Scriptural Chronology Preliminary done - needs final proofing Bro. Lee Vayle - April 20, 1980 Heavenly Father, we again thank You for the privilege of being in Your house, Lord. We are in the last age wherein that has happened. Which has not happened since the beginning, it is not only God in the people, and God above the people, but God Himself, with the people. And, Lord, we thank You for that at this hour, so we can walk in the assurance, of the power of God. Especially to reveal the Word to us, and help us that we might have greater assurance, then we have ever had before. So, Lord, be with mouths and ears we pray, and anoint our hearts together, and we carefully give you the praise in Jesus’ Name. Amen. You may be seated. Now, I really didn’t intend to get up here, and I’m not one to want to be coaxed. I’m too much like the old fire horse anyway, he gets too old to answer the …pull the fire engine every time he heard fire bell rings he struggled to pick up his heels. And I guess I’ve preached for so many years, and believe this Message, …that whether I got anything to say or not, I like (you know) to say it. 1. Now, this morning the message is going to deal with ‘Scriptural chronology’, of the hour as seen in the beginning of the First Church Age. Now, I don’t know there’s most of you sitting here, perhaps have never heard the message, ‘Alpha and Omega’ which I preached I suppose eight, nine years ago. And it would be wise for you to get the tape, unless I were to preach it again. Because it shows you that everything that happened, must happen again. There is nothing that has not already been done, but must be done again. We took It from Genesis clean to Revelation. And in the Book of Revelation, that is one of the strong points, that God reveals concerning Himself, “I Am Alpha and Omega”. He does not say anything, “I Am what goes in between,” as Bro Branham explains, our alpha is the alphabet ‘a’, and omega, letter ‘z’. In other words, I AM all of it. My expression was that if I abort, has two ends, and if it’s got two ends, it’s got a middle. So, the dimensions are always concerning the ends. And what is from end to end, of course, lies there before you. And Bro. Branham said that, “It’s not so much what’s in between, it’s what’s at the end.” And you’ve got to watch, so if we go to beginning, we’ve got to then automatically find an ending. 2. And if the Alpha is Omega, then the end will be identical to the beginning. Such as in the Resurrection. If Jesus Christ is the first-fruit which is Alpha, the Omega must be every single resurrected person, that’s in the image of Jesus Christ, in the first Resurrection. That’s why there’s two parts to the First Resurrection. Jesus came out of the graves, and the dead bodies followed Him. They weren’t dead any longer. And now, the same thing happens that the Scripture says, God will bring forth, with Jesus. That Jesus must be brought forth, placed at the head of the Church, in order to bring forth the dead. It’s the same as the Pillar of Fire that came to bring the Word of God to the apostle. If he is Omega, the Pillar of Fire has to occur again. I don’t care what anybody says. That there's no way you can get away from it. One of the secrets of the Bible, is understanding that Alpha is Omega. Now, what we’re going to do this morning in …and I hope I can do it quickly…to get some points across. Not take too long, because we’re going to need several chapters literally, and I won’t cover them all, is we’re going to go to 1 Corinthians 11: Now, I want you to see a Scripture here, (1) Be followers of me, even as I also am of Christ. I challenge you, show me one minister that dares to make that statement, and I’ll confine his soul to hell, because he’s a liar. Now, go ahead. We’ve got folk that come in and argue about this Message. Show me a preacher. Show me one man that has the spiritual fortitude, and the ability to stand up and make that statement. How do you know you’re following Christ? I can prove this morning that some of your best intentions have been…pptt. Some of the things that you thought were your finest moment were your rottenest. Just like a lot of marriages. You thought that was your crowning day. That’s the day they should’ve have buried you. That’s why I preach funeral sermons, and never marry anybody, because, the dead don’t come back and complain. [laughter] But the living, do. (1) Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ. 3. Now, Paul must have known something. And he wasn’t putting this in the superlative, ‘that I am a man that never makes a mistake. I’m a man who is infallible within myself.’ He was telling them that he knew how to go to God for every answer. And he could set the church right. Now you show me a group of men, I don’t care how smart they are, how anointed they are, how powerful they are. You let them go them go the other, … let alone one man…and the more, the worse it gets, and can say here, “I can get answers.” Now, if that’s Alpha, there’s got to be an Omega. I don’t care what anybody says. If the First Church Age had an apostle, had a man that was so anointed, so directly in touch, by the lip to the ear, so that he could say, "If any man thinks he’s a prophet, or spiritual, let him admit to what I say is the commandment of God." [1 Cor 14:37] 4. That’s what we’re talking about, because Paul as a man was fallible. After writing the 1 Corinthians, chapter 13 on love, he was so upset about the circumcising bunch of backsliders, that he blew his lid. That’s fine, holy indignation is fine. I’m all for it. I can get madder than a firecracker, and prove I’m right, because God will make the wrath of man to praise Him. I’ve been led by my own inner angers many times, to do exactly the will of Almighty God. Because God is bigger than I am, bigger than you. But I can’t stand here and say, “Look, I’ve got the answers.” This man could stand here and say, “I have got the answers.” [raps on the pulpit] But we’ve had a man, William Branham stand in that pulpit, and he said, “If I tell you a lie, I’m a hypocrite.” And I saw the man that the a bunch from Lima went down for, because I stood in the vision because of ‘Joe Henga’. Who stood in the pulpit, and he said, “I’d tell a lie, I’m a hypocrite.” As though he were a prophet, let me tell you flat. If I tell you a lie, I am honestly mistaken. William Branham said, “I can get to God, and I can get an answer. And if I come back and tell you different, then, I am a hypocrite.” Because he would be a hypocrite. I’m an angry preacher, you can tell. I’m fed up to here…with all the nonsense. Well, they got mad because I mentioned names. I don’t care. Don’t like names, get out now, before we’re finished. Let me tell you something flat. 5. When God sent me to Covington [Indiana], which is where this work started. [raps on the pulpit] It was on one basis, I found it. I don’t take any leadership here, because I am not pastor. I keep my hands off, I don’t want one penny or money. But let me tell you, I stood before the Charismatics, I could’ve had the whole bunch in my hand, and I said, “If God doesn’t do something, nothing will be done.” Not knowing I’d take two people down to Jeffersonville, where Bro. Branham was, introduce them to the prophet, and the Word of Almighty God, and that’s where that Word came from. Let me tell you flat, I don’t care who you are this morning…I have no respect for you, as an individual, against this Word of Almighty God. If you line with It, you’re just as perfect as Almighty God, you are Bride. The day will come when you’ll say, “I am one with the Father. And the shuck will fall away.” Because that’s what the early church had. And he said, “Be followers of me.” In other words, there was one man that you could look to and get an answer. But he was fallible within himself. He had his passions, he had his tempers. He even went so far as to tell the men, if they couldn’t contain themselves, go and get married. My God, if that’s all you got married for…was sex...which is not bad in itself. You’d have a pretty lousy marriage. But he himself said, “I don’t need women, I’ve got my gift.” He never stood there claiming anything himself, but he stood there claiming something that no other man could claim. So, he said, “If any man think himself a Spiritual prophet, let him admit what I say is the commandment of Almighty God.” He meant what he said. 6. Now, let’s go back to the Book of [1 Corinthians… [correction] Well first let me read verse 2. (2) Now I praise you, brethren, that (you) remember me in all things, and keep the (commandments) as I delivered them to you. That’s now, verse 2 explains what I said about verse 1. (1) Be (you) followers of me, … as I (give the commandments that God gave.) That’s exactly how the pastor rules in the church. He rules by the Word of God. And then when he gives the Word of God, some of you folk are dumb enough to think you might be Nicolaitan. I want to check it out this morning, I heard little whispers that you think your pastor is Nicolaitan. Me…yeah…to be Nicolaitan, you’ve got to have several men in a hierarchy. One man forms a dictatorship. Haven’t got your language right. If I cut your heads off, I’m sorry for you. But listen, you better smarten up, it’s getting late in the day. It’s getting late in the day. Ain’t no man ever going to hit this pulpit that’s perfect. Don’t think that for one minute. There’s a judging Word here. And I would hate to judge Paul, so looking at the man. He had no more authority than nothing. He had no more than nothing. He said, “I come to you in weakness, I come to you in trembling.” He said, “I look like an ape, and I walk like an ape. I don’t have a thing in myself.” And he didn’t. He said, “My speech is rotten, (he said) I’m such a kind of a guy who you wouldn’t even listen to.” But he said, “I want you to know something, and that’s the Pillar of Fire, face to face.” And he said, “I delivered those ordinances to you, and you walk in those ordinances.” Now, the preacher is not above the ordinances. But he’s fallible. And Paul was fallible. Paul made boo boos. Don’t worry, he sure did, he got in a fight with Peter. Bro Branham said, “You can disagree bitterly with anybody over doctrine, but you’ve got to love him.” 7. Why did they pull out of the church here over church order for over forty-five minutes? And Bro. Branham distinctly said, “I broke my own law.” He didn’t say God’s law. Huh? He said, “Boy Vayle, you should’ve brought your notes.” I should have, instead of just preaching off the cuff. At least just gave me a chance to throw in everything I wanted to throw in. Either out the window, or in the window. Acts 3: this is the Bible, not me, I’ve got nothing to do with the Bible. I preach It. I even hate myself for preaching It. It says here, at the end-time, verse 21. (21) Whom the heaven must (retain) until the (restoration) of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began. Restoration of what? Restoration of what the prophet said. Some people got an idea, God’s going to restore every single thing that was ever said back through the ages. All right, then bring up Tyre and Sidon. Bring up Sodom and Gomorrah. It’s the Word that gets restored. Ned Iverson was on an airplane with Billy Graham; introduced himself, because Billy knew his dad, Dr. Dan Iverson. The man that wrote that song about the Holy Spirit. As he talked to Billy, he said, “Billy, there’s just one thing” he said, “That hasn’t happened. the Word hasn’t been restored.” And Billy said, “You’re right.” That’s a…Billy Graham’s no authority as far as that’s concerned, where’s his vindication? The prophet was correct, when he said, “That you could win a whole nation to Jesus Christ, and win them all wrong.” 