The Purpose of Almighty God Bro. Lee Vayle July 27, 1973 …and chapter and read the Word of the Lord. Now when we move to Matthew don't turn from Ephesians just keep your finger there. Beginning at verse 3, [Ephesians 1:] (3) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: (4) According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: (5) Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, (6) To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. (7) In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; (8) Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence; You can tell right there there's no disgrace with God, because His grace is with wisdom and prudence. (9) Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: (10) That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him: (11) In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: (12) That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ. (13) In whom ye also trusted, after that (you) heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that (you) believed, (you) were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, (14) Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory. (15) Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints, (16) Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; (17) That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the know- ledge of him: 2. Now, we turn to Matthew for just a minute chapter 11:25-27. (25) At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. (26) Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight. (27) All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him. Going back to Ephesians [1:] (18) (That) the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that (you might) know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, (19) And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, (20) Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, (21) Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: (22) And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, (23) Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all (things with) all (things.) Shall we pray: Our kind Heavenly Father we thank You this evening we're standing in Your Presence, because we know You're here in our midst. And we know, Lord, if we did not even invoke Thy great Name in Thy Presence amongst us You would be here, for who can hide from Your eyes? Whoever, Lord, could flee from Your Presence that is not within man, but, Lord, all things are opened unto Your eyes with whom we have to do. And knowing that this is true that one day it's going to be made manifest in that great day. If we are not right with You by the rebirth experience, we'll stand in the judgment and then all things will be known. And it'll be known whether we have been hypocritical tonight, whether we've been genuine in whatsoever we have been, and we know that this is absolutely true, and we're going to have to face up exactly what we are, for soon You're Coming, and then that which is holy will be holy, and that which is right is righteous; and he which is filthy will be filthy still, it'll be all over. And so, Lord, tonight we pray, our hearts will be greatly solemnized by the fact that we're going to hear Your Word, and know what Your Word said according to what was revealed to us by vindicated prophet. And we pray therefore, Lord, the eyes for understanding shall be opened, and we shall all carefully watch what we're hearing tonight so we'll not be off that Word. But understand the riches and the glory which has been place in us through Jesus Christ our Lord. And now, Lord, I pray the speaking shall be absolutely identified with that which has been vindicated. And the hearing, Lord, should be that which is also of the same Spirit that we might be one together. Grant these mercies as we pray, Lord, for Your honor and glory that You might receive great praise in pre-eminence in a Bride in Jesus' Name we pray. Amen. You may be seated. 3. The message tonight is 'The Purpose of Almighty God'. The Purpose of Almighty God. In July 28, 1963 Bro. Branham preached 'Christ is the Mystery of God Revealed'. And in there as you well know he stated that God had a threefold purpose. [Firstly]: God wanted to, and actually did reveal Himself to the people. Secondly: He predestinated a Bride, a people in Whom He would be pre-eminent by indwelling that Bride. In other word Headship would be Christ centered in this Bride. Thirdly: He purposed to restore the Kingdom that had fallen to Satan by Adam's sin. Now, you can see that this is absolutely so by the Scripture which we read. For in Ephesians 1: 15-17 coupled with whatever is in Matthew 11, It said, (15) Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints, (16) Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; (17) That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: In other words God is going to give us the spirit of wisdom and revelation. And this spirit of wisdom and revelation will give us the knowledge of Almighty God, which He desires us to have. And It also says the same thing in Matthew [11:] 25-27. Secondly, there is to be a pre-eminence of Christ in a Bride as proven by [Ephesians 1:] verses 22-23. (22) And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head (or the pre-eminent One) over all (through) the church, (23) Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all things (with all things.) And you can actually find that 1 Corinthians 2: that all things refer to the full Word of God, so the Bride is full of the Word. I want to give you a little cheer as I go along, because it's going to be a long study tonight. 4. Now, also notice in Ephesians 3:11 (11) According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord: It's an eternal purpose. Again, you'll see the Kingdom restored on the very grounds of Ephesians 1:10-12. (10) That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are (in) earth; (now, this true then, there'll be restoration in heaven, there'll be restoration on earth, it's all going to be restored. That's exactly what the Scripture says) …in him. (11) In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: It says right here that God had purposed, this is His counsel that this very thing is going to come to pass. And with this we can also bring out corroborating evidence in the Book of Romans 8:21. Because creation itself shall also be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God. Right back to the glory of God from the Alpha to the Omega, from center to circumference, and from circumference to center, that He might be all and in all. 5. Now, let us take the first part, God revealing Himself, or God expressing Himself. Now, the minute we talk about God revealing Himself to men, we immediately understand that God is supernaturally hidden from man's view. And man cannot see God, unless God shows Himself in some way. See, supernaturally hidden He cannot be seen, and yet He must therefore reveal Himself in some way which is applicable, or apprehendable by man. But God is Spirit, and there is no original, or inherent relationship belief spirit and matter. Or to put it simply, God and matter are not of the same source. For God made matter. He created substance. The substance and matter are not made out of God, but God by creation made substance and matter. Nature and creation is not God, they were made by God. That is why we say that Spirit and matter are not kindred. So therefore, if God is going to reveal His own invisible Spirit Self to us who are matter, who are substance; He must do it in some creature form. (Are you listening?) I'm reading my notes, and I’m doing it on purpose. I'm not making one mistake. God cannot be seen as a Spirit. Spirit and matter do not coincide, because they are not of the same source. One cannot apprehend the other. So therefore, God must absolutely make Himself His Own invisible Spirit Self, visible, or revealed to us in a creature form. That's all we understand since flesh and blood cannot see the Kingdom of God. Cannot understand It. Then God must condescend to become as it were, a part of His Own creation. Veil Himself in a creature, or creation creature form. And by this form, we can see Him. Now, that is exactly what we find to be true throughout Scripture in relationship to man. 6. We go to Revelation 3:14. (14) And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; God calls Himself by three titles: 'The Amen'. The 'faithful and true witness'. 