Rights and Responsibilities

 

Bro. Lee Vayle 

March 10, 1991

1.		You may be seated. I just want to express my gratitude to be with
you this morning. I just thinking kind of facetiously, I’m trying to
escape our little church up above us here, and I see just about
everybody’s here from up there, so instead of drifting now and taking
it easy, I got to try to produce, which is a little more difficult. But
it’s good to see you all. Sherry, it’s good to see you down here.
Which are your children, all three? I thought so. Beautiful children,
aren’t they? You know, children are so beautiful. I think that’s why
the Lord also mentioned we had to be like little children, you know, to
get into the Kingdom of heaven, have beautiful innocent natures. You
know, it’s not bad if people do bad things innocently, but when they
do bad things in a calculated manner, that shows they’re adults. Yeah
it does. Nasty thought. But so true. 

		And Bob, how are you doing? Look like you haven’t changed much.
Some. Of course my eyesight’s bad. Yeah, good to see everybody. Who am
I missing? Some of you I don’t know really, others I do know, …?...
to see you, but then again I could be kidding myself. Many times I…

2.		Anyway, a fellow walked up to me one time in Canada, it was up in…
where was that now? I guess it was in British Columbia. And he thought I
was his cousin. And I said, “No, I ain’t nobody’s cousin.” But I
said, “It’s sure great to think somebody’s ugly as I am, and
getting away with it.” But tough on the other guy! Difficult, you
know, sometimes, very difficult. But you know, you got to be what you
are. And then of course we’re supposed to improve on it.

		And I just thinking as Bob and Suzanne were singing that little song,
I just thinking of, you know really Isaac actually being heir to
Abraham, when Eliezer took all those gifts down there to her, really
they were actually Isaac’s, they were just, you know, more or less
papa’s in trust, because they really belonged to Isaac. And I got to
thinking, isn’t that something? He didn’t only get all his jewels
back, he got the girl too! And I think you know that’s kind of
spiritual. That the Lord, all His grace and all His goodness, He gets
back; God does not sow in vain. And if this morning we could only
realize what God has sowed in us, that He wants to get back, it would
really transform us. 

		But I think perhaps some of those things are hidden from us, or
they’re kept in abeyance, waiting for the Millennium, where we can
further be sanctified and grow in these graces, to really understand
what was way back in Christ, and what you might call Rhema, waiting to
become Logos. And we really being the end results of us, our lives and
what’s here, will be the totality and the maximum of what God
particularly desired of Himself, by what was in Himself, and we would
actually be that. And now this puts you on dangerous ground, like Bro.
Branham said, healing lies within you, but don’t take it too far. 

3.		We go to a fellow over here in – I’ll get to preaching later on,
don’t worry about it. We go to a fellow over here in Indianapolis, and
he does what they call ‘network chiropractics’, and we have a good
time because I kind of like to kid him, because you know he’s kind of
crazier than Hogan’s goat on his thesis of this love bit, you know,
and the healing within you. And he takes it to the place pretty soon
where you’re into yoga, and you know, you’re sort of… you’re
god, and all this kind of stuff, which is pure hogwash, you know,
you’re not God, you’re sons of God. You know, if you really are. And
so we have a little bit of a fun there, and he understands healing is
within you, but you see he takes it too far. 

		Well now, we can do the same thing, and end up completely, you know,
adrift from the things of God entirely by taking this Christ within you
too far. And that’s what – now don’t think I’m negative, because
I name names, because hey look if you do something in public, like my
chiropractor friend, he thinks I’m negative, he things I’m, you
know, judging, I said, “Now hold it doc, if I see you take a hammer
and break that window, I’m not judging. See, I know you broke that
window.” 

		Now he wants to go back of course, and well now, into the fact that
you mustn’t judge because that poor little fellow had some reason to
break the window. Hogwash, don’t give me that stuff. I mean, that’s
what the courts are messed up for, you can rape and pillage, and
“It’s okay, now.” Well it isn’t okay, because you are what you
do, what you think and what you say, and you cannot disassociate
yourself from it. 

4.		Anyway, you know he has this principle, you see, this idea that you
know, healing is within you, it’s all within you. Well now that’s
true with us too also as Christians, that what Christ is, in that
measure, is all within us. But you know you can always take something
too far, and then you get to the place where you kind of act like
Elohim, as though you are God. You know what happens? You bypass the
Word. That’s what you always do. And there’s no such thing as a
church that’s worth anything before God that doesn’t adhere to that
Word, first of all on the grounds of the intellectual, because you have
a mind that can receive it, which is known as repentance. And then with
it, which is that bill of rights that God gives you, there is a thing
called responsibility. 

		And that’s what’s wrong with America. We have a bill of rights,
and everybody wants their rights, their rights, their rights, their
rights. But nobody wants to be responsible. See that’s why Christians,
you got to kind of live in a way that the others won’t live in a way.
You got to pay your debts, you got to pay your taxes, there’s certain
things incumbent upon you that ensures your liberty. But if everybody
just wants and wants and wants, and there’s no reciprocation,
there’s no sense of responsibility, then you see you’ve got grace
that’s way out of the ballpark, you superimpose yourself above God,
that’s what Satan did.

5.		So we have many things within us – we’re not going to really
talk about them today – we have all this within us, but remember there
is always a cut-off. And the cut-off is always with the Word. And I’m
going to prove it to you. God said to Adam, “This is all yours. Take
out there, run it, rule it, animals, serpents, birds, butterflies,
everything is subservient to you.” And but He said, “Just one thing,
with your bill of rights, there’s responsibility. Don’t go to that
negative tree.” 

		But what happened? Serpent came along and he said, “Hey, I want to
tell you something. These rights God gave you, these are your
privileges. But you don’t have to respond and be responsible to that
Word that says stay away from there.” 

		So what happened? His bill of rights and her bill of rights became
useless. See, because that wasn’t their prerogative. Right? 

6.		So once you have privileges, like we have in the States, and the
people deny their responsibility, which they’re doing, you have a
renegade nation, and this nation is renegade, and Bro. Branham
wouldn’t even pray for it. Say, “My God, a prophet, and him so close
to God, and he not praying?” 

		Hey, hallelujah, I would like a Jaguar, and I am going to pray, and
this Bible will become a Jaguar. Or some kid who’s writing his test,
he said, “My God, I don’t know what the capital of Arizona is, but
I’m sure going to pray that it’s Benson, Arizona.” I got news, it
ain’t Benson. And you can pray until you’re black in the face, and
you are going to have to face the reality that it is not Benson. And
until you correct your attitude, there’s nothing that God is going to
do for you, or abide by it. Responsibility. And that gives me a good
place to start on this little message. Let’s bow our heads in prayer.

		Heavenly Father, at this time we want to talk a little bit concerning
a dedication of a church, and we know we’ve got freedom of worship, we
can come here to this building here, it’s positively guaranteed us,
and no doubt they’ve even got a charter, or will have one, which is
perfectly legal. But all of these things Lord will be outside the realm
and pale of safety, Your protection, Your preservation, Your goodness
and Your mercy Lord, if there isn’t something they abide by. And we
pray Lord that therefore with their privileges, which they have, the
rights that You give, and have given in this hour, there will
consequently be the accepted responsibility, not as though they in
themselves have to really produce something, and they can’t produce
it, but they simply abide by Your Word, which in turn becoming positive
and positive with no negative, will bring forth exactly what they really
desire in their hearts all the time, but can only receive upon grounds
of staying within these responsibilities, which are given with their
privileges. 

		So help us to see that this morning, and may we love You the more for
it, love each other, and then Lord love You by loving each other, serve
You by serving each other, giving You the glory, in Jesus’ Name, we
pray. Amen.

7.		Now although I can and do find Scriptures that hallow the people, I
can find scriptures that sanctify a people, hallow a people, set them
apart, I cannot find any Scripture in the New Testament that hallows or
dedicates a building, that is used by God’s identified people, and is
therefore called a church on the grounds that the church is identified
with the God worshipping people that are therein. In plain English,
there are many Scriptures that I can find concerning people, but I can
find nothing concerning a building. 

		Now Paul in his epistles you well know mentions various homes, one of
which was the home of Chloe. He mentions various home owners and various
homes and various cities, where the elect came together. He mentioned
the saints come together, the elect in such and such a place, but he did
not mention a specific building, though we know that Paul did visit
synagogues and arenas, where people were already gathered with the
understanding that they were worshipping. Now he didn’t go to places
where they weren’t worshipping, he might have, but there’s no record
in Scripture that I can call to mind, but he did go to places where
people were worshipping, especially synagogues, arenas, theatres, and
various areas where there were altars erected, such as he mentions in
the Book of Acts, he said to the unknown God, “I see you’ve got
superstition here more than reality.” But you cannot find where he
actually talked about associating God with buildings. 

8.		And also John the Revelator mentioning the church in somebody’s
home, really indirectly, not point blank, but mentioning people’s
names, in the Book of Revelation he mentions churches all the way from
Ephesus to Laodicea, and in seven places he says the church which is in
Laodicea, the church which is in Smyrna, and Thyatira, and right all the
way down to Laodicea. But at no time is any one of authority, and I
refer to that as all through the gospels, and all through the various
epistles, there’s no one of authority who is ever involved with a
building as though it were of any moment or any great need to Almighty
God, in any way, shape or form as pertaining to actual worship
concerning Him. 

9.		So what we might now then start to read the Scripture just to see
this, as it’s written in the Book of Acts 7, beginning at verse 44,
and this is where Stephen is giving the history of Israel where they
were worshippers of God and they were particularly able to leave Egypt
and go into the Promised Land, and thereby enter into a true form of
theocracy through the prophet. And he shows how they absolutely failed
God from the day one, until right down to the present time, which was
after Pentecost, where as the Scripture said, “You both crucified and
killed the Lord Jesus Christ, whom God hath raised from the dead.” And
this man on fire in verse 44 says, 

(44)	Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he
had apppointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to
the fashion that he had seen.

		Now you’re entering in then to the fact of worship, which is God
centered in the Ark of the Covenant, which was called the ’Tabernacle
of the Wilderness’, because it was portable. Wherever the Pillar of
Fire moved by night and the Cloud by day, the priest would pick up the
Tabernacle of the Wilderness, all the paraphernalia, and they’d lay it
on their shoulders, and the Ark of the Covenant especially, and they
would then put it up in another place, as Bro. Branham once called it,
“God with a skin on it.” 

10.		Now,

(45)	Which also our fathers that came after brought in with (Joshua,
that should be Joshua,) into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God
(drove) out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David; (Now
notice there’s a cutting off.)

(46)	Who found favour before God, and desired to (build) a tabernacle
for the God of Jacob.

(47)	But Solomon built him an house.

(48)	Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as
saith the prophet, (For:)

(49)	Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye
build me? 

		In other words, “How can you possibly build anything that is going
to be comparable to Me as a Person? What could you simply envision, what
could you imagine, what could you come up with that would be
commensurate with Me as God?” That’s what’s being said here. 

(49)	…or what is the place of my rest? 