8. The Word of God distinctly says in Peter, you could be born of the wrong seed. “Being born of the incorruptible, not of the corruptible.” [1 Pet 1:23] Now, he said, being born again, he wasn’t talking about a man, who was born in the flesh of corruptible seed which all dies. He said, being born again. So, Billy says all right, “I come to a city and thirty thousand are saved. I come back in two years, ain’t nobody there.” They were born again, but wrong seed. How can a man leave Christ if you’re born again? You’re indissolubly joined to Him, you have become amalgamated. You’ve become unionized, you've been poured into one vessel. He’s been immersed in us, and we immersed in Him. Who’s going to lose the other? That’s just technical talk, I’m giving you, it’s not even spiritualize. That’s technical language, absolutely. Technical, mechanical, that’s what happened. You say Bro. Vayle, I just don’t feel, He’s poured into me, I’m poured into Him. Who cares about your feelings? What’s your feeling got to do with God? What’s my feelings got to do with God? Go by feelings, you go crazy. “I praise you brethren.” Now, now he said, "these ordinances here, at the end-time." It says here, (I read it to you) just begore Jesus Christ comes, it says here, “(The heavens will retain Him, until there’s a restoration).” [Acts 3:21] And that restoration started under Luther, even the historians got that correct. But he said, “At that age, you’re loving a name that’s dead.” And at the end-time, he said, “It’s going to be so rotten, Christ will be knocking at the church trying to get back into it.” But “at the evening time there shall be light.” [Zech 14:7] There’s only one light. 9 And that’s the light of Matthew 24: don’t ever forget this as long as you live. This is part of the Parousia. (27) For as the lightening cometh, ...(That word is a bright, not as lightening, zap, zap across the sky, it’s as a bright and burning lamp, intensely burning, comes,) out of the east, and (shines) even unto the west; so shall also the (Presence) of the Son of man be. Christ once more will blaze forth at the end-time, as a Light. Now, what’s the Light at the end? What the Word of Almighty God, always has been. "Thy Word is a lamp unto my path, a light unto my feet." [Ps 119:105] "I’m the light of the world. He that believeth in Me, shall not walk in darkness." [Jn 8:12] "Follow me, as I follow Christ." [1 Cor 11:1] That’s Alpha, there’s got to be an Omega. Now listen, let’s watch. "But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God. [ 1 Cor. 11:3] 10. He’s setting the church in order, the Bride relationship. The first thing here, if you’re going to follow me according to ordinances, you’ve got to set the church in order, and church order came under the Thunders. Bro. Branham said so obliquely, in 'Christ is the Mystery of God Revealed ' 63-07-28]. He said, the woman is under the man. Now this morning, I want to know, how many women are under the men this morning? Now, the next thing is, how much under the men? To the degree that the man is under Christ. Now they tell me over there, several years back now in the suburbs, when people moved out of the major portion of the city, they got nice homes outside, they couldn’t make a living, couldn’t keep the payments, so, many women outside of Boston, and various places in America, literally became prostitutes or call girls, to make money. And the husbands sanctioned it. He is no head of nothing. And any man that would want his wife to do anything immoral, or anything which was not pleasing to Jesus Christ, she could not listen to him for five seconds. And that same rotten thing that’s got incest into the homes, until the thing that’s kept under cover, most in America, and is now putting its head out... (Gene mentioned that this morning, but, I’ve already read some articles on it) is incest. At one time it was a joke, as that ‘incest is alright, as long as you keep it in the family’. But it’s not a joke anymore, because it’s right there. You say, “Men are standing for it.” Yes, men are standing for it. Shows how rotten they are. How could a woman follow a man like that? 11. The same man that said, “Be ye followers of me as I am … of Christ.” [1 Cor 11:1] Setting the ordinances in the church, would now ask some woman to follow a man that doesn’t follow the ordinances? So, I told my wife, after I went back preaching, disobeying God for many years, …and I still don’t like preaching, the fact is, just to preach. Too tough a life, I like a nice easy life. I said, “If I ever get disobedient to God, and want you to turn aside, you follow God. Don’t you dare, follow me.” And Bro. Branham said, “Any woman, or any man, that would deny his partner the right to pray, to read that Bible, to fellowship in a godly church. You’ve got to split.” Now, when I hit women, I come to their defense at the same time. Because this is not a man’s church, and it’s not a woman’s church. It’s Christ’s Church. Now, [ 1 Corinthians 11:] (3) … the head of every man is Christ … and the head of Christ is God. Speak in terms now of not just the Logos here, we speak in terms…because the Logos did come out of God. but we speak in terms of Christ the man. And we’re speaking to men and women, and Paul was speaking as a man here. There's only one way that he could literally follow Jesus, because He was… later on I’ll show you that I saw Him as one God, born out of due season. There was only one way he could have followed Him, that was through the Pillar of Fire, and he said, “Who are You?” And the Pillar of Fire struck him down and said, “I am Jesus.” “Who are you Lord?” He said, “I am Jesus.” 12. Now, every man praying or prophesying having his head covered, dishonours his head. Now, you can say what you want about that, that has to do with hair, long hair and short hair. But it also has the connotation here that any man doesn’t come into subjection to the Word, he’s got his head covered from It. Doesn’t want to come under…he’s disobedient, and disobeys God. The same as a woman cutting her hair, doesn’t want to come under the authority of the man. Now, we’re speaking in terms mostly here of the Bride. See? Now, he is placing the Bride and the husband, as the Husband which is the Word, in this particular portion, here. See? Now, and he says in verse 16, (16) But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, … In other words, women cannot cut their hair, period. So, the same thing holds here, there is no authority outside of the Word. Now, little church meetings, men like to come together, and superimpose what they think might be the right thing, or a good thing. For heaven sake, go to the Word and find out! And until you can find out, sit still. See? That’s what’s wrong, people jump here and jump there. The thing to do, is sit still until we find out. Fellow went to Bro. Branham one day, he said, “Bro. Branham, I feel like I got a call to do so and so.” Bro. Branham said, “God be with you, go on your way.” Yeah, but he said, “Another little feeling down deeper inside, and it says, ‘I ought to sit still and really wait.’” he said, “because I’m not really sure, a hundred percent.” 13. He said, “Now, you’ve got it.” Now you’ve got it. How many of you folk are just nervous this morning, you want to be on your way, and can’t sit still? Oh, it’s tough baby, it’s tough. It’s tough. There’s nothing outside the Word. Because Paul said, “Look, (he said) I’ve been anointed to It, I’ve set It in order.” I’m not standing here to say that Paul is a paragon of virtue, you couldn’t put your finger on him. We’ve got the same thing at the end-time. As Paul was born in sin, we’ve had a prophet born in sin. Now, you can take this Message, and pervert it all you want. Doesn’t bug me any. Because I know the truth of It. I know that William Branham was just an ordinary man, with an extraordinary gift. And a God that manifested Himself, in the Pillar of Fire at the end-time, has spoke to him, same as He could speak to Paul. So that he could say the same One in a Pillar of Fire, that gave the Book, is revealing the Book. And He would have to be of Alpha is Omega. There would have to be a time, I know people don’t want to believe this, because their minds were clouded by denominations. But Alpha is Omega. You tell me where the Omega is. Where is it? When’s it going to come? I want to know. Don’t talk to me about Baptist, Presbyterian, and Methodist, Pentecost, Trinity and this and that. Talk to me about the Bible. At the end-time He said, “I am Alpha, and Omega.” [Rev 22:13] 14. Go back and check the beginning. Is it here now? I brought out those verses in Scripture, and showed you where it says, “…this thing was not done in a corner.” [Acts 26:26] That’s what Paul said. And the Scripture distinctly said... I read over there in Luke, the words of the prophet, mentioning how this was done before all men. In other words, there was nothing done that was not done openly, and proven, and went ...?... And when Herod found out that the wise men came to worship Him, he said, “Let’s get Him.” When the whole city was stirred by angels, they forgot it. In thirty years down the road, when they said, “This man has got to be a great man, a great prophet, at least.” They sneered, and they said, “Well, show me where any