'The beginning of the creation of God'. But let me just put it this way, "Thus saith the Amen, Who is the beginning, (See, He's the Amen, He's also the beginning, same thing) He is the end and the beginning of creation of God." (See?) Of course He is, because He's the Alpha and Omega. For Alpha means the 'beginning', and Omega is 'Amen'. Now watch, Bro. Branham said, "The beginning of the creation of God, of which He is the beginning and the ending, He's all of it. (See?) This is the revelation of Christ in this Book is it not? And hear what Bro. Branham said: "The beginning of the creation of God was God creating Himself in the form of human flesh." 7. The revelation of God, God becoming one with His Own creature form. God making a body of His Own that He can be identified in. Certainly. There is no other way He can get the pre-eminence. He has to have a Bride to indwell her. But, leaving that thought going back to God creating Himself in human form. In Genesis 1:26, It says: (26) …Let us make man in our image, after our (own) likeness:… Now, especially the word 'likeness' we look at it. God made man in His likeness. When God made man in His likeness, the word suggests that God had some figure of a creature form in order to make man like that, because that's what likeness speaks of. The creature form, the matter being duplicated. So, God took upon Himself a sort of the form of humanity, or some form of humanity to start humanity. And then one day became a man Himself in order to bring all the Elect into the very image of Almighty God. 8. Now, let us see God taking on the creature form, or created form. We go first of all to the Book of Exodus chapter 3, and we all know what this is without reading It, because this happens to deal with Moses who stood before God. Notice in verse 2. (2) And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. You'll notice here that God took on the veil of the Pillar of Fire. He made a veil. He made a Fire, which in itself is not God, but which is something created by God. So, God took upon Himself a form of creature that He had made upon earth, or some form of creation. 9. In Exodus 33:23 we're going to see this form that God had when He made man. And He's still speaking to Moses here when Moses wanted to see Him. (33) And I will take away mind hand, and thou shalt see my back parts; but my face shall (thou) not (see.) God in revealing Himself must absolutely veil Himself in a creature form. Something of His Own creation in order to reveal Himself to His creation. 10. Again, in Ezekiel 1:1 (1) Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God. He did not see a vision from God, (so that goes without saying) he saw a natural vision of God. God was presented to him. Now, how did he see God? It tells us in verse 26. (26) And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne,… Notice the marvelous language of the Bible, It's flawless, It's perfect. You can't help but wonder how glorious, see, the Scripture all is so cohesive and perfect, made in the likeness of man, made in a Pillar of Fire, another likeness. And now, we've got a likeness that says here: (26) …(a) likeness of a throne, as the appearance (doesn't say it was) of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it. There was God showing Himself once more in a creature form in order to reveal Himself to that which is substance and matter, which in itself is not truly spiritual. 11. Notice also, another beautiful time of His veiling. It's over here in the Book of Revelation 4: and this to me is very beautiful, for It says in verses 2-3. (2) …immediately I was in the spirit: and…a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne. (3) And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald. What is this anyway? This is a picture of the amber color by flame of fire that came down. And in this Flame of Fire that shines forth as an emerald, as a sardine, as a jasper; and what is this? This is the Urim and the Thummim, God Himself manifesting in a form that people might know the truth and the revelation of Almighty God Himself. Because Urim and Thummim means 'manifestation in truth'. Then here is your Urim and Thummim right here, God revealing Himself to the people. 12. Now, notice also in Hebrews 1:1-2. Here we find the choicest of all, because this brings it down within a deeper…with a more simple understanding that we're acquainted with in the first two verses. (1) God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers (in) the prophets, Not by the prophets, so that is true, He was in the prophets by His Spirit, and He spoke to them because the Word of God descends by the prophet's spirit. Not by your spirit and mine, even though we have the same Holy Spirit. Is that right? You understand what I am saying? That's what the prophet said. I'm repeating him, I'm a parrot to the glory of God. (2) Hath in these last days spoken unto us (in) his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, … There He is, bringing it back to restoration, He's the only one that can do it by His pre-eminence, He has made even all these very ages. Now, God was in…"by His Spirit in the prophet." And God was in His Son by His Spirit Who will restore all heir-ship. 13. Now, watch carefully: Who is God the Creator? According to Scripture He is 'Elohim'. And Elohim is made up of two words, El, (e-l) and Elah, (e-l-a-h) . El means 'the strong one'. Elah means 'one bound by an oath', or 'bound by His Own Word'. Now, each of these names is significant, but especially is Elah significant, (for listen now) it can be used of other personalities as well as Deity Itself. You say, "Well, I don’t believe God gives His Name anywhere, He's jealous. I believe you believe wrong. I know you believe wrong. I can prove you believe wrong. 14. It can be uses as magistrate who are bound by an oath as it speaks of judges in Exodus 21:6. (6) Then his master shall bring him unto the (Elohim…that's right, see?) It was uses of Moses in Exodus 7:1 (1) And the LORD said unto Moses, See, I have made thee (Elohim, or Elah) to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet. (See?) It can be used of God in Exodus 12:12 (12) For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the (Elohim, or Elah) of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD. You see, they represented God, so therefore they used the Name. This is why exactly why God could be a Messenger, because by this Name He can identify. He has an identifying Name. He can be the servant as He was when [He] came to Jacob and to Abraham. And He came identifying Himself as an angel. He can be Messiah only under the very same context, because this allows Him to be as a creature Himself identifying Himself in a creature form though He is Almighty God. 15. That's exactly why Jesus said what He did over here in the Book of John 10: which Bro. Branham quoted so very, very many times. John 10:34-35 (34) Jesus answered (to) them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are (elohim?) (35) If he called them (elohim), unto whom the word of (the real Elohim) came, (see?) and the scripture cannot be broken; (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 (that Elohim?) In other words, I am Elohim come in flesh. (See?) No, this confirms the Book of Hebrews all by the same Holy Spirit saying the same thing: "God in sundry times in divers manners spake unto us in the prophet." [Heb 1:1] This is exactly why Bro. Branham could say, "In that day the Son of man will be revealed in a body of flesh" And He didn't need to be actually referring to the Bride, but could be referring to an individual, the prophet in the Bride. But, It didn't make Him God, It made Him the representative of God, It made Him the One who stood for God. And It made Him the One if you listen to, you were hearing God. And it meant, if you turned Him down, you were turning down God. (See?) 16. Now, also notice: Jehovah also took upon Himself a human form, (He did) and this is where you get the word 'Lord' many times. And there are many lords. This is how He Appears to Abraham in chapter 18 of the Book of Genesis, showing us what we are seeing tonight, that God reveals Himself, and He does it according to the Book of Revelation, Jesus Christ Who is the beginning of the creation of God. And if He's the beginning of it, He's the middle of it, He's the end of it, He's got to be all of it. And see how He's doing it, it's laid out before us, because man cannot apprehend that which is invisible and stand in the glory of God. Then God must