Righteousness and Unrighteousness  

Bro. Lee Vayle - November 21, 1971

  	Now, the message this evening is on 'Righteousness and
Unrighteousness, and before we begin let us bow our heads in prayer:

	Gracious Heavenly Father, it's been so good to gather ourselves
together here already.  To feel Your Presence in the witness of the Holy
Ghost in the lives of these people who are seated here, who have will
come to hear the Word. And we know, Lord, they come for one reason, and
that is to hear from You according to the Word based upon the Message of
a vindicated prophet.

	Now, we know what he said about the two spirits at the end time. And we
know tonight, Lord, that this Word absolutely would have to back him up.
There would be no doubt about it whatsoever.  It's got to be there just
the way he put it. And we know It is there and by Your help tonight,
because You alone can open this Word. And You, Lord, we know will open
It, and show us the end time condition of the church. Bless every ear,
Lord, I pray you even as I am so anxious myself to see lips be anointed.
That the Word be in the mouth, not in the mind as though something is
produced by the speaker. But, in the mouth, and in the ear, and then the
Holy Ghost   places It, in those two channels and make It absolute life.

	Now, bless each one here, Lord. We pray for those that are sick. Bless
them, O God, let this Word heal them. Let the joy of the revelation of
this Message as It breaks upon them showing what the prophet taught.
Letter by letter as he told us to do, to break It down. Let that same
Word heal them, even as It brings them up in this high level of faith.
Which one day will take them away in a Rapture. If it's going to take
them away in a Rapture, it's certainly that same Word that changes the
body, it's the same Word anointed that heals the body at this moment.
And I thank You for it. To see Your Presence now, Lord, the witness of
the Holy Ghost that these things are true. May we stand on them,
rebuking the devil that he doesn't snap them from our minds and our
hearts. God, grant it tonight in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

1.	 In the Book of Malachi 3: (just two or three verses) beginning
16-18.  That's the last chapter Book of course in the Old Testament.

		(16) 	Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and 	
				the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance 					
was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and   					
thought upon his name.

		(17) 	And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day
when 						I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth
his 						own son that serveth him.

		(18) 	Then shall (you) return, and discern between the righteous and
the 						wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him
not.

	Now, you noticed It said here: "That they that feared the Lord, spake
often one to another." And this is the people who are going to make up
the jewels, which signify the Rapture. Because it's at the Rapture when
Christ unites all in heaven and earth, all that are found in Him that
His jewels are made up. And you will notice that these people are
peculiar, because they speak often one to another. It seems that they
fear the Name of the Lord. And their speech is what sets them apart from
everybody else. So therefore, they are talking in a certain way that is
pleasing to God. Because He said, "They spake often one to another." And
evidently what God heard pleased Him, and He said, "These are Mine." So
therefore, they were saying those things which were in contradistinction
to those who were saying those other things which were not pleasing to
God, and made them the people of God. Now, I hope you follow me right
here. 

	Because millions of people are saying things, and they call themselves
children of God. And they are quoting the Bible. But, there's a group
here that's saying a certain thing. That is in my estimation, they are
speaking the end time Message. That's all they know to talk about
amongst themselves. That's what their whole time is filled with. They
are speaking. It's not, they're talking to God now. And it's not saying
that God is talking back to them. It is saying they're talking to each
other.

2.	In other words, their lives are centered on some certain thing
they're saying. Now, you know as well as I do, there is nothing that
anybody can say that is pleasing to God, unless he is saying what God
has already said, and as they're applying to that time in which they
live. So, these are a peculiar people, and their difference lies in
their words. Not in what they're doing, not in how they're acting, not
in where they're going, but it's how they're talking. Now, isn't that
right? That's exactly right. 

	And the Bible says, "These shall be mine saith the Lord, in the day
when I make up my jewels." And then It says here you know, in that 4th
chapter, last verse of 18, that God is coming, that this is the time the
earth is going to burn. 

	So, there's a peculiar people here. And these people are identified by
the manner in which they speak. This is their final identification.
Isn't that what Bro. Branham said, "Give them the Word test?"  Well,
here you are, exactly laid out in the Scripture.

3.	Now, my text of course is [Malachi 3:] verse 18, and It says: 

		(18) 	Then shall (you) return, and discern between the righteous and
the 						wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him
not.

	Now, this text of course is a very obscure one. I doubt very much if
you'll find this under famous text by famous preachers. I don't know
that you'll find it…used even in many sermons. It's a very obscure
quote. And not only is it very obscure, but the Kings James translation
is very, very wrong. You notice that the Kings James version says, "Then
shall you return and discern between the righteous and the wicked,
between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not."

	Now, even if you just look in your margin you will see a tremendous
error. It does not say, you shall discern, or be able to judge between.
Or to know the difference between the righteous and the wicked. It does
not say that, It says, "righteousness and wickedness."

4.	Now, this shocks us, because what kind of a person is it, who does
not know the difference between right from wrong? Now, that's what the
Bible says here. It says, "They won't know right from wrong." Also, who
is so spiritually darkened, who doesn't know who serves God, and who
doesn't serve God. And yet the Bible says they won't know it. They won't
know it in the day just preceding the Rapture. They won't know who’s
doing wickedly, who’s doing righteously, they won't know who is
serving God.

	Now, you know what's that's like? That's like saying, "A man does not
know his left hand from his right hand. It's like further saying, even
worse, "He cannot tell his hand when it appears before his face." But,
there it is. And this is just the way the people are going to be,
because God says so. Now, you'll notice He said, "Then shall you return,
and then you'll be able to discern between righteousness and wickedness
and not before."

	Now, let's watch this, if the people have to return, then they have
left God. Now, I cannot return to this house until I leave it. This is
correct. But, here is where we do not listen to God's Word. We're so
used to talking about grace and dealing in generalities, that we do not
realize that God has said, "At the end time everybody leaves God." 

	Oh say, "There's got to be a nucleus who don't." 

	Now, you see, right there you're wrong, you're making God a liar.

	 "Well, Bro. Vayle, I know my heart." 

5.	Oh, no you don't know your heart, you lie. I want to be sweet and
kind to you. But, I got to be honest I'm not your friend. See, because
"let every man's word be a lie, but let Mine be true." said God. [Rom
3:4a] 

	"Well, I never did leave God."

	Oh, come on, you're wrong, you did leave God.

	You say, "Well, I'm looking at that great atonement and all these…"

	Now, look it, right there learn to button up your mouth. Learn to
button up your mouth and get off the defensive. Humble your heart and
say, "Oh God, is this the condition of the day that we have all left You
and don't know right from wrong? Is this where we really stand? Is this
why You say, "If I don't send Elijah, I'll come and destroy lock, stock,
and barrel?" And begin to say," What is the matter?" Now, you see,
people don't want to do that. But, this is the truth and this includes
the Bride, she also has left, there's everybody has left. "Behold, I
stand at the door and knock, outside the Church." [Rev 3:20] (See?) 

6.	Now, let's look at Malachi 3:7 and get the picture here:

		(7) 	Even from the days of your fathers (you) are gone away from mine 
				ordinances, …

	You started leaving Me through My Word way back there two thousand
years ago, and now that you're all the way up to the threshold of the
Rapture, there isn't one of you that has a proper relationship with Me,
even though you say you have; you talk about your union and you haven't
got it. You talk about being joined, it's not so. (See?) There's a
terrible condition there.

	Notice what He said how they gone away from God. "You have left Mine
ordinances, " to leave the Word of God is to leave God. When they left
that Word, they left God. Why? Because God is the Word. Now He says:

 		(7)	…Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of 
					hosts….

	Now, how is he going to return unto God? There is only one way that you
can return unto God, and that is by turning back to that Word. Now, I
know people say, "But, I never did leave that Word."  Oh, come on. You
got a Methodist here, you got a Baptist here, you got a Presbyterian
here, and several varieties. What, fifty-seven varieties of Baptist, or
a hundred and fifty-seven?  How many kinds of Presbyterian's have you
got? How many kinds of Methodist's have you got? How many kinds of
Pentecostals'? They I think are about the worst of the works. How many
kinds of Nazarenes you got? How many kinds of even Catholic's have you
got? How many kinds of Church of Christ have you got? You have literally
hundreds and hundreds, and hundreds. And everyone is supposed to be in
that Word, and claim that they are the door to heaven through the
revelation of God's Word. And He says, "None of you have got It.” He
said, "You've all left Me." You started two thousand years ago and now
(He said) you've all turned, you've left My ordinances, you have left
Me.

7.	Now, notice when this occurred, I've already mentioned, Malachi 4:

		(1) 	For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all
the 						proud, …

	That's it, that's the key, the proud. What caused the fall of Satan?
Pride. "I will exalt myself above the most High." [Isa 14:14] See,
pride. Can't admit that they have left God. Can't admit they have left
the Word. (See?) All the proud.

		(1)	…yea, (they that) do wickedly, shall be as stubble: (in) the day
that cometh 				shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, (and) it
shall leave 						them neither root nor branch.

	In other words, there won't be a family left that's intact. He's going
to burn them all up. Father, mother, sister, brother, every kindred.
He's going to just blot the earth. like in the days of Noah. Only this
time it's going to be by fire. And the only ones left will be the
144,000 who go into the Millennium with the resurrected Saints.

8.		(2) 	But unto you that fear my name…

	Who are they? They who talk a certain kind of a language to one
another. Not to God now. They're not praying, everybody's praying. Oh,
there's millions and millions of people praying. These folk, aren't
praying. Now, they do pray, but these aren't praying. (See?) For they
talk a certain kind of language. They talk a certain type of Word.

		(2)	… (unto them) the Sun of righteousness (shall) arise with
healing 						in his wings; and (you) shall go forth, and grow as calves
of 						the stall.

		(3) 	And (you) shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes 		
			under the soles of your feet…

	Now remember, the fire takes the place of the flood. Now remember, that
Noah and his other seven, walked on the ashes of the wicked for his day.
Only they weren’t ashes. There was a layer of silt upon all the bones
and all the corruption, and all the filth. And as that water receded,
(now listen) the water was over the top of the mountain in forty days.
And remember, it stayed there for hundreds. 

9.	Now, how much sunlight can get down through that water and keep those
plants growing. You can't do it, they died. God laid down a bed of silt,
kept the water over it, broth forth like at creation. And Noah walked as
it were, over the ashes, over all those bones in all that corruption.
And all that silt was covered over with a layer of protective soil, so
that the Saints of God could walk on it. Therefore, in this day we're
going to see the same thing. That's after the fire purges this earth.
The atomic bombs that hit it and all. God in His Own purifying fire will
lay down perhaps volcanic ash, bring forth a verdure on the land. And
here men will walk on the ashes of the wicked.