prophet came out of Galilee.” Why don’t they trace His genealogy back? Remember the records of Herod, when those wise men came. He’s born in Bethlehem, of Judea. That’s not in Galilee, that’s Judea. It was too convenient to throw away the record. Was too convenient to throw it out the window. I would to God, someone like Jess Stern, write a book about Bro. Branham, put it around the world, open people’s eyes. Not eulogizing a man. But let’s face it. If I talk about you as being born again, a part of Jesus Christ, I’m eulogizing you. I’m giving you an honour that you don’t deserve, and I’m giving you an honour you can’t have, unless God gave it to you. Because there’s nothing anyone can infer upon anybody, it’s what God does. We’re not born of man with a will of the flesh, or some will of …?... he was born again by the will of God. See? 15. Now, He says here, [1 Corinthians 11:] (17) (And) this that I declare...I praise you not, that (you) come together not for the better, but for the worse. (There are divisions among you.) Divisions at the time of the revealed, perfect Word. Yes! Even tried to make Paul a god. Tried it with Barnabas, tried to make him a god. And at the end-time John finds himself in the Book of Revelation, falling down to worship a prophet. And I hear in Jeffersonville, a certain person bowed his knee to another certain person, because he’s a prophet. You say, “Bro. Vayle, what kind of a mess is this Message?” Perfect with God. We’re at the end-time. We are at the end where the fulness of sin and deceit comes to its’ absolute peak. "Let him that is unrighteous be unrighteous still, it’s gone. Let him that is wicked, be wicked still. But let him that is holy, be holy still." [Rev 22:11] And He’s not talking about Jesus. He’s talking about a Bride. I don’t care brother/sister, if you fall in a gutter, and come out smelling like a rose. If you're a Christian, it won’t adhere to you. You mean to tell me, if you’re in a gutter…come out of a stinking gutter of this world, …you’re going to smell like this stinking world? No, not when you’ve got the balm of Gilead on you, and the garments filled with myrrh, and the smell of the rose of Sharon. I don’t care if this Message becomes an abomination around the world. I told you, I got a letter from Caracas Venezuela, and they said, “Oh my God, is this place is full of cults, and the worst of them all is the Branham cult.” That doesn’t bug me one little bit. I don’t care if it gets ten times worse. 16. It says right here, “At the time of apostolic authority, there were divisions.” Alpha is Omega. You’re going to have divisions. But in it there’s a pure Word. The women got to rebelling first, because they can’t stand male authority. Equal rights amendments, have come to the church. And some of you women still wear your skirts, just to where you shouldn’t wear it. And you can’t be told anything. Do you know what the Bible calls you? Find out for yourself, I’m not going to be too crude, too rude this morning. I want to be nice and sweet, got folk from the old country. If that can make me nice and sweet, the Blood of Jesus failed, I’ll tell you that. Ain’t nothing that’s going to make me nice and sweet, it’s impossible. Look at the grace that Paul had partly believed. What a sweet fellow there. Now, he said here, it’s manifest … When you come together, everyone taketh before his own supper. In the days of Paul, they hodgepodge the Message. Some, took this part, some took that part. In our day, Alpha is Omega, they are going to do the same thing. There going to do the thing I’ve screamed about all my life, and have been called the filthiest names under high heaven; by a man that’s supposed to be my brother, wrote a letter about me. Because I dared to say, “Don’t you take quote, quote, quote, and fight by quote, quote, quote.” Know the doctrine! Well, the same guy had fire at his feet. And the Pillar of Fire stands on a man’s feet, then he’s bigger than God, so that shows what he is. His own picture he sent out. Showed what he was. Well come on. Smarten up. See? 17. Divisions. Divisions. People want a certain portion of the Word. Bro. Branham said, “That’s where Eve failed. She didn’t want one Word. They added a word, and that did the whole messed up thing.” That’s why you’ve got a mess today. People don’t want to believe the Seven Thunders, they don’t want to believe the Capstone is down. They want to believe the Capstone is up. They’ve still got the picture on the wall. The Headstone, way up here, and a space in between. How can you have a space in between when the Capstone is down? You leave a space in there, anything can take place. That’s why Europe’s such a mess, with Junior Jackson running over there, with his church order all out of order. Refused to put the church order in. See? Paul said, “Now, haven’t you houses to eat and drink in?” He said, [1 Corinthians 11:] (23) …I have received of the Lord, (that which I have) delivered (unto you.) Do you know that Paul didn’t know one thing about the rites of the Lord’s Supper, foot wash? Do you know he got It direct from God? Nobody came by and told him anything. Because the Word of the Lord, comes to the prophet. We didn’t have a prophet who had to search through the Bible to find things out. We had a prophet, the Word of the Lord came to, then he went to the Bible. To make sure the Spirit that was talking was exactly right. And It checked out. Then, he goes on to say that, (30) … (There are many) weak and sickly among you. (31) For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. Now, how in the world are you going to judge yourself? There’s only one way anyone can judge himself, and that’s by the Word, because you and I cannot do otherwise. 18. Let’s go over here to the Book of Hebrews 4: (I’m sorry) my preaching too mean? I don’t mean to be. I’m just angry, because of what goes on, and I just spew it out. I’m sorry. I just get so fed up with people not believing the true and living God, and Him amongst us. And trying to put honour on some man, or some men or something, when look, brother/sister, if we take billions of years to begin to see to start to praise Him. And don’t tell me, we’re going to start praising Him then, if we’re ignoring Him here. What kind of a marriage is it, when the wife ignores the husband? I’ll tell you what it ends in. Divorce. I had a good friend up in Canada, Arnie Perry, sweet, a real fine boy. The mother-in-law came to live with them, she had a chance to marry a real nice rich man, a widower like he was a widow. Oh she, wouldn’t move out, the daughter kept her there. In such a small house, it wore on Arnie’s nerves, more and more and more. He wasn’t looking to go with women, he didn’t go with women. And one day he told her, “It’s all over.” “Oh, I’ll change.” He said, “Look, how can I fall back in love, I’ve fallen out?” They had a divorce. 2 Thessalonians speaks of a divorce. Matthew 25: says “I used to know you as my wife, but I don’t know you as my wife any longer.” See? 19. Now, It says here, [Hebrews 4:] (12) For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (13) Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: … That’s the judge, and that’s Christ, the judging Word. Notice, the church goes from the Word of God, to the word ‘His’. Showing you that Bro. Branham was correct, “Christ the Word.” And do you know something? I’ve got the books, and I can show you, that only in the First Church Age, did they use the word; ‘Logos’ continually. And the word, ‘Logos’ never came back in fashion, and is unto this day, really, until Bro. Branham preached It. Then pick up ‘Christianity Today’ Ray. After Bro. Branham came on the scene, it was Logos, Logos, Logos. But, not before. I’ve got the books, I’m not kidding. I’ve got the history books, I have got the text books, wasn’t there. Do you know why? Because at the end-time, He’s got to be Omega because, His Name is called, ‘The Word of God’. See? [John 1:] (14) And the Word (became) flesh, and dwelt among us, (and the Bible gives you the clue as to the Word, as to what the flesh of Jesus is at the last is. It says) …the only begotten of the Father,… Who is in the bosom, has exegesised. Thoroughly, brought Him into view by words. The flesh of the Holy Ghost today, is the Word. Then, don’t make it William Branham. William Branham’s a prophet, but he ain’t God. Fine man, but he needed a Savior, and he’s dead. Couldn’t take God, …listen,...if God had to raise Jesus, my Christ, William Branham will stay there for eternity, unless God raises him. Because only Jesus had the authority to lay down his life, when Bro. Branham was taken from... The judge. 20. Paul says here, [1 Corinthians 11:] (31) For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. (32) But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned … Now, doesn’t that sound exactly as chapter 3 of Revelation, over here. (19) As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. Why? Because, they were judging wrong. (17) Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not (you're) wretched, and miserable, and poor, and (naked), and (blind): A fellow in Europe got into adultery, said the same thing to his girlfriend to get her messed up. Oh well he said, “A quarter of a million dollars a year is coming in, and we must be okay, because we’re blessed of God.” And he talked polygamy. Then why didn’t he marry the girl and take her into his home? He had her in his home without the benefit of marriage. I know the girl, she was pretty smart and proud back in Canada. She talked about the sword in Germany, and the Pillar of Fire, and everything else and the gifts operating on the floor, and how great God was, while living in adultery. Don’t come to me that way! I’ll smell it a million miles off. Spiritual adultery, goes into physical. There’s got to be a manifestation. 