Comments and Corrections

“Seeketh Not Her Own”

Peter in Corinth? 

Seven Visions

 October 4, 1997

	Shall we pray. Heavenly Father, we want to thank You for Your great
Presence this evening, we know that You came down from glory and Your
Son now is upon the throne, waiting for all things to be put under His
feet, waiting for the Wedding Supper, and then continuing to wait until
all those things are ready for the great and wonderful New Jerusalem,
the new heavens and the new earth. And, as we think about this, and
think about Your Presence, Lord, we are a lot like the old time brother
in Charlotte, North Carolina, who, dying of cancer, said, “Lord, if
You’re only here and I could touch You, then I would be healed.” 

	And You spoke back and said, “On the contrary, you could not be able
to touch me, nor would you be healed, if you were back there, but now
you can be by the Holy Spirit.” 

	And we realize, Lord, tonight, if You were here in flesh again, the
Presence in the flesh of Jesus Christ, that we could talk to You, really
believe above everything in the world, we’d ask You, You’d put a
beautiful clean spirit within us, Lord, and a spirit of love, and an
attitude of reverence and faith, an attitude, Lord, which bring forth
the fruit of the spirit, walking in the light--walking in that light,
Lord--which is a perfect revelation, knowing that we are in a complete
union with You. And Lord, in our still minds we’re like that fellow
down there in the Carolinas, and help us to realize that You are here,
that we can touch You; we can ask You, Lord, to renew our spirits within
us, that, Lord, You put a guard upon our lips and upon our tongues, and
let the fountain of our mouth, Lord, bring forth not any Word that’s
contrary, Lord, to Your Word, or any thought, Lord, that’s contrary to
Your thoughts, and our lives bring forth anything contrary to Your life,
Lord, but we might be manifesting that invisible union; not because we
want to be somebody; not because we want to be gifted; but just because,
Lord. We want to walk pleasing to You, walking in that light as dear
children who love their Father, and are so happy that You look down upon
us and help us, and we cannot respond with anything but our entire life.


	We wish, Lord, to be that way tonight. And that’s the thoughts of our
hearts and our mind and our prayer above everything in this world. As
the prophet said in this end time hour, “Now that the Seals are
opened, the Word unloosed to You, just go about being good
Christians,” and that’s what we want Lord. To be the kind of person
You want us to be. Help us tonight. In the Name of Jesus Christ, we
pray. Amen. 

	You may be seated.

1.	Now tonight before we go into “Questions and Answers,” (And I’m
wondering if we’re going to get there, because I don’t want to take
too long a time.) I just want to say again, that although I’m here
tonight, I did not know if I would be. I realize that time is running
out on me, as far as that I’m able to do very much. And so, after
tonight, when I bring you some what I call “Corrections and
Comments,” or “Comments and Corrections,” I would just wait and
see how the Lord enables me to do what I believe He might want me to do
in these last years, or last days, whatever is remaining unto me. 

	I think at this time I’m actually a little bit older than when Bro.
Bosworth passed away. He had cancer of the prostrate. I saw him just
before he died. He was not ailing. He had a good spirit about him. It
was a lot like Lee Miller. And [he] had a good spirit about him; [he]
was happy in the Lord, rejoicing. And I’m sure at that time, (And he
died shortly.) that he was much younger than I am at this present time.
But anyway, he was on the shelf for a while on the grounds that he could
not minister. But I know the fact is the effect of his life and his
ministry was something that I wish I could say that I had even
twenty-five percent of. 

	However, I can look back with a certain degree of satisfaction, on the
grounds my satisfaction lies in the fact that God in His mercy, and God
in His foreknowledge, election, and predestinating power saw fit that I
should have a place with one of the greatest prophets, if not the
greatest prophet who ever lived. I don’t say that William Branham was
the greatest, but when Jesus came by and said, “No person born of
woman was greater than John the Baptist,” and yet in his ministry he
did nothing, but he certainly pointed out Jesus Christ, that he was
actually that Word written in Scripture by Isaiah, given by God, that
“I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness.” He knew that he
was that Word made manifest in living flesh. 

	And so, we had a privilege to be around that one at the end time, which
was Elijah, which was for to come. And the fact that I was around him
and was able to be with him, and to work with him, and that was very,
very satisfying, and also, then, to bring to you what he said. And I
believe with all my heart that when I’ve said something wrong, I’ve
been able to correct it, and try to bring you the true Word in the right
way, I have no regrets in that respect, except one regret is that: (And
everybody has it.) you don’t work harder and you haven’t done more
about simply extending yourself. And yet many times we would extend
ourselves and hope that we were doing everything we could, and yet not
do as much as we would like to have done or would do. 

2.	So speaking to you and all but more particularly it would be to those
who get the tapes. I’ve worried a bit about what you are going to do
in the future, especially in the sense that the people outside have
rallied around my ministry. They’ve been very, very good to me, and
they’ve always sent their tithes and offerings, which they know that,
and you know, we have the checks to prove it, we’ve sent out thousands
and thousands of dollars. We haven’t tried to keep the money, although
there is a good amount on hand. We always try to do right and help
others, and frankly it’s getting harder and harder to find those in
whom you have the confidence, whereby that you might help others. And
so, if there’s some who wish to go someplace else or find some other
source of help or send whatever they have in some other direction,
it’s certainly fine by me. Those that still want to send in, we will
still try to do what we can. Of course, there’ll come a day when that
goes by the board, and whatever’s on hand will have to be sent out
with the help of different ministers that the various ones in this
assembly here have learned to trust will continue to trust.

3.	So, I’m just laying it all very plain again once more concerning my
own life, because I simply am not interested in statistics that say if
you live to eighty-three you’ve got a good chance to go to
ninety-five. If that’s the temperature of body, that’s fine. But it
comes to years; I’m not interested. I’m not anxious to die. That’s
true; I’m not anxious to die. But the point is neither am I exactly
too interested in living on the grounds that--not that my life isn’t
interesting and so on, and things in life aren’t interesting, but--the
tiredness, the weariness, all of those things pile up until you
just--maybe you want to sit in the corner and hope that heavenly breezes
will blow, and you’ll blow away with them. But perhaps it’s not
always that way. 

	But anyway, I just wanted to say that. And I’m not going to repeat it
again. I’m not going to go into it again another time. This is what
we’re looking at. And the people who have been around my ministry for
years, that’s what you’re looking at. There’s nothing we can do
about it, but just trust God and know that God will take care of us all
and help us in all things.

4.	Now I want to make a comment that has been very interesting to me.
You know we saw the little article where the plastic bubble car, or the
car without hands, was operative by, as Bro. Branham said, magnets, and
would also be by radar, I think he said, but what we place to be
actually known as computers, was supposed to be in August, but July 22
is when that car was put down almost eight miles of an ordinary highway,
in which had been inserted magnets, and in not only one car, but the
cars, because it was like a caravan, would go down that road under
control. And as one man said who was in it, (And that was the second day
when the trial was made.) “It was very exciting for the first minute.
From there on it was entirely boring.”

	Well, I got news for you. There’s a young man in Edmonton. I forget
his last name, but his first name is Kevin. And he goes to Bro.
Sproule’s church, and he is an editor of a magazine that’s quite
popular up there. And he was invited to come down to see the trial run;
and he brought Terry with him. And they were the only two Canadians that
went there, and they arrived a day ahead. And God gave them grace in the
eyes of the engineers, because I believe it was the chief engineer, or
whatever you want to call him, (He was a Chinese scientist.) and he gave
Terry and Kevin a whole day. They had dinner together and lunch and so
on, and he has pictures, and he has the video cassette, which we’ll
get later on. And in there it was explained to him exactly how the car
works and many things which are very interesting to them. 

