Second Coming of Jesus Christ  

Bro. Lee Vayle - July 20, 1977

1.	And we take our Bible s and begin in 1 Thessalonians 4:16   Well, we
might as well read, verse 14.

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

	The actual word is not to bring with Him, to bring forth with Him. Now,
you notice that It says here that if we believe that Jesus died and rose
again, if we believe in a resurrection, then you cannot stop there, you
can't do it. You've got to see the rest of it. (See?) Those that sleep,
are going to be brought forth with Him. Just like He was brought forth
by the power of God, and came back in a glorified body. That's got to
happen, you don't separate them. They're one and the same.

		(15) 	For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, (that means 		
			'Thus saith the Lord') that we which are alive and remain unto the 		
			coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.

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

		(17) 	Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together
with 					them (what's them? those that come out of the graves, with
them) in 					the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we
ever be with 					the Lord.

2.	Now, we turn to 2 Thessalonians 1:7-10, and find another aspect of
His Coming. Paul speaking said:

		(7) 	And to you who are troubled rest with us, …

	These are persecuted burden people and they seem to be toss and torn
and they don't have the rest that their great apostle has. Because
remember Paul lived in such assurance that is almost unbelievable. If
you study his life and read those triumphant messages he brings forth
out of the problems of life, you are amazed. In fact, if you want to
have a real treat buy yourself a little book by Way, (W-a-y) a professor
of Oxford University, and he translates the Pauline epistles. And every
now and then a little heading says, 'A hymn', a hymn of triumph. And
that's exactly how the Bible is written. It's written…It's not written
like we read It some old book of what you call prose, we go around
jig-a-dee, jig-a-dee, jog, hitting a bump or two. 

	Why Paul the apostle like those holy inspired men of God going over
those rough old fields of the bloody seas of life come to a place of a
moment as it were of a trial, and suddenly the Spirit of God descends
the hymn of triumph rolls out in the face of disaster, and they cry out
in the Holy Ghost. Read that little book, get it, it'll only cost you
about a dollar eighty-five or so. If you haven't got it, I'll help you
by one. Fantastic. (See?) Fantastic. (See?) 

3.	"Rest with us, (he said) rest with us." (See?) Rest, getting that
rest. That rest in faith. (See?)  When? In the hour he says:

		(7)	…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…

	And they say annihilation, not in the Bible. What some people won't say
to prove a point. The only point they prove is their ignorance. This
word in the Greek means 'total destruction'. And it doesn't mean
'continual destroying', It says it puts an end to it. And they say
there's an eternal hell. Why didn't he preach in believe in eternal
hell? So, they can scare people out of hell into heaven. You couldn't
come no matter how scared you were. Because He said, "You can't come
unless the Father draws you. With the cords of love have I drawn you. I
loved you before you knew who you were."

	Who are you going to believe, a bunch of preachers or God? You say,
"Bro. Vayle, you're tough on preachers." You bet, because those birds
led me astray, and they sure got Bro. Branham in trouble. Just takes a
bunch of preachers to mess things up. Yeah, that's it, I'll tell you I'm
with my colleagues every bit of the way. But I'll tell you, it's got to
be God's way, because that's the only way I'm fussy about. 

	 	(9) 	(They) shall be punished with everlasting destruction … (not 	
				destroying now, it's a finish work) from the presence of the Lord, 	
				and from the glory of his power;   

		(10) 	When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be
admired 						in all them that believe (because our testimony among you
was 						believed) …

	Notice where Paul puts It. He said, "If it hasn't been for this
testimony you wouldn't have got there." And then people don't want a
prophet, apostle, or pastor, or teacher, or something like that. (Huh?)
See, my, my, my.

4.	All right, it's not going to be rough on you, just going to exhort
you a little bit. Let's go to Revelation 10:  still talking about the
Second Coming here, reading about It. Revelation chapter 10, the last
Book in the Bible. This chapter is known as an interpolation. It's set
in there, It could have set anywhere. This chapter could have fit
anywhere, but God set It here. (See?) Because It doesn't belong between
9 and 11 chronologically and all, it's put in here. (See?) 

	Now: [Revelation 10:] 

		(1)	(When) I saw another mighty (messenger) come down from heaven, 			
	clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face 			
	was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:

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

		(3) 	(Then) cried with a loud voice, as when a lion (roars): and when
he 					had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.

		(4) 	And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about
						to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up 
					those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.

		(5) 	And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth 	
				lifted up his hand to heaven,

		(6) 	And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created
heaven, 					and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the
things that therein 					are, and the sea, and the things which are
therein, that there should 						be time no longer:

		(7) 	But in the days of the voice of the seventh (messenger), when he
shall 					begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as
(God) hath 					declared (by, not to, but by) his servants the prophets.

5.	Now, for many years our fundamentalists have set forth that the
Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is interpreted as His
literal return from heaven to earth, takes place in two phases. I think
they should have said two facets, but well call It two phases to please
them. 

	He first shall come for His Church, which is the Bride in a secret
Rapture. According to their teaching she is taken from the graves in a
resurrection. Then the living are changed like unto those who are
resurrected, and together they're all caught up to meet the Lord in the
air, where they say they will remain with Him at the Wedding Supper of
the Lamb for seven complete years. This is how they explain 1
Thessalonians 1:13-16.

	Then at the end of that time the second facet will come into view. For
Christ and His Bride will return to earth openly, the enemies of God
will be destroyed, and the Kingdom of our God should be set up upon the
earth. This they say is in 2 Thessalonians 1:7-10.

6.	So, just to quickly breakdown this doctrine which is in the
fundamental churches, we find that the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus
Christ in His corporal body has two facets. Number one, He is coming for
His Own. And number two, He is coming with His Own.

	Now, however you have noticed that I read in Revelation 10:1-6. And
there is a mighty Messenger whose description can only be that of the
Lord Jesus Christ Himself. And you will notice that He is neither coming
for His Own, nor is He coming with His Own. And yet He has descended to
the earth for His feet are on land and sea.

	Now, right away, right away (see?) in the fundamental camps the
argument will come, "this cannot be the Lord Jesus Christ." It's got to
be somebody else, because there are only two facets, He comes for His
Own, and He comes with His Own." So, they say it's got to be somebody
else.

7.	Now, also they could say if this mighty messenger has anything to do
with the Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, then It is but a figure, it is
not an actual return to the earth. Now you see, here's where people go
wrong in their theology. They take their traditions and then they try to
prove their traditions by the Bible. And when the Bible says something
else, they've got to explain it away. (See?) They got to, because no man
has ever included this in the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Show me a book. Show me a book, where this verse is set forth as a
literal Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. (See?) So, they've got
to explain it away.

	Now, to fully reveal the folly of their tradition, (see?) that He came
once and He'll come once again. And when He comes a second time He is
coming for His Own, and stopping in mid-air, then coming back with His
Own. They say that is how He comes. But let me reveal to you the folly
of their tradition, which their own scholars will reveal to them, but
not having the Spirit of God they cannot bring It to the people. (See?)

8.	Now, let's turn to the Book of Ephesians chapter 4: and this is one
of my favorite passages,            I never get tired of expounding.
Now, in Ephesians 4:8-9 

		(8) 	Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity
					captive, and gave gifts unto men.

	Now, watch 9 and 10. 

		(9)	Now that he ascended, … 

	Now notice, he's talking about the One that ascended, and he's going to
qualify, or examine the One that ascended upon what grounds He did it,
and Who He is. Now watch it:

		(9)	…what is it (see?) but that he also descended first into the
lower 						parts of the earth?

	Now, notice the subject. He's talking about Him that ascended. Now, Who
is He that ascended?  He that led captivity captive, which is the Lord
Jesus Christ. And Who is He, and how did He do it?  He came down here
and took upon Himself the robe of flesh, died upon Calvary, went to a
tomb, went into Hades, the Spirit went back to God.

	Now look it, the Scripture said, "Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell,
neither will Thou suffer mine Holy One to see corruption." [Psa. 16:10]
They, laid his body in the tomb, which they did the body did not
corrupt, the soul went down into hell, and He said, "Into Thy hands O
God I commend my Spirit." [Lk 23:46] The tri-partate-one called Jesus
Christ split and went in three directions. Spirit went back to God, the
soul went to Hades, the body went to the ground. Now, that's Bible. I
don't care what you believe, but, what I believe, that's Bible. You
can't challenge It. (See?) Then That Spirit came down picked up the
soul, spoke to the souls in prison, lets tore the gates of hell off, led
them up through the ground, in open in their bodies and came forth and
ascended.

9.	Now, let's take a look at this of how He ascended. Philippians 2:9  

		(9) 	Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name 
				which is above every name:

		(10) 	That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in
heaven…

	So, He's got to be above the highest heavens. Now, this is complete
absolute exaltation. This is the highest heights man can ascend to. And
notice, He ascended. (See?) But He's the one that descended first to the
lower parts of the earth, and brought them up. Now, you follow me? 

	Now look in verse 10. He that descended, is also, is the same also,
that ascended up far above all heavens, that He may fill all things and
all.

	Now, the casual reader, (see?) the casual reader thinks that verse
number 10 is a repeat of verse number 9. Yet, this is not repetition.
This is not saying the same thing is verse 9, It's saying something
entirely different. For It says: "He that came down took upon Himself
the robe of flesh." [Phi. 2:7] And then descended to bring about a
resurrection, and was exalted by God above the very heavens, It says
that same One came down again. Read It. Don't be skeptical, this is not
a fine brilliant mind telling you this. Because my find brilliant mind
didn't find it, but the fine brilliant mind of Dr. Vincent, and Dr. Vine
and all the Greek students know that this is the return of the Lord
Jesus Christ as the Holy Ghost. He came back as the Holy Ghost. (See?)
He descended. You follow me? He descended. This One that God exalted
came back. He came down. 

10.	Let's find out if this is true. In,

	 John 14:16-20  

		(16) 	And I will pray the Father, and he (the Father) shall give you 	
				(disciples few people) another Comforter, that he (that Comforter) 	
				may abide with you forever;

	Now, that's a statement of fact. Now again he qualifies his statement
of fact.

		(17) 	Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because
it						 (the world) seeth him not, …(see?)

	What's seeing here? He's talking as Isaiah spoke. "You can't see,
because your eyes are blinded." It is spiritual revelation. As Paul
said, "The eyes of your understanding being enlightened, you may know." 
[Eph 1:18] See, they don't know Him, neither knows Him. But you know
Him. Who did they know? They knew Jesus Christ. (See?)  "For He dwelleth
with you." Who was dwelling with them? Jesus was dwelling with them.
"And shall be in you."  Jesus shall be in them. (See?) "I, (He said)
will not leave you comfortless, I (Jesus Christ) will come to you." 
[John 14:18] (See?) 

	All right, now going down here in verse 23, 

		(23) 	Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep
						my words: and my Father will love him, and we, (we,) will come 			
		unto him, and make our abode with him.

	How? In Him. He said, "The Comforter Comes. I am coming, the Father is
Coming, the three in one is Coming." All three are Coming. Amen.  
(See?) And He came back, He descended as the Holy Ghost. And yet I feel
theological students have the unmitigated gall to stand up and tell us
there's only one return of the Lord Jesus Christ, and that's Him coming
in a corporal body. He has already come back. Came back two thousand
years ago as the Holy Ghost. 

11.	Now, right here is where you see people go wrong again. There are
some people who caught on to this, and they understood that He did come
back as the Holy Ghost. And they said, "Halleluiah, that takes care of
it. You don't need to look for Him to come back in the flesh now,
because there ain't no such thing. You got the Holy Ghost, that does it.
So, from now on, you go to Him." 

	Then, what are you going to do with 1 Thessalonians 4:13-16? Because It
says He's got to come back and pick you up in mid-air. See how they foul
up. You could make it, if you think you could make the Bible say
anything in the world. But the Bible only says one thing, which is the
truth. (See?) Then they get the idea, say, "there's no Second Coming, so
what it is you go to Him when you die." (See?) They always mess up.

12.	Now, let's see if I'm scripturally correct in my understanding of
this Word of God. Is there not sufficient proof in the whole Bible to
show us that the fundamentals are wrong concerning this question of the
return of the Lord Jesus Christ and what It is all about? Certainly,
there are. What are you going to do with the Appearing of God in the
Garden of Eden? He had to come down to do it, It says He did. What are
you going to do when God Appeared to Abraham and Sarah? He came down,
and He Appeared as a man. What do you do about the fact He came down and
Appeared to Samson's parents? Because the Scripture does not say, "My
name is secret?" 