	Now, they won't go kicking ashes like that. I can't believe that for
five seconds. My imagination won't let me do that to me. And the Word of
God won't let me do that. No, I can't. I'm not walking to kick ashes
around, I'll be walking over top. Just like Noah. (See?)  Same picture.
Same thing. God renovating a portion, maybe all the earth. (See?) He's
taking that water up there again. So, the earth goes back on its axis.
Layer of humus laid down. God's people coming back to primeval
condition, like the Garden of Eden. (See?) Tending nature. And having a
honeymoon with the Groom, which is as it's supposed to be. Now, this is
the end time. 

10.	Now, keep watching:

		(4) 	Remember (you) the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded 			
	unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.

		(5) 	Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of
the 					great and dreadful day of the LORD: (Before I turn the land to
ashes.)

		(6 	And he shall turn the heart of the…the children (back) to their
fathers, …

	Now, this is the lament of God. He said, "From the days of your fathers
you have left My Word." Now, He said, "You have come to the place where
you don't even know righteousness from wickedness. You don't know
who’s serving God, and who isn't serving God. But, He said,     "I'm
going to send Elijah, and he is going to turn your hearts back, to the
fathers, and then you will know the difference between righteousness and
wickedness.” You will know the difference, between him who serves God,
and him who doesn't serve God. And you will be talking about it, and as
you talk about it, everybody is going hate you, and they're going to
say, “That puffed up bunch of proud ignoramuses, who do they think
they are anyway?"

11.	In other words, "You're the only guys that's going to make it, eh?
What have you got on the ball? I been watching you, you ain't so hot.
And as far as ministry is concerned, what are you producing?" (See?) 
It's their language. It's their language that God is watching. To
identify as Abraham did. (See?) With the promise of the hour, it's going
to bring forth the Son.

	Now, that's it, He says here, He said, 

		(6)	(Now, if I don't do that) …I (will) come and smite (utterly) the
						earth with a curse. 

	In other words, I'll just walk over the whole thing, and curse the
whole thing. So, you can see that this terrible condition exists just
before Jesus Christ our Lord come. You will also note as I mentioned how
the people are turned back to God, it is by Elijah the prophet. Now
let's prove that. 

12.	We go to Matthew 17:11

		(11) 	And Jesus answered and said… (Elijah) shall truly first come,
and 						restore all things.

	What all things? All things which must be restored before Christ can
come and set up His Kingdom. Now remember, the first steps that Christ
does to set up His Kingdom, is to take out His Bride in order to restore
the Kingdom back to its original position for the Bride to come down on
it. Now, I know people say, "I well I think the Kingdom is going to
start, bless God, when He comes down and just takes over." That's where
you're wrong. He has got to come down and set things in order, in order
to do it. And He does it first of all setting the Bride in order. Amen.
That's a beautiful thought if we just get it. (See?) 

13.	Now, the Kingdom is being set up right now. Something is going on
right now. (See?) The Elijah ministry. And He said here, "I tell you,
some of you standing here will not taste death, you'll not die till you
have an actual vision of my Kingdom coming in power." [Mt 16:28]

	And the disciple said, "The Scribes and Pharisees teach that Elijah is
going to come and restore first." And He said, "Elijah himself truly
shall first come and restore." [Mt 17:10-11] 

	He is going to come. And what is he going to restore? Now, It tells you
right there what he's going to restore.  He's going to restore the
hearts of the children back to the fathers, so they know righteousness
from wickedness, so they know who serves God and who doesn't serve God.
And they're getting ready to turn from destruction. And once they're
ready, then He can destroy. So, that's part of it. We're right in the
very mix now of the transition period, we're right in the very midst of
God Almighty switching right over, and just putting this land in order
for the beast. Yeah, Amen, it's going on now.

	Say, "Bro. Vayle, I don't see anything." I don't care what you see. I
don't care what I see.          I haven't got a thing to do with it. 
The minute Elijah starts turning those hearts back. That's a very minute
that this thing is going right in, and Christ is just standing there.
And remember, He said, "I'm coming, and I'm coming with a curse if
Elijah isn't there right ahead of Me.? (See?) 

14.	Now, Elijah steps in just ahead of Him, as the people of God are
ready. And then He's got them ready by the peculiar language they're
talking. You don't mean to tell me the baptism in the Name of Jesus
Christ." What's baptism got to do with any kind of a name? Why, that's
just an answer of a good conscience toward God. "So, don’t tell me I
got to get baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Why my
grand-pappy and my great grand-pappy did that, and I want to tell you
that nobody can prove a point on it."

	That's where you're wrong. Find me one person in the Bible ever
baptized any other way. (See?) What about this, and what about that? You
say, "This business of Elijah coming. Why, we’ve had all those guys
for years, and it's just a bunch of nonsense." I don't care if you've
have five million, there's got to be a genuine, because God said so.
(See?) It's how you're talking. It's where do you stand with that Word.
(See?) Amen, do you see the point, what we're driving at, and see, see
what it is? "They that talked often to each other." They're doing
talking, and they're doing it in a certain way. Because in another
certain way God hates the way some people talk. He says, "Thou Saith,
Thou Saith."  But, these folks are like Me say, "That's My jewels down
there." 

	Now, you can see from what I said that everything begins to jell in
your mind. Bro. Branham said, "The evidence was not love." He said, "It
was not character." We've seen the Word of God in power, but not in
restoration of revelation. What did he say It was? "Identification with
that Word." What does the Bible say? It says the same thing, and I
showed It to you. Amen! I'm getting real religious, just like I was in
church, only, this is better than church.

15.	Now, let me show you something over here in the Book of Acts. Just
happy with the Word of the Lord. (See?) Let's look at the Book of Acts
3:19

		(19) 	Repent (you) therefore…

 	That means 'change your mind'. (See?) Just to change your mind. (See?)
Well, doesn't that line up with what I'm teaching? See, if you don't
know right from wrong, (see?) then how can you have a conviction? So,
repentance is not having… "Oh, I'm a terrible sinner, oh, I'm a
terrible sinner, I've got some great conviction." Oh, that's not it at
all. Oh, that could be a part of it. Repentance is a change of mind.
It's a light breaking upon your mind. It's a change of mind. Have a
change of mind. It's says: 

		(19)	…and (then, turn around) be converted, … (see, come into.)

	What does Bro. Branham say about conversion? What did Jesus say to
Peter, "When thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren." [Lk 22:32] A
conversion right here in this sense, I'm not going to change the Word of
God here, because the conversion here means 'to turn again'.  But the
point is this, how many people have the Holy Ghost? You'll think about
it then. Because It says…he's telling the people here, "You better
change of mind and you get converted," When Jesus said to Peter, "When
you're converted, when you get the Holy Ghost, strengthen the brethren."

 	Now listen:

 		(19)	…that your sins may be blotted out, when the times (notice, a 
					special time) when the times of refreshing…

	That's a breeze, a fresh breeze in a room, heated room that perks the
people up, and catches them.  (See?) Blasts of cool air comes in, and
what does it do? It shakes your mind and you're alert. The vitality
hitting your mind. (See?) 

	Now notice, what's it going to come from?

		(19)	…when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of 	
				the Lord.

	Now, what's the Presence of the Lord? The Presence of the Lord in the
Greek means, 'that part of anything this is presented to the eye'. 

16.	Now, It tells you right here, there is going to be a perking up.
Sins will be blotted out. People turned right, when that which is
visible of the Lord is presented to the eye. All right, what have you
ever seen of God?  Say, "God, come on the scene." Well, I've got news
for you, He's on the scene right now, He's right here. I can't see Him.
I cannot bring Him into manifestation.

	So, one day there was a man called Nicodemus and he went and knocked on
Jesus' door. And he said, "I've got to have some answers." He said, "I
know everybody hates You, and I'm scared to come in the day time, but
I've got to have some answers. Because (he said) I know that You are a
man sent from God, because no man can do the things that You can do,
except God be with Him."

	And do you know what that meant? He said, "Nicodemus, I've watched you
and a man's word will not do what your words do." (See?) 

17.	Now listen, in John 15: Jesus said, "If I had not done the things
that no other man done, they had not sinned, but now they have seen both
Me and My Father, and hated both Me and My Father." Now, when did the
people see God? They saw God when they saw the works that the words of a
man will not do, but only the Words of God can do. And how many times
did you see God when William Branham stood there and those works of God
were done? I can say tonight without fear, I have seen God face to face.
I have seen God time after time, because that's all of God that the eye
can see, is the mighty works. 

	I look at nature, nature isn't God, but I see God when I see nature.
When I see a beautiful bird, a beautiful butterfly, I see scenery, I see
the delicacy of a snow…the delicate intricate and beautiful design of
snowflakes under a microscope. And I know there are billions of tons of
snow fallen since the creation, and not one snowflake is like the other
snowflake. And not one leaf on each tree, they're all different, whether
they be the same tree or not, there are no duplications. How about the
fingerprints. Billions and trillions of people on this earth from the
beginning, not one fingerprint that's the same. And there are other
identification marks even greater. What kind of a God could do a thing
like that? You see. What can be seen of God? Now, what was seen of God
in this Age was the miracle ministry of Jesus Christ brought back to
this earth, and they saw God. 

18.	Now, keep reading: Now, It says, after this, [Acts 3:]  

		(20) 	…(God) shall send Jesus Christ, which was (not) preached…
(He 						wasn't preached, He was there. He was appointed. Cross that
out 						of your Bibles, and put the right word in. Was appointed) unto
you.						(Because He was appointed, and they turned Him down.)  

	Now:

		(21) 	Whom the heaven must (retain, not) receive, (retain) until the 	
				(restoration) of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth					
of all his holy prophets since the world began.

	And It says right here, when you see God come into full view through
the ministry of this man, then you hear him restore the Word, then
Christ can come. Now, what if you don't see Him? How are you going to
repent? How is the revival breeze, how is that refreshing blast going to
blow upon you if you don't see Him? Now, let's go back to the time of
Israel the same thing took place. How many got the reviving blast, and
how many got the killing, the killing, chilling frost, or the searing
heat that destroyed them? Barely a handful where breathed upon to get
revival. But the majority destroyed themselves by turning down Almighty
God.

 	Now:   

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

		(23) 	And it shall come to pass, that every soul, (that) will not hear
that 						prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.

	And the word in the Greek is 'utterly' destroyed, just like It says in
Malachi. It is the prophet Elijah who comes with his great restoration
ministry.

19.	Now, notice I mentioned that this period of time, a spiritual
blindness just before Jesus returns, (wherein Elijah comes) they are so
blind they cannot tell righteousness from unrighteousness. They cannot
tell righteousness from iniquity, or from wickedness. Which is exactly
the condition of the Seventh Church Age, the Laodicean church, in the
Book of Revelation chapter 3:14-22 of which I read. Verse 17.