		He said, “When am I going to, Myself, get off the hook with these
people?” In other words, “When are we going to come into a
tremendous relationship of what I’m talking about, which are rights
and responsibilities, or grace as pertaining to what I’ve given you,
purity of revelation, and what is your response?” See? “What is your
response?”

(50)	Hath not my hand made all these things?

(51)	Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always
resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do (you). 

(52)	Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? 

11.		Now we’re all the time you’ll notice that Israel likes to go
back to Moses, and everybody, I suppose all the Jews – not all the
Jews, and I really have no right to suppose, but in my own thinking
I’m supposing, as in the days of Jesus they looked back and they
said… everybody loved Moses. “Moses, Moses, Moses. Moses, Moses,”
you would act as though – they were acting as though, “Hey listen to
me, every one of us have been obedient to Moses, we love Moses, Moses is
everything.” See? But watch, he said:

Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? 

		Now what was the persecution of Moses? Number one it started with the
big mouthed woman who was his sister. He was persecuted by her! “Oh
she wouldn’t do that.” Well I’m telling you she did. The Bible
says it. Then who came up? Korah, Dathan, Abiram. Some so-called
authorities in the church, that said, “Moses get out of the way.” 

		Like they said to Paul, “Get out of the way.” 

		And they said to William Branham, “Hey, we’ll carry the ball.” 

		And you ain’t worth a plug nickel if somebody doesn’t shove on
you, Bob, just tell you flat. In other words, you ain’t carrying a
ball. He was my whipping boy; I hope some of you caught something. Huh? 

		Come on, true seed is true seed, and if the prophet got it, the
children of the prophet get it! And if you don’t think they do, hey,
who are you not looking at some dizzy idiot up here that doesn’t know
what he’s talking about. I’m not kidding as though I really know
something, but hey, I’m seventy-seven pretty quick now, and I
haven’t lived all these years in vain, especially fifty-some years in
the pulpit. Pretty well over fifty. 

12.		Now listen,

(52)	Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they
have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of
whom ye have been the betrayers and murderers:

(53)	Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have
not kept it.

		Now it tells you right there, that those people were responsible to
their privileges! To what they were given! And William Branham came with
a simple dress code, and can you get the women to do it? No! Now if
I’m shaking you, I’m sorry, but you asked for it. You asked me to
dedicate the church, phooey on your building, I love it, it’s nice,
but I’m not interested in your building. We got a real nice church
back home; I could go to a storefront. Not interested.

13.		Now, let’s go a little further. The Book of Acts 17:22-31. See,
the building didn’t help these people any. I’ve read articles of
Solomon’s temple, and to read how his throne rotated and was elevated
up and down, and the beautiful walks and the marvels of the temple, yeah
I read real true accounts of it, and you cannot believe the scientific
industry that went into producing that temple, all the stones and the
timbers came together, there wasn’t the sound of a saw or a hammer,
they fit right in. You talk about genius. Oh yeah. 17:22. 

		Now, he says here,

(22)	Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ hill, and said, Ye men of
Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are (far) too (spiritual.)
supersititious. 

14.		How much of our spirituality is superstition? You know I don’t
like to go too far in what I say, but I always do anyway, then I have to
go home and cry about it, but it reminds me of the Pentecostal people
– and I was one of them, so don’t you dare try to put two feet on
me, I was that for many, many years. I came from a group of people –
though I wasn’t one of them – they opened the refrigerator door and
the light was on, that was something significant. You open the door and
the light wasn’t on, that was significant. And they went around, some
of them, so heavenly minded they were no earthly good, one guy
couldn’t do his shoelaces, because he was too spiritual, couldn’t
think upon those things. I imagine how he treated his wife and kids,
they’ll likely starve. I don’t understand. People are superstitious,
they are not even religious, because religion is a good word, it’s in
the Bible, and it comes from the Latin, meaning ‘to bind back’. True
religion will bind you back! And in true religion it says you must
remember the widows and the orphans, which designates a responsibility
with your privileges! Huh? Right on target, Bro. Vayle.

(23)	For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar
with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly
worship, him (will I) declare unto you.

(24)	God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is
Lord of heaven and… dwelleth not in temples made with hands; (He
doesn’t dwell in temples. Now it’s not that He couldn’t put a
blessing upon it, but He doesn’t dwell there. Bible tells us.)

(25)	Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, (that’s building,) as
though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath,
and all things; 

15.		Now that’s one reason why the Bible is very strict, and said,
“Don’t you dare try to make an image unto God. Don’t you dare try
to make anything at all, and place it, and say, “Now we are going to
come to God through this or that or the other thing.” It is absolutely
forbidden to make anything that is an image of God. Which does mean you
cannot have any replication of God, He must stand inviolate. And there
is only one image, which is Christ. 

		Now these people were using altars and buildings and things which they
made with their hands. Now Paul is repeating Stephen. Notice that the
same Holy Spirit always says the same thing. Never is there any – I
love the Bible for this reason. It never crosses itself up. It’s only
the people that don’t have the Word of God revealed to them. 

		Now, seeing He needs none of these things, but notice He’s the One
that gives life and breath to all things, so therefore if now the Giver
has given us life and breath, how dare we demean ourselves, by
worshipping something below us! See what I mean? Because if we’ve got
the life and breath given by God, and our hands begin to make something,
and we say – and we put any faith in that thing which are hands have
made, then that becomes our god! See? You see what I mean? You simply
can’t do it. No place in Scripture.

16.		Now let’s go back a little further then with this, and I say back
further, but back to our Bibles, and we go to Mt 24:1-2.

(1)	And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples
came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. 

		Oh they were proud. Now this was not temple of Solomon, but this was
the temple they built under Herod, and it was something that – well
anybody that really knew the old great temple, looked at this and they
were kind of sour. They said, “Well, if this is the best, it will have
to do. But believe me, it was so good in those old days.” Just let
your thinking go and apply to this Message, but I won’t talk about it.
Now,

(2)	And Jesus said unto them, See not all these things? (truly) I say
unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that
shall not be thrown down. 

		And that’s exactly what happened. A little bit of the old Wailing
Wall was left, they think it was, I don’t know if it’s the same
thing or not, who knows. Who can prove anything, this long ago? But the
point is the temple was utterly destroyed according to the Word of God,
which we know to be true historically, even this point. 

17.		Now, not only do we see these Scriptures as disassociating a
building from God, but we see also God refusing a temple, which He once
inhabited, because of God’s church people’s idolatry. Let’s go
back to Ezekiel. Now that’s a very tremendous book, in there we see
the idolatry of Israel consummated in the sight of God. So in the 8th
chapter, beginning at verse 6.

(6)	He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do?
even the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here,
that I should go far off from my sanctuary? (Now look it, right in the
sanctuary that God had come into, absolutely dedicated to Him.) but turn
thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations.

(7)	And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked,
behold a hole in the wall.

(8)	Then he (said) unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I
digged in the wall, behold a door. (Now this is a vision.)

(9)	And he said (to) me, Go in, behold the wicked abominations that they
do here.

(10)	(And) I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping thing,
(now remember Revelation now has the churches that’s full of the
birds, which is evil,) and abominable beasts, and (even) all the idols
of the house of Israel, portrayed upon the wall round about.

(11)	And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the
house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of
Shaphan, (and) every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of
incense went up. 

18.		Now remember, the incense is legitimate in the house of God. Now
they are burning incense no longer to God, but they’re burning it unto
idols, and you see the perfect picture of Jezebel religion, idolatry
mixed with what was once true worship. See? They have turned.

(12)	Then he (said) unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the
ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the
chambers of his imagery? (In other words, his imagination, look what’s
happening here, God of the imagination.) for they say, The LORD seeth us
not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth.

		Now you notice in here the signs that should have followed the Word
that was preceded by vindication was not with them. There was something
wrong with Israel. And the more they turned from the living God, the
worse it got.

(13)	He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see
greater abominations that they do.

(14)	Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD’S house
which was toward the north; and, behold, there (the) women weeping for
Tammuz. (I think that’s actually Adonis.)

(15)	Then he (said) unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? turn
thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations… (and so on.)

19.		Now let’s go to the 11th chapter, and we’ll start to read at
[verse] 22, and we don’t need to read very much there.

(22)	Then did the cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels beside
them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them. 

(23)	And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city, and
stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city.

		Now with that, we go back to compare this to 1 Kings, if I got this
right, and it’s the 8th chapter, and we read:

(1)	Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of
the tribes, the chief… of the children of Israel, (this to dedicate
the temple, and) unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring
up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which
is Zion.

(2)	And the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the
feast in the month (of) Ethanim, which is the seventh month.

(3)	And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark. 

20.		Now that number seven can be very symbolical, because it’s
placing of the Ark of the Covenant with the temple of God and this is
the Seventh Church Age.

(4)	And they brought up the ark of the LORD, and the tabernacle of the
congregation, and all the holy vessels in the tabernacle, even those did
the priests and the Levites bring up.

(5)	And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were
assembled (with) him, were before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen,
that could not be told nor numbered for multitude. 

(6)	And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto
his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even
under the wings of the cherubims.

(7)	For the cherubims spread their two wings over the place of the ark,
and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.

(8)	And they drew out the staves, (and) the ends of the staves were seen
out in the holy place before the oracle, and they were not seen without:
and they are (there) unto this day. (And they should be, but
they’re… you know.)

(9)	There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, (the
manna and the budded rod had gone,) which Moses put there at Horeb, when
the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out
of the land of Egypt.

(10)	And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy
place, that the cloud filled the house of the LORD, 

(11)	So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the
cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the (whole) house…

21.		Now notice, that’s quite a bit like the Day of Pentecost, on Acts
2, when the Cloud came over the place and divided Itself, which was
Jehovah there in the Pillar of Fire, Spirit of God dividing Itself over
the people, and the people were like people who couldn’t minister.
They were like drunken men, as they came down from the upper room, and
poured out into the streets, where they were prophesying, and people
heard them speak in their own languages. And they said, “Well these
people are got to be drunk.” 

		Said, “No they’re not drunk, and it’s only nine o’clock in the
morning. Whoever gets soused in the morning? If they’d been soused
last night, they’d still be out there in the gutter. No, (they said,)
these men are drunk, but only with new wine.” In other words, a
complete visitation of the Spirit of God.

		And what I’m trying to show you here is that this temple, which was
so illustrious, that it started under the great ministry of Solomon,
which was passed on from David, the prophet king, warrior, and all those
other great attributes, which showed forth Christ, this man Solomon had
built this wonderful and marvelous temple, and God Himself came down,
the Pillar of Fire, went right into the holiest of holies, where the Ark
of the Covenant was, which Ark was that little tabernacle over which the
cherubim had spread their wings, and in there now were the tablets of
stone containing the Word of Almighty God. 

22.		Now I want you to notice something here then. The Pillar of Fire
that stood over earthly Hagar, remember Hagar is earthly Jerusalem,
according to Galatians, right? The Pillar of Fire that stood over
earthly Hagar, Jerusalem, was once within the holy of holies, where the
Ark of the Covenant rested, which Ark formally contained the manna and
Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tablets of stone on which were
written the Word of God. Now what was it about that complete picture,
even before the temple?