	That's a wrong translation. It says, "My Name is Wonderful." [Isa. 9:6]
And His Name is wonderful. Tells you Who He is. (See?) What about that
One that came down and stood in the fiery-furnace with the three Hebrew
children? What about that Flame of Fire that enveloped the bush, and the
bush did not burn? What about that Cloud that kept them cool by day, and
the Pillar of Fire that kept them cool [warm] by night? What about that
Pillar of Fire that came down at Pentecost where hundred and twenty
names as you say, were baptized with the Holy Ghost, had a little bit
went into each one? What are you going to do about that Pillar of Fire
that came and …?... at Paul?  He and said, "Who art Thou Lord?" He
said, "I'm Jesus."  

13.	Now, where's all your talk God concerning the Second Coming of Jesus
Christ? In this facet, or that facet? He went away once, will come back
once. He went away once, He's already come back as the Holy Ghost. And
they take their little cliché's as it were in their dead traditions,
and try to destroy the facts of the Word of God, that the Second Coming
of the Lord Jesus Christ, (so called) in His corporal body has three
facets. The end time has three facets, and not just two. (See?) 

 	Now notice, all these occurred on earth when He came to the Garden. He
came to Abraham, came to Samson. Came to the Hebrew children. Came down
as that Pillar of Fire. Came down to Paul. These were not visions. This
is not like Ezekiel saying, I was by the river Chebar and I saw visions
of God. Now, he didn't have visions from God, so that was true, he had
visions from God of God. A big difference. (See?) These were seen
visibly. God descended. God's the Lord Jesus Christ. He absolutely
descended with all these occurring on earth as He Appeared.

	Thus, it is not strange to find the Scripture sets forth concerning
this Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, when He's going to receive
it to Himself. And then come back with His Bride. That here are not two
facets, but there are three facets. And this is absolutely, wonderfully,
scriptural, because God does everything in threes. Yes, He does.

14.	Now, let's turn again to Revelation 10: and let us see if my thesis
is absolutely correct. Although I have the prophet's word for it, let's
just lay aside the prophet's word. Remember when Bro. Branham, the
Pillar of Fire Appeared and opened the Seals, he had to go to his Word
to check that It was positively the right spirit. Alright, if had to do
it, what about you and me? So, we go to the Word. We're reading again:

		(1) 	And I saw another mighty (messenger) come down from heaven, …

	Now, the word 'aggelos' is in the Greek, but it's the same also in the
Hebrew which I mean is this, a messenger is a messenger. He's an angel.
He can be a physical earthly angel, or he can be a physical heavenly
angel. The reason I say heavenly, is because spirit is to me a physical
thing in the sense it is real, it's a substance. (See?) There's
something real about it. So, I just used the term loosely there you
understand. Now:

		(1) 	And I saw another mighty (messenger) come down from heaven, …

15.	 Now, the Lord Jesus Christ Himself is a Messenger, if we go to the
Book of Malachi 3:3.  He says here in verse 1,

		(1) 	Behold, I will send my messenger, (before my face) and he shall 	
				prepare the way before me: and the LORD, whom (you) seek, shall 				
suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, …

	Who is the Messenger of the Covenant? The Lord Jesus Christ. Notice, He
is His Own Covenant Messenger. God His Own Messenger. (See?) Not
trusting someone else with a Message, He Himself, (see?) bringing the
Message. 

	Now, [Revelation 10:]

		(1)	… (He came) down from heaven, (he's) clothed with a cloud: …

	This same Jesus was caught up in a cloud, "Shall so come in like manner
as you've seen Him go." [Acts 1:11b] "Behold He cometh with clouds."
[Rev. 1:7a] This description absolutely would out contradiction is
concerning Jesus the Christ, because He comes with clouds. Now notice:

 		(1)	…and a rainbow was upon his head, …

	Now, let's look at this, (examine Scripture for one moment) where's the
Rainbow? The Rainbow is around the Throne. All right, what Throne? The
Throne of God. But He said, I am sitting on My Father's Throne. (See?)
So, where's the Rainbow? It's over the Head of Him and Him alone that
sits on the Throne. (Right?) That's the Lord Jesus Christ, nobody else
has the Rainbow.

16.	Now notice again: The rainbow is a Rainbow Covenant. But you know
we're like a bunch of little kids. We go out in the meadows, we see the
sun shining after the rain storm and the beautiful rainbow comes out and
we rhapsodize the rainbow, we get all happy, take our skipping ropes and
talk about the pot of gold and say, "Isn't that beautiful, oh what a
lovely covenant, oh what a sweet thing." You better watch what you're
talking about, that rainbow is not a sweet lovely covenant, it is a
Covenant of God's predicted wrath and disaster. Because He said, "When I
come the second time, I won't come with water, I’ll come with fire,
destroy the earth and the men upon the earth, it'll destroy it. (See?)

	So therefore, if this One is coming with the Rainbow, It is the
Covenant of God Almighty judgment. As He’s coming back to this earth
to destroy them that destroy the world. (See?) Don't you get all
beautifully thought inside here now happy inside. This some sweet little
extra covenant?  No sir, this is God's absolute Covenant. That when He
Comes He'll not destroy [by] water, but He'll destroy by fire. Am I
right. God back to Genesis and find out. Said so, see? 

17.	All right, now notice:  [Revelation 10:]

 		(1)	…his face was as it were the sun, …

	Correct, that's what Revelation 1 says, "His face as it were the sun."
This is what struck Paul, that beautiful face lighting up like the sun,
only many times brighter. It doesn't say it was the sun, It says, "like
it," and the sun is the most luminous body as far as we're concerned.
There may be greater suns, I'm not concerned about them. It is because
they have no effect on us in the sense I'm talking about. God has said,
"this face is like the sun," because that's all we know. But it's
greater, don't worry. The sun will cease its shining one day, when His
really starts to shine and look upon us in glory.

	Now, It says, 

		(1)	…his feet (were) as pillars of fire:

	And then, yes, pillars of fire, notice where they are. They are upon
the earth. And It says, 

		(2) 	…he had in his hand a little book open: …

	Where is this from? This is that little Book that Who took out of the
hand of Him that sits upon the Throne. This is that bleeding Lamb, the
Lion of the tribe of Judah, Who took the Book and opened It. Notice, It
is open. (See?)  

		(2)	...a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and
his 						left foot on the earth,

18.	Now, let's just stop and see a moment here. His foot is upon the
sea, and His foot is upon the earth. But you will notice here that the
description of though His feet are on the earth, It still mentions the
face like the sun, covered with a cloud, and the rainbow over the
shoulder. Now, where are clouds, where is the sun, and where is the
rainbow? It is all in the upper. (See?) Now, where is our Headship?
Where is governing sovereign authority? It is vested in the Throne of
God. (See?) It's just the feet that are earth. So, what is this? Bro.
Branham tells you categorically in  'Trying to do God a Service without
It being God’s Will' [65-11-27] in Shreveport , that the hiring of
mystery. And this actual portrayal here is God manifesting in the
heavens and the earth. (See?) See, having come down in the corporal body
to do it, but He's manifested in earth.

19.	 Now, let me show you what I feel is the best explanation I can give
it this. We go to the Book of John chapter 3:13, (just hold your finger
here, at least have it ready to turn back) Now, Jesus in verse 12,  

		(12) 	… I have told you earthly things, and (you) believe not, how
shall 						(you) believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?

	Notice now:

		(13) 	And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down 			
		from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.

	Now, what's He talking about? He's talking about the Bread of God, the
Word. Which if a man does not eat, he has not life in him. (See?)
Notice, He says here:

		(13) 	And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down 			
		from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.

	Now, here is Nicodemus coming, and he sees this man there and he's
puzzled. He said, "Well, that's a man." But he said, "He's only doing
what God can do." I like that, some people are so blind, and they think
they have intelligence, education, intellectual powers and all, and yet
they'll deny God. They can't explain even a leaf on a tree, but here was
this man, (fine man, Nicodemus)  and he was puzzled, he saw a man there.
But he couldn't really identify God in the way he ought to identify Him,
but he knew that God was there. Anyway, so he said, "Look it, (he said)
man, (he said) you got to be something come from God, (he said) You got
to have something going for you. Because, (he said) you're a man and
You're doing only what God can do." (see?) And he called Him, Teacher,
Rabbi. In other words, he thought maybe Jesus had learned some little
secret. Oh boy. There's always somebody figure there's a gimmick
somewhere.

20.	Prophet of God discerns, they say, "Oh, he's got a little telephone
rigged up." Sure he has, straight to heaven, it's not so little. Oh,
they figure things out. They said, "Now, that's got to be God doing it,
but there's a man there."

	And so Jesus said, He just turned around and said, "Listen, you got it
right, but you're still wrong." Because He said, "You can't apprehend
what I'm talking about, you're limited." So, He threw this sort of curve
at him at it were, "even the Son of man which is in heaven."

	Now, I want to show you what I see there. Here stood the Lord God of
glory veiled in human flesh. But notice, never once did this One veiled
in flesh ever exhibit Himself as Creator, or sovereign ruler. Not once.
He said, "Only what I hear My Father say, and what I see My Father do,
that I say and that I do." [Jn 5:19] (See?) But remember, He was God.

21.	He also did never create one thing upon earth. He did mighty
miracles, but He never created. Turned water into wine. Raised the dead,
broke loaves and fishes. But He did not create. Now, you may say that
was creating. I beg to differ with you. He started with something here,
creation is starting with nothing. (See?) 

	Now, what is it? He was God limiting Himself by changing His mask, and
becoming man amongst men to redeem them, and yet being God He was
reigning from the glory, (see?) Sovereign God over the whole world and
masked. Now, He does the same thing in reverse. Yes sir, He doesn't come
down in corporal body, (this here) but He is manifesting Himself exactly
as He did when He was back there. And even going further, because He
proves that He is Elohim, not just Jehovah, but Elohim the great Creator
through the life of the prophet, which we'll discussed later on. See
what I mean? It's just the reverse. This is the reverse of John 3:13,
where they saw the man and here He was, God in that man, and yet the
Sovereign God veiling Himself, but still God ruling from that Throne by
His power. Now, it's just reversed. He hasn't come down corporally, but
He's doing that same thing.

22. Now, we go a little further, and It says here: [Revelation 10:]

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

	Now, Who's got the voice of a lion? It's the Lion of the tribe of
Judah. All right, secondly, notice here again, It says:

		(3)	…and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.

	See, seven thunders, which is completion, which is of God. And who
thunders? God thunders. In chapter 12 of the Book of John, It says, He
said, "Glorify me with the former glory   I had." And the Voice said, "I
have both glorified you. Glorified you again," and so on. And the people
said, "Well, it thundered." (See?) The Bible speaks always of the Voice
of God, and the Voice of Thunder.

	Now, and he says here, 

		(4) 	And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about
						to write: and I heard a voice… (saying, so and so, so and so.)

 	Now, notice It says here: 

		(5)	(And this One Whose feet were) upon the land and sea (what 					
does He do? He) lifted up his hand (toward) heaven,

		(6) 	And (swore) by him that liveth for ever and ever, …

	Now, listen to me, only God can swear by God. I don't care what anybody
else said. You say, "I’m going to go back to the Book of Daniel, I'll
prove an angel, and archangel." You'll find that One was Christ Himself.
Sure.

23.	Let's go back here to the Book of Hebrews 6:13

		(13) 	(And) when God made promise to Abraham, because he could 					
swear by no greater, he sware by himself,

	Now, the Bible says, "You can't swear by God, you can't swear by
heaven, you can't swear by earth, you can't swear period.  How could
anybody but God swear by God? The Eternal Elohim has come down to earth
veiled and masked. Proving He is God, "the same yesterday, today and
forever." [Heb. 13:8] But it's in the feet which we'll talk about.
(See?) This is God, the very Lord of glory. 

	Now, He swears by Himself, and when He swears…well, let's read a
little further:

		(14) 	Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I
will 						multiply thee.

	What's He talking to? Abraham. (See?) Now notice, the multiplication of
God's oath comes right to the end of the Seven Church Ages. And when the
time of multiplication is over, it's finished, that Covenant's finished.
Run out, run out, the last elected member to the body of Jesus Christ is
in. Surely that's what It says, you understand that. 

	Now, and notice It says here: 

		(15) 	…after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

	You say, I know some of you folk, doubt what I'm telling you tonight.
I'm going to prove your doubts are wrong though. 

24. In chapter 5 of the Book of James, It distinctly says here:

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

	Here is Abraham here, is Jesus there, He's typed in this, waiting for
It. Waiting for that multiplication table to run out. (See?) 