		(17) 	Because thou sayest, (God didn't say it, they said it. They said
it, 						God didn't say it.) Because thou sayest, I am rich, and
increased 						with goods, (I don't) need (absolutely anything, don't
need a thing.) 					and (you don't know that you are) wretched, and
miserable, and poor, 					and blind, and naked:

	Now, I want to tell you when people cannot tell righteousness from
wickedness, and they don't know who serves God and who doesn't serve
God, they have to be wretched and miserable, and blind and naked,
because that is the only description that will fit them. Because let me
tell you, if they can't tell righteousness from wickedness, and those
who serve God and those who don't, they are blind, and they will be
stripped naked and they will be wretched and they will be poor, because
they'll be taken. Now, you know that's the truth.

 .	In other words, what is it that [P. T.] Barnum [circus showman] said,
"There's a fool born every minute, and there's somebody to take them."
Now, all you've got to do is cast around in your mind the golden calf
scheme of the people that you know with these so called great
ministries, who simple glow beside the Lord, hallelujah. By pulling
every rotten dirty trick in the book to get every plug nickel, which not
one penny ever won any souls for God yet. It's the Holy Ghost. What a
mess. (See?) They don't know the difference. (See?) That's why they're
that way. But now, although this is true, let us know that some
beautiful good thing. Along with it, which is bad, we'll look at some
beautiful good things. Although we won't maybe discuss it at this very
second.

20.	Luke 17:26-30

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

	What are the days of Noah? God taking a single solitary prophet to
bring in the family. Now what family? There is only one family we know
today, and that's the family of God in the earth. It is not in heaven,
and it is not under the earth. No, my brother, my sister, those that up
there are already gone away, they're fine, those that are in the earth
you cannot touch them, it’s those that are on the earth. And Noah took
the family of God, and put them in that ark, in a desperately wicked
time when nobody else wanted to go into the ark. Why? Because they knew
it all. You couldn't tell them anything.

	Say, beware you're in terrible danger. Listen, God is going to judge
this nation. "Oh, (they said) ha, ha, look, we never were more spiritual
and better fit for the Kingdom." What’s the matter with it? "You, poor
old fogy you, just because…what is the matter with your head?  Look,
just because we don't listen to you and bow and scrape to you."

	And they said, "That's the way it is, and we're just a bunch of
lotters, [sellers] because you say so?" That's the way the acted.  They
weren't going to go into that ark. Unbelief, wretched, miserable, naked,
blind. "Well, we don't need God, we don't need a thing." 

	"You need this ark! You need this instrument drawn up before you, which
is a revelation of God's Word, to this Age, and there it stands. No, we
don't need that. Noah look, look fellow, I know you're religious, and we
can't put a finger on you, now we love you. Now look, just go and shave
your whiskers, get a haircut and just sit in your chair and rock, honey.
Or at least stop talking silly and come and join us lying in the world."
No, you see they turned it down.

21.	Watch: 

		(27) 	They (ate), they drank, they (gave in marriage) …until the
(very) 						day (the little family) entered into the ark, and the flood
came, and 						destroyed (everybody but the family. Sure.)

		(28)	Likewise, also as it was in the days of Lot; they (ate), they
drank, 						they bought, (they built) they sold, they (sowed, and so
on.)

	What about that? Sodomites in the land. Blinded. blinded people,
searching for the door and couldn't find it. People searching for Christ
today. Every paper you pick up, Jesus' people, this, that and the other,
all searching God. Revival going behind the Iron Curtain. See, you can't
believe that can you and be sane? You can't believe that and believe the
Word of God at the same time. You can't believe that and believe this
Message. It is impossible. They're not there. Sure, they're searching,
but they're blinded. They're not finding the door. They're too taken up
with their…what is Sodomites? Sodomy? Sodomy is where either a male
with a male, or a female with female. And that's what you have got
today. 

	You have got a perversion, a spiritual perversion, amongst the people.
(See?) Until the preachers, the Baptists, a bunch of Sodomites, because
all they want is people living in a spiritual fornication with them.
Becomes a Sodomy. Methodist, Presbyterian, it's all the same thing. When
God sends a prophet to try to get the people to turn back to the lover
of the ages. The lover of our souls, the Bridegroom. But, they don't
want it. (See?) 

22.	Notice to what It said in Sodom. It said, 

		(29)	(As soon as when) Lot went out of (there) it rained fire and
brim-						stone from heaven, and destroyed…all. (a-double-l)

	Noah's day, (a-double-l) Now remember, Elijah appears one more time
after this Age. He goes to the 144,000. The only ones who had any
opportunity to get turned in, to get turned to God. (See?) That's the
condition. But of course, with this condition, remember, there is also
the fact that the Son of man is revealed. (See?) 

	Now, watch closely, Peter explained what Jesus said about Elijah in
Matthew 17: which I read to you in Acts 3: Because it was for the three,
it was said, "Elijah shall restore,' and Peter explained it. Now, if
this is the case I have no reason to doubt, but what that Peter also
would have the revelation of Luke 17:26-30. The Sodomite condition at
the end time. And don't you know, that's exactly what's in the Bible.

23.	The second chapter of Peter, the whole chapter. Just like Peter had
the revelation on Matthew 17:11. He's got the revelation on Luke
17:26-30 of the end time.

	Notice, But, there arose, (not were) there arose is the actual word in
the Greek. False prophets also amongst the people. "Even, so there shall
be false teachers among you." Now notice, the emphasis according to
Peter after Jesus said, "There shall arrive false Christ's, even lying
prophets." [Mt 24:24] 	Peter said, "watch out for the teachers." James
said the same thing. "My brethren, be not many teachers." [Jas 3:1]
Jesus Himself said, "What kind of a man that teaches you to break the
least commandment?"  "Oh, it's okay to be the same thing."  Watch your
teachers. I say, “watch you teachers”.

	Now, here is one axe I have got to grind with people who go to church
and say they believe this Message. They will hear any preacher at all.
And then when that person says something contrary to the Word, they will
either defend him, or they will not go to him and say, "What did you
mean." 

24.	Now, everything I say is on tape. I make my own tapes, our tapes
made here, and we're testing this little machine here just to see how
nice it turns out. You can all get my tapes. When you find anything, I
say on that tape it does not line up exactly with what the prophet said,
you are duty bound according to William Branham to tell me about it.
Exactly what you're supposed to do. People aren't doing it. 

	Now, you've got to watch those teachers. Why? Because they will
privily… (what's privily?) themselves doing it, not in communication
and conjunction with the man who brought the Message by the Holy Ghost.
It’s your own interpretation, your own ideas they’re going to bring
you. "And they shall bring in damnable heresy." [2 Pet 2:1]

	In other words, they will bring you their heretical thing, which will
bring you into the judgment. And remember, the Bride does not go into
the judgment. So therefore, if you come into the judgment, you are not
Bride. "Teachers, even denying the Lord that bought, and bring about to
themselves swift destruction. [2 Pet 2:1b] 

25.	In other words, it will come to denying of the Lord. You say, "Well,
does that mean I'm going to say there's no God?"  No sir! It just says,
you're denying the very Lord, you're denying the very Word.  "And many,
(notice, many, not a few but many, a whole bunch) shall follow their
pernicious ways; by reason of whom, the way of truth shall be evil
spoken of." [2 Pet 2:2] In other words, the very Word of God is going to
be perverted.  

"And through covetousness with feigned words make merchandise…" What's
a feigned word? It's a pretend word. God doesn't have a pretend Word. No
sir! Pretend word. Something with no substance. "Shall make merchandise
of you." Sell your soul, make you one of their followers. Get you paying
tithes. Get you running their errands. (See?) Sure, "…whose judgment
now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not."
[2 Pet 2:3]

	Now, what is it? They're identified with false spirits. Now, did you
hear what I said? They are identified with false spirits. I'll prove it
in a little while, you wait and see where the Scripture comes out on
this one. the mouth of two witnesses not just one. 

26.	 "Having eyes full of adultery…" [2 Pet 2:14a] Now, that's not
physical adultery. That's spiritual adultery. What is spiritual
adultery? A mind, a brain, a mind that opens itself to anything, but the
Word of God. So, you become a spiritual whore, receiving a false seed to
make you a spiritual prostitute. Eve fornicated in her mind. "Oh, Bro.
Vayle, my heart is so sweet, and I love everybody."

	Well, I'm glad for you, God bless you, that's very nice."  You’d make
a beautiful prostitute. She's be real sweet. I'm not talking about you
now, I'm laying this on a tape as a principle, so that I'm teaching it.
What I have to say tonight hasn't got one thing to do with just people.
But, being a teacher, I teach according to a precept and that's what
you're listening to.

	If I was teaching a Pythagorean theory, here it would not be that you
are all Pythagorean, or             a mathematician, I'm simply laying
down a law. So, I am laying down a law now unto you, because you're
being taught. This is a spiritual thing in majority. Although there's a
lot physical fornication too.

27.	Now, why is it adultery? Because they claim to be married to Him,
but they're fooling with their creeds and dogmas. "They cannot cease
from sin, (unbelief in the revealed Word,) unstable souls, beguiling
unstable souls…" [2 Pet 2:14b] You see, they are not set on the Word.
They don't say, "Well, bless God we've got a vindicated prophet. So,
tell me what you want, I just can't listen. 

	Say, "Oh brother listen, I want to show you these great
things…Hallelujah.  God's working here. Why, they're walking on water
in Indonesia, and they're doing this, and they're doing that.  And this
lovely little sister from over here in Pennsylvania."

	"Oh, (I said) that's nice, you just kiss her, be sweet. You do listen
to her, go right ahead and keep it up. Don't fool me, don't fool…I
ain't coming with you. No, I'm not, I'm not an unstable soul, I'm a
stable soul. Even got horse sense."  Yeah, I heard a prophet, came as
vindicated messenger. Heard him name names, and places, and dates. Saw
that God backed him up. I got one thing to say about this Message, if
this ain’t it, forget it! Where are you going to go?  Who’s got
anything? I want to know who’s got anything? Show me every Baptist
preacher this Message, from every preacher in this town with his entire
congregation, have one ounce of the power that Bro. Branham could
demonstrate before God. They all said together, they didn't have it. 

28.	That's just like saying, "Here I've got a beautiful, handful of
beautiful cut diamonds, and they're worth one million dollars."

	And the guy says, "Look Johnny, I want to tell you something, I got
some beautiful glass here, and it shines nice.  I'll tell you, I'll give
you my home full of glass for those paltry diamonds."

	And I said, "You got to be sick." He, he, he, take your fifteen hundred
million tons of glass and beat it bud." We weren't born yesterday. 

	This is the day when we're supposed to grow up, we're no longer taken
by sleight to men, winds, and doctrine we've grown up, we're coming
nearer the head. You just say, "Look, if this isn't it, goodbye." (See?)
We've been all through the devil's testing, you know where we stand. 

