Resurrection Proves His Death # 2 

Bro. Lee Vayle - July 14, 1976

	It's nice to be back again tonight and to continue the message from
this morning when we saw that the Lord Jesus had a vindicated ministry
proving Who He was. Of course they crucified and killed Him. And then
God raised Him, and the same ministry came back to prove that He was
alive, that He was risen, and that He indeed accomplished the people's
redemption. God working in a threefold manner. Now, we want to continue
tonight the same thought, but going much further and before we  do shall
we bow our heads in prayer.

	Kind Heavenly Father, we just approach Thy Throne of grace and mercy
again in this hour of our needs. We're a needy people, Lord, and we need
the revelation of Thy Word, because we believe that out of revelation
there comes a strength of Life that's going to carry us through. So, we
just pray for that, that we'll be so one with that Word, Lord, we'll be
the Living Word Itself. And we know that can only happen by the Holy
Spirit revealing truth within us. Now, we want to see what is here
before us tonight and realize the hour in which we live. Because this
will show us, we just ask You to grant these mercies to us in Jesus'
Name. Amen.

1.	Now, going on with proving by His Resurrection what Christ
accomplished in His death, we're going to start reading in the Book of
Acts 2: and then Acts 3: just about what we did this morning but a more
extensive reading. Beginning in Acts 3: 22.

		(22) 	(You)  men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man
						approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, 					
which God did by him in the midst of you, as (you) yourselves also 				
know:

		(23) 	Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and
foreknowledge 					of God, (you) have taken, and by wicked hands have
crucified and 						slain:

		(24) 	Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death:
because 					it was not possible that he should be holden of it.

		(25) 	For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always 			
		before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be 					
moved:

		(26) 	Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover
					also my flesh shall rest in hope:

		(27) 	Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou
suffer 					thine Holy One to see corruption.

		(28) 	Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me 
					full of joy with thy countenance.

		(29) 	Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch 
					David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with 	
				us unto this day.

		(30) 	Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with 	
				an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the
flesh, 						he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;

		(31) 	He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that
his 						soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see
corruption.

		(32) 	This Jesus hath God raised, whereof we all are witnesses.

2.	And we go to Acts 3: and we read beginning at verse 9, concerning the
healing of the man at the gate Beautiful. Beautiful gate.

		(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.

	I guess they figured that the minute Jesus was gone the ministry went
with 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, Ye men of 		
			Israel, why marvel ye at this? or look so earnestly on us, as though 
					our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?

		(13) 	The God of Abraham, of Isaac, and 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 (Jesus') name through faith in (Jesus') name hath made this 
					man strong, whom (you) see and know: yea, the faith which is by 			
		(Jesus) hath given this (man this) perfect soundness in the presence 	
			of you all.

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

		(19) 	(Now, because of that) repent (you) therefore, and be converted,
						that your sins may be blotted out,…

	Now, these people needed a change of mind. And the change of mind lay
in the fact of a proven revelation. And when the Scripture was proven,
what the true revelation was, then they would take it into their minds,
and this would bring about the understanding then, that I must be
baptized for the remission of my sins. Because this is the way they are
remitted.

3.	Now, we're well aware that Israel could not, because they were
blinded and would not by refusing to listen, (because they wouldn't
listen) therefore they never did identify Jesus as the fulfillment of
Isaiah 53. They categorically refused any thought of a human sacrifice
as the means of atonement for sin, because they misunderstood the
Scripture. They thought that this was not possible, because a human
sacrifice was forbidden of the people. And then of course, they misread
what was concerning that in the law and the prophets.

	They refused to accept any doctrine of a suffering Messiah, believing
rather, that Israel was suffering because of their disobedience to God.
And they would not countenance  His revelation of what the kingdom truly
was, which was not of this world. They did not understand the faith of
Abraham, which you will find looked for a resurrection, which looked for
a New Jerusalem. They simply didn't have it. They wanted a material
kingdom, and they thought someone like David would come, and they with
him would rule the world. What their concept of the resurrection was,
(because they believed it) I really don't know, but it was certainly
misplaced.

4.	Now, many people like Nicodemus who recognized the supernatural
ministry of Jesus that it was absolutely ordained of Almighty God. But
Israel under their priesthood refused to accept this ministry as the
proof that Jesus was the Messiah. See, they had their own ideas, their
own understanding, their own interpretation, and this did not fit in.
And so they said, "Well, it's how we believe it, it's not what He said,
He's got to be wrong." Now, this has always been the spirit of every Age
of course.   

	Now, Jesus implored them to believe the works as a starting point. To
believe the works as a starting point, start looking and say, "What is
this all about, what is going on here? What is happening, what is this
for?" Not to simply accept it as a phenomena, it's not the point, but to
take it back to Scripture. He implored them to believe the works, and
then search the Scriptures to find, (and they would have found if they
would have looked) find indeed, that He was fulfilling the Word, and
that He was their Messiah. But they refused Him, and they killed Him.

5.	And now after Pentecost with the First Church Age, we see the very
earthly ministry of Christ once again amongst the people. And this time
It is proving the Resurrection of Jesus from the dead. Which in turn was
proving that He was the Redeemer.

	Now, you must remember redemption covers the whole gamut. It covers
everything as we'll see. And so Peter stresses as well as do all the
others, that Jesus was indeed the Christ, that He was the Messiah
ordained of God. That He died exactly as He interpreted the Scripture
concerning Himself and all the law and the prophets. And that He arose
from that God ordained death, just as He said He would. And He showed
them, (Peter showed them) that the miracle ministry in the Bride now
manifest among the people, was proving that Jesus was alive from that
death. And that It was He Himself alive, Who is now performing in His
Resurrection the same works which He did before His death. 

6.	He's a perfect circle. Works proved Who He was, point to His death,
His Resurrection proven by the very works, pointing back to Who He was.
See, just like a circle, no breaks. All the time proving. Never, ever
changing from the proof. And this in turn was proving that Jesus as
Messiah had to die according to the Scripture, and that in His death,
God accomplished His plan for redemption. (See?) That's what we must
remember.