	Now, what's He doing over here? He lifts up His hand and He swears
what? That the time has run out of the multiplication of the seed of
Abraham, the last one's in. Time's no longer. Now, He swears by Himself.

25.	Let's see if this is scriptural, in the Book of Revelation 3:14, It
says…

		(14) 	…unto the (messenger) of the church (which is Laodicea) write;
						(these things,) These things saith the Amen, …

	The winder upper. It's all over, it's Amen, Amen to what? The oath that
He swore by Himself. Abraham I'm going to multiply as the stars of the
heaven. Now, Abraham doesn't have indiscriminate seed, there's only so
many. "Why are you saying that?" Because, "In Adam they all died, even
so in Christ they'll all be made alive." [1 Cor. 15:22] A certain number
and that's all. Election, (see?) that's right, you can't get away from
it.  

	Now, He says here, "I'm the God of the Amen." Then who is this? He
tells you, "It is the revelation of this One introducing Himself to a
Church Age for the last time." I'm Jehovah God. I'm not only Jehovah at
it were in My projection, I'm Elohim, the Covenant God." Amen, that's
what He is, the Covenant God, coming down and swearing by Himself to His
Elected. Cheering Abraham, Abraham you're soon going to have them
gathered in, hallelujah. Going to sit down with father Abraham, Isaac
and Jacob. Glory to God the Wedding Supper is at hand. It's wind up
time. I'm swearing by Myself, just like I swore back there, I'm swearing
again. Glory to God, I started with an oath, I'll end with an oath. I've
said It, and I'm going to perform It. Stand behind My Word to watch It.
Less any man pluck it, It'll never happen. Amen, you see it? You that
have interest in the Lord Jesus Christ, I don't even know what the Bible
is all about. Here He is, come down to His Own. The Alpha and Omega.   

26.	Now, since this is the Lord Jesus Christ, (and It sure is) and He is
manifesting in the heaven and the earth. And since He has neither come
for His Own, nor has He come with His Own, exactly what He is doing.
What is He doing? That's the whole key, what is He doing? According to
the Word of God, He is crying out with the Voice of Thunder, the Seventh
Seal mystery of Revelation and Himself announcing the end of a
designated period of time. (See?)

	But notice, where is His Head? It is in Heaven where the Throne is.
Then how can He speak? Did you notice where His feet were? You say they
are on earth. Do you notice what His feet are? They're Pillars of Fire.
So, what's come down to earth? The Pillar of Fire. That's what come
down.

	How did God descend to bring the Word and the deliverance of God to
Israel which types our exodus? In chapter 3, I believe of the Book of
Exodus, you'll find exactly what the prophet gave us the key to, for It
says in verse 8,

		(8) 	(I have descended) …

	You say, "Bro. Vayle, you read It wrong, it's to come on down." Well,
what's to come on down except to descend? Look in the Hebrew it's the
same thing. 

		(8)	(I have descended) to deliver them out of the hands of the
Egyptians…. 					(Which is Babylon today. See?) 

	Notice verse 10,  

 		(10) 	Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that
thou 						(Moses may) bring forth my people the children of Israel out
of 						Egypt.

	God came down by the Pillar of Fire and the Word and endued a prophet
to deliver God's people to put him in a land that He would have to get
him into, though this man got him out. Just what the Scripture said. 

27.	Now, how did He do it? By the Pillar of Fire. How did God speak to
John the Baptist? By a Pillar of Fire. How did God speak to Paul? By the
same Pillar of Fire. (See?) How has He promised to do it today then? By
the same Pillar of Fire, by the same method He's always done it, which
is Revelation 10:7. Let's read that little portion now, where It says:

		(7) 	But in the days of the voice (see?) of the seventh (messenger),
when 					he shall begin to sound, …

	Which means to blow upon a trumpet, it's a gospel trumpet, see? Here's
where the mystery lies. If you don't understand by the Holy Ghost,
someone authenticated to bring the interpretation, you can get all
fouled up and actually put the saints in the tribulation, by logical
scriptural interpretation. For Paul says, "At the last trump, for the
trumpet shall sound and the dead in Christ will be raised." (1 Cor.
15:52] And everybody thinks that's the Seventh Trump of the trumpeting
angel form Heaven. When it's not, it's the Seventh Trumpet of the man
here on earth on a Gospel Trumpet.  And the funniest thing in the world
contrary to my own thinking years ago is this, there are two last
trumpets. There could even be more, if I investigated.   There's a last
Gospel Trumpet, and there's a last Seventh Message to Seventh Angel
Trumpet that comes in Heaven. But this Trumpet is on earth, see? 

28. Let's show you this, in the Book of Revelation of course, chapter
9:13. 

		(13) 	And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four
horns 					(see?) of the golden altar which is before God,

		(14) 	Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four
angels…					(and so on.)

	And in chapter 11:15, It says:  

		(15) 	And the seventh angel sounded; … (see?) 

	These are two different angels, they're in Heaven. This one is here in
earth. (See?) And he's sounding on his trumpet. Now, this is the Seventh
Church Age messenger, because there are only seven messengers given to
man upon earth. They're in Revelation chapter 2, the 3rd chapter. The
first angel, the second, the third, the fourth, the fifth, sixth and
seventh. And who are they? They're men. As I said on Saturday night, if
you want to know what the actual truth says about those stars, they are
not seven luminous bodies. Although that's true.  

	The actual word in the Greek is where we get the word 'star' from,
which is a movie star, football star, baseball star. Which means the
pre-eminent one amongst many like him. And that's where people go wrong,
preacher’s do. You may be sitting here and the preacher says, "I don't
need Bro. Branham." That's right, you don't need him. Sure, you don't
need him. He wasn't meant for you. Might as well rub it in. I've been
known as a hard hitter, and I am a hard hitter. It's okay by me, you can
run them down, and think you know it all. But you don't know your Bible.

	The pre-eminent One and many like Him means I got a bunch of men lined
up here, and there's one man of every Age, and He puts His coat around
him, and he comes up there, he smiles, and he looks like the rest. You
say, "Who's that little fellow that came in?" That's God's ordained
messenger that you've got to hear for this Age. You say, "Hogwash, I've
got the Holy Ghost, I don't need a man to teach me." 

29.	Listen, if you think that John the apostle meant that, what do you
think Diotrephes would have done when John said it? He would have said,
"All right big mouth shut up and sit down you're a man and you're
teaching." How wouldn’t he? You ought to be, it's about pre-eminence.
The man that gave John all that heartache, when John said, "That you
don't need a man to teach you, now that you've got the Holy Ghost."    

	He's have said, "You're a man, sit down." John didn't mean that, read
the chapter, he's telling you about the truth. You don't need a man to
point out the truth, if you got the Holy Ghost, you'll gravitate toward
it. And if it's strong truth you've got a filter that'll wash it out.
Read your context. (See?) 

	Here's a man, he looks like any other man, our Church Age messenger.
Now, when he was young he was handsome, he still looked awful pretty
when he got older as far as I'm concerned. But you put him here and he
would be the most humble of all of us. He would be the most unassuming.
When Pentecostal preachers and so called divine healers would be up
there like a bunch of whirling-dervishes do this and that, little old
Bro. Branham humbly come tippy-toe in, and tippy-toe out. They said,
"Bro. Branham, I don't believe you're a teacher."

30.	I heard a man say, "I believe you are, you have a gift of healing
and you’re here to teach us."

	He said, "Why brother, that could be certainly right, I'd be glad to
let you teach, just go and take over, go ahead, (he said) and take
over."   Why? Because they saw a little humble fellow. He looked like
everybody else, yet even less than anybody else.  

	And God said, "That's the pre-eminent one." 

	That's not God, glory to God. And you say, "Well, I've got some too." 

	So did Korah, Dathan and Abiramn and they went to hell with it too. Not
to lead you into sin, but to lead you somewhere you got to realize
there's one Message for this Age said Jesus Christ, to Laodicean Age is,
"to repent." Repent is the one message He's got. "And the one thing I've
got for you is a club, because as many as I love I chasten, be zealous
therefore and repent." [Rev. 3:19] And you can't repent unless you're
dead wrong.

	Do you want to go a little further? And I'm not speaking on Laodicean
Church Age, but when Jesus Christ said, "Come to Me, and buy." That word
in the Greek means to 'redeem'. He said, "You'll redeem what you threw
down and I picked up." Something's happened to the day of grace
brother/sister, so watch it. It says, "Nobody got through to Him." It
says, "They've all turned, but better get through to Him." And He sent a
prophet to do it.

31.	Listen, the Seventh Church Age the Gospel of grace to the Gentile's
closes out, because there are no more Ages. It has to be, because at the
end of the Seventh Age is completion, and that does it. And this the
messenger to the Seventh Church Age and he's a man. He is positively not
an angel from Heaven, because I showed you that. What the angels do in
Heaven is a momentary brass, and it starts up there and it comes down
here. Number one: starts there, comes here. Two: there, and here. And
three: there, and down here. And four: up there and down here. Five: up
there, down here. Six and Seven, but this man wasn't up there, he was
down here. And it's not a momentary thing, and he's not causing
cataclysms and havoc, but he preaching. In the days of the voice, the
voice of the Seventh messenger, when he shall blow on his gospel
trumpet. The mystery of God, Christ the mystery of God, should be
revealed. (See?)

	Now, notice in here, the mystery should be finished. What's finished?
It's concluded and brought to perfection. It's brought to perfection. It
wasn't proven in Age number one. It wasn't proving in the two. It wasn't
proven in the three. It wasn't in four.  But the Bible says, "There's
coming a time when "they without us cannot be made perfect." [Heb.
11:40] So therefore, they’ve got to be made perfected, and they'll
come up. That's when it's finished. You say, "God's not working." I
defy, He's working right now in His Bride to get her finished and
perfect. and It's got to come in days of this man's voice, and it's got
to be this man's voice, or why does God put it in here. It's not just
mere repetition, when God puts a Word in here, He doesn't put It in just
for fun.

	He said, "In the days of the Voice." Said, "It's the Voice that's going
to do it." 

	"For the Lord shall descend from Heaven with a Shout, with a Voice of
an archangel." [1 The. 4:16] Chief messenger. The Star, the pre-eminent
One. He's a human being, and He's down here, and He's in this period
where this Mighty One descends as the Pillar of Fire. (See?) 

32.	Now notice: he is a man an ordinary human being, but with him is the
Pillar of Fire, which is what? The Anointing! (See?) Which is what?
Which is Christ! That's right, the Anointing is Christ. The Anointing is
the Pillar of Fire. The Anointing is the Logos. Logos, Pillar of Fire
anointing Christ. Now, we've got half a dozen, haven't we?  Anointing,
Pillar of Fire, Logos, that's four of Them. Glory to God, I believe I
can name ten more too. Still one Person. (See?)

	Now, He is here having descended by the Pillar of Fire, which is the
Logos, which is the Anointing, which is Christ. Notice therefore: this
Anointing is the prophet. Like Bro. Jack said last night, "Our messages
overlap, don't worry."  

	This is the Prophet.  He Christ, is the Prophet. (See?) Not the man
William Branham. What is William Branham? He's a man. He is termed the
prophet in order to designate and to place him in a special ministry.
But he himself is not the prophet, because man of himself is not a
prophet. God is His Own Prophet. It's a Spirit of Christ in those
prophets that prophesy, for the Bible said, "The Holy Ghost spoke by the
mouth of David." [Acts 1:16] And David was a man, but the Holy Ghost was
God. God was His Own Prophet.

33.	Let me show you something here: in 2 Corinthians [3:]18,     

		(18) 	But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass…

	Now, it's not beholding, it's reflecting. The word in the Greek is not
'behold', it's 'reflect'. I'm not twisting things brother/sister. I know
the King James Version is the best version there is, but the prophet
himself said, "that the prophet was a reflector." Right? You read the
same word. Where's Jack? (Come on Jack, you're my, you're my…yeah back
here.) Right? Thank you. He's knows where to find it, I'll talk about
it, he can find it. The prophet is a reflector, and we in turn are
little reflectors. (See?) 

	Now, what's he reflecting? The Word of God which is Christ! Which is
the Anointing, which is the Logos, which is God Himself, which is the
Great Prophet. (See?)

