The Prophet and the Works of God (3182)

'Beaumont, Texas'

Bro. Lee Vayle,  November 21, 1982

	Shall we pray, Heavenly Father, we're very grateful that You're here
with us Present, the Father amongst His children, and we know that
You’re here not in the old sense that we knew that You were here to
bless, but it's something far greater. You're here not to just bring a
blessing, but, You're here actually to change the course of history
which you're doing now by transforming people through the transfusing
power of God, through the transfiguring of the mind. Going right down to
the very being until there will be a people here that are no longer
earthbound who possess it all. Because, the Saints of the Most High
shall possess the Kingdom in this fourth empire, this Fourth Age, and
we'll own it all, Lord, because of You changing the course of history by
changing men thereby changing destiny.

	We submit ourselves to You tonight, Lord, in that particular way
knowing that we would have to do this anyway, because, there's nothing
we can do about it. It's something that's in Your sovereign grace and
disposition, and we're glad that You're disposed toward us. And, Lord,
we're now disposed toward You, making Him mutual we're very thankful
therefore, that not only the Kingdom of God come nigh that we're
actually a part of that Kingdom being burst in this hour.

	We know, Lord, this is true and we take our stand in testimony upon the
infallible manifestation and credibility of the Word of God, and we give
Thee glory in Jesus' Name we pray. Amen. You may be seated.

You know, just thinking tonight the Scripture tells us that…referring
to wisdom and foolishness, why he said: [1 Corinthians 1:]

		(26) 	For (you) see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men
						after (the) flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, (that's after
the 					flesh) are called:

		(27) 	But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound
the 					wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to
confound 					the things (that You’re) mighty;

		(28) 	…base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath
God 					chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to (nothing)
things 						that are:

		(29) 	That no flesh should glory in his presence.

		(30) 	But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, 

	In other words, you’re base and you’re done, you’re perfectly
unacceptable in the world, who you are, and by what you are, you're
finished. You have nothing commendable, you’ve got nothing that would
ever commend you as far as the world is concerned. But listen:

		(30) 	But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us 		
			wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

		(31) 	That, according as it is written, He that (glory), let him glory
in 						the Lord.

2.	I couldn't help but think of that tonight as I was coming in, because
this is the hour when people have a sense of destiny. Now, I've never
been happy with people who have a sense of destiny in this hour, because
most of the time I saw this sense of destiny that people has was built
primarily upon the manifestation of gifts. Which gifts are fine, but, I
want you to know that gifts bring a debt. Grace does not bring debts,
but gifts do bring debts. That's the bad feature. If the Scripture said,
"If you have received something, why do you ask as though you had not
received it." [1 Cor. 4:7b] And we find that this is where the gifts
fell into disrepute, and the life went out of the gifts into the Word.

	People didn't realize that in the midst of these gifts was a perfect
ministry, which was the perfect parallel yea, more than the parallel it
was the literal perfect ministry of Christ returned to this earth which
laid the foundation for the Capstone. Now, you may have wondered what's
that all about. Well, it's actually very simple; it simply means that
God took a man and gave him the literal ministry of the Lord Jesus
Christ when He was here upon earth, which ministry substantiated that
God absolutely was the author of it. And this ministry would
authenticate the Great One Who was to come, which was not William
Branham, but God Himself; showing that He was here. So, It laid a
perfect foundation for the Capstone. That Capstone being Jesus Christ in
the form of the Holy Spirit.

3.	Now, as we look at ourselves, we look at ourselves as Israel going
out of Egypt. And there was literally nothing in them to commend them to
the exit, and to the destination, and to the placing in the Kingdom
outside of the Word of God, which was given to a lineage. And that
lineage was of Jacob, who was of Isaac, who was of Abraham. And we saw a
predestinated people in the flesh.

	Well, the same thing holds good today. "For we beloved are the children
of the promise." [Gal. 4:28b] And our commendation is strictly that a
promise. So, now you see what I'm getting at; it isn't character, you
ain't got any at least. Oh, come on. How would your character line up
with the character of Christ? It's not fruit, because, you wouldn't know
half of the time anymore than I would whether it was something done in
the Spirit of God than the spirit of man. We've all got nice natures to
a degree, (you know) nice is nice, I'm not too happy with nice. But,
we've all got nice natures to a degree.

4.	How many things have you ever done that you knew that you're really
led of the Lord to do? It's ten to one that you're most inspired moments
are hogwash. That you just…were bubbling over with your own joy, of
your own milk of human kindness which was slightly more than sour,
though you didn't recognize it. And so, you performed that which you
thought was really fine. Haw, oh, I don't want to face my record.
"Nothing in my hand I bring, simply to the Cross I cling, Rock of Ages
cleft for let me hide myself in Thee."

 	The good thing that God gave us promise. The good thing He hasn't
taken the smart things, the wise things, the discerning things, (you
know) what man would call 'great'. But, He takes those that even if they
were of consequence in the world, He makes them of no consequence, until
all the glorying is of God.

	I appreciate that tonight, I really do. I don't know how you feel about
it, and I'm not going to tell their inner most feelings on the subject
and spill the beans; because, I talk too much anyway. And it's about
time I stop talking. You know, about certain things, just went on with
the Word.                

5.	Now, we're going to go to the Word again, and continue from this
morning, and as usual, I'm not going to tell you anything new and
wonderful. But, if you catch the tone in the atmosphere in which you are
given what you already know, it would do something for you. Because, the
sobriety of this morning's message comes down to literally to one
segment of thought, and that is, unless you understand Presence and the
prophet, you don't understand even the prophet. Because, there is no
such thing as the prophet without the Presence. You simply have a
mechanical facet that will get you nowhere. Because, the prophet,
though, in the economy of the flesh is the 'kingpin' he invariably
fizzles. 

	Take any prophet you want, he's the first stage of the rocket of the
great Roman candle of redemption, and he always fizzles, but God never
does. (See?) His Word will eventually come to pass, It always works out.

6.	Now, we're going to go into 'The Prophet and the Works of God',
continuing from this morning, and we'll read Scripture, such as Amos 3:
Deuteronomy 29: and so on. So, we'll just flip around the various Books
we're going to be interested in reading. And we get over here to Amos
3:7.

		(7) 	Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, (except) he revealeth his 		
			secret unto his servants the prophets.

	In plain English, God is not going to do anything until He gives fair
warning of what He's about to do. That means, that this is going to be
something out of the ordinary, which we'll talk about. God will do
nothing. There's nothing He will do, except He first of all reveals it.

7.	All right, Deuteronomy 29:29.

		(29) 	The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things
						which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever,
that 					we may do all the words of (the) law.

	Now, you notice in here, those things which are secret are retained by
God until such time that He wants to reveal them. And no amount of
guesswork and no amount of interjecting one's idea into the Scripture
has anything to do with it. God alone is sovereign concerning His Being
and His doing. And He will reveal It to us as is necessary through a
prophet.

