his
Bible, just thinks he knows his Bible. Because Paul said, "The truth was
already being corrupted. As the truth has been corrupted, it is no
longer the truth, it's a lie! 

	As one person said, he said, "The most damning thing in the world is to
have somebody tell the truth just slightly changed, a mild lie. In other
words, the truth, slightly changed is the worst thing in the world. It's
like a switch left open on a railway track, hundreds of miles of good
railway tracks. Though one switch left opened, can kill that train and
everybody on it. (See?) 

27.	Now, let's go to the Book of Acts 20: and see where this mystery of
iniquity already started. Where the truth was already breaking down.
Okay, verse 17.   

		(17) 	And from Miletus (Paul) sent to Ephesus,…

	Ephesus, the First Church Age, where the Word of God was pure,  (at
that time) where John said, "they tried those who were false apostles."
And as Bro. Branham said, "they gave them the Word test, and when they
never said what Paul said, they said, 'You're false'." 

	Now, brother/sister, if they had It back there and they were to have It
again, then we ought to know from the few what is true and what is
false.  Yeah, I heard preachers and the people screaming 'amen', when
one young man not long ago said, "Anybody who tells you that the baptism
with the Holy Ghost and the rebirth is the same thing is lying." And
they screamed, "Amen." Then Bro. Branham's a liar. Then call him a liar.
Don't say you know him and love him. Get out there and tell him what
you're doing. Have the guts to do it. Not trying to use him as your
horse to get the people following you. (See?) 

	Bro. Branham flatly declared, that they said you're false, because
you're not saying what Paul said. Now, I want to tell you that you can
get this Message down, as I said to a dogma. If you want …?... you can
credalize it. You can write it right down, and know exactly what Bro.
Branham said at point by point. It's a revelation is what it takes.
Because you can have one fellow argue against it, and one against that,
oh Bro. Branham said it.

28.	Now, let's keep reading:  He called the elders, he never called the
pastors. He never called the evangelists. He never called the prophets.
He never called the teachers. He never called the apostles, the
five-fold ministry. He called the elders. Those who wanted the office
who wanted to teach, who wanted to be somebody, but they never had a
true calling from God. Because the elect ministry of God is by grace,
which is by predestination.

	Now, Paul said,  [Acts 20:]

		(18) 	…(You) know, from the first day that I came into Asia, after
what 						manner I have been with you at all seasons,

		(19) 	Serving the LORD with all humility of mind, and with many tears,
						and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:

		(20) 	And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but
have 					shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to
house,

	Now, if Bro. Branham is to restore the truth, then he could not have
held back anything from us. 

		(21) 	Testifying both to the Jews,…Greeks, repentance toward God,
and 						faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

	In other words, you've got to get your minds changed about Jesus, just
like you got to do today. There's not three gods, there's one. There's
not a baptism, Father, Son, Holy Ghost, His Name is Lord Jesus Christ,
and so on. Now, 

		(22) 	…behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing 
					the things that shall befall me there: (just except he's got to
go.) 

		(23)	 Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that 	
				bonds and afflictions abide me.

		(24) 	But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear 	
				unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the 				
	ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the 					
gospel of the grace of God.

		(25) 	And now, behold, I know that (you) all, among whom I have gone 	
				preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more.		

29.	Listen:

		(26) 	Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the
						blood of all men. (Because I have spoken in tongues, (no) had a 		
			great ministry, testifying to everybody, no.)

		(27) 	…I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of
God.

	And there is only one way that will bring the Blood back to the full
efficiency is by the revelation. If you believe that Blood apart from
revelation, you're just as lost as lost can be. It's got to come by
revelation. Now:

		(28) 	Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over
the 						which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers,…

	In other words,  you wanted a job, then God is going to make you
accountable. Those women who wanted a job, God is going to make them
accountable. You watch how they stack up on judgment day. There's your
iniquity right there. (See?) Now:

		(28)	…made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath 	
				purchased with his own blood. (And Christ is the Blood of God.)

		(29) 	For I know this, that after my departing grievous wolves (shall)
						enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

		(30) 	Also of your own selves… (elders, men given the job teaching
the 						church, but not called to be pastors, but take the place of
one.) 