5.	And my thought is that how wonderful that a brother in this Message,
particularly one in whom we have great confidence, was able to go down
there above all Canadians, and actually above all Americans, and was
able to find those things that nobody else found, because the American
press did not come in till the next day. And Terry tells me that what
really happened, what happened we can see more of it and know more of
it, he was with a TV station for one solid day when they found out
he’d been down there in Edmonton. 

	And evidently it’s like a caravan. And the first car sets the tenor.
And there’s no way that from that first car that you can even move two
inches. It just goes down the road, and there’s a certain distance in
between, and when one car wants to come on, the lead car that will be
able to put the others back to where that car comes in. Then, they’ll
tail right down the line, when that car wants to go off, it will go
right up the ramp, and then it will stop right where it belongs, too.
And then, you’ll take control of the car. It’s a very, very
outstanding situation. So it’s magnets and computers that are taking
care of it.

6.	Now I mentioned the other day that Holland had this car all ready,
and here’s a picture here. You can’t see it. It’s black, but I can
leave it here and someone can put it on the board out there. And so I
asked Bro. Zvonko [Knezevic] to ask Bro. Smink, who is from Holland and
goes to Bro. Zvonko’s church, because you know it’s not too far. So
he translates, and he’s proficient in the English, but not perfect.
And here’s what he said: 

	“Dear Bro. Lee, here is a translation of the article which is sent to
you by the …?… “Park shuttle a year long on trial in Rotterdam,
(so that’s a while) computer replaces bus driver. Rotterdam, a bus
without a driver has yesterday made his first test trip with passengers
between Rotterdam and …?…. The egg-shaped vehicle (that’s the
literal translation of what’s in the paper) that gives room on eight
people, is controlled by a computer. (Well it’s not on eight people,
it’s to eight people. But I’m reading it verbatim, because his
English is fine; it’s just that, you know, they speak a little
different from us. Which is good.) The builders say that there is
nowhere in the world until this time a vehicle for passengers without a
driver. The park shuttle shall ride for a test period on a free asphalt
road, until the middle of next year, between Rotterdam Metro Station and
Business Park Capel …?… The road is twelve hundred meters. (Not
bad.) But the goal is to extend the route to fifteen hundred meters, to
residential quarters. Passengers can call the shuttle by pressing a
button. After that the vehicle comes along by itself. The computer
controls the chosen direction by sensors in the road deck. (You see
it’s a lot like ours.) The computer also measures the speed and the
curve of the vehicle. (Now Terry said that you couldn’t go two inches
without the other going the two inches.) By strange obstacles on the
road, like crossing human beings, the vehicle automatically reduces
speed. (In other words, in plain English, if something appears ahead of
the car, it will just reduce its speed and if it has to stop, it will
stop.) The park shuttle, also called people mover, is only made for
short distances. Next year there will ride three shuttles on the test
road, transporting four hundred passengers in an hour.” Trusting that
this information is of any interest to you, and with Christian greetings
I greet you, Bro. Smink. P.S. This week I heard on the radio that the
airport …?… now uses a similar vehicle for a certain service for its
passengers. I think it brings you after you park your car to the hall of
the airport. With the same remark that they are the only airport in the
world who has such a device.”

7.	So that’s interesting. Another interesting comment is, and I think
you all saw it in your papers, is that you saw where Yeltsin, with the
Metropolitan of the Greek Orthodox or the Orthodox Church, signed the
bill that excludes foreign religions. And so therefore, now they’re
ready to kick everybody out but the Greek Orthodox Church. Now let’s
just stop and think a minute. What brought in Communism? The Greek
Orthodox Church. The tsars with Rasputin, the filthy clergy that ground
the people down. Now they’re back in full control. You’ve gone full
cycle. So, where are you going to go? Well, you’re going to go where
the prophet said, (I’ll read you some quotes.) speaking of America.

	[Invasion of the USA, 05/09/54]

[207]	She’s gone. She’s invaded, the spirit of communism has took
over.

	[QA Image of the Beast, 05/15/54]

[154-29] Communism is a spirit. America is eaten up with it. 

	[Law Having a Shadow, 12/03/54]

[E-48]	Communism is not Russia. Communism is a spirit. That’s right.
And it’s sweeping this place and honeycombing it. 

	[Faithful Abraham, 04/15/59]

[E-58]	We sowed to socialism and reaping communism. 

	[All the Days of our Life, 06/12/59]

[E-25]	And let me tell you, a creed is nothing but framework for
communism. It is the scaffold work that the devil can use to build
communism, is a cold formal church. 

	[Rejected King, 05/15/60]

[11-3] 	Politics, we have voted men in there under buying and selling
and promising a falsehood until our nation, our politics, and our
democracy is so polluted until it’s interwoven with communism and all
kinds of isms. 

	[Laodicean Church Age, Church Age Book, chapter 9]

[320-1]	This the age of the communists where all men supposedly equal,
though it is only so in theory. According to our liberal theologians
Jesus was a socialist and the early church under the guidance of the
spirit practiced socialism, we ought to do so today. 

	[The Indictment, 07/07/63.]

[54-1]	Look at the scandal in England. Look at the scandal here. Look,
the whole things become a house of prostitution. (Come on, that’s your
church.) Why is it? Why did Russia become communistic? Because of the
vulgar and dirtiness and non-power of the Catholic Church. That’s
exactly why this nation is taking over communism in a federation of
churches and joining itself with the Catholic Church, which communism
and catholicism will unite together. 

	Well, they’re already together; they’ve got the same spirit. Same
thing. Communism still is not a religion. It’s politics. And Malachi
Martin admits that the church is political. He said, “If you want
intrigue, we’ll tell you how to do it, we have two thousand years of
experience.” Remember what I read a little while ago, what Malachi
Martin said? It’s in the back of my Bible yet. He said, 

[54-1]	That’s exactly why this nation is taking over communism in a
federation of churches and joining itself up with the Catholic Church,
which communism and the catholicism will unite together, you know. And
here they are doing it. Why? Because they have rejected the Gospel that
separates them, and makes them a different people. Nonsense! That’s
exactly the reason. The ministers in the pulpit are putting up with it
because of a meal ticket for social standing for some creed and say,
“I belong to So-a nd-so,” swapping education for the power of God. 

	But what are the Laodicean Pentecostals doing? So, what are they doing
today? This is not Bro. Branham; I’m just reading this myself.
Swapping the Word for gifts and denying the Presence of the living God
and His vindicated Word. Laodiceans are working the Word instead of the
Word working them. Well, aren’t they? That’s your whole problem. All
right.

8.	So, Bro. Branham saw this coming a long time ago and told us about
it, which… We’ll go into in a little bit in those visions that we
want to talk about.

	Now, before going as I said to “Questions and Answers,” (And I
don’t know that I’m really going to get there tonight, because I
want to cover these comments.) I wanted to go back over 1 Cor 13:5,
which I think I brought to you the last time I brought a message. And in
there we read concerning the Holy Spirit, where love suffers long, and
so on. The first part, the first bit… Well, we can read the whole of
verse 5. It says:

(5)	(The Holy Spirit does) not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her
own, (and) is not easily provoked, (and) thinketh no evil;

	Now, actually, as I read this, I was not prepared to read as much as I
did read. And I got to the place where It says, “Seeketh not her
own.” Now the Holy Spirit is not feminine. So, I said, what is it?
It’s the Holy Spirit in the Bride, or the church, or the individual.
Now I never said church--individual. I said, “It’s the Holy Spirit
in the Bride.” Fifty percent of my answer was correct. The other fifty
percent was not. 