21. That’s why there’s incest today. Not so bad,… worse than Sodom and Gomorrah. I’m not against sex, I’m all for it. The bed’s undefiled, if you’re married. I’ll clip you right where it belongs, I’m not afraid to talk anything, in the pulpit. The prophet got a little bit misunder- standing me one day about it. And you know how my nature is, I can put on a sort of a…you know what I’m like. The prophet knew what I was like. And I was grumping. That’s the word…I was grumping, and I was grumping about sex. Because it’s you know, it’s on every billboard, it’s everywhere. And he thought I was grumping about the fact that I was maybe enjoying it. He said, “That’s okay Lee, you can do it as often as you want,” He said, “You’re married.” I said, “Bro. Branham, I wasn’t talking about me and my sex life. I was talking about the fact, what’s a refrigerator got to do with a naked woman. or a car?” Now, I’m not against nakedness in the home, when you’re married. I’m not against it. Let’s get that into your minds now, I am not Puritanical. Neither am I Satanical. What you do according to Scripture is legitimate. Let’s get this straight, I’m not going to go a million miles every which way. Which I don’t care two bits, if I go up and down, or inside out. Let me tell you this flat. Many a man come home and a woman plead a headache. Her husband’s, got a right to her. Headache’s maybe just a gag, or something else. On the other hand, a woman may desire the man, and he can’t walk out on her, with the boys. Ha. ja, how do you like that one? Well, you say, “It’s up to the man.” It ain’t up to the man. The Scripture said so. You better learn to be compatible. 22. And also, let’s tell the women flat;iIt’s very flattering to a man, the husband that is, if he feels that she wants him. You say, “Bro. Vayle, why are you talking this way?” Because the Church has a man called ‘Jesus,’ the husband, and He’s been wanting Spiritual intercourse to bring forth Spiritual children. And He hasn’t got it. That’s why there’s a stinking mess right here, all over the world. It manifests in the flesh. It’s got to come forth. Now you see, you folks sitting here, know why I preached to you, the way I preached to you in Norway, that time. That’s why I don’t go back there to anymore camp meetings. I’m tired of camp meetings and all those spirits, you can have them. Every preacher under high heaven, living in sin, rottenness, and preaching all kinds of corruption. Paul, has set the church in order, and made Christ the Head. And I preached the 'Parousia', and showed you by the Word of God, letter by letter, that He is here. He is here, the Holy Ghost is here. God Himself, is here. And people are not…they’re either looking back or looking down the road. They’re looking at William Branham or some prophet, or some preacher. They don’t know the Capstone’s down. They don’t know the Headship is here. They don’t know He’s here, to put Himself as Head of the Church, and raise the dead. I’m going to show you that. I’m going to show you by Scriptural chronology. That’s what this message is all about this morning. The Judging Word, now you’d better judge yourself, because there’s a lot of sickness. See? 23. Bro. Branham said, “One person can keep that whole church from being healed.” You know what brother? We’re selfish, that’s our whole trouble. We’re all selfish. All you think of is the relationship to Almighty God. I preached on… I preached, and showed you last summer, and showed you this church would go ahead or go back. According how we took, the Vertical to the horizontal. That same Holy Spirit, my brother, that you and I want to contact, and we want to be so this about it, and so that about it. We forget, that It’s the same Holy Spirit that goes back and forth in each member, and makes us all one. And the Scriptures says, “When they have become one with Him, and they know it, the world will know that Jesus Christ has been sent.” I believe that there is coming a time upon this earth, people will know too late, that He is here. They’re going to see It, in the Bride. Because He’s not only in us, He’s with us. And there’s a definitive Headship my brother, my sister, I can’t explain It. But “There’s a mystical union going on”, the prophet said, I’m talking about. See? Now, He said, "we wouldn’t be judged, we’d be chastened. And when you come, tarry one for another." Now, I’m Spiritualizing some of this, but I’m showing you the chronology. And he said, “The rest I’ll set in order when I come. I will set in order when I come.” [1 Cor 11:34b] Paul, how are you going to do it? Are you some big-mouth fat-head that’s going to sell us a bill of goods? No! I’m going to get commandments from God. “When I get there, (he said) you watch.” Who do you think, brought the Thunders down to earth? Revelation 10:1 said, it’s the Logos. 24. The same One sitting on the throne, that John saw, the emerald, the amber, the rainbow with nothing but the fire of God burning and going over that throne, and the Logos was in it. That Mighty Messenger came down, the Logos came down, Yeah. There’s a Pillar of Fire, but He’s got to have a prophet. No other way. You and I can’t see it. I’m going to set them in order. "Now concerning spiritual [gifts], brethren, I would not have you ignorant." [1 Cor 12:1] And it’s at this point, that he sets the Church in order. Because it’s in the Book of Corinthians, and only in Corinthians does he speak of devils. And he speaks of Spiritual people having communion with devils. I preached that last summer and showed you, Bro. Branham was asked the question: “Bro. Branham, can a man full of the Holy Ghost, with a genuine gift, be used of the devil?” And he said, “Now that’s a good question. And the answer is, yes.” Yeah. This is the age of deceit. I don’t want to scare you, but let’s just face it. It’s the age of deceit. Age of the mind. He had it under control. Let those eyes blaze if something comes against the Word, not against the person. I’ve dropped one Word before Bro. Branham, even seen him go back, act like this. Look a hole right through me. 25. Then he found out what I was thinking, and relaxed. Advised me never to pull that one again. Because I was just kidding him. Certainly. "You know you were carried away unto these dumb idols, you were led, you were hurried away, blindly, wherefore I give you to understand… watch it. [1 Cor 12:2-3] Now, he mentions the one Spirit being there. And he warns them of the danger of spiritism, creeping in the church. Years ago, I said, after this Message, there’s only one place to go, that’s spiritism. I didn’t know Bro. Branham was going to bring out the fact that the highest …spiritism known to the world, is the Roman Catholic church, they pray to the dead. I didn’t know amongst us, there’d be people praying to William Branham in his name, either. They’re doing it. I’m not discouraged. Everybody can pray in William Branham’s name. I’ll pray in Jesus’ name. But, you say, “What if they get results, and you don’t?” Well, I’ll go to hell that way. Fine. 26. I’m sorry about that, but I’m committed. There comes a day when you’ve got to get committed, brother/sister. I want to ask you. why did you think I came out? And boy, did I come out. I came out of a dozen things. Now, I want to ask you. if I was so dumb I had to keep coming out, am I smart enough to find my way into the future? No. I’ve got no hope, except, this Message. To cling to It. Now, he says here, he talks about gifts, he said they are of the Holy Ghost. He doesn’t say they are of the devil. The devil can creep in, [end of side one] and unless you put them in that room, and understood …?... he will creep in. I think adultery got …?... boasted about, all the gifts they had. The woman that prophesied so accurately, about the man who had a baby by a woman, and then he carved the baby up and shoved it down the toilet. She went to the man, the prophecy was right, that’s what he did. But then she saw the husband with a sword in his hand. Living in adultery? Come on. I’m not preaching this for the benefit of my Norwegian brethren. It’ll do you good to understand. Do you see why I took a stand? The way I had to take a stand, I had to take a stand. I don’t want to be controlled by the devil. I’m no prophet, I’m no super person. If I’ve got something, put it where the prophet said to put it. That’s where Paul said, “When you come together for this specific purpose.” [1 Cor 14:26] He didn’t say, you couldn’t do it. He said, “Here’s how you do, do it.” Prophet of God said, “Why settle for the unreal, when the heavens are full of the real.” He said, “I’d sooner have nothing, then to have that which is false.” Believe me brother/sister, I’m going to tell you something. if you ever went insane, you’d be glad not to have a devil. 27. So therefore, why would anyone want anything that is not genuine from God? He set the church in order. And if Paul sets the church in order, he enumerates and shows, what is in the top of the list. And that is the gift that God has set in order in the church, first of all the five-fold ministry. There’s where the true Holy Ghost is. Why? Because it’s the Word. And it’s not the word of the preacher. it’s the Word that was delivered to the preacher. That’s why there’s a mess. They couldn’t even wait for Bro. Branham to die before they hot-footed it, clean around the world, to preach their own stuff. Do you wonder why I’m not hot-footing it around the world, with tickets sitting there, waiting for me to go around the world? I’m not interested. If God says, “Go.” I’m going to go. I hope, or maybe I missed it. I missed out in Tucson. I waited one week too long, and I told her, “Alison, I missed it. I’m going one week too late.” I didn’t know why until I got home, then I realized, what it was all about. Pearry [Green] had to go to Rome. I could’ve preached more sermons there, just the first time. And all those years in Tucson, the people stood there, their mouths open for the Word of God. Hungry, and loving it. Not because Lee Vayle was preaching. No, don’t ever get that idea. You’re starting with the truth, and the mind begins to open to see what it was all about. What Bro. Banham was teaching, how that One was amongst us. They hadn’t caught It. See? Preaching mechanics, and get out of the will of Almighty God. People ran in Paul’s day, with what wasn’t the truth. See? 28. Now, in chapter 13, he lets them know, gifts are fine. They’re good, but, there’s something else. Right after the gifts, 1 Corinthians 13:9 (9) For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. (10) But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. 