 	Now, this Prophet is God Himself. Listen to me, what the prophet said,
"It is God Himself amongst the people, He is revealing Himself, making
Himself known." (See?) What is He doing? He is Appearing. Now this is my
word, backing up by Scripture. Now I don't have to back a prophet up,
but I want to break it down, because he told the preachers to break It
down. Is that right Jack? Yeah, a lot of people don't believe these
things. You say, "We've paying each other." Well, I wonder what we're
getting for it? [laughter] 

34.	All right, verse 1 just to start with. [1 Samuel 3:]

		(1) 	And the child Samuel ministered unto the LORD before Eli….

	And William Branham started as a little kid. (See?) Born a prophet. Oh,
Pentecostal people say, "Ain't no such thing." You don't believe in
election it's a dirty word, then tell God He's dirty will you.
Predestination is a pre-fixed destiny. Tell God He can't be God if He
does it. Well, was He? Did you like animals in heaven? Do you think
animals' got saving grace? Remember, the serpent was an animal and he
mated with Eve, had coitus. If you don't believe that, why does the
Talmud say, the Talmud, the Talmud, which was the main book of
instruction in the days of Jesus Christ, says in the Book Erubhin page
23b, "And the serpent had coitus with Eve, and bore Cain."  

	"As in Adam they died, in Christ they're made alive." [I Cor. 15:22]
But Cain was not in Adam. Then you don't believe in election, and call
God some kind of a beastly because he's reprobate? …But this is one
subject I know. This is one subject I know. Because you see, God set it
upon my heart before Bro. Branham preached the woman in the Garden, the
woman at the end naked. And God has spoken to me and said, "You notice
in the Book where there was a beast in the Garden at the first, and then
the beast at the end." He comes right back brother/sister. He's not a
man, he's a beast.

35.	So, Bro. Branham preached on the woman naked at the beginning and
naked at the end. One clothed with the glory of God, and one with shame.
And I said, "Bro. Branham, now that you've preached that sermon, may I
be so bold as to say something to you?" I said, "God just gave me that
little thought, the beast at the beginning, the beast at the end, (I
said) you preached that sermon on the woman, the first woman at the end,
now the same thing with the beast. Would you preach that?"

	He said, "Why don't you do it?" 

	"Well, (I said,) I can't." I said, "In the first place I don't have
spiritual insight. I can't take them from Genesis to Revelation, that
takes a prophet like you." I said, "Secondly, you're the master of the
six-hour sermon, that's a six hour one." 

	So, that September we're eating at First Cafeteria in Tucson, he winked
his eye and he said, "See, (he said) Doc got something to say to you."
He said, "You know I've got a friend called Lee Vayle, he suggested that
I have a certain message about the serpent, (he said) in the beginning,
a beast at the first, a beast at the end." He said, "So, I'm going to
preach that sermon, it's called, 'The Trail of the Serpent'." He never
preached it. I couldn't preach it and never will. But I know one thing,
that God laid on my heart, serpent seed's right. Serpent seed is right
brother/sister. A hundred percent. It's in the history. 

	It's exactly what Jesus said to Israel, "You're not the children of
Abraham." 

	And they said, "We be not born of fornication." [John 8:41] And
fornication is pre-marital sex. And she was pregnant by the serpent
before Adam got to her. 

36.	All right, this child Samuel, he was a prophet to begin with, right?
Born that way, just like Jeremiah, "before he was formed in the belly, I
knew you." [Jer. 1:5] Where was he before he was formed in the belly? In
the mind of God. Spoken Word is the original seed.  

	[1 Samuel 3:]

		(1) 	…And the word of the LORD was precious in those days; there was
					no open vision.

	Vision, vision, visions, see, right? Verse 7, 

		(7)) 	Now Samuel did not know the LORD, neither was the word of the 		
			LORD yet revealed unto him.

	Verse 15,

		(15) 	And Samuel lay (down) until morning, and the doors (opened to) 	
				the house of the LORD. And Samuel feared to show Eli the vision.

	He caused the revealed Word of God, which was not by the eye sight, but
the inner eyes he called it a vision. "See, I want to have a vision of
God Bro. Vayle, for so long." Then let the Holy Ghost open your eyes to
the Word you'll see Him. I thought I'd get you screaming, you bunch of
Pentecostals. In the old days, you'd have torn up the floor, by just
strumming on a guitar. And I have brought you one of the most glorious
secret of all the ages. Now, I didn't get a scream. It's alright, I just
hope you're sound enough to get it.

37.	I said you wanted a vision of Christ for years and you haven't got
it. The Bible tells you how to get a vision. Let God reveal His Word to
you, and you've got a vision of God." I thought he said this is a
vision. Now verse 21,

		 (21)	And the LORD appeared again…

	Now please watch my hand. My hand is behind the sheet. It appears. It
goes back. It appears. (See?) 

		(21)	…the LORD appeared again (he must have appeared before, to
Samuel) 					in Shiloh: (how?) for the LORD (appeared by revealing)
himself to 					Samuel in Shiloh by the Word of the LORD.

	Now, listen to me, the word 'appear' in Hebrew is 'ra'ah', [Strongs
7200] which means 'to see'. To see. See it! See it! See it! Now I don't
see nothing that's right, you're blind. Not being offensive now, I'm not
saying this should be. You people here, I'm just saying in my mind what
Christ said to Israel, He said, "See it." Couldn't see a thing. see a
thing. There stood God. There stood the Word. There stood the fulfilled
Word of God Jesus Christ, they couldn't see a thing. He said, "Just like
the Bible, like I told you, your eyes are blinded, you can't see a
thing."

38.	Like the man said to Bro. Branham, "Smite me blind."

	He said, "You're already blind."

	He said, "I wouldn't believe it if I saw it."

	He said, "That's right, it wasn't meant for you."

	 'Ra'ah, means 'to appear', or 'be seen'.

	Now listen, the Word ‘revealed’ is a sort of a dirty word. I mean
it's kind of a bad word. (See?) It means it is ‘galah’ [pronounced
‘gaw-law’] which means to denude as to strip a body naked and
nothing is hidden. Right. 

	What's he talking about? Have you ever stopped to think as a child you
always were mystified by the human body? The body of people, even in
children is intriguing and mysterious, because the difference of the
sexes. Take off all the clothes and there's no mystery left. That's
exactly how it stands. 

	Now listen, here was a man, "unto us a child is given, unto us a Son is
born, and the government shall be upon His shoulders," and so on. [Isa
9:6] "A virgin shall conceive and [bear] a child." [Isa. 7:14] And there
He stood and John said, "Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin
of the world." [John 1:29] And they put Him upon a Cross, ripped His
clothes off, and there stood the Word of God absolutely revealed. And
the veil of the temple was rent, and they saw the Mercy Seat right over
that ark. And they saw Him, there was God absolutely made bare and
naked, and that's what this Word says. God revealed, made bare, naked,
no mystery. Nothing hidden, that's God revealed in the sight of man. 
How? By the Word that came to the prophet. Hallelujah, because that's
exactly right.

39.	Listen to me, God is revealed. Did you hear what I said? God is
revealed. Why?  Do you see now why Bro. Branham said, "God's the Word?"
God is the Word. Oh, that's hard for us to get. Well, God…see the
Bible …?... flippity-flip, four hundred and eight pages know this,
though God therefore is about ten hundred and twenty pages in this book.
Don't you see brother/sister what we're talking about? This is God
brought into plain view, and when something is in plain view that's
substance, that's the Word. (See?) God revealed.

40.	Now listen carefully, God is revealed. He is seen. (See?) He is
seen. As It says in the Bible, there was once a time it was death to go
into the Holy of Holies, and now it is death not to go into the Holy of
Holies. There was a time when the shine from Light of God would blind
you, but today there's a time that you don't look in that Light, you'll
remain blinded and you'll die. (See?) I said, "God is revealed, God is
seen."     

	Now listen carefully, as He was veiled in flesh, as He was once veiled
in a cloud, worn a Pillar of Fire, (see?) or in the smoke, veiled in
badger skins as it were. Now, He must be veiled again in order to bring
into manifestation that which cannot be seen, unless something is done
whereby the human senses can perceive Him. (I hope I said that exactly
right, because it's a long sentence.) 

	Now listen, let me say it again simple as I can, and maybe a little
quicker, sentences. Some-thing is invisible, that's God. He's Spirit,
you can't see Him. But, if He does something about Himself… look, put
it this way, there's a little… (I don't even the technical term, now
don't hold Jack can help me now on this, if anybody can. I'm too stupid
to know all about it. Bro. Shellen(?) Ken back there, because he knows
electronics.)

	But listen, that little bits of electricity kind of things like going
through wires. (See?) When you tune a car up, right? A little…little
…?... things, I don't know what they are even, going through those
wires. But look it, invisible, but you attach certain wires to a certain
screen and it goes zip-zip-zip-zip right across there. (See?) The
invisible is brought into plain view by closing, it with something that
you can apprehend. See, all right, good we got that down.

41.	Now listen then, the unseeable Spirit, God is clothed in Spoken Word
and thereby revealed. Amen. The unseeable God clothed in Spoken Word.
See It? Now you can see It? Why? Because the womb is the mind. And the
Holy Ghost taking that very Word brings God into absolute view, so you
see Him as He is. (See?)

	Say, "Bro. Vayle, I'll still make it without the prophet." No you
won't, just one minute, not going to destroy my thought here, but
just…hold this, turn with me to 1 John 3:2 please.

		(2)	 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it (has) not yet (been 	
				made manifest, I'm not reading It wrong, not reading It wrong, just 
					right. And it has not yet been made manifest) what we shall be: but
					we know that, when he shall appear, (or He shall be made manifest, 
				what It says) we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

	Now listen brother/sister, and follow me closely, because I want to
show you the dead fundamentalism. And we ourselves are guilty. We can
read this Scripture one million times and miss it unless you wake up.
How? The Bible says, "Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from amongst
the dead, and Christ will give you Light. [Eph. 5:14] Get out of your
dead denomination, and your dead thinking, and your dead hypocrisy, and
your own pride and vow to yourself to the Word of God as the prophet
brings it forth.

	Say, "I've had great miracles." I don't care two-bits for your
miracles. Has anybody ever prophesied here like Balaam? No, you and I
altogether haven't done it. Did you live with Jesus Christ like Judas
did and get the same power Peter, the rest of them had? No! Did you ever
have the Lord turn to you and say, "Be happy because your name's are
written in heaven?" [Luke 10:20b]  No! That Judas was a devil, and
Balaam died fighting Israel. So that much for miracles.

	I don't run them down now, fuss about them. (See?) I'm putting them
right …because you see brother/sister, I say that much for miracles if
you don't take the right attitude, and no proof. (See?) 

42.	Now listen, The Scripture distinctly says this: that before you can
get caught up to meet the Lord in the air, you have got to be changed.
For It says, "The dead will come out of the ground, and we're going to
be changed, and together we'll be caught up." [1 The. 4:17] And it's
then and only then, that you see Him.  

	But John says, "You can't be changed until you see Him." Come on now,
come on, there It is. I didn't write the Book, I'm just reading It, just
the way It's written. Not the way we thought we thought It was written,
but the way It's written.

	It says, "We're going to be like Him." (See?) "It has never come into
manifestation yet."            This thing is coming. But It says,
"You’ve got to see Him He is." [1 John 3:2] That's right. And when you
see Him as He is, that will bring about your change. Then you can be
caught up. But you can't be caught up till you see Him as He is. But
according to fundamentalism you're only going to see Him when you do get
caught up. Now, were does that leave world?

 	Now, "Where millions now living never die." (See?) "Vayle, your mean."
I'm not mean, I'm just bring out the Bible. I’d be mean if I didn't
bring out the Bible. Was Noah mean, because only seven people got saved
beside him? Was Noah some mean old person building an ark, and then took
in seven, because they overcome and the rest died? You say, "You mean,
mean man."  If this person eliminates all but five hundred, or seven
hundred, or whatever it is the prophet said. Is the prophet a mean,
mean, mean man? Let's be honest tonight. That's what the Bible teaches,
It says you got to see Him as He is.

43.	But listen to me and listen carefully, the very apostles did they
see Him as He was? No sir! Christ said, "Listen my dearly beloved, who
do men say that I am?"

	"Oh, (they said) you're Jeremiah, You're this or that." 

	"But, (He said) no, no, not that. Peter who do you say?"

	And he said, to Him, "Thou art the Christ."

	He said, "Flesh and blood didn't do that, you didn't do it Peter, and
this flesh and blood."

 	Jesus was flesh and blood. As the prophet said, "Deliver me, my life
that I live."

	"The flesh that you handled, I visited you, I ate with you, I talked
with you, you saw the miracles, but that didn't do it, it took a
revelation." 