9.	Now, let’s just take the fifty percent that was right. The fifty
percent that was right is the fact that Paul is talking what the Holy
Spirit, or God Himself, will attempt, and should manifest in every
living member of the Bride. Because by one spirit are you all baptized
into one body, and every single one is a member in particular. So
therefore, there isn’t one member who takes precedence over another.
There isn’t one member [that] can get from God [w]hat another member
cannot get. But you still must remember that, as the body has hands and
eyes and ears and nose, and every member is functional, so it makes the
whole body. So, the eye cannot say, “I am not the foot, so therefore,
there’s something wrong.” And the hand cannot say, “I am not the
eye, so therefore there’s something wrong.” Each member gets exactly
what it needs from God to make up that composite and to be a true body
of the Lord Jesus Christ. 

10.	Now, what will God act like in the individual members and in the
Bride? Well, let’s take a look at it. 

(1)	Though I speak with the tongue of men and angels, and have not (the
Holy Ghost), I am become as sounding brass, (and) a tinkling cymbal.

	So, all right then. If you’re full of the Holy Ghost, that gift will
not make you a sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. You will not be
that. But, if you don’t have the Holy Ghost, and you simply have a
gift, you will be sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal--a honky-tonk
type of Christian--gong mouth--tinkle mouth. 

(2)	Though I have the gift of prophecy, understand all mysteries, and
all knowledge; and have all faith, (and) could remove mountains, and
have not (the Holy Ghost), I am nothing.

	So, now there’s a mighty display of power. And the person is still is
not full of the Holy Ghost. But he’s empowered by the Holy Ghost. Now
this is the thing that I’ve been teaching all along, because Bro.
Branham taught it, and this is what literally saved my life. Because I
was ready to go back the second time on God, shut the whole thing, or
get out there and start acting like the devil, drinking and boozing,
asking for money, horsing with women, and saying, “Now God will bless
me.” 

	Like David; he said, “I saw the wicked out there, flourishing like
the green bay tree. They had it all! And I went to God.” 

	See I didn’t. I was getting mad enough to pull out. 

	And he went to God. He said, “God what about it?” 

	And God showed him the end of the wicked. 

11.	And the end of the wicked Bro. Branham showed me before he preached
that sermon, “The Anointed Ones at the End Time,” Matthew 7, “Many
will come in my Name.” [They will] say, “Lord, Lord, I prophesied, I
cast out devils, I moved mountains, I did this, I did that! Come on
sister, didn’t I get you out of the insane institution?” 

	“Yes you sure did.” 

	“Come on brother! Weren’t you dying of heart trouble and I prayed
for you?” 

	“Oh you sure did.” 

	“Depart from me. I never knew you.” 

	Huh? Now I’m very serious, because I was ready to kick in, which
would have been the third time. I held my peace in a Pentecostal
meeting, when I went to see a guy that turned out to be a woman monger.
When he preached I thought he was a gasbag, and I told him. I said,
“I’ve just been out there not living for God for these past few
years.” 

	“Oh,” he said, “Just get down there and pray and pray.” 

	I got down to mingle my voice with the--whatever you want to call
it--and a horror of blackness came over my soul, till it almost rose to
my knees, and cursed God and walked out. 

	And I said, “Hold it. Hold it. Hold it. Walk ?on/off?. Just walk
?on/off?.” 

12.	So you see, you’re hearing a guy tonight who’s been through all
the ropes. And, if you think I haven’t, come and talk with me. Come
and talk with me. I know what I’m talking about. But the third time I
had a prophet. Elijah, which was for to come. I said, “Bro. Branham,
then tell me: who’s the true vine; who’s the false? Give me an
example.” 

	Well he said, “Lee I’m an example of the true vine; Oral Roberts is
a false vine.” 

	I was in Columbus in about 1956, and Oral Roberts was there. And he had
his big tent and his big platform. And he formed a prayer line. And he
sat down, because he knew there’d be hundreds come under his hands.
And I saw a man, a large man, well built, something like Norman [Lee] in
size, (And Norman’s a pretty powerful guy.) and he carried a little
boy, puffed up around the stomach, sick, and his legs hung down like
cooked macaroni sticks. He had polio or something like that. Oral
Roberts took that child and prayed for him, set him down, and he ran. 

	A woman was there with a collar brace, because her neck was broken in a
place. She told him the trouble; Oral didn’t discern. He prayed then,
and took her neck and [Bro. Vayle makes funny crunching type noise.] The
idiot could have killed her! He never should have done something like
that! But she was healed. 

	And I saw, in about twelve minutes, twelve distinct miracles. 

	Now he said, “Let’s move fast.”

	Just exactly what Bro. Branham did; what Dr. Bosworth would have done.
I never saw Dr. Bosworth do it, but I know he did it. In every healing
campaign, when he was in Cuba, the Cuban press chronicled his tremendous
ministry. He went to Japan; they saw miracles. And the first thing Bro.
Bosworth would do, after preaching an evangelistic message, would be
[that he would] say, “Now I want you to come up, and I want to show
you that Jesus Christ is risen from the dead. He’s alive, and He’s
here to heal the sick, the same, as he did two thousand years ago. Who
in the audience tonight has a radical mastoid?” 

	In other words, you have no eardrum! The bones have been taken out! 

	“I want you on this platform.” 

	And they’d come up, one to six, maybe at a time. And I can see him in
my mind. Because I know what it is for Daddy Bosworth to tell a joke and
they’d chuckle. And he said, “Bro. Vayle when they came, I’m just
chuckling. Hm, hm, hm, hm, hm, waiting to get my hands on them.” 

	Not one finger! Every radical mastoid operation was reversed, with new
eardrum and new bones. Bar none. I saw that one time in my ministry.
Unless the guy lied to me. But I knew he was going to hear. And he did.
I couldn’t do it again. I didn’t have it. Bro. Bosworth had some
kind of gift of healing. 

13.	Now what I’m trying to tell you is this: Bro. Bosworth was a true
vine. William Branham was a true vine. I’m sorry about Oral. I’m
sorry; I’ll stand before God. Bro. Branham told me and picked him out.
Many will come in that day. And that’s exactly what you’re looking
at. So we’re going back to my verse.

(2)	Though I have gift of prophecy, understand all mysteries, all
knowledge; have all faith, (can move) mountains, and have not (the Holy
Ghost), I am nothing.

	Now it says you can do it! Now no man can cure a cripple! Bro. Branham
went so far as to say why is it that people can go to a witch doctor and
get healed. It’s because they believe they are approaching God! This
puts us where the Apostle Paul put us, when he talked on Mars Hill. He
said, “You people are altogether too superstitious.” And he said,
“We’re all of one blood and one God.” 

	And you and I’d stand back and say, “Now just a minute, that’s
not right.” 

	But it is right when you are speaking from a special viewpoint! Paul
was, and William Branham was. And they were both vindicated. So, nobody
could say, “Hold it Paul. You can’t say that!” “Hold it Bill
Branham. You can’t say that!” Shut up and sit down! And drop
dead!--before you blaspheme to the point you’ll go to hell. I know
vehemence doesn’t pay, because it doesn’t necessarily make the
point, but I’m a vehement person.