	"Unstable souls: (listen, our) heart they have exercised with covetous
practices; cursed children."  [2 Pet 2:14c]

29.	Now, what was the first child cursed? Cain! Serpent seed. Serpent
seed, preachers, teachers. "They have forsaken the right way…" Then
they must have been there for them to forsake it. They must have known.
As Bro. Branham said, "They knew better." Didn't he? Sure, he did.
"…they're gone astray…" there must have been a time when they were
right alongside here, saw this and knew this. (See?)  "...following the
way of Balaam… (they have gone to gift ministry, and left the Word for
the power) they loved the wages of unrighteousness." [2 Pet 2:15] Right.

	What they do pays big money. They know right from wrong. You mean to
tell me that one of these guys that says, "Give us the tools and we'll
do the job?" You think He doesn't know that what I'm saying tonight?
"Give me the money and we'll get the souls won." Where do you get that
in your Bible?  If God was going to take money to win souls, as I said
before, He wouldn't have given you the Holy Ghost, He would have given
you chunks of gold ten miles wide, and twenty miles high. Then men who
say, "It only takes twenty cents to win a soul."

	You know if that were the truth, I'd rob a bank. Well sure, why not?
The end justifies the means. If all it is, is take me to go to jail
after robbing a bank, or getting myself shot to bring souls to the
kingdom? Just find me something like that in the Word, honey. Just find
me something. Or why do they say it?  Don’t you see?

30.	 Listen: The dumb ass, that was rebuked for his iniquity.  He was so
mixed up, he didn't know right and wrong. And yet he did. It says, "The
dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet."
[2 Pet 2:16] Did you ever hear a mad prophet? You got them right there.
"These are wells without water… (no Holy Ghost, big ministry) clouds
that are carried with a tempest; (fast on their way to destruction,
telling you they’re in a great rush…and they are.) to whom the mist
of darkness is reserved for ever. For when they speak…(thou sayest,
thou sayest, thou sayest, they're talking) great swelling words of
vanity…" [2 Pet 2:17-18a]   

	It's all vain, it won't come to pass, puffed up, pride. "Bless God,
(said one guy) I want to tell you, (said) if Bro. Branham were here,
he'd have to admit that he didn't tell the truth, but I've got the
Word." One man said, "Yes, bless God, I'll tell you why he died, because
he wouldn't clear the path for my ministry, and I'm the one with the
ministry."

	Well, if he had the ministry, who needs to clear his path? If I've got
the million dollars, I'll write my own check honey, I don't need yours.
You talk about the iniquity and the pure idiocy.          I know I'm
sarcastic. I've got a little gift of sarcasm, I hope it's in the right
place. 

31.	Now listen: …"vanity, (pride) they allure through the lusts of the
flesh, …" [2 Pet 2:18b] That's pride in there, they appeal to the
pride. Who of you like to be my prayer partner? How about one of
our…what do they call, this kind of a prosperity pastorate, or the
golden nail that you hang on the wall. The anointed pocket book. My
pocket book is anointed too, because I've got to put so much grease in
my hair, if I don't one wind and my hair goes forty thousand ways, since
I've got forty thousand hairs. So, I put a lot of grease in my hair, and
then you see the oil that’s from my comb gets on my wallet. So, I've
got an anointed pocket book too. Yeah, I don’t need theirs. Thank you
very much Jesus, You take care of my needs.

	What, of all the…appeal. One man wrote said, "Years ago, Bro. Vayle,
I wanted to help Bro. Branham, but he didn't have a program. And I began
looking for men with a program, I finally gave my money to the
Pentecostal church, that's two thousand dollars and they built a lovely
steeple with it." And I thought, that's about the right place for it
too. (See?) They allure to the flesh. (See?) 

32.	Absalom sat in the gate, and he said, "Bless God if I were king (he
said) I appreciate your subtlety. " He said, "I know you've got a real
problem. But, (he said) if I were king…" He used to groom his hair,
just hold that hair up, lovely curls hanging down, that beautiful
million dollar smile. I know we use that 'Ipana' [tooth paste product]
or what is it, that sex appeal stuff they advertise. Maybe some of that
new stuff. I know, but he smiled so great. There he was his lovely
curls. And he said, "If I were king (he said) it would be different.
Yes, (he said) yes, yes." You know, they're getting you to the kingdom
that way, you know, how it is. Yeah, don't you believe that nonsense and
those lies brother/sister.

	It says, "…they allure through the lusts…" That word is really
pleasure. Lust is too hard a word. It's a good word in some places, but
it's really too hard a word, it means pleasure, and that takes the whole
thing in anyway. "…they much wantonness, those that were clean,
escaped from them who live in error. [2 Peter 2:18c] 

33.	Now listen: "While they (these teachers) promise them liberty, they
themselves are the servants of corruption…" What corruption? The
corrupt mind, which brings a corrupt faith. Their minds are corrupt, and
they're reprobate concerning faith. See, they've gone back on the Word.
"…for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in
bondage." [2 Pet 2:19] 

	He's back in the slavery. Sometime I'll come back and preach
'Manifested Sons', and can show you escaped from. Where the church is
right today in that same slavery. "For if after they have escaped the
pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter
end is worse with them than the beginning." [2 Pet 2:20] Sure, they
escaped the pollution, and they're right back to it.

	It doesn't mean they got to go back and live like the devil. No, it
just means they're off the Word. They gotten away. Now listen, "For it
had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness…"
[2 Pet 2:21a] 

34.	In other words, that way was right there before them, clear view.
And they turned it right down. Isn't it a clear view today when the
world knew that we had a man that had 'Thus Saith the Lord'? Isn't is a
clear view when a man can stand on that platform, and said, "I challenge
you to bring me twenty-four of your worse cases, and I guarantee healing
for all?"  And he, did it? He said, "Bring them up here, and I'll prove
it to you." Now, he said, "How many of you folk got a prayer card?"
Thousands raised their hand. "Well, (he said) it's up to you. You people
with prayer cards vote." He said, "Because you're the ones that stand in
the meeting tonight, not the onlookers. Now, (he said) you want to see
twenty-four miracles tonight that I guarantee, or do you want to go
through the prayer line all of you, where sixty percent get healed, and
sort of take your chance? How many want to see the twenty-four
miracles?" Maybe a dozen hands goes up. "How many want to see those in
the prayer line?"  All the hands go up but the half a dozen.

	They go through the prayer line, maybe fifteen hundred, to two thousand
go through the prayer line, where there's not one single miss. Now only
do they now, see not twenty-four miracles, but they see two thousand
guaranteed miracles. And they missed the impact of the whole thing.
There's a man that can stand there and guarantee miracles. 

35.	You show me anybody else that can do that. But they turned their
backs on it. "Oh, he's a man.  Oh, he's one. Oh, isn't that great.
Here's a lovely Christian, who said, "Hallelujah Jesus, I love you." Oh,
he takes the emblems and he does so emotionally, eating that bread, and
you see these tears going down his mouth.  "Oh God, oh God." As he
drinks the wine, "Oh God, oh God." Won't even drink wine, because you
guys are afraid to line up. "Oh God…"  He loves the Lord, and he loves
Lord… And you know what? "I'm a Republican, you're a Democrat shake
hands brother, hallelujah.  You Oneness…grrrr! [makes a growling
noise] Isn't that, exactly right? That's God's truth, as I stand, that's
God's truth, I told you. That you being a Republican to love a Democrat.
Slobber over communion, then see God what the naked eye can see of God.
[inaudible] Some kind of a dirty breath.

	Where do you stand tonight brother/sister? Can you not agree with the
text that don't know their left hand and right hand, that says, they
don’t.  They don't know who serves God and who doesn't. I never found
the Bible wrong yet, and I'm never going to find It wrong. It would have
been better not knowing that way. It was right before them, they knew
better. Then after having known, they knew it, then to turn from the
Holy Commandment delivered unto them, turn back to God and that Word.
Leave your creeds and dogmas, come out of it. But, it happened unto them
according to the true Proverb, the dog is turned to his own vomit again,
and the sow that was washed to wallowing in the mire. 

36.	Now, let's just take a little peek at some of these things here.
Let's look at this verse that I've been reading to you. [2 Pet 2:] verse
5

		(5) 	And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a
						preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of
						the ungodly; (Righteousness verses ungodly.)

	Now, let's go a little further here, verse 8, 

		(8) 	(For that righteous man dwelling among them, (and) seeing and 			
		hearing, vexed his righteous soul…with their unlawful deeds;

		(9) 	(But God) knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations… 

		(10) 	But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of
uncleanness, 					and despise government. (What government? Local? No!
Divine 						authority sent down.) Presumptuous are they, selfwilled,
they 						are not afraid to speak evil of dignities. 

	Those that do know the truth. (See?) What are they? Verse 12,

		(12) 	…these, as natural brute beasts… 

	Now watch, serpent seed, animal. Now watch: 

		(13) 	(They) shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, … (not 			
			righteousness.)

	Remember the day, come, "Let him that is holy, be holy still, him that
just be unholy be unholy still." [Rev 22:11] You know that one? Listen,
now watch:

		(13)	…as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots
they 						are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own
deceivings 						while they feast with you;

	Sit right at the Communion table. Act like, talk like, Christians. 
Cry…what I said a while ago about Communion. Carry on, and leave that
Word that the prophet brought vindicated.  (See?) 

	Notice, the whole chapter is dealing with righteousness and
unrighteousness, at the end time.  It tells you exactly what it's all
about.

37.	Now notice: the second witness to this truth is the apostle Paul
himself at the end time condition where they don't their left hand from
the right hand spiritually speaking. in 2 Thessalonians 2:8-12 Now, you
all know this because you've heard It dozens of times you've heard me
preach so many times on It. Verse 8. 

		(8) 	And then shall that (lawless one) be revealed, (wicked, that word
						is 'lawless') whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his 	
				mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

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

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

	I know people say, "Well, right away that refers to the fact that they
don't believe in a sacrifice. Well, I've got news for you, you're wrong.
They turned down the truth. They don't turn down a sacrifice. Israel
never turned down the sacrifice, they turned down the truth. They didn't
turn down the sacrifice, they left Egypt by it.  The Bible said they
died, because the Gospel preached them, was not mixed with faith and
them that heard It, they wouldn't hear. Is that, right? People can talk
all they want about a sacrifice. Talk all they want about God. They
can't turn down this end time Word. Why? Because if they do, then
they'll talk evil against it. And when you go against the Word of God,
taking or adding to It, you'll got into the tribulation and you'll lose
your own salvation.

38.	A peculiar people at the end time have a peculiar language. They
speak the same thing the prophet speaks. Amen, I like that.