28. Now, what’s he talking about? He’s talking about the very thing setting the church in order by the Word. And he said, “There’s something more to come.” Something that Paul could not deliver in that hour. He had the revelation for his hour. But he couldn’t deliver in the hour beyond it. I’ll prove it to you. Over here in Hebrews 6:1-6, It distinctly says, (1) … leaving the principles of the doctrine …and so on. [omit] (2) … the doctrine of baptisms…resurrection …(eternally, he says,) and this we’ll do, we’ll go on to perfection, (3) And this will we do, if God permit. They hadn’t come to perfection. The word ‘perfection’ means conclusion, polishing, finishing off. They couldn’t do it. And then It says here at that time, (4) …it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, … partakers of the Holy Ghost, (5) … tasted the good word of God, the powers of the world to come, That’s exactly Matthew 24: And not saying ‘shall fall away’, It says, (6) (Having fallen) away, … They can never get back. They can never change their minds. Impossible, they’ll go right the way they’re going when they run flat against the end-time. And they did, they run flat against the end-time. The people say, “ Well, who ever heard of Bro. Branham?” Well, I ask you, who did? You know why they didn’t hear about him? Because they killed him before he even died. Who killed him? The churches. You think they didn’t come to see him and hear him? Come on, don’t be a bunch of nuts. I know what happened. As soon as he said there was one God, he killed It, because there’s got to be three of them. I can take Scripture, and kill one God, right now. There is one mediator between man and God, the man Christ Jesus. [1 Tim 2:5] Man is not God, and God is not man. I killed one of them right there. 29. In Ephesians 4: the same One that went up, came back as the Holy Spirit. That killed another One. One God left. Amen. Praise God. I eliminated the two of them. I’m not being foolish, facetious. Don’t talk to me about your stupid trinity, you’re an idolater. Calvin had Servetus killed at the stake for that. We’re little too numerous, I think for them to be like that, but they could shut us out and starve us. They’ll be a squeeze come on down. Don’t think you won’t suffer for this, end-time. They suffered the first, they’re going to suffer at the end. This is the age of all diabolical cunning. This is the age of the crafty. “Thou shalt not surely die.” [Gen 3:4] Millions now living will not die. That’s a lot of lies, from the pit of hell. Billions will die. Only the Bride’s going to get away. As it was in the days of Noah. How many? Eight. Don’t tell me it’s going to be different. As it was in the days of Sodom. How many? Two? Three? Fourth, and blanked out. Don’t talk different, you’re not going to get me to believe anything’s not Bible. I don’t care what a man says. Oh encourage yourself. Go ahead, encourage yourself in the lies, the prophets of Baal did too. Old Ahab, four hundred prophets, they said, “Oh,” Like Bro. Branham, how he hit that so perfect. “Doesn’t the Bible say it’s ours?” “Did God give it to us, come on, let’s take it.” What do they say, “Hallelujah, that’s, wonderful, that’s, logical, that’s great.” Four hundred said so, let’s go.” 30. And the old boy…I forget his name, doesn’t matter anyway…he stood back and he said, “Go ahead. Fine. Have a party, have a ball. God’s with you.” …And they caught his sarcasm. He was a sarcastic boy, I like him. Sarcasm in the right place, ain’t going to hurt nobody. It isn't going to hurt anybody. Go ahead. But he said, “What I saw was Israel scattered like sheep, without a shepherd.” [Ezek 34:5] He said, "Throw him in prison till I get back." He said, "If you ever get back, God never spoke." But they thought they’d trick God. You know what God said about a guy that tries to trick Him ? He said, “Man that tried to escape the lion, the bear got him.” Don’t fool with God. [1 Corinthians14:] (37) If any man think himself … spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write are the commandments of (God). Not, Paul supreme in office, but, the Word of God supreme in office. Not William Branham supreme, no, but the Word of God supreme. And if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant. You talk about sarcasm. My sarcasm, Twentieth Century Paul, is this. If you want to stick your hand in the meat grinder, go ahead. Just don’t come squalling to me. That’s what Paul said right here. If any man figures he’s going to heaven, go ahead. “I want to tall you something”, he said. “You better get things in order, and decent.” 31. Now listen, after 13 here, where Paul says, [1 Corinthians 13:] (10) … that which is perfect is (to) come, (and) that which is in part (to vanish) away. As Bro. Branham said, “What is perfect but God. And what is God but the Word.” And that’s true, because look it, you and I can not deal with God personally. You cannot approach unto Him. And, if you can’t approach, how are you going to talk to Him? And if you can’t see Him, how do you know where to go to talk to Him? You’re stuck. So, God had prophets. [correction] Hebrews 1, I know people don’t want to believe this, (1) God, … in divers manners (spoke)…unto the fathers (in) the prophet, (not ‘by’ but ‘in’). (2) … in these last days spoken unto us (in) his Son… And they say, “See, He spoke unto us in the last days.” He’s not speaking again, but over in Hebrews 12, It said, (25) … (He speaks one more time) from heaven So, shut up, your nonsense and read the whole Bible. Big-mouthed women preachers, especially on this one. Because they shake their bit, and it’s gone. I’ve got one special person in mind. What burns me, is she had fifteen hundred dollars of my money, to go down to the islands and blaspheme God. You say, “Bro. Vayle, did you give it to her?” No. I didn’t give it, it was my wages. I listened to my wife. Don’t ever, listen to your wife, men you’re going to get your neck cut. Fifteen hundred bucks. You owe me. Well, she’s more than earned it. She more than earned it, she can have it all, as far as that goes. But she was wrong. I should have got my fifteen hundred dollars. Because she went down to the islands, …the woman missionary. Women, stay home and take care of your kids. (See?) You should have them. It’s your heritage. Bro. Branham said, “A sacred vessel for child bearing.” That’s a peculiar thought, isn’t it? A whoopie vessel for fun…that’s what men think. Something’s wrong somewhere. 32. He said here, [1 Corinthians 14:] (10) … that which is in part (is going to) be done away. And he said, (11) When I was a child, I spake as a child, (did childish things, but he said,) became a man, I put away childish things. And this is when he is talking about gifts. This is even talking about the finer qualities of fruit. (11) …spoke as a child, understood (eyes of) man (12) For now, we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: … Paul said, “There’s a time coming, when once more it would be face to face.” Because, Paul had already spoken, face to face, and that time was over. Was gone, was finished. This is 59 AD, he said, “Fourteen years after, I went up into Jerusalem, …?... to find out whether I had spoken the truth, or not.” The Pillar of Fire had gone. The message was over. But he said, “There’s coming a day, when it’s face to face again.” There’s coming a day, when it’s no longer darkness. In other words, the church will get put into an order it never was in an order before. Because listen, at that time if was not “…he that is holy is holy still, and he that if righteous, is righteous still, he that is unholy is unholy still, and so on.” [Rev 22:11] There is a day coming of separation, where there is a Bride, and all of that of God has said that “She becomes all things, and He becomes all things to her.” And everything else is outside the gates, and there is whoremongers and liars and adulterers and fornicators. The whole thing is out there. But the Bride is a little sacred body unto Jesus Christ, to bring forth the man. You’ll never get Him to leave until that Bride’s ready. Now, I’m going to tell you flat, it’s not going to ne ready until there’s a Resurrection. Might as well get used to it. It’ll go into the Resurrection. We’re literally into it right now, don’t worry. Now, [1 Corinthians 13: ] (12) (We) know in part; (then he said,) then shall I know even as also I am known. 33. In other words, he said, “I am going to know Him, and He is going to know me.” And that has nothing to do with meeting Him face to face up there. That has everything to do with I showed you time after time in Ephesians 1: (17) …when the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him (comes into the church) (18) The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that (you) may know what is the hope of his calling, (not yours but His.) You’re going to learn all about Him, as Redeemer. What did Bro. Branham do when He opened the Seals? The Redeemer stepped forth, with the Book if Redemption, to claim His own. He showed Who it was, here It was Melchisedec. This…(I’m going to quit, pretty quick as I can. Because, this sermon will go into hours…there’s just a hundred and one thoughts, that just keep coming and coming.) Because It’s all inter-related. You see, the whole Bible, is one Book. You can’t touch one subject, what you touch It all. There’s not one theme, but that you touch it all. I said, Bro. Branham said, “If you see one Word that doesn’t bring forth Jesus Christ, one Scripture go over It again, you missed It.” You say, “Well, how is that?” Because either It`s what He directly said, or what He directly did, or what He said, and wouldn’t do. Or what He said, and what He did do, It’s all related. 34. And it’s all related to man. The Bible is all what God said, and what man would do about It, or wouldn’t do about It, then what God did. But It always came back to grace. Oh grace, amazing grace. If it weren’t for grace brother/sister, I don’t care how tremendous you and I would be. But listen, It says right here, that we are going to know. We’re going to know the plan. We’re going to know the calling. We’re going to know about the inheritance. Not ours, but His now. And we’re going to know the exceeding greatness of His power, that raised Him, and It’s going to raise us. It’s going to raise the dead. It’s going to put us in a Rapture. It’s going to put everything under us. With Him. See we’re going to know. Now, in chapter 14, he goes on. And He’s speaking more concerning gifts. Because He’s putting the Church more and more in order, and He is explaining why He had to put the church in order. See? Now watch, and this is what I’m getting to. In chapter 15: after He said, “Follow me as I follow Christ,” It’s in the Word. See? 36. Now what kind of a man would William Branham have been, to say every preacher preaches forty-five minutes, but I can’t do it. It’s like Jesus saying, “Everybody quit chewing tobacco, but I’m struck.” Let me tell you what I believe is behind all this stuff. William Branham distinctly said, “When they can’t come out of Egypt, they had the Pillar of Fire, and a prophet, but they wanted the law.” That’s true. I showed you in Scripture, where that is. And people kept coming, they couldn’t sit and listen. It was, yak, yak, yak, yak, yak. Ask, ask, ask, ask, ask. blessing, blessing, blessing, blessing, blessing. How many songs? Why don’t you shut up, and sit still? Don’t you think God would’ve given him, exactly what they needed? But no, they had to mess around, as they did in Moses’ day. As they did it in Paul’s day. As they did it in William Branham’s day. But, there’s a Bride that will just stay with the Word...Hallelujah. And if you fill up easy, you’ve been here for all of one hour and five minutes, go on home, get out. You’ve had your forty-five minutes. I’m not kidding. If you don’t feel like staying, go on. You say, “Bro. Vayle, you’re hanging tough.” I’m hanging tough, for one reason. This is a democracy. You can do what you want about this Message. Just the same as I’m doing. I’m not through preaching. If you’re listening, good. You may go home. If you’re hungry, I’ll pay for your dinner. 