Revelation 1: & Patmos Vision 

'The Judge and the Universal Benefit' 

Bro. Lee Vayle   -     December 26, 1982

	Mercy which has been extended to us. We know that You are here.  We
know, Lord, we've talked about it, but we could not talk about It,
unless It was a reality, and, Lord, the talking about it magnifies which
we are so glad that It does. We can constantly keep in mind not Your
closeness anymore, not Your Coming anymore, but the reality that You are
now here, in the form of the Holy Spirit. And will one day reincarnate
Yourself, and at that time we'll crown You King of kings and Lord of
lords. And we're grateful for this great mystery that's in our midst at
this hour.

	Now, Father, teach us more concerning It, may we rejoice more, and an
revelation stimulate us hour by hour, until we are caught away in Jesus'
Name we pray. Amen. You may be seated.

	

1.	Now, before we get into the message which I've been (oh) quite a long
time getting to you, I want to clear up a little point from last
Wednesday, because I know that I wasn't explaining it the way that it
was coming across clearly. But, in 1 Thessalonians 4,  It says, 

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

	Now, I may have mentioned there to misunderstand this verse the way
some are misunderstanding  It, is to be very confused with the ministry
of the High Priest. 

	Now look, what I was saying was, it is become contrary to what the
prophet said, a belief, if not by one, or more than one, that this has
to do with a corporal descent. Now, if this is a corporal descent you
understand He's not longer a High Priest. He just couldn't be.

	Now, with that, Bro. Branham said, "The Shout was the Message." Now, if
we're going to bastardize this thing, let's do the job properly. So,
then you've got to stay with the prophet, that this Shout is  a Message.
Then, the question is: who is he preaching to? Well, he's not preaching
to the lost to bring anybody in, because he's no longer High Priest.

	Then, it's a Message totally to the lost. (Right?) Well, come on. When
does He come down corporally and preach to the total lost? So, you see
what I'm saying, if you get your thoughts out of line here, you
completely destroy anything the prophet said. So, that's what I was
trying to bring across to you Wednesday night. You understand now? Why I
said, that you see, you kill the understanding of a High Priest here.

2.	Now, during the Message that Bro. Branham brought, which was a
descent of the Holy Spirit, God. Hebrews 13:8, which is Revelation, "He
which was and is, and is to come," is not He which was dead and is
alive. 

	One is talking about God, Holy Spirit, the other is talking about that
One Who was the tent of God. Called even the Blood of God. Call It many
things you want, but you must understand that when we differentiate, we
cannot be (although we are termed) because they'll term me, they'll you
the same as you have the same understanding I have. They'll say we're
preaching two gods. We are not preaching two gods, neither are we
Jesus-only. We believe in one God Who changed His mask. But, when you
come to the mask of the Lamb, you are talking of something more
pertinent than a cloud; or an angel; or a rock; or water; or wind, or
anything else. You are talking about that original One, the Word, which
was God becoming flesh. Now, He laid aside that robe which was a man.
But, a very different man from you and me. 

	Remember, Adam was not that which became flesh. He was a spirit being,
and she a spirit being in one. And God formed flesh of the ground, so
that the mother of Adam was really the ground if you want to put it that
way. But, we're talking about Logos, we're talking about God reducing,
That, which would be His expression to a sperm and an egg; which became
flesh.

3.	Now, that, Bro. Branham said, "God raised That body and put It on a
Throne." Now, when you talk about a corporal descent, you have got to
have That one coming back, a human structure. Now, if they're going to
put this in a human structure and still believe the Prophet, then He's
got to come down in a human structure and give a Message. That's over
with, that took place two thousand years ago. Now, this is to the
Gentiles when He doesn't come in a human body. For He'd be here with
nail-prints. Well, is He going to put mud or something in them, or grow
skin on them? He's a bleeding Lamb, the nail-prints are there.

	So, I say what they do, they get this so messed up nobody can tell what
they're saying. So, I want you to know that…so that I would try to
help you to know what I'm saying. Because I never said it clearly
Wednesday night. You know I didn't. So now you understand what I'm
saying. The High Priest Himself is going to come down. (Right) We're
going to meet Him up there beyond our view. No one's going to see Him.
We're not going to see Him until we're going to get there as far as I
know. At that time, that Spirit that's in our midst incarnates Himself,
and we crown that incarnated One, King of kings and Lord of lords, God
Almighty, everything.  As Bro. Branham said in the Church Doctrine book,
I don't have with me. So, you understand what I'm saying.

4.	All right, something else I want to tell you. We talked about 'Two
Souls' a week ago. I got a quote for you in 'What is the Holy Ghost', 
[12-16-59] Bro. Branham says on page 9, the top of the page. 

[16] 	A person that would refuse to receive the baptism of the Holy
Ghost can 					have no fellowship among those that has the Holy Ghost.
You just can't 					do it. You have to be a nature. 

	See, he uses that term, almost obtusely [slow to understand] in fact it
is obtuse to a fellow like me. Then he goes on to talk about doves and
crows have nothing in common, because they don't have the same nature.
So what he's saying here; when the Holy Spirit comes, there's a specific
nature that you and I have. And this is why…I know that you don't know
quite know what I'm talking about. Look, it doesn't matter, you may run
across it later when it comes to…because we never fussed about two
soul doctrine, we never brought it up, because I just want to let it lay
there until the time came when I knew really what I was talking about.
And believe me, it is wrong. I don't care if you got three or four
souls. The point is: what they are saying is wrong about it. The soul in
not a nature. We are a tri-unity, a tri-part being. Tripartite being.
Body, soul, spirit. And those three are divided into two. The soul and
the spirit go together, the body goes separate. Then at death, there can
be an actual separation of body, soul and spirit. 

5.	But, right now, by the Word there is a separation of body, soul,
spirit, though they are still one. And there is a spirit part, and a
physical part. And the spirit part must have a change in nature. And
it's the spirit that gives the nature to the man. What nature are you?
Well, if you're a hog, you'll act like a hog. Though sometime, you can
be a pretty nice washed hog; with a blue ribbon. You know, you don’t
have them down here in the States, we had them pretty well like that in
Canada. The farmers would put out lovely… (Greg, you're a kind of a
hog raiser, maybe you got more down here than I think. I don't know how
you took care of your hogs, you do take care.) 

	But back home (like my wife would tell you, she wasn't really raised on
a farm, just sort of) but they have real nice pig ranches up there. Kind
like (you know) more mixed farming, a lot of mix farming, at least they
were, and they put out lovely big concrete slabs for the hogs. I guess,
it's kind of hard on your dogs. I'm sorry about that pigs, but they put
them out there anyway. And they had them so they could wash them off.
And they have a lovely big hammer mills, and silo's that they put the
feed in, and they take hulless-oats, and the hulless-barley and the
wheat and other, and add powdered butter milk and powdered milk and they
make a tremendous hog food. And they put this in troughs with water. Oh,
that sounds good enough for an old guy like me to make porridge out of
in the morning. And they feed them so good. Well, you can keep those
hogs clean and sweet tasting, and he's still a hog. [Bro. Vayle
chuckles]  

6.	He'd have to have another life in there to change his nature. That's
what he's saying here. He's not talking about God giving you an effect,
he's talking about God giving you the Holy Ghost, and there's a new
effect in you.  So, I know you don't know what I'm saying. Don't feel
bad. Later on we might…I might take some…I don't think I will, it's
not worth my time. But, if anything comes up, you just want to know
where we stand. You just leave that alone, because we believe different.
What we believe is no consequence to you, (see?) just let her go.

	[Someone says:] "You're saying that the body, soul and spirit, does it
make a difference you say, body, spirit, soul?"

	No, it's just that the body is a shell. As Bro. Branham said, "My hand,
my nose, my eyes." He said, "Fine, what's me?" Oh, what is it? It's a
soul and spirit in conjunction. Now, they're not one. But, they are one
in the fact that they blend together. (You see?) And your body, soul,
spirit's one, that they blend together. But, (you see) the body you've
got are the chemical reactions and products in manifestation of what was
in your parents, which is life.

	So, don't worry about…if anything comes up, you just kind of put it
off and you can talk to me about it. Because, I don't want to go into a
long diatribe on this, or long dissertation. I want to say this too:
Mount Shasta evidently, from what I understand is having fifty tremors
per day. That's in northern California, which is the same that Mount St.
Helena had. Fifty per day, and Mount Hood, and Rainier are also going
through the same thing. So, you can see when Bro. Branham said it
started to happen back there, the wheels of God's mill grinds slow, but
the grind fine. And it just means it will be that much bigger. Mount
Shasta, just like St. Helena, and already Mount Hood, and Rainier,
they're the big ones. And I understand Mount Hood was the grand daddy of
all the volcanoes in America, because it's really two. I think it's
Hood. So, there's a report back on that now that things are moving.
Hallelujah. If we don't get out of here, one way or the other, we're
going to get up there somehow. Caught up or blown up, bless God, let's
get out of here. Well, we're not going to get blown up are you? You love
the Lord today? I'm sure you do. The Lord bless you.

1. All right, let's go to Revelation 1: and we'll see what we can talk
about today, read out of the Patmos Vision also, (and I think we've
covered everything now) beginning in verse 12.

		(12) 	And I turned to see the voice that spake with me… (Remember, 	
			conversational. Remember, 1 Samuel, he saw a vision, which was 				
hearing the Word. The Word was so clear, it's just like looking at 				
something.) being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;

	Now notice, that's what he saw first. That's what you see first. Like,
they saw the body of Jesus. Then they began looking beyond. (See?)
Always the physical is seen, and then you got to start looking beyond.
Moses saw a bush burning. And he said, "Hey, what's with that?"

	That's when I saw Bro. Branham, and I said, "What's with that?" Of
course I knew It was God. I began looking for Him. And I realized after
seventeen years, (sixteen years) that I wasn't looking at a man, I was
looking at God. Why?

2.	You know, I bet you that every man that's sitting here that's
married, you ask him, "Hey, what color was that girl's eyes?" I got a
feeling that fifty percent of the votes are going to be wrong. But, you
ask your wife and she'll hit it every single time. You know…In other
words, you look and do you really look close? No, you just know
something's there. Then you got to stand still and begin to scrutinize.
And when you do, you're not looking so much at the person, but you're
looking for something that the person's involved with. Like, eyes. You
see, Bro. Branham, a man like his stature, like Moses, the apostle Paul.
And outside of Jesus Christ they're the only ones that I can liken It
to. I can't liken William Branham to anybody outside of somebody like
Moses and Paul. No way.