	Listen brother/sister, without the revelation they didn't see Him as He
was. When did they really see Him as He was? 

44.	Let's find out, go to the Book of Luke please. You want to get It
chapter 24:25, 

		(25) 	…O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets
have 						spoken:

		(26) 	Ought not Christ to have suffered (and) these things, and (then)
						enter into his glory?

		(27) 	And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded (he 		
			expounded) unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning 				
	himself.

	Brother/siste,r you and I will never see God as He is, except by the
revelation of the Holy Ghost by the Word, because that's exactly how
Samuel saw Him. I'm going to give you those visions, now this in on
tape. And I'm glad it's on tape, because it varies, because I'm such a
rough customer, my words are twisted. 

45.	Now listen to the best of my knowledge: I have loved and served Bro.
Branham, I can prove it to you. But what's going through all that
rigmarole. I did my best to be a friend to him and help in this
ministry, as God knows my heart. And that can be proved. I believe you
people believe that. But supposing I came to you tonight, and I said,
"Folks, I want you to know something. I don't want to miss the Rapture,
so I got to confess my sins." You're looking at a hypocrite. I never,
never loved Bro. Branham, and I never loved the Message. I just saw a
good thing and I want to get on the bandwagon and make some money. Make
some money, … that's a laugh. But the thing is, let's put it that way.
As I left the people of God. You say, "That guy Vayle, that's the first
time I've seen him as he really is."  [laughter]

	Why, because by my spirit through words revealing my heart you know me.
That's what I'm talking about tonight. Glory to God, Christ in full
view, by the Word of God revealed.  You’ll see Him as He is, you
cannot see Him as He is. If He descends tonight and walked in our midst,
you would not see Him as He is. You could not see Him as He is, It takes
the Word of God to recognize Him. 

46.	I'll prove it to you by the Word of God. Over here in the Book of
John, (if I get carried away that's alright, because something to be
carried away about. In the Book of John 1:18.

		(18) 	No man hath seen God at any time, …

	Why? Because it wouldn't do you any good. Wouldn't do you a bit of
good. It'll kill you. That never make it on seeing Him.

		(18) 	…the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father,
he hath 					declared him.

	And that word in the Greek is 'exegesis' which means 'to bring into
full view' by the explanation of words. Now, the Bible says you'll never
rise in that Rapture unless you see Him as He is. Going to take a
prophet to bring Him is full view. 

47.  Oh listen, bless God, let's just talk about that for a second. Over
here in the Book of Acts again chapter 3, where Peter speaking on the
very thing.

		(19) 	Repent therefore (Israel), and be converted, that your sins may 
					be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the 		
			presence of (God.)

	What's refreshing? The cool breeze blowing from the face of God.  Which
Bro. Branham said it's sealed, a number 2 page 44, and over here in
'Christ the Mystery of God', page 39. But this is the edition from
Sparks as I got out there, Isaiah 28:8-13 is that refreshing where all
tables are full of vomit. You're reading, (pardon the expression,
unadulterated puke) every table, all tables. You say, "Bro. Vayle, my
table's clean." Oh, you hypocrite, The Word of God says, "Every table is
full of vomit." [Isa. 28:8] They're all unclean. I'm watching your faces
honey, wish you're closer, so I can really watch this going across.
Because there's too much boasting amongst the preachers. "I've got it,
I've had this, I've had that." Listen brother/sister, It says, "All
tables." 

	In other words, the Word of God is so perverted that's there's no
preacher doing anything but what is vomit, it's the pre-partly digested
food, regurgitated. And what is food? It's the Word of God. And so, the
preacher he chomped on the food, (the Word) and he brought up some
…?... "Oh, what a good feed we had this morning." You ain't going to
make it that way brother/sister. And then he talked …?... whom am I
going to teach the truth too? Who's going to get this? It says, "It's
got to be the baby is off the breast." That's a gift ministry. That's
what Paul said. I'm not telling you a lie. That's what the prophet said.
He said, "I you're relying on on gifts, your tongues, interpretations
and making ministries."  

48.	It is evident you are in the Laodicean Age when the move is on for
the Bride. You say, "I challenge you." Why don't you challenge Bro.
Branham when he was alive? Why didn't you go over there and talk to him?
I did, never was afraid to challenge him, because I wasn't challenging,
I was just trying to find out a few things. Sure. That's what it is, a
refreshing. "Line upon line, here a little, there a little." [Isa.
28:10]

	You say, "Bro. Branham never came out and declared himself." He wasn't
supposed to. When they said to Jesus, "declare Yourself?" Go on declare.
He sidestepped them. "It's only the sheep that here My voice."[John
10:27] No problem, the call will bring them in, because He's got them
foreordained. I'm going to try to be sweet, I'm a rough customer.  I'll
tell you, this Word is rougher though brother/sister.

49.	Let's read It. He said, [Acts 3:]     

		(19) 	… (after this) refreshing…  

		(20)	…he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto
you:

		(21) 	Whom the heaven must receive (and the heavens must receive Him, 
				He cannot come down in His corporal body) until the (restoration) 		
			of all things, (what things?) which God hath spoken by the mouth 				
	of all his holy prophets since the world began.

	That's the Word restored. You say, "Bro. Vayle, we got it here, it's
got to be restored in the human heart as God meant what He said. Because
they said, "God meant this." And God meant opposite. Do you know that
Jesus Christ came to positionally place Israel? They turned it down.    
     I repeat, He came to positionally place Israel, and they turned it
down, they're doing it today.    Because He said, "When the Bride knows
her place, she'll be gone."

	I can prove what I'm talking about, just give me another sermon. [Bro.
Vayle chuckles] You may not want one. 

50.	All right listen,  

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

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

	I want to ask you a question. Did this take place? You say, "yes." I
say, 'no'. You got a little air in there, honey. You got a little air
vent, did not take place in the days of Jesus Christ. Because they were
scattered. Israel was scattered abroad. This refers to the end time.
That prophet. and if you don't think Bro. Branham said he was that
prophet, I challenge you; in 1953, when I was in West Palm Beach, and
Ray, (I don't know about Ray if you heard me that night?) when I stood
before the people, (maybe Lois you remember) I stood there and I said,
"Behold, I send my prophet out of the north, and he shall teach a few
things," I don't know. And I said, "If that's Lee Vayle, it'll never
come to pass, because I don't even know a prophet. If that's God,
there's a prophet coming." 

	And I said to the folk, "I'll tell you, I heard of this man called
Nicholson, he's sweet and he goes to Finland speaks Finnish never had
even learned it. He 's been to France I think and spoke French, never
having learned it. Now here he comes to America, maybe I'll go to New
York and met him." North is north, it could be across the street.

51.	A man came to my town, Paris Reedhead, we talked about God for two
hours or better. He said finally, "Do you know Bro. Branham??

	And I said, "No, just only heard him." 

	"What do you think of him?" 

	I said, "He's tremendous, oh he's a mighty man of God."

	He said, "Would you like to know him?"

	"Well, would a cat like a dish of cream?" So, I said, "How?"

	He said, "One of my best friends is Wallace Cobble."

	And you heard Bro. Branham on tape say Wallace Cobble was a bosom
friend of his. He said "You go to the church of The Open Door,
Louisville, Second Street, and you say, 'Paris Reedhead sent you', he'll
take you to Bro. Branham.

	Well, I didn't know any better than to go. Why should I miss? When, if
you've got a sure thing, grab it. We cranked up the car without knowing
that Bro. Bill could have been around the world somewhere. Didn't phone,
nothing. Jumps in the car, hits Louisville goes to this brother's place
and said I'd like to meet Bro. Branham."

	He said, "Sure, I'll take you over." So, he took me over. That's the
best take over I ever saw. Here is out back of the door with his old
flop hat on, grey suit, little old sweet man of God. Bro. Branham
grabbed him and hugged him, and he said, "I brought over Bro. Vayle from
West Palm Beach, Reverend Vayle, he'd like to meet you and talk to you."

	He said, "Sure Bro. Vayle, come by tomorrow." Just like that. So, I
came by, that's the best thing ever came behind my life. You ought to
come by something good, you get the prophet. Yes sir, He said, "A friend
of the prophet it's a great thing." And I'll tell you, it sure worked
out good for this guy. He's saved my soul right, not my soul, Jesus did
that, he saved the life out here I could have lost. Wasted away, the
prophet taught me to see.

52.	 Now, so the next …?... he said, "Well, I didn't phone you about
that." He said, "I phoned you because Bro. Branham wants to know when
you want him to come." 

	I said, "What did you say?" 

	He said, "Bro. Branham wants to know when you want him to come." He
said, "You're holding him up, forty-five hundred invitations, and he's
waiting on you."

	I said, "Waiting on me?" Said, "Do you mean he meant to tell me, it
when he said he's coming?"

	He said, "Yeah, and you're holding him up."

	I said, "Man, you just give me your phone, and I'll phone you back,
because I'll get a building."

	I said, "Behold, I send My Prophet." Not a, but My prophet out of the
north and he shall teach the people the things they ought to know."
Which is what? The Word of God for their age.

53.	All right, Bro. Branham came. Now listen to me: one night on that
platform in the healing service under discernment he said, "The Pillar
of Fire is here." The golden glow was over the whole congregation. "And
if you'd only believe that I am that prophet, not because I said so, but
because the Word of God said so, you'd all be healed. Here It is here!" 

	[Acts 3:] 

		(23)	…every soul that (hearth) not that prophet shall be (cut off)
… 

	Now, do you believe in serpent seed? You say, "Why do you say that
Vayle?" Because the same God that said that, that spoke through me, and
spoke through him, that same God wrote through him by the Holy Ghost
saying, "This prophet at the end time will plant the seed of the entire
Bible, from serpent seed to the prophet of the former-rain." That
serpent seed is why perversion entered the human race, and where the
prophet brings on the last day perversion which fools the world, giving
world wide revival to take him to the antichrist and to hell.

	He preached 'Serpent Seed' September 28, 1958. How do you know? My
birthday. Send me a card. He preached 'The Anointed Ones at the End
Time, July 26, 1965, here in …?... it was finished. The entire seed
planted. My Bible says here by the infallible God by the Holy Ghost that
I tried to serve Him with all my heart, and you claim that you do too,
maybe together enter those Golden Pearly Gates together. It says this
prophet shall take and restore all. That's the prophet.

	Listen to me brother/sister, I challenge you, who was the first
Prophet? God was in that Garden prophesying the woman's seed. Who was
that Last Prophet, God was that last Prophet. It's what It said. 

54.	Now listen: 

		(24) 	Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel…

	Now, why does he go back to Samuel? Because Samuel is the prophet that
received the vision of God, and God Appeared by the Word. And it's done
in our day too when you see God. And you know what the world said? They
said, "He's Jesus only." How He’s got three.

55.	Let me find out about that would you please. Oh, you don’t mind
anyway, I'm going to get you home by morning. Paul said here in 2
Corinthians 11:

		(2) 	For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have
espoused 					you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste
virgin…

	That means you're not come unto Him with another man's seed. "Being
born again not of corruptible seed, but by the Word of God." [1 Pet.
1:23] (See?) 

	Listen, chaste virgin not like Eve, but like Mary. "For I have espoused
you to one husband, that I may present you to Christ a chaste virgin.
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve (how?)
through his subtility, so your minds…" [2 Cor. 11: 2-3]

		Here's the womb up there. You won't listen to Bro. Branham you stiff
necked and hard of hearts, you resist the Holy Ghost said the great man
Stephen. They stopped their ears, they gnashed their teeth. And they
said, "Serpent seed, we know serpent seed." "There ain't no one God,
there's three."

	"Through his subtlety so your mind should be corrupted." [2 Cor. 11:3]
Your minds be corrupted. The Bible said, "The corruptibility, the mind
can be corrupted, your mind must now put on that which cannot be
corrupted which is the Word of God. You can't prove you know the Word of
God, you got no vindication. When does anybody here ever come with 'Thus
saith the Lord in the Name of the Lord?  

56.	You say, "Bro. Vayle, I have a little miracle." My God, you want to
compare your notes with mine, and I've got nothing. Brother/sister
listen to me, this is too serious, we're not fooling tonight. It said,
"your minds be corrupted from the simplicity which is Christ. For if he
that cometh preaches another Jesus…" [2 Cor. 11:3] You see, there's
got to be two of them, there's another one. There's only one, but
they've got another one lined up. "Which we have not preached." [2 Cor.
11:4] Paul only preached one God, Jehovah come down in flesh. 