	Men that don't have a true calling. They can no more stay with this
Word brother/sister, than a hog will refrain from going to his wallow, a
dog to his vomit. They can't do it. They're wolves in sheep clothing.
They act like it, the look like it, they scream it, they pray it, they
dance it, they hop it, they shout it.  Oh my yes, faithful pastors, my
foot! They'll take you right away from this Word, though they be as
sweet as the day is long. They don't stay with the Word, they can't.
They can't stay with that Word. They just can't do it. We got them, we
got them don't count me out."

30.	I can take you right to places, give you names and addresses. You've
got the same check on me. Anytime you see me depart from this Word, you
go right ahead and challenge me, that's your job. You hear a man come in
and preach, you challenge him, don’t challenge your preacher.
Challenge him, he's the guy that said it. Say, "Hey, what do you mean by
that?" (See?) But make sure he's off the Word first, because you may be
held responsible to God, you challenge the man. (See?) They say that off
the Word, he's got some little thing he's sneaking in there, you go
right ahead, say, "Where's your Scripture for it? Where did Bro. Branham
say it, where's the line of Scripture?" Bro. Branham said, everything he
taught had to line up with that Scripture. 

Now listen, he said that's what would happen. They'll be right  within
the group, the elders. Not the five-fold, but the elders. They'll be
talking to people right today who won't listen to the five-fold
ministry. No, they're afraid to be led astray. How can you be led astray
by the very ministry God ordained to perfect them? Somebody's crazy, and
it sure ain't me. I'll take a sanity test any day, Something's wrong.
That's the same type of person that tried to destroy Bro. Branham's
ministry, he's right here on earth. So, he had all, but a nervous
breakdown.

31.	Now, listen it is not therefore the apostasy that holds Jesus back,
because they had already apostatized. And they've been apostatizing for
all these Ages. So, if you're waiting for the apostasy to make Him come,
you're wrong, because that hasn't made Him come in Six Ages, nor will it
make Him come the Seventh  Age. (See?) What is it that stops Him from
coming? Tells you right over here in that 10th verse, 2 Thessalonians 2:


		(10) 	…because they received not the love of the truth,…

	Not part of the truth, but the love of 'the truth'! (See?) In other
words brother/sister, before there is an apostasy there has got to be a
restoration of 't-r-u-t-h'. And that's it. Not gifts, not miracles, not
ministry, but truth! Because it's only the truth you can fall from,
"because the gifts and callings of God are without repentance." [Rom
11:29] You can be a  Korah, Dathan, Abiram. You can be a Jannes and
Jambres. You can have your gift ministries. You can have your say, you
can have your place, you can go ahead and minister, do what you want in
the church. But brother/sister, it's the truth that's got to be
restored. And what is truth? Truth is the revelation against which the
gates of hell will not prevail. And remember, death is one of the gates
of hell. 

	So, there's got to be a revelation of truth. That's exactly why John
said over there Revelation 22: "No man can add to It, no man can take
from It." That's right, Bro. Branham said, "One Word, is all it takes."
You don't change one, you can't. How can you when it's a revelation, you
won't. (See?) But others will. (See?) 

32.	Now, first of all then it has to be a great restoration of the Word.
That's exactly what Bro. Branham said in 'The Spoken Word is the
Original Seed.' [63-02-18]  (I believe it's on page 64) Now listen,
let's prove it to you. Look at [2 Thessalonians 2:] verses13 

		(13) 	But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren 	
				beloved of the Lord, (you Elect) because God hath from the 					
beginning…

	Notice: from the beginning, have to go all the way back to Genesis now.
Who was it that God sanctified? Abel.  How? Because he was righteous.
How? Because[of] his certain worship God according to the revealed
truth. But Cain did not. Now then, these very same people here, Elect of
God, chosen to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit, even
belief of the truth. They had the truth and believed i

It. (See?) There it is right there, God's way from the beginning is to
bring a person by divinely revealed truth by which you stick to God. The
minute you turn away your faith is vain. Why? Because it's no longer
based on God's Word, which is revealed. Because you can have ten people
read the same verse of Scripture and get in a ten way dog fight, and all
can be wrong. And ten million more come by, and ten million still be
wrong.

	Then one little fellow that's down in the mouth and down in the shoes,
looks like some kind of a bum out of the gutter come along, he'd be
exactly right. Or, it may be an educated brilliant man like Paul exactly
right. Whether you're educated, whether you're ignorant, whether you're
smart, whether  you're sort of in-between, whether you've got a dollar,
or may be nothing, it's still going to take a revelation. And God
Almighty can only bring anybody to Himself by the truth. The true child
of God is he which is born of that Seed, which is the Word of God.
Everyone else is illegitimate.