	Now, David was a tremendous figure, but I haven't got too much taken up
with him, because he was a segment and I appreciate it. But, you never
put him in my books in the category a Paul and a Moses. See, when you
look at Bro. Branham you see the same stature and you know something's
there. But, you got to stand still and look. And when you do, you're not
looking at the man anymore. You're looking beyond the man. (See?) Okay.

3.	Now, you look at the church. You look at people. You look at the
Bride. And that's the first thing you see before you see the One in the
midst. And it might be pretty difficult these days, (you know) to try to
run a parallel on that physically. but, you see the Bride goes for the
Word. That's the biggest thing.

	Now:

		(13) 	And in the midst of the seven candlesticks… (that's the Bride
in 						every age, seven ages,)  

		(14) 	His head and hair (like wool) white (as) wool, white as snow;
eyes 						(like) a flame of fire;

		(15) 	…feet like unto fine brass, burned in a furnace; his voice as
the 						sound of many waters.

		(16) 	And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth
went 					a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun
shineth 					in his strength.

		(17) 	And I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead…he laid his right
hand upon 					me, saying, Fear not; I am the first and the last:

		(18) 	(Behold) I am he (that) was dead; behold, I am alive for
evermore, 						and have the keys of hell and of death. (And that was
the Judge.)

4.	Now, with that we go over here, Bro. Branham commenting a certain
amount on the 'Patmos Vision', [12-04-60]  and read it to you, beginning
at page 105, paragraph 181.

[70] 	"White hair..." Anybody knows that's the old judges in ancient
days, like 					English judges used to wear a snow white wig. Old
ancient judges wore 					a white wig because they were… Well He's
here, showing again that John's 				over in the Lord's day; he saw Him
as the Judge Not as Priest, not as King,				 not as Prophet, but as
Judge. The Father, (like in) John 5:22, committed 					all judgment to
Him. He's Judge now, come to judge the nations. Oh, for 					that day
when you see Him like that. His hair white as snow; Daniel saw 					Him
coming to the Ancient of days. …and the two blend together. 

	Then he read over there in Daniel.

[71] 	Come to the Ancient of days Whose hair was white as wool. John
turned 					and he saw One like the Son of man standing in the midst of
the seven 					golden 	candlesticks, with snow white hair: the Judge, 

	Now, you see, the Son of man is the Prophet, and the Judge is the
Prophet turned Judge. It's the Word, the Word demanding satisfaction
according to the Word.

5.	Now, you say, "Johnny, pick up that pile of brush." And Johnny
doesn't do it. Now, what's at stake? The Word's at stake. But Johnny
doesn't pick it up. Now, why do you descend on Johnny if he doesn't pick
it up? Because, the word's at stake. Who gave the word? You gave the
word. So therefore you're at stake. You're the only one who can make the
word stick, or rescind it.

	So, here's why we talk about the Word. Son of man becomes Judge. Who is
the Son of man? Logos. That which contains the idea, which in turn is a
reality. All right, when He's Judge, He's God in human form.

	All right, now, Judge:

		 …midst of seven golden candlesticks, snow white hair, not girded
around 					the waist, but girded around the paps, up (that's the
breasts,) judge. With 					the sash of the judge over His shoulder, He
stood with a golden, pure, holy, 				refined girdle that held His
righteousness, His cover. …covered all the way 				to the feet. Watch
the sevenfold manifestation of His glory in Person.

	  	 Head, hair, "eyes were like flames of fire." [Rev 1:14] Think of
it. 

		Those eyes who once was dimmed with human tears, now ... become flames
			 of fire. Angry, stands there as the angry Judge. Why did you reject
Him? 					O sinner, think of this. Think of it, lukewarm church member.
Think of it, 					Catholic, Baptist, Presbyterian, Pentecostal. Think of
it, Catholic. Your 					virgin Mary had to go up to Pentecost and
receive the Holy Ghost, and					 stagger and act like a drunk woman. The
 mother of Christ had to get 					that before she'd be permitted to
heaven. How are you women going to 					get there anything less than
that? Think of it, men, each of you. 

[72] 	His hair, and His eyes once dimmed with human tears, yet I want
you to 					notice something about those eyes. When He was on earth, yet
they were 					dimmed with tears like a man, He cried at the grave of
Lazarus. Full of 					sympathy, His humanity, He was clothed, He was God
clothed in 						humanity in order to take away sin. But yet behind that
humanity, He 					had something that could look right down the heart of
a men and know 					all about them. Why? There was something behind Him,
yet He was 					clothed in mortal flesh. They didn't know Who it was,
"If you don't 						believe," He said, "that I am He, you'll die in your
sins." 

6.	Actually, He said, "I am." The Word he has interpolated. If you
believe that I am, you'll die in your sins.

		That's right. (See, the same One that spoke to Moses.) "If I do not
the works 				of My Father,  believe Me not; but if I do the works of My
Father, believe 					the works if you can't believe Me." (Now, that is
actually the Son talking 					in contradistinction to the other voice.)
Oh, how He tried to get the message 				to them, the revelation. Could
look right down into the heart of a man and 					know all about it. 
(You see, that Bro. Branham is referring to his own ministry 				too
now, see?) How I think of that: Those eyes that once pierced over the 		
		mountains, looked into the face of suffering, could weep like a man;
yet could 				take the Spirit of God behind 	that human vision there and
see all things, 					things that were, and things which would come,
foretell the end from the 					beginning, that's cause God was behind
them human eyes.  

[73] 	Let God come into your life and take control of you, and He'll
show you 					things to come. For it's not you no more; it's the Holy
Spirit in your life 					back there looking through them mortal eyes to
pick things out.  There He 					was, those eyes. And remember, one day
those eyes that were dimmed with 				tears, those eyes will stand at
judgment. Now, if the judgment are like fiery 				flames running to and
fro through the whole earth, and there's nothing 					happens but what
He knows it…it's recorded. 

7.	[74]  Running to and fro through the earth watching every move,
perceiving 					every thought, knowing everything you're doing, the
intents of the heart, 					what you intend to do. He knows all about it.
He knows whether you love 					Him. He knows whether your intentions are
right to serve Him. He knows 					all about it. And what will it be when
you stand that day with every sin's 					naked before Him, and He stands
there at the white throne judgment? 					God, deliver me from that
place. I don't want to see that. When a angered 					God walks out there
with fire 	flashing from His eyes, with the righteousness,				 the white
wig over His head like that, His eyes flashing withfire that knows 			
every thoughts of your heart, everything you ever intended to do. Hide
me 					over in the Rock of Ages cleft for me. The old fellow used to
sing, "When 					this world's on fire, stand by me. Stand by me, and
letThy bosom be my pillow. 				Hide me over in the Rock of Ages." God, I
don't want Your judgment…I 					want Your mercy…Give me Your mercy,
not Your justice. …give me 					Your mercy, not Your law…give me
mercy, Lord; that's all I can plead 					for. Nothing in my arms I
bring...simply to Thy cross I cling…One come					 to take my place. 

 	All right, that's about enough we'll need to read there, because we're
talking about the Judge. 

8.	Now, we're going to read with this Genesis 15:12-21. Because we're
relating It to the hour in which we live. It's not down the road,
though, down the road is the perfect manifestation. But remember, what
we read over here in Genesis, Bro. Branham categorically said had to do
with that One Who was before Sodom and Gomorrah. But, we're talking
about Genesis 15 at this point. (Not 18, we'll get to It later maybe.)
Okay:

		(12) 	…when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram;
and, 					lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.

		(13) 	And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be
a 						stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and
they 						shall afflict them four hundred years; (That's Israel in
Egypt, afflicted 					by Egyptians, four hundred years.)

		(14) 	…also that nation, (that's Egypt) whom they shall serve, will
I judge: 					afterward shall they come out with great substance.

		(15) 	And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried
in a 						good old age.

		(16) 	But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for
the 						iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. (Now, a generation
at that 						time was a hundred years you noticed. Four generations, is
four 						hundred years, a hundred years a generation.)

	

		(17) 	And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down…behold a
smoking 					furnace, a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.
(That's 						accepting the sacrifice, God, burning it up.)

		(18) 	In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying,				
	Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the 
				great river, the river Euphrates:

		(19) 	The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,

		(20) 	…Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaim,

		(21) 	…the Amorites, Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the
Jebusites. 

	Thirteen and 14 is the verses we're looking at.

	 	(13)	…Know of a surety thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that
is not 					theirs, (they) shall serve them; and afflict them four
hundred years;  

 		(14)	…also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge:
afterward 						shall they come out with great substance.

9.	Now, there's a principle involved here we must recognize. And from 13
and 14 verses. It is that whenever the time comes for God to institute
the culminating and universal benefits of a covenant of grace, judgment
follows those outside the covenant of promise.

	Now, I want to repeat it for you so you'll understand what we're
talking about. The principle involved here is that, whenever the times
comes for God to institute the culminating and universal benefits of a
covenant of grace, judgment follows those outside the covenant of
promise.

	Now, what you see here, is God dealing with the people. And He's
dealing with them universally. Which means: He's dealing with everyone
in the same way at the same time. And furthermore, it is a culminating
promise or benefit. In other words, it is ending a period. So, it is
universal and culminating. Something is ending, something is starting,
and He's going about it in a way that cuts across the board and fits
everybody, takes everybody in. And when that happens, those outside the
covenant come into judgment. Mercy then, judgment. 

	That precept we read in 13 and 14. These people are going into Egypt.
They will be there for four hundred years. God took them in as a group.
Leads them out as a greater group. And when He does, they come out as
that group all alike, no difference. And they will come in all alike
with no difference. That's what He wants. And the nation Egypt will be
judged. That's exactly what happens. Mercy and judgment. The universal
culminating blessing is to a group. And at the same time the judgment
goes to the other group.

10.	Now, we'll compare this with what happened in Exodus 3:1-22.

		(1) 	Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest
of 						Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and
came 					to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.

		(2) 	…the (messenger) of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of
fire 					out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the
bush burned 					with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

		(3) 	And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight,
why 					the bush is not burnt. (It was a great sight.)

		(4) 	And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called
unto 					him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And
he said, 					Here am I.

		(5) 	And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy
feet, 					for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

		(6) 	Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham,
the 					God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Moses hid his face; for he
was 					afraid to look upon God.