		(11) 	And for this cause (of turning down the vindicated Word) God…

	 Not the devil now. Don't you get all mixed up here and blame the
devil. This is God Himself doing it. God's angry. God's got to bring
something on this world to justify Him in wiping the whole thing out.
Why? Because it's lukewarm. It won't be lukewarm after a while. When the
squeeze comes down she'll be red hot, you watch and see. You'd be red
hot against the Bride. 

		(11)	… God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe
						(the) lie: … (Not a lie, but 'the' lie.)

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

	They didn't know unrighteousness from wickedness, and they loved
exactly what they had. And thought they had it all. You follow what I
said? Now, remember those things I said about that spirit awhile ago,
and now this. You hold that in your mind, don't forget it. That's
exactly what the prophet to the Word of God…

	All right, we've established the end time condition of Christianity. I
said Christianity. The Laodicean Church Age ends in a great deception.
Spiritually blinded people. That cannot tell righteousness from
unrighteousness, right in the church. They fail to see who serves God
and him who serves Him not, and thereby they end up worshipping the
antichrist in a great big beautiful church system.

39.	Now, what does this come from? Where does this terrible harvest come
from? What in the world has brought it on? Let's find out. We go to 1
John 3: and we're going to see something here that’s absolutely
fantastic, to show us why the prophet taught us here, about the two
spirits so close, and they end up worshipping the devil thinking it's
God. 

	Now, let's read [1 John 3:] verse 7.

		(7) 	Little children, let no man deceive you: (now he's warning you, 	
				here is a place where you can get fooled) he that doeth
righteousness 					is righteous, even as (Jesus Christ) is righteous.

	But, what about the end time when you can't tell righteousness from
wickedness? Now, when you can't tell them, you are either completely
mentally gone, or they're so close. They're so close, if you just don't
know and can't know. Now, you make up your mind. 

	Now, was John saying, "Listen, you bunch of completely gone, mentally
gone people." No, that wasn't. Little children, little children. You
show me where God has a bunch of people that are insane in the Bride?
You show me where God has any faith in the mentally deficient? He said,
"Comfort the feeble minded." It didn't say, "Give them an audience, and
listen to them." He said, "Just pat them, and say, 'that's nice brother,
God bless you, be sweet, be kind, and all things that are nice. " You
can't do a thing with them. They're gone. Just be sweet. (See?) God is
speaking to the children.

40.	Now, reading verse 8

		(8) 	He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth
from 						the beginning. …

	Now, we know that's not from the very beginning, because in the very
beginning we was without sin. This is another beginning.

		(8)	For this purpose, the Son of God was manifested, that (God, Son) 	
				might (bring to nothing, or destroy, or annul) the works of the
devil.

	Now listen:

		(9) 	Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed 					
remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

	Now, right here It tells you something. It says, "That which is born of
God does not commit sin, because it cannot commit sin." I don't lift
eight hundred pounds, because I can't life eight hundred pounds. Neither
can I sin, because I have no way of doing it. Now, this must be
some-thing different from 1 John 2: where It said, if you do sin you
have an advocate with the Father. And It says if you try to tell
somebody that you don't sin, you're a liar. So, this is something
different. 

41.	Now, reading on…now notice:

		(10) 	In this (very thing) the children of God are manifest, and the 	
				children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not 				
	of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.

		(11) 	For this is the message that (you) heard from the beginning,
that 						we should love one another.

		(12) 	Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. 	
				And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, 					
and his brother's (were) righteous.

	Now, verse 7 makes a dynamic statement about identification with Jesus.
 

		(7) 	…let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is 						
righteous, even as (Christ) is righteous.

	So therefore, I don't care in what Age you live, if you are going to be
identified with Jesus Christ and His righteousness, you are going to
have to know the difference between righteousness and unrighteousness,
or you're not going to make it. Because if you don't know the
difference, how are you going to manifest righteousness? Where are you
going to stand? See, you can't do it.

42.	Now, this statement gives us our identification with Jesus. Now,
what does Paul say about this subject of identification? Let's go to 2
Corinthians 5:21, then we'll come back to John. (We want to get your
minds lined up here.) 

		(21)	 For (God) hath made (Jesus) …who knew no sin; (to be made 				
	sin for us) that we might (become the very righteousness of God…					
(by our union with Jesus Christ.)  

	In other words, when you're baptized into the Body of Jesus Christ,
(the true Church) you are just as righteous as Jesus Christ and have
become His Own righteousness. Now, Paul explains it, John makes the
statement of the doctrine. And Paul goes into It, explaining It to us. 

43.	Now, notice in [1 John 3:] verse 10.

		(10) 	In this (very thing) the children of God are manifest, …

	This is a showdown. This lets you know where you stand before the whole
church world.            You know the difference between righteousness
and unrighteousness, and therefore you do righteousness. You never fail.
We don't need an advocate, here's one place you’re infallible. (See?)
You're right in it. Now, this is a Bride in every Age. And at this Age,
thank God someone shows us when we get near that pit. Now:

		(12)	…whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he
that 						loveth not his brother. (See, motivation is there.)

	Now listen: 

		(11) 	For this is the message that (you) heard from the beginning,
that 						we should love one another.

		(12) 	Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. 	
				And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, 					
and (Abel the brother, works were righteousness.)

	Now, It tells you right here, It tells the Church the difference
between righteousness and unrighteousness according to John.

44.	 Now, let’s go back to Genesis 4: and see this exactly, because
there's no use in…because John said in the beginning that's the way it
was. So, let's go back to the beginning, Genesis 4:2

		(2) 	…And Abel was a keeper of sheep…Cain was a tiller of the
ground.					(They were opposite works.)  

		(3) 	And in process of time it came to pass, that (the boys
worshipped) 						Cain brought the fruit of the ground (as) an offering
unto the LORD.

		(4) 	And Abel, brought the firstlings of his flock and of the fat
thereof. 						And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to (Abel's)
offering:

		(5) 	But unto Cain and to (Cain's) offering he had not respect. (He
said, 					"Out of My sight, get away, I won't take it.) And Cain was
very wroth,					(You think you can’t get mad at God? Huh, this fellow
was rip 						snorting mad at God.) and his countenance fell.

	Now notice what God said:

		(6) 	…Why (are you angry?) and why (has your) countenance fallen?

		(7) 	If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest
not 					well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire,
and thou 					shalt rule over him.

	Now listen: this translation is not the correct translation. The
correct translation is from the Greek. Because remember, in the time of
Christ the whole Bible was in Greek. This is the Septuagint. Now listen
to what the Septuagint says: This doesn't make sense at all what you
read here. You can't tell what it's all about. Let me get It from the
Greek. Listen:

		 

45.	Now, hold your finger there and turn to 2 Timothy 2:15.  …I could
quote It, but I'm going to read It. Watch: 

		(15) 	Study to shew thyself approved unto God, (Was Cain approved? 			
		No! He should have studied.) a workman that needeth not to be 					
ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

	What was it Cain failed to do? He failed to rightly divide the Word of
truth. Is that right? Isn't that what It says here? 

	Now, why did God say, "Thou hast offered right?" Because he did. You
show me in the Bible where a wave-offering or the first fruit is not
right? It is right. Israel was commanded to take the first fruit of the
land and to wave it before God as a symbol of the Resurrection of
Eternal Life. Is that, right? Then it's a right offering. Is that,
right? Where did he go wrong? He put it before the blood. He divided
wrong. Is that, right? Get your picture right now, because I'm not lying
to you. I'm going to prove my point. Everything I teach you is on tape.
Check me if I'm wrong. I know I'm not wrong. (See?) I wouldn't get up
here preaching, if I was wrong.

46.	Let's go to Hebrews 11:4. And let me prove it to you, the Septuagint
is right. 

		(4) 	By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than
Cain, …

	Then, if Abel offered a more excellent sacrifice, Cain had to offer an
excellent sacrifice. Let's look at that sacrifice. Bro. Branham said
Abel had a revelation. Cain did not. Abel worshipped by revelation, Cain
did not. Now watch: here comes this little man Abel. He hasn't got a
sharp lovely knife to kill the lamb. He's got a piece of sharp stone,
maybe flint he's made himself. Or maybe a volcano erupted, he's got led
to a sharp piece of glass.

	Now, you know a little lamb that you're going to kill, he knows it. You
got to throw the thing to the ground. You're not going to shear him,
talking nice to him. You just grab him quickly and what does he do, he
defecates on you. Urinates, and throws manure on you. You cut him across
here, jabbing while he bleeds. Throws blood upon you. Then entrails
spilling out. Stinking mess from head to foot. Then you put it on an
altar of sacrifice and burn it. And you don't hold your nose either.

	Now, here comes Cain. Beautiful fruit. He picked the nicest pears,
picked the nicest apples, picked the nicest plums. He had it all, isn't
that beautiful?  Said, "Boy, I want to tell you, that's excellent, hey,
that's nice. I want to tell you, look how you worship God."  Look, look
how nice he does it. Why, why wouldn't just love to have a part with
Cain, it's so beautiful.  He's fornicating. He's committing spiritual
adultery. He's in league with the devil. He's defying Almighty God. Why?

47.	Because he's mis-divided this Word. He tried to worship and serve
God apart from a Divine revelation. Like David when he got the cart.
(See?) Everything the prophet taught, you can see from Genesis to
Revelation. And it brings out here in this, the children of God are
manifest, and children of the devil when the Word comes, when the Word
is divided, and the truth is in the camp, they will never worship God
according to truth. They'll turn from that truth every single time, and
they'll got their own way, and they'll say, "Well, isn't beautiful."  

	"Well, look at this sweet little lady preaching. Look at the souls…
Why, see Bro. Vayle,               (a man, a friend of mine told me)
she's got the most satisfying healing ministry I've ever seen. Oh, I saw
five cancer's healed. I saw this and saw that. And they say there's
thirty thousand Catholic's been saved by her preaching." 

	And then a prophet says, "Shut up and sit down, and you stay in the
home." 

	"Oh, Bro. Vayle, it's so sweet, it's so beautiful."  

48.	Okay Cain. Hello Cain. God bless you Cain. I'll try to take that
back, because I'm not going to bless what God cursed. Now what happened?
 He hated his brother so frantically, because his brother stood for that
truth. You know if he’d have had what he said he had Cain, he'd have
just said, "Well, that holy roller," and walked off. But he said, "That
dirty holy roller, I'll get him." Because he knew as Bro. Branham said
about, when they got Balaam to go down and look at their hinder parts
and say, "Well, look find out, go and find the dirt Balaam."  Bro.
Branham said, 'Balak said, 'Balaam, go on down there and find the
dirt."'