condescend to do something about Himself that man may know God. Oh, can't you see what the prophet taught? God veiling Himself in simplicity and revealing Himself in the same. As people stumbling making too much or too little not know what it's all about. See, that's why I challenge anyone to show me one place where the prophet was wrong. (See?) It is God the unfailing Word the Logos in the creature, so that God can be revealed. God making a body of His Own, that He can be identified. Certainly, that's exactly right. So, we begin to understand how it is there is one God, not three, Who is revealing Himself. If you can see this, you don't have to see where God sent His Son. As though the Son was pre-existent with Almighty God Who was Father. There's no eternal son-ship, there's no such thing in the Book. It says, Son of God, Jesus Who came down, and became a creature form so that God could identify by filling Him. (We'll get into that in a minute.) Not three gods revealing who they are, three gods, but It's one God. His Name, or title, Elah, tells us, that He Who is bound by an oath. Or bound by His Own Word was able to become flesh, and did become flesh. He did. It is Elohim, under the title of Elah, Who reveals Himself through a creature form. 17. Now, we look at John 1:1 (the Gospel) (1) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (2) The same was in the beginning with God. (3) All things were made by him; and… (so on.) In the beginning was the Elohim, Whose Attribute was Elah, Who had the ability to become a man. And if God can't become a man, then you make God fallible. (See?) Certainly. Now listen, a God Who is bound by the Word, but God can't be bound, (now listen carefully) God cannot be bound except by what He is. Our limitations bind us, so do our potentialities bind us. God is also bound, He is bound by His Word. What He is, binds Him. So therefore, if God is bound by the Word, then He is the Word. …?... No great mystery. No great mystery, I'm bound by what I am. I'm Lee Vayle. I went to Bro. Branham and cried about it. I said, "I'm complaining Bro. Branham, I'm disgusted." "What's the matter?" He said. I said, "I'm fed up." He said, "What with?" "Me." "What's the matter with you?" I said, "I'm too mean and too harsh. I preach too rough." He said, "You wouldn't be Lee Vayle." "Oh, (I said) come on …?.. " I said, "Bill, there's a limit to everything. I'm just too mean." He staggered back like a …?... hit it, "It's too late, you've got to tell them." I am bound by what I am. I never asked for my brown eyes, my falling hair, my very large nose which used to disgust me, doesn't bother me at all as long as it keeps clear of sinus. I'm bound also by my good points and by my bad points. If I'm made in the image of God somewhere, this is the way it's got to be, God is bound by His too. What is He? He's the Word. Certainly, if He's bound by the Word, He's the Word. 18. Now watch, Word is Logos. But Logos is not Word that is written, or a part of speech like we say, now in verb, adjective, participle and so on. It is Spoken Word, and Spoken Word is the expression, or manifestation of the invisible thought. It is actually the revelation of what is invisible, so that one can by revelation know, or see the invisible. "The eyes of your understanding being opened." [Eph 1:18] (See?) Now, so Christ by becoming flesh, became the actual embodiment, and outward expression of the invisible God Elohim. He said, "Before Abraham was, I am." [Jn 8:58] He said, "If you believe not that I am, you shall die in your sins." [Jn 8:24] "He was God manifest in the flesh." (1Timothy 3:16) "He was the express image of the Person of God, because He was the Person of God." (Hebrews 1:3) "He was the image of the invisible God, because He simply made God visible. God Himself made Himself visible in the human form." (Colossians 1:15) He was the very form of God, Who came of no reputation taking upon Himself the former man that He might be seen of us, and we could behold His glory, and when people beheld His glory, they didn't recognize the glory. And they crucified the glory, and they're doing the same thing again today, because they want to see another glory. And the glory of Almighty God, so they missed the glory of God that was revealed. That's not a tongue twister, that's Almighty God, Word today. That's what the prophet said. 19. One God, many attributes, but He reveals His ways and Himself to us. So, we know there is but one. And that revelation when proven to be scriptural is a perfect revelation of Almighty God. Now, man wants another manifestation. Man wants another out-shining. Man wants another out-propheting the glory. Man wants what God will not give him. And until God wants what God gives him, there'll never be a revelation. God manifest. Yes, God revealing, absolutely, no guessing, this is it exactly. Now, as I said, if He is the Word, and He is revealing Himself, it will always be, for it must be according to the Word which He has given us, because what limits anything defines and reveals it. You get it? Let me tell you again: Now if God, if He is the Word, and He is revealing Himself, It will always be, for It must be, according to His Word which He has given us, because what limits anything and defines It, is the same thing that reveals It. Supposing I described an apple to you. Couldn't you guess it was an apple? That's what I'm saying here. That which limits It, and finds It, absolutely reveals It. Apple is not a peach. Peach is not a pear. God being the Word, bound by that Word, and what's going to reveal Him? The Word is going to reveal Him. (See?) He is that Word. 20. When God came down to us as a Dove and filled Jesus with the fullness of God, that same Jesus one day said, "Which of you convinceth me of sin?" [Jn 8:46] Now, that doesn't mean, "Which of you can put your finger on Me and see if I've sinned." It means, 'which of you can confute me'. Which of you as Bro. Branham said, and he brought it out not knowing the Greek, "Which of you can say, that I have failed to manifest one Word required of Me as that One?" Well brother/sister, if He failed in one Word, He can't be God. Because you can't take from God, or add to God. Some people have an idea that could out-God, God, or something. But they're wrong, it's not the way you do it. Now, also He said, "Which of you…what came the word 'confute', which of you can find me wrong in just one word?" Where did I miss being the Word of God? And therefore if I did not miss being the Word of God, I am Elohim, because Elohim exposes the Word. (See?) That's right, keep your thoughts on, you'll come out on top. Don't worry. 21. Now listen, they're on the road to Emmaus, He began with Moses and all the prophets, and revealed that all the Word was actually about Him. He was that Word, He was Elohim. You say, "How can all the Word be about Him?" I'll tell you simply, because He gave the Word, and He gave It to man revealing Himself. Then He left it up to man what He'd do with that Word. So therefore everything in that Bible is God and man in that Word. That's right, that's why Bro. Branham said, "If you can't see Him in every verse in the history, in the prose, in the law, in the Psalms, in the poetry, in prophets," He said, "You better read it again." And that's absolutely 'Thus Saith the Lord'. Because He is that history. It was His unfolding before the people and what they did. (See?) Makes it absolutely the revealed Word of Almighty God. He was Elohim, the Bible testifies of Him. Every Word is about Him somehow, It all relates to Him, now that we see how God has been revealing Himself. We can see easily how He expresses Himself. It's the same way. For when God expresses Himself it is the same as when any other person expresses himself. In other words, He declares Himself on the subject. What's the subject? God. And who is a better authority to declare than God is? Do you think you know all about me? Haw, you know nothing. You can't tell about me, how are you going to tell about God unless God reveals Himself? 