11.	Now notice, that the bush was burning, and that was God to Moses.
Because no man can see God. No way. No way. Impossible. Well, he saw
what hit him, which was a 'Flame' in a bush. And the bush didn't burn.
Now, you notice that others approach that, and they did burn. There's a
difference. The One that's Appearing now will Appear in Judgment later
on. At  this Present, it's wide open. Spit in His face, laugh, chew gum,
call It the devil, go ahead. You'll likely won't fall dead. Nobody
likely fall dead. Oh, just a few did, but not very many. 

	How many that fell dead at the feet, because of Jesus? Nah, they could
do what they want to, because the Son of man had not died yet, and the
Holy Ghost hadn't come forth. Now, the Holy Ghost coming forth means
everlasting loss if you blaspheme Him. But, you can get away with almost
murder. Oh sure, sneer, scorn, scoff. But later on…see, later on, see,
you got to watch, you got to watch this Pillar of Fire. You know, people
had better be careful. This is what really bothered Bro. Branham was
this here irreverence. (See?) Moses didn't burn, the bush didn't burn.
Others did. He was afraid.

		(7) 	…the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people 
					which are in Egypt, (that's four hundred later) have heard their
cry 						by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;

		(8) 	…I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the
Egyptians, 					and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land,
a large, unto 					a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of
the Canaanites, 					and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the
Perizzites, and the Hivites, 					and the Jebusites. (Just like He said,
for four hundred years before.)

		(9) 	Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come
unto 					me: (children, plural) (all) I (see in) the oppression (of)
the 							Egyptians…  

		(10) 	Come now therefore, (I'll) send (you to) Pharaoh, that thou
mayest 						bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.

		(11) 	…Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh,
						and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?

12.	He said to God, "What makes You think that I can do it? I got
nothing. When I was a great soldier back there, I tried it. All I did
was get run off. You've got a pretty poor candidate here."

	God said, "Certainly, I will be with thee. You just go down as my front
man, my advertizing agent (so to speak). You go down as My Voice. This
will be a token I send you. This is My Word to you," He said. "This is
the great thing I want you to know, when you brought the people out of
Egypt you shall serve God upon this mountain."

	God coming back to the covenant God Israel, which evidently hadn't been
for a long time. Oh, He was their covenant God, but I mean, really where
they had a communication. Isn't it nice through Seven Church Ages we
didn't have to go through this blistering thing. Even though, under the
face of the calf they died, martyrdom. Under the face of the lion, my,
lion, they were strong, powerful. Under the beast what a time of
degradation, the face of a man. Seven great ages, seven great
messengers. Israel had it pretty rough back there, four hundred years.

	[Verse 12 not read]  

		(13) 	…Moses said (to) God, Behold, when I come unto the children of
						Israel, (they'll) say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent
						me unto you; and they shall say, What is his name? (I guess they 	
				didn't even know His Name anymore.) what shall I say?...

		(14) 	And God said, I AM THAT I AM:…thou shall say unto the children
of 					Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.

		(15) 	…moreover…(thou) shalt thou say unto the children of Israel,
the 						LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, 		
			hath sent me (to) you: this is my name for ever, and this is my 					
memorial unto all generations.

13.	All right, He's got a name forever. I AM, and I AM is the Lord God
of Israel. How many gods are there? I AM, is our God also. "That which
was, and is, and is to be," [Rev 1:8b] (see?) that is Elohim, the
becoming One. The One that becomes. God with no manifestation, and
nothing to manifest to if He had a manifestation. Manifest.

		(16) 	Go, and gather the elders of Israel, and say, The LORD God of 		
			your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, appeared (to) 			
		me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done 			
		to you in Egypt:

		(17) 	And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of
Egypt 						unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the
Amorites, 						and the Perizzites, Hivites, Jebusites, unto a land
flowing with milk 					and honey.

		(18) 	And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou
and 						the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and (you) shall
say, 						The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us: now let us go, 
					we beseech thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we 	
				may sacrifice to the LORD our God.

		(19) 	And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no,
not by 					a mighty hand.

		(20) 	And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my
wonders 					which I will do in the midst thereof: after that he will
let you go.

		(21) 	And I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians:
and 						it shall come to pass, that, when (you) go, (you) shall not go
empty.

14.	All right, now, the same precept is here that's over there
enunciated in Genesis, because this is the fulfillment of It. A
culminating promise, universally fulfilled through grace bringing
judgment. Right? Okay.

	That's the original Alpha and Omega concept of the exodus of, and
exclusive elected and predestinated entire group whose Headship is God.
(Okay?) The original Alpha, the concept of the exodus, universal
promise, universal beneficence, universal fulfillment to a people will
bring judgment. Now, that's what happened here, it happens every time.
Because, God can't change. If God could change, His ways would change.
His ways can't change. (See?)	Grace, then judgment.

	Now, dealing with groups, the Alpha original concept is the exodus of
an exclusive elected predestinated entire, entire group whose Headship
is God. Now, in case one might think we're going to deal exclusively now
with the group and not anymore as individuals we'll just go back and
look at how God dealt previously to this.

15.	So, we go to Genesis 6:5, and we start reading:

		(5) 	…God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, 			
		every imagination (that's the reasonings) of his heart was only 					
evil continually.

	Now, I suppose right here that we might stop and think, "Hey, dirty
bunch of birds, all they ever wanted to do is get into licentious rotten
sins." Well, partly true. I think that's all the way true.

	Now, this Word here, 'imagination', the purposes, the whole concept was
evil. Now, before you get carried away, go on back to Cain and Abel.
"Wherefore slew he his brother, because his deeds were evil."  What evil
deeds? Offering of first-fruit? Going to church? Being a nice guy?
Paying tithes? Kissing the baby? Helping old ladies across the street?
And compounding formulas that cure arthritis? Tuberculosis? Diseases, by
the thousands? Evil. Evil. (Yah!)

	Aw, let me see, what is that word I'm thinking of? 'Seduction'. The
soft caress. To lead people down a path they should not go, but
instinctively and instinctually, sensate and sensual, and I use it in
the better terms. (Not like your sex magazines, they're only too happy
to go.) Oh sure there's lots of killings and rottenness. But, there's a
lot of beautiful goodness there too. (See?) 

	Man has drifted from God. The whole concept is now worm-eaten, and
every beautiful fruit has an adder (a serpent) behind it, and every
lovely thing has the odor of death. And God was grieved. Now, He said,
"I'm going to destroy it all, because that's the only thing to do. I'm
going to destroy everything on the face of the earth, man and beast;
(and that means mute) and I'm going to destroy the talking and
everything that can't talk, the creeping, the fowls." But, Noah found
grace. Noah. Not Israel, Noah. One man.

16.	Okay, Noah found grace. And with Noah, Ham, Shem and Japheth. I'm
going to skip verse 5-18 entirely, won't read any more. [Genesis]
7:21-22.

		(21) 	And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and
of 						cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing…  

		(22) 	All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in
the 						dry land, died.

	Genesis 8:14-19.

		(14) 	…the second month, (the second) twentieth day of the month,
the 						earth (was dry.)

		(15) 	… God (said to) Noah, 

		(16) 	Go forth (into) the ark, (you and your) wife, (your) sons, sons'
wives 					with (you).

		(17) 	Bring forth every (your) living thing (into the ark…let them
produce) 					abundantly… 

		(18) 	…Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons'
wives 						with him:

		(19) 	Every beast, every creeping thing…(that creeps) upon the
earth, …						(they) went forth out of the ark (to multiply.)

	Now, we don't bypass that. God dealing with one man and his wife, then
the three sons and the three. And notice one name 'Noah'. Noah. I've
look upon Noah. One man, involved here, really.

17.	Okay, back to Genesis 1:26-27.

		(26) 	…Let us make man in our image, after our likeness…have(ing) 
					dominion over the fish of the sea…fowl of air, cattle, creeping 	
				thing(s) (and so on.)…

		(27) 	So God created man in his image, in the image of God created he 
					him; male and female created he them, (made them one person. Two 		
		in one.)

	[Genesis] 3:14-19. 

		(14) 	God said to the serpent, because you've done this, you're
cursed.  

		(15) 	Put enmity between thee and the woman, her seed; your seed. 

		(16) 	Unto the woman multiply conception; in sorrow and pain, ruler 		
			ship over by her husband, instead of being coequal.

		(17-19) Adam now has to struggle for a living, to provide for the
family. 						And he's promised death, he goes back to mother earth from
which 					he came. 

	Now, we're not bypassing where you see that God dealt in mercy, in
grace, in judgment with one person in dealing with a family of a few.
But, what we're trying to show here is more specifically than anything,
that though God is dealing with numbers of people…an exclusive, "thee
only have I chosen nation or family unto God," that these do not type
the Bride. We don't bypass what God's done. But, we're interested in
looking exclusively at the Bride which is a corporate composed of all
elect body. 

18.	So, that's what we're dealing with. And that's what I want you to
look at in this hour, because the hour is here when not one more person
will come into the Bride. Not one more person. So, God's not dealing
with an Adam and an Eve. Like two people they'll type husband and wife.
God's not dealing with a Noah and his wife, or Noah and seven more
people. Although, that also can type. What we're dealing with is a
reality, which is not typed.

	Now, there was no typing in Egypt. None at all. "My people will come
out." And there's no typing with the Bride in this hour. There is a
Bride and she will come out. So, you see the principle I'm laying here
before you? That's why I had to go into this last bit here and not waste
your time, but take your time. (See?) Especially when you talk about the
ark. Well, you're typing. But, God's not dealing with just that little
bit. He's dealing with as in Israel a nation. (See?) Which was a group
of elect, predestinated members. He dealt with them on one level, this
is it!    He took them out on one level, this is it! Taking them in on
one level, this is it! All coming from election, predestination into a
place that God had prepared.

19.	So, what we're showing here that God is dealing with members of a
people that formed an exclusive, "Thee only have I chosen nation (or
family) unto God." It is a type of the Bride, this in Exodus. Which
Bride we're dealing with now is a corporate composed of elect body in
the exodus of the Rapture as seen in 1 Thessalonians 4:13. 

	So, let's look at It. Now:

		(13) 	…I would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them
which 					are asleep, that (you) sorrow not,... as others which have no
hope.