33.	Now, notice, It says in verse 14 

		(14) 	Whereunto he called you by our gospel,…

	 Not somebody else's, but He called them by Paul. So in every Church
Age, God calls the Elect by the Message of that day. And in the end time
there is definitely going to  be a group, as Bro. Branham saw them, and
said, "Are all these Branham's?" They will come under the messenger,
because it is the truth under the Seventh Church Age.  (See?) 

	And there you can see it right here brother/sister. What is hindering
Christ from coming? It's not the apostasy. What has hindered Him is
there had to be a restoration of truth. The Word of God had to come back
by divine revelation, and interpretation as the apostle Paul brought it.

	Now remember, he was three years in the desert receiving a revelation
from Almighty God as the Pillar of Fire spoke to him. It was the Pillar
of Fire that blinded him to his past life. It was the Pillar of Fire
that opened his…eyes, to the truth.  Now, you've got the very same
thing that happens at the end time. There is a restoration of the Word
of Almighty God. And never forget this, it is Elijah who does it, nobody
else. See, nobody else can do it, it takes Elijah. This is the man that
does it.

 	Now remember, every prophet was involved with the Word. As I said
awhile ago, you don't go looking for this great big thing and that great
big thing, you look for the very thing the prophet wants to bring. And
when you get it, you say, "That's it!" And now the seed has fallen on
good ground, let it come forth. (See?) 

34.	All right, that's witness number one. Proving what we said from Acts
3: is correct. Elijah must come and restore the Word, which is the truth
for your day. (See?) Because since the First Age, it's been going down,
down, down, down, down. Then of course in the reformation God brought a
…?... which we had: justification, sanctification, baptism with the
Holy Ghost, and now, because God does everything in fours. Four is
deliverance. He brings you to restoration. (See?) Back to restoration.

	Now, let's take a second witness. Over here in the Book of James 5: 7,
which I read…  Sunday night. But this being fresh in your mind, it'll
be a help to you. Notice It says,  

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

	The husbandman is waiting for the resurrection of the dead. Jesus is
waiting for the Resurrection, He's waiting for It. 

		(7)	…and hath long patience for (the resurrection), until he (Jesus)
						receive the early and latter rain. (See?) 

	Now, right there, remember He said, "I'm going to go away, and if I go
away, (He said) I'll send the Comforter, I'll send the Holy Ghost, in
fact I'll come back as the Holy Ghost." But now at the end time He says,
"Before I can come back to receive you to Myself for the Resurrection I
am going to have to have the former and latter rain to send to you."

 	Now, this is not Pentecost brother/sister, because Pentecost couldn't
bring a resurrection. You can only have a resurrection at the end of the
Ages. Now then, you notice what It says here, that there has got to be a
former rain and a latter rain, (an early and latter rain) in order to
bring about a resurrection. That's exactly what the Bible teaches.

38.	Let's go to the Book of Joel 2: 23-25,  because remember, what James
said has got to be based upon a Scripture.

		(23) 	Be glad then, (you) children of Zion, …

	Remember,  Zion is Jerusalem, and remember, Jerusalem which is below,
there is no reason to rejoice. Jerusalem from below will never rejoice,
it's hybrid, it's Hagar, it's in bondage. The only ones that can rejoice
is Zion, which is from above, which is New Jerusalem, which is the
Bride, which is everybody as far as I know in the First Resurrection.
All right: 

		(23)	(Rejoice you) children of (the Rapture) rejoice in the LORD your 
					God: (that's Jesus)for he (Jesus) hath given you the former rain 		
			moderately, and (will) cause to come down for you the rain, the 					
former rain, and the latter rain in the first… (Now, they got month 		
			there, that's not first at all.)

		(24) 	And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall
overflow 						with wine and oil.

	Now, what is he telling you here? Wheat and oil is in the harvest. 
But, in the harvest He gathers the wheat and burns up the chaff. Now,
what is the harvest? It's the resurrected people, it's the Bride. (See?)
So therefore, he tells you that he's going to give you the early and the
latter rain in the First Resurrection. In the first harvest, and that's
resurrection. (See?) There's going to be a early and latter rain which
brings about a resurrection. Now James is quoting Joel. You can see that
they agree perfectly.