8.	Deuteronomy 18:17-22.

		(17) 	…the LORD said unto me, They have well spoken that which they 
					have spoken.

		(18) 	I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like
unto 						thee, (I'll) put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak
unto them 					all that I shall command him.

		(19) 	And it shall come to pass, whosoever will not hearken unto my
words 					which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.

	In other words, when God speaks the requirement of God will simply be
this: that you missed It, and pay the price. That's your requirement for
missing It, you'll pay the price. In other words, you won't be a part of
It.

		(20) 	But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name,
						which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in
the 					name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.

		(21) 	And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which
						the LORD hath not spoken?

		(22) 	When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing
follow 					not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath
not spoken, 					but the prophet spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt
not be afraid of him.

9.	Something over here I think I might want to look at in Lamentations
3: I'll just read It to you.

		(37) 	Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord
commandeth 					it not.

		(38) 	Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?

	So, you can see here that, it's got to come to pass, because even
though, it's the mouth the man, It is not the mouth of the man, It is
the mouth of God speaking the Word of God.

	So, nobody can say, "Something is going to come to pass, if the Lord
has not commanded it." (See?) Because, God can't fail. That's why you
get infallibility here in the prophet with the 'Thus saith the Lord',
and many people don't understand, or care to understand.

10.		Also, we go to 1 Corinthians 2: now, we've been in this time after
time, but you get to know the Scripture this way, beginning at verse 9. 

		(9) 	But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither
have 						entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath
prepared 						for them that love him.

		(10) 	But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit
						searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

	Now, that might sound like a very strange statement that, you'd say,
"Well, how is it that Spirit of God is moving around to find out the
things of God?

	That's not what he's saying. What he's saying here, that before there
was a speck of stardust, when God sat in solitude for trillions of
years. Through introspection, God as it were, looking into Himself when
all that lay there brought forth a plan and the Spirit…now that same
Spirit, (God being Spirit) brings that to our attention. Even that which
would plumb the very depths of Almighty God.

11.	Now, you know that it's very true that we us people don't like to
bare our souls. You know, Samson made a fool mistake by bearing his, and
he did it through a no good woman. And Eve bared her soul to a no good
beast. And you know, that we bare our souls and it's really stupid. I'm
telling you the truth. One of the greatest secrets in this life is
learning to keep your mouth shut. Especially concerning your own soul.
Keep it well covered. See, God knows it anyway. And you deal strictly
with God. See, when you bare you soul you lay yourself vulnerable. God
became vulnerable by bearing His Soul. But, He's the only One can do it,
because, (you see) God cannot be truly vulnerable on this grounds: that
He's absolute Truth. And there is nobody can deal with God in such a way
as to be harmful or hurtful. But, you begin fooling around as though
you're God, you're going to pay a price. 

	Now, that's just a word to the wise thrown in here. Learn to keep your
mouths shut. "Hast thou faith? have it to thyself." [Rom. 14:22] That's
another saying of God. That's the Word. But, you see, God literally
bared His Soul to it.

12.	All right:

		(11) 	For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man
						which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but 			
		the Spirit of God. (See, that's telling you what we already said up 		
			here.)

		(12) 	Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the
spirit 						which is of God; that we might know the things that are
freely given 					to us of God. (Those things that are freely given, the
rest you just 						leave alone.)

	Now, 2 Peter 1:15-21, It says:

		(15) 	Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease 	
				have these things always in remembrance.

		(16) 	For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made 
				known unto you the power and (presence) of our Lord Jesus…but 				
	were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

		(17) 	For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there
						came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my 				
	beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

		(18) 	And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were 			
		with him in the holy mount.

		(19) 	We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto (we) do 			
		well that (you) take heed, as unto a light that (shines) in a dark
place, 					until the day dawn, the day star arise in your hearts:

		(20) 	Knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture is of any
private 						interpretation.

		(21) 	For prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy 	
				men of God spake as they were moved (or windswept) by the 						Holy
(Spirit).

	Now, speaking in terms of original revelation, or the coordination of
Scripture, or a particular event, or era, which the prophet called a
juncture, or turning a corner, it is abundantly evident from the
Scripture that we read, that the people of God as a body, and as
individuals in that body cannot receive revelation from God, and know
the things of God at any other way than by a prophet.

 	Now, I'm going to go over that again: From the Scripture, see which we
read here: we can see that in terms of an original revelation--in other
words, when the thing first comes forth, or at a time when it is
necessary to go back and reach into Scripture to place the hour in which
we live, and identify with that Word and what goes with It. It is
absolutely clear from what we read, that neither the Church as a body,
or individuals separate different members within the body, can receive a
revelation. It takes a singular designated peculiar identified person
called a prophet, who is not five-fold minister. He's a different person
entirely.

14.	Now, you can see this in 1 Corinthians 14:36-37.

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

		(37) 	If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, (that's
a prophet, 					or born again, and that's a five-fold ministry, prophet)
let him 						acknowledge (profess the same as, confess the same as,
admit to, 						swear to) that the things that I write unto you are the
commandments 					of the Lord.

	Now, that was the original Word that God gave Paul for the Gentiles.
That every single ounce of It was based upon a pre-revelation in
Scripture, namely the Old Testament, but which Scripture had to be
formulated as a body of truth for the churches through Seven Church
Ages. It took a prophet to do it, and it couldn't come any other way.

	Now remember, we are not dealing with personal leadings and problems,
both go under gifts of the Spirit. There's plenty of room to take care
of those things that are outside the pale of Scripture, and yet have to
do with the Scripture, because we as people have to do with the
Scripture, and we've got personal problems. We've got personal needs. We
like to be led of the Lord especially. And as the prophet Paul said, "If
you live in the Spirit, walk in the Spirit." [Gal. 5:25] Well, now,
there's a lot of walking in the Spirit that could be perfectly based
upon leadings of the Holy Spirit, which comes to you in your private
life; or those things which are brought forth in meetings wherein there
are gifts that can be used for that particular time.

15.	Now, this we're talking about deals with God's plan of redemption,
because redemption is the key note of the entire Bible.  Man falling and
being redeemed back to God. So that literally you will find in the whole
Scripture of which there are several Books and dozens and dozens of
chapters, (Isaiah alone having sixty-six) and thousands of verses. You
will find that only the first two chapters deal with man in an ideal
state. Everything else deals with redemption, or the coming back to God.


	So therefore, the Bible is intrinsically a Book of redemption. And what
we're looking at in this plan, is the continuity of the redemption of
God concerning which Word is given to prophets, (one at a time) to give
to those to whom redemption is their lot. Now, you can't come in any
other way then by a prophet.