	All right, he's talking about the living and the dead. Okay, what about
them? Let's read on:

		(14) 	For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them
also 						which sleep in Jesus will God bring (forth) with him.

	All right , God brought the Old Testament bunch forth with Jesus. Now,
He's going to bring another bunch forth with Jesus. All the first-fruit.

		(15) 	For this we say unto you (living. Who will be living at the time
						when the Resurrection appears on earth. This is) the word of the 	
				Lord, (thus saith the Lord to you,) that we which are alive and 				
	remain unto the (Presence) of the Lord shall not (take preeminence 				
over them) which are asleep. (That are in the graves even.)

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

		(17) 	Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together
with 					them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall
we ever 					be with the Lord.

		(18) 	Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

20.	Now, he's talking about a mass exodus. (See?) A corporate elect
body, a holy nation. Call it what you will. Now, it's across the board
promise. (See?) Now, you got to know that. Because, if you start looking
at other people, and you're going to start at this late day of comparing
yourselves, there's no way that you can ever measure up to a rapturing
faith. Because, faith is built on precept of that which is done for you,
and you accept it. (See?) Whatever else it brings forth, that's up to
that principle that's in you that's living. But, it can't be by works.

 	Okay, there's an across the board group, that's going to be changed
here while living, bodies brought out of the ground, and the whole bunch
move up and in. Tells you how.

	Bro. Branham said, "Jesus, (Hebrews 13:8) does all three things in
descending." Brings the dead out of the ground. Changes us, takes us up.
Based upon a promise, a culminating universal benefit. Which in turns
brings destruction on those who are not in the group. (You follow me?)
Okay, that's a principle.

21.	Revelation 20:4-6. Same thing, notice: 

		(4) 	…I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given 
					unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the 	
				witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not 					
worshipped the beast, neither his image, (nor) had received his mark 			
	upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned 			
		(a thousand years with Christ.)

		(5) 	…the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years
are 						finished. This is the first resurrection.

		(6) 	Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection:
on 						such the second death hath no power, (they'll) be priests of 		
				God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

	Okay, now you'll notice that the first half of the First Resurrection
was universal. Based upon the promise that he would lead captivity
captive. Based upon the promise that Job uttered: "In my flesh, I'm
going to see God. I'll stand with my Redeemer on this earth." [Job
19:25] Based upon the understanding that Abraham had; and every one of
those to whom the promise was given distinctly and separately there came
a time when the promise was fulfilled universally. When Jesus in Spirit
went down and tore the gates hell off, preached to the souls in prison
which could never be made right. They've got to stay til White Throne
judgment, they're disobedient, those who are lost.

	Now then, He brings out those who are in upper Sheol, they get bodies,
come up in the first half in the First Resurrection. All right, these
here (now) are all under a covenant promise of a universal benefit.
Every single person that was predestinated will be in the First
Resurrection. Every single one individually received the baptism with
the Holy Ghost. But, it's only collective that the come out of the
ground, collectively are changed, standing here, and collectively
they're taken up. And when they do, judgment falls. Now, that's your
principle. You can't change it.

22.	All right, here we see (in this principle) God is not dealing any
longer with one name. And that name on earth, (an earthly name) is Adam
and Noah, Ham, Shem, Japeth, and so on. But, dealing under His Own Name
collectively as in Exodus 6:3. 

	Let's go back and look at It. Okay:

		(3) 	And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the 	
				name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not 						(made)
known to them.

	Now, Abraham knew Him as Jehovah 'Jireh', in the singular. And there is
none other Name whereby we must be saved. And every single person must
bear (in the record) his personal testimony that he, personally as an
individual was born again and receives salvation through one Name only,
which is the verbal expression of the person Jehovah Savior. Individual.
But, that doesn't attain anymore once the last one is in. And the union
going on now, we don't know if the last one's in. But, believe me,
there'll not be a resurrection till the last one's in, child trained.

	There won't be a Rapture. There won't be a change in you and me if
we're standing here till the last one's in, child trained. And when that
one's in, it becomes a hundred percent collective. Now, that's
important, because not one of you is going to make it on your own, and
apart from anybody else. No one. It's got to go as a body. Israel came
out as a nation. Now, we've got to go in. Come out and go in as a body.
"Come out of her My people." [Rev 18:4b] (See?)

 	It's a group that comes out, it's a group that goes in. And he's
dealing under the exclusive revelation of the universal Name of benefit,
Jesus. Mrs. Jesus. And the union's going on now. And I never could
believe in a wedding by proxy. It's doesn't really hold up in the
records. It's been done, but only as a stand in, then it's got to be
legitimatized. And there's a union going on now with Christ and a Bride,
which is Christ, the Word, and it's universal. It is not going on in one
person and not another. Each member is not becoming the Word separate
from another member. For Bro. Branham said, "When you receive the Word
of God, you become the Word of God in your flesh." It is a universal
thing going on. (See?)

23.	All right, Revelation 22:1-4.  So, we are not divided, all one body
we:

		(1) 	…he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, 
					proceeding out of the throne of God and 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, yielded 						her fruit every month: the leaves of the tree were
for the healing 						of the nations.

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

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

	Okay, what did Bro. Branham say about taking the mark on the foreheads?
"It's to receive the word, the will, the thoughts of the antichrist."
Now, what about His Name? Not number, but His Name on our foreheads. A
complete identification. (See, that's nice eh?) Everyone, corporate in
their foreheads. A universality of revelation, recognition, acceptance,
participation through the Name, starting in the mind today. Then people
don't realize that this is a mind age, and what's going on? (Uh?)  

24.	Now listen, we're not a bunch of people  that's so ill taught here
that we're haphazard. I mean, surely goodness and mercy is following us
in some respect. And I can't be teaching you people this for all these
months have been going on, I teach you exclusively. Everybody else just
gets tapes, unless I go someplace for a couple of days. But, you get
exclusive teaching. Your exclusive teaching is, I'm reading it to you,
showing where you stand today. I'm showing you where you stand in your
universal benefits. You don't fall one less than Paul. You don't fall
one iota to be behind Moses. You don't fall anywhere, because a part is
apart. And I'm going to tell you, my little finger says, "All right, so
sorry, I'm the little finger over on the left hand, I should be right
hand." Let the right hand finger, (little finger) say, "Yeah, but you
dog, you're not as crooked as I am. The old boy must have arthritis or
something." (Yeah)

	And my finger nails don't say, "Wow, isn't it horrible that I am not
some tissue in the eye ball." They're all glad they're me. 

	You say, "Well, I don't know if I believe that."

	Well, I don't know if I believe it either. [Bro. Vayle chuckles] I'm
illustrating. See, the Name in the forehead. (See?) A people as one.

	Now, Paul said, "The Church ought to be that way." Intrinsically
potentially she is. We're getting more and more to it.

25.	Now, see, this is very nice teaching, we're very comfortable.  But,
you know what, we can sit here today, and we can congratulate ourselves,
we're a little nice tight knit body. We don't mind if there's eight or
ten of us. Oh, you know how it is, if we're going to get a cut of the
will, six get a whole lot more than forty. Ha, ha, ha, for the
individual. And we can get pretty smug here and think we've got
something. Forget it! We're not talking about stuff like that. We're
talking about reality. Spiritual. We're talking about Him. Not Lee
Vayle, and some other personality. (See?) 

	Now, servants will serve Him. See His face. Even His Name in their
foreheads, realizing that the universal benefits are coming into play
without any hindrance. Now, that's the trouble right here, we're in this
world here and it's a pretty messed up world. It's distorted, it's
perverted. The  world is full with religious dogma, creeds, everything
looks good, it's very nice. Oh, we've had nice Christmas concerts and
raised a lot of money to help the poor. Oh that's good, but it's not
good. Because it's all done apart from the reality of the name in the
forehead. (See?)

	There's only one group that's pleasing to God. And that is a group, it
is not an individual anymore. Though we're all individuals. But, you see
we're coming more and more into a distinct elemental Bride. Fundamental
one of the Word all the way. A truly heavenly body collective at this
point through the Word. Which is really the revelation of Him.

26.	All right, God has given us a promise which always boils down to
grace as seen in Romans 4:1, Okay, we read:    

		(1) 	What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to
the 					flesh, hath found?  

	Let's find out. Abraham, let's take a good look at you.

		(2) 	…if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory;
but 					not before God. 

	Well, that let out Abraham, because we're dealing with God. Poor old
Abraham. Poor old boy is a mess. Can't do a thing but just sit there and
blink his eye balls.

		(3) 	…what saith the scripture? (All right, we're going to get
Abraham 						in good shape now. Now, you got blink his eye balls, he
begins 						to assimilate.)  Abraham believed God…

	 The only good thing he did. And that wasn't so hot on the grounds what
God did for him. If you couldn't believe, you got to be a sardine that's
been boiled by the volcanic ash for about fifty million years. He
might've been worse than a mess. I ever after what God did for Abraham,
he couldn't believe God, what a mess. So, even faith is a tremendous
asset that God has everything to do with.

		(4) 	Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but 
					debt.

		(5) 	But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth
the 					ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

 	Now, there is a big stone right there that a person's got to make a
step over and hurdle. Because, this is the toughest one of the works;
that this is imputed for righteousness. 

27.	Now, wherefore his deeds were evil. That's right, no faith. I don't
care how good his work was. Actually he produced a nicer work than Abel
did. As Bro. Branham said, "Where's there's death there's birth and
death." It's all is pretty sticky and pretty stinky and pretty smelly.
You get that little lamb and he knows death's upon him, and you starting
cutting his throat he'll defecate all over you. Just like the human body
rigor mortis. The bowls let loose. The bladder lets loose. You got to
plug the orifice, everything else. Body's a mess. If you want to look
nice…Cain looked way nicer than Abel did after that sacrifice. In fact
Abel might have looked pretty stupid along side of Cain. How good did
Jesus look when He cleaned the temple out a couple of times along side
of the priests? 

	No wonder they said, "We have no king but Caesar. Forget this bird,
he's a lunatic." You know Bro. Branham wasn't painting a picture that
was wrong when he began painting some pretty rough pictures about the
Holy One, and anybody else. How that man looks alongside Mr. Lovely,
church member. How do you know Abraham?  

		(5)	…counted for righteousness. (Because he believed.)

		(6) 	…David (describes) the blessedness of the man, unto whom God 		
			(imputes) righteousness without works,

		(7) 	Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose
						sins are covered.

		(8) 	Blessed is the man to whom (God) will not impute sin.