		Now then the Holy Spirit, Who was Elohim in a Pillar of Fire, was the
life of the Word! And it was that life of the Word which accounted for
both the budding rod and the supernatural manna, that Bro. Branham said
for generations they could reach in and take a piece of it, that living
manna, signifying that what you had here was God abiding in His Own
Word. 

		Now thus, when the Spirit left the Word, now watch, the Word was no
longer the protagonist of Israel, but became the antagonist. Now let it
sink in. You think you’re resting upon a Word this morning that’s
not a two-edged sword, I have got news for you, you are wrong. You can
claim this Word all you want, and people are doing it. And if Bro.
Branham said, a year or two before he died, “They say there’s ten
thousand people believe this Message, too many, I’ve got to shake them
off,” and the word today is there’s a quarter million, there’s
something wrong with somebody’s thinking! There’s something
radically wrong. You still have the case of the church with the three
kind of believers. Believer, true believer, make-believer, he’s a
shifty kind of a guy, and then the unbeliever. And they will be there in
that group, not knowing the things of God. 

23.		Now the Word of God for those people, who attempt to use this Word
as a patch on an old garment, who will not allow the Word of God to
renew their minds, and listen, if anybody knows what he’s talking
about, Lee Vayle does, having written the Church Age Book and saw the
mighty men of Branham Tabernacle turn it down, because they knew I was
preaching my doctrine, not William Branham’s, that’s a lie! I had to
have my mind renewed, and those things which I thought I knew, because
perhaps I was the first preacher to find out William Branham was not
speaking my language. I was understanding him in what is known as a
spiritual pigeon language. I could take what he said and transfer it to
my own thinking on the grounds of what I believed. 

		Therefore there were times when I deliberately contradicted him, not
willfully, but believing I was right. Until the day came not by own
invention or my own ingenuity, or originality, understanding that this
man had to be positively a man who was infallible. Listening for the
first time to the voice that told me back in 1947, in Canada, “If you
ever listen to any man, this is the man you’d listen to.” That’s
all I got. As I saw him, knowing that no man would have what this man
had. 

		Also knowing by my own words of prophecy to condemn me before the
White Throne, which is even at this point, whatever spoke through me
said, “Behold I send My prophet out of the north, and he shall teach
the people the things they ought to know.” But it took me year after
year to realize that this man would teach me, and in teaching me he
would become the father of my mind! So at one time I was thoroughly
bastardized, as far as my mind was concerned. 

24.		Now some of you people sitting here can’t take it, because you
have your own thoughts, and you are very wonderful. And I’m going to
just lay it right on you, because I don’t care two bits, I owe you
nothing except the Word of God. And I’ve told you many times, I have
not gone in your homes, I have not upbraided you personally. There once
was a couple of guys I did tangle with. You asked for it. And I’m
standing right before the White Throne now, and I have no fear. But I
have not taken your money, I have not laid a burden upon you, I’ve
simply preached the Word and stood back and see if the Word works. And
I’ve got news, if it doesn’t work, forget it. 

		See, the Word of God is your protagonist! That’s where Eve was,
under the Word! But the minute she left the Word, it became her
antagonist! Now you’ve got the two-edged sword working within you and
for you. And you can have your kooky ideas of this, that and the other
thing, but if you don’t reconcile yourself to the Word, you will get
nowhere. 

25.		And I will divert here now just for a moment to let you know
something which I cannot seem to get across to people’s minds. Bro.
Branham said. “The Catholics have the gold and the Jews have the
paper!” What does it mean to you? It means they’re interrelated, and
both Jew and Romanism are in the forefront of the world today, battling
and striving for supremacy, and who’s going to win? Catholics. The
pope. 

		Now what about the Jews? There’s a Jew hating across this nation,
which has started, and will get bigger and bigger and bigger, and the
seeds of Armageddon have been sown, proving you can put a million men in
a tiny few acres, and come right against Israel. And the Jew haters are
cursing the Jews and calling them every manner of name, and they’re
laying all the blame upon the Jews who hold the paper. Yeah. Then the
other side are fighting the Catholics, and they don’t have a clue to
the Jews. 

		They say, “Bro. Vayle, why do you preach that way?” 

		Because I want to renew your minds! When Bro. Branham said, “One’s
got the gold, and one’s got the paper,” what’s he talking about? 

		“Oh that’s a very clever thought, yes.” 

		Well this is history, this is destiny, this is what you’re looking
at, and the pope has finally made known through his college of cardinals
and his bishops, that “Hey listen, we’re calling off all this stuff
about how we hated the Jews, it was just a little tiny fringe element of
fanatics that killed him, so now we’re going to make it up to the
Jews.” Yeah, and now the Jews are going to make it up to the
Catholics, and the pope was soon going to go to Jerusalem to pray for
peace. Don’t you know there’s a two-edged sword going on amongst the
nations? Catholic and Jews. Do you follow me? I think I’ve lost you, I
hope to God I haven’t. 

26.		Why am I saying this? Because I know from your own testimonies some
of you people are so hard on these things in the world concerning the
Jews, I was a Jew baiter once myself. From twenty years of age I saw the
protocols, the elders of Zion, and all those things right there, and I
know as well as you do, that Communism started right with the Jews, you
can’t deny it. You can’t deny who influenced America, who gave the
money to Wilson to become the democratic leader at that time? And study
your history, you know positively there’s a battle going on. But if
you sit back and don’t understand the battle, you cannot win this
race. 

		Now this may sound just very puerile to your minds, but I know what
I’m talking about. Because I talk to people, I watch what’s going
on, and they simply have not had a clue when the prophet said,
“One’s got the gold, and one’s got the paper.” And all this talk
about calling in money, this, that and the other thing, Bro. Branham
said, “Cuba did it, but we won’t do it.” 

		I didn’t bring my excerpts, read it in church the other day, the
pope himself has been having visions, oh yeah, and that’s true,
visions absolutely, undeniable, and they’re authentic as far as he is
concerned, and as far as world politics I know they’re okay. I don’t
care if he gets them from the devil or not, devil’s… you know,
he’ll tell the truth about himself in the sense, you know, things are
going to come to pass. We’ve had a prophet with a vision that’s way
beyond that.

27.		So all right, we are looking at the fact here that when the Spirit
left the Word, it became the antagonist. And if you don’t think that
is right, I’ll ask you now why, how did the Spirit of God move from
the Catholic church unto Luther to justification, then it moved from
justification to sanctification, then moved on down to Pentecost, which
is where the brindle horse enters, which is death. Which is the red, the
white and the black, all in one, and rides into eternity. 

		What you are seeing is this, the Word that once held the life, the
life has leaked out! And that Word now becomes their antagonist, because
they will be judged, and being judged now by God for what they believe,
which they do not really believe! Come on! They will be judged, the
Lutherans will be judged under justification, the Methodists under
sanctification, the Pentecost under restored gifts, and this age, we are
being judged right now by the judging Word! And if you cannot allow the
life of that Word to supercede your own life thinking, that Word is your
antagonist. Just like the time of Eve. And Bro. Branham categorically
stated with, he said, “It was all over, as soon as she stepped from
behind the Word.” 

28.		Then where does your wholeness start? And everybody talks about
holistic medicine. Everybody’s into it. They know if the body’s not
integrated, you’ve got problems. I talked to a doctor the other day, I
said, “Hey, you’re into this certain thing.” 

		He said, “Yeah.” 

		Well I said, “My trouble is that I’ve got these erosion of the
fourth, fifth and sixth vertebrae.” 

		Well he said, “So big deal. Your vertebrae gets renewed every two
years! Well,” he said, “it’s no big deal.” How come they’re
not being renewed then? 

		Now if I got to one guy, he will tell me, “Hey, the trouble with you
is boy, you need your body cleansed.” 

		So I cleanse my body, I eat psyllium seed, I drink some fruit, and
this and that and the other thing, and for weeks and weeks I cleanse my
body, and I fill it full of nourishment, and my spine still is in the
same shape after two years! [End of side one of tape one.] My life
sources have been inhibited somewhere, so the nourishment cannot pass to
this place where I need the life! Holistic medicine, what we’re
talking about. 

29.		Now you see the thing is she got from behind the Word where the
life was. See? And that’s the whole thing we’re looking at in this
particular day. If I then can go to some doctor, and I can say, “Doc,
now, can you find the places, the impingements or those areas within the
synaptic connections, the endrites and dendrites, or whatever it is
you’re looking at, where the life is flowing, so you can open those
passages and I’ll get my bone structure!” And that’s exactly
right! See? 

		Now there’s nothing wrong with the life that is in there! There’s
something stopping it! Take that to the church! The church is off the
Word! Therefore there will be no immortality, unless we get back on the
Word! And he said, “Take this Message for your healing.” 

30.		All right, let’s go to Deuteronomy. You’ve got it really warm
in here, or I’m just heating the place up by my own verbosity, which
could be, you know. I never sell myself short, as though I’m not
killing time, or just talking in the wind. I hope not. Deuteronomy 4.
All right, he said,

(1)	Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the
judgments, which I teach you, for to do, that ye may live, and go in and
possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers give you.

		All right, now here he said, “Here’s your bill of rights, and
here’s your responsibility.” 

	Now what’s the first responsibility? Everybody say, “Hey, you got
to do, you got to do, you got to do. Everything do, do, do, do, do, do.
Hey man, do, do, do, do, do.” I’ve got news for you; you bunch of
do-do’s. Really it’s dodo’s, you’re all dead. No! Just because
that’s written there, don’t let your mind get fixed! Open your mind!


		Now what’s it say?

(2)	Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye
diminish aught from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD
your God which I command.

31.		Now he tells you! He explains how you keep the commandments! No
way, if you add or take can you keep them, you’re finished! Then what
is the first rule? Get your passive faith lined up. Ask you a question,
where’d this law come from? Came from God. How do you know? A
vindicated man. Positively vindicated by God, never said one word of
doctrine, never said one single solitary thing, just came down there and
proved that he was God’s mouthpiece. And when they said, “You are
God’s mouthpiece, you prophet, because you’re vindicated,” then
God gave them the Word! 

		So notice, there is a miracle ministry before the Word that really
counts! And the one after doesn’t! Because you can be a Korah, Dathan
and Abiram, prophesying right to the top of your head, you can be a
Balaam, a hundred percent with the Word of God being fulfilled from that
man’s mouth right today, and you can be as phony as a three dollar
bill. 

32.		Now if I’m hurting anybody, I’m sorry, but I’m preaching
exactly before the White Throne, and it’s hitting me as much as you.
Because I’m not just trying to be a big mouth up here, and I thank God
the offering plate was not passed, I’d only turned it down anyway.
Because I don’t take money for burials, or weddings, or dedications,
or anything. I’m well taken care of, don’t need it. So I can preach
just exactly as I know the Word of God is, without fear or favor, and
I’m standing before the White Throne right now, knowing I am telling
you the truth. And that’s the only stand I’ve got, that I have not
lied. 

		Now:

(3)	Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baal-peor: 

		Now if you go back to the original you’re going to find that those
names refer to a sex act. Which is phallic worship, and they had the
whole thing there. 