39.	Now, He said, 

		(25) 	And I will restore to you…(He's telling you what this former
and 						latter rain is going to do, restore.) …(that's what) the
locust (ate), 						the cankerworm, the caterpiller, the palmerworm,
(the) great army 						(that) I sent…

	Now, you notice right in here brother/sister, that the Word of the Lord
where It says 'former rain' is 'moret', which means 'teacher' or
'teaching'. And latter rain just means what it said. "A rain falling on
that which was sown." Now, at the end time there is going to be the
'two-rains' come together. Now remember, all they got when Pentecost
fell was the former rain. But, at the end time there's the latter rain
which has been going on with great signs and wonders and miracles for a
long time now. The Holy Ghost being poured out, gifts restored. But, in
that time God said to pray for the rain. The former rain which is the
teaching ministry of the teacher, the prophet. (See?) And what is this
going to do?

40.	Now notice why you've got to have it. It says, "The palmerworm, the
locust, the cankerworm, the caterpillar ate it up."  Now, if those four
bugs ate up what the man planted, then there can be no crop. You
think…you can't get a crop off that kind of stuff.  So what's the
farmer do? He breeds those …?... to get a crop. Now then, God says, "I
am the Husbandman, I look down through the Ages, I see where this
mystery of iniquity is already working." The mystery of iniquity is the
unbelief of the truth, which gets men to believe their own creeds and
dogmas, and worship God by it. You can't do it! (See?) 

 	Now, He said, "I'm going to have a harvest." Said, "There's only one
way I can get it, at the end time there's nothing left. You're like that
cripple, "wretched, miserable, naked, blind, " you haven't got a think,
you'll never get to God. You'll never make the Resurrection. Never make
the Rapture, it's all finished.  So, He says, "I'm going to re-sow the
Seed, because that's what went wrong. (See?) So, God re-sows the Seed,
which is the original Word of God, pours the Holy Ghost upon It, and
brings forth immortality in the living Bride and brings the dead out of
the grave. (See?) Now, that's exactly what God said He's going to do.

41.	Now then, let's go to Romans 8:22-23,  and see this.

		(22)	 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in 	
				pain together…

	Now, that word 'travail' means a 'birthpain', a woman suffering to
bring forth a child.  

		(23) 	And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the
firstfruits 						of the Spirit,…

	Even though we've got what it takes to have a resurrection, there won't
be one. All you can do is have birth pains, sort of. (See?) You've got
to wait for the adoption, the redemption of the body. And that body will
never be redeemed of itself, until the end time. "Behold, I show you a
mystery, we shall not all sleep, we shall all be changed." [1 Cor 15:51]
Redemption right there standing in the flesh without death. There cannot
be a resurrection until that body comes right back to the truth. And
then, bless God when that body had been right back to truth and
righteousness in Jesus Christ, standing there with Christ revealed in
her, then the dead can come out of the graves, and this body here can
put on immortality, change it right there. (See?) But not until that
time.

42.	Now, notice also, back in James 1:18

		(18) 	Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we
should 						be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

	Now, notice that, "we are the first-fruits of His creatures." said
James. Why? Because He begat us by His Own Word. What would He be
begotten by? The Word of God, He was the Word, the Word was made flesh.
(See?) 

	Now then, He is the first-fruit, He's the  Resurrection, and we also
will be in that Resurrection. Why? Because we are of the same Spirit
that He is of, which is the Word. (See?) Because the Word is Spirit and
Life. Now, He begat us with the Word of truth. And in other words, we
should come up in the resurrection with Him. 

43.	Now, with that we go to Revelation 1:5 

		(5) 	And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, (the martyr)
and 					the first begotten of the dead, (no sir, the first born from
among the 					dead, the rest are still lying down there. The first One
to come back 					from death and die no more. He put on a glorified
body) the prince 						of the kings of the earth. (See?) 

44.	  Now, with that 1 Corinthians 15:20, that's Who He is now, the
first born from among the dead.  

		(20) 	But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the
firstfruits 						of them that slept.

	See, He's already that of those that sleep. He's already said, "Because
I live, you'll also live."              [Jn 14:19b] It's already been
said, if you've got the same Spirit in you that raised Christ from the
dead dwell in you, your mortal body should come out of that grave, well
what about those standing there? They can't make it, they don't die.
(See?) You can't place them with the dead, they don't die. Don't try to
place them there, or oh say,  "I think I can place them."  Then how
would you like to be thrown among a bunch of corpses in some kind of an
old death junket, some old pin-face? I'll just be there.