22. He declares Himself on the subject, so God expresses, or declares Himself. And how does He do it? We go back to the Book of Deuteronomy 18:15-22, and we gain a little insight. Perhaps not all the insight we want, but we do gain some insight. (15) The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken; (16) According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not. Right here God's Own people desired that the creature form of God, the Pillar of Fire and the Thunder and Voice no longer be identified. And they said, "What we'll do, we'll use a representative Moses, you be that representative." And God said, "I'll take that exactly." Because that's exactly what God wanted to do. And He said, "I'll have a prophet." Is what He said. Now: (17) …the LORD said…They have well spoken… Isn't that nice that the people said the right thing? (Bro. Fred, where are you? The people said the right thing.) All right, it can be done, see? Now: (18) I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will 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, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. (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, (yeah, I won't let go on that, it's is alright. I won't be that mean preacher…) but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him. 23. Here we see Elohim expressing Himself by representation. To fail to listen could be death. Why? Because a prophet were God to the people. Now, then let's apply all this to Jesus. "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." [Jn 1:1] "All things were made by Him Who is the Word, Who is Elohim." [Jn 1:3] "And the Word became flesh." Verse 14. And in verse 18, "The only begotten Son, hath declared Him." Or in the Greek, 'exegeted' Him, which means 'to absolutely define picture' and present perfectly as to the content and entity through Word. God declared, God revealed, God defined, God made plain by the Word that God gives. Jesus came forth as the last Adam, who was both created and formed, (like the first Adam) for the ovum and the sperm were created in the womb of Mary. But the body was formed from the dust through the chemistry in the womb of Mary. And God indwelt that body at Jordan, so Jesus could say, "He that hath see Me, hath seen the Father." [Jn 14:9] I say, "Well, I want to see that spirit." You know what Jesus would say? "How long have I been with you? How long must I suffer for you, when are you going to learn?" You don't see it that way. But I want to see it that way. Then die in your sin. "Because if you believe not, that I am He, you die in your sin." What are you so scared of looking at a human figure and seeing God? God wasn't scared, why should you be scared? Why are you worried about His plan? He wasn't worried about His plan. The fact is, His plan is going to go into effect, and yours is going to go down the drain. 24. The prophet taught us, this is of no mystery. Jesus said, "He that hath seen Me, has seen the Father." So why do you keep saying, "Show us the Father, what's the matter with you?" You know, many people think Jesus was just such a little different person from what He was. You know at the grave side of Lazarus He wept. The Bible says He groaned. If you read the original translation He was angry at the unbelief. Jesus marveled one day, He marveled at their hardness of heart and their unbelief. "He that hath see Me, hath see the Father." This is the exclamation mark and the period rung down upon all ages. There is no alternative, there is no question mark. Why do you keep asking to show us the Father? 25. He proved it was He Elohim, the Word, by the scriptural works. John 14-9-11 (9) Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? (10) Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? (and) the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that (dwells) in me, he doeth the works. "Don't you see I'm Deuteronomy 18? Don't you see I'm a regular Prophet, a real Prophet, but I've gone beyond being a prophet, because I am that Prophet that was in the prophet?" Now listen, (11) Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake. He said, "Look it, if you can't understand it, you can understand this: Who's doing the kind of works I'm doing but God?" They said, "That doesn't settle you nothing will." You know I make this sound kind of hard, but if you realize the infinite patience of Jesus Christ with this man after all that time. (See?) Make lesser people like you and me just rise up and say, "Oh, let's call it quits and go home to glory, hallelujah I tried. I tried." My God what are they looking for? What do you want? What do you think you'd like to see? "Well…well, well… I wonder what I would like to see? Yeah, by the way, what would God be like?" It all boils down He's got to come in some creature form. He's got to come in His Own creation, just what the Book of Revelation says. 26. Certainly, you've got three witnesses: 1) In the beginning God created heaven and earth. [Gen 1:1] 2) In the beginning the was the Word, and the Word was with God. [Jn 1;1] And at the end here: 3) The faithful, the Amen, the beginning of the creation of God. [Rev 3:14] Three places, it's the beginning, the middle, the end. (See?) Sure, what Alpha's Omega, and what's in between. There's no board without two ends. And there no two ends without the board in the middle. (See?) God had revealed Himself in a creature form, Elohim the Servant. The Messenger was revealed, God expressed Himself in the Son. (Right) Relax and believe It. 27. You know something, let me tell you something: I knew there was one God for years. It wasn't too real, but I kept preaching and hammering away. And one day suddenly, 'boing', there it was, one God. Now you try to faze me. You can prove there's fourteen gods. You can prove there's half a god, I'll still coming away saying, "There's one God, I'm sorry I've had it." Now, you do the same with this. Get rid of your idols, your Trinitarian dogma. The little layers of unbelief and all these funny feelings of God. He was God! No problem, they looked at Him, that's what they should see, that's all God wanted them to see. And when they couldn't see, they called them blind. It's the only way that God had in doing it. If He'd had another way, He would have done it. God doesn't have two ways of doing the same thing. He's got one way. That's easily understood. The mystery of God in human flesh stood revealed, and the Son declared, or expressed, or exegeted Elohim. Elohim was unveiled as Christ brought Him into full view. (See?) Even God, what God was to man was brought in full view, as Bro. Branham said, "There as they sang the Psalm, 'they wounded my hands and my feet, all my bones stared at me, numbered them all'." [Psalm 22:] He said, "There they sang in the temple, and the Mercy Seat was brought into full view, which was Christ, because the mercy seat on earth was merely a type, or a creature form of reality." Then, look at God, letting men have a part in It. He said, "I'll let you make a mercy seat. I'll let you make me in a lesser substance, then I'll come down in your substance." Oh, hallelujah! That'd make a dead man come out in the resurrection. I'll prove it to you, you wait a while, I'm not talking through my hat. 28. Now, and once more in this hour, Elohim has been revealed. That's right, who were you looking at when you saw that one stand up and say, "In the Name of Jesus Christ, I take every spirit in this building under my control for the glory of God?" You were not looking at a man, you were looking at God, the God veiled in human flesh. William Branham was not Jesus Christ, but he's identified with Elohim, or I missed what the Word of God said. (See?) It's exactly the way it was. Not somebody saying, "We're going to pass the bread now in memory of the one whose body was broken out there in the highway." That's nonsense! Was the representative, that One. If that wasn't God in William Branham bringing this Word, then you and I are fools tonight. But, I'll ask you one question: How did this great foolish God back up the man who said, 'Thus Saith the Lord', proving that God listened to this man's word? Let me tell you something brother/sister, God doesn't listen to anybody's words, He listen to His Own Word. 29. Notice again, God expressing Himself. Not only did God express Himself [blank spot on tape] …expressed Himself by becoming a Son, but He has never stopped expressing Himself in the Church. Can you say, "Hallelujah?" Hallelujah. I'm glad you said it, I'm going to prove it to you. I won't ask you to do anything wrong, don't worry, I'm not one of those tricky preachers. A fellow tried to trick me one time, he said, "…?... over here in James… and the prayer of faith shall heal the sick." And I said, "Amen." And he said, "I caught you preacher, It said, 'Saved'." He's a liar, the word is 'sozo', and the word is the same for healing, and for salvation. Let's not trick ourselves in little Pentecostal nuttiness. Amen, I'm going to preach on, brother. Just say, "sic-em!" 30. Now listen, Revelation 1: (1) The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: (2) Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, of all things that he saw. (That's the testimony of Jesus Christ) (3) Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand. Now, you go to the Church Ages, chapter two and three, and you will find seven complete Church Ages in this earth, (under the Gentile Age) and he has continuously revealed Himself by seven major revelations of Himself to the messenger in each Age. And you can prove it, because It says here in the First Church Age, [Revelation 2:] (1) Unto the (messenger) of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars… (8) And unto the (messenger) …in Smyrna…These things saith the first and the last,… (12) ...