(3)	…(and) all the men that followed Baal-peor, (which is adultery,
fornication, which is idolatry.)

33.		Now what is the great pastime of the whole world? Fornication! So
what’s religion? Fornication! Come on. You are your religion, and
religion today is sex, smarten up. And what has sex brought us to? AIDS.
Rotting on our feet. And what happened? The government and the doctors
lie about it. And the sociologists lie about it. And the teachers that
teach your kids lie about it. And every paper you open up, you’ll find
where counselors are seducing boys, as well as girls. Keep your kids
home, if you can, and educate them. If you’re allowed it, you’d
better do something. Because the world’s one great big trap and snare.


		As much as I don’t have any use for the Mennonite religion… and
notice their crazy black flat hats? Who has the crazy round brown hat?
The Catholic friars. Tell me the Amish are different from the Catholics,
and I’ll tell you hey, you don’t belong in this Message, you just
kid yourself. You’re still back in the boondocks somewhere, smarten
up. God’s not in a church and in a hat. He’s only made a couple
concessions or observations concerning His Word, and that’s concerning
a man don’t wear woman’s, and a woman don’t wear a man’s. And
then it says, “Don’t expose your bodies,” and we all know that, a
prophet us told us. 

34.		So anyway, here this is a sex thing, idolatry.

(4)	But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God (and) are alive every
one of you.

		Those that didn’t go into the immorality, the idolatry, are alive.
They’re the ones that are going into the Promised Land.

(5)	Behold, I have taught you statutes and jugments, even as the LORD
God commanded me…

		Now notice that. 

(5)	…I have (given you a revelation), as (I was) commanded, that ye
should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.

		Now what is the first thing in the land? Don’t get rid of that Word,
don’t crossbreed It! Catholicism today has finally repented, and said,
“Our trouble in South America, losing our people to the Protestants,
is because we allowed the idolatry of the people of this land to enter
into our own creeds and dogmas, and our religion!” They have said it,
I have read it, and I have told you about it! 

35.		Now he said, “You get your minds lined up.” He said, “You saw
what happened in Baal Peor.” Where a man named Phineas, a priest, saw
a man take a foreign woman into his tent for the one purpose of sexual
gratification, he let them go into the act, and took a spear and speared
them through, and God said, “Hallelujah!”  

		Got news for you, that God hasn’t changed. Not going around to spear
people with spears because they’re in adultery, as Bro. Branham said,
“If you were to kill everybody in adultery tonight, there wouldn’t
be enough people left tomorrow morning to bury the dead.” 

		But I’m just trying to show you, judgment of God is in the land, so
don’t kid yourselves. Don’t kid yourselves, when the door of the ark
is closed, Noah will not be standing on the gangplank, trying to fish
people out. Moses will not come and pray for Pharaoh! And Elijah will
not spare the four hundred prophets of Baal! People got a cockeyed
religion! They think that God has changed! God has not changed! He’s
not about to change. The judgments of God are in the land, the
vindicated prophet is “I indict this generation.” I’m not going to
try to change.

36.		Now he said, “Listen, keep these things I’ve taught you.” Now
watch. He said, 

(6)	Keep therefore them; this is your wisdom and your understanding in
the sight of the nations, 

		Do you know what I’m telling you? This man, William Branham, that
Bro. Brian indicated this morning, Moses, Paul, William Branham. Now,
Moses right there, says, 

(6)	…(Look,) this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight
of the nations, (and they) shall hear all these statutes, and say,
Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.

		Now we are in the same position, but they will not say, “This is the
great and understanding people,” but their actions will betray them,
because they will try to destroy us! Now why would you try to destroy
somebody? We’re just a bunch of nonconforming nincompoops. We’ve got
loud mouths and we sound off. But our homes are not going running around
in disarray. I don’t know any man in our church that’s out there
committing adultery, fornicating, lying, cheating and doing things
wrong. I’ve never seen young people in my life so wonderfully glorious
and their children. If this generation, some of our people don’t make
the Millennium, I’m going to just say, “Well God if you do me a
favor, just annihilate me a little quicker than somebody else.” Look
it here, they don’t care two bits in the way we believe, but I want
you to notice that this Word is our wisdom and understanding in the
sight of those heathen. 

37.		Now a few minutes I saw this morning on TV, I saw a couple of
Catholics and a lady Rabbi. Well she ain’t no lady, if she’s a
Rabbi. I wouldn’t even put her down as a cowhand. Feed the pigs or
something else, but she had a lot of answers. 

		Now the idea is this: what is religious prejudice? None of them had
the brains to go to the Bible, and just say, “Hey, just a minute kid,
let’s face this flat. Human nature is human nature.” 

		And Paul said, “They are going to kill me like Jesus, because I am a
heretic in their sight.” 

		Now they want to palm off on you and me, “Now listen here, we’ve
got to stop being different. Now being different really okay, but
don’t you press it. Next thing, don’t you witness to it.” This
generation has had a witness vindicated by God, it’s judged! Now if we
tell one thing about it, we’re in trouble. So, that’s our lot. 

		But notice what he said, “This is your wisdom and this is your
understanding, the Word that I give you as you’re crossing over.”

38.		Now let me not just suggest but tell you flat, Bro. Branham used
this as the basis for the Third Exodus, which is now, and that is the
Word of God, you have It or you don’t get there. And remember, the
Millennium is a place of further sanctification, and I am of the
absolute opinion from what Bro. Branham said, and my typing here, the
typing that I see is this, we take this with us, and if we don’t have
this, we don’t go into that land, and if we did get in without this,
it wouldn’t do us any good, they’d kick us out! 

		Well you say, “Bro. Vayle…” 

		Don’t Bro. Vayle me; I’ve got Scripture for it. There were people
that came to the Wedding Supper, and they didn’t have a garment, and
the man says, “Sir, what are you doing here without a wedding
garment?” 

		“Well,” he said, “it was so nice and so cozy and so chummy, and
the feed was so good, and so good, I just came in and sat down.” 

		Well he said, “I’m just going to take you out.” 

		Well you say, “I don’t think I like that kind of tough God.”
Well, there you are, you just made up your own God. I want to have a
tough God on this grounds, I change, I sure hope He doesn’t. Or where
am I going to come in at? 

39.		Now: [Deuteronomy 4:] 

(7)	For what nation is so great, who hath God so nigh (to) them, as the
LORD our God in all things that we call upon him for?

(8)	And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments
so righteous as this law, which I set before you this day?

(9)	Only take heed to (your)self, and keep thy soul diligently, lest
thou forget the things (that vindicate the Word that you believe!)

		He tells you, “Listen, don’t tangle with people on this Word!”  

		Bro. Branham said, he said, “I can get… you Pentecostals.” Why
he said, “Man I can get a Presbyterian, Baptist in here; they know a
thousand things you don’t know anything about!” He said, “Those
smart Catholics tangle you right around their fingers.” 

40.		This is not a game of wits! No. It’s a game of what’s
vindicated. I preach vindication; I hope all preachers preach even
stronger than I preach it. I’m going to tell you why I preach it,
because I need it, I’ve got to keep reminding myself, reminding
myself, I talk to my wife. I even use bad language. I’ll be honest
with you, “Will you use some this morning?” No I won’t. I’m very
bombastic about it. I’m not proud of it. But it’s my anger, I rise
with an anger within me! Who are they trying to kid? Give me one 'THUS
SAITH THE LORD'! Give me one sign somewhere! Lying bunch of hypocrites,
they can’t do it. Then they kill us for it? Listen, we got to believe
we’re going to have grace to die. I hope I’m as mean as I sound in
that day. I don’t know if I will be, I might chicken, I don’t know,
God help me. But I’ve always been an angry person. Angry most at
myself. But I’m going to tell you where our anger should rise the
highest, if we don’t dare stand with this Word, that’s vindicated.
Because the wrath of God is coming upon this world for this very thing,
the very thing. I’ll go into it in – what time? -- time doesn’t
matter, put on a six hour tape. Cancel your dinner appointments, not
that you have to do it.

41.		Listen, anyway, now listen. [Deuteronomy 4:]

(11)	And ye came near and stood under the mountain; the mountain (that)
burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, (and) clouds,
and thick darkness.

(12)	And (God spoke out of the pillar of) fire:

(13)	And (I) declared you (the) commandments; wrote them (on a) table of
stone.

		What did Bro. Branham say? He said, “God didn’t only go down with
Moses to Israel and revealed Himself in signs and wonders in a Pillar of
Fire upon Mount Sinai, so today, and we have His picture.” Right over
there. 

		Now that man was either a complete fool or vindicated. What backed him
up? What Voice was speaking through that man? I’ll tell you one thing,
I don’t care what it is, that’s the Voice I want to listen to.
It’s the only Voice I want to listen to, because hey, look it, I was a
Presbyterian kid to begin with, our pastor was saved, but he never could
tell us, and I was too young. My sister became Nazarene, and I
couldn’t stand that tripe. And then got to Pentecost, and that was
worse than ever, and they didn’t know, but at least that was the cream
of the crop, at that particular time. But I want to tell you, nobody had
what this man had, and I’ve studied the books and everything else.
Same as you have.

42.		Listen: The life had left the Word, and it was now dead letter. Now
bring this to Matthew 25, the foolish virgins. They said, “Our vessels
are leaked out!” They never had the Word, which is the conduit of the
Holy Spirit; they were putting a new patch on an old garment! That’s
the best they could do! And at that time the church was divided from
wise and foolish virgin! That’s the Bible! The wise virgins beheld
Him, having Word that could contain the oil, which is the life, or the
Holy Spirit. The others didn’t have it! Trying to put an old patch on
a new garment or a new patch on an old garment, how are they going to do
it? It’s really an old patch on an old garment, because they took
Pentecostalism. Charismatics. No place without it today, it’s all in
token, everybody’s got it. And what did that book the other day say?
Twenty-two hundred denominations. Bro. Branham said at his time, eight
hundred. Twenty-two hundred, over twenty-two hundred now. Time magazine,
I think it is. Either ‘Time’ or ‘World Report’, I forget. Got it
home somewhere, or did have it. See? The life had gone out. 

		Now what did he say? When the time came to go in, the wise went in,
and the foolish were without, and they said, “We want to get in.” 

		And He said, “I used to know you as My wife, but I don’t know you
as My wife any longer,” that’s the divorce of 2 Thessalonians. You
can be foolish virgin here today. But you know why? And you can prove to
yourself, what am I turning down of this Message? Where is my mind
rebelling? In other words, I’m lifting my heart up against a prophet! 

43.		Like I told you, this poor old guy in California, I know he’s
dead by now, I forget his name even. He was a nice fat, little rotund
guy, and very nice and sweet, and I talked about Bro. Branham. “I
know, Bro. Vayle, I met Bro. Branham, but you know I had some visions
too.” 