	Thus we see, the great Resurrection ministry of Jesus which proves that
He arose, is actually God's verification that Jesus died according to
the Scripture, and fulfilled the perfect plan of His redemption for
Israel and the Gentiles. Now, I keep telling you this, and it's
important, because this is what we got to see. We have to see that.
(See?) 

	Now, therefore Christ's Resurrection when proven, is Itself the
guarantee of the entire Word of God having been fulfilled, being
fulfilled, and yet to be fulfilled concerning out redemption. Do you
follow me? That's not a play on words, I'm not being foolish or
repetitious. I'm telling you something which is right here in Scripture.
And if you read what Peter said, it's just absolutely there. He's not
saying anything else. He's just telling them flat, that this is it. This
is God's proving that this is His redemption now revealed to you, do you
want it? (See?) 

7.	The Resurrection proven, proves this to be so. (See?) Now, read
again, read again what I read. Just read Acts 2 and Acts 3. See, don't
read It with your minds cluttered what your formally read. Open your
minds up, and read what's written. (See?) Not just 'hallelujah Jesus
rose, glory to God'. That's wonderful, so It is, but that's not it.
(See?) 

 	Now, if God had not raised Jesus, then Jesus wouldn't not have been
the true Redeemer Messiah. But God raised Him and proved Him to be the
Savior of the world. All claims of God therefore have been met in Christ
concerning our redemption. (See?) 

	Now, so Peter said, "The supernatural manifestation of the Holy Ghost
is the proof that God raised that Man Christ Jesus Whom you killed."
This proves His death was scriptural, and that God accepted that death,
and nothing else. Nothing else, accepted that death. Whatever that death
means, whatever that death is, that's it. (Right?)  

8.	Now, this in turn proves Jesus was that One Who should come and He
died as He said He would according to the will of God as shown in
Scripture. In other words, the purpose of God is all bound up in Jesus'
death. (See?) That's the focal point.

	Now, you can realize how strong that was to the Jews. Because you must
understand they were knowledgeable people. Very knowledgeable. They had
Scripture, if fact they were the only ones that had It. They were the
only ones that God had ordained. The only ones that God looked to. No
place in all the world could possibly have had Christ, could possibly
have had God. It was Israel alone in Palestine.

	So, it sounds as though Peter might be saying this: "Listen Jews, this
man died according to the Scripture. Here is the proof that He died. So
in Him are the Scriptures fulfilled that you are longing to see
fulfilled for your redemption." Now, that's exactly true. The proof of
His Resurrection, the manifestation of the ministry I spoke of in Jesus'
day and in our day, is the actual proof, God bending backwards. God
showing that in Him are the Scripture fulfilled that we are longing to
see fulfilled for our redemption. And remember, redemption covers more
than sins forgiven, it covers the whole gamut of fallen creation.

 	Now, so Peter says, "Will you accept His death for you as based on
this present proof, and receive your redemption? Will you receive your
promised redemption as revealed according to a vindicated Word, and no
other word, but vindicated Word?" Now, very few did accept His death,
even when the Resurrection proved It out.  

9.	Now notice, today we are in the midst of the very same thing as shown
in Luke 17:26-30, Acts 3:19-26,  and Deuteronomy 18. So, we go to Luke
17:26-30, (we're all familiar with It.) Now, this is concerning His
Second Coming. 

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

	Now, Noah does not come back, and Jesus does not come back, but the
days are parallel. And the days are not only parallel in sin and
unbelief, but they are supposed to be and are parallel according to the
men themselves as ministries. So therefore, the very ministries, or the
experience of Jesus Christ once more comes back to this earth as in the
days of Noah.

	Now, let's face it brother/sister, God has said, "When the enemy comes
in like a flood, He'll raise up a standard." [Isa 59:19] We could not
have simply the days of Noah come upon us and not have God raise up a
standard. And what is that standard? It is always the Word of God
revealed correctly. Nothing else, nothing else. But vindicated Word
proves we have the right revelation.

 	So, there has to be…Noah was a prophet , and the prophet came in a
terrible day when the world must be destroyed, because all sin came up
before God. And so at the end time all sin comes up before God.
Absolutely that wickedness must come to a full head. So therefore, those
days are here. And when those days are here, we're going to have a
prophet who builds us an ark according to the Word to get us out of it.
And the vindication is not an ark standing here, but a vindication of
the miracle ministry of Jesus Christ proving this is that 'Ark', this is
that 'Word', this is that 'Safety' that we are to come into.

10.	Now, 

		(27) 	They did eat, they drank, they married wives, (gave)in marriage,
						(and we know that's one of the signs) until the day that Noe
entered 					into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

	And so, there's that going on today right in our midst, until the Word
of God is finally fulfilled, and every Word member is knitted together
in that Bride, and then she's taken out of the world, and then every
else is destroyed.

		(28) 	Likewise in the days of Lot; they (ate), they drank, they
bought, they 					sold, (and so on.) 

		(29) 	But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and
brimstone 					(out of) heaven,…

	Now, we know that Bro. Branham showed us that. What  was in the days of
Lot? Terrible, terrible, terrible perversion. Absolutely it was about
the most rotten condition the world's ever see. Immorality, in fact
there's a book of…I think it's Jasher, on them, you can still buy it
somewhere. And it seems the more authentic one of the various Jasher
books that are floating around. 

11.	And in there the book categorically tells us there were three
terrible things, that happen on the earth in the days just before Sodom
was destroyed. One, of course was wanton killing. There never was an age
like this for sheer wanton killings, until even the people arising up
against the judges, let teenagers go and roam around and kill anybody
they want. The victims don't matter, but the little teenagers God bless
them, because they had a bad dream, where momma, and papa said, "Don't
do it son."  Of all the filth I have ever heard.

	It the punishment doesn't fit the crime, forget it, we're gone. There's
only one thing going to face this earth, and that's anarchy. Don't
worry, anarchy, if justice don't do something, anarchy will. And it has
to be, because this is an age of anarchy Laodicea. Never forget, we have
two spirits. Nicholaitism, which is somebody trying to take control, and
anarchy where people want to take over. And you're going to have it out
before it's over.