(that has the)…sword… (18) …whose eyes (are) a flame of fire… And every single Age the messenger comes away with a revelation of Jesus Christ. And He is the revelation by virtue of the revelation being in Him. Seven Church Age messengers. I believe that's those seven Spirits before the Throne up there, seven Spirits of God. Because Bro. Branham said in the 'Rapture' tape, he said, "Those seven mighty Angels that came down were the seven counter-parts, as it were, standing before the Throne of God, and every one had a messenger on this earth. And in those seven messengers came down that Mighty Messenger came down with a revelation. 31. God revealed Himself in a creature form by those messengers by the Spirit of God within them. He gave them the Word for their day. That's exactly right. And at the end time there will be a complete revelation of the whole Word, because It says, "The mystery of God should be consummated and perfected in the days of the Voice of the Seventh Church Age messenger. Now, the Seventh Church… now let me read it for you here: it says: "But in the days of the Voice of the seventh messenger, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be perfected and consummated as God hath declared the Good News of His Gospel by His servants the prophets." The very mystery of God is going to be wound up through the complete revelation. And As Bro. Branham said, "that revelation is a threefold purpose." And mystery which has been hidden until this hour of which I'm speaking on according to what the prophet taught us in 'Christ is the Mystery of God Revealed'. Then in the opening of the Seven Seals, we see it has been Christ the Word all the time. Who was Elohim? Christ the Word. Who was Jehovah? Christ the Word. Who was in Moses, but Christ the Word. Who was there in Melchisedec? But Christ the Word. Who was Jesus? But Christ the Word. Who was with Paul? But Christ the Word. Who came back at Pentecost? But Christ the Word. Who indwells in the Church now? But Christ the Word. It's a whole revelation of Christ the Word. The Seventh Seal declared It, corrected all the errors and brought us back to full understanding. Certainly that's what it is. Here we are at the end, and the full assurance of faith has come to us, making us ready for a Rapture. 32. Now, our scholars find it very hard to see Seven Church Ages, and a continuing revelation of Jesus Christ, sure they do. They want to look back and say, "Well, he did it all in Jesus, and you got to sort of pick it up." I've got news for them, they're off, entirely off. It's a continuing revelation. Not we're adding to It, or taking from It, it's the continuing revelation, because It's God all the way. But, if you can see Christ, (now listen) if you can see Christ in the Old Testament in Abraham, in Joseph and Isaac, and Moses, and Samuel, and David, and the prophet and the mighty men because they are types there, then you can see Christ in the Bride revealing Himself as the Word to her also. Now listen, if Christ had the pre-eminence back there in the Old Testament, and as Bro. Branham said, "Men not knowing It just acting out the Coming One, then surely we're acting out the same One Who came two thousand years ago, even though we are actually unaware of it." I ask you a question: you think for one minute that Moses really understood this and believed it? I better not use Moses, because he did pretty well above the others. But you think maybe that Joseph understood this and believed it that way, and Jacob and some of those? They'd say themselves, and maybe David after he'd sin say, "Oh, I don't think, I don't think…that He's acting out anything in me. I just don't know, that He's revealing Himself, I just wonder about that." (See?) But it must be so, (now listen) it must be so if the Bride is the body of Christ. See, Elohim hasn't got any other way of doing it. And Jehovah hasn't got any other way of doing it. 33. Do you think…(now listen, let's watch carefully now) do you think any but the first and last Church Age messenger, (out of all seven) were aware of who they were? No, only Paul and William Branham. Why? Because Alpha is Omega. And if Paul knew then Seven has to know it. And Two, Three, Four, Five, and Six wouldn't even recognize it. (See?) I'll prove it to you, Moses knew and Jesus was the One Who replaced Moses, and they both knew it. And Moses stood with Jesus talking about His demise, and the fellow who missed death stood there and said, "Hallelujah, I won't be there to die, but I'll get it a little later on." Old Elijah. See, there again principle of Alpha and Omega. Remember, the prophet said a measure of the Spirit of Christ was poured out under Luther through justification. Wesley and Pentecost, and now the baptism and restoration, and Christ revealed fully as the seed of the entire Bible is planted. Christ showing Himself perfectly in this Age. So, Elohim has revealed and expressed Himself to men from the beginning. As soon as there was a man on earth God was expressing Himself. He had to, for this was His purpose which was in Himself. And what was in Him that alone had to come out. God's just like you and me, He can't express Himself what He isn't. That's why He can't lie, you and I can, just too bad. That's why it comes out. But, He can only reveal and express Himself according to His Own way, because that's how He is. Here is the mystery that men have found so hard to grasp, and therefore they are failing to see the power, the Presence of God's revealed, Acts 3:19. 34. Now, let's go to Acts 3:19, and we're going to see something here: (19) Repent (you) therefore, and be converted, (change your mind, and turn around, you only get to turn around by getting the Holy Ghost now. That's what Bro. Branham said, "conversion is the Holy Ghost") that your sins may be blotted out, (that's a sure way to know that they're gone, now listen,) when the times of refreshing (when God shall send a new revival) from the presence of the Lord. Now, let's be honest, they don't need a revival in heaven. God's not going to …?... an angel. There's only one place you need a revival and that's down here. Well, let's face it, be honest, we're not children, simple as ABC, we need a revival. Now, It says right here it's going to come from the Presence of God. Where? Right here. Then where's the Presence of God? It's going to be right here. Now, the word in the Greek for 'presence' means, 'that part of anything that's visible to the eye'. Now, what's invisible to human eye? The creature form that God takes on. Now, It goes on to say here that: (20) (He'll) send Jesus Christ which was (appointed) unto you. Not preached, Jesus wasn't preached, he was there. I'm not preached to you, I'm here. (21) Whom the heaven must (retain) until the times of (restoration) of all things, … 35. Now then, it's not Jesus Christ Himself in flesh that's here. But the Presence of Jehovah, or Elohim must be here. Where is God? In a prophet, because God's the Word. Now, the Bible says right here that God is going to send a revival from that which can be seen of God. And Jesus said, "Have you seen me so long and don't know I'm the Father? Then listen, I'll give you one more clue, look at My works, that's God when you see those works." Now, you show me a man who duplicated the ministry of Jesus Christ? I'll give you two thousand years to go into history, because that's how long we've been here. And I want you to show me one man who duplicated the ministry of Jesus Christ outside of William Branham? Now, he said there's going to be a revival, and Bro. Branham said, "See, that revival's been going on for twenty years and they can't kill it." How are they going to kill it when it's going to put you in a resurrection? Christ revealing Himself, proving Himself to this Age to put us in the Resurrection. You say, "Why?" Because brother/sister He can't come until there's a resurrection. (See?) Now, so Elohim revealed Himself and has revealed Himself in this day. 36. Now, we could go on and on, but we're going to quit right there and go to the second purpose. Because we've shown you God's revealed Himself. He has never stopped revealing Himself. He has revealed Himself consistently through the Scripture method, which is in Himself, which then must be Himself revealed. How is an artist an artist? "Oh, because he says so." Hogwash, he's an artist because he can draw, he shows he's an artist. He's got the ability and the spirit, the finesse and that which makes him an artist. Not some dibbler or dabbler. All the dibblers and dabblers, lot of dibblers and dabblers in the days of Moses. Korah, Dathan and Abiram, oh they dibbled and dabbled, and everybody that dibbled and dabbled with them lost out. Ended up in the Lake of Fire with that nonsense. 