	Well, these are dead face,  think I hid it? "Well, (you said) it didn't
bother, it didn't make any difference so stay there." Go ahead, see how
foolish you can be if you don't stick with the Word of God? Go ahead, go
down there.  Let somebody bury you.  …?... I like this about a good
old Louisiana, you got a bunch of mausoleum's on the ground, because you
got too much water to bury them. So, let's open some of these stinking
old tombs, you throw… [makes a noise] …be my guest. You're going to
cringe right there, eh? Then stick with the Word of God. (See?) Because
at the end time we don't die, we're not classified with the dead. You
got to have your own, the thing that gets you transformed now, you got
to have it, because you're not dead. (See?) 

45.	Let's say you die with a heart attack. What's the doctor do? Put
that electric pulsator here and start giving you jolts to get your heart
going. Well, supposing your heart has been beating real nice now, but
you need a shot of penicillin. I suppose the doctor comes along and
gives you a shot with this that… Ah, you say, "That guys a fool, don't
let him near me." So is the Resurrection, and so is the Rapture. The
Resurrection is one certain channel, and the righteous standing here are
another certain channel. You can't apply the same to them. The former
and latter rain does not go to the dead in the ground. Former and latter
rain comes here. Because the former rain is a teaching rain, how can you
teach a dead man?  You can't do it. If I believe that I'd be a Mormon.
Get baptized for the dead, do all kinds of crazy things. They got the
revelation not us to even do that. It's for the living. (See?)   

	Now remember, It said, "Jesus cannot come." And what is hindering Jesus
from coming? What hinders Jesus is the re-teaching of the Word  and the
Holy Ghost falling on It, to bring forth a virgin Bride, to bring the
dead out of the ground, and then to bring Him down to met her. (See?)
Now, of course He's already coming down and they're out. 

46.	Now, notice that then. Let's go to Psalms 72:6, I want to read that
one too. The Psalmist speaking here said:  

		(6) 	(God)  shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers 
				that water the earth.

	It tells you right there what God is going to do. God Himself is going
to descend upon the Bride. (Right?) That very word descending upon the
Bride and she'll be a virgin of that Word. 

47.	Hosea 6:1-3 

		(1) 	Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he 	
				will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

		(2) 	After two days (he'll) revive us: in the third day (he'll) raise
us up, 						and we shall live in his sight. (That third day, is always
resurrection.)

		(3) 	(And) we shall know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going 
				forth is prepared as the morning;…

	Notice, there's a preparation here, "His going forth is prepare the
morning." In other words, there's            a certain cycle that is
going to take place. 

		(3)	…he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former
rain 						(upon) the earth.

	Christ coming as the Word of God, Christ coming as the Holy Spirit, in
order to bring forth            a Christ redeemed and Christ revealed
Bride. It'll bring up the dead, and it's all over. No one else will make
it, but those who are in the truth.

48.	Now, with just these two examples, the Scripture, and that's all we
need, 'two witnesses', we can see our stand is exactly right by what we
teach on Acts 3: the way the prophet taught it. It is first of all the
Word of God corrected and given to whosoever will listen. Secondly, It
is the Word of God in the Bride restoring her back to Eden. This comes
by revelation against which the gates of hell cannot prevail. 

	Now, I know this sounds like kind of Baptist teaching, (you know) the
old letter of the Word. That's not true, because Christ is the Word. So
therefore, Christ revealed to the Bride is simply truth revealed to the
Bride. And truth revealed to the Bride is Christ revealed to the Bride.
Secondly, Christ revealed in the Bride is Word identified Bride, or the
Word revealed in the Bride is Christ identified Bride.

	And remember, they're going to come and say, "We want some too."  But
it's going to be too late. We will be one with Him, even as Jesus
prayed, "that they may be one as We are one, that they may be one in
us," [Jn 17:21a] that is restoration. For Christ the Word is restored to
His rightful place in the Bride, and by that union the Bride is restored
to her rightful place. Because once He's given His rightful place, it's
alright. That's where Eve failed, she never gave Adam his rightful
place, because he was her head. But she wouldn't listen, she took
another one.

49.	Now then, (never lose sight of this for one moment) it is Elijah
that restores. Of course the Elijah for this day is the Lord Jesus
Christ Himself, Appearing amongst us proving that It is He by what He's
doing, but He uses a prophet to get it across. Also remember, that
Christ is outside of the church in the Laodicean Church Age. He must be
restored to the church, or there is no life in her. That's why He said,
"I'll come and overshoot the whole thing." 