	Now, that does not mean that every church, like this church here, maybe
one down the road, or someplace else, or even every generation must have
a prophet sent from God. It doesn't mean that. It means, that whatever
God wants set forth in which is demanded a change or a charge. Now,
there can be a change there, or there could be a charge given. Now, if
that is to be done you're going to have a prophet come on the scene.
There is no other way it can be done. So, it means that whatever God
wants set forth, in which is demanded a charge or a change, (or vice
versa) for any given time, and for whatever time period it must come in
this way. There's got to be a prophet. And the revelation is so
conclusive as to God's determined Word, and man's benefit from God's
will, that the prophetic revelation holds good until it is time for
another change. There's another juncture; there's another turning of the
corner, if you will. And all of these things work perfectly in the
program of God.

16.	Now, let's just prove it. We go to Hebrews 1: and let's read what It
says.

God, who…(in many parts, and in many ways) spake in time(s)			 past
unto the fathers (in) the prophets,

	Now, It tells you right there that God has a way of doing things. And
He does it in many different ways as to the delivery, and how it might
appear, that always by a prophet. He does it in many times. And he says
here: "That when God speaks as pertaining to the redemptive issues of
life, He will use a prophet in many parts, use many prophets, and the
Word came in many sections." And the Word today still comes in sections.
By the grace of God It's the last section to the Gentiles. But, It comes
by a prophet.

	Over here, what we read in Amos, we go back and just read It again.
Where He says here concerning the secret things: "Surely the Lord will
do nothing." [Amos 3:7] Now watch, "Surely the Lord will do nothing." 

	Now, it doesn't mean that God hasn't done something. It doesn't mean
that God's not going to do something. It's telling you here that the
church, the people that are involved in redemption have something that
they can rely upon, and that reliance will a deliberate reliance upon
God, because this is how God does things. He doesn't leave you in the
dark. ('There's a Man that can turn on the Light', is one of Bro.
Branham's sermons.) So many people are fearful.

17.	Now, at my age, people say, "Well, you're getting older, and so
therefore you psych yourself to prepare to die. I can't psych myself to
prepare to die, but I'm very worried to die. Because, I haven’t
psyched myself with anything that anybody says to me, or any book that I
read outside divine revelation of the Word of God, that eternal life is
zoe, which is not eternal life, it is simply zoe, from which you get
zoology, which is life. Now, not biology, zoology. 

That's why those living creatures were zo-ons, not har-i-ons, which were
wild beasts. It showed that in them was life. In my life here that I'm
living, (now you may not think so) but I'm going to depart this life
exactly as I am, and I'm going to go to a place where I can be me. And
I've been wanting to do it all my life. Death has no fear, and there's
nothing to scare you. Now, you can sit there and not have my revelation
and you may have to psych yourself. I have to psyche myself. I'm fast
approaching the hour where there will be no fear whatsoever in my life
at all.

	You say, "How do you know?" 

	Well, that's for me to know. I said awhile ago, you don't tell
everything, and I spill my guts, and it's about time I smarten up to not
spill my guts. Because, all you do, somebody goes in and throws a rock
the size of a football into it, see it splash.

 	Suffice it to say, my word, I stand here and I do not lie to you.
Because, why should I lie? I'll only face it down the road. (See?)
There's no psyching of the thing. No need to psych anything. God reveals
His secrets, or the things which are to a point, but no longer should be
withheld from them, He brings it out to them. And he lays it in the open
through a prophet.

18.	Now, let's go to Exodus 6:3, and we'll be able to deal with this, so
you'll understand more what I'm saying. Now, He says in verse 3,

(3)	And I appeared unto Abraham, (and) unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by
the 	                     name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH
was I not known                              to them.

	Now, you hear what I read? "I appeared unto Abraham, I appeared unto
Isaac, I appeared unto Jacob, by the Name of God Almighty. But by my
Name Jehovah, was I not known to them." 

 	Now, let's just see if that's the truth. Because, we find ourselves a
little problem here, as we go to Genesis 22:14.

		(14) 	And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah Jireh…

 	I thought they said, they didn't know My Name? Who's lying? Same God
said, "By I wasn't known by Jehovah." He's known by Jehovah. Four
hundred years before He Appeared to Moses, and He says to Moses, "By My
Name Jehovah was I not know." But, he says right over here, He was known
as Jehovah.

	Well, that would be pretty tricky, except it's not too tricky. Let's
look at some root words here in the Hebrew. We're looking at this word
'Jehovah', it comes from a series, building up from a root word. Such as
Genesis 23:14, comes from the root word of 3068, which comes from the
root word 1961. [Strong: 3068 Yhovah yeh-ho-vaw' from   HYPERLINK
"http://www.eliyah.com/cgi-bin/strongs.cgi?file=hebrewlexicon&isindex=19
61"  1961 ; (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah] 

19.	Nineteen sixty-one, is the word you get for Jehovah, 'Yhovah', or
some say, 'Yahweh'. The word means 'to exist'. But, that's not all. It
means to 'become'. It means to come to pass. And It's always emphatic.
Never an auxiliary. In other words, It always stands alone. When you use
the word 'Jehovah', it means 'to exist', to 'become', 'to come to pass'.
That in turn is taken from the self existent, or Eternal One.   

	Now, what It is, God was never known to a group of people by the Name
of Jehovah. Because, He says, "to them." which is plural. His revelation
was always in the singular. It was only at this time that the nations
(which was made up of two million people) would receive from the prophet
the collective revelation of Jehovah, which would bear seven redemptive
titles…(it's eight, or better actually, it's more than seven.) But,
all the compound words as Jehovah-Jireh, and Shalom, and Tsidkenu and
all the rest, were known individually only to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
But, when it came to Moses, God was now dealing with and leading a
nation, and for the first time an identity to a nation had now evolved
and become and was existing.

20.	All right, do you realize that every single one of you that's born
again, and every single person that's ever been born again, (into the
Gentile church) the Bride. "For there is none other Name under heaven
whereby the individual must be saved, except the Name of Jesus." [Acts
4:12] And everyone is known as a Christian with an individual rebirth,
but at the end-time it's a collective revelation of where we become the
Bride, or Mrs. Jesus. (You follow what I am saying?)

	See, when you come to a juncture, or you're coming (sort of) to a
phasing out and a phasing in, a transition, because we're phasing out
the baptism with the Holy Ghost as per individual, and we've phased in
the sealing by the same Holy Ghost as a Person, the Capstone. (You heard
what I said? You understand what I said? Ask your pastor, he'll teach it
to you, I haven't got too much time.) I'll go over it again.

21.	Look, the baptism with the Holy Ghost is temporary. In Ephesians
1:13-14, It says you're sealed in by the baptism with the Holy Ghost
unto the day of redemption. When the day of redemption arrives and no
more can be full of the Holy Ghost, it's over, it's temporary, the
prophet said so. (Is that right?) Where he said it, don't ask me, I'll
read it and I forget it, or I hear it and I forget where it is, but I
remember what he said. That's all I need to know. 