	The second rotten thing: was not just wanton killing, but the second
thing was the birth control, pill by oral means, the oral birth control
pill.

	The third thing was homosexuality.  You've got the same things right
here. We are living in a three-fold rotten age. And we're never going to
lick it, we got to get out of it. Remember, we're never going to lick
it. If I were a world dictator, I know in my heart I would have to kill
ninety-nine percent of all the people, maybe including myself. Well, God
is just going to take the righteous out and destroy the rest. 

12.	Let's face  it, we're finished. Sodom and Gomorrah, but that's not
everything, God raises a standard. What was the standard at the end
time…at that time? God sent Himself in a human form, with two
witnesses. God stayed with the Elect, which was Abraham to show him the
hour of the son, which they would produce by Promise. Christ in a Bride,
which we'll see this end time. The Bride must produce this Son. In other
words, He's got to come back to her.

	And then we saw the two witnesses down in the world. And there you see
the wise virgin and the foolish virgin, you see the difference. One will
come out under tribulation and they'll die for it, the others will miss
the tribulation. Remember, that is 'Thus saith the Lord'. And by the
way, that is the Rapture being a revelation. You know, so many people
quote, quote, quote, they quote any old way they want it, just terrible.
And somebody ran across a quote, Bro. Branham said, "The Rapture is a
revelation." Why it even boggled my mind. And when I read it, it even
boggled more. Until one day without even attempting to read that,
suddenly saw that that great revelation, the Rapture revelation was,
that there is a Rapture before the tribulation. So, let's get rid of
this mind boggling stuff, you know. It's in simplicity

13.	Well, anyway we see here that the revelation is given. And in this
revelation of the Word, Abraham knows the hour in which he is. (See?)
And God shows him that he is one with Him, in His confidences  that they
are together. And therefore, then God shows us at this end time by Him
Coming in the form of a human being. The Word of God in an individual.
And He lets us into the secret, that this is that hour that the Son
Appears on earth, the Son of man Appears on earth, not in heaven, which
we'll see, He's revealed. And then He's going to fear as we see Him in
His physical form coming forth. And all this indicates the hour in which
we live. 

	Now listen, It says here in verse 30, and:   

		(30) 	(And) even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is 		
			revealed.

	Now, He's not revealed in heaven, and He's not revealed from heaven.
He's revealed on earth. The Son of man is revealed again. Now, how was
He revealed? He was revealed in His Resurrection proven, doing the same
things that He did before, showing Who He was and is, and is to Come.
Now, He's doing It again. He's doing It again, and it's the miracle
ministry that's vindicating Him, that He is that One. And remember, it's
in the Bride. And it's in the Bride by the end time prophet. Now, that
takes care of that, because it would take too long otherwise.

14.	Now, let's go to Acts 3: once more. It's too bad we just don't have
time to take one whole night on this. Now, notice It says, 

		(19) 	Repent (you) therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be 
					blotted out, (now, It says) times of refreshing shall come from the
						presence of the Lord.

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

	He was, He came by Israel. Now, He's going to sent the same One that
you killed that He raised up, send Him back in flesh. But He cannot come
back…

		(21) 	…the heaven must receive (him and retain him) until the times
of 						(restoration) of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth
of 						all his holy prophets since the world began.

	And you saw how that was done. Jesus in His Resurrection revealed fully
to the Bride absolutely concerning Him in redemption. Nailed them right
into it. Opened their eyes, literally brow beat them, accused them,
"fools and slow of heart, when are you going to understand this."

	Now, the very same thing happened today again. There has got to be a
prophet in whose mouth, it becomes a mouth of every single prophet that
ever was. And the first prophet in the Garden of Eden was God Himself,
and that's the last prophet, God Himself. In fact, there's only one
Prophet, and that's the Holy Ghost. Anything else you call a prophet is
merely a little skin out here, a little bone. And the Word of God coming
in it. But It's the Holy Ghost in the prophet, It is still God. And now
at the end time that this prophet raised up, he is going to have the
ministry of Moses, the ministry of Jesus, the ministry of Samuel, the
ministry of Elijah. All rolled in one, and we're going to see us another
one yet. We'll see a fifth one, for grace. Four for deliverance, and
five by grace. Jesus, Moses, Elijah, Samuel, everyone rolled in there
and this end time one.

15.	And He's going to take all spoken by the mouth of the prophet, and
what's It going to do? It's going to be a complete parallel to the first
time. Which is going to show forth Him the Redeemer. This time raised up
to the Gentiles. Because He never come to the Gentiles. And remember, He
redeems Israel and the Gentiles, because of everyone in Abraham. And
remember, Abraham was a Hebrew, he was not a Jew. (See?)  Now, every
single one, "In thee shall all nations of the earth be blessed." [Gen
22:18] 

	And in Deuteronomy we showed you two prophets sent forth, one Jesus who
never said, 'Thus saith the Lord'. He said, "Verily, I say unto you." 
But the prophet that you got to watch out for is a man with 'Thus saith
the Lord'. And he's the one that you hear, he's the one that you fear.
And when he comes and the people turn him down, then the Sixth Seal,
breaks, destruction, destruction, destruction and all over to the
Millennium. Now, (see?) simple as ABC, that we've been witness to it,
we're not fooling ourselves.

16.	Now, the Resurrection miracle ministry of Jesus based on 'Thus saith
the Lord' once again, and this time to the Gentiles, prove it is, Who is
the Redeemer. Proves the Scripture God's faithfulness, because remember,
He's a faithful witness all the way through. It' proves that He died,
and we know that His death accomplished perfect redemption before God,
by the fact that God raised Him and is manifesting Him to us.

	Now, God accepted the sacrifice of Jesus for the sins of the world
according to the Bible, at John 3:16. And in this day the whole history
of redemption was and is laid bare. That's right, because Jesus
categorically took everything in the path that pointed to every type and
shadow, He brought right up to the present and showed the future, what
was left. The same thing happens today. And this time, it is almost
exclusively history, because the mouth of all the prophets in time is
wound up.