	So, these people without a genuine baptism with the Holy Ghost can
operate gifts. They can have gifts. Jesus said, “I never knew you.”
These are not backslidden people, as stupid people try to say they are,
because he would have had to have said, “I used to know you.”
Because in the Scripture he does use a place where he said, “I used to
know you!” That’s over in Matthew. Where he tells them, “I used to
know you as my wife, but I don’t know you as my wife anymore.” But
he doesn’t say that. He said, “I never ever knew you!” So these
people are operating in the same way that Satan operates. They take the
power of God and use it to their own ends, based upon Scripture, to get
people after them, to obey Satan, to build up a kingdom for the devil,
to commit themselves and their followers to hell! 

14.	Now you never heard out in the world preachers preach like I’m
preaching tonight. And I wonder if you hear any amongst us that believe
this Message preach the way I’m preaching. Am I so different that I
can understand this Bible? The majority of them can’t do it. There’s
something wrong somewhere. I’ll tell you why: they don’t want to!
But when you see a people that so-called believe this William Branham
Message, can follow a man, all he can talk about [is] his grandma
sitting on a red hot stove, and all he’s got is a big fat mouth, and
can’t produce one thing of evidence, and they follow him. 

	And yet, …?… from India, who is now dead, could actually bring a
cloud over your head, and bring lightning popping at your feet! Now
don’t tell me he couldn’t, because I can bring the people right here
to whom it happened. And I’d be happy to. I’ll pay their way out of
my own pocket. And they’ll stand beside me, and they’ll say, “This
Bible open before me, and knowing there is a God in heaven, I will tell
you the truth.” Doesn’t say they’ll swear now. That’s what
William Branham did, and we better be careful. These people are not born
again.

15.	 Now:

(3)	And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, give my body to
be burned, and have not (the Holy Ghost), it profit(s) nothing.

(4)	(The Holy Ghost will suffer) long, (the Holy Ghost) is kind; (the
Holy Ghost envies) not; (the Holy Ghost) vaunteth not (himself), is not
puffed up,

	What is he talking about? He’s talking about a spirit filled
believer, and how the Holy Ghost can and will conduct Himself! And you
will notice the priority is upon a life, not gifts! In other words
it’s motive! If you are full of the Holy Ghost you will have a correct
motive. You will have a correct attitude. You will be in church order.
And there’s no church order outside of a Word order. And Bro. Branham
was trying to show the church, “Look the church went haywire back in
the age of the Corinthians. They went haywire way back there. Now I want
you to have a good church here, like the Ephesian Church.” But they
never came to it. 

16.	So all right. I was a hundred percent correct in my first fifty
percent. This speaks of the Holy Ghost in a person. Do you think for one
minute that the Holy Ghost Himself is not longsuffering? The Bible said
that God is longsuffering, not willing that any should perish but all
come to repentance and knowledge of Jesus Christ. He suffered long in
the days of Noah; He’s suffering long now. You tell me He doesn’t
suffer? Do you tell me the Holy Ghost doesn’t envy? The Holy Ghost
does envy under the condition that He envies for you and for me. But
He’s not there envying. Why should He envy? He’s God. He owns it
all; He can do what He wants with it. 

	You know, Paul mentioned the spirit lusteth to envy. Not physical bad
spirit now. [It] could be the Holy Ghost. It could be our natural
spirit. In other words [it is] crying passionately to walk in the light
and be one with God in this great invisible union. The Holy Spirit does
not rejoice in iniquity! It doesn’t say, “Ha, ha, I’m glad you did
it, or I’ll lead you into it.” God cannot be tempted; neither does
He tempt any man. You see what we’re talking about? If the Holy Ghost
is God, (And He is, and He’s love.) He will act like God within us!
He’ll never lead us astray. He’ll lead us into truth, and He’ll
empower us. He’ll help us. He’ll comfort us. He’ll be with us. So
where’d I make a mistake? I made a mistake because I don’t know the
Greek! 

17.	Now let’s go and read this again.

(5)	(The Holy Spirit) seeketh not her own, (that is her own things. In
other words, the Holy Ghost does not put on a display in any way.)

	Now it says ‘her’. Hogwash! Turn with me to the Book of 1
Corinthians 7. 

	Now, let’s look at verse 2:

(2)	Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife,
and let every woman have her own husband.

	Well, I got news for you. There’s no such thing as the pronoun in the
Greek. The word ‘his’ and ‘her’ should be interpolated! The word
is ‘own’! And the subject will confer upon whatever it is, male or
female, the ‘his’ or the ‘her’, because it should be ‘it’!
Leave it in the neutral. So, when it says ‘husband’, it’s got to
say ‘his own’. When it’s ‘woman’, it’s got to say ‘her
own’. And, if the Holy Spirit, which the translators didn’t know, is
masculine, it should say ‘his’ not ‘her’ work! So I blew it on
that one, but I’m correcting it tonight. Any problems? Go back over my
tape. I know what’s on those tapes, and I know when I’m wrong. All
right.

18.	Next, I want to make a correction. And this is kind of a tougher
one, but I’m a person of fairly good humor, and I can admit where
I’m wrong. I can also tell you how I can blow it. All right. I want to
make a correction. I’ve stated Peter founded the church in Corinth.
Now what made me do it? Well, I’m getting old for one thing. Another
thing, I know the Corinthians situation very well. Also I know one
thing, that Paul had to put that church in order, and my mind blew it a
little bit on that, because Corinth sounds an awful lot like Cornelius,
no doubt. But the church that Peter did not put in order, but actually
started, with the Gentiles, was down in Caesarea. Where we know that
Paul went later. There is no record to my knowledge that Peter actually
went to Corinth. But there’s no record that said he didn’t. The
apostles took to heart when Jesus said, “Go into all the world and
preach the Gospel.” They did it, and Thomas ended up in India, where
we still have the Martoma church, and Thomas was martyred. Paul got as
far as Spain. The Gospel under Philip went down into Africa, and they
had fifty-three Coptic churches, or fifty-four, in literally no time at
all. 

19.	So, the Gospel spread like wildfire. And, of course, the historians,
especially those involved in Scripture will tell you, that Rome provided
the roads, and the safety, and the law, and it was the Greeks that
provided the language. That’s why the Bible is written in Greek. The
…?… Greek. I don’t know too much about it, but I go along with
them, because I don’t know any better. 

	So I skipped a little trick there. But was there an influence from
Peter in Corinth? Was it in my subconscious? I don’t know. When I went
home and thinking about it--now why exactly is there some connection
somewhere? 

20.	Well, I’ll tell you what. Let’s go to 1 Corinthians 1, and begin
to read a little something here, you might find something very
interesting. And we read in 1:10,

(10)	Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
that ye all speak the same thing, that there be no divisions among you;
(and) that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the
same judgment. 

	Now look it here. He says first of all, “You all speak the same
thing, and that would mean that there are no divisions.” What if
you’re a bunch of people that had two or three different instructors?
You’re not all going to speak the same thing. You pretty well might
all say something different. Might not have that harmony. Remember, Paul
said, “Though you have a thousand instructors, you‘ve only got one
Father.” So I’m on the right track, am I not? So, all right. 

	What are divisions caused by? They’re not simply caused by
personalities, unless you’re some stupid woman following some guy who
has, as Bro. Branham said, cute little feet; you’re some kind of an
idiot. Or you’re some kind of a man that’s got to follow some kind
of a blonde. He’ll run for the blondes, and never mind the brunettes.
Hasn’t got a thing to do with that. It has to do with what people are
saying. Which is self-evident here.

21.	 Now:

(10)	…but be joined together in the same mind and in the same
judgment. 