	Until this hour, and at this hour in the phasing out, or the transition
from where nobody receives the Holy Ghost ever again in the Gentiles.
Where nobody's born again, except for the slight period left for child
training, God Himself comes and seals in the individual Church, so
they're collectively one man, or one Bride standing here. So, there's
several hundred, and you're not known anymore in the realm of an
individual Christian; or one that's born again through Jesus you become
a Bride. You're no more called saints, you're not more called church,
you're called a 'Bride', because, it's in the transition.  

 	Now, there's nobody but a prophet could tell you that. So, you
understand what I say, when God is in process and you're coming into a
corner that's turned, that requires a prophet just the same as the
original Word required a prophet. Because, the original Word of the
Gentile church depends upon a correlation of the Old Testament promises,
"that in Him shall the Gentiles also trust," and so on. [Rom. 15:12b]
(You understand now what I'm saying?)

22.	Okay, even a casual study of the Bible shows the prophet's intimacy
with God. For, the Word descends by the prophet's spirit. God is in the
mouth of the prophet, (so to speak) or God's Word in the mouth of the
prophet.

	Now, just look at Balaam, he is not even placed in Israel, yet as a
prophet, was absolutely one with God in his mouth, not his heart. He
wasn't in the election. But, he was a prophet. Now, he wasn't a true
prophet, he was truly a prophet. (See?) Now, he was absolutely one with
God as far as the spoken, but un-partaken prophesy to Israel was
concerned. Balaam himself was not in the election. (See?) That's
tremendous proof of the prophet categorically speaking for God.

	In other words, don't try to make him anything he's not. Old, Balak
king, "Oh great Balaam, great Balaam, I'll make you the biggest bishop
and monsignor and pope that the world has ever seen. I've got gold to
lay at your feet, you'll be tremendous. Now, stand right there and
prophesy, you're a prophet." [Numbers 22:] Now, he could absolutely
bring that word, but he wasn't a Word-prophet in the sense of God
bringing a Word. What he could was make a pronouncement as of a specific
occasion. 

23.	Now, I'll tell you where Balaam finally ended up, he ended up
fighting Israel and dying. Moses was a great prophet of God, he
glorified himself, as we showed you this morning, and God had to put him
out. Not out of the election, just terminated his existence. Which
wasn't that bad. I think Moses was lucky to get off the hook. You know,
you got to jump sometimes to get off the hook, it's not (you know) you
shouldn't do that. But, it's just kind of good to get out of this world
of trouble. I don't think we should take short cuts, but, you know what
I mean. I just don't see where anybody can fault Moses. (See?)

	But, what I'm trying to show you, it doesn't make the prophet somebody.
Although, he is somebody. It's God you look to, (you see) God in the
man. Then at the same time you can't run down God because of the man.
Because, what's God got to work with? (See?) And the prophets weren't
instruments of redemption, they simply brought Word about the
redemption. Jesus was the instrument of redemption, and He was perfect.

24.	Okay, let's go to Numbers 24:13, talk about this fellow Balaam just
to see, (or give you a little insight here if I can, in a second.)

		(13) 	If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I
cannot 						go beyond the commandment of the LORD, to do either good or
						bad of mine own mind; but what the LORD saith, that will I speak?

	Now, he tells you right there, the word of the prophet is not the Word
of the prophet. The vindication of a prophet is not the vindication of a
prophet, it's the vindication of God. Because, a man cannot say a thing,
and then God stands behind It, unless God said It through the man.

	All right, that ought to make you think. And the thinking is this:
mechanics are only to the elect as the basis of dynamics. God's not out
there giving anything to the world, He's just giving it to the Bride.
And that what the prophet brings, is the basic, or the mechanics which
will turn into the dynamics when God lights that Word on fire within the
individual.

25.	Now, see, the true Word prophet is one with God’s prophet is one
with God, in the Word. Now, Jesus was more than that. (See?) He was God
in flesh, but a prophet isn't. A prophet himself is not Logos, he's only
a part of It. But, when it comes to that Word, see, I don't care if a
prophet…why look, a prophet can look pretty messy. God said to Moses,
"One prophet to do funny things, like (He said to one) to marry a
harlot." Oh, that's pretty crazy isn't it, to marry some slop out there
in the street, if you pick up has been used by a bunch of men. He told
another one, He said, "You got to eat human dung." And He changed it to
animal dung. "You got to lie on your side naked."

	Oh you say, "Those guys were…they look like they were crazy."
Absolutely they looked crazy. See, you can look at a prophet and sneer.
And that shows you don't know the first thing about the things of God.
Because, you've got it all mixed up with character and daring do, and
lovely do, and nicey, nice. Where it's just one thing, and that's the
Word. I don't care if God would put his Word in a door-knob, or a brass
monkey. That’d be God's business. The angel stood there and made a
little old jack-ass speak. Because, Balaam got rushing down there too
fast for anybody's good. (See?) 

26.	All right, the word prophet is one with God in Word. Now, let's go
further: the prophet is the Living Word of God to the people. Now,
that's a hair raiser right there. How could…irrespect to man, supposed
to be a prophet and had to marry a harlot, have kids by her. I could
just vomit thinking about that. I'm sure glad I wasn't back in those
days. God let me off easy, with my temperament. And it's not that I'm
too nice a person either. He's the Living Word of God to the people.
(See?)

	In other words, the Word of God is brought to Life in a prophet. It's
literally brought to Life in the prophet, because that man is living,
and that Word is in him, and that Word is for that hour. So, it's the
Word of the hour in the man of the hour, manifesting God in that hour.

	Now, if there's not an hour that you need a prophet, you're not going
to get one. But, if there's an hour that needs a prophet then we better
have one. (See?) 

27.	All right, now the prophet, the prophet is God to the people.
(that's right) The prophet, what is it? but God in the prophet. God
speaking in him. Never does God declare Himself without a prophet. Study
church history and the mess that's made in church history. 

	I'm going to tell you something: we're firmly convinced that history
has run out. I hope to God it has, I believe it has. Because, let me
tell you, if we're wrong about William Branham and this hour, history
will prove that we were as nutty as the Seventh Day Adventist, Jehovah
Witness' and all the rest of them. But, let's just look at one thing,
Israel was not back in the home land at any time the Seventh Day
Adventist and the Jehovah Witnesses came out of Methodism made their
ridiculous statements. Neither was there any ministry of a man with
'Thus saith the Lord'. The earmarks of history were not in, and the
earmarks of a prophet of this category, were not in. That's why I can
categorically tell you within the next twenty-four hours, Jesus Christ
cannot come back in the flesh on this earth, because the earmarks are
not in.

	You say, "Aren't you kind of scared to say it?"  I'm kind of scared to
say it, but I'll still say it. I'm not defying God, I'm just telling you
flat, they're not in. 

28.	When '77 began to draw close, they said, "Bro. Vayle, what about
it?"

	I said, "No way, the signs aren't in."

	"Well," you say, "how do you know that He can't come tomorrow?"