	Now, that's hard to believe. So, well I did it.

28.	You know, acknowledging that we have done something is bad is hard.
Yeah, I admit it, especially when the chips are down and you're going to
get bopped for it. But, isn't strange that it is even harder to really
believe that God will not impute sin to you, even though you've sinned?
Now you see, that right there makes everybody sin. They want both eyes
to look out the corners the same time. They want a peripheral vision
that's three hundred and sixty. Merciful heaven, a true peripheral is
not even a hundred and eighty. Really you've got to bat your eyes a
certain amount. I can almost get a hundred and eighty here, but this
side here is a little bit blacked out; my right side. This side is very
clear. Well, I can see every single person, but I can't see this corner.
Maybe if I did this, I'd see equal corners. My peripheral then is not
the same. But, I can still see this corner here, better than this
corner.

	But, you know three hundred and sixty degrees is twice that. I can see
around the back of my head and everything else. But, if you can do that,
you're a fly, [laughter] or a frog. We ain't no sheep. Now look, it's
pretty hard to believe that God will not do something nasty and rough,
and say something corrosive, not corrective, corrosive concerning our
sins.

 	How's your faith today kid? (Huh?) First of all, can you stand the
fact that what you do won't look as good as what the other fellow does
and he's wrong? Can you stand the fact that God won't impute sin to you?
Now, somebody say, "Oh, I like that fine. And that means I can do all I
want and get away with it." It didn't  that. See, your peripheral vision
is a vision of a toad or a fly. [Bro. Vayles chuckles] You don't get
vision my brother, my sister that looks at the Word of God that way. No
siree. (See?) There's a nature here that's different. That old nature is
not there anymore. Something's happened. It isn't that you are perfect,
it's you'd like to be perfect. (Yeah) And there's only one way to get
it.  

29.	We'll keep reading:

		(9) 	Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only… (and 	
				so on, so on.) 

	Let's get up to the top here: verse 13.

		(13) 	For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world… (and
						that's what we're looking for.)

 	We're looking for Revelation 20:4-6. 

		(13)	…was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but
through 					the righteousness of faith.

		(14) 	For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void,
and 						the promise made of none effect:

	All right, we're trying to get out of here. We figure on getting out of
here. How are you going to get out of here? You better know what the
promise is. You better have the promise. Then, you better not try to
louse it up, by trying to work it out. Now, there's something you're
supposed to do, God will tell you. Okay:

		(14) 	For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void,
and 						the promise made of none effect:

		(15) 	Because the law worketh wrath: (In other words, the harder you 	
				work, the more trouble you're in.) for where no law is, (there's) no
						transgression.

 	Now, It tells you, that the promise of being heir to the world is
through faith. Now, Israel was given a promise, you're going to get out
of here. There's no two ways about it. "I'm going to see that you get
out. And you're going to get out on the fact of the blood." So, the
blood stood between them and death. And the prophet and the Pillar of
Fire was going to take them right into the Kingdom. That's all they had
to do.

30.	Okay, God gives a promise that's all of grace. But, only the Elect,
those in the Lamb's Book of Life will believe it. Romans 11:1-7.  We're
talking about Israel being a type.

		(1) 	I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For (I'm)
an 					Israelite, seed of Abraham, tribe of Benjamin.

		(2) 	(Jehovah) hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. (Know)
					ye not what the scripture (said) of (Elijah)? how he (makes)
intercession 					to God against Israel saying,

		(3) 	Lord, they have killed thy prophets, digged down (your) altars;
(I'm) 					left alone, they seek my life.

	Now, that's the way the prophet was. It was. Elijah alone was the one
that was in the open.    If he hadn't done what he had done, then the
hearts would not have been turned back. But, you know what? He wasn't
the only one, though he was the only one. He was the only one at that
moment. What did he come for? To turn them back. Moses was the only one
that had the revelation. What was he given for? To turn them back.
(See?) All right:

		(4) 	…the answer of God…I have reserved seven thousand, (that)
have 						not bowed the knee…  

		(5) 	Even so at this present time (there's) a remnant according to the
						election of grace.

		(6) 	And if by grace, no more of works: otherwise grace is no more
grace					…if it be of works, then it is no more grace: otherwise work
is no 						more work.

		(7) 	What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for;
but 						the election hath obtained it, the rest were blinded.

31.	What were they blinded to? Faith! What God was doing! (See?) Now,
what we're talking about. We're talking about a group of people getting
out of here. And across the board universal fulfillment unto a benefit.
We're going to get out of here. A bunch of us are going to get out of
here. All at one time, in the same shape for the same reasons. And it's
got everything to do with faith. Rapturing faith. Which the prophet said
we didn't have enough even to get a little bruise healed, and a little
cut. How are we going to get out of here? Rapturing faith is when you
know what you're into. And you're going to identify it. And you're
identified with it. (See?) There's a whole group identified.

 	All right, there is a group identified as one with Elijah. Seven
thousand haven't bowed the knee. Two million were identified with Moses.
How many hundreds of thousands of the Bride are going to get out of
here, counting all the dead that's coming up? I don't know, but every
single one is going to make it. How many living Bride? I don't know, but
every single one is going to make it. There's not going to be one change
his mind. Because, his mind has already been changed. Because the Name
is in the forehead. (See?) The Name's already there. The revelation. So,
right now you know that you're in His will. You're not taking any other
mark. You're identified.

32.	Okay, the foolish virgin won't make it, we know that. As Matthew 25,
also Deuteronomy 2: 1-18, read It for yourself. (That's the Old
Testament) But, the Bride is going to make it. Because, she's one body.
(See?) And she's married to Christ; and he that's married, or she that's
married to the Head. Where the Head is, the body's got to be. So, when
the Head came out of the grave, It identified every single one in the
grave that was to follow. The Old Testament has followed Him. The New
Testament is hot on the trail, because He's descended. Come down, to set
Himself Head of the Church.

	Well, wasn't He the Head of the Church that came out of the grave?
Didn't He stand there with them?  But, He's going to stand again. (See?)
He's come down in the form of the Spirit, to bring the dead out. To
change the living, and then take us up where He is, which is not in the
heavens, but above where the clouds are, atmosphere. People can't see
it. That doesn't matter. You're not supposed to see private weddings,
and suppers and marriages and all those things. None of their business.
The wicked don't make it. 

33.	Tells you that. Revelation 22:14-15, those outside are dogs,
whoremongers, sorcerers, those that loveth and maketh a lie. Believe
lies. Let's read about It. (I'm skipping some, others I won't skip. I
won't skip this, I want to read it to you.) Let's look at It. He says
here after opening the Seals. The righteous are righteous:

		(14) 	Blessed are they that (wash their robes, they've got the) right
to 						the tree of life, (they're going to) enter through the gates
(to) 						the city.

		(15) 	For without are dogs, (male prostitutes; that's your preachers,)
						sorcerers, (that's your churches with their creeds and dogmas) 			
		whoremongers… (those that want to live with it, live in it; those 		
			are the nice ones.) 

	Wherefore slew his brother because his deeds were evil. What evil
deeds? Aw, recognize the Bible, hallelujah. Recognize the Resurrection.
Yes siree, glory to God. Recognize everything, but the Word of the hour,
the revelation. Oh, the mule outworks the horse any day. "Many more are
the children of desolate, than she that has a husband." [Gal 4:27] Oh,
Christian Science love. Church love is nicer than anything we ever had.
Because, the gates of hell ain't against them, they are the gates of
hell. If Satan's divided, he'll fall. He ain't divided. He ain't divided
amongst us, or any place else yet, let's get that flat. If you think
you've made a pussy-cat out of Satan, tell you what you do: rub his fur
the wrong way and watch the hips swing and Pentecostal female pussy-cat
floozy, bare her claws and bite and scratch. (Yeah!) And accuse you of
everything under high heaven.

34.	Oh, the best defense is a good offence. I don't think you're
thinking, or are you thinking? I don't know if you caught it, it doesn't
matter. (Yeah)  

		(15)	…idolaters, (murders, who loves) and (makes) a lie.

	Who loves and makes a lie? What is that, who deliberately changes the
word of the prophet? (Yeah) They won't stand up and fact it, they got to
change it. A man says, "That which is perfect has not come." Now, he's
trying to argue with the word 'Parousia' is misused from the Greek.
Maybe his Greek, I don't know. But all the authorities I know. Of course
there's a certain fellow says he's researching too now, and he's looked
at the authorities and he said, "There's a difference." I don't believe
there is a difference, because the other words are difference. The
prophet said it's the way you want to do. 

	If you say, "He's not Present." Then the prophet must have lied.
Because, I don't know what you're talking about, the dead aren't raised
yet. Maybe the dead are raised and we missed it. So, He's not Present,
He's gone. Too bad. Tell that to them. You can't have your cake and eat
it. Come on! See, I'm trying teach in a way where we either got your
cake and eat it, or forget it, you can't have your cake and eat it, (you
see) on the grounds that…well hey, I can fool around. You can be fish,
or fowl. There's not a bunch of bats here. Certainly not.

	You know, the animals and the birds had a war. And when the fighting
got too hot the animals were winning, the bat folded his wings and said,
"I'm an animal." And the birds starting winning he put his wings down
and he said, "I'm a bird." I'd say, he's a bird alright. [laughter]

		(15)	…loveth and maketh a lie.

		(16)	(Why, He said, I've) sent mine (messenger) to testify…(to let
you know 				Who I am and what it's all about.)

	Now, He said, "If you want to come on those grounds, there's life for
you. If you don't, well, there's no life for you."

 	Now listen, those wicked are in the churches. Says right in verse 16. 

		(16)	… (I've sent my messengers) to testify (to) you these things in
the 						churches…	

	There's only one the church. He testifies to the churches. What
churches? They're all here. Every denomination traces its' roots back to
Catholicism. I've got Time Magazine brought it out. I've got it at home
somewhere in my files. If you want it for yourself, write to Time
Magazine, (I'm sure it's Time) and say, "Would you mind giving me a
copy, (oh about twenty years ago) when you sent out a…in your magazine
you had all the churches; traced their roots back to Rome." I've got it
somewhere. It was given to me, I got a copy somewhere.

35.	Yes sir, harlot and daughters. 1 John 3:12.

		(12) 	Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother.
And 					wherefore slew he him?... 