37. But Moses was a prophet, and God was in the prophet and He said, "You're Elohim to them." (See?) All through the Bible we've got the very same thing. Christ is in a 'Body-Day'. The Bride of the Lord Jesus Christ is His body. (See?) But we're not talking about that just specifically, we're talking specifically how God comes to us and shows us His Word. (See?) Now, how will He have the pre-eminence in the Bride? Now, His first purpose He's attained, there's no doubt about it. For six thousand years God have been revealing Himself. He's done it in a one way that He told us He'll do it, and it's always been that way. There's never been any other way. Since two thousand years we've had God reveal Himself by the Word to a messenger, and then the messenger teaches faithful servants, and they teach others. (See?) And those who saw with the understanding by the way God sent His revelation of Himself saw God. (See?) 38. Now, is that hard to understand? Well, I didn't get any comment, so I'll give one myself. First Samuel [3:] my favorite sweet little Scripture verse 21 (21) And the LORD appeared again in Shiloh: for the LORD revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the LORD. Now, let's go a little further, and It says over here, (15) And Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the house of (God.) And Samuel feared to show the vision (to) Eli. Now, that something or other has gone haywire if you don't understand It, because little Samuel didn't see anything, he heard something. And now the Bible says, "He had a vision through hearing." You want to see God, then hear His Word, and hear It right and you'll see God with your spiritual understanding. 39. Now, it's very simple to understand how God will get the pre-eminence. We go to the Book of Colossians 1:15-19, which Bro. Branham used, which I did not use until this moment. (15) Who is the image of the invisible God,… In other words, It says this One made invisible, come and look at Him. And they said, "Aw, He's Joseph's son, who needs him, illegitimate fellow come in here and try to tell us what to do. Never did like him in the first place." Boy, they didn't even investigate. One fellow said, "Listen, (he said) why do you desire our law condemn a man before you hear him?" "Oh, (they said) shut up, are you one of his people? Why no prophet comes out of Nazareth down there." Why He never came out of Nazareth, He came out of Judea. (Uh?) Certainly He did. They didn't bother looking. My, my, my, I can just see the same bunch of Jews around us tonight. (16) For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, dominions, principalities, powers:… Isn't that wonderful? Oh the whole thing belongs to Him. Of course the devil is using Him right now, but that doesn't make Him not God. (16) … all things were created by him, and for him: (17) …he is before all things, and by him all things (are maintained.) (18) …he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. Now you see: (19) For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell; Now, let's look at verse 16 and 17. It says here: (16) For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, dominions, principalities, powers: all things were created by him, and for him: (17) And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. Verse 19 (19) For it pleased the Father (it pleased the Father) that in him should all fulness dwell; (For in Him, all the fullness of the Godhead was pleased to dwell.) Now, that's what It says about Him Who has the pre-eminence. 40. Now, first of all…now watch, One as pre-eminent as this One…oh, look at this: "all things made by Him, in heaven, in earth, visible, invisible, dominion, principalities, all created by Him. He is before all things, and all things by Him consist." Well listen, One person that pre-eminent, how could He not have the pre-eminence by very right of fact that He is pre-eminent? Well come on, Bro. Branham said a little old policeman in Louisville, he's just about…so you could spit over his head without even (you know) raising your head, nothing to him. Stand there scrawny little fellow with a big old yellow mitt on, or white mitt stand in traffic. Big old five ton truck come roaring down with loaded with ten more tonners, pull up his hand and the truck goes screeeech! Why that fellow doesn't have any power to stop that truck. But look what's behind him. You say, "Oh boy, that guy, I'll stand aside, yes sir, Mr. Cop, yes sir Mr. Policeman, oh yes Mister…oh yes, Mr. Policeman," Get a ticket. "Oh yes, Mr. Policeman of yes Mr. Policeman." Why? Because he's the law. What about this One here? You talk about pre-eminence. How can He not be pre-eminent? Because He is pre-eminent. How could anybody say, "He is." How could anybody be pre-eminent who was not by virtue already pre-eminent? They're working up a bogyman, an imposter, a foul thing. You can't make a crude thing take the place of a high thing. Like maybe Mark Twain's 'Prince and the Pauper'. Got the two kids mixed up so they look alike. I've got news for you, you're not getting Jesus mixed up with anybody. He is pre-eminent. 41. Let's prove it, same thing over here in the Book of Romans, chapter 11:36. (36) For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things; to whom be glory… (That One pre-eminent. See?) Now listen, the creature could never approximate the Creator. And you've got a Roman Catholic church and a Protestant hierarchy. God have pity. Somebody stand there with a little old creed and dogma and come against the Word. "My church says so." Who cares about your church? Shee, I was a Presbyterian back in Canada. Then they joined with the Methodist. And the Methodist took our Presbyterian church and made it so filthy ungodly you never saw such a mess. Because the Presbyterian believe in salvation, and the Methodist preacher believed in nothing but sort of temperance, and he wasn't very temperate, or he'd have quit his diet and got a little thinner. He's so big you couldn't even look around him. Maybe like the old Methodist lady in our town that was a prohibition lady and when she was dying you look for her booze bottle to give her stimulus, and they finally found it. If I was against liquor that much, I wouldn't have a booze bottle around. Methodist, Baptist, what's that got to do with it? (See?) The creature could never approximate the Creator. Where's your pre-eminence now? One man vaunts himself against another. (Huh?) The hand against the foot. Not even the hand against the foot, this is directly against Almighty God. 42. Now, how exactly will He Who is pre-eminent by virtue of His Own stature, be pre-eminent in the Bride? Because it sounds like even this pre-eminent One could be in a bit of danger as to not be pre-eminent. Sure. I'll tell you, He will do it by revealing Himself to her. But what does He bother doing it in the first place? Does He reveal Himself in order not to be pre-eminent? He reveals Himself in order to be pre-eminent. And He reveals Himself to her in such a way that He will be everything to her, because He is everything to her. Because all things are by Him, and to Him, and for Him. (See?) All what makes Him naturally pre-eminent will be revealed to her, and entrusted to her, so that He will be all things to her. Now, that's staggering. This is what the prophet tried to get across. And I’m just a copycat tonight, because I don't know if I'm getting it across either to me, or to you. But, I'm going to be honest, I'm not