	Because, I haven't got that sweet Spirit yet, and he told me I'd have
it. Now, between now and midnight, and I hope it does come I'll call you
all up and I'll say, "Hey, I'll be out of here shortly." Oh yeah, look,
I'm not dealing with those things that are nebulous out there, and those
things which are frying pan philosophy, I'm dealing in the Fire of God,
the Pillar of Fire that came amongst us. I'm not warming my hands on
imaginary coal, not any more I'm not. I might have at one time and did
at one time. Never a prophet, never God declaring Himself without a
prophet. And never a prophet declaring himself without God. You can pick
him off like a phony…heaven knows what in three minutes.  

	These guys that purport to have something for the church and don't have
'Thus saith the Lord' in the face of a man that had It, I have no more
time with him than a dog has for two or three tails. Well, a dog might
have room for two or three tails, I don't. God and the prophet are one
Word. And by grace and condescension one flesh. Oh, that will stumble
them all. Why, just look at the old boy that picked a harlot and lay
with her, and have kids by her.

	"All God's hour …?... then to have a prophet like that." 

	"Shut up! You don't even know My mind," says God, "Bunch of
botchers-upper." 

	Eve thought she was smart too. Remember, Adam left God for the woman. I
hope nobody is sitting here tonight that's going to leave God for the
woman out there, the harlot. Said, "You'll cleave and become one flesh."
And those that stay with God cleave and become one flesh. Jesus
Appearing in Bride form, in flesh again at this hour. (See?)

 	Now, the prophet does not seek it. But, like the canvas or the screen
upon which the light falls from the projector to show the picture,
though the hand of God clings upon that man, seeks him, and the Word
comes forth.

29.	Then what about those to whom the prophet comes? Oh, that's a
logical question if this is the way It comes to the prophet. What about
us to whom the prophet comes? Good question, John 13:20.

		(20) 	(Truly, truly), I say unto…, He that (receives) whomsoever I
send 						(receives) me; and he that (receives) me (receives) him that
sent me.

	And the Logos was talking. "There was a man sent from God whose name
was John."          [John 1:6]  

	"Behold, I send unto you prophets." [Mat. 23:24] God sends prophets,
then a ministry to follow by other men. Known as wise men who can
disseminate Word by the understanding of It. And Scribes, who
disseminate it by writing It. In other words, there's a five-fold
ministry. And those who are not engaged in the five-fold ministry, but
are able to say those things which are truly set forth.

	Now, He said, "When they received that One who brings the Word, they
receive Me Who is the Word." [John 13:20] (See?)

30.	Jesus prayed in John 17, "That they would all be one, (all those who
believe) they may be one in us, as we are in each other." That's Jesus
speaking concerning Elohim. And God was in Christ, because He was the
Logos, or the attributes of God. The Logos is God in Word form. (See?)
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with Elohim, and the
Word was Elohim." [John 1:1]

	Why? Because It was the attributes in manifestation. And life has got
to be in attributes, or there aren't any attributes. So, He was the
attributes, the Logos, and because the Word was in Jesus. He was that
Prophet, because He was that Word made flesh. He was that Prophet. He
was to be that Prophet.

	Now, He couldn't be the Lamb before He was that Prophet. He came
proclaiming and confronting people. It was a confrontation. And He said,
"I am that One. I am that Prophet." Now, Israel is built upon prophets.
Everything is built upon prophets.

	Isn't it strange, if everything is built upon prophets, and everything
comes out of the prophets, you can't tell when a prophet comes. Mighty
strange for Israel. Mighty strange for the Gentiles. Very strange.

31.	Our knowledge is increased to the place where I suppose it's this
year or next year, that every six months knowledge, particularity
worldly knowledge doubles itself. You'd be surprised the millions of
dollars spent on analyzing a butterfly wing. The little crystal. Why
don't they go to the snow fields?  Billions and trillions, and God knows
how many trillions of snow flakes, and every one with a different
pattern. Try to figure that one out. How would you like to make a
machine that could turn out a different pattern every time? Something,
like that little thing, like a kaleidoscope you put before your eyes,
(you know) whisk around, all those pretty little formations, geometric
formations come. Wouldn't it be nice?

	Well, you'd have to plumb the mind of God. How infinite, is God to have
snow fields over the centuries that produced snowflakes, trillions and
trillions, different from each other. And leave a leaf on every tree,
different from every other leaf on every other tree. And every finger
print different, from every other finger print. And right today, there's
four billion. Twenty billion since six thousand years maybe. How would
you like something like that? Sounds good doesn't it? Very good.

32.	Now, He was all the Word. He was all of the redemption of the
redeeming God. All that was ours in regard to that redemption. And He
said in this hour we would all be one. And He says whenever He makes a
change, turning a corner, is disposed to coordinate in order to
manifest, and to thereby show that which is pertinent to this hour it
takes the prophet. (See?)

	How was it done? How does God work it? He sends a prophet. And all who
believe are one redeemed body, (one wife) that's in this hour. The
revelation of Almighty God at the end-time is a particular peculiar
revelation that comes to the Bride. Comes by the Spirit of Almighty God.
And that revelation is not tomorrow, it is now. Because, the Scripture
distinctly says, "Salvation is a now proposition, and in salvation is
healing, deliverance, soundness, preservation." That's why It says in
Malachi [4:]2, "The Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his
wings;" to the very place we're going to get changed. And that's of this
hour, and that's the revelation of this hour.  For the Scripture says,
"The Sun of righteousness shall rise with healings in his wings."

33.	Now, let's understand that flat, that can only come at a very
certain time. Therefore the position of the Son goes into transition,
God who was and is, is starting now to become what He wasn't before, and
to this point He never was the "Sun rising with healing, or immortality
in His wings." [Mal. 4:2] Never! Never! It comes at a time when the
earth is going to burn. (Yeah)  

	Every Christian, so called, every fundamentalist is enamored with the
thinking of the secret Rapture, the secret this, the secret that. I got
news for you: God doesn't do one thing in the secret until first of all,
a prophet stands up and says, "Hey, hold it, I got something to tell
you." [Amos 3:7]  

	Now, why are people talking about a Rapture without a prophet? Why do
they talk about God at all without a prophet, because they got no right
to? Because, everything else is supposition and presumption, and the
prophet spoke on presumption. Which means: illegitimate treading, for
one presumes to go where he has not right to go. Therefore, one has not
right to talk concerning those things which are secret or held in
abeyance, until first of all a genuine prophet comes on the scene. And
when he is on the scene you know one thing, God is already there ahead
of him. You may not think so, but that's true.

33.	All right, now in the last message this morning we brought out how
God places His works of grace amongst the people, or fulfills His Word
of grace in a people by the prophet. If by grace, it is not even by our
asking, let alone our doing. It's all of God. First one:

A: 	First there is a promise given to start it. God always start each
prophet (like Moses)       	going right to the Word of promise and
identifies Himself. That is, God identifies 			Himself and that prophet
with the promise. So therefore, number one: there is a promise.

B:	He has already birthed that prophet for that hour. If it is not the
hour, there will be 		no prophet. Refer to John, refer to Moses, the
fullness of time.