	Why is the blood of the martyrs in the churches? Because they're of
Cain. Show me anybody in all the Ages that was a split-off, that got
conscience stricken, and heart stricken over the things of God? I mean
really; and talk about a new birth, a righteous life based upon a spirit
filled life? Show me where they were wicked people. They were godly
clean wonderful people, and the church turned on them, because they're
full of their whoredoms. Do you think the Roman Catholic  church with
its priesthood could stand godly decent people? They just about ruined
every single one of them. "Oh," they say, "well, if pope John had of
been the pope instead of Leo, Luther wouldn't have left the church."
Hogwash! What a bunch of hogwash. Luther would have to leave, if he'd
have even come out of Wesley's church. What are you talking about? It's
got to be a come out. Never been anything but a come out. (See?)

		(12)	…of that wicked one…

	Why? Because they can't stand competition. One man says, "It's a life."


	The other man says, "It's a dogma." 

	One man says, "It's a life." 

	The other man says, "It's a condition."

	One man says, "It's a life." 

	The other guy turns around and says, "Well, it's formula."

	You see, you've got to be nuts, it's life. And the life changes the
nature. And the nature goes to the Word. Now, he's not going to live
that Word perfectly, there's only One Word. He's going to aspire,
otherwise it wouldn't be faith anymore. It wouldn't even be hope
anymore. It would be all God. It's not all God. Not until his body's
changed. (See?) So, the Bride's in there, she's got to come out. The
wicked are in there…they'll stay there.

 	Notice, no genealogy of anyone that seed goes back to Cain. Even in
John. Why they said, "Hey, we're of Abraham."

	He said, "Sure (he said) according to your forefathers." But He said,
"You're of Cain according to what's in you."  They didn't understand
predestination. (See?)

36.	Okay, so we're right back to our principle: God's promise of grace
to the Elect demands a fulfillment of His promise. And when it is time
to fill it we notice first, one: God comes on the scene. Two: a
prophetic office opens up. (See?) That's why I keep telling you people,
do you really believe in a prophet? Or, are you sitting here today and
you don't really believe. "Oh," you say, "well sure, it had to be a
prophet." Sure, look it, I, I, look it, we're past that stage for going
on three months now. (I checked my notes, it's three months about, or
longer. Longer than three months.) We categorically understand that most
people  that claim this Message don't understand. God demands a prophet
when you talk about a Moses and a Paul, and a William Branham.

	"Oh," you say, "Why William Branham? Because he claimed he was Elijah.
Elijah means 'exodus'. Because a burning comes after Elijah. Now, you
can't have your cake and eat it. As I say, make up your mind which way
you're going.

	Okay, you say, "Prophet."

	Okay, "Then God." 

	No God, no prophet. There's no use. And if there's a prophet and no
God, there's no prophet. I don't care if a man says he's prophet. Just
like this bunch of…I find they traced the history back to the
Irvingites now, a hundred and fifty years; my good buddy I talked to in
Dayton, a real lovely boy. 

37.	We talk a little bit. I said, "Give me the history." I said, "You go
way back there? Great, give me the history." I find they go back to
Irvingites.  Irvingites spoke in tongues, they had prophets, which I
don't believe what they said; and they had apostles. Which I don't
believe in apostles, like they have them. But now, after a hundred and
fifty years they got a chief apostle. At that age, the pope ought to eat
my shirt. [laughter] No danger, I should have made that [shirt] out of
ice cream cone. You know, that cake dough they make. I'm not worried
about eating my shirt.

	So, I said, "Hey, you had prophecy. How come you don't have it now?"

	"Well," he said, "We don’t need it now."

	I said, "You've got to be kidding, we need it worse than ever."    

	What have they got? They got a rigmarole of a dogma. (See?) They don't
understand, and I believe too many in this Message (so called) don't
understand. If God came down there had to be a prophet. If there was a
prophet, God had to come down. The Word of God is the Word of the
prophet. The Word of prophet is the Word of the God, or shut up! And if
God's not in a prophet, shut up! Get out of here stupid! I don't need a
jerk like you. I've got enough trouble right now.

	They don't believe this Message. They don't believe in a prophet as a
prophet should be believed in. See, what I'm trying to get across to
you? We're not sitting here like wooden-faith Indians anymore. I hope
not. I won't look at you too, I ought to change my glasses they're
getting poor. I hope you're getting what's in my heart, what's in my
mind to let you know. I don't see any difference anymore.

	You don't talk to me about God without talking about a prophet. Not in
this hour. And you don't talk about a prophet without talking about God.
And you don't tell me about an exodus, even though the prophet's gone,
because Moses didn't even lead them in.  Neither did William Branham. 
So, where was God? He was with Him. He changed to the Captain of the
host of Israel. A military command, He come with a military command.
It's the same Word that's putting the Church in order. 

38.	You say, "Well, He might have been here, but He's gone." Now, you've
got a yo-yo. Talk about believing the prophet, what do they believe? For
heaven's sake, what do they believe? I want to throw the question out
today: what do they believe? They don't believe what I believe. They
don't see what I see, I know that for a fact. 

	"You could…maybe you're wrong." Maybe I am wrong, time's going to
find out. But, the prophet said in the Seventh Seal, "Under the Seventh
Seal of Revelation 10:1-7, which included God and a prophet," he said,
"I must decrease, He must increase."

	"Oh, what's he talking about?" His wife? (ha) Lee Vayle?  (phfft!) ...I
resent that! If God doesn't increase, who needs anything, and who's
going anywhere? Simple as a-b-c. If God doesn't take us in, nobody's
going to take us in, because Jesus does all three in descending. And he
wasn't talking about the corporal. Hebrews 13:8 is not the corporal.
Because, that body we're talking about that He inhabited, had as start!
As the prophet himself said, "Melchisedec was not Jesus, because Jesus
had a beginning." And the body which would be a term of disrespect,
except we understand what we're talking about, was raised up and was and
put on the Mercy Seat behind the Throne.

	Who descended then? He said, "God, Jesus Christ, Holy Spirit, (using
the terminology: three in a row) comes down, sets Himself the Head of
the Church in order to raise the dead." God, raises the dead.  At His
Presence, the dead are raised. (See?)

	Who's leading us in? Has God thrown us back on our own resources?
"Well," you say, "The baptism with the Holy Ghost does it." 

	Oh no it doesn't, because He categorically said, "Except I send Elijah,
I'll abort it." Now look it, either we believe the Word, or we don't
believe the Word. We don't believe It, shut up! Go join the Mormon's. 

	You say, "Why the Mormon's? " Well, I just thought of them. [laughter]
They sound interesting. Because you can have your cake and eat it with
them.

39.	All right: 

	One: God comes on the scene,

	Two: A prophet  has already comes.

	Three: The revelation of God places the people, as to the hour they
live in; and brings them into the secrets of God. And judgment begins to
fall in the land, then the Elect are taken out and complete judgment
strikes.

	Notice, God starts the work for the Bride. And at the same time the
judgment against the wicked. In Horeb, God appears to Moses, gives him
the Word of the hour. Which is about to be fulfilled. Judgment in part
strikes Egypt for the squeeze comes down on the Elect. Darkness strikes
Egypt. Light strikes the Israelites. Spiritual death strikes the
Egyptians. Spiritual life and light strikes the Israelites who are the
Bride at that time. Israel is taken out, because of the life and the
light; for that's what they were, both light and life through the mercy
of God. Egypt goes down, no life, no light.

	Look at the time of Jesus' life of earth. God and His Prophet on the
scene. The blood of bulls and goats are out. The law was until John.
Grace and truth comes by Jesus Christ. He wants to take them in. They
won't come into the promise. The law is over, time for a change. Israel
refuses. So, redemption comes through Christ's death. The dead come out
of the grave. Judgment sets in, they're scattered for two thousand
years. (Right? Sure.) 

40.	Notice today: Elijah the prophet is here. Malachi 4:1-2. "I'm going
to burn the land over. Yet for you people, I'm going to rise with
healing in my wings." When the Bride receives the prophet Elijah, like
Elisha. Now, when the Bride receives Elijah, like Elisha would receive,
(see?) it knows it's departure time is at hand. Bro. Branham talked of
that.

	Here's a little goose that's born, he honks, now it's time for the
flight to go south. Suddenly, that goose for no reason other than God
(in predestination in the life of the earth) He's made that goose a
leader. He begins to honk, and the geese come around him. Elisha types
the Bride, recognizes Elijah as the leader. Comes around him for the
take off.

	Now, the judgment's of God strikes in Alaska. Judgments in the earth.
Now, we saw Mount St. Helena going up. Now, Mount Shasta, northern
California. Now, Rainer and Hood. Everywhere, tremors, tremors, tremors.
Getting ready for the big bust.

	Listen, thousands, hundreds of thousands of acres, I guess billions of
dollars ruined because of Mount St. Helena. What's going to happen when
Hood goes up and Rainer? And Shasta? Clean the her entire north west
literally, absolutely possible.  

41.	Get up into Canada. Oh yeah, a wind come in put ash over that
territory. Destroyed Vancouver, Seattle, Vancouver Island, who's to say
it won't happen? Who's to say it will? All lies there, judgment's in the
earth started back in about 1964 [Bro. Vayle says 1965] March [27] in
Alaska. It's never ceased. (See?) Earthquake faults here in America.
Runs through Illinois. Some runs north of us around the Great Lakes.
Toronto a couple of years ago had a tremor. Doesn't mean much, yet it
means everything.

  	Why? Because the prophet said what was going to happen, happened. And
when the pressure comes down, God brings physical and spiritual death to
all but the Bride. Then the Bride goes and judgment in earnest sets in.
Then the Tribulation is on. Moses and Elijah, two more witnesses. They
are killed, but they rise again. And the final judgment, confrontation
to the antichrist and Jesus; and the Bride and the world. All of those
in the First Resurrection come down to take their inheritance with the
sword of God. And we do tread upon the ashes of the wicked. Though, I
don't think go puff, puff, puff…maybe disintegrate.  But, we're going
to take over. That sounds too gory for some people. Doesn't to me.
Whatever He says goes. I wish I felt that way about everything. But,
it's coming.

42.	Judgment is striking, and we'll strike with the burning over of the
land, the entire land. But, in all this, three and a half years of
increasing judgment, just before the Bride comes to take over, she is at
her Wedding Supper. She has accepted the prophetic Word, from the Logos
inspired prophet that qualifies her in the positive in Matthew 23:34.