	That was Jesus. Or another spirit. It's only Jesus, but they've got
two. They got a spirit of Him, and they got a spirit of the Holy Spirit.
And so, the great Dr. McCrossen and men like them say, "When Jesus
breathed on them, (in the Book of John) they got the Holy Ghost.  So,
the church started before Pentecost."

	I said, "The church did not start before Pentecost. There's only one
Spirit, not two spirits." Paul said they'd be preaching two spirits, or
another gospel, which you might, you could accept. There's no Gospel my
brother/sister but the revealed Word of God that came to the prophet.
And that gets corrupted and you got to get back to It. (See?)  Now, this
is that end time. Man, that's that end time prophet coming, which he
does. (See?) He is that one who because the Pillar of Fire is able to
reflect God absolutely, because God is revealed, that unseeable Spirit
is clothed of Spoken Word and thereby revealed.

57.	Now listen, He, (that's God) proves that It is He Himself by
manifesting Himself exactly the same as when the Word was made flesh and
dwell among us. He does the same things according to Hebrews 14:8,
proving that He is "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever."
You say, "How does He do It?" I'm glad you asked the question. In the
Book of Luke 17: Listen to me, It says here concerning the end time. Now
let me go to verse 20 and we'll look at something here.

		(20) 	And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, …

	Notice, we He was demanded, notice that lovely spirit, demanded. Boy,
you demand God. Not implored, but in the Presence of God this mighty One
veiled in flesh, they thought He was just an ordinary man. And bless
God, anyone of us can talk up to an ordinary man. Because He's just a
man. "And ah, ah, I'm a man too. Of course, I'm a little better, hmm,
hmm." Oh, God have pity it sure sicken my stomach. Any man stand
alongside a prophet of God, William Branham, and dare to even say one
word against him. Dare to have the audacity to stand up and contradict
him. Dare, my God have pity. I don't understand something like that. I
don't understand that anymore than I understand brother/sister, a man
being a Roman Catholic in the face of history and millions of them are
educated. You see where I put it. 

	And I'm not God, I'm just saying Lee Vayle now. But I'm trying to put
it in such a way to stir you, to get you either angry, or get you to see
something. If you're in a position that where you don't understand this
thing, and you say, "Well, Bro. Vayle, I've got some too." So, did
Balaam. So, did Judas. They had some too. (See?) You understand what I'm
driving at? I hope you do. (See?) 

58.	Now, 

		(20) 	…he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God 			
		should come, …

	The very thing that they wanted themselves, but will not come the way
they wanted, and where they wanted, when they wanted, or anything about
it. They missed it entirely, and it'll never come that way they think
it'll come. Because everybody thinks Matthew 25: is where the Lord
descends and saves the Jews, and then all the nations that were nice to
the Jews, are going to be brought in the Millennium and procreate
children, while Israel waves a bat over their heads and beats them down,
and says everybody loves us. Well, I've got news for you, how can
anybody be doing any good thing for the Jews when the Bible says, "the
whole world comes up against them." [Zech. 12:3b] And God turns around
and destroys everybody that doesn't believe God, or the Gospel. Doesn't
obey God, and doesn't believe the Gospel. Ain't nobody left but the
144,000, now where does that leave you? They never were placed that way
in a kingdom.

	You say, "Bro. Vayle, I've been taught the Book of Ezekiel…is was the
Millennium." How can there be a blood sacrifice of bulls and goats when
Christ died and finished It? Wake up before it's too late. You said,
"Did you check with Bro. Branham on that?" I sure did check with Bro.
Branham on that. You hear his tapes on it too, and you'll find out. 

59.	They said, 

		(20) 	…(when's) the kingdom of God (coming?) he…said, The kingdom 
				of God cometh not with observation:

	In plain unadulterated street language, It's coming, but you won't ever
see It. It'll be there and you won't know It. You're blind. Now, He
said, "This is the end time." This is the end time, the Kingdom of God
coming to earth. David, like Mount Transfiguration, glorified these, He
said, "It's coming, It'll be there, you won't even see It. You'll miss
It." Then He said, "Thank you, Lord, You revealed It to little children,
little humble things we’ll take it." 

	Then He turned to His disciples, they weren't haughty, proud, with a
big old question mark.  How he said, you’ll desire to see… this is
the end-time brother/sister, it wasn’t for back in those days, this is
for the end-time.  He said, "The day will come you’ll desire to see on
the days, and you’ll not see it. " Never did desire to see one of
those days, because as soon as Christ is crucified they threw up the
towel, they said, "it's all over, too bad, we missed it, something was
wrong somewhere." 

60.	And then when He said, "Mary, you tell them, I'll see them in
Galilee." They didn't even bother going, just by accident they said,
"Let's go fishing, such a nice day to fish." And they saw Jesus, they
weren't looking for Him, or one of these days. They never did. This is
the end time when the look for the days. Now watch this: (See?)   

		(23) 	And they shall say to you, (said, you'll not see, they'll say to
you) 						See here; see there: go not after them, (or) follow them.

		(24) 	For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under
heaven, 					shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the
Son of 						man be in his day.

		(25) 	But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this
generation.

	See, this is got to come first, then the other. Now listen, in verse
26.

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

	The days repeat. But not the person, per se, as natural beings. All the
experience of Noah's day, which refers to God taking the people into an
ark preserving them for the Millennium, (which He does, bright them
back) so the very experiences of the Christ will return to earth. Daddy
Bosworth, (now listen carefully) Daddy Bosworth said, "Bro. Vayle, I
have prayed for forty years for the ministry of Jesus Christ to return
to this earth, and there It is in that man."

61.	 Now, listen to me brother/sister, listen carefully: no man living
can pray for anything that's not in the Word of God, because ain't no
such thing. The Bible said, "I have exalted My Word above My Name."
[Psa. 138:2] Every prayer ends in the Name of Jesus. Right? So
therefore, what's above the Name is your prayer. So, if God is going to
do anything about your prayer, it's got to be according to the Word. You
got to give God back in faith His Word, and if the ministry of Christ
was not to return to this earth, then Daddy Bosworth could not get his
prayer answered.

	But, here's the very verse that Daddy Bosworth didn't know was in the
Bible, but moved by the Holy Ghost, he screamed forty years for the very
ministry of Christ to return. And the ministry did, but not the corporal
Christ. 

62.	[Luke 2:]

		(25) 	And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was
Simeon; 					and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the
consolation 						of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him.

		(26) 	And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should
not 					see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ.

	I believe that men who got the Holy Ghost can get things from God
brother sister, according to the Word. And nobody else knows it's there,
but they know it. And they don't even know chapter and verse. (See?) 

	Now, the ministry of Christ returned to this earth. And if that
ministry returns to that earth, then there must be the identical
parallel which there is. Let's go back again to Luke a little bit here,
It says in Luke 2:

		(34) 	And Simeon blessed them, and said (to) his mother Mary, Behold, 
					this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel;
and 						for a sign which shall be spoken against;

		(35) 	…that the thoughts of many hearts (shall) be revealed.

63. The revelation of Christ revealing men's hearts like William Branham
did was the sign of the Messiah spoken against, and you know it's the
truth. And you sit there and say there's no serpent seed. And you sit
there and tell me you can defy the prophet, when Messiah spoken against
and you know it's the truth. And you sit there and say there's no
serpent seed. And you sit there and tell me to defy the prophet. My God,
have pity on you. You say you got the Holy Ghost. I should have an altar
call just right now.  But I'll continue my message. But I'm not here to
excoriate any person, or persons. But I'm here my brother, my sister, to
prick our conscience and our hearts to let us know we're a million
behind in our own faith tonight. 

	We have not accepted this Word, this engrafted Word of Almighty God as
we ought to, and esteem It as Bro. Branham said, "Lay aside everything,
and have nothing but this Word, the revelation of God. To busy with our
lousy stinking motor cars, I know why, and every car get always pops out
at me. I think I'm going to junk the lousy thing, put a stick of
dynamite, take an airplane, but get away from everything but God. I am
sick and tired of everything, but I want to know this Word.   

64.	 You say, "Bro. Vayle, I want to know God." How are you going to
know Him without this Word? How are you going to see Him as He is? You
say, "Bro. Vayle, what about the dead?" They've already seen Him as He
is, because they come down here to get their bodies with them.
Brother/sister, I want to tell you I'm just a pretty rotten student. But
I can get my Greek books out, because I'm no smart student. But I've got
a few books, I've paid a good price for them, the only reason I can
afford it, because I've got a good Bro. Avacola  and get them wholesale.
If you want some, I'll get them for you too. A generous man. [Bro. Vayle
chuckles] Of his generosity. If you want, we'll knock forty percent off.
So, sure. I get those books out around thirty, forty translations. I
got, I lay them out there. And to my utter amazement, I see what all the
great scholars said when they couldn't place it. And William Branham
comes around and in one sentence, and even the vernacular of a little
Kentucky boy, and it's just [snaps fingers several times] like this. 

65.	Do you know something about the Greek? Would you got to Greece, and
you're a little Greek boy, or girl, you know tonight that the Greek is
not punctuated. No sir, has capitals, and no punctuation. And the
teacher's stand up there and you learn to read with as the baton rise
and falls, and you voice must rise and fall to punctuate. Like the
important part of the word has a big punctuation mark. Like the horse,
(you want the attention) not a cow now. Not what he's doing, but the
horse, focus on the horse. And that's where the voice shouts, the horse,
shall come out of the west. But you say, "West!" Don't, it's horse comes
out of the west. That's how it's done.

	And here, Dave Mamalis, this little Greek friend of mine, (born in
Greece, and knows the Greek so perfectly) he's sitting in Bro. Branham's
meeting, and here Bro. Branham picks up the King James Version, and his
voice rises and falls with the Greek. And old Dave sits there. He comes
back, he's flabbergasted. He comes back the next night, and Bro.
Branham's voice rises and falls with the Greek just the way it's written
in the Bible. And he sits there, "what's this uneducated guy doing, what
he’s doing, he's killing me?" 

	He's shuttering, sitting there in the seat. He knows the man's got to
have God, because how could he do it? He couldn't do it without the Holy
Ghost. So, one day he got to see Bro. Branham, gets to know him, Bro.
Branham loves him. 

	He said, "Dave, I've got a meeting coming up, you come see me."

	So Dave said, "Oh, Bro. Branham, I can't get there till Friday I'm
working."

	He said, "Well, come Friday."

	So, poor old Dave gets his old hat (you know), driving down the road
all night his eyes blurry, all night, here comes the morning, morning
sun coming up. He's trying to adjust eye balls (you know) so he could
see down the road. Trying to clear his head, the gas tank run out by
now, he's coming into town and a Voice said, "Don't stop now." 

	But he said, "My gas tank…"

	He said, "Don't stop now."

	He goes on, he said, "I might not see another station."

	He said, "Don't stop now."

	The tank way down past the marker, there's no gas left it seemed, and
He said, "Pull in here."

	And he pulls into the station, drives up the island, and suddenly a man
opens the door and Bro. Branham said, "Good morning Dave, I've been
waiting for you."  

66.	When have you done that? Brother/sister I'm just trying to breakdown
a barrier. I'm like Paul tonight, beseeching, like son Timothy. Trying
to be a son to Bro. Branham. Because the children, the children of
prophet my brother, my sister, that's who the children are. They're
children of the prophet, children of the Word. I'm trying to show you,
get rid of your thoughts tonight, humble yourself and get down. You say,
"Did you do it Bro. Vayle?" Sure I did, my brain and my mind was
crippled with the prostituted thought. The perverted word, their creeds
and dogmas, anything but a chaste virgin of the Word.

	Do you think I didn't think twice about serpent seed? I believe that
I'm the first man that Bro. Branham ever talked to on that subject. Went
out fishing, (I don’t even fish) he stuck his little old poles in
there, (you know) he took a little old split, like a fork of a branch
(you know) put it there in the soft mud, put the line through and ran
back and forth watching. I ran back and forth listening. 

	We were talking, "What do you think about serpent seed?"

	I said, I don't know, what about it?" 

	He said, "You don't think that Eve ate that apple?"

	I said, "Sure, I think she die."

	"Oh, (he said) no, (he said) God talked to me on that, it was a serpent
that had intercourse with her and brought forth Cain."

	"Well, (I said) I don't think that."

67.	 See, I had a book by Dr, James Wyatt, he said the devil did it.
Very close, but wrong. Right. James Wyatt's wrong. I got the book, I
gave Bro. Branham a copy. It's in his house in Jeff. right now. I
believe it's still in the little old table sitting there where he left
it. (See?)