	That means somebody’s got to be saying, and saying it right. And the
rest of them got to follow suit. As Paul said, “If any man thinks
himself to be spiritual or a prophet, let him acknowledge the things
that I write to you are the commandments of God.” All right.

(11)	For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them
which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
(Why contentions? Because it says here in this word,)

(12)	…every one (of you) saith, I am of Paul; (I’m) of Apollos;
(I’m) of Cephas; and (I’m) of Christ.

	Wel,l you know, those that say they’re of Christ, they’ve got their
own little revelation, because they don’t need Paul. And they don’t
need Apollos, and they don’t need Cephas. So when you look at the word
‘Cephas’ we better go back to Jn 1:42, where we find our clue.

(42)	And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said,
Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by
interpretation, A stone.

22.	So all right. He’s called a stone. Who is this fellow? Simon, the
son of Jonas. Simon Peter. So now, who are we talking about here?
We’re talking about Peter, of whom it is said, “You’re a stone,”
and then later on Jesus said in Matthew 16, he said, “You’re
name’s Peter, Petros, which is ‘a little pebble’.” So now he is
turned from a stone to a pebble, and a pebble of course is a chip off
the stone, you might say, or a very small one of the same gender, of the
same thing, which would be Jesus is the great stone. And, if you’re
going to be a part of Christianity, the Bride, you’ll be a little
rock, a little pebble. You’ll be a little fellow, but you’ll be the
same thing. And remember, that’s exactly what Jesus is. To which is
the angels, and to which man did he ever say, “Sit on my right hand,
till I make your enemies your footstool.” And anoint him above all
others. That’s only one, and that was the true Son of God, which as we
know today is Jesus Christ, the righteous. 

23.	So, all right now. Go with me now to 1 Cor 3:1-11. [End of side one
of the audio tape.]

(1)	And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as
unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.

(2)	I have fed you with milk, and not meat: for hitherto ye were not
able to bear it, neither are ye (now) able (to bear it).

(3)	For are (ye not) carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and
strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk (even) as men?

(4)	For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, of Apollos; are ye
not carnal? (Now he’s narrowed it down, you’ll notice. He’s
narrowed it down.)

(5)	Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom (you)
believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?

(6)	I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.

(7)	For then neither is he that planteth any thing, (nor) he that
watereth; but God that giveth the increase.

(8)	Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man
shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.

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

(10)	According to the grace of God which is given (to) me, as a wise
masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon.
But let every man take heed (on) how he buildeth.

(11)	For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is
Jesus Christ (the righteous).

	Now that’s in 53 AD. And so, this is roughly sixteen years, seventeen
years… well it’s more than that. Jesus died at age 33-1/2, so
that’s twenty solid years roughly after Pentecost. And he’s telling
them that he is the one, because he’s speaking to the Gentile Church,
which Peter acknowledged Paul, and James and John acknowledged, all of
them acknowledged, that Paul should go to the Gentiles. And it’s not
that these people were not going to Gentiles, because Thomas went to
Gentiles. Nope, you can’t exclude it and say, “All right, that’s
simply a matter of the Jews,” because it’s not so. Because already [
] there was a Gentile Church which was forming.

24.	Now, with that we want to go to 1 Cor 4:1-7.

(1)	Let a man so account of us, (that’s me Paul,) as of the ministers
of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. (Now he doesn’t
include in there Apollos all right, but just watch.)

(2)	Moreover (it’s) required in (a) steward, that a man be found
faithful.

(3)	But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you,
or of man’s judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.

	How can you judge yourself when you’re face-to-face with God, and
you’re vindicated? You can’t look at yourself. You don’t have to
explain yourself. You don’t have to wonder about yourself. This is it.
This is how stupendous it is to be this kind of a prophet. Moses, Paul,
William Branham. 

(4)	For I know nothing (of) myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but
he that judgeth me is the Lord. (Well come on. In judging is
vindication! So how did God judge Paul? He vindicated him! Paul preached
vindication! And this is vindication. Now,)

(5)	Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who
both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make
manifest the counsels of the heart: and then shall every man have praise
of God. 

	That’s in our day right now, because this links up with Heb 4:12.
“The Word of God is quick and powerful, sharper than any two-edged
sword, dividing soul and body, you know, the soul and spirit, joint and
marrow, discerns the thoughts and intents of the heart. And nothing is
hid from Him with Whom we have to do.”

25.	So keep reading.

(6)	These things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and
to Apollos for your sakes; (Now Peter’s not even mentioned. He was
mentioned here in the first chapter. He’s not mentioned anymore. Peter
is not in the picture. But he’s gotten into the picture. So, we’re
looking at this thing.)

	In these verses we find by the fact that Paul no longer mentions Peter,
only himself and his disciple Apollos, that the one who claimed,
(Whoever it was, we don’t know.) to be a disciple or learner of Peter,
could not claim to be a true laborer of God and with God, for he was not
sowing and watering, or at least watering the seed of God’s planting,
which only Paul and Apollos had the legitimate right.

26.	So! I’m wrong to say that Peter came down there. But I’m not
wrong to say that a disciple, and somebody claimed, “Well, I knew
Peter, and I’m going to follow Peter,” and it got to the place where
they were ready to throw Paul and Peter and everybody else out, and say,
“Well, I got this from Christ.” There’s where gnosticism came in.
They did not repudiate them as though they were not apostles, did not
repudiate them as though they did not have something from God, but now,
“Hey, I’m dealing with Jesus myself, and I’m going beyond.” 

	That’s the bird that did the worst work. That’s the worst one. 

	There are those that say, “I’ve got no use for Luther.” 

	You’d better check on Luther and find out. 

	“I’ve got no use for Wesley.” 

	You better check and find out on Wesley. 

	“I can’t even take William Branham.” 

	You better check and find out. 

	“I’m on my own.” 

	You bet your life you are, except for one thing: the devil’s got a
ring in your nose. You don’t even know it. You’re the biggest patsy
of the whole bunch--and the greatest delusion. 

	And see how Paul brought it! “I’m of Cephas, I’m of Apollos,
I’m of Paul, hey, I’m of God.” Isn’t that your Pentecostal
Church right today? Oh, you bet your sweet life. Don’t tell me
“I’ve got the Holy Ghost, I don’t need William Branham. Ho, ho,
tell me, I don’t need anybody.” 

	You bet your sweet life you don’t need anybody. The trouble is you
really do need somebody. You’re such a mess and such a morass of sin
and down there in the hell hole with the stink pots, it’s too bad.

27.	It’s very plain that someone is destroying the body of truth or
faith, the body of faith, of the Corinthian Church, and is refusing to
acknowledge Paul as God-sent. Which, if you read in 1 Corinthians 2, he
will tell you.

(1) 	And, brethren, when I came to you, (I) came not with excellency of
speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. (God’s
own testiment.) 

(2)	For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Christ, and
him crucified. (That was his attitude.) 

	Why? Because the power of the Gospel lies in crucifixion. For without
the death of Jesus Christ, there wouldn’t be one person able to now
face Almighty God, because there was no sacrifice left any longer. It
was all gone. There was no such thing as a God-ordained sacrifice or a
God method of any description, how to come to God, and be in His
Presence, and live in His Presence, and then, dwell with Him in His
houses of glory. It was all over. Why? Because one death sacrifice
forever ended every sacrifice, which we’ll read about in Hebrews 10
tonight at the Communion service. 

28.	Now:

(3)	I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.

(4)	And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of
man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and power (of God):
(“THUS SAITH THE LORD.”)