C:	God manifest Himself in His Word to the prophet who has a proven
ministry of the 		Word to vindicate himself to the people. God is
vindicated, and the prophet is vindicated.

D:	The prophet explains to the people what is transpiring.

E:	Now, the people grasp the Word of the hour, and become one with the
Word. They are 		the Word of God in flesh at that particular hour. 

	Why? Because God is dealing with their 	flesh at that hour. What is He
dealing with our flesh at this hour? Immortality! Then you think I can
stand here and say I'm a part of the Resurrection? I'd have to be a
traitor to the Word of God to make the prophet a liar. I'm not part of
the Resurrection, I don't die. Now, I'd like to die, because you see,
there's no difference. In fact, it's very, very entertaining, and very
beautiful thoughts to think we can have the full gambit of experience.
And those who stay here can have their full gambit of experience. I
wouldn't mind going on, just get out of here. Because, I'd be much
happier. I'd feel much healthier, I'd feel much everything. But, I can't
do it, because I have no Word to die. I have a Word to live, and become
immortal.

34.	Now, you see, you look at me you say, "Bro. Vayle…" Don't Bro.
Vayle me, get your own. If you don't like what I'm preaching, that's
fine, I won't be back Wednesday, and I'll just go to Huston and have a
nice dinner with somebody. Have a ball. Okay Jack? If I think he said
they'd take you with me, he said, "We'll both go, okay?" You just sit
here by yourself. 

	See, I'm not kidding you. I may laugh about it a little bit, ease your
tensions, ease my own tension, (which aren't very many right now, feel
good) but I want you to know I'm not up here just gassing off, and
fooling with you. (See?) You say, "Bro. Vayle, how do you know?" 

	Because, I told you, He takes the weak things, the stupid things, the
stink things, the smelly things, the rotten things, the vulgar things.
He takes Lee Vayle. (Yeah) That people may be rightfully confused. And
very confused. They say, "Oh, what does Lee Vayle know?" Oh, that's my
business, and God's business. I just know one thing: Whatever talks to
me never made a mistake yet. And always takes me right to the Word. And
if you can get beyond that, I don't know what you want to. You get to
what you want to, dance up and down, sing, shout, dance about, have a
fling-a-roll, a fling, whatever you want. I'll give you a Pentecostal
cocktail anytime you want.

35.	Now, these people are gathered together to Christ, not to the
prophets. See, when they come together, because He's going to get them
together. That's His job. No way can they be anything but that. They got
to be gathered to God. Now, that's how He does it.

	He said in Matthew 23: "How often would I have gathered you together?"
How does He do it? By the prophets. In 2 Thessalonians 2:1, He gathers
them the same way, by a prophet. Because, Paul was prophesying as a
prophet. Come by the prophet.

36.	Now, there was a prophet sent of God and vindicated by God in this
our hour. Certainly, Bro. Branham. And as usual, the people did not
expect him, and were puzzled as to his identity. Oh, that' scriptural,
let's go back to Luke 3:15.

		(15) 	And as the people were in expectation, and all men mused in
their 						hearts of John, whether he were the Christ, or not;

	And they came and said, "Are you the Christ?"

	He [John] said, "No sir, no way." He said, I'm anointed unto Him."

	John was anointed unto Him, but he wasn't that One. They couldn't
figure him. 

37.	Let's go to Luke 17:20.

		(20) 	…the Pharisees (came and demanded), when the kingdom of God 		
			should come, he said, The kingdom of God cometh… (but, it's 					
invisible.)  

		(21)	 (And they'll) say, Lo here! or, lo there!... (but He said,
"Don't you 						run around looking for it. because it's already in the
middle of you, 						in the midst of you, and if you haven't got what it
takes, when it's 						pointed out, you're never going to see it.")

	See, you understand why I said a while ago, the prophets, when God
begins doing things to indicate and vindicate, and letting the people
know what's going on by manifestation, the prophet has got to explain
it.

	Now, that's when they turned on Bro. Branham, and said, "Who does he
think he is?" So therefore, the can turn on me and say worse for that.
Because, he might have had a good reason to think who he was, because
he's a nice guy, and I got no reason to think anything, except amazing
grace, and it's all the more amazing. So, you can enjoy with me and have
a nice time, or do what you want. But, I'm not kidding you, and I'm not
lying to you, and I'm not trying to tease you. I'm not trying to even
set a principle for you, and show you that this is how it is. (See?) 

38.	Now, but our prophet's identity lay in Deuteronomy 18:15, which
placed him in Acts 3: via Matthew 17: which made him Malachi 4:1-6,
which in turn placed him in Revelation 10:1-7. Now, Deuteronomy 18:15,
is absolutely concerning that prophet which was to come. 

	Now remember, there are two phases to the prophet which was to come.
The first phase was the declaration of the year of grace. The second,
was the vengeance of our God, where He opened the Book, he read to the
day of grace, and he closed It, concerning the day of the vengeance of
our God, and the comforting them that mourn, which is a two-sided coin.
Judgment to the world, and righteousness and Millennium to the godly.
Now, He's got to declare it! So, He returns in the Spirit to be Son of
man. 

	This takes you right to Acts 3: this is Matthew 17: "Elijah must truly
restore." What is he going to restore?  There's only one thing he can
restore, that's the Bride to virginity via, the Word which must first be
restored, before she can be restored. Why? Because the hour is here.
Now, you understand the hour is here. Where's the virgin? Here's the
Man, he wants His wife. She's been espoused. "Where is My Bride?"

	"Well, (a-hem, a-hem) we've got a problem here Lord, she's just a wee
bit pregnant." 

	She's been roughly two thousand years with a bastard child if you ask
me. She's messed, she opened her mind. Now, God's got to get that Bride
back to virginity.

	You say, "What about those that went on?" They paid their price, they
died.  

	There's a woman going to be standing here that doesn't pay the price of
death. She's got to get back. She's got to get back to eat of the Tree
of Life, an impregnation. Now, Abraham and Sarah were restored, and they
could go through the mechanics, but she couldn't get pregnant, until God
dynamized and sent the life to the sperm into the ovum. That's what
God's doing in this hour, restored Word in the mind of a Bride which is
going to make her in the position of bring the dead out of the ground,
and bringing Him back to this earth, and she's glorified with her
…?...

39.	Now, that's this hour, because when destruction falls, it is because
iniquity has run its course. But, righteousness also has to run its
course. (See?) So therefore, the Sun of righteousness will arise at this
end-time. And when He does, it is a Revelation [10:]1-10, the mighty
Messenger that comes down. You can say what you want, but Revelation
10:1, is Revelation 5:1, is Revelation 1:12. Same One. The same One seen
way down there in the Church Ages of the end, standing there, the Judge,
is the same One that Bro. Branham said, "Came on down."