		(34) 	…behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, (the world's
going 					to) crucify (them)...

	 But, I'm going to somebody's going to listen. Judgment is going to
come upon the wicked. What's going to come for the righteous? Eternal
salvation.

		(37-38)  (Oh, world, world, that turns your back on the prophets, you 
					would have been gathered, but your house has been left desolate.) 	
				 (See? It's too late, judgment has set in.) 

43.	Now, let's go here to Matthew 24:34,  Because, that's pretty well
where I want take It from.

 		(34)	 …This generation shall not pass, till all these things be
fulfilled.

		(35) 	Heaven and earth shall pass away, but not (this Word.)

	Notice what He said: And the heaven and earth passing is because of
that Word, because the Seventh Seal goes plumb off into eternity. It's
already started. Everything running out. The Judge goes plumb to the
White Throne. (Uh?) You bet, Revelation 1. Daniel, Revelation 20. What
starts it? This prophet with this Word. (See?)  

	Why? Because salvation winds up, and it would abort. Why? 

44.	Let's go back to Romans, (hold your finger there) Romans 8:11.

		(11)	But if the spirit of him that raised up Jesus (that's God, that
raised 						up Jesus) his dwells in you, he that raised up Christ
(that's God) from 					the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by
(the very) Spirit 						(a part of which dwells) in you.

	In other words, you've got a combination here. (See?) You are sealed
into the day of redemption. And when you die, you've got your guarantee
that God will raise you. Why? Because He's put His Spirit in you. He put
His Spirit in Jesus. That Spirit went back. Didn't stay in the corpse.
No way. God raised that Body. Spirit of God doesn't stay in your corpse.
But, It's put Its Seal on every one of your atoms. So, if you go back to
gases, those atom's got to come back. Brand new, in a different form.
You've been sealed in. Who does it? God does it. Now, if He can collect
your atoms in your body, He can sure collect the Bride. This is the
thing that bugged me when this guy said to me, he said, "Lee, (he said)
what about Bro. Branham, he just died?"  

	"Well," I said, "I don't know." I said, "I've got no promise. I've got
nothing from God. I've got nothing from the prophet. I've got nothing
nowhere. But from where I stand, I'll be more surprised if He doesn't
come back, then if He does." And I thought that He might come back
within a week, or three days, or who knows. Six weeks didn't bother me
if He came back in three years, or ten years. I just figure He could
come back, and He ought to come back. That was my own assessment. And I
figured that I had more thinking of why He should come back, then why He
shouldn't come back.

45.	"But," he said, "Lee, I used to be an undertaker." And he said, "You
know, until they embalmed him, I thought He might come back." But he
said, "When they embalmed him, (he said) they take this 'tro-car'(?)
it's a big iron kind of a spear with a spear on the end. They shove it
up in the bowels and just jerk you all around so the stuff can flow
through you."

	And I said, "You mean that stops your decaying?

	"Yeah."

	I said, "Listen, He's going to raise them from an hand full of ashes
and gases don't tell me William Branham can't come back in the shape
that God wants him back."	  

	God didn't want him back. Or He would have been back. Why even Paul
stood there before Gamaliel…"thinkest thou, a thing incredible that
God should raise the dead?" 

	"Why," he said, "you stupid jerk, you know these things you blaspheming
spiritual idiot. And you're going to tell me standing here that I'm
supposed to be swamped and overcome that God raises the dead? If God
doesn't raise the dead, or can't raise the dead forget God!" 

	If He can't raise the dead, what can He do? What do you got God for?
I'm with Paul in my own feeble, feeble, feeble, feeble ways. You bet
He's going to raise the dead. He's going to change us too. Yes sir, now
going on here: 

		(35) 	Heaven and earth (is going to) pass away.     

		(37) 	But as the days of Noe were, (it'll be at the Presence) of the
Son 						of man. 

		(38)	…eating and drinking…(and so on.)

	And then It goes down here, and tells you there's a separation.

		(40) 	…two in the field; one taken, (one) left.

		(41) 	Two …at the mill; one taken, and (one) left.

46.	Now, He's warning the very way that John warned. "Will you be
ashamed in His Presence?" Now, ashamed, what is that? That's over there
in Revelation; ashamed of nakedness, caught in your adulteries.
Spiritual fornication, (see?) what would it be like? Would you be one of
those that's off the Word, and away from God? Or, will you be one of
those with the Word, a separating time? And, at that time there comes
fights. Now, I don't know what's ahead of us, but, I got a feeling that
the biggest spiritual fight of all time is coming right up to…is
coming pretty soon, because I can't see us getting out of here without a
donnybrook. Now, according to what's gone on before, it'll be a showdown
with the world too. It might be a showdown amongst us.

	You know, what my thoughts on this subject I'm not going to tell you,
but it's going to shake, and I mean it'll really shake. It'll shake the
stuffing's spiritually speaking out of people and physically also. It
what could happen will happen. I don't say that it will,  I don't know
what God's got planned. But, the gates of hell are against a certain
revelation, and if we are right in our revelation, the gates of hell are
against us, period. And you might as well get ready for it. Because,
you're going to get blasted. And it won't be any pea-shooter either,
they'll bring up the biggest cannons and before it's over, I wouldn't be
surprised even prophets will rise up with signs, and blast it.  

47.	"What a day that will be…" oh brother. Could happen you know.
Could happen. They began to smite. They got plumb drunk on the
revelation. Because, one said, "He isn't coming, till so and so." One
says, "He's here." (Oh yeah, well I don't know, wait and see, wait and
see.) 

	But, it's time for a separation. It's time for the rest of faith. It's
time for the gathering. We've been in the Shout since '63. Twenty years.
(Yep!) Coming up. Could twenty one be the silence?    I haven't the
least idea. Heavens were silent. Maybe because He's down here? Came down
here to take His place in the Church? 

	You say, "What about '33?" That was fine. That was fine, His Coming.
That wasn't coming into the Church. That wasn't the Capstone of the
Church. That was just showing Who He was, letting you know there was a
prophet here. Letting you know God's here.

	But, set Himself the Head of the Church. Did He do that in '63, or
didn't He? Good question.    I think He did, but we'll let that go for
those that don't agree. It doesn't matter to me; '63, '64, who gives a
rip as long as He's the Head of the Church. I aint' going to fuss.

	But what if  He came in '63 set Himself down at the Head of the Church?
Silence in Heaven. But, not on earth. (Uh?) Bride's talking. What if
twenty years is up in '84? I don't know, I'm just wondering, I don't
know. Wasn't up in '82. (That would be '84, wouldn't it?) Who knows?
Actually, what does it matter?  

48.	The old song said: "If Jesus goes with me, I'll go anywhere." And if
He's here, we'll go with Him anywhere. He's going to take us, so don't
worry about it. It's that time. The Lord has descended with a Shout.
This is the time of the dead and the living to come together. This is
the time of the Resurrection. This is the time of the Rapture. This is
the time of the Wedding Supper. This is the time. A spiritual death.
That's right, I don't disagree with the prophet, I agree. You saw the
'Ten Commandments', you better believe it.

 	So, we see, there is a promise even to the Elect. And all, but as one
body. Not here, there, one body come in under It. That's the promise.
And they as one body go to their reward; for they are God's Own. Not an
individual promise anymore, or a secret to an individual. But, the
secret's out, there's a Bride going to make it. And she's one. (Yeah)

	Judgment strikes all the rest, because of unbelief. Three purges go on.
Church, world, Jews. How can the Bride plural, but one, ever come into
condemnation? It is an all across the board, no way can she, for she is
under promise, and promise is by grace through faith.

49.	Let me read It again to you: [Romans 4:] (We'll let you get out of
here pretty soon.) 

		(13) 	For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was
not to 						Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the
righteousness 					of faith.

	Do you believe what's set before you? Well, I think we're getting
there.

		(14) 	For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void,
and the 					promise made of none effect:

		(15) 	Because the law worketh wrath:…

	The harder you're trying yourself, the more you're going to miss it.
The more you get out of the way and let Him do it, the quicker you're
going to get it.  

		(15)	…for where no law is, there is no transgression.

		(16) 	Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end
the promise 					might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which
is of the law, but 					to that also which is of the faith of Abraham;
who is the father of us 					all, (that's Jew and Gentile.)

		(17) 	(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,)
before 					him whom he believed, even God, who (quickens) the dead, and
						(calls) those things which be not as though they were. (That's why
						He calls the ungodly righteous.)

50.	You know…I'll tell you a little joke, very appropriate at this
time: there was this guy who was a pick-pocket, and he picked up a man's
watch. And they took him to court; and he had a very slick powerful
lawyer. And the attorney got him off. And the judge says to this
criminal, "You are not guilty."

	And the guy says, "Does that mean I get to keep the watch?" [laughter]

	That's exactly what I'm talking about. God knew what you and I were
going to do, and saw us do it. And He said, "Not guilty." 

	Now, He didn't look down on us and say, "Hey, I just do that for fun. I
just do that because I want to do it." There was a seed there and He
knew that person and those people really want something better. I don't
think Noah wanted to get drunk. I hope he got such a headache he never
did it again. But maybe, he just felt good, he did it again and again. I
don't know. I hope not. I don't know. I know that people are weak. I
know as long as you're in the flesh, there's problems here, but God's
got a promise.  

	And for those who are true believers certainly there is no way they
will make it with anything they have got to make it with. I'll be God
doing it for them. It's going to be all of grace. God will not impute
iniquity as David said. And I believe David was part of the First
Resurrection, because he was a man after God's Own heart. See, he
believed God.

	She believes the Bride, so therefore, she's a believer. And she who
believed His Word will not perish. Because, He the Lamb lives, she lives
also. As He said in John 11:26, "He that liveth and believeth in me
shall never perish. You believe this?" Absolutely, I believe It.

51.	He also said, when that Spirit would come He would show us things to
come. And He showed us as in Ephesians what was to come. Which was His
revelation of Himself, His Presence, and why He is here, and what part
we have in It. Thus, we see It. Mercy and grace, then judgment. But
notice, not to individuals, but the body.

	I tell you, (you know) where was it that so many people got away with
it, and just a few got struck, because of what they said to Bro.
Branham, blaspheming the Holy Ghost. Because, it wasn't an individual
affair. You and I are not being exonerated individually. That's already
been done. We're born again. The High Priest has taken us in and sealed
us in. What is He doing? He's fulfilling a collective promised of a
resurrection. First, Resurrection universal. A changing of the living
universal. A Rapture of them all universal. A Wedding Supper universal.
A coming back to reign universal. It's across the board. And when He
does it, there's grace and a prophet; and the Fire, the Pillar of Fire,
Almighty God. And when that promise strikes and becomes manifested,
judgment begins to set in.