(5)	That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the
power of God. 

	And I’m going to tell you something, nobody had that but the Apostle
Paul to the Gentiles. I don’t even find Peter doing it; I don’t find
John doing it; I don’t find James doing it; I don’t find anybody
doing it! Now if you can find it, I want you to show me where it is. 

	You say, “Well Bro. Vayle, that’s a time Peter went down to the
…?…” 

	That’s exactly true! But he stood right there. He was led to go down
there, and then he said it. Why? Because that was the sign to follow the
words of Jesus. But Paul had the signs before the Word, that was to
bring the doctrine into the church, because those men did not bring the
doctrine! They brought a bit of conduct, they brought some prophecy.
They did. There were some gifts manifested, but Paul had the doctrine.
And that’s what you’re looking at. Paul set the church in order. It
was not somebody else. 

29.	Now:

(5)	That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the
power of God.

(6)	Howbeit we speak wisdom among (those) that are perfect: 

	Those that are mature; those that are properly initiated into Christ,
which means they’re full of the Holy Ghost! Because by one spirit are
you baptized into one body! Not by some hocos pocos or some words!
William Branham’s words did not baptize us into Christ, God Himself
did it by the Holy Ghost! And, because we were baptized with the Holy
Ghost and part of the Bride of Jesus Christ, the Word of God entered
into us! Never would have been though. 

	You think for one minute it wasn’t the Holy Spirit that seemed to
speak within me? And, as I saw Bro. Branham, he didn’t even preach,
and the voice within me said, “If you ever listen to any man, that’s
the man you’ll listen to.” Who do you think I listened to? The only
reason I got books with the Greek and the Hebrew and other things in is
to prove exactly what Bro. Branham said. And, if you go back in my old
tapes, which I cannot even remember myself, you will find I brought a
word to your attention, which Bro. Branham used, and it was in the Greek
vernacular. How could he do such a thing except by the Holy Ghost? Now
they’re trying to tell you about people using computers and going
through the Books of the Bible to find Abraham’s name. I don’t care
two bits where Abraham’s name is. That’s over, done, gone! This
Message should blank out everything but the present powerful Word of
God, which perfects us and brings us into Resurrection. Oh,
brother/sister, don’t get carried away with this other nonsense. You
just make me mad, and I don’t have time to get mad any longer. It’s
too hard on my innards. 

30.	Now:

(7)	But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom,
which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

	Now blessed, that’s what Paul said, unto the what? Unto the known
world, the created, foreordained before the ages came to pass. And Bro.
Branham said the very same thing Paul said. He said, “He’s made
known to us those things which were not revealed from before the
foundation of the world.” Hey you can find William Branham in this
Book--and every single thing he said! I just showed you one thing
tonight. If I live long enough, I’ll see some others.

(8)	Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it,
they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

	In other words some of these great mysteries before the ages, before
the foundation, you have to know them to receive the prophet and know
this is the prophet of this hour. It’s being fulfilled. My… 

(9) 	As it is written, Eye hath not seen, (and so on.)

	In other words you read this whole chapter and you find it right on
down. [1 Corinthians 3]

(1)	And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but
unto carnal, even as unto babes.

(2)	I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: 

	He said the same thing to the Hebrews. “I can’t even give you the
truth about Melchisedec. You’re not mature. You can’t take it.
I’ve got to give you milk.” What was there division amongst them?
Problems. They weren’t seeing the Word right. How in the world are you
going to begin to ever operate in the presence of God using gifts or
anything that God’s given you without the revelation of the true
revelation of God’s Word? You can’t do it. It’s not just knowing
mechanics, brother/sister. You can have any kind of mechanics, in the
sense of knowing how to operate gifts. I used to teach people that
myself with pretty good results.

31.	Now these verses I read [ ] prove the Corinthian Church was not
solidly established by vindication. Like today, many cannot see it. They
can’t understand Paul is replicated in William Branham in this hour,
where the church is afloat and a-flood with gifts of the Holy Spirit in
absolutely uncontrolled meetings and outside of the Word of God. And
Paul says right here, [1 Corinthians 11]

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

(37)	If any man think himself to be a prophet ,or spiritual, (that’s
full of the Holy Ghost,) let him acknowledge (let him superimpose upon
every single thing he knows or thinks he knows. Put my Word above every
single thought that you have. Blot out everything you ever knew.)

	I remember Bro. Branham telling us about the woman talking in tongues.
And Bro. Branham shut her up. They said, “Bro. Branham you did a
terrible thing.” 

	He said, “What do you mean a terrible thing? I’m preaching the Word
of Almighty God. I’m preaching the truth. And you mean to say she can
butt in and destroy a meeting?” 

	“Oh, but Bro. Branham, she had new manna.” 

	Oh …?… She had a lie from hell! She had a perversion! She was a
tinkling brass, sounding gong! She’ll wake up too late to find the
meal she thought she ate was only a dream. And the water that she
thought she was drinking was dry dust. It’s too bad. I never asked him
to do it, and I never put these things in the Bible. See? 

(37)	…(what) I write are the commandments of (God). 

	Then It says: 

(38)	If any man (is) ignorant, let him be ignorant. 

	And Bro. Branham used the same Scripture. So, if you don’t want to
take it, goodbye. 

32.	Now we see it is not, nor did I ever say that Peter was teaching
error or had gifts in confusion. But somewhere and somehow those who
claimed Peter, for he is mentioned, got caught up in a manner that
conflicted with Paul’s church order. I lay this on Peter’s disciple
or disciples, because nobody else is mentioned. Why would Paul mention
Peter, if Peter wasn’t involved? I want to know. Would you go to a
court and involve somebody that wasn’t involved? See? 

	I never saw the report, and I don’t know anything much about it, but
somebody told me the other day that they’re listed as the debouched
guy, Marv Albert, you know this miserable NBA announcer that’s such a
filthy scum. And so the lawyer popped a question. Of course, he was, you
know, he just said, “Did anybody else ever say such and so?” And
they brought this person’s name in, they should not have brought him
in, had nothing to do with the court, the case at all. And so the lawyer
said, “I object.” The judge says “objection.” But you see, he
snuck it in.

33.	Now I don’t say for one minute that Peter himself had anything to
do with what went on in that church. I did before, as though he got
there, but I got to revise that and tell you the truth, he’s not so.
But somebody did, or the name Peter would not have been mentioned by
Paul. He was not a filthy type of lawyer, throwing off on Peter. He hit
Peter plenty hard in the Book of Galatians when he said, “Peter,
you’re a hypocrite! And I’m calling you one to your face.” Now
he’s not just a mean little petty guy here, throwing off on Peter. 

	So, there’s an influence! And the influence was Peter’s influence,
though opening the door was not in the church! Because the doctrine was
not by Peter to the Gentiles. And, when these people began following
anybody, and allowing anybody’s voice, outside of the voice of Paul,
they were doing so to their own destruction. That’s exactly what’s
happened today with this ministry, William Branham’s. It shouldn’t
be, brother/sister. I don’t want to hear anybody else, because they
don’t have it. When you have a man that goes around the world saying
he’s some great teacher, and he preached a sermon… I’ve told you
many times, he preached a sermon about this boy’s vision. This kid got
kicked in the head by a horse, or something, and here he’s raving in
his deliriums; and this guy preaches a whole sermon, and equates him to
Bro. Branham. I don’t care if you people had ten million visions, and
you can project them on this wall, I’d walk out and vomit. Who needs
your visions? 