	So, therefore in this hour, we have the consummation. And when there is
ever a change, there has got to be a prophet, and we had our prophet,
and when he came he was Malachi 4:5-6. He was Revelation 10:7. He
absolutely sitting there in Ephesians 1:15-23. He's the One mentioned in
Matthew 17: He's the One in Acts 3: He is the One with the very ministry
indicated in Matthew 24: actually Luke 17: and many portions of
Scriptures, He's throughout the Old Testament, all the way down the
line.

40.	And He's placed in this hour in order for God to bring a
consummation, and change the order of the day. Now remember, and don't
ever forget, God has to have a prophet. There is one God with one way
and no change, He demands a prophet. The prophet has to have God.

	How many times they come to Bro. Branham, "Oh, Bro. Branham this, oh,
Bro. Branham that?"

	He said, "I can't do anything."

	"Oh," you say, "now just a minute, we've got Pentecostal backgrounds,
we know people who do things." They just take the power of God and
slash, slam, bang, bang. 

	And Bro. Branham said, "Look, I may be able to take disease off, but
what if God doesn't want the disease off?"

	Hey, are you're looking at a man who had one Word, which was the Word
of God. Now, people don't like that. They want to take the Word of God
like a piece of putty, and it turns out to be silly-putty. Grotesque
figures coming out of it. Let me tell you something: this Word produces
Jesus Christ, not some silly-putty deal. Well, Bro. Branham couldn't do,
he couldn't speak of his own mind.

41.	Now, God has to have prophets. The prophet has to have God. These
are two separate people, yet inseparable. For it is one Word, even as
Jesus said in John 4:6-26. (And I don't like reading all the portion,
but, maybe some if It.) This is of the woman at the well, He reveals
Himself to her, right up to verse 24. 

		(24) 	God is… Spirit: they that worship him must worship him in
spirit 						and in truth.

		(25) 	The woman (said), I know that (Messiah) (comes), which is called
						Christ: when he is come, (he'll) tell us all things.

		(26) 	(And) Jesus (said, and spoke) unto her (and said), I that speak
unto 						thee am he.

	Now, you notice, that in there you have the absolute fact of the
ability of God to join Himself to a man, and at this particular case, it
was God in the man, which made Him that great Prophet. 

42.	 Now, we'll read a shorter portion. John 6:60-66.

		(60) 	Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said,
This 					is an hard saying; who can hear it?

		(61) 	When Jesus knew in himself his disciples murmured, (and) 						
he said…, Doth this offend you?

		(62) 	What and if (you) shall see the Son of man ascend up where he
was 					before? (Now, He's talking there or the pre-incarnation.)

		(63) 	It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing:
the words 					that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are
life.

	In other words, He knew that they couldn't grasp the value of the
indicative which was the miraculous. But, He's telling them that there
is going to come a day when His Word will literally become effective and
transforming, and that's this hour right now. Those Words are Spirit and
Life, because Reality has come.

		(64)	…there are some of you that believe not. Jesus knew from the 		
			beginning who they were that believed not, who should betray him.

		(65) 	And he said, Therefore (I) said…no man can come unto me,
except…					given unto him of my Father.

		(66)	From that time many…went (on) back… 

 	Now, you can see right there that the prophet and the Word is one,
just the same a Jesus and the Word was one, though the prophets are in a
portion, and Jesus was in all, the same thing holds good.

44.	All right, now listen: In Jesus' day see what happened. Here He is,
is that great vindicated One, but let's try to find out what happened.
In John 10:22, beginning:

		(22) 	And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, it was
winter.

		(23) 	And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch.

		(24) 	Then the Jews round about him, (came) and said…, How long (do 
					you) make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.

		(25) 	(And) Jesus answered…, I told you, (you didn't believe me)
…the 						works that I do in my Father's name…(tell you the same
thing.)

		(26)	(Now, he said, you can't) believe…because (you're) not of my
sheep, 					as I said… 

		(27) 	My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, they follow me:

		(28) 	And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, 
					neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.

		(29) 	My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man 	
				(can) pluck them out of my Father's hand.

		(30) 	I and my Father are one.

		(31) 	Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.

		(32) 	Jesus answered, Many good works have I shewed you from my 					
Father; for which of those works do (you) stone me?

		(33) 	(And they said, we don't stone you for) good work, (but what you
						said, You said something blasphemous.)

	I understand there's a big-mouth calling us dogs, he’s blasphemous.
He better watch his mouth, because I know his history. I don't think
he'd tell a lie, if you hit him on the head with a crow bar. I mean
truth, if you hit him on the head with a crow bar he'd just tell you a
lie anyway.

	I'm going to tell you something brother/sister, let's get this flat: I
know men who live lies, and die lying, right in this Message it's a
serious thing. But, I'm going to tell you, no man who perpetrates an
absolute lie is of God. I can show you Scripture, starting in the Garden
almost. And it was in the Garden that the first lie was told, and that
was of Satan. And no man full of the Holy Ghost tells a deliberate lie.
Now, you might not like that, you do what you want.

	"Well," you say, "I got relatives." Wonderful, you go where your
relatives are going, be my guest. Or, let's get tough, you want to get
tough, I get tough. And believe me, I can get tough. Take the Scriptures
and show you that lie is of the devil. These old boys here came back.
So, I'm going to tell you something, it's your word if you're
blaspheming. Is that a fact? How do they know?

45.	Jesus said, "Search the Scripture." [John 5:29]

	They didn't take any time. They're so opinionated; that they only had
one thing in mind. Now, let's get this flat: they had one thing in mind,
to preserve whatever they had, and it was their kingdom, and they had
nothing except destruction. (You follow what I am saying?)

	There's a lot of people got to tell lies, because that's all they've
got; is a kingdom that is nothing, that's all they've got is what
they've got right here. And they're trying to perpetuate it. It doesn't
go with this Message my brother/sister, lay it on the altar. You want to
leave God for the harlot? I want to tell you something: when Adam left
God for Eve, everything left. He went down, she was already down. The
earth went down, and let me tell you, death is more than a man's
thinking. Death is that which is destructive in every form in the
universe, be it animate or inanimate. Even the rocks cry out for the
sacrilege perpetrated upon them by mankind.

	The animals are dying and groaning, all nature is throbbing. That's
what separation does. That's what the lie did. (Huh? Yeah, Yep!) 

46.		[John 10:]

		(32)	…for which (good) work do (you) stone me (for)?

		(33)	(None of the works, they're all fine. He said, But you
blasphemed.						You're just a man, you make yourself) God.

		(34)	(I didn't make myself God, God made me God. He said, Isn't it the
						truth that God calls those) gods?

 		(35)	…whom the Word (comes and they're the prophets? And I am a 			
		Prophet? Then I'm in the form of God.)

	Certainly was right there.

		(36) 	Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into
the 						world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?

		(37) 	If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.

		(38) 	But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that
(you) 						may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in
him.

		(39)	(And) thy sought (the more) to take him…

	Don't you know, that the more that Bro. Branham was vindicated and
brought that Word, the more they hated him and tried to catch him? And
let me tell you something, the gates of hell are against you tonight
too, not just against me, get that down flat.