	I said, "I don't see the necessity of that." I said, "I don't follow
that. The point to me is, it was disobedience, by one man's
disobedience." I said, "That's good enough for me." No matter what it
was as far as I was concerned. (See?) But one day brother/sister there
suddenly something whirled in. Just like years ago when I thought Bro.
Branham was… Bro. Ned said it was just a little bit legal over women's
hair, and their dress. I traveled with him in 1958, I sort of kidded him
about, (you know) these sermons, so one time we went to a church in New
England up in Boston it exactly was, and we knew that this fellow was
not really right according to what he ought to be. (See?)

	So, Bro. Branham said, "I'll fix those guys, they're legalists, but (he
said) I'll preach a sermon to make them think twice." So, he really went
against paint, and powder, and short hair, and slacks, shorts and this
and that. And I tell you, I was sitting there giggling, because I didn't
think it was making any effect. And the next day the preacher picks us
up with two buddies of his and took us to dinner. And Bro. Branham
sitting in the back seat with me and that preacher, he slaps Bro.
Branham, he said, "Bless God Bro. Branham, I want to tell you, our folk
ate that sermon up, why our men don't even shave on Sunday." And I
looked… I held myself in, I could have laughed my head off, and I just
wanted to get Bro. Branham outside and rib him. So, stopped, after
laughing and laughing, we got to the motel later on, I said, "That will
teach you to preach your legalistic sermons." Boy, he put the cap on
your climax, and I laughed and haw, hawed about it. It was such a good
joke see?

68.	 Then one day he told me what, he said, "Sister Vayle, stick around,
you'll let your hair grow." Then one day it began sweeping down, and I
said, "Hold it, hold it, hold it, when did this man so serious and so
great, when could this man say anyone one thing frivolous or tell me one
thing that it was just a little thing, that didn't matter?" 

	And I told my buddy Bro. Dave, my other good friend Ray Wiley, he's not
here, when the prayer meeting went on I said to those men, "Gentlemen,
do you know Bro. Branham like I do?" And when Bro. Branham said, "short
hair is not the Word of God," we know this man is serious, we know he
wouldn't pull trivial things, "it is a must."  I went home and talked to
my wife and she said “I’ll let my hair grow”.  And the women today
let their hair grow brother/sister. (See?) This is absolutely The truth,
the Word of God. (See?) 

69.	Now, going back here, It says, "The Son of man revealed, the sign
spoken against." (See?) The very sign, this man's word, the full
declaration, just exactly as Christ. He had the same sign, the same
ministry, the same miracles. People come to Bro. Branham and say, "Bro.
Branham you've got the power, you've got authority, why don't you use
it?"

	He said, "I've got the authority, but don't have the command." 

	That's what Jesus said. "Cannot not now call presently call twelve
legions of angels?" [Mat. 26-53] But He didn't do it. Why? Didn't have
the command. (See?) The days of the Lord Jesus Christ came back to
earth. And the Bible says at this end time you're going to want to see
those days again, but you'll not see them. You, the world had its
chance. Brother/sister, listen to me, the very signs of this prophet was
the sign of Light. For Jesus distinctly talking about the Light to walk
in It while you had It; said in the Book of John concerning these signs,
He said, "Believe the signs." He said, "Believe the works." He said,
"You don't believe the Words." But He said, "Listen to me, look at these
signs, no man has ever done it."

	It said, from that boy born blind came before the Pharisees, He said,
"Listen you Pharisees, never in the history of the world was a man born
blind made to see." [John 9:32] And that's God's truth, and there never
was till that time a man born blind made to see. And they said, "Who do
you think you are to teach us, you dumb little jerk." 

70.	The very Light of that sign, it was life to them, they wouldn't walk
in that Light. I'm trying to get this tonight. You say, "Bro. Vayle,
I've got some vindication too?" Then if you're looking for vindication
for authority to speak, go to the greatest vindication William Branham.
Then talk what he said. And Jesus said to those men, "Look it here, (He
said) you don't take the light of My Word, then just take a little
light. Look at what I've done, it's never been done before, and it's in
the Word what was being done." Opened the eyes of the blind. What blind?
Even those born blind. Put in new bones, creation, so to speak, create a
bone in there. (See?) Then He said, "If you believe that, you go on in
the Word." 

	You say, "Bro. Vayle, what about you talking about your ministry a
while ago." I'm not kidding you now, I have taken and talk hundreds and
gifts of the Holy Ghost. I've have taken as many as ten couples with ten
people that needed help. And I said, "Now, you pray for each one, and
I'll help you how to discern." Man, I studied the Word and these
Scriptures on this, how to get in this thing. Studied every key,
everything I could get my hands on, everything I'd hear. Trace it, 
watch it, pray, everything else. As fast as I could talk, I could
discern people physically and spiritually. I could take sixty in ninety
minutes, as fast as I could talk. It began to fade when I went to the
Word. And I said, "Bro. Branham, why did it fade? 

	He said, "Because Lee, the day of the gift age is over." It's on tape
brother/sister. Once we knew in part, once we thought in part, once we
had a part, but when that, not Him "but that which is perfect is come."
[1 Cor. 13:10]

71.	The Bible says, "In the days the voice of the seventh messenger,
when He shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be brought to
consummation, and perfection; as God had declared the good news of the
Gospel by His prophets." [Rev 10:7] The Gospel Word should be perfected,
when perfection is come to the Word, restoration, what God started and
God will finish. It said the gifts are gone.

	Why do you need it? Why didn't you put your churches in order? Don't
you want to be a Word Bride, when the Word and the Bride becomes one in
order to approach unto Him, in order to be united with Him? "Then shall
the mighty works should be found in her, which are found in Christ."
What is it? Then those…then that Bro. Branham said, "She has the Word
and knows what to do with It, making It 'Thus saith the Lord'." Thus
saith the Lord, yes in our day, right? What gift is that? No gift, It's
the Word.

	"Wilt thou be made whole." [John 5:6] …?... what gift is that? No
gift at all. It's Word. God veiled once more in men called 'the Bride'.
Say, "Will that empty hospitals?" No sir. Will that turn towns upside
down? No sir. That's for the Bride, total lost to the world, third pull.
See, these days repeat.

 	The days of Noah repeat, but not Noah, the days of Christ repeat, but
not the Lord Jesus Christ in flesh anymore than Noah. But those days
repeat. That makes [Luke 17:] verse 30, "Even thus shall it be in the
day when the Son of man is revealed." What is that, Son of man is a
prophet. That prophet. 

72.	All right, listen, the days of the Son of man repeat by ministry,
ministry of power. Now notice in 1 Thessalonians 4:16, It says, "When
the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, God Himself, will stop in the air, with
the Old Testament saints until the New Testament Bride is caught up."
And then they'll come down to earth in 2 Thessalonians 2:7-10. 

	But remember, in Revelation 10:1-6, He is a Messenger. Right? And His
Message is Himself. He is the Message, and He is revealing Himself. The
Message and the Messenger are one. The Lord amongst His people is
revealing Himself.

	Now notice quoting from Bro. Branham, "After Elijah brought the Word of
the Lord to the widow." After, not before, after Elijah brought the Word
of the Lord to the widow, she could go to the barrel and the cruse, and
get meal and oil every time. Meal represents Christ. That bread
sustained her. It followed Elijah's Word to her. But Elijah's word was
God's Word to her. How could a man say the cruse and oil and the meal
never failed? Only God could do that. That's a miracle. Why, if we could
work miracles, we're God. You can't work a miracle, only God can work a
miracle. 

73.	 Now listen, Elijah's word was God's Word to her. Today, the Bread
of Life follows this Message. It is the Bread of Life that sustain us.
Christ. We are feeding on the Word. It is the children's Bread. It is
Life, It is "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever." [Heb.
13:8] He never appeared to the Gentiles when He was on earth. Then He
was preached to them, and He came by a visitation and spirit upon them.
Now He revealing Himself amongst them.

	The question then might arise, why is He doing this? What is the
necessity? We are told in Malachi 4:5-6,

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

		(6) 	And he shall turn the heart of …the children (back) to (the)
fathers, 					lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

	What condition is the world in to demand a curse, and to bring Him on
the scene? Laodicea. "Men blind, wretched, miserable, naked, but saying
we're well fit, we've got it all." You know, that word in the Greek
'which being rich' means 'full'. The Bible said, "Woe unto you when you
say you're full, for you'll be empty." [Luke 6:25] And you say you don't
need a prophet. You're not Laodicean? 

 	Oh, brother/sister, listen, if you're not in a Laodicean church like
every man, every man woman or child is in the last stage and none
accepted, and how come He said, "Behold, I stand at the door and knock,
and if any man hear My Voice, open the door, I will come in, and sup
with him and he with Me." [Rev. 3:20] What are you going to feed on? The
Word of God, eat his body, drink his blood, so to speak. It's the end
time.

74.	Now, the Book of Revelation tells the condition of the church, as
the Book of Isaiah does. At end time, everything full of vomit. Playing
with little gifts, playing with the gifts. Not knowing that it's the
gifts that bring about the deception. (See?) Because men of ill repute.
The Bible distinctly says in the Book of Matthew here, this is Laodicea
again. Come on, let's go to it. Matthew 24:24. 

		(24) 	…here shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall
shew 						great signs and wonders; …

	We've been accused of being false prophets. And there's not one of my
brethren I know of manifesting in gifts and doing miracles. Yet, the
boys calling thus, are doing miracles. Well, they qualify for false
prophets more than ever was. Oh, come on, wake up you people. Am I
giving you a wrong word? I'm reading the same Bible you're reading. It's
the same King James Version. Read It again to you:

		(24) 	For there shall arise false Christs, …

	Now, the Holy Ghost can't be false, because the Holy Ghost is Christ.
So, it's a man posing as that one. He's false. And It describes you,
because the word in the Greek for 'and' is 'kai', [2532 Strongs] which
should be interpreted as 'even'. 

		(24) 	… there shall arise false Christs, (even lying) prophets, …

	What's a lying prophet? A man that comes without the Word of God, but
he's got a genuine sign and wonder. 

		(24)	…and shall shew great signs and wonders; …

	You say, "Bro. Vayle, they're lying signs and wonders." You're wrong,
It doesn't say that. And the Bible says you put a word in there, you get
the plagues. They're genuine signs and wonders by the Holy Ghost.

		(24)	… insomuch…if it were possible, they shall deceive the very
elect.

75.	Now, what's the elect? Two Greek words, 'ek' and Logos, means called
'out' by the Word. How did you come out by miracles and signs, or did
you go to the Word? What Word? Or what Word?  You know, now listen,
according to the little book the thing that Bro. Kayle(?) gave me
yesterday there's four hundred and thirty-some different denominations
in America, which means literally hundreds and hundreds of different
churches based upon different concepts. And they all say it's the Word
of God. Now, where do you stand tonight brother/sister? You're just one
of them. 

	But we stand tonight in the prophet's Word to the best of our heart, I
want to know what he said. I want a revelation why he said it, and I
want to be that Word for my day. I don't want to deviate, I want every
thought of mine brought right into captivity. Just boom! Put a lock and
chain on it.  My mind begin to wonder, and say, "Well, Bro. Branham said
this, but I don't see it." And I say, "Shut up, you filthy corrupt
mind." 

	"Bro. Vayle, my mind's not corrupt." Hold it bud, the Word of God said
that it is. Paul the apostle said, "What? did the Word of God come out
of you, or did It come out of you? [1 Cor. 14:36]  

76.	 He said, "I'm challenging you, did you bring the Word of God, or
did I bring It?" And he said, "If any man think he's spiritual, or
claims to be a prophet, let him admits to what I say, I've got
commandments of the Lord. [1 Cor. 14:36-37]

 	The Bible says, at the end time distinctly, "He that adds one word
that's spoken, or takes away one word, God will put him in the
tribulation and take his name out of the Book." [Rev. 22:19] There's
only one time God can do that, that's in the Seventh Age, so therefore
God is duty bound to restore this Word to the understanding, and the
hearts of the people absolutely led perfect for the day, or He is
criminal to put a man in the tribulation and take his name off the Book.
That which is perfect has come is the single Word of God revealed. You
can sew this up one million ways brother/sister, just get in the Word.
(Oh, I wish I had time to preach. No, you've been generous enough now,
and you're restless, we'll go home in a minute.)

77.	 Listen, make no mistake about it, God has visited His people. The
first facet, the revealed Message is over. The Lord has descended with a
Shout. God has descended by the prophet's spirit and revealed Himself
amongst us, and is making us ready for the marriage supper of the Lamb.
Garments of the Word have made us ready according to the Book of
Revelation chapter 19:7-9.             