	[You] say, “Bro. Vayle, don’t you believe in visions?” 

	Well, not that kind, I can tell you that. I’ve had dreams and visions
myself. 

34.	You know when you realize that you can go to a witch doctor and get
healed believing its God; I’m not going to put my faith in any vision
or any dream I ever had. No matter what happened to me. I’m going to
show you that film here, because Frankie Proctor sent it to me. It has
to do with Benny Hinn, and Benny Hinn, he just goes like ‘whomp’
like that, swatting, and they fall down. And Bro. Branham said that’s
the wrong spirit; but they get up healed. And in there you will see
Evander Holyfield, and they go… poom! On the floor, like a felled ox.
And he gets up healed of heart problems. And the doctors say, “Well,
he was misdiagnosed.” O God. Sure he was healed. Sure it was the Holy
Ghost that healed him. It wasn’t the Holy Ghost that knocked him down
though, because that’s a wrong spirit. Yeah, Judas could do the same
thing and a whole lot more. I want you to get the point. See?

	Now I’ll leave this on the disciples, or those that came in
mentioning Peter. Pitting Peter against Paul. Even trying to get Apollos
away from Paul, though Apollos had success in preaching the baptism of
John, and Paul came by, set them all straight, and Apollos became like a
son, like Timothy, it looks like in the Scripture. 

35.	Now, so did the error come by those who went back to Peter in
Pentecost? I can’t say for certainty, not being a prophet, but the
truth remains. Paul and Apollos were not in error. Someone claiming
Cephas, or perhaps even Matthew, James, or John, who knows. There might
have been several claiming certain things, but this is mentioned. And
Paul would not mention any name unless that name was legitimate, because
Paul’s not that kind of a guy. But the claim it was shrewd to mention
Peter because of Caesarea. Put it that… I’m just talking about what
could have happened now. Those who failed Paul failed the Word test. Now
all that I have said in other messages, and presently tonight, is to
show you that Paul had to set the gifts in order--to see the church in
order. And no one else in Scripture did that. There’s no record of
Peter, James, or John, the three great pillars of the church in
Jerusalem, coming out on church order. So, if there came error into the
church, it was not by Paul. Someone else did it. And Paul himself said,
“If I or an angel from heaven, change one Word, let me be accursed
along with that angel.” See, they would not tolerate it. 

	So, someone went back into the church that knew the power of the
spirit, but not the authority of the Word. As Bro. Branham said, “They
knew the Word in power, but not in revelation.” Remember, he said it.
We had the very sermon here; I used it word by word one time. So, this
goes to Matthew, unless they repented. “Many will come in that day.”
Now we’re right back to 1 Corinthians 13, and Matthew 7. “Many come
in that day. I never knew you.”

36.	So, all right. The Corinthians were the Alpha; today is the Omega.
That is what I was trying to tell you. And I erred about Peter going to
Corinth. This is not about history, or geography, or chronology, or even
persons per se, but about the truth. Ephesus was a church in Word order.
Corinth was not. Ephesus knew the vindicated Word and had the revealed
truth, which set the church in order. The members were all in order, and
there could have been a rapture, but the Bride was not complete. Today
we are there except for the last ones to come in and be child-trained,
or come into adoption, or maturity, as the Word of God says. 

	Now that was something I wanted to cover, and there’s something I
want to cover now. I think I’ve covered that, where you know what
I’m talking about. Anything I’ve said there, we’ve corrected and
brought it right to light, but you can understand that there is grounds
here, what I’m talking about, and you understand people will use just
about anybody and any ministry, and they should not be doing it.

37.	So, the next thing I want to cover, and I think I’ve just got
enough time to do it, is about the seven visions that were given to Bro.
Branham as indicative as the last or Seven Church Ages, even as this
hour now precedes the Great Tribulation, and the final destruction on
earth by atomic bombs, and the descent of God and His army. 

38.	Now vision number one was Mussolini and Ethiopia falling in his
steps. And Mussolini coming to a horrible end, which he certainly did.
And second vision was Hitler ris[ing]. And Bro. Branham saw the great
power there--the destruction--and how the Americans would take a
terrible beating as they came into the continent and tried to get past
those concrete trenches, and the mortar houses, and the powerful guns
and so on. And they almost lost the war there. And thirdly the three
great ‘isms’ of Fascism, Nazism, and Communism, will be swallowed by
Communism. And Bro. Branham said the voice said, “Watch Russia. Watch
Russia. Keep your eyes on the king of the north.” That was the third
vision. The fourth vision was the plastic bubble car. The fifth was the
skirt that was like a fig leaf, and has now become a g-string, like Bro.
Branham saw the American church with the hula skirt made out of dirty
white paper strips; in the back there was no covering her buttocks at
all. And then number six was the cruel woman. And number seven were the
craters. 

39.	Now, though these seven visions came in the order as given--one,
two, three, four, five, six, seven--they are not necessarily in
chronological order. Now Bro. Branham took vision number six, the cruel
woman, and placed it actually as vision four, because Kennedy came into
power, and the Catholic Church did it. So the cruel woman was already
there. Now I have taken, usually I put the plastic bubble car as number
five. And that’s what I have always looked at. But the plastic bubble
car was vision four. Now why I did that, I’m not positive. Because
I’m the one that got this out of the vision book to be very careful. 

	Because a couple of people came to me and they told me these visions
and I said, “Great,” I wrote them down, and I wrote down what they
also told me, which was that vision number eight was the hand came down
out of heaven, rolled a calendar back and said, “1977.” 

	And I read it to Bro. Branham, and he said, “Bro. Vayle,” he said,
“I don’t remember that in my vision.” 

	Well I said, “Bro. Branham everybody says that you told them that.”
Now, you see, he didn’t tell them that at all. See how people lie? Oh,
they’re all telling me, yeah, that’s it. Well I said, “Well, Bro.
Branham, how come?” 

	Well, he said, “Lee,” he said, “I’ve got a poor memory. We’ll
go to the vision book, and by tomorrow I’ll get it out, and we’ll go
through the vision book.” 

40.	There was no hand coming down with a calendar. Now, where did Leo
and Gene and all those guys get that? Now they were a couple of
perverts, so if you’re miserably perverted physically, I’ve got an
idea your spirit ain’t too hot either, because the Bible said, “Such
were some of you, but now you’re clean.” They were around Bro.
Branham and never got rid of their homosexual spirit. They’re both
dead now, and I can say what I want of course and not be liable, but the
point is, I’m not liable in telling anybody dirty stories. I’m
telling you the truth. When Bro. Branham told me what they were, I
thought he was just, you know, being as rotten as I am, using a bad name
about people. Positive truth. An absolute mess. If you don’t believe
that, you talk to Leo’s wife, who’s still living. Now those guys
were an absolute mess, and the people around them. But there was no
eighth vision. And this is what came out of the vision book. 

	And, where I got that, Bro. Branham himself, as I say, put number six
into number four. And it might have been in discussion or sermon, I
don’t know, that I put the plastic bubble car in number five. And I
did use it as a number of grace, which it would be indicative of the
last time that God has done something in the Bride’s hour, that would
actually show her, hey, we are at the end time; it’s run out. But,
when you begin to look at the plastic bubble car as number four, you
also look at the number of earth, which would be the greatest display of
human ability that was ever put together. Or [it] could be put together
at this particular time.