up here lying to you. I'm very candid. But He has become all things to the Bride as the Scripture said. He is all things to the Church, because He is 'All things' by virtue of what He is, you see? 43. Now, that's exactly what we read over here in Ephesians 1: reading It again, verses 22-23. (22) And hath put all things under his feet,… Well, if everything is under Him, He's a pre-eminent One. I had a vision of Him once. Oh yes I did, and He appeared in a creature form the likeness of a man exactly as Ezekiel saw Him. Except He wasn't on the Throne, His feet were on the earth. And I'm going to show you something as God is my Judge. My hand representing the earth, is a ball, because it's a ball I saw it in the ball. Here was God in stature like this. Now, you examine yourself how big you are in the light of three billion people, over twenty-five thousand circumference earth, and God being this much bigger, just how big are you then when you compare yourself to God? Yet that One is all things to you and me. He has made Himself available, the pre-eminent One has revealed Himself, and in the revelation He has not withheld Himself by saying, "Look, but touch not, or taste not." He said, "Look and touch and taste." (See?) Oh yes He does. Yes He does. Hebrews 6 says He does it at the end time. And many will even go that far and still reject the pre-eminence in favor of a creed or a dogma, or some miserable church. 44. Now, further let us reason. And I say reason, now I'm going to use human reasoning and yet not human reasoning, but scriptural. In other words, free our minds and think. When Christ was here on earth, what did He express? The answer, He could and did express nothing but what He was, which is the Word, Elohim. Now listen, and since He has come back as the Holy Ghost two thousand years ago, (and been here two thousand years) what has He confidently expressed? He has continuously expressed what He is, which is the Word. Now watch it, justification, sanctification, restoration of gifts, full restored baptism with the Holy Ghost. Who is He? Revelation says, "He's faithful and true, He is the Word of God." (See?) That's all, that's all He can express. So to the Bride, He will express the fullness of the Godhead, and being all things to her, He will gain the pre-eminence, for He is her Head. That's right, He's pre-eminent, He's the Head. That's what the Bible said up here. He came to be the Head of the Church. What do people do, look at your feet when they want to talk to you? They look at your eyes. Look at your head. (See?) 45. Now, listen to what the prophet said. "Christ in you makes Him the center of life of the revelation." Now, if you're a Bride, you've got Christ in you. That makes Him the center of life of the revelation, because He's the Revelation and He's the Life. Now listen, as Christ in the Bible makes the Bible the complete revelation of Christ, (now Christ of the Bible makes the Bible a complete revelation of Christ) It does. Christ in you makes you the complete revelation of the whole thing. But, what are you here for? For Him! Who gets the pre-eminence? Christ, (see?) sure He's got the pre-eminence, because He is the pre-eminent One. Certainly He's the pre-eminent One, because He's all things to the Church. How can you believe in anything but a Word identified life? So, you say, "I admire that man and think he's got such a great spirit, but he's off the Word." I got news for you, you can admire him my brother, but don't ask Lee Vayle to do it. No, no brother/sister don't ask me. Now, here's the preaching I'm doing that I'd go ask Bro. Branham that I kind of wished he'd take away by prayer, but for a prophet he wouldn't do it. (See?) Don't ask me, to be caught away. And what Bro. Earl and his message last night could have brought out what to me was one of the most important words in the Church Age Book, because Bro. Branham penned it in his large bold handwriting concerning Laodicea, they will be a repeat of all diabolical cunning. How cunning would I be if my spirit was rough, hard, tough? But if I was sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet? Sweeter than the prophet. I got news for you honey, you're all women as far as I'm concerned tonight. Listen to me, Eve was not raped, she was seduced. Which means she was lulled by the beauty of the thought of the lovely act, to become a part with an anti-God thing. And you admire a man's spirit who is against the Word. Not Bro. Vayle. God hates those who hate His Word. 46. Now listen, everything that Christ was manifested and revealed on earth, He is pouring into the church so that what He reveal will not die, or lie dormant, but the revelation itself will come to life and express itself in the Bride. Why did God reveal Himself? So you'd know that He is the pre-eminent One. And if you can't see Him as the pre-eminent One brother/sister, there's something wrong with somebody eyes. If you've got a God that's so weak, that when He made Adam and Eve, He didn't know what they'd do, then He had no business doing something. He could hardly be omniscient, the Scripture says He is. Bro. Branham catalogued that, or categorized that infinity of God in His omniscience is such a place that he said, He knew how many fleas would be in this world and how many gnats, and how many times they'd bat their eyes. And I don't think I want to try to compute that on a computer Then with that Life expressed He has the pre-eminence. It has to be, for His Life is her life, (she doesn't have one of her own) the Bible says, "Christ is her life." 47. You know it's a funny thing, but today the people are so sorry for our dear sweet ladies that are so run down by these ferocious mean husbands. Why, she's got to go to him for everything, but she can't breathe without going to him. She can't think, but he's got to think for her. Well, I've got news for you: Jesus looks down and he said, "You can't think either, I'm supposed to think for you." Now, you're getting used to the real old Vayle, because this is how I act in the pulpit, when I try to get my point across. Because it's the only way I know how. Because if I said it real sweet, you'd miss the point and go right over your head. But this way, you didn't miss the point. If a husband's the head, he's pre-eminent. And if God is the Head, He is pre-eminent. And if He claims to be pre-eminent He's got to be the Head. I want to tell you something sister, your life is not your own, you haven't got a life of your own period. There's no such thing as a female life, it's all in a man, the Bible says so. Women doesn’t have a seed, the man has. I'm going to tell you, that's the way the Bride is. 48. I'm not running down women now, because Bride is female, and that's what I'm trying to show you. You can't show me wrong, because I've got the prophet, plus I've got the Bible. For the man is not of the woman, but the woman is of the man. The very life that she got is from Adam, there is no female life, it is all male life, but it was divided so that they could have children. Prophet gave. Her body is his body. That's right. Where did that body come from? From a Word, or a creed or a dogma? Shaking somebody's hand, or talking in tongues? Yeah. Glory to God, something really happened you know, Bro. Vayle when I took that communion, that changed my life. I've got news for you, you've got the wrong change. Her works are His works. Yeah. Oh, how we love to talk about work. You know something: I'm going to tell you a little secret. I've been mouthing off across the country, I shouldn't use those bad expressions about myself, been talking about the country. Because this is serious, not trying to make a joke. 49. A couple of years ago, I had one of those most disappointed experiences in my life. When I really had attempted to do right by the people where I live, because I felt so sorry for them being quite a few in number with no pastor; I went one day, (and it's all on a tape recorder) and I said, "Look, there's so many of you, and hunger for help, and I simply can't feel your burden and run home to you all the time, I was even leaving places on the field to get home, because I loved them. And I'd say, "Would you like me to help you to get a pastor? They said, "Yeah." Now, you know I shouldn’t have said that. What have I got to do with putting a pastor, helping pastors or anything? I got no right to try to do God a service. I am not a pastor. I know my life, listen to me, I teach. Could you think any congregation could stand me the way I teach before you like I do now for an hour and a half to two hours to three? Two and three times a week? Do you think the kind of spirit I carry on me to get my points across so I'm sweet when I sit down and you've talked your problems, and could cry and do anything with you? I could. Do you think I'm a pastor? I am no more pastor than nothing. I would rip up the wheat with the tares and I do it. Don't be shocked! Are you shocked? Let’s go home now and forget it, get in my motel. 