		And I could barely restrain myself from saying, “Listen old man,
shut-up and sit down. Let’s compare your visions to mine.” And I
knew I could beat him hands down. “Let’s compare your ministry to
mine, stand right there like Bro. Branham.” I had no business doing
it. I was intruding in an office, wasn’t mine. So you better be
careful. I had a good friend, William Branham warned me, I pulled out.
Say, “Come on, stand beside me.” I just let him go. Why bother?
“Bro. Vayle, I…” 

		So, you’re sitting here very nice this morning, what do you got to
offer? Come on, come up, stand beside me. Tell me what you can give to
the people. Where’s your vindication? I can tell you Judas did better
than you did. Raised the dead, healed the sick. Did better than I did.
What did it get him? Finally committed suicide. 

		Days come when people are going to say, “Rock’s fall on us,”
trying to commit suicide, won’t do any good. You know what they’re
going to do? They’re going to make a running jump out of a twenty
story building, from the rooftop, and as they do, they’ll catch their
toe, twenty feet from the edge, fall flat on their face, knock the wind
out; they won’t fall over and die. Just get a sore stomach. I image
that’s how it’s going to be, says they’re going to try do it, and
they won’t die.

44.		Now listen, the foolish virgin and wise virgin is in a terrible
position today. It’s in the position of the Laodicean church age,
where the church as a whole, wise and foolish virgin have said,
“We’re rich, increased in goods and don’t lack a thing.” 

		But there’s One outside the door, Who says, “Come on, open the
door, listen to My Voice.” 

		Now how do you listen to a voice? By the voice of the sign. If there
is no sign voice, there is no voice! For the prophet must come and the
Word of the Lord thoroughly vindicated that he is the one to speak. 

		People say, “Well, He’s not outside of our church.” You’re a
liar. Who are you kidding? You’ve got some dibbies on God? Then prove
it. I’ve got no dibbies on God. I can pray and fast, end up like A.A.
Allan, come out of the closet, complete drunkard, miracles, signs and
wonders, lie like the devil, take people’s money left and right. The
man’s dead, I’m not running the guy down, I’m just telling you the
truth. Come on. Come on, I’m not judging the guy, it’s wide open!
Oral Roberts became captive by God for what? Four million, eight million
dollars? Right on TV told it. 

45.		The world’s in a mess, spiritually speaking, there’s got to be
some Voice somewhere! Or you’re right back to two things: conscience
and human government. And when you go by your conscience, the government
will go by its conscience, and then you will be under human government,
and you’re finished. Because God’s gone. 

		Now what can God do? Bring in a prophet. “Ah, who – we don’t
need prophets, we know…” Then you’re stuck. Do you think any
church is going to believe that the Trinity doctrine’s wrong? Do you
think they’re going to believe what Paul said, “You got another
Jesus, another spirit, another word”? And you look and see what’s at
the end time here, it’s a Trinity. And everybody condemns Bro.
Branham, because he was not a Trinitarian. And the Jesus Only hate him
because he wasn’t Jesus Only. The man was a speckled bird. 

46.		Now all right, with this in mind I want to say to this church this
morning that we are not here so much as to think of a building of our
own hands, but a building of God’s hands, Who’s building we are. Now
Paul says that – I’m going to try to hurry  up now – Paul says
that in the Book of Hebrews 3, where he’s speaking concerning Christ
and the priesthood, and he said,

(4)	…every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things
is God.

(5)	…Moses was a (true) servant, (and) a testimony… (but notice in
6.)

(6)	But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house we (are), (on
what condition?) if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the
hope firm unto the end.

		And what was that? It was the revelation of who Christ was! For other
foundation can no man lay than that is laid which is Jesus Christ. And
that is laid in position by the apostles and prophets, because they
become foundation. And the pillar, which reaches plumb to the top, the
last age, that the head rests upon, the neck and the head rest upon, is
part of the foundation. And the Cornerstone is the Capstone in another
position! So that the whole body is Christ, which is the Word! That’s
what you’re seeing here. Whose building we are. Now, and we’re in
danger of losing it at what time? At the time the Word is given in order
to make an Exodus and go in! Happened in Jesus’ day too, that was your
second Exodus. Vindicated Word, absolutely, and they refused to go in,
and they died. And now the people are dying today.

47.		Okay, with that we go to 1 Corinthians 3, and again I’ll try to
abbreviate. Look it, he says here,

(9)	For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye
are God’s building. 

		Make up your mind. We’ve got a mixed metaphor. One place we’ve got
God’s fertile field of which comes the plants up, the planting of God.
The next thing we got a building. You’re right back to Matthew 7, he
said, “Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep’s clothing,
inwardly they were ravening wolves.” Then he said, “Do men gather
grapes of brambles and figs of thorns?” He’s got animals, now he’s
got plants. He’s got a building here, now he’s got a garden. It’s
all the same thing! He’s using the figures of speech or showing you
that this which God is doing is God centered! And if God’s not doing
it, it’s not going to be done! See? 

		People just love to say, “Oh the big church, the big things we do,
the big things here, the big things there, look what I did.” That’s
a lie. 

		Paul the apostle said, “I planted and Apollos watered,” but he
said, “God gave the increase, so therefore he that plants and he that
waters is nothing, but God’s everything.” Paul the apostle said it
was the gift, the Holy Spirit within you, that God put there, that He
Himself sovereignly is working by in you, that produces, or He doesn’t
accept the production. That’s over in Ephesians, right down the line. 

48.		All right, let’s keep looking at this thing. We’ll skip from
this particular point, we go to Ephesians 2. See, get the picture here.
Ephesians 2 and we’re looking at verse 19 to begin:

(19)	Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but
fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

(20)	And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets,
Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;

(21)	In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy
temple…

(22)	(And) ye also (that) are builded together for an habitation of God
through the Spirit.

		Whoever heard of a building just growing? Nobody ever heard of a
building just growing. Go on out there and lay a foundation. Say, “Now
building, go ahead and grow.” It won’t! It’s a figure of speech!
It’s a figure of speech showing that people as a group make a one
membered body unto Christ, though those in the body are many members!
And by the life that is in the Word that is in the people, the
ministries come forth. And if your pure mind is as of a child, as a
child should listen to his parents, if he knows the parents are right,
and we know we’ve been proven who is right, to listen to that Word,
then the temple is surely of God. 

		Now I showed you awhile ago, that when the temples were destroyed, it
was because the Word was no longer their protagonist. The Word no longer
kept them. Because they had turned on their Keeper. “Thy Word is a
light to my path, a lamp to my feet.” In that Word is life, and when
they turned it down, they turned it all down! Add one Word or take one
Word, it’s finished! Doesn’t say you have to understand everything
perfectly, but you must not come against the Word of God. 

49.		Okay, notice in Ephesians 5, and this is a chapter we all like. No,
the fourth chapter, and I won’t take time to read it all. It has to do
with the body, and it says again, notice in here, the 12 verse, after
the ministries come through the gifted men that God gave. 13:

(13)	Till we all come in the unity of the faith, (even) the knowledge of
the Son of God, unto a (complete mature) man, unto the measure of the
stature of Christ:

(14)	That we henceforth be no more children, (so on, right down the
line, and it says, verse 16.)

(16)	From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by
that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in
the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying
of itself in love.

		Now what you got here is a man. You had plants, you had a building,
you’ve got a man. So every age has had a measure of Christ, which is a
measure of the Spirit, which is a measure of the Word, until the end
time there is no more Word! And you’ve come to the fullness of the
Holy Spirit. Which means the Cornerstone Himself came down to be the
Capstone, spiritually, because Jesus as a man was not here when the
church foundation to the Gentiles was laid! 

50.		Now remember Israel rejected their Headship! So He went to the
Cornerstone to the Gentiles, to become Headship to the Gentiles, and at
the same time, within a space of three and a half years, Headship to
Israel! You’re looking at the end. Stature of a perfect man, it’s
all over. Now how is it done? It’s only done by one consideration,
that’s Word upon Word. So you see the whole picture. 

		All right, take this back again to 1 Cor 3:9. And 1 Cor 3:9, we said
that:

…ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.

		Now if you read within the text of this, which I mentioned a little
bit, Paul the apostle is talking about the fact that people were
listening to Apollos, listening to him, and they’re going back and
forth, and they don’t understand how that it’s neither Paul nor
Apollos, it’s a matter of a vindicated Word. 

51.		Now in 1 Cor 4:15.

(15)	For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet (you)
have not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through
the gospel.

		Now listen, that’s a very wonderful verse. Paul the apostle tells
you flat, “Listen,” he says. Bro. Branham said Peter had the Holy
Ghost, and he had the keys to the Kingdom, so to speak, the Gentiles and
the Jews, but it was Paul that had the revelation. Now people can say
what they want, but Paul never ever blew it, Peter did. And Barnabas
showed you exactly how that false teaching comes into the church, he
left his mentor, the man that God vindicated, to a man that God had not
vindicated! Who merely had a mouth using the Word, and he used it wrong.


		So you just can’t say, “Well everybody’s got the Word,
hallelujah, we’ve got Word, you’ve got… you’re all God’s
children, got Word, Word, so everything fine.” 

		It isn’t fine at all! It isn’t fine. Not fine at all. If I’m a
wrong teacher and you believe me, you’ve got trouble, kid. And I’ve
got more trouble than you, because I’ll have more to, more blame and
more sorrow. But I’m teaching you wrong, and you believe it, you’ve
got problems. But you show me where I’m wrong. Paul the apostle said
he’s going to judge the world by his gospel. Not by anybody else’s.
You can do what you want about it. And they can say, “Well praise the
Lord, we positively know that we have the truth, because you see, we
have what Paul said here.” 

52.		Now notice, 

…I have begotten you (by) the gospel. 

		You’ve come right into Jesus Christ by the right Word. What if you
come in by a wrong word? Then you haven’t got it. See? Now this as
Bro. Branham pointed out through all ages, coming up, it was forgiven on
the grounds of ignorance. But once you strike the fire of reality, then
you cannot turn. You put your ear to the door, and the awl runs it right
through, and the blood comes trickling down, and you say, “Well, this
is it, live or die, sink or swim, this is it.” 

		Now, if it’s not live or die, sink or swim, this is it, your ear
still goes to the door, and you become a slave to the world! And it’s
live or die, sink or swim, and it is sink and not swim, die and not
live. Because that’s the Bible, I can’t teach you anything but the
Bible. It wouldn’t be fair.

53.		All right, now notice we said here in 1 Corinthians… 6, watch,
6-8. [1 Cor 3:5]

(5)	…then (who) is Paul, who is Apollos, ministers whom (you believe
by)…

(6)	I have planted, Apollos watered; God gave (an) increase. (So God is
everything.)

(8)	(One plants, one waters): every man receive his own reward… 

		Now that’s very good. And over here he tells Apollos, the people,
“Look,” he said, “you think you’ve got many fathers, you’re
wrong, I am not your father, Apollos is not your father, nobody’s your
father, but we were those who were the begetters by reason of that Word.
It’s the Word that you look to through Jesus Christ.” So he called
himself a father in the gospel, but not a father otherwise, and that is
based upon Galatians 1, where Paul the apostle absolutely makes no bones
about it, that his revelation was strictly one from God.