	Now, soon as the Bride gets out of here grace has been expended totally
to the Gentiles in this respect: there's more at the White Throne. But
in this respect, it is over. Everyone in the Tribulation dies, but the
Bride is gone on. So you see, there's a principle brother/sister. How
then do people violate the principle and say, "Well, He's not here." How
do they violate the principle of a prophet? Well, how they do it, it's
their business. Let's not us be found in their business, but let us be
found in our own.

52.	The Bride has been exonerated. Romans 8. Listen to what Paul says:

		(28) 	…we know that all things work together for good to them that
love 					God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

		(29) 	For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be
conformed 					to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn
among many 					brethren. (That's the Resurrection.)

		(30) 	Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom
					he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he
also 					glorified. (That's the Resurrection. Showing you what It is,
and what 					the processes are.)

		(31) 	What shall we then say to these things? (We've got it made.) If
God 					be for us… (everybody else shut up, and I mean everybody else
shut 					up.) 

	That means you can keep the wrist watch, yes. [laughter] You're not
going to keep any wrist watch. It just means you're off the hook. Who
wants a wrist watch or anything of the world? We're going to…look,
there's no problem, God exonerated us. He doesn't even see it, because
we've come under the Blood. (See?)

		(31) 	What shall we say then…? If God be for us, who can be against
us?

 		(32) 	He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us
all, how 					shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
(Even Elijah. See?)

		(33) 	Who shall lay any thing… 

	Who dared bring me in God's court? Who dares challenge one of God's
Elect? Why, he said, God called me righteous. Who condemns me to death?

		(34)	(How can there be condemnation when Christ died?) Yea rather, is 
					risen again, at the right hand of God, (making) intercession..

	Now, that's at the time of intercession. What about after? Is there
slip ups? How can there be.

53.	Now:

		(35) 	Who shall separate us from the love of (God)?...

	Now, this all begins set in. Can the Great Intercessor ever leave us
alone? Can anything He did ever fall to the ground? No way!  All right,
now let the problems begin to come.     

		(35)	…tribulation, distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, peril,
or sword?

	Do you they couldn't happen? Sure, they could happen! But they took His
garment off and left him naked. What if you and I hit it? Well, we'll be
able to manage. He's not going to leave us. Something's going to show
up. Something's going to turn up. Something's going to take care of us.
What do I mean by something? I mean, He'll simply give us the grace and
the understanding to have it. And we'll still witness, don't worry,
we'll still fight back. Gates of hell. They're not going to get us.
Because see, we're part of the gate, the same gate that He is, where
that Name is. That Name's in our forehead, the same that was in His.
We're part of that. You bet.

	"Lift up your heads, ye gates, ye doors the last forever. Be lift up
the King of glory as in the midst." (Ps 24:7] The gates of hell are
against us. But it's not going to stop a Resurrection. It's not going to
stop anything. 

		(37) 	…all these things we are more than conquerors…

	In other words, this promise contains a step up escalator clause. (Yep)
Then when the price of everything goes up, the power goes up with it.
Got a built-in escalator clause.

		(37)	… more than conquerors…  

		(38) 	…I am persuaded…death, (it's already struck the land) life,
(we 						got it. Any life out there, really don't matter) …powers,
(that's 						here, things present, things to come,

		(39) 	… height, depth, (nothing is going) to separate us… (no way,
shape 					and form.) 

54.	Now, we're closing, it's the end-time. He came down, the prophet's
here. It's a group going in. See, this is why this love is soon be in
the Church. I'm not trying to set a tenor. Look, I'm not stupid, I'm not
arrogant, and yet I believe that somehow a Bride knows what's going on.
Because Bro. Branham said so.  You can't look back, can't look forward,
God knows what's going on. I know that he told me to watch this Word,
and I've watched this Word. And this message has been postponed for
almost one month to this point, and we're still in December. And the
very thing I wanted to tell you about, and I have talked about
obliquely, is this: I believe with all my heart we are coming into the
complete gravitational pull of the Resurrection. I can't prove anything,
I only believe It.

	And I also believe as I've said that God made promise to me personally,
that this love that Bro. Branham spoke of would be in the Bride, he said
it would before the Resurrection. I believe that's mine, whether this
side, or next side, that's alright by me. I don't care which it is, but
I'm going to have it. Now, that's one of the greatest miracles of all
time, and that suits me just fine. Because, I can tell you a few things,
and you know why I say this. They're a little humorous they're not nice,
but they're humorous, because they can be very cutting.

	Let me tell you, in spite of Lee Vayle, God made a promise. By you
sitting here, God made a promise. Now, you look in the mirror of your
own thought, you own ways, your own everything. Your own life, your  all
association, everything about you, and it comes out pretty cruddy. I
don't care who you are. You say, "My mother was the nicest, my father
greatest, I don't care two-bits for your father, your mother, in my
sight they're less than manure. 

55.	Because, the apostle Paul was one of the greatest, and he said, "I'm
nothing but manure." [Phil 3:8b] Because you are what you believe, and
what you're thinking, the whole thing about you. Paul, a walking manure
heap and God Himself, when He took on that little baby form, He was born
over a manure pile, and didn't smell awful pretty. Now, what if we look
at ourselves, we ain't nothing. Let me tell you: looking at Him, it's a
different story entirely.

	Let everything that in Him is absolutely imputable transferable. And is
perfectly adaptable in the right progression of time. We are going to
have that love amongst us. You see why I preached today? You got to
realize, I got to realize, all we realize it's a body is going make it.
(See?) It's not me, it's not the other fellow anymore. Even as Bro.
Branham said, "If two in that town are there that believe this Message,
you believe you're going to make it. If there's a hundred there, you
believe you're going to make it." Everyone who has that hope will have
the same hope for the other person, because you cannot put anybody out.
It is a body promised, it is not an individual promise anymore. Because,
all the dead are going to stand this ground at one time, and the rest of
the living are standing this ground the same time. They may not be in
one place, but they will be in one place on this earth. Then it'll be in
one place is a caught up in ranks. Age one, age two, age three, age
four, age five, age six, and even age seven, will be caught up in little
sections to meet in their rank so they won't be missed. (Wouldn't matter
anyway; say, good riddance to bad rubbish.) They'll be up there. It's a
body. And that love will be in that body. And witnessing will be the
power of the Resurrection to show what is at hand.  

	I believe that, because the prophet said it. I stand on it. And I
believe that One is here today to do it. The judge of all the earth has
given righteous judgment. As it was in the beginning, Cain, you offered
very nice, but you're wrong, you weren't with that Word.

56.	Now listen to me: what if Abel had been out there stealing Cain's
pumpkins? He could have been you know. He might have pulled up some of
his turnips, and denuded a few of his raspberry bushes. Who knows? But
he had the identification with the Word. I don't believe he was doing
those things. What if he had? He was identified. How? With a revelation
contingent with that Word, and he was called righteous. A Bride must
identify with the Word. And what comes out of that my brother, my sister
is the difference as to whether God approves or not. I don't care how
good it looks.

	So, we're one body. All one body, be one in faith, in doctrine, one in
charity. We look forward to the better day right on this earth here. I
am not contented happy to leave this earth without a better day even
here. The better day may look pretty rugged as far as you and I, in our
cake and our apple sauce, and our turkey dinners, (you know) the easy
life is concern. It may be reduced to the wretchedness of physical
nakedness of a persecution to peril by sword. I'm going to tell you
something: I'm looking for the best days of all, because there's coming
right now on this earth; and then when we're changed the best days that
new condition can give us.

	But let me tell you something to realize: we are coming out and more
and more into, into His glorious Presence and the sweetness of His love.
And the understanding, the sweetness of His Word, and all these things
are great. If this isn't the greatest day the earth has ever seen, then
I don't know what it's talking about. Let's rise.  

	Heavenly Father, we thank You again for love, mercy and grace, which we
have beheld in the unveiling of our blessed Christ revealed in that Word
to us. Into His image we are now by grace of Almighty God. And we
believe that, because know that Whom You foreknew, you positively did
predestinate, and You took it by the various steps, and we have been in
them. So, now, Lord, we're waiting for the manifested grace of our God. 
 

	We praise You for it, Lord, and we magnify You, and we're waiting even
with earnest expectation in the hearts a felt attitude, Lord, and a
great desire now to see this wonderful spirit of love amongst us as
never before, knowing that the Resurrection is at hand to see the people
healed, to see the blessing of God. O Lord, may we be solemnized as
never before. 

	Father, we have not been here just to hear a Word. There's no way I can
leave this building and believe, Lord, that something hasn't happened to
all of us. I cannot accept it. I cannot accept anymore, Lord, a
preaching of any Word that I believe is Your Word that does not do
something. And in anyway, Lord, if It wasn't Your Word, It will still do
something, or do something bad. But, Lord, Your Word…Has always,
always, Lord, Your Word must, must, must when It comes into the human
flesh. Change that person around, It's got to be. Because, Your Word is
Life, Lord. And that Life today is we're one body. And we got a unity.
We've got love. We've got a looking over of everything else. I don't
know how it is going to be done. It wouldn't much matter, Lord, how it
is done, because that's not my job, that's Your job.  

	But, I appreciate the fact, Lord, that You will do it. And we have
thoughts of grace towards You, Lord, and joy in our hearts to know that
You are going to do it. And they're great things, Lord, that will be
done in this respect. And we thank You for it, Lord, and we realize that
it's in the Person of Christ, in Your Own Word, that You said to the
apostle Paul, and Bro. Branham said the same thing: "That we've forgiven
the Person of Christ.”There is no way we can forgive anybody, or do
anybody in any way, shape or form, it's in the Person of Jesus Christ.
Because, that's in Your realm and Your domain. And, Lord, these things
are coming fast upon us. And I appreciate them. I do, Lord, and I want
to appreciate them more.

	So, Father, we commend ourselves, to commit ourselves to You, always
give Thee glory we pray, and honor, and we certainly do thank You from
the depth of our hearts for Your wonderful Presence, we pray all these,
in Jesus' Name. Amen.

	'The Lord bless you.'

 

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