	Now, but the church world refuses it, they will not have it, they have
put out the Son of God. They have put Him out of the church, and
"crucified to themselves the Son of God afresh." [Heb 6:6] Now, we won't
go with that any further, we did it this morning. But I want to refresh
our minds and add a little bit. But we want to try to see the perfect
redemption that lies in the proven sacrificial death, which death was by
the shedding of the Blood of Jesus' through crucifixion. And we have to
know what that is all about. We want to see what is ours because He
died. We want to see what His death has done for us, because He has
proven it to us this hour.

17.	Now, first of all we're going to start in Hebrews 9. Now, this is
going to be our …?...  And we're going to read verses 15-17, now
listen:

		(15)	And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that 
					by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that 		
			were under the first testament, they which are called might receive 	
				the promise of eternal inheritance.

	Now remember, the very first testament was not the law. It was back in
the Garden of Eden, that's where the flunking all took place and sin
came in.  Never came under the law. Law only proved the power of sin.
The culpability of the elect who were fallen sons. It goes back.

	Now listen: For the redemption of the transgressions they were under
the first covenant. "That they which are called might receive the
promise of eternal inheritance." Now, watch the word 'inheritance'. 

		(16) 	For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the
death 						of the testator.

		(17)	 For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is
of no 					strength at all while the testator liveth.

	Now, the word that we are examining first is the word 'testament'. Now
listen, under no condition can it be translated as covenant in the
English sense of the word. In Bible sense it could be, but in the
English sense it cannot be called a 'covenant'. For a covenant is an
agreement, or a contract that is carried out by two or more living
parties. Verse 16 shows that this is not so. For where a testament is,
there must also of necessity be the death of a testator. If there is a
testament somebody has got to die.

18.	What is it? It is exactly as stated in the book. Where there is a
will, a legal instrument for the disposition of a man's accumulated
goods, where there is a will, the promise of an inheritance, the promise
of a legacy, the living possessor, or provider of that legacy must first
die. I repeat, the simple as ABC, there is really nothing to
understanding this Scripture. Where there is a will, the promise of an
inheritance, the promise of a legacy, something laid up in store which
must be disposed of, then the provider the one who has it laid up must
die, or the legacy can never be given. Now, that's exactly what It says.

	So, here we learn what Israel refused to learn. The death of Christ is
only, only given means, or way to bring the promise Word of God
concerning our inheritance, or redemption into actual and demonstrated
effect. Man possessing God's legacy, or fortune, or kingdom which he
once had depends on Christ Who is the Blood of God dying. And in His
death bequeathing everything, or bequeathing that legacy to us, and
insuring its allocation to us.

19.	Now, this is simple as ABC, it's nothing but a human will. A man
comes back to America, he might have been a poor downtrodden immigrant
from Europe having nothing. But he labors, he struggles, he marries, he
has children. But by sure dent of perseveran, a hard labor, he begins to
accumulating, accumulating,  accumulating. And one day he has a great
estate, and he says, I'm going to leave that to my children. And so he
leaves it to the children. Now, the only way the goods can pass from the
father to the children is that he dies, because the father owns it. And
so therefore, the father dies and it's given to the children.

	Now, this is exactly what we see in the Bible. (See?) Jesus dies, and
His Resurrection proves that He died. So therefore, we know that His
Words are correct when He said, "Fear not little flock, it is your
Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom." [Lk 12:32] Even as He
said, "The meek shall inherit the earth." [Mt 5:5] (See?) The kingdom is
going to be given to them. And the Scripture tells you here how it is
done. It's in a legacy, it's in a will. It's an inheritance, it's God's
purpose that we get the inheritance. (See?) And Jesus dies in order to
see that we get it. So, there   it is.

20.	And by the way, this shows us what grace is all about. (See?) It is
a legacy through the death of the complier that gives us the estate, and
that is by Blood. And that is what grace is all about. That is what
grace is about when you're a parent, lay up treasures and give it to
you. You didn't get to anything from them that you laid up yourself.
It's the parent lays up for the children. And it's grace, it's a free
gift. It's unmerited. The only thing you should have to be a child, and
we'll see that in a little while as we go into the Scripture.

	And so it is here, that’s what Jesus did. He died in order to give us
the kingdom. Christ died according to the Scripture, and to fulfill the
Scripture. Therefore there is nothing left but an inheritance of grace
laid up. All you've got to do is find your name in the will, and fire
your claim and take it. (See?) 

21.	Now, let's take a look at this, we go to the Book of Ephesians which
is the great Book we want to deal with chapter 1:11, It says:

		(11) 	In whom also we have obtained an inheritance,…

	Well look at verse 7, 

		(7) 	In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of 
				sins… 

	And notice in verse 11,			

		(11) 	In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being
predestinated 					according to the purpose of him who worketh all
things after the 						counsel of his own will:

	In other words, It's telling you we have an inheritance according to
our names being in the will. According to our names being sons of God,
named in the will. You see? There is your picture there.

	Now listen, we   must never recoil from, or refuse a death legacy. Now,
I know that's going to sound kind of strange, but you see I know the
human heart. And the human heart always wants to add to it, or take from
it. They don't want to give Him all the glory. No, no, they haven't
learned that. Even kids that get an inherit, they don't want it to be
said. "Oh, the reason that you got money is your dad's mother left it to
you." They don't want to say, Look I'm a no good bum, and Ma and Pa were
the good folk and they worked …?... say, "I want to tell you
something, I was a good son, I did this, I hoed the garden., I milked
the cows, I picked the peaches, yes, I want to tell you, I put the
garden in."   Aw, shut up. Blabber mouth. Why don't you act to own up
and say, "Yes, they laid it up, thank God, I had parents like that. They
gave it to me." Now, we recoil from death's benefits. We got  a little
stinking pride somewhere down the line, (Uh?) 

	You got to get used to me preaching, because I'm rougher than a cob at
times, and I'm being rough now. Because I know my heart, therefore I
know your heart, because we're the same junk. We recoil from a death
benefit, we want to think we had a part in It, that we did something. No
sir, He died and we get It, because He died. Yes sir. Yes sir, that's
exactly what the Bible teaches. "Yet God spared not His Own Son, but
freely delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not also with Him
freely give us all things." [Rom 8:32] 

22.	Now, let's go to Romans 10:4, and take a look and see this. All
right.

		 (4) 	For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one
that						 believeth. (If you believe then that's the end of it.)