	All right, It says:		

		(7) 	Let us be glad and rejoice ,…	

	Why, Bro. Vayle, the curtains are ringing down, roving crowds are
murmuring. But we're ostracized by the public. They'll eliminate us. Do
you know something told that Africa had one of the greatest move of God
in the world? They had fifty-three Coptic churches in one time. And when
the Muhammadan's came in there, they never even raised a sword to kill
anybody. You've heard this story of the unspeakable Turk, how they
destroyed the Armenians. You've heard stories about how they have been
so dastardly and so terrible, but brother/sister they did not do that at
Africa, they simply took away their rights, to live as it were, as human
beings, amongst human beings, and they destroyed Christianity. And
they'll do the same thing again with their subtle rotten methods. The
curtains are rolling down. Roving bands are killing them. Everything is
going up, (as it were) in congregation.  

78.	Men and women's minds are deserting them. The very thing that Bro.
Branham said, "Women and men will look out and they'll see locust as big
as trees, and they'll see great tremendous things that they wouldn't
believe existed.  And you say, "Bro. Vayle, where is that in Scripture?"
Oh, I'm glad you asked me, because I think I can find It. It says here
in Luke chapter 21:11,

		(11) 	And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines,
and 						pestilences; and fearful (signs)…

	And the fearful signs in the Greek is not confined to the sight, but
things of terror used by Hippocrates, by fearful objects imagined by the
sick. William Branham didn't know that was in the Greek, but God told
him. 

	Now in this day It says, [Revelation 19:]

		(7) 	 … rejoice and be glad…

	I'm going to not defend myself and let my hair down, I'm not happy at
that, I get kind of scared, get a little confused, look around. Say, "Do
you disbelieve this Word?"

	"No, I don't disbelieve, no, I believe It." The pressure do come on,
you get a little nervous, a little jittery at times. But It says, "Don't
do it." Don't do it, nope, "just rejoice and be glad," and get him off. 
In other words don't get your eyes on what condition, I'm starting to
get your eyes and live. Start praising,  

		(7)	 …for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made 	
				herself ready.

		(8) 	And to her was granted that she be arrayed in fine linen, clean
and 						white: …(now, she couldn't have it before, because she's now
getting 					it) for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.

		(9) 	And he (said) unto me, Blessed are they which are called (to) the
						marriage supper of the Lamb. And he (said to) me, These are the 		
			true sayings of God. (See?)

79.	Now listen, according to Christ when He as on earth, (He's taking up
when He said this) when He was on earth He said, "There's going to be
people who'll come to that supper and they'll be cast out. So, it's
going to have to be here on earth. There's something going on here in a
dimension, brother/sister, it's got to be spiritual and we're not
catching it. I don't pretend I am. It's something that Bro. Branham said
he'd talk about and never did. God must have stopped him. Just like he
told us, he couldn't tell us what's coming, or we'd get scared. (See?)
Yes, the Bride makes herself ready. 

	It is this Word, (now listen,) it is this Word ministry that gets the
Bride ready. And when she is ready, and when she is ready the dead can
come out of the ground in their glorified bodies, and the living can be
changed in their bodies, and be just like them, and together they'll be
caught up to meet the Lord in the air with a corporal body. Then they
will sit down at the Wedding Supper for three and a half years.

80.	You say, "Bro. Vayle, where do you get those three and a half years?
Where do you get your seven? Because there is no seven in the Book of
Revelation. Find it out, there's three and a half years. And the Bible
says, after the sixty-two weeks, and the seven weeks, It says, after
that they'll be cut off. So therefore, it's in the seventieth week that
Christ is cutoff. So, the brother…the prophet was right, it's three
and a half years.

	Glory to God, I waited years to get that one. Till one day he did what
he always does, he said, "Just go back to the Book where it is, so go
look, look, look, look, look." And It said, "after." So, sixty-two went
by, and seven went by, and all there's left is one. Say, "We should have
seen that."

	No, it's not give to us to see, the prophet does it. But you believe
the prophet, and God will show you. Yeah, I was so steeped in the saints
being through the tribulation, I couldn't see it. I'm going to let you
know in my own belief, I wasn't excoriating you tonight, I'm just
preaching tough to sort of jar  you. I'm not here as though Bro. Vayle
believes everything, bless God, he's got it made. Because he's got
trouble, he's got time too.

	And after Bro. Branham preached the Seals, I was so steeped in the fact
to what I believed the saints went through the tribulation, because I
got mixed up on trumpets and all. And even Daddy Bosworth's teaching was
wrong. (See?) And I followed some of his, and so I couldn't get it
through my head. 

81.	And I went to Bro. Branham, we talked and talked, and the more he
talked, the more confused I got. And the more confused I got, the more
anxious I got to get it from him. The more…how he looked, disappointed
in me and sore. See, he looked kind of sad. Like I was, (you know)
doubting him and of mean you know. And I felt terrible.

	I said, "Bro. Branham, I'm not arguing, I just don't understand, but
could you help me a little further?" 

	He said, "What is it?"

	I said, "I don't want to be insulting or anything, but just could you
do one thing?"

	He said, "Yeah…"

	I said, "Look, just to help me, is it 'Thus saith the Lord' that's
there's no tribulation for the Bride, she goes up before."

	He said, "Lee, that is 'Thus saith the Lord." 

	I said, "Thank you Bro. Branham, I'll find it now in the Word." 

	Then here I was all covered over with this corruption, my mind
corrupted. And I was a corrupt person then, I was no chaste person in
the Word. So, I go to the Bible and I said, "Lord, I know now what the
score it, now show me." And from then on, just bang, bang, bang, Word
after Word. Today I'll challenge any man living.

	You say, "Well now, you just turned around."

	Oh, bless God, that's conversion honey. That's repentance. I've done
repenting. I just want to show you one thing tonight brother/sister. The
theologians are wrong. The fundamentalists are wrong. There are not two
phases coming, there are three. And He must descend by the Pillar of
Fire and reveal Himself by the Word, so we can see Him as He is. That we
can put on that garment and be changed, so they'll come out of the
graves and bring about the Resurrection, or else, all He can do is come
with a curse.

82.	And brother/sister, listen, the Rapture ain't no curse, for there's
no Rapture, and there's no Resurrection, there's just the general
resurrection and judgment. Do you want that to happen? No. Then O God,
bring forth Elijah. Too late, I don't have to pray, He already came for.
He revealed God. God revealed Himself, but he had to use the skin. He
had to take that unseen Spirit and veil him in 'Spoken Word'. then the
Spoken Word came into this mind to uncorrupt it. Let the Holy Ghost
bring it down to you. And don't strive, and don't fuss about it. Just
believe it, just accept it. Because if God isn't big enough to do it,
you'll never do it yourself. I'm depending tonight brother/sister on one
thing, and that is, the Blood has gone to the Word.

	Let the Lamb leave the Mercy Seat. What was there before He got on? Let
the Lamb leave the Mercy Seat, let the Blood go to the Word. Let me and
you as a Bride member become one with that Word. For there are three in
Heaven, the Father, the Son and the Word. Let there be three here little
one, not agree, but are one, the Word, (see?) and the Spirit and the
person. Let them now come forth, that manifested Word, where God
manifested Himself for the last time on earth to that Bride. And he
which hindereth will hinder till the last minute, take it off the earth,
then let Him come down.

83. Say, "Bro. Vayle, why do people always talk about God being revealed
in Bro. Branham? Why do they always place him with God?"

	Brother/sister, listen to me, there was a man called 'Judas', it that
right? In John 6:70, Jesus said, "One of you is a devil." That's wrong,
He didn't say that at all. He did not, I challenge the King James
Version, they got it wrong. He said, "One of you is 'the' devil. One of
you is 'diabolos'." 

	Now listen, was Judas the devil? He certainly was not. Judas was not
the devil. He had a devil in him. But you know, when he took that sop
Jesus gave him, that other devil went out, and the devil went into him.
William Branham was not God. No siree. But when William Branham thoughts
all went out, and the Word of God descended in that man by the Holy
Ghost, you were no longer dealing with a man, and you were dealing with
God.

	William Branham is gone, that same Word has gone back to where It came
from. It was sown here, in a literal Word that came to our minds. And
now that Spirit will bring all things to our remembrance, and the Holy
Ghost for the first time has been loosed in two thousand years from its
creeds and the dogmas that bound it, 'The Feast of the Trumpets'. 

84.	The Word of God which we have seen in power is now being seen is
revelation. And as we saw God in a man, so before this Bride goes, the
world will see God in a Bride. It'll be the manifested Word. I want to
be a part of that. I don't know, he told us to believe It, and say we
were. And He said, "If you love me obey My Commandants." [John 14:15] 

	People in the world are going around with the false doctrines and
dogmas, and they're so happy, they're on top of the world, and they act
like they had the great revelation that we've got, and they don't have
it. It's time to do what the prophet said to stand up and believe him.
And when those Seals were opened we saw our names in that Book of Life,
which was the Word, the laud Word of God. We saw ourselves as a part of
that Word.

	You say, "Bro. Vayle, how's that?" Because there's a man called John
the Baptist. 

	And they said, "Who are you?"

	And he said, "I'm that Word of Isaiah 40: and Malachi 3: and a little
bit of 4:5, I'm that Word come to life, clothed in flesh." 

85.	Who are we? We're that same Word, the prophet uttered, clothed in
flesh. Just as God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. God
said, "Let there be a messenger," there was a messenger. As God said,
"Let there be Revelation 10:7," there was Revelation 10:7. As God said,
"Let there be a Bride who shall not see death," but we'll all be
changed. "Let there be," and there will be. 

	Now, let's stand up and say believing, the prophet obeying Him, I'm
part of that. You say, "Why Bro. Vayle?" Because you're a child of
Abraham, you're following his steps. And God said to Abraham, "See, I
have made you a father of nations, and I will multiply you." He said,
"From now on don't you dare ever call yourself Abram again, because
you're Abraham." See, from now on don't you ever call yourself church,
call yourself Bride. Amen. Don't you ever say opposite what the prophet
said, you say what he said. That's why he said, "You might not
understand, therefore don't try to figure it, just say what I said." You
follow me? 

	Well, I've said enough. Maybe said too much, let's bow our heads in
prayer. Maybe we just all arise shall we while we're at it. We'll be
able to dismiss and go home, we sing "Walk in the Light."

	Gracious Eternal God, as we stand here bowed in Your Presence, I want
to first of all ask Your forgiveness, Lord. If I've said anything, Lord,
that I shouldn't have said, I'm not too worried about that. I do get a
little worried, Lord, and sometimes more than a little worried that I've
said in such a way I've oft not to have said it. But, O God, tonight
except You build a house they labor in vain that build it, except You,
Lord God, would absolutely watch the city. They watch, but in vain. And,
Lord God, as there are many vessels of different kinds, they could be
vessels of honor, and yet so many times. I'm praying tonight, and hoping
against hope, O God, that people will understand a rough manner, and
understand that I'm human. Praying for me, Lord, I won't be quite as
human as I am, getting more and more into line, even as I pray for them.

	Thank you, Lord, for good fellowship and spirit, and above all, Lord, a
good understanding    of the Word, because if anything It's going to
bring us back to a deep revelation, and a deep positioning. It's going
to be that creative Word which we've had tonight, Lord, not by me saying
  it, but taking what the prophet said. 

	So, our Father, tonight we pray for everyone here tonight in Divine
Presence. Our heads our bowed, our eyes are closed, I feel constrained
tonight just to say to you people, is there someone here say, "Bro.
Vayle, I've raised my mind against the prophet. I've raised my heart
against it. But before God tonight I repent. I want the people to pray
for me, I'm going to give my whole mind over to the Word of God, just
the way Paul said, "lest Satan come in and beguile me." Lest this 
corruptible thing still keep its corruption, because I know it's got to
put on incorruptibility. I know it's got to do, but Bro. Vayle, I've had
a struggle."

	It isn't, I'm not talking to you who believe it, and don't understand
it. I'm talking to you who have resolved…actually kept to yourself and
said, "Well, I don’t have to believe it all, he could have made a
mistake." I'm talking you, is there someone? Thank you, anybody else?
Raise your hands I want to pray for you. That's a good spirit. Thank
you, anybody else? I want to pray for you. We're going to pray together.
This is what really counts brother/sister. There's got to be a restored
Word, God said so. And if the Word is not restored, …

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