	Then how much Holy Ghost is there in the world today outside the Bride?
No place else, but in the Bride, Now, He's anointing, but the Holy Ghost
is in nobody but just a little Bride. (See?) There's no life in her.
She's forfeited her life. Now notice, this is the Word restored to the
Bride; otherwise why Malachi 4:5-6, why would He come and destroy? 

50.	Now, let us see this restoration of Christ the Word in the Bride,
quoting mostly from Bro. Branham. Christ descends in Revelation 10, in a
Pillar of Fire, and becomes the manifested Word amongst the Bride by the
prophet's spirit. See, the prophet says what's going to happen and it
happens proving Christ the Word's theirs. (See?) But remember, He comes
by His Spirit, not by your spirit and mine. 

	Now remember, William Branham was no more baptized with the Holy Ghost
than we were. No sir, if you got the Holy Ghost, you got the Holy Ghost
period. The ministry made him different. But, as far as being a member
of the Bride of Jesus Christ, he could be no more a member than anybody
else can be a member on the grounds you know, who is member and not
member. In other words, the very little bits of fingernail that I bite
off and spit out, they are no less a part of my body, then my eye balls.
That's right. They come from the one source which is life, which is God
ordained by a certain channel. So, my body is my body. 

51.	So it is, this, but remember, when you begin dealing with a man like
William Branham, there's where pride comes down, because Pentecostal's
particularly say, "I don't need a man to teach me." Then why did you let
Parham teach you? And three little boys to look in the Bible to see if
they could find the evidence of the Holy Ghost was. Yeah, they don't
even… As Bro. Branham said,             "A horse is a thoroughbred, he
knows his mammy and pappy, he's got a genealogy. But, you ask these
Pentecostals who their mammy and pappy is, they can't tell you. And go
right back to the Catholic church, got an old whore for a mother, or
great, great, great, grandmother, same sinking mess, because the old
whore had nothing but daughters. They say, they play the same ball game
the prostitution, the old girl did. (See?) 

	Now then, He descends by the prophet's spirit. Not by yours and mine,
the Word does not come by your and my spirit, it comes by the prophet's
spirit; although It's the same Holy Ghost, that's why we listen. There
at this time Christ shows the Bride His potential. (See?) And manifest
that It is He Himself amongst her by showing that It is "Jesus Christ
the same yesterday, today, and forever." [Heb 13:8] He does the same
thing.  

52.	Now, He expresses Himself in the end time to the Bride as He was
once to come. That is, the Son of man is revealing Him. The Word of God
expresses Itself, and He does the same works He did on earth. But
remember, this is Elijah turning the hearts of the children back to the
faith of the fathers. And in that period, God expresses Himself in the
fullness of His Godhead through the Church. Even to His creative signs
and these come by Elijah. Remember, nobody but Moses created. People say
we're going to create in the end time. Maybe we are, maybe we aren't, I
don't know. There's already been creation. If I got to wait from myself
to create something to please God, well fiddlesticks, I've have it. I
believe the prophet. (See?) 

	Now remember, the prophet is part of the body, so the body is
expressing itself, when the prophet expresses God.  For instance, if I
pick up this microphone and then threw it on the floor and jumped on it,
and say, "Well, that's okay Tony, don't fuss at me, just my hand did
it."

	He said, "No, you did it."

	"Oh no, Tony, just my hand did it."

	"No, you did it."

	That's right, I did it. If the prophet does it, then the body does it.
You see, people looking for great big proof. You had the prophet, what
more do you want? (See?) 

53.	Remember, Joshua and Caleb believed the prophet. they went on the
strength of the Word. It is the proof that the Head has returned to take
Headship of the body, Christ the Word, heading the Bride. Not gifts now,
but Christ the Word. Now, the Bride recognizes Who He is. They said,
"That's God, one God we know." He's the God of the Word, for the sheep
hear His Voice and they follow Him. Give them the Word test.

	Here is where fallen Eve starts her trip back to restoration, because
her fall was caused from unbelief. Now, she can then believe, you see,
she's believing the One that's manifested Himself to her. He's the Word.
As Eve was taken out of Adam and fell, so this Bride was taken out of
Christ and fell also. 