37. Now look, he never threw gifts out. He said, “I would that all would prophesy.” [1 Cor 14:12] Put it under order. Don’t knock out tongues. Put it under order. The Baptists, and everybody knocked out tongues, and the Christian Missionary Alliance blasphemed God. Because when the fire fell, at Niakwa, the headquarters was. They said, “It was all of the devil.” They lost right there. They died. They died, they died. And the stench has gone through the world. Nazarene’s the same thing. Bro. Branham saw, the man the preacher, making love to a corpse. How do you like that one? Baptists did the same thing, they died. He warned you and me, never, never, never call that of the devil. Because it’s not of the devil. It’s God, because it’s a gift of God, but not God per se. He said, “If, I give you my pen, I don’t give you myself, I give you a gift." So therefore, you can have a gift, of being baptized with the Holy Ghost. Anybody can get gifts, the Bible speaks of an anointing at the end-time. 38. “Upon all flesh, your sons and your daughters, my sons and my daughters”, that’s Acts 2: [17] and he said, right afterward comes the great Tribulation. So therefore, if you want tongues and things all over the floor in Europe, be my guest. You cut your throat, I didn’t. Now, Lee Vayle, ain’t sweet, sweet, sweet. But, he’s right, right, right. And I’d sooner be right, right, right. And by the right, right, right, stop, and the sweet, sweet, sweet, stop. There goes the (pfft) I am right. There was a tape played right in his this church, from 1958, Bro. Branham sat at his own desk and dictated that tape. And right in his own handwriting, …have we still got it? Put it on the bulletin board, so you can see it out there. In Bro. Branham’s own handwriting, he said, “This goes with the minutes.” He orders to the church and puts it all, in the little room. Now, I don’t care how often Bro. Jackson runs to Europe and tells you people in Europe, “That ain’t so.” I’ve got news for you, it is so. Do what you want. Nobody’s going to say it's of the devil. I want to tell you, the devil will get in though. He’ll get in. He’s already in. Went against the Word, that’s how he got in. He didn’t say, “Lee, there’s no God.” And he didn’t say, “She wasn’t fruitful.” Oh no. He just said, “You won’t die.” Now, he was right. She couldn’t die eternally. Because he knew, the life of Adam, which came from God, was in her. But she died physically. There’s a Bride my brother/sister, that’s not going to die physically. Something’s got to happen to her. She’s got to get back where Eve was. Not one word added, not one word taken. 39. Now, listen. After the church is set in order, and Christ is made the Head by the Word, He now speaks of the Resurrection. [1 Corinthians 15:] (1) Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, … Now notice, what he said about his preaching. Oh, you say, “This fellow is really something.” You bet he really was something, you’ve got to know God, to talk like this fellow. You’ve got to have more than yakity yak. [2 Corinthians 11:] (1) Would to God (you) could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me. Oh, he said, “Oh I know, when I talk about the Pillar of Fire, and meeting God face to face and that same thing.” He said, “You just well…well…” You know, a fellow down in Beaumont, …who spoke with this Pentecostal Oneness preacher, said? He’s dead now. He said, “Bro. Branham’s visions were no different from Swedenborg’s.” Ever read [Emmanuel] Swedenborg? Have you? Anybody? [18th century scientist, theologian, best known for a book he wrote about the afterlife] Oh, pick up a book sometime. Jolly, jolly. I thought, great merciful God, if that man’s supposed to be full of the Holy Ghost, and makes Bro. Branham’s visions, like Swedenborg’s. You know the Christadelphian church? What a mess. (2) For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. (3) But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve (with) his subtilty, (smartness) so your minds … (M-i-n-d-s, minds.) 40. He’s got a better way, than the Word. Oh, nobody’s got a better way than the Word. Because the Word, He made all these things. by the laws of God, all things are maintained. Why does not this building fall down, because man’s smart? No, because it’s certain laws. (4) (But, I fear, he said,) …(for) if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, … And they did. Third person of the Trinity, or the second. Not sure where they put it, doesn’t matter where they put Him, to me. I think they relegated the Holy Ghost, as sort of a nasty place to put in the church…to one side. Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Father, great, thank You Lord God, and very nice little one, and …ppfft…you know. Not too much they’re certain about. How could anybody be that way? (4) …or … receive another spirit, … (Yeah, he said you could.) A spirit can be in the church, opposite to what Paul had in his church. Why? Because the Spirit of God, is the life of the Word. How could you have the Life of God, and not have the Word of God? Or how could you have the Word of God, and not have the Life of God? That’s why it’s the mind, not some sensation. I’m not against sensations, they’re great, but put them where they belong. Sensations are fine, they’re give you a good feeling about Jesus, about your brothers and sister, and good attitudes, that’s great. See? But haven’t you had a good feeling about even going out the wrong door? I get mixed up horribly with directions. If I go in a revolving door, I’m revolved, right there, I tell you flat. I’ve been going down the road very happy, I find I’d better look at the sun, “Hey man, better look at the map again.” Wow, good thing you had a route ticket that time bud, turn around, and go back. Can’t go by feelings. Another gospel. See? 41. Now, back again to 1 Corinthians 15: and he said here. (1) Moreover, brethren I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which a(you also) …received, and wherein (you) stand; (2) By which (you're) saved, (if you) keep in memory… That doesn’t sound good. A sower went forth to sow, and the seed fell by the wayside, and the birds came and ate it. The thorns, the rocks, that crushed it out the thorns…you know, choked it out. So, is the Word. They wouldn’t keep it there long enough to get someplace. How do you think some folk became deeded in this Message? Because they looked at certain things, and the woman said, “He’s got to be Jesus.” If he was Jesus, then Moses was Jesus, and Jesus was Jesus, and the Abah Hagapian was right. He had a vision he said, and he saw Miriam, or whatever her name was he saw, … not Miriam, that’s the sister, but the mother of Moses [Jochebed] great with child, and Moses can forth. And then he saw Mary, she was great with child, and Jesus came forth. Then He saw His own mother, and he came forth too. Aw pugh… Never agreed with that. He came fifth really, he lost the race. [laughter] He didn’t come forth. Yeah, what a mess. Ascended masters. 42. Let me tell you flat, if William Branham was Jesus, and Jesus was Jesus, and Moses was Jesus, and so was any great man was Jesus. Ascended masters that’s what it is. Spiritism. I told you years ago, we’d go to it. Spiritism, my brother/sister is so subtle, it’ll get you a thousand ways. And it’ll look just like God. Because at the end, the two Spirits are so close. I’m not…now, this is Lee Vayle talking…but I believe, and I’m not saying I believe this strong as I’m banking on it. But I have my thoughts on the antichrist that comes out of America, that he will be so identified with Jesus in every single thing. They will be completely fooled that he is. And said, “Didn’t He promise to come back in the body? Well, here He is.” Hasn’t the church always said, “We’ll bring Him back. Here He is.” Now, come on, the Catholic church depends on that. They’re going to bring a Millennium on earth, where they bring Him back. Oh boy, this the Millennium? Please don’t give me any more. If this is the squeeze, two thousand years and good health, I can take it. But the Millennium, mm…mm…I want something better. I’m ready for heaven. Heaven’s not ready for me. That much I guess. 