	There isn't anybody that hasn't got dirt in his house. Well, God knows
that's the truth. And so, old Balaam goes sneaking around the back to
curse them. He thinks he'll get the dirt out there. He could, he could
always find plenty of dirt in the camp. The Bible says, "Where's there
no oxen in the crib, it's clean." [Prov 14:4] Well, as long as there's
people you're going to have trouble. I don't care if saints or sinners
you're going to have problems. Let's go down and see how dirty he is.
(See?) Now, wouldn't you like nice with us. You don't have to shout, and
dance and. jump up and down. You know, in other words, you can be real
sedate, and real pretty and real nice. And you can be one of those real
swell guys. Oh, how we have little homes for the women and the children.
And how we got our little group going here to save the drug addicted,
all of that. And then say, "That fellow, Branham." (phfft!) Yeah. Man,
with a great ministry.  

49.	 A friend of mine told me he sat in this meeting where Bro. Branham
was, and this fellow with that great big ministry in New York, and all
the papers written about him. He turned and said, "I've heard enough of
that nonsense," and he walked out. Cain, Cain had an offering. Why, they
said, "Why, (they said) look at that silly offering. That's kind of a
dumb jerk anyway, he's killing that lamb and get full of manure and all
doing it. Eeeh, phooey, eek, forget it. Now, why you just take those
pretty fruits and all."

	Look at that wave offering brother/sister comes after death, not
before. We've got to have a Passover.  Misinterpreting that Word.
Mis-division. Seeking to serve God apart from a Divine revelation
brother/sister, is unrighteous in the sight of God. And no Bride ever
does it. No Bride ever does it. She's absolutely one with the Word.

	Now listen, the Bible says, "Wherefore slew we him? Because his own
works were evil, and his brother's righteous." [1 Jn 3:12] 

	What was that righteous work of Abel? Rightly dividing the Word and
going to God on a right divided Word. You say, "Bro. Vayle, I've done
what everybody said, I've confessed every single one of my sins." You
can confess your sins until the cows come home. Pardon the expression
but you can. You can refrain from smoking, drinking, and beer, and
anything else, you can be a model person, but if you're outside of that
Word your sacrifice's vain. You have got to be in the Word of the hour.

 	Now remember, the Word of the hour was a blood offering, the Passover,
(so to speak) it was a blood offering and it was a wave offering. That
was all there was to it, then go about your business. Till your farm,
hoe your spuds, build your buildings. Like Bro. Branham said right now,
"Stick with this Word, build your house, get married, raise your kids,
have a business, do this." But, they're running around trying to do a
million different things, with a million different ideas. Isn't it
strange.  Just too simple, somewhere down the road. (See?) 'God in
Simplicity'.

50.	Now, here is your evidence of identification with Jesus. And here is
the evidence of righteousness, which is the Holy Ghost indwelling us, we
are one with that Word. How many folk do you know that are
tea-totallers?   They said, "I never had a drink of wine in my life. And
God is my judge, I'll never take wine at Communion."   

	Isn't that strange, how people will out-God God? Why try to out-God
God? It would be nice to get as far as God is, just don't try to outdo
Him. There's only one way you can get as far as God is, and that is
accept Jesus Christ as your Savior by being full of the Holy Ghost. And
if you are, you'd be one with this Word.  You won’t miss it. When the
Word kept coming, you just go down the line with the Word. (See?) But
Cain couldn't do it.

51.	Now, let's keep, keeping on. Cain was a worker, a tiller of the
soil. Abel was of faith.  The Bible says he was. Abel divided the Word
right, he served God according to revelation by the Spirit. And here is
what Bro. Branham said when God gave him this inspiration in '62. "You
can only serve God as you do and believe His…the servant, that God
sends you." You can only serve God on earth as God's servants…that are
sent on earth by divine inspiration, interpret the Word to you. Cain
took the Word without a revelation, he interpreted It, (of course wrong)
and he paid the price of death.

	Now notice, Abel had the Word right. Then he loved his brother, because
he didn't even defend himself and he was killed.  But see, it's the
correct Word and then love. (See?) People try to build on love. Bro.
Branham said, "Stay with the Word and love each other. And if the devil
sends anybody amongst you to shoot you full of poison, pray for him and
love him until he comes in, or gets out." But, he didn't say, "Love him,
and forget the Word."  He said, "Stay with the Word." 

	Then he warned those who love the Word, "Don't clique and clan, as
though you know the Word and your brother doesn't, you stay with the
Word as you see It. But be sure you have love, so you don't down your
brother." That's exactly what John was teaching here. (See?) 

52.	Now, see the picture, this is what the works of the devil are. The
works of the devil misinterpreting the Word and teaching God's people to
serve God thereby. Now, what did Balaam do? With the gift of the Holy
Ghost he tried to go down to pervert the Word to get Israel to serve God
through the perverted system. And he almost had him. Brother/sister he
almost had the whole bunch of them. They were in there in physical
fornication which types the spiritual, until Phinehas came by and killed
two of them as a blood offering unto God; a sacrifice and God turned it
down. 

	The same thing that was perpetrated on Eve. He got Eve to attempt to
believe God, and yet at the same time inspired her to disbelieve the
Word, so that she thought that she could believe God while disbelieving
His Word. Now, come on, how can you do that? (See?) 		                  
      

53.	Now, and see how Cain hated his brother. Jesus said, "They will
think they're doing Me a service by persecuting you."  Now, let me ask
you this question: did they hate Jesus for what He did? He said, "Tell
me, for what good deed do you stone Me?" 

	And they said, "For no good deed. [Jn 10:33] Look fellow, you can keep
on raising the dead, there's a whole grave yard out there. I'd like to
see my grandma and grandpappy again. You can multiply loaves and fishes,
and produce weapons until we knock the Romans into the sea. But, you
call Yourself the Son of God, we can’t listen to what You're saying." 

	They were willing to identify themselves with all the goodies, in the
sense of the materialistic. But, they refused to identify themselves
with the real goodie, which was the Word. They turned their back on It.
(See?) 

 	Now notice, both men offered, Cain and Abel. Now listen, both had
faith in their revelation. But one man's revelation was wrong, and this
manifests who is right. Now listen, how did they know in Abel's day who
was right? The Pillar of Fire came down and burnt the offering. So, what
about today?  How do we know today? Thank God, the Word is not silent. 

54.	Let's go to 1 John 4:1, listen to It:

		(1) 	Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether
they 						are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the
						world.

	The false prophet and the false spirit is one and the same thing. And
remember, the false prophet has got false teachers. For that's what
Peter said. Now, watch verse 6, listen:

		(6) 	We (said John) are of God: …

	Let's put that the way it should be written:

		(6)	(I, said John and you with me who believe) are of God: (listen:)		
			he that knoweth God… (hears me.)

	 You say, "Boy, that guy's got a big mouth. How would you like to hear
a preacher of the Word say, "I'll tell you one thing, if you hear me,
you're of God."

	You say, "Bro. Vayle, nobody says that."

	You're wrong. Every Methodist, every Baptist, every Pentecostal, every
single one says the same thing. But they got to the place now where
they're so far from the truth, they've all got to just sort of get
together and say, "Well, you're of God, but I'm a little more so. I'm a
little more right, (see?) we're the gates of heaven."  

 	Now, John stood up and he said, "Listen, I want to tell you something,
if you listen to me that's the evidence that you're of God. He that is
not of God will not listen to me."

		(6)	…Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

	It says right here, "you can know whether you are following a false
prophetic teaching, or a true spirit teaching depending on to whom
you're listening." Now, that sure sounds strange. A false spirit is
identified with a man, and a true spirit is identified with man, and
they come out through the teaching.

55.	Now, the funny thing is that the apostle Paul said the same thing.
In 1 Corinthians 14:36-37, It says:  

		(36) 	What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you
only?

	He said right there. Listen, "Who produced the Word of God? Did you
produced It, or did I produce It?"  Now listen:

		(37) 	If any man think himself to be a prophet, …

 	If you're a part of the five-fold ministry, apostle, prophets,
teacher, pastor, evangelist. Or spiritual. Lay member, got the Holy
Ghost. You couldn't be part of the five-fold ministry and not have the
Holy Ghost. But, you could sit in the pew and not have the Holy Ghost.
"You got the Holy Ghost," he said. 

		(37)	…let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are
the 						commandments of (God).

	Paul said that… what did Peter say? "If any man speak, let him speak
as the oracles of God."  [1 Pet 4:11a] "What I'm telling you is 'Thus
Saith the Lord'. Three people saying it. Three! "If you hear me, you're
of God." Peter said, "Listen to Paul, he's of God. "Sure (he says)
things that are hard to understand, but you listen to him, and don't you
wrest it." 

56.	Now, listen to me brother/sister, this identification of listening
to an authority in the church has never failed. It's been with us for
two thousand years. I'll prove it to you. The Book of Revelation 1:10,
John in a vision:

		(10) 	I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a
great 						voice, as a trumpet,

	Now listen, verse 12

		(12) 	And I turned to see the voice…

	He did not turn to see the man, he turned to see the Voice. He was so
absolutely taken up with that Voice. The Voice meant everything and he
turned to It. Now, you know, you can't see a voice. So therefore, he was
going to turn for a revelation. He was going to turn to know about It.
He was going to turn to partake as it were. Now, what happened?

		(12)	…And being turned, I saw (not the voice, not the man) I saw 			
		seven golden candlesticks;

	When he turned he saw the Bride, in Seven Church Ages. He saw Seven
Church Ages, he saw a Bride when he turned for the Voice. In other
words, there is only one place where you will hear the Voice of the
Trumpet, and that is in the Bride, and no place else. Prove it.

57.	Notice what He says. 

		(13) 	And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son
						of man, …

	In the Greek the word, 'one like unto the Son of man' means this, is
one interpretation, 'one who says the same thing as'. "I turned (he
said) for that Voice." Because the Voice caught him.

	Here's a shepherd, he's way over the hill. He wouldn't [Bro. Vayle
whistles] "Hey." They pick their ears up, zoom, they run over the hill.
They didn't see him. They saw the voice. Literally, they've seen the
voice. Why? Because there was an understanding.

	Now, here's a fellow like him, he goes, "Woo-hoo. hoo-hoo." Is he
asleep, or what? He doesn't even do that. You're not going hear it.  You
won't get it. But the shepherd, he's different. (See?) 

	Now, he turned to see the Voice. And he sees… (now listen) …he's in
the midst of the seven golden candle sticks, he's in the Bride for Seven
Church Ages.

58.	Now, in His right hand are seven stars. Now watch verse 20    

		(20) 	The mystery of the seven stars which (you saw) in my right hand,
						and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels 
					of the...churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are
					the seven churches.

	Seven Church Ages is making up one Bride all gold. And in there is
Christ Himself. What? By a Voice. Now remember, the Seven Stars are
what? Seven men. And the word 'star' in the Greek is not only 'light
holder', like it is in English, or a censor, but it is a pre-eminent one
amongst the many just like him.