41.	Now we already saw the woman way back, just at the time of Bro.
Branham’s death, and he mentioned how they were naked. And at that
time you notice they were just using pasties. And at the same time, he
was talking about, as I say that hula skirt, that paper like a dirty
paper skirt …?…, and, as they came by, they revealed themselves.
Billy Paul came to me shortly, and he gave me a picture of Barbara
Streisand at one of the great Oscar nomination things, and here she had
her dress on, and her skirt completely pulled up over her buttocks, and
she was showing people her rear end. I don’t know what virtue that
was, or I don’t know exactly what type of… Well, it could be a
dramatic entrance or exit, but my God, there was certainly no class in
it, and no artistry. It is simply filth, filth, filth. And now, today I
was talking the other day to a friend of mine, and he went to a certain
beach in a certain place, and the women were wearing a g-string. 

42.	So, what I’m trying to tell you is this: there isn’t any use in
me trying to say this vision corresponds here, or that vision
corresponds there, as though there’s some chronology, and you can
actually begin to do something about it. But it’s like the Seals. The
Sixth Seal is actually… The greatest part of it is in the Great
Tribulation. But Bro. Branham put it at the time of Hitler, when those
two hundred thousand horsemen, which were evil spirits, were released
under Hitler and under Stalin, which was the second vision. Number two.
And there’s where the Sixth Seal was. 

	So like the Seals, you cannot have a chronology. Because in Seal number
one, white horse, and then you had a red horse, two, then you had a
black horse, three, and under four you had a brindle--all poured
together. And that was the antichrist. On the white horse, the red
horse, the black horse, the brindle, riding to eternity. So you can’t
get chronology. You get revelation, and that’s all you need to have.
And, of course, the great revelation is under the fourth Church Age,
where we find the Jezebel doctrine and the harlot church and all of them
were heading right for the Great Tribulation, because you see, there’s
no repentance for them. They organize; they’re gone out. And the rest
follow suit, right down the line.

	So, I just wanted to bring that to you, to let you to know that what I
said there on number five, it really doesn’t matter, because the big
thing is that I go by more than this, trying to line these up just to
show you where it’s contemporary. I do not go back for one minute on
the fact that Israel became a nation under 555, which was her grace,
that God allowed her to be a nation. Though remember the world did that.
God has not yet made her that nation, and the Jews recognize it.
They’re waiting for their day. Also, I showed you it was when Israel
went to the Vatican and made a concord under 666. Now that’s not
antichrist per se, number 666, but you can see where we are today with
the calendar. You can see where we are with the visions. You can see
where we are with the Seals.

	So, I had to bring that back to you tonight to show you that I wasn’t
dead center on that, but the point is that we’re bringing that out
merely for illustration. I was not building a doctrine upon it, and I do
not intend to. My doctrine is solidly along with the Word here, and
that’s where I start and that’s where I end; and furthermore, I do
not wish under any consideration to get away from it.

43.	So, all right. I’ve done what I can now. I don’t know that
there’s anything I’ve left unsaid that I have made a wrong
impression on, except one thing more. And that is I think when I hit
the, what we see today in our church, going back to the ancient times,
when the people went off the doctrine. And I was relating the fact that
even at the time that you will see that Peter was not correct with his
attitudes, and the church in Jerusalem was not right on circumcision.
They were trying to blend in there something apart from grace. But. when
they saw their error, knowing that Paul was absolutely vindicated, you
notice they left their error. But we’re illustrating concerning when
Barnabas came against Paul, I think at one time, and I did correct this,
that my mind slipping into the argument with Peter, put Barnabas with
the Judeizers, not Peter, on circumcision, but the ones that came from
Jerusalem and wanted Timothy to be circumcised. I was bringing out the
fact, not that Barnabas was serpent seed, (I’m sure you’re not going
to find that on a tape.) but I put it so strong that somebody could
actually think I was saying, “Well, Barnabas was serpent seed, or this
guy’s serpent seed.” It isn’t that at all. 

44.	The fact of the matter is my thrust is this: there isn’t anybody
has a right to argue with a vindicated prophet, no matter what he says.
As Bro. Branham said, “Look, even if it’s not in the Bible,” he
said, “positively that prophet is right.” What’s he talking about?
Well you try to find some of the things; you try to find Hitler in the
Bible. Try to find a plastic car in the Bible. Go ahead and find some of
those things in the Bible. You can’t do it. But was he right? A
hundred percent. And is he right on these things? A hundred percent. Can
you find Los Angeles going down? No, but you can find Jesus saying,
“If I say to this mountain, be thou removed and cast into the sea, and
don’t doubt,” he said, “that will be done.” 

	Didn’t William Branham say to his son Billy Paul, “If the sharks
aren’t floating here,” where on Third Avenue where May’s is, and
that’s different from the other May down there on Fairfax. It’s the
one on Third Avenue, right in the heart of town. He said, “I’m a
false prophet.” So, did he say to this mountain, “Be thou
removed”? Is it going to happen? Ah-hah! You better believe it.
Didn’t the fig tree get cursed? Huh? Wasn’t it the same God that did
it? Jesus couldn’t do it. William Branham couldn’t do it. You
believe in your heart and don’t doubt. 

45.	I never heard Bro. Branham say, but it’s been heard around the
country, that Bro. Branham’s supposed to have told certain people
there are certain things, if you don’t believe, you’re sure you
ain’t got it. And one is the tent vision, I believe. Another is Los
Angeles going down. Now Bro. Branham didn’t tell me that, and I
can’t go by hearsay. But I can go by the fact of this: that you better
believe where Bro. Branham said it, and though you don’t understand
it, just leave it alone, because it’s going to be there. I don’t
doubt whatever that vision was, Bro. Branham coming back, because he’s
going to be back. If he doesn’t come back don’t ask me to come back.
I can tell you that. Oh, he could come back and me not come back,
you’d better believe that, too. What’s he going to do? I don’t
know. But [it] parallels Jesus Christ; it’s going to be things
concerning the Kingdom. That’s what Jesus did. 

46.	So I just want to clear all these things up, because whether I’m
ever in this pulpit again, which I don’t know… I figure I will be,
but then again I don’t know how it is. And the very fact that my wife
is not well, even in the hospital her lungs began to fill with water
that night on Thursday, they still let her come home Friday, out of
intensive care, it could strike momentarily. It’s a very desperate
thing. It keeps me on pins and needles. I’m watching continuously, and
it’s under great stress and very great stress, and I just don’t feel
that I am able to at this time, unless something strikes, that I can do
too much more, and so we’re just leaving it go there. And, as I’ve
already said on the tape, whatever people wish to do, I simply can only
do so much and be only party to so much. So I’m sorry, but if the Lord
wills otherwise, I’ll do what I can. 

	Let’s bow our heads in prayer.

	Heavenly Father we come to You now at this time, and we thank You for
the time You’ve given us to talk about those things which I want to
get out of my mind and my heart and let the people know that certainly
I’m not infallible. I can make mistakes. I can make booboo’s. And
though these mistakes I brought tonight are not great errors as though
it changes anything, we certainly go back to history Lord, and try to
line up every single thing in history chronologically, whatever we do,
so that we don’t lead anybody astray, in any way, shape or form, or
anybody think I’ve got a revelation that’s different from Bro.
Branham’s or superior to it, or I know something he didn’t know, and
can tell them something they should know, that they weren’t already
told somewhere by the prophet. So Father I trust now that our hearts are
clean before you and our lives, and Lord that our mouths give forth
sweet water at all time, we walk in the sweet Presence of Jesus Christ,
in the light which was of the Rose of Sharon, that got crushed that
others might have help. In Jesus’ Name we pray. Amen.

	[Bro. Vayle continues with the Communion service.]