54.		Now let’s go over here to Galatians; I think I’d better go to
Galatians and read it to you. He speaks of the fact that he was
persecuted in verse 13. [Galatians 1:]

(13)	For ye heard of my (conversion) in time past in the Jews’
religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and
wasted it: 

		And then they turned right around and they persecuted him because of
what he believed and what he brought before the people. So now this man
has become that heretic. 

55.		Now something I was looking for over here… here it is. In 1 Cor
3:13. But I better read a little above there, verse 11.

(11)	(No) other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is
Christ (Jesus). (Now that’s the Word. And He’s the Cornerstone. Now
verse 12.)

(12)	Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious
stones, wood, hay, stubble;

(13)	Every man’s work shall be made manifest: (now watch,) for the day
shall declare it, (now,) because it shall be revealed by fire; and the
fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is. (And,)

(14)	If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall
receive reward.

(15)	If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: (and) he
himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

		Now the Word that I am looking at here in verse 13, is the word
‘declare’. And what this is in the original Greek, it says, “That
day shall make it plain by words.” That day shall make it plain by
words. What words? It has to be made plain by the very words of Paul, or
Paul lied! 

		Now he’s looking down the road, of the building, which is of God!
Now he said at the time there’s going to be a judgment, the works of
men. And the works of men were Paul and Apollos! Right? And he says you
can put Apollos to one side, because Apollos did not have the vindicated
Word! He never said the world was going to be judged by the word
Apollos. He never said the Word by Paul, Peter, anybody else. He said,
“It’s going to be judged by me! My Word.” Do you follow me?
That’s what he said. Now he said, “The day is going to make it plain
by words!”  

56.		Now if there’s not going to be a Message at the time of the
judgment seat, then what’s this talking about? You say, “Well, I’m
going to look that way, way down the road.” Now just a minute, Bro.
Branham said White Throne is now. Time and eternity has mingled. The
Judge is here. Pointedly the ancient of days. Pointedly Daniel’s
revelation. Every preacher has goofed on this but Bro. Branham. And we
know he didn’t goof, because he’s vindicated. He’s telling you the
truth. 

		Now he says right here, “Every man’s work…”  

		Okay, he was the first messenger; Paul’s work is the only work by
the Word that can come plumb to the top. Therefore Irenaeus must follow,
so his work comes up. Therefore Columba, Martin, Luther, Wesley, the
last day man. Every single person has to be a part of Paul’s Word, if
not the entire Word, the Message of the Hour that came forth from
Paul’s Word, because it’s not a new Message, it’s the same old
Message. 

		Now he said, “The day is going to declare it,” which is to make it
absolutely clear by words. 

57.		Okay, let’s go to 2 Thessalonians. And in 2 Thessalonians 1,
you’ll notice in verse 7.

(7)	And you (that) are troubled rest with us, (when?) when the Lord
Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, 

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

(9)	Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence
of the Lord, and from the glory of his power:

		Now notice, he is not really talking about them. Because this
statement is made here, everybody goes, “Oh my, he’s talking about
that crowd.” Hogwash! He’s talking about you and me! “You who are
troubled,” that’s us! 

		You see what your mind can do to you? There isn’t a mind in this
building outside of mine this morning that’s not completely messed up
on this statement, I’ll eat it if it is. Somebody stand up and say,
“Bro. Vayle, I really understood that, I thought, I meant, I knew that
long ago.” 

58.		Come on, let’s have some guts out, come on, stand up here and
tell me. You can’t do it. Because you know you didn’t think of it.
Because you keep forgetting the parallel laws, the law of parallelism:
if there’s a blessing, there’s a curse, if there’s a curse
there’s a blessing! The Word of God is either you’re a protagonist
or you’re antagonist! There is no such thing as a negative without a
positive, and a positive without a negative! Now you tell me I’m
wrong. Gene, you’re a scientist, Joe you are an engineer with him.
Peter a chemist. We’ve got smart men here this morning, far smarter
than I am. But, Peter, you know, is there a positive without a negative,
anything you know about it in chemistry? It’s always both, you’ve
got to have balance. Or you get a polarity. 

		Now he didn’t make it up, I didn’t make it up, nobody makes it up.
But can’t you see the Bible, the Word of God, perfect with every law
of science? Now he says, “To you who are troubled.” That’s us.
Those birds out there aren’t troubled; they’re giving us the
trouble! 

59.		Look it, I know – listen. God is my witness; in ninety nine
percent of the cases I never bother anybody, not even my wife. I got to
cross myself on that one. Little holy water. That’s not true about my
wife. I cause her far more trouble than she ever caused me, because
she’s got a sweet nature. But I tell you the truth, and you know it,
and you examine your own lives, you go about your business as people who
want to do well and are well, and you are not out there bugging people.
You’re not causing problems. They’re the trouble makers out there,
but they blame us. 

		See, they got to have a scapegoat. Jesus was a scapegoat. And you’ve
got the Spirit of Christ, you’ve got to be a scapegoat, they’re
going to blame you. Now, “You that are troubled,” that’s us! See? 

		They said to Jesus, “You are a troublemaker! Shut your mouth!”
They said to Paul, “You are a troublemaker, shut your mouth!” 

		He said, “Hey, can’t do it!” Well they said, “We’ll shut it
for you.” He said, “Go ahead. No problem.” See, that’s the
Spirit of Christ. That’s turning the other cheek. Not shutting your
mouth, letting them shut it for you. You’re given a Word of God. 

60.		Now you see, “You rest with us.” That word is ‘relax’ and
Bro. Branham said relaxation comes under the Seventh Seal, and he’s
the vindicated prophet. Right? All right. 

		Now it says, [2 Thessalonians 1:]

(7)	…you (that) are troubled… (your day of peace is coming,) when
the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, 

(8)	In (flames of) fire… (and He’ll take judgment upon those that
are troubling you!) 

		And because the emphasis, seemingly by verbosity, the multiplicity of
words, leans toward the malefactors, we forget we’re the good guys!
And say, “Hallelujah, here comes rest, bless God.” No, you get all
shook up about this judgment! Forget it. Blessing is blessing and
cursing is cursing and God does not destroy the righteous with the
wicked.

61.		So all right, we got a clear picture. 

(9)	(They’re going to) be punished with everlasting destruction from
the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; 

		So when He’s going to come, He’s going to come in His epiphanea!
His brightness! As Bro. Branham said, “He had far more success in my
ministry on earth than He had in His Own.” 

		“Greater works shall this one do, then I’m even doing.” 

		This is that hour to the Gentiles, when He comes in the form of the
Holy Spirit, and He doesn’t lift His Voice in the street, He doesn’t
cry out. Do you follow me? 

62.		All right, listen. Now watch.

When he shall come to (have been) glorified in his saints, 

		Now we’re getting our due rest, because He’s coming to be
glorified in His saints, and at that time the world turns down the
glory. Why they said, “He’s of the devil; he’s this, why he’s a
Trinitarian.” 

		And one stupid woman wrote a book and said, “Bro. Branham believed
in birth control.” Rather, “In abortion.” She’s a lying, filthy
prostitute. Bro. Branham did not believe in that. Because he said,
“The baby that comes down, a spirit is waiting to receive it.” But
she didn’t know he’d said to the Mormon man, who’d lost his little
baby prematurely, “You’ll see it in heaven.” 

		So big mouth… You say, “Bro. Vayle, be nice.” I am nice. I’m
supposed to say, “Sweet, lovely, misdirected woman.” You’ve got to
be – not Lee Vayle, just let me excuse myself now from you nice people
and walk out. I don’t have it in me. [End of side two of tape one.]
And the fire’s set in already, the fire is the judgment, Bro. Branham
said so. Maybe I’m misquoting a little bit there, but he said,
“Countdown.”

63.		Now listen,

(10)	When he shall come (you who are troubled, when he shall come, going
to get rid of these guys and take care of you,) and be admired in all
them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that
day. 

		What day? This day! “Well Paul where are you? Bro. Paul,
materialize! At least a little ectoplasm.” Are you kidding? Who talked
to Paul? Let the same One that talked to Paul bring us the same
testimony. Because you can’t bring Paul back. Paul can’t come back.
If anybody is going to come it’s going to be E-l-i-j-a-h, Elijah.
Because that’s the Bible. So what are you going to do? You better pray
for Elijah. You better look for him. Because there’s nobody else
mentioned. See? 

		Now Paul tells you this, because he said it’s declared! It’s going
to be made plain by words! What? Every single church age, every single
messenger, every single Word of God is going to be brought to light in
this hour! And vindicated. That’s the Scripture.

64.		Now, so it is this time of day, of 1 Cor 3:11 is absolutely 2 Th
1:7-10, which I have read, and this goes right on – remember now there
are no divisions in the Bible. And Paul does not say in verse 12:

(12)	That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and
ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. 

		Now remember Jesus said, “In that day you will know I am in the
Father, you in me and I in you.” And Bro. Branham said, “That was
Pentecost in this hour and the White Throne”, right? So therefore this
is Christ, “I in him and you in me,” and so on right down the line,
in each other, and he says, “In that day”, and without the
revelation Bro. Branham brought in this last hour, nobody would know it.
Because everybody’s guessed at it. But now we know.

65.		Now watch:  [2 Thessalonians 2:]

(1)	Now we beseech you, brethren, by (this) coming (that’s what he’s
talking about,) of our Lord Jesus Christ, (even) by our gathering
together unto him, 

		How? By the Message! How did they get scattered? Wrong word! “I’m
Paul, and I’m Apollos, I’m this, I am that.” He said, “Hold it!
There’s only one true geneology, one true seed, and that’s the Word,
revealed Word.”

		Now they’d been scattered with a wrong word, a wrong Jesus, a wrong
spirit. How far can you get scattered? What does it matter if you can be
brought back? Doesn’t matter how far you’ve been. Everybody gets
this old idea, you got some stupid excuse. I don’t care how many women
and men you’ve had, if you’ve lived like a dog, some cruddy
individual jerk. It’s are you right with God now? Coming under this
Word. Becoming the true lawful Bride of Jesus Christ. What’s the
difference if you’ve committed adultery seventy times a day, or never
in your whole life, or went out and got drunk and ran over somebody, or
got so mad you killed somebody, or just even gossiped. Sin is sin, no
matter who had sinned and what it is. We’re not looking at that,
we’re looking at the Word now.

66.	 (1)	Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming (that’s the
Presence) of our Lord Jesus Christ, and (even) by our gathering…

(2)	…(you soon not be) shaken in mind, or troubled, neither by spirit,
nor by word, nor by letter… (right there, the same old thing, the
three things. Spirit, word, false Christ.)

(3)	Let no man deceive you by any means: for… (now watch, that’s an
interpolation there,) except there (coming) a falling away first, and
(the) man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

		Now that’s Judas! Who was the son of perdition? The one who had all
the miracles, and signs and wonders, like the true believer, but
betrayed Christ! Now if that ain’t the Pentecostals and the
Charismatic Catholics and the whole bunch of them, I’m going to eat
it. It tells you. At the time of the revealed Word, that’s got to come
by a prophet, there’s going to be a plethora of those who are
manifested as though they were in the truth, like Korah, Dathan and
Abiram, and the Balaam’s, that come against the true Word, which has
got to be Paul’s Word. So it’s got to be the same Pillar of Fire,
and it’s got to be the same Word identical, and it’s got to be
identified as such! And then comes in the son of perdition. 