	In other words, here is a man, they're all men. But, one man like John
said, "He that hears me, hears God. He that hears me is of God. Don't
hear me you're not of God."

	Fellow says, "Shut up John, I'm a man like you are, I believe I've got
the Holy Ghost. I spoke in tongues, I got a revelation."

	" Shut up and sit down, you're out of order. You have what I have?"

	"No! But I…"

	"Then sit down. I'm vindicated. I know what I'm talking about, you
don't! The Word never came to you, It came to me!" That's what Paul
said. 

	He said, "Quiet. Women, you're not preaching. You can't say a word in
that church, you go home. Talk to your husband.  He can't talk, you call
the pastor privately. Church Order. Set the church right in order." He
said, "What, did the Word of God come out of you, or did It come to
you?" Man, he slapped him down. He said, "I'm the authority I magnify
mine office. I heard from God. I brought this Gospel. I'll never change
It. God will never change It. And names will never change it. And he
said, "Don't you dare ever change It, but I know you're going to."  And
he said like Peter, "I'll tell you why you're going to do it, because
you want disciples to follow you and make merchandise of them." 

	You leave this Word of God, you sound like a disciple of Christ. You're
not a disciple of Christ, you're the other fellow's disciple. I'd tried
to hammer this home wherever I go, and all I get is a kick in the teeth
for it. (Yeah) A lot of places just want to kick me in the teeth.
Because I say, "Listen, if I speak to you wrong, and you believe me,
then you're Lee Vayle's disciple, you're not God's. But they don't
believe that. (See?) Well, I can't help it what they believe. That's
their business.

59.	Let me show you about these messengers. [Revelation] 2:

		(1) 	Unto the (messenger) of the church (which is in) Ephesus write; 	
				These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right
hand, 						who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks; 

	He brings a message, and at the end He says:

		(7) 	He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the 
					churches; …

	But, He's only talking to one man. One man gets the revelation. One man
gets the Word. Then what does he do? He spreads It. And what do they do?
Faithful men rise up and they take It. Every single Age, every single
Age, God sends a messenger with a revelation of Jesus Christ in the Word
for the day, and those that are to hear the Word.

	Now then, how are we going to identify? You identify in every Age with
the messenger. What happened in the Catholic Age?  Nine hundred years of
deprivation and darkness. Finally, Luther rose up. What happened? They
that heard Luther, and took that same Word, come out into everlasting
life. And Luther went to seed. What happened then? The life goes on.
Wesley took over. After Wesley, the Pentecostal's. And now at the end
time, what? William Branham the vindicated prophet in Revelation 10:7,
which is actually Revelation 3:14, the Seventh Church Age messenger
brings the last revelation for the last day. And Bro. Branham
categorically said, "Nothing outside of this Message will come to life."
(See?) There you are.

60.	The last Age God has promised a complete revelation of the Word of
God, by the Seventh Church Age messenger.

		(7) 	But in the days of…the seventh angel, when he shall begin to
sound, 					(trumpet, (see?) begins to sound) the mystery of God should
be 						finished, as (God) hath declared (the good news of the Gospel,
to 						his servants the prophets.

	The Gospel is absolutely wound up under the Message of the Seventh
Church Age messenger. And you'll come by this, or leave. See, the rest
are in the ground. They're Age is finished, they're gone. (See?) Was
vindicated by the Pillar of Fire, just as the sacrifice was in Abel's
day and Noah's day. The Pillar of Fire came down in vindication. Such
demonstration as you could possibly, and never even ask God to show you,
was in this man's ministry. No record in history begins to approximate
what that man brought to our attention.

61.	Look at Hebrews 6: let me show you. I'll read it again, another
time, just quickly on this one.

		(4) 	For it is impossible for those who were once (for all)
enlightened, 						(the last enlightenment) and have (listen, they can
taste) the heavenly 					gift, (partake) of the Holy Ghost,

		(5) 	…(taste) the good word of God, (they can taste) the powers of
the 						world to come,

	And yet the Bible says, the absolutely will fall away, and when they do
you will never return them to repentance. Now listen, let me ask you
this question: Could Cain get renewed to repentance, even though God
rebuked him? No, he could not!  He died, because he turned down the
revealed Word.

62.	Now, let me ask you another question: What about Esau? He sold his
birth-right. What was the birth-right? The revealed Word, the promise of
God. See, that's on Bro. Branham's tape, don't worry, I'll put it up.
And he carefully sought it with tears. He could not repent. Why? Because
he turned down the Word by which he worshipped God. Any worship of
Almighty God that's apart from the revealed Word, is absolutely vain.
"In vain do they worship Me, having for doctrine the tradition of man."
[Mt 15:9] 

	Then my brother, my sister what about those men and women who stand
with that Word, and worship Almighty God. Then they've got a Mediator
then, though they may sin, they've got a Mediator. As you see, when
you're one with that Word, you don't need a Mediator. Because herein is
a difference between those that are Bride and those that aren't. Bro.
Branham said, "Give them the Word test."

	What is that Word test? Where do you stand with the Message of the
hour? (See?) I'm building your faith up tonight brother/sister.  If you
go back on this, well you've got no place to go. You say, "Bro. Vayle,
what if some other great thing comes along?"  Remember the first is the
original. "What if somebody else comes along and says, 'letter for
letter'?" Oh, I think that pretty nice if he does. But it better be
letter for letter. It's got to be Word by Word. (See?)   

63.	Now, let me show you something here: It says here in Hebrews 6:
"Even though they are enlightened, (listen) they tasted, they partake,
literally, enter in the heavenly gift. They are made partakers of the
Holy Ghost, It falls on them, anoints them. Tongues, signs, wonders,
miracles; and they taste the powers of the world to come." [Heb 6:4-5]
Literally, see demonstrated, actually, what lies ahead in the
Millennium, and the Resurrection. 

	Bro. Branham told us by vision, by dreams, by the things of the gift.
Showed it. What man do you know that can starts telling the dream? He'd
say, "Hold it right there, I'll tell you the dream, you're telling it
wrong." And interpret it to you. 

	You know there was no man. You know that William Branham absolutely
revealed the Son of man. Said, "God was revealed in human flesh." In
other words, by a channel. William Branham stood there and we saw God.
We did not see a man. Because if you just saw a man, you saw wrong.  You
had to see God, by the very words the man spoke coming into existence,
right there. 

64.	And when those words were created, 'Thus saith the Lord' and they
came to pass. My brother, my sister, that is far greater than if I were
to say, "Let there be a lamp there, " and a lamp came. Because that's
for nothing. But when you see that Kingdom of God manifest before your
eyes like we did see, we were in the Presence of God. Sure, because God
did it. That's the only part your eyes can see of Him.

 	Now, It says, "When they fall away, they cannot be renewed to
repentance. They have put as Bro. Branham said, "To make themselves a
bond slave." They put their ear to the door, and the devil came by and
punched that ear, and they'll never hear again. Exactly right? Why?
Because they went back to bondage. They went back to the vomit. They
went back to the wallow. Oh, sure they were cleaned up. Sure,
absolutely, but they're still wrong.

65.	Now, let's go to 2 Thessalonians 2: (again) and see how it’s
turned down. 

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

	They don't have any love for the truth. Take a lot of love for power.
They got a lot of love for their creeds and dogmas. But they don't love
the truth at the end time, when Bro. Branham raised it, they turned it
down. What does God say?

		(11) 	…for this cause (I’ll) … send (a) strong delusion, …

	That I may be justified in damning them. Because here it was, I've laid
it out. They turned It down. And now they're going to be judged. Just
like Cain.

	Notice: It says here: 

		(12) 	…(they) had pleasure in unrighteousness.

	Just like Cain, he took his pleasure in unrighteousness. What was the
pleasure in unrighteousness? It was worshipping and serve God apart from
the revealed Word of the hour. Because the Word was revealed. Because
God said, "Listen, Abel I have accepted, go and take the lamb and kill
him like I told you." 

	And Cain said, "Listen, Your Word says, "I am to offer the first-fruit.
I choose the first-fruit."

	The Baptist say, "The Bible says, "Eternal security I see it." 

	The Methodist say, "Bless God, (It says) falling away, I choose it."

	The Presbyterian say, "You're baptized with the Holy Ghost when you
first believe." And then you get baptized in water that shows that
you've got It.

	And the Pentecostals say, "Ain't no such a thing, you speak with
tongues to get It." 

	And they go back and forth, and back and forth in the Word, to please
and to serve God. And they take pleasure in their unrighteousness,
because the vindicated prophet brought us the truth. There you are.

66.	And you know what? They're happy. You can't tell them anything. Oh,
they love the Lord, they praise God, they sing, they laugh, they get
what they call 'holy laughter'. Remember, when we were in Pentecost
years ago, we went through all these things, we thought we were, but,
thank   God with little babies, they finally grew up. We'd get there and
get the chuckles and the giggles and the mirth and the laughs, and
pretty soon running and dancing, float around, you know. Bro. Branham
said, "You're full of sensations, you haven't got the Holy Ghost." It's
when you got the faith, when you got the Word, when you got the Holy
Ghost. (See?) Sure.

	My, my, my, all the sensations all these things. Why they got, say,
great healing campaigns Why that's nothing. If I really believe with all
my heart, I'd walk and touch that door knob, I'd get healed. You can get
a witch doctor. They believe they're touching God, they get healed.
Sure, you can phone 'Silent Unity', they get healed by the hundreds of
thousands, in Silent Unity out there in out there in Kansas City,
Missouri. They get healings you wouldn't believe possible, and they deny
the very virgin birth of Jesus Christ and the shed Blood. Sure.  

		(12) 	… (they take) pleasure in unrighteousness.

67.	You know what this Bible says when they do that? It said, "God send
them a strong delusion."  He said, "Alright, I'll make the spirits so
close, (He said) just so close, (He said) they'll be doing the same
thing. They'll be acting just alike, (He said) one fellow turned the
cheek, the other turned the cheek." He said, "One give to the poor,
they'll give to the poor." He said, "They'll go to church on Sunday,
they'll tithe they'll offer." He said, "They'll give their lives." He
said, "You won't tell them apart at all, except for one thing, there's a
group of people talking a certain way, and they talk the way the prophet
talked. And nobody but them talked that certain way." And He said, "When
I make my jewels, that's when we’re going.  

	Now, the others are talking Bible too. Now, don't think they're not.
Oh, they're talking Bible, yes, they are, because the Bible lets us know
they're going to talk Bible. Now listen, what does He said in Malachi? 
He said, "In that day, (He said) when they turn back, (He said) I'll
turn them and restore them, as a man restores his servant." Now then,
how can you be a restored servant of Almighty God, unless you are
serving according to that Word? Can't do it. Just like Cain, they take
pleasure in unrighteousness. Our pleasure is in God the Word. 