		(5) 	For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That 
					the man which doeth those things shall live by them. (We like to 		
			kind of think we could do it.)

		(6) 	But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise,
Say 						not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to
bring 						Christ down…) 

	Who is going to say, "Well, I'm going to have Jesus come down and die
for me." You could never even think of it. Don't question it.

		(7) 	Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ
from 					the dead.) (Don't question that.)

		(8) 	But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and
in thy 					heart: the word of faith, which we preach;

		(9) 	That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and
believe					in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, (for
your sins) 					thou shalt be saved.

		(10) 	For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with
the 						mouth confession is made unto salvation.

	Now, there's the thing, you don't recoil from death's benefits. You
say, "Thank God He died, and by His death I am heir to the Kingdom of
Almighty God.

23.	Now listen, the fact that He was raised by God, and He had to be
raised for a purpose, He was not simply raised  to prove anything, not
just to prove something. (See?) He was raised with a purpose. Now watch:
the fact that He was raised by God to be Mediator, (Hebrews 9:15) proved
that He was that One Who was the promised Messiah and that He died, and
in His death and in His death alone the promises of God's redemption and
inheritance, (based on redemption) are secured for us.

	Now, let's go to Hebrews 9:15 again and look at It.  

		(15) 	And for this cause…(that's concerning the Blood of Jesus was
shed 					for our sins, for this cause) he is the mediator of the new
testament, 					that by means of death, (which were) for the redemption
of the 						transgressions under the first testament, they which are
called, might 					receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

	You know that your name is in the Lamb's Book of Life, and you're going
to get the inheritance. Now listen, what is he talking about? Let's just
look at It very simply. "And for this cause He is the Mediator of the
New Testament." (See?) What is He, what's It saying? It's saying that
Jesus is the executor of His Own will. 

24.	Now, what he's telling you here is that Jesus He bought this all, He
took it all in death. He brought to nothing Satan. He has everything in
His power. Now, He died in order to get it, not for Himself, but for you
and me. 

	Now, many a man lays up a vast estate. Many a man has laid up
tremendous goods, and he leaves it to his wife and his children so he
thinks. But there's a crooked rotten lawyer somewhere. A filthy judge, a
mongering, (and you know plainly what I'm talking about) down in
Washington, politicians, and the will is never properly probated. The
executors are so rotten his wife doesn't get it, and the children get
nothing.

25.	 Now listen, Jesus knew that. What does He do? Jesus dies upon
Calvary to leave us this vast estate allocated to us. Then He rises to
make sure that we get It. That's exactly what the Scripture says. He is
the Executor, the Mediator to everything that He accomplished. Oh, how
some men would like to come back and be executors to their own wills.
But they can't. But Jesus is not simply a man, He has risen from the
dead in order to ensure that we absolutely get everything He died for.
That's why He's Mediator, that's why He's Intercessor, He mediates to
bring us in, He intercedes to keep us in. He will lose none, and neither
will we lose anything. (See?) 

 	Now,  you  can begin to see what His Resurrection is proving. Once you
see the Resurrection proven, you can begin to see the majesty of the
power of Almighty God working in the universe for redemption. And He's
doing it, proving it to us.

	Now, you notice I'm using the word 'redemption'. And of course we know
to redeem means 'to buy back', or to regain possession of something we
once had. Now remember, Jesus is Redeemer, but He's more than that. He
is a Kinsmen Redeemer.

26.	Now, the human mind once more goes into dysfunction. So, the parents
lay up a great treasure on earth, they have millions of dollars, they
have mighty estate, and they've got a little black sheep called Johnny.
And so they look down on their son and they say, "Johnny is a bum, he's
a no good bird. So, what I'm going to do, there's a cute little orphan
boy down the street, I'll give him my money. And everybody says,
"Cheers, cheers, cheers." 

	And I say, "Hogwash, you don't know the first thing about Jesus Christ,
you're still an imbecile in your mind." (Yeah) Oh, we get  starry-eyed  
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great fortune they had, this lovely inheritance and they give it to a
little boy down the street. Uh, uh, uh, no. Oh no my  brother my sister,
the parents lay up for the children, and Johnny's the child. And I don't
care how rotten a fallen son of God can get, he can get awful rotten my
brother, my sister. He can be a David with four hundred and ninety-nine
wives, and see a naked  woman taking a bath, and say I've got to have
her, when he could have had just as much from one of his other wives.
(Yeah) I'm talking very plain, and I mean to be plain. There are none of
us worth a plug nickel.

27.	But we are still His fallen sons. He is a Kinsmen Redeemer. And if
you aren't kin to Him, you're never going to get it, so quit fooling.
But if you are kin, you are going to get it. True and simple. Let's get
the stars out of our eyes and get back to reality we're in as faith.
Emotion my brother/sister, is what Bro. Branham condemned, because
they're not building it upon the Word. They're building it upon little
sensations. Hang your sensations. Crucify them, I'm trying to tell you.
Let's look at it straight tonight.

 	Remember, teaching is not meant to be followed by praying for the sick
and everything else. Teaching is for one reason, to get you down where
the Word is. What does the Word say? Not what you and I think It says,
what does it say? He is a Kinsmen Redeemer. And let me tell you flat,
there is nothing worse than a fallen son. Paul, Saul of  Tarsus, went
around killing the Bride to do God a favor. What a great son he was. But
let me tell you, He's one of those twelve on one of those thrones. One
of the twenty-four elders, don't worry. 

28.	Now, the first mention of Jesus that He is to be Redeemer, and He's
got to be Kinsmen is found over here in Genesis 3:15, because He's
related to the human race through the woman. Genesis 3:15. All right,
listen to It.

		(15) 	And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, between thy 		
			seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise
his 					heel.

	Right here we see the serpent bruising, which means to snap back and
overwhelm the heel of Jesus. And surely we can see that this means to
bring Christ down in a physical death of which He is not kept down.
Because it's just the heel, the tripping. He is tripped, taken under.
But in your tripped you're not down to stay down, it's just a trip, you
get up.