67.		Then the next revelation is you know by Scripture, is how is the
son of perdition lined up? Only by the Son of man! So the days of the
Son of man repeat, and the days of the son of perdition repeat, and you
still don’t have the second literal coming of Jesus Christ! Nor the
incarnation of Satan! You have the two spirits, and they are so close,
that only the truly elect can understand the difference between the true
Spirit of God, and the one evidence is lining with the Word of the
prophet. Okay. 

		The next thing you’ll see is the incarnation. And the son of
perdition now, which is that spirit, incarnates himself into a man,
whose number is 666, which has to be a pope, and I believe coming out of
America, but I don’t know that for sure. And then after that, or just
before that actually, we get out of here, and the Son of man Spirit, the
Spirit that’s in our midst, catching us up, incarnates Himself in the
body of the Lord Jesus Christ the man, and we crown Him King of kings
and Lord of lords, and that’s it. You understand then what we’re
saying?

68.		Now listen, notice over in Hebrews. I’m sure glad a friend of
mine once said to me, “Lee’s not really long-winded, he’s got a
lot to say about a subject.” 

		So I just say, “Thank you, Bro. Jack Bell, you’re sweet, I love
you too. You play like Chet Atkins, and that’s a high compliment.” 

		Now Paul the apostle in Hebrews 4, he’s talking about:

There remaineth a rest to the people of God.

…(God) ceased from his works… (And he said,)

Let us labour (in the 11th verse,) to enter into that rest, lest any man
fall after the same example of unbelief.

		Now what was the example of unbelief? They turned the Word down. They
just could not believe when God brought forth the signs and wonders and
miracles, and they believed it, taking them right to the Promised Land,
that the same God Who vindicated Himself, would vindicate them by them
walking in with the Word! See? They figured they were going to do
something. They didn’t knock down the walls of Jericho when the time
came, they didn’t open the River Jordan, any more than the Red Sea, if
they’d have just kept walking in that Word, they’d have walked right
in, but they wouldn’t keep walking! So they took forty years messing
around. And Bro. Branham supposedly told Bro. Neville that he feared the
Bride would do the same thing. Well I got my fears that it’s coming to
pass too; though I don’t know he said it. But he likely did. 

69.		Now watch,

(11)	Let us labour… (that we don’t mess up like they did.)

(12)	For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any
two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and
spirit, joints and marrow, discerns the thoughts and intents of the
heart. 

(13)	(And there is not) any creature that is not manifest in his sight:
but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we
have to do.

		Now listen, he is talking about them missing the day of rest! In
Thessalonians he’s talking about to us that we don’t miss the day of
rest! Now what happened at the time of Moses? God came down and
vindicated His prophet! What happened to Paul? He vindicated His
prophet! Now if He’s the same yesterday, today and forever, and
that’s His way of doing things, He’s got to vindicate this man.
Notice, at the time of Moses, when they came against Moses, and Moses
had the Word, this was the one time that Moses lost his cool! He had
every right to. And I know some of you people, I don’t know if
you’ll understand this or not, but when men of God – I hope I am, I
can’t prove anything, they defend not themselves, but their ministry!
And say, “Get out of my way, don’t try to stop me, I’m
responsible!”  Look what happened to Bro. Branham, happened to Jesus
Christ. Christ could not do many mighty miracles, because they
wouldn’t believe. Bro. Branham said a certain man that got in his way,
stopped him doing mighty ministries, bringing out his own true ministry;
he said one man caused it. 

70.		All right, Korah, Dathan and Abiram rose up against Moses! What
happened? God discerned the thoughts and intents of their heart, God,
that Word, and they went down in judgment. See? That was before they
went into the Promised Land. 

		Now you got the same thing here because you’re talking about the
Exodus. Bro. Branham stood up – and this is even more potent, because
this speaks of our day, and you’re referring to the day of Moses as an
example. Now Bro. Branham got up, and he said, “Listen, I take every
spirit in this building under my control in the Name of the Lord Jesus
Christ for the glory of God,” and there wasn’t one person could
hide. 

		I’ve been through that experience. I told you about it, he read me
just like a book, and I’ll tell you, if you think that you know how to
die, you’ll know how to die when that man, if that man – God could
look at you through human eyes. You just sit there and shrink. And you
know you couldn’t hide if you tried. That everything you did from the
time you opened your mouth as a child and put your hand one place where
it shouldn’t go, took one cookie, took one thing, you knew He had all
the answers, all about you. Your record was right there. 

71.		Now at the end time it tells you right there, that this building,
this church age, and the whole building is going to be positively
discerned! Now in other words, that you put this church in order here,
you better realize there’s one thing that’s above all of it, and
that’s the Word of Almighty God. And there isn’t anything going to
take It’s place. Men may pirouette up here and try to do something; it
doesn’t mean they’re going to do it. You see?

		Now it says,

(13)	(There’s no) creature not manifest in his sight: but all things
are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

		And that’s the end time Message for this hour that was back there,
only this time it is ended. They had another chance under Moses, but we
don’t get that chance.

72.		Now at the very same time this is going on, I want you to notice in
Hebrews 12, there’s a clarified proposition. And it says in the 18th
verse concerning the end time, it mentions Sinai, it says we have
nothing to do with it, but we have now, we’re not approaching to
Canaan’s land, and to the Hagar Jerusalem, we are approaching to the
New Jerusalem. Notice God the Judge of all, that’s discerning back
there, in Hebrews 4, spirits of just men made perfect, Jesus the
mediator, standing right there. Then it says,

See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. 

		And what am I talking about? At the end time, made perfectly clear by
words! In other words, the Word of God fully revealed. As it says in the
Book of 1 Corinthians 13, “When that which is perfect is come,” you
are no longer under the part system of seven church ages, it is over.
Then if it is over and there is a perfect revelation, how can you take
from it or add to it and have a perfect revelation?

		Now the Bible says, “This is your understanding; this is your
wisdom”! And it turns around and said, “This is not the wisdom of
the world.” This does not come out of a man’s heart. This is
strictly from God, of Whom the Bible said, “The Lord Jesus descends
with a Shout.” Which is the word ‘kelusma’, which means ‘to put
in subjection and order’. Which means subjection by order. Which is
not subjection like these military men do; it’s not that at all. It is
by the Word.

73.		So you see at the very end time, Bro. Branham was a hundred percent
in every single thing that the man said. Now watch at this particular
time.

(25)	See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not
who refused him that (spoke) on earth, much more shall we not escape, if
we turn away from him that speak(s) from heaven: 

		Now he’s going right back to the days of Moses, not necessarily
Jesus here, but Moses. When he did the speaking. Because it said, “If
you refused Moses law, you died.”

(26)	Whose voice then shook the earth: but now promised, saying, (notice
it’s a promise,) Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also
heaven.

(27)	And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those
things that are shaken, as of (those) things that are made, that those
things which cannot be shaken may remain.

(28)	Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have
grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly
fear: 

(29)	For our God is a consuming fire.

74.		Now there you’re right back to 2 Thessalonians. How many
consuming fires you got? Because he’s talking to us about the
consuming fire that makes the difference! And what am I trying to tell
you? What Bro. Branham told you, time and eternity have mingled,
you’re standing before the White Throne now, don’t start looking
down the road, look now or forget it. He said, “Always looking back,
always looking forward, never knowing what’s going on.” 	

		And that’s my beef about the preachers in this Message. They don’t
know one thing about the Judge, hardly one thing what’s going on.
They’ve made the Presence of God just a doctrine. And you wonder why I
withdraw myself more and more from people. What’s the use? Noah
didn’t go out with a fishing net and the gangplank. Nope. I’m not
Noah, don’t think I’m saying Noah. I’m lazy. I admit it. I’m
tired too. But I can’t buy what people teach. 

75.		It doesn’t matter if you like me or not, I know people sit here
that don’t like me too well, they say what I preach is right, but they
don’t like me, that’s fine, you don’t have to like me. You might
be obligated to love me, but you don’t have to like me, nobody has to.
Because I’m not in a popularity contest. I think you know that by now.
If I’m wrong, teaching you wrong, I don’t mean to teach you wrong.
But all I can see today is God and His prophet. And the prophet said,
“Once you see this, that’s all you’ll see in the Bible.” 

		Now I may be slanting it, I may be overdoing it, but what I’m
telling you is essentially correct, that either we’ve heard the Voice
of God in this hour, or the way God does it, or we didn’t! And
you’ve got to get back to the doctrine of Paul, exactly as Paul said
it, because one word off you’re finished, you’re cursed! And
remember, when Israel left the Word of God, Israel as a people and their
temple were both cursed. 

76.		Now you’ve got a building here this morning, and this building is
really cursed, whether you want to know it or not. Because when you’re
gone, if indeed you do go, even before you go they can take it from you.
And make a granary or something for a civic authority or some little
thing, they’ve take it from you. Bro. Branham said, “They’ll close
the door, as far as they know, on us so we can’t worship.” 

		So there’s something coming down the road, and coming pretty past.
But as I’ve said before, as soon as Israel got off the Word, the Word
which was their protagonist became their antagonist. In our case, if we
stay with the Word, and they take our building, it is still our
protagonist because it’s merely fulfilling that Word, which must be
fulfilled, and when it’s fulfilled, we say, “Hallelujah, I know even
more I’m one of them.” 

77.		Now notice over here in Hebrews, it tells you, which we have read
here, the very Word is being declared at this hour. 

(25)	…refuse not him that speaketh. (Because now we are going to the
everlasting Kingdom.)

		All right, this is Joel’s prophet, the prophet of the former rain at
the time of the latter. Without a doubt. And we are all standing,
whether we want to stand before the Lord or not, in the position of the
White Throne has started, and will continue until it is thoroughly
consummated. Therefore to dedicate this building is important, but it is
not nearly as important as the dedication of the people, because if the
people are not dedicated to the Word, then what good is it, because
Jesus Himself said as He left this earth, He said, “I sanctify them by
Thy Word, because Thy Word is truth.” If that was the start of it,
what about then when He came down here on earth in His Presence in the
form of the Holy Ghost in a Pillar of Fire, what did He sanctify us by
then? Alpha is Omega, He could only sanctify us by the Word. 

78.		Which is exactly what we saw in the Book of Ephesians, which
we’ve read time and time again, and you know it, in the 5th chapter,
Paul speaking concerning the Bride, and he said here:

That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the
word, 

(In order to) present it to himself a glorious church, 

		Now listen, Bro. Branham categorically said the Bride could have been
taken in the Ephesian age, but she wasn’t completed! So He couldn’t
do it! Now there’s got to come a time when it is completed! And at
that time He will present it to Himself, a Bride without spot or
blemish, and not having any wrinkle! What is that time? At the end time!
When He comes to be glorified in His saints, surrounded by the angels.
Where’s your picture? Right there, you know, the beard, the whole
thing on the wall there, with the picture of Christ in it. At that
particular time.