43. Now, Paul says here, [1 Corinthians 15:] (2) (Where) in (you stand if you keep in) memory …, unless (you) believed in vain. People are going to turn from this Message like flies, before it’s over, and get all messed up. Believing in vain. Middle of the road is not good enough. Too tame. I’m not going to break down. I’ve got a sermon to preach sometime, it'll go around the world. When it does, I’m gone. Either I’ll blow my brains out, or you’ll do it for me. Because I preached on Jesus the man. That’s going to blow everything higher than a kite. For all this nonsense, not because I’m going to preach it, but I mean It before God, as far as I’m concerned, it’ll turn …it could turn a lot of everybody against me, because I am not an idolater. I worship God who is Spirit through a man, who is Jesus Christ risen from the dead, seated on the Mercy Seat behind the Throne. And He was a man, and He is a man. He’s a man right now. And He will not be God incarnated, until the Wedding Supper. And after the Wedding Supper and the White Throne Judgement, He will become a man again with the Pillar of Fire over Him. He’s a man. And there’s only one man like Him. Well, put it this way, there’s only one man, who is He? I can’t even say one man like Him, because that’s ridiculous. That’s like two men. There is only one man. Who is like unto Him? 44. Now listen, unless you believed in vain, [1 Corinthians 15:] (3) For I delivered unto you first of all that which I received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; I want to ask you a question: do you know what the Bible actually says about the sins that He died for? Now look, in one place He lives to make intercession for the sins you’re doing now, He didn’t die for them. Except in a specific way, the Blood stands there to scatter them. He died for every sin, that every man committed before he was born again. And for every sin he would commit that was down the road in the sense before that man was born again. He died for every sin that Blood standing there waiting for the hour to purge everyone so that they could come out of the grave and get those Resurrection bodies. I’m going to tell you brother/sister, when you talk about the living hour now, it’s because Jesus is making intercession. We’ve got somebody on our side, that says, “Father, no way, no way, can you let him go, lose none.” According to Scripture, He died for your sins. I’m not going to go into It this morning. Just suggest we read in Isaiah 53: [1 Corinthians 15:] (4) … he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: (that’s Psalm. 16:) (5) … he was seen of Cephas, … You say, “Just a minute, He was seen of Mary”. He was. But, she’s not named. (6) … he was seen of … five hundred (at one time); … I didn’t know that. Paul said so. I didn’t know it. Paul knew by revelation. When did He appear to five hundred? How many is He Appearing to today? But He’s Appeared. He has Appeared, I’m sorry. I don’t care what the theologians say brother, I’ve got just as much right as the theologians they have. Because I don’t have to know all the Greek. I just have to go look at a few words, and then say, “Tell me all about it.” When It says the Presence, that is anything visible to the eye, you show me what’s visible to the eye of God, and I’ll take you to John 15:24 and prove it to you. (24) If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father. 45. Now, go to the Church of Christ, and say, “What about divine healing?” Devil! They hate God. “Oh, we love God.” Then the Bible’s a liar, spit on it and throw it in the garbage. That much for the Church of Christ. Sorry about that. Come on, are you with me, or aren’t you with me? I don’t need your ‘amens.’ ...?... Do you understand what I’m saying this morning? Look, you draw your eye in on this Word. I don’t care about your rotten, stinking churches, like you came out of them, as anything else. You more like came out of Pentecostal, Presbyterian, Methodist, and Baptist, that's what I came out of, came out of all that stuff. It was a Presbyterian kid, it's too bad that I couldn’t get ...?.... My God, the old boy was saved, but I wasn’t. He couldn't get to me I was too young I guess. And it says that some of those are dead. But most of them are still alive. Do you realize brother/sister, the true Bride, the real true Bride, I used to think that most of them would die, but according to Scripture, it looks as though not too many are going to die, after all. Those that stood with this Word, they’ll be standing here. Then He's seen of James and all the apostles. I didn’t know that, I didn’t know the chronology there. I wonder if Paul’s chronology was right, or if he worried about chronology. But he says, “After that.” Maybe we’ll see the dead come back, little at a time. Eh? That is, I don’t mean they’ll come back a little at a time. But I mean we’ll see them, a little at a time. I don’t know. Then he said, “You’ll see me least of the whole bunch, because, I persecuted the church of God.” But by the grace of God, I am what I am. 46. Now listen, we’re going to go on. [1 Corinthians 15:] (12) Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? (13) But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen: Now listen, I want you to notice something here. This followed the gifts. You hear what I’m saying? This followed the gifts. …When they had the church in order, as Bro. Branham said in Ephesians, there was no correction, but revelation and grace. But under here, they took the gifts out of order. And do you know what happened? They got united against the Word of God. And the Word of God lost out, because now they’re preaching a false doctrine. I’m going to tell you something brother/sister, it came right out of Canada, and United States both in latter rain. That there isn’t any Resurrection. But there is. There is, now listen. (13) … if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen: 47. Now watch what he is saying here. See? They left the headship of the church, they went straight to gifts. Now, I can bring a man right in here this morning, if I can get him in here, he’s in Seattle now. And he preaches from a tape, Bro. Branham said, “The gift of the ‘word of wisdom in the church is where a man has a gift by the Holy Ghost, whereby he can go to Scripture and answer any Scriptural question.” Then, who needs Bro. Branham? You better be careful what Bro. Branham says, …and where he says, …and how he says, …and why he says it. Just like right here. The church was messed up under gifts. They left the Word, under gifts. Therefore, the Word must become pre-eminent, before any gift will truly operate. Then the spirit of the people must be truly right, before you can even walk to go in there and do something. Because, when you do, that’s for the people in the church, because there’s a need. It’s not “I’m going to prophesy, Hallelujah.” It’s like that woman, she kept prophesying every night, and finally she said to Billy Paul, “I’m the one that prophesied last night, and I’ve got another message tonight.” So Bro. Branham watched her, you know, fixing her skirt, and moving maybe pulling them down maybe, I know what she was doing. She was already under condemnation. As soon as she jumped up, he said, “Woman, sit down.” I think he told her to be quiet, or shut up, or something, which was alright too. I had to tell a man one time, I mean I was preaching and a man was making noise, I said, “Brother, cut it out. They can’t hear what I’m saying. And what I’m saying, they need.” I guess they didn’t like it. I didn’t like it myself, because I had to say it. Gifts out of order. 48. The Word always goes out the door, when gifts out of order. That’s what happened to Eve. She got babies all right. Look where she put it. Corruptible seed. [1 Corinthians 15:] (13) (Now) if (there’s) no resurrection … Christ (is) not risen: (14) And if Christ be not risen, then … our preaching (is) vain, and your faith is … vain. Now, notice what It says right here, if there’s no Resurrection of a human body, to come back here as natural men and women. Now, they’re sexless, in the terms of there can be in my understanding, no children born. Because in the Resurrection, there is no such thing as male and female reproducing. There’s not marriage, there’s compatibility of companionship, and love and beauty. And we’re all one wife as it were to Christ. And all one body and members to each other. See? That’s exactly what it is. But It says right here, if that does not take place, Paul says, (14) … (Then our) faith is …vain. Do you realize what I’m trying to say this morning? I’ve been saying it all along, in different sermons here, you cannot bypass the physical mortality, a man, that comes into immortality. Immortality and eternality, are bound hand in hand. Don’t ever think of being an angel, or some spirit or spook, or something. Because It says right here, “If there is no resurrection Christ died in vain.” [1 Cor 15:13] That’s true. Because if there’s no Resurrection, how do we get restored, and put back in Eden? How do we get the command of God, the Word of God, fulfilled? There’s got to be a Resurrection. There has got to be a Resurrection. 49. Now, God’s got to bring about the Resurrection, there’s nobody else can. He put a flaming sword there, and said, “You’ll not get immortality, until the hour it comes.” Now It says here, (15) Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not. (16) For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: (17) And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; (You) are yet in your sins. All right now, hold it. If Christ be not raised, and you are not believing this moment in the physical resurrection, there is something wrong, you’re still in your sins. You say, “Bro. Vayle, that’s way, way down the road, somewhere. It could be this, it could be that.” It could not be, it is now. We’re not waiting years and years, brother/sister. We’re not waiting that long. The dead can appear at any time. The whole plan of God, hinges on this moment, waiting breathlessly. All creation is waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God, this last hour when God dynamizes His Word, in human bodies. And Word becomes flesh, and flesh becomes Word. And Word becomes the Word. And the Bride becomes that All in all, which means all the Word of God. Glorious fulfilled, and she still stands there living Word. 50. I’m not preaching manifested sons of God, out there somewhere. Everybody got a great ministry Hallelujah, everybody may have a super duper, greater ministry, because it’s a super, super church approaching the Headstone, I don’t know. I’m only going to preach the Word as I understand It. And I’m preaching It to the glory of God, that this is in order. What lies in there, I don’t know. But It’s coming. Paul said, “If Christ be not risen, you’ve got a vain faith.” [1 Cor 15:17] If there’s no Resurrection, you’ve got a vain thing. In other words, the whole thing is all messed up. And they that fell asleep in Christ, are perished. Look how he ends it. “Then how tremendous the Resurrection must be, and the Millennium that lies ahead of It.” Now, who understands that? When has God dynamized that to us? He’ll do it. (19) (If) in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. In other words, there is no life outside the body. I’ve been preaching that, and every time I go to Scripture, I find myself, a hundred percent right. That’s why Bro. Branham said, he was so happy to know, …now listen before God, I don’t know how he got his thinking…but he said, he thought when he died, he’d be like a guy with a cloud floating along. Here Bro. Neville, a little cloud floating along. And he was so happy to know there was people he could hug, and to kiss. He didn’t get affectionate, and effeminate, and all that kind of junk. But he could hug them, and love them. And such a purity. And he said, “I’ll never be the same again.” He got a glimpse by vision, by actual going there, for all I know. I don’t know, and I care less. But he came back and said, “I’ll never be the same again.” 