	"Oh," you say, "Lee Vayle's up there, he's going to take the brunt."

	I've got news for you, you're going to take your brunt too. 

47.	Because, if I can stay home and go to four places in two years and
be accused of running around the world and splitting churches, by a man
who's running around the world himself. And Bob Brown pinned his ears
back, said, "Just a minute now, bud, let's get this flat, (he said)
where's Lee been in two years?" He said, "You're the one that's been
running." He said, "You're the one that's been sending out all the radio
broadcasts and all the TV and everything else." He said, "Lee's gone
nowhere."

	I've been nowhere splitting no church, and I don't intend to. But, I'm
going to tell you, they're going to start it, don't worry and blame it
all on you guys. You don't think that happened? You show me one place
where Bro. Branham made a mess of anything, but he got blamed for it.
You show me where God made a mess, but He got blamed for it. He got
blamed for it.

	Now see, you look back in this day, here God manifest in the form of a
Prophet, because He was that Prophet, and the people never got past the
works. They never got to the Word. And if Jesus had stayed with the
works, they'd have crowned Him King. But the minute He opened His mouth
as a Prophet, that did it. (See?) The works merely vindicate that they
were done by the Father, but that's all that people wanted. But, the
Word was God and they turned It down. (See?)

47.	Now, what was the Word that was God in the prophet at that moment?
All right, what was the main thing that was there at that moment? 

	All right, in John 10:24-30. We read It.

		(24) 	…tell us plainly. (So He tells them plainly.)

	And over in 30.

		(30) 	(He said,) I and my Father are one.

	Now, notice verse 33, the last part.

		(33)	…because thou, being a man, makest thyself God.

	Now, every single time that God raises up a prophet, he becomes a
target. Can't take the prophet. Yet, without a prophet there is nothing.
Because, the Word must come to the individual, or there is no Word.

	All right look, I'll prove it to you: what if God never spoke to us?
Then there's no Word of God.

	"Oh," you say, "hold it, Bro. Vayle, there is a Word of God in God."

	But, if He never speaks It, is no Word. Our God's got a Prophet. And
the only way He could speak is by a Prophet. But, the prophet is always
the target. They shoot down every prophet. For Jesus said, "Oh you, that
kill the prophets." [Luke 13:34] And the prophet dies a million deaths.
They shoot him down every time. 

	Jesus was a man, yet He was God. A prophet is a man, but when the Word
is in him, he is God to the people. He veils the Word. He is the Word of
the hour, because that Word is in him. And listen, that Word lives in
him, because it is the Living Word, or the Word which God makes alive at
that hour. Now listen, let's face it, resurrection is just a word. But,
when Resurrection is God, it's no longer a word, watch him come up.
(See?) There's a big difference.

48.	All right, now so far so good, I hope at least. What are we looking
at still? We're looking to see why God is here and what He is doing.

	Back in Exodus 4:1-9, we can get some clues from that hopefully.

		(1) 	…Moses said, …behold, they will not believe me, nor (will
they) 						hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The LORD hath not
appeared 					unto thee.

	That's absolutely true. I don't blame them. I don't blame them at all
for saying that. You better come with something to convince the people. 

	You know, people have that have been fooled so often over the years, so
that's why I write today, and it's supposed to be that way, (by the way)
that's why they couldn't believe it Bro. Branham. You had to be anointed
to see who he was, there's no two ways about it. The sheep alone could
hear the voice coming out of a man.

		(2)	(So, God said, What's in your) hand? …he said, A rod.

		(3) 	…he said, Cast it (down)… and it became a serpent; (so on,
and 						so on.)

		(7) 	… (put his) hand (in his) bosom (took it back and forth, and so
						on and so on.)

	And God said, "You'll do these other things too."

	Now, notice in 10 to 12. First of all, the first part of verse 8.

		(8) 	…it shall come to pass, if (they'll) not believe thee, neither
hearken 					to the voice of the first sign, that (they'll) believe the
voice of the 						latter sign.

		(10)	And Moses said…LORD, O my LORD, I am not eloquent, neither 				
	heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am 					
slow of speech, and slow (of) tongue.

	Now, here God spoke to Moses, and He said, "You're going to be My
mouth."

	But, no doubt Moses said, "Oh my, I love to be eloquent for the first
time, I am going to be eloquent, and I am really going to sway the
people."

49.	And the next time he appeared before God, he stuttered and stumbled
all around like usual. "Now, (he said) I don't understand, I'm supposed
to be Your mouth piece, (and he said) ever since we kept talking back
and forth, (he said) I just stammer and stutter like I used to, (and he
said) what goes on here?" 

	But, don't think God is going to make the prophet a glorified creature.
He's not going to make the prophet a kind of creature he’d like to be.
Bro. Branham tried to get out of it. Moses tried to get out. Everybody
tries to get out of it. Even the five-fold minister runs, if he's got an
ounce of brains. The rest of guys come running around for a place to
preach. They want to impose themselves on you. Shut the door, slam it
tight, say, "Get out of here boy, get your own apple box." 

50.	I told a man that years ago. Guy smarted off me down in Florida. I
knew he was mad, because I preached about Bro. Branham being the
prophet. Then he said, "I'll tell you what Bro. Vayle, (he said)
concordance is not of God."

	I said, "Here's the book, prove it?" 

	"So, (I said,) I'll tell you one thing… 

	He said, " No sign of God." 

	"Here's my notes I said, "Prove it." I said, "Son, isn't it true that
you can't stand what I say about Bro. Branham?"

	He said, "Yeah."

	I said, "Get out of here, get your own apple box, I paid for this one."
Kicked him out. 

	Merciful, I'm not stupid, and I don't think you're stupid. That's if
you're stupid, I wouldn't be here. Because, why should stupid bird talk
to other stupid jerks. You know, plaa, fap! You ain't got enough money
to pay me that kind of dough. I'll start my own side show. No, you're
intelligent. Everybody is nuts but us. Everybody's crazy but us."
Prophet said so.

	Now, let's face it down here, Moses came along, and he said, "Look, (he
said) I thought something great was going to happen to me?" Ha, ha, ha,
great? The great thing had to happen. God is on the scene. (Yeah) 

	If you want to be a manifested son, the first thing you better get a
hold of this Word. That, manifest right there. Yeah, I preached this
morning and I know it went over some of your heads. See, because let's
face it, say, "Well, Bro. Vayle, I always believe that all these years."

	Do you think I'm preaching something this morning that I haven't
believe all the years? But, I'm trying to pin it down to you. God
prophet, Prophet God, inseparable. And people don't understand Who's
here, and why? And they believe in a prophet? Somebody's nuts.

	You got a bunch of people talking, you don't know what they're saying.
Now listen, I'm telling you flat, because know what's down the road. You
don't get the phone calls. I get the phone calls…get the phone off the
wall…   [tape ends]

 

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