68.	We are not offended by serpent seed. We are not offended by the fact
there is one God. We are not offended by the fact that women cannot cut
their hair, must not wear slacks and can't go preaching. We are not
offended that the men must take their authority and become heads of the
house and do that which is right. We're not offended by those things,
we're edified. Our lives are bound to Christ by the Word. Wherein their
lives in the world of the ungodly, are bound by creeds and dogmas, to
which at the end time God has given miracles, signs and wonders to make
them believe the lie. That's where there shall arise false Christ's,
even lying prophets, who shall do great signs and wonders, so that all
but the Very Elect will be deceived. For many shall come in that day and
say, "Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Thy Name, and in Thy Name
cast out devils. In Thy Name done the works. Then will I profess, I
never knew you, depart from Me, you that work iniquity." [Mt 7:22-23]  

	Now, here's your question, can you tell righteousness from wickedness?
Can you? There's            this little old lady preacher I told you
about.  They claim she's won thirty thousand souls for   Catholicism,
… I don't know. I won't argue about that, that's taking it right in
the kingdom.  The Word went out, the Word did it. They're disobedient to
a church. "Oh, what a price you pay to go pray to go preaching." What a
price she'll pay if she has gone preaching. All these people coming,
mighty miracles. "Bless God, that's the way it should be, great
wonderful miracles, hallelujah."

69.	Now listen, that's all of God. Every miracle done in Jesus' Name is
absolutely of God, God did it. And He said, "That's iniquity." Where the
Pentecostal's stand and listen now.  "Don't you dare tell me that that's
iniquity."  The Bible said, …why do you like the Bible?   "Well, I'll
tell you what it was, they once had the Holy Ghost, but they leaked
out.” Going to. No truth in it. All perversion. 

	Do you know the difference today from righteousness and wickedness it's
so close? Can you tell there's only one way that you're not with it? Can
you tell there's only one way to tell righteousness, and that is are you
interpreting and serving God according to this Word as revealed by the
Voice of God through the Seven Church Ages? And now in our Age the Voice
comes by the prophet William Branham? Because the Pillar of Fire
descended from Heaven, "and He that had that little Book open, put one
foot on the land, and one on the sea, and cried with a loud voice as
when a lion roars, and the seven thunders came forth which had been
sealed up." And in [Revelation] 22: It says, "Don't seal up the Book."
So, that between Revelation 10: and 22: the Book becomes unsealed.  You
say, "Well, I don't know if I'm going to have to go along with this
Message. You go all the way along. All the way along. 

70.	Church order. What about church order? We have a church meeting, we
vote. Where we vote, we got to stand with our vote. If that meeting is
rigged, stand up and face the people that rigged it. Heard of one just
recently, there was going to be a vote in a certain place in Canada. I
heard they called in a lot of people that hadn't been there for years. 

	I said, "Those people not been there for years?"

	They said, "No, Bro. Vayle."

	I said, "Then they're not tithe payers? Only tithes payers have that
vote."

	It's your duty to stand up in that meeting and decry that thing and lay
it down, because the minute that vote goes a wrong way. If it goes
anyway, the Holy Spirit's voice is in the majority, and you have got to
abide by it. And if that thing is stacked or pulled, although you walk
away, you should stand on your high leg and say, "No! I refuse to cast a
vote in the face of what's going on, this meeting is ours and ours
alone." I tell you, you've got to go all the way in this Message. Church
order is part of the Seven Seals. Going to church is part of the Seven
Seals. Five-fold ministry is part of the Seven Seals. 

71.	Ephesians 4: says, that five-fold revelation has got to be here to
bring that Bride to perfection when she meets that Head, it's going to
be as a five-fold ministry. Where do those people stand today that don't
believe in it? What about the prophet? The prophet's own son, Joseph,
he's called a prophet. Right? The father, William Branham said in the
Holy Ghost, "You are a prophet." Now, next year he's seventeen years, is
that right? And wasn't Joseph seventeen, when his ministry started? Now,
I suppose if Joseph had the ministry next year, and Joseph is a
five-fold ministry prophet, where's the other four? 

	Don't go running to Joseph if you cut the other four. You done took
from the Word. We're not here to fool. Time's running out, it's running
out fast. Who knows righteous and wickedness? People say, "I'm in this
Message." I know, do you know? Do we know, where do we stand if we know?
Are we doing what the prophet said? Or a far cry from it? I think it's
time to repent, which in my books means a change of mind. Have some
godly sorrow, and get down to business.

72.	Now listen, this is the case of the end time. They do not know
righteousness from wickedness. And they could not know, and we did not
know until the prophet came. What was driving me crazy? This very
question: men operating gifts and living like the devil. Men with great
crowds, and they're one cry was money. Every ad in the paper, "signs,
wonders, miracles." Until I finally said, "When you go, all you hear is
dollar signs, and then you wonder where the miracles are." And that's
your signs, wonders and miracles. But now we know.

	We know that there is no such things as a Bride who does not hear the
Voice of God in every Age, to the minister that God sends within this
Age was Elijah the prophet, who brought us the full revelation. And now
we worship God according to the revealed Word. And every time we read
this Book we read It, because we know the Message. 

	We are not of those men who say, "Let's open the Bible, put the 'Spoken
Word' down."We are those who say, "Pick the 'Spoken Word' up, and then
read your Bible." 

	You say, "Why?" Because that's what John the Baptist did. That's what
Jesus did. That's what Paul did. That's what Luther did. That's what
everybody does. It's a messenger. And that's how every sheep gets his
food. Is because he knows the paths beside the still waters where the
green grass is. And there is only one guide, my brother, my sister, and
that's Jesus in those Seven Church Ages by the Seven Church messengers.

73.	Righteousness and wickedness, you say he closes with the people
worshipping the devil, literally end up in an antichrist system, because
they turned down the Word, which is the only way you can serve God and
worship Him, because all other else is vain. We alone, we alone are the
one who have been given the right brother/sister, to eat of the Tree of
Life. What a tremendous thing. What a tremendous… this is not just
word knowledge I'm talking about now. I mean an actual revelation of
God’s Word, …not little clichés, and people running around. No! 

	I mean, sticking with this Word tonight, as God knows my heart I tried
to do, and I haven't said one word tonight to make you try to believe
Lee Vayle to be one of my friends, or follow me. I've tried to show you,
go hold to that Message and stay there. 

	Go there, brother/sister, because It says in Joel, "I have given you
this food for your righteousness." And the prophet said, "It's stored
up, I'm here to clothe a Bride." (Yeah) But at the wedding supper, when
the man got on, he didn't have the outer garment. In other words, that
inner Word wasn't there to produce the relationship to even stand with
that word tonight.

74.	Don't worry if you don't understand it at all. And if you can't
produce it all, that might be something to be glad about. I'm talking
about gifts and ministries now. Just be happy that you know it. Be happy
if you're doing your best to promote harmony and love amongst the
brethren. That you're doing your best to agree with. Not mentally, but
with a spirit of good feeling toward those who disagree, while you hold
your ground, and go the way that God led you. Let them go their way.
I've got my difference with people, but I want to tell you there's one
thing that brings peace in your heart, that you're doing a little bit in
mine now after all these years of fussing. Because I've seen so many
things I didn't want to see, and had so many things done around me that
I abhor.

	I finally said, "Look, He's doing what he wants to do, why should I
stop him? I'm doing what I want to do, and He's not trying to stop me." 
You know, that may not be the highest thing in this life, but for one of
us it's got to be. Because if you're right in the Word, or I'm right in
that Word and we have that attitude there's going to be a Bride go, and
we're not going to miss it. Because we're not confused any longer
between righteousness and wickedness, we’re not. We're not trying to
say we're God's servants living under creeds and dogmas. We're not
trying to serve Him under a system of creeds, organization and those
things which are foisted upon us. 

	We're here for one thing, to feed on this Living Word. And then by the
grace of God establish our hearts with that grace that we can do our
best to live. That's the way we ought to live before God and before
mankind.  

 Now, brother/sister, we're the only one to follow this, I don't see us
here. I mean those of us who have known and taken of this Tree, we know,
we're not in darkness any longer. The Light has risen, the Light has
come back. And remember the Light shines upon the first-fruit. God's got
some choice fruits coming, may we be a part of It. The Lord bless you,
shall we rise then be dismissed and leave this part of the service.

	Gracious Eternal Father, it's been good to be here with Your people, we
enjoyed being with them. Of course, Lord, that goes without saying
because we love them. And it's always such a joy to be with them here in
Chicago. Don't see them very often, but when we see them we know there's
something special about this place. I don't remember, but I think
someone said Your prophet came here about seventeen times, making a
record.  Lord, it's kind of peculiar, this going to the place,  You went
to so often. So, little seems to come out of, and yet when You went to
Jerusalem, You were also living in Nazareth a little while, being a get
deal also in Bethany, how much came out of it? They said, "Can there be
any good thing come of Nazareth?

	So, Lord, we won't say this about Chicago, can any good thing come out
of it? Because we know that the prophet saw in a vision there was a
Bride here. And, Lord, we pray for each member, each one that's
endeavoring to be a part of that Bride. Staying with that Word,
believing every Word, not doubting one bit if It. No matter what anybody
said, what anybody thinks. We just don't stumble over a thing, we just
let it be. God will work it out, because we had 'Thus Saith the Lord',
and the Words of a prophet are the thoughts of God.

	O God, how we'd all love to just be in that place where he was with
revelation. It's Your Spirit would pour within us the understanding and
we’d rejoice with that joy unspeakable, the marvelous depth the
reality of God through the revelation of the Word. And, Lord, I know we
have it in measure, and if we don't get it all here, we're going to get
it all there. But, we know the greatest thing in the world is this: in
this end time where everybody 'Thou Saith, Thou Saith, Thou Saith.
There's group of people that You're listening to, and You're writing a
Book of remembrance about them. And they'll be Yours at the Mount Zion
showdown, because they fear Your Name, and they speak often one to
another, and it's always about this Message.

	God, cleanse our hearts and especially our tongues from talking about
anything but it. Because we know that while talking about it, we could
talk about them. And that's not right. Help us, Lord Jesus, to refrain,
the speaking about anything unless it's in an attitude of prayer. We're
doing in prayer. And then just keep this Word always in our mouths. As
You said, "Bind it upon your wrists, and before your eyes to make
frontlets." Because this is what we become.   

	God bless each one tonight, Lord, let it be upon each one the spirit of
grace and humility, and sweetness in Jesus Christ. Another determination
fostered and augmented by the Holy Ghost. The talk, You want us to talk,
and to live as You want us to live, and to help as You want us to help.
Serve as You want us to serve, that this life might be truly the Spirit
of Christ lived out in us. Temples of the Holy Ghost.  We ask this
tonight, Lord, sobriety, now help us to believe it can be done. Now,
unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be all
power and honor and glory, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.  

	      

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