51. He saw what Paul saw. There’s a reality. I shall not die, but live. You don’t need to worry about being all, crudded up, crusted up, barnacled up individual you are. That’s all going to be gone. Look, what would you be like this morning without sin? Never mind [blank spot on tape] Never mind your features on feature. I’m talking about something way deeper than features. I’m talking about a real "oh, to be like with us." You’re sitting here this morning like I’m standing here, you literally hate yourself. And you remember when you were a kid, I wish I was born in that family, because it would have been so much nicer. Sheesh. Family of God. Sons of God, joint heirs with Jesus Christ. But a reality is missing because people are not listening concerning what Bro Branham taught in the Resurrection. [tape repeats the underlined above] Came right back from a visitation beyond the Curtain of Time. And said, “I saw and they were beautiful. Women with their hair hanging down to their waists. Men with hair a little longer… than I guess, we’ve got ours. But short hair, not long like women. In the youth, the dew of youth and the beauty of holiness. Eighteen, nineteen years of age.” I’ll ask you this morning. Do you want to die, or do you just want to get changed? Do you really want to blow your brains out? Because you get so far down, so disgusted, “Oh God, isn’t there something different, something better? And Paul says there is, to the individual. You’re not going to be your mother, your father, your sister, brother, or somebody else. You’re going to be you. But you’ll be the you, you always wanted to be. God intended. But it’s on the other side of the curtain, my brother, my sister. But before there’s even one person living that’s in a Bride at this hour, maybe left on earth. Maybe they’ll all be waiting to be taken, they’ll all be taken. I’m going to tell you, that sweep is going to go over the people, they’re coming to a place of maturity, where they’ll walk to that Tree of Life. That’s what it says right here. That’s what Easter is all about. Resurrection is all about. There’s no life outside of the body. This body shall rise again. 52. Bro. Branham said, “If I drop this handkerchief, and it comes up a book, he said, “That’s replacement.” He said, “I drop the handkerchief, it’s got to come up a handkerchief.” See? Now he says, [1 Corinthians 15:] (20) But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept. I want to tell you something brother/sister. Christ is risen amongst us. Risen amongst the creeds and dogmas that chained and bound Him for two thousand years. Took the Bride out of her creeds and dogmas, and into the Spiritual Resurrection. Now, is Christ risen. Proven, He’s risen amongst us. Showed that He was. There is a Resurrection, it’s right around the corner this morning. I’m so bold to say what I saw in Canada, “It’s over.” I believe It’s over. I believe the Shout has gone by. I believe we’re to a place where the last one is called in. I don’t know. We haven’t got long, don’t worry. I don’t say this because I’m sixty-five. Won’t have too much time, even according to the grace of God, it’ll be five years, but I care less. …Bro. Ship is what, seventy-eight? Eight years past, He’s feeling pretty good, thank God. He’s got as good of health as he’s got. [end of side two] 53. I’m going to tell you brother/sister, let’s get this straight, you and I can fool around, and we can disbelieve. But like the prophet said, “I’m looking for a Bride of such character.” Not, the kind of character people talk about, but a character that will listen to that Message, stand still in the waters of separation, until she’s dressed in that virgin bridal investiture, that makes her different. Some of you women can’t stand still, some of you men can’t stand still. You’ll miss it if you can’t stand still, you must keep in mind. Don’t you keep your own screwed up ideas of what’s moral, and what’s holy, and this and that. Some of you drifting that way already. You’ve got a self righteousness that sticks out four feet on each side of you. I’m not saying that because I’m crude, and my sermons are X rated. Ah, thank goodness. No, I’m not trying to defend myself., like Paul Jones said I was, because I’m hard. At least I don’t believe in polygamy, other men’s wives and everything else. Let’s get that flat. I may be crust, crass, and crude, I preached you the Word of God the best I possible can brother/sister. And we are right nearing the Resurrection, and the door’s opening brother/sister. The spin is pulling away. The star won’t stand there Gene, too long, it’ll break and go one way. ...?... in the right direction. It’s going to be wonderful for those that make it. If I don’t I want to stand by with enough grace, and say, “Praise God.” God’s true. He did what He said He’d do. 54. I can see William Branham in that Resurrection, like John the Baptist, the friend of the Bridegroom standing by Him, rejoicing. If I never got any higher than that. Just to stand by and rejoice, I’d count myself lucky. Because it happened in our day brother/sister. Alpha is Omega, turned right around to the end, and I believe, we’re just about there. And I’m not nervous. I know in Florida, they’re saying, “Bro. Vayle’s’ getting awful nervous. He needs a vacation.” I need the vacation, but I ain’t nervous. Because I’m crying as long as ...?... don’t get broken up too often. I want to tell you, there is a God, and I stand with that God, and the apostle Paul. Who said, "If Christ be not risen it's vain." [1 Cor 15:14] And if all we’ve got in this life is just Christ, and we don’t have that Resurrection, what is the use? Oh, it must be wonderful brother/sister, it must be marvelous. It must be tremendous. I told you I talked to Bro. Branham one time, “Bro. Branham, man,” I said, “I look at people, I look at myself, I look at life, and I say, God couldn’t have figured a better plan in all this world, than have people.” But what would it be like, without sin, to have your own life, your own family, raise your children? It had to be that way though." 55. He said, “Lee, you're talking about the Millennium. I want to tell you something. God’s children came down to a mixed multitude of the flesh. Noah was the last perfect human being. From that time on, it was election, God bringing His seed down, down, down.” And, I want to tell you something brother/sister. There’s some of you sitting here this morning, you’re not the son of your father. You thought that man that carried those genes, is your father. In the Millennium, you may find somebody else, that was your real Father. Because in the male ejaculate, and the female, she only has about a quarter million eggs, men have billions and billions of sperm. You could’ve been anywhere, in any person, but you had to come from God in the first place. I don’t care who carried you, it’s going to be one big family. And you’ll trace every genealogy, trace right back, it’ll all go back to God. "For as all died in Adam, all in Christ we’ll all be made alive… every man in his order." [1 Cor 15:22-23] 56. ‘There’s a land beyond the river, that they call that sweet forever, but you only reach its’ shores by faith’s decree. One by one we’ll reach its’ portal, to dwell with the immortal. Oh, one day to ring those golden bells, for you and me.’ Don’t matter if you go out in death. I don’t think we will. I believe It’s right around the corner. But the chronology brother/sister, as the living Word was vindicated by a prophet, your chronology is vindicated right here. But, after the Resurrection, comes the Rapture, after the Rapture, comes the tribulation, after the tribulation, comes the Millennium. And from then on, the sweetest honey in the rock. Day by day and every day for billions of years. The Lord bless you, let’s be dismissed. What’s that song … ‘There is a name I love to hear, I love to sing Its’ worth’. Start it out, will you. [Congregation sings ‘Oh How I love Jesus,’ ‘Come into My Heart Lord Jesus.’] Heavenly Father, we thank You for Your rich grace and mercy. And we’ll just continue singing You praises. Solomon of course, under the orders that Thou art worthy, and it is so good to get into the frame of mind, of worship and of love, and broken before You, Lord. That does not seem to be our daily portion of life. It’s so good to come together, to fellowship. And we pray, Lord, that this Spirit of grace, and glorious, floods our souls. And we desire from the knowledge which is spiritual, of Yourself, Lord, by the Word. To linger with us, each day until that pops in our minds constantly, O God. Be with us, Lord, to guide us in the affairs and things of life according to truth. And according to our calling, not to our avocation, Lord, that we’ve got to earn and make a living. That’s fine. But, Lord, may nothing ever ascend above our true vocation, our true calling in Jesus Christ. Bless each one therefore this morning, I pray that You have, I believe you have, O God. And not one will leave here without being the richer for the grace and understanding of love and mercy, in the wonder of our Savior. And walk in the Light of His Presence, and who has come amongst us. Not in this building here. No, Lord, we don’t believe that, we believe You are here, but You’re in other places too. For You have come to gather Your Bride around You, into the great invisible union. So, Father, now we just commend ourselves, to Your constant, Presence. And our constant awareness of It. O God, help us this morning, help us, Lord, we pray this day and everyday, for this is where It lies. The Reality of Thy Presence. The Headstone, Christ Himself. The Husband making Himself known to His maid. That she may truly believe this we know to be true, Lord, and we just defy anything else, and bring our minds into captivity to it. Now, unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be all power and honour and glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Let’s sing, ‘Take the Name of Jesus with you.’ (Advance tape to the next Message 'After Spiritual Chronology' on the same tape # 0380) Scriptural Chronology (0880) Page PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 1