	So, Jesus was tripped, snapped back, tripped over momentarily in the
three days of death. But Jesus snapped Satan's head. And I like that.
Here the serpent snaps at the Lion's foot, hits Him, and I just [makes a
noise] over his head. Oh, beautiful. How could I ever doubt what Jesus
did for me? How could I? 

29.	So, we see Jesus snapping back, or bringing down the head-ship, or
the owner-ship of Satan. They died as a sovereignty. The picture is very
clear here. Adam and Eve have sold out humanity and the whole human
race. And look at the condition of the world in Genesis 3:17-19.

		(17) 	And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the
voice 					of thy wife, and eaten of the tree, of which I commanded
thee, saying, 					Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for
thy sake;…

 	Now Adam wasn't cursed, the ground was cursed. And this is the whole
trouble, we're not cursed, the ground is cursed. We get germs, disease,
aches and pains, lumbago, you name it. The reason I named that, is
because I feel like it is, I got at the time. Now, all of these things
are there. It says,  

		(17)	…cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of
it…

	Yeah, you'll get sorrow out there, you'll get stiff. And when you think
you've got the right thing coming, it'll be the wrong thing. Yes sir,
because wild oats looks like tame oats. But you look at it and you'll
find it's not so.

		(17)	…(you'll) eat of it (in sorrow)  all the days of thy life;…

		(18) 	Thorns also and thistles (it'll) bring forth to thee;…(that's
the little 						churns of thistles and thorns by the leaves curling up
and being all 						prickly in all things.

		(19) 	In the sweat of thy face (you're going to) eat bread, till thou
return 						(to) the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust
thou art, and 						dust (thou) shalt thou return.

30.	Now, let's get a clearer picture here by the apostle Paul in chapter
8:20-23,  of the Book            of Romans. This is a much clearer and
better picture. All right,

		(20) 	For the (creation) was made subject to vanity, not willingly,
but by 						reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,

	You know that creation is under the thralldom [bondage] of sin? But it
will not be there forever, because God will not allow it to be there
forever. It's only there for a time until He   redeems it. 

		(21)	Because  (creation) itself shall be delivered from the bondage of
						corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God. 

	You let the children be glorified in an immortal body and you watch
what happens in nature. (See?)  Now,  

		(22) 	For we know that the whole creation (everything, all of it is
groaning)  					and (moaning, travailing) in pain together until now.

		(23) 	And not only (creation) but ourselves also,…

	And we've even got the first-fruits of the Spirit, the guarantee of the
Resurrection. We've been sealed into all of this that God accomplished
for us upon Calvary by the baptism with the Holy Ghost. The legal poof
is here, we are in It, we're in It, this is ours. And we're groaning,
(see?) we've got a problem here. What are we waiting for? We're waiting
for what the Holy Spirit has given us as a guarantee, 

		(23)	… the redemption of (the) body.  

 	Immortality, (see?) never anymore frustration. We are waiting for It.
Now, there's the Bible tells you that. All nature is under the thralldom
of sin. Every part of creation has been abused by sin. Every part of
creation must be restored from sin. How is it going to be done? It is
already paid for through the death of Jesus Christ. We're only waiting
for the allocation of it.  (See?) 

31.	All right, God admits this in Genesis 3:15. For He calls Satan, He
said, "Your head is going to be bruised."  (See?)  Satan has taken it
over. Adam has lost it. Eve has lost it. Satan is in control now. For He
grants the serpent to be the head Satan reigning. And Jesus confirms it.
For when Satan came is, "All this will I give you if you fall down and
worship me," he said.  [Mt 4:9]             "Uh, uh, no, no." 

	He didn't say, "Satan, you big liar, you don't own it. What are you
trying to tell me that you can promise me this."  He admits it. He said,
"Sure it's yours, but I'm not going to worship you to get it. I'm going
to get it just the same by worshipping God." And how do you worship God?
By obedience to the Word. (See?) Yes sir, the revealed Word.

32.	Now, Adam has lost his estate as shown in Genesis 3, and Romans 8,
and he's driven from the Garden. All right, you'll find that over here
in Genesis 3:23, and we look at It. 

		(23) 	(And) therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of 	
				Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

		(24)	(And)  he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the
garden 					of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every
way, 						to keep the way of the tree of life.

	In other words, It says man cannot possibly enter immortality under the
condition in which he is. (See?) He's got to die. But at the end time
that's changed. Just watch everything, watch everything carefully.

	Now, but God will get this all back from us,  for us through the death
of Jesus Christ as He says in Genesis 3:15, "The seed of the woman shall
bruise the serpent's head." 

33.	Now, let's look at this. Now, we're going to read carefully, and
here's where I want your closest attention now, because this will seem
like unrelated material, but it absolutely is not. We read first of all
in the Book of Hebrews 2: 14, (two verses)

		(14) 	Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and
blood,…		

	Do you realize that that tells you there's a preexistence? It says,
"Forasmuch as children partake of flesh and blood," they had to be there
to partake of it. We were someplace before we were here. And have no
recollection of it. Death passing into theophonic bodies Bro. Branham
said. Now listen, Just like Jesus:

		(14)	…he also himself likewise took part of the same; (in order to
die) 						that through death he might (bring to nothing)  him that had
the 						power of death, (that's) the devil;

	Do you know what that means? That means to so utterly, annihilate
everything that belonged to the devil, or so change that he had a hand
in it, that it looks as though it had never ever happened in the first
place. Right back to perfection. Oh listen, that's a tremendous promise
of God.

		(15) 	And deliver them who through fear of death were all their
lifetime 						subject to bondage.

34.	All right, now, we're going to go right to Daniel 9:24-26, we're
going to read It. Now:

		(24)	 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy 	
				city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sins, to make 	
				reconciliation for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, 
					to seal up the vision and prophecy, to anoint the most (highly).

		(25) 	Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the 
					commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah 				
	the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the 				
street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.

		(26) 	And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but
not 					for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall
destroy 					the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be
with a flood, 					and unto the end of the war desolations are
determined.