50. You ain't even born again. I'm telling you what the prophet said. I'm not a pastor. I'm a teacher. I've got to stay on that road. And the minute I dare to put my finger on anything that was outside of my calling, though my heart was full of love, my works were no longer His works, they were Lee Vayle's and I paid the price of heart break for it. You think I don't love people? I sometimes do, not all the time. I got to be honest. Not trying to be funny, just be honest. I wouldn't lie to you. Why lie? Anybody can lie, you're foolish to lie, catch up with you. But there are times when I went to help people. I open door for man after man, each one cut my throat and betrayed me. And I want to God and I said, "Why?" And He said, "A man's gift makes room for him, you don't make room. " Then I wondered, I realized why it was a prophet, never opened any doors. And you think he did, but he didn't. The prophet didn't say, "I'll get this door for you, I'll make that door." I made my own. You know how I made my own? Nobody could write the Church Age Books, so I laid everything on the altar, gave up my whole living and said, "I'll do it if I can." And I did. 51. He didn't open any door. And I'd go home and wonder and say, "Why doesn't He open the door? Why doesn't He do something for me?" The prophet being a prophet knew a man's gift make room for him. And he told me several years before, "Bro. Vayle, you're like me, you've got a little gift of teaching, I've got a little gift of healing. Nobody wants your little gift of teaching, nobody wants a little gift of healing." I said, "That's sure sounds nice to you, but it's pretty hard on me. What do I do?" I knew he was getting along pretty good with his little gift. I wasn't doing so hot with my little gift. He said, "Doc, you know you're no pastor." I said, "I know that, what'll I do?" He said, "Do what I'm doing." So, I said, you know…try to get a little hint, you know a little hand out sort of thing. Little push pat in the back, little lift up in the air, and I said, "What are you doing?" As though I didn't know. And he said, "Why, you just go down the road one step at the time as the door…Lord opens the door, and when you're through that doo,r you wave, and the Lord opens another door." So, I've been going down the road waiting for God to open doors. He's got so many doors opened now, I don't know which one to go in first. 52. Now, how are you going to do the works of God if the Headship is not in Christ? It's your own head, your own ideas. The prophet taught us these things, "Doing God a Service Apart from His Will." There is no service outside of divine order and by this Word." And you say, "Well, church order is for some other church. I'm glad you said that, but as for this church that Lee Vayle goes to, I don't care about you. You go ahead and fall on your excoriating wrath of a prophet of God that said, "They're bastard children when they turned away." You call a sweet lovely what you want to call it, I'll say what the prophet said. That's right. I used to do a lot of discerning at one time. Friends right here might have know that years ago, a lot of it. Bro. Branham one day said, "Lee, (he said) you've got a lot of good discerning, a lot of bad too." He said, "You've had some error." He said, "I want to tell you something, that gift is mine. Nobody but me has that gift." And anybody who tries to have it, shows what they are under a false anointed. Now come on, I've got some of you people look amazed. I've got news for you, be a little more amazed, I can tell you a lot of things. They were amazed with great wonder at Jesus, and He was amazed right back at them. (Uh?) 'Doing God a Service'. 53. His works brother/sister are His Word. "Many will come in that day, and they'll say, 'Lord, Lord, we cast the devil." [Mt 7:22] And He'll say, "Depart!" You'll say, "Hold it Lord, hold it please listen, Your Word said to cast them out. We obeyed Your Word." He said, "You misunderstood My Word. I told the women to stay home, to be wives and to raise kids. And the older women to teach their daughters to love their husbands, because husbands must need that little special love, because they're not too lovely." And the girls are a little fuzzy too, because the Bible said, "Husbands be not bitter against your wives." [Col 3:19] What gets in women that makes men bitter? "Preach it Bro. Branham Vayle, it's sure off the subject, but it sounds good." [laughter] Don't mean to sting you, just mean to talk to you a little bit. (See?) His works brother/sister must be within the frame work of the Word, because He said, "Which of you can confute Me of one Word, and where do you find them I'm off at one time." But on that day He takes the same Word, and they're defiled by handling the Word. And what about some of you men that weren't even called to preach? I hope you're not here. 54. Her mind is His mind. The prophet told me in '64, he said, "Bro. Vayle, (his eyes hazy, too many visions, too great a burden, he said,) Bro. Vayle, I wish I had people around me who could take the burden off me to just let me be with God and His thoughts." He said, "I can't even go home, but my thoughts are disrupted. One thought coming to my mind disrupted may take me a month to get that thought back." A prophet of God, and you and I want to get the whole thing, and think we know the whole thing in this little time we've had; when a prophet of God might take months for one thought to come back, and people around who say they got it all figured out? Oh come on, don't tell Bro. Vayle that. Now, you look in a mirror and tell yourself, honey, I'll pat you on the back and say, "Very sweet of you, that's nice of you, God bless you, but don't tell me." 55. Her mind is His mind. And It's all Word identified, or It's not God! Yet I've heard of people who say they believe this Message over whom Bro. Branham once even prophesied when running to a church where there was tongues and interpretation for further prophecy. The process of pre-eminence is the process… [blank spot on tape] …You say, "Bro. Branham, what do you mean when you say that the Son of man revealed in human flesh?" What do you mean? He said, "The Son of man revealed in human flesh is the Bride in every Age." That's what the prophet said, he meant what he said. And do you realize who the Son of man is? He is the Prophet, God is His Own Prophet. God is the Prophet, because the prophet's were prophets by virtue of the fact of the prophet in them. Right! God is His Own Prophet. That's why Bro. Branham said, "The Elijah for this day is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself." Not a man, but It'll come by a man. Now listen, then if the Prophet Christ is revealed in the Bride, (because that's the Son of man, see?) that make the Bride all eagle, not a chicken amongst them. Listen, if they are all eagles, it makes them all one with the Word, Who is the great Eagle, (see?) Who reveals the Word. God revealing Himself. It has to be so. 56. Listen to Acts 3:25, (25) (You) are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers,… That's how they're the children is by the Word of God. How could you be a child of the prophet? You say I've got to have the seed of the prophet. That's right! The prophet doesn't have his own seed, he's a eunuch, because the Word is altogether in his mouth, not his head. Paul said, "This Word I received not of myself, nor was I trained by men, (but he said,) this Word came by revelation." [Gal 1:12] (See?) Now, he said, "I've begotten to you in Christ by the Gospel." [1 Cor 4:15] So therefore, we are the children of the prophet on the grounds that we are born of the Word. 57. Now listen, let's go to 1 Peter 1:23, (23) Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, (which is) the word of God, which (lives) and (abides) for ever…(making you eternal.) You say, "Well, Bro. Vayle, can you be born again any other way?" Oh, you bet you can… [Tape ends at the 84 minute mark] The Purpose of Almighty God (0173D) Page PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 23