		Now, it says here that He will do it with the washing of water by the
Word. And that is going to remove every single blemish and every spot,
because that’s where it started. So if we can return to Ephesus, and
it is now Omega, and you’ve got to go back to Ephesus, because
that’s where you got off track. Bro. Branham said if a bullet gets off
track, you got to take it back where it got off track. It got off of
track at Ephesus! Which was they had another Jesus, another word,
another spirit. Now we’ve got to get back on track, we got the right
Spirit, we’ve got the right Word, we’ve got the right Jesus. 

79.		Now, how are you going to have it outside of a vindicated prophet?
How are you going to have it outside of a man like Paul? Now remember
Paul was a religious, ordained individual to a high ministry. He was
smart; he understood the Jewish system perfectly. And he said, “Look,
I knew it a hundred percent, I’m a hundred percent justified in it.”
And he was spun completely around, so he said, “Every single thing
that I formally believed became dung to me.” Treat it like manure.

		So where do you stand today? If He’s standing at the door knocking,
and asking us to come out and talk with Him, it’s going to be for one
reason! To present to Himself a Bride without spot, without wrinkle, and
it’s got to be by the washing of water by the Word. Do you understand
what I’m saying? That’s a hundred percent with the Scripture, you
cannot change it. 

80.		Now since water’s a type of life, and life is the Holy Spirit,
that great Seal of God that the Bride must have at the last day is the
Word of Paul, which God gave to him and revealed in this order, so that
today we are no longer where we were in 2 Cor 11:4, but we are at the
end time ready to be presented as a church without spot and without
wrinkle. And that can only happen after the Seven Seals are opened in
Rev 22:10. Where it says, 

(10)	…Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time
is at hand.

		And at that particular time, notice the demarcation:

(11)	He that is unjust, (is) unjust: he (that) is filthy, filthy: he
that is righteous, righteous: he that is holy, holy.

(12)	(I’m going to) come quickly; (and take you all away.)

(13)	I am Alpha and Omega, (so you ought to know when the end time is by
studying the beginning.)

(14)	Blessed are they that (wash their robes)…

		In what? The water of the Word. You say, “Well Bro. Vayle, I believe
in the blood.” So do I. The blood perfects the Bride, but the Bride
washes her robes. You say, “Well Bro. Vayle, I believe in the blood,
but I don’t need the washing of the Word.” You see, you’re a liar.
Just showed who you were. You cannot separate your rights from your
responsibilities! Absolutely. Don’t talk about grace without
responsibility. Don’t you talk about being born again without truth
and life, you can’t do it. The Bride is perfected; it doesn’t say
the world is. Where does the Bride go? She goes right to the Word. Why?
Because she has to, because He’s going to sanctify her by the washing
of water to present her. Then who wants to duck the Word? You can’t do
it; you’ve got to go to the Word as the Scripture said.

81.		Now this building can only truly be given to God on one ground. And
that is absolutely the vindicated Word, and it’s the sole purpose of
us being here and having a building whatsoever. Paul himself said that
anybody who goes off this Word is an idolater, because that’s what he
is, comes to the same thing, false teachers, their building then is a
place of idolatry, where Bro. Branham himself said, “Baptist,
Methodist, witchcraft.” This place can be as it were a door to heaven
or a gate to hell. For it only represents what the people are gathered
hereunto. If it wasn’t for what you believed, you wouldn’t be here.
If you’re here merely for a religious exercise and it doesn’t really
matter what you believe, you better start thinking. Because hey, the
Word of God has nailed it down for the end time, “Come out of her, My
people.” Why? Because she’s full of idolatry. 

82.		The separation started back, this what we’re talking about
started back in 1963, in it’s final stages. In 1965, Bro. Branham
preached in Yuma, Arizona, he laid down the principles or the conditions
of The Rapture. And if you study that tape you’re going to find that
he laid out the entire ministry, he laid out everything for everybody to
listen to. And that little message that came out of the West is the
final judgment, because he never preached again like it. And he laid it
on the line, positively; there was a vindicated prophet, vindicated by
Almighty God, who brought a Message to the church, that separated the
Bride from the world, whereby that woman could be brought back to that
perfect unity, through the Word, with Almighty God. Place her right
there as Eve was in the Garden of Eden, right under the power of the
Word, then turning around and telling us, as Eve allowed herself to be
defiled, this Bride would not be caught in defilement! She would not
give her mind to be impregnated by somebody else’s Word. 

83.		Therefore the present day Eve, that believes this Word, though she
may look raggle taggled, though she may not fit the description that
people have described her in, though she may be a hundred percent
opposite to popular opinion, and what people think is vindicated
opinion, let me tell you flat, it is vindicated that she is now able to
go to that Tree of Life and live forever. It’s not what you’ve done
in the past, brother/sister; it’s what you believe now. Because there
is none righteous, no not one, there is not one that it has not gone out
of the way. 

84.		But you see there’s grace for us this morning, because when you
come face to face in contact with God and you believe, there isn’t any
law that’s going to keep you from God. There is no law that could get
you to God. How can a law say, “Well, I was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Smith, but you see, really I’m a Jones.” How could you say that?
You’re a Smith. How could you say you believed to God, that you’re a
child of God, unless there’s some evidence? There’s got to be an
evidence. And the evidence is believing that Word. There isn’t any
other, regardless. You cannot judge anybody except on the base of that
Word. And this church here, let it be dedicated. You can dedicate any
way you want to dedicate it. You can be so hundred percent sincere. The
people ahead of you were a hundred percent sincere, don’t doubt for
one minute they weren’t. But you can be sincerely wrong. 

		So the secret this morning is: dedicate the people. Dedicated the Word
of God. Nothing else really matters, because you see if you are one with
that Word, that life in you can guide you and help you in every good
work until the end of the day. I believe in good works, I believe in all
the fruit of the Spirit, I believe in all of those things, but I believe
there’s only one source to the true love, the true ministry, the true
everything and that lies in the Spirit that lies in the Word. Because
everything has to be in a seed form, even the Spirit of God. 

85.		Now it wasn’t a seed form back there, it contained a seed. You
see, in Him was life, He already was living. What do you say; a thing
that’s already living in Him is life? You say, “There’s life in
Lee Vayle.” Well certainly there’s life in Lee Vayle, I’m living
am I not? Now if I was suddenly drop dead here, and I have rigor mortis
set in, and I’m gone, say for several hours, you know I’m not coming
back, you know, you’d say, “Well, there was life in him.” That’s
true, there was. 

		When you say concerning the living God, and He’s called the living
God, in Him was life, you know he’s not talking; he’s talking about
something different. He’s talking about that seed in there where
He’s going to identify and bring forth a people. And because He is
Word – now listen, Word Rhema and Logos. What in that little bare,
little Word way back in there, was in God, that thought put on a book,
spoken, brought into manifestation, how could you possibly be in there
if you weren’t a part of that same Word? And as Bro. Branham said,
“Then how could you have the Holy Ghost and not say ‘amen’  to the
Word that’s vindicated?”  

		So this church then must be built upon those precepts, the Lord bless
you, shall we rise at this time, we’re way overdue. 

		Heavenly Father, we stand here this morning for the purpose, not of
dedicating the building, but being more thankful than for the building,
that the people have an opportunity now to get together and express
their understanding, which was given by vindication, all their belief,
their faith, their hopes, which is also vindicated, and know they’re
meeting in like-mindedness, and where there’s not necessarily
like-mindedness, there’s a hope to have a like mindedness, by reason
of a true revelation. And this building Lord, affords them the
opportunity of so coming together to that very end, so therefore this
building Lord, by this people, not by me, but by the people here,
everyone included, dedicates in faith that this building here shall
stand and be useful until the time of what Bride comes to this building
shall no longer be allowed to use it, on the grounds it will be taken
from them, because they are heretical according to somebody else, and
not according to a Word that has been vindicated. 

		And Lord if the building should not be taken from them, until they
have no use for it, because they’re gone, then that is also fine too,
but we do stand, though not understanding perfectly everything the
prophet said, that he said, “They’ll stop you from worshipping as
far as they know.” I don’t how many are going to escape, if anybody
escapes it. 

		But the building Lord we know is not vital, except to keep away the
rain and the snow, give a little convenience here and there, but Father
we do dedicate it, as far as we can to this end, and pray sincerely, may
this building house a part of the true Bride. May there not be one Lord
that attends here that is any depth of human folly. A little ignorance
Lord, we forgive, I know, because You do too, but Lord may it be that
there not be a bending of any will of anybody away from what the prophet
said, just standing with what he said, regardless of understanding or
not, knowing that it has been vindicated, and this has to be what Paul
preached, or there’s something radically wrong with the way the Word
was written. And then if there is Lord, what hope would anybody have at
all? It then would not become a Book of Yours Lord, the Message from
beginning to end; it would be some kind of a history, which could not be
involved with You. But Lord we don’t believe that, we believe that
this is Your Word. 

		Therefore Father, we go further and say, may the people be dedicated,
absolutely dedicated, so that this building then will be a place where
unity lies within the human mind and spirit and soul as concerning the
truth as it was given to us vindicated, the truth as it is in Christ
Jesus, and brought by the apostle Paul, laying a foundation, now come
all the way to the Capstone, which we believe is spiritually present in
the form of the Holy Ghost and has brought us that Word, waiting until
the whole building comes together, physically, which we know will be
after that Rapture, Wedding Supper of the Lamb, Coronation, all those
great and wonderful things.

		Bless the pastor Lord, as he earnestly endeavors to do what he can,
his wife and family Lord, as they know they’re on the spot as nobody
else is, realizing those things Lord, targets, but then so is everybody
else a target here, those Lord who would lead part of the service any
way, shape and form also become targets of the enemy and people, but
Lord we just pray that these things shall not bother them in the sense
that they put any real stock in it, except for knowing that if there’s
no persecution, then there can’t be anything worth persecuting, and
this Message we know is worth persecuting, if anything is. 

		So all these things Lord we just put to one side, asking simply Your
Spirit come down upon this people Lord in a wonderful way of uniting
them together, in a one Word of faith and love coming out of this same
Word. Heal the sick Lord, amongst us. We don’t know how many here need
healing, but we do know Lord that the prophet said, “Take this Message
for your healing,” which we know is an inner process to begin with,
healing first of all the breach that’s been between You and us,
healing also those other things in there, which were not truly holistic,
because we did not have the Word truly coming together. But Lord all
these things coming together, healing we know is now ours, especially
with healing rising in Your wings, which the prophet said, it’s
bringing us into immortality. 

		So these things our Father and our God, we just love You for this
morning, and thank You, and we appreciate all the people here Lord that
come to hear Your Word and trust that there has not been one who
hasn’t been edified, especially Lord in the understanding that this is
a vindicated Word, and this is life or death, that this is our ultimate,
and there is no changing from it, because we really believe this comes
from a God Who Himself neither changes His ways, His Word or whatever.
So as we dedicate altogether Lord, we’re not asking for any great
thing, we just ask Lord with simplicity of that rest of faith and that
joy Lord that You have heard us, and we are all into this blessed
communion as never before, and we give You praise and honor and glory,
in the Name of Jesus Christ our Savior. 

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