	Now, what is this all about? Now, here is what I see, you may see what
you want. But I am going to show you what I see by going to Daniel
7:9-14, which is the basis for Daniel 9:24-26. And when we read Daniel
7:9-14, we will read Revelation 21:1-2, and Revelation 22:1-6, because
It is the same thing.

35.	We go then to Daniel 7:  So, I say what is this about, why have I
read Hebrews and Daniel? Because Daniel 9:24-26 is based upon Daniel
7:9-14, Revelation 21:1-2, [Revelation] 22:1-6.  We're going to read It
now beginning in [Daniel] 7: 

		(9) 	(And) I beheld (he has visions, here's the visions) I beheld (the
vision) 					till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days
did sit, whose 					garment was white as snow, the hair of his head like
the pure wool: 					his throne was like the fiery flame, his wheels as
burning fire.

		(10) 	A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand 	
				thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand 	
			stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.

		(11) 	I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the
horn 					spake: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body
destroyed, 					and given to the burning flame.

		(12) 	As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion
taken 						away: their lives were prolonged for a season and time.

		(13) 	I saw in the night visions, (more visions) and, behold, one like
the Son 					of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the
Ancient of 					days, and they brought him near before him.

		(14) 	And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that
					all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion 
					is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his
kingdom 					that which shall not be destroyed.

	Now, we want to see something here. Just hold your finger there, and
take a look at Daniel 9, for one second,

		(24) 	Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy
city\,					(And remember, the Jews are the history makers of the world,
not the 					Gentiles.) to finish the transgression, and to make an end
of sins, and 					to make reconciliation for iniquity, to bring in
everlasting righteousness, 					and to seal up the vision and
prophecy,…

	And what is a vision of prophecy? It's right over here in chapter 7.
Now notice, in chapter 7, he goes right to…(and this is in the seventy
weeks, the seventy weeks must include this. And in chapter 7, you will
find the White Throne  clear to the New Jerusalem.

36.	Now, let's go to Revelation 21: I'll just show you in a second what
I'm seeing, what I'm looking at here. Revelation 21:1-2,

		(1) 	And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: the first heaven and the 
					first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

		(2) 	And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from 			
		God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

	Okay to 22: I could read much more, but let's take [Revelation] 
22:1-6. 

		(1) 	And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal,
						proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.

		(2) 	In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the
river, was 						there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of
fruits, and yielded 					her fruit every month: and the leaves of the
tree were for the healing 					of the nations.

		(3) 	And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of
the 						Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:

		(4) 	And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their
foreheads.

		(5) 	And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle,
neither 						light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and
they shall 						reign for ever and ever.

		(6) 	And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: the
Lord 						God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his
(messengers 					his) servants the things which must shortly be done.

37.	Now, let's go back here to Daniel 7: 

		(9)	I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days 
					sit, garment white as snow, hair of his head like the pure wool: 		
			throne like fiery flame, wheels as burning fire.

		(10) 	A fiery stream issued came before him: thousand thousands 					
ministered (that's the Bride at the end of the Millennium) ten times 			
		thousands ten (times) thousand stood before judgment…opened. 

	That's everybody else but the Bride, and the 144,000. And there's an
Old Testament Bride, and a New Testament Bride member, they're all
there. Because that's where the Millennium is. The end of the Millennium
comes the White Throne  judgment. Now, then you see what happens. But
notice in verse 13.

		(13) 	…in the night visions, one like the Son of man came (and)
clouds 						of heaven,  came to the Ancient of days, and they brought
him near 					before him.

		(14) 	And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom,
(and) 					all people, nations, languages, serve him:… 

	Now listen, that is true in the Millennium, but it's much more true in
New Jerusalem. Because that is where He sits on the Throne, and all
nations bring their glory in. And He sits with the Bride with the Pillar
of Fire over It. So, what you see here is the vision shows a complete
wrapping up of all life as we know it now upon the earth, and the
ushering in, the ushering in from the Great Tribulation right to New
Jerusalem. 

	In other words, once a certain time strikes in history, you'll never
stop it. It just begins rolling. And that is when that stone cut without
hands begins to come down, (right?) then it never ceases.   It just goes
on, and on, and on, until New Jerusalem is come down on earth. You
follow me? Now, that's true.

38.	Now, let's go back to Daniel 9: because here's where I want to look
at.

		(24)	Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy 		
			city, …

	And that's right, that's all the time there's left in this world. It's
seventy weeks and the Jews have it. And that's the only time you go by.
Now, let's keep watching:

		(24)	…to finish the transgression, make an end of sins, to make
recon-						ciliation for iniquity, to bring in everlasting
righteousness, and to 						seal up the vision and prophecy, …

	And the vision and prophecy brother/sister, goes from the seventieth
week right to New Jerusalem. That's right, it does. Now watch:

		(25)	(Now) know therefore and understand, that from the going forth 		
			of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem…(should) 					
be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: (that's sixty nine, 					
and) the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous 		
			times. 

	And they did it in seven weeks, forty nine years. Then thirty, then
sixty-two weeks set in;

		(26)	And after threescore and two weeks… 

	That's after seven goes by, there's sixty-two come. And after sixty-two
weeks goes by, Messiah comes. Now, what happens after sixty-two?
Remember, only seventy weeks, right? All right, you got seven, then you
got sixty-two, that makes sixty-nine, What comes after sixty-nine?
Seventy. Right?

	Then what does It say? It said, "As the going forth to build Jerusalem
unto the Messiah the prince shall be seven weeks threescore and two
weeks and so on."

 		(26)	And after threescore and two weeks Messiah shall be cut off,…

	In the seventieth week Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself.
Then who's He cut off for? He is cut off for you and me. So, what I'm
trying to show you here is I'm looking at it. What I am seeing here by
the grace of Almighty God is the fact that Jesus Christ died in order to
insure us the end of transgression, the end of sin, reconciliation,
everlasting righteousness, anointing the most holy, right through, and
even the very vision. (See?)  It's got to take place within the seventy.
And when the seventy is over you are walking to the Millennium, to the
White Throne, to New Jerusalem, to the heavens itself and back down on
earth to the brand new creation. And there it is where everything is all
over in eternity. Now, It says here that Messiah is cut off. Why? In
order that we can have it, because without Him we would get none of it.
(See?) We would get none of it.