54.	But as Adam stood with Eve, though it caused him to fall, so the
Word comes to the Bride now, and returns her to being true Word by His
total redemption. Which is 1 Corinthians 15:51-53.                    "I
show you a mystery." You can come to the Tree of  Life now and live
forever and you won't die. (See?) 

	Now, He restores her by His total redemption on her behalf. Christ the
Word in the Church taking her back to Himself as the man and wife in the
garden. That is why He came, can He fail in His mission? Revelation
10:1, can't fail.

	Now, man and woman are one. They are one again, because now she
recognizes Him only, His body, His flesh, His Word. She doesn't
recognize creeds or dogmas, or denominations, or anybody, but just those
in the Word. 

55.	Now, we're redeemed back, she can go home with Him to Eternal Life
in a human body, eating and drinking, living forever. The Word takes her
to His body of flesh, as the camel took Rebekah to Isaac. Bro. Branham
said, "Find the woman with the character to hear the Message, and then
stand still until He can wash her with the waters of regeneration, the
cleansing by the Word."

	The Head, which is Christ is part of the body. And as He rose in total
redemption, so now the body, the Bride, can follow Him up. Remember,
that God raised up the body of our Lord Jesus, because He was justified,
perfect, so death could not hold Him. Now, this perfect Word Bride
cannot be held either, she must rise with Him. But remember, she doesn't
 die like He did. (See?) He said,   "I can give my life, or I can stop
right now and say, 'legions of angels come, I won't die'." You bet, He
could have done it. This time He sends the angel to pick us up, and we
don't die. He brings about our total redemption. (See?) 

56.	 All right, now this perfect Word Bride can't be held either, and
she must rise with Him. As the Head is part of the Resurrection, so the
body which is the Bride must complete that resurrection after. You can't
have a headless body. Christ the Word is back to His Bride of the Word,
and she being pregnanted with the truth, the mind is the womb, and that
is what man fornicates with. Her womb has been closed to all other seeds
so she cannot commit adultery. (See?) But is confined to the Word and
the world has no place in her. She is a prisoner now of the Lord, and
she will never denominate, or go into sin, because she has no unbelief
in her. Say, "Why?" Because she believes the Word. (See?)  

	Now, the former rain has fallen. God's living pregnated seed has been
sown. And the dynamism of the Spirit falling on it, will nurture it into
a restored Bride Tree of the Word bringing forth the Word fruit.
Bringing forth fruit, which is the Word Itself. It is this revelation of
God to Eve that's going to take her back to rightful position with her
husband. Wherein Christ is being made known to the Church. In other
words, she's getting a revelation of her Husband.

27.	Remember, Eve did not have a revelation of Adam. Before he actually
came to her in the sense of procreation, she was already pregnant by
somebody else. She never even knew her own husband. Neither does the
church know her Husband. The only way you can know your Husband in
Christ, which is by having a revelation of this end time revealing Him
to you.

 	Now, that is the restoration that must come before the Kingdom can be
set up for the King and the Queen. The vine has sent forth another
branch. We know exactly where we stand. Elijah truly has come and
restoration is on. We saw a manifested ministry there is no doubt about
it. The Word of God has been fulfilled. So now, we are waiting for the
Bride to fulfill, to have fulfilled in her the very Word which she now
possesses. There's your restoration brother/sister. Takes you right back
to God.

	Amen, let's rise shall we:

	Gracious Eternal Father, we thank You, O Lord God, that we've been
allowed to minster here this morning the Word of Life, a restored Word.
O God, what power there ought to be amongst us. What belief, what faith
there ought to be here this morning, Lord, to know that we're right
here. We don't need to worry, Lord, we know that You'll perform Your
Word, because You're duty bound to do it. We don't need to worry about
it, Lord, we can believe it. And then, Lord, leave the results up to
You, believing, O God, that You'll perform it and You'll help it at this
time. 

	To have grace, Heavenly Father, we know that this Word shall not fall
to the ground. It shall rather fall  into the good ground to bring forth
the harvest. Bless each one in divine Presence, O Lord,  that if there
be a need this morning, O God, we pray that there should be healing to
the body. Those that want prayer, Lord, we pray that already their
hearts might be prepared. Not thinking they might be healed, but
dedicating themselves, Lord, to this solemn ceremony, ordination. You
say, lay hands upon the sick and they should recover. Help us now, Lord,
to see it brought into full manifestation for Your glory we pray in
Jesus' Name. Amen.

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