39.	Now listen, this brings us right up to this present day. It has to.
Revelation 10:1-3 is absolutely Revelation 4:1-3, and Revelation 5:1-7.
So, let's go back to Revelation 4:1-3, and Revelation 5:1-7. Now, this
is just as simple as ABC.

		(1) 	After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven:
and 						the first voice which I heard was as it were a trumpet talking
with 						me; (and) said, Come up hither, I will shew thee things which
must						 be hereafter.

		(2) 	And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was
set 						in heaven, and one sat on the throne.

		(3) 	And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine
stone: 						and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight
like unto 						an emerald.

	Now, look at It, a sardine stone, a jasper stone. Now, what were the
stones? They were the Urim and Thummim. What was upon the Throne? God
veiled in a Pillar of Fire. And He is the Word, He is the Urim and
Thummim. (See?)   Now, 

		(4) 	And round about the throne were four and twenty…(elders and so
on.) 

40.	Now, let's just leave that and let's go to [Revelation] 5: 

		(1) 	And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book 
					written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.

	Now, It tells you that there came forth a Book from this One, (which is
God) eternal Spirit, Elohim, El Ella, (call Him what you want, as long
as you're Bible) Pillar of Fire, veiled in a Pillar of Fire. The Pillar
of Fire is not God, the Pillar of Fire veils Him. Now, there comes forth
a Book. Now, this Book is written within and without. There's a special
word in the Greek that signifies the manuscript that is written on both
sides. Another  words, signifies one side only. This is on both sides.
Showing that you cannot add to It, and it's sealed showing you cannot
take from it. And It's got Seven Seals.  Now:

		(2) 	And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is 		
			worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?

	Now, evidently this Book has got to be opened. The Seals must be ripped
off. The content must be read and exposed, and it has to do with man.
Because It says, "Who is worthy?"  

		(3) 	And no man in heaven, (no man) in earth, (onoman) under the
earth, 					(no man) was able to open the book, (or) to look thereon.

		(4) 	And I wept much, because… (if you can't find a man, and a man 	
				has got to open the book.) 

	How is the Book going to be opened? God isn't going to open It, He
won't open the Book. But the Book that God has, has got to be opened.

		(4)	…no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither 	
				to look thereon.

	Nobody even worthy …?... what God is showing forth, what's in this
Book that God had sealed up.

		(5) 	And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: (John) behold, the
						Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to
open						 the book, and to loose the seals thereof.

	Now, it's got to be a man. Call him a lion, call him what you want,
he's a man, because he's got to be a man.

		(6) 	And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four
beasts, 					and in the midst of the elders, stood a (man, a) Lamb as it
had been 					slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the
seven Spirits 					of God sent forth into all the earth.

41.	Now, this tells you something right here. This is the Lamb, this is
the Son of man raised from the dead. This is He in the midst of the
seven golden candlesticks. And He has seven [correction] horns which
signifies His power demonstrated seven times. And He's got seven eyes
which are the seven spirits of God sent forth in all the earth. Now, God
does not have seven spirits, He has one Spirit. Now, you know who those
eyes are, Bro. Branham told us. And you know yourself by reading 
Zachariah. The eyes are the Seven Church Age messengers. 

[At this point volume decreases and tape cuts in and out] 

	That powerful Word in Seven Church Ages messengers went down to the
earth in those seven men. Because that's what the Spirit of God is, is
in seven messengers which is Christ said, "Let them hear what the Spirit
says to the churches,"  [Rev 2:29] because God only speaks through the
messengers. So therefore, the Spirit speaking through the man. God knows
…?... seven of them. (See?) 

42.	Now he, who is in all of this, takes the Book. Now notice, the
description of the man taking the Book. It's important to us, because
this is where we need to go further. 

		(6) 	And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four
beasts, 					and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been
slain, having 					seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven
Spirits of God sent 					forth into all the earth.

		(7) 	And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that
sat 					upon the throne.

	Now, here we find that "took the Book out of the right hand of Him," in
Revelation 10:1. Now, hold it.

		(1) 	And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed 			
		with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head,    [blank space] 

	There is another Scripture so far:

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

	The Lamb takes the Book…

		(1)	…his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of
fire: (He 					doesn't bring It down.)

	But the Lamb leaves It. Now remember, He's Redeemer and Executer. The
Mediator opens It/ Out of His Own …?... and His Own estate. But He
doesn't bring It down. …?... 	

		(3) 	… as (the) lion (roars): and when he (opens It… 

		(2)	(Now,) …he set his foot upon (land) and sea….

		(3) 	And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion (roars): (Doesn't say
						it's a lion, lifts up his hand to heaven and…fire brings It
down.) …						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 l
					ifted 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…when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of
(old 					of the seven messengers…He is God)…as he (has) declared
(the Good 					News of His Gospel by) his servants the prophets.

 	 It is just exactly as Bro. Branham has said, "This is the Book of
Redemption, It certainly is. You'll see that after a little bit. It is
the Book of Redemption opened, God's Word or Testament laid bare.

43.	Now notice, what he said. Revelation 5:5

		(5) 	…Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda,… (which was
						bought back by His Blood.)

		(60 	And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four
beasts, 					and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been
slain, having 					seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven
Spirits of God sent 					forth into all the earth.

	Now, let's watch the picture here. His death for you and me has
prevailed to open the Book and loose the Seals.  …?...  He arose
…?... now that's what his ministry is all about, why is He prevailing?
 [blank portion on tape]  Because He is that One that died. His is the
One Who died. …?... He is the One Who ever makes intercession. …?...
The Intercessor as the Executor makes sure we are going to get the
estate. …?... Now…perpetrated against us. The Mediator brings us in,
opens the Book, because He is the Man Who made Himself flesh and blood
to bring to nothing everything that Satan …?...  All that Christ
bought by His death we are going to get now. All the promises that were